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The gates of Campa Cola, which were closed for three days, will now be left open to the BMC officials from today

By Khushboo Panjabi

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he residents of the Campa Cola Compound are despondent, dog-tired and have finally given up their spirited, but fruitless fight against the powerful forces working against them. After the intervention of Chief Minister

Prithviraj Chavan yesterday, the residents realised that fighting is not going to get them anywhere and have decided to go along with the government's order, “We will no longer stand in the way of the BMC. We will keep our doors open from today because we have realised that fighting will not

MUMBHAI Vikas Sabnis

Railway accident? No! He just had a look at the revised railway fare table and immediately fainted.

that he would look into their request of acquiring 67,000 square feet of permissible Floor Space Index (FSI) and seek the opinion of the Attorney General (AG). He urged them to comply with the court orders.

“And with this assurance, we have taken the first step of co-operating with the system

Campa residents knock on Prez door

As the face-off between the Campa Cola residents and the BMC stretched into the third day, the residents petitioned President Pranab Mukherjee seeking his intervention to stay the demolition of the illegal flats.

“We have written to the President and have humbly stated the ways in which the illegal flats can be regularised. We have also requested him to pardon our society as a lot of senior citizens staying here have nowhere else to go,” said Ankit Garg, a resident.

However, reacting to the residents' petition, Deputy Municipal Commissioner Anand Waghralkar said, “We have received absolutely no orders from the President's office to halt the eviction process. The residents are only trying to buy more time, which we will not allow any more.” get us anything,” said Ashish Jalan, a resident. “We apologise to the BMC. We appreciate their patience and want to thank them for it. They could have fought us, but did not.”

Jalan said that the CM has assured them

to get our redevelopment rights,” said Jalan.

“The BMC officials, along with BEST and Mahanagar staff, will enter the compound between 10.30 am and 5 pm every day, starting from today, to disconnect the Continued on pg 6 «

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OPINIONS

After the exit of some top teams from FIFA 2014, do you think that a meek team will win the cup?

Neha Shinde PR executive Yes, top teams like England are struggling to win matches, it seems like a small nation might take away the FIFA world cup 2014.

Gauri More Media executive No, there still are big countries like Germany and France in the game, you never know, they might repeat the winning strikes at the FIFA world cup.

Shreedhar Chavan Businessman Yes, the small nations are giving a tough fight and winning against the top countries and have made it difficult for them to qualify.

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014

‘Paramedic situation in India is pathetic’

NO SIGNS OF EARLY RAINS... Amol Kuthe and Ajinkiya Sawant, members of Eco-Echo, an NGO, rescued two Pied-Crested Cuckoos (Clamator Jacobinus), also known as 'Chatak' in local lingo, from Worli-Koliwada on Sunday. According to legend, they say that sighting of 'chatak' is an indicator of early arrival of rains. Not this time!

Abha Dhole Law Student No, the game is still on and teams like France, Brazil, Germany are continuing their winning streaks. Big nations will win the world cup.

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State BJP president Devendra Fadnavis unveiling his ‘Maharashtra Vision 2019’ at a programme organised by Navshakti and The Free Press Journal newspapers at the Indian Merchants Chamber.

Says Dr. Manjeet Singh, as he stresses on the need for professional training to paramedics who handle patients at the very first level while putting them into ambulances

By Shwetha Kannan

W

hile Gopinath Munde's death in a road accident brought focus on the need for better road safety, one more aspect that calls for attention is the need to have trained paramedics and staff who can handle victims of accidents the right way.

Dr. Manjeet Singh, a certified industrial physician who is an expert in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and has conducted more than 700 sessions across Maharashtra since 1982 as a first-aid trainer, in a tete-a-tete with the ADC said that inappropriate handling of Mr. Munde's neck after the accident, was one of the reasons that led to his death. He also went on to say that “80 per cent of total deaths due to accidents can be avoided if the accident victim is handled the right way” and called the state of affairs in the country with regard to paramedics “pathetic”. Here is more of what he had to say on this issue.

“Training for paramedics and staff in ambulances is very much lacking in our country. The focus is only on 'lifting' the victim and not on 'how to lift' the victim, which is actually more important. The aim of paramedics and ambulance staff is to make sure that the victim reaches the hospital alive and in a condition where there are chances of he or she being saved. But right now, the only focus of the socalled paramedics is to reach the patient to the hospital,” Dr. Singh said.

Explaining why he calls the ambulance and other staff that handle victims on accident spots 'so-called paramedics', Dr. Singh said, “Hardly any of these people are trained to be paramedics. They would not have undergone any training to be paramedics. Anybody who is in need of a job, if approaches a hospital, is taken in as an ambulance staff and he starts playing the role of a paramedic. There are no qualifications required. There are no other criteria. This is so wrong. And the reason behind this is that the role of a paramedic is underplayed in our

Dr. Manjeet Singh country. The importance of a paramedic is yet to be understood. Right now, the attitude is such that anybody and everybody can become a paramedic.”

So what can be done to better the situation?

“The government should open more institutes that provide a minimum certification course for people wanting to be paramedics. Also, a rule should be brought in that only if a person shows a valid authentic certificate of having passed a course in paramedics can be hired by hospitals.

These people should know at least the basic anatomy of the body. They should know how various parts are connected to each other and how the body functions,” Dr. Singh answered.

Right now there are no such institutes at all?

“There are a few. There are some private institutes. Yes, the Civil Defence gives this training too but I am not sure how many even know of it. And even if they do, no one bothers getting enrolled as right now there is no need for being trained to be a paramedic, right?

“Also, just the way we doctors have to undergo Continuing Medical Education (CME) at regular intervals, the ones who have taken paramedical training should update themselves and keep themselves abreast of the new developments in their fields because knowledge, if not updated on time is of no use,” Dr. Singh told us.

Currently, learning for paramedics is just on the job. “This is putting so many lives in danger.

Despite being trained, it takes around two years to be confident of the techniques and getting them right. So when you are totally unaware of the techniques, then it takes easily three to four years for learning. And by then God knows, how many lives one would endanger,” he worriedly added.

When asked to give an overview on the situation of paramedical training and expertise in our country, Dr. Singh said, “Right now it is pathetic as paramedics are just ordinary people who do not know the art of lifting and shifting.

In order to be able to save lives, paramedics need to undergo rigourous training and should know the basic anatomy of the body. Training is a must. Presently, hardly any ambulance staff or 'paramedics' are trained in the true sense. And even if they are, they do not bother updating their skills or renewing certificates. Also, the authenticity and genuineness of their certificate at times becomes questionable when you see them work. Their knowledge does not seem to reflect in their work.”

Before signing off, Dr. Singh said, “The role of a paramedic is to get the patient alive to the hospital and hence very important. Their importance needs to be understood at the earliest.” shwetha.kannan@afternoondc.in

Job done, it’s up to the government Afternoon Despatch & Courier

INTERVIEW

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014

The 'clean chit' to politicians following your report has become a debatable issue.

What is the reality?

Let me make one thing clear.

My report has not given a clean chit to any politician.

The report clearly states that the members and the chairman of the governing council of the IDC are responsible for the irregularities and violation of rules. I was shocked to see what came before the house.

The significant aspects which were integral to my report were skipped in the executive summary tabled by the government in the Assembly and the Council. Try to understand this important aspect, that the Minister for Water Resources, who is the chairman of the corporation, is not bound by government service rules which made it difficult for the committee to recommend the next course of action. But it expects the cabinet to pursue and take further action against the minister responsible for the wrongs committed in irrigation

sector. My stand is clear. I have not safeguarded the politicians.

Was the role of the Water Resources Minister examined?

The most significant thing is that the IDC came into existence in 1995. As a result, there were different ministers in different phases who held the portfolio of irrigation. From its inception, the ministers who headed the corporation included Mahadev Shivankar, Eknath Khadse, Padmasinh Patil, Ramraje Nimbalkar, Ajit Pawar and Sunil Tatkare.

However, it was not within our scope of terms and references to focus on the role of each minister. That is the task of the cabinet. So they should collectively pursue and take necessary action. Otherwise there is no meaning to the probe and the report. The very purpose of the 1,300 page report will be defeated if politicians are given a clean chit and only officials are subjected to departmental investigation and punished.

What is more significant to

The multi-crore irrigation scam in the state came to light after the official economic survey observation pointing out that, though Rs.70,000 crore had been spent on various projects in the last decade, the state's irrigation potential had increased only by 0.1 per cent. After much hue and cry, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan appointed water management expert Madhav Chitale to head a committee to probe the issue.

The committee was set up in December 2012 to study the escalation of costs at various projects. Its report was submitted to the government in March this year, and this 1,300 page report, along with the Action Taken Report, was tabled in the house in the recently concluded session of the legislature.

The Chitale committee report clearly states that the members and the chairman of the governing council of the Irrigation Development Corporation (IDC) should be held responsible for the financial irregularities and violation of rules in irrigation projects. Although the panel has not named any politician, the chairman of the IDC's governing council during the relevant period was Ajit Pawar, who was Water Resources Minister between 1999 and 2009. Hence the action of the state government giving him a 'clean chit' has raised many eyebrows.

In a telephonic interview with Suyash Padate, Chitale threw light on some contentious points.

note is that the role of Water Resources Minister is not limited to works undertaken by

IDC. The minister directly takes more important policy decisions related to irrigation

works whose evaluation cannot be undermined or lapses overlooked.

Would the evaluation of the work done by the other ministers have cleared many irregularities in various irrigation projects?

Since evaluation of individual ministers' style and work was not the scope of our study, it will be politically incorrect to make any comment on this.

But I can suggest that if we look into the details of the projects and irregularities committed over the period of time, it will not be difficult to arrive at some conclusions to proceed against those responsible. What was most shocking was the fact that ministers, after assuming the executive powers in the corporation, never adhered to the rules. A corporation is expected to have at least 12 members and take a collective decision. It is expected to maintain certain quorum when taking an important decision on irrigation project. But it is

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evident that this was never followed. There was a gross violation.

What you think about the Action Taken Report and the deletion of specific portions related to the politicians?

See, my work was to submit the report which I have done.

The Action Taken Report is prepared by the government. I can't comment on it.

How about several violations in irrigation projects?

In my report, I have categorically stated about the need for further investigation through competent authority for violations of norms while awarding tenders. The contractors' work and mobilisation of advance before approving the project has been overlooked. This part has to be investigated. The several violations related to financial aspects in irrigation projects could not be probed as it did not come under the terms of reference for the inquiry. The government should thoroughly probe these aspects.

City artist inducted on international panel

By A Staff Reporter

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Noted industrialist and philanthropist Kamal Morarka (L) and Vijay Kalantri (centre) at octogenarian Nana Chudasama’s (R) 81st birthday celebration at the MCA Lounge, Garware Club House, recently.

city-based artist has been appointed as "ethics adviser and ambassador" by the World Citizen Artists (WCA) to raise awareness about global issues through art.

Prakash Bal Joshi, a former senior political journalist with a English daily here, has exhibited his art in Europe, USA, Turkey, Bhutan and other international art hubs.

WCA is an artists' initiative by the artists community in Paris. "The global community of artists was launched in Paris by highlighting plight of refugees around the world coinciding on the World Refugee Day," Joshi told PTI.

The United Nation's World Refugee Day is observed on June 20 every year to honour the courage, strength and determination of women, men

for creative artists to join and support the aim of raising global awareness about contemporary issues through art," he said.

In addition to highlighting global issues, WCA intends to democratise art through social media by providing a platform for emerging artists to get their message across art lovers along with established artists who wish to use their reputation to bring about Prakash positive change in the world.

Paris-based artist Valerie Bal Joshi Won Lee is the founder memand children who are forced ber of the group along with to flee their homeland under other artists Lesa Weller of threat of persecution, conflict USA, Pablo Solari of Argentina, and Ger Costelo of and violence.

"The launch of WCA is a call Ireland.

State to launch Project Monitoring Group

By A Staff Reporter

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gainst the backdrop of a rout in the Lok Sabha elections and with an eye on the forthcoming Assembly polls, the Maharashtra government has decided to set up a monitoring group to expedite clearances of industrial projects.

The government is likely to launch a PMG (project monitoring group) portal next week that will facilitate faster clearances of industrial projects through web to ensure more transparency and time-bound action.

"In view of the success of the PMG at the Centre, there was a demand from the industry to lower the threshold limit. Accordingly, the Cen-

tre is now assisting states, including Maharashtra, to set up their own portals for smaller projects," the Central PMG chairman Anil Swarup told PTI. Swarup said that projectrelated clearances will be monitored through a web portal and he would soon be coming to the city to launch it. A specialised project monitoring group (PMG) had been set up last year during the previous UPA government to accelerate pending industrial projects worth up to Rs 1,000 crore as the stalled projects touched a whopping Rs 21 trillion under its watch.

Maharashtra will be the eighth state to set up a project monitoring group after

Odisha, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Karnataka.

The Prithviraj Chavan government has come under criticism from industry players as well as political parties for delay in clearances for projects which they claimed was impacting the growth of the state.

Though the government has been taking steps to ensure single-window clearances, due to various levels of approvals required, projects have been delayed.

Swarup said that at the central level, in all 438 projects have been accepted for consideration so far which entail an investment of around Rs 21 trillion.

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CHANGE OF NAME

CLASSIFIEDS I have changed my name from Shaikh Chhabuddin s/o Shaikh Ali to Shaikh Shabbir Ali s/o Shaikh Ali as per Affidavit Dated 20/06/2014.

C-11653 I have changed my name from Juned Rafiq Sattar, to ‘Ghanchi Juned Rafik’ as per Deed Poll Affidavit Dated: 19/06/2014.

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I have changed my name from Honey Manwani to Anita Manwani vide Affidavit dated 19-04-2014.

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I have changed my name from Rafiq Majid Sattar, to ‘Ghanchi Rafik Sattar’ as per Deed Poll Affidavit Dated: 19/06/2014.

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I Ayyapola Maheshwari Malappa have changed my name to Maheshwari Malappa Ayapola vide Maharashtra Government Gazette No. (X-93893) dated April 17th-23rd, 2014.

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I have changed my name from Rashida Rafiq Sattar, to ‘Ghanchi Rashida Rafik’ as per Deed Poll Affidavit Dated: 19/06/2014.

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I Ayyapola Kameshwari Malappa have changed my name to Kameshwari Malappa Ayapola vide Maharashtra Government Gazette No. (X-93892) dated April 17th-23rd, 2014.

C-11642 I, Fernandes Clyde Nelson Joyce have changed my name to Clyde Anthony Fernandes as per Affidavit dated 16th June 2014.

C-11643 I, Parvati Kamlakar Nakwa/ Foman has changed my name to Parvati Janardan Hajare vide Gazette No. U-54164 dated 19th December 2013.

C-11644 My old name is Vidya Sharadchandra Thombre and now my new name is Usha Balkrishna Joshi as per Affidavit.

C-11645 My old name is Prathiksha Ramappa Ail and now my new name is Pratiksha Ramappa Ail as per Affidavit no. KX-144190 dated 17-06-2014.

C-11646 My old name is Remendu Mariyan Lopies and now my new name is Remend Maryan Lopes as per Affidavit no.

KT-871001 dated 11-06-2014.

C-11647 I have changed my name from Mohammed Saddik Abdul Jabbar to Mohammed Saddik Abdul Jabbar Ajmeri as per Affidavit dated 21/06/2014.

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I have changed my name from Afsana Juned, to ‘Ghanchi Afsana Juned’ as per Deed Poll Affidavit Dated: 19/06/2014.

C-11657 I have changed my name from Rashida Rafik Sattar, to ‘Ghanchi Rashida Rafik’ as per Deed Poll Affidavit Dated: 19/06/2014.

C-11658 I have changed my name from Rafik Sattar, to ‘Ghanchi Rafik Sattar’ as per Deed Poll Affidavit Dated: 19/06/2014.

C-11659 I have changed my name from Mansuri Nijamuddin Mohd Salim, to ‘Mansuri Nizamuddin Mohammed Salim’ as per Deed Poll Affidavit Dated: 19/06/2014.

C-11660 I have changed my name from Mansuri Razia / Raziya Mohd Salim, to ‘Mansuri Razia Bano Mohammed Salim’ as per Deed Poll Affidavit Dated: 19/06/2014.

C-11661 I have changed my name from Ranawat Mohit Kumar Jitendra, to ‘Ranawat Mohit Jitendra’ as per Deed Poll Affidavit Dated: 19/06/2014.

C-11662 I have changed my name from Ismail Abdul Razaque, to ‘Mansuri Ismail Abdul Razaque’ as per Deed Poll Affidavit Dated: 19/06/2014.

C-11663 I have changed my name from Mr. Raj Kumar to Mr. Raj Kumar Gupta as per Affidavit Dated 21.06.2014.

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I have changed my name from Riaz Rangoonwala to Asif Shaikh as per Affidavit No KM 057676.

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I have changed my name from Miss Rupinder Kaur to Mrs. Simran Gupta as per Affidavit Dated 21.06.2014.

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I have changed my name from Ijaz Hussain alias Ejjaz Liyakat Hasan to Ajaz Hussain as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Mr. Amandeep to Mr. Amandeep Gupta as per Affidavit Dated 21.06.2014.

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I have changed my name from Alitta Veena to Alitta Lawrence Fernandes as per Affidavit.

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I have change old name Navin Chandra Ratanlal Pandya to new name Navin Ratanlal Pandya as per Maharashtra Affidavit dated 16/6/2014.

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I have changed my name from Jemini Prakash Tare w/o Prakash Tukaram Tare to Priyanka Prakash Tare w/o Prakash Tukaram Tare as per Affidavit Dated 20/06/2014.

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We Mr. Salim Vajir Virani & Mrs. Sameera Salim Virani have changed name of our minor son from Aditya Salim Virani to Ziyan Salim Virani as per Affidavit dated 21st June’ 2014.

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I have changed my name from “Rachit Mahendra” to “Rachit Mahendra Nahar” as per Affidavit dated 21st June’ 2014.

C-11669 I have changed my name from “Mahendra” to “Mahendra Hiralal Nahar ” as per Affidavit dated 21st June’ 2014.

C-11670 I have changed my name from “Pushpa ” to “Pushpa Nahar” as per Affidavit dated 21st June’ 2014.

C-11671 I have changed my name from “Hidaynarayan Singh” to “Hridaynarayan Singh” as per Affidavit dated 27th May’ 2014.

C-11672 I have changed my name from “Nita Natvarlal Makwana” to “Neeta Hitesh Gohil” as per Affidavit dated 27th May’ 2014.

C-11673 I have changed my name from “Geetaben Madhavlal Patel” to “Geeta Amrutlal Patel” as per Affidavit dated 27th May’ 2014.

C-11674 I have changed my name from “Pravinchandra Kenia” to “Pravin Kenia” as per Affidavit dated 27th May’ 2014.

C-11675 I have changed my name from “Payalben Mahendrabhai Patel” to “Payal Kiran Patel” as per Affidavit dated 27th May’ 2014.

C-11676 I have changed my name from “Awanti Krushang Vora” to “Avanti Krushang Vora” as per Affidavit dated 21st June’ 2014.

C-11677 We Mr. Shoeb Mohammad Shaikh & Mrs. Varsha Shoeb Shaikh have changed name of our minor son from Yash alias Altamash Shoeb Shaikh to Yash Shoeb Shaikh as per Affidavit dated 20th June 2014.

C-11678 I have changed my name from Sumeet Subhash Chalke to Sumit Subhash Chalke as per Govt. of Maharashtra Gazette No (X-98236).

C-11679 I have changed my name from Rakesh Mansukhbhai Patel to Rakesh Mansukhbhai Khunt as per Maharashtra Gazette no.

(X – 65866).

C-11680 I have changed my name from Shoebahmed Mushtaq Ahmed Shaikh to Shoeb Mushtaq Ahmed Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-11681 I have changed my name from Ayesha to Ayesha Mohammed Salim Ansari as per Affidavit.

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014 I have changed my name from Tejinder alias Tajendarkaur Randhirsingh Sandhu to Tejinder Kaur Randhirsingh Sandhu as per Affidavit.

C-11686 I have changed my name from Avdesh Kashinath Tripathi to Avadhesh Kashinath Tripathi as per Affidavit.

C-11687 I have changed my name from Monibai Rewachand to Moni Rewachand Lilani as per Affidavit.

C-11688 I have changed my name from Rewachand Parsumal to Rewachand Parsumal Lilani as per Affidavit.

C-11689 I have changed my name from Shyam Hariram Motwani to Shyamlal Hariram Motwani as per Affidavit.

C-11690 I have changed my name from Aslam Mohammed Yusuf Idrisi to Mohammed Aslam Mohammed Yusuf Idrisi as per Affidavit.

C-11691 I have changed my name from Hasina Mohammed Aadil Ahmad Khan to Hasina Aadil Ahmed Khan as per Deed Poll Affidavit.

C-11692 I have changed my name from Mohammed Aadil Ahmad Khan to Aadil Ahmed Khan as per Deed Poll Affidavit.

C-11693 I have changed my name from M.X. Chinnathambi Rosary Fernando to Chinnathambi Rosario Fernando as per Affidavit.

C-11694 I have changed my name from Vinod Verma to Vinod Kumar Verma as per Affidavit.

C-11695 I have changed my name from Milindkumar Pravinchandra Mehta to Milind Pravin Mehta as per Affidavit.

C-11696 I have changed my name from Pravinchandra Anantrai Mehta to Pravin Anantrai Mehta as per Affidavit.

C-11697 I have changed my name from Ridhi Milind Mehta to Riddhi Milind Mehta as per Affidavit.

C-11698 I have changed my name from Riddhiben Jaisukhlal Mehta to Riddhi Milind Mehta as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Fateha Darvesh to Fateh Mohammad Umer Darvesh as per Affidavit.

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We Mr. Rajesh Manjibhai Goti and Mrs. Nayana Rajesh Goti have change our minor daughter's name from Garnthi Rajesh Goti to Granthi Rajesh Goti as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Chowdhry Mohd Ashraf Kasam to Mohammed Ashraf Kasam Choudhary as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Bhaveshkumar Ishvarlal Mangela to Bhavesh Ishvarlal as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Chankikumar Lalitkumar Jain to Chankykumar Lalitkumar Jain as per Deed Poll Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Ashvinkumar Isvarlal Tandel to Ashvinkumar Ishvarlal as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Ishvarlal Dayaram Mangela to Ishvarlal as per Affidavit.

C-11703 I have changed my name from Isvarlal Dayaram Tandel to Ishvarlal as per Affidavit.

C-11704 I have changed my name from Kalavatiben Ishvarlal Mangela to Calavati Deuji as per Affidavit.

C-11705 I have changed my name from Kalavatiben Isvarlal Tandel to Calavati Deuji as per Affidavit.

C-11706 I have changed my name from Pamayya Basappa Thuruba to Pamesh Basappa Turbe as per Affidavit.

C-11707 We have changed our minor son name from Adnan Ahmed Shahnawaz Patani to Mohammad Ashhar Shahnawaz Patni as per Affidavit.

C-11708 I have changed my name from Shaikh Ayub Shaikh Kayyum Bagwan to Ayyub Kayyum Bagwan as per Affidavit.

C-11709 I have changed my name from Binoy Daniel to Vinoy Varghese Daniel as per Affidavit.

C-11710 I have changed my name from Mohammed Aaqib Khan to Aaqib Khan as per Affidavit.

C-11711 I have changed my name from Enan to Eanakonar as per Affidavit.

C-11712 I have changed my name from Pravin Rama Jadhav to Suresh Ramlal Jadhav as per Affidavit.

C-11713 I have changed my name from Togender Singh to Yogendra Prasad Singh as per Affidavit.

C-11714 I have changed my name from Nasreen Devendra Joshi to Nasreen Nawab Ali Khan as per Affidavit.

C-11715 I have changed my name from Ashif Ahemad Iqbal Ahamed to Asif Ahemad Iqbal Ahamed Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-11716 I have changed my name from Iyman Tayab Ranalawala to Farida Tayyab Ranalawala as per Affidavit.

C-11717 I have changed my name from Mohamad Tayab Ranalawala to Mohammed Tayyab Ranalawala as per Affidavit.

C-11718 I have changed my name from Tayab Mohamad Ranalawala to Tayyab Mohammed Ranalawala as per Affidavit.

C-11719 I have changed my name from Lakkunda Devappa Chitra to Chitra Kesavabathula as per Affidavit.

C-11720 I have changed my name from Lakkunda Devappa Chitra to Chitra Kesavabathula as per Affidavit.

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I have changed name from Yaramada Bharatamma/Laxmi to Bharatamma Yella Reddy as per Affidavit.

C-11722 I have changed my name from Yaramada Yella Reddy to Yella Paramada Reddy as per Affidavit.

C-11723 I have changed my name from Shahil Gajanand Mahyavanshi to Sahil Gajanand Mahyavanshi as per Affidavit.

C-11724 I have changed my name from Gajanan Mahyavanshi to Gajanand Mahyavanshi as per Affidavit.

C-11725 I have changed my name from Thakhatmal Ramlal Gogad to Takhatmal Ramlal Gogad as per Affidavit.

C-11726 I have changed my name from Suba Hargovindbhai/ Hargovind Mulji to Suba Hargovindas Mulji as per Affidavit.

C-11727 I have changed my name from Shah Ritesh Dalichand to Shah Retesh Dalichand as per Affidavit.

C-11728 I have changed my name from Kailash Kunwar Deepsingh to Rajput Kailash Shersingh as per Affidavit.

C-11729 I have changed my name from Jain Kailashkumar Devichand to Jain Kailash Devichand as per Affidavit.

C-11730 I have changed my name from Ms. Sharmeen Banu Mohammad Mirza Baloch to Ms. Sharmin Bano Mohammad Mirza Baloch as per Deed Poll Affidavit.

C-11731 I have changed my name from Ms. Sharmeen Mohammad Mirza Baloch to Ms. Sharmin Bano Mohammad Mirza Baloch as per Deed Poll Affidavit.

C-11732 I have changed my name from Mohmad Rustam to Mohammad Rustam Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-11733 I have changed my name from Dhiman Dilawarsingh Mastram to Dhiman Dilawar Mastram as per Affidavit.

C-11734 I have changed my name from Hemant Kumar Shivdhani Rawat to Hemant Shivdhani Rawat as per Affidavit.

C-11735 I have changed my name from Shaikh Md. Arif Ismail to Shaikh Arif Ismail as per Affidavit Dt. 21-06-2014.

C-11736 I have changed my name from Sai Asiya Abubakar to Sayee Asiya Abubakar as per Affidavit Dt. 21-06-2014.

C-11737 I have changed my name from Shalini Jiljil Nair to Shalini Rajan Pillai as per Affidavit Dated - 21/06/2014.

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Prithviraj Chavan THE appointments of Governors of State and Nominated Members of Legislative Council have never been followed as per the Constitution. In both cases, the appointments are more a sort of political rehabilitation for partymen who have either passed their sellby date in politics or simply cannot get themselves elected to either the state legislature or the parliament.

Another similarity is that in both kinds of appointments, the appointees are at the pleasure of the Governor or the President of India, that is, in other words, the state or the Central government.

Why some Governors are digging their heels in is be-

cause they are taking refuge in the 2010 Supreme Court verdict which offers some sort of protection against arbitrary removal. The charge has been that Governments of the day have always politicised these appointments and appointed their own trusted aides as listening posts, especially if the state government is of your rival political party. Framers of our Constitution wanted Governors to be ideologically independent. The case of Nominated MLCs is no different either. Since late 1990s, successive state governments have rarely followed the Constitution norms which stipulate that these appointees should be from certain sections of the society like artists, sportspersons, scientists, etc who otherwise cannot contest elections and whose expertise can be used for framing better laws and policies. Unfortunately, the government fails on both counts.

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party's disastrous performance in the recent Lok Sabha polls. But even then the party high command appeared less reluctant to toe the line. Even if it does effect any change now, first of all there are limited choices before the Congress and secondly, the successor hardly has any time to repair the damage. So the new ploy from the Congress is to ask NCP chief Sharad Pawar to either merge his party with the Congress — which is highly unlikely as he would rather love to exploit the weakened Congress — or ask Pawar to lead the alliance in the ensuing Assembly polls.

The latter option looks more plausible than the former.

ally NCP, which was seeking more out of the Congress. In the end, it proved to be a reprieve for Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who was more under attack for what the NCP felt, is his extra-cautious approach in avoiding corruption pitfalls, earning him the tag of being a slow performer. Back in late 1999, the Shiv Sena changed Manohar Joshi as its chief minister with Narayan Rane, with barely few months to elections. That did not help the Sena-BJP government to duck the anti-incumbency The talk of a change of guard wave and since then has in the state had been in the been out of power for the last offing for quite some time in 15 years in the state. the Congress, while it was The clamour for removal On the face of it, no one had more of sabre-rattling by its of Chavan grew after the any grudges when NCP

Belated Change

Political Condolence

Honouring excellence Nine business leaders and entrepreneurs honoured with Maxell Maharashtra Corporate Excellence Awards 2014

By Santia Dudi

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he Third Maxell Maharashtra Corporate Excellence Awards (MCEA) ceremony was held at Nehru Centre Auditorium on June 20. For the last three years MCEA has been inspiring business leaders and entrepreneurs by honouring them.

Nitin Potdar, founder trustee of Maxell Foundation, told the ADC, “According to me, single recognition equals billion inspirations. We are trying to motivate the young generation of Maharashtra to give its best to get global recognition for Maharashtra

in at least one sector.”

Nine business leaders and entrepreneurs were honoured, with awards given by chief guest Sharad Pawar. A blue-print, Max Maharashtra, to take Maharashtra on the global map was also unveiled. Three industrial sectors were identified as potential sectors in which Maharashtra can make its own mark on the global map.

The sectors were Media and Entertainment, Management and Research Education, and Heavy Equipments and Machinery for Infrastructure.

Nintin Potdar, while addressing the audience, said,

“Maxell Awards are a journey, a mission to inspire our young generation. By giving awards, we are not making any one big, that they already are. We are trying to inspire the potential leaders of our state. Our motive is to make Maharashtra a global hub in one sector or the other.”

Chief Guest Sharad Pawar said, “Maxell Foundation has a different initiative. It has brought many business leaders and organisations on one platform. It has a positive influence. I am happy that Maxell has this inspirational motive. We all should support it together.”

chief Sharad Pawar offered condolences to the family of late Gopinath Munde over the weekend at the NCPA. At such times, politicians and political parties have departed from tradition and not fielded candidates against the kith and kin of

their bitterest departed political rivals. Post the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, the then leader of the opposition in the legislative assembly, Munde, had launched one of the fiercest political attacks on Pawar, eventually paving the way for the Sena-BJP to be swept to power in 1995.

Later, the NCP managed to split the Munde family by weaning away his nephew, Dhananjay, to its side. But as Pawar said yesterday, the late Munde was a person who never followed the “Clock” (NCP’s election symbol). Paying tributes, Pawar remarked that some how Munde’s equations with the Clock never worked out. Another significant remark that Pawar made was to announce that the NCP would not field its official candidate in Beed Lok Sabha bye-elections if anyone from the Munde family chooses to contest or is fielded by the BJP. This, according to some, is a clever way of defusing the anger against the NCP and Pawar, in particular, in the Marathwada region and in Beed district in particular. The NCP and Pawar had fought a bitter Lok Sabha campaign against Munde in the recent Lok Sabha polls.

Tawde demands cancellation of 12 Governor-nominated MLCs

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Chief Guest Sharad Pawar with the Maxell Advisory Board Members.

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y writing a letter to President Pranab Mukherjee demanding cancellation of nominations of 12 Governor nominated members of the Legislative Council (MLCs) on grounds that they are political appointees, leader of opposition in legislative council Vinod Tawde (BJP) has revived the age old debate of whether it is right to nominate political leaders to vacancies instead of appointing prominent personalities.

Tawde argued that as per section 5 of Article 171 of the Constitution, appointees to vacancies of Nominated MLCs shall be people having background of Arts, Sports and Science. But records since late 1990s show successive governments have rarely followed the law. Tawde argued that all the appointees are primary members of Congress and NCP and do not fit in the criteria laid down in the Constitution.

Tawde termed the action of the ruling Congress-NCP alliance as an attempt to politically rehabilitate its party cadres in the upper house of the state legislature. He also wanted to know as to what special contribution did the recently 12 Nominated MLCs have made towards

Arts, Sports and Science.

Speaking to ADC yesterday former legislature principal secretary Ramesh Kambli remarked that the government has rarely followed the norm. He advocated the need for laying down some directives in this regard.

A significant aspect of these nominated MLCs is that they do not have to submit any affidavit disclosing the details of their moveable or immovable assets as is required by MPs, MLAs and MLCs, though they enjoy the same powers, privileges and perks as the rest of the elected representatives.

Moreover, while the Constitution is silent on the educational qualifications required for MLCs, it prescribes an age limit of 30 years for candidates contesting elections to legislative council and the Rajya Sabha.

Furthermore, there are no elections held for these vacancies and members are nominated by the Governor on the basis of the recommendations of the state government. Another significant pointer is that these nominated MLCs do not have to submit any election affidavit spelling out the details of the assets and liabilities as well as the criminal cases if any they are charged with.

From the records available since 1960s – prominent personalities who have graced the hallowed portals of the upper house in the state legislature include – noted Islamic scholar Dr Rafiq Zakaria, noted lyricist Shantaram Nandgaonkar, noted Marathi poetess Sarojini Babar, noted lyricist, agriculturist and poet Prof N.D. Mahanor, noted lyricist and poet G.D. Madgulkar and satirist Prof.

Ramdas Phutane among others. But the trend in nominating such personalities to the upper house has shown a declining trend since the 1990s.

It may be recalled that the Congress-NCP led government nominated 12 MLCs to the Governor Nominated constituency in the upper house almost a month later.

The term of the 12 Nominated MLCs had ended on March 12, 2014. The Congress nominated Anant Gadgil (MPCC spokesperson), Prof. Jogendra Kawade (PRP President), Jannardhan Chandurkar (MRCC president), Husnabano Khalite, amhari Rupanwar and Anandrao Patil. While the NCP nominated Ramrao Vadkute, Khwaja Beg, Jagganath Shinde, Vidya Chavan, Rahul Narvekar and Prakash Gajbhiye.

CHANGE OF NAME I have changed my name from Pramila Dasharath Karale to Jayashree Dasharath Karale as per Affidavit Dated 21/06/2014.

C-11739 We Mr. Atique Kesarwani & Mrs. Shamima Atique Kesarwani have change our son name from Abdurrahmen Atique Kesarwani to Abdurrehman Atique Kesarwani as per Affidavit.

C-11740 I have changed my name from Jahitha Jahangir Khan to Shahnaz Bano Jahangir Khan as per Affidavit.

C-11741 I have changed my name from Abdul Munaf Abdul Gaffar Shaikh to Abdul Munaf Gaffar Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-11742 I Mr. Alkeshbhai Ramanlal Shah have changed my name to Mr. Alkeshkumar Ramanlal Shah as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/06/14.

C-11743 I Mr. Alkesh Ramanlal Shah have changed my name to Mr. Alkeshkumar Ramanlal Shah as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/06/14.

C-11744 I Mrs. Kajalben Alkeshkumar Shah have changed my name to Mrs. Kajal Alkeshkumar Shah as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/06/14.

C-11745 I Hansha Valji Patel have changed my name to Hansaben Valjibhai Harkhani as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 21/06/14.

C-11746 I Ayyanar have changed my name to Ayyanar Kounder as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 21/06/14.

C-11747 I Kishorbhai Barot have changed my name to Kishor Barot as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 21/06/14.

C-11748 I Amiben Barot have changed my name to Ami Barot as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 21/06/14.

C-11749 I Poojaben Jitendra Shah have changed my name to Pooja Jitendra Shah as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11750 I Mr. Maneshkumar Madhavlal Patel have changed my name to Mr. Manish Madhavlal Patel as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 21/06/14.

C-11751 I Sandhya Mejari have changed my name to Sandhya Gautam Nevgi as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 21/06/14.

C-11752 I Komal Tribhovan Fofariya have changed my name to Komal Tribhovan Fofaria as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 12/06/14.

C-11753 I Shaileshkumar Hariprasad Shah have changed my name to Shailesh Hariprasad Shah as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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CLASSIFIEDS I Wasim Shmad have changed my name to Wasim Ahmed Shaikh as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11755 I Amitkumar Chawda have changed my name to Amit Chawda as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11756 I Parvin Chawda have changed my name to Pravin Chawda as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11757 I Smita Chawda have changed my name to Sunita Chawda as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11758 I Sarita Chawda have changed my name to Sunita Chawda as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11759 I Rekhaben Pravinbhai Kalathiya have changed my name to Reenaben Pravinbhai Kalathiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11760 I Jamna Pravinbhai Kalathiya have changed my name to Jinal Pravinbhai Kalathiya as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11761 I Mohammed Murtuza Ali have changed my name to Murtuja Ali Shah as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11762 I Cecil Henry Gaikwad have changed my name to Cecilia Louis Kadam as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11763 I Irfan Hanif Dokadiya have changed my name to Irfan Hanif Dokadia as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11764 I Shagufta Irfan Dokadiya have changed my name to Shagufta Irfan Dokadia as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11765 We Mr. Irfan Hanif Dokadia & Mrs. Shagufta Irfan Dokadia have changed our minor son’s name from Abdullah Irfan Dokadiya to Abdullah Irfan Dokadia as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11766 I Manjula Gopinath Mhatre have changed my name to Neelima Prabhakar Mhatre as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11767 I Nisar Ansar Sayed have changed my name to Nisar Ansar Sayyed as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11768 I Brahma Satya Narayan Upadhya & Upadhyay Brahamha Satyanarayan have changed my name to Brahma Satyanarayan Upadhyay as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11769 I Satya Narayan Upadhya have changed my name to Satyanarayan Upadhyay as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11770 I Prabhavati Satya Narayan Upadhya have changed my name to Prabhavati Satyanarayan Upadhyay as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11771 I Sureshkumar Bhavarsingh Rajput have changed my name to Sureshsingh Bhavarsingh Rajput as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Tejaskumar Shantilal Parmar have changed my name to Tejas Shantilal Parmar as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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India to get Swiss bank detail; SIT readies for further action

I Mangesh Ganpati Masana have changed my name to Mangeshwaran Ganapathi Masanam as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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ndia's efforts to crackdown on black money stashed abroad on Sunday got a major boost with Switzerland readying a list of Indians suspected to have un-taxed money in Swiss banks, while Special Investigation Team constituted by Indian government promised action if any illegality is found.

The names of certain Indian individuals and entities came under the scanner of the Swiss authorities during an ongoing exercise to identify the real beneficiary owners of funds held in various

I Ganpati Masana have changed my name to Ganapathi Masanam as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11775 I Rajlaxmi Ganpati Masana @ Rajalaxmi Ganapathi Masanam have changed my name to Rajlaxmi Ganapathi Masanam as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11776 I Gaurav Gopal have changed my name to Gaurav Gopal Rao as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

C-11777 I Bhavyadeep Mantry have changed my name to Bhavyadeep Mantri as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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banks operating in Switzerland, a senior Swiss government official told PTI. The list of such persons and entities is being shared with India, while further details would also be provided in due course and all necessary administrative assistance would be made available as well, he said.

Reacting to the development, Justice M B Shah, who is heading the SIT on black money in India, said that the list would be verified and action would be taken against those found to have kept unaccountable money.

Resigned to their fate

I Shahin Rizwan Memon have changed my name to Kyra Kyne Fernandes as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Akbar Ali have changed my name to Akbar Ali Shaikh as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/06/14.

C-11780 I Sultan Ahmad Shaikh Rafiuddin Mukadam have changed my name to Sultan Ahmad Rafiuddin Mukadam as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 21/06/14.

C-11781 I Dineshkumar Sohanlalji Palrecha have changed my name to Dinesh Sohanlalji Palrecha as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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A Campa Cola Compound resident faints at the gates to the premises.

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Mr. Chandrakant Manilal Sheth, a memeber of Mallika Co-operative Housing Society Ltd., having address at R. B. Mehta Marg, Ghatkopar (East), Mumbai-400077 and holding 100% shares in flat No. 504 in the building of the society, died on 31/ 01/ 2014 nominating 100% shares in the building of the society, died on 31/01/2014 nominating 100% shares in the said Flat no. 504 to his wife Mrs. Surabhi Chandrakant Sheth.

The Society hereby invites claims / objections from the heir or heirs or other claimants / objector for objectors to the transfer of the said shares & interest of the said deceased member in the capital / property of the society within a period of 15 days from the publication of this notice, with copies of such documents & other proofs in support of his/her claim/ objections for transfer of shares and interest of the deceased member in the capital/property of the society. if no claim/objections are received within the period prescribed above, the society shall be free to deal in such manner as is provided under the bye-laws of the society. A copy of the regd. bye-laws of the society is available for inspection by the claimants/ objectors in the society office between 10 a.m. to 12 noon. from the date of publication of the notice till the date of expiry of its period of 15 days.

The objections / claims, if any, be directly sent to The Hon. Secretary,62-63,Mallika CHS Ltd, R.B Mehta Marg, Ghatkopar(E), Mumbai-400077.

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water, electricity and gas supply of each illegal flat,” said Keshav Vishwanath Ubale, Assistant Municipal Commissioner, G south ward office. “We are following the orders of the Supreme Court and will be carrying out our work peacefully. We want the residents to co-operate with us. There is no specific target set for disconnecting the essential supplies within a particular time. We will try to finish off the work at the earliest.”

The officials had arrived at the compound at 11.45 am on Sunday, but were

blocked by the defiant residents from entering the premises.

“Do not compel us to use force. We have tried to convince you for the past two days to co-operate with us.

All your appeals have been rejected by the Supreme Court,” said Anand Waghralkar, Deputy Municipal Commissioner, to the residents.

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Kripashankar Singh, who led a morcha against the fare hike, talking to a media-person, yesterday.

By Zuber Ansari

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undreds of Congress party workers, on Sunday, protested against the Central government's decision to raise the railway fares. The protesters who took a morcha, led by former Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) chief and Kalina MLA Kripashankar Singh, tried to burn an effigy of the new railway minister. But the Vakola police intervened and stopped them. The Congress workers were taken to Vakola

NCP mocks ‘acche din’ dream

By Suresh Golani

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NCP leaders shouting slogans against the the rail fare hike.

he Mira Bhayandar unit of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), led by district president Mohan Patil, staged a protest at Bhayandar railway station against the rail fare hike.

Demanding an immediate roll back, party workers and leaders including Dhruvkishore Patil, Bhagwati Sharma, Vandana Chakre, Sajid Patel and Suresh Khandelwal launched demonstrations and

shouted slogans against the NDA government, mocking “Acche Din”.

The agitation was called after a delegation of NCP leaders met the station master and handed over their written demand of an immediate roll back to be conveyed to their concerned higherups. “The people of Mumbai and Thane will suffer the most due to the local train fare hike. We demand an immediate roll back, else our agitations will be intensified,” said Mohan Patil.

police station and released government has given a biglater after a warning. ger jolt. Fares in local trains Kripashankar Singh said, have more than doubled.”

“We demand that the railway According to Senior Police fare hiked by NDA govern- Inspector Vinayak Mulay ment be rolled back. If not, from the Vakola police stawe will continue our agita- tion, “They sought permistion. If required, we will sion for a peaceful protest, gherao MP Poonam Mahajan but when they tried to burn at her residence. Prime Min- the effigy, we took it possesister Narendra Modi should sion of it. We also took the intervene in the matter. At protesters to the police stathe time of the election cam- tion.” paigning, he had said, 'Acche Congress corporator Brian din aayenge.' Prices have Miranda and Vishnu (Bala) been hiked by 14.2 per cent in Sarode, district president of a single day. Is this 'acche the Youth Congress were din'? For Mumbaikars, the present during the protests.

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fter a long and confusing Sunday, officials at the Central Railways (CR) finally confirmed that season tickets will be issued as per the existing fares until Tuesday.

Ticket clerks at several stations along the central and western lines were confused about season ticket fares. Some clerks simply refused to issue season tickets due to the lack of a clear order. This led to arguments with passengers.

The confusion had risen due to point no. 5 in a notification by the Divisional Office, Commercial Branch, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), dated June 21,

By Suresh Golani

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he huge rush of passengers in trains to destinations across India, especially during the summer, has once again brought the spotlight on the intruder menace in sleeper-class reserved compartments.

During peak seasons, outstation trains running to and from Mumbai get booked to capacity. For some Northbound trains, the waiting list, mostly for second class and ordinary sleeper coaches, swells to astronomical numbers.

Fare confusion

Finally, a release by the CR said, “Passengers who wish to purchase/renew season tickets up to 25.6.2014 (excluding) will get their season tickets at Maharashtra the existing fare. The new Vinod Tawade Pradesh fare will be applicable for tweeted: Congress season tickets Proposed rail Committee purchased/renewed on and fare hike is too president from 25.6.2014.” taxing for Manikrao Which means, passengers Mumbaikars. can renew or purchase seaThakre, along We have son tickets till mid night on with other requested Tuesday by paying the existministers and MLAs, have Rajnath Singh to reconsider the ing fares. The new charges planned to hold demonstrations proposal. Rajnath has assured to will come into force from at 10 am today, and travel from talk to Railway Minister, Finance Wednesday, June 25 mornCST to Thane by the local train, Minister and Prime Minister ing. Despite the confusion, without tickets.

Narendra Modi. on Sunday, people were seen waiting in long queues which read, “...ensure the fares on the revised rate to renew their of season collection of season ticket from 22.06.2014.” ticket at several stations.

No space despite reservation

“If six people sit on a berth meant for three, it is bound to cause inconvenience to passengers who have the right to comfortable travel by virtue

of a confirmed ticket. Those who book tickets months prior to their date of journey can't be forced to travel in overcrowded compartments,” argues social activist Ravindra Upadhyay, who has dashed-off a letter to the railway minister seeking his intervention on the issue.

The railway ministry seems helpless about the discomfort of railway passengers in reserved coaches, who are outnumbered by passengers with tickets meant for unre-

served compartments.

“I recently travelled from Varanasi to Mumbai with my family. Despite having a confirmed ticket that was booked well in advance, the journey was nothing less than a nightmare. The entire reserved coach was intruded upon by ticketless and waitlisted passengers,” said a Bhayandar resident.

“It is a struggle to get even a foothold inside a jam packed unreserved coach. What is the other option for a passenger who fails to get a confirmed ticket,” questioned R. Sharma, a regular traveller.

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As most city colleges are receiving around 1,000 applications for the 60 seats they have per course, MU has requested state government to allow increase in number of seats

By Yatin Ingle

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he cut-off marks for first year degree courses have kept most students already out of the lists. Most colleges have 60 seats per course but more than 1,000 students have staked their claim to them. This has led to the seats being filled up with the second merit list

itself, leaving no scope for a third merit list.

As per the norms of Maharashtra Universities Act 1994, a college is allotted with only 60 seats for a management or un-aided course.

Considering the applicant with the highest marks, a cut-off list is prepared and closed as per the availability of seats.

After the MU noticed the increase in the number of applications for management and un-aided courses, it applied to the government, requesting an increase in the in-take limit. The state government agreed to the demand and the MU soon allowed extra classrooms to those colleges who wanted an extra division. Top col-

leges from south Mumbai however have continued with the 60 students classroom.

Shriya Singh, a student who has just cleared her HSC, said, “I have applied for the course of Bachelor of Mass Media (BMM) in colleges from south Mumbai. Most of these colleges have only 60 seats and thousands of students have applied for admissions there. I am disappointed as the seats might get filled by the second list and I may lose a year.”

On Thursday, June 18, the first

merit list for admissions to First Year Degree College was declared.

A hike in the admissions was noticed by around 10 per cent as compared to the last year. Even students who had secured above 85 per cent in their HSC exams were unable to make it in the first merit list.

Dr. M.A. Khan, Registrar, MU, said, “The students should not be worried as they will surely get an admission in some college or the other. Students should wait for the second list.”

Defamation suit against professors Employees seek legal

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r. Vasanthi Kadhivaram, an associate professor attached to the Department of Physical Education, University of Mumbai, has filed a defamation suit of Rs.1.50 crore in the Bombay High Court against the Assistant Professors of the same department, Vishwambar Jadhav and Nilesh Lohar, for filing a false case of atrocity, strangulation, etc. against her.

On December 2, 2013, Dr. Vasanthi was acquitted by the High Court while passing a judgment order that the prosecution miserably failed to prove the allegations in a case which was filed by the two professors against her at the BKC police station in October 2010. She has now moved the High Court with a defamation suit against Jadhav and Lohar.

Significantly, in December 2012, Professor Lohar was arrested in a sexual harassment case filed by another colleague. The university reinstated him in April 2014 although the court case in still going

MU’s Dr. Vasanthi Kadhivaram files Rs.1.50 crore case against two of her colleagues for false complaint in 2010

Vishwambhar Jadhav: One of the two colleagues against whom the suit has been filed. on.

According to Dr. Vasanthi, “Students are instigated by Jadhav to file allegations against me so that they get more internal marks even though they don't attend classes.

He also sends mails to the authorities containing false allegations against me.”

In December 2013, a special court for SC/ST found, “It has not come on record that it was the accused who has abused the complainant on the day by referring to his caste with intention to insult him, and the main witnesses Lohar of the prosecution in this respect has not supported the case of the prosecution.’’

Vishwambar Jadhav, who had filed a complaint on October 26, 2010 at the Bandra Kurla Police Station against Dr. Vasanthi, earlier worked as a temporary lecturer cum sports coordinator and was discontinued on disciplinary grounds by the University of Mumbai based on the report of a threemember Inquiry Committee appointed by then Vice Chancellor on June 17, 2009, Dr. Vasanthi informed.

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UBAI: An 11-year-old Indian student is the lone participant from the UAE who has got her two experiments approved for launch into space under a programme for budding young scientists.

Two experiments of Prerna Pai, a seventh grader at Sharjah's Delhi Private School (DPS), are among the 100 selected experiments that will be fired into space under the Cubes In Space Programme on June 26, Gulf News reported.

The Cubes in Space (CIS) Programme was launched in May and had invited students from around the world in the age group of 11-14 to devise experimental payloads for space, reports PTI. "I had to think a lot when I learnt about this contest and sent them (CIS) many proposals. My science teacher has always encouraged me to think out of the box and that inspired me.

"Once my ideas were selected, CIS sent me a kit into which I had

LITTLE WONDER: Prerna Pai being felicitated at a function in Sharjah, recently. to place my experiments and mail it to them. I was so thrilled by the news that I even dashed off a thank-you note to CIS," Gulf News quoted Pai as saying.

She submitted two experiments that she called "To stick or not to

stick" and "time and pressure".

The first experiment is about studying the manner in which different adhesives are likely to behave in space in the absence of atmospheric pressure.

For this, Pai used a thermocol cube of 12 pieces in which each corner was stuck using a different kind of adhesive such as modelling clay, wax, cello tape, metal wire, thread, school glue and super glue.

The second involves two tiny bottles - one made of plastic and the other of glass - sealed with a modelling clay cork and placed in a cube. The experiment will focus on how the bottles react to lack of atmospheric pressure: Will they disintegrate, get damaged or remain intact?

Once the experiments are back from space and mailed to her, Pai intends to begin research on the effects, film the results and mail them back to CIS.

action against IIPM Institute has not paid employees salaries for last 15 months and has shut down most of its centres across India

By Philip Varghese

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he Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) at Bandra has been embroiled in another controversy for non-payment of salaries to employees and ex-employees for several months.

The matter came to light as political parties, including the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and the Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Sena, students wing of the Shiv Sena, has written to State Higher and Technical Education Minister Rajesh Tope, and also to Governor of Maharashtra K. Sankaranarayanan, State Home Minister R.R. Patil, Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria, and Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Dr. S.S. Mantha, to take action against the institute.

In a recent case of alleged nonpayment of salaries, some of its former employees, who wished not to be named, in a complaint written to the Senior Police Inspector of Bandra police station, have stated that even the police is shunning them away from filing any complaint against the IIPM. They alleged that they were working with the IIPM since one year and were denied their salaries for eight months. “I was forced to resign from my duties due to non-payment of salary and we kept following up the matter with the management so that they would pay us our salaries. Salim Khan harassed us whenever we asked for the pending dues. We were also abused on occasions. However, when we went to the police station to file the complaint, we were shunned by your officer Ms. Simali Patil and another officer, who claimed that there is already an issue of IIPM registered in this police station which is unresolved and asked us to wait for over eight hours.

The CCTV footage of the police station can reveal the truth. Also on May 25, we approached Inspector Shahaji Shetke to register the same complaint of abuse against Salim Khan. However, that too seems to

have fallen on deaf ears as we were handed over a copy of a non-congisible complaint whereas a complaint should be registered as an FIR as per guidelines of the Supreme Court,” the complaint stated.A letter written by Aditya Rajan Shirodkar, president of the students' wing of the MNS, states, “The IIPM has denied their employees salaries for last 15 months and has shut down centres across India. Criminal cases of cheating and fraud have been registered against IIPM and its management in various part of the country. In Mumbai, the IIPM management had promised the employees that they would sell their building at Bandra, and pay off the salaries/dues, but no such thing has happened. It was just a false assurance. The police have raided many of its centres in the country. It is important and essential that strict action should be taken against the institute.”Nadeem Wani of Bharatiya Vidhyarti Sena, Shiv Sena's students wing, in his letter has sought registering of an FIR against Salim Khan. “A sensitive issue like passing lewd remarks, abusing women and outraging the modesty of a woman is not considered a serious crime by your officials. Even the Supreme Court has issued guidelines that if a woman complaints, the offence must be taken seriously. However, in this case justice is denied to these women even after they dispatched a complaint letter to you. Now the victim has lost hope in the system due to negligence and insensitive approach of your officials,” Wani said.When asked, Police Inspector Shailendra Pasalwalkar, investigating officer in the case, said, “I have received the complaint from these two girls who were ex-employees of IIPM. However, there are other exemployees who have also approached us with a similar complaint and so we are investigating the case. We are going to summon the IIPM authorities to come and give us their statements in this case.” philip.varghese@afternoondc.in

Preity returns from US; police to record statement in two days

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By A Staff Reporter

509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman).

Police have so far recorded the statements of at least seven witnesses, including Indian Premier League COO Sundar Raman and BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel in connection with the case.

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ctress Preity Zinta, who has accused her exboyfriend and industrialist Ness Wadia of outraging her modesty, returned to Mumbai on Sunday from the United States and is likely to record her statement before the police in the next two days.

The 39-year-old actress, who had left India soon after filing an FIR against Wadia on June 12, arrived at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport here yesterday afternoon and refused to speak to the waiting mediapersons.

"As she has arrived in Mumbai, her statement would be recorded soon," Deputy Police Commissioner Ravindra Shisve, who is supervising the probe, told PTI. However, another officer privy to the probe stated that the actress's supplementary statement would be recorded either tomorrow or on Tuesday.

Preity had filed a police complaint on June 12 night alleging that Wadia (44) outraged her modesty at Wankhede stadium on May 30 when an IPL match was played between Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings, a charge the industrialist has denied as "false and baseless".

Shisve said the investigators want to ask the actress about the exact place where the alleged incident took place and who were around.

At one point of time, the actress had claimed, "I left for my seat, but he (Ness) came up to me at my seat and started screaming and abusing me in front of everyone."

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Meanwhile, police is probing the threat calls received by the secretary of Ness' father, Nusli Wadia, allegedly from fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari.

Two personal secretaries to the industrialist had received calls on their cell phones from a person, who claimed to be

fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari, on June 16 and filed a complaint with N M Joshi Marg police station the next day.

The Wadia group secretaries received threatening calls and a text message warning that their "business will be in trouble" if the actress is harassed.

Rhea accuses Paes of domestic violence Leander Paes with wife Rhea and their daughter in this file picture.

Actress Preity Zinta coming out of the airport on Sunday.

"We want to know where she was sitting and who were these 'everyone' she was referring to," the official said.

The police apparently want to record Zinta's detailed statement as the CCTV footages obtained by them do not contain the alleged spat between the two.

The statement will form the basis of further police probe into the matter. "We will decide further course of action once Zinta's statement is recorded," the DCP stated.

Investigators have indicated that Ness would be called for questioning only after recording Zinta's statement.

Zinta and Wadia had bro-

ken off their five-year-long relationship a couple of years back but continued to share business interest.

Several players of IPL team Kings XI Punjab, of which Zinta is a co-owner with Wadia, its support staff, and officials of Wankhede Stadium were claimed to have been present when the alleged incident took place.

Based on Zinta's written complaint, Marine Drive police registered an FIR against Wadia under IPC sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 506 (criminal intimidation) and

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odel Rhea Pillai has filed a case of domestic violence and harassment against her estranged live-in partner ace tennis player Leander Paes and his father in a local metropolitan magistrate court.

"Pillai has filed a case of domestic violence against Paes, his father Vece Paes

and has sought monthly maintenance of about Rs.4 lakh," Paes' advocate Pervez Memon said on Sunday.

The case, filed on Saturday, is likely to come up for hearing on June 30, he said.

The couple has already been fighting for the custody of their eight-year-old daughter.

Pillai, in her complaint,

has accused Paes' father of preventing her and her daughter from entering their Carter Road residence.

She has also sought blocking of any transfer of property to any 'third party'.

Paes had last month filed 'a guardianship petition' in the family court seeking permanent custody of his daughter from Pillai.

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Ponder awhile...

“The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A big blow to suburban commuters T

HE railway budget prepared by the UPA government and passed by the BJP has caused a great deal of distress across the country. The BJP government straightaway approved it without bothering to bring it before parliament – an unusual exercise.

The passenger fare has been increased by 14 per cent and the freight rate by 6 per cent.

Finance minister Arun Jaitley says increase is necessary to expand the network and improve the services. Prime Minister Narendra Modi who all along his poll campaign was holding forth that the poor will top his priority list has hit them hard by imposing on them an unkind increase in rail fare.

In Mumbai, a second class season ticket from Virar to Churchgate — which used to cost Rs. 280 will now cost Rs. 645. The first class season ticket which was Rs. 1035 will now cost Rs. 1960. Nearly 7 lakh commuters of western and central railways will be affected.

What is certain is that the service in the suburban railway is not going to improve one bit. The railways do not provide a seat for a large number of commuters. All of them are overcrowded. Getting in and out of coaches is a painful experience. The safety factor is conspicuous by its absence. Lakhs of people go through daily ordeal.

Is there any guarantee that rail travel will be safe and pleasant after the new fares are collected? Chances are the services will be as bad as before. Take an example: the railways know that it is dangerous to leave wide gaps between the train and the platform. Since the last two years, they have been tinkering with the problem. It still remains on paper.

It is not just lack of funds that is holding up various works with railways.

Narendra Modi’s government now has already stopped favouring the poor. The finance minister’s latest remark shows where his sympathy is: “India must decide whether it wants a ramshackled or a world-class railway.”

And it is most hilarious that the Congress party which prepared the budget is leading protests in Delhi and other places against the hike in passenger fares.

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t is natural for some of the mass affection for the winner to be spent the moment he scores big at the ballot box. Not unlike an ardent lover who upon getting his dream beloved finds some ardour cooling. Something of that sort might already be happening with the Narendra Modi government. Though it is early days yet, the people impatient for change, who contemptuously threw out the Congress Party, are keenly awaiting the first tangible signs of that change. Whatever changes that have taken place thus far concern the new personnel replacing the old and rejected ones, or a mere tinkering in the mundane details of official functioning. More is awaited.

Of course, you will have to discount the brazenly unrepentant Congress lot which skipped even the customary post-mortem of its spectacular humiliation. It has taken to the streets against the new government without even caring to know the basics. Such as that neither power nor water supply can be augmented overnight and that it would take a while to clear the mess left behind by them for the new regime to begin the urgent task of nation building.

Even though the Modi government can still afford to treat the Congress opposition with benign neglect, what it cannot do is to ignore the popular craving for real change. Soon the very people who voted for the BJP would begin to ask questions about the tangibles of that change in their everyday lives. Unlike the handful of Congress demonstrators on the streets in the national capital, ordinary Indians have vast reserves of patience which will allow the Prime Minister at least a few more months to show results.

Admittedly, the on-going battle of nerves with the Congress nominees in various Raj Bhawans can only end in their ejection from the gubernatorial sinecures. But the controversy is bad for the image of the new regime insofar as it only goes to show that it too has no new idea to overhaul the system of patronage put in place by the previous Congress regimes. Appointing one set of political hasbeens with a new set of political has-beens would hardly signal a break from the constitutionally perverted past. Modi was expected to shun this old style politics, wasn’t he?

Again, the creeping centralisation of all authority in the Prime Minister’s Office would be welcome if it guaranteed a better and efficient government. Remember that no PMO was as power-centric as that of Indira Gandhi’s. And we all know what happened to the country under Indira Gandhi. A very thin line separates a strong prime minister from an authoritarian one. Instead of nominating PAs and other personnel in various ministries, it would have been immensely better to choose the ministers well and then trust them to pick the best and the brightest as their personal aides and senior secretaries. In the age of Twitter, Facebook and 24x7 television, ministerial PAs create a highly avoidable controversy.

Indeed, even the circular on the use of Hindi could have been better thought out.

Though there is nothing that is new or objectionable in routinely reminding the officialdom to encourage the use of Hindi, the reaction of the likes of Karunanidhi, who are still nursing deep electoral wounds, to exploit that innocuous circular for bouncing back ought to have been anticipated. The point is that anything that takes the focus of the new regime away from boosting development Vikas, the foremost plank on which it won a famous victory - ought to be scrupulously avoided. Pleasing the handful of Hindi zealots

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– the very ones who send their wards to English medium schools - with that circular should have been a lower priority than preventing the likes of Karunanidhi to stir the anti-north cauldron yet again. Happily, in his dotage the DMK lion seems to have lost both his bark and bite.

Meanwhile, it is wrong to suggest that the Modi government faces its first big challenge in the unfolding hostage drama in Iraq. Crucial as the safety and well-being of the Indian workers is, they are the collateral victims of a bloody insurrection. No power on earth could have anticipated the events, with multiple actors, each with his own partisan agenda, vio-

INSIDE STORY Virendra Kapoor lently stirring the ethnic, religious and geographic cauldron to push the entire region to the brink of a huge crisis. But the chances of the Indian hostages emerging unscathed from their ordeal remain bright. And organising an emergency evacuation of Indians trapped in the violent conflict does not require extraordinary skills, administrative or diplomatic.

But what is really the first big challenge for the Modi Sarkar is the food price-line in particular and the economy in general. It is already beginning to creep up menacingly due to the usual seasonal factors and the general tendency of the trading class to exploit the scarcity and disruption in the supply chains to make an extra buck or two. It is here that the will of the new government would be tested, especially when it is widely believed that the trading classes have all along formed the core of the support-base of the Jana Sangh-BJP. To be fair, the widespread raids undertaken to flush out hoarded stocks of onions and potatoes in the capital reflect the determination of the government to go after the unscrupulous lot among the traders. This is welcome.

However, the absence of any showy, bigticket decision in the first few weeks of the Modi government should not be construed as its lack of new ideas or of policy poverty. No. The very fact that Modi has set a scorching pace of work for his ministers and the officialdom is proof enough that his top priority is to tone up the foremost tools of administration without which good governance will be hard to deliver.

Once the bureaucracy internalises the stern warning that – sab chalta hai – is no longer okay, Modi would have to necessarily turn his attention to urgent policy changes and initiatives. Vasundhara Raje has already taken the lead in reviewing the anti-growth and anti-labour labour laws in Rajasthan.

Even if Modi does not have the majority to carry out the changes at the central level, let him nudge other BJP-ruled states to ride the fast-growth train by modernising the ancient labour laws in their own jurisdictions. And follow that up by deleting the growth-killing clauses in the land acquisition law which the

previous regime had passed in the mistaken belief that rewarding the handful of landowners by stifling any scope for future developmental expansion would win it the next election. The task of nation building requires hard work and patience of which Modi seems to have no dearth.

The country would wait for him to succeed, never mind the small group of raucous Congressmen on the capital’s streets desperately trying to make the voters feel bad for voting the way they did. Of course, the voters did well to vote the way they did. It is only the Congressmen who refuse to learn any lessons from their humiliation, with the Crown Prince, who produced a paltry 44 Lok Sabha seats, doing the disappearing act on his 44th birthday. At this rate, in the 2019 election, the Congress can expect to get no more than 49 seats when their prince charming might mark his 49th birth anniversary in some unknown foreign locale with some unknown company.

Change and Congressmen are mutually hostile, it seems.

A shared son problem Samajwadi Party boss Mulayam Singh Yadav has zeroed in on the real reason for his party’s disastrous defeat in the recent Lok Sabha poll.

He confided in a friendly Congress leader the other day, “Humney aur Soniajee ney ek hi galti kari. Hum dono ney apney nikamey beto par bharosa kiya” (I and Soniajee made only one mistake. Both of us relied on our useless sons to win the election for us)

A housing problem There is a housing problem for ministers of the new government and for first-time MPs. Former UPA ministers, particularly those who have even failed to win the Lok Sabha poll, show no inclination to vacate the houses occupied by them. Even a vast majority of former MPs are yet to leave their official houses.

Remember there are over 300 new MPs. Indeed, a couple of former ministers have removed their name plates from their Type-VIII bungalows in order to create the impression that these might be occupied by bonafide allottees. Some others have pleaded with the estate department to allow them to stay longer on payment of market rent until they are able to make alternative arrangements.

The result is that the NDA ministers are forced to operate from temporary accommodation or even from various state Bhawans.

Look through the mind for a picture of truth

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f you look through the mind, then the mind will give you a picture of truth. That will be only a picture, a photograph of that which is.

And of course, the photograph depends on

MATTER & SPIRIT the camera, on the film used, on the chemicals, on how it has been developed, how it has been printed, who has done it. A thousand and one other things enter in; it becomes reality. The word reality is also beautiful to be understood. It comes from the root, it means thing or things. Truth is not a thing. Once interpreted, once the mind has grabbed it, defined it, demarked it, it becomes a thing.

— Osho

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Hike must be rolled back THE shocking increase of 14.2 per cent in railway fare by prime minister Narendra Modi's NDA government just before the official union railway budget is a betrayal of the faith of people. Prime Minister Modi has given a very strong poison to common people by increasing the passenger fare which is the highest as compared to all the previous railway budgets. I strongly feel that the record increase in the railway fare will put more burden on the common people who are already struggling for survival due to increased prices of all the essential items. Modi's NDA government must roll back the increased railway fare prices, failing which people of India will not spare them and reject them like Congress Party or the UPA government for price rise.

—Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

SO the administration of the bitter pill appears to have started with the announcement of a hefty increase in the railway passenger and freight charges. If these are the indications of the things to come, then what the common man can

Honeymoon over SHOCKED: The NDA government on Friday announced a steep hike in railway fares, inviting criticism from all sections of the society. expect from the regular rail budget and the Finance Bill for 2014-15?

- Vineet Phadtare, Borivali

tion to fire at. It is in the form of a steep increase in the passenger as well as freight fares. The UPA can now seize the opportunity to cor ner the BJP-led government by arranging country-wide GOOD news for the UPA to recap- demonstrations, dharnas, sit-ins, ture lost ground. Its arch enemy, and what not! Best of luck for the the ruling NDA, has provided 'secular' alliance!

—Jorhat Singh, Kandivali them with a ready-made ammuni-

silence was disturbing when Kerala government arrested students for poking fun at him. He criticised Manmohan singh for same reasons and nick named him Maun Singh but could not tolerate fun at his expense. Modi government looks to be overawed by the magnitude of expectation they have aroused.

—Ashok Goswami, Mumbai

MODI is doing many things excellent. Promoting Hindi is alright, but forcing Hindi on an all India basis is suicidal. Indians will be financially cut off worldwide and loose business for lack of knowledge of English, largest used language in the world. Stop this madness, whatever Modi's intentions. All pros and cons must be carefully calculated. As against claims to carry along all, it will be a Talibani act.

Even Hindi newspapers use hundreds of English words in their daily news coverages.

- Arun Malankar, Santacruz

Overconfidence cost Spain

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

- George Washington

Modi government's honeymoon seems to be over and people expect them to deliver as fast as possible. Modi's silence on many important issues is baffling and unnerving. What stops him from condemning communal violence in Pune, Badaun rape, murders, unnecessary bogey of article 370?

Modi's action are in sharp contrast with his often stated stand on women's safety and communal violence. Silence on these crucial issues may be misconstrued. Modi's

TIME TO DELIVER: It's been nearly a month since the new government came to power and people now expect the government to deliver its promises.

Bhasha museebat again

THE Maharashtra government in the past has regularised illegal slums despite the Apex Court's orders to destroy all the shanties erected after 1980 and later on, after 1995. Why this precedent is not followed in the case of the hapless Campa Cola residents who have been paying all their civic taxes regularly, unlike the unauthorised slum-dwellers? Still, the government is not prepared to judge Campa Cola denizens by the same yard-stick that was applied to the illegal post-1995 squatters.

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best manner. I agree with two prominent city architects that this indeed relieves those who care for retaining such elegant building inhabited once by a world renowned nuclear scientist along with other prominent Tata stalwarts and thus maintain the rich tradition as it deserved. I am sure that the NCPA chairman would be content with this development as literally two birds have been killed with one stone. Dr. Jamshed Bhabha's will to auction and use the sale proceeds thereafter to upkeep and upgrade the NCPA has materialised along with the certainty that the building would remain the same be with a good chance of converting it into a world class museum/memorial as the new owner's wish.

—Bikram Banerjea, Mumbai

Different laws

IT was a painful exit for Spain as the defending champions were knocked out of the FIFA world cup by a chilling performance by Chile sending the Spaniards home to the shock of the entire globe. The Spanish played like rookies and deserved to lose as they became only the fourth defending team in World cup history to be knocked out in the first round and also gained the distinction of the earliest exit tag after playing just two games.

Spain's goalkeeper and captain Iker Cassilas was the main culprit as he conceded easy goals and below par performance from his colleagues too made matters tough for the European giant. Spain's intricate passing style, dubbed 'tikitaka' which used to mesmerise the opponents too was missing and one felt that the defending champions'

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- Suraj Parkash, Ambala Cantt

BITTER UPSET: Spain, the defending champions for FIFA 2014, lost out to Chile, surprising and even disappointing fans across the globe. overconfidence too cost them dearly.

Spain is a football crazy country and the entire nation is in mourning after their loss which is like a national tragedy for this picturesque nation.

—S.N. Kabra, Goregaon

WHILE lakhs of football fan and sports lovers all over the country spellbound by the high standard of soccer, the fact remains that no Indian team is participating in the greatest show on earth which brings together the best of the best in the soccer world every four years.

What of our own fortune in the world of football? Sadly for us, there is no Indian contingent. India had never ever made in to the world cup party. Small countries like Costa Rica, Nigeria, Ghana, Chile are playing in FIFA 2014 world cup football.

This contingent represents a very

strong tradition of soccer that has its own inimitable style and content. And one never knows they may upset the big countries in the game.

Despite the fact that football is an inexpensive game, it has not received enough attention and encouragement here. Unlike cricket, it is a fast game and only those who are physically well built and healthy can excel in the game. And an average Indian’s stamina is notoriously weak. Drastic change is required at all levels of the game to improve the game.

— Probir Kumar Bose, New Panvel

In good hands It is indeed a relieving news that the elegant and historic Bhabha mansion has been auctioned to another elite Parsi family, who would certainly unlike a typical city builder retain the building as it is and maintain possibly it in the

THE language debate is back on the boil. The problem is that we focus on individual languages rather than the purpose of language – communication, education and self development. What should be the medium of instruction? The language that will make the child nationally and internationally competitive. Answer is clear. Next, in a country like India, which language will make the child truly national?

No prizes again. What about mother tongue? Since children with different tongues will be studying in different states, mother tongue is the responsibility of the family and not the school or the country. Period.

What else will help the child? A foreign language. Steven Pinker, in his book, 'The Language Instinct', has said that till about the age of nine, children can easily pick up languages. After that one has to 'learn' it, which is more difficult. But necessity will make

HELLO TO HINDI: Narendra Modi has taken a clear stand in support of Hindi, pushing for it to replace English as the preferred language. anyone learn any language when he comes to the river. So children can pick up three more languages (speaking only) apart from the medium of instruction and the second language till nine. The next question – how deep should any language be taught? Grammar of the medium of instruction will be taught.

Only speaking, reading and writing without grammar for the second language. And only speaking for the remaining three. Languages must be taught in the same order as the mother tongue – first speaking, then reading and last writing. In fact, no writing for two years. Do this and languages will be fun, remain means of communication, not political or academic subjects where you have to pass a stupid exam.

— T.R. Ramaswami, Kandivali

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BJP asks Union Transport Ministry to construct a ‘new’ eight-lane Versova bridge and improve Mumbai-Gujarat connectivity

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the Versova creek. as an important link connecting In his letter to Union Transport Mumbai and Thane with the northhe local Bharatiya Janata Party Minister Nitin Gadkari, veteran BJP ern parts of the country.

(BJP) unit has urged the Union corporator Rohidas Patil has The current bridge, built beTransport Ministry to construct a sought the construction of an tween 1966 and 1970 on National new road-over-bridge (ROB) over eight-lane bridge which will serve Highway 8, is a six-lane way. Since its commissioning around 43 years ago, the 500 metre-long bridge had been repaired once in 2000, before gaping cracks were spotted under a section of the bridge on December 21, prompting the National Highway Authority of India to replace the portion with a newly manufactured 48.5 metre-long high tensile steel girder. Traffic movement had remained virtually paralysed for over six months as only two lanes were operational during the repair work. “Going by the condition of the bridge and the importance of its connectivity, it is the need of the hour to chalk out an elaborate plane for the construction of a new The Versova Bridge is an important link between Mumbai and Gujarat. bridge,” Patil said.

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Scientific officer held for rape Used matrimonial site to lure victim even though he is married

By Suresh Golani

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he Tarapur police have arrested a 37-year-old married man on charges of raping a 34-year-old woman after posing as an eligible bachelor on a popular matrimonial site. Anirudh Sehgal works as a scientific officer in Tarapur. Although he is married, Sehgal posted his

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profile on a matrimonial site, through which he came into contact with the woman. Claiming to be a bachelor, Sehgal on the pretext of marriage, sexually exploited the woman on several occasions in the past couple of months. The accused also threatened to circulate images of their private moments.

After learning that Sehgal was a

married man and had sent his wife to their native place in Rajasthan, the woman registered a complaint with the Tarapur police.

Following investigations Sehgal was arrested and booked under section 376 of the IPC. He has been remanded to police custody till 27, June. API Durgesh Shelar is investigating the case.

BANGANGA CLEAN-UP

A traffic warden at Golden Nest area in Bhayandar.

By Suresh Golani

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he much hyped 'Traffic Warden' scheme launched by the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) last year, for better traffic management in the twin-city, is losing grip as a large number of onduty police personnel frequently vanish from important junctions, leaving traffic management at the mercy of the untrained contractual workers.

The MBMC has awarded an annual contract to a private security agency to recruit 50 male and female traffic wardens to extend a helping hand to the short-staffed traffic department of the Thane (rural) police.

The scheme envisages deployment of wardens whose duty is to assist on-duty constables ensuring smooth traffic movement at major junctions and intersections across the twincity.

Even though the civic administration spends around Rs.50 lakh every year towards the road traffic scheme,

Minor boy tortured by police battles for his life in hospital

By A Staff Reporter

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Residents and volunteers bringing out stones, silt and other waste, including pots, garlands and other offerings during the clean-up drive undertaken on Sunday.

it has virtually no mechanism to check the number of on-road traffic wardens and their duties.

It appears that cops have left traffic management at the mercy of the wardens, leading to chaos and bottle necks at various locations. While at some spots cops go missing during peak traffic hours, some can be seen resting on road sides, looking for scapegoats, even as the wardens are left alone to manage traffic.

Sporting light blue shirts and dark blue trousers, the traffic wardens resemble private security guards. They find it difficult to relieve traffic jams.

It is not possible for wardens alone to control traffic as they are not completely trained for the job,” said a motorist.

“For the past six months, a major chunk of our traffic constables have been deputed to regulate traffic at Versova bridge – a portion of which was under repairs. But now, the situation has returned to normalcy,” assured Police Inspector ( Traffic), Chandrakant Gundge.

asai MLA Vivek Pandit complained to Home Minister R.R. Patil on Sunday and demanded instant action against five Thane policemen who allegedly tortured a 16-year-old tribal, who is battling for his life in a Bhiwandi hospital.

Pandit told PTI that the the boy lived with his brother and mother in Shelar village of Bhiwandi taluka.

On June 20, at about 11 am, he was taken away by two plainclothes policemen to Nizampura police station in Bhiwandi.

According to a complaint by the teenager's elder brother Chandra Thackeray, his brother Babu Sunil Thackeray (16) had injuries all over his body and he said that he was mercilessly tortured in custody by policemen, after being accused of stealing 2 kg of gold.

The police let the boy go home on the condition that he should report to the police station next morning at about 11 am for further probe, the FIR by his brother said.

However, the boy tried to hang himself, but neighbours saved his life. He has been now been admitted to the Sainath Hospital at Bhi-

wandi and is reported to be critical.

Pandit who gave a copy of the FIR registered today to PTI, also said that the police has registered an offence under Section 330 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

He said that he has urged the home minister that the concerned policemen involved in crime should be booked under the SC/ST Atrocities Act, and charges of attempt to murder should be slapped on them, since the boy belonged to the Adivasi Katkari community which comes under the scheduled caste / scheduled tribe category.

Pandit said that it is a serious case and since the chances of the boy's survival is low, the policemen should be immediately arrested and charged under Section 307 and other relevant laws. When asked about the case details, a Nizampura police station official confirmed that the FIR has been registered.

However, he refused to divulge any further information about the offence. The Thane rural police also confirmed that the FIR was registered with the Bhiwandi taluka police station and numbered I-130/14, which has been transfered to the Nizampura police station.

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Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014

The government faces a difficult challenge and it is being believed that it will be a long time before the economy expands at its potential rate of around 7%

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By Dominic Rebello

'Abki Baar Dikha De Yaar, Chala Sakta Hai Modi Sarkar', that’s the chant echoing in response to Modi's election winning line – 'Abki Baar Modi Sarkar'.

So will he?

'There is plenty for prime minister Modi to do. His government should move quickly to push through long-stalled legislation covering environmental regulation and the goods and services tax. Only 3% of Indians pay income tax, so broadening the tax base must be a priority. Perhaps the simplest but most important move the government could make is to reverse taxes applied mostly to foreign companies retroactively under the previous administration. The uncertainty created by this policy, as well as the previous government's hostility to foreign businesses, damaged confidence and thwarted investment. Reversing this would provide a clear break from the past and show that India is open for business again', advises Moody's.

ndia's economy has 'stabilized and should soon emerge from its current slump. The worst of the downturn has now passed and downside risks have begun to recede, helped by the actions of the previous government during its last days, says Moody's Analytics in a report.

The economy grew 4.6% in the opening quarter of 2014 and has been growing around this pace for the past two years, “but should slowly accelerate from the second quarter.

That said, the incoming government faces a difficult challenge, and it will be a long time before the economy expands at its potential rate around 7%” adds Moody's. According to Glenn Levine of the Asia-Pacific Staff of Moody’s Analytics, “there are emerging signs that the economy is improving, albeit slowly”. Industrial production grew 3.5% y/y in April, its fastest pace in 12 months, while May exports outperformed. The current account deficit has also narrowed, prompting the government to lift some restrictions on gold imports. The consumer price measure has cooled, but

inflation remains elevated, according to the wholesale price index.

With risks receding and the economy stabilizing, the stage is set for the new government of Narendra Modi to offer fresh ideas to drive development.

India's under-performing economy was the biggest issue of the recent election campaign, and Modi won a clear mandate to make tough decisions. He enjoys a sizable parliamentary majority in the lower house as leader of the National Democratic Alliance, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The government must move from damage control to longer-term thinking. As chief minister of the state of Gujarat, Modi boosted the state economy by reducing red tape and approving investment projects. Early signs from the new administration are promising.

The government has indicated that it may allow more foreign investment in defense, railways, construction and online retail. Multibrand retailing, however, which gained traction under the previous government and would be a boon for the country’s consumers and infrastructure advancement, will not be opened up.

A tighter national budget is expected

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in July, the first of five during the government’s term. First on the chopping block will be expanded welfare payments pushed through by the previous administration in its last days. There has also been talk of scaling back fuel subsidies. Austerity will lower the nearterm economic outlook, but will help balance the budget and restore confidence longer term.

Outside the budget, there is plenty for Modi to do. “His government should move quickly to push through long-stalled legislation covering environmental regulation and the goods and services tax. Only 3% of Indians pay income tax, so broadening the tax base must be a priority. Perhaps the simplest but most important move the government could make is to reverse taxes applied mostly to foreign companies retroactively under the previous administration. The uncertainty created by this policy, as well as the previous government's hostility to foreign businesses, damaged confidence and thwarted investment. Reversing this would provide a clear break from the past and show that India is open for business again” advises Moody's.

Food Inflation Needs Structural Treatment

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Afternoon Despatch & Courier

Food inflation has reared its ugly head again, making the days ahead difficult for the Modi government. In a country like India where a significantly higher number of people live in poverty, a rise in food inflation would make them poorer inflicting great misery on them.

RAKESH SINGH

is Distinguished Visiting Professor, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, India

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« WORLD VIEW

re farmers in this country paid more procurement prices disproportionate to their cost? Is agriculture facing supply side bottlenecks due to low productivity? Are there institutional and legal shortcomings that are hindering the growth of agriculture on one hand and influencing food inflation on other?

These questions require answers and action; if the new government wants to put up the development agenda on top of the table.

Ajay Vir Jakhar, Chairman of Bhartiya Krishak Samaj in an article in the Economic times reveals that perishables like vegetables cost 550% more at the consumers end, while the poor farmer has to sell these vegetables at throw away rates. Prices of gram, barley and mustard have not changed since 2006-2007.

Yes the procurement prices where farmers have benefitted is for food grains crop like wheat and rice. But production of wheat and rice has created a distortion in cropping patterns leading to a decline in produce of pulses and non-food crops, thus helping prices of

these commodities to spiral.

It is evidently clear that government support prices do not benefit farmers and farmers do not even realise their cost of production leading to a very stressful situations in Indian villages. Look at farming today; it has become a way of life rather than an occupation. No child wants to take up agriculture as a profession,despite the fact that a lack of employment opportunities forces them to stay back home and engage in farming.

Most of the current woes of agriculture and food inflation in India are due to low yield on the one hand and lack of investments, infrastructure and proactive legal institutions on the other. Our productivity is one of the lowest as compared to the world’s average. What’s important to note here is that Indian agriculture operates amidst huge uncertainty tdue to uncertain rains on one hand and rising cost of inputs on another. Infact the percentage change in input costs have been disproportionately higher than the increase in food grains prices at farm gate levels.

Private investments in agriculture is also declining on a year to year basis as is public investment. Aggregate private investments had shown a selective uptrend in some prosperous zones, but are now showing sign of slowing down. Thats because agriculture has been kept outside the preview of reforms.

Naturally, this drought of capital afflicts the entire value chain, from infrastructure, to irrigation, to support services such as transport, storage and processing. Agriculture in India which has a huge potential today amidsta looming world food crisis faces serious misallocation of funds. All these require investments if

India has to develop and food inflation has to be tamed.

Finally why should we let the APMC help intermediaries with malafied intentions to operate the Mandis? Shouldn’t we allow farmers to sell directly to corporates. Why should farmers get rupees five and the trader get rupees thirty.

Such a parasitical supply chain needs to go.

Jaitely is righ,t but he needs to act. Repealing the APMC act, dismantling the Mandis, while

initiating investments into roads and cold chain storages is the need of the hour. The introduction of warehouse receipts which with a backing of financial institution can work like a debit card for farmers will help them sell when prices are remunerative.

Food Inflation cannot be solved with a nut bolt and washers approach. It requires a strategy of helping agriculture develop, with the requisite operational supply chain efficiency to help prices come down. Will the Modi Government be any different? We need to keep our fingers crossed.

MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014

Tax ‘Anomalies’ In Bond Market The government needs to come out with a detailed policy on the matter, says Sebi Chairman, U K Sinha

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uggesting uniform tax treatment for all investors, Sebi chairman U K Sinha has said the government need to come out with detailed policy on the matter to remove the existing "anomalies" in the bond market.

Currently, tax rates vary for entities making investments in bonds. Sinha said the more difficult issue pertains to tax treatment or the withholding tax for investors in bond market.

Noting that there are "certain anomalies", the Sebi chief said the level of withholding tax for an FII investing in infrastructure bonds is different from that of others. "All that we have asked the government is that try and reconcile it because if you are looking for long term and big money, especially for infrastructure companies, so long as the anomalies exist people will hesitate to invest. That is the point we are making," Sinha told reporters on Saturday. Withholding tax is 5 % in some cases and 20 % in other cases. "So those have to be reconciled. The government has to come out with a detailed middle to long term policy on this," he added.

Emphasising that procedures have been simplified for the corporate bond market, he said that Sebi is in dialogue with industry to encourage them to come out with more issuance’s. "Also the problem is with regard to widening the base of investors. Different sectoral regulators have their own requirements about their regulated entities, say pension funds or insurance companies such as to what extent can they invest and what type of instruments they can invest. "...There have been some positive progress but a lot of ground needs to be covered. The matter is under consideration and I am hopeful that some progress will come in that," he said.

Touching upon the issue of corporate governance, he said the regulator has looked at all qualified financial statements in 700 instances.

"The 700 such reports came to us through the stock exchanges and 400 such cases we have referred it for rectification... Now there is a pressure on corporates that somebody is effectively looking at the financial statements," he noted.

How Knowledgeable Are You About The Markets?

RAGHU KUMAR

is Cofounder, RKSV

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hether you're in a train, a bus, drinking chai at the road stand, or simply browsing the web, there’s a certain topic that everybody seems to be talking about.

The Stock Markets How well versed are you with the markets?

Being well versed with the markets- the different sectors, the art of maintaining a well balanced and hedged portfolio, and imple-

menting proper risk management through using the technique of risk-reward ratioscould be more important now than ever before. The reason has to do with the fact that we can expect the markets to do well in the near future due to a pro-business government that will look to implement reforms to boost the markets.

It’s important to know the major sectors. A quick and dirty way to test your knowledge of sectors is to quiz yourself and see whether you can name which stock each company that makes up the Sensex or Nifty falls into. Infra, banking, real estate, FMCG, textile- the list is quite exhaustive! By mastering the art of knowing which sector a company falls under, you will be better equipped to know what stocks to buy when you are expecting a specific sector to do well.

You also want to know exactly how much you’re paying your broker through taxes and fees. Many investors and traders make the mistake of thinking that they only pay brokerage on their trades. The reality is that, outside of brokerage, brokers charge STT, stamp duty, SEBI fees, and other mandatory government

fees. Brokers also try to add “hidden” fees disguised as “turnover” fees. Check your contract note(s) carefully to see what fees you are paying!

The Art of Hedging your Portfolio As I write this, the situation in Iraq is escalating quickly as insurgents have taken over Iraq’s oil refineries. Iraq is a big exporter of oil; therefore, its supply of oil has an immediate impact on the price of crude oil.

So, the magical question arises: how does one capitalize on this? There is a good chance that oil prices can rise if the situation is not kept under control over the next few days. A savvy trader would look to buy crude oil contracts on the MCX (Multi Commodity Exchange).

But what if the situation is kept under control, and crude oil prices remain stable or worst yet, go down? In order to protect himself, what he can do is sell USD/INR contracts on Currency Futures. The reason is simple: the US Dollar is inversely proportional to crude oil prices. Therefore, the Rupee strengthens and the trader can earn a profit.

This, in layman’s terms, is called a hedge.

The trader is protected from either side of the trade. Similarly, many situations arise where a hedge can be used to protect oneself from one-sided risk.

Ensure that you’re well versed with how a hedge works and when is the right time to implement it.

Stop Losses & Profit Objectives Risk management might be the single most important tool a trader can implement in order to ensure that his portfolio remains intact. A good rule of thumb for traders is to use a proper risk to reward ratio, such as a 1:2 ratio. This means that, on a particular trade, if a trader is placing a stop loss Rs. 50 below a buy entry price, he is looking to gain Rs. 100 on the trade. By utilizing risk management, a trader ensures that he knows exactly what he is getting into before entering the trade.

So, there you have it. Next time you hear people talking about the stock markets, feel free to jump right into the mix and spread your knowledge!

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Sebi Tightens Norms For Debt-Oriented MF Schemes Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014

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By A Business Reporter

oncerned over debt-oriented mutual funds schemes having low asset base, Sebi said such schemes should collect at least Rs 20 crore at the time of new fund offer. Besides, the capital market watchdog has directed the mutual funds to maintain an average asset under management (AUM) of Rs 20 crore on half yearly rolling basis for open ended debt oriented schemes.

"The minimum subscription amount of debt oriented and balanced schemes at the time of new fund offer shall be at least Rs 20 crore and that of other schemes shall be at least Rs 10 crore," Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in a circular. According to Sebi, the requirement of having at least Rs 20 crore AUM on half yearly rolling basis should be compiled within one year by all existing open ended debt oriented schemes.

"It has been observed that many debt oriented schemes are operating with a very low AUM," the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in a circular on Friday. "In the interest of investors, it is important that debt oriented schemes have an adequate corpus to ensure adherence to the investment objectives...," the market regulator added. In case of non-compliance with Sebi directives on AUM, the Asset Management Company (AMC) would have to scale up the AUM of such scheme within a period of six months, failing which the board may ask the scheme to be wound up.

"The confirmation on compliance... Shall be reported to Sebi in the half yearly trustee reports," the circular said. Last month, the mutual fund industry's assets under management crossed Rs 10 lakh crore, mainly helped by

TOP PERFORMING FUNDS Scheme Name

Nature

Reliance Small Cap Fund - Growth Birla Sun Life Treasury Optimizer - Growth Goldman Sachs CNX 500 Fund -- Growth HDFC Multiple Yield Fund – Plan 2005 - Growth ICICI Prudential LTP - Growth Escorts Liquid Plan - Growth IDFC G Sec Fund - Short Term – Reg - Growth HDFC Prudence Fund - Growth

Equity Debt Equity Debt Debt Liquid Gilt Balanced

1 M%

14.5 1.16 4.46 2.9 2.79 0.78 1.2 7.08

6 M%

54.54 5.85 23.79 13 8.53 4.68 5.52 35.95

1 Y%

3 Y%

95.67 10.92 35.75 19.19 14.03 9.79 11.82 47.58

24.32 10.1 12.06 11.05 11.05 10.03 8.43 16.27

*Note:- Returns calculated for less than 1 year are Absolute returns and returns calculated for more than 1 year are compounded annualized. NAV as on June 20, 2014

strong capital inflows and a surge in equity markets. The assets under management (AUM) of mutual funds rose to Rs 10.11 lakh crore in May from Rs 9.45 lakh crore in April, a growth of seven per cent.

MUTUAL FUND UPDATE

Change in exit load announced under Religare Invesco Medium-Term Bond Fund Religare Invesco MF has announced change in exit load structure under Religare Invesco Medium-Term Bond Fund, an open-ended income scheme, with effect from June 16.

Accordingly, if redeemed/switched-out on or before six months from the date of allotment, the exit load will be 1% and nil thereafter.

JP Morgan MF launches JPMorgan Emerging Markets Opportunities Equity Offshore Fund JP Morgan MF has launched JPMorgan

Emerging Markets Opportunities Equity Offshore Fund, an open-ended fund of funds scheme. The issue will remain open for subscription till June 30. It will be benchmarked against Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Emerging Markets Index (Total Return Net) and will be managed by Namdev Chougule.

Change in minimum application amount announced under Union KBC Small and Midcap Fund Union KBC MF has changed the minimum application amount for SIP facility under Union KBC Small and Midcap Fund. The revised amount for monthly frequency is Rs. 2000 and for quarterly frequency, the amount is Rs. 5000. The change will come into effect from June 19.

Religare Invesco MF announces change in fund managers Religare Invesco MF has announced change in

the fund managers of five of its schemes.

Accordingly, Religare Invesco Business Leaders Fund, which was earlier managed by Vetri Subramaniam will now be jointly managed by Vetri Subramaniam & Vinay Paharia. Religare Invesco Growth Fund, which was jointly managed by Vetri Subramaniam & Vinay Paharia, will now be managed by Vetri Subramaniam and Amit Ganatra. In case of Religare Invesco Infrastructure Fund, the fund will be managed

by Pranav Gokhale. Earlier, it was jointly managed by Amit Ganatra & Pranav Gokhale. In case of Religare Invesco Liquid Fund and Religare Invesco Ultra Short Term Fund, the funds will now be managed by Krishna Cheemalapati & Nitish Sikand. Earlier, they were managed by Krishna Cheemalapati. The change will be applicable from June 23.

BNP Paribas MF announces change in face value of BNP Paribas Overnight Fund BNP Paribas MF has changed the face value of BNP Paribas Overnight Fund from exisiting Rs.10 to revised Rs.1000. The change will be effective from June 28.

Edelweiss MF revises exit load under Edelweiss Liquid Fund Edelweiss MF has announced change in exit load structure under Edelweiss Liquid Fund with effect from June 19. Accordingly, if the units are redeemed / switched-out within one day from the date of allotment and if the units are redeemed / switched-out after two days from the date of allotment, the revised exit load structure will be nil. The revised exit load shall be applicable on a prospective basis in respect of subscriptions in the scheme on and after the effective date.

Be Cautious And Buy USD/INR Futures PRAMIT BRAHMBHATT is CEO of Veracity Group

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he Rupee continued to trade weak on weekly basis, it posted its third weekly decline in four weeks. In the last four weeks, the Rupee has depreciated by over three per cent. Taking cues from the growing tensions in Iraq, last week he market wit-

nessed selling in the equity markets from both Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) and Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs). FIIs sold shares of worth Rs 421 crores and DIIs were net sellers to the tune of Rs 410 crores during last week which weakened the indices for the second consecutive week. Taking cues from this rupee depreciated further. The trading range for the Spot USD/INR pair is expected to be within 59.80 to 60.80.

It is recommended to be cautious and Buy USD/INR (Futures) on dips with appropriate stop loss as overall the Rupee is expected to depreciate further. Pivot Point for the Pair is at 60.11 Spot

USD/INR

1st Support 59.7033

S2

59.2267

S3

Spot

Open

High

59.70

GBPINR

101.32 102.85 101.25 102.59

JPYINR

80.82 58.53

82.2

59.26

59.64

Close

USDINR EURINR

60.53

Low

80.76

58.53

60.18 81.8

58.98

and below is the Support and Resistance levels.

Last week we saw that the tensions in Iraq created global concern, as conflict within the country had shut down the country's biggest refinery adding to the worries of exports from

58.3367

1st Resistance 60.5933

R2

61.0067

R3

61.8967

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the key oil producer. OPEC supplies almost 40 per cent of the global oil demand, so any tension in OPEC countries leads to a global concern. India imports 80 percent of its oil requirements so any increase in oil prices will automatically give rise to inflation which is already the biggest hurdle in the growth of India. Last week WTI Crude closed at $ 106.83 which is just below its previous week’s close.

Gold continued to trade positively due to the turmoil in Iraq. Gold has posted its third weekly gain in a row. It has gained over five percent in last three weeks. Gold prices overlooked some of the better than expected U.S economic data and ended at a three month high on a closing basis.

Earlier tension in Ukraine supported the yellow metal and now the chaos in Iraq is helping gold to maintain its safe haven status. Gold is heading towards to post its monthly gain and ended the week at $ 1314.

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Accord Housing The Importance It Deserves In India, unfortunately housing has still not been accorded the importance it deserves. Now is an opportunity to change this, says Deepak Parekh, Chairman HDFC

The new government has to simultaneously work several levers – increase growth, reduce the fiscal deficit, contain inflation, create a conducive investment climate for both, domestic and foreign investors and work towards improving hard and soft infrastructure. It has to fulfill the aspirations of its people – particularly the young, who seek better jobs and a higher standard of living. Foremost among the aspirations of our people is that of being a home owner.

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he housing shortage in the country is immense and the only way homes can become more affordable for the masses is by ramping up supply. Housing has multiplier effects on the economy -- it is a large employment generator and has strong backward and forward linkages with a number of other industries. At a time when India urgently needs to shore up growth, a focused approach towards housing may well lead the way.

To find the right solutions, there are a few fundamental questions that need to be answered: Why is the common man being out-priced from the housing market?

Why do developers prefer to build luxury homes over affordable housing units?

Why does India rank 182 out of 189 countries in terms of the ease of obtaining construction permits?

Why can’t banks and housing finance companies be permitted to fund land transactions?

Why does a developer need approvals from 40 to 50 regulatory or quasi-regulatory bodies for a residential building?

Why is it that developers can never ever deliver homes on time?

Why can’t state governments and authorities be made more accountable?

Is anyone listening?

Do the authorities understand the Plight, Pain, Trouble and Tension that a home buyer has to go through?

Few right decisions can reduce the cost of housing Jiddu Krishnamurti, a philosophical writer aptly said: “If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.” To my mind, the solution to these issues lies in putting in place an on-line, single window clearance mechanism for affordable housing projects.

Developers are often criticised for not relenting on the exorbitant pricing on residential homes. Part of the problem lies in how developers fund the purchase of land.

Regulators prohibit banks and housing finance companies (HFCs) from extending finance to private developers to acquire land. Developers have to then resort to high cost funds from non-banking financial institutions, private equity and even from the informal sector, often paying interest rates ranging from 18 to 22% per annum. Even if a developer wishes to start construction immediately, approvals -particularly in certain large cities, take as long as 18 to 24 months. Meanwhile, the developer needs to service the loan taken for acquiring the land, without receiving corresponding cash flows. Further, because of the multiplicity of approvals, speed money is demanded, often at every stage of approval. The end result is that all these time and cost overruns are eventually borne by the home buyer.

Understandably, if regulators feel there is excessive speculation in real estate, it is prudent to prohibit banks and HFCs from lending for land transactions. However, when there is no real estate bubble, as is currently the case, then banks and HFCs should be allowed to fund land transactions. This is because in property transactions, land costs comprise almost 70 to 80% of the total cost.

Though land is a state subject, a directive from the centre to ensure that all states move towards e-governance will go a long way. These are only administrative related issues.

There is no need for legislative changes, so implementation is easily doable. A few states have already demonstrated that red tape can be cut as far as granting of building approvals are concerned. My back-of-the-envelope estimation is that transparency and timely approvals can reduce costs for the end consumer by almost 20%. So I ask again, why can’t housing be made more affordable?

On the other hand, developers must provide more affordable housing in the price range of Rs 15 to 40 lakh.

They need to focus not on the high-end luxury segment, but on building more one and two-bedroom apartments, which is where the real need is. Even though margins may be lower, the turnaround time is much faster in the affordable housing segment. Affordable housing is a volume game, which is why the speed of obtaining approvals becomes more compelling. Admittedly, the central government’s most effective contribution to the middle-class has been the provision of fiscal incentives on both, the principal and interest component of a home loan.

The RBIwould do well to recognize that priority sector housing loans up to Rs 25 lakh in metropolitan cities and Rs 15 lakh in other centres is unrealistic when inflationary and other cost escalation factors are considered. Priority sector housing loans should be increased to at least Rs 40 lakh per unit.

The state of our cities will determine India’s future.

While the vision of creating 100 new cities with smart connectivity is laudable, we also have to remember that focus is equally needed on making our existing cities more livable. Urbanisation is a double-edged sword – it can help raise the standard of living of millions, yet inaction could plunge cities into further chaos and mayhem. Good leadership is about prioritisation: securing India’s urban future should be one of them.

He has predicted that the Sensex will be at the 100,000 levels by calendar year 2020! A popular face on the country’s business channels, this much respected Market Wizard’s views are much sought after. He is Varun Goel, Head PMS at Karvy Stock Broking Ltd. In conversation with Dominic Rebello he emphasis on the need to look for the intrinsic strength of a company’s business model before investing in it

A little background about your company and yourself?

I head the Portfolio management business for Karvy. I am a MBA from IIM Lucknow and B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi. My expertise lies in stock selection, portfolio construction and management. In my previous assignment, I built the Portfolio Management Division at KC Securities from nascence, where I was responsible for Portfolio Performance and Product ideas.

Prior to that, I was part of the Investment team at Kotak Portfolio Management. I regularly share my market views on various media platforms like CNBC TV18, ET Now and Bloomberg UTV and print media.

hold strategy.

What differentiates you from other Investors?

A common sensical uncomplicated approach to investing.

In Markets, it is important not to be trigger-happy. One has to avoid temptation to react to every news event.

What gives you that edge?

A calm mind…Reading the Bhagvat Gita helps in stabilizing the mind.

Is there any applicable lesson to trading/ investing?

Conviction in your ideas. Deep analysis before every investment call increases the ability to ride through volatile times.

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

As MBA students at IIM Lucknow, we formed a team of people who were interested in stock markets. We went about collecting small amounts of money from students and invested on their behalf. We were able to deliver excellent results and that’s when the thought of pursuing it as a long term career came about.

Do you try to anticipate or follow market trends?

I do my own analysis on Global and Domestic Macros including monetary policy and other domestic and global macroeconomic data and arrive at a market view 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? Reverse the position, average or just take your losses and stay out?

All Three can be done, depending on the view on the company.

How do you pick your investments?

I am a big believer in fundamental analysis for identifying investment opportunities. I use a mix of the top down and bottom up approach. The Top down approach determines allocation across sectors and bottom up approach helps in picking attractive ideas irrespective of the macroeconomic theme.

How would you describe your methodology?

In markets, one has to use both tactical and fundamental analysis. There are a lot of times when tactical reasons like fund flows, election outcomes, global events can overpower domestic macros.

However, over longer periods, there is only one truth: The intrinsic strength of the company’s business model. Quality orientation is at the heart of successful investing. In the context of equity investing, quality refers to the trinity of growth, capital efficiency and competitive advantage. I prefer enterprises where growth opportunity is large and the business model has an inherent scalability. However, for value creation this growth needs to be capital efficient.

What appeals to you about investing; the short side or long side?

I am basically a long term investor with a buy and

Any positions you ever lost sleep over?

We have strict internal risk measures which help prevent such situations

What would make you wary about an investment?

Management quality is very important for the investment theme to play out. I would generally avoid management which have never created wealth for investors

Where do you see the Indian markets five years down the road?

Despite so many negatives plaguing the economy, corrective measures by the new government can quickly revive growth. The potential growth rate of economy is running at around 6%. The growth rebound to those levels can take place quickly by reviving the investment demand.

Once that has been achieved, the more arduous path

« MARKET WIZARD VARUN GOEL

of reclaiming the 8% growth can start. From an equity market stand-point, macro-economic revival in India will open opportunities to make strong returns in the next few years.

We would expect a GDP growth of 6% in FY15 and believe that economy will see a revival of growth and earnings cycle. The agricultural and services sector continue to show strong traction and gradually even manufacturing sector should pick-up as consumer demand revives. A real GDP growth of 6% along with Inflation of around 7% should lead to a nominal GDP growth of 13%.

Sensex earnings growth has improved from 5% in FY13 to about 10% in FY14 on the back of INR depreciation.

For FY15, we would expect a Sensex EPS growth of around 15%. We would believe that earnings growth for new five to six year business cycle should be atleast 20% considering the economy will revive from a very low base.

If the infrastructure cycle revives quickly, the earnings growth revival will be faster with even 25% CAGR looking possible. A multiple rerating is also possible as cost of equity goes down in the next few years with the decrease in risk free rate. An earnings growth between 20-25% and multiple rerating from 15x to 16-17x in the next few years can lead to a 25% compounding of Sensex returns, which will take it to 100,000 levels by calendar year 2020!

Of the tens of thousands of investments that you have done, which was your best investment?

Indian equity markets have tended to move up going into the general elections. The average return in the six month period going into the general elections has been 17.6% in the post liberalization era. We took a bet that it would be the same this time also. We saw a Pre-election rally playing out with returns of 17.6% in six months from 15th Nov - 15th May (exactly the average of the last six general elections).

What was the story there?

There have been several concerns about governance and populist schemes in the last few years and markets were getting excited about prospects of a better government emerging from the next election. We had expected a bigger rally building up going into the election and it played out. Once the new government was formed, we expected a new bull cycle coming into existence, on which, there are no doubts now.

Your success mantra?

A calm head.

A Hybrid Loan May Be The Best Option In Home Loans For You Pritwish and Avradita Sen, a Mumbai based couple in their 30s, are firming up plans to buy their first home. While choosing a home loan option, Avradita prefers a fixed interest rate while Pritwish thinks it would be better to opt for a floating interest rate. Like in marriage, walking the middle path may be the solution here, as they can opt for a hybrid loan.

P

redicting interest rate cycles can be difficult when the economy is not in ship shape. In such a situation, opting for a hybrid loan may be the perfect solution to help you enjoy the benefits of both interest rate types.

Are you cut out for a hybrid loan?

As the name suggests, a hybrid loan is one in which you can get a combination of fixed and a floating rate of interest on your home loan. Under such an arrangement, your lender will offer you a fixed interest rate for the first 3-5 years of your loan tenure that will also keep

your EMI fixed for the same period. The outstanding amount will carry a floating rate of interest.

A hybrid loan can be an ideal option for couples like the Sen's who cannot afford volatility in their monthly expenses in the first few years of their home loan. If the monthly outgo is fixed for the first few years, it will definitely help the Sen's manage their finances better and save money for the future.

Post the completion of this period, they are also expected to rise in their corporate careers when they would be able to afford floating interest rates that will also increase their EMI accordingly.

RAJIV RAJ

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

« PERSONAL FINANCE

The fine print Different lenders have different processes to approve such loans and as a customer you should take care to understand every aspect of it. For instance, understand and ask your relationship manager about the details on the foreclosure front. Some banks allow you to foreclose the floating rate component of your loan in a rising inter-

est rate scenario without a pre payment penalty. Others will charge you a penalty for the same.

On the other hand if the interest rates are moving down, you will want to foreclose the fixed part. Check if a penalty is applicable for the same. Similarly banks will also offer you the converting your fixed rate component into floating if the interest rate cycle goes down or vice versa when the interest rates are moving up. However, a fee is applicable for the same, and you will need to know about it upfront.

Opting for a hybrid loan may work out for those who are keeping an active track of the interest rate scenario.

Sometimes a hybrid loan may be pushed forward by a lender to beat competition with teaser rates, but be mindful of the fact that your EMIs are slated to rise later and you should be in a position to afford it. Proper analysis of your interest rates, especially the cap and the margin are important when you are considering a home loan. If both seem fairly low, in case of a hybrid loan, there is enough reason to opt for one.

- See more at: http://www.creditvidya.com/loans/ home-loan/a-hybrid-loan-may-be-the-best-option-in-homeloans-with-you-hl136.aspx#sthash.H2IG6qp8.dpuf

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014

« BRAND GYAN JAGDEEP KAPOOR

is CMD of Samsika Marketing Consultancy

The ‘Back To School’ Segment T

he holidays are over. School has just begun and students are getting physically and mentally prepared to go back to their classes. This period of time- a week before and a week after the beginning of school, is a very lucrative marketing segment.

While some countries are going BACK TO BASICS, some Indian markets have successfully gone BACK TO SCHOOL. There are so many product categories which get affected during this period of time. Let’s begin at the beginning. For every kid joining school for the first time or going to the next class, it is important to have a new school uniform. Readymade garment manufacturers and departmental stores seem to have made the task of students’ parents easier. All that one has to do is to go to a store selling readymade garments and give the name of the school and presto! The whole uniform set is ready to be picked up by sizes. In fact, some schools have different coloured uniforms from different classes in the primary section for easy identification. Thus, you can ask the store keeper for the uniform of that class and he would give you the appropriate coloured uniform along with the respective division already mentioned on the dress.

The next is the footwear. Coupled with the resumption of school is the start of rains. Footwear manufacturers are busy selling ordinary and monsoon footwear of various colours, styles and sizes to students. Separate shoes are also needed for sports events. Further, different coloured socks as well as ties are also needed by the students as part of the uniform. Going further, school bags are another important category that parents have to indulge their children in.

Manufacturers like Pidilite, Navneet, Premsons, Camlin, and Samsonite also have this time as an important selling season. Pencils, pens, pencil boxes are all replenished by parents for their children. Tiffin boxes, with colourful designs and various compartments are also purchased. Water bottles, displaying different colours or messages of various popular consumer brands are sold by the dozen, as safe drinking water is important to both, the parents and students.

Today there is a facility available to have bags which work like a stroller as well as the facility of exchanging your old bags for new ones. In fact, the World Environment Day which just passed had manufacturers offering eco-friendly notebooks and also manufacturers conducting workshops creatively with communication through SMS messages. Here, Navneet and Pidilite take the lead through their various brands including ‘Eco Buddy My Note Books” from Navneet and Acron Rangeela art material and Fevicryl Hobby Ideas from Pidilite.

Having bought the school bags next is the purchase of books- text books and note books- which are sold by various manufacturers under their brand name. The list is already provided by the school as brand decisions on the text books and work books have already been taken by the school authorities from amongst various brands.

Another segment which automatically opens up is the coaching segment. Coaching classes start their teaching courses having already advertised and admitted students earlier. Thus, we see that, going to school is not ‘just another activity’. It gets many marketers ‘back into action!’

Copyright © 2013, All rights reserved.

Jagdeep Kapoor can be contacted at jk@samsika.com

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Company

ABIRLANUVO ACC

MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014

F&O SCRIPS WEEKLY SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE LEVELS FOR JUNE 23 -- 27, 2014 Close

1365

PP

1379

R1

1461

496

530

1440

1462

1530

ADANIPORTS

233

232

242

ALBK

127

ADANIENT

ADANIPOWER

451

59

462

59

131

61

144

611

534

508

1871

1841

1932

2023

1750

1658

833

849

896

944

802

754

691

282

BHEL

BIOCON BPCL

CAIRN

97

217 33

698

2170 289

34

719

2197 308

567

550

339 240

490 555

372

338

344

492

498

243 574

371

633

692

515

380

1561

1551

DABUR

189

189

DIVISLAB

1328

1337

1363

DRREDDY

2437

2436

124

123

387

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209

141

422

392

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210

142

569

503

506

474

552

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164

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171

1097

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90

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1117

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387

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HINDZINC

163

164

ICICIBANK

1403

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IDEA

IDFC IFCI IGL

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INDUSINDBK INFY IOB IOC

IRB ITC

JINDALSTEL

133

405

827

HINDUNILVR

137

198

424

37

1481

HINDPETRO

204

51

480

35

1447

HINDALCO

53

173

461

33

1446

HEXAWARE

185

361

443

33

HCLTECH

HEROMOTOCO

376

400

441

3629

HDIL

411

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102

139

129 40

334 110

556

3321

77

323 205

336 319

1175

978 96

156

436

3452

3363

1516

1412

1377

810

786

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177

159

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304

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332

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1241

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130

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935 320

1207

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318

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1194

1233

1260

1180

970

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909

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329

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1054

2273

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2388

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294

295

299

304

291

273

MCDOWELL-N

MCLEODRUSS

MRF

2583 23257

278

2591

23282

292

2769

23998

878

1278

1222

MARUTI

1241

1579

307

1166

M&MFIN

1154

1622

340

1147

1034

20

1147

1750

M&M

998

59

126

1665

1001

S2

-408

147

1650

LUPIN

1707

1541

LT

NMDC

374

-118

1200

LICHSGFIN

S1

749

JUSTDIAL

KTKBANK

R2

460

1225

KOTAKBANK

R1

171

JSWSTEEL

JUBLFOOD

PP

115 71

JPPOWER

NHPC

456

600

3540

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224

579

434

JPASSOCIAT

481

354

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24714

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119

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2412

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1117

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HAVELLS

332

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COLPAL

426

537

350

1156

262

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GODREJIND

250

617

9711

GMRINFRA

269

601

CNXIT

GAIL

327

2116

584

634

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2143

656

582

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2224

32

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598

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677

181

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740

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34

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211

213

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237

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55

586

33

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BHARTIARTL

57

560

214

2179

BHARATFORG

64

200

95

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BATAINDIA

213

208

203

BANKNIFTY

222

235

196

BANKBARODA

252

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226

193

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1327

428

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1395

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176

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2922

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300

299

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316

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132

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501

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445 326

ONGC

419

PETRONET

167

PNB

955

PTC

88

429 165

963 91

170

484

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345

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1059

1114

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1003

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103

104

106

109

101

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862

881

937

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825

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633

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654

670

622

152

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166

176

146

149

RELCAPITAL

619

RELINFRA

730

SAIL

94

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SIEMENS

891

SSLT

292

SUNTV

431

SYNDIBANK

149

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902 294

433

487

138

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473

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155

627

787

101

935

301

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328

330

346

TATAGLOBAL

163

165

170

TATACOMM

365

TATAMOTORS

438

TATAMTRDVR

318

TATAPOWER

102

TATASTEEL

522

TCS

2292

TECHM TITAN

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ULTRACEMCO UNIONBANK UNITECH UPL

VOLTAS WIPRO

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

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014

« TOP VIEW

One major episode or one major mischief can take our markets back years together. So we have to maintain our vigil, be cautious. From our side we are trying to do our best but still a lot of ground needs to be covered.

—Sebi Chairman U K Sinha

« BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS EMKAY CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON PVR CMP: Rs. 683

Avoid Buying At Current Levels NSE India : CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Monday (June 23, 2014) By Dominic Rebello

REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY:

The Nifty fell marginally on Friday (June 20, 2014) a net 29.25 points (0.39%) and closed at the 7511 point level.

The market opened flat at the 7543 points level. It then turned into a range bound movement until 11.18 a.m. The index then rose sharply and registered the day’s high at the 7560 points level at 11.50 a.m. It then declined and turned into a range bound movement until 1.55 p.m. The index then declined sharply into the red and registered the day’s low at the 7497 points level at 3.00 p.m. The index then rose and turned into a range bound movement until closing at the day. The Nifty witnessed a volatile session and moved in a range of 63 points. Sentiment was bearish and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 38 were losers, while 12 stocks closed in the green. Substantial buying was witnessed in consumer durables stocks, while selling was witnessed in healthcare, auto, PSU, capital goods, power, metal, oil & gas and banking stocks.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Volume: Volume (Qty shares) increased 5.27%. This change is small and indicates a moderate participation by investors.

Market Breadth: Overall Market Breadth on the NSE was negative. Amongst all the traded stocks, 601 were gainers, 975 were losers and 32 remained unchanged.

Slow Stochastic Indicator: The Slow Stochastic Oscillator has declined in the neutral zone.

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

RSI Indicator: The RSI fell and crossed below the 60 level and is now declining (negative if it continues).

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

Is above its 200-day average (at 6410) Positive.

All the four averages are positively trended. Positive.

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

Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main support is at the 7043 points level.

The next support is at the 6846 points level.

Resistance Levels: The immediate main resistance is at the 7497 points level.

The next resistance is at the 7569 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 = 7523 (This is the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-day).

Support (1) = 7486.

Support (2) = 7460.

Resistance (1) = 7549. Resistance (2) = 7586.

OUTLOOK FOR TODAY: On Japanese candlestick patterns the index has formed a third consecutive but small black body candle on higher volumes. This is negative.

Further, the index has dropped below its 15 days moving average. The index is now below its 5 and 15 days moving averages. Moreover, the velocity parameters too indicate weakness. All these indicate a negative bias and the possibility of a further decline unfolding. Investors are advised to avoid buying at current levels.

Work with strict stop losses on all positions

ADX Indicator & DI Lines: The +DI line is above the – DI line but both lines are converging (negative if it continues).

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

MOVING AVERAGES (TREND INDICATORS) The index: Is below its 5-day average (at 7555) Negative.

Has dropped below its 15-day average (at 7542) Negative.

Is above its 25-day average (at 7442) Positive.

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

Target Rs. 900

PVR is the largest multiplex chain with 434 screens (~28% market share), enjoys a 20-22% and 30-35% market share of Bollywood and Hollywood box-office collections, respectively. Dominant market share and aggressive screen expansion would provide better negotiating power with content providers and continued growth in footfalls. Multiplexes are gaining market share from single-screens. With 18-20% screen share, multiplexes contribute >50% of domestic box office collections. Expect Revenue/EBITDA CAGR of 17%/23% over FY14-16E, resulting in healthy cash generation. At CMP the stock trades at 21x FY16E EPS and 9.3% OCF yield. Initiate with a Buy and PT of Rs900 (7% FY16E OCF yield) Dominant and fastest-growing multiplex company: PVR is India’s largest multiplex chain, with 434 screens and ~28% screen market share. It is the most aggressive player, with 60-70 screen additions planned annually for the next 4-5 years. PVR is looking to add 120-140 screens, taking total number of screens to >500 by FY16E. PVR enjoys a market share of 20-22% and 30-35% of Bollywood and Hollywood box-office film revenues, respectively. This provides better negotiating power for content sharing with distributors/producers.

Valuations: PVR’s aggressive expansion plans, premium location strategy, robust growth in F&B and advertisement would drive revenue/EBITDA at a CAGR of 17%/23% over FY14-16E, resulting in healthy cash generation. We expect a debt repayment of Rs800mn in the next 2 years. Initiate coverage with a Buy and a target price of Rs900, implying 7% operating cash flow yield (OCF) and 28x FY16E earnings. Implementation of GST would have a positive impact of 300-400bps on EBITDA margin.

KARVY CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON TVS MOTORS

CMP: Rs. 143 Target Rs. 187 To Enter New Margin Territory Backed by Healthy Volume Growth: TVS Motor (TVSL) displayed stellar performance across segments over past three quarters. Moreover, success of its new launches in domestic market and high double digit growth in exports led to visible outperformance of the company since FY15 beginning. TVSL’s increasing three wheeler contribution and high export realization will further boost its average realization as well as margins. Its product portfolio is steadily inclining towards richer products with increasing contribution from motorcycles and high end scooters.

Market Share Gain to Continue…Healthy Volumes Ahead: TVSL’s market share in scooters improved to 14.1% at present from ~12.7% in FY14, while it rose 17 bps YoY to 5.9% in motorcycle segment. In domestic three wheelers company’s share rose 146 bps YoY to 3.5% in YTD’15. Success of Jupiter has been driving market shares as its current monthly run rate is moved up to ~28K from ~10K. TVSL’s product and marketing strategy has begun paying off. It plans to launch 2 new products (new Star City+ and new Scooty) over next 3 months and 2-3 more new models over next 6-8 months in two wheeler segment. This would aid the Company on volume front over next 2 years. Company has been gaining shares from BJA in African markets, as its YTD’15 export growth was 41% as against industry’s export growth of 27%. We expect company’s volumes to grow by 16.3% CAGR over FY14-16E. On account of Company’s restructured business strategy in domestic two wheeler market, richer product mix coupled with higher focus on exports, we expect its EBIDTA margins to improve from 6% in FY14 to 7.8% in FY15E and 8.5% in FY16E. Amid high fixed cost, TVSL benefits largely from operating leverage.

Valuation & Rating: In view of TVSL gaining market shares, better industry outlook and healthy exports, we increase our volume estimates by 8% and 9.5% for FY15 and FY16, accordingly we increases our revenue estimates by 9% and 12% for FY15E and FY16E respectively. On account of higher margins, we raise our EPS estimates by 30% and 39% for FY15E and FY16E respectively. We increase our price target from Rs 115 to Rs 187 per share, valuing its FY16E EPS at 14x (earlier 12x). We reiterate our “BUY” recommendation on TVS Motor with potential upside of 30% from CMP. Please send all business and corporate related mails to business@afternoondc.in

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MANOJ ASWANI

is VP at MyInsurance Club.com

« INSURANCE

Six months ago I bought a used Chevrolet Aveo from my company and got the ownership transferred, but forgot to transfer the insurance in my name although I paid for the insurance. But now unfortunately due to an accident there is a damage of Rs 90,000/-. The insurance company says

MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014

they can’t help as the ownership and insurance is in 2 different names. Can someone guide me a way to deal this situation?

—Sumesh Patra, Parel Is the damage for your Own Car or Legal Liability? In case of the latter, the claim would be payable but it is depends on the jurisdiction of the Insurance Company in case of the former claim.

According to the rule, as soon as the sale deed is done, there is a Form 29 and a Form 30, which needs to be submitted to the Insurance Company even before the Registration Certificate is submitted for a name change. Thus, even if you file a claim and get the claim, the cheque will be disbursed in the previous owner's name, in this case in your company's name.

However, a new order from the Supreme Court has mentioned that Insurance Companies are liable to pay even if there is a

Age of Child 0 1 2

3 to 15

PPT

13 to 20 years

12 to 20 years

Key Features This is a Limited Payment Endowment Plan with Money Back options in the last 5 policy years If the Life Insured dies within the policy tenure, Sum Assured on Death is paid and the policy continues If the Life Insured dies within the policy tenure, all future premiums are waived off

10 to 20 years

Maturity Option

% of Sum Assured

Option A

65%

Option B

105%*

However, if the Life Insured dies within the policy tenure, the nominee gets 100% of the Sum Assured on Death as the Death Benefit, irrespective of the Guaranteed Staggered Benefits already paid and the future premiums are waived off and the policy continues to pay the Maturity Benefit.

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

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

Which product is better individual or family floater and why? Which is better

An Endowment Plan With Money Back Options

11 to 20 years

This policy offers 2 Options for Maturity Benefit: Option A: % of Sum Assured taken every year after the completion of the Premium Paying Term and the remaining 65% of the Sum Assured taken as Maturity Benefit on completion of the policy tenure Option B: Entire Sum Assured paid in Lumpsum on completion of the policy tenure This policy offers 5% Additional Maturity Benefit if Option B or Lumpsum Maturity Benefit is opted for Thus, at the end of the policy tenure, irrespective of whether the Life Insured is alive or not, the Maturity Benefit is paid and the policy terminates.

National Insurance Company or Star Insurance and why?

—Krushna Salvi, Bandra It totally depends on the need. If you are looking for a cover for the entire family, floater might be more cost effective but if one of the members have some pre-existing ailment like blood sugar or is very old or if you need cover for more than 2 adults then there are hardly a few plans which can cover. The regular floaters cover 2 adults and 2 children only.

Also, family floater plans are more cost effective as well.

So, you need to weigh the pros and cons and then choose the product that best suits your needs irrespective of the company because all are under the strict regulation of the IRDA.

« PRODUCT REVIEW: EXIDE LIFE MERA AASHIRVAD PLAN

By Manoj Aswani

Plan Summary Exide Life Mera Aashirvad Plan is a Limited Pay Participating Endowment Plan. It is a Traditional Plan with Bonus facility. In this plan, premium needs to be paid for the tenure as per the table and the policy continues for a period of 5 years after the completion of the premium paying term.

Thus, Policy Term = Premium Paying Term + 5 years

change in Vehicle Ownership.

The law states that you can do a Third Party Claim as long as the vehicle in insured but whether or not you can do a claim for your own car damage is an area of consideration. It states that "The liability to pay compensation is based on a statutory provision. Compulsory insurance of the vehicle is meant for the benefit of the third parties. The liability of the owner to have compulsory insurance is only in regard to third party and not to the property. Once the vehicle is insured, the owner as well as any other person can use the vehicle with the consent of the owner. Section 146 of the Act does not provide that if any person uses the vehicle independently, a separate insurance policy should be taken. The purpose of compulsory insurance in the Act has been enacted with an object to advance social justice".

There are 2 options of taking Maturity Benefit: Option A: % of Sum Assured taken every year after the completion of the Premium Paying Term and the remaining 65% of the Sum Assured taken as Maturity Benefit on completion of the policy tenure Option B: Entire Sum Assured paid in Lumpsum on completion of the policy tenure This policy offers 5% Additional Maturity Benefit if Option B or Lumpsum Maturity Benefit is opted for There is premium discount for high sum assured in this plan

BENEFITS

Death Benefit In case of death of the Life Insured within the Policy Tenure, the nominee gets 100% of the Sum Assured on Death as the Death Benefit, irrespective of the Guaranteed Staggered Benefits already paid and the future premiums are waived off and the policy continues to pay the Maturity Benefit.

The Sum Assured on Death is higher of: Base Sum Assured 10 times the Annualized Premium Subject to 105% of total premiums paid till date

Staggered Guaranteed Payout Benefit: The Sum Assured can be taken in either of the 2 options: Option A: Staggered Benefit over 4 years after completion of the Premium Paying Term or PPT as per the table mentioned

Time of Payment

1st Policy Anniversary after completion of PPT

2nd Policy Anniversary after completion of PPT 3rd Policy Anniversary after completion of PPT 4th Policy Anniversary after completion of PPT

% of Sum Assured 7.5% 7.5% 10% 10%

Option B: Lumpsum Benefit on Policy Maturity

Maturity Benefit – At the end of the Policy Tenure, irrespective of whether the Life Insured is alive or not, the Maturity Benefit is paid and the policy terminates.

Maturity Option

% of Sum Assured

Option A

65%

Option B

105%*

* This plan gives a 5% of Sum Assured as Guaranteed Addition on Policy Maturity if Lumpsum Benefit is chosen

Income Tax Benefit Life Insurance premiums paid up to Rs. 1,00,000 are allowed as a deduction from the taxable income each year under section 80C Also the maturity proceeds received by the family will be exempted from tax

Policy cancellation If a cancellation is requested before the issuance of the policy, the Company shall refund the application money after deduction of the expenses incurred on medical examination, if applicable If a cancellation is requested post the issuance of the policy, the Company shall refund the premium amount after deduction of the expenses incurred on medical examination and/or stamp duty, as applicable

Eligibility

Sum Assured (in Rs.) Policy Term (in years)

Minimum

Maximum

For PPT (10-14) years: Rs 350,000 No limit.

For PPT (15-20) years: Rs 450,000 PPT + 5 Years

Premium Payment Term (in years)

10

20

21

50

Age at Maturity (in years)

36

65

0

15

Entry Age of Life Insured (in years)

Entry Age of Child (in years) Payment modes

Annual and Monthly

What will happen in case of non-payment of regular premium during first three policy years?

If the policy holder stops paying the premium, the policy lapses and all benefits cease.

However, if at 3 years premiums have been paid, the policy gets converted to Paid Up Value and then the coverage continues with reduced coverage. The policy can be revived within 2 years from the due date of the first unpaid premium.

Loan There is option to avail loan under this policy.

Surrender benefit There are Surrender Benefits in this plan after at least 1 year’s premiums have been paid. For policies that have paid at least three full years' premiums the amount payable on Surrender is higher of the Special Surrender Value (SSV) or the Guaranteed Surrender Value (GSV).

Guaranteed Surrender Value = is a % of the premiums paid less Staggered Benefits already paid There is Special Surrender Value in this plan as well.

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NEWS IN BRIEF In Delhi, 3 vehicles stolen every hour

Delhi seems to have become a haven for auto lifters with three vehicles being stolen every hour in the national capital.

According to Delhi Police data, only one mobile handset goes missing during the same period. The data recorded between January 1 and June 20 this year shows that 13,976 vehicles were stolen in the capital, while the number of stolen mobile phones was 5,590. On an average, three vehicles are lifted in different parts of Delhi every one hour.

No takers for government’s reward scheme

A government reward under a whistle blower scheme to encourage public participation in the detection of movement of spurious drugs in the country seem to have no takers even five years after it was launched.

Launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in August 2009, the informers are rewarded for providing information in respect of movement of spurious drugs to regulatory authorities.

A reward of up to a maximum of 20 per cent (not exceeding to Rs 25 lakh) of the total cost of consignments of fake drugs seized is payable to any informer.

Beas tragedy: Three more bodies recovered

Three more bodies were recovered from Beas river on Sunday, 14 days after 25 persons, including 24 engineering students from Hyderabad, were swept away in the river on June 8, taking the number of those found to 16. Rescuers recovered the bodies which surfaced in Pandoh Dam, and the three were identified as Bairinene Ritwik, C.H. Parmeshwar and Muppidi Kiran Kumar, Mandi Superintendent of Police, R S Negi said. With this, 16 bodies have been recovered and nine more persons, including three girls and a co-tour Prahlad, are to be found.

India can export fighter planes, missiles too, says DRDO chief

NATION

N

EW DELHI: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressing on the need for increasing arms exports, DRDO has said India can sell combat aircraft and missiles whose production cost would be "much lower" than some of the weapons sold by countries such as China.

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief Avinash Chander said that the country needs a ‘policy mechanism’ for exporting weapon systems and the defence research agency has suggested a ‘single window clearance’ for sale of arms to friendly foreign countries in a time-bound manner.

"We have a list of equipment that includes the Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas', 'Akash' air defence system, 'Prahar' class of missiles and 'BrahMos' supersonic cruise missiles along with a number of systems that can be exported," he told PTI. "We are discussing the methodology for developing the export potential as well as a policy mechanism for export of weapon systems," Chander said.

The DRDO chief was asked about a recent comment by the Prime Minister that India should produce arms for itself and also supply them to other nations.

Tejas is a lightweight, multirole, single-engine tactical fighter

India on Sunday said it was in constant touch with International Red Crescent in Iraq, countries of the region and all other concerned who can offer help in securing release of 39 Indian construction workers who were kidnapped from Mosul, the second largest Iraqi city seized by Sunni militants. Sources said government continued to be in active engagement and was doing everything possible to ensure release of the Indians.

The top brass of Star Alliance will meet in London on Monday to decide on Air India's induction into the 26-member global airlines' grouping which could give the national carrier's passengers the facility of seamless travel to over 1,200 destinations. If the membership is granted, it would end Air India's seven-year-long wait to access the alliance's global network of over 18,000 daily flights to 1,269 airports in 193 countries. The member airlines of Star Alliance together own a total of 4,338 aircraft and fly over 640 million passengers a year, many of whom can also earn and burn frequent flyer miles on the entire alliance network.

aircraft. Akash, a surface-to-air missile, has a range of 25 kms.

Prahar is a 150 km-range tactical missile system while BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile with a strike range of 290 kms.

Asked about the cost-benefit for countries procuring arms from India, Chander said, "Many times Indian weapons are a lot cheaper.

"There are various other systems, like if you take strategic missiles, the long-range missiles that China sells to Saudi Arabia and the cost at which we produce, it would be one-third or onefourth," he said.

Chander said, "We can talk only about the price at which people sell and what comes out in published figures about the contracts of the day. By that, our production cost would be much lower. What

Goa gears up for St Xavier’s exposition

Efforts on to secure release of abducted Indians in Iraq

Air India’s induction into Star Alliance today

Avinash Chander, chief, DRDO

P

ANAJI: Goa government has said that the decennial exposition of relics of St Francis Xavier scheduled in December this year near here will be publicised across the globe to attract maximum tourists for the event.

"This is a unique event for Goa. Tourism department will ensure that all efforts would be made to attract tourists from the Europe to witness this exposition," State Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar told PTI on Sunday.

He said the central government has shown interest in joining hands with state tourism department in promoting this event.

Last year 3.5 million tourists arrived in Goa, which was almost one million more than 2.4 million

arrivals reported a year before, he said.

"The department's attempts to attract tourists through various road shows and events is fetching good response. We want to take the efforts further," he said while hoping that the publicity for the St Francis Xavier exposition event will get more than one lakh additional tourists.

A recent meeting of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar with Union Tourism Minister Shripad Naik in Panaji gave in-principle approval for the proposal wherein state and the Centre will spend around Rs.4 crore on the campaign.

The Archbishop of Goa has announced the dates of the once-adecade exposition of the relics from November 22, 2014 to January 4, 2015.

St Francis Xavier was born in Spain on April 7, 1506 and arrived in the coastal state, then a Portuguese colony, on May 6, 1542.

His missionary work took him across Asia over the next 10 years.

He died on December 3, 1552, on Sancian island, China.

His remains were first laid to rest in Portuguese Malacca (present day northern Malaysia).

Two years later, the body was moved to the Portuguese colony at Goa and installed in the Basilica of Bom Jesus, near Panaji.

will be the export cost, that will be the policy decision of the government."

He said for getting into the business of arms exports, the country "needs a framework on what can be exported. It depends on which country, how to protect misuse".

He said there are always a number of issues related to arms exports which need to be addressed.

"What we are suggesting is that there should be a single window clearance system for export of weapons in a timebound manner," the DRDO chief said.

He said several countries have shown interest in the Akash missile system, which was ready to be inducted into the Army.

Chander said there was a scope for exporting 500-1,000 "cost competitive" indigenously developed LCA Tejas combat aircraft.

LCA is likely to be ready for induction into IAF by the end of this year after attaining the Final Operational Clearance (FOC).

India depends on imports for meeting more than 65 per cent of its weapons requirement and has been branded as largest importer of arms by international think tanks.

So far, India has exported only assault rifles, a few helicopters along with some small naval vessels to friendly foreign countries.

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Indo-US N-deal: Govt agrees to allow greater access to IAEA

N

EW DELHi: Signalling the continuity of policy, the new government has ratified the Additional Protocol, a commitment given under Indo-US nuclear deal by the previous dispensation to grant greater ease to IAEA to monitor India's civilian atomic programme.

The Additional Protocol was ratified last week and this has been conveyed to the Viennabased IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), the global watchdog of nuclear activities, sources told PTI.

Five foreign satellites to be launched by ISRO on June 30

N

EW DELHI: India will launch five satellites for France, Canada, Germany and Singapore on June 30 under commercial agreements, space agency ISRO said on Sunday.

The indigenous PSLV-C23 rocket will carry a 714 kg French Earth Observation Satellite 'SPOT7' as the main payload. It will also carry 14 kg AISAT of Germany, NLS7.1 (CAN-X4) and two NLS7.2 (CAN-X5) satellites of Canada, each weighing 15 kg, and the 7 kg VELOX-1 of Singapore, it said.

These five satellites will be launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota under arrangements by Indian Space Research Organisation.

Indian Bank to employ Tihar inmates at its prison branch N

EW DELHI: Tihar Jail inmates with proven good conduct and qualifications will soon be working at ‘non-sensitive’ positions at the Indian Bank branch at the prison.

"We have been associated with Tihar Jail for the past several years and our branch there today has a business of Rs.100 crore. A proposal to employ Tihar Jail inmates at non-sensitive positions in the branch has been approved and will soon be implemented," Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Bank T.M. Bhasin said.

According to Tihar Jail spokesperson Sunil Gupta, inmates of the Semi-Open Prison (SOP) will get jobs like that of peon, security guard and computer operator as per their educational qualification.

Prisoners who have a track record of good conduct and are physically and mentally fit are selected for SOP. To be eligible for stay in SOP, an inmate's jail term should be between five and 12 years.

CURE FOR ARTHRITIS: Devotees wallow in mud in a religious tradition to cure arthritis on the occasion of Bengali month Ashar, at Dharamraj temple in Birbhum on Sunday.

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ACK REACHER

TV GUIDE

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

In an innocent heartland city, five are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case. But instead of confessing, the accused man writes the words, “Get Jack Reacher.” Reacher himself sees the news report and turns up in the city. The defense is immensely relieved, but Reacher has come to bury the guy.

Shocked at the accused’s request, Reacher sets out to confirm for himself the absolute certainty of the man’s guilt, but comes up with more than he bargained for. HBO, 11.25 p.m.

SOAPS & SERIALS

KLONDIKE

Discovery Channel’s first scripted mini-series is based on Charlotte Gray’s book ‘Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich’ in the Klondike. Her tale brings to life the story of six strangers and their collective fight for survival and wealth in a small frontier town in the remote Klondike. Follow the lives of two childhood best friends, Bill and Epstein, in the late 1890s as they flock to the gold rush capital in the untamed Yukon Territory. This manversus-nature tale places our heroes in a land full of undiscovered wealth, but ravaged by harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous characters including greedy businessmen, seductive courtesans and native tribes witnessing the destruction of their people and land by opportunistic entrepreneurs. Discovery, 10 p.m.

UTTARAN

In tonight’s episode we see Fida (A woman, who is actually a suicide bomber) and Meethi slowly start to bond. Fida being the suicide bomber is a recluse, but because of Meethi’s good nature and her positive attitude, opens up to her. Meethi begins to rub on Fida, which Asgar doesn’t appreciate and reminds Meethi of her purpose and mission. Meanwhile Akash is jailed as a result of his scuffle with the police. During this time Asgar prepones the set off time on the bomb. Fida panics as she doesn’t want Meethi and Damini to get hurt, and persuades them to get off the train. Finally Damini and Meethi get off, but Meethi realizes she has mistakenly carried Fida’s red duffel bag and gets back on the train to return the bag with only seconds before the bomb goes off. As the train starts, Meethi is unable to get off and Damini begins to panic while suddenly the bomb goes off and the compartment is blown into pieces. Colors, 10 p.m.

SAPNE SUHANE LADAKPAN KE

Gunjan is kept in captivity by Guru Parmanand’s men after she is caught red-handed by them. In a surprising turn of events, Gunjan manages to sneak out and appear as the ‘Dusvi Devi’ shocking Guru Parmanand and his men. Zee TV, 7.30 p.m.

BE THE CREATURE

The best way to understand a creature is to BE THE CREATURE; follow the Kratt Brothers on Animal Planet’s BE THE CREATURES as they throw themselves into the wild lifestyles of animals to discover what it’s like to live with animals around the globe. Animal Planet, 11 p.m.

HEAVY METAL TASK FORCE

What happens when an offshore wind turbine needs to be transported across thousands of miles or raging fires threaten to

FIRST BLOOD

Klondike, Discovery, 10 p.m.

consume your town? This month, Discovery Science’s brings to its viewers a breath taking show HEAVY METAL TASK FORCE which drills deep underground, slashes through ice, and soars above the clouds while exploring some of the worlds toughest and biggest machines. Discovery Science, 11 p.m.

EK HASINA THI

Durga gets apprehensive to see Dev close to her secret room but she very manipulatively tackles Dev to stop him from finding Nitya’s diary.Sakshi is worried and disturbed on the changing behaviour of Durga and her flirtatious behavior with dev as she knows that it is disturbing shourya. Raima being worried about shourya as he is blackmailing rajnath about raima and rajnat affair. Shaurya comes to know that it was Dev who sourced the RTI files of the rape case. He decides to take matters in his own hands and prepares to kill Dev. Star Plus, 8 p.m.

ENTERTAINMENT KE LIYE KUCH BHI KAREGA

Special guests Siddharth Malhotra and Shraddha Kapoor decided to play hockey on stage. Siddharth Malhotra and Shraddha Kapoor made an appearance on EKLKBK to promote their upcoming flick Ek Villain. Both were completely awestruck by the showcase of talent on the show. They even danced with judge Farah Khan on the song Radha which left the audience asking for more. This is not all! The pagalpanti reached new heights when a national hockey skating champion group Chak De from Sirsa performed their marvellous act. Inspired by their act, both the actors made their way on stage to play hockey and took a few tips from the champion girls. Sony TV, 9 p.m.

MOVIES OF THE DAY

Fashion designer Anita and computer-game writer Roger meet, fall in love and marry along with their dalmatians Perdita and Pongo. But the proud dogs’ puppies are kidnapped by Anita’s boss Cruella De Vil, who is stealing young dalmatians to make the coat she has set her heart on. Enlisting the help of the British animal kingdom, Pongo and Perdita set out to find and rescue all ninety-nine pups from their fearsome captors, Jasper and Horace. Zee Studio, 8 p.m.

STAR PLUS

P.M. 2.00 Ek Hasina Thi 2.30 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon..

3.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha 3.30 Suhaani Si Ek Ladki 4.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 4.30 Ek Hasina Thi 5.00 Ek Veer Ki ArdaasVeera 5.30 Star Parivaar Awards 6.00 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon-Ek Baar Phir 6.30 Suhaani Si ek Ladki 7.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 7.30 Saraswati Chandra 8.00 Ek Hasina Thi 8.30 Mahabharat 9 .00 Diya Aur Bati Hum 9.30 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hain 10.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai….

10.30 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas – Veera 11.00 Ye Hai Mohabbatein P.M. 2.00 House 3.00 Once Upon A Time 4.00 How I Met Your Mother 4.30 Two And A Half Men 5.00 Homeland 6.00 House 7.00 Koffee with Karan 8.00 How I Met Your Mother 8.30 Two And A Half Men 9.00 Masterchef US Season 10.00 House 11.00 Once Upon A Time

ZEE CAFÉ

P.M. 2.00 Reign 3.00 The Good Wife 4.00 American Funniest Home Videos 5.00 Just for Laughs 6.00 Reign 7.00 Scandal 8.00 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 Two and a Half Men 9.00 The Good Wife 10.00 Reign 11.00 The Big Bang Theory P.M. 12.30 4.00 8.00 8.30 9.00

SONY TV

CID Crime Patrol Main Naa Bhoolungi Ekk Nayi Pehchaan Entertainmetn Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega 10.00 Maharana Pratap 10.30 Bade Achhe Lagte Hai 11.00 Crime Patrol

ZEE TV

P.M. 2.00 Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya 2.30 Doli Armaano Ki 3.00 Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke 3.30 Pavitra Rishta 4.00 Qubool Hai 4.30 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

DHAMAAL

Dhamaal is about four friends; Boman Contractor, who lives a wealthy lifestyle with his eccentric dad, Nari, who loves his antique car more than his son, and asks his son to leave when he damages the car; dim-witted Manav, his elder brother Adi ; and Roy, a trickster who wears a magnetized belt buckle. All four are afflicted by the get-rich-quick virus. Their fortunes take a turn after they accidentally bump into an underworld don Bose whilst he is about to die, who tells them about a hidden treasure in Goa including 10crore rupees. The group race towards Goa in Nari’s stolen car, little knowing that their plans will soon be foiled, albeit hilariously, by Police Inspector Kabir Nayak, who wants the money at any cost. Zee Cinema, 8.30 p.m.

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LISTING

5.00 5.30 6.00

6.30 7.00 7.30

8.00 8.30

9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00

Dori Se Jodha Akbar Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya Do Dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se Pavitra Rishta Ek Mutthi Aasmaan Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke Jodha Akbar Do dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se Pavitra Rishta Qubool Hai Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya Doli Armaano Ki Jodha Akbar

LIFE OK

P.M. 2.00 Savdhaan India

3.00

3.30

4.00 5.00 5.30 6.00

6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00

8.30 9.00

Goshta Honar Suun Me Hya Gharachi Juluni Yeti Reshimgathi Fu Bai Fu Jai Malhar Honar Suun Me Hya Gharachi Eka Lagnachi Tisari Goshat Home Minister Jai Malhar Javai Vikat Ghene Aahe Honar Suun Me Hya Gharachi Juluni Yeti Reshimgathi Eka Lagnachi Tisari Goshta

3.00 How It’s Made 4.00 Mythbusters 4.50 Heavy Metal Task Force 5.40 How It’s Made 6.00 Prophets of Science Fiction 7.00 Mythbusters 8.00 How It’s Made 9.00 Tech Toys 360 10.00 Deadliest Tech 11.00 Heavy Metal Task Force

HISTORY

P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 4.30 5.30 7.00 7.30 8.00

Top Secret Recipe Ancient Aliens Vice Human Weapon Modern Marvels Baggage Battles Extreme Collectors Mission Sapne

Entertainmetn Ke Liye Kuch... Sony TV, 9 p.m.

7.00 Baawre.. Chal Jahan Challen Mann Ke Paon Re 7.30 Gustakh Dil 8.00 Devo ke Dev Mahadev 8.30 Ek Boond Ishq 9.00 Nadaan Parinde Ghar Aa Ja 9.30 Tumhari Paakhi 10.00 Savdhaan India P.M. 2.00 2.30 6.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00 P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00

COLORS

Sasural Simar Ka Rangrasiya Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Sasural Simar Ka Balika Vadhu Madhubala Beintehaa Rangrasiya Uttaran Bani – Ishq da Kalma Balika Vadhu

SAB TV

Taarak Mehta Ka FIR Pritam Pyare Aur Woh Badi Door Se Aaye Hai Taarak Mehta Ka Pritam Pyare Aur Who Baal Veer Taarak Mehta Ka Chidiya Ghar Badi Door Se Aaye Hai Lapataganj-Ek Baar Phir 10.30 F I R 11.00 Taarak Mehta Ka

ZEE MARATHI

P.M. 2.00 Jai Malhar 2.30 Eka Lagnachi Tisari

Uttaran, Colors, 10 p.m.

9.30 Fu Bai Fu 10.30 Jai Malhar 11.00 Julooni Yeti Reshmigathi

ANIMAL PLANET

P.M. 2.00 The Wild Life of Tim Faulkner 2.30 Steve Irwin’s Wild Warrior 3.00 Battleground: Rhino Wars 4.00 Most Extreme 5.00 Bad Dog 6.00 AP Safari 7.00 Predator’s Prey 7.30 The Web of Life 8.00 Wild Connections 9.00 The Wild Life of Tim Faulkner 9.30 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warrior 10.00 Most Extreme 11.00 Be The Creature P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 4.30 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 11.00

DISCOVERY

72 Hours Dual Survival Squeamish What Happened Next Man Woman Wild Ocean Giants Destroyed In Seconds Magic of Science Destroyed in Seconds Food Factory How Do They Do It Klondike Discovery Best

SCIENCE

P.M. 2.00 Joe Rogan Questions Everything

DOORDARSHAN

MAAN GAYE MUGHAL-E-AZAM First Blood, Star Movies, 9 p.m.

Shortly before bomb-blasts rocked Bombay during 1993, India’s Research and Analysis Wing assigns Arjun Rastogi to hilariously infiltrate a dance troupe ‘Kalakar Theater Company’ in St. Louie, Goa, and enlist their assistance, especially Udayshankar Mazumdar and his wife, Shabnam, in apprehending Haldi Hassan; Qaiyum Cable; a Dubai-based Don; corrupt local police amongst others to try and prevent them from planting RDX-explosives. B4U, 9 p.m.

MISSION VANDEMATARAM

Gopikrishnan and Anwar Hussain are tough police officers.

They analyse farmers struggle and related social violence to put forward an amicable solution to have lasting harmony. They are highly disturbed by the terrorists' infiltrations. Nandini, an aviator, is Gopikrishnan's wife and they are sad that they don't have a child. The rest of the story deals with how they counter act against the terrorists and save the land. Max, 9p.m.

DDI (MAIN CHANNEL)

P.M. 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.05 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.30 8.00

8.30 9.00 9.30

News in Marathi Apradh Daivacha Ha Khel Nirla Bheti Lagi Jiva Sansar Maza Wegala News in Marathi Sanyasi Krishi Darshan Amchi Mati Amchi Mansa News in Marathi Saraswatichandra Hamare Gaon Koi Aayega Pavitra Bandhan Malgudi Days Kab Kyon Kaise

MOVIE CHANNELS

P.M 12.00 2.30 4.30 7.00 9.00 11.00 A.M. 8.00 10.30 P.M. 1.05 3.15 4.55 7.00

STARMOVIES

Home Alone 2-Lost In Newyork So Close The Gods Must Be Crazy Kung Fu Chefs First Blood Gladiator

Green Zone First Blood

HBO

Snitch Paranormal Activity 4 Abduction The Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia 9.00 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 11.25 Jack Reacher A.M. 7.50 Panic Room 10.00 The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

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STAR WORLD

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Any interesting audience reactions?

Audience says they feel really Buddha is reflected in me. Its an extra ordinary experience.

Any interesting fan experience?

There is one fan from US whose son passed away a year back when she watches my show she misses her son and she had written this to me on social networking site. And all the Srilanka fans say that I am doing an excellent job and they treat me as a God.

BATTLE ROYALE

The heroes of Mewar and the regal Marwar are all set to wield their weapons against each other on Sony TV’s historical saga 'Bharat Ka Veer Putra Maharana Pratap.'

Witness the magnificent combat of the Rajputs filled with drama, bravery, determination, heroism, tears and sacrifices in high dose. The kings of Mewar are all geared up to fight against the Marwars’ with a huge army of 1,000 soldiers marching on foot and horses with the mission to protect their kingdom. Mewar and Marwar, two of the most powerful Rajput clans will be seen up against each other, due to the sudden marriage of Rana Udai Singh of Mewar with Rani Veerbai of Marwar. The king of Marwar, Rao Maladev who was passionately in love with Rani Veerbai agitated by this move of Udai Singh is provoked to declare, war against the Mewars’. Taking advantage of this, Pratap’s oldest enemy, Akbar will plan to disguise himself by being a part of the Marwar army, his sole aim is to kill Pratap.

If you get a magic stick that can fulfill any wishes what will be your first three wishes?

First wish will be that my mom and dad should get all the happiness, Secondly world peace and Third will be that everyone should be treated equally

Young actor from Jaipur, Himanshu Soni on ZEE TV is playing the character of Gautam Buddha in BK Modi's show Buddha. The actor has earlier done shows like Parvarish, Ramayan, Crime Patrol, Adaalat and a lead in a show called Yeh Zindagi Hai Gulshan..Himanshu Soni's life changed post B. K. Modi's Buddha.

Sandeep Hattangadi quiz him on that. Here are his candid replies.

What are the experiences you are going through while shooting for Buddha these days?

After playing Siddharth character, now when I am playing Buddha there are a lot of positive things in the character , I have no regrets of my past, no expectations from my future just leading my life as it is going. I am moving with the flow. I feel blessed.

TV TATTLE

Who is your greatest inspiration while playing Buddha?

Before taking up this character I was reading books on Siddhartha and Buddha and that really inspired me.

RIGHTEOUS PANDAVAS

The differences between Pandavas and Kauravas have led them to the Kurukshetra war which has produced the conflicts of kinship and friendship. While this maha 'yudh' has already started in Star Plus’ 'Mahabharat', let’s look at the motives of key warriors behind the epic war: Pandavas (Yudhishtir, Arjun, Bheem, Nakul, & Sahdev).

Public humiliation of their wife Draupadi was unforgivable, especially as Kauravas were unrepentant in their attempt to strip her in public.

Just as the insult was public, its counter – the war – had to be just as public. They had been denied their rightful share for long enough.

Now for themselves as well as their children, they had to press for their inheritance to make sure they were not cut off forever. Their patience had now worn thin and they were no longer hopeful of a negotiated settlement allowing them a fair share in the ancestral kingdom.

How has your on screen and off screen rapport been with Kaajal Jain who essays Yashodhara?

On screen chemistry between us is very nice. I don't talk to any one much off screen.

Who is your best pal on the set of Buddha?

All are my friends on the set.

Not any best friend or close to me.

You are single in real life what kind of a girl you would like to date?

As of now I am not thinking about any girl. I am dating my work and my performance is my girlfriend. I am focused on my career. I am fortunate to be playing this title role.

What do you think are your strengths as an actor?

My emotions and feelings are my strengths as an actor What do your parents, friends and relatives have

to say about your show?

They really find it hard to believe that I am playing this character. They are really very happy and proud of me.

If Buddha comes alive in front of you , what are the things you would talk to him?

In this 21st century we have to face so many problems and responsibilities I will ask for solution from Buddha to take over all these responsibilities easily.

Sidharth to host TV show on Bollywood villains A

By A Staff Reporter

ctor Sidharth Malhotra, who will be seen next in 'Ek Villain', will make his television debut as a host of a show 'Ek Villain Ek Daastan'. The show will feature iconic Bollywood villains and Sidharth will take viewers through their lives.

"It is my first venture into Indian television space and I am excited to host the show. I am honoured to be part of discovering Bollywood's iconic villains. We as actors draw inspiration from our seniors and veterans and I am lucky to get this opportunity to learn more about their journey handson," Sidharth said.

In the show, Sidharth will take a re-cap of journey of villains, who have been an integral part of Bollywood and will bring together the individual filmography, on-screen memories, behind-the-scene happenings etc. The show will cover lives of some noted anti-heroes like Amrish Puri, Amjad Khan, Gulshan Grover, Shakti Kapoor, Ranjeet, among others.'Ek Villain Ek Daastan' begins from June 23 on Zoom.

As an individual what have you learned from life post bagging the role of Buddha?

I was very short tempered person.But when I started playing Buddha’s role, my anger has come to control and its being reduced compared to before. I be aware about everything happening around me and stay in a happy and in present, life.

STAR COMEBACK

Manit Joura, who became a household name with his astounding work in many famous TV shows like '24 Karol Bagh', 'Ram Milaayi Jodi', 'MTV Rush', 'Khamoshiyyan' and many more is all set to enter Life OK’s renowned show ‘Hum Ne Li Hai Shapath’ as an undercover cop. The show, being produced by Fireworks Production is one of the channel drivers for Life OK and is very popular on television. After two Bollywood projects this show is Manit’s return to television. Manit was seen taking special efforts to get trained from the real life cops so he can do justice to his role. The show is all set to go on air on of June 28 or 29, where Manit will be seen performing various stunts and a role which he has never done before.

How much are you looking forward to this next important phase in story telling in Buddha?

Buddha’s journey is very difficult. Personally I am trying to take time so that I can study Buddha's character. Before I started Shooting for Siddharatha I have studied a lot about the role. I will get totally into my character in next ten days Himanshu is set for bigger things ahead!

BIKER DEEPIKA

Deepika Singh of ‘Deeya Aur Baati Hum’ fame will perform a bike stunt in one of the award shows. "I am extremely excited about this and am taking all precautions for my safety. I was always a pampered girl in my family and so never had tried a bike ride. So this time I am doing something unique; don't forget to watch my “vroom vroom” and appreciate me on the same", says Deepika.

Hope to pair up with Hiten soon: Gauri Pradhan T

By A Staff Reporter

V actress Gauri Pradhan, who is all set to make her small screen comeback with 'Meri Aashiqui Tumse Hi', has expressed her desire to work with her actor husband Hiten Tejwani in the near future.

Gauri and Hiten are arguably the most loved TV couple having starred together in hit shows like 'Kutumb' and 'Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi' besides participating in dance reality show 'Nach Baliye'.

The 36-year-old actress, last seen on TV in a cameo in 'Kumkum' along with Hiten, took a five-year-long break after having twins, son Neevan and daughter Katya in 2009.

"Everyone is expecting me and Hiten to work together. Till now we have not been offered anything. But I think we will soon work together. Now, that I am back on TV and people are going to see me and I think we will be getting offers soon," Gauri siad. In 'Meri Aashiqui Tumse Hi', Gauri will be seen playing mother to a teenager.

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014

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N June 2014, it was revealed that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for the 12-digit unique Aadhaar number is possibly being scrutinised by NSA, the US spy agency.

Indian Intelligence agencies had forewarned the previous government two years ago about the vulnerability of Aadhaar data due to involvement of foreign players in what may be the colossal security breach of the world’s largest biometric data-base.

Intelligence agencies raised the contentious provision in the contract agreement that allows foreign vendors to keep the biometric data for next seven years making it easy prey for NSA. The UIDAI also had arrangements with certain private software firms for technology assistance. Reportedly, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden recently revealed that the American intelligence agency has been covertly collecting biometric data of people from across the world.

Ironically, in March 2014, RBI gave the nod to most banks to consider Aadhaar Card or e-Aadhaar as a valid document for address proof to open a bank account.

An e-Aadhaar is an electronicallygenerated document that contains an image of your Aadhaar card and a letter from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The letter issued by UIDAI, contains details such as name, address and Aadhaar number and, is accepted as a valid identity proof when you

go to open a bank account. The central bank has also told banks if the address provided by the customer is the same as that on the Aadhaar letter, it can be accepted as proof of both identity and address.

NOW, A SINGLE DOCUMENT TO OPEN BANK ACCOUNT In view of the rampant fears of Aadhaar being misused or its data being compromised, RBI’s latest directive permitting one and all to open accounts in banks on the basis of a single document came as a pleasant surprise. After all, meeting Know Your Customer (KYC) norms that most banks insisted on which required excessive documents was a colossal task which defied logic.

RBI has recently decided to ease the KYC norms and, initiated work in the direction. It recently issued a notification stating from now on onwards only one address proof will suffice for opening a bank account.

‘Customers need to submit only one documentary proof of address, either current or permanent, while opening a bank account or while undergoing periodic updation,’ Reserve Bank of India said in its notification.

This comes as a breather for migrant workers and employees on deputation who find it especially difficult while having to open a bank account. “In case the proof of address furnished by the customer is not the local address or address where the customer is currently re-

Aadhaar data may be compromised, reveals leak

RBI Deputy Governor R Gandhi had in April 2014 said that banks need to regularly monitor customer transactions to mitigate risk of fraud. He further said that money laundering and terrorism-financing through fraudulent transactions have to be kept in check with proper KYC procedures.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) stated that e-Aadhaar or electronic-Aadhaar will be considered as an officially valid document for opening a bank account.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s recently revealed that the NSA is covertly collecting biometric data of people from across the world.

Central intelligence agencies had, in 2012, warned the government about a possible security breach in Aadhaar, which is considered the world’s largest biometric database.

The Aadhaar programme under UIDAI involved several foreign vendors and private companies for storage and collection of individual data, including iris scan and finger prints.

siding, the bank may take a declaration of the local address on which all correspondence will be made by the bank with the customer. No proof is required to be submitted for such address for correspondence/ local address.”

“In the event of change in this address due to relocation or any other reason, customers may intimate the new address for correspondence to the bank within two weeks of such a change,” the RBI stated. This address, however, may be verified by the bank through ‘positive confirmation’ such as acknowledgment of receipt of letter, cheque books, ATM cards; telephonic conversation; and visits.

Banks, all over the nation had gone in frenzy for quite a while after the RBI has issued KYC norms that banks were expected to follow. Customers all over have been complaining about being badgered by the banks for reconfirmation, additional documents and other fact checking measures that many banks had begun in accordance with ‘RBI guidelines.’

It did take a while for things to fall in place but it was a long struggle for consumers across India.

Picture for representational purpose only

RBI’s insistence on Aadhaar details may backfire in face of fears of the colossal databank itself being compromised.

However, its rule permitting opening accounts with ‘a single document’ will fetch relief, writes Gajanan Khergamker

SEBI ELIMINATES PHYSICAL FILING OF DOCUMENTS It may be recalled that, in March 2013, to streamline the process of KYC procedures for clients, even market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) had done away with the filling of physical documents by investors to the KYC Registration Agencies (KRAs) in favour of the electronic format only.

The intermediaries, including mutual funds, would need to send scanned copies of investor documents to the KRAs and retain the physical documents with themselves.

However, it was said that the physical documents would need to be submitted whenever a KRA would demand so.

KRAs were before this, responsible for maintaining KYC records across all SEBI-regulated entities, were required to maintain the original KYC documents both in physical as well as electronic formats. To minimise the physical paperwork, SEBI amended its KRA regulations.

RBI RAPS HDFC BANK FOR ‘MAKING’ KYC Under immense pressure from various quarters concerning KYC norms, particularly so when most Banks were seen going overboard, in April last, RBI had to reportedly tell HDFC Bank not to make its own KYC norms when consumer complaints on the issue continued to flow in.

HDFC Bank, which has been the subject of innumerable customer complaints about harassment to resubmit Know Your Customer (KYC) documentation, had to be told by

Initially, HDFC Bank took the stand that it was only following RBI directives on KYC and that continuous re-submission of details was also a norm the regulator, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), not to demand a full re-submission unless there is a significant change in customer profile.

Initially, HDFC Bank took the stand that it was only following RBI directives on KYC and that continuous re-submission of details was also a norm.

Later, it was revealed RBI had only asked the banks to ‘complete the review of risk categorisation.’

Even though this involved updating addresses and including photographs, if they did not exist on record, the address details reportedly, only needed a one-line confirmation from the account holder.

This bank however, insisted on asking its customers to re-submit all KYC documents .

BANKS PENALISED FOR VIOLATING KYC NORMS In July 2013, RBI had penalised 22 banks for violating KYC norms and then again penalised 6 banks in August for the same. RBI had conducted a scrutiny of banks’ accounts, internal control and compliance systems in April 2013 to probe money laundering charges levelled online portal Cobrapost.

Cobrapost has released a sting video in March 2103 which showed videos of bank officials helping decoy customers covert black or untaxed money into white.

In its report, RBI said there were flaws in banks’ customer identifica-

tion procedure, KYC practice for walk-in customers and sale of third party products. It said banks have failed to prevent lapses in monitoring of transactions in dormant accounts and in following instructions on the import of gold on consignment basis.

In a reply to a RTI query, RBI appears to have taken a stand that it does not vet all the forex derivatives products sold by banks in the country. However, under pressure from all sides, RBI in April 2011 fined 19 commercial banks including the country’s largest, State Bank of India, for miss-selling derivatives products to clients. RBI has imposed a small fine of Rs 5 lakh –Rs. 15 lakh on these banks for not complying with its instructions on derivative products.

RTI FORCES RBI INTO DISCLOSURE To make things worse, last year, when an RTI application was filed asking to the RBI asking for names of defaulters of Nationalised banks, the RBI had refused to disclose this information. Back then, the Chief Information Commissioner had to direct the RBI to share the data through RTI Act and that RBI shouldn’t have had any qualms about this since it anyways shares such data with CIBIL, a credit information company.

With inputs from Prerna Pandey

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PM Modi is riding competitively on a tiger

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014

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e want to keep a fact, which he probably understands, before the Prime Minister of the country, Narendra Modi. The thoughts or the minds of the people of the country before 2011 have changed after 2011. Before 2011, it seemed to people that they could not do anything, the system is not listening to what they are saying or the system will never hear. But Anna Hazare’s 2011 movement created a self-confidence in the minds of the people of the country and people felt that if we stand up and put pressure for anything, the system will have to listen and in many places such instances came to light when the system had to listen to what the people were saying. The way there was an upsurge – without any leader – amongst the people of Delhi and the entire country in support of the rape victim who suffered so much, that too proved that people’s thoughts and minds are changing.

In the context of these changed minds and thoughts, another fact has come before one and this fact is that the last ten years of the governance-less governance or rule of the Congress had angered and outraged the people and that anger and outrage had spread so far inside that it did not remain limited or confined to one group. It drew a line of division within almost every section in the country, by which a large number of people turned against the

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Congress and they rose together above caste and religion and gave Narendra Modi their vote.

Modi’s supporters are ‘abstaining’ from accepting this fact. They say that the country had become divided on a Hindu and Muslim basis and to teach the Muslims a lesson all the Hindus went in favour of Modi and therefore there was the big win. I cannot understand this. If this had happened, Modi would have got more than a two-thirds majority, but Modi and because of him, the Bharatiya Janta Party, got only a simple majority, i.e. ten more numbers than the required 272.

This means that country was harried and troubled by the governance-less governance or rule of the Congress, was troubled by problems, was troubled by corruption, inflation, unemployment, therefore they saw Modi as a hope, and they voted for him. It is also clear from this that the BJP’s three basic elements – Article 370, the Common Civil Code and the Ram temple – were not on the minds of the people of the country but that inflation, corruption and unemployment were on their minds. In this light the Prime Minister gave his first speech in Parliament on June 11. This speech was as a Prime Minister and also as an MP elected for the first time. And there should not be any hesitation in saying that this speech was more effective than Manmohan Singh’s speech.

Manmohan Singh could never make the people of the country understand his point(s), but in his first speech Modi gave a message to the people of the country that he wanted to do something. The benchmarks he laid are also worthy of a welcome. The way he talked about making people accountable should also be welcomed. It should also be admitted that if Lal Krishna Advani had given a speech from the

Prime Ministe Narendra Modi Prime Minister’s post, it would have been comparatively less better.

Now there are challenges in front of Modi. His first challenge is the Cabinet. There are good people in his Cabinet, but they are not people who are committed to the public. If somebody has to strive for this, it will have to be Prime Minister Modi himself who will have to ensure how people in his Cabinet keep their gaze continuously on the objectives.

However, Modi has also given a message to the people of the country that the main work of Ministers is not about giving speeches about work done by the Ministries, giving and receiving bouquets, meeting Ministers of the States, welcoming foreign guests and sometimes going abroad to make some Agreements.

Such work will be done mostly and generally by bureaucrats. If this indication given by Modi is true, it will

mean the running of the country will rely on bureaucrats. If a country can be run by relying on bureaucrats, then fine, otherwise things can go badly askew, because in the last 60 years neither has the bureaucracy made the country walk along the path to development, or run on it. The development that happened was not planned growth or the result of planned development efforts, rather it was development that took place at an average pace. No matter whose Government it would have been, so much development would have happened anyway. Development done according to the will power of a Government shows a different picture and at this time there is a desire in the minds of the people in the country to see that picture.

There is a big question and that question is: why do we link Maoism or Naxalism with terrorism? From

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the very beginning the Bharatiya Janata Party believes that the Naxalism problem is a problem of law and order. People who have gone astray because of not getting work anywhere, who are criminals, they are working in the name of Naxalism. While on the other side, most journalists, most sociologists and most political scientists generally believe that Naxalism is spreading in those places where money for development has been spent on paper, but has not been spent on the ground. There is no road, there is no hospital, no school nor any means of employment. All the people there are siding with forces which say that people sitting in Delhi are sitting there for robbing, they are not in favour of the poor, and if you want to bring a Government in your favour, you will have to take up arms.

In the same way that we believe the BJP argument and logic that the problem of Naxalism is a problem of law and order, in the same way we will give a law and order argument or logic to the political ideology spread by Naxalites. It is our belief that the problem of Naxalism in the country is a problem of development created by the Government machinery in this country.

The market based economy is keeping a large part of the country outside the purview of development. That is why all the policies that are being framed are being made for 20 or 22 per cent of the people. When 80 per cent of the people stay outside this circle, then it is natural for them to be attracted to an ideology which believes that democracy is not right for development. Which believes that democracy is a mechanism to push forward the rich, rather than that which will eliminate the people's hunger and thirst. And this is the challenge before Narendra Modi.

Multiple dangers from shady NGOs Dr. Manish Kumar

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ntelligence agencies and foreign powers have, obviously, always used secret methods of working in other countries. Intelligence agencies also have the cunning of getting their work done without the people who have worked for them realising that that they have become part of a foreign conspiracy. This method is adopted by even the most poorly rated Intelligence agencies in the world. What the Intelligence agencies of America, Israel, China and other big league countries are capable of doing cannot even be imagined. I will give one example of how conspiracies are hatched or carried out the world over in the name of social organisations, NGOs or Research Foundations and how people are misled. In the sixties, there was a proliferation of drugs in America which quickly began entangling the youth in its network.

Many types of intoxicating drugs

came to the fore, but the youth did not get trapped in the drug network as quickly as the mighty drug mafia wanted.

The Government also woke up to the reality and introduced strict measures, as a result of which the spread of drugs slowed down. To oppose the drugs trade, many social organisations also stood up. Hoardings were put up in universities and marketplaces that drugs are dangerous. Seminars began to be held where it was discussed and pointed out how dangerous intoxicating drugs can be and that those consuming them enter a world of dreams and are lost to the real world. For a short while, they are cut off from the present and enter a seemingly complete stage of ‘liberation’. It began to be said by antidrug activists that it was not right to take drugs as a revolt in the name of being against the social order or system. How it felt after taking drugs by mouth in tablet form or intravenously through taking injections was also explained, as was the drug quantity that is more dangerous. The whole of Europe and America became familiar with the ill

effects of drugs through these seminars, conferences and assemblies.

In 1985 there was a new expose in which it was revealed that many social organisations and research foundations were being run by the drugs mafia. The drugs mafia nurtured NGOs by funding them

through money in the name of seminars and conferences. In the name of drug opposition, the mafia began publicising the use of drugs. People who had no information about drugs also became familiar with them. In this way, the turnover from use of drugs – the drug trade – increased almost 300 times in America and Europe. Governments were unable to understand how below their very noses this illegal business had increased so much. The police administration and people connected with politics began to be

afraid of the drug mafias. This is the reason why today in America and Europe, the next most powerful force after the Government are these drugs mafias. Perhaps this is also the reason why it is beyond the Governments there to raise a hand against these mafias.

Has India too become a victim to this kind of intrigue and conspiracies is a question worth asking. Are the ‘movements’ running in the name against corruption and an avowal to bring about change in the country spontaneous and genuine or are they a part of a conspiracy by some foreign Intelligence agency? Is all this being funded with foreign aid? If they are being run with foreign aid, who is giving them the money?

Are NGOs, anti-corruption ‘movements’ being run at the behest of foreign agents? Is spreading chaos in the country through ‘movements’ a part of a foreign conspiracy? There are many such questions to which it is very important to know the answers. It is noteworthy that in the recent Lok Sabha elections there were many candidates from NGOs being run with the help

of foreign funds. In the name of change, their only purpose was that an unstable Government should be formed in the country so that anarchy could be created.

In 1976, during the Emergency, Indira Gandhi made a law called the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA). Under this law, political parties and social organisations were banned from taking foreign money. On March 9, 1976, when this law was being passed in the Rajya Sabha, during the debate, the name of the American Intelligence agency, the CIA, was taken 30 times.

In addition, one was apprised of several dangers of this law.

Today, under this law, Indian social organisations are getting foreign money. In fact, since the last few years, in the name of social service, foreign money is being sent openly to India. Use was, and is, being made of this money to create unrest among people, run ‘movements’ in the name of bringing change in the system to create an environment against the political class. These activities are dangerous for the internal security and unity of the country.

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COFFEEBREAK

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 779

ENIGMA CODE 779

ACROSS: 1

9 10

11 12 13

15 17 18 21

22 24

25 26

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.

They restrict the going rate for travellers? (5,6) Chanel No 5 in brown? (4) Sort of policy for the Lib-Dems?

(5,5) Mobs a cockatoo (4-4) Implied the sun was out: a fine day (6) Insisting upon reform is strange (9) Boudoir of a cellist, say? (5) Composer's refrain? (5) Defective gas meters for people who take chances (9) In hostilities I have a form of surrender (6) They tell you whose turn is next (8) Be responsible for only a boring arrangement in (5,5) Big, is hard to swallow (4) Advisers are not the same as opponents (11)

The Clue: Series of songs

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S ENIGMA CODE OBLIGE, BIGGIE, GOGGLE, BOGGLE, GOBBLE, GIGGLE, BOOGIE

A picking-up point (5) Interlude at recent production (8) Confined dishonesty at home (5,2) 5 Invented and resolved differences (4-2) 6 12 bringing delight (9) 7 Flag normal palace behaviour (5,8) 8 Hit the cheese and run out for a short while (6,7) 14 Even lined features can be

L L L

L L

L

T L L

MATH PYRAMID 779

DOWN:

2 3 4

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revitalised (9) 16 Man's judge may consider giving the rest a new deal (8) 19 Weighed at sail time (7)

20 About to go into action so double up (6) 23 Each time, I lost message for Alice (3,2)

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Rabbit ears, 8 In toto, 9 Large egg, 11 Out of bed, 12 Race, 13 Red emporer, 15 Clean forget, 17 Palestrina, 18 Dyne, 20 Obsolete, 22 Stowaway, 23 Aragon, 24 Sally forth.

DOWN: 2 Arabia, 3 Big wheel, 4 The far east, 5 Sift, 6 Mowburnt, 7 Road bridge, 10 Good offices, 12 Reciprocal, 14 Mark Antony, 15 Coleslaw, 16 Eldorado, 19 Natant, 21 Eons.

QUICK CROSS 779

ACROSS: 1. Lookers 5. Alley Oop's gal 6. Protective coverings 8. Connery and Penn 10. Bluish-gray 12. ... ____ saw Elba (3,1) 13. Jurassic Park, actress

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

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

DOWN: 1. European newt 2. Affirmative votes 3. Beings in Evian 4. Leafed 7. Animal trap 9. "Pun" or "fun" ending 11. Yang partner

HIDATO 779

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

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

MATHDOKU 779

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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TIGER BUD BLAKE

TODAY’S FORECAST

JAGJIT UPPAL

WIZARD OF ID PARKER & HART

B.C. JOHNNY HART

BEAU PEEP THE ADVENTURES OF LEGIONNAIRE BEAU PEEP

FRED BASSET ALEX GRAHAM

PHANTOM LEE FALK

MODESTY BLAISE PETER O’DONNELL

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COFFEEBREAK MOON TITHI NAKSHATRA RASHI LUCKY COLOUR LUCKY NUMBER

: : : : : :

Aries Yogini Ekadashi Bharni Mesha (Aries) A.L.I. Red 2

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

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

BABIES BORN TODAY: Will be of medium height with lovely eyes and ruddy complexion. They are honest, generous, forgiving but can be very obstinate. They generally are good in studies and hardworking. They attain success in their career after considerable effort. They generally lead successful life.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): You are all charged up about work and rearing to go but certain delays are going to get the better of you and your efforts today. Avoid arguments at all costs as it could harm your image and hurt your conscience. Devote time to creative hobby in the evening to unwind.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): This is not a good day to discuss office matters or management policies. Others will not be receptive to your ideas. Perhaps you are not in your element today. Take time off to reflect or do something that you enjoy. Matters will improve by evening.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): For Problems that have legal implications it is better to consult the right professional before making any move in the matter on your own. It will save you from litigation or further financial loss. Keep a check on your temper and irrational behavior.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): There will be constant interruptions in your work, which could be frustrating. Plans for an overseas travel are likely. A sudden journey is indicated. At a social get-together you will be very much in demand. Those participating in sports or out-door events will do well.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): Getting work concluded on time will not be a problem for you but the quality may suffer. Perhaps your mind is not in what you are doing. Your preoccupation with some personal problems or family issues could be distracting.

You need to pull yourself out of such situation. A heart to heart talk would be most appropriate to solve a problem.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): Financial gains will accrue to you from work completed earlier. You will have a rewarding day at work. Clearance for a particular assignment will also come through now.

Plans for a journey are likely with your mate and family. Property matters may require looking into.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): You have been through a difficult period but you have the opportunity to change all that now. You have been pushing yourself a little too hard and expecting others to match up to your capabilities which are difficult for others to do. Friends and relatives will stand by you in times of need.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): You will be toying with some new ideas to incorporate into your work. Go slow in your new methods and without disturbing your regular schedule. Your routine work tends to get neglected for you could be involved in too many things all at the same time.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): You will be busy handling different problems particularly those in the fields of sales, marketing or media. It will be a tiring but rewarding day. Money from a property or a legacy should be invested on a longterm basis for further gains. An outing will be enjoyable though a bit exhausting.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): You may receive an offer for work or business from overseas. Try to postpone important decisions for a while yet. There could be some other pressing issues that require your attention. Family life is happy but there could be undercurrents of tension. Your mate may be feeling off color today.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): You need to be patient even if burdened with duties that take up most of your leisure time.

Make quick decisions for good results.

Listen attentively to the suggestions of others, though you may not necessarily agree with them. You will be able to bring others around to your way of thinking.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): Your anxiety to get your work done fast could get the better of you today. There could be some costly mistakes as a result. Be the first to make amends in your interest. Plans for travel are indicated. You will be going on a pilgrimage with loved ones. Make sure that you do not over exert for you could end up feeling tired and unwell.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 5002

ACROSS: 4 Fret (6) 7 Raider (8) 8 Sicilian spouter (2,4) 10 Keyboard key equivalent to "return" (5) 13 A bird having melodious ability to sing (4) 14 Active one (4) 15 Derelict drunkard (4) 16 Please turn over, acronym (3) 17 Emit a strong and unpleasant odor (4) 19 Address God (4) 21 Architect of glasnost and perestroika (9) 23 A city of the Holy land, usually connected with Sidon (4) 24 Broad inlets of sea where land curves inward (4) 26 Pro __ (for the time being) (3) 27 ___ -blooded (cruel) (4) 29 "As _ _ Dying" (Faulkner title) (4) 32 Diminutive suffix (4) 33 Flying pests (5) 34 Need for liquid (6) 35 In wayward style (8) 36 Pencil topper (6)

DOWN: 1 ____ for: was representative of? (5) 2 Act poorly (5) 3 Natural, fine threads that grow on your head (4) 4 ____ numerals : I,V,X, et al.? (5) 5 Look shyly or quickly (4) 6 Degrees in a right angle (6) 9 A prize or object awarded to someone for his success or victory (6) 11 National Organization for Women, acronym? (3) 12 By trial and ___ : by a hit or miss method, in a way? (5) 13 Friendly, affectionate (7) 15 Third "W" in WWW, on the Internet? (3) 16 Vada ___ : Mumbai's favourite snack (3)

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SUDOKU 2188 Sudoku is a number placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid such several given numbers.To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every digit from 1 to 9 must appear in each of the nine vertical columns, in each of the nine horizontal rows and in each of the nine boxes.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Difficulty Level:

CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: F equals C

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

18 Builds, constructs (6) 20 Gummy substance - "siren" anagram?

(5) 21 Gymkhana, in short (3) 22 Comp. Aided Design (3) 23 At the end of it you'd be desperate !

(6)

25 A head covering (3) 28 A furred, web-footed mammal, very fond of fish ! (5) 30 Continues, endures or perpetuates (5) 31 Belgian violinist (5) 32 "Sore" change for a god? (4) 33 Kind of bag (4)

SOLUTION TO SATURDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Pranab, 5 Usb, 8 L Ron, 9 Idem, 10 Bateau, 11 Dimension, 13 Lucy, 15 Sod, 16 Rowed, 17 As mad, 20 Yak, 22 Ooh, 23 Aston, 24 Charm, 26 Goa, 27 Bear, 28 Passing by, 31 Aortas, 32 Pens, 33 Mtnl, 34 Hae, 35 Akimbo.

DOWN: 1 Pebble, 2 Autocrat, 3 A lad, 4 Bruised, 5 Unfed, 6 Bids, 7 Deborah, 12 Mod, 14 Yoko, 18 Sorb, 19 Momentum, 20 Yshaped, 21 Shabana, 24 Cog, 25 Fresco, 26 Gnome, 29 Sash, 30 Yolk.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 2007 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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SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

R A H A Q

F K Q ' M M Y X

I K V M

I T X V X Q M .

S X

N K V X

K N A H M

R A H

A T

R A H T

M Y X

Y K D X

R A H T

U W E X

M A

M X U U

E H M H T X

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious

Afternoon WORD MINE

G

U

R

S

P

A

A

S

A

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: 05 average; 06 good; 08 outstanding.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: adze, daze, doze, laze, lazed, localize, LOCALIZED, zeal, zodiac.

HEATHCLIFF

Saturday’s

ROSBERG WINS AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX

SPORTS

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PIELBERG (AUSTRIA): Championship leader Nico Rosberg won the Austrian Grand Prix here Sunday, putting Mercedes back on top in a nail-biting finale with teammate Lewis Hamilton.

The German, clinching his third win this season, managed to hold off Hamilton until the end, with Williams driver Valtteri Bottas taking his first ever podium, in what turned out to be a disastrous home race for Red Bull.

Bottas's teammate Felipe Massa, who had started on pole, was fourth, followed by Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, Sergio Perez of Force India and McLaren's Kevin Magnussen. The season's eighth race saw Mercedes extend their lead in the constructors' standings to 301 points, with Red Bull trailing in a distant second place with 143 points.

It also gives Rosberg -- who has never finished off the podium this season -- a 29-point lead on fourwin Hamilton in the fierce internal Mercedes battle. Sunday's race at the Red Bull Ring started with an all-Williams front row after Brazilian Felipe Massa and Bottas put in a superior performance in Saturday's qualifying, depriving Mercedes of pole for the first time this season.

But the German team showed already in the first lap that they were in fighting spirit, with Rosberg briefly coming into second position, while Hamilton jumped from ninth into fourth place after a thundering start.

After taking his first pole position since 2008, Massa had hoped to follow this up with his first win in six years, but this was not to be. Instead, it was Bottas who brought

call it quits halfway through the race, having also had a minor brush with Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez that was being investigated. Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat also had to pull out after 26 laps with brake problems, later followed by teammate Jean-Eric Vergne.

Sergio Perez of Force India posted some of the fastest laps on the track and managed to move up to sixth postion after starting in 15th place for causing a crash in Canada with Massa.

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany lifts the trophy after winning the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix race at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria on Sunday.

Williams their first podium in a year.

For Red Bull, which went into this home race having won the Canadian Grand Prix, the day proved a wash-out with Daniel Ricciardo finishing eighth. A disappointing season for reigning four-time champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull meanwhile went from bad to worse as he was forced to retire.

Having started in 12th position, he never had a chance as his car came to a complete halt shortly after the start.

He managed to restart but had to

The Virendra Fork

By Anant Bhagwat

T

he execution of Morton’s Fork in Bridge is very cruel to the defenders. Mr. Virendra Shah a very senior player from Willington Sports Club, brought off this delightful coup in a practice game S- 10 8 4 H- 6 4 D- Q 10 7 4 C- Q 9 5 4

S- 3 2 S- 5 H- K 10 8 3 H- J 9 7 2 D- J 8 5 3 D- K 9 6 2 C- A 10 7 C- J 8 6 3 S- A K Q J 9 7 6 H- A Q 5 D- A C- K 2

Virendra Shah was south & dealer. He opened the bidding with 1 club which showed 18 + points. His partner bid 1 heart which was a graded response promising 4-6 points. South bid 2 spades, north bid 3 spades & Virendra Shah, without much ado,

jumped to 6 spades. As the cards lay the contract had no chance.

But west led the small diamond & suddenly there was a flicker of hope. Declarer put up the 10 of diamonds from dummy & east made the blunder of putting up the King. Now can you make the contract?

BRIDGE Virendra Shah made it by an exotic line of play. He won & drew 2 trumps with Ace & King. Then he made the key play of a small club from hand, putting west on the horns of dilemma. Had west taken the Ace Virendra Shah would have won any return, cash the King of clubs & discarded 2 hearts on the Queen of clubs & Queen of diamonds. If west ducks the club Ace dummy’s Queen wins. Then the King of clubs is discarded on the Queen of diamonds & the only loser is 1 heart as the 3rd heart can be ruffed in dummy.

It is a case of “Heads I win tails you lose”

PEREZ RECOVERY GIVES FORCE INDIA 10 POINTS FROM AUSTRIA Sergio Perez staged a remarkable recovery to finish sixth from 15th on the grid while Nico Hulkenberg came home ninth to earn 10 points for Sahara Force India from the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix, here.

The Silverstone squad could have got a couple of points more had Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo not passed Hulkenberg at Turn 4 on the last lap of the 71-lap race. With the result at the Red Bull Ring, Force India have scored points in all eight rounds of the season so far.

However, their fourth place in the team standings is under serious threat after Williams amassed 27 points from the race, courtesy a third and fourth finish by Valtteri Bottas and poleman Felipe Massa.

The Vijay Mallya squad, with 87 points, is only two points ahead of Williams who got past McLaren in the standings to be fifth. Force India could not have got much more out of their two-stop strategy, considering rivals Williams had a faster car all weekend. Perez had incurred a five-place grid penalty from the Canadian Grand Prix where he and Massa collided on the last lap.

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ISL signs partnership agreement with EPL M

UMBAI: Indian Super League has entered into a strategic partnership with the English Premier League, the world's most popular and successful football league, to bring its best practices to India under an exchange programme.

The Co-operation Agreement between the ISL, co-promoted by IMG-Reliance, the joint venture between IMG and Reliance Industries, Star India with support from All India Football Federation, and the English Premier League will allow the ISL to leverage the league's expertise in nurturing and growing a high quality football competition.

The Indian Super League, set to kick off in September, will receive strategic support, advice and assistance from the Premier League to further the development of the league and its clubs, a release said.

The EPL will also assist in establishing club governance, shaping the brand, fan engagement, defining anti-corruption and anti-doping policies for the ISL, as well as joint promotion of the ISL and Premier League football in India.

Through the alliance, Indian Super League will help Premier League and its clubs in staging football matches and assist in other business development initiatives in India. This will encourage exchange programmes and partnership building between clubs of two leagues. ISL and Premier League will also cross-promote football coverage on Star India's platform to the growing Indian fan base, the release said. The co-operation between Indian Super League and the Premier League lends credence to ISL's mission to engage the 200 millionplus Indian football fan base by showcasing a quality football of-

fering with international standards of governance and an unparallelled viewing experience, it added. ISL will feature eight franchises from Bangalore, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune.

Assam official objects to ISL team being named ‘NE United FC’

GUWAHATI/ NEW DELHI: A top official of Assam Football Association has objected to the naming of Indian Super League side to John Abrahim is be based in the owner of the Guwahati as Guwahati North East franchise.

United FC, saying that the team should have been named after the home city.

Guwahati franchise co-owner John Abraham had announced the name of the team as North East United FC on June 10. "The Assam government has spent more than Rs 12 crore in refurbishment of the infrastructure in Guwahati so that the ISL team can be based in the city. So, Guwahati's name should have been reflected in the name of the club," Dutta said. "I have no problems with John Abraham's idea of the team being projected to represent the entire North East region. But with Assam government spending tax-payers money for the benefit of the team, then I feel it is also necessary to reflect Guwahati in the name of the team," he added.

Rhema Sports emerge champs M

UMBAI: Rhema Sports underlined their supremacy by emerging Senior Division champions of the MHAL (Mumbai Hockey Association Limited) League. In a keenly contested final encounter, Rhema Sports reasserted their dominance against Air India ‘B’, by coasting to a 2-0 victory at the MHAL Stadium, Churchgate.

Consistent goal-scorer Ashish Bhosle and Karthik Sharma, both from field efforts scored a goal each late in the second half to clinch the issue in favour of Rhema Sports, who had earlier defeated Air India 3-1 in the final league match two days back.

After the first session ended scoreless, Rhema turned the heat on their opponents in the final 10 minutes and managed to score twice during this period to pull off the win.

In the 60th minute Bhosle once again showed good opportunism to strike the opening goal and eight minutes after the opener Sharma found the target to double Rhema’s lead which sealed the out-

Rhema Sports team with their trophy at the MHAL Stadium, Churchgate. come of the match.

GOREGAON SC, CCI CHAMPS AGAIN Spearheaded by India (Under-19) No.1 Harsheel Dani, Goregaon Sports Club rallied to beat Rashtiya Chemicals and Fertilisers (RCF) 2-1 in the Motiram Cup Inter-Club badminton finals at the Bombay Gymkhana courts here on Sunday. However, Goregaon SC, who had won the Motirm Cup

(men), Ullal Cup (women) and the Kanji Cup (for juniors) last year, had to settle for a double crown only, as they were beaten by Cricket Club of India 2-0 in the women’s final. Lanky left-hander Harsheel, who made the semifinals of the Mauritius Open recently outplayed his much experienced opponent Amit Kshatriya in straight games (21-11, 2112) to make it one-all.

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Ghana hold Germany to a 2-2 draw as Klose equals Ronaldo record

Model Bundchen may hand over World Cup trophy

Germany's Miroslav Klose reaches out and scores his side's second goal during the group G match against Ghana at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil.

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ORTALEZA (BRAZIL): Ghana held Germany to a 22 draw yesterday despite veteran striker Miroslav Klose coming on as a substitute to tie the World Cup scoring record with the equalizer in their highly entertaining Group G match.

Klose now has 15 career World Cup goals, equaling the mark set by former Brazil star Ronaldo.

Klose scored the equalizer in the 71st minute, less than two minutes after coming on, when a corner by Toni Kroos was flicked to the far post by Benedikt Hoewedes and the striker slid in to knock the ball into the roof of the net.

The result means the United States would advance from the group if it beats Portugal on Sunday. Mario Goetze had put Germany ahead in the 51st, but Ghana equalized three minutes later through Andre Ayew.

Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan then put the Africans ahead in the 63rd, only to see Klose cancel out his goal. The 36-year-old Klose is in his fourth World Cup and had been level with former Germany striker Gerd Mueller on 14 goals.

Ronaldo also scored his 15th against Ghana, in 2006 in Germany. With coach Joachim Loew preferring to play with a "false nine" system without a striker, Klose sat out Germany's opening 4-0 rout of Portugal.

But with Ghana threatening to put a damper on Germany's hope of winning the group, Loew turned to his veteran, who provided again.

The draw continued Germany's habit of struggling in second matches in a tournament and left it with four points from two matches. The result revived

scoreline Germany 2

Götze 51’, Klose 71’

Ghana 2

A. Ayew 54’ , A. Gyan 63’

Ghana's hopes of progressing after its opening 2-1 loss to the United States. Ghana has one point. Ghana gave the favored Germans a real contest in a pulsating match in the sweltering heat and humidity of Arena Castelao.

But it was Germany that took the lead. In the 51st, Thomas Mueller sent a dipping cross toward Goetze, who attempted a header but the ball bounced off his left knee into the net. Germany's lead lasted only three minutes.

Andre Ayew rose between Per

Mertesacker and Shkodran Mustafi to head the equalizer inside the far post from a cross from Harrison Affu. With the non-German side of crowd loudly behind the Ghana team, the African side kept putting pressure on the favored Germans.

Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan beat an offside trap by Mats Hummels and Per Mertesacker in the 63rd, ran into space and fired the ball past goalkeeper Manuel Neuer into the far corner to raise Ghana's hopes of an upset.

In between the first two goals, a fan ran onto the pitch waving his shirt.

He did not threaten any players but shook hands with Ghana's Sully Muntari, who escorted him off the field before he was picked up by a security official. Ushers then moved to block stairwells leading to the pitch.

German fight-back delights Loew

Iranians 'proud' after Argentina heartbreak

TEHRAN: Passionate Iranian fans held their heads up after a last minute goal from fourtime world player of the year Lionel Messi, saw their beloved Team Melli lose 1-0 to Argentina.

But they also felt "robbed" after Iran were denied what looked like a clear penalty when forward Ashkan Dejagah was brought down by Argentine defender Pablo Zabaleta in the penalty box.

"We were robbed," cried an overwhelmed Atieh, dressed in Iran's national shirt.

"That was a definite penalty kick." said the State television's commentator, commentating live to millions of fans across the country.

C ORNER KICK

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ORTALEZA (BRAZIL): Coach Joachim Loew was delighted

by Germany's fight-back in their 2-2 World Cup draw against Ghana despite their below-par performance.

Miroslav Klose equalled Brazilian legend Ronaldo's record of 15 World Cup goals after coming off the bench to spare Germany's blushes with the equaliser. Mario Goetze had given Germany the lead before goals from Andre Ayew and Asamoah Gyan threatened to cause a major upset for the Black Stars in Fortaleza.

"I'm actually quite pleased because we showed great moral to come back from 2-1 down in these temperatures," said Loew about the tropical conditions.

"We took the lead, then con- Germany's head coach Joachim Loew ceded two goals from nothing. reacts during the match against Ghana.

The players are completely exhausted, but in the end we had a few good chances against a good, combative and skillful team."

But Loew's enthusiasm failed to mask several deficiencies in the German defence that were exposed by Ghana's determined counter-attacks. Gyan, whose goal saw him join Cameroon legend Roger Milla as the leading all-time African World Cup scorer with five, said that they had played much better than in the 2-1 defeat to the United States.

"We believed in ourselves today," the 28-year-old told the BBC. "I think tactically we were perfect today. Now we definitely have to beat Portugal. We will have to focus but we believe we can beat them."

SANTOS (BRAZIL): Rather than Pele, Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is tipped as the personality most likely to hand over the trophy at the July 13 final in Rio de Janeiro. It is a surprising demotion for a man named "athlete of the century" by France's L'Equipe sports magazine and who is feted the world over. For some fans, it seems a little odd. "I think it's strange," said Rodrigo Andrade, 27, a pastor from Sao Paulo who was visiting the newly opened Pele museum in Santos's cobbled historic quarter. "I think all the people who came from outside of Brazil for the World Cup want to see Pele."

Nigerian press in Boko Haram t-shirt protest

CUIABA (BRAZIL): Nigerian journalists covering their country's World Cup match with Bosnia wore t-shirts protesting the Boko Haram Muslim militant group. Reporters wore t-shirts with the slogan 'World unites against Boko Haram', days after a bomb killed 21 fans watching a World Cup match on a big screen in the northern Nigeria on Tuesday. A further 10 people died yesterday in raids by suspected Boko Haram gunmen near villages where Islamists abducted more than 200 girls in April, residents and local leaders said.

"We felt it was important to wear these tshirts," Steven Alabi Akimjidi, a Nigerian journalist told AFP.

Where's Pele? 'The King' shunned at Cup

SANTOS (BRAZIL): He's 'the king', renowned as football's greatest ever and the icon of Brazilian World Cup success.

But with the tournament finally back in his home country, it seems somebody forgot to invite Pele. At the opening ceremony in Sao Paulo, attended by President Dilma Rousseff and a clutch of visiting heads of state, Pele was a notable absentee despite living not far away in Santos. For Brazil's second game in Fortaleza, the three-time World Cup winner was not only not at the game -- he was in his car, stuck in Brazil's notorious traffic near Sao Paulo.

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Tourists forced to dig deep into their pockets in Brazil

By Abhishek Hore

RIO DE JANEIRO: Bikinis and Havaianas flip flops aside, tourists are being forced to dig deep into their wallets in the city of soccer and sand with the average to highend hotels, reportedly on FIFA's instructions, charging three times the normal tariffs and raking in the maximum moolah during the World Cup. For a deluxe room in a five star hotel that normally costs around USD 200-250 per night, soccer fans from across the world are being made to shell out USD 700-800 at the moment, courtesy the world football governing body.

"FIFA has taken over all the hotels not just in Rio but all over the country, especially the host cities. It has instructed the hotels to spike its tariffs as that way they will end up making a lot of profits," said Sanjeev Mehra, a director with an established travel agency in India and who is currently in Brazil heading a package trip.

"Apart from the hotel people, I have been speaking to the top guys in FIFA for months for bookings. During the World Cup time in Brazil, one has to go through FIFA. You need contacts there and this credit business doesn't work with FIFA. They need instant payment," Mehra, who has been to Brazil twice before the ongoing visit and heads Aryan Holidays and Leisure, said. He added, "In my current trip, one room costs USD 800 per night, just imagine. It's madness."

Add food, game tickets and other miscellaneous expenses, and a solo traveller to Rio de Janeiro will surely end up making a hole in his/her pocket.

"I just can't understand the pricing in Rio. Though we love coming to this city as it's such a fantastic place, the sky-high prices are not worth it," said a tourist from Ireland.

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Vs Australia Spain To be played at Arena da Baixada

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Vs Netherlands Chile To be played at Arena Corinthians

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Vs Croatia Mexico To be played at Arena Pernambuco

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31 Bosnia's Toni Sunjic gets off a shot while being held by Nigeria's Emmanuel Emenike during the Group F World Cup soccer match between Nigeria and Bosnia at the Arena Pantanal in Cuiaba, Brazil.

Nigeria beat Bosnia 1-0 as they register their first win since 16 years in a WC appearance

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UIABA (BRAZIL): BosniaHercegovina's maiden appearance at a World Cup finals ended in disappointment as Peter Odemwingie's goal condemned them to a 1-0 defeat by African champions Nigeria in Cuiaba and ensured they could not qualify for the second round.

Nigeria's win, their first at a World Cup finals since 1998, leaves them as favourites to join Argentina in the second round.

Argentina are on six points after beating Iran 1-0 earlier on Saturday to leave the Iranians on a point while the Nigerians are on four points.

Nigeria play Argentina in their final group game on Thursday --

the Africans have lost all three times they have previously played the South American side in the group stages, losing 1-0 on the last occasion in 2010.

Nigeria were a completely different team to the one that had barely got out of a Sunday morning stroll in the 0-0 draw with Iran. Emmanuel Emineke always looked a threat and it was he who created the goal, as he burst down the right and engaged in a race for the ball with veteran Bosnian skipper Emir Spahic, who tried vainly to obstruct the Nigerian. However, the central defender had completely misjudged the situation as Emineke

scoreline Nigeria 1 ODEMWINGIE 29’

Bosnia and Herzegovina 0

went the opposite side and outpaced him to collect the ball before unselfishly squaring it to Peter Odemwingie, with the Stoke City striker tucking the ball away. Bosnia had little to offer, though they could claim that they had been robbed of a goal as Edin Dzeko put the ball past Vincent Enyeama, but it was wrongly ruled out for offside.

Brazil conundrum for Netherlands, Chile S

AO PAULO: The Netherlands and Chile will fight it out for top spot in Group B tomorrow and hope they can avoid a fearsome round two assignment against five-time World Cup winners Brazil.

Both teams have won their opening two games, putting them into the last 16 with a maximum six points each and sending reigning champions Spain and Australia crashing out.

Only goal-difference separates the two, with the Netherlands narrowly top following their 5-1 win over Spain and 3-2 scrap against Australia.

Brazil are favoured to qualify top in Group A, meaning they will face whoever finishes second in Group B -- a match-up neither the Netherlands nor Chile will relish. But with the outcome of Group A, where Brazil, Mexico and Croatia are separated by just one point, far from clear, Group B's winners could still end up facing the

Arjen Robben of Netherlands acknowledges the fans after the 3-2 victory over Australia at Estadio Beira-Rio.

hosts.

It is a complicating factor that neither the Netherlands nor Chile will want to dwell on before Monday's game at Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo.

Arjen Robben clocked 37 kilometres (23 miles) per hour, a record for a footballer, as he inspired the Netherlands' deconstruction of short-passing Spain.

But it remains to be seen if the Bayern Munich flyer will again

hit the heights in Monday's runout, effectively a precursor for the knock-out challenges ahead.

Robben and Manchester United's Robin van Persie have lit up this World Cup with three goals each and more will be needed if the Netherlands are to reach their second final in a row.

Coach Louis van Gaal will be looking for more solidity after some distinctly worrying moments against Australia.

Dzeko, though, could have stolen a point at the death when he rose to meet a corner but his downward header was straight at Enyeama, who gratefully smothered it.

The Manchester City striker went even closer in time added on as his shot from inside the area beat Enyeama but cannoned back off the post.

The referee whistled for fulltime shortly after that with the Bosnians collapsing to the ground in despair and the Nigerians jumping for joy as they -after the Ghanaians drew with Germany earlier on Saturday -restored pride to the African challenge at the finals.

'Evolving' Brazil aim to secure passage against Cameroon

BRASILIA (BRAZIL): Stuttering Brazil will look to clinch their berth in the last 16 of the World Cup as they host alreadyeliminated Cameroon in their final Group A match at the National Stadium in the capital here tomorrow.

Luiz Felipe Scolari's side have beaten Croatia and drawn with Mexico in their two games to date, struggling to convince in either match, but both the coach and his players have claimed in recent days that the World Cup hosts are "evolving" as the tournament goes along.

Brazil head into their final group game -- their 100th at the World Cup -- still not certain of a place in the knockout rounds, but goalkeeper Julio Cesar insisted during the week that the quality of opposition they have come up against so far has helped the Selecao.

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Costa Rica angry with Fifa for drugtesting seven players after win over Italy

Belgium's Marouane Fellaini, centre, controls the ball on his chest as he is challenged by Russia's Maksim Kanunnikov, right, during the Group H World Cup soccer match between Belgium and Russia at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro (inset) Goal scorer Origi.

ORIGI’S LATE GOAL TAKES BELGIUM INTO LAST 16

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IO DE JANEIRO: Belgium left it very late once again, snatching a 1-0 victory over Fabio Capello’s Russia with Divock Origi that puts them in the last 16.

The Red Devils got off to a shaky start, but fought back to beat Algeria 2-1, while Fabio Capello’s Russia were pegged back 1-1 by South Korea after an Igor Akinfeev howler. Marouane Fellaini and Napoli starlet Dries Mertens came off the bench to score for Belgium, so were put into the starting XI this time round.

Belgium beat Russia 3-2 in an epic 2002 World Cup clash, when current Coach Marc Wilmots got the winning goal.

It was Victor Fayzulin who got the first shot on target, forcing Thibaut Courtois to parry for a corner.

Napoli talent Mertens repeatedly threatened with runs down the right, but hit the side-netting and forced a save at the near post.

Russia had penalty appeals for a Toby Alderweireld challenge on Maksim Kanunnikov waved away on 27 minutes. Moments later Kanunnikov was dangerous again, his long-range strike beaten away by Courtois.

Belgium lost defender Thomas Vermaelen to injury, as he had already been limping during the warm-up.

scoreline BELGIUM 1 Origi 88’

RUSSIA 0

A fierce Fayzulin volley flashed over from a corner and moments later Alexander Kokorin really should’ve scored, as he turned a free header wide from six yards.

The second half was in a similar sluggish vein, livened only by a Belgian counter-attack that saw Divock Origi fall too easily as he tried to turn his marker.

Ignashevich couldn’t keep his

header on target and Eschenko flashed an angled drive across the face of goal, just wide of the far post.There was finally a great scoring opportunity for Belgium on 83 minutes, as Kevin Mirallas smashed a free kick against the base of the upright. Moments later Eden Hazard went on a mazy run and his finish was deflected off target.

The deadlock was eventually broken when Hazard skipped past defenders down the left and pulled back for teenager Origi to blast under the bar first-time from nine yards. It means all three Belgium goals in this World Cup have been scored by substitutes.

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ECIFE (BRAZIL): Niko Kovac says his Croatia side are facing their own World Cup 'final' against Mexico tomorrow with only a win guaranteeing them a place in the last 16.

Croatia bounced back from their opening 3-1 defeat to hosts Brazil in Group A with a 4-0 demolition of Cameroon last Wednesday to keep their knock-out dreams alive.

Striker Mario Mandzukic scored two second-half goals as Croatia sent 10-man Cameroon crashing out of the tournament in disarray. Wolfsburg pair Ivica Olic and Ivan Perisic also got on the scoresheet, but Croatia still remain third in the table behind leaders Brazil and Mexico.

Kovac knows his side face an uphill task against Miguel Herrera's side in Recife in the wake of Mexico's confidence-boosting draw with Brazil.

Mexican goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa wrote himself into World

fence, like Brazil showed us."

Mario Mandzukic of Croatia and Nicolas N'Koulou of Cameroon compete for the ball.

Cup folklore with a string of top- Mexico will be like a final," Kovac class saves including one from told Croatian broadcaster HTV. "Mexico are strong, but so are point-blank range to deny Brazil's Neymar in Fortaleza last we. The Mexico players are very patriotic, just like us, and they Tuesday.

A draw against Croatia would have a great team spirit. They be enough to put Mexico through play some aggressive football after their goalless draw with with a lot of pressing. They are Brazil and 1-0 win over strong going forward, but also Cameroon. "The match against have some weaknesses in de-

ENCOURAGED AUSSIES SMELL SPANISH BLOOD CURITIBA (BRAZIL): Despite Australia already having been eliminated from the World Cup, the Socceroos all-time leading scorer Tim Cahill believes Australian football can take a huge step forward with victory over dethroned world champions Spain tomorrow.

Both sides hopes of progression to the last 16 have been ended by successive defeats to Chile and the Netherlands, but whilst Spain have endured a nightmare defence of their title in Brazil, Australia have taken huge encouragement from their performances.

Ange Postecoglou's men had led the Dutch in the second-half in their last outing thanks to a wonder strike from Cahill and Mile Jedinak's penalty before being eventually losing 3-2.

Diego Maradona has accused world football’s governing body of discriminating against Costa Rica and Luis Pinto.

Jorge Luis Pinto and the Costa Rican Football Federation are furious at Fifa for ordering seven of their team’s players to undergo drug tests in the aftermath of the famous World Cup win over Italy.

Diego Maradona has accused world football’s governing body of discriminating against Costa Rica and Pinto, the manager, has made public his displeasure at the abnormal procedure.

Two players from every team are required for doping control after matches but Fifa requested that five additional Costa Ricans were tested. Bryan Ruiz, who scored the only goal of Friday’s game that confirmed Costa Rica’s fairytale qualification to the last 16, was one of them and the others were Keylor Navas, Celso Borges, Christian Bolaños, the substitute Marco Ureña and the unused Diego Calvo and Michael Barrantes.

Fifa say that the mass procedure was necessary because some of the Costa Rica players had been unavailable for the mandatory pre-tournament tests. But there is indignation within the Costa Rican setup as they cannot understand why Fifa chose the moments after one of the greatest victories in the nation’s history to carry out the tests. Fifa, they say, could have chosen any other time since the squad arrived in Brazil.

“The question in all of this is: ‘Why does Costa Rica receive these tests?’” Pinto said. “It’s because Costa Rica is running and running and running, and I congratulate my players for that. They can do doping tests to all of us, including me.

We would love it. I hope they do it to all of us.” Maradona failed a drugs test himself – he was sent home from USA 94 after testing positive for several banned substances, including ephedrine.

“Why test seven players from Costa Rica and not seven from Italy?”

Maradona, the 1986 World Cup winner, said. “It’s against the rules. Two players from each team are supposed to undergo doping controls. I know what I’m talking about because it happened to me. But seven players? I’ve never seen something like that. “Taking seven Costa Ricans to doping shows a lack of respect to the players and to the rules. Costa Rica had an incredible qualification. They had three world champions in the group and they beat them with good football.” Costa Rica, who beat Uruguay 3-1 in their opening tie, face England in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday.