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INDIANS PRAISING PAKSHOULD BE ‘HIT’: SADHVI

VHP leader Sadhvi Balika Saraswati has stoked

a controversy saying that people who live in India and praise Pakistan should be “hit

with shoes” and sent to that country, following which police are mulling action against her.

NATION BUSINESS WORLD 8 SPORTS 10

SABHARWAL NAMEDIMF DIRECTOR

US President Barack Obama has re-nominated Sunil

Sabharwal, an independent Indian-American investor, to a key administration post as Alternate Executive Director at the IMF.

US ENVOY TO S KOREALIPPERT ATTACKED

US Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert was on

Thursday attacked at a public function in Seoul by a blade-

wielding man who slashed him while shouting out demands for a unifi ed Korea, an assault that left the envoy hospitalised with 80 stitches to his face.

INDIA LOOK TO MAKE IT FOUR FROM FOUR AGAINST WINDIES.

March 6, 2015F R I D A Y

Car driver killed, 5 hurt in collisionVASCO: A 22-year-old car driver was killed on the spot and fi ve other occupants were injured after their vehicle collided against an unidentifi ed vehicle at Zuarinagar here early Thursday morning.The police gave the name of the deceased as Elston D’Mello, 22, a resident of Pixem Dongrim, Vasco. The accident occurred at around 4 am when D’Mello and others were returning to Vasco via Verna four-lane road. On reaching near BITS-Pilani, Zuarinagar their vehicle is learnt to have collided against an oncoming vehicle, which fl ed from the scene after the accident.The exact cause of the accident was still not known as police were yet to record the statement of the injured persons.Those injured were Patrick D’Souza, Joseph D’Souza, Anthony Rebello, Rohan Gaur and a 30-year-old woman.PSI Dayanand Bhat of Verna police station conducted the panchanama and is conducting further investigations.

KATHMANDU-VARANASI BUS SERVICE FLAGGED OFF: Nepal and India on Thursday launched a direct bus service between Kathmandu and Varanasi from here, linking the two prominent cities - home to Pashupatinath and Kashi Vishwanath temples.

CORPORATE ESPIONAGE: JUDICIAL CUSTODY OF 6 ACCUSED EXTENDED: A Delhi court on Thursday extended till March 19 the judicial custody of six accused including fi ve corporate executives, who were arrested in connection with the petroleum ministry documents-leak case.

COURT SEEKS ED’S RESPONSE IN 2G MONEY-LAUNDERING CASE: A special court on Thursday sought the reply of Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the pleas of four accused fi rms facing trial in the 2G scam-related money laundering case, seeking acquittal on the ground that the prosecution has failed to bring any evidence against them.

HEAVY RAIN LASHES SHIMLA; MERCURY DIPS: Heavy rains on Thursday lashed Shimla and its adjoining areas causing sharp fall in temperatures while mid and lower hilly areas of Himachal Pradesh witnessed sporadic rains, accompanied by high velocity winds.

PAKISTAN DESCRIBES JAISHANKAR’S VISIT AS ICE BREAKER: Pakistan on Thursday described as an “ice breaker” the visit of Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar to Islamabad that ended a seven-month deadlock in high level talks.

AAP DIVIDE PERSISTS EVEN AFTER BHUSHAN, YADAV EXIT: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP remained a divided house Thursday, as one party leader alleged that two senior colleagues were dropped from its top decision body though they had offered to step down honourably and another decrying the expose.

RAPIST PARADED NAKED, KILLED IN NAGALAND: An alleged rapist, suspected to be an illegal Bangladeshi migrant, was dragged out of the high-security central jail in Nagaland’s commercial town of Dimapur by an irate mob, paraded naked and then thrashed to death on Thursday, offi cials said.

INDIAN HELD FOR BLASPHEMOUS FACEBOOK POST: The Indian consulate in Jeddah has confi rmed the arrest of an Indian in Saudi Arabia for allegedly posting a blasphemous image of the Kaaba on his Facebook page, media reported on Thursday.

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‘MISSION RABIES’ TO MAKE GOA RABIES-FREE IN THREE YEARS ‘Include dos and don’ts on dog bites in school syllabus’ The `Mission Rabies’ has urged the State government

to include in school syllabus about dos and don’ts with respect to dog bites.The `Mission Rabies’ which is permanently based in Goa has been currently creating awareness among school children about prevention to be taken if bitten by dogs. According to Mission Rabies, India education manager Dr Murugan Appupillai said that students are told in schools that they should not disturb dogs when they are eating and sleeping and also should not confront the dogs. The students are also educated in practising proper waste disposal systems and fi rst-aid methods if bitten by dogs, which is crucial in controlling the popu-lation of stray dogs and they feed and from the leftover foods thrown on the streets.

BY A STAFF REPORTERreporters@gomantaktimes.com

Panaji: A team of the UK-based charity ‘Mission Rabies’ based per-manently in Goa has committed to make the State rabies-free within the next three years.

However, the programme launched by the Dogs Trust-spon-sored `Mission Rabies’ is in its sec-ond phase and it is seeking the Goa government support for the project, which had so far not been granted, Dr Murugan Appupillai, India ed-ucation manager (former ITEC expert High Commission of India) told reporters here on Thursday.

“In August 2014 we submitted a proposal to the Goa government seeking funds of Rs 55 lakh every year, which has so far not been

granted. Despite this, Mission Ra-bies invested Rs 2.7 crore worth of charitable funds in the program since April 2014,” Dr Murugan said adding that despite this, `Mission

Rabies’ had invested Rs 2.79 crore of charitable funds in the pro-gramme since April 2014.

Dr Jordana Burdon Bailey, In-ternational project manager said

that `Mission Rabies’ is committed towards wiping out the terrible dis-ease in the State-wide mass canine anti-rabies vaccination - a method recommended by the World Health Organisation, as the most effective way of preventing human death from this deceases.

Goa had reported six canine ra-bies cases in last three months and the charity is catching and eutha-nizing dogs and testing them for ra-bies, before conducting vaccination drives to prevent further spread of the decease.

During Phase-I in partnership with its sister charities worldwide like the Veterinary Service, and In-dia project for Animals and Nature, alongside generous support from

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Dr Murugan Appupillai (C) speaking at a press conference held at Panaji on Thursday. Others present are Dr Jordana Burdon Bailey (L) and Rotary Club of Panaji president Manoj Patil (R). Pic: Atish Naik

New Delhi: An upset government on Thursday served a legal notice on BBC over broadcast of controversial inter-view of Delhi gangrape convict and said YouTube had removed the video even as it instructed telecom operators to ensure that it is not available to their subscribers. (Related stories on pg 5)

The government, in its notice, told the BBC that it has “violated” the agree-ment of not using the documentary for commercial purpose and for this the British media giant was liable for legal action. “No necessary approval was tak-en by the BBC for the commercial use of the documentary. We have served the notice and waiting for their response.

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BY A STAFF REPORTERreporters@gomantaktimes.com

Panaji: With beef stocks across the State now down to zero, Goa Meat Complex (GMC) chairman Lyndon Monteiro on Thursday urged meat traders to get back to importing meat or face sanctions as the government would take over the supply of meat in the State to ensure a regular supply of beef.

Speaking to media persons, Mon-teiro said “Approximately 30 to 50 tonnes of beef are consumed on a daily basis depending on the tourism season and religious festivals. The current shortage of beef being ex-perienced is due to the traders reluc-tance to resume importing beef from the neighbouring States.”

Monteiro also threatened to put into place a contingency plan where the government takes over the supply of beef in the State to ensure a regu-lar supply at a reasonable price.

“Within the next three to four days, if the traders do not reopen their shops and begin supplying beef to the people of Goa, the government will step in and take over the supply of meat in the State to ensure a regular supply of beef. Once that happens I do not want anyone, neither the traders nor the public to say the government has interfered with the beef supply-ing business,” Monteiro said.

Monteiro also clarifi ed that con-trary to media reports, the Goa Meat

Complex is capable of slaughtering animals despite the ongoing renova-tion work, adding that slaughtering has stopped as traders have stopped bringing animals to the GMC.

“The state-of-the-art GMC is capa-ble of slaughtering 120 animals per eight hour shift. Slaughtering can

take place round-the-clock, however, traders have stopped bringing ani-mals to GMC due to several issues. GMC has to follow the directives is-sued by the High Court and if they have any grievances they know what to do,” said Monteiro, adding

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What inspired you to undertake this project?

Alejandro: My inspiration was that there wasn’t any important documen-tary record on the life of the islanders of these islands. The Delta del Paraná is a fascinating place full of mysteries. The vegetation is lush due to the high humidity and its inhabitants have little connection with the mainland. I moved from the city to these islands and lived there for more than two years for this project.

What was the experience in un-dertaking especially moonlight photography in the forests of Ar-gentina?

Alejandro: Because I worked during full moon nights, had to do extensive planning for each image and only had three nights per month to photograph.

Further I had to convince every is-lander to pose completely still for sev-eral minutes in the dark (on account of slow shutter speeds).

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PM seeks Oppncooperation on Land BillKhandwa (MP): Reaching out to the opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he was ready to remove anything that was anti-farmer in the Land Bill and “publicly prayed” to the detractors not to stall the legisla-tion in the Rajya Sabha where NDA is in a minority.

“I have told all the parties in the Ra-jya Sabha that I am not anti-farmer. If there is anything anti-farmer in my statements then tell me. I am ready to remove it, but they don’t tell (me). They don’t want to allow the government to function and don’t want the country to progress further.

“It is a fact that we don’t have a ma-jority in the Rajya Sabha. It is not pos-sible for us to carry out developmental works without your support. I publicly pray to you not to stop the country’s vehicle of development through that majority,” Modi said, after dedicating to the nation two units of 600 MW each of Shri Singaji Thermal Power Plant in the district.

The Prime Minister also laid the foundation stone of two units of 660 MW each under the project’s second phase.

Criticising the land bill earlier passed by the UPA government, Modi said, “The law that was passed by earli-er government has no provision for al-lotment of land for schools, hospitals, houses, water and irrigation. I ask you whether you need all these facilities or not.”

He had asked the opposition to sug-gest ways to improve the current land bill, but it did not respond, he claimed.

“I am not anti-farmer. We will never oppose farmers. I asked other parties to tell me what to improve, but they don’t say anything,” the Prime Minis-ter said. PTI

BY A STAFF REPORTERreporters@gomantaktimes.com

Panaji: As many as 62 candi-dates fi led their nomination papers on Thursday for the March 18 Zilla Panchayat (ZP) elections.

With this the total number of nominations rose to 62.

According to information available, 32 candidates fi led their nominations for ZP con-stituencies of North Goa and 30 fi led for ZP constituencies in South Goa.Saturday, March 7 is the last day to fi le nomi-nation papers with Friday, March 6 being Holi holiday.

Sitting ZP member Dhaku Madkaikar, brother of Cum-

bharjua MLA Pandurang Madkaikar fi led his nom-ination from St lawrence Agacaim) which is reserved for candidates belonging to Scheduled Tribes (ST) com-munities. Dhaku is current-ly representing Cumbharjua ZP constituency which has now been merged into Corlim

constituen-cy, which is reserved for women can-didates.

Most of the candidates who fi led their nominations on Thursday were independents while, 16 candidates belong-ing to BJP and one MG party

fi led their nominations.The BJP candidates along

with their dummy candidates fi led their nominations for Honda, Keri and Nagargao constituencies in Sattari talu-ka.

Others who fi eld their nomi-nations were Perpertual Hazel Fernandes of BJP for Xeldem, Vithoba Velip of M G Party for Barcem, Anthony Miran-da from Cortalim, Rosy Fer-nandes and Roshan Palkar from Santa Cruz, Sudesh Kalangutkar from Chim-bel, Jaideep Shirodkar from Shiroda, Hannibal D’Costa from Benaulim and Tauseef Shaikh from Davorlim.

New Delhi: Former Haryana chief minister O P Chautala and four others, including his son Ajay, on Thursday failed to get any relief from the Delhi High Court which upheld their con-viction and ten-year jail term in the teachers’ recruitment scam case saying “overwhelming ev-idence” showed the “shocking and spine-chilling” state of af-fairs in the country.

The court, however, modifi ed the trial court order on the quan-tum of sentence for 50 other con-victs by reducing the jail term to two years.

Giving no relief to the 80-year-

old INLD chief, who is already serving his jail term, the court directed his son, Ajay and a few others to surrender on Thursday before the prison au-thorities to serve their remain-ing sentence.

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Govt gives legal notice to BBCSAYS YOUTUBE REMOVED VIDEO

Delhi police to approach CERT-In

Delhi Police is in the process of approaching the Indian Computer

Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), an arm of the Department of Electron-ics and Information Technology, to block the controversial BBC docu-mentary on the Delhi gangrape from appearing anywhere on the Internet including video sharing websites like YouTube.

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Mixed reactions to BBC move

The decision by BBC to broadcast the controversial interview of one

of the December 16, 2012, gangrape convicts despite the restraining order against its screening has evoked mixed reactions among political parties. While BJP has been critical of the UK national broadcaster’s decision to go ahead with the telecast of the interview shot inside Tihar jail here, Congress said it supported BBC’s move and was

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‘Beef’ between NGOs, DAHVS, traders reason for shortage?

The ‘beef’ between NGOs and slaughtering of animals and their

tactics to stop animal slaughter in the State is the reason behind the beef shortage, stated vice president of the All-Goa Quraishi Meat Traders Associ-ation of India Manna Bepari.“In regard to the April 2013 High Court order we fi led a petition against the NGO members for harassment as their sole purpose is to stop the slaughtering of animals in Goa,” said Bepari while addressing media per-sons in Panaji on Thursday.“Since slaughter in Goa has stopped, with the help of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services, we have been importing certifi ed, hygienic meat in insulated vehicles. However these NGOs have started harassing us at check-points and blocking the vehicles from enter-ing the State,’ claimed Bepari.“We do not want to import meat, we want to slaughter our own animals at the Goa Meat Complex (GMC)

however due to the harassment by NGOs we have fi led a petition urging for a modifi cation of the High Court order and request the government to ensure that the case is heard as soon as possible,” said Bepari.Traders Association treasurer Anwar Bepari said “The GMC is a state-of-the-art facility but for two years reno-vation has been going on. In addition, between 7 am and 1 pm we make the most business, however, government employees begin work at 9 am and do not work on Sundays and public holidays.”“We are a public service that sells meat facing these issues? Why shouldn’t the animal cruelty act apply to sellers of fi sh, mutton and chicken?” questioned vice president Bepari.“Goa has all types of people. It is the fundamental right of a people to eat what they want. Forces who I will not name are trying to stop the sale of meat in the State,” alleged Bepari.

Traders blame NGOs for shortage

The islanders are a community that is photographically ignored: AlejandroIt took two years of visits to the Parana River Delta for the Argentine photographer Alejandro Chaskielberg to It took two years of visits to the Parana River Delta for the Argentine photographer Alejandro Chaskielberg to produce his remarkable portrait of the communities that inhabit these sub tropical islands and who live their lives produce his remarkable portrait of the communities that inhabit these sub tropical islands and who live their lives according to the rhythmic pace of the tides. The surreal effect he manages to achieve in La Creciente (The High Tide) according to the rhythmic pace of the tides. The surreal effect he manages to achieve in La Creciente (The High Tide) is due to his use of moonlight as the principal source of illumination. The series is on display a the Goa Photo festival. is due to his use of moonlight as the principal source of illumination. The series is on display a the Goa Photo festival.

A photo from Alejandro’s photo documentary ‘La Creciente’ currently on display at the Goa Photo festival which comes to a close on Saturday, March 7.

62 candidates fi le nominationsHC upholds 10-yr-jail term for Chautala, son

O P Chautala Ajay Chautala