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LANDSLIDE ON MUMBAI-PUNE EXPRESSWAY

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TWO KILLED AND FOUR INJURED WHEN THE VEHICLE THEY WERE TRAVELING IN WAS HIT

BY A LANDSLIDE, YESTERDAY

A damaged car outside the Adhoshi tunnel near Pune on Pune-Mumbai Expressway after a major landslide on Sunday.

By Vrushali Purandare

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wo persons were killed while four others were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a landslide on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway – at Borghat, near Khopoli.

All the six lanes of the Expressway were closed and work began to clear the road.

It is to be seen how much the road has been damaged and how much repair work is required.

Traffic on both sides of the

accident spot extended to several kilometers. Immediately after the landslide, the road was closed to traffic. The exact place where the landslide occurred was Adhoshi village, near Adhoshi tunnel.

At this place too, some vehicle damage can be seen. Two vehicles – an Indigo and the other Skoda – were hit.

The deceased have been identified as Dilip Gopal Patel (52) a resident of Bhayandar, and Shashikant Dhamarkar, a resident of Dombivli. Those seriously injured were identi-

fied as Mangal Mane (35), Sushila Dhamankar (63) and Nirmal Gopal Patel (60).

At the Lokmanya Hospital at Pimpri-Chinchwad, the doctor said: “When patients were brought in here, they were bleeding profusely and bleeding internally also. The condition of the patients is critical.”

The authorities are advising people to use the old highway. A landslide on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway had occurred just a month ago on June 22.

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IN-LAWS POISONED HER TO DEATH The bereaved brother of woman slams her in-laws, Shazia Sayed, the victim.

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Mayor Snehal Ambekar RAPID FIRE

By Priyanka Bhatt

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t gave us a strange level of satisfaction when we entered the premises of Mayor's sea-facing bungalow. Of all of Mumbai’s population, we got to solve a bit of the mystery that had intrigued everybody for ages – what happens in that utterly beautiful mansion? As we walked towards the guarded palatial structure, it reminded us vaguely of London's Mansion House. We were made to wait in the hall downstairs, greeted by a steward with tea, and a lone Midas Cichlid staring us in the face from a considerably large aquarium tank.

We waited for the Mayor to arrive ,as we practiced our way of greeting her in our minds. Her assistant, after a while called us into an office in her residence that resembled the

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Not a single word about a package to farmers!

He only praised the package offered to Greece by the European Union.

one at the BMC headquarters, only this one was much bigger.

Finally, we meet the lady, Snehal Ambekar, the youngest Mayor of Mumbai, wearing a crisp saree, looking rather hassled. We were skeptic about what was to come; she is after all, the first citizen of the city. In the next five minutes, our skepticism disappeared as she was more than glad to answer our questions. She's talkative, innately strong and warm enough to make us feel at home.

She surprised us by telling that she was the Prime Minister—of her school, when she was in tenth class.

“My school had a system to make students understand civics, hence we had those elections. I have always had leadership qualities and a strong instinct to make a difference in society since childhood,” she says. Eldest of four siblings, she was a student of Lakshman Prasad Poddar Girls’ School and graduated in B.Com from Kirti College. “I was a first bencher in college, and yet I celebrated all the days in the college.” She never bunked lectures, and excelled in accounts, she told us with a certain pride in her tone.

Ambekar began working soon after college in a bank, an export company, and later joined LIC as a policy agent. “I do not believe in wasting time, so I began working immediately after college,” Ambekar said.

Jayshree Devrukkar, before marriage, was never inclined towards politics, and never thought she would become Snehal Ambekar, Mayor of Mumbai. He face brightened up as we mentioned her husband. Her affair with politics began after she got married in 1995. “My husband is the secretary of the rail union, and has always been an active member of Sena. He was the up-shakha pramukh (dy ward incharge). It was his endeavour to see me as a corporator. After I became corporator, we got to spend more time working together and accord-

ingly strengthened our bond,” she fondly reminisced. Her only daughter, Saloni is in class twelve and was most elated to see her mother as the Mayor, and has been very understanding and supportive of her mother’s inability to spend time with her because of her manifold duties. Her routine is never fixed, she tells us, that the Mayor has to work day in and day out.

Ambekar’s demeanour was business-like once we asked her about Sena’s opposition to Chief Minister’s proposal in November 2014 to appoint a CEO for Mumbai, and Congress leader Milind Deora’s

suggestion in March 2014 to give additional powers to the Mayor or appoint a CEO with additional powers. “Sena had opposed the appointment of a CEO because there are already many administrative positions,” she opined. “I do agree that there should be a Mayor’s Council with additional powers for quick decision making on problems. Mayor is the mediator between masses and bureaucracy, and hence, additional powers with Mayor’s Council would be beneficial for the people.” Her example is her fight for ‘Right to Pee’ which has not reached a favourable conclusion yet.

In the very first week of being elected, she faced the controversy of whether or not the official vehicle

MAYOR’S FAVOURITE: Book: Swami, by Ranjit Desai Author: Mangesh Padgaonkar Movie: Satte Pe Satta Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff

used by the mayor should have a red beacon. She sailed through the controversy by taking a stand for herself right from the beginning.

“The Mayor has constant emergencies, as well as we go to receive VVIPs as representatives of the masses. If the CM has a red beacon, a Mayor’s status is pretty similar in terms of a city. I believe there is nothing wrong for a Mayor in using a red beacon fitted car,” she said.

There has been enough pandemonium regarding the monsoon disaster that happened on June 19.

According to Ambekar, the nullahcleaning was done satisfactorily by the BMC, but her disappointment was with the Western Railway, who, according to her did not work optimally. “The storm water drains were designed to handle 25mm-50mm of water, and it rained around 350mm that day, so it was obvious that the water could not be drained at the expected pace,” she explained. She elaborated that she had inspected the nullahs and saw that they were cleaned, “but we can never know the technical aspect of it and cannot see what’s there deep inside.”

We gave her last year’s expenditure—Rs.1,057 crore spent on widening of Mithi river.

She did not remain tight-lipped, however, her manner remained

A woman of many hues, the present Mayor of Mumbai, may be the first citizen of the city but Snehal Ambekar is very-much a hands-on person who is not averse to lending a helping hand to ensure that the many problems that afflict our city are solved. A born leader, she responded to all the questions with practiced ease and put forths her view on a variety of topics about the city... cool. She explained, “Majority of the work is done, but we are facing few technical glitches and problems in getting NOCs at few places. But I have insisted the work be finished sooner.”

Spread of leptospirosis has added to the Corporation’s distress, on the existing flak that the BMC has faced for its flaws in cleaning drains and potholes. Ambekar informed that like every health authority, the BMC already has knowledge of how leptospirosis spreads and the measures to avoid it. She clarified that among those who succumbed to this disease, most came to the hospital at the last moment and therefore the doctors were helpless. “We took measures to prevent dengue, but leptospirosis has caught up directly after 2006.”

We mentioned to her that a recent report stated that the state health ministry had warned the BMC about an outbreak of leptospirosis. “I did not receive such information in any of the monsoon health meetings we’ve had” she told us.

Her expression turned pleasant when we asked her about a leader she admires the most apart from Balasaheb Thackeray. She immediately responded, “Mr. Uddhav Thackeray is also someone I look up to because he has no air of superiority like other politicians I have seen. He is down-to-earth and is striving towards Balasaheb’s vision of a better Mumbai,” she revealed.

“I even admire Mr. Narendra Modi for his self-reliant way of working, but at some level I feel his rule is quite Hitler-shaahi. This is bound to happen when power is concentrated in the hands of one man.”

Our cue to leave came as she looked at her wristwatch and her phone rang more frequently. We tagged after her to the lawn and got her to do a short rapid fire session before she hurried into the crowd to save the city and its people from their turmoils.

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Filipinos dance during a Zumba class as they attempt to break a Guinness world record in suburban Mandaluyong, east of Manila, Philippines on Sunday, July 19, 2015. Guinness representative Alan Pixley announced that Mandaluyong city in the Philippines now holds the new world record for the title largest Zumba class with a total participant of 12,975.

New app to make reading Shakespeare more fun A NEW app that allows students to lip-sync favourite lines from Shakespeare and mix beatbox rhythms with the Bard's text can make it easier for them to study and experience the famous playwright's work.

The app, called Re:Shakespeare, is aimed at young people aged 11 to 18 to let them study and experience William Shakespeare's play 'Much Ado About Nothing'.

The app, an initiative by UK's Royal Shakespeare Company, allows students to lip-sync favourite lines, mix beatbox rhythms with Bard's text and take a Hip-Hop Shakespeare quiz, 'express.Co.Uk' reported.

Students can get to grips with the 'what, why and how' of Shakespeare's language, with a 360 degree performance of two sections of 'Much Ado About Nothing'.

Hosted by "Doctor Who" actor David Tennant, the app also features actor Tamsin Greig, voice coach Nia Lynn and director Iqbal Khan, offering tips and advice for understanding and performing Shakespeare.

The app includes links to, and quotes from, 19 other Shakespeare plays.

"The app sets Shakespeare alongside

contemporary artists doing the most extraordinary things with language," said RSC's director of education Jacqui O'Hanlon.

"Language is power for hiphop artists and they use it to provoke, challenge and move people just like Shakespeare did," O'Hanlon said.

More than three million UK students study the works of Shakespeare every year but teachers are concerned that some pupils struggle to see the relevance of works in medieval dialogue from the 16th century.

The app will be offered as a support to schools from September.

Mosquitoes use trio of senses to track humans MOSQUITOES track down their human targets by making use of a multisensory strategy that involves odours, visual cues and body heat to draw them closer to their prey, a new study has found.

While bug repellents and lighting citronella candles may keep the mosquitoes at bay for a while, but no solution is perfect because the pests have evolved to use a triple threat of visual, olfactory, and thermal cues to home in on their human

targets, researchers said.

When an adult female mosquito needs a blood meal to feed her young, she searches for a host - often a human.

Many insects, mosquitoes included, are attracted by the odour of the carbon dioxide (CO2) gas that humans and other animals naturally exhale.

However, mosquitoes can also pick up other cues that signal a human is nearby.

They use their vision to spot a host and thermal sensory information to detect body heat.

To find out how and when the mosquitoes use each type of sensory information, researchers from the California Institute of Technology in US released hungry, mated female mosquitoes into a wind tunnel in which different sensory cues could be independently controlled.

In one set of experiments, a high-concentration CO2 plume was injected into the tunnel, mimicking the signal created by the breath of a human.

In control experiments, the researchers introduced a plume consisting of background air with a low concentration of CO2.

For each experiment,

researchers released 20 mosquitoes into the wind tunnel and used video cameras and 3-D tracking software to follow their paths.

Information gathered from these experiments enabled the researchers to create a model of how the mosquito finds its host over different distances.

They hypothesise that from 10 to 50 meters away, a mosquito smells a host's CO2 plume.

As it flies closer - to within 5 to 15 meters - it begins to

see the host.

Then, guided by visual cues that draw it even closer, the mosquito can sense the host's body heat. This occurs at a distance of less than a meter.

"Understanding how brains combine information from different senses to make appropriate decisions is one of the central challenges in neuroscience," said Michael Dickinson, the principal investigator of the study.

"Our experiments suggest that female mosquitoes do

this in a rather elegant way when searching for food.

They only pay attention to visual features after they detect an odour that indicates the presence of a host nearby. This helps ensure that they don't waste their time investigating false targets like rocks and vegetation," said Dickinson.

The work provides researchers with exciting new information about insect behaviour and may even help companies design better mosquito traps in the future.

Chimps can spot faces just like humans

CHIMPANZEES can quickly identify the faces of other chimps, as well as those of human adults and babies, scientists have found.

Humans are wired to pay special attention to faces and can detect pictures of faces effortlessly when they are mixed with pictures of other items.

Scientists have found that chimps, humanity's closest living relatives, also see faces differently than they do other items.

In the research, scientists first trained three adult chimpanzees named Chloe, Pendesa and Ai to find pictures of a chimp face, a banana, a car and a house among groups of other images on a touch screen.

The researchers found that the apes recognised the chimp face very

efficiently.

"Chimpanzees very quickly find a face in the pile of various objects," said study lead author Masaki Tomonaga, a primatologist and comparative cognitive scientist at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute in Japan.

However, the chimps' ability to detect a chimp face was significantly hampered when the face was upside down. This suggests that chimps may analyse faces holistically, like humans do, 'Live Science' reported.

In subsequent experiments, the scientists also found that the chimpanzees efficiently detected the faces of human adults and babies, but were unable to identify monkey faces.

The researchers suggest this gap may result from long-lasting social experiences between chimps and humans. Faces seen from the front were more easily detected than faces seen from the side, suggesting that eye-to-eye contact is important for chimps, just as it is in humans.

"Both humans and chimpanzees have developed a specialised ability for face processing," Tomonaga said.

"This implies that the face plays a very important social role in both species.

These results are quite suggestive when considering the evolution of social intelligence. Both species may use facial information for their social lives in the same manner," Tomonaga said.

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CHANGE OF BIRTHDATE

I Divya Naresh Chouhan have changed my birth dated from 18-06-1972 to 18-06-1977 as per Affidavit Dated 16/07/2015.

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CHANGE OF NAME

We Mr. Rupavate Bansiram Namdeo and Mrs. Rupavate Sindhu Bansiram havechanged my son name from Bansiram Rupavate Sarvesh to Rupavate Sarvesh Bansiram as per Affidavit Dated 18/07/2015.

C-19802 I have changed my name from Nisharani Mallesh Nalla to Neesha Mallesham Nalla as per Affidavit Dated 16/07/2015.

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I have changed my name from Peer Mohammed Shaikh to Pir Mohamed Pathan as per Affidavit Dtd 17th July'2015.

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I have changed my name from Ashwinbhai Khimjibhai Chheda to Ashwin Khimjibhai Chheda as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from C.L. Gupta to Chhedilal Ramniwas Gupta vide Govt of Maha. Affidavit (MZ 849019).

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I have changed my name from Jaysukh L. Patel to Jaysukhbhai Limbabhai Kothiya as per Affidavit Dated 07th July 2015.

I have changed my name Bhavnaben Ashwinbhai Chheda to Bhavita Ashwin Chheda as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Gul Bhatia to Gulshan Bhatia as per the deedpoll Affidavit.

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C-19814 I have changed my name from “Dharmesh Jaysukhbhai Patel” to “Dharmesh Jaysukhbhai Kothiya” as per Affidavit Dated 18th July 2015.

C-19815 I have changed my name old name Rameshlal Nanikram Balrajani to new Ramesh Nanikram Balrajani as per Affidavit.

C-19816 I have changed my name old name Mulo Gopichand Kalyani to new Shewaram Gopichand Kalyani as per Affidavit.

C-19817 I have changed my old surname from Kumar Srichand Duseja to new Kumar Srichand Dusseja as per Affidavit.

C-19818 I have changed my old surname Vicky Srichand Duseja to new Vicky Srichand Dusseja as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Shabana Redha Khan to Shabana Alinawaz Poonawala as per Affidavit Dated 16/07/2015.

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I have changed my old surname Kumar Bacharam Hassija to new Kumar Bacharam Hasseja as per Affidavit.

I have changed my name from Malankovar Jodha to Madankawar Jodha as per Affidavit Dated 16/07/2015.

I have changed my old surname Vinod Nanikram Rohira to new Vinod Nanikram Rohra as per Affidavit.

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C-19805 I have changed my name from Mallesh Nalla to Mallesham Nalla as per Affidavit Dated 16/07/2015.

C-19806 I have changed my name from Sarvesh Shantilal, to ‘Sarvesh Shantilal Jain’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 17/07/2015.

C-19808 We, Shantilal Lalchand Shah & Mrs. Rajeshwari Shantilal Jain have changed our Daughter’s name from Nidhi Shantilal, to ‘Nidhi Shantilal Jain’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 17/07/2015.

C-19809 “I, Ibrahim Yousuf Bhai Kachwala (father), have changed my minor daughter’s name from Sarah Ibrahim Kachwala to Sarrah Ibrahim Kanchwala as per the Affidavit” C-19810 I have changed my name from Mohammed Shoeb Peer Mohammed Shaikh to Shoaib Pir Mohamed Pathan as per Affidavit Dtd 17th July'2015.

C-19811 I have changed my name from Hasinabanu Peer Mohammed Shaikh to Hasina Pir Mohamed Pathan as per Affidavit Dtd 17th July'2015.

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I have changed my old surname Sanjay Ramesh Balraj to new Sanjay Ramesh Balrajani as per Affidavit.

C-19822 I have changed my name from Mr. Chaudhary Safat Ahmed to Mr. Safat Abdul Mannan Chaudhary as per Affidavit Dated 18 Jul 2015.

C-19823 I Anand Jayanti Pathak have changed my daughter's name from Mansi Pathak to Srishti Pathak as per Affidavit Dated 15.07.2015.

C-19824 I have changed my name from Dhanji Lalbahadur Gupta to Dhananjay Lalbahadur Gupta as per Affidavit.

C-19825 I have changed my name from Danish Rahematullah Shaikh to Danish Rahematullah Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-19826 I Mercy Snehalata Yohan Reddy have changed my name to Mercy Yohan Reddy vide Affidavit dated 25.6.2015.

C-19827 I Francis Andrew Sebastian Rodrigues have changed my name to Francis Sebastian Rodrigues vide Affidavit dated 6.7.2015.

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I have changed my name from Prithika Ravindra Shetty to Pritika Ravindra Shetty as per Affidavit dt 17 July 2015.

C-19831 I have changed my name from Ravinder Korga Shettey to Ravindra Korga Shetty as per Affidavit dt 17 July 2015.

C-19832 I have changed my name from Vickram Kumar Kishoremal to Vickram Kishoremal Kothari as per Affidavit dt 16 July 2015.

C-19833 I have changed my name from Kishoremal to Kishoremal Jethmal Kothari as per Affidavit dt 16 July 2015.

C-19834 I have changed my name from Maheshbhai Vallabhbhai Rajput to Mahesh Rajput as per Affidavit dt 17 July 2015.

C-19835 I have changed my name from Sangitaben Mahesh Rajput to Sangita Rajput as per Affidavit dt 18 July 2015.

C-19836 I have changed my name from “Shaheen Dostmohd Khan” to “Shahin Saleem Shaikh” as per Affidavit Dated 11th July’ 2015.

I have changed my name from Shobhana Tryambak Tupkari to Suvarna Suresh Mahajan as per the Maha. Gazette No (D-1064) C-198476 I have changed my name from Vivekananda Shanbhag to Vivek Shanbhag as per the deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19847 I have changed my name from Sunil Kumar Rajkumar Maurya to Sunil Rajkumar Maurya as per Affidavit.

C-19848 I have changed my name from Jogendrasingh Dhirajsingh Thakur to Jogendra Dhiraj Thakur as per Affidavit.

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We Mr. Simanchal Pradhan and Mrs. Pravina S. Pradhan have changed our minor son's name from Prafulla Kumar Simanchal Pradhan to Praful Simanchal Pradhan vide Gazette (M-1515257).

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I Sweeti Nalinkant Shingala have changed my name to Sheetal Satish Gambhir as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

I Mr. Jasmatbhai Parakhiya have changed my name to Mr. Jasmat Parkhiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Rekhaben Vishrambhai Gohil have changed my name to Rekha Lalit Mahida as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

I Mr. Jasamatbhai Parkhiya have changed my name to Mr. Jasmat Parkhiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

I have changed my name from Mohd Waqar Faruqie to Mohd Waqar Farooqui as per Affidavit C-19851

I Kamala Ratanshi Choudhari / Chaudhari have changed my name to Surbhi Rajendra Chopda as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Mohd Sawaleye Faruque to Mohd Sowaley Farooqui as per Affidavit C-19852

I Bhartiben Morarbhai Tandel have changed my name to Bharti Morar as per Affidavit C-19855

I have changed my name from Prakash Banomal Rajani to Manohar Harchandmal Raghani vide Govt of Maharashtra Affidavit (ML 189865).

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I Mrs. Jyotsanaben Jasmatbhai Parakhiya have changed my name to Mrs. Jyotsna Jasmat Parkhiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19880

I Miss. Shruti Jasmatbhai Parakhiya have changed my name to Miss. Shruti Jasmat Parkhiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I, Sumathi, w/o Karunanidhi, residing at 403, B Wing, Raheja Solitaire, Off S V Road, Goregaon (w), Mumbai 400062 have changed my name to Sumathi Mamundi vide Affidavit for all purposes.

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I Damyantiben Dhirajlal Chandegambhir have changed my name to Damyantiben Dhirajlal Gambhir as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Niranjanaben Morarbhai Tandel have changed my name to Niranjana Morar as per Affidavit C-19854

I have changed my name from Jeevita Raghu Pujari to Jivita Raghu Poojari vide Govt of Maha. Affidavit (MZ-889146).

I Mrs. Jyotsnaben Jasamatbhai Parkhiya have changed my name to Mrs. Jyotsna Jasmat Parkhiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from “Shilpa Sanjay Shah” to “Shilpa Sanjay Varaiya” as per Affidavit Dated 17th July’ 2015.

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C-19840

I Sheetal Satish Chandegambhir have changed my name to Sheetal Satish Gambhir as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Sanoobar Rafique Hajwane have changed my name to Sanober Aijaz Ahmed Shaikh as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I, Karunanidhi, residing at 403, B Wing, Raheja Solitaire, Off S V Road, Goregaon (w), Mumbai 400062 have changed my name to Karunanidhi Muthuswamy vide Affidavit for all purposes.

I Jyotsna Bharatkumar Patel @ Jyotsnabahen Atmaram Patel have changed my name to Jyotsna Bharat Patel as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Hiragavri Bhikalal Siddhpura to Hiraben Bhikalal Siddhpura as per Affidavit.

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I Nityanand Morar Tandel have changed my name to Nittanand Morar as per Affidavit C-19853

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I Satish Dhirajlal Chandegambhir have changed my name to Satish Dhirajlal Gambhir as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Morarbhai Mangalbhai Tandel have changed my name to Morar Mangalbhai as per Affidavit C-19856 I Morar Mangalbhai Tandel have changed my name to Morar Mangalbhai as per Affidavit C-19857 I Jyotsnaben Kanjibhai Tandel have changed my name to Jyotsna Cangi as per Affidavit C-19858 I Kanjibhai Tandel have changed my name to Cangi Dulobo as per Affidavit C-19859 I Parsottam Padhiyar have changed my name to Parshottambhai Padhiyar as per Affidavit C-19860 We Mr Satish Dhirajlal Gambhir & Mrs Sheetal Satish Gambhir have changed our minor son’s name from Harsh Satish Chandegambhir to Harsh Satish Gambhir as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Nirmla Manglomal Gajra have changed my name to Nirmala Manglomal Gajra as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19869 I Budha Ratilal Borse have changed my name to Bapu Ratilal Borse as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19870 I Rajendra Prasad Rajpath Yadav have changed my name to Rajendra Rajpath Yadav as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19871 I Hemlata Sanktan Chirayarambath have changed my name to Hemlata Sanktan Chiravarambath as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19872 I Subhashchandra Sanjeeva Shetty have changed my name to Subhash Shetty as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19873 I Vishal Kumar Mutha have changed my name to Vishal Mutha as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19874 I Nitinkumar Chunilal Patel have changed my name to Nitin Chunilal Patel as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19875 I Alpaben Nitinkumar Patel @ Alpaben Babulal Patel have changed my name to Alpa Nitin Patel as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19876 I Bharatkumar Chunilal Patel have changed my name to Bharat Chunilal Patel as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Miss. Nimisha Jasmat Parkhiya have changed my name to Miss. Shruti Jasmat Parkhiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19884 I Tejerao Narayanrao More have changed my name to Tejrao Narayanrao More as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19885 I Mr. Ankitkumar Manohar Panchasra have changed my name to Mr. Ankit Manahar Panchasara as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19886 I Soumen Vinay Chakravrty have changed my name to Soumen Vinay Chakraborty as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19887 I Mr. Hazaratalli Abdul Mannan Khan have changed my name to Mr. Hazrat Ali Abdul Mannan Khan as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19888 I Hiteshkumar Bhojabhai Palet/ Patel have changed my name to Hitesh Bhojabhai Ravaria as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19889 I Bhojabhai Ananda Palet / Patel have changed my name to Bhojabhai Ananda Ravaria as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19890 I Anita Bhojabhai Palet / Patel @ Anita Bhojabhai Ravaria have changed my name to Anandiben Bhojabhai Ravariya as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-19891 I Manisha Bhoja Patel have changed my name to Manisha Bhojabhai Ravriya as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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lmost a week after this newspaper reported on how a Right to Information (RTI) exposed the CM, Devendra Fadnavis-led Maharashtra government's decision to confer 'Freedom Fighter' status to 88 people of which 52 are from Beed district being conferred it in a single day. The chief minister has now stayed all new sanctions of freedom fighters' pension and has ordered an inquiry on all new cases by the Divisional Commissioner of Aurangabad.

It has further come to light through an RTI that the list includes three people who are already dead and after this shocking revelation, which has come forth in a reply to a query by RTI activist Anil Galgali, Fadnavis has stayed all new sanctions for freedom fighters' pension.The ADC, in its report on Saturday, July 11, 2015 had reported that Galgali had sought information from the government about the recent addition to the freedom fighters' pension wages list, in which the government had informed that since January 1, 2015 to June 5,

2015, a fresh list of 88 persons were approved by the chief minister on the basis of just attachment warrants to be included in the category of freedom fighters, in which 52 persons from Beed district received approval in a single day, the fresh list of 88 persons contains a total of 79 persons from Beed, one from Nanded and four each from Osmanabad and Ahmednagar. During the Congress-NCP rule, it had come to light that that 298 applications out of 355 were found bogus.In the fresh list of 79 freedom fighters approved by the CM from Beed, three persons viz. Shambhaji Ambuji Khande, Janabai Laxman Yewle and Jalsubai Tukaram Bhosale are dead long ago. The Beed district collector's office in a letter dt.

May 29, 2015 informed the state government that Shambhaji Ambuji Khande has expired on October 25, 2011 and his wife Mathurabai Shambhaji Khande has expired on September 8, 2014 and now his son Shahaji is demanding

State confers ‘Freedom Fighter’ status to 52 people from Beed in a single day: RTI

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he state government, it seems has thrown caution to the winds, with even the Chief Minister ignoring better sense. This can be simply understood by the Fadnavis government's decision to confer 'Freedom Fighter' status to 88 people of which 52 are from Beed district being conferred it in a single day. RTI activist Anil Galgali, who had sought information from the government on the status of the 'Freedom Fighters Pension' issues gives the other information.

According to Galgali, “This decision is based on treating various Attachment Warrants issued to those p

recommendation of Supreme Court. The Palkar Commission had rejected the claims of Beed district's 298 claimants for the Freedom Fighter status on the basis of similar Attachment Warrants. I was provided this information in reply to my query through RTI. The decision of the Chief Minister will put an additional load of Rs.6.5 crore on the s

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the dues accrued. Similarly, Janabai Laxman Yewle expired on August 22, 2012 and now her son Arun Yewle is seeking the dues accrued.

Also Jalsubai Tukaram Bhosale expired on December 30, 2009 and now her daughter-in-law is seeking the dues accrued. The Beed collector has sought funds to the tune of Rs 8 crore 51 lakh 97 thousand 550, to clear the payments of dues accrued to the 79 newly declared freedom fighters.

Galgali said, “With all these new developments, Fadanvis has now ordered an inquiry in all new cases. Now Divisional Commissioner, Aurangabad checks legality of all new cases in which three are already dead. This step has been taken by the CM after exposure by me last week. I have demanded that the enquiry be handed over to the Anti-Corruption Bureau to expose the racket of creation of new freedom fighters. The fresh list of 88 persons should be immediately scrapped and a criminal case be filed against the racketeers who are trying to get new people approved and get funds allotted fraudulently to the non-beneficiaries.”

Hare Krishna Temple in Juhu, the BEST should start providing new routes after increase in fares.”

However, the BEST employees are positive with the feedback and say that they are taking the grievances seVishwanath Salian | ADC muters? Also I have photos in provide better upkeep.” riously and are working hard which the safety belt is tied to Dinesh Ashar (68), a resi- to provide better facilities to the door? We are paying dent of Ville Parle, said, “My its commuters and employmoney and not travelling for concerns with the BEST is ees as well. free!” that for long distance travel “This is the second meetRajesh Pandey, Assistant the frequency of buses are ing and we are getting enTraffic Officer, BEST, in reply very less. I travel to Malad couraging response, we are to Merchant asked him to from Vile Parle and often try working forward with it. Intake the RTO or the bus num- to take the bus route 202, but teraction directly with the ber, “Whenever a bus leaves the frequency is so bad that I commuters are helping us to the depot everything is have to take two other buses directly work on the affected checked by the driver and to reach my destination. Also area. The meetings are organalso the officials present at it gets very tedious for a sen- ised in all the 26 bus depots,” the depot. However, we will ior citizen as there are no di- S.T. Kale, Deputy Chief Engilook into the complaint and rect buses to the Iskcon's neer, BEST informed.

Student’s advice Rohit Shetty, student of Chetana Institute of Management brought the proposal for BEST where the commuter meeting could be held in colleges as well in order to get maximum feedback.

“Youngsters are the one who commute maximum by BEST and they will be able to give proper feedback. However, in order to get their proper grievances, the BEST has to come to colleges. That's why I have approached the BEST,” he said.

The BEST officials seemed pleased and have assured that they will approach the higher authorities and start the meetings in colleges.

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BEST officials listen to a commuter at a BEST bus depot, on Sunday.

Undertaking officials interact with commuters, hear their grievances in all the 25 bus depots in city

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n what could be called as an approach to bring back the lost glory — the passengers — of the BrihanMumbai Electric Supply & Transport (BEST) Undertaking, BEST has started a commuters meet in all the 25 bus depots across the city. The second commuter meeting which took place yesterday between 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Santacruz Bus Depot saw commuters sharing their many

grievances.

Suhail Merchant (35), a BEST commuter said during the meeting, “I travel daily from Andheri to Prabhadevi where I work and because of the fare hike I have gone back from the AC bus to the normal BEST. However, I have brought photos with me of the BEST where there is no wipers and during rains, the BEST driver uses his umbrella to clean the windshield. Is this the kind of safety the BEST provides to the com-

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With the recent Bombay High Court order on the ban of dholtashas in the city, three bands from Girgaum – Dhajpathak, Gajar and Jagadamba – which practice every Saturday and Sunday are upset as their bands have to curtail their activities.

However, they held a practice session on Sunday, where they jointly played at the Wilson Gymkhana.

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25-year-old man from Diva, in Dombivli, was arrested by the district rural police, for allegedly strangulating his wife to death, a police official said on Sunday.

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night, that his wife was abducted by unknown men who took her away into a jungle, while they were returning from pilgrimage.

His complaint stated that a motorcycle hit their vehicle as it was crossing Murbad, after which its occupants picked up a quarrel, beat up the couple and took his wife away into the jungle in pitched

darkness.

Responding to his complaint, a police team lead by DYSP H Vhatkar rushed to the spot and carried out a hunt for the missing lady in the jungle after which they found her body, the police official said.

The police registered a case of murder, even as a postmortem report revealed that the lady had been

strangulated and later hit with stones on her face as well as body, the police official said.

Further investigation established that the complainant had killed his wife after frequent quarrels, the police official said.

The police registered an offence of murder against the husband and arrested him, the police official said.

Saibaba shrine to State plans survey of casual workers in Mumbai remain open 24 hrs on he Maharashtra government who wait at market places for em- tor.

T plans to conduct a survey of ca- ployment. Those seeking manpower "If a count of these workers is 'Sinhastha Parvani' sual workers in Mumbai and un- for various jobs come and hire them kept, they can be provided medical he Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust dertake procedure for their according to their needs, he said. facilities at the ESI hospitals. SimiT (SSST) has decided that the registration.

They are low-end workers from larly, facilities like a shade conSaibaba shrine in Shirdi will remain "The state government is plan- different sectors like construction structed at the nakas, drinking water open for 24 hours during the 'Sihastha Parvani' period, as scores of devotees are expected to visit.

SSST's executive officer Rajendra Jadhav on Sunday said the shrine will be kept open for 24 hours (day and night) on August 29, September 13, 18 and 25.

If the crowds are more in these days, then online passes and the passes issued by Public Relations Office here would not be issued, Jadhav said.

The SSST will also keep the 'Prasadalaya' open throughout the night for the convenience of devotees in this period.

Moreover, special arrangements for the old age and persons with poor health with regard to transportation will be made by the trust, he added.

An estimated 25 lakh devotees from different parts of the country are expected to visit Shridi after taking part in the Kumbh Mela at Nashik and Trimbakeshwar.

Shirdi is approximately 90 kms away from Nashik.

ning to conduct a survey of casual workers, also known as 'Naka Kamgar' as in Mumbai, being the financial capital of the country, their number should go in lakhs. And the survey will help knowing their exact count," a Labour department official said.

'Naka Kamgars' are daily wagers

work, repairing, besides carpentry, plumbing, among others.

BJP legislator Atul Bhatkalkar, who initiated a discussion with Labour Minister Prakash Mehta on the issue, told PTI that the casual workers come from the lowest strata of the society and should get benefits availed to the unorganised sec-

can be rendered to them," Bhatkalkar said.

He said the government has agreed to formulate a policy for the welfare of these workers. "Even though their presence in Mumbai is sizable, the registration and survey of these workers can be done all through the state," he added.

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Maharashtra-based farmer's advocacy group has dubbed the National Crime Records Bureau's (NCRB) recent report on farmer's suicide as "hoax" and claimed that it does not reflect the situation on the ground.

"The report of NCRB is nothing but a hoax because it has fabricated to show fewer deaths as the distress level on the ground is much higher on ground," Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) president Kishor Tiwari has alleged.

"Have major states like Rajasthan,

Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Bihar not recorded any farmers' suicides in 2014," he questioned.

According to the 'Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India 2014' report released by the NCRB on Friday, the highest incidents of 2,568 farmers' suicides were in Maharashtra (45.5 per cent), followed by 898 suicides in Telangana (15.9 per cent) and 826 in Madhya Pradesh (14.6 per cent).

Tiwari said that NCRB has listed all landless tribal farmers and leasehold tenancy farmers as agricultural

workers and rural suicides cases have been classified in others category, which has put question mark on the report's credibility.

"NCRB has deliberately divided the suicides under different heads.

The report says 4,004 agriculture-related suicides were recorded in Maharashtra during 2014 and then subtracts agricultural workers from the number and gives 2,568 as the total figure. For the first time, the government has admitted that the landless farmers are also dying," he said.

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Punjab Association Chairman Timmy Mehta son Daljeet singh Mehta engagement ceremony held at Hotel Sahara Santacruz. At that time present ex. cricketer Balvindar Singh Sandhoo, Film actor Mukesh Rishi, Khalsa college chairman GS. Baba, Charan Singh Sapra, Kamap Prit Mehta and many personalities are given blessings to the new pair.

Kids protest to save Byculla zoo

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Children dressed as animals protest against the government to save the Veer Jijamata Udyan (Byculla zoo) on Sunday. The demonstration was organised

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n Sunday morning, MNS workers protest ed against BMC for not having paid attention to maintaining the Byculla zoo.

Their view is that Jijamata Udyan was once known for its lush greenery and the animals on display there. But over a period of time, there

Kashimira Horror: Cops hunt for man who raped toddler

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leuths of the Thane (rural) police are on the lookout for a 40-year-old man who raped a 9-year-old girl living near his tenement at an under-construction site in Kashimira.

According to the police the accused, identified as Hassan Shaikh (40), raped the class II student when she was alone at home on July 11. The accused and the girl’s father were known to each other and both worked as masons at the construction site. Her mother works as a domestic help.

Horrified by the sexual attack on their daughter, the frightened parents did not reveal the matter to the police.

A week later, when the girl’s mother revealed about the ordeal to her employers, they approached a local social organisation who intervened in the matter and helped them register a FIR at the Kashimira police station on Saturday.

However by then the accused had absconded. “We have registered a case under section 376 of the IPC and under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act (POCSO). A special team has been deputed to nab the accused who is believed to be a native of West Bengal,” confirmed Senior Police Inspector Anil Kadam. Further investigations are on.

are very few animals seen there, reducing the number of visitors in the zoo. The unique thing about the protest was that children, mostly toddlers, were dressed in animal costumes and stood in between the gap of cages and the railings between them as a symbolic opposition to the empty cages.

The children belonged to the MNS workers who took part in the protest. MNS leader Sanjay Naik headed the protest and said that the

BMC was lax in terms of maintaining the zoo. “Out of the animals who were there before, some got sick and died, and the remaining were shifted some place else. The visitors will find nothing there and will be disappointed.

“There was a plan of penguins being brought here for which around 150 crores have been sanctioned. But the moment we ask them, the BMC authorities say that there are many obstacles they

are facing,” he said. He also added that since 2007 the BMC has been promising to improve the condition of Byculla zoo but have done nothing.

The children, on the other hand, enjoyed themselves and were enthusiastic in attempting to bring animals back to the zoo. However, social activists had a different opinion. Social Activist Amit Maru thinks that this could be a violation of laws. “Nobody can use children like

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this for political agendas. If the children volunteer for something of this sort, it is different.

But if they planned this protest this way, I would oppose it. The children are unaware, so how can a political party use them in this manner to put them on display?

There is also a possibility that the parents might have been paid and therefore, action could be taken under Child Labour Act.” Maru said.

08 CITY Mira Road journo killing: Love Bird bar owner, 3 others held Arrested prime accused, who was a waiter earlier, had murdered bar patron in 2009

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he prime accused, Mahesh Shetty, who has been arrested for the brutal murder of a local scribe in Mira Road, is said to be a hardcore criminal who has spent more than two years in jail on alleged charges of killing a customer when he worked as a bar steward in 2009.

Two scribes – Shashi Sharma and Santosh Mishra who had gone to cover a police raid on White House – an orchestra bar in Sai Baba Nagar, were brutally attacked by bar operator Ganesh Kamath and his cronies on Thursday night.

A couple of hours later the editor of a local newspaper Raghvendra Dubey (38) was found murdered, a few metres away from the spot. Although the police arrested Kamath and his 12 aides for mounting a murderous assault on the scribes, they initially suspected their involvement in Dubey’s murder too.

However in a startling revelation, a quartet including -Mahesh Shetty, who operates the notorious Love Bird bar near Silver Park was nabbed

conduct raids, some bar owners in an alleged attempt to spread a fear psychosis perpetrated the attack on the scribes.

In his statement the injured, Santosh Mishra has reiterated that the raiding police team had facilitated the attack. More bar owners are on the cops' radar and are likely to be arrested soon.

It should be noted that following a drunken brawl, Imran Khan (24) who was brutally attacked at Mira Road’s Gandharva Orchestra Bar in November 2009 had The accused being taken to succumbed to his injuries. court on Saturday.

Along with two others, the police had arrested Mahesh, on Saturday for planning and who at that time was an emexecuting Dubey’s murder. ployee of the bar. Shetty, Shetty along with co-accused who spent more than two Bhavesh Momani and two years in jail went on to beothers have been booked come the co-operator of under sections 302 and 120 Love Bird bar. (b) of the IPC, police said.

As per preliminary investigations, it was Mahesh and his aides who allegedly accosted Dubey outside the police station in an auto-rickshaw and Expressing shock and anmounted a brutal assault on guish over the brutal murder him near S.K. Stone signal. of local newsweekly editor Apart from serious wounds on Raghvendra Dubey, by the his head, Dubey’s private notorious bar mafia, Conparts were found slit. While gress leader Sanjay Nirupam the exact motive is yet to be and his RPI counterpart disclosed, the murder is said Ramdas Athawale extended to be the fallout of complaints financial assistance of Rs.1 filed by the deceased against lakh and Rs.2 lakh respecthe blatant violations at local tively. The leaders met ladies-cum-orchestra bars Dubey's grief-struck family. A meet was that have mushroomed in the condolence region. Irate over complaints arranged in Mira Road by the which compel the police to media fraternity yesterday.

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Auto driver held for molesting a woman scribe 40-year-old rickshaw driver was on Sunday arrested for allegedly molesting a city-based woman journalist, police said.

The accused, identified as Rameshkumar Trilodhar, was arrested by a team of Vinoba Bhave Nagar police station from Kurla area for the incident that had taken place on Tuesday, they said. The 22year-old woman journalist had

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Dilip Patel was on his way to Pune to secure daughter’s admission

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pall of gloom descended on Shree Vardhaman Nagar Complex in the Indralok area of Bhayandar (East) after the news of Dilip Patel’s tragic death trickled in.

Patel, 52, was amongst those who were killed in a major landslide near Adoshi tunnel on the MumbaiPune Expressway after boulders fell on the cars entering the tunnel at around 12:15 pm on Sunday. He was accompanied by his wife Dharmika, mother-inlaw Nirmala Patel, daughter Binal and 4-year-old son Mann.

While Dilip Patel who was driving the Skoda car, died, all other family members sustained multiple injuries and are recuperating in hospital.

Dilip Patel with his wife in this file photo.

The Patels had left their residence in Bhayandar around 9:30 am and were headed to a Pune-based educational institution to secure admission for Binal, who had recently cleared her HSC examinations.

lodged a complaint on Saturday against an unidentified auto-rickshaw driver for refusing fare and misbehaving with her and her friend, they said.

Last Tuesday, the complainant and her friend, after shopping at a mall in Kurla, had approached the driver and asked him to drop them at the Kurla railway station.

However, the accused refused to ferry them stating that he

was going home.

The complainant alleged that while speaking to her, the accused touched her intentionally and also passed lewd comments against her, police added.

After the scribe raised an alarm, the accused fled from the spot, though the former managed to jot down his vehicle's registration number partly.

“Dilip Patel ran a medical pharmacy business and was known for his soft-spoken nature and helping attitude in the residential society. We all are in a state of shock,” said Patel's neighbour, Jitendra Vaishnav.

In-laws poisoned her to death

The bereaved brother of woman slams her in-laws, alleging that his sister was being tortured over petty issues

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Kalyan-bound local train derailed yesterday between Dombivli and Thakurli at 11.30 a.m. during the megablock on Sunday. However, no injuries were reported and all slow trains were diverted to the fast lane.

The coach was re-railed at 1.55 p.m.

A.K. Singh, Senior Public Relation Officer, Central Railway said, “The wheels of the third compartment Commuters trudge on the track, after a local derailed near Dombivli. from the motorman's cabin got derailed between 11.34 am. There were no in- every passenger was Dombivli and Thakurli at juries to any passenger as evacuated.”

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29-year-old Mumbai girl, Shazia Sayed, died on July 16 in a Gujarat hospital, where she was brought by her in-laws after she reportedly was poisoned by them, said her bereaved brother Sayed Yusuf Hussain who immediately visited her after being informed by his relative.

Her death certificate underlines that consumption of unknown deadly substance caused her death (copy with ADC). Holding her in-laws responsible for Shazia's death, Hussain said they used to torture his sister everyday for no reason. It was the reason Shazia's brother and mother asked her to come back to Mumbai to stay with them in their Mumbra house.

“She had been constantly informing us about the torture activities by her in-laws including her husband in Gujarat. I finally asked her to come back to Mumbai to stay with us. And so she was here with us for a few days.

But, on July 14, her husband

Shazia Sayed, the victim.

Shoaib Molapiya promised to take good care of her and convinced her to take her along to Gujarat with him,” said Hussain.

“Two days later i.e on July 16, I got a call from a cousin who informed me that she has been admitted to a hospital. When I reached there I found none of the members of her in-laws nor her husband at the hospital, whose authorities informed me that 'Shaziya is dead',” said Hussain, who further told ADC that there were several marks on her body. “It clearly indicates that she was tortured before being poisoned,” he added.

“After the incident I tried to contact her in-laws but they were not available. Even their house was locked,” said Hussain.

“My sister was being beaten for petty reasons. She was made to stand in hot

sun for no reason. The death certificate clearly states that there were unknown substances in my sister’s body. I am sure she was poisoned by her in-laws. She was being repeatedly tortured for dowry, as on several occasions I was too taunted by her in-laws for not giving them the expected dowry.

Moreover she was often harassed for not delivering a baby,” he added.

An FIR has been registered against Shoaib Molapiya and his family members including Shabbir Molapiya, Samina Molapiya, Heena Molapiya, Saniya Molapiya and Hasina Molapiya in the Chappi police station of Vadgam Taluka in Banas Kantha district of Gujarat. But no arrest has been made so far.

“FIR was registered on the July 18 against Shazia's husband, father-in-law, motherin-law and two sisters-in-law under sections 498 (A), 305, and 114 of IPC. The police is investigating the matter,” said the Chhapi Police of Gujarat.

Learning about Shazia's death her younger brother was admitted to Habib hospital in South Mumbai, as he could not bear the sad news. The younger sister was not allowed to see the final rites as family thought she could go into deep depression. The final rites of Shazia was conducted in the Rehmatabad cemetery of Mazgaon. Now, her family demands speedy inquiry and justice for the deceased.

I will never quit TV for films: Afternoon Despatch & Courier

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elevision actress Kavita Kaushik, best known for her role of a tough female cop Chandramukhi Chautala in comedy sitcom "FIR", says she does not want to to compromise her TV career to get into films.

The 34-year-old actress, who will be seen competing with other stars on dancebased reality show "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Reloaded", says she does not carry "false dreams" to be a big Bollywood actress and is very happy and content with her success on television.

"TV is my territory and I am never going to leave it for films. I don't keep false dreams. I know no one will cast me opposite Salman or Shah Rukh and I am not going to play side roles like sister or bhabhi. Television is where I have made it big, can work on my terms and play meaty roles," Kavita said.

The actress, who calls herself "very filmy", said she is going to miss the presence of former "Jhalak" judge Madhuri Dixit on the show.

The Bollywood diva was part of the judging panel for the past three years but has opted out this season.

"All the four judges this season are great and master of their art. But I am a very filmy person and with no Madhuri, I am surely going to miss that Bollywood

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“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”

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Running the latter is an altogether different ball game Avoidable tragedies W A

celebration, an important religious function, an auspicious day arriving after centuries, attract a large number of people. One of the biggest happening is the Jagannath Rath Yatra at Puri. This festival which goes on for a week is said to have attracted as many as 50 lakh people this year from all over the country.

The authorities cannot be unaware that if there is no total bandobast, tragedy can happen. The crowds have to be regulated and for this purpose hundreds of policemen should be employed. If a mishap occurs, it just shows that proper safety arrangements have not been made.

It has happened again at Jagannath yatra. A stampede has occurred but mercifully the toll has not been high.

A few days ago, a terrible calamity occurred on the banks of river Godavari. A stampede occurred and as many as 29 people died and many were injured. This was clearly an avoidable tragedy. As per a report prepared by the collector, AP CM Chandrababu Naidu wanted to have the first dip. Others, some of whom had come two days before had to wait as a video of the CMs and other VIPs’ ritualistic bath had to be completed. And the police were concerned more with the safety of the CM than the poor devotees waiting for the holy dip. Then it happened: a terrible stampede. Women, children and old folks must have had a terrible time trying to save themselves.

It is time we set in place a fixed plan for crowd control at Kumbh Melas and Jagannath yatras.

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ITH each passing day the Modi government is robbed of some its sheen.

Last year, it had all the goodwill in the world but soon disappointment began to set in. Even its most ardent supporters are now on the defensive. No doubt, a part of the reason is the very nature of governance. Once in power, democratic leaders invariably fail to match expectations. That is true of electoral politics everywhere.

Look no further than the ongoing drama in Greece. The ultra left party, Syriza, and its leader Alexis Tsipras won an unprecedented mandate earlier this year. In the last few days, Tsipras has become a hate figure for the same voters who had overwhelmingly elected him.

He has squandered all goodwill. Why, nearer home pakhandi Arvind Kejriwal won 67 of the total 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly and has since busied himself in making a complete hash of things.

The short point is that matching electoral rhetoric with performance is hard in democracies. Remember the expectations Barack Obama, the first black to become the US President, had aroused when he first came to power on the platform of ‘change’ in 2008.

Seven years later, most Americans believe that under Obama things have got worse.

Obama’s popular ratings are a record low for any modern president.

In a way, Narendra Modi is fortunate. He continues to be by far the most popular leader in the country.

His image remains unsullied. And his nearest rival for the prime ministerial office is not only hard to pick from the Congress-JD(U)RJD-SP gaggle but there is a huge gap in popularity ratings between him and all the potential rivals put together.

Yet, there is reason why Modi should be worried. It is because ordinary people are yet to experience first hand the gains of the Modi Sarkar. Acchhe Din can materialize only if there is an improvement in the life of ordinary Indians. Despite all the good intentions unless there are tangible gains by way of better healthcare, education, employment opportunities, roads, public transport etc., Modi will remain in danger of losing popularity.

Even on prices, thanks to a fortuitous drop in global crude and commodity prices, the wholesale index is in check but the food price inflation continues to hurt ordinary people.

Supply of vegetables and pulses cannot be augmented overnight but removing the marketing barriers too is proving to be hard. The creation of a single agriculture market is a good idea but is difficult to implement. Nor can e-market help moderate the prices of seasonal vegetables and fruits. Since these directly impact tens of millions of household budgets fail-safe mechanism to ensure price stability should be a priority.

With a 20:22 hindsight it is crystal clear that Modi missed a grand opportunity to push through some of the big-ticket reforms in the first six months of his regime. Now he may be stuck with the so-called incremental change.

There was little appreciation of the political fall-out when changes were undertaken unilaterally in the land acquisition bill. Consultation within and outside the government was kept to the minimum.

Now, the government cannot avoid paying political costs for its original mistake of wanting to push through those changes without the customary consultations with the stakeholders. As a result, the embarrassment is

huge. Even the timetable for pushing through the GST could have been advanced had the Prime Minister made himself available for wider consultations and brainstorming.

After a year in office, even the corporate bosses, hitherto very strong backers of Modi, have lost fervor. For, incremental reforms have failed to improve the investment environment. No significant fresh capital formation has taken place since May last year.

Debt-stricken industrial groups cannot visualize Acchhe Din anytime soon. Thanks to the complicity of the previous government, banks are saddled with huge non-performing assets with the corporate borrowers in no mind or position to service the debt.

There have been other self-goals as well.

The entire business of enforcing accountability on the NGO sector could have been handled more delicately. Preventing one Priya Pillai of Greenpeace from taking the flight to

cious of those who are touched even remotely by the modern ways of thinking and living. In short, they are gullible. Which is duly reflected in some of the choices made by Smriti Irani’s ministry.

There might have been a valid reason for the government to counsel patience to those asking for results in its first year in office. But now that it is well into its second year, Modi will find it hard to convince supporters and critics alike that the lack of a tangible change on the ground is not due to its own flawed working. After the decimation in the Lok Sabha poll, the Opposition has already regrouped.

Modi will have to reckon with an increasingly hostile and obstructionist Opposition.

Yet, if he fails to show results this year and next, he will be in danger of forfeiting whatever goodwill he still enjoys.

The Prime Minister must cease to give the impression of being a distant figure even to his own party men, consult more people both from the party and outside, find time to fill the long-empty slots in government and quasi-government bodies, allow ministers to take initiative, meet the media more often, and generally exude a friendly air instead of evoking fear and aloofness. It is a mistake to conflate Gujarat with India. Running the latter is an altogether different ball game, Mr Prime Minister.

INSIDE STORY Virendra Kapoor London attracted far more adverse publicity for the government than if she had been allowed to go and return. Nobody would have cared a fig for her antics in London if the government had not created such a fuss.

Curiously, even when there is certainty that the courts would strike down the willful denial of radio licenses to the Marans’ Sun group, the Home Ministry refuses to see reason. Whether Rajnath Singh seeks to thus please the AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa, whose support in Parliament could further bolster the government, is not known. But what is known is that the arbitrary denial of licenses can attract a strong judicial rebuff.

Now, for all we know the Marans might be crooks who made tonnes of money exploiting the Karunanidhi connection, but that can be no reason for the Home Ministry to behave in an unreasonable manner.

Even in the matter of sinecures the government could have done better. It is not that there was no other BJP-friendly film personality around for heading the Pune institute.

Why pick someone who is devoid of any credentials for heading it? Yes, Congress was notorious for distributing largesse to its own chamchas. But the BJP claims to be different.

Besides, it is the BJP’s core middle-class constituency which is turned off when the party apes the bad ways of the Congress. Even now it may not be too late to replace the nondescript Gajendra Chauhan with someone like Kirron Kher or some actor in her league to head the premier film and television institute.

Likewise, some of the personnel choices of the HRD Ministry have needlessly invited controversy. Yes, it is no crime to belong to the RSS-BJP school. But the person filling an official slot must meet the job description. Unfortunately, the Sangh leadership is easily swayed by charlatans who woo it purely for selfish reasons. Besides, it is needlessly suspi-

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friend recently back from Italy was surprised to find that ordinary Italians are now aware of Sonia Gandhi and the key role she plays in Indian politics. Apparently, this was not the case when he had first visited Italy a couple of decades ago. Indeed, till Rajiv Gandhi joined politics after the death of his brother Sanjay, not many knew about Sonia Gandhi in Turin, the most important town near her ancestral village, Orbassano. Even in Orbassano people were vague about her till her husband became prime minister. But our friend was pleasantly surprised to learn from more than one local interlocutor in Turin and other parts that most Italians are now fully aware of Sonia Gandhi and her control over the Congress Party.

In fact, what should expand the chest of traditional Congressmen to full 56 inches with a sense of deserved pride is that many an Italian our friend interacted with, reckons that Sonia and her sister, who now lives in Italy, are ‘the richest Italian sisters’ they know of. Which is quite an achievement for the daughters of a bricklayer, isn’t it?

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HE visitors diary kept at the house of the former CBI Director Ranjit Sinha, which has landed him in so much trouble and made him look silly in the public, was not ordered to be maintained by his rivals or anyone else wanting to fix him. No. It was an inside job.

And though initially Sinha himself implied that people whom he was investigating in various scams might have conspired to maintain a record of visitors at his home, he has since fallen silent after learning the actually identity of the person at whose behest the said diary was being maintained.

Why would a very close relative of Sinha want to monitor his visitors is another interesting story. Which can be told some other time.

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, JULY 20, 2015

Pakistan continues to backstab India THIS refers to your editorial 'What's Pakistan up to?' (dated 17th July, 15). Cloak and dagger game is going on with Pakistan.

Our PM is engaged with his counterpart for table diplomacy and Pakistan is busy sending shells and terrorists into our borders. It presents two scenarios, one, that whenever Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tries to make any conciliatory moves with India, their army chief orders firing on borders. It clearly gives signal that army is acting on its own. Secondly, it may be the strategy of Nawaj to order some firing to assuage terrorist angle.

Question remains, what should India do? India must respond to such attacks with sheer power and aggression, thus making it very clear that such an act shall not be tolerated by it. Pakistan's game of running with the hare and hunting with the hunters need to be exposed and rebuffed. India should work overtime to expose Pakistan's

Irresolute Kareena Kapoor?

home food in theatre. In most of the movie theatres,audience is not allowed to take their food inside ad outside food is not allowed. If the movie is very lengthy they have no other option except to buy the expensive food stuff available in theatres /multiplex LETTER OF & those type of food items THE DAY are not suitable for senior citizens. One requests the theatre owners to kindly allow the senior citizens to consume home made food which they bring from their houses outside the theatre premises/hall.

‘Acche din’ seems to be ‘Jumla’ BETUKI Jumla Party has come up with probably the best and most satisfying JUMLA of the year. Party President's Acche Din after 25 years has put to rest any speculation that the janta must be having about it being just round the corner. A quarter century is a big time and who knows how many will survive to see its "arrival" then. Those who will, may actually have become immune to the wait and stretching them further by a quarter century would mean nothing unusual.

People who till now were keeping their doors open even at night in anticipation of Acche Din's arrival any time (and they not missing it) can now have a more safe and "peaceful sleep".

Arrival of Acche Din probably has a direct connect to the number of Sacche Log (truthful people) when

— K.V. Raman, Malad

Expensive food in theatres

THE agreement signed between Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa has been totally rejected and not accepted by the army and the people of Pakistan. There have been four incidents of ceasefire violation within 48 hours after signing the agreement with PM Modi being the mute spectator and tally silent of any reason best know to him. The PM Narendra Modi and his BJP party is adopting double standards when they were in opposition they created outrage attacking UPA PM Manmohan Singh for talking to Pakistan and now Modi himself is meeting Sharif without any hesitation and agree to visit Pakistan in 2016. If the PM Modi still wants to visit Pakistan to attend SAARC Summit then Pakistan will never mend its ways as it is not ready to change. It is wrong to expect anyWill Prime Minister Narendra Modi still want to visit Pakistan against the wishes of its thing from them again and again.

Army?

But the big question is that will the Prime Minister Modi still wants to link to terrorism to the rest of can be the best revenge for their go to Pakistan against the wishes of world and try to put them in 'rogue nefarious acts. its Army and people?

— Ashok Goswami, Mumbai — Bhagwan Thadani, Pune2 nation' category. Their isolation

— T.S. Karthik, Chennai

IT is unbelievable that an actor of the status of Kareena Kapoor belonging to the highly respected Raj Kapoor khandaan could be so irresolute. A recent report in the print media showcasing her attitude towards few veteran filmmakers is intriguing. After signing with Rakesh Roshan’s production house as a heroine opposite Hrithik Roshan for “Kaho Naa Pyar Hai” which was Hrithik’s debut film in his home production, though Kareena shot for 10 days, later due to creative difference, she opted out cooly putting the producer Rakesh Roshan in distress. Didn’t she realize the magnitude of the loss that Rakesh Roshan will incur for the damage done? She signed up for projects of Sanjay Leela Bhansali i.e. “Devdas”, “Bhajirao Mastani” and “Goliyan Ka Rasleela – Ram Leela” and cooly opted out giving varied reasons.

Thereafter she signed up with Karan Johar’s project “Shuddhi” produced under Dharma Productions banner and for unforeseen reasons opted out. The recent victim was Rajkumar Gupta who had signed her for IPC Section 84. Though she liked the script and gave her consent to work, in the last minute giving reasons that somehow she didn’t like the character that she has to portray, she opted out.

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foist a large variety of charges of financial irregularity on them, to harass them, to tarnish their reputations, and to secure their arrests. Fortunately, the interventions of the higher judiciary have protected them so far. However, the latest raids by the Central Bureau of Investigation into their home and offices in Mumbai on 14 July 2015 are signs of continuing open misuse of official bodies to harass these human rights defenders. The open official bullying of courageous human rights defenders even as individuals charged with a range of serious crimes walk free are brazen official attempts to diminish Indian democracy. These must be powerfully resisted by all democratic voices in the country.

— Mohd Z. Khan, Nagpur

Dirty politics over Yakub

the latter increase former will follow and not answerable to the legal syssuit. But to achieve the latter itself tem of the country. A shining inmay take 25 years till then enjoy the stance of gender equality (?)indeed.

— Arun Malankar, Santacruz Jumla and its dreamy unrealistic world.

Persecution of peace activists

THE Politics on each point is usual in India. However punishment to IT is a matter of profound dismay any of the culprit, should not be and disquiet at the continued offi- criticized, this makes mockery to APROPOS 'CBI lodges 3 FIRs, Cong cial harassment of one of the lead- the victims. Those who criticize or - BJP spar' (ADC , July 16), it is in- ing Human Rights activists – Teesta mocks over the punishment to deed a unique scam in a country of Setalvad and Javed Anand by the Yakub Memon should not forget so many scams exposed till date. So central government and its agen- that the nation is watching your far we have witnessed that the netas cies. Since BJP led government dirty face with this utter and they are although involved in most of the came in power in Delhi in May shall give their feedback, when get scams wherein money laundering 2014, the country has witnessed the opportunity.

— Bhavesh Jani, Nalasopara by looting the public exchequer re- open strenuous official efforts to mains the main theme, however they go scot-free. During the investigation we find the names of many on the fixing issue gives us a netas in particular while they reglimpse of the commitment they main and rule from their gaddis. A have towards the cricket fan.

— Altaf H Ladiwala, Bandra few days we keep ourselves engrossed on discussing/arguing the

details involving the modus AS owner of CSK, Srinivasan has operandi adopted by each neta in ultimate responsibility for people his own style and we raise a storm under his charge and manageover the tea cups to vent our feelment of the club. He institutionings of frustration, rage etc. but our alised his corrupt India Cements reaction ends there. Then after few management style into IPL and days while the dust settles, a few the BCCI and the judgement by babus here and there get suspended the highest courts of the land is a for a show to the aam aadmi that shameful indictment of his leadjustice is done. However the netas ership. As per this verdict, Srinikeep on enjoying in a royal style vasan has no moral right to be laundering the tax payers' hard associated with cricket in any caearned money. In this scam the patpacity let alone continue as Prestern is dangerous as any body trying ident of ICC. All member States to get smarter to expose these devils Srinivasan has no moral right to be should demand his resignation meets mysteriously with their fatalassociated with cricket in any capacity forthwith. As well, CSK should be ity, which is unique and obviously auctioned to any other business alarming.

— Bikram Banerjea, Mumbai THE Supreme court appointed group that has absolutely no conLodha committee deserves all nection with Srinivasan's family praise for taking the IPL cricket or India Cements. Similarly Ratourney to the laundry, and re- jasthan Royals skipper/mentor AN enquiry panel going into some moving the stains that have soiled escaped unscathed as everything alleged malpractices in a particular the gentlemans game. In the sus- happened in front of his nose type of sports competition has pension of the two teams namely when Sreesanth did marvel from found a few persons guilty of inthe CSK and the Rajasthan Royals the playing arena. However, volvement in scandalous activities. the message has been sent that Rahul Dravid tipped as gentleWhat is intriguing is the fact that no one is bigger than the game. man and given a reprieve. How when one of the participating franIdeally the BCCI should have Dhoni, Jadeja, Suresh Raina, chises, reportedly suspected of misdone what the courts did, but Bravo came out without a black deeds, is jointly owned by a what shocks me is the complete mark is a big question mark. It is a husband and wife team as business silence of the senior and star warning to future offenders. Simpartners, only the hubby has been players who were playing the IPL ilar punishment should be given made to bear the cross, allowing the alongside the tainted and possi- to those who violated the Law in better half to go totally scot-free. bly knew of the muck gathering other areas also.

— M. Jayanthy, Kharghar Another glaring example of Indian there. The silence of top cricketers women being considered immune — Abdul Monim, Vashi

Life threatening scam

Stinking IPL

Judicial immunity to women

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uperstar Salman Khan on Saturday displayed his brotherly bonhomie towards Shah Rukh Khan on the auspicious occasion of Eid by giving a shout out to SRK's forthcoming film "Raees".

Shah Rukh had unveiled the first look of Salman's latest "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" and the actor today returned the gesture by taking to Twitter to introduce the film in his typical funny manner.

"R A E E S", Salman wrote, adding, "Aah raha hai (coming soon)."

Within few minutes came his next tweet, saying, "RAEESSSSSSS ah raha hai.

Filhaal teaser dekho aur enjoy karo behaad (For now, watch the teaser and enjoy it)."

Taking the conversation forward, Shah Rukh replied, "@BeingSalmanKhan abhi Bulgaria mein hoon aa nahi sakta. (I am in Bulgaria right

now so cannot come) Thodi Biryani bhijwade ghar mein bachhon ke liye. (Send some biryani home for kids) Eid Mubarak & love to family."

Interestingly, Shah Rukh shared the first look and teaser of the Rahul Dholakiadirected drama on Thursday, a day before the release of "Bajrangi Bhaijaan".

In the clip, SRK, 49, is seen in a bespectacled and bearded avatar.

The movie, which also stars

Pakistani actress Mahira Khan, is set in 1980s Gujarat, telling the story of a bootlegger, whose business is thwarted by a tough policeman.

Salman and Shah Rukh, who had a bitter fallout in 2008 at a party, are back to being friends but fans are looking forward to their box office battle when both Salman's "Sultan" and SRK's "Raees" release on Eid next year.

Richa Chadda organises special screening of ‘Masaan’ for parents

Tabu open to playing mother’s role but with substance

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icha Chadda, whose ''Masaan'' wowed everyone at the Cannes Film Festival, recently organised a special screening of her film for her parents as she wanted them to see the film, especially as the film explores a fatherdaughter relationship.

Confirming the same, Chadda said, ''I really wanted my dad to see the film. It's a film about a journey, a bond between daughter and her father. It makes it even more important for me to show my parents. I am glad they liked it.''

Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan, ''Masaan'' is slated to release in India on July 24.

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ctress Tabu, known for her versatile performances, has no qualms about playing the role of a mother in films.

Tabu, who essayed the role of Shahid Kapoor's mother in "Haider", says she is open to playing mother to younger actors like Varun Dhawan, Arjun Kapoor and others.

"It depends on the character (of mother)...If the character is nice then I will do it. Otherwise I will not do boring mother roles," Tabu said in an interview.

Tabu is now excited to step into the shoes of Rekha for Abhishek Kapoor's "Fitoor". The film also stars Aditya Roy Kapoor and Katrina Kaif. "I just did one scene with him (Aditya Roy Kapoor). I have a lot of things to do. Gattu (director Abhishek Kapoor) is a friend, I have known him for a long time. It has been a good experience," Tabu said.

When asked about Rekha and if there is a sense of pressure, Tabu says, "It is a huge project."

Kat, Ranbir head to London, after getting engaged?

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atrina Kaif recently turned 32 and it seems birthday celebrations are still continuing for Bollywood's Barbie. Kat and her beau Ranbir Kapoor were spotted at the Mumbai International Airport last night however, no one really knows where they are headed to. Media vine has it that Ranbir planned a bash to celebrate Kat's birthday at a farmhouse in Alibaug and sources claim that the Kapoor scion also proposed to her with a ring. Buzz has it that now that the couple is engaged, they are headed to London to meet the Kamli girl's family. Kat and Ranbir are presently living-in together at a plush apartment in Mumbai.

Sandeep Shukla of Godfather films along with Sarvjit Singh and Chandrakant Singh invited the cast and guests for poster launch of their maiden Hindi film Six X at Sheesha Lounge, Juhu. Chandrakant Singh celebrated his birthday also where he invited producers of his three films together on stage.

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DEEPAK SAHIJWALA

Give India A Chance he “political deadlock over the land acquisition (law) is seriously impacting rural development, including the creation of schools, hospitals, roads and irrigation projects, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while appealing to leaders of the opposition to set aside political considerations so that they do not come in the way of a solution that would facilitate development of rural areas, and bring greater prosperity for farmers.

So will he be listened to?

The monsoon session of Parliament begins tomorrow. But, the fear is that it will be the Sushma Swaraj's, the Lalit Modi's, the Pankaja Munde's, the Shivraj Chauhan 's etc, etc that will dominate proceedings as against the many important bills and amendments that need urgent attention and application of consensus.

We have no special affinity for the Sushma Swaraj's, the Lalit Modi's, the Pankaja Munde's, or the Shivraj Chavan's and we endorse the conviction that if they have wronged, they should be punished. But cannot this be done outside the August House. We have competent law enforcing agencies and amongst the best judicial systems in the world. Can we not leave upon them the onus to investigate and punish if any impropriety is found?

Perhaps, these issues can be debated and discussed in both the August Houses of Parliament and then forwarded for further perusal. And then serious issues of national interest can be taken up for discussion, debate and if deemed fit rejection too. Already, around 65 bills remain pending in both houses of Parliament from the last session — 12 in the Lok Sabha and as many as 53 in the Rajya Sabha. These need to be addressed urgently.

Presently, many economic issues also need to be tackled on a war footing. One must not forget that while India stands a few notches above other global economies, the global economy as a whole remains fragile and under severe strain. Any disruption there could have a cascading effect on India too and, therefore, these have to be preempted. That can only be done through the acceleration of the reforms process.

Else the concerns could cumulate into a disaster on the national front.

As of now, India’s citizens can only hope that, our Honourable Parliamentarians will take note of the gravity of the situation and instead of scoring political brownie points, adopt a no-nonsense approach towards the serious businesses that require the attention and endorsements of the house…this just for the sake of India's best interest.

Sahijwala is Business Editor and can be contacted at deepak.sahijwala@afternoondc.in

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An analytical insight into how a variety of political and economic factors can affect business in individual countries and across Asia, by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Market Outlook reveals that at the moment Asia is the only economic region recording fast rates of growth. With China standing as the second largest economy in the world and the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), business opportunities across the whole region are steadily rising. And now more than ever, believes the Economist ‘it is important for organisations to filter out the noise and stay on top of the most important developments’

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By Dominic Rebello

he current growth rates in Asian economies are the most rapid in the world, with an increase in innovation, vital infrastructure developments and younger populations than Europe and the US; Asia is steadily becoming the most attractive region for business opportunities, says a just released report by the . Economist Intelligence Unit’s market outlook for some of Asia’s most influential and fastest growing economies: India, China, Indonesia and Philippines.

According to the report, the growing middle class offers potential for manufacturers. It believes rising income levels mean that India’s huge population of around 1.2bn is becoming an increasingly important market for consumer goods, and this trend will continue during the forecast period. Private consumption expenditure will rise from US$1trn in fiscal year 2013/14 (April-March) to US$2.4trillion in 2018/19.

The majority of people will continue to be preoccupied with meeting their basic daily needs rather than following the latest consumer trends. However, the presence of a large number of middle-class households offers considerable potential for manufacturers and retailers.

The rapid growth in personal incomes, combined with a more open domestic market, will make India an increasingly attractive market for foreign companies.

Nevertheless, India remains a predominantly agricultural society and is home to around 40% of the world’s poorest people. Moreover, even the middle classes have limited disposable incomes. Demand for large and even medium-sized cars is still limited.

Higher-quality products certainly appeal to the country’s consumers, but price remains the main determinant of the level of demand. Unreliable and limited supplies of water and electricity have forced foreign manufacturers of white goods to rethink their ap-

proach—for example, by designing smaller and more efficient washing machines and refrigerators.

As regards China, Indonesia and Philippines, the Economist Intelligence Unit believes, rising incomes

will present opportunities in 201519 for China. Foreign companies continue to be attracted by the opportunities offered by China’s large and growing economy. China has a population of over 1.3bn, and an-

nual GDP is likely to grow to over US$15trn (measured at market exchange rates) by 2019.

For Indonesia it believes Indonesians will become wealthier faster than their peers as Indonesia remains an attractive market in a variety of sectors, particularly given the country’s fairly consistent economic performance since 2008, despite a tumultuous time for the global economy.

For Philippines, it says” Despite its medium-sized population of just over 100m, the Philippines is a small market, with GDP per head estimated at only US$2,843 at market exchange rates and US$6,914 at purchasing power parity rates in 2014. GDP per head will continue to rise in 2015-19, reaching US$4,549 at market exchange rates by the end of the forecast period”.

Clearly, the revelation is that Asian countries will continue to witness good times ahead!

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There could be a 7-30% decline in prices across the commodity complex. This will be a short-term positive from India’s trade balance, subsidy burden and inflation perspective, But collateral impact on GDP growth is likely over the medium term, says Crisil Research in an overview on the prevailing situation…

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ith an $11 trillion economy that has accounted for about 25% of global GDP growth over the last decade -- and given its resource-intensive growth (see Box 1) -- China has a disproportionate influence on commodity markets. Recent developments there have rattled the markets so much that the prices of many commodities are hitting multi-year lows. While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not revised its forecast of Chinese GDP growth (6.8% and 6.3% in 2015 and 2016, respectively) there are real concerns about potential downside risks.

In this context, CRISIL Research analysed two scenarios of Chinese GDP growth – where it falls either 100 basis points (bps) or 200 bps below the base-case IMF estimate -- to map their repercussions on India and global commodity prices. While lower prices will provide some support to demand, our analysis suggests sharp downside risks to many commodities assuming there is no significant infrastructure investment stimulus undertaken by the Chinese government.

Steel prices will melt more than aluminium Global steel demand growth will be severely impacted as China’s (which account for nearly half of global steel consumption) construction, housing,

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automobiles and consumer durables sectors slow down. Our calculations show global steel demand will contract 0.5% in the next two years, compared with the base-case scenario of 1-1.5% growth if Chinese GDP undershoots the IMF forecast by 200 bps. The demand-supply mismatch will result in the entire input value chain (iron ore, coking coal) getting squeezed. However, steel prices will fall more, compressing producer margins even further. As for aluminium, demand growth will decline, albeit less than steel, given that a higher proportion of aluminium demand comes from consumption-linked sectors. Our analysis indicates global aluminium demand will slow down to 2-3% compared with a base case of 3-4%.

Brent crude could plunge to $45 a barrel by 2016 Our base-case incremental oil demand is 1.8-2 million barrels per day (mbpd) over the next two years. But a severe slowdown can lop off nearly a third – 0.4-0.6 mbpd -- of that incremental consumption. With no supply shock foreseen in the medium term, a decline in Chinese demand would increase surplus oil supply to 2.1 mbpd and push down the price of Brent crude to $45 per barrel by 2016.

CHINA, THE COMMODITY GIANT

44-47% of global aluminium and steel consumption 23% of global primary energy (oil, natural gas and coal) consumption 25-30% of petrochemical (polymer) consumption 45-50% of overall global aluminium and steel production capacities

Non-coking coal prices will slide As per our base case, demand for noncoking coal in China is expected to decline 1.5% a year between 2014 and 2016 on account of relatively slower increase in electricity demand and rising competition from cleaner fuels (hydropower, renewable energy). But a 200 bps undershoot in Chinese GDP can result in coal consumption declining ~6% per annum.

China’s coal market is already oversupplied and miners are resorting to price cuts to maintain competitiveness with imported coal. A decline in demand will intensify competition between domestic miners and importers, which will pull down global prices by 13-15% compared with the base case.

Petrochemicals spreads will shrivel Globally, ethylene-naphtha spreads will contract by ~$40 per tonne if Chinese GDP undershoots the IMF forecast by 200 bps. However, spreads are not ex-

pected to fall below $340-360 per tonne, which is the breakeven for ethylene producers.

The fall in commodity prices will impact Indian companies as well, but the magnitude will vary with metal players facing a significant downside risk compared with domestic oil companies.

Domestic metal companies will face operating losses Domestic steel and aluminium players will bear the brunt of a fall in domestic prices. Steel companies will start making losses at the EBITDA level with domestic prices falling below cost of production in the next two years (if Chinese GDP falls 200 bps below IMF forecast). Integrated players will be hit the most as they will not benefit from lower iron ore and coal prices.

Aluminium makers could face operating losses. Hindalco and Balco, for instance, are slated to increasingly rely on costlier captive coal from the second half of the current fiscal.

Downstream gain, upstream pain While the under-recovery burden of public sector oil companies in the upstream sector will decline due to the fall in crude prices, it will be more than offset by a decline in gross realisation. For upstream public sector companies, realisation will be about $35-40 per barrel by fiscal 2017, or $10 lower than the base case and well below the $45 per barrel realisation seen in the last fiscal. Operating profit of these companies will also fall more than 25%, or Rs 120 billion, compared with the base case.

But lower oil prices will benefit PSU downstream companies since their share in under-recoveries, if any, will be minimal. Further, lower subsidies will reduce their interest burden. If Brent crude falls to $45, overall benefit for the downstream companies will be Rs 20-25 billion.

Government, consumer biggest beneficiaries in the near term A $1 per barrel decline in oil prices reduces under-recovery on petroleum products (kerosene, LPG) by ~Rs 1213 billion. Therefore, overall under-recoveries will decline by Rs 240-260 billion versus the base case. This will mean the government’s burden (at 65% of overall under-recovery) will be lower by Rs 155-170 billion. A $10 per barrel decline in crude price, ceteris paribus, will reduce retail prices of diesel by ~Rs 6 per litre. Such a fall will help curb inflation and benefit consumers.

However, medium term impact of Chinese slowdown is negative on India Slower Chinese GDP growth would have global repercussions. A drop in oil and gas prices will pull down economic growth in the Middle East as well as Russia, while a fall in exports to China will impact countries such as South Korea, Japan, Brazil and Australia (exports to China are ~2030% of total exports for these countries). India, too, won’t be spared as overall global growth falters and trade flows slow down.

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Syngene International Low Volatility Periods Give Way IPO Opens On July 27 To Weeks Of Heightened Gyration ANINDYA BANERJEE Currency Derivatives Researcher, Kotak Securities

<<From Left to Right: Dr. S Subramanian, Axis Capital, M B Chinappa, CFO, Syngene International Ltd., Peter Bains, CEO, Syngene International Ltd, Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, MD, Syngene International Ltd, Manoj Nerukar, COO, Syngene International Ltd, Sumit Jalan, Credit Suisse Securities (India) Pvt. Ltd. and Indraneil Borkakoty, Jefferies India Pvt. Ltd.

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By Dominic Rebello

yngene International, the contract research services arm of Biocon plans to hit the stock market with their Initial Public Offering (IPO) to raise Rs 528 to 550 crore on 17th July. The price band for the offer has been fixed between Rs. 240 and Rs. 250 per equity share of Rs 10 each. The minimum bid lot is 60 equity shares and in multiples of 60 equity shares thereafter. The issue size consists of 22,000,000 equity shares and the offer for sale will close on July 29. Biocon, which owns about 85% of Syngene, will reduce its stake to about 74% through the IPO. The objects of the Issue are to achieve the benefits of listing the Equity Shares on the Stock Exchanges, enhance visibility and brand image among existing and potential clients and to provide liquidity to the existing shareholders.

Syngene provides contract drug discovery, research and manufacturing services to 17 of the world's top 20 pharmaceutical companies, including Bristol Myers Squibb & Co and Abbott Laboratories Ltd. Till Dec 31, 2014, the company serviced 195 clients, ranging from multinational corporations to startups, including seven of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies.

Sumgeme's revenue rose 25% in the last three years.

The Issue will be undertaken through the book building process wherein 50% of the net offer shall be allotted to qualified institutional buyers, atleast 15% of the net offer shall be available to noninstitutional investors and 35% of the net offer will be available for allocation to retail individual investors.

The Equity Shares being offered are proposed to be listed on the BSE Ltd and the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. Axis Capital Ltd, Credit Suisse Securities (India) Pvt Ltd and Jefferies India Pvt Ltd are the book running lead managers to the Issue and Karvy Computershare Pvt Ltd is the registrar to the issue.

"Syngene has showed revenue and earnings CAGR of around 28% & 59% respectively over FY11-15.

Considering earnings CAGR to be around 25% over FY15-17E, the stock trades at 18x FY17E at upper price band of Rs 250. We are positive on the business model of Syngene from the long term perspective alongwith the fact that it is the only profitable listed CRO company, it can command a premium multiple. We recommend “Subscribe” to Syngene International IPO", says KRChoksey research report.

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isk assets got back in the grove last week, as policy makers once again managed to keep spooky realities from coming out of the closet. Greece not only chickened out but also surrendered to Troika, in order to secure more debt from Euro zone to repay Euro zone and IMF. The fear of unknown has become so great for Greek policymakers that all their year and half talk of “fire and brimstone” proved hollow. Germany managed to call the ‘big bluff” of Greeks right at the moment, when it mattered most. US, then IMF and even ECB made some noise about offering Greeks a way out to future in the Euro zone, through debt haircut,

by Germany and other northern European nations snubbed it. Therefore, the ‘kicking the can” down the road exercise, continues, but we believe now with every kick the can is becoming too heavy to do so in the future.

While economists may find it difficult to accept how the obvious choices are becoming too difficult to accept in the Euro zone, one being largescale debt restructuring, other being reforms in south and retooling of eco-

markets. There was lot of praise for the new leadership in China, post third Plenum in November 2013. Experts said that China will be able to transition its economy from a centrally planned, command and control autocratic structure to a market-driven capitalistic system. History however warned observers and analysts to remain grounded in their enthusiasm. There are enough examples where economies who have tried to engineer such a transition had to pro-

ceed through a phase of pain and even turmoil. It is like trying to learn cycling for the first time. The command and control structure is like a bicycle with support wheels and market-driven economy is one without.

Turning our attention to the Rupee market. Over the last week, Rupee was stuck within a narrow range of 63.40 and 63.60 on spot. Implied volatility and realized volatility has plunged to multi-year lows as lack of movement keeps option buyers at bay. Historically, such low volatility periods have given way to a couple of weeks of heightened gyration. We would remain committed to a range of 63.00/63.30 and 64.00/64.30 on spot over the near term. RBI just released the data on its activity in the foreign exchange market in May. RBI bought less US Dollar in May than April, as Rupee had weakened to lowest point since Sept 2013 @ 64.33 levels on spot. However, the larger theme of dollar accumulation and managing volatility remains intact.

The large amount of gross purchase and gross sales is an indication of the central bank's attempt to manage volatility by intervening on both sides of Dollar/Rupee. Over the month of May, the total outstanding contracts in USD/INR forwards have reduced by USD 3.3 billion and at the same time, net increase in spot dollar reserves has been to the tune of USD 2.57 billion, which indicates RBI has taken delivery of chunk of its outstanding forward positions. The rest of the decline in forward positions may have been due to intervention done when Rupee had weakened beyond 64.00 levels on spot.

profit booking. They also said that fund managers cannot take a bearish call on banking stocks, given the high weightage attached to the index. As per the data available from Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), overall deployment of equity funds in bank stocks stood at Rs 78,582 crore in June as compared with Rs 79,215 crore in the previous month.

Besides, exposure to banking stocks was at 20.54% of equity AUM in June as against 20.94% in the preceding month.

The BSE bankex index fell 2.5% in June, while the benchmark Sensex witnessed a decline of 0.17%. IT was the secondmost preferred sector with fund mangers after banks with an exposure of Rs 35,409 crore, followed by pharma (Rs 29,744 crore), auto (Rs 27,163 crore) and finance (Rs 24,041 crore).

MFs are investment vehicles made up of a pool of funds collected from a large number of investors and invest in stocks, bonds and money market instruments, among others.

nomic model in north and finally a move towards political union and fiscal union, but politicians find it easier to drag the status quo as long as they can. After all the ex-PM of Luxemburg and current President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker captured it well in his statement, “We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.”

Chinese economy continues to grind downhill; no amount of glossy data can change that reality. However, they continue to mesmerize the world with their ability to control stock

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utual funds' allocation to the banking sector dropped to Rs 78,582 crore in June, after hitting an all-time high in the preceding month, amid weakness in bank stocks. In comparison, equity fund managers' deployment in banking stocks stood at Rs 54,746 crore in June 2014.

According to industry experts, fund managers cut their allocation last month to bank stocks on account of

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His is a mix of both, a bottoms-up and a top-down approach wherein he tries to find the winners from a medium to long term perspective. He selects companies with credible managements and good business models and for him a consistent past record of returns is an added advantage. A Chartered Accountant by qualification, that’s the way Dipen Shah, Senior Vice President at Kotak Securities, heading the Private Client Group Research division has been picking winners for over a decade. In conversation with Dominic Rebello, he endorses the view that ‘an individual should look at investing for the long term as that is what creates wealth in the true sense’

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ASHWINDER RAJ SINGH is CEO – Residential Services, JLL India

PATIENCE IS ALWAYS REWARDING IN O

STOCK INVESTING

A little background about yourself?

I am a Chartered Accountant with more than 15 years’ experience in equity research. I have been working with Kotak Securities Private Client Group for more than 10 years. Kotak Securities, the broking arm of Kotak Mahindra Bank, is a leading broking house in Indian Equity markets with 1128 branches, franchisees and satellite offices in 352 cities across India.

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

Stocks and equities have always intrigued me as an individual and I have always believed in the potential of equity investments over long investment horizon. But the thought of pursuing a career in the stock markets fuelled when I was doing Chartered Accountancy.

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

Having been a fundamental analyst for more than 15 years, I always look at the intrinsic value of the stock. If the intrinsic value is more than the current share price, the stock is worth more than its price and that it makes sense to buy the stock.

How would you describe your methodology?

It’s a mix of both, bottoms-up and topdown approach wherein I try to find the winners from a medium – to – long term perspective. I try to select companies with credible managements and good business models. A consistent past record of returns is an added advantage.

What appeals to you about

Investing; The short or long side?

I am an optimist. Hence, I always look at the brighter side of things. But, at the same time, I am not oblivious to the concerns and give adequate thought to the same. I always think long term when it comes to equity investing.

What differentiates you from other Investors?

I do not try to complicate things while making decisions. I keep them simple.

However, there may be many others in the market who also follow this principle.

« MARKET WIZARD DIPEN SHAH What gives you that edge?

I try to take an objective view of the data and facts. That helps me focus only on the crucial parameters, which impacts the stocks’ performance in true sense.

Is there any applicable lesson to investing?

An individual should look at investing for the long term as that is what creates wealth in the true sense.

How much of what you do is gut felt?

After having spent several years in the market one develops a sense of what is coming. These intuitions, which works almost like the sixth sense always helps in decision making.

Do you try to anticipate or follow market trends? What is the basis?

One has to be very confident of one’s research and investment ideas.

Market movements should not cloud one’s thinking or should not take away the focus from fundamentals.

However, if an investor is looking to make shorter term decisions, it is very important to look at the market trends.

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

What do you do next?

The important thing is to look at the reasons that influence the share price movement. If the stock is moving because of short term factors or technical factors, it may be the time to average, provided the longer term story is intact. However, if the fundamentals have really changed for the worse, then we need to have a re-look and also dispose off the position.

Any positions you ever lost sleep over?

As a company, we can’t make any stock specific comments

What would make you wary about an Investment?

If the direction taken by the company is different from what I had thought, I would have a re-look at the story.

Do you have a scenario about how the current bull market will end?

Where do you see the Indian markets five years down the road; any number for the Sensex in 2016?

We are positive on the longer term prospects of the markets based on our optimism that, the current Government will vigorously pursue reforms, which will ultimately lead to higher growth and hence, merit valuations for the markets.

What makes an investor successful?

Just 2 simple mantras 1) Be confident about your analysis 2) Persistence. Patience is always rewarding in stock investing.

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ver the past few decades, the urge to ensure a better standard of living for themselves and their families back home has led countless Indians to migrate to countries offering attractive work-pay equations. This incomegenerating objective is the highest common factor - and though NRIs' ties with their country of birth sometimes erode to a certain extent, the willingness to turn a decent profit on investments back home does not.

For a protracted period, investments in India did not offer good returns. However, with the resurgence of the Indian economy after the arrival of a stable government intent on boosting business in the country, things are changing. Today, the Indian realty market is once again a prime focus area for NRI investors.

The Indian realty sector as a whole – namely, across the residential, retail, hospitality and commercial verticals - is slated to grow at 30% over the next decade, attaining a market size of around USD 180 billion by 2020. However, the investment opportunity lies less in the Indian real estate sector’s speed of growth than in its overall dynamism. As such, it has been time and again vouchsafed that long-term investments into Indian realty pay off very well indeed as long as sound investment decisions have been taken.

Advantage NRI NRIs today are keenly aware that Indian real estate once again presents them with a very hot investment proposition. Generally, the NRI community prefers to invest in their states of origin – primarily Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Delhi NCR. However, since residential inventory has piled up in the two major cities of Delhi (the political capital) and Mumbai (the financial capital), investors are currently very well placed to find good bargains in these markets, as most developers there are offering discounts and attractive financial schemes.

The advantage that UAE-based NRIs have is that they earn in Gulf currencies that have traded strongly against the Indian National Rupee. This factor off-sets a part of the house cost already. However, the rupee is bound to strengthen further, and the advantageous difference between the currencies will reduce as the Indian economy grows under a stable government at the centre.

Current Indian Real Estate Scenario Indian developers have had to wake up to certain immutable market realities over the last two years. In many cities, they have misjudged where the actual demand is and how much buyers - including NRIs - are willing to spend on their first or second homes.

This has resulted in worrisome levels of supply overhang of larger-configuration apartments.

Real estate developers are now becoming quite serious about right-sizing and rightpricing their products to make them attractive to a larger cross-section of customers. In fact, smaller, better-designed and more efficient homes are very much in evidence when we study the project launches in 2015.

Selective corrections are already happening in some of the over-priced pockets of India’s larger cities – as this trend gathers momentum, we will start seeing a

faster sales velocity in the stagnated supply of larger configurations.

Townships are becoming a lot more prevalent, since this is becoming the residential option of choice for many city dwellers looking for a better lifestyle for their families The supply pipeline for luxury home projects is now slowing down in reaction to the slow demand dynamics for these offerings.

Pricing Trends Residential property prices have plateaued in both Delhi and Mumbai. Good returns can be expected only if one’s investment horizon is of three years or above - in which case, annualized returns of 10% can be expected from the third year on. Sluggish sales, especially in the luxury segment, have led developers to offer several attractive financial schemes. World-class luxury projects are

available in Indian cities now, but the market is currently struggling to sell inventory.

Advice For NRI Property Investors For NRIs who are on the verge of retiring and planning to do so in India, this is the right time to invest. Social infrastructure in most of the larger Indian cities has improved a lot. Social and civic infrastructure is being ramped up in most of the larger cities, which means that more hospitals, schools and shopping malls as well as improved connectivity and availability of utilities are resulting in higher ease of living – equaling a higher-quality retired life.

Once the primary residence is secured, NRIs with surplus funds can invest in rental income-generating apartments, as well.

Under the best of circumstances, real estate is a capital intensive investment vertical. The best returns on investment

are not attained by guesswork, but by decisions arrived at after weighing all the options for their merits and demerits.

NRIs are best placed to reach such decisions if they consult professionals with a strong research-driven background.

As a rule, NRI investors should we wary of projects by unknown developers who have no existing track record. Untold numbers of buyers are currently falling in trouble because they have plugged their funds in projects which do not have all the mandatory clearances and fall short of even the minimum standards of quality construction. Unless a NRI plans to visit India and personally evaluate projects, he/she should opt only for reputed developers. In all cases, NRIs should strictly follow a check-list of points to verify, such as the track record and brand visibility of a developer, the soundness of the identified location in terms of social and civic infrastructure, the amenities in the project and the timelines for possession in the case of under-construction projects.

NRI investors focused on benefiting from discounts can consider booking in projects which are in the pre-launch stage, as prices tend to be competitive. Again while due diligence is important for endusers, it is even more important for investors who are considering projects in upcoming or peripheral locations of the primary cities.

Developers have traditionally tried to attract NRIs by gearing marketing campaigns of projects which are ordinary in every respect straight at them. NRIs should be aware that there is nothing about ‘NRI projects’ that is any different from other offerings on the market – there are no ‘exclusive’ features that are otherwise unavailable to other buyers. A project and property should be evaluated solely on the basis of its location, legal legitimacy, amenities and facilities, and the strength of the developer’s brand.

How To Repay Your Home Loan Efficiently BRIJESH PARNAMI

CEO Destimoney Advisors

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vailing a home loan, constitutes an important stepping stone in the life of an individual. It is perhaps the most important financial decision that any individual would take in his or her life. That is because, there is a significant amount of emotional attachment that one has towards purchasing his / her first home. Not only is

it an emotionally fulfilling experience, but also an experience in which one puts in his / her hard earned money towards equity for the house. For most individuals, the entire life’s savings go into the equity of the house being bought. Therefore financially speaking, when a home loan is availed, there is happiness of having a home on one side while it is the liability of repaying the home loan on the other side.

It is therefore important for one to plan efficiently towards the repayment of the home loan. Let us look at some practical tips on how we can make this easier for you.

Avail the interest saver facility, if offered by your bank: Most banks that lend for home loans, offer an interest saver account. This operates like a normal current account, in which any excess amount kept over and above your EMI is used to offset your principal.

Save with the stretch: Yes, payment of EMIs might fully stretch ones financial situation in a month. However, it is that time, when one must consciously try to put some money into other savings. At the end of the year, use that money to part-prepay your loan and reduce the principal.

Monitor the interest rate closely: Unless it is a fixed rate loan that you have availed, the rate of interest on your loan would keep varying. Keep checking your loan statement to know the interest rates that you are paying on your loan.

Close all your other loans: Prior to availing your home loan, you might have availed a car loan or a personal loan or any other loan. If you have any other loan running besides your home loan, explore options to close those loans and thereby reduce your interest burden.

Reduce usage of your credit card: This is the time, when you should have complete control over your cash outgo. And usage of credit card for your ordinary expenses makes you lose control over the quantum of cash that you have in your hand.

If you follow some of the tips given above, you would see that your repayment on the home loans happens efficiently and soon you would realise that the payment of interest and principal, does not feel like a burden at all.

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« PERSONAL FINANCE

RAJIV RAJ

is Director & Co-Founder, www.creditvidya.com

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Secure Your Retirement fter having worked hard all your life, the one thing you want to look forward to is a peaceful retirement. As the golden years set in, you should be preparing to play a second innings in style. The last thing you should be bothering about at these times is money matters.

If you make financial blunders when you are in your prime, you may be denied money when you need it the most. The following are the credit mistakes you should avoid in order to live a stress-free retirement.

Manage debt responsibly It's great to want to live a debt free life, but in this day and age, it's quite a tall task. What's more it does not really augur well for you, when you really need a loan.

In the world that we live in today, lenders will go through your CIBIL report to see your credit history. If you have no credit or only a single credit, they will interpret it as an extreme aversion to risk, and will be unwilling to give you that loans you need. The right thing to do therefore is to have a good mix of credit (secured and unsecured loans) and make timely repayments of the same. This will reflect in your CIBIL report and you will end up having a high CIBIL score.

Don't bite off more than you can chew Just because everything is available on credit today, does not mean you need to have everything. It's good to be aspirational, but make sure you do not find yourself struggling under a huge debt pile at any given time.

Loans and credit cards should be taken according to your needs. If your debt goes out of hand you can be in trouble trying to repay it all. Chalk out your financial goals in a manner that you can make timely payments in phases and retire peacefully.

Keep an eye on your CIBIL Score This is the most important aspect of managing your finances today. CIBIL is the oldest credit bureau in India and all the credit institutions contribute credit data on their borrowers to CIBIL on a monthly basis. Your credit report is generated by CIBIL basis information received from various lenders. They will also assign you a Credit score basis your credit profile in the Bureau.

Sometimes because of some discrepancies on behalf of the lender, wrong data may be fed in, and there may even be cases of a mistaken identity. This means a loan you may not have taken may show up against your name. If you remain ignorant, this will keep reflecting badly on your credit score, and you may be deprived of your dues. It is therefore most important for you to check your CIBIL report at least once annually and make the rectifications if necessary.

Avoiding these crucial mistakes when you are in your prime and planning out your financial goals will lead to a peaceful retirement. If you plan well you will be able to enjoy life at its fullest when you are relieved of your responsibilities.

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Afternoon Despatch & Courier

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Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MUMBAI | MONDAY, JULY 20, 2015

« TOP VIEW Words are like money, there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

—Legendary Investor Warren Buffett

« BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS

EMKAY CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON ADANI PORTS

Markets Close Flat Amidst Volatility NSE India : CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Monday (July 20, 2015) By Dominic Rebello

REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY:

The Nifty rose marginally on Friday (July 17, 2015) a net 1.80 points (0.02%) and closed at the 8609 point level. The market opened up with a gap at the 8623 points level. It then rose further and registered the day’s high at the 8642 points level at 9.29 a.m. The index then declined sharply into the red and registered the day’s low at the 8593 points level at 9.56 a.m. It then bounced back into the green and turned into a range bound movement until closing at the day. The Nifty witnessed a volatile session and moved in a range of 50 points. Sentiment was bullish and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 32 were gainers, 16 were losers and 2 remained unchanged. Substantial buying was witnessed in consumer durables and technology stocks, TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Volume: Volume (Qty shares) increased 0.34%. This change is small and indicates a moderate participation by investors.

Market Breadth: Overall Market Breadth on the NSE was neutral. Amongst all the traded stocks, 726 were gainers, 746 were losers and 37 remained unchanged.

Slow Stochastic Indicator: The Slow Stochastic Oscillator has risen in the over-bought zone.

The Slow K line in the Stochastic Oscillator is above the slow D line (positive if it continues).

RSI Indicator: The RSI is above the 60 level and is now turned flat (positive if it rises).

MACD Indicator: The MACD is above zero and is rising (positive if it continues). It is above its 9-day Average (positive).

Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main support is at the 8178 points level.

The next support is at the 8106 points level.

Resistance Levels: The immediate main resistance is at the 8667 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 = 8615 (This is the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-day).

Support (1) = 8588.

Support (2) = 8566.

Resistance (1) = 8637. Resistance (2) = 8665.

OUTLOOK FOR TODAY: On Japanese candlestick patterns the index has formed a doji pattern. This 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 is above its 5, 15, 25 and 200 day moving averages and all the four averages are rising.

Further, the velocity parameters too indicate strength.

Both these indicate a positive bias and the possibility of a further up move unfolding. Incidentally, the index is approaching a major resistance level at the 8667 points level. There is a possibility that it could find some resistance there. However, if it crosses above it then a further rise can be expected. Investors are advised to hold long positions. Investors are advised to hold long positions.

Work with strict stop losses on all positions

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

The ADX is rising while the Market Index is flat. No signal here.

MOVING AVERAGES (TREND INDICATORS) The index: Is above its 5-day average (at 8531) Positive.

Is above its 15-day average (at 8454) Positive.

Is above its 25-day average (at 8369) Positive.

Is above its 200-day average (at 8397) Positive.

Overall Market Strength/Weakness: The indicators and oscillators discussed here are indicating a strong market but with a neutral bias.

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.

CMP: Rs. 329 Target Rs. 385 ADSEZ has received the letter of award (LOA) from the government of Kerala for development of the Vizhinjam International Deepwater Project. The estimated project. cost stands at Rs40.89 bn which includes the grant of Rs16.35 bn. Capacity enhancement only if existing capacity achieves 75% utilisation over the three continuous accounting period (Master plan to develop capacity from 1 mnteu to 3 mnteu). We believe that Vizhinjam port will be competing with Tuticorin, Cochin, Chennai port (to the lesser extent as calling from mainline vessels has increased at Chennai port). The port will also compete with the international port Colombo for the transshipment traffic. We believe that the terminal will cater 65-70% of the transshipment volumes where Adani will find it difficult to have pricing power given that Colombo still remains cheap in terms of container handling charges amongst all transshipment ports. We have not factored this project in our estimates as we await further details. Maintain Buy ADSEZ Signs LOA for Vizhinjam Port: ADSEZ has received the letter of award (LOA) from the government of Kerala for development of the Vizhinjam International Deepwater Project. The estimated project cost stands at Rs40.89 bn which includes the grant of Rs16.35 bn. The project will to get commission in the next four years. The Kerala state will spend additional Rs14.63 bn towards break water construction and Rs5.3 bn towards land acquisition (around 53 hectares). The company will receive 75% of the grant during the period of construction and 25% once the terminal gets commissioned. The concession period of the project is 40 years with the option of 20 years further extension. Revenue share of 1% to the Authority are expected to commence from the 15th year of COD as per the Concession Agreement. (to increase by 1% every year) Target Market for Vizhinjam: Vizhinjam port will be competing with Tuticorin, Cochin, Chennai port (to the lesser extent as calling from mainline vessels has increased at Chennai port). The port will also compete with international port Colombo for the transshipment traffic. We believe in the first leg Vizhinjam will try to gain market share from Cochin port due to the availability of similar hinterland for the southern Kerala cargo which contributes around 40% of the Kerala traffic.

However, the east coast of India, Bangladesh and south coast of India may be a target market of transshipment traffic for Vizhinjam. The target transshipment traffic market available for the proposed Vizhinjam port is share of feeder traffic generated from the ISC (Indian subcontinent) countries namely, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka. Currently, Colombo is serving as transhipment hub for the same market

RELIGARE CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON SOUTH INDIAN BANK

CMP: Rs. 24 Target Rs. 31 SIB’s Q1FY16 PAT dropped 48% YoY to Rs 653mn due to lower NIMs and a decline in treasury income. NII remained flat YoY while NIM declined by 16bps sequentially due to pressure on yields (down 25bps QoQ). Slippages and incremental restructuring were higher during the quarter. GNPA/NNPA increased to 1.9%/1.2% as compared to 1.7%/1% in Q4FY15. On the positive side, transaction fees increased 35% YoY and forex fees were up 22% YoY. Maintain BUY with a Mar’16 TP of Rs 31.

Disappointment on asset quality front: Slippages increased during the quarter to Rs 1.8bn (annualised slippage ratio of 1.9%) vs. Rs 1.6bn in Q4FY15. An account worth Rs 1.1bn (steel sector) was added to restructured assets, taking SIB’s outstanding restructured book to 5.7% of total assets as compared to 5.5% in Q4FY15. GNPA and NNPA increased to 1.9% and 1.2% respectively as compared to 1.7% and 1% in Q4FY15. NPA provisions were lower during the quarter and the NPA coverage ratio (reported) declined to 35% vs. 45% in Q4FY15 which is worrying.

NIM remains weak at 2.54%: Margins declined by 16bps sequentially as yield on loans dipped 25bps QoQ due to higher slippages and a continued run-down in the retail and SME book. The low-yielding corporate loan portfolio stood at 43% of loans as compared to 41% in Q4FY15. Management aims to improve the loan mix in favour of retail/SME loans by 10% in the next three years, which in turn will improve margins.

Other key takeaways: Loans grew by 12% YoY during the quarter. Transaction fees (up 35% YoY) and forex fees (up 22% YoY) both improved, which is positive.

The C/I ratio deteriorated to 59% as compared to 53% in Q1FY15.

Maintain BUY: We value SIB at 1.5x FY17E P/ABV (BV adjusted for NPA and restructured assets: Rs 6/sh). Maintain BUY with a TP of Rs 31.

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Port Policies Only If Your Are Unhappy With The Services Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MANOJ ASWANI

is VP at MyInsurance Club.com

« INSURANCE

I want to change the nominee, can I do that?

—Sunil Pawar, Parel Yes, you can change the nominee; however, below are the charges for change or cancellation in nominee: - E-Policies (issued in electronic form): Rs. 50 - Non e-Policies (issued hard copy of the policy): Rs. 100 You can get in touch with the insurer for further clarity on the above.

I am already covered with group insurance policy of United India Insurance for Rs 1.5 Lakhs. I want another top up policy for Rs 3.5 lakhs, what should I do?

—Abhijit Joshi, Chembur You may not get a top up policy on your group insurance cover. Apply for a new individual policy in your name.

I have an individual mediclaim policy for myself, my spouse and my son. We are planning to port in a floater plan of other company. Is it advisable?

MUMBAI | MONDAY, JULY 20, 2015

—Deep Roy, Bandra If you are happy with the service of your current insurance company then porting is not recommended. Unless you know that the new company offers features and benefits which are lacking in your existing policy, then it is okay to port. If you have an individual policy and you can afford to pay for it in future for all members, then it is better to keep it that way. There is no need to move to a floater policy.

I hold these policies from LIC- 3 Jeevan Anand policies, total premium Rs. 24246, 2 Jeevan Saral Policies, total premium Rs. 19804, which totals up to 49,050 per year, right now I can afford to pay Rs. 30,000 a year. Should I cancel few policies from the above?

—Avinash Kamle, Kurla Your insurance portfolio is full of savings plan which is not recommended.

Although your returns are guaranteed, the yield will be much lower. LIC gives you an option to surrender policy or reduce it to paid up. Take the original policy documents to the LIC branch from where the policies were issued (mentioned on your policy document).

Discuss each policy with a senior employee there and then exit few policies.

I want to know about Bharti AXA loan secure and group ADB rider policy, please advice —Paresh Kumar, Byculla Bharti AXA Loan Secure is a group term insurance policy where you pay

By Manoj Aswani

Summary Reliance Individual Mediclaim Insurance Policy is a basic health insurance policy which takes care of hospitalisation or medical expenses incurred by an individual or by the any of the insured family members.

a single premium. The policy provides comprehensive credit protection under multiple loan segments under a single product. But it is a group policy and cannot be taken by an individual. If you want a term plan from Bharti AXA then you will have to buy eProtect.

I am suffering from ankylosing spondylitis both hip joints replaced, am I eligible for term insurance plan?

—Pramod Lokhande, Mazgaon Eligibility criteria are different for each insurance company based on their internal underwriting norms and pricing. Whether or not a specific company wants to accept your application can be found out only after ap-

I have a group insurance from national, and this covers myself, my spouse, a child and dependant parents. I want to know other plans with the same facility from different insurer.

—Arjun Singh, Thane More than 24 non-life insurance companies in India offer similar health insurance plans. Some of them are exclusive health insurance compa-

(The author is Vice President at www.MyInsuranceClub.com, insurance comparison website in India.

You may write to him at manoj@myinsuranceclub.com).

« PRODUCT REVIEW: RELIANCE INDIVIDUAL MEDICLAIM INSURANCE PLAN

A Basic Cashless Health Insurance Policy

Key Features of Reliance Individual Mediclaim Insurance Policy Cashless hospitalisation Cover for individual and family Provides cover for day care treatment Also provides for domiciliary hospitalisation

days and post-hospitalisation expenses for 60 days Domiciliary (expenses incurred on treatment taken at home under due to certain constraints) Cost of Organs Hospitalisation expenses of Donor in case of organ transplant Day care treatments requiring less than 24 hr hospitalisation like chemotherapy, dialysis, radiotherapy, eye surgery

What is covered in Family floater policy?

An individual and/or his spouse Children between 3 months and 5 yrs

Eligibility and Restrictions Reliance Individual Mediclaim Insurance Policy Particulars Min. Max. Coverage Amount (in Rs.) 15,000 5,00,000 Entry Age (in years) 5 80 Renewable till Age (in yrs) 80 Policy Term (in years) 1 What is covered in Reliance Individual Mediclaim Insurance Policy?

Hospitalisation expenses such as room rent and boarding costs, operation theatre charges Doctor and surgeon, anesthetists, specialists and consultants fees

plying for a term plan. You can apply by declaring all facts about the medical condition. The underwriting team in the insurance company will decide if they want to cover the risk or not.

Insurance companies usually accept applications with past medical history by charging slightly extra premium.

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There are Lit Fests taking place all over the country, but the community of readers is dwindling. Still, passionate book lovers would like to know what others like themselves are reading. This Book Nook suggests some books, but would also like to connect with serious readers, or even casual airport book browsers. Do write in about books you have loved or hated and why. The best entries will be shared on this page. Please send your recommendations to adc.booknook@gmail.com.

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mitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy is a masterwork of research, historical fiction and all the small things that make for the big picture.

The range of characters, the breadth of imagination, the flair for multiple dialects, the detailing—all wrapped in a very entertaining package.

Flood of Fire, the last of the trilogy, comes out after Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke, tying up all loose ends, giving all (or almost all) main characters a proper narrative arc and a kind of closure, while telling the sprawling tale of events leading the OpiumWar (1839-42) between China and the UK.

Of particular interest to India readers is the contribution of Indian sepoys and Mumbai’s Parsi traders to the spread of the East India Company’s (EIC) influence that had once ensured that the sun never set on the British Empire. In spite of their intolerable racism and air of superiority, the British knew how to lead men, how to fight the enemy with military might or subterfuge and their absolute faith in profit and Free Trade, even if it meant fighting wars, exploiting the poor, or ruining a country by getting its people addicted to opium.

Sea of Poppies, focused on how the people of north and east India were forced to cultivate poppy and produce opium. Deeti was a heroine, who escaped being killed on her husband’s pyre and sailed to Mauritius on the Ibis, along with other indentured labourers or ‘girmitiyas’. River of Smoke moved to Canton to see how the opium business flourished— a Parsi trader Behram Modi taking centrestage here, as one of the tiny community that built its foundations of fabulous wealth on the opium trade What links the main characters in their connection to the Ibis.

In the third part, the strands that overlap involves Deeti’s brother Kesri Singh, a sepoy in the EIC’s army, who becomes a volunteer or ‘balamteer’ on the EIC’s China campaign; Behram’s widow Shireen, who is forced out of her sheltered life and into the hurly burly of international intrigue; and the most interesting character, Zachary Reid, the lowly ship’s mate turned carpenter or ‘mystery’, who buries his sordid past and

Excerpt from Flood of Fire:

ZACHARY was careful to make an early start for his appointment with Mrs Burnham.

Bethel, the Burnham residence, was in Garden Reach, a distant suburb of Calcutta where many of the city’s wealthiest British merchants had built palatial homes. The area lay to the south of the dockyards of Kidderpore, on a stretch of shore that overlooked the Hooghly River.

The Burnham estate was one of the grandest in Garden Reach: the house was vast, surrounded by a compound that sprawled over two acres of riverfront.

Zachary had been inside the mansion twice before, as a dinner guest. On both occasions, he had been ushered in through the front doorway, by a magnificently uniformed chobdar, and his name had been announced in ringing tones as he stepped into the Burnhams’ glittering sheesh-mull.

But his fortunes had been on the rise at that time: he had just been appointed second mate of the Ibis and he had also been in possession of a trunkful of finery.Since then he had come a long way down in the world, and the change in his circumstances was made amply clear to him from the moment he presented himself at the estate’s gate. He was taken around to a servants’ entrance, where he was handed over to a couple of veiled maids who led him through a series of narrow corridors and staircases to Mrs Burnham’s sewing room – a small sunlit parlour, with sewing boxes stacked on the tables and embroidery hanging on the walls.

Mrs Burnham was seated at one of the tables, dressed austerely in white calico, with a lace cap on her head. She had an embroidery frame in her hand, and did not look up from it when Zachary was shown to the door.

‘Oh, is it the mystery? Send him in.’

Mrs Burnham was a tall, Junoesque woman, with reddish-brown hair and an air of placid indifference. At their previous meetings she had addressed hardly a word to Zachary which was just as well perhaps, for he had been so thoroughly cowed by her distant, languid manner that he might have found himself at a loss for an answer.

Now, without stirring from her seat or glancing at him, she said: ‘Good morning, Mr…?’

‘Reid, ma’am. Good morning.’

Zachary took a step towards her, with his hand half-extended, but only to beat a hasty retreat when she failed to look up from her embroidery. He understood now why Mrs Burnham had elected to receive him in her sewing room rather than in one of the many reception rooms on the ground floor: she wanted to impress on him that his position in the house was that of a servant, not a guest, and that he was expected to behave accordingly.

‘Mr Reid, I gather you are a trained mystery?’

reaches a position of wealth and power grabbing every opportunity that comes his way, biting every hand that feeds him.

The chapters on his affair with Mrs Burnham, the wife of a powerful trader, are over-extended, but amusing for their bawdiness and the Anglo-Indian patios used by the British in India— Hindi words acquiring their own pronunciation and spelling. (The phrases uses to de-

‘Yes, ma’am. I apprenticed at Gardiner’s shipyard in Baltimore.’

Mrs Burnham’s eye did not waver from her embroidery. ‘Mr Doughty has no doubt explained the job to you. Do you feel that you will be able to refurbish the budgerow to our satisfaction?’

‘Yes, ma’am. I’ll certainly do my best.’

She raised her eyes now, and looked him over with a frown. ‘You appear rather young to be an experienced mystery, Mr Reid. But Mr Doughty speaks highly of you and I am inclined to trust his word. He has also told me about your financial difficulties; he has led me to believe that you are deserving of our charity.’

‘Mr Doughty is very kind, ma’am.’

Mrs Burnham carried on as if he had not spoken: ‘My husband and I have always endeavoured to be sympathetic to the poor whites of this country. There are sadly too many such in India – they venture out from the Occident in the hope of making their fortunes but only to end up in difficulties.

Mr Burnham feels that it is incumbent upon us to do what we can to prevent these unfortunate creatures from becoming a blight on the prestige of the ruling race. We have always made an effort to be generous to those who need it – I am inclined

scribe various sexual acts are laughout-loud funny). Reid is just the kind of unscrupulous man who would rise to prominence in the new world created by the Raj. Anyone with less gumption would simply drop by the wayside, like the unfortunate Captain Mee, or Behram’s illegitimate son, Freddie Lee. The bankrupted Raja, Neel Rattan Halder, imprisoned by the British, who had also escaped from the Ibis

therefore to offer you the job.’

‘Thank you, ma’am,’ said Zachary. ‘You will not regret it.’

Her frown deepened, as if to indicate that his thanks were premature.

‘And may I ask, Mr Reid,’ she said, ‘where you intend to reside if I hire you for this job?’

This took Zachary by surprise and he began to stutter. ‘Why, ma’am … I’ve been renting a room in Kidderpore—’ ‘I’m sorry,’ she said sharply, cutting him off. ‘That will not do. Those Kidderpore boarding houses are known to be dens of disease, iniquity and vice. I cannot allow it, in all conscience. Besides, the budgerow needs to be guarded at night and I have no chowkidar to spare.’

It occurred to Zachary now that she was hinting that he should live on the budgerow. He could hardly believe his luck: to be given a chance to escape the flea-bitten flop-houses he had been living in was as much as he could have hoped for.

‘I’d be glad to move into the budgerow, ma’am,’ he said, trying not to sound too eager. ‘If you have no objection, that is.’

Now at last, she put her embroidery aside but only to subject him to a scrutiny that made his forehead pucker with perspiration.

‘It must be clearly understood, Mr Reid,’ she said, her voice growing sharper, ‘that this is a reputable house where certain standards are upheld. While living on this estate you will be expected to comport yourself with the utmost propriety at all times.

On no account will you be permitted any visitors, male or female. Is that understood?’

‘Yes, ma’am. Clearly understood.’

Her frown deepened. ‘This month I shall be away for a while,’ she said, ‘because I must take my daughter to my parents’ country estate, at Hazaribagh. I trust there will be no laxity in my absence?’

‘No, ma’am.’

‘If there is, you may be sure that I shall learn of it. I know that you have been at sea and I confess that this is a cause of considerable concern to me.

I am sure you are aware of the deplorable reputation that sailors have earned in the eyes of respectable people.’

‘Yes, ma’am.’

‘You should be warned, Mr Reid, that you shall be under observation at all times. Although the budgerow is moored at a good distance from this house, you should not imagine that the distance is enough to conceal unseemliness of any kind.’

‘Yes, ma’am.’

Now falling silent, she transfixed him with a glare that was as sharp as the needle in her hand: it seemed to go right through his clothes and into his skin. ‘Very well then,’ she said, as he stood squirming in his shoes. ‘Please start at your earliest convenience.’

and ended up in China, plays the part of chronicler, his brave son Raju, with the help of the bizarre Baboo Nob Kissin Panda, also enters the story.

The build up to the war is interesting, but scenes of the battles go on a bit too long and make for dull reading; still the narrative perks up when Zachary, Kesri or Neel appear.

Till the end, when Hong Kong is annexed by the British, after thou-

sands of Chinese have been slaughtered, the action never lets up. It is a fascinating glimpse or history, especially in the light of China’s current place in the world’s power hierarchy and the UK’s great decline. Worth reading all three books—the first remains the best!

Flood of Fire

By Amitav Ghosh Publisher:Viking Pages: 616

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19-yr-old’s stabbing: AAP holds protest against Delhi police

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NEWS IN BRIEF 72-year-old woman held on charges of selling ganja SALEM (PTI): A 72-year-old woman was today arrested on charges of selling ganja here, police said. The woman was allegedly selling ganja packets.

She was arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.

One Amarnath Yatri dies; toll rises to 23

SRINAGAR (PTI): One more pilgrim died due to cardiac arrest enroute to the 3,880 metre-high cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas, taking the death toll in the ongoing yatra to 23, officials said today.

Mahesh Prasad (59), a resident of Uttar Pradesh suffered cardiac arrest at Sonamarg, 85 kms from here, last night, the officials said.

The latest death took the toll in the ongoing yatra, which started on July 2, up to 23.

The dead also included a CRPF jawan. So far, over 2.40 lakh pilgrims have paid obeisance at the cave shrine which houses the naturally formed ice-shivlingam.

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EW DELHI: The Aam Aadmni Party today held a protest against Delhi Police over the killing of a 19-year-old girl in Anand Parbat locality three days back, saying it has failed to provide security to women.

The protesters outside Delhi Police headquarters, some of whom climbed the barricades, were sprayed with water cannons.

Few of the protesters were detained from the spot and later released.

Meanwhile, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has asked the Delhi Police AAP workers during a protest against Delhi Police in New Delhi on Sunday. PTI

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65-year-old woman injured after leopard attack DEHRADUN (PTI): A 65-year-old woman was seriously injured when a leopard attacked her in Augustmuni area of Rudraprayag district here, forest officials said today. The incident occurred when Kalpeshwari Devi (65) was sitting in her veranda yesterday when the Leopard attacked her in Singhata village of Augustmuni area, they added. As she shouted for help, family members rushed to the spot to rescue her, they said adding that she was badly injured in attack. She was shifted to hospital and is undergoing treatment, officials said.

Youth killed while boarding moving train

BAGHPAT (UP): A 18-year-old youth died while another got injured while they were tried to board a moving train at Aheda station in the city area here, police said today. Riyasat (18) and Prashant (22) fell on the railway track when they were trying to get on a moving passenger train, they said. While Riyasat died on the spot, Prashant lost his leg in the accident and has been admitted to a hospital, where his condition is said to be stable, police said.

Man killed in jeep-truck collision

LUCKNOW (PTI): A 30-year-old man was killed and two others injured when their jeep allegedly collided with a stationary truck in Jangipur area of Ghazipur district, police said today. One Dablu was killed last night and two others injured when the jeep they were traveling in lost control and hit the truck that was parked alongside the road in Jangipur, they said.

commissioner BS Bassi to meet him on Monday to discuss law and order situation in the national capital.

Nineteen-year-old Meenakshi was brutally stabbed to death allegedly by two brothers living in her neighbourhood for protesting their verbal abuse on July 16.

Kejriwal had yesterday announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family of the victim and ordered a magisterial probe into the case while slamming Delhi Police for the "deteriorating" law and order situation.

NDRF personnel along with locals during rescue operations after a four-storey building collapsed in the Vishnu Garden area of West Delhi on Sunday. PTI

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EW DELHI: The death toll in the west Delhi building collapse rose to four today even as Delhi government ordered an inquiry into the tragedy and an FIR was lodged against unidentified persons.

According to police, Om Prakash (50) today succumbed to his injuries during treatment following the mishap last evening in the Vishnu Garden area of west Delhi.

The three other deceased are all women while eight persons were also injured in the incident.

A young girl is "still suspected to be trapped under the debris" and rescue efforts are on at the site of the building collapse, said Joint Commissioner of Police (West Delhi Range), Dipendra Pathak.

Delhi government, which has ordered an inquiry into the incident, accused the BJP-led MCD of failing to ensure compliance with safety standards, charges which the civic body denied. "People have told me there was construction going on and the entire building has collapsed on one side due to which four people have died and eight others were injured," said Delhi PWD Minister Satyendera Jain.

"Whatever construction work was going on, MCD had full responsibility to stop it, which they should have done... The government has ordered an investigation, to be done by the DM of the area, and the report will be submitted within seven

days," he said, adding that "strict action will be taken against the culprits".

Meanwhile, DCP (West Delhi), Pushpendra Kumar, said that an FIR "under Section 304 of IPC (causing death by negligence) has been registered against unknown persons in connection with the wall collapse".

As AAP held the civic body responsible for the tragedy, the BJPled SDMC refuted the allegations and claimed it was "seepage in the sewer line" that had "weakened" the foundation of the building, leading to its collapse. According to SDMC, the building was 25 years old and "no buildings laws were violated" as alleged by AAP. "A sewer line was laid in the area about it three months ago; seepage in it weakened the foundation of the building, which led to the collapse," a senior SDMC official claimed.

The eight persons injured in the collapse have been identified as Ravi (30), Madan (3), Aman (12), Shyamlal (50), Pooja (15), Brijlal (65), Prem Babu (51) and Hemant (19), police said.

The deceased have been identified as Sandhya (30), Om Prakash (50), Bina (15) and Sarvati (33), they said.

Six of the injured were discharged immediately after treatment while two seriously injured persons were shifted last night to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, police added.

EW DELHI: With a local AAP MLA holding the civic body responsible for the building collapse in west Delhi, BJP-ruled SDMC today refuted the allegation and claimed it was "seepage in sewer line" that made the foundation of the building "weak" leading to the incident.

A four-storeyed building in Vishnu Garden area in West Delhi had collapsed late last night and four people have died while four others have been injured. The area falls in the West Zone of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC). According to SDMC, the building was 25 years old and "no buildings laws were violated" as alleged by AAP. "A sewer line was laid in the area about it three months ago, and seepage in it had made the foundation of the building weak, which led to the collapse," a senior SDMC official claimed.

Asked if any complaint in this regard was received at the corporation he said, "Sewer lines fall under the DJB and not our jurisdiction."

Senior AAP leader and party MLA from Tilak Nagar Jarnail Singh

held the municipal corporation responsible for the incident.

Singh, who visited the site of the accident late last night alleged violation of municipal building laws as the reason behind the mishap.

"The municipal corporation is completely responsible for this collapse incident. Such incidents keep taking place in Delhi because people violate norms and MCD must check those violations and not allow any lapse in it," the AAP MLA told PTI. Senior BJP leader and South Delhi Mayor Subhash Arya, who visited the accident site this morning along with other senior officials of SDMC has countered the allegation made by AAP with his own accusation of the party legislators.

"Local AAP MLAs do not allow us to work when we visit the area for any development work," Arya alleged.

According to the senior SDMC official, "A zonal-level report has been sought by the Deputy Commissioner on the incident and if any municipal official is found at fault then administrative action will be initiated against them."

People who fell sick after consuming ‘prasad’ at a religious event, at Kharguli last week being treated at Guwahati Medical College Hospital on Sunday. PTI

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PRATAPGARH (UP): A 52-year-old woman was allegedly hacked to death by her son in Bhanso village of Baghraj area here, police said today. Anaro Devi was allegedly hacked to death by her son Pintu Saroj yesterday after they both had an argument, Superintendent of Police, Akhilesh Kumar Chaurasia said.

The matter came to light when Pintu's younger brother saw him digging a grave inside the house to bury his mother, Chaurasia said.An FIR has been lodged in this regard, police said, adding that efforts are on to nab the accused.

Youth in custody for posting objectionable message on Whatsapp

LAKHIMPUR KHERI (UP): A youth has been taken into custody here today for allegedly posting objectionable message on messaging application Whatsapp.The accused, identified as Ravi Sharma (about 21 years old), has been taken into custody, Awanishwar Chandra Srivastava, Deputy Police Superintendent (Mohammadi) said.

Angered by the post, dozens of locals held demonstration outside Sharma's house in Amirnagar village here and tried to block road traffic. The police officer said that a case would be lodged under appropriate sections in this connection.

Drug peddler arrested, 2.5 kg ganja seized

GHAZIABAD (PTI): An alleged drug peddler has been arrested and 2.5 kg ganja confiscated from his possession at Gagan Vihar area here, police said today. Acting on a tip-off, Arjun, a resident of Gagan Vihar was arrested yesterday from his residence and 2.5 kg ganja recovered from him, Hari Dayal Singh Yadav, SHO, Sahibabad said. The accused has been sent to jail under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, he added.

‘No FIR against NRIs from UP without zonal IG's nod’

LUCKNOW (PTI): No FIRs would be registered against the NRIs from Uttar Pradesh without the permission of zonal Inspector General of police, government officials said today.

"A directive regarding this has been issued by Principal Secretary, Home, to all the senior police officers. Now no FIRs will be registered against NRIs from UP without informing and taking permission of zonal IGs," state government Advisor for NRI and Externally Aided Projects, Madhukar Jetely said.

Action would be taken against police station in-charges flouting the order, he said.

"The decision will help the

Vyapam issue may rock MP Assembly’s monsoon session

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HOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Assembly is likely to witness a stormy monsoon session beginning tomorrow with Congress planning to raise the Vyapam scam and corner the government while the latter gearing up to highlight that it played a vital role for a CBI probe into the scandal.

"We want that the Assembly should begin with condoling the deaths of 48 people linked to Vya-

trict and burnt alive allegedly by mining mafia last month. His body was found in Maharashtra.

The multi-crore MP Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam, popularly known as the Vyapam scam, involving politicians, bureaucrats and high profile touts, pertains to massive admissions and recruitments to government medical colpam scam. And for this, we have al- government over the Vyapam scam. leges and government's ready written to Assembly Speaker BJP legislators are going to vocif- departments respectively by fraudDr Sitasharan Sharma. We have not erously argue that Chief Minister ulent means. The CBI, which is now yet received any word from the Shivraj Singh Chouhan took the lid probing the scam following the Speaker," Leader of Opposition off the Vyapam scam and cleared Supreme Court's order, has already Satyadev Katare told reporters here. the way for CBI probe into it, a rul- registered over a dozen cases reOn the other hand, the ruling BJP ing party MLA said. lated to the racket. has already issued a whip to its minBesides, Congress was also going The MP's Special Task Force, isters and legislators to be present to raise the issue of "lawlessness" in which earlier probed the scam, had during the session, scheduled to the state by highlighting the killing registered about 55 FIRs and put up end on July 31, and thwart the at- of journalist Sandeep Kothari, who 28 challans in the court in connectempts of Congress to corner the was kidnapped from Balaghat dis- tion with the scandal.

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EW DELHI (PTI): Amid a raging controversy over saffronisation of education, IIT Delhi's decision to invite yoga guru Ramdev and an RSS affiliate for deliberations on a programme to leverage the technical strength of the IITs for development of rural areas has raised eyebrows.

Ramdev and members of RSS' Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram had attended the meeting on implementation of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan in January this year along with other stakeholders and professors associated with the programme including chairman of IIT Delhi Board of Governors, Vijay Bhatkar.

The meeting, during which involvement of cows to address rural issues were discussed, came at a time when the then IIT Delhi Director R Shivgaonkar had stepped down from his post amid allegations of interference of the HRD ministry. His resignation was accepted in June this year.

While Union HRD minister Smriti Irani had consistently denied saf-

fronisation of education, yesterday she held deliberations with RSS affiliated bodies on the new education policy during which they are understood to have also discussed the appointments of possible candidates in various institutes and varsities in the country.

However, IIT Delhi sought to downplay the presence of Ramdev saying he was invited as he wanted to collaborate with the rural development initiatives.

Meanwhile, officials in the HRD ministry said they were not aware of Ramdev's presence in that meeting.

"He wanted to collaborate with

After 4 yrs’ hiatus, Maoists trying to regroup in Junglemahal K

OLKATA: Maoists are regrouping in the Junglemahal area of West Bengal after being in hibernation for nearly four years, according to intelligence reports. "There has been a surge in their activities in the past six months. We have specific reports of their movements both individually and in small groups, especially in Binpur, Lalgarh, and parts of Purulia," a senior CRPF officer, overseeing anti-Maoist operations in the state, told PTI. Joint forces of CRPF and West Bengal Police have been conducting raids in the Junglemahal, which comprises forested parts of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia districts, to keep a tab on Maoist activities, the officer said on the condition of anonymity.

Maoist activities ebbed in the state after the 'Operation Green Hunt' was launched with the joint forces mounting attacks on the Left-wing rebels killing many including CPI (Maoist) politburo member Kishenji.

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Kishenji, who was leading the rebels' activities in the state, was killed in an encounter with the joint forces on November 24, 2011. The state had witnessed a spurt in Maoist violence towards the end of 2008. "I can't say that they are not regrouping. Because they have been making efforts to regroup for quite some time. But we are on high alert and there has been no instance of Maoist violence in Junglemahal area in last four years," IG (CRPF) West Bengal sector Vivek Sahay told PTI. The latest intelligence reports said the ultras were trying to form small groups in the area and rebuild their movement from the scratch.

"In comparison to past three years, since last six months there has been a surge in their movements... Although it's not too big but this time during Martyrs' Day observed by the Maoists there has been a partial response in the areas," a senior state Intelligence Bureau official said.

rural development activities and we had invited him since he was in Delhi during that period. He also wanted to explore technologies which we wanted to establish in his clusters," said Professor Virender Kumar Vijay of the Centre for Rural Development and Technology at IIT Delhi, which is considered as one of the brainchild behind the programme. Professor Vijay also sought to play down reports that they have collaborated with some spiritual gurus in taking ahead the programme.

"We have in fact collaborated with about 100 agencies in our mission which also comprised other spiritual gurus. They are having their people connect and if they are connected with the people and want to do something for rural technologies then only we will be considering," he said. Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, a HRD Ministry scheme anchored by IIT Delhi, seeks to leverage the technical strength of the IITs to help develop rural India through technological intervention.

3 bootleggers arrested, 1,071 bottles of liquor seized in UP G

HAZIABAD (PTI): Three persons arrested and 1,071 bottles of liquor were seized in two separate incidents while the bottles were being smuggled from Haryana to Uttar Pradesh, police said today.

Farukh and Sabir were arrested this morning near Shahzadpur village on the charges of bootlegging and 835 bottles of smuggled liquor were seized from them after a search operation, said Ummed Singh Yadav, SHO of Muradnagar police station.

Also, two knives were recovered from their possession and their vehicle was seized, he said.

In another incident, one Kushmesh was arrested and 236 bottles of liquor was seized from his car which was being smuggled from Haryana to UP during a routine cheque at Kavi Nagar area last night, police said today.

Man crushed to death under festival chariot ERHAMPUR (Odisha) (PTI): A nath Reddy of Laxmi Nagar in LanB 28-year-old man was allegedly jipalli area in the town, was immecrushed to death under the wheels diately taken to MKCG Medical of Sri Jagannath's chariot at Lanjipalli in this district, police said today. The incident took place when the man fell down while pulling the chariot during the Rath Yatra festival yesterday.

The man, identified as G Jagan-

College and Hospital where the doctors declared him as brought dead, police said. Senior police officers, including SP (Berhampur) Sarthak Sarangi, rushed to the spot. The incident did not affect pulling of the chariot, the SP said.

Children carrying school books as they move to safe places from their waterlogged homes during heavy rains, at Dwarka Nagar in Bhopal on Sunday. PTI

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LOVIN’ IT UP

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Do Not Be In A Hurry

I am 21 and my girlfriend who is also 21 (few months elder to me). She has more experience than me as she had a boyfriend earlier. I get strong urges to make out with her and wish to want to turn her on often but I’ve only done it once and I feel like an amateur and I get nervous when things get hot. How do I deal with this feeling and this situation?

If you are talking about casual sex, then the heart is not involved, with the result that there is a need to impress and score points because of a fear that you are being evaluated against others. If your girlfriend is also with you for a casual fling then she could very possibly be ‘rating’ your performance. However, if both of you are deeply emotionally involved with each other and are committed to each other, then there is no cause for fear. Sex is beautiful

Aries What the cards say: Your relationships will change Path: Accept the change and flow. Don’t be angry or hurt Ally: Libra will calm you down . Avoid Leo or Sagittarius who could make you impatient Card for the week: Tarot key no. II the High Priestess. She invites you to look within and see your true self. All relationship will flow from that

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I have enjoyed sex for 14 years. But in 1992 my wife underwent hysterectomy operation after which we cannot enjoy sex. Because if my penis penetrates even one inch she gets unbearable pain. We have also seen a gynaecologist who gave her hormone tablets (premarin) and some gel to be applied (KY jelly). The tablets were taken for nearly 4 years but all in vain. Nothing happened. Till date she gets unbearable pain and so we do not enjoy sex. My penis cannot pen etrate even one inch. Please advise how both of us can enjoy sex.

There are several possible causes of such pain during penetration. She may not be adequately lubricated or wet, her pelvic muscles may be too tight or constricted, or then she might have an injury or an infection involving her vulva or vagina. This pain may or may not have anything to do with the

What the cards say: You need to be focused Path: Prioritise and plan your future.

Don’t be laid back but discuss your ides with loved one Ally: Libra will show you the right path. Avoid Scorpio who could make you go off track Card for the week: Tarot key no. XX Judgment invites to look at your motives and reasons for doing things. Be objective and see things as they are. Awake to your true calling

What the cards say: Relax and enjoy Path: Be centered and sensible. Don’t swing to an extreme Ally: Scorpio will give you warmth. Avoid Sagittarius who could make you more angry Card for the week: Tarot key no. XIV the Temperance which says that balance and healing is at hand

What the cards say: Peaceful week Path: Understand yourself.

Don’t make excuses but face the situation with firm decision Ally: Aries gives you energy.

Stay away from Cancer and their selfish advice Card for the week: Tarot key no. V The Heirophant. Look at the lessons and received wisdom. Do you want to go by that or forge your own path?

What the cards say: Be generous Path: Celebrate the victory of other people. Don’t be jealous Ally: The mature Scorpio will be a good friend. Avoid Capricorn you will get bored with them Card for the week: Tarot key no. VIII Strength. Look within and find the strength to resolve and unite

What the cards say: Be satisfied that you are not out in the cold Path: Flow with life and take rough with the smooth. Don’t feel left out Ally: Aquarius will give you good advice.

Avoid irresponsible Aries or instigating Scorpio Card for the week: Tarot key no. IV The Emperor. Take responsibility for yourself and you will reach your goal

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I strongly recommend that until you find the cause of this pain you do not have intercourse again. If you continue to have intercourse in spite of pain, things will only get worse. What is a superficial physical problem will then become a deeper psychological one. Pain is like an alarm, which alerts you to investigating into the cause of the problem. She definitely needs to see a gynaecologist for a thorough physical examination.

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What the cards say: A happy week Path: Be generous and giving. Don’t justify your ego Ally: Your ally this week is yourself.

Look at things dispassionately Card for the week: Tarot key no. IX The Hermit. The card invites you to connect with your inner being and let the light of the hermit’s lantern show you the right path

What the cards say: See good for others Path: You have had your day. Now help others in their happiness. Don’t be jealous of other people’s joy Ally: Gemini will show you your weakness. Stay away from Pisces who could make you clinging Card for the week: Tarot key no. IX The Hermit. That will guide you to the path of wisdom just try to connect with his energies

What the cards say: Efforts to resolve issues Path: Accept what comes your way joyfully and peacefully. Don’t fret or worry.

Things will work out Ally: Down to earth Virgo and Taurus will help you become practical. Avoid Scorpio who will show you unrealistic dreams Card for the week: Tarot key no. XII The Hanged Man. Let go of worldly preoccupations and cultivate the life of the spirit.

Finally all have to go that way

What the cards say: You cannot always fool yourself Path: Take the path back to love. Don’t punish yourself and your loved one Ally: The Air sign Gemini will find you out. Avoid Pisces who could give contradictory advice Card for the week: Tarot key no. XIII Death. Great need for change. If you want to make something of your life accept change

What the cards say: Failure is also part of life Path: Accept your mistakes and undo them while there is time. Don’t feel humiliated and small Ally: The generous Leo will be a good friend, avoid the cutting Scorpio who will demand his/her pound of flesh Card for the week: Tarot key no. XVIII The Moon which indicates imagination can help or harm you. Use it to heal and connect not separate and fear

What the cards say: Pushing things hard will not change them Path: Don’t plot and plan too much.

Don’t be emotional but keep a grip on yourself Ally: Seek advice from Aquarius whose maturity will help you. Stay away from Capricorn who could mock your emotions Card for the week: Tarot key no. X The Wheel of Fortune. Constant change is indicated. Be prepared for the unexpected

In Marathwada The Rain Gods Have Relented But…

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o far, the rainfall reports for Marathwada in Maharashtra have been encouraging for the most part. But it will obviously take a while for the sufficiency or otherwise and consequent impact of this year’s monsoon to be fully known and assessed. Meanwhile, what is already known is that the whole of Marathwada has been in the grip of severe drought for the last three years. In the absence of irrigation, crops were ruined, particularly in Beed district. And due to the lack of water and fodder, animals too, including livestock, suffered untimely deaths. As a result, lakhs of people from Beed have been migrating every year to western Maharashtra to earn a living, cutting sugarcane.

Earlier, only landless labourers used to migrate. But now, the number of farmers who own ten to twelve bighas of land but are being forced to migrate has also been growing at an alarming rate.

In fact, over the years, Beed in Marathwada in Maharashtra has come to be known as the ‘district of labourers’. Today, even after 67 years of Independence, landless labourers here continue to work in the sugarcane fields and the sugar mills of Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur, Pune and elsewhere.

Migration of labourers from Beed particularly is a big and very unfortunate problem, but the Government, administration and large sections of the media regard working in sugarcane fields cutting sugarcane as a traditional occupation and are not particularly concerned about it. Even the district administration does not have a complete set of figures on how many labourers have been migrating from here, leave alone how they fare, working in places miles away from their homes. Neither the administration nor the political leaders from Marathwada feel or think they are accountable for the misery of these migrant workers or the family members they leave behind.

Writing in The Times of India on 24 March, 2015, Priyanka Kakodkar gave a moving account of how drought migration forces the aged to toil as farm hands, how with the able-bodied migrating in large numbers, 72-year-olds are returning to hard physical labour they cannot cope with in Marathwada.

“A single bag of jowar was all that her two sons left Hansabai Kole when they migrated to work in sugarcane fields 200 km away, last October. Soon, almost the entire village of Yevalewadi left to look for jobs as cane cutters, leaving only the elderly and young children behind.

Once the food ran out, the 72year-old became a farm hand. She spends several hours a day scouting for work in the parched fields of drought-hit Marathwada’s Patoda taluka. ‘On a day when I find work, it means bending over for eight to nine hours to help harvest jowar,’ she says. She makes Rs 100 a day, barely enough to help scrape together her meals of bhakri and salt.

Hansabai's greatest fear is of falling

ill, since her only companions are even older than her.

‘Last week, I started feeling faint, so I hoisted myself onto the ST bus to see the doctor. My husband is too old to accompany me,’ she says.

Yevalewadi has become a ghosttown, each ancient wooden door sealed with a lock. The animal sheds are bare and the village square is deserted. In the village of 900, barely 200 remain.

Marathwada is known for the seasonal migration of cane cutters, who head to sugar factories in Western Maharashtra and Karnataka from October to April each year.

Roughly 10 lakh small farmers migrate each year after sowing their crop, with Beed being the largest hub. But this year, unions say, the drought has pushed migration up by 30 per cent, so 13 lakh sugarcane cutters have migrated. ‘In our estimation, there are at least three lakh more migrants this year,’ says Keshvrao Andhale of the Sugarcane Cutters and Transporters Union.

Although the State Government claims it has distributed nearly Rs 4,000 crore as relief to farmers who lost their crop, many here say they have not received the money. The State’s decision to send it directly to bank accounts is a major obstacle for those who have no access to banks. State agriculture minister Eknath Khadse claims, ‘By now 90 per cent of the farmers have received the money. Those without accounts can open them under our Jan Dhan scheme.’

Villages across this belt complain of the lack of work under the rural job security scheme MGNREGS, which could have otherwise have helped stem migration. Beed district has 8 lakh registered workers but at the moment, only 9,291 are employed. ‘This season, we have not been able to get any MGNREGS work in the village,’ says Ganesh Sawant, the sarpanch of Ranjani village in Georai. However, officials say MGNREGS works have not reduced.

‘Sugarcane cutting is a traditional occupation. It pays more than MGNREGS work and people are able to get a hefty advance, so they prefer it,’ says Agriculture Minister Khadse.

Cane cutters have access to advance payments between Rs 30,000 and Rs 60,000 at the beginning of the season, which helps settle many pending debts. The work fetches roughly Rs 300 to 400 per day for a husband and wife team, much higher than MGNREGS wages.

However, union leader Andhale says once cane workers return to their villages in April and May, jobs on MGNREGS will be their only lifeline. ‘It's important for more jobs to be generated by then,’ he says.”

Several incidents of rape and teasing of women and young girls working as migrant labour in the sugarcane fields are mentioned – but mostly in hushed voices. Generally, because of fear, formal complaints are not lodged about such shameful incidents. Women with small children who have to work in the sugarcane fields also face immense difficulties. Due to nonavailability of necessary facilities in the hospitals, pregnant women have to often face difficulties. No attention is paid to such problems by either the Government or the employer. Amul Shinde, a migrant labourer working in the sugarcane fields revealed that there are many types of poisonous snakes in the fields, but proper shoes and gloves are not provided to them for protection. Many labourers have died because of snake bites, but there is no compensation for such deaths. Obviously, to alleviate the suffering of migrant workers and their families, sufficient rainfall in rain starved Marathwada could offer long overdue relief. And here, fortunately, according to recent reports in the papers, ‘wettest June has been a relief for dry Marathwada’. According to a 21 June, 2015 report in a leading national newspaper, “Unprecedented rainfall has brought much needed relief to the parched Marathwada region, where water levels in large dams had dropped considerably. With consecutive days of good showers, the water levels in the region's 11 major reservoirs now touch almost 7 per cent. The heavy showers ensured the cumulative water storage in these dams rose to 361 mcum, as against 214 mcum a week ago. This is an increase of al-

most 3 per cent over the water levels in these large dams over the last week. The water levels in the large dams had dropped to a worrying 4 per cent at the end of the summer season.

Aurangabad district has already received 159.42 mm so far this month (June), which is almost 23 per cent of the 675.45 mm average annual rainfall. Jayakwadi dam, which supplies water to Aurangabad and several parts of Marathwada, gained 20 mcum water in seven days due to heavy showers in the catchment areas.

The water levels rose by a per cent in a week. The reservoir's catchment areas have received three to four times more rain than recorded in June last year. Jayakwadi dam received 80 mm rainfall, as against 31 mm rainfall recorded during the same period last year.

The Lower Manar dam located in Nanded district has registered the highest rainfall (256 mm) in catchment area. Last year, the region had received barely 10 mm rainfall till 19 June. Vishnupuri, another large project in Nanded district, has recorded 247 mm rainfall so far this year. It has registered only 25 mm rainfall during the corresponding period last year. The catchment area of Manjra dam in Beed district, which had received only 11 mm rainfall till June 19 last year, has received 148 mm rainfall so far.

Irrigation department officials said catchment areas of medium and small dams in the region have received good rainfall. "The region has a total of 75 medium projects, which have shown more than 7 per cent rise in water stock over a period of last seven days. Also, the total 721 small dams in Marathwada have witnessed an increase of 10 per cent in water levels in a week," a senior official said.

The 806 irrigation projects in Marathwada region have the storage capacity of 7,603 mcum. So far, the cumulative water levels had touched 515 mcum. The water levels have been rising steadily over the past one week. The cumulative water storage in 11 large reservoirs supplying water to Marathwada region had gone up by nearly 31

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mcum in the last week after four days of good rainfall in the eight districts.

The eight districts of the Aurangabad division have received 104.2 mm rain, about 13.41 per cent of the annual average rainfall of 779 mm for the season. Among the eight districts, Hingoli has recorded the highest rainfall with 135.6 mm so far, followed by Nanded with 122.57 mm and Jalna with 120.89 mm.

Some parts of Marathwada are still waiting for better rain. Beed district has received 69.97 mm rain, Parbhani (72.6 mm), Osmanabad (71.07 mm) and Latur (81.5 mm) so far”.

For July, however, the outlook was not so encouraging. According to Skymet, there was a risk of prolonged dry weather in Marathwada.

But it added that overall 2015 could now only be a drought year if both July and August end up with an average deficiency for the two months of 20 per cent or more. This is highly unlikely, Skymet said. If July, August and September are down by 8, 10, and 20 per cent respectively, even then the season as a whole will not be a drought season. A good monsoon could provide a breather to Marathwada – a breather in which political, administrative and employer apathy will have to be tackled intensively to bring long-term relief to lakhs of migrant labourers in Marathwada. In this context what the Business Standard pointed out way back in 2013 holds true even today. “Lack of attention towards all crops grown in the State, as well as numerous project delays, shows poor long-term planning by the Government contributed to the current state of affairs. Though sugarcane accounts for only about a million hectares of Maharashtra's crop cultivation area of 17.3 million hectares, it consumes a whopping 70 per cent of the total water towards crops.

Rajya Sabha member and former Planning Commission member Bhalchandra Mungekar says the State suffers from distorted water usage. “According to my simple guess, nearly 60 per cent of the total irrigation water is used for sugarcane alone, starving the other crops of adequate water. Again, a large number of small and marginal farmers do not have much access to irrigation water, one of the reasons for more poverty in rural areas, which is inconsistent with its growth profile. As a result, there is a crisis of drinking water not only in Marathwada and Vidarbha, but also in some districts of western Maharashtra, the heart-belt of irrigation water,” he says.

R P Kurulkar, former chairman, Marathwada Statutory Development Board, attributes the sorry state of affairs to excessive use of water for sugarcane cultivation, wrong selection of sites for irrigation dams, especially in the Marathwada region, and the lack of adequate attention to watershed development programmes. “In 2001, the State Government took a decision to bring in Krishna water to Marathwada, with an investment of Rs. 4,500 crore. Though the cost has risen to about Rs. 7,000 crore, the decision remains on paper, thanks to the politics involved. In my opinion, this should be taken up on a priority basis, apart from digging 1.5 lakh wells in the Marathwada region alone,” he says”.

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1000

ENIGMA CODE 1000

ACROSS: 1 Andrew Thomas upset chap’s sister (7,8) 9 Record one's poem as part of a series (7) 10 Give out all round (7) 11 In a way quite small, but wholly delightful (5) 12 Weekend article tackles Sumatra love opus (4,5) 13 Restricted, with article blocking opening - sorry (9) 15 Writing mate loses head and becomes confused about punishment (5) 16 A hairnet the fellows love, oddly (5) 18 Cruel sort of crime by minor (9) 20 Cry for help if the post changes (4,5) 23 Small Scottish island one raced about (5) 24 Puts it on without being told ? (7) 25 Was in a ferment to see the Duke's head (7) 26 One has to last to be first in it (4,2,9)

DOWN: 1 Otherwise retain actresses unlikely to wrinkle (6-9) 2 Use pair bonding to give lift (5,2) 3 This is truncated, or the end's off (9) 4 Give address of South Hill (5) 5 Soldier has indicator of limiting factor (9) 6 Joins with the edges (5) 7 Spare century intimidated (5,2) 8 Succumb to the crashed planes fatal fascination (3,6,3,3) 14 Mary is muddled; is Susan given to the Forces? (4,5) 15 Might perhaps be less public transport by sea (9) 17 More than one player is in new boots (7) 19 Tear out layer of clay (7)

Each colour in our code represents a letter.

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

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

The Clue: Like many a superhero

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S ENIGMA CODE STREAM, MASTER, TAMERS, ARMETS, ARREST, SMARTS, ATTEST

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21 Beat up Prime Minister's involvement in the election of Premiers (5)

22 Got together and went out (5)

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Claptrap, 5 Scorch, 10 Big deal, 11 Toe-nail, 12 Large, 13 Tarpaulin, 14 Firefighters, 18 The thing to do, 21 Atom bombs, 23 Binge, 24 Propane, 25 Abusing, 26 Rushed, 27 Head-rest.

DOWN: 1 Cobalt, 2 Asgard, 3 Therewith, 4 Allotted number, 6 Chela, 7 Reallied, 8 Holiness, 9 Stare into space, 15 Hide-bound, 16 Strapper, 17 Decorous, 19 On time, 20 Height, 22 Blase.

ACROSS: 1 Roman attire (4) 5 Spin tales (4) 6 Chamber group (5) 7 Soft and sticky (5) 8 Barber's tool (5) 9 Bumpless (4) 10 Slang: admit (4)

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

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

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

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

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DOWN: 1 Magnates or moguls (7) 2 Western film (5) 3 Zane ___ : famous name in western novels (4) 4 Kind of hill (3) 6 Percolates (5) 7 Was philanthropic (4) 8 ___ the game, officiate (3)

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MATH PYRAMID 1000

QUICK CROSS 1000

HIDATO 1000

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MATHDOKU 1000

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

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

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TODAY’S FORECAST

JAGJIT UPPAL

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BEAU PEEP THE ADVENTURES OF LEGIONNAIRE BEAU PEEP

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Leo/Mercury in Cancer 4th Nij Ashadh Shuklapaksha Purvaphalguni Sinh[Leo] M.T. Variegated and light Brown 3

BIR THDAY FORECAST: A fortunate period begins for you and you will be able to accomplish your goals in your career. Students will feel enthused to work hard to improve their grades.

Success in academic and sports activities is assured. Home and family affairs proceed smoothly. You will be going on a long vacation during summers in the company of family and friends. Those in love will strengthen their bonds and if eligible, may even decide to get married.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Good-looking, sturdy, independent, emotional, sensitive, healthy and long-lived. Can be ruthless and at the same time very helpful, concerned and loving.

Well-educated, will have good leadership qualities. Self reliant will be self employed and successful in industry and business.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Work your way around obstacles that are standing in your way. However, you will have to improve your rapport with others to get ahead. Any neglect in following your routine may result in problems at work. Do not allow delays in any paperwork to get the better of you.

Home and family affairs are important.

Your mate or beloved may be unreasonable and demand more attention and you could feel helpless.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): Be cautious today and don’t be too vocal about your future plans.

Someone close may be looking for an opportunity to take advantage of you. Expenses mount and demands on your time and money from the family could be awkward. Try to balance work and home affairs more cordially in your own interest.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): You can expect delays and a few hurdles at work, which you need to address rather urgently. Do not take things easy or count on help promised for it may not be forthcoming. This is not the time to take it easy for you could suffer a setback. Your beloved will make efforts to charge up your love life with some excitement and adventure. But you may not be up to it as you may have too much on your mind.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): You are going to have unexpected financial gains and your good judgment and ability to work against all odds will prove to be very successful. Your services will be in great demand and you will be given an important post or designation. There could be some changes in a travel plan.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): You will be making travel plans to scan new areas of interest and will come across some favorable job opportunities or business proposals. Students seeking admission to important university or college will get a favorable response.

Home and family life is happy and congenial.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): You will do well monetarily as well as professionally. This is likely to make you feel very upbeat about things. A trip undertaken will yield positive results. It may be something that you have been waiting for quite some time.

Some good changes are also in store. In your love relationship Misunderstandings could hurt more than expected. Give each other space and time to resolve your problems.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): Changes in your routine will be good and to your advantage.

Pending legal matters if any could get resolved in your favor. Your finances will get a boost. Travel for a long distance journey is likely or there could be some favorable news from overseas. It is up to you to make a commitment in a relationship or you could lose out. Your beloved may be tired of unkempt promises.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): A quick decision at work will save you a lot of money and also earn you a good reputation.

Good news of a sanction will also materialize. You will be able to achieve much of what you want to do. Learn to relax and enjoy the good things that life has to offer.

Dreams can come true and happen if you really try hard enough. If you love someone, be the first one to express yourself.

The response will be worth the gamble.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): Many exciting changes and surprises can be expected. The beginning of a sales promotion campaign will work out favorably.

You will be able to get the better of your rivals and clinch an important deal with a new client. Youngsters will also be traveling overseas to try their luck abroad.

When in love you can shower the object of your affections with love and attention which can cloy or be too controlling.

CAPRICORN (December 21 January 19): You will feel quite relaxed and satisfied with your progress in business or career. Enjoy respite from a busy schedule rather than make plans for further growth. You are passing through a beneficial phase where good opportunities just fall into your lap and yield gains without pains. You are normally free and easy going with colleagues and associates that you know well. But do maintain a distance for safety sake.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): Streamlining your work will help rather than working in a haphazard manner. Expect good news soon. You are trying to do too many things at the same time. Set yourself realistic goal and things will be within your grasp once you have found direction. In matters of the heart it is a good time step forward if you get a chance. You have been very patient with your love interest but now you may want to know where you stand.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): Trips to expand business work in your favor. You will do wonders if you contact people and visit places you have not been to before. There will be a stimulating assignment coming your way. You have hectic day ahead.

Keep in touch with associates on a regular basis. A new association has the making of an exciting and enduring relationship. Do not seek a commitment immediately. Let things happen.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 5333 ACROSS:

SUDOKU 2519

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Difficulty Level:

CRYPTOQUIP

DOWN:

Today’s clue: B equals G

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

23 Bewildered, boggled or confounded (7) 24 Be ___ for time : be short of time?

(6) 25 Local measure of length equal to a yard (3)

27 Brother of Moses (5) 28 A passage between rows of seats, especially in a theatre or church (5) 30 Pertaining to the Veda (5) 32 Hit sharply (4) 33 Law professor's degree (3)

SOLUTION TO SATURDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: Across: 4 Putsch, 7 Honolulu, 8 Swatch, 10 Untie, 13 Hair, 14 Goon, 15 Mann, 16 Arf, 17 Loon, 19 Endo, 21 Karakoram, 23 Haws, 24 Enya, 26 Mel, 27 In re, 29 Furs, 32 Ones, 33 Ditch, 34 Collop, 35 Afflicts, 36 Assail.

DOWN: 1 Shrug, 2 Oneto, 3 Glue, 4 Pusan, 5 Thar, 6 Cicero, 9 Winery, 11 Not, 12 In-law, 13 Hankers, 15 Moa, 16 ADM, 18 Orsino, 20 Naafi, 21 Kal, 22 One, 23 Heroes, 25 Arc, 28 Nepal, 30 Utica, 31 Shush, 32 Olla, 33 Dele.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 2338 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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3 Meals cooked by boiling slowly (5) 8 The leek is its emblem (5) 10 Book for filling in (5) 11 Governor (3) 12 Cunningly (5) 13 Boat race (7) 15 Give on hire for a long term (5) 18 English honour, for short (3) 19 Arranged according to kind, or class or size (6) 21 A small, brown garden bird (7) 22 Goes to the dogs, in a way ? (4) 23 Scheme or plan to no good purpose? (4) 24 A dugout canoe - "i.e. group" anagram? (7) 26 Foray, raid (6) 29 1960 Pirate hero, for short (3) 31 European capital (5) 32 Drunk colloquially speaking (7) 34 Displayed or exhibited? (5) 35 Attorney's deg. (3) 36 Unit of energy (5) 37 Mix again (5) 38 Dame ___ Evans : famous actress? (5) 1 Light beer (5) 2 Reconditions, mends or overhauls (7) 4 Indian unit of weight (4) 5 Flounder about (6) 6 More cunning (5) 7 Semblance (5) 9 Ancient Irish sun god (3) 12 Fat soluble compound, as the bile acids and sex hormones (7) 14 TV Guide abbreviation (3) 16 __ ___ of Two Cities: Dickens novel?

(1,4) 17 Revises copy (5) 19 Biblical sage (7) 20 Pinch in or together (5) 21 Clinton's prosecutor (5)

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SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

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Saturday’s solution: If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.

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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: 30 average; 33 good; 36 o utstanding.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: censor, cent, cistern, cite, coin, cone, core, corn, corniest, corset, cosine, cost, coterie, crest, crone, encore, enteric, entice, erect, erection, erotic, escort, esoteric, icon, incest, insect, nice, nicer, nicest, niece, notice, once, recent, recite, rice, scene, scent, scion, scone, score, scorn, screen, secret, SECRETION, sect, section, sector, since, sincere, sonic, stoic, tonic, trice

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A sting at the end India lose to Zimbabwe by 10 runs in second T20

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Australian bowlers decimate the English batsmen as they down them by 405 runs to win the second test; series levelled

L Mohit Sharma (L) and Sandeep Sharma walk back after India lost the final T20 match against Zimbabwe by 10 runs on Sunday.

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arare: India's quest to maintain a clean slate in their short cricket tour of Zimbabwe went up in smoke as they suffered a 10-run loss to the hosts in the second and final Twenty20 international.

Chasing 146 for win, India were looking down the barrel at 69 for five in nine overs.

Stuart Binny (24) and debutant Sanju Samson (19) played cameos, but the visitors still fell short at the Harare Sports Club.

India, who had won the ODI series 3-0, thus ended with a 1-1 stalemate in the two-match Twenty20 series.

For Zimbabwe, Graeme Cremer snapped up three wickets for 18 runs in his four overs, while SC Williams (1/31), Taurai Muzarabani (1/23) and Chris Mpofu (1/26) took one each.

Earlier, Indian bowlers produced an impressive performance to restrict Zimbabwe to 145 for seven, riding on Chamu Chibhabha's fourth T20I half-century.

India suffered an early blow, losing skipper Ajinkya

Rahane only in the third ball.

He was run out after a mix-up with his partner Murali Vijay.

Vijay (13) and Robin Uthappa (40) then added 53 runs in 34 balls before the former was sent packing by leg-spinner Cremer, who beat him for pace and toppled his off-stump in the seventh over.

Three balls later, Cremer struck again when he trapped new man Manish Pandey in front of the wicket with a googly that pitched on middle and leg and skidded on to beat the batsmen, leaving India at 57-3.

In the next over, Sean Williams bowled and caught Uthappa, who was looking good till then. The batsman popped a return catch as Williams stretched his hands over his head to latch onto it.

Brief Scores: Zimbabwe: 145 for 7 in 20 overs (Chamu Chibhabha 67; Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2/26, Mohit Sharma 2/28) beat India: 135 for 9 in 20 overs (Robin Uthappa 42; Graeme Cremer 3/18) by 10 runs.

ondon: England slumped to a catastrophic defeat by 405 runs at Lord's as Australia levelled the Ashes series at 11.

The hosts collapsed after lunch on the fourth day and were bundled out for 103 in just 37 overs, with Mitchell Johnson taking 3-27.

None of England's recognised batsmen made more than 17 runs as Stuart Broad top-scored with 25.

Australia had earlier reached 254-2 declared in their second innings, leaving England to bat 155 overs to save the game.

That they fell so woefully short raises serious questions about the calibre and make-up of a team that only a week ago stunned Australia by winning the first Test in Cardiff by 169 runs.

And after England's top order once again crumbled, the selectors will surely ponder changes before the series resumes at Edgbaston on 29 July.

For Australia, such a swift and categorical riposte to the defeat in south Wales will bolster their belief that they can pull off their first Ashes win in England since 2001.

Australia's Nathan Lyon celebrates taking the wicket of England's Ian Bell on the fourth day of the second Ashes Test match between England and Australia, at Lord's cricket ground in London, Sunday.

Brief Scores: Australia: 566/8 dec & 254/2 dec [David Warner 83, Steve Smith 58] bt England 1st Innings 312 & 103 in 37 overs [Josh Hazlewood 2/20, Mitchell Johnson 3/27, Nathan Lyon 2/27] by 405 runs. monium that was to follow the interval.

Lyth, Cook and Gary Ballance were all caught behind, the captain to a particularly frivolous swing away from his body.

Ian Bell led a charmed life as he ground out 50 balls for 11 runs before poking forward at Nathan Lyon and popping a catch to short leg.

MOTHER OF ALL COLLAPSES The relative calm with which Alastair Cook and Adam Lyth negotiated two DAFTEST DISMISSAL? overs before lunch offered The real nadir arrived no indication of the pande- when the in-form Ben Stokes

threw his wicket away in diabolical circumstances.

Running through for a comfortable single, he had made up his ground by the time Johnson's throw shattered the stumps.

Crucially, however, Stokes neglected to slide his bat into the crease and was in midair when the ball hit, meaning he had to go.

MORE TURMOIL AFTER TEA The tea interval ostensibly gave England a chance to gather their thoughts and steel themselves for a plucky fight to the close.

In theory, but not in practice. In the space of five balls from Johnson, five wickets had become seven as Jos Buttler nicked behind before Moeen Ali flinched at a

bouncer and looped a catch off the splice to short leg.

Broad briefly flung the bat to collect five boundaries but when he chipped Lyon to cover, England were 101-8.

Only two further runs were added before Josh Hazlewood bowled Joe Root and James Anderson in successive overs to send Australia into raptures.

ROGERS CONCERN England's frenzied showing on a placid pitch contrasted with the serenity of Australia's performance in the morning session as they added 146 runs to set England a notional 509 to win.

David Warner made 83 and Steve Smith 58 after Chris Rogers had been forced to retire on 49.

BCCI to constitute working group on IPL verdict Shirke raises termination

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umbai: Under pressure to resolve the crisis triggered by Justice R M Lodha committee's verdict on the IPL betting scandal, an embattled BCCI decided to constitute a working group to study the order and give recommendations within six weeks.

The decision to form the group was taken at the crucial IPL Governing Council meeting here where members discussed the implications of the verdict, suspending Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals from the IPL for two years. The BCCI said that it will adhere to the verdict in totality. The Board will reveal the names of the working group members on Monday.

"BCCI respects the verdict of the Lodha Commission and will abide by their decisions, in toto. The members recognised that there is an urgent need to understand the impact of this decision and the wider ramifi-

BCCI, for further action," it said. IPL Chairman Rajeev Shukla said the members of the group would be finalised

by Monday. "House has entrusted me with responsibility to make a small group that will take 6 weeks to submit a report as to how we implement the order and way forward for IPL. How to conduct IPL, how BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur along with IPL governing council chairman many teams and all stakeholdRajeev Shukla, and BCCI Treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary during the IPL ers CAC members, sponsors, governing council meeting in Mumbai on Sunday. broadcasters, state associations, legal experts that report cations for BCCI in detail, so as an objective to protect the in- will come to GC and it will go to uphold the paramountcy of terests of all the stakeholders WC which will take decision," the game in our country," the involved," it added.

Shukla said.

Board said in a statement after The Board said the recom"Members will be anthe meeting which lasted little mendations of the group will nounced tomorrow. We have over an hour. be sent to the BCCI's all-pow- decided to implement Justice "The IPL GC hence autho- erful working committee.

Lodha verdict in spirit and derised the Chairman, Shri Ra"This group will work within cided to work accordingly. All jeev Shukla, to constitute a a time bound period of 6 stakeholders have given their working group which will weeks and report their recom- opinion, everybody is of the study this verdict, in consulta- mendations to the IPL GC, view that the show must go tion with all our key advisors which will deliberate and on. And I reiterate that IPL 9 and explore all the possible share their views with the will be bigger and greater," he measures to be adopted, with working committee of the asserted.

issue, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find support

New Delhi: The muchdebated termination issue of the suspended IPL franchises Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals did not find many takers during the IPL Governing Council meeting in Mumbai with the exception of former BCCI treasurer and GC member Ajay Shirke.

While the decision on the way forward and implementation of the Justice Lodha Committee's recommendations will be taken by the soon-to-beformed 'Working Group', majority of the members were of the opinion that "such a big decision cannot be taken in haste".

"Ajay (Shirke) was the only person who seemed to be in favour of termination of the two franchises. When he

mooted the option of termination, BCCI's legal cell head Usha Nath Banerjee told him that while that is an option but the far reaching legal ramifications of such a decision should also be kept in mind," a senior Governing Council member told PTI. "In fact, most of the members are of the opinion that once Justice Lodha Committee has already declared a two-year suspension, BCCI should follow their verdict in letter and spirit. The members feel that whatever decision that is taken should be done with due deliberations. There is a worry that if BCCI terminates the franchise in haste and there is a long-drawn legal battle, it might bleed the board," the official added.

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Sanil, Aman in title clash Siddhesh Pande

REFORM PRESSURE MOUNTS ON

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umbai: Top seed Sanil Shetty and second seed Aman Balgu set up a mouth-watering men’s title clash, in the JVPG 1st Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament, at the Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana on Sunday.

India No. 4 Shetty and Balgu lived up to their reputations after registering convincing semi-final wins.

Shetty beat fifth seed Chinmay Datar of Pune 4-0, while Balgu halted third seed Siddhesh Pande of Thane 4-2.

Pande made amends when he stormed into the youth boys’ final for a clash with fifth seed Shubham Ambre of Mumbai City who avenged his PRO TT semifinal defeats with a 4-1 win over eighth seed Mandar Hardikar.

Top seed Senhora D’Souza of Mumbai City

will face second seed Mallika Bhandarkar of Nagpur in the youth girls’ final, while top seed Divya Mahajan will take on second seed Pooja Koparkar of Pune in the women’s championship round.

NIGEL, KAREENA, RIYA TOP SEEDS IN BADMINTON EVENT Men’s defending champion Nigel D’Sa of Mumbai Customs and Kareena Madan of CCI have been given pride of place in the SCS-CCI Greater Mumbai District Badminton Championship, that will be held at CCI from July 20 to 26.

D’Sa, son of legendary badminton star Leroy D’Sa, is the top seed in men’s singles and doubles, while Madan is the top seed in women’s singles and doubles and under-19 singles and doubles.

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By Anant Bhagwat

ridge is a very strange game. What is right on Monday could be wrong on Tuesday but again could be right on Wednesday. That is also the fascination of the game. Consider this hand S- K 5 H- J 10 9 5 D- 7 5 4 2 C- A Q 7

S- A 9 3 H- 8 D- A K Q 9 3 C- J 10 4 2

You are south & have reached 3 no trumps. A little sketchy perhaps but as the cards lie 9 tricks can be made. That doesn’t give you the license to be careless.

West leads a spade. As taught to you, you ponder the lead & decide to apply the rule of 7. You duck the first spade. West continues with a spade, which you win & play a small diamond to Ace. West startles you by discarding a small club. You are not worried. Now you need 2 more entries to dummy to finesse east’s Jack & 10 of diamonds. You still have one control in spade so you smugly play a small club & finesse the club Queen. But the opponents

are inconsiderate. East wins with club King & instead of continuing woodenly with a spade, shifts to a heart & defence makes 3 heart tricks to defeat the contract.

You lament the fact that the club King was with east. If only west had it your contract was cold. But are you convinced in your mind?

You did not take insurance against east holding all 4 diamonds. If you had taken that exigency into consideration you might have arrived at the correct

BRIDGE play. Although you have been taught to play the honour from the short hand first, you should win the first trick in hand with Ace of spades & cash the Ace of diamonds.

When the bad break comes to light you are correctly placed.

You just play a small club & finesse the Queen not caring whether it wins or not.

If the finesse loses, defence can at most cash 3 heart tricks but you have 2 entries to dummy in King of spades & Ace of clubs to trap east’s diamond Jack & 10. That will give you 9 tricks.

There is a time to follow the rules & a time to break the rules.

urich: FIFA's leadership meets on Monday to decide the date of a vote to replace president Sepp Blatter as a corruption storm inflicts ever worsening damage on world football.

The meeting takes place just two days after Jeffrey Webb, until May a FIFA vice president, made his first appearance in a New York court to deny charges that he accepted millions of dollars in bribes for marketing deals. He was released on $10 million (£6.4m, 9.2m euros) bail.

Webb is one of 14 football officials and business executives facing charges in the United States. He was one of seven FIFA officials detained in a raid on a Zurich hotel ahead of the world body's congress in May. Two days later Blatter was reelected to a fifth term but within four more days he announced he would organise a new election.

The 79-year-old Swiss, the most powerful figure in sport by many counts, is to announce a date for a new election after Monday's executive committee meeting. The vote will be held in Zurich sometime between December this year and February 2016.

Following some ambiguous comments in media inter-

seeing Fifa succeed," said the letter. ITUC, which has put the spotlight on the conditions of migrant workers in Qatar, has called for a figure such as former UN secretary general Kofi Annan to head a reform commission.

Fast food giant McDonald's said it has called for FIFA to make "meaningful changes to restore trust and credibility with fans and sponsors alike."

"It is now time for the other sponsors to take a stand against corruption and put the game back on track," ITUC general secretary Sharan BurThe FIFA headquarters in Zurich. row said.

The Transparency Internaviews, Blatter will be pressed 2018 and 2022 World Cups tional advocacy group has also to make clear that he is stand- were awarded to Russia and called for FIFA's reforms to be ing down. He did not use the Qatar respectively. handled by an independent word "resign" when he anThe US Senate also debated body. Blatter could announce nounced that a new election the FIFA scandal this week, that measures such as limits would be held. highlighting the extent of the on terms for FIFA executive FIFA also faces mounting world football body's tar- members and greater disclopressure to quickly start re- nished reputation. sure of salaries of top officials forms and Blatter is also exCoca Cola said in a letter to will be voted at the Congress. pected to announce what the International Trade Union However, critics say this will measures could be proposed Confederation (ITUC) that it not be enough to ease the to the special election con- has called for an independent storm. Even FIFA's existing gress. commission chaired by an ethics committee called this Top sponsors, such as Coca "eminent" person to under- week for greater powers to imCola and McDonald's, have take reforms, the confedera- prove transparency in its dealcalled for radical changes in tion said. ings. It wants to be able to the way the multi-billion dol"We are calling for this ap- name officials accused of mislar world body is run after proach out of our deep com- conduct and to give more demany years of scandal and mitment to ethics and human tails on why a decision was doubts cast on the way the rights and in the interest of taken.

Amelie Mauresmo inducted into Tennis Hall of Fame N

ewport: Amelie Mauresmo is slated to experience two very memorable moments in just a few short weeks.

She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday but unable to travel to the ceremony because she's expecting her first child in early August.

Joining the 36-year-old Frenchwoman were David Hall of Australia, a six-time Paralympic medalist, and Nancy Jeffett, elected in the contributor category.

"Amelie will be here next year, but we want to celebrate her this year," 1987 Hall of Famer Stan Smith told to the crowd.

Mauresmo, who is now Andy Murray's coach, won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2006 and spent 39 weeks at No. 1 in the WTA rankings.

She won 25 singles titles and was a silver medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Under mostly cloudy skies on Newport's grass courts, Mauresmo was enshrined during a 75-minute ceremony that included a presentation of a gold Hall of Fame ring to Bil-

Mauresmo won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2006 and spent 39 weeks at No. 1 in the WTA rankings.She won 25 singles titles and was a silver medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

a force, particularly in women's tennis," King said.

Jeffett was presented by 2002 Hall of Famer Pam Shriver. "This has been a real love of the game that has brought me to this moment," Jeffett said in a short speech.

When he was 16, Hall was struck by a car and had to have both of his legs amputated. He is the fourth wheelchair player to be inducted.

"Through the early days after my accident, tennis was like a long lost friend that lie Jean King. would come back to me," the "This is wonderful to be 45-year-old said. here to share this moment Marion Bartoli, the 2013 with all of you," said King, in- Wimbledon champion, also ducted in 1987. attended the ceremony that Jeffett, 87, was honored for was held before the semifinal her 50 years in the sport. matches of the Hall of Fame "Nancy Jeffett has been such Tennis Championships.

HI to evaluate the performance in World League Semi Finals

New Delhi: As part of its preparation for the next year's Olympic Games, Hockey India will evaluate the performance of the national men's and women's teams in the recently-held FIH World League Semi Finals in Belgium.

A Special Committee was formed by HI President Dr Narinder Dhruv Batra, early this month to assess the performance of the teams.

The meeting of the committee will take place on July 24.

"The committee is made up of former Olympic players and international players and is chaired by Mr Harbinder Singh. Other Committee Members include Mr. B.P Govinda, Mr. V Baskaran, Dr. A.B Subbaiah, Mr. Thoiba Singh, Dr. R.P Singh, Ms. Asunta Lakra and Ms. Jasjeet Kaur," HI said in a statement.

The committee will review the reports and provide feedback and recommendations for the future course of action for the teams in their preparation for the 2016 Olympic Games.

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tempts.

Yuki saved two more chances in the eighth game and finally converted his third match point to seal the tie for his side. India will now strive to make the World Group when they compete in the Play-offs in September.

Earlier, Somdev delivered when it mattered the most taming Daniell in two hours and 18 minutes to keep India afloat in the tie.

Daniell replaced Jose Statham, who was down with a flu, but could not help his side seal the tie. Somdev went about his business calmly today and made a perfect start when he broke Daniell in the very first game of the opening set.

The advantage of that early break stayed with him throughout and he served out the set in the 10th. He thwarted Daniell's attempt of a comeback by saving a break chance on his serve in the sixth game.

Daniell kept fighting hard, saving two break chances in the third game of the second set, which was on serve till the eighth game. But Somdev found a way to get that elusive break in the ninth and converted his first set point in the next for a 2-0 lead in the crucial rubber.

The Kiwi was down by two break chances at the start of and did not face a single the third set but saved both. break point till the sixth However, he double faulted game of the third set. when he was down by anYuki asserted himself by other break point in the fifth. breaking Venus twice in each Somdev though let slip the of the first two sets, running advantage by dropping his away with a 2-0 lead. own serve in the next before It was in the third set that cashing in on another Venus threatened a bit when chance in the ninth. he had Yuki down a break It was a matter of holding point in the sixth game but serve in the next which the Indian was up to the task Somdev did to make it 2-2 and thwarted his rival's at- for India.

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Somdev, Yuki ensure India advance to World Group Play-offs after trailing 1-2 against New Zealand

Indian Davis Cup team celebrating a 3-2 win over New Zealand in Christchurch on Sunday.

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hristchurch: A fired up Yuki Bhambri recorded his first ever victory in a live fifth rubber after Somdev Devvarman levelled the scores as India advanced to World Group Play-offs following a 3-2 win over New Zealand in the Asia/Oceania Group I Davis Cup tie.

Yuki was authoritative in his 6-2 6-2 6-3 drubbing of Michael Venus in the decider

after Somdev levelled the tie with his 6-4 6-4 6-4 win over Marcus Daniell in the first match of the day.

It was a do-or-die situation for India when Somdev stepped on the court and the country's numero uno singles player ensured that India remained in the hunt.

Yuki, who was playing only his second live fifth rubber, came out all guns blazing

against Venus, who had stunned Somdev in the first match of the tie.

The 23-year-old Delhi-lad turned out to be India's hero in this tie as he won both his matches. He had lost the deciding fifth rubber against Serbia's Filip Krajinovic in September in Bangalore last year.

Yuki stamped his class and authority right from the start

Lahiri close to Top-5 through third third round Chilton honors Bianchi, wins S

t. Andrews (Scotland): A consistent Anirban Lahiri continued his superb march at the weather-hit 144th Open Championships as he was going great guns at fourunder through 11 holes in the third round.

The second round was completed only yesterday after a 11-hour disruption due to high-speed winds at the Old Curse at St. Andrews.

Lahiri, winner of Malaysian Open and Hero Indian Open this season, has cards of 69

and 70 in first two rounds and at nine-under through 47 holes, midway through his third round. He moved into Top-5 and was in line to notch up his personal best at Major and the best by an Indian at any Open Championships.

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Telugu Titans drubbed Dabang Delhi 36-27 in their opening game of the Pro Kabaddi League at the NSCI Stadium on Sunday night.

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ewton (USA): England's Max Chilton won the Indy Lights race Saturday in Iowa after dedicating the race to former teammate Jules Bianchi (in pic), the French Formula One driver died early Saturday from injuries sustained in October in the Japanese Grand Prix.

Bianchi and Chilton were teammates for Marussia in 2013 and 2014. Chilton said he found out Friday night about his friend's death and dedicated the race to Bianchi after winning the pole.

"It's been a difficult nine months, to be brutally honest with you," Chilton said. "I've learned a lot from him, and he was part of that win."

Chilton then dominated the 100-lap race on Iowa Speedway's 0.894-mile oval, leading 87 laps for his first win in any series since 2012.

The pole and subsequent win was a bit of surprise considering that Chilton sat just 10th out of 15 drivers in Indy Lights, a feeder program for the IndyCar series, entering

It's been a difficult nine months, to be brutally honest with you. I've learned a lot from him, and he was part of that win.

MAX CHILTON

the weekend.

"I probably thought of him every five or 10 laps, because he was a driver destined to probably be a worldchampion," Chilton said. Ed Jones was second, followed by RC Enerson.

Christchurch: Yuki Bhambri, the hero of India's hard-fought 3-2 win over New Zealand in the Davis Cup, is relishing the fact that his was a decisive win in the fifth rubber which took them to World Group Play-offs.

Yuki brushed aside the challenge of Michael Venus, with whom he reached the Australian Open doubles third round last year, to record a memorable win.

Yuki said he worked very hard before the tie, anticipating a tough outings in New Zealand.

"I have been working hard, I worked the last two weeks in the Delhi heat to be ready if I had to play long matches and I've been trying to improve my game so just happy that I could do my bit for the country and the team.

There is no better feeling than to win the last rubber," Yuki told PTI in an exclusive chat.

The 23-year-old said the Kiwi players may be lowerranked but they were no pushovers.

"Believe me we are happy that we pulled this off. Don't forget we were very close to losing and I don't think India has come back from 2-1 down to win 3-2 on too many occasions," he said.

Yuki is keen to carry forward his good form into the ATP circuit. "Yes I would love to keep it going. I Have a busy schedule in the States so hopefully can win a few matches before the US Open," he said.

Asked if has made any changes to his training, Yuki said, "Nothing new, the usual, just trying to work on my fitness and endurance so trying to do a lot of running."

India coach Zeeshan Ali was relieved that Indian players came good on the final day. "It was definitely a big win for us as it gives us another shot at a place in the world group. If we lost this tie then playing China in China was not something any of us were looking forward to," he said.

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