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ACB RAIDS BHUJBAL’S PROPERTIES Gold: `26,935 Silver: `37,605 US Dollar: `64.26 Temperature: 290C/270C Humidity: 84%

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ACB CONDUCTED MULTIPLE RAIDS ALL OVER MAHARASHTRA AND FOUND HE OWNS MULTICRORE PROPERTIES. IT ALSO RAIDED FLATS IN MUMBAI WHICH ALSO COSTS SEVERAL CRORES

Chaggan Bhujbal with ACB officials after they carried out searches of offices and residences in the city, on Tuesday.

By Zuber Ansari

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he state Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday conducted multiple raids on the properties owned by NCP leader and former state PWD and tourism minister, Chhagan

Child abuse cases up in Navi Mumbai

By Abhitash Singh

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ccording to the sources from the city crime branch, as many as 52 cases were registered under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, across the city between January and May 2015, whereas the figure of corresponding period last year was just 31.

Apart from being slapped with POCSO Act, most of the accused were booked under multiple Sections including 376 (punishment for rape) and 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to

Pic for reprsentational purposes only

Despite tall claims of Navi Mumbai police to curb crime graph in the planned city, sexual offences against children have skyrocketed by 68 per cent in the last one year outrage her modesty) of the IPC. However, police claim to have solved around 99 percent of these cases.

Senior police officers, however, believe that increased awareness among the masses is also one of the reasons why the number of such cases has gone up noticeably in the city.

The deputy commissioner of police (crime) Suresh Mengade said, “Earlier many people were not aware of this new law, which was introduced in 2012. They were also Continued on pg 2 «

Bhujbal, and his family members in Mumbai, Thane, Pune and Nashik.

The raids were conducted in connection with the Maharashtra Sadan scam in New Delhi and other allegations of corruption against Bhujbal.

The raids were conducted at

sixteen places across Maharashtra, and the ACB is now evaluating if the property is disproportionate to his known sources of income or not.

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CM denies vendetta in Bhujbal ACB raids; Somaiya says Bhujbal & Co to face jail

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Continued from pg 1 « or his family. They found a 2,000 sq.ft. Flat in Sukhada Co-operative Housing Society in Worli, 600 sq.ft flat in Mazagaon, 5th floor and 7th floor flats in Manek Mahal, in Churchgate and 7th floor in Solitaire building in Santacruz (West) and a high-end Toyota Camry car.

The ACB had recently filed an FIR against him in connection with the scam. The raids carried out by the ACB has revealed property worth several crores. The NCP leader, later in the day, rubbished the allegations stating that he alone was not re-

sponsible for the sanctions. The decisions were taken and evaluated by the cabinet, he added.

"Bhujbal will be given an opportunity to put-forth his explanation with regard to ownership of the properties.

We will verify the details of the property. Based on the investigations, further actions will be decided," said a high-ranking ACB officer.

An FIR has been filed by the anticorruption bureau and the raids are part of the investigation. The probe is monitored by the High Court and hence, there is no question of political interference, ACB said.

The accused could face action under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The ACB is leaving no stone unturned as each search has been video-recorded and was conducted in the presence of two witnesses.

The ACB had filed an FIR against Bhujbal, his son Pankaj, nephew Sameer and many state government bureaucrats in the Maharashtra Sadan case, a multi-crore construction scam pertaining to constructing a library at Kalina in Mumbai and a housing project at Kharghar in Navi Mumbai.

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hief Minister Devendra Fadnavis yesterday denied that the state government was indulged in any vendetta politics in the raids conducted by Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) against senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Public Works Department (PWD) minister Chhagan Bhujbal. Speaking to newspersons at Mantralaya the Chief Minister pointed out that the ACB actions were monitored by the Bombay High Court. When asked to comment upon the Bombay HC order directing the government to file an investigation report in the multi-crore irrigation scam, Fadnavis quipped “Aage Aage Dekho Hota Hai Kya” (Wait and see what happens next).

Later, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party MP Kirit Somaiya argued that Bhujbal and his family are certain to

Mumbai Educational Trust and Bhujbal Knowledge Centre that was raided by ACB, in Bandra, on Tuesday.

Bhujbal’s flat in Sagar Mandir, in Dadar, which was raided by the ACB, yesterday.

Bhujbal's flats in Churchgate’s Manek Mahal on the 5th and 7th floor, were also raided by ACB.

flat (Vishakha Bhujbal), 1,200 sq ft Maruti Paradise (Durga Bhujbal) flat (Shefali Bhujbal), 1,500 sq ft 1,305 sq.ft. flat (Hirabai Bhujbal), 1,200 sq ft Maruti Paradise (Bhujbal Group) Sukhda Co-operative Housing flat (Meena Bhujbal), 1,500 ground Society 2,000 sqft flat (Chhagan 9 Galas Maruti Enclave 1,350 sq.ft. flat floor (Growth Infra).

Bhujbal) Malesia Apartment three 600 sq Solitaire Lapetit building Santacruz and 501 commercial gala (Pankaj flats in Mazgaon (Chhagan Bhujbal) (W), 5th floor 2,500 sq ft (Samir Bhujbal) Manek Mahal 5th floor Churchgate Bhujbal), 7th floor 2,500 sq ft (Pankaj Bhujbal) (Pankaj Bhujbal), 8th floor 2,500 Manek Mahal 7th floor Churchgate sq ft (Meena Bhujbal).

Chandrai Bungalow, Bhujbal Farm (Meena Chagan Bhujbal) Sagar Mandir Co-op Hsg Society, (Meena Bhujbal) 4,000 sq.ft.

Bhujbal Palace, Bhujbal Farm Shivaji Park 600 sq.ft. flat Lajwanti Bungalow (Meena Bhujbal) Nashik (Pankaj Chhagan Bhujbal) (Heerabai Magan Bhujbal) Saikunj Building, Dadar 1,500 sq ft 1,300 sq.ft. flat.

46,500 sq.ft.

Bunglow and office in Yeola, Nashik

Child abuse cases up in Navi Mumbai

that a majority of these victims was sexually assaulted either by their family members, relatives, neighbours or acquaintances. Some of them were even assaulted by their brothers or fathers at their own residence.

“The police department is often held responsible for the increase of crime against children and women in the city. But what can the police do if a father or brother rapes his own daughter or sister inside their residences. In such cases we arrest the accused only after we are reported about the crime by some of the family members,” said one of the senior police officers.

PROPERTIES IN MUMBAI

PROPERTIES IN NASHIK

PROPERTIES IN THANE

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His most prefered yoga posture! He practically uses this ‘Asana’ from time to time in active politics.

go to the jail. He added that following the ACB action, more action is to follow. The initial probe is related to properties in the state, then the investigations will move to interstate matters. This will be followed by investigations into alleged purchases of coal mines in Indonesia by the Bhujbal family and their foreign visits.

He added that after the ACB probe, the Enforcement Directorate is expected to step in the investigate, followed by Economic Offences Wing (EOW). Terming the Bhujbal's as 'Alibaba and Chalis Chor', Somaiya said the probe will also cover the PWD engineers and officers involved in the Maharashtra Sadan scam.

Earlier, replying to queries over the raids conducted on the PWD officers, Fadnavis said the suspension of the officers has been done as per rules. Commenting upon the HC order in the Irrigation scam, Somaiya remarked that three months down the line it will be the turn of former Irrigation ministers Ajit Pawar and Sunil Tatkare to face the probe.

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hesitant to report a sexual assault case to the police because of various reasons.”

“Now because of increased awareness more and more people are reporting to us about such crimes. Therefore the total number of the cases has gone up,” he added.

The crime branch sources reveal

Conviction rate is disappointing

Since 2012, only four accused booked under POCSO in Navi Mumbai, have

been convicted by the court.

Uran Police arrested one teacher for sexually assaulting several students of

his school in 2012. The principal of that school was also nabbed for her alleged involvement in the crime and both of them were booked under POCSO. They were later convicted by the court and are in jail now.

Dattatray Rokde, 53, a resident of Kopri village, raped and murdered a 5year-old girl, who stayed in the same building in January, 2013. He was arrested by the APMC police after two days. A special Thane court ordered him to be hanged till death just after five months.

The fourth convicted accused was arrested by the Khanda Colony police.

The police say that in several cases the accused and the complainant make some compromises outside that court.

(Pankaj Bhujbal) 5,000 sq ft Bunglow and office in Manmad, Nashik (Pankaj Chhagan Bhujbal) 3,000 sq.ft.

Ram Bungalow (Samir Bhujbal) 1,500 sq.ft.

PROPERTIES IN PUNE Bungalow

in Lonavala with Heliped and 65 acre land (Pankaj Bhujbal) Flat No.208, 3rd floor Graphicon Arcade Sangamwadi in Pune (Locked).

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A BIT OF MUMBAI’S BENEVOLENCE... At a time when Mumbaikars were brazing incessant rains that lashed the city earlier this week, this crow has got a savior with the residents of Dadar who have installed an umbrella over its nest to protect the bird and its young one from getting soaked in Mumbai’s heavy rain.

Husain, Mehta works to go under hammer

Artwork by M.F. Husain, Sitar Player, made of oil on canvas.

WORKS of Indian masters including M.F. Husain, Tyeb Mehta, Jamini Toy and Jogen Chowdhury will go under the hammer at an auction of modern art and antiquities in the city this week.

Osian's Group's auction of 'Indian Antiquities, Modern & Contemporary Fine Arts' this Friday at the Tao Art Gallery will feature 82 lots.

The antiquities section has several rare items like a Khmer pre-Angkorian period 7th century sculpture of goddess Durga, representing the influence of Hinduism in

Cambodia (Rs 30 lakh Rs 45 lakh); a Tibetan Thangkha wearing a jewelled crown and riding a snow lion (Rs 45 lakh - Rs 67.5 lakh); and a watercolour on paper of the mausoleum of Salim Chisti within the compound of the Jami Masjid at Fatehpur Sikri (Rs 3 lakhRs 4.5 lakh).

Three works of Husain feature in the auction – an oil on canvas 'Dada Abdul' signed in Bengali and English (Rs 42 lakh - Rs 63 lakh); an oil on canvas 'Sitar Player' (Rs 60 lakh - Rs 90

lakh); and an untitled water colour on paper (Rs 4.5 lakh - Rs 6.75 lakh).

Depicting musicians has been one of Husain's favourites and most popular themes. 'Sitar Player' represents a period when Husain was at the height of his career with Films Division and Santi Chowdhury's documentary "Husain: A Painter of our Times" being released in 1976.

Mehta's gouache on paper – Study for Santiniketan Triptych - is expected to fetch between Rs 6 lakh to Rs 9 lakh. Two early and rare postimpressionist style paintings

by Roy are expected to fetch between Rs 6 lakh - Rs 9 lakh each, while his 'Last Supper' painting form the iconic Christ series has a bidding price of Rs 12 lakh to Rs 18 lakh. Two works of Chowdhury – 'Young Girl as Nude' and 'Love Letter' have a pre-sale estimate of Rs 6 lakh to Rs 9 lakh each.

The artist of focus is Antonio Xavier Trindade with four of his Christ and Biblical theme paintings slated to go under the hammer.

World’s most expensive sandwich costs $214

THE world's most expensive sandwich -- a cheese toastie dipped in gold and costing a

whopping US $214 -- has been made at a ritzy restaurant in New York.

The gold-plated sarnie is essentially a cheese toastie, but in typical New York style and can be pre-ordered two days in advance. The Serendipity restaurant in New York City is the proud owner of the new Guinness World Record.

"This is the most expensive sandwich in the world. We came up with the idea to create the world's most expensive sandwich on national sandwich day," chef Joe Calderoni was quoted as saying by Daily Express.

"We came up with grilled cheese because that's the ultimate in comfort food.

What better way to celebrate that sandwich than with the quintessential version of that sandwich?" Joe said about his new creation.

The final touches include a tomato and lobster bisque served in a crystal glass and then chefs plate the sandwich in 23 carat gold.

The famous restaurant has been visited by celebrities likes Marilyn Monroe, Beyonce and Jay Z. "The bread is baked with Dom Perignon champagne, some white truffle oil with the gold. Then our grass-fed butter infused with white truffles. Then we take caciocavallo cheese - it's very rare," Joe said.

(LtoR): French Berger Picard, American Shepherd, Lagotto Roagnolo

3 new rare dog breeds join American Kennel Club

THREE new rare pooch breeds, a French Berger Picard, a small American Shepherd herding dog and a curly-haired Lagotto Roagnolo Romagnolo truffle hunter have been added to the roster of the prestigious American Kennel Club.

The new breeds have been added to the list of pure-bred canines maintained by the New York-based club, raising the total recognised breeds to 187.

By being added to the list, the trio of rare dog breeds will be eligible to compete in the AKC's 22,000 annual canine

events, including the Westminster Dog Show and other prestigious competitions around the country, the club said.

The Berger Picard is an "athletic" pooch from France that was bred to be a working companion, while the miniature American Shepherd is a small herding dog from the US that's "eager to please, good-natured, and intelligent," the AKC said.

The Lagotto Roagnolo Romagnolo can trace its roots to Italy and possesses rare talents as the "only purebred dog in the world and als a specialised truffle searcher."

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CHANGE OF NAME

I have changed my name from Sonu to Sonu Saleem Khatri as per Affidavit Dated 15/06/2015.

C-13878 I have changed my name from Nayeema Bhati to Naeema Bano Bhati as per Affidavit Dated 15/06/2015.

C-13879 I have changed my name from Abdul Moheed Bhati to Mohammed Moheed Bhati as per Affidavit Dated 15/06/2015.

C-13880 I have changed my name from Mohammed Asif Shaukat Ali, to ‘Mohammed Asif Shaukat Ali Ansari’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 09/06/2015.

C-13881 I have changed my name from Shaikh Mohamed Shaikh Sandu, to ‘Mehboob Sandu Shaikh’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 13/06/2015.

C-13882 I have changed my name from Mr. Sarfaraj Afsarali Shaikh to Mr. Mohammed Sarfaraz Afsarali Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit Dated 26th day of May 2015 C-13883 I have changed my name from Nirja Kamalakar Vairale to Kalpana Rajesh Thimaya as per deed poll Affidavit Dated 16th day of June 2015 C-13884

THANKSGIVING May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be Adored, Glorified, Loved and Preserved throughout the World now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, thy Kingdom come. Saint Jude, worker of Miracles, Pray for us. Saint Jude, Helper of the helpless, Pray for us. Thank You for Favours granted. — R C-11296

I have changed my name from Yogeshkumar Tribhovandas Manseta and/or Yogeshbhai Tribhovandas Manseta to Yogesh Tribhovandas Manseta as per Affidavit C-13896 I have changed my name from Alvitakumar Jayantibhai Tandel to Alvita Jayanti Tandel as per deedpoll Affidavit.

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C-13898 I have changed my name from Nirbhaysingh Kuldeepsingh to Nirbhaysingh Kuldeepsingh Puar as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-13899 I have changed my name from “Mukeshkumar Gopalbhai Limbachiya” to “Mukesh Gopalbhai Limbachiya” as per Affidavit Dated 16th June’ 2015.

C-13900 I have changed my name from “Ashaben Mukesh Limbachiya” to “Asha Mukesh Limbachiya” as per Affidavit Dated 16th June’ 2015.

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I have changed my name from Parveen Adil Kazi to Rashida Adil Kazi as per Court Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from “Nitaben Devendra Dave” to “Neeta Barindra Muchhala” as per Affidavit Dated 16th June’ 2015.

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Notice is given to all concerned that Mr. Sachin Kanaiyalaal Thakkar is resident of Mulund Sneh Bandhan co-op., Hsg., Soc., Ltd. Plot No.03. Survey No.386, Mhada Colony, Mulund(E), Mumbai-400081.

He has came to know that the Share Certificate in the name of Smt. Pushpa Kanaiyalaal Thakkar Flat No. A-504, is lost.

Certificate No.126, Share number 626-630, dated 19 September 2003. So her son Sachin Thakkar given application to society to get duplicate share Certificate and also given complaint to Navghar police station, Mulund about lost certificate.

If someone found the above mentioned share certificate, please returned it to the society office or to Mr. Sachin Thakkar within the period of 15 days from the publication of this advertisement or nobody can claim anything regarding the same, please be noted.

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I have changed my name from Mantasha Javeed Sayed to Mariyam Javeed Sayed as per Gazette Copy.

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I Radhika Nandkumar Sawant have changed my name to Radha Nandkumar Sawant as per Maha.Gazette No-U-58017.

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C-13904 I have changed my name from “Vivek Ashokkumar Hariyani” to “Vivek Ashok Hariyani” as per Affidavit.

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C-13913 I have changed my name from Suleman Usman Dawood Maknojia to Salman Usmangani Maknojia as per the deedpoll Affidavit.

C-13914 I have changed my name from Manishaben Mohanbhai Virani to Manisha Vipulbhai Anghan as per the Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-13915 I have changed my name from Ajit Singh Chamkaur Singh Maan Maan to Ajit Singh Chamkaur Singh Maan as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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C-13917 I have changed my name from Mohamed Sulaiman Haroon Vaid to Mohamed Suleman Haroon Vaid as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-13918 I have changed my name from Mohammad Yusuf Abdul Majid Patel to Yusuf Abdul Majid Patel as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dtd.17/06/2015.

C-13919 I have changed my name from Zakirhusen Mohammad Hanif Sayyad to Zakir Mahammadhanif Sayyad as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dtd.17/06/2015.

C-13920 I have changed my name from Abdulhamid Kadar Malgundkar to Hamid Kadar Malgundkar as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dtd. 17/06/2015.

C-13921 I have changed my name from Manpreetkaur to Manpreetkaur Sukhawinder Singh Ture as per Affidavit.

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C-13939 I have changed my name from Rahul Pralhad Kashyap to Rahul Pralhad Mallah as per Affidavit.

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CM snubs MNS chief, says Half of Mumbai’s no going back on Metro III petrol pumps run dry

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government was looking into the issues of alternate sites n an apparent snub to Ma- for carshed and added that harashtra Navnirman the project affected people Sena (MNS) chief Raj would be rehabilitated in the Thackeray who had ques- same area in Dadar. tioned the logic of having the Earlier a delegation of afMetro III Colaba-Bandra- fected residents of Dadar area SEEPZ corridor, Chief Minis- led by senior Shiv Sena leader ter Devendra Fadnavis and Minister for Industries yesterday categorically ruled Subhash Desai had in the out scrapping the project. morning called on the Chief Speaking to newspersons at Minister. Thackeray had reMantralaya here he said the marked that the MNS will not

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allow anyone to touch the people of Dadar. He even questioned the logic of having the project that was going to affect the marathi speaking people. It may be recalled that following the controversy over the Metro III carshed at Aarey Milk Colony, MNS had spearheaded the agitation demanding the relocation of the carshed site.

Later speaking to newspersons at Mantralaya, Minister for Public Works Department (PWD) Chandrakant Patil announced that the government has waived the toll tax for school buses at 53 toll plazas in the state and Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). He however clarified that the decision on similar waiver for school buses at Mumbai entry points will be taken in July. He appealed to the school bus owners association not to fleece the parents with any fare hikes.

‘Acche Din’ for BJP as winning streak continues BJP’s Dipti Bhatt defeats Congress by a margin of 409 votes

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s a sequel to major fire in a refining plant's pipeline of an oil lubricant company at Wadala on last Saturday, nearly half of the petrol pumps in Mumbai are running dry and if the situation remains, the city may face more shortage of petrol, Ravi Shinde, General Secretary of the Confederation of Indian Petroleum Dealers (CIPD) told ADC, adding that oil companies will have to bring in petrol from neighbouring Gujarat state.

Nearly 200 fuel stations, including nearly 45 pumps belonging to IOC and 80 odd pumps belonging to HPCL and BPCL, supply petrol to Mumbai. While over 18 lakh vehicles ply in Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai region, each petrol pump supplies over 13,000 litres of petrol every day.

When contacted the spokesperson of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) maintained that the situation was normal, whereas the spokesperson for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Lim-

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PWD minister waives off toll tax for school buses in MMR

ited (HPCL) preferred to downplay the situation.

A major fire broke out in the petrol pipeline from the Pirpau terminal of Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) to the oil refineries in Wadala. The pipeline owned by MbPT, connects a refinery of HPCL with tank farms located nearby.

The MbPT pipeline is used to transport liquid fuel by all companies which had started leaking a few hours before the mishap. The pipeline in Sewri was used

by HPCL for transportation of its fuel and it was during the process the leakage was reported. However, HPCL spokesperson has claimed that the transported fuel be-

longed to a private lubricants company whose office is close to the pipeline.

Even now conflicting versions on the cause of explosion are emerging.

According to one version, the explosion caused when HPCL was pumping from its refinery in Trombay to Wadala where they have a depot. Whereas according to yet another version, the fire erupted apparently due to a burning cigarette butt thrown in the mangroves, where the fuel had leaked.

The work of pumping out the residue oil in the pipeline is still on. Meanwhile due to the fire, a long patch of mangroves in the area has been destroyed.

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t was another feather in BJP’s cap after their candidate -- Dipti Bhatt successfully wrestled by-elections to ward number 38(a) in the

MBMC BY-POLL Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) by trouncing her Congress rival Prita Chauhan by a margin of 409 votes. Bhatt garnered 2,369 out of the total 4,397 votes polled in the by-elec-

BVA retains power in Vasai-Virar civic body

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ahujan Vikas Aagha-di (BVA) led by Maharashtra MLA Hitendra Thakur on Tuesday retained power in the 115member Vasai-Virar Municipal Corpn (VVMC) by bagging 106 seats.

Thakur's party bagged 106 seats while Shiv Sena won 5, Independents 3 and BJP one seat.

Election was held on June 14 where 49 per cent of the electorate had exercised their franchise.

Voting was conducted for 111 seats and as four corporators were elected unopposed, a PTI report said. There were 6,87,639 registered voters, out of which 3,14,106 were women and there were 367 candidates in the fray.

Make Your Party BJP workers led by Dipti Bhatt flashing the V-sign. tion, results of which were declared on Tuesday.

Prita Chauhan (Congress) secured 1,960 votes, followed by 68 voters opting for NOTA. By-polls were necessitated following the resignation of sitting corporator Dipti Bhatt who had left the Congress and jumped into the BJP bandwagon. Chauhan’s defeat, in a ward which was considered as a Congress bastion, has left senior party

leaders rattled. “I thank the voters for bestowing confidence in me once again. The victory indicates the people’s faith in the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance and it’s policies,” Bhatt said. By winning the by-polls, the numerical strength of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in the 94-member MBMC house now stands at 45.

On the other hand the NCP-Congress ruling alliance has been reduced to 43 seats.

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06 CHANGE OF NAME I have changed my name from Pallavi Chandrakant Thite to Iqra Waseem Chuqtai as per Affidavit.

C-13942 I have changed my name from Subratkumar Pattnaik to Subrat Patnaik as per Affidavit.

C-13943 I Mangal Shankar Khorate have changed my name to Savita Shankar Ramane as per Affidavit C-13944 I have changed my name from Naveen Dalchand Kothari to Navin Dalchand Kothari as per Affidavit C-13945 I have changed my name from (old) Leanne Mascarenhas to (new) Leanne Michelle Mascarenhas as per Affidavit C-13946 I Somil Kumar Navinchandra Patel have changed my name to Somil Navinchandra Patel as per Affidavit C-13947 I Rajeshkumar Damji Devda have changed my name to Rajesh Damji Devda as per Affidavit C-13948 I Farooq Abbas Mohiddin Shaikh have changed my name to Farook Abbas Mohiddin Shaikh as per Affidavit C-13949 I Savitabahen Ramabhai Patel have changed my name to Surekha Dharmendra Patel as per Affidavit C-13950 I Bhanwarlal Ramlal Jain have changed my name to Bhawarlal Ramlal Jain as per Affidavit C-13951 I Ameet Rawat have changed my name to Amit Rawat as per Affidavit C-13952 I Tasneem Bano Kayaskhatri have changed my name to Tasneem Khatri as per Affidavit C-13953 I Shamim Ershad have changed my name to Shamim Ershad Chhawniwala as per Affidavit C-13954 I Hurbanu have changed my name to Banu Chhawniwala as per Affidavit C-13955 I Gulam Mustafa Haji Usman have changed my name to Gulam Mustafa Haji Usman Chhawniwala as per Affidavit C-13956 I Ershad Gulam Mustafa have changed my name to Ershad Gulam Mustafa Chhawniwala as per Affidavit C-13957 I Deelip Ramchandra Save have changed my name to Dilip Ramchandra Save as per Affidavit C-13958 I Mr. Bhaveshkumar Devjibhai Rathod have changed my name to Mr.Bhavesh Devjibhai Rathod as per Affidavit C-13959 I Miss. Leenabahen Vinodkumar Sonawala have changed my name to Mrs.Leena Bhavesh Rathod as per Affidavit C-13960

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I Nazia Banoo Maimullin Sayyed have changed my name to Naziya Bano Amjad Shaikh as per Affidavit C-13961

I have changed my name from Nakwaji Sultana Begum Qasim to Beban Sultana Sirajuddin as per Affidavit C-13980

I Bhaviniben Bharat Shah have changed my name to Bhavini Bharat Shah as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-13998

I Maimullin Sayyed have changed my name to Moinuddin Sayyed as per Affidavit C-13962

I have changed my name from Beban Siraj Abdul Kadar to Beban Sirajuddin Abdul Kadar as per Affidavit C-13981

I Shaba Mohamad Aslam have changed my name to Shaba Fakruddin Sayyed as per Affidavit C-13963

I have changed my name from Mohamed Hanif Mehmood to Kolambadi Hanif Mehmood as per Affidavit C-13982

I Manishbhai Ashokbhai Shah have changed my name to Manish Ashokbhai Shah as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-13999

I Yasman Sk have changed my name to Usman Shaikh as per Affidavit C-13964

I have changed my name from Deepak Surendra Kute to Dipak Surendra Kute as per Affidavit C-13983

I Rahimat Ali Ahmed Hussain have changed my name to Rehmat Ali Ahmed Husain Ansari as per Affidavit C-13965 I have changed my name from Vijeta Shyam Lakhani to Shabbu Tanwar as per Affidavit C-13966 I have changed my name from Sameera Mohamed Arif Curtey to Sameera Arif Curtay as per Affidavit C-13967 I have changed my name from Mohammed Arif Curtey to Mohammad Arif Abdul Aziz Curtay as per Affidavit.

C-13968 I have changed my name from Mohd Munna Khawaja Mainuddin to Mohd Munna Ansari as per Affidavit C-13969 I have changed my name from Savithry to Savithri Ramesh Kurup as per deed poll Affidavit No NA 872431 C-13970 I have changed my name from Remesh Kurup (P.R. Ramesh Kurup) to Ramesh Raghavan Kurup as per deed poll Affidavit No 872430 C-13971 I have changed my name from Sumalata (Nair Sumalata Venugopal) to Sumalata Vilas Nair as per Deedpoll Affidavit No ML 123159 C-13972 I have changed my name from Rameshkumar Madanlal Pamecha to Ramesh Madanlal Jain as per Affidavit C-13973 I have changed my name from Madanlal Shankarlal Pamecha to Madanlal Shankarlal Jain as per Affidavit C-13974 I have changed my name from Kamla Madanlal Pamecha to Kamla Madanlal Jain as per Affidavit C-13975 I have changed my name from Madanlal Shankar Pamecha to Madanlal Shankar Jain as per Affidavit C-13976 I have changed my name from Papanji Seema Shayar to Papanji Seemab Shahir as per Affidavit C-13977 I have changed my name from Papanji Shayar to Papanji Shahir Abbas as per Affidavit C-13978 I have changed my name from Qureshi Khatija Banu Mohamed Hanif to Qureshi Khatija Mohamed Hanif as per Affidavit C-13979

I have changed my name from Kumar Saurabh to Saurabh Virendra Singh as per Affidavit C-13984 I have changed my name from Mathalikunnel Christine Mary Sunny/Thankamma to Christine Sunny Mathalikunnel as per Affidavit C-13985 I have changed my name from Patrick Fernandes to Menino Patricio Fernandes as per Affidavit C-13986 I have changed my name from Matiullah Wajiullah to Matiullah Wajiullah Shaikh as per Affidavit C-13987 I have changed my name from Gracy Patrick Fernandes to Gracy Lucy Fernandes as per Affidavit C-13988 I have changed my name from Sharddha Nilesh Arte to Shraddha Nilesh Arte as per Affidavit.

C-13989 I have changed my name from Jamshaikh Shaikh to Jamshed Ali Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-13990 I have changed my name from Asif Mokhtar Shaikh to Asif Mukhtar Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-13991 I have changed my name from Fahad Razak Esaf to Fahad Razzak Esap as per Affidavit.

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I Sanjaykumar Yogesh Adalja have changed my name to Sanjay Yogesh Adalja as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-14000 I Zakiyabai Nooruddinbhai Vora have changed my name to Jakkaiya Shabbir Kachwala as per Deedpoll Affidavitdated: 09/06/15 C-14001 I Mrs. Naina Sanjeev Gohel have changed my name to Mrs. Nayna Sanjeev Gohel as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 18/05/15 C-14002 I Raziabanu Abdullah Isamail have changed my name to Razia Abdullah Tokan as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 12/06/15 C-14003 I Lautram Rajbhar have changed my name to Lautoo Rajbhar as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 12/06/15 C-14004 I Atulkumar Jagjivandas Shah, Atulkumar Jagjivan Shah have changed my name to Atul Jagjivan Shah as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 12/06/15 C-14005 I Mr. Mukeshkumar Ishwarlal Soni have changed my name to Mr. Mukesh Ishwarlal Soni as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 15/06/15 C-14006 I Khushali Pravinbhai (Pravinkumar) Mistry have changed my name to Khushali Pravin Mistry as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 15/06/15 C-14007 I Sagar Pravinbhai Mistry have changed my name to Sagar Pravin Mistry as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 15/06/15 C-14008

I Mr. Bhavin Natubhai Desai have changed my name to Mr. Bhavin Natvarlal Desai as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-13993

I Jayashree Vasant Amin have changed my name to Mrs. Jayashree Vasantha Amin as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-14009

I Mr. Bhavinkumar Natwarlal Desai have changed my name to Mr. Bhavin Natwarlal Desai as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-13994

I Pravinkumar Valjibhai Patel have changed my name to Pravinbhai Valjibhai Lathiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-14010

I Gavrav Mahendrakumar Dhakan have changed my name to Gaurav Mahendra Dhakan as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-13995

I Sonaben Valjibhai Patel have changed my name to Sonaben Valjibhai Lathiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-14011

I Binduben Mahendra Dhakan have changed my name to Bindu Mahendra Dhakan as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-13996

I Valjibhai Karamshibhai Patel have changed my name to Valjibhai Karamshibhai Lathiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-14012

I Mr. Abdulrawoof Babu have changed my name to Abdul Rauf Babu Shaikh as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-13997

I Minal Mathurdas have changed my name to Minalben Pravinbhai Lathiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-14013

I Minal Pravinkumar Patel have changed my name to Minalben Pravinbhai Lathiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-14014

I Arunaben Hiteshkumar Patel have changed my name to Aruna Hitesh Patel as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Shankarbhai Soma Minat have changed my name to Shankarbhai Soma Menat as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-14015

I Jayasheelam Pitchakani David @ Jayasheelam Pitchakani Arupathmani David have changed my name to Jayaseelan Nadar as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14031

I Vallabh Ravjibhai Bhingradia have changed my name to Vallabhbhai Ravjibhai Bhingradia as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15

I Ajay Jayprakash have changed my name to Ajay Jayprakash Balmiki as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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C-14016

I Jayprakash have changed my name to Jayprakash Mashicharan Balmiki as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14033

I Bhadreshkumar Prafullkumar Rathod have changed my name to Bhadresh Praful Rathod as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-14017 I Severina Eremita Rodrigues have changed my name to Severina Anthony Rodrigues as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 15/06/15 C-14018 I Ms. Jaya Kumari Jayantilal Soni have changed my name to Mrs. Jaya Shailesh Soni as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-14019 I Mr. Sheileshkumar Chanmpaklal Soni have changed my name to Mr. Shailesh Champaklal Soni as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 16/06/15 C-14020

I Sharmila have changed my name to Sharmila Jaypraksh Balmiki as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14034 I Munender Jayprakash have changed my name to Munendar Jayprakash Balmiki as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14035 I Jaipraksh Mashicharan Balmiki have changed my name to Jayprakash Mashicharan Balmiki as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14036 I Salim have changed my name to Salim Shaikh as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14037

I Sainath Ajit Menon have changed my name to Zain Ajit Menon as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 15/06/15

I Mohmad Kalim / Mohd Kalim Shaikh have changed my name to Mohammad Kalim Shaikh as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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C-14021

I Tahira Begam / Tahira Begam Shaikh have changed my name to Tahira Shaikh as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14039

I Chandravathi Poojarthi have changed my name to Chandrakala Kishor Thakkar as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14022 I Sunilbhai Shankerbhai Surati have changed my name to Sunil Shankerbhai Surti as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14023 I Jayaprakash Soni have changed my name to Jayprakash Soni as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14024 I Kishor Punmia @ Kishor Punamiya have changed my name to Kishore Jain as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14025 I Meena Kishor Punmia @ Meena Kishor Punamiya @ Meenabai Manikchand Rathod have changed my name to Meena Kishore Jain as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14026 I Parshvi Kishor Punmia have changed my name to Parshvi Kishore Jain as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14027 We Kishore Jain & Meena Kishore Jain have changed our minor daughter’s name from Charvi Kishor Punamiya to Charmi Kishore Jain as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14028 I Hiteshkumar Ranchhodbhai Patel have changed my name to Hitesh Ranchhodbhai Patel as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14029

I Malti Yadav have changed my name to Kalawati Yadav as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14040 I Sarvajeet Yadav have changed my name to Sarvjeet Yadav as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14041 We Mr. Zahoor Ahmed Shaikh & Mrs. Kamarjahan Shaikh have changed our minor daughter’s name from Nusrat Jahan Jahur Ahmed Shaikh to Nushrat Zahoor Ahmed Shaikh as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14042 I Jinitha Kunder have changed my name to Jenitha Ravindra Kunder as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14043 I Rasikkumar Dhanjibhai Patel have changed my name to Rasikbhai Dhanjibhai Patel as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14044 I Amibahen Gautamrai Joshi have changed my name to Ami Bhavesh Trivedi as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-14045 I Rajbansi Vasudev Patravali have changed my name to Mrs. Rajlaxmi Suresh Patil as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 03/06/15 C-14046 I Hilary Patel have changed my name to Hillary Patel as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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Woman caught for drunken driving threatens cops

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By Zuber Ansari

dangerous for the woman inside so the cops brought a high voltage drama was person who broke the car's witnessed at Bandra window and she was rereclamation area when moved from the car and a 42-year-old drunk woman, taken to Bandra police stadriving a car was stopped by tion and booked under relethe traffic police during a vant sections of the Motor 'drink and drive' nakabandi Vehicles Act. late on Monday night but she According to Bandra polocked herself inside her car lice, the woman identified as to evade arrest.

Shivani Bali, is a resident of She not only refused to Worli and employed in a pricome out of the car, but vate firm. When she was started smoking cigarettes nabbed by the cops she with the car's doors closed. A began to threaten them saylot of smoke accumulated in ing: ''You don't know my fathe closed car which could be ther, you all will be

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suspended if he comes to know that you have stopped my car'', . The police did not want to take any chance so they immediately took her to the police station, Bandra police has seized Bali's car, driving licence and car documents, but she was asked to go after being fined (Rs 2000).

According to senior police inspector from Bandra Traffic Division Pradip Chavan, ''On Tuesday, she had to appear before the court but she failed to do so; we are going to send her summons. A case

under Section 185 (drunken driving or driving under the influence of drugs) of Motor Vehicles Act and Section 110 (pertaining to indecent behaviour in public) of Bombay Police Act were registered against her.''

Last week, Janhavi Gadkar, a 35-year-old corporate lawyer allegedly rammed her car, under the influence of alcohol, into a taxi killing two persons on the Eastern Freeway here. Following the mishap, traffic police has instructed its team to keep a check on women drivers.

Mira Rd fake loan racket: Woman held, 6 including kingpin at large Gang availed personal loans amounting Rs.32 lakh on virtue of fake identities, forged documents

ments. While a 29-year-old female gang members has been arrested, six others including the kingpin are still at large.

The matter came to light after anomalies were detected in personal loan requests moved by applicants at the Mira Road branch of a bank.

By Suresh Golani Cross verifications revealed that all supporting doculeuths of the Mira Road ments including PAN cards, Ipolice claim to have T Returns, Form 16 and busted a gang of cheats who pay-slips were fabricated. Almanaged to secure personal though the loan was rejected loans from a reputed private owing to faulty documents, sector bank on the virtue of the incident prompted bank fake and fabricated docu- officials to carry out a cursory

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check on other suspected applications of whose loans had already been disbursed.

True to their fears documents related to seven personal loan disbursals whose collective amount was to the tune of more than Rs.32 lakh turned out to be fake and anonymous.

The Risk Intelligence & Control Wing immediately registered a complaint with the Mira Road Police. Following investigations the police arrested a 29-yearold woman for her involvement into the fraud and booked her for cheating, forgery and impersonation.

Explaining the gang’s modus operandi, Senior Police Inspector Dhanaji Kshirsagar said, “The accused created fake documents, pasted photographs, impersonated and effected the loan transactions. Once the loan was disbursed they would siphon off the entire money.

As of now seven fake loan cases have come to light.”

The police have launched a manhunt to nab the absconding gang members including their kingpin, who is believed to have fled to his native Uttar Pradesh.

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Two held for cheating a Northeastern student

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he Mumbai Police's Property Cell has arrested two youth for duping a Northeastern youth of Rs. 6 lakhs on the pretext of getting him admitted to a college of his choice in Mumbai.

The victim, Roshan Singh, is a resident of Assam and he wanted to pursue PGDM studies in a reputed college but could not get admission in a college of his choice.

The accused identified as Ashish Kumar Jha (28) and Amit Dubey (29) got his mobile number from a social networking site and messaged him to contact if he wished to get admission into a college.

Hence the victim contacted the accused who asked Singh to meet them at a coffee shop in Bandra with Rs. 2 lakhs to book his seat in a reputed college. The accused told Singh that they have good relations with the Trustees and Management of the college and his work would be done in a few days.

After taking Singh into confidence over the phone calls exchanged between the Singh and the accused, Singh agreed to pay the first installment.

A few days later, the accused asked for second installment amount of Rs. 4 lakhs.

DCP, Detection, Dhananjay Kulkarni said, “Initially the case was registered at Khar Police station and later was transferred to the Property Cell. The accused, after

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Amit Dubey cheating the victim, had switched off their mobile phones and also had fake residential proof. The Property Cell was successful in nabbing the two on Monday from Navi Mumbai area. The team is now investigating if some other students were also cheated in a similar way.”

According to the police, one more accused in the case is still at large. The police have recovered 11 visiting cards with fake names and three mobile phone from the possession of both the accused, who are said to be active since many years and both become active during admission months of June and July.

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JUM not providing legal aid to Areeb Majeed

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amiat Ulama-E-Maharashtra (JUM), an organization that provides legal aid to accused involved in various cases including terror and bomb blasts, has denied giving any legal support to Kalyan youth Areeb Majeed, who joined the outlawed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Areeb is at present in judicial custody and booked under various sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has already filed a chargesheet in the case recently.

Gulzar Ahmed Azmi, Secretary, Legal Cell, JUM said, "The family of Areeb Majeed had met us when he was back to India but did not turn up to seek help from JUM. If they seek our legal assistance we will look into it."

However, ISIS recruit's father Ejaz Majeed refused to comment on the matter.

At present JUM is providing legal help to 520 accused in 56 cases all over the counGulzar Ahmed Azmi try.

The organization have so far secured bail of 24 accused in 5 serious cases including Aurangabad Arms Haul Case and 2006 Malegaon Blast.

JUM at present is providing legal help to accused in 44 ongoing cases in different Trial Courts in the country.

The organisation is helping around 53 accused in 5 cases in the Supreme Court where the judgements of Lower and High Courts have been challenged.

At least 64 accused in 19 cases have been acquitted with JUM's legal help in cases including 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, 13/7 Mumbai se-

rial blasts and Mumbai 92-93 riots.

However, in the High Courts of Chandigarh and Lucknow three different cases are being argued for 3 accused persons. The cost of the legal aid in the year 201415 was calculated over Rs. 1 crore.

Areeb Majeed and three

other youths from Kalyan town including Shaheen Tanki, Fahad Shaikh and Aman Tandel had gone to Baghdad on May 23 last year as part of a group of 22 pilgrims to visit religious shrines in Iraq and reportedly joined ISIS. Areeb Majeed was arrested by NIA officers on November 29 last year.

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Police plan to appoint Special PP to expedite Jahanvi hit-n-run-case

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Garat could be one of the options of Special Public Prosecutor, and waiting for Maria's he RCF Police Station decision.� has written to Mumbai Adding further the sources Police Commissioner said, “A team has been sent to Rakesh Maria seeking his Aurangabad to record the permission to appoint a Spe- statement of more witnesses. cial Public Prosecutor to ex- The RCF police has studied pedite in June 9 road crash that the Aurangabad family, case that killed two persons who was in the city to explore in Mumbai. different places in Mumbai, It is not yet decided on was passing by in a taxi when transferring the case to fast track court but the sources said, “Advocate Pradeep

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Police still clueless about two-day-old girl child dumped in Kandivli subway

Notice

Notice is given to public at large that the society has received a transfer application from Mr. Subhash V Naik & Mr. Vishwanath S. Naik for the Flat No. 102 in A wing of the SAICHARNAM -C CHS LTD at Shirdi Nagar, Bhayander (E) Dist Thane PIN: 401105, Orginal agreement between builder Shree Shakti Construction and Mr. Pursottam A Sharma have lost, misplaced and not traced and even same was not register but Shree Shakti Construction Consented to Mr. Pursottam A Sharma to sell the captioned flat to Mr. Sailesh Vithal Patel vide letter dated 13-4-99 attached to the agreement dated 13-4-99. if any person/s, bank, financial institution have any claim, objection,right, title or interest in respect of captioned flat or part thereof by way of sale, mortgage, line, lease, easement etc or otherwise, may inform the same to the Chairman/ Secretary at Saicharanam-C, Shirdi Nagar, Bhayander (E), Dist- Thane 401105 within 15 days of this Notice. Failing which it shall be presumed that there is no claim, society will free to transfer the captioned flat as per byelaws of the Society.

For and On Behalf of the Society , Saicharanam-C Cooperative Housing Society Ltd.: Sd/-

Date : 17-6-2015

By Shashwat Singh

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olice officials are still clueless about the 2-day-old girl child, who was found abandoned during the weekend in a Kandivli subway, on the western express highway near Dattani Park Society.

On Saturday night, the newborn was spotted by one Ramesh Joshi, who informed the Samta Nagar police station. A police team immediately reached the spot.

When the ADC contacted the investigating officer, Mithun Pardesi of Samta Nagar police station, he said, “The newborn was kept over a pedestal like structure on the side of the subway, surrounded by muck and dirty rain water, somewhere between 9 pm and 10 pm. “We rushed the baby to the Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivali where she is still being treated,� he added.

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gation and looking for the baby's parents/guardians.

For the time being we have registered a case under section 317 of the IPC, which pertains to the abandonment of a child below 12 years of age.�

He further stated that, “what is making the investigation more difficult is the fact that there are no CCTV cameras installed around the subway, which would help us get an idea of the child's parents.�

Police sources have revealed that, they are going through all the municipal hospitals and private hospitals' records and narrowing down the list to mothers who have given birth to children in the past three-four days.

They intend to contact these mothers and know about their newborns. Those whose names are there in the records but whose newborns are missing, will be answerable, the sources concluded.

ACB says it would complete probe against Tatkare in 3 months T

he Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday informed the Bombay High Court that it would complete the investigation against former Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Sunil Tatkare for alleged money laundering and land grabbing within three months.

The ACB submitted a report before the division bench of Justices N.H. Patil and S.B. Shukre on Tuesday, informing that the probe was still underway, reports PTI. The High Court, in response to a public interest litigation filed by BJP MP Kirit Somaiya, had earlier directed the ACB, city police's Economic Offences Wing and the Raigad collector to conduct

inquiry into the allegations and submit periodical reports. Somaiya had sought a CBI probe alleging money laundering and land grabbing by various companies floated

by Tatkare and his relatives, mainly in the neighbouring Raigad district.

The investigating agencies had time and again faced the ire of the court for failing to conduct a fair probe against the minister and his family.

Somaiya has listed 51 companies formed by Tatkare which have his family members and friends as directors, and alleged that they purchased benami lands in Maharashtra and indulged in money-laundering, causing loss to the public exchequer.

Nanavati Hospital conducts health camp at old age home

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Medical test reports have been sent to senior doctors of the hospital for proper advice to be given to patients living in Bandra’s old age home

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health camp was conducted at an old age home in Mumbai by Nanavati Super Specialty Hospital recently. The Deputy Manager of Events for Nanavati Super Specialty Hospital at Vile Parle, Prajagti Shirsekar, said that it was for the first time that the hospital conducted a health camp at an old age home in the city.

While no doctor was present during the camp, Shirsekar said senior nurses and technicians from the hospital conducted the camp.

“This camp was conducted at St. Anthony's Home for Aged at Bandra on June 15.

While we have conducted many health camps in the past which included senior citizens, this is the first time we did it in an old age home,” said Shirsekar.

“There were 60 old women whose BP, random blood sugar and Bone Mineral Densitometry (BMD) tests were done between 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. Among these, we found around 50 percent or more than 30 patients who

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hief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said that a cabinet sub-committee headed by health minister Deepak Sawant would frame rules regarding setting up of an enforcement agency to implement the proposed anti-spitting law.

The law envisages social punishment for those spitting in public.

Fadnavis was speaking to reporters after the weekly meeting of the cabinet.

The committee comprises water supply minister Babanrao Lonikar, FDA minister Girish Bapat and school education minister Vinod Tawde.

The committee will submit its report in a month's time and the government may introduce the bill in the monsoon session of the state legislature. Fadnavis also announced that Rohit Deo has been appointed as associate advocate general. Dev had earlier served as associate solicitor general at the Centre.

Though PM promised freedom from open defecation, toilets disappear in Mira Road Demolished four years back for road widening, public toilets on Kashimira highway yet to be reconstructed

By Suresh Golani

Dahisar Toll Plaza and Kashimira police station had etting 2019 as deadline, been razed as a part of the Prime Minister Narendra road widening project in Modi has envisaged dream 2011. However since then project of creating a 'Swachh the public toilet blocks are Bharat' by freeing the coun- yet to be reconstructed postry from open defecation. ing inconvenience to locals However with public toilets and highway travellers espedisappearing fast, it seems cially women as the to be a distant dream for the entire region is devoid of toitwin-city. This considering let facilities. the inability of the MiraThe MBMC’s Public Works Bhayandar Municipal Cor- Department (PWD) has poration (MBMC) to claimed that despite several reconstruct existing public reminders, the National toilets that had been demol- Highway Authority of India ished owing to widening of (NHAI) were buying time to service roads on Mumbai- issue no-objection certifiAhmedabad national high- cates for re-building the toiway for the past four years. let complexes.

When It should be noted that six contacted a NHAI official public toilets on the stretch said that it was against its of the highway between policy to allot space for the

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One of the nurses (right) at Nanavati Super Specialty Hospital, conducting health check of an old woman. had high diabetes. There were two cataract patients who needed surgery. There were some Osteoporosis patients too,” said Shirsekar.

The test reports have been sent to senior doctors of the

hospital for better advice for the patients dwelling in old age home.

Nanavati Hospital is expected to conduct such health camps for old age people in near future.

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facility on the highway and beneath flyovers.

“Since all the available space has already been utilised for widening the highway and construction of service roads, there is no scope for allotting land for public toilets. Moreover we have already conveyed this to the civic authorities who should seek NOCs from the district collector,” confirmed NHAI project officer M.K. Atharde. It should be noted that civic authorities in association with local self-help groups and social organisations are supposed to construct toilets on buildoperate- transfer (BOT) basis, and seek nominal charges for using the facilities.

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PM’s last word awaited on L’affaire Sushma-Modi

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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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HE Metro lines across the city can in no small extent solve the growing transport problem. Every possible effort needs to be made to provide increasing Metro transport for the citizens. Mumbai is a crowded city and with people utilising every inch of available space.

With such a scenario existing in the city, it becomes difficult to construct Metro lines. Several buildings have to be pulled down to build the line. They want to do this in Shivaji Park, Dadar, Girgaum and Colaba. If they go ahead and do it, hundreds of families will be homeless. Notices have already been sent to several families to vacate. Naturally, the residents do not want to quit because they have nowhere to go. They offer residence and the authorities have to use force to make them leave.

The problems of the residents have to be recognised. One fine morning they are asked to quit and they have no go but to obey the order. Is it right the authorities should throw them in the streets and expose them to rains? It may cost them a fortune to provide the hapless people alternate accommodation, but they have got to do it. It is a fact that Metro lines are highly useful and attract prior attention, but even so, if they lead to suffering of hundreds of families, there should be rethinking on the transport project. The Metro folks have a right to lay lines through buildings only if they provide adequate housing for the displaced families.

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LTHOUGH the Modi government has finally come out with an official defence of Sushma Swaraj for her role in the raging Lalit Modi controversy, BJP circles are wondering whether the matter will rest here. Internal fault lines seem to have only deepened in the 72 hours since the story first broke about Sushma’s hand in facilitating UK travel documents to the former IPL czar who is wanted for questioning by the ED serious financial fraud.

It is baffling indeed that it has taken the government so long to defend Sushma. Till the joint press conference addressed by Rajnath and Arun Jaitley, it was left to BJP president Amit Shah and party spokespersons to do the talking. There was not a single official word from any of the ministries involved in the matter (External Affairs and Finance) or the PMO. The government’s reticence was odd because Sushma acted in her official capacity as foreign minister, not as a BJP leader, to help Lalit Modi gain the desired freedom to travel and party. She certainly could not have assured the British High Commissioner in India as merely a BJP spokesperson that India-UK ties would not be affected if his government gave Lalit Modi the passport he so desperately wanted. No. It was her authority as External Affairs Minister that swung it for Lalit Modi.

The government’s silence was making Sushma’s position untenable. With no official word forthcoming on a matter concerning the government, it seemed that the PM had washed his hands off the whole affair and Sushma would have to resign. Jaitley has now clarified that the government owns her action on the principle of collective responsibility.

Yet, despite this certificate, murmurs continue in the BJP that Sushma may still quit.

Apparently, she did offer to resign when she got wind that a British newspaper and an Indian TV channel were hot on her trail. She met the PM and said she would put in her papers to spare him blushes. He appears to have rejected her offer. It would seem that we haven’t heard the last word on l’affaire Sushma-Modi.

What Mamata wants, Mamata gets

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IPLOMATIC circles have been wondering why Narendra Modi did not take any chief ministers from the Northeast to Bangladesh. The question is pertinent be-

cause one of the highlights of the visit was the inauguration of two important bus routes between Bangladesh and India. The routes connect Dhaka to four state capitals in the east: Kolkata, Agartala in Tripura, Guwahati in Assam and Shillong in Meghalaya.

Modi had wanted the CMs of the all the concerned states to accompany him and be present when the buses were flagged off. But Mamata put a spoke in his grand plans. She put her foot down on the other CMs. Her condition for accompanying Modi to Dhaka was that she would be the only CM in the delegation.

brief the media after the operation. Former army chief and Union Minister V.K. Singh was the obvious choice because of his army background and because he is the minister for the northeast. But he has embarrassed the government twice already with his indiscreet tweets and remarks. The government didn’t want to take chances with him. It was felt that Rathore would be a safer bet.

What happened was exactly the opposite of what the government had hoped. Rathore did a V.K. Singh on the government.

Highly placed sources in the government said that he was fine till the press conference.

He stuck to the brief. Trouble erupted after that. He sent out a series of provocative tweets that have lit fires in both Myanmar and Pakistan. As NSA Ajit Doval and the External Affairs Ministry rush to douse the flames, Modi may have to think about issuing a restraint order on the use of social media.

The writing was on the wall for Fin Secy Rajiv Meherishi POWER TALK Arati R. Jerath Modi must have been disappointed because he wanted the bus inauguration to be a grand event with him leading a high-powered Indian delegation of chief ministers from different regions and political parties. But Mamata left him with no choice.

And what Mamata wants, Mamata gets. Modi agreed to her terms because he was keen that she accompany him, if only to signal the new bonhomie between him and the West Bengal CM.

Again, Modi embarrassed by a former ‘fauji’

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T is ironic that Modi has once again been embarrassed by a former fauji in his council of ministers. His government is busy fighting the fires lit by Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore’s tweets on the army’s anti-insurgency operation in Myanmar. Rathore was a colonel in the army.

The funny thing is that the government took a strategic decision to field Rathore to

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HE writing was on the wall for finance secretary Rajiv Meherishi when PM Narendra Modi ticked him off in front of other officials at a recent meeting. You haven’t been able to make the transition from chief secretary (of Rajasthan) to finance secretary, Modi told Meherishi in a withering tone.

If Meherishi nursed hopes of being elevated to the top post of cabinet secretary, they must have died then and there. The PM was clearly annoyed. In fact, the bureaucratic grapevine says that the PM is so unhappy that he has refused to entertain suggestions that Meherishi be given a post-retirement sinecure, a posting in the Election Commission, for example.

The question is whether Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje can help him out.

Meherishi was quite a favourite of hers and she tried to keep him in Jaipur despite pressure from Modi and Arun Jaitley to post him to Delhi. She could offer him something in Rajasthan.

It is ironic indeed that Meherishi was once said to be a hot favourite with Modi because of the manner in which he successfully implemented labour reforms in Rajasthan.

But as finance secretary, he seems to have ruffled feathers in the PMO on several counts including the decision to accept the recommendations of the 14 Finance Commission.

‘All that is in you should be brought out’ A

person who is able to help others should not hide himself but do his best to come out into the world. 'Raise up your light high', it is said. All that is in you should be brought out, and if the conditions hinder you, break through the conditions! That is the strength of life.

You are love – you come from love – you are made by love – you cannot cease to love.

Question: Is it a great lack in character when a person cannot give the love which friends require? When one receives love and is not able to return it, when one forgets one's friends being absorbed in one's work and occupation?

Answer: The question is: what work or occupation? There are works and occupations of a higher character which take one's whole attention, one's life. Such works may require renunciation and sacrifice. Then one does not become loveless; there is a duty of which

one cannot be regardless. However if one can from love. Even if one desires food, it is the manage to give and take love at the same love of food, and it is according to the power time, it is preferable. of his love that man will attract it. The question is only: what does he love most? Does he Question: Will a person suffer one day love something more than the ordinary through inability to love – merely giving a things of life, then that must be his aim. cold affection?

Hunger is an aspect of love. Love of the heart is what we call affection. Love of territory has caused many deaths. What man loves he must get. All words as seeking, wanting, requiring, searching, are words for loving.

Answer: Love, whether hot or cold, is love. Love is the root of the whole phenomenon of life. Even if a poor man does not find his food, Question: Is there cold love? you will see that there is something else he Answer: Since God is love the whole mani- loves more. festation is love, the cold water and the hot God is love and in Him I have my being – fire. and I have no fear.

Let my intelligence shine out as love; let my Question: By which power does man at- limited self expand to Thy divine perfection. tract his food and all he needs?

— These words are part of Hazrat Inayat Answer: If there is any mighty power, it is Khan's sermon of the Burial Ceremony. the power of love. All that one desires comes

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Sushma Swaraj-Lalit Modi imbroglio LET us accept one reality. The giving and receiving of favours is part and parcel of politics - and not just in India. The ties of foreign minister Sushma Swaraj with fugitive Lalit Modi seem to be particularly strong, since both – her husband and daughter – have been providing legal counsel to the latter.

Moreover, Lalit Modi is a master fixer, who has perfected the art of manipulating the powerful and the influential to his own advantage. It is the reason why despite being a fugitive from justice, he has not only evaded prosecution, but continues to live the high life in London and Europe. It seems surprising that a highly intelligent lady like Swaraj did not see through Modi's transparent ploy of requesting travel documents on the flimsy pretext of needing to go to Portugal to sign a consent form for his wife's surgery. In fact, it is fairly obvious that Swaraj knew precisely what Modi's intention was, but did not see any harm in acquiescing to his wish. That's what friends are for, right?

— Firoze Hirjikaka, Colaba

BEFORE vociferously demanding the resignation of Sushma Swaraj, the Congressmen need to do some soul searching. Not long ago, who allowed the international criminal Quattrochi, against whom the Interpol had sounded Red Alert, to leave Argentina, when that country was prepared to extradite him

Opposition parties need to do some soul searching before vociferously demanding the resignation of Sushma Swaraj to India to stand trial? Did the Congress-led UPA II not tell the CBI to go slow in the matter so as to allow Q to escape from Buenos Aires?

Even in India, his bank account was promptly de-frozen to enable him to withdraw the entire ill-gotten amount virtually within 24 hours and flee to Italy. Let the 'secular' Party answer these questions first before targeting the BJP.

the Indians abroad who were lodged in very critical situation almost facing the death for the local skirmishes , turmoil in those disturbed areas in particular in the politically volatile middle east countries . In this case if the humanitarian angle is considered then the help that she had extended certainly stands in good stead . However such tricky situa— Arun Malankar, Santa Cruz tion politically creates good recipe for the opposition , the Congress to

grab this opportunity to attack . AlAPROPOS 'Serious charges against though the Indian aam aadmi are Sushma' (ADC , Jun 16), this edit aware how UPA had dealt with this piece deals indeed with the in- Lalit Modi regarding his Tax issues triguing issue on NDA 's minister favouring him for the reasons best of foreign affairs Sushma Swaraj. In known to them. The NDA would fact so far in NDA ministry she had certainly tide over this situation as discharged her duties quite dili- the Congress did during their gently and efficiently too. We have tenure. It is only a matter of time.

— Bikram Banerjea , Mumbai seen in respect of the evacuation of

some delicate parts of your body in a vulnerable position. You say that the army has become less important and that’s because there have been no wars. So let’s educate you a bit. From the year you were born the army has grown 300 percent.

You may not have a declared war but we have an undeclared war – more dangerous and tricky than a declared one all along our land frontier. In fact eight states are virtually being run by the army – the seven in the north east and J&K. Do you have the confidence to repeal AFSPA and send the army back to the barracks? Mr Manohar Parikkar, you don’t maintain an army to wage war. You have it to ensure that others will think twice before they get any ideas.

ting down at important stations in a fix.

— S. Abhishek Ram, Vashi

RTO department should order probe into the whole episode

COUPLE of days ago, I felt I was in Paris when the pvt Ola cab driver demanded Rs. 750 for a 5-minute cab ride of a mere 3 kms which reminded me of the Capital of France where I had paid a similar amount or little less while holidaying in Europe a few years back. Recently, our normal Black and Yellow taxis were on strike and the app-based aggregators like Uber and Ola Cabs were in high demand with the needy commuters having no choice but to pay the 'Ransom' fares.

'Making hay while the sun shines' seems to be the motto adopted by these pvt cab owners and it is truly an shame that sick patients, handicapped individuals, old people etc who could not travel by local trains or public transport were robbed in broad daylight. The RTO department should order an inquiry into the whole episode and such operators should not be allowed to demand such hefty ransom in the name of dynamic pricing. Also, the government should put an upper cap amount over which a service provider or a manufacturer or trader cannot charge in events of supply-demamd mismatch as they have in the developed countries.

WATER logging during monsoon gives scope for vehicles going of the roads in Mumbai and that causes lot of discomfiture to the people coming from outstation to the city. To add salt to the wound, prepaid taxis were on strike protesting demanding a ban on taxis of app-based aggregators such as Uber, Ola and Taxifosure. People coming through Railways and Airways were stranded in the wet conditions and find it very difficult to reach their destination. As some of the private operators were attacked there was confusion and even the CST terminus wore a deserted look as monsoon rains hit Mumbai Metro. It is time State Government take stock such ticklish situations and find an amicable solution without wasting much of the time to help out troubled passengers. It is a matter of great — S.N. Kabra, Goregaon concern and the concerned authorities should take stock of the situation and act with prudence to arrest such unwanted protests, which put the rail passengers get- THE Chennai city girl NL Zephine

Kudos to NL Zephine Beno

Beno has done the nation proud by being the first fully visually- challenged woman to crack UPSC examination. Though she is visually challenged she had a clear vision of cracking UPSC examinations. As Dr. Kalam says 'only small aim is the biggest crime', Zephine despite her limitations which could have stopped an ordinary person, on the contrary had a magnificent obsession with dogged determination which helped her to realise her big dreams. She has proved to the

NL Zephine Beno world what Walt Disney used to say "All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them" I am sure her inspiring success story will ignite the minds of many young differently-abled aspirants.

— T.S. Karthik, Chennai

Message for Parrikar DEAR Hon Shri Raksha Mantri, you have again put your foot in his mouth. My guess is that you already had one inside and now both feet are in. Maybe you are practicing for the coming International Yoga Day, but your asana has put

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keeper from Maharashtra Hemant Knitakar died after a prolonged illness at his residence in Pune. Kanitkar, 72, is also survived by his wife and sons Hrishikesh, also a former India batsman, and Aditya. Hemant Kanitkar played two Tests but was a stalwart of domestic cricket. Just like Ramesh Saxena of Bihar, Ashok Malhotra of Bengal, Amol Mujum-

— T.R. Ramaswami, Kandivali

Cesspool of alcoholic drinks WHILE there should not be diktats from assorted groups hijacking the free will of the people awareness should definitely be created about the ill effects of alcohol. Our younger generation is drowning itself in the cesspool of alcoholic drinks which are detrimental to their minds and body, OF robs them of productivity LETTER THE DAY and makes them dependent. Alcohol related road accidents are on the rise, crimes committed against women in an intoxicated state are common knowledge. A good idea would be to screen documentaries in cinema halls and on television enlightening people about the sordid effects of alcohol.

— Altaf H Ladiwala, Bandra

RIP, Hemant Kanitkar VERSATILE batsman and a wicket-

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Hemant Kanitkar dar of Mumbai, he dominated domestic scene for a very long time.

He scored a century on his firstclass debut for Maharashtra against Saurashtra in 1963-64 at the Poona Club, his home ground. After topping the Ranji Trophy run-charts twice, including in 1970-71 when Maharashtra made it to the final, Kanitkar earned the India call-up for the home series against West Indies. At Bangalore he batted up in the order facing the West Indies attack lead by Andy Roberts, Kanitkar top-scored with 65 in his debut Test innings in Bangalore. He was dropped following scores of 18, 8 and 20 in his next three innings. He withstood West Indies pace battery successfully but could not last long and lost his place in the test side.

— C.K. Subramaniam, Sanpada

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he Association of Hospitals (AOH) is planning to make Mumbai a healthcare hub in India for which it has set four strategies. Revealing its plans in a press conference in Mumbai on Tuesday, AOH officials said their focus is not on medical tourism but to give better healthcare to people in the city.

“The first strategy is to give the patients better quality care. The second is the know patient experience.

The third is infrastructure and the fourth is collaborations and reputation management,” said Vice President of AOH Gautam Khanna.

“For better quality of patient care, it is necessary that we have good quality doctors, nurses and staff looking after the patient. It is also the patient's first expectation that they receive good healthcare. This can be done with the help of our second strategic measure, patient experience,” said Khanna.

Khanna elaborated that the conservation time spent between patient and doctor is nearly one hour.

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AOH President Dr. P. M. Bhujang said that all its member hospitals are charitable organizations. “There are 52 members under AOH of which 40 are based in Mumbai. Together we provide more than 8400 beds. While concessions under Section 41AA of the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950 doesn't include charitable organizations under its purview, we request the government to include us in it. 27 members of AOH had within a year provided charitable service worth Rs 65 crores to patients,” said Dr. Bhujang.

When asked about standardised price structure across charitable Dr. P.M. Bhujang, President of Association and private hospitals, Dr. Bhujang of Hospitals. said, “That is not feasible as different hospitals have different facilities “The rest of the time the patient in- and policies. While it can be teracts with various staff at the hos- adopted for some facilities that are pital. After knowing about patient common among all hospitals, it experience we can bring better cannot be achieved for all facilities.” changes in the hospital,” said As per the guidelines of Bombay Khanna, adding that this can be HC, AOH provides same facilities to achieved after infrastructural needs various people of different income and management is good and effi- groups, background and places, cient. said Khanna.

Technical snags bring CR to a halt

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he Central Railway services was brought to a temporary halt on Tuesday due to technical glitches during the morning peak hours at Thane station which resulted in trains being delayed by an hour after 8 am. Even after the services being restored at 9.05 am, trains were delayed by over 40 minutes.

A Central Railway official said, “One service was cancelled due to unit defect at Thane station leading

to delay of trains during the morning peak hours. The slow trains were diverted on fast line between Diva and Mulund and three local trains were held up. However, the services were restored at 9.05 am and the trains are operating normally after that.” Thane station was overcrowded since morning and people were stranded.

Suresh Chandra (30), a teacher said, “I reached Thane station at 8 am and till 9 am, I was stuck at the station. I had to reach at Ghatkopar

by 9 am and reached my workplace late. If this is the condition before the actual monsoon has started, then during monsoon, the complete Central Railway services would come to a halt.”

Sneha Kambekar, Web Designer said, “I am generally never late for work and today also I reached the station half an hour prior to my usual time. However, trains were halted at the platform and not moving. I took a cab as I wanted to reach my workplace on time.”

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Survey conducted among 380 young adults in Mumbai reveals positive attitudes regarding children and a strong, concerned voice against child labour

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he United Nations in a 2014 report on young population across the globe pegged India as the leader with 356 million 10-24 year-olds. India officially now has the world's largest youth population despite having a smaller population than China. These 356 million youths will carve out the future of this nation and keeping that in mind, Child Rights and You (CRY) has decided to reach out to young adults across the city of Mumbai, to understand their perspective on issues relating to children.

In a first amongst a possible series of studies amongst the youth, CRY decided to focus on the issue of child labour first given the scale of this problem in India.

According to the 2011 Census child labour data, the total number of working children in India between the ages of 5-14 years is 10.13 million. This might be a smaller number in comparison with the number of children in India, but when one realises that roughly every 11th child in India is a child labourer — the seriousness of this epidemic, finally, dawns on you.

In the CRY survey, youth from 60+ colleges were targeted and a team of 10 volunteers and interns conducted the interviews. The questionnaire featured 13 questions, some open-ended, some close-ended and most with multiple answers to choose from. Most questions also evolved into a semiinterview, allowing the interviewee to have short conversations with the interviewer, duly recorded.

“Foreseeing this generation as the future of the country leaves us with a lot of hope. The findings of this CRY survey have indicated that the youth of today are sensitive towards children and we hope that they continue as ardent supporters of child rights, working proactively towards a safe childhood for all children across India,” said Kreeanne Rabadi, Regional Director, CRY (West).

child helping his/her family in the fields could also be classified as child labour. Is this an indication that urban youth think differently of child labour when it concerns children in a rural scenario? CRY has always maintained a twopronged approach. While working with children in urban centres is of increasing importance (and one that CRY focuses on); our outreach with partners into several nooks and corners of this nation has also made us experts in issues regarding children in rural areas.

The argument on children being With the current debate raging on allowed to work as domestic helps the age at which a child can be al- in homes is a nascent one in publowed to work — it is reassuring lic fora. Yet, young adults in Mumthat 69.5% (of the 380 young adults bai already seem to have an interviewed) believed that chil- informed opinion about it. A dren should only work after the whopping 68.5% said that they age of 18. considered domestic help by chilGiven the proposed amendment dren to be a clear case of child in the CLPRA (Child Labour Prohi- labour, echoing CRYs stand on the bition and Regulation Act) to allow same issue. CRY believes that children below 14 to work in the every child has the right to a family employments, it is interest- healthy, safe and secure childing to note that only 1/3rd of the hood; access to free education; total number of young people sur- and a childhood that is free from veyed thought that a child helping the burdens of child labour.

Here are some of the highlighted findings from the survey:

ART FOR ART'S SAKE... Famous calligraphy artist, Achyut Palav, paints umbrellas with his calligraphy art, at a workshop held at the Mumbai Press Club, on Tuesday.

his/her family in a family business should be classified as child labour. However, 44% also thought that family business could be a large reason for children being involved in child labour. This echoes the concerns of CRY and other child rights experts that this proposed law could increase the number of child labour in the country.

Considering this was a survey conducted in urban areas, it did not come as a surprise that 82% said that they felt that a child selling magazines at a signal was child labour; or that 46% said that a child delivering milk in the morning, and later attending school was also child labour. What was interesting to note was that 35% said that a child tending to cattle was child labour and 21% said that a

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‘Ram temple, Art 370 on BJP agenda, but focus is development’

Muslim girls practicing Yoga in a school in Surat on Tuesday ahead of the International Day of Yoga on June 21, declared by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 2014

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EW DELHI: Ram temple in Ayodhya and abrogation of Article 370, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir, continue to be on BJP's agenda but any decision on them can be taken only after wide consultations, Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda has said. He also said the present focus of the Narendra Modi government is on good governance and development, which were ignored in the past 10 years by the previous UPA government.

"Already I have made a statement on the floor of the House in Rajya Sabha. So, it is there on the agenda of the BJP because in the manifesto we said that Article 370 needs to be amended.

"We have gone one step ahead. Again, I am telling the same word, that this matter should be discussed with various political parties and even certain areas where it has been benefited, they should also should be taken care of," Gowda told PTI in an interview. He said there are "so many" stakeholders who should be consulted.

"Then only we can go ahead. We can't take a nasty decision or a hasty decision

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D V Sadananda Gowda without coming to a closer consensus between all the political parties. So, slow and steady we should go ahead.

So, that means we have not left it out," he said.

The minister said now the primary aim of the government is good governance and development.

"These are the very important issues. Since last 10 years, there was no gover-

nance at all and development has been simply thrown to the sea. Now, we are working on good governance and development.

"Along with that, other issues -- it may be Sri Ram temple, Article 370. So, we have not left it out. Slowly, we have to convince and we have to wait for some more time. It is on our agenda," he asserted.

OLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP and actor Mithun Chakraborty yesterday surrendered to Enforcement Directorate (ED) an amount of about Rs 1.2 crore that he had received from scam-hit Saradha group of companies for being its brand ambassador.

Sources said a team of lawyers and other representatives of the actor reached the probe agency's office at Salt Lake here and handed over a Demand Draft (DD) to the investigating officer (IO) of the case. "This was part of Chakraborty's earlier commitment that he would return the funds that he had received from the group. The DD has been given to the IO of the Saradha scam probe case," sources said.

They added that the agency is satisfied with the said action and the statement recorded by the actor-politician regarding his role in the operations of the group, which has now become defunct in the wake of allegations against it of perpetrating a large-scale chit-fund scam in West Bengal and other states.

During his last questioning

Mithun Chakraborty

by ED here in May, Chakraborty had provided the agency sleuths with a number of DVDs, CDs and scripts that he had got as part of being the brand ambassador of the Saradha group.

The actor had done so to back his claim to investigators that his association with Saradha Group was "purely

professional" and that he had no intentions of cheating or duping anyone.

"He had told investigators that he had no inkling about any sort of scam that was being perpetrated. The actor had submitted all his personal and official records to the agency in this regard," the sources said.

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Wreckage of the Jaguar fighter plane that crashed at Chaka village near Allahabad on Tuesday. PTI

Jaguar aircraft crashes near Allahabad, pilots eject safely

ALLAHABAD: A Jaguar aircraft of Indian Air Force crashed near here yesterday morning during a training sortie and the two pilots ejected safely, the second such incident this year. The aircraft crashed on a piece of uninhabited land near a warehouse of Food Corporation of India at Naini, about 50 kms from the Indian Air Force's Central Air Command at Bamrauli on the outskirts of the city from where it had taken off at 7:25 am. Police said that there was no casualty or damage to property on land. The IAF said both the pilots ejected safely at 8.47 am and a court of inquiry has been ordered into the crash. "Fortunately, the pilots ejected safely. Other things like the probable cause are to be assessed," Defence spokesman Group Captain B B Pande said.

ew Delhi: A new "smart and intelligent" database is being set up in the Income Tax department to help check tax evasion, a "menace" that is "spoiling" compliance culture, a top CBDT official said yesterday.

The database will immensely improve "mining" of data as it will include all financial transactions of individuals and entities.

"We just don't want to get penalty and unpaid tax from the evader.

We don't want to do that. Because, for us, tax evasion is not only a menace in that sense, it is also spoiling the entire compliance culture because the people who are tax compliant feel that the system is unfair," Central Board of Direct Taxes Chairper-

son Anita Kapur told reporters.

CBDT is the apex policy making body of the IT department.

Kapur said though the deCBDT chief Anita partment Kapur wanted to keep the tax regime "non-intrusive", it was because not everybody was willingly compliant that IT authorities had to use the power of search and seizure.

She said the database will be set up later this year and be fully operational next year.

"It is called the Income Tax

Army personnel recover arms and ammunition from a militants hideout during a search operation against militants at Yarwan forest in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday. PTI

Journo killing: HC seeks status report from UP

LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court yesterday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to file a status report within one week in the murder of a journalist in Shahjahanpur, in which a SP minister and five others have been booked. The court asked government counsel to inform it about the stage of investigation by June 24 along with their objections raised during course of hearing the matter. The order was passed by a vacation division bench of Justices Narain Shukla and Pratyush Kumar on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions for a CBI probe into the killing. The order was issued on the PIL filed by 'We The People', an NGO, on June 11. A direction has also been sought in the petition for providing adequate compensation to the deceased scribe's family.

AIIMS issue: Hunger strike goes on in Jammu

JAMMU: More than 40 members of the AIIMS coordination committee yesterday took their turn as the chain hunger strike entered fifth consecutive day. The chain hunger strike launched by the AIIMS coordination committee, an amalgam of more than 70 religious, social, political, business and civil society groups spearheading agitation in support of setting up of an AIIMS in Jammu region, entered fifth day yesterday. Around 40 members from various groups, including SOS International, an organisation of the PoK refugees today took their turn to sit on strike. "We have already extended our support to the cause of setting up of AIIMS in Jammu. Our organisation, SOS International which has been representing PoK refugees is also a part of the AIIMS coordination committee, today we decided to sit for the hunger strike", Rajiv Chuni, president, SOS International told PTI.

Business Application, and once ready, it will vastly improve data mining and business intelligence of the department and the taxman. It will be a robust database which will include all sorts of financial transactions data of an entity including human intelligence collected on a person or entity," she said.

Kapur also said the department was on a drive to widen the tax net. She added there are chances that by witnessing a lax system of tax enforcement, even compliant taxpayers would "waver" from their duty saying why should they pay taxes when others can avoid it. Kapur added that "demonstrative action" by the taxman is required against evaders.

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Rahul slams Modi for ignoring poor, says bullet trains only for those with ‘suit-boot’

anjgir (Chhattisgarh): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ignoring the poor and the tribals, saying that although the government speaks of bullet trains, "only people with suit-boot" can enter these trains, not the farmers and the underprivileged.

He also charged that the BJP governments at the Centre and in Chhattisgarh were acquiring land in the name of development, which has not reached the doorsteps of the poor and the tribals.

"We do not want such development," he said, asserting that he

Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi will not allow such kind of development to take place.

Attacking the prime minister, Gandhi said he only visits tribal and poor areas during elections to seek votes in the name of development. "I can write it down, he (Modi) will not come here be-

fore elections. When he comes, he will say 'we have brought good days. We can bring more good days so vote for us again'," Gandhi said addressing a rally here. The Congress Vice President said Modi, "who wears a Rs 15 lakh suit," prefers to go to Australia and the US. "If Modiji takes off his Rs 15 lakh suit and comes here to these villages, he will see the value of MNREGA," he said.

He further charged that the Prime Minister repeatedly talks of 'acche din' and 'vikas' (development), but not of the poor. "I don't understand what kind of development is this," said Gandhi.

will encourage a system where a person who is outside the tax system will continue to remain outside the tax system," Kapur said, adding there was a large tax constituency which is not covered under the Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) regime like small traders.

"Such people do not file the return and wait thinking something would be done once the taxman comes calling with a search or a survey. We don't want that message to go," she said.

Maintaining that chronic tax evaders will not be let off lightly, Kapur said,l"Our focus should not be collection and it should be taken to a logical conclusion which is that an evader not only pays penalty (on the tax evaded) but also be prosecuted."

Will work to realise vision of Brahm Prakash, 1st Delhi CM: Kejriwal

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ew Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal yesterday said that the goal of his AAP government was to create a "Maha Delhi" as he paid tributes to the late Chaudhary Brahm Prakash, the first chief minister of Delhi, on the occasion of the latter's 97th birth anniversary.

"Delhi government will work towards realising the vision of the late Chaudhary Brahm Prakash. We will translate his dreams into reality," Kejriwal said while paying floral tributes to Prakash at his statue inside the Delhi Vidhan Sabha Secretariat here.

He further said that the late leader wanted to make the national capital "Maha Delhi" and that the AAP government would fulfil that dream.

"He wanted to make Delhi 'Maha Delhi' and talked about the rights of Delhi, said the Chief Minister.

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ew Delhi: Members from opposition parties today expressed reservations over the representative of a private firm being allowed to make a submission before the Joint Committee of Parliament that is going into the contentious land acquisition Bill.

As it met for the fifth day to hear the views of stakeholders, some of the opposition party members strongly objected to the panel calling "private individuals with their own agenda" for the meeting, sources said.

One of the members questioned why they should listen to views of people with "vested in-

terests", saying that the particular company had interest in building construction activities, the sources added.

Members SS Ahluwalia said they have no objection to individuals appearing before the parliamentary panel who represent credible organisations, but private individuals cannot be allowed to push their "agenda" before it.

The Joint Committee on the Right to Fair Compensation and

Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill, 2015, headed by SS Ahluwalia yesterday called representatives from organisations like Foundation for Democratic Reforms, Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan, Sree Samayaa, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, PRS Legislative Research and an individual Dhanush Kumar.

Two young law students Aditya Manubarwala and Shardool Kulkarni also submitted their views before the panel.

While the first two submissions went on normally, members ob-

jected when the Managing Director of Sree Samayaa, a private limited company from Mumbai, began expressing his views in favour of the contentious Bill.

The MD of Sree Samayaa was cut short by with Congress, Trinamool Congress, Left and BJD members being the ones who opposed him.

The opposition members also wanted the government to spell out its stand on the land Bill issue since the matter has now been referred to a parliamentary panel.

They asked Ahluwalia to find out what the government's view is on the matter now.

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A Chartered Accountant’s profession is generally considered to be very prosperous but is also stressful. With globalisation, technological advancements, complex regulatory framework, evolution of exciting business models and emergence of entrepreneurship as a viable career option, the options for Chartered Accountants today are wider and more exciting.

CAs in the industry Emerging opportunities for

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imes have changed, right?

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« ADMISSION ALERTS BA IN FILM, TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA PRODUCTION

Deviprasad Goenka Management College (DGMC) of Media Studies has introduced the Bachelor of Arts Film, Television and New Media Production course. This is a University of Mumbai recognized course and has been developed specially to cater to the changing needs of global media and the entertainment industry.

The program is so devised to prepare students not only in technical aspects required for a fast paced media environment but also teach the managerial aspects of the media business but with due emphasis on marketing and branding management of various media products and associated services.

For the first time, it takes the students through the entire pipe line of the production process with regards to the content creation for various media pads, providing the students an insight in to the correlation that exists between content creation branding of the same and associated media business.

Care has been taken to structure the fundamental core management concepts and principles in the courseware.

The duration of the course is three years and is a full time course.

Candidates who have passed their Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination (Academic or Vocational Stream) conducted by different Divisional Boards of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education or an Examinations of any another University or Body recognized as equivalent thereof by the Senate of the University of Mumbai can apply for the course.

STUDENTS TAKE PART IN A MEGA SESSION ON CAPOEIRA –

Mount Litera School International, located at the heart of Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai, organized a mega session for parents and kids on Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art form. This event, titled ‘Batizado 2015’, was organized in association with Centre For Capoeira India recently. The event witnessed some spectacular performances from the students of Reza Baba Massah, Instructor and Founder of Capoeira Cordao de Ouro in India.

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art form which combines music, dance and self-defence movements.

Mount Litera School International aims to provide quality education to students along with the inclusion of various art forms such as Capoeira.

The event was graced with the presence of Abhinav Upadhyay, Head of Marketing & Innovation, Zee Learn Limited, Sunil Shetty, a leading Bollywood Actor and Vidyut Jamwal, a trained martial artist and Bollywood Actor to showcase and highlight the importance of Capoeira for kids. All the kids and parents had a great time at the event.

NEWCASTLE INDIA SCHOLARSHIPS

Newcastle University is offering 5 Postgraduate and 3 undergraduate ‘GREAT Scholarships’ of £3,000 and £5,000 respectively for the year 2015.

Eligibility : The Students are required to have a minimum academic score of 60 per cent in all subjects How to Apply: The Student should fill an online application form Deadline: June 30, 2015 Refer: www.ncl.ac.uk/students/wellbeing/finance/funding/nonukstudents/scholarships/undergraduate/university.htm

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am a Graduate (BMS) and I opted for Marketing major at my Graduation level in college. I spent my energy in college preparing myself to become a managerial expert. But it wasn't until my internship after my graduation that I began to develop my interest in Public relations. I was assigned a mentor who helped me understand the field better and map out my career plans. I feel the field is quite challenging but at the same time is fun as well.

You get to meet new people and get to explore new things with every client you handle. The field not only helps you grow personally but also, helps your client grow in their field which is beneficial for both. Also, you get to explore various opportunities for your client to get them featured which makes you use your creativity and keeps on improving it.

While doing BMS we had PR as a subject which helped me know more about the field.

So, yes, my education has helped me a great deal.

Training days were the best part of my life and I will never forget those days. My boss in my first ever PR organization Dipankar Zalpuri and all of my colleagues Neha Manucha, Karan Gulyani, Mehak Jaggi helped me a lot in bringing out the best in me in some or the other way but I would like to pay a special thanks to Rizwan Shaikh, who has always been by my side as a colleague, a mentor, a teacher, a friend and as a family. It is he who helped me chose the right path for my career and it is he who nurtured me from a seed to a plant which is

“PR will always make its presence felt in the market,” make its presence felt in the market.

We were a bunch of young professionals working for a PR agency and we realized that the amount of hard work you do while working under someone does not get compensated accordingly. However, if it is your own organisation (business) you end up giving the same amount or even more hard work with much better results in terms of monetary value. The risk is high as it is not easy to run an agency irrespective of it being bigger or smaller. The feeling of being independent makes the risk worth taking. I am fortunate I got a chance to be the co founder of a young agency at such a young age. All credit goes to my colleagues Rizwan Shaikh and Sonya Shaikh who are also co founders of our agency. It is their vision and hard work because of which this has been possible. I am very excited about our agency and keen to contribute to the best of my competencies and mould this young agency as a firm to be sought out for in the coming years in the luxury and fashion space. With respect to a future plan, I aspire to study more in the respective field so that I can attain certain professional skills and give my best to the business and deliver more results and fight the stiff competition in the market by delivering excellent results.

My advice for those who want to take up the PR profession is – If you are really good at persuading people and in selling your ideas, you should definitely choose this as your profession.

Says Mulla Azharuddin Basar, Co-Founder Amigos Communications.

ready to become a tree now.

My job profile consists of planning publicity strategies and campaigns, writing and producing presentations and press releases, dealing with enquiries from the press and stylists, organising promotional events such as press conferences, exhibitions, tours and visits, speaking publicly at interviews, press conferences and presentations, providing clients with information about new promotional opportunities and current PR campaigns progress, analysing media coverage, commissioning or undertaking relevant market research if needed, liaising with clients, managerial and journalistic staff about budgets, timescales and objectives; and if required, designing, writing and/or producing presentations, press releases, articles, leaflets, reports, lookbooks, etc.

Time to learn how this field works and hard work to actually bring things into action were the only investment

that I had to make besides paying for my education and investing in starting our own PR agency. As a fresher one can earn around 12k. As a professional your salary depends on your knowledge, experience and bargaining power. Earning in this field depends on your market reputation. The number of clients that you can handle and how well you can handle them also decides how much you can earn; it all depends on how quickly you can learn things in this field. You can be a professional in 6 months and still can be immature in the field even after working for years. But since, experience, contacts and your relation with the media matters a lot in this field I would say to be a better professional it will take a minimum time of 3 to 4 years in the field. The best advantage of this field is that it will always be in demand. Every other person wants to get promoted and to do so the best way is through PR. So it will always

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By Aman Bajaj

verybody has heard of big fat Indian weddings, a source of much celebration in India. In India no celebration is complete without dancing, singing and, most importantly, firecrackers. The dancing and singing, of course, are enjoyable. However, the firecrackers not only create noise pollution, but also create a mess. When a firecracker is burst, nobody thinks of cleaning up the mess caused after it burns out. Instead, it is commonly assumed, that with the crackers going up in flames, nothing remains. Clearly, no object can just disappear into thin air, and these scraps, like many others that are neglected, build up until they become a visible mountain of trash long after their invisible fumes merge with the surrounding atmosphere.

These days we are all bombarded by messages about the Swachh Bharat campaign, which translates to Clean India in English. However, not everybody knows exactly what the movement entails, nor do they know how to get involved.

For the movement to succeed, it is vital that the people of the country are directly involved with the process. A country can only take steps forward through the combined effort of these citizens.

Swachh Bharat operates on three levels. The first level includes projects on the governmental level, which are funded by the 2 per cent cess in service tax that was introduced for that very purpose. These projects would include things such as the cleaning of roads, installation of garbage cans, etc.

The second level consists of voluntary activities carried out by different housing societies or neighbourhood organisations. This level of Swachh Bharat includes the cleaning of India by the citizens and is spurred by the lack of cleanliness in their country.

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This level would be manifested in several ways, such as citizens gathering together and cleaning the streets and the citizens separating their trash correctly so that it can be recycled or disposed of correctly.

The third level of Swachh Bharat is the mandatory level, in which the government, in order for the progress of the Swachh Bharat project, mandates cleaning or the changing of policies.

Despite the action of the government regarding Swachh Bharat, a government only exists for its people, therefore, it is up to the people to do their duty and help this movement for a clean India. A government can make policies and also in cases, impose fines but the real groundwork has to be done by the people. That not only requires physical work but needs a change in attitude too.

The issue with waste in India comes from the very roots of Indian culture, which have come to promote freedom without the sense of civic responsibility.

Most Indians believe that cleaning is somebody else’s job.

This is reflected in the way that people dispose trash. Many people throw trash on the street because they think they are only responsible for keeping their immediate environment clean and not their streets. In spite of the presence of dustbins, people do not care and throw trash wherever they want.

Many small packets of trash not disposed of in a timely, proper manner can turn into a mountain of trash in no time. Therefore, I call upon the people of India to take responsibility for their actions and make sure that trash is disposed of correctly. Only a collective will and desire to change this will show us a path towards a cleaner, better India.

It is important that each and every citizen of this country is part of this initiative, because, as it is with trash, a big impact is only caused by a multitude of smaller impacts. It is time to take responsibility for our actions and look at the big picture in terms of trash. It may take less effort to throw a small piece of trash onto the street than to wait and dispose of it correctly, but this effort is vital in the endeavor of making Swachh Bharat a reality.

(Aman Bajaj is a 16-year-old, 10th grade student at the American School of Bombay)

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A Healing Career The work of a physiotherapist tends to be physically very strenuous as it involves physically lifting and supporting patients. This profession brings with it much satisfaction, since it involves relieving patients of pain and helping them recover from specific physical ailments.

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By Nilesh Ghadge hysiotherapy is a science used to improve movement dysfunction, to promote the functions of human body and optimal health. It involves the maintenance, assessment and restoration of the physical functions and body performance.

Physiotherapy is mainly recommended for physically challenged people, people suffering from degenerative disorders like arthritis and neurological disorders. It is a remedial, supplementary procedure used along with oral medicines. It is one of the rapidly growing areas of medicine that involves heat radiation, massages and diathermy.

Physiotherapists are as essential as doctors in helping recovery and rehabilitation of a patient from a state of incapacity, due to genetic defect or the result of an accident or an illness. The job of a physiotherapist, which is preventive, restorative and rehabilitative, is challenging but lucrative at the same time. They are qualified to perform a history and physical examination, conduct assessments to determine a diagnosis process, select appropriate physical therapy interventions to treat the dysfunction, and monitor the effectiveness of treatment.

Physiotherapists use various therapeutic intervention techniques to treat a patient. Although the work of a physiotherapist may tend to be physically very strenuous as it involves physically lifting and supporting patients, their profession brings with it much satisfaction, since it involves relieving patients of pain and helping them recover from specific physical ailments.

One can develop a bright Career in Physiotherapy after completing some physiotherapy courses.

Various courses are B.Sc in Physiotherapy (B.Ph.T), Master of Physiotherapy (MPT), M.Sc in Physical and Occupational Therapy, MPT in Sports Physiotherapy, Master of Physiotherapy in Neurology and Master of Physiotherapy in Orthopedics etc.

Employment opportunities for physiotherapists are tremendous as it is a career where the demand exceeds supply. A physiotherapist could be employed in the rehabilitation departments, municipal corporations and private bodies. Their demand in medical institutions is increasing since physiotherapy plays

an important role in the treatment of patients with muscular and cerebral problems. Like all other medical and paramedical professionals, physiotherapists can work in hospitals, orthopedic departments, and rehabilitation centers for the handicapped, schools for the mentally retarded and physically disabled children, health institutions and defense medical establishments. Physiotherapists can also opt for teaching, while those with adequate capital can establish private clinics on their own.

Eligibility: To take up this career 12th science is a must, and for admissions in Maharashtra one has to appear for the MH-CET. Students with a science background can opt for a career in Physiotherapy. To become a practicing Physiotherapist or be employed as a professional in a hospital or clinic, one should have a B.Sc. degree.

Institutions where Physiotherapy courses are offered.

Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai Sion, Mumbai.

Seth G.S.Medical College and King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.

Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai.

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« STUDY IN INDIA Suchitra Surve

Director, Growth Centre, is a Post Graduate in Business Administration and has specialised in HR, and also holds a Post Graduation Diploma in Career Counselling

BECOMING AN MBA

I am a hotel management graduate working as a waiter with a five-star hotel. I do not want to work in this industry anymore. What can I do apart from aviation, cruise, leisure spas and customer care? I do not want to work in these fields as they do not pay well.

—Dilip Sawant

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Emerging opportunities for CAs in the industry Continued from pg 15 « where they trained with a large company, continued with the company to move up the ranks.

‘Boring’, ‘money-minded’ and ‘obsessed with numbers’ are few of the epithets that are often used to describe a chartered accountant. In fact, more often people associate a CA with people who help them file returns, plan taxes; auditors or with people working in accounts department of an organization.

The growth in the domestic economy has lead to growth in almost every sector and the emergence of new age sectors.

With the entrepreneurial boom, the ecosystem now looks at the role of Chartered Accountants from a different dimension including Chartered Accountants themselves. The opportunities have opened up in not only once considered traditional sectors like Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing but also in new age sectors like modern retail, Healthcare, Information Technology, Education, E-Commerce, Logistics includ-

ing segments like Investment Banking, Venture Capital/Private Equity. Chartered Accountants are also partnering with businesses like never before to increasingly move up the corporate ladder to occupy positions of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or a Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

An increasing number of CA’s today are willing to take the ‘risk’ and join new age, exciting businesses which are not brands as yet; joining them to purely satisfy their urge to try something new and quench their entrepreneurial thirst by being close to how things work in an ‘entrepreneurial set up’.

This category of people are willing to give a few years of their life to build and scale these businesses knowing fully well that they can get back to ‘established companies’ if things don’t work out. Venture Capital/Private Equity once considered to be the domain of management graduates from Ivy league schools is also seeing a fair share of Chartered Accountants evaluating deals, raising funds, working with entrepreneurs and being a part of company boards.

A stint with a large accounting/audit firm itself today has undergone changes with areas like Mergers & Acquisitions, International Tax, Consulting, Risk Management, Corporate Finance opening up new vistas for CA’s. Many CA’s consider entrepreneurship itself as a viable career option today.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) needs to take a large part of the credit since they have managed to retain the standards of the course fairly high, which has ensured that largely the quality of the Chartered Accountants is good and they are sought after by prospective employers.

The number of people who are registering for the course has gone up significantly over the years; students and parents are able to see the opportunities that a career as a CA offers. However, with the increase in demand, the institute needs to ensure that the supply of CA’s is not a bottleneck while ensuring that it works closely with companies to ensure that the gap between academics and expectations from companies is narrowed down.

Want to study Liberal Arts in the US

Since you are not interested in working in any of the service sectors you can opt for any other field.

There are a number of post-graduate programs in almost every field like Advertising, Journalism, Social Work, Teaching, Law, PR, Event, Humanities, Designing [Fashion/Interior/Web, etc.], and so on. Choose a course as per your ability as well as aspirations.

I am studying in SYBCom. I want to pursue an MBA after my graduation. Please suggest a specialisation for the same. Also, provide other relevant details about the course.

—Suresh Kumar Specialisations such as HR, Marketing, Finance, Systems, and Operations in any Management course can be taken irrespective of your previous educational background unless there is a core specialisation. Since the specialization subjects are introduced in the second year, you can take time to understand the same and then decide.

You need to take the one that suits your career aspirations and interest. Just taking into account your present educational qualification you can opt for Finance if you are keen to work in the same field else other options are also open. All the required details can be taken by visiting a particular B-School website or a management educational blog-site and so on.

I am studying in HSC (Science) and want to become an IPS officer. What should I do after HSC? Are there any special exams for it?

—Devendra Rao After HSC, complete your Graduation and prepare well for the UPSC exams to be taken after graduation. Ensure that you invest your time during your under-graduate years keeping yourself updated with the various political, financial as well as socio-economic changes happening in the local as well as global market by reading newspapers and related magazines and most importantly work on your physical and mental fitness.

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is a Partner at OnCourse and a Harvard graduate, and is also a Psychology major with a minor in Economics

Liberal Arts studies is a unique education offered by colleges in the US. It is an interdisciplinary degree program, covering topics like Humanities, Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Social Sciences. It offers you the option to study subjects like: Economics, Languages, English Literature, Psychology, Sociology, History, Geography, Astronomy, Geology,Law, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Music and Theatre, Statis-

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As an Indian student, you apply as a NonResident. UC undergraduates at all campuses pay the same $12,804 in system wide tuition and fees. Non resident undergraduates pay an additional $24,024 in non resident supplemental tuition. You need to consider other costs like: Books and Supplies, Health Insurance Allowance, Room and Boarding and Transportation. The cost per year for living on campus is approximately $ 58,524 while cost of living off campus is approximately $54, 324 per year.

Your total costs will vary depending on your personal expenses and the campus you attend. Also, your total costs will vary depending on your personal expenses and the campus you attend.

I am applying to study Engineering in the US. I have been hearing a lot about the ACT test from my friends. Can you please give me more details about it?

—Vishvesh Mehra The American College Test or ACT is a standardized test for high school achievement and college admissions in the US. The ACT consists of 4 sections: Math (60 minutes), English (45 minutes), Reading(35 minutes) and Science (35 minutes). The ACT includes an optional essay, known as the writing

test. The duration is about 3 hours, 3.5 hours including the essay. ACT is on a score of 36. A composite score of all the sections is considered. ACT doesn’t undertake Negative Marking. If you take the writing test, you will receive a writing test subscore and a combined English/writing score. You may be need to register early since availability of the ACT test in India is much less compared to the US. The SAT and the ACT really are equally respected by all colleges.

I am not sure about what I want to study after my 12th standard. I am not interested in Psychology but still my cousin in the US is recommending that I study Liberal Arts. Is Liberal Arts the right option for me?

—Jaimin Agrawal

tics and Political Science to name a few.

Even if you are not interested in Psychology, there are many options that may interest you. It is perfect for students who are not sure on what they want to study later on as you don’t need to decide the Major at the time of admissions.

During the first two years of college, you may study a variety of subjects which may interest you and then eventually decide the major at the end of the 2nd year.

Under liberal arts, you get the opportunity to explore new topics that you may not have learnt before. By exploring such courses, you may develop a completely new career focus.

Liberal Arts studies give you a holistic approach to education where you major in one subject and have substantial knowledge about a whole range of topics. Liberal arts studies are given equal importance as other fields of studies both at the time of employment as well as for further education.

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Rohit Shetty gifts bicycle to Shah Rukh

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egastar Amitabh Bachchan says he is relishing the "lovely" phase of being able to spend time with his grandchildren. Bachchan, who has three grandchildren -- Aaradhya, Navya Naveli and Agstya, will be seen playing a superhero in the upcoming animated TV series 'Astra Force'.

"When you are 73 these are the kind of people you meet... You meet kids, they are the happiest persons. We pass the age of youth, study, university, girls, marriage, wife, children... Now is the age of grandchildren," Bachchan told PTI. "It is a lovely phase, a lot of people say the best phase of an individual's life is when he spends time with grandchildren. I will endorse that... Therefore this (playing superhero 'Astra') fitted into my mind...," he added.

In 'Astra Force', the 'Piku' star plays a grandfather with great powers and strength.

"There are two children (in the show) who are twins and they are like my grandchildren. I love being in their company," he said.

Aaradhya has yet not seen the picture of her grandfather as an animated hero.

"She has not seen yet... It is too early to show her," he said.

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ilmmaker Rohit Shetty has presented a bicycle to his 'Dilwale' star Shah Rukh Khan.

Shah Rukh, 49, who is shooting the upcoming film with Shetty in Bulgaria, said cycling will help him to recover from the knee surgery that he underwent last month.

"Good day at work. Hotel Lobby heard Piano man and at shoot Rohit presented me a cycle to get my knee in shape. Yay!," Shah Rukh posted on Twitter.

The 'Happy New Year' star underwent an arthroscopic surgery of the left knee at a Mumbai hospital on May 21. This is the second time Shah Rukh and Shetty have teamed up after the success of 2013 action-comedy 'Chennai Express'.

'Dilwale' also stars Kajol, Varun Dhawan, Kriti Sanon among others in pivotal roles.

is the best phase’

‘Spending time with grandkids

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Vidya Balan reaches out to women through ‘Power Line’ A

ctress Vidya Balan has visited Uttar Pradesh Government's 'Women Power Line' centre to prompt women to come out and speak for themselves.

Balan, 37, is on the post-release promotional spree for her latest movie 'Hamari Adhuri Kahani' along with Mahesh Bhatt, who has penned the story of the film.

Bhatt, 66 took to twitter to share Balan's picture attending a call at the 'Women Power Line'.

"Vidya Balan joins hands with our women in UP to

amplify its msg - Chupi Todo - Khul ke Bolo!" he wrote.

In the film, Balan dons the role of Vasudha, who faces abuse by her husband but still cannot gather the courage to walk out of the marriage.

"Hamari Adhuri Kahani", directed by Mohit Suri, also stars Emraan Hashmi and Rajkumar Rao in lead roles.

The film was made tax free in the state prior to the release last Friday.

Priyanka to begin shooting for ‘Gangaajal 2’ S

uperstar Priyanka Chopra is off to Bhopal to begin shooting for Prakash Jha's 'Gangaajal 2'.

The 32-year-old actress will don the lead role of a cop in the police-drama, which is a sequel to the hit 2003 Ajay Devgn-starrer film of the same name.

"A sense of quiet... Inner balance... Time to discover the calm in the eye of the storm...

Heading to Bhopal to start #Gangajal2 @prakashjha27," the 'Dil Dhadakne Do' actress tweeted.

'Gangajal 2' is about a female cop, who takes on some powerful and influential men in her district.

Directed by Jha, the film is expected to release later this year.

I was never insecure: Taapsee Pannu ‘B

aby' star Taapsee Pannu calls her latest stint as a wedding planner a result of her creative exploration rather than the insecurity of being a Bollywood actress. The 27-year-old actress has started 'The Wedding Factory' with her sister and a friend and the company even hosted its first event, a birthday party.

She said she has already got a handful of offers to host wedding functions.

"If one asks me about worrying about shelf life, that worry I had even when I was entering showbiz because I was leaving back something, which was very safe, a BTech degree, a job. I was leaving all that behind and moving into something which is very risky so that doubt I had that time as well...

have concrete information on its whereabouts, on a gold key-shaped device that might point in the right direction. Mathayus teams up with the beautiful Valina (Ellen Hollman) the heir's ex-fiancé who's been jailed up for her actions, and her eccentric science-minded father Sorrell (Barry Bostwick) to battle a bunch of baddies. Mathayus is content in working under the guidance of King Zakour (Rutger Hauer), finding himself and his new assistant/partner, the power hungry Drazen (Will Kemp) in a race to unlock an ancient source of extreme power which is holed up in a magical crystal, that bequeaths enormous political power to the person who discovers it.

Will the soldier of fortune who will eventually become the conquering warlord known as the Scorpion King fight the evil that is out to get him, or succumb to the forces that attack him as he continues his own hunt for the hidden power?

Featuring Lou Ferrigno (“The Hulk”) and an all-star cast of fighters, including Roy “Big Country” Nelson (Winner of “The Ultimate Fighter”), Royce Gracie (UFC Hall of Fame) and Don Wilson (Three-time World Kickboxing Champion). Also starring Ellen Holman (“Spartacus” TV series), Rutger Hauer (Batman Begins), Barry Bostwick (“Cougar Town” TV series), and Michael Biehn — Verus Ferreira (The Terminator).

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OIN an exciting new chapter in the action-packed series from the Producers of The Mummy, in the fourth of the series of The Scorpion King movies. The audio is best heard on surround sound, to get all the sounds of clashing swords, crashes and thudding punches, while crystal clear images of each fight are a pleasure to watch.

When the King of Norvania is assassinated by his own son, the evil heir to the throne frames the legendary Scorpion King Mathayus (Victor Webster) and sends an entire kingdom of soldiers after him. The rightful heir poises himself to take over the throne. To fitfully rule, the new heir also needs the power of the ancients; however, none of them

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Who kills the King of Norvania? a) His son b) Mathayus c) Valina Who does Mathayus team up with? a) Valina and her father Sorrell

b) Valina c) Sorrell

What is the legendary Scorpion King known as? a) King Mathayus b) Scorpion King c) The Scorpion

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SHAZA MORANI

TOCHI RAINA

ISHIKA SARKAR

ALWAYS ready to support a good cause is Thinkerz & SMMARDS (Sanman Mahila Multipurpose and Rural Development Society) that came together to extend their support for the Nepal earthquake victims with the Rooh Kambdi fund-raising concert by super singer Tochi Raina. The show at St. Andrews auditorium saw the debut of his Band Of Bandagi. Present were Ali Fazal, Ishika Sarkar, Kushal Punjabi, Anup Jalota and Ram Gulathi among many others. It turned out to be a treat to music lovers as Tochi enthralled the audience with his Sufi compositions as well as Bollywood chartbusters.

Originally from Patiala, Tochi did his education in Nepal where his father was posted and hence he could closely relate with the earthquake victims as his friends and relatives still stay in Nepal. The funds collected from the concert would be sent to Nepal under the supervision Babita Verma, president, SMMARDS.

Party hearty DEVANSHI & JANVI TURAKHIA

SONAAKSHI RAAJ

SUNDOWNER with a cause was what it was at Asilo, high up Palladium Hotel. With an increase in the number of stray animals unable to receive any form of medical care and with no access to basic needs such as nutritious food supply, this charity event was in support of the purchase of such essentials. Looking lovely indeed was Shaza Morani, co-founder of SamaajScope who had collaborated with World For All Animal Care & Adoptions to raise funds through this sundowner.

Supporting the cause were Siddhant Kapoor, Mohammed and Lucky Morani, Gautam Gulati, Karan Deol, Sonaakshi and Malvika Raaj, Vivaan Shah, Kitu Gidwani, Anushka Ranjan, Abhimanyu Dasani, Janvi Turakhia, Aly and Yasmin Morani. Party people recalled that Shaza Morani had recently produced the highly acclaimed short and compassionate film ‘The Green Batti Film’ for The Green Batti Project.

SamaajScope is India’s first social cause marketing and communications company launched as a joint venture between Cineyug and Social Quotient.

HEALTH TRIP

MICKEY MEHTA & MEDJOUL TEAM

It was nice to note that Medjoul, the King of Dates from Israel, is now available in India. You learnt about this at the launch at Taj Lands End. Known for their delicious taste and innumerable health benefits, these luscious dates are fast becoming a popular snack alternative for discerning consumers across the globe. These premium quality dates are excellent sources of antioxidants, highly loaded with vitamins and minerals that help develop healthier bones and reduce the risk of heartrelated illnesses and high blood pressure. They are also delightful energy-boosters that provide double the amount of energy as compared to a banana. Apart from its multiple health benefits, a box of the King of Dates is an ideal gifting option. Medjoul, you learnt, also makes for a great ingredient to use in salads, juices, shakes, cookies, muffins and desserts.

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FESTIVAL FLAVOUR

Dance trance ABCD2 CAST

ARE you ready to #getRecharged India? This was the question posed to the audience at the event hosted by Pond’s Men in association with Disney’s ABCD2 to unveil their latest variant –Pollution Out Face wash.

Music composer duo Sachin-Jigar was there at Richardson & Cruddas to pep up the proceedings with their compositions ‘Sun Saathiya’ and SRINANDAN SUNDARAM ‘Hold My Hand.’ And it was a high-energy finale with Bollywood heartthrob and Pond’s Men brand ambassador Varun Dhawan dancing to the tunes of ‘Bezubaan Phir Se’ and ‘Naach Meri Jaan.’ And the presentation of the latest innovation by Pond’s Men through 4D technology in a dance specially choreographed by Remo D’Souza got the crowd in the groove.

IGNACIO GUTIERREZ, JEROO & GUSTASP IRANI

The splendour of Spain came alive at Four Seasons Hotel as the Spanish Tourist Office in India in collaboration with Turismo Valencia, Kingdom of Navarre (Government of Navarre) and Patronato de Turismo de Gran Canaria showcased the wondrous land. Also recognized were the excellent works of Indian writers who have published articles on Spain. The lucky ones would be hosted at one of the many festivals in Spain: San Fermines in Pamplona, Navarre, Carnivals of Gran Canaria or Las Fallas of Valencia. Apeksha Dhingra, Media Manager, Tourism Office of Spain was there to showcase the many fabulous festivals. Also talking passionately about Spain was Ignacio Ducasse Gutierrez, Tourism Counselor of the Embassy of Spain in India and Director, Tourism Office of Spain in Mumbai and Eduardo de Quesada, Consul General of Spain in Mumbai.

Bolly good!

SONU KAKKAR

SHAMA SIKANDAR

AFTER swaying the fans in 11 cities through the year, the biggest BDM (Bollywood Dance Music) festival in India, Royal Stag MTV Bollyland, concluded this year’s party with 13 singers, five DJs and one stage. What you witnessed was a sizzling performance by Mika Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Shilpa Rao, Neha Kakkar, Akriti Kakkar, Armaan Malik, Nakash Aziz, Shabab Sabri, Shadab Faridi, Siddharth Mahadevan, Sreeram Chandra, Shama Sikandar, Sham and Sonu Kakkar at the NSCI stadium, Also present were five DJs who had the fans grooving to their foot-thumping mixes. The exciting DJ line-up included the everpopular Chetas, Kiran Kamat, Reme, Tarun and Anshul.

NEHA KAKKAR

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TOP VIEW

Some states are asking for compensation, some states are asking for review of additional tax. Those things have to be decided.

K M Mani, Chairman of the Empowered Committee of state FMs on GST BUSINESS BRIEFS Sebi Bars HBJ Capital From Acting As Investment Advisers

Markets Edge Higher

NSE India: CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Wednesday (June 17, 2015) (Based on the activity of the previous trading day) by Dominic Rebello

REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY: The Nifty rose marginally on Tuesday (June 16, 2015) a net 33.40 points (0.42%) and closed at the 8047 point level.

The market opened down with a gap at the 8004 points level. It then declined and registered the day’s low at the 7952 points level at 1.56 p.m. The index then rose sharply into the green and registered the day’s high at the 8061 points level at 3.28 p.m. and then turned into a range bound movement until closing at the day. The Nifty witnessed a volatile session and moved in a range of 110 points. Sentiment was bullish and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 38 were gainers, while 12 stocks closed in the red.

Substantial buying was witnessed in consumer durables and auto stocks.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Volume: Volume (Qty shares) decreased 1.22%. This change is small and indicates a moderate participation by investors.

Market Breadth: Overall Market Breadth on the NSE was positive. Amongst all the traded stocks, 736 were gainers, 692 were losers and 48 remained unchanged.

Slow Stochastic Indicator: The Slow Stochastic Oscillator has risen in the over-sold zone. The Slow K line in the Stochastic Oscillator has risen above the slow D line (positive and a buy signal).

RSI Indicator: The RSI rose and crossed above the 40 level and is now rising (positive if it continues).

MACD Indica tor: The MACD is below zero but is rising (positive if it rises). It is below its 9-day Average (negative).

ADX Indicator & DI Lines: The +DI line is below the –DI line but both lines are converging (positive if it continues). The ADX is flat while the Market Index is rising. No signal here.

the 7746 points level.

Resistance Levels The immediate main resistance is at the 8336 points level.The next resistance is at the 8444 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 = 8021 (This is the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-day).

Support (1) = 7979.

Support (2) = 7911.

Resistance (1) = 8089.

Resistance (2) = 8130.

OUTLOOK FOR TODAY: On Japanese candlestick patterns the index has formed a small white body candle with a long lower tail. The long lower tail indicates that the sellers dominated trading and drove prices lower during the session. However by the end of the session, buyers resurfaced and pushed prices back. This indicates that there is strong buying support at lower levels. This candle also indicates indecisiveness amongst investors. The next candle formation will confirm whether the bias is towards the buy or sell side of the market. However, the index has crossed above its 5 day moving average. Further, the velocity parameters which were negatively trended have now turned neutral. This is positive.

But, the index continues to remain below its 15, 25 and 200 day moving averages. Further, the 15 and 25 day moving averages are declining. This is negative.

As such these are mixed signals. A clearer picture will emerge in the coming few days.

Work with strict stop losses on all positions

Moving Averages (Trend Indicators) The index: Has crossed above its 5-day average (at 8026) Positive.

Is below its 15-day average (at 8155) Negative.

Is below its 25-day average (at 8232) Negative.

Is below its 200-day average (at 8355) Negative.

Overa ll Market Strength/Weaknes s: The indicators and oscillators discussed here are indicating a weak market but with a positive bias.

Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main support is at the 7857 points level. The next support is at

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.

Capital market regulator, Sebi has barred HBJ Capital Services and its directors from acting as investment adviser and alternative investment fund for providing unauthorised investment tips to investors. The regulator said HBJ Capital Services and its promoters /directors have been acting as providing investment advisory services to their clients/investors without obtaining registration from Sebi to act as such and, thereby, have violated norms. In an order passed yesterday, Sebi said HBJ Capital Services and its directors "cease and desist from acting as an Investment Adviser and Alternative Investment Fund and cease to solicit or undertake such activities or any other unregistered activities in the securities market directly or indirectly, any manner whatsoever".

Nokia, LG Join Hands, Ink Smartphone Patent Licence

LG Electronics will soon embed technologies developed by Nokia in its smartphones as the Korean firm has agreed to take a royalty-bearing smartphone patent licence from the Finnish telecom gear maker. "We are pleased to welcome LG Electronics to our licensing programme," Nokia Technologies President Ramzi Haidamus said in a statement. LG Electronics is the latest of more than 60 licensees for Nokia's 2G, 3G and 4G mobile communication technologies and the first major smartphone manufacturer to join the licensing programme since Nokia divested its devices and services business to Microsoft in 2014.

Govt Plans Selling 3% Stake In BPCL To Raise Rs 1,800 Cr The government plans to sell 3% stake in Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd, the nation's second largest state oil firm, this fiscal to raise around Rs 1,800 crore. Finance Ministry has moved a Cabinet note for inter-ministerial consultations for selling 2.16 crore shares in BPCL through a public offer, official sources said. At current trading price of Rs 820, the stake sale will fetch the government over Rs 1,778 crore. The government holds 54.93% stake in BPCL. Divesting 3% interest will help government keep its shareholding well above 51% - the minimum strategic holding it has decided to keep in key public sector unit.

MF Exposure To Bank Stocks Climbs To Rs 79,000 Cr

Mutual Fund managers have been on a shopping spree for banking stock, raising their allocation to the sector to over Rs 79,000 crore in May in anticipation of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank. In comparison, equity fund managers' deployment in banking stocks stood at Rs 48,419 crore in May 2014. According to industry experts, fund managers raised their allocation last month to bank stocks expecting a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The allocation is expected to increase further this month as RBI, in its policy review on June 2, had cut interest rate by 25 basis points to 7.25%, they said.

Federal Bank Bags Skoch Award For Financial Inclusion

Federal Bank has won the Skoch Order of Merit Award under two Categories, namely, ‘Capacity Building & Financial Literacy’ and ‘Access to Banking and Financial Services’. The Bank has been chosen for the award for its contributions in the field of Financial Inclusion. Representing the Bank, Minimole Liz Thomas, Asst. General Manager, Financial Inclusion Dept, Federal Bank, received the award from Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD & CEO, BSE Ltd during the ‘Making India $20 trillion economy 40th Skoch Summit’ held at BSE.

India-Russia Trade Target Of $30 Bn Is Achievable: CII

Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry will lead the Indian delegation for the prestigious St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) 2015 to be held at St. Petersburg, Russia, on 1820 June 2015. She will be addressing the Russia-India Business Roundtable which will also be addressed by Alexey Ulyukaev, Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS Emkay calls a ‘Buy’ on PVR CMP: Rs. 642

Target Rs. 780

Reliance Securities calls a ‘Buy’ on Atul Auto CMP: Rs. 440

Target Rs. 601

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NEWS FLASH

Adobe launches free photoshop app on Android platform ITC to remove "no added MSG" disclaimer from 'Yippee' noodles NHPC restores 4th unit of Uri-II power station in J&K News Corp raises stake in PropTiger to 30% Sebi clears Prabhat Dairy IPO plans Mobile Subscriptions Likely To Touch 1.4 Bn By 2020: Ericsson.

Export Growth Likely To Remain Weak After registering sixth consecutive monthly declines...

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ndia’s exports stood at $22.35 billion in May, down 20.2% y-o-y after falling by 14.0% last month.

This marks the sixth consecutive monthly decline. Cumulatively during April and May 2015-16, exports declined by 17.2% y-o-y to $44.4 billion. The decline in exports in May was broad-based. While oil exports fell by 59.1% y-o-y in May from 46.5% y-o-y in April (though average Brent crude oil prices rose to $64.1/barrel in May from $59.5/barrel in April), non-oil exports declined by 9.7%. Besides oil, exports of the other two most-shipped items – engineering goods (25.2% share) and gems and jewellery (13.4% share) declined by 8% and 13% respectively.

Services exports too have started feeling the brunt of weak demand.

India’s services exports fell by 4.5% y-o-y to $13.1 billion in May. With this, services exports have declined for the second consecutive month.

Incidentally, the Trade deficit remains under check as imports also plunged and fell for the sixth consecutive month, by 16.5% y-o-y to $32.75 billion in May. The fall was the largest since December 2014 owing to a sudden drop in gold imports. Gold imports grew by 10.5%

Gold Imports Tick Up 10.47%

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old imports grew 10.47% to USD 2.42 billion in May on declining prices and easing of restrictions by RBI. Imports of the precious metal stood at USD 2.19 billion in the same month of 2014.In April this year, the imports grew 78.33% to USD 3.13 billion. Any increase in gold imports impacts the current account deficit (CAD).CAD in the first half of last fiscal declined to 1.9% of GDP (USD 18 billion) from 3.1% (USD 27 billion) in the same pe-

y-o-y to $2.4 billion, much lower as compared to a 74% growth in the previous three months.

Oil imports too fell in May, albeit by a lower degree (41% y-o-y) as compared to the previous months, amid a rise international crude oil prices.

Cumulatively, during April and May 2015-16 imports declined by 12.2% yo-y to $65.8 billion.

A fall in imports was positive for the trade deficit, which improved to $10.41 billion in May from $10.99 billion in April and $11.23 billion in May 2014. Cumulatively, trade deficit only widened marginally during April-May to $21.39 billion as compared to $21.32 billion dur-

riod of the previous year. The Reserve Bank and the government have maintained that the CAD level is comfortable, but the jump in gold imports may spark fresh worries. In November last year, RBI had scrapped the controversial 80:20 scheme. Under the programme, which was put in place in August 2013 to keep a tight leash on gold inflows, at least 20 % of imported gold had to be exported before bringing in new lots. ing the same period last fiscal.

Says Crisil Research “A continuous decline in merchandise exports along with the recent softness seen in the services exports suggest weak demand conditions in our major export markets such as Eurozone, China and the OPEC. Going ahead, export growth is likely to remain weak. Import growth, on the other hand, could revive mildly as domestic demand improves. Trade deficit and subsequently the current account deficit (CAD) could therefore see some pressure. We expect the CAD to increase to 1.5% of GDP in 2015-16 from 1.3% of GDP in 2014-15”.

More Rate Cuts Unlikely This Year, Says HSBC

By A Business Reporter

intensify into the second half of this year. he central bank is not likely to go Weak rains would have a tangible for further easing this year as impact on food inflation and directly weak rains may have a tangible im- affect rural household consumption, pact on food inflation and could di- HSBC said, adding that the magnirectly impact rural household tude of the impact would depend on consumption, an HSBC report has how the government carries out its said. The global financial services "food management" processes.

HSBC's Chief India Economist major has cautioned that El Nino risks are not to be underestimated, Pranjul Bhandari expects no further and going by the updates from easing this year, and believes any across the world, El Nino conditions more rate cuts hinge on structural are likely to last longer and possibly reforms, including food infrastruc-

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No Coercion By Taxmen To Recover MAT Dues, Says CBDT

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n a breather for FII investors, the CBDT yesterdayday said taxmen won't resort to coercive methods to recover dues towards Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) on capital gains made by FIIs and will wait for the Supreme Court order on the issue.

"Assessing Officers (AO) can not redo their order (on levying of MAT on FIIs), but if order is in appeal, then we can certainly tell our assessing officer please don't take it further, don't agitate it in further and this is exactly what we did in Shell and Vodafone tax case," Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairperson Anita Kapur told reporters in New Delhi.

I cannot anticipate what A P Shah

panel will do. Shell and Vodafone case went against us and once we accepted that judgment, we told our officers please don't do future assessments and please don't further agitate these in appeals," she added.

Kapur further said the merit of levying MAT on capital gains will be decided by A P Shah Committee and the Supreme Court.

"I am only saying I am certain on the process (on the levy of MAT on FIIs)... Merit of the issue can also be decided by the Supreme Court," CBDT Chairperson Anita Kapur , adding "Sometimes taxpayers pay MAT and they go and file an appeal.

This is an issue which is controversial... There will always be a process of refund in this..."

ture and agricultural policy. In case monsoon fears come true, the central bank has indicated that the monetary policy would hinge on the government's response to it.

RBI has said: "A conservative strategy would be to wait, especially for more certainty, on both the monsoon outturn as well as the effects of government responses if it turns out to be weak." Meanwhile, RBI has raised its inflation forecast to 6% by Jan 2016 - slightly higher than the 5.8% forecast in April.

India Has Fourth Largest Ultra High Net Worth Households

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ndia is home to the fourth largest number of Ultra-High-Net-Worth Households that have more than 100 million dollars in private wealth, according to a new report by the Boston Consulting Group's 'Global Wealth 2015: Winning the Growth Game'. The report says continued economic expansion of China and India was driving growth in wealth in the Asia- Pacific region.

The US remains the country with the largest number of ultra-highnet-worth (UHNW) households at 5,201, followed by China (1,037), the UK (1,019), India (928) and Germany (679) in 2014, it said.

India's UHNW households grew manifold from 2013 when the number stood at 284. Private wealth in the Asia-Pacific region expanded by a steep 29% in 2014 to reach USD 47 trillion, enabling it to overtake Europe (Eastern and Western Europe combined) to become the world's second-wealthiest region, the report said. With a projected USD 57 trillion in 2016, Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) is expected to surpass North America (a projected USD 56 trillion) as the wealthiest region in the world and will be the largest pool for client acquisition.

"At such a pace, the region is expected to overtake North America as the world's richest region in 2016, with USD 57 trillion in private wealth," the report released yesterday said. The region is also projected to hold 34% of global wealth in 2019. With a projected annual growth rate of almost 10%, private wealth in Asia-Pacific will rise to an estimated USD 75 trillion in 2019.

Growth in wealth in the Asia-Pacific region was driven heavily by the continued economic expansion of its two largest economies China and India, the report said.

Private wealth in China and India also showed solid market gains driven mainly by investments in local equities, it said.

China's equity market rose by 38% and India's by 23%, it added.

Global private financial wealth grew by nearly 12% in 2014 to reach a total of USD 164 trillion.

The rise was in line with 2013, when global wealth also grew by just over 12%, the report said.

Over the next five years, total private wealth globally is projected to post a compound annual growth rate of 6% to reach an estimated USD 222 trillion in 2019.

The US remained the wealthiest individual country, ahead of both China and Japan, it said. At a projected annual growth of 12% over the next five years, private wealth held by the UHNW segment will grow to an estimated USD 18 trillion in 2019.Globally, the total number of millionaire households (those with more than USD 1 million in private wealth) reached 17 million in 2014, up strongly from 15 million in 2013, the report said. The increase was driven primarily by the solid market performance of existing assets, in both the new and old worlds, it said.

From a regional perspective, the US still had the highest number of millionaire households in 2014 (7 million), followed by China (4 million), which showed the highest number of new millionaires (1 million). Japan was third, with 1 million millionaire households, down from previous years due to the fall of the yen versus the US dollar.

According to the report, the highest density of millionaires was in Switzerland, where 135 out of every 1,000 households had private wealth greater than USD1 million, followed by Bahrain (123), Qatar (116), Singapore (107), Kuwait (99) and Hong Kong (94). As for offshore wealth originating in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), Singapore and Hong Kong remained the top destinations. In addition, wealth originating in Singapore, Hong Kong, India, and Pakistan was also inclined to be booked farther away, such as in the UK and Switzerland (22%), it said. ( PTI /New York)

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TV GUIDE

DIFFERENT LOOK

Fawad Khan who has won millions of hearts in the country with his charm, is all set to surprise his Indian fans in a neverseen-before avatar. The Pakistani heartthrob, who has till now, shown his intense side in dramatic stories like Zindagi Gulzar Hai, Humsafar and Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam, will be back on the small screen as the humorous simpleton Asghar in Zindagi’s upcoming show Aaja Sajna Miliye Juliye. Essaying the role of Asghar, Fawad Khan plays a young man who has no ambition in life. Asghar is an intelligent but lazy person who wants to COLOMBIANA

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

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SOAPS & SERIALS

CHAKRAVARTIN ASHOKA SAMRAT

IN tonight’s episode of Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat, we will see that Justin, desperate to send Noor and Siamak back to the old palace, sends a soldier to accompany them to the old palace.

Further, Ashok meets Akramak and tells him about what will happen to the new palace, to which Akramak advices Ashok to not inform the king until he finds Chanakya. However, just as Ashok leaves, Helena’s guard captures and locks him in a room.

Colors, 9 p.m.

LANDS OF THE MONSOON

THE wildlife and cultures around southern Asia have been shaped by one of the greatest phenomena on earth: the monsoon winds that sweep across this vast region, turning drought into deluge. All life is dominated by this rampaging weather system. From Tibet to northern Australia and India, this series makes an exhilarating journey through the lands of the monsoon. Discover y, 9 p.m.

STRIP THE COSMOS

TUNE into Discovery Science’s STRIP THE COSMOS as it uses stunning CGI animation to strip planets, moons, black holes, stars and galaxies - layer by layer - to solve key mysteries surrounding the origin and destiny of the universe, and gives an eye opening look at what goes on beyond the world. Di scover y Science, 10 p.m.

DIYA AUR BAATI HUM

SOORAJ suspects that an insider is the traitor. Sandhya helps Sooraj find out. Sooraj is shocked to know that coach is the traitor (17th). Abhay is coach’s illegitimate son. Coach is removed from RKC but he poisons Avinash’s mind against Sooraj. Intrigue. Final kabaddi match starts. Sandhya gets a call for special mission. Sooraj gets injured, RKC wins the final. Star Plus, 9 p.m.

Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat, Colors, 9 p.m.

QUBOOL HAI

AAHIL and Jannat share an intimate moment in which Jannat withdraws at the last minute as she realizes she is committed to Shaad and she slaps Aahil. This makes Jannat take an impulsive decision of preponing her marriage. What will be Aahil’s reaction to this? Zee T V, 9.30 p.m .

THE MENTALIST Season 3

WHEN Patrick’s brother-in-law, Daniel “Danny” Ruskin, returns to town and gets mixed up in a murder investigation (with Danny seeming to be the murderer of a businessman he was conning), Patrick must come to his aid despite personal reservations.

Star Wor ld, 10 p.m.

MOVIES OF THE DAY

THE ITALIAN JOB

Led by John Bridger (Donald Sutherland) and Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) a team is assembled for one last heist to steal $35 million in gold bars from a heavily guarded safe in Venice, Italy. After successfully pulling off the heist, a team member, Steve (Edward Norton), driven by greed and jealousy, arranges to take the gold for himself and eliminate the remaining members of the group. Thinking the team dead, he returns to L.A. with the gold. Charlie and the survivors of this betrayal follow Steve L.A. to exact revenge against the traitor. Charlie enlists the help of John Bridger’s daughter, Stella (Charlize Theron) - a professional safe cracker, to get revenge. Zee Studio, 9 p.m.

DULHE RAJA

Poor Raja opens a fast foot restaurant right opposite a five star hotel run by it’s owner Singhania, earning his wrath. The wealthy hotel owner uses all his influence to remove Raja, but in vain.

Things get worse for the wealthy man, when his daughter Kiran wants to marry the poor hotelier. The wealthy man refuses, leading to a confrontation and a condition - which Raja fulfills, he becomes rich virtually overnight, and proposes for the hand of Kiran. The wealthy hotelier reluctantly accepts him as his son-inlaw, only to have Kiran elope with a man named Rahul. Star Gold 8 p.m.

Employed as a camera-man at a popular television station QTV; Shivaji Rao Gaekwad work his way up and is eventually promoted as a reporter. One of his job involve interviewing the Chief Minister Balraj Chauhan. During the course of the interview he

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brings to light the true facts of Chauhan to the general public.

Agrivated at this Chauhan decides that he will challenge him to become the Chief Minister for a day which he accepts. During his tenure Shivaji attempts to make the wrong right by punishing dishonest people while at the same time ensure that the masses get what they aspire for. Zee Ci nema, 9 p.m .

TERE BIN LADEN

“Tere Bin Laden” is a tongue-in-cheek comedy about an ambitious young news reporter from Pakistan who is desperate to migrate to the US in pursuit of the American dream. His repeated attempts to immigrate are shot down as his visa is always rejected. But when things couldn’t look worse he comes across an Osama bin Laden look alike. Ali then hatches a scheme to produce a fake Osama video and sell it to news channels as a breakthrough scoop! Unfortunately there are serious ramifications as the White House gets involved and dispatches a overzealous secret agent on Ali’s trail. B4U, 9 p.m.

SHOOL

Police Inspector Samar Pratap Singh is transferred to Motihari, in the Indian state of Bihar, along with his wife, Manjari and a daughter. He is honest and diligent and these attributes sets him up against his superior - the District Superintendent of Police, as well as his subordinates and fellow officers. His diligence in maintaining law and order, and his belief in justice for all, regardless of one’s background, makes him a powerful enemy in the shape and form of Bachu Yadav who is the local MLA of the ruling political party, and will not stop at anything to get rid of Samar and his family, by hook or by crook, and no one will dare to stop him. CVO, 9 p.m .

TV TALK Baloch or Asghari played by Humaima Malick. Hilarity ensues when Akbari who is a very fake and shallow girl, gets ready to marry Asghar as per her father’s wishes, just to be in her family’s good books.

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Hold your breath and let your heart not skip a beat! As AXN India takes you closer to the most successful, loved and sensational youth Boy band of the decade One Direction. Witness the superstars come alive this World Music Day in their STAR PLUS

Diya Aur Bati Hum Mere Angne Mein Suhaani Si Ek Ladki Saath Nibhaana Saathiya Dosti… Yariyaan Manmarzian Ek Veer Ki Ardaas-Veera Mere Angne Mein Suhaani Si Ek Ladki Saath Nibhaana Saathiya Ye Hai Mohabbatein Tu Mera Hero Nisha Aur Uske Cousins Diya Aur Bati Hum Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata...

Tere Shehar Mein Dost… Yariyaan…

Yeh Hai Mohabbatein

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Big Cat Diary Deadly 60 River Monsters Deadliest Hunters AP Safari Untamed and Uncut Countdown To The Rains Deadliest Snakes with Nigel Marven Big Cat Diary Deadly 60 Most Extreme

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Bargain Gurus Counting Cars Mountain Men Bargain Gurus: Pawn Stars 10.30 Bargain Gurus: Baggage Battles 11.00 Unsealed: Alien Files

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News in Marathi Manaswini Tuzya Gala Mazya Gala Ashi Hi Darmakanya Crime News in Marathi Tarane Purane Chandramukhi Krishidarshan Amchi Makti Amchi Mansa News in Marathi Young Tarang Khamosh Sa Afsana Pavitra Bandha Zindagi..Ek Bhanwar Dard Ka Rishta

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Taarak Mehta Ka Yam Hain Hum Badi Door Se Aaye Hai Baal Veer Taarak Mehta Ka..

Chidiya Ghar Badi Door Se Aaye Hai Yam Hain Hum Peterson Hill Taarak Mehta Ka….

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11.00 LAM HE: Film Part II. Anil Kapoor, Sri Devi

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Food Factory How do They Do It Man Woman Wild Chaos Caught On Camera Great Rift Destroyed in Seconds Food Factory Lands of the Monsoon Discovery Real Heroes Chaos Caught On Camera

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Manufactured Time Warp Extreme Engineering How It’s Made How Tech Works Manufactured Time Warp Mega Builders How It’s Made Gadget Man The Gadget Show Strip The Cosmos How Tech Works

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4.30 News 5.00 Samachar (Khabrien Dinbhar) 5.30 News 6.00 News Healines 6.30 Desh Pardesh Lamhe, DDI, 11 p.m.

7.00 Samachar

7.30 Seconds from Disaster 8.00 Animal Fight Club: Danger Zone 9.00 Brain Games: Peer Pressure 9.30 Life Hacker: Hacking The Outdoors 10.00 Science of Stupid 11.00 Breakout: Through The Roof

INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY

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Khooni Saaya Disappeared Tehkikaat Most Evil Deadly Sins Disappeared Khooni Saaya Most Evil Dead of Night Khooni Saaya: Nightmare Next Door

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P.M. 2.00 Ashes Classics 3.00 India tour of Bang 15 highlights 4.00 Indian Super League 14 h/ls Delhi Dynamos FC vs Mumbai City FC 4.30 India Tour of Bang 2014 5.00 NZ Tour of Eng 15 highlights 3rd ODI Match Point 5.30 India tour of Bang 14 6.00 Hey Buddy Khel Kabaddi 7.00 Indian Super League 14 highlights 7.30 Kings of Kabaddi 8.00 India Tour of Bang 15 9.00 Hey Buddy Khel Kabaddi 10.00 Ashes Classics 11.00 India Tour of Bangladesh 2014

TEN CRICKET

P.M. 2.00 Pakistan Tour of Sri Lanka 2015 1st Test Day 1 live 5.30 Straight Drive live 6.00 Great Centuries: Brendon McCullum 6.30 Simply the Best Rahul Dravid 7.00 Aus Tour of WI 15 h/ls 2nd Test 9.00 Pak Tour of SL 15 h/ls 1st Test Day 1 10.00 NZ Tour of Pak 14 h/ls 1st ODI 11.00 WI Tour of SA 14/15 h/ls 1st ODI

competing on the X-Factor, to conquering the world and performing at London's famed O2 Arena. Martin Scorsese, Chris Rock and Alexis Petridis, who have been part of the band’s journey will be making guest appearances in the film. The band won all 19 awards that they were nominated for Teen Choice Awards and are featured in Guinness World Records 2015 for being the first band in the U.S. Billboard 200 history to have first four albums debut at number one. One day, one dream, one destination- One Direction! Tune in to know the true story behind the musical geniuses and their journey on Sunday, 21st June, 12 noon & 6 pm only on AXN India.

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STARMOVIES

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P.M. 12.30 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 3.20 Transporter 3 5.15 Hit and Run 7.00 Step Up 9.00 Mr Nice Guy 10.50 The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey A.M. 8.40 Man on a Ledge 10.35 Hummingbird P.M. 12.05 1.55 6.05 6.50

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concert film One Direction: This Is Us.The band came in limelight when it participated in British show X Factor. One Direction: This Is Uswill take viewers to the stunning live concert footage, showcase their meteoric rise to fame, from their humble hometown beginnings and

MUSICAL SHOW

P.M. 2.00 CID 6.30 Reporters 7.00 Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar 8.00 Sankatmochan Mahabali Hanuman 8.30 Muh Boli Shaadi 9.00 Reporters 9.30 Dil Ki Baatein Dil Hi Jaane 10.00 Maharana Pratap 10.30 Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar 11.00 Aahat P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00

MR NICE GUY

Melbourne, Australia. TV Journalist Diana tapes evidence against drug lord Giancarlo, but on her way away from the scene, she is spotted and has to run. In the street, she runs into TV cook Jackie, whose knowledge of martial arts helps her survive the threat. Accidentally, her VHS-tape then gets mixed up with some kid’s films in Jackie’s car and so all the bad guys are after him as well as Diana, without him knowing where to find the right tape. HBO, 9 p.m.

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While hunting in the forest, Lord Asano of Ako and his samurai find a young half-breed and take him with them to live in the castle. Several years later, Lord Asano holds a tournament to welcome the Shogun to Ako. The night after the tournament, Lord Asano is bewitched into hurting Lord Kira of Nagato, and is punished into committing seppuku by the Shogun. Realizing that it was a Lord Kira’s evil plot, the samurais and the half-breed sets out for revenge against the Shogun’s order. Star Movies, 9 p.m.

NAYAK-THE REAL HERO

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make it big via shortcuts and shirks any work that requires him to move. His parents and peers consider him to be absolutely useless. His favourite pastime is running after girls. He dreams of marrying into a rich family that can get him as far away from his backward village as possible.

He believes that this dream of his can come to fruition by marrying one of his uncle’s daughters - Akbari played by the Sanam

A YOUNG woman grows up to be a stone-cold assassin after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target - the mobster responsible for her parents’ death.

Pix , 9 p.m .

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Kung Fu Panda 2 G I Joe Retaliation National Treasure How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days 9.00 The Italian Job 11.00 Shark Week A.M. 8.05 Sky High 10.10 Clockstoppers P.M. 1.30 2.35 4.20 6.30 9.00 11.25 A.M. 7.30 9.45 P.M. 2.05 5.00 8.00 11.10 A.M. 8.15 11.25

PIX

A.M. 8.25 Faraar 11.25 Do Jasoos P.M. 2.00 4.30 7.00 9.30

ZEE TALKIES

Dubhang Nishani Daava Angatha Ek Gadi Baki Nanadi Yedyachi Jatra

CARTOON NETWORK

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Haddi Mera Buddy Oggy and the Cockroahces Courage the Cowadly Dog Adventure Time Bas Karo Henry Clarence Oggy and The Cockraoches Teen Titans Go Johnny Test Roll No 21 Roll No 21: Akhada Mein Pachada 10.30 Courage the Cowadly Dog 11.00 Pokemon Black and White A.M. 8.00 Ben 10 8.30 Johnny Test 9.00 Courage the Cowadly Dog 9.30 Roll No 21 10.00 Teen Titans Go 10.30 Haddi Mera Buddy 11.00 Roll No 21: Sur Sur Asur

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Transporter 2: Diva The Spy Next Door Return To The Blue Lagoon Thor Colombiana Jobs

The Expendables Curse of the Golden Flower

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Bandhan Yaariyan Dulhe Raja Surya Jalta Nahi Jalta Hai Barsaat Ra.One

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EIJING: China is pressing ahead with preparations to open the new second Kailash Manasarovar Yatra road route to Indian pilgrims on June 22 despite difficulties caused by the recent devastating earthquake in Nepal which has badly affected the border regions in Tibet.

"While coping with the earthquake and despite the difficulties, relevant authorities of China are pressing ahead with the preparation work for opening the route in a well-organised way," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in an e-mail response to PTI here.

The first batch of the pilgrims was expected to travel through the new land route through Nathu La in Sikkim on June 22.

Several Indian and Chinese officials were expected to take part in the event.

The April 25 devastating earthquake in Nepal has also caused havoc in the border regions of Tibet with heavy landslides and house collapses.

Eighteen people were killed in Tibet and dozens injured in the quake.

The damage caused by the earthquake has earlier created un-

certainty about this year's Kailash pilgrimage. However, China said preparations for the new route were made keeping up with the schedule.

China has agreed to open the second route, which is completely accessible by road during last year's visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made a request to Xi on the issue.

Indian Ambassador to China Ashok Kantha had visited Tibet and travelled to Kailash Manasarovar last October to discuss the preparations with Chinese officials.

About 250 people were expected to take part in batches to go to pilgrimage in batches.

India has 4th largest multi-rich households, says wealth report N

EW YORK: India is home to the fourth largest number of ultra-high-net-worth households that have more than 100 million dollars in private wealth, according to a new report topped by the US. The Boston Consulting Group's 'Global Wealth 2015: Winning the Growth Game' report said continued economic expansion of China and India was driving growth in wealth in the Asia- Pacific region.

The US remains the country with the largest number of ultra-

high-net-worth (UHNW ) households at 5,201, followed by China (1,037), the UK (1,019), India (928) and Germany (679) in 2014, it said.

India's UHNW households grew manifold from 2013 when the number stood at 284.

The private wealth in the AsiaPacific region expanded by a steep 29 per cent in 2014 to reach USD 47 trillion, enabling it to overtake Europe (Eastern and Western Europe combined) to become the world's second-wealthiest region, the report said.

Elder abuse lowest in India among Asian countries

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ASHINGTON: India has the lowest prevalence of elder abuse in Asian countries, according to a new global review which found that 14 per cent older adults in the country may face psychological, physical, and sexual abuse and financial exploitation compared to 36 per cent in China.

The researchers said that in Asia, the highest prevalence of elder abuse was found among older adults in China (36 per cent), while the lowest was reported among

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older adults in India (14 per cent).

The study found that elder abuse is common among communitydwelling older adults and is especially prevalent among minority older adults.

A migrant is removed by Italian police at the Franco-Italian border near Menton, southeastern France, on Tuesday. Some 150 migrants, principally from Eritrea and Sudan, have been trying since last Friday to cross the border from Italy but have been blocked by French and Italian police. AP

Indian banker commits suicide in UAE

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UBAI: A 30-year-old Indian banker in the UAE allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his room attached to the bank's premises, a media report said today. The worker, identified as SL, had been working in a Sharjah-based bank for several years and reportedly did not suffer from any mental illness.

The deceased's colleague found the body yesterday, Khaleej Times reported. The police transferred the body to the forensic laboratory for an autopsy. They collected forensic evidence from the room.

The deceased's acquaintances are being questioned by the police to ascertain the reason behind the alleged suicide, the report said.

Sikh wins right to join US army prog keeping articles of faith N

EW YORK: In a significant verdict, a Sikh-American student at a city-based university after a long struggle has been allowed by a US court to enrol in an army programme without removing his articles of faith.

A federal judge on Friday ruled in favour of Iknoor Singh, a student at Long Island-based Hofstra University, to enrol in US Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) programme without shaving his beard, cutting his hair or removing

his turban. The 20-year-old student, born and raised in Queens, New York, had previously been denied the right to enrol in his college's ROTC programme due to his religious articles of faith. Singh had alleged that the army's refusal to accommodate his religious exercise violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and had brought a lawsuit against Secretary of the US Army John McHugh and Commander of the ROTC programme at Hofstra University.

Microsoft’s drones to catch mosquitoes and help stop epidemics ASHINGTON: Microsoft reW searchers are developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs that potentially harmful viruses are spreading, with the goal of preventing disease outbreaks in humans.

Project Premonition, launched by American tech company Microsoft, is developing a system that aims to detect infectious disease outbreaks before they become widespread.

Project Premonition could eventually allow health officials to get a jump start on preventing outbreaks of a disease like dengue fever or avian flu before it occurs, whether or not it is a disease spread by mosquitoes, researchers said. It will do that by relying on what Ethan Jackson, the Microsoft researcher who is spearheading the project, calls 'nature's drones' - mosquitoes - to look for early signs that a particular illness could be on the move.

Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito, centre, and Crown Princess Masako, left, speak with a mother of a baby during their visit to a childcare support facility in Tokyo on Tuesday. AP/PTI

250,000 children starving in South Sudan: UN UBA: A quarter of a million children face starvation in war-torn South Jpelled Sudan, with an end to the 18-month conflict as distant as ever, the exUN aid chief warned yesterday. "Six months ago, we thought that violence and suffering had peaked and that peace was on the horizon. We were wrong," said Toby Lanzer, who was barred from the country earlier this month after warning of economic meltdown.

"Political intransigence left peace ever more distant; war raged on and is leading to economic collapse."

Civil war began in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of planning a coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory killings across the country that has split the poverty-stricken, landlocked country along ethnic lines. It has been characterised by ethnic massacres, rape and the use of child soldiers.

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1. Oil-rich nation (5) 4. Country on the Baltic Sea (6) 7. Set of exclusive rights (7) 11. Pronto (4) 16. Clown (5) 17. Designate (7) 18. Not anyone’s (7) 19. Colour (5) 20. ‘Court’ in Hindi (6) 21. Elizabeth------ - name in cosmetics (5) 22. Elemental oxygen (5) 25. Father-in-law of Kate Middleton(7) 26. Tooth part (4) 27. Phobias (5) 28. ------Lauder (5) 32. Yanks(5) 34. Carry on (3) 35. Inclined to injury(5) 43. Capital of Assam (8) 44. Summer drink (8) 45. Tropical fruit (6) 48. Watch (5) 49. New------- -inhabitant (6)

CROSSWORD NO 247 Nita Jaggi

50. Hill station in Himachal Pradesh(6) 51. Australian actress Mitchell (5) 53. Spanish queens (6) 54. Foundry tool(8) 55. Clergyman (8) 58. Tropical trees (5) 59. Soar (3) 60. Narrow ravine (5) 67. Bed----- (5) 68. Available (5) 70. Droops (4) 72. Light bedstead in India (7) 76. Lure (5) 77. Label again (5) 78. Prophet (6) 79. Superb (5) 82. Incentives(7) 83. Papal place (7) 84. ------Granth-Sikh writings (5) 85. Male offsprings (4) 86. Canadian city (7) 87. Judge (6) 88. Japanese warrior (5)

DOWN:

1. Clever comment (4) 2. White monument in Agra (8) 3. Light again(8) 4. Incentive(4) 5. Tennis player------Paes (7) 6. French pastry (8) 8. Aardvark (8) 9. Big banana exporter (7) 10. Spines (6)

12. Froglets (8) 13. Logs(6) 14. Shades (5) 15. Sanction (7) 23. Frighten (5) 24. Fictitious name (9) 29. Slouch (5) 30. Pen fluid (3) 31. Varanasi (7) 33. Math exponent (9) 36. Kind of welcome (3,6) 37. Dismay (7) 38. Blank page (3,4)

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39. Large tuna (7) 40. Sports shoe (7) 41. Frantic scramble (3,4) 42. Flippers (7) 46. Binge (7) 47. Watch (9) 52. -----Dal (5) 56. Spoil (3) 57. Sun God (5) 61. Oscar-winning Emma (8) 62. Sure (7) 63. Drinker’s woe (8) 64. Syrian capital (8)

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65. Popular Ford (8) 66. English psychologist Charles-----pioneer of factor analysis (8) 69. Naught (7) 71. Calm (7)

73. Levels (6) 74. Shock (6) 75. Farm animals (5) 80. Troubles (4) 81. Seaside town in Goa (4)

Solution (GIGANTIKA No. 246)

ACROSS: 1. Realm 4. Sedate 7. Detente 11. Clat 16. Alert 17. Silence 18.

Arnicas 19. Chain 20. Carrot 21. Hagar 22. Tigon 25. Armiger 26. Ring 27.

Ankle 28. Tease 32. Islet 34. Thy 35. Ebony 43. Catacomb 44. Division 45.

Enigma 48. Pipal 49. Lowers 50. Mandir 51. Roost 53. Intend 54. Solstice 55. Immanent 58. Farms 59. Sci 60. Terse 67. Shear 68. Sedan 70. Saga 72. Erasure 76. Atria 77. Ahead 78. Negate 79. Added 82. Chapati 83.

Overran 84. Novem 85. Sits 86. Rameses 87. Strong 88. Sings DOWN: 1. Rile 2. Anathema 3. Meetings 4. Sets 5. Despair 6. Tolerant 8.

Elephant 9. Evangel 10. Tundra 12. Last Gasp 13. Tucana 14. Knots 15.

Scatter 23. Taste 24. Aristotle 29. Shiva 30. Any 31. Departs 33. Elbow Room 36. Bloodline 37. Warpath 38. Sailing 39. Address 40. Ashamed 41.

Entrant 42. Aground 46. Apricot 47. Trimester 52. Piece 56. Cat 57. Trees 61.

Shortcut 62. Ramadan 63. Handsome 64. Margaret 65. Maldives 66.

Superman 69. Eremite 71. Antonio 73. Harass 74. Havana 75. Sneer 80.

Snug 81. Wars

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Gemini 1st Adhik Ashadh Shuklapaksha Ardhra Mithun [Gemini] K. Ch. Black 3

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: This will be an auspicious year for work and financial matters. Money does not seem to be a problem for you throughout the year. At home, there could be frequent quarrels and arguments over trifling issues. Youngster’s interest suffers, mainly due to differences between parents. Lovers having problems in their relationship will now be able to resolve the issue.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Good looking, prominent nose and Charming eyes. Will be healthy and long-lived. Will be responsible, witty, intelligent, critical but helpful.

After a good education, career in research, shipping, communications or industry is indicated. Success and gains are indicated perhaps, away from place of birth.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Some overseas travel or work is also predicted for you. You are still able to follow your goal though it may look like it has been postponed or revised.

Your career will take an upward swing due to changes you bring about after the outcome of new policy. Keep calm at an angry outburst of emotions in a personal relationship. Sometimes distances help be patient.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): You have been trying to avoid certain issues but they crop up again and again. It is better to get to the root of the problem and sort it out even if it means a change in your approach and style of working. You will be expected to work harder and that too with no incentives in sight. Things are not as bad as they look for there are hidden gains.

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GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): At work you may feel a bit bored with the routine. While there are chances of a change it would be better to wait awhile for there are excellent chances of your landing a job that will be more interesting. In the meantime continue with sincerity and diligence. Your moods could affect harmony at home.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): Hectic work activity could keep you busy throughout the day. In the evening, you may relax and make future travel plans for a business cum pleasure trip. Socially, this is an active and monetarily an expensive period.

There may be many a get together and an important celebration to attend.

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LEO (July 22 - August 21): You may feel the need to withdraw and sort out your thoughts and expectations. Uneasiness about certain family problems troubles your mind. You will discuss your personal affairs with a close friend. Some choices you have to make in a relationship are difficult. Try not to get too emotional in your own interest.

Someone who lives far away will be in touch, perhaps a family member.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): You will sign new agreements and contracts on profitable terms. Seek short-term benefits. You are likely to gain from speculative ventures. Of late you may have found yourself being thrown together with a person whether for work or otherwise. An attraction could develop.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): Financial prospects are good. There will be several new work inquiries. An important development in your career will bring you into the limelight. Those seeking a change of job can also look forward to some favorable development. You will be feeling content and happy with your progress.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): You need to work hard to maintain your position at work.

You will be gainfully employed on a certain venture that assures you a steady flow of income for long. Independent entrepreneurs will diversify into new areas of work in partnership with a close associate. A romantic relationship will get the blessings of family. An early engagement or marriage will be will be decided upon soon.

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MODESTY BLAISE PETER O’DONNELL

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): Some of you will be invited to give a talk or address a large gathering. Focus is on education, training, sports and cultural activities. Several favorable opportunities for investment on a short-term basis will materialize. Make the most of the current good phase. Someone may need care and attention which you will give at cost of your own well being and health.

CAPRICORN (December 21 January 19): Any problems that you encounter will be overcome easily. Unexpected monetary gains are indicated from sources that you least expected. You will have to attend to estate matters on behalf of your family. You will be happy to meet a gracious and enlightened person today.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): Important decisions will need more time. Your methodical approach and detailed insight will receive appreciation and you will succeed in your objectives. You will certainly be in the mood to celebrate this evening in the company of your friends and family. A romantic association gets more meaningful and intimate.

Nostalgia gets the better of you and you may want to revive those moments with one you love. Plan an exclusive evening just for love.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): A chance to work on a prestigious project will give ample scope to use the knowledge you have gained and the experience you have acquired. A good tip could lead to sizable profits. Chores you had planned to catch up with will have to be put off because a friend may need you.1

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QUICK CROSSWORD 5305 ACROSS: 1 Villain (6) 7 Study of viruses (8) 8 Confuse and upset (4) 10 Destitute person (6) 11 Spritely (6) 14 Adult males (3) 16 Ages (5) 17 Hits or throws a ball in a high arc (4) 19 Disparage, criticise (5) 21 Funeral fires (5) 22 Staggers (5) 23 Pepsi competitor (4) 26 Begets or gives birth to as a male parent (5) 28 Ben ___ : Oscar winning movie ?

(3) 29 Moved in a dwindling zig-zag course (6). (6) 30 Eluded a pursuer or a blow by a quick movement (6) 31 Water whirled (4) 32 Greatest monument ever built for love (3,5) 33 Aims or ambitions, in a way ? (6)

DOWN: 1 Union Carbide disaster city (6) 2 Covers, hangs or adorns (6) 3 "Did you ___?" (4) 4 Neck-encircling parts of garments (7) 5 Page in account book (5) 6 Legends or epics (5) 8 Unable to speak (4) 9 Japanese Buddhist philosophy (3) 12 Whimsical (3) 13 Small meal (5) 15 A type of blackbird (5) 18 Stan's partner (5) 19 Colouring agent (3) 20 These, to the French (3)

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SUDOKU 2491 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.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Difficulty Level:

CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: T equals U

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

21 Former Units of Spanish money (7) 22 Increase the number of rotations per minute ? (3) 23 Embrace (6) 24 Drunken revel (4)

25 Entails or necessitates (6) 26 An area of grass cut by a machine (5) 27 India's cricket trophy (5) 28 Coal carrier (3) 30 Food store in short ? (4)

SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Cabby, 6 Naira, 9 Helicon, 10 Bylaw, 11 Tulsa, 12 Sleep, 13 Machine, 15 Eid, 17 Myra, 18 Sambar, 19 Wield, 20 Israel, 22 Blog, 24 Vie, 25 Spreads, 26 Scone, 27 Cello, 28 Egg on, 29 Impresa, 30 Gnome, 31 Plush.

DOWN: 2 Anyway, 3 Bhabha, 4 Yew, 5 Bible, 6 Notepad, 7 Anup, 8 Russia, 12 Snail, 13 MMDIV, 14 Crore, 15 Ebola, 16 Drugs, 18 Slope, 19 Welcome, 21 Simeon, 22 Bengal, 23 Odious, 25 Snort, 26 Slim, 28 Esp.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 2310 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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Yesterday’s solution: Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Afternoon WORD MINE

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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: 12 average; 14 good; 16 outstanding.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION : leisure, LEISURELY, lieu, lure, reuse, rule, ruse, slur, sully, sure, surely, surly, user

HEATHCLIFF

Yesterday’s

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India humbled 1-2 by Guam in World Cup qualifiers

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amuning (Guam): India suffered an embarrassing 1-2 defeat to tiny pacific island side Guam, ranked 33 places below them in the FIFA rankings, in their 2018 football World Cup qualifying group match.

Sunil Chhetri managed a consolation goal in the last minute of the game after Brandon McDonald put the hosts ahead in the 38th minute and Travis Nicklaw doubled the advantage in the 62nd minute at the GFA National Training Center.

This was only their second World Cup qualifying win, the result coming less than a week after their upset 1-0 verdict over Turkmenistan in Group D. Guam went ahead after 38 minutes when McDonald headed in Ryan Guy's long throw-in and Nicklaw extended the lead 24 minutes later when he received a long pass from his elder brother Shawn and fired home on the turn.

Ace India striker Chhetri, who was leading the side today, got his name on the score sheet one more time for

Mumbai Cricket Association president Sharad Pawar and BJP MLA Ashish Shelar during the press conference on the eve of the MCA elections at Wankhede Stadium on Tuesday.

The Indian team pose for a photograph prior to their match against Guam in Tamuning on Tuesday. India lost the match 1-2. the national side, but his effort in the dying moment was not enough, as Guam moved to the top of Group D with six points from two games.

While Guam recorded their second win as many games in their qualifying campaign, 141-ranked India suffered their second straight defeat, the first being the 1-2 defeat to Oman at home last week.

The latest reverse puts

Chhetri becomes first Indian to score 50 international goals

TAMUNING (GUAM): Prolific striker Sunil Chhetri today became the first Indian footballer to score 50 international goals during his team's 2018 World Cup qualifying match against Guam.

Chhetri's feat, though, came in a losing cause, as India suffered their second successive defeat in the preliminary joint qualification second round.

"Number of goals never matter for me. I never keep track

of feats. I just play for my nation," Chhetri said after the match ended in a 1-2 defeat for the visitors. Former captain Bhaichung Bhutia stays at the second spot with 42 goals in 107 matches while IM Vijayan has 40 goals from 79 games. This meanwhile, was Chhetri's 87th match. After Guam took a 2-goal lead by scoring in each half, Chhetri reduced the margin for the visitors in added time, heading in a cross from the right.

India's chances of a thirdplaced finish in the 2018 World Cup qualifying in jeopardy, which in turn could affect the country's prospect of earning a direct entry into the 2019 Asian Cup. With Oman, who beat India 2-1 last week, not in action today and Iran playing their first group game in Turkmenistan, Guam are assured of remaining at the top of their group in the second round of Asian qualifying until the next round of games in September.

Guam, a United States island territory in the Western Pacific with a population of less than 200,000, are competing in the World Cup qualifiers for the first time since 2000 when they were beaten 19-0

by Iran and 16-0 by Tajikistan.

A total of 15 matches are being played throughout Asia today that serve as qualifiers for both the 2018 World Cup and the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. India coach Stephen Constantine did not make any changes to the side that played in the previous game, while Guam's line-up saw young Nicklaw being incorpo-

rated into the set-up in place of Ian Mariano. Turning out against a side that included a couple of players with MLS experience in the US, India skipper Chhetri had a personal milestone to savour, reaching his 50th international goal by heading in a cross from the right.

Former captain Bhaichung Bhutia stays at the second spot with 42 goals in 107 matches while IM Vijayan has 40 from 79 games. This was Chhetri's 87th match.

The feat, however, came for a losing cause. Even double substitutions by Constantine in the 46th minute and the other in the 65th minute, couldn't change the fortunes.

The second half saw Constantine make two changes as Sehnaj Singh was replaced by Dhanpal Ganesh while Cavin Lobo was brought in place of Eugeneson.

Apart from Chhetri's header, substitute Jeje Lalpakhlua's free header in the 88th minute, which went straight to rival goalkeeper Douglas Herrick, was another of India's best chance.

We lacked football intelligence: Constantine T

amuning (Guam): Indian football coach Stephen Constantine was a livid man after the team's embarrassing 1-2 defeat to lowerranked Guam in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying game here today, saying his boys lacked "football intelligence".

"We lacked football intelligence in key moments of the game and that cost us," Constantine said after the match.

India came into the game on a the back of a similar result last week against Oman, who though faced stiff competition form the South Asian nation.

Sunil Chhetri managed a consolation goal in the last minute of the game after

We lacked football intelligence in key moments of the game and that cost us.

We are disappointed. Today the difference was very much visible between a group of players who have the best football education and the rest. 75 per cent of the players who represented Guam have been born and brought up in the US and that made a huge difference.

India's 141, this was only their second World Cup qualifying win, the result coming less than a week after Guam's 1-0 victory over Turkmenistan in Group D. Constantine, however, dismissed that jet lag was ever a factor. "We have been here for three days. This is international football and you have to deal with it. The STEPHEN CONSTANTINE, INDIAN FOOTBALL COACH time zone was not a factor at all.

Brandon McDonald put the group of players who have "Right from the outset, I hosts ahead in the 38th the best football education had expected a tough game. minute and Travis Nicklaw and the rest. 75 per cent of The advantage which Guam doubled the advantage in the players who represented has, is to pick American the 62nd minute at the GFA Guam have been born and based players and they National Training Center. brought up in the US and made good use of them."

"We are disappointed. that made a huge differConstantine's counterpart Today the difference was ence," Constantine added.

Gary White sounded happy very much visible between a Ranked 174 in the world to with six points on board.

Shiv Sena-supported Patil bidding to end Pawar’s reign at MCA M

UMBAI: Backed strongly by the Shiv Sena, which has fielded its own candidates, Vijay Patil is bidding to dethrone NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and wrest control of the Mumbai Cricket Association at its polls here today.

The straight contest between incumbent president Pawar and Patil, who was one of the two VPs under the former in the outgoing regime, has evoked strong response from the cricket circles with both parties wooing the 300-odd voting clubs and gymkhanas by throwing lavish dinner parties.

Patil threw down the gauntlet by asking Pawar to withdraw from the contest and bless his 'Cricket First' panel at the first dinner party hosted as a prelude.

Pawar responded by saying he would probably not have contested had Patil given an undertaking that international and IPL games allotted to MCA would not be hijacked to his (Patil's) D Y Patil Sports Academy Stadium in Navi Mumbai.

Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray came out in open support of Patil at a dinner party hosted by the panel last night.

He lashed out at Pawar saying while cricket legends Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar have retired, Pawar is still all set to bat with his pads on while his score has been zero despite a long reign at the helm of MCA. The war of words between the two rival groups has spiced up the biennial elections in which former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar is contesting for one of the two vice president's posts as part of the Pawar-Mahaddalkar ensemble.

'Cricket First' group has fielded former Test cricketers Abey Kuruvilla, Lalchand Rajput and Pravin Amre as candidates. BJP

MLA Ashish Shelar and Vengsarkar are the two contestants from the Pawar panel who are vying to become the new VPs while Kuruvilla and Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik are lined up against them as part of the 'Cricket First' group.

Sena MP Rahul Shewale is contesting from the Patilheaded group for the eleven-member managing committee.

Pawar headed MCA for ten years, from 2001-2011, before handing over the reins to fellow-politician Vilasrao Deshmukh whose untimely death in August 2012 enabled Ravi Savant to become the interim president before Pawar was elected unopposed as president at the last elections.

Refuting Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, Pawar told a media conference today that he was not batting on zero but with an unbeaten multiple hundred. "In MCA's administrative history, the performance of Sesharao Wankhede was very good as he was the first to develop this infrastructure.

In the last few years the Cricket Centre which was built during my tenure is not only the headquarters of MCA but also of BCCI," Pawar said.

"Secondly the indoor facilities at the BKC is the first such facility in India. We have built similar facilities in Kandivli too and have plans to extend them to Thane. I am not batting on one century but on multiple centuries" the NCP Chief said.

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Dhoni and company gear up for ODIs D

HAKA: Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be back in the saddle after over a month-long break as eight players join India's squad and get battle-ready to face Bangladesh in a three-match ODI series starting Thursday.

Dhoni along with Stuart Binny, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Suresh Raina, Mohit Sharma, Dhawal Kulkarni and Ambati Rayudu arrived here yesterday to face the hosts in the limited-overs matches.

India, who had gained a moral victory by making Bangladesh follow-on in the rain-hit one-off Test match that ended Sunday, are looking to carry on their good showing even as some of the Test players returned home.

India's team manager Biswarup Dey informed that the team gave a send-off to the players returning home.

"Team India decided to go out last night. We decided to celebrate because of the good performance.

Some of the Test players are leaving and so it was also the last day with all the players together," Dey was quoted as saying on 'thedailystar.Net'.

The ODIs slated for June 18, 21 and 24 in Mirpur have all been assigned reserve days due to mon-

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soon showers in the country.

India last played a bilateral series in Bangladesh in 2014 when the Suresh Raina-led side got past the hosts 2-0 after the final ODI was washed off.

EW DELHI: In a historic move, two of the top Indian basketball players, have signed professional contracts for a Summer League team in Japan.

Amjyot Singh, 6 foot-9 inch forward, and 7-foot centre Amritpal Singh have signed a three-month contract with the Hyogo Impulse of the BJ Challenge Summer League. They will be the first ever Indians to play professional basketball in Japan.

Both Amjyot and Amritpal have been stars of the Indian men’s national team over the past two years, leading them to the historic, first ever victory over China in 2014 during the 4th FIBA Asia Cup held in Wuhan, China. The two Indian big men will participate against Japanese hopefuls with an eye toward being picked up for one of the three professional leagues in Japan – the top league - NBL (National Basketball League), its development league – NBDL (National Basketball Development League), or the BJ League.

Products of the Ludhiana Basketball Academy and students of the late Coach Dr. S. Subramaniam, the two were relatively late to start the game. Amjyot began playing only after a cricket injury forced him to

Eight races, first at 2 p.m.

By Shalivahana

CARD AND SELECTIONS

1. The Kapila Plate 1200 M 2 P.M. 1.Chambray 56 Ryan Marshall 2.Country's Sepoy 56 Shobhan Babu 3.Generous Gesture 56 Arshad Alam 4.Mr Go 56 Keanen G.Steyn 5.Beautiful Revenge 54.5 M.Madhu Babu 6.Diamond Attraction 54.5 Saddam Hussain 7.Eudora 54.5 Anil Baandal 8.Everlasting Memory 54.5 N.Ravinder Singh 9.Express Speed 54.5 S.Mubarak 10.Sazae San 54.5 A.Ashhad Asbar Win: Beautiful Revenge, Chambray

2. The Hiriyur Plate 1400 M 2.30 P.M. 1.Brigadier 62 Irvan Singh 2.Outer Space 60.5 S.G.Prasad 3.Heavenly Divas 59.5 Sandeep Rajput 4.Come On Gingin 57.5 G.Sai Vamshi 5.Touch Of Romance 57.5 Anil Baandal 6.Fantasy Living 57 Afsar Khan 7.Time Matters 55 S.Mubarak 8.Alloy 2 54.5 A.Ramu 9.Rising Affairs 53.5 A.Vishwanath Win: Ahoy, Fantasy Living 3. The Alberetto Plate Div.II 1200 M 3 P.M. 1.Impedimenta 60 Shobhan Babu 2.Born For Success (Ex:Miranda) 59 M.J.Gautamrajurs 3.Lincon Continental 58.5 A.Vishwanath 4.Young Gallant 55 A.Ashok Kumar 5.Best Move 54.5 S.R.Santosh Kumar 6.Catchy Charger 54.5 Sahanawaz

7.Golden Steps 54.5 H.G.Rathod 8.Neron 53.5 Vivek 9.Al Dahma (Ex:Ace Princess) 53 M.Madhu Babu 10.Charm And Dream 53 Arshad Alam 11.Daring Don 53 Ajeet Kumar Win: Daring Don, Al Dahma 4. The Irappu Falls Plate Div.Ii 1200 M 3.30 P.M. 1.Alabama 60 M.Prabhakaran

MYSORE RACES TODAY 2.Born To Race 60 Ajeet Kumar 3.Aristomache 58.5 M.Madhu Babu 4.Durer 58.5 Ryan Marshall 5.Sivanta 58.5 Sk.Zaffar Riaz 6.Absolute Pleasure 58 G.Sai Vamshi 7.Zoe 57.5 A.Ramu 8.Aanchal Beauty 56.5 H.G.Rathod 9.Rule Forever 55 Irvan Singh 10.Bucethalis 54.5 A.Ashok Kumar Win: Born To Race, Zoe

5. The Alberetto Plate Div.I 1200 M 4 P.M. 1.Getafix 62 Shobhan Babu 2.Secret Touch 62 Sarvan Kumar 3.Al Dorado 60 A.Imran Khan 4.Always United 60 A.Vishwanath 5.Cyclops 60 Nazim 6.Dare The Don 60 S.R.Santosh Kumar 7.Born For Beauty 58 Ajeet Kumar 8.Go Man Go 58 Vivek 9.London Eye 57 A.Ashok Kumar 10.Magic Wave 56.5 Sk.Zaffar Riaz

6. The Stewards Trophy 1200 M 4.30 P.M. 1.Country's Beauty 61.5 Hindu Singh

2.Keturah 58.5 Ryan Marshall 3.Secret Hunter 56.5 Deep Shanker 4.Constantine 55 S.G.Prasad 5.Castle King 54 V.R.Jagdeesh 6.Class Is Class 53.5 Arshad Alam 7.Mr Carpe 52.5 Nirmal Jodha 8.Fink 52 Keanen G.Steyn 9.Vijays Best 51 N.Ravinder Singh Win: Pink, Secret Hunter

7. The Irappu Falls Plate Div.I 1200 M 5 P.M. 1.Bandito 62.5 Keanen G.Steyn 2.Azure Fire 62 Sandeep Rajput 3.Divine Deliverance 59.5 Arshad Alam 4.Markus Sittikus 59 Vivek 5.Bryant Park 57.5 Md.Imran Ashraf 6.Lake Emerald 57.5 Saddam Hussain 7.As Good As Gold 56.5 M.Madhu Babu 8.Bold Nature 56.5 A.Ashok Kumar 9.Starsonboard 55.5 Deep Shanker 10.Flying Tricolour 54 M.Kumar Win: As Good As Gold, Starsonboard

8. The Goa Plate 1400 M 5.30 P.M. 1.Spiritual Blue 62.5 Irvan Singh 2.Distant Promise 58.5 G.Sai Vamshi 3.Murcilago 58 A.Vishwanath 4.No Boundaries 57.5 Anil Baandal 5.Ace Force 57 S.Sameer 6.One Of A Kind 56.5 S.Shinde 7.Daylite 55.5 Keanen G.Steyn 8.Beautiful Green 55 Sahanawaz 9.Sans Frontieres 54.5 Shrikant Kamble 10.Extra Spark 54 M.J.Gautamrajurs 11.Gunpowder 54 A.Ashok Kumar 12.Capitano 53.5 L.Prashant Win: Daylife, Capitano

Amritpal Singh switch games and Amritpal was discovered by a coach at the age of 19.

Both picked up the game very quickly and made themselves mainstays on the Indian National Team, eventually becoming two vital pieces to former Indian National Team Head Coach Scott Flemming over the past two years.

Amjyot and Amritpal had attempted to go overseas previously,

but not until their Managers – Rohit Bakshi and Himamshu Dabir – were able to team up with well-respected Internationally Certified FIBA Agent Toshi Koga of Japan, were they able to secure International Contracts.

The duo’s representatives hope that this historic move will open pathways for many more Indian players to gain collegiate and professional opportunities in Japan.

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TAVANGER (NORWAY): Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand lost to world champion Magnus Carlsen from a winning position to finish fifth in the blitz event that acts as a curtain raiser for the Norway Chess tournament which begins here.

After starting off with two victories, Anand missed out on a winning opportunity against Norwegian Carlsen and finally ended fifth with 5.5 points out of a possible nine in the blitz event.

Besides being a curtain raiser, the blitz event decides the pairings for the main tournament -- which will be played in classical format -- and the top half finish for Anand means a lot as he will get to play five white games.

The surprise winner of the blitz event was Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France who led from the beginning and defeated Carlsen and

Fabiano Caruana of Italy en route to his 6.5 points.

Former world champion Anand will now play against Caruana in the Norway Chess tournament, part of the Grand Chess tour that started here. Anand's white games are lined up against Caruana, Alexander Grischuk of Russia, Hikaru Nakamura of United States, Levon Aronian of Armenia and Carlsen, which undoubtedly is a very favourable draw.

The Norway Chess tournament also signals the start of the muchawaited Grand Chess tour. With a staggering USD 305000 as prize money, the tournament is the first in a series of three which will have same prize fund and the top three stands to gain another USD 150000 once the series is completed.

The other two events will be played in San Luis in United States and London later this year.

Pakistan players get Indian visa for South Asian TT

NEW DELHI: The Pakistan squad has got the Indian visa to compete in the South Asian Cadet and Junior Table Tennis Championships which began yesterday.

Dhanraj Choudhary, secretary general at the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), told PTI that Pakistan team has confirmed its participation alongside Sri Lanka, Nepal and Maldives. "They (Pakistan paddlers) are on their way to Delhi from Wagah Border, they should reach by midnight.

The players got the visa as all the formalities were completed in time. We look forward to their participation along with other teams. Bangladesh players are

still awaiting their visa, hopefully they will be here by tomorrow," said Choudhary.

Last week saw a blame game between the sports officials of India and Pakistan after the wrestlers from across the border were denied the visa to India for the Cadet Asian Wrestling Championship that concluded here on Sunday.

Pakistan wrestling body refuted its Indian counterparts' claim that it had not submitted the visa documents on time.

The previous South Asian Cadet and Junior Table Tennis Championships took place in Islamabad, where India won a rich haul of 10 medals.

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Milan sack manager Inzaghi after poor season

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ilan: AC Milan dismissed manager Filippo Inzaghi on Tuesday after a disappointing season in which they finished 10th in Serie A and failed to qualify for Europe for the second time in a row.

The 41-year-old had been in charge for one season and was the third coach to be sacked in the last 18 months by the floundering seventimes European champions following Massimiliano Allegri and Clarence Seedorf.

Inzaghi, who spent 10 years at the club as a player, struggled throughout much of a campaign that brought their lowest number of wins since 2001 and his future had long been questioned.

"AC Milan communicate that Filippo Inzaghi has been discharged of his responsibilities as first team coach. The club thank him for his work," the club said in a statement on their website. Serbian Sinisa Mihajlovic, who stepped down as Sampdoria coach earlier this month, is among the favourites to take the job.

In what has become a familiar routine in the last few years, Milan's season was a story of crises, false dawns, injuries and new signings who have failed to settle in.

Fernando Torres came and went, scoring one goal in four months, and forwards

Alessio Cerci and Mattia Destro managed four league goals between them after joining in the January transfer window. Inzaghi suffered the same process as his predecessors Allegri, dismissed in January last year, and Seedorf, who followed him at the end of last season.

AC Milan communicate that Filippo Inzaghi has been discharged of his responsibilities as first team coach. The club thank him for his work.

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Both fell victim to a combination of unrealistically high expectations and a lacklustre squad, and were eventually fired. Allegri is now with Juventus, who won the Serie A and Coppa Italia double and reached the Champions League final, eliminating Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid on the way.

Inzaghi, who during his playing days was famously described by then Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as having been "born offside", was hugely popular with Milan fans, having spent most of his playing career at the club.

Chile's Miiko Albornoz fights for the ball wit Mexico's Raul Jimenez during a Copa America Group A soccer match at El Nacional stadium in Santiago, Chile on Monday. The match ended in a 3-3 draw.

CHILE HELD, BOLIVIA UPSET ECUADOR IN COPA GOAL-FEST

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ANTIAGO: Mexico snatched a pulsating 3-3 draw with Chile while Bolivia downed Ecuador in a five-goal thriller as the Copa America laid on a feast of attacking football.

A dramatic day of action in Group A saw Bolivia secure their first win in the tournament in 18 years with a 3-2 victory over Ecuador in Valparaiso before an epic battle between Chile and Mexico in Santiago.

Chile, 2-0 winners over Ecuador in their opening game, looked to have booked their place in the quarter-finals after two goals from Juventus star Arturo Vidal helped them into a 3-2 lead.

But a 66th-minute equaliser from Vicente Vuoso, his second of the match, earned a share of the points for Mexico,

who are one of two teams from outside South America invited to take part in this year's tournament.

Vuoso had given Mexico the lead after only 21 minutes, tucking away Juan Carlos Medina's cross after a sweeping counter-attack, only for Vidal to level a minute later with a thunderous header.

Mexico grabbed the lead again on 29 minutes when Atletico Madrid striker Raul Jimenez headed home Adrian Aldrete's corner to make it 21. Chile again hit back rapidly however with Eduardo Vargas equalising shortly before the break. Vidal then struck a 55th-minute penalty to put Chile ahead for the first time in the match, only for Vuoso to frustrate the home side with his second.

Chile had what looked like a

legitimate Alexis Sanchez goal ruled out for offside with 10 minutes to go as Mexico survived a late onslaught to claim a share of the points. Chile now top Group A on goal difference as they prepare to meet Bolivia in their final first round match on Friday.

VIDAL: 'WE MUST IMPROVE Man-of-the-match Vidal said 'La Roja' would need to improve to be sure of winning the group.

"There are several things we need to improve if we want to beat Bolivia, but the important thing is we improved on our performance from the first match today," Vidal said.

"It's nice to be scoring goals for the team, but the most important thing is our objective to be champions," he added. Bolivia, who have

a formidable record when playing at home in the thin air of La Paz, secured their first victory on foreign soil in a competitive match in 20 years when they beat Ecuador earlier Monday.

The win was also Bolivia's first in the Copa America since 1997, and means they are now firmly in contention to qualify for the second round.

Bolivia assured themselves of victory in the opening 45 minutes, punishing a series of mistakes by Ecuador to race into a 3-0 lead.

Veteran captain Ronald Raldes opened the scoring, taking advantage of poor marking by Ecuador to stoop low and head home a corner from Swedish-born midfielder Martin Smedberg-Dalence in the fifth minute.

Blatter to skip U-20 final in New Zealand

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ELLINGTON: FIFA boss Sepp Blatter has cancelled plans to visit New Zealand for this weekend's Under-20 World Cup final in Auckland, world football's governing body said today.

"Due to his current commitments in Zurich, the FIFA president (Blatter) will not be able to travel to New Zealand to attend the final of the FIFA U-20 World Cup," a spokeswoman said.

The Swiss supremo would likely have received a cool reception had he made the long

Nobel centre severs ties with scandal-hit FIFA

OSLO: The Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo announced that it will end its partnership with football's world governing body FIFA, which has been engulfed by an unprecedented corruption scandal.

The Nobel centre and FIFA have been partners in the "Handshake for Peace" initiative between team captains and officials since 2012.

"The board of directors asked management to end cooperation with FIFA as soon as

circumstances permit," said centre, an offshoot of the Nobel Committee which awards the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel statement did not explicitly refer to the accusations of corruption at FIFA that have delivered a body blow to the organisation's prestige. FIFA has been increasingly isolated since May, when a US investigation into the corruption allegations brought charges against 14 people.

trip, after New Zealand Football (NZF) defected from the Blatter camp and voted against him in last month's presidential election.

NZF chief Andy Martin said earlier this month that he hoped Blatter stayed away as his presence would turn the tournament final into a "sideshow". Blatter, who has been in charge of FIFA since 1998, has announced he will quit after the organisation was engulfed by a series of widespread corruption allegations.

Norway's Maria Thorisdottir grabs Ivory Coast's Rebecca Elloh during the FIFA Women's World Cup match in Moncton, Canada on Monday.

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