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Commissionerate police on
charges of negligence in conduct and safety that caused of
the major fire in the hospital on
Monday evening.
The Khandagiri police
arrested hospital superintendent Pusparaj Samantsinghara,
fire safety officer Santosh Das
and electrical maintenance officers Amulya Sahu and Malay
Kumar Sahu.
Commissioner of Police
YB Khurania said they all were
booked under Sections 304,
308, 285 and 34 IPC.
The four were arrested on
the basis of an FIR filed by Fire
Officer (Central Circle)
Bajendra Bhusan Das.
More arrests are likely to
follow.
In all, four separate FIRs,
including two by Government
agencies, were lodged on
Tuesday against city-based IMS
and SUM Hospital owner
Manoj Ranjan Nayak and others for sheer negligence that led
to loss of 20 lives, as so far confirmed, in a major fire that
broke out on Monday evening
at the hospital even as administrative inquiries into the
mishap have also begun.
The FIRs were filed at the
Khandagiri Police Station.
While the first FIR was
filed by the Directorate of Fire
Services (DFS), the second was
lodged by the Directorate of
Medical Education and
Training (DMET), the third
was by the Chhatra Congress.
The other FIR was lodged by
rights activist Subhash
Mohapatra.
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hospital authorities for the
mishap. “A case will be registered soon and action will be
taken accordingly,” said zone
ACP PK Patnaik.
The FIR filed Fire Officer
(Central Circle) BB Das alleged
negligence on the part of the
hospital authorities and
claimed that fire safety norms
were violated.
It alleged that the fire
extinguishing equipments and
water storage as per fire safety
guidelines issued to hospitals
and clinical establishments by
the fire service department in
2013 were inadequate.
Fire Services DG Binoy
Kumar Behera submitted a
report in this regard Chief
Secretary AP Padhi on the
day.
The second FIR was filed
by DMET Joint Director
Umakanta Satpathy which
charged the hospital authorities
on three aspects, wilful negligence, poor patient management and poor evacuation of
patients.
It also accused the hospital
of violating of provisions of the
Odisha
Clinic
and
Establishment Act, 1992.
The FIRs of the Chhatra
Congress and rights activist
Subhash Mohapatra too named
Manoj Ranjan Nayak and many
others of the hospital management.
The hospital is owned by
Nayak, who started an engineering college in 2000 and
later set up the Siksha ‘O’
Anusandhan University, which
runs the IMS and Sum
Hospital. He also owns a TV
news channel and an Odia
daily newspaper.
On Monday evening, the
carbon monoxide gas from the
fire in the hospital engulfed
through the air-conditioner
ducts to the ICU and dialysis
wards quickly asphyxiating the
hapless patients. Most of the
deaths took place due to suffocation and asphyxiation.
Meanwhile, the hospital
authorities suspended four of
its employees for dereliction in
duties. The suspended officers
include one fire officer, two
engineers and one hospital
manager.
Revenue
Divisional
Commissioner (RDC) Central
Division AB Ota also started
his probe into the tragedy on
Tuesday.
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Prakash Nadda is likely to
visit Odisha on Wednesday to
take stock of the fire mishap at
the SUM Hospital resulting in
the death of 20 patients.
Earlier, Nadda has assured
all possible supports from the
Central Government for treatment of the patients admitted
at several hospitals in the city
after being evacuated from the
private SUM Hospital after the
tragedy.
Meanwhile, the SUM
Hospital authorities rejected
any negligence on their part
and announced C5 lakh compensation to the family of each
deceased patient.
Hospital Associate Dean JR
Mishra said there was no negligence on their part with
regard to the fire safety and all
the documents were finetuned.
Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan
university Vice-Chancellor
Amit Banerjee said the hospital authorities would bear all
the medical expenses of nearly 100 patients who are now
undergoing treatment at various hospitals.
“The State Government
has ordered two inquiries, one
headed by the RDC (Central
Division) and the other headed by the Director, Medical
Education and Training
(DMET). We shall extend all
possible cooperation to these
inquiries initiated by the
Government,” said Prof
Banerjee.
He said that only the medicine ICU and dialysis unit
have been affected in the
accident and the operation of
the rest of the hospital,
including all the departm e nt s , are f u n c t i on i ng
smoothly.
He informed the SOA
University management
declared a seven-day mourning
as a mark of respect and
homage to the departed souls.
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Hospital fire mishap and C25lakh compensation and a job to
kin of each deceased.
Odisha Pradesh Congress
Committee (OPCC) president
Prasad Harichandan said, “Our
State Government didn’t learn
anything from the AMRI hospital (Kolkata) fire accident in
2011 in which 90 people were
killed. Besides the SUM
Hospital authorities, I will say
both Chief Minister and Health
Minister are responsible for the
incident.”
“I am surprised how no
objection certificate (NOC)
was given to such a big hospi-
tal in the absence of adequate
firefighting equipments. This is
complete negligence by the
State Government. A judicial
probe must be ordered into the
incident and the culprits must
be booked,” Harichandan said.
The CPI also sought a hike
in the compensation amount
announced by the hospital
authorities.
“C5-lakh ex-gratia is not
adequate. Our party demands
the amount be increased to C20
lakh,” CPI national secretary D
Raja told reporters here.
“A very high level probe
should be ordered into the
incident…When such big corporate hospitals are built,
there must be adequate medical infrastructure including
fire safety measures and these
must be monitored in a regular interval. This is a case of
complete negligence. All lapses must be thoroughly
analysed,” Raja stated.
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registered a case with regard
to the laxity of norms in the
SUM Hospital that resulted in
the death of more than 20
persons and injury of more
than 25 due to a fire accident
on Monday late night.
Noted rights activist
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a petition citing various lapses on the part of the Fire,
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occurred. Accepting the contention of the petitioner, the
apex rights panel registered
the case.
Meanwhile,
Odisha
Human Rights Commission
(OHRC) took suo motu cognisance of the tragedy and
issued notices to State Health
Secretary Arti Ahuja and
Director General (Fire
S er vices) Binoy Kumar
Behera asking them to submit
reports in three weeks.
Meanwhile, peace preacher Prasanna Tripathy died in
the SUM Hospital tragedy.
Thousands of denizens of
Bhadrak expressed heartfelt
condolence for Tripathy who
was being treated in the hospital for his kidney ailments.
Though he belonged to
Bolagada area, he used to
come for preaching to
Bhadrak district. His preach-
ing was highly admired by the
audiences at Balgopal Temple,
Bhadrak town, Mukundpur
village and at various other
places in the district.
Tripathy was also a scholar in Odia and Sanskrit literature and had retired as a
principal.
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indications that Assembly elections to five States could be held
a few weeks later. The
Government is understood to
have decided the date after getting a go ahead from the
Election Commission of India.
A formal announcement
about the date may be made on
Thursday after the meeting of
the Cabinet Committee on
Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA).
After Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley recently said that
the Union Budget will not be
presented in the middle of the
Assembly elections in Uttar
Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand,
Goa and Manipur, it’s obvious
that the elections will be held
in the latter half of February or
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In view of the impeding
Assembly elections, the
Government is reported to
have consulted the Election
Commission (EC) about the
Budget date. The EC concurred with the Finance
Ministry’s view that the Budget
is an annual financial state-
ment and can come at any
time chosen by the
Government.
With a view to advance the
Budget
Session,
the
Government has already
moved forward the date of the
Winter Session, which will
take up enabling Bills for the
implementation of the Goods
and Services Tax (GST). The
Government hopes that by
advancing both the Winter
and Budget sessions, it will
have elbow room to implement the GST from April 1.
The Union Cabinet on
September 21 had in-principle
decided to end the colonial-era
tradition of presenting the
Union Budget on the last day
of February and advanced it by
about a month to help complete the legislative approval
for annual spending plans and
tax proposals before the beginning of the new financial year
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strikes on terror launch
pads in Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir (PoK) to Israel’s
exploits, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Tuesday
said the Indian forces have
shown they are no less than
anybody.
“Our Army’s valour is
being discussed across the
country these days. We used to
hear earlier that Israel has
done this. The nation has seen
that Indian Army is no less
than anybody,” he said.
Israel is known for its targeted covert operations against
enemy countries and militant
outfits in Arab countries and
also several parts of the world.
Modi was speaking at a
rally in Mandi where he inaugurated three hydro-electric
projects -- Kol Dam Hydro
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damage-control exercise
ahead of the release
of his movie Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
(ADHM) featuring Pakistani
actor Fawad Khan, filmmaker
Karan Johar on Tuesday broke
his silence and said that "for
me, my country comes first"
and that he would not engage
any talent from the neighbouring country under the
"given the circumstances".
On a day when Film &
Television Producers Guild of
India (Guild) president
Mukesh Bhatt, along with
Johar's Dharma Productions'
team met Mumbai Police
Commissioner Dattatray
Padsalgikar and sought protection for ADHM's release,
Karan chose to come clean on
the controversy over his decision to hire Pakistani actor
Fawad Khan in his film.
The twin developments
brightened the prospects of
the release of Karan Johar's film
on October 28 as scheduled.
After the meeting, the
Mumbai Police came out with a
categorical statement that they
would provide protection to
the release of Johar's film. "The
Mumbai Police will provide
adequate protection to cinema
theatres as and when required,"
said Deputy Commissioner of
Police Ashok Dudhe.
Pakistan actor Fawad Khan
co-stars with Ranbir Kapoor,
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and
Anushka Sharma in Ae Dil Hai
Mushkil.
In 90-second video footage
released to the media, Karan
explained as to why he
remained silent for the past one
fortnight ever since the clamour for a ban on the release of
ADHM and he felt " a deep
sense" of hurt and pain that a
few people would actually
believe that "I am being antinational".
"I need to say this and I say
this with strength that for me
my countr y comes first.
Nothing else matters but my
country," Karan said.
"…Going forward I would
like to say of course I will not
engage talent from neighbouring country given the circumstances," said the filmmaker.
Seeking to clarify his stand
on the ongoing debate over a
ban on the Pakistani artistes in
the wake of a terrorist attack on
an Indian Army camp at Uri in
Jammu & Kashmir, Karan said,
"I respect the Indian Army. I
salute the Indian Army for
everything they do to protect us
in our environment. I respect
them with all my heart and I say
I condemn any form of terrorism. Any form, especially the
terrorism that would affect the
people of my country and me".
Explaining as to why he had
chosen to hire Pakistani actor
Fawad Khan in ADHM,
Karan said, "When I shot my
film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil — in
September to December last
year — the climate was completely different, the circumstances were completely different".
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pressing the button from the
Padal Stadium. On the occasion, Modi also said besides
harnessing the potential of
hydel power the Centre had
drawn up an ambitious plan to
harness the solar energy also
all over the country and many
big players from public and
private sector had come forward.
The issue of surgical
strikes has snowballed into a
political row with the opposition accusing the BJP and its
government of “milking” it for
political benefits. The charge
has been rejected by BJP
which has insisted that it is
taking the issue to the masses
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will of the Prime Minister.
“It is a proud moment not
only for the army but also for
all ex-servicemen and countrymen and my hundred
salutes to Army for their valour and courage,” the PM
said.
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armed forces, Modi said his
Government had fulfilled its
promise of ‘One-Rank, OnePension’ for ex-servicemen,
an issue which he said had
been hanging fire for over 40
years.
Previous Governments, he
said, duped the people by
making tall claims and some of
them even allocated C200
crore-C500 crore in this regard
but never did an analysis of
cost burden and how it could
be executed.
“I did it and was puzzled
to find that the economic burden kept rising. It worked to be
more than C10,000 crore,” he
said, adding that it was difficult for any Government to
make such a big allocation in
one go.
Modi said he spoke to
armed forces and offered to
release the money in four
installments to which they
agreed. “Over C5,500 crore in
first installment has been
given. The rest will be too. A
promise hanging fire for the
last 40 years has been fulfilled,”
he said.
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Ilatest
Association (IATA) in its
20-year Air Passenger
Forecast has projected India to
be the third largest aviation
market by 2026, replacing the
UK while China will displace
the US as the world's largest
aviation market.
IATA on Tuesday said it
expects India's air passenger
traffic to grow to 442 million by
2035 with 322 million new air
travellers, amid the domestic
aviation market growing by
over 20 per cent for more than
a year now.
The forecast for passenger
growth confirms that the
biggest driver of demand will
be the Asia-Pacific region. It is
expected to be the source of
more than half the new passengers over the next 20 years.
China will displace the US
as the world's largest aviation
market (defined by traffic to,
from and within the country)
around 2029.
India will displace the UK
for third place in 2026, while
Indonesia enters the top ten at
the expense of Italy. Growth
will also increasingly be driven
within developing markets,
it said. Over the past decade the
developing world's share of
total passenger traffic has risen
from 24 per cent to nearly 40
per cent, and this trend is set
to continue.
IATA had last year said that
the air passenger traffic was
likely to grow to 378 million
passengers by 2034 with 275
million new travellers among
them. India posted a record
growth in domestic air passenger traffic in August this
year with the number of passengers flown by local carriers
rising to 83.51 million, thereby logging a growth of 24 per
cent, the highest across the
major aviation markets.
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hung over the SUM
Hospital here on Tuesday, a
day after a major fire in the
hospital’s dialysis ICU wing
led to 22 deaths, family members and relatives of the victims broke down at the
Capital Hospital, where the
dead were brought for postmortem.
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admitted at the SUM Hospital
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undergoing treatment at
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several hospitals in the twin
city, including AIIMS
Bhubaneswar, KIMS and SCB
Medical College Hospital
Cuttack after being evacuated
from the SUM Hospital, the
Air India (AI) has offered
free assistance to bring the
injured
and
their
attendants to Delhi and
Mumbai for further treatment.
“AI offers free tickets to
injured, his companion &
stretcher cases of the fire
mishap.
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contact
Bhubaneswar
Airport
Manager for help,” Air India
tweeted.
Meanwhile,
Chief
Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi
said 106 patients are now
undergoing treatment at various hospitals after being shifted from the SUM following
the fire mishap. Sources said
that while 36 patients were
admitted at the AMRI, 14
were accommodated at the
KIMS, 30 at the AIIMS, eight
at the Nilachal Hospital and
six at the SCB Medical College
Hospital.
Meanwhile, both Chief
Minister Naveen Patnaik and
the
SUM
Hospital
authorities have declared to
bear all the expenses for treatment of the injured persons.
The Health Department
on Tuesday opened a control
room to monitor the treatment
of patients. The National
Health Mission (NHM)
Additional Director would be
in charge of the control
room. It would review the
treatment of patients every
hour and inform their kin.
Meanwhile, helpline numbers have been set up for any
inquiry at the Capital Hospital:
9439991226 and AMRI
Hospital: 0674-666660.
Governor SC Jamir and
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
visited AIIMS and AMRI
and took stock of the treatment facilities there.
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many as 92 patients. Had it
been the case, the sorrowful
incident would not been happened the SUM Hospital in
Bhubaneswar on Monday
evening killing 20 patients
and injuring many.
Now, it is learnt that none
of the nursing homes and
hospitals in Sambalpur district has the NOC (no objec-
tion certificate) from the fire
department. “Only two nursing homes of the town have
applied for the NOC and,
after verification, we advised
them to comply with the
shor t falls in f ire s afety
aspects. They have not done
so and we have not issued the
NOC or the fire clearance
f rom t he depar tment,”
informed District Fire Officer
(DFO),
Samb alpur
Rangadhar Acharya.
He said the department
would force nursing homes
and hospital to put in place
adequate fire safety aspect.
What is astonishing is
that the exact number of
nursing homes and private
hospitals operating in the
district is not known to the
department.
However, Acharya said
only the Sanjeevani Hospital
and t he Vivekananda
Hospit a l (now Sp arsh
Hospital), both situated in the
heart of the town, had applied
for the NOC. Others have not
even felt necessary to do so.
“While Sanjeevani is a petty
old hospital, Vivekananda is
a ne w one,” t he DFO
informed.
As per norms, any nursing home or hospital with 30
or more beds or with critical
wards like ICU needs to take
fire safety measures and, for
this, they have to obtain NOC
from the fire department.
But not a single one has
taken it so far though there
are many hospitals and
nursing homes of this status
operating across the district, Achar ya informed.
This is also the case with the
VIMSAR, Burla that has
nearly 1,000 beds, ICU,
PICU and NICU.
When
contacted,
Sambalpur Chief District
Medical Officer (CDMO) Dr
Kodanda Rao said the SUM
Hospital incident is an eye
opener for all the hospitals in
the State. He admitted that
none has been serious on this
particular aspect. “But we will
not make any such negligence
henceforth and force nursing
homes/hospitals to make fire
safety arrangements as per the
norms or else their registration
will be canceled,” said the
CDMO.
Fire safety apart, most of
the nursing homes/hospitals
are also committing criminal
offences on the matter of disposal of bio-medical wastes.
But all the departments have
closed their eyes to this crucial issue, the reason best
known to them.
Meanwhile, the VIMASR
authorities called for an urgent
meeting on Tuesday to make
adequate fire safety arrangements, including an emergency
exit door, in its ICUs.
fering from fever and was
about to be discharged on
Tuesday,” Arjun Patro was
quoted as saying.
Kalyani
of
Kabisuryanagar in Ganjam
district died due to suffocation in the midst of the thick
smoke resulting from the fire.
“The staff did not allow us to
enter the intensive care unit
and bring her out,” Arjun
alleged, adding that had the
relatives been allowed to enter
the ICU, Kalyani could have
been saved.
There was complete chaos
as hundreds of patients and
attendants tried to escape the
blaze, said eyewitnesses.
Said Dora Pradhan, “I
could not decide where to go
with my son after I saw the
thick smoke coming out from
the second floor.” His son
Shiva was operated upon on
Monday following a bike accident. Pradhan, who escaped
the tragedy, is grateful to two
others from his village who
helped him.
After escaping the inferno, helpless relatives scampered around several city hos-
pitals searching for their near
and dear ones as most of the
surviving patients were shifted, while the dead were sent
for autopsy.
“I had got my father
admitted in the cardiology
department of SUM Hospital.
After the fire broke out, they
disallowed entr y to the
department,” said one
Jagannath Pradhan, adding, “I
searched for my father in
every city hospital as they did
not give out any information.
Finally, I traced him to the
Capital Hospital.”
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resident Pranab Mukherjee,
Prime Minister Narendra
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Modi and Congress president
Sonia Gandhi have condoled
the deaths at the SUM
Hospital here.
While the Prime Minister
expressed his grief and
promised all support to the
State Government a few hours
after the fire incident, the
President and the Congress
chief mourned the deaths on
Tuesday morning.
Mukherjee mourned the
deaths and prayed for the
injured.
“My heart and prayers are
with bereaved families and
injured in the massive hospital fire in Bhubaneswar hospital,” Mukherjee said in a
tweet.
Similarly, Modi tweeted,
“Deeply anguished by the loss
of lives in the hospital fire in
Odisha. The tragedy is mindnumbing. My thoughts are
with bereaved families.”
He too asked Union
Health and Family Welfare
Minisster JP Nadda to facilitate transfer of all those
injured to the AIIMS. “Hope,
the injured recover quickly,” he
tweeted.
He also spoke to CM
Naveen Patnaik about the distressing hospital fire tragedy
and assured all possible support from the Centre.
Besides, Modi asked PNS
Dharmendra Pradhan to
ensure all possible help to the
injured and the affected.
Former Odisha Governor
Murlidhar C Bhandare has
expressed deep shock over
the fire tragedy and sent his
condolences to the bereaved
families and wished speedy
recovery of the injured. He has
requested the authorities to
take precautionary measures
in all the hospitals to prevent
any such accident in future.
Terming the tragedy as
“most unfortunate”, Sonia in a
statement in New Delhi said:
“My thoughts and prayers
remain with families of the
victims.” She also wished the
injured to recover soon.
She instructed the
Pradesh Congress Committee
and party workers to reach
out to the victims and their
families.
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he BJP on Tues day
blame d
t he
St ate
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Government for the SUM
Hospital fire tragedy that
took lives of 22 patients and
demanded stringent action
against all responsible.
“The State BJP condoles
the death of patients of the
SUM Hospital due to the fire
incident. The incident has
proved the debilitating health
service system in the State.
Action should be taken all
the accused responsible for
the fire incident,” demanded
the party.
The party too alleged
that people are going to private hospitals for treatment
as they don’t have trust in the
Government-run hospitals.
“ The incident has a ls o
proved that the Health
Department and the State
Government are in coma.”
“The State Government
has not learnt anything from
the fire incident occurred in
the past. By ordering a probe
committee, the Government
feels self-content,” Party
spokesperson Sajjan Sharma
alleged and demanded that
the Government should create required infrastructure to
ensure that such mishaps
don’t recur anywhere in the
State.
In the statement, Sharma
too asked Health Minister to
discharge his duties appropriately or quit the post.
On Monday night, a
team of the party visited
various hospitals to where
patients had been shifted
from the SUM Hospital following the fire incident.
The te am memb ers
talked to some injured and
inquired about their conditions from respective hospital authorities.
The team demanded that
the State Government bear
all expense for treatment of
the injured and provide C10
lakh to each deceased’s family.
The team comprised BJP
Legislature Party Leader KV
Singh Deo, State general secretary Pritviraj Harichandan,
spokesperson Dilip Mohanty,
exec ut ive
memb ers
Amiya Dash and Jagannath
Pradhan.
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canteens to classrooms to
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campuses. The recent events
relating to the elections to the
Students’ Unions of the higher educational institutions
speak for themselves. Many
among us tend to find fault
with the political parties and
their leaders for politicising the
Students’ Unions and, thereby,
pigeonholing them, for being
utilised for their selfish purposes. But we have to blame
ourselves for this. The representatives of the “We the people of India” amended the law
regulating the field, granting
voting power to all those who
have attained or are above the
age of eighteen. This class of
persons is dominantly in their
formative years. If we do not
want them appropriately educated and skilled, they are
bound to be social liabilities
produced in the factories called
colleges and universities. From
the days of Rajiv Gandhi, those
aged eighteen or above have the
right to vote. This inevitably
attracts the attention of politicians to poach on them to
make them pocket boroughs.
The corollary is that they
become pawns in the chessboard of politics of the different parties. Overtures of political leaders have an impact on
this young section of our polity. They become part of the
hatchery to be groomed to
join the bandwagon later.
This is not a desirable state
of affairs. The political parties
do not use the power of the
fresh and virgin minds of the
younger generation to formulate appropriate policies. They
merely indoctrinate and create
a “flock” for their own benefits.
There is no emergence of new
ideas and thoughts relating to
the removal of the maladies
that plague our society. As a
result, the crude and exploitative political machinery engulfs
the mass of youth power. We
should not forget that the
highest number of voters is in
this category and, probably, the
next higher number would be
in geriatric category. Both
belong to different types of
exploited classes.
An analysis of the recent
events in our State relating to
Students’ Unions elections definitely rings an alarming bell
indicating that social equilibrium is distorted. The utterances of the respective candidates before the media do not
demonstrate any in-depth
introspective thinking on the
part of this mass of young generation. The statements are
prosaic, hackneyed and appear
to be parroted.
This symptom indicates a
visible failure on the part of the
mass of the youth power and
the inherent inability of the
political leadership. There is no
interaction between the above
two classes regarding the future
policy that should govern the
State for nourishing creative
minds and vibrant intellectuals. Instead, the future hopes
are tending to turn into nonquestioning followers with surrendered minds. This unsettles
the feeder source of future
leadership and leads to
exploitation of a mass of enthusiastic and restless youth
power. The role of youth has
manifested through overt
political activities in rallies of
motorbikes and cycles, shouting slogans as the mouthpiece
of removed microphones.
There is hardly any indicator of
participation of the youth
power in formulation of meaningful strategies, modalities
and pragmatic actions of the
political parties. Tokenism of
the day overtakes and blurs the
prospects of a better tomorrow
with new ideas with a corresponding reorientation for the
re-emergence of a more just
society. The aberrations turn
into the order of the day.
The recommendations of
the Lyngdoh Committee are
more or less patterned on what
is followed by the Students’
Union of the St Stephen’s
College (the alma mater of
Liyngdoh and this writer).
Lyngdoh did not take into
consideration the impact of the
voting power of those who are
at or above eighteen years of
age. Colleges such as St
Stephen’s may have succeeded
in preventing intrusive intervention of political parties
through their own inner
strength and resoluteness. Such
institutions have not shut out
exchange and expression of
ideas directly linked with political affairs. Let us notice two
old examples. Immediately
after his resignation as the
Defence Minister after the
China War debacle, the students of St Stephen’s were the
first ones to invite Mr Krishna
Menon to deliver a lecturer and
have an interactive session
with the students on the “SinoIndian dispute”. Similarly, the
students of this college were
the first ones to invite Anna
Durai to speak on the
“Problems of minorities in
India” followed by an interactive session. Instances are
galore and every important
political leader or thinker
stands invited to speak on one
occasion or the other. Krishna
Menon began his discourse
with the preface that the topic
was of interest to every Indian,
but to him personally, it was
one pregnant with embarrassment and sorrow. The distinction between “nationalism”
and “jingoism” was elaborated
for the first time. One is further reminded of Anna Durai’s
opening remarks that he “was
thankful to the students of this
educational institution to have
had the courage to invite the
dragon from the South”. A liberal education appropriately
guided to a suitable utilisation
of the talents of students for its
own benefit results in an institution contributing to the
growth of the society in almost
all its spheres. As on today, St
Stephen’s can be proud of providing successful parliamentarians, eminent judges,
lawyers/jurists, journalists,
writers and sportsmen. This
list is not exhaustive and is
merely illustrative. But when
one looks at the institutions
nearer home, they are more
like teaching shops without a
direction, without adequate
intellectual freedom, without
an idealistic goal and fraught
with denial of opportunities for
the growth of the abilities and
capabilities of each individual
student.
If one analyses the reasons
for such a malady, one has to
begin with the atmosphere in
the family homes of children in
their nascent years. There has
to be a critical evaluation of the
system of schooling and the
systems of college and university education. It is strange and
sad to find that no analytical
deliberation regarding vital
issues or significant policy
documents like budget or the
economic survey of the previous year. Teachers and students, upon inquiry, state that
it is not permissible for them
to be critical of the policies of
the ruling government. This is
a preposterous and undesirable
state of affairs. These unwant-
ed violations of Articles 14, 19
and 21 of the Constitution
takes way all the meet that
great judges (with the aid of
great lawyers) put on the skeletons of those Fundamental
Rights. An institution should
produce thinkers and leaders
of all hues so that particular
individuals can sustain their
views through the dialectics of
societal development. They
could be leaders generating
better leaders, whether they
profess to belong to the Left,
Right or Centre of the political stage.
Leadership and guidance
in this direction can only come
from the elders through their
consistent perseverance and a
congenial projection through
their own deeds and lives. We
have driven our teachers to the
streets; we have turned them to
be agitationists; we have made
students into a herd. Every factional political leader is finding a good hunting ground in
this fertile field. The position
is such as to drive one to be
hopeless. But surely, the gears
could be changed. There can
be a turning point, so as to
redirect our focus leading to
modifications beneficial to the
future generations ensuring
their purposive growth. Let
them not be the rotting and
infected limbs of the society.
This requires a debate involving home to school to college
to university to political party
to legislature and, of course, to
the overshadowing government. Good governance
requires this as a condition
precedent. This is a critical
need and the neglect thereof
would be very costly in the
years ahead to our prejudice
and peril. It is time we knocked
at each other’s doors, gather
together, cause a meeting our
minds and turn the steering in
the right direction. Such a
movement towards quiet
improvement calls for cohesive
and united action. Isolationists
must also be persuaded to be
involved in this common
cause. If each individual has to
play his role, each of our social
tributaries has to merge and
surge together to eventually
fortify the national mainstream. This sway cannot
exclude or ignore any one of
us. And this concerns us all!
(The writer, a Senior
Advocate, is a former All India
Service officer, a former diplomat, a former editor, a former
President of Orissa High Court
Bar Association and a former
Advocate General of Odisha.
[email protected])
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has directed the district
Collectors of Nuapada and
Balangir districts to conduct an
inquiry into the matter of torture of newborn babies due to
a
superstition
called
“Kalachhir”.
Kalachhir here means
black vein. When the veins in
the body of a child are prominently visible, the villagers feel
that the child is severely ill and
cannot be treated by doctors.
Thus the child is taken to the
quacks for administration of
Kalachhir therapy. The body of
a child is marked with hot iron
stick or broken bangles.
Children undergo sever torture
due to this inhuman practice.
The NCPCR, being
apprised of the inhuman practice by this correspondent in
2014, had requested the two
Collectors earlier on July 4 last
and subsequently on August 16
to conduct inquiry in to the
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allegedly collecting C10 to
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C150 for issuing an Aadhaar Card
in villages under R Udayagiri
block in Gajapati district.
Though higher authorities
have informed about the illegal
act, yet no action has been
taken.
“While Aadhaar Card is a
necessity to avail Government
helps, and in some cases, it has
been made mandatory, people
are lining up before concerned
officials to get such cards.
Taking advantage of this, concerned officials are asking for
C10 to C150 for issuance of a
card,” alleged locals.
Officials
shrewdly
announce five days to prepare
1,000 cards in a gram panchayat while only 20 cards can
be prepared for day as per
Government norm.
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When they come to panchayat offices to take photos,
they prepare three-four cards
and start taking pleas of
machine snag and time limit.
They ask villages to come in the
night. Then, they demand C100
to C150 per Aadhar Card.
On October 14 night, the
officials collected about
C10,000 from 70 persons.
On Tuesday, people of
Tikamal village had lined up
each with C100 to get Aadhaar
Cards but they had return as
officials didn’t turn up.
People of different villages
under Sabarapali and Anagha
gram panchayats have made
such allegations.
People have demanded that
the district Collector take stringent action soon against the
officials looting them.
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animal sacrifice at Patrapali in
matter and submit Action
Taken Report. But, as the
Collectors did not respond,
the commission now has given
a 10-day ultimatum.
A study conducted in six
Gram Panchayats of Nuapada
district by this correspondent
for NGOs ASHA ODISHA and
Save the Children in 2014, had
revealed that, the practice is
highly prevalent in the rural
areas and about 12 per cent of
the total deaths have occurred
after administration of
Kalachhir therapy by quacks.
The district administration had
taken some efforts like sensitization of Anganwadi workers
and ASHAs at that time, who
were supposed to create awareness within the local people.
But, efforts did not take root at
ground level and the practice
run clandestinely till today
with the knowledge of the field
level workers of Health and
ICDS department.
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aids were conducted on
different restaurants, hotels,
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roadside dhabas, fast-food centers and makeshift shops in
Bhograi by Health Department
officials after two minors
allegedly died eating chow
mein from a makeshift shop on
Sunday.
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Kolabira Block in the district.
It is ritual organized across
western Odisha to pay obeisance to the respective village
deities.
The celebration began with
a congregation at the temple of
Lord Shiva in the village where
principal organiser of the yatra
Dr Rama Charan Pradhan
spoke against animal sacrifice
and said that no deities would
be happy with killing of innocent creatures created by her.
He said that the aim of the yatra
is spreading harmony and
brotherhood and thanked villagers for agreeing to the proposal to stop animal sacrifice.
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was taken out in the village to
facilitate worship by the villagers. Jugar is a cone-shaped
sweet made of mixture of fried
paddy and jaggery. Although
the yatra was confined to
Patrapali, this year it was
extended up to Raghunathpali
Ayodhyanagar Chowk in a bid
to create awareness against
animal sacrifice.
In the past, animals sacrifice was made and it was main
attraction during the yatra. The
entire area emitted stench of
fresh blood like Chhatar Yatra in
Bhawanipatna till Dr Pradhan
stepped in the last five years and
with great difficulty managed to
put a stop to it after taking the
villagers into confidence.
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Sunadharbasana village, succumbed in a Cuttack hospital
while undergoing treatment.
A team headed by ADMO
(PH) Charubala Rath visited
Bhograi, besides inquiring into
the incidents, carried out the
raids on Monday.
“The exact cause of deaths
of the two minors are yet to be
ascertained. Although it is
alleged that they fell sick after eating chow mein from a roadside
makeshift shop, the food sample
was not available for tests as shop
has been torched. However, raids
were conducted in various shops
and stale foods were destroyed.
Sweets prepared with spurious
colours were too destroyed,”
said the ADMO.
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at Ankuli in the
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Brahmapur industrial area, 14
active organisations of
Brahmapur city would hold a
Rail Roko on October 23.
Members
of
the
Shilpanchal Passenger Halt
Sangram Samiti, the Manav
Adhikar Surakhya Manch, the
Mahan Sangha, the Sardar
Ballabbhai Patel Bahumukhi
Sangha, the Gajapati Nagar
Unnayan Committee, the
Ganjam Zilla Vikash Manch,
the Utkal Sammilani, the
Bharatiya Majadur Sangha, the
Jan Jagaran Manch and the
Forum for Ganjam held a
preparatory meeting here at the
Circuit House on Tuesday and
demanded passenger halt.
The members are also
preparing to conduct a Jail
Bharo agitation.
Notably, the longstanding
demand of the people of Ankuli
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Association (AFWWA),
T
Koraput in association with the
for a passenger halt has not
been solved by the railway
authorities or the district
administration till today
though the people of the area
have been demanding it for
three decades.
The organisations submitted individual memorandums
to the Railway General
Manager through the local
Station Manager.
R Satya Narayan Rao,
Trinath Nayak, Upendra Nath
Satpathy, Brundaban Behera,
Suryakanta Patra, Debi Prasad
Mohapatra and Ramesh
Chandra Das were present at
the preparatory meeting,
among others.
District Blood Donors’ and
Motivators’ Forum organised a
blood donation camp and a
free eye checkup camp at the
AFLE, AFWWA complex here
on Sunday.
The camps were inaugurated by AFLE Commanding
Officer Captain D Patro and
AFWWA president Kavita
Patro in the presence of S
Jagdish (STO), PKS Ahalawat
(CLO), WO SK Sahoo, G
Saneev Kumar, Dr Uma
Sankar Prasad Patra, Dr Naresh
Chandra Sahoo, Shaik Ibrahim
and Shaheda Parween of
DBDMF. A total of 36 units of
blood were collected by the
functionaries of the Red Cross
Blood Bank DHH, Koraput at
the camp.
The camp was supervised
by Eye Specialist of District
Headquarters
Hospital,
Koraput. The expert team provided free eye-examinations,
counseling on eye care at the
camp. The expert eye specialists sensitized the patients about
the importance of regular eye
check-up and offered tips on
care and protection of eyes.
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almost hopeless that I
would once again be able to
Igetwas
my husband alive after he
was seriously injured with five
bullets pierced into his body in
an attack by Pakistan terrorists.
But thank God, my husband is
alive and he is with me now,”
said Sabitri alias Laxmipriya
Das, wife of Jawan Tapan
Kumar Das, with joys of tears
rolling down from her eyes.
Das of Chhakan-Harianka
village, who was at Barimula
area with his family, on August
16 last sustained gunshot
injuries along with other
jawans near Baramulla sector as
Pakistani militants fired at
patrolling vehicles while they
were moving in night from
Srinagar to Kupwara.
Das is working in 528Army Supply Core Battalion at
Jammu and Kashmir.
Remembering the horrible
experience, Das stated that the
Indian Government had
deployed Jawans for tight
patrolling round the clock from
Srinagar to Kupwara anticipating possible terrorist attack
and infiltration of Pakistani
militants to India. “On August
16 night, when about 80
patrolling army vehicles board-
ed with nearly 800 jawans were
moving from Srinagar to
Kupwara, all on a sudden, the
Pakistani terrorists in Indian
Army clothes opened fire to
our patrolling vehicles near
Barimulla. About 300 bullets
hit on the vehicle in which I
was travelling. The militants
also hurled about 8/9 grenades
to the patrolling vehicles. At
least four jawans were killed
whereas I along with four others, including two police personnel of Srinagar, sustained
bullet injuries.”
“I was severely injured.
Some grenade remnants also
pierced into my legs .Later, bullet proof Indian Army vehicles
rescued us and we were rushed
for medical treatment to
Srinagar-based Army hospital.
There I underwent treatment
for nearly 41 days and got
cured. Now, I have come to my
native village by taking a
month’s leave,” Das said.
Das is happy that the
Indian Army managed to take
revenge by successfully completing the surgical strike at
Pakistani terrorists’ camps.
Das’s wife Laxmipriya said,
“I was nonplused when I had
got a telephone call from Army
base that my husband was
seriously injured and undergoing treatment. But finally
God saved us.” She hoped that
both India and Pakistan avoid
war and resolve dispute in a
peaceful manner.
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Minister Prafulla Kumar
SMallick
inaugurated the first
Loka Kala Mahotsav and
national level Pallishree Mela
in Dhenkanal on Monday.
Speaking on the occasion, Mallick said arrangement of Pallishree Mela and
Loka Kala Mahotsav will help
promote hidden talents in
urban and rural areas.
Attending the inaugural
ceremony as guest of honour
State Co-operative Bank
President Akhaya Mohanty
said looking to the future
growth of Dhenkanal town
and growing footfalls during
Lakshmi Puja, the discussion of shif ting t he
Pallishreemela to Mahisapat
close to NH-55 is praiseworthy. Among others, Zilla
Parishad President Binodini
Samal, district Collector Rupa
Roshan Sa ho o, Proj e c t
Director DRDA Madhu
Sudan Mishra and Sub
C ollec tor Ab ani Kant a
Pattnaik spoke.
The Pallishree Mala2016, organis e d by t he
District Administration, the
ORMAS and the District Kala
Sanskruti Sangha, was sponsored by Rural Development,
Panchayati Raj departments,
handicraft and cottage industries, NABARD and Mission
Shakti. Rural artisans and
S elf Help Groups f rom
Punjab, West Bengal, Uttar
Pradesh, Ne w D elhi,
R ajast han,
Kar nat ak,
Chatisgarh, Maharastra,
Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar,
Gujrat, Andhra Pradesh,
Assam, Telengana and also
from the 30 districts of
Odisha displayed their products in 295 stalls. Besides official source claimed around
628 village artisans have
taken part in the Mela.
C olour f u l c u ltural programmes were organised in
night.
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United Nations conference
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on housing and sustainable
urban development which
began in Quito, Ecuador from
October 17 will adopt a new
Habitat Agenda till the year
2036. The objective is to secure
renewed political commitment
for sustainable urban development, address poverty and
identify and address new and
emerging urban challenges for
the establishment of the new
urban agenda.
The Habitat III will assess
progress made on the recommendations made at Habitat II
in Istanbul in 1996, a conference that represented a significant landmark for the
international municipal movement. It offers a unique opportunity to discuss the important
challenge of how cities, towns
and villages are planned and
managed in order to fulfil
their role as drivers of sustainable development.
The first United Nations
(UN) Conference on Human
Settlements was held in
Vancouver in 1976.
Housing and Land Rights
Network (HLRN), India, in
collaboration with partners,
has prepared the report as an
alternative to the official report
from the Government of India
(GoI) to UN-Habitat for
Habitat III. The report aims to
analyze India’s implementation
of the Habitat Agenda while
documenting the current status of housing and land rights
in the country. It highlights
key law and policy developments related to housing and
land, and presents recommendations to the Indian
Government for the improvement of housing and living
conditions in the country, and
to UN-Habitat for the development of a human rightsbased ‘new agenda’ at Habitat
III.
In the absence of afford-
able housing options, millions
of urban residents, mostly
workers in the informal and
unorganised sector, are forced
to live in extremely inadequate
conditions on the streets or in
slums. The Census of India
2011 reported that about 31
per cent of the Indian population-approximately 380 million people-lives in urban
areas. This number is projected to increase to about 600
million by 2030. A Technical
Group on Urban Housing
Shortage estimated that the
national urban housing shortage at the end of 2012 was
18.78 million houses; 95 per
cent of this shortage (17.96
million dwelling units) was for
EWS and LIG. A 2015 study
projects that the urban housing shortage is expected to
grow at a compound annual
growth rate of 6.6 per cent for
10 years, and will increase to
34 million units by 2022.
As per the Slum Census
2011, India recorded a 37.14
per cent decadal growth in the
number of ‘slum’ households.
Almost two-thirds of statutory towns in India have ‘slums’
and a total of 13.75 million
households live in them.
Census 2011 data reveals that
36 per cent of households in
informal settlements do not
have basic facilities of electricity, tap water, and sanitation within house premises. As
per Census 2011, over 27 per
cent of urban residents live in
rental accommodation, most
of which is informal. Most low
income residents do not enjoy
security of tenure over their
land and housing.
India’s National Sample
Survey (2007-2008) highlights
that nearly two per cent of
migrant households in both
rural and urban areas have
faced forced migration resulting from natural disasters,
social/political problems, and
displacement from develop-
ment projects. Since the
human right to adequate housing encompasses urban and
rural housing, and since the
Habitat Agenda also focuses
on rural issues, HLRN believes
it is important to report on
conditions of rural housing
and land in India. Census
2011 reports that about 69 per
cent of the Indian population
(742.5 million people) is rural
and lives in 6, 40,867 villages.
India has the largest number
of rural poor as well as landless households (101 million)
in the world. Though Census
2011 documented 0.83 million
homeless persons in rural
areas, there are no national
schemes to address rural
homelessness or landlessness.
According to the Socio-economic and Caste Census
(SECC) 2011, more than 13
per cent of rural households in
India live in one room with
kutcha (mud/temporary) walls
and kutcha roof.
According to the Internal
Displacement Monitoring
Centre (IDMC), between 2008
and 2014, India had the third
highest number of people displaced from natural disasters
- nearly 30 million people. In
2014, 1,644,700 people were
displaced, including from
floods in Odisha, Assam,
Jammu and Kashmir, and
Cyclone Hudhud in Andhra
Pradesh and Odisha. In 2013,
IDMC estimates that 1,042,000
people were displaced from
floods while Cyclone Phailin
displaced one million people
in Odisha and Andhra
Pradesh. Timely evacuation by
the State resulted in prevention
of loss of life during cyclones
Phailin and Hudhud, but postdisaster relief and resettlement have not been as expeditious.
In 2011, Odisha was badly
affected by floods that submerged about 2,600 villages in
19 districts, impacting over 1.1
million people. According to
the Government data, 61,000
people had to be evacuated
and relocated, more than
10,565 houses were damaged,
and 19 people lost their lives,
as a result of the flood.
Unfortunately, the affected
persons suffered again from
cyclone Phailin in 2013.
Alternative housing is seldom
provided to disaster-affected
persons.
The compensation provided to disaster-affected families is generally insufficient to
rebuild homes and people are
often forced to live in inadequate housing.
In October 2014, Cyclone
Hudhud damaged almost
7,900 houses in Andhra
Pradesh and 50,000 thatched
houses in Odisha. In order to
receive compensation, affected families were asked to produce proof of identification in
the form of house tax receipts
or Aadhaar cards. Having lost
most of their possessions during the disaster, many survivors were unable to produce
the documents and did not
receive any relief. Those living
in non-notified slums have not
received any compensation
and continue to live in tem-
porary hutments.
Habitat III presents an
opportunity to reflect on commitments-legal and moraltowards safeguarding human
rights and ensuring the development of a strong plan of
action that reiterates past
commitments and creates
obligations to reduce poverty,
inequality, homelessness, landlessness, forced evictions, displacement and environmental
degradation.
The creation of inclusive,
equitable, and sustainable
habitats requires strong political will, financial commitment, and time-bound implementation. The international
community must work together and exert the requisite effort
to make this happen. The
New Urban Agenda, which
will be the focal point of the
upcoming Habitat III conference, may drive the achievement of sustainable development goal of making future
cities and human settlements
inclusive, safe, resilient and
sustainable.
(Dr Praharaj teaches in
Department of Architecture,
College of Engineering and
Technology, Bhubaneswar)
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he problems of the Odisha
State Road Transport
T
Corporation (OSRTC) due to
the burdens of overstaffing
and loss making seem to have
lessened as was discussed at a
high-level meeting held under
the chairmanship of Chief
Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi
at the State Secretariat here on
Tuesday.
ORSTC MD Sudhansu
Sadangi presented the updates
and the corporation’s revival.
Satisfied over the current trend
of revival and profit, the meeting decided to provide capital
investment support to the
OSRTC for purchase of new
buses.
Padhi directed the corporation to adopt more professional methods of management and operation and scale
up real profit.
It was decided that in the
first phase, around 70 AC and
non-AC buses would be procured at an investment of C33
crore. The OSRTC would
spend around C13 crore from
its own resources and C20
crore would be provided as
capital support from the
Government through the
Department of Commerce &
Transport.
The Chief Secretary wanted that all new buses should be
of better quality from the perspectives of security and comfort of the passengers.
Sadangi said, “E-ticketing
machines have been installed
and manual ticketing has been
abolished. Internet/mobile ticketing has been introduced. As
of now, 60 per cent of the tickets are being booked online in
advance. This has curtailed
the pilferage. The system of
Bhuan for collection of entry
fee to the Badambadi busstand has been removed. In its
place, a new system of entry
fees through smart card and
boom barrier has been made
functional.”
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hief Minister Naveen
C
Patnaik has been urged to
up g r a d e t he C ol l e ge of
Engineering and Technology
(CET), a Government engineering college based in
t he c it y to a Un it ar y
University.
The students and alumni
in a memorandum to the
Chief Minister said that after
upgradation, the institution
may b e name d “O disha
Technological University,
Bhubaneswar (OTUB)”.
The memorandum said
CET despite having a distinct
record of academic achievement is just considered
another engineering college
of the scores available in the
State under the BPUT. With
getting elevated to the status
of a varsity, the CET can give
a further boost to its academic achievements. Besides, it
would help the institution
grow with funds from various quarters.
The current and old students of the CET gave the
memorandum against the
backdrop of a proposal with
the State Government to
upgrade IGIT, Sarang and
CET, Bhubaneswar, into
Unitary Varsities.
A four-member committee has already submitted a
feasibility report in favour of
the CET.
The
memorandum
claimed that the CET will
have several advantages if it
gets the varsity tag such as
independent decisions in
respect of academic, administration and financial matters, new advanced and
industry oriented courses
and research facilities, timely examination, result declaration, getting certificate,
f u nds f rom UGC and
research projects from different funding agencies and
f u nds under R astr iya
Uchhatar Sikhya Abhijan
(RUSA). Besides, academic
quality will get a fillip while
students can get better recognition, among other benefits.
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joint eviction team consisting of officials from
A
the BMC and the BDA on
Tuesday demolished unauthorised constructions on the
Government land and road
towards Kuberpuri, Aiginia
and near underpass of NH-5
here under the Khandagiri
police station.
During the eviction drive,
a total of 37 wooden cabins, 48
temporary shops and three tin
shed structures were demolished.
One excavator of the BMC
was engaged for the eviction
drive. The demolition drive was
conducted by BDA Liaison
Officer Subhransu Sekhar
Mohanty,
Enforcement
Inspectors and Enforcement
Assistant of Enforcement
Squad of the BDA.
He further informed that
the OSRTC has a target to start
premium bus service from
October 25. A one-bus-one
staff policy would be adopted
for all future buses. The system
of central store has been substituted by a virtual store
through IDCOL software. The
corporation has successfully
downsized the bus-staff ratio to
the lowest level in comparison
to the Road Transport
Corporations of other States.
The ratio has been reduced to
3 in 2015-16 in contrast to 9+
in 1993-94. The per-km operating cost has also been
reduced to C26.41 against the
all-India average of C34.30.
The corporation has earned a
net surplus over last 13 years.
Commerce & Transport
Principal Secretary Sanjaya
Rastogi, Public Enterprise
Principal Secretary Vijay Arora,
Commerce & Transport Special
Secretar y Manoj Kumar
Mishra and Planning &
Convergence Special Secretary
GB Reddy participated in the
discussions.
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(ECoR) has formed a speT
cial squad to keep a strict vigil
on carrying inflammable items,
including firecrackers, in trains
for the safety of the passengers
during ensuing Diwali celebrations.
Carrying of inflammable
objects like crackers, gas cylinder, acid, petrol and kerosene
during train journey is a punishable offence under the
Railway Act 1989 and the
offender may get an imprisonment up to three years, an official release informed.
The ECoR has urged pas-
sengers to be careful and not to
carry and also not let their copassengers carry inflammable
objects while travelling on
trains. If any passenger is seen
carrying inflammable items,
the co-passengers are requested to inform on-duty railway
staff like TTEs, Coach
Attendants, Guards of the
Train, Station Managers,
Railway Protection Force (RPF)
and Government Railway
Police (GRP) personnel to save
the train passengers from danger, the release requested.
Passengers can call
Helpline No 182 to report any
incident concerning carrying
crackers on train.
G overnment hospital at
Paradip soon after the victim
died there on Monday night.
The mob blamed the
hospital authority alleging
negligence in treatment
which led to the death of the
victim. Later, police rushed to
the spot and controlled the
mob.
Reports said that three
bike riders identified as
Bikram Muduli, Jayanta
Swain and Saroj Behera, sustained injuries after their
bike met with an accident
ne ar Paradip Ter minal
Square.
They were immediately
shifted to the Biju Memorial
G overnment hospital at
Atharabanki for treatment,
but Bikram was declared
brought dead and other two
were admitted for treatment.
Soon after Bikram’s death
reached his near and dear, a
few locals besides his kin
started scolding the attending
doctor and medical staff and
ransacked the hospital.
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workshop on “Internal
Vigilance as a Tool of Good
A
Governance” was held at the
Commissionerate Police office
here on Tuesday.
Chief Minister Naveen
Patnaik, Higher Education
Minister Dr Pradeep Panigrahi,
Chief Secretary AP Padhi, IIIT
Bhubaneswar Director Gopal
Krishna Nayak and Vigilance
Director Dr Rajendra Prasad
Sharma attended the inaugural function.
About 135 Chief Vigilance
Officers
of
different
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New Delhi: The CBI on
Tuesday registered a case in connection with alleged spiking of
wrestler Narsingh Yadav's food
and water at the Sports
Authority of India (SAI) Centre
at Sonepat ahead of the Rio
Olympics. Yadav was barred
from participating in the Rio
Olympics after banned substances were found in his urine
samples.
The case was registered at
Police Station, Rai, Sonepat on
July 27 under IPC sections.
Yadav had alleged that Jitesh, a
wrestler and resident of
Dariyapur Kalan, Delhi, mixed
some restricted material (narcotic) in his meal/water.
The case has been registered
under Section 120-B (criminal
conspiracy, 328 (poisoning) and
506 of the IPC. "It was alleged
spiking of some restricted material (narcotic) in the meal/water
of the said international wrestler
was to stop his participation in Rio
Olympics for which he had qualified," a CBI spokesperson said.
Yadav was slapped with a
four-year ban by the Court of
Arbitration (CAS) during the
Olympics barring him from
the Games. After the development, the WFI had been
demanding a CBI probe into the
matter. The wrestler was tested
positive for banned substance
for about 20 days ahead of the
start of the Olympic Games.
Yadav had alleged conspiracy
against him saying his food and
drinks were spiked at SAI hostel in Sonepat but failed to provide any material to substantiate his allegations.
He was debarred from representing India at the Rio
Games in the 74-kg freestyle
wrestling event but later NADA
allowed him to participate in the
game as it accepted the sabotage
hypothesis put forth by the
wrestler. During the course of
the Games, the CAS slapped a
ban on him for flunking a dope
test following WADA's challenge to the clean chit given to
him by the National AntiDoping Agency (NADA) just
three days ahead of his scheduled
opening bout at the Olympics.
However, during the hearing at
Rio de Janeiro, WADA had said
if any decision was rendered at
a later stage by a criminal court
in India, which confirmed the
alleged sabotage, then any award
made by the ad-hoc panel could
be reviewed by the Supreme
Court in Switzerland, where the
CAS is based.
PNS
Departments/ PSUs and senior
Vigilance Officers were present,
among others.
In his welcome address,
Sharma highlighted about the
crucial roles of Chief Vigilance
Officers in eradicating corruption and stressed on better
coordination between Vigilance
Officers and CVOs for effective
implementation of internal vigilance.
The Chief Minister
impressed upon the CVOs to
adopt methods of preventive
vigilance in active cooperation
with the State Vigilance for
keeping corruption under
check in their respective departments and public sector undertakings. He emphasised upon
the roll of CVOs and Vigilance
in contributing towards clean
and efficient governance.
He released a booklet
“Pratibadhh”, a compilation
that explains role and function
of CVOs and vigilance cases
During
workshop,
Vigilance DIG Narasingha Bhol
gave a power point presentation
on “existing structure and functions of CVOs”.
Former DGP Gopal Nanda
spoke on the “Legal and
Administration issue relevant to
CVOs.” DIG Amitendra Nath
Sinha presented the “Best
Practices on Internal Vigilance”.
Among others, Hindustan
Copper Ltd., Kolkata CVO
Rakesh Kumar, retired IAS
Sanjib
Hota,
Telecommunication CVO M
Akhaya, former Information
commissioner Jagadananda
spoke
The workshop concluded
with a resolution for establishing a better coordination
between CVOs and Vigilance
so that Internal Vigilance mechanism could be strengthened to
prevent corruption.
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Pradesh round the corW
ner, can the calls for construction of the Ram mandir
at Ayodhya be far behind?
After Prime Minister
Narendra Modi chanted "Jai
Sri Ram" during the Dussehra
festivities in Lucknow the mad
race for Hindu votes has
begun, with leaders of all hues
now talking about Ayodhya.
Eyeing the Hindu vote pie
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav announced
funds for modernisation of the
International Ram Leela
Complex in Ayodhya. The
announcement by Akhilesh
was made after the Modi
Government announced C 225
crore for the Ramayana circuit
— of which C151 crore is
being earmarked for Ayodhya.
Significantly, on Tuesday,
Union Tourism Minister
Mahesh Sharma visited
Ayodhya to "see the progress"
of the Ramayana circuit, which
the Union Government wants
to develop as a tourist destination.
"My visit to Ayodhya has
nothing to do with UP
Assembly elections. I am visiting here as the Tourism
Minister. This is part of the
Government's effort to
improve tourism in Ayodhya
and all over the country," he
said, but the statement has sent
signals loud and clear.
Targeting the Opposition
for raking up the timing of his
Ayodhya visit, the Union
Minister said, "It is our culture
to take blessings from our
sants and sadhus. We are try-
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does not get such an opportunity." Sharma added that he
has also sought advise from
chairman
of
Ram
Janmabhoomi Nyas, Mahant
Nritya Gopal Das on the selection of the site for the museum.
However, Mahant Nritya
Gopal Das added a new flavour
to this controversy when said in
Ayodhya on Tuesday that no
one can stop the construction of
the Ram temple in Ayodhya
now. "Modi aa gaye … samajh
lo mandir ban gaya. (Modi is
in power now. Consider the
temple made)," he said.
Earlier, Sharma worshipped at the makeshift temple of Ramlalla at the dispute
site and stayed there for around
20 minutes before visiting
Hanumangarhi and meeting
the sants and sadhus. Sharma
also visited the sites where the
proposed museum could be
constructed. One spot is on the
banks of Saryu river and the
second one is a 28 acre plot
seven km away from Ayodhya.
"I am grateful to have darshan of Ramlalla and Saryu but
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will do the real service to
Lord Ram by bringing this
pious city on the international map," he said while addressing a meeting at Karsevak
Puram.
The pre-poll call for construction of the Ram temple
was first taken up by the
Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya
Sabha member Subramanian
Swamy who had said in
Allahabad that the temple
would be constructed soon
and the court could give its
verdict.
This was followed by
another BJP Rajya Sabha
member and firebrand leader
Vinay Katiyar who demanded
construction of the Ram temple at the earliest in Ayodhya
and suggested that if required
Legislation should be brought
in the Parliament regarding
this.
"It's not only Swami who
is talking about Ram temple,
every Ram devotee wants a
grand Ram temple at the earliest," Katiyar had said on
Monday.
The arrested were identified as Kalia Khaji, Panday
Champia, Dhanu Singh,
Madhab Singh and Ganesh
Tudu.
Now the question is how a
truck lifted the cable and managed to flee from the highly
guarded area of PPT management where CISF personnel
stand guard round the clock.
All the entrance and exit gates
are under the glare of CCTV
cameras.
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to formalising the biggest
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indirect tax reform, the Goods
and Service Tax (GST) Council
on Tuesday discussed possible
tax rates, including a four-slab
structure of 6, 12, 18 and 26
per cent with lower rates for
essential items and highest
band for luxury goods, even
as it reached consensus on
payment of compensation to
States. The all-powerful
panel, headed by Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley and
including representatives of
all States, reached a consensus on the way States would
be compensated for any loss
of revenue from implementation of the new indirect tax
regime from April 1, 2017.
Base year for calculating
the revenue of a State would
be 2015-16 and secular
growth rate of 14 per cent
would be taken for calculating the likely revenue of each
State in the first five years of
implementation of GST,
Jaitley told reporters here.
States getting lower revenue
than this would be compensated by the Centre. The
GST Council on the first
day of its three-day meeting
discussed five alternatives of
GST rate structure, he said,
adding no decision was taken
and discussions would continue on Wednesday.
A four-slab structure of
6, 12, 18 and 26 per cent
with a cess on the highest
band for ultra luxury and
demerit items like tobacco
being levied was discussed.
Food items are proposed to
be exempt from the tax and
50 per cent of the items of
common us age wil l b e
exempt to keep the inflation
under check.
The lower rates would be
levied on essential items and
the highest for luxury and
demerit goods. The cess
would help create a compensation fund to help compensate States for any loss of
revenue from implementation of the new indirect tax
regime that will subsume a
host of Central and State
taxes, including excise duty,
service tax and VAT.
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good and bad terrorists.
Indirectly comparing
BIMSTEC countries and
Pakistan, Swaraj said the
regional bloc today represents
the ‘polar opposite’ of a terrorism promoting polity. “They
are focused on improving the
quality of life of their people, on
skills and employment, on education and health, and on the
quality of governance and the
deepening of democracy. These
are nations who are actively
promoting connectivity, cooperation and contacts amongst
themselves…There cannot be
a greater contrast with those
who reject even trade and connectivity for political reasons,”
Swaraj said in an obvious reference to Pakistan that blocked
several agreements on transport and connectivity in
SAARC that were suggested by
India.
“We have always looked
upon BRICS as a template for
a new approach to global
Governance in the 21st century. The five nations represent
the voice of the changing world
and our approach to global
issues signifies a convergence
across different continents on
the opportunities and challenges that await us…In Goa
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also gave details of the strikes targeting terrorist launch pads
across the LoC. Government
representatives told the panel that
thestrikes have fulfilled the purpose as of now and there will
always be a nagging doubt in the
Pakistani establishment whether
India will carry out similar operations in the future. A Congress
member wanted to know
whether similar operations could
be carried out in the future.
The Government representatives said the strikes were
carried out after a “lot has been
suffered”. When asked about
the casualty they could inflict
on the terrorists, the officials
said the army had crossed the
LoC to carry out strikes and not
to collect evidence.
On China recently extending the technical hold on India’s
efforts for a UN ban on chief
of Jaish-e-Mohammad terror
group and Pathankot attack
mastermind Masood Azhar,
the Foreign Secretary said New
Delhi is working on the issue.
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Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday
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said the BRICS Summit in
Goa clearly recognised Statesponsored and State-protected
terrorism as the biggest challenge to the world and that
there cannot be business as
usual when it comes to dealing
with terrorism. Summing up
the BRICS Summit at the
media forum, Swaraj said terrorism was universally recognised as a key threat to stability, progress and development,
which featured strongly in the
conference narrative and its
eventual outcome.
The Minister’s statement
came at a time when the
Government is facing criticism for failing to manage a reference to cross-border terrorism in the BRICS declaration.
However, Swaraj said that
threat of terror featured strongly at BRICS. Without naming
any country, she added there
has always been an overarching
political context for the BRICS
meetings which essentially
underlines that a serious global discourse cannot be the ‘preserve’ of a few countries with a
‘narrow agenda’.
he Army had carried out
“target specific, limited-calibre, counter-terrorist operations” across the LoC in the past
too but this is for the first time
the Government has gone public about it, a Parliamentary
panel was told on Tuesday, in
remarks that appear to contradict
the Defence Minister’s claim.
Foreign Secretar y S
Jaishankar gave this information to the Parliamentary
Committee on External Affairs
when he was specifically asked
by MPs whether surgical strikes
have been done in the past.
“Professionally done, targetspecific, limited calibre counterterrorist operations” have been
carried out across the LoC in the
past too, but this is for the first
time that the Government has
made it public,” according to
sources present in the meeting.
The top diplomat's comments assume significance in
the context of claims by Defence
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engagement and political cooperation remained key factors,
there was a sharp realisation
that global development and
prosperity was very much
dependent on continued peace
and security...Indeed, what we
saw was not just an understanding of the dangers posed
by terrorism to the economic
aspirations of the world but a
growing recognition that this
has now become a truly global challenge that the international community can only
ignore at its peril,” Swaraj said.
She maintained there is a
developing consensus among
BRICS that it cannot be business as usual without taking
action on terrorism. “We must
be prepared to extract costs for
those who sponsor and support
terrorists, who provide them
sanctuary, and who, despite
their own claimed victimhood,
continue to make the false distinction between good and bad
terrorists. BRICS has always
been global in its approach and
today, there is no bigger global challenge than State-sponsored and State-protected terrorism,” Swaraj said in an
apparent reference to Pakistan.
She further said there is a
need to extract costs from
those who sponsor, support
and provide sanctuary to terror
networks besides continuing to
make false distinction between
T
Minister Manohar Parrikar’s
claims last week rejecting
Congress’s claims that surgical
strikes were undertaken during
the UPA Government too. He
had asserted that it was the first
time that surgical strikes had
taken place in the aftermath of
the Uri terror attack and what
was undertaken previously were
operations locally executed by
commanders without involving
the Government.
Jaishankar also told the
Committee that while India has
been engaging with Pakistan
post the September 29 surgical
strikes, no “calendar” has so far
been prepared regarding future
engagement and its level with
Islamabad, members said on
condition of anonymity.
He said soon after the operations had ended, the Director
General Military Operations
of the Pakistan Army was
informed about the strikes.
During the two-and-a-halfhour meeting, Vice Chief of
Army Staff Lt Gen Bipin Rawat
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imposing a ban on
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Pakistan actors after the Uri
attack, the Government on
Tuesday said people-to-people
contact would continue and
there was no plan to stop it.
This was conveyed by Foreign
Secretary S Jaishankar to the
Parliamentar y Standing
Committee on External Affairs
during discussions on IndoPak relations with a specific
reference to surgical strikes
across the LoC on September
29. "People-to-people contact
would continue and there was
no plan to stop it," he told the
panel.
we have strengthened the institutional foundation of the
BRICS and set it on the path of
seeking collective solutions
which will not only help propel the BRICS nations forward but also be a voice of
hope, peace and prosperity for
the entire world,” Swaraj
summed up.
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San Suu Kyi, who is on
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her first official visit to New
Delhi after coming to power as
State Counsellor, on Tuesday
met External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj and gave her a
wishlist seeking assistance in
the areas of agriculture, capacity building, job creation, infrastructure and health care for
her country.
Suu Kyi arrived in Delhi on
a State visit from Goa after
attending the BRICS-BIMSTEC outreach meet. During
her talks with Swaraj, Suu Kyi
also sought India’s support to
Myanmar’s agenda of national
reconciliation, socio-economic development and strengthening democracy.
Suu Kyi added her country
has to go about the process of
transition in a cautious manner
and Myanmar seeks cooperation and support of India, as its
people look for ward to
progress and change for the
betterment of their lives.
According to sources, Swaraj
offered all possible assistance
from the Indian side in keeping with the priorities outlined by Suu Kyi.
EAM also conveyed condolences at the recent terrorist
attacks in Rakhine State of
Myanmar, in which many
Myanmar police and army personnel died, and at the loss of
lives in the recent ferry accident
on the Chindwin river.
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eligious leaders appealing
people to vote for a particR
ular candidate or political party
has seldom attracted a complaint of “corrupt practice”
against the candidate who wins
an election. But the Supreme
Court on Tuesday felt that
time was ripe to test whether
such a situation could be
termed as “corrupt practice”
under the Representation of
Peoples Act, sufficient to set
aside the election of a winning
candidate.
This question came upon
Tuesday before a seven-judge
Constitution Bench which has
to define what is meant by “corrupt practice” provided under
Section 123(3) of the RP Act.
The provision defines corrupt
practice to mean “the appeal by
a candidate or his agent or by
any other person with the consent of a candidate or his election agency to vote or refrain
from voting for any person on
the ground of his religion,
race, caste, community, or language…for the furtherance of
the prospects of the election of
that candidate or for prejudicially affecting the election of
any candidate.”
The bench comprising
Chief Justice TS Thakur,
Justices Madan B Lokur, SA
Bobde, Adarsh Goel, UU Lalit,
DY Chandrachud and LN Rao
said, "If a religious leader
invokes religion of his followers to appeal for votes or not to
vote a particular candidate,
will you not be seen as using
religious bias to whip up feelings. Is it not a corrupt practice
where you are appealing for the
candidate with religion as the
basis." The bench explored
other possibilities where a religious leader in a masjid, temple, gurudwara or church can
make a similar appeal to vote.
The issue fell squarely for
consideration in two appeals
where a candidate's election
was set aside on the ground
that the political leader of the
party whom he represented
made a speech supporting
"Hindutva" amounting to corrupt practice. The case related
to two speeches made by Shiv
Sena founder Late Bal
Thackeray and former BJP
leader Late Pramod Mahajan
invoking voters during the
1990 Maharashtra Assembly
elections. The Bombay High
Court set aside the election of
10 persons in 1991.
Later the Supreme Court
reversed the HC order in the
case of nine persons holding
that "Hindutva" is a way of life.
The lone person left out was
Abhiram Singh, whose petition
was referred to the 7-judge
bench.
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hough voicing their opposition to triple talaq, the
T
he Congress on Tuesday
Left parties on Tuesday Tsought an enquiry by the
expressed apprehensions on Election Commission over the
he Centre, which had come
under attack from Tamil
T
Nadu for siding with Karnataka
on the Cauvery river water dispute, on Tuesday found itself
standing alone while arguing in
Supreme Court against the
maintainability of appeals filed
by the two warring States against
the decision of the Cauvery
Water Disputes Tribunal.
Attorney General Mukul
Rohatgi, who appeared for the
Centre, told a Bench of Justices
Dipak Misra, Amitava Roy
and AM Khanwilkar that the
appeals filed by Tamil Nadu
and Karnataka cannot be heard
by the Supreme Court.
According to him, the Centre
alone has jurisdiction to decide
whether the Tribunal’s decision
should be implemented, partly implemented or rejected.
But the Centre found itself
cornered as the two States -
Karnataka and Tamil Nadujointly opposed the argument
by Rohatgi and said that the
Constitution provides that a
dispute between two or more
States can be brought only
before the Supreme Court.
For Karnataka, senior advocate Fali Nariman argued that
the decision by Tribunal cannot
oust Supreme Court’s jurisdiction. Rohatgi had cited the
River Water Disputes Act 1956
stating that the decree passed by
the Tribunal will have the same
force as that given by apex
court. On this basis, A-G said
that the Supreme Court cannot
sit in judgment over its own
order. Nariman clarified that
this portion was introduced
following the recommendation
by Sarkaria Commission. The
underlying purpose behind
introducing these words was to
ensure States obey the tribunal's
order as much as they respect a
Supreme Court order. The pur-
pose was never to oust Supreme
Court's jurisdiction to hear a
dispute arising from the water
sharing.
Senior advocate Shekhar
Naphade appearing for Tamil
Nadu supported this stand and
said that it was high time the
Court took up their appeals
and finally decide on the validity of the water sharing formula
proposed by the Tribunal. As
arguments on maintainability
of the appeals remained inconclusive, the bench posted the
matter for Wednesday and
directed continuation of its
earlier order asking Karnataka
to supply a daily dose of 2,000
cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu.
Meanwhile, a Committee
formed by Centre to inspect the
Cauvery Basin areas and report
on the conditions there, presented its report to Court. It
contained no formula for water
sharing but held that both States
were in dire need of water.
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the motive of the BJP-led
Government’s move on
Uniform Civil Code.
Alleging that “communal”
forces have launched an offensive on the identity of minorities, the CPI(M) said any move
to push Uniform Civil Code “as
is being done by the
Government” will be counterproductive for women’s rights
even as it favoured reforms in
personal laws of all communities, including Hindus.
The major Left party supported the demand of section
of Muslim women against the
practice of “arbitrary and
instant” triple talaq and said
reforms were needed in personal laws of the “majority
community” too as that they
“discriminate”
against
women.
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claims of the People’s Party of
Arunachal Pradesh (PP) that
they had merged with the
Congress following a resolution
last month leading to a second
round of political crisis in the
State.
The party through a memorandum said that no such
meeting of State Congress unit
took place over the merger with
PPP on the said date
(September16) and that such a
thing was null and void. "No
such meeting was held and
there was no decision taken
either by the Indian National
Congress or Arunachal
Pradesh Congress for merger.
It is brought to your notice no
such meetings took place and
thus the merger is not sustainable in the eyes of law and even
contrary to the ECI rules,"
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romising to carry on politics
of “Umeed” (hope), BJP
P
MP Varun Gandhi on Tuesday
delivered 28 houses funded by
him to ‘the poorest of the poor
in his constituency.
This was the first step of his
“futuristic plan” to build 100 such
houses in his parliamentary seat
and a total of 5000 one-room
houses across Uttar Pradesh in
two to three years with financial
contribution from people across
the country and internationally.
Striking a chord with those
who were presented one-room
‘Pucca’ yellow painted houses
(politically neutral colour), the
Gandhi scion said “politics
should not be limited to change
of governments, winning or
losing elections but it be used
for larger and permanent public benefits”. “The best legacy
that I would leave behind me
is good will and blessings of
people, particularly poor”, he
said while unveiling the first
house owned by a family of
minority community.
He said the idea was to create “first generation home
owners” whose generations
never lived in ‘pucca houses’. To
ensure that houses first reach to
the most needy, survey was
done with the help of local
administration to identify ‘the
man on the last ladder’ in the
constituency.
Hinting that he was for “an
alternative way of doing politics”, Varun said in last three
years 3,662 farmers, identified
by his team as potential cases
for suicide on account of their
debt history, were made “debt
free” in UP . A payment of Rs
18 crore was paid to farmers
through cheques . A systematic case study of poorest famers
in Sultanpur and 21 other districts of the state was done by
the research volunteers before
zeroing on the beneficiaries.
The criteria for selecting
farmers for assistance included whether he had “defaulted
on loan four times, has no fixed
assets and experienced misfortune of three harvest loss.”
The banks were talked to , bank
accounts of farmers checked
Suu Kyi later called on
President Pranab Mukherjee at
Rashtrapati Bhawan. The
President congratulated Suu
Kyi on her party's victory in the
general elections held in
Myanmar last year and complimented her on the role that
she has played in Myanmar's
path to democracy. Recalling
his discussions during the visit
of Myanmar President U Htin
Kyaw to India in August,
Mukherjee conveyed India's
whole-hearted support for the
Myanmar Government in its
efforts to live up to the expectations of the people of
Myanmar.
President also referred to
India’s rich experience in building a federal nation state, taking into account the ethnic and
linguistic diversity of its people
and offered any assistance
desired by Myanmar in this
regard. President added India
will soon commence work on
restoring two old temples
and inscriptions of King
Mindon and Bay Gyi Daw in
Bodh Gaya. This task will be
undertaken by the ASI with
financial support from India.
and sought assistance of local
administration to authenticate
“genuine
defaulters”.
“Thereafter we went to the rich
people who presented cheques
to them”, he said.
The districts covered included Agra, muzzafarnagar, Bijnore,
lakhimpur khiri, Pratapgarh,
Allahabad, Mooradabad, sitapur
and Bahraich.
“Next year we have bigger
plan and I want to link world’s
richest with poorest in UP by
way of internet”, Said the BJP
MP adding he intends to “ramp
up the plan” and “institutionalise” ready assistance to the
poor farmers which would
include providing farming and
other inputs to them so that
they could establish themselves
financially on a permanent
basis.
said the memorandum copy
signed by former Chief
Minister Nabam Tuki and
AICC Secretary KC Mittal.
The Congress has accused
the BJP of engineering the
defection and described the
PPA as the "illegitimate child"
of the saffron party. Congress
lost power for the second time
in less than a year in Arunachal
Pradesh in September 2016
after all but one of its MLAs
joined PPA as regional party.
Earlier in December 2015 more
than 30 Congress rebels backed
by the BJP had sided with the
PPA leading to formation of a
government of the regional
party led by Kalikho Pul.
This September, crisis
emerged two months after the
party's government was restored
by the Supreme Court. Fortythree MLAs led by chief minister Pema Khandu joined the
PPA, leaving the Congress with
only Tuki. The 43 includes
assembly speaker TN Thongdok.
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appointed as Inspectors
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General (IG) in one go in the
country’s largest border guarding force BSF by the
Government. The Home
Ministry on Monday issued
orders in this regard. While six
of these IPS officers are being
brought from various states,
three are being transferred
from other Central Armed
Police Forces (CAPFs) to the
paramilitary.
Officials attributed the bulk
first-ever posting of IG-rank
officers in the BSF to the long
pending vacancies in this category. As per data, as on
October 1, the BSF had 10
vacancies against 22 sanctioned
posts of IG in its establishment.
Similarly, under the same order,
five IGs have been appointed in
the Central Reserve Police
Force.
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and to bring about a sense of
Iinclusiveness
among tribals,
the Ministry of Tribal Affairs is
organising a four-day National
Tribal Carnival, beginning
October 25, which will be
inaugurated by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. Over 65,000
tribal delegates and artistes
from across the country will
participate.
The Ministers of State
including Faggan Singh
Kulaste, Kiren Rijiju and
Vishnu Deo Sai are among others who are likely to attend the
four-day carnival.
Minister of Tribal Affairs
Jual Oram on Tuesday stated
that the carnival will feature
workshops on Panchayats
Extension to Scheduled Areas
Act (PESA), Forest Rights Act
(FRA), reservation of tribals in
politics among others. The carnival will provide platforms to
tribal artistes, to showcase and
promote various facets of their
culture and especially their
skills on a large scale, he added.
This will include exhibition
of art/artifacts, cultural performances, demonstration of
skills like sports, paintings,
traditional healing practices
among others. “I have personally involved all political parties
— spoken to the tribal MPs and
former Ministers seeking their
participation,” he said adding
that the carnival had been
scaled up on the directives of
the Prime Minister.
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supremo Mayawati lamBahujan
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Defence Minister
Manohar Parrikar for claiming
that the surgical strikes against
the terror camps in Pakistanoccupied-Kashmir were due
to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh’s (RSS) teachings. She
said the remarks amount to
degrading the country’s Armed
Forces.
“Such statements demoralise the Army, besides it is an
insult to the soldiers, who are
sacrificing their lives for the
country,” asserted Mayawati
while reacting to Parrikar’s
statement. In an official communiqué released here on
Tuesday afternoon, Mayawati
said such statements show the
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leaders, who were trying to
B0D60AB4=6D?C0Q :>;:0C0 situation was alien in Bengal was high in Naihati area of gain politically through the
but today it has reached alarm- North 24 Parganas where sevhe Opposition parties in ing points because of lack of eral houses were looted and
Bengal have hit out at the governance. It is clear that the many people were injured over
ruling Trinamool Congress for TMC and BJP are playing fixed the past one week when two
allowing the communal riot- matches feeding each other’s communities clashed over
like situation in North 24 vote bank. Their camaraderie Muharram and immersion
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On the other hand BJP
of the issue snowballing into a way the BJP Government let off
major crisis haunting everyone. Trinamoool in Saradha and leader Siddharthnath Singh
amata Banerjee’s nephew
Attacking Chief Minister Narada scams as a result of accused CM of playing vote
and Trinamool Congress
Mamata Banerjee for ignoring which Mamata Banerjee could bank politics by appeasing a MP Abhishek Banerjee susparticular community. Even tained severe injuries on Tuesday
the situation Pradesh win the Assembly elections.”
The CPI(M) on the other the courts accused her when the SUV he was travelling
Congress president Adhir
Chowdhur y
said
the hand upped the ante as its MP Government of practicing vote in collided with a milk van and
Trinamool and the BJP were Mohd Salim said, “It is pecu- bank appeasement politics, rolled several times over off the
playing “fixed matches” with liar to see a Government sit- Singh said adding as she was high-speed
Durgapur
each feeding the vote bank ting idle while communal ten- scared of losing her core voters Expressway, police said.
aspiration of the other by sion is going on in 8-9 places. before 2019 to the BJP she was
An anguished Chief
triggering communal tension. The communal flare-up is the craftily engineering a commu- Minister immediately smelt conChowdhury an MP from result of a political game plan nal situation and silently sup- spiracy wondering whether the
Behrampore in Murshidabad of the two parties: Trinamool porting the rioters from minor- driver of the vehicle in which her
district said, “The communal and BJP.” Communal tension ity community to gain votes.
nephew was travelling was
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surgical strikes.
“Everyone in the country
knows about the activities of
RSS and their nefarious motive
to divide the society. Such
statements by the Defence
Minister prove that they are
now trying to politicise the
actions of the Army, which is
highly condemnable,” she
added. “It is wrong on the part
drugged. “The police are looking into this along with many
other angles” she said underscoring, “the driver of the vehicle had dozed off making it highly suspicious as to whether he
was drugged.” The security of
the Banerjees was not working
the way it should, she added.
Another senior TMC
leader Manas Bhunia who was
travelling with junior Banerjee
also suffered injuries along
with four other security men.
Bhunia last month crossed over
to Trinamool after his 40-year
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wo persons were killed,
while 11 others were resT
cued after a massive fire broke
out in a prominent 25-storey
building “Maker Towers” at
Cuffe Parade in south Mumbai
on Tuesday morning.
Two male servants, who
were inside the servants’ quarters located near the internal
stairs of the building when fire
engulfed the 20th and 21st
floors of the building, died due
to burns and suffocation.
The two servants, Vir
Kundan (22) and Ajay Ram (30),
were pronounced dead at the
State-run St George Hospital,
where they had been rushed.
Bajaj Electricals’ chairman
and managing director Shekhar
Bajaj, whose one of the two flats
that were gutted in the fire, and
his family members managed
to escape unhurt. Bajaj’s family members were among the
persons who rescued by the
Fire Brigade personnel.
Bajaj and his family members live in an eight-room
duplex flat on the 20th floor of
the Sea-facing “Maker Towers”
which is a landmark building
at downtown Cuffe Parade.
The fire was noticed first in
flat number 201 on the 2oth
floor of in the “A” Wing of the
building, at around 6.37 am.
Before long, the fire had spread
to the flat 211 on the 21st floor.
Mumbai Fire Brigade personnel — who rushed to the
scene along with eight fire tenders, six jumbo tankers, one
aerial ladder platform, one
high pressure van, a one
breathing apparatus van and an
ambulance — battled with fire
for nearly two hours, before
they brought the blaze under
control at around 8.30 am.
“Fire fighters rescued 11
residents who were trapped in
fire-hit flats. Two persons who
sustained severe burn wounds
were declared dead at the St
George’s Hospital, before
admission,”
Deputy
Commissioner of Police (Zone1) Manojkumar Sharma said.
Among those rescued were
seven members of Bajaj’s family
and four members living in
another flat. The rescued family members of Bajaj’s family
included one year-old male child.
Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta visited the
spot and took stock of the situation. "We do not know whether
it was a short circuit...it could be,
we will know after an investigation," Shekhar Bajaj said.
“We are investigating the
cause of the fire,” Chief Fire
Officer of the Mumbai Brigade
PS Rahangdale said. Household
articles, electric fittings furniture
and false ceiling on the 20th and
21st floors involving an area of
3,000 sq feet on each floor
were gutted in the fire.
stint with the Congress following his alleged differences with
the current PCC leadership.
Banerjee had been admitted in the ITU at a multi-specialty hospital in South Kolkata
with severe facial, neck and
head injuries. MRI and CT scan
was being conducted on him.
Doctors said the MP whose car
was travelling at 100-plus speed
had taken the full impact in his
face and was being given blood.
The accident occurred,
within a few furlongs from Tata
Nano site at Singur, when the
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The Chief Minister wants
the blocks A, B, C and D in the
existing Secretariat complex
to be demolished a new single
10 storied building should be
constructed within a year.
Famous design engineer
and architect Hafeez Contractor
has already prepared and hand-
ed over the plan for the new
building but it was planned over
an area of 1 million square feet.
The Chief Minister has now
asked him to prepare a new
plan for half the area.
The design of Hafeez
Contractor had envisaged a U
shaped Secretariat building on
the lines of the North and
South Blocks in New Delhi. But
KCR rejected it on the ground
that it will cover the Secretariat
Blocks presently under the use
of
Andhra
Pradesh
Government.
A meeting of officials
chaired by the State Chief
Secretary Rajeev Sharma decided that all the departments
presently working out of the
Blocks A, B, C and D will be
shifted to nearby Borgula
Ramakrishan Building on tem-
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movement, Manipur's
prominent human rights
defender Irom Sharmila Chanu
on Tuesday launched her political party, People's Resurgence
and Justice Alliance (PRJA).
Sharmila, who ended her
16-year long fast on August 9
this year, vowed to take her
fight for repealing the infamous
Armed Forces Special Powers
Act (AFSPA) politically.
Sharmila launched the
PRJA during a Press conference
in Manipur capital Imphal
today. The party will field at
least 20 candidates in the forthcoming Assembly election in
Manipur and Sharmila will
former Chief Minister YS
Rajasekhar Reddy and others,
a new residence was planned by
merging three separate quarters
occupied by the top bureaucrats in Kundan Bagh. But
after it was redesigned at a huge
cost to the exchequer he rejected it and instead decided to
occupy the camp office adjacent to the official residence in
Begumpet.
But later he again changed
the mind and got a new residence building built behind the
present camp office as he was
apprehensive that the old building was not propitious enough
for him. This has cost C35 crore
to the exchequer.
However his other plans
including the razing of the
heritage structure of Osmania
Hospital were nixed after a
not rule out conspiracy saying
some people from Murshidabad
were under scanner.
Abhishek also a Trinamool
Youth Congress and a plausible
successor of the Chief Minister
to Bengal masnad was returning
from Murshidabad a Congress
stronghold — held by PCC
president and Congress MP
Adhir Chowdhury — till a few
weeks ago when the district saw
a large-scale switching of sides
from the Congress to the
Trinamool in the name of development carried out by the CM.
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porary basis.
This is not the first time
that the KCR has come with
such ideas to change or shift
the key Government buildings
and construct new buildings in
accordance with Vatsu Sastra
or Vedic science of building
structures.
Such is his belief in the
Vastu system, believed to be
source of good fortune, that he
never takes any measure decision in matter of changing residence or office without consulting the Vastu experts.
It was because of this
belief that he made many
changes in the plans to occupy a new official residence
after becoming the Chief
Minister in June 2014.
As he was averse to stay in
the official residence used by
first car of his convoy hit head
on a milk van which had gone
kaput and was being towed
backwards by a crane. The front
portion of this SUV had literally
crumpled. Banerjee’s car hurtled
in from behind and dashed
against the same milk van
before rolling several times
down into the road-side ditch,
eyewitnesses suggested.
Back to the sabotage angle
floated by the Chief Minister
who immediately ordered a
CID inquiry into the incident:
Top Trinamool leaders also did
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elangana Chief Minister K
Chandrasekhar Rao’s fad
for new and exotic projects is
unabated, though many of his
earlier ideas could not see the
light of day.
After the historic Osmania
Hospital building, a heritage
structure, the TB Hospital building in Viqarabad and many
other such places, the eyes of the
Chief Minister have now fallen
on the State Secretariat buildings
as he wants to replace them with
a ten storied massive structure
over 5,00,000 square feet in
accordance with the Vastu
Sastra.
If he has his ways, the new
project, for which a plan has
been chalked out will cost the
exchequer C1,200 crore.
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of the Prime Minister and
Defence Minister to take credit for surgical strikes and take
political mileage in the coming
polls,” she further alleged,
“Though the RSS claims to be
a cultural organisation, its
activities pointed that they
always worked with political
motives, with a particular mentality in favour of a political
party... its people are now present in the BJP and
Government,” she said.
Parrikar
said
in
Ahmedabad on Monday, “I
wonder, with the combination
of the Prime Minister, who
comes from Father of the
Nation Mahatma Gandhi’s
home State, and I, Defence
Minister, coming from Goa,
which never had any martial
race, and surgical strikes. May
be the RSS teaching was at the
core, but this was quite a different kind of combination”.
massive public uproar. He
wanted to replace with a new
swanky building.
Now another similar move
was in the pipeline to build a
massive Assembly building and
shift the legislature from the
present location. The white
color building with beautiful
and intricate minarets where
the Assembly was located for
more than six decades was
built during the reign of the 6th
Nizam Mira Mahbub Ali Khan
as a Town Hall.
Now the state Speaker S
Madhusudhana Chary was toying with the idea of constructing a new sprawling complex
for the legislature with the
state of art facilities at a new
location as the present building
was not sufficient to meet the
requirements.
contest in two seats, contesting
against chief minister Okram
Ibobi Singh in one of them.
While
Erendro
Leichonbam was elected as the
party convenor, Sharmila was
elected as the co-convener.
The human right defender,
who is the face of human rights
movement in Manipur, had earlier stated that she wants to
become the chief minister of
Manipur to bring positive
change and to repeal the AFSPA.
Sharmila who was better
known as the Iron Lady of
Manipur had started an indefinite fast in 2000 protesting
against alleged killing of ten
civilians by the Assam Rifles at
Malom near Imphal.
She was arrested by the
police and kept in custody
since then for every one year.
The Manipur government had
also turn a ward of the
Jawaharlal Nehru Regional
Institute of Medical Science
into a jail for keeping Sharmila.
She was also force fed a liquid
diet through her nose since last
several years.
On August 9 this year,
Sharmila broke her epic fast
and she was released from the
Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of
Medical Sciences the same day.
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of Police at Malur station in Kolar District in
Karnataka has allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself using his service revolver
inside the police station on
Tuesday early morning. This is
the latest in a growing list of suicides committed by police officials in Karnataka. Raghavendra
was a 2003 batch police officer
and promoted as Circle
Inspector two years back.
The spate of suicides of
police officers one after the
other has sent dented the image
of ruling Government of Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah. After
MK Ganapathy, who was a
Deputy Superintendent of police
from Mangalur had committed
suicide in a lodge in Madikeri in
Kodgau on July 7 and two days
earlier Chikmagalur Deputy
Police Superintendent Kallappa
Handibag also killed himself in
his father-in-law's home and the
latest of Raghavendra has shaken the police department which
is under tremendous pressure.
MK Ganapathy gave an
interview to a local channel and
named a Minister KJ George
and two senior police officers
before he committed suicide.
The Opposition BJP demanded
a CBI inquiry but a COD
enquiry ordered by the State
Government gave clean chit to
all of them. George now back in
the ministry and looking after
Bengaluru’s infrastructure.
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up the efforts for the reconSciliation
within the first family of the party ahead of the
November 5, to celebrate the
silver jubilee of the inception of
the party. The party supremo
Mulayam Singh Yadav has now
relented and Akhilesh Yadav is
all set to be declared as the
Chief Minister candidate of the
party on November 5.
The silver jubilee celebration is significant day for the
party as on that day the party
will formally kick off the poll
campaign. The SP also would
do its best to send signals to the
masses and the rank and file of
the party that it was not a
‘divided house’ and the whole
family and the party was united to take the plunge in campaign for the next Assembly
elections. SP has already cancelled several poll related programmes like the ‘Vikas Se
Vijay Ke Aor’ yatra by the
Chief Minister, Mulayam
Sandesh Yatra and mega rally
by the SP chief in Azamgarh on
October 6.
However the contentious
issues like the withdrawal of the
expulsion of the youth leaders of
‘Team Akhilesh’ and restoration
of Akhilesh Yadav as State president of the Samajwadi party
continue to dodge resolution.
On Monday SP supremo
Mulayam Singh had held long
meeting with Akhilesh Yadav
and Shivpal Yadav. Akhilesh is
reported to be adamant that the
post of the State president of the
party be restored to him for amicable settlement of the feud
plaguing the party for over the
last month. Mulayam Singh
Yadav is said to have assured the
Chief Minister that he will look
into the matter after the silver
jubilee function on November 5.
In the mid September on
the directions of Mulayam
Singh Yadav Akhilesh Yadav
was replaced by his uncle
Shivpal Yadav as the State pres-
ident of the party. Few days
later following the protest by
the youth leaders, three MLCs
and heads of the four youth
organisations were expelled
from the party.
The ruling party conscious
of the fact that it has lost significant political ground ever
since it plunged in factional feud
on September 12. SP sources
said that the party leadership
has no option left but to carry
out the fire fighting operation to
control the damage. SP sources
also indicated that the top leadership of the party apprehends
that if the leadership issue for
the next Assembly election is
not immediately settled then the
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav
may not attend the silver jubilee
function here on November 5.
On September 12 Chief
Minister had sacked two
Ministers Gyatrri Prajapati and
Raj Kishore Singh from the
Cabinet and the Chief Minister
himself was sacked as the State
president of the party.
“preparedness of highest
degree” and is ready to deal
with any misadventure from
the other side of the fence in
Jammu & Kashmir.
Speaking to media persons
at Boniyar in the north Kashmir’s
Uri area, closer to the LoC in
Baramulla district, commander
of Srinagar based XV Corps Lt
Gen Satish Dua said that the preparedness of the Army along the
LoC is of highest degree. “The
Indian Army is ready to deal
with any misadventure from
across the LoC, whether it is by
regulars or otherwise,” Dua said.
He said the Army is watching the presence (of militants)
across the LoC. “The very fact
they (militants) are infiltrating
in different places and several
encounters have taken place is
an ample proof that they are
still there. But we are ready for
any challenge,” he said.
He said that some incidents
of infiltration have taken place
during the current year but
maintained that the Army’s
preparedness has foiled several such attempts. “I do admit
that some infiltration has taken
akistan Army violated
P
ceasefire agreement with
India in the wee hours of
place but the encounters along
the LoC and the number of
militants eliminated shows the
preparedness of the Army,” Lt
Gen Dua said.
He refused to comment on
the September 20 “surgical
strike” conducted by the Army
along the LoC to smash militant launch pads. “The appropriate authorities have already
given out the details. I obviously don’t have any different
point of view. The political and
Army leadership have given
their view point on it,” he said.
Asked whether the incidents of weapon snatching in
south Kashmir were a cause of
concern, the corps commander
said that the weapons snatch-
ing incidents have taken place
in some small police pickets
where the situation has been
not been handled properly.
“There are some small
pickets of the police where
they are not able to take care of
the situation if the militants
come in. It is cause of concern
and it is being addressed jointly with the police,” he said.
Earlier, Lt Gen Dua inaugurated Chinar 9 Jawan club,
an effort to envision constructive engagement of the youth of
Kashmir and providing them
with an ideal platform to interact, relax, rejuvenate, play
games and to develop their
skills for holistic growth in a
stress free environment.
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he concluding day of the
two-day rail roko agitation
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in Tamil Nadu demanding the
constitution of the Cauvery
Management Board lost much
of its sting on Tuesday with the
Election Commission of India
announcing on Monday the
dates of election from
Aravakurichi and Thanjavur,
the two Assembly constituencies
in the State. Leaders of mainline
political parties went on a huddle to decide the poll strategy.
Election in these two constituencies was cancelled in
May 2016 in the backdrop of
large-scale distribution of
money by the contestants to
bribe the voters. The ECI had
deputed fact finding teams to
these constituencies which recommended that elections could
not be held in these two places
along with the remaining 232
constituencies because of malpractices and corruption.
Meanwhile, the winner of
the
election
from
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Thiruparankundram passed
away before he was sworn in as
MLA. The by-election from this
constituency too would be held
on November 19. The counting
of votes is scheduled for
November 22. Following the
announcement by the ECI, leaders of the DMK, Congress and
the People Welfare Front have
started intra-party discussions
for selecting the contestants.
The election assumes significance in the backdrop of the
hospitalisation of Chief
Minister J Jayalalithaa, the star
campaigner of the ruling
AIADMK. This could be the
first time Jayalalithaa may be
missing the action during an
election. But the AIADMK
leadership is hopeful that they
would be able to get audio messages from Jayalalithaa pleading
with the voters to ensure the
victory of the party candidates
in all the three constituencies.
Nirmala Periasamy, the
AIADMK spokesperson gave
enough hints of circulating the
audio or video message by
Jayalalithaa making their way
to the voters of the three constituencies. “There is a possibility of Amma issuing either
an audio or video message to
the voters,” she said while participating in a panel discussion
in one of the 24X7 Tamil news
channels. The AIADMK,
which has 133 members in the
House is in a commanding
position and a loss would not
alter the composition of the
Government.
But the DMK which has 89
members of its own, will try to go
all out for a victory in this election. The main Opposition party
has 89 members of its own in the
House and together with
Congress and the Muslim League,
it has a total of 98 seats. If it could
win two more seats, the effective
strength of the opposition bench
would touch 100. This may help
the DMK during the Rajya Sabha
election from the State.
The AIADMK has not lost
a single bye poll since 2011 and
it would go all out for a victory
to retain its all-round superiority. There is a wide feeling that
the hospitalisation of
Jayalalithaa has earned her
sympathy from all sections of
the Tamil society. The
AIADMK cadre is upset over
the rumours floated by the
DMK camp about Jayalalithaa’s
health and they would try to
give Karunanidhi and family a
befitting reply through the polls.
Meanwhile, the second day
of the rail roko agitation
turned out to be a day of the
slain LTTE chief Velupillai
Prabhakaran and forest brigand
Veerappan. The demonstration staged by Naam Tamilar
under the leadership of Francis
Seeman in Chennai had larger-than-life size posters of the
dreaded chief of the LTTE
Prabhakaran and the poacher
Veerappan who is “credited”
with the killing of elephants,
tigers and leopards and above
all smuggling sandalwood trees
from the forests of Tamil Nadu
and Karnataka.
According to a release by
Southern Railway on Tuesday
, one long distance train was
diverted (15120 ManduadihRameswaram Express) while
two trains (17315 and 17316
Vasco -da-Gama Express) were
partially cancelled due to the
Rail Roko agitation.
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arious Muslim organisations in the State including
Gujarat unit of All India Milli
Council, All India Muslim,
Majlise–e–Mushawarat, Jamat e
Islami Hind and Jammat-eUlema-Hind have initiated
campaign against the discussion
on Uniform Civil Code (UCC).
Talking to the Pioneer, Abdul
Hafiz Lakhani, General Secretary
of All India Milli Council said
that most of the Muslim organisations were against the UCC in
the State and they have initiated
awareness drive among members of Muslim community,
mainly females.
“We are organising group
meetings of Muslims in different
cities of the State to make com-
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munity members aware on various issues including triple Talaq
and explaining them its relevance
in holy Quran,” said Lakhani,
who stays in Ahmedabad.
According to him a signature campaign was also taken
up by the minority organisations in order to create opinion against the possible move
of UCC by the Central
Government. The Indian
Constitution had given right to
Muslim to decide their ways of
living and government had no
right to change it, he said,
adding, “The discussion on
UCC has been calculatedly initiated in wake of upcoming
Uttar Pradesh elections. By
doing so, certain people would
be benefitted by polarisation
of votes.”
entre has rewarded
Telangana for its good fiscal
discipline and financial performance by accepting its demand
to increase the limit of borrowing from the market for capital
and infrastructure project.
According to the top officials of the State Finance
department the long pending
demand of the State for increasing the Fiscal Responsibility and
Budget Management (FRBM)
limit by 0.25 per cent was
accepted by the Centre. It will
result in the State getting access
to additional C1,561 crore for
spending on various projects.
Chief
Minister
K
Chandrasekhar Rao had raised
the issue with the Centre including the Niti Ayog and the Union
Finance Minister Arun Jaitely
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over the last one and a half years
to increase the limit based on
the good performance and the
surplus revenue of the State.
While the FRMB rule
allows the states to borrow only
upto three percent of their
GSDP, Telangana is one of the
six states in the country who
have a higher limit on the
basis of their performance and
good revenue position.
Telangana is the beneficiary of the decision of the
14th Finance commission that
that 3 per cent norm can be
relaxed and increased to 3 per
centif a state meets three criteria. They include revenue
surplus, total borrowings are
less than or equal to 25 per
cent of the State GSDP and
total interest payment is less
than or equal to ten percent of
GDSP in a given year.
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he raging controversy over
the caste status of Rohith
T
Vemula, the student whose
suicide earlier this year had
rocked the University of
Hyderabad (UOH) has taken
another twist.
Days after Retired Justice
Ashok Roopanwal Commission’s
report finding that Rohith was
not a Dalit, a video of the research
scholar has emerged online in
which he could be seen and heard
asserting his Dalit identity.
Rohith Vemula had hanged
himself in the university hostel in January this year following his prolonged suspension
from the University following
a clash between the students
Belonging to Ambedkar
Students Association and BJP’s
student wing Akhila Bharatiya
Vidhyarthi Parishad.
His suicide a triggered
months long stir in the campus
and took a political color as two
union Ministers Smiriti Irani
and Bandaru Dattatreya were
accused of pressuring the university authorities to punish
Rohith Vemula and his friends.
In the video, believed to
have been shot six days before
his suicide, he could be seen
introducing himself as “I am
Rohith Vemula. I am a Dalit
coming from Guntur district.
My mother has raise us”.
On his tiff with the ABVP,
Rohith said in the video it was
nothing new and he was arrested earlier. “In 2012 I was arrested and detained by the police
for two days on the complaint
lodged by the ABVP”.
Tuesday in Nowshera sector of
frontier Rajouri district.
The ceasefire violation
was first reported around 8.30
pm in Laam battalion area and
continued for about five
hours.
Several forward posts in
the area were targeted by the
Pakistan Army to inflict maximum damage to these posts.
In return the Indian Army
strongly retaliated the fire to
silence roaring Pakistan guns.
The Pakistan Army used
82 mm mortars to target the
forward Indian posts. Some of
the shells fell close to civilian
Indian troops guarding
the LoC retaliated, he said,
adding no one was injured in
the ceasefire violation.
Few rounds were also
fired in Naushera sector late
last night.
There have been 29 ceasefire violations along the LoC
after surgical strikes by the
Army in PoK to dismantle terror launching pads.
Meanwhile, a wreath laying ceremony was organised at
military station in Jammu
where Martyr Sepoy Sudees
Kumar was given ceremonial
military send off. Sepoy
Sudees Kumar had laid down
his life guarding the Nation’s
frontiers while serving at the
Line of Control (LoC) in
Rajouri sector on Sunday.
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and triggered fresh wave of
terror among the locals.
Majority of local residents
were in festive mood on
account of festive season in
the region. The border residents had recently returned to
their homes and hearths after
they were forced to shift to
safer locations owing to fresh
skirmishes between the
Armies of the two neighbouring countries.
According to Ministry of
Defence PRO in Jammu,
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ceasefire violation along the
LoC in Nowshera sector of
Rajouri district late Monday
night".
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mm mortar bombs, used
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in the firing on forward
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Battalion area in Naushera
from 2030 hours to 0130
hours", the spokesman said.
Maj Gen Sanjeev Sharma,
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Commander Nagrota, Dy
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Station
C ommander
Jammu,
Administrative Commandant
Jammu and Commanding
Officer of White Knight Corps
Engineering Signal Regiment
laid the wreaths . The wreaths
were also laid on behalf of
Lieutenant General Ashok
Ambre, GOC, Rising Star
Corps and Lieutenant General
AK Sharma, GOC, White
Knight Corps. The mortal
remains of martyred soldier
were then sent by service aircraft to the native village for
performing the last rites.
S epoy Sudees Kumar
belonged to Sambhal District
of Uttar Pradesh and is survived by his old and aged parents, young wife and a 4
month old daughter.
He had joined the Army
in 2013, being the first from
his village to do so.
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has likely been
undone by his
crude talk and even
worse alleged actions toward
women. But the woman Trump
cares about most may be
collateral damage.
Ivanka Trump is by all
accounts the Republican presidential nominee’s favorite child.
She sat at his side on “The
Apprentice.” She is active in his
businesses. She introduced him
when he kicked off his presidential candidacy. She is one of his
top surrogates on the campaign
trail and delivered a
well-received address at
the Republican National
Convention.
The 34-year-old is admired
by many Americans who loathe
her father and was widely seen
as one of the few people who can
soften his image.
Yet the eldest Trump
daughter doesn’t come out of her
father’s sex scandals looking
good, despite her lack of any
direct involvement. For one
thing, Ivanka vouched for her
father with women.
“My father values talent,”
Ivanka proclaimed at the GOP
convention in Cleveland this
summer. “He recognises real
knowledge and skill when he
finds it. He is color blind and
gender neutral. He hires the best
person for the job, period.”
“At my father’s company,
there are more female than male
executives,” she continued.
“Women are paid equally for the
work that we do and when a
women becomes a mother, she
is supported, not shut out.”
If her father was elected
President, Ivanka went on to argue,
he would “change the labour laws
that were put into place at a time
when women were not a significant
portion of the workforce. And he
will focus on making quality child
care affordable and accessible
for all.”
Strictly speaking, there is no
logical contradiction between
supporting public policies that
are good for women while
mistreating them in your private
life. Ted Kennedy and Bill
Clinton were simultaneously
chastised
for
private
loutishness and praised for
public feminism.
It is nevertheless harder to
buy Ivanka’s portrayal of her
father as a sensitive smasher of
glass ceilings after listening to
him describe grabbing women
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by the p—sy. And judging by the
polls, even many Republican
women no longer accept this
sympathetic portrait of the GOP
standard-bearer.
At the very least, the public
is likely to come away from the
November election mostly
rejecting Ivanka’s testimony
about her father, especially with
regard to women.
To add further embarrassment, the media has dredged up
video clips of Donald Trump
saying borderline misogynistic
things as Ivanka looks on or
even laughs along. In one case,
Trump told shock jock Howard
Stern it was okay to refer to
Ivanka a “piece of ass.”
Even without the “access
hollywood” tape and metastasising sexual assault charges, there
is something more fundamental
at stake for Ivanka Trump.
Before this presidential campaign, the Trump family brand
was defined by wealth, glamor
and luxury.
That’s what sells Trump
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reservations at his hotels and
invest in get-rich schemes carr ying
the
New
York
businessman’s name.
Donald Trump’s previous
political endeavors, such as
questioning President Barack
Obama’s birthplace and speaking at conservative gatherings,
have always threatened to tarnish that brand, or at least limit
its appeal to one side of the
American ideological spectrum.
Trump’s
presidential
campaign has redefined the
family’s brand, identifying it
with the lowest bro form of
Right-wing politics.
Ivanka more than any of the
other Trump children still trades
off the older, more glamorous
family brand. She still has a
product line sold at Macy’s.
People don’t buy her shoes or
handbags to make a populist
political statement.
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Jared Kushner would get
involved with a rumored Trump
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television network, possibly
including former Fox News honcho Roger Ailes and Breitbart’s
Steve Bannon, but it doesn’t
seem to hold much that would
interest her.
She is not even a Republican
and failed to change her voter
registration in time to vote
for her father in the New
York primary.
If the Trump family name
becomes synonymous not with
business savvy or living the
high life but rather the worst elements of the patriarch’s presidential campaign, Ivanka could
pay a price long after the election is over—and maybe even
after her father is gone.
“Politics is a vicious business,” she said in a recent interview. “It is certainly not for the
faint of heart. It does sort of
extend and there is sort of the
collateral damage and implications to families as well.”
Ivanka may be well positioned to learn this lesson.
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Sir — This refers to the editorial,
“‘Mother-ship of terror’” (October
18). Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, at the Brics summit in Goa,
sent out a clear message to China
that its support to ‘mother-ship’ of
terror, namely, Pakistan, must stop.
It is high time Beijing understands
that the entire world is up against
terrorism and Chinese support to
terrorism will come at a heavy cost.
We all need to support Modi in his
resolve to take the country forward
and to end terrorism.
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Sir — This refers to the article,
“Spooked clerics cry vendetta”
(October 18) by Shreya Kedia.
Though most Muslim women are
against triple talaq and polygamy,
and have been opposing it for
long, ‘secular’ bigwigs are out to
oppose any attempt by the BJP
Government to ban this practice.
Many well-meaning people
see it as majoritarianism under the
garb of social reform. They should
understand that even the courts
have said the Government must
move towards a uniform code.
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There are well-founded arguments to do away with the age-old
custom, which is incongruous
with the aspirations and rights of
educated women and the changing needs of society.
Unfortunately, no matter how
logical and sound arguments the
BJP may advance, these would
only end up causing disquiet
among Muslims. Small wonder,
several Muslim organisations have
called for a boycott of the Law
Commission’s online questionnaire. It is a matter that should be
debated by the Muslim community itself without any outside
interference, especially the BJP.
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Sir — This refers to the article,
“Stick, not carrot, works to dig out
black money” (October 17) by
Joginder Singh. The Modi
Government came to power with
a promise to unearth black money
and to distribute the same to the
poor. Such promised action, which
is badly needed, has clearly fetched
the mandate of the electorate.
Not only do black money owners transgress the law of the land,
but also play with the lives of the
poor. As inflation happens when
too much money chases too few
goods, unearthing of black money
will check price rise much to the
relief of the poor. If the purchasing power of the poor goes up, it will
certainly bring all-round growth for
our economy, catapulting demand,
industry and employment.
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Kolkata
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Sir — Union Defence Minister
Manohar Parrikar was amongst
the most admired leaders when
he was the Chief Minister of Goa.
His simplicity was comparable to
that of the Tripura Chief Minister.
However, his linking of the
surgical strikes to his and Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘RSS
teaching’ is not in the interest of
anyone, including the RSS, the
Indian Army and he himself.
That said, military operations
cannot be done without political
consent. It was good that information about the operation was
made public by the Directorate
General of Military Operations,
rather than the political rulers.
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ndia has warned about the risks
of low and negative interest rates
and “significant loan impairments” in the world banking system. It affects financial stability
across the globe. Union Minister for
Finance Arun Jaitley, addressing the
recent annual meeting of the World
Bank (WB) and the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), said disorderly
de-leveraging of private debt could also
impact growth. He stressed that risks to
financial stability persist because of low
and negative interest rates and loan
impairments in the banking system.
The statement is profound. He also
called for an early IMF quota review and
recapitalisation of the World Bank to
enhance funding for pro-poor programmes. It hits the emerging markets,
India stressed. India itself is suffering
because of reform delays in various international financing agencies. During
the last fiscal, fresh commitments delivered were only $3.8 billion, as against the
requirement of five billion to seven billion dollars. The IMF and the WB need
to be more agile and less expensive so
that poor nations can enhance global
growth. However, both have put the
reforms off to 2019 instead of meeting
the scheduled year of 2016.
A significant aspect of the world
economy is that India is doing much better even with low soft funding by the IMFWB. Its growth remains around 7.6 per
cent. In fact, growth in the subcontinent
averages better than the rest of the world
— with Bangladesh at 6.3 per cent, Sri
Lanka at about 5.3 per cent and Bhutan
at 6.8 per cent. With better funding by the
international institutions, these nations
could lead world growth.
Most other emerging economies are
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doing better though the pace remains
uneven. This calls for enlarging the lending programme of financing agencies.
But domination by the West and concerns about the large economies have
withheld the reforms.
The growth of India and its subcontinental neighbours shows that regional variations are possible with better policy initiatives. But in a globalised world,
these have risks,particularly as the isolationist approach increases — as is seen
during the US presidential campaign.
Brexit and trends in Europe also suggest
that isolationism is gaining ground in
developed countries.
So, the expansion of groups like
Shanghai Cooperation Council, Brics
(Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa, The Bay of Bengal Initiative for
Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic
Cooperation (Bimstec) involving a
group of countries in South Asia and
Southeast Asia, may be the futuristic
solution. Bimstec includes Bangladesh,
India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
Bhutan and Nepal.
As the Pacific groupings and
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(Asean) strengthen, the world may see a
shift gradually. This may, however, take
time. Let us accept the fact that the globe
is presently being stirred by the Western
nations. Their banking system hits the
world. A sneeze in their system in 2008,
largely due to low and negative interest
rates, reckless grant of loans led to the collapse of their banking system, which
spread beyond a few established names.
It has also exposed that, despite notso-close banking links, India suffered
the post-2008 crisis, though it managed
to stave off a disaster.
Countries like India also have to be
careful about the sermons that they give
to the world. India’s banking system
remains fragile. Indian banks are capitalised by the poor and salaried depositors. An upheaval in the system could have
severe repercussions on the programmes
of the Government. As more and more
poor are being made to join it, and
Government subsidies are channelled
through the banks, India has to take steps
to strengthen the system.
The banks are run with the poor
man’s money. Low interest rates, large
corporate funding, and certain bank
practices like asset quality review (AQR)
— loan restructuring — have resulted
in a sharp surge in bad debts, though
technically these may not be non-performing assets (NPAs).
Gross bad loans of commercial
banks could increase to 8.5 per cent of
total advances by March 2017; from 7.6
per cent in March 2016, according to the
latest RBI Financial Stability Report. The
report says, “If the macro situation deteriorates in the future, the gross NPA
ratio may increase further to 9.3 per cent
by March 2017.”
The resultant sharp surge in provisions for bad debts has eroded profitability, especially at state-owned banks, in
recent quarters. The gross bad loans of
public sector banks increased to 9.6 per
cent as of March 2016, from about six per
cent a year earlier, according to RBI data.
There was an almost 80 per cent jump
in gross bad loans in 2015-16, according
to the report. Gross bad loans of Indian
banks widened to 7.6 per cent from 5.1
per cent in September, and from 4.6 per
cent in March 2015. In 2004, gross bad
loans in the Indian banking sector
touched 7.8 per cent, while the ratio was
11.1 per cent in 2002. The stress in the
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he Prime Minister’s Make
in India programme and
the initiatives for improving competitiveness and ‘ease of
doing business’ are indeed the
right steps to take for the growth
of Indian industry. After all, the
‘Make in China’ policy has
made the Chinese economy
grow at over nine per cent for
the last 30 years.
Trying to emulate the
Chinese growth, all countries
today, big and small, are following a similar strategy and trying
to attract investments in manufacturing. Different countries
have different strengths. India’s
greatest strength is its large and
rapidly growing domestic market. The reality is that market
conditions have changed completely in the last 30 years. In the
current environment of extreme
competition with an increasing
shift towards anti-globalisation,
outsourcing of manufacturing
gravitates towards the least-cost
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destination and flies off when
these costs increase. Hence,
companies starting to manufacture in India are unlikely to pay
any more than the basic minimum in wages prevalent in
India — or anywhere else for
that matter.
This is not to say that such
manufacturing should not be
welcomed; some income is
always better than no income.
But a dynamic and capable
Government like ours may need
to pursue a more rewarding
model in parallel with Make in
India, one which will produce
greater inflows, leverage India’s
special strengths and keep future
growth potentials in mind.
Today, the imperative need
of developed economies is for
their companies to offer newer
and more inventive products.
They need to be able to come up
with such products on a regular basis to stay ahead, and to
manufacture and distribute
them efficiently across the
world, ensuring that there is significant profit generated. The
two main hurdles involved in
coming up with offering such
products are: Shortage of good
ideas and the heavy costs
involved in their development.
The pattern of costs of this
development process is special.
Usually these costs follow the Ushaped ‘Smiley Curve’. At the top
left of the curve, there is the generation of an idea and the development of a high-level concept
product or prototype; these are
usually carried out in the company’s headquarters, often in the
US. Slightly lower down the
curve is the formulation of
detailed engineering plan of
the production on which to base
its mass production. At the bottom of the curve is its actual production, packing and shipping
usually carried out overseas in
a relatively low cost location
such as China; on the right of the
curve, as the curve rises, are
marketing, sales, distribution
and retailing — again normally carried out from company
headquarters in the US.
The two top ends of the
curve are where the money is.
It is here that the greatest value
additions are created — at one
end in conceiving the product
and in branding it, and at the
other end promoting, retailing
and distributing it across
the world.
These ‘end-functions’
attract the highest costs and in
the process add the highest
value and ensure a substantial
profit — for example, a profit of around $80 on the wholesale price of $224 of a product
like the iPod. The total cost of
parts for the iPod can be
around $144 and its retail
price $299. The actual manufacturing operations are usually done very competitively at
ver y marginal profits to
the manufacturer.
India is intelligent, capable
and mature. It needs to look
closely at the two ends of
Smiley’s Curve if it wishes to
attract money. There is tremendous capacity here for adaptation, because of which the coveted Deming Prize of Japan for
managerial innovation has been
awarded to Indian companies so
many times. Highly educated
overseas Indians are frequently
involved in the development of
many ‘concept’ products around
the world.
Thus, it would fit in well if
the focus of the Indian
Government is on the growing
Innovation and Innovative
Products Development activities of industry, and in facilitating international companies
to come to India to carry out
the functions typical to the two
ends of the Smiley’s Curve —
at a higher level of efficiency
than at home.
banking sector mirrors the stress in the
corporate sector, the RBI report observed.
The Reserve Bank of India said that,
subsequent to the AQR, loan restructuring, gross NPAs rose 79.7 per cent yearon-year in March 2016.
It has also observed that the relief
the RBI was giving in repo rates — interest rates — to banks was not being
transferred to the lenders. Instead,
depositors were suffering interest rate
cuts — a double whammy. It is evident
that banks are trying to cover up their
losses at the cost of their depositors.
The country’s credit growth has also
suffered. This indicates that in future,
the banks’ earnings may be hit. Low
credit growth means the banks would
earn less from lending. It is a kind of
warning for the depositors. The depositors may suffer a further cut in their
interest earnings in the days to come.
The RBI’s monthly credit growth
data since June 2013 shows that the
year-on-year credit growth for the sector has come down sharply — from a
high of 19.1 per cent in June 2013 to 8.4
per cent in December 2015. It hit a low
of 8.2 per cent in August 2015.
Loans by public sector banks grew at
four per cent while it was 24.6 per cent
for private banks. Deposits of state-run
banks grew by 5.2 per cent, while for private banks, it was 17.3 per cent.
India has to learn from its recent
mistakes as well as from what it is telling
the world. Lenders have easy ways to
default, but the depositors’ principal
amounts are at risk. India has to fix the
minimum deposit rates, which should be
at nine per cent. This would help depositors, decide floor lending rates and be
a saviour for the struggling banks.
(The writer is a senior journalist)
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This would be a win-win situation. Few countries would be
able to compete with India. The
company would be able to carry
out new product development
efficiently in India at a fraction
of the usual cost — eventually
starting manufacturing, sales
and distribution here to take
advantage of the higher product
knowledge that will be invariably
generated. Indian counterparts of
the foreign firms will receive significant financial inputs for the
development of the products —
and not just minimum wages
that are associated with
competitive manufacturing.
As for local companies, they
will acquire advanced skills in
cutting-edge technology which,
will ultimately get transferred to
domestic industry, causing it to
become even more innovative.
(The writer is Trade and
Industry Advisor to the World
Bank, UNDP, UNIDO and the
Commonwealth Secretariat)
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announcements on the
Government’s much-awaited
Goods and Service Tax (GST)
mathematics to decide on rates
and slabs of the indirect tax,
market remained bullish
throughout the trading session.
The benchmark Sensex
reclaimed the 28,000-mark on
Tuesday, zooming 521 points the biggest single-day gain in
nearly five months. The Nifty
also crossed 8,600-level after
two weeks of tepid start in the
bourses.
Market experts said
investors were markedly optimistic in anticipation of positive announcements on the
GST front as the GST Council
meeting got under way to
decide on rates and slabs of the
indirect tax, due to be rolled
out from April 1 next year.
“Besides, there are expectations
that inflation will stay in the
RBI comfort zone, which will
usher in lower borrowing
costs,” they said.
Banking stocks also stole
the show on Dalal Street as private lender ICICI Bank
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cent, HDFC Bank 1.58 per
cent. While the largest public
sector bank, State Bank of
India (SBI) gained almost 1.50
per cent in the bourse. The
second-line stocks too witnessed heavy buying, lifting the
mid-cap index by 1.89 per
cent and small-cap by 1.30 per
cent. “After the Essar-Rosneft
deal, there is a positive hope
among investors that the non
performing asset (NPA) issue
faced by almost all banks will
be resolved,” experts said.
The rupee recovering
against the dollar too had a
positive impact. “Global
indices trended up after an
unexpected fall in US manufacturing index tempered
hopes of an interest rate hike
by the Federal Reserve,” they
said.
The 30-share BSE Sensex
resumed higher and quickly
crossed the 28,000-mark to hit
a high of 28,064.39 before settling at 28,050.88, a significant
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a plea of the UK-based
Vedanta group company to
export its share of crude oil
from Barmer oil field in
Rajasthan was on Tuesday
rejected by Delhi High Court
on the ground that domestic
crude cannot be exported till
India attained “self sufficiency”.
Justice Manmohan said
that in the instant case, as no
notice of India attaining selfsufficiency was given to Cairn,
it can only claim compensation
from the Government for not
picking up its share of crude
from the oil field.
Under the production
sharing contract (PSC)
between Cairn and the Centre,
the company gets 70 per cent
of the crude produced from
Barmer, with the rest going to
the Government.
The Government or its
nominee can pick up the company’s share of crude and what
is not picked up can be sold to
private players or exported,
Cairn had said during arguments.
The Government, represented by Additional Solicitor
General Tushar Mehta and the
Centre’s standing counsel
Anurag Ahluwalia, had
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opposed Cairn’s plea saying
that an empowered committee
had decided that export of the
domestic crude oil cannot be
allowed as it would be detrimental to India’s energy security.
The court agreed with the
decision of the Empowered
Committee of Secretaries denying permission to Cairn to
export its share of crude oil,
saying the reasons given by the
panel “are legal, germane and
valid grounds”.
“In fact, the policy prohibiting export of crude oil has
concurrence of all the departments of Union of India and
has nexus with the energy
security of the country,” the
court noted in its judgement.
The empowered committee had denied Cairn’s request
for exporting its share of the
crude oil, saying till India
attained self sufficiency,
domestic crude cannot be
exported as it would be detrimental to energy security of
the country and also violate the
provisions of the PSC.
“Consequently, attaining
self sufficiency is a precursor
to trigger the right of petitioner
to seek permission to export
the participatory interest or
share of crude oil and condensate.
gain of 520.91, or 1.89 per cent.
This was the biggest single-day
gain since May 25 when it had
eing the premiere financial
institution of the state, J&K
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Bank will continue to catalyze
economic development of the
state through empowerment of
individuals and businesses.
Besides, productive intervention in social causes ranging
from health to heritage, education to entrepreneurship and
culture to art will receive a
renewed focus to pave way for
an inclusive and sustainable
growth of the state.
This was stated by Parvez
Ahmed, Chairman & CEO
J&K Bank during his interaction with the media here on
Tuesday.
Describing women as key
enablers of empowerment,
Chairman announced that
Bank, in line with honorable
Chief Minister’s vision, will
soon be establishing two business units (branches) exclusively for women, one each in
Srinagar and Jammu cities.
These branches would be run
only by women staff of the
bank. “Besides, we will be tailoring and introducing specific schemes for women with a
special focus to promote and
nurture entrepreneurship.....
the trading session. “The market bounced back led by short
covering on the starting day of
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think-tank Niti Aayog has
favoured creating independent regulators for steel and
mining sectors in the country in a bid to make both
industries profitable.
The premier policy-making body has also pitched for
a new and dynamic steel
policy to bring the over $100
billion industry back on
track as well as meet the target of 300 million tonnes
(mt) capacity by 2025.
“Since steel is a deregulated sector, there is need for
an independent regulator for
effective regulation, which
the sector presently lacks,”
Aayog said in a working
paper.
“Also, in the mining sector, though NMDC should
act as a regulator, it itself is
engaged in iron ore mining,
which may create conflict of
interest. Therefore, a new
independent regulator is
required in the mining sector
as well.”
About the deteriorating
financial health of steel firms,
Niti Aayog said firms have a
huge debt load over the past
couple of years due to the
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The loans offered to women
shall be at concessional rates of
interest”, informed the
Chairman.
He further stressed on the
Bank’s plans to encourage
social and cultural enterprises
as also entrepreneurship with
a view to give boost to rich art
forms, handicrafts and cultural heritage of the state. “Basoli
paintings owing to their artistic excellence and national &
international acclaim is a case
in point”, he observed.
Maintaining that empowerment is subservient to education, he outlined his strategy to give boost to education
finance by making it hasslefree, offering competitive rates
of interest, entering into tie-ups
with reputed academic and
professional institutions across
India and organising
Education Loan Mela during
admission season an annual
feature.
“Information
Technology specific education
finance products will be a priority”, he said.
The bank would extend
complete support to tourism
industry in line with the
regional requirements, he said,
adding, innovative products
and services would be devised
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investors’ sentiment to remain
in buying mood throughout
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gained 575.70 points.
Market experts further
said that bargaining opportu-
to explore potential of religious
tourism in the state. “Specific
products for pilgrims from
across country coming to Shri
Amarnathji Yatra and Mata
Vaishno Devi pilgrimage
would be devised on priority “,
he stressed.
“Our focus from now on
will be future. We will concentrate on developmental initiatives, potential business
areas, innovative productisation, social banking, microfinancing, under-serviced and
unorganized potential sectors
to streamline financing structure and customer service up
gradation”, he stressed.
Stating that encouragement of the local industry will
remain one of his top priorities,
Chairman said that Bank will
be supporting the industrial
sector through effective delivery mechanism and valuable
inputs from the industrialists.
Laying emphasis on customer service, Chairman
announced the establishing
of Customer Grievances
Redressal Cell in Chaiman’
Secretariat Jammu with immediate effect, the broad details
of its mechanism shall be published in leading News Papers
of Jammu very shortly.
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combined effect of supply
and demand factors.
“Situation is quite critical
as they are not even able to
service their interest cost.
There was an aggregate debt
of C45,160 crore on the iron
and steel industry in 2014,
according to the corporate
debt re st r u c tur ing cel l
progress report, which has
increased to C53,580 crore in
March, 2016,” it added.
The working paper -prepared by Niti Aayog
Member VK Saraswat and
Niti Aayog professional
Ripunjaya Bansal -- said
share of stressed advances
has reached 25 per cent, of
w h i ch 1 9 p e r c e nt are
re st r u c ture d
st and ard
advances and 7 per cent are
non-p er for ming ass ets
(NPAs).
It said the Government
has provided financial support to steel firms earlier in
1999 and 2003 while it is trying to support through RBI’s
strategic debt restructuring
scheme currently.
“Therefore, the steel sector, which has a long gestation
period, needs long-term
finance like pension funds,
which have the capacity to
withstand cyclical volatility of
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profits unlike funding from
banks, external commercial
borrowing (ECB) or capital
markets,” the paper suggested.
According to the think-tank,
mere changes in the National
Steel Policy, 2012, will not
benefit the sector, which over
the last few years has been
flooded with cheap imports
from China, Korea and Japan
impacting its sales and profit. This has also impacted its
capacity to repay debt.
“There is need for a new
and dynamic steel policy.
Seeing the current situation of
the steel sector, it may be
unlikely to achieve the targets
envisaged in the National
Steel Policy 2012 i.E. A capacity of 300 mt and production
of 275 mt by 2025,” it added.
“To bring steel sector back
on track, mere tinkering in the
present policy would not
bring out a transformational
change that is required.”
Aayog feels there is a need
to examine the entire value
chain associated with the
industry -- from raw materials to production of finished
products -- to discover the
bottlenecks in the sector. ?C8
the GST council. Market
sensed a bargaining opportunity due to the correction
which has happened in the last
two weeks while the outcome
from the event is likely to be
positive,” said Vinod Nair,
Head of Research, Geojit BNP
Paribas Financial Services.
The gauge had lost 143.63
points, spooked by tepid start
to second quarterly earnings
and a lacklustre global trend.
The NSE Nifty retook the
8,600-mark to touch a high of
8,659.80 and finally settled up
157.50 points, or 1.85 per cent,
at 8,677.90. In the process,
both the Sensex and the Nifty
recorded their biggest singleday gain in nearly five months.
Among sectoral indices,
the banking index topped the
chart by climbing 2.37 per
cent followed by capital goods
2.07 per cent, IT 1.84 per cent,
metal 1.82 per cent and technology 1.68 per cent. Out of the
30-share Sensex pack, 28 scrips
ended with gains while ONGC
and Asian Paint registered loss-
es.
Foreign portfolio investors
(FPIs) sold shares worth a net
Rs 456.64 crore on Monday,
showed provisional data.
Elsewhere, other Asian markets
also ended higher with Japan’s
Nikkei up 0.38 per cent, Hong
Kong’s Hang Seng 1.55 per cent
and Shanghai Composite 1.40
per cent. European markets
also opened on a positive note,
tracking gains in Asian trading
amid a slide in the US dollar
ahead of US inflation data.
London’s FTSE, Paris CAC 40
and Frankfurt’s DAX 30 all
gained up to 1.21 per cent in
their early deals.
The US stocks registered
small losses on Monday amid
falling oil prices as investors
digested a number of corporate
results, key economic data and
remarks from a key Federal
Reserve official. The market
breadth turned positive as
1,905 stocks ended in green,
926 closed in the red while 206
ruled steady. The total turnover
on BSE amounted to C3,703.61
crore, lower than turnover of
C3,884.29 crore registered during the previous trading session.
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provided to hybrid
vehicles to promote eco-friendSly ubsidies
automobiles are insufficient,
Japanese car major Honda said on
Tuesday, calling for a clear distinction between fully hybrid and
mild hybrid technologies for equitable distribution of resources.
The company, which is set to
launch Accord hybrid in the country later this month, said the subsidies offered to hybrid vehicles
currently under the FAME scheme
in the current form are not sufficient.
“There are different levels of
hybrid technologies some are
mild systems while some full
hybrid systems. I think it is necessary to differentiate, otherwise
the cost difference is there,” Honda
Cars India President & Ceo
Yoichiro Ueno told the news
agency.
In a mild hybrid the cost may
not be that high so if the government can consider difference of
technology levels it will be appreciated, he added.
“Government can distribute
the resources more efficiently,”
Ueno said.
Currently, carmakers like
Maruti Suzuki and Mahindra sell
some of their models with mild
hybrid technology.
These models are affordable
as compared to a vehicle with fully
hybrid technology.
But currently both mild and
fully hybrid models get similar
kind of benefits under the FAME
scheme, which was launched last
year to promote eco-friendly
vehicles.
Besides, imported CBU
models do not come under the
ambit of the scheme, making
them all the more expensive to
own.
FAME India scheme offers
incentives on electric and hybrid
vehicles of up to C29,000 for bikes
and C1.38 lakh for cars.
FAME India — Faster
Adoption and Manufacturing of
Hybrid and Electric vehicles in
India — is a part of the National
Electric Mobility Mission Plan.
When asked if the FAME
scheme is adequate to push
hybrid vehicles or the government
needs to do more to promote
hybrid vehicles in the country,
Ueno said: “It’s not enough to
cover the cost difference of the
hybrid vehicles.”
He added that initial government support is necessary
for hybrid vehicles to succeed in
a country.
“If I see other countries,
hybrid technologies initially needed some Government support. In
most of the countries government
initially supported with some
reduced taxes or incentive to the
customer,” he said.
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on Tuesday its full-year net
Iprofit
forecast by five per cent
owing to the pound’s slump since
Britain voted in June to exit the EU.
“The primary cause of this
slightly lower growth in full year
profitability is the 18 percent fall
of sterling post Brexit which will
reduce second half average fares,”
the Dublin-based airline said in a
statement.
The pound’s tumble is reducing the amount Ryanair earns
from its key British market once
the currency is converted into
euros - the unit of Ireland and
which Ryanair uses to price its
earnings.
Ryanair said it was cutting its
2016/17 net profit forecast by five
per cent to between 1.3 billion
euros and 1.35 billion euros ($1.4
billion and $1.5 billion). Its financial year runs to the end of March.
Ryanair chief executive
Michael O’Leary added in the
statement that “stronger traffic
growth and better cost control”
would contribute to offsetting the
hit in revenues, adding that the
British market represents about
one-quarter of the group’s total
income.
The pound has tumbled to
7.5-year lows against the euro and
31-year troughs versus the dollar
since Britain voted June 23 in
favour of leaving the European
Union as markets price in future
economic uncertainty.
The office of British Prime
Minister Theresa May yesterday
sought to downplay cabinet tensions over Brexit after reports her
finance minister is antagonising
colleagues with his warnings about
the economic dangers.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Philip Hammond has reportedly
been pushing to delay measures
designed to control immigration,
which would likely be viewed by
EU leaders as incompatible with
continued membership of the
single market.
aims to get numero uno position
in the 500cc plus category segment.
“Now India has truly become
a matured market and superbike
lovers want global products. While
superbike segment 500cc plus category has grown 5 per cent from
April 2015 to September 2016, we
have grown 12 per cent in the same
period,” said Triumph Motorcycles
India Managing Director Triumph
Motorcycles India Managing
Director Vimal Sumbly while talking to The Pioneer.
The present market size of over
500cc plus motorcycle is around
10,000 per year. However, over C5
lakh category, where Triumph
operates, the market size is around
4,000 unit.
The premium motorcycle segment is led by Harley-Davidson, followed by Benelli and Italian bike
maker Ducati. Other manufacturers like Kawasaki, Honda, Yamaha,
Moto Guzzi, Aprilia, Indian
Motorcycle among others have also
been contributing to the segment.
“We expect the domestic
superbike market to double in
terms of sales by the end of the
decade and accordingly we plans to
introduce new and improved products over the coming years. So, by
2020 we will have a numero uno
position in the 500cc plus category segment,” added Sumbly.
Triumph on Tuesday expanded its Bonneville range with the
launch of the all new T100 with a
starting price of C7.78 lakh (ex
showroom, New Delhi).
“India is a large and growing
market for classic motorcycles.
With our range of new, exciting and
accessible modern classics like the
all new Triumph Bonneville T100,
we would further strengthen our
market position in the above
500cc, plus 5 lakh segment in
India,” said Sumbly.
Following the launch of the
T100, Triumph now has a range of
16 motorcycles in India. Post this
launch Triumph hopes to sell
more than 110 superbikes per
month.
When asked about network
expansion, Sumbly said: “We
would have 25 dealership by 2020.
We are opening our 14th dealership in Delhi by November and
then it will be expanded to Goa,
Odisha and Lucknow.”
In order to make the superbikes affordable and expand its
reach, Triumph has also tied up
with financial institutions such as
HDFC.
“We are also going to provide
finance options to make the superbikes more affordable. We have tied
up with HDFC Bank for five and
seven year finance options. Now
with C8,000 EMI you can own a
bike,” Sumbly added.
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the review of interconnect usage
charges paid by one telecom
operator to another for connecting phone calls till March
2017.
In its written response to
TRAI’s contentious consultation
paper on interconnection usage
charges or IUC, the association
said that the regulator has initiated various other consultations
which depending upon their
final outcomes “may have a significant direct impact on cost
structures, changes in technology and other market dynamics.”
“It is therefore critical that
the IUC review should not be
held at this stage and be deferred
by some months, that is, after end
March 2017. By such time there
will be more clarity on several
issues,” COAI said in its latest
submission to TRAI. It further
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trigger for initiation of the IUC
consultation. COAI, in August
this year, had clashed with the
regulator over IUC review
terming the consultation on call
connect charges as ‘unfair’ on
incumbent operators. At that
time, it had also alleged that
TRAI’s discussion paper was an
indicator of ‘bias creeping in’.
TRAI had fixed October 17
as deadline for receiving industry comments on the controversial discussion paper. It is learnt
that COAI in its comments on
the TRAI consultation paper
has said that actual networkrelated costs incurred by telecom
operators should be used to
compute the interconnect
charges, thereby batting for an
increase in mobile termination
charge. When contacted, COAI
Director General, Rajan
Mathews refused to comment on
specific submission that the association has made to TRAI on the
IUC issue. However, sources
said that the COAI, in its
response, has pointed out that “all
our member operators support
and recommend that mobile
termination charge should be
determined on the cost-based
principle. Only Reliance Jio has
a divergent view that ‘Bill and
Keep’ approach should be adopted for determining the MTC.”
The cost-based model
includes network operating costs,
overhead costs, spectrum costs
and capital costs, and these,
according to COAI, should form
the basis of determining the
mobile termination charge. “We
believe that an IUC or MTC
(mobile termination charge)
exercise when conducted should
be based on a comprehensive
costing review. The results of
2014, 2015 spectrum auctions
were not factored in by the
authority in 2015 calculation,” the
COAI submission said.
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MUMBAI: Mortgage lender
PNB Housing Finance has fixed
a price band of C750-775 for its
initial public offer to raise
C3,000 crore. The amount
raised will be used to fund its
expansion across the country.
“We are present only at 28
locations with 48 branches and
there is enough headroom for us
to grow. We are going to grow
and invest rapidly and sensibly in
our distribution network,” PNB
Housing Finance Managing
Director Sanjaya Gupta told
reporters here on Tuesday. The
company is planning to open 18
branches this fiscal.
“Out of 18 branches, six
would be in cities where we are
already present and the balance 12 will be opened in tier
II and III cities,” Gupta said.
He said post the IPO, the two
promoters of the company
Punjab National Bank and
Carlyle Group, L.P will together pare around 23.5 per cent
stake. PNB’s stake, which is
currently at 51 per cent, will be
reduced to 39 per cent while
Carlye Group’s holding will
come down to 37 per cent
from 49.6 per cent.
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on Tuesday has launched the
survey to seek quantitative
information on order books,
inventories and capacity utilisation of companies in the
manufacturing sector, a key
input for monetary policy formulation. The quarterly Order
Books, Inventories and
Capacity Utilisation Survey
(OBICUS) is for the reference
period July-September 201617, the bank said in a statement.
The survey seeks quantitative information on order
books, inventories and capacity utilisation, such as, pending order books, backlog
order books, total inventories, finished goods inventories, work in progress inventories and installed capacity
from companies in the manufacturing activities.
“ The information on
installed capacity, quantity
produced, value of production, etc, is used for calculating the capacity utilisation at
industry as well as at an all
India level. The survey provides a significant input to the
Reserve Bank in monetary
policy formulation,” RBI said.
The major manufacturi ng c omp an i e s w i l l b e
approached by the Reserve
Bank. Other manufacturing
units that are not approached
earlier can also participate in
this survey round by downloading the survey schedule
from RBI website.
In the previous OBICUS
survey, 903 manufacturing sector companies had participated the survey. RBI has also
launched the 11th pilot round
of
its
Ser vices
and
Infrastructure Outlook Survey
(SIOS). It seeks assessment of
the business situation for the
third quarter from the services
and infrastructure companies,
and their expectations for
January-March period. PTI
SINGAPORE: India continues to be one of the main
growth markets for DHL
Express which opened a new
$100 million South Asia Hub in
Singapore on Tuesday. India-led
South Asian markets accounted for 30 per cent growth in
express cargo deliveries for
DHL between 2012-15, the
company’s executives said,
adding that India itself is a double-digit growth market.
The company, which inaugurated the new 140 million
Singapore dollar ($100 million)
South Asia Hub here, serves India
with two dedicated daily flights to
Bangalore and Delhi as well as
commercial flights for express
cargo deliveries to Mumbai, the
officials said. The two dedicated
flights to Bangalore and Delhi
offers 195 tonnes per flight six
times a week. South Asia accounts
for 30 per cent of the company's
daily shipment growth between
2012-2015, said Ken Lee, CEO of
DHL Express Asia Pacific.
Oceania accounts 50 per cent and
South East Asia about 25 per cent,
he said. “India is a double-digit
growth market for DHL Express,”
said Sean Wall, executive vice president for network, operations
and aviation for Asia Pacific. PTI
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c o a l pro du c t i on , t h e
Government on Tuesday said
there were no plans to scale
down state-owned CIL’s output target for the ongoing
fiscal as the demand has
started picking up.
“There is no move to scale
down Coal India production
target. I had a discussion with
Coal India (CIL) people. They
would make it up by 31st of
March. This year there has
been unusual rains,” Coal
Secretary Anil Swarup told
reporters here. He was speaking on the sidelines of a conference organised by the
World Coal Association on
sustainable energy development. He said there were no
plans to cut down output
because the demand has
already picked up now. In
October, the demand has started picking up for both coal
and power sectors, the secretary said.
“We started (the fiscal)
with the pithead stock of 56
million tonnes (MT) it has
come down to around 40 MT.
We have already come down
quite dramatically. It was in a
way good that not much production happended.
G o d has b e en kind.
Because had we continued to
produce that much we would
have had that much of stockpile we had produced,” he
s aid. C o al India w hich
accounts for over 80 per cent
of the domestic coal production is eyeing 598 MT of
production in 2016-17. PTI
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as tens of thousands of fightIersraqi
advanced on Mosul on
Tuesday in an unprecedented
offensive to retake the city from
the Islamic State (ISIS) group.
With the crucial battle in its
second day, Iraqi commanders said progress was being
made as fighters pushed on two
main fronts against the
jihadists' last stronghold in
Iraq. The US military, which is
leading a coalition providing air
and ground support, said Iraqi
forces even looked "ahead of
schedule" but senior Western
officials warned the battle
would be long and difficult.
Advancing in armoured
convoys across the dusty plains
surrounding Mosul, forces
moved into villages defended
by pockets of IS fighters after
intensive aerial bombardment.
Massive columns of smoke
rose from burning oil wells
near the main staging base for
government forces in
Qayyarah, blotting out the
horizon.
A soldier at a checkpoint
nearby said that IS lit the wells
on fire to provide cover from
air strikes before the town of
Qayyarah was retaken in late
August. The fires had been
burning ever since.
Heavy smoke was also
hanging over Mosul itself as the
jihadists burned tyres to shield
themselves, resident Abu Saif
said. Speaking to AFP from
inside the city, Abu Saif said that
while the sounds of air strikes
and explosions could be heard
coming from outside Mosul, its
streets were eerily quiet.
"The streets are empty, the
people have been staying at
home since the strikes started
yesterday," said Abu Saif, a 47year-old former company manager.
"There is this happiness
inside us... Because we feel
that we are about to be rescued," he said.
"But we are scared that
Daesh (IS) can still carry out
acts of revenge against the
population."
The long-awaited Mosul
offensive was launched on
Monday, with some 30,000
federal forces leading Iraq's
largest military operation since
the 2011 pullout of US troops.
Retaking Mosul would
deprive IS of the last major
Iraqi city under its control,
dealing a fatal blow to the
"caliphate" the jihadists
declared two years ago after
seizing large parts of Iraq and
neighbouring Syria.
Iraqi commanders said IS
fighters were hitting back with
suicide car bomb attacks but
that the offensive was going as
planned. "Many villages have
already been liberated," said
Sabah al-Numan, the
spokesman of the elite counterterrorism service.
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Beirut: Russian and Syrian
forces will halt hostilities for
eight hours in the eastern districts of Aleppo, Russia's military announced on a day when
opposition activists said their
airstrikes killed at least 36 people, including several children,
in and around the divided city.
The two militaries will
observe a "humanitarian pause"
between 8 am and 4 pm on
October 20 to allow civilians
and militants safe passage out of
the city, Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi
of Russia's general staff said in
Moscow. Militants, the wounded and sick would be allowed to
evacuate to the neighboring
rebel-held province of Idlib.
UN humanitarian officials
have pleaded with combatants
to observe weekly 48-hour
cease-fires to allow humanitarian relief into the city's
besieged eastern districts, but
Russian and Syrian forces have
only escalated their aerial and
ground assault on the rebel-
held areas in recent weeks.
The airstrikes have claimed
hundreds of lives, wounded
many, flattened apartment
buildings and laid waste to the
already crippled medical sector.
Russia's UN Ambassador
Vitaly Churkin told reporters at
UN headquarters in New York
that the eight-hour pause was a
unilateral halt to fighting. A 48hour or 72-hour cease-fire "will
require some sort of mutual
arrangement," he said.Russian
and Syrian leaders are now
capitalising on a proposal made
by the UN's envoy earlier this
month to allow al-Qaeda-linked
militants to leave in exchange
for peace and local administration for the eastern districts.
Rebels in the east, along
with many residents, spurned
the proposition, citing their distrust of the government side.
And Russia vetoed a UN
Security Council resolution
mandating an immediate
cease-fire.
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Bangladesh's outlawed JMB
were arrested here over charges
of robbery, police said on
Tuesday, amid a security clampdown following the country's
worst terror attack at a cafe.
"Our Counter Terrorism
Unit arrested them last night
from Tejgaon area with huge
golden ornaments... They are
believed to be members of
JMB (Jamaatul Mujahideen
Bangladesh) and currently
involved in robbery to run
their activities," a police
spokesman told PTI.
The special police
unit also seized from them
four pistols, a laptop, several
lakhs of taka and valuables
which they were believed to
have looted earlier, he added.
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amid an anti-militancy security clampdown since the July
1 terrorist attack on a Dhaka
cafe when 22 people, including 17 foreigners, were killed.
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London: Days ahead of PM
Theresa May's India visit, the UK
on Tuesday hailed Pakistan's
"significant sacrifices" in combating terror while responding to
a petition calling on the British
Government to "strongly condemn" Pakistan for providing a
safe haven for terrorists.
The petition titled 'UK
Government to condemn
Pakistan or providing safe haven
for terrorists' on the Government
website had crossed the 10,000
signatures required to make it
incumbent upon the UK
Government to respond.
"Pakistan has made significant
sacrifices in opposing terrorism.
the response from the UK
Foreign and Commonwealth
Office read.
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Dubai: An amusement park in
Dubai claims to have unveiled
the world's tallest lego building
structure, a model based on
Burj Khalifa skyscraper,
designed and built using
4,39,000 lego bricks with a
height of 17 metres.
Weighing a tonne and built
in over 5,000 hours, the replica is part of Dubai Parks and
Resorts, the integrated theme
park destination.
The Burj Khalifa model, at
17 metres tall (a record- breaker for a model of a building) is
located within the heart of
Legoland Dubai, the amusement park.
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wife Melania sought to come to
his rescue on Monday, rejecting the accounts of women
accusers as “lies” and explaining away his controversial lewd
comments in a 2005 tape as
“boy talk” he was goaded into.
“I believe my husband. I
believe my husband,” Melania
Trump told CNN in what was
her first interview since the
tape surfaced on October 7 and
was quickly followed by the
swirl of allegations with as
many as nine women claiming
that he groped or kissed them
against their will over the years.
Asserting that all this was
“organized from the opposition”, Melania Trump insisted:
“My husband is kind and he is
a gentleman and he would
never do that.” She also
attacked the media for going to
town with their claims without
any effort to “check the background of these women”.
Her strong defence of her
husband came even as
Democratic nominee Hillary
Clinton widened her lead further in a slew of polls. On the
eve of the third and final presidential debate, Clinton led
Trump by 6.9 per cent in the
Real Clear Politics average of 11
recent polls. In the latest of
them from CBS News, she led
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Islamabad: Several Pakistani
lawmakers have warned the
Government that the $ 46 billion
China-Pakistan Economic
Corridor (CPEC) could turn into
another East India Company if
the country's interests were not
protected.
"Another East India
Company is in the offing; national interests are not being protected. We are proud of the
friendship between Pakistan and
China, but the interests of the
State should come first," Senator
Tahir Mashhadi, chairman of the
Senate Standing Committee on
Planning and Development, said
when some committee members
raised the concern that the
Government was not protecting
the rights of the people.
The East India Company
was the British trading mission
sent to India, which became the
precursor to the British colonial
presence in the subcontinent,
eventually gaining power and
overthrowing the Mughals who
ruled India at the time.
Following a briefing by
Planning
Commission
Secretary Yousuf Nadeem
Khokhar, a number of committee members voiced their
fears over what they perceived
as the utilisation of local financing for CPEC projects, instead
of funding from the Chinese or
any other foreign investment.
They also expressed concern over the fixing of power
tariff for CPEC-related power
projects by the Chinese. PTI
by nine percentage points (4738).
Clinton, however, is up
against embarrassing revelations from WikiLeaks, which
has been releasing on a daily
basis thousands of emails
hacked from the account of her
campaign chief John Podesta - a subject that is set to come
up prominently in Wednesday
night’s debate in Las Vegas.
Melania Trump agreed
with First Lady Michelle
Obama’s recent comment that
kissing or groping a woman
without consent is sexual
assault, but argued: “Every
assault should be taken care of
in a court of law. And to
accuse, no matter who it is, a
man or a woman, without evidence is damaging and unfair.”
Questioned on the tape in
which Trump is heard making
the lewd comments and boasted about groping and kissing
women, she conceded the talk
was “inappropriate” and “not
acceptable”, but went on to say
her husband was “egged on” by
TV host Billy Bush to “say dirty
and bad stuff ”.
Saying she has never heard
Trump use that kind of language before, she said: “I said
to my husband that, you know,
the language was inappropriate.
It’s not acceptable. And I was
surprised, because that is not
the man that I know.”
At the same time, she
called him “raw” and a person
who “will say it as he feels it”.
Joking that her husband at
times behaves like an overgrown boy, she commented:
“Sometimes I say I have two
boys at home -- I have my
young son and I have my husband. But I know how some
men talk, and that’s how I saw
it, yes.”
Echoing Trump’s complaint
that he was the victim of a
broad conspiracy between the
liberal mainstream media and
the Clinton campaign, she said:
“It was all organized from the
opposition… They can never
check the background of these
women. They don’t have any
facts.”
Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, continued with her
preparation for the debate even
as WikiLeaks came up with a
damaging revelation that a top
State Department official “pressured” the FBI to downgrade
the classification of Clinton’s
mails as part of a “quid pro
quo”.
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Bangkok: Thailand's military
Government said on Tuesday it
would ask other countries to
extradite people suspected of
insulting the nation's monarchy
following the death of King
Bhumibol Adulyadej last week.
Thailand has entered a
year of mourning and sensitivities are running high following the death of the revered
king last week after seven
decades on the throne.
Criticism of the monarch,
the regent or the heir, known
by the French term lese
majeste, is a crime that carries
a jail sentence of up to 15 years
in Thailand.
The junta said it has been
tracking six high-profile lese
majeste suspects living abroad
who it says have tried to stir up
unrest in Thailand and will ask
for their extradition.
"We will ask for cooperation, friendship and respect
from these countries and we
hope that they understand that
all Thais cannot accept these
insults," Justice Minister
Paiboon Koomchaya told
reporters.
Paiboon conceded that
there were significant legal and
diplomatic challenges around
seeking the extraditions but
said he would proceed with the
requests regardless.
The junta last week urged
citizens to report cases of lese
majeste to authorities. Agency
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on Tuesday adopted a controversial Arab-sponsored resolution condemning Israel's actions
at a flashpoint holy site in east
Jerusalem that has sparked fury
in the Jewish State.
The UNESCO resolution
on "occupied Palestine" was
drafted by Algeria, Egypt,
Lebanon, Morocco, Oman,
Qatar and Sudan. It was
endorsed today by the executive board after being approved
at the committee stage
last week.
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Israel as "the occupying power,"
it condemns Israel for restricting Muslims' access to the AlAqsa mosque compound —
Islam's third holiest site. AFP
ing to leave their Boko Haram Islamic extremist captors, a community leader said on Tuesday.
The unwilling girls may have been radicalised by Boko Haram
or are ashamed to return home because they were forced to marry
extremists and have babies, chairman Pogu Bitrus of the Chibok
Development Association told The Associated Press in a telephone
interview.
Bitrus said the 21 Chibok girls freed last week in the first
negotiated release between Nigeria's Government and Boko
Haram should be educated abroad, because they will probably
face stigma in Nigeria.
The girls and their parents were reunited on Sunday and are
expected to meet with Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari
on Tuesday or Wednesday, Bitrus said. Buhari flew to Germany
on an official visit the day of the girls' release.
Some 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from a school in northeastern Chibok in April 2014. Dozens escaped early on and at
least half a dozen have died in captivity, according to the newly
freed girls, Bitrus said.
All those who escaped on their own have left Chibok because,
even though they were held only a few hours, they were labelled
"Boko Haram wives" and taunted, he said.
AP
closures about US presidential
contender Hillary Clinton,
WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange says his hosts at the
Ecuadorean Embassy in
London abruptly cut him off
from the internet.
The news adds another
layer of intrigue to an extraordinary campaign. "We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange's
internet access Saturday, 5pm
GMT, shortly after publication
of Clinton's Goldman Sachs
(speeches)," the group said in
a message posted to Twitter late
yesterday.With both WikiLeaks
and Ecuadorean officials refusing to say much more about the
incident, outsiders were left to
guess at what was happening
behind closed doors.
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have four to nine students. Each competing team has to manage a portfolio of $100,000 in virtual cash using
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investing.
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Reliance Group; Shekar Viswanathan,
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APJ Abdul Kalam’s birth
anniversary, the University of
South Florida (USF)
announced the second
Kalam Post Graduate
Fellowship for exemplary
Indian students seeking to
pursue a PhD in specified
Science,
Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM) programmes at USF.
The Kalam Fellow will
receive $18,000 tuition per
year. The Provost’s Office will
pay a nine-month stipend for
the first year with the department/college contributing a
teaching/research assistantship for up to an additional
three years.
Application deadline:
The deadline for applications
for the 2017-18 Kalam Post
Graduate Fellowship is
January 15, 2017. Full details,
eligibility criteria, and application form will be available
on www.usf.edu/world by
Friday, October 21, 2016. The
Fellowship decision will be
announced mid-April 2017.
The
UBS
Center
Scholarships are full scholarships awarded every year to
outstanding university graduates to undertake doctoral
studies at the Zurich Graduate
School of Economics. These
Scholarships are open to inter-
national students.
Eligibility: Open to
graduates from around the
world, they are awarded to
candidates on the grounds of
outstanding academic merit,
and continuing support will
be subject to satisfactory completion of course work. While
preference may be given to
students whose research plans
include areas of interest of the
UBS International Center of
Economics in Society, applications from all areas are welcomed.
Admission to the Zurich
Graduate
School
of
Economics is a pre-condition for being considered for
a UBS Center Scholarship.
The UBS Center Scholarships
are full scholarships, covering
living expenses and all fees.
Scholarship holders are free to
choose their supervisor and
have no mandatory duties
beyond the completion of the
course work and their doctorate. We do however
encourage students to contribute to departmental teaching because it is in their own
interest to acquire good teaching skills. Applicants from
outside the home country
will often need to meet specific English language/other
language requirements in
order to be able to study
there.
How
to
apply :
Applications should be submitted online.
Application Deadline:
The application deadline is
January 31, 2017.
spaced repetition and constant feedback
and assessment.
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learning needs — hard
skills and soft skills:
Gamification can be
used to fulfill most learning needs including soft
kills, customer support,
awareness creation, product sales,
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learning becomes visible. On
account of all these aspects that
impact the learner, such interactive
tools for education can create a significant performance gain and
learning experience for student.
With the advent of technology, there has been a paradigm shift
in the educational space. We live in
a digitised world, where we expect
everything to be interactive and
instant.
According to a study by
Microsoft, the human attention
span is merely eight seconds. This
is why we need such prolific and
robust learning modes to enhance
the recall and retention.
With the numerous advantages of game-based learning over
traditional techniques, it is imperative to revise the ways of delivering learning and formulates learning strategies that are in tune with
the modern day leaner.
Let’s deconstruct the fun in any
good game — what makes it enjoyable? It is the built-in challenge,
sense of achievement, pitting our
strength against real or virtual
competitors, as well as the underlying, subconscious learning
process. When we are actively
engaged with a game, our minds
experience the pleasure of grappling with and coming to understand a new system. When learning is woven into a game, educators create value for the earners by
providing an engaging memorable
journey for the learner, and helping subconscious internalisation of
learning.
This can be a game-changer in
enhancing learning in an environment, grappling with information
explosion, and continuously
depleting attention spans. Games
are powerful as learning tools,
because they help in transplanting
the learner in a world, leaving
behind is rational, self, which has
immense barriers to change. When
immersed in a game, educators can
potentially link directly and suggest
positive learning signals to the
learner’s subconscious.
Harnessing the power of welldesigned games to achieve specific learning goals, can result in highly motivated learners who avidly
engage with and practice applying
problem-solving skill.
Mobile games will be the
fastest growing sub-segment of
India’s video games consumer market through 2018, with a projected CAGR of 19.7 per cent. Online
games revenue will also continue
to grow, from $40mn in 2013 to
$79mn in 2018, a CAGR of 14.3
per cent. Console games revenue
in India was $161mn in 2013, and
will reach $305mn in 2018, a
CAGR of 13.6 per cent. The implications of delivering game experiences for education and training
are enormous. In the US, nearly
170 million people played computer and video games in 2008,
spending a record $11.7 billion.
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Consulting Group (India).
Speaking at the event, Anil
Sachdev, founder-CEO, SOIL
said: “As an institution we were
compelled to raise awareness
about the same. This forum has
been successful in addressing
competence in leadership roles,
and will encourage management students to seriously consider their training as the first
step towards becoming future
leaders.”
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Indian Public Library
Movement (IPLM) is a multi
stakeholder initiative hosted by
the NASSCOM Foundation
across 100 plus districts spread
across 22 states.
This movement brings in
variety of stakeholders together to revitalize public library
space in the country.
Transforming them into knowledge and information sharing
centers catering to the needs of
communities across India.
This movement brings in
variety of stakeholders together to revitalise public libraries
and bring back its lost glory.
Speaking on the occasion P
Jayarajan, chairman, IPLM
Advisory said: “The Indian
Public Library Movement is
now gaining traction. The
involvement of our partners
helps bolster the initiative and
bring in the critical support
needed for a diverse nationbuilding program like this.”
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have achieved the highest
marks and are top in world in
a range of individual subjects
in the November 2015, March
2016 and June 2016 exam
series across Cambridge
IGCSE,
Cambridge
International AS Level and
Cambridge International A
Q Tell us about the 3D printing
curriculum that was recently
launched.
Our curriculum has been specially integrated with the CBSE, IB,
ICSE Board. With the help of 3D
printing, subject models like the
heart or a human jaw model can be
explained in a better way. Our
vision is to provide kids
hands-on experience so that rather
than cramming the topics, the kids
are able to understand the concepts.
We analyse the syllabus and pick out
key areas where 3D printing can
assist the teachers in teaching. Our
curriculum has been designed for
Classes VI to IX.
Q What are the loopholes of the
learning process in Indian schools?
Being told what to do to get an
‘A’ isn’t just an experience in our
years in elementary school but it’s
also the main characteristic of the
so-called old schooling system.
This method emphasizes the theoretical part of learning and it is
mostly considered as ‘copy-paste’
learning. Consequently this lack of
discussion in class has a negative
effect only on the student because
it reduces the chances for feedback
or context clarification while lecturing. Lots of students in India lose
interest in studies as a result of
monotonous theoretical sessions.
Q What role will 3D learning play
at the elementary level?
The tools are useful to instill a
confidence within elementary kids
to question things they observe. 3D
learning needs to be directed
towards bringing in a sense of
social sensitivity in students.
Initiatives like finding solutions to
a widespread social/environmental
problems using 3D work directly
towards enhancing critical thinking
and problem solving skills.
Q Tell us about the online portal
that students can access?
The online portal is accessible
by every student who enrolls for the
3D printing curriculum. The portal is aimed to make students engage
into healthy discussions on the
classes. The portal will slowly transform into a community of makers,
where ideas are exchanged rapidly,
enhancing product design skills.
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School of Inspired
Leadership (SOIL) recently held
its annual Inspired Leadership
Conference 2016. The event
involved talks on underlining
the importance of establishing
Dialogue across Differences for
developing competency in leadership roles.
The two-day conference
was chaired by the event’s key
note speaker Arun Maira, former member of Planning
Commission of India, and for-
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A 101 students also
achieved Top in Country
across these qualifications.
These toppers from India
will be recognised for their
outstanding
academic
achievements with an
Outstanding Cambridge
Learner certificate.
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India?
This decade has seen huge rise
in the number of companies entering the EdTech sector. However, we
are yet to see a unicorn in the Indian
education space. Most of these are
information based digital platforms
that act as aggregators of hyperlocal
education providers. We have seen
certain primary and secondary
schools in tier-I cities incorporating
basic robotics in their curriculum.
Q What has been the response of
the students to the workshops
that have been conducted?
In the beginning, it is just
another co-curricular two-hour
workshop. But it gets better and better by the time the workshop ends
because they begin to see it all over
the place.
Q What is the cause behind the
reluctance of the educational institutes opening up to ideas like 3D
printing?
The prime reluctance is a notion
of an added burden on the faculty
and teachers. There is simply no
incentive for the management to
share the responsibility of introducing any new technology, howsoever essential it may prove to be
as a tool to impart learning. The
problem lies not in the budget
constraints of the institutions, but
the effort teachers will be willing to
take to employ 3D printing.
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Ryan International Group
of Institutions’ MD, Grace Pinto
has been given the prestigious
Excellence Award for her contribution towards elderly people of the society on the
International Day of the older
persons organised by the
HelpAge India recently.
The award was presented
by Dr Jitendra Singh, Minister
of State (Independent Charge),
MoS of Prime Minister’s Office.
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Singh who applauded Pinto’s
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Speaking on the occasion
Pinto said: “We are grateful to
Lord Jesus Christ for this honour and are thankful to all our
parents, staff and students for
their support and generosity
towards this noble cause of the
elderly of our society.”
The
chairman,
HelpAgeIndia, Amal Ganguli
also lauded and acknowledged
the contribution made by the
Ryan Group.
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Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD)
organised a special creative workshop on
Origami Oritai at their Okhla campus in New
Delhi. Indian origami artist Akira Yoshizawa was
expert on this occasion. The aim of the workshop was to provide the knowledge about the
origami.
Yoshizawa said that apart from unleashing
creativity, it has also been known to improve one’s
hand eye coordination temporal spatial skills
,concentration ,logical reasoning and sequencing ability.
The students of IIAD from fashion design,
communication design and interior architecture
and design programme participated in the
workshop and made a variety of 3D objects from
flat square sheets of coloured and textured paper
.Their creations ranged from butterflies ,bows
, bags ,hearts, boxes, fujimoto cubes ,candle stands
to strawberries amongst others.
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With a strong focus on
becoming the leader in the
digital learning world and to
further accelerate NIIT’s own
growth and profitability, the
Company has charted a twopronged business strategy:
First, an internal initiative
addressing the digital transformation of its entire business
model to drive growth, value
and profitability; and Second,
an external initiative focusing
on training and consulting of
individual and corporate customers to enable them to succeed in the digital world.
To this end, NIIT has
entered into a partnership
with US-based OpenMatters
LLC, the leader in Business
Model Science. Under this
partnership, NIIT will bring
the content and expertise
developed by OpenMatters
for Wharton’s SEI Center,
Knowledge@Wharton, and
Harvard Business Review to
the India, China and emerging
markets.
Speaking on this significant development Rahul
Patwardhan, CEO NIIT Ltd.,
said: “This two tiered partnership leveraging the exciting
newage digital technologies
that are impacting every
industry and company and
their business model.”
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of a catch to dismiss Corey
Anderson in the first ODI
against New Zealand and fielding coach
R Sridhar feels that the Vidarbha fast
bowler has "created new benchmark" for
the speedsters.
"It's good to have fast bowlers in the
side who are good athletes. Umesh has
a very good arm and similarly
(Mohammad) Shami is also a good
athlete. In the past we had Mohit
(Sharma) who was a very good fielder. Umesh is an exception not only
because of yards he put in the field
but also because of his catching.
"That's probably given him the
edge and created new benchmark as far
as fast bowler fielders are concerned,"
Sridhar said on Tuesday.
Asked about who has the most
powerful arm from the deep in this current set-up, Sridhar named Virat
Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja.
"Jaddu and Virat are the names
that come to mind. They have
powerful rocket arms and
can throw from anywhere with accuracy.
In terms of strength
and fitness, all fast bowlers
like Umesh have powerful arms. In
January during Australia series, Umesh
effected a run out from 80 metres. As
far as one action pick up throw is concerned, it is performed at particular
fielding position," Sridhar said.
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Dhoni, coach Anil Kumble and Test
captain Virat, the team needs more
multi specialist fielders than single
dimension ones.
"People like Ajinkya (Rahane) and
Virat are more than utility fielders. In
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throw well from the deep. This is what
we try and do. Try to develop multi specialist fielders than specialist fielders.
That's what Virat, MS and Anil want.
Team benefits in different phases of the
game," he concluded.
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Recovering from a bout of viral
fever, Suresh Raina was on Tuesday back
in the nets but the middle-order batsman will miss India's second one-day
against New Zealand after the Team
management decided to give him more
time to regain his fitness.
Raina, who had missed the opening
ODI at Dharamsala due to fever, batted
for about 45 minutes at the nets but the
Indian team management confirmed he
is still not 100 per cent match fit to figure in Thursday's second ODI here.
"The BCCI Medical team has confirmed that Suresh Raina, who is recov-
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networking giants Twitter and Facebook are among the
18 entities that have purchased the Invitation to Tender (ITT)
Sforocial
the lucrative Indian Premier League's media rights (broadcast, digital and mobile).
"The Indian Premier League Media Right ITT has received
a massive response from the leading media and technology companies. The ITT document was available for purchase from
September 19 to October 18, 2016," the BCCI said in a statement.
The rights on offer are Indian Sub-continent Television Rights
from 2018 to 2027 (10 IPL seasons), Indian sub-continent Digital
Rights from 2018 to 2022 (5 IPL seasons) and Rest of the World
Media Rights from 2018 to 2022 (5 IPL seasons).
The Media Rights bid submission process will take place on
October 25.
"This is going to be a historical moment for Indian cricket.
I am pleased to see the overwhelming response from the media
and technology companies for IPL Media Rights," BCCI BCCI
President Anurag Thakur said.
Apart from Twitter and Facebook, others in fray are Star India
Private Limited, Sony Pictures Networks Private Limited and
Reliance Jio Digital Services Private Limited.
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missed the Dharamsala ODI, is ruled
out of the second ODI of the Paytm
ODI Trophy against New Zealand,"
BCCI said in a release.
"The team management has allowed
Suresh Raina more time to recover.
There will be no replacement in the
team," it added.
Raina, who didn't bat in Uttar
Pradesh's Ranji opener against Madhya
Pradesh as he was running temperature,
looked comfortable while batting in the
nets as he was seen playing lofted shots
against spinners at will.
Probably the viral fever must have
taken its toll as he is still not possibly
fit enough to play 100 overs of international cricket.
At the nets, Jadhav was seen bowling off breaks to both Raina and Dhoni
for an extended period of time alongside other off-spinner Jayant Yadav.
In fact Jadhav bowled him for a
period of time at the nets. He was also
given throwdowns by team's expert
Raghavendra, batting coach Sanjay
Bangar and chief coach Anil Kumble.
Dhoni batted the longest time at the
nets. He faced Dhawal Kulkarni for a
considerable period and also practised
the pull shot against throwdowns. He
then spent another 25 minutes batting
against spin especially Jayant.
Dhoni was seen telling Jayant about
specific field positions and bowl accordingly. Jayant altered the length and
bowled a conventional off break slightly short of length.
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56-run victory against West
Indies in the first day-night Test
in Dubai on Monday.
Bravo kept Pakistan's victory bid on hold during his
resistance-filled 410-minute
long 116 and it needed legspinner Yasir Shah to make a
stunning two-handed catch to
end his innings.
West Indies were finally
bowled for 289 with just 12
over left in the match.
Bravo lingered on his
haunches at the crease for a
minute before trudging back to
the pavilion, disappointed at his
dismissal after bringing so
close a draw or an upset win.
Bravo's eighth Test hundred spiced with ten boundaries and a six had brought
West Indies within 83 runs of
victory and 27 ovesr to bat for
a draw after they were set a
daunting 346 runs to win.
Left-armer Mohammad
Nawaz trapped Devendra
Bishoo while Miguel Cummins
and last man Shannon Gabriel
were run out to spark a celebration amongst Pakistan players. Paceman Mohammad
Amir finished with 3-63 and
Shah took 2-113.
The match was a good
advertisement for Test cricket
as it had a triple hundred (302
not out) by Azhar Ali, 8-49 by
leg-spinner Bishoo and two
fighting knocks by Bravo.
Pakistan had never hoped
to strive that much after getting
an important wicket of Marlon
Samuels with the first ball of the
day but Bravo left them frustrated and near to capitulation.
This was Test cricket's second ever day-night Test played
with a pink ball after Australia
and New Zealand featured in
the first at Adelaide in
November last year.
The win is more memorable for Pakistan as the match
marked their 400th Test since
they began the five-day format
in 1952.
Bravo first added 77 for the
fifth wicket with Roston Chase
(35) and then another 69 for
the seventh with skipper Jason
Holder who made 40 not out.
Pakistan had taken the
second new ball with West
Indies 224-6 and Bravo needing four for hundred. Bravo
smashed an uppish drive off
Amir's first ball to backward
point boundary to complete his
magnificent hundred after 329minutes of defiance.
Bravo and Holder took the
West Indies within 100 of victory in 41 overs after they
reached dinner at 232-6.
Chase, famous for his 137
not out at Jamaica which
helped West Indies draw a
Test against India in July this
year, gave full support to Bravo
as the duo frustrated Pakistan.
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) challenging the radical reforms proposed by the
Court in its judgment of July 18, 2016. The
judgment came as a result of crucial recommendations made by Justice RM Lodha
Committee, which proposed far-reaching
administrative and structural reforms.
The bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur and
Justice SA Bobde took up a bunch of review
petitions filed by BCCI, former cricketer
Chandu Borde and former BCCI official
Niranjan Shah inside chambers and decided
to defer its decision by two weeks.
Sources in the BCCI said no formal
order has been passed on the review petitions
yet. On Monday, the apex court had reserved
orders on an application filed by Justice Lodha
panel suggesting that the top brass of BCCI
be replaced in order to facilitate smooth rollout of reforms by an independent panel of
Court-appointed administrators. Till such
time this order is out, it is possible that the
Court may have put on hold its decision on
the review appeals.
The Board, in its review plea, sought an
open court hearing to explain how the Lodha
panel recommendations cannot be implemented. It further objected to the judgment
being an interference into the private society's
autonomy and questioned the constitution of
Justice Lodha panel to regulate affairs of the
apex cricket body.
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to Camp Nou.
This time he will be at the helm of
Manchester City as he faces his boyhood club
in the Champions League on Wednesday.
But how does the best of the teams
Guardiola coached from 2008-2012
stack up against the current Barcelona
side?
Here is a comparison of
Barcelona's current players with
those led by Guardiola in 2008-09,
the team that started the club's
winning era by becoming the first
Spanish club to win the
Champions League, Spanish
league and Copa del Rey in the
same season.
Barcelona repeated that rare
feat of winning the treble of
titles two seasons ago under
present coach Luis Enrique.
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A budding star at 21 years
old, Lionel Messi fully blossomed under Guardiola.
The Argentina star won his first
of a record five Ballon d'Or awards
in 2009, after having scored important goals such as his double in a historic 6-2 win at Real Madrid and the
second goal in a 2-0 win to beat
Manchester United in the Champions
League final.
Guardiola got one more superb season from striker Samuel Eto'o, and
squeezed out some of the last vintage
goals that Thierry Henry had to offer.
Hard to top that, right? Just look at
Messi's present partners in attack.
With Messi moving away from a pure
scorer to becoming both scorer and
playmaker, Luis Suarez and Neymar
have proven to be perfect fits up front.
Suarez is the voracious goal-taker that
Messi needed to focus on orchestrating,
while Neymar's dribbling skills and
speed are almost unstoppable. The trio
broke scoring records in each of the last
two seasons.
ADVANTAGE: Luis Enrique's current
attack.
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Dani Alves/Puyol/Pique/Abidal
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Roberto/
Pique/Mascherano/Alba (now)
Always at the service of Messi, Xavi
and Iniesta, Barcelona's defense under
Guardiola was easy to overlook. But that
2008-09 team enjoyed Dani Alves and
Eric Adibal in their prime, a fully fit
Carles Puyol before he was diminished
by injuries, and a Gerard Pique hungry
to come into his own.
Pique now anchors a back line that
is under transition. Jordi Alba offers
blistering pace on the left flank,
but its other two positions are
in flux. Sergi Roberto, a converted midfielder, has impressed
as Dani Alves' replacement so far,
while the other central defender
position is in dispute between an
aging Javier Mascherano and newcomer Samuel Umtiti.
ADVANTAGE: Guardiola's 2008-09
defense.
GOALKEEPER: Valdes (2008-09) vs.
Ter Stegen (now)
Marc-Andre Ter Stegen has just
inherited the full-time goalkeeping
responsibilities from Claudio Bravo.
Despite his passing skills and ability to
make spectacular saves, the German
needs to improve his decision making
to reach the level of Victor Valdes from
2008-09.
ADVANTAGE: Guardiola's 2008-09
goalkeeper.
CONCLUSION: Even
though this Barcelona
side should be
favored over City,
it has a way to go
to equal the overall
excellence of Pep's
first Barcelona squad.
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Carlo Ancelotti's methods are
already being questioned.
The new Bayern coach was
praised at the start of the season for
his relaxed approach, after
Guardiola's more rigid, detail-driven style. Now, the feeling is that
players may be losing their drive
and determination under Ancelotti.
Club boss Karl-Heinz
Rummenigge felt obliged to slam the
team's "unacceptable" performance
in a 2-2 draw with 10-man Eintracht
Frankfurt in the Bundesliga on
Saturday. The media quickly suggested that some of Guardiola's
discipline might be in order.
Bayern, which will be without
Franck Ribery when it hosts PSV
Eindhoven on Wednesday, has
won 13 consecutive home matches — a Champions League record.
The German side has three points,
three less than group leader Atletico
Madrid, which plays at Rostov.
in midfield in recent years.
Arsenal, which leads the group
with the same four points as PSG,
hosts last-placed Ludogorets
Razgrad of Bulgaria.
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UEFA says Napoli has a
chance to become the first
team in Champions League
history to advance from its
group after just three matches — if Napoli beats visiting
Besiktas, and Dynamo
Kiev draws with Benfica.
But, Napoli has lost
consecutive Serie A
matches for the first
time under coach
Maurizio Sarri and has to
overcome a lengthy injury
layoff for Arkadiusz Milik.
Given how poorly Paris SaintGermain's midfield played in the
unimpressive 2-1 win against bottom-side Nancy in the French
league on Saturday, coach Unai
Emery will be desperate to have the
experienced Thiago Motta back for
the home game against Basel.
But Motta is struggling to
shake off a muscle injury, meaning
that PSG could be missing his
snappy tackling, tactical discipline
and astute passing against Basel which has been consistently strong
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both Yaya Toure and an upstart Sergio
Busquets sharing time in front of the
defense, as opposed to the current
team's reliance on Busquets as a holding midfielder. The major difference,
however, is the downgrade from Xavi
Hernandez to Ivan Rakitic.
Rakitic is more athletic and a better tackler than Xavi, but that cannot
trump Xavi's vision, poise and control
of the match. The World Cup winner
was Guardiola's on-pitch general of a
possession-based passing attack that
bewildered opponents.
In other words, it's a no-brainer.
ADVANTAGE: Guardiola's 2008-09
midfield.
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anchester United's defensive tactics blunted
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Liverpool's prolific attack as
England's two most illustrious
teams toughed out a 0-0 draw in
the Premier League on Monday.
United manager Jose
Mourinho's approach went to
plan at Anfield, with Liverpool
having 65 percent possession
but failing to score in a home
league game for the first time in
exactly 10 months. United was
the opponent then, too, but
under Louis van Gaal.
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game tactically and emotionally,"
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goalkeeper producing excellent
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home matches so far. The hosts
improved in the second half,
especially after fit-again midfielder Adam Lallana came on as
a substitute, but were never going
to get the three-goal victory that
would have put them top.
United stayed in seventh
place, five points off the lead.
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statistic, provided by the Premier
League's official stats supplier
Opta, was the lowest United has
had in a Premier League game
since Opta was first used by the
league in 2003. Two minutes after
leaving his post-match news
conference, Mourinho returned
to the room and told journalists
that United had 42 percent possession, according to his club's
stats department.
"Two shots on target with 65
percent of possession, you have
to be critical of Liverpool,"
Mourinho had said earlier. "It is
their problem, not our problem."
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engaluru FC will start with a slight
edge against Johor Darul Ta'zim in
Wednesday's AFC Cup semifinals second
leg with an away goal in hand and a couple of opposition players not playing but
captain Sunil Chhetri says that his side
can lower their guard only at their peril.
BFC had earned a crucial away-goal
as they drew 1-1 against defending
champions JDT in Malaysia on September
28 in the first leg. Johor will be without
key strikers Juan Martin Lucero and
Pereyra Diaz on Wednesday as they were
suspended for the second leg.
But, Chhetri said JDT were a such a
side that they had beaten BFC 2-1 once
by fielding local players.
"The last time we played against them
they beat us 2-1 by fielding local players.
So, that is the potential and caliber of JDT
players," Chhetri told PTI in an interview.
"They are very strong side, but I am
really positive. We fancy ourselves here.
That's the kind of vibe this ground gives
me. Even the game we played against Iran
and Oman — both international matches — I felt we could win," said Chhetri,
who is also India captain.
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Asked about the absence of two rival
strikers on Wednesday, Chhetri said their
absence would not matter much as JDT
were defending champions and they have
enough bench strength.
"The absence of some of their key
players due to injuries do not matter
much. JDT is very good team. They have
50 good players to replace," he said.
Chhetri is also not thinking too
much about the away goal Bengaluru FC
scored in the first leg and said the focus
in the second leg tomorrow would be to
score a goal and not to concede one.
"The away-goal helps but we are not
trying to put this in our brains too much.
Sometime it can give a different message,"
he said. "Coach Albert Roca has told us
to win the game, but don't have to rush.
Score a goal in alloted 90 minutes and do
not concede. You are then sorted. That's
the whole thing," he added.
of AFC Cup when they lock horns
with defending champions Johor Darul
Takzim in the semifinal of the premier
event here on Wednesday.
On earlier occasions, two Indian
clubs — East Bengal and Dempo —
had reached the semifinals.
The match at Sree Kanteerava
Stadium will be the fourth meeting
between Bengaluru FC and Malaysian
club Johor Darul Takzim in this edition of the tournament.
The two were clubbed together in
the group stage and the Malaysian
giants had won both the home and
away matches. However, in the semifinal, Bengaluru did not let the hosts
dominate them and came back with a
crucial away goal.
The hosts are coming into the
match with an advantage of scoring an
away goal, but they are not taking anything for granted.
"If we want to be in the finals, we
have to score a goal or two. The away
goal is simply a consolation," Albert
Roca, BFC coach, told reporters on the
eve of the match.
Despite the absence of key rival
players, Bengaluru FC know it is
important to guard against complacency. The visitors will be without
Jorge Pereyra Diaz, Juan Martin Lucero
and Amri Yahyah.
"This team is still champion of the
competition. They are still the
favorites. It is not going to be easy. It
is going to be a tough mission, but we
are ready for it. We have shown we are
competitive in the past and we have to
show it again, tomorrow," Roca said.
"It would be a fiercest mistake to
consider tomorrow's match easy. They
have good replacements — both are
good national players and could be
more competitive than the suspended
Argentinian players," he added.