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By Vishnudas Sheshrao

In what is being seen asbizarre by leading envi-ronmentalists, the Cen-

tral Poultry DevelopmentOrganisation (CPDO), runby the Central AgriculturalMinistry, justified its act of'illegal' cutting of scores ofdecades-old green andhealthy trees as a controlmeasure to prevent an out-break of bird flu at the AareyColony in Goregaon East.

Earlier this year, the CPDOhad choppeddowndozens oftrees under the premise thatthe trees would offer nestingplace to crows andmigratorybirds that would then spreadbird flu in the city.

After the ADC carried a re-port on this illegal andmind-less felling of trees in its issuedated January 10, MayorSunil Prabhu had visited thesite where trees had been cut

BIRD-BRAINED LOGICSix months after illegally chopping down healthy trees, government body compounds error by justifying act, citing risk of bird flu

Mayor Sunil Prabhu and civic officials inspect the ‘illegally’ chopped a number of trees at the Aarey Colony.

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By Neel Shah

In amajor setback toMum-bai’s taxi union in general,

and A.L. Quadros in particu-lar, the MumbaiHigh Court hasupheld theorder passed bythe Registrar ofTrade Unions tofollow the rules

and regulations prescribedunder the Indian TradeUnion Act, 1929.

The court noticed that the40-year-old union, ruled byQuadros for four decades,was being run without prop-erly following the provisionsand procedures of the estab-lished trade union act, said a

Quadros in quandaryTaximen rebel against their union leader and get courtcensure over non-transparent and autocratic functioning

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Do you think India willwin the tri-series andZimbabwe tour withoutMahendra Singh Dhoni

as captain?

Readers wishing to participate in ‘Opinions’ may sendus their name, day-time telephone number with apassport-size photograph to letters@afternoondc.in

Your Subject line must be: opinion

Neha Shinde,PR executive,YES, the team hasalready managed towin a match in thetri-series, andhopefully it will wingames in Dhoni’sabsence.

OPINIONS

By Philip Varghese

Twoweeks after the Sessions Court inSouth Mumbai rejected the reviewpetition filed by actor Salman Khan

in the 2002 hit-and-run case, in which hehad appealed against the magistrate’sorder directing a retrial of the case underthe stringent charge of culpable homicidenot amounting tomurder, a social activisthas approached the Magistrate Court,claiming that the actor recently haslaunched a website with information on

the case which is still ‘sub judice’.According to the complainant Hemant Patil, the actor has

launched thewebsite –www.salmankhanfiles.com recently and up-loaded all the information on the case and alleged that it could at-tract case under violation of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.Salmanhas been given onemonth’s time to appear before the ses-

sions court and face trial in the case, Sessions Judge U.B. Hejib hadsaid in his ruling delivered in an open court on June 24.The date forstarting the re-trial has been fixed for July 19. Khan had appealedagainst themagistrate’s order directing a retrial of the case under thestringent charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.The arguments in the case had concluded in earlyMay, andKhan’s

lawyer AshokMundargi had contended that the lower court`s orderwas “erroneous, bad in law, and contrary to evidence on record.”Earlier, Khan had been tried under the less severe Section 304A of

IPC, relating to causing death by negligence,which stipulates amax-imum two years in jail.According to the complaint filed by Patil through his lawyerWajid

Khan this weekend, he said, “When the case is underway and mat-ter sub-judice, how can he use the Internet to spread informationabout the proceedings? I was forced to approach the Magistrate’sCourt as the officials of the Bandra Police station were refusing toregister a complaint against Salman in this issue. This website isbeing used by Salman to spread information about the court pro-ceedings and inviting comments from the publicwhen thematter isstill sub judice.This is also a violation of theContempt of Courts Act,1971. This attempt of actor may prejudice the mind of court whichhas yet not delivered its final verdict in the case.The dates of the posts on thewebsite indicate that thewebsitewas

being updated fromMay 2, 2013.”In his case, Patil has relied on the case of Anuja Parbu Desai v/s

State of Goa inwhich court hadmade certain observations tomain-tain the dignity of the court. After hearing Patil’s contention, theMagistrate has accepted the complaint and posted the matter forfurther hearing on August 5. philip.varghese@afternoondc.in

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To add romance to your love life, do not clutter your surroundings with unnecessary items. For a good healthy relationship,special attention should be paid to remove the clutter, as they restrict the flow of love.

by Dr. Prem Gupta (9820045774/9930318119, www.drpremgupta.com)

NO NOC,NO POWER

NCP leader’s move to get rid of ‘NOC’ rulefails after MBMC chief take tough stand

against illegal constructionsBy Suresh Golani

Adopting a ZeroTolerance Pol-icy against illegal construc-tions in the Mira Bhayandar

region, civic chief Suresh Kakani, inthe monthly general body (GB)meeting held here on Saturday,made his stand clear that No Ob-jection Certificates (NOCs) willcontinue to be a must to procureelectricity connections. Kakani’smove is being seen as a clear set-back to NCP corporator, LiyakatShaikh (right hand man of legisla-tor Gilbert Mendonca) who hadmoved a resolution in March thisyear, following his call-to-attention motion, mandatingpower supply be given to all, in-cluding those structures which hadsprung up without valid permis-sions from the Mira BhayandarMunicipal Corporation (MBMC).Although the resolution was

passed in the GB, the civic admin-istration, anticipating its adverseconsequences, chose not to imple-ment the decision and insteadsought scrapping of the resolutionunder section 451 of the BombayProvincial Municipal CorporationAct, 1949.

“Yes, we have requested the stategovernment authorities to scrapthe resolution. How are we sup-posed to control the illegal con-struction menace when weourselves allow them to flourishwith basic facilities,” said Kakani,adding unauthorized construc-tions not only destroy the conceptof planned development, but alsoseverely strain the infrastructurefor providing basic amenities to theexisting populace.To check the proliferation of ille-

gal constructions in the twin-city,the then civic chief,VikramKumar,had written to the power supplyproviders to insist on production ofcivic NOCs at the time of acceptingforms to install new electric con-nections. Although theNCP corpo-rator relied on the CentralGovernment directive, that power

supply companies are bound to in-stall electrical connections within amonth of submitting applications,power,sans NOC is bound to en-courage illegal constructions, saidan official.As per rules, the MBMC denies

occupancy certificate and comple-tion certificate to buildings with vi-olations. Other utility departmentsof the civic body including watersupply and fire services depart-ment clearance, toe the line, settingup a framework to keep a tab on il-legal construction activities.

We are fortunate! We don’thave surplus money to

invest in the chitfund kindof investment schemes

Hardik TannaInterior Designer,NO, As Dhoni hasbeen out due toinjuries, Team Indiais collapsing, and itmight be difficult forthe team to wingames.

Abha DholeLaw StudentYES, every team hasto manage andperform well withchanges incaptaincy, andeven Team Indiawill do so.

ShridharChavanBusinessmanNO, with Dhoni’sabsence, the teamdoesn’t have asimilar replacementand this could bringdefeats for Team India.

Gauree MoreStudentNO, it’s a youngteam andexperienced playersare needed. Dhoni’sabsence will createproblems for theyoung squad of Team India and theirability to win matches.

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UPLOADINGTROUBLE

Now contempt of court caseagainst Salman for putting uphit-and-run case info on the net

The first tab on the home page of the website – www.salmankhanfiles.com, hasinfo on the 2002 hit-and-run case, as alleged by Hemant Patil.

MBMC Chief Suresh Kakani

Was 'Power sans NOC' a bid topromote illegal constructionsin “Tourism Zone”?Immediately after the resolution,moved by Liyakat Shaikh alias LG, waspassed on March 20, 2013, hissupporters had put up banners acrossthe twin- city congratulating him forplaying an instrumental role in gettingrid of the mandatory civic NOCs to getpower supply. However, LG, who wasbasking in the glory of his 'so calledachievement,' received the shock ofhis life on Saturday when the civicchief informed the House that processto scrap the resolution had beeninitiated. A recently inducted memberof MMRDA’s committee, LGrepresents Uttan, a coastal belt nearBhayandar (falling under the TourismDevelopment Zone). However, thanksto authorities turning a blind eye, theland mafia is transforming the greenzones into a concrete jungle, byconstructing illegal chawls, bungalowsand even slums. All these illegalstructures need power supply whichcan only be done after getting rid ofthe NOC rule, sources revealed. “ If thepower supply providers issuesconnections without a valid NOC fromthe civic body, we will not hesitate totake action against them.” said anofficial.

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By Amit Srivastav

The cash rich Navi MumbaiMunicipal Corporation(NMMC) has become very un-

realistic while floating a tender forits swanky parking space at Sector16 A inVashi. All the bidders for theproject have been disqualified twiceby the civic body, as their tenderswere much lower than the mini-mum price quoted. The NMMC isnow planning to float the tender forthe third time.According to sources, the civic

body had quoted Rs. 2 crore for thecontract of the parking space forfive years. However, all the bidders,

on both occasions, bid drasticallylow. “On both occasions, all the bid-ders quoted below Rs. 10 lakh forone year, and Rs. 40 to 50 lakh forfive years,” said an official of theNMMC, requesting anonymity.According to bidders, the price

quoted by the civic body is unreal-istic. “The parking space is on theopposite side of the shopping cen-tre which already has its own park-ing space. Motorists will cross theroad to park their vehicles in themodern facility only if they do notget space in themall,” said a bidder.He added that with the price, thebidders would not be able to re-cover their investment.

The civic body has developed theparking space by concreting anopen nullah.This space can now ac-commodate more than 180 fourwheelers and 272 two wheelers at atime, apart from 26 kiosks offeringservices or commodities for sale.The project began in 2011 it wascompleted around four monthsago, but the civic body is yet to startit up.“The project was unique as it was

developed in an areawhich is one ofthe premier locations in Vashi. Thisarea not only houses offices but alsoshopping centres which ensure acontinuous flow of people,” saidNCP Corporator Raju Shinde.Residents welcomed the decision

when the project was conceived in2011. “The area had long been a rea-son for grievance because of thelack of hygiene and the strongodour emanating from it,” said aresident.But the greediness of civic body

has leftmotorists to park their vehi-cles at unauthorized places whichoften create traffic issues.

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By Amit Srivastav

Looking at the rate at which thestate information commissioner

(SIC) of Konkan division has beendisposing off queries under theRight to Information Act (RTI), itwill take several years for a commonpeople to get its queries addressedin the second appeals. At present,around 6,389 queries have beenpending in the second appeals tillthe end of May 2013.It seems that the very purpose of

RTI Act to make information avail-able for a common man is dying inthe region. The number of secondappeals pending with the commis-sion has been growing with eachpassing day and is likely to touch7,000 by the year-end.The fact came to light when RTI

activist Ravi Srivastava from NaviMumbai took up the matter (RTIdelays) with the SIC, Mumbai, andsought information on efficiency ofSIC of Konkan Region. Srivastavadiscovered that the office bearershave been taking shelter of the pro-vision that there is no definite timeframe to reply to RTI of the second

appeal.The RTI Act says that the commis-

sion should provide a person withthe required information within 30days of filing an application. But onmany occasions, the information isnot enough or requires more infor-mation.When the applicant goes foradd-on information, which is

known as second appeal, the SIC isnot bound by any time limit bywhich to provide its reply. “The SIChas been taking shelter of the provi-sion which demises the purpose ofthe RTI Act,” said Srivastava.It may be recalled that the post of

Konkan division SIC fell vacantwhen the existing incumbent gottransferred in May 2011. The stategovernment gave additional chargeof Konkan region to Pune SIC M.B.Shaha. Interestingly, under the RTI,it has been revealed that Pune SICShaha has made only 73 visits toKonkan division office in the last 23months since he was given the ad-ditional charge. “It is a very hard factthat the SIC Pune is available for av-erage three days at Konkan divisionoffice in Belapur each month,” saidSrivastava.

Under unavailability of SIC, thenumber of second appeals has beengrowing. Since 2010, the commis-sion has received 11,113 queriesunder the RTI and a total 4,724wereaddressed. As onMay 2013, the totalnumber of second appeals stands at6,389. “If the commission is ad-dressing issues on the first comefirst out basis, the new applicantswill need years to get their queriesaddressed,” said Srivastava.The state government should im-

mediately appoint separate SIC forKonkan division to clear the back-log. “It is very unfortunate that thereare several Indian AdministrativeService (IAS) officers sitting idle,waiting for appropriate assign-ments at the cost of taxpayersmoney,” says Srivastava.

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UNREALISTICEXPECTATIONS

Civic body develops modern parking spaceover open nullah in Vashi, but fails to get bidder

because of the high minimum price it has set

Yearwise second appeals under RTI ActYYeeaarrss SSeeccoonndd AAppppeeaall RReeddrreessssaall

2010 2,850 None2011 3,060 4182012 3,294 2,9872013 (till May) 1,909 1,319

TToottaall 1111,,111133 44,,772244

6,000 RTI queries unanswered Because there seems to be no time to hear second appeal under RTI in Konkan Division

which is without an information commissioner

This space has no takers, thanks to the NMMC asking for a very high minimum tender price.

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Government business –selling vegetables!

GOVERNMENT, that is,the state government,is back in business sell-

ing vegetables on no profit noloss basis after it realized thatveggie prices were risingalarmingly. Although the in-tervention of the governmentis a welcome move it wouldhave been much better had ittaken steps to ensure that thesupply was adequate andacted against the profiteers.The government now blamesthe soaring prices on the

drought conditions in thestate. If that were to be con-sidered then it shouldhave in-tervened in the nick of time tooffer relief to the farmers andensured that the transportersand middlemen did not milkthe crisis to their advantage.The role of the government

ought to have been that of in-terventionist rather than thatof a businessman.The social-ist model of the pre-liberali-sation era is almost derelictand defunct now.Therewas atime when the governmentwas in the business of pro-ducing products rangingfrom safety pins, bread andmilk to heavy industry prod-ucts. Even though private andcooperative players havetaken over the market space,the government is still in thebusiness of marketing milkbrands like Aarey. White ele-

phant corporations like theMaharashtra Agricultural De-velopment Corporation inPune, which were set up to

promote farming techniqueshave still not been wound upand shut down despite rec-ommendations to that effect.

Close EncountersIT is a tale of two police en-counters which have differ-ent narratives, but the role ofthe trigger happy cops inboth cases has been shady tosay the least. The Ishrat Jahancase of June 2004 and theLakhan Bhaiya case of No-vember 2006 offer stark con-trasts. The first has drawnnational attention while theother has evoked astonish-ment as to how encounterspecialist cop PradeepSharma was acquitted. Itshows how shoddy our inves-tigative methods are and theneed for witness protectionlaws. Although the Ishrat

Jahan encounter happenedin Gujarat, its political rever-berations are also being feltin Maharashtra. The LakhanBhaiya case does not figureon the political horizon, eventhough we are already in pollmode for the ensuing 2014Lok Sabha elections.Encounter killings or extra-

judicial killings have nowbegun to be politicized to suitthe political interests of thepowers that be and especiallywhen elections draw closer. Itis only when the courts haveintervened that the skeletonshave begun to tumble out ofthe closet. But what is worry-ing is that intelligenceagenciesare being set up against eachother, while politicians, who

otherwise interfere in policetransfers, find it convenient todump trigger happy cops ifthings get too hot for them.Extra-judicial killings aredownright condemnable butthe consequences of politiciz-

ing them are even more dan-gerous for the body polity.

Education On-the-LineIN our country, any crisis orproblem has to have a bu-reaucratic solution with vir-tually little or no say from thestakeholders whom the solu-tion on offer ultimately af-fects. The Online Admissionprocess put in place by thegovernment for the FYJC hascaused more distress to thestudents and parents, ratherthan being a hassle-free op-tion. In most cases, studentshave been allotted colleges inthe first roundwhichwere faraway from their residence.And in the subsequent tworounds in most cases stu-dents were neither allotted acollege nor a junior collegenear their homes.At the end of it all, most of

the parents had to shell outfrom their pockets to get anOff Line admission for theirwards in the colleges of theirchoice or nearer to their resi-dence. The examination sys-tem, especially for the specialchildren, has been a night-marewith handwritten ques-tion papers being offered to

them. The textbooks haveproved to be more of an em-barrassment with glaringomissions like the ArunachalPradesh map going missingfrom the Geography text-book. There never has been

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The Press Institute of India (PII), Chennai and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), New Delhi are organising a competition for the best article and photograph on a humanitarian subject on the theme:

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any serious debate on the ed-ucation system, fees, dona-tions, or the weight of schoolbags in the Legislative Coun-cil, where we have reservedconstituencies for Graduatesand Teachers.

Back to SchoolON June 17, when the schoolsin most parts of the state re-opened after the summer va-cations, some school childrenin Pune had the bewilderedlook on their faces as theyfound Chief Minister Prithvi-raj Chavan and Deputy ChiefMinister Ajit Pawar usheringthem in. Most of them foryears together surely musthave never encountered sucha royal treatment.Politicians visiting schools

and putting children to in-convenience is not news any-more, it is common. But inthe US of A, it was formerPresident George Bush Jr who

was brought to his senses, asit were.It so happened that during

his Presidency one day hap-pened to visit a primaryschool. As he entered one ofthe classrooms, most of thechildren and teachers greetedhim. But not an African-American kid who was busyin a corner doingMath. Stuckby his studiousness, GeorgeBush Jr went up to him andinquired as to what he wasdoing. Pat came the replyfrom the kid who pointed tothe sums he was doing. Thenhe introduced himself as thePresident of USA. Even thatdid not move the kid. SoGeorge Bush Jr pointed to theUS Presidential seal em-bossed on his leather jacket,trying to tell him that he in-deed was the President ofUSA. To which the kidreplied, “Even my father hassuch a jacket of his own, witha seal like that on it!”

Ishrat Jahan Lakhan Bhaiya

CM Prithviraj Chavan (right) with his deputy, Ajit Pawar.

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member of the union, re-questing anonymity.One important violation of

rules, among several, is theperiodic selection of the of-fice bearers of the unionthrough democratic meansrather than through nomina-

tion, added the member.“Several such failures to

observe the provisions of thetrade union act on the part oftaximen’s union have en-

raged a section of the mem-bers in the union. The en-raged members, led by JayShri Singh and MasuqShaikh, tomention few, haveraised a banner of revoltagainst Quadros and havechallenged his autocraticstyle of running the union,”informed Taufique Shaikh,also a member of the union.The objection was raised

before the Registrar of TradeUnions and taking cog-nizance of the complaint, theregistrar immediately startedmaking enquiries into thematter. Fearing the negativeoutcome from the registrar,Quadros had filed an appealbefore the Bombay HighCourt with a prayer to staythe proceedings initiatedagainst them by the registrarstraightway.However, while hearing

the matter, the HC passedstrictures against the taxi-men’s union, observing thatevery union has to complywith the provisions of theTradeUnions Act and furtherdirected the Industrial Courtto expedite the matter andpass the necessary orders inaccordance with the TradeUnions Act.Fearing the similar out-

come, the taximen’s unionfurther went into an appealbefore the Supreme Court.However, while hearing the

matter on July 4, apex courtjudge Justice R M Lodha,summarily dismissed the ap-peal filed by the Mumbaitaximen’s union. “This recentorder of the apex court is abig jolt to the taximen’s unionled by Quadros, who hasbeen enjoying the privilegessince last 40 years withoutfighting for the cause of poortaximen,” said Singh, whiletalking to the ADC.Meanwhile, most of the

members in the higher eche-lons of the union are againstQuadros and his operatingstyle, and want the latter toquit from the post of unionleader.

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Fever? Act now, see your doctor for correct & complete treatment

Dy. H.E./Operations/2055 dated 02-07-2013

e-Tender NoticeThe Commissioner for the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (M.C.G.M.) invites e-Tenders on item rate basis

for the following work from the Manufacturer/manufacturers authorized dealers having post qualification eligibility criteriamention below. All tenderers should satisfy the Post Qualification criteria detailed in the e-Tender Document.

Sr Bid invitation Name of the Earnest e-Tender Completion Eligibility CriteriaNo. No. work Money price Period

Deposit Rs. Rs.1 2 3 4 5 6 7

1. 7100018696 Supply, Installation, 54,000.00 5400.00/- 04 Months Manufacturer/manufacturersTesting & commissioning + 5% authorized dealers havingof automatic weather VAT post qualification eligibilitymonitoring stations at criteria mentioned in theDams in O.C. Division. e-tender

The technical & commercial bid shall be submitted online up to the due date and time mentioned below.

Sr. Bid Start date & Bid End Due date & time Last Date &No. Invitation time for Date & for online bid Time of

No. downloading Time submission Tender fee Packet ‘A’ Packet ‘B’ Packet ‘C’the bid up to payment

1. 7100018696 08-07-2013 19-07-2013 19-07-2013 18-07-2013 19-07-2013 — 26-07-201313.00 hrs 16.00 hrs 15.59 hrs 16.00 hrs 16.00 hrs 14.00 hrs

The detailed tender notice is available on MCGM’s portal (http://portal.mcgm.gov.in).Municipal Commissioner reserves the right to reject any or all tenders without any reason.

Sd/-Executive Engineer (Operations)PRO/391/ADV/2013

Opening Date &Time of Tender

NOTICE Shrimati USHA J. SHAH a Member of the Marathon ERA Co-operative Housing Society Ltd. having, address at 2/142 Veer Santaji Lane, Off G. K. Marg, Mumbai 400013 and holding flat # 2802-2 in the building of the society, died on 13/5/13 without making any nomination. The society hereby invites claims or objections from the heir or heirs or other claimants/objector or objectors to the transfer of the said shares and interest of the deceased member in the capital/property of the society within a period of 15 days from the publication of this notice, with copies of such documents and other proofs in support of his/her/their claims/ objections for transfer of shares and interest of the deceased member in the capital/property of the society. If no claims/objections are received within the period prescribed above, the society shall be free to deal with the shares and interest of the deceased member in the capital/property of the society in such manner as is provided under the bye-laws of the society. The claims/ objections, if any, received by the society for transfer of shares and interest of the deceased member in the capital/property of the society shall be dealt with in the manner provided under the bye-laws of the society. A copy of the registered bye-laws of the society is available for inspection by the claimants/objectors, in the office of the society/with the secretary of the society between 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. from the date of publication of the notice till the date of expiry of its period.

For and on behalf of Place : Mumbai The Marathon Era Co-op. Housing Society Ltd. Date : July 7, 2013 Hon. Secretary

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and directed the police viathe Tree Authority to lodgean FIR.The Aarey Colony police

filed a charge sheet againstthe organisation and legalproceedings are being initi-ated against the Director ofCPDO, on the basis of thecomplaint filed by the TreeAuthority, which is headedby the Municipal Commis-sioner.CPDOauthorities arewor-

ried about the FIR as it willcreate a problem in theirservice records and promo-tions. The senior officershowever, have continued tojustify their actions andhaveapproached themayor seek-ing his 'personal interven-tion.'A two-page long official

letter to the mayor, datedJuly 5, 2013, signed by theDirector of CPDO reads,"..migrating birds and nest-ing birds have been stated tobe one of the most promi-

nent causes of spreading ofavian influenza virus. Biodi-versity measured of trim-ming of trees and cleaning ofunwanted vegetation takenwere necessary to preventthe spread avian influenza orbird virus inMumbai."The CPDO property is

spread over 27 acres of openland in the Aarey Colonyarea and healthy trees therewere chopped from the rootarea (see photographs), eventhough the letter claims thattrimming was done.At the time of the mayor’s

visit, no officer from theCPDO was present, thoughbasic protocol and courtesyrequired that an officer ac-company themayor.Mayor Sunil Prabhu who

was surprised by the logicgiven by CPDO said, "Wehave referred this matter tohealth experts to verify thejustification givenby author-ities. The case is in the courtand law will take due ac-tion."vishnudas.sheshrao@afternoondc.in

BIRD-BRAINED LOGIC

In the process of privatization,all kinds of new taxis havecome including Meru taxi,Meru plus, Mega cab, Easycab, Tab cab, Priyadarshni,etc. These new luxurious taxishave negatively impacted thelivelihood of the humbletaximen who number around40,000 in Mumbai alone.These new taxis are being runby corporate houses that aimto replace the black andyellow taxis that have been onthe roads of Mumbai fornearly 50 years. Moreover,due to the wrong policies ofthe government and theairport authorities, it hasbecome just impossible tooperate the old black andyellow taxis for the humbletaximen to earn a living,informed Singh.

BASHED TO DEATHHistory-sheeter, just five days out of jail, gets murdered by building watchman

By Zuber Ansari

In a shocking incident, a36-year-old watchmanwas arrested by the Kas-

turba Marg police in Borivlifor allegedly killing a history-sheeter with a bamboo stickafter catching him robbingscrap from an under-con-struction building in Rajen-dra Nagar in Borivli (East),early on Sunday morning.Three persons had report-

edly gone to loot scrapsitems, when the watchmanposted at the building man-

aged to nab one of them, andhit him on his head with awooden stick, killing him onthe spot.The deceased has been

identified as Rajesh aliasNagpurya Patel, 21, and po-lice say he had five cases reg-istered against him at theKasturbaMarg Police Stationitself, of which four were ofhouse break-in and one ofmotor vehicle theft. Interest-ingly, Patel was releasedfrom the jail just five daysago. He and the other twoaccused are history-sheeters

and drug addicts based inBorivali, said the cops.According to senior police

inspector Bharat Worlikar ofKasturba Marg Police Sta-tion, “Watchman RamShukla, 36, was posted at theunder construction site,when the three personscame there to loot scrapitems. Shukla hit Patel a fewtimes on the head with hiswooden stick, while othersmanaged to escape.Shukla then went to the

police station and informedthe cops about the three rob-

bers, saying he hadmanagedto nab one of them and hadtied him up at the site.Whenthe cops reached the spotand found Patel lying in apool of blood, Shukla firstdenied having hit him.Worlikar added, “In the

post mortem we found thatPatel was hit on the head.We interrogated Shukla whothen confessed to thecrime.We have arrested himunder section 302 of the IPCfor murder. He will be pro-duced in the court on Mon-day.”

After losing hand in accident,man commits suicide

A30-year-old man, injured in a train acci-dent and admitted to a hospital twoweeks

ago, on Sunday allegedly committed suicide.Shankar, thedeceased, hadbeenadmitted to

St GeorgeHospital on June 26 after an accidenton the railway tracks. His left hand had to beamputatedas a result of the injuries, police said.On Sunday, the cleaning staff of the hospital

found him hanging from ceiling of the toiletinside his room, they said.Police have registered a case of accidental

death. No suicide note has been found so far,whereas, the post-mortem report is awaited, po-lice sources said, adding that neither the hospitalnor the police know his or his family’s address.

Hrithik undergoes successful brain surgeryActor Hrithik Roshan success-

fully underwent a brain surgeryat a hospital here on Sunday andwill be discharged in a couple ofdays, his father and filmmakerRakesh Roshan said.“The surgery just got over. He

(Hrithik) is doing fine now. He hasbeen shifted to a room and will bedischarged in two days,” RakeshRoshan told PTI after the two-hourlong operation.Hrithik was admitted to Hinduja

Hospital inKhar yesterdaymorning.The 39-year-old ‘Krrish’ star was

suffering from SubduralHematoma, often caused by bleed-

ing of veins in the brain as a resultof a head injury. The brain surgerywas necessitated following an in-jury he received sometime back.His father was not forthcoming

on being asked how Hrithik hadsustained the head injury.Earlier, the actor took to his Face-

book page to reveal about the sur-gery.“I am going to go through brain

surgery today andwant you to knowthat I am going in with absolutepower to recover fast. My thanks toall of you for using thepower of yourmind to contribute to my life. Loveyou all,” Hrithik posted.

By Amit Srivastav

The Koparkhaiarne po-lice have arrested sevenaccused and have

busted a racket of burglarswho posed as members of asocial organization workingfor the upliftment of disabledchildren, and after doing aninitial survey, would burgleseveral houses in the city, andmake off with laptops amongthe valuables.The police claim to have

solved at least 16 housebreak-in cases that took placein the city in the last fourmonths period of which twocases were with Nerul police,onewith Rabale and onewithKhandeshwar police station.To check the rising cases, theNavi Mumbai police Zone Iformed a special team of offi-

cers to check house break-ins, and last month, the teamled by Purshottam Karad,deputy commissioner of po-lice, Zone I, arrested sevenpersons found to be in pos-

session of stolen items. Uponinterrogation, they revealedthat they executed theircrimes in a planned manner.Sr PI Mukund Hatote in-

formed that the group used

to survey houses which arenormally closed during daywhile they went about col-lecting donation for their or-ganization. “They posed asmembers of Sai Gopal Chari-

table Centre, which works forunderprivileged and disabledchildren, and sought finan-cial donations and old gar-ments from the homeswhichhad occupants. At the same

time, they would watch outfor houses where ownerswere working and thereforenot available during the day,so that they could enter suchhouses and steal valuables.They also prepared certifi-cates of the organizationwhich theywould showwhendemanded,” said Hatote.Police have recovered 34

laptops, two cameras, threecomputers, two LCD TVs and50 grams of gold ornamentsworth Rs.10 lakh.The arrestedwere identified as RajkumarMakhaji (24), KranDafiya (20),Arvind Madan Nat (22), LalaBhuputiya Nat (24), ShankarPatwari (22), Mithun Bhu-patiyaNat (24) all are residentsof Dombivali while KamleshHarish Haswani (24), is a resi-dent of Ulhasnagar inThane.

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CITY 07Koparkhairane policebust racket by thievesfrom ‘social organization’who targeted homes afterdoing surveyCRAZY ABOUT LAPTOPS

An officer displayingarticles and ornaments seized from the burglars. Right: A whole collection of laptops which was recovered from them.

FOUR HELD FOR HOUSEBREAK-INS

By Amit Srivastav

The Panvel police have ar-rested four persons who

allegedly broke into a hotelin Panvel and stole valuablesworth Rs.50,000 and somecash on the Friday night. Inthe last one week, this wasthe tenth case of break-insreported inNaviMumbai po-lice commissionerate.According to police, four

professional burglars brokeinto RatnadeepHotel in Pan-vel in thewee hours of Fridayand stole valuables includingone LCD television, two mo-bile phones and Rs.10,000 incash. Krishna Gauda, theowner of the hotel, came toknow of the burglary only onFriday morning.“After initial investigation,

we anticipated that the cul-pritswouldnotbe residentsofPanvel and they might try toflee either by bus or train. Sowe deployed our officials atthebusdepots andat thePan-vel railway station,” said AjitShinde, police sub inspectorof Panvel police station.“Around 8.30 am on Satur-

day morning, we noticedfour persons waiting for atrain at the railway station.They were also carrying bagswith them. We asked themabout their destination, butall four replied different des-tinations which raised oursuspicion. We then friskedthem and checked their bagsand found the TV set. Theywere then taken to the policestation,” Shinde said.They were later arrested

and identified as Keru Shaha(22), Amit Khan (19), ImranKhan (21) and Imzara Shaikh(19), all were residents ofWadala. They had stolen oneLCD television, two mobilephones andRs.10,000 in cashfrom the hotel.The police have booked

them under sections 380,347, 457 of the Indian PenalCode. They were presentedbefore the judicial court onSaturday afternoon sent onpolice remand for three days.“Upon interrogation, they

have confessed to the crime.We have recovered the stolengoods and the cash fromtheir possession.We are now

interrogating, if they havecommitted similar crimes inthe city earlier,” another offi-cer from Panvel police sta-tion said.

Total `2.55 crore propertyloss till May in 2013As per the data provided bythe crime branch of NaviMumbai police, in the firstfive months of 2013, a total215 cases of house breaks inwas reported and estimatedRs.2,55,41,090 property waslost. A major part of theproperty loss was reportedduring the night housebreaks in. In 2012, a total 564cases of house break in werereported.

Total cases of housebreaks in:2013 (Jan to May) 2012

215 564

Total property loss:During day Rs. 44,57,170At Night Rs. 2,10,83920Total Rs. 2,55,41,090

Only 40.86 pc turnoutfor Mira Rd by-pollBy Suresh Golani

By-polls for election toward number 36 (a) in the

Mira Bhayandar MunicipalCorporation (MBMC)

recorded a voter turn-out ofjust 40.86 per cent on Sunday.Apart from a couple of

stray incidents of scufflesand verbal duels betweenparty activists, especiallythose representing the NCPand the BJP, no major unto-ward incident was reportedduring the voting process

which was held under tightpolice security.In the fraywere Seema Jain

(NCP), Seema Shah ( BJP),Varsha Gopani (Congress)and Pushpa Soni (Indepen-dent). Counting will begin at10 am on Monday and thefinal results are expected tobe declared by 11 am.

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By Kainaz Choksey

Since no internships are in-cluded in the syllabus at theundergraduate level for law

students pursuing an L.L.B. coursein Maharashtra, students lack theexpertise of the subject and hencemost of cases do not reach an effec-tive judgement in the actual court-room. To make that change in theinterests of justice, Professor DipakChatterjee of Lala Lajpatrai Collegehas started legal internships for lawstudents at the undergraduate level.According to Chatterjee,

“Through seminars and practical

training, law students will be intro-duced to subjects like forensic sci-ence, juvenile law, preventive lawssuch asTerrorist andDisruptive Ac-tivities (Prevention) Act (TADA),Prevention of Terrorism Act(POTA),Motor Accidents Claim Tribu-nal(MACT). At present, a batch of 40students from theGovernment LawCollege is availing of the opportu-nity of legal internships, which havebeen approved by the Bar Councilof Maharashtra and Goa.”“Since law students studying in

law colleges in Maharashta arenever given practical knowledgeand have never visited courtrooms,

they have no idea about how im-portant it is for both the prosecu-tion and the defence lawyers to putforth their arguments which willhelp the case reach its conclusion,”said Chatterjee who added that hewill be roping in several retiredjudges, police officers and lawyersfor the internship programme.Chatterjee spoke about how po-

lice now rely on forensic reports andlawyers today don’t know muchabout the subject and hence cannotdeliver the right arguments in acourt of law, which is very impor-tant for a case, as there has to becorroboration.

By Yatin Ingle

The state board of education al-ready having declared results

and having done the FirstYear Jun-ior College (FYJC) admissionprocess online, has moved onemore step ahead. Students whowill be appearing for the State Sec-ondary Certificate (SSC) andHigher Secondary Certificate(HSC) will have to fill their exami-nation forms online. It is the firsttime that a state school examina-tion form will be filled online bythe students.Since the beginning, the SSC

and HSC examination forms werefilled by the students in their re-spective schools. The school thenforwarded these forms to theBoard office of the state educationdepartment. As the forms weresubmitted, within a few months,students would receive their halltickets from the board. Now thatthe process will be carried out on-line, it seems that students will nothave to wait any more to receivetheir hall tickets.Talking to Uday Nare, senior

teacher of Hansraj Morarji PublicSchool, Andheri, who said, “It’s is agreat idea by the state board au-thorities. Prior issues regarding thedelay in submission of forms fromthe schools to the board offices oc-curred due to which the hall tick-ets were delayed. If at all errorstook place, the forms were heldback for corrections. Finally, itseems an automated work for thestate board.”The ADC spoke to Laxmikanth

Pandey, Chairman of MaharashtraState Board of Secondary andHigher Secondary Education, whosaid, “After carrying out the decla-ration of SSC and HSC board re-sults online along with the FYJConline admission process, theState board has now decided tostart the board examination formsto be filled online.The process is still under plan-

ning and development.” Whenasked about the implementationof this process, Pandey said,“Mostly the process might startfrom this academic year, but it to-tally depends upon its finaliza-tion.”

By A Special Correspondent

Nearly twenty percent of thestates IAS officers, including

BMC Commissioner Sitaram Kunteand MHADA Vice President SatishGavai, have not declared their as-sets this year. An RTI query has re-vealed this reality.According to the information

provided by the state government tothe RTI application moved byPune-based activist ViharDhruve, as many as 56 of the294 IAS officers did not declare theirassets in 2012, as was mademandatory by the Central

government. As per the Centraldirective in 2010, bureaucrats haveto submit their investmentdetails to government every year onJanuary 1.As per the reply to the query,

twenty per cent of the state’s bu-reaucrats failed to submit their in-vestment details last year.Interestingly, the 2010 and 2011records of investment details of bu-reaucrats were destroyed in theMantralaya fire. The state govern-

ment has no records if the bureau-crats had submitted their invest-ment details earlier in 2008 and2009.

Apart from Kunte and Gavai,Valsa Nair Singh, Sumit Mallick, S KSrivastav, Amitabh Joshi, NandKumar, Debashish Chakravarty, T SThekekara, S S Zende, S D Shinde,Rajgopal Deora, Sonia Sethi,Jagdish Patil are some of the otherofficials who have failed to declaretheir assets.

By A Staff Reporter

The Bharatiya Janata Party, whichis the alliance partner in the

Sena-led combine in the Brihan-mumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC), filled up potholes in variousparts of the city on Friday, as part ofa protest against the civic adminis-tration’s lethargic attitude about thecondition of the roads in the city.This constructive idea of protest

was the brainchild of former coun-cilor andMLCAdvocate Ashish She-lar, who asked his party workers tofill potholes in their respectivewards to register their protestagainst the civic body and the con-tractors. Shelar had also come tomeet Municipal CommissionerSitaram Kunte in his capacity ashead of BJP Mumbai and gave himmemorandum on 20 various pointsrelating to the development of thecity, earlier this week.The opposition quickly criticized

this move as a publicity stunt, withMaharashtra Navnirman Senagroup leader in the BMC, DilipLande, saying, “It clearly shows thatthe Shiv Sena and the BJPwhich areruling in the BMC have failed tocontrol the civic administration.”He added “Filling pothole is the

responsibility of the administrationand they have crores of rupees asbudget provision for the same. Iguess there is no communicationbetween the Shiv Sena and the BJP,and that is why they had to comedown to the roads.”Every year, the civic body has

been spending an estimated Rs.800

crore on road repairs, but there is noimprovement noticed anywhere.Ashish Shelar clarified, “Being in

the power, our (ruling party) job is topass the tender on time. After pass-

ing the tender, it is the administra-tion’s responsibility to supervise thework and get it done by the contrac-tors. We are filling potholes as aprotest against the administration.”

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ASSETS UNDISCLOSED

By Prashant Hamine

Union Minister for SurfaceTransport and Highways

Oscar Fernandes has assuredMin-ister for Public Works ChhaganBhujbal about undertaking the ex-pansion of the 366 km Mumbai-

Goa Highway stretch between In-dapur and Zarap.

The assurance to this effectcame after Bhujbal called on Fer-nandes yesterday at Sahyadri stateguest house and drewhis attentionto the fact that the narrow stretchof the highway has oftenwitnessedfatal road accidents in the state.The PWDminister also spoke of

the hardships vehicle owners andcommuters have to face on thenarrow stretch of the highway.Bhujbal stated that, consideringthe situation, there was urgentneed to expand this road. Fernan-des then assured Bhujbal that theCentre would immediately expe-dite the highway expansion work.Bhujbal also discussed the need forsimilar expansion of the Sinnar toKhed stretch of the Pune-NashikNational Highway.The state is expected to get

Rs.760 crores by way of ViabilityGap Funding (VGF) for expansionof road networks under its juris-diction under privatization fromthe Centre. Fernandes assuredBhujbal that he would to look intothis matter as well after Bhujbalurged the union minister for max-imum allocation of funds from theCentral Road Fund for taking upconstruction of road networks inthe state.

ACCIDENTSNO MORE?

Centre assures state on quadrupling Mumbai-Goa Highway

Union Minister for Surface Transport andHighways Oscar Fernandes

BJP’s Sardar Tara Singh filling potholes as a mark of protest against BMC negligence.

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CITY 09‘FLIRTING’ WITH DEATH

By Zuber Ansari

Seaside locations are afavourite among young-sters throughout the

year, but the famous BandraBandstand is infamous as themost dangerous. The manywarning and notice boardsplaced all over and at the en-trance to the beach area donot deter couple from enter-ing and going to the rocks bythe sea.The BMC's disaster man-

agement cell keeps issuinghigh tide alerts and manyNGOs, including the Maha-rashtra Christian Forum,Bandra Band Stand ResidentsAssociation (BBRA), etc havetaken the initiative to stop

couples from going near therocks during the monsoonseason, but couples still ig-nore warnings.The bandstand at Bandra

has therefore witnessed nu-merous cases of drowning inthe recent past, with severalyoung couples dying aftergetting trapped on the rocksduring high tide.Talking the ADC, a police

inspector fromBandra policestation, on condition ofanonymity, said that duringthe monsoon, we intensifyour patrolling at the BandStand to keep a watch oncouples spending time on therock every evening after 6pm, requesting the couples tocome out, but they ignore us.

We have requested localfishermen, who are accom-plished swimmers, to helpwith quick response in casesof accidents due to the sud-den rise in sea levels duringhigh tide, he added.Maharashtra Christian

Forumpresident, Agnelo Fer-nandez, said, "I have alreadywritten to the BMC as well asother authorities, to stopthese couples as well as otherpersons fromgoing inside thesea. Many outsiders, who aremigrating to Mumbai for thefirst time, also try to go insidethe sea as they are not awareabout high tides and donot know how save them-selves when overcome by thewaves.

Couples canoodling by the sea are a big headachefor Bandra Police, especially during the monsoon

By Suresh Golani

The love story of a young couple fromMalad ended on a tragic note after the

17-year-old girl jumped off from amovinglocal between Vasai and Nalasopara rail-way stations late on Saturday evening.While the girl was fortunate to survivewith a fractured leg, her 25-year-oldboyfriend who also jumped behind her,succumbed to deep head injuries beforehe could be admitted to a private hospitalinVasai.According to the police, the girl, Disha

(name changed), a resident of Kurar vil-lage in Malad (East) was in love withJayesh Panchal, a 25-year-old youth resid-ing in the same locality. As both the fami-lies were opposed to their relationship, thecouple eloped and got married at atemple before shifting to a rentedaccommodation in Nalasopara justthree days ago.While Disha is a standard X student,

Jayesh assisted in his father’s business.Thegirl’s father had refrained from registeringa police complaint as he was aware thathis daughter had voluntarily eloped withJayesh. When he came to know about the

whereabouts of the couple, he, along withother family members, landed up at theNalasopara flat on Saturday.After being convinced by an assurance

that they would be married at the righttime, the couple agreed to return homeand all of them boarded a Churchgate-bound local. However even before theyreached Bhayandar, Panchal and Disha’sfather got into a heated argument,prompting the couple to alight from thetrain at Bhayandar station in order to re-turn to their flat in Nalasopara.They boarded a Virar-bound train, only

to be followed by their parents. As the trainleft Vasai station, Disha jumped off fromthe footboard of the train, a shockedJayesh got up from his seat and he toojumped off, even as their family membersand fellow commuters watched inhorror. Disha survived as she apparentlyjumped when the train had just movedout of the platform, however whenJayesh took a leap, the train had pickedup speed, officials said. “A case ofaccidental death has been registeredand Jayesh’s body has been over to hisfamily after the autopsy,” said GRP PSI P.S. Bhangare.

Lovers jump off movingtrain as parents,

commuters watch in horror

ALERT AT CHAITYABHOOMI…

Following nine low-intensity serial blasts targeted at the pilgrimage town of Bodh Gaya and Maha BodhiTemple complex, in Bihar, on Sunday. Plainclothes policemen and security personnel inspecting theprecincts of Chaityabhoomi, in Dadar, yesterday.

Azad Shrivastav | ADC

President Pranab Mukherjee would havebeen fully within his constitutional right if

he had said no to promulgate the food secu-rity ordinance. His fidelity, in word and sprit,to the Constitutionwould have prevailed hadhe asked the Cabinet to reconsider themove.Yes, once the Cabinet were to return it, as itwould certainly have, he would not have hadany other option than to sign on the dottedline. But he would still have made an impor-tant point. The founding fathers did not en-visage the ordinance route to present theParliament a fait accompli. That wouldmeanshortchanging the Parliament.Notwithstanding what its members have

made of it in recent decades, there can still beno denying the supremacy of Parliament inour democratic system. Bypassing it to pushthrough a highly questionable vote-seekingordinance is an affront to Parliament. Andwas a challenge to the Head of the Republicto exercise his discretion in sending it back tothe Cabinet, especially when the monsoonsessionwas only a couple of weeks away. Alas,Mukherjee too took the path of least resist-ance.Heavens wouldn’t have fallen had the food

security bill been debated openly in Parlia-ment and outside and then approved. Or dis-approved. Almost overnight, that chiefmegaphone of the decrepit Government,ManishTiwari, seems to have discovered that67 per cent of Indians need cheap cereals.Having ruled for more than half a century,that confession about the extent of hungerand poverty still prevalent in the country is astinging self- indictment of the ruling party. Iffor sixty-plus years you failed to feed the poorand the hungry, a couple of weekswould havehardly made any difference, especially whenthe intended beneficiaries were not desper-ate for the next freebie from the Congress’Mother Bountiful.The real motive behind the ordinance is

not to provide succour to the needy. No. It isto claim the exclusive ownership of a poten-tially disastrous scheme whose immediateobjective is to hoodwink the voters into re-electing the UPA. Instead of seeking a freshmandate on its performance in 2014 — whatperformance, did you say? — the 10 JanpathEstablishment seems to have latched on tothe food security stratagem as its election-winning ‘Brahmastra’. They hope that thepoor will be sufficiently grateful for the freefood and vote en masse for the ‘mai-baapsarkar’ resident at 10 Janpath.We are afraid even the poor have come a

long way from the early 70s when mes-merised by Indira Gandhi’s promise of ‘garibihatao’ they had given her an unprecedentedmandate. Since then they have not only ac-quired greater political wisdombut thanks tothe rise in literacy and the communicationsrevolution, even the 67 per cent that Tiwariwants to lure with the promise of cheap ra-tions have come to treat electoral promiseswith great distrust and suspicion. The foodsecurity promise was part of the 2009 Con-gressmanifesto, wasn’t it?Why, at the fag endof the Lok Sabha should the lotus eaters inNew Delhi suddenly remember the hungerpangs of the poor. Clearly, the elections areupon us. The poverty and hunger of themasses is to be used as an instrument for win-ning that election. Period.How the hare-brained scheme would dis-

tort the entire food economy, pressurise thefisc, encourage the culture of entitlements,create huge administrative bottlenecks, leadto huge leakages, etc., apparently, is of noconcern to thosewho see themeasure purelyas a vote-security ruse. Notably, some of theScandinavian countries having put in placethe most effective social security system inthe world are now hard put to scale it down abit, now that their economies are under

stress. Here in India we are way off from theirper capita incomes but are piling on near-free entitlements on citizens with the solepurpose of buying votes at the expense ofhonest taxpayers — and probably not onthose who self-confessedly steal taxes like aspokesman of a leading political party.Instead, the same money can be better

spent on providing ‘pukka’ school buildings,paying salaries to lakhs of teachers on time,providing healthcare to the poor, impartingvocational skills to them so that they can beself-employed, and a thousand other thingsthat can truly empower the deprived sectionsof the people. Free rations is an assault ongood sense. By the way, the poor too cannotlive on rice, or wheat alone. They need fire-wood, cooking oil, clothes, soap, a roof overtheir heads, cheap transport, reasonablypriced water and electricity, et al. How abouttaking care of that too? The consumer priceinflation is still running in double-digits. Butthe anti-poverty warriors are distributingcheap rations, while indiscriminately raising

the price of water, electricity and other es-sential services and goods.If the truth be told, the ruling politicians

have a very poor idea of the collectivewisdomof the poor. They still suffer from a feudalmindset, treating the poor as dumb cattle, tobe kept in good humor with an occasionalcrumb from their table. Fortunately, the voterhas acquired an uncanny sense to be able tosift the chaff of false election-eve promisesfrom the grain of good governance. He is un-likely to forgive the loot and plunder, thecrony capitalism, the non-performance of thelast five years merely because they want tofob him off with a bag of cheap rice. Suchcheap transactional politics is bound to recoilon its practitioners.

Ajit does an A. Raja on PMAjit Singh has done an A. Raja on Manmo-

han Singh. And, true to type, the latter isbelatedly protesting his innocence and forti-fying himself against a possible charge that hetoo was complicit in the decision-makingprocess leading up to the one-sided Jet-Eti-had deal. And, not unlike Raja, the Civil Avia-tion Minister too is hell-bent on pushingthrough the deal, which gives almost gratissome 40,000 Indian seats per week to the AbuDhabi flag-carrier.Without that sweetener, mind you, Etihad

would not have picked up 24 per cent stake inthe loss-making Jet. That there ismore to thisdeal than meets the eye is confirmed by thefact that with mere 24 percent, Etihad wouldbe in the pilot’s seat in Jet andwould shift theoperational headquarters to Abu Dhabi. Be-tweenNaresh Goel and Ajit Singh it is hard tosay who is more devious.Remember it was after the advent of Ajit

Singh in Civil Aviation Ministry that domes-tic airlines were allowed to charge extra forwindow, aisle seats, etc., and, more impor-tantly, the free baggage allowance was re-duced from 20 to 15 kilos.

But the more significant giveaway is thegrant of 40,000 bilateral rights (seats) to theJet-Etihad airline and the permission to flyfrom some 20-odd regional airports. It will in-flict lasting damage on the entire domesticaviation industry. But Ajit Singh is an honor-able man. He must deliver on the deal. And,therefore, please note, he has gone to SoniaGandhi to demand that it be implemented.Manmohan Singh, meanwhile, can createpost-deal correspondence and records toclaim that he kept himself at arm’s lengthwhen his Civil Aviation Minister initialeda one-sided agreement with Jet-Etihad.We will be unfair to Naresh Goel if wefailed to acknowledge his tremendouspersuasive skills.

Chi, Chi… not doneIs Sushma Swaraj so insecure about thegrowing presence of Smriti Irani in the BJPthat her side-kickwho invariably clings to heras if he were her security guard has tothreaten Irani in the foulest language possi-ble? Apparently, Irani, who is turning out tobe a surprise package what with an equalamount of histrionics and intellect on displayon the nightly television debates, gave it backto him as good as she got, telling him to re-peat his threat in public so that she could givehim the benefit of her fist. Well done, Smriti.Batting for Modi might be a crime in thisboorish man’s lexicon, not hers.

Gubernatorial rouletteFormer Chief Election CommissionerNavin Chawla’s hopes of becoming the Lt.

Governor of Delhi were peremptorily shotdown by Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit. Shewould not have him at any cost. Even Presi-dent Mukherjee was not enthusiastic for ahead of a constitutional body to be rewardedwith a post-retirement sinecure. Dr. K.K. Paulwas keen on Delhi. But Paul, whose wife,Ometa, is the Secretary to the President, toomet resistance fromDikshit, who argued thathaving served as the head of the Delhi Policenot long ago she would not like to have himnow as Delhi’s Lt. Governor.Another name for Delhi was of senior

Supreme Court advocate, K.T.S. Tulsi. But atthe last minute they wanted him to take upthe governorship of a north-eastern State. Hesaid no. It would be Delhi or nothing. Tulsimay still be rewarded with a ticket from oneof the seven parliamentary constituencies.He is in the good books of the Congressleadership.

Receptacle for plantsApropos the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter

case. Apparently, someone high-up inthe Home Ministry has post-haste deleted avital paragraph from the testimony of thePakistani-American terrorist, David Headley,wherein he had confessed that she was amember of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and was re-cruited by the ISI to eliminate Gujarat ChiefMinister Narendra Modi. But because therecord of Headley’s testimony is present inmore than one place, including with theAmericans, it will not be hard to pin down theHome Ministry once the new regime is inplace in New Delhi. These things are not soeasily obliterated from official files whateverbe the ulterior motive of the current politicalmasters. Meanwhile, the ruling Congress hasused its favourite receptacle in the media toplant twisted versions of the Ishrat Jahan en-counter case. Its owners are only interestedin buying up pieces of real estate inexotic locations and have become im-mensely wealthy by undertaking suchlikecommissioned jobs.

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EDIT PAGEPresident was not bound to sign

on the dotted line, was he?DESPATCH & COURIER

Ponder awhile...“Cyber terrorism could also becomemore attractive as the real and virtualworlds become more closely coupled,with automobiles, appliances, and otherdevices attached to the Internet.”

— Dorothy Denning

The Dravida Munnetra Mazhagam(DMK) had to do one better than

Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK with regard tothe Tamilian Sri Lanka issue whichcaused a lot of anger in Tamil Nadu.DMK’s Karunanidhi had no go but toend the association with the UPAwhich was seem by people as sidingwith the Sri Lanka government. TheDMKwould have become unpopularand Jayalalithaa would have gained alot of political ground if it had contin-ued to be an ally of the ruling Con-gress party. The UPA governmentevidently appreciated the compul-sions faced by the DMK and let it to.To the Congress, the DMKwas a big

reliable supporter.With the exit of theDMK, it had to face several problemsrelating tomustering ofmajority sup-port in parliament. It is evident it waswaiting for the return of the DMK. Ithas seized an opportunity to provethat it wants the DMK back: It has ex-tended its support to DMK’s A. Rajaand Kanimozhi and helped them be-come Rajya Sabha members. It is aclear indication that the Congresswould like to cooperatewith theDMKwith regard to the 2014 poll.In all probability, DMK will con-

tinue its association with the Con-gress. Jayalalithaa will be supportingthe BJP a “friendly party.”After the Rajya Sabha elections,

Kanimozhi met Congress PresidentSonia Gandhi. This meeting was de-scribed as a courtesy call, but evi-dently there is more to this courtesycall thanmeets the eye. One thing be-comes clear: friendship between theCongress and the DMK has beenfirmly sealed after the former madetwo DMK leaders members of theRajya Sabha.

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CAROL ANDRADE A.R. KANANGIEditor Associate Editor

KAMALMORARKAChairman of the

Board of DirectorsAfternoon Despatch & Courier office is located at:Janmabhoomi Bhavan, 3rd Floor, Janmabhoomi Marg,Fort, Mumbai-400 001. Phone: 40768999.Fax: 40768916. E-mail: afternoonnews@gmail.comPrinted by Shashikant Jadhav for Courier PublicationsPvt. Ltd., at Journal Press, Free Press House, Free PressJournal Marg, 215, Nariman Point, Mumbai-400 021and published by him from Janmabhoomi Bhavan,3rd Floor, Janmabhoomi Marg, Fort, Mumbai-400 001.Registered Office at: 98 Mittal Chambers,Nariman Point, Mumbai-400 021.Vol. XXIX No. 89

INSIDE STORYVirendra Kapoor

Congress-DMK tiesas close as ever

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LETTERS

Awareness drive is a mustTHEmonsoonmakes lifemiserable inMumbai and increases the number ofbuilding collapses. The incessantrains loosen the soil, and if the foun-dation of a particular building is notstrong enough then the chances ofthe building collapsing are evenhigher. While the Bhiwandi col-lapse highlighted the issue of sub-standard construction posing adanger to lives, the recent CAG reporthas comedownheavily on the shoddyrepair and reconstruction work car-ried out by MHADA indilapidated buildings inMumbai, en-dangering thousands of lives. TheBhiwandi collapse could have beenavoided had the builders taken reme-dial measures by using good qualityconstruction material and creating astrong foundation. This callous atti-tude is the root cause for all major

construction related mishaps. TheBMC’s method of tackling builders incases of illegal constructions is an up-side down approach to the problem.However, it is time to call a spade aspade and take stringent measureswherever needed, to make thingsmove in the right direction. It is timeto set up a drive to vacate people stay-ing in dilapidated buildings at the be-ginning of the monsoon, to save asmany lives as we can.

—Subbu Jayant, Khargar

SRA is a flawed conceptTHIS is with reference to your coverstory ‘32 packs of cards’. It is hardlysurprising that tenements con-structed under the Slum RelocationAuthority (SRA) scheme keep col-lapsing at regular intervals. None ofthe builders who quotefor these schemes haveany genuine concern forthe slum dwellers theyare meant to house. Their primaryinterest is the extra FSI granted by amagnanimous government and thefree sale flats where they can makeexorbitant profits. The compulsorytenements are regarded as a nui-sance to be disposed of as cheaplyas possible. Invariably they sub-contract the tenements to fly -by-night architects and structural engi-neers and to the least qualified con-

tractors who have almost zero engi-neering knowledge and are littlemore than construction foremen.The only virtue these gentlemenpossess is that they come cheap.Naturally they recover their costs byusing adulterated cement and con-crete and previously used steel rein-forcement bars that they buy asscrap. The authorities who are sup-posed to supervise the constructionare also least bothered, since theyhave made their money whileawarding the contracts.The whole SRA scheme of provid-

ing free or highly subsidised housingto encroachers is a flawed concept.These slum dwellers occupy publicland and footpaths with total immu-nity. Instead of being penalized fortheir illegal act, they are handsomelyrewarded. In effect, the vote bankgrabbing authorities are laying out awelcome mat for outsiders to comeand make hay in an already over-crowded city. Before the bleedinghearts shout themselves hoarse, theyshould know that many of these“poor” sell off their free houses andgo back to erectingmore slums; plusmany slum families possess a refrig-erator, color TV and other gadgets.One could perhaps condone thegovernment if its intention was gen-uinely philanthropic. It is wellknown however, that the SRAscheme is used as yet anothermulch

cow to be milked by public officialsfor illegal gratification.

—Firoze Hirjikaka, Colaba,

Fix leakages in water mains‘BOIL your water’ (ADC, July 5), re-veals the alarming condition of thequality of water supplied by theBMC after the monsoon has set in.As the Hydraulic Engineer men-tioned, this is a regular feature everymonsoonwhere thewater turns tur-bid and is generally yellow incolour. However, this year, the qual-ity seems to have further deterio-rated considering the increase in thecases of gastroenteritis, cholera andother water borne diseases. TheBMCneeds to test water samples as-certain fitness for usage andalso conduct a visual inspection tosee if there is any leakage in thewater supplymains whichmay leadto water contamination. In fact thisshould be done before citizens findthemselves seriously ill. It is easy toadvise people to boil their water andfilter it before use, but many mightnot be able to easily afford this kindof luxury during the entire mon-soon season in view of the BMC’sshortcomings. Today, water filtersand gas are all rather expensive forthose who live from hand tomouth.

—Bikram Banerjea,Mumbai

Bravo, brave menTHE ‘Afternoon…’ deserves to becongratulated for giving the readersa detailed account and report of thetragedy faced by the local inhabi-tants, tourists and pilgrims to theChardham in Uttarakhand and Hi-machal Pradesh.Never before has a rescuemission

of this magnitude been undertakenby the Indian Airforce, Navy andArmy. It speaks volumes of thecourage and bravery of the officerscarrying out the rescue work andsaving as many lives as they couldin inclement weather and roughterrain risking their lives. These offi-cers should be given appropriate re-wards for their selfless sacrifice andgoing beyond their call of duty.While those who have lost theirnear and dear ones would be in astate of mourning and only condo-lences of their relatives and friendswould give them some solace in

their hour of grief, those who havebeen rescued by these brave per-sonnel and reached their homessafely would always owe deep grat-itude to their rescuers. It is alsoshocking to read reports that inspiteof the weather bureau issuing an ad-visory of heavy rain; the Governmentof Uttarakhand took no steps to pre-vent the influx of tourists. It wouldtherefore be in the fitness of thingsand as a mark of respect to the mem-ory of the brave pilot of the helicopterthat crashed, that the recently inau-gurated Eastern Express freeway inMumbai is named after the son of thesoil, the lateWing CommanderDarrylCastelino, putting to rest any contro-versies of it being named after politi-cians whose followers so demand.

—Apurva Parekh,Mumbai

Can they rebuild their lives?UTTARAKHAND’S HimalayanTsunami haswreaked havoc causingamajor loss of life and property. Na-ture delivered its knock out punchto India’smost sacred centre leadingto devastation on a scale rarely seenin Indian history. Over 10,000 werestranded in pockets and clusters onhills without food andwater for sev-eral days, clinging to precious life inthe hope that relief will come andthey will be evacuated to safety. Thetorrential rains and unfriendlyweather also hampered rescue op-erations. It is to the credit of the In-dian Army and Indo-Tibetan BorderPolice that most of the survivorshave been transferred to safer zonesthrough their whole hearted efforts.The holy place wasmade a forsaken‘samshaan’ with dead bodies litteredall over while survivors had a toughtime managing in a rain ravagedplace. Raging waters have swal-lowed their families, homes, liveli-hood and hope of a secure future.What does future hold for them?How they will rebuild their livesamidst devastation and depression.Relief, rescue and rehabilitation aretheir only hope. Several roads havebeen washed away in the cloudburst and entire stretches of landwere made inaccessible. Epidemicsloom large.The nation nowbeckonsits citizens to the call of the hills, torespond generously in the relief andrehabilitation efforts.

—Anandambal Subbu, Kalina

A LOT of hue and cry has been cre-ated by the opposition partiesabout the Congress Party’s food billwhich became an ordinance afterreceiving the President’s nod. I amof the opinion that this bill will notbe a financial burden on the coun-try’s economy and will actuallyhelp to battle malnutrition andhunger in the nation, a promisewhich was made by the Congressin their 2009 poll manifestos. Istrongly feel that the oppositionparties, who are criticizing the foodbill, do not want the poor to pros-per with a minimum supply ofgrain for their daily survival, and infact want to dictate their ownterms and conditions over the poorand helpless farmers.With this or-dinance, 80 crore poor people willdefinitely receive food grain underthe central scheme; somethingwhich has never happened in thehistory of the India. It is the Con-gress-led UPA government whohas always believed in the welfareof the poor and has taken this stepwith out the support of the selfishopposition parties who only seekto further widen the gap betweenthe rich and the poor for their self-ish political gains. The urgent needof the hour is that the food bill or-dinance must be implementedwith immediate effect for theprogress and betterment of thepoor and of the country.

—Bhagwan Thadani,Mumbai

� � �This has reference to your edito-

rial ‘Ordinance:Why theGovt. is ina hurry’ which appeared recently.You have rightly questioned thewisdomof the government in hur-rying up a bill by passing the ordi-nance in haste. A bill of suchimportancewhichwill have a hugeimpact financially should not havebeen pushed through in such ahurry. The government thinks thatby pushing this bill they may beable to influence a vastmajority of

people living on or below thepoverty line, in their favour. TheCongress is doing exactly whatTamil Nadu, Punjab, Haryana andseveral other states are doing, byoffering freebies to voters at thepeople’s expense. In the name ofpublic welfare, such schemes aredesigned to lure voters, which isunfair. The Congress governmentwhich has ruled Indiamost of timeafter independence must sharepart of the blame for the ever in-creasing numbers of people belowthe poverty line, caused by theirflawed policies and their agenda ofpreventing people from being selfsufficient. If after seven decades ofindependence people are stillstarving and need the state’s helpto survive, then there is somethingseriously wrong the model ofgrowth we have adopted. The gov-ernment must work towards mak-ing people self-reliant rather thankeeping themwith a beggar’s bowlin their hands permanently.

—Ashok Goswami

� � �As reported it is indeed very

shocking to note that theUPA gov-ernment is trying to pass an ordi-

nance for a food security bill atbreak-neck speed without pre-senting it in Parliament, whosesession is due hardly 10 days fromnow. This is ironic considering onseveral occasions in the past, theUPA government headed by theCongress party has always claimedthat the Parliament is supremeand that several bills, particularlythe Lok Pal bill should be pre-sented in Parliament first. One rea-son to explain this decision wouldbe the elections which are dueshortly and arewaking the govern-ment up from a deep slumber.This bill is as unnecessary as al-most all the bills of the Congressparty which have ended in com-plete failure. We cannot forget theFarm Waiver Bill which was atotal failure giving way to nakedcorruption and prevented themoney from reaching the rightfulpeople. The SC in fact had directedthe government to distribute thekilos of grain lying in storage,among the poor, a directive whichwas not heeded by the govern-ment. If the SC order was followedthere would probably be no needfor a food security bill.

—S.P. Sharma, Napean Sea Road

LETTER OFTHE DAY

The callous attitude of builders is the rootcause of building collapses in the city.

Food Bill will be another failure

IN every murder case there is al-ways some motive for murder.That is why the police alwaysconsiders this and investigates acase accordingly. In the case ofIshrat Jahan Shaikh, what is themotive for hermurder and that ofthe three other terrorists of theLashkar-e-Toiba? The govern-ment’s parrot CBI and all Ishrat’ssupporters cannot figure this out.If the motive was to kill Muslims,the there are somanyMuslims allover the city.Why to go to a far offplace like Mumbra? This surelymeans that Ishrat was also a ter-rorist, as was revealed by DavidColemanHeadley, the LeT terror-ist and mastermind of the 26/11terrorist attack on Mumbai, whohas been sentenced to 35 years ofrigorous imprisonment by aChicago court.

—K.G.Acharya,Mumbai

� � �WHY should Diggy Raja seek aclarification from the MHA aboutwhether Ishrat Jahan was a terror-ist or not? The CBI has clearly

stated in its affidavit to the courtthat shewas not a terrorist, but herassociateswere. Can theMHA takea stand contradicting the onetaken by the CBI before a desig-nated judicial tribunal? After all,how reliable could DavidHeadley’s statement be aboutIshrat’s alleged links with the LeT?He is also undergoing a trial for hissuspected terrorist connections.

—ArunMalankar, Santa Cruz

What is the motive behind Ishrat’s murder?

Ishrat’s killing, accidental or planned?

Bills, like the one on Food Security, are primarily designed to lure voters.

Wehavemore words than nations - we have a dozenwords for the same thing. This is the beauty of theEnglish language.

English language is global and occupies a special placein academics.Maharashtra state has always been a pioneerin new changes in education and facing new challenges.The English books of Std. 9 and Std. 10 are of A4 size withthe cover page and back page which symbolize the illustra-tions, pictures and photographs of the text.Also, websites and Internet has been used in the lan-

guage.The book is activity-based and therefore contributestowards fun–learning. Learning by doing and construc-tivism in learning have been extensively used. This will def-initely eradicate rote learning and generate learning bythinking, applied learning and pragmatic approach withthe frill of communicative methodology.The multi-coloured book has sprinklers of activities,

which has made the learning of language enjoyable. Thestudents love to take the course book in hand and actuallyread. The integrated and enquiry–approach of grammarhas been well-woven into the fabric of the language.Std. 9 book has all the objectives of the various skills out-

lined. The book is skill-based and has activity approach.The four major skills of language are Reading, Speaking,

Listening andWriting have been explained through the ob-jectives outlined and therefore the learning outcomes areclarified.The selected text is contemporary and authentic. It has

reference to the core components of NPE and has done jus-tice to NCF, SCF, and RTE. Even Environment has beengiven its due importance.The language of Std. 10 book is thematic, ranging from

WIT and Humair (Unit 1), Nature and environment (Unit2), Sports and Adventure (Unit 3), Science and Technology(Unit 4), Food andHealth (Unit 5), Art and Culture (Unit 6),People and Personality ( Unit 7), India and Neighbours(Unit 8) and Rapid Reading with Story, one-act play and anarticle. Truly, the coursebook has a variety, making, inter-esting, reading.In the Std. 9 coursebook, Human Relations, Travel and

Tourism are included. Also themap of each unit has helpedto read the unit carefully,making it very clear about the var-ious skills of communicating and thinking intertwined init.The activities included for learning has raised its bar of

excellence. The course book is excellent as a tool of teach-ing and learning. For the first time every writing task hasbeen explained in terms of ‘HOWTO’which is themost im-portant aspect of writing.TheWriting Tasks range from letter-writing, speech, dia-

logue, report expansion of alia, developing a story, framing10 questions for Interview, fact file, flow charts to recipewriting (process).The vocabulary running through the book engulfs

vocabulary related to science, nature, sports, nutrition,cookery giving a holistic approach to language develop-ment.Let me now throw light on the skills of language devel-

opment and learning.

1)What is reading?It is themental process of understanding awriter’smessage.Reading is for various purposes: Information, Education,Acquiring physical skills, instructions, interests, pleasure orentertainment, taste and refinement.

2)What is listening?It is the ability to pick up the word based on intonation,phonetics, accent, identifying sound and thus understand-ing its meaning in the context.

3)What is writing?It is the skill to express in words, taking care of spellings,punctuation and the purpose of the activity.

4)What is speaking?It is the skill of oral presentation of views, opinions, judg-ments.Now, let us have a look at the question paper.It will be called activity skill. It will look like a leaf from

the course book.

Marks : 80 Time : 3 hrs.ENGLISH (First Language) Std.X

Question Paper Format

Section I: Reading Skill,Vocabulary and GrammarQ.I (A)A. 1 Activity for testing factual understanding (2)Textual PassageA.2 Activity for testing comprehension/question/s (2)

A.3 Activity for testing contextual meaning of words (2)A.4 Activity for testing grammar in context (2)A.5 Personal response/Thinking skill based question (2)

Total: 10marksQ.I (B)B. 1 Activity for testing factual understanding (2)

Textual PassageB.2 Activity tor testing comprehension/question/s (2)B.3 Activity for testing contextual meaning of words (2)B.4 Activity for testing grammar in context (2)B.5 Personal response/Thinking skill based question (2)

Total : 10marksQ.2 (A)A. 1 Activity for testing factual understanding (2)

Non-Textual PassageA.2 Activity for testing comprehension/question/s (2)A.3 Activity for testing contextual meaning of words (2)A.4 Activity for testing grammar in context (2)A.5 Personal response/ Thinking skill based question (2)

Total : 10marks

Q.2(B)B.I Activity for testing factual understanding (2)Non-Textual PassageB.2 Activity for testing comprehension/question/s (2)B.3 Activity for testing contextual meaning of words (2)B.4 Activity for testing grammar in context (2)B.5 Personal response/Thinking skill based question (2)

Total: 10marksSection II: PoetryQ.3 (A)A. 1 Activity for testing factual understanding (2)

Extract from aTextual PoemA.2 Question on understandin Interpretative/Complex fac-

tual/Inference (2)A.3 Activity for testing meaning of a word/s in context.

Poetic Devices (1)Q.3 (B)B. 1 Activity for testing factual understanding (2)

Extract from aTextual PoemB.2 Question on understanding, Interpretative/Complex

factual/Inference (2)B3. Activity for testing meaning of a word/s in

context/Poetic devices (1)

Total: 05Marks

Section III: Rapid ReadingQ.4A. 1 Activity for testing factual understanding (1)Extract from Rapid Reading SectionA.2 Comprehension activity (2)A.3 Question testing personal response/thinking skill (2)

Total: 05marks

Section IV :Writing SkillQ.5 (A) Letter writingA.I Infonnal OR A.2 Formal = 4Writing+ 1 Grammar

Q.5 (B)B.I Report writingORB.2 Dialogue writing = 4Writing + 1 GrammarQ6 (A)A.I InformationTransfer (Non-verbal toVerbal)/(Verbal to

non verbal)/Process/Diary/Interview/FactfileQ.6 = 4Writing + 1 GrammarB.I Speech = 4Writing + 1 GrammarORB.2 View and Counter-viewQ.7 Expansion of ideas/Developing a story = 4Writing 4

+ 1 GrammarTotal : 25 Marks

Grand Total : 80 Marks

The QP is activity based, based on situations, relevant tolife. The activity has to be real, not imaginative, it has to berelevant to life and yet nurtures HOTS - Higher OrderThinking Skills.Guidelines will be given as facilitation to set the thought

process rolling. The studentwill be encouraged touse the vo-cabulary fromthe text andbeyondsoas to feel free to express.Effective reading will have weightage, thus inculcating

reading habits. Also, the ability to read between the lines isencouraged with view and counter view.All in all the course book and the paper pattern will en-

courage the learner to read, think, express with personalchoice of vocabulary. Also, these activities which are not forevaluation but for learning and familiarity e.g. Book Re-views, FilmReviews. This will sharpen the analytical think-ing of students and encourage appreciation andconstructive criticism. Thus positive approach will be in-culcated.On the whole, a through study of the English books

9,10,11,12 Stds. will definitely prepare them for all compet-itive exams, especially Verbal Reasoning, Data Interpreta-tion, and of course, opinions of facts and expressions ofviews. That’s language!Well, English language has undergone a transformation

globally. In Maharashtra we have also brought out a ‘dy-namic’, radical change with great effort and challenge. I’msure, the changewill bewell- accepted, the bookwill bewell-received’ and the paper pattern will be taken with a smile!The book is student friendly, learner centric and thereforeEnglish is a no-fear, but only ‘comfort- zone’ subject!Hoping English will be accepted as the most important

and relevant subject in today’s time, because nothing ispossible without language and communication!Language is a foundation of all Science, Research, Tech-

nology, Culture, Communication and Commerce!

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pg14 The Curse Of Rising Food Pricespg16 Helper To Entrepreneur

“While there is nodenying the factthat right to foodand attaining prop-

er nutrition should be the basic pro-vision for every citizen in the country,but the recent announcementseems a little premature and thatthe country is not yet full prepared toroll out such a program”, says Dr. A.Didar Singh, Secretary General,FICCI.FICCI feels that the actual execu-

tion of the scheme would be marredby challenges besides ofcourse,questioning the fiscal sustainabilityof the Bill. The Bill is expected tocost the exchequer about Rs 1, 25,000 crore annually. The budgetedamount for the food subsidy this fis-cal year is Rs 90,000 crore and anadditional Rs 10,000 crore havebeen budgeted for Bill this year.However, going ahead the fiscal costis expected to rise substantially.“One of the biggest issues that

come to fore is the access and it isquite surprising that the governmentis willing to fall on the old PublicDistribution System to allocate foodgrains under the Bill. The PDS hasnot been streamlined over the yearsand remains plagued with inefficien-cies. In fact a survey conducted byCAG in 2007 on the effectiveness ofthe Centre's Public DistributionSystem revealed that 40 % of benefi-ciaries were kept away from thescheme by denying them rationcards and 99 % of those who availedthe benefits reported they had notreceived food grains regularly”,added Dr. Singh.The Indian Merchants Chamber

also is not enthused. Says IMC

President, Shailesh Vaidya, “the IMCextends a cautious welcome to theproposed decision Union Cabinet’sto move one step forward to imple-ment the important Food SecurityBill, which is projected to benefitalmost two-thirds of the country’spopulation. However, we need tokeenly watch as to how the execu-tion of the same will occur. There isno doubt that when implementedfully, this momentous Bill will affectgrain production, procurement, dis-tribution logistics and the nation’s

subsidy burden. Its implication oneach of these four key areas needsto be carefully examined. The bal-looning subsidy, in particular, couldimpact the already precarious fiscaldeficit and display its adverse reper-cussions on the nation’s inflationaryscenario. While the intent behindthis Bill is good, all its economicrepercussions need to be clearlyunderstood at the outset.”This and similar sentiments are

being echoed, not by politicians, butby various industry associations andcorporate leaders. Clearly, most ofthem believe that the timing is sus-pect and no cognizance has beentaken of the actual impact it canhave on India’s economy.Says Nomura economist Sonal

Varma "While this bill is justifiable onwelfare grounds, the macroeconomicimplications of the bill are quite sig-nificant …India's current macroeco-nomic position does not provide thespace to implement this policy. Theglobal brokerage firm feels that thebill would not have a substantialimpact in the current financial year(FY13-14) as it is likely to be imple-mented in phases and three monthsof the fiscal year have alreadypassed. "However, the medium-term consequences of the bill couldbe far reaching and will be clearfrom FY15 onwards," Nomura said.Nomura estimates the bill would

raise the government's food subsidyburden to an estimated 1.0-1.2 percent of GDP per annum from 0.8 percent currently. There would also beadditional expenses on creating theinfrastructure needed to implement

FOOD SECURITY BILL

GOOD INTENTIONS,After being deferred incessantly, the ordinance to implement the food security bill comes ata time when India is trying hard to get back on the path of fiscal consolidation. Thegovernment plans to spend Rs 1,25,000 crore every year to supply 62 million tonnes of rice,wheat and coarse cereals through the public distribution system. However, some economistsbelieve that it could cross around rupees two lakh crores per year and may end up becominga major burden on the nation’s economy. Deepak Sahijwala reports…

BAD ECONOMICS“The country is not yetfully prepared to rollout such a program”

—Dr. A. DidarSingh, SecretaryGeneral, FICCI

“India's currentmacroeconomicposition does notprovide the space toimplement thispolicy.”

—Sonal Varma,Economist, Nomura

The ballooning subsidy,in particular, couldimpact the alreadyprecarious fiscal deficitand display its adverserepercussions on thenation’s inflationaryscenario.—Shailesh Vaidya,

IMC President

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THE NATIONALFOOD SECURITY

BILL, 2011A Bill to provide for food andnutritional security in humanlife cycle approach, byensuring access to adequatequantity of quality food ataffordable prices to people tolive a life with dignity and formatters connected therewithor incidental thereto.

PROVISIONS� Right to receive foodgrains

at subsidised prices bypersons belonging topriority households andgeneral households underTargeted PublicDistribution System.

� Nutritional support topregnant women andlactating mothers.

� Nutritional support tochildren.

� Prevention andmanagement of childmalnutrition.

� Implementation ofschemes for realisation ofentitlements.

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the food security bill.In case of a deficient monsoon, the country

may need to import grains, which could sendglobal food grain prices higher. As the govern-ment would procure a substantial part of thedomestic food grain production, there would bea scarcity for the private sector, which in turnwould push prices higher. Consumptiondemand for other items would rise as a loweramount of disposable income would need tobe spent on grains. "Therefore, the overall fis-

cal and inflationary consequences of the FoodSecurity Bill are large," Nomura said.Then there are Implementation challenges.

“Although the food security bill entitles 67 percent of India's households to subsidised foodgrains, it does not throw much light on howthese households will be identified,” says CrisilResearch. It believes that the welfare benefitsintended in the FSB can only be realised if allpoor households are correctly identified andreceive access to subsidised food.Responding to this the government has

said “The Bill as introduced in the Lok Sabhain December, 2011 provided that guidelines

for identification will be prescribed by theCentral Government. State Governments dur-ing interaction with them expressed the viewthat they should have a greater role in deter-mining the criteria for identification of house-holds. The Standing Committee also recom-mended that Government should deviseclearly defined criteria in consultation withthe State Governments. These opinions andrecommendations have been carefully con-sidered. Keeping in view the wide inter-Statevariations in the socio-economic conditions,it was felt that any criteria evolved by theCentral Government for the country as awhole may not properly reflect these diversi-ties, and therefore invite criticism. It wasalso difficult to evolve a consensus withState Government over the issue of criteria tobe adopted. Therefore the work of identifica-tion is now proposed to be left to States,which may develop their own criteria.”Then there are other issues. States have

been complaining about additional financialburden that the legislation on food securityimposes on them. The question is: How will theCentral Government bring States on board as itis the States who have to implement theOrdinance?In its reply the government states that

“These concerns were based on provisions ofthe original Bill, which was introduced in LokSabha in December, 2011. However, keepinginto consideration the recommendations of theStanding Committee and views of the StateGovernments, the Ordinance now provides thatCentral Government will provide assistance toStates in meeting the expenditure incurred bythem on transportation of food grains withinthe State, its handling and FPS dealers’ margin

as per norms to be devised for this purpose. “Incidentally, the bill has come under praise

at the international level and from non otherthan the United Nations organisation. SaysOlivier De Schutter, United Nations SpecialRapporteur, "It (the food law) has global signifi-cance…I believe it is an important movementfor the right to food in India. It can inspiremany countries to do the same thing.""What this bill will do is it will protect as a

legal right what otherwise are benefits givenaway as charity by the government. I think it is

of great and symbolic significance," he toldreporters after meeting the Food Minister K VThomas in New Delhi on Friday.Asked if food inflation would escalate with

the procurement of grains by the government,he said, "The debate that the food law will havea huge cost must be put in the right perspec-tive. The law has a fiscal cost and it also has acost for consumers because taxpayers arefinancing this programme." Schutter is prepar-ing a report on world food security and is inIndia to study the country's food law.

It (the food law) has globalsignificance…I believe it is animportant movement for theright to food in India. It caninspire many countries to do thesame thing."

—Olivier De Schutter,United Nations Special Rapporteur

“Although the Food Security Billentitles 67% of India'shouseholds to subsidised foodgrains, it does not throw muchlight on how these householdswill be identified.”

—Crisil Research

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Good Intentions, Bad Economics

By Dominic Rebello

“It is an exciting time for Brother in theAPAC region as we continue to remainmotivated and pursue the growth opportu-

nities available here, says Atsushi Iwamoto,General Manager, Brother Industries, Ltd.He was speaking about Brother International’s

India, growth plans for the Indian market. Thecompany, a global player in the development,manufacturing and marketing of printing, com-munication and digital imaging technologies forHome, SOHO and Enterprise, has announced itsintention to further expand Brother’s penetrationin the Indian market and establish deeper con-nect with the Indian consumers.The company in this context has announced

the addition of 3 new Mono Laser products to itsexisting wide portfolio of Mono Laser, Colour andInkjet multifunction centers and printers. Thisnew range of 2 MFCs (Multifunction Centers) and1 Single Function Laser printer boasts of beinghighly reliable, affordable and efficient for home,SOHO and enterprise. These new models arespecifically targeted at Emerging Countries. Thecompany aims to achieve over 15% market sharein the Mono Laser category by 2015.With our “Customer First” approach, we aim to

deliver superior value by providing high quality

and feature rich products to make a meaningfuldifference in our customer’s lives and set indus-try benchmark. Additionally, with the launch ofthese new products, we re-iterate our focus tothe Indian market and ensure we continue toaccelerate growth in the region.” AtsushiIwamoto added.Yoshiji Matsui, Managing Director, held a simi-

lar view and said, “This is a very significantlaunch for Brother in India and is a resultant ofconstant innovation in developing and improvingon technologies for the needs of each market.We have always had an encouraging and enrich-ing experience with customers in India and ournew range of products are examples of evolvedengineering that meets unique demands ofIndian customer.”Alok Nigam, General Manager – Sales,

Marketing & Service, Brother International IndiaPvt. Ltd., commented, “Brother InternationalIndia is committed to introduce products thatcater to the needs of Indian consumers. Ourstrategic alliances, partner recognition and edu-cation programs help us achieve objectives ofoutreach towards masses and enterprises. As astep towards rewarding high performance, wewould continue to support our partners withevolved technological products that offer anenriching experience.”

As the printing, communication and digitalimaging technologies business grows..

Brother InternationalSees India As A Big Market By A Business Reporter

The steep rise in prices of fruits and veg-etables have forced over 55 per cent ofmiddle and low income groups to switchover to pre-cooked and ready-to-eat fooditems to keep the kitchen budget intact,says a survey by industry body Assocham.Over 88 per cent of middle income group

and lower income group find difficult tomanage the household budget and aresqueezing families’ finances to the lowestlevel due to uncertainty of rains, said thecountry-wide survey conducted under theaegis of Assocham Social DevelopmentFoundation covering over 5,000 people.During the last three years, the salary of the

average common man has gone up by 10-15per cent, but on the other side the prices of

vegetables have also gone up by 250-300 percent, it added. The survey was conducted inDelhi-NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai,Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Pune, Chandigarh,Dehradun, Bengaluru and other places.The maximum impact was felt in major

cities like Delhi (first), Mumbai (second),Ahmedabad (third), Kolkata (fourth),Chennai (fifth), Hyderabad (sixth) and Pune(seventh). Around 82 per cent of lower mid-dle class families have been forced to skipor squeezed their budgets for vegetables.The prices of most of the widely con-

sumed vegetables have shot up during thelast two weeks in most parts of the countrywith the early onset of monsoon rains, seri-ously hitting the common man mainly in themetro cities, D S Rawat, Secretary General,Assocham said releasing the survey.The survey said 86 per cent of therespondents said that rising food priceshave made their life even tougher.According to the survey, 75 per cent ofhousehold’s women saidthe soaring prices of fruits and vegeta-

bles have put their household budget in astate of disarray.Eighty-seven per cent of respondents

said they forget the season’s exotic fruitsand vegetables, even the common potato,tomato and onion are now beyond the mid-dle class family reach.

The Curse Of Rising Food PricesForces People To Switch Over To Pre-Cooked Foods

Last week, as expected Spot Rupee depreci-ated and traded over 61.00 levels takingcues from dollar demand from importers

and strong dollar. The Reserve Bank of Indiaintervened this week and was selling dollarsthrough state banks. The Rupee traded aboveall time low and closed at an all time low of60.24. The Rupee has weakened for the 9thconsecutive week and has depreciated above13.50% during these nine weeks. Looking at

the current scenario the Rupee is expected togo down further as the oil prices are going upwhich will widen the current account deficitresulting in the rupee to trade weak. SpotRupee is expected to trade above 62 levels inthe coming days, the range for the same isexpected to be within 59.80 to 60.80.It is recommended to be cautious and Buy

USD/INR Futures on dips with the appropriatestop loss as the Rupee at this stage is expect-ed to depreciate more against dollar. PivotPoint for the Pair is at 60.20.Both the Bank of England (BoE) and

European Central Bank (ECB) kept benchmarkrates unchanged last week with all the easygoing statements setting the stage for the dol-lar to trade strong across the board, also theJune’s non-farm payrolls rose by an impressive195k, surpassing market expectations of 165k.U.S. treasuries sold-off following the release,as the 10-year rose by 20 basis points and arecurrently at 2.7%.U.S. markets were closed on Thursday that

shifted the attention to overseas, as both theBank of England (BoE) and European Central

Bank (ECB) made interest rate announce-ments. As expected, both central banks keptrates unchanged, but each announcementcame with its own twist. Under the guidance ofnewly appointed governor, Mark Carney, theBoE broke from tradition and released a fullstatement accompanying its decision to leavethe benchmark rate unchanged. Shortly there-

after, the ECB surprised everyone by introduc-ing a dovish forward guidance statement,pledging “interest rates will remain at presentor lower levels for an extended period of time”.Equity markets rallied on both central banks’vow to hold rates at record lows for longer, asthe FTSE 100 and DAX ended the day up 3.1%and 2.1%, respectively.WTI crude oil prices jumped 5% in just two

days, surpassing the US$100 per barrel markfor the first time since May 2012. The increasewas driven by geopolitical tensions in Egypt aswell as a much larger-than-expected draw inU.S. storage levels (although inventoriesremain ample). The latter, combined with signsthat more domestic sources of oil are makingtheir way to coastal refineries, has resulted inan outperformance of WTI over Brent. As such,the spread between these two benchmarkshas narrowed to less than US$5 per barrel forthe first time since January 2011. To recall,after two decades of trading within roughlyUS$1-2 per barrel of each other, the spreadaveraged US$16-17 per barrel in 2011 and2012.

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Indian mutual funds’ average assets undermanagement (AUM) rose to a new high of Rs8.47 trillion in the April-June 2013 quarter, upby 3.68% or Rs 300 billion from Rs 8.17 trillionin the previous quarter (excluding fund offunds) as per the latest numbers released bythe Association of Mutual Funds in India(AMFI). It marks the industry’s fifth successivequarterly AUM gain. The rise was led by heavyinflows into debt mutual funds on the back ofinterest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India(RBI).Assets of long-term debt and gilt funds rose

in the June quarter due to continued inflowsinto the category with investors expecting theinterest rate scenario to ease in the comingmonths. AUM of long-term debt funds havenow risen for the past eight consecutive quar-ters. The category’s average AUM rose by Rs265 billion (or 31%) during the quarter - thehighest absolute gain for the category sinceAMFI started declaring average AUM data inSeptember 2010 – to Rs 1.12 trillion; this isthe first time that the category has crossed theRs 1 trillion mark. Gilt funds too rose for thethird straight quarter with assets rising by Rs 8billion (or 10%) to Rs 86 billion in the quarter.The RBI has cut its key interest rate (repo rate)thrice in the current calendar year (25 basis

points each time) till May 2013. According toCrisil Research “As bond prices and yieldsmove in opposite directions, bond prices riseas interest rates fall and positively impact giltand long-term debt fund NAVs (returns).” Thecategories of long-term debt and gilt funds rep-resented by the respective CRISIL Fund Rankedcategories as of March 2013 have returned12% and 13% respectively over the past yearended June 2013.Short maturity debt funds (short-term debt

and ultra short term debt funds) saw a rise intheir assets due to improvement in the bankingsystem’s liquidity in the first quarter of the newfiscal. Volatility in other primary asset classessuch as equity and gold also acted as a posi-tive for inflows in to these categories. Short-term debt funds rose by Rs 115 billion (com-pared with Rs 22 billion rise in the previousquarter) to Rs 728 billion in the June quarterwhile the ultra short term category’s averageAUM gained by Rs 56 billion (compared withfall of Rs 131 billion in the previous quarter) toRs 1.05 trillion in the latest quarter.Equity mutual funds’ average AUM fell for

the sixth quarter in a row by around 5% or Rs100 billion in the June quarter to Rs 1.99 tril-lion led by heavy outflows despite mark to mar-ket gains seen during the quarter. The underly-ing market, represented by the CNX Nifty, roseby 3% during the quarter on hopes of monetary

easing and the subsequent repo rate cut by 25bps in May 2013 by the RBI; internationally,positive economic cues from US also helpeddomestic equities.

Average AUM of gold exchange traded funds(ETFs) witnessed a record fall (down Rs 13 billionor 11%) to Rs 106 billion in the June quarter dueto outflows as well as mark to market losses.Investors withdrew their investments from thecategory in recent months amid a weak trend inunderlying asset prices. Local gold prices, repre-sented by the CRISIL Gold Index, fell by 15% inthe June quarter. Gold prices fell in the quarteron worries of supply glut, a sharp rise in the dol-lar internationally, and weak domestic demand.Measures by the Indian government and the RBIto reduce gold import in the country in their bidto reduce the current account deficit (CAD) alsodampened sentiments for gold prices.

MF UPDATESUTI MF announces appointment of MDUTI MF announced the appointment of Mr. LeoPuri as Managing Director of UTI AMC Ltd. Mr.Puri, 52, is a dual Masters degree holder fromOxford and Cambridge University, UK. In hisprofessional career, spanning more than 30years, Mr. Puri has worked as Director andSenior Advisor with McKinsey & Company andas Managing Director with Warburg Pincus.

JP Morgan MF revises exit loadJP Morgan MF has revised the exit load struc-ture under JPMorgan India Short Term IncomeFund and JP Morgan India Active Bond Fund.Accordingly, a load of 0.75% will be chargedfor JPMorgan India Short Term Income Fund ifthe units are redeemed within 3 months fromthe allotment date. For JP Morgan India ActiveBond Fund, a load of 1% would be charged ifunits are redeemed within 12 months fromthe allotment date. The revised exit loadstructure will be effective from July 2.

Daiwa MF appoints new CEODaiwa MF has announced that following resig-nation of Mr. Sethuram Iyer as Director andChief Executive Officer of the fund house. Mr.Takashi Yamaguchi has been appointed asthe Chief Executive Officer, with effect fromJuly 1.

BOI AXA MF announces change in fundmanager under its schemesBOI AXA MF has announced that Mr. GauravKapur ceases to be the fund manager to bethe key personnel with effect from June 28.Accordingly, Mr. Saurabh Kataria has beendesignated as Fund manager of BOI AXAEquity Fund, BOI AXA Tax Advantage Fund andBOI AXA Focused Infrastructure Fund witheffect from June 29.

Debt Funds AUM Crosses Rs 1 Trillion Mark

Rupee Expected To Trade Above 62

Customers like to buy from people whoare pleasant and who have a physicalappearance, which is pleasant and

likable. By physical appearance, I do notmean that you have to be a Julia Roberts ora Hrithik Roshan. Infact, if you are goodlooking that is an advantage, but it doesnot give you an edge because more impor-tant than “good looking” is that you have tobe “well meaning” and “good doing” andjust not “good looking”. After all handsomeis what handsome does and beautiful iswhat beautiful does.Thus a clean neat physical appearance,

with positive etiquette and good mannersis what is desired. By research it has beenshown that people with good etiquette andphysical appearance earn about 40% morethan others in sales, this means that theysell more, which means that consumersbuy more from them which means con-sumers like to buy more from them.In today’s world, with extremely high

competition and very high mortality rate ofbrands it is important to be presentable notonly in your looks but also in your thoughts,words and actions.In sales, many a time, the sales profes-

sional feels that his aggression or a lowerprice is what gets him the conversion.

Hence, he does not pay attention tohis own physical appearance or eti-quette, which could be disastrousand affect his career. This in turncould reduce his self-esteem andsense of self worth which in a spi-raling effect could bring down hisconfidence and further bringdown his sales.The important elements to

be considered for a positivephysical appearance aresimple and inexpensive.� A clean set of clothes� A smart set of footwear� Well groomed hair and nails� Fresh breath and pleasantbody odour

� A pen that works to take downorders

Further, the important ele-ments in the area of etiquetteare� Good manners� A pleasant tone of voice� Humility� Special consideration for ladies, chil-dren and senior citizens

� Abundant use of the magic words –Please, Sorry, Thank You.Though it may seem unimportant, the

significance of physical appearance andetiquette cannot be underestimated. Westrongly recommend that of all elements inmarketing and sales, the element of goodphysical appearance and positive etiquettedefinitely does help in increasing salesand satisfying customers.

Copyright © 2013, All rights reserved.Jagdeep Kapoor can be contacted at

jk@samsika.com

Through the Corporate Lens(Conversations with Ganesh Natarajan)is unlike the many efforts that pepper

the lists of books in the Business,Management and Leadership categories.It is about one individual who deserves

wholesome praise and more for having posi-tively impacted the careers, and thereforelives, of thousands in corporate India,through his successful business enterprises,and through his interactions with workersand colleagues at various seminars andworkshops at the national and internationallevels.Success was never handed over to

Natarajan on a platter; it was hard foughtand hard won. And touchingly, this is noType ‘A’ aggressive personality we aredescribing, but one who has had the mosthumble of middle-class origins in the coun-try. This in itself should serve to give mostreaders of this excellent book the assurancethat integrity and dedication are definitelythe paths to the top of a career, and also inlife.Natarajan’s family hails from a small vil-

lage in Tamil Nadu’s Nagercoil district, andhis father had to shoulder responsibilities ofa family of thirteen siblings - three brothersand nine sisters - from very early on in life,after his grandfather passed away.

Perhaps, watching his father’s competenthandling of this genealogy, and his leadingand managing the factory of (car polishgiant) Waxpol in Ranchi, where he also tookcenter-stage in the cultural and social lifethere, laid the rock-solid foundation in theyoung Natarajan, and rendered him capableof starting from scratch and progressingwith all humility.Being interested in manufacturing and

production-related subjects, he found hiscalling in Mechanical Engineering, fromwhere he joined Tata Motors, and then pur-sued a Masters in Industrial Engineering atNITIE in the sylvan surroundings ofMumbai’s Vihar Lake. The next job atCrompton Greaves gave him his wonderfulwife, Uma, and led to some great learningand job opportunities.After a great stint at APTECH, which grew

from a Rs.4 crore loss-making outfit to aRs.500 crore enterprise, with 1,200 centres in30 countries, Natarajan found himself in thesoftware exports business when he took over

the reins of Pune-based Zensar inMarch 2001.

From then on ithas been a glori-ous journey forhim and the thou-

sands of young people from India andacross the world who have interacted withhim in the workplace.The hallmark is Natarajan subscribing to

the Five ‘F’ culture - Fast, Focused, Flexible,Friendly and Fun. This book charts a suc-cess story which readers will believe is veryachievable.

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ROBINSHUKLAis a seniorjournalist andwriter

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Is Gold AFading Asset Class?Last Monday gold prices at the LME dipped

below the psychological 1200 dollars/ouncemark to 1192 dollars/ounce. Commodity

experts predict that Gold would eventually dipto1100 dollars/ounce pretty quickly. This roughlytranslates to Rs. 22,000 to Rs. 23,000 per 10gm onMCX. Gold is likely to remain volatile like other assetclasses including currency,equities and bonds.There is always atime lag betweenLME prices andIndian prices, rang-ing from 3 days to aweek.The government believes that Indians should not

be buying gold due to the huge CAD plaguing oureconomy. As a result many restrictions have beenplaced by RBI, which has banned banks from sellinggold coins and bars. The Government of India hasalso restricted large importing agencies to only buygold for jewellery, which is exported back.But one should not buy excessive gold jewellery

during weddings. Instead parents should help thecouple by diverting some money from gold to helpthe newly-wed couple in buying a home. But certain-ly for individual small investors at least 10% of theirallocation should be to buy gold in small quantities -1 to 2gm in coins with a 3 year horizon. Save yourmoney and buy on dips in today’s volatile market.These coins will always be available with reputedgold jewelers who have instant displays of goldprices.It is the easiest and most liquid form of invest-

ment. It is useful in emergencies and when one hasa sufficient amount one can convert it into a smallproperty, either residential or commercial, along witha bank loan, which will also appreciate in 3 to 5years. This advice is particularly for lower middleincome groups.Coming to the Immigration Bill passed in the US

Senate, which is definitely likely to hurt Indian ITCompanies, it is important to remember that it willonly become law when the US Congress approves it,which is a much larger body with Republicans hav-ing a majority. They are busy drafting their ownamendments so that US companies don’t lose outand Indian IT majors, who are lobbying with them,are hopeful that it will be less harmful than the cur-rent bill passed by the Senate.Whatever be the case, nearer to the time the bill

is being introduced in the US parliament, IT majorsTCS, Infosys, HCL Tech and others are expected tofall. That is a good time to pick up these stocksbecause they are sitting on huge cash piles andthey will slowly and gradually manage to pass onthe cost to their US clients and still remain com-petitive, vis-à-vis US software companies like IBMand others. This will also be set off by growth inUS GDP which is expected to pick up steam in H2calendar 13. The rupee might also depreciate fur-ther which will increase the ability of IT & ITEScompanies to stabilize their rupee profits, despitethe higher costs of employing more locals. Timewill tell, but in the long run one should not worrytoo much.

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By Khushboo Panjabi

Sudheer Nair CEO Eresource Infotech Pvt. Ltd. startedhis journey as a helper and turned out to become asuccessful businessman without having any busi-

ness background. In 2006, he established EresourceInfotech Pvt. Ltd. Nair was supported by Vivek Jingade instarting this firm.“It is the journey that matters, not the destination, a les-

son I have learned from my own experience,” is his philos-ophy.Born in a middle class family with no business back-

ground, while doing many odd jobs, he landed workingwith a computer consultant; typing software programs andsoftware codes independently for his company. Thereafter,understanding the user’s requirement, designing therequirements, creating tables and databases, coding,compiling the codes, testing application, training andimplementation was his routine job. During this process,he developed a bunch of software applications, includingaccounting package called “Quick Accounts” and someothers. His second job was with the Afternoon Despatch &Courier, an evening daily in Mumbai in. The company hadall manual working systems. Over the years, he managedto automate most of the systems from advertisementscheduling to Circulation and billing. Accounting was alsointegrated with his billing module.Nair later joined Lloyds Finance Ltd, a public listed com-

pany where he had developed a completely integrated sys-tem on Oracle. Planet Optical Disc FZCO in Dubai was hislast job. His job profile included looking after the overallimplementation of ERP. Working on Enterprise solution,you learn a lot. “And, I did”, says Nair.Wanting to do things on his own, forced him to quit the

job and return to India. In that period, the ERP conceptwas finding its ground in India and he thought of divertinghis drive on that path. With the little money that he couldsave from his Dubai stint, Nair started Eresource Infotech,a software firm that developed ERP software for mid SizedCompanies.Eresource Products focused on Enterprise Resource

Planning (ERP), with a Web-based solution. His basicfocus was specific products across three different models:On-the-Premises, On-the-Cloud and the Saas Model. AllIndustry Specific ERP offered by Eresource is available outof the box for our customers. Eresource addresses theunique core processes of number of Industries.

Today his ERP system serves Manufacturing, thePrinting & Packing Process Industry, Project Industry andTrading & Distribution “A lot of operational managementwhich we do wherein, we help the customers know wherethey are going wrong. We help the customers know thereturn on investment after the implementation. We haveimplemented projects in Jammu, all over the North andSouth. We also have customers in the Middle East andEurope and it’s all because of the value added services,our success is 98%”, says Nair.ERP training is also given to different students and cus-

tomers on different verticals because of demand and sup-ply. 20million manufacturing units in India producing ofabout 40million different products out of which 7% isusing enterprise software.Vivek Jingade is the person who has helped Nair to

start his venture “It’s been 10 years that he is with menow and he holds a loyalty bonus of 15% stake in thecompany”, says Nair.And he has received many applauds too. Eresource

Infotech is the only ERP organization in India, which hasbeen awarded the Udyog Rattan Award along withBusiness Excellence Award for the year 2008. It was fol-lowed by the Business Leadership Award conferred byInstitute of Industrial Development, New Delhi.Says Nair, “SE3B is the rating and awards are true

recognitions and we understand its value and are reallyhappy to receive them. Apart from these awards whatmakes us more confident and inspirational is the feed-back we get from our customers. Therefore awards makeus more responsible towards our customers and commit-ment towards the product’s success”.As regards the future he says “it lies in the hands of

hand held devices enterprise. On this front, Eresource islaunching a new EXV2 solution that is Express version2which is going to be an enterprise solution which willschedule to get launched in the month of October thisyear.This device will be available on mobile phones wherein,

customers can download the application and carry out theactivity of mobile computing in order to access informa-tion of what is happening back office from anywhere, andany point of time.When asked for his final words, “We believe in respect,

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The Dun & Bradstreet CompositeBusiness Optimism Index stands at a17-quarter low of 130.6 during Q3

2013, a decrease of 7.8% as compared toQ2 2013, and a decline of 4.0% as com-pared to Q3 2012. Based on the responsesreceived, it was observed that each of thesix optimism indices – namely, Volume ofSales, New Orders, Selling Prices, NetProfits, Inventory Levels and Employeeshave registered a decrease as compared toQ2 2013.“Corporate confidence continues to wilt

as the Indian economy remains saddledwith several macro-economic challengessuch as slowing industrial growth, elevatedinterest rates, weak FII inflows in June’13and higher current account deficit. The pro-longed economic uncertainty has been fur-ther compounded by the rupee’s sharp slidein recent period. The D&B CompositeBusiness Optimism Index for Q3 2013 stoodat a 17-quarter low of 130.6, recording adecrease of 4% (y-o-y). Much of the declinestemmed from the steep fall in optimismwith regard to selling prices. Weak demandconditions are deterring firms from raising

prices even as input costs remain high”,said Kaushal Sampat, President & CEO, Dun& Bradstreet – India. “Going forward, thereis an urgent need to rejuvenate the confi-dence of domestic and foreign investors.While the government has again started ini-tiating reform measures, a strong andurgent push from the Government towardsresolving supply side issues and projectimplementation bottlenecks will send outthe right signals and pull the economy out ofits current slump.” he added.While majority of the respondents expect

volume of sales to increase (72%) in Q32013, cautiousness persists, with the result-ant Optimism for Volume of Sales (63%) reg-istering a decline of 5 percentage points ascompared to Q2 2013, and also standing ata 4 quarter low. However, on a y-o-y basisthe resultant Optimism for Volume of Saleshas registered 12 percentage pointsincrease.

Profit expectations of companies remainsubdued for Q3 2013. Around 66% of therespondents expect an increase in their netprofits during Q3 2013. While 27% of therespondents are anticipating a fall in theirnet profits, 7% expect no change in net prof-its during Q3 2013. The resultant Optimism

for Net Profits stands at a 4 quarter low of59% - a decrease of 2 percentage pointscompared to Q2 2013, but 9 percentagepoints higher compared to Q3 2012.Around 33% of the respondents expect

the selling price of their products to increaseduring Q3 2013. While around 9% of therespondents anticipate the selling prices todecline, 58% of the respondents expect no

change in selling prices. The resultantOptimism for Selling Prices stands at a 14quarter low of 24% - a decrease of 16 per-centage points when compared to Q3 2012and a decrease of 6 percentage pointswhen compared to Q2 2013.Around 70% of the respondents expect

their order book position to improve duringQ3 2013. While 24% of the respondents

anticipate no change in the new ordersreceived, the remaining 6% of the respon-dents expect new orders to decline. Theresultant Optimism for New Orders stands at64% – a decrease of 2 percentage pointswhen compared to Q2 2013 and anincrease of 1 percentage point when com-pared to Q3 2012.About 39% of the respondents expect the

level of stock to increase during Q3 2013.While 50% of the respondents expect thelevel of inventory to remain unchanged, theremaining 11% expect the level of stock todecline. The resultant Optimism forInventory Level stands at 28% – an increaseof 5 percentage points when compared toQ3 2012, but a decrease of 8 percentagepoints when compared to Q2 2013.More than half of the respondents (57%)

anticipate no change in the size of theirworkforce employed during Q3 2013.Around 38% of the respondents anticipatethe size of their workforce to increase, whileabout 5% anticipate the number of employ-ees to reduce. The resultant Optimism forEmployees stands at 33%, a decrease of 5percentage points when compared to Q22013 and a decrease of 2 percentagepoints when compared to Q3 2012.

« PROFILESUDHEER NAIR

Business Optimism Index Touches 17-Quarter LowHighlights� Composite Business Optimism Index stands

at130.6 during Q3 2013, a decrease of 7.8%as compared to Q2 2013

� Composite Business Optimism Index declinedby 4.0% as compared to Q3 2012

� Resultant Optimism for Volume of Salesstands at 63% - a decrease of 5 percentagepoints as compared to Q2 2013

� Resultant Optimism for Net Profits stands at59% - a decrease of 2 percentage points ascompared to Q2 2013

� Resultant Optimism for New Orders stands at64% - a decrease of 2 percentage points ascompared to Q2 2013

� Resultant Optimism for Selling Prices standsat 24% - a decrease of 6 percentage points ascompared to Q2 2013.

Resultant Optimism for Volume of Sales,New Orders & Net Profit lowest in four quarters

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« SPOTLIGHT

F&O SCRIPS WEEKLY SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE LEVELS FOR JULY 8-12, 2013

ABIRLANUVO 1052 1063 1133 1204 992 921ACC 1243 1232 1265 1297 1200 1167ADANIENT 205 209 221 233 196 184ADANIPORTS 149 150 154 157 147 143ADANIPOWER 40 41 45 48 38 34ALBK 89 91 97 104 85 78AMBUJACEM 190 189 192 194 187 184ANDHRABANK 80 79 82 85 76 73APOLLOTYRE 61 61 62 64 59 58ARVIND 73 75 80 86 69 63ASHOKLEY 19 19 21 22 17 16ASIANPAINT 4677 4658 4810 4962 4506 4354AUROPHARMA 189 188 192 195 184 180AXISBANK 1291 1293 1371 1449 1214 1136BAJAJ-AUTO 1881 1873 1898 1923 1848 1823BANKBARODA 560 567 614 660 520 473BANKINDIA 226 230 252 274 208 186BANKNIFTY 11480 11527 11904 12281 11150 10773BATAINDIA 874 864 894 924 834 804BHARATFORG 216 219 229 239 209 199BHARTIARTL 297 299 308 317 290 281BHEL 178 179 186 193 171 164BIOCON 276 276 285 295 266 257BPCL 367 367 383 398 351 335CAIRN 286 288 292 297 283 278CANBK 352 357 385 413 328 300CENTURYTEX 251 256 272 288 239 223CESC 350 346 365 385 327 307CHAMBLFERT 36 37 40 42 35 32CIPLA 401 399 404 408 395 391CNXIT 6603 6555 6714 6873 6396 6237COALINDIA 298 301 308 315 293 286COLPAL 1394 1372 1440 1508 1304 1236CROMPGREAV 87 90 96 103 83 76DABUR 158 158 161 165 155 151DENABANK 69 70 75 80 65 60DISHTV 61 80 193 307 -34 -148DIVISLAB 965 967 995 1023 939 911DLF 179 182 195 208 169 155DRREDDY 2235 2235 2285 2336 2185 2134EXIDEIND 125 123 127 131 119 115FEDERALBNK 390 398 422 446 374 349FINANTECH 759 768 815 863 720 673FRL 97 98 105 112 91 84GAIL 327 327 338 348 317 307GMRINFRA 18 18 19 20 17 16GODREJIND 320 315 329 343 301 288GRASIM 2805 2802 2825 2848 2780 2757GSPL 58 57 59 60 56 54HAVELLS 714 725 758 791 692 659HCLTECH 798 788 826 864 750 712HDFC 855 867 905 942 830 793HDFCBANK 669 664 682 701 645 627HDIL 38 39 44 49 34 28HEROMOTOCO 1621 1630 1665 1701 1595 1559HEXAWARE 91 90 94 98 86 82HINDALCO 100 101 104 108 97 93HINDPETRO 249 252 264 276 239 227HINDUNILVR 607 595 631 666 560 524HINDZINC 103 104 107 111 100 96IBREALEST 65 66 71 76 61 56ICICIBANK 1058 1066 1090 1114 1042 1018IDBI 72 72 76 80 68 64IDEA 138 141 148 155 134 127IDFC 128 127 135 143 118 110IFCI 25 26 27 29 24 22IGL 280 282 286 291 277 272INDHOTEL 49 49 50 51 47 46INDIACEM 57 58 62 66 54 50INDUSINDBK 477 474 484 495 464 454INFY 2466 2451 2508 2565 2394 2337IOB 49 50 53 57 46 42IOC 226 230 242 254 218 206IRB 94 96 102 108 90 83ITC 344 338 355 373 320 302JINDALSTEL 225 222 232 242 212 202JISLJALEQS 49 51 55 58 47 43

CCoommppaannyy CClloossee PPPP RR11 RR22 SS11 SS22 CCoommppaannyy CClloossee PPPP RR11 RR22 SS11 SS22

Intraweek Support and Resistance Levels Based on the “Pivotal Point” theory of Techincal AnalysisPP Points indicate the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-week.

OFSS 2686 2689 2733 2777 2645 2601ONGC 317 319 338 358 300 281OPTOCIRCUI 22 22 24 26 20 18ORIENTBANK 200 205 223 240 188 171PETRONET 125 125 131 138 118 112PFC 139 142 155 167 129 117PNB 629 642 692 742 592 542POWERGRID 108 110 115 120 105 100PTC 49 49 52 56 46 42PUNJLLOYD 33 34 38 43 30 25RANBAXY 344 339 359 379 319 299RAYMOND 242 246 260 275 231 216RCOM 135 133 138 144 128 123RECLTD 199 202 215 227 189 177RELCAPITAL 362 356 376 397 336 316RELIANCE 884 875 909 942 842 808RELINFRA 362 359 380 401 339 318RENUKA 17 17 18 18 16 15RPOWER 68 68 71 75 64 60SAIL 48 50 54 58 46 41SBIN 1905 1946 2068 2190 1824 1701SESAGOA 144 146 154 163 138 129SIEMENS 537 550 587 625 512 474SINTEX 40 41 44 48 37 34SRTRANSFIN 689 693 720 747 666 639STER 85 86 91 95 81 76SUNPHARMA 1041 1031 1061 1091 1000 970SUNTV 388 387 399 410 376 365SYNDIBANK 110 110 116 122 104 98TATACHEM 277 280 296 312 263 247TATACOMM 174 173 179 186 167 160TATAGLOBAL 145 144 149 153 139 134TATAMOTORS 296 293 304 315 282 271TATAMTRDVR 148 145 152 158 139 133TATAPOWER 86 86 92 98 80 74TATASTEEL 258 264 281 299 246 228TCS 1523 1509 1564 1618 1455 1400TECHM 1022 1017 1055 1094 978 940TITAN 231 229 236 242 222 215UCOBANK 65 64 69 75 58 52ULTRACEMCO 1896 1889 1924 1959 1854 1820UNIONBANK 175 180 201 223 159 138UNIPHOS 133 134 140 146 128 122UNITECH 21 22 25 27 19 16VIJAYABANK 45 45 48 50 43 40VOLTAS 80 81 85 89 77 73WIPRO 352 350 359 367 342 333YESBANK 467 467 475 483 460 452ZEEL 238 241 250 259 232 223

JPASSOCIAT 54 54 59 64 49 44JPPOWER 17 18 21 23 16 13JSWSTEEL 610 623 673 722 573 523JUBLFOOD 1133 1115 1169 1222 1061 1007KOTAKBANK 705 710 736 762 684 658KTKBANK 110 112 121 130 103 94LICHSGFIN 231 238 260 283 216 194LT 1414 1421 1478 1535 1364 1307LUPIN 838 822 891 959 754 685M&M 960 965 980 995 950 935MARUTI 1562 1576 1618 1660 1533 1491MCDOWELL-N 2540 2513 2649 2785 2377 2241MCLEODRUSS 273 278 296 314 260 242MRF 12324 12548 13220 13892 11876 11204NHPC 19 19 19 19 19 19NIFTY 5875 5845 5969 6094 5721 5596NMDC 104 104 109 115 98 92NTPC 145 146 150 154 142 138

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REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY:The Nifty rose moderately on Friday (July 05, 2013) a net30.95 points (0.53%) and closed at the 5867 point level.The market opened up with a gap at the 5889 pointslevel on positive global cues. It then rose further and reg-istered the day’s high at the 5900 points level at 9.31a.m. The index then declined and turned into a rangebound movement until 2.00 p.m. It then declined furtheron weak European market cues and registered the day’slow at the 5858 points level at 2.11 p.m. The marketthen rose marginally and turned into a range boundmovement until closing at the day. The Nifty remainedabove its previous close throughout the session andmoved in a range of 42 points. Sentiment was bullishand amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 30 were gainers, while20 stocks closed in the red. All the sectoral indices bar-ring technology and IT closed in the green. Substantialbuying was seen in FMCG and metal stocks.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:Volume: Volume (Qty shares) decreased 25.72%. Thischange is substantial and indicates a less than full par-ticipation by investors.

Market Breadth: Overall Market Breadth on the NSEwas positive. Amongst all the traded stocks, 705 weregainers, 667 were losers and 61 remained unchanged.

Slow Stochastic Indicator: The Slow StochasticOscillator has risen in the neutral zone.The Slow K line in the Stochastic Oscillator is below

the slow D line (negative if it continues).

RSI Indicator: The RSI is above the 40 level and is nowrising (positive if it continues).

MACD Indicator: The MACD is below zero but is now ris-ing (positive if it continues). It is above its 9-day Average(positive).

ADX Indicator & DI Lines: The +DI line is above the–DI line and both lines are diverging (positive if it contin-ues).The ADX is flat while the Market Index is rising. No sig-

nal here.

MOVING AVERAGES (TREND INDICATORS)The index: Has crossed above its 5-day average (at5846) Positive.Is above its 15-day average (at 5756) Positive.Is above its 25-day average (at 5794) Positive.Is above its 200-day average (at 5831) Positive.

Overall Market Strength/Weakness: The indicatorsand oscillators discussed here are indicating a strongmarket but with a positive bias.

Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediatemain support is at the 5581 points level.The next support is at the 5478 points level.

Resistance LevelsThe immediate main resistance is at the 5965 points level.The next resistance is at the 6108 points level.

Pivot Point Analysis:For intra-day traders the supportand resistance levels are calculat-ed according to the pivot pointtheory and are:Pivot point = 5876 (This is the

level where the trend is likely tochange during intra-day).Support (1) = 5851.Support (2) = 5834.Resistance (1) = 5893.Resistance (2) = 5918.

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OUTLOOK FOR TODAY:OOnn JJaappaanneessee ccaannddlleessttiicckk ppaatttteerrnnss tthhee iinnddeexx aafftteerr hhaavviinnggffoorrmmeedd aa lloonngg wwhhiittee bbooddyy ccaannddllee hhaass ffoorrmmeedd aa ssmmaallll bbllaacckkbbooddyy ccaannddllee aass tthhee NNiiffttyy ooppeenneedd aatt aa hhiigghheerr lleevveell aanndd cclloosseeddbbeellooww tthhaatt lleevveell.. TThhee iinnddeexx hhaass ccrroosssseedd aabboovvee tthhee 55 ddaayy’’ssmmoovviinngg aavveerraaggee.. TThhee iinnddeexx iiss nnooww aabboovvee tthhee 55,, 1155,, 2255 aanndd220000 ddaayyss mmoovviinngg aavveerraaggeess,, wwhhiillee tthhee 55,, 1155 aanndd 220000 ddaayyssmmoovviinngg aavveerraaggeess aarree rriissiinngg.. FFuurrtthheerr,, tthhee vveelloocciittyy ppaarraammeetteerrss,,wwhhiicchh wweerree nneeuuttrraallllyy ttrreennddeedd,, aarree nnooww ttuurrnniinngg ppoossiittiivvee.. AAlllltthheessee iinnddiiccaattee aa ppoossiittiivvee bbiiaass aanndd tthhee ppoossssiibbiilliittyy ooff aa ffuurrtthheerruupp mmoovvee uunnffoollddiinngg.. IInnvveessttoorrss aarree aaddvviisseedd ttoo hhoolldd lloonngg ppoossii--ttiioonnss bbuutt wwiitthh aa ssttrriicctt ssttoopp lloossss aatt tthhee 1155--ddaayy aavveerraaggee aatt tthhee55775566 ppooiinntt’’ss lleevveell..

Disclaimer: Investment recommendations made in ‘ADC’ are for information purposes only and derived from sources that are deemed to be reliable but their accuracyand completeness are not guaranteed. ‘ADC’ or the analyst/writer does not accept any liability for the use of this column for the buying or selling of securities. Readersof this newspaper who buy or sell securities based on the information in this newspaper are solely responsible for their actions. ‘ADC’ and/or its affiliates and/or employ-ees and/or the author, his company or his acquaintances may have interests/ positions, financial or otherwise in the securities mentioned in this newspaper.

NSE India : CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Monday (July 8, 2013) By Dominic Rebello

Markets Firm Up

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« BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS

“I think as much as 90% of gas discoveries have beenmade by the public sector companies and remaining10% by private companies. Hence, 80% of the incomeor profit from these explorations will come back to thegovernment as revenue,”

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AXIS SECURITIES CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON DISHMANPHARMACMP: Rs. 56 Target Rs. 81Dishman Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Ltd. (Dishman) is a prominent con-tract research and manufacturing (CRAMS) player in India. From being a pre-dominant manufacturer of API/intermediate; Dishman has successfully trans-formed itself into a company offering a complete CRAMS basket. The compa-ny’s long standing relations with pharma majors such as GSK, AstraZeneca,Abbott is testament of Dishman being a partner of choice for CRAMS.Innvveessttmmeenntt RRaattiioonnaallee::CRAMS sector: back on track: Global pharma outsourcing market to grow @CAGR of 12% from about US$ 85bn in 2011 to US$ 150bn by 2015. PharmaMNC are increasingly focusing on R&D & saving cost by outsourcing bulkdrug manufacturing to countries like India & China. Global R&D spend isexpected to increase from US$ 116bn in CY 2011 to US$ 132bn in CY2015.Generic API:- emerging opportunity: 40-50 products are currently under

development of which company has already readied filing for 20 DMF’s.Dishman is targeting revenue of Rs 100cr -125cr in FY15 from its genericAPI business. Over the next 5 years, Management is targeting their genericAPI revenues to match their CRAMS revenues.Dishman China & SEZ land:- Up for sale: Dishman is aggressively pursuing

to hive off non-core (SEZ land) and non performing assets (China facility)which the company had created during the financial crisis in 2008-09. Webelieve this is a step in the right direction; as it will assist the company toinvest in performing assets, deleverage its Balance Sheet and focus on corebusiness going forward. Dishman is expected to receive ~ Rs100cr post thedeal closure of land sale; which the company will utilize for debt repayment. Revenues are expected to grow at CAGR of 12%, EBIDTA at 10% and PAT

at 15% over the FY13-FY15E. We value Dishman at5x FY15E earnings to arrive at a price target of Rs81 giving an upside of 42% over CMP of Rs 57.

NIRMAL BANG CALLS A ‘BUY’ ONNMDCCMP: Rs. 104 Target Rs. 147

NMDC has cut the prices of lumps and fines by Rs200/tn (4.3%) andRs100/tn (3.8%), respectively, for the month of July 2013 because ofweak demand from the steel sector. The price cut remains a bit surprisingconsidering the steady volume growth of 5.8% witnessed in 1QFY14, butwe believe that 14% and 39% correction in the share price over the pastone month and six months, respectively, (as compared to 1% and 3% fall,respectively, in Nifty in the same period), factors in the subdued pricingenvironment. Valuation turns attractive: NMDC stock currently trades at P/E multiples

of 6.6x and 6.5x FY14E and FY15E earnings, respectively, while EV/EBIT-DA multiples are at 2.4x and 2.6x, respectively, for the same period. Postfollow-on public offer of shares in March 2010, the stock traded at aver-age P/E and EV/EBITDA of 11.8x and 7.2x, respectively, while the currentmultiples are 2SD below average. Considering the attractive valuation andhigh dividend yield, we have retained our Buy recommendation on thestock.

PRABHUDAS LILLADHER CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON NTPCCMP: Rs. 144 Target Rs. 179NTPC has been allocated four coal mines by the Ministry of Coal (MOC)with an aggregate reserve of 2bn tonnes. Two of these mines are inChhattisgarh and two are in Orissa. A total of 14 mines were allocatedwith estimated reserves of 8bn tonnes & production capacity of 159mtp.a that should support 32000WMs.Valuation and Recommendation: NTPC commissioned close to

4000MWs (including JVs) in FY13 and is expected to add close to1875MWs (including JVs) in FY14E. CCEA’s acceptance of coal pricemechanism will help the company to import coal to mitigate the shortfallin the Coal India supplies, if any. Though host of reasons delayed NTPC’splans to develop captive mines, allocation definitely provides fuel securityfor the future. NTPC offers one of the safest bet in the current scenario asit has a generation assets earning regulated returns; thus, safe guardingearnings shocks at a P/BVx of 1.2x FY15E. We maintain ‘Accumulate’.

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I have been tricked into purchasing a UnitLinked Insurance Plan as a Fixed Deposit.Now, I am in a fix. I need my money assoon as possible.

—Prashant Sharma, ColabaFirstly, you need to relax because if you aretensed, matters can only get worse. Secondly,please check if you are within the Free-lookPeriod of 15 days from the date of receipt of thePolicy Document. If yes, then you can walk intothe closest branch of the Insurer and cancel yourpolicy free of cost and you would be refundedback the entire money without any charges. Onlythe mortality charge for the last few days andcost of medical test, if any, might be deductedfrom the amount. However, the remainingamount would get credited back into youraccount immediately.But, if the Free-look Period is over, there are

more severe steps you might have to avail. Firstlyunderstand that the Plan might NOT be all thatbad and you might consider the same. However,if you still want to cancel the policy, you cansurely do so very easily. You need to first write acomplaint to the Insurance Company andprovide them about 30 days of time to resolvethe same. You can complain to InsuranceOmbudsman who is a non-judiciary body who willlisten to your query and resolve it within 90 daysand their verdict is binding on the insurancecompany as they have to listen.Please visit this link and locate the office of

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attaching all relevant documents and present

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I need travel insurance for a vacation toEurope. I need to cover my family – wifeand 2 kids who 12 years and 15 years oldrespectively. Please tell me best travelinsurance plan which will cover for our holi-day abroad?

—Rakesh Gokhale, SantacruzHaving a Travel Insurance Policy is one of thebest ways to safeguard the worries of any lossthat might play a spoilsport to a vacation. Thereare many overseas travel insurance plans thatwould meet your requirements.Tata AIG Travel Guard for Overseas Travel

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I want to have a personal accident insur-ance cover which will cover medicalexpense due to accident and earning com-pensation for the period of hospitalisation.

—Raja Sengupta, AndheriSince you are looking for Accidental InsurancePlan, you can opt for Personal Accident Plan.Personal accident insurance refers to aninsurance which offers compensation in case ofdeath, bodily injuries, total/ partial disability or

dismemberment resulting from an accidentcaused by violent, visible and external means.Some personal accident policies that you mayconsider are:Tata AIG Accident Guard Insurance PlanApollo Munich Personal Accident PlanNational Insurance Personal Accident PolicyOne convenience here would be that some of

the policies could be purchased online withoutany manual intervention or medical tests.We hope that you have a comprehensive

health insurance policy already in place.

I have a health insurance cover of Rs.500,000 for over 10 years now. I made aclaim application of Rs. 405,000 and sub-mitted all the required documents. This ismy first ever claim. The treatment was donein one of the top 5 hospitals of the city. Theinsurance company approved only Rs.212,000 and sent me the cheque. My agenthad told me that they will not approve theentire claim and deduct around 15 – 20% ofthe claim but this is almost 50% deduction!How do I respond to this? Can I ask them toreprocess my claim?

—Smita Bhatkar, Kurla

Most of the insurance companies have a clauseof sub-limits in their health insurance policywhereby it is not a blanket cover of Rs. 500,000but there will be further limits on categorieswithin the policy like a limit on the room rent perday, doctor’s fees, nursing charges, therapy etc.So it is important to first see whether your claimamount meets all these individual categorylimits or not. For example, if your policy allowsroom rent of Rs. 1,500 per day, and you haveclaimed Rs. 4,000 then the insurance companywill only approve Rs. 1,500 of your claim andthe rest Rs. 2500 will have to be borne by you.So go through the document they would havesent along with the cheque, which will show thesection-wise break-up of your processed claim.After that, if you still feel that the insurancecompany has not approved up to your limits,then you can approach them. Preferably, everycommunication with the insurance company orTPA should be in writing (letter or email); italways helps to maintain a record.

(The author is Vice President atwww.MyInsuranceClub.com, insurance comparison

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MANOJASWANIis VP atMyInsuranceClub.com

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By Manoj Aswani

Bajaj Allianz Lifestyle Protect Plan is a Non-Participating Term Insurance Plan. Thus, it

is a Traditional Plan without Bonus facility. Inthis plan, premium needs to be paid for theentire Policy Tenure of 10 years in yearly, half-yearly, quarterly or monthly mode.If the Life Insured dies within the Policy

Tenure, the Sum Assured is paid as a fixedincome to the family in the form of “MonthlyIncome” for a Fixed Tenure of 60 months asDeath Benefit and the policy terminatesthereafter.For example, if Mr. X takes a Bajaj Allianz

Lifestyle Protect Plan of Rs 10 lacs and dieswithin the tenure of 10 years, then his familywould receive Rs (10lacs/60) = Rs 16667 permonth for the entire Benefit Tenure of 5 years,i.e. 60 months.Monthly Death Benefit Installment = Sum

Assured / 60 for a Tenure of 5 years or 60

months. However, if he survives the entirePolicy Tenure, then nothing is payable to him asMaturity or Survival Benefit.

Key Features � It is a simple Term Insurance Plan withoutBonus facility

� This is a fixed tenure plan of 10 years� If the Life Insured dies within the PolicyTenure, a fixed “Monthly Income” Benefit ispayable to the family for a Fixed Tenure of 60months as Death Benefit and the policyterminates thereafter

� Being a Pure Term Plan, there is no MaturityBenefit in this plan

� There is High Sum Assured discount in this plan

BENEFITSDDeeaatthh BBeenneeffiitt:: If the Life Insured dies within thePolicy Tenure, the Sum Assured is paid as afixed “Monthly Income” Benefit is payable tothe family for a Fixed Tenure of 60 months as

Death Benefit and the policy terminatesthereafter.

MMaattuurriittyy BBeenneeffiitt:: There are no maturity benefitsunder this plan as it is a pure protection plan.

Income Tax BenefitLife Insurance premiums paid up to Rs.1,00,000 are allowed as a deduction from thetaxable income each year under section 80C.The Maturity Proceeds are also tax free undersection 10(10)D under the mentioned clauses.

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS

Riders: There are no riders available in this policy

Surrender the policy: There are no SurrenderBenefits in this plan.

Loan: Loan facility is not available under thispolicy.

A Term Insurance Plan Without Bonus FacilityMin Max

Sum Assured(in Rs.) 3,00,000 15,00,000

Policy Term (inyears) 10

Premium PaymentTerm (in years) Equal to Policy Tenure

Entry Age of LifeInsured (in years) 18 50

Age at Maturity(in years) 28 60

Annual Premium (in Rs.)

1045 (Yearly)533 (Half-Yearly)272(Quarterly)94 (Monthly)

16014 (Yearly)8167 (Half-Yearly)4164(Quarterly)1441 (Monthly)

Payment modes Yearly, Half-Yearly, Quarterly and Monthly

Eligibility« PRODUCT REVIEW: BAJAJ ALLIANZ LIFESTYLE PROTECT PLAN

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Afternoon Despatch & Courier 21NATION

Security personnel inspecting the explosion site after a serial blast in Mahabodhi temple complex at Bodhgaya on Sunday. eAn injured Buddhist monk being treated at Bodhgaya.

GAYA (Bihar): In a wellcoordinated terror at-tack by suspected In-

dian Mujahideen operatives,nine low-intensity serialblasts on Sunday targeted theworld renowned pilgrimagetown of BodhGaya andMahaBodhi Temple complex, oneof the holiest Buddhistshrines, early in the morningthat left two monks injured.The temple and the Bodhi

Tree, under which Lord Bud-dha is believed to have at-tained enlightenment, didnot suffer any damage in theblasts which shook the holy

town frequented by Buddhistpilgrims from Sri Lanka,China, Japan and the wholeof southeast Asia.UnionHome Secretary Anil

Goswami told PTI in NewDelhi that serial explosionsinside and outside Maha-bodhi Temple in Bihar were aterror attack and NIA andNSG teams have been sentfor post-blasts investigations.Security has been beefed at

the temple and adjoiningareas, Director General of Po-lice Abhayanand told re-porters, adding CCTV footagewas being examined for leads

to the terrorists.The explosions, the first of

its type to target the town andthe temple, a UNESCO her-itage site, took place between5:30 and 5:58 a.m. The explo-sives were set off by timers.Last year, the Delhi Police

claimed to have foiled a 'fi-dayeen' attack in the townwith the arrest of suspectedIndian Mujahideen (IM) ele-ments to avenge "atrocities"againstMuslims inMyanmar.Security agencies suspectthat IM may be behind yes-terday's multiple blasts.However, no group has

claimed responsibility forwhat the Centre and stategovernment have describedas a terror attack in a regionwhere Maoists have a strongfoothold."While four blasts took

place inside the MahabodhiTemple complex, three oc-curred inKarmapamonastery,one each near near the fa-mous 80-ft Buddha statue andat the bus stand near bypass,"DIG Magadh range NayyerHussnain Khan told PTI.Union Home Minister

Sushilkumar Shinde said twolive bombs were defused inthe town. A third bomb, hid-den in a cyclinder, was recov-ered from a village near BodyGaya hours after the blastsand defused.Bihar Chief Minister Nitish

Kumar, who rushed to theblast site from Patna, about100kms fromhere, demandeddeployment of Central Indus-trial Security Force (CISF) forsecurity of the shrine.

Prayers continue,visitors barred for nowMahabodhi temple, the tar-get of serial blasts, has beenclosed for general public butthe prayers will continue tobe held as usual, Bihar policechief Abhayanand said yes-

terday.The DGP said no harm has

come to the sanctum sancto-rum of the famous Buddhisttemple, but some peripheraldamage has occurred.He said security has been

stepped up at theMahabodhitemple, which is visited bylakhs of people each year, andadjoining areas following re-view meeting between theBodh Gaya Temple Manage-

ment Committee (BTMC)members and police brassafter the serial blasts at theshrine and surrounding areas.The DGP said that he has

also acceded to the BTMC'srequest for allowing eveningprayers at the temple. He saidprayers by the monks will beheld as usual, but the templepremises will not be openedto common people for thetime being.

Terror strikes Bodh Gaya, 2 monks injured

PTI

People with their motorcycles travel on a boat to across River Brahmaputra from Majuli to Jorhat on Saturday.

PTI

NEW DELHI: Taxpayershaving grievances re-

garding their I-T refunds andtax computationswill nowgeta unique acknowledgementnumber with an assurancethat their complaint will beresolved within two monthstime. The newly introducednumberwill not add to confu-sion andwill be different fromthe existing unique numbersissued by the Income Tax de-partment to taxpayers, likethe PAN, TAN and UniqueTransaction Number (UTN),authorities said.TheCentral Board ofDirect

Taxes (CBDT), which frames

policies and rules for the I-Tdepartment, has asked all itsChief Commissioners acrossthe country to ensure thesenew facilities for taxpayerswith "immediate effect".The CBDT, according to

sources, has issued these di-rections on July 5 after theDelhi High Court recentlypassed orders with regard tofine tuning procedures fol-lowed by the department onreceipt and disposal of 'recti-fication applications' whichare filed by taxpayers underSection 154 of the I-T Act."Whether the taxpayer files

his rectificationapplicationby

ordinary post, by hand or on-line, the receipt counter of thedepartment will generate aspecial and unique acknowl-edgementnumber for the tax-payer by which he or she willbeassuredof solving thegriev-ance within a stipulated time.The taxpayer can quote thisnumber in any further com-munication with the depart-ment," a senior I-Tofficer said.It has also been instructed

by CBDT that rectificationapplications are "decided asfar as possible within a pe-riod of two months from theend of the month in whichapplication is received."

Taxpayers to get unique number for complaints

Delhi Police had alerted on terror plotNEW DELHI: Delhi Police had alerted itsBihar counterpart and intelligence agenciesabout BodhGaya temple being on the radarof terror outfits, according to senior policeofficial here."The input was given on the basis of in-

formationwe had obtained from a group ofIndianMujahiddin (IM) terrorist arrested in2012 in the Pune blasts case," said theDelhipolice official.According to thepolice, IMoperatives had

told them that theywere planning Pune-likeblasts in Delhi and Bihar for which they hadspecifically spent around twoweeks doing arecce of the temple town. The officer alsosaid that a team of Delhi police is planningto visit BodhGaya to share the information ithad received from IMoperativeswith the se-curity agencies investigating the blasts.

Gujarat on alert after Bodh Gaya blastsAHMEDABAD: An alert has been soundedacross Gujarat in the wake of the serialblasts that rocked Mahabodhi Temple inBihar's Bodh Gaya district on Sunday, Gu-jarat Director General of Police (DGP)Amitabh Pathak said."An alert has been issued across the

entire state ahead of the Rathyatraprocession on Wednesday and also inthe wake of the blasts in MahabodhiTemple in Bihar. All police units inthe state have been alerted," Pathaksaid.When asked whether security would be

increased across temples and other reli-gious places in the state, he said, "Securityis already there. As of now, we don't haveany apprehensions and things are undercontrol."

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Niyati, Sahara One, 9.30 p.m.

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Shrek Forever After, Pix, 9 p.m.

Ratatouille, Star Movies, 9 p.m.

Qurbani, DDI, 11 p.m.

What is so special about the newshow?It’s an entirely different set upwith the story beginning in Kash-mir and then moving to Mumbai.It shows a huge contrast in cul-tures, lifestyles, outlook, up-bringing and perception betweenKashmiris and Mumbaikars. Italso touches upon sensitiveKashmiri issues with newness.

How different is it from yourprevious roles?A new show itself carries a lot offreshness, particularly with thenew working atmosphere andnew fellow actors. With regardsto my character however, I play alower middle class yet desirablewoman who is love struck by thelead of the show. Since I’m partof a Maharashtrian family on-screen, this is the first time I willbe speaking in Marathi.

What is so special about yourlook?I am going to be wearing beauti-ful sarees with deep neckedblouses, a kamarband and a sim-ple mangalsutra. I can’t say if thelook is special, but it’s certainlydifferent from my other shows.What is particularly interestingwith this show is that all thewomen are depicted in a verysimple way, so that each charac-ter stands out. I guess this willmake it special.

How much do you relate toRasika?Rasika is a young girl who is mar-ried to the ‘chacha’ of the house(Manohar) for some reason. Sheis the best looking girl in the‘basti’ and dresses glamorously.She speaks English albeit not toowell and often uses it to get anupper hand. She likes the lead ofthe show (Raghu) and blatantlyshows her affection for him. Thisis a reel life character and there-fore I don’t think we could com-pare the two. However I do addmy own glamour quotient andattitude to the character.

What has your experience been

like working in this industry?Every actor feels lucky to be apart of the industry because veryfew of us have the opportunity tochase and fulfill our dreams andeven fewer get to do what theyreally love or are passionateabout. Mine has been a roller-coaster ride. I never got workeasily and initially had to reallystruggle. I had never attendedacting school nor done any act-ing course and everything aboutthe camera was Greek and Latinto me. With time and constant ef-fort, however, I kept filling mycup of learning by observingpeople around me, and till todayI empty my cup in the morningsso I can learn something neweveryday. This industry has mademe more confident and gifted methe art of loving myself while alsoteaching me to have patience.

Who are your favorite actor andactress?Irrfan Khan and Kareena Kapoor

Name one telly actor you want towork with?The entire Sasural Genda Phoolteam.

Is there an encounter with a

fan you hold close to your heart?Four years ago when I was at amall in Pune, a simple girl work-ing at a branded designer bagstore came up to me and said shewatches my shows. She boughtme a small keychain and pouchfrom her store and insisted that Ikeep it as a memory. I smiled tomyself, because for the first timeI felt loved and recognized for mywork.

Do you have a phobia?I’m afraid of water because Idon’t know to swim. But I hope toovercome it someday.

Any special fetish?Animal prints as a part of bags,footwear and clothes.

You are considered stylish andglamorous off-screen as well.How do you feel?I guess people form opinions fromthe kind of roles we play in onscreen.I have mostly played glam-orous roles, but am otherwise asimple girl who is very ‘desi‘ atheart. Deep down however, I loveto be mysterious and moody.

Ridheema is definitely an actorto look out for!

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SMITA BANSAL CELEBRITY GUESTWaahWaah Kyaa Baat Hai is having television’s very famousmother-in-law Smita Bansal as the celebrity guest. This show also unleashedthe hidden poetess in her. Says this very famous saas of the smallscreen, “I am really enjoying this show as celebrity guest. Besides en-tertainment this show also gives a good platform to all poets. I too,have a poet hidden in me.” Smita also added that in these timeseverything is changing in TV shows. Clothes change, looks change,

behaviour changes and even the actors playing the character change.

Ashnoor Kaur DOES A CAMEOAshnoor Kaur who was last seen in the young role of Ashok Sundari(the daughter of Shiv and Parvati) will be now seen in the cameorole of Dushaala in Swastik Productions’ Mahabharat. She had gother first break at the age of five and has done prominent shows likeJhansi Ki Rani, Shobha Somnath Ki and Na Bole Tum Na MaineKuch Kaha. She turned eight year old in May. She is best recog-nised as Nanhi from Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha, Season 1.

It’s ironical but true that same kids are seen in different mythological shows and theylook different in each because of the role and costumes. Dushaala was the sister ofDhuryodhan.

STAR APPEARANCE

It’s celebration time in Sony Entertainment Television’s popular show Amita ka Amit.After the high level of misunderstanding prevailing between Amita and Amit, it’s time forsome love to blossom. Love is in the air in this love story and soon a cupid will make anappearance to get them all the cloer. Prateik Babbar will be making an appearance withhis beautiful co-star Amyra Dastur to promote their upcoming movie Issaq. Prateik andAmyra who have played love birds in the Indian adaptation of William Shakespeare’sRomeo & Juliet, Issaq will come to spread more love and romance. With this new-fangledromance blooming between Amita and Amit, what new twist will it take? To find out tunein to Amita Ka Amit Monday to Friday at 8.30 pm on Sony Entertainment Television.

RAISING KIDS UNCONVENTIONALLYIn the process of raising their kids in a modern environment, Gary,Chris and Nick explore their share of adventures. The episode re-flects Gary’s inability to effectively communicate with his son. Wit-nessing this situation, Marny imposes her stern services. Eventually,this leads to unconventional disciplinary measures. The episodealso sees how a school project brings out some unhealthy competi-tion in Nick. Tune into ‘Guys with Kids’ on July 8, Monday to Wednes-

day at 10.30 pm exclusively on Comedy Central.

ENCHANTING REEL PICNICShooting for daily soaps can get stressful but this doesn’t apply if your cast is wellbonded. Recently the cast of Star Plus Meri Bhabhi were shooting for an outdoor picnicsequence and before they knew it the picnic turned into a personal bonding affair. “Weforgot that we were out on a shoot, it was literally a personal picnic. Games, food, funconversations and pranks made this a very special trip and as a team we had a galatime,” says Esha Kansara who plays the role of the bhabhi, Kritika in the show. This castis definitely a very well bonded team.

Ridheema Tiwari, who hasdone shows like Rishton sebadi Pratha, Sasural GendaPhool and Arrangedmarriage Ya love marriage,is currently seen as Rasikain Do Dil Ek Jaan on LIFEOK. Ridheema spoke toSandeep Hattangadi abouther new show.

RIDHEEMA TIWARI’SLOVE STORY!

Aseries of bomb blasts oc-cured inside and outsidethe Mahabodhi temple atBodh Gaya, Bihar yester-

day. These were low intensitybombs that didn’t causemuch dam-aged. Two monks were reportedlyinjured but later, said to be out ofdanger. The Intelligent Bureau con-firmed the blasts as an act of terrorbut the attack has not be pegged onany terror outfit as yet.The attacks happened in the early

hours of the day when security inthe area was reportedly low. But, itis still a matter of concern thatbombs were planted inside andaround such a famous religiousplacewith such uncanny ease. This,once again, brings back memoriesof the serial train blasts that oc-curred in Mumbai in 2006.

Blast Accused Uses RTITo Quash Police ClaimsIT HAS been over seven years sinceserial bomb blasts occurred inMumbai local trains that killedmore than 200 people left over 700injured. But, the case is far fromclosed as new findings about theblasts continue to emerge everynow and then. Reportedly, one ofthe blast accused, Ehtesham Sid-diqui had recently filed a Right toInformation (RTI) application thatrevealed the witnesses’ claim in theJuly 11, 2006 train blasts did notmatch the information revealed bythe RTI application.Reports suggest a blast witness

had deposed in court that he hadboarded the 05:15 p.m. train fromChurchgate toMira Road on July 11, 2006. But, the railway department,

in a reply to a query filed under RTI,said that there was no train at 05:15p.m. on the day of the blast. Ehte-sham Siddiqiui, an accused in the7/11 Mumbai train blast, revealedthis while deposing before the Spe-cial MCOCA court as a witness.On July 11, 2006, RDX-laden

bombs had ripped the first classcompartments of seven local trainsin theWestern Railways during peakhours, in the evening. The blaststook place within the span of 11minutes killing hundreds of peoplewhile injuring many.The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS)

has arrested 13 ‘members’ of Stu-dents Islamic Movement of India(SIMI) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)for allegedly carrying out the blastsand charged them under varioussections of Indian Penal Code,MCOCA and Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act.The accused had also submitted

the documents obtained under theRTI Act that contradict the state-ments made in front of the court byanother witness. Siddiqui, while de-posing in front of the court, alsosaid the hospital records that wereobtained through the RTI applica-tion indicated it did not have anysecurity guard of the identity, thewitness claimed to havemet on July11, 2006 before boarding the train.Apparently, one of the witnesses

had said in the court that he hadtravelled in the train, in which thebomb blasts had taken place andbefore boarding the train, met afriend who was working as a secu-rity guard in the nearby hospital.Siddiqui has reportedly filed

around 68 RTI applications to ‘re-veal the loopholes’ in the Anti-Ter-rorist Squad investigation. Earlier,he had filed an RTI application thathad reportedly revealed inconsis-tencies in the prosecution caseagainst him. Carrying on with ex-amination-in-chief as a defencewitness, Siddiqui had submitteddocuments retrieved through RTI incourt earlier which revealed his sig-nature on a statement expressinghis willingness to confess couldhave been forged. The prosecutionargued that the signatures of the ac-cused showing his willingness toconfess were taken before his re-ported confession on October 6,2008.Apparently, Siddiqui has submit-

ted documents in the specialMCOCA court as evidence, whichincludes DCP Gutta Karale’s letteracknowleding that Siddique’s signa-ture featured on the first page of thedocument. However, a copy of thedocument procured by Siddiquiunder RTI Act shows no trace of hissignature on any page of the docu-ment. Siddiqui claims that the po-lice had tampered with the

documents.This is the state of investigation of

the serial blast that occurredaround seven years ago. With theblast accused procuring ‘evidence’of the police tampering with factsand exposing loopholes in the ATSinvestigation that has been goingon for years now, the case doesn’tseem like it will be solved any timesoon.

With An Attack Imminent,Police Remain UnpreparedWITH the 26/11 terror attacks thatshook Mumbai in 2008 and triplebombs blast that occurred in SouthMumbai in 2011 still fresh in peo-ple’s memory, the city doesn’t seemany safer than it was several yearsago.When the Mumbai police con-tinue to fail mock terror attacksdone to check the preparedness ofthe city police, it only vindicatespopular fears.The city police have been failing

mock drills over the years now andthis time it was no different. In a re-cently held marine operation, theofficials participating in the two-day mock drill Sagar Kavach, plantstickers symbolising bombs inplaces to check the city police’sawareness.This time around, the officials

posing as terrorists managed to get

though the city’s security easily andplant fake bomb on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link without any hurdleswhatsoever.Apparently, the police were ‘con-

fused’ about under whose jurisdic-tion the area, where bomb wasplanted, fell and when it was laterfound out that it was under WorliPolice jurisdiction, theymaintainedthat they could not patrol the waterarea as it was the coastal police’s re-sponsibility! They continue to in-dulge in the same old blame game,over and over again.And, this is just a two-day mock

test conducted within a stipulatedtime period and yet the city policecontinue to fail indicating how ill-prepared the force is should terrorstrike Mumbai again.The police have failed almost

every mock drill that has been con-ducted in the city. Last year too, thepolice failed the two mock drillscarried out, first in April then againin October.Each time, the city police fail the

drills it reveals just how vulnerablethe city is. And, if this is how thethings continue, it won’t be long be-fore Mumbai registers a Gaya-liketerror attack. The city police, ontheir part, will be left twiddling theirthumbs on issues of jurisdiction, in-telligence failure and so on andforth.

With inputs from Prerna Pandey

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RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOWCity cops ill-prepared for Gaya-like attack

Readers keen on seeking help on drafting RTI applications may write in to rti@draftcraft.in or call Gajanan Khergamker on 022-22841593 for any assistance on RTI or to have their findings / issue featured on this page

For the police to fail each and every mock-drill held to check their preparedness is a matter of shame. Theyshould stop trying to dodge the onus before it’s too late...again, writes Gajanan Khergamker

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The Mumbai Police AndTheir Blame Games

Unsure at MEAWWhile a little whisper of a possible ex-

tension hovers in the hallowed por-tals of South Block, the future of manysenior MEA officials, including ambassa-dors, hinges on who will replace ForeignSecretary Ranjan Mathai after (and if) heretires next month. The stakes are high,with an added frisson created by the un-certainty surrounding the matter. Tradi-tionally the announcement of a successoris made ahead of the incumbent’s retire-ment. Traditionally also, the senior-most

IFS officer is namedForeign Secretary, aswas done in the caseof Mathai and his pred-ecessor NirupamaRao. But will this prac-tice be followed thistime around as well?Observers point out

that the present National Security AdvisorShiv Shankar Menon, who was ForeignSecretary before Ms Rao, had superseded16 officials when he was appointed in2006. His appointment had created aminor revolt in the diplomat ranks. This,many feel, is the reason for the height-ened sense of uncertainty prevailing inMEA corridors at present. Will it be SujataSingh, the senior-most officer and India’sambassador to Germany or S. Jaishankar,ambassador to China and reportedly thePMO’s favoured diplomat? Or someoneelse who may just pip the post first?

A new conflictTThe UPA government has a history of dis-

puted appointments. And with the ap-pointment of Shashikant Sharma as thenew Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG),the Government has predictably run into yetanother controversy. Sharma, a 1976-batchIAS officer from the Bihar cadre, was De-fence Secretary before being named VinodRai’s successor and the nation’s top audi-tor.When Sharma’s name first surfaced in

connection with the position, it was pointedout that there could be a conflict of interestwhen he presides over the audit of the De-fence Ministry, where during his tenure, hewas a key decision-maker in military pur-chases, some of which are now under thescanner. Of decidedly greater concern now isthat Sharma’s appointment has been chal-lenged in the Supreme Court in two sepa-rate PILs. There is now concern thatSharma’s appointment could go the way ofP.J. Thomas, who was named Central Vigi-lance Commissioner despite a corruptiontaint.

Coal taintThe CBI has a tough task dealing with its“masters” in Government. Even as theagency which is investigating the coalscam prepares to question a retired IAS of-ficer A.K. Basu in connection with thescam, its probe has run into a wall in an-other case involving the coal sector. Thesleuths plan to interrogate Basu, who was

Chief Secretary ofJharkhand during theChief Ministership ofMadhu Koda betweenFebruary 2008 and Au-gust 2009, whichcould make mattersdifficult for Koda, whois now an independent

MP from the state. If that spells progressfor the CBI in the multi-crore coal scam, ithas been stymied by babus of the LawMinistry in another case. The CBI hadsought permission to chargesheet formerCMD of South Eastern Coal Limited (SECL)M.P. Dikshit in a bribery case, but that per-mission has been denied.

—— BByy DDiilliipp CChheerriiaann

DILLI KA BABU

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NOTES FROM NEW DELHI

What with Narendra Modibeing cheered in Goa, anew upheaval has been

initiated in Indian politics. Thenew troika of the Janata DalUnited, Mamata Banerjee andNaveen Patnaik has come to theforefront and their coming to-gether began after Lal Krishna Ad-vani talked to Nitish Kumar. Whatdid Advani, one of the cleverest‘players’ in Indian politics say toNitish Kumar, that talks about theformation of the Third Frontpicked up such speed? We’ll giveyou information about this a littlelater, but first, let us tell you howat Goa the Sangh imposed its de-sires on the Bharatiya Janata Party.The story begins from the time

of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After Vaj-payee became the Prime Minis-ter, the hold of the Sangh on theBJP gradually reduced or weak-ened. To weaken this hold, Bra-jesh Mishra and RanjanBhattacharya were working fromVajpayee’s side while on the otherhand Suresh Soni was doing the

same thing. The Swayamsewaksof the Sangh were dreaming of anorthodox Hindu nation, but Vaj-payee and Advani had under-stood that a Government couldnot be formed on the principlesof orthodox Hinduism, becausethe Government could not beformed on the strength of Hindusalone. About 20 per cent in thecountry are Muslims and theycan neither be eradicated nor canthey be made politically ineffec-tive or irrelevant. They thereforeadopted a policy of psuedo-exis-tence for ‘wielding’ power andmaintained a balance.Under this, Vajpayee adopted a

liberal face and Advani adoptedan orthodox, fundamentalistface. Going by Advani’s desires,Madan Das Devi tightened thereins on the Vishwa HinduParishad (VHP) and brakes wereapplied on the Ram Mandirmovement. With this ended thecredibility of the VHP. The senti-ments of the Sangh were also‘detonated’ by people in it, be-cause at that time talk had al-ready started of Muslims beingbrought into its ‘shakas’. TheSwayamsewaks who had spenttheir golden years steeped in or-thodox Hindutva, felt that whentheir party has come into powerand when their people have be-come Prime Minister and HomeMinister respectively, if a Hindunation has not been formed now,when will it be formed? In this sit-uation, the morale of people in

the Sangh fell from sky high toground level.It was then that Vajpayee was

defeated. The BJP went out ofpower and a struggle began forthe post of Leader of the Opposi-tion. Advani knew and under-stood very well the importance ofpower and its moves. He was ableto understand that the wavewould come once again, his boatwould touch the shore and hewould certainly become thePrime Minister. At that time aspecial situation had formed inwhich, to make Advani the PrimeMinister, Vajpayee had disap-peared from the scene. ThereforeAdvani felt that he should imme-diately ‘correct’ his image and in-stead of being orthodox shouldbecome ‘secular’. Advani thenwent to Pakistan and praised Jin-nah. He already had family tieswith Muslims, because hisdaughter had been married to aMuslim. In this process, hisimage became secular to quite anextent and at this point, at the be-hest of the Sangh, Sanjay Joshiasked Advani’s resignation.The Sangh has always had the

habit of stepping aside in the faceof trouble. An example of this is ofSanjay Joshi himself: WhenNarendra Modi started a cam-paign against him and for attend-ing the session in Mumbai putforward the condition of his ex-pulsion; the Sangh left SanjayJoshi alone. Madan Das Devi andSuresh Soni had asked Joshi to get

the resignation letter from Ad-vani. In those days Modi was Ad-vani’s special ‘lieutenant’. To takerevenge on Joshi, there was theCD case in which Joshi was falselyimplicated and trapped. Fromhere a new tradition started in theBJP that without inquiry or ashow cause notice, action wasinitiated against senior officebearers, and it seemed that thesaying “it is loved ones who ‘eat’their own loved ones” or that “it isthe ground nurturing water itselfthat turns into a flood and de-stroys the fields” is correct. Inthose days apart from Modi, Ad-vani’s ‘lieutenants’ also includedArun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj,Ananth Kumar and VenkaiahNaidu. With their support, Advanistaked his claim on Prime Minis-tership but year after year theBJP’s seats became fewer andfewer, support dwindled and Ad-vani’s dream began to get shat-tered. Advani’s supporters beganleaving him soon Madan DasDevi and Mohan Bhagwat alsoleft him without support. Bhag-wat openly declared that no sup-porter of Advani’s would be givencommand of anything, afterwhich Nitin Gadkari became theBJP President.After Gadkari’s arrival on the

scene, despite all the efforts of theSangh numerous conspiraciescontinued against him. TheSangh was committed to makingGadkari the President again andnobody could think otherwise.

By Santosh Bhartiya

Is the Uttarakhand disaster a di-vine disaster? Is it the result ofGod’s annoyance, or is it the re-sult of Ganga Maa’s anger? We thepeople of India, after suffering aloss, for our own satisfactionplace the responsibility of thetragedy on God, and it is thishabit which saves those who areresponsible for the disaster. Thistime also it is the same story.Anna Hazare’s recent ‘yatra’ of

Uttarakhand lasted from 13 Mayto 24 May. As a journalist, I tookpart in this ‘yatra’ which involvedus traveling to every place where,today, a massive disaster hastaken place. Whether it is Srina-gar or Chamoli, Rudraprayag orBageshwar, there are scenes ofdestruction all over. All together,the portion that is Garhwal hasbecome a witness to the mostmassive destruction in history.During this ‘yatra’ we saw thatthere are no medical facilities areavailable at the district head-quarters. We also saw that in Ut-tarakhand there are noarrangements at all for takingcare of basic infrastructure. Nei-

ther are there units of mainte-nance, nor concern of thembeing absent. I will speak of Uttarkashi as an

example. When we went to Ut-tarkashi, fellow journalists and cit-izens told us that just about a yearago because of a flood in the areathere had been massive destruc-tion with most of the houses col-lapsing into the river. To clear upthe debris and clean up the river,arrangements for money werealso made, but deliberately, nowork was started before the rains.The residents also told us that thistime Uttarkashi would be de-stroyed. They explained that be-cause of corruption the rivers hadsilted up and no cleaning workhad been undertaken. The riverbanks were also eroded. This factwas also mentioned in Anna Haz-are’s ‘common’ meeting, but no-body nobody paid any attention.The Government of Uttarak-

hand, which includes Ministers,the Opposition and the bureau-cracy, deliberately devastated anddestroyed Uttarkashi. The condi-tions are the same in Srinagar,Tehri, Gopeshwar, Bageshwar andChamoli. It wasn’t as if they didn’t

know it would rain, because thereare rains every year. They alsoknew that there was a chance offloods. What sort of Govt is thiswhich did not prepare the state forpossible destruction due to floods?What is its disaster managementplan not only for Uttarkashi, butfor the entire country?Perhaps floods, drought and

earthquakes are new ways forpeople to make an earning. Peo-ple from Uttarakhand are callingme up and saying that out of theRs.1000 crores of Central assis-tance, at least Rs. 400 crore will belost to corruption. This meansthat this time the infrastructurethat will be rebuilt far worse thanbefore will not be able to with-stand another flood or even a lightsurge of water. The people wantthe monitoring and responsibilityof new construction and reliefwork to be handed over to theArmy. They think that if the Armyundertakes it, perhaps things willbe set up correctly, rather thanrisking it with civilian construc-tion companies which might raisethe risk of even more corruption.The news shows no pain or

trouble apparent on the faces of

officials in Uttarakhand. This isbecause during the entire disaster,the civil administration was seenonly sending reports. The Armystepped forward and worked andthat is why soldiers lost their lives.Till these lines were written thePM had not declared the Uttarak-hand disaster to be a national dis-aster. People are going toUttarakhand on their own, takingwhatever assistance they want tooffer along with them, but hardlyanyone, apart from Ministers andChief Ministers, are giving their‘assistance’ to the GovernmentDisaster Fund, Chief Minister’sFund or the Prime Minister’s Dis-aster Fund. Earlier, at the time ofany national disaster, peoplewould come forward and donateto these funds. This is a clear ex-ample of the waning credibility ofGovernments.The reality is that the people of

Uttarakhand are our own people,poor people. They come downfrom the mountains to the plainsfor their livelihood. Left behind inthe villages are their wives, chil-dren and old parents and it is thesepeople who have gone throughdanger and lost their lives.

U’khand calamity: An opportunity for people to help

Santosh Bhartiya

ACROSS:1 Mass in its full version (13)8 Out to make one uneasy (3,2,4)9 Fare needed to board a bus

perhaps (3,2)11 Embrace that really fixes things

(6)12 You find them comfortable -

banana skins! (8)14 Swallow up a lot of water in

Mexico? (4)15 Looks closely - about time to be

wearing glasses, we're told (8)17 Plant in a container accordingly

(8)18 Wild dog returned from the

stream (4)20 Needing a smashing Swiss resort

(8)21 Humourless nonsense, but it

could bring the house down (3,3)23 State Edward found rather

confining as a school boy (5)25 A woman loved what a Roman is

content about (9)26 Old fellow getting extended

support as a flier (5-4-4)

DOWN:1 Aid for singularly poor vision ? (7)2 Jack to obtain, after resting, an

easy victim (7,6)3 Said to have joints? (11)4 Story book bear returns ring (4)5 Taking offence (8)6 The name of the game ? (3)7 Hemingway and his namesake

together (7)10 Not leaving digs to do battle?

(6,7)13 Many like to give give to it (7,4)

16 What a lot we have here! (8)17 Points to the grave and has his

revenge (7)19 Injured girl with sword (7)

22 Such a long way round could be agamble (4)

24 He gets nothing for going roundthe wall (3)

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORDAcross: 1 The last trump, 8 Embargo, 9 Migrant, 11 Erosion, 12 Selkirk, 13 Rider,14 Interment, 16 Porbeagle, 19 Annat, 21 East end, 23 Titmice, 24 Eliding, 25Bambini, 26 Single-seater.Down: 1 Tabloid, 2 Earlier, 3 Abounding, 4 Times, 5 Regular, 6 Moabite, 7Telegraphese, 10 Take to the air, 15 Treatable, 17 Rossini, 18 Evening, 19Attempt, 20 Noisier, 22 Dogie.

SOLUTION TOFRIDAY’SENIGMA CODEORNATE, AERATE, EARNERNATTER, ORATOR, RETORTTARTAR

MATH PYRAMID 584

ENIGMA CODE 584

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

The goal of Hidato is to fill the grid with consecutive numbers that connect horizontally, vertically,or diagonally from first to the last number in the grid. The first and last numbers of a puzzle anda some other numbers are already filled in.

Each colour in our coderepresents a letter.When you have cracked thecode you will be able tomake up seven words.The clue to first word is givento help you get started.

The Clue: Separated

MATHDOKU 584Place numbers into the puzzle cells in such a way that each row and column contains each of thedigits from 1 up to the size of the puzzle (4,5 or 6). Like a Sudoku puzzle, no number is repeatedin any row or column. Each bold-outlined group of cells contains a hint consisting of a number andone of the mathematical symbols + x - /. The number is the result of applying the mathematicaloperation represented by the symbol to the digits contained within the domain. The solution to eachpuzzle is arrived at logically and is unique.

P

P P

P P

P

P P

P

P P

ACROSS:1 Tennis replays (4)5 Farm fraction (4)6 Cereal grain (5)8 Watering hole (5)10 Ocean currents (5)12 Romantic encounter (4)13 Lest (4)

DOWN:1 Order's companion (3)2 Feedback (4)3 Actor Williams (5)4 Coast (7)7 Kind of bore (5)9 Fixes (4)11 Bishop's bailiwick (3)

The goal of Math Pyramid is to fillthe given pyramid with numberssuch that the following three rulesare satisfied.1. A cell value must be sum ordifference of the two cells below2. A row cannot have duplicatenumbers3. A number cannot be less than 1or more than the grid size

QUICK CROSS 584

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

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COFFEEBREAK

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

HIDATO 584

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 584

WIZARD OF ID PARKER & HART

B.C. JOHNNY HART

BEAU PEEP THE ADVENTURES OF LEGIONNAIRE BEAU PEEP

FRED BASSET ALEX GRAHAM

MODESTY BLAISE PETER O’DONNELL

PHANTOM LEE FALK

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: A good year for students or those starting out in their ca-reer. An opportunity early this year will take you overseas for higher education or forwork. Business people will sign fresh contracts on highly lucrative terms. Love andmarried life moves along smoothly. Your health will be good throughout. You may beshifting residence, and may even plan to move to another city. A change will be for thebetter.BABIES BORN TODAY: Good looking, prominent nose and Charming eyes. Will behealthy and long-lived. Will be responsible, witty, intelligent, critical but helpful. Aftera good education, career in research, shipping, communications or industry is indi-cated. Success and gains are indicated perhaps, away from place of birth.

TODAY’S FORECASTTIGER BUD BLAKE

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Afternoon Despatch & Courier 27COFFEEBREAKMOON : GeminiTITHI : Amavasya till 12:43 pm

NAKSHATRA : ArdhraRASHI : Mithun [Gemini] K. Ch.

LUCKY COLOUR : BlackLUCKY NUMBER : 6

ARIES (March 21 - April 20):An increase in work activities will

bring in money but take its toll onyour health. By taking it easy, you will

not lose advantage. It is necessary tomaintain cordial relations within the fam-ily so that you are able to keep a check onoutside influences that harm your per-sonal interests. Trust goes a long way incementing ties where frequent journeysand distances are unavoidable.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): YouBe cautious today and don’t betoo vocal about your future plans.

Someone close may be looking for anopportunity to take advantage of you. Ex-penses mount and demands on your timeand money from the family could be awk-ward. Try to balance work and home af-fairs more cordially in your own interest.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): AMaybe the way you’re handling dif-ficult situations is becoming coun-

terproductive. Don’t hedge your betssimply take up something that needs at-tention. You stand to benefit from shortterm deposits. A leisure pastime couldlead to great achievements and could pro-pel you into the limelight. There is some-one interested in you romantically but youhave not noticed. A certain developmentmight show you the way to proceed.

LIBRA (September 22 - October22): You may want to increase thescope of your work now and this will

mean a lot of publicity. It is time thatthosearoundyousitupandtakenoteofyourskills.Offers fromabroadareexcitingbutdonot promise everything that you would wantfromthem.Your fearsabout thefutureofyourrelationship with your beloved could createsome insecurity. It may have to do with achange of location. Rest assured that yourwill get some good news about it soon.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 -December 20): Social events,get-togethers, discussion and

trips, all augur well for you. Thosewho love you seem to expect only the bestfrom you. Of course you know that you willbe able to fulfill their expectations. Beingmore thoughtful and finding time for yourmate will certainly go in your favor A trip isin the offing for some of you to see a lovedone.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - Feb-ruary 18): You will create a newapproach in work, which improves

efficiency, and yields increased prof-its. Stick closely to your new plan of ac-tion. Do not resort to borrowing; you arecapable of raising your own resources. Acelebration is likely in the family. Youmeet up with someone you may have metin different circumstances. The presentsetting seems to be more conducive for afriendship to develop.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20):It’s hectic but rewarding day at

work for you. An expected ap-proval comes through unexpectedly.

Try to cash in on the fortunate profes-sional phase. You will get a chance tohandle work independently. Good resultsand gain are certainly indicated for youtoday. Your light- hearted approach willminimize the bad effects of some tensionat home. Lovebirds can look forward to awonderful evening.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21):Work and financial prospects arebright. Partnership is offered to

you on lucrative terms. Investmentmade now yields profit. There will be newdevelopments around you. Those lookingfor new opening will get a good chance.You will be busy with out-of-town guests.You may have second thoughts about a re-cent love interest. Perhaps you are judg-ing the person too much. Relax, give lovea chance.

VIRGO (August 22 - Septem-ber 21): You will have a very busytoday, though you may not

achieve much. If you have to wait abit longer for rewards, it would be worthit. Be careful when signing agreements orcontracts. You have tendency to trust thewrong kind of people. Remain alert. Yourmate may caution you on the choice offriends. It may be difficult for you to seereason at the moment.

SCORPIO (October 23 - No-vember 21): Travel plan pro-ceeds smoothly. You will do your

task successfully and earn substan-tially. Situation at work improves withmore responsibilities and increase insalary. Some will get to an opportunity fora part time business. A prompt decisionin a new business transaction will yieldgood results. At home things are gettingbetter but continue the efforts for you willfind solutions with a few compromises.

CAPRICORN (December 21- January 19): You conclude yourwork on schedule and decide to

leave early to take it easy at home.Perhaps you are waiting for some newsabout work related activities. Have confi-dence in yourself and your destiny and willcertainly get good news that you are wait-ing for. You are too preoccupied with your-self to notice the caring support that youhave been getting form someone close.

PISCES (February 19 - March20): Try to work hard if you wishto achieve goals that you have set

for yourself. Once that is done youwill be an acknowledged winner. But youmay have to take the initiative in sortingout an old issue with a co-worker. You willget the assistance you need. The ordealsand snags of everyday life can be stress-ful and affect you. However you can lookforward to a relaxed evening with yourmate or beloved.

JAGJIT UPPAL

ACROSS:4 Arm muscle (6)7 Operate by automation (8)8 Coarse and granular - "in gray"

anagram ? (6)10 Prevalent or generally present ?

(2,3)13 Gave a signal to an actor ? (4)14 Exchange figures (4)15 Dull resonant sound (4)16 Exclamation of surprise (3)17 Read superficially (4)19 A metrical foot consisting of a short

or unstressed syllable followed by anaccented syllable (4)

21 Sri ___ set up a famous Ashram inPondichery (9)

23 Lt. Kojak (4)24 Rumanian city (4)26 US spy bureau (3)27 Of ___: of prominence or of

importance ? (4)29 Biblical preposition (4)32 Communists, colloquially speaking (4)33 A very small spot or bit of something

(5)34 Put into other words (6)35 Sand-pit leap (4,4)36 Capital of New South Wales (6)

DOWN:1 South Indian or Sri Lankan of

Dravidian origin (5)2 Dried grass stalks (5)3 Mr Abdullah of J&K (4)4 Started (5)5 Attired (4)6 Indian state - the land of five rivers (6)9 Victoria ___ or Elizabeth ___ (same

word) ? (6)11 No objection certificate, acronym (3)12 Progeny (5)13 Fights, battles or attacks (7)15 School subject, in short (3)16 I love Latin (3)18 Danish money (6)

20 Find the sum of; make sense ? (3,2)21 A cry of discovery or of

understanding, in a way (3)22 Wrath or anger (3)23 Seasonable or opportune (6)25 Air traffic control (3)

28 Strangely (5)30 Hot spiced port drink (5)31 Giraffe-like animal (5)32 Horse with coat sprinkled with grey

and white (4)33 Audible exhalation (4)

CRYPTOQUIPThe Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another.

Today’s clue: A equals O

SSAATTUURRDDAAYY’’SS SSOOLLUUTTIIOONN

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1713

HEATHCLIFF

SUDOKU 1894Sudoku is a numberplacing puzzle based ona 9x9 grid such severalgiven numbers.To solve aSudoku puzzle, everydigit from 1 to 9 mustappear in each of thenine vertical columns, ineach of the ninehorizontal rows and ineach of the nine boxes.

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AfternoonWORDMINE

How many words of four or more letters can you make from the letters shown in today’spuzzle? In making a word, each letter may be used once only. Each word must containthe letter at the top of the pyramid. There should be at least one nine letter word.Plurals, foreign words and proper names are not allowed.Today’s ratings: 26 average; 29 good; 32 outstanding.SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: afar, BAREFACED, beef, cafe, carafe, deaf, deface, defer,facade, face, faced, fade, farce, fare, fared, fear, feared, feed, free, freed, reef

Y N ' E G H R H J N A A

M I N H Y G L Y B N Y A G

A J Y G M Y L H N A

J H R Y E H .Saturday’s solution: Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what iswith thoughts of what may be.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 4708

SOLUTION TO SATURDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORDAcross: 1 Orissa, 5 Ebb, 8 Utug, 9 Oval, 10 Bookie, 11 Take place, 13 Task, 15Lid, 16 Onion, 17 As mad, 20 Duo, 22 Tee, 23 Potty, 24 Oared, 26 Oct, 27 With, 28Paragraph, 31 Uakari, 32 Beam, 33 Herr, 34 Amo, 35 Attest. Down: 1 Orbits, 2 Irons out, 3 Suit, 4 Ate a lot, 5 Egged, 6 Boll, 7 Bacchae, 12 Kin,14 Knot, 18 Stew, 19 Meditate, 20 Donated, 21 Satpura, 24 Oca, 25 Shrift, 26Ortho, 29 Alma, 30 Hart.

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COFFEEBREAK

There are some positions inBridge which are very rare. One

may wait for a decade to execute anintricate squeeze or an end play &miss it when it actually occurs.Deepak Pradhan fulfilled his ambi-tion on this hand.

S- K J 2H- A 8 7 6D- 8 6 4C- A Q 8

S- Q 10 9 3H- 5D- Q 9 7 5 3C- J 9 5

S- AH- K Q J 10 2D- A K JC- 10 7 3 2

Deepak was south. He opened 1heart & soon found himself in 6hearts.West led heart 5. To score 12tricks, one needs fortuitous place-ment of cards. Basically if west hasclub King tripleton it is very easy soDeepak won in hand went todummy with the Ace of hearts &drew a 3.These discards set Deepak think-

ing.Why haswestmade such a riskylead? A singleton trump is almost

never led in any contract let alone aslam.Thismeant he had vulnerableholdings in unbid suits. Keepingthis in mind Deepak played a small

club to queen but east won & re-turned 10 of diamonds. Deepakwon & cashed the spade Ace. Thenhe cashed 1more trump.West’s dis-

comfiture was evident. Hesquirmed& discarded a spade. NowDeepak turned the screw on bycashing the last trump. In order toguard the diamondQueenwest hadto discard another spade.. NowDeepak knew he had his victim.This was the position

S- K JD- 8C- A 8

S- QD- Q 9C- J 9D- K J

C- 10 7 3

Deepak played a small club toAce. Then he cashed the spadeKing. The Queen came tumblingdown. On this he discarded a clubfrom hand. On the spade jack hethrew another club, & west wassqueezed again. Forced to guard thediamond Queen he threw the

club Jack, & the club 8 became the12th trick. Had he chosen to dis-card a diamond, Deepak wouldhave played a small diamond tohis King catching west’s queen &diamond Jack would have been the12th trick.

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BRIDGE

PARIS: Usain Bolt fired out awarning to Amer-ican arch-rival Tyson Gay by scorching to a

world-leading time of 19.73 seconds in the 200mat the Paris Diamond League meet.The 26-year-old Jamaican, a two-time

Olympic andworld champion over the distance,held off the attentions of compatriotWarrenWeiryesterday to streak past the field in emphaticstyle.Edging Gay’s season best by one-hundredth of

a second was the perfect broadside in the run-up to what promises to be a keenly contestedWorld Athletics Championships in Moscow be-tween August 10-18.“All is building up towards a great world cham-

pionships, youwill see a big show there, it will bethe climax,” warned Bolt.“And I want to be ready for that.”In perfect conditions with temperatures of 27

degrees Celsius (81F), Bolt led a host of impres-

sive performances from a stellar line-up on thetrack and in the field. Grenada’s Olympic andworld 400m champion Kirani James ran a seem-ingly effortless world leading time of 43.96sec,holding off a late surge from American LaShawnMerritt, themanwho previously held both titles.James, who became Grenada’s first Olympic

medallist in any sport in London, said it was im-

possible to nail down one thing as essential forwinning gold in Moscow.“Weather, shape, conditions, all that will play a

role and there will be seven other guys in thefinal,” he said.“You always need to pay attention to runners

like LaShawn — if he were far too ahead, it’d betough to catch and beat him.”Ethiopian long-distance superstar Tirunesh

Dibaba flew to a meeting record of 14:23.68 inthe women’s 5000m - the seventh fastest of alltime behind her own world record.Dibaba, twice Olympic 10,000m champion

and twice world champion at both 5,000 and10,000m, had compatriot Almaz Ayana for com-pany as she broke with 800m to go, but she wasnever in danger as she sprinted home.“With more pacemaking, I could have run

even faster,” Dibaba said, adding that herMoscow goals were clear.

MUMBAI: Like the Champi-onships atWimbledon, thebig guns took a beating in

the 24th edition of the Gulf Mon-soon Scooter Rally on Sunday. TheGulf Oil Corporation sponsoredand Sportscraft-organised eventsaw the emergence of a new cham-pion in Bhopal’s Muzaffar Ali.Having placed second last year,

the 32-year-old rider went one bet-ter, leaving last year’s championRustom Patel, and former champi-ons Manjeet Singh Bassan, AvtarSingh and Shamim Khan in theshade as he won the grueling 25kms monsoon challenge over thebackwoods of Navi Mumbai in 28minutes, 50 seconds in penalties.Nashik’s Shamim Khan (Mahin-

dra Rodeo), who was champion in2003 and ’04, finished second with0:29.02 seconds in penalties andBangalore’s R Natraj (TVSWego) ofTVS Racing was third with 0:29.08seconds.Defending champion Rustom

Patel (Honda Acrtiva) was fourthand 2011 champion Avtar Singh(Honda Activa) fifth.Four-time champion Bassan,

who won in 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008,finished sixth.astride a Suzuki Ac-cess, Muzaffar Ali overcame un-yielding conditions and a strongfield of 32 riders to emerge tri-umphant. After the riders startedfrom Our Lady’s Home in Parel onthe 35 km transport sector, Ali rodewith gay abandon over the dirttracts on the competitive sector ofNavi Mumbai to turn tables on thefavourites.

Though it did not rain heavilyduring the rally, riding on thegravel-laden, slushy course wasdicey. The riders had to exerciseextreme caution while negotiatingthe steep inclines and hairpinbends. Practically all of them tooka tumble or two and some evendamaged their scooters.

It was certainly also difficult rid-ing through water-logged areasbut almost all riders went throughthe exercise rather efficiently.Mention must be made about

Loretta D’Lomen, the only femalerider in the fray. She battled overthe course, completing the finalleg with a flat tyre to finish with a

creditable 1:41.47 seconds inpenalties.DehraDun’s Shradul Sharma,

astride a Honda Dio, was adjudgedthe best first timer and awardedthe late FirdoshVajifdar trophy forhis spirited riding. VikramjitBoparai was adjudged the bestThane-Navi Mumbai rider.

A Rare Animal

Airport officials wereforcing me to take off

my clothes: Azad

NEW DELHI: Havingencountered a

nightmarish experience at theHeathrow Airport in Londonyesterday, former Indiacricketer Kirti Azad is yet

come to termswith the ordealthat he alongwith his wifeand son had toencounterbefore taking a

flight back home.Azad today claimed that

airport authorities “harrassed”him alleging that there was anitem in his luggage which wasexplosive in nature.“I was dumbfounded when I

was taken to a separate roomfor questioning and the dutyofficer told me to take off myclothes for frisking. I told themthat I carry a diplomaticpassport and if they indeedwant to do this, they will haveto forcibly take off my clothes,”an angry Azad told PTI today. “Iwas absolutely stunned whenthey alleged that there is ahint of explosives in my check-in luggage. There was a bottleof mineral water which my wifePoonam had inadvertentlykept in the bag. In fact, I toldthe security officer that youcan throw the bottle away. Hehad a look at my passport andthen after consultation withhis senior informed me thatthere is hint of explosives inmy bag.”

Charleston scorestwo for Ave MariaMMUUMMBBAAII:: Ave Maria SC

scored a comfortable 5-2win against Warrior’s SC ‘A’ inFirst Division match of theMumbai Hockey AssociationLtd. (MHAL) League – 2013, atthe MHAL Stadium,Churchgate on Sunday. Thekey player for Ave Maria wasCharleston Lobo who nettedtwo goals, while Devanshu P,Nivren P and Narendra Schipped in with a goal each.For the losers, Depak Patilscored both the goals.RReessuullttss DDiivv--IIIIII:: Western

Railway Mumbai Division beatCoorg XI 7-3; BombayRepublicans beat MaharashtraMilitary School 7-2.

Muzaffar steals march over big guns

A MIGHTY MUDDY SPLASH: Riders stream through the slush as they negotiate a tricky path in the Gulf Monsoon Scooter Rally.

Bolt fires Gay broadside as Dibaba shines

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SPORTS

NURBURGRING: SebastianVettel finally won a race onhis home soil on Sunday

when he survived spells of intensepressure to steer his Red Bull to vic-tory in the German Grand Prix.The 26-year-old German, who

also had never won a race in themonth of July, came home narrowlyahead of fast-closing Finn KimiRaikkonen and his Lotus team-

mate Romain Grosjean of France.Vettel’s win was his fourth this

year and the 30th of his career andit lifted him 36 points clear of near-est rival, Spaniard Fernando Alonsoof Ferrari, in the drivers champi-onship.Alonso came home fourth ahead

of Britons Lewis Hamilton of Mer-cedes and Jenson Button ofMcLaren with Australian Mark

Webber seventh in the second RedBull.Mexican Sergio Perez finished

eighth for McLaren ahead of Ger-mans Nico Rosberg in the secondMercedes and Nico Hulkenberg ofSauber.Vettel became the first German to

win a German Grand Prix at theNurburgring in the history of theFormula One world championship.

After the drama of four explodingtyre blowouts in last Sunday’sBritish Grand Prix, the race was runwithout similar incidents otherthan when an errant wheel flew offWebber’s car during a pit-stop andstruck a tv camerman in the back.He was taken to the circuit med-

ical centre, but later said to bebruised and shocked, but not seri-ously injured.

Raj Bharathfinishes onpodium atFormula

Masters ChinaORDOS (China): Indian

racing driver Raj Bharathrounded off his race weekendwith a podium finish in raceone while engine issues inrace two didn’t allow him tofinish better than sixth atround three of FormulaMasters China, here today.

Driving for MecoMotorsport, the Bangalore ladhad posted his maiden win ofthe season on the last outingat Shanghai Internationalcircuit. At Ordos, though,mechanical issues which firstsurfaced in qualifying,prevented him from showinghis pace. But the 19-year oldmanage to hold on throughthe opening race of theweekend to finish third.

“The car seemed to lackacceleration out of cornerexits, so I was losing speed onthe straights and couldn’tcatch up to my rivals ahead,”said Raj. Things took a turn forworse in race two and Rajfound it difficult to maintainhis position, having startedthird. So despite a bout ofdefensive driving, he couldonly cross the line in sixth.

“It was much harder in thesecond race as drivers behindme were quicker, as ourissues had become morepronounced,” he said.

“I did the best I could butthere was no way of holdingthem back when you’relacking a lot of speed on thestraights,” he added.

Race three of the weekendwas cancelled due to safetyissues on the circuit, whichturned out be a blessing indisguise as it limited theamount of points that couldhave been further lost in thechampionship standings. Thecancelled race will be held atthe championship’s nextouting scheduled at InjeCircuit in Korea. “Honestly itwas a relief that one race gotpostponed, so hopefully we’llget to the bottom of the issuesand we’ll be back to our usualcompetitiveness in Korea,” Rajconcluded.

ZANDVOORT (Netherlands): In-dian racing driver KarunChand-

hok achieved his best FIA GT Seriesresult when his team, Seyffarth Rac-ing, finished fourth in Round 3 ofthe racing series, here today.The former Formula One driver

alongwith team-mate Jan Seyffarthhad initially qualified in 16th posi-tion. They finished eighth in thequalifying race before finishingfourth in the main race.The race pace for Seyffarth Rac-

ing seemed to be a lot better thanqualifying as they moved up theorder in the qualification.In themain race Chandhok had a

great start as he quickly moved upto sixth place at the end of the firstlap. His team-mate Jan Seyffarthtook over for the second half of therace and held off Alvaro Parente offLoeb Racing to finish in a brilliantfourth place. “I am extremely happyto finish in 4th after our qualifying

position yesterday. We could notfind any grip in qualifying and hadto make a host of changes for therace. The changes seemed to work

as the car was much better in therace.“To move up from 16th to 8thin the racewas excellent and the carfelt great. I managed to set the 5th

fastest lap in the race which clearlyshowed our car improved,” Chand-hok said. “It was tough as the carsahead of us were much faster. Janalso drove well and did a great jobholding off Parente in the last partof the race. After the LeMans recov-ery it was good to have my best fin-ish in the FIA GT Series.Meanwhile, Indian racing driver

Armaan Ebrahim and BMW SportsTrophy today rounded off theirstrongest weekend of 2013 with athird place finish in the Pro-Am cat-egory and tenth overall.Having scored their maiden

podium by finishing second yester-day, the teamwas on their way to goone better but a delay during thedriver change threw a spanner inthe works. “We were really on ittoday, the car was really strong andwe could have won the class andfinished top five overall,” said Ar-maan.

Force India’s pointstreak ends at GermanyNNUURRBBUURRGGRRIINNGG:: Sahara Force

India’s six-race point streakended at the German GrandPrix as Paul di Resta and AdrianSutil finished 11th and 13threspectively, here today.

Di Resta, who was in pointcontention till the very last lapof the 60-lap race, has missedout on scoring points for onlythe second time this season.

Before today’s race, only atthe Malaysian Grand Prix theScott had missed points, whenhe was forced to retire.

For Adrian Sutil it was hishome race and no-points was adisappointing result for him. It’snow the fifth time that he hascome out without adding to theteam’s score sheet. Today’s no-point show also means thatForce India’s lead over McLarenhas been reduced to 10 points.Force India remain in fifth placewith 59 points even as JensonButton and Sergio Perez added12 points to McLaren’s kittywith sixth and eighth placefinishes respectively.

Vettel wins on homesoil for first time

CHAMPION AT HOME: Sebastian Vettel with his team after his victory at Nurburgring, where he finished ahead of Kimi Raikonnen.

PODIUM STARS: The top three finishers pose proudly after the race in Zandvoort.

Karun and team ends 4th at FIA GT Series at Zandvoort

LONDON: Andy Murray ended Britain’sagonising 77-year wait for aWimbledonmen’s singles champion on Sunday

when he destroyed world number one NovakDjokovic, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 in the blistering heat ofthe All England Club.The 26-year-old became the country’s first

malewinner since Fred Perry in 1936, the yearthe Spanish CivilWar started, JesseOwens de-fied Hitler at the Berlin Olympics and GoneWith TheWind was published.

It was Murray’s second Grand Slamtitle to follow his breakthrough tri-umph at theUSOpen in 2012whichfollowed his Olympic gold medalas well as a heartbreaking, tearfulloss to Roger Federer in theWim-bledon final.However, Sunday’s title show-

down, between twomenwho havenow contested three of the last four

Grand Slam finals, rarely lived up toexpectations.

Both struggled in the stifling 40-degree heatand the top-seeded Serb, who had beatenMurray in the Australian Open final in Janu-ary, looked jaded after his record four hour43-minute semi-final victory over Juan Mar-tin del Potro.And despite leads of 4-1 in the second set

and 4-2 in the third, hewas out-hit byMurraywho finished with 36 winners to 31, with 21unforced errors to the Serb’s 40 and havingcarved out 17 break points.Inside a baking Centre Court, and watched

by Victoria Beckham, Wayne Rooney as wellas Hollywood stars Gerard Butler and BradleyCooper, the first point of the match was apunishing 20 strokes.Murray, who has played in the final of his

last four majors, had break points in the firstand third games, with the Scot finally pounc-ing on his seventh for a 2-1 lead.Djokovic levelled at 2-2 butMurraywas the

more aggressive, positive man and broke tolove for a 4-3 edge firing almost four times asmany winners than the top-seeded Serb.

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By Philem Dipak Singh

PUNE: India clinched a goldmedal inwomen’s 400m relay

in a sensational race to finishsixth overall as the curtains weredrawn on the 20th Asian Athlet-ics Championships with Chinaconfirming their supreme statusin the continent here today.The home team came up with

a rich haul of eight medals, onegold, two silver and five bronzeon the fifth and final day to givethe housefull ShivchhatrapatiStadium crowd a lot to cheer.India ended the Champi-

onships with two gold, five silverand 10 bronze, amuch improvedperformance than the last edi-tion in 2011 in Kobe, Japanwhere they had finished seventhwith one gold, three silver andeight bronze.

Vikas Gowda had won India’sother gold in men’s discus throwon the second day on Thursday.

Besides, the gold from relayteam comprising M RPoovamma, Tintu Luka, AnuMariam Jose and Nirmala, India

won a silver and a bronze inmen’s triple jump through Ren-jith Maheswary and ArpinderSingh. India also bagged a silverand bronze in women’s 200mthrough Asha Roy and DuteeChand respectively.

Luka, Satinder Singh andJithin C Thomas added a bronzeeach in women’s 800m, men’s400m hurdles and men’s highjump respectively.The women’s 4x400m relay

team, shone on the final day.

NEW DELHI: Hailed as the most success-ful Indian cricket captain, Mahendra

Singh Dhoni celebrated his 32nd birthdaytoday.“Here’s wishing a very happy birthday to

our captain @msdhoni #HappyBirth-dayMahi,” said the BCCI on its twitter handle.Dhoni, under whom India won the

Twenty20 World Championship in 2007, theODI World Cup (2011) and the ChampionsTrophy (2013), is currently in theWest Indieswith the national team for an ODI tri-series.The skipper is, however, laid low by a ham-

string injury which he picked up during theongoing series which also features Sri Lanka.Dhoni began his career in 2004/05 against

Bangladesh, a rather forgettable debut con-sidering that the player from Jharkhand wasrun out for a duck.But his career graph has only headed

northwards after that and he is easily one ofthe most revered sportspersons in the coun-try right now. Hard to know what goes on inDhoni’s mind...But I am guessing he backstemperament the most when he promotes atalent,” tweeted former India player SanjayManjrekar. The wicket-keeper batsman hasplayed 77Tests so far, scoring 4209 runs at anaverage of 39.70.

NEW DELHI: Newly-crowned Asian cham-

pionVikasGowda finisheda creditable fourth in theninth leg of the prestigiousIAAF Diamond Leagueathletics series in Paris.Gowda hurled the iron

disc to a distance of64.45mwhich he achievedin his third attempt atStade de France last night.He was second after the

third round but slipped to

fourth after a foul throw inthe next round.Gowda had won the

AsianChampionships goldin Pune on Thursday witha best throw of 64.90m.Germany’sOlympic and

world champion RobertHarting won the gold with67.04m in still wind condi-tions which did not pro-vide much help for thethrowers.He took the lead

straightaway with 64.97m,extended his advantagewith 66.80m in roundthree and threw 67.04mwith his penultimate ef-fort.Iran’s 2012 London

Olympic Games silver-medallist Eshan Hadadiwas second with 65.53m.Estonia’s 2008 BeijingOlympic winner GerdKanter was third with65.30m.

Rain stops play inSL-WI ODIPORT OF SPAIN: Rain stopped play in the

crucial one-day international match be-tween Sri Lanka and theWest Indies in the tri-nation series here today.Sri Lanka were 60 for three in 19 overs after

being inserted by the West Indies when theheavens opened up. Lahiru Thirimanne (13)and Kumar sangakkara (11) were at the crease.Brief Scores:Sri Lanka 60 for three in 19 overs (Lahiru Thiri-manne 13; Kemar Roach 2/19).

SILVER LINING: Triple Jump silvermedalist Renjith Maheswary in action.

ARTISTIC IMPRESSION: An artist makes sketchesof M S Dhoni on his 32nd birthday in Moradabad.

Murray wins Wimbledon title, ends 77-year agony

HIP, HIP, MURRAY!

TRUE BRIT: Andy Murray sinks to his knees afteroutplaying Novak Djokovic in the final.

Dhoni turns 32,laid low by injury

Indian women clinch gold in 4x400m relay on final day

GOLDEN SMILES: Golden quartet in the 4x400 m of Luka Tintu, Nirmala, AnuMariam Jose and Poovamma show their gold medals after the victory ceremony.

Gowda finishes fourth in IAAF League

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