NEW DELHI. FEB 16Wholesale prices fell the

most in five-and-a-halfyears in January as declinein oil and some food itemsresulted in a negativeinflation or deflation of0.39 percent for the month,raising hopes of rate cut byRBI.

This is the second timein three months that thewholesale price index hasentered negative territory,as the governmentMonday also reviseddownwards the inflationnumber for November tominus 0.17 percent, fromzero earlier.

Inflation measured on

wholesale price index(WPI) was at 0.11 percentin December.

Although the prices ofcertain protein rich itemsand wheat declined duringthe month, the overall foodinflation was at a sixmonth high of 8 percent, asper the government datareleased today.

The last time the infla-tion had touched this lowlevel was in June 2009when it was at (-)0.4 per-cent. RBI GovernorRaghuram Rajan onJanuary 15 cut interestrates ahead of the sched-uled monetary policy

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JAMMU,. FEB 16While the PDP and

BJP`s `informal negotia-tions` for government for-mation in Jammu andKashmir are progressingsmoothly, the two sides arestill dragging their feet oncontentious issues likeArticle 370 and theAFSPA.

Insiders in both parties --the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) and the PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP) --in Jammu and Srinagartold IANS that the twosides have agreed on a fullsix-year term as chief min-ister for PDP patron MuftiMuhammad Sayeed.

"The BJP will have thedeputy chief minister and a

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MUMBAITemperature: 310CPrecipitation: 0%Humidity: 41%Wind: 18 Km/hr

HAQSAADDAFIGHT FOR RIGHTTuesday, February 17, 2015

Arvind Kejriwal-led government ordersno demolition of houses in Delhi

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NEW DELHI, FEB 16Sri Lankan President

Maithripala Sirisena, who ison a four-day visit to India,met Prime Minister NarendraModi here on Monday. Bothaddressed a joint press con-ference after bilateral talks.Here are the updates:

This is my first official visitand it has given very fruitfulresults. Relations between ourcountries will strengthen. Wehave already signed agree-ments on several subjects:President Sirisena

India and Sri Lanka have arelationship that can be tracedback to thousands of years:President Sirisena

As President of Sri Lanka,this is my first state visit & Iselected India. There is a verystrong relation between ourNations: President Sirisena

Sri Lankan PresidentSirisena takes the stage now.

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Agreement on civil nuclear deal sign of trustbetween India and Sri Lanka, says Modi

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NEW DELHI, FEB 16The Rashtriya Swayam

Sevak (RSS) on Monday tar-geted the Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) for the party's dis-astrous performance in therecent Delhi Assembly polls,in the latest edition of itsmouthpiece 'Organiser'

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RSS mouthpiece targetsBJP for Delhi poll debacle

FARIDABAD, FEB 16A high-level review meeting

of Faridabad district develop-ment and monitoring commit-tee was held here today to dis-cuss ongoing developmentprojects and the road map forfuture plans. Projects for the

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High-level meetconvened to discussFaridabad dev projects

MUMBAI, FEB 16Former Maharashtra home

minister RR Patil, who wassuffering from oral cancer,passed away in Mumbai onMonday. Earlier today, DrSanjay Ogeymoghe, who wasmonitoring his treatment at

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Former Maharashtrahome minister RR Patilpasses away

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NEW DELHI, FEB 16Home Minister Rajnath

Singh on Monday asked DelhiPolice to ensure the security ofvulnerable sections of the soci-ety including religious minori-ties, women, poor and peoplebelonging to the north-easternregion of the country. On thesecurity of minorities, the

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Religious minorities, women, poorshould be protected: Rajnath Singh

PATNA, FEB 16BJP leader Giriraj Singh on

Monday slammed JD(U)leader Nitish Kumar for drag-ging BJP's name in the Biharpolitical crisis. “Nitish isunnecessarily dragging BJP'sname in JD(U)'s internal war.He is only doing 'rajnitik vid-hwa vilaap' (political widow'slament),” Singh said.

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Nitish doing 'rajnitik vidhwavilaap': Giriraj Singh

PATNA, FEB 16Pro-Nitish Kumar dalit lead-

ers of JD(U) on Monday saidBJP was making Jitan RamManjhi a sacrificial lamb andcriticised the chief minister fordiluting the concept ofMahadalit Commission byincluding Paswans in it.

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BJP using Manjhi as sacrificiallamb: Nitish supporters

KOLHAPUR, FEB 16Senior Communist leader

Govind Pansare and his wifewere seriously injured onMonday after unknown menopened fire at them near theirhome in Sagarmala here. Asper reports, unknown bike-

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Veteran Communist leaderGovind Pansare, wife criti-cally injured in shooting

NEW DELHI, FEB 16The Supreme Court on

Monday granted bail toCongress leader RasheedMasood who was disqualifiedfrom the Rajya Sabha andjailed for four years afterbeing convicted in a medicaladmission scam. The bail by

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SC grants bail to Congressleader Rasheed Masoodconvicted in medical scam

NEW DELHI, FEB 16Senior Congress leader and

former Environment MinisterJairam Ramesh on Mondayalleged that the current gov-ernment was "dismantling"the edifice of green laws in thename of achieving "faster eco-nomic growth". He furthersaid the job of the environ-ment ministry is to protect the

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Jairam Ramesh hits out atCentre over green clearances

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Are differences on Article 370,AFSPA delaying BJP-PDP pact?

ISLAMABAD, FEB 16The Indian citizenry has consid-

erable practice in changing theirfate through popular resistanceand the ballot box, an ideaPakistan is still getting used to, aPakistani political commentatorsaid.

Political systems in India werefundamentally different fromthose found on the other side ofthe border, Umair Javed, profes-sor of political science at theLahore University ofManagement Sciences, wrote in acolumn in Dawn newspaperMonday.

Javed said the Aam AadmiParty`s comeback after relin-quishing power in Delhi a yearago, that too in the face of the

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NEW DELHI, FEB 16BJP's chief ministe-

rial candidate KiranBedi on Mondaywrote an open letter tothe nation followingher party's debacle inthe Delhi AssemblyElections:

An open letter to fel-low Indians.

Indian Democracy ifit truly wants manywell meaning peopleto stake their experi-ence for mature andgood governance,needs a civil cultureand law abiding envi-ronment. ( I am beingmild in saying this)

Here is my trystwith electioneering.

Hope to see itchange in my lifetime....

Am relieved my

parents were not aliveto hear the foul wordshurled at me.

I opted for electoralpolitics not for posi-tion or power but forserving the city whichis my home for lastover 40 years. A citywhich I have served in

various capacities,though thick and thin.

I saw it through var-ious challenges,International sportsevents, VIP security,political upheavals,communal riots, agita-tions, and more...

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Kiran Bedi's open letter to fellow IndiansIndians havepower to changegovernment:Pakistani analyst

Weather ReportDELHITemperature: 250CPrecipitation: 0%Humidity: 23%Wind: 21Km/hr

KOLKATATemperature: 260CPrecipitation: 0%Humidity: 35% Wind: 11Km/hr

CHENNAITemperature: 320CPrecipitation: 10%Humidity:64%Wind: 18Km/hr

NEW DELHI, FEB 16Delhi Chief

Minister ArvindKejriwal Mondaytasked the financeand power depart-ments with preparingproposals to halvepower rates and pro-vide free supply ofwater, up to 20,000litres per month, toevery household - hisAAP's two key pollpromises.

The decision wastaken in a meetingwhere Kejriwal askedthe officials of thesedepartments to sendtheir proposals toslash power tariff by50 percent till theaudit by the

Comptroller andAuditor General(CAG) of the privatepower companies iscompleted, said agovernment official.

In its previous 49-day government in

2013-14, the AAPhad halved the elec-tricity rates by 50percent by providingsubsidy andannounced free sup-ply of about 667

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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwaltasks departments with

halving power rates

NEW DELHI, FEB 16President Pranab

Mukherjee on Mondaysaid that Indians should"collectively preserve"the country's core valuesof pluralism and secular-ism while youngstersshould be imparted a"greater sense" of toler-ance so that they maysummarily reject any"divisive agenda".

"Each one of us mustbe mindful of the sensi-tivities of those aroundus and the effect of ourwords and actions onthem. We must collec-tively preserve the corevalues of pluralism and

secularism that haveserved, over the years, tosafeguard the fabric ofour society," Mukherjeetold a group of youngvolunteers of the Bharat

Scouts and Guides here."The Bharat Scouts

and Guides must infuse agreater sense of toler-ance in young minds,

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President asks youngsters to practisetolerance, reject divisive agenda

Inflation at 5 year low of (-)0.39%, raises hope for rate cut

MUMBAI, FEB 16A special TADA court

here on Monday convictedunderworld don AbuSalem in the 1995 murdercase of city-based builderPradeep Jain.

It is the first time thatSalem has been convictedin any case involving himafter he was deported toIndia in 2005 fromPortugal.

Jain was shot dead byassailants outside his Juhubungalow on March 7,1995 after he allegedly

refused to part with hishuge property to Salem.

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NEW DELHI, FEB 16Visiting Sri Lankan

President MaithripalaSirisena Monday indi-cated Colombo's keen-ness that India extendsupport to it duringnext month's UNHuman Rights Council(UNHRC) session inGeneva during which areport on a US-spon-sored "war crimesinvestigations" is to befiled.

Addressing the mediaduring a joint press

conference with PrimeMinister NarendraModi here after talks,Sirisena also said thatSri Lanka is "eagerlyawaiting" Modi's visitto that country inMarch which he saidwould be "an honourand a blessing".

Sirisena, who defeat-ed Mahinda Rajapaksain last month's presi-dential elections, saidthe friendship betweenthe two countries will

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First conviction for Abu Salemsince extradition from Portugal

Colombo keen on India's sup-port at Geneva UNHRC vote

JAMMU, FEB 16The people of Jammu

and Kashmir are eagerlylooking forward to the for-mation of a popular gov-

ernment in the state after await of nearly two months.

With the electionprocess ending on

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Ongoing PDP-BJP dialogue marked by airof positivity, gives hope to people of J&K

Industry asks gov-ernment to clarifyon nuclear liabilityNEW DELHI, FEB 16

On the day India signed acivil nuclear agreement withSri Lanka, Indian industryMonday sought clarity onthe country's nuclear liabili-ty law that has been "hinder-ing the future of nuclearcommerce".

"While industry welcomesthe clarifications put forwardby the Ministry of ExternalAffairs with respect to cer-tain issues that were hinder-ing the future of nuclearcommerce due to existingnuclear liability framework,

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NEW DELHI | TUESDAY | FEB 17, 2015Delhi News2 SAADDA HAQ

NEW DELHI, FEB 16A day after a group of people

demonstrated in front of the ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal'sKaushambi house over demolition ofsome slums in Shahdara area, theDelhi government on Mondaypassed an order prohibiting demoli-tion of houses in residential or slumareas.

On the first day working of theAam Aadmi Party-led government inDelhi, the decision was taken to pro-hibit the demolition of jhuggis.

Taking to Twitter, the AAP wrotethat nobody should be deprived ofshelter until proper arrangements aredone.

Meanwhile, as per the ANI, theDelhi Government has scheduledState Assembly session on February23 and 24, 2015.

Eight jhuggis were on Saturdaydemolished at Chhota Nagar nearGhuggi Pahalwan area in Shahdaraexactly at the time when Kejriwalwas taking oath at Ramlila Maidanas the new chief minister of Delhi.

"Just see the brutality of the offi-cers. They not only smashed up ourhousehold things and abused us, butalso women constables manhandled

us and did not even spare our smallchildren," alleged Vijaywati (30)who was protesting along with 40others in front of the CM's residencethis morning.

Local police, however, said thatthese people were trying to build

jhuggis on government land and thepolice personnel just stopped themfrom doing so when informed.

"In fact, police never demolishesany construction on its own. It is thejob of land owning agency. Our roleis limited to providing security dur-

ing any such drive to maintain lawand order," said a senior police offi-cial.

Several dwellers were allegedlyleft injured during the incident.

The protesters also hit out at localAAP MLA Ram Nivas Goyal.

"A day before the drive, a fewpolicemen came to meet Goyal. Wewere sure that he would pitch in ourfavour. But next day, our jhuggiswere demolished," said an anguishedperson.

According to sources, the chiefminister was also informed about theincident by party volunteers whotook up the matter with the localMLA and asked him to look into it.The protest was then called off.

Goel said, "These jhuggis came upjust a day before the polls. The localpeople complained to me as well asthe police about the issue onFebruary 13. The police went thereincluding the ACP and SHO and Iintervened to stop thedemolition."

In his pre-poll rallies, Kejriwalpromised not to erase even a singlejhuggi across the city, and to providethem with in-situ rehabilitation infive years.

Arvind Kejriwal-led government ordersno demolition of houses in Delhi

NEW DELHI, FEB 16The Home Ministry has directed

the Delhi Police to solve therecent cases of alleged vandalismof Christian establishments in thecity as early as possible and saidthere was an urgent need to actsystematically against fringe ele-ments which create disturbance.

In a communication, theMinistry told the Delhi Police tosolve the cases of alleged vandal-ism of five churches and aChristian school on an urgentbasis and bring the guilty to bookas such incidents create animositybetween the communities, sourcessaid. While this was communicat-ed by Home Secretary L C Goyalto Delhi Police Commissioner B SBassi, Home Minister RajnathSingh said at a function today thatincidents like the alleged vandal-

ism of minority institutions only"dent the image" of the police.

Providing security to a diversecity like Delhi is extremely diffi-cult task. But they have to do it, hesaid. The Ministry also told theDelhi Police that police personnelin strength must be posted outsidechurches and other Christianestablishments.

It told the Police the need to actsystematically against fringe ele-ments and give a sense of securityto minority communities.

The Delhi Police has been toldto ensure installation of CCTVcameras in minority institutions,raise the height of their boundarywalls. Sources said details of theaction plan had been sent to allpolice stations in Delhi.

There are about 220 churches inDelhi of which 50 are Catholic.

Before Christmas last year, thepolice had sent a circular to allchurches to install CCTV cam-eras. In its report to the HomeMinistry, the Delhi Police hasconveyed that 199 temples, 14mosques and six churches wereburgled in 2014. The national cap-ital had also seen thefts in 265temples in 2013. Five churcheswere attacked in the last two andhalf months in Delhi and holyrelics and holy communion weredestroyed, leading to protests byChristian groups. Unidentifiedpersons had vandalised a promi-nent Christian school in SouthDelhi's Vasant Vihar on February13 after that Prime MinisterNarendra Modi summoned theDelhi police Commissioner andordered him to take strong actionagainst the culprits.

MHA asks Delhi Police torein in fringe elements

LUCKNOW. FEB 16The outcome of Delhi

Assembly elections will nothave an impact in UttarPradesh, Rashtriya Lok Dal(RLD) chief Ajit Singh saidon Monday.

"Its effect will not be seenanywhere in Uttar Pradesh,"he said to a question at apress conference as towhether the impact of theDelhi assembly electionswill be seen in Uttar Pradeshwhere Assembly electionsare due in 2017.

Singh said like PrimeMinister Narendra Modi,new chief minister of DelhiArvind Kejriwal has alsosold dreams and only time

will tell how and when theyare fulfilled.

"Prime minister NarendraModi had shown dreams topeople before the electionsbut is unable to fulfilthem...Similarly Kejriwalhas also made promises andit is to be seen how many ofthese he is able to fulfil," hesaid.

Stressing that elections areno longer contested as theywere done earlier, he saidpeople now want quickresults.

"New voters have theirown aspirations...How theyare given shape is the chal-lenge before the politicalparties ... the recent elec-

tions in Delhi prove thatelections are not contestedlike they used to be in thepast as people want quickresults," he said.

The RLD chief said thethinking of people haschanged as voters are moreaware and political partieshave to be answerable tothem.

Asked to comment on theperformance of UP govern-ment, he said, "There is nogovernment worth its namein the state...It is a familyfiefdom..."

On the land acquisitionordinance, he said theCentre has made changes inthe basic law leaving farm-

ers with no right over theirland.

"Land for opening projectsunder PPP model like hotels,private institutes and com-panies will be taken fromfarmers and they will haveno right over it," Singh said.

Elaborating on the stepstaken by his party forstrengthening its base, hesaid social media will beused to publicise its policies.

"Personal contact will alsobe established with peopleand the mode of publicitywill undergo total transfor-mation," he said.

Online membership drivewill also be launched soon,he added.

NEW DELHI, FEB 16Days after forming government in

the national capital, the maidenpress conference of the Aam AadmiParty (AAP) was left in total chaoson Monday.

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodialeft the press conference after jour-nalists wanted party's clarificationover media's entry inside the secre-tariat.

According to media reports, jour-nalists were furious over the com-plete ban of media inside theSecretariat premises.

As media persons protested anddemanded an answer to the ban ofeven accredited journalists insidethe Delhi government office,Sisodia, without giving any answer,just walked-off from the press con-ference. The press conference,scheduled to be addressed bySisodia and Delhi governmentspokesperson Nagendra, had to becalled off following a heated argu-ment among media persons, includ-ing journalists, TV crew, and pho-tographers, gathered there.

Sisodia returned to his office afterarriving for the press conference ashe could not speak due to constantdisruptions created by media per-sons, including cameramen.

"This is not the way to organise apress conference. Media personsneed to cooperate even thoughminor problems may occur during apress conference," Sisodia said tothe reporters after being requestedto address the press conference, asper sources.

He then returned to his office andrefused to take calls from reporters.Claiming that they had received ver-bal instructions from the officials,security personnel deputed in thesecretariat did not allow media per-sons to enter the premises.

The media people waited for thedeputy CM for over 45 minutes, buthe did not turn up again.

Meanwhile, BJP spokespersonSambit Patra said,“Very unfortunateshowdown between media and AAPgovernment.”

Earlier in the day, media was notallowed entry into the DelhiSecretariat on the first working dayof the AAP government. Journalistsfrom both print and electronicmedia were denied entry.

In 2013, the AAP government hadrestricted media entry inside thesecretariat. Media-persons were notallowed to visit the rooms of minis-ters and other offices inside theDelhi Secretariat.

Ruckus at Delhi Secretariat after mediadenied entry, Sisodia boycotts press meet

Delhi poll outcome not to have impact in UP: RLD chief

NEW DELHI, FEB 16Rape-accused Uber cab

driver Shiv Kumar YadavMonday moved an applicationin a court here seeking torecall some prosecution wit-nesses in the case for furthercross examination.

Yadav`s defence counselDharmender Mishra toldAdditional Sessions JudgeKaveri Baweja that the lawyerwho was previously associat-ed with him was not competeenough to defend him.

He needed certain clarifica-tions from the prosecutionwitnesses and therefore fur-ther cross examination is nec-essary, he said.

However, Special PublicProsecutor Atul Shrivastavaopposed his plea and said thatdefence is trying to delay the

trial in the case.Meanwhile the court

reserved its order on the pleaand fixed Feb 18 for deliver-ing order.

The prosecution Jan 31completed recording of evi-dence in a court here in just 17days.

According to police, thewoman executive was alleged-ly raped by 32-year-old Yadavinside his cab on the night ofDec 5, 2014.

The court Jan 13 framedcharges of rape and causinggrievous bodily harm andendangering the life of awoman, kidnapping a woman,criminal intimidation and vol-untarily causing hurt againstYadav under various sectionsof the Indian PenalCode.

NEW DELHI, FEB 16A senior Delhi Police offi-

cial, who has carried the vis-cera samples of SunandaPushkar to an FBI lab in theUS, has been taskd withstudying facilities in foren-sic labs there and also theworking in police stations sothat some practices can bereplicated back in India.

Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (South) Prem Nath,who is in Washington DC,will be staying there for aweek and will not onlystudy the system at FBI labsbut also keenly see the waya police station works thereand will then give a report toDelhi Police top brass sothat the good practices canbe followed here in thenational capital.

"He (Prem Nath) is sup-

posed to stay there for aweek. Apart from deliveringthe exhibits to the FBI labs,he was asked that he shouldalso study the systems at theFBI lab and in case we canreplicate some of them,which are not available in

India so that will be usefulfor our police forces," saidDelhi Police CommissionerBS Bassi.

52-year-old Sunanda wasfound dead in her suite at afive star hotel in south Delhion the night of January 17,

2014, a day after she wasinvolved in a spat withPakistani journalist MehrTarar on Twitter over the lat-ter's alleged affair with herhusband Shashi Tharoor.

Police had on January 1filed a murder case andformed an SIT to probe thecase. Her viscera sampleshave been sent to an FBI labto determine the kind of poi-son that caused Sunanda'sdeath. An AIIMS report hadsaid that the poison cannotbe detected in Indian labs.

Showering rich praise onthe officer, Bassi said thatPrem Nath is "one of ourmost competent" officers.He was instrumental in thearrangements in theCommonwealth Games.

"He had gone abroad andstudied systems there and

was able to bring back infor-mation about good prac-tices. So we expect him tobring back information onareas where we are lackingso that we can add thosesystems in our forensic sci-ence labs also," he said.

Nath has also been askedto study the systems andprocesses of one importantpolice station in Washingtonand see what good practicesare prevalent there whichcan be replicated in ourpolice stations also, headded.

Asked if Tharoor wouldbe questioned again in thecase, Bassi said, "We havequestioned him in detail. Itwill now be analysed by theSIT and if we will need anyclarification that will besought.

Sunanda case: Delhi Police official taskedwith studying facilities in FBI labs

Uber rape case: Accused wantsto re-examine witnesses

NEW DELHI, FEB 16In an alarming news

about the quality of air inDelhi, a survey has foundthe deadly PM2.5 lev-els in the national cap-ital was 10 times high-er than the safety limitprescribed bythe WorldH e a l t h

Organisation.Air quality

monitoringsurvey con-ducted byGreenpeaceinside fiveprominentschools inthe city alsofound that the PM2.5 levelswere four times moreagainst the prescribedIndian safety limits.

"The real-time monitor-ing data from all the fiveschools revealed particulatematter 2.5 to be at veryunhealthy levels," aGreenpeace release said.

According to the WorldHealth Organization(WHO), air pollutionimpacts the most vulnerablesections of the populationand children were amongthe worst hit. The surveywas conducted betweenJanuary 23 and February 12at the schools includingGreenfield Public School(Vivek Vihar in East Delhi),Mirambika School (SriAurobindo Marg in SouthDelhi), Delhi Police Public

School (SafdarjungEnclave in South WestDelhi), Salwan Public

School (Rajender Nagarin CentralDelhi) andA m e r i c a nEmbassy School(Chanakyapuriin South West

Delhi).The survey showedthat the maximum

level of PM2.5at GreenfieldP u b l i cSchool inVivek Viharon January 23

was 253. Itwas 209 at the

A m e r i c a nEmbassy School on

February 12.The maximum level of

PM2.5 was 243 at SalwanPublic School on February5. At Mirambika School themaximum level of PM2.5was 251 on January 27. Itwas 246 at Delhi PublicSchool on February 5.Studies by USEnvironmental ProtectionAgency (USEPA) haveconcluded that exposure toPM2.5 in children willmean reduced lung func-tioning, increase in asthmaand respiratory illnesses.

The International Agencyfor Research on Cancerclassified particulate matterpollution as carcinogenic tohumans in 2013, and desig-nated it as a "leading envi-ronmental cause of cancerdeaths".

PM2.5 level in Delhi 10times more than WHOlimits: Greenpeace

NEW DELHI, FEB 16A man has been acquitted of the

charge of molesting a 15-year-old girlby a Delhi court after the victimresiled from her statement and pleadedthat the proceedings against him bedropped.

Additional Sessions Judge GulshanKumar absolved south Delhi resident,Vijay, after the girl and her fatherinformed the court that he had apolo-gised for his act and pleaded that theproceedings against him be discontin-ued.

"Since the material witnesses num-ber one (girl) and two (father) have notsupported the prosecution case fully, Iam of the considered view that prose-cution has miserably failed to prove itscase beyond reasonable doubt.Accordingly, Vijay is acquitted of theoffences," the judge said.

The court acquitted him of thecharges under sections 354 (molesta-tion) and 509 (word or gesture intend-ed to insult the modesty of a woman)

of IPC and section 8 (sexual assault) ofProtection of Children from SexualOffences (POCSO) Act.

It also relied on the testimony of thegirl's father that the complaint waslodged due to some misunderstandingand at the instance of the police offi-cials.

The court also noted that the girl hadsupported the prosecution case in herexamination-in-chief, but failed tosupport in cross-examination andhence her testimony was "not reliableand trustworthy".

According to the prosecution, onJanuary 23, 2013, she was standing onthe terrace of her building when Vijaymade obscene gestures at her from aacross a street.

Thereafter, he came on the roof topand misbehaved with her by holdingher hand, it said, adding that when sheraised an alarm, he ran away.

During the trial, he had denied theallegations and claimed that he wasfalsely implicated in the case.

Woman officer faints at Delhi Policeevent during Rajnath Singh's addressNEW DELHI, FEB 16

A 32-year-old woman police officer Monday faint-ed during the Delhi Police Raising Day parade here.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Niyati Mittalfell when union Home Minister Rajnath Singh wasaddressing the gathering on women safety and secu-rity. Officials said the woman officer fell because of"long duty hours". They added that she was on dutyat the parade ground on the occasion of 68th DelhiPolice Raising Day in which the home minister wasthe chief guest. The Delhi Police reports to the unionhome ministry. The incident happened after theDelhi Police Raising Day parade, which wasinspected by Rajnath Singh.

The woman officer fell with a thud on the groundwhen the home minister was speaking.

Rajnath Singh looked at the woman officer, pausedfor a moment, and then continued his speech.

By that time, two women officials rushed to heraid and took her away.

Molestation case: Man freed afterminor resiles from statement in Delhi

Continuation 3NEW DELHI | TUESDAY | FEB 17, 2015SAADDA HAQ

Agreement on...with a "Thank You".I would like to once again welcome

President Sirisena to India. We are at amoment of an unprecedented opportunity totake our bilateral relations to a new level. Hisvisit today has set us firmly in that direction.

I thanked the President for his invitation tome to visit Sri Lanka. I am eagerly lookingforward to visiting his beautiful country inMarch.

Like cricket, culture provides a strong bondbetween us. The Programme of CulturalCooperation signed today will nurture thoseties and promote contacts between people:PM Modi

President Sirisena and I attach highestimportance to the fishermen issue and willaddress fishermen associations on both sidessoon: PM Modi?

We discussed expansion of cooperation inenergy sector both conventional and renew-able: PM Modi

India-Sri Lanka Commerce Secretaries willmeet soon to review our bilateral commercialrelations: PM Modi

We are pleased to be Sri Lanka's largesttrading partner, I express my support for bal-anced trade in both directions: PM Modi

The bilateral agreement on civil nuclearcooperation is yet another demonstration ofour mutual trust. This is the first such agree-ment Sri Lanka has signed: PM Modi

The timeless links of history, religion andculture provide a solid foundation of ourpartnership: PM Modi

We also share a broad range of interests- economic development for our countries;peace and prosperity in South Asia; maritimesecurity in the region. We are honoured thatyou have chosen India as your first overseasdestination: PM Modi

It is a great pleasure and privilege to wel-come President Maithripala Sirisena andMrs. Sirisena to India: PM Modi

PM Narendra Modi starts speaking.Previous story: Prime Minister Narendra

Modi and Sri Lankan President MaithripalaSirisena Monday held talks during whichthey discussed bilateral civil nuclear cooper-ation among other key strategic issues.

On his maiden foreign trip after assumingoffice, Sirisena, who arrived here yesterdayon a four-day visit, also held comprehensivediscussions with the Prime Minister on waysto enhance economic ties.

"India and Sri Lanka leaders discussedmeasures to enhance economic ties. Theleaders discussed four agreements,"Spokesperson of the External AffairsMinistry Syed Akbaruddin said as PresidentSirisena and Prime Minister Modi met atHyderabad House here.

The four pacts which were discussedinclude those on civil nuclear cooperation,culture and agriculture.

The issue of peace and reconciliationprocess in the island nation was discussedduring the meeting spread over a workinglunch, hosted by Modi.

Earlier, External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj called on the visiting dignitary.

According to presidential advisors inColombo, 63-year -old Sirisena, who haddethroned Mahinda Rajapaksa from his 10-year rule after a bitter Presidential poll onJanuary 9, was desirous of making a newbeginning in the Indo-Lanka relations.

India has been hoping that the new Lankangovernment will develop the country on the"foundation of genuine and effective recon-ciliation" creating harmony among all sec-tions there.

India has also been pressing for implemen-tation of 13th amendment to the Sri LankanConstitution on devolution of powers.

Industry asks...there still remain some unanswered ques-

tions on which industry would require tohave a comfort level," Jyotsna Suri, presidentof industry chamber FICCI, said in a state-ment here.

"Greater clarity is required vis-à-vis thedefinition of supplier in the context ofdomestic entities which are engaged in con-tract manufacturing for the Nuclear PowerCorp (state-run), as per their design and spec-ification, especially for the domestic nuclearprogramme," she added.

Through a set of frequently asked ques-tions (FAQs) released last week, signalling apossible breakthrough on nuclear coopera-tion with the US, the government sought toreassure nuclear suppliers also from othercountries who have been quite scepticalabout the implications of India's nuclear lia-bility law.

One FAQ issued by the external affairsministry explains that the law "permits butdoesn't require an operator to make the sup-plier liable in its contract for a nuclear reac-tor or part".

Another answer says that a supplier can besued for damages only "if it is expressly pro-vided for in a contract in writing".

"The contentious issues that still remain areuncertainties arising out of interpretation ofSection 17, Section 46 of the Civil Liabilityfor Nuclear Damage Act (CLNDA) of 2010,"FICCI said.

The ministry release has now eased theway for foreign suppliers by doing away withthe right of recourse of a victim to sue thesupplier in India directly as well as in a "classaction suit" in foreign courts. Section 46 ontort law "does not create the grounds for vic-tims to move foreign courts," the MEA said.

The CLNDA empowers victims of any

future nuclear accident to sue foreign suppli-ers for huge potential liability, which is hold-ing back companies from doing businesswith India.

"The nuclear manufacturing industrywould also require a clarification fromNPCIL and DAE that this risk would be ade-quately covered through the NuclearInsurance Fund," it added.

On the India Nuclear Insurance Pool, theMEA said it is "a risk transfer mechanismformed by GIC and four other public sectorundertakings who will together contribute acapacity of Rs.750 crore out of a total ofRs.1,500 crore". The balance would be con-tributed by the government.

Residual damages would be borne by the1997 International Convention onSupplementary Compensation for NuclearDamage fund, which India has said it intendsto ratify.

Delhi CM...litres water everyday within 48 hours of

coming to power.It had also ordered the account book of

power distribution companies by the CAG.

Indians have ...Narendra Modi-led BJP juggernaut, was

nothing short of remarkable.He said that before one drew lessons from

Delhi or got into ambitious comparisons withPakistan, the usual cautionary notes applied.He added that Pakistan`s political scenariowas very different from India.

Kiran Bedi's...On crime front I saw it through when Delhi

was hit by terror from outside. I spent yearsto catch a wink with boots on and with wire-less blaring to get on the street any moment.

I did crime prevention saving women frombeing raped in rural areas on dark nights byerstwhile criminal tribes with literally nocops on roles..by involving village youngmen to patrol at night. While I was personal-ly out 5 nights a week.

Conducted traffic management for AsianGames with hundreds of students doing traf-fic duties, when my senior wanted to send meto Japan on a course, just to edge me out.Traffic was revenue for some...

Another time when a district was riddenwith bootlegging I managed to dry them outand rehabilitate them to honourableliving...or rag picking children sent toschools, now become community collegesand many of the same children becometeachers...

Or opened drug abuse treatment centresfrom police stations never heard of...

All this became a life long mission and willremain..

I did it all not for any glory, I did it becausethe service and situations demanded it...

I stepped into electoral politics because Iwanted to give my city all I still had, when iwas given the feeling that I could be of value.I wanted to see it get a stable government inalignment with Government of India to getall that Delhi needed.

I also wanted to not die one day with a guiltthat I was commenting only and never daringto pass the ultimate test of electoral politics.

I have failed the test. And take full respon-sibility for my decision.

But inside me has not failed. Because giventhe time I gave to myself I gave it all theenergy and experience I had. Obviously itwas not enough.

In such trying situations one does not meetthe challenge alone. There are several factorswhich play a vital role. And each one did. Iwish to add nothing more. History will keepanalysing till cows come home. And as I readthem, each one of them makes sense. Andworth being reflected upon.

The wise will read each one, and take duenotice...

On the election trail I wish to say, we needto rework the way we campaign. Whole Cityor State comes to a grinding halt. Should it?

Roads are in disarray, and work just stops.Everything is too loud, uncouth at times,insulting to thin skinned, false, insinuating,biased, revengeful, corrupt, wasteful, highlydisruptive of common man's needs, breakingall laws, and sending all wrong messages. It'snot a level playing field for the levelheadedserving people. It's a field for might and mus-cle in all respects.

We need to address these. Hope to see it inmy life time.

People need services to be delivered. Theywant integrity, trustworthiness, and profes-sional commitment. But they also want animplementable vision and plans. But theyalso want freebies...more you give, more youget.

They do not get it still, that there are nofree lunches in life. If you rob Peter to payPaul, it won't be long before all get robbed.

Also all campaigning must be become law-ful, transparent, facts and evidence based,civil, organised, more technology driven,reasonable, unbiased, neutral through differ-ent mediums, etc.

Space could be allocated through neutralempires appointed by the ElectionCommission as per laid down rules baseddebates and also grass root work done, andlet candidates be chosen on the basis of per-formance or implementable ideas. Whichmeans widespread use of Television reachingout to the last mile...

Public 'appeals' through use of congrega-tions must be not be allowed and considereda violation of laws. Hence must be banned.

Its time every public servant becomes astake holder in governing this country. Needsof people have far outstripped what the coun-try can provide for, be it water, power, roads,public transport, schools, teachers, doctors,jobs, skills, and even girls. Forget aboutsecurity for women...Only God knows howlong women will continue to suffer...

In the end I wish to thank all those whoreposed their trust in me. And to say I amsorry I could not measure upto theirs.

And also all who called me with foulestpossible names.

I am relieved my parents were not alive tosee this...

- Kiran Bedi

Are differences ....major share in portfolios to ensure equi-

table development of all the three regions ofthe state.

"We feel to forge a development-orientedruling alliance with the PDP in the country`sonly Muslim majority state would do good tothe image of the BJP nationally and interna-tionally," a senior BJP leader said in Jammu.

The leader, requesting anonymity, said atthe same time the party would not make anycompromises on its "basic principles".

The BJP`s stand on contentious issues likeArticle 370, Armed Forces Special PowersAct (AFSPA) and the settlement of westPakistan refugees in Jammu and Kashmir hasbeen diagonally opposed to that of the PDP.

The PDP seeks firm assurances on protec-tion of Article 370, the BJP stands for anational debate on whether this temporaryprovision of the Indian constitution, grantingspecial status to J&K, should stay or go.

According to the PDP, the west Pakistanrefugees are not permanent residents of thestate, as it existed before the accession ofJ&K to India in 1947.

Therefore, the PDP says there is no consti-tutional or legal justification in grantingthese refugees the same rights like other citi-zens.

Incidentally, these refugees who came hereafter the India-Pakistan wars of 1947, 1965and 1971 do not have the right to buy proper-ty or vote in the state assembly elections,though they can vote in the parliamentaryelections.

While the BJP maintains that the AFSPAcan only be revoked after the security forcesrecommend it, the PDP wants its gradualwithdrawal to be determined by the stategovernment and not the security forces.

PDP`s chief spokesman Naeem Akhtar,who spoke on these issues to IANS inJammu, said, "Mufti Muhammad Sayeed hasbeen in politics for too long to blink onbasics.

"He wants clarity on issues like Article 370and AFSPA and that clarity has to be in con-formity with the commitments we have madeto the people when we sought their vote.

"For the development of all the threeregions of the state and also for the new gov-ernment to deliver on political, developmen-tal and administrative fronts, clarity on basicissues is vital.

Ongoing PDP-BJP...December, 23, 2014, and no party getting a

clear majority, it is only befitting that a coali-tion government be formed by the PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP) and the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP), after having resolved tosettle their differences.

The parties will have in place a commonprogram designed to give succour to the peo-ple of the state through good governance.

Even though the structured dialogue is stillon, there is an air of positivity around theprocess. Media reports suggest that a consen-sus has been arrived at on most of the con-tentious issues and now only a final seal onthe common minimum programme needs tobe put.

President asks...whilst allowing them to summarily reject

any divisive agenda," he added.Mukherjee said that as the world becomes

increasingly globalised, rampant social con-flicts keep coming to the fore which threatenthe continued well-being of all citizens.

Stressing on the need for the country to bemindful of the aspirations of the youth, thePresident said, "Our nation is going throughan unprecedented demographic transforma-tion. In another five years' time, the averageage of an Indian would be 29 years!

"The statistical fact is not only indicative ofhow important it is, for the country, to focuson the aspirations of our youth but, equally,for each one of my young friends here, andacross the country, to strive and become themuch-needed 'agents of change'," thePresident said.

Bharat Scouts and Guides -- a voluntary,non-political, educational movement foryoung people -- can be the perpetual platformto nurture leadership at the grassroots level,he said.

Inflation at...review and it is expected that he might

announce another cut after the Budget in thewake of significant improvement in the infla-tion situation. The next review is due onApril 7.

Inflation in 'fuel and power segment' wasnegative at (-) 10.69 percent in January,while in manufactured products it was at 1.05percent.

The contraction in WPI inflation for petrol

was steeper at 17.08 percent in January from11.96 percent in December. Similarly, therate of decline in diesel prices last month washigher than in the previous month.

"Given the continuing trend of moderateinflation both at the wholesale and retail leveland the fact that a durable recovery in theindustrial sector is out of sight, we hope thatthe central bank would continue with the pol-icy rate cut cycle after the forthcoming budg-et," FICCI President Jyotsna Suri said.

Colombo keen...help build stronger relationship between

them "not only locally but in internationalforums; India will support us and we'll havemore understanding between the two coun-tries; building more relations and strengthen-ing the ties between the two countries; andwe agreed to work on a mutual understand-ing, and it is very clear".

At the 28th session of the UNHRC, a reportis to be submitted on a US-sponsored probeinto alleged human rights violations by theLTTE and the Sri Lankan governmentbetween 2002 and 2011, especially duringthe dying years of the war against the sepa-ratist LTTE.

A resolution on Sri Lanka's "genocideagainst Tamils" is also likely to be tabledthen.

DMK president M Karunanidhi has urgedPrime Minister Modi to consider moving a"suitable" resolution against Sri Lanka at theGeneva session and asked that India shouldsupport the adoption of the report.

Sri Lanka's Tamil-majority NorthernProvincial council had earlier this monthpassed a resolution calling for an internation-al probe into charges of genocide against theSri Lankan government, to which India hasnot reacted.

First conviction...Virendra Jhamb and Mehndi Hassan were

on trial in the case which began in 2008.While accused Naeem Khan turned approver,another accused Riyaz Siddiqui, who hadalso become approver, later turned hostile inthe court.

Trial of Siddiqui was later separated.The court, in January last year, had

dropped some sections against Salem in thecase after the prosecution sought for the samesaying that some charges need to be with-drawn in order to maintain cordial relationsbetween two sovereign countries - India andPortugal.

Salem, an accused in the 1993 Mumbaiserial blasts, was extradited from Portugal onNovember 11, 2005, after a prolonged legalbattle.

The Supreme Court of Portugal, in 2012,had dismissed an appeal of the CBI whichhad challenged termination of his extradition.He has also moved Supreme Court ofPortugal seeking directions to the Indiangovernment to execute its order of cancellinghis extradition.

Religious minorities...Home Minister assured that the Centre and

Delhi Police will extend full cooperation toensure security of the minorities and theirreligious institutions.

Appreciating the force's efforts for ensur-ing the safety of women in the national capi-tal, he said that it was not just the people ofDelhi, but even the Prime Minister who getsworried whenever there was a crime againstany woman here.

However, he reminded the police that morehas to be done on this front.

He also lauded Delhi Police's Himmat app,which was launched by him a couple ofweeks ago, terming it an "effective applica-tion to provide security to women" in thenational capital.

Singh however reminded the Delhi PoliceCommissioner that the app, which is current-ly available only on android phones, shouldsoon be made available on iOS, Windowsand other platforms as well.

The Union Home Minister, who wasspeaking at the 68th Raising Day parade ofthe Delhi Police here, also made it a point tomention that the people from the Northeastregion should not feel alienated in the nation-al capital.

"We are pained when something happensto them anywhere in the country. I would liketo say that if anybody practises discrimina-tion against them, strict action would betaken," he said.

Singh also advised Delhi Police to giveprotection to the poor people and said theforce "should be sensitive to the right tolivelihood of street vendors, rickshaw pullersand small traders and strive to win theirblessings".

BJP using ...just as butchers do to a goat before sacrific-

ing it," JD(U) general secretary Shyam Rajaktold reporters.

Arun Manjhi, JD(U) MLA from Masaurhi,took on the chief minister for includingPaswans in the Mahadalit Commission.

"Paswan caste has developed by availingbenefits of reservation for past many years.In order to bring up other dalit castes NitishKumar had constituted a mahadalit categoryand excluded Paswan caste from it," ArunManjhi, once a close aide of the CM, said.

"By including affluent Paswan caste, JitanRam Manjhi has diluted the MahadalitCommission which had separately startedabout 19 welfare programmes for the most

poor among dalits," he said.The Commission had been set up by Nitish

Kumar.The two leaders joined by another MLA

Manish Kumar assailed Manjhi for doing lit-tle for weaker sections and hailed NitishKumar for initiating steps for their genuinewell being.

Nitish doing...“If someday Nitish ji catches cold, he

would say that it is Narendra Modi and AmitShah's virus that has infected him,” he saidfurther.

Nitish has alleged that the script behind thepolitical crisis in Bihar was written at thehighest level in Delhi, apparently hinting atPrime Minister Narendra Modi.

RSS mouthpiece...Delving into the poll loss, the RSS stated

that the BJP's decision to project 'parachuteCM' Kiran Bedi at the last moment conveyeda wrong message to the people.

The article further said that the decision toproject Bedi as the party's chief ministerialcandidate against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)chief Arvind Kejriwal was a “very latemove” and gave out the message that despitehaving senior leaders in the national capital,the party has already accepted defeat.

The article also pointed out that during LokSabha polls, Modi had declared that he hadthree 'Vijays' in Delhi - Vijay Goel, VijendraGupta and Vijay Kumar Malhotra.

It further said that three out of four seniorBJP leaders, who also have a following in thenational capital, were upset at beingupstaged.

High-level meet ...industrial development of the city were

among the top agendas of the meeting, whichwas presided over by Haryana EducationMinister Ram Bilas Sharma.

In the meeting, Faridabad MLA Vipul Goelunderlined the importance of all-rounddevelopment of the city through concentratedand continuous efforts.

Besides Goel, Faridabad MP Krishna PalGurjar was among those who attended themeeting.

Former Maharashtra ...the hospital, had said that Patil was on life

support system and his condition was “criti-cal but stable”.

The senior NCP leader had been undergo-ing treatment at the Lilavati Hospital inBandra for oral cancer.

Ajit Pawar, Supriya Sule, Sunil Tatkare andChhagan Bhujbal were among party leaderswho had visited the hospital to inquire aboutPatil's health.

Patil, a prominent NCP leader from Sangliin western Maharashtra, was operated uponlast December at Breach Candy Hospital andwas later shifted to Lilavati Hospital.

SC grants...the apex court comes three days after

Masood had on Friday moved the SC, filinga plea against rejection of his bail petition bythe Delhi High Court.

The former Rajya Sabha lawmaker, in hisplea filed through lawyer Archit, sought bailon various grounds including that he is acute-ly diabetic and taking insulin several times aday besides other medicines for his ailments.

He had challenged the order of the HighCourt which refused to grant him bail onNovember 14, last year during the pendencyof his appeal against the conviction in thegraft case.

Jairam Ramesh ...country's environment and forest resources

and not promote economic growth."I am not terribly optimistic on the direc-

tion in which they (government) are going,because in the name of economic growth,they are systematically dismantling the edi-fice of environment laws and regulations,"Ramesh said.

His comments come in the backdrop ofgovernment taking measures to review vari-ous environment laws to "fasten" the envi-ronment clearance process for achieving eco-nomic growth "without compromising greenissues".

"The job of the Ministry of Environment isto protect the environment and not promoteGDP growth. The job of Government ofIndia (GoI) is to promote GDP growth. Thefundamental dharma of the Ministry ofEnvironment is to protect the environment,"Ramesh said after releasing his book "GreenSignals" at the Delhi World Book Fair here.

Veteran Communist ...borne assailants fired gunshots at the cou-

ple, who were out for morning walk, ataround 8:00 am. The assailants fled the sceneafter the incident. The 82-year old lawyerand writer, and his wife have been taken toAstor Aadhar Hospital where they are under-going surgery for bullet injuries.

Minister of State for Home Ram Shindecondemned the incident and said that roadblocks have been ordered all over the state tonab the culprits.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis con-demned the incident and said that he hasdirected Kolhapur SP to speed up the investi-gation and arrest the assailants.

BY UDAY BALAKRISHNAN

Purchasing Power Parity or PPPhas validated a long held sur-mise that the poorer countries

are not as badly off as they are madeout to be nor the richer ones as welloff as they seem. A nominal GDPranking puts India at tenth placewhile a PPP one pushes it up to third,behind the United States and China.The Big Mac Index of TheEconomist loosely corroborates.Travelling to expensive parts of theworld from our country brings thishome to us tellingly.

A 2011 issue of The Economistpublished a controversial piece —“Comparing Indian states and territo-ries with countries: An IndianSummary” — which purported toshow that for all its size and popula-tion, the economy of Uttar Pradeshwas roughly just that of Qatar, andMaharashtra’s no bigger thanSingapore’s, while that of TamilNadu was no larger than Angola’s —all very confusing and probablywrong when in PPP terms, India as awhole is placed third in the world.So, where do we stand and what stan-dard should one pitch for to measureourselves against the rest of theworld?

A land of opportunities

We would be wise to guardedly set-tle for PPP. The world too has donelikewise. India, like those of severalother similarly placed countries, doeshave an economy worth several timeslarger than its nominal GDP indi-cates. This fact has not gone unno-ticed where it matters, especially inthe boardrooms of multinationals orcorporate India which indefatigablyseek to “add an inch to everyIndiaman’s shirt tail”. Some strongendorsement for this comes from themanagement guru, the late C.K.Prahalad. Unsurprisingly, for compa-nies like Suzuki and Honda, India hasemerged as their largest market forcars and two-wheelers and Vodafone,despite an unresolved retrospectivetax issue, is very much here to stay.India of course enjoys the sheerstrength of numbers. Everything thathappens here, as in China, has to nec-essarily be on a gargantuan scale —

invariably in several millions. It takesan outsider to marvel at our scale andmake us conscious of it. But the scaleexists!

After China, India has more mobileowners than any other country. Thesmartphone revolution has just hit usbig and India is more likely than notto emerge as the second largest mar-

ket for that too. India is also one oftwo largest motorcycle manufactur-ers. The country continues its run asone of two largest producers of riceand a third of wheat as well as fruitsand milk. Of course we know that inper capita in agro and dairy products,we are still way behind much smallerproducers but are likely to get “there”thanks to developments in sciencetechnology. In all these segmentsIndia is sitting on the cusp of anopportunity. If the green revolutionsurprised us, managed right, thefuture growth in agriculture willastound the world.

E-commerce is another area wemistakenly thought we had lost outon. Just as we were despairing at thesuccess of Alibaba in China, we nowsee serious investment coming into e-retailing. It is not for nothing thatJapan’s SoftBank is investing heavilyin Snapdeal; Ratan Tata, ever readyto spot an emerging opportunity, hadbet on it much earlier. The bestknown of India’s e-retailers, Flipkart,has attracted significant investors

too. Meanwhile, Amazon, even as itthreatens to leave, is expanding itsfootprint here. India, it turns out, is aglass half full and filling rather thanhalf-empty and emptying.

Social indicators and evidence

But before we start rejoicing weneed to reconcile flattering national

economic indicators with some veryodious social ones. India’s ranking inthe UNDP’s Human DevelopmentReport (2011) is 134. In genderinequality, it comes out marginallybetter but still a rotten 129th out of187 countries. Then on the ease ofdoing business, India is a miserable134th, pretty much at the bottom ofthe heap. So things are that horrible.Or are they only being made out to beterrible?

Given the scale of poverty in India,it is very difficult not to make theserankings stick and lot of visual evi-dence exists. Mukesh Ambani’s mas-sive residence in Mumbai coexistswith a sea of slums nearby. Get out ofmany of India’s airports, and mostespecially Mumbai, and one is con-fronted with every kind of miseryone can think of. Stop at the trafficlights and the poor of India comeknocking on your car window. Thebetter off in our country live in sani-tised islands of relative calm defend-ed by the very kind drawn from theranks of those it seeks to keep out.

But as we all know, visuals, evenpowerful ones, do not so much reflectreality as point out the shocking thatwe tend to ignore or deliberately dis-regard.

Statewide indices for the world

The country as a whole is nowhereas bad as these indices show but

together they do bring out that Indiais a poor bet only because we havebeen inept at better stating ourstrengths while unfailingly adept atinviting attention to our weaknesses.The question to ask is “should Indiabe taken as a country at all for suchindicators to stick”? India is morepopulous than the whole of Africaand roughly equal to Europe and theAmericas combined on that count.We need a better way of being com-pared — clearly, it is absurd to rankthe country alongside say Lesotho orGuinea Bissau — the first has a pop-ulation of less than three million andthe other two. Singapore, for all itsachievements, is about the size ofBengaluru and its suburbs.

Apart from the absurdity of com-paring apples with ladoos, suchindices, as The Economist notes,“blacken a country’s name”. It can, asit states, also “spread like wildfire onthe web”. India needs to proof itselfagainst this by coming up with someconvincing measures of its own thatattract rather than turn away potential

investors using available data with-out tweaking. A start can be made byleaving the country’s PPP rankingalone while more effectively high-lighting and deploying region-wiseas well as State-wise indices foreverything, from gender inequality toease of doing business as well asinfrastructure and migration.

Internal rankings of States, as whata leading Indian magazine brings outannually, is so much like water off aduck’s back, that the game changerwill be when the country configuresthe rankings for global consumption.This will become particularly impor-tant now when States are competingwith each other for investments. Thisshould also make State governmentssit up and take note that governancematters. Chhattisgarh is an earlymover here. It is carpet bombing theprint and television media withadvertisements that project it as aninvestment destination of choice,with a visionary Chief Minister as itsefficient CEO. States with poorsocial indices will strive to match andpossibly overtake the better off ones,creating a virtuous circle. Then, thereis something called shaming thatevery State would like to avoid.

Migrant labour

The debt the richer parts of thecountry owe to its poorer places isone of the dirty secrets we hardly talkabout, but look at the vacant eyes ofan emaciated young security guard inKochi or the young woman at a con-struction site carrying material upprecarious ladders in Bengaluru, andyou immediately connect to theirhomes far away.

Millions are spilling out of India’spoorer States to run services in thebetter off ones. Mumbai would notrun for a day without migrant work-ers and Kerala — the entire State —would come to a grinding halt if thenear three million from Assam andBengal as well as U.P., Odisha andBihar were to en-masse go else-where. The Government of Indiawould therefore do well to bring outan annual State-wise status report onmigrant labour detailing where theycome from and the jobs they do and

how much they contribute to Stateeconomies rather than ungratefullytreat them as parasites. This shouldcool rampant xenophobia of the kindthe Shiva Sena promotes and makeus grateful for a borderless India.

We now learn that the governmentis about to release the religious mixof the country as brought out by the2011 census. Leaks indicate that thenumber of Muslims has gone up mar-ginally, but where? In its most miser-able parts, where along with a major-ity of Hindus, most lead ultra squalidlives and are crying to get better. Themost important message, that theMuslims even in very backward partsconstitute the underclass, cannot beoveremphasised though of coursesome migration from Bangladeshinto Assam and West Bengal cannotbe discounted.

We need statistics we can trust andbe informed. Unfortunately, with aplethora of agencies, governmentdepartments and international organ-isations putting out so much statisti-cal data in the public space, oftencontradicting each another, we havevery little chance of being properlyinformed. It is the government’s dutyto clear the air with up-to-date andcoherent statistical data linking socialand economic indicators. Only thiscan lead to more mature publicunderstanding and reaction than onewhich suggests that Hinduism is indanger or Muslims are consciouslyhaving more children. In the noise,one can ignore that fertility rateshave fallen among the Muslims tooand if they too could derive the bene-fits of economic developmentthrough education, their numbers willfall just as fast. The last especiallydeserves to be widely known. In con-text, statistics can lead to betterunderstandings; deployed out of con-text, they can kill.

(Dr. Uday Balakrishnan is at theCentre for Contemporary Studies,

Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore.)

Editorial4 NEW DELHI | TUESDAY | FEB 17, 2015SAADDA HAQ

BY M. V. RAMANA

BY SUVRAT RAJU

In its efforts to promotenuclear commerce with theUnited States, the Narendra

Modi government has run into adichotomy that lies at the heartof this industry. While multina-tional nuclear suppliers, such asG.E. and Westinghouse publiclyinsist that their products areextraordinarily safe, they areadamant that they will notaccept any liability should anaccident occur at one of theirreactors. The joint announce-ment by Mr. Modi and U.S.President Barack Obama lastmonth raised concerns that thegovernment would move toeffectively indemnify suppliers,contrary to the interests ofpotential victims. The list of“frequently asked questions”(FAQs) on nuclear liabilityreleased by the Ministry ofExternal Affairs on February 8confirms the suspicion that theModi government is trying toreinterpret India’s liability lawby executive fiat in order to pro-tect nuclear vendors.

The government has disingen-uously suggested that itachieved the recent “break-through” by establishing aninsurance pool to support suppli-ers. However, to focus on thisarrangement is to miss the woodfor the trees as even a cursoryanalysis of the economics ofnuclear plants shows.

A section in the Indian lawcalled the “right of recourse”allows the Nuclear PowerCorporation of India Ltd.(NPCIL) to claim compensationfrom suppliers up to a maximumof Rs.1,500 crore ($240 mil-lion). This pales in comparisonwith the total cost of the sixplanned Westinghouse reactorsat Mithi Virdi in Gujarat; esti-mates from similar plants underconstruction in the U.S. suggestthat this may be as high asRs.2.5 lakh crore. In the U.S., allnuclear plant operators must

have third-party insurance for atleast $375 million, and supplierscould easily set aside a smallportion of their profits to do thesame for reactors sold in India.

Problematic principle

What suppliers are worriedabout is not the amount, but theprinciple. More concretely, if thelaw places some responsibilityon suppliers, then a future Indiangovernment could use this togain leverage by forcing them topay substantially more for a seri-ous disaster. Moreover, theirexecutives could be heldaccountable under other civiland criminal statutes in India.The FAQs released by the gov-ernment are meant to reassurenuclear vendors on these counts.

The FAQs claim that the pro-vision allowing the NPCIL aright of recourse “is to be read… in the context of … the con-tract between the operator andsupplier.” This goes beyond thelaw, where the right of recourseexists independently of a con-tract.

In 2010, when a parliamentarystanding committee suggestedsuch a linkage, its recommenda-tion was rejected by the Cabinetafter a public outcry. Althoughthe FAQs later state that “a pro-

vision that was expresslyexcluded from the statute cannotbe read into the statute by inter-pretation,” this is precisely whatthe government is doing here.

The FAQs suggest that thegovernment is also committed tothe interests of the public sectorNPCIL which “would insist that... contracts contain provisionsthat provide for a right ofrecourse consistent with Rule 24of CLND Rules of 2011.”However, this is a cunningsleight of hand. A central ele-ment of these rules is that “theprovision for right of recourse… shall be for the duration ofinitial license,” which is usuallygranted only for five years. Incontrast, the promised lifetimeof modern reactors is 60 years,and failure rates tend to increasein later years. Therefore, linkingthe right of recourse to a con-tract is an attempt to water downsupplier liability to a meaning-less level.

“Just because the ManmohanSingh government accepted theFaustian Indo-U.S. nuclear pactdoes not mean that India needsto bend its laws and spend bil-lions of dollars on U.S. reactors”

The FAQs also declare thatsuppliers cannot be “asked topay more compensation in the

future … than currently provid-ed under the law.” However, thisignores the fact that the lawitself has a provision for revisingliability, which states that “the

Central Government may …from time to time … specify, bynotification, a higher amount.”

A revision of the cap with timeis only natural. Several decadesfrom now, Rs. 1,500 crore maybe worth much less than it iscurrently. Therefore, the govern-ment’s move to perpetually limitsupplier liability to this nominalamount defies basic economicprinciples, and implies that vic-tims will receive a lower com-pensation, in real terms, forfuture accidents.

Finally, the FAQs assert thatthe liability act, ipso facto, takesaway the rights of victims to suesuppliers even under other laws.If this interpretation of the law iscorrect, then it implies that sup-pliers cannot be prosecuted evenfor criminal negligence.

Double standards

This provides a striking exam-ple of double standards. UnderU.S. law, suppliers can be heldlegally responsible for acci-dents. Consequently, fordecades, the U.S. refused to joinany international convention

that would require it to legallyindemnify suppliers. When itengineered the Convention onSupplementary Compensationfor Nuclear Damage, it inserteda “grandfather clause” to ensurethat it would not have to alter itsown law. In contrast, the Indiangovernment seems willing tomeekly surrender the rights ofits citizens.

It is sometimes argued thatIndia must make these conces-sions to “repay” the U.S. for itshelp in facilitating India’s accessto international nuclear com-merce. U.S. policymakerspushed for such access in a cal-culated attempt to induce Indiato support its geostrategic objec-tives and to ensure that U.S.companies would have access tothe emerging Indian nuclearmarket. However, just becausethe Manmohan Singh govern-ment accepted this Faustian pact— and even cast an uncon-scionable vote against Iran at theInternational Atomic EnergyAgency — does not mean thatthe country needs to repay thisself-serving “favour” endlesslyby bending its laws and spend-ing billions of dollars on U.S.reactors.

Although the question of lia-bility is somewhat abstruse, itdeserves greater public attentionbecause it serves as a clear lensto understand the central conflictinvolved in India’s nuclearexpansion: the desire of nuclearvendors to have profitabilitywithout accountability and theinterests of ordinary people whocould be potential victims. Thegovernment’s attempt to resolvethis conflict in favour of theindustry is a revealing indicatorof its priorities.

(M.V. Ramana and SuvratRaju are physicists with the

Coalition for NuclearDisarmament and Peace.

Ramana is the author of ThePower of Promise: Examining

Nuclear Energy in India, 2012.)

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has clearlyindicated that he is a man in a hurry. Even beforeassuming office on Saturday, he had placed before

Prime Minister Narendra Modi his government’s priorities.His tenor was conciliatory, his arguments seemingly rea-sonable while he took care not to include in his Ministrycontroversial Ministers from his first tenure. In his inaugu-ral speech as Chief Minister, Mr. Kejriwal said heimpressed on Mr. Modi the point that Delhi would notprosper without “constructive cooperation” between theCentre and the State. The unstated part of Mr. Kejriwal’smessage was that he intended to set the agenda for Delhi.Yet the AAP’s demand for full statehood — that, if accept-ed, would give the Delhi government control over two crit-ical areas of governance, land and the police — will becontentious, not least because the Centre would be loath togive more powers — and greater independence of action— to the new AAP regime. Mr. Kejriwal has alreadybroached the subject with Mr. Modi, who has been non-committal. This is an issue that has larger dimensions, andit remains to be seen how it unfolds in the dynamics ofrelations between the AAP and the Modi government.Having come to power primarily on an anti-corruptionplank, Mr. Kejriwal’s first goal will be to enact the contro-versial Lokpal Bill. The failure to clear it in his first stint inoffice had made him take the ill-judged step to quit. Now,with 67 MLAs in a 70-seat Assembly, Mr. Kejriwal shouldhave no problem pushing it through but, after that, it willrequire ratification by the Centre. How that turns outdepends on the BJP’s disposition. The last time, the 32 BJPMLAs in the Delhi Assembly had opposed the Bill. Whilesenior AAP leaders have indicated that the party has learntfrom its first innings in power that a path of confrontationhas its limits, the likelihood of flashpoints in the comingmonths cannot be ruled out as the tussle for the control ofDelhi continues. In governance terms, what can Mr.Kejriwal do without getting full statehood? He may be ableto reduce electricity and water tariffs, but will remaindependent on neighbouring States and the Centre for sup-ply. He may also be able to fulfil his promises on educationif funds are forthcoming, and certainly he can make a dif-ference in reducing everyday corruption. Going forward,with the heightened public expectations of the AAP as theparty of the common person, Mr. Kejriwal must demon-strate that his is a government with a difference. He shouldtake transparent steps to unveil a governance structureemphasising accountability and accessibility. That is thereal hope that the AAP embodies to thousands of its well-wishers.

E-commerce is another area we mistakenly thought wehad lost out on. Just as we were despairing at the suc-cess of Alibaba in China, we now see serious investmentcoming into e-retailing. It is not for nothing that Japan’sSoftBank is investing heavily in Snapdeal; Ratan Tata,ever ready to spot an emerging opportunity, had bet on itmuch earlier. The best known of India’s e-retailers,Flipkart, has attracted significant investors too.Meanwhile, Amazon, even as it threatens to leave, isexpanding its footprint here. India, it turns out, is a glasshalf full and filling rather than half-empty and emptying.

What suppliers are worried about is not theamount, but the principle. More concretely, ifthe law places some responsibility on suppli-ers, then a future Indian government coulduse this to gain leverage by forcing them topay substantially more for a serious disaster.Moreover, their executives could be heldaccountable under other civil and criminalstatutes in India. The FAQs released by thegovernment are meant to reassure nuclearvendors on these counts.

State Watch 5NEW DELHI | TUESDAY | FEB 17, 2015SAADDA HAQ

PATNA, FEB 16Bihar Assembly Speaker

Uday Narayan Chaudhuryhas convened an all-partymeet on Monday to lookinto the demand of theJanata Dal (United) factionled by Nitish Kumar thatthey be recognised as themain Opposition party.

The demand has beenmade in view of theupcoming trust voteagainst the Jitan RamManjhi government onFebruary 20.

“At the request of theJD(U) leaders for recogni-tion as the mainOpposition party and sepa-rate sitting arrangements inthe Assembly on the firstday of the Budget Session,I’ve called a meeting of allparties for 3 pm, February16,” Chaudhury informedon Saturday.

The BJP, however, hasmade it clear that it will notallow such a thing to hap-pen. The party has furtherdecided to boycott themeeting.

BJP's Nand KishoreYadav, Leader of theOpposition in BiharAssembly, said they willnot allow such a move andwould move court if theNitish-led JD(U) faction isrecognised as the mainOpposition party.

After the JD(U) had quitthe alliance with the BJP in2013, the latter was recog-

nised as the mainOpposition party, Yadavadded.

On Sunday, JD(U) andits allies had slammedBihar Governor KeshariNath Tripathi and the BJPfor the political instabilityin the state.

"Bihar has been pushedinto turmoil and politicalinstability due to the long

rope given by the governorat the behest of BJP toChief Minister Manjhi toseek trust vote," JD(U)state president BashisthaNarayan Singh toldreporters.

JD(U) had expelledManjhi from the party afterhe defied orders to stepdown and let Nitish takeover as CM.

Speaker to chair all-party meet today; BJP to boycott

NEW DELHI, FEB, 16Bihar Chief Minister Jitan

Ram Manjhi on Monday deniedthat he is in the capital to meetBJP leaders amid a simmeringpolitical crisis back home.

Manjhi, who has beenexpelled by his party JD(U)after he refused to step down asCM to make way for NitishKumar, today said he had nointention to dissolve the stateAssembly or recommendPresident's Rule.

The denial came ahead of hislikely meeting with PresidentPranab Mukherjee later thisevening.

Manjhi told reporters that hehad come to Delhi “to meetgovernment ministers, not BJP

officials”.“I am not meeting BJP lead-

ers; it is upto them to support ornot to support me,” he added.

Sources said the Bihar CMhas sought an appointment withBJP president Amit Shah amidspeculation that BJP waspreparing to back Manjhi's gov-ernment during the trust vote inthe Assembly on February 20.

On Sunday also, Manjhi metBihar Governor Keshari NathTripathi and Home MinisterRajnath Singh in the nationalcapital.

Sources close to Manjhi saidthat his meeting with theGovernor was a courtesy call asboth happened to be in thenational capital, while his meet-

ing with Singh at his residencewas with regard to the Naxalproblem in Bihar.

The incumbent Bihar chiefminister had recently sought theexpansion of his Cabinet beforethe trust vote and sources saidthat he took up the issue in hismeeting with Tripathi but wasoffered no concrete assurance.

As per sources, the Manjhifaction of JD(U) and BJP areinvolved in back-channel talksfor the saffron party's support tohis government in the trustvote. However, BJP has saidthat it will take a final standonly on the floor of the House.

BJP with 87 members in theAssembly, whose effectivestrength at present is 233, is the

main hope for Manjhi for hissurvival if he musters the sup-port of 30 other MLAs. Themagic figure is 117.

Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) fac-tion has alleged that the scriptbehind the political crisis inBihar was written at the highestlevel in Delhi, apparently hint-ing at Prime Minister NarendraModi.New Delhi: Bihar ChiefMinister Jitan Ram Manjhi onMonday denied that he is in thecapital to meet BJP leadersamid a simmering political cri-sis back home.

Manjhi, who has beenexpelled by his party JD(U)after he refused to step down asCM to make way for NitishKumar, today said he had no

intention to dissolve the stateAssembly or recommendPresident's Rule.

The denial came ahead of hislikely meeting with PresidentPranab Mukherjee later thisevening.

Manjhi told reporters that hehad come to Delhi “to meetgovernment ministers, not BJPofficials”.

“I am not meeting BJP lead-ers; it is upto them to support ornot to support me,” he added.

Sources said the Bihar CMhas sought an appointment withBJP president Amit Shah amidspeculation that BJP waspreparing to back Manjhi's gov-ernment during the trust vote inthe Assembly on February 20.

On Sunday also, Manjhi metBihar Governor Keshari NathTripathi and Home MinisterRajnath Singh in the nationalcapital.

Sources close to Manjhi saidthat his meeting with theGovernor was a courtesy call asboth happened to be in thenational capital, while his meet-ing with Singh at his residencewas with regard to the Naxalproblem in Bihar.

The incumbent Bihar chiefminister had recently sought theexpansion of his Cabinet beforethe trust vote and sources saidthat he took up the issue in hismeeting with Tripathi but wasoffered no concrete assurance.

As per sources, the Manjhi

faction of JD(U) and BJP areinvolved in back-channel talksfor the saffron party's support tohis government in the trustvote. However, BJP has saidthat it will take a final standonly on the floor of the House.

BJP with 87 members in theAssembly, whose effectivestrength at present is 233, is themain hope for Manjhi for hissurvival if he musters the sup-port of 30 other MLAs. Themagic figure is 117.

Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) fac-tion has alleged that the scriptbehind the political crisis inBihar was written at the highestlevel in Delhi, apparently hint-ing at Prime Minister NarendraModi.

Bihar CM Manjhi denies seeking BJP support,says won't recommend President's Rule

PATNA, FEB 16In a jolt to Bihar Chief

Minister Jitan RamManjhi, the Patna HighCourt on Mondayrestrained his governmentfrom taking any policydecisions.

While restraining theJitan Ram Manjhi govern-ment, the HC said that theCM can only work on rou-tine matters till majority isproved on the floor of theHouse.

It may be recalled thatManjhi has been asked bythe state Governor to provemajority on the floor of theAssembly on February 20.

The same was necessitat-ed after JD(U) expelledManjhi from the party fol-lowing his failure to stepdown as CM to make wayfor Nitish Kumar.

Manjhi has defied partyorders calling it illegiti-mate to remove him asCM. He has also said thathe will neither dissolve

Assembly nor recommendPresident's Rule in the

state. Further, there's spec-ulation that BJP may back

Manjhi during trust vote onFebruary 20.

Patna HC restrains Bihar CM Manjhifrom taking policy decisions

NEW DELHI, FEB 16BJP on Monday

accused JD(U) leaderNitish Kumar of beingsolely responsible forthrowing Bihar into a"constitutional crisis"and political instabili-ty due to his "cravingfor power" andcharged him with"misusing" theSpeaker's post for hispolitics.

BJP said it is keep-ing a close watch onthe developments inthe state and willdecide its strategy onthe floor of theAssembly when itmeets on February 20for the trial of strengthof Chief Minister Jitan

Ram Manjhi."We have been see-

ing the political dramain Bihar for the last 20months. Bihar hasbeen thrown into aconstitutional crisisand political instabiltyfor which NitishKumar is solelyresponsible.

"We are keeping aclose watch on Bihardevelopments. A meet-ing of the state BJPLegislature Party hasbeen convened onFebruary 18 to discussthe strategy ahead,"Bihar's former deputychief minister SushilKumar Modisaid.

Asked whether BJP

will support Manjhi inthe trust vote or not,he said "BJP will takeits decision on thefloor of the Assemblywhen the trust votecomes up. We have allour optionsopen."

The former deputychief minister saidever since BJP splitwith JD-U, "gover-nance has become thebiggest casualty inBihar".

Modi termedKumar's resignation afew months ago as a"drama" and said thisis the fourth time hehad resigned only toget back to powersoon thereafter.

He claimed Kumarhas lost the mandate torule Bihar ever sincehe broke the alliancewith BJP as the man-date was not to form agovernment with LaluPrasad or Congressbut against them.

"Niish Kumar hascommitted three bigmistakes - of betrayingthe mandate of peopleof Bihar from whomhe should seek anapology, for joininghands eith Lalu andCongress and forremoving a mahadalitManjhi as chief minis-ter. The people ofBihar will give a replyto Kumar in the polls,"he said.

Nitish solely responsible for Bihar crisis: BJPGUWAHATI, FEB 16

Seven top leaders of the dread-ed Karbi Peoples' LiberationTiger (KPLT) were arrested onMonday in a joint operation bythe army and the police in theAmring forest area in Hamrensub division.

The arrest came on the secondday of the massive crackdownlaunched by the joint team in thetreacherous terrain of WestKarbi Anglong, according toarmy officials.

Army's Red Horn Divisionhad yesterday apprehended theself-styled "finance secretary"and "auditor" along with onecadre of KPLT from villageKarbirongsope in Hamren SubDivision.

One AK Rifle, two pistolsalong with assorted ammunitionincluding other "War Like

Stores" were also recoveredfrom these hardcore terroristsnear Tapat hamlet, the officialssaid.

Based on leads received fromthe apprehended terrorist leadersabout presence of hideout insidethe Amring forest area nearVillage Tapat, the securityforces immediately launched awell coordinated massive comb-ing operation in the area, theysaid. Traversing for over 16hours through the thickly forest-ed Karbi Anglong, the joint teamof army and police managed tocordon the hideouts by earlymorning today.

In subsequent operation, aftera fierce gunfight that lasted forapproximately 45 minutes, thesecurity forces managed toapprehend all seven terrorists.

The arrested included top

seven leaders like Sunder Dera(Commander in Chief), DangerIngti (Deputy Commander inChief) and the AreaCommanders of Socheng andAmring areas, Army officialssaid.

A large cache of arms andammunition were also recoveredincluding 4 AK series Rifles, 2pistols, 1 grenade launcher, 14magazines of AK Rifles, 6 mag-azines of pistols, 2343 rounds of7.62 caliber ammunition and 14rounds of 9 mm caliber ammuni-tion.Dummy rifles for trainingof new recruits and various doc-uments like extortion notes ofKPLT and demand moneyreceipts were also seized.

The hideout was well stockedwith ration, clothing and medi-cines to sustain the terrorists forprolonged periods.

Seven top leaders of KPLT arrested in West Karbi Anglong TDP retainsTirupatiAssemblyseatHYDERABAD, FEB 16

The Telugu DesamParty (TDP) hasretained the Tirupatiassembly seat inAndhra Pradesh.

M. Suguna of theruling party won theby-election, defeatingher nearest rival R.Sreedevi of theCongress party byover 1.16 lakh votes.

The by-election wasnecessitated by thedeath of Suguna`shusband M.Venkatramna.

Two killed, oneinjured in firingby Assam RiflespersonnelyTEZPUR, FEB 16

Two persons were killed and awoman injured in a firing alleged-ly by Assam Rifles personnel atMission Chariali area of Tezpur inlower Assam's Sonitpur districttonight, a senior police officersaid.

The incident took place at PatiaChuburi under Tezpur Sadar policestation and the cause of the firingwas not yet ascertained, SonitpurSuperintendent of Police SanjuktaParasar said.

Police has rushed to the site andinvestigation is on, Parasar said,adding that the injured woman,Jinu Das, was admitted at TezpurKanaklata Civil hospital.

The local people alleged that thejawans opened fire when a familyrefused to serve them liquor.

The deceased were identified asGautam Das and Babu Das.

CHANDIGARH, FEB 16The minimum temperatures today rose

sharply across Punjab and Haryana,including Chandigarh, even as someplaces received rains.

The night temperatures rose by up toseven notches above normal since yester-day, a MeT department report said.

In Haryana, Ambala recorded a low of15.3 degrees Celsius, six degrees abovenormal while Hisar's minimum rose byover seven notches since yesterday to14.6 degree Celsius, which was fivedegrees above normal. Karnal recorded alow of 13.4 degrees Celcius, up by fournotches since yesterday.

Chandigarh's minimum also registereda sharp increase with temperature settlingat 16 degrees Celcius, seven notchesabove normal. Yesterday's minimum herewas recorded at 11.7 degrees Celcius.

In Punjab, Amritsar recorded a low of10.4 degrees Celsius, three notches abovenormal.

Patiala and Ludhiana also recorded anincrease in the minimum temperatures

since yesterday with the mercury settlingat 14.4 degrees Celcius and 12.9 degreesCelcius respectively.

Yesterday, the maximum temperatureshovered between 23 and 27 degreesCelcius in most parts of Punjab andHaryana.

Meanwhile, few regions includingChandigarh, Ambala, Kurukshetra,Mohali and Ropar, experienced light tomoderate rainfall.

Minimum temperaturesrise in Punjab, Haryana

Himachal CM misguidingpeople over release ofMNERGA funds: BJPSHIMLA, FEB 16

Senior BJP leader Prem Kumar Dhumal alleged thatHimachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh wasmisleading people over the release of MNREGA fundsand said the Centre has released all the money to thestate. Dhumal said that the Centre had not only releasedfunds under MNREGA but also sanctioned severalschemes which were "stalled" by UPA government.

"Instead of expressing gratitude to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, Singh was putting the blame on theCentre," he said.

The former chief minister said that following reports ofirregularities in implementation of MNREGA in somestates during the UPA regime, the Union government hadstarted asking for submission of completion report'online' for 60 per cent work done under the scheme, andthe funds of the states which failed to submit the reportwere withheld and the labour was not being paid.

However, funds for Himachal Pradesh have beenreleased, he said. "The Chief Minister was misleading thepeople to hide the failures of the government and theCentre had not only released funds under MNREGA butalso sanctioned several schemes," Dhumal said in a state-ment here today.

NEW DELHI, FEB 16The Rashtriya

Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) has reportedlyexpressed its unhappi-ness over the condi-tions put forth for theformation of BJP-PDPgovernment in Jammuand Kashmir, accord-ing to news reports onMonday.

It has reportedly toldthe BJP not to agree tothe demands put forthby the PDP.

The reaction fromthe RSS has comeeven as a consensushas reportedly beenreached between thetwo parties and only afinal seal on theCommon Minimum

Programme (CMP) isnow required, newsreports stated.

Meanwhile, PDPspokesperson NaeemAkhtar said, “As soonas we feel that we haveovercome major dif-ferences, we will reacha decision”.

He said that there arestill certain issueswhich need to be sort-ed out. “But they willget sorted as the par-ties get into a struc-tured dialogue,” headded.

PDP patron MuftiMohammad Sayeed isexpected to meetPrime MinisterNarendra Modi soonto finalise the CMP.

RSS miffed with BJP overalliance talks with PDP

The world's first compact 3D printer-cum-scanner that canalso scan items has been unveiled at the AmericanAssociation Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meet-

ing in San Jose, California.Blacksmith Group start-up at Nanyang Technological University

(NTU) launched Saturday the user-friendly all-in-one device,named the Blacksmith Genesis.

The $2,200 (roughly Rs. 1.36 lakhs) device allows users to scanany item, and then edit the digitised model on the comput-er and print it out in 3D, Lester Kok, assistant manager ofNTU's Corporate Communications Office, told Xinhuanews agency Sunday.

"Most 3D printers sold on the market now are not reallyuser-friendly as their 3D models and blueprints usuallyhave to be designed from scratch on the computer," Koksaid, "but Blacksmith Genesis doesn't require muchknowledge of 3D software."

Unlike other commercial 3D printers, BlacksmithGenesis uses an innovative rotary platform for its printingand scanning. This patent-pending revolving platformallows for true 360-degrees scanning, and can print itemsup to 6,650 cubic cm, twice the size of those printed byother similar-sized 3D printers in the market.

With a fine resolution of 50 micrometres, the reproduc-tions will be twice as detailed compared to other compact3D printers. Likewise, scanning of objects with its fivemegapixel camera takes only six minutes, twice as fast asother 3D scanners in the market.

Another unique feature of Blacksmith Genesis is itsremote live monitoring and automatic error detectionusing an in-built camera. Users can also monitor the print-ing process on their smartphone from anywhere in the

world through an internet connection, and will be able to start orstop printing at any time.

"While low-cost 3D printers are accessible to the public, they arestill very hard to programme and assemble. Having an affordable,high-quality 3D printer that is easy to use is what the market ismissing and this is where Blacksmith Group will bridge the gap,"Chua Chee Kai, the mentor for the Blacksmith Group, said in apress release.

NEW DELHI | TUESDAY | FEB 17, 2015SAADDA HAQScience & Tech6

Lava has launched the IrisFuel 20 smartphonepriced at Rs. 5,399. The

smartphone will be availableto buy starting next weekin Metallic Grey andWhite colour viaretail stores and e-commerce websites.

The Lava Iris Fuel20 - like other mem-bers of the Iris Fuelseries of smart-phones - sports alarge battery -4400mAh battery inthis case, which isperhaps the largestbattery in a sub-Rs.6,000 smartphone.Other Iris Fuelrange handsetsinclude the Lava IrisFuel 50 and LavaIris Fuel 60.

To compare, theIris Fuel 20's4400mAh battery islarger than some ofthe popular smart-phones in its catego-ry, such as Xiaomi'sRedmi 1S(2000mAh), Moto E(1980mAh), LenovoA6000 (2300mAh)and the AsusZenfone 5A 5 0 1 C G(2110mAh). Thedomestic handset makersays "this is the second biggestsmartphone battery availablein the country today." TheGionee Marathon M3 comeswith a 5000mAh battery.

However, the Iris Fuel 20supports just 2G connectivitythat might be the biggest let-down of the handset. Recently,the Indian smartphone markethas seen some 4G-enabledsmartphones being launched inthe budget price range.

The dual-SIM based IrisFuel 20 runs Android 4.4KitKat out-of-the-box. Itcomes with a 5-inch (480x854

pixels) FWVGA

display. Thesmartphone is powered by

a 1.3GHz dual-core (unspeci-fied chipset) processor coupledwith 512MB of RAM.

It comes with 4GB of inbuiltstorage, which is furtherexpandable via microSD card(up to 32GB). It sports a 5-megapixel rear camera withLED flash, while there is a sec-ondary 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera also on board.

Apart from 2G, other con-nectivity options on the Lava

Iris Fuel 20 include Wi-Fi802.11 b/g/n, Micro-USB, andBluetooth options.

Commentinga t

the launch,Navin Chawla, VicePresident and Head Product,Lava International Ltd. said,"The Lava Iris Fuel 20 isdesigned to meet the needs ofusers who are heavy smart-phone users and are lookingfor a device with astoundingbattery life that lets themutilise the phone through theday and more. Iris Fuel 20 is acompetitively priced 2G phonethat is designed to give buyersa delightful smartphone expe-rience."

1. The largest gulf in the world isA. Gulf of Mexico B. Persian GulfC. Gulf of Carpentaria D. Gulf of Mannar

2. The hunting and gathering economy can supportonlyA. 1 person per sq. km B. 3 persons per sq. kmC. 5 persons per sq. km D. 7 persons per sq. km

3. The import of crude oil and petroleum done fromnational oil companies of producer countries, whichhave a net exportable surplus of oil is byA. term contracts B. term tendersC. monthly tenders D. All the above

4. The land-sea distribution or the positions of theworld's continents and major oceans influencesA. the major pressure belts that develop from thegeneral circulation of the atmosphereB. the development of the mid-latitude cyclonicdepressions, at the convergence zone between polarand subtropical air massesC. both (a) and (b) D. None of the above

5. The knowledge about the topography of the oceanbasins has been derived fromA. seismic surveying B. echo sounderC. side-scan sonar D. All of the above

6. The headquarters of the Commonwealth ofIndependent States (CIS), formed out of erstwhileUSSR, is atA. Minsk in Byelorussia B. Moscow in RussiaC. Kiev in Ukraine D. Kistiner in Moldavia

QUIZ TIME

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

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TV Channels Schedule TODAY’S STARARIES All aspects of love and romance will go especially well today,

Aries. You might take this opportunity to make a bold movetoward the object of your affection. Go with an unconventionalapproach and move fearlessly. Your relationships will go well.Nurture your romantic side and communicate your feelings. Lovewill act suddenly and unexpectedly. Go with the flow.

TAURUS Your connection with others is especially strong today, Taurus. Youwill enjoy an important nurturing role. Reconnect with your motherand let her know how you're feeling. Curl up with loved ones tonightand surprise someone with a romantic gesture. Try somethingunconventional. Your feelings may be strong and erratic. You may befeel like pulling back into your protective shell. If so, do it.

GEMINI You might feel especially playful today, Gemini. You canexpect to feel a great deal of love and affection from others.Be aware that you will have a strong tendency to indulge infood and drink, so try to keep things in moderation. You mayhave an aversion to work and lack self-discipline. Overcomethis by looking forward to intimate plans with someone tonight.

CANCER The bizarre nature of the day may leave you feeling a bit bewil-dered, Cancer. Don't sweat it. Focus on your romantic nature andincredibly nurturing heart. Use your instinctive healing abilities tocare for a close friend in need. Today is an especially good dayto connect with others and openly share your feelings. Confide inpeople you trust. Consider calling your mom.

LEO You will be in an especially affectionate and loving moodtoday, Leo. Your romantic nature is heightened and yournurturing qualities are strong. You're extra sensitive andreceptive. You might find that you have no problem commu-nicating your truest feelings to others. Connect with thoseyou feel especially close to, and enjoy an intimate evening.

VIRGO Annoyances of daily life may rub you the wrong way today, Virgo.Other people's strong opinions and odd quirks may be difficult toswallow and your fuse may be a bit shorter than usual. Emotionscould also run high, and you may do battle with the feelings inyour own heart. Perhaps someone you care about deeply is cre-ating unnecessary friction in your relationship.

LIBRA Be open and honest about your feelings toward others today, Libra.Your receptive nature should be ready. Take a break and let otherscome to you. Unexpected events may pop out of nowhere.Opportunities for new growth in love and romance are definitely atyour fingertips as long as you're ready to receive them. Don't try toforce the issue if the time and place aren't right. Let it flow.

SCORPIO Your heart beats extra strong today, Scorpio, but it may not seemlike anyone knows it but you. You may feel like you aren't reallyfitting in with the energy of the day. Don't get down on yourself forit. Realize that not everything is going to go according to yourplans. Let things come to you. The unexpected is bound to hap-pen, so don't try to resist the impending change.

SAGITTARIUSThis is a fantastic day for you, Sagittarius. Join close friends andshare a night on the town and fine meal. This is a chance to begina new cycle of romance. Reflect on past relationship problems,examine their causes, and toss them away so you can invite in anew, uplifting energy for the next cycle of romance. Start a newrelationship or strengthen the one you're in.

CAPRICORN Your warm, sensitive nature is perfectly suited to today's aspects,Capricorn. Your emotional energy is strongly tied to your heart, andyou will find that there's a longing to be close to others. Indulge inconversation with close friends and let your imagination run wild.Your creativity is especially piqued today, so start an art project orwrite a song that inspires or perhaps changes the world.

AQUARIUS You will enjoy a great deal of affection from others today,Aquarius. You radiate an air of love and beauty. Love willcome in strong, erratic bursts and you should be on thealert to expect the unexpected. New people will pop out ofthe woodwork to share their feelings. All group activities arefavored, and you're sure to be the life of any party.

PISCES Your heart may be especially sensitive today, Pisces. You may feel a bit vulnera-ble. Your romantic nature is particularly strong, so treat yourself to a pamperedevening, including a good meal with someone you love. All relationships withwomen will go smoothly now. You might want to give your mother a call if youhaven't spoken with her in a while. She would love to hear from you.

After launchingthe 'first Android5.0 Lollipop

smartphone by an Indianmanufacturer' last week,Intex on Mondaylaunched the Intex AquaStar II in India. Priced atRs. 5,999, the smart-phone shares most of thespecifications with itspredecessor, Intex AquaStar, which waslaunched in Septemberlast year.

The Intex Aqua Star IIis powered by a 1.2GHzquad-core Spreadtrum(SC7731) processor cou-pled with 1GB of RAM.The Android 4.4.2KitKat-based smart-phone comes with dual-SIM support.

The smartphone fea-tures 8GB of inbuiltstorage with an option toexpand it via microSDcard (up to 32GB). TheIntex Aqua Star II fea-tures a 5-inch displaywith FWVGA (480x854pixels) resolution, an 8-megapixel autofocusrear camera, and a high-er 5-megapixel frontcamera instead of 2-megapixel camera.Users can also click self-

ie images using thetouch screen or the vol-ume buttons of thesmartphone. Apart from3G, other connectivityoptions on the Aqua StarII include Wi-Fi,Bluetooth, GPS/ A-GPS,FM Radio, and Micro-USB.

The Aqua Star II isbacked by a 2000mAhbattery and will beavailable in Black,White, Blue and Greycolour variants.

"Intex is knownfor innovation andwe are pleasedt o

announceo u rn e w e s toffering,I n t e xA q u aStar II.T h e

smartphone boasts ofdistinguished sensort e c h n o l o g y ,

1.2GHz quad-core SoCand an

8 -

megapix-el camera

amid otherf e a t u r e s

that makes ita device that

rightly standsfor the youth

of the nation,"

Sanjay Kumar Kalirona,Mobile Business Head,Intex Technologies saidon the launch.

Intex Aqua Star IImarks the 6th smart-phone in the Aqua Starseries. The firm has pre-viously launched IntexAqua Star (2013), IntexAqua Star, Intex AquaStar HD, Intex Aqua StarPower and the latestAndroid 5.0 Lollipop-based Aqua Star L.

Intex Aqua Star II With 8-MegapixelCamera Launched at Rs. 5,999

Lava Iris Fuel 20 With 4400mAhBattery Launched at Rs. 5,399

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SPORTSSPORTS 7SAADDA HAQNEW DELHI | TUESDAY | FEB 17, 2015

NEW DELHI, FEB 16As it happened last year, the

highlight of the auction wasYuvraj Singh – who was boughtby Delhi Daredevils for awhopping sum of Rs 16 crores.The all-rounder might not haveimpressed the Indian selectorswho dropped him from India's30-man World Cup squad, butthe IPL franchises probablyknew his worth, and his abilityto win matches single-handedlyin limited-overs cricket.

While Angelo Mathews (7.5cr to DD), Dinesh Karthik (10.5cr to RCB) were also bought forhefty sums, the talk of the auc-tion was unheralded spinnerKC Cariappa who was boughtfor 2.4 crores by KolkataKnight Riders.

While the established Indianplayers would be delightedwith the money spent on them,it was a sad say for the likes ofHashim Amla, KumarSangakkara and MahelaJayawardene who went unsold,despite being world class crick-eters.IPL 8: As it happened -

S v Trivedi Trivedi is the lastplayer (base price 30 lakhs):RR bid for him and buy him for10 lakhs.

Akash Bhandari is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Eklavya Dwivedi is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):CSK start with 10, he goes toCSK!

Aiden Blizzard is the nextplayer (base price 30 lakhs):Mumbai open the bid at 30lakhs, they get him for thatmuch.

Nathan Reardon is the nextplayer (base price 50 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Juan Theron is the next play-er (base price 30 lakhs):Rajasthan Royals buy him for30 lakhs.

Kumar Sangakkara is thenext player (base price 1 cr):Goes unsold.

Bidding begins after a shortbreak. The teams will requestfor a few unsold players to benamed again.

Joel Paris is the next player(base price 30 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Poonam Punia is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Kshemal Waingankar is thenext player (base price 10lakhs): Goes unsold.

Ishwar Chaudhary is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Jaskaran Singh is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

B Singh Saran is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Pankaj Jaswal is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Samad Fallah is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

PG Dake is the next player(base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Rajwinder Singh is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Gurvinder Singh is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

KK Jiyaz is the next player(base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Yuvraj Chudasama is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Vikas Tokas is the next play-er (base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Prashanth Parameswaran isthe next player (base price 10lakhs): Goes unsold.

Umar Nazir is the next player(base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Aniket Choudhary is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Andrew Tye is the next play-er (base price 20 lakhs): Goesto CSK for 20 lakhs.

Pradeep Sangwan is the nextplayer (base price 20 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Amit Mishra (speedster fromUP) is the next player (baseprice 10 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Siddharth Kaul is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):

Goes unsold.Nuwan Kulasekara is the next

player (base price 50 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Abhimanyu Mithun is thenext player (base price 30lakhs): Mumbai buy him for 30lakhs.

Zaheer Khan is the next play-er (base price 1 cr): Mumbaiand Delhi join the bidding warfor the veteran Indian speedster.DD finally buy him for 4crores.

Prattyush Singh is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Avinash Yadav is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Vijay Trivedi is the next play-er (base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Ankit Shastri is the next play-er (base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Ankit Kushwah is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Y Golwalker is the next play-er (base price 10 lakhs): Goesto KXIP for 10 lakhs.

Krunal Pandya is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Paul Valthaty is the next play-er (base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Varun Sood is the next player(base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Hardik Pandya is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs): MIopen the bidding with 10 lakhsand buy him!

B Indrajith is the next player(base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Kshitiz Sharma is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Dinesh Salunkhe is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Royals 'bid for 10 lakhs was theonly one, sold to RR.

Swarupam Purkaystha is thenext player (base price 10lakhs): Goes unsold.

Prasanth Padmanabhan is thenext player (base price 10lakhs): Goes to SRH for 10lakhs.

J Suchith is the next player(base price 10 lakhs): Goes toMumbai for 10 lakhs.

Marcus Stoinis is the nextplayer (base price 20 lakhs):Goes to DD for 25 lakhs.

Gurinder Singh is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Vaibhav Rawal is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):KKR buy him at base price.

Suneel Raju is the next player(base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Siddhesh Lad is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Sold to MI for 10 lakhs.

Akash Bhandari is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Pardeep Sahu is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Pardeep Sahu is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Nitish Rana is the next player(base price 10 lakhs): Sold toMumbai at the base price.

Rush Kalaria is the next play-er (base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold

Srikant Mundhe is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Ashok Menaria is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Robin Peterson is the nextplayer (base price 1 cr): Goesunsold.

Albie Morkel is the nextplayer (base price 30 lakhs):Dlehi start with the base price,they were the only bidder andthus they get Albie Morkel!

Azhar Mahmood is the nextplayer (base price 50 lakhs):Goes unsold

Irfan Pathan is the next play-er (base price 1.5 cr): CSKopen the bidding with the baseprice, nobody else is interested,so CSK get Irfan!

Kona Srikar Bharat is thenext player (base price 10lakhs): DD open the biddingand they buy him for thatamount.

Praful Waghela is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):

Goes unsoldRobin Singh Bist is the next

player (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Arjit Gupta is the next player(base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold

Craig Simmons is the nextplayer (base price 20 lakhs):Goes unsold

Nikhil Gangta is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Prashant Chopra is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Sujit Nayak is the next player(base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold

Prashant Naik is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Akhil Herwadkar is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Travis Head is the next play-er (base price 30 lakhs): Goesunsold

Shishir Bhavane is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):RCB bid for the base price andbuy him for that amount.

Ankeet Bawane is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Eklavya Dwivedi is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Taruwar Kohli is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Michael Beer is the nextplayer (base price 30 lakhs):Goes unsold

Manpreet Juneja is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):Goes unsold

Smit Patel is the next player(base price 10 lakhs): Goesunsold

Ankush bains is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):CSK open the bidding with 10lakhs and buy him for the sameamount.

Tirumalasetti Suman is thenext player (base price 10lakhs): Goes unsold

Sheldon Jackson is the nextplayer (base price 10 lakhs):CSK open the bidding at thebase price, KKR join in with15-lakh bid and buy the playerfor the same amount.

Aiden Blizard is the nextplayer (base price 30 lakhs):Goes unsold

Ross Taylor is the next player(base price 30 lakhs): Goesunsold

Ross Taylor is the next player(base price 1 crore): Goesunsold

Brad Hodge is the next player(base price 1 crore): Goesunsold

Alex Hales is the next player(base price 1 crore): Goesunsold

Michael Carberry isthe next player (baseprice 50 lakhs): Goesunsold

K u m a r

Sangakkarais the nextplayer (base price1 crore): Goesunsold

The auction will now resumeat 3:15 pm after the lunchbreak.

Mitchell McClenaghan is thenext player in auction (baseprice of Rs 30 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Juan Theron is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs30 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Cottrell is the next player inauction (base price of Rs 30lakhs): Goes unsold.

David Hussey is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 1 cr): Goes unsold.

Robin Peterson is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 1 cr): Goes unsold.

Azhar Mahmood is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 50 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Johan Botha is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs 1cr): Goes unsold.

Kallum Ferguson is the nextplayer in auction (base price of

Rs 30 lakhs): Goes unsold.Abhinav Mukund is the next

player in auction (base price ofRs 30 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Thirimanne is the next playerin auction (base price of Rs 50lakhs): Goes unsold.

Darren Bravo is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 50 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Venu Gopal Rao is thenext player in auction(base price of Rs 50lakhs): Goes unsold.

Richard Levi is thenext player in auction(base price of Rs 50lakhs): Goes unsold.

Hamish Rutherford isthe next player in auction:Goes unsold.

Dean Elgar is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs30 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Brad Hogg is the next playerin auction (base price of Rs 50lakhs): KKR open the bid at thebase price. KKR came upwith the only bid.

Akila Dhananjaya isthe next player in auc-tion (base price of Rs30 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Cameron Boyce isthe next player inauction (base price ofRs 50 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Ajantha Mendis isthe next player inauction (base priceof Rs 50 lakhs):Goes unsold.

Michael Beer isthe next player inauction (base priceof Rs 1 cr): Goesunsold.

Nathan Lyon isthe next player inauction (base priceof Rs 1 cr): Goesunsold.

Rahul Sharmais the next playerin auction (baseprice of Rs 30lakhs): CSKbuy him at hisbase price.

P r a g y a nOjha is thenext playerin auc-t i o n( b a s eprice ofRs 50

l a k h s ) :Mumbai Indians buyhim at the base price.

Bidding for spinners startsnow.

Adam Milne is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs30 lakhs): RCB start at the baseprice, CSK join in. RCB buyhim for 70 lakhs.

Ben Hilfenhaus is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 1 cr):

Sean Abbott is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs50 lakhs): RCB and MI join thebidding. RCB get him for 1crore.

Abhimanyu Mithun is thenext player in auction (baseprice of Rs 30 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Zaheer Khan is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs 1cr): Goes unsold.

Munaf Patel is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs50 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Jaydev Unadkat is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 50 lakhs): CSK start the bidat the base price, DD join in.DD finally get him for 1.10crores.

Trent Boult is the next playeri na u c -

tion (base price of Rs 50 lakhs):MI and RCB bid for the speed-ster. There aren't many left-armpacers in the IPL and the Kiwiis definitely a key player. BothRCB and MI continued to bidfor him for quite some timebefore MI stepped out. SRHjoined in. RCB came up with anew bid of 3.5 post which SRHhad a small discussion andcame up with a fresh bid of Rs3.8 crores. RCB step out, SRHget Boult for Rs 3.8 crores!

Pankaj Singh is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs30 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Praveen Kumar is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 30 lakhs): CSK start the bid-ding, SRH join in. SRH get himfor 2.2 crores.

Bidding for pacers starts now.Laxmiratan Shukla is the next

player in auction (base price of

Rs 30 lakhs): SRH opened thebid at the pace price. It was theonly bid and SRH buy him atthe base price.

Wayne Parnell is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 30 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Darren Sammy is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 1 cr): RCB start at the baseprice, DD join in. RCB buy himfor 2.8 crores!

Chris Morris is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs50 lakhs): Royals started offwith 50 lakhs, DD joined inwith a fresh bid of 55 lakhs.Both the franchises bid forquite some time, Royals get

him forIrfan Pathan is the

next player inauction (base

price of Rs1.5 cr):

G o e sunsold.

R a v iBopara is

the nextplayer in

a u c t i o n( b a s ep r i c eof Rs 1c r ) :

S u n r i s e r sstart off atthe baseprice. Theyget him forRs 1 crore!

TillakaratneDilshan is thenext player inauction (baseprice of Rs 1.5cr): Goes

unsold.M a r l o n

Samuels isthe next

player ina u c t i o n( b a s eprice ofRs 1.5 cr):G o e sunsold.J a m e s

Neesham isthe next play-

er in auction(base price of Rs

30 lakhs): KKRjoin the bid at the

base price, Royalstoo join the bidding.

KKR get him for 50lakhs!

Time for all-rounders

Brendan Taylor isthe next player in auc-

tion (base price of Rs30 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Denesh Ramdin is thenext player in auction(base price of Rs 30lakhs): Goes unsold.

Kusal Perera is thenext player in auction

(base price of Rs30 lakhs): Goesunsold.

Morne van Wyk is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 30 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Luke Ronchi is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs30 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Matthew Wade is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 1 cr): Goes unsold.

Michael Carberry is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 50 lakhs): Goes unsold.

Cheteshwar Pujara is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 1 cr): Goes unsold!

Michael Hussey? is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 1.5 cr): CSK start with thebase price, sold to CSK!

Subramaniam Badrinath? isthe next player in auction (baseprice of Rs 30 lakhs): RCB jointhe bid at the base price. Nomore bidders, RCB get him for30 lakhs.

Cameron White is the nextplayer in auction (base price ofRs 1.5 crore): Goes unsold.

Alex Hales is the next playerin auction (base price of Rs 1crore): Goes unsold.

Ross Taylor goes unsold witha base price of Rs 1 crore

Brad Hogg is the next playerin: He goes unsold!

There will be a 20-minutebreak before the proceedingsresume.

Eoin Morgan is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs1.5 crores): Sunrisers bid withthe base price. And they gethim for the base price!

Aaron Finch is the next play-er in auction (base price of Rs 1crore): MI and Delhi joined thebidding. DD stepped out afterMI bid for 3.2 crores. And MIget him for that amount!

Amit Mishra is the next play-er (base price of Rs 1 crore):Royals and Mumbai Indiansjoin the bidding! Royals stepout after MI bid with 1.5 crores,SRH join the bidding with Rs1.6 crores. DD buy AmitMishra for 3.5 crores!

Dinesh Karthik is the nextplayer in (base price Rs 2crore): RCB, DD are biddingfor the wicketkeeper. DD stepout, SRH join in with a bid of10 crores, RCB are leading thebidding and they get DK for Rs10.5 crores!

Kevin Pietersen is the nextplayer in (base price Rs 2crore): Sunrisers Hyderebadbuy KP for 2 crores!

Next player is MahelaJayawardene (base price of Rs1 crore):

Next player is KumarSangakkara (base price of Rs 1crore): Goes unsold!

Next player is Yuvraj Singh(base price Rs 2 cr): Kings XIPunjab, Rajasthan Royals joinbidding, DD join bidding withan amount of 4 crore, RCB toojoin the bidding, DD and RCBare relentlessly bidding for theall-rounder, DD have bid for 15crores, there's a huge discussiongoing on in the RCB camp!Vijay Mallya doesn't seem to beinterested. After a lot of think-ing, RCB made a bid for 15.5crores, DD immediately repliedwith a 16-crore bid. DD buyYuvraj for 16 crores!

Next player is KaneWilliamson (base price 50lakhs): Sunrisers Hyderebadbuy him for 60 lakhs!

Next player is AngeloMathews (base price 1.5 cr):Mumbai Indians open the bid-ding with the base price, DelhiDaredevils join the bidding, MIstepped out at 4.2 cr, RCB jointhe bidding, the bidding hascrossed the 7cr-mark, DD buyhim for 7.5crs!

Murali Vijay is the next play-er (base price Rs 50 lakhs):CSK bid for him, KXIP join thebid, both the franchises foughtfor quite some time, RCBjoined in between. CSKstepped out in between, KXIPbuy Murali Vijay for 3 crores!

First player for auction isHashim Amla and he goesunsold!

Richard Madley has takenover the proceedings! It's timefor action now.

Some other big names whichwill go under the hammer areMahela Jayawardene, EoinMorgan, Kumar Sangakkara,Murali Vijay, Darren Sammy,Angelo Mathews, Aaron Finchand Alex Hales.

An additional purse of Rs 3crore will be available to eachfranchise over and above thebalance remaining from the Rs60 crore last year along with theamount generated from therelease of players.

The auction would onceagain be crucial for DelhiDaredevils, who have releasedall 13 players after finishing atthe bottom of the points tablelast year.

Virat Kohli-led RoyalChallengers Bangalore (RCB)had earlier released Yuvraj,who was bought for a whop-ping 14 crores last year.

The 8th edition of the IPLwill kick off on April 16 with aclash between defending cham-pions Kolkata Knight Riders(KKR) and MumbaiIndians.

IPL 8 auction: Daredevils splurge 16 crores for YuvrajSingh; no buyers for Kumar Sangakkara, Hashim Amla

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Tips for permanent make-upAn illegal structure

outside Shah RukhKhan’s home was

demolished on Saturday.The episode might havebeen unpleasant for KingKhan, but it was a pleasantsurprise for numerous fansto see him lazily hangingabout in his house. Theshutterbugs caught him ashe casually stood on hisbalcony. To the utmostdelight of many, he wasaccompanied by noneother than AbRam andwife Gauri.

An allegedly illegalramp had stood for quitesome time outside ShahRukh’s mansion Mannat,located in the upscaleBandra Bandstand area.Saturday sawBrihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC)demolish the illegal struc-ture. It was on this occa-sion that the family stoodoutside to watch and the

media captured them oncamera. Daddy Khan stoodon the balcony, wearingblue jeans with a blacksweat shirt. Beside him,AbRam could be seen in awhite t-shirt strolling nearhis father. While GauriKhan couldn’t be clearlyseen as she was standingbehind the blinds. Thethree stood there, watchingthe demolition squad bring

down the ramp. Also pres-ent were the representa-tives of WatchdogFoundation- the NGO thatled the protests against theillegal construction outsidethe actor’s residence.Nicholas Almeida of theNGO said, “It was built ona public street and theactor's vanity van wasobstructing a substantialamount of the stretch.”

Gauri, Aryan watch as rampoutside Mannat demolished

AIB Knockout has been inthe news for quite sometime for its controversial

content. Many slammed the showfor the vulgar content while somefavours it to the extreme point.After Mahesh Bhatt and SonakshiSinha’s tryst over the show, nowAamir Khan came into the scannerfor expressing his displeasureregarding the show. Reacting toAamir’s displeasure, filmmakerPooja Bhatt and noted comedianRussell Peters highly lashes out atthe actor calling him “hypocriticaland dangerous”.

Russell Peters, an extremely pop-ular comedian with internationalfame, has asked Aamir Khan toshut up and mind his own businesswhen it comes to comment on AIBRoast hosted by Ranveer Singh,Arjun Kapoor and Karan Johar.

Lashing out at Aamir Khan,Pooja Bhatt said, "I feel it's hypo-critical self-styled moralists andthe Aamir Khans of the world, whoare more frightening and injurious.I am appalled at his sudden self-righteous mode. He has completelyforgotten his body of work - thedouble meaning song, 'Bhaag DKBose' in Delhi Belly, and the PKposter where he left nothing to theÂ-imagination, putting SunnyLeone to shame," said Pooja.Comedian Russel Peters slammedthe actor and asked him to mind hisown business.

"Seriously, who is he, the so-called artist, to say that he found itviolent and that AIB and restinvolved should have been respon-sible? He did not even see it!Someone please ask him to shut upand take care of his own business,"

Peters who was in India this week-end for a show, said.

"He is an actor; not even a realartist. He goes in front of the cam-era and reads out lines that some-one else has written. Then, he isgiving his opinion about somethingthat is honest!" he added.

Clearing the misconceptionabout 'roast', Russell said, "Youknow, it's funny, the things we getangry about. We don't get pissedwhen a politician comes up onstage and lies on our faces, but weget angry when someone speaksthe truth." The Canadian stand-upcomic also met AIB comediansTanmay Bhatt and GursimranKhamba and congratulated themon their effort. "I met Tanmay andKhamba and patted them on theirback and said they should feelproud!"

Shut up and take care of your ownbusiness, Russell to Aamir Khan

Despite tagging the film bor-ing, Royng>Ranbir Kapoorstarrer ‘Roy’ starts off well

and managed to earn a whopping Rs28 crores in its opening weekend.Released last Friday, the film earnsthe credit of becoming the highestgrossing movie of 2015.

‘Roy’ starring JacquelineFernandez, Arjun Rampal andRanbir Kapoor was benefitted dueto the Valentine’s Day weekend. Themovie earned Rs 11 crore onFebruary 14.

Trade analysts Taran Adrashtweeted about the film’s busi-ness##Roy Fri 10.40 cr, Sat 11.16cr, Sun 7.12 cr [biz affected due tocricket match]. Total: ? 28.68 cr.India biz.

2015 had a dull start with all thebig budget movies like ‘Tevar’‘Shamitabh’ had failed to make anymark at the box-office but ‘Roy’managed to beat Akshay Kumar’s‘Baby’ which had earned Rs 9 croreon the opening day.

Highly elated Arjun Rampalthanks his fans for loving ‘Roy’. Hetweeted#Happy Valentine's Day to all. Love you all and spread love. Thank you Roy is the biggest opener of 2015.Super happy. #rocknroy

Roy, directed by Vikramjit Singhwas released in 2500 screens.

However, the collection of ‘Roy’ dropped on Sundaydue to the India-Pakistan World Cup match. The entirenation was gripped by the cricket fever and movie maniatook a backseat.

Hopefully, it is expected that ‘Roy’ will pick up somegood numbers before the next big release.

Box-office:‘Roy’ earns28 crores inthe openingweekend

Smita Thackeray’s sontied the knot lastweek and the recep-

tion was held on 13thFebruary. Rahul Thackeraygot married to Aditi Redkarin Sahara Star in Andheri, asuburb in western Mumbai.The bride dazzled in ablack dress, while SmitaThackeray wore a shinygolden outfit. The weddingwas attended by severalpoliticians and big namesof B-town. Many celebri-ties turned up to shower thenewlyweds with blessings.Well known families likethe Bachchan and Kapoorkhandan were spotted atthe event. Actress JuhiChawla came all dolled upin a pastel sari and someexquisite jewellery. Shewas seen with husband JayMehta. Amitabh Bachchanwas spotted in white kurtaand a shawl. He waved at

the cameras as he steppedout of the car. He wasaccompanied by JayaBachchan, dressed in darkpink sari. Big B was thenseen greeting politicianChhagan Bhuhbal on theoccasion. Actors Rakesh

Roshan and Jitendra posedfor pictures as they arrived.Priya Dutt came with hus-band Owen Roncon. TheKapoor brothers Randhirand Rishi Kapoor cametogether. Actor RMadhavan looked stunning

in satin trousers and an ele-gant jacket. Singer SonuNigam appeared with wifeMadhurima. ActorsRetiesh Deshmukh,Dharmendra and AkshayKumar came to the recep-tion without their better

halves. Retiesh Deshmukhkept it simple with a whitepajama and blue kurta, butlooked handsome never-theless. Dharmendra Deolcame too, but he was aloneas Dream Girl couldn’t beseen anywhere. AkshayKumar sported a black suitwith blue shirt. SunilShetty turned up with wifeManna Shetty. Formercricketer S Sreesanth wasaccompanied by wifeBhuvaneshwari.

Sunidhi Chauhan was atotal head-turner in her ele-gant black sari paired withpink blouse. Shaina NCwas seen escorting SalmanKhan's father Salim Khan.Also seen was politicianSushil Kumar Shinde alongwith Satyapal Singh, theformer PoliceCommissioner of Mumbai.Other personalities presentwere veteran adman

Prahlad Kakkar, musiccomposer Anu Malik,Rajkumar Hirani, SajidNadiadwala, SatishKaushik, composer-singerBappi Lahiri and choreog-raphers Ganesh Acharyaand Shiamak Davar. AditiRedkar is RahulThackeray's childhoodsweetheart. The two knoweach other since kinder-garten. The couple gotengaged last year. Theengagement ceremony hadbeen a simple one at LevoRestaurant in Andheri. Thecouple tied the knot earlierthis month at a simple wed-ding ceremony held inBandra Kurla Complex.Just like the sangeet, it wasattended by few familymembers like UddhavThackeray, RashmiThackeray, AadityaThackeray and some closefriends.

Bachchans, Akshay, Deols at Smita Thackeray’s son