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Aft er oo THE NEW POWER TRIO: SHIV SENA, MNS AND NCP

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Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray

MNS chief Raj Thackeray

NCP supremo Sharad Pawar

By Suyash Padate

together and help form the government.

Pawar's effort aims to keep the Congress and the BJP out of power. He appears to think that if these parties, after the polls, can achieve an understanding, a

minority party can run a government.

Pawar was all praise for Uddhav Thackeray. Why did he suddenly feel the need for praising Uddhav

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Cyclone Hudhud loses speed

t a press conference, NCP boss Sharad Pawar has revealed the possibility that after the Assembly polls, the Shiv Sena, MNS and NCP might come

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High tide touches the boats parked far from the sea in Gopalpur due to cyclone ‘Hudhud’ in Ganjam district of Odhisa on Sunday.

Kills 4 in AP, Odisha; Vishakapatnam worst hit V

ISAKHAPATNAM/BHUBANESWAR: left a trail of destruction with VishakapatCyclone Hudhud pounded the coastal nam where the very severe storm made districts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha landfall the worst hit. with heavy rain and winds of almost 200 Continued on pg 2 « kmph on Sunday killing four people and

Sharad Pawar’s effort aims to keep the Congress and the BJP out of power

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A view of strong tidal waves at Konapapapeta village beach in East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday.

Continued from pg 1 « Thackeray? When Balasaheb was alive, Sharad Pawar had a silent rapport with him. Pawar said: “Thackeray has made the Shiv Sena strong. The press had written him off. It was proved wrong. Uddhav has emerged a strong leader.”

Maybe now Pawar is ready to support the strong leader as Chief Minister too.

“Uddhav has made the Sena strong. The Sena has done well in the Lok Sabha elections. The party has proved it is popular.”

Sharad Pawar's statement and the praise he has showered on Uddhav indicates that the NCP which is dead set against the BJP and the Congress will support the Shiv Sena in a postpoll scenario. Sharad Pawar has made scathing attacks on Narendra Modi in the last few days. He has even said that Modi is not fit to be Prime Minister.

Naturally then, the NCP is looking for some space in the power scene. It can still share it with the Shiv Sena – in fact, that is the only way in the future for its survival.

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Cyclone Hudhud loses speed

A man, bottom jumps into the water to rescue a woman, center, who fell due to strong tidal waves on the Bay of Bengal coast at Gopalpur, Odisha on Sunday.

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Nearly three-and-a-half lakh people – about 250,000 in AP and nearly one lakh in Odisha--were evacuated and tens of thousands of people were still being taken to safe places and housed in special shelters, officials said.

High velocity winds battered Visakhapatnam, which is home to a Naval base, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts throwing normal life out of gear after the cyclone made landfall shortly before noon downing power and communications lines and closing roads and railways.

Trees were uprooted and roofs of thatched huts and sheds and hoardings blown away, reports PTI. Transport services came to to a halt in the region. Dozens of trains were either cancelled or diverted

Tidal waves hit the Vizag beach as Cyclone Hudhud reaches the port city of Visakhapatnam on Saturday.

and flights in the region were also disrupted.

Streets largely wore a deserted look as panic-stricken residents remained indoors.

According to Andhra Pradesh's Revenue (Disaster Management) Department, the cyclone left railway lines in Visakhapatnam badly damaged, besides causing "damage" to the airport there.

A total of 2,48,004 people were "affected" by Hudhud, which also damaged 70 houses and left 34 animals dead, it said.

Three people were killed in rainrelated incidents in AP while one person lost his life in Odisha.

"The impact is tremendous," Union Minister Ashok Gajapati Raju told PTI. "Three deaths have been reported due to impact of Hudhud.

Two died after trees fell on them and one in collapse of compoundwall in Visakhapatnam and Srikaku-

lam districts, respectively," AP Chief Secretary IVR Krishna Rao said.

A fisherman was caught in the sea current amid a tidal surge while he was trying to save his fishing boat anchored in the coast of Puri, Special Relief Commissioner P K Mohapatra said.

On Saturday, a nine-year-old girl drowned when a boat engaged in evacuation of the people in Satbhaya area of Kendrapara district capsized in the Baunsagadi rivulet.

In Delhi, IMD Director Laxman Singh Rathore said that as the cyclone was crossing AP coastline the wind speed was 170-180 kmph and gusting up to 195 kmph.

Cyclone Hudhud lost its intensity by evening as it moved further 60 km northwest of Visakhapatnam, the IMD said.

Hudhud, which was so far a very severe cyclonic storm has now converted into a severe cyclone and its

Hudhud loses intensity: IMD

Cyclone Hudhud, which made a landfall in Andhra Pradesh this noon, lost its intensity by evening as it moved further 60 km northwest of Visakhapatnam, the IMD said.

Hudhud, which was so far a very severe cyclonic storm has now converted into a severe cyclone. Its speed is now limited to 100-110 kmph, said M Mahapatra, scientist at the Cyclone Warning Division of IMD.

PM assures Andhra CM of all support

Of course, they are sharing the same platform! To express their different opinions on ‘Separate Vidarbha’.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday promised Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu all possible assistance as Cyclone Hudhud made landfall leaving five persons dead in the state and neighbouring Odisha.

The Prime Minister, who had on Saturday held an emergency highlevel meeting to review preparedness for the cyclone, yesterday spoke to Naidu over phone and discussed relief and rescue measures.

He had asked officials to ensure that rescue and relief operations

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrabub Naidu during a meeting with officials regarding Cyclonic storm ‘HudHud' in Hyderabad on Sunday. proceed smoothly and people are informed about the cyclone on a real-time basis.

Modi had also asked Home Minister Rajnath Singh to be in touch with the Chief Ministers of the states likely to be affected by it.

The meeting was attended by the Cabinet Secretary, the Principal Secretary to the PM, the Home Secretary, the Defence Secretary and other senior officials from the Indian Meteorological Depart-

ment and and the PMO.

NDRF sends in more teams to Vizag As Cyclone 'Hudhud' made its landfall in Vishakhapatnam, the NDRF doubled the strength of its teams stationed in the port city to 13 in order to undertake swift relief and rescue operations.

"We have increased our teams to

speed is now limited to 100-110 kmph, said M Mahapatra, Scientist at the Cyclone Warning Division of IMD. "Communication has totally collapsed...Power and telecommunication. We are working on rescue. Our administration, so far as possible, wherever they can reach they are reaching," Naidu told reporters in Hyderabad.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the cyclone had its impact in different districts like Ganjam, Gajapati, Koraput, Puri, Kalahandi and Kendrapara.

"Due to the hilly topography, the cyclone's intensity will reduce in next six hours and further reduce in next 12 hours. However, the area (Vizag) will experience heavy to very heavy rainfall for the next three days," Rathore said earlier in the day.

As the storm progresses, it will bring heavy rainfall to very heavy rainfall in Chhatisgarh, Bihar, East Madhya Pradesh and East UP and Gangetic belt of West Bengal, he said.

13 in Vizag after the landfall occured. Earlier there were six teams stationed here," National Disaster Response Force chief O.P. Singh told PTI. A single NDRF team usually has over 50 people.

The Director General said the NDRF teams being sent to this coast city from neary areas have been equipped with saw cutters which can rip through wood and metal which are found to be obstructing road routes after gusty winds and heavy rains.

Singh said the next few hours are "very crucial" for the force as special units and task force teams will be dispatched to areas of maximum damage.

"The next few hours will spell our course of action. All our teams are in their designated locations and a number of them are on task or are mobile," he said. The NDRF has deployed a total of 44 teams to tackle the aftermath of 'Hudhud' in the two states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha with 21 teams positioned in various areas of the former state, 20 teams have been mobilised in the latter.

Over 2,000 rescuers and 220 boats have been pressed in by the NDRF as part of these 44 teams, the DG said.

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'Dream walk', a novel saree fashion show to mark the 25th year of the new wave Paithani sarees festival, a collection of high-end sarees ranging up to Rs 2.5 lakh at Ravindra Natya Mandir in Prabhadevi on Sunday.

Handwoven paithani: It can take one to one-and-a-half year to complete

Paithani is being handwoven since hundreds of years at Yeola. It usually takes a master weaver an entire day to weave just an inch of this material. Sometimes a single saree is completed after a year and a half. The weavers however are not flourishing because traders from other places sell machinemade paithani.

To counter the threat, the New Wave Paithani was founded. And they brought the traditional Paithani sarees and held a fabulous show at Ravindra Natya Mandir. Today is the last day of the show. Some of the sarees cost Rs 2 to 3 lakh.

nude photographs belonging to dozens of female celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst were leaked online via the website 4Chan. It says something troubling about the trajectory of internet culture that their source was not a single seedy bloke in a Florida bedroom, but multiple hackers who

The man who leaked the celebrity photos

When the FBI finally tracked down the man known as the Hollywood Hacker to his Jacksonville, Florida, home in October 2011, they found someone who utterly fulfilled the stereotype of an online creep.

Thirty-something, unemployed, possessed of dubious facial hair and still living with his grandmother, Chris Chaney had illegally accessed the personal email accounts of numerous entertainment figures and, in several cases, uploaded their naked pictures to the web.

Almost exactly three years later, on the last day of August 2014,

Paris Hilton and Hrithik Roshan in Dubai.

Hrithik's night out with Paris

Chris Chaney

had spent months, if not years, building their stashes, bragging about them, and then trading them casually in closed forums, the way others might swap recipes.

Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan enjoyed a night out with American socialite Paris Hilton in Dubai.

The stars had flown down to Dubai for the VIP launch of Cle Dubai, a new restaurant by celebrity chef Greg Malouf.

Hilton, 33, took to microblogging site Twitter to share a picture with the Bang Bang star."#GoodTimes at @CleDubai with Hrithik Roshan. Such a beautiful restaurant, my new favourite hot spot in Dubai," Hilton posted along with the picture.

Hrithik looked dapper in a grey suit, whereas the hotel heiress looked chic in a black dress.

The other guests present at the star-studded event included Hilton's sister Nicky, supermodels Alessandra Ambrosio, Irina Shayk, Carla DiBello and reality star Khloe Kardashian.

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Commission has named a city college as the centre for 228 students who were earlier given centres outside Mumbai

been taken by the commission. On Friday, the commission declared an exam centre for 228 SSC candidates in Mumbai.

After the Maharashtra Public Sevice Commission (MPSC) declared the examination centres on October 9, the candidates were in for a shock. The commission had allotted the exam centres to

By Yatin Ingle the students of Mumbai in distant districts of Chandrafter the Staff Selection pur, Nashik, Vidarbha and Commission (SSC) had Aurangabad. This has put declared the exam centres the candidates in a huge fix. for the students outside With just a few days left for Mumbai, a decision has the exams, candidates are

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distinctly unhappy as they have to travel for one single paper to distant districts.

Candidates have requested the commission for a change in the exam centres and to allot the nearest districts or cities to them. Students were shocked as they had selected Mumbai as their exam centre but had been given centres different districts and cities.

Considering the issues of the exam centres, the Staff Selection Commission took up the issue with the collector and have made it convenient for the candidates to appear for the exams. The Siddharth College in Fort area has been selected as the Mumbai exam centre for the 228 candidates. Soon, even the other candidates will be accommodated with an exam centre in Mumbai.

The SSC exams this year are scheduled on October 19 and October 26. Around 1 lakh students across Maharashtra will be appearing for the exams.

The ADC spoke to K B Jagtap, Official, SSC, Mumbai Division, who said: “After the issue of exam centre was brought up, the commission was in constant contact with the collector for making the exam centres available in Mumbai. Finally, we have managed to declare Mumbai centre for 228 candidates, and soon arrangements for other students will also be made.”

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n FIR has been registered against a developer who allegedly duped a construction company to the tune of Rs 3.20 crore by fraudulent Transfer of Development Right (TDR) of 930 sq metre area nearly a decade ago and then selling it, an EOW official told PTI. The TDR is generated on slum redevelopment projects where an owner or builder redevelops slums free of cost and gets TDR as an incentive under Development Control (DC) rules.

Quoting the FIR registered on the basis of a complaint, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai said accused Nailesh Mehta of Dev Developers in Andheri pretended himself as the part-

ner of Zoomi Construction Company by preparing fake documents and acquired the latter's rightful TDR from the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA). He then sold the TDR to a third party, thus causing the company an estimated loss of Rs 3.20 crore, he said.

The FIR in this regard was registered on October 2 following the cheating charges levelled by Javed Pathan (48), owner of Zoomi Construction Co., against Mehta and others, said the official privy to the probe.

Explaining the sequence of events that led to the crime, an EOW official said Pathan had in 2002 embarked on a project to develop a slum locality in Teli Galli of Andheri

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under the SRA scheme.

As Pathan was facing financial troubles, Mehta approached him and expressed his willingness to complete the project as a sub-contractor and accordingly both the parties struck a deal, police said. After completion of the project, Zoomi Construction was entitled to the TDR as per norms of SRA, police said. "However, soon after completion of the slum project in Andheri, Mehta had allegedly represented self as partner of the Zoomi Company using forged documents and acquired the firm's rightful 930-squaremetre of TDR from the SRA and sold it in 2005 to a third party without the knowledge of Pathan.

Mounds of garbage behind Raj Mandir Complex in the Hatkesh industrial zone in Mira Road.

15 suspected dengue cases detected; MBMC intensifies preventive steps

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hough it has been a while since monsoon ended, dengue continues to raise its ugly head in the twin-city even as the health department of the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) struggles hard

to prevent the deadly virus from spreading its tentacles.

Four more suspected dengue cases were reported from Raj Mandir complex in the Vinay Nagar area near Hatkesh industrial zone in Mira Road.

With the detection of four cases, the toll of suspected dengue patients has now risen to 15. The patients include a three-year old girl. All the suspected dengue patients have been admitted to private hospitals in the region.When contacted deputy municipal commissioner, Dr. Sambhaji Panpatte said, “Even as the patients have shown symptoms

of dengue, blood sample reports will ascertain the actual medical status. However, the health department is not only taking all preventive measures, but is also on a high alert to tackle dengue and malaria.”

Meanwhile residents of Raj Mandir complex have blamed uncleared garbage and release of poisonous effluents in the open nullahs as two major reasons for the outbreak of the disease. “Preventive measures have been intensified and the situation is being closely monitored” confirmed, municipal commissioner Subhash Laakhe.

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he Indo-Iranian Friendship Society and the Mumbai Iranian Association organised the cultural day of Indo–Iranian friendship. The event was organised to celebrate the friendship Iran has with India. The event commenced with the mahurat of the movie, 'The Irani Chaiwala, Hai Bada Dilwala' and was followed by a musical programme by a band of musicians named 'The Baraan' from Iran.

Masood E. Khaleghi, Consul General of Iran in Mumbai, said, “There is a closeness of hearts and a deep bond which we hold with India. We are here today to review and have more emphasis with the warmth of heart and essence of culture. There is a sweetness which Iran adds to the Indian culture without disturbing it. Many people from

Iran have settled in India and have made India its home.

However, culture is devotional to Allah but there are some cancerous elements in society which are ruining the name of Islam” Ali Irani, ex-physiotherapist of Indian cricket team, said, “Iran is one of the oldest civilisations of the world and the

roots of the culture will grow by holding such events. The Indian and Iranian association is getting stronger with every passing day and India and Iran are two great nations with talent and cultural values embedded, we can share peace in the whole world and be the first countries to become the peacemakers of the world.”

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C-27436 I Abdul Majid Abdul Nabi have changed my name to Abdul Majid Abdul Nabi Shaikh as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-27437 I have changed my name from Mohd Rajjab Ali to Mohammad Rajjab Jamaluddin Ansari as per Affidavit.

C-27438 I have changed my name from Altaf Iqbal Ahmad Banarshi to Altaf Iqbal Ansari as per Affidavit.

C-27439 I have changed my name from Iqbal Ahmad Banarshi to Iqbal Ansari as per Affidavit.

C-27440 I have changed my name from Sheikh Yakub Sheriff Anwar Basha to Yakub Shariff Anwar Basha Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-27441 I have changed my name from Mohammed Ali Mohammed Ishaq to Mohammed Ali Mohammad Ishaque Momin as per Affidavit.

C-27442 I have changed my name from Khan Abdul Majeed to Chand Khan Pathan as per Affidavit.

C-27443 I have changed my name from Jay Prakash Nishad to Jaiprakash Nishad as per Affidavit.

C-27444 I have changed my name from Shubham Mahendra Thakur to Shubham Mahendra Singh as per Affidavit.

C-27445 I have changed my name from Hiimanshu Ramdas Gawande to Himanshu Ramdas Gavande as per Affidavit.

C-27446 I have changed my name from Tara. B. to Tara Sridhar Chari as per Affidavit.

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C-27456 I have changed my name from Taj Mazahir to Taj Fatima as per Affidavit.

C-27457 I have changed my name from Sunil Kumar Gupta to Sunil Gupta as per Affidavit.

C-27458 I have changed my name from Jayantilal Sundarji Phuriya to Jayant Sundarji Furia as per Affidavit.

C-27459 I have changed my name from Kuldeep Kaur to Kuldeep Kaur Deol as per Affidavit.

C-27460 I have changed my name from Shobha Pandurang Gurav to Aarti Anant Dongarkar as per Affidavit.

C-27461 I have changed my name from Mohammad Ishaque Haji to Mohammed Rafiaue Haji Selot as per Affidavit.

C-27462 I have changed my name from Mohammed Haseeb Mohammed Kasim to Mohammed Haseeb Mohammed Kasim Sarwar as per Affidavit.

C-27463 I have changed my name from Bharati Mahindra Vora to Bharati Mahendra Vora as per Affidavit.

C-27464 I have changed my name from Damyanti Nanu Tandel to Dami Nanu as per Affidavit.

C-27465 I have changed my name from Tahurali Zahoorali Shaikh to Tahurali Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-27466 I have changed my name from Mohd Danish Maniyar to Mohammed Danish Maniyar as per Affidavit.

C-27467 I have changed my name from Sanjay Kumar to Sanjay Gupta as per Affidavit.

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C-27475 I have changed my name from Asif Abdulla to Asif Abdullah Shaikh as per Affidavit.

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my name Farooque to Farooq Zapawala

I have changed my name from Mr. Mohamed Ali Abdul Kadar Kudkunde to Mr. Mohammed Ali Abdul Kadar Kotkunde as per Affidavit.

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C-27482 I have changed my name from Harendrakumar Damodar Dhirai to Harendra Damodar Dhirai as per Affidavit.

C-27483 I have changed my name from Namratasingh Vinodkumarsingh Chauhan to Namrata Parin Dhirai as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Mr. Mohammed Asif Shaikh to Mr. Asif Yusuf Shaikh as per Affidavit.

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C-27499 I have changed my name from Rajesh Ramchandra to Rajesh Ramchandra Kajania as per Affidavit.

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C-27512 I have changed my name from Pereira Carol Liberata Santan to Carol Santan Pereira as per Affidavit.

C-27513 I have changed my name from Carrol Pereira to Carol Santan Pereira as per Affidavit.

C-27514 I have changed my name from Lobo Ursula Mariano to Lucy Maryan Lobo as per Affidavit.

C-27515 I have changed my name from Saif Haidar Shaikh to Saif Ali Haider Ali Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-27516 I have changed my name from Noorjahan Haiderali Shaikh to Zarina Haider Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-27517 I have changed my name from Leeladhar to Leeladhar Shettigar as per Affidavit.

C-27518 I have changed my name from Dombayya to Dombaya Shettigar as per Affidavit.

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C-27520 I have changed my name from Gurpreet Kaur Dhaliwal to Gurpreet Manish Khatri as per Affidavit.

C-27521 I have changed my name from Manoj Kumar Nayak to Manoj Gangadhar Nayak as per Affidavit.

C-27522 I have changed my name from Tukaram Pundlik Teli to Samrat Pundlik Teli as per Affidavit.

C-27523 I have changed my name from Devan D to Devan Dileep Kumar as per Deed Poll Affidavit No LG 675787.

C-27524 I have changed my name from Sureshchand Yadav to Sureshchandra Yadav as per Affidavit.

C-27525 I have changed my name from Mohamed Zaheeruddin Naseeruddin to Shaikh Zaheeruddin Naseeruddin as per Affidavit.

C-27526 I have changed my name from Mohd Faiyaz to Faiyaz Ameerullah Ansari as per Affidavit.

C-27527 I have changed my name from Shafique Ahmed Abdul Wahid Momin to Shafique Ahmed Abdul Wahid Ansari as per Affidavit.

C-27528 I Sonali Chandrakant Doijode have been changed my name to Safiya Wasim Attar as per Affidavit Dated 23/09/2014.

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C-27501 I have changed my name from Mohammad Ahmad Mohammed Khurseed to Mohammad Ahmad Mohammed Khurseed Khan as per Affidavit.

C-27502 I have changed my name from Munir Mulla to Munir Ahmed Mulla as per Affidavit.

C-27503 I have changed my name from Haroon Abdul Gani Memon to Haroon Abdul Gani Dedrani as per Affidavit.

C-27504 I have changed my name from Ishtiyaq Ahmed Tufel Ahmed to Ishtiyaq Tufel Ahmed Khan as per Affidavit.

C-27505 I have changed my name from Shebaz Taufiq Rawoot to Shahbaaz Taufique Rawoot as per Affidavit.

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Activist Imran Khan who has been helping a man from PoK from being deported was arrested by the police despite having interim protection till October 17

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iolating the Sessions court order, the RAK Marg police arrested activist Imran Khan on Friday though he was granted interim protection till October 17. The interim protection was granted to Imran in connection to an FIR filed against him under sections 13 and 14 of the Foreigners Act, 1946.

When Khan's advocates got wind of this, they headed to the police station to have him released. They

then filed an application with Commissioner of Police (CP) Rakesh Maria explaining the incident and requesting action against those involved. Special judge K R Deosarkar had granted interim protection to Imran till October 17.

Imran was working with Siraj Khan, who had came to India from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) about 20 years ago, when he was 10 years old. Later Siraj married an Indian woman. Siraj has been accused of residing in India without proper

documents. His application for Indian citizenship is pending before the central government.

“We found Imran in a room on the third floor. He was tied with ropes, his mouth was taped and the police were assaulting him. We told the Senior Police Inspector (SPI) Arun Inarkar about the court's order which has already been dispatched. He said that it happened because of miscommunication,” Imran's advocate Yusuf Khan told the ADC. “We wrote a first informa-

Four dogs found dead at fisheries institute

tion application disclosing the cognisable offence addressing the SPI. Later we took Imran to KEM Hospital for a medical examination but the hospital staff refused to mention the injuries. Then we took him to Sion Hospital where a proper medical examination took place. We have the report with us.”

Imran Khan then wrote an letter to Rakesh Maria on Friday mentioning his abduction. He said that Rs 6,000 and his watch (worth Rs 9,000) was confiscated by the police

Thieves snatched the bag filled with cash and fled before they could be nabbed

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wo bike-borne thieves looted a bag containing Rs 1.5 lakh from an employee of a private company on Saturday afternoon.The incident took place around 11.55 am opposite Everest House, Road number 18, Chembur when he was waiting for an auto rickshaw with a plastic bag stashed with cash in his hands.Ketke was sent to The Bharat Co-op Bank by his employer, Joti Babar with a cheque worth Rs 1.5 lakh. The money was withdrawn and kept in a carry bag.

Ketke stepped out of the bank and was waiting for an auto rickshaw when two unidentified people

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came near him on a bike.The pillion rider snatched the bag and pushed Ketke, who fell down on the road and could not note the bike's number. Though the victim shouted for help to nab the accused, the duo fled from spot at high speed.Ketke informed his employer because the sum was meant to pay the staffers' monthly salary. Soon after, cops reached the spot.

According to eyewitnesses, one of the accused was wearing a helmet while the pillion rider was not.

Police are now investigating the case on the basis of footage of CCTVs installed in the area. Police suspect it's an insider's job.

Laundering: ED attaches Rs 53cr assets of ex-Maha dy collector U Four dogs were allegedly poisoned inside CIFE compound in Versova on Thursday. testing to the Lower Parel veterinary file the FIR only after we get the hospital to find the exact cause of medical report. In this kind of a death. It will then be sent to the to case, we have to wait for medical Kalina Forensic Science Lab. We can confirmation.”

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and hasn't been returned to him.

Imran alleged that the police also asked him to become a witness and give a statement saying that advocate Anjali Awasti and other advocates representing Siraj Khan are being paid by a Pakistani terrorist organisation, which Imran refused to do.

SPI Arun Inarker of the RAK Marg police station denied any such arrest when contacted by the ADC and disconnected the call saying that he was in a meeting.

In the order passed by the Sessions Court, a notice was sent to Rakesh Maria asking him to be present at the final anticipatory bail hearing of Imran Khan on October 17.

Imran's lawyer are planning to file a writ petition in the Bombay High Court demanding a CBI inquiry or direct involvement of the CP in the case. The lawyers will also file application in the Sessions Court regarding this contempt of the court order.

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By Zuber Ansari our stray dogs were found mysteriously dead inside the Central Institute of Fisheries Education's (CIFE) compound in Versova on Thursday. The pet lover who filed the complaint suspects that the dogs were poisoned. CIFE is the only deemed university for fisheries science in India. The dead dogs found inside the premises of the institute raises serious concern over the security and safety of the other animals.

According to pet lover Zara Ruhani who filed the complaint in Versova police station alleged that someone poisoned the dogs. On the day of incident, Farida, a senior citizen who works under the guidance of Zara Ruhani, got the call from inside the CIFE institute informing her of the mysterious deaths. After getting call, Farida reached on the spot to verify the deaths and then informed Zara.

Ruhani said, “It's very shocking and unacceptable how four dogs can die at the same time. It cannot be ruled out that someone from inside has killed them. I informed the Versova police against an unidentifed person, but they asked me to file application after which they will begin investigating. This is injustice to animales.”

The investigation officer in the case said, “Based on the application, we have sent the intestines for

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wise aggrieved citizens.

Advocate Vivian D’souza, an independent candidate from Assembly constituency No 175, comprising, Kurla, Kalina and Vakola, is supported by the Maharashtra Swaraj Party. Asked by this reporter what makes him think he will win against candidates of national parties who have manpower, money and expe-

rience, he replied, “My instinct tells me so from the social work done.”

D’souza said Muslim pockets in his constituency have invited him to hold meetings or at least put up an office in their area, “but I wasn’t geared up for that, as I never expected such good response from the Muslim community. Nevertheless, irrespective of whether I win or not, I promise to genuinely look after the grievances,” said D’souza, who excused himself to talk to a reporter from another newspaper.

ndertaking one of its biggest action against a tainted bureaucrat, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth Rs 53.57 crore of suspended Maharashtra Deputy Collector Nitish Thakur in connection with a money laundering case against him.

The agency, official sources said, has issued orders for attachment of 55-acres of land in Maharashtra, fixed deposits and bank balance amounting to a total of Rs 53.57 crore allegedly in the name of Thakur, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The case against the senior state administrative service officer dates back to March 2012 when the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Thakur for allegedly amassing wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income, reports PTI. Thakur, during his service, has served in various capacities in

some districts of the state besides being deputed at the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA).

When he was arrested, his assets were valued at a total of Rs 120 crore while his actual monthly income was Rs 28,000.

Taking cognisance of the corruption case against him by ACB, the ED subsequently registered a criminal case against the officer to track the "proceeds of crime" of the said act of corruption and subsequent laundering of funds to create illegal assets.

An ED officer said the case if one of the biggest case of enforcement action taken against a senior government officer in the country.

The central probe agency recently had issued similar orders against corruption tainted IAS couple from Madhya Pradesh cadre, Arvind and Tinu Joshi, as it attached their assets valued at Rs 10 crore.

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ith the campaigning for Maharashtra Assembly polls set to conclude on Monday, Shiv Sena yesterday stepped up its attack on erstwhile ally BJP for breaking their 25-year-old partnership even as it charged Prime Minister Narendra Modi with "inaction" on the issue of the ceasefire violations by Pakistan.

Playing the son-of-the-soil card, Uddhav told the rally on Sunday night in Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai that Sena would have been finished had he accepted BJP's demands regarding seat sharing for the Oct. 15 polls, reports PTI. "If I had accepted BJP's demands, (our) alliance would have survived, but Sena would have been finished. I am fighting this battle with your support and strength, BJP will never come to power in the state," Uddhav said.

Recalling former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's poem, 'Kadam milakar chalna hoga", on overcoming hurdles together, Uddhav said had Balasaheb Thackeray been alive with Vajpayee at the helm, the 25-year-old alliance would not have collapsed.

Referring to Modi's rabblerousing campaign ahead of

Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray along with Yuva Sena President Aditya Thackeray during a rally in Mumbai on Sunday.

Lok Sabha elections on dealing with Pakistan, Uddhav said, "Before Lok Sabha polls, we were promised tit-for-tat action if Pakistan killed our soldiers.What is happening now?

Why is there a silence now?"

Ridiculing Modi's claim that he would develop Maharashtra like Gujarat if BJP was

voted to power in the state, Uddhav said, "Why do you need the same party's government at the state and the Centre. When you were chief minister of Gujarat, was not Manmohan Singh the prime minister... Didn't you work for the development of Gujarat.

"It is not necessary which

party is in power. What is important is who is the chief minister," he said.

Uddhav said he would never allow BJP to remove Mumbai from Maharashtra or create a separate state of Vidarbha.

"If you have the guts, liberate occupied Kashmir from

Pakistan and also take back our land from China," he said. Taking a dig at BJP over its claims of a massive response to Modi's rallies, Uddhav said that people from Gujarat were being brought in to fill the venues of the PM's public meetings.

"You have seen Sena's love and warmth, now you see its anger," he said in a warning to BJP. Uddhav said his party will take back Marathi-speaking areas from Karnataka if voted to power.

Uddhav also rejected the surveys which are reportedly projecting that BJP would emerge as the single-largest party after the elections.

"I have faith in Shiv Sainiks who will ensure that Sena forms the next government.

No survey in Lok Sabha polls had predicted that Sena will get 18 seats," he said.

Indicating that he will not shy away from the chief ministership if the party won power, Uddhav said, "The chief minister of Maharashtra will not bow before Delhi."

"2016 will be the golden jubilee year of Shiv Sena and Maharashtra's chief minister will celebrate that occasion...

By 2016, I would have implemented about 50 welfare schemes envisaged in the vi-

sion document of Shiv Sena," Uddhav said.

Uddhav, meanwhile, also criticised former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan for "neglecting the health, education and infrastructure sectors in the state".

Referring to NCP stalwart and former state home minister RR Patil's controversial comments on rape and elections, Uddhav asked, "Will you vote for such uncultured people?" The Sena chief also claimed that the rail fares which were hiked soon after the Modi government took charge at the Centre were rolled back because of Sena's strong opposition to the move.

Jaitapur project to be scrapped if Sena comes to power: Uddhav RATNAGIRI: Reiterating its strong opposition to the proposed 9,900-MW nuclear power plant in Jaitapur, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray yesterday said his party would scrap the project if it is voted to power in the state after the October 15 assembly polls.

Cong-NCP’s corruption ‘jugalbandi’ stalled Maharashtra’s progress: Modi L

OHA/THANE (PTI) Stating that Maharashtra's progress would only be possible if the Congress-NCP's 'jugalbandi' of corruption was brought to an end, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that a clear majority for BJP in the Oct. 15 polls would put the state on the path of growth.

"Congress and NCP have ruled Maharashtra for 15 years. Whenever something went wrong, they only changed their chief minister.

But did it do any good to you?

Have you benefited from them? They share the same gotra (origin), ideology, actions and motives," Modi told a poll rally at Loha in Nanded district.

"They (Congress and NCP) are corrupt people. This 'jugalbandi' of corruption by both the parties has to be wiped out from Maharashtra, only then the state can progress," he added. He said people can demand an account of the work done by a government only when a sin-

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is garlanded during an election campaign rally at Borivli on Sunday. gle party wins elections with a clear majority.

"If you want the right to catch the government by its ear (sic) and demand an account of its work, give us (BJP) complete majority.

"People can only benefit if the next government is formed with (clear) majority.

You can demand an account of the work done by the party after five years, which is not possible with a coalition government," he said.

Modi promised that if BJP comes to power in Maha-

rashtra, the state and the Centre would work in tandem.

Expressing confidence that BJP would be voted to power in the Maharashtra, Modi said, "During the Lok Sabha elections, political pundits used to say no one knows Modi outside Gujarat. But we (NDA) hit three centuries (300-plus seats) in our first match. This time, too, the political pundits don't know the direction of the wind."

Modi kept up the attack on Congress-NCP during his

public rally in Thane.

"Could anyone imagine that a state which once led the economy of our nation could be destroyed? But look at the power of the Congress and NCP, they did just that," he charged.

Referring to the remarks Maharashtra Home Minister and NCP leader RR Patil had made in 2008 in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai attack, Modi said, "After the terror attacks, an NCP leader had said that small attacks keep happening in big cities. On the day of voting, remember these words of his and then vote. He will automatically get the answer to his comment."

Modi expressed confidence that BJP would come to power with a clear majority.

"I say this based on my political experience that we will win Maharashtra and Haryana with full majority.

"We have lost too much time. Now it is my responsibility to first make up for lost time and then move ahead with full force. Only develop-

ment can solve all our problems," he said.

Modi added that one of the priorities for BJP, if it comes to power, would be to develop railways in the state as that had been "left in a dismal state by Congress and NCP".

"Our railways have the potential to become the centre of economic activity in the state. I am sitting in Delhi, give me power in Maharashtra and I will start various programmes that have been lying unused for a long time," Modi said.

Cong, NCP won’t get more than 10 seats each: Modi D

escribing the October 15 Maharashtra Assembly polls as Congress and NCP's "final exam", Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday predicted that both the parties will get only 10 seats each.

"The NCP clock symbol indicates that only 10 legislators each of NCP and Congress will be there now," Modi said while addressing a poll rally in Borivli last night.

"This is the final exam of the Congress and NCP. This poll is not about who wins or loses. But this poll will decide the fate of Mumbai and Maharashtra," he said.

"The type of government you got in Maharashtra and the way it looted you, it destroyed two generations.

What does Mumbai and Maharashtra want? You must have noticed now what a good government can do," he said.

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he BJP and Congress have rolled out their big guns for election campaign in the Mira Bhayandar assembly segment. While Narayan Rane and Prithviraj Chavan topped the list as star campaigners for Congress candidate Yakub Qureshi, the BJP in order to galvanise the South Indian electorate, roped in Union minister Ananth Kumar amongst other top leaders.

“You should help the BJP emerge victorious with an absolute majority. This will ensure a corruption-free and Congress-free Maharashtra.

The BJP stands for justice and development and our Prime Minister has made everyone proud through his vision,” Kumar said while urging the South Indian community based in the twin-city to vote for BJP

Dharavi (SC)

Total Candidates – 13

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Ganesh Khade Diya Dholay

Baburao Mane

Voters 2,36,786

Varsha Gaikwad Govind Parmar

Prasad Lad

Jagganath Shetty

Sion Koliwada

Captain R Tamil Selvan Baba Kadam The Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF) and Mumbai police conduct a march at Worli and Jijamata Nagar in Mahalaxmi area, ahead of the October 15, Vidhan Sabha Elections 2014, on Sunday.

46,000 police staff will be on the roads for election duty, of which 5,500 will be officers including those from the IPS, but we have given instructions to all police stations to ensure that their staff is alert from midnight of October 14, a day just before the election process begins the next

morning.

City police commissioner Rakesh Maria has instructed all police station to provide good drinking water and food to staff members who will be on duty at election booths, Kulkarni added.

“We have identified several booths which are very

sensitve and we will deploy extra police force in the said booths. If we talk about suburban Mumbai, around 380 candidates are in the fray for 26 Assembly seats. Before election; we have taken preventive action against several well known criminals,” Kulkarni further said.

candidate Narendra Mehta.

While addressing an election rally organised by BJP’s South Indian Cell in the Ideal Park of Mira Road, Kumar ruled out the possibility of a fractured verdict. “We are confident that the BJP will form the government with a

clear majority in Maharashtra,” he said. Other prominent speakers included veteran BJP leaders, Venkaiah Naidu and Gopal Shetty.

Besides Shah and Ananth Kumar, BJP leaders Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Venkaiah Naidu, Manoj Sinha, Gopal

Shetty and Vijendra Gupta also addressed a series of rallies in this constituency.

Buoyed by the success in Parliamentary polls, the Shiv Sena-BJP-led combine is making a determined bid to capture power after being in Opposition since 1999.

NCP banks on its development work S

eeking re-election from the Mira Assembly segment, sitting NCP legislator-Gilbert Mendonca has kept a low profile preferring area-to-area campaigning while making short speeches seeking votes on the basis of development works he has carried out in his constituency. Apart from a series of rallies, the NCP in order to maintain

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proximity with the populace, is seen focussing on election meetings at strategic locations in the prominent presence of MBMC Mayor Catlyn Pereira. “We are going into elections on the basis of development, seeking blessing of the voters for the visible positive work by the NCP and the clean track record of our legislator,” said the Mayor.

May 2014 Lok Sabha Election Rahul Shewale (Shiv Sena) Lead Margin 2,769 votes.

2009 Assembly result: Varsha Gaikwad (Congress) defeated Manohar Raibage (Shiv Sena) by margin 9,709 votes.

Total Candidates – 15

Big guns join BJP, Cong campaign trail

By Suresh Golani

May 2014 Lok Sabha Election Poonam Mahajan-Rao (BJP) Lead Margin 29,167 votes.

2009 Assembly result: Baba Siddique (Congress) defeated Ashish Shelar (BJP) by margin 1,691 votes.

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ven as political parties are fighting out an immense battle, campaigning for the election day which will be conducted on Wednesday, October 15, the Mumbai police is all set with plans to secure all places in the city to prevent any untoward incidences.Interestingly, the Mumbai police officials themselves are happy with the instructions given by their chief, police commissioner Rakesh Maria, who has directed all police stations to make sure that all the policemen on duty will be served with proper food and drinking water facilities round the clock during election duty.After the Congress-NCP and Shiv Sena-BJP alliances have broken, the number of candidates contesting the polls have gone up and keeping this in mind the city police has increased its staff to ensure safe and smooth assembly elections.

Taking to ADC, Dhananjay Kulkarni spokesperson of Mumbai police said: “Around

Voters 177 3,07,289

Baba Z Siddique

46,000 police staff will be on the roads for election duty, of which 5,500 will be officers including those from the IPS cadre

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Mangesh Satamkar

179

Voters 2,51,325

May 2014 Lok Sabha Election Rahul Shewale (Shiv Sena) Lead Margin 16,285 votes.

2009 Assembly result: Jagganath Shetty (Congress) defeated Manisha Kayande (BJP) by margin 18,023 votes.

Total Candidates – 14 Anand Prabhu

Kalidas Kolambkar Mihir Kotecha

Wadala 180

Voters 1,94,791

May 2014 – Lok Sabha Election Sanjay Dina Patil Appa @ Pramod Patil (NCP) Lead Margin Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar 19,303 votes.

2009 Assembly result: Kalidas Kolambkar (Congress) defeated Digambar Kandarkar (Shiv Sena) by margin 30,030 votes.

Hemant Doke

Total Candidates – 9 Pravin Naik

Nitin Sardesai

Vilas Ambekar

Sada Sarvankar Ramesh Parab

Mahim 181

Voters 2,30,060

May 2014 Lok Sabha Election Rahul Shewale (Shiv Sena) Lead Margin 47,638 votes.

2009 Assembly result: Nitin Sardesai (MNS) defeated Sada Sarvankar (Congress) by margin 8,926 votes.

Total Candidates – 13

Ramchandra Dattatraya Sunil Rane

Vijay Kudtadkar

Worli 182

Voters 2,62,495

May 2014 Lok Sabha Election Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena) Lead Margin Sunil Shinde 182 Worli 34,743 votes.

2009 Assembly result: Sachin Ahir (NCP) defeated Ashish Chemburkar (Shiv Sena) by margin 5,294 votes.

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A government for 1.25 billion cannot be a one-man show

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“Do you think a confused mind can find out what the purpose of life is? A confused mind can only find that which is further confusing.”

— J Krishnamurthy

Modern warning systems saved them I

F the cyclone warning system was not in place, Hudhud would have created havoc in the coastal reigns of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

Thanks to elaborate arrangements made, only five people have lost their lives. There has been, of course, danger to many installations, destruction of buildings, power cables. In Odisha, they even used force to evacuate people who refused to get out of their homes.

The weather forecast was precise.

Weather warnings were issued hour by hour: and they were all correct.

This helped the authorites to organise various measures for dealing with the cyclone. The navy did a good job and made sure the fisherfolks and their boats were safe. The Centre, too, kept a watch and gave all possible help.

The governments showed that a cyclone or any other nature’s threat can do no harm if we employ modern methods fully and carry out necessary operations. Hudhud proved to be not a super cyclone and yet it was difficult to contain.

Even if it was a huge threat, our authorities would have dealt with it successfully. It is unfortunate and inexplicable that they are still not able to prevent calamities like the stampede that occurred in Bihar a few days ago. With proper systems in place, we can prevent calamities like the stampede in which many previous lives were lost.

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T is early days yet. Less than five months in the life of a new government elected for a full five-year term can hardly justify a considered judgement on its performance.

Besides, Narendra Modi is not only new to the Prime Minister’s Office but he is also new to the capital’s labyrinthine political-bureaucratic establishment. Modi deserves time and understanding before a verdict can be passed on his prime ministership.

Yet, even in the brief while he has been in the saddle in New Delhi, one clear trend may be already discernible. And, we are afraid, unless corrective steps are taken early, Modi may rue the outcome. In one word, it is his tendency to play it solo. We have said it before in this space and we have no hesitation in saying it again that all politics is a group activity. However strong and popular the team leader, and Modi, it must be acknowledged, is both at the moment, he still requires a large number of people to manage the ship of the state.

To take that analogy about the ship further, the larger the ship, the grander the ship, the more the number of crew required on board — and a good back-up team on the ground as well — to ensure smooth sailing. The captain cannot concentrate all control in his own hands and expect that everything will run smoothly. He will have to necessarily delegate to trusted colleagues and allow them a say in the decision-making process. Otherwise, the ship will hit a huge rock and damage itself and, with it, the passengers and crew on board.

But, sorry to say, Modi seems happy keeping his ministerial team to the barest minimum and keeping it largely denuded of real authority. Both administratively and politically it does not make sense. While it is easy to understand the negatives flowing from a legion of thwarted ambitions within his own alliance, the real danger lies in under-providing for the leadership of the huge number of ministries and departments. Without competent ministers who feel empowered enough to frame policies and take initiatives in their specific spheres, Modi will find it hard to manage the country with all its myriad problems and challenges all by himself. Criticism that he relies on a couple of his aides in the PMO rather than on his ministers needs to be nullified by offering empirical evidence that he is not a control freak.

He may rightly have an innate trust in his own capabilities. He may well be a superman among ordinary politicians but, we are afraid, without sharing power with his party men, without allowing them to provide independent inputs into the decision-making process, there is every danger of the government developing a tunnel vision.

As they say, the buck must always stop at the prime minister’s desk, but before it does it ought to have traveled a couple of desks below. Nearly a forty lakh-strong payroll with additional fifty lakhs in the cen-

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NTELLIGENCE is not against innocence, remember. Intelligence is the flavour of innocence, intelligence is the fragrance of innocence. Cunningness is against innocence; and cunningness, cleverness are not synonymous with intelligence. But to be intelligent needs a tremendous journey inwards. No schools can help, no colleges, no universities can help. Parents, priests, the society, they are all extrovert; they cannot help you to go inwards. And buddhas are very rare, few and far between. Not everybody is fortunate enough to find a buddha.

So there is a substitute for intelligence.

Cunningness is a substitute for intelligence —

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tral PSUs cannot be led by the PMO alone.

To put it bluntly, the PM cannot be the one and only leader in government. He would gain immensely if he were to consciously become the foremost leader in a cabinet full of other leaders as well. Collective leadership, with the Prime Minister at the helm, will broadbase decision-making and help end the growing centralization of power in the PMO. As things are, faceless officials in the PMO have a greater role in decision-making than some of the senior ministers.

Modi may not feel obliged to honour a large number of IOUs that he issued while graduating from CM to PM, but because it is human nature to expect a share in the pie, especially when one claims a role in its making, sooner than later his own version of ‘Ekala chalo rey...’ act might begin to recoil on him.

Even in the media he may have opened the doors only to someone of very questionable integrity, and who has had the Adani-Ambani

DA, though being a life-long career bureaucrat that motive cannot be entirely ruled out, especially when as politician he was squeaky clean. Indeed, if Singh does not want to dwell on things political or partisan, he could still contribute to the proceedings in Parliament and in the Standing Committee on Finance of which he is a member by drawing upon his vast experience as an economic bureaucrat and as an economist.

Unfortunately, he sits through the meetings of the Rajya Sabha or of the Standing Committee on Finance with his lips shut tightly.

If that is the case, he may well skip these meetings altogether, isn’t it? Indeed, it is his failure to participate which causes one to suspect that like a number of other members he too marks attendance in Parliament and in committees only to get tax-free rupees. We will of course like to be proved wrong at the next meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance.

Meanwhile, Singh, whenever asked to write his memoirs, offers a lame excuse. So what if his candid, tell-it-as-it-happened memoirs of the ten-year period he was notionally the country’s prime minister were to puncture many egos and damage many carefully preserved reputations. At least, he would have left behind a lesson for the posterity to remember, and thus avoid the recurrence of a wasteful diarchy when the real power was located outside the PMO. Indeed, Singh would redeem himself by showing some spunk by truth-telling in his autobiography. Besides, that would earn him far more than the TA, DA he gets for marking Virendra Kapoor presence in Parliament and its committees link for a long time, but blanking out the en- without making zilch contribution. tire media from official access could prove costly when the tide of popular opinion turns against him.

OOR Rahul Gandhi. They are bent on And even if he does well as PM, which at thrusting greatness on him. Forced to least we are certain he will, it would be hard to prevent the usual anti-incumbency from set- break his holiday and address rallies in the ting in. And when it does, he will find himself on-going Assembly polls in Maharashtra and friendless because at the peak of his popular- Haryana, the Congress’s heir apparent tries ity he chose to concentrate all power in his valiantly to speak extempore — something hands. He may well have survived as the ‘only her mother is still careful not to try given her man’ in the Gujarat Cabinet. In Delhi, he Italian-accented Hindi and unfamiliarity with needs to surround himself with well-mean- the nitty-gritty of local politics. ing and intelligent men and women who will Back to her son. The other day speaking in further bolster his strength and help provide Haryana, the Gandhi scion tried to work the purposeful governance to fulfill peoples’ rent-a-crowd, alleging that under the Modi huge expectations. Being distrustful of government medicines are set to become colleagues and supporters can only cause very costly. (This being a Congress canard them to be alienated. He should avoid that after Modi on the US visit agreed to form a sad denouement to his excellent political joint forum to examine the grievance of the journey thus far.

US pharmaceutical companies.) Gandhi’s words would have still gone unnoticed until he delivered what he thought was the punch line: “Jab aap key bachey ko cancer hoga to Congress Party aap ko free dawaiya degi” (When your children get afflicted with cancer OW, it cannot be that former Prime Min- the Congress Party would give you free medister Manmohan Singh unfailingly at- icine.) There were many in the audience who tends Parliament and its various committees wondered why he was wishing free cancer to of which he is a member only to earn TA and their children.

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Being cunning a very poor substitute, remember. And not only is it a poor substitute, it is just the opposite of it too. The intelligent person is not cun-

MATTER & SPIRIT ning; but his intelligence keeps his innocence intact. He does not sell it for mundane things.

The cunning person is ready to sell his soul for small things.

Judas sold Jesus for only thirty silver coins - just thirty silver coins. And a Jesus can be

sold. Judas must have thought that he was being very intelligent, but he was simply cunning. If you don't like the word 'cunning' you can call him clever; that is just a good name for the same thing, for the same ugly thing.

The society prepares you to be cunning so that you are capable of competing in this struggle for existence, the struggle to survive.

It is a cut-throat competition, everybody is after everybody else's throat. People are ready to do anything to succeed, to be famous, to climb the ladder of success, name and fame.

They are ready to use you as stepping-stones.

Unless you are also cunning you will be simply used, manipulated.

— Osho

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Peace prize for Indian and Pakistani CONGRATULATIONS to the two defenders of children's rights – Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarathi of India – for winning the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their work fighting powerful adversaries in the course of their lives. The award comes at a time when both India and Pakistan have strained border tensions. But the question that remains is, does the award committee have the right to confer the award to these two countries and act as peacemaker in one of the world's longrunning disputes between the two nuclear neighbours? It is hoped that the these two Nobel prize winners will bring both the countries very close to improving their relations and defuse the tense situation.

— Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

THE Nobel Peace Prize is being shared by citizens of two nations who can never be at peace which each other. The child rights crusader Kailash Satyarthi of India and Pakistan's teenage sensation Malala Yousafzai deserves kudos for winning this rare incredible ho-

Uddhav Thackeray

Raj Thackeray

Contradictory move THE statement of the MNS chief about the possibility of a post-poll rapprochement with his estranged cousin is self-contradictory. If Mr Raj really means it, then the very act of his party contesting a large number of seats will certainly eat into a substantial chunk of the Marathi manoos votes. It will indirectly lead to a low tally for both the SS as well as the MNS. Such a scenario will severely affect the bargaining power of the two parties in the event of a hung House emerging from the Assembly polls.

— Vineet Phadtare, Borivali

In our national interest THERE should be a total ban on all political parties asking for votes in the name of religion, language, caste, creed, etc, forever. We are solely Indians, not Hindus, Muslims, Marathis, Gujaratis and so on. For the last 67 LETTER OF years, a large number of THE DAY men and women have been protecting our borders against Pakistan and China solely as Indians. Hundreds of thousands of unknown and known Indians have sacrificed their lives fighting against

QUOTE: “Bonded labor is a form of modern-day slavery, where ordinary people lose the most basic freedom of movement, the freedom of choice.”

— Kailash Satyarthi

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Kailash Satyarthi but also Malala of Pakistan for this award and may our two nations be inspired by their work to bury their grudges and differences in the days to come.

— S N Kabra, Goregaon

WHAT a day for India and Pakistan. Hats off to Mr Kailash Sathyarthi and Ms Malala Yousafzai. I was particularly touched by Malala's speech. This kid says that this Nobel recognition should be an eye opener to politicians and military heads. We should all feel proud to be alive to know about these two great human beings – Malala and Satyarthi. The world recognises their selfless-services.

Forget and forgive the few senseless and selfish. Showing great perKailash, sonal courage, maintaining Gandhi’s tradition, has headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all DESERVING DEFENDERS: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is being shared by peaceful, focusing on the grave excitizens of two nations which are at loggerheads with each other – child rights crusader ploitation of children for financial Kailash Satyarthi of India and Pakistan's teenage sensation Malala Yousafzai. gain. Despite her youth, Malala has already fought for the right to edunour of being joint winners of the knew his name before this recog- cation of girls, and has shown by Nobel peace prize. The world has nition? Malala Yousafzai's feat is example that children and young recognised Kailash Satyarthi's ded- even more incredible as she is so people, too, can contribute to imicated fight to free child labour and young. We can only hope that this proving their own situations. A bondage while he only witnessed joint prize bridges the difference good beginning can be initiated by hardship and hurdles in his cru- between the warring enemy na- honouring the joint winners.

— S Abhisheck Ramaswamy, Kharghar sade in India. How many of us tions. The nation salutes not just the British Raj, only as Indians. The Election Commission and the Indian law makers must note this point in national interest and take the necessary steps, so that our former home minister, Iron Man Sardar Patel, won’t hit his forehead in heaven as repentance for bringing 500+ provinces together and make a united India. October 31 is this great man’s birth anniversary.

— Hansraj Bhat, Borivali

True 'Swachh Bharat’ I am not against those who are busy taking pledges in public to maintain cleanliness, but I pity them for unconsciously admitting to being ignorant, and showing that their parents and teachers didn't teach them about cleanliness. I was lucky to have parents and teachers who not only taught me about civic sense but also practiced it without much publicity. Good habits are taught not by words, but are inculcated by practical display in a silent and sincere manner. No amount of publicity and spending will work compared to sincere and devoted efforts. One has to realise that cleanliness and civic duties should come spontaneously from within.

Only when that happens will we see a true Swachh Bharat. Until then wait for some big event or for another photo session on cleanliness and public hygiene.

— Abdul Monim, Vashi

IN a nation where a glass needs to be chained to the tap of drinking water, where temples need a 'remove footwear' sign, where all ticket windows require a 'please maintain queue' sign and all hospitals, a 'maintain silence' sign. I think that the message from Mr Narendra Modi on Independence Day was much deeper. Though a whole lot of us can read his metaphor, we are harping on the very basic meaning of the same.

Cleaning the country is not merely sweeping roads and ridding our-

selves of the accumulated filth. Mr Modi is talking about the filth in the collective minds of the citizens of India, their attitude, ego, superiority, arrogance, corruption, depravity and so on. After cleaning the ramparts, he is suggesting that we clean ourselves, and not just with soap!

— Jamshed Irani, via email

Teachers' deadly ordeal APROPOS 'Teachers' poll ordeal:Work for 36 hours!' (ADC, Oct 9), it is hugely unjustified to assign the teachers to this gruelling election schedule. It is still fresh in our memory about the two unfortunate and avoidable loss of lives of two teachers during the April Lok Sabha poll. In fact there are plenty

voice of the majority, champion of just causes and patriot par excellence. A prolific writer who never tired of calling a spade a spade, Shri Kamath was also a remarkable reviewer of hundreds of books. His Friday columns were avidly read by his numerous admirers. He led a spartan life of simple living and high thinking. He relished in taking on pseudo secularists and pesudo westernised wastrels who did not like his truthful and objective analyses. The 'jambavan of journalism' is no more. But his writings will continue to inspire all civilised people.

— Lakshman Sundar, Vashi

IT pained me to learn that veteran journalist and a great human being Madhav Vittal Kamath who used to appear as the odd man in FPJ and write the mediawatch column in the ADC, is no more. I share the pain with all the readers of ADC and FPJ! But there isn't much to despair as the veteran himself would have consoled his readers and admirers and relatives and friends, for he died at the ripe old age of 94. Whoever is born has to die one day. Instead let's live in the undying memories which he left behind in his innumerable inimitable journalistic musings of which we will now be deprived. And let's all rejoice that such a good human being lived and enthused us with his journalistic skills. I pray that he will continue to of other department officials/staff send us inspiration from his new who could be ideally suited for this found heavenly abode.

— P Chakravorty, Fort sort of job. The EC should seriously consider this aspect and arrange to choose others for the job. The demand by teachers clarifying their stance e which is already time bound, THE demand of the MNS chief to to hold exams, evaluate papers etc. on grant autonomy to Maharashtra reschedule, is justifiable. This should minds me of a similar call made by certainly be looked into by the EC and the then Chief Minister of a Souththey should be allowed to carry out ern state some four decades ago. He their noble profession without too had even demanded a separate flag much of a hassle from the authoriites. for his state and had submitted a — Bikram Banerjea, Mumbai design for the same. He also asked for the Centre’s permission to import rice directly from Burma (now Myanmar). Needless to say that IN the demise of Shri M V Kamath, both these pleas were turned down India has lost one of her erudite and by the then Centre.

— Arun Malankar, Santacruz outspoken journalists. He was the

Autonomous states

Marvellous, versatile Kamath

Pak must pay THE shelling of Indian border posts and civilians by Pakistani rangers is a well thought out policy of disrupting peace in Jammu and Kashmir before the ensuing Assembly elections. If the results of the Lok Sabha elections are any indication, there is every possibility of BJP getting a majority which will enable it to form government in the Muslim-majority state. This will be a big blow to Kashmiri separatists and their godfathers in Pakistan who are engaged in cross-border terrorism. Since BJP will be contesting the elections on the nationalism plank, it is going to be a referendum of sorts and a victory for BJP will be yet another loud declaration to the whole world that Kashmir is an integral part of India and is non-negotiable. As Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said, our military should ensure that Pakistan pays an unaffordable price for this misadventure.

UNAFFORDABLE PRICE: Past governments have treated this grave issue with kid’s gloves which has only emboldened the Pakistani army, but under Modi, things will change.

Pakistani army on the border villages of India is deplorable to say the least. Kudos to the Modi government for giving a befitting reply. Past governments have treated this grave issue with kid gloves and this has only embold— P P Vijayakumar Nair, Vasai ened the Pakistani army. But

under Modi, things will change.

THE unrestrained firing by the The military of Pakistan has al-

ways derailed any kind of peace process by the democratically elected governments. Today it looks like even the present Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, has become a puppet in their hands. There cannot be a dialogue with Pakistan unless their army learns to behave.

— Altaf H Ladiwala, Bandra

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BPL category may get free medicines; PDS may exclude tax payers: Paswan

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Pak targets 15 BoPs, villages along IB

Pakistani troops heavily shelled 15 Border Out Posts and hamlets along the International Border overnight, leaving three persons injured, one of them seriously in Jammu district. BSF troops retaliated and intermittent firing and mortar shelling was continuing when last reports came in.

"After heavy firing, Pakistani Rangers resorted to heavy mortar shelling in Arnia and parts of R S Pura sectors of Jammu district overnight", a BSF Spokesman said on Sunday.

Prez leaves for Norway, Finland

With an aim of giving a boost to India's relations with Scandinavian countries, President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday left on a tour of Norway, the first by the Head of State, and Finland during which efforts will be made to attract investment from Norway to India.

Accompanied by Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Pon Radhakrishnan, the highlight of Mukherjee's visit to the two nations will be that he would be crossing the Arctic Circle and visiting the village of Santa Claus before he returns to India on Friday. He was given a ceremonial send off at Rashtrapati Bhavan by Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani, Lt Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung and the three service Chiefs.

EW DELHI: The Centre is working on a solution to ensure that poor get benefits like free medicines and check-ups in speciality government hospitals on the basis of their BPL ration cards while eliminating income tax payers and top officials from the ambit of PDS. The new moves are aimed at better targeting of subsidies which the government wants should reach the needy and the deserving.

"This issue is under consideration. We are trying to find some workable solution to ensure Below Poverty Line (BPL) category people can avail other facilities like free medicines with ease on the basis of a ration card," says Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan.

He told PTI in an interview that the poor are facing problems, especially in those states where the new food law has been implemented.

The Minister was asked whether the government will take steps to ensure that new ration card serves as an ID card for other benefits.

Ram Vilas Paswan Meanwhile, the government is working on plans to take out income tax payers and ranking officials in the government out of the ambit of Public Distribution System (PDS).

The Modi government has asked states to try such a scheme and Paswan will be discussing the issue with them.

It has also given enough signals

At the same time, Paswan also expressed dissatisfaction over operation of PDS. "The benefit that should reach the poor is not reaching. There are many complaints about PDS." Prior to the new food security law, ration cards served as identity cards to the below poverty line (BPL) families for not only getting highly subsidised foodgrains but also government benefits meant for BPL people.

With the scrapping of BPL section in the new food security law, the poor in this category are deprived of free health check-ups, free medicine and other housing facilities under both state and central government schemes because the ration card is no more recognised as an identity card for availing these benefits.

In fact, under the new food law, state governments are freshly identifying the beneficiaries and are issuing new ration cards, which are not being recognised as an ID card for other benefits being given to BPL people.

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EW DELHI: Complexities of the Mughal royal lives portrayed by the daughters of Emperor Shah Jahan provided a debut story for the new history-centric performing show series launched by the National Museum here.

A conversation between Jahanara and Roshnara, daughters of Shah Jahan and the sisters of Aurangzeb, was enacted by artistes from Delhibased troupe Darwesh in the performance titled "Shah Jahan's Daughters: A compelling story from Mughal History" at the Museum's Central Courtyard here on Saturday evening.

The conversation brought out various complexities of the royal court, the position of women, the relationship between Shah Jahan (1592-1666) and his younger son Aurangzeb, besides the role of his elder son Dara Shikoh in court.

"The series intends to bring together unique performances telling stories from the past," National Museum Director General Venu V said.

"It also reveals through discussions between the two daughters how one favoured Aurangzeb and the other did not," says Joyoti Roy an outreach consultant with the Museum. The five-part performance that lasted over half an hour was rendered in conversational style and strove to make historical aspects of the royal court accessible.

"Moreover since the stories are told by women they become 'Herstories' than Histories," Roy adds.

The troupe Darwesh, founded last year, says it is committed to excavating stories that are hidden in the past, locked in the present and buried within society.

The group also offers storytelling walks, tours and workshops.

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DIWALI DAYS... A potter busy in making earthen lamps (Diya) ahead of the Diwali festival at Paruldanga in Birbhum district of West Bengal on Sunday.

Tihar to raise prison’s boundary walls

Dan Brown to visit India next month

Bestselling author of 'The Da Vinci Code' fame Dan Brown will be on his maiden visit to India next month during which he will deliver this year's Penguin Lecture. The publishing house said its annual lecture featuring the author of novels like "Angels & Demons", "The Lost Symbol", "Inferno", "Digital Fortress" and "Deception Point" will be held on November 10. "The Penguin Annual Lecture has featured luminaries, and we are incredibly excited that this year's lecture will be delivered by Dan Brown. One of the most popular and influential novelists in the world.

We are eagerly looking forward to a fascinating and magnificent event one not to be missed," says Hemali Sodhi of Penguin India Books.

that the much-touted welfare food security programme of the UPA government will not be shelved.

In fact, plans are afoot to finetune the scheme to target the beneficiaries in a better way and address the foodgrains entitlement, a sensitive issue raised by states.

"It is possible. We are thinking on these lines. I believe that instead of identifying poor beneficiaries, it would be better to identify those who can be excluded from the scheme," he said.

He was asked whether the government has any plans to implement the much-discussed idea of excluding income tax payers from the ambit of PDS benefits.

The Minister cited the case of Madhya Pradesh government already implementing a scheme on these lines.

"Class I and II officers and income tax payers are kept out of the ambit of PDS benefits in the state.

We have asked all states to try this. I will discuss this issue with the state governments," he said.

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FOR AMMA'S SAKE.... Supporters of AIADMK move towards Dhandapani Murugan Temple to offer 'palkudam' for former chief minister J Jayalalithaa's release, in Madurai on Sunday.

EW DELHI: Tihar Jail authorities have decided to raise the height of the prison's boundary walls besides enhancing other security measures, after SIM cards and surgical blades were found hidden inside various articles which were flung from outside of the facility.

A top official of the high-security jail said restricted items were found in the premises of jail number one, eight and nine which are close to the boundary walls of the jail.

"Recently we have found articles like tennis balls, socks and small packets lying in the compound of the jails. A closer examination of these confirmed the intention behind the act. Cellphone parts, SIM cards, blades and tobacco were found hidden inside such items,"

the official told PTI. Jail number one houses many eminent VIP inmates including Sahara chief Subrata Roy. Jail number 8 and 9 are adjacent to the busy Jail Road.

The areas where the banned items were found are those where inmates are allowed to move during their routine intervals.

"As a primary initiative we are raising the height of the boundary walls by 4-5 feet to restrict entry of any such item. The work is being taken care by the PWD officials here," the official said.

Many such articles have also been seized recently from the inmates' possession and appropriate actions against those found using them have also been taken.

pg16 Equities Still The Best Asset Class pg19 Buy Federal Bank and Titan Industries Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MUMBAI | MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014

Will Samvat 2071, the Diwali-to-Diwali calendar year be the beginning of another major up move unfolding on the stock markets?

Corporate earnings growth have already started to recover since the last quarter. Sensex earnings growth has improved from 5% in FY13 to about 10% in FY14 on the back of the INR depreciation. Q1 FY15 results have been inline with expectations with IT, healthcare and private banks coming in with good numbers.

Operating leverage has begun to kick in with automobile and cement sectors seeing demand revival. So what should you buy? A host of experts, all optimistic bring forth their views on what to buy and hold till next Diwali...

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By Dominic Rebello

e maintain “our year 2020 target of 100,000 on Sensex”, says a Karvy Broking Diwali Strategy report, adding “For FY15, we would expect a Sensex EPS growth around of 15%.

We would expect earnings growth to accelerate once investment activity is revived and average at 20-25% for the next several years. Considering that the valuation in several sectors like Public sector banks, capital goods and Infrastructure are extremely subdued, we would expect significant outperformance from these sectors in the next few quarters. We arrive at a Sensex target of 29,300 based on 16 times FY16 earnings by Diwali and would be buyers at every dip”.

An equally optimistic Ritu Arora, Chief Investment Officer, Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company says, “There is a directional shift in the economy and we expect GDP growth to accelerate over the next few years which would drive earning growth for Indian companies. This augurs well for the equity markets and they are well poised for good returns over the next few years. The road ahead however, could be rough with lots of roadblocks in the near term. The equity markets in the current calendar year have given a healthy 26% return and our equity fund generated a similar return for policyholders. I would expect markets to continue to appreciate in line with earnings growth and

touch a level of 30000 for Sensex by Diwali 2015.”

“We expect Sensex to be in range of 24500 to 28500 & for Nifty 7500 to 8700 for next one year. By Diwali 2015, we expect Sensex to be around levels of 28000 & Nifty 8500”, says Kiran Kumar Kavikondala, Director & CEO, WealthRays Securities Equities expert and Director of Altina Securities Clifton Desilva is equally optimistic. “Over the next one year the indices should generate a return of around 20% with the Sensex at around 31500 & the Nifty at around 9400 levels”.

“Retail investors have to focus not only on next Diwali, but the Diwali's occurring in next few years. Markets have hardly been influenced by Diwali in the long run though- some volatility in the short run based on a "Good and Bad Diwali" may be expected especially in stocks and sectors which apparently are exposed to Diwali risk such as consumer facing stocks. ZyFin's macro research and sentiment surveys are making us positive on the Auto and Capital Goods sector as the economy comes out of the slowdown and indicators turn positive including core inflation, fiscal/current account deficits, commodity prices especially crude oil and a stable INR. Before Diwali next year RBI could certainly cut the policy rates, which will then feed into the economy lowering the cost of capital. The new Government reform momentum is also likely to accelerate by next Diwali which will

help the business sentiment in the country and thus the investment cycle,” says Devendra Negi, CEO of ZyFin Advisors.

“The next 12 months are going to be heavily dependent upon many factors outside of India's control.

Therefore, we will need to make some assumptions when it comes to forecasting where the Sensex can land by 2015 Diwali. That being said,

if external factors go in line and the Government is able to act upon its "Make in India" model, we can expect the markets rise by 20% to 32000 by next Diwali,” says Raghu Kumar, Cofounder, RKSV. The “Nifty can easily go to 9000 by next Diwali,” says Vikram Dhawan, Director, Equentis Capital.

That perhaps sums up the mood of the experts. And in all cases it

seems that this Diwali may just be the best time to buy into equities.

Stocks that according to the experts will give the best returns by next Diwali Views on the International front

See page 14...

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Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MUMBAI | MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014

« BUSINESS BRIEFS

Diwali Strategy

FEDERAL BANK TIES UP WITH IIFL TO OFFER BROKING SERVICES

Leading private sector lender Federal Bank has tied up with brokerage India Infoline (IIFL) to offer retail broking services to its customers. The Kochi-based bank with over 1,200 branches already has tie-up with Geojit Securities and currently has over 20,000 demat account holders through this association. Commenting on the tie-up, Federal Bank treasury president and head of Mumbai zone Ashutosh Khajuria said, "The bank is sure that its customers will benefit from the relationship with India Infoline. We aim to connect our customers here and abroad to one of the most trustworthy brands in broking." IIFL Group Managing Director R Venkataraman said, "Federal Bank's reach across the country and overseas will benefit IIFL immensely."

IFAT INDIA 2014 LAYS PATH FOR WATER AND ENVIRONMENT TECHNOLOGIES

IFAT India 2014, the Indian edition of the world’s largest trade fair on environmental technology hosted science experts, government officials, futureoriented technologies, and education institutes from the environmental technology sector. A series of conferences and innovation exchange were organized that focused on sector specific issues, emerging trends and outlook on environmental technologies. The exhibition was represented by industry dignitaries and Government officials. The German Ambassador to India, Michael Steiner inaugurated the show, while the Secretary Shankar Aggarwal, (Ministry of Urban Development), Government of India, was the chief guest. Providing an opportunity for companies to showcase a range of world class products and services in the environment industry, the IFAT India 2014 exhibition had over 120 exhibitors. Exhibitors from over 15 countries including USA, UK, Austria, Great Britain, Italy, and Malasia among others took part in the exhibition.

TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE INVITES INDIAN COMPANIES TO RAISE CAPITAL IN JAPAN

In a first-ever initiative to connect the Indian business community with the Japanese Capital Markets, Indian based Total Solutions group hosted a senior delegation of Tokyo Stock Exchange in India. The Indian visit of delegation from Tokyo Stock Exchange is pursuant to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan and is in line with the growing business relations between the two countries.

During a three day visit to India last week, Hidetoshi Nagaya, GM Head of Global Listings, Tokyo Stock Exchange along with Junichiro Goto, Manager of New Listings, Tokyo Stock Exchange and Hiroshi Sugaya, Director of Institute for Indian Economic Studies met a number of large as well as small & medium Indian businesses. On the 7th and 8th October, 2014 many leading Indian businesses presented their profiles to the Tokyo Stock Exchange taking the first step in the listing process.

WORLD TRAVEL AWARDS 2014 NAMES AIRASIA AS ‘ASIA’S LEADING LOW COST AIRLINE’

AirAsia has once again claimed the title ‘Asia’s Leading Low Cost Airline’ at the prestigious World Travel Awards (Asia & Australasia) Gala 2014, which was held in New Delhi, India on 10th October 2014. This is the third consecutive year for AirAsia to be awarded this coveted title. The AirAsia Group was represented by Mittu Chandilya, CEO of AirAsia India, who received the award.

MAHINDRA LIFESPACES LAUNCHES 2ND HAPPINEST PROJECT IN BOISAR

Mahindra Lifespace Developers, the real estate and infrastructure development arm of the USD 16.5 bn Mahindra Group, on Thursday launched its second Happinest project in Boisar. Happinest homes are focused on offering customers safe and secure neighborhoods with good transport connectivity in well planned developments. Targeted at the large, underserved home ownership market in India, Happinest is built on the three pillars of Trust, Better Living and Affordability.

Addressing the cultural and social nuances of the target customer’s lifestyle have been important elements of the design process, like the provision of balconies, community spaces etc. Design has also looked at energy conservation while ensuring that these homes are equipped to address the future lifestyle needs of the customers.

GOA ATTRACTS AN ALL TIME RECORD HIGH OF 18% TOURISTS DURING THE MONSOONS!

Monsoons have never been better before for Goa as the State witnessed a record high of tourist arrivals during the months of June, July and August 2014. The State recorded 18% increase in tourists for the 3 months against tourist arrivals during the same period in 2013. The rise in tourists is attributed to the introduction of safety and security measures, awareness created on hinterland, culture, monsoon and pilgrim tourism through rigorous PR and marketing initiatives. Some such initiatives include domestic and international road shows, exhibitions and; international travel agents FAM trips.

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STOCKS THAT ACCORDING TO THE EXPERTS WILL GIVE THE BEST RETURNS BY NEXT DIWALI

ConCor (CMP - 1304) Logistics form a critical component of the entire business ecosystem.

Container Corporation of India is looking strong on charts and has potential to move up to 1500 levels.

The company may perform on strong container volumes. It has strong market share in container rail-transportation segment.

L&T (CMP - 1460) Larsen & Toubro is one of major capital goods companies in India providing a wide range of engineering products and services. With number of infrastructure projects slated to increase, the stock is expected to take a lead in the infra space. We estimate stock to reach levels of 1700 in next one year.

M&M (CMP - 1318) With consumption and industry picking up automobile sector may witness good growth this fiscal. Mahindra and Mahindra is our top pick in theauto sector. The company is planning to expand its capacity. Bright prospects of high growth in passenger vehicles sales and higher vehicle exports to continue in future is expected in 2015. We estimate the stock to reach Rs 1515 levels in next one year.

—Kiran Kumar Kavikondala, Director & CEO, WealthRays Securities

The focus should be on large cap stocks and therefore the three stocks to focus on would be Reliance Industries, Tata Motors and Infosys.

The reason being that these stock have the potential; but have remained

VIEWS ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT

Globally, while the US economy is slowly recovering, growth in Europe and Japan continues to falter and structural headwinds remain in other major emerging markets. Investor sentiments in India are strong and positive, and we believe that Indian equity markets are likely to deliver good returns over next couple of years. Hence any corrections in the markets will be used as buying opportunities.

Ritu Arora

International equities would continue to see fund flows as global commodity prices including gold, crude are low and cost of equity of many firms are seen lower which will boost corporate bottomline. Towards second half of 2015, central banks globally may start cutting rates which will be favorable for equities.

Kiran Kumar Kavikondala

The Global economy, especially US is also on a mend, though not fully out of the woods. This will be beneficial to some of the export oriented sectors.

Devendra Negi

Internationally, the crisis in the Middle East and the Federal Reserve are going to dominate the news. Stable crude and gold prices will be essential to keep the bull run going.

Raghu Kumar

Indian and global markets are in correction mode as US Dollar interest rates appear to have bottomed out.

However, unfortunately the recovery in the global economy is asymmetrical and stronger dollar bodes ill for risky assets like equities and commodities in the short-term. Having said that, strong US economy is always a good news and at some point markets will With the pick up in the economy both in take note of it. We believe after a the US and Europe picking up, it augurs volatile October and November well for the international markets too. markets will calm down and rally.

Clifton Desilva Vikram Dhawan

subdued and therefore, the upside could be captioned going forward.

—Clifton Desilva

A general policy of RKSV is to not give stock specific tips. However, from a sector standpoint, export driven sectors are under priced. India's backbone from an export driven perspective is IT, and with no sights of the Rupee strengthening against the Dollar, we can expect IT stocks to do well. Another sector that has gone relatively unnoticed is the manufacturing sector. Finally, it's a relatively safe bet that retail is going to be a hot sector over these next 12 months.

—Raghu Kumar, Cofounder, RKSV

BHEL, NTPC and Godrej Properties are potential candidates for 25-50% returns in the next one year.

NTPC the declining input prices globally and possible upward revision in power tariffs will drive the valuations.

BHEL will be riding the infra gravytrain, expected to be flagged-off soon.

Godrej Properties stock price doesn’t reflect even fraction of the land bank embedded within the group companies, that is likely to be developed under it’s aegis.

—Vikram Dhawan, Director, Equentis Capital

Reliance Looking To Sell US Shale Gas Interest

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By A Business Reporter

eliance Industries is looking to sell its 45% stake in the Eagle Ford basin shale oil and gas venture in the US for an estimated USD 4.5 billion.

RIL, which bought 45% interest in Pioneer Natural Resources Co's Eagle Ford shale formation of south Texas for USD 1.3 billion, is working with Citigroup Inc and Bank of America Merrill Lynch to find a buyer, industry sources said.

When contacted, a company spokesperson said, "Reliance constantly strives to identify means by which to create additional value for its shareholders" but declined to comment on the specific sale. "It is Reliance's policy not to comment on market speculation. If there are any required disclosures, Reliance will make them at the appropriate time," PTI in New York quoting the spokesperson said.

Pioneer holds 46% in the Eagle Ford venture while the remaining 9% is with Alpha SAB's Newpeck LLC. Newpek too

Could create additional value for its shareholders is exploring opportunities to sell its share and is being advised by Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. RIL is also selling its investment in EFS Midstream LLC, an oil and gas gathering treatment and transportation network, sources said. EFS Midstream operates 11 central gathering plants in south Texas.

RIL, in a July presentation to investors, had stated that it has invested a total of USD 3.91 billion in Pioneer joint venture since incep-

tion. 472 wells have been drilled to date with average production rate of 676 million standard cubic feet per day. The Eagle Ford assets spread over 230,000 acres have become more attractive after the US Commerce Department in June gave Pioneer permission to export a type of ultralight oil known as condensate produced from the region. The approval will "help ease pressure on differentials, which has remained key challenge," RIL had stated in the presentation.

Besides Eagle Ford, RIL has two more shale ventures in US - 40% stake in Chevron's Marcellus shale acreage and a 60% interest in Carrizo Oil and Gas Inc's Marcellus shale acreage in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania.

According to RIL's July presentation, the company has till date invested USD 0.87 billion in the Carrizo joint venture and another USD 2.59 billion in the Chevron venture. Its total investment in US was USD 7.36 billion.

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Liquid Funds Better Than Savings Account?

Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MUMBAI | MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014

RASHMI RODDAM

Director, WealthRays Securities

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« FOREX

iquid funds are debt funds with very low risk and volatility is also minimal as funds are invested in money market instruments such as treasury bills, government securities and call money. How does this work for you? These funds are known for their liquidity and can be invested for a short period of even 1 day. This gives an annualized return of between 8 to 9.5%, which is certainly better than your savings account.

These funds help you to park surplus funds instead of leaving them in savings bank account. Liquid funds also give an advantage of getting this return every day (daily dividend reinvestment plan) unlike on savings account where interest is credited once in a quarter or six months. These funds unlike other mutual funds, do not have exit loads even if it is redeemed within a specified period.

Listed below are features/advantages of

Liquid funds as compared to Savings account.

Benefits of Liquid funds: Monthly investment as a systematic investment plan (SIP) or lumpsum - A minimum investment of Rs. 1000 (or Rs. 5000 for few funds) can be done in these funds as an SIP or one time investment.

Contingency funds – Funds required for emergency can be parked in liquid funds, as these funds can be redeemed in few hours.

Returns – Based on past performance of these funds, returns are around 8 to 9.5% Protection of amount invested – These are low risk – low volatile funds with capital protection Good product for those in business – As investment period starts from 1 day, any lumpsum amount received from a business transaction can be parked in these funds even for a day and can be withdrawn for business purpose.

Capital appreciation – Growth and dividend options are available that one can choose while investing in liquid funds which is an appreciation to the amount invested.

Withdraw on holidays – Few mutual fund companies also provide ATM card which could be used for withdrawing money from these funds at any point in time.

Listed below are features of liquid funds as compared to savings account: Features

Liquid Funds

Savings account

Lumpsum Investment

Yes

Yes

Monthly Investment Returns (p.a) ATM card

Yes

Yes

8% to 10% irrespective of investment Yes

Yes

Protection of invested Yes amount (Capital protection)

Yes

Withdrawal on holidays Capital Appreciation Minimum balance

Penalty on nonmaintenance of balance Dividend Income Tax implication

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

0 to 500

Varies from Rs.1000 to Rs.100000

Not Applicable

Can go upto 500 per month

Tax Free at hands of investor

Attracts Short and Long term Capital gains

No Penalty for non-maintenance of balance – Unlike savings bank account, liquid funds do not have the concept of maintenance of minimum balance.

Investors can withdraw entire amount from these funds at will.

Taxation – Liquid funds attracts short term capital gains if withdrawn within

Not Applicable

Exempted Upto interest of Rs.10000/-

1 year and long term capital gains over 1 year.

Dividend option – If investor has chosen dividend payout option, in case of large investments, then cash received can be re-invested in a recurring deposit every month. Thus taking an advantage of art of compounding.

Useful for STP – Investments parked in liquid funds can be invested in equity funds through systematic transfer plan.

High Volatility In Financial Assets Is Not Helpful For Rupee ANINDYA BANERJEE

Currency Derivatives Researcher, Kotak Securities

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« FOREX

upee continues to exhibit low volatility.

Over the past week the pair was caught within a range of 60.90 and 61.60 levels on spot. With the sharp rise in volatility in the global equity, credit and commodity markets, Rupee too failed to sustain below the 61.00 handle. Global economic data releases were a mixed bag. German factory orders contracted, Chinese service sector survey was weaker than expected, UK manufacturing too grew less than anticipated. Japanese factory orders grew much more than anticipated and also US job market survey pointed towards ongoing strength.

At a time when not macro-economic growth but rather central bank stimulus remain the major driver of global risk assets, it is no surprise to see market react to every half sign from any major central bank. At the same time, the rapid fall in the value of the Yen, which has depreciated between 30% and 50% against major currencies, is hurting the export competitiveness of other major exporters around the globe. Global economic growth has been revised downward by IMF once again, this time to 3.3% for 2014 from 3.4% and 3.8% in 2015 from 4%. A weaker growth in Europe, emerging markets, Asia to offset the improved growth outlook from US. The International Monetary Fund has raised the country's growth forecast to 5.6% for 2014 from its earlier estimate of 5.4% on the back of effective policies and a renewal of confidence following the elections.

IMF also forecast that Indian economy can grow 6.4% in 2015 from 5.6% now. In fact, it must be noted that according to data compiled

by Bloomberg, the consensus on global economic growth has deteriorated from 2.9% at the beginning of this year to around 2.5 / 2.53% now. Economies from the Euro zone continued to slide down the path economic under performance. The economic and finan-

cial sanctions on Russia can also be taking a toll on European economies, as many of them have deep economic and financial linkages with Russia.

Indian industrial growth failed to impress as IIP grew barely at 0.4%, due to 1.4% contraction in manufacturing. Manufacturing, which constitutes 75% of the index, for April-August, the sector grew at 1.8%, compared to 0.1%

contraction in the year-ago period. Consumer durables contracted 15%, consumer nondurables fell 0.9%. Capital goods output also dipped 11.3% in August as against 3.8% decline in the previous month. However, on a cumulative basis, the sector grew 4.3%

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between April-August. Trend line growth in IIP peaked in 2007 and since then it has been on a down ward trend, which is yet to reverse.

India needs to kick start the investment cycle and along the way, government has to walk tough, as the country needs some hard decisions along the way to get back on a sustainable path of high growth.

Global financial markets are showing increased volatility, which we believe started in the foreign exchange market a couple of months back and has now fed into credit and now global equity markets. It has been observed volatility in risky assets tends to rise substantially when US Fed ends its program of printing money, through asset purchases.

Therefore, we are not surprised to see the same happen this time around. Therefore, going forward we believe Rupee would not benefit from this upward shift in global financial volatility and hence we expect upside in the currency remains limited beyond 60.60/80 levels on spot. As a result, we can see importer hedge their payables on dips below 61.00.

Technically, the zone between 60.50 and 60.80 is a strong band of support and hence, with that as a base, we can expect an eventual rise towards 62.00 levels on spot.

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« BRAND MANTRA

JAGDEEP KAPOOR

is CMD of Samsika Marketing Consultancy

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Brand ‘SerWish’

onsumers expect great service. This is because the standards have gone up. Their expectations have soared.

Their aspirations are sky high. So, today in India, just giving good service is not enough, you have to meet the consumer’s wish, serve the consumer well; this is what I call ‘SERWISH’.

Gone are the days of rationing and manufacturers calling the shots to give small lots to consumers leaving behind a deep hunger. Now the marketers say “Dear consumer, your wish is my command, I will give you not only good service but good SERWISH, I will serve you as per your wish.”

This entire change and transition has come about in the last few years because the consumers now have a choice, and brands want to be more competitive. Marketers have also realised that they exist only if some consumer buys their product or service in a regular fashion. Therefore it is important to them to serve the consumer well.

My mother has taught me, that you must “first deserve and then desire”. I would add on to her teachings and supplement it by saying that you must “first serve and then deserve”.

Marketers must first serve the consumer and then deserve sales growth, market share and profit.

If a marketer truly wants to give good SERWISH, he needs to start by understanding the consumer’s needs and wishes. It is important to understand the wish list of the consumer, so that the brand can appropriately address that desire and wish.

Whether it be an airline giving good SERWISH by offering a choice of veg and non-veg meals or a choice of newspapers and magazines or even a choice of a window or an aisle seat, it is a good way to start serving the consumer through good Brand SERWISH. The key is to ask the consumer what is that he or she wishes and then take it forward in fulfilling that wish in the best possible manner to improve the quality of life and please the consumer.

It is perfectly understandable, that every wish may not be possible to be fulfilled or not even practical to be fulfilled. But there is one wish of the consumer which can definitely be fulfilled in 100 percent of times. That wish is, the wish to be asked “What do you wish?” Whether in the beginning or at the end, every human being has the right to wish for something that he or she desires. The wish may be appropriate or inappropriate, possible or impossible, right or wrong, from each one’s perspective that is the second part. But the first part is being able to wish and being asked by the brand marketer “what do you wish?” is a good starting point for good SERWISH. Even if the wish can’t be fulfilled, it must be explained to the consumer in a patient and pleasant manner, because it is important for the consumer to realize why his wish is not being granted.

But the good news is that, in most cases the wishes of the consumers can be fulfilled by the marketer, if he cares to ask “What do you wish?” This initial question, unfortunately, is not being asked by many marketers, thereby reducing customer service to be after sales service. In my opinion, customer service should not only be after sales service, but it should be before the sale, during the sale and after the sale. Then truly they may be providing good SERWISH. Whether it be a product, as simple as a chocolate or a soft drink or a technologically advanced laptop or a plasma TV or a bus service or a cinema service, each and every product or service, must understand what is it that the consumer wishes.

Then the brand marketer must make all possible efforts to meet the consumers wish.

There are some caution areas here, obviously the wish should be legally sound and should not hurt any other human being, physically or mentally. Also, the wish would be relevant to the promise made by the product or service category of the brand.

Copyright © 2013, All rights reserved.

Jagdeep Kapoor can be contacted at jk@samsika.com

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« SPOTLIGHT

Afternoon Despatch & Courier A little background about your company and yourself ?

Angel Broking Ltd is amongst the largest retail broking firms in India and I am associated with it for more than 8 years. Trading aspect of research which is Technicals and Derivatives is taken care by myself in the company.

At what point had you given a thought to making a career in the stock markets?

After doing my B .Sc. (Physics) I took a front office job in one of the subsidiary of IDBI which brought me to South Mumbai. The job required lot of talking about redemption of bonds which had call and put option about it. And while gathering further knowledge about the subject I realised the huge scope in the Indian markets for such instruments especially in equities as developed markets were extensively using it then as well.

How do you pick your trades? Do you use technical analysis, or fundamental data?

My trades are generally an in between of a short term trader and a long term investor which is what I call a positional trader. For generating such trades short term parameters from the field of derivatives and technicals are the main feed. However some knowledge of companies fundamental adds to the conviction level.

Known for his unique ability to analyze and accurately predict market behaviour, through his flair for charting out innovative strategies, Siddarth Bhamre, an MBA in Finance and presently Head Equity Derivatives & Technicals at Angel Broking, is also a frequent speaker on leading channels like CNBC-TV18 and ET Now on the F&O segment. His views are often quoted in industry stories and he has been regularly contributing articles to major financial papers like the Economic Times and DNA Money, among others. In conversation with Dominic Rebello, he emphasizes on the need for an investor to inculcate knowledge, discipline, readiness to change, accepting of mistakes, not over leveraging and never averaging to become successful.

MUMBAI | MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014

« MARKET WIZARD

What appeals to you about trading. The short side or long side?

Both. Its only that when you short this market and you go right as well you are in minority and that gives extra confidence on your tools of research. Otherwise whether long or short its all about increasing probability of your trade going right, trader after trade.

What differentiates you from other traders?

It would be wrong on my part to highlight any uniqueness about myself because honestly it’s not there. 95% of traders lose money in this market and its only disciplined traders and ones who keep changing their analytical thinking according to different market scenarios who have made money and created wealth. By being disciplined and changing my way of analysing data I have been able to place myself successfully in remaining 5%.

What gives you that edge?

Nothing is permanent and so is the way of analysing this market. In our markets liquidity is the key parameter in determining the direction of markets.

Understanding different correlations and behaviour analysis of stronger market participants to certain changes in parameters is very crucial aspect. And not every time for the same change would the participants react in same way. There is no science to analyze this; it comes with experience and not many follow liquidity closely. Having decent understanding about this subject has given me additional confidence to believe in my research so far.

Is there any applicable lesson to trading?

To traders I would say don’t follow anyone blindly. Do all trades with certain parameters in mind and analyse those parameters when your trade goes right or wrong.

This will make you better trader over a period of time rather than becoming a slave of some tips.

How much of what you do is gut feel?

I give paramount importance to my research and try not to generate any trade on my gut. A trade should be backed by fact and figures and meaningful conclusion out of those fact and figures.

When you put money on a trade and it goes against you, how do you decide when you're wrong? What do you do next ?

Here discipline is key factor. Any trade comes with a stop loss and a simple way of moving out of loss making trade is follow stop loss. Its easier said then done, but one has to master this art, science, call it what you will. Averaging on loss making trades is the single biggest reason for people losing money in this market. I am against averaging a stock which is going against your anticipation for traders. If you are investor then it is subjective. Reversing a position again is not recommended.

A Life Insurance is of use (to the victim’s dependents) only in the event of death and a Health Insurance plan would compensate only for the cost of hospitalization. Some Life Insurance policies offer Personal Accident riders, but these riders are not comprehensive.

The consequences of meeting an accident could be serious, like death or pause in income, which could last from a few weeks, months to even years. What could help in such situations is a Personal Accident Insurance Policy.

A Personal Accident Insurance is a type of insurance which offers financial compensation in the event of bodily injuries leading to total/partial disability or dismemberment resulting from an accident caused by violent, visible and external means. This policy compensates the nominees even in case of death of the policyholder. It ensures the financial stability for an individual and his family if he/she is rendered temporarily disabled on account of an accident, thus plugging a major gap in one’s insurance portfolio. Despite commonalities, the Personal Accident Insurance is different from Life Insurance and Health Insurance.Unlike Life Insurance, Personal Accident Insurance premiums vary with the policy-

Insurance policy depends on one’s working conditions and nature of his job. And yes, a Personal Accident Insurance plan can also be extended to include the entire family under a single policy.

Despite lower premium rates, the Personal Accident Insurance penetration in India is relatively low. The features of Personal Accident overlap with Health Insurance and Life Insurance. Since most people have one or both these products on them, people consider the Personal Accident as an additional expense and tend to avoid that. Another reason for the low penetration of Personal Accident Insurance is the lack of awareness of the product. People identify the non-Life insurance predominantly with Health Insurance and, to a certain extent, Motor Insurance. Many people are not even aware of availability of such product, even if they need it. Many of those who are aware of the availability of the product feel they do not need such a product. People generally feel confident about themselves and believe that an accident would not occur to them. However, the fact is that accidents by nature are uncertain and unexpected. While they do not occur to everyone, they can occur to anyone, and to protect the self and family from the untoward consequences of accidents, a Personal Accident Insurance is a Must.

W

Any positions you ever lost sleep over?

No I didn’t, though I was disturbed by the fall in 2008.

However, that disturbance was more to do with questions arising on structure and fairness of this market. In a few weeks my conviction was back.

What would make you wary about a trade?

Generally participants are very fixated with their losses in a particular stock. They then go on a mission to recover losses from same stock. I call this as an ego issue. Such emotional trades are again a cause of concern.

Do you have a scenario about how the current bull market will end? Where do you see the Indian markets five years down the road?

I don’t know about 5 years, but for the next 2-3 years, equities would be the best asset class to be in to create wealth and for traders my suggestion would be to get into more buying trades rather than selling in this time horizon.

is Member of Executive Management & Head - Retail Business, HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company

« PERSONAL FINANCE

ASSET CLASS

Do you try to anticipate or follow market trends?

What are the basis?

Both. There are times when you have anticipate change of trend which is when you tend to avoid huge loss making trades and there are times when the trend is in its initial stage and strong and you follow it. There should not be any particular style of trading according to me.

hile most people have general understanding of Life Insurance and Health Insurance products, they are generally little informed when it comes to Personal Accident Insurance. A Life Insurance policy covers the risk of death and a Health Insurance policy acts as a cushion against financial burden in the event of hospitalization.

Then what is a Personal Accident Insurance policy for?

Imagine a situation in which someone is rendered physically disabled following an accident.

holder’s occupation rather than age.

A Personal Accident Insurance is important for everyone, but it is more relevant for salaried individuals living in urban areas.

Typically, salaried individual travel from hometo-office and office-to-home, every day, for months and years. In such lifestyle, chances of death or getting hospitalized for some illness are lower than the chances of meeting an accident. Despite all possible precautions accidents do occur. This may result into disablement or loss of limbs or sometimes even death. In such situation, an Accidental Insurance policy is as important as a Life Insurance and Health Insurance.

The best part is that a Personal Accident Insurance Covers are easy on pocket, so one can afford it without any major drain on his pocket. The cost of (HDFC ERGO’s) Personal Accident Insurance with a cover of Rs 15 lakh costs approximately Rs 3,000 per year. And since the premium on Personal Accident Policy does not depend on age, it would be same whether you are 25-year old or 50-year old. The premium on Personal Accident

KARAN CHOPRA

SIDDARTH BHAMRE

EQUITIES STILL THE BEST How would you describe your methodology?

My confidence is high on data which we use to analyse the market, be it derivatives statistics or technical charts.

Unless statistics don’t say anything i don’t react to the ultra-short term price movement. This would certainly be categorized as scientific way of analysing markets, but with tinge of art.

Do You Have Personal Accident Insurance?

What makes a trader successful?

Knowledge, Discipline, readiness to change, excepting mistakes, not over leveraging, not averaging are a few qualities which a trader should inculcate in to become successful. My success is no different than what is mentioned for a successful trader. Remember, there is no compulsion to trade every day and there is always another day.

What is your take on the current market scenario, Indian as well as global?

Markets are correcting from higher levels because FII’s are not showing buying interest off late. However they are not selling either. This lack of interest is more to do with concerns on global growth slowing down. This is clearly getting reflected in prices of crude oil. Though this is a serious concern, we are not expecting this correction to be very deep and long lasting and hence investors should use this opportunity to invest while traders, can lighten up their positions.

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Company

ABIRLANUVO ACC

ADANIENT

ADANIPORTS

ADANIPOWER ALBK

AMBUJACEM

ANDHRABANK APOLLOHOSP APOLLOTYRE ARVIND

ASHOKLEY

ASIANPAINT

AUROPHARMA AXISBANK

BAJAJ-AUTO

BANKBARODA BANKINDIA

BANKNIFTY BATAINDIA

BHARATFORG

MUMBAI | MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014

F&O SCRIPS WEEKLY SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE LEVELS FOR OCTOBER 13 -- 17, 2014 Close

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PP

1711

462

486

1406

1403

261

265

462 43

100

43

99

665

44

656

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FEDERALBNK

FTSE100.Oct 17 GAIL

GLENMARK GMRINFRA

GODREJIND

399

918

258

417

965

279

561

898

832

2277

2197

363

825

217

345 779

196

764

785

853

921

717

649

1306 219

673 366

532

DABUR

EICHERMOT

608

14138

COLPAL

DRREDDY

750

703

37

14827

11327

DLF

251

41

16892

CNXIT

DJIA.Oct 17

269

51

161

16204

736

DIVISLAB

325

48

188

55

15515

CESC

DISHTV

307

61

15496

1339

286

CROMPGREAV

84

895

2518

237

92

37

986

271

2438

239

229

1259

243

2357 872

247

1168

2360 864

JSWSTEEL

1260

194

1095

381

413

1331 40

1451

1563

1227

417

436

493

521

548

465

292

315

338

269

603

501

211

670 361

535

710

391

569

270

750

420

182

630

1116

591

12556

10696

10076

1705

1718

1774

1831

1661

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216

219

227

235

210

202

336

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1774

340

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1873

369

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554 325

184 52

1682

505

311

166 50

1587

16590

16728

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3012

3070

3326

3582

2814

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129

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11540

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128

165

12300

180

141

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189 153

135

10780

161

116

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10021

152 103

6569

6535

6637

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716

715

744

773

687

658

446

22

292

444 21

297

463

26

315

481

30

333

426

16

279

407

11

261

GRASIM

3433

3460

3587

3715

3333

3206

HCLTECH

1740

1733

1843

1953

1622

1512

872

877

915

952

839

801

HAVELLS HDFC

HDFCBANK HDIL

HEROMOTOCO HEXAWARE HINDALCO

HINDPETRO

HINDUNILVR HINDZINC

IBREALEST ICICIBANK IDBI

268

1012 81

INFY IOB IOC

151

152

165

178

139

127

722

730

756

782

703

67

68

73

78

62

192

512

155

1462

61

196

507

158

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61

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215

547

169

619

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120

654

4123

375

408

355

360

376

78

79

377

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58

227

1319

37

3771

58

136

142

450

625

147

190

425

3878

426

174

424

110

180

61

68

154

476

130

688

4475

58

677 57

55

127

131

123

399

374

100

585

30

89

550

3419

3067

342

309

393

344

327

89

75

65

441

246

264

161

178

195

29

34

84

156

466

1391

146

109

588

176

1606

65

139 34

235

1534

140

JINDALSTEL JPASSOCIAT

68

2617

229

JISLJALEQS

75

938

2728

IRB ITC

94

981

238

3059

34

INDUSINDBK

87

1111

254

2949

IFCI

INDIACEM

81

1067

300

2838

154

IGL

1024

284

2847

IDEA

IDFC

269

38

54

208

50

189

144

128

25

20

70

1686

1807

1927

1565

112

112

126

105

66

LICHSGFIN

314

LT

1467

LUPIN

1336

1247

1328

1014

1045

66

68

314

119 331

1460

1545

1356

1437

82

1408

1076 71

348

1631

1518

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11

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1087

1004

66

1166 983 64

297

61

1085

1445 952

99

62

281

1374

1288

1276

1195

M&M

1325

1350

1431

1512

1269

1188

MARUTI

2972

2978

3067

3156

2890

2801

281

307

M&MFIN

285

281

MCDOWELL-N

2375

2381

MINDTREE

1047 31772

MCLEODRUSS MOTHERSUMI

MRF

NMDC

687

11936

702

L&TFH

467

714

1672

1008

NHPC

303

1335

KOTAKBANK

246

332

1253

77

14

S1

1170

71

13

R2

1150

1223

KTKBANK

R1

12

JUBLFOOD JUSTDIAL

PP

12

72

273 370

296

311

267

252

2461

2540

2302

2222

1080

1209

1338

951

822

31983

32800

33617

31166

30349

380

412

332

444

256 347

230 315

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Please contact Mr Chalke on 9920831512

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11316

653

JSWENERGY

438

795

603

Close

361

768

595

741

241

379

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JPPOWER

203

1030

379

S2

1488

231

964

CAIRN

COALINDIA

50

944

485

CIPLA

77

288

44

BIOCON

CENTURYTEX

72

283

216

398

CANBK

114

1077

394

BPCL

107

1058 221

438

302

222

66

511

284 47

S1

1562

1545

213

66

R2

1785

1474

212

BHARTIARTL BHEL

R1

1636

19

19

20

21

19

18

NIFTY

7887

7917

8070

8224

7763

7610

NTPC

142

142

148

155

135

129

153

OFSS

ONGC

PETRONET

3906

3190

225

228

245

262

211

RCOM

852

618

672

252

249

270

83

101

446

449

RELINFRA

585

582

964

RPOWER

979

612

RELCAPITAL RELIANCE

169

146

895

71

937 88

113 475

281

215

125

2951

366

194

156

193 810

133

129

727

564

510

291

228

207

910

864

94

124

501

955

1000

1046

72

76

80

625

386

209

142

102

RECLTD

196

446

137

83

RANBAXY

182

426 259

137

PTC

406 237

900

POWERGRID

141

3668

241

PNB

190

3429

179

PFC

174

3359 406

ORIENTBANK

158

77

90

423

669

538

67

72

79

397

494

63

S&P500.Oct 17

1924

1940

1993

2046

1887

1834

SBIN

2459

2445

2592

2739

2298

2151

SKSMICRO

295

296

327

358

265

234

SSLT

251

257

303

234

335

338

353

368

323

309

391

392

405

418

379

366

161

161

SAIL

SIEMENS

71

814

SRTRANSFIN

877

SUNPHARMA

823

SYNDIBANK

113

SUNTV

TATACHEM

TATACOMM

379

TATAGLOBAL

TATAMOTORS

UCOBANK

UNIONBANK UNITECH

831

900

969

762

400

424

350 472

335

453

2693

2730

400

402

362

486

173

390

307

518

421

77

2550

418

434

385

226

243

734

2497

2543

19

20

198

155

3090

2644

80

102

2910

2412 707

200

827

375

93

79

775

122 167

132

66

112

88

703

ULTRACEMCO

1035

280

83

224

UBL

966

83

2354

TVSMOTOR

897

568

450

TITAN

908

536

TATASTEEL TECHM

863

81

504

326

TCS

819

76

494

TATAMTRDVR TATAPOWER

71

2876 260

2180 209

150

439

279

72

388

2370

1948 369

192

2394

2244

22

23

18

215

89

233

76

180

322

WIPRO

589

599

642

685

555

ZEEL

320

318

340

362

295

563

326

2842

85

369

568

92

2693

353

YESBANK

211

693

652

338 233

758

680

333 227

731

761

UPL

VOLTAS

61

253 599

274

635

213 527

Intraweek Support and Resistance Levels Based on the “Pivotal Point” theory of Techincal Analysis PP Points indicate the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-week.

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162 16

306 192

512

491

273

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014

« TOP VIEW Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that ‘Price is what you pay; value is what you get.’ Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

—Legendary Investor Warren Buffett

Technical Stock Picks For The Week

By Sanjay R. Bhatia

Nifty Nears A Major Support Level NSE India : CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Monday (October 13, 2014) By Dominic Rebello

REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY:

The Nifty fell substantially on Friday (October 10, 2014) a net 100.60 points (1.26%) and closed at the 7859 point level. The market opened down with a gap at the 7911 points level. It then rose and registered the day’s high at the 7924 points level at 1.24 p.m. The index then declined and turned into a range bound movement until 2.40 p.m. It then declined further and registered the day’s low at the 7848 points level at 3.10 p.m. The index then rose and turned into a range bound movement until closing at the day. The Nifty remained below its previous close throughout the session, moved in a range of 76 points and closed below the psychologically important 7900 points level.

Sentiment was bearish and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 39 were losers, while 11 stocks closed in the green.

Substantial buying was witnessed in IT and technology stocks, while substantial selling was witnessed in metal, auto and FMCG stocks.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Volume: Volume (Qty shares) decreased 6.16%. This change is small and indicates a moderate participation by investors.

Market Breadth: Overall Market Breadth on the NSE was negative. Amongst all the traded stocks, 408 were gainers, 1141 were losers and 40 remained unchanged.

Slow Stochastic Indicator: The Slow Stochastic Oscillator has risen and has exited the over-sold zone.

The Slow K line in the Stochastic Oscillator is at the slow D line (neutral).

RSI Indicator: The RSI is above the 40 level but is now declining (negative if it continues).

MACD Indicator: The MACD is below zero and is declining (negative if it continues). It is below its 9-day Average (negative).

Overall Market Strength/Weakness: The indicators and oscillators discussed here are indicating a weak market with a negative bias.

Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main support is at the 7816 points level.

The next support is at the 7615 points level.

Resistance Levels: The immediate main resistance is at the 8138 points level.

The next resistance is at the 8246 points level.

Pivot Point Analysis: For intra-day traders the support and resistance levels are calculated according to the pivot point theory and are: Pivot point = 7877 (This is the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-day).

Support (1) = 7831.

Support (2) = 7802.

Resistance (1) = 7907. Resistance (2) = 7953.

OUTLOOK FOR TODAY: On Japanese candlestick patterns the index has formed a long black body candle. This is negative. Further, the index has dropped above its 5 day’s moving average. The index is now below its 5, 15 and 25 day’s moving averages and all the three averages are declining and also negatively trended. Moreover, the velocity parameters too indicate weakness. All these indicate a negative bias and the possibility of a further decline unfolding.

Incidentally, the index is approaching a major support level at the 7816 points level. There is a possibility that the index could find some support and reverse from there. However, if it declines below it, then a further decline could be expected. Investors are advised to avoid buying at present levels.

Work with strict stop losses on all positions

ADX Indicator & DI Lines: The +DI line is below the –DI line and both lines are diverging (negative if it continues).

The ADX is falling while the Market Index is falling, which indicates that the present down trend is decreasing in strength.

MOVING AVERAGES (TREND INDICATORS) The index: Has dropped below its 5-day average (at 7892) Negative.

Is below its 15-day average (at 7976) Negative.

Is below its 25-day average (at 8021) Negative.

Is above its 200-day average (at 7071) Positive.

Disclaimer: Investment recommendations made in ‘ADC’ are for information purposes only and derived from sources that are deemed to be reliable but their accuracy and completeness are not guaranteed. ‘ADC’ or the analyst/writer does not accept any liability for the use of this column for the buying or selling of securities. Readers of this newspaper who buy or sell securities based on the information in this newspaper are solely responsible for their actions. ‘ADC’ and/or its affiliates and/or employees and/or the author, his company or his acquaintances may have interests/ positions, financial or otherwise in the securities mentioned in this newspaper.

BUY Aban above 624, Stop Loss 608,Target 660 Aban is displaying a positive trend. It is displaying a higher top higher bottom formation. It is placed above its 200-day SMA, which is its long-term moving average and is a positive sign for the stock. It has risen with higher volumes and the volumes are placed above its 10-day SMA. The KST and RSI are placed above their respective averages Aban is likely to move higher should be bought above 624 with stop loss of 608 and Target Price of 660.

BUY Apollo Tyre above221, Stop Loss 217, Target 229 Apollo Tyre is displaying a positive trend and is trading at historic highs. It is displaying a higher top higher bottom formation. It is placed above its 200-day SMA, which is its long-term moving average and is a positive sign for the stock. It has risen with higher volumes and the volumes are placed above its 10-day SMA. The KST and RSI are placed above their respective averages Apollo Tyre is likely to move higher and test its previous high placed at 226.45 and should move above it. It should be bought above 221 with stop loss of 217 and Target Price of 229.

BUY Asian Paints above 665, Stop Loss 653, Target 690 Asian Paints is displaying a positive trend and is trading at historic highs. It is displaying a higher top higher bottom formation. It is placed above its 200-day SMA, which is its long-term moving average and is a positive sign for the stock. It has risen with higher volumes and the volumes are placed above its 10-day SMA. The KST and RSI are placed above their respective averages Asian Paints is likely to move higher and test its previous high placed around 664 and should move above it. It should be bought above 665 with stop loss of 653 and Target Price of 690.

BUY Jet Airways above 249, Stop Loss 240, Target 269 Jet Airways is displaying a positive trend. It is displaying a higher top higher bottom formation. It is likely to move above its 200-day SMA, which is its long-term moving average and would be a positive sign for the stock. It has risen with higher volumes and the volumes are placed above its 10-day SMA. The KST and RSI are placed above their respective averages Jet Airways is likely to move higher. It should be bought above 249 with stop loss of 240 and Target Price of 269.

BUY BHEL above 224, Stop Loss 214, Target 246 BHEL is displaying a positive trend. It is displaying a higher top higher bottom formation. It is placed above its 200-day SMA, which is its long-term moving average and is a positive sign for the stock. It has risen with higher volumes and the volumes are placed above its 10-day SMA. The KST and RSI are placed above their respective averages BHEL is likely to move higher. It should be bought above 224 with stop loss of 214 and Target Price of 246.

« BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS KOTAK SEC CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON FEDERAL BANK CMP: Rs. 128

Target Rs. 145

We retain Federal Bank as our preferred mid-cap stock. We see it as one of the few banks that offer a combination of multiple expansion as well as strong earnings growth in the medium term. Valuations are attractive at 1.2X book and 8X FY2016E EPS for RoEs at 15%. Efforts by the management on most metrics are showing results, albeit steadily, which gives us confidence to remain positive on the bank. Maintain BUY rating (TP unchanged).

MOTILAL OSWAL CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON TITAN IND. CMP: Rs. 398

Target Rs. 440

Our recent meeting with TITAN’s senior management has renewed our conviction in the stock. TITAN is witnessing demand improvement and intends to roll out a new customer advance scheme by the end of October.

Please send all business and corporate related mails to business@afternoondc.in

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Income Proof Is A Must Above A Specific Limit In Term Plans Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MUMBAI | MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014

cover of more than Rs 10 lakhs or so, income proof is mandatory for Financial Underwriting.

However for lower coverage like less than Rs 10 lakhs or so, it is not mandatory. Also, it is a good practise to file returns even if file zero returns.

MANOJ ASWANI

is VP at MyInsurance Club.com

« INSURANCE

I am a doctor working in India. I will move to the UAE next month for a job (2 years).

Which term insurance will cover my Resident Indian and NRI status?

—Sunil Kanak, Parel NRI's can take Term Plan since you are still in India, you would be treated like a resident Indian if you opt for the policy right away.

However, even if you choose for the policy after you relocate to UAE, you can opt for any plan by just filling up an NRI or PIO form. However, there are some additional formalities for Term Plans, since the risk level is much higher.

But the extent of the coverage would depend on the underwriter's discretion depending on your coverage requirement, their risk taking capacity, the country of your residence, the nature of your work, etc. etc. There is no set format for accepting such policies.

S

Only a few companies have actually managed to streamline their processes for issuing insurance policies to NRIs. LIC, Max Life, Kotak and ICICI Prudential are some of those. They will help you with documentations and other requirements for medical tests, etc. as well Life Insurance Corporation of India, Max Life Insurance, Kotak Life Insurance and ICICI Prudential has special departments for NRIs. I quit my job last year and have been self employed since then. However, I did not file the ITR this year since incurred a net

« PRODUCT REVIEW: STAR SHRI INDIVIDUAL CARE PLAN

By Manoj Aswani

tar Shri Individual Care Plan is a combination of Life Insurance and Health Insurance in a tie-up with Star Health & Allied Insurance. It offers the dual benefits of life and family floater health insurance policy for the whole family and thus makes the plan comprehensive. This plan can be taken by the policyholder for himself, spouse and up to 3 dependent children (5 months onwards) This is a combination plan in tie-up with Star Health & Allied Insurance which provides health cover benefits.

Premium is paid for the entire term and depends upon the entry age and the Sum Assured chosen. The premium rate is also influenced by the kind of age-proof submitted.

A standard age-proof will attract normal rates while the rates will be higher for non-standard age-proofs. The premium is divided into 2 sections- life cover premium and health cover premium. However, the policyholder pays the consolidated amount.

The plan provides for Hospitalization benefits in case of medical contingencies suffered by the policyholder himself or by any of the covered family member. Moreover, the life cover benefit provides for a lump sum amount in case of death within the term of the policy.

However, there is no maturity benefit under the plan.

Key Features of Star Shri Family Care Plan This plan is a comprehensive plan combining the benefits of Health and Life Insurance in one policy.

This plan covers Self, Spouse and up to 3 dependent children aged 5 months and above.

Premium is to be paid regularly with different rates for standard age proofs and non-standard age-proofs.

There is a No Claim Bonus available of 10% non-cumulative discount in subsequent premiums.

The premium rate is reviewed after 5 years and then every year and can be changed

I am working as an Insurance Agent with LIC of India and have successfully completed 6 years. Now I am facing problems to complete my business (12 lives)... What should I to do to get my renewal commission continuously?

—Sameer Jadhav, Chembur The rule of doing at least 12 lives every year is an internal rule of LIC. However, as far as Renewal Commissions are concerned, the IRDA rules apply. According to IRDA, you are eligible to get renewal commissions if you have completed 5 continuous years of agency renewal, then you are eligible for the commissions even loss. Now I am looking for a term plan, but if you have not done Re 1 of business or not a the agent at Max Life, LIC advised me that single life that year. Since you have completed income proof is a must. Is it so? Please your 5 years of agency, there is no way your suggest me alternate options. renewal commissions will be denied. However, —Rajesh Pundalik, Charni Road to continue your agency your need to do minimum of 12 lives in a year in LIC and only a It depends on the term cover you are looking Branch Manager can consider it. So, you for and the financial cover grid of the insurplease talk to your Branch Manager or ance company that you are applying to. Each Marketing Manager Sales regarding the same. and every company have their own independent rules for underwriting and income proof is (The author is Vice President at a must above a specific limit say Rs 10 lakhs www.MyInsuranceClub.com, insurance comparison website in India. or Rs 25 lakhs, and it varies from 1 company You may write to him at manoj@myinsuranceclub.com) to another. To substantiate the need for a term

A Policy That Offers Both Life And Health Cover

subject to IRDA approval.

There is no applicability of TPAs as the claim is settled in-house thereby making the claim process hassle-free.

Pre-existing diseases are covered after 4 complete years since policy inception.

Renewals are accepted up to 60 years after which health cover can be ported to other plans from Star Health but life cover will come to an end.

Key Benefits of Star Shri Family Care Plan This plan Provides for Daily Hospitalization Benefit for a minimum of 24 hours. The benefit amount is 2% of the Sum Assured to a maximum of Rs.1500/day in Class A cities, Rs.750/day in Class B cities, and Rs.500/day in Class C cities including room rent and boarding expenses.

Pre hospitalization costs incurred 30 days prior to hospitalization are covered under the plan.

Post hospitalization expenses allowed is 7% of the hospitalization expenses (excluding room charges) to a maximum of Rs.5000 The plan covers Nursing Expenses, Surgeon’s fees, Consultant’s fees, Anaesthetist’s fees, medicine and drugs.

Ambulance expenses of up to Rs.750 per hospitalization are also covered with a maximum limit of Rs.1500 per policy period.

In case of death of the policyholder (main member) within the term, a lump sum benefit equal to the Sum Assured is paid to the nominee. This benefit is however, paid only in the event of death of the main policyholder.

Benefits the policyholder get from Star Shri Family Care Plan Death Benefit In case of death of the main policyholder during the term of the policy, the nominee gets the

Sum Assured chosen.

Maturity Benefit There is no Maturity Benefit under the plan

Income Tax Benefit Health Insurance Premiums paid up to Rs. 15,000 for normal residents and Rs 20,000 for Senior Citizen are allowed as a deduction from the taxable income each year under section 80D. Premium paid for availing the life cover is exempt from tax under section 80C up to a limit of Rs.100,000.

Additional Benefits from Star Shri Family Care Plan There is a non-cumulative discount in the subsequent premium @10% in the form of No Claim Bonus The premium is revised after 5 years and then every year following IRDA’s approval.

Eligibility conditions and other restrictions in Star Shri Family Care Plan Daily Hospitalization Benefit Sum Assured (in Rs.) Policy Term (in years) Premium Payment Term (in years) Entry Age of Life Insured(in years)

Entry Age of Child(in years) Age at Maturity(in years)

Minimum 2% of Sum Assured

Maximum

1500/750/500

60 – age at entry

Equal to Policy Term 18

50

5 months

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS

TV GUIDE

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

Sauron’s forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman’s army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor, unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin and Merry. And they must defend Rohan and attack Isengard. Yet, while all this is going on, Sauron’s troops mass toward the City of Gondor, for the War of the Ring is about to begin. HBO, 9 p.m.

SOAPS & SERIALS

BATTLE OF THE SUPERCARS

In each episode of Nat Geo Supercars, host Lee Reherman challenges professional racecar drivers Tanner Foust and Paul Tracy to take two of the world’s most admirably designed ‘supercars’ and push their limits to the maximum. Foust and Tracy test these cars on their performance on the road and put its head-to-head in an all-out competition to demonstrate why they are truly considered ‘supercars’. Matchups include a BMW M3 versus a Lexus ISF; Technocraft Lamborghini versus the Joyride Ford GT; Ferrari 430 Scuderia versus Ferrari California; Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG versus the Cadillac CTSV and the Bentley Supersports versus Astin Martin DBS. NGC, 10.30 p.m.

SPEED KILLS

The open plains of the Serengeti are the perfect playing ground for speed, and they’re home to the fastest animals on the planet.

Some are built for explosive sprints, others for marathon runs.

But all of them, predators and prey, need to move fast in order to survive in this unforgiving environment. Animal Planet’s SPEED KILLS and enter the African grassland and discover how cheetahs, hyenas, hawks, crocodiles, and other assassins of the savannah use their evolution-perfected design mechanisms to kill with lightning-fast speed. Animal Planet, 8 p.m.

MAROONED

Guinness World Record-setting adventurer and survivalist Ed Stafford is back in MAROONED – an all-new, ultimate test of human endurance. Each of this nine-part series leaves Ed stranded for 10 days in a different remote location – Borneo, Thailand, Australia, Botswana, Venezuela and Romania, amongst others – with no food, no water and not even a knife. Ed is left with only video equipment to document his experiences tackling some of the most extreme environments where his physical, psychological and emotional limits and resilience are being challenged. Discovery, 8 p.m.

SUPERHUMAN SCIENCE

SUPERHUMAN SCIENCE showcases the astounding capabilities of the human body, and the seemingly unbelievable skills of whole host of extreme individuals. In every episode, pop culture and science collide as experts analyse the most buzz worthy

THE CROODS

Suprcars-Nat Geo Supercars, NGC, 10 p.m.

videos out there and separate fact from fiction. Can basketball superstar Kobe Bryant jump over a moving car? And, can a shaolin really monk balance himself using just two fingers? Discover the limits of human ability, and learn just how far fakers will go to gain internet notoriety. Discovery Science, 10 p.m.

SASURAL SIMAR KA

Colors popular show Saural Simar Ka - the twisted story of two soul sisters – Simar and Roli has successfully managed to grab attention of every household today hits the millennium mark.

Tonight we will see, in Hong Kong, Simar has taken up a job as a Relationship Manager in a popular hotel. Prem visits the country along with his wife Surbhi on a business trip and an assignment. Colors, 7.30 p.m.

MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA Season 6

There are the same six items in each contestant’s mystery box and they need to barter with each other to get a variety of ingredients. Star World, 9 p.m.

YEH RISHTA KYA KAHLATA HAI

Akshara reaches the Singhania House from the hospital. What is the truth, is Naksh really not their kid and was exchanged at the time of birth. Star Plus, 9.30 p.m.

MOVIES OF THE DAY

The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world’s first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures — and their outlook is changed forever. Star Movies, 9 p.m.

TROPIC THUNDER

Filming a Vietnam War memoir in Southeast Asia, a film crew is attacked by a gang of poppygrowing local drug dealers, but don’t realize that these aren’t actors. The thugs kidnap Tugg Speedman, a fading star, who’s in the picture. The rest of the team band together, in an attempt to rescue him, not knowing that Speedman might not want to be rescued. Zee Studio, 9 p.m.

VALKYRIE

In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed in a near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army officer convinced he must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to mastermind a real plan. To do so, he arranges for the internal emergency measure, Operation: Valkyrie, to be changed to enable his fellows to seize control of Berlin after the assassination of the Fuhrer. However, even as the plan is put into action, a combination of bad luck and human failings conspire on their own to create a tragedy that would prolong the greater one gripping Europe. Pix, 9 p.m.

CHAKRAVYUH

On the request of his friend Kabir, SP Adil Sends him to the Naxal group as an informer. When Kabir finds the truth he becomes one of their gang leader. CVO, 9 p.m.

CHACHI 420

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Wealthy Janki falls in love with poor Jaiprakash, much to the displeasure of her parents, and ends up getting married, and living with her husband. She subsequently gives birth to a daughter. Differences surface between the couple, and Janki leaves Jaiprakash and moves back in with her parents. Jaiprakash wants to see his daughter, but is prevented by Durgaprasad, Janki’s dad, so he assumes the guise of a woman, calls himself Laxmi, and starts working as a nanny for his daughter. Compli-

The Croods, Star Movies, 9 p.m.

cations arise when Durgaprasad gets attracted to Laxmi and wants to marry ‘her’. B4U 6 p.m.

LAJJA

Vaidehi gets married to Raghuvir, an NRI. Suffering the agony of an unhappy marriage, she decides to run away from him when she learns that she is pregnant and he wants to take the child away from her. In her pursuit for freedom, she meets Mythili a bride-to-be, Janaki a theatre artist and Ramdulari a village midwife - all of whom are victims of male chauvinism. They however refuse to be put down and fight for their rights. Filmy, 8.30 p.m.

GUDDI

Kusum is a quiet and simple school girl who is crazy about Bollywood movies. She thinks that in movies real life related things are shown. She is crazy about a movie-star and actor "Dharmendra" and he is her real-life hero, she will give anything to be near him. Now, she is growing but still unable to differentiate between reality of life and movie. Such is her obsession with movies and Dharmendra that she is not willing to even consider marriage with anyone other than Dharmendra himself. A young boy is deeply in love with her but the girl does not even care about him because she love that star too much. In the movie, girl's mama (Uncle) takes the help of the movie star and shows her the reality of movie making. In the end, the girl gets the points and decides to get married to the boy. Max, 8 p.m.

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STAR PLUS

P.M. 2.00 Ek Hasina Thi 2.30 Diya Aur Bati Hum 3.00 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon-Ek Baar Phir 3.30 Suhaani Si Ek Ladki 4.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 4.30 Nisha Aur Uske Cousins 5.00 Ek Veer Ki ArdaasVeera 5.30 Yeh Hai Mohabbatein 6.00 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon-Ek Baar Phir 6.30 Suhaani Si Ek Ladki 7.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 7.30 Ye Hai Mohabbatein 8.00 Ek Hasina Thi 8.30 Nisha Aur Uske Cousins 9.00 Diya Aur Bati Hum 9.30 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hain 10.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai….

10.30 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas – Veera 11.00 Ye Hai Mohabbatein P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 4.30 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 11.00

7.00 Bandhan… Saari Umar 7.30 Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke 8.00 Jodha Akbar 8.30 Jamai Raja 9.00 Kumkum Bhagya 9.30 Qubool Hai 10.00 Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya 10.30 Doli Armaano Ki 11.00 Jodha Akbar P.M. 2.00 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30

LIFE OK

Savdhaan India Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye Gusstakh Dil Devo ke Dev Mahadev Tumhari Pakhi Laut Aao Trisha Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye Comedy Classes Savdhaan India: India

4.00 5.00 5.30

6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30

9.00 9.30 10.30 11.00

Reshimgathi Chala Hava Yeu Dya Jai Malhar Honar Suun Me Hya Gharachi Ka Re Duraava Home Minister Jai Malhar Javai Vikat Ghene Aahe Honar Suun Me Hya Gharachi Julooni Yeti Reshimgathi Ka Re Duraava Chala Hava Yeu Dya Jai Malhar Ka Re Duraava

ANIMAL PLANET

P.M. 2.00 Gangland Killers

3.00 The Miracle Hunter 4.00 Science Impossible 5.00 Aliens Mystery Continues 5.30 Storage Wars 7.30 Aliens Mystery Continues 8.00 Hidden in America 9.00 The Miracle Hunter 10.00 Pawn Stars 11.00 Storage Wars

NAT GEOGRAPHIC

P.M. 2.00 Taboo 3.00 Science of Stupid 3.30 Showdown of the Unbeatables 4.00 Customs 5.00 Africa’s Deadliest 6.00 Science of Stupid 7.00 Secret Life of Predators 8.00 Animals Gone Wild 9.00 Brain Games

House Tomorrow People Simpsons Year Modern Family MasterChef Australia House Tomorrow People Simpsons Year Modern Family Masterchef Australia House Tomorrow People

ZEE CAFÉ

SONY TV

P.M. 12.00 CID 8.00 Itni Si Khushi 8.30 Kaun Banega Crorepati 2014 9.30 Hum Hain Na 10.00 Maharana Pratap 10.30 Humsafars 11.00 Maharana Pratap

ZEE TV

Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya Bandhan…. Sari Umar Kumkum Bhagya Neeli Chhatri Waale Qubool Hai Bandhan… Saari Umar Neeli Chaatri Wale Jamai Raja Kumkum Bhagya Pavitra Rishta

Sasural Simar Ka, Colors, 7.30 p.m. Comedy Nights with Kapil, Colors, 5.30 p.m.

9.30 Science of Stupid Fights Back 3.00 Biggest and Baddest 10.00 Do or Die 11.30 Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye 4.00 Natural Born Hunters 10.30 Battle of the 4.30 Predators Prey COLORS Supercars 5.00 Be The Creature P.M. 6.00 AP Safari STAR SPORTS1 2.00 Udann 7.00 Untamed and Uncut P.M. 2.30 Beintehaa 8.00 Speed Kills 1.35 Sultan of Johor 3.00 Meri Aashiqui Tum 9.00 River Monsters Cup 2014 Great Se Hi 10.00 Natural Born Hunters Britain vs India 3.30 Sasural Simar Ka 10.30 Predators Prey 3.05 NZ vs India 4.00 Udaan 11.00 Be The Creature 3.35 Australia vs 4.30 Bigg Boss DISCOVERY Pakistan 5.30 Comedy Nights with 5.05 New Zealand Kapil: Randhir Kapoor, P.M. vs India Sharman Joshi, 2.00 Factory Made 5.35 Malaysia vs New Shweta Kumar 2.30 Food Factory Zealand 7.00 Shastri Sisters 3.00 Dude, You Are 7.05 Fillers 7.30 Sasural Simar Ka Screwed!

7.30 WI Tour of India 14 8.00 Balika Vadhu 4.00 Duel Survival h/ls 8.30 Uddan 5.00 My Shocking Story 8.00 Jai Ho 9.00 Bigg Boss 6.00 Wildest India 8.30 T20 Triumphs 10.00 Meri Aashiqui Tum 7.00 How It’s Made: Dream 9.00 WI Tour of India 14 Se Hi Cars h/ls 10.30 Uttaran 7.30 What Happened Next 9.30 Mahi at the Crease 11.00 Beintehaa 8.00 Marooned 10.00 Jai Ho 9.00 Motor Mondays SAB TV 10.30 T20 Triumphs 10.00 You Have Been P.M. 11.00 Indian Super League Warned 12.00 Taarak Mehta Ka 14 h/ls 11.00 Body Bizarre 7.00 Badi Door Se Aaye Hai STAR SPORT4 7.30 Chandrakant SCIENCE P.M. Chiplunkar..

P.M. 12.30 MotoGP World C’ship 8.00 Baal Veer 2.00 The Gadget Show 14 Main Race 8.30 Taarak Mehta Ka..

3.00 How It’s Made 2.00 GP2 Series 14 9.00 Chidiya Ghar 4.00 Close Encounters 4.00 Barclays Premier 9.30 Badi Door Se AayeHai 5.00 How Do They Do It? League 14/15 10.00 Chiplunkar…

6.00 Shuttle Discovery’s 6.00 FEI World Equestrian 10.30 FIR Last Mission Games 14 11.00 Taarak Mehta Ka….

7.00 Mega Moves 7.00 Shanghai ATP Masters 8.00 How It’s Made ZEE MARATHI 1000 Final 9.00 The Gadget Show 8.00 FIA F1 World C’ship 14 P.M. 10.00 Superhuman Science h/ls 2.00 Ka re Duraava 11.00 Tech Toys 360 9.30 Liga Bbva 14/15 Real 2.30 Jai Malhar HISTORY Madrid vs Atheltic 3.00 Honar Suun Me Hya Bilabo Gharachi P.M. 10.00 The Football Review 3.30 Julooni Yeti 2.00 Food Tech 10.30 Football Today

TEN CRICKET

DOORDARSHAN

DDI (MAIN CHANNEL)

P.M. 2.30 News in Marathi 3.00 Apradh 3.30 Daivacha Ha Khel Nirala 4.00 Ashi Hi Dharmakanya 4.30 Sansar Maza Vegala 5.00 Janadesh 2014 6.00 Krishi Darshan 6.30 Amahci Mati Amachi....

7.00 News in Marathi 7.30 Tu Tota Main Maina 8.00 Anudamini 8.30 Pavitra Banddhan 9.00 Sammaan: Ek Adhikar 9.30 Ye To Hona Hi Tha 10.00 The Command Force Fights Back

MOVIE CHANNELS

P.M 2.00 4.30 6.30 9.00 11.00 A.M. 8.00 10.00

11.00 UDI PATAN: Documentary

DDII (METRO CHANNEL)

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.05 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.15 8.30 10.00

News in Hindi.

News.

Open Frame Repoter’s Diary Samachar.

The News.

Samachar.

Rajyon Se Samachar.

Metro Scan Business Wrap Samachar News Samachar News in Hindi.

News Night Charcha Main

The Command Force Fights Back, DDI, 10 p.m.

10.30 Raat Saddhe Dus 11.15 Khel Samachar

P.M. 1.00 Ban Tour of WI 14 h/ls 1st Test 3.00 Aus Tour of SA 14 h/ls 2nd T20 4.00 Tri Nation 14 Zim, SA, Aus h/ls final : SA vs Aus 5.00 Aus Tour of Pak 14 h/ls 3rd ODI 6.00 Tri Nation 13 Ind, WI, SL h/ls 1st ODI WI vs SL 9.00 Tri Nation 14 Zim SA, Aus h/ls Final: SA vs Australia 10.00 Aus Tour of Pak 14 h/ls 3rd ODI 11.00 SA Tour of SL 14 h/ls 1st Test

STARMOVIES

Die Hard 4 Mr Bean’s Holiday Fast Five The Croods The Lost World: Jurassic Park A Good Day to Die Hard Gulliver’s Travels

HBO

P.M. 1.05 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life 3.20 War of the Worlds 5.40 Showdown In Little Tokyo 6.55 The Smurfs 9.00 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers A.M. 9.15 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D 11.05 Legion P.M 1.40 4.05 6.00 6.30 9.00 11.10

STAR WORLD

P.M. 1.50 Grey’s Anatomy 2.45 The Good Wife 3.45 American Funniest Home Videos 4.35 Just for Laughs 5.30 Look Who’s Talking with Niranjan 6.00 Grey’s Anatomy 7.00 The Vampire Diaries 8.00 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 Miss Diva Universe 9.00 The Good Wife 10.00 Grey’s Anatomy 11.00 The Big Bang Theory

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30

LISTING

P.M. 1.20 2.50 4.55 7.00 9.00 11.35 A.M. 8.55 10.35

ZEE STUDIO

Dark Water Along Came A Spider Look Who’s Talking The Manchurian Candidate Tropic Thunder The Pacifier

PIX

P.M. 12.30 5.00 8.30 A.M 11.30

POGO

P.M. 12.00 Chhota Bheem in Khazana No 1 2.30 Mighty Raju: Khiladi Raju 4.00 Chhota Bheem Marathon 5.00 Chhota Bheem 7.00 Krishna The Great 8.00 Hagemaru 9.00 Mr Bean 9.30 My Name is Raj 11.00 Krishna The Great A.M. 8.00 Thomas and Friends 8.30 Krishna the Great 9.30 Baby Looney Tunes 10.30 My Name is Raj 2

STAR GOLD

Tropic Thunder, Zee Studio, 9 p.m.

MAX

Aap Ke Sath: Anil Kapoor Vishwasghat: Sunil Shetty Guddi: Dharmendra Prem Tapasya: Jeetendra

ZEE CINEMA

CVO

Prem Aggan: Fardeen Khan Inteha Pyar Ki: Rishi Kapoor Chakravyuh: Abhay Deol Prahaar: Nana Patekar

FILMY

Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani Parmatma Lajja Masala Gupshup

B4U

P.M. 12.00 Chhota Chetan: Urmila Matondkar 3.00 Welcome: Akshay Kumar 6.00 Chachi 420: Kamal Hassan 9.00 Ghamandee: Vijay Genelia D A.M 7.30 Sau Din Saas Ki: Raj Babbar

All programmes on this page are as per the official schedules of the various channels. Afternoon is not responsible for any last minute changes.

Ben 10 Tom and Jerry Roll No 21 Oggy and the Cockroaches

Spy Kids 3: Game Over Grown Ups 2

P.M. 1.50 Sanjog: Jeetendra 5.05 All The Best 8.00 Main Tera Hero: Varun Dhawan A.M. 10.35 Jaan Se Pyara: Govinda P.M. 2.00 5.30 9.00 A.M. 9.30

Tom and Jerry Tales Oggy and the Cockroaches Haddi Mera Buddy Pokemon Black and White Roll No 21 Oggy and the Cockroaches Johnny Test Adventure Time

The Lion King 3 13 Going On 30 Agent Cody Banks The Pink Panther 2 Valkyrie Good Luck Chuck

P.M. 1.10 Taqdeerwala 4.05 Sabse Bada Don 6.50 Indian Super League 14 North East United FC vs Kerala BlastersFC 9.00 Mai Insaaf Karronga 11.45 Mera Farz A.M. 8.50 Sher Dil 11.15 The Return of Sikandar P.M. 2.00 5.00 8.00 A.M 11.00

CARTOON NETWORK

P.M. 2.00 3.00 5.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 11.00 A.M. 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00

ZEE TALKIES

P.M. 2.00 Taptapadi: Veena Jamkar 4.30 Pak Pak Pakak: Nana Patekar 7.00 Jabardast: Pushakr Jog 9.30 Guldasta: Makrand Anaspure

Valkyrie, Pix, 9 p.m.

P.M. 2.00 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 7.30 10.00

DISNEY CHANNEL

Doraemon Jet Se Go 3 Doraemon Arjun: Prince of Bali Doraemon Arjun: Prince of Bali The Suite Life of Karan and Kabir 11.00 Best of Luck Nikki A.M. 9.00 Ishaan 9.30 Best of Luck Nikki 10.00 The Suite Life of Karan and Kabir 10.25 Art Attack

DISNEY XD

P.M. 1.30 Kiteretsu 5.30 Iron Man: Armored Adventures 6.30 American Dragon: Jake Long 7.00 Phineas and Ferb 8.00 Ultimate Spider Man 9.00 Hulk and Agents of SMASH 9.30 Big Bad Beetleborgs 10.00 Telebrands A.M. 8.00 Space Goofs 8.30 Rekkit the Rabbit 9.00 Space Goofs 9.30 American Dragon: Jake Long 10.30 Super Robot 11.00 Kick Buttowski

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Ekta Kapoor: My female characters are empowered to hit back, if humiliated T

By Chaitanya Padukone

elly-biz czarina Ekta Kapoor has been playing her trump cards well both on the telly arena as also in the filmy orbit. All set to flag off her latest volatile yet sentimental offbeat daily soap saga ‘Yeh Dil Sun Raha Hai’ this Thursday, which has a small-town culture with the backdrop of Patna city on this newly launched Sony Pal channel headed by the dynamic Anooj Kapoor, madame Ekta has a snappy convesation with Chaitanya Padukone. Your slim-trim avatar is eliciting ‘Oo la la’ reactions from envious females! All thanks to jogging and my diet regime. And then don’t all girls want to fit into new clothes. Its just a pre-Diwali scene. Thereafter, all the yummy chocolate-cakes will make their flabby presence felt. (laughs) Your TV shows are known for an upmarket metro milieu--you have made a drastic departure this time. That’s true – I have sneaked out of my comfort zone. With ‘Yeh Dil Sun Raha Hai’ (‘YDSRH’) its my reinvented tribute to love, that transforms, against a backdrop of a small town culture. Even the time slot is 7 pm. Lot of research has brought in the authentic ambience and I have cast this talented actress, Aparna Dixit (she played the younger sister's role, in landmark serial ‘Pavitra Rishta’) to play ‘Poorvi’ opposite Navi Bhangu who plays the spoilt brat ‘Arjun’. But won’t your loyal audiences miss out on the aristocratic ambience and arrogant characters in ‘Yeh Dil..’

Not at all. In ‘YDSRH’, we have this filthy rich small town 'ayyash' coal mafia family which is rolling in wealth and decadence. With the power of money, they can get away with just about anything, including arrogant machismo and abducting nubile girls. The promos of ‘Yeh Dil..’ show the lead male character with a brash attitude bossing over a docile looking girl. That’s just a ‘jhalak’. There will be an ongoing conflict of progressive versus decadence, even as we break prototypes but respect values.

Female home viewers may rest assured, that in all my TV serials, the female characters are all highly ‘empowered’ to give a befitting reply to bad behaviour, if provoked. Jai Maata Di!

Esteemed Zee Marathi Awards presented!

T

he annual Zee Marathi awards for the best in entertainment in their in house shows were presented recently and a record 70,000, votes from 70 stations across Maharashtra polled to nominate their choice for the awards. The awards went to the following shows in different categories: Best Serial – Honar Sun Mee Hya Gharchi; Best Family in a show – The Desais in 'Julun Yeti Reshimgathi'; Best Hero – Aditya in 'Julun Yeti Reshamgati'; Best Heroine – Jhanvi in 'Honar Mee Sun Ya Gharchi'; Best Female Character – Asmita; Popular Character (Male) – Hogdi Pradhan in 'Jai Malhar'; Best Jodi – Jhanvi and Shree in 'Honar Sun Mee Ya Gharchi', Best Title Song – Jai Malhar; Best Anchor – Nilesh Sable; Best Non-Fiction Show – Home Minister; Best New Face – Aditi Khanolkar in 'Ka Re Durava'. Best Villain – Shashikant in 'Honar Mee Sun Yaa Gharchi'. The awards will be telecast on Oct 6 on Zee Marathi at 7 pm. Deepak Rajadhyaksha, Business Head, Zee Marathi says, “Our sponsors Waman Hari Pethe Jewellers made it possible and we could bring these magic moments of the whole Zee Marathi family together.”

TV TATTLE

Drama across the border

Anuj Sachdev was in the business of manufacturing shoes before he started modeling and then acting. He was first seen in 'MTV Roadies' after which he did a small cameo in 'Delhi Heights'. Anuj then went on to do shows like 'Sab Ki Ladli Bebo' (his most popular show on TV), 'Phir Subah Hogi' and 'Chanchan' (his last show on TV). Anuj has done two Punjabi films 'Haani' with Harbhajan Mann and his upcoming film 'Police in Pollywood'. Anuj's film 'Police in Punjabi' releases on October 10. Anuj also was seen playing Saqeeb Salim's elder brother in Amol Gupte's recent film 'Hawaa Hawaaii'. His latest show is Rajan Shahi's 'Itti Si Khushi' on Sony which launched last week. We caught up with the talented Anuj to know more about the show.

‘Itti Si Khushi’!

Anuj Sachdev’s emotional act in

By Sandeep Hattangadi

The show ‘Itti Si Khushi’ sounds different from other Rajan Shahi shows.

Yes. 'Itti is Khushi' is an unusual and heart-tugging story of a girl, Neha Saxena, who meets with a near death accident at the age of 14 and slips into a coma for 12 years. She wakes up as a beautiful 26-year-old, only to realise that she has missed out on several important years of her life. For Neha, age is just a number as she wants to live life to the fullest. The story centres around how the innocent and fun-loving Neha decides to reclaim and relive the lost years of her life. With an unshakable fighting spirit, Neha embarks on a beautiful journey of rediscovering life for the second time!

'Humsafar' – the drama that changed the history of Pakistani Television industry is all set to premiere on Indian television on October 14 at 8.00 pm.

‘Humsafar’ is the story about how two strangers with strikingly opposite personalities fall in love after an arranged marriage, their trials and tribulations and how they overcome the problems with true love that they harbour for one another. 'Humsafar' became an instant hit with viewers in Pakistan, making Fawad and Mahira household names. Talking about the Indian television premiere of Humsafar on Zindagi, Fawad Khan said, “'Humsafar' explores the relationship of a husband and wife.”

Big Magic of the female actors

What is the character you are portraying?

I am playing a Punjabi boy called Aman Goel who is carefree and without any responsibilities but when Neha comes into his life he matures and decides to take up responsibility and run the house by taking up a job and tries to make Neha as happy as possible.

Who is playing Neha and how is your equation with her?

Smriti Kalra is portraying the role of Neha and she is a very good actress and we vibe well and complement each other as actors. Our tuning helps make the show more effective.

What about the rest of the cast?

It has Paritosh Sand, Amardeep Jha, Mazher Sayed and Vidya Sinha. It’s a prestigious production because it’s a Rajan Shahi show and that on a premier channel like Sony.

With the onset of festive celebrations, Big Magic brings forth special programming as part of its larger festive offering where the female actors of its shows 'Akbar Birbal', 'Ajab Gajab Ghar Jamai' and 'Uff! Yeh Nadaniyaan', will be celebrating the special day in its true authentic style. Big Magic will be incorporating interesting storylines in their leading shows, highlighting the real essence of the widely followed ritual – Karwa Chauth.

Crime shows on crime channel

Will you be doing any more films?

Not right now as I am busy with this show and my Punjabi film ‘Police in Pollywood’ is about to release and I am very happy with the way that the Punjabi film industry is booming which was unthinkable some years ago. But now we have huge studios, directors and actors in Punjab.

Investigation Discovery (ID), the new Hindi entertainment channel, today unveiled its primetime programming.

The network will present a wide range of programmes capturing true stories of investigation, crime and suspense. ID will introduce a gamut of investigative genres between 8 pm and 11 pm. Some of the captivating series that will premiere on ID include 'Disappeared', 'Who the (bleep) did I Marry?', 'I was Murdered', 'Evil', 'I Married a Mobster', and 'Blood Relatives'.

Can you compare television and films?

Yes. The audience is different for both.

Any role models or icons in this field?

Yes. I am a great admirer of Kamalhaasan.

Anuj is sure to give a lot of ‘Khushi’to his fans!

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or success of a democracy, it is important that a strong and stable Government is there in the country. But more than that, it is important for a strong and trustworthy Opposition to be there.

Today, a stable Government is present in the country, but where is the strong and trustworthy Opposition?

The credentials of the Congress Party have been spoilt so much that it doesn’t even have the required number of Lok Sabha MPs to become Leader of the Opposition. The people’s trust in the Congress has been broken. The second problem is that the Congress Party is not doing anything either to win back the people’s trust. After the elections, Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi have become passive. So the question arises: will an era of one-party dominance – which can prove to be dangerous for democracy – return to the country once again? If the Congress becomes dormant, then it will be the responsibility of the regional parties to come forward and build a strong Opposition. A possible step in this direction was taken at Jind in Haryana recently: a rally of lakhs of people was held and Nitish Kumar fulfilled his duty by taking the initiative to

unite the Janata Parivar, and thereby start a new turn in politics.

Jind, which is at the centre of Haryana from a geographical point of view, became the centrer of politics in Haryana on September 25 this year. Since morning itself the flags of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) were flying on the streets of Haryana and supporters were in a rush to reach Jind. From Rohtak, about 60 km from Jind, the roads were packed completely with vehicles. On the left and right sides of National Highway 41 and in the lanes at the side of the road caravans of INLD supporters were trying to move. There were jams everywhere and everywhere there was slogan shouting.

The condition on the roads was such that it was clear that many people among them would not be able to reach Jind or else will reach only after the rally is over. Those people who used their minds, got their vehicles off the highway and took side roads in between farms and reached the rally on time. It must be mentioned that the Jind rally was of lakhs of people, but there were no arrangements in place by the ruling Congress Government of Haryana. The INLD deserves congratulations that without the police and without official arrangements, it was successful in organising a rally of lakhs of people peacefully.

The rally took place outside Jind city near Safaido by-pass. Stretching as far as about 1 km, crowds of people was present. Most of the people who had come to participate in the rally were wearing traditional Haryanvi turbans and white clothes and holding green flags in their hands. Everywhere there were peo-

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ple and more people. Those people who thought that the late Chaudhary Devi Lal and the Chautala family have been forgotten by the people of Haryana or have been left behind were proved wrong by the numbers at the rally and all their arguments were silenced. The INLD’s Jind rally proved to be a historic rally. Many people believe that in Haryana such a big rally has never been held before. In actual terms, people participated in this rally in lakhs. This rally was organised by Om Prakash Chautala in honour of the great farmer leader and his father Chaudhary Devilal’s 100th birth anniversary.

Addressing the sea of crowds, Chautala said that an INLD Government will be formed and he will take the oath of Chief Minister from jail itself. But to call this rally only a rally of Haryana elections would be wrong, because the seeds of a new chapter of Indian politics were sown at this rally. At this rally, a campaign to unite the Janata Parivar was initiated. In the Jind rally, former prime

minister H D Deve Gowda, Chief Minister of Punjab Prakash Singh Badal, President of the Janata Dal United Sharad Yadav, former Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar and representative of the SP President Mulayam Singh Yadav, Shivpal Yadav, representative of the Samajwadi Janata Party and many well known people were present. All the leaders stressed one thing: that now everybody will have to unite. Nitish said that if members of the Janata Dal will be united, the beginning of new politics will be there. Sharad Yadav said that for making a new India there is a need for old partners to come together. Former prime minister Deve Gowda said that in forming the Janata Dal Chaudhary Devilal had made a huge contribution and today once again there is a need for the old Janata Parivar to be united. The brother of former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh Yadav, Shivpal Yadav said that the fight should be fought against the Congress and the BJP together.

It means that this rally should not

be seen only from the point of view of the Haryana election, but should be seen as a well thought out plan to create an alliance at the national level to deal with the challenges of current politics.

This rally took place in Haryana keeping in mind the upcoming Haryana election and was organised by the INLD. The party was immensely successful in this and the rally created a virtual earthquake in the politics of Haryana. Notably, in this rally, the former chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar emerged as a hero. At the rally, he seemed like a national leader. His speech remained the most powerful and was much appreciated by the people of Haryana. People clapped enthusiastically at his jibes against Narendra Modi. For example, he asked, where did that chest of 56 inches go? The Army of China invades our border and Pakistanis fire bullets on our soldiers. Nitish said that the BJP had won elections by showing false dreams of ‘good days’ and people have been cheated – and the atmosphere echoed with sounds of applause. Meanings emerge from these claps.

One is this that people have really started believing that good days was merely an election slogan which is not going to be fulfilled. The second thing is that people want to see Nitish Kumar fight against the BJP. This is the reason that Nitish Kumar made it clear that to stop the BJP, the uniting of the Janata Parivar is important. The speech of Nitish Kumar was entirely political. His language was easy flowing, but his words were precise and sharp. Apart from this his whole speech was centered on Prime Minister Modi. He didn’t leave any effort in his attack.

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t should finally be accepted that the era of ideology in politics has ended in the country, and finding any way, whatever, however it might be, to reach power has now become a new principle. Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jaiprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia, Deen Dayal Upadhyay – and if we take a name beyond them – we can also include Guru Golwalkar and the principles proposed by him. All these people have become irrelevant in today’s politics. That is why one should reach this conclusion that the era of ideology has taken farewell from the country.

The Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party are of the same belief, be it belief in Hindutva, or be it belief with regard to Muslims, be it belief regarding the way of development. Both of them came together ideologically to do a differ-

ent kind of politics. But the break between them didn’t happen over ideology; instead it was over who will be in power and who can be removed from power completely and in that stead their own party can be established in power – this has been the main reason for the breakup. On the other side, the Congress and the National Congress Party’s principles were almost same, because of which they came together. In these principles there was secularism, including the poor in the race of development, and in these principles somewhere or the other farmers were there, even if they were big farmers. Between them too the break took place in Maharashtra because, instead of principles, more ministers of whom should be there and who should become the chief minister and who could trip the other and establish complete control over power – this selfishness became dominant.

Actually an illusion has been created. That illusion is that in the name of Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party can win all the seats of the Legislative Assemblies. On the other side, after the Lok Sabha results, the by-elections in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have given the indication that Narendra Modi’s name will not work so much in the States. So the Shiv Sena here

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can win more seats. The Congress and the NCP too thought that the wave that was born during the Lok Sabha elections had died down and therefore they can win more seats and this illusion broke the parties linked on the basis of ideology and once again predicated the principle that taking power in one’s hand has become the one and only principle.

The Janata Parivar is talking about becoming one. In Haryana, the former Chief Minister of Bihar raised this question in a very logical way, but the associates of Nitish Kumar himself are not very keen on uniting the Janata Parivar and be-

cause of this reason, after 1989, the Janata Parivar has gradually moved to the fringes almost everywhere.

Nitish Kumar should be praised that in Bihar, he forged an alliance with Lalu Yadav, from which he got results. Actually, the biggest self-contradiction of the Janata Parivar is not considering each other equal.

Every leader of the Janata Parivar is the biggest and the greatest and these leaders have also proved that when they are with Bharatiya Janata Party or the Congress, then all their ego, all their pride becomes distant and they work like adherents, but when they sit together with each

other, then they are the biggest ideologues, they become the biggest leaders and become the biggest future fortune makers of the country.

This mentality has fractured the ideology of the Janata Parivar. It has also cracked the courage to fight for the poor and has also ended the possibilities of becoming a meaningful Opposition. On the other side it is a pity that no leader of the Janata Parivar is ready to learn a lesson from any of its mistakes. Now Nitish Kumar has spoken about the Janata Parivar becoming one and maybe nobody knows more than Nitish Kumar who those people are who don’t want the Janata Parivar to become one.

The second big thing to unite the Janata Parivar, Mulayam Singh Yadav can do. Mulayam Singh Yadav, even after promising, didn’t reach the Jind rally in Haryana, where the rest of his associates were going to reach. Maybe Mulayam Singh Yadav’s health was not fine.

He sent his brother Shivpal Singh to Jind and Shivpal Singh even gave a powerful speech there, but the presence of Mulayam Singh was necessary. Shivpal Singh to an extent filled that gap, but if Mulayam Singh Yadav had reached there, then people would have believed that the way had been paved for the Janata Parivar to become united.

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Putin to attend G20 leaders’ summit

SYDNEY: Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey confirmed yesterday Vladimir Putin will attend the G20 leaders' summit in November, despite concerns about Russia's actions in Ukraine in recent months. Australia's confirmation that the Russian leader would attend the highpowered summit came after Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said he would also meet Putin next week. "I spoke with the Finance Minister of Russia only yesterday...And he did confirm that President Putin will be coming to the G20 leaders' summit in Brisbane," Hockey told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

ONDON: Tata group's Land Rover has forayed into an elite club of world's 100 most valuable brands as the only Indianowned entity, while iconic Apple has retained its top slot with nearly US $119 billion valuation.

Land Rover, an iconic British car brand owned by Indian conglomerate Tatas, has been ranked 91st with a brand value of US $4.47 billion and is one of the five new entrants on this annual list compiled by leading brand consultancy Interbrand.

Apple -- maker of iPhone mobiles, Mac computers, iPad tablets and iPod music players among others -- is followed by Google on the second position (US $107 billion).

These are the only two with brand values in excess of US $100 billion.

While Land Rover is the only Indian-owned entity on the list, there are at least six other brands ranked among top 100 that are part of the entities run by Indian-origin CEOs. These include Satya Nadella-led Microsoft (5th with brand value of US $61 billion), Indra Nooyi-led

Land Rover, the iconic British car brand is owned by the Tata Group.

Pepsi (24th; US $19 billion), Shantanu Narayen-led Adobe (77th; US $5.3 billion) and Ajay Banga-led MasterCard (88th; US $4.7 billion).

Ivan Menezes-led British drinks giant Diageo, which also owns majority stake in India's largest alco-

holic beverage manufacturer United Spirits, also has two portfolio brands -- Smirnoff (34th; US $13 billion) and Johnnie Walker (86th; US $4.8 billion) -- on the top 100 list.

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like FedEx, Huawei, Heineken, Pizza Hut, BOSS, Nokia, Gap and Nintendo.

"Exemplifying British engineering and expertise in the SUV category, the iconic British brand (owned by TATA of India) has invested heavily in product creation, facility, and infrastructure," Interbrand said.

The leading brand consultancy further noted that "with 115 awards across its car range (led by Range Rover with 55 awards), Land Rover is finally getting the recognition it deserves and has improved its J D Power scores significantly."

"With the customer at the heart of the company, a clear focus and significant investment in improving design and quality, and demonstrating world-class technology and innovation, Land Rover is fully equipped to experience accelerating success in the forthcoming Age of You," Interbrand added. Among top-ten, Apple and Google are followed by Coca-Cola, IBM, Microsoft, GE, Samsung, Toyota, McDonald's and Mercedes Benz.

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Global airlines' chiefs to meet in Delhi

FRANKFURT: Star Alliance has exuded confidence that its latest entrant Air India was putting into place the high service standards set by the largest global airlines grouping. The 27-member airline club has also decided to hold the meeting of its Chief Executive Board (CEB) in Delhi in December this year, Star Alliance CEO Mark Schwab said.

9-yr-old US girl enters Mensa

WASHINGTON: A nine-year-old school girl in the US has entered the genius club Mensa after getting a high score of 140 on a cognitive test. Jacqueline 'JJ' Durbin, a student at Pirrung Elementary School in Mesquite, US, recently received a letter informing her that the test she took when she was 7 years old met the requirements to join the high IQ group. "To her it's no big deal but her dad and I think it's pretty cool," said JJ's mother.

World's biggest cave discovered in China

LONDON: Explorers have discovered the world's largest cave by volume in China.

Researchers have found that Miao Room Chamber in China is the largest in the world with a volume measured as 10.78 million cubic metres.

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Rushdie attacks ‘mangled’ language of ‘jihadi-cool’

By Aditi Khanna

L PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTS: Protesters sleep in front of a jewellery store on a main road in the occupied areas by prodemocracy demontrators at Hong Kong's Mongkok district on Sunday. Students leading pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong issued an open letter Saturday to Chinese President Xi Jinping, urging him to consider political reforms in the city and blaming the city's unpopular leader for the demonstrations.

Nobel laureate Malala worries about exams

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ONDON: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai may have won the world's most coveted award but her main preoccupation remains her next school exams.

The Pakistani teenager, who became an international celebrity after surviving a gun attack by Taliban in 2012 for advocating education for girls, said she is worried about the lessons she will miss to collect the award. The 17-year-old spent her first evening as the youngest Nobel laureate at home in Birmingham with her parents watching Pakistani television. "I had caught a cold and wasn't feeling so good," she told

surgery after the Taliban attack.

"I am feeling really honoured and happy. People's love really helped me recover from the shooting and be strong, so I want to do all I can to contribute to society," she added.

Malala was aware that she might win the Nobel prize and had arranged for a teacher to come into her Chemistry class after 10 am on Friday once the award had been anMalala with mother Tor Pekai, brothers nounced. "We were learning about Khushal and Atal and father Ziauddin. electrolysis of copper. I do not have a mobile phone so my teacher said she would come if there was news. It 'The Sunday Times'.

Messages poured in from all over got to 10.15 and she hadn't come, so the world for the Pakistani girl who I thought: oh well, I didn't win. I am had to be airlifted to Birmingham really young and I am just at the betwo years ago for a life-saving brain ginning of my work," she said.

ONDON: Eminent British Indian author Salman Rushdie has attacked the 'mangled' language of religion which is turning British Muslims towards extremism.

"The language of religion has been horribly mangled in our time,

by Christian extremists in America and by Hindu extremists in India but the overwhelming weight of the problem lies in the world of Islam, and much of it has its roots in the ideological language of blood and war emanating from the Salafist movement within Islam, globally backed by Saudi Arabia," the Booker Prize winner said while accepting the PEN/Pinter prize this week.

Rushdie said he fears that the language of "jihadi-cool" is seducing young British Muslims, many via Twitter and YouTube, into joining the "decapitating barbarianism" of IS. Rushdie defined "jihadi-cool" as "the deformed medievalist language of fanaticism, backed up by modern weaponry", saying, "It's hard not to conclude that this hate-filled religious rhetoric, pouring from the mouths of ruthless fanatics into the ears of angry young men, has become the most dangerous new weapon in the world today".

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ENIGMA CODE 842

ACROSS: 9 Noisy bird after a vegetable or other bird (7) 10 Return to office dance, etc mad (2-5) 11 British poet associated with gravity is having a merry time (7) 12 Actor in turmoil for some natural product? (7) 13 Two garments for baseballer (5,4) 15 Paint solvent as acquired in an erratic spurt (5) 16 British gunners in Eastern European state (7) 19 Makes it louder, one finds (5,2) 20 Hero's gamble upset after 50 invaded (2,3) 21 Pop music certain to be ringed by crags (9) 25 About to be put up in school ground (7) 26 Girl Ena accepted vile concoction (7) 28 You need inspiration to draw them (7) 29 Eastern ceremony initially at minor Roman ruin (7) DOWN: 1 Runs over and falls (6) 2 Top style of musical party (4,2) 3 Places I pass, going the wrong way (4) 4 Escape by air (6) 5 He's mad to strike, the dope! (8) 6 Pulse of dreamboat (5-5) 7 Attempts to multiply capital by 100 making plates (8) 8 Rises but doesn't keep a date (5,3) 14 Sort of policy for the Lib-Dems?

(5,5) 16 Was busted with Old English, perhaps ! (4,2,2)

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Each colour in our code represents a letter.

When you have cracked the code you will be able to make up seven words.

The clue to first word is given to help you get started.

The Clue: Vendor

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S ENIGMA CODE INFEST, SENSES, TENNIS, INSIST, SETTEE, FINEST, SNIFFS

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MATH PYRAMID 842 17 Photographed tall grass covering wood pile (8) 18 Flesh-creeping condition (8) 22 Feeling of horror passes slowly (6)

23 Joined, yet somehow untied (6) 24 Inward-turning scientist (4,2) 27 In a cruel mood, he wants to be tickled (4)

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Candlelit, 6 Sapid, 9 Savages, 10 Braking, 11 Sorties, 12 Evelina, 13 Where else, 15 Paged, 16 Strap, 19 Guffawing, 22 Infarct, 23 Derided, 25 Goliath, 26 Variant, 27 Posit, 28 Port watch.

DOWN: 1 Cases, 2 Navarre, 3 Lignite, 4 Lasts, 5 Table leaf, 6 Shake-up, 7 Prising, 8 Dog eat dog, 13 Washing-up, 14 Lightship, 17 Ruffles, 18 Parfait, 20 Aircrew, 21 Indraft, 23 Dover, 24 Dutch.

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ACROSS: 1. Tit for ___ 4. Ind. Med. Assoc.

5. Career choice 8. Zeta, ___, Theta 9. Rabbits' tails 12. 2 3 4 etc.

13. Balaam's mount

The goal of Math Pyramid is to fill the given pyramid with numbers such that the following three rules are satisfied.

1. A cell value must be sum or difference of the two cells below 2. A row cannot have duplicate numbers 3. A number cannot be less than 1 or more than the grid size

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3. Canterbury ___ 6. And so on, for short 7. Hot spot in Helsinki 10. ___ and fros 11. Snake sound

HIDATO 842

The goal of Hidato is to fill the grid with consecutive numbers that connect horizontally, vertically, or diagonally from first to the last number in the grid. The first and last numbers of a puzzle and a some other numbers are already filled in.

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

MATHDOKU 842

Place numbers into the puzzle cells in such a way that each row and column contains each of the digits from 1 up to the size of the puzzle (4,5 or 6). Like a Sudoku puzzle, no number is repeated in any row or column. Each bold-outlined group of cells contains a hint consisting of a number and one of the mathematical symbols + x - /. The number is the result of applying the mathematical operation represented by the symbol to the digits contained within the domain. The solution to each puzzle is arrived at logically and is unique.

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TODAY’S FORECAST

JAGJIT UPPAL

WIZARD OF ID PARKER & HART

B.C. JOHNNY HART

BEAU PEEP THE ADVENTURES OF LEGIONNAIRE BEAU PEEP

FRED BASSET ALEX GRAHAM

PHANTOM LEE FALK

MODESTY BLAISE PETER O’DONNELL

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Moon in Taurus till 5.41 p.m.

5th Ashwin Shuklapaksha Mrig Vrishubh (Taurus) B.V.U. Red 8

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: Your personal life will improve, but do not go overboard about it yet. It will be necessary to give your personal relationship a period of testing.

Do not allow outside pressures to force you into making any commitments. Money blocked in land transactions will be released, easing your financial burden. Youngsters will be very successful in their studies.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Beautiful, tall, lean body, healthy and long-lived. Intelligent, social mentally alert, quick witted, they could be misunderstood occasionally.

After a good education, a career as a financial advisor or administrative services would lead to gain. Considerable wealth and happiness is indicated.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Your will be Made aware of some information which could go against you, but with right advice your may be saved from an embarrassing situation. At an outing or get-together you may come across another person who shares your interests. The possibilities are phenomenal but take one day at a time.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): Do not refuse a good work proposal that is offered to you. It may mean that you have to stretch yourself but it will be worth it. Initiate negotiations for better terms, which will be favorably considered. Expand your horizons. Meet new people. Your mate or partner could have his or her own difficulties too that also need sorting out.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Follow up new work proposals and try to get in touch with persons who can help you. Handle financial issues carefully to avoid loss. A new career opening will be interesting and is worth pursuing. Venture partnerships are better than mergers keeping the future in mind. The single may get a favorable proposal for marriage. There will be enough cause for happiness and celebration at home.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): You will receive a couple of interesting new proposals. It is the right time to expand business or to branch out into a new field. Things will work out in your favor. You will be buying a new means of conveyance or investing your money in a new house. This is the time to tell the one you love of your feelings rather than remaining just a silent admirer. The response will be good. A few stolen moments in love ads spark to the dullness of your day.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): Make the most of your strengths but don’t try to achieve perfection.

Take stock of your weaknesses and work your way around them. The future course of work is entirely in your hands. It is for you to make positive decisions and then stick by them. Profits are likely. You need to understand your loved ones. Your irritation over small matters may cause unnecessary discord on the home front.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): It will be difficult for you to take a decision today on a matter, which you are not familiar with.

It would be wiser to consult someone who knows or has adequate background and whose advice can be useful. Be careful with your finances and check an urge to splurge money. The object of your affections seems to be in a bad mood. Perhaps you are trying too hard to change the person. Accept them for what they are.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): Matters concerning new work will come up for discussion.

There are some important issues to be sorted out first before you make a commitment. Your mate or beloved may also require some help from you for some important issues concerning family or loved one who is in some difficulty.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): Keep your mind open to suggestions. Benefits are indicated. But so are expenses. Remain cool and calm in your own interests even though associates may try your patience time and again. Also consolidate your financial position. Surplus funds should be invested in fixed deposits or bonds. A constant reassurance helps to build a successful relationship. You can ill afford to neglect the needs of those that love you.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): Concentrate on your current project or job, which is giving you a steady income. New deals look tempting but could well turn out to be expensive delusions. Stick to what you know best. Trying to branch out or diversifying your business will not be a good idea in the long run. All plans for a good time with your mate can get upset because of things beyond your control.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): A lot of things work at cross purposes. You have to unravel things. Streamline work rather than bring about drastic changes.

Continue with your regular work which will lead to gain. Do not take chances as there is nothing new on the horizon right now.

Your trying to play one against the other amongst friends could land you in a soup.

People look up to you do not disappoint them.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): You may encounter a few hurdles at work. Don’t worry yourself unnecessarily. Try to relax; the situation will improve sooner than you think. If it is finances that you are worried about, your problems will soon be over.

Meet new people and widen your horizons. Being a warm and likable person people are easily attracted to you. At a social gathering you will be the toast of the day.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): Your logic, method of work and result oriented approach gets appreciated by those who matter.

You will succeed in your objectives. You could have one or two good work options coming; accept the one that does not need any financial investment from you.

You will be in the mood to celebrate the evening in the company of your friends and family. A romantic involvement gets stronger.

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ACROSS: 1 ___ City : Bangalore (6) 7 Curse of the Church, or detested person (8) 8 Leap up, or spring over something (4) 10 ____ oneself up : prepares oneself for difficulty, etc. (6) 11 Bakehouse (6) 14 Small cask (3) 16 Person or animal who shuns company of his fellow men or creatures (5) 17 An achievement (4) 19 Cleans by using a cloth (5) 21 Measurement round the waist or any other cylindrical thing (5) 22 Well-known, acclaimed or celebrated (5) 23 A coldblooded aquatic animal (4) 26 Small and mischievous (5) 28 Carry the ___ : bear responsibility or blame? (3) 29 ___ Washington : first U.S. president? (6) 30 Was sullen and silent (6) 31 Without purpose (4) 32 Twelve (3,5) 33 Amazon's e-book reader (6)

DOWN: 1 Dressed - "badger" anagram? (6) 2 Confounded (6) 3 Takes a short rest or sleeps for a while (4) 4 Speech leaves nothing to share (7) 5 Hunt in Hollywood (5) 6 Half-human half-animal woodland deity noted lechery (5) 8 Boxer LaMotta (4) 9 Girl's name - "gem" sent back? (3) 12 Boxing wins (3) 13 ___ off : says or recites very rapidly?

(5) 15 Dangles a bait in front of, in a way?

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SUDOKU 2282 Sudoku is a number placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid such several given numbers.To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every digit from 1 to 9 must appear in each of the nine vertical columns, in each of the nine horizontal rows and in each of the nine boxes.

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Difficulty Level:

(5) 18 Banish (5) 19 Not bright (3) 20 Susbscriber Trunk Dialling, in short (3) 21 Capital of Sikkim (7) 22 Coniferous tree (3) 23 ___ angel : an angel which has

sinned (6) 24 Smudged with writing fluid (4) 25 Crowd together (6) 26 Encourage or incite (3,2) 27 Small pit or depression (5) 28 Half-digested food that ruminant chews at leisure (3) 30 Go down slowly (4)

SOLUTION TO SATURDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Shadow, 7 In camera, 8 Scan, 10 Gratis, 11 Nereid, 14 Gum, 16 Savvy, 17 Stem, 19 Idaho, 21 Magma, 22 Gamed, 23 Suds, 26 Skint, 28 Lap, 29 Kanpur, 30 Oiling, 31 Kiln, 32 Murderer, 33 Atwill.

DOWN: 1 Stages, 2 Dictum, 3 Wins, 4 Ganesha, 5 Negev, 6 Sandy, 8 Sage, 9 Aim, 12 Rao, 13 Ivied, 15 Edged, 18 Tikka, 19 Iam, 20 AMD, 21 Matured, 22 GNP, 23 Sallow, 24 Up in, 25 Signal, 26 Skimp, 27 Inure, 28 LII, 30 Okra.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 2101 To solve an Irregular Sudoku puzzle, every digit must appear once in: Each of the vertical columns Each of the horizontal rows Each of the regions

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CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: Y equals G

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another.

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SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in

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How many words of four or more letters can you make from the letters shown in today’s puzzle? In making a word, each letter may be used once only.

Each word must contain the letter at the top of the pyramid. There should be at least one nine letter word. Plurals, foreign words and proper names are not allowed.

Today’s ratings: 04 average; 05 good; 07 outstanding.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: acorn, agony, along, argon, cargo, carol, clog, cloy, coal, conga, coral, corn, corny, crayon, crony, falcon, falconry, flagon, flog, flora, foal, focal, foray, frog, gaol, glory, goal, golf, gory, groan, GYRFALCON, gyro, loaf, loan, long, only, oral, organ, orgy, rayon, roan, royal, yoga.

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Hamilton wins, Mercedes take teams’ crown S

Star men Messi, Ronaldo in friendly shadows Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo on the move.

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ARIS: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo spent a rare Saturday in the shadows as Argentina and Portugal slipped to defeats in friendly internationals staged more than 8,000km apart.

Messi missed a first-half penalty as Brazil beat Argentina 2-0 in a fiercely contested “Superclasico” in front of 50,000 fans in the Chinese capital.

Seven hours later, Ronaldo’s Portugal lost 2-1 to France in Paris.

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OCHI: Sergio Perez’s secured 10th place at the inaugural Russian Grand Prix, preventing a no-points show but Sahara Force India conceded the fifth spot to McLaren in the team championship, here today.

Perez earned the last available point after starting 12th on the grid while his teammate Nico Hulkenberg finished 12th to come out of an F1 GP without points for the third time this season.

Hulkenberg had started from 17th place on the grid due to a five-place penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change.

Force India came into today’s race with a narrow one-point lead over McLaren but the British side today pocketed 22 points as Jenson Button finished fourth, just ahead of teammate Kevin Magnussen.

Force India are now lying at sixth spot with 123 points, 20 behind McLaren.

“It was a very hard race and a very hardearned point. We tried our best to push throughout the race, but obviously the fuel strategy was quite marginal – especially because I started the race on the medium and had to really push to keep in touch with the group on the softs,” Perez said.

“When I was on the softs, it was hard to save fuel because I had to defend from Felipe [Massa] who was behind me for the whole of the second stint. So it was a hard afternoon, but hopefully we can be in better shape for the coming races.”

Hulkenberg also said it was a difficult race for him.

“We started pretty far back on the grid and I was struggling a little with my straight-line speed compared to the cars with which I was battling. We were doing well in the corners, but losing a bit of ground on the straights, which made it difficult to overtake, especially on a track like this, where the straights are the only good passing opportunities,” he said

Diego Tardelli was the unlikely hero with his first two goals for Brazil.

Atletico Mineiro striker Tardelli, 29, put Brazil ahead on 28 minutes, before Messi curled his soft penalty attempt close to goalkeeper Jefferson just before half-time.

Tardelli was on target again in the second half as Brazil restored pride after the World Cup, when the hosts were hammered in the semis while Argentina reached the final.

“Brazil are the best team in the world with a great tradition,” beamed coach Dunga,

who is rebuilding following the 7-1 World Cup semi-final defeat to Germany.

“We have no big players, we are now acting as one team. The whole team is evolving, including me.”

Barcelona icon Messi has now missed two successive penalties — two weeks after he also miscued one for his club against Levante.

“We always try to win but today we couldn’t. It was a match defined by our two mistakes,” said Messi.

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OCHI: The entire Ferrari team has sent a message of encouragement to Formula One driver Jules Bianchi, who is fighting for his life following an accident at the Japanese Grand Prix one week ago.

The two drivers, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen, flanked team chief Alberto Mattiacci, behind a sign reading “Forza Jules” (Go Jules).

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UMBAI: Franco Sports Club and Miners Sports Club were locked in a grim duel for supremacy, before the former managed to snatch a thrilling 3-2 victory in a tight First Division match of the MDFA (Mumbai District Football Association) League – 201415, played at the St. Xavier’s ground, Parel.

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Bianchi suffered a severe head injury when his Marussia car skidded off the wet course at Suzuka and ploughed into a tractor recovering another car that crashed out at the same spot one lap earlier. His condition is critical.

Bianchi, a Frenchman, drives for Marussia but is a member of Ferrari’s young drivers academy

OCHI (Russia): Lewis Hamilton reeled off his fourth consecutive victory to extend his lead in the Formula One drivers’ title race and secure Mercedes’ maiden triumph in the constructors’ championship on Sunday when he won the inaugural Russian Grand Prix in emphatic fashion.

The 29-year-old Briton, starting from his 38th pole position, cruised to the 31st success of his career to draw level with fellow-Englishman Nigel Mansell in the record books, finishing the race 13.657 seconds ahead of Mercedes team-mate and nearest rival German Nico Rosberg.

Hamilton’s win lifted him 17 points clear of Rosberg, who made a mistake on the opening lap and, after a pit stop, recovered from the back of the field. Hamilton now has 291 points to Rosberg’s 274 with three races remaining. Just a week after Jules Bianchi’s lifethreatening accident in the storm-hit Japanese Grand Prix, where the French driver suffered severe head injuries, the race was preceded by tributes to support his fight for life in hospital in Yokkaichi.

Hamilton’s win was his ninth this year and the result delivered Mercedes’ ninth one-two of the season as they ended Red Bull’s fouryear dominance of the teams’ crown. They will now aim to beat McLaren’s record of 10 wins set in 1988.

Finn Valtteri Bottas finished third for Williams ahead of Briton Jenson Button and his McLaren team-mate, Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen, with two-time champion Fernando Alonso of Spain finishing sixth for Ferrari after an inspired, but troubled, drive.

Australian Daniel Ricciardo was seventh for Red Bull ahead of departing German teammate and four-time champion Sebastian Vettel and Finn Kimi Raikkonen, in the second Ferrari. Mexican Sergio Perez was 10th for Sauber.

Franco SC down Miners in exciting tie outfits, Franco Sports Club showed plenty of determination and fighting qualities to emerge victors. Striker Alex Fernandes scored twice and consistent scorer Dustin

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OLKATA: Atletico de Kolkata gave the football-crazy city fans a night to remember in their 3-0 drubbing of Mumbai City FC as the inaugural Hero Indian Super League football tournament kicked off in spectacular fashion after a star-studded opening ceremony here.

It was Fikru Teferra who struck the first goal of ISL to give the home franchise a 27th minute lead to bring the 70,000 capacity crowd at the Salt Lake Stadium to their feet, while Borja Fernandez’s stunning volley from the edge of the box delighted one and all with some top quality stuff.

Substitute Arnal Llibert (90+3rd) gave the Kolkatans enough reasons to celebrate by turning Fikru’s cross from the right to give a perfect ending to the match of the league touted to change the landscape of Indian football.

From the short passing of ATK’s to the trademark English style long passes by the MCFC, it was high quality football on display, something that was rarely seen at the Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan.

The iconic stadium might have witnessed such a big crowd during in the reminded one of an East Bengal-Mohun Bagan but the derby never had experienced such motley spectators who varied from hardcore football fans to young families to waving youngsters.

It was a day of many firsts at VYBK as fans enjoyed quality football with replays from 17 giant screens that dotted the uppermost tier, some-

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thing that was never experienced in Indian football.

The 28-year-old Ethiopian forward got a long through pass from ATK’s marquee player Luis Garcia and before German defender Manuel Friedrich could intercept, brilliantly chipped over local lad Subrata Paul for the first goal.

The home team had the better share of chances and Spanish short passing skill was well evident in the side which had its affiliations with La Liga giants Atletico Madrid.

Dominating the game in deft passing, ATK got two fine opportunities early into the game with Baljit Sahni missing a one-on-one chance with Paul in the ninth minute.

Garcia was involved in both the chances as the former Liverpool star first set up Sahni before his leftfooted volley was saved by Paul in the ninth minute.

Mumbai tried to add sting to their attack bringing in Italian forward Andre Moritz in the second-half and he won a freekick at the edge of the box but only to put it away.

MCFC also had a narrow escape when their defender Raju Gaekwad got away from a second booking and possible red after a tough challenge.

Mumbai were hit hard by the absence of former France interna- Mumbai City FC defender Pavel Cmovs and Atletico De Kolkata midfielder Luis Javier Garcia Sanz during India Super League (ISL) 2014 tional Nicolas Anelka and injured in Kolkata on Sunday. ex-Arsenal and Sweden star Fredrik Ljungberg.

Miguel Gonzalez Rey; Ofentse Teferra Lemessa. dal, Manuel Friedrich, Raju GaekTHE TEAMS: Nato, Joffre Mateu Gonzalez (Jakub wad (Peter Costa 57’), Johan LetzelAtletico de Kolkata: Subhasish Roy Podany 62’), Luis Garcia (Arnal Mumbai City FC: Subrata Paul; ter; Tiago Ribeiro (Andre Moritz Chowdhury; Biswajit Saha, Arnab Llibert 87’), Borja Fernandez; Baljit Pavel Cmovs, Syed Rahim Nabi 46’), Jan Stohanzi, Lalrindika Ralte; Mondal, Denzil Franco, Jose Sahni (Sanju Pradhan 81’), Fikru (Nadong Bhutia 40’), Deepak Mon- Diego Fernando Nadaya.

Shuttler Jayaram clinches Dutch Open, bags maiden Grand Prix A

LMERE (The Netherlands): Indian shuttler Ajay Jayaram today notched up the biggest triumph of his career by clinching USD 50,000 Yonex Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament here.

The 27-year-old Bangalore-based player defeated Indonesia’s Ihsan Maulana Mustofa 10-11 11-6 11-7 1-11 11-9 in the men’s singles final which lasted 46 minutes to bag his maiden Grand Prix title at the Topsportcentrum Almere.

Jayaram started off on the wrong note, losing the first game. But he came back to win the next two before Mustofa staged a strong fightback to claim the fourth game. However, it was Jayaram who had the last laugh as he went on to win the deciding game and clinch the title. The 13th seeded Indian returned to the circuit in August after a seven-month injury layoff.

Jayaram had beaten top seed Rajiv Ouseph of England 11-8 11-7 11-5 in a 26-minute semi-final to enter title round. Jayaram got past Chun Hei Tam of Hong Kong in the pre-quarterfinals and third-seeded Indonesian Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka in the quarterfinals.

Coach Vimal Kumar said it was a creditable performance from Jayaram and good for Indian badminton.

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Ajay Jayaram “Jayaram has had injuries in recent times. Despite that, he has won a Grand Prix title. It’s his career-best performance and I congratulate him,” Vimal told PTI from Bangalore.

“This is good for Indian badminton as the country has now got some players who can win tournament of Grand

Prix level and above. I had always thought that Jayaram has got the capability to win this kind of tournaments,” he said.

Vimal informed that the BWF has tried out a new scoring system of 11point games in the Grand Prix level and will have a review next month.

UMBAI: India’s Mahesh Mangaonkar toppled top seed Zahed Mohamed of Egypt in straight games to clinch the title in the USD 10,000 JSW PSA Squash Circuit 2 which concluded at the Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana here today.

Mumbai-born Mangaonkar, seeded 2nd and world ranked 56, showed tremendous retrieving power and stamina to notch a hard-fought 14-12, 15-13, 11-4 win in the 52-minute final against an opponent from Alexandria who is ranked 45th.

This was their first-ever meeting in the PSA circuit and the title win was Mangaonkar’s fourth in PSA circuit and second this year.

Mangaonkar saved one game point in the opener after squandering the first and won on his third game point. The game lasted 20 minutes.

In the second, the Indian was hopelessly down 4-9 before clawing his way back to 8-9, but then lost the next point to be down a game point which he saved.

He then held the first of five game points at 11-10 which the Egyptian saved, held three more to fritter them all away before finally taking a commanding 2-0 lead on the fifth game point, the game lasting 15 minutes.

The exertion took a toll on the Egyptian and he ran out of steam in the third game which Mangaonkar won easily. The 20year-old Indian titlist, however, will not play in the third leg of the tournament, to be held at the NSCI courts here from the 16th.

In his absence and in the absence of 22-year-old Zahed Mohamed, India’s Harinder Pal Sandhu has been given the no. 1 seeding.

Earlier, in the final of the WSA Tour 5 event being held concurrently, Nouran El Torky (Egypt) beat Chloe Mesic (France) 113, 11-5, 11-6 in 35 minutes. This is the Egyptian woman’s third title out of four finals. She had won the crown in the opening leg at Jaipur.

GLITTER, GLITZ AND GLAMOUR, ISL KICKS OFF

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OLKATA: It was an evening to remember for the people residing in 'Mecca of Indian Football' as a riot of colours lit the Salt Lake skyline with much awaited Indian Super League (ISL) doing everything possible to strike the right chord with the football afficianado.

Touching the hearts of the football-loving crowd, chairperson of IMG-Reliance and founding Chairperson of Football Sports Development (ISL) Nita Ambani formally declared open the ISL. "Ami Indian Super League er Subho Suchona Korchi (I declare the auspicious opening of ISL)-- I formally declare the Indian Super League open," she said surrounded a rare amalgamation of Bollywood and cricket and world football celebrities who represented the eight franchises.

The fireworks lit up the sky in a full capacity Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan to conclude a 45-minute opening ceremony as the 70,000 capcity crowd were treated to some eye-catching visual extravaganza.

Amid the confluence of Bollywood superstars, renowned sportpersons, corporate magnates and politicians, it was master blaster Sachin Tendulkar who drew the maximum applause.

With chants of 'Sachiiiiin, Sachiiiiin' reverberating the colossal stadium which had the earlier capacity of 120,000 now reduced to 72,000, crowd gave a standing ovation to the retired legend.

For a moment, it felt Tendulkar was once again going into the middle to take guard before the reality took over as clad in yellow t-shirt Tendulkar and his Kerala

Glamour actress Priyanka Chopra providing a spectacular start to the ISL opening ceremony.

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The First Lady of Indian Sports Nita Ambaini who has a huge hand in the launch of the Indian Super League seen with Mamata Banerjee at the opening ceremony.

Blasters marquee player David James made the entry into the centre podium.

Bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra was the highlight of the show as she made a grand entry with Bollywood chartbusters 'Tune Mari Entriyaan', 'Ram Leela' before welcoming the crowd in Bengali style -'Kemon achen Kolkata!'

Starting with Atletico de Kolkata, Priyanka called the team owners one by one on to the centre stage and quipped to Sourav Ganguly: "Dada chose to own a football team because he can remove jersey whenever he wants..."

Ganguly-Luis Garcia (Kolkata) were followed by Parineeti Chopra and Italian World Cup winner Alessandro Del Piero (Delhi).

John Abraham was parraded alongside New Zealand marquee manager Ricki Hebert (Guwahati), Dattaraj Salgaocar and Robert Pires (Goa), Abhishek Bachchan and marquee player Elano Blumer(Chennai), Hrithik Roshan and French World Cup winner David Trezeguet (Pune), Ranbir Kapoor and Fedrik Ljungberg (Mumbai) and Tendulkar- David James (Kerala) were called one by one by star perfomer Priyanka.

The ceremony began at 5.20 pm with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, ISL founding chairperson Nita Ambani, AIFF president Praful Patel and Atletico de Kolkata co-owner Sanjiv Goenka leading on the centrestage to convey their heartfelt thanks.

Urging the country to promote the sport, CM said: "Thank you so much for choosing Kolkata for the opening ceremony. Lets' love football, eat football, think football, sleep football and drink football."

Cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar and Hrithik Roshan wave to the fans.

Success of ISL important for Indian football: John Abraham

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EW DELHI: Northeast United FC, the team from the land that loves its football, is ready to launch its ISL campaign tomorrow against Kerala Blasters and the club’s co-owner, Bollywood star John Abraham, is finding it difficult to keep his enthusiasm in check.

“We have great support, great players, I think we are going to put up a very tough fight. I love to say that we will win it, but my team says I sound very arrogant. So I’m saying we will put up a tough fight,” John Abraham said in an interview to PTI. The cluster of players from the eight north-eastern states along with their international and foreign counterparts,

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including marquee player Joan Capdevilla, create a “fantastic” atmosphere, according John who is an ardour football fan.

“Fantastic! I was shocked when I saw all my players together. We have Joan Capdevilla who won the World Cup with Spain in 2010. He is training the young boys and telling them what to do. It’s amazing!

The whole camaraderie between our senior players, our foreign players and our Indian boys is absolutely fantastic.

“We are working great as a unit. We have a great coach whose name is Ricki Herbert, national coach of New Zealand. And we have got the best fitness trainer, Lee Taylor.

I don’t know about the other teams but our boys will run for two hours,” John said.

John has high hopes from the inaugural

season and says that the event has fulfilled the dream of youngsters who wanted to play with international stars.

“If ISL is successful in its first year and it is very important that it succeeds then all the teams of ISL-1 will be a hit, be it N-E or Delhi or Pune. All the owners are very enthusiastic and we are all a very strong unit together and are collectively representing ISL, we hope ISL works,” he said.

The Northeast United co-owner has long term dreams for the team which is speculated to have the youngest squad in the tournament. “We are a really young club, we are probably the youngest club in the Indian Super League by at least five years. Our average age is 23.:

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the pavilion. Soon leg-spinner Amit Mishra (2-40) and Ravindra Jadeja (3-44) also swung into action. Dhoni was all praise for the bowling effort.“It was a doublebounce wicket. I thought we maybe 20 runs short but the bowlers bowled really well.

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EW DELHI: Lauding Virat Kohli for agreeing to drop a rung in the batting order for the team’s sake, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the strategy used in the second ODI against the West Indies here could be continued as the batsman adjusted well to the change.

Kohli (62), who registered his 31st ODI fifty to return to form, stitched a crucial 105run fourth-wicket partnership with Suresh Raina (62) to help India put up a respectable 263 for seven in 50 overs. The hosts eventually levelled the fivematch series 1-1 by winning the match by 48 runs.

“Kohli is very experienced and he knows what the team wants. We were able to convince him to bat down the order and he understood that it’s good for the team and himself. We have to look at everything,” said Dhoni in the post-match press conference at Feroz Shah Kotla yesterday.

“He is a kind of player who scores at a brisk pace. If some-

one is doing well at No.3 and Virat is comfortable at No.4 then why not. Let’s go with it.

But it was the first time, so we will see,” he added.

Ambati Rayudu, who took Kohli’s place at No.3, made a valuable 32 after India lost their openers early on a slowpaced Kotla wicket. Dhoni, who also contributed with an unbeaten 51, was happy with the batting order.

“I believe it’s good for the team to have your most experienced players bat at No.5, 6 and 7. And yes it helps Virat to change his slot and have the cushion of runs behind him. It was a win-win situation as Rayudu (Ambati) also got more balls to settle down. It also disrupts the strategy of the opposition team. So everything fell into place,” said Dhoni.

The batsmen did their job but the bowlers were not far behind. Chasing 264 for a win, West Indies were cruising at 170 for two when Man of the Match Mohammad Shami, who registered his career-best figures of 4-36, got the dangerous Dwayne Smith (97) back in

Indian bowlers made it count: Smith EW DELHI: Dejected at wickets after that,” said Smith N missing out on his maiden in the post-match press conODI ton for the “24th time” in ference at Feroz Shah Kotla 93 matches, West Indies opener Devon Smith said the Indian bowlers came back brilliantly to halt the visitors, who were cruising along at one stage in the second ODI here.

Smith made a run-a-ball 97 before being cleaned up by Mohammed Shami (4-36) as the West Indies’ 264-run chase derailed from 170 for two to 215 all out in 46.3 overs. Smith, 31, could not hide his disappointment but praised the Indian bowlers for their good showing.

“I am of course disappointed at missing out on another century. Twenty fourth time I have fallen short of a ton, so it really hurts. They (India) bowled really well. We were cruising at one point and the Indian bowlers just got

yesterday.

“I think we bowled well but it all came down to some good bowling by the Indians. There is something that we can learn from it and move forward,” he added.

Smith stitched a crucial 72run second-wicket partnership with Kieron Pollard (40) before Man of the Match Shami, Amit Mishra (2-40) and Ravindra Jadeja (3-44) started the rot. On being quizzed about opting for a cautious approach against Mishra, Smith totally disagreed.

“I am always positive. I just play my game. I don’t care who is there at the other end. I think we hit three sixes against Mishra, if you call this cautious then I don’t know. It’s just that we lost our way,” he said.

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VISHAKAPATNAM: The 3rd ODI between India and West Indies in Visakhapatnam has been abandoned due to Cyclone Hudhud.

allow then to take singles and twos. Shami bowled an excellent spell. Mishra was in his elements and whenever he flights the ball, he gets that extra bit of purchase...And then Jadeja (Ravindra) played his part,” said Dhoni.

On being quizzed about the inconsistent showing by

the bowlers in recent times, Dhoni defended his men, saying that the fast bowlers and spinners have delivered whenever it has mattered.

Known for his hard-working approach, Dhoni also looked at the shortcomings of the team and opined that powerplays is one area which needs to be worked upon.