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As Darbar move has arrived in Jammu, it

is promotion time for the citizen. Now he

will see with his eyes stretched from ear to

ear plus mouth wide open, the whizzing

past of special people called politic ians,

administrators and ministers. Otherwise,

they were living a remote Jharkhand jun-

gle style life with no insight about fast

moving white cars, police jeeps and

sirens. Poor Jammites will now feel and

have darshan of these special people.

Promotion is a great soothing cause to cel-

ebrate. Previously tribals and now sub-

jects as Darbar is have arrive d to rule

them, the citizens have been given peakhour time to celebrate. Between 9 and 10

AM, they will be stopped at all important

roads and crossings for long time. They

will be made to guess and play Kaun

Banega Karorpati on which minister is

passin g and how ma ny ca rs are followi ng

him. The government has given been gra-

cious and those who miss the morning

show have been given another prime time

slot in the evening. They can indulge in all

fancies and look to the sky and thank God

about real democracy and arrival of

Darbaris and listen to their peculiar Raag

Darbari. The show will continue for six

months so, Jammuites are fortunate

enough to thank their stars. Great gover-

nance and the lucky Jammu citizen whatelse he wanted than this valuable bargain.

RANASAHIB

HAIL JAMMUITES: PROMOTIONFROM TRIBALS TO SUBJECTS

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ROHIT SINGH RANA

The Darbar has opened yesterday

and as per tradition, the Chief

Minister was presented with a Guard

of Honour. It reminds one ofAlexanders entry into Persia---

pomp, show, mil itary drill and th en

the overreaching statement ---All

that is not Greek is ugly. Omar

uttered the same style statement

about Narendra Modi, the BJPs PM

candidate--- I can dislike him but

not ignore, he can galvanise the

BJP. Days earlier, in order to set

the political stage for his grand entry

into the Jammu Secretariat, he laidout his vision about the political

future of Kashmir. He evinced inter-

est in the North Ireland formula or

Scotland pattern relationship for

Kashmir with India. When ques-

tioned about this statement, he

resorted to his usual parroting;Kashmir is an integral part of India

and shall always remain so.

This was one scene, set for the peo-

ple by Omars Nat ional Conf erence.While he was receiving the Maharaja

style Guard of Honour, PDP, his

main political opponent in his home

turf took out a large rally to oppose

Omars war mongering on

Kashmir. PDP rally led by

Mehbooba Mufti sensing the prover-

bial iron is hot strike now op portuni-

ty, hit hard on the Chief Ministers

stance on Pakistan when he said

India should hit hard at Pakistan.

PDP in true testimony to its versionof another faade of political haze

does not want India to hit hard at

Pakistan. What makes them crib and

complain on Omars stance when

Pakistan is indulging in total hate

India; bash India approach is equally

not understandable.

Back at Jammu, when Omar entered

the Civil Secretariat, another must

political scene was created by BJP,

who believe Jammu is their funda-

mental stronghold. They too had to

show their political worth and whatan opportune moment than to take

out a protest rally and march as near

to secretariat as possible. Then have

a sit in, mission accomplished, jobdone and work statement completed

with a big media photo shoot click-

ing their every move, they think

Jammus aspirations have been

given vent to.

Three political dramas in a single

day, yet all such efforts only enacted

to influence constituencies or play to

the galleries. In first place, Omar

Abdullah is the Chief Minister of a

sensitive state. He has no right to

speak in public about contentiousissues which will only rake up con-

troversies remotely connected to any

solution on Kashmir. Given the pen-

chant of politicians to comment on

anything, it makes a dispassionate

observer hang his head low over the

polit ical oppor tunis m being dis-

played by them. Regarding Modi

one preponderating factor today is

that he has galvanized his party to

action. He is becoming a bogeyman

for the opposition and Omar being a

partn er with un-li kemin dedCongress at the Centre and in coali-

tion with it in the State it is but natu-

ral to pay some tribute to it via Modi

bashing. Rem ember all Modi dis likeor hate statements are being regis-

tered at 10 Janpath, so why not to get

a decent entry there.

Darbar move is an administrative

exercise and not an ideal stage for a

political fight. Omars statement s,

PDPs protest and BJPs loud

demonstration are not needed on

such occasion. Instead all the politi-

cal parties should have released their

policy principles in order to make

administration corruption free andresponsive to the aspirations of the

people. In a spir it of coo rdination it

was one moment when there should

have been some unanimity on mak-

ing governance effective. As Darbar

move and opening of Secretariat in

Jammu means after six months it is

now time for this region to taste the

fruits of good and effective gover-

nance. That spirit is miles away and

not in sight at all given the oppor-

tunism and political slug-fest, all

parties ar e indulging in to. In the bar-gain Jammu will continue to suffer

on many counts.

OMARS DARBAR ENTRY: GUARD OF HONOUR , DISLIKE OF MODI PLUS PROTESTS

MORSY DEFIANT IN

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JAMMU, NOV 04 Jammuand Kashmir chief minister,Omar Abdullah, Monday

pooh poohed t he Modi wavein the country and said it was

a bit of exaggeration."As far as, Modi wave is con-cerned. I think the Modiwave would be a bit of exag-geration", he told media per-

sons during an interaction inJammu, the winter capital."However, it would be bewrong on our part to deny theinfluence of Modi in elec-

tions.. There is an effect ofModi and that effect may not

be on the average voter but itis visible amongst the cadreof BJP to the extent that it has

an impact on theelections.We would have towait and see but won't use theword wave, definitely no" headded.Referring to controversy overhis recent statement onKashmir's accession withIndia, Omar emphaticallysaid "Jammu and Kashmiracceded to India, Jammu andKashmir is a part of India andno two ways about there.There may be differences inthe way the state acceded ascontrary (opposed) to otherstates but that does not callinto the question of acces-sion", "Jammu and Kashmiracceded to India, if youaccede to India. Are you not

part of I ndia, of course youare", chief minister clarified.Replying to another questionabout its coalition partner's(Congress) aversion to opin-ion polls, Omar said that he

has no opinion about hisallies felt about the subject."As far as NC is concerned,the opinion polls rarely areconducted in Jammu and

Kashmir and therefore this ismore a theoretical questionrather than a practical one"."The day, I feel that meaning-ful opinion polls are conduct-ed in the state and they havea bearing on the elections, Iwill form an opinion till weare regional party for us toform an opinion that mattersin rest of the country nothere'.To a question about Irelandtype solution in resolvingKashmir imbroglio, he saidthat as a chief minister "itwould be gross impropriety,if I was to promote one solu-tion as opposed to others. Asa leader of the NationalConference, my party has

promote d a roadmap theybelieve in is an ideal one. It isthe only roadmap that has thestamp of state legislature"."As chief minister, I musttake into consideration other

proposal as well.My proposalhave a proposal, the PeoplesDemocartic party has a pro-

posal, Bhartiya Janta Partyhas a proposal, 8Contd p2

A meaningful dialogue process that culminatesin a solution of Kashmir issue: Omar Abdullah

JAMMU, NOV 04: Under party's"Secretariat Gherao" programme on theopening day of Secretariat on DarbarMove at Jammu, BJP State PresidentJugal Kishore Sharma, alongwith BJPLeader of Legislative Party AshokKhajuria, National Executive MembersDr. Nirmal Singh, Shamsher SinghManhas, MLAs-Sham Choudhary andSukhnandan Choudhary, State Vice-President Chander Prakash Ganga andother leaders, courted arrest near CivilSecretariat against state government tohighlight and protest against discrimina-tory attitude with Jammu and Ladakh inall matters and at all levels.Earlier, Jugal Kishore Sharma and otherleaders led a protest march of partyworkers and citizens of Jammu fromIndira Chowk and they were blocked bya heavy contingent of police enroute

Secretariat but they finally managed toovercome all the police barricadesamidst scuffle with policemen andreached Shalimar chowk where massive

protest was held.Jugal Kishore Sharma, criticized the

NC-Congress coalition government for

discriminating with Jammu and Ladakhregions in matters related to develop-ment and extension of welfare schemes.He said that Jammu has also suffered at

the hands of Kashmiri leaders becauseof the stoic silence by the elected repre-sentatives of NC and Congress fromJammu for the sake of power. He saidthat the chief minister Omar Abdullah israking up the settled issue of accessionof the state with India and is trying tounsettle this question which has beenlong back settled by his own grandfa-ther. He said that the CM has concernand time for making repeated utteranceson K-issue but least concern and timefor masses.Ashok Khajuria said that constitutional-ly and legally J&K is the integral part ofIndia but unfortunately some elementsrake up the issue of accession or mergerto divert the attention of the massesfrom real issues. He said that the provi-sion of separate state flag in addition tothe national tri-colour too has induced a

sense of separatism and sooner it goesbetter it would be for the state.Dr. Nirmal Singh said that the peoplehave now realized 8Contd p2

BJP protests against state governmentSeven killed inmilitant attack

in Assam

GUWAHATI, NOV 04: Thedeath toll in the attack bysuspected Garo NationalLiberation Army insurgentson a group of people gam-

bling on the occasio n ofDiwali in Assam's Goalparadistrict has risen to seven."Six persons were brought tothe Gauhati Medical CollegeHospital and one of themwas brought dead. One seri-ously injured has been oper-ated upon and another fourinjured are undergoing treat-ment", HospitalSuperintendent R Talukdar

said on Monday.Three other wounded wereadmitted to Goalpara CivilHospital and 8Contd p2

Rahul seeks more

time to respondto EC notice

NEW DELHI, NOV 04:The Election Commission onMonday granted four daysmore time to Congress vice-

president Rahul Gandhi toreply to its notice for modelcode violation over hisremark that Pakistan's ISIwas in touch withMuzaffarnagar riot victims.The EC has now asked Mr.Gandhi to reply to it by 11.30am on November 8, as towhy action should not be ini-tiated against him for violat-ing the model code by mak-ing such remarks in hisspeeches in Churu,Rajasthan on October 23 andin Indore on October 24while campaigning."The Commission has con-sidered your request forextension of time for submit-ting your reply to the com-mission's notice ...has decid-ed to extend the time for

reply to the said notice up to1100 hrs on November 8,2013 (Friday)," the EC letterto him said. In seeking moretime from 8Contd p2

NEW DELHI, NOV04: The CBI onMonday approachedthe Rajya Sabha sec-retariat seeking docu-ments related to faketravel bills allegedlysubmitted by a JD(U)MP against whom acase has been regis-tered for making suchclaims.CBI sources said ateam has again goneto the secretariat tocollect these docu-ments.The agency has regis-tered its first FIR in

the Leave TravelC oncess ion(LTC )scam against JD(U) RajyaSabha MP Anil Kumar

Sahani for allegedly siphon-ing off around Rs. 9.5 lakh by

presenti ng fake air tickets

and boarding passes.Besides Sahani, AirIndia customerService agent RubainaAkhtar and Lajpat

Nagar-bas ed traveloperator Air CruiseTravels Private Ltdhave also been namedin the FIR in the scamin which LTC claimswere forged for travelon state-run Air India.In his defence, Mr.Sahani had refuted theallegation claimingthat it was he who hadcomplained to theauthorities about 20

fake tickets being sub-mitted in his name.He has alleged that it was his

personal 8Contd p2

NEW DELHI, NOV 04:BJP today welcomed Jammuand Kashmir Chief MinisterOmar Abdullah's contentionthat there will be a NarendraModi"effect" in the forth-coming elections and sug-gested that Congress shouldalso accept this fact."It is good that OmarAbdullah has accepted thatModi is a factor in these elec-tions. This is something thatthe Congress is not yet readyto accept," BJPs p o k e s p e r s o n P r a k a s hJavadekar said, adding thatthe ruling party should comearound to accepting the fact.Asked about Omar's viewthat though Modi will be aninfluence in the polls, there isno "Modi wave", he said,"He has the freedom to sayso."BJP has claimed that the

mammoth crowds at Modi'srallies show there is a eupho-ria in the country about its

prime ministerial candidate.The opinion polls have also

favoured Modi overCongress Vice PresidentRahul Gandhi as the likely

prime minister of the country.Omar had noted that there isa Modi effect in the elections

but ruled out a wave in hisfavour as an exaggeration."It would be wrong on our

part to deny any influence ofModi in the elections--I can-not say there is Modi wave --there is effect of Modi,"Omar told reporters in

Jammu earlier in the day.In response to a query about"Modi wave" going on in thecountry ahead of LokSabhaelections, Omar said,"I think Modi wave would bea bit of an exaggeration"."There is an effect of Modi--That effect may not be on the

average voter but it is visibleon cadres of BJP. Whatimpact it will have on elec-tions let us wait and watch,"the chief minister said.

Good that Omar has acceptedModi is a factor the polls: BJP

LEH/NEW DELHI, NOV

04: With IAF now able tooperate C-130 Herculestransport aircraft at high-alti-tude Daulat Beg Oldie(DBO) sector in Ladakh,

China is reported to havebuilt a radar station on itsside of the border ostensiblyto monitor movement ofIndian planes over the area.The structure, according to

official sources today, hascome up across the DBO onthe Chinese aide which hasdescribed it as a weather sta-

tion. Indian technical experts,who have been monitoringthis structure closely, haveopined that it could be a radar

station which apparently didnot exist before. However, nosignal has been emitted orreceived so far.

The work on this structurewas expedited by the Chineseafter IAF made a surprisehistoric landing of its C-310J

Hercules on a military airstrip in 8Contd p2

China sets up radar station nearLadakh to monitor Indian pl anes JAMMU, NOV 04: It isunfortunate that the J&K

State has Chief Minister likeOmar Abdullah who stilllacks mindset to govern thestate with pro-people issuesand gives confusing verdicts

by repeat edly saying thatJ&K is not merged withIndia, removal of AFSPA andlatest by saying that K-issuehas political genesis not eco-nomic basis even after com-

pleting four years as ChiefMinister says BJP StateSpokesperson Dr. NirmalKamal.Omar Abdullah need to readthe history in correct per-spective and chronologicalorder, analyse the eventswhich took place in J&Kstate immediately after divi-

sion of the country and hewill find that most of the timehis grandfather, father andnow Omar himself have

remained at the helm of pow-erful affairs and also thatdynastic rule of NC coulddevelop the state economy

but no effort was made toconvert the state into viableeconomic entity. Now givingsuch statements prove mean-

ingless efforts only to remaindear to the people and wintheir sympathies to garnertheir votes in the coming

elections. Such a gimmickryfurther proves hollowness ofhis mind rather than adynamism which could provehelpful for the states eco-nomic development. Peopledo require basic amenities ofeducation, roads, power,employment and not themusic infested with tonesappealing Pakistan and sup-

porters of Pakistan says Dr.Nirmal Kamal.Omar Abdullah by ignoringinterests of unemployedyouth and placing irrelevant

prioriti es like mystical K-issue before the public hasonly authenticated that NCwith Omar Abdullah on thetop has nothing to deliver tothe public and so he hasridiculed himself with his

band wagon as incompetentto rule the state before theeyes of the public.Dr. Nirmal 8Contd p2

State needs a CM dedicated to the state : Nirmal Kamal

NEW DELHI, NOV 04:With a view to finalising thecharge sheet in VVIP heli-copter purchase scam, CBIwill send a judicial request toItaly seeking statements ofthe accused who have beenfacing trial in that country.The CBI sources said adetailed questionnaire onvarious aspects of financialtransactions, meetings ofalleged middlemen and theirinterests in Indian andTunisian companies, amongothers, would be part of the

judicial request.They said the agency wantedto first get the statementsthrough the judicial request -

- also known as LettersRogatory -- after which itmight seek extradition of thesuspects, if needed.The top executives of Italianfirm Finmeccanica and itsUnited Kingdom-based sub-sidiary AgustaWestland arefacing trial in Italy foralleged corruption in supplyof 12 VVIP helicopters toIndia.The Rs. 3600-crore contractis under probe of Italian andIndian agencies for allegedkickbacks paid to Indian offi-cials, including former IAFchief S.P. Tyagi, to clinch it.Mr. Tyagi has denied allega-tions of 8Contd p2

Chopper scam: CBI to sendjudicial request to Italy

LTC scam: CBI seeks papersfrom Rajya Sabha secretariat

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A mean ingfu l ...Sajjad Lone's People

Conference has a propos-

al. How can as a chief

minister say that all those

proposals should be

ignored and only one

should be accepted",

Omar elaborated.

"When meaningful dia-

logue starts it must takeinto consideration all

those proposals and then

work out the most appro-

priate one. May be it is not

possible to take anyone

solution and impose it in

full. May be you take bits

from each of the solutions

and work out a compre-

hensive roadmap".

The chief minister said

that he was not promoting

a power sharing agree-

ment. "I am not promoting

here anything other than

the fact that we want a dia-

logue, a meaningful

process_ a dialogue

process that results in a

solution".

Seven killed ...one in a private hospital,

officials said.

Armed with automaticweapons, suspected Garo

National Liberation Army

insurgents from across

Meghalaya had on Sunday

night indiscriminately

opened fire upon a group

of people gambling on the

occasion of Diwali at

remote Gendamari, under

Aagia Police Station.

Six persons were gunned

down on the spot, while

10 others were seriously

injured with one of them

succumbing to his wounds

on way to hospital, they

said.

Those killed on the spot

were identified as

Bholanath Rabha,

Amarendra Rabha,

Jayanta Rabha, Puran

Rabha, Kalpanath Rabha

and Lulu Rabha.

Security measures have

been intensified in the dis-

trict following the inci-

dent, the sources added.

Goalpara district has been

witnessing violence since

October 20 last with

protests against the

upcoming Rabha Hasong

Autonomous Council

elections between

November 13 and 25

demanding exclusion of

non Rabha areas from the

Council.

Sources ruled out that last

night's incident was con-

nected with the Council

elections.

Proscribed GNLA based

in the Garo hills jungles of

Meghalaya, adjacent to

Goalpara district, has been

fighting for a separate

state since 2009 indulging

in killings, attacks on

security forces and civil-

ians, blasts, kidnappings

and extortions.

Rahul seeks ...the EC, Mr. Gandhi in hisletter on Monday cited his

prior travel commitments

during the week ended

November 3 and holidays

due to the festive season

as reasons for not been

able to reply to the EC in

time.

BJP protests ...that while the Congress

has never uttered a single

word for Jammu, the BJP

always remained on fore-

front to highlight the prob-

lems of youth, refugees,

migrants, senior citizens,

ex-serviceman, farmers

and so on. He said that this

"Secretariat Gherao" pro-

gramme is for highlight-

ing the discrimination

with Jammu and seeking

attention of the govern-

ment towards the Jammu

and Ladakh regions.

Shamsher Singh Manhas

said that despite massive

funding from the Centre

for development of all the

three regions but major

portion of these funds is

expended in valley. Not

only this, even the funds

exclusively meant for

Jammu too are diverted to

Kashmir and the Congress

is responsible for such act

of the state government.

Amarnath Gupta, Prof.

Hari Om, Chander

Prakash Ganga, Suresh

Jamwal, Bali Bhagat,

Kavinder Gupta, Sat

Sharma (C.A), MLA

Sham Choudhary, MLA

Sukhnandan Kumar,

Chander Mohan Gupta,

Mamta Singh, Munish

Sharma, Yudhvir Sethi,

Ravinder Raina, Pt. Ashok

Kumar, Parmodh Kapahi,

Rajesh Gupta, Baldev

Singh, Keshav Dutt,

Subash Jandial, Sat Pal

Pappi, Daljeet Singh,

Bansi Lal Bharti, Nand

Kishore Sharma, N.D.

Rajwal, Chaman Lal

Kanathia, Subash Bhagat,

Raj Singh, Kashmir

Singh, Rajinder Chib,

Kamla Gupta, Vikram

Randhawa, Rajiv Charak,

Praduman Singh, Ayodhya

Gupta, Kuldeep Kandhari,

Sat Pal Choudhary,

Tarseem Choudhary,

Parveen Arora, Anju

Dogra, Arvind Gupta,

Dinesh Gupta, Surinder

Choudhary, Prem Gupta,

Priya Jral, Gulshan

Mahajan, Sangeeta Gupta,

Balwan Singh, Vidya

Devi, Amarjit Dogra,

Ishant Gupta, Mnumanav

Mahajan, Vivek Gupta,

Pawan Gupta, Pt. Mela

Ram, Surinder Mahajan,

Iqbal Singh, Dalip Kumar,

Ajay Vaid, Jeet Angral,

Ashish Sareen, Vijay

Sharma, Ajay Chalotra,

Uttam Singh, Bindu

Singh, Rampal, Ashok

Singh, Vinay Sharma and

hundreds of others courted

arrests.

LTC scam: ...assistant who had submit-

ted these tickets for claims

but no money was ever

transferred to his account.

The MP has claimed that

he had brought this matter

to the notice of concerned

authorities and even sub-

mitted that complaint let-

ter to CBI when it

searched his premises

here.

The tour operator and Air

India did not offer any

comments.

CBI has alleged that Mr.

Sahani made false claimsof approximately Rs. 9.5

lakh for seven business

class return air tickets

costing nearly Rs. 1.34

lakh each to Port Blair in

December 2012 using

fake air tickets and board-

ing passes for himself and

six associates, the sources

said.

CBI sources said the

agency has registered a

case of cheating and for-

gery among other charges

under Indian Penal Code

(IPC) and relevant provi-

sions of the Prevention of

Corruption Act.

CBI has alleged that the

MP purchased seven

return e-tickets in con-

nivance with the tour

operator and the Air India

employee. He also

allegedly used online

service to get boarding

passes using web check-in

basis.

The sources said just

before the boarding time,

these boarding passes and

tickets were allegedly can-

celled using the sign-in

code of Akhtar, the Air

India customer service

agent, and money was

refunded with little deduc-

tion.

Meanwhile, the e-tickets

and boarding passes

which were earlier issued

were allegedly presented

to claim the travel expens-

es by the MP.

The sources said even

though no expenses were

incurred by the MP, he

allegedly claimed the

amount using these e-tick-

ets and boarding passes

which were cancelled.

Chopper scam: ...any kickbacks.

Giuseppe Orsi and Bruno

Spagnolini, former and

current Chief Executives

of AgustaWestland respec-

tively, are facing trial in

Italy for alleged corrup-

tion. Mr. Orsi was heading

AgustaWestland when the

deal was signed in 2010

and is now the Chief

Executive Officer of par-

ent company

Finmeccanica.

The statements of both

these top executives are

important for CBI for

finalising its charges

which would be levelled

in the charge sheet, the

agency sources said.

India has become a civil

party in the ongoing trial

in Italy which helped it in

getting court documents

submitted by Italian pros-

ecutors in connection with

the case.The CBI needs statements

and answers to its queriesfocusing on its probe so

far in the case. The agency

will have to corroborateallegations levelled in its

FIR, besides piecing

together the entire

sequence of events in its

charge sheet.

It has named both the

firms in its FIR in which11 others including Mr.

Tyagi and three alleged

European middlemenhave also been named for

"tilting" the deal inAgustaWestland's favour

in lieu of 51 million euro

bribes.

The agency has alleged

that the bribes were trans-

ferred through a web of

Indian and Tunisian soft-

wares firms in the garb of

technical contracts.

It has alleged that during

his tenure as the IAF

chief, Mr. Tyagi and "with

his approval" the Air

Force, "conceded to

reduce the service ceiling

for VVIP helicopters from

6,000 m to 4,500 m as

mandatory to which it was

opposing vehemently on

the grounds of security

constraints and other relat-

ed reasons".

According to the FIR,

"Haschke Guido and

Gerosa Carlo (middle-

men) managed to send

5.6 million through

Mohali-based IDS

Infotech and Chandigarh-

based Aeromatrix Info

Solutions Private Ltd to

India and kept the remain-

ing amount out of about

24.30 million received

from AgustaWestland with

themselves in the account

of IDS Tunisia."

Both the Indian compa-

nies have denied involve-

ment in the bribery scan-

dal.

State needs ...Kamal further added peo-

ple of J&K require a chief

minister who is accessibleto the common masses,

understand their senti-

ments, requirements and

aspirations and not ambi-

tious opportunists catering

only to the vested interest

of his kiths and kins and

not the down-trodden. The

border issues can be tack-

led by the centre govern-

ment and the para military

forces not the irrelevant

genesis of incompetent of

Chief Minister, says Dr.

Nirmal Kamal.

China sets ...DBO on August 20 this

year.

The matter was raised at

the border meetings dur-

ing which the Chinese

side claimed it was aweather station, a state-

ment which the Indian

side contested as there was

no civilian population in

the area.

The DBO air strip had

been activated after 43

years in 2008 when an

AN-32 transport plane

landed there.

However, after the land-

ing, the transport plane

was used only for air drop-

ping material for troops of

Army and ITBP, manning

the hostile terrain in this

region. Hercules has made

at least seven landings so

far in the area, the sources

said. It is capable of carry-

ing up to 20 tonnes of

load.

In a related move, Chinese

troops mounted on vehi-

cles entered five km deep

into Indian territory at

Trade Junction area in

north of Ladakh.

However, there was no

face-off as the Chinese

troops pulled back on their

own, the sources said.

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SRINAGAR, NOV 04:Coming down heavily onJammu and Kashmir gov-ernment for using "undemo-cratic methods" and forceagainst striking workers atChenani-Nashri tunnel proj-ect, large number of TradeUnion activists on Mondaydemanded immediaterelease of workers anddemanded the restoration oflabour laws.Scores of Trade UnionActivists belonging to dif-ferent employees and work-ers organizations staged a

protest against Austral ianbased 'Leighton Company'alleging that it is putting

pressure on Administrationand police to muzzle the

voice of the workers whodemand increase in wagesand implementation ofLabour Laws.President, Jammu andKashmir CoordinationCommittee of Trade Unions,Muhammad Maqbool toldCNS that police is usingundemocratic methods and

force against strikinglabourers at Chenani-Nashritunnel project."We demand that arrestedworkers should be releasedimmediately and theirdemands should be accept-ed," he said.Pertinently, Tunnel projectworkers' union had gone onstrike on October 27demanding reinstatement often employees, wages in lieuof overtime, weekly off, riskallowance while LeightonCompany, which runs thetunnel works, did not con-cede to their demandsresulting in the face off."Government is making hol-low claims and their actionsmake it clear that it is not

interested in decreasing thelevel of unemployment.Workers are not only beingthrown out of jobs, but also

punished with force," theprotestors said adding thatgovernment in Jammuand Kashmir has snatchedthe right to protest peaceful-ly.

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JAMMU, NOVEMBER04- Minister for Housing,Horticulture and Culture Mr.Raman Bhalla has said thattechnical workers are themain architects in redesign-ing the profile of the Statethrough their planning,

adding that in this regardthey are helping theGovernment in completingvarious ongoing projectswithin the stipulated timeframe.This was stated by theMinister while addressing ahuge gathering of technicalworkers on BabaVishwkarma Day functionheld at Marble Market inTrikuta Nagar, here onMonday.Mr. Bhalla said thatGovernment was committedto develop every corner ofthe State on modern lines,adding that peace is a vitalfor taking development tothe door steps of people. Hesaid Government hasensured good governance forthe effective implementationof various welfare pro-

grammes so that more andmore people get benefitted.The Minister saidGovernment promulgatedseveral acts like Right toInformation Act, PublicService Guarantee Act etc bywhich the participatoryinvolvement of people has

been ensured in day-to-daygovernance. He said throughthese acts a common mancan get the requisite servicesand information within thestipulated time frame.Mr. Bhalla highlighted vari-ous reformative steps beingtaken up by the Government

in making available all nec-essary basic amenities to the

people of the State especial-ly those living in rural andfar-off pockets.The Minister said that theGovernment was workingunder a comprehensive planto develop modern infra-structure facilities across thestate. He said that there wasno constraint of funds underdevelopment sectors likeR&B, PHE, ERA, PDD,Health, Education and othersectors.Mr. Bhalla said that unprece-dented development has

been witnessed across theState during last five yeartenure of the presentGovernment adding thatmany new projects were in

pipeline to upgrade the liv-ing standard of the people.The Minister said that

instructions have beenissued to the concerneddepartment to complete allthe new projects being exe-cuted in their jurisdictionsand make optimum use offunds. He urged the peopleto personally monitor thedevelopment works beingexecuted in their respectiveareas.Mr. Bhalla assured theinhabitants that their remain-ing genuine developmentaldemands would also be ful-filled on priority basis.While throwing light on thelife of Baba VishwakarmaDay, the Minister saidVishwakarma is the divinearchitect of the universe, oneof the fourteen preciousthings born of the SamundraManthan and he also con-structed the holy city of

Dwarka where Lord Krishnaruled. He said this day is notonly celebrated by the engi-neers and architectural com-munity but also by all pro-fessionals.Listing new projects sanc-tioned for his home con-

stituency, Mr. Bhalla saidthat Health Ministry hasapproved Rs. 71 crore forconstruction of 6-storeyMaternity hospital withinGandhi Nagar hospital

premises. He said that thehospital would be construct-ed with all facilities at parwith SMGS hospital.The Minister said to easerush in the city and Gandhi

Nagar hospitals theGovernment has alsoapproved Rs. 4.77 crore forconstruction of PrimaryHealth Centres at BhoreCamp and Lower Gaddigarh

besides NS Urban HealthCentre at Trikuta Nagar.Earlier, the Bhojpuri artists

presented colourful culturalitems which were highlyappreciated by the hugegathering of Bhojpuries.

Technical workers architects inredesigning profile of the State: Bhalla

JAMMU NOV 4- Decryingpolitical opportunists forexploiting weaker segmentsof society to further theirelectoral interests, ProvincialPresident Mr DevenderSingh Rana on Monday saidthat National Conference hasall along worked for theirwelfare and dignity."In fact, National Conferencehas been a movement of theweaker sections", he saidwhile addressing a largegathering of workers on theoccasion of VishwakarmaJayanti at Mishriwalla, nearhere this afternoon, addingthat Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh

Mohamned Abdulah pio-neered several initiatives toameliorate the lot of theunder privileged people.In this context, he made a

particular reference of vari-ous initiatives that empow-ered lakhs of people and

brought cheer in their lives."This initiative gainedmomentum over the yearswhich brought about a dis-cernible change in the livingconditions of poor people,"he said adding that Jammuand Kashmir is perhaps theonly state in the countrywhere everybody has a roofto live under. Otherwise, the

condition is precarious inseveral other states, wherethe poor people are forced tolive on footpaths. He alsoreminded the people aboutthe great role played by

National Conference in gen-erating awareness amongvarious segments about theirrights.The Provincial Presidentexhorted the weaker sectionsto unite under one banner andstrive for their justifiedrights. National Conference,he said will remain in theforefront, as it has beenalways in the past, to mitigatetheir problems.

Vishwakarma Diwas observed

Rana decries political opportunistsfor exploiting weaker sections

JAMMU, NOV 04-Cautioning the people

against the political groups,which are bent upon todivide the people on reli-gious, caste and regionallines, Minister for Planningand Development, Labourand Employment, AjaySadhotra on Mondayappealed them to supple-ment government efforts ofensuring overall growth ofthe State.He was addressing a publicmeeting at Ladore in Marh

block.He said that NationalConference will emerge vic-torious in 2014 assemblyelections under the leader-ship of Chief Minister OmarAbdullah to steer the statetowards progress and pros-

perity.Sarpanches, Panches andother prominent persons ofLadore and adjoining vil-lages apprised the Minister

with their demands andproblems including con-struction of Bridge in thearea to provide connectivitywith Marh and blacktoppingof approach road to Ladore.Responding to theirdemands, Mr. Sadhotraannounced that constructionof bridge would be started

before March next year andsaid that after completion ofthe same, the people of thearea would be benefitted alot.

He also appealed youth tocome forward and avail the

benefits of self employmentschemes launched by theState and CentralGovernments, especiallySKWEPY.He said that CoalitionGovernment, headed byChief Minister OmarAbdullah, is committed tochannelize the energy ofyouth towards right direc-tion for equitable and speedydevelopment of the state.

Sadhotra addresses public meeting at LadoreJAMMU, NOV-04: Use ofModern Agriculture

Machinery like Rotavators,Zero Till Seed Drills, Laserland levelers, Reaper-CumBinders, Cono-weeders, KnapSac Sprayers and IrrigationPumsets are being popular-ized on a large scale undervarious Centrally SponsoredSchemes like NFSM andISOPOM. This was disclosed

by Director Agriculture,Jammu Sh Ajay Khajuriawhile addressing the workersand officers at GovernmentAgriculture Workshop duringthe Vishwakarma DayCelebrations. The Directorfurther said that we are gettinga very good response andresults of the Demonstrationof different AgricultureMachinery from the field. Theuse of Paddy Transplanters,Reaper-Cum-Binders, Seed-Cum-Fertilizer Drills, PowerWeeders, and Diesel HillPloughs is being demonstrat-

ed under the componentTraining, Testing and

Demonstration of NationalFood Security Mission. 1114demonstration of SeedTreatment Drums have been

planned in current wheat cropto be sown during Rabi 2013-14 season covering the farm-ers of all the panchayats of theProvince. The AnnualWorshipping of BhagwanVishwakarma was held atSeed Processing Unit, SeedMultiplication Farm (SMF),Chinore, SMF Chakrohi andGovernment AgricultureWorkshop, Talab Tillo,Jammu by the workers andofficials working in theseunits. On this occasion wor-ship of tools and machineswith special prayer for safetyof the operators and workerswas done After the functionthe Director along with teamof officers had a round ofworkshop and inspected thevarious newly installed

machines. On the occasionAgriculture Research

Engineer, Sh DevinderSharma apprised the team thatthe machines like SheetCutting Machine, SheetBending Machine, SheetRolling Machine, Swagging& Beading Maching andPower Hammers purchasedunder the componentStrengthening of Workshopunder RKVY has contributedtowards increased operationalefficiency, better quality ofimplements fabricated andhigher output of the work-shop. Joint Director (Inputs),Jammu, Sh Susheel Sawhney,Agronomist Vegetable,Jammu, Sh Sunil Koul, C. M.Sharma, Deputy Director(Central) Jammu, Sh KuldipDhar, SMS (Engg), Sh Sh B.M. Rana, SMS, Sh UttamSharma, President All J&K,Agriculture EmployeesAssociation, Jammu alsoattended the programme.

Vishwakarma Day celebrated at Govt Agri workshop

SRINAGAR, NOV 04: Coldwave continues to tighten itsgrip on the Kashmir Valley asthe mercury fell consider-ably, recording the season'slowest temperature so far inLeh. Leh area of Ladakhdivision was the coldest placein the state with a minimumtemperature of minus 8degrees Celsius, recorded asthe season's lowest so far, aMeT department official saidtoday. The mercury plungednearly four degrees in Kargiltown last night to settle atminus 6 degrees Celsius, theofficial said.Pahalgam also witnessed adrop of 0.5 degrees as thesouth Kashmir tourist resortrecorded a low of minus 3degrees Celsius, he said.State's summer capital,

Srinagar, registered a drop innight temperatures with theminimum of 1.2 degreesCelsius, compared to yester-day's 1.7 degrees Celsius.The night temperature inGulmarg was up by a degreeto settle at minus 1 degreeCelsius, the MeT officialsaid, adding snowfall is pre-dicted for the famous ski-resort in the mid-week.The official said other placesin the valley like Qazigundand Kupwara also recorded aminimum temperature closeto the freezing point.The weather office has fore-cast that a fresh western dis-turbance would likely affectthe state from tomorrow andsaid the weather wouldremain dry and pleasant tillthen.

Season's lowest tempera-ture so far recorded in Leh

BHADERWAH, NOV 04:MLA Bhaderwah MohdSharief Naiz on Monday in asimple but attractive functionheld here at Dak Bunglow,Bhaderwah organised bySusheela Devi EducationalCultural Welfare Society ,

New Delhi distributedcheques worth Rs 2250 and6000 to each and every bene-ficiary as package of incen-tives among 150 women sand girls to boost the Textile

production and Handicraftsworks production in the area .All Cheques were distributedunder the scheme of distribu-tion of wages compensationto the artisans of SUTP & DPTDW. National President ofthe Susheela DeviEducational Welfare Society ,

New Delhi Arun KumarPanday and Nadeem ShariefYouth Congress leader werealso present on the occasionInteracting with the membersand workers of SusheelaDevi Educational Welfare

Society who are getting train-ing in handicraft and textileworks centers in Bhaderwah

established Society , theMLA Bhaderwah reiteratedGovernment's commitmentto provide every possiblehelp to boost industrial unitsin rural areas especially relat-ed to handicrafts and handlooms adding that severalschemes have been launchedto improve the standard ofartisans in the State.

He said artisans are providedspecial incentives to boosthandicraft production as

Handicrafts and textiles arefamous worlds over. Heappreciated the NGOSusheela Devi EducationalWelfare Society, New Delhifor establishing their trainingcenters in Bhaderwah andsaid that the government hasenhanced stipend to the hand-icraft trainees and rupees 1lakh shall be given as

National Award to the bestperforming Artisans of theState.

He said government endeav-ors to strengthen such NGOsso that the poor artisans bothmen and women can be ben-efited.Naiz called for organ-izing Handicraft and textilesexhibitions in nook and cor-ner of the Bhaderwah to give

boost to this sector.Responding with thedemands put forth by theSociety, the MLA Bhaderwahassured them that their gen-uine demands will be solvedin a phased manner.He assured that full support

would be provided to them toimprove their livelihood. Hesaid pending issues would betaken up with the KhadiVillage IndustriesCommission, Govt. of Indiashortly for early redressal.Earlier, National President ofthe Society Arun KumarPanday highlighted theachievements of the Board.Sarpanchs Shabir AhmedKhan , Sartaj Ahmed Kellu ,Mohd AShraf Batt ,

Kulbhushan Kotwal and oth-ers were also present on theoccasion.

MLA Distributed Cheques among 150 beneficiaries at Bhaderwah

JAMMU, NOV 04- Ministerfor Rural Development andPanchayati Raj, Mr. AliMohammad Sagar has saidthat one hundred more modelvillages have been approvedfor ensuring sustained devel-opment of rural and far-flungareas of the state.The Minister was addressingofficers during a reviewmeeting of the RuralDevelopment Department.Directors RuralDevelopment, Jammu,Kashmir Mr. Shafiq AhmadRaina and Mir Altaf Ahmad,Director Panchayati Raj, Mr.Farooq Ahmad Khan,Director Finance, SpecialSecretary Rural

Development, Joint DirectorPlanning RuralDevelopment, ACDs, DPOs,Exens of both the divisionswere present in the meeting.Mr. Sagar said that the gov-ernment has completed thealready taken up model vil-lages and the need of the hourwas to take up some more so

that the more rural and far-flung areas become devel-oped and get the requisitefacilities. He said that bytaken up these villages; peo-

ple living in these areas willget the requisite facilities asavailable in towns.The Minister further directedthe officers to speed up thework on the left overPanchayat Ghars so that theycan be given to their respec-tive Panchayats. He said thatthese infrastructural assets

are essential for the day-to-day functioning of thePanchayati Raj Institutions(PRIs) which have beenempowered with the powers

of 14 vital departments."Under 13th FinanceCommission, 1800Panchayat Ghars are sup-

posed to be completed, out ofwhich a considerable numberhave been taken up and com-

pleted, the need is to com-plete the remaining ones assoon as possible", the

Minister added."The officers should work inclose coordination to ensurethe speedy completion of theremaining Panchayat Ghars

as the requisite funds havealready been placed at theirdisposal. The bottlenecks, ifany, should be removed byholding regular meetings sothat the pace of work is expe-dited", the Minister said andmaintained that there should

be no deviation from thealready approved plan.

Murtaza Ali for Student AgeKARGIL, 04TH NOV: Toassess the problems and diffi-culties faced by the people,the Advisor to CM Qamar AliAkhone along with the StateMinister for Science andInformation Technology,Medical Education, SchoolEducation, Youth Service andSports Feroz Ahmad Khan,MLC Kargil Syed AhmadRazvi, Councilor GhulamRasool Nagvi, other coun-cilors, Additional DeputyCommissioner Kargil andother district officers visitedDrass Sub Division andattended a Public Durbar.During the Public Durbar

Sarpanches and Panchesform different villages ofDrass made aware theMinisters about the problemsfaced by the people of theirvillages and demanded forimmediate redressal of these

problems. O n this occasioninteracting with the people

present there the Advisor to

CM assured for meting andredressing their problems one

by one on priority basis.Recounting the developmen-tal schemes completed andrunning in Drass SubDivision, Qamar Ali Akhonesaid that the Zojjila Tunnelhas been initiated by theChief Minister of J&K lastyear and work will start soon.He also told that Tehsil Statusfor Drass, Niyabat for TaiSuru, Block for Soth and SubDivision Status for Sankooand Chiktan are under thekeen consideration of theState Government.

The State Minister forScience and Information

Technology, MedicalEducation, SchoolEducation, Youth Service andSports Feroz Ahmad Khanand Councilor GhulamRasool Nagvi also interactedduring the Public Durbar.Likewise the Team alsoattended such Durbars atZanskar, Taisuru and Sankoo.

Public Durbar Held at Drass

Tehsil Status for Drass under

Consideration: Qamar Ali Akhone100 more model villages approved: Sagar

JAMMU, NOVEMBER 04:Director General of Police(DGP), Mr. Ashok Prasadinspected PoliceHeadquarters and other mov-ing police establishmentswhich resumed functioning inthe winter capital Jammu herethis morning, following annu-al darbar move.Mr. Prasad was received atPHQ lawns by senior policeofficers and was presentedguard of honour by a contin-gent of armed police.Accompanied by AdditionalDirectors General of Police,Mr. P. L. Gupta, M r. S. P. Vaidand Mr. S. M. Sahai, the DGPvisited various sections ofPHQ and enquired from theofficials about the working oftheir branches. Mr. Prasadalso chaired a high levelmeeting of police officers atPHQ and discussed variousissues related to the PoliceOrganization. He enquiredabout the progress achievedon different fronts of policingin the State. He instructed theofficers to maintain close rap-

port at all levels to keep the

law and order maintained.Urging the officers to workwith greater zeal for achiev-ing desired results in differentareas of policing, Mr. Prasadsaid that major thrust should

be given to public service andall matters related to the com-mon people should be settledon priority. He said that safe-ty and security of the peopleis our prime concern and effi-cient measures and deploy-ment should be made toensure it. During the meet-ing, Mr. Prasad asked the offi-cers to initiate the exercise forthe upcoming challenges andin this connection all Wingsof the Organization needs to

be mobilized. While dealingwith the challenges it should

be ensured that common peo-ple does not face any incon-venience in the day-to-dayworking, he added.Later, the DGP visited othermoving offices of the organi-zation including Armed,Home Guard, Police HousingCorporation, CID, Security,Railways and CrimeHeadquarters.

JAMMU, NOV 04- TheSpeaker, J&K LA, Mr.Mubarak Gul on Mondayinspected various sectionsincluding question section,hospitality and protocol

branch, legislation, library,store and stock in theAssembly Secretariat afteropening of offices here afterthe darbar move. The Speakerdirected the officers ofAssembly Secretariat to workwith utmost dedication. Healso asked them to follow upAction Taken Reports of the

proceedings held in previousAssembly Session besides the

directions given by variousCommittees to the depart-ments.sHe asked the concerned to

prepare the list of librarybooks immediately and ensure

its availability online so thatinterested people can getinformation about the library

books of the AssemblySecretariat. The Speakerdirected the concerned tomaintain cleanliness in andaround the AssemblyComplex. Mr. Gul said thatthe meeting of the all theChairmen of different finan-cial and other Committees will

be convened soon. He saidthat the functioning of theCommittees will be reviewedevery fortnightly.The Speaker directed theSecretary Assembly Mr. M.

Ramzan to ensure the func-tioning of winter AssemblySecretariat at Srinagar so thatany grievances of the publicare redressed as and when he(Speaker) visits the Valley.

PHQ resumes functioning in Jammu

DGP inspects movi ng police estab-lishments, chairs officers meeting

Speaker inspects various sec-tions in Assembly Secretariat

Asks employees to work with dedication, follow up ATRs

Trade Union activists demand

restoration of labour laws

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secure their place in the sum-mit clash of the event atKakamigahara, Japan onMonday.After being locked 1-1 at halftime, India scored four fieldgoals after the changeover toregister their second consec-utive win in the four-teamwomen's competition.India, who stunned higher-ranked China 4-2 in theirtournament opener, will takeon hosts Japan on Thursdayin their last round-robinmatch, which will also be a

dress rehearsal ahead ofSaturday's final.With two wins from as manygames, Japan also sealedtheir place in the final of the

women's event. Japan onMonday defeated China 5-1in another match.Against Malaysia onMonday, the Indian girls

were slow to get off theblocks.It was Malaysia who tooklead in the 15th minutethrough a penalty corner con-version by skipper Nadia

Abdul Rahman.But India hit back nine min-utes later when Poonam Rani(24th) converted a penaltycorner to level the scores.In the second half, it wasIndia all the way as NeilHawgood's girls displayedincredible attacking hockeyto run away with the match.

Namita Toppo (44th minute),Ritu Rani (52nd), AmandeepKaur (54th) and Deep GraceEkka (65th) scored for Indiato take the game out ofMalaysia's reach.

PARIS: Novak Djokovicbeat defendin g championDavid Ferrer of Spain 7-5 7-5 to win the Paris Masters onSunday and keep alive hishopes of reclaiming theworld number one spot bythe end of the year.The Serb recovered from a

break down in both sets tosnatch his third consecutivetitle, following victories inBeijing and at the ShanghaiMasters last month, and the40th of his career."It has been a very difficultmatch for me," Djokovic saidin a courtside interview.

"It has been very hard againstone of the best competitorson tour, someone who nevergives up. I have been patient,I played aggressive. I am

very happy with this win."It is the first time Djokovic,the 2009 Paris Masterschampion, has won back-to-

back Masters Series eventssince his successive triumphsin Rome, Madrid andMontreal in 2011.He could still overthrowworld number one Rafa

Nadal if he wins next week'sATP World Tour Finals inLondon and the Davis Cupfinal with Serbia, who hostCzech Republic in Belgradelater this month.Ferrer, who collected his firstMasters Series crown last

year in Paris, became thefifth defending champion toreach the final at the indoorevent and fail to retain theirtitle.

Novak Djokovic beats DavidFerrer in Paris Masters final

Indian women crush Malaysia 5-1 toenter Asian Champions Trophy final

LONDON: India's LeanderPaes and Czech RadekStepanek, the seventh rankedteam in the Barclays ATPWorld Tour Finals, will belooking to do serious damageto the eight-team draw in a

bid to make history at the O2Arena this week. The USOpen champions, playingtogether for the first timesince they triumphed in NewYork in early September, aregunning for their first year-end title. The 40-year-oldIndian veteran, who qualifiedfor the event for the 14th time,having made his debut in1997, is a four-time finalist,

but is yet to win the crownthat has also eluded his coun-

trymen. The Indo-Czechcombine will open their cam-

paign against the Austrian-Brazilian pairing ofAlexander Peya and BrunoSoares in a Group 'B' engage-ment on Tuesday.The all-Spanish affair that pitsMarcel Granollers and MarcLopez against FernandoVerdasco and David Marrerocompletes the group. In theopening doubles clash of thechampionships on Monday,Pakistan's Aisam Ul-HaqQureshi and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer will play PolsMarcin Matkowski andMariusz Fyrstenberg, the lastteam through the doors, in aGroup 'A' match-up.

KOLKATA: Preparing forhis last outing at the iconicEden Gardens, legendary

batsman Sachin Tendulkarwas a picture of focus andconcentration as the Indianteam hit the nets on Mondayahead of the all important

Test match against the WestIndies beginning November6.Tendulkar started off withsome warm-up exercises andsubsequently rolled his armover at the nets.Bowling in tandem withspinners RavichandranAshwin and Pragyan Ojha,Tendulkar dished out leg

breaks and Murli Vijay hadsome difficulty negotiatingthe spin at the nets. He was

beaten on a couple of occa-sions by Tendulkar's sharpturning deliveries.After bowling for a few min-utes, the little master paddedup and chatted with coachDuncan Fletcher as he waitedfor his turn at the nets.He first faced the pacers, dis-

playing his watertightdefence. While other bats-men at the adjacent netsmissed or edged a few,Tendulkar looked at ease hit-ting his trademark drives.He tackled the pacers foraround 15 minutes before

moving to the adjacent netwhere the spinners were onthe job. He also asked Ojha,who was bowling more at thestumps, to alter his linewhich the left arm obliged.Tendulkar, who seems tohave lost none of the zeal for

batting despite spending amarathon 24 years in topflight cricket, was in his ele-ment against the spinners ashe executed elegant drivesand cuts much to the delightof a motley crowd of aspiringcricketers.The batting legend knockedat the nets for another 20

minutes and then made wayfor the others, as he watchedthe youngsters practice at thenets.After a brief rest and chatwith teammates, Tendulkarmoved to the far away netwhere local club bowlerswere in action. He knocked afew balls and later gave a fewtips to the youngsters.Meanwhile, Fletcher wasseen engaged in an animatedchat with opener ShikharDhawan whose stint at thenets was uncomfortable as hecontinuously missed oredged. The coach was seen

gesturing to Dhawan aboutways to play the rising ball.At the fag end of the practice,when the Indian players were

busy in fielding drills,Dhawan spent some time dis-cussing matters withTendulkar.

Before moving out with histeammates, Tendulkar had abrief fielding ses sion wherehe concentrated on somecatching practice.Earlier, on his arrival at thevenue. Tendulkar was greet-ed by his wax replica placedat the entrance of the dress-ing room by the local staging

body, Cricket Association ofBengal (CAB), which is leav-ing no stone unturned tomake the master's swansongEden outing for India memo-rable for him, the city, as alsohis countless admirers.One hundred youngstersstood on both sides of thestretch from the main gate ofthe stadium upto the dressingroom and formed a humanchain when the Team India

bus arrived and Tendulkaralighted from the vehicle.Saluting 24 golden years ofTendulkar's international

playing career, 24 confetticannons burst spraying red

paper on the cricketinggenius.

Sachin Tendulkar prepares hard forhis final outing at Eden Gardens

Leander Paes eyes piece

of history in London

SAN FRANCISCO: FredCouples won the ChampionsTour's season-ending CharlesSchwab Cup Championshipon Sunday, and Kenny Perrytopped the yearlong pointsrace to earn a $1 millionannuity.Couples ended a 16-eventwinless streak dating to theSenior British Open in July2012, closing with a 2-under69 for a six-stroke victoryover Bernhard Langer, PeterSenior and Mark O'Meara.

The Hall of Famer has ninevictories in four seasons onthe 50-and-over tour afterwinning 15 times on thePGA Tour.Couples finished at 17-under267. Langer, second behindPerry in the Charles SchwabCup standings, shot a 67.Senior had a 69, and O'Mearaclosed with a double bogeyfor a 70.Perry had a 68 to share fifthat 10 under. He led the tourwith three victories.

MUMBAI: The two matchesthat India lost in the ODIseries against Australia werethe only times when theIndian batting order was test-ed to the fullest.In the three games that Indiawon, the top three ensuredthat Suresh Raina, YuvrajSingh and the others simplydidn't have to pad up.While that should certainly

put a great deal of pressureon these middle-order con-tenders, those in the queuefor an opportunity top of theorder, have already realisedthat now is not a time whenselectors are going to comecalling at the door.Among them is GautamGambhir, who has decidedthat he'll be concentrating onthe Ranji Trophy this seasonin an effort to help Delhiretain the coveted title.

Mind you, here's a batsmanwho was reckoned to be theworld's best between 2008and 2011, a World Cup-win-ning Team India cricketer,and also someone who led

the Indian Premier Leaguefranchise Kolkata KnightRiders to a famous title winlast year."I prefer not playing cricket

just to make comebacks. Idon't believe in that thought.Whether it's the Indian teamor KKR or Delhi, India 'A' orany other team, I prefer to

play to win... Even if it's formy club or my company,"says the left-handed batsman.In an exclusive conversationwith TOI, Gambhir said thatthe decision to head toEngland and play for Essexwas also based on the philos-ophy that he simply wantedto get a taste of county crick-et, not because scoring therewould've meant selectorslooking at him from a differ-ent point of view."As a kid, I always wanted toexperience the English coun-

ty scene. It's unfortunate thatI had to return midwaybecause of a personal loss. Ihad just scored a century andwas beginning to enjoy thestint," he says.

Here, too many people judge

you at all times: Gambhir

SOFIA: Romanian SimonaHalep battled back from a setdown to beat former U.S.Open champion SamanthaStosur 2-6 6-2 6-2 in athrilling Tournament ofChampions final on Sundayto capture her sixth title ofthe year.Winning the season-endingWTA event at the ArmeetsArena in Sofia earned the 22-year-old Romanian a chequefor $270,000 and helped herrise three places in the worldrankings to a career-high11th.Stosur began her 19th WTAfinal confidently and took theopening set with ease, sur-rendering just five points in

the first four games withHalep struggling with a verylow first-serve percentage.But Halep, an aggressive

baseliner, stepped up hergame and broke three timesin a row to win the second setwith hard-hitting Stosur, theoldest player in the tourna-ment, losing her rhythm.Stosur, who had looked in

blistering fo rm in the semi-finals where she humbledRussia's AnastasiaPavlyuchenkova, continuedto rely on powerful kickserves in the third set butHalep broke decisively in the21st game and got the upperhand, winning the next threegames.

Halep beats Stosur towin sixth title in 2013

CAGLIARI: Italy cruised toa fourth Fed Cup title onSunday when Sara Erranigave the hosts an unassail-able 3-0 lead with a compre-hensive 6-1, 6-1 victory overRussian Alisa Kleybanova.Roberta Vinci and worldnumber seven Errani hadgiven Italy, the champions in2006, 2009 and 2010, a 2-0lead on Saturday with victo-ries over Alexandra Panovaand Irina Khromachavarespectively. Kleybanovarepresented the depletedRussian team's last chance torescue their bid ahead of thefinal singles and concludingdoubles rubbers later Sunday.However despite showingglimpses of promise, notablya powerful serve which attimes Errani struggled toreturn, the 24-year-oldRussian was outclassed bythe more experienced Italian.Errani, 26, had the CagliariTennis Club in jubilant mood

after racing to a 6-1 victoryin the first set and althoughKleybanova rallied in thesecond to take the third gameon serve, Errani was neverunder threat. The Italian

broke Kleybanova to take a4-1 lead when the Russiansent a wild return into thetramlines. And after reinforc-ing her advantage in the nextgame the Italian finished instyle, breaking Kleybanova'sserve when the Russian fum-

bled a return at the net in theseventh and final game tosecure the win.

KARACHI: The legal wran-gles of the Pakistan CricketBoard has led to the cancella-tion of the short limited overseries in South Africa thismonth, which could haveearned PCB at least $1.5 mil-lion.An official in the Pakistan

board said that both countrieshad discussed Pakistan goingto South Africa directly fromthe UAE this month to playthree one-dayers and coupleof T20 matches."The South Africans werealso keen on the short tour

because of the fac t that India

has shortened its tour thisDecember," he explained."But we decided againstmaking any commitments

because of the legal compli-cations in the cricket set upright now," the official stated.The short series was plannedduring a two-week windowin November after the twosides wrap up their current

bilateral series in the UAE onNovember 15.The South African board hadoffered the PCB $1.5 millionto host them but Sethi said hecould not discuss the matteras he was suspended.

"CSA had offered us to play ashort series in South Africa.But due to the ongoing legalcrisis in the PCB, we cannotextend discussions withthem," Najam Sethi said on atelevision show."The day I had started work-ing on the proposal by CSA,the court suspended me andthe IMC, so the idea couldnot materialize," he con-firmed.A divisional bench of theIslamabad High Court is dueto hear an appeal filed by thePCB against a full judgmentof the IHC today under

which the court has suspend-ed the Chairman of the board,

Najam Sethi from workingand also put aside a govern-ment order to appoint a inter-im management committeefor three month to run cricketaffairs.The court has instead for thetime being given powers tothe general body of the boardto manage day to day affairsand also appointed a retired

judge of the s upreme court,Justice Munir A Sheikh toconduct elections for the postof PCB chairman by thirdweek of November.

Italy cruise to fourth Fed Cup title

PCB misses out on $1.5 million after SA tour cancelledFred Couples wins CharlesSchwab Cup Championship

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From weak denials to contradictory state-

ments and vague responses, the UnitedStates has tied itself up in knots in trying todeal with its still-unravelling Snoopgate.It is more than five months since whistle-blower Edward Snowden left the Americanshores for Hong Kong, the first port of callin his agonising quest for political asylum and three months since the Russians didgrant him a temporary asylum for a year.But there is still no stopping the copiousflow of sensational disclosures onAmericas far-reaching surveillance opera-tions, all based ontop-secret documents leaked by the one-time CIA staffer and National Security

Agency contractor to select media outlets.For President Barack Obama, the last twoweeks have been a particularly testingtime. The new disclosures have been acute-ly embarrassing as never before, relating asthey do to some of Americas closeEuropean allies: France, Germany, Spainand Italy. A Guardian report that the NSAhas been monitoring the telephone conver-sations of as many as 35 world leaders hasbeen followed by the stunning dispatch inGerman weekly Der Spiegel thatChancellor Angela Merkels mobile phonehas been tapped by NSA right since 2002.An outraged Ms Merkel wasted little time

in picking up the phone and confronting MrObama, who sought to assure her that theUS was not eavesdropping on her.The German chancellor is apparently farfrom convinced. For the better part of thepast week, a team of German officials anda delegation from European Parliamenthave pitched themselves in Washington,complaining of breach of trust anddemanding that the Obama administrationmake amends forthwith. Their hurried tripfollowed another set of damning disclo-sures: That the NSA tracked more than 70million phone calls in France, some 60 mil-lion in Spain and 46 million in Italy. It ledto the incredulous spectacle of these alliessummoning the respective US Ambassadorand giving an earful over what Washingtonhas been up to. France and Germany havedemanded a no-spying pact, like the onethe US has with Britain, Canada, Australiaand New Zealand.So horrified have German diplomats beenthat they teamed up with their counterpartsfrom Brazil in an effort to draft a resolutionfor consideration and adoption by the UNGeneral Assembly. Brazils PresidentDilma Rousseff, after all, is one of the firstreported victims of American snooping, somuch so that she cancelled a scheduledState visit to Washington in September. Theproposed UN resolution may well be aimedat America, but the draft being deliberatedupon by some 20-odd countries, includingIndia, does not name the United States assuch. Instead, it simply calls upon all Statesto uphold the right to privacy and reviewtheir extra-territorial surveillance of pri-vate communications and interception ofpersonal data of citizens in foreign jurisdic-tions.With one report or another popping upevery passing day, the Obama administra-tion is still to get its act together on how todeal with what willy-nilly has become acredibility crisis for it among its own alliesand other friendly nations. As in the caseinvolving Chancellor Merkel, the questionbeing asked is whether President Obamawas really unaware of what has been goingon for years. US officials insist Mr Obamahad no knowledge of the reported tappingof Ms Merkels phone till she raised thematter with him, but the German newspa-per, B ild am Sonntag, quoted US intelli-gence sources as saying that NSA chiefGen. Keith Alexander had briefed Obamaon this specific matter back in 2010. Yet,Mr Obama did not halt the operation but

rather let it continue, the paper said. NSAspokeswoman Vanee Vines, however,refuted the assertion.US intelligence chief James Clapper, how-ever, came up with an altogether differenttake during a Congressional hearing, sur-prising everyone by stoutly defendingAmericas spying on world leaders, includ-

ing close allies. His rationale? The othernations, including allies, were doing muchthe same. For Mr Clapper, it is a basictenet to collect, whether by spying oncommunications or through other sources,confidential information about foreign

leaders to find out if what theyre sayinggels with whats actually going on. Theembattled Gen. Alexander was quick toconcur with him at the same hearing, com-menting that one of the first things helearned in intelligence school was that howvaluable it would be to learn about theintentions of foreign leaders.But the Senate Intelligence Committeeschairperson Dianne Feinstein appeared todisagree with the Obama administrationsintelligence brass. With respect to NSAcollection of intelligence on leaders of USallies including France, Spain, Mexicoand Germany let me state unequivocal-ly: I am totally opposed, said the seniorCalifornia Democrat, who was particularlycritical of NSAs monitoring of the calls ofsuch friendly leaders as Chancellor Merkel.Senator Feinstein mooted a total review ofall intelligence programmes. She spoke ofindications from the White House thatintelligence collection on USs allies wouldbe done away with. But there has been noformal communication from the WhiteHouse on this score. Spokesman JayCarney, however, acknowledged: Werecognise there needs to be additional con-straints on how we gather and use intelli-

gence.All these assertions notwithstanding, notedAmerican scholars are skeptical if theallied nations would put an end to theirspying on one another, given that it hasbeen going on for centuries. As ex-CIAveteran Peter Earnest, citing a famousquote by 19th century British statesmanHenry Temple, told CNN: We have noeternal allies and we have no perpetual ene-mies. Our interests are eternal and perpetu-al, and those interests it is our duty to fol-low. One of the strong defenders of thefar-reaching American surveillance is for-mer Vice President Dick Cheney.The fact is, we do collect a lot of intelli-gence, he says, noting: That intelligencecapability is enormously important to theUnited States, to our conduct of foreignpolicy, to defence matters, to economicmatters.For President Obama, however, the world-wide American surveillance and the back-lash from its allies and friends have onlyadded to his other recent woes, notably thepoor handling of events leading to theGovernment shutdown that lasted 16 days,and the ongoing problems with the rolloutof his signature healthcare initiative. Allthese have combined to bring down Mr

Obamas approval rating to an all-time lowof 42 per cent in a new NBC News/WallStreet Journal poll released this week. Theonly consolation for him is the even lowerrating of 22 per cent for Republicans in theUS Congress, who have made the goingtough for him on about every major policydecision.

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Sample this! October 2013: TheArchaeological Survey of India, one of themost coveted agencies in India, startedexcavating at the fort of the former king,Raja Rao Ram Baux Singh in Daudia Kheravillage at Unnao in Uttar Pradesh in searchof gold supposedly worth Rs30,000 crore,and all based on a dream of a sadhu. Whereother nations invest money in excavationsonly after research and geographical sur-veys, the premier national excavationagency, which operates under the Union

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