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CIRCULATED THROUGH : TORONTO, MARKHAM, SCARBOROUGH, RICHMOND HILL, VAUGHAN, WOODBRIDGE, ETOBICOKE, NORTH YORK, MALTON, REXDALE, BRAMPTON, MISSISSAUGA, OAKVILLE, HAMILTON, MILTON, STONEY CREEK, BURLINGTON

New Delhi (IANS): India has been ranked No.3 in Asia Pacific interms of the nominal salary increase expected in 2015, byconsulting firm ECA International.Among the 17 countries from Asia, Pakistan is at the top.Vietnam, India, Bangladesh and Indonesia are ranked there-after in that order, according to the latest salary trends sur-vey by ECA International.In terms of ranking on expected salary increase in 2015, afteradjusting for inflation, India slips to the seventh position.China, on the other hand, ranked seventh on nominal salaryhike, fares better at No.2 after adjusting for inflation.Even globally, India is ranked at a high fif th position in termsof nominal increase and seventh in real wage hike.Clearly, inflation in India is something which ECA Interna-tional feels wil l be relatively higher compared with someother economies."Salaries in Asia are expected to increase by 7.2 percent in2015 with the largest uplifts being given in Pakistan and thelowest in Japan. Factoring in inflation, real wage rises inAsia will average 2.7 percent - higher than the other regionssurveyed," the repor t said."In mainland China, companies are planning to award 8 percentsalary increases again next year. Even after inflation, staff inChina will be among the best off within the region and globally:they can expect to see increases of 5.5 percent in real terms," therepor t said.However, in the US and Canada, companies are predicting 3 per-cent wage increases - the same as this year's hikes."Staff in Australia can expect to receive 3.5 percent uplifts againin 2015 while employees in the Middle East are set to see wagesrise 4.7 percent on average," it said.

INDIA RANKED THIRDIN SALARY HIKE INASIA PACIFIC IN 2015

WHO WILL WIN - BJP, AAPOR CONGRESS?

The ABP News-Nielsen Opinion pre-poll survey predicts that AAP willwin only 18 seats as opposed to 28 it had won in the 2013 DelhiAssembly Election.Also, the survey brings in good news for the BJP. It predicts that thepar ty would continue its stellar performance in Delhi, as it did inMaharashtra and Haryana, by winning 46 out of 70 seats. That wouldgive BJP a clear majority.The Congress, the survey predicts, would perform even worse thanwhat it did in 2013 and is expected to win only five seats. During thelast elections it had won eight seats, wiping out Sheila Dikshit's 15-year-old regime.The BJP and the Congress have traditionally held sway in Delhi. Thischanged last year when the AAP, contesting from all the assemblyconstituencies, pulled off a stunning performance with a tally of 28seats. In comparison, the BJP won 31 seats, while the Congress gotjust eight.The AAP went on to form the government with the backing ofthe Congress, only to quit the government after 49 days over its fail-ure to introduce an anti-corruption bill.While the BJP has not announced any chief ministerial candidate forthe upcoming Delhi polls, Kejriwal had indicated that this time too hewould be the face of his par ty. Kejriwal, who had led AAP to a stun-ning debut in the assembly polls in December last year, had saidthere was no reason why there should be a change in chief ministe-rial nominee though a final decision on it would be taken by the par ty.Kejriwal as the face of the AAP could actually benefit the par ty duringthe assembly polls. When asked about who would be fit for the chiefminister's post in the national capital, it was Kejriwal who got thehighest votes with 39 percent respondents choosing him, followedclosely by Harsh Vardhan with 38 percent votes.ABP News repor ted that "About two-third respondents said that theywere satisfied with the work done by Arvind Kejriwal in his 49 daystenure - this may be the reason why even now he is still consideredamongst favourables for the position of CM by respondents of Delhi."

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BJP may end short of majority in Jharkhand,behind PDP in Kashmir: Opinion poll

JAMMU AND KASHMIR, JHARKHAND ELECTIONSNew Delhi, (IANS) The BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) may fall short ofmajority in the Jharkhand Assemblypolls while the Peoples DemocraticParty would emerge as the single-larg-est party in Jammu and Kashmir, ac-cording to an opinion poll telecast Tues-day. India TV-CVoter tracking poll saidthat BJP may fall short of majority in theJharkhand assembly polls with theparty projected to win within a range of29-35 seats out of a total of 81. Accord-ing to a press release, the oppositionPeople's Democratic Party is projectedto emerge as the single largest partywith a seat range of 27-33 seats in a

house of 87 in Jammu and Kashmir.In Jharkhand, the opinion poll predicted29-35 seats for BJP, 17-23 seats forJharkhand Mukti Morcha, 6-12 seatsfor Jharkhand Vikas Morcha, 7-13 seatsfor Congress and 7-13 seats for others.In 2009 assembly polls, the JMM andBJP had won 18 seats each, Congresshad won 14 and JVM 11.In terms of percentage, the poll predicteda 12 percent swing in favour of BJP,which is projected to get 32 percentvotes, followed by JMM with 19 per-cent, Congress with 13 percent and JVMwith 12 percent.The opinion poll said that in Jammu and

Kashmir, the Mehbooba Mufti-ledPeople's Democratic Party is projectedto get 27-33 seats, followed by BJP with23-29, National Conference 10-16, Con-gress 6-12, and others 6-12 seats.In the 2009 elections, National Confer-ence had won 28 seats, Congress 17,PDP 21 and BJP 11 seats.In terms of percentage, a 22 percentswing has been projected in favourof BJP up from 12 percent in 2009 to34 percent while a 10 percent swinghas been projected in favour of PDPup from 15 percent last time to 25percent now. The survey projectedthat National Conference will get 11

percent votes and Congress 15 per-cent. The release said that PDP leaderMufti Mohammed Sayeed was thefrontrunner for the post of chief min-ister with 53 percent favouring himin the valley, 20 percent in Jammuand 10 percent in Ladakh region.In Jharkhand, Chief Minister HemantSoren was the frontrunner with 14percent non-tribals and 30 percenttribals supporting him, followed byJVM chief Babulal Marandi who wasfavoured by 20 percent non-tribalsand 22 percent tribals.The release said that the opinion pollis based on interviews of 4,322 ran-domly respondents done in the firstweek of November.

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BRAMPTON, TORONTO & SURREY AMONG LEASTAFFORDABLE CANADIAN CITIES: NEW STUDY

OTTAWA- A new study releasedtoday by the Canadian Centre forPolicy Alternatives (CCPA) re-veals the most and least afford-able ci t ies for chi ld care inCanada.The study examines, for the firsttime, median unsubsidized childcare fees in Canada's biggest 22cities for infants, toddlers, andpreschoolers. It also developsan affordability index that com-pares those fees to the medianincome of women aged 25 to 34in that city.

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PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER AND HIS WIFE LAUREEN PAY THEIR RESPECTS DURING THE REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONYAT THE NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL. (PHOTO BY JASON RANSOM)

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STATEMENT BY OPPOSITIONLEADER TOM MULCAIR

New Democratic Par ty leader Tom Mulcair made the followingstatement on Remembrance Day:"On this day, we honour the ultimate sacrifice of the tens of thou-sands of Canadians who fought bravely in many conflicts over theyears. Let's pay homage to their remarkable courage and commit-ment.They are responsible for the freedom that we enjoy today, and wecontinue to count on them to defend us and ensure the safety of our

WE CAN NEVER REPAY THE DEBT: PRIME MINISTER HARPER

STATEMENT BY LIBERAL LEADER JUSTIN TRUDEAU

Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued the following statement tomark Remembrance Day:"Today we remember the courage and dedication of the Canadianmen and women who have fought valiantly over the years to defendour freedom and rights, making it possible for us to live in a peaceful,democratic country where we enjoy one of the best qualities of life inthe world."For the past two centuries, hundreds of thousands of Canadians haveearned enormous respect - at home and abroad - by answering thecall to fight against tyranny and evil around the world in engagementssuch as the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, Afghani-stan and many other international military operations. Those whofought so valiantly in these battlefields are still honoured and remem-bered in places such as Vimy Ridge, Ypres, Normandy, Sicily, Hill355 in Korea, and Kandahar to name a few. Many made the ultimatesacrifice."It is our duty to remember the Canadians who so selflessly defendedour freedom. That is why the commemorations of the 100th anniver-sary of the First World War and the 75th anniversary of the SecondWorld War are two of the major milestones on the Road to 2017. Aswe recall our proud history, let us also remember how early Canadi-ans, First Nations and Métis people fought together like never beforein the War of 1812 to repel an American invasion, laying the founda-tion for an independent Canada."Remembrance Day also provides an oppor tunity to pay tribute to thedaunting sacrifices made by Canadian families who were forced toendure their loved ones being away at war and dangerous missionsabroad. Let us recall the unfailing suppor t they provided to those onthe front lines, the thousands of letters and care packages, and the

dedication of those who worked in suppor t of the effor t back at home."On this solemn occasion, let us celebrate the brave men and womenof the Canadian Armed Forces carrying on today in the proud traditionof their forebears, defending freedom in places such as Iraq, EasternEurope and the Mediterranean Sea."Members of the Canadian Armed Forces have the honour to wear auniform that is recognized across the world as a symbol of courageand democracy. The recent deadly attacks on Warrant Officer PatriceVincent and Corporal Nathan Cirillo, who were targeted simply be-cause they proudly wore this uniform, only strengthens Canada's re-solve to keep fighting against those who would deny our liber ties andfreedoms, and who have a complete disregard for human lives."We can never repay the debt we owe to the intrepid men and womenwho paid for our freedom with their lives, but we can remember theirenormous sacrifices and pay tribute to their bravery and patriotism."Lest we forget." Source: pm.gc.ca

country.The tragic events of the last few weeks have reminded us just howgreat their sacrifices are, and how valuable their services.I invite you to join your fellow citizens today to honour the memoryof our brave soldiers and to offer a message of encouragement tothose who continue to fight for a more peaceful world.Lest we forget."Source: ndp.ca

OTTAWA - The Leader of the Liberal Par ty of Canada, Justin Trudeau,today issued the following statement on Remembrance Day:"On Remembrance Day, Canadians come together in solemn rec-ognition of the incredible courage and sacrifices of our country'smen and women in uniform."Recent events serve as a reminder for us all of the enormous debtowed to our Canadian Armed Forces members, past and present,and the contributions they have made in the name of freedom and

democracy. "We have a social covenant with our veterans and theirfamilies - a sacred obligation that ensures that those who serve,and their families, will have nothing less than the best of care andsuppor t from a grateful nation."Our servicemen and women exhibit the very best of what it meansto be Canadian. Today, as on all days, I would like to express myhear tfelt gratitude to our Canadian Armed Forces."Source: liberal.ca

PREMIER KATHLEENWYNNE JOINSCEREMONY ATQUEEN'S PARK"Canada's servicemen and servicewomen sacrifice their health,their futures and their lives for a greater good and to preserve ourway of life. As Premier and as an Ontarian, I am deeply gratefulfor the bravery and the for titude of these individuals. Today, aswe remember and glorify the memory of all who have served, Ithank every one of the men and women who wears a uniform."- Kathleen Wynne, Premier of OntarioPremier Kathleen Wynne honoured the courage and sacrifices ofveterans, soldiers and their families today during a Ceremony ofRemembrance at Queen's Park.The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor ofOntario, and Brigadier-General Lowell Thomas, Commander, 4thCanadian Division, joined the Premier to observe two minutes ofsilence and lay commemorative wreaths. Veterans and their fami-lies, members of the Canadian Forces, cadets and the publicalso paid their respects.The ceremony included a 21-gun salute, a recitation of In FlandersFields and a reading by Poet Laureate of Toronto, Dr. GeorgeElliott Clarke. Students from St. Joseph's College School sang OCanada.QUICK FACTS§ This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the star t of WorldWar I. It is 75 years since the star t of World War II and 70 yearssince D-Day.§ The poppy was first adopted as a symbol of remembrance in 1921.§ The Ceremony of Remembrance is held at the Ontario Veter-ans' Memorial. Built in 2006, the memorial is engraved withscenes from Canada's military history.

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BOLLYWOOD ACTOR HRITIK ROSHAN WITH HIS WIFE SUSSANNE KHAN LEAVING THE BANDRA FAMILY COURT AFTER THEY WEREGRANTED DIVORCE IN MUMBAI. IANS

KAPIL SHARMA BEGINS SHOOTING FOR HIS BOLLYWOODDEBUT WITH ELLI AVRAM IN ABBAS-MUSTAN'S NEXT FILM.

MODI RANKED 15TH ON FORBESPOWER LIST; PUTIN TOPS

Washington (IANS): Indian Prime Narendra Modi Wednesday joined the world'smost powerful people ranking 15th on the Forbes list with Russian PresidentVladimir Putin once again beating US President Barack Obama to the top spot."India's newest rock star doesn't hail from Bollywood. He is the newly electedprime minister who sailed into office in May with a landslide victory, ushering theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into power after decades of control by the Gandhidynasty," said the US business magazine of Modi.Describing Modi as a "Hindu nationalist", Forbes referred to the 2002 Gujarat riotswhen he was the state's chief minister noting he "is credited with massive recon-struction projects in his home state of Gujarat".

"His administration promises to bring economic rejuvenation to other beleagueredparts of India. The world is as impressed as the citizens of India: So far he's touredthe US and China and met with his Southeast Asian neighbours," the magazinesaid. Other Indians on the list of 72 most powerful people in the world includedReliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani at 36th, ArcelorMittal Chairmanand CEO Lakshmi Mittal at 57th and Microsoft's Indian-born CEO Satya Nadella at64th spot. Besides Modi, the 12 newcomers to this year's list include Nadella, Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon (No. 29), Alibaba CEO Jack Ma (No. 30) and EgyptianPresident Abdel el-Sisi.Six of the Most Powerful are from China, three from India, two from Hong Kong, andone is from Taiwan.Nine of the 72 are women, which is the same number as last year GermanChancellor Angela Merkel ranked fifth.The top five positions are unchanged from last year, with Obama (No. 2) remainingin second place ahead of Communist Party of China's General Secretary andcountry's President Xi Jinping (No. 3), Pope Francis (No.4) and German ChancellorAngela Merkel (No.5).Rounding out the Top 10 are Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen (No. 6), Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation Co-chair Bill Gates (No. 7), European Central BankPresident Mario Draghi (No. 8), Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin(No. 9), and British Prime Minister David Cameron (No. 10).

SC RESERVES ORDER ON SALMAN'S BLACKBUCK CASENew Delhi (IANS): The Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its order on theRajasthan government's appeal challenging a state high court order staying theconviction of Bollywood star Salman Khan so that he could travel to Britain for a filmengagement. A bench of Justice Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and Justice AdarshKumar Goel said Salman suffered no hardship as the stay of his sentencing by thehigh court Aug 31, 2007 permitted him to continue pursuing his film career, includ-ing travel abroad. The court gave Salman and the Rajasthan government threedays to file written submissions. It said the suspension of sentence removed allhurdles in the way of Salman in pursuing his film career, and added that there wasno need for any "further order addressing your hardship" (to get visa to travel toBritain). "The remedy of your hardship for being unable to travel to Britain liessomewhere else," the court said, hinting towards the British High Commission'sdecision to refuse him visa on the grounds that suspension of sentence was notenough and his conviction still persisted could be challenged before courts inBritain. The court compared the hardship Salman faced with that of politicians wholose their legislature seats after being convicted and sentenced for two years.

BHARTI SINGH GOES ON AKISSING SPREENew Delhi (IANS): Comedienne Bharti Singh seems to be givingtough competition to Bollywood's 'serial kisser' Emraan Hashmi.Bharti, who never misses an opportunity to cajole a man to date her,went on a kissing spree during the finale of ZEE TV show "Dil SeNaachein Indiawaale", held in the Delhi recently.Bharti couldn't stop herself from drooling over the stellar cast of film"Happy New Year", who happened to be the judges of the dancingreality show.During the episode, Bharti got over excited at the prospect of search-ing for her groom and was so impressed with Sonu Sood's six packabs that she went ahead and kissed him. There was no looking backafter that.Bharti kissed everyone on the celebrity panel- right from Shah RukhKhan, Boman Irani, Abhishek Bachchan to Vivaan Shah.The finale episode will be aired Nov 9.

KEVIN SPACEY MIMICS BILLCLINTON, MICHAEL CAINELos Angeles (IANS): Hollywood actor gave fans a glimpse ofhis mimicry skills by copying popular names like former USpresident Bill Clinton on a TV show.The "House of Cards" star dropped his serious avatar and per-formed glorious celebrity impressions on "The Tonight Show",said a statement.The Academy Award winner revealed himself as a maestro ofmimicry alongside actor Jimmy Fallon on the "Tonight Showwith Jimmy Fallon" when he copied Clinton and actor MichaelCaine among others.The show invites interesting celebrities doing extraordinarythings and is aired on Comedy Central India.

Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaifto pay Rs. 15 lakh as rent?

For some time now, rumours have been rife about Ranbir Kapoorand Katrina Kaif moving in together. While both actors are far fromconfirming the news, someone close to them has now revealedthat not only will the two be living together, they will also be shell-ing out Rs. 15 lakh per month as the rent for their apartment.“They have found a sea-facing penthouse at Carter Road in Bandra(W) that has two terraces. Ever since they’ve finalised the place,they have been busy doing it up with souvenirs that they picked upon their travels abroad,” reveals a Bollywood actor, who is close toboth Ranbir and Katrina, on the condition of anonymity. Incidentally,this is the first time that Ranbir will be paying rent for a house inMumbai. So far, he has lived with his parents, Rishi and NeetuKapoor, at their ancestral bungalow in Pali Hill, Bandra (W). Katrina,however, has been living on rent ever since she moved to the city.“Since Katrina has done this before, she has been taking care of thepenthouse’s paper work. The last time Ranbir stayed in a rentedapar tment was when he was studying in the US,” adds our source.

SELFIE TIME - HERE COMES ANOTHER PICTURE OF SALMAN KHAN AND KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN FROM THE SETS OF BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN.

The bench said this as counsel Siddharth Luthra, appearing for Salman, tried toimpress upon the court that his client be considered for the grant of visa by theBritish High Commission and the same would not happen unless Salman's con-viction remained stayed.In a poser to Luthra, the court asked even if the conviction was stayed, how was itgoing to benefit Salman."After the stay of sentencing, you are allowed to carry on with your film professionand go abroad. All sorts of orders are in your favour," it said."Even if conviction is stayed, the fact of (Salman's) conviction will remain," it said.Counsel V. Prakash, appearing for the Rajasthan government, contended thatSalman's conviction could not be stayed merely because it comes in the way of hisgetting a British visa.The Rajasthan High Court had suspended Salman's conviction Nov 12, 2013.Salman along with Sonali Bendre, Tabu, Neelam and others were accused ofhunting the protected blackbuck in Rajasthan while shooting for the film "HumSaath Saath Hain".


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Rajastahan Association of NorthAmerica (Canada) celebrates Deepawali

Rajastahan Association of Nor th America (Canada) cel-ebrated Deepawali grand gala on November 1st atLakeshore Convention Center in Mississauga. The galastar ted with Ganapati Vandana followed by series ofcolour ful events. The Chief Guest of the function wasRANA Senior Major J.P.Singh. RANA star ted a nobel way tohonour its seniors by honouring to make them chief gueston Diwali gala.RANA President, Yogesh Sharma asked youth of the Asso-ciation to rise to the challenge of terrorism. He recapitulatedthe grand valor of Rajasthan and told youth to become par tof Canadian Army, RCMP and other Peace officer positions.Finally he thanked the Ladies of the Association for theirvaluable contributions to the growth and development ofAssociation.The function was dotted with an array of pragrams includ-ing sizzling Fashion Show organised by Shibani Sahney forRANA , its kids,youth and ladies walked the ramp in cos-tumes of various par ts of India. The various programs werearduously craf ted by Needhi Jethoo and her team ofManju, Mamta, Hansa, Rashi, Gidda, Bharatnatyam , Garba, Kalbelia dance, dances from Bengal, Maharashtra & otherstates. RANA also recognized the young talent of the organizationwho excelled in academic, social and other fields ofactivities. The youth awards were given away by ChiefGuest Maj.J.P.Singh .President Yogesh Sharma gave away President's awards tomembers for activities in 2013-14.The annual magazine of RANA was released by Swami SomGiri Maharaj. Swamiji blessed the RANA members andpraised the volunteer work and charity activities under takenby RANA members in various social spheres.The guests danced till past midnight on the melodiousvoice of Saima Khan.

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BAPS Charities hosted a Toronto Rap-tors Heritage Series Basketball Clinicfor Youth last Monday at the BAPSSwaminarayan Complex at 61Claireville Drive, Toronto. The event wasorganized in partnership with the MLSEToronto Raptors basketball team andSun Life Financial to engage youth inphysical activity, build confidence andself-esteem. The clinic was conductedby players from the NBA.More than 25 participants attended thisfree clinic to assess their basketballskills and more importantly, their levelof physical fitness and build self-es-teem. Participants took part in basket-ball drills and exercises which was fol-lowed by several games with NBA play-ers. Through participation in the bas-ketball clinic, the youth learned aboutteamwork and increased their self-con-fidence."BAPS Charities is dedicated to serving

youth and families. The one-on-onetime with other youths and NBA play-ers at this clinic really helped the par-ticipants understand how they can leadactive lives and be engaged in com-munity service." said Haresh Bhatt,President, BAPS Charities Canada.Inspired by His Holiness PramukhSwami, BAPS Charities also hosts an-nual walkathons, sports tournaments,youth networking events, health lec-tures, bone marrow registry drives andmuch more. BAPS Charities has alsoraised funds to support the creation ofthe Sick Kids Hospital's Peter GilganCentre for Research and Learning, thePrincess Margaret Cancer Centre's Bil-lion Dollar Challenge for personalizedcancer care, and the life-saving work ofthe Scarborough Hospital Foundation.Globally, BAPS Charities aims to be anintegral part of the community by har-nessing its members' Spirit of Service

to build up and serve their communi-ties. Affiliated with BAPS as an inde-pendent humanitarian organization,BAPS Charities is committed to sincerelyserving the world by caring for individu-als, families and communities. The55,000 BAPS volunteers networked inover 3,300 centres around the worldprovide over 12 million volunteer-hoursof service annually.Among humanitarian service charities,BAPS Charities is a well-respectedand trusted name. It has amassedover 50 years of firsthand experi-ence in initiating, managing, andsustaining 160 humanitarian opera-tions throughout the world in suchdiverse fields as: medical, environ-mental, community and disaster re-lief services. For additional infor-mation on BAPS Charities and itsinternational and local activities,please visit www.bapscharities.org

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Minister Kenney tours South AsianWorld War 1 Centennial Exhibit inSurrey and meets with Sikh leaders

British Columbia - Recently Minister Kenney toured the South AsianWorld War 1 Centennial Exhibit in Surrey, BC. The tour was provided bySteven Purewal, Managing Director of Indus Media Foundation and Cre-ator of the exhibit and members of the Indian Ex-Servicemen of B.C.During his tour, the Minister learned about the significant contribu-tions made by Indian soldiers, par ticularly those from the Punjabregion, during WW1. Specifically, they were involved in the famousbattles of Flanders Field, Vimy Ridge and the battles of Ypres. This

exhibit aims to engage youth and raise awareness amongst the differ-ent communities about this impor tant par t of our imperial history,which Canadians and Indians share in common.A day later, Minister Kenney met with Executives from the BC SikhGurdwara Council, representing 8 Sikh Gurdwaras from the GreaterVancouver Area. Here they discussed issues of impor tance to theSikh community in Canada and expressed their condolences for thetragedy that took place in Ottawa.

MINISTER KENNEY DURING HIS TOUR OF SOUTH ASIAN WORLD WAR 1 CENTENNIAL EXHIBIT IN SURREY WHERE HE MET WITH SIKHCOMMUNITY LEADERS REPRESENTING GURDWARAS IN THE GREATER VANCOUVER REGION.

CANADIAN HINDU AWARENESSFOUNDATION CELEBRATES DIWALI

Canadian Hindu Awareness Foundation held a dinner yesterday, Sun-day, November 9, 2014 at Chandni Convention Center , Brampton tocelebrate Diwali.500 people attended, including dignitaries such asRight HonorableBal Gosal , Honorable Parm Gill, Honorable Akhilesh Mishra, ConsulGeneral of India Toronto, honorable Vic Dhillon, MPP-Brampton West,Honorable Kyle Seeback, and other Respected guests.Canadian Hindu Awareness Foundation's main objective is to bringawareness about Hinduism, our faith, culture and festivals, and topreserve multiculturalism, and provide free services in many othersocial fields to the community.

Sri Lanka offersimmense opportunitiesto Canadian businesses

Ontario - Oppor tunities for Canadians in Sri Lanka highlighted atBusiness Networking Event organized by Canada-Sri Lanka Busi-ness in association with Consulate for Sri Lanka in TorontoThe Canada-Sri Lanka Business Council in association with theConsulate General for Sri Lanka in Toronto held an engagingbusiness reception and networking event recently at RadissonHotel Toronto East. It was well attended and guests includedrepresentatives from all three levels of government (Federal,Provincial, Municipal), Canadian Banks, South Asian BilateralBusiness Councils, private sector businessmen and membersof the Council.Titled Sri Lanka, Wonder of Asia – the evening star ted with areception and networking session followed by the business seg-ment that included presentations - by Upali Obeyesekere – Presi-dent, Canada-Sri Lanka Business Council; Consul General for SriLanka in Toronto Mohan De Alwis and former Foreign AffairsSenior Trade Commissioner and now private sector consultantAlan J. Ballak.The three presentations were quite informative and engaging.Focus was primarily on tourism, impor t/expor t oppor tunities,infrastructure and industrial growth in Sri Lanka and Canada’sstrengths in doing business internationally.CSLBC President Upali Obeyesekere ar ticulated the steadygrowth in impor ts from Sri Lanka to Canada. In a descriptivepresentation, Obeyesekere showed growth figures for the lastfive years and also the growth for the first eight months (Jan. –August) in 2014, compared to the same period in 2013. He citedimpor t figures in 2014 coming in at US$152 million compared to$128 million in 2013 for the same period – an increase of US$24million which he remarked as very encouraging. He attributedthe restoration of peace in the country in 2009 as one of the mainreasons and commended the hard work of the trade section ofthe Consulate General’s Office in Toronto as the other reason. Hemade special mention of Deputy Consul General Asoka Godawitaand his predecessor H.M.B. Herath. “These two officers are di-rectly or indirectly responsible for the recent growth figures asthey were responsible for commercial activity and economicrelations at the Toronto Consulate of Sri Lanka. Hard work al-ways pays off in the long run,” he remarked.Consul General for Sri Lanka in Toronto Mohan De Alwis ad-dressed the diverse business gathering and re-inforced the factthat Sri Lanka is fast moving from a developing nation to the nextlevel of ranking by the United Nations. Tourism figures have sky-rocketed with tourists from Europe, Asia and the Middle Eastvisiting Sri Lanka in numbers. The recently built Southern Por tand second airpor t in Hambantota are a boon to the island na-tion, he said. The highest ranking Sri Lankan national in Torontoemphasized that Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s vi-sion is taking the country to its full potential. The City of Colombohas been totally revitalized and its image is a tourist attraction.There are many huge oppor tunities for Canada in Sri Lanka, hesaid. The audience were quite impressed with the eloquence ofSri Lanka’s new Consul General and his overall knowledge ofhis country’s economic, tourism and industrial growth.Guest Speaker Alan J. Ballak focused on Canada’s strengths inthe international arena and in a powerful PowerPoint presenta-tion had the captive audience fully engaged. His presentationar ticulated the different Federal Government Agencies involvedin helping companies take a project from conception to execu-tion. As a former Senior Trade Commissioner for Canada’s De-par tment of Foreign Affairs & International Trade, Mr. Ballak hasover 15 years experience in the area of private and public par t-nerships in major projects. He fielded many questions from theaudience.President, Canada-Pakistan Business Council Samir Dossal whowas par t of the audience suggested that there should a jointforce of South Asian bilateral business councils to promote ahigh-level trade mission by the federal or provincial leader to SriLanka, India, Turkey and Pakistan and other countries in the re-gion.The Canada-Sri Lanka Business Council was formed in 1990,and reaches its 25th anniversary milestone in 2015.

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Guruvayurappan temple of Bramptonground breaking ceremony held

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AND PLAYGROUNDSOntario Further Protecting Children and

Youth from SmokingOntario is taking action to protect children and youth from theharmful effects of smoking.Star ting January 1, 2015, it will be illegal to:Smoke on bar and restaurant patiosSmoke on playgrounds and public sports fields and surfacesSell tobacco on university and college campuses.These changes to the Smoke-Free Ontario Act are par t of thegovernment's plan to limit smoking in public places, reduce ex-posure to smoking and make it more difficult for young people tobuy tobacco.Promoting a smoke-free Ontario is par t of the government's four-part economic plan to build Ontario up by investing in people'stalents and skills, building new public infrastructure like roadsand transit, creating a dynamic, supportive environment wherebusiness thrives, and building a secure savings plan so every-one can afford to retire."If we prevent youth from taking up smoking in the first place, thatwill mean fewer smokers and healthier Ontarians. We need to doeverything we can to prevent all Ontarians from the harmful effectsof second-hand smoke."- Dipika Damerla, Associate Minister of Health and Long-Term Care"We applaud the government of Ontario for introducing these coura-geous new tobacco control measures that send a clear messagethat we need to continue to work together against the number onecause of preventable disease, death and cancer in this prov-ince."- Rowena Pinto, Vice-President, Public Affairs and Strategic Ini-tiatives, Canadian Cancer Society,Ontario Division"Smoke-free patios are a critical next step in protecting serversand the public from toxic second-hand tobacco smoke. Equallyimpor tant, they'll remove tobacco use as an apparently "normal"par t of friends and families enjoying socializing over food anddrinks: tobacco industry products, with no safe level of use andwhich kill one in two long-term users, are anything but normal!Kudos to the Minister and the government for this progressivemove forward."- Michael Perley, Director, Ontario Campaign for Action on To-baccoQUICK FACTS§ Preventing youth from star ting to use tobacco and protectingthem from the harmful effects of smoke suppor ts Ontario's goalto have the lowest smoking rate in the country.§ Each year, tobacco claims 13,000 lives in Ontario - equivalentto 36 lives every day.§ Tobacco-related disease costs Ontario's health care system anestimated $2.2 billion in direct health care costs and an addi-tional $5.3 billion in indirect costs such as lost productivity.§ Ontario's smoking rate fell from 24.5 per cent in 2000 to 18.1per cent in 2013, representing 332,361 fewer smokers.

The long time dream of Hindu devotees came true when the groundbreaking ceremony as the preliminary beginning of construction ofGuruvayurappan temple (lord Krishna temple) star ted recently. Theproposed site for the construction is at country side and Torbramintersection of Brampton, the ground breaking ceremony was held inpresences of hundreds of devotees by the chief priest Shri DivakaranNamboothiriDivakaran namoothiri and assistant priest manoj namothiri. The func-tion was also blessed by Parm Gill- Member of Parliament, Bramptonand Parliamentary secretary to the veteran affairs Minister, Council-lor John Sprovieri.After that special meeting was held where the president of the GTOBDr. P K Kutty explained the future planning and activities to the public,also thanked everyone on the achievement of this mile stone whichstar ted as a dream in 1990 .As per the details on the website - The Guruvayurappan temple ofBrampton will be built close to the intersection of Country side Drive

and Torbram Road in Brampton. The temple is the fulfillment of adream, the dream of all devotees of Lord Guruvayurappan who wishedto see the Lord in his divine form, without crossing the seven seas. Tomake this a reality a large number of devotees and volunteers havespent countless hours and effor t. Lord Krishna in his abundant radi-ance will be filling us with grace and prosperity in the years to come.This unique temple which will be built in accordance with ancientHindu Shilpa and Agama Shastras (Science of Temple Construction)is planned to accommodate Sree Kovils for only Guruvayurappan,Ganapathy, Sastha, and Devi as at the temple at Guruvayoor, Kerala.There wil l be Chuttambalam, Thidappal ly, Val iambalam, Val iaBalikkallu, and Chuttu Vilakku - perhaps the only Temple to have allthese elements outside India. This temple, it is hoped, will be a pillarof social cohesion, aside from being the spiritual epicenter for theHindus of Nor th America.For more details , Visit www.guruvayur.ca , Phone- 9057990900Repor t by , Harikumar Mannar, 905 216 0520/ 4168310745

MISSISSAUGA TRANSITWAYPHASE 1 OFFICIALLY OPENEDMISSISSAUGA - The f i rs t four s tat ions of the MississaugaTransitway were officially opened by all three levels of govern-ment at a ceremony at the new Dixie Station on Monday. Thisdedicated corridor is the first of its kind in the Greater TorontoArea and will make east-west travel across the city more effi-cient. To celebrate the opening of Phase 1 of the transitway, whichincludes Central Parkway, Cawthra, Tomken and Dixie stations,Mayor Hazel McCallion and Members of Council were joined bythe Honourable Bal Gosal, Minister of State (Spor t) and Memberof Parliament for Bramalea-Gore-Malton; the Honourable StevenDel Duca, Minister of Transpor tation; and Bruce McCuaig, Presi-dent and CEO of Metrolinx."Today we are bringing rapid transit to the people," said MayorMcCallion. "The Mississauga Transitway will help reduce con-gestion in our city. It shows what progress can be made when alllevels of government work together. I hope co-operative effor ts toimprove transpor tation continue for many years to come. "Ourgovernment's suppor t for public infrastructure has never beenstronger. We are pleased to invest in this impor tant project thatsuppor ts efficient, environmentally-sustainable transpor tation andprovides commuters in Mississauga with a more efficient transitoption, while cutting commute times and taking more cars off the

road," said Minister Gosal."This is an impor tant project that is contributing to the growth anddevelopment within the City of Mississauga and will benefit thelocal economy for generations. The new transitway will helpease congestion, and commuters will have a better way to getaround the city. This project is proof of our government's commit-ment to making the daily commute and quality of life better forOntario families," said Minister Del Duca."Metrolinx is proud to work alongside the City of Mississauga andthe federal and provincial governments to bring convenient andintegrated transit to Mississauga," said Mr. McCuaig. "This dedi-cated bus corridor is just one of the many projects Metrolinx isdelivering across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area to maketransit faster and easier."Mississauga is responsible for Phase 1 of the project. Four re-maining east segment stations are under construction by the Cityof Mississauga including Tahoe, Etobicoke Creek, Spectrum andOrbitor. These stations are expected to open in 2016 along withthe west segment from Winston Churchill Boulevard to Erin MillsParkway which is being constructed by Metrolinx. The contract tobuild Renfor th, the final station in the east segment, has alsobeen approved and Metrolinx will begin building it soon.

When the entire 18 kilometre transitway is complete in 2017 therewill be 12 stations, including renovations to the existing hub inthe city core with new bus shelters at MiWay's City Centre TransitTerminal in 2014, and a new station building at GO Transit's SquareOne Bus Terminal by the end of 2015. The transitway will begin atWinston Churchill Boulevard in the west and end at Renfor th Drivein the east. MiWay will begin service on Phase 1 on Monday,November 17; GO Transit will also provide service on the transitwaywhen fully complete. The transitway will provide a convenient and effi-cient bus corridor for GO and MiWay routes to travel across the city.The Mississauga Transitway project is funded through a joint a partner-ship between three levels of government:· The Government of Canada is contributing up to $83 million to theproject through the Canada Strategic Infrastructure Fund ($59 million tothe City of Mississauga for the east segment and $24 million toMetrolinx for the west segment).· The Province of Ontario has provided $65 million to the Cityof Mississauga to suppor t the project and is contributing another$48 million to Metrolinx for investment in Metrolinx assets re-lated to the transitway.· The City of Mississauga and Metrolinx will fund the remain-ing project costs.

Carbon Monoxide Alarms AreRequired in Ontario HomesOntario - If your home has a fuel burning appliance or an attached garage, aCO alarm is required to be installed adjacent to each sleep area(room). Carbon monoxide (CO) is known as the "silent kil ler."Every year, approximately 11 carbon monoxide poisoning deathsoccur in Ontario, more than 50 occur across Canada. CO is apoisonous, colorless, tasteless and odorless gas. Every year inOntario, more than 80 per cent of injuries and deaths from COoccur in homes. Common sources of carbon monoxide include furnaces, hot wa-ter heaters, gas or wood fireplaces, por table fuel-burning heatersand generators, barbeques, stoves and vehicles. Please visit theOffice of the Fire Marshal website for more information aboutCarbon Monoxide. Ontario Fire Code Changes You Need to KnowThe Ontario Fire Code has been amended (section 2.16). Single-family homeowners and owners of residential buildings with nomore than six suits have until April 15, 2015 to comply with thenew regulation. Owners of residential buildings with more thansix suites have until October 15, 2015 to comply. The Ontario FireCode also requires that in condo and apar tment buildings with aservice room, CO alarms must be installed in the service roomand adjacent to each sleeping area of all homes above, below andbeside the service room. In condo or apartment buildings, that have a garage,CO alarms must be installed adjacent to each sleeping area of all homesabove, below and beside the garage.



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TORONTO - SpaceWays has announced it is expanding its service toToronto. After launching in Chicago, Paris and London over the last fewmonths, the on-demand full storage service, supported by Germanincubator Rocket Internet, is now also taking on the storage market inToronto by offering a flexible alternative to traditional self storage com-panies. SpaceWays provides customers with large heavy-duty boxesto store their belongings and a free pickup service that eliminates thehassle of bringing items to a remote self storage location. Boxes can bereturned for a fixed fee, irrespective of how many boxes are returnedand delivery can be arranged for a convenient time for the customer.Customers simply go to www.spaceways.ca then indicate how manystorage boxes they need or which bulky items they want to store andSpaceWays will deliver heavy-duty containers to their doorstep. Stor-age of one box is $6.90 per month, with a three month minimum pay-ment per box. Redelivery of the customer's boxes or goods costs $19,regardless of the number of items required.

CONTD. FROM PAGE 1"Affordable child care is an impor tant issue not just for parents, it'simpor tant for Canada's economy. When parents are given an afford-able child care option, as in Quebec, they overwhelmingly choose towork," says one of the study's co-authors and CCPA senior economistDavid Macdonald.While Canada spends less on early childhood education and carethan most OECD countries, Canadian parents are among the mostlikely to be employed. As Canadian parents are working parents,child care fees can play a major role in decision-making and labourforce par ticipation, par ticularly for women. This study examines, forthe first time, median unsubsidized child care fees in Canada's bigcities for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. It also develops anaffordability index that compares child care fees to women's income.Infant spaces (<1.5 years) are the hardest to find and the most ex-pensive. Torontonians pay the most for infant child care at $1,676 a month.Par- ents in St. Johns pay the second most at $1,394 a month. Thelowest fees are found in the Quebec cities of Gatineau, Laval, Montreal,Longueuil and Quebec City, where infant care costs $152 a monththanks to Quebec's $7-a- day child care policy (increased to $7.30-a-day in October 2014). The second- lowest infant fees are found inWinnipeg ($651 a month) where a provincial fee cap is also in place.There are roughly twice as many toddler spaces (1.5-3 years) asinfant spaces and fees are lower. Toronto has the highest toddler fees at $1,324 a month. Vancouver,Burnaby, London, Brampton and Mississauga all have median toddlerfees over $1,000 a month. Again, the least expensive toddler spacesare in the Quebec cities already mentioned, where it is also $152 amonth ($7 a day), followed by Winnipeg at $451 a month. There aremany more preschooler spaces (3-5 years) than toddler spaces andfees are the lowest of the three age categories.Toronto again has the highest median preschooler fees at $998 amonth, although Calgary, Lon- don, Brampton, Mississauga and Ot-tawa all have fees above $900 a month. As in the infant and toddlercategories, preschool fees are lowest in Quebec at $152 a month (or$7 a day).Comparing these rates to income, we found that Brampton is the leastaffordable city in Canada for child care. In Brampton, fees are wor th36% of a woman's income, the equivalent of four months' wor th ofwork. This is largely due to lower overall incomes for women inBrampton. Surrey, Wind- sor, London and Toronto are not far behindwith child care fees that absorb 34% to 35% of a woman's income.The most affordable city for child care in Canada is Gatineau, wherechild care takes up 4% of a woman's income, which is paid for in onlytwo weeks' wor th of work. Affordable child care is an impor tant issuenot only for parents but also for theCanadian economy as it plays a significant role in labour force par-ticipation, par ticularly for women. When parents are given an afford-

able choice, they choose to work, which increases incomes for allCanadians.Among the study's findings:" Toronto has the highest fees in all three age categories." Brampton is the least affordable city in Canada for childcare, with fees accounting for 36% of a woman's income, the equiva-lent of four months' wor th of work." Toronto, London, Windsor, and Surrey are close behindBrampton in being relatively unaffordable. In these cities, women canexpect to see 34% to 35% of their annual income consumed by childcare fees." Quebec's provincial policies, par ticularly low daily fees,have made it dramatically cheaper for parents to place children inchild care." The most affordable city is Gatineau, where child care takesup 4% of a woman's income, which is paid for in only two weeks'wor th of work." Laval, Montreal, Longueil, and Quebec City are also amongthe country's most affordable cities for child care. Women in thosecities spend between 5% and 6% of their income on child care fees, orabout one month's wor th of work.Provincial policies that set fees directly and that define regulationshave a significant impact on child care fees. The regulated nature ofchild care means that provincial policies will generally have a moresubstantial impact on fees than market forces."More than three-quar ters of mothers with children under the age ofsix are par t of Canada's labour force," says Mar tha Friendly, co-au-thor and Executive Director of the Childcare Resource and ResearchUnit. "But despite the high concentration of mothers who work, Canadaranks second last in the OECD in government spending on early child-hood education and care."NDP Education critic Peter Tabuns says that the costs of childcare inOntario are exorbitant and the Liberals need to make affordable li-censed childcare a priority."It's outrageous that families in Toronto, London, Windsor, Brampton,and Mississauga all face childcare fees equivalent to over a third of awoman's income," said Tabuns. "Under the Liberals the costs forchildcare has sky-rocketed because there are not enough licensedchildcare spaces to meet the needs of families. We're in the midst ofa childcare crisis that the Liberals keep ignoring."Tabuns said making childcare more affordable and accessible is im-por tant for our economy and labour force, yet continued underfundingby the provincial government means there remain far too few licensedspaces to meet the needs of families."Women shouldn't have to choose between their career and takingcare of their children because they can't find affordable licensedchildcare. And families shouldn't be stuck on waitlists wondering ifthey'll ever get a subsidized space they can afford.

City in association with GO Transit acquiring new artworks

COST OF CHILD CARE

BRAMPTON, TORONTO & SURREY AMONG LEASTAFFORDABLE CANADIAN CITIES: NEW STUDY

Mississauga - The City of Mississauga, in par tnershipwith GO Transit, is acquiring new artwork for its PublicAr t collection in early November.The Messenger Project is a two-par t sculpture createdby the Swiss/Canadian ar tist Ernest Daetwyler. Thear twork engages residents, commuters and the localcommunity on a playful and spiritual level. Madefrom Indiana limestone and bronze elements, TheMessenger Project was inspired by Mississauga'srich heritage and reflects on a voyage of both pastand present.A bronze eagle sits at the top of the large sculpture,as a symbol of the Mississaugas of the New CreditFirst Nation; a subtribe of the Anishinaabe, who weregreat messengers, often travelling hundreds ofkilometres on foot to deliver messages. Daetwylercollaborated with the City of Mississauga, GOTransit, the local community as well as theMississaugas of the New Credit First Nation to createthe sculptures for two locations. The larger of the two sculptures will be situated atErindale GO Station and the smaller work is to beinstalled across the street on from the station alongBurnhamthorpe Rd W. Currently there are more than 38public ar tworks on display citywide; 18 of which arepar t of the City's Public Ar t collection.

SPACEWAY FOUNDERS DAVID FUCHS, ROB REBHOLZAND MARTIN TWELLMEYER.

Krish Hope Foundationto serve as a catalystfor change in society

Brampton - Krish Hope Foun-dation, a non-profit charitableorganization, has been estab-lished to help less privilegedkids to make a posi t ivechange in their l i fe. Theorganisation's aim is to makea difference in the communitywe operate in.The organisation has beenestablished by Raman Dua,Nidhi Dua and Lashika Katyal. The name was inspired bytheir youngsest son Krish who was born on the auspicious dayof Janam Asthmai ( the bir th day of Hindu Deity Krishna ). LittleKrish brought a lot of happiness and joy to the entire family andthus the family inspired by this blessing thought of bringing joyin the lives of less for tunate.Krish Hope Foundation has the objective of reaching out youth,trigger respect through spor ts and get them involved in physicalactivity.A number of families residing in Brampton cannot afford to pro-vide recreational facilities to their kids at early age and manykids get distracted. If given an oppor tunity those kids can reallymake a positive impact on their family's life as well society .The organization has an objective to adopt minimum 100 kids inthe first year and get them involved in games. The organisationwill provide its memberships, attire, spor ts good and all that isrequired to make a successful spor tsman.Thus the organisation wishes to use spor ts as an effective toolfor development and peace in society.


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But for the drama of the Shiv Sena's boycott of the swearing-in ceremony ofNarendra Modi's expanded council of ministers, the occasion - the first ex-pansion of his five-month-old government - passed off as a routine event.However, the fact that the Sena's nominee, Anil Desai, took the morning flightfrom Mumbai to Delhi to attend the ceremony, and then immediately flewback, suggests that the gulf between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and itscurrently estranged former ally centres on relatively petty matters -- such asa nominee's position in the council of ministers or the ties between the twoparties in Maharashtra -- rather than on any substantive issue.Clearly, it is inflated assumptions and hurt egos which are behind the Sena'stantrums. There is little doubt that the scrappy regional outfit is finding itdifficult to accept Modi's authoritative style of governance where the primeminister's word is law where cabinet formation - and virtually all other mat-ters of party and government - are concerned.Modi's assertion of his unquestionable prerogatives as the PM was alsoemphasized by his choice of Suresh Prabhu, who formally belongs to theSena. But, since he is also known as a favourite of the prime minister, largelybecause of his expertise in certain issues of global importance, he has beeninducted as one of the four cabinet ministers, even if the elevation is regardedas a snub to his party.His appointment puts at rest the speculation that he will be the head of thenew body which will replace the old Planning Commission. But, Modi obvi-ously felt that he needed the technical skills of Prabhu, more in a governmentwhich is not overly burdened with capable people than in a planning bodywhose functional parameters are yet to be determined.Of the other three cabinet ministers, former Goa chief minister ManoharParrikar's choice was a foregone conclusion ever since he was expected torelieve finance minister Arun Jaitley of the latter's additional burden of de-fence. That Parrikar was the first to take the oath as a cabinet minister -

followed by Prabhu - underlined his importance in the scheme of things.While the old faithful J.P. Nadda's nomination as a cabinet minister might beseen as a recognition of his long service to the BJP and the efforts which hesuccessfully made along with Amit Shah to improve the party's position inUttar Pradesh, it will be wrong to read former Congressman Birender Singh'sinclusion in the cabinet as a concession to Jats after the BJP had nominateda non-Jat, Manohar Lal Khattar, as the Haryana chief minister.Nor is it a concession for not making him the Haryana chief minister as wasexpected before Khattar was chosen. Evidently, intricate calculations basedon local factors, including the interests of influential communities, went intothese selections. Now, even if belatedly, Birender Singh's appointment is anacknowledgment of the primacy of his position in Haryana.As a grandson of Sir Chhotu Ram, one of the most prominent politicians of theregion in the pre-partition days, his influence can hardly be underestimated.However, since the Congress marginalized him and preferred BhupinderSingh Hooda instead, Birender Singh probably had no option but to break hisassociation of more than four decades with the Congress.Of the other choices, the appointments of Girijaj Singh and Ram Kripal Yadavas ministers of state are patently aimed at strengthening the BJP's position inBihar which will go to the polls next year. However, in the context of GirijajSingh's offensive comments before the general election, when he advised

Modi's critics to go to Pakistan, and the discovery of unaccounted moneyfrom his home, his appointment cannot but raise a few eyebrows.There is little doubt that the vituperative expression of communal senti-ments, or ethical factors, are not of primary interest to Modi when heweighs them against the electoral advantage which a person's nominationprovides. Nor is defection from another party held against the person.Yadav, for instance, was earlier with Lalu Prasad Yadav, just as BirenderSingh was with the Congress.Just as Giriraj Singh and Ram Kripal Yadav have been selected with an eyeto Bihar, the choice of Babul Supriyo Baral, a singer-turned-politician fromWest Bengal, is a sign that the BJP now looks upon West Bengal as a statewhere it can fill the growing vacuum created by the Trianmool Congress'sdecline and the inability of the Left and the Congress to step in.The steep jump in the BJP's vote share in West Bengal from six percent in2009 to 16.8 in last May's parliamentary polls seems to have convinced theBJP that it has a fair chance in the state in view of Mamata Banerjee'sdwindling popularity. Babul Supriyo Baral's election from Asansol is alsoevidence of how the BJP's influence has spread from the urban middleclass areas to an industrial zone like Asansol.(Amulya Ganguli is a political analyst. The views expressed are personal.He can be reached at [email protected])

SHIV SENA VS BJP

MODI AGAIN SHOWS HIS WORD IS LAW

MODI VS KEJRIWAL

CAN AAP WIN THE DELHI BATTLE FROM BJP ?UPA in their second tenure was not doing well and the incumbencyfactor along with the revelation of corruption played havoc in DelhiElections on December 4, 2013. Congress got only 8 seats out of 70Delhi Assembly. Congress had 43 seats at the time of dissolution andSmt. Sheila Dixit was ruling for the last 15 years. The defeat wasexpected but not at that scale. Even Chief Minister Sheila Dixit lostmiserably and the results did not give any par ty majority.A new phenomena appeared on Delhi political scene in the form ofAAM AADMI PARTY which was headed by Arvind Kejriwal. AAP ap-peared on the political horizon only in 2012. Mr. Kejriwal worked veryhard along with Mr. Anna Hazare against corruption in the govern-ment and wanted the center to bring a strong Lokpal Bill. The wholemovement was led by Mr. Anna Hazare (social activist to promoterural development, increase government transparency and investi-gate corruption and punish corruption in public life) and many otherpublic figures including Kejriwal was the main adviser of Anna Hazareand this struggle brought millions of people on road throughout India.Kejriwal wanted to par ticipate in the political system of India basedon transparency and honesty. Mr. Kejriwal par ted his ways from AnnaHazare (who did not want to go into vote politics) and formed his ownpolitical par ty.At this moment I would like to go into the life of Mr. Kejriwal as mostof us know his name but not his life and sacrifices he has made. Bornin middle class family on August 16, 1968 in Hissar. His father anaccountant in Jindal Strips and mother Mrs Gita Devi felt very happyto have their first child. He got his preliminary education in Hissarand then went to maternal uncles in Sonepat and Ghaziabad where hestudied in missionary schools. He went to complete his engineeringat IIT Kharagpur and was known skinny studious student while stay-ing in Nehru Hall Hostel. During this time he got influenced by V.P.Singhmovement and felt very sad at the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.He joined Tata Steel in Jamshedpur, but his mind was working ondifferent thoughts regarding the inequality in the society and blatantcorruption in every phase of life. He resigned from his job and wantedto contribute to uplift the down trodden in India.Kejriwal went to meet Mother Teresa in Calcutta and worked for twomonths in the Missionaries of Charity at Kalighat Ashram. He decidedto appear for competitive exams and was selected for Indian RevenueService in 1993. During his training he met his batch mate Sunita andmarried her in 1994.They both were posted in New Delhi and star tedworking in the Government depar tment. Kejriwal felt frustrated andstar ted NGO Parivar tan. He star ted working for Right to Informationand Jan Lokpal Bill. He was given Ramon Magsaysay Foundationaward, emerging leadership in 2005.After working with Anna Hazare, Mr. Kejriwal along with his friends,Manish Sisodia, Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan, Kumar Vishwas,Sanjay Singh, Shazia Ilmi (since left the par ty), Gopal Rai and manymore formed a political par ty on NOVEMBER 26, 2012 and came upwith a name AAM AADMI PARTY.Their first political test came on December 4, 2013 when the electionresults of Delhi Assembly were declared and AAP got 28 seats get-ting 29.5 % vote share. BJP which was supposed to get majority cameup with only 31 seats and 33.1 % vote share. It was a hung assembly.No par ty was in a position to form the government. After BJP rejectedthe offer to form a government pressure star ted on AAP to comeforward and form the government. Congress par ty offered uncondi-tional suppor t from outside to AAP. AAP wrote a letter with 18 condi-tions to BJP and Congress for their suppor t. BJP rejected the de-mands and Congress accepted 16 conditions out of 18. AAP decidedto form the government and Arvind Kejriwal became the 7th ChiefMinister of Delhi on December 28, 2013.He resigned after 49 days onthe issue of Jan Lok Pal Bill. During these 49 days of rule manyagitations took place in which the then Chief Minister Kejriwal par-ticipated and sat on Dharna. His two ministers Mr. Somnath Bhar tiand Rakhi Birla came on roads at night to express their displeasurewith the working of the police.(for our readers Delhi police is underHome Ministry of India) This decision to resign did not sit well withDelhi people and played a major role in Parliament elections.Coming back to Delhi, the legislative assembly was dissolved onNovember 5th and it is expected to go for elections in February 2015.The political scenario has changed since Kejriwal resigned. A newphenomena has appeared in Indian politics and BJP under the dy-namic leadership of Narender Modi, has come into power at center as

well as in many states. There was triangular contest last time be-tween BJP, Congress and AAP. Congress was uprooted last time andthere are no signs of its recovery. AAP thinks that they have a very bigopportunity to come into majority and form the government. In recentParliament Elections AAP lost all the seven seats and BJP got major-ity in more than 50 segments of Delhi Assembly. Kejriwal has been saying that there is no Modi factor as Delhi peoplewant an honest and transparent government. Even last time AAP wassaying that they would win more than 45 seats. In my view AAP hasto answer many questions. Why Kejriwal resigned after 49 days.(AAPadmits that they made a mistake). Can Kejriwal work with the centerand its representative Lt. Governor ? Will he resor t to agitations anddharnas as Chief Minister again ? Will he be able to convince themiddle class again that he is capable of ruling Delhi ? Is he living ineuphoria that there is no Modi factor ? AAP had to remove from theirweb site where they put Modi PM and Kejriwal for CM, after they gotbad reaction on social media. No doubt Kejriwal still has magic in hispersonality, whether that can be conver ted into votes is another mat-ter,The latest surveys still puts Modi ahead of Kejriwal for leadershipqualities. Even among Delhi voters BJP is ahead but AAP is not farbehind. Kejriwal has to convince the Voters of Delhi that he is seriousin ruling Delhi. His confrontational approach to every authority is notmuch appreciated. If AAP thinks that Congress will not be a factor inthe coming elections that may prove wrong in their calculations. Delhihas suffered a lot in the last 8 months and may go for majority govern-ment, which can effectively solve the enormous problems facing Delhicommon man. Voters may think of co-ordination between Delhi andCenter which can give edge to BJP. There are rumours that manypeople within the AAP thinks that Kejriwal should not be projected asCM of Delhi as his National stature will suffer and he may become theleader of the regional par ty like other states. Criticizing Modi mayallow voters to unite and give an advantage to BJP.There is a danger that in the next 4 months if Modi government doesnot control inflation then BJP can suffer. Voters also understand thatDelhi government has limitations and police is not under their control.The most remarkable thing which goes into AAP's favour is that noMLA could be lured by BJP to break away and give the chance to BJPto form the government, although one of BJP leader was accused oftrying to bribe one of the AAP MLA. Kejriwal thinks that all theseMLA's will be re-elected and get more seats from Congress and BJP.He is claiming to win more than 50 seats, He is making 49 days of administra-tion, where according to him the electricity, water and vegetable prices werereduced as his main highlight to garner votes in the upcoming Delhi Elections.BJP is depending upon the charisma of Modi. They feel that Modi has provedhimself as a decisive and hard working leader. He will be the face of BJP. No doubtthey did very well in Lok Sabha Elections at the national level and also they arebeing helped by the falling of the crude oil prices which brought down the petrol anddiesel prices by Rs.8 and Rs.5. Delhi has the maximum cars,two wheelers andbuses, which gave common man a relief. It will be interesting to see the oratoryskills of Kejriwal and Modi. It all depends who can convince the voters for a betterDelhi. In recent elections of Maharashtra and Haryana, we have seen the success-ful personality persona of Mr. Modi. Most of the voters in India believe in Modi'sleadership and all surveys prove that.AAP has advantage in the low income areas in Delhi but at the same time middleclass is fearful of AAP that they will be ignored. Kejriwal has to work hard to createtrust in these voters. He has a very tough assignment to win the majority for AAP.Congress on the other hand has no reputable leader from Delhi. Former ChiefMinister Sheila Dixit is a recognized face in Delhi but her loosing election and thecontroversy of Commonwealth Games are a liability. Mr. Ajay Makan and Presi-dent of Delhi Congress, Mr.Arvinder Singh Lovely do not have much base amongthe voters of Delhi.More over Congress is losing election after election and doesnot seem to know what do with itself. AAP is ready but it has frittered away muchof its goodwill. BJP is in high spirits after winning in Haryana and Maharashtra andbanking upon the decisive leadership of Modi and organisational skill of theirpresident Amit Shah.Delhi has serious problems of land crunch, migration and law andorder. Whoever gets the prize of Delhi, will not find the going easy andthey have to work hard and fast to solve the problems of Delhi whichhave been neglected for the last 8 months.RANVIR SHARDA (HOMEOPATH)416-727-9199, Email: [email protected] issue: WILL BJP ALLIANCE BREAK IN THE COMING MONTHS



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BEIJING, CHINA - PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER IS GREETED BY XI JINPING, PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA,UPON HIS ARRIVAL AT THE GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE DURING HIS OFFICIAL VISIT TO CHINA. PMO PHOTO BY JASON RANSOM

PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER SETSCOURSE OF FUTURE RELATIONS WITH CHINA

Beijing, China: Prime Minister's Office - Prime Minister Stephen Harpertoday welcomed progress following meetings in Beijing with Premier LiKeqiang, which will result in bilateral initiatives that will benefit both coun-tries."With a population of well over a billion citizens and one of the top economiesin the world today, China presents incredible opportunities for Canadian busi-nesses which could translate into significant economic and job growth backhome. I welcomed the frank and respectful discussions I had today withChinese leaders in Beijing on further advancing bilateral relations to ourmutual benefit. The Canada-China Joint List of Outcomes 2014 sets a boldcourse for future engagement and prosperity." - Prime Minister Stephen HarperDuring their discussions, which took place as part of the Prime Minister'sthird official visit to China, the leaders agreed to the Canada-China Joint Listof Outcomes 2014 which sets out the future course of bilateral relations. Theyagreed to further deepen the commercial relationship in the areas of agricul-ture, energy and civil aviation, and to expand cooperation in the health andfinancial services sectors.As part of the Canada-China Joint List of Outcomes 2014, the leaders an-nounced several important initiatives to further advance bilateral relationsand promote growth and prosperity in both countries, including:the establishment of a Foreign Affairs Ministers Dialogue and an Economicand Financial Strategic Dialogue which will enhance bilateral communica-tion and cooperation in the areas of foreign affairs and economic and financialmatters, and deepen bilateral trade and investment ties between the twocountries;the expansion of a Memorandum of Understanding on Nuclear Cooperation,which will help the Canadian nuclear industry increase its exports to Chinaand generate jobs and growth in Canada's nuclear energy sector;the commitment to support the use of local currencies in trade and invest-

ment to help promote the stable and healthy development of a Canadianrenminbi market; and,an updated Canada-China Air Transport Agreement that allows airlines fromboth countries to offer more travel options for goods, services and people.The leaders also recognized the importance that agriculture plays in thebilateral relationship and witnessed the signing of a Phytosanitary Arrange-ment for permanent market access for Canadian cherries in the Chinesemarket.The commitment to further strengthen Canada-China relations is being madewith a view to promoting mutual benefit, equality and respect. The leadersalso discussed a broad range of international and regional issues of mutualinterest.Quick FactsCanada's long-standing and comprehensive relationship with the People'sRepublic of China operates at many levels and in many areas, including intrade, governance, health, development, education and culture. Both coun-tries also enjoy an active working relationship in international fora, includingthe G-20, the United Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum,and the World Trade Organization.In October 2014, the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Pro-tection Agreement came into force, which provides a rules-based invest-ment regime and greater investor confidence.In 2013, China was Canada's second-largest export market, with exportsvalued at almost $20.5 billion, an increase of 5.8 per cent year-over-year -and an increase of over 83 per cent over the past five years.China is the second-largest source of merchandise imports to Canada afterthe United States. The total value of imports from China reached $52.7 billionin 2013, an increase of 4 per cent over 2012 and up nearly 33 per cent over thepast five years.

PRIME MINISTER HARPER TO LEAD CANADIANDELEGATION TO G-20 IN BRISBANE

Ottawa - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be travelling to NewZealand and Australia from November 13 to 16. He will be accompa-nied by Joe Oliver, Minister of Finance.During his first official visit to New Zealand (November 13-14), PrimeMinister Harper will meet with Lieutenant General the Right Honourable SirJerry Mateparae, the Governor-General of New Zealand, and Prime Minister JohnKey. The Prime Ministers will discuss the bilateral relationship, as well as interna-tional security issues.Prime Minister Harper will then join leaders at the G-20 Leaders' Summit inBrisbane, Australia (November 15-16). As this year's host, Australia has anchoredthe G-20's work in the development of comprehensive national growth strategiesto address continuing global economic concerns. As such, leaders are expected todiscuss coordinated measures designed to lift economic growth, bolster financialinstitutions, strengthen the global economy, and create jobs.On the margins of the Summit, Prime Minister Harper will hold bilateral talks withAustralian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and other G-20 leaders with a view toadvancing key issues of domestic and global importance.Quick Facts" New Zealand is an important like-minded partner for Canada on a broad range ofissues, including security and defence, migrant smuggling, international trade,counter-terrorism, landmines, environment peace support operations, human rights,indigenous issues, the governance of international fisheries and oceans, as wellas education and culture." New Zealand is identified as an established market and a priority in the 2013

Global Markets Action Plan. Bilateral merchandise trade between the countriestotalled $909 million in 2013." Together, the members of the G-20 account for more than 85 per cent of the world'seconomy and two thirds of the world's population, making the G-20 the premierforum for international economic cooperation." For the last six years, the G-20 has played a significant role in mitigating theadverse effects of the financial and economic crisis that was felt across the globein 2008." As this year's host, Australia has selected two central themes for the 2014 G-20Summit: promoting stronger economic growth and employment outcomes, andmaking the global economy more resilient to deal with future shocks. Quotes "Canadians feel a natural affinity with New Zealand. The two countries sharecommon values and a healthy trade and commercial relationship, and collaborateon a wide range of regional and global issues. I look forward to meeting with PrimeMinister John Key to build upon this already fruitful relationship, and to discussmatters of mutual importance, including security and defence, international tradeand counter-terrorism." - Prime Minister Stephen Harper"I look forward to working with G-20 partners on ways of further strengthening theglobal economy in today's turbulent international environment. I also look forwardto sharing with my colleagues how our Government has used short-term stimulusspending, fiscal discipline and one of the most ambitious free trade agendasin our history to balance our budgets and position Canada for eco-nomic success." - Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Unemployment ratein Canada sinks

DESK REPORT / OTTAWAFinance Minister Joe Oliver today issued the following statementregarding Statistics Canada's announcement that the Canadianeconomy added 43,100 jobs in October. The unemployment ratelowered to 6.5% from 6.8%."While the global economy remains fragile, our long-term jobgains demonstrate that our Conservative Government's planfor the economy is working. Our unrelenting focus on jobs,growth and long-term prosperity is paying off for Canadiansfrom coast to coast to coast. The long-term trend is positiveas Canada has the best job creation in the G7, with over 1.2million net new jobs created since the depth of the recession."Under Prime Minister Harper's leadership, Canada is on theright track. And we will stay on track to a balanced budget in2015, while creating quality jobs and keeping taxes low forfamilies and businesses."Oliver's statement came after a draft released by StatisticsCanada showing Ontario's economy has grown as 37,000 jobswere inducted in the month of October including an increaseof 33,700 full-time jobs. The province's youth (aged 15-24)employment increased by 6,300. With October's gains, em-ployment in Ontario has increased by 551,300 since June 2009-- 93.1 per cent of which are full-time and 71.3 per cent in theprivate sector. Ontario's unemployment rate has declined froma recessionary high of 9.4 per cent in June 2009 to 6.5 percent last month.Ontario's recent actions to foster oppor tunities and create jobsinclude Premier Wynne's trade mission to China, which at-tracted $966 million in new investment and will create 1,800jobs in communities across the province, and the government'srecently announced par tnership with Honda Canada, whichwill make Alliston one of the most innovative plants in Nor thAmerica and protect 4,000 jobs.Fostering oppor tunit ies and creating jobs are par t of thegovernment's economic plan for Ontario. The four-par t planis building Ontario up by investing in people's talents andskills, building new public infrastructure like roads and tran-sit, creating a dynamic, suppor tive environment where busi-ness thrives and building a secure savings plan so everyonecan afford to retire.According to details:" Ontario's Youth Jobs Strategy is creating job oppor-tunities for about 30,000 youth. It has already created intern-ships and job placements for more than 20,000 youth in theprovince." Ontario's new 10-year, $2.5 billion Jobs and Pros-perity Fund is par t of a comprehensive plan for creating jobsand growing the economy." The Southwestern and Eastern Ontario DevelopmentFunds have attracted more than $1.25 billion in investmentand have helped to create and retain more than 29,000 jobs inOntario communities.Ontario was the number one jurisdiction in Nor th America forforeign direct investment based on capital expenditure in 2013.


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Canada Government tables - Zero Tolerancefor Barbaric Cultural Practices Act

Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announcedthe tabling of legislation that will strengthen Canadian laws to prevent bar-baric cultural practices from happening on Canadian soil.The Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act sends a clear mes-sage to individuals coming to this country that harmful and violent culturalpractices are unacceptable in Canada. These practices are incompatiblewith Canadian values and will not be tolerated."With the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act, we are strength-ening our laws to protect Canadians and newcomers to Canada from bar-baric cultural practices. We are sending a strong message to those in Canadaand those who wish to come to Canada that we will not tolerate culturaltraditions in Canada that deprive individuals of their human rights. Our gov-ernment will continue to stand up for all victims of violence and abuse andtake necessary action to prevent these practices from happening on Cana-dian soil."Chris Alexander, Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister"This new legislation reaffirms our Government's ongoing efforts to end vio-lence against women and girls. This includes our investments through Sta-tus of Women Canada to give communities the tools they need to end bar-baric cultural practices."Dr. K. Kellie Leitch, Minister of Labour and Minister of Status of WomenThe Act would amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), theCivil Marriage Act and the Criminal Code. It would provide more protectionand support for vulnerable immigrants-primarily women and girls-including:Creating a new inadmissibility under IRPA that would render permanent residentsand temporary residents inadmissible if they practise polygamy in Canada;Strengthening Canadian marriage laws by amending the Civil Marriage Actto codify the existing legal requirements, at the national level, for "free andenlightened consent" and establishing a new national minimum age for mar-riage of 16;Helping to protect potential victims of early or forced marriages by creating anew specific court-ordered peace bond to be used where there are groundsto fear that a person would commit a forced or early marriage offence, includ-ing the mandatory surrendering of a passport to prevent a child from beingtaken out of the country to facilitate a forced marriage;Criminalizing certain conduct related to early and forced marriage ceremo-nies in the Criminal Code, including the act of removing a child from Canada

for the purpose of such marriage;Limiting the defence of provocation so that it would not apply in so-called"honour" killings and many spousal homicides; andIncluding consequential amendments to the Prisons and Reformatories Actand the Youth Criminal Justice Act to include the aforementioned peace bond.These changes build upon existing federal initiatives that are providing vitalsupport, protection and services for newcomers to Canada, specificallywomen and girls.Quick factsGlobally, between 2004 and 2014, an estimated 100 million girls will havebeen forced to marry before their 18th birthday.The 2013 Speech from the Throne stated that: "Sadly, millions of women andgirls continue to be brutalized by violence, including through the inhumanepractice of early and forced marriage. This barbarism is unacceptable toCanadians. Our government will take steps to ensure that it does not occur onour soil."For the purposes of this initiative, the term "barbaric cultural practices" en-compasses forms of gender-based family violence, such as early, forcedand polygamous marriage and "honour"-based violence.In 2011, the Supreme Court of British Columbia upheld the constitutionality ofthe Criminal Code prohibition on polygamy (section 293) and found it consis-tent with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. "Our Government has been clear on its stance against polygamy and otherbarbaric practices that constitute gender-based violence. These importantlegislative changes build on the work that is already being done to make itclear that family violence-including violence committed in the name of so-called "honour"-is absolutely unacceptable. This Act includes important toolsto prevent early and forced marriages and to protect victims from exploitationand violence."Peter MacKay, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada "Violence against women and girls is a heinous abuse of human rights andhas no place in Canadian society. The Zero Tolerance for Barbaric CulturalPractices Act sends a clear message that any form of harmful cultural prac-tices is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. I am proud that our Govern-ment continues to take strong action to ensure the equality, safety and secu-rity of women and girls in communities all across Canada."Rona Ambrose, Canada's Health Minister

Making life more affordablefor Canadian familiesRICHMOND HILL, ON – Our Conservative Government has announced newmeasures to help make life more affordable for Canadian families.That is why we proposed the new Family Tax Cut. Designed for parents withchildren under the age of 18, it will allow a higher-income spouse to transferup to $50,000 of taxable income to a spouse in a lower tax bracket. This willreduce the difference in the federal tax payable by a one-earner couplerelative to a two-earner couple with a similar family income. We are alsoincreasing the Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) from $100 to $160 permonth for parents with children under the age of six. In total, parents willreceive up to $1,920 a year, per child. The UCCB has also been expandedupon for parents with children aged six to seventeen, allowing them to re-ceive a benefit of $60 per month. As a result, parents will receive up to $720a year. New proposed tax relief also includes increasing the Child CareExpense Deduction dollar limits by $1,000, effective for the 2015 tax year. Themaximum amounts that can be claimed will increase to $8,000 from $7,000for children under age seven, to $5,000 from $4,000 for children aged seventhrough 16, and to $11,000 from $10,000 for children who are eligible for theDisability Tax Credit. Families can claim the Family Tax Cut in the spring of2015 when they file their 2014 tax returns. They will begin to receive pay-ments under the enhanced UCCB in July 2015. The July UCCB payment willinclude up to six months of benefits to cover the period from January throughJune 2015. The enhanced UCCB will replace the existing Child Tax Credit forthe 2015 and subsequent taxation years. “Our Government is fulfilling itspromise to balance the federal budget. We are now in a position to helpCanadian families balance theirs,” said MP Parm Gill. The Member went onto note that “all families with children will benefit from the new measuresintroduced by our Government. The average tax relief and benefit forthese families will be almost $2,000 in 2015.”

Ontario - Let's Get Coaching is a unique program created by the City ofToronto in partnership with the Coaches Association of Ontario (CAO) and iss part of the city's Host City Showcase Program, a Council-approved plan toenhance the experience of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Gamesfor residents and visitors. Through this program, 2,015 new coaches will becreated in Toronto to encourage sport development and healthy living! Theprogram kicks off on November 29.Held at the University of Toronto Scarborough Instructional Centre and thenew Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, this all-day event will involve 350participants taking the National Coaching Certification Program Fundamen-tal Movement Skills workshop – a critical first step in becoming a certifiedcoach. Participants will learn how to observe and improve fundamentalmovement skills (throwing, catching, jumping, running, balance, etc.), ana-lyze and identify the various stages of skill development, create a safelearning environment for kids and much more. Successful participants willbe credited with completing the workshop in the Coaching Association ofCanada (CAC) database, known as the Locker.

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FIRST-TIME MP (JAIPUR-RURAL) AND OLYMPICS SILVER MEDALLIST RAJYAVARDHAN SINGH RATHORE JOINS MODI CABINET.

New Delhi, (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sundayexpanded his council of ministers, inducting 21 new faces,including four of cabinet rank, in a bid to consolidate the gainsof the Lok Sabha elections by giving representation to variousregions and communities, while also reshuffling some keypor tfolios.Manohar Parrikar is the new defence minister, Suresh Prabhuhas been given charge of railways, Jagat Prakash Nadda is thenew health and family welfare minister, while Birender Singhsucceeds the late Gopinath Munde as the rural developmentand panchayati raj minister.The 45-member Modi ministry Sunday added to it four cabinetministers, three ministers of state with independent charge, and14 ministers of state (MoS).Por tfolios of the new ministers were announced late Sundaynight ahead of the first meeting of the expanded ministry slatedfor Monday. There was also a reshuffle of por tfolios.Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who relinquishes his additionalcharge of defence to Parrikar, has been now given informationand broadcasting, currently held by Parakash Javadekar as aminister of state (independent charge).D.V. Sadananda Gowda was moved from railways to law and

justice, held by Ravi Shankar Prasad, who now just has thepor tfolio of communications and information technology. HarshVardhan has been shif ted from health to science and technol-ogy, currently held by minister of state (independent charge)Jitendra Singh.Even with Sunday's expansion, Modi's ministry is leaner thanthose headed by Manmohan Singh. Officials said that Singh'sministry stood at 78 after its final reshuffle while the previousNDA had expanded even beyond that.The ministry expansion also signalled BJP's effor ts to consoli-date its gains in the states it had done well in the Lok Sabhaelections and give representation to various dominant castesand communities to expand its social base in view of theassembly elections over the next few years. The 21 newministers who joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi's teamSunday represent different regions, states, communities -- andprofessions, including two IITians, a Bollywood singer and apilot. The variety of professionals among newly inductedministers includes a well-known singer, an Olympic medallistand former army officer, two IIT-ians (one also from Harvard), achar tered accountant, a pilot, a doctor, businessmen andindustrialists.

MODI INDUCTS 21 NEW MINISTERS,RESHUFFLES PORTFOLIOS

LIST OF MINISTERS ANDPORTFOLIOS OF NARENDRAMODI GOVERNMENTNew Delhi, (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi expanded hisministry Sunday while reshuffling por tfolios of some ministers.Here is the latest list of the council of ministers and their por tfo-lios.Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Personnel, Public Grievancesand Pensions; Depar tment of Atomic Energy Depar tment ofSpace; All impor tant policy issues and all other por tfolios notallocated to any MinisterCabinet Ministers:Rajnath Singh: Home AffairsSushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian AffairsArun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Information & Broad-castingM. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing and UrbanPover ty Alleviation, Parliamentary AffairsNitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transpor t and Highways, ShippingManohar Parrikar: DefenceSuresh Prabhu: RailwaysD.V. Sadananda Gowda: Law & JusticeUma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and GangaRejuvenationNajma A. Heptulla: Minority AffairsRamvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribu-tionKalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium EnterprisesManeka Sanjay Gandhi: Women and Child DevelopmentAnanthkumar: Chemicals and Fer tilizersRavi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Tech-nologyJagat Prakash Nadda: Health & Family WelfareAshok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil AviationAnant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public EnterprisesHarsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing IndustriesNarendra Singh Tomar: Mines, SteelChaudhary Birender Singh: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj,Drinking Water and SanitationJual Oram: Tribal AffairsRadha Mohan Singh: AgricultureThaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and EmpowermentSmriti Zubin Irani: Human Resource DevelopmentHarsh Vardhan: Science and Technology, Ear th SciencesMinisters of State:General V.K. Singh: Statistics and Programme Implementation(Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian AffairsInderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), DefenceSantosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge)Bandaru Dattatreya: Labour and Employment (IndependentCharge)Rajiv Pratap Rudy: Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Inde-pendent Charge), Parliamentary AffairsShripad Yesso Naik: AAYUSH (Independent Charge), Health &Family WelfareDharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (IndependentCharge)Sarbananda Sonowal: Youth Affairs and Spor ts (IndependentCharge)Prakash Javadekar: Environment, Forest and Climate Change(Independent Charge)Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (IndependentCharge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)Jitendra Singh: Development of Nor th Eastern Region (Indepen-dent Charge), Prime Minister's Office, Personnel, Public Griev-ances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Depar tment ofSpaceNirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (IndependentCharge)Mahesh Sharma: Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (In-dependent Charge), Civil AviationMukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs, Parliamentary AffairsRam Kripal Yadav: Drinking Water & SanitationHaribhai Par thibhai Chaudhary: Home AffairsSanwar Lal Jat: Water Resources, River Development &Ganga RejuvenationMohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya: AgricultureGiriraj Singh: Micro, Small & Medium EnterprisesHansraj Gangaram Ahir : Chemicals & Fer tilizersG.M. Siddeshwara: Heavy Industries & Public EnterprisesManoj Sinha: RailwaysNihalchand: Panchayati RajUpendra Kushwaha: Human Resource DevelopmentRadhakrishnan P.: Road Transpor t & Highways, ShippingKiren Rijiju: Home AffairsKrishan Pal: Social Justice & EmpowermentSanjeev Kumar Balyan: AgricultureManuskhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal AffairsRaosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Pub-lic DistributionVishnu Deo Sai: Mines, SteelSudarshan Bhagat: Rural DevelopmentRam Shankar Katheria: Human Resource DevelopmentY.S. Chowdary: Science and Technology, Earth ScienceJayant Sinha: FinanceCol. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Information & BroadcastingBabul Supria (Babul Supriyo) Baral: Urban Development, Hous-ing and Urban Pover ty AlleviationSadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Food Processing IndustriesVijay Sampla: Social Justice & Empowerment


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SALMAN KHAN CALLS ON PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI, IN NEW DELHI (IANS).

Socialist parties join hands to counter BJPNew Delhi (IANS): Ahead of the winter session, leaders of SP, JD-U,RJD and JD-S have announced a united front in parliament to counterthe BJP-led government.A luncheon meeting called by Samajwadi Par ty chief Mulayam Singhwas attended by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad,Janata Dal-United's (JD-U) Nitish Kumar and Sharad Yadav, and JanataDal-Secular (JD-S) leader H.D. Deve Gowda with others.Talking to the media after the meet, JD-U leader and former Biharchief minister Nitish Kumar said the meeting aimed at bringing to-gether the parties that have come out from the original Janata Dal."We discussed the whole political scenario. We will form a united front inparliament. Our views are same on many issues, and we will get otherlike minded parties," Nitish Kumar said."We didn't talk about the Congress but our coming together may lead tomerger and it will have an impact on electoral politics," said Nitish Kumar.The meet comes months after an attempt failed to form a non-Con-

gress, non-BJP front ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in April-May.After the meeting, Mulayam Singh Yadav with Sharad Yadav told me-dia that they have decided to fight together against Bharatiya JanataPar ty (BJP) and the next course of action will be decided in comingmeetings.Lalu Prasad said: "We will work together to bring back the blackmoney. The BJP has taken u-turn on the issue. It (BJP) said that it willbring the money within 100 days but it lied to people.""The central government is going in wrong direction. The programmeswhich the UPA government had star ted, it (BJP) is pursuing the samewith denting and painting...," he said.Left par ties were not invited to the luncheon meeting.Nitish Kumar, however, said they will approach other par ties withsimilar views, and Left par ties are not ruled out.The SP has five members in the Lok Sabha, RJD has four and the JD-U and JD-S have two each.

MODI TO MEET OVER 40 LEADERSIN THREE-NATION TOUR

New Delhi, (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has an extremelybusy 10-day tour ahead that will see him meeting more than 40 lead-ers, including around 20 bilateral meetings with the leaders of China,Germany, Britain and South Korea and others as he travels toMyanmar, Australia and Fiji from Tuesday.Modi, who travels to the Myanmar capital Nay Pyi Taw on the first leg,will be meeting the leaders of the 10 Association of Southeast AsianNations (ASEAN) nations during the ASEAN-India summit. He willalso meet the leaders of the East Asia Summit, which include theASEAN and seven others besides India, during the Nov 12-13 summits.The ASEAN members are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam, while the EAS mem-bers 10 ASEAN nations and Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, SouthKorea, Russia and the US.Modi will travel to Australia for the G20 in Brisbane Nov 15-16. The G20comprises Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany,Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, SouthAfrica, Turkey, Britain, the US and the European Union.He will also travel to Fiji on Nov 19.Around 20 bilateral meetings are lined up, including first-time interactionswith Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and German Chancellor Angela Merkel,during the three-nation tour.Modi would be holding around 13-14 bilateral meetings during his Myanmartrip. These would include a structured delegation level meeting with theChinese Premier Li in Nay Pyi Taw, ministry of external affairs spokespersonSyed Akbaruddin announced at a briefing here Monday.In Myanmar, Modi would also hold a bilateral meeting with MyanmaresePresident Thein Sein and also meet with National League for Democracyleader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.He is also to have his first bilateral meeting with South Korean President Park

Geun-hye, who visited India in January when she met then prime ministerManmohan Singh.On the sidelines of the G20, Modi would hold bilateral meetings with Merkel,British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande,Canada's Stephen Harper and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, thespokesperson announced.Akbaruddin said there were "still slots available" to arrange for more bilateralmeetings. "We are still juggling.. and trying to work out slots available," hesaid. He had said earlier that there have been several requests for bilateralmeetings with Prime Minister Modi and they were trying to work out theschedule, keeping in mind the time available.US President Barack Obama is also attending the EAS in Nay Pyi Taw, whichcould see the two sides meet again briefly -- in over one and a half monthssince their last meeting in the White House in Washington.In Australia, Modi would be holding a bilateral meeting with AustralianPrime Minister Tony Abbott - their second meeting in two months.In Fiji where the prime minister travels on Nov 19, he would be hold-ing a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama.The BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - bloc ofnations would also be holding an informal meeting on the sidelines ofthe G20. Modi would get to meet the leaders of all the four nations -Brazil's Dilma Rousseff, who won a re-election last month, ChinesePresident Xi Jinping, South African President Jacob Zuma and Rus-sian President Vladimir Putin. He has met the leaders during theBRICS summit in Brazil in July.In Fiji, Modi would also attend a first-ever meeting with 14 SouthPacific Island leaders - including of Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, PapuaNew Guinea, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga,Tuvalu and Vanuatu.He returns home Nov 20.

CABINET RESHUFFLEMAHARASHTRA -SHIV SENA UPSETThe much-anticipated first ministry expansion was marred withally Shiv Sena calling off par ticipation in the government atthe last minute, exacerbating their already strained ties.Prabhu, who was a minister in the first national DemocraticAlliance government, was sworn in after he quit the ShivSena and joined the Bharatiya Janata Par ty (BJP).Apar t from Prabhu, the BJP inducted par ty MP Hansraj Ahirfrom Maharashtra where the par ty got success in therecent assembly polls.In Mumbai, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray describedPrabhu's joining the BJP as "unfor tunate" but indicated thatAnant Geete, par ty's representative in the Modi govern-ment, will continue for the time being. Thackeray put acondition that his par ty will sit in opposition in Maharashtraif BJP takes suppor t of the Nationalist Congress Par ty toprove its majority in the state assembly Nov 12. The Senaat the last minute recalled Anil Desai, who it had nominatedfor induction in the union ministry. According to repor ts,Desai arrived in Delhi for the oath-taking ceremony but wasordered to return.

BIHARKeeping in mind next year's elections in Bihar which arecrucial for the BJP, Bihar got three ministers in Sunday'sinduction. Besides Rudy, others included are Ram KripalYadav, who lef t the RJD to join the BJP before the LokSabha polls, and firebrand BJP MP Giriraj Singh (bothMoS), who has cour ted controversies for his statements.They all are from Bihar. Union ministers Ram Vilas Paswanand Ravi Shankar Prasad are also from Bihar.Giriraj Singh, 61, who cour ted controversy with hiscomment that "those who oppose Narendra Modi should goto Pakistan" and was also booked for the hate speech, got aplace as as minister of state.Jayant Sinha, the IIT-Delhi and Harvard-educated MP fromHazaribagh in election-bound Jharkhand, is among theprofessionals inducted in the ministry as a balancing act toinduction of state leaders with caste or community base.

UTTAR PRADESHUttar Pradesh, another state crucial for the BJP, got fournew ber ths - Mahesh Sharma, a doctor who is the MP fromGautam Buddh Nagar (Noida); Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, whois a Rajya Sabha member; Ram Shankar Katheria, the AgraMP; and Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.Modi also brought into his ministry the party's known Muslim face inNaqvi, adding to Najma Heptullah, who is minority affairs minister. Healso added to the representation of women by inducting SadhviNiranjan Jyoti, BJP MP from Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh, to take theirnumber to eight.Punjab- Vijay Sampla - a first-time BJP MP gets Cabinet BerthVijay Sampla, who took oath as a minister in Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's cabinet Sunday, is a first-time BJP MP from theHoshiarpur (reserved) seat. Sampla is not a major name inPunjab's politics. But Sampla, 53,has been chosen becausethe BJP is looking at its own prospects for the 2017assembly polls in Punjab. Sampla, a businessman, waspicked up by the BJP for the Hoshiarpur seat in the recentLok Sabha polls though he had not contested any electionear l ier.

HARYANAJat community leader Birender Singh, who has been termedas a political "tragedy king" for failing to make it to beHaryana's chief minister or a union minister, has finallymade it to the union cabinet. He quit the Congress, withwhich he was actively involved for 42 years, to join the BJPAugust this year. He is the third union minister fromHaryana in the Modi government.

RAJASTHANRajasthan, which had only one minister in the uniongovernment, got two ministers this time.Sanwar Lal Jat(MP from Ajmer), who defeated Congress leader and formerunion minister Sachin Pilot in the Lok Sabha polls, wasinducted as an MoS.First-time MP (Jaipur-rural) and Olympics silver medallistRajyavardhan Singh Rathore also comes from Rajasthan. Aformer army officer and international shooter, Rathore isamong the fresh faces given ministerial responsibility.

WEST BENGALThe youngest MP inducted in the ministry Sunday is well-known singer Babul Supriyo Baral, the only face in theministry from West Bengal where the BJP wants to consoli-date after recent gains. The Asansol MP was inducted as aminister of state.

ANDHRA PRADESHThe only NDA ally to get a ber th in Sunday's expansion wasTelugu Desam Par ty (TDP) Rajya Sabha MP, Y.S. Chowdaryas an MoS.

GUJARATGujarat got new faces - Haribhai Par thibhai Chaudhary, andMohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundarya, while OlympianRajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Sanwar Lal Jat wereinducted from Rajasthan. Vijay Sampla, BJP Hoshiarpur MP,was inducted as MoS.

HIMACHAL PRADESHJagat Prakash Nadda, the trusted lieutenant of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah in thepar ty, has been made a cabinet minister. He is among thesenior most general secretaries in the BJP. He comes fromHimachal Pradesh, which did not have any representationin the Modi government.

GOAManohar Parrikar, who quit as Goa chief minister Saturday,was the first to be inducted as a cabinet minister. With an IITbackground, Parrikar is well known for his hands-downapproach to governance and simplistic demeanour.

KERALA BANKS TO HELP NURSESRETURNING FROM IRAQ, LIBYAThiruvananthapuram (IANS): Kerala's State Level Bankers Committee(SLBC) has agreed to the state government's request to provide benefits to around500 nurses who have returned from conflict-hit Iraq and Libya. The benefits will bein the form of one-time settlements and loans at reduced rates.P. Sudeep, CEO of Roots-Norka, an agency for non-resident Keralites, told IANS thatthe SLBC has said that all educational loans up to Rs.4 lakh availed by the nurses willcome under a waiver scheme."The banks have agreed to write off all the interests on educational loans availed bythese nurses and have come out with a one-time settlement which states that onlythe capital (maximum Rs.4 lakh) will have to be repaid," he said.More than 500 nurses from Kerala have returned from Iraq and Libya since July aftertrouble broke out there. They had requested the Oommen Chandy govern-ment for some monetary benefits. Most of these nurses had availededucational loans during the period of their training as nurses. Whenthey star ted to repay the loans after getting employment in Iraq andLibya, trouble star ted there.

CONTD. FROM PAGE 1Though some Delhiites think that Kejriwal's stint as the chiefminister was good, others felt betrayed that he quit only after49 days. It was seen by many as a rookie act. But Kejriwalalso needs to fight what had been called the 'Modi wave' thatswept the country during the Lok Sabha polls and evidentlystill continues to maintain momentum - take for exampleBJP's win in Maharashtra and Haryana.The pre-poll survey reveals that Modi is Delhi's favouriteleader with "63% respondents voting for him. Kejriwal is be-hind with 25 percent. Third comes Rahul Gandhi with 12percent." More than half (56%) of the respondents feel thatwith Narendra Modi being the Prime Minister of the nation,"ache din" are here.

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SIKH PILGRIMS CELEBRATEGURPURAB AT NANKANA SAHIB

BJP MP FROM MATHURA ACTRESS HEMA MALINI PARTICIPATES IN CLEAN INDIA CAMPAIGN IN VRINDAVAN (IANS).

Amritsar (IANS): Visiting Sikh pilgrims from India and other par ts ofthe world celebrated Gurpurab, the bir th anniversary of the founder ofSikh religion, Guru Nanak Dev, at his bir thplace Nankana Sahib, about90 km from Lahore, in Pakistan.The devotees offered prayers, per formed voluntary service at thegurdwara and par took of langar at the shrine, according to the infor-mation reaching Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC)here. The bir th anniversary was celebrated under tight security pro-vided around the shrine by the Pakistan Rangers and Pakistan's EliteForce commandos.

The shrine, which is under the Evacuee Trust Proper ty Board of Paki-stan, was decorated for the occasion.Over 1,500 Sikh pilgrims left for Pakistan Tuesday to go to NankanaSahib. Over 3,000 Sikh pilgrims from around the world have arrivedin Nankana Sahib on the occasion.Before the depar ture of the pilgrims Tuesday, 60 people were killedSunday at Wagah in Pakistan near the international border in a sui-cide bomb attack.Born in 1469 at Nankana Sahib, about 90 km from Lahore in Pakistan'sPunjab province, Guru Nanak Dev founded Sikhism later.

ON RSS 'REMOTE CONTROL', JAITLEYSAYS MODI'S WORD PREVAILS

New Delhi (IANS): Ahead of Sunday's much-anticipated cabinetreshuffle, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Friday denied that theRSS calls the shots in government-making.Answering questions posed by TV talk show host Karan Thapar, Jaitleysaid it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's word at the end of the daythat matters in ministry formation.Asked if the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological headof the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was "the remote control",Jaitley said Modi can consult anyone he likes "but at the end of the day it's

his word that prevails"."And a prime minister with the clarity of mind like Mr. Modi is certainlynot going to be dictated to by anybody else in the matter of cabinet deci-sions." He said that in the matter of constituting his council of ministers,"it is certainly that he (Modi) is the one who takes the decision".Jaitley also maintained that a "large par t of what is written" insenior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai's book "2014: The Election thatchanged India" would "not be very accurate".He was speaking at the book launch event Friday evening.

SC SEEKS DETAILS OFUNAUTHORISED OCCUPANTSOF GOVERNMENT HOUSESNew Delhi (IANS): The Supreme Cour t Friday asked the Centreto place before it the details of people who are in unauthorisedoccupation of VIP bungalows in Lutyens' Zone in New Delhi thataccommodates India's power elite.The bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice A.K. Sikri askedSolicitor General Ranjit Kumar to file an affidavit giving detailsof the number of accommodations available in category 6, 7 and8 and how many were allocated under the discretionary quotaand how many were staying unauthorisedly.The cour t said the guidelines issued by it July 5 on vacatinggovernment accommodation would continue to remain in opera-tion. The guidelines included a time-frame for vacating govern-ment accommodation by judges, government officials and law-makers on their retirement or ceasing to occupy the office.Asking the government to furnish the information by Nov 24 be-fore the star t of the winter session of parliament, the cour t askedfor a fresh affidavit as it found that the affidavit filed by the gov-ernment was not satisfactory. The government told the cour t thatformer ministers, including Pawan Kumar Bansal, A. Raja,Dayanidhi Maran, S.M. Krishna, Mukul Wasnik, C.P. Joshi andMukul Roy have vacated their premises.

LIFE CERTIFICATE FORPENSIONERS TO GO DIGITALNEW DELHI: The government on Monday launched an Aadhaar-based digital life cer tificate for pensioners, a move that couldeventually benefit over one crore pensioners.The proposed digital certification will do away with the require-ment of a pensioner to submit a physical life certificate in No-vember each year, in order to ensure the continuity of pensionbeing credited into his or her account. While the system is in itsearly stage, it is bound to ease life for pensioners once imple-mented. The depar tment of electronics and information has de-veloped a software application that will enable the recording of apensioner's Aadhaar number and biometric details from hismobile device or computer, by plugging in a biometric readingdevice. Key details of the pensioner, including date, time andbiometric information will be uploaded to a central database onreal-time basis, ultimately enabling the pension disbursingagency to access a digital life cer tificate. This will conclusivelyestablish that the pensioner was alive at the time of authentica-tion. The software application system will be made available topensioners and other stakeholders on a large scale at no extracost. It can be operated on a personal computer or a smar tphone,along with an inexpensive biometric reading device.

Government improving infrastructurealong China border, says JaitleyNew Delhi (IANS): With China ramping up its infrastructure alongthe border, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley Friday said the govern-ment was taking necessary steps based on "strategic reality of theneighbourhood" and work was being carried out on 73 roads measuring3,812 km along the border with China.Addressing the first meeting of the consultative committee attached tohis ministry since assuming charge as defence minister, Jaitley saidIndia's immediate neighbours have already enhanced infrastructure inproximity to the borders.He said the government has initiated several steps to overcome proce-dural delays and hasten the process of building roads in these criticalareas. Referring to the border with China, Jaitley said 73 roads having alength 3,812 km were being developed. He said 61 of these roadsmeasuring 3,410 km were entrusted to the Border Roads Organisation(BRO). He said the BRO had completed work on 17 roads measuring590 km and work on the remaining roads was in different stages ofcompletion.He said the army has prioritised 22 roads and the ministry was moni-toring the progress on road construction.Taking part in the discussion, members of parliament belonging tovarious political parties expressed concern over delay in completion ofborder projects. Some members suggested that the BRO should un-dergo a "transformational change" to convert it into a highly efficientorganisation. BRO Director General Lt. Gen. A.T. Parnaik said the comple-tion of roads has been affected due to delays in obtaining forest/wildlifeclearance, difficult terrain conditions, and limited working period in ayear. He said paucity of construction material and challenges posed bynatural disasters were other factors leading to delay in border roadprojects. He said efforts have been made to overcome these factorsthrough greater coordination with the ministry of environment and for-ests (MoEF), modernisation of the BRO and induction of more units andresources. An official release said Jaitley thanked the MoEF for easingenvironmental clearances. He also complimented the BRO for theirwork in restoring road links during the recent floods in Jammuand Kashmir. "BRO has been an effective initial responder indisaster management," Jaitley said.

AUSTRALIA VISIT WILL BESPECIAL, HISTORIC: MODINew Delhi (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thurs-day that his visit to Australia this month would be both "specialand historic".The prime minister is travelling to Australia to attend the G-20Summit, which Modi tweeted "is a great platform to showcaseoppor tunities India has to offer to the world"."I look forward to working with G-20 leaders on impor tant is-sues concerning the world, par ticularly those relating to theglobal economy."Modi said his Australia visit "is both special and historic" andthat it would be the first bilateral visit to Australia by an Indianprime minister in 28 years."In Australia, I will meet the country's top leadership and amhonoured to have been given an oppor tunity to address the Aus-tralian parliament."I am also eagerly looking forward to interacting with the Indiancommunity in Australia."

J&K EX-SEPARATIST SAJJAD LONE MEETSMODI, BUZZ OF A TIE-UP GROWS

SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Monday met formerJ&K separatist Sajjad Lone, fuelling specula-tion that the BJP leadership could be proppingup his People's Conference to prevent MehboobaMufti's PDP from scoring an outright win.The spadework for the meeting was done byBJP general secretaries Ram Madhav and JPNadda who met Lone in Srinagar. Speaking torepor ters after the meeting, Lone did not spe-cifically refer to polls being on the agenda, lim-iting himself to saying that "a series of issues"

were discussed. "The main agenda of the meeting was to exchangeideas on ways and means of developing the stateto its full potential. A series of issues were dis-cussed. However, the main focus remained onthe recent floods in Kashmir and the need forswift and concrete effor ts towards relief and re-habilitation," Lone told a news agency.Ram Madhav, who, according to sources, metLone a second time in New Delhi earlier thismonth, told TOI, "All doors are open for thoseworking for the development of the valley."



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PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER MEETS WITH SHINZO ABE, PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN, ON THE MARGINS OF HIS OFFICIALVISIT TO CHINA. PMO PHOTO BY JASON RANSOM

OIC calls for concerted effortsto resolve Palestine issueJeddah (IANS): The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Fridaycalled for concerted international efforts to resolve the Palestine issueas it accused Israel of violating human rights of the Palestinian people."Israeli occupation represents a violation of both international humani-tarian law and international human rights law. It is, in fact, the rootcause of all escalations and ongoing human rights violations of thePalestinian People," it said. "The commission, therefore, calls for con-certed international efforts to pave the way to a peaceful politicalsettlement to end this grave situation," the OIC Independent PermanentHuman Rights Commission said during its sixth regular session here,Saudi Press Agency reported. The 56-member bloc also called forconvening the Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the FourGeneva Conventions as early as possible. "The commission is seri-ously concerned that tens of thousands of Palestinians remain withouthomes in the aftermath of the latest Israeli incursion on Gaza," a state-ment said, adding that Israel was obliged "under Articles 50 and 56 ofthe Fourth Geneva Convention, to ensure the unfettered access of thePalestinian population to education and health services".It also stressed Israel's "obligation as the occupying power, to lift thesiege imposed on the Gaza Strip, in accordance with internationalhumanitarian law, in order to allow for unhindered access of goods andconstruction material necessary for the rehabilitation and reconstruc-tion of the Gaza Strip". The OIC said that the illegal settlement activitiesin and around East Jerusalem, and in the West Bank, "constitute im-mediate threats to the two-state solution". "Only a just and compre-hensive peace would be a lasting one. The boycott, divestmentand sanctions movement worldwide is a much welcomed ef-for t to bring this issue to the fore," it said.

US COALITION STRIKES NEWTARGETS IN SYRIADamascus (IANS): The US led anti-terror coalition struck newpositions of jihadI groups in Syria's Idlib province Thursday.The US strikes for the first time targeted a position of the Ahraral-Sham movement near al-Hawa border crossing between Idliband Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The strikes also targeted a position of the Al Qaeda linked NusraFront in Idlib.The US coalition star ted their strikes against the Islamic State(IS) militant group in September.Ahrar al-Sham is a coalition of Islamist and Salafist units whichformed into a brigade during the Syrian crisis to fight againstthe administration of President Bashar al-Assad.As of July 2013, the group had about 10,000 to 20,000 fighters,making it one of the most powerful units fighting against Assad.The militant group operates under the Syrian Islamic Front, acoalition of six powerful Islamist movements.

LIBYA COURT RULESPARLIAMENT AS ILLEGALTripoli (IANS): Libya's constitutional cour t Thursday invalidatedthe country's internationally recognised parliament.The cour t declared the June 25 vote, which elected the House ofRepresentatives, as invalid, Xinhua repor ted.Thursday's ruling was seen as a move by Islamists to abandonthe elected parliament and legalise the old one, the interimGeneral National Congress.Local witnesses said that after the announcement some Islam-ist militants stationed in Tripoli fired bullets into the sky to cel-ebrate. The old parliament, whose mandate was to end uponelection of the new one in accordance with Libya's transitionalplan, has refused to disband with backing from Libya Dawn.Libya Dawn, which achieved a series of military advances latelyin Tripoli and surrounding areas, has also been instrumental inthe formation of a new cabinet by the old parliament.

40 FIGHTERS KILLED INCLASHES NEAR DAMASCUSBeirut (IANS/EFE): At least 40 fighters have been killed in clashesbetween forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad andIslamic militias in a town on the outskirts of Damascus, the SyrianObservatory for Human Rights said Friday.The clashes, in which 26 pro-government fighters and 14 rebels werekilled, occurred Thursday in the town of Beit Tema.Meanwhile, fighting continued between the Islamists and government forcesbacked by Lebanese Shia Hezbollah fighters in the areas of Jobar and AlQabun, northeast of Damascus.Aircraft of the Syrian regime bombed several positions in Jobar, but therewere no immediate reports on casualties.More than 200,000 people have been killed since the outbreak of theSyrian conflict in March 2011, according to the United Nations.

17 ARRESTED FOR WAGAHSUICIDE ATTACKIslamabad (IANS): Police, with the assistance of intelligenceagencies have arrested 17 suspects in connection with the sui-cide attack at the border with India in Pakistani Punjab.At least 59 people were killed and over 120 injured when ayoung suicide bomber wearing a suicide vest blew himself upnot far from the Wagah border Nov 2.The arrests were made during a joint search operation in theadjacent areas of Lahore, the Nation repor ted.According to officials, more arrests are expected in the comingdays. Police and law enforcement agencies are carrying outcoordinated operations.

DEALS WORTH 250 MN EUROS INKED WITH DUTCH ENTITIESNew Delhi (IANS): Deals wor th 250 million euros were inked during the visit here of Netherlands' Minister for Foreign Trade LiliannePloumen, the Dutch embassy said in a statement.Ploumen, who led a trade delegation to India, Wednesday met Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and proposed to look at removingtrade barriers between the two countries, the statement added.The Dutch delegation consisted of 30 companies and knowledge institutions, mainly from the agricultural, food and health sectors."Eight contracts with Indian par tners were signed in total jointly wor th 250 million euros. These include companies involved in ICT,sanitation and healthcare," the statement said.Bilateral trade annually amounts to over 5.8 billion euros and the Netherlands is the fifth largest investor in India, the statement added.

NO BORDER SETTLEMENT WITH CHINA UNLESS PEOPLE ACCEPT:BHUTAN PMThimphu (IANS): Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay Friday acknowledged that its border dispute with China has remainedunresolved despite 22 rounds of negotiations but maintained it will only be resolved in a manner "acceptable to the people of Bhutan".Taking a resolute stand against its large nor thern neighbour that has been repor tedly trying to browbeat it into resolving theoutstanding border dispute, Tobgay gave the impression to Indian journalists, who have come here with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, thatThimphu was not going to be bullied into agreeing to terms that were to its geographical or strategic disadvantage."For a small country like Bhutan, it is even more impor tant to look at every issue (regarding land) very carefully," Tobgay saidwithout elaboration.He laughed away suggestions that China could be the elephant in the room between India and Bhutan, saying China was itsneighbour and "we have good relations with China".Earlier, Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh refused to be drawn into any discussion on China, saying Bhutan was a sovereign countryand its ties with India had nothing to do with its ties with China. She declined to go into any detailed discussions on the border disputebetween Bhutan and China that is of direct interest to India because of its strategic implications.

China, Pakistan to build economic corridorBeijing, (IANS) China and Pakistan vowed to advance joint effor ts tobuild a bilateral economic corridor as the leaders of the two countriessigned an outline of the long-term plan of the project here Saturday.Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and his Pakistani counterpar t NawazSharif witnessed the signing of the outline after their meeting inBeijing, Xinhua repor ted.Calling the China-Pakistan economic corridor a "flagship" project tostrengthen China's connectivity with neighbouring countries, Li saidthe initiative set the strategic framework for pragmatic cooperationbetween the two countries.The two nations should facilitate the development of Gwadar Por t insouthwestern Pakistan, strengthen cooperation in energy and elec-tricity projects and plan industrial parks along the corridor, he said.The China-Pakistan economic corridor was proposed in an agree-ment reached during Li's visit to Pakistan in May 2013. It is aimed atconnecting Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region withthe Gwadar Por t in Pakistan's Balochistan province.The two countries also signed documents on cooperation in areaslike technologies, energy, finance, industrial parks and communica-tions Saturday.Li said more than 20 agreements were signed during Sharif's visit.

China is ready to establish "a community of common destiny" with itsneighbour, he added.Sharif also welcomed Chinese investment in Pakistan and promisedto ensure the safety of Chinese people and institutions in his country.

GERMANY MARKS FALL OF BERLIN WALLBerlin, (IANS) Germany Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of thefall of the Berlin Wall with 8,000 white helium balloons illuminating amore than 14-km line tracing the old border between East and WestGermany, media repor ts said.Chancellor Angela Merkel attended a service for victims of the com-munist East German regime, BBC repor ted, adding that she and otherofficials placed roses at one of the remaining sections of the wall.Chancellor Merkel said it was impor tant to think about all those whosuffered because of the wall, not only in Germany but throughoutEastern Europe. Merkel grew up in East Germany.The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop people fleeing from East

Germany to the West. "The original, infamous wall, a barbed-wire linein the road at first, then a fence, and finally a guarded and for tifiedconcrete par tition, appeared almost overnight in August 1961," TheIndependent repor ted.The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 became a powerful symbol of theend of the Cold War. The wall stretched for 155 km through Berlin buttoday only about 3 km of it still stands. Within a year of its collapse,Germany -- divided after its defeat in World War II -- was reunited.More than a million visitors are in Berlin to mark the anniversary ofthe fall of the wall. The weekend of festivities will culminate at thehistoric Brandenburg Gate.



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GROUP PHOTO OF CONCLUDING SENIOR OFFICIALS MEETING (CSOM) AT THE ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC)2014 IN BEIJING, CHINA (IANS).

MICROSOFT UNVEILSSTANDALONE OFFICE APPSNew York (IANS): Microsoft has released standalone Word,Excel and Powerpoint apps for the iPhone and a Microsoft Officemobile app for android.Android users already had the Office Suite 8 app to access Eord,Excel, Powerpoint and pdf on their phones but now they can alsoaccess the official Microsoft app on their phones.The new iPhone apps allow advanced editing and have beenoptimized for the smaller screens of iPhones, Mashable re-por ts. "If you're in the middle of working on a presentation andyou get on your train to go home you can just move to yourphone and continue editing," Michael Atalla of Microsoft wasquoted as saying.Office apps for Android tablet, are still being worked on and areexpected to become available in 2015.

'PAKISTAN MILITARY OPERATIONDISRUPTED HAQQANI NETWORK'Islamabad (IANS): A top American general in command of internationalforces in Afghanistan has said that Pakistan's ongoing militaryoperation in North Waziristan has helped disrupt the Haqqani network'sability to launch attacks on Afghan territory, a media report saidThursday.Lieutenant General Joseph Anderson, a senior commander for the USand NATO forces in Afghanistan, said in a Pentagon-hosted videobriefing from Afghanistan Wednesday that the Haqqani network wasnow fractured like the Taliban, Associated Press of Pakistan (APP)reported. "They are fractured. They are fractured like the Taliban is.That's based pretty much on the Pakistan military operations and NorthWaziristan this entire summer-fall," he said, while acknowledging the

effectiveness of Pakistan's continuing military offensive known as"Zarb-e-Azb"."That has very much disrupted their effor ts in Afghanistan and hascaused them to be less effective in terms of their ability to pull off anattack here in Kabul," Anderson added.Since its launch in June this year, the Pakistani offensive has elimi-nated a large number of militants, the Daily Times reported.Anderson revealed that 4,634 members of Afghanistan's police andarmy have been killed in action this year.The Haqqani netwrok is an Islamist terrorist organisation which fightsagainst the US-led NATO forces and the government of Afghanistan.They operate on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Beijing (IANS): China and Japan reached an agreement to improvebilateral ties, resume political, diplomatic and security dialoguewhile acknowledging different positions on the Diaoyu Islands.The agreement was reached as State Councilor Yang Jiechimet with visiting National Security Advisor of Japan ShotaroYachi, Xinhua quoted China's foreign ministry as saying.The four-point agreement refers to the China-Japan Joint State-ment inked in 1972, the China-Japan Treaty of Peace andFriendship of 1978, the China-Japan Joint Declaration of 1998and the joint statement on advancing strategic and mutually-beneficial relations in a comprehensive way that was signedin 2008.The two sides need to uphold the political foundation for China-Japan relations strictly according to the spirit of the four-point agreement, Yang said during the meeting."A long-term, healthy and stable growth of China-Japan rela-tions serves the fundamental interests of both countries andtheir people, and it is China's consistent position to growChina-Japan relations on the basis of the four political docu-ments in the spirit of taking history as a mirror and lookingforward to the future," Yang said.Yachi said during the meeting that Japan attaches great im-por tance to the strategic relationship of mutual benefit withChina."Japan stands ready to proceed from the overall interests,conduct dialogue and consultation with China to enhancecommon understanding and mutual trust, and properly handledisagreement and sensitive issues," Yachi was quoted as saying.The accord came days before the arrival of Japanese Prime Minis-ter Shinzo Abe in Beijing for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperationforum.Abe is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.

CHINA, JAPAN AGREE TORENEW TIES

RANDEEP HOODA: NOFILM COMPLETE WITHOUT

CRITICAL REVIEWS

KANGNA REFUSED TOSHOOT FOR ‘KATTI BATTI’

SEALED WITH A KISS - INDIAN CAPTAIN VIRAT KOHLI HAD SOMEONE SPECIAL IN THE STANDS WHEN HE HIT HIS HALF-CENTURY IN THE MATCHAGAINST SRI LANKA ON SUNDAY NIGHT - BOLLYWOOD ACTRESS ANUSHKA SHARMA.ANUSHKA WAS SEEN CHEERING KOHLI WHEN HESCORED A RUN OFF DE SILVA TO COMPLETE HIS 50 AND ALSO BECAME THE QUICKEST BATSMAN TO SCORE 6,000 RUNS IN ODIS. THE CAPTAINTOOK OFF HIS HELMET, KISSED IT AND ALSO BLEW A KISS OFF TO ANUSHKA, WHO RESPONDED WITH A STANDING OVATION.

LOW PHASE IN CAREER WAS ALESSON FOR DEEPIKA PADUKONE

Mumbai (IANS): Actor Randeep Hooda's long delayed "Rang Rasiya"has finally hit the screens and the actor is relieved. But he adds thata film is incomplete unless it doesn't get larger critical reviews.The period drama, based on Ranjit Desai's novel titled "Raja Ravi Varma",hit the screens Friday. Directed by Ketan Mehta, the film revisits anera that was revolutionised by renowned painter Raja Ravi Varma. Ithas been lying in the cans for about five years."I am feeling relieved," said Randeep, who was recently appreciatedfor playing a ruffian in "Highway"."I am happy that it has released after five years because I feel thathad it released then, it would have been ahead of its time. Thestory is anyway 100 years old."I am happy for Ketan because he has worked hard for the film.Unless, you don't get a larger critical review, your film is incom-plete."In the film, Randeep plays the pa in te r, wh i l eNandana Sen is seen as his muse.Though the commercial release of the move hadbeen de layed, i t en ter- tained movie aficionados atfilm festivals.Randeep says that the viewers in India havem i s c o n c e p t i o n s bout the films thatare circulated at the fi lm festi-vals."In India, people feel that a filmthat gets many awards orgoes to festivals are bor-ing and that it is an art housecinema, but that's not true.It's a nationalis- tic picture."I had told Ketan not to send itto international festivals be-cause it's an In- dian film. Butthose who have watched thefilm, got emotional afterwatching it."

Highs and lows are par t of everyone's lives. For actress DeepikaPadukone, it was no different. She says patience is the key to sailthrough the low phases."As an actress, you have to go through both the phases. Today, I amdoing well, but I have learnt a lot from my low phase when my filmswere not doing well," Deepika said here.How does she cope with failure?"I have learned that no matter whatever you do, you just have to keepsome patience and things will happen," she added.After entering Bollywood with a bang with a double role in "Om ShantiOm", the model-turned-actress was panned by critics for her choiceof films, for her expressionless face and for her average dance skills.But she stunned all naysayers with her per formances in films like"Cocktail", "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani", "Chennai Express" and"Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela".Her latest release is "Happy New Year", which has turned out to be agold spinner at the box office. It's her third hit with superstar ShahRukh Khan after "Om Shanti Om" and "Chennai Express".

KANGNA RANAUT APPARENTLY REFUSED TO SHOOT AFTERSNAKE SCARE NEAR THE SETSThe shoot of Nikhil Advani's 'Katti Batti' at RK Studio was re-cently disrupted, thanks to an uninvited guest on the sets. Asnake found outside lead actress Kangna Ranaut's vanity vanrepor tedly forced her to curl up inside for a few hours.A source says, "Kangna was getting ready for a scene. She wasnot aware that the unit had found a snake right under her vanityvan which was parked in a grassy area. One of her staff mem-bers informed her about the snake sighting and she got panicky.She gets scared even on hearing the reptile's name. So, she justwasn't willing to come out of the van and shoot."It is said that a crew member managed to throw the snake out ofthe sets and after much convincing, Kangna stepped out for hershot. Another source says, "Kangna kept thinking that the snakemight return to the sets. But the production unit assured her thatall precaution had been taken. She was still scared so one of theassistant directors eventually escor ted her out of her van to thesets."Kangna's spokesperson was not available for comment.PULKIT SAMRAT MARRIES SALMAN'S RAKHI-SISTER SHWETA ROHIRA.


TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014b o l l y w o o d

UpcomingBOLLYWOOD Movies

KILL DILRELEASE DATE: Nov 14, 2014

STAR CAST: Ranveer Singh, Ali Zafar,

Parineeti Chopra, Govinda, Manoj Ojha

DIRECTOR(S): Shaad Ali

PRODUCER(S): Aditya Chopra

HAPPY ENDINGRELEASE DATE: Nov 21,2014

STAR CAST: Saif Ali Khan,Preity Zinta,

Ileana D'cruz,Govinda, Ranvir

Shorey, Marianne Bourg, Dean Barlage,

Lamesha Vine, Joseph Jerry Morton,

Giancarlo Evola, Kalki Koechlin

WAH TAJRELEASE DATE: Nov 21, 2014

STAR CAST: Shreyas Talpade,Manjari Phadnis,

Hemant Pandey,Rajesh Sharma

DIRECTOR(S): Ajit Sinha

PRODUCER(S): Abhinav Verma

UNGLIRELEASE DATE: Nov 21,2014

STAR CAST: Sanjay Dutt, Emraan Hashmi,

Kangana Ranaut,

Neha Dhupia, Angad Bedi

DIRECTOR(S): Rensil D'silva

PRODUCER(S): Karan Johar

Movie Review

Chaar Sahibzaade, a story ofintrepid gallantry and courage

DESK REPORT

Ontario - The long-await Punjabi 3D animated movie ChaarSahibzaade, produced by White Hill Productions released recentlynarrates the story of four sons of Shri Guru Gobind Singhji sahib -Sahibzaada Ajit Singhji, Sahibzaada Jujhar Singhji, Sahibzaada ZorawarSinghji and Sahibzaada Fateh Singhji. Described as a poetic beauty,Chaar Sahibzaade is a moving tale of bravery, courage and sacrificeand showcases an amazing technical prowess.The movie, due to its powerful story and dialogues is doing very goodbusiness all over Canada. Though the movie has religious under-tones, its emotional screenplay binds one till the end. Directed byHarry Baweja whose exper tise has lent punch to the film, it bringsone to the brink of tears at several instances in the movie. However,many in movie theatres were witnessed sobbing in an uncontrollableheaves. A must watch for the whole family, especially the ones withkids.The second Punjabi film doing good business in Canada is the fast-

PKRELEASE DATE: Dec 19,2014

STAR CAST: Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma,

Sushant Singh Rajput, Sanjay Dutt

DIRECTOR(S): Rajkumar Hirani

PRODUCER(S): Rajkumar Hirani,Aamir Khan

ACTION JACKSONRELEASE DATE: Dec 05,2014

STAR CAST: Ajay Devgn,Sonakshi Sinha,

Yami Gautam

DIRECTOR(S): Prabhu Deva

PRODUCER(S): Gordhan Tanwani

paced action flick Yoddha. This Sadda Haq famed Kuljinder SinghSidhu movie is back with a bang and has a huge star cast includingSwiss actor Hektor Sandhu and Spanish actor Ajay Jethi. The movieis about drug mafia in Punjab and a simple man's crusade to endthis menace and bring peace and justice in the province. Themovie is directed by Mandeep Benipal. Impeccable acting, im-pressive action sequels and power ful dialogues, make this movietop the list of all Punjabi films released recently. The agony, thehuman interaction and fate's squirms is what makes this fi lmwor th seeing.Upcoming Punjabi movie Happy Go Lucky, directed by AmarpreetChabbra and produced by Pammi Baweja is a full on comedy withan impressive star cast that includes Amrinder Gill, Harish Verma,Gurpreet Ghuggi, Sumit Sandhu among others. Gill was roped inafter the huge triumph of his last movie Goreyan Nu Daffa Karo.The first look of the movie promises enormous success and willsurely enter tain the whole family. The movie is set for its world-wide release by the third week of November.

AAMIR LAUNCHES FIRST SONG OF PK. AISHWARYA RAI INAUGURATES KALYAN JEWELLERS STORE.



MIDWEEK NEWS WEEKLY

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014 b o l l y w o o d

SHILPA SHETTY DURING MAX BUPA WALK FOR HEALTH 2014 IN MUMBAI.

Bigg Boss Breaking: Sushant to get evicted,Nigaar is the next wild card entrant

After astounding viewers with the recent developments where BiggBoss introduced two wild card entrants i.e. Dimpy Mahajan andRenee Dhyani, under its double wild card entry wallop. now the"Bigg Boss" is all set to renounce its one of the contestants. Andas per the repor ts this time its show's LGBT icon Sushant whosebag and baggage will be shif ted to depar ture arena today.As far as Sushant's eviction is concerned then we have a gutfeeling that his Bigg Boss jaunt has come to an end this weekbecause of his competing with some of the strongest contestantslike Puneet, Praneet et al for eviction. And we are saying stron-gest because as compared to Sushant these sought af ter par tici-pants of the Bigg Boss are offering a huge amount of the content tothe show. At the same time there is no denying the fact that ever-since the beginning of the show, Sushant has failed miserably inmaking his presence feel in the house.But that's not all... Because there is another whiff of rumor whichmay literally astound everyone and that is something per tainingto the entry of bold and the beautiful Nigaar Khan in the show as

the four th wild card entrant.Yes you heard it right! Nigaar, the sister of last season's winnerGauhar is all set to enter the house in a day or so. And don't knowwhy? But with this latest buzz we are feeling compelled to feelthat probably it's that back to back eviction of female contestantsin the last 6 week which has pushed the makers to get in somedivisive contestants in the house, so that the piquant coefficientof this sought after TV reality show remains intact.So with the entry of Dimpy, Renee and probable entry of Nigaar,let's hope that the boys residing in the Bigg Boss arena will getsome more choice... We guess you understand what we mean.Wink Wink....Well whatever the reasons are, we are happy to see this phase oftransmutation because with these recent ligatures one thing is forsure that the milieu of the house is going to change in near future.So all you die hard fans of Bigg Boss prepare yourself, because inthe days ahead this controversial reality show of small screen isgonna offer a huge dose of enter tainment...

FINALE OF SATYAMEV JAYATE:BEHAVE YOURSELF, AAMIRKHAN TELLS INDIAN MEN

If anyone knows how to market a show or a film, it’s AamirKhan. Which is why he realised that a programme on how totreat women with respect in India, would find little viewership inIndia. So he decided to market the finale show of this season’sSatyamev Jayate with a promo which featured him speaking toBollywood actresses - Deepika Padukone, Kangana Ranaut andParineeti Chopra - about what they find appealing in a man. Incase you’re wondering, Deepika simply wants “someone to loveher”. I was per turbed. Was the finale actually going to deal withthe hither to underrepor ted national crisis of marrying off lead-ing ladies in Bollywood?Thankfully, it turns out there was actually more to the episodethan meets the eye. Yesterday’s episode was on mardaangi ormasculinity and how men are more violent and aggressive thanwomen – and how no good can come of it. I think this is a topicwor th taking up. You walk down most Indian streets and themen seem to be bursting with testosterone. You’ll get catcalls,they’ll sidle up to you, look at you suggestively, follow you, rubup against you if possible in a crowded train or bus. I’ve heard ofmen across classes beating up their wives and girlfriends andeven their mothers and sisters. And that shouting, screaming,smacking women around is a sign of mardaangi.But it’s not just directed at women. To illustrate his point, Aamirinterviewed Mahendra and Aradhana Singh whose son was killedin an act of road rage and Triveni Sahai Gangwar whose sondied after being ragged in college. Aamir explained these deathshappened because men think they need to exercise power andcontrol over others. And that aggression can be directed not justat women, but other men as well. The question is why do Indianmen think they are strutting around in Neander thal times?According to my grandmother it’s all about upbringing. And afriend’s mother used to say an apple never falls far from thetree. Who would have thought Aamir Khan believes the samething? Men are the way they are, he told us, because of theirparvarish or upbringing.He then interviewed men from different par ts of India to see howtheir upbringing differs. There were men from Benares, Delhi,Rajasthan – clearly someone’s idea of the problem belt. Theman from Rajasthan told us how his “dada” used to routinelybeat up his “dadi”. Another man said how men don’t pick up andhold their babies because it would ruin their mardaangi. But wegot no parvarish insights from south of the Vindhyas or the Nor thEast many of whose women come to Indian metros and get acrash course in “eve teasing”. Or Bengal. Now of course I shallbe accused of parochialism. But really, why? Because Bengalimen need a shot of mardaangi on a good day? Or is it becauseBengal’s seen enough men stand up for women over the ages,so it destroys the storyline. Raja Ram Mohan and Vidyasagardid more than their bit for women and widow remarriage and soon. Gang rapes in Kolkata still makes news as something wayout of the ordinary. Why not highlight the good?

Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif readyto move to their love nest?New Delhi: The most rumoured `it` couple of Bollywood- RanbirKapoor and Katrina Kaif- are back in spotlight and how!The latest addition to the series of speculation about the padfinalised by the two is that both of them will cough up an amountof 15 lakhs for rent.Yes! You heard it right... According to reports in a leading tabloid,it has come to light that the alleged love-birds will pay Rs 15lakhs as rent for their newly acquired plush abode.Ranbir and Kat have never confirmed about their relationshipstatus nor the news of the two living together. But from the bitsand piece of information that have surfaced suggest otherwise.Prior to this, the 31 year-old actor lived with his parents in their ancestralhome Krishna Raj at Pali Hill.It has also been learnt that the rumoured couple is all set to throw a housewarming party too!Are these just speculations? Or will they finally spill the beans on their muchhush hush relation. The fans are eager to know. Is a cer tain Mr.Ranbir Kapoor listening?Upcoming Movies - (A) Keeda from Action Jackson, (B) Dance Basanti from UNGLI

SHIKHAR DHAWAN RAISES HIS 11TH ODI FIFTY, INDIA V SRI LANKA, 3RD ODI, HYDERABAD.

SCHEDULE - INDIAVS SRI LANKA ODISTelecast Date Match Details Start Time EST* Venue

13-Nov- 4th ODI 4:00 AM Kolkata16-Nov- 5th ODI 4:00 AM Ranchi

INDIA CAN PERFORM IN ANYCONDITIONS: DHONIDubai (IANS): India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said his One-Day International (ODI) team is capable of adapting and per-forming in any conditions and the defending champions' prepa-rations will receive a major boost with the tour of Australia priorto the 2015 cricket World Cup."Following the World Cup triumph in 2011, we won the ICC Cham-pions Trophy in Britain. This reflects the calibre and talent of theside, and its ability to adapt and perform in any condition," Dhonisaid at the '100 days to go to the ICC World Cup 2015' celebra-tions. India will play a tri-series in Australia, apar t from a five-match Test series star ting Dec 4."The tour to Australia in the lead up to the World Cup will be agood oppor tunity to hone our skills and, like all the sides par-ticipating in the tournament, be fully prepared for cricket's ulti-mate prize," the 33-year-old pointed out.India defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets in the 2011 World Cupfinal at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai."The World Cup is the biggest prize in cricket and to defend thetitle in Australia and New Zealand next year is a special oppor-tunity. Like all the players, as well as millions of die-hard Indiacricket suppor ters around the globe, I look forward to the tour-nament with anticipation and excitement," the wicketkeeper-batsman said.

SHAMI NOW FOCUSED ONIMPROVING 'DEATH BOWLING'

New Delhi (IANS): Pleased at being named in the InternationalCricket Council's (ICC) 2014 One-Day International (ODI) team,India seamer Mohammed Shami Thursday said he is focussedon improving his 'death-bowling' keeping in mind the for thcom-ing Australia tour and the ICC 2015 World Cup."My focus is to improve my bowling at the end of an innings. Itis imperative that as a pacer I bowl well at the death. I am tryingto incorporate more variations in my arsenal so that I can imple-ment them in match situations," Shami said on the sidelines ofa programme organised by his Indian Premier league (IPL) teamDelhi Daredevils."I am training to make my yorkers and slower deliveries morepotent so that it helps me to pick up wickets. Yorkers are veryimpor tant for a pacer, normally I back myself to bowl towardsthe end of an innings."He said his training will be aimed at maximising the accuracy ofhis block-hole deliveries so that batsmen can't score off himeasily."Bowling at the death is always challenging and yorkers andslower balls have to be used judiciously. You need to be veryaccurate with them otherwise you will be taken for runs," theseamer said.He expressed satisfaction at getting an entry into the ICC ODIteam of 2014 and said it was a result of his hard work, whichhas given him added motivation to improve his per formancefrom here on.Shami was the highest wicket taker this year, claiming 38 wick-ets from 16 matches. He was joined by India captain MahendraSingh Dhoni and Virat Kohli in the ICC team while Rohit Sharmawas named the 12th man.The Bengal bowler was advised 10 days rest following a toeinjury sustained in the first ODI against the West Indies at Kochithat ruled him out of the ongoing Sri-Lanka ODI series but Shamiclaims to have attained full fitness since."I have completely healed from the injury and ready to playmatches. I am back at training and also working out at a gym. Ihave been given a specific set of exercises which I am follow-ing and I am eager to get back on the field," the 24-year-old said.Shami also spoke of his eagerness to bowl well in challengingAustralian conditions but isn't deterred at the enormity of thetask."I will continue to bowl and prepare the way I have done so far.It is giving me results so won't tinker with it. But I have to keepin mind the enhanced pace and bounce of the Australian pitches."I am used to bowling in overseas conditions so that won't bemuch of a factor for me. But I will surely keep the nature ofAustralian pitches in mind while preparing myself. It takes alittle bit of time to adjust to the conditions in Australia. But thingswon't vary massively," he said.India are scheduled to begin their Australia tour Dec 4 and willplay four Tests and an ODI tri-series also involving Englandbefore the World Cup, beginning Feb 14.

India beat Sri Lanka by sixwickets, clinch ODI series

INDIA 245 FOR 4 (DHAWAN 91, KOHLI 53) BEAT SRILANKA 242 (JAYAWARDENE 118, DILSHAN 53, YADAV4-53, AKSHAR 3-40) BY SIX WICKETS

Hyderabad, (IANS) India registered a comfor table six-wicket winagainst Sri Lanka in the third One-Day International (ODI) to clinchthe five-match series 3-0 here Sunday.Set a target of 243 runs, India coasted to the win in 44.1 overs, winning with35 balls to spare.Opener Shikhar Dhawan played a stellar knock (91) and forged useful part-nerships with Ajinkya Rahane (31) and Ambati Rayadu (35) to lead India tovictory. Skipper Virat Kohli also contributed with a solid 53.Earlier, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 242 in 48.2 overs despite veteranbatsman Mahela Jayawardene scoring a superb century (118 off 124 balls).Pacer Umesh Yadav (4/ 53) wrecked Sri Lanka's top order to help set upIndia's triumph.Sri Lanka at least had one batsman make triple figures during theirinnings of 242, but Mahela Jayawardene took little visible joy in hiseffor tless 118 off 124, as a string of team-mates abandoned him dur-ing the middle overs. Jayawardene became the fifth batsman to 12000career runs during the knock, before Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohlihit half-centuries to notch career milestones of their own, in India'sinnings. Kohli became the fastest batsmen to 6000 ODI runs in his136th innings, while Dhawan became the quickest India batsman to2000 runs, in his 48th knock.It had been Akshar, however, who made the most telling play of thegame, taking a wicket in each of his three Powerplay overs to gut thevisitors' middle order. As has been the case throughout the series, itwas his fluctuations in pace that vexed Sri Lanka.Angelo Mathews had appeared settled when the Powerplay was calledfor in the 31st over. He had reverse-swept R Ashwin powerfully forfour a few balls before, but was slow on the pull as Akshar skiddedone through and the top edge looped to cover.Akshar's flat, fast deliveries in the next over kept Ashan Priyanjanscoreless for four balls, before the mistake was induced. The bats-man aimed a heave over mid-on, but managed only to hit it to Yadav,who took a diving catch. Chaturanga de Silva, playing this matchinstead of Suraj Randiv, attempted to carve Akshar over cover in thefinal over of the Powerplay. When he found the fielder, Sri Lanka hadslipped from 144 for 3 to 154 for 6. Thisara Perera's wicket two overslater, embedded them in fur ther strife.Even before the crumble in the Powerplay, Jayawardene had to launcha rescue effor t alongside Tillakaratne Dilshan. The pair rebuilt sagelyfrom 7 for 2 as Jayawardene rever ted to perhaps the safest version ofhis own game by collecting his first boundary via a ramp over thekeeper's head, played sinfully late. Eleven of his 12 fours were scoredbehind the wicket, and 80 of his 118 made in the same region.Dilshan scrambled a fifty, but Jayawardene's next four par tners lasted11.2 overs put together, and soon, having lost faith in his team-mates,Jayawardene was turning down singles into the outfield as early as inthe 38th over. Seekkuge Prasanna was put down by Suresh Raina inthe slips on 0 and provided Jayawardene slightly better companyafter that, sticking around for a par tnership of 67 before Jayawardenewas stummped of an Ashwin top-spinner. The innings would soonwipe out in the 49th over, with about 60 fewer runs on the scoreboardthan what might have made for an interesting chase on a flat Hyderabadpitch.Sri Lanka had recalled Nuwan Kulasekara for this match, but he couldfind little swing early on, and India's batsmen quickly settled into anow familiar routine. They laid low for the first few overs, waited forthe seam to grow soft, then began to play their strokes. Ajinkya Rahanefell to Thisara Perera's prolonged shor t-ball attack, but Dhawan and

Rayudu picked up the pace quickly after that, ensuring 62 for 1 was asweak as India's chase would look. Dhawan had hit his third succes-sive fif ty, and the visitors' attack had been rendered vir tually tooth-less when the India batsmen contrived a run out in the 25th over - aseething Rayudu having to make the trek back on 35, after Dhawanfailed to respond to his call for a quick single. Kohli then arrived andsettled in with ease from there, hitting some superbly timed bound-aries, par ticularly when the bowlers strayed too full.Dhawan looked set for a second ton in the series until he got a baddecision on 91, when a Kulasekara shor t-ball took a deflection off hishelmet, rather than his bat. Kohli though, breezed ahead at a run-a-ball, raising his 31st ODI fifty and his 6000th run with the same stroke. Hewas caught at the fence for 53 trying to close out the chase in a hurry, but WriddhimanSaha hit the winning runs soon after, with 35 balls still remaining.

VIRAT KOHLI BLOWS A KISS TO THE CROWD AFTERCROSSING 6000 ODI RUNS

Australia Vs South Africa -S C H E D U L E

Mumbai, (IANS) Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been restedfor the first match of the four-Test series starting Dec 4 against Australiawhile Karnataka opening batsman K.L. Rahul and Railways leg-spinnerKarn Sharma received call-ups to the 19-member squad announcedMonday.Virat Kohli will lead the Indian team in the first Test of the series, whichwill be preceded by two two-day practice games in November."Virat Kohli will lead India in the first Test, star ting on 4 December 2014,in Brisbane. M.S. Dhoni has been rested for the first Test as a prophylac-tic measure to ensure optimum recovery. He will join the team from thesecond Test onwards, and will lead the team for the rest of the Testseries," Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary SanjayPatel said. Left-hander Suresh Raina has returned to the squad after twoyears while Madhya Pradesh wicketkeeper Naman Ojha will be Bengalglovesman Wriddhiman Saha's back-up for the first Test.Right-hander batsman Rahul was a serious contender for the reserveopener's slot after scoring centuries in each innings of the Duleep Tro-phy final against Central Zone at the Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium inNew Delhi Oct 29-Dec 2. In the previous season of the Ranji Trophy,the 22-year-old accumulated 1,158 runs to become the second high-

est scorer. The selectors have picked five pacers in BhuvneshwarKumar, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav and VarunAaron while the spin depar tment got an addition in the form of Meerut-based spinner Karn, who made his Twenty20 debut against England.BCCI's All-India Senior Selection Committee, which met here Mon-day, also rested opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan and all-rounderRavindra Jadeja for the last two One-Day Internationals (ODI) of thefive-match India-Sri Lanka series.Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma, Robin Uthappa, Karn Sharma, Vinay Kumarand Kedar Jadhav have been selected for the last two games to beplayed in Kolkata (Oct 13) and Ranchi (Oct 16).India squad for Tests in Australia: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli,Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, K.L. Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, AjinkyaRahane, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Wriddhiman Saha, Naman Ojha,Ravichandran Ashwin, Karn Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, BhuvaneshwarKumar, Mohd. Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron.India squad for ODIs against Sri Lanka: Virat Kohli (Captain), AjinkyaRahane, Rohit Sharma, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Robin Uthappa,Axar Patel, Karn Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, DhawalKulkarni, Stuar t Binny, Vinay Kumar, Kedar Jadhav.

INDIA DOWN AUSTRALIA,

CLINCH SERIES 3-1Perth, (IANS) The Indian men's hockey team delivered a fantasticperformance to defeat World Champions Australia 3-1 to win theirthird successive match and clinch the four-match Test series 3-1 atthe Per th Hockey Stadium here Sunday.Upbeat about their last two triumphs against the World No.1 side, whohave fielded an experimental team, India opened the first quar ter withall strength and dynamism, as a result of which the initial goal camein the 13th minute from the stick of Akashdeep Singh, who perfectlyconver ted a penalty corner.A couple of penalty corners were awarded to both teams in the sec-ond quar ter but no one succeeded in materialising the oppor tunity.When the whistle blew for half-time, the scoreboard displayed 1-0 infavour of the visitors.However, Australia made a comeback in the third quarter as ThomasCraig conver ted a penalty corner (36th minute) to level the scores 1-1. The game strengthened after the equaliser as both teams looked forcreating chances. In the final quar ter, it was Akashdeep again whoscored a stunning field goal (50th). In no time S.K. Uthappa faultlesslyscored another field goal (53rd) to put India 3-1 ahead.In the dying minutes, Australia tried desperately to put the ball in the

net but Indian goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh's brilliant saves held themfrom scoring.India will next play in the FIH Champions Trophy when they take onreigning Olympic champions Germany in their f i rst match atBhubaneswar. The tournament will be played Dec 6-14.

AUSTRALIA EDGED OUT SOUTH AFRICA BY TWO WICKETS IN THE THIRD TWENTY20 IN SYDNEY TO CLAIM THE SERIES 2-1.

DHONI RESTED FOR FIRSTTEST AGAINST AUSTRALIA;RAHUL, KARN GET CALL-UPS

INDIAN HOCKEY IN AREVIVAL MODE?BY ABHISHEK PUROHIT / NEW DELHI, (IANS)Indian hockey is in a revival mode with the country having won theAsian Games gold after 16 long years followed by a rare Test series winagainst World Champions Australia in Perth Sunday.While in the Incheon Asiad, the centre-half Sardar Singh-led team defeatedSouth Korea and Pakistan on its way to the gold medal, the latest series winDown Under probably holds more significance because it came against themighty Australia.The hosts, though were playing without skipper and central defender MarkKnowles, five-time international hockey federation (FIH) Player of the YearJamie Dwyer and striker-cum-drag-flicker Kieran Govers. More importantly,the 2004 Olympic champions are in a rebuilding phase post the retirement ofmaster tactician Ric Charlesworth.However, Australia still had several established stars and given the strongreserve bench of the Kookaburras, the Terry Walsh-coached Indians deserveall credit.India's two-time Olympic captain Pargat Singh said that the current playershave been playing as a group for a long time and that is helping them gettingthese impressive results now."They were quite young during their entry into the team and now they' areshowing signs of good improvement after playing together for five-six years.It's a very good performance from the Indian team. They will get a lot ofconfidence from this win and it will inspire them to do well in future tourna-ments," Pargat told IANS Monday."Our playing structure is good. The guys are playing in a group from a verylong time, If you stick to this core group of players and give them enoughopportunities, they will improve. That's what these guys have done well in thepast two tournaments."India, who won silver in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games after losing toAustralia 0-4, suffered a 0-4 whitewash in the first match but came backstrongly to win the next three matches in Australia."Making a comeback after 0-4 thrashing in the first match was anindication that Indian players are getting better both physicallyand psychologically. Earlier, a good star t to a tournament wasvery important for the psyche of our players and similarly in amatch, we used to drop our heads after conceding early goals.But that didn't happen in this series," former Indian captain ZafarIqbal pointed out."With this kind of performance, India have shown that they haveworked hard on their fitness which added to their confidence.Indian team is definitely improving and showing signs of revival.But, they will face a far bigger test in the upcoming ChampionsTrophy to be held Dec 6-14."In the series at the Perth Hockey Stadium, Indian strikers, oftenblamed for their poor conversion rate and finish, set up the bigwin. Speedy forward S.V. Sunil and young and lively strikerAkashdeep Singh made up for the misfiring drag-flickers V.R.Raghunath and Rupinderpal Singh. "It is good to see the fieldgoals scored by Akashdeep Singh and S.V. Sunil. They are tal-ented players and now they have improved their finishing. Indianset-piece specialists score freely against the lower-ranked teams butthey flounder against big teams like Australia. They need to work even harderto improve their game," A.K. Bansal, who has nurtured several players of thecurrent team as junior team coach, said.



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Russell Brand, Vivienne Westwoodjoin Million Mask MarchLondon (IANS): Comedian Russell Brand and fashion designerVivienne Westwood joined thousands of anti-capitalism protesters atMillion Mask March here.The masked demonstrators descended on Westminster for a BonfireNight protest Wednesday, which was orchestrated to cause chaosthroughout London, repor ts dailymail.co.uk.Scores of riot police were on stand-by amid threats from campaigngroup Anonymous, that the demonstration would create a blockade inthe city.The protest saw activists wear masks depicting the sinister face ofGuy Fawkes -- a mask made famous in the film "V for Vendetta". Theprotest was one of hundreds organised at the same time in citiesaround the world. Brand attended the same event last year too.

Once again, Gaga attracts attentionwith wacky outfitLos Angeles (IANS): Singer Lady Gaga, known for her wacky en-sembles, was spotted wearing a huge grey wig and a nose ring at anevent. The 28-year-old star grabbed a lot of attention when she steppedinto Milan Tuesday, repor ts dailymail.co.uk.Gaga was seen wearing black heels and a leather jacket as sheprepared to take to the stage in the city to perform for her ArtRave:The Ar tpop Ball tour.The "Bad romance" singer completed her look with dramatic blackeyeliner and a small green handbag.

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