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wrestler’s Rio dreams virtually
over, hints Sports Minister
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he controversy around the
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Narsingh Yadav doping
scandal peaked on Monday
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NIGHTCLUB SHOOTING
Houston/Fort Myers: At least
two persons were killed and 17
others injured on Monday in a
shooting rampage at a night club
in Florida hosting a teen
swimsuit party, over a month
after a gunman massacred 49
people in the State in the worst
mass shooting incident
in US history.
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said it will acquire Yahoo’s
operating business for about
$4.83 billion in cash.
NBW AGAINST
DAYASHANKAR
Lucknow: Special Judge (SC/ST
Act) Om Prakash Mishra on
Monday issued a non-bailable
warrant against expelled Bhartiya
Janata Party leader Dayashankar
Singh over his derogatory
remarks against Bahujan Samaj
Party supremo and former chief
minister Mayawati.
‘Sultan’
didn’t kill
Chinkaras
in 1998
Jodhpur: Bollywood actor
Salman Khan was on Monday
acquitted by the Rajasthan High
Court in two cases related to
poaching of Chinkaras in
Jodhpur in 1998. The court
held that the pellets recovered
from the Chinkaras were not
fired from Khan’s licensed gun.
The driver of the jeep that
was used by Khan and his costars on their alleged hunting
mission has been missing, weakening the prosecution’s case
against the movie star. Khan, 50,
was jailed in 2007 for nearly a
week for shooting an endangered
gazelle in 1998.
Appeals of Khan against
sentence in the two cases relating to poaching of Chinkaras in
Bhawad and Mathania were
allowed by the High Court
which acquitted him in both
the cases.
Justice Nirmal Jit Kaur
rejected the plea of the State
Government against the actor.
Two separate cases had
been registered against Khan
under section 51 of Wildlife
Protection Act for poaching of
two chinkaras in village
Bhawad on 26-27 September,
1998 and one chinkara in
Mathania (Ghoda Farm) on
28-29 September, 1998.
The trial court (CJM) had
convicted him in both the
cases sentencing him to one
year and 5 year imprisonment
on February 17, 2006 and April
10, 2006 respectively.
The convictions were challenged by Khan in the sessions
court, which dismissed appeal
in Mathania’s case and transferred appeal to high court in
Bhawad’s case, where already
two appeals by the State
Government had been pending.
Hearing on both these petition in the High Court had
begun on November 16, 2015
and were completed on May
13, 2016, after which Justice
Nirmal Jit Kaur had reserved
her judgement.
While arguing the case in
the High Court, defence counsel Mahesh Bora had contended that Khan had been falsely
framed in these cases, merely
on the statements of a key witness Harish Dulani, the driver
of the vehicle, which was
allegedly used in poaching in
both these cases.
with the beleaguered wrestler
claiming that a Sports
Authority of India (SAI) official was involved in tampering
with his food supplements and
called for a CBI probe into the
entire issue.
This, despite Sports
Minister Vijay Goel all but ruling out his participation in the
Rio Olympics.
The issue became the
national talking point as murmurs of foul play emanated
from sources in the Wrestling
Federation of India (WFI) after
Narsingh’s roommate at the
SAI’s Sonepat camp, Sandeep
Yadav, also testing positive for
the same banned substance.
“Narsingh Yadav submitted
a written complaint to the WFI
on July 19 in which he has mentioned the name of one SAI
official and also made allegations against a few other people, including some athletes,”
WFI President Brij Bhushan
Sharan Singh said.
Narsingh, who claimed he
had received a life threat recently, said, “There should be a CBI
inquiry. The entire episode relating to my selection had gone to
court. There was a CID report
that my life is under threat. All
this makes it clear that I have
been framed so that I am
stopped from going to Rio.”
“I have given my complaint to the WFI in which I
have made it clear that something could have been mixed in
the food that was prepared at
the mess. It is a conspiracy
against me,” he added.
Bhushan said Narsingh’s
complaint had been forwarded
to the Sports Ministry and
important people in the
Government as well as the
World Wrestling body FILA
and NADA.
The WFI president also
said Narsingh had earlier been
warned by SAI DG Injeti
Srinivas against going to
Sonepat for the camp but the
grappler chose to ignore the
advisory.
“After the Haryana Police
gave a report that Narsingh may
be in danger, the SAI DG personally requested him not to go
to Sonepat and to practice
somewhere else. But he refused,
saying that the chief coach, foreign coach and other Rio probables are all there and he would
also get sparring partners easily,” Singh said.
Regardless of the issue, he
believes Narsingh is innocent.
he Supreme Court on
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Monday allowed a rape
survivor to abort her 24-weekold foetus after a medical board
certified that the foetus had
severe abnormalities and continuing with the pregnancy
could pose a grave risk to the
mental and physical health of
the 23-year old mother.
Under the Medical
Termination of Pregnancy Act,
1971, Section 5 provides for
abortion any time if it posed a
grave danger to the mother’s
life. But to arrive at this conclusion, the Court relied on the
medical report submitted by a
team of seven doctors at the
KEM College and Hospital in
Mumbai, who had examined
the mother on Saturday.
The report found that the
foetus had no skull or abdominal cavity as a result of which
vital organs such as brain,
stomach, intestine and liver
were found to float in the
amniotic fluid.
Besides, the child had
spinal anomaly and the heart
was situated outside the body.
In these circumstances, the
doctors unanimously held,
“Risk to the mother of continuation of pregnancy can gravely endanger her physical and
mental health….risk of termination of pregnancy is within
acceptable limits. Hence the
Medical Board advises that the
patient, Ms X should not continue with this pregnancy.”
Although the report was
sufficient for the Court to
direct abortion of the foetus,
the bench sought response of
the Centre to the petition filed
by the mother to amend the
Act in order to allow abortion
of foetus past 20 weeks of
pregnancy in cases where foetus has severe abnormality.
India makes Pakistan
‘no-school going mission’
Due to security
situation prevailing
there, MEA asks
diplomats to pull out
wards from schools
PNS n NEW DELHI
ndia has downgraded
Igoing
Pakistan to a ‘no-school
mission’ for its diplomats
“The federation believes
Narsingh is innocent. Injustice
has happened with him and we
are hopeful he will get justice.
I will try my level best to help
Narsingh get out of this problem so that he can represent
India in 74kg in the Olympics
and win a medal,” he added.
Asked if Narsingh could
have been framed, Federation
assistant secretary Vinod Tomar
said, “Yes, it looks like that.
Since Narsingh’s roommate has
also tested positive, it raises the
suspicion because both would
have been consuming the same
food supplements as they are
roommates,” he added.
Tomar also said no other
athlete in that camp tested positive and it was just these two. He
added that most probably the
SC saves 23-year-old rape
survivor from fatal foetus
ABRAHAM THOMAS n NEW DELHI
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For the Centre, Attorney
General Mukul Rohatgi did not
oppose the relief by the petitioner mother as her case fell
within the ambit of Section 5 of
MTP Act.
He said, “If you have to
save the life of mother, you can
cross the prohibition of 20
weeks. But to extend it as a general rule has complications.”
Between 20 and 24 weeks,
a child is completely born,
said Rohatgi, adding that the
State acts as the guardian of the
foetus and any alteration of this
prescribed limit can be abused.
“Female infanticide is a
big problem in this country and
by allowing abortion at 24
weeks can be abused,” the A-G
said. Already, another petition
filed by a Mumbai-based doctor is pending in the Supreme
Court where there is a similar
challenge to the MTP Act,
precisely to the extent of remedying situations where the
foetus develops physical deformity beyond 20 weeks. The
bench disposed the mother’s
petition and left the legal question involved in it to be decided as and when the other petition gets taken up.
outcome of this entire issue
could be known after the final
hearing by the NADA disciplinary panel on Wednesday, where
the wrestler will be present.
Meanwhile, Sports Minister
Vijay Goel hinted Narsingh’s
chances of playing in Olympics
are virtually over. Pointing out
that Narsingh has been placed
under provisional suspension,
Goel said the wrestler would be
given a fair chance to prove his
innocence.
“The NADA has disciplinary panels to deal with doping
cases. He will get a fair chance
to defend himself and present
his case before these panels.
There will be justice under the
rules and beyond that there is
nothing much we can do in this
case,” he said.
and asked its staff in the High
Commission in Islamabad to
withdraw their children from
Pakistan schools from this academic session and make
arrangement for their study
outside the country.
The Ministry of External
Affairs (MEA) said the move is
based on prevailing security
situation in Pakistan and
potential threat to the children
of Indian staff members in
Pakistan schools.
“It is a normal practice for
all countries to review staffing
and related policies for their
diplomatic missions, including
in view of prevailing circumstances at those stations. With
effect from this academic session, officials posted in the
High Commission of India in
Islamabad have been advised
to make arrangements for education of their wards outside
Pakistan, till further notice,”
MEA spokesperson Vikas
Swarup said on Monday.
It is understood that the
decision in this regard was
taken in June 2015 as part of
the Government’s normal
assessment of working conditions in each Indian Mission
/Posts. The Indian Embassy
employees in Islamabad were
told last year itself to permit
sufficient time for affected staff
members to make alternative
arrangements for the continuing education of their children.
Sources said Pakistan was told
about it last year itself.
Pakistan Foreign Ministry
spokesperson Nafees Zakari
said in Islamabad that “this is
an informal, internal and
administrative arrangement”
they were communicated two
months back. “No other considerations were communicated to us,” he said.
Pakistan witnessed gory
attacks on schoolchildren in
December 2014 when gunmen attacked Army Public
School in Peshawar killing 141.
According to officials, there
are about 50 school-going chil-
dren of Indian officials, who are
currently posted in Indian mission in Islamabad. This development amounts to “downgrade” of Pakistan as a “nonschool-going station”, an
official said.
India and Pakistan are witnessing growing bitterness after
Pakistan and its Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif made provocative
statements on the Kashmir situation in the wake of Burhan
Wani’s killing on July 8. Wani
was a wanted terrorist commander of the banned terrorist organisation Hizbul
Mujahideen.
Not only did Sharif praise
Wani but he also remarked that
“Kashmir will one day become
Pakistan”, a comment which
evoked a sharp reaction from
External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj, who said his
dream of the State becoming a
part of his country “will not be
realised even at the end
of eternity”.
9 school kids killed as train hits van
PNS n LUCKNOW
he recklessness of a driver
who enjoyed music on
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headphones while driving a
school vehicle claimed the
lives of nine school students
when his Tata Magic was hit by
a train at an unmanned railway
crossing at Bhadohi on
Monday morning as he didn’t
pay heed to the warning.
Six injured students were
referred to Varanasi for critical care. Reports said the driver
of a Tata Magic carrying 22 students of Tender Hearts School of
Ghosiya township, did not hear
the sound of approaching
Varanasi-Allahabad passenger
train which rammed into the
bust at gate number 26 between
Katka and Madhosingh stations.
A Gate Mitra deployed
also at the crossing reportedly
tried to stop the driver but he
could not hear due to the contraption fitted to his ears. Due
to the impact, the van was
thrown up in the air and landed in a nearby field causing
serious injuries to the occupants.
Some survivors also told
police that they tried to draw
the driver’s attention, but he
People standing around a school van hit by a train at an unmanned railway crossing on the Allahabad-Varanasi route, in
Bhadohi on Monday.
PTI
was in a hurry to cross the
crossing. Eight children died
on the spot, while the other
children and the driver who
suffered serious injuries were
admitted to different hospitals.
At least six of the injured
were later referred to BHU
hospital in Varanasi.
The eight deceased were
identified as Naitik (6),
Abhishek (10), Arpit(6),
Pradumn Tewari (14), Shweta
Misra (10), Sakshi (7) Karan
(10) and Rinku (8).
The accident agitated the
locals, who torched the van
and sat on dharna at the rail
tracks blocking rail traffic for
a few hours before the administration managed to clear it.
Expressing condolence at
the tragedy, Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav announced a
compensation of Rs 2 lakh
each to the kin of the deceased.
He also directed officials to
ensure best possible treatment
to the injured.
Union Railway Minister
Suresh Prabhu also announced
an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh to the
kin of those killed; Rs 1 lakh
for the seriously injured and Rs
20,000 for those with simple
injuries. Railway officials also
ordered a probe into the
mishap by a three-member
committee.
Engineers defy Ganga’s fury to build bridge
PRABHA SHANKAR n KANNAUJ
he roaring Ganga River
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fails to deter them. They
have been working day and
night to construct a bridge over
the mighty river in Kannauj so
that the expressway connecting
Lucknow and Agra becomes
operational by October 2.
“The Ganga River is sacred
but unpredictable. Its mighty
current is its beauty but it poses
a challenge to construct a bridge
over it. The river is in spate, still
the engineers are working overtime, often late into the night
and even up to early morning,
to meet the deadline,” senior
engineer of UP Expressway
Industrial Developent Authority
(UPEIDA) Anant Sharma told
The Pioneer.
During the construction
of the bridge, the workmen
and engineers are not scared
by the current and have been
taking up the challenge with
composure.
“We work in sync with the
Met department officials. At
the time of cloudburst in
Haridwar, we had a warning
message and we shifted the
construction material piled up
at the site to avoid damage,”
said Sharma even as he directed a workman to take a crane
to the construction site.
Normally, construction of
bridges over major rivers takes
three to five years. The work
stops with the onset of monsoon because rivers get flooded and the work is resumed
after the water level recedes.
However, the engineers
working in this section of the
Lucknow-Agra Expressway do
not have that luxury. They
were asked to construct the
bridge over Ganga and Ishan
rivers, which fall in the 64-km
long stretch passing through
Kannauj.
The massive project started in early 2015 and the engineers were asked to complete
the job in flat 18 months.
The senior engineer said
Construction of the bridge in progress
that the construction of the
base of pillars, which support
the spans, started after stopping
the flow of river water. The pillar’s base are thrust 30 feet deep
into the riverbed so that it can
withstand the heaviest force of
water current even when the
river is in full spate.
“We need an opportune
time for this. Usually the work
is done much before the monsoon, as no one can check the
mighty flow of the Ganga,” he
said.
The scene of laying span
over the marauding Ganga
River is indeed captivating and
exciting. The workmen have
the perfect skill and their
guides - the engineers of UPEIDA. A long crane has been
pressed at one end of the
Ganga (in village of
Bangarmau). The liftcranes lift
the span and drag it over to the
crane which in turn rests it on
the pillars.
The country’s longest
Agra-Lucknow Expressway will
have 13 bridges on its 302-km
stretch. The 750-metre eightlane bridge over Ganga River
connecting Unnao and Kanpur
will also be the longest built on
an expressway.
The bridge will have 15
girder spans, each with a length
of 50 metres that will be laid
between Sirdharpur Ahitmali
village of Bangarmau area in
Unnao and Baharampur Araul
ghat of Kanpur district across
the Ganga.
Of the total 13 long bridges
(each over 60 metres in length),
four bridges each will be constructed in Lucknow and
Kannauj region, while two
each will be constructed in
Etawah and ShikohabadFirozabad region and one in
Agra.
Over Ganga and Ishan
rivers, the work is in full swing
while construction of a flyover
to avoid the railway tracks
below is also nearing completion. The long shafts and arms
of the cranes and other heavy
machines make up for the
hazy skyline of the area.
“The flow of water current
is Ishan River is ominously fast.
Most of the time it sweeps away
the sand sacks put there to stop
water flow and ease the ongoing work. We have had to
change the river course also at
places in view of the expressway route map. In our efforts,
we were fully helped by the
Irrigation department officials,”
said the engineer.
Anat Sharma said that a
stretch of road near the cloverleaf at Fagwa village will also
double up as a runway. “A
runway needs special kind of
surface to bear the thrust when
a helicopter or aircraft lands.
We have constructed it near the
cloverleaf and it may be used
during exigency,” he said.
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LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
24 IAS officers shifted
in major shake-up
BJP training
workers in
booth mgmt ‘Congress will focus on development of UP’
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n
LUCKNOW
Lucknow (PNS): With the
aim to sensitising party workers at village level, the Bharatiya
Janata Party has launched
training programme at block
level to apprise party workers
of the nitty-gritty of the election
process and the importance of
bringing voters to the booth.
BJP state general secretary
Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that
the district-wise training programme was underway across
the state. He said the programme had been completed
in around two dozen districts
where local leaders were
trained on booth management.
“It is a two-day programme
in which leaders are made
aware of booths. We believe if
we can manage booths at village level, half the battle will be
won,” Pathak said.
The party leadership is
stressing on booth management as it believes that the BJP
is able to create an atmosphere
in the urban areas but it fails to
make any dent in rural areas.
BJP president Amit Shah
had chaired booth workers’
meetings of four regions and
now those workers are expected to take the message down to
the village level.
Pathak said the programme was going on smoothly. “We are expecting final
report by the end of this
month,” he added.
n a major bureaucratic
shake-up, the state government on Monday transferred 24 IAS officers, including principal secretaries, secretaries, divisional commissioners and district magistrates.
Secretary (Medical and
Family Welfare) Subhash
Chandra Sharma will be the
new Divisional Commissioner
of Aligarh while Secretary
(Board of Revenue) and IG,
Stamps and Registration, Anil
Kumar–I will be the Divisional
Commissioner of Gorakhpur.
Secretar y (Revenue)
Dinesh Kumar Singh-I has
been given the additional
charge of Relief Commissioner.
Director General of Deen
Dayal Institute of Rural
Development, NS Ravi, has
been posted as Principal
Secretar y of Secretariat
Administration department.
The earlier transfer order
of Nina Sharma as Divisional
Commissioner of Azamgarh
has been cancelled and she has
been posted as Commissioner
and Director of Industries
department.
Secretary (Cultural Affairs)
Nelam Ahlawat has been posted as Commissioner of
Azamgarh.
Dr Hariom, who was hold-
I
ing the twin charge of
Commissioner
of
Consolidation department and
Secretary (OBC Welfare) has
been divested of the second
charge and given the charge of
Secretary and Director of
Cultural Affairs.
Member (Judicial) at Board
of Revenue, Dr PV Jagmohan,
has been posted as Divisional
Commissioner of Basti.
Mukesh Kumar Meshram,
holding the twin charge of
Commissioner of Commercial
Tax and Entertainment Tax, has
been divested of the latter.
Director, Mid-day Meal
Authority, Shraddha Mishra
has been posted as
Commissioner
of
Entertainment Tax.
Special Secretary (Higher
Education) Ajay Kumar SinghII has been posted as Director
of Technical Education.
Special
Secretar y
(Secretariat Administration)
Vidya Sagar Prasad goes as
Director of Handicap Welfare.
Special Secretary and
Director of Environment
department, Bhawani Singh,
goes as Special Secretary
(Agriculture Production
Commissioner branch).
Divisional Commissioner
of Kanpur, Mohammed
Iftikharuddin, has been divested of the additional charge of
MD of UP Finance
Corporation. Vice-Chairman
of Kanpur Development
Authority, Jayshree Bhoj, has
been posted as MD of UP
Finance Corporation.
MD of UP Handlooms
Corporation, Sukhlal Bharti,
has been posted as Special
Secretary, Handloom and
Textiles department.
Director of Cane Institute
and MD of UP Sugar
Corporation, Rakesh Kumar
Singh-II, has been posted as
Vice-Chairman of HapurPilkhua
Development
Authority.
District Magistrate of
Bulandshahr, Shubra Saxena,
comes to Lucknow as Special
Secretary (Higher Education)
while Special Secretar y
(Irrigation) AK Singh goes to
Bulandshahr as district magistrate.
Sheetal Verma, who was
awaiting posting, has been
posted as Special Secretary
(Finance). Jagdish, who was
also awaiting posting, has been
posted as Special Secretary
(Secretariat Administration).
Joint Magistrate of Gonda,
Avinash Kumar, has been posted as Joint Magistrate of
Varanasi. Vice-Chairman of
Meerut
Development
Authority, Rajesh Kumar-II,
has been transferred to
Moradabad Development
Authority in same capacity.
Don’t eye Kashmir: Azad to Sharif
PNS n LUCKNOW
AIPEF backs strike call of UPPCF demands action
power engrs, employees against discoms for
poor performance
PNS n LUCKNOW
ll-India Power Engineers’
Federation (AIPEF) has
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extended its support to the daylong countrywide strike on
September 2 to protest the proposed amendment in the Indian
Electricity Act, 2014.
It will also launch a nationwide campaign to inform people why the government intends
to amend the Act and its underlying motive.
The AIPEF said the decision
to support the September 2
strike was taken in a meeting of
National
Co-ordination
Committee of Electricity
Employees and Engineers held
in New Delhi on Sunday.
AIPEF chairman Shailendra
Dubey said the main objective
for amendment in the Indian
Electricity Act was to provide
undue benefit to the private sector at the cost of common consumer. In a statement issued here
on Monday, Dubey said the
National Democratic Alliance
government’s move to amend
the Indian Electricity Act, 2014
was anti-people and many state
governments were against it.
He said a nation-wide campaign would be launched before
the strike and meetings of power
engineers and employees would
be held at the district and state
levels to create awareness among
the power consumers.
Dubey said that besides the
AIPEF, All-India Federation of
Power Diploma Engineers, AllIndia Federation of Electricity
Employees,
Electricity
Employees’ Federation of India,
Indian National Electricity
Workers’ Federation, All-India
Powermen’s Federation would
also participate in the awareness
campaign and strike work on
September 2.
The AIPEF leader said that
over 12 Lakh power employees
and engineers would take part in
the day-long strike. He said that
a conference of power employees and engineers would be held
in each state from August 10 to
31 and an awareness campaign
would be launched on
September 21 and it would conclude on October 20.
“During the campaign,
power employees and engineers
will spread awareness among
people through various means
— demonstration, human chain
and public meetings. The people will be made aware of the
pro-corporate policies of the
NDA government at the Centre,”
he added.
Expressing concern over
the rising power tariff in the
country, Dubey said that with
growing share of private sectors
in power generation, the cost
was also increasing and soon it
would become unaffordable for
the masses.
The AIPEF chairman urged
Union Power Minister Piyush
Goyal to stop playing hide and
seek with power employees and
engineers and provide draft of
the amendment bill sent to all
the state government to power
employees also.
The amendment proposes
separation of power distribution
and supply and licences to more
than one private companies to
supply electricity in a particular
city or area.
Lucknow (PNS): Power
consumers’ forum has urged
UP State Electricity Regulatory
Commission (UPSERC) to take
action against four power distribution companies that are
subsidiaries of UP Power
Corporation Limited for their
poor performance.
The Union government
had assigned a study to Power
Finance Corporation for rating
power distribution companies
(discoms) in public and private
sectors across states as per
their performance in bringing
down line losses and realisation
of revenue from consumers.
The performance of all four
discoms of UP was found to be
in the negative.
A delegation of UP Power
Consumers’ Forum met
UPSERC Chairman DD Verma
on Monday and demanded
action against the discoms as he
had received the report from the
Power Finance Corporation.
“The discoms have been
‘The discoms have
been claiming good
technical and
financial
performance in the
last one decade but
the PFC report has
exposed their false
claims’
claiming good technical and
financial performance in the last
one decade but the PFC report
has exposed their false claims.
The UPSERC should direct the
discoms to improve performance instead of seeking hike
in power tariff every year,” the
power consumers’ forum maintained.
Confirming that power regulator UPSERC had received
the report which was very disappointing, its chairman DD
Verma said that appropriate
action would be taken after
thoroughly analysing the report.
eader of opposition in Rajya
Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad,
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attacked Pakistan’s Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif and
asked him to protect his own
country rather than eyeing
Kashmir.
“Due to Kashmir, Pakistan
lost its eastern part (now
Bangladesh) in 1971 but could
not take an inch of India’s
land. Even now, Pakistan cannot take an inch of Kashmir,”
Azad said while targeting
Sharif.
Azad, who is also AICC
general secretary, was talking to
media persons at Prasada
Bhawan, the residence of former Union minister Jitin
Prasada, in Shahjahanpur on
Sunday night.
Azad reached the town
along with other Congress
leaders participating in a bus
yatra to revive the party. The
bus yatra with the ‘27 Saal, UP
Behal’ was flagged off by
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in
New Delhi on Saturday.
Azad hit out at the
Bharatiya Janata Party, the
Bahujan Samaj Party and the
Samajwadi Party for dividing
the society in UP in the name
of community and caste.
“We have started a new era
of building confidence among
the people by putting aside the
evil of caste and community,”
he said.
On Monday, the third day
of the road show, the Congress
bus crossed Hardoi, Kannauj
and Kanpur Dehat. The yatra
will culminate at Kanpur later
in the night.
In the first two days, the
yatra covered Ghaziabad,
Hapur, Amroha, Moradabad,
Rampur and Bareilly.
“Due to caste and communal politics, UP has not
achieved its desired development. But now the Congress
has come to remove these elements and focus on the development of the state,” Azad
affirmed.
Hitting out at the BJP government at the Centre, he said
that two years of National
Democratic Alliance rule had
elapsed but the Prime
Minister’s promise to bring
back black money was yet to
materialise.
“The SP government,
which promised to provide
jobs to the youths, instead
gave laptops to them. Our
agenda will be to improve law
and order, which has hit rock
bottom during SP regime
which has only benefited gangsters and affluent people,” he
said.
UP Congress chief Raj
Babbar said it was only
Congress which could unite the
country with its secular credentials.
“The situation in UP during the past 27 years has deteriorated after the Congress lost
power. Now the people have to
decide who can lead them to
betterment. The Congress has
never compromised with communal forces nor has it
indulged in caste politics,” he
said.
Commenting on possible
tie-ups in UP for the next
year’s Assembly polls, Babbar
said that Congress would have
alliance with the common
masses and with no other parties.
“People of UP had supported the BSP due to the caste factor in 2007. Later in 2012, it
supported the SP in the hope
of getting employment and in
2014, the people supported
the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.
But all three have ditched the
people and have done nothing
Bus yatra shows how
behal Congress is: SP
Lucknow (PNS): Taking a jibe at the Congress for its ‘Bus
Yatra’ with the slogan `27 Saal, UP Behal’, the ruling Samajwadi
Party said the road show showed that the Congress was ‘behal’
(distressed) and not the people of the state.
SP spokesman Rajendra Choudhary said here on Monday
that by taking out the bus ‘yatra’, the Congress showed that it
was in a state of distress as it was out of power in UP for 27
years. He said the ‘yatra’ would neither make any difference
on the poll prospects of the Congress nor on the common man.
Accusing the Congress of being power hungry, Choudhary
said, “The desperation of Congress for power is beyond comprehension. They have forgotten their failure to develop the
state despite four decades of uninterrupted rule in UP. Their
long (mis)rule only ruined the state from which it is yet to recover from.”
The SP leader pointed out that there was no political message for the people from the Congress ‘yatra’. “All the Congress
leaders have been asked to travel in one bus and the gathering of people around the bus at certain points is being misconstrued by the party as popular support. These people are
only curious bystanders and pedestrians who are attracted
towards the luxury coach,” he added.
Choudhary said that despite being the biggest state of the
country, UP was still not free from the past stigma of being
an economically backward state.
“When the people of UP were reeling under the tyranny
of Bahujan Samaj Party, Bharatiya Janata Party regimes, the
Congress leaders were enjoying the comforts of power in Delhi
. Suddenly, they have discovered the distress of the people of
UP. The Congress attempt on misleading the masses won’t succeed as the people are aware of the party’s credentials,”
Choudhary said.
for them,” he stated.
Other Congress leaders
including Sanjay Singh,
Pramod Tiwari, Rita Bahuguna
Joshi and Jitin Prasada are
participating in the ‘yatra’.
Cops batter rice mill owner to death
Lucknow (PNS): Police brutality led to
the death of a rice mill owner who was
alleged battered by over half-a-dozen policemen, including two sub-inspectors, in
Rampur in the wee hours of Sunday. The
cops had raided the place on suspicion of
gambling. Taking prompt action following
a demonstration by the local residents, district police chief of Rampur got a murder
case registered against the police team, and
sent the cops to Reserve Police Lines. A magisterial probe has also been ordered by the
district magistrate.
According to SI Rehmat Ali and
Bovinder Kumar, posted at Kemri police station, they raided a locality on learning that
some persons were gambling at a public
place in the wee hours of Sunday. The
accused involved in gambling escaped on
seeing the police team but the cops nabbed
two of them — Taufiq Ahmed and Abrar
Ahmed, both residents of Kaimiri — and
recovered `6,190 from their possession.
The situation took an ugly turn when
rice mill owner Jalal Ahmad (45) was killed
during the raid. His family members and
local residents staged a demonstration on
Sunday morning claimed that SI Rehmat Ali
and Bovinder Kumar, along with constables
Vishesh Kumar, Sachin Kumar, Rajveer
Singh, Satraz, Maroof Ali, Cheema, had brutally assaulted the victim with rifle butts leading to his death. They alleged that the cops
had demanded one lakh rupees and when
Jalal refused, they attacked him with their
rifle.
RTI Act helps woman get her job
Lucknow (PNS): Right to information
not only helped a woman get her due job
but also exposed how officials at district
development office in Basti were hand-inglove with a man who forged documents to
get a government job.
When the forgery was exposed, the
accused got the relevant documents
removed from the official records and no
legal action was taken against him.
Now, on the intervention of State
Information Commissioner Rajkeshwar
Singh, the man finally lost his job. The complainant has now moved the SIC to get a job
for which she is legally entitled.
Suraj Devi filed an application under
RTI Act with district development officer
in Basti seeking service book records of her
mother, Shivrani Singh, who was BDO and
had died in 1988. Suraj Devi filed the application as her step brother Devendra Kumar
Singh had forged papers showing him as son
of Shivrani Singh, and had got a job on compensatory ground. When Devendra learnt
about this, he got the service book of
Shivrani removed with the help of officials.
Shivrani Singh was married to a bank
employee Shivraj, who claimed to be a bachelor when he already had children from his
first wife in Kannauj. Devendra was also
from his first wife.
When Suraj Devi failed to get any reply
from DDO office, she filed an appeal and
the SIC took the matter seriously and asked
the district magistrate of Basti to conduct
a probe and submit a report. The DM found
that Suraj Devi should have got job after
death of her mother but her father Shivraj,
had made forgery with the help of his son
Devendra, showing him (Devendra) as their
son. The DM informed the SIC that the service book of Shivrani, in which Suraj was
mentioned as daughter, The SIC directed
stern action in the matter and also justice
to Suraj. Devendra has been terminated.
Elephant rescued in Pratapgarh
PNS n LUCKNOW
n a long rescue operation that lasted more than 20
hours, an elephant, named Mohan, was rescued from
Iillegal
custody in Pratapgarh.
Several attempts to rescue the elephant had failed
and legal proceedings to win his freedom in the past were
postponed and delayed repeatedly. However, efforts of
the Forest department with the assistance of Wildlife
SOS finally saw a breakthrough and with it came freedom to this unlucky elephant.
The police had been directed by the court to lodge
an FIR against the people holding the elephant in illegal custody and seize the elephant within three days.
The rescue operation faced stiff resistance from antisocial elements in the area and they tried to sabotage
the rescue attempt. However, a large police force present there provided safety of the rescue team.
DFO YP Shukla said the elephant was transferred
to the custody of Forest department in Pratapgarh where
it would be provided medical care for the time being.
Members from the Wildlife SOS said that the medical examination of the elephant by a team of three veterinarians revealed that it was constantly tortured and
abused.
The medical report confirms that the elephant is thin
and emaciated due to starvation. It also mentions the
wounds on the elephant’s body and ears, inflicted by
sharp objects, besides injuries on feet that could lead
to permanent joint disorders if not properly treated
immediately.
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LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
Safety of school buses: Parents worried
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
hirty-three-year-old
Suneet Srivastava, who
admits that she is a little
paranoid when it comes to children’s safety, drives 24 kilometres to drop her son at a wellknown school in Gomti Nagar
which eats vitally into her time
of attending her office. She says
that the only news that catches her attention in the newspapers is that pertaining to
school bus accidents.
Siddharth, a lawyer and
young father at 35, admits that
he cannot focus on office work
at all till the time the school is
over and he receives an SMS
from his wife that his son has
reached home safely.
Interestingly, despite the
growth in information technology and various tools and
equipment available to monitor things, a parent’s simple
fears related to the safety of
school bus are not allayed.
The Transport department
officials, on the other hand,
surprisingly are confident that
the school buses which are plying are fit and speed is not an
issue owing to the fact that the
roads are extremely crowded
and the buses cannot speed up
in the city. The officials state
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that there have been several
drives that have been carried
and are being carried out keeping this fact uppermost in
mind.
RTO, Lucknow, Saghir
Ahmad Ansari puts the figures
of the school buses and vans
which are plying in the city at
3,000. Talking to The Pioneer,
he said that the figures for
buses that were not fit could
not be more than 2-3 per cent.
“There are regular checks
that we have been carrying out
which are done at random and
then there are surprise checks
too.” On being asked if all the
schools were covered through
the exercise, he pointed out that
although all the schools were
not covered, these checks created a ripple effect.
“The moment we visit a
school in the area it also
impacts the other schools
which get the fitness levels of
their vehicles checked,” he
added. He said that the buses
mostly plied at normal speeds
and that was not an issue.
A senior Transport
department official, while talking to The Pioneer, said that
speed was certainly not an
issue. “They are supposed to be
moving at a speed of 60 km per
hour and it’s also written at the
Shop owner done
to death over
property row
Protestors blocking a road in Hasanganj police area following the
murder of a shop owner over a property dispute
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
group of persons bludgeoned a shop owner to
death over a property dispute in Hasanganj on
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Sunday evening. On Monday, scores of protestors
hit the streets along with the corpse and demanded immediate arrest of the miscreants and compensation to the aggrieved kin. They accused police
of siding with the attackers.
As per reports, Santosh (25) was sitting along
with his mother Sarojini at his shop selling plastic
items in Lohamandi, Hasanganj. Around 5 pm on
Sunday, his uncle Vishnu Narayan, along with his
son Anil, daughter Vinita and son-in-law Harish,
reached the shop and attacked Santosh with iron
rods. When Sarojini tried to save her son, she was
also thrashed.
Santosh suffered injuries on his head, stomach
and fractures and he was rushed to KGMU’s Trauma
Centre where he succumbed. Meanwhile, the family of the victim called police.
On Monday afternoon, after the police handed over the body to the family, scores of protestors
hit the streets near ekka-tonga stand and placed the
body on the road. The huge gathering caused the
traffic to go for a six.
Police reached the scene to bring the situation
under control but the protestors demanding the
arrest of the miscreants and action against the errant
cops were not ready to budge.
Later, the district administration officials
reached the place and struck a truce with the mob
by assuring proper action against the accused. They
assured compensation to the family of the deceased
also. During investigation, it surfaced that the prime
accused Harish wanted to construct a shop at the
roof of victim’s shop. Over the issue, he and his supporters were at loggerheads with Santosh.
Harish used to claim that the property belonged
to his father-in-law Vishnu and he used all the tactics to get the construction work done but Santosh
and his family foiled his bid.
Harish then started bullying Santosh after the
victim contacted police for help.
“Santosh had lodged a case against Harish and
his supporters only three days ago. The Hasanganj
SO reached the place for investigation but he sided
with Harish and asked Santosh to settle for a compromise,” victim’s family alleged.
They alleged that the Hasanganj SO and some
other cops were favouring the attackers for some
vested interests and it encouraged the miscreants
to attack Santosh.
“The police sat on a complaint for three days.
A probe should be conducted and the errant cops
should be taken to task,” irate members of the family demanded.
Minor Dalit girl raped
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
youth was accused of raping a minor Dalit girl
in Mohanlalganj on Monday morning. The
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accused, identified as Saeed of Barabanki, had visited his uncle’s house in Mohanlalganj a couple of
days back. He developed fancy for the girl and lured
her on finding her all alone. He later took her to
a secluded place where he allegedly forced himself
upon her. The victim narrated her ordeal to her parents who later complained to the police. A police
team swung into action and nabbed the accused.
Instructions issued to
school managements
back of the buses that if they are
speeding then the owners have
to be reported to by those
passing by which also restricts
the drivers in terms of going
beyond their prescribed speed
limit.”
The senior official said
that there would be 1,000 buses
and 1,200 vans approximately
in the city. “Most of them are
fit except for those where the
fitness certificates have
expired.” On being asked
whether the department had
missed out on the small schools
which are in the lanes and interiors, the official said, “We
have not missed out any school
because a commercial licence
has to be procured for these
buses and hence nearly all the
schools are covered.”
Principal of a prominent
school in the city said they had
Lucknow (PNS): Drawing
lesson from Bhadohi school
van accident on Monday, the
district administration has
issued strict instructions to all
school managements regarding
safety of students ferried by
buses and vans. District
Magistrate Raj Shekhar said the
school van accident in Bhadohi
district was unfortunate. To
avoid any such incident in
Lucknow and to ensure safety
of children, strict instructions
had been issued to all schools’
management. “School managements should ensure that
the drivers undergo regular
health check-ups. The vehicles
used by schools to ferry the
children should also undergo
undergo fitness checks once in
a special audit for the buses
carried out by the authorities.
“The school-going children
are connected with an admin in
school through a computer
network, wherein if any child
arrives late at the destination or
there is any problem, it is
2-3 months. Snags, if detected,
should be taken up on priority,” the DM said.
He said all school buses
and vans should display on the
back side contact numbers so
that the drivers could be
reported for rash and negligent
driving. The school buses and
vans should also be displaying
traffic police helpline, police
control room and RTO
helpline numbers, he added.
These instructions also apply if
parents have hired mini-buses,
vans or three-wheelers from
outside. Shekhar said the
school managements should
convey the same to all the parents and ensure the orders were
complied in the larger interest
of children.
quickly resolved,” she said.
On being asked if there was
any way to monitor the speed
of the schoolbus, she said, “We
have teachers also going by
these buses and if there is any
such issue they are there to control it.”
Child’s murder: Police suspect role of insider
Lucknow (PNS): Police suspected the role of some insider in the
murder case of 10-year-old Vipin,
whose body was recovered from a
nullah in Banthra on July 23. Police
teams probing the case were puzzled
at the circumstantial evidences gathered from the crime scene.
“The body of the victim was
lying on the ground. It seemed that
the killer kept it gently on the ground
and fled the scene,” the sources said.
They said the victim was kidnapped from near his house and in
that condition, he might have been
kidnapped probably by some
acquaintances. They said some of the
family members and acquaintances
were on police radar. “The financial
status of the victim’s father is not so
sound that he would have been kidnapped for ransom. Also, the family did not get any ransom,” the
sources said. Meanwhile, the autop-
sy report ruled out sexual assault.
“We sought a detailed report from the
doctors who conducted the autopsy.
The doctors clearly stated that victim did not suffer any sexual assault,”
police spokesman said. The boy was
reported missing from his house in
Alinagar Sunhara in Krishna Nagar on
July 22 and his body was recovered
from Nagwa nullah in Banthra on
Saturday morning. His father Ved
Prakash is a carpenter.
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LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
LESA’s RAPDRP to solve
city’s power problems
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
he power problems in the
city are all set to be solved
in a big way with the
Restructured Accelerator
Power Development and
Reform Programme (RAPDRP) that is already being
implemented by LESA
(Lucknow Electricity Supply
Administration).
A Central government programme this will not only see
the addition of over eight 33
KV sub-stations and 500 transformers in the city which will
help in a big way not only in the
distribution of power but also
in the establishment of
Capacitor Banks at the 11 KV
transformers which will reduce
the power wastage and improve
its quality. The project has a
budget of Rs 724 crore and a
sum of Rs 658 crore has already
been released. The work is
targeted to be completed by
March 2017.
The Chief Engineer, LESA
(Lucknow Electricity Supply
Administration), Ashutosh
Kumar, while talking to ‘The
Pioneer’ said that already four
out of eight sub-stations had
been completed , 400 transformers had been installed and
cable laying work was also in
progress.
He said that over 102
Capacitor Banks would also be
installed under this programme
under which 71 had been completed and 22 were already
functional. “These Capacitor
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Banks will help in a big way in
the reduction of power wastage
and also decrease the current
which will cause less damage to
the cables,” he added.
A look at the distribution
network in the city reveals
that there are 110 33 KV substations from which the power
goes to approximately 803
11KV feeders and then to 4,000
11/ 0. 4 KV transformers and
lastly fed into the consumer
lines. The maximum load for
Lucknow is 1,200 megawatt.
The Chief Engineer said
that they had no problem at the
source as much as what they
faced at the distribution level.
“The city faces power problems
with the first rains in monsoon
and there are several reasons
for this. At the sub-station level
there are problems which are
not frequent but power breakdowns do occur and another
cause is damage to the transformers.” Ashutosh Kumar
pointed out that they always
carry out the mandatory monsoon preparedness. However
he admitted that they still faced
routine maintenance problems.
“Maintenance is an issue
because we are committed to
24-hour supply but we cannot
shut down for the maintenance that we should carry
out.”
In the Old Lucknow area,
he said, the colonies had been
constructed below the power
lines which created immense
problems. “These lines cannot
be shifted because the areas are
highly congested and the effort
to shift them will involve a lot
of money. This does not take
place in the planned areas of
the city,” he added.
Incidentally the Chief
Engineer pointed out that
despite the maintenance the
problems of cables would erupt
with rainfall. “There can be
sparking if the cable is weak at
any point causing breakdowns
which occur every now and
then. Uprooting of trees during rains is also a problem for
us,” he added.
Regarding the underground corridor of the
Lucknow Metro which was
coming up from Charbagh to
Parivartan Chowk, the Chief
Engineer said that there was no
cause of worry. “Most of the
transmission lines were at the
corners of the roads while the
Metro is being constructed in
the centre of the road. The
LMRC officials have also
assured us that they will be carrying out the transfer of lines,
wherever needed, themselves
when the construction takes
place,” he added.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
ucknow Development
Authority (LDA) on
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Monday released Rs 25 lakh to
beautify and develop the
Pragya Park falling in Vineet
Khand in Gomti nagar here.
But the Nagar Nigam has been
assigned the task to execute the
project.
A source said that the
Pragya Park was the place
where a communal clash was
reported recently. This decision
was taken by the district
administration in order to avert
the recurrence of such incidents in the peace-loving
Gomti nagar in future. The
District Magistrate requested
the LDA Vice-Chairman to
begin the project without any
delay keeping public interest in
mind.
The LDA Vice-Chairman,
Satyendra Singh, agreed to the
proposal and released the
money immediately. He said
that the task to execute the project had been assigned to the
Nagar Nigam as the manpower of the LDA was engaged in
other projects and it was not
advisable to withdraw it from
there.
A source said that the competent authorities of LDA had
been directed not to allow any
function or event to be organised in the Pragya Park in
future. It would be used only
for its residents, it said.
As per the plan a six-foothigh boundary wall would be
constructed with three gates,
one for the entry and the second for the exit while the third
would serve as a service gate,
it said. Five high-mast lights
would be installed there, it said
and added that one would be
at the main gate while the
other would be in the rear portion and three in the central
portion.
Source said that the construction of the boundary wall
had already begun and was
expected to be completed by
August 15. In all probability
the project would be finished
by October 2, it said and added
that the entry to the park
would be restricted but free of
cost.
Interestingly four sets of
CCTV cameras will be installed
to keep a watch on those coming to the Park and their activities. It is stated to be a part of
the security measures. Besides,
the Park will be well illuminated with hundreds of LED
bulbs. Initially it was planned
to run the lights on solar energy but it did not materialise due
to unavoidable circumstances,
the source added. The project was solely funded by the
LDA and the money would be
generated from its internal
resources. Its maintenance too
will be done by the LDA.
Man arrested
for bid to
defame wife
Lucknow (PNS): In connivance with his love interest, a
man orchestrated a plan to
defame his wife by sending lewd
messages on her cellphone. Not
only this, he formed a fake
Facebook account in his wife’s
name and posted her objectionable photos. Both, however,
landed in police dragnet when
the Women Power Line (WPL)1090 officials worked on the case.
As per reports, a girl lodged a
complaint with WPL-1090
against an unidentified person
who was sending her lewd messages. The cops started the probe
and found the number through
which the messages were sent
switched off This made the
probe to come to a halt. A couple of weeks after the woman
contacted the WPL and said that
someone had opened a
Facebook account in her name
and posted her objectionable
photos. She further complained
that her cell number had also
been shared on Facebook and
she was passing through tough
time. The WPL officials worked
on the case and found that the
cell number belonged to a girl
who had constantly talked to the
victim’s husband.
Before her marriage to the
complainant, the man was in
love with the girl. They had a
plan to marry her after divorcing his wife. WPL inspector
Satyaveer Sachan said legal
action had been recommended
against the accused and the
Krishna Nagar police had been
asked to take action.
‘Govt to ensure better
medical facilities’
Minister Ravidas Mehrotra at at Virangna Avantibai Female Hospital in Lucknow on
Pioneer
Monday
Lucknow (PNS): Minister
of State for Women, Child and
Family Welfare (independent
charge) Ravidas Mehrotra said
the state government would
ensure better medical facilities
across the state. To curb the
increasing child mortality due
to diarrhoea, appropriate
arrangements had been made,
he said. The minister was
speaking at the inaugural function of Intensified Diarrhoea
Control Fortnight (IDCF) at
Virangna Avantibai Female
Hospital on Monday.
Mehrotra said that more
than 3.39 lakh children below
five years died in the state
every year. Of those, majority of
them were victims of diarrhoea, he pointed out.
Through IDCF, extensive
campaigns would be launched
across the state to senstise people about preventive measures
to save children from diarrhoea, he said. “We will be distributing packets of zinc and
ORS to 2.07 crore children and
until the packets are distributed
to all the affected children, the
campaign will continue,” he
added. He said that IV fluids
prepared by reputed companies
should be made available in
hospitals for children suffering
from diarrhoea. During the
fortnight, if any child showed
symptoms of diarrhoea, the
102 Ambulance service should
be pressed into service to bring
them to hospital.
Secretary, Medical Health
and Family Welfare, Amit
Ghosh said a developed society
could be established only by
decreasing the child mortality
rate. More than 1.40 ASHA
workers have been deployed for
door-to-door distribution of
zinc and ORS packets during
the fortnight. Director, National
Health Mission Alok Kumar
said during the fortnight, special facility for distribution of
zinc and ORS packets, centres
would be established in medical
colleges, district hospitals,
CHCs and PHCs.
CITYBRIEFS
SCHOOLSCAN
KALAM’S DEATH ANNIV
CHARACTER BUILDING
MARCH TAKEN OUT
Inaugurating the grand
felicitation function for meritorious students organised by
City Montessori School here on
Monday at school’s Gomti
Nagar Extension auditorium,
State Minister for HRD
Mahendra Nath Pandey said
that the system of education
needed to be revitalised and
reinvented by introducing drastic changes to suit it to the present day requirements. In this
context, he said, they had
formed a committee comprising educational experts from all
over India and asked for its suggestions. The mothers and
fathers of toppers as well as
their teachers were specially
honoured at the felicitation
LDA releases `25L
to give Pragya
Park a facelift
function. Earlier, thousands of
CMS students took out a grand
character building march
which
started
from
Maqdoompur Police Chowki
and culminated into a huge
rally at CMS Gomti Nagar
campus Extension.
420 ULCs soon to
be a thing of past
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
he Northern Railway (NR)
and North Eastern
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Railway (NER) have decided
to make 420 unmanned level
crossings (ULCs) in Lucknow
division things of the past by
2018. Both the zonal railways
have prepared a plan to man,
divert and construct lowheight subway (LHS) at these
crossings.
Senior
Divisional
Commercial Manager (Sr
DCM), NR-Lucknow, Ajit
Sinha said that there were 175
unmanned level crossings in
the Lucknow division which
would either be manned or
removed by 2018-19.
“For this year’s target, the
division has constructed seven
LHS while another has been
sanctioned. There are some
which could be diverted to
nearby manned crossing and
work is in progress,” he added.
For handling the ULCs,
the NR has deputed 106 ‘gate
mitras’ (hired on contracts) to
stop vehicular movement
through ULCs while a train is
passing through.
Sinha said programmes
had been organised to sensitse
locals about safety measure
while crossings the ULCs.
Similarly, the number of ULCs
in NER Lucknow division is
nearly double as compared to
NR.
“There are 685 level crossings in Lucknow division, of
which 370 are manned while
315 ULCs are yet to be
manned or diverted. This
year, 18 ULCs have been
manned and work for others
sanctioned,” PRO, NERLucknow, Alok Kumar
Srivastava said.
Chief Secy upbeat about
industry revival in UP
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
pbeat about industry
revival in Uttar Pradesh,
U
newly appointed Chief
Secretary Deepak Singhal on
Monday said the state would
soon be best-placed in India to
do business. This was stated in
an official communiqué from
PHD Chambers of Commerce.
The assurance came in a
meeting of the Chief Secretary
with an eminent industrialist
and president, PHD Chamber,
Mahesh Gupta. Dr Gupta will
soon initiate a meeting in order
to work out a holistic approach
with multiple stakeholders to
create a conducive business
environment in the state. While
discussing the business envi-
ronment in Uttar Pradesh,
Singhal applauded the PHD
Chamber for supporting Uttar
Pradesh trade and industry.
Singhal reposed faith in Gupta’s
suggestion to have a collective
meeting with all apex business
chambers and industrial associations, including FICCI, CII
and ASSOCHAM.
The Chief Secretary suggested that each chamber
should identify the challenges
being faced by the industry in
the state and come out with
suggestions. He promised that
the UP government would
take an immediate action to
resolve the issues identified. A
high-level meeting will be held
before August 15 to decide the
course of action.
Abdul Kalam Technical
University (AKTU) will be
observing the death anniversary of former President APJ
Kalam on July 27. AKTU
media incharge Asheesh
Mishra said all the affiliated
institutes had been directed to
organise programmes of social
and environmental importance
on the occasion. The institutes
have been asked to plant
saplings and monitor their
growth, organise blood donation camps, adopt villages,
organise cleanliness campaigns,
hold programmes for the poor
and needy children in the
vicinity and organise seminars
on the life of Abdul Kalam and
start an innovation project that
can help the poor.
SHRAVAN’S FIRST
MONDAY
The first Monday of
Shravan month saw city
women observe a fast. There
was a huge rush at Shiva temples across the city. At the
Mankameshwar temple, the
Shiva linga was bathed with
Gomti’s water as a tribute to the
river which is one of the oldest rivers in the city. The main
portals of the temple remained
open from 3 am onwards.
CM forms
committee to
review ‘Clinical
Establishment
Act, 2010’
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
hief Minister Akhilesh
Yadav on Monday constiC
tuted a committee headed by
Chief Secretar y Deepak
Singhal to review the ‘Clinical
Establishment Act-2010’. The
decision was taken after a delegation of Indian Medical
Association (IMA) met him
earlier in the day.
The committee’s aim
would be to review the Act to
make suitable amendments so
that there were no problems
for the rural folks while undergoing treatment across
the state.
According to an official
press release, the Chief
Minister requested members
of the delegation to advise the
state government on steps to
be taken to make rural medical services efficient so that
maximum villagers could be
benefited from different
schemes.
The Chief Minister said
that their cooperation was a
must to make medical services
in rural areas effective. He
directed the Chief Secretary to
hold discussions with the IMA
representatives to make
improvements in the existing
rural services.
E-COMMERCE CELL
FICCI-FLO’s will be
launching their e-commerce
cell on Tuesday. In keeping
with its objective to encourage
and facilitate women for their
talents, skills, experiences and
to empower them, FICCI-FLO
Lucknow chapter had put
together, for the benefit of
women, a training workshop to
help women entrepreneurs
and others keen on building
their brand and sell their products online for a greater outreach.
DEMONSTRATION
Demanding the removal
of the proposed reservation
system in recruitment of sanitation workers, UP Safai
Mazdoor Sanyukt Sangharsh
Samiti staged a demonstration
at Lucknow Municipal
Corporation (LMC) headquarters on Monday. The
union threatened to go on
indefinite strike from July
30. Due to large presence of
sanitation workers, the police
barricaded the road to prevent them from marching
towards Vidhan Bhawan. The
protest continued for some
hours disrupting traffic on the
stretch. President Shyam Lal
Pujari said there were 35,774
Huge rush of devotees at Mankameshwar temple on the first Monday of Shravan month
posts of sanitation workers
lying vacant and despite
Urban Development Minister
Azam Khan’s assurance that
no reservation would be
imposed in recruitment and
people of Valmiki community would be appointed, the
Pioneer
provision of reservation was
brought into practice during
the recruitment process in
2015.
Stress on need to Row over love affair may
keep the essence have cost insurance co
employee his life
of crafts alive
Lucknow (PNS): On the
fifth day of the ‘Fashion Art
Exhibition’ being held at the
Lalit Kala Akademi, Jaspal
Kalra, a research scholar at
NIFT, Delhi, talked about the
‘Binaries of Craft and Design.’
During his presentation he
explained the importance of
keeping the essence of crafts
alive. He said that crafts were
the inventions which were perfected after repetitive experiments and then arrive at the
perfect form which we see now.
He gave the example of a
‘lota’ or brass ‘matka’ and the
shape it has now was perfected
in a way that it could be carried
on the head or balanced on the
waist without spilling water or
getting disbalanced so that its
point where the centre of gravity would fall was achieved by
shape. He also gave the example of chikankari and how all
the motifs, colours and techniques were all in sync with
each other and that was its
essence.
Sumit Agarwal, an architect
by profession, who was working in the USA and was recently back in India, explained that
to have any perfect piece of
architecture or any design form
one should know the elements
of design, personality of the
client and functionality of the
product. Then the surrounding
elements were important too.
“In the case of a house if there
is an old minaret around the
construction site then ensure
that it is visible from every
room of the house. The technicalities are very important as
to how to achieve the perfect
curves, how to create separate
sections which can join perfectly to create the final piece.
So geometry is very important
in design,” he said.
Pankaj Bhadouria, India’s
Master Chef, gave a talk on culinary art. In her talk she spoke
about the stories of Avadh
kitchen, and how food was
savoured by all the five senses,
how the eye sees it, nose smells
it, ears hear the sizzle and
hands touch as well as feel
and then the tongue tastes it.
“So it’s very important that
all the things about food should
be appealing just like in fashion
where feel, presentation and
other things are equally important. In her message to the students she said that they should
remember the 4 P’s-perseverance, patience, power and preparedness. Amira Husain,
Commercial Artist, had a highly-interactive session on Fashion
Photography and Composition
in which she described the
composition rules and how to
apply it in every creative field by
training your eyes.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
olice investigating the murder case of the insurance
P
company employee Vijay
Mishra said a dispute over love
affair could well be the motive.
“We are yet to develop the
lead and need some time to
work on it. A person of
Gorakhpur had visited
Vijay’s rented house
in
Vinit
Khand on
the fateful day
he is on
police
r a d a r ,”
sources
disclosed. They said if the
lead was anything to go by,
Vijay might have been killed
following a dispute over a
love affair.
The sources said that
police
want
to
get
clinching evidence against the
killers before laying hand on
them.
Vijay Mishra was found
murdered at his one-room
rented house on Saturday
night. A native of Gorakhpur,
Vijay was partying in the night
and had a verbal spat with his
partners. After stabbing him to
death, the killers left the room
locking its doors.
He was stabbed several
times and had multiple
injuries on his stomach, chest
and throat. Doctors had
opined that the victim died of
excessive bleeding caused by
deep wounds.
JOB-SEEKERS DUPED
A couple duped several
job-seekers
in
Madioan on
the pretext of
sending
them to Gulf
countries.
The accused,
identified as Hazra Gulzar aka
Sana Khan and her husband
Imran (both of Indiranagar),
run their office near
Engineering College crossing in
Madioan. The couple published
an advertisement in some Hindi
newspapers inviting applications from those wanting to
work in Gulf countries. A number of gullible people contacted
them and deposited a cash of Rs
10,000 each with the couple.
They were later asked to submit
their passports and Rs 50,000
for final selection.
A number of people
deposited the cash and were
promised work visas. “We
reached the office after we did
not get the visas but the couple
threatened us with police action.
Later, we called police,” they
alleged. Police said a team was
sent to the spot and 58 passports
were recovered from there.
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LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
MONDAY ACTION IN PARLIAMENT
Video case: Mann barred from attending House
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n
NEW DELHI
aking a strong view of the
filming of Parliament complex by AAP MP Bhagwant
Mann, Lok Sabha Speaker
Sumitra Mahajan on Monday
asked him not to attend the
House till a decision is taken on
the matter by a nine-member
house committee which she
announced while conveying a
sense that the MP’s act had put
“in peril” the Parliament security, reviewed extensively after
terrorist attack in 2001.
The Speaker announced
that a parliamentary panel,
chaired by BJP member Kirit
Somaiya, has been asked to
submit its report by August 3,
while Mann has time till
Tuesday morning to submit his
explanation to the committee.
Within hours of Speaker’s
announcement, the AAP MP in
Chandigarh accused the BJP, the
Congress and the Akali Dal of
joining hands to “suppress his
voice” in view of the 2017
Punjab Assembly polls. He even
went ahead demanding the suspension of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi for allowing
Pakistan’s security agency access
to the Pathankot airbase.
He claimed he has been
“barred” from raising issues of
public by being not allowed to
attend the House proceedings.
The MP said the “grand
alliance” of the BJP, the
Congress and the Akalis has
hatched a “conspiracy against
me as I am very active in the
House and raise issue of the
public”. “It has happened ahead
of Punjab polls,” he claimed.
The Speaker, however, took
a serious note of the filming of
the high security parliament
complex while announcing the
setting of the probe panel.
“The act of the member of
audio-visual recording of
Parliament and posting it on
the social media puts the security of Parliament in peril,” the
Speaker said, adding that sev-
T
Speaker forms 9-member Atrocities
against
Dalits
panel to probe video case
PNS n NEW DELHI
hile cutting across party
lines, members in
W
Parliament on Monday high-
q Bhagwat Mann has time till Tuesday to submit his explanation
q He claimed he has been ‘barred’ from raising issues of public by
being not allowed to attend the House proceedings
q Apart from chairperson Kirit Somaiya (BJP), the panel has two other
BJP members — Meenakshi Lekhi and Satyapal Singh. Others are
Anandrao Adsul (Shiv Sena), B Mahtab (BJD), Ratna De (TMC), Thota
Narasimham (TDP), K C Venugopal (Cong) and P Venugopal (AIADMK)
The enquiry committee shall probe into the serious security
implications and related aspects...(and) suggest suitable
remedial measures to avoid recurrence of such incidents in
future and recommend appropriate action in the matter
SPEAKER
eral members had expressed
concern over the issue on
Friday last.
The member is “advised
not to attend the sittings of the
House” until a decision is
taken in the matter, Mahajan
said. Mann was not present in
the House.
As the House assembled
for the day, she informed it
about the action being taken on
the issue which had led to the
adjournment of the Lok Sabha
proceedings on July 22.
“The enquiry committee
shall probe into the serious
security implications and related aspects...(and) suggest suitable remedial measures to
avoid recurrence of such incidents in future and recommend
appropriate action in the matter,” the Speaker said.
Apart from chairperson
Somaiya, the panel has two
-
lighted the cases of atrocities
being committed on Dalits in
various parts of the country
and demanded steps to prevent
them. Opposition RJD and SP
in the Lok Sabha also sought to
accuse the Government of
denying OBC candidates, a
chance to get into IAS and IPS
in the name of creamy-layer
formula, a charge the Centre
roundly rejected.
The Dalit issue during zero
hour brought all political parties on one platform with
members expressing their
views against the continued
atrocities against sections of the
community across the country.
In both the Houses, members
sought that the Prime Minister
should be giving a statement on
the atrocities against Dalits.
On the issue of OBC can-
other BJP members —
Meenakshi Lekhi and Satyapal
Singh. Others are Anandrao
Adsul (Shiv Sena), B Mahtab
(BJD), Ratna De (TMC), Thota
Narasimham (TDP), K C
Venugopal (Cong) and P
Venugopal (AIADMK).
The panel has no member
from Shiromani Akali Dal.
Mann represents Sangrur in
Punjab. The Speaker said
Parliament, which is the sanctum sanctorum, was attacked
in 2001 and 13 security men
and parliamentary personnel
had sacrificed their lives.
“In view of the extreme
gravity of the matter, I have discussed it with the leaders of political parties in the Lok Sabha and
all of them have unanimously
agreed to the course of action I
propose to take,” the Speaker said
as she announced the setting up
of the enquiry panel.
All parties on one platform
didates, raised by Jai Prakash
Narayan Yadav of the RJD and
Dharmendra Yadav (SP), Home
Minister Rajnath Singh clarified
that information is sought from
OBC candidates about creamy
layer to avoid court cases by
other candidates. “Their interests are not harmed. It is sought
to avoid litigation,” he said.
Chirag Paswan (LJP) in the
Lok Sabha drew the attention
of the House towards atrocities
against two Dalit youths who
were allegedly thrashed and
urinated upon in Bihar’s
Muzaffarpur district.
He charged that a series of
incidents of atrocities against
Dalits in Darbhanga and
Kishanganj had happened as
the State Government did not
act against such crimes, Paswan
demanded CBI investigation
into the cases.
Pappu Yadav (RJD)
accused the Uttar Pradesh government of trying to create a
rift between different castes.
Apna Dal MP from
Pratapgarh Kunwar
Harivansh Singh during
his protest at Parliament
House in New Delhi on
Monday
PTI
Akali Dal (SAD)
on Monday moved a priviSlegehiromani
motion in the Rajya Sabha
against Congress leaders
Renuka Chowdhur y and
Jairam Ramesh for allegedly
not allowing SAD member
and Union Food Processing
Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal
to speak in the House on
Friday last.
The two Congress MPs
denied the allegation and said
they had only objected to the
Minister raising the issue about
a MP who was not a member
PNS n NEW DELHI
oad and Transport Minister
Nitin Gadkari on Monday
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said that Centre is working on
a Bill to bring cab aggregators
like Ola and Uber under greater
regulatory supervision. During
the Question Hour in the Rajya
Sabha, Gadkari said under the
present provisions of the “outdated” Motor Vehicles Act,
there is not much regulatory
control over taxi aggregators
like Ola and Uber.
Gadkari said the
new proposed legislation would have various provisions,
including verification
of drivers, installation
of GPS and other
issues. He suggested
that the proposed Bill
may categorise services of taxis up to 1,200 cc differently, as compared to luxury vehicles like Mercedes that
plied as taxis.
Gadkari also told the
House that he had sought a
report from a committee headed by secretary of his ministry
in a month’s time. This committee will recommend guidelines to the states for regulating
the taxi aggregators and taxis to
facilitate citizens.
In a different reply, Gadkari
also informed the Upper House
that a ‘fast track card’ was also
being planned and its users
would not need to stop
at toll stations as the
card itself will carry
the entire details of the
user. He suggested that
MPs could also be provided these cards.
Gadkari also
mentioned that the
Government was
planning to construct
a Metrino project from Delhi’s
Dhaula Kuan to Manesar in
Gurgaon. The Minister said
that while a metro project cost
Rs 350 crore per kilometre to
be built, the Metrino project
would cost around Rs 50 crore
per kilometre.
PNS n NEW DELHI
he Lok Sabha on Monday passed the
Amendment Bill to provide for
T
opening of six new IITs, including in
Jammu and Tirupati. Under the
Institutes of Technology (Amendment)
Bill 2016, new IITs will also be started
in Palakkad, Goa, Dharward and Bhilai.
The Bill also seeks to bring the Indian
School of Mines, Dhanbad, within the
ambit of the Act.
Replying to a debate on the Bill,
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said
the Government has formed High
Education Financial Agency (HEFA) to
upgrade the infrastructure. The
Government’s credo is “Sabko Shiksha
Achchhi Shiksa (Good Education to
All)” and has taken a number of efforts
in this regards, he said.
On the fee structure, he said students from the ST and SC communities,
from the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category and physically challenged have
full waiver of fees in the IITs and NITs.
He said those whose family income is
below Rs 9 lakh per annum also get zero
per cent education loan.
“Education must be inclusive. But
those capable of paying must pay. You
should not oppose when rich are being
asked to pay…Funding is one of the reason why students go abroad. Foreign
universities fund projects. Under this
scheme funding is available and there
is no need to go abroad because of funding,” Javadekar said.
Gaurav Gogoi (Congress) supported the Bill on behalf of his party and
India should work to reclaim its earlier status of “inspiring” the world in the
field of knowledge, mentioning ancient
universities of Taxila and Nalanda.
He opposed the hike in the fee at the
institutes and Deputy Speaker Thambi
Durai, who was in the Chair, also
seemed to be supporting at he drew
Javadekar’s attention to this also the
need for counselling for students, some
of whom under pressure take extreme
steps, including committing suicide.
Saugata Roy (TMC) supported the Bill
but vehemently opposed the fee hike.
Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena) and RK Jena
(BJD) also supported the Bill.
iquor baron Vijay Mallya was
slapped with a contempt notice
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by the Supreme Court on Monday
for supplying incomplete details of
his properties to the banks which are
tailing him for recovery of bad loans
of up to `9,000 crore.
Appearing for the consortium of 17 banks led by
State Bank of India,
Attorney General Mukul
Rohatgi told a Bench of
Justices Kurian Joseph and
Rohington F Nariman that
Mallya was in contempt of
the Court’s order asking
him to disclose all the assets and liabilities in his name and of his family.
He pointed out that the list supplied by Mallya did not mention the
$45 million he received from Diageo,
a British firm as part of a deal that
allowed him to walk out of United
Spirits, the holding company of
Kingfisher brand, absolving him of all
debts and liabilities due to the banks.
Also, the banks pointed out
that the information was incomplete
as there were no details on
the valuation of properties,
how it was done and
whether it was on the
entire property or part of
it. Some transactions
entered by Mallya were
incorrectly stated or even
discarded.
The apex court took
note of the serious contentions raised
by A-G and served contempt notice
on Mallya to explain to the court in
four weeks.
ABRAHAM THOMAS n NEW DELHI
ndue delay in immigration clearance
at the airport can be harassing for pasU
sengers. But to protest against the system
can become a harrowing experience too.
Harmandeep Rai, a US national of
Indian origin, learnt this the hard way on
one of his trips to India almost three years
back. Upon arrival at the Indira Gandhi
International Airport, Rai’s fiancée
Rupinder Kaur was held up by the
Immigration authorities for hours on
September 29, 2013. Fuming over the illegal detention, Rai lost his cool and
walked up to the officers posted with the
Bureau of Immigration for an explanation.
He even had some heated exchanges
with the Immigration staff and allegedly
abused the officials. He was later given an
explanation that a Look out Circular
Zero Hour, Derek O’Brien
(TMC) said he had given a
notice under Rule 267 seeking
adjournment of business to
take up a discussion on the
trend of disregarding the
Constitution and rising protests
of the House. They were referring to AAP member and Lok
Sabha member Bhagwant
Mann’s video showing security apparatus of Parliament.
Raising the issue of the
alleged spat between the
Congress leaders and the Food
Processing Minister Sukhdev
Singh Dhindsa (SAD) demanded that the two should apologise for their behaviour or face
privilege motion. He also said
the Minister has the right to
speak in any House.
As the two Congress members contested Dhindsa’s
remarks, Deputy Chairman PJ
Kurien said a minister or a
member can speak only with
the permission of the Chair.
Giving the sequence of events
that day, he said the Minister
stood up requesting she be
allowed to speak adding the
House was in pandemonium at
that time.
Kurien, who was in the
Chair on Friday, said he first
allowed introduction of a
Private Member Bills and “so
did not allow the Minister to
speak”. He also said Kurien also
said the privilege notice was
now under the consideration of
Chairman Hamid Ansari.
Private Member Bill on special package for Andhra
Cong derails RS proceedings
PNS n NEW DELHI
fter normal functioning of the
Rajya Sabha last week that saw
A
only a couple of disruptions both by
the Opposition as well Treasury
Benches, the Congress derailed the
proceedings of the Rajya Sabha on
Monday forcing early adjournment
of the House as it pressed for taking
up of a Private Member Bill on special package for Andhra Pradesh.
Even as the Government has
been making efforts to list the crucial GST Bill this week after mending ways with the Congress, the grand
old party has threatened of not
allowing Government business till
their Andhra Pradesh demand is met.
The House could not function
post lunch as the Congress members
created uproar and trooped into Well
of the House to press their demand.
The Bill, which was to be moved
by Congress member KVP
Ramchandra Rao on last Friday during Private Member business, could
not be taken up on that day as the
House was adjourned due to ruckus
by the Treasury Benches over AAP
MP Bhagwant Mann’s controversial
filming of Parliament.
Deputy Leader of Congress
Anand Sharma led his party’s charge
saying “grave injustice” was done
when the ruling party and its
Mallya slapped with
PIO who took airport authorities
contempt notice by SC head-on, at SC door for justice
PNS n NEW DELHI
MAYAWATI QUESTIONED THE
PRIME MINISTER’S ‘SILENCE’ ON
THE ISSUE OF ATROCITIES ON
DALITS AND CLAIMED SUCH
INCIDENTS INCREASED SINCE
THE BJP CAME TO POWER
across the country over attacks
of Dalits and minorities.
Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien
said the notice was disallowed.
Sukhendu Sekhar Roy
(TMC) said the rights of Dalits
and minorities were being curtailed in direct disregard to the
Constitution. Observing that
the government set up NIA to
curb anti-national activities,
he said these attacks were also
anti-national.
Kurien said though the
subject was important, the
notice under Rule 267 was
disallowed which led to TMC
members shouting slogans. As
the Chair did not relent, TMC
members walked out of the
Rajya Sabha.
BSP supremo Mayawati
questioned the Prime Minister’s
“silence” on the issue of atrocities on Dalits and claimed
such incidents increased since
the BJP came to power. She too
demanded a statement from
Modi.
SAD moves privilege motion against
Renuka Chowdhury, Jairam Ramesh
PNS n NEW DELHI
Bill to bring cab aggregators Bill for opening of
under greater regulatory
6 new IITs passed
supervision soon: Gadkari
Under the Institutes of
Technology (Amendment) Bill
2016, new IITs will be started in
Jammu, Tirupati, Palakkad, Goa,
Dharward and Bhilai. The Bill
also seeks to bring the Indian
School of Mines, Dhanbad,
within the ambit of the Act
Meenakshi Lekhi (BJP) said
there have been a lot of politics
over atrocities on Dalits and
said no castiest remarks should
be made, while claiming that in
South India, casteist words
were still being used. “Usage of
such words should be stopped
and attacks on Dalits should not
be politicised,” Lekhi said.
M
Ramachandran
(Congress) raised the issue of
the arrest of two sisters on an
alleged complaint of a CPM
worker in Kerala and claimed
that, as they were daughters of
a Dalit leader, they were
harassed by the police at the
instance of the Left activists.
In the Rajya Sabha, the
Trinamool Congress raised a
din and shouted slogans when
its notice to ask the Prime
Minister to give a statement in
the House about atrocities
against Dalits was rejected by
the Chair. The TMC later staged
a walkout to register its protest.
Raising the issue during
(LOC) had been issued against a lady who
resembled Kaur and this caused the
delay. But before things could settle, Rai
was taken to the Airport police station and
arrested by police for obstructing public
servant at work (Section 186) and assaulting a public servant (Section 353) of the
Indian Penal Code.
Rai, a doctor by profession, who is facing trial in the case before a Delhi court
approached the Supreme Court for hearing him out as he claimed that it was police
and immigration authorities who misbehaved with him and assaulted him before
allegedly framing him in a false case. His
lawyer, senior advocate Colin Gonsalves
submitted that the CCTV footage would
dispute the story put forth by police.
Initially, the Bench of Justices JS Khehar
and Arun Mishra was reluctant to entertain
the request of the petitioner as the police ver-
Opposition protest in front of Deputy Chairman of Rajya
Sabha PJ Kurien in New Delhi on Monday
PTI
Cabinet Ministers disrupted the
House on Friday as a result of
which the Private Member Bill
could not taken up. “What happened
on Friday was by design. It was
planned by the Government to disrupt the proceedings,” Sharma said.
He made it clear that the
Opposition party does not want anything else discussed until the Andhra
Bill is taken up. “That day (Friday),
they were shouting vociferously.
Today they have lost their voice. We
cannot allow Government business to
be taken up (unless the private member bill is taken up),” Sharma said.
Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien said
the Bill can be taken up only on
August 5 as, according to practice,
Private Bills and resolutions are taken
up on alternate Fridays. “It is my ruling that the Bill will not be taken up
Harmandeep Rai upon
arrival at the Indira
Gandhi International
Airport (3 years back),
Rai’s fiancée Rupinder
Kaur was held up by the Immigration
authorities for hours in 2013. Fuming over
the illegal detention, Rai lost his cool and
walked up to the officers posted with the
Bureau of Immigration for an explanation
sion claimed that Rai tried to forcibly enter
through the Duty-Free shop side after his
Immigration clearance. On being stopped,
he hurled abuses and created impediment
in the official work, due to which he was
taken into custody. Later, the Bench relented in order to ascertain the correct facts.
Out on bail, Rai claimed that the
criminal case against him was proving a
hindrance in his official work as he was
required to regularly seek exemption from
appearance before the trial court. His plea
for permanent exemption and quashing
of FIR was rejected by the Delhi High
Court on April 4, 2016 leaving the apex
court as his last refuge.
today for discussion,” he said.
Congress members repeatedly
trooped into Well of the House,
shouting “Andhra wants justice”, forcing Kurien to adjourn the House twice
briefly before finally adjourning the
House for the day minutes after 3 pm.
The Congress was supported by
CPM leader Sitaram Yechury and
Naresh Aggarwal of the Samajwadi
Party who wanted the Andhra Bill
to be taken up for discussion.
With no assurance coming from
the Government on the Private
Members Bill, the Congress members
kept raising the issue from their seats
even as Kurien moved to take up
Zero Hour issues. He disallowed any
further discussion on the matter.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was
present in the House then but did not
respond to the demand.
Buildings having over
20 rooms in Haridwar
to install STP: NGT
New Delhi: Any building, hotel, dharmashala and ashram
in Haridwar having more than 20 rooms or a built up area
of over 10,000 square feet, will have to install its own sewage
treatment plant (STP), said the National Green Tribunal
(NGT), in a bid to reduce pollution in Ganga.
A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter
Kumar said that the sewage load on river Ganga and its tributaries was the main source of pollution of the river in
Uttarakhand as the discharge of domestic waste and
sewage was directly released into it.
The tribunal was told that apart from a large number
of ashrams and dharamshalas, there are about 600 hotels in
Rishikesh and Haridwar out of which only few have obtained
consent from Uttarakhand Environment Protection and
Pollution Control Board. During the hearing, the board conveyed to the green panel that they have issued closure notice
to 12 hotels out of which three have been closed and sealed.
The Bench directed, “We direct that all nine remaining hotels, to whom closure notices have been issued, should
be closed/sealed and their water and electricity be disconnected in regard to provisions of the Act of 2006 within one
week from today if not already been done.”
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LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
4 days on, hunt continues for AN-32
Search mission
to be extended
to deep sea
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n
CHENNAI\NEW DELHI
he search and rescue mission to locate the missing
AN-32 aircraft is being extended to under the surface of the
sea, as the operation failed to
yield any result even on the
fourth day on Monday. The
aircraft went missing with 29
personnel on board on Friday
last while flying from Chennai
to Port Blair.
Rajan Bargotra, Coast
Guard Commander (East) told
reporters at Chennai on
Monday that three days of
search in Bay of Bengal for the
missing aircraft which was on
its way to Port Blair from
Chennai, has not yielded any
results.
‘As of now, no survivors or
debris have been found. The
search operation is carried out
by 13 ships of the Indian Navy
and two ships of the Coast
Guard besides other assets
from Andaman and Nicobar
islands,” said Bargotra.
The area of search opera-
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n its capacity as chair of the
BRICS, the Ministry of
External Affairs (MEA) is
holding a policy planning
dialogue session here on
Tues day w hich will b e
attended by the representatives of all the member countries — Brazil, Russia, India,
China and South Africa. This
is the first time that the
MEA is hosting an official
foreign policy related engagement in Patna, said Santosh
Jha, Joint Secretary (Policy
Planning & Research, Global
Cyber Issues), MEA, here
on Monday.
India assumed BRICS
chairmanship in February
this year and keeping in
mind the strength of the
forum and the value that its
members bring to the table,
Jha said, the themes picked
up for BRICS is Building
Responsive, Inclusive and
Collective Solutions.
“Our objective during
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Chaos at Madras
HC as lawyers
go berserk
KUMAR CHELLAPPAN n
CHENNAI
he 154-year-old Madras
High Court resembled a
warzone on Monday morning as hundreds of lawyers
who are on a warpath since
early July laid siege to the
court sending litigants, petitioners and the general public scurrying for cover.
Barricades set up by the
police were thrown away by
the agitating lawyers. There
were pelting of stones and
tussle between the police and
the agitating lawyers who
tried to barge into the court
promises.
Monday saw the police
allowing only those lawyers
who have cases listed for the
day being allowed inside
the court premises. The
agitating lawyers shouted
slogans against the Chief
Justice and the BCI.
Hundreds of lawyers
who tried to trespass into the
High Court premises on
Monday were arrested and
removed by the police. The
security of the High Court is
overseen by the CISF commandos. The provocation
for Monday’s siege of the
MHC was the Bar Council of
India’s decision on Sunday to
suspend 126 lawyers in the
State who have been named
for their unruly behaviour
and were in the forefront of
the agitation. While most of
the lawyers are against the
decision of the Madras High
C ourt to amend the
Advocates Act, many of
them blamed a particular
section of lawyers for the
unpleasant acts .
The stand off between
the lawyers and the judiciary is the fall out of the move
by the judges to amend the
Advocates Act dealing with
the disciplinary rules against
erring lawyers.
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Cops trying to
arrest me illegally,
says Narada CEO
SAUGAR SENGUPTA n KOLKATA
arada News CEO Mathew
Samuels on Monday petiN
tioned the Calcutta High Court
Coast Guard IG Rajan Bargotra addressing
a Press conference on the search
operations of missing IAF AN-32 aircraft,
in Chennai on Monday
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tion has been extended. “We
are looking on all directions,”
said the CG commander. He
said though the search team
had come across certain materials in the sea, they were not
from the missing aircraft.
Bargotra said once the
under water search commences, services of institutions like the National Institute
of Ocean Technology at
Chennai would be incorporated. It was the research vessel Sagar Nidhi owned by
NIOT which played the crucial
role in locating the debris of
the Dornier aircraft which
went missing in June 2015.
Sources in the Ministry of
Earth Sciences told The Pioneer
that it would take another
three days for Sagar Nidhi to
reach the spot as the sea was
rough.
A software Search and
Rescue Aided Tool (SARAT)
developed by the scientists of
the Indian National Centre
for O ce an Infor mat ion
Service (INCOIS) has been
pressed into the search and
res c ue mission since
Saturday. The SARAT developed by a team of INCOIS
s cientists le d by TM
Balakrishnan Nair had won
the National Geo Science
Award 2014 for the best
innovative invention.
Speaking to The Pioneer
over phone from Hyderabad,
BRICS to hold policy-planning talks today
FAIZAN AHMAD n PATNA
NARADA STING OPERATION
India’s BRICS chairmanship
is to further consolidate
Intra-BRICS co-operation by
adopting a five pronged
approach:
institution
building to further deepen
and sustain co-operation,
implementation of the decision of previous summits at
Fortaleza and Ufa, integrating synergies among the
existing
co-op eration
mechanism, innovation of
new cooperation mechanisms and continuation of
mutually agreed existing
BRICS cooperation mechanism,” said Jha talking to
media people.
The BRICS summit
would be held in Goa on
October 15-16 in which as
part of external regional outreach India has invited BIMSTEC leaders which included Bangladesh, Myanmar,
Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan
and Nepal. Jha said BRICS
repres ents t he coming
together of five major world
economies that total 37 per
cent of the world GDP, 17 per
cent of world trade and 34
per cent of world population.
“We are amongst the largest
holders of foreign exchange
reserves and have sustained
better than world average
growth rates over the recent
economic crisis,” said Jha
who worked in Indian missions in Moscow, New York
and Colombo.
The respective foreign
office delegations would be
led by Michel Arslanian
Neto, deputy head of policy
planning of Brazil, Oleg
Stepanov, head of policy
planning of Russia, Wang
Wenbin, acting DG policy
planning of China and David
Malcolmson, chief director
regional organisations of
South Africa.
The Indian side will be
represented by Jha, Bijay
Selvaraj, Satwant Khanalia,
both deputy secretaries in
MEA and others. The heads
of delegations are also likely
to call on Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar and visit some
tourist spots.
India is also trying to
make BRICS people-centric
by enhancing people-to-people contacts on priority. A
series of events in this regard
are proposed to be organised
during India’s tenure. The
events include under-17 football tournament, youth summit, young diplomats forum,
young scientists conclave,
film festival, smart cities
workshop, local bodies conference, convent ion on
tourism and wellness etc.
Jha said that the BRICS
policy planning dialogue will
provide an opportunity for
exchanges on strategic assessments of international situation and the regional situation of each country and
trends therein.
“This dialogue will also
seek to enhance sharing of
best practices in foreign policy planning and assessment
between the BRICS countries,” he added.
Nair said the INCOIS team
have marked an area of
15,000 sq km in the Bay of
Bengal where there is 60 per
cent probability of finding
the debris/remains of the
aircraft. “The depth of the sea
in this area could be 3,500
meters and it may take time
to reach the depth,” he said.
INSHORT
SOON: ONE OF THE LONGEST
WATERFRONT BERTH IN GUJ
Gandhinagar: With Gujarat
Maritime Board — a statutory
body of Gujarat Government —
granting permission to handle
third party cargo, Essar Bulk
Terminal Limited (EBTL) would
complete expansion of India’s one
of the longest single waterfront
berth by the end of 2016. EBTL is
in process of expanding its berth
by a further 1,100 metres in
Hazira near Surat in south Gujarat
in order to accommodate the
steady growth in cargo
throughput at the Hazira port.
PSI BOOKED FOR
‘KILLING’ DALIT YOUTH
Gandhinagar: Surat Police on
Monday booked a PSI under
Section 302 for murder of a 25year-old Dalit youth who died under
mysterious circumstances in its
custody. The victim, Mahendra
Makwana, was believed to be held
by a police team in a raid conducted
on a gambling den in Dabholi on
Sunday. Locals allege that he was
killed due to police thrashing.
to quash the summons issued by
the Kolkata Police in the Narada
sting video case stating the
matter was already under judicial scrutiny by the same Court.
Summoned by police to
appear before it to answer
queries in regard to the Narada
sting video that showed a host
of senior Trinamool leaders,
including Ministers and MPs
taking money from a
journalist faking as a prospective investor Samuels, told the
High Court that the police
were hatching plans to
arrest him illegally after issuing
him summons.
The High Court ordered
the relevant parties to present
their sides by Wednesday even
as senior counsels wondered
how the police could issue
summons or for that matter
how a lower court could pass
an order when the case was
being heard by the High Court.
Earlier, responding to the
summons issued by police the
Narada CEO had sent his reply
saying the case was being heard
by the High Court and that he
had already submitted the relevant materials like the laptop, IPhone and related instruments
with which the scenes were shot
before the Court.
The Police however
refused to accept his reply and
got an order issued against him
from a lower court in Kolkata
to present himself for police
investigation.
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee whose ruling outfit
Trinamool Congress had suffered the maximum embarrassment on account of the
video footage before the elections earlier had ordered a
police investigation against
“those who conspired against
our
party
and
the
Government.”
The police which apparently got the Government’s
message loud and clear immediately lodged an FIR and proceeded against the “offenders,”
and soon Samuels was given
the summons. Inside sources
said more than whether or
In perhaps the most
damaging sting operation
ever in the country —
where names of about a
dozen senior leaders of a
ruling party got involved
— a number of MPs
including Suvendu
Adhikary, Sultan Ahmed,
Sougato Roy, Kakoli
Ghosh Dastidar and
Ministers like Subroto
Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim
and Kolkata Mayor Sovan
Chatterjee were shown
accepting wads of cash in
lieu of promising favour
not the tapes were genuine or
whether senior leaders accepted money for favour the police
were trying to find the source
of money which changed hands
via Samuels.
In perhaps the most damaging sting operation ever in
the country — where names of
about a dozen senior leaders of
a ruling party got involved —
a number of MPs including
Suvendu Adhikary (now a
Minister), Sultan Ahmed,
Sougato Roy, Kakoli Ghosh
Dastidar and Ministers like
Subroto Mukherjee, Firhad
Hakim and Kolkata Mayor
(now a Minister too) Sovan
Chatterjee were shown accepting wads of cash in lieu of
promising favour.
Subsequently dealing a PIL
the High Court — demanding
a CBI probe into the case —
ordered the instrument with
which the scenes were shot to
be examined by Central
Forensic
laborator y
Chandigarh.
Meanwhile, in an unrelated development prodded by
the Chief Minister’s office the
police had arrested about 70
people involved in building
syndicate racket. Most of those
arrested are associated with
the ruling party and are guilty
of extorting money from the
people.
The Chief Minister had
assured of a clean Government
after roaring back to power with
huge majority in the recently
concluded State elections.
No change in Centre’s funding pattern in Assam: FinMin
ANUP SHARMA n GUWAHATI
iving a befitting reply to
the Opposition Congress
G
in Assam, State Finance
Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
on Monday told the Assam
Legislative Assembly that there
is no change in the Centre’s
funding pattern for most of the
Centrally-sponsored schemes
in Assam.
The erstwhile Congress
Government in Assam had
often said that the BJP-led
NDA Government at the
Centre had cut the fund flow to
the State not only by removing
the ‘special category State’ status from Assam but also changing the existing 90:10 funding
pattern against the Centrallysponsored schemes.
Sarma, while replying to
the Opposition during a discussion on continuation of
‘special category State’ status to
Assam, said out of the 112
Centrally-sponsored schemes
in Assam, 48 are getting 100
per cent funding from the
Centre while 58 of them are in
90:10 funding pattern.
“There are three Centrallysponsored schemes, which are
getting 80:20 funding pattern
followed by one scheme having
70:30 funding pattern and two
schemes having 50:50 funding
pattern,” Sarma told the House.
Congress Legislators and
former Ministers Ajanta Neog
and Rockybul Hussain raised in
the House the issue of continuation of ‘special category State’
status in Assam and whether
the Centrally-sponsored
schemes are getting 90:10 funding pattern, which the state
used to get earlier under ‘special category State’ status.
Giving the details, Sarma
said that the 14th Finance
Commission recommended
that there should not be any
‘special’ or ‘non special’ category of the State and that
funding pattern for the
Centrally sponsored schemes
to all states should be 50:50. “I
would like to remind you that
it is former Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, who had
instituted the 14th FC. The BJP
Government — when it came
to power at the Centre in 2014
— only inherited the 14th FC
and accepted its recommendations,” said Sarma while attacking the Opposition on Monday.
“However, there were lots
of protests over this by different States and the Central
Government instituted a
Committee to review the recommendations.
The
Committee headed by MP
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh
Chauhan, had members from
most of the Chief Ministers of
Congress ruled States. The
Committee reviewed the recommendations and said that
the eight northeastern states
and Himalayan States has to be
given special treatment and
that these States will continue
to get 90:10 funding pattern
for Centrally-sponsored
schemes,” he said.
“I would like to mention
here that the then Arunachal
Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam
Tuki (Congress) and Manipur
Chief Minister Okram Ibobi
Singh (Congress) were the
members of the committee
from northeast. They have
never raised any issue but here
in Assam the Congress
Government had made an issue
out of this,” said Sarma while
adding that this has misled
many people in Assam.
Sarma, who is likely to
table the State Budget for 201617 in the House on Tuesday,
further said that the State
Jania constituency’s Congress MLA Abdul Khalek holds a placard demanding a
scientific solution on the erosion problem and to save the Jonia Sattra and
Kamarpara High Madrass from Beki River, during the ongoing Budget Session at
the Assam Legislative Assembly premises in Guwahati on Monday
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Government is getting best
possible co-operation from the
Centre and that the new
Government in Assam —
despite the fact that it inherited over `14,000 crore liability
from the past Government —
is bound to deliver the change
to the people.
“It is only two months that
we have taken over and we are
rebuilding the economy. I
appeal to all of you to give us
time till March 31, 2017 and we
are going to deliver the change,”
he added.
State transporters’ strike cripples
K’taka, commuters bear the brunt
KESTUR VASUKI n BENGALURU
n indefinite strike by over a
lakh employees of the four
A
State-run road transport cor-
A man pulls a cart loaded with luggage at the main bus terminus during a Statewide strike of buses in Bengaluru on Monday AP
porations which commenced on
Monday seeking wage hike has
paralysed the entire State.
Though the State Government
declared a two-day holiday for
schools and colleges from
Monday to spare students from
the fallout, thousands of commuters were stranded in cities
and towns as alternative service
by private operators was woefully adequate to ferry them.
Bengaluru, the Information
Technology capital was worst
hit even as many schools and
colleges declared holiday owing
to the bus strike. It was a common scene that the commuters
especially tourists were struggling to reach destinations.
According to police sources
more than 120 buses, including
65 in Bengaluru were damaged
in stone-throwing incidents
after drivers of other unions
brought them out of depots after
the State Government warned
them of stringent action, as the
Supreme Court had banned
such strikes in public interest.
According to transport corporation officials around 23,000
buses of the Karnataka State
Road Transport Corporation
(KSRTC) and its affiliated agencies in northwest and northeast
regions are staying off the roads
due to the strike.
CM Siddaramaiah called
upon the leaders of the KSRTC
workers’ unions to call off the
strike and return to negotiations
on wage revision.
He said “public transport
system is the lifeline of com-
muters, especially students,
working class and labour force
who cannot afford personal
vehicles. The State Government
had offered a 10 per cent hike to
the KSRTC employees, keeping
in view the economic viability of
the corporation and its agencies.
We are ready to discuss their
other demands if they call off the
strike and come to us for talks”.
Meanwhile, Bangalore
Metropolitan Rail Transport
Corporation Ltd has been
operating metro services every
five minutes since 5 am. on the
east-west corridor between the
eastern and western suburbs to
ferry commuters who are
dependent on public transport. Even South Western
Railway is running more local
trains on the suburban routes
to facilitate people who commute in and around the city.
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5000=00 or more) in the prescribed format in favour of concerned Dy. GM (F)
“B” TPS/DTPS (Const) or Dy. CAO, CFA
& BO “A” TPS, Anpara. (ii) Documentary
evidence fulfilling all pre qualifying conditions mentioned in the tender
Document. Part-II of the tender will have
the “Price bid only” of tendered items,
Both Part-I & II shall be kept in separate
and sealed envelopes subscribed each
with words “Tender” Offer Part-I or II “and
also” Tender Specification No.
....................... & Due date of opening
................... on each part. The amount
of earnest money deposit cost of tender documents, due date of opening of
Part-I & II of tender are indicated in the
enclosed sheet. Tender document may
be downloaded from the internet from the
Nigam website. 1. Tender No:
01/C&IMD-I/ATPS/2016-17, Office:
Executive Engineer, C&IMD-I, ATPS,
Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work: Routine
checking & maintenance of C&I field
equipments pertaining to A.T.R.S., H.P.
Bypass & aux. P.R.D.S. System of all the
three units of 3x210MW, ATPS, Anpara,
cleaning/washing of acrylic sheets of
false ceiling of U.C.B.s & M.C.B. along
with cleaning of air ducts, walls and floors
of sites/rooms pertaining to central air
ducts, walls and floors of sites/rooms pertaining to central air conditioning plant
of ATPS, Anpara. Earnest Money:
17,000.00 (Rs. Seventeen Thousand
Only), Tender Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra,
date of Opening part-I: 07.09.2016,
Part-II: 14.09.2016, Period: One Year.
2. Tender No: 06/CHD-I/ATPS/2016-17,
Office: Executive Engineer, Coal
Handling Division-I, ATPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra. Work: Repairing of shafts,
hubs, bearing housing, geared coupling
of various pulleys & broken teeth of
input/intermediate/output gear of gear
boxes. Earnest Money: 4,000.00 (Rs.
Four Thousand Only), Tender Cost:
250.00+VAT Extra, date of Opening
part-I: 31.08.2016, Part-II: 02.09.2016,
Period: One Year. 3. Tender No:
08/CHD-I/ATPS/2016-17, Office:
Executive Engineer, Coal Handling
Division-I, ATPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra.
Work: Fabrication of deflector plates for
primary crushers and breaker plates for
secondary crushers installed in CHP,
3X210MW, ATPS, Anpara. Earnest
Money: 6,000.00 (Rs. Six Thousand
Only), Tender Cost: 250.00+VAT Extra,
date of Opening part-I: 31.08.2016,
Part-II: 02.09.2016, Period: One Year.
4. Tender No: 06/BMD-I/BTPS/2016-17,
Office: Executive Engineer, BMD-I,
BTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work:
Works of Insulation, Refractory works,
cleaning, removal of accumulated fly ash
from inside the heating surface and other
areas of boiler and their disposal from
boiler in unit No. 4&5 of 2x500MW,
'BTPS, Anpara. Earnest Money:
9,000.00 (Rs. Nine Thousand Only),
Tender Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra, date
of Opening part-I: 27.06.2016, Part-II:
30.06.2016, Extended date of opening
part-I: 22.08.2016, Part-II: 26.08.2016,
Period: One Year. 5. Tender No:
07/CHD-V/BTPS/2016-17, Office:
Executive Engineer, Coal Handling
Division-V, 2X500MW, BTPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra. Work: Routine & breakdown maintenance of communication
system of CHP of 2x500MW, BTPS,
Anpara. Earnest Money: 4,200.00 (Rs.
Four Thousand Two Hundred Only),
Tender Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra, date
of Opening part-I: 02.09.2016, Part-II:
06.09.2016, Period: One Year. 6.
Tender No: 04/BMD-II/BTPS/2016-17,
Office: Executive Engineer, BMD-II,
BTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work:
Centrifuging lube oil & reducer oil of
milling system of unit NO. 4&5,
2x500MW, BTPS, Anpara. Earnest
Money: 10,000.00 (Rs. Ten Thousand
Only), Tender Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra,
date of Opening part-I: 07.09.2016,
Part-II: 09.09.2016, Period: One Year.
7. Tender No: 05/BMD-II/BTPS/2016-17,
Office: Executive Engineer, BMD-II,
BTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work:
Cleaning and disposal of coal/coal dust
under the ball mill drum enclosures and
transportation of coal/coal dust from ball
mill area/RC Feeder area of ball mills of
2x500MW, BTPS, Anpara to coal yard.
Earnest Money: 6,000.00 (Rs. Six
Thousand Only), Tender Cost:
500.00+VAT Extra, date of Opening
part-I: 07.09.2016, Part-II: 09.09.2016,
Period: One Year. 8. Tender No:
06/BMD-II/BTPS/2016-17, Office:
Executive Engineer, BMD-II, BTPS,
Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work: Routine
maintenance of ID/FD/PA fans, fuel oil
pump house and cleaning, sweeping &
house keeping of fuel oil pump house of
unit No 4&5 of 2x500MW, BTPS, Anpara.
Earnest Money: 12,000.00 (Rs. Twelve
Thousand Only), Tender Cost:
500.00+VAT Extra, date of Opening
part-I: 07.09.2016, Part-II: 09.09.2016,
Period: One Year. 9. Tender No:
07/BMD-II/BTPS/2016-17, Office:
Executive Engineer, BMD-II, BTPS,
Anpara,
Sonebhadra.Work:
Replacement of trunion tube lining,
liner, Repairing of distribution strips and
works of electrically operated hoist of unit
No. 4&5, BTPS, ATP, Anpara. Earnest
Money: 10,000.00 (Rs. Ten Thousand
Only), Tender Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra,
date of Opening part-I: 07.09.2016,
Part-II: 09.09.2016, Period: One Year.
10.Tender No: 09/ECMD-II/ATPS/201617, Office: Executive Engineer, ECMD-
II, ATPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work:
Providing & Fixing of dustbins at type
I/II/III/IV/V ATP Colony, Anpara. Earnest
Money: 13,000.00 (Rs. Thirteen
Thousand Only), Tender Cost:
1000.00+VAT Extra, date of Opening
part-I: 06.09.2016, Part-II: 09.09.2016,
Period: 04 Months. 11.Tender No:
10/ECMD-II/ATPS/2016-17, Office:
Executive Engineer, ECMD-II, ATPS,
Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work: Providing
approach between (I-51 to I-81/83),
Development of badminton court in
M/Club, construction of boundry wall
infront of Co-Operative building at ATP
Colony Anpara. Earnest Money:
18,000.00 (Rs. Eighteen Thousand
Only), Tender Cost: 1000.00+VAT
Extra, date of Opening part-I:
06.09.2016, Part-II: 09.09.2016, Period:
03 Months. 12.Tender No: 86/EPDII/ATPS/2016-17, Office: Executive
Engineer, Electricity Procurement
Division-II, ATPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra.
Supply: Supply of head sprocket teeth.
Earnest Money: 1,000.00 (Rs. One
Thousand Only), Tender Cost:
200.00+VAT Extra, date of Opening
part-I: 22.08.2016, Part-II: 24.08.2016.
13.Tender No: 03/BMD-I/ATPS/2016-17,
Office: Executive Engineer, BMD-I,
ATPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra,. Work:
On line leak sealing of Hp valves of boiler and turbine area of all the three units
at 3x210MW, ATPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra. Earnest Money: 8,000.00
(Rs. Eight Thousand Only), Tender
Cost: 500:00+VAT Extra, date of
Opening part-I: 13.07.2016, Extended
date of Opening part-I: 23.08.2016,
Part-II: 16.07.2016. Extended date of
Opening part-II: 26.08.2016, Period:
One Year. 14.Tender No: 04/OG&ChD/
BTPS/2016-17, Office: Executive
Engineer, OG&ChD, BTPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra. Work: I) Round the clock
routine maintenance of various pumps,
blowers, pipe lines, mixers & others
equipments of PT Plant ,DM plant
WWT plant,CPP. Dosing system, Plant
air compressor of unit # 4&5, pit-3 etc.
of 2x500MW, BTPS, Anpara. II) Round
the clock routine maintenance of two no.
plant air compressor of WTP of
2x500MW, BTPS, Anpara and breakdown maintenance/repairing/replacement of parts and overhauling of 2 nos.
plant air compressors at WTP of
2x500MW, BTPS, Anpara. III) Cuttting of
bush jungle, Excavation and transportation of soil/ash along the D.M.
Transfer, service water, waste water. And
acid/ Alkali transfer pipe lines from WTP
to stack site. Earnest Money: 12,000.00
(Rs. Twelve Thousand Only), Tender
Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra, date of
Opening part-I: 02.09.2016, part-II:
06.09.2016, Period: One Year. 15.Short
Term Tender No: 09/AHMD/
BTPS/2016-17, Office: Executive
Engineer, AHMD, BTPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra. Work: Repairing of pump
bowl of ash water LP pumps, make:
Bombas itur, spain, of 2x500MW, BTPS,
Anpara. Earnest Money: 3,460.00 (Rs.
Three Thousand Four Hundred Sixty
Only), Tender Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra,
date of Opening part-I: 16.08.2016,
Part-II: 18.08.2016, Period: One Month.
16.Tender No: 11/MSD/DTPS/2016-17,
Office: Executive Engineer, MSD,
DTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work:
Running & breakdown maintenance of
ducts & dampers of boiler of unit no. 06
& 07 of 2x500MW, DTPS, Anpara.
Earnest Money: 10,500.00 (Rs. Ten
Thousand Five Hundred Only, Tender
Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra, date of
Opening part- I: 01.09.2016, Part-II:
03.09.2016, Period: One Year.
17.Tender No: 06/C&IMD-I/BTPS/201617, Office: Executive Engineer, Control
& Instrumentation maintenance division-I, BTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra.
Work: Repairing of following electronics module:- Job-1 Repairing of single
phase positioning power electronic unit
(KE-3) for turbine closed loop control system Job-2- Repairing of M/s memic
lambda power supply of TCL, and Job3- Repairing of 3300 series defective
Bently Nevada (US) make one no Axial
shift monitor & one No. eccentricity
Monitor (TSI) monitors of 2x500MW,
BTPS, Anapra. Earnest Money:
9,000.00 (Rs. Nine Thousand Only,
Tender Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra, date
of Opening part-I: 08.09.2016, Part-II:
14.09.2016, Period: One Year. 18.Short
Term Tender No: 05/EPD-I/DTPS/201617, Office: Executive Engineer, EPD-I,
DTPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply:
Supply of Misc. electrical and electronic items for CISF Unit ATP Anpara.
Earnest Money: 4,000.00 (Rs. Four
Thousand Only, Tender Cost:
500.00+VAT Extra, date of Opening
part-I: 22.06.2016, Part-II: 25.06.2016,
Extended date of opening part-I:
12.08.2016, Part-II: 16.08.2016.
19.Short Term Tender No: 13/EPDI/DTPS/2016-17, Office: Executive
Engineer, EPD-I, DTPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra. Supply: Supply of Tissue
paper. Earnest Money: 1,000.00 (Rs.
Four Thousand Only, Tender Cost:
100.00+VAT Extra, date of Opening
part-I: 16.08.2016, Part-II: 19.08.2016.
20.Tender No: 10/EMD-II/ATPS/201617, Office: Executive Engineer, Electrical
maintenance Division-II, ATPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra. Work: Repair, calibration
and testing of electronic cards/modules
of ESP, DC system of 3x210MW, ATPS,
Anpara. Earnest Money: 5,000.00 (Rs.
Five Thousand Only, Tender Cost:
250.00+VAT Extra, date of Opening
part-I: 06.09.2016, Part-II: 12.09.2016,
Period: One Year. 21.Tender No:
21/ECMD-II/ATPS/2015-16, Office:
Executive Engineer, Electrical maintenance Division-II, ATPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra. Work: Mosquito control
operation in colony and power house
area at ATP, Anpara. Earnest Money:
13,000.00 (Rs. Thirteen Thousand Only,
Tender Cost: 1000.00+VAT Extra, date
of Opening part-I: 07.05.2016, Part-II:
13.05.2016, Extended date of opening
part-I: 17.06.2016, Part- II: 21.06.2016,
Re-Extended date of opening part-I:
17.07.2016, Part-II: 23.07.2016, 3rd
Extended date of opening part-I:
19.08.2016, Part-II: 23.08.2016, Period:
One Year. 22.Short Term Tender No:
09/EMD-I/ATPS/2016-17, Office:
Executive Engineer, EMD-I, ATPS,
Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work: Repairing
work of various items of generator & GT
auxiliaries, 6.6KV Motors and ventilation
system of 3x210MW, ATPS, Anpara.
Earnest Money: 8,000.00 (Rs. Eight
Thousand Only, Tender Cost:
500.00+VAT Extra, date of Opening
part-I: 23.08.2016, Part-II: 26.08.2016,
Period: One Year. 23.Tender No:
10/EMD-I/ATPS/2016-17, Office:
Executive Engineer, EMD-I, ATPS,
Anpara, Sonebhadra. Work: Clearing/
felling and transportation of rubbish
(including uprooting of rank vegetation,
grass, brush wood, trees etc.) outside the
periphery of the area cleared in parallel
between main road and ATPS
Transformer yard of 3x210MW, ATPS,
Anpara. Earnest Money: 5,000.00 (Rs.
Five Thousand Only, Tender Cost:
500.00+VAT Extra, date of Opening
part-I: 07.09.2016, Part-II: 09.09.2016,
Period: 06 Months. 24.Tender No:
17/EPD-III/DTPS/2016-17, Office:
Executive Engineer, EPD-III, DTPS,
Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: Supply of
Tractor. Earnest Money: 8,000.00 (Rs.
Eight Thousand Only, Tender Cost:
500.00+VAT Extra, date of Opening
part-I: 06.09.2016, Part-II: 09.09.2016.
25.Tender No: 02/ECMD-I/ATPS/201516, Office: Executive Engineer, ECMDI, ATPS, Anpara, Sonebhadra.Work:
Repairing of damaged barbed wire
fencing of CISF commandant office,
ATPS, Anpara. Earnest Money:
15,000.00 (Rs. Fifteen Thousand Only,
Tender Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra, date
of Opening part-I: 16.06.2016, Part-II:
20.06.2016, Extended date of opening
part-I: 20.07.2016, Part-II: 25.07.2016,
Re- Extended date of opening part-I:
25.08.2016, Part-II: 29.08.2016, Period:
04 Months. 26.Tender No: 14/EPDI/DTPP/2016-17, Office: Executive
Engineer, EPD-I, 2X500MW, DTPP,
Anpara, Sonebhadra. Supply: Supply of
Merck make sodium Hexa Meta
Phosphate. Earnest Money: 3,000.00
(Rs. Three Thousand Only, Tender
Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra, date of
Opening part-I: 05.09.2016, Part-II:
08.09.2016. 27.Tender No: 05/C&IMDl/BTPS/2016-17, Office: Executive
Engineer, Control & Instrumentation
maintenance Division-I, BTPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra. Work: AMC (Periodic and
Breakdown maintenance) contract of
Telephone Exchange system of OKI
make, Model-lOX 1200 installed in the
service building of 2x500MW, BTPS,
Anpara. Earnest Money: 6,000.00 (Rs.
Six Thousand Only, Tender Cost:
500.00+VAT Extra, Date of Opening
part-I: 11.07.2016, Part-II: 13.07.2016,
Extended date of opening of part-I:
11.08.2016, Part-II: 13.08.2016, Period:
One Year. 28.Tender No: 09/CAMD/
BTPS/2016-17, Office: Executive
Engineer, Common Auxiliary maintenance Division, BTPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra.Work: Preventive routine
maintenance and general upkeep of
C.W. System of 2X500MW, BTPS,
Anpara. Earnest Money: 14,000.00
(Rs. Fourteen Thousand Only, Tender
Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra, date of
Opening part-I: 06.09.2016, Part-II:
14.09.2016, Period: One Year.
29.Tender No: 12/EMD-III/ATPS/201617, Office: Executive Engineer, Electrical
maintenance Division-Ill, ATPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra. Work: Making 15 Nos. of
treated earth pits for distribution transformers in ATP colony area of ATP,
Anpara. Earnest Money: 18,000.00
(Rs. Eighteen Thousand Only, Tender
Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra, date of
Opening part-I: 01.09.2016, Part-II:
06.09.2016, Period: One Year.
30.Tender No: 13/EMD-III/ATPS/201617, Office: Executive Engineer, Electrical
maintenance Division-Ill, ATPS, Anpara,
Sonebhadra. Work: Repairing of damaged electrical wiring of 50 Nos Type II
quarters & 60 Nos Type I Quarters at
ATP Colony Anpara. Earnest Money:
11,000.00 (Rs. Eleven Thousand Only,
Tender Cost: 500.00+VAT Extra, date
of Opening part-I: 10.09.2016, Part-II:
14.09.2016, Period: One Year. Tender
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bidder may download tender document
and submit the same enclosing tender
cost other supporting document.
However, in such case tender cost must
be enclosed with tender part-I remitting
the requisite cost +14% VAT in the form
of demand draft in favour of Dy. GM (F)
"B" TPS/DTPS (Construction) of Dy.
CAO), CFA & BO 'A'TPS Anpara payable
at SBI Anpara or in case in Concerned
A/C. Section. Tender document Part-I &
II of tender shall be received latest upto
13-00 hrs. On the date of opening of partI, In case Part-I is found to be secured
with all the desired documents,
Part-II of only qulified bidder shall be
opened on the schedule date, in
case the due date of opening happens
to be a holiday, the part-I, II of the
tender shall be opened on the next
working day. Tenderer are advised to
send
their offer directly to the
concerned Executive Engineer of the
division, who reserves the right to
reject
any or all the tenders
without assigning any reason thereof.
Executive Engineer (W) for Chief
Engineer Anpara Thermal Project
Anpara,
Sonebhadra
(U.P)
No. 1907 Date 20.07.2016 "SAVE
ELECTRICITY ENHANCE NATIONAL
PRODUCTIVITY"
Feel sorry about
youths hurt by
pellet guns: CRPF
PNS n NEW DELHI
Curfew in Valley stalls
separatists' march
he CRPF will continue to use pellet
guns for crowd control in extreme sit- Scores injured in clashes with police, paramilitaries
T
uations where loss of life on either side is
anticipated. The paramilitary, however, is
studying how to minimise damage resulting from use of pellet guns.
Expressing regret for the injuries caused
to youth due to firing from pellet guns following the unrest in Jammu & Kashmir after
Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani
was killed on July 8, CRPF DG K Durga
Prasad on Monday said this was the "least
lethal" option available with the force. "We
feel sorry for them as youngsters have to
bear injuries due to the firing of pellet
guns. We ourselves are trying to use it in
bare minimum. But we use them under
extreme situation when crowd control fails
by other means," he said. Elaborating on
the situation in the Valley, officials said as
many as 1,051 CRPF personnel were
injured in 254 incidents of stone-pelting
and 44 other incidents in the unrest following Wani's killing. Officials said No 9
pellets are the least lethal measure available with the force to avoid risks to life and
was fired after other available non-lethal
crowd control measures had failed.
The paramilitary had fired 4,821 tear
smoke shells, 892 tear smoke grenades,
1,048 rubber bullets, 103 multi-button
shells, 1,614 plastic pellets and 136 stun
grenades between July 8 to July 23. The
paramilitary had fired 2,167 pellet number 9. Pellet guns were introduced by the
UPA Government in 2010 and then No 4
pellets were used which resulted in heavy
casualties during stone-pelting incidents
that year. A large number of youth were
also injured in the last fortnight when they
attacked CRPF and local police personnel.
The Jammu & Kashmir police also use pellet guns. Despite being a professional force
and maintaining utmost restraint in the
wake of stone-pelting incidents, the paramilitary force unduly received criticism for
the use of the non-lethal weapon.
Following this, Union Home Minister
Rajnath Singh had to announce in
Parliament that a committee will be set up
to review use of pellet guns and find an
alternative to it. Officials said if the pellet
guns were not used, the only available
option was firing which could have resulted in fatalities on both the sides.
"Everybody feel bad when youngsters
get hit. But still, we will have to use it (pellet guns) in extreme situations as of now.
We hope that any such (extreme) situation
does not arise (in future)," the CRPF chief
said, ahead of the force's 77th raising day
on Wednesday.
KHURSHEED WANI n SRINAGAR
day after Home Minister
Rajnath Singh appealed to
A
youngsters in Kashmir to stay
calm and the security forces to
exercise restraint to bring back
order in Kashmir, the situation
in the State did not show any
significant improvement.
Curfew remained clamped in
most parts of the Valley and
scores of youngsters were
injured in clashes with police
and paramilitaries in south
Kashmir where separatist leaders had announced to hold a
major assembly to pay tributes
to those killed in the recent
uprising.
Anantnag district in south
Kashmir leads the tally of fatal
casualties which happened
after the security forces
swooped on protesters following the death of Hizbul
Mujahideen commander
Burhan Wani on July 8 in
Kokernag pocket of south
Kashmir.
Senior separatist leaders
Syed Ali Gellani and Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq, who have been
detained at their respective residences for several weeks, on
Monday attempted to break
police cordon to embark on the
proposed march towards
Anantnag. However, the policemen watching the residences
round-the-clock intercepted
them and they were bundled in
security vehicles to be placed in
the nearby police locations.
Geelani was taken to
Humhama police post while
Mirwaiz was placed at
Superintendent of Police office
at Nigeen, a few furlongs from
his residence. Two weeks ago,
the two leaders were taken into
custody in the same fashion
but were relocated at their
residences later in the evening.
The separatists, in their
protest
calendar,
had
announced to march towards
Anantnag to pay homage to
youngsters slain by the securi-
Police detain chairman of the moderate
faction of All Parties Hurriyat
Conference Mirwaiz Molvi Umar
Farooq outside his residence at Nigeen
in Srinagar on Monday
PTI
ty forces during the past over
two weeks.
Though curfew was
replaced by orders to restrict
assembly of more than four
people in several north
Kashmir districts, there was no
relaxation in curfew in south
Kashmir districts of Anantnag,
Kulgam, Shopian and Pulwama
besides jurisdiction of several
police stations in capital
Srinagar. However, protesters
from several south Kashmir
pockets, including Tral,
Pulwama and Bijbehara,
attempted to march towards
Anantnag. Police and CRPF
were deployed in strength to
foil the march of the people.
Barbed wires had been placed
at the entry points of Anantnag
town to stop protesters from
reaching the venue.
Sources said dozens of
protesters were injured. Police
used batons and fired tear gas
shells to disperse the protesters. Reports of clashes and
holding anti-India demonstrations also came from several curfew-bound localities of
Srinagar. Deputy Inspector
General of Police, south
Kashmir range, Ghulam
Hassan Bhat said the situation
remained under "control" barring some intermittent clashes in Kulgam and Anantnag
town.
Meanwhile, strict curfew
and communication clamp-
Centre failed in tackling
terrorism, says Uddhav
TN RAGHUNATHA n MUMBAI
n his continued criticism of
the Centre, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray said on
Monday that despite it having
completed two years in office,
the BJP-led NDA Government
had not succeeded in tackling
acts of terrorism in Kashmir
effectively, but was optimistic
that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi would “set things right”.
Describing the Modi
Government as the “last hope”
for the country, Uddhav said, “I
am not thinker or a philosopher. But, I can gauge the
mood of the people. We have to
be tit for tat in our respond to
acts of terror. Given that it has
completed two years in office,
the NDA Government should
have been able to control acts
of terrorism, but we see nothing of that sort at the moment.
But, I am optimistic that Modi
will set things right”.
Asked to comment on current economic situation,
Uddhav said in the second part
of his marathon interview published in his party’s official
mouth-piece
Saamana,
“Common man has nothing to
do with the happenings in the
stock market. He is more con-
I
cerned about the price rise.
Have the prices (of essential
commodities) really come
down? Have the lives of people
changed because of the change
in Government at the Centre. I
would like experts to throw
some light on this”.
The Sena president, however, said he had reasons to
believe that it would take some
time for economic situation to
improve in the country. “But,
we should know for sure that
we are on the recovery as far as
economic situation is concerned…. “Be it Make in India,
Achche Din, Stand up India or
Skill India, these were launched
with fanfare but is there a
roadmap to implement it? Have
the unemployed got employment?... Mere changing the
names of old schemes is easy.
But we should ensure “start ups”
become “take-offs”… Mere
claims would not help. If we
continue like that, people will
know whether our claims are
Members of the Bishnoi community protest against the High Court's decision to
PTI
acquit Salman Khan in Bikaner on Monday
true or lies,” Uddhav said.
Asked to name five accomplishments of the Modi
Government during the last two
years, Uddhav said that since
the Government had done so
many things, it was difficult for
him to pick five feats of the
NDA Governments. “There is
nothing wrong in the
Government advertising its
accomplishments. The people
should also know in which
direction the country is going.
Given that the Government
has done so many things, it is
difficult for me to pick its five
best accomplishments”.
On Modi’s failure to fulfil
his promise of bringing black
money from abroad and
putting `15 lakh in the bank
accounts of each poor person,
Uddhav said, “The promise
helped the BJP. But what is next.
Advertisements will sell for
time. But, the things will prove
to be difficult for the
Government”.
Enforce Sharia-type
law, chop off rapists'
limbs: MNS chief
Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman
Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray
on Monday advocated the need
for enforcing “Sharia-type law” in
the country so that the hands and
legs of rapists could be chopped
off. Addressing the media at
Kopardi village in Ahmednagar
district after visiting the family of a
15-year-old girl, who was raped
and murdered early this month,
Raj said, “In order to deal sternly
with the rapists and those
indulging in offences against
women, we need to have a Shariatype law under which we chop off
legs and hands of the offenders
concerned”.In his criticism of
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
of the deteriorating situation in the
State, the MNS chief said, “Let the
people know that there has been a
change in the Government in the
State. The Government should
function in such way that there is
fear of law among mischief
mongers in the State. Mere giving
of arm licences would help. You
should show the writ of law runs
in the State.
Security forces and stone-pelters,
clash during a protest in Srinagar on
Monday
AP
down continued on the 17th
day in the Kashmir Valley.
Mobile phones and internet services continue to remain
suspended from the past 10
days. The State-owned BSNL is
the only mobile phone service
that operates internet on broadband connections. The authorities' decision to reopen schools
in north Kashmir districts also
evoked cold response.
A police spokesman said
the situation throughout the
Valley remained peaceful and
under control on Monday.
"There was no curfew in most
of the towns/areas of Kashmir
although curfew remained
imposed in 12 police stations of
Srinagar and towns of
Awantipora,
Kulgam,
Baramulla, Pattan and
Anantnag," the spokesman said,
adding no reports of any untoward incident came although
some stray stone-pelting incidents were reported at some
places. Meanwhile, after remaining suspended for three consecutive weeks, the weekly bus
service between Muzaffarabad
and Srinagar resumed on
Monday.
Govt: 182 people in
Maha got HIV from
blood transfusion
Mumbai: As many as 182 people have
contracted the deadly HIV virus
through blood transfusion in the last
one and a half years in Maharashtra, the
State Government on Monday said.
NCP's Prakash Gajbhiye had sought
to know veracity of the statistics given
by the National Aids Control
Organisation (NACO) in a media report,
which said 2,234 people across the
country and 276 in Maharashtra contracted the dreaded virus through the
contaminated blood during this period.
"If these figures are correct, which
blood banks have been involved in the
transfusion (of contaminated blood)?
Has the government conducted any
inquiry against them?" he asked.
In a written response in the
Legislative Council, Health Minister
Deepak Sawant said the actual number
of people who contracted HIV through
transfusion in the last one and a half
years in the State was 182.
"The figures are based on voluntary
disclosure by patients at the Integrated
Counselling and Testing Centres.
Patients (sometimes) claim to have
been infected by HIV-AIDS due to transfusion owing to the social stigma and
guilt feeling attached to the disease (contracted otherwise). "Only after we get
specific information about the blood
bank where the transfusion took place
resulting in transmission of the disease,
action can be taken," he said. Sawant further said that due to counselling/training provided to blood bank officials,
counsellors and test lab officials, number of cases of HIV infection due to contaminated blood transfusion had
decreased.
PTI
Youth slits girl's throat
Vizianagaram: A youth allegedly slit the
throat of an 18-year-old girl after she rejected
his marriage proposal at Gajulerega here this
afternoon. The girl is being treated at the
Government hospital while the accused K
Vikram (21) is absconding. Two-Town Circle
Inspector G Durga Prasad said Vikram was
related to the victim and was in love with her.
Fifteen days ago he and his parents
approached the girl's famiy and proposed
marriage, but the latter rejected it. Today he
attacked the girl when she was alone at
home and slit her throat, the police officer
said. She was rushed to the government
hospital and her condition was stated to be
stable. The accused was absconding. Police
have registered a case under section 307
(attempt to murder) and other relevant
sections of the IPC and launched a manhunt
for Vikram.
PTI
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Crises in Kathmandu
KPS Oli's resignation may not bring stability
he resignation of Nepal's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Sunday before
facing a vote of no-confidence in the Parliament is once again plunging the
fragile democracy into a political crisis. As his nine-months-old Government
had to bow down, it is making way for former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal
Dahal, popularly known as Prachanda, to take over as the new premier. He will
set to form the new Government, probably with the support of the Nepali Congress.
It shows how political parties are vying for their narrow interests despite realising the fact that a country ravaged by a deadly earthquake last year badly requires
nothing more than a stable regime. To be precise, it is Prachanda's Unified
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) that brought down the Oli Government.
Besides, the two smaller coalition parties — Rastriya Prajatantra Party and the
Madhesi People's Rights Forum-Democratic — also added to the crisis by withdrawing their support from the Government along with Prachanda. However, Oli's
decision to resign before facing the vote of confidence has obviously put an end
to the ambiguity that was gripping Nepal. It was a politically smart move to save
his face because he knew well that he is surely going to lose. Carefully reading
the writing on the wall, he even refused to continue as the caretaker Prime Minister
till the election of the new one.
At a time when the Oli Government
was relentlessly making a huge postrehabilitation effort to resettle the vast
majority of the people after the devastating earthquake that claimed
almost 9,000 lives and coming in
terms with the new Constitution of the
country, this round of political uncertainty may push the impoverished
Himalayan kingdom into a haven for
militants and criminals. His political
rivals, mainly Prachanda, has blamed
him for failing to honour the power
sharing deal and the Madhesi groups
for not addressing their concerns, citing the new and divisive agenda,
brought by the new Constitution last
September. The embattled Prime
Minister blaming “external forces”
indirectly hinting at India, for conspiring against his Government can hardly be
accepted because he could not survive the internal turmoil that triggered months
long border blockade in southern Nepal by demonstrators from the minority
Madhesi community. It must be made clear that India's only concern was to see
a stable Government in its land-locked border nation which had been witnessing ups and downs since the dissolution of the country's long-ruled monarchy.
Prachanda was up in arms against the Oli regime as it failed to implement the
agreement to withdraw war cases from the courts across the country and offer
immediate amnesty to all his former Maoist rebels in the decade old insurgency
that ended in 2006. Now the question is: Will there be a stable Government in
Nepal in the near future? Since the abolition of the monarchy and the convening of the first Constituent Assembly in May 2008, the country has had eight
Prime Ministers from four different parties, and all of them worked for their divisive political interests, smacking of parochialism, leading the nation from bad
to worse. Nepal's political crises must come to an end, or else it will drive the
country into an abyss. Nepal deserves a better deal.
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India’s Rio hopes dampen
Narsingh Yadav’s dope test raises some red flags
ith wrestler Narsingh Yadav testing positive for a banned substance, India's
Rio Olympics contingent has come under a shadow. The 74kg freestyle
wrestler, who had won the bronze medal at last year's World
Championship so as to qualify for the Olympics, was one of India's most promising athletes and touted to be a star performer. But at this point, this Rio trip seems
like a long shot. The matter is still being investigated, but the National Anti-Doping
Agency which administered the tests has been tight-lipped about whether Yadav
still has a chance to be part of the Rio contingent. On his part, Yadav has cried
‘conspiracy', and the Wrestling Federation of India has supported him. His sponsors, usually the first to distance themselves from controversial players in such
circumstances, have also come out in his favour. We'll know more once the authorities complete their investigation, but in the mean time, there are some questions that need to be addressed. First, take a look at the banned substance that
Yadav has been accused of taking — Methandienone. Listed by the World AntiDoping Agency as a prohibited Androgenic Anabolic Steroids, Methandienone
is a performance-enhancer and usually used by boxers, weightlighters,
judokas etc. This is a common pill that
has been around for a long time and
is easily accessible. It is safe to presume that Yadav and his team knew
that if they did use this drug which is
well-known to remain in the system
for a long time, they would almost definitely be caught. Keep in mind that
these days, athletes, even from countries like India where there otherwise
a lot that is lacking in the sports infrastructure, are well-aware of antidoping rules and restrictions. They are
acutely aware that they may be tested just about at any time, and one
adverse result can ruin their careers.
In fact, it is common knowledge that
when high-profile athletes travel
abroad, they are even careful while eating exotic food items — just in case they
inadvertently consume an ingredient that results that shows up on a dope test!
Yadav himself was tested multiple times in recent weeks, and in general, has a
clean record. In such a situation, it would have been extremely foolish for him
to have taken this drug, and that too so close to his Rio tour. Moreover, the nature
of the drug is such that it would not have even benefitted him in the short term.
Methandienone works, when combined with food and exercise, in the medium
to long term.
There are other red flags too — for example, Yadav was tested on July 5
but the results were declared inordinately late. Also, Yadav's running feud with
wrestler Sushil Kumar has also complicated the situation. Reportedly, the former had even been discouraged from attending the preparatory camp in Sonepat,
Haryana (where he failed the test) as his welfare was a matter of concern. Yadav
went anyway, and was given round-the-clock security.
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J&K: Need to revisit
minority criteria
SANDHYA JAIN
With the Supreme Court accepting a petition which accuses Jammu & Kashmir Governments of siphoning off
benefits exclusively meant for minorities, that State's skewed majority-minority equation has been exposed
n an act of rare intellectual
daring, the beleaguered
Hindus of Jammu & Kashmir
have taken recourse to the
Constitution of India to hit
back at the extreme majoritarianism practiced by successive regimes
in the State. The Supreme Court has
accepted a public interest petition
(489/2016) that was rejected by the
Jammu & Kashmir High Court,
which accuses successive State
Governments of siphoning off benefits exclusively meant for minority communities under various
Central and State schemes and giving them to others in an illegal and
arbitrary manner.
This is the first time since the
Calcutta Quran Petition (1985)
that Hindus have acted in such an
assertive manner. Long inured to
being treated as second class citizens
on account of the special status
(Article 370) bestowed upon the
State by first Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru to pamper Lord
Louis Mountbatten’s protégé, Sheikh
Mohammad Abdullah, Hindus
have tended to be quietist for most
of the past seven decades.
The situation did not change
substantially even after the violent
expulsion of Hindu families from
the Kashmir valley in the winter of
1990. But in recent weeks, Jammu
families have begun to feel the
pressure and to quietly migrate
(over 200 so far, according to
informed sources) to save themselves from a plight similar to that
of Kashmiri Pandits, who have not
been rehabilitated after over a
quarter of a century of exile. As
militancy spreads in Kashmir valley, with violent mobs not sparing
even policemen, Hindus are feeling increasingly insecure.
Many Jammu residents, especially ex-servicemen families, are
now organising to resist. They
won a major victory last month
by scuttling the Peoples
Democratic
Party-led
Government’s attempt to pass
the Jammu & Kashmir Alienation
of Land and Transfer of Property
Act by getting it referred to a
select committee of the Assembly.
The Bill was approved by the
Cabinet on June 23, with the BJP
members not realising its implications till Pawan Gupta, MLA (independent, Udhampur), raised the
alarm. The impugned legislation
aimed to freeze sale of land by
power-of-attorney and agreementto-sell in Jammu division to prevent
non-permanent residents from
purchasing land. This would prevent non-State subjects from buying land to set up industry or businesses in Jammu (as is the case in
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the Kashmir valley), and deny
employment opportunities to
Jammu youth. Another clause
denied rights to ancestral property to a woman (and her progeny)
if married a non-State subject and
living outside the State. Ultimately
these issues would impact the
demography of Jammu and create
a Kashmir-like situation there.
But now, acting on a petition
from Jammu lawyer and social
activist, Ankur Sharma, a Supreme
Court bench headed by Chief
Justice TS Thakur has issued
notices to the Centre and National
Commission for Minorities
regarding setting up of a State
Minority Commission in Jammu
& Kashmir to identify religious
minorities like Hindus, Sikhs,
Buddhists, Christians and disburse benefits of Central and
State welfare schemes to them.
In TMA Pai Foundation & Ors
Vs State of Karnataka & Ors
(2002) and other decisions, the
Supreme Court has ruled that linguistic and religious minorities are
covered by the expression “minority” under Article 30 of the
Constitution. Since States were
reorganised on a linguistic basis,
the State will have to be the unit
for the purpose of determining the
This dream of (Pakistan’s)
led to the division of their
own country; Bangladesh
was created. But Pakistan
couldn’t take an inch of
our land. They should
protect what they have.
Congress MP
—Ghulam Nabi Azad
THIS (LAW) WOULD
PREVENT
NON-STATE
SUBJECTS FROM
BUYING LAND TO
SET UP INDUSTRY
OR BUSINESSES IN
JAMMU (AS IS THE
CASE IN KASHMIR
VALLEY), AND DENY
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES TO
JAMMU YOUTH
minority, and not the whole of
India. It follows that religious
and linguistic minorities, put at par
in Article 30, must be recognised
State-wise. Under this definition,
the tiny Jain community in Jammu
& Kashmir (not listed as a national minority) would also be eligible for minority benefits.
Despite the unequivocal
nature of the judgement, till date,
Jammu & Kashmir has not passed
the State Minority Commission
Act under which it can notify
minorities vide the prescribed
criteria. The Constitution of India
does not define ‘minority’ but
refers to ‘minorities’ which are
‘based on religion or language’. It
reserves certain rights for minorities to protect their identity.
Accordingly, the cultural and
educational rights of religious
and linguistic minorities are
embodied in Articles 29 and 30 of
the Constitution. In Jammu &
Kashmir, Kashmiri is recognised
as the official language of the State
along with Urdu, but Hindus
resent the imposition of the
Nastalik script (akin to Arabic)
instead of Devanagari or Sharada
script. Attempts to have the latter
scripts recognised at par with
Nastalik have failed so far.
SOUNDBITE
Intervention by the Supreme
Court may change this.
Although Jammu & Kashmir
has a separate Constitution, Part
III of the Constitution of India has
been extended to the State and
hence the identification and notification of minorities is essential
for enforcing the fundamental
rights of citizens enshrined under
Articles 29, 30, 14, 19 and 21 of the
State of Jammu & Kashmir. In
January 2012, the National
Commission for Minorities Act,
1992 was amended and made
applicable to Jammu & Kashmir.
The immediate provocation
for the petition was that the
Government of India offered 20,000
high value scholarships for 20072008 in technical professional education to identified national-level
minorities. In Jammu & Kashmir,
Muslims (then 66.97 per cent of the
population, 2001 Census) received
717 scholarships (over 95 per cent),
Christians (two), Buddhists (22)
and Sikhs (12) out of a total of 753.
Yet the guidelines for implementation of the Prime Minister’s
new 15-Point Programme for
Welfare of Minorities stipulate, “in
States, where one of the minority
communities notified under Section
2 (c) of the NCM Act, 1992 is in fact
in majority at State level, the earmarking of physical/financial targets
under different schemes will be only
for the other notified minorities”.
Jammu & Kashmir is included
among the listed States.
As fundamental rights, with
few exceptions, are inalienable natural rights, they cannot be taken
away by the State Legislature or
Parliament by omitting to legislate
in this regard. Diversion of minority rights to the majority community is vote-bank politics and
abrogation of the fundamental
rights of minorities. This injustice
needs to be rectified by speedy
identification and notification of
minority communities.
As Jammu & Kashmir comprises three distinct regions
(Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh) of
widely varying geography, topography, ethnicity, religion, race,
language, script and culture, the
State cannot sweep identities
under carpet and corner rights for
a group which comprises 68.31
per cent of the population, as per
Census 2011. Interestingly,
Jammu for India convener, Prof
Hari Om, argues that under
international norms, any group
comprising over 10 per cent of the
population of a country is not
regarded as a minority. India
needs to revisit the criterion for
designating minorities.
Getting a five-wicket haul
away from sub-continent is
something I have worked
earnestly towards. and I am
really pleased for myself.
Platitudes not backed by
meaningful action ring
hollow over time. History
and the Afghan people
will judge leaders of all
parties to this conflict by
their actual conduct.
Cricketer
—Ravichandran Ashwin
UN envoy
—Tadamichi Yamamoto
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Shun politics
Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Stirring the Kashmir pot”
(July 24). That Pakistan is creating trouble in Kashmir is a
known fact. While the previous
Government was soft on terror,
the present one is no better.
The need of hour is to
counter terror with an iron
hand, but vote-bank politics
seems to be a big hurdle. On the
other hand, regional imbalances
within certain regions and
castes, must come to an end for
large-scale development.
NR Ramachandran
Chennai
Unwise remarks
Sir — This refers to the editorial, “An unacceptable bargain”
(July 23). Elderly statesmen are
not always wise statesmen. They
can become senile and spew
confused or even dangerous
comments. That senior
Congress leader and former
Home Minister P Chidambaram
is losing his mind is perhaps the
most charitable explanation for
his remarks about Kashmir.
Krishnan
Via web
Going soft for peace
in Jammu & Kashmir
T
his refers to the editorial, “An unacceptable bargain” (July 23). Senior
Congress leader P Chidambaram is playing dirty politics. Jammu &
Kashmir already enjoys some political autonomy under Article 370 of
the Constitution. However, the Union India still controls important portfolios such as defence and foreign relations. The solution, therefore, lies in
de-militarisation of the valley. The reality is that all the constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental rights stops right at the border of Jammu & Kashmir.
If India's aim is peaceful integration of Kashmir, it has to shun the
hardline approach. We can start with abrogating Armed Forces (Special
Powers) Act altogether. Crowd-control mechanisms must be re-looked.
Pakistani interference must be checked. Kashmiri youth must be motivated to join higher educational institutes, the civil services, the Armed
Forces etc. The Army must remain in barracks and border areas, and must
only be deployed while conducting security operations.
Gaurav Singhal
Rewari
No compromise
Sir — This refers to the report, “MPs
united against Mann, seek action”
(July 23). Lok Sabha Speaker
Sumitra Mahajan, during her meet
with Aam Aadmi Party MP from
Punjab Bhagwant Mann, a comedian-turned-politician, has rightly
expressed her displeasure for
breaching specific rules related to
Lok Sabha, and in particular the latter’s move to video live stream his
movements in Parliament.
There should be no compromise as far as security of our country is involved. The matter should
be thoroughly investigated and
Mann should be punished.
Vinod C Dixit
Ahmedabad
Maintaining silence
Sir — All parties, including the BJP
condemned Uttar Pradesh leader
Dayashankar Singh’s disgusting
remarks about Bahujan Samaj Party
leader Mayawati. This shows that
Dalit leader Mayawati cannot be
ignored anymore. While politicians of yore exercised restraint, at
least publicly, leaders now seem to
have cast off the pretension.
That said, of late, the Prime
Minister is cultivating a sage-like
detachment from everyday politics.
It is difficult to anticipate what form
of internal unrest will compel him
to directly comment on political
developments in the country.
Vani A
Via email
Political conduct
Sir — This refers to the brain
stormer, “Remark on Mayawati”
(July 22). The BJP must be on guard
as the Opposition is always ready
to pounce on them. This does not
mean that party leaders should not
speak against the wrong doings of
their opponents.
Its good that Uttar Pradesh
State BJP vice president
Dayashankar Singh was penalised
for his remarks against Bahujan
Samaj Party leader Mayawati, but
what about Samajwadi Party
leader Azam Khan who said that
RSS workers are homosexuals?
What about Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal who called our
Prime Minister a ‘coward’ and a
‘psychopath’? It is up to the political class to revise their code
of conduct.
Jitendra
Via web
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POINTCOUNTERPOINT
At least 100 youths from Maharashtra's
Marathwada region are suspected to have
joined the Islamic State terror group.
—Shiv Sena MLA
RAHUL PATIL
Add Driving 101 to the syllabus
FIRST
COLUMN
Not all of the missing youth should be linked
to ISIS. The Government is using the ISIS
issue to spread fear among Muslims.
—Samajwadi Party leader
ABU ASIM AZMI
SUDIP BHATTACHARYYA
In India, road fatalities take an unacceptable toll; bad habits more than anything else is a prime cause for this. Maybe it is
time the next generation is encouraged to take up the wheel as much as they take up chemistry and mathematics at school
The troika of India’s
economic troubles
The three major concerns for the Reserve Bank of
India and the Government are: Rising inflation, high
interest rates, and increased corporate lending
onsumer prices in India went up to 5.77 per cent year-on-year in
June, accelerating for the third straight month and reaching the
highest since August 2014. Figures came above market expectations of 5.73 per cent due to high food cost. Inflation rate averaged at
7.67 per cent from 2012 until 2016, reaching an all-time high of 11.16
per cent in November 2013 and a record low of 3.69 per cent in July
2015. Food inflation in June stood at 7.79 per cent. Food, vegetables,
pulses and sugar saw an increase in price of 12.72 per cent, 28.28
per cent and 12.98 per cent respectively. Spices went up by 8.13 per
cent. Food items constitute 54.18 per cent of the consumer price index.
As the Economic Survey of 2014-2015 points out: “Recognising
the need for setting up a national market, the Union Budget 2014-2015
stated that the Union Government would work closely with the State
Governments to re-orient their respective Agricultural Produce Market
Committee Acts, to provide for the establishment of private market
yards/private markets. The Budget also announced that the State
Governments would be encouraged to develop farmers' markets in town
areas to enable them sell their produce directly.”
But the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC), in practice, is not facilitating the establishment of private market/yard and is
actually helping a set of farmers control or manipulate pricing of agricultural produce. Further, rice and wheat have Minimum Support Price.
This is not enjoyed by vegetable, fruit and pulse producers. Therefore,
their production goes down ie their supply falls and this shortage pushes up the price. Therefore, it becomes difficult to tackle food inflation
which is a major concern for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the
Government of India.
On June 7, the RBI left its benchmark repo rate unchanged at a
five-year low of 6.5 per cent. The central bank too decided to keep the
cash reserve of scheduled banks unchanged at four per cent, and to
continue providing liquidity as required but progressively lower the average ex ante liquidity deficit in the system from one per cent of Net
Demand and Time Liabilities to a position closer to neutrality.
Interest rates in India averaged at 6.71 per cent from 2000 until
2016, reaching an all-time high of 14.50 per cent in August 2000 and
a record low of 4.25 per cent in April 2009. In February 2015, the
Government and the central bank agreed to set a consumer inflation
target of four per cent, with a band of plus or minus two percentage
points from the financial year ending in March 2017.
When inflation is higher than the interest rate, then the value of
one's savings decreases year-on-year. For example, if an economy has
an inflation rate of seven per cent per year, and the interest rate is five
per cent per year, then in real terms, the value of savings is decreasing by two per cent per year. Simply put, a negative real interest rate
is a disincentive to save. Moreover, lowering interest rate reduces interest earnings from fixed deposits by retired people who largely live out
of these savings made in working life.
Contrary to popular perception, retail lending is currently quite
robust. In fact, growth in retail lending, carried out by banks in 20152016 has been the highest since 2009-2010. The so-called high interest rates on bank lending haven't had much of an impact on this front.
Gross fixed capital formation, an indicator of new capacity addition by companies, contracted 1.5 per cent in the three months to March
this year, for the first time in seven years. At 26.9 per cent of gross
domestic product in the January-March quarter, capital formation was
the lowest (in base year 2004-2005 and 2011-2012), highlighting the
muted trend in private sector investments.
Therefore, what is not moving is industrial lending. There is about
one-third idle capacity in the manufacturing sector and, therefore, there
is not much demand for industrial loan. Any reduction in interest rates
may only help them reduce their interest burden of existing borrowings. On the other hand, this reduces the return for the banks against
the same level of risk for the existing industrial loans. There is little
evidence of past lending to corporate, leading to growth. It may have,
instead, led to banks being saddled with bad debts and overleveraged
companies with interest coverage ratios lower than one.
By the end of this fiscal, the RBI has decided to clean up the balance sheets of Indian banks which are burdened with bad loans amounting to five lakh crore rupees. So, banks have started cracking the whip
on Indian companies for re-payment of loans.
C
KUSHAN MITRA
There is little
doubt that every
student, in schools
across India, and
definitely in urban
India, will be
exposed to the
driving seat of a car
or a two-wheeler
sooner than later. If
young ones are
taught not just
theoretically but
also practically,
how to drive safely
and securely on
roads, this will
dramatically
improve driving
standards
river education is a part
of the school syllabus in
many countries across
the world. Maybe it is
time that young Indians
at school are encouraged to take up
the wheel as much as they take up
chemistry and mathematics. There is
a reason for this, over the past year,
according to official statistics, over
146,000 people were killed on Indian
roads and over 5,00,000 people were
injured. If these figures do not raise
alarm, god knows what will.
It is truly a war-zone on the
Indian roads, and the rule of law or
traffic regulation has made matters
worse in many parts of the country.
Encouraged by local politicians and by
inadequate or corrupt policing, roads
are filled with vehicles that should not
be there. We celebrate jugaad in
India, but on road, unauthorised
vehicles create death traps for children
and adults alike.
We happily send our children to
school, packed like sardines in vans and
even those with money happily allow
their children to sit on the driver’s lap
or the front seat. Road safety inspectors
from Western nations would probably
have an heart attack when they see how
Indians drive at roundabouts.
Some of these challenges have to
be met with better enforcement and
policing along with regulation. Indeed,
some welcome changes have been
made. The bus body code, notified by
the Ministry of Road Transportation
and Highways, has ostensibly made
buses safer by prescribing what materials can be used as well as regulations
for comfort, including specifying a certain seat pitch and ceiling height.
Of course, this has been opposed
D
by a large number of unorganised bus
body builders who will now have to
certify every design.
And this is not the first time that
a livelihood argument has been used
to try and stall mean-meaning regulation. Tobacco farmers have opposed
the new cigarette pack regulation,
even though there is little doubt that
lower rates of cigarette smoking is
beneficial to public health programmes. Similarly, the new bus code
should improve survivability chances
in case of bus accidents.
But much like smokers above 40
years of age, there is a cogent argument
that some older folks have which is to
say that they did not know better when
they started smoking. Even though
today it is a well-established fact that
smoking cigarettes can lead to lung
cancer among several other ills, these
facts only started emerging in the public consciousness around the early
1990’s. And while smoking is banned
at public places now, back then, smoking was allowed even on airplanes.
Indeed, some old aircraft still have passenger seat ashtrays.
But today, every school kid is
taught that smoking is bad for health.
In fact, children are at the forefront of
smoking cessation campaigns for
adults. Much like anti-smoking campaigns, children have also been
brought to the forefront of the Modi
Government’s Swachch Bharat campaign. There is some sense in this, it
is extremely difficult for adults to
change habits. Again, to illustrate
using the example of smoking, natural cessation rates for smokers is under
two per cent annually.
However, inculcating a habit of
cleanliness in children is a great way
to make sure that the next generation
is cleaner than the previous generations. One aspect where teaching
children has been successful has been
the successful campaign to reduce the
usage of fireworks on Diwali.
Similarly, one can argue that bad
driving habits passes down from generation to generation. Children tend
to pick up poor habits from observing those around them, with few punishments for poor driving, young
adults are often the worst drivers on
the road although, they should legally not even be driving in some cases.
There is little doubt that every student in schools across India, and definitely in urban India, will be exposed
to the driving seat of a car or twowheeler sooner than later. If these boys
and girls are taught not just theoretically but also practically, how to drive
safely and securely on roads, this will
dramatically improve the standards of
driving in this country and one hopes
that as a corollary, the number of
deaths on Indian roads can be reduced.
The system of acquiring a driving
license in India too is inefficient. Pimps
outside the license issuing authority will
do their utmost to satisfy their clients,
so that people who should not get licenses can acquire them. And even if one
State cleans up its licensing authority,
given that a license is valid nation-wide,
there is no stopping anyone from
acquiring a license.
There are hundreds of
Government-approved driving schools,
yet there is no certification course to
become a driver trainer. Having undergone several driver training classes over
the years as an automotive reviewer,
this writer has been taught the basic
skills such as how to hold a steering
NGT, the overeager super-cop
The National Green Tribunal’s order to ban diesel vehicles over 10 years in Delhi is more populist than practical. The
Tribunal must revise its order, and make sure that no vehicle, unless not maintained properly, is needlessly scrapped
ome regulators like the
National Green Tribunal
(NGT) are functioning
with enthusiasm but are
ignoring the basic tenets of
law and the impact on gradual wealth formation and
economic growth.
The NGT’s order to
regional transport offices
(RTOs) in Delhi to de-register
diesel vehicles which are more
than 10 years old is unscientific. The Tribunal’s concerns are
more populist than practical.
Removing about 82,496
(registered in 2015) diesel
vehicles in Delhi, or about five
lakh petrol vehicles every
year, going by the 10-year and
15-year scrapping orders, will
impoverish the country, but
will not solve the pollution
problem. All over the country,
numbers will swell to at least
10 crore a year.
Ironically, the NGT’s order
is in contradiction with the
S
provisions of the Motor
Vehicles Act. A judicial or a
quasi-judicial body is supposed to adhere to the law of
land. The magistracy does
that more appropriately.
The NGT, on July 19 said,
“It is stated that vehicles
are released by the magistrates after imposing fine
under the Motor Vehicle Act
and the vehicles surface again
on the roads”.
There is nothing like clean
fuel. All fossil fuels — coal,
petrol, diesel, kerosene and also
compressed natural gas (CNG)
— are unclean. Even electric
vehicles’ batteries are pollutants. So should we ban any
energy-producing substance?
Buses that run on CNG
are equally harmful for
humans as they emit nanocarbon particles which can cause
cancer. In 2010, a study by the
the Central Pollution Control
Board (CPCB) attributed
about seven per cent of particulate matter pollution from
CNG-run vehicles. Of the
total particulate matter pollution load in the capit(PM) al,
the study said, 52 percent
was because of dust.
The CPCB study said that
CNG vehicles contribute
about 10 per cent of the total
nitrogen dioxide load in the
capital. “CNG does not contribute much to PM 10 (which
is widely monitored). But it
plays an important role in the
circulation of smaller particulate pollution of 2.5 and one
microns. These facts are
known in the scientific community but have not been disseminated to people,” said a
senior CPCB scientist to the
Hindustan Times on March
13, 2015.
The studies have come
from the highest scientific
bodies in India. Why we
should not ban CNG vehicles,
if we have to go by the logic
of the NGT and courts. The
CSIR and CPCB studies
reveal how utopian orders
are being passed by bodies,
which do not function on
reality and practicability.
Mere euphoria cannot
solve the problem. It can hurt
the fledgling economy of a
country that is struggling to
grow. It is also possibly hitting
the efforts of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, who is trying
to bring the economy on fast
track. Such orders take country back by several decades.
There is yet another
aspect. About a month ago,
the civil aviation department
allowed aviation companies to
purchase 18-year-old aircraft,
instead of 15-year-old, to
make air travel easier between
smaller cities. The planes on
domestic US flight are often as
old as 40 years.
If these do no cause pol-
lution, how can a well-maintained vehicle run on any
fuel adhering Euro IV to VI
norms would cause it?
It is unfortunate that the
NGT has not studied these
aspects. It owes an explanation to the nation for its not
so wise decision.
Moreover, the NGT ’s
decision has caused uncertainty in the car industry. It
has hurt the transport and taxi
industry as it will not only
make travel unnecessarily difficult but also costlier.
Such Tughlaqi orders
increase rent-seeking and will
also cause harassment to the
common man who will find it
difficult to make a living. So
far it was only the police. The
latest order has empowered
the RTO to do it.
To survive, the common
man, be a private or commercial vehicle owner, would have
to pay illegal rents than face
wheel properly and how to adjust the
seat position. Unfortunately, these
basic and simple skills are not taught
in driving schools. Bad habits such as
tripple riding on motorcycles and
poor overtaking with cars, let alone
mobile usage while on the go, are
allowed to fester like bad wounds.
And the wound is taking a toll. In
the past decade, over a million Indians
died on the roads, a large majority of
them young, productive members of
society. Millions more have had lifethreatening injuries or have been crippled. Studies indicate that road accidents take a significant chunk of India’s
earning potential every year. While several automotive companies such as
Maruti Suzuki and Hero MotoCorp
have established driver training centers
across the country, these are not being
fully utilised.
Maybe it is time that the Human
Resource Development Ministry considered making driving and road
safety a subject that is taught in
schools. Not to be graded for college
admission, but just to teach the next
generation of Indians how to be better road users. Appreciating the fact
that the education system in India is
already overtaxed, maybe this should
start as a pilot project in some urban
schools. Even if the Ministry does not
go down this route, maybe some
school administrators can associate
with automotive companies to start
teaching kids how to be better drivers.
Teaching adult Indians to better
follow road rules will require a substantial investment in policing and
automated monitoring systems.
However, teaching the next generation
the importance of road rules can be
done far more easily.
think
now
SHIVAJI SARKAR
the deprivation of his hardearned vehicle.
Stringent impractical
orders lead to a parallel economy and severe corruption.
The NGT’s concern is not
unreal but the solution is. Let
the nation follow the standards of maintaining a vehicle. As per the Motor Vehicle
Act, which was drafted with
utmost care and practicability, vehicles are allowed to
have registration even
after 15 years if these are in
suitable conditions.
Let the NGT set those
standards in consultation with
the automobile industry. Let it
learn from the aviation industry where four-decade-old
aircraft are airworthy. Let no
vehicle, unless not maintained
properly, be scrapped.
The NGT needs to revise
its orders and contribute to
the economy and ease of life
and business.
ooks permit us to
voyage through time,
to tap the wisdom of
our ancestors. The library
connects us with the
insight and knowledge,
painfully extracted from
Nature, of the greatest
minds that ever were, with
the best teachers, drawn
from the entire planet and
from all our history, to
instruct us without tiring,
and to inspire us to make
our own contribution to the
collective knowledge of the
human species.
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—Carl Sagan
Cosmos
money 10
LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
Telecom operators have installed
48,000 towers in last 45 days, out
of 60,000 towers they promised to
install in 100 days. They have
committed to one-year plan. Their
performance has been satisfactory
but Government wants that
improvement in networks should be
experienced by consumers
TELECOM MINISTER MANOJ SINHA
BUZZ
FROM
GOVT & CORP
I want to create a true natural
resource company out of India
that can rival the likes of Bralia’s
Vale SA, Rio Tinto of the US or
BHP Billiton of Australia
CHAIRMAN OF VEDANTA
GROUP ANIL AGARWAL
Soon Internet users to tighten purse-strings Telecom panel recommends
as telecom cos may offer cheaper data packs
MADHUSUDAN SAHOO n
NEW DELHI
be a good news for
Internet users who can
Isoontthemayspend
the little, but get
the more on their data usage.
Keeping the existing exorbitant prices at bay, they can
avail any data packs at much
cheaper price than ever
before as almost all telecom
firms have teamed up for
slashing data prices in competitive phased manner to
drive mobile internet penetration and adoption across
the country.
The customer-friendly
move comes at a time when
each and every telecom player wants to strengthen its
subscriber base ahead of the
Reliance Jio’s entry into the
market. Telecom majors
including Air tel, Id e a
Cellular, Aircel among others
have already cut their data
prices considerably, while
Vodafone will announce its
turn anytime soon this week.
Some of them including Idea
have already also reduced
the prices of 3G/4G data
pack twice in the first phase
of the data service price wars.
According to top industry sources, it is expected that
the telecom firms will also
further lower the price in
second phase by around 2025 per cent after reviewing
the Reliance Jio’s market
price for Indian consumers
who are eagerly waiting for
its mega launch on 4G services that could most likely
happen in the month of
September or before.
“As Reliance Jio has
already made a strong consumer base before its launch
following its promise of
cheaper data service for its
subscribers, there may be a
big jump of switching consumers to Jio from other
existing telecom ser vice
prov i d e rs . S e ns i ng t h i s
development, almost all telecom firms may further slash
the data price by upto 20-25
per cent in second phase
after reviewing the post
launch of Jio’s data rates,”
sources said.
Confirming the development, Director General of
C el lu l ar
O p e r ators
Association of India (COAI)
Rajan S Mathew said, “Yes,
many of our member operators have cut their data prices
recently. Reliance Jio has
begun to offer ‘pre-launch
free calling’ which may
attract many of the price
sensitive pre-paid customers.
It is not clear what will be the
‘commercial pricing’ to be
offered by Reliance Jio when
they launch commercial service. Robust competition will
continue to ensure affordable
SUBSCRIBERS’ BASE
OF TELCOS ON THE RISE
Telecom
Companies
Airtel
Vodafone
Idea Cellular
Telenor
MTNL
Total
No of
Subscribers of
June 2016 (In
Millions)
255.73
199.38
176.23
53.09
3.59
776.97
(Source: TRAI)
ser vice pricing for consumers.”
When asked whether any
of your members have discussed with the association
i n t h i s re g ard, Mat he w
added, “Pricing and tariffs
are never a matter discussed
at COAI among our members. One of the aims of
COAI is to ensure a robust,
vibrant and fair, competitive
environment which focuses
on the benefits for the customer.”
Though telecom service
providers give reasons to
smile on the cheaper tariff for
subscribers, the validity issue
remains in question and
causes concern for the net
users. To popularise the
internet, the telecom watchdog Telecom Regulator y
Authority of India (TRAI),
however, wants longer validity of 365 days instead of
shorter validity periods like
90 days or less. “Longer
validity of 365 days instead of
the current 90 days or less
could be beneficial for marginal consumers, first-time
users and price-sensitive
consumers,” TRAI had said
recently.
In order to justify the
consumers’ demand, the regulator early this month had
issued a draft regulation,
revising the validity period of
special tariff vouchers for
data usage to a year, compared with the present norms
that limit validity to 90 days.
“Comments on the draft regulation are sought till July 26,
after which amendments to
the Telecom C onsumers
Protection Regulations will
be made,” it said.
As far as data price war is
concerned, telecom companies are all set to reduce the
price of their data packs as
low as possible in all circles
across the country to attract
more subscribers into their
base. According to TRAI’s
recent data, total number of
subscribers has gone up to
around 777 million in June
2016, while Airtel tops the
list with 255.73 million of
subscribers. On the other
hand, the subscribers’ base
increased in June only has
reached 3.50 million.
Sources, however, said
that the entry of Reliance Jio
could replace any top telecom major in terms of subscribers’ base due to introduction of its initial free
offer of voice-services bundled with data to their perspective customers.
“Reliance Jio is offering
free voice-services bundled
with data. Both data and
voice service is free for the
first 90 days. The speed-tests
we conducted on Reliance Jio
4G SIM have given us pretty
good results, with average
download speeds of 15-18
Mbps in D elhi. Jio has
already added some subscribers and numbers are
increasing day by day much
before its entry. Therefore, it
looks the company may lead
the customer base after its
mega launch shortly,” the
sources added.
Recently, Idea Cellular slashed
its data pack charges second time
in a week, when it announced a
promotional 67 per cent reduction
in 3G and 4G data tariffs for prepaid users. The move comes as
rival Airtel unveiled revised rates
for its 3G/4G data packs, giving
users an increased data benefit of
up to 67 per cent. Idea had earlier announced up to 45 per
cent more data benefits on
sachet packs below 1GB.
minimum 3% SUC for all operators
NEW DELHI: Inter-ministerial
panel Telecom Commission
on Monday recommended 3
per cent annual usage charge
for the spectrum to be sold in
upcoming auction while fixing
the same as the minimum rate
even for existing airwaves with
all operators.
The suggestion, which will
now go to the Union Cabinet
for approval, may hit telecom
players who are paying less
than 3 per cent spectrum usage
charge (SUC).
Sources said that bidding
for `5.66 lakh crore megaspectrum auction will start in
45-50 days from the date the
Cabinet approves the proposal.
“We have to maintain
level-playing field and then
move towards uniform SUC
rate for all airwaves which
Trai has been suggesting. The
recommendation made by
Telecom Commission earlier
will stay. A new point has been
added that all telecom operators will have to pay a minimum 3 per cent SUC,” an official source said.
Earlier, the Telecom
Commission had recommended a spectrum usage
charge of 3 per cent for airwaves to be sold in future auctions.
It had also suggested that
players will continue to pay
weighted average of fee for
existing airwaves.
General Motors puts on
hold $1billion invt in India
Verizon to acquire Yahoo for $4.83 bn
NEW DELHI: US auto major
erizon Communications
I plan to stay at Yahoo: CEO Marissa Mayer
on Monday said it will
V
acquire Yahoo’s operating
General Motors has put on
hold its planned $1 billion
investment in India and is
reviewing its future product
plan for the country due to
“unprecedented regulatory
uncertainty” and change in customer preferences.
“...We are conducting a full
review of our future product
program in India. GM will
continue with its next family of
vehicles in global growth markets. However, the sourcing of
components for India is being
put on hold at this time while
we conduct a full review of our
future product program,” a
General Motors India
spokesperson told the news
agency.
“As a result, we are also
putting on hold future investment in our all-new vehicle
family in India until we firm up
our product portfolio plan. GM
continues to monitor the Indian
market and will evolve its product strategy accordingly,” the
spokesperson added.
Last year, the company had
announced a turnaround plan for
India entailing fresh investment of
$1 billion and ceasing production
at its Gujarat plant to consolidate
manufacturing operations in
Maharashtra.
However, in June the company said that it would continue
production from its Halol plant in
Gujarat until March next year,
even as it continues to review
future options, including sale of
the facility.
As per the company’s plans
announced last year, the Halol
plant was supposed to stop production by the second half of 2016.
The move would have affected
1,100 employees at the plant that
has a total annual manufacturing
capacity of 1.1 lakh units.
The company’s move was
reported to have been rejected by
the Gujarat Government which
demanded a concrete settlement
plan for the workers.
“India is clearly a dynamic
market and customer preferences
have indeed shifted. The SUV segment is growing rapidly while the
MPV segment is contracting. In
addition to the shift in customer
preferences, the industry is facing
unprecedented regulatory uncertainty,” the spokesperson said.
Like the company’s competitors, General Motors is
also paying close attention to
how this impacts its business,
the spokesperson added.
“However, GM continues
to see potential in India. We are
working to respond to a changing Indian market, so we can
deliver to our Indian customers
the safe, high quality vehicles
they want, backed by the
world-class customer experience they deser ve,” the
spokesperson said.
PTI
PTI n NEW YORK
business for about $4.83 billion in cash.
Yahoo, which was the
entry door to the Internet
for an early generation of
web users, will be integrated with AOL under Marni
Walden, EVP and President
of Product Innovation and
New Businesses organisation at Verizon.
T h e s a l e d o e s n ot
include Yahoo’s cash, its
shares in Alibaba Group
Holdings, its shares in Yahoo
Japan, Yahoo’s convertible
n ote s , c e r t ai n m i n or it y
investments, and Yahoo’s
non-core patents (called the
Excalibur portfolio), it said
in a statement.
These assets will continue to be held by Yahoo,
which will change its name
at closing and become a registere d, publicly t raded
investment company, the
statement said.
The deal with Verizon,
which is subject to approval
by Yahoo’s shareholders, regulatory and other approvals,
is expected to close in the
first quarter of 2017.
Till then, Yahoo will
continue to operate independently, offering its prod-
PTI n NEW YORK
company, even though no
decision has been made on her
future following the company’s
acquisition by Verizon.
“For me personally, I am
planning to stay. I love Yahoo,
and I believe in all of you. It’s
important to me to see Yahoo
into its next chapter,” she said
in a letter to the employees.
Verizon on Monday
announced that it will acquire
Yahoo’s operating business for
about $4.83 billion in cash.
Yahoo, which was the
entry door to the Internet for
an early generation of Web
users, will be integrated with
AOL under Marni Walden,
EVP and President of Product
Innovation and New
Businesses organisation, at
Verizon.
“Yahoo is a company that
changed the world. Before
Yahoo, the Internet was a government research project.
Yahoo humanised and popularised the Web, e-mail, search,
real-time media, and more,”
she said.
Mayer, a former high-profile Google executive, was
brought in as Yahoo’s CEO in
2012 to architect a turnaround
that has largely failed to materialise.
ucts and services to users,
advertisers, developers and
partners.
“Just over a year ago, we
acquired AOL to enhance
our strategy of providing a
cross-screen connection for
consumers, creators and
advertisers.
“ T h e a c q u i s it i on of
Yahoo will put Verizon in a
highly competitive position
as a top global mobile media
company, and help accelerate our revenue stream in
digital advertising,” Verizon
Chairman and CEO Lowell
McAdam said.
Founded in 1994 by
Stanford graduate students,
Jerry Yang and David Filo,
Yahoo was one of the last
independently operated pioneers of the web.
While many tech companies like web browser
maker Netscape, never made
it to the end of the first dotcom boom, Yahoo managed
to grow from being a directory of websites to offering
searches, email, shopping
and news.
Ya ho o chief Mar iss a
Mayer, who joined Yahoo
four years ago, failed to halt
its decline as the company
lost ground to larger rival
Google.
Yahoo has a global user
base of over one billion
monthly active users, includ-
ing 600 million monthly
active mobile users, through
search, communications and
digital content products.
Mayer said the company
“that has changed the world”
and will continue to do so in
combination with Verizon
and AOL.
“The sale of our operating business, which effectively separates our Asian
asset equity stakes, is an
important step in our plan to
unlock shareholder value for
Yahoo,” she added.
Verizon will generally
issue cash-settled Verizon
RSUs for Yahoo RSUs that are
outstanding at the close.
ahoo chief Marissa Mayer
on Monday said she would
Y
be open to staying on with the
Cairn-Vedanta merger to happen by 2016-end: Agarwal
NEW DELHI: Mining mogul
Anil Agarwal on Monday
said the merger of his group’s
cash-rich oil firm Cairn
In d i a w it h it s p are nt ,
Vedanta Ltd is likely to be
completed by year end to
create India’s largest diversified natural resources company.
Debt-laden Vedanta Ltd,
previously known as Sesa
Sterlite Ltd, had on Friday
upped its offer to buy out the
minority shareholders in its
cash-rich subsidiary, Cairn
India.
Instead of its June 2015
offer of one Vedanta share
for each Cairn India share,
plus a preference share worth
Rs 10 that can be redeemed
after 30 days or 18 months,
the mining group has offered
t h re e m ore pre fe re n c e
shares.
“I want to create a true
natural resource company
out of India that can rival the
likes of Bralia’s Vale SA, Rio
Tinto of the US or BHP
Bi l l iton of Au s t r a l i a ,”
Ag ar w a l, C h ai r m an of
Vedanta Group, told the
news agency in an interview.
The merger of India’s
biggest private oil producer
with the country’s top producer of aluminum and copper will give India “a natural resources company of its
own,” he said.
The deal, he said, is likely to concluded by end-2016.
“Oil prices have fallen
27-30 per cent and mineral
prices have fallen 7-8 per
cent. The merger will help
balance the risks,” he said.
Agarwal, 63, who rose
from running a scrap-metal
business to become one of
the India’s wealthiest tycoons
with his business empire
spanning across mining and
petroleum, said the group
will keep investing across its
businesses.
“It is very important for
India to create a very value
c re at i ng c omp any, r i s k
diverse company and that is
what is happening in the
world and we wanted to have
oil and gas, copper, zinc,
iron ore, aluminium to be
one company and that is
what the merger proposed,”
he said.
In the sweetened offer
announced Friday, Vedanta
offered minority shareholders
of Cairn India one equity
share and four redeemablepreference shares with a face
value of `10 each. The preference shares will carry a
coupon of 7.5 per cent and
tenure of 18 months.
While the company said
the revised deal implies a 20
per cent premium to the onemonth volume weighted-
average price of Cairn shares,
it translates into 9.1 per cent
premium over share’s Friday
closing.
The bettering of the
deferred cash payout translates into giving away about
`3,400 crore of Cairn India’s
cash to its shareholders. The
payout is 15 per cent of
Cairn’s cash pile.
Vedanta is said to be
wanting to use `23,290 crore
cash lying with Cairn to pay
off part of its `77,952 crore
debt. It had in May rolled
over a controversial $1.25-billion loan taken from the
cash-rich oil explorer Cairn
India in July 2014.
Vedanta Ltd is India’s
most-indebted base metals
company. For the merger to
go through, half of the
minority shareholders, who
together make up for 40 per
cent of the Cairn equity, have
to approve the deal.
PTI
ITC appoints
Sanjiv Puri as COO
of the company
NEW
DELHI:
(PTI)
Diversified ITC Group
has appointed Director
FMCG business Sanjiv
P u r i a s it s C h i e f
Operating Officer, amid
speculations that he may
succeed YC Deveshwar
as its next CEO.
T h e b o ard of t h e
company, in a meeting
held today has “redesign ate d S anj iv P u r i,
Wholetime Director also
a s C h i e f O p e r at i ng
Officer of the Company
with immediate effect,”
ITC informed BSE in a
regulatory filing.
Puri, a graduate from
IIT Kanpur had joined
ITC in 1986 and is currently head Director of
FMCG business.
PTI
The Union Cabinet, last
month, approved spectrum
auction rules, except SUC,
recommended by the Telecom
Commission and asked the
panel to take a Trai’s opinion
on the matter.
The uniform SUC rate has
been a highly contentious issue
of late with the industry due to
difference in the fee for 2300
Mhz band (1 per cent) and
other bands.
Reliance Jio, which bagged
airwaves in 2300 Mhz band in
2010 auction, has opposed
levying of uniform SUC rate,
as suggested by Trai, as it pays
only 1 per cent fee on the BWA
spectrum as per the norms
fixed for sale at that time.
However, it acquired some
spectrum later on which higher SUC was being charged
and the company is required to
pay as per the weighted average formula.
With the Telecom
Commission suggesting the
floor SUC rate, Reliance Jio
would have to pay fee at the
rate of 3.05 per cent, Aircel at
3 per cent while no change for
Airtel.
Earlier, it had suggested
that weighted average will be
calculated between broadband
wireless access (BWA) spectrum, the current SUC rate and
the spectrum that will be
acquired in future by the company.
As per the formula,
Reliance Jio had to pay SUC at
a rate of 2.88 per cent as
against 5 per cent currently,
Aircel at 2.83 per cent (3.24 per
cent) and Airtel at 3.8 per cent
(4.9 per cent).
At present, Government
collects SUC of around `7,500
crore annually from all telecom
operators.
“Gradually, our effort is to
achieve at least 3 per cent
uniform rate and in future we
may even go lower as recommended by Trai,” the official
source said, but added that
though SUC rates will come
down, the actual realisation
will increase with fresh spectrum purchase.
Before 2010, there was
only 2G spectrum and hence
the calculation of revenue was
easy. But the process became
complex after new frequencies
were allocated to companies
for services like 3G and 4G.
A technical panel of DoT
has said it is difficult to segregate revenue of companies
holding airwaves in multiple
bands.
The Government, in January
2014, decided to cap SUC at a flat
5 per cent for spectrum that was to
be procured in the future auctions.
At that point, telecom operators were asked to pay the weighted average of their existing SUC (on
the old rate of 3-8 per cent) based
on the quantum of spectrum they
hold and five per cent if they acquire
new spectrum.
PTI
Call Drop: Telcos commit `20K-cr
for towers, seek new spectrum
PNS n NEW DELHI
elecom op erators on
Monday committed to
T
install 1 lakh towers within
a year, entailing investments
of about `20,000 crore, and
sought more spectrum from
the government.
“Telecom operators have
installed 48,000 towers in
last 45 days, out of 60,000
towers they promised to
install in 100 days,” Telecom
Minister Manoj Sinha told
reporters after a meeting
with them.
“They have committed
to one-year plan. Their performance has been satisfactor y but Government
wants that improvement in
networks should be experienced by consumers,” he
added.
This was second meeting
between
the
Government and the operators on the call drop issue.
At the first meeting with
Te l e c o m S e c r e t a r y J S
Deepak in June, a 100-day
plan was chalked out.
A telecom ministr y
official said the operators
have committed to install
a total of 1 lakh mobile
towers within a year. The
cost of each mobile tower
is estimated to be around
`20 lakh.
“The customer experience should not only be in
area of call drop but also in
space of data services. We
are not anywhere close to
experience required for success of Digital India initiative of the Prime Minister,”
Sinha said.
The Government is gearing up for the largest spectrum auction, estimated to be
worth `5.66 lakh crore,
wherein as much as 2300
megahertz of radiowaves will
be put up for sale across frequency bands.
Telecom operators have
also sought the opening up of
new frequency bands -- 71-76
gigahertz (GHz) and 50 GHz.
Wireless services deployed in
these bands are considered to
deliver broadband speed of up
to 1 gigabit per second as in
case of optical fibres.
Sinha told the operators
that spectrum auction will be
conducted in September and it
will resolve spectrum shortage
problem in the industry.
Sinha
said
the
Government is studying a proposal of Telecom Regulatory
Authority of India that aims at
strengthening present consumer grievance redressal system and giving more powers
to the regulator.
Essar Bulk Terminal Hazira capacity
set to expand by 67% to 50 MTPA
PNS n NEW DELHI
he 550-metre berth of Essar
Bulk Terminal Limited (EBTL)
T
in Hazira is being expanded by a
further 1,100 metres to accommodate the steady growth in cargo
throughput at the port. With the
expansion, the capacity of the
Hazira terminal will increase from
the existing 30 million metric
tonnes per annum (MTPA) to 50
MTPA. Post completion of expansion, the port will have capability
of simultaneously handling 7 vessels at any point of time.
Essar Bulk Terminal is investing `750 crore in the expansion
project, which along with the
existing investment of `2,450 crore,
will take the total investment in
Hazira port to `3,200 crore.
The Company has already
invested in creating an all-weather mechanised deep draft port,
which is capable of handling
Capesize vessels. The port has a
draft of 14 metres, which allows
direct berthing of the largest of bulk
cargo carriers. The company has
dredged an 8.8-km channel on the
Tapi river. Approximately, 80 million cubic metres has been dredged
until date, making it one of the
largest dredging activities in the
country.
In the quarter ending 30 June
2016, traffic at the port increased
by 80 per cent to 4.4 million metric tonnes (MT), as against 2.4 MT
in the corresponding quarter of the
previous year. The cargo growth is
backed by a ramp-up in operations
by Essar Steel’s 10-million tonne
plant in Hazira. The total port traffic is expected to reach 24 MT in
FY17, as against 12.7 MT in FY16.
EBTL has also received permission from the Gujarat Maritime
Board (GMB) to handle 15 MT of
third-party cargo over three years.
In FY16, 0.75 MT of third-party
traffic was handled. This is expected to grow to 5 MT by FY18.
Commenting on the development, Capt. S Das, CEO-EBTL,
said: “The Hazira Terminal has
been integral to fulfilling the cargo
handling requirement of Essar
Steel plant. The expanded terminal will not only help us service the
enhanced requirements of our
anchor customer, but also cater to
our growing volumes of third-party
cargo.”
Rajiv Agarwal, CEO &
Managing Director, Essar Ports
Limited, said: “EBTL has huge
potential and is moving in the right
direction to unlock that potential.
Its performance in the last one year
has been extremely heartening. I
have no doubt that the expansion
project will help the company scale
new heights.”
money 11
LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
Banking deals of
Govt employees
under scanner
NEW DELHI: The Central
Vigilance Commission (CVC)
has started examining ‘suspicious’ banking transactions of
Government employees to check
corruption. The first-of-its-kind
initiative has been started under
the aegis of Central Vigilance
Commissioner KV Chowdary,
who late last year got the anticorruption watchdog included
in the list of Government agencies authorised to seek details
from Financial Intelligence Unit
(FIU) on dubious financial
transactions.
FIU is tasked with collecting,
analysing and disseminating
information related to financial
transactions suspected to be
involving blackmoney or proceeds of crime. “CVC has been
notified as an agency to receive
Suspicious Transaction Report
(STR) related to public servants
from FIU. This has happened and
CVC is getting inputs,” Chowdary
told PTI on Monday.
PTI
IDBI Bank plans to raise
`28k-cr via equity, bonds J
JK Paper Q1 net up
79% to `26.66 cr
PNS n NEW DELHI
PTI n NEW DELHI
hareholders of IDBI Bank
have given it nod to raise up
Sto `28,000
crore from a mix of
equity and bonds. At the annual general meeting of the bank
held last week they approved
an enabling resolution for issue
of shares aggregating up to
`8,000 crore inclusive of premium amount through various
modes including Qualified
Institutional Placement (QIP).
Besides, shareholders
have also given go-ahead for
mobilisation of one or more
tranches of up to `20,000
crore, comprising bonds by
way of private placement or
public issue, IDBI Bank said
in a regulatory filing to the
stock exchanges.
The Government last
At the AGM of the bank held last week
they approved an enabling resolution for
issue of shares aggregating up to `8,000 cr
inclusive of premium amount via various
modes including QIP. Besides,
shareholders have also given go-ahead for
mobilisation of one or more tranches of up
to `20,000 cr, comprising bonds by way of
private placement or public
issue, says IDBI Bank
December gave approval to
IDBI Bank for raising `3,771
crore during the year, by
way of QIPs -- a move which
will dilute its holding by
about 26 per cent in the
lender. The Government's
holding in the bank stands at
73.98 per cent as on date.
As p er t he existing
norms, the Government equi-
ty in a public sector bank
cannot go below 52 per cent
to maintain the character of
state-owned banks.
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley had last year indicated a
change in the characteristics of
IDBI Bank wherein the government would own a majority stake but, at the same time,
keep the bank at arm’s length.
Citing the example of Axis
Bank, he had wondered if
IDBI Bank could follow the
same model. The Government
indirectly controls 29.19 per
cent in Axis Bank through the
administrator of the Specified
Undertaking of the Unit Trust
of India (SUUTI), the Life
Insurance Corp and four
other public sector general
insurance companies.
IDBI Bank came into existence with Parliament passing
the IDBI Repeal Act in 2003.
In terms of provisions of the
Act, IDBI has been functioning as a bank in addition to its
earlier role of a financial institution. The AGM, held on July
22, also gave approval for raising the authorised share capital of the bank from `3,000
crore to `4,500 crore.
CBDT issues draft guidelines for taxing buy back of unlisted shares
NEW DELHI: Central Board of
Direct Taxes (CBDT) on
Monday came out with draft
rules for determining the quantum of distributed income arising out of buy back of shares of
unlisted companies for levy of
tax. The distributed income
was defined as the consideration
paid by the company on buy
back of shares as reduced by the
amount which was received by
the company for issue of such
shares, the draft said.
“The Finance Act, 2016
amended the definition of distributed income, with effect from June
1 to mean the consideration paid
NIFTY 50
SCRIP
OPEN HIGH LOW
LTP CHANGE
BHEL
141 148.3 140.6
147.8
6.9
BANKBARODA 150.5 157.1 148.9 156.05
5.35
MARUTI
4,427.00 4,565.00 4,421.00 4,552.00 137.3
SBIN
223
231 222.7
229.6
6.1
ASIANPAINT 1,049.30 1,074.40 1,047.15 1,072.00 24.95
ZEEL
464.6 475.9 462.05 475.15 10.65
SUNPHARMA
788
805
787
803.1
16.5
YESBANK
1,150.05 1,189.35 1,147.75 1,178.70
22
TCS
2,512.00 2,563.20 2,505.80 2,555.00
46.4
HDFC
1,355.50 1,387.00 1,350.40 1,382.00
25
BPCL
587 601.85 585.4
593.8
10.6
ONGC
221.8 227.2 221.7
226.3
3.85
M&M
1,440.00 1,468.40 1,438.25 1,463.50 22.95
INDUSINDBK 1,135.00 1,164.45 1,132.85 1,156.90 18.05
AMBUJACEM 265.45 269.4 264.3
269
3.95
HCLTECH
729.5
741
725
740
10.8
ICICIBANK
261.9 270.95 260.75 267.15
3.7
LUPIN
1,708.70 1,724.50 1,699.50 1,715.00 21.25
BHARTIARTL
364 372.8 363.1 371.65
4.3
INFRATEL
362.65 371.45 362.2
366
4.2
HDFCBANK 1,233.00 1,249.45 1,227.00 1,245.00
14.2
POWERGRID
166.55 169.6 166.15
168.2
1.85
ITC
249.5
252
249
252
2.15
LT
1,572.00 1,588.80 1,563.00 1,587.40
13.4
ADANIPORTS
226.3 227.45 224.15 227.25
1.9
WIPRO
537.7 543.7
535
542
4.25
CIPLA
514.05 526.5
513
524.4
4
ULTRACEMCO 3,630.00 3,680.00 3,612.00 3,665.00
25.3
KOTAKBANK
761.95 773.2
750
765.1
5.05
INFY
1,063.00 1,083.25 1,063.00 1,079.40
6.95
TECHM
505 511.4 502.8
508
3.1
NTPC
156
158
156
157.5
0.9
RELIANCE
1,014.00 1,023.75 1,007.35 1,020.50
5.65
IDEA
106.9 107.75 106.05 107.25
0.55
COALINDIA
331 334.4 329.8
333
1.55
HINDUNILVR
900.5 909.3 895.7
907.4
4.2
EICHERMOT 19,850.0020,040.0019,771.2019,903.00
90.5
HEROMOTOCO 3,251.30 3,283.95 3,245.40 3,275.00 14.15
AXISBANK
518.5
540 518.5
539.7
2
TATAMTRDVR
330.5
333 328.2
330.4
1
TATAMOTORS
505.5 510.95 503.35 508.55
1.35
BOSCHLTD 24,315.0024,590.0024,315.0024,360.00
44.3
AUROPHARMA 803.1 805.85
791
798.3
-0.25
TATAPOWER
72.15
72.4
71.3
72
-0.05
ACC
1,678.95 1,693.75 1,668.35 1,673.30
-8.25
GAIL
396.1 398.5 390.2
392.2
-2.55
HINDALCO
136.5 136.9 133.9
135.1
-0.9
TATASTEEL
365 367.8 362.15 362.75
-2.7
BAJAJ-AUTO 2,720.00 2,754.10 2,680.00 2,697.00
-23.6
GRASIM
4,895.00 4,912.70 4,840.70 4,843.80
-47.2
DRREDDY
3,570.00 3,579.15 3,465.00 3,489.00 -110.85
NIFTY NEXT 50
SCRIP
OPEN HIGH LOW
LTP CHANGE
PNB
119.45 131.45 119.15 130.95 10.75
HINDPETRO 1,182.05 1,224.70 1,182.05 1,219.95 49.65
RECLTD
209.75 217.9 208.5
216
7.05
CAIRN
194 207.4 186.8
198
6.1
MCDOWELL-N 2,413.80 2,474.00 2,406.00 2,474.00
71.1
DLF
158 164.55 157.05
162.9
4.55
IOC
528 549.9 525.6
536.2
13.9
MARICO
277.05
284 275.4 283.95
6.9
PFC
217 224.4 216.05
221.6
4.65
SRTRANSFIN 1,185.00 1,203.20 1,175.10 1,199.00 21.05
VEDL
169 175.5 162.65
172.2
2.9
NMDC
98 100.3
97.4
99.7
1.6
BAJFINANCE 8,882.00 9,030.00 8,853.50 8,980.00 142.2
MOTHERSUMI
315.3
322 315.1 319.55
4.95
BHARATFORG
737.9
747 732.2
746.7 11.45
CONCOR
1,457.10 1,489.95 1,457.10 1,479.05
22
APOLLOHOSP 1,335.00 1,354.90 1,321.10 1,353.00
18.8
LICHSGFIN
511.5 519.65 510.6 516.95
6.05
JSWSTEEL
1,610.00 1,633.00 1,605.00 1,627.30
14.3
ABB
1,301.20 1,317.00 1,285.00 1,298.55
10.8
HINDZINC
195.35 200.35
191 195.55
1.6
IBULHSGFIN
739.95 769.25 724.55
741.5
6
RCOM
51.6
51.9
51
51.8
0.35
CUMMINSIND 887.25 904.8 885.35
893
5.75
SAIL
48.1
48.7
47.7
48.2
0.25
PGHH
6,524.00 6,524.00 6,341.10 6,376.05
32.1
COLPAL
953
964 945.5
960
4.75
OFSS
3,585.00 3,611.00 3,536.20 3,592.05
16.1
TITAN
411 416.5
409 411.55
1.85
BEL
1,237.45 1,252.00 1,226.05 1,240.95
4.85
GLAXO
3,425.00 3,430.00 3,390.00 3,412.00
12.9
PIDILITIND
731.1 744.8 731.1 734.15
2.5
UBL
785
785
773
780
2.05
GLENMARK
870.5
872 859.25
865
1.85
OIL
375.4
377 373.5
374.9
-0.05
SIEMENS
1,338.90 1,356.00 1,331.05 1,342.10
-0.3
BAJAJFINSV 2,616.80 2,677.95 2,595.00 2,599.00
-0.85
TORNTPHARM 1,466.00 1,478.65 1,454.05 1,458.00
-1.65
GSKCONS
6,550.00 6,600.00 6,461.20 6,490.00
-9.35
CASTROLIND
415 416.05 410.45
413
-0.75
EMAMILTD
1,130.00 1,133.50 1,110.00 1,129.50
-2.45
CADILAHC
372.4 375.95 366.45
370.5
-1.35
BRITANNIA 2,850.00 2,873.70 2,830.30 2,839.55 -11.35
DABUR
307.7 310.75 304.5 306.15
-1.45
GODREJCP 1,660.00 1,678.50 1,636.00 1,641.80
-8.75
DIVISLAB
1,206.00 1,229.00 1,198.05 1,198.05
-6.6
ASHOKLEY
97
97.2
95.2
96.15
-0.55
NHPC
25.35
25.5
25.2
25.25
-0.2
UPL
586.7 586.7 574.45
578.1
-6
SHREECEM 16,177.6016,400.0015,980.0015,980.00 -325.8
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14725
1894.75
558.8
223.1
1297.05
4743.9
140.3
1419.85
1673.1
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226.15
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1068.85
522
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by the company on buy back of
shares as reduced by the amount,
which was received by the company for issue of such shares, determined in the manner as may be
prescribed,” it said. The present
amendment that will take effect
from June 1, seeks to remove the
limitations created by the restric-
Abs Change
Change
%
836.5
6.02
2
0.11
7.95
1.44
1.65
0.75
13.3
1.04
37.05
0.79
-0.9 -0.64
67.6
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-11.1 -0.66
-0.65
-0.8
1.65
0.73
-0.05 -0.18
0.7
1.85
-8.95 -1.46
1.05
0.87
9.1
0.89
13.95
2.23
46.75
2.91
24.95
1.64
5
6.77
-63.6 -4.03
4.15
2.19
0.07
1.68
3
0.83
2.85
0.32
3.7
1.4
2.55
5.61
2.65
4.58
12
1.29
2.4
0.41
13
0.97
4.25
2.69
2.5
0.8
3.15
1.86
-4.7
-2.8
-0.55 -0.57
23.55
2.25
24.2
4.86
0.45
0.36
5.65
0.54
CEATLTD
CENTRALBK
CENTURYPLY
CENTURYTEX
CERA
CESC
CHAMBLFERT
CHENNPETRO
CHOLAFIN
CIPLA
CLNINDIA
COALINDIA
COFFEEDAY
COLPAL
CONCOR
COROMANDEL
CORPBANK
COX&KINGS
CRISIL
CROMPGREAV
CUB
CUMMINSIND
CYIENT
DABUR
DALMIABHA
DBCORP
DCBBANK
DCMSHRIRAM
DEEPAKFERT
DELTACORP
DEN
DENABANK
DHANUKA
DHFL
DISHMAN
DISHTV
DIVISLAB
DLF
DRREDDY
DYNAMATECH
ECLERX
EDELWEISS
tive meaning of buyback under the
existing provisions. The amendment also provides the much
needed clarity in the manner of
determination of consideration
received by the company by
promising to frame rules in such
determination, experts said.
This amendment to the mean-
907.15
99.8
234
699.35
2425
615.3
64.85
266.55
1025.9
524.6
714
332.4
253.05
961.15
1480
234.9
42.65
195.8
2054.35
73.8
126.15
891.8
489
306
1387.1
406.25
100.3
215.1
158.9
92.15
87.1
39.5
650
225.1
142.9
98.75
1199.6
163.5
3474.85
2565
1500
93.3
21.85
2.25
5.55
-2.55
32.1
9.9
0.3
12.55
5.55
4.9
8.05
1.9
1.55
7.05
23.45
2.75
1
0.4
-17.2
0.5
3.55
6.15
3.8
-1.8
-46.9
-0.35
0.2
-0.1
0.85
2.15
-0.5
0.6
-0.95
3
-3.5
0.95
-3.85
4.65
-130.5
0.2
-10.55
6.45
2.47
2.31
2.43
-0.36
1.34
1.64
0.46
4.94
0.54
0.94
1.14
0.57
0.62
0.74
1.61
1.18
2.4
0.2
-0.83
0.68
2.9
0.69
0.78
-0.58
-3.27
-0.09
0.2
-0.05
0.54
2.39
-0.57
1.54
-0.15
1.35
-2.39
0.97
-0.32
2.93
-3.62
0.01
-0.7
7.43
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156.05 (3.55)
93.30 (7.43)
MARUTI
ALBK
78.85 (6.77)
SBIN
AMTEKAUTO
48.00 (5.61)
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CASTROLIND
CCL
2070
799.2
619.6
538.3
2700
400.4
240.3
2601
19.7
1830.6
8978.3
710.05
616.1
129.9
155.75
110
1105
573.95
3951
404.15
1244.75
983.1
236.65
524.9
864.15
746
370.3
147.1
808.8
549.95
114.5
6000
464.4
47.4
24309
593.3
2848
371.6
253.7
1294.6
669.5
1214.8
257.15
970
412
257.9
-22.45
0.05
7.7
0.75
-20.75
-2.85
0.5
-1.1
0.05
49.25
134.7
16.85
11.55
2.6
4.85
3.9
7.35
4.7
118.35
2.55
7
0.9
0.75
5
19.25
10.25
2.75
6.05
0.1
13.35
3.35
51.4
2.7
-0.35
22.7
10.3
-0.8
-0.2
12.8
15.35
-4.4
56.05
9.7
-5.45
-2.15
10.3
-1.07
0.01
1.26
0.14
-0.76
-0.71
0.21
-0.04
0.25
2.76
1.52
2.43
1.91
2.04
3.21
3.68
0.67
0.83
3.09
0.63
0.57
0.09
0.32
0.96
2.28
1.39
0.75
4.29
0.01
2.49
3.01
0.86
0.58
-0.73
0.09
1.77
-0.03
-0.05
5.31
1.2
-0.65
4.84
3.92
-0.56
-0.52
4.16
EICHERMOT
EIDPARRY
EIHOTEL
ELGIEQUIP
EMAMILTD
ENGINERSIN
ENIL
EROSMEDIA
ESCORTS
ESSELPRO
EVEREADY
EXIDEIND
FAGBEARING
FCEL
FDC
FEDERALBNK
FINCABLES
FINOLEXIND
FORCEMOT
FORTIS
FSL
GAIL
GATI
GAYAPROJ
GDL
GEOMETRIC
GESHIP
GHCL
GICHSGFIN
GILLETTE
GLAXO
GLENMARK
GMDCLTD
GMRINFRA
GNFC
GODFRYPHLP
GODREJCP
GODREJIND
GODREJPROP
GPPL
GRANULES
GRASIM
GREAVESCOT
GREENPLY
GRINDWELL
GRUH
4,552.00 (3.11)
229.60 (2.73)
1,072.00 (2.38)
19875
238.7
116.2
176
1124.9
229.75
702
229.05
255.05
210.1
268
180.85
4090.05
22.45
184.2
66
394
460
3315
178.25
52.9
390.95
177.5
628.5
267.25
220.25
334.45
225.3
323.15
4750
3403.85
864.1
82
14.52
155.15
1261.75
1652.1
439.1
367
183.4
142.9
4850
144
263.95
347
291.55
42.9
6.95
2.95
3.8
0.1
4.55
-7.1
-5.75
6.7
2.35
-1.65
-0.55
5.6
0.15
-0.75
2.15
2.2
7.3
94.85
-2.55
1.95
-4.1
2.5
0.75
-8.1
0.8
-0.2
21.95
5.15
46.45
13
-1
0.65
0.29
-3.2
8.95
7.05
-6.6
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2.9
-0.95
-34.85
-0.1
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4.85
-0.2
0.22
3
2.6
2.21
0.01
2.02
-1
-2.45
2.7
1.13
-0.61
-0.3
0.14
0.67
-0.41
3.37
0.56
1.61
2.95
-1.41
3.83
-1.04
1.43
0.12
-2.94
0.36
-0.06
10.79
1.62
0.99
0.38
-0.12
0.8
2.04
-2.02
0.71
0.43
-1.48
-0.38
1.61
-0.66
-0.71
-0.07
-1.35
1.42
-0.07
ing of buy back as well as computation of distributed income would
lead to avoidable disputes, they said.
According to experts, the draft rules
once enforced will help in checking tax avoidance by all unlisted
domestic companies who resort to
buy back of shares instead of payment of dividend.
SENSEX
GSFC
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HINDALCO
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HINDPETRO
HINDUNILVR
HINDZINC
HITACHIHOM
HMT
HMVL
HONAUT
HSIL
HTMEDIA
IBREALEST
IBULHSGFIN
ICICIBANK
ICIL
ICRA
IDBI
IDEA
IDFC
IDFCBANK
IFCI
IGL
IIFL
IL&FSTRANS
INDHOTEL
INDIACEM
INDIANB
INDIGO
INDOCO
INDUSINDBK
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INFY
INGERRAND
INOXLEISUR
INOXWIND
INTELLECT
IOB
IOC
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IPCALAB
IRB
ISGEC
ITC
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J&KBANK
JAGRAN
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JBFIND
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JINDALPOLY
JINDALSAW
JINDALSTEL
JISLJALEQS
74.9
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32.25
339
381.25
23.65
41.55
737.9
1380
1246.55
102.45
126.95
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18.3
286.45
134.95
62.8
1218.4
906.8
195.5
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9990
310.1
80.05
88.8
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248.4
230.45
214.5
27.35
536.75
318.9
495.2
216.85
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150.85
68.55
179.15
79.65
268.7
207.05
575.1
441.85
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70
70.5
1.1
63.55
2.75
3.45
-4.4
2.3
-0.1
0.15
6.05
4.8
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1
8.6
24.35
15.1
1.45
0.65
10.45
3.5
0
-1.35
-0.95
0.15
49.35
3.9
1.85
87.85
-0.6
1
-1.5
6.85
1.2
2.45
7.1
5.6
-7.55
-24
2.15
0.35
1.65
0.55
1
3
2.45
0.25
-0.15
2.9
5.45
1.6
6.6
14.35
4.15
7.85
-2.25
0.2
1.15
7.05
0.2
15.3
18.8
5.15
0.5
100
1.75
-3.1
1.65
0.45
0.3
1.9
0
8.2
0.75
-0.05
0.8
0.3
1.49
0.98
2.14
0.57
-0.79
0.39
-1.48
0.47
1.82
1.28
-0.21
2.47
1.18
1.8
1.23
1.44
0.51
0.32
1.56
0
-0.47
-0.7
0.24
4.22
0.43
0.96
6.17
-1.44
0.37
-0.02
2.26
1.52
2.84
0.97
2.12
-0.85
-0.62
2.99
0.33
3.16
1.09
3.43
0.48
0.96
0.31
-0.11
2.54
3.74
0.17
2.14
1.26
1.15
0.73
-0.31
0.08
0.5
3.4
0.74
2.93
6.26
1.05
0.23
2
0.7
-2.01
2.47
0.25
0.38
0.71
0
1.45
0.17
-0.09
1.16
0.43
JKCEMENT
JKIL
JKLAKSHMI
JKTYRE
JMFINANCIL
JPASSOCIAT
JPINFRATEC
JPPOWER
JSWENERGY
JSWSTEEL
JUBILANT
JUBLFOOD
JUSTDIAL
JYOTHYLAB
KAJARIACER
KALPATPOWR
KANSAINER
KEC
KESORAMIND
KIRLOSENG
KITEX
KOTAKBANK
KPIT
KPRMILL
KRBL
KSBPUMPS
KSCL
KSK
KTKBANK
KWALITY
L&TFH
LAKSHVILAS
LALPATHLAB
LAOPALA
LAXMIMACH
LICHSGFIN
LINDEINDIA
LT
LUPIN
LYCOS
M&M
M&MFIN
MAGMA
MAHABANK
MAHINDCIE
MAHLIFE
MANAPPURAM
MARICO
MARKSANS
MARUTI
MCLEODRUSS
MCX
MFSL
MHRIL
MINDAIND
MINDTREE
MJCO
MMTC
MOIL
MONSANTO
MOTHERSUMI
MOTILALOFS
MPHASIS
MRF
MRPL
MTNL
MUTHOOTFIN
NATCOPHARM
NATIONALUM
NAUKRI
NAVINFLUOR
NAVKARCORP
NAVNETEDUL
NBCC
NCC
NEW DELHI: Upside risks to
price rise still prevails, largely owing to increasing international commodity prices
and implementation of the
seventh pay commission
awards, while CPI inflation is
likely to be in the range of 5.
7-5.9 per cent in July, says a
report.
“Structural issues in the
inflation dynamics continue
to prevail as rural CPI inflation on average remains
above the urban CPI inflation,” Dun & Bradstreet India
Lead Economist Arun Singh
said.
According to D&B, the
High
28110.37
Low
27736.51
Current value
28095.34
Previous close
27803.24
Change (Pts)
292.10
Change (%)
1.05
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422.1
92.45
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10.56
6.19
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1460.25
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75.9
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-0.2
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0.8
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28.9
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0.75
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0.05
558.75
8.65
-0.25
0.5
5.25
-0.55
8.55
224.55
-5.3
0.4
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2.1
-0.18
-0.67
0.75
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1.76
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5
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1.69
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1.71
0.31
0.73
1.08
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1.31
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-1.26
0.45
0
0.55
1.07
2.29
0.42
3.11
1.61
-2.64
5.22
1.33
2.01
-1.2
16.72
0.89
0.31
0.79
1.3
-0.75
0.01
1.64
10.73
-1.15
0.18
0.88
-1.13
0.99
10.01
-2.43
0.43
-0.5
2.61
VITAL STATS
27753.96
Mumbai
Delhi
Kolkata
NEW DELHI: Investments into
India's capital markets through
participatory notes (P-Notes)
slumped to the lowest level in
nearly two years to `2.10 lakh
crore at the end of June, on
account of a tight vigil on funds
coming through this route.
The board of Sebi, in May,
tightened norms to check any
misuse of controversy-ridden
P-Notes by making it mandatory for users of these overseas
instruments to follow Indian
anti-money laundering law
and report any suspicious
transactions immediately.
P-Notes are typically instruments issued by registered foreign portfolio investors to overseas investors who wish to invest
in Indian markets without registering themselves directly in
India to save on time. But they
still need to go through a proper due diligence process.
According to Sebi data, the
total value of P-Notes investment
in Indian markets - equity, debt
and derivatives - fell to `2,10,731
crore at the end of June, from
`2,15,338 crore in May-end.
This was the lowest level since
July 2014 when the cumulative
value of such investments stood
at `2,08,284 crore. The total
value of P-Notes investment in
Indian markets has fallen since
October and the trend continued
till February. However, it saw a
slight increase in March, but
again slumped in April. PTI
Upside risks to inflation prevails; July CPI to be in 5.7-5.9%
NIFTY
BSE: SENSEX
Open
K Paper Ltd on Monday reported
79.04percentjumpinstandalonenet
profit to `26.66 crore for the first quarterendedonJune30,2016.Ithadposted a net profit of `14.89 crore for the
April-June period of the previous fiscal, JK Paper said in a statement.
Its total income from operation
duringtheperiodunderreviewwasup
3.61percentto`606.51croreasagainst
`585.35 crore of the corresponding
quarterlastfiscal.Commentingonthe
results,JKPaperViceChairman&MD,
HP Singhania said: “The improved
performance is mainly due to higher production and sales, enriched
product mix, continuous improvements in operating efficiencies and
input cost reduction in comparison
to corresponding quarter.”
P-Notes invt hit 2-yr low
of `2.10L cr in June-end
GOLD
30650
29900
30490
SILVER
47160
47160
47160
67.24
73.80
88.35
0.63
progress of monsoon in the
subsequent two months and
its spread will determine the
course for cultivation of crops
and their availability and thus
food inflation in the coming
fiscal.
“While news about development of La Nina phenomenon brings some cheer, food
inflation at 23-month high
raises concern about its ripple effect on the larger inflation trajectory,” Singh said.
The RBI, on the other
hand, is likely to maintain
status quo in the monetary
policy meeting scheduled in
August and most probably
NESTLEIND
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NEYVELILIG
NH
NHPC
NIITLTD
NIITTECH
NILKAMAL
NIRLON
NMDC
NOVARTIND
NTPC
OBEROIRLTY
OFSS
OIL
OMAXE
ONGC
ONMOBILE
ORIENTBANK
ORIENTCEM
PAGEIND
PCJEWELLER
PEL
PERSISTENT
PETRONET
PFC
PFIZER
PFS
PGHH
PHOENIXLTD
PIDILITIND
PIIND
PNB
PNCINFRA
POLARIS
POWERGRID
PRAJIND
PRESTIGE
PRISMCEM
PTC
PUNJLLOYD
PVR
7106.3
42.25
79.2
292
25.25
83.85
461.1
1289.75
216.1
99.7
716.05
157.15
297
3580
375.9
163.65
226.7
117.1
115.85
169.05
13561
429.15
1577
665.35
297
221.8
1969.9
41.55
6410
362.3
734.6
737.3
130.15
556.45
192
168.05
85.4
187.6
103.95
83.2
20.9
1096.85
38.15
1.45
2.35
1.75
-0.15
0.35
-1.9
50
3.15
1.7
-5.85
0.6
-0.15
-0.7
0.95
2.95
4.25
1.35
4.75
-1.95
-56.95
31.95
-3.3
7.75
2.55
5
20.3
1.5
40
5.7
2.4
0.7
9.9
-9.2
1.25
1.2
-2.9
-0.95
-0.5
1
0.05
32.65
0.54
3.55
3.06
0.6
-0.59
0.42
-0.41
4.03
1.48
1.73
-0.81
0.38
-0.05
-0.02
0.25
1.84
1.91
1.17
4.28
-1.14
-0.42
8.04
-0.21
1.18
0.87
2.31
1.04
3.75
0.63
1.6
0.33
0.1
8.23
-1.63
0.66
0.72
-3.28
-0.5
-0.48
1.22
0.24
3.07
defer any decision to change
the repo rates till the impact
of monsoon over the course
for cultivation of crops and
their availability has been
realised completely, he added.
In the June policy review
meet,
RBI
G over nor
Raghuram Rajan kept interest rates intact, citing rising
inflationary pressure, but
hinted at a reduction later
this year if good monsoon
helps ease inflation. D&B
expects the WPI inflation to
be in the range of 1.8-2 per
cent and CPI inflation to be
in the range of 5.7-5.9 per
cent during July this year.PTI
SOBHA
SOLARINDS
SONATSOFTW
SOUTHBANK
SPARC
SPICEJET
SREINFRA
SRF
SRTRANSFIN
STAR
SUNDRMFAST
SUNPHARMA
SUNTECK
SUNTV
SUPREMEIND
SUVEN
SUZLON
SWANENERGY
SYMPHONY
SYNDIBANK
SYNGENE
TAKE
TATACHEM
TATACOFFEE
TATACOMM
TATAELXSI
TATAGLOBAL
TATAINVEST
TATAMOTORS
TATAMTRDVR
TATAPOWER
TATASPONGE
TATASTEEL
TCI
TCS
TECHM
TECHNO
TEXRAIL
THERMAX
THOMASCOOK
TIMKEN
TITAN
DRREDDY
3474.85 (3.62)
JPINFRATEC
10.56 (3.21)
TATAELXSI
GDL
RADICO
RAIN
RAJESHEXPO
RALLIS
RAMCOCEM
RAMCOSYS
RAYMOND
RCF
RCOM
RDEL
RECLTD
REDINGTON
RELAXO
RELCAPITAL
RELIANCE
RELIGARE
RELINFRA
RENUKA
REPCOHOME
RKFORGE
ROLTA
RPOWER
RTNPOWER
SADBHAV
SAIL
SANOFI
SBBJ
SBIN
SBT
SCHNEIDER
SCI
SEQUENT
SFCL
SHARDACROP
SHILPAMED
SHK
SHOPERSTOP
SHREECEM
SHRIRAMCIT
SIEMENS
SIMPLEXINF
SINTEX
SITICABLE
SJVN
SKFINDIA
SMLISUZU
90.7
34.8
438.1
218.35
555.95
625
456.05
51.15
51.5
64.85
216.1
100
501.5
423.85
1017.8
280
570.45
16.6
830.8
415.5
65
52.85
11
301.1
48.3
4590
659.75
229.85
525.2
142.85
72.2
129.7
123.25
371.4
560.45
241.45
379
16050
1886
1347.2
298.85
80.65
37.5
28.3
1381.05
1238.15
0.66
0.01
0.49
1.64
0.77
0.56
3.8
-0.13
1.7
-0.64
5.45
1.87
1.3
1.64
0.62
-0.17
-0.56
-2.04
1.74
3.59
0.22
2.02
1.53
3.29
1.16
-2.98
1.37
1.13
0.49
0.15
-0.14
1.42
-0.41
0.48
1.69
0.74
3.29
1.08
-0.17
-0.1
-0.72
0.76
Current (Chng %)
Current (Chng %)
7.67 (3.76)
2.1
0.05
0.8
0.35
2.75
0.35
2.7
-1.75
20
-7.5
10.15
14.75
3.3
7
5.75
-0.35
-0.1
-1.3
41.5
2.7
0.95
3.45
7.05
3.7
5.35
-49.65
1.8
5.7
2.5
0.5
-0.1
9.1
-1.5
1.7
42.4
3.75
19.55
1.1
-1.55
-0.2
-4.2
3.1
NSE: LOSERS
BSE: LOSERS
UNITECH
322.55
670.4
162.55
21.75
357.75
63.4
73.7
1388
1197.75
1161
196.25
802.5
257.35
432.65
926
208.8
17.9
62.4
2431.45
77.95
426.1
174.45
466.95
116.25
465
1614.15
133.45
508.9
508.9
329.9
71.95
649
363.8
354.75
2551.55
508.4
613.05
103.25
901
195.45
579.2
412.9
DRREDDY
3,489.00 (3.08)
GRASIM
4,843.80 (0.97)
BAJAJ-AUTO
2,697.00 (0.87)
1614.15 (2.98)
TATASTEEL
362.75 (0.74)
267.25 (2.94)
HINDALCO
135.10 (0.66)
0.8
-0.05
1.35
9.2
-8.5
-25.25
-1.6
-0.15
0.15
-0.35
7.25
0.6
19.8
15.7
3
2
9.2
0.2
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world 12
LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
Democratic party boss resigns
... as e-mail scandal rocks party
PTI n PHILADELPHIA
he Chair woman of
Democratic party Debbie
Wasserman Schultz resigned,
hours before the party’s convention, dealing a blow to
hopes of demonstrating unity
in the face of the threat from
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Congresswoman Schultz,
Chairwoman of Democratic
National Committee in a statement announced her resignation after the emails leaked by
Wikileaks showed that she
tended to support Hillary
Clinton over Bernie Sanders in
the party’s presidential primaries.
As head of the party,
Schultz is supposed to be neutral. Clinton, the former secretary of state, has emerged as the
winner of the Democratic presidential primaries defeating
Senator Sanders from Virginia.
During the primaries,
Sanders campaign had alleged
that the party was not staying
neutral.
“Going forward, the best
way for me to accomplish those
goals is to step down as Party
Chair at the end of this convention,” Schultz, 49, said in a
statement on Sunday, on the
eve of the Republican National
Convention here.
She was the first woman
nominated by a sitting president as Chair of the
Democratic
National
Committee that would formally anoint Clinton as the
party’s presidential nominee.
The Trump Campaign
manager Paul Manafort in a
statement demanded that
Clinton drop out of the race,
following resignation of
T
Senator Sanders from Virginia.
During the primaries, Sanders
campaign had alleged that he
party was not staying neutral.
“Going forward, the best
way for me to accomplish those
goals is to step down as Party
Chair at the end of this convention,” Schultz, 49, said in a
statement on Sunday, on the
eve of the Republican National
Convention here.
She was the first woman
nominated by a sitting president as Chair of the
Democratic
National
Committee that would formally anoint Clinton as the
party’s presidential nominee.
The Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort in a statement
demanded that Clinton drop
out of the race, following resignation of Schultz.
“Debbie Wasserman
DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., greeted the Florida delegation at a breakfast, on Monday in Philadelphia, Schultz resigned over her failure to secure the DNC’s email
during the first day of the Democratic National Convention.
servers and the rigged system
Schultz. Debbie Wasserman disappointment over the biased of the Democratic party Debbie she set up with the Clinton
Schultz resigned over her fail- support of the top party lead- Wasserman Schultz today campaign,” he said.
“Now Hillary Clinton
ure to secure the DNC’s email ership to the Clinton cam- resigned, hours before the
party’s convention, dealing a should follow Wasserman
servers and the rigged system paign during the primaries.
“Debbie Wasserman blow to hopes of demonstrat- Schultz’s lead and drop out over
she set up with the Clinton
Schultz has made the right ing unity in the face of the her failure to safeguard top
campaign,” he said.
“Now Hillary Clinton decision for the future of the threat from Republican presi- secret, classified information
should follow Wasserman Democratic Party. While she dential candidate Donald both on her unauthorised
Schultz’s lead and drop out over deserves thanks for her years of Trump. Congresswoman home server and while travelher failure to safeguard top service, the party now needs Schultz, Chair woman of ing abroad. Schultz’s emails
National only put the Democratic Party
secret, classified information new leadership that will open Democratic
both on her unauthorised the doors of the party and wel- Committee in a statement at risk, but Hillary Clinton’s
home server and while travel- come in working people and announced her resignation emails put all of America at
after the emails leaked by risk,” Manafort said.
young people,” he said.
ing abroad.
Sanders said he would con“The party leadership must Wikileaks showed that she
Schultz’s emails only put
the Democratic Party at risk, also always remain impartial in tended to support Hillary tinue to support Clinton as his
but Hillary Clinton’s emails the presidential nominating Clinton over Bernie Sanders in main goal was to defeat Trump,
put all of America at risk,” process, something which did the party’s presidential pri- Republican presidential candiManafort said. Sanders said he not occur in the 2016 race,” maries. As head of the party, date. He did acknowledge his
would continue to support Sanders said in a statement. Schultz is supposed to be neu- disappointment over the biased
Clinton as his main goal was to Schultz spoke to both the US tral. Clinton, the former secre- support of the top party leaddefeat Trump, Republican pres- President Barack Obama and tary of state, has emerged as the ership to the Clinton camClinton before announcing her winner of the Democratic pres- paign during the primaries.
idential candidate.
He did acknowledge his resignation. The Chairwoman idential primaries defeating
2 dead in Florida nightclub shooting
An investigator walks near the scene of a fatal shooting at Club Blu nightclub in Fort
Myers, on Monday.
AP
PTI n HOUSTON
t least two persons were
killed and 17 others
A
injured on Monday in a shooting at a night club in Florida
hosting a teen party, over a
month after a gunman killed 49
people in the state in the worst
massshooting incident in US
history. The shooting occurred
around 12-30 am in the parking lot of Club Blu Bar and Grill
in Fort Myers, Florida.
Three suspect has been
detained, the police said. “The
numbers, they’re sort of fluctuating.
We have multiple hospitals
calling in. We’re trying to con-
firm. So, 15 to 17.
We do have two confirmed
dead,” Captain Jim Mulligan of
the Fort Myers Police
Department said.
“Officers arrived on scene.
Found multiple people suffering from various levels of gunshot wounds.
EMS was called, multiple
units responded. Helped triage
transport multiple people from
the scene,” he said.
According to local
WinkNews, witnesses describe
the moments outside the club
as a “mad house”.
One woman who lives two
blocks from Club Blu said she
heard multiple gunshots.
People were crying and
screaming, she wrote on her
Facebook Page, adding that
many were being carried on
ambulances to area hospitals.
The injured were reported
to have minor to life-threatening wounds.
The shooting comes after a
massacre at a nightclub in
Orlando on June 12 in which
a lone gunman killed 49 people in the deadliest mass shooting in US history.
Ankara (AFP): Turkish authorities
today issued arrest warrants for over 40
journalists in a new phase of a controversial legal crackdown after the failed
coup against President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan that has alarmed the West.
With Erdogan seeking to rally
national cross-party support for his rule
10 days after defeating the attempted
putsch, he hosted two top opposition
leaders for an unprecedented meeting
at his presidential palace.
Over 13,000 people have been
detained so far in a vast sweep in the
wake of the July 15 military coup bid,
which the authorities blame on the
reclusive US-based Islamic cleric
Fethullah Gulen.
The crackdown has raised tensions
with the European Union, further
hampering Ankara’s stalled membership bid, while a potential diplomatic
crisis with Washington is looming if the
United States refuses to extradite Gulen
to Turkey, a fellow NATO member.
Istanbul anti-terror prosecutors
issued arrest warrants for 42 journalists as part of the coup investigation, the
state-run Anadolu news agency said.
Among those targeted were prominent
journalist Nazli Ilicak who was fired
from the pro-government Sabah daily
in 2013 for criticising ministers caught
suicide bomber rammed
his explosives-laden car
A
into a checkpoint outside a
Shiite town north of Baghdad
on Monday, killing at least 14
people, Iraqi officials said.
No one immediately
claimed responsibility for the
attack, which bore the hallmarks of the extremist Islamic
State group.
Since late last year, the
group has suffered a string of
territorial losses, most recently in Fallujah, where it was driven out last month by Iraqi
forces after occupying the city
for more than two years. But
the extremists have continued
to carry out near-daily bomb-
ings in and around Baghdad, as
well as complex attacks in
other countries.
Today’s bombing took
place at one of the busy
entrances to the town of Khalis,
about 80 kilometers (50 miles)
north of the Iraqi capital, a
police officer said. The town is
a Shiite enclave surrounded by
Sunni areas in the restive
Diyala province.
Eight policemen and six
civilians were killed and up to
41 people were wounded, the
officers said, adding that the
explosion also damaged nearly 20 cars lined up at the
checkpoint.
A medical official confirmed the casualty figures.
Both officials spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity as they were
not authorised to talk to the
media.
On Sunday, IS claimed
responsibility for a suicide
attack on a checkpoint in
Baghdad that also killed 14
people and wounded 31.
The Islamic State group
still controls significant areas in
northern and western Iraq,
including the country’s secondlargest city of Mosul. Since its
2014 blitz, IS has declared an
Islamic caliphate on the territory it holds in Iraq and Syria.
The Sunni militant group
recently stepped up its attacks
far from the front lines in
what Iraqi officials see as an
attempt to distract from their
battlefield losses.
Nearly 300 killed in China rains
Beijing, (PTI)” Heavy
floods in China have lef nearly 300 people dead or missing
and caused huge economic
losses, prompting the army to
deploy 59,000 troops for relief
and rescue operation. Rain
affected more than 14.76 million people in 10 provinciallevel regions, including the
hardest hit provinces of Henan
and Hebei, forcing the relocation of 5.14 lakh people.
Nearly 1.25 lakh people are
in urgent need of basic living
assistance, state-run Xinhua
news agency reported. Some
1.26 lakh houses collapsed and
3.44 lakh houses were damaged
to varying degrees. Floods also
affected 1.18 million hectares
of crops. Total direct economic losses were estimated at
31.14 billion yuan (USD 4.7
billion). The Chinese army
has deployed 59,000 troops
to help wit relief and rescue, the
report said.
Wang Qilong of the
Chinese Armed Police Force
(CAPF) headquarters said 16
CAPF corps, seven divisions
and other troops joined the
work, using 590 inflatable
motor launches.
Armed police have worked
on over 375 km of dikes,
repaired almost 1,000 km of
roads and dredged over 80 km
of river courses, it said. Also
four officials from the province
were suspended from their
posts for dereliction of duty in
coping with deadly floods.
As many as 289 people
have been killed or missing,
authorities said. Public outrage
mounted as many questioned
hy they were not informed of
the impending floods, and
complained the officials failed
to organise evacuation before
the flood crested. The four officials included two Communist
Party of China (CPC) officials
in Xingtai city, a chief engineer
of Shijiazhuang municipal
bureau of transport, and a
deputy head of Jingxing
County, according to a decision
made by the Hebei Provincial
Committee of the CPC. Heavy
rain since last Monday has battered 71 county-level cities in
Henan, and Anyang was the
one of the worst-hit areas.
Nearly two lakh people
had been relocated so far.In
rural areas, about 1,500 km of
roads were flooded and 56
bridges were damaged.
In the city, about 70 square
meters of land were waterlogged, nine electrical pump
stations were damaged, and 20
residential communities were
affected. The city has
mobilised 3.16 lakh people.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoganl left, greets Devlet Bahceli before a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, on
Monday.
up in a corruption scandal, it added.
Five people have been detained so far
although 11 of the suspects are believed
to already be outside the country, the
Dogan news agency said. Other prominent journalists hit with warrants
include the commentator Bulent
Mumay and the news editor of Fox TV
in Turkey, Ercan Gun. Erdogan’s government had been under fire even
before the failed putsch for restricting
press freedoms, accusations the authorities strongly deny. The French foreign
ministry said Turkey’s response to the
coup “should not compromise the rule
of law and fundamental liberties like
freedom of the press”.
In new raids today, police detained
some 40 people at the army’s military
academy in Istanbul. Meanwhile, 31
academics, including professors, were\
detained in an operation in Istanbul
over alleged links to Gulen, Dogan said.
Amnesty International claimed it
had “credible evidence” of the beating,
rape and torture of post-coup detainees
but a Turkish official vehemently
denied the accusations.
Turkey has undergone a seismic
shift since the night of violence when
renegade soldiers sought to topple
Erdogan but were stopped by crowds of
civilians and loyalist security forces. At
least 270 people were killed on both
sides.
The authorities have announced
they will disband the 2,500-strong
presidential guard, which has seen
almost 300 members detained.
The length of time suspects can be
held in custody without charge has been
extended from four days to one month
under a state of emergency that has
caused alarm in the EU. The government says the stringent measures are
needed to clear out the influence of
Gulen from Turkey’s institutions, claiming he has created a “parallel state”
inside Turkey.
Gulen, 75, who lives in a compound
in rural Pennsylvania and whose foundation runs a global network of schools,
charities and media interests, has
strongly denied the accusations.
15-hour mega traffic jam in UK
TROTTING
London: Pop star Selena Gomez has posted an emotional message in which she said
she needs to “rethink some areas of my life
creatively and personally”. The 24-year-old
singer took to Instagram after her gig in
Jakarta, Indonesia on Friday, which was
also her birthday, to explain that she is
planning some major changes, reported
Female First. She included a screenshot of
a message which read, “Tonight I felt
extremely unauthentic.
AP n BAGHDAD
Turkey targets media in new crackdown
GLOBE
I need to rethink my
life: Selena Gomez
Suicide car bomber kills
14 people in Baghdad
Bella Hadid telling Zayn
Malik to propose Gigi?
London:Model Bella Hadid has reportedly
been motivating singer Zayn Malik to propose her model sister Gigi, to take their
relation on the next level. The 23-year-old
“Like I Would” hitmaker has been dating
Gigi, 21, for seven months and now her
younger sibling Bella, believes the pair
should tie the knot, reported Female First.
“Bella’s been joking with Zayn that he’s
being slow and drawn out, and needs to
looks after her big sister .
Harris sings to West’s
number in new video
London: Calvin Harris shared a video of
himself singing along to Kanye West and
Schoolboy Q’s song “That Part” amid the
rapper’s feud with the DJ’s ex-girlfriend
Taylor Swift. The 32-year-old DJ appeared
to take the side of West over his former
girlfriend when he shared a video of himself signing along to Kanye and Schoolboy
Q’s song, reported Female First. Harris’
video comes after West’s wife Kim
Kardashian, 35, took to Snapchat .
... as France ups border check
People sit and wait with their cars, having reached near to the front of the queue at the Port of Dover, southern England, as
motorists face continued disruption traveling to France, on Sunday. Holiday makers and commercial traffic all face misery on
the roads with some people forced to spend the night in their cars after getting stuck in jams leading to the port, as French border
officials enforce security checks during the state of emergency following recent extremist attacks.
AP
DOVER: British holidaymakers spent hours sweating in
their cars as 15-hour queues
snaked back from the port of
Dover on Sunday due to
heightened entry checks by
French border police.
Stationary vehicles tailed back
up to 12 miles (19 kilometres)
inland from Dover, on
England's southeastern tip.
The peak summer holiday
getaway season and what
Dover port officials said was a
lack of French border control
staff combined with the
increased security to create
the mammoth queues. Dover is
Britain's main ferry port to
continental Europe, with Calais
in northeastern France 21 miles
(33 kilometres) away across the
Channel. A multiple sclerosis
sufferer travelling to Germany
for stem cell treatment was
among those forced to spend
the night in their vehicles.
What should have been a
straightforward journey to
Dover turned into a 20-hour
ordeal for 50-year-old Tanya
Cudworth, who was travelling
to a Frankfurt clinic.
She told the Press
Association news agency that
her experience was "absolutely horrendous".
"Nineteen hours in the car
has obviously aggravated my
symptoms," she said.
"During the day it was so
hot and there was nowhere
near enough water and at
night... you couldn't sleep
because you had to keep moving forward.
"We didn't get any water
until 3am and I saw women
with babies, young families
and people with pets with no
water. It's shocking that more
wasn't done to get it to people."
People were advised to bring
food and drink supplies, while
Sikh humanitarian organisation Khalsa Aid delivered bottles of water and snacks.
"We met a lot of young
families with children, mostly
people going on holidays," said
founder Ravi Singh, 46. "People
didn't know what was going on.
"People were very, very frustrated and pulling their hair
out.
world 13
LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
Syrian refugee killed by
own bomb at German bar
AFP n BERLIN
Syrian migrant set off an
explosion at a bar in southA
ern Germany that killed himself and wounded a dozen others, authorities said, the third
attack to hit Bavaria in a week.
The 27-year-old, who had
spent a stint in a psychiatric
facility, had intended to target
a music festival in the city of
Ansbach but was turned away
because he did not have a
ticket.
“Unfortunately, this is a terrible new attack which will
surely increase people’s anxiety,”
regional interior minister
Joachim Herrmann said,
adding that investigators “have
not ruled out” he had an
Islamist motive.
Hermann said he was worried “the right to asylum would
be undermined” by the events
of the past week, which has
seen attacks on a train and
shopping mall in the southern
German state.
The explosion happened
just outside a bar in Ansbach
city centre, not far from where
more than 2,000 people had
gathered for the concert, at
around 10:00 pm yesterday
0130 IST on Monday. Police
have blocked off the area and
emergency services were at
the scene. Bomb experts were
also sent to determine the
cause of the blast. Ansbach
deputy police chief Roman
Fertinger said there were “indications” pieces of metal had
been added to the explosive
device.
The perpetrator was killed
in the explosion, police said in
a statement, and a spokeswoman said 12 people were
wounded, three of them seriously. Herrmann said the
attacker, who came to Germany
two years ago but had his asylum claim rejected after a year,
had tried to kill himself twice
in the past and had spent time
in a psychiatric clinic. Europe
has been on edge for months
Ansbach attack suggests
Islamist motive: Official
Ansbach: Bavaria’s top security official said on Monday
that he believes a failed asylum
seeker who blew himself up
and injured 12 people in the
southern German town of
Ansbach was driven by religious extremism. “My personal view is that I unfortunately
think it’s very likely this really
was an Islamist suicide attack,”
Bavarian interior minister
Joachim Herrmann told
German news agency dpa.
The 27-year-old Syrian
blew himself up after being
turned away from an open-air
music festival. Herrmann said
the man’s request for asylum
was rejected a year ago, but he
was allowed to remain in
Germany because of the strife
in Syria. The unnamed man
had repeatedly received psychiatric treatment, including
for attempted suicide,
Herrmann said. Asked whether
the bomber might have links to
the Islamic State group,
Herrmann said that couldn’t be
ruled out, though there was no
concrete evidence for this yet.
“The obvious intention to
kill more people indicates an
Islamist connection,” he told
dpa. Earlier on Monday a
spokesman for the prosecutor’s
office in Ansbach said the
attacker’s motive wasn’t clear.
“If there is an Islamist link or
not is purely speculation at this
point,” said the spokesman,
Michael Schrotberger. Roman
Fertinger, the deputy police
chief in nearby Nuernberg,
said it was likely there would
have been more casualties if the
man had managed to enter the
concert venue. Three of the 12
victims suffered serious injuries
in the blast. The attacker’s
rucksack had contained sharp
bits of metal. The explosion
came as Germany, and the
southern state of Bavaria in
particular, have been on edge.
Earlier on Sunday, a Syrian
man killed a woman with a
machete and wounded two
others outside a bus station in
the southwestern city of
Reutlingen before being arrested. Police said there were no
indications pointing to terrorism.
Two days earlier, a man
went on a deadly rampage at a
Munich mall, killing nine people and leaving dozens wounded. And an ax attack on a train
near Wuerzburg last Monday
wounded five. A 17-year-old
Afghan asylum-seeker was shot
and killed by police as he fled
the scene.
after a string of deadly attacks
claimed by the Islamic State
jihadist group, including
bombings in Brussels and carnage at Bastille Day celebrations in the southern French
city of Nice.
In Bavaria, which has been
a gateway for thousands of
Syrian refugees, nine died in a
shooting rampage in Munich
on Friday and several people
were wounded in an axe attack
on a train near Wuerzburg.
Police released more details of
Munich attacker David Ali
Sonboly on Sunday, saying the
18-year-old was depressed and
had spent two months in a psychiatric unit last year.
The teen was obsessed
with mass killings and spent a
year preparing for the gun
attack that killed nine people,
most of them foreigners.
At least 35 people were also
wounded during Sonboly’s
shooting spree, which began at
a McDonald’s branch and
ended with him turning his
9mm Glock pistol on himself.
Investigators have ruled
out any link with the jihadists,
though he appears to have
planned the assault with chilling precision.
Former top Chinese General
sentenced to life over graft
Gen Guo Boxiong
PTI n BEIJING
74-year-old former top
Chinese General was on
A
Monday sentenced to life by a
military court for taking bribes,
the second highest PLA official
to face trial for graft as part of
President Xi Jinping’s massive
crackdown on corruption.
Gen Guo Boxiong was also
deprived of his political rights
for life and stripped of his rank.
His personal assets were
seized, and all illicit money and
materials were confiscated and
turned over to the state treasury, state-run Xinhua news
agency reported. Guo is a former vice chairman of the
Central Military Commission
(CMC), the highest commanding authority of 2.3-million-strong People’s Liberation
Army (PLA).
Guo also was once among
the 25 members of the party’s
Politburo.
According to prosecutors,
he was found to have taken the
advantage of his position to
assist the promotion and relocation of other people, accepting an extremely huge amount
of bribe personally and through
his family. He was charged
with taking a total of 80 million
yuan (USD 12.3 million) in
bribes. The reports cited prosecutors as saying that he had
confessed to the bribery
charges.
Guo had earlier been put
under corruption investigation and was in July expelled
from the ruling Communist
Party of China (CPC). Guo’s
prosecution had been expected since March 2015, when his
son, Maj Gen Guo Zhenggang,
was placed under formal investigation for corruption and
unspecified criminal activity.
He is the second highest
ranking military official to face
trial. Earlier, Gen Xu Caihou
who was also the former Vice
Chairman of CMC was
stripped of all ranks and faced
trial. But he died of cancer last
year. In all, over 40 top
Generals faced anti-corruption probes in the unprecedented anti-graft campaign
launched by President Xi
Jinping .
Scribes’ visa issue: Chinese media
warns India of repercussions
PTI n BEIJING
aking umbrage at India’s refusal to
extend visas to three Chinese jourT
nalists, a state-run daily on Monday
warned of “serious consequences” if New
Delhi was “taking revenge” for China’s
refusal to back its NSG bid and sought
“action to display reaction”.
Terming as “petty” the denial of permission for an extended stay to three
Chinese journalists based in India, the
Global Times said “no official reason was
given for the rejection of the visa renewals”.
“...speculation is swirling that India is taking revenge against China for the latter’s
opposition to India joining the
Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)... If
New Delhi is really taking revenge due to
the NSG membership issue, there will be
serious consequences,” it said in an editorial titled ‘India’s expulsion of reporters
is a petty act’.
The three Chinese journalists, Delhibased Bureau Chief Wu Qiang and two
reporters in Mumbai - Tang Lu and Ma
Qiang, representing the state-run Xinhua
news agency were deniedpermission for
the extended stay. Their visas are expiring at the end of this month and all the
three had sought extension by a few
months till their successors arrive.
India’s act was described as an “expulsion” by some foreign media, the editorial said. “No official reason was given for
the rejection of the visa renewals. Some
Indian media claimed that the three journalists are suspected of impersonating
other people to access several restricted
departments in Delhi and Mumbai with
fake names. There were also reports
attributing it to the journalists’ meeting
with exiled Tibetan activists,” it said.
“India has a suspicious mind. No matter whether Chinese reporters apply for a
long-term or a temporary journalist visa,
they will come across many troubles.
Complaints about difficulties of acquiring
an Indian visa have also been heard from
other Chinese who deal with India. In contrast, it’s much easier for Indians to get a
Chinese visa.
“On the visa issue this time, we
should take action to display our reaction.
We at least should make a few Indians feel
Chinese visas are also not easy to get,” it
said. Quoting its former Indian correspondent Lu Pengfei, thenewspaper said
there is “absolutely no need” for Chinese
journalists in India to conduct interviews
under fake names and it is completely normal for reporters to request interviews
File Photo of PM Narendfra Modi and Chinese PM Xi Jingping.
with the Dalai Lama group.
“The act has sent negative messages
and media communications between
China and India will inevitably be negatively impacted,” the editorial said.
It claimed that by opposing India’s
NSG membership, China was not being
disrespectful because it was obeying the
rule that all NSG members are required
to be signatories to the Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT).
However, the editorial also pitched for
maintaining friendly Sino-India ties. “The
China-India bilateral relationship now is
on a sound track, with a by and large tranquil border and steadily booming trade...
China should stick to a friendly strategy
toward India, as we believe bilateral
friendship is in the interests of India as
well,” it said. However, the editorial also
pitched for maintaining friendly SinoIndian ties.
“The China-India bilateral relationship now is on a sound track, with a by
and large tranquil border and steadily
booming trade. The two in general are able
to maintain neutrality with regard to international affairs that are related to the other
side. “China should stick to a friendly strategy toward India, as we believe bilateral
friendship is in the interests of India as
well,” it said.
Separately, a report in the same daily
on the visa issue quoted “experts” as saying that the move shows a lack of trust in
the Chinese government and reflects
poorly on Sino-Indian relations.
Referring to Indian media reports that
claimed the three journalists had recently traveled to Bangalore and met exiled
Tibetan activists, which became an issue
with the government, the report quoted
Lu, also a former People’s Daily reporter
in India, as saying that he had visited
Dharamsala with two of his colleagues in
2014 using their true identities. “Besides,
Bangalore is not a restricted area.”
People’s Daily is the official newspaper of
the ruling Communist Party of China.
“I have frequently met exiled Tibetan
activists through intermediaries, and even
spoke to the Dalai Lama.
I should have been expelled several
times if that was the reason the Indian government gave. It was very likely an act of
revenge against China for denying India
membership in the Nuclear Suppliers
Group,” Lu said. “China has always supported a full discussion within the NSG
on the membership issue and a decision
based on the consensus of all sides
through consultation,” the report said
referring to previous comments to the
media made by the Chinese Foreign
Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei.
“The incident could indicate an
increasing mistrust between the two
countries. India thinks China does not pay
it enough respect as a regional or global
power,” Zhang Jiadong, a professor with
the Center for American Studies at Fudan
University, told the Global Times.
“However, we should have faith as the
two sides possess the possibility of more
cooperation and common interests,”
Zhang added.
Af civilian casualties soar to record high: UN
AFP n KABUL
ivilian casualties in
Afghanistan soared to a
C
record high in the first half of
2016, the UN said on Monday,
with children in particular
paying a heavy price as insurgents step up fighting and
insecurity grows.
The UN report, which
comes two days after the deadliest attack in Kabul since 2001,
cited ground combat between
militants and NATO-backed
Afghan forces as the leading
cause of casualties.
Between January and June,
1,601 civilians were killed and
3,565 were wounded — a four
percent increase in casualties
compared to the same period
last year, the United Nations
Assistance Mission in
Afghanistan (UNAMA) said.
The casualties have
reached their highest level
since the
UN began issuing its
authoritative reports in 2009.
The casualties include 1,509
children — roughly one-thirdof the total — a figure the UN
described as “alarming and
shameful”.
The statistics are a grim
indicator of growing insecurity in Afghanistan as the Taliban
Afghan men carry the coffin of a victim who died from a suicide attack, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday. Afghanistan held a
national day of mourning on Sunday, a day after a suicide bomber killed at least 80 people who were taking part in a peaceful
demonstration in Kabul. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group.
AP
step up their nationwide insurgency and the Islamic State
group seeks to expand their
foothold in the east of the
country.
“Every single casualty documented in this report — people killed while praying, working, studying, fetching water,
recovering in hospitals — every
civilian casualty represents a
failure of commitment and
should be a call to action for
parties to the conflict to take
meaningful steps to reduce
civilians’ suffering,” UNAMA
chief Tadamichi Yamamoto
said. “Platitudes not backed by
meaningful action ring hollow
over time.
History and the collective
memory of the Afghan people
will judge leaders of all parties
to this conflict by their actual
conduct.”
The UN report said insurgent groups including the
Taliban were responsible for
the majority — 60 percent —
of civilian casualties.
But it also reported a 47
percent increase in the number
of casualties caused by pro-government forces, compared to
the same period last year.
“The testimony of victims
and their families brings into
agonising focus the tragedy of...
this protracted conflict since
2009,” said Zeid Ra’ad Al
Hussein, the UN High
Commissioner for Human
Rights.
“The family that lost a
breadwinner, forcing the children to leave school and struggle to make ends meet; the driver who lost his limbs, depriving him of his livelihood; the
man who went to the bazaar to
shop for his children only to
return home to find them
dead.”
Pak police arrest Qandeel’s cousin
PTI n LAHORE
akistani police on Monday
arrested sister and cousin of
P
Qandeel Baloch for their “pos-
A Filipino activist carries a slogan as she joins a rally with thousands of other activists and supporters of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte near the gates of the House
of Representatives in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines on Monday. President Duterte delivered his first State of the Nation Address on Monday.
AP
sible involvement” in the murder of the social media celebrity who was killed by her brother for protecting the family’s
‘honour’.
“Shahnaz and Haq Nawaz,
the sister and cousin of
Qandeel, have been taken into
custody for investigation in
her murder case,” an investigation officer told reporters.
Muhammad Waseem, brother
of Qandeel, had killed the
model on July 16 at their
Multan residence, some 350
kilometres from Lahore, for for
‘dishonouring’ the family.
On Monday a judicial
magistrate extended the physical remand of Waseem into
police custody for another
three days for interrogation.
Waseem, in his confes-
sional statement claimed to
have acted alone and said he
had drugged and strangled his
sister in the name of honour.
Police, however, are look-
ing to investigate Shahnaz and
Haq Nawaz for their “possible
involvement” in Qandeel’s
murder. Police have also conducted polygraph and DNA
tests at Waseem. Senior police
officer Ali Mardan said police
would also summon cleric
Mufti Abdul Qavi this week for
interrogation.
Qavi was embroiled in a
controversy with Qandeel
when she uploaded her pictures
with him on her Facebook
account. Qavi, who was suspended from the Ruet-e-Hilal
Committee in the controversy
following the video posts, has
also been included in the murder inquiry by the police. After
Qandeel’s murder, the PML-N
government has announced
enacting law to remove a loophole allowing other family
members to pardon a killer.
Earlier, police said that Waseem
had killed his sister for the
“honour of the family”.
The ‘honour-killing’ had
sent shockwaves across the
country and triggered an outpouring of grief on social
media for Qandeel.
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LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
‘Narsingh's Rio dream virtually over'
Sports Minister Goel says wrestler is placed under suspension and will be given fair chance to defend himself
PTI n NEW DELHI
ports Minister Vijay Goel on Monday hinted that Narsingh Yadav's prospects of participating at the Rio Olympics is virtually over
but said the wrestler will be given a fair chance to
defend himself.
Goel also made it clear that Narsingh's dope
case will be dealt as per international rules with
the strict implementation of the WADA Code.
In his introductory remark before a press conference, Goel said India will be represented by 119
sportspersons (from earlier 120) in Rio Olympics.
"NADA is an autonomous body established
under the WADA Code to promote clean sports
and check doping. In Narsingh's case, we will
ensure that WADA Code is implemented. We are
committed to the WADA Code," he said while
announcing the 'Run for Olympics' programme to
be held here on July 31.
The run from the National Stadium to
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium will be flagged off by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"Both of Narsingh's A and B dope samples have
returned positive. He has been placed under provisional suspension and so we now have 119 athletes. That's why I said India will be represented
by 119 athletes," the minister said when asked if
Narshing still has a chance to take the Rio bus.
"The NADA has disciplinary panels to deal
with doping cases. He (Narshing) will get a fair
chance to defend himself and present his case
before these panels. There will be justice under the
rules and beyond that there is nothing much we
can do in this case," said the minister who took
charge this month.
Asked about his comments on Narsingh's allegation of conspiracy by others to frame him, Goel
said, "He has not said it to us. We don't know."
On whether the government will agree to a
probe on the issue as demanded by Narsingh, Goel
evaded the question.
"Law will take its own course and we cannot
do anything. Let the NADA panels deal with the
case and then we will see," he said.
India's Olympic buildup was dealt a huge blow
yesterday as Narsingh, who was selected ahead of
the celebrated Sushil Kumar, failed a dope test.
National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA)
Director General Navin Agarwal said Narsingh
had tested positive for a banned substance and he
appeared before a NADA disciplinary panel on
Saturday.
Top Sports Authority of India officials were
furious that Narsingh has talked about a conspiracy to frame him after both his samples returned
positive for anabolic steroid. They said that
S
‘SUSHIL HAS NO CHANCE TO REPLACE NARSINGH'
Karthik Raman n New Delhi
fter Narsingh Yadav's chances of travelling to Rio
AOlympics looks to be shattered following a failed dope
test, the little possibility of Sushil Kumar, who fights in the
same 74kg category, making the Rio cut instead of him was
ruled out by an official in the Wrestling Federation of India
on Monday.
He said as far as his knowledge is concerned the late
athlete replacement can be made possible only on the
medical grounds as the last entry for the Rio Olympics was
over on 18th of July.
"There is no chance of Sushil replacing Narsingh as far
as I know," the official said. "The last date for sending the
entry list is on 18th July and its long over. If an athlete is to
be replaced after the specified date, we have to do so only
with the permission of the international body as well as the
organizers. However, as far as I know it can only happen if
it is in the medical grounds, but this is a doping case so
another athlete cannot be replaced in that slot," he added.
Contradicting to the statement, WFI President Brij
Bhushan Sharan Singh still believes India can field a
replacement athlete. "WFI will consult with the chief coach
and take his opinion on who is fit to go. In India, we have a
huge talent pool and I am sure someone good can replace
Narsingh," Brij Bhushan said in PTI.
Meanwhile, Narsingh's coach Jagmal Singh remains
hopeful of his lad clearing the case in Wednesday's final
hearing. "Why would such a well reputed sensible wrestler
who has to represent the country in Olympics will make
such a thing? Why would he intake anything that would not
allow him to represent the country," he asked.
Narsingh's case is an open and shut case.
"What does he mean by conspiracy? All food
supplements provided at SAI Centers are given
after testing and that too by the federations. Does
he mean to say that SAI is involved in contaminating the supplements with banned substances?"
an official asked.
"He is in the dock now and he should first
prove (that he is innocent) himself and then say
all these things like he has been framed and there
was a conspiracy," the official said.
"Every athlete who has tested positive in the
past has claimed that they are innocent and they
are being framed. It is not new. We will see what
the NADA disciplinary panel decide," added the
official.
The official said "as of now, Narsingh has no
chance to go to Rio Olympics. It is an open and
shut case. We have seen these kind of cases ear-
lier. The (WADA) rules are very strict and it is very
difficult to prove innocence in such cases."
"Likewise, there is also no chance for Sushil
Kumar to represent India in Rio. It is over, the
deadline for sending entries is over. India will not
be represented by any wrestler in the 74kg
freestyle."
Asked if there could be any swapping of dope
samples, the official said, "I don't think this can
happen. If he thinks it can happen, and if he writes
to us officially alleging that it could happen, we
have to do a DNA test and we are not saying that
we will not do it. But he has to first tell us that officially."
The official also rubbished Narsingh's allegations against a top SAI functionary at the Sonepat
Center.
"He (Narsingh) has not informed or written
anything (against any SAI official) earlier when he
thought there was something happening. But he
is making a complaint just now, after the dope
case."
Goel said with a view to build Olympic mood
in the country, especially when India is sending
its largest ever contingent of 119 athletes, the
Sports Ministry and Sports Authority of India are
organising a mass run called 'Run for Rio - Khelo
aur Jiyo" on July 31 at 7:00 a.M.
He said around 20,000 school children will
participate in the Run, which will be flagged off
by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Run will
commence from Major Dhyan Chand National
Stadium and conclude at Jawaharlal Nehru
Stadium.
The Prime Minister will also release a publication of SAI on 'Indian Olympics Journey'
which will carry interesting information on country's Olympics achievements and preparations for
the future.
"The objective of the Run was to not only
demonstrate to our athletes that the whole country is proud of them and wishes them all the best
in the forthcoming Rio Olympics competitions, but
also to connect public at large, especially children
and youth, with the Olympic spirit and power of
sports," said Goel.
He said that it is for the first time that a mass
run of such magnitude is being held to celebrate
the spirit of Olympics in the country. Similar Runs
on a smaller scale will be held in the SAI
Regional Centres at Sonepat, Kolkata, Bhopal,
Gandhinagar and Thiruvananthapuram.
Delhi Police will look after the entire security throughout the route. Giant screens will be located at strategic points for enabling each and every
participant to witness the address of Prime
Minister before he flags off the Run.
Sam to take time to decide on captaincy
AVFC to open academy in Delhi IOC bows to Putin
AP n BURTON-UPON-TRENT
IANS n NEW DELHI
lthough new England manager Sam Allardyce will
take his time before deciding if
Wayne Rooney continues as
captain, he already has a clearer idea of how he wants the
national team to play.
Rooney, England's all-time
leading scorer, led England at
the
recent
European
Championship in France, where
it lost 2-1 to Iceland in the last
16. The humiliating defeat
prompted Roy Hodgson to
resign as coach.
Having helped Sunderland
avoid relegation from the
Premier League last season the
61-year-old Allardyce quit the
club to replace Hodgson, and he
held his first news conference at
St George's Park on Monday.
Asked if Rooney would be
his captain, Allardyce said it was
"far too early" to decide. He
added that he first needs to meet
with his players and staff before
England's qualifying campaign
for the 2018 World Cup begins
in September.
England looked dispirited
and disjointed against Iceland in
a new low for the national team
and the loss was met with
scathing criticism back home.
England's Premier League stars
were accused of being pampered
and technically deficient at the
highest level.
Allardyce, a vastly experienced coach at club level with
Bolton, Newcastle, Blackburn
Rovers and West Ham, has
earned a reputation as a shrewd
tactician but primarily as a
great motivator.
Although he reminded
England's players not to lose
sight that playing for their coun-
ston Villa football club on Monday
announced the opening of an academy and
training facility here to coach and train youngsters from the age of five as the English Premier
League club does in England.
Aston Villa FC’s Chairman Tony Xia and its
group members held meetings with several members of the Indian government, including Sports
Minister Vijay Goel and Human Resource
Development Minister Prakesh Javedekar, to discuss providing the training for football coaches in
schools to be based at a new Aston Villa academy
and training facility to be opened in the capital.
The objective is for India to have a national football team challenging on the international stage within a generation and for India to host
the World Cup.
"Aston Villa Football Club, one of the most
successful football clubs in the history of
English football, plans to expand globally and
India is one of the countries where Aston Villa
not only want to have an Indian Super League
club but also open Football Academies all over
India!", Tony Xia said after announcing the
A
and Russian dopers
A
try is as good as it gets, he urged
them to relax more.
"I think the bonding of the
team is exceptionally important
and trying to create a good team
spirit (also is)," he said. "And
have some fun, the game of football is to be enjoyed and I've
enjoyed my life in the game for
many years."
At club level, Allardyce's
sides threatened on the counterattack with creativity mostly
restricted to the final third of play,
and he hinted that he will adapt
England's tactics with respect to
the opposition, rather than
imposing a certain playing style.
Hodgson's attempts to turn
England into a patient passing
team were ruthlessly exposed at
the 2014 World Cup - where it
finished bottom of its group and at Euro 2016. In both tournaments, England was found
wanting in defense and lacked
creativity.
"Choosing styles or systems
depends on the players available
and then who we're playing,"
Allardyce said. "My coaching
technique is to try and give the
players the opportunity to win
a football match wherever they
are playing, be it home or away.
And to make them aware of the
opposition, which may change
the style of how we play."
MANCHESTER DERBY CALLED OFF
The
International
Champions Cup match between
Premier League rivals
Manchester United and
Manchester City has been canceled after recent extreme
weather made the playing surface at Beijing's National
Stadium unfit for play.
Organizers say the decision to call off Monday's match
was made in the interests of
player safety, and in conjunction
with both clubs, the China
Football Association and management of the stadium, which
was the main venue for the 2008
Olympics.
AP n MOSCOW
nce again, the people who run the Olympics just can't
say no to Vladimir Putin.
ONot
when he spends more than $50 billion to host a
launch of its academy in India.
"Aston Villa has one of the best football academies in the world and has fans all over the world
and some of our famous fans include David
Cameron, Prince William, Tom Hanks and using
our network we also want to help promote
Under-17 FIFA World Cup being held in India
next year and make it a big sports celebration
in India!", Xia added. Aston Villa co-founded the
Football League and the EPL and has spent the
second longest period (105 years) in England’s
top tier of football.
‘There is no easy match in Olympics’
PTI n BENGALURU
ewly-appointed Indian
men's hockey team captain
N
PR Sreejesh said there is no
"easy match" in a sporting
extravaganza like the Olympics,
and all 12 teams will fancy their
chances of qualifying for the
quarterfinals in Rio.
"It is Olympics and there
is nothing easy. Every match
will be serious affair," he said
before departing for Spain en
route to Rio.
"In each group there are six
teams out of which four will
qualify for the quarterfinals.
Therefore, it is very important
for us to garner as many points
as possible to increase our
chances because the new format
gives an opportunity to every
team," he said.
Unlike previous editions,
the International Hockey
Federation (FIH) has introduced
a new competition format in this
year's Olympics.
As per the new format 12
teams have been divided into
two pools of six with each team
initially playing round-robin
games within their pool.
Following the completion of the
round-robin games, the top four
teams from each pool will
advance to the quarterfinals.
Previously, after completion
of round robin games top two
teams from each pool used to
directly qualify for the semifinals.
Sreejesh, who took over the
captaincy mantle from longstanding Sardar just ahead of the
Olympics, said they are ready to
face any side in the quarterfinals.
AIBA denies bid to take over the sport
AFP n SHANGHAI
he International Boxing Association
(AIBA) on Monday denied accusaT
tions it is trying to take over the sport,
following a controversial decision to let
professional boxers fight at Rio Oly.
At an AIBA congress in Lausanne
in Switzerland last month, 95 percent of
delegates voted to allow professional boxers for the first time ever to enter the
competition.
The decision was met with widespread derision in the boxing world, with
many making their views clear even
before the change was made.
AIBA president Wu Ching-Kuo
said the organisation had no plans to take
over the sport and allowing professionals to compete in Olympic boxing was
a great step forward for it.
The official, who is Taiwanese,
made the comments at a press conference to announce a joint venture to promote boxing between AIBA and
Alisports, an arm of Chinese internet
giant Alibaba which is owned by entrepreneur Jack Ma.
"We never said we want to take over
boxing. We just want to open the door
because no one can stop athletes from
going to the Olympics, that is a fundamental concept," Wu said.
"If the athlete says 'My dream is to
At an AIBA congress in
Lausanne in Switzerland
last month, 95 percent
of delegates voted to
allow professional
boxers for the first time
ever to enter
the competition
go to the Olympics', then we just want
to open the door."
In May legendary boxing promoter Bob Arum told AFP the plan to introduce professional boxers was "total
madness" and would result in "serious
injuries".
Arum believed the decision was
commercially orientated, with AIBA seeing more lucrative opportunities, and
part of a wider power grab by the association. But Wu rejected the charges saying that "only the best AIBA boxers"
would be facing professional fighters.
Speaking about the new relationship
with Alibaba, Wu predicted a bright
future for boxing in China, which he
described as a "noble sport" that could
"prepare youth for the challenges which
they face in society".
Chinese President Xi Jinping has
made the development of the country's
ailing football team a national priority,
but Wu did not see this as a barrier to
the development of boxing.
"President Xi Jinping loves boxing
— wait and see," he told AFP.
Alibaba, which owns a 37 percent
stake in Asian football champions
Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao,
launched Alisports last September to
develop the sporting economy in "an
innovative way with digital thinking",
according to its website.
winter Olympics to show off a resurgent Russia. Not when
he talks darkly about returning to the days of Olympic
boycotts in 1980 and 1984.
Certainly not when he suggests that doping officials
of one powerful country can you guess which one? are
behind efforts to ban Russia from the Rio Olympics.
When Putin talks, Olympic officials listen. And that's
the biggest reason why Russian athletes at least some of
them will march in opening ceremonies less than two
weeks from now in Brazil.
With Russian prestige on the line, the executive board
of the International Olympic Committee caved in.
Instead of banning Russia from Rio for running a statesanctioned doping operation, the IOC members decided instead Sunday to allow individual sports federations
to decide which Russians can compete.
It was just a little more than two years ago that Putin
was the face of a winter Olympics that he saw as far more
than just a sporting event. He cheered Russian athletes
in arenas and in the mountains, and celebrated with them
as they added to the host country's medal haul.
Meanwhile, his agents were working late into the night
at the Sochi doping lab, exchanging urine samples taken
from the country's athletes for clean ones in an
elaborate scheme to escape
detection.
It paid off with 33
medals for Russia, 11 of
them gold. The country led
the medal standings, and
Russian pride surged with
every big win.
That much of it was a
scam wouldn't be uncovered until many months
later. When it was, it was
clear the scope of the cheating effort was so great that it
couldn't have been pulled off without cooperation and
approval from the highest levels of the Russian government.
Yet Russian athletes will still compete in Rio. The official explanation for just why came from IOC president
Thomas Bach, who said it would be unfair to ban all
Russians when it has not been proven that all of them cheat.
"At the end of the day, we have to be able to look in the
eye of the individual athletes concerned by this decision,"
Bach said. The unofficial explanation was more telling.
"The IOC decision was to be expected. You can't
behave improperly toward a power like Russia," said
Gennady Alyoshin, a Russian Olympic Committee official, in comments to the Tass news agency.
Apparently you can't, since the IOC for all its bluster about operating drug-free Olympics seems more worried about offending Russia than protecting clean athletes.
The inexplicable decision to allow Russians to compete in Rio is a slap in the face to both clean athletes and
those around the world who work hard to try and ensure
the playing field is level.
As an added insult, the IOC did Russia's bidding by
refusing to allow Yulia Stepanova's entry into the games
as a neutral competitor, a decision a top U.S. Anti-Doping
Agency official called "incomprehensible." Stepanova is
a runner who left Russia fearing for her safety after blowing the whistle on Russian doping and is considered a traitor by some in her home country. It's enough to make even
the true believers wonder. Just what are these Olympic
ideals we hear so much about anyway?
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LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
A VIRAT WIN FOR KOHLI’S INDIA
Men in Blue recored their biggest win outside sub-continent beating West Indies by an innings and 92 runs
PTI n NORTH SOUND (ANTIGUA)
ndia recorded their biggest win outside the sub-continent as they
thrashed a listless West Indies by an
innings and 92 runs in the opening cricket Test, riding on a fantastic seven-wicket haul by off-spinner Ravichandran
Ashwin here on Monday.
Ashwin produced an off-spin bowling masterclass to grab 7/83 and triggered a second-innings slide that saw the
hosts collapse from 88/2 to 132/8 on the
fourth and penultimate day.
A defiant ninth-wicket stand of 95,
West Indies' highest in the game, between
Carlos Brathwaite (51 not out) and
Devendra Bishoo (45) delayed the
inevitable before Ashwin came back to seal
the issue by bowling the hosts out for 231.
This was also the Tamil Nadu spinner's first five-wicket haul outside the
Asian continent.
India bowled out the West Indies for
243 in their first innings, having amassed
566 for eight declared after opting to bat.
Forced to follow-on after conceding a
massive lead of 323, the hosts failed to
cope up with intense pressure created by
Ashwin and Co on a pitch that offered
assistance to slow bowlers.
After tea, Brathwaite reached his third
Test fifty, but the rest of the innings folded in just over 40 minutes. Bishoo hit
straight to midwicket off Ashwin in the
78th over, and three balls later bowled
Shannon Gabriel (4) to wrap up the proceedings with a day to spare.
Post lunch, it was an extended session of play which proved enough for
India to force a win. But first they had
to break through the 67-run partnership
between Rajendra Chandrika (31) and
Marlon Samuels (50). The two batsmen
began again in the same vein, trying to
play for time, and in doing so, the latter
crossed the 50-mark off 74 balls raising
hopes of a fight back.
But it was short-lived as Chandrika
had a faint inside-edge off Ashwin in the
36th over, judged accurately by the
umpire and caught on the third attempt
by Wriddhiman Saha. It started the slide
for West Indies and the off-spinner
barged into the opening he had found.
In the very next over, he removed
Jermaine Blackwood (0) for a second duck
in the match, with skipper Virat Kohli
holding a magnificent diving catch at
midwicket to aid in the dismissal.
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It was a complete
performance: Kohli
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ndia skipper Virat Kohli termed his team's win
over the West Indies in the first Test a "complete
Iperformance"
and reserved special praise for
Then came the best moment for
Ashwin, as a beautiful delivery beat
Samuels' straight bat and knocked back
his off-stump in the 42nd over.
Earlier, post lunch, it was an
improved display by the Indian bowlers
who looked to change their line and
length from the morning. And the
change could be seen almost immediately as Shami started proceedings after the
break. He kept both Brathwaite (74 runs)
and Marlon Samuels (1) guessing, inducing an edge off the latter in the 49th over.
Four deliveries later, it became a
double blow, as Jermaine Blackwood (0)
was unable to fend off a sharp rising
delivery and was caught at gully by
Ajinkya Rahane.
Brathwaite went on to score his 9th
Test fifty off 156 deliveries, while the
West Indies' 100-mark came up in the
51st over. Indian skipper Virat Kohli then
went on the offensive and played around
with his fielding combinations, putting
in as many as five close-in catching positions for his pacers.
The trick worked as Yadav broke
through, first dismissing Chase who was
caught at midwicket with Kohli doing the
necessary catching himself. Two overs later,
the same aggressive fielding worked as
Brathwaite was forced to fend off a short
delivery instead of pulling it, and edged
behind to keeper Wriddhiman Saha, who
affected his fifth dismissal of the innings.
Earlier, West Indies reached 90/3 at
lunch after Brathwaite had defied the
Indian bowlers along with Devendra
Bishoo (12). The duo put on 38 for the second wicket but more importantly frustrated the visitors by batting out 17.5 overs.
Starting at their overnight score of
31/1, Bishoo looked to stay with his partner for as long as possible, and he was successful in achieving that goal. He frustrated the Indian bowlers for nearly 70 minutes, and in this interim, saw off Ishant,
Yadav without much discomfort.
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FIGURATIVELY
India recorded their biggest win in
West Indies by winning the first Test
match by an innings and 92 runs at
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound,
Antigua on Sunday. An innings and 92 runs
win was also India's biggest outside Asia.
Their previous biggest win outside Asia
was by an innings and 90 runs against
Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in 2005-06.
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2 This victory was India's only second
in their last 24 Tests outside Asia
since their win against West Indies at
Jamaica in 2011. Their only other win in
this period had come against England at
Lord's in 2014. India have lost 15 and
drawn seven Tests.
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It was India's third biggest victory
over West Indies and fourth biggest
overall in away Tests. The an innings
and 126 runs win at Mumbai in 2013-14 is
India's biggest win over West Indies while
an innings and 112 runs victory at the
same ground in 2002-03 is the second
biggest.
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Ravichandran Ashwin recorded best
bowling by an Indian in West Indies
by taking seven for 83. He bettered
Subhash Gupte's figures of 7 for 162 at
Port of Spain in 1952-53. It was Ashwin's
first seven-wicket haul for India in an away
Test when the opposition were asked to
follow-on. His figures are the third-best by
an India spinner in Tests outside Asia .
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Ravichandran Ashwin took 17
five-wicket hauls in 33 Tests so
far - the most by a spinner at
this point in career. Australia's Clarrie
Grimmett had taken 16 such hauls in his
first 33 Tests.
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Mohammed Shami, who marked his return to the
five-day format after a long injury layoff with four
first-innings wickets.
India stamped their authority as Ravichandran
Ashwin returned impressive figures of 7/83 to bowl
out the West Indies for 231 and notch up a record
innings and 92-run win here on Monday.
"Wow, I didn't know that," Kohli said when
told that this was India's biggest win outside Asia,
before adding, "Just feels good to get a win on the
board, always good to start well. Good prep time,
for three weeks.
"Everyone was excited, we'd enough practice.
It was a complete performance."
Kohli emphasised on the need to score runs
quickly to aim for a win.
"Scoring wasn't easy, initially West Indies
bowled well. A couple of their bowlers rushed us,
70-odd for 2 with five batsmen, had to take responsibility. Shikhar was playing really well and I wanted to be positive, if you want to win a Test you have
to score quickly and get the bowlers a chance to
bowl the opposition out twice.
"Then Ashwin played a brilliant innings down
the order, it was a team batting performance. If we're
playing five batsmen, we wanted to deepen the
order. We had Saha at No. 7 and Ashwin was good
enough to bat at No. 6. He was a pure batsman
before he became an offspinner.
"Always good to have someone who can do
pretty well in both. Our initial thought was three
spinners, but the amount of grass made us go with
three quicks." he explained.
‘Happy to break five-for deadlock outside India’
‘We were playing SRT, Pathan & Bedi
catch-up game’ congratulate Team India
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PTI n ANTIGUA
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PTI n NEW DELHI
est Indies' skipper Jason Holder concedconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar on
ed that his side were always playing
Monday congratulated the Virat KohliW
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"catch-up" game throughout the first Test
led Team India for its crushing win over
against India, which they surrendered meekly losing by an innings and 92 runs.
"It is always tough to play catch-up cricket. We never bowled well in the first innings.
Yes, we had some good bowling partnerships
but not for long sessions. Going forward we
definitely need to improve, to string together better bowling partnerships, and bowl more
maidens. Having said that we were not able
to create enough pressure in their first
innings," Holder said after the defeat.
"In hindsight, you can say a lot of things.
The combination we played had four bowlers
and an all-rounder in Roston Chase who bowls
some off-spin. But execution is the name of
the game. I don't think we executed well
enough," he added.
Holder said that the current Test side is a
young one and they also have their pride at
stake.
the West Indies in the opening Test of the
four-match series in Antigua.
India defeated the hosts by an
innings and 92 runs in the first Test,
which also happens to be the first assignment of new head coach Anil Kumble.
Tendulkar congratulated Kohli,
Kumble and off-spinner Ravichandran
Ashwin, who notched up a sevenwicket haul to set up India's biggest margin of victory outside the sub-continent.
"Congrats to @imVkohli led
#TeamIndia on a wonderful win. Great
performance @ashwinravi99 & wonderful debut for @anilkumble1074. Keep it
up!" Tendulkar wrote on his twitter handle.
Riding on Kohli's 200 and Ashwin's
113, India amassed 566 for 8 declared
in the first innings and then dismissed
the West Indies for 243 and 231 in first
and second innings respectively.
All-rounder Irfan Pathan also
heaped praise on Ashwin.
"Scoring 100 n taking 5-for in the
same game is so special, enjoy every bit
of it mate. Very well done @ashwinravi99," Irfan wrote on Twitter.
The second Test begins in Kingston
on July 30.
Former India spinner Bishan Bedi
also praised India and asked them to
continue their good run in the series.
"Indns've set terrific trend n
Antigua..& now 2 tighten screws only
4-0'll do..& all by Innings' win wud b
icing on the cake!Gr8 job India!!!," he
tweeted.
ndia's off-spinner Ravichandran
Ashwin, whose bowling masterclass of
seven for 83 enabled the visitors to
record an emphatic win against the West
Indies, is happy that he has been finally
able to break the deadlock of getting a coveted 'five-for' outside the sub-continent.
"It has taken me five years to repeat
(record) this feat (five wickets in an
innings) outside the sub-continent, that
is something I always wanted to break.
Getting a five-wicket haul away from subcontinent is something I have worked
earnestly towards and I am really pleased
for myself," Ashwin told to the BCCI.TV.
Having emulated Ian Botham, who
scored a hundred and recorded a sevenwicket haul in a Test match, the Tamil
Nadu off-break bowler said that he would
cherish the game for years to come.
"It was a very memorable game for
me. I shared a great partnership with
Virat. Wonderful to get a hundred and
also getting a five-wicket haul. It's one of
those games, which I will be cherishing
for a very very long time," said the man,
who now has 183 wickets and 1317 runs
from 33 games.
The 29-year-old, who scored fantastic 113 in the first innings said was pleasantly surprised when the skipper Virat
Kohli asked him to bat at number 6.
"To be batting at No 6 was a complete
India can topple Australia from No 1 spot
"I think it boils down to personal pride.
Roston, Shane Dowrich and Rajendra
Chandrika, myself, Jermaine Blackwood, we are
all quite young players. We are all looking to
make a mark in the international circuit.
"For us its just personal glory, personal
pride. That's what each person coming to Test
cricket is looking to do. I think all of us want
to do that. I think we need to come up with
a strong collective effort," said the skipper.
There were only two three-centuries in the
match from the hosts, and they needed to do
better to even have a hope of saving the match.
Clearly, the team needed more from its experienced batsmen, Darren Bravo (11 and 10)
and Marlon Samuels (1 and 50). "Ideally, that's
what we would expect from top-order batsmen. To be fair, they have to carry the
demands of this young batting side.
Unfortunately, Bravo didn't get any runs in this
Test. Marlon showed some form in the second innings and it is important for those two
guys to carry the batting and lay the foundation. The onus is on them, but we also have
more enough capable batsmen," said Holder.
Even so, it finally begs the question whether
the WI have a good enough bowling attack to
take 20 wickets against Indian line-up.
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ustralia may have just won the
ICC Test Championship mace
A
but India can topple them from the
number one spot if they are able to
blank the West Indies 4-0 in the
ongoing series and results in the
other two marquee series go as per
their wish.
If India win 4-0, EnglandPakistan series ends in a draw and
Sri Lanka win by 1-0 or better, then
India will jump to the number one
position, the ICC said in a statement
on Monday.
India thrashed the West Indies
by an innings and 92 runs in the
first Test in Antigua.
To permanently shut the door
on their nearest rivals India,
Australia need to beat Sri Lanka by
1-0 or better and at the same time
hope that England win, at least, one
Test against Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Australia captain
Steve Smith today received the
ICC Test Championship mace and
USD 1 million in prize money for
leading his side to the number one
ranking on the MRF Tyres ICC Test
Team Rankings on the annual April
1 cut-off date.
ICC Chief Executive David
Richardson made the presentations to Smith in Pallekele, who captained Australia to 10 Test victories
over the 12-month period.
surprise for me. Virat told me on the
morning of the match and I really liked
what he said. He told me "We trust you
and want you to bat at No.6 and see how
it works," said Ashwin.
Ashwin become the first Indian to
score a century and pick up a five-wicket haul on two occasions in Tests.
The exponent of carrom-ball felt that
the presence of head coach Anil Kumble
has helped him to bowl longer spells.
"In the first innings, I went wicketless for about 25-25 over's that I bowled
in the match. In the past, that would have
definitely troubled me as I am a bowler
who likes to keep getting wickets. I kept
speaking to him (Kumble) about what I
was doing right and what I wasn't," he
said on Monday.
"I was constantly in touch with him
(Kumble) also about what is the right
speed to be bowling. He gave me different ideas about what lines I can bowl to
the batsmen. It is about the knack of getting wickets and it is a good that we shared
wickets today," he added.
Ashwin said he was pleased to bat at
No 6 as it provides him better opportunity in batting.
"Batting at No 6 there is always more
opportunities to get a hundred than at No
8. I have started really well on that. Batting
at six, I have managed to get a five-for as
well so I hope I go from strength to
strength from here on."
"The mace is a symbol of excellence and recognition of a side's
outstanding achievement in the
toughest format of the sport.
Australia's winning performances
have been exceptional and they
thoroughly deserve to be awarded
the mace," said Richardson.
"These are exciting times for Test
cricket as the top four ranked countries are involved in high profile
series across three different continents showcasing the very best this
format of the sport has to offer. I am
sure the incentive of achieving the
number one ranking will further
motivate them, bringing out the best
in the players," added Richardson.
Smith paid tribute to his side,
saying: "It is a huge honour to be the
number one ranked Test side in the
world and the credit should go to all
the work the players and support staff
have put in over the last 12 months.
"I am really proud of our young
team and what we have accomplished so far but there is still more
we would like to achieve. We now
need to put in consistent performances, both at home and away, to
continue to be successful and keep
the number one ranking.
"Winning away from home has
often been a challenge for us, especially in sub-continental conditions,
but this is something we are looking
to change in this upcoming series
against Lanka," concluded Smith.
Jimmy’s double
leaves Pak reeling
AFP n MANCHESTER
ames Anderson struck twice
on his Lancashire home
Jground
as England eyed a
series-levelling win in the second Test against Pakistan at
Old Trafford on Monday.
Pakistan were 47 for two at
lunch on the fourth day, needing a further 518 runs to reach
their unlikely victory target of
565. Anderson, England's alltime leading wicket-taker,
removed both Shan Masood
(one) and Azhar Ali (eight) in
a spell of two wickets for four
runs in eight balls.
Mohammad Hafeez was 24
not out and Younis Khan,
dropped in the slips, 12 not out.
Earlier, Cook (76 not out)
and Joe Root (71 not out)
took England to 173 for one in
their second innings before the
skipper declared.
England, already with a
huge lead of 489 runs, resumed
on 98 for one after Cook had
decided against enforcing the
follow-on on Sunday.
Cook, who scored 105 in
England's mammoth first
innings 589 for eight declared,
was 49 not out and vice-captain
Root, whose Test-best 254 was
the cornerstone of that total, 23
not out.
Shah, who took 10 wickets
at Lord's, finished with secondinnings figures of none for 53
in nine overs following his
first-innings return of one for
213 in 56 overs.
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LUCKNOW | TUESDAY | JULY 26, 2016
PC inspires
Mawra
Desi girl PRIYANKA CHOPRA has
an ardent admirer in the young
and beautiful Mawra Hocane.
The actress, who is currently
seen as Bushra in Main Bushra
aired on Zindagi from Monday
– Saturday at 8 pm, made
her Bollywood debut early
this year.
Having followed Priyanka
since she won her Miss
World title, she is very
inspired by the Quantico
actress’s confidence and
like her believes in setting
high goals for herself. Says
Hocane, “My favourite
actress in Bollywood I
would say is Priyanka
Chopra. When Priyanka
Chopra won the title of
Miss World, I was eight
years old and I told my
mom that I want to grow
up to be like her.
Growing up, I was
always proud of women
achievers.”
Just like Priyanka, she
hopes to balance her
career between two
countries.
I believe in selfcensorship. One
should believe in
telling a story in
an honest and
best possible
way. Definitely, I
have freedom in
this. This format gives
you freedom and if you
don't make proper use of
this freedom then you
better don't come on
this platform
— SHASHANT SHAH
Filmmaker
bling skills for around ten minutes before going back to his seat.
The ticket buyer had got his
value.
The empty seats were more
than made up by a flurry of chief
guests, promoters of a herbal
brand and organisers. Seen and
teams and the distinguished
guests for their motivation and
cooperation that made this great
football match a grand success.
Through this match, we are supporting Swachch Bharat and Beti
Bachao Beti Padhao. We want to
fulfill the dream of our Prime
heard were Central Ministers
Maneka Gandhi, Vijay Goel and
Meenakshi Lekhi.
“We are grateful to both the
Minister and will keep organising such events to spread awareness,” said 26-year-old Bhasker
Prakash, the organiser.
RUNAWAY BABA
RANBIR KAPOOR scored five goals against MPs in a one-sided charity football
match till BABA RAMDEV lent some counterweight. By Ganita
n the end, it wasn’t clear who
overtook whom. Did the
brand swamp the celebrity or
did the celebrity tow the brand?
What everybody remembered
was the ubiquitous Baba
Ramdev doing his thing, running away with the show as usual
against the backdrop of his company’s promotionals. In this case,
showing he was quite the mean
machine who knew how to play
ball. Powered by his herbal supplements, he sure did fool the
MPs, who were pitted against
Bollywood celebrities in a charity game of football.
The audience, of course, was
most excited about watching
actor Ranbir Kapoor make some
deft moves along with his soccer
club chums from the industry.
Captain Abhishek Bachchan
stayed off the field, rather desultorily roaming around in blue
jeans and a black-red zipper
during the first half of the match.
He only advised Ranbir in
between, who helmed the team
spirit, scoring five goals himself,
and leading his team to a big win
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against the MPs with the final
scoreline settling at 10-0. Actor
Dino Morea (2) and TV actors
Sachin Joshi (1), Karan Wahi (1)
and Shabir Ahluwalia (1) pitched
in ably. Ranbir was his usual affa-
BABA RAMDEV
STEPPED INTO THE
SHOES OF THE
PARLIAMENTARIAN
TEAM, SHOWING
OFF HIS KICKS
AND DRIBBLING
SKILLS FOR
AROUND TEN
MINUTES BEFORE
THE MATCH ENDED
ble self, fraternising with fellow
sporstmen, so what if they were
from the unfancied world of TV.
He ruled the match while other
players fell off passively, disappointing eager fans.
The friendly match, christened as Football ka muqabla,
was organised by the Adhunik
Art Gallery, in support of the Beti
Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign.
Though the parliamentarians
comprised heavyweights like
Babul Supriyo, Manoj Tiwari,
Parvesh Sahib Singh, Sanjeev
Balyan, Pushpendra Singh
Chandel, Satish Gautam,
Bhola Singh, Rammohan
Naidu, Ramcharitra Nishad,
Rajesh Diwakar and K. P.
Singh, they quickly ran out of
steam. As the audience
deplored the “class VIII” standard of play, it was left to
Manoj Tiwari to rescue some
pride. But by the second half,
the MPs were seen ambling
and stretching out their limbs,
clearly bottoming out on stamina. And the crowd began streaming out.
It was then that Baba
Ramdev stepped into the shoes
of the parlimentarian team,
showing off his kicks and drib-