NEW DELHIMany mountaineers have

served with great distinc-tion during Kargil conflictand they continue todefend country's highestfrontiers with courage andfortitude, President PranabMukherjee said here onWednesday.

Addressing goldenjubilee celebrations ofIndia's first historic climbof Mt Everest in 1965, hehoped that Indian moun-taineers will help inrebuilding lives of thoseaffected by earthquake inNepal.

"Over the years ourmountaineers have distin-guished themselves not

only by scaling the highestpeaks but also as brave sol-diers of the gallant armedforces which have includ-ed the Indo-Tibetan BorderPolice (ITBP). "Many ofthem have served withgreat distinction during theKargil conflict and contin-ue to defend our highestfrontiers with courage and

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HAQSAADDAFIGHT FOR RIGHTThursday, May 21, 2015

Everybody united against us, but wehave public support: Arvind Kejriwal

NDA slashed social sector spendingby over Rs 1.75 crore: Congress

After Luck, Imran Khan to teamup with Shruti Haasan again? P8

NEW DELHIThe Centre has asked min-

istries under it to ensure that allemployees' Aadhaar numbersare recorded in their servicebooks.

"Instructions have alreadybeen issued to ensure inclusion

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Ensure all employeesAadhaar in service books:Govt to depts

NEW DELHIA 5-year-old girl was alleged-

ly raped by a drug addict insidethe parcel yard of Old DelhiRailway Station here onWednesday.

According to police, the inci-dent came to light around 10.30am today when a passerbynoticed the girl bleeding and

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5-yr-old raped at OldDelhi railway station

NEW DELHIA Delhi court on Wednesday

granted protection from arresttill May 30 to a man accused ina case in which around 8,500bottles of illicit liquor wereseized from a godown beforethe assembly elections here.

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AAP MLA liquor case:Delhi court gives protec-tion to man from arrest

NEW DELHICongress leader Manish

Tewari on Wednesday said thatthe frequency with whichPakistani flags are being wavedin India is virtually mocking theunity and sovereignty of thecountry.

"The manner in whichPakistan flags are being waved is virtually mocking the

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Waving of Pak flags mocking India'sunity, sovereignty: Manish Tewari

HYDERABADCongress leader and former

Union Minister Jairam Rameshon Wednesday accused PrimeMinister Narendra Modi ofplaying a "double game" byallowing his party leaders toindulge in polarisation while hehimself spoke the language ofgovernance. "Modi is playing a dangerous double

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PM Modi allowing BJP leaders toindulge in polarisation: Ramesh

RAIPURAccusing the BJP-led-NDA

government of failing to fulfilpoll promises, Congress gener-al secretary B K Hariprasadtoday said it had wrecked"foundational values".

"Narendra Modi's 'Suit-BootKi Sarkar' is mercilessly

demolishing the edifice of India's foundational valuesof inclusive and equitable development in its insa-tiable quest to appease a few crony capitalists and

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NDA only pandering to cronycapitalists: Hariprasad

DELHIDelhi Police chief BS Bassi

on Wednesday said that thepolygraph test on three sus-pects in the Sunanda Pushkarmurder case will be conductedas per the guidelines of court.

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Sunanda Pushkar murdercase: Will conduct poly-graph test as per court'sguidelines, says Bassi

NEW DELHIJan Awaaz, a citizen's plat-

form created to highlight publicconcerns, on Wednesdaysharply criticised the NarendraModi-led Government, sayingthe promise of "Achche Din"for the poor is out of questionunless a serious mid-course

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Jan Awaaz criticis-es govt, wants it tobe inclusive

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NEW DELHIPrime Minister

Narendra Modi onWednesday met his sen-ior ministerial colleaguesto discuss programmes tocelebrate first anniver-sary of his government.

A day after returningfrom a three-nation tourof China, Mongolia andSouth Korea, Modi helddeliberations with minis-ters Arun Jaitley, RajnathSingh, Sushma Swaraj,M Venkaiah Naidu andNitin Gadkari.

Issues related to cele-brating the first anniver-sary of the NDA govern-ment on May 26 are

understood to have beendiscussed during themeeting.

During the meeting,the PM told the ministersto spread the messageabout the work done by

the government duringthe last one year, particu-larly highlighting the ini-tiatives in the social sec-tor.

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PM Narendra Modi to celebrate anniver-sary with `1 year vs 10 years` slogan

President hails mountaineers'service during Kargil conflict

NEW DELHISlamming the gov-

ernment and the DelhiPolice on the issue ofraising the force'sstrength, the Delhi HighCourt on Wednesdayasked the Centre why itwas "dilly- dallying"over the issue as 15 pro-posals to increase thenumber of cops werenot yet approved.

A bench of justicesBadar Durrez Ahmedand Sanjeev Sachdevalashed out at the

Ministry of HomeAffairs (MHA) and thepolice, saying they were"playing badminton"with the proposals bysending them back andforth over variousqueries.

"How long will youplay the game of bad-minton? Either they areidiots sitting there whodo not understand orthey are doing it on pur-pose," the bench said.

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NEW DELHIAmid his ongoing tussle

with Lt Governor NajeebJung over posting andtransfer of bureaucrats,Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal onWednesday accused theCentre of trying to run theadministration in thenational capital.

In a letter written toPrime Minister NarendraModi, Kejriwal chargedthat the Central govern-ment is trying to ruleDelhi through the LtGovernor.

The Chief Minister fur-ther urged the PM to“allow the Delhi govern-ment to work independ-ently under the constitu-tional scheme”.

Kejriwal's letter to PMModi came a day after hetook his fight overbureaucratic control toPresident's doors and

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Centre trying to rule Delhi through LG:Arvind Kejriwal in letter to PM Modi

RIYADHA Saudi Arabian family was

shocked when their daughterrevealed to them that she is inlove with an Indian expatriateand wants to marry him.

The furious father quicklywent to the lover's employer

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Saudi girl's love affairwith Indian expatshocks her family

NEW DELHIVandalising public or

private property duringagitations and protests willsoon invite heavy penaltylike market price of thedamaged assets and jailterm of up to ten years,with the Home Ministryproposing to amend therelevant laws.

In a notification, theHome Ministry has invitedsuggestions from generalpublic and institutions for

proposed amendments inthe Prevention of Damageto Public Property (PDPP)Act, 1984.

The proposed amend-ments seek to deter theprospective violators fromvandalising and destroyingpublic/private propertyduring agitations and otherforms of protests. The pro-posed amendments willalso deter the office-bear-ers of these organisations.

Sources said govern-

ment plans to incorporateprovisions for heavypenalty like market priceof the damaged assets onthe persons who vandaliseproperty and office-bear-ers of the organisationwhich calls the protestsand agitations.

Those who abet peopleto damage public, privateproperty or machinerywould also be bookedunder the proposed law.

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Protesters have to pay marketprice of damaged property

Why dilly-dally on inducting morecops: Delhi HC asks Centre

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEW DELHIHours after Lieutenant

Governor Najeeb Jung annulledall bureaucratic postings done inthe last four days by the AAPgovernment, Delhi Deputy ChiefMinister Manish Sisodia onWednesday wrote to the formerasking him what provisions underConstitution allow him to issuedirections to his government.

Sisodia, in a letter to Jung, hassought information on the provi-sions under Constitution, GNCTAct and TBR which provide thelatter power to issue directions toDelhi government.

Earlier in the day, Jung in hisletter to Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal had written that

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Manish Sisodia terms Najeeb Jung's directions 'uncon-stitutional', clarifies no officer has gone on leave

NEW DELHICongress on Wednesday

accused AAP and BJP of"deliberately" creating a "con-stitutional crisis" over bureau-cratic appointments in Delhiand said the two parties wereusing the row to divert atten-tion away from their failure tofulfil poll promises.

Insisting that Delhi LtGovernor Najeeb Jung andChief Minister ArvindKejriwal were "equallyresponsible" for the situation,Congress questioned the duofor taking the issue toPresident Pranab Mukherjeeinstead of looking for a solu-tion in a "mature fashion".

The party also questionedJung's decision to undo orders

passed by the Kejriwal gov-ernment in the past one week,adding that these develop-ments are going to have a badimpact on the administrationin Delhi which, it claimed,was reeling under a water andpower crisis.

"Perhaps it is in the interestof the BJP and the centralgovernment (led by it) to rakeup this issue because the cele-brations for or protests overone year of Modi's govern-ment are going to take place...They have no answer for'achhe din' which were sup-posed to come.

"They don't want people totalk about that. They wantpeople to talk about this

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Cong slams AAP, BJP for creating'constitutional crisis' in Delhi

NEW DELHIThe Delhi High Court,

Wednesday, issued a notice to theDelhi government and soughtreply over over appointment of21 Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP)MLAs as parliamentary secre-taries to ministers.

The HC has asked the ArvindKejriwal-led government to filesits response by July 1.

The court's order came on apetition filed by NGO 'RashtriyaMukti Morcha' that alleging thatthe appointment was "unconstitu-

tional, illegal and without juris-diction".

The public interest litigation(PIL) sought quashing ofKejriwal's March 13 decision,saying the Chief Minister issued"unconstitutional and illegalorder appointing 21 MLAs as PSin gross violation of the constitu-tional provisions of Article 239AA of the Constitution of Indiaand Section 44 (2) and (3) of theTransaction of Business of theGovernment of the national

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NEW DELHIAmid an ongoing tussle

between Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwaland Lt Governor NajeebJung over posting andtransfer of bureaucrats,Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh metPresident PranabMukherjee on Wednesday.

While Rajnath deniedthat he discussed the rowwith the President, theHome Minister toldreporters that the duoshould sit together andamicably resolve the row.

"The LG and the ChiefMinister should sit togeth-er and find a solution. Ibelieve that the LG and theChief Minister will defi-nitely find a solution,"

Rajnath said.Sources, however, said

that during the 15-minutemeeting the HomeMinister is believed tohave conveyed to thePresident the Central gov-ernment's position vis-a-vis the Delhi administra-tion.

Singh is understood tohave briefed Mukherjee onthe opinion taken by theHome Ministry fromAttorney General on theresponsibilities and dutiesof the LG vis-a-vis the citygovernment.

The Delhi governmentcomes under the adminis-trative control of theUnion Home Ministry.

So far, the HomeMinistry has been main-

taining that the LG as wellas the Chief Ministershould discharge theirduties in accordance withrules and the Constitution.

Rajnath's meeting camea day after both Kejriwaland Jung separately metthe President and narratedtheir side of the story.

Jung had yesterdaycalled on Rajnath Singh aswell after his meeting withthe President.

Kejriwal has accusedJung of interfering in theworking of his electedgovernment and eventhreatening officials.

Emerging after meetingMukherjee along withKejriwal, Deputy ChiefMinister Manish Sisodia

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Kejriwal and Jung should talk and resolve row,says Rajnath Singh after meeting President

Ex-solicitor generalGopal Subramaniambacks AAP govtNEW DELHI

Former solicitor generalGopal Subramaniam onWednesday said Delhi`sLt. Governor cannot over-rule the state government`sdecisions as this would"violate the constitutionalscheme".

The Supreme Courtlawyer submitted his legalopinion to the Aam AadmiParty (AAP) governmentover powers of the Delhigovernment and the Lt.Governor in the appoint-ment and transfer of secre-taries.

In his letter,Subramaniam said: "The

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NEW DELHIEngaged in a tussle

with Najeeb Jung, theDelhi government onWednesday told itsbureaucrats not to "blind-

ly" follow the LtGovernor's orders.

During the meet,bureaucrats were alsotold to discharge theirduties in line with consti-

tutional provisions, with-out any fear or apprehen-sion.

Deputy Chief MinisterManish Sisodia, during a

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AAP govt holds meeting withbureaucrats amid standoff with LG

Delhi HC notice to Kejriwal govt on appoint-ment of MLAs as parliamentary secretaries

DU admission: 'Open Days' to beginNEW DELHI

Delhi University's counselling sessions for admissionaspirants, 'Open Days', will begin on Thursday in whichstudents as well as parents can seek answers to theirqueries about the admission process for 2015-16 aca-demic session.

Every year before the admission process begins for itsundergraduate courses, Delhi University conducts'Open Days', or sessions to give prospective applicantsand their parents an idea about what awaits them.

Students and parents are invited for these sessions toget their admission-related queries addressed by DUstaff.

"The Open Day sessions beginning tomorrow will beheld to counsel students and their parents about thechoice of courses in different colleges and the eligibili-ty criteria for admission to various undergraduate pro-grammes," DU's Deputy Dean of Students' WelfareGurpreet Singh Tuteja said.

"The sessions will be held till May 30 from 10 AM to1 PM except Sundays, in varsity's Conference Centresituated opposite Botany Department in NorthCampus," he added.

DU is also mulling to make recordings of these ses-sions available online so the prospective students whoare unable to visit the campus can now turn to its web-site for clearing any doubts regarding the process.

The varsity has also prepared a set of Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs) based on queries from stu-dents in previous years, Tuteja said. The FAQs will beavailable on the website soon and students visiting thecampus will also get the same in the form of hand-outs.

Admissions to over 54,000 seats in DU's undergradu-ate courses will begin from May 28. The online registra-tion process will be open from May 28 to June 15 whileoffline forms will be accepted at the registration centresfrom June 5 to June 15. The first cut-off list will beannounced on June 25.

National Herald case: Sam Pitrodachallenges summoning orderNEW DELHI

Sam Pitroda, who is close to the Congress leadership,has challenged in Delhi High Court the summons issuedto him in the National Herald case.

Justice Sunil Gaur tagged Pitroda'a petition with oth-ers, including Congress President Sonia Gandhi and herson Rahul Gandhi, who have also challenged the trialcourt's June 26, 2014 order summoning them as accusedfor allegedly cheating and misappropriating funds of acompany that used to publish the now defunct NationalHerald newspaper.

The court will hear the matters on July 2.The high court on August 6, 2014 had stayed the sum-

mons issued against all the accused.Pitroda, who served as chairman of the National

Knowledge Commission (2005-2009), was summonedalong with Sonia, Rahul, party treasurer Moti Lal Vora,general secretary Oscar Fernandes and Young IndianPrivate Ltd (a firm in which the Gandhis have a stake)director Suman Dubey asking them to appear before itAugust 7, 2014.

They were summoned as accused on a complaint byBJP leader Subramanian Swamy alleging cheating inthe acquisition of Associated Journals Ltd (AJL), thepublisher of National Herald newspaper, by the YoungIndian Private Ltd (YIL).

The Gandhis, Fernandes, Vora and Dubey had movedthe high court on July 30, 2014 against the trial courtorder summoning them in the case.

The accused persons were summoned under sections403 (dishonest misappropriation of property, 406 (crim-inal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) read with sec-tion 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.

Man beaten to death in Delhi'sConnaught PlaceNEW DELHI

A man was beaten to death at Shankar Market inConnaught Place area of New Delhi on Tuesday night,police said.

Police said the deceased Biju Varghese hailed fromKerala. He was staying in Chilla village in east Delhi,with his family. He used to run a courier company here.

At around 11.30 p.m,. two miscreants attackedVarghese allegedly with a helmet and fled the sceneleaving him badly injured. Immediately after the attack,Varghese`s helpers informed the police about the inci-dent.

Police took Varghese to a hospital where doctorsdeclared him brought dead.

"...we have launched a search operation to nab thecriminals," a police official told IANS.

NDMC sets 15-day deadline forremoval of illegal adsNEW DELHI

Alongside proposing its new outdoor advertisementpolicy, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation(NDMC) today decided to crack the whip against illegalads in its area and set a deadline of 15 days for theircomplete removal.

NDMC Mayor Ravinder Gupta held discussion with agroup of advertisers and also sought suggestions fromthem to improve the situation.

The Mayor said modes of outdoor advertising wouldbe divided into 36 clusters to regulate business, elimi-nate corruption, improve the quality of advertisements,beautify the city and augment the revenue to improvethe financial conditions of the cash-strapped corpora-tion.

"Under the scheme, the new advertisement siteswould also be created in respective zones, parks andeven on streetlight poles. The advertisers would also begiven the powers to remove the illegal advertisements.The scheme under finalisation would be well within theguidelines of the Supreme Court," a senior official if theNDMC said.

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IN BRIEF

New Delhi: Referring toAAP Government's ongo-ing turf war withLieutenant GovernorNajeeb Jung, Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwalon Wednesday "everybodyhas got united against us"but asserted that till thetime they have public sup-port "we don't have tothink about anything".

"Everybody has got unit-ed against us. Yesterday, Iwent to meet a seniorlawyer who told me that hehad seen on news channelsthat everyone is against us(AAP Government) butpublic is supporting... Ireplied to him that till thetime public is with us wedon't have to think aboutanything," Kejriwal said.

Inaugurating the 100thstore of Kendriya Bhandarin the national capital atKeshav Puram, Kejriwalsaid his government wasworking hard to fulfil thepromises made to the peo-ple.

"We are working hard aspublic trusted us and gavea huge mandate (in theAssembly elections) and I

assure you that we will notlet you down and deliverour promises," he said.

Kejriwal said his govern-ment was making efforts toensure that prices of veg-etables like potato andonion remain under controlduring the summers.

"In summers, there hadbeen sudden rise in pricesof vegetables, but this time

we have bought andstocked potatoes andonions from other stateswhen they were cheap. Ifsomeone tries to inflate theprice then we will float outstock and control theprices," Kejriwal said,adding if this plan suc-ceeds, the government willstock other vegetables too.He said his government

will ensure that there is noshortage of electricity andwater.

"We have made weekwise projection of demandand supply for the nextfour months. Officers arecalculating demand eachweek and supply to meetthis requirement. I am con-fident there will be noshortage of electricity.

"I am also not saying thatthere will be 24-hour sup-ply of water but if earlier ahouse used to get 1-hour ofwater supply then now itwill get 1.5 hours of sup-ply. Situation will get bet-ter in Delhi," Kejriwalsaid.

He announced that thegovernment would pro-mote Kendriya Bhandar inthe city for cheaper andquality food products. Heinvited officials ofKendriya Bhandar to meethim with an expansionplan for Delhi. Out of 130Kendriya Bhandar outletsin India, 100 stores are inDelhi.

Kejriwal also showedinterest in opening ofgeneric medicines outlet atKendriya Bhandar.

"Before I was elected anMLA from New Delhi, Iwent to meet people and atfour places, the peopledemanded opening ofKendriya Bhandar... Ifpublic is demanding thisstore then it means thatthere is something good init. Public gives the bestcertificate," Kejriwal said.

Everybody united against us, but wehave public support: Arvind Kejriwal

NEW DELHIThe Delhi High Court on

Wednesday declined togive its approval to a DelhiPolice proposal to install6,630 CCTV cameras in 44red-flagged areas of thenational capital at a cost ofRs.404.32 crore.

A division bench ofJustice B.D. Ahmed andJustice Sanjeev Sachdevasaid it would not give its"stamp of approval" to theproject and said "the cost isa bit pricey".

"We won't give ourstamp of approval to theproject. Rs.404 crore forthe CCTV cameras seemsto be on the upper side, tosay the least," the benchremarked. The bench,which posted the matter forfurther consideration forJuly 29, said Delhi Policewere "more interested" inputting up CCTV cameras"as it involves money".

The court's observationcame after advocate MeeraBhatia said Delhi Police inan affidavit said a surveywas carried out byBroadcast EngineeringConsultants India Ltd.(BECIL) in all the 44 areasto identify spots where

CCTV cameras could beinstalled.

BECIL conducted a fieldstudy in consultation withthe respective joint com-missioners of police andother concerned officers inthe vulnerable areas wherecrimes against womenwere on the rise.

It projected a tentativecost of Rs.404.32 crore forall accessories, camerasand apparatuses etc.required for the installationof 6,630 CCTV systems.

On the basis of the proj-ect report, a proposal forobtaining administrativeapproval and expendituresanction of the competentauthority during the cur-rent financial year 2015-16was sent to the home min-istry, Delhi Police counselRajesh Mahajan told thecourt. Police said theprocess of installing theCCTVs in the identifiedareas will be taken upimmediately on theapproval from the centralgovernment. The red-flagged areas were identi-fied after police conducteda first-of-its-kind 'crime-mapping' exercise, particu-larly for crimes against

women.The court was hearing a

public interest litigation(PIL) initiated by it afterthe December 16, 2012,gang rape.

An application filed byadvocate Bhatia said theCCTV cameras installedfor US President BarackObama's security duringhis Republic Day 2015visit should not beremoved. At the outset, thebench came down heavilyon the home ministry andthe city police for failing tomake any headway intorecruitment of additionalpersonnel in the force, say-ing the authorities were"dilly-dallying" over theissue as 15 proposals toincrease the number ofpolicemen were not yetapproved. The benchslammed the ministry andpolice and said they were"playing badminton" withthe proposals by sendingthem back and forth overvarious queries. "How longwill you play the game ofbadminton? Either they areidiots sitting there who donot understand, or they aredoing it on purpose," thebench said.

Delhi HC says no to Rs.404-crore CCTV camera plan

NEW DELHIThe Delhi High Court on Wednesday

agreed to hear a plea against the risingnumber of road rage incidents in the capi-tal, and for direction to the government toamend the Motor Vehicles Act and make"deterrent provisions" on road rage.

A division bench of Chief Justice G.Rohini and Justice R.S. Endlaw posted thematter for August 5 and clubbed it with thesuo motu cognizance it took last week ofthe road rage issue where a traffic policeman hurled a brick at a woman scooterist.

The public interest litigation (PIL) filedby two high court advocates -- AbhishekChoudhary and Harsh Ahuja -- told thecourt there was "no awareness pro-grammes, workshop, campaign, advertise-ment, banners, hoardings, posters whichwould describe road rage as an offenceand the consequences of committing suchoffences".

It sought direction to the governments tospread awareness through advertisements,FM radio, social media, print media etc.about the consequences or effects of roadrage. "The people on the road of Delhi,including motorists, commuters andpedestrians, have become so violent andaggressive towards each other that in thepast such encounters have turned brutaland fatal," the two lawyers argued. "Suchincidents are mostly called as road rage,"they told court. They said road rage wasuncontrolled anger that results in violenceor threatened violence on the road, and,therefore, was a "criminal behaviour".

Choudhary said the registered cases ofroad rage were increasing every year and itwas imperative to mention that these fig-ures were "very alarming" and a "matter ofgrave concern".

Mentioning a report by IANS about theincreasing number of road rage cases reg-istered in past years, the plea said therewere 36 cases in 2010, 34 in 2011, 49 in2012, 53 in 2013, which increased to 93 in2014 (till November).

The plea sought direction to the Delhigovernment to have "prior temperamental/behaviour analysis test" of people beforeissuing driving licences.

It also mentioned a few recent road rageincidents highlighted by the media.

It said that in May 2012, a metropolitanmagistrate accompanied by two otherjudges became the victim of road ragewhen their car was attacked by four bikersnear the court complex in south Delhi. InSeptember 2013, a 40-year-old advocatewas stabbed and injured by two collegestudents when his car brushed their motor-cycle. In June 2014, a chartered accountedand his wife were beaten up by two men inVasant Kunj when their car bumped into avehicle behind them while reversing. Theplea added that earlier this month (May2015), a DTC driver was beaten to deathby a biker, a traffic policeman hurled abrick at a woman scooterist and a sub-inspector was slapped by a woman in pub-lic when he intervened in a quarrel to stopher from physically assaulting a taxi driv-er whose car grazed her vehicle.

HC notice to AAP MLA over'false' educational qualification

NEW DELHINo one knows which

bullet brought down ManojVashisht in the allegedshootout involving DelhiPolice`s Special Cell at acentral Delhi restaurant onMay 16 evening. Only aforensic test will now clar-ify the point, police offi-cials say. Investigators saythey are trying to ascertainwhether it was a bulletfired from Vashisht`s pistolor that fired by Sub-Inspector Bhoop Singh thatkilled him.

Two bullets were firedinside the south Indianfood chain Sagar Ratnarestaurant in New RajenderNagar during a scufflebetween InspectorDharmendra Kumar of theSpecial Cell and Vashisht.

Police investigation andthe statements of 13 wit-nesses said the first bulletwas fired by Vashisht,while the second one camefrom Sub-Inspector Bhoop

Singh`s firearm. NineSpecial Cell officers hadraided the restaurant toapprehend Vashisht.

However, police said "noone knows" which bullethit Vashisht`s head leadingto his death.

Special Commissioner ofPolice (Special Cell) S.N.Srivastava told IANS thathe was not investigatingthe alleged shootout as thecase was already beingprobed by an SIT (SpecialInvestigative team), but itis clear that without aforensic report it would bevery difficult to knowwhose bullet hit Vashisht.

Srivastava said BhoopSingh also did not knowwhether it was his bulletthat hit Vashisht.

In his statement, BhoopSingh said that InspectorDharmendra, along withhim and six other officers,entered the restaurant. Twoother officers were outsidethe restaurant.

"Vashisht took out his

pistol and pointed it atDharmendra who, in self-defence, caught his hand,and a scuffle ensued. Bothfell on the ground and abullet got fired. S-I BhoopSingh and constableJitendra were a few metresaway."

"Bhoop Singh then fireda bullet on Vashisht as hethought that InspectorDharmendra was hit byVashisht," a police sourcesaid, citing Bhoop Singh`sstatement. Others presentin the restaurant could notsee whose bullet hitVashisht. Vashisht waskilled in an allegedshootout of Special Cellpolicemen -- an elite unitspecialised in combatingterror activities -- at 8.15p.m. on May 16.

The whole incident wascaptured in a 29-secondCCTV clip from therestaurant, but the grainyfootage was not useful inestablishing from whosefirearm the killing bullet

was fired.The clip shows two

policemen in plainclotheswalking up to Vashishtwho took out his pistolfirst.

A vigilance probe wasalso ordered apart from themagisterial inquiry con-ducted by the Delhi gov-ernment a day after theincident.

All the nine Special Cellpolicemen, InspectorDharmendra Kumar sub-inspectors Vivek Singh andBhoop Singh, head consta-bles Anil Rao, Sanjay Paland constables Manish,Abdul Ahad Khan, Jitendraand Mohit were transferredto various departments ofDelhi Police to facilitate afair probe in the controver-sial shootout. "Now, we arewaiting for the forensicreport only which canestablish the source of thebullet that killed Vashisht,"said another police officialof SIT probing the allegedshootout.

Whodunit: Police not clearwhose bullet killed VashishtNEW DELHI

Caught in the crossfirebetween AAP governmentand Lt Governor NajeebJung, top bureaucrats inthe city government onWednesday strongly con-demned "politicisation" ofappointments of seniorofficials and urged bothsides to create a conduciveatmosphere so that theycan discharge their dutiesfreely. Over 100 servingand retired IAS officials ofthe AGMUT (ArunachalPradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories) cadreheld a nearly two-hour-long meeting in whichthey expressed "anguish"over the way senior offi-cials are being treated.

A number of officialssaid they were upset withthe AAP government asthere were attempts to"publicly humiliate" sen-ior bureaucrats.

"We view with greatanguish the way IAS offi-cers have been treated,publicly humiliated and

subjected to characterassassination. We con-demn it. We urge the LtGovernor and the ChiefMinister to create a con-ducive atmosphere whereofficers can function in afree and impartial man-ner," a resolution passed atthe meeting said.

Acting Chief SecretaryShakuntala Gamlin,Rajendra Kumar,Secretary to ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwaland senior bureaucratsfrom LG's office werepresent in the meeting.Around 60 serving andnearly 40 retired IAS offi-cials attended the meeting.

Earlier, at a meetingchaired by Deputy ChiefMinister Manish Sisodia,senior bureaucrats won-dered whose orders theyshould follow.

At the nearly three-hour-long meeting, a number ofbureaucrats talked aboutthe difficulties being facedby them due to the ongo-ing confrontation.

Delhi bureaucrats condemn'politicisation' of appointments

Delhi HC refusesto cancel imme-diatelyPachauri's antici-patory bailNEW DELHI

The Delhi High Courton Wednesday refused tocancel immediately theanticipatory bail grantedby a trial court to TERIdirector RK Pachauri inan alleged sexual harass-ment case lodged by awoman research analyst.

Justice SP Garg postedthe matter for July 16 afterthe counsel for Pachaurisought more time to fileresponse to the applica-tion move by the 29-year-old woman, who hasalleged that "free and fairinvestigation" cannot becarried out if Pachauri is"allowed to roam aroundfreely".

"Let them (Pachauri andDelhi Police) file theirresponses then we willthink over it. There is nopoint of cancelling thebail application immedi-ately," the court said.

It added: "This applica-tion (for cancellation ofPachauri's bail) should notcome in the way of trialcourt proceedings."

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NEW DELHIA decision on granting

passport to Kashmiri sepa-ratist leader Syed Ali ShahGeelani will be taken con-sidering various issues,including national security,Minister of State for HomeKiren Rijiju said onWednesday.

"The Home Ministry hasnot yet received anythingregarding his (Geelani)application for passport.When we will receive it,we will take a decision tak-ing into account variousissue like national securi-ty," he told reporters here.

Rijiju was replying to aquestion on the issue of

granting passport to thehardline Hurriyat factionleader who has applied forthe travel document to visithis ailing daughter in Saudi

Arabia.Jammu and Kashmir's

ruling coalition partnersPDP and BJP were sharplydivided today over the

Geelani passport issue withthe regonal party saying itwould approach the Centrefor granting the travel doc-ument on "humanitarian"grounds.

Official sources saidGeelani and his familymembers want to travel toJeddah and had applied forpassports online.

But he has not yet visitedthe regional passport officein Srinagar to give his bio-metric data and clickingthe photograph. As per thenew rules, an applicationmust visit the passportoffice in person to givebiometric details and clickthe photograph.

NEW DELHIIn a relief to two Bengaluru-

based firms, the Supreme Courton Wednesday stayed a penaltyof Rs 139.85 crore imposed onthem by National Green Tribunalfor "illegal and unauthorised"construction in the vicinity of theAgara lake in the city.

A vacation bench of justicesAK Sikri and UU Lalit, besidesstaying the levy of fines, askedthe tribunal to decide the pleas ofthe firms on merits.

Senior advocates GopalSubramanium and Kapil Sibal,

who appeared on behalf of thecompanies, said that the tribunaldid not hear and considered thearguments on merits.

"It has been submitted that thetribunal has allowed construc-tion only on payment of afore-said penalty. We leave it open tothe tribunal to decide it," thebench said while disposing ofpleas of Mantri Tech Zone PvtLtd and Coremind Software andServices Pvt Ltd.

Earlier, cracking the whip ontwo commercial projects, the tri-bunal had imposed Rs 117.35

crore and Rs 22.5 crore as dam-ages on Mantri Tech Zone PvtLtd and Coremind Software andServices Pvt Ltd respectively fordegrading the environment.

The tribunal had also directedthe Centre to stop sanctioningany venture on wetlands andcatchment areas of water bodiesin the city.

A bench, headed by NGTChairperson Justice SwatanterKumar, had termed the projectproponents as "intentionaldefaulters" and constituted acommittee to make a survey of

the the ecologically sensitivearea on the land betweenBellandur and Agara lakes, inBengaluru.

It had also constituted a com-mittee comprising advisor inMoEF dealing with the subjectof wetlands, CEO of KarnatakaLake Development Authority,Chief Town Planner of BBMP,Chairman of SEAC which rec-ommended EC to the projects,scientist (Ecology) from IndianInstitute of Sciences, Bangalore,Siddharth Kaul (former advisorto MoEF) and a senior officer

from National Institute ofHydrology, Roorkee.

The four-judge bench had saidthe compensation amount wouldbe paid to Karnataka StatePollution Control Board, whichshall maintain a separate accountand would spend the money forenvironmental and ecologicalrestoration and restitution.

The judgement came on a peti-tion filed by The ForwardFoundation, Bangalore, PrajaRAAG, Bangalore andBangalore EnvironmentTrust.

BHUBANESWARDubbing the BJP-led

NDA rule at the Centre asanti-poor and regressive,the Congress onWednesday accused it ofdemolishing inclusive andequitable development andslashing social sectorspending by a whoppingRs 1,75,122 crore as it waskeen to please capitalistsin a year.

"Narendra Modi govern-ment, which is set to com-plete one year, is demol-ishing the edifice of inclu-sive and equitable devel-opment in its quest toappease a few crony capi-talists and trading part-ners," senior Congressleader and former UnionMinister Jitendra Singhtold reporters here.

Claiming that the Modigovernment has slashedsocial sector spending byRs 1,75,122 crore in oneyear alone, Singh saidwhile there was Rs 66,222crore cut in grants onsocial sector scheme, Rs5,900 crore was cut byclosing down theBackward Regions Grant

Fund.Similarly, Rs 1,03,000

crore cut was effected bynot implementing theFood Security Programmeaimed at 67 per cent of thecountry's population, heclaimed.

"Shockingly, these cutshave been unabatedlyapplied to areas which arean integral DNA of India'sintrinsic fabric such aswomen and child develop-ment, agriculture, irriga-tion, panchayati raj, edu-cation, health, housing,welfare of SCs and STs

and others," the Congressleader said.

Though Swacchh BharatAbhiyaan was launchedwith great fanfare onOctober 2, 2014, the Modigovernment has reducedallocated funds for themission (including drink-ing water and sanitation)by Rs 9,025 crore, heclaimed, adding theCongress has called uponthe people to unite andoppose a "regressive, ret-rograde and anti-poorModi government."

Stating that agriculture

and irrigation, which con-tribute 17 per cent of theGDP and engage 49 percent of the workforce, wasworst hit by "Modinomicsof crony capitalists,"Singh said the RashtriyaKrishi Vikas Yojana hasseen a reduction in fundsto the tune of Rs 7,426.50crore.

Animal Husbandry andDairy Vikas has seen a cutin funds to the extent of Rs685 crore, while thePradhan Mantri KrishiSinchai Yojna has seen areduction of around Rs8,156.22 crore, he said,adding funds for theNational LivelihoodMission have beenreduced by Rs 1,632.50crore.

"Not surprisingly, agri-culture growth has gonedown from 4.7 per cent in2013-14 to 1.1 per cent in2014-15 under the BJPgovernment. Area undercultivation has gone downby 33.22 lakh hectares in2014-15," he said.

Accusing the Modi gov-ernment of being insensi-tive towards welfare of

Scheduled Castes andScheduled Tribes, Singhsaid funds for SC sub planhave been reduced by Rs13,208 crore and tribal subplan was cut by Rs 7,714crore.

Describing thePanchayati Raj and itsinstitutions as the last mileconnectivity of the nation'sdemocracy, the Congressleader said budget of PRinstitutions has beenreduced by Rs 3,306 crore- by about 98.6 per cent asallocation for PR institu-tions was now only Rs94.75 crore.

Charging the NDA gov-ernment with systemati-cally killing the MGNRE-GA by not releasing fundsto the states, he said theCentre has not releasedover Rs 6,000 crore tostates in 2014-15.

Women and child devel-opment was a big casualtyas the Integrated ChildDevelopment Schemeaimed at health and nutri-tion of children and lactat-ing mothers, has seen a cutof Rs 9,858 crore, Singhsaid.

NDA slashed social sector spendingby over Rs 1.75 crore: Congress

NEW DELHIIn a big development in

the Sunanda Pushkar mur-der case, a Delhi court onWednesday allowed poly-graph test on three "sus-pects", who are beingaccused by the DelhiPolice of lying in the case.

The court gave its nod toa lie detector test afterthree – Shashi Tahroo'sdomestic help NarainSingh, driver Bajrangi andfriend Sanjay Dewan –agreed to go through thetest. They have demandedthat Supreme Court andNational Human RightsCommission (NHRC)guidelines be followed bythe police, while they aresubjected to polygraph test.

The police has accusedthem of concealing materi-al facts about Sunanda’s

mysterious death onJanuary 17, 2014.

Citing specific instancesto claim that they are lying,the police told the courtthat the three wereTharoor’s close associatesand were in present atHotel Leela Palace justbefore Sunanda’s death.

"During investigation, ithas been found that thethree persons are conceal-

ing material facts and didnot disclose several issuesrelated to the death ofSunanda Pushkar," the pleafiled by SHO of SarojiniNagar Police Station said.

It said that on January17, Tharoor's close friendSanjay Dewan came to thehotel at 5 pm and remainedthere till the discovery ofPushkar's death. He couldnot give plausible reason

for cancelling his trip toMumbai and his coming tothe hotel in Delhi, itsaid.

Among the other pointsraised by the police was hissilence about a power cutin room no. 345 just beforethe discovery of Sunanda’sdeath and, despite beingthere, they failed to explainthe injury marks onSunanda’s body.

The police claimed hedid not wake up Pushkarfor two and a half hoursand also not explained whyhe preferred Dr RajanMohan, who came all theway from Patel Nagar, overthe hotel doctor who couldcome within a short span oftime.

It alleged that Dewan didnot give proper explana-tion for sending driver

Bajrangi to bring DrMohan even without meet-ing Pushkar in her room.

Police said that Dewandid not produce his cellphone which was requiredto retrieve the text mes-sages exchanged betweenhim and Tharoor as per thecall details. "It shows thathe is hiding the materialfacts related to this case," itsaid.

Regarding suspectNarain, the police said hehad cited repair work atTharoor’s official resi-dence – 97 Lodhi Estate –was the reason forPushakr's stay at the hotelbut investigations laterproved that the repair workwas over before January15, the day Sunandaarrived in Delhi fromThiruvananthapuram.

Sunanda Pushkar murder case: Courtallows polygraph test on three 'suspects'

SC stays penalty of Rs 139.85 cr on two Bengaluru-based firms

Decision on Geelani's passport afterconsidering security issues: Kiren Rijiju

NEW DELHIIn yet another legal trou-

ble for the Aam AadmiParty (AAP), the DelhiHigh Court on Wednesdayissued a notice to MLASurender Singh to file aresponse to a BJP leader'splea seeking setting asideof his election overalleged wrong declarationof educational qualifica-tion in his nominationpaper.

The HC has given fourweeks time to the AAPMLA from Delhi Canttregion to file his response.

The court's order cameafter BJP leader KaranSingh Tanwar filed anapplication, saying thatSingh had provided wronginformation in his electionaffidavit that he is a grad-

uate from SikkimUniversity.

Singh claims that heattained his bachelor'sdegree in 2012. However,the Sikkim University hasrejected his claims whilereplying to a RTI applica-tion.

The court has alsodirected the ElectionCommission to placeSingh's education certifi-cates before it.

Meanwhile, Singh toldnews agency ANI that hewill respond in the courtand truth will prevail.

“The BJP will be embar-rassed again,” the AAPMLA asserted whileclaiming innocence.

The fresh controversyhas come to the fore daysafter another minister in

Arvind Kejriwal's CabinetJitender Singh Tomar wasaccused of possessing afake degree.

Bihar's Tilak ManjhiBhagalpur University hadlast month submittedbefore the Delhi HC thatTomar's provisional cer-tificate is "fabricated anddoes not exist in the insti-tution's record".

Tomar has claimed thathe had completed his laweducation from the partic-ular university.

Tilak Manjhi BhagalpurUniversity had informedthe court that its enquiryreport concluded that theserial number of the provi-sional certificate in therecord showed the nameof some other person andnot that of Tomar.

More trouble for Kejriwal: AAPMLA Surender Singh accused of

possessing fake degree

AMROHAIn an attempt to defend

BJP-led NDA governmentof being branded as "Suit-boot Ki Sarkaar", UnionMinister for RuralDevelopment ChaudharyBirender Singh said if atea-vendor can live "suit-ed-booted" than we can saywe are prosperous.

"Jab Chai bechane walasuited-booted reh saktahai, toh hum toh prosper-ous hai," (If a tea-vendorcan remain suited-bootedthen we belong to prosper-ous family)," Singh saidduring an interaction withfarmers in Gajraula here,organised to make themunderstand about the

actions and policies ofunion government forfarmers.

He said that sons offarmers should not joinarmy or pursue career infarming, they should makecareer in other fields and

become prosperous likethem.

"We are also fromfarmer's family but live aprosperous life," he said,adding that he was grand-son of Sir Chhotu Ram.

During the interaction,

he asked the farmers toguess the price of hisshoes. When they failed toreply after severalattempts, he then said thepair was purchased for Rs48,000 from Jaipur.

Indicating his wristwatch, he said it costs sev-eral lakhs of rupees.

"Amroha MP Tanwar ismore prosperous than meand farmers should adoptlifestyle like us," he said.

Singh claimed that hisidentity was not due toPrime Minister NarendraModi, as he had been elect-ed to Parliament and stateAssembly several timesbeing a member ofCongress.

Union Minister Birendra Singh defends 'suit-boot ki sarkaar', invites criticism from Khaps

KOLKATATaking exception to the

'obstructionist' tag given tohis party by the BJP,Congress leader SachinPilot on Wednesday said itwas only trying to makethe Centre accountable topeople, as the ruling partyhad made a U-turn onmany of its poll promises.

"The Congress is not atall obstructuionist. We areonly trying to make BJPaccountable to people asParliament is the onlyplace where you can makethe government account-able to the masses," Pilotobserved. He told reportersthat the BJP hadbackpedalled on several ofits poll pledges in the lastone year, like for instancebringing back blackmoney, Indo-US nucleardeal, Article 370 and landbill. "In the last one year,more than Rs 60,000 croreof subsidy meant for vari-ous social schemes hasbeen withdrawn by thegovernment. They are notinterested in the develop-ment of the poor, but onlyserving the rich. They havewithdrawn several central-ly-funded schemes," hesaid. Pilot also condemnedPrime Minister Narendra

Modi's comment madeduring his three-nationtour that "earlier, you feltashamed of being bornIndian. Now you feelproud to represent thecountry".

"It showed Modi's arro-gance. India is much big-ger than any political partyor individual," he contend-ed. On the Prime Minister's"team India" observationduring his interaction withMamata Banerjee recently,Pilot said Modi was every-thing but a team man and itwas reduced to a one-mangovernment at the Centre.

"He was trying toimpress upon the ChiefMinister as he needs sup-port of her party MPs inRajya Sabha. I am sure ifyou ask BJP leaders like LK Advani and MurliManohar Joshi, they willtell you how much of a

team player he is."What has happened in

New Delhi is concentra-tion of power. No otherminister has any say; it's aone-man government.When you say that he istalking about Team India,then it's a dichotomy, per-haps done to get some helpfrom the TMC in theUpper House," he said.

Pilot also took a jibe atBJP president Amit Shahfor asserting that thebiggest acheivement of thegovernment was being cor-ruption-free. "There areseveral BJP chief ministerswho have been involved incorruption and the CAGtoo has pointed at wrong-doings by various govern-ments. There may not be abig financial scam yet, butat the grass roots coorup-tion is still there," healleged.

Congress not obstructionist: Sachin Pilot

NEW DELHIOverseas Indians may

have moved a step closerto casting their franchise inIndian elections by proxyor e-ballot as the ElectionCommission has come outwith a legal framework forit. An expert committee inthe Election Commissionworking on the issue hasforwarded the legal frame-work to the Law Ministryto amend electoral laws toallow overseas Indians useproxy voting and e ballot

facility."We have framed the law

and it is with the LawMinistry. We understand itis under active considera-tion. Which means it is infairly advanced (stage),"Chief ElectionCommissioner NasimZaidi told PTI in an inter-view. He said data showsthat only 10 to 12,000NRIs have voted becausethey don't want to spenddollars to come back tovote.

EC ready with legal frameworkto allow proxy, e-voting for NRIs

BY PETER RONALD DESOUZA

Abhimanyu was inShubhadra’s womb whenhe heard Lord Krishna

reveal the secret of how to enterthe Chakravyuha. But he did notlearn how to exit it, and that isthe reason why he was finallykilled in fierce battle in the heartof the enemy’s army. Not soGandhiji, who triumphed overthe Chakravyuh effortlessly. Notonly was he able to enter andexit it with ease, he did so at atime and place of his choosing,dissolving it with ahimsa andcreating independent India.

Jawaharlal Nehru largelydesigned the Chakravyuh of themodern Indian state. Eventhough not as easily as Gandhiji,he did succeed in entering andexiting it — democratic and sec-ular India was the consequence.Indira Gandhi got trapped in theChakravyuh. Like Abhimanyu,she got to the sixth circle, butwas felled by the Emergencyand, becoming increasinglyauthoritarian and paranoid,found the circles closing aroundher and she succumbed to thearrows from enemies both imag-ined and real.

We could continue preparing areport card for all the PrimeMinisters and theirChakravyuhas but the cominganniversary of Modi’s first yearin office is an opportunity tospeculate on his chances of suc-cessfully negotiating theChakravyuha of government.

Abhimanyu heard Krishnasaying that the trick was toattack and destroy the soldiers tothe left and to the right, so thatirrespective of which way thecircle turned, one would be ableto enter it. The Prime Ministerhas attacked the politics on theLeft but is not quite decisive inhis support for the economicpolicies of the Right. While theLeft is rebelling against hissocial and cultural policies, the

Right is beginning to grumblethat nothing has changed on theeconomic front. 'Nothing ischanged on the ground’ said Mr.Deepak Parekh.

In the Mahabharata, theChakravyuh was a seven-spi-ralled, impenetrable battle for-mation. Let us see what theseven circles of Indian polityare.

The seven circles

At the outermost seventh circleis foreign policy. This is thecountry’s interface with theworld — the neighbourhood, theregion, and the global politicaland economic order. Here, Mr.Modi has been the most effec-tive, gaining the attention of dif-ferent international powergroups and having them competefor India’s friendship. From get-ting the UN to declareInternational Yoga Day on June21 to having the US President asChief Guest for Republic Day toestablishing a BRICS develop-ment bank to land swaps withBangladesh, Modi has passedthe first circle by neutralising theLeft and ignoring the Right.There is a distinct Nehruviantouch to his foreign policy.

“ Mr. Modi has now reachedthe third circle of governance.Here, the struggle has justbegun, with some people-friend-ly initiatives, and some question-able decisions. ”

The second circle too Mr.Modi has been able to penetrate.This is building a political coali-tion for governance. By winningelections with a single partymajority and ending the era ofcompromise and coalition poli-tics and then winning severalState elections, Mr. Modi hasinaugurated a new phase of deci-sive national politics. Somepolitical resistance remains,from within his party and with-out, but these won’t stop him

from going through this circle.

His penchant of concentratingpower in the PMO when colle-gial governance is required maypresent difficulties during thereturn journey, since the feed-back mechanism of politics thatis required to manage such adiverse polity will be consider-ably enfeebled, but there is littledoubt that Mr. Modi has built apolitical coalition to give domes-tic politics a decisive turn. Atthis point of time he is limitedonly by his will and his imagina-tion.

Mr. Modi has now reached thethird circle — the instruments ofgovernance. Here, the strugglehas just begun. There are somegood policies, such as thePradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana(bank accounts), the PradhanMantri Jeevan Jyoti BimaYojana (life insurance), thePradhan Mantri Suraksha BimaYojana (accident insurance), andthe Atal Pension Yojana (pensionfor the unorganised sector), butthese have to be seen in tandemwith plans to reverse the socialimpact assessment and consentclause of the Land AcquisitionBill, the hasty environmentalclearances, and the near-zerointeraction with the media inIndia. Thus, some very good ini-tiatives that are people friendly,with some questionable deci-sions that are people hostile. It isunclear whether his moves todefeat the warriors on the Leftwill be as successful as in earliercircles. Equally, the warriors onthe Right are voting with theirfeet. Corporate India is begin-ning to speak about a ‘direction-less’ economic policy steeped inhyperbole. Mr. Modi’s magic islosing its sheen.

It is at the fourth circle — therespect for democratic and par-liamentary institutions — thatModi’s achievements begin tolook thin. Ordinances are fre-quently resorted to. In his fort-

nightly letter to Chief Ministers,Nehru wrote on 16 August 1948,“Nevertheless, (ordinances are)a dangerous path to tread andgovernments get used to veryspecial measures which theycannot do without later. For us,with our past record in regard tocivil liberty, this is a particularlydistasteful course.”

The ordinance has become Mr.Modi’s instrument of choice notjust in the very visible landacquisition issue but also withrespect to his desire “to give agovernment job to just onesuperannuated officer”. Thisemasculation of institutions canbe seen in his returning theSupreme Court collegium’s rec-ommendations for elevation tothe Bench of an eminent senioradvocate; in the government’sdefence of Clause 66A of the ITAct, which was mercifullystruck down by the courts; or inkeeping important offices suchas that of the Chief InformationCommissioner vacant.

In the fourth circle, Mr. Modiis making little headway. It is tooearly to determine whether hehas the capability to strengtheninstitutions or undermine them— with early evidence pointingto the latter tendency — but weneed another year to find out.

The real test

It is in the fifth circle that Mr.Modi begins to lose his capabili-ty to determine outcomes. This isthe circle that concerns the pub-lic discourse of a plural society;the discourse required to build amodern democratic state.Entering it requires informedintervention, speech and actionsthat support and consolidate thecritical temper required by thehumanist aspirations of a mod-ern India.

By his silence, Mr. Modi hasallowed the regressive elementsamong his supporters to deter-

mine the terms of public dis-course. When the Chairman ofthe Indian Council of HistoricalResearch says that ‘What weteach today in schools and col-leges lacks both moral and mate-rial content, which could mouldcharacter and conduct... Our his-tory is deprived of Bharateeyata(Indianness)’; or when the RSSchief says that Mother Teresa’sservices were governed by con-version motives, Mr. Modi hasremained silent, allowing publicdiscourse to be dictated by a rab-ble-rousing minority.

If Mr. Modi gets through thefive circles described above, thereal test will begin in the sixth(political philosophy) and sev-enth (personal ethics) circles.One cannot govern a pluralistcountry like India with a philos-ophy crafted in a shakha. At itscore must be a commitment tosecularism and social justice.Perhaps a different secularismthan the partisan one practisedby the Congress, but secularismnonetheless.

A majoritarian mindset, whichMr. Modi seems comfortablewith, is unfair to both the major-ity and the minority in the popu-lation. What are Mr. Modi’s corebeliefs? What is his understand-ing of the relationship betweencommunities? What steps doeshe plan for the empowerment ofwomen? And Adivasis? Howdoes he see dignity achieved in asociety fissured by caste? Whatis his view on the rule of laweven if it penalises his closestadvisors?

These are not idle questions.They constitute the sixth circlewhere Indira Gandhi fell. Then,Mr. Modi will still have to facethe seventh circle of personalethics before finally emergingtriumphant.

(Peter Ronald deSouza isProfessor, Centre for the Study

of Developing Societies. Theviews are personal.)

Thursday | May 21, 2015

The European Union’s Ambassador to New Delhi,Joao Cravinho, last week expressed keenness to pur-sue the India-EU Free Trade Agreement talks. The

desire is mutual. Despite the vigorous pace that theNarendra Modi government has marked in the matter of for-eign relations in general, this process has remained in sus-pended animation for two years now. Minister forCommerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman had assuredthe Ambassador in March of India’s willingness to resumetalks. As Mr. Cravinho mentioned, the meeting of theOECD countries scheduled for June offers an opportunityfor both sides to draw up a road map. The EU identifiedIndia as a ‘strategic partner’ in 2004. A Joint Action Planwas signed in 2005 and negotiations on the proposed Broad-based Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) werelaunched in June 2007. Eight years down the line, somecontentious issues still remain. In the backdrop of PrimeMinister Modi’s visit to France and Germany in April camethe cancellation of the India-EU summit, apparently for“logistical” reasons. Issues such as the EU ban on import ofmangoes from India announced in May 2014, and the legalproceedings in India involving the Italian Marines, are alsofactors that have left the relationship strained. The EU isone of India’s largest trading partners and a major source ofFDI. The value of EU-India trade grew from €28.6 billionin 2003 to €72.5 billion in 2014, while trade in commercialservices rose from €5.2 billion in 2002 to €23.7 billion in2013. India has concluded agreements with ASEAN, Japan,Singapore and Korea. With the EU the scale of the deal ismore ambitious, and consequently the disagreements. Forinstance, the EU is unhappy with India’s protectionism inthe automobile sector, and wants steep cuts in duties, andtariff cuts in things such as wine, spirits and dairy products.But tariff cuts in the agricultural sector would meanEurope’s heavily subsidised agro industry will dump its sur-plus here, hitting Indian farmers. India’s generic drug mar-ket also raises intellectual property concerns for Europeanpharmaceutical corporations. India, on the other hand, isunhappy with the EU not recognising it as a “data securenation”, and with what the EU has to offer in the area ofIT/BPO/KPO services (Mode 1) and the movement ofskilled professionals (Mode 4). But the EU is no doubt keenon partnering with India in programmes such as Make inIndia, Swachh Bharat and Smart City projects. Another crit-icism levelled against the FTA talks has been over lack oftransparency and inadequate consultations with civil socie-ty participants. These concerns will also have to be reme-died in future rounds of dialogue. It is to be hoped that thewhole process would now gain momentum and lead to anegotiated deal.

BY ZOYA HASAN

Not a single Indian institutionof higher learning figures inthe list of top 200 universities

prepared by The Times HigherEducation Supplement. These dismalrankings are quite often taken as ameasure of the crisis of higher educa-tion in India, notwithstanding theobvious limitations of the rankingexercise. But all is not well withIndian universities.

So far, the Narendra Modi govern-ment has done very little to addressthe crisis in higher education. Thegovernment started on a controversialnote. Prime Minister Modi’s selec-tion to head the Ministry of HumanResources and Development (HRD)raised questions about the importanceof education under this dispensationas it showed scant regard for educa-tion in spite of the fact that the SanghParivar takes education very serious-ly.

Lower budgetary allocation

The government’s first Budget hasnot delivered achhe din for highereducation in the country. The UnionBudget for 2015-16 has reducedfunds for higher education to the tuneof Rs.3,900 crore in its revised budg-et estimates for the financial year2014-15. The government hasrevised the figure to Rs.13,000 crore,as against Rs.16,900 crore for theplan allocation. The overall educa-tion budget of the Modi governmentis down from Rs.82,771 crore toRs.69,074 crore. The government hasalso revised allocation for theRashtriya Uchchatar ShikshaAbhiyan (RUSA) — which is aCentrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS),launched in 2013 that aims at provid-ing strategic funding to eligible statehigher educational institutions — toRs.397 crore as against Rs.2,200crore in the original Budget.

Despite the trend of passing on theresponsibility of education to the pri-

vate sector, there is a strong case toexpand state funding of education.The role of publicly funded educationin the democratisation of access tohigher education in India is indis-putable. Treating the higher educa-tion system as a public good, theIndian state has been successful inproviding access to institutions ofhigher learning to many groupswhich were hitherto not able toaccess it. This is only possible if thereis adequate state funding and publicregulation for the entire system ofeducation from school to university.Far from expanding publicly fundeduniversities with an increase in budg-etary allocation of education, statefunding is being steadily withdrawnfrom education in general and highereducation in particular so that privatecapital, both Indian and foreign, canbe encouraged. The privatisation ofhigher education is now an irre-versible trend in India, where amajority of the institutions have beenestablished by the private sector. Inthe midst of this trend, it is the artsand humanities that are being pushedaside.

Move towards centralisation

Besides cuts in state funding whichis a critical area of concern, theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ledgovernment’s overall approach toeducation is destructive of autonomy,creativity and diversity. The mannerin which the state is intervening inhigher education is causing concernamong both teachers and students.There are alarming proposals tochange the very nature of higher edu-cation. The most disturbing is theproposal to revive the CentralUniversities Act of 2009 which willrequire the Central universities to fol-low a common admission procedureand common syllabus. Even thoughthe United Progressive Alliance(UPA) regime and the currentNational Democratic Alliance (NDA)government have been remarkablysimilar in their desire to introduce

changes in the higher education sys-tem, most of the UPA’s major propos-als got drowned in the Parliamentlogjam which continued till the lastsession of the 15th Lok Sabha. Also,there was some debate and opposi-tion within the UPA governmentwhich could be another reason whythe government couldn’t implementits agenda. This government is pursu-ing the reform agenda much moreaggressively leaving little scope fordissent and disagreement.

The Central University (CU) Actseeks to replace the existing Centraluniversities with one single Actwhich would require all universitiesto follow a “common” admission and“common” syllabus along with“transferable” faculty. India’s highereducation system, serving a large andheterogeneous population, shouldideally support a diverse and decen-tralised system. However, the CU Actwill do the opposite; it aims at cen-tralisation and homogenisation,ignoring the specificities and unique-ness of each university. EachUniversity’s Act has a specific con-text and mandate, and each has devel-oped its own pattern of knowledgeproduction and reproduction. Forexample, the Delhi University Act(1922) was in response to the need toprovide for the educational needs ofan emerging India and incorporates awide college network. The foundingideas of the Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, on the other hand arequite different from other institu-tions. The impulse for the JawaharlalNehru University (JNU) Act (1966)was to institutionalise the values andvision of “national integration, scien-tific temper, and humanism”. TheseActs have shaped their curriculum,academic ethos, teaching andresearch. Nullifying these Acts wouldbe a blow against diversity and plu-ralism as well as to minimum auton-omy without which a university can-not function and flourish. It will nar-row the space for innovation and cre-ate a teaching culture where creativi-

ty and critical thinking will becurbed.

No academic logic

The Ministry of HRD’s idea of“reform” is an egregious attempt tostandardise higher education andresearch by introducing a commonframework for Central universitiesbased on the myth that uniformitywill equalise quality and skills acrossuniversities. It is not at all clear thatuniformity will help in upgradingnew universities or the State universi-ties, which is the ostensible aim ofthis exercise.

Some of the good universities suchas JNU or the Ambedkar University,Delhi, are successful preciselybecause they value heterogeneity andvariation so that creativity and inno-vation can thrive. Many Central uni-versities reflect India’s extraordinarydiversity in their faculty compositionand student body, and, above all, theyoffer very different syllabi and cours-es which has helped in their academ-ic growth. The CU Act advocatestransfer of faculty between universi-ties. Nowhere in the world are “trans-fers” between institutions practised.There is no academic logic here.Besides, transfers increase the possi-bility of vindictiveness as it can beused as a punitive measure to silencedissent and independent voices.

It is evident that the government iseager to control and direct universi-ties both at the Central and Statelevel. For this the HRD Minister ispushing the idea of a Choice-BasedCredit System (CBCS), first mootedby her predecessor, Murli ManoharJoshi, during the term of NDA-I,which would have a serious impacton the country’s education system.The University Grants Commission(UGC) has formulated the new pro-posals for a CBCS, a commonentrance test and a central rankingsystem ignoring the assurances givenby the government and the UGC that

it would hold wide consultations withall stakeholders before undertakingany subsequent educational reforms.A common syllabus is neither desir-able nor feasible as this will diminishcreativity and lower standards inorder to conform to common stan-dards. We need a university systemthat encourages diversity and decen-tralisation, not one that centralisesauthority or enforces lifeless unifor-mity.

Even as the government has set theball rolling for unveiling a newnational education policy, there is nopublic debate or consultation at thebehest of the Ministry. Majorchanges are being initiated andpushed without actually consultingthe professionals involved eventhough there is growing unease andopposition within Central universi-ties to the new education policy andthe manner in which the exercise isbeing done. So far, the MHRD’s con-sultations have been limited to post-ing information and asking people topost comments and filling out amygov.in survey on higher educationon the Ministry’s website. The publicwas given a period of one month forresponding to the “major reforms”.Would any half-serious attempt atreform of the education system treatsuch momentous changes in thismanner?

The right-wing agenda

The common syllabi system has tobe seen in the context of attempts tosaffronise the education sector, par-ticularly at a time when the RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is spear-heading the agenda of the presentgovernment. Even though the right-wing intelligentsia has failed to pro-vide a credible account of India’s pastand present, the Sangh Parivar is nev-ertheless busy reorganising educa-tional syllabi to reflect a view of his-tory and society gleaned frommythology and religious texts, ineffect giving an open licence to fanta-

sise history. Within weeks of formingthe government, the RSS held ameeting with the HRD Ministerwhere it pushed for introduction ofmoral education, correcting distortedhistory being taught in educationalinstitutions and giving proper repre-sentation to forgotten idols of thecountry from the pre- and post-Independence era. RSS ideologue,Dinanath Batra, unambiguously stat-ed this: Political change has takenplace, now there should be totalrevamp of education. Activists ofBatra’s Shiksha Bachao Andolan arereportedly firming up recommenda-tions for a revamp of education; theybelieve the formal education systemneeds some key changes: a greateremphasis on Indian knowledge tradi-tions and a blending of the materialand the spiritual in the curriculum.

Leaders of the BJP are on recordannouncing their intention to changethe textbooks and syllabus. The larg-er Sangh agenda includes substantivechanges both in the content of educa-tion and appointments in prestigiousinstitutions. Their aim is to influencetheir working to reflect the Sangh’sagenda by making key appointmentsof persons belonging to the RSS andaffiliate bodies in various institutionslike the Indian Council of HistoricalResearch (ICHR), the Indian Councilof Social Science Research (ICSSR),the Nehru Memorial Museum &Library (NMML), the IndianInstitutes of Technology, the Centraluniversities, the National Council ofEducational Research and Training(NCERT) and the State Council ofEducational Research and Training(SCERT), etc, who will loyally exe-cute such changes. Many of themwill exercise influence on public pol-icy, and will do so not due to theirscholarship, but due to their proximi-ty to the RSS.

(Zoya Hasan, formerly Professor,Jawaharlal Nehru University, is

ICSSR National Fellow, Council forSocial Development, New Delhi.)

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Centre trying...accused Jung of interfering in the working

of his elected government.Jung had also met the President separately

yesterday and narrated his side of the story.Emerging after meeting Mukherjee along

with Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister ManishSisodia said: "We had a good meeting withthe President. We told him that the LG is try-ing to run Delhi the way he did duringPresident's Rule."

"We told him that the LG is issuing direc-tion to officers bypassing the Chief Ministerand threatening them. If this goes on, wherewill democracy be?"

Sisodia and Kejriwal informed thePresident that despite their objections, Junginsisted on appointing Shakuntala Gamlin asacting chief secretary. "We later approved(her name) ... but now (Jung) is interfering inthe appointment of secretaries too."

Sisodia said Mukherjee listened to them"carefully" and sought further details. "He(President) was worried and concerned (overthe matter). He assured us that he will lookinto it."

Details of Jung's meeting with the Presidentwere not available.

Meanwhile, in shot in the arm for the AAP,senior lawyers Indira Jaising and RajeevDhavan criticised Jung, with one of them say-ing he had exceeded his authority.

The two lawyers submitted their legal opin-ion to the Kejriwal government on its requestfollowing the tussle over the posting of Delhibureaucrats.

In his written advice, Dhavan said: "It isabundantly clear that the Lt Governor hasexceeded his authority and has turned theentire relationship between himself and theCouncil of Ministers on its head to jeopardisedemocracy and the Constitution."

In her letter, Jaising said the political exec-utive was "constitutionally empowered" tochoose its own officers in accordance withthe cadre.

"Who will be the chief secretary or anyother secretary of the government is a matterin which the Governor has to yield to the willof the political executive which has beendemocratically elected," she said.

She also said the discretionary power toappoint a chief secretary can be found neitherin the Constitution nor in any statute.

AAP govt ...nearly three-hour-long meeting called by

the government following a stand-off withLG on appointment of bureaucrats, explainedto senior officials various provisions in theConstitution, the Government of NCT ofDelhi Act and Transaction of Business of theDelhi Government.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,Transport Minister Gopal Rai, acting ChiefSecretary Shakuntala Gamlin and secretariesand officers from all departments were pres-ent at the meeting.

A senior official said there was a healthyexchange of views in the meeting.

Sources said Sisodia told the bureaucratsabout his Government's views on the tusslewith the Lt Governor, maintaining that it wascommitted to follow the provisions of theConstitution and other laid down norms inensuring efficient governance and exhortedthem to work with full enthusiasm.

"The officials were told that they should notfollow the (LG's) orders blindly," said thesources.

A number of bureaucrats also aired theirviews on the rules and regulations and howthe government should try to resolve theissue.

The meeting came a day after both ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal and Lt GovernorNajeeb Jung took their bitter fight toPresident Pranab Mukherjee, accusing eachother of violating the Constitution and over-stepping their respective jurisdictions.

In a directive on Monday, Kejriwal hadasked the bureaucrats including the ChiefSecretary to first consult with him and otherMinisters about any communication from theLG before acting on such directions.

The Government had said the meeting withthe bureaucrats has been called to have a"correct and coherent understanding of theConstitutional provisions and other norms inhanding administrative affairs".

Kejriwal and ...said: "We had a good meeting with the

President. We told him that the LG is tryingto run Delhi the way he did during President'sRule."

"We told him that the LG is issuing direc-tion to officers bypassing the Chief Ministerand threatening them. If this goes on, wherewill democracy be?"

Sisodia and Kejriwal informed thePresident that despite their objections, Junginsisted on appointing Shakuntala Gamlin asacting chief secretary. "We later approved(her name) ... but now (Jung) is interfering inthe appointment of secretaries too."

Sisodia said Mukherjee listened to them"carefully" and sought further details. "He(President) was worried and concerned (overthe matter). He assured us that he will lookinto it."

Details of Jung's meeting with the Presidentwere not available.

Meanwhile, in shot in the arm for the AAP,senior lawyers Indira Jaising and RajeevDhavan criticised Jung, with one of them say-ing he had exceeded his authority.

The two lawyers submitted their legal opin-ion to the Kejriwal government on its requestfollowing the tussle over the posting of Delhibureaucrats.

In his written advice, Dhavan said: "It isabundantly clear that the Lt Governor hasexceeded his authority and has turned theentire relationship between himself and theCouncil of Ministers on its head to jeopardisedemocracy and the Constitution."

Ex-solicitor general...exercise of powers by the government of

Delhi cannot be overruled by the Lt.Governor, as this would violate constitutionalscheme."

"In particular, it would be ultra viresArticles 14 and 239AA and would also fallfoul of the basic structure of the constitutionas it undermines the basic features of democ-racy and the cabinet form of government."

Among other provisions, Article 239AAstates: "Provided that in the case of differenceof opinion between the Lt. Governor and hisministers on any matter, the Lt. Governorshall refer it to the president for decision andact according to the decision given thereon bythe president and pending such decision...take such action or to give such direction inthe matter as he deems necessary."

In his letter sent to AAP government, theformer solicitor general said, "Given thisposition of law, it would be constitutionallyunviable for the Lt. Governor to act de horsthe aid and advice of the Council of Ministerson any such matter."

"Any such action would be clearly contraryto the provisions of Articles 14 and 239AA,as well as being ultra vires the provisions ofthe Government of National Capital TerritoryAct, 1991, and the Transaction of theBusiness of the Government Rules, 1993."

"For Lt. Governor to act in such a mannerwould completely undermine the mandate ofan elected government," he added.

A tussle between Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal and Lt. Governor NajeebJung started over the appointment of seniorbureaucrat Shakuntala Gamlin as the actingchief secretary.

The chief minister has accused Gamlin oflobbying for power distribution companies.

Cong slams...constitutional crisis. Same with Kejriwal.

He doesn't perhaps want people to talk aboutthe power and water crisis in Delhi," saidCongress's Delhi unit chief, Ajay Maken.

Accusing Jung and Kejriwal of usingadministrative officers to fight their politicalturf war, he added, "Why do officers need tochoose whom to obey, the Lt Governor or theChief Minister? It has de-motivated anddemoralised the officials of Delhi. It willhave a very bad impact in the coming days.

"Delhi is reeling under a power and watercrisis... Officers don't want to go and work.Many of the officers want to go on leave.Such is the situation created deliberately byAAP and BJP."

Escalating his confrontation with the AAPgovernment, Jung today cancelled allappointments made by it in the last four daysas he asserted that he was the sole authority inmatters of ordering transfer and posting ofbureaucrats.

The appointment of Shakuntala Gamlin asacting chief secretary had last week triggereda full-blown war between the ruling AAP andJung with Kejriwal alleging that the LG wastrying to take over the administration.

Manish Sisodia...only LG has 'constitutional power, to do

transfers and postings.“The power to appoint and to transfer, from

steno to IAS officers, is with the LG,” Jungwrote in his letter.

In the letter, the LG also challenged AAPgovernment's order to bureaucrats not to fol-low his directives without getting approvalfrom CM or any other minister.

Meanwhile, Sisodia also took to Twitterand rebuffed reports which have claimed that45 officers have gone on leave in protestagainst the government.

“Some media channels are showing that 45officers have gone on leave in protest. Delhigovernment has not received any leave appli-cation from any officer. If the TV channelshave an access to such applications then werequest them to send them to us.” Sisodiatweeted.

The tussle over posting and transfer ofbureaucrats had reached President's doorsyesterday after both Kejriwal and Jung metPranab Mukherjee.

Kejriwal today also wrote a letter to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi and accused his gov-ernment of trying to run the administration inthe national capital.

Delhi HC...capital Territory of Delhi rules, 1993.""Issue an appropriate order or direction in

the nature of certiorari that the impugnedorder dated March 13, issued by the ChiefMinister of Delhi is invalid and illegal, since

all executive action or order issued by anydepartment of the Delhi government are to beissued in the name of the LG and authenticat-ed in the prescribed manner.

"... No prior sanction was obtained from thefinance department regarding the expenditureto be incurred on the PS for using transportfacilities and additional establishment costand expenses as is mandatorily requiredunder Transaction Business of the govern-ment," the plea said.

Recently, it came to light that the Delhigovernment department, which processed theappointment of MLAs as parliamentary sec-retaries to various ministers, does not haveinformation about the law under which theywere appointed and had merely acted on a'note' from chief minister's office.

An RTI response received from the GeneralAdministration Department shows that theappointment was done on the bases of a 'note'received from the office of chief ministerArvind Kejriwal dated March 5, 2015.

According to the reply, parliamentary sec-retaries do not receive any remuneration orany perks of any kind from the government--meaning no burden on exchequer.

They, however, may use government trans-port for official purposes and space in theminister's office would be provided to themto facilitate their work, it said.

PM Narendra...the ministers to fan out across the country

to advertise the NDA government's achieve-ments in one year vis-a-vis those of the UPAgovernment in 10 years.

The government will also publish a bookletdetailing the government's achievements.

Celebrations to commemorate the comple-tion of first year of NDA Government wouldcommence from the native village of JanSangh leader Deen Dayal Upadhyay on May25 with a public rally of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

Modi will address the rally at village NaglaChandrabhan in Mathura of Uttar Pradesh,which is Upadhyay’s birth place.

The party and government will commemo-rate the completion of one year of its govern-ment as ‘Jan Kalyan Parv’ celebrations.

BJP president Amit Shah also met thePrime Minister in connection with theanniversary celebrations, sources said.

For the first time, the Bharatiya JanataParty had emerged as the single largest partyin the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 by win-ning 282 seats.

The BJP-led NDA claimed a landslide vic-tory by grabbing 336 seats.

President hails ...with fortitude," the President said.In May 1999, India and Pakistan, in their

most serious military engagement since 1971,clashed in Kargil area of Ladakh in Jammuand Kashmir after militants backed byPakistan's Northern Light Infantry occupiedthe mountain peaks of the region.

He said the majesty and the mystique of themighty Himalayas have always had a specialplace in the hearts of the people of India.

"Only a few weeks back the Himalayannation of Nepal was rocked by one of themost devastating earthquakes in the history ofthe region causing large scale damage to lifeand property of the people.

"I am certain that Indian mountaineers whohave been enthusiastically going to theHimalayas for climbing, will use the sameenthusiasm in the rebuilding of the lives ofthose affected by this great tragedy,"Mukherjee said.

Why dilly-dally...dallying? It seems you don't want to

increase the police force," it said and askedAdditional Solicitor General (ASG) SanjayJain to ensure that "the game of badminton"does not go on.

"Get it done and over with," it said.On the issue of putting up CCTVs in Delhi,

the police said a survey was carried out byBroadcast Engineering Consultants India Ltd(BECIL), which submitted a project reportstating that Rs 404.32 crore would be the costof installing 6630 cameras in 44 red-flaggedareas of the city.

After going through the affidavit submittedby the police, the court said "Rs 404 croreseems to be on the upper side" and added thatit would not give its stamp of approval to theproposal.

It also observed that the police was "moreinterested" in putting up CCTV cameras "as itmeans money".

The police in its affidavit, filed through itsstanding counsel Rajesh Mahajan, has saidthat the amount included the cost of acces-sories of installing CCTVs as well as themonitoring system.

Protesters have...The Supreme Court had set up a Committee

under the Chairmanship of Justice K TThomas, former Judge of the Supreme Court,to examine modalities to be adopted to makethe Prevention of Damage to Public PropertyAct, 1984 (PDPP Act, 1984) more effectiveand also suggest suitable changes, whichcould make the statute more meaningful.

The Committee concluded that the presentlaw was inadequate and ineffective to dealwith the increasing number of instances of

public property damage and made some rec-ommendations for amendment in thePrevention of Damage to Public PropertiesAct, 1984.

The Home Ministry has decided to acceptthe recommendations of the ThomasCommittee.

The suggestions/comments on the proposeddraft PDPP Act (Amendment) Bill, 2015from the Public and other stakeholders aresolicited on or before 20th July 2015 and thesame may be sent to the Ministry of HomeAffairs, CS Division, 5th Floor, NDCCBuilding, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi-110001.

The suggestions could also be sent on e-mail: dircs1-mha@mha.gov.in.

Waving of...unity and sovereignty of India. It hasn`t

even happened in the worst days of militancy.Either this government is absolutely incom-petent or it`s a part of a grand orchestratedstrategy," said Tewari.

Earlier in the day, separatist leader MirwaizUmar Farooq`s supporters raised Pakistaniflags at a rally in Srinagar`s old city area.

The rally was reportedly held on the eve ofdeath anniversary of Farooq`s father.

NDA only ...trading partners," the Rajya Sabha MP said

at a press conference here."In the past one year, Prime Minister Modi

never spoke about Gujarat model, never lis-tened to the voice of poor. Inflation was notcontrolled. Government has failed in everysector," he said.

"Before the election everybody from BJPwas promising that black money in foreignbanks will be brought back within 100 daysand Rs 15 lakh will be deposited in every-one's bank account. Nothing has been done,"he said.

He also targeted Modi for his statement inCanada that his government was cleaning upthe garbage left behind by the previous gov-ernment. The previous Prime Ministers never"insulted" the country in this way on foreignsoil, said Hariprasad.

"When there was BJP and Shiv Sena gov-ernment in power in Maharashtra in 1990s,they had said if they came to power in theCentre, they would catch (fugitive gangster)Dawood Ibrahim...Now their government isboth at the Centre and the state...," he said.

The Congress leader also condemned therelease of Kashmiri separatist Masrat Alam(before he was rearrested).

Various police officers arrested in fakeencounter cases in Gujarat as well riot con-victs such as former BJP MLA MayaKodnani and VHP leader Babu Bajrangi hadbeen released after NDA came to power, hesaid.

PM Modi...game...He wants to appear as champion of

good governance, but he will allow others todo the communal batting for him," theCongress leader alleged.

"The strategy of Modi is very clear. Modispeaks the language of governance, but hehas enough people who speak the language ofpolarisation. They have adopted language ofpolarisation (on his behalf)," Rameshcharged.

Though riots may not have taken place onlarge scale during the last one year of theModi government, polarisation is happeningin Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and UP,he told reporters here.

On the demand for special status to AndhraPradesh, Ramesh accused the Modi govern-ment of betraying the people of the state.

"It is a gross betrayal. The commitmentsmade as part of AP Reorganisation Act are yetto be implemented, although the BJP wasvery much party to the legislation that waspassed by the Lok Sabha and the RajyaSabha," he said.

He said the Modi government has not fuli-filled the promise made by former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh in February 2014on granting special status to AP.

Ensure all ...of Aadhaar numbers of employees' in their

service books. An action taken report hasbeen sought from the ministries in thisregard," a senior official in Department ofPersonnel and Training (DoPT) said.

An employee's service book at present con-tains his or her bio-data, posting and securi-ty details, qualifying service, HouseBuilding Advance, Central GovernmentHealth Scheme, Central GovernmentEmployees Group Insurance Scheme,Leave Travel Concession, etc.

All central government ministries ordepartments were in November last yearasked to ensure that the service books ofall employees have an entry of the employ-ees' Aadhaar number, he said.

Aadhaar, which is a 12 digit individualidentification number issued by the UniqueIdentification Authority of India, serves asa proof of identity and address, anywherein the country.

5-yr-old...informed the police.Police said the accused, who is on the

run, has been identified as a man staying ata temple in the area, and hunt is on for him.

The girl was bleeding profusely whenshe was reached the police who took her toAruna Asaf Ali hospital. Doctors con-firmed that she had been raped after med-ical examination, a police officer said.

Mother of the victim is a vagabond andearns her livelihood through begging nearthe railway station. She gave a complainton the basis of which police registered acase under the POCSO (Protection ofChildren from Sexual Offences) Act at OldDelhi Railway Station, police said.

AAP MLA ...temporary relief to one Sanjay Verma

who has moved an anticipatory bail plea inthe court.

Additional Sessions Judge MukeshKumar Gupta issued a notice to the CrimeBranch of Delhi Police and sought itsresponse on May 30 on the plea.

The court said that Verma should not bearrested till May 30 and also directed himjoin the investigation and cooperate withthe police.

The police had earlier said there wereindications that the large quantity of liquorseized from the warehouse at Uttam Nagarbelonged to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLANaresh Balyan.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime)Ravindra Yadav had said the investigationhad revealed that the plot in Uttam Nagar,where the cartons were stored, belonged toBalyan's cousin but "he uses the godownand the liquor belonged to him, so weserved him a notice".

An FIR was registered in the case againstunnamed persons.

AAP had maintained that Balyan had gotnothing to do with the recovered liquor andsaid these are all old tactics of the opposi-tion to defame the party.

On January 31, Delhi Police had regis-tered a case under Excise Act on recover-ing around 8,500 bottles with the label "forsale in Haryana only".

During the raid, 397 cartons of IndiaMade Foreign Liquor were seized bypolice and election commission officialsand police had said the liquor was meantfor distribution during the Delhi assemblyelections.

Sunanda Pushkar..."We will be conducting polygraph test as

per the guidelines of Court," Bassi said.A Delhi court today allowed Delhi

Police's plea seeking the lie detector teston the three suspects it accused of lying inthe case.

The court gave its nod to the test after allthree – Shashi Tharoor's domestic helpNarain Singh, driver Bajrangi and friendSanjay Dewan – agreed for it.

However, they demanded that SupremeCourt and National Human RightsCommission (NHRC) guidelines be fol-lowed by the police, while they are sub-jected to polygraph test.

The Delhi Police told court that the threewere in present at Hotel Leela Palace justbefore Sunanda’s death.

Jan Awaaz...policy correction is undertaken.The organisation urged the government

to be "truly inclusive, transparent andaccountable" as it completes one year inoffice.

Looking back at the performance of thegovernment in the last year, Paul Divakar,General Secretary of National Campaignfor Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) saidthat the government should address theconcerns of the poor.

"Even in the case of a flagship pro-grammes such as Swachch BharatAbhiyan, with a budget of Rs 1.96 croreallocated for it, the focus is on creating aglossy, sanitized and paperless office andno commitment made to address the con-cerns of the poor or improve the work con-ditions of sanitation workers-most ofwhom are drawn from marginalized com-munities in particular Dalits and Adivasis,"he said.

"As far as the rest of the schemes areconcerned a majority of them are just onpaper and the promise of Achche Din forthe poor is out of question unless a seriousmid-course policy correction is undertakenby the government," he added.

Saudi girl's ...and tried to persuade him to deport the

man but his attempts have failed, accord-ing local newspaper Sada.

The 23-year-old woman told her familythat she insists on marrying the Indian,who works as a delivery man at a shop in amall in capital Riyadh.

She revealed that she met the man at themall and that she had been in touch withhim for a while, said the daily.

"She told her mother that she fell in lovewith the Indian man after he filled her lifewith love...the mother quickly informedher husband," the paper said.

According to the report, the youngwoman is still determined to marry theIndian expatriate although this is againstlocal norms and the decision has shockedher family.

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Oppo on Thursdaylaunched its R7(seen below) and

R7 Plus (seen above)smartphones at a dedicatedevent in Beijing, China,priced at CNY 2,499(roughly Rs. 25,700) andCNY 2,999 (roughly Rs.30,900) respectively. Thesmartphones are currentlyavailable for pre-ordersfrom JD.com andOppostyle websites. Whilethe R7 is said to go on salein mid-June, the R7 Plus issaid to go on sale inAugust. No details aboutglobal availability were

provided, though the com-pany has listed the phoneson its global site.

Design-wise, the smart-phones sport a metallicunibody with chamferedsides. A 2.5D glass coversthe front panel, while therear features what the firmcalls 'violin arc' design.The R7 sports three physi-cal capacitive keys - back,home and menu, while theR7 Plus includes on-screen buttons. The R7Plus additionally comeswith a fingerprint sensorplaced on its rear panel.

Both the handsets featurethe same set of specifica-tions except the Androidversion, screen size, inbuiltstorage space, batterycapacity, and Wi-Fi con-nectivity. While R7 runsAndroid 4.4 KitKat-basedColorOS 2.1, sports a 5-inch full-HD AMOLEDdisplay, includes 16GB ofinbuilt storage, is backed

by a 2320mAh battery,offers Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/nconnectivity, the R7 Plusruns Android 5.1 Lollipop-based ColorOS 2.1, equipsa 6-inch full-HDAMOLED display, fea-tures 32GB of inbuilt stor-age, is backed by a4100mAh battery, andoffers Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n/ac connectivity. Both

come with an option toexpand the inbuilt storagevia microSD card (up to128GB). Also, the two 4GLTE-enabled handsets willbe available in Gold andSilver colour options.

Both dual-SIM (Micro-SIM and Nano-SIM) sup-porting Oppo R7 and R7Plus are 64-bit octa-core

Qualcomm Snapdragon615 MSM8939 (quad-core1.5GHz Cortex-A53 andquad-core 1GHz Cortex-A53) processor, 3GBRAM, Adreno 305 GPU,13-megapixel rear camerawith f/2.2 aperture andISOCELL image sensortechnology, and 8-megapixel front-facingcamera with f/2.4 aperture.

According to the firm, thehandsets using the PureImage 2.0+ technology cancreate an Ultra-HD 50-megapixel resolutionimages. Oppo also claimsthe rear camera to launchin 0.7 seconds and take 0.1seconds for auto-focusing.

While the Oppo R7measures 143x71x6.3 mm

and weighs 147 grams, thebigger Oppo R7 Plusm e a s u r e s158.18x82.3x7.75 mm andweighs 203 grams. Bothequip VOOC flash charg-ing technology, which israted to deliver two hoursof talk time in five minutesof charging and charge thehandset by 75 percent in 30minutes.

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1.out of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates present in acell membrane, what is true?A. Lipids are maximum B. Carbohydrates are minimum C. Carbohydrates are maximum D. All three are in equal proportion

2. Potato is a modified form (outgrowth) ofA. root B. stem C. fruit D. leaf

3. Of the following taxonomic categories which is themost inclusive (i.e. is the highest in hierarchy)?A. Order B. Subspecies C. Class D. Genus

4. Prothrombin which helps in clotting of blood isreleased byA. lymphocytes B. erythrocytes C. monocytes D. blood platelets

QUIZ TIME

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

TODAY’S STARARIES Your light, breezy spirit may have some trouble harmo-

nizing with today's prevailing mood. Usually when you'recornered, you're able to find a way to squirm to safety.Today you may run out of clever maneuvers. Eventhough you face the day's challenges alone and unaid-ed, you survive them the same way. Good for you!

TAURUS What a day, Taurus! Whether at work or at home, you may find your-self choosing between two options, both of which stem from anxi-ety! You may decide to vanquish your doubts by burying yourself inyour work. If so, you can expect to expend a great deal of energy.Or you may react with indifference, and the apathy will cost you justas much. The situation will improve in a few days.

GEMINI It's often said that your energy feeds on strong emotions.Situations that require some daring are an excellent sourceof such excitement. This is the key to understanding theday ahead, Gemini. True, you can expect some hair-rais-ing encounters, but how better to show off your skills aseither an employee or passionate partner?

CANCER You will have to rely on your analytical skills and steely self-control to navigate the stormy seas you find yourself intoday, Cancer. And there's no way to escape the stress.The worst pitfall facing you in your career or studies wouldbe to doubt in your abilities. This is an opportunity to putyour confidence to the test. Just make sure you pass it.

LEO The astral configuration indicates that you may be inter-ested in pursuing some kind of training, Leo. Assesswhere you are in your professional life. Are you up to per-suading people with your expertise? Don't think that youhave to know more in order to be a good teacher. In fact,it's often by teaching that the teacher learns the subject.

VIRGO Do you have some drawings in a drawer, Virgo? Since lastmonth, or possibly before, you've been thinking about your cre-ative ability. You have a habit of turning your back on your skills,whether in drawing, photography, or writing, but they're in younonetheless. People will expect more of you! All you have to dois take out a brush or pen and you will be on your way.

LIBRA One last, concerted effort and you will be able to get tothe root of a problem that has been on your mind for awhile now. The answer to the question concerning youridentity isn't entirely to be found in your family history,Libra. You're part of a generation as well as a family.Both influence your responses.

SCORPIO You've been doing a lot of cleaning up and clearing out. Since thisproject has been going on for several years now, you must bedoing a particularly thorough job. Finally, it seems as if you're get-ting things straight with your karma. Today will be a big day,Scorpio. You may be able to leave part of your childhood behind,as at last you understand that it's ancient history.

SAGITTARIUSSometimes you have to go back to square one if you wanta situation to get better, Sagittarius. This can be frustratingor even humiliating, but if the goal is to have a solid foun-dation on which to rebuild, it's well worth it! Don't get tooattached to your professional past. You have to advanceand you're too weighed down now. Let go!

CAPRICORN A moment will come when you can no longer fight against the currenttransformation you're going through in your professional life, Capricorn.The system that you live in will soon put you at a kind of impasse, butthis won't necessarily be unpleasant. However, you will be obliged tochange paths whether you like it or not. You will probably want to!

AQUARIUS You won't allow yourself to get sidetracked by minor things today,Aquarius. You will get straight to the heart of the matter. There'ssome likelihood that you haven't considered your working condi-tions and instead you're concentrating on the goal you've set foryourself. When you set a goal, you're a force to be reckoned with!

PISCES About two weeks ago, it may have occurred to you that youshould be making more of an effort to advance your career,Pisces. If so, it will be easier for you to accept today's constraints,as there is some probability that you will need to perform at yourhighest level. Be careful not to lose yourself in the attempt!

Panasonic has expanded itsrugged tablet offering in Indiawith launch of the

new Toughpad FZ-E1 and ToughpadFZ-X1 tablets. Thecompany has along-side also unveiledthe Toughbook CF-54 touted as thethinnest and lightestsemi-rugged PC inits category.

The PanasonicToughpad FZ-E1runs WindowsEmbedded 8.1Handheld and willbe available at Rs.1,19,000. ThePanasonic ToughpadFZ-X1, on the otherhand, runs Android4.2.2 Jelly Bean andis priced at Rs.1,09,000. BothToughpad FZ-E1and FZ-X1 tabletswere launched atMWC this year.

The semi-ruggedToughbook CF-54PC will be availableat Rs. 1,39,000. Both theToughpad FZ-E1 and FZ-X1 tabletsare being marketed as enterprise-

focused tablets.The company has revealed that it

aims to reach 65per-

c e n tmarket share by end of

this year in the rugged IT devices cat-egory; though was unclear whether

the figures represent India or globaltargets.

Both theToughpad FZ-E1 and FZ-X1 tabletsmeet the MIL-STD-810G standard,

feature an IP65/IP68 rating for dustand water resistance, and have beendrop-tested from a height of 10 feet.

The ToughpadFZ-E1 is pow-ered by a2.3GHz quad-c o r eS n a p d r a g o n8 0 0(MSM8974AB)processor whilethe ToughpadFZ-X1 featuresa 1.7GHz quad-core QualcommS4 Pro( A P Q 8 0 6 4 T )processor.

Rest of thespecifications ofthe newP a n a s o n i cToughpads arei d e n t i c a l .Both featurea 5-inch HD(1280x720p i x e l s )display; an8 -

megapixel rearcamera with flash; 1.3-megapixelfront-facing camera; 2GB of RAM;32GB of built-in storage; supportsexpandable storage via microSD

card; 4G LTE; 3G; Wi-Fi; Bluetooth;GPS, HDMI, and a 6200mAh battery.

The semi-rugged Toughbook CF-54 (see above) will be offered in var-ious models including gloved multi-touch model, performance model,

and prime and lite models. It features14-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels)IPS display and is powered by fifth

generation Intel Corei5-5300U vProProcessor (3 MBcache, 2.3GHz up to2.9GHz with IntelTurbo BoostTechnology). It will beavailable with 4GB,8GB, and 16GB RAMconfigurations and willpack 500GB of harddisk.

The Windows 8.1Pro-based ToughbookCF-54 offers a range ofintegrated options suchas dedicated GPS, 4GLTE mobile broadbandwith satellite GPS,antenna pass-through,and insert-able andc o n t a c t l e s sSmartCard readers.It offers an option-al second batterywith hot-swapwithout the need to

shut down or hibernate.The new Toughbook also offers dualdrives. Much like the newToughpads, the Toughbook CF-54meets the MIL-STD-810G standard.

Panasonic Toughpad FZ-E1, FZ-X1, andToughbook CF-54 Launched in India

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PUNEAB de Villiers combined with

Mandeep Singh for a game-changing partnership as RoyalChallengers Bangalore elimi-nated Rajasthan Royals fromthe IPL-8 with a splendid 71-run win, here on Wednesday.

De Villiers hit a fighting 66and shared a match-winning113-run stand with MandeepSingh (54 not out) as Bangalorerecovered from a sluggish startto post a challenging 180 forfour after electing to bat.Rajasthan had the proceedingsfirmly under their grip but theyleaked 86 runs in the last sixovers to let it slip.

De Villiers' 66 came off 38balls with four sixes and asmany fours while Mandeeptook 34 balls for his unbeaten54, which had seven fours andtwo sixes. Rajasthan neverlooked convincing in theirchase as they kept losing wick-ets and eventually folded forjust 109 in 19 overs, builtaround Ajinkya Rahane's fight-ing 42. Rajasthan's surprisecapitulation reduced it to a lop-sided affair and their total wasthe lowest in the IPL Play-offs.

Bangalore will now playagainst Chennai Sper Kings inthe second Qualifier on Friday,the winner of which will lock

horns with Mumbai Indians inthe summit clash on Sunday.Rajasthan lost in-form ShaneWatson (10) and Sanju Samson(5) cheaply and the onus was onRahane and skipper SteveSmith to bring the side back in

the contest.The two looked like raising a

partnership but David Wiesedismissed Smith (12) at thestart of the ninth over with only55 runs on the board. Rahanekept losing partners as now

Karun Nair (12) was caughtbehind off Harshal Patel.

The required rate had zoomedup to 15 and Rahane was leftwith no option but to go all outand in the process he lost hiswicket when he swept

Yuzvendra Chahal, managedonly an edge, which was easilytaken by De Villiers. Nothingwas going Rajasthan's way asJames Faulkner was dismissedin a bizzare fashion. TheAustralian hit a low full toss

from Sreenath Aravind, theedge hit the toe of the batsmanand flew towards the bowler,who took an easy catch in hisfollow through.

Stuart Binny (0) was run outfirst and it was all over forRajasthan. Patel (2/15) andAravind (2/20) took two wick-ets apiece.

Earlier, electing to bat, RCBhad managed only 60 runs inthe first 10 overs but thanks tosensible batting by De Villiersand Mandeep, the team scored120 in the next 10. It wasMandeep, who provided theinnings impetus initially andlater De Villiers went hammerand tongs. Four bowlers swungtheir arms in the Power-playand they were reasonably suc-cessful to tame the big-hittingChris Gayle (27). It was onlywhen Dhawal Kulkarni bowledthat the marauding Caribbeangot the chance to open his arms.

Largely, Gayle was on strikeand Rajasthan bowlers did acommendable job to keep theWest Indies batsman quiet.They bowled wicket-to-wicketand the ball was also gettingpurchase from the wicket as ithad bounce.

In the last ball of the Power-play overs, Gayle missed theline completely as Kulkarni hit

the top of the middle stump,leaving RCB 41 for 1. In hisnext over, Kulkarni jolted therivals by scalping Kohli (12),who handed a simple returncatch to the bowler as he mis-cued one and the leading edgewas there to be taken.

De Villiers was at the creasebut the bowlers dominationscontinued as RCB were 60 for 2in 10 overs. Kulkarni complet-ed his quota of overs withdecent figures of 4-0-28-2.Mandeep looked for boundariesand he did hit come clean shotsto the fence. Such was the dis-cipline of the bowlers that evenDe Villiers found it hard to getbig shots. The windy conditionstoo made the stroke-makingdifficult.

The South African broke theshackles with a six off spinnerAnkit Sharma, bringing 100 forthe team the 50-run stand withMandeep. He hit another sixand a four in the same over, col-lecting 19 runs. The left-armspinner had given away only 9runs in his earlier two overs.The two batsmen then tookturns to punish the bowlers asRR started losing control. DeVillers was run out in the penul-timate over. Mandeep complet-ed his fifty with a six and a fouroff James Faulkner.

AB De Villiers, Mandeep Singh lead RCBto easy win in IPL Eliminator against RR

NEW DELHIEnding all speculations,

the Board for CricketControl in India (BCCI) onWednesday announcedTeam India squad for theupcoming Bangladeshtour.

While Virat Kohli willlead the team in Tests, MSDhoni will be the skipperin the ODIs.

BCCI secretary AnuragThakur and selectorSandeep Patil announcedthe squad through a pressconference post their meet-ing in Mumbai and theboard also made the newofficial through its officialaccount on micro-bloggingsite Twitter.

Speaking tomedia, Sandeep Patil saidthat Harbhajan has beenpicked considering the factthat there are a lot of left-handers in the Bangladeshsquad.

Responding to a query,

Patil also said that therewas no discussion done onYuvraj Singh's name forthe tour.

Patil also confirmed thatno players had requestedfor a rest and barringMohammed Shami, allother players had reportedfit for selction.

Earlier, there were

reports that Kohli wasplanning to skip the loneTest match againstBangladesh, scheduled totake place in Fatullah fromJune 10 to 14, to take somerest after a long and tiringseason.

Team India will tourBangladesh in June to playa one-off Test and three

ODIs.The Test match will be

played at Fatullah betweenJune 10-14.

The entire three-matchODI series will be playedat Mirpur with the 1st ODIbeing played on June 18,2nd ODI on June 21 andthe final ODI on June 24.

BCCI announces full-strengthsquad for Bangladesh, Harbhajan

Singh makes Test return SYDNEYDefending champion

Saina Nehwal has beenseeded second in thewomen's singles competi-tion of the USD 750,000Australian Open SuperSeries badminton tourna-ment that will get under-way here on Tuesday.

Olympic bronze medal-list, Saina had outclassedSpaniard Carolina Marin toclinch her first SuperSeries crown in 20 months,after coming out on top inthe Denmark Open inOctober 2012.

The World No. 2 Indianwill take on a qualifier inher campaign opener.

The other Indian inwomen's singles, WorldNo. 11 P V Sindhu isunseeded and will face for-mer World ChampionChinese Yihan Wang, seed-ed eighth, in her openingmatch. Three Indians willcompete in the men's sin-gles competition withWorld No. 4 KidambiSrikanth, who has been

seeded fourth, taking onDanish Hans-KristianVittinghus in his openingmatch.Commonweal thGames champion ParupalliKashyap will face Chinesesixth seed WangZhengming in a tough

match, while IndonesiaMasters winner, H SPrannoy will open againstChina's Tian Houwei.

India's men's doublespair of Pranaav Chopra andAkshay Dewalkar willmeet Cai Yun and Kang

Jun, while 2010Commonwealth Gameschampions Jwala Guttaand Ashwini Ponnappawill face Dutch pairSamantha Barning and IrisTabeling in women's dou-bles competition.

Defending champion Saina Nehwalseeded second in Australian Open

New Delhi: BCCI secre-tary Anurag Thakur onWednesday told reportersthat the board was in theprocess of finalising TeamIndia's next coach.

Thakur, flanked by chiefselector Sandeep Patil,confirmed that BCCI waslooking to fill in not justthe position of coach butalso other staff. “We are inthe process of finalisingthe coach. It will take timeto pick the right option.Good things come to thosewho wait. We want to picka coach who can deliver,”he added. Thakur was atthe BCCI press conferenceto announce Team Indiasquad for the upcomingtour to Bangladesh.

The BCCI in its working

Committee meeting lastmonth had shown a desirein appointing legendarytrio of Sachin Tendulkar,Sourav Ganguly and RahulDravid as advisor’s on allcricket-related matters.

The BCCI has decided toseek the approval of thetrio to advise them on allimportant cricketing mat-ters including the appoint-

ment of national coach.Earlier in the month,

Sourav Ganguly and RahulDravid were being seen ascandidates to replaceDuncan Fletcher as thenext coach of Team India.But their possible appoint-ment as advisors mightmean that they are no longin contention for the topjob.

BCCI in process of finalis-ing Team India coach:

Anurag ThakurNEW DELHI

The Sports Ministry hasasked the Sports Authority ofIndia (SAI) to set up a 24-hour helpline among imple-menting other correctivemeasures for well being ofthe trainees in the wake ofsuicide attempt by four girlathletes at SAI's Alappuzhacentre.

The corrective actions havebeen formulated by theMinistry after examining thereport submitted by SAI DGInjeti Srinivas on the contro-versial incident.

As per the recommenda-tions, SAI should empanelcounselling psychologists tovisit its centers once in a fort-night or once in a month, asmay be required, for the pur-pose of group counselling aswell as one-on-one coun-selling.

All girls hostels must com-pulsorily have a full-timelady warden and all centersshould preferably be run at

least by Assistant Director(AD) level officers.

The Ministry also wants tomake Yoga as a compulsoryactivity in all SAI centers.

"Part-time Yoga instructorsmay be engaged for this pur-pose. Organisations impartingYoga courses should be ropedin to provide training onYoga," said the Ministry in arelease.

The release further addedthat a two-day module onsports psychology should beprepared in consultation withAIIMS and introduced in allSAI centers.

The Ministry also recom-mended that all eligible SAItrainees should be coveredunder the newly introducedPradhan Mantri Jeevan JyotiBima Yojana (PMJJBY) andPradhan Mantri SurakshaBima Yojana (PMSBY).

"Expenditure on thesemeasures will be met fromthe allocated budget of SAI,"the release added.

Sports Ministry issuesguidelines to SAI after

Kerala tragedy MONACODouble Formula One world champion

Lewis Hamilton has agreed a newthree-year contract that will keep him atMercedes until the end of 2018, theteam announced on Wednesday.

Although no financial details weregiven, media reports have suggested theBriton is in line for a bumper pay pack-et amounting to more than $40 milliona year.

"Mercedes is my home and I couldn`tbe happier to be staying here for anoth-er three years," the 30-year-old Britonsaid in a statement that ended any talkof a move to rivals Ferrari in the nearfuture.

Hamilton, who has a 20-point leadover team mate Nico Rosberg in thecurrent championship after five races, isalready one of the highest earners in thesport along with Ferrari`s SebastianVettel and McLaren`s Fernando Alonso.

German driver Rosberg, who is chas-ing a third successive Monaco GrandPrix win this weekend, agreed his ownmulti-year contract extension last July.

Hamilton`s new deal ends months ofuncertainty about the driver`s future,with speculation swirling since the mid-dle of last year and increasing despiterepeated assurances that all was ontrack.

The champion has dispensed with theservices of a manager and has been con-ducting much of the negotiations, andreading through contracts, himself.

The Briton, who won his first titlewith McLaren in 2008, has been backedby Mercedes since his teenage yearsand all of his 36 grand prix wins havebeen with the German manufacturer`sengines.

Fifteen of those victories, including11 last year, have been for the Mercedesworks team.

"Mercedes-Benz began supportingme in 1998 so I am very proud that thiscontract means I will mark 20 yearswith Mercedes in 2018," he said.

Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolffsaid continuity was a key factor indelivering success.

"Lewis enjoyed an historic WorldChampionship season with Mercedes-Benz last year and it was a priority forthis season to renew his contract for thenext term," said the Austrian.

"We have taken the right amount oftime with the process and not rushedourselves. "The result is a strong agree-ment that will enhance Lewis` associa-tion with the Mercedes-Benz brand, andthat recognises and respects the marketvalue of Lewis and of Mercedes inFormula One."

Lewis Hamilton signs new three-year contract with Mercedes

NEW DELHIIt was so glittery all over the sets of

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Body builders have knownfor over eight decades that adiet rich in vitamin can help

build strong muscles, but scientistshave only now figured out oneimportant way the vitamin works.

One big problem for many cells,such as muscle cells, is that theplasma membrane, which essen-tially keeps a cell from spilling itscontents and controls what movesin and out, tears just from beingused.

Vitamin E helps repair thesemembranes and thus contributes tokeeping muscles healthy, the find-ings showed.

"Every cell in your body has aplasma membrane, and everymembrane can be torn," said corre-sponding author of the study PaulMcNeil, cell biologist at theMedical College of Georgia atGeorgia Regents University in theUS.

"Part of how we build muscle isa more natural tearing and repairprocess -- that is the no pain, nogain portion -- but if that repairdoes not occur, what you get ismuscle cell death. If that occursover a long period of time, whatyou get is muscle-wasting dis-

ease," McNeil explained.Good sources of vitamin E

include vegetable oils; nuts; seedssuch as sunflower seeds; greenleafy vegetables; and fortifiedbreakfast cereals, fruit juices, andmargarine, according to the USNational Institutes of Health.

For the new study, rats were fed

either normal rodent chow, chowwhere vitamin E had beenremoved, or vitamin E-deficientchow where the vitamin was sup-plemented.

The researchers found vitaminE-deficient rats were generallydeficient in their running abilitycompared with controls.

The scientists also administereda dye that could not permeate anintact plasma membrane and foundit easily penetrated the musclecells of vitamin E-deficient rats.

The study appeared in the jour-nal Free Radical Biology andMedicine.

How vitamin E helps youbuild strong muscles?

Shruti Haasan madeher Bollywood debutwith Luck which fea-

tured Imran Khan in thelead. While her first outingwith Khan turned out to bea dud, we hear the two arecoming together for yetanother film. And this oneis the Hindi remake of crit-ically acclaimed Tamilflick Kalyana SamayalSaadham. What’s more isthat with this film the tal-ented director Aanand LRai will be turning produc-er. Yes, the romantic come-dy is going to be his firstproduction venture.

But if Rai isn’t directingthen who will? Well, RSPrasanna, who directed theoriginal, will helm theHindi remake as well.While there has been noofficial announcementregarding the project, it isbeing said that the film willgo on floors at the end ofthis year and is likely to hitthe screens next year inMay.

Shruti, who is currentlyriding high on the success

of her last release GabbarIs Back, recently complet-ed shooting for Vijay star-rer Puli. The fantasy drama

also stars veteran actressSridevi. As for Imran, well,the B-town hunk will beseen opposite Kangana

Ranaut in Katti Batti whichis slated to hit the theatreson September 18 thisyear.F

After Luck, Imran Khan to teamup with Shruti Haasan again?

Mary Kom director OmungKumar, who is making abiopic on Sarabjit Singh,

says he wants a bold actress to playthe role of the slain Indian prisoner’ssister Dalbir Kaur. Names of actress-es like Sonakshi Sinha, KanganaRanuat, Deepika Padukone, PriyankaChopra have cropped up in media forthe role of Dalbir.

“I have not thought of any actressyet. We also have been hearing aboutlot of actresses being finalised forthis project, but it is not true. We arelooking for strong, bold, powerful,bindaas, fiery…feisty (actress). “Weare not focusing more on getting thephysicality right…we are not lookingto have a duplicate of Dalbir Kaur,”Kumar said in an interview.

It was the struggle and journey ofDalbir Kaur that intrigued Kumar togive his nod for the biopic onSarabjit. “The story of SarabjitSingh, his sister…her struggle for 23years to get her brother out of jailwas something that interested me. Iread the story, saw videos and it justshocked…surprised me,” Kumarsaid.

“A lady from small town made itpossible to get her brother out of jail,but destiny had something else instore for him,” he said.

Kumar, whose directorial debut“Mary Kom” won the National

award for best popular film, had notplanned to make yet another biopic.“I had decided not to make a biopicfilm again after ‘Mary Kom’. I amwriting the story in my way. I alsointend to meet the family possiblynext week,” he said.

Sarabjit was convicted of terrorismand spying by a Pakistani court andsentenced to death in 1991. His sisterstarted a campaign for his release.

Following to her efforts and that ofthe Indian government, Sarabjit’sexecution was indefinitely delayed.But, he was attacked in April 2013 ina Lahore jail and in May, wasdeclared brain dead.

The film, which will be producedby writer-actor-turned-producerZeishan Quadri, will go on floors inOctober this year and will be shotmajorly in Punjab.

Priyanka Chopra or Deepika Padukone – who will OmungKumar choose to play Dalbir in Sarabjit Singh biopic?

Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho is aquirky title of Fox Star Studiosnext satire. The poster of the film

was released recently and it definitelylooks wacky. A buffalo and a groom in acourt room…quite a combination we mustsay! Directed by Vinod Kapri, the film is alove story from Tanakpur which gets apolitical spin. Sulal Gandas, played byAnnu Kapoor, is one of the Pradhans who

uses his powers pretty well for his owngains. He uses his power to keep thePolice and the law of the land in his hands.So when his dreamy and much youngerwife Maya, played by Hrishita Bhatt, fallsfor the young lad from the village Arjun(Rahul Bagga of Mastram fame), hedecides to get even by accusing Arjun ofraping Miss Tanakpur. Miss TanakpurHaazir Ho will release on June 19.

Revealed: The first poster of MissTanakpur Haazir Ho is quirky!