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What's the fight all about: The Shiv Sena keeps asking for more plum seats, Deputy CM post BJP: We cannot concede all your demands

By Suyesh Padate

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uresh Prabhu, who is a minister in the BJP government in Delhi, comes to Mumbai and meets Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray. Prabhu who quit the Shiv Sena and joined BJP must have given a message to Uddhav. Is it possible the message is about the possibility of the two traditional, natural allies to come together again. Was he a messenger sent by Narendra Modi or Rajnath Singh? Senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari and CM Devendra Fadnavis meet in Nagpur. Fadnavis would not have gone all the way to meet him in Nagpur unless he had something important to discuss.

Speculation: Gadkari and Fadnavis discussed about the possibility of the two parties coming together and deciding Continued on pg 6 «

Teen ends life after trio ‘forces’ her to jump off bldg Two youth, minor girl held for abetting of suicide of another teenage girl, trio were harrassing victim to get into relationship with one of the boys

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The Mulund building from which the teenager chose to end her life.

he Mulund police have arrested two 18-yearold boys and a minor girl for abetting the suicide of another teenage girl who had jumped off a Mulund high rise on Saturday evening. The trio had been allegedly “harassing” her to get into a relationship with one of the boys whose proposals she rejected time and again.

The girl fed up with the repeated harassing, had Continued on pg 6 «

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‘I WILL NOT TOLERATE CORRUPTION AT ANY COST’

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lot of thinking goes behind constituting the laws. Laying down laws is not an easy job and when I strongly believe in it, the hitch only occurs in implementation. The laws are implemented differently by different personnel, which is what I have been removed from the various places I have been posted. During my initial posting in Sindhudurg, there was a lot of opaqueness and no transparency. The Right to Information (RTI) Act was introduced in Maharashtra in 2002, I introduced

In the mid-90’s just like any other aspirant, Mahesh Zagade kick started his career as the CEO of the Zilla Parishad in Sindhudurg and has not looked back since then. Awarded the ‘No Tobacco Day’ award by WHO, he went on to become the Municipal Commissioner of Pune before taking over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as Commissioner and is now the Transport Commissioner, which means Zagade has come a long way. He introduced the concept of signal free traffic halts in Pune. Introducing major reforms in Sindhudurg, Nashik and Pune and strongly believing in the implementation of law have been key factors in Zagade’s journey. Mahesh Zagade interacts with Aroosa Ahmed and reveals his bouncy yet eventful journey.

He talks about the current transport situation in Maharashtra. the RTI concept in Sindhudurg in the year 1998. A calender was introduced wherein officials had to do all the activity in the given time frame and if the task was not completed, action would be taken against them” Zagade, who is an IAS officer has also worked as the Collector of Nashik; he believes slums are created because of the failure of administration and due to illegal construction. “Revenue laws were 'on holiday' in Nashik, illegal construction, unscruplous landholders, private limited companies holding land and people capturing land in violation of law was common. I started implementing the revenue laws; it was a struggle initially but the laws were implemented in degrees and action was taken against the illegal holders.”

Zagade is also known for his disaster prevention in the 2006 floods, the floods which had devastated Mumbai, did not take a single life in Nashik, “It had taken two days for the rains to reach Nashik once it hit

Mumbai. I reduced the water levels of the major dams and reservoirs, there was resistance from the irrigation department because the schedule is decided in Mantralaya.

However, I convinced the department and opened the valves and allowed the water to flow into the agricultural fields. The rains in Nashik were scary and the city had not witnessed such rainfall in 60 years, but since there was little water in the dams, the water got collected in the dams and reservoirs and it did not turn out to be a big disaster.”

Zagade, who served as the Municipal Commissioner of Pune before being transferred as FDA Commissioner, noted that laws were not implemented properly and in order to make Pune one of the top 100 liveable cities of the world, it required good financial inputs. However, there was lack of financial inputs and there existed leakages which were difficult to mend. He began implementing laws and the concept of signal free

city in Pune, after which he was transferred as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner. Soon after taking charge as the FDA Commissioner, Zagade discovered that the laws which were implemented six decades back were not being followed and the authorities were playing with the lives of ordinary citizens. “The FDA, license holder and their associations were only in the picture, the citizens were missing. The irony was from the time you get up and use toothpaste till the time you hit the bed, everything is controlled by these people, who did not include citizens. I commenced with issuing licenses to every food vendor and in a span of two years, seven lakh registrations and licenses were done in Maharashtra, which constituted 27 per cent of licenses of the country was issued in Maharashtra only.”

Zagade, in his tenture as the FDA Commissioner had cancelled more than 3,000 licenses because the chemists were selling medicine

without recruiting full time pharmacists. He played a major role in implementing the ban on gutka and paan masala, wheein gutka and paan masala worth Rs.36 crore was seized.

Zagade had taken action against Johnson & Johnson. “Johnson & Johnson had licence to manufacture baby powder at Mulund plant.

The company was following the process of steam sterilization. During tnternal investigations in 2007, the company found that some of the batches had very high-micro flora and therefore the company decided to sterilize those batches again. However, the baby powder was packed in the containers, The company decided to sterilize with ethylene oxide for which the standard operating process was not submitted to FDA. Johnson & Johnson should have strictly followed stipulated norms.”

His anti-corrupt nature and implementing the laws led to his departure from FDA after completing

three years . Zagade, who is now the Transport Commissioner has directed the officials and the Regional Transport Offices (RTO) to eradicate corruption from the RTOs. “I have directed my men and made it clear to them that we only exist for reasons like making sure that the citizens spend minimum time on road and maximum time with their loved ones and making sure the vehicles are mechanically fit so that congestion does not happen. Providing quality drivers is a responsibility of the RTO as it issues licenses. This is where corruption happens, and it will stop by the implementation of the law in 360 degrees.”

When asked about the overloading of trucks and tankers and the clearance by the toll nakas he said, “Trucks and tankers are overloaded and get cleared by the toll nakas is a clear indication of corruption. The overloaded trucks is a major reason for loss of lives, I will not compromise on human safety, anything which comes in my way to ensure safe travel for the citizens will be removed. I have given the RTOs one month's time to remove the touts from the place and if this is not done in the time frame, I will take action against the territorial officer. Working along with Anti-Corruption Department, like I have done in the past will be helpful in eradicating corruption from the department.”

Zagade plans to make use of technology for providing seamless travel for the commuters, “There is technology available which will be used such as bringing in Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) and installing GPS in the taxi and autorickshaw metres will be very helpful.” The use of RFID system will not only clarify the difference between legal and illegal auto rickshaws and taxis, it will also give access only to authorised autorickshaws and taxis to get CNG from the pumps.

The after effects of not being corrupt and using laws for busting rackets has been rough. Zagade has been humiliated, targeted, abused personally, on the internet, blogs and in print media. He also has been threatened, warned of dire consequences, including encounter. Despite all this, his ideology and methodology of working does not change. “I will continue to function the way I do and will eradicate corruption from any department I'm posted in,” Zagade concluded.

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That’s a greatest benefit of being in jail! We get daily ‘Darshan’ of this great ‘Godman’ right here.

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Tokyo: Miss India Jhataleka Malhotra displays her traditional costume during the Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo. Jhataleka Malhotra is a 19-year-old Mumbai girl who represented India at the international pageant. She was crowned as the internet beauty at this pageant. AP/PTI

kingdoms had for the asram.

Records show that many members of the Travancore royal family had come to the asram with gifts.

Vijayakumar Menon, an expert in art said that the painting is quite old and that it has Varma's style.

However, more studies are required before a final conclusion is made about it.

The diamond story

New findings have revealed long unknown details about how carbon deep beneath the Earth’s surface is helping diamond formation in the Earth’s mantle.

The new theoretical model called the 'Deep Earth Water' model allowed researchers to determine the chemical makeup of fluids in the Earth’s mantle, expelled from descending tectonic plates.

"These mantle fluids with dissolved organic carbon species could be creating diamonds in a previously unknown way," experts say.

The Johns Hopkins University-led team in the US found that some of the fluids at 100 miles below the Earth’s surface contained the expected carbon dioxide and methane.

But others, those in equilibrium with diamonds, contained dissolved organic carbon species including a vinegar-like acetic acid.

The article was published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

A rare painting

A rare painting believed to have been drawn by Raja Ravi Varma

has been under attack several times, but each time, he has emerged unscathed. He is a Third Front crusader. He has attempted this several times but not with much success.

He has been charged with possessing disproportionate

assets. He has however managed to wriggle out of this problem by coming to the rescue of the UPA government in the Parliament. His party helped the UPA government to muster the majority needed to pass crucial bills.

He swears by secularism.

750-ft long cake for birthday bash The rare painting.

has been found at the Mannanam CMI Asram in Kottayam in Kerala.

The painting is believed to be of Mother Mary and infant Jesus, accompanied by John the Baptist.

According to records at the asram, the painting was presented to it by Travancore king Sree Visakham Tirunal.

Such a painting has not been mentioned in any records pertaining to Varma’s works and perhaps this is the first time that the world is coming to know about it. Experts believe that this painting signifies communal harmony.

Perhaps, Varma drew the picture inspired by Raphael’s 'Madonna and the Child.'

The picture is also a standing testimony to the regard and love that Kochi and Travancore

“Taliban” - said Azam Khan when journalists asked him who was funding the lavish 75 birthday bash of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.

He added “Taliban and Dawood”.

Evidently he did not want to reveal who was spending so much money: the birthday cake was 75feet long. Hundreds of UP's VIPs attended the birthday celebration: there was top class music and entertainment items. Journalists in UP suspect that the funds for the birthday celebration came from the taxpayers' money. Politicians have become wise about it: they know there will be a big noise if the government spent the money itself.

Some say Azam Khan, the controversial man in Akhilesh Yadav's government, spent his own money on Mulayam's birthday.

It is a known fact now that Mulayam Singh Yadav does not care much for public opinion. He

Mulayam Singh Yadav and UP CM Akhilesh Yadav at the birthday celebration.

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THANKSGIVING

Thank you St. Jude for the favour granted. O holy St Jude Apostle & Martyr great in virtue & rich in miracles near kinsman of Jesus Christ faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart & humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance Help me in my present urgent petition in return I promise to make your name known & cause you to be invoked.Say Our father three Hail Mary & three glory be's St Jude pray for us & all who invoke your aid AMEN- Sonal Patel C-30115

CHANGE OF NAME

I, Asif Shaik, have changed my name to Asif Shaikh Vide Deed Poll Affidavit No. LH 473176 Dated 21st November, 2014.

C-33561 I have changed my name from Nilanjana Chatterjee, to ‘Nilanjanaa Pakhi Sen’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (X- 22910) Dated: 18/09/2014.

C-33562 I have changed my name from Mr. Jagu Shankar Mali, to ‘Mr. Jagdish Shankar Mali’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 21/11/2014.

C-33563 I have changed my name from Mrs Jaya Sudhakar Kamath, to ‘Mrs Jethibahen Sudhakar Kamath’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 21/11/2014.

C-33564 I have changed my name from Khadim Juber Shabbirbhai, to ‘Khadim Zuber Shabbir’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/11/2014.

C-33565 I have changed my name from Shaikh Haroon, to ‘Shaikh Mohammed Haroon Ismail’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/11/2014.

C-33566 I have changed my name from Achhwa Sulman Abdul Kader, to ‘Achhwa Salman Abdul Kader’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/11/2014.

C-33567 I, Dhila Lalji Govind have changed my Daughter’s name from Ahir Jagruti Lalji, to ‘Dhila Jagruti Lalji’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/11/2014.

C-33568 I have changed my name from Ahir Lalji Govind, to ‘Dhila Lalji Govind’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/11/2014.

C-33569 I have changed my name from Ahir Kuwarben Lalji, to ‘Dhila Kuvarben Lalji’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/11/2014.

C-33570 I have changed my name from Chauhan Mohammed Ashif Abdul Rehman, to ‘Chauhan Mohammed Naeem Abdul Rehman’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/11/2014.

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I have changed my name from Mrs. Anuradha Madhav Lele, to ‘Mrs. Mugdha Madhav Lele’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/11/2014.

C-33572

I have changed my name from Mr. Hemendrakumar Shankarlal Shah to Mr. Hemendra Shankarlal Shah as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33586

I have changed my name from Ms. Anuradha Ganesh Gokhale, to ‘Mrs. Mugdha Madhav Lele’ as per Deedpoll Affidavit Dated: 20/11/2014.

C-33573

I have changed my name from Vineeta to Mrs. Verma Vineeta Harisharan as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33587

I have changed my name from Pushpa Sanjeeva Poojary to Pushpalatha Yadava Bangera as per Affidavit Dated 22/11/2014 C-33574 I have changed my name from Bilkis Banu Malik to Bilkis Bano Malik as per Affidavit Dated22/11/2014 C-33575 I have changed my name from Shible Malik to Shibli Malik as per Affidavit Dated 22/11/2014 C-33576 I have changed my name from Shabaj Sible Malik to Mohammed Shabaz Shibli Malik as per Affidavit Dated 22/11/2014 C-33577 I have changed my name from Nupur Satter Shak to Nupur Hassan Biswas as per Affidavit Dated 21/11/2014 C-33578 I have changed my name from Farhan Hasan Shaikh to Farhan Hasan Biswas as per Affidavit Dated 21/11/2014 C-33579 I have changed my name from Sunita Francis to Sanita Francis as per Affidavit Dated 21/11/2014 C-33580 I have changed my name from Imtiyaz Mehmud Alam Shaikh to Alam Shahrukh Mehmood Alam Idrishi as per Maha. Govt.

Gazette No (X-26025) C-33581 I have changed my name from Abhishek Jaiprakash to Abishesh Jaiprakash Vishwakarma vide Govt of Maharashtra Affidavit No. (LT 477309) C-33582 I Manish Kumar Chandra have changed my minor son's name from Nivaan Manish Kumar Chandra to Nivaan Bhawnani vide Govt of Maharashtra Affidavit No. (KW 557311) dated 17th November 2014.

C-33596

I have changed my name from Vineeta Mahinder Singh to Mrs. Verma Vineeta Harisharan as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33588 I have changed my name from Lalit Jain to Mr. Lalit Palrecha as per deed poll Affidavit.

I have changed my name from Kamal Jeet Kaur Juneja to Kamal Singh as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33604

I have changed my name from Hiteshkumar Kanji Gada to Hitesh Kanji Gada as per Affidavit C-33621

I have changed my name from Pravinbhai Jairambhai to Pravin Babu Mane as per Affidavit C-33639

I have changed my name from M.D Ejaz Alam Khan to Mohammad Ejaz Alam Khan as per Affidavit C-33605

I have changed my name from Mahendar Kothapally to Mahender Kothapelly as per Affidavit C-33622

I have changed my name from Gladwyn Antraj to Gladwyn Victor as per Affidavit C-33640

I have changed my name from M.D Sahroz Khan to Mohammad Sahroz Khan as per Affidavit C-33606

I have changed my name from Priyanka Arvindkumar to Priyanka Arvindkumar Shah as per Affidavit C-33623

I have changed my name from Shahista Obaid Ahmad Sayyad to Sahista Obaid Ahmad Sayyad as per Affidavit

I have changed my name from Arvindkumar Manchhalal to Arvindkumar Manchhalal Shah as per Affidavit C-33624

C-33607 C-33589 I have changed my name from Miss. Sujata Vasant Mayekar to Mrs. Sudha Ratnakar Yenji as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33590 I have changed my name from Bhavna Monji Parmar to Mrs. Bhavna Kamlesh Chotalia as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33591 I have changed my name from Miss. Sumedha Om Prakesh Sharma to Mrs. Jayshree Sunil Sharma as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33592 I have changed my name from Usman Saheb Hasham Saheb Shaikh to Usman Hasham Saheb Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33593 I have changed my name from Salma Khatoon Zainuddin Sheikh to Mrs. Salmabi Usman Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33594 I have changed my name from Mr. Ukalal Tulsidas Thadeshwar to Mr. Umakant Tulsidas Thadeshwar as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33595 I have changed my name from Mitesh Pravinbhai to Mitesh Pravin Mane as per Affidavit C-33598 I have changed my name from Manishaben Pravinbhai to Manisha Pravin Mane as per Affidavit C-33599

I have changed my name from Shaista to Sahista Obaid Ahmad Sayyad as per Affidavit C-33608 I have changed my name from Obed Ahmad to Obaid Ahmad Mohammad Saghir Saghir Sayyad as per Affidavit C-33609 I have changed my name from Saista Bano to Sahista Obaid Ahmad Sayyad as per Affidavit C-33610 We Obaid Ahmad Mohammad Saghir Sayyad and Sahista Obaid Ahmad Sayyad changed our minor daughter name from Kulsum Obaid Ahmad to Kulsum Obaid Ahmad Sayyad as per Affidavit C-33611

I have changed my name from Savitadevi Arvindkumar to Savita Arvindkumar Shah as per Affidavit C-33625 I have changed my name from Rudr Shailesh Patel to Rudra Shailesh Patel as per Affidavit C-33626 I have changed my name from Rasidabanu Ahmed to Rasheeda Banu as per Affidavit C-33627 I have changed my name from Yasmeen Bano Gaffar Khan to Yasmeen Rafeek Shaikh. as per Affidavit C-33628 I have changed my name from Tanzila Anjum to Tanzila Shahnawaz Shaikh as per Affidavit C-33629

I have changed my name from Syed Husain Quazi to Syed Nasir Hussain as per Affidavit

I have changed my name from Bilal Hussain to Bilal Ahmed Hussain Shaikh as per Affidavit C-33630

C-33612 I have changed my name from Skand Kumar Singh to Skand Kunwar Singh as per Affidavit C-33613

I have changed my name from Ahmed Husain Syed to Ahmed Hussain Sayyed A as per Affidavit C-33631

I have changed my name from Sussamma Chacko to Susamma Chacko as per Affidavit C-33614

I have changed my name from Arvindkumar Chimanlal Shah to Arvind Chimanlal Shah as per Affidavit C-33632

I have changed my name from Afzal Abdul Hamid to Mohammed Afzal Abdul Hamid Mansuri as per Affidavit C-33615

I have changed my name form Dipikaben Mahendrakumar Jain to Diwaliben Mahendrakumar Jain as per Affidavit Dated 22/11/2014 C-33633

I have changed my name from Mohd Ovese Rindani to Mohd Oves Shabbir Rindani as per Affidavit.

C-33616

I have changed my name from Rosalyn Borges to Rozaline Borges as per Affidavit.

C-33634

I have changed my name from Namita Sapan Panja to Nomita Swarnakanti Panja as per Affidavit C-33617

I have changed my name from Baboo Narendra Payer to Gaurav Narendra Payer as per Affidavit.

C-33635

I have changed my name from Nandita Chandra to Nandita Bhadauria vide Govt of Maha.

Affidavit No. (KW 557310) Dated 17th November 2014.

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I have changed my name from Varsha Harish Giridharilal Panchal to Shaikh Kulsum Bano Mohammed Asif as per Affidavit C-33600

I have changed my name from Roma to Roma Bhalchandra Nayak by virtue of deed poll Affidavit C-33583

I have changed my name from Harish Giridharilal Panchal to Shaikh Amir Hamza as per Affidavit C-33601

I have changed my name from Amitkumar Sapan Panja to Sumeet Swarnakanti Panja as per Affidavit C-33618

I have changed my name from Nilam Narendra Payer to Neelam Narendra Payer as per Affidavit.

C-33636

I have changed my name from Kauser Faheem to Mrs. Kausar Faheem Rehman as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33584

I have changed my name from V. K. Singh to Vijay Singh as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33602

I have changed my name from Sapan Nandlal Panja to Swarnakanti Nandlal Panja as per Affidavit C-33619

I have changed my name from Tasnim Yusuf Khambati to Tasneem Khambati as per Affidavit.

C-33637

I have changed my name from Mr. Keyurkumar Hemendra Shah to Mr. Keyur Hemendra Shah as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33585

I have changed my name from Vijay Kumar Singh to Vijay Singh as per Maha. Govt.

Gazette No. X-25413 C-33603

I have changed my name from Malhar Anant Dattatraya to Mallar Anant Dattatray as per Affidavit C-33620

I have changed my name from Steve Ronald Fernandes to Steve Manual Fernandes as per Affidavit C-33638

I have changed my name from Amol Vilas Shedage to Amol Vilas Shedge as per Affidavit C-33641 I have changed my name from Harshid Bipinchandra Ajmera to Harshit Bipinchandra Ajmera as per Affidavit C-33642 I have changed my name from Nancy Lydia Narayan to Nancy Lydia Sequeira as per Affidavit C-33643 I have changed my name from Mohammed Irfan Khan to Irfan Mohammed Mustaquim Khan as per Affidavit C-33644 I have changed my name from Sonpathaki Chandrashekhar Dattatray to Chandrashekhar Dattatraya Sonpatki as per Affidavit C-33645 I have changed my name from Mansoor Ali Mehndi Hasan to Mansoor Ali Mehndi Hasan Farooqui as per Affidavit C-33646 I have changed my name from Bharatkumar Chandrashekar Gowadia to Bharat Chandrashekhar Gowadia as per Affidavit C-33647 I have chnaged my name from Gopal Nathuram Khopre to Ravi Nathuram Khopre as per Affidavit dated 19/11/2014 C-33648 I have changed my name from Manjula Damodar Gund to Sneha Sameer Khot as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (X-15578) C-33649 I have changed my name from Mohtashim Mohd Nasir Ansari to Mohtashim Ahmed Mohd Nasir Ansari as per Maha. Govt.

Gazette No. (U-20637) C-33650 I have changed my name from Bhagyashali Anand Bhakte to Bhagyashali Dilip Magar as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (X-29364) C-33651 I have changed my name from Abdul Azeem Abu Sufiyan to Abdul Azeem Abu Sufiyan Khan as per deed poll Affidavit C-33652 I have changed my name from Mohammed Sadab Md Anwar to Mohammed Shadab Mohammed Anwar Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit C-33653 I have changed my name from Suresh Kanju to Abdul Mustafa as per Affidavit dated 22/11/2014.

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FFI is getting bigger and better despite teething troubles. A galaxy of speakers, the who’s who of IFFI, agreed that Festival has grown in dimension. These speakers gathered on one platform during a panel discussion on the first day of the Open Forum, organized jointly by the Federation of Film Societies of India, and the Indian Documentary Producers’ Association, which was inaugurated by ESG vice chairman Damodar Naik. It is being staged in the newlybuilt air conditioned enclosure, a break from the past where it used to be staged in the open air.

Opening the session as a moderator on the topic “The

multiple dimensions of IFFI 2014 and plans for the week and days ahead,” filmmaker Jahnu Barua said that IFFI has benefited filmmakers and cinephiles over the last four decades and has emerged as a melting pot of creative ideas. He, however, said that it was enjoined on every stakeholder to work together to strengthen the festival in its fresh departure.

ESG Vice Chairman Damodar Naik, while setting his eyes on the 50th anniversary of the Festival, due in 2019, said that efforts were on to make IFFI an international brand that can compete and outdo the best of global festivals like Cannes, Berlin and Toronto. He also invited sug-

Jahnu Barua gestions from cinephiles to make the event better every year.

Gautam Kaul, the presi-

local and national media to make the people cinema– savvy. “Even though 13,600 delegates have registered for this year’s IFFI, some of the halls are still going empty”, he observed. He called for a rethinking of the Open Forum venue.

SG CEO Rajan Satardekar spoke of the round-the-year activity that his Society has undertaken to bring cinema from around the world to the people of Goa. Vani Tripathy, a member of the IFFI steering committee, spoke of the Pralhad Kakkar changing dimension of the festival. She said that each dent of FFSI, reflected on his passing year, the number of 43-years of association with events that are being added IFFI. He called for better re- to IFFI is making it vibrant porting of the festival in the and comprehensive.

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Advertising guru Prahlad Kakkar spoke of the necessity to take selected films from IFFI to different parts of India to encourage greater participation from the rest of the country. He spoke of the importance of highlighting Goa as an integral part of the festival activities while advocating the importance of raising finances through the festival to make it selfreliant.

The IFFI Festival director Shankar Mohan while acknowledging some of the grievances of the delegates, especially on the ticketing system, told the audience that steps are being taken to address them keeping an eye on the bigger picture.

North East cinema inaugurated T (L to R) Dina Dattani, Business Affairs & Legal Independent Consultant, Bollywood filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj, Deborah Sathe, Head Talent Development & Production, Film London, Tessa Inkelaar, Development Producer, Film London during the Knowledge series 2014 at the 8th NFDC Film Bazaar

I love India, says Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf M

ohsen Makhmabal an eminent filmmaker from Iran is here in the ongoing international Film Festival of India, Goa 2014 to represent an 8-film package in the retrospective section.

He was accompanied by his wife Marzieh Meshkini. Wellknown director Shaji Karun gave a brief introduction of Mohsen Makhmalbaf stating that Makhmalbaf was the best filmmaker of Iran whose film-making ideas are immense. In fact his entire body of work reflects his whole gamut of technical expertise.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s opening statement was, “I love India and the next thing I really love about India is its colourful hoardings spread in every nook and corner and more specially its Bollywood films' hoardings which are like a constant celebration of Indian cinema.”

He further feels that, “The basic human emotions of one

and all round the globe are one and the same irrespective of its historic relevance or geographical locale. At this juncture I recall one of my films Dream Of An Ant which is about a couple who embark on their honeymoon but their to and fro journey is completely filled with their petty squabbles. This is the best example of a global basic emotion. I am sure the Indian couples too, whether honeymooning or not, must be facing such petty squabbles at least at one point of time in their life.”

Explaining his stance on the current scenario of the Iranian cinema Mohsen averred, “One can say that the Iranian cinema rests solely on the other kind of cinema, which mostly reflects the expose of the current scenario of the Iranian society. I feel that the Iranian culture also needs to undergo a metamorphic change.” He continued fur-

ther in the same breath, “As you can see I am a jovial and a happy go lucky man then why one or the other controversies keep chasing me like a shadow that too for no fault of mine. But nevertheless I am now least bothered about such trivial matters.”

Right in the middle of the media conference Mohsen mentioned that his wife Marzieh Meshkini had also accompanied him so without any ado he invited her on the podium and said, “This is my wife Marzieh Meshkini. Her film 'The Day I Became A Woman' also happens to be a part of the ongoing IFFI.” Feeling elated about eight of his films being a part of the currently ongoing festival Mohsen expressed, “I am extremely happy that this time the retrospective package of the 45th IFFI Goa 2014 is showcasing eight of my most well-known and memorable films.”

he North East cinema was inaugurated by Festival director Shankar Mohan, who welcomed all the distinguished guests with a floral bouquet and a memento. This time the focus on the North East Cinema was more on Tales of Women from the North East. The celebrity guests on the podium were Jahnu Barua the filmmaker, Utpal Borpujari the curator of the North East Cinema package, Oinam Gautam Sigh the jury member of the Indian Panorama section of feature films, Neyan Prasad from the production team of the inaugural film Adajya and Ms. Sultana the sister-in-law of the late music composer Sher Chaudhary who has composed the musical score of the opening film Adajya the Assamese film directed by Santwana Bordoloi.

Adajya was also presented as homage in memorium of the late Sher Chaudhary.

Jahnu Barua stated, “I have closely observed my region and noticed that there are scores of budding creative talent and their potential needs to be tapped. The only problem is that they are very shy like me and they need to be drawn out of their introverted shell and brought to the forefront and I expect them in the spotlight soon to showcase their talent. I would like to give an example of the late music composer Sher Chaudhary who was an extremely creative musical genius but it took time and real efforts on his part to expose his talent to the film industry at large.”

Utpal Borpujari averred, “As a curator of the North East Cinema package I am really honored and wish to express my gratitude to the Festival Director, Shankar Mohan, his entire team at the Directorate of Film Festival and the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.

It was a tough and a well-researched task of compiling this package. The seven gems in the bouquet of the North East Cinema package are the opening film Adajya directed by Santwana Bordoloi, Abartan directed by Bhabendranath Saikia, Akashitorar Kathare directed by Manju Borah, Ganga Chilanir Pakhi directed by Padum Barua, Mathia directed by Joseph Pulinthanath, Phijigee Mani

directed by Oinam Gautam Singh and Sanabi directed by Aribam Syam Sharma.”

Shankar Mohan said that the curator of North East Cinema package Utpal Borpujari has suggested that the focus on the North East Cinema package should also travel to the North Eastern region. “Films from North East region have always been a part of IFFI but since the last 3 years we have focused more on it as a separate section. This package of North East Cinema had travelled last year to Shillong and Manipur along with the Indian Panorama package and had proved to be a great success, including the Masterclasses held there.”

Bollywood lyricist and poet Gulzar with his daughter and filmmaker Meghna Gulzar at the 8th NFDC Film Bazaar 2014 – Day 2

Senior film journalist JYOTHI VENKATESH will be covering the 45th International Film Festival of India. Being held in Goa. His reports, interviews and reviews will appear everyday in the ADC till November 30.

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Sena: Not enough Continued from pg 1 « to what length the BJP can go to accommodate the Sena in the state ministry.

And at a press meet, senior Sena leader made it clear that his party will play the role of the Opposition during the Winter Session of the Assembly which meets on December 8.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said: “I have no knowledge of the talks between my party and the BJP. As of now, we are in the Opposition. Our party will take on the governemnt on various issues in the House.”

Finally, if all probably boils down to this: BJP: “This is all we can give.”

Sena: “Not enough, give us more.”

Meanwhile Raut has made it clear that his party will play the role of principal opposition in the winter session of the state Assembly. Raut yesterday said, “I have no knowledge of any talks between my party and BJP. As of now, we are an opposition and Shiv Sena will take on the government on various issues in the House”.

On Saturday the BJP leaders geared up to induct Sena in to the state cabinet and the news was doing the round that the two parties are likely to seal the deal before Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis expands his Cabinet ahead of the state legislature's winter session. However, with the statement of Raut the uncertainty about the alliance is still continuing.

Raut said, “Leader of the opposition in the Assembly Eknath Shinde is touring the state and is criticising the government on various fronts. Our party, which has 63 MLAs, is completely in the role of opposition party in the

Assembly on directives of Sena president Uddhav Thackeray. There are several issues like law and order, farmers' suicide, power crisis and drought-like condition in many parts of the state. Sena leaders are highlighting them effectively and they will aggressively raise these sensitive issues on the floor of house too”.

On Saturday, BJP leader and state PWD Minister Chandrakant Patil had said in Kolhapur that Shiv Sena will be accommodated in the cabinet expansion before the winter session starts. Meanwhile, highly placed sources in Sena said that the decision about their party joining the government would be taken

by Uddhav when he returns from the Konkan tour. He is on three days Konkan tour.

On the other hand, the winter session of the Parliament is beginning from today (Monday) and the BJP is worried about its position in the Rajya Sabha. The BJP and its allies enjoy a brute majority of 335 in the 543 member House. With the opposition completely decimated and the Congress reduced to his lowest-ever tally of 44, the Narendra Modi-led government is unlikely to face any difficulty in pushing through legislations and its agenda.

But the worry for the BJP is in the Rajya Sabha where it is well short of the half-way mark of 123 MPs and will need the help of regional parties. The Congress is still the largest party in the 245-member Rajya Sabha with 68 MPs while the BJP has just 46.

With this equation the BJP will avoid any confrontation with its erstwhile partner.

Against this backdrop of NCP chief Sharad Pawar's warning BJP's making all efforts to induct Sena in to the cabinet. Significantly, now Sena has indirectly pointed out that the party is in no hurry to join the government.

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Continued from pg 1 « 12-storeyed Mahavir Tower on LBS Road at Mulund around 5:30 pm with “I hate you” and a partial mobile number with eight digits written on one of her arms.

While she remained unidentified until midnight on Sunday, cops got a lead when her father, who had come to the Mulund police station with her photo to file a missing persons report, accused the three of driving her to take the extreme step.

The father said one of the boys, Sahil Sheikh (18) an FYJC student of the Jai Bharat School and Junior College at Mulund Colony, had been after his daughter for the past two years and even turned up at their house on a few occasions.

The deceased was a standard 10 student in the same institute and Sahil was also friends with her classmate who acted as a mediator re-

laying his messages.“The father said he had repeatedly warned Sahil to stay away from his daughter but he still persisted. He had another friend, Kamlesh Vaishnav, an SYJC student in the same college who used to lobby for Sahil to the deceased girl along with her female classmate. The three kept forcing her to ‘give it a shot’ with Sahil of which she finally had enough and ended her life,” said an officer. Following the revelation, Mulund cops picked up the trio and arrested them, charging them with section 306 (abetting suicide) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC. While Sahil and Kamlesh were produced in court on Sunday which remanded them to police custody till November 25, the minor girl was sent to a juvenile remand home as underage children cannot be kept in police custody.

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kind of crime to take place there. The father's shop is a aving gone through small eatery of sorts but is on the pain and trauma the main road and so a CCTV of having one's child camera can help in many being sexually assaulted, the ways. In this child's case as father of the Wadala sexual well, had there been a CCTV assault victim is contemplat- camera in place somewhere, ing installing closed circuit the accused could have been television (CCTV) cameras in identified more easily. It

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WADALA SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE his shop. This suggestion was given to him by Jan Jagruti Manch, the NGO that is standing by the family of the little survivor during these testing times.

“We explained the importance of having a CCTV camera in the vicinity because the area where they live is definitely not safe. It is a slum area filled with filth and dirt.

There is ample scope for any

would have saved so much time and effort for the police as well as spared the child from giving a description of the accused. But what has happened has happened. It cannot be undone. So, now we have to think about the future. A CCTV camera footage would come handy in nailing the perpetrator of any crime. It need not be only sexual assault. It could be

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While the family of the child is still awaiting the installment of the compensation that the child is entitled to under the Manodhairya Yojana of the state's women and child welfare department, visits from leaders of several political parties seem to have done some good for them. The family now has somewhere between Rs 80,000 to Rs 1 lakh in hand that came in as help from the visitors in the last two days. Also, the child who had been kept in the general ward, open to the questioning eyes and lewd comments of other people, has now been shifted to an isolation ward.

Also, her condition is getting better. There are plans to open an account in the name of the child and put the money so that it can be put to good use in the future.

theft or even a terrorist activity like planting a bomb. It could help every child and every adult,” said Niranjan Aher from Jan Jagruti Manch.

After being made to understand the need for such security measures by the NGO, the father is apparently positive about getting the cam-

eras installed.

“There are many bigger hotels in that area as well and we hope that after the father installs the cameras, they too will wake up to the need of CCTV cameras and install them in their establishments as well,” said Niranjan. shwetha.kannan@afternoondc.in

Police checking veracity of ‘duo’ who processed ‘Aadhar’ forms in Bhayandar

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(not yet arrested) from an office in the Geeta Nagar area n investigating team from of Bhayandar (East), by the the Mira Road police sta- police on Sunday evening, tion is checking the back- following complaints that ground of the two men and they were processing forms their legitimacy to accepting for the cards in return of a forms for issuing Aadhar premium to those who apcards to locals. parently didn’t have mandaThe duo were picked up tory documents. It should be

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noted that Aadhaar cards are processed free-of-cost at a couple of designated centers in Mira-Bhayandar.

“One of the detained person claims to be associated with the company running the authorized-Unique Identification (UID) enrollment centres. We are verifying the

facts following which necessary action will be taken,” confirmed a senior police officer. While a FIR was yet to be registered, the police is verifying whether, they followed rules of enumeration and whether they had permissions from the district administration.

Child dies at Deonar dumping ground

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n incident which proves the illegal segregation of waste carried out by children at Deonar Dumping ground is the death of 14-year-old Bablu Tulsiram on Saturday.

Bablu and his four friends entered the premises to pick up articles from waste that could be sold in the market.

“Every day he goes to pick garbage in the evenings with his father, but on Saturday his father left early,” said senior inspector Dhanraj Gaikwad of Shivaji Nagar police station. “The incident took place at around 8.30 pm while he was picking waste on a garbage mound. He stepped on some garbage and didn’t realise it was a hollow space.”

Bablu went inside the garbage mound and suffocated to death. Rag pickers who witnessed the incident rushed to help Bablu and

Garbage dumping grounds which sees hordes of people descend on them to retrieve waste stuff are not very safe. pulled him out. He was rushed to Rajawadi Hospital where he was declared dead before admission.

Bablu and many other children like him pick up around 10 kg of garbage from the dump which assures them an income of Rs 100 per day. His

father and uncle too are involved in the same work.

Bablu was a resident of Rafique Nagar road number 14. Police have recorded the statement of his father and registered a case of accidental death.

“This is the second such in-

cident in the recent past.

What is the security at the dumping ground doing? I am really frustrated as there is no value for human life. I will demand that an FIR be registered against UPL for negligence,” said corporator of ward no 132, Rais Shaikh.

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Police nab driver after wrongly arresting maid

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gold valuables had not been touched.

A Malad-based maid had During the interrogation, been wrongly accused of Mohini kept saying that she robbing Rs 2 lakh from her had not robbed any gold employer's residence in bracelet from her emMalad (W) until the ployer's house. She is curCharkop Police on Saturday rently in judicial custody till finally arrested the real ac- December 1.

After investigations, the cused who used to work as a police rounded up accused driver with the victim.

MALAD ROBBERY CASE On November 13, complainant Heema Gazi filed an FIR against her housemaid at the Charkop Police station alleging that she had robbed her gold bracelet kept inside her cupboard.

On the basis of Heema's complaint, the police had filed an FIR against maid Mohini Chowdhary and arrested her, but from the very beginning, the police suspected that someone from inside the house is involved in the crime because only one gold bracelet was missing while cash and other

Saddam Musa Gazi (23).

On the day of the incident, he had visited the flat when no one was present including maid Mohini, and with the help of duplicate keys, he robbed a eight-tola gold bracelet worth over Rs 2 lakh.

According to Senior Police Inspector from Charkop Police Anand Kolhi, “Accused Gazi is the relative of the victim. He is in police custody. Mohini is acquitted from all charges and she did not give any complaint against her employer for filing a wrong FIR.”

Cops nab youth who abducted, abused toddler The sex pest who had approached the building for a watchman’s job, lured the girl with a chocolate

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ess then 48 hours after a four-year-old girl was abducted, abused and abandoned near the Virar railway station, the Nalasopara police claimed to have cracked the horrific case which had sent shockwaves across the Vasai-Virar region.

A 21-year-old youth has been arrested for his involvement in the crime, the police said. Hours after the girl mysteriously disappeared from the compound of her building in Nalasopara (East), the toddler was found near Virar railway station with injuries on her private parts on Thursday night. It was revealed that the girl had been sexually

abused and abandoned near the Virar railway station when passersby rushed her to the nearby Primary Health Center from where she was shifted to a Kandivli-based hospital. The accused had entered the building in search of a job of watchman, when he spotted and lured the girl away with a chocolate, the police said.

On the basis of CCTV footage and mobile surveillance, the police nabbed the accused from Boisar. The accused has confessed to the crime and has been booked under section 376 of the IPC and under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. Further investigations are on.

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Differently-abled in MUST RUN marathon

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Tennis court, swimming pool and basketball court of the campus remain unused; most of land of the University yet to be undertaken for construction

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he MUST RUN 2014 Marathon Mumbai which will be held in January will be organised by the H west federation. There will also be a special 2 km run for disabled athletes. The MUST RUN Marathon will be a 21 km half marathon to be held in Bandra.

Neenu Kewlani, activist and volunteer for Nina Foundation, Able Disable All People Together (ADAPT), and Skuriti Foundation feels that differently-abled don't get equal treatment. Speaking to the ADC she said, “There are many differently-abled who are interested in the marathon and will be taking part in it. Many have approached us for it, I'm happy that the differently-abled will be taking part in the marathon. As far as the facilities for differently-abled are concerned, it's not sufficient, almost nil, and it's necessary to raise awareness for the same. It's high time that the government should take strong steps for them.”

Anandini Thakoor, Chairperson, H-West Federation, said, “The MUST RUN this year will be a expression of solidarity by every

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hile the Mumbai University (MU) is constructing various buildings for its various hostels and is using nano-technology at its Kalina Campus, most of the land in the campus is not being used constructively. Though the MU had established a tennis court, swimming pool, a basketball court and a sports complex, the facilities are not being used due to them being in a 'pathetic' state. This barren condition at the Kalina Campus, has forced the students to enroll in private sporting clubs side-tracking the University facilities.

In 2007, former Vice-Chancellor Dr. Vijay Khole established the Sports Complex with an aim to provide students with requirements for sports and also to start teaching courses related to sports such as Bachelors of Physical Education and Masters of Physical Education.

This sports complex consists of an indoor stadium with classrooms for the Physical Education courses.

The swimming pool, tennis court and basket ball court are outside the sports complex, which are attached to the open playground of the complex.

The ADC when visited the sports complex, experienced a shocker with the tennis court, basket ball court being barren and the swimming pool which lacked water having a plastic covering. This sports complex also has a water pond having stagnant water, which could be breeding ground for 'carriers' of infectious disease. No wonder then

The pond which houses stagnant water and is a breeding ground for mosquitoes. that this apathetic condition of the sports complex, has forced the students to side-track their own University's sporting facilities.

Pradeep Sawant, senate member, Mumbai University said, “MU has one of the best sports complex in the state but the University officials have been side-tracking the maintenance of the complex. On the other hand, the tennis court,swimming pool and basket ball court are barren forcing the students to join private sports complexes. The University should stop its sloppy work and look to facilitate the sports complex. If not, soon thestudents will side-track the sports complex considering its current barren con-

ditions forever”.

Last year, the BMC had sent a notice to the University ordering it to bury its swimming pool at Kalina Campus.

The notice was sent after the BMC found that the water in the swimming pool had stagnant water which had become a breeding ground for the mosquitoes which carried a high risk of diseases like malaria, dengue, etc.

The AD spoke to V.R Patil,Engineer, MU, who said “We had been waiting for the monsoon to end so the construction and renovation can be undertaken. Already, the renovation has begun and it will be completed as soon as possible”.

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Bombay Parsee Assn celebrates 93rd anniversary

(From left): Aspi F Sarkari, Jasmine J Mistary, Major Gen Soli N Pavri, AVSM, YSM (Retd), Chief Guest, President Vispi S. Dastan of B.P.A, Bomi Hansotia, Guest of Honour, Jehan Daboo, Delna Talati and Jamsheed K. Master at The Bombay Parsee Association’a 94th Anniversary to distribute Navaz Jimi Kathawalla Memorial Prizes on Saturday.

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aid trainer and served during the relief operations of the Gujarat earthhe 93rd anniversary of the Bom- quake, relief operations during the bay Parsee Association was held tsunami and during the 26/11 atin Albless Baug on Saturday. The tacks. Jasmine J Mistry, who joined function involved the felicitation of the Girl Guide Movement in 1962 at the members of the association and the age of seven, has also trained the ones who have made the com- several Rajya and Rashtrapati munity proud.

Guides in her own group and in her The awardees included Aspi district. Delna M. Talati, who Sarkari, who is the Ex chairman and topped ICSE with 96 per cent, was Divisional Commander of Parsi Am- awarded trophy and cash prize by bulance Division. He is also a first- FOZAWAC (Federation of Zoras-

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trian Welfare and Cultural Association). Jamsheed K Master, who represented India at the Education Beyond Borders Conference in Dubai and is also the author of published research paper 'Industry's Handshake with Rural India' and Jehan Jamshed Daboo, a badminton player and is ranked number 37 in the world in the deaf category in badminton, represented India in the 22nd Deaflympics held at Sofia in Bulgaria in 2013.

Mumbaikar towards making the city more humane, cleaner and respecting the dignity of women and the physically disabled. We are confident that MUST RUN will heighten awareness about creating access for the disabled as well as stressing the need to maintain good health and hygiene.”

Vinod Rawat, a leading sportsperson, in 2011, travelled from Mumbai to Ladakh on a motorcycle and four more differentlyabled did it with him. The trip was completed in 25 days. During their journey they also raised funds of Rs 18 lakh for people in Ladakh who had lost their homes in the floods, and also helped in building their houses. He also participated in dirt-bike racing and has been an MTV Roadies in 2003. Now he will be running in the MUST RUN 2014 marathon.

Sumedha Mahajan (30), an asthma patient since her childhood, despite several challenges like bleeding skin lesions, acute dehydration, stomach infection, and blackouts because of cramping and minor muscle and bone injuries, will participate in the Marathon.

hile sanitation activists observed 'World Toilet Day' on November 19, Shiv Sena corporator in the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC), Shubangi Kotian was busy collecting signatures to save a public toilet – the construction of which has been cancelled after opposition by her BJP counterpart.

In sharp contrast to the Prime Minister's dream project 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' envisaging toilets in every household and public places as his top priority, the local BJP unit is apparently throwing spanners in the construction of the much-needed facility. The proposal to construct a public toilet near the Vegetable Market in Bhayandar (W) was moved by Kotian on July 13, 2013. Considering its need at the busy public location, MBMC’s Public Works Department (PWD) gave its nod and also issued a work order to a local NGO on July 23, 2014, for the construction and maintenance of the Pay-to-Use public toilet on a vacant piece of land which earlier housed a temporary fibre-made toilet block.

However, Kotian’s proposal was opposed by her BJP counterpart, Geeta Jain who immediately dashing off a requisition expressing public demand for a library to take shape instead of a public toilet.

"Hundreds of people ,mostly women, frequent this vegetable market which still lacks a toilet facility. Not having toilets around makes matters worse for women, the portable fibre toilet booth

Women of the area are absolutely clear that there exists a desperate need for a toilet in the market in Bhayandar. served no purpose, hence I submitted the proposal,” said Kotian, who has submitted a memorandum supported by signatures of locals to the civic chief. It has been contended a social organisation which has claimed its ownership over the land in question and has officially registered its objection for the construction of the toilet.

"As of now the permission for building a toilet stands cancelled, but no decision has been taken for a library either. But it is unfortunate that the market has been deprived of the facility," confirmed a PWD officer. In an attempt to stay away from the political crossfire, the civic administration conveniently revoked the permission granted for the construction of the toilet under the pretext of first sorting out the legal status of the land.

‘Achhe and Bure Din’ come together

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As Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu visits city and displays hopes of improving the suburban railway system, a technical snag on the Central Railway affected services on Sunday

By Vishnudas Sheshrao

ACCHE DIN After taking charge as Union Railway Minister, Suresh Prabhu paid a maiden visit to the suburban Central Railway and Western Railway on Saturday and instructed both authorities to take up maintenance of the century-old rail network on a war footing to ensure smooth and punctual operations of suburban trains.

Prabhu, a Chartered Accountant by profession, directed both railways to make a time-bound plan to address the concerns of the commuters of the suburban system that gave a ray of hope for millions of disgruntled

railway commuters.

The Union Railway Minister directed the Railway Board to expedite the process of direct current (DC) to alternate current (AC) conversion between Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) Mumbai and Thane and provide appropriate technical inputs to strengthen the Mumbai Suburban railway system.

Since Prabhu has been brought up in Mumbai, he well understands the problems of railway commuters who spend a considerable part of their life on board the crowded, suffocating and aged local trains. The minister's visit rejuvenated hopes in millions of minds that Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu

'acche din' (good days) will come.

During the high power meeting, while briefing on the challenges and difficulties, Central Railway officials told the Minister that the section between Thane to Kalyan is a critical section which is hampering the running of trains at maximum permissible speed. Kalyan Yard is the most critical yard as nearly 900 trains cross the yard daily towards Karjat and Kasara or get terminated in the yard.

Prabhu was briefed about the strengthening of assets and special attention given on track between ThaneKalyan section and at Kalyan yard. A total staff of 600 was

deployed to attend various the evening. areas of train maintenance.

According to officials, a Khopoli-bound local train BURE DIN was held up due to a problem Local services were cancelled on the up fast line near Muand several services were lund station at 4.20 pm. Due running behind schedule as a to this problem, other trains Khopoli-bound train devel- bunched up for some time. oped a technical snag at MuMeanwhile, railway offilund staion on Sunday cials decided to divert up fast evening. After primary inves- line services on slow line betigation, railway officials said tween Mulund and Vidyavithat one of the three units of har station to facilitate the the train had failed to per- passengers. form and was thus held up As a cascading effect, rest for almost an hour. of the local trains on the CenAfter the weekly four-hour tral line got delayed by 15 to long mega block on Sunday, 20 minutes behind scheduled suburban services of Central time. After an hour, the afRailway were limping to nor- fected train service was canmalcy when this Khopoli clled at Kurla and sent local broke down and serv- to Byculla siding, officials ices got affected for hours in said.

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BMC to set up computers in civic schools

By Khushboo Panjabi

dedication.”

“At present, the students n order to improve the are taught computers by the quality of education, the teachers who have less comBrihanmumbai Municipal puter knowledge because of Corporation (BMC) in its this which the students are weak annual fiscal budget had al- in that particular subject. The lotted Rs 2,660.44 crore for number of computers to be the purpose marking an in- provided in each school will crease of more than Rs 180 depend upon the size of the crore as compared to its last students. Minimum 10, maxyear budget for the same. A imum 20 computers will be provision of Rs 2.38 crore has put up in every civic school,” been made to provide computers, printers and scanners and broadband internet service to all schools and offices of the education department.

Vinod Shelar, Education committee chairman of the

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HOMAGE TO MARTYRS... All-India Anti-Terrorist Front Chairman Maninderjeet Singh Bitta with Bollywood actors Akshay Kumar and Vivek Oberoi during an event to commemorate the 26/11 martyrs on occasion of Vijay Divas at Parsee Gymkhana in Marine Drive on Sunday.

he added.

Every school will be given an Annual Maintainance Contract (AMC) person who will be the in-charge person and responsible of taking care of the computer systems and the printers in the computer lab of the civic schools.

The civic authority aims at setting up 200 computers in civic schools by the end of January 2015.

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BRAHMOTSAV ENDS WITH A BANG Thakur Vidya Mandir High School & Jr College’s fest ends on a high

By A Staff Reporter

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fter working hard for more than two months and planning for creative and innovative competitions, Thakur Vidya Mandir and Jr College breathed success in their inter-college festival 'Brahmotsav'. This being the third year, the fest followed the theme of 'Carnival' having more than 50 competitions from the fields of performing arts, fine arts, literary arts, gaming and sports.

The crowd pulling event at Brahmotsav was the DJ event and the Fashion show. The Brahmotsav 2014 was held on November 21 and 22 at Thakur Vidya Mandir High School and Jr College.

Apart from the cultural events, the sports events had featured tough competition With more than 2,500 stu- in rink football and box dents taking part in the com- cricket. petitive events, 35 top Dinesh Yadav, supervisor, colleges competed for the Thakur Vidya Mandir High champions trophy at Brah- School and Jr College, said, motsav. Winning in maxi- “The festival was a total team mum events, Tolani College, work of students, teachers, the Andheri emerged as the college management and also champion of Brahmotsav the competing colleges. The 2014 followed by Nagindas hard work of the team has reKhandwala College (Malad) sulted in a fruitful effort.” in the second place and Anuradha Kamath, Principal, Dalmia College (Goregaon) in Thakur Vidya Mandir High the third spot. school and Jr College said,

BMC, said, “Staying in a competitive world where technology has been advanced to a great extent, we have planned to set up computers in 200 civic schools phase wise along with skilled teachers as last year around 200 civic teachers were sent to Pune for MS-CIT training and have successfully completed the training. So now these teachers will be teaching the students with full

Raveena Tandon unveiled versatile singer and performer Lalitya Munshaw's 25th Sufi and Romantic album Rab Piya during Lalitya's concert which was compered by Rohit Roy, Ravindra Jain and Labh Janjua came to wish Lalitya.

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Threat of Islam-centric parties too serious to be ignored

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T looks like both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena do not want to give up trying to come together again. The drama does not seem to have an end.

Only yesterday, news spread like wild fire that the BJP is making a big bid to get Sena support. There was definite news that the BJP and the Sena will work together. The TV channels carried big headlines that negotiations between the parties have been successful and the Shiv Sena will be in the government. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis went to Nagpur, met BJP’s senior leader Nitin Gadkari and held talks with him. We do not know what exactly happened between the two leaders, but most probably they discussed about a Sena-BJP alliance.

And then comes a bombshell from a Shiv Sena leader there is no question of any change and that his party is not joining the government but will sit in the Opposition.

He said “Our party is in the Opposition. We will take on the government on various issues when the State Assembly meets next month for Winter Session in Nagpur.”

Meanwhile, Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray has left Mumbai and has gone to Malegaon. The situation is as confusing as before. It is likely to be the same till the Assembly meets in December. The natural, traditional allies do not agree on many crucial issues.

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T is expected that the mainline politicians would pay scant heed to the growing ambitions of the Muslim-centric rather Muslim-only parties to spread their wings far away from their traditional pocket-boroughs.

But others in the business of studying developing trends in the social and political spheres ought to have taken note of the slow but certain rise of people like Asaduddin Owaisi and Badruddin Ajmal, who front two of the most potent challenges to the non-denominational politics of the country.

People with long memories would not fail to be disturbed by recent reports that the Owaisi family-owned Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and perfume king Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front are now keen to acquire a wider electoral footprint. Both parties have set their sights on the 2016 Assembly poll in West Bengal. And have stepped up their activities in Uttar Pradesh with an eye on the Assembly poll in 2017.

The reason why Owaisi has stepped out of the inner Muslim ghettos around Hyderabad’s Charminar is shrouded in mystery. But it is amply clear that he now espies percentage in hoisting the MIM flag wherever there is a concentration of his co-religionists. His major foray outside his home-base resulted in the party winning two seats in the recent Maharashtra Assembly poll. Both winners, predictably Muslims, won with huge majorities in the Muslim-dominated constituencies.

For the record, Owaisi protests that the MIM had fielded even non-Muslim candidates, but such tokenism does not take a weebit from its Islam-centric character. In fact, Owaisi and his vile-tongued younger brother, Akbaruddin, hammered hard the ‘Islam-isin-danger’ theme at all their campaign rallies.

Dangerously, that line of argument won them instant converts among Muslim voters.

Given the sheer disgust of the Muslim voter with the so-called secular parties, there can be no denying that he is searching for a new platform. After the long but unrequited love affair with the Congress, he tried various regional outfits, be it in UP or Andhra Pradesh, Bihar or West Bengal. But all these one-leader parties too left the Muslim voter underwhelmed, consequently further fuelling the disillusion that they treated him merely as a bonded, no-choice voter at election time, to be shunned afterwards.

Admittedly, the rise of the BJP on the national stage has further sharpened the sense of grievance and insecurity among a majority of Muslims. Though, so far, nothing has been done by the central or state governments run by the party to aggravate that sense of alienation, the in-your-face interventions in the public sphere by the RSS and its various offshoots have contributed to the sense of unease felt by the minorities. Maybe a dialogue between the Sangh Parivar and the leaders of the Muslim community will help address various grievances, real or imaginary, the two sides harbour against each other.

At the very least, an active line of communication between the two communities will help check wild misconceptions and help bridge the trust gap. Such a détente can partially neutralize the viciousness of the Owaisi brothers and slow their onward march towards winning the Muslim voter through divisive propaganda.

The rise of Owaisi’s MIM and Ajmal’s AIUDF might spell trouble for the traditional thekedars’ of the Muslim vote, such as the Congress and the Samajwadis, Trinamool Congress etc., for example, but eventually it will end up fraying the social fabric of the entire country. The initial, casual approach of the Congress leadership to the rise of the Muslim League beginning in the early decades of the 20th century should hold its own lessons for the present-day leaderships

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of the national parties.

Times may have changed, the context and circumstances might be entirely different, but what remains unchanged is the grip of religion on a section of the population. If anything, it has got stronger as unholy men have come to the fore as headmen of their communities. Besides, as against the early 20th century, the petro-dollar-driven Wahhabism is now a potent force dictating the actions and beliefs of the ulema as well as ordinary Muslims.

In West Bengal, where Mamata Banerjee panders to the Islamic extremists in the hope of a guaranteed second term in power, the decision by the Owaisis and Ajmal to contest the next Assembly poll might in the short run aid the BJP’s growth. But, then, the real and longterm agenda of the Muslim-centric parties is not to defeat the BJP, but to carve a new and exclusive sphere for themselves where they will reign in the name of Islam. These are early signs of a potentially separatist movement which our politicians can ignore only at

parrot, is set to retire on December 2. Later in the month, the Intelligence Chief Syed Asif Ibrahim, the first ever Muslim to head the domestic intelligence body, would retire. The term of the RAW Chief Alok Joshi too is nearing completion. As for the CVC, the last incumbent, Pradeep Kumar, retired in September but the successor is yet to be named.

Sinha, incidentally, is the second CBI director appointed by the UPA who dragged the premier investigating agency into disrepute.

His predecessor, A.P. Singh, became notorious for fudging evidence to fix the enemies of his political masters. That way he bought political protection while he used the job security to line his own pockets with illicit lucre.

His links with a notorious meat exporter were exposed recently.

As a member of the UPSC, Singh enjoys constitutional protection. The only way he can be removed is through a presidential reference to the Supreme Court. Following an adverse report by the income tax authorities, the government might soon initiate the process for a presidential reference for the removal of Singh. One shudders to think of the role someone like Singh might be playing in the selection of the future rulers of India.

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T INSIDE STORY Virendra Kapoor the nation’s peril. Too scary? Not if you recall the early Congress responses to the nascent moves by the Muslim League in the first decades of the last century.

Key posts to be filled by Modi

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HE Modi government is fortunate to have got the opportunity early in its term to appoint the heads of several key agencies. The heads of the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing are set to retire soon. Besides, the post of the Central Vigilance Commissioner needs to be filled. All these are important posts whose holders often influence the course of Indian politics, as was evident during the ten-year UPA rule.

The CBI chief, Ranjit Sinha, derisively called kala tota by some of his colleagues for his black deeds and the apex court’s description of the investigating agency as a caged

ALKING of these key appointments, aspirants for these are up against a very new phenomenon. That is, the total absence of influence-peddlers. Unlike the previous regimes when those who fancied their chances for getting plum posts exploited the network of contacts and friends to wangle these posts, in the Modi era there is no such opportunity. Word has fast spread that even senior ministers may not be able to swing the posts in their own ministries for favourite candidates. For, the last word lies with the Prime Minister.

(There being literally thousands of positions in government and in governmentlinked bodies which depend on ministerial and bureaucratic patronage, the scope for abuse is huge. However, such discretionary appointments would now be subject to the hawk-eyed monitoring by Modi’s PMO.) Of course, there is no comparison with the previous government. UPA ministers did their own thing fully unmindful of someone called Manmohan Singh. The Vajpayee government too had its share of fixers. And their identity was widely known. But the Modi government is different. Favour-seekers have no opportunity or occasion to pull strings and/ or to peddle influence. Which is how it should be, isn’t it?

Because we cannot solve this human thing called love we run away into abstractions.

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's problems and travails, so how are we going to find out what love is? By merely defining it? Religion has defined it one way, it. Everybody talks of love — every magazine society another, and there are all sorts of deand newspaper and viations and perverevery missionary talks sions. Adoring someeverlastingly of love. I one, sleeping with love my country, I love someone, the emomy king, I love a book, I love a mountain, I tional exchange, the companionship — is that love my wife, I love God. Is love an idea? If it is, what we mean by love? That has been the it can be cultivated, nourished, cherished, norm, the pattern, and it has become so limpushed around, twisted in any way you like. ited that religions have declared that love is When you say you love God what does it something much more than this. In what they mean? It means that you love a projection of call love they see there is pleasure, competiyour own imagination, a projection of your- tion, jealousy, desire to possess, to hold, to self clothed in certain forms of respectability control and to interfere with another's thinkaccording to what you think is noble and ing, and knowing the complexity of all this holy; so to say, ‘I love God', is absolute non- they say there must be another kind of love, sense. When you worship God you are wor- divine, beautiful, untouched, uncorrupted. shipping yourself — and that is not love.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘We don’t know how to love’ E are not loved because we don't know W how to love. What is love? The word is so loaded and corrupted that I hardly like to use

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Regulating self-styled godmen I feel the time has come now to look into the goings-on in the ashrams and try to regulate the practice of the so-called 'godmen'.

The details that have come out of the sensational arrest of Rampal leave no doubt that his empire has been built over the years for all alleged activities for which another mega-godman is being tried at present. While spiritual leaders trying to show the public how to lead a righteous life are welcome, the liberal use of the prefix 'baba' by all and sundry needs to be first curbed. For instance Christianity does not allow a person to be called a 'Saint' so easily and that is how it should be. The public also has to be wary of people who guarantee them a place in heaven.

— Dr V Subramanyan, Thane

SOME godmen and religious cult leaders often have an exaggerated sense of their own importance: they sometimes end up believing what they tell their fanatic followers. In evading arrest for days together by making his supporters create a ring of protection around him in his ashram, the self-styled ‘jagat guru’ Rampal not only showed utter disregard for the law of the land, but also supreme confidence in his ability to keep law enforcers at bay. Despite a court order calling for his arrest in a contempt case, the police struggled to get close to the godman in his ashram in Hisar. Intent on avoiding a violent confrontation in the ashram, the police chose to play the waiting game, without trying to force their way past the crowd of Rampal supporters. But the water

A safe city

— Srishti Iyer, via email

QUOTE: You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

eration could only catch the big shot. Timely action, systematic approach and a strong police force ended the stalemate.

— C K Subramaniam, Sanpada

BE WISE: A Haryana-based self-proclaimed godman was recently arrested by the state police after he fooled the state machinery for days, nay months on end. man came on expected lines after couple of days operation. All these 10 years, under the previous government the force was going from strength to strength. Time tested methods were required to capture Rampal from his fortified Satlok ashram and the crackdown is complete. The police whisked away Rampal from his army in an ambulance to complete the arrest operations. He was elusive for the last couple of weeks after the Punjab and Haryana High Court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against him. But the bid was foiled partially as there was Rampal's — Bhagwan Thadani, Pune army trained to handle 315 bore rifles, double barrels guns, revolvers,

pistols and incendiary devices like THE crackdown on Hisar Ashram petrol bombs, acid guns and of Rampal came at an appropriate pouches resisting the attempts moment when things were going from all corners of the ashram. The out of hand there. Thus the opera- ashram and surroundings saw a tion to catch the self-styled god- scene of violence and a warlike op-

cannons, tear gas shells, and lathis of the police were met with gunfire, Molotov cocktails and acid pouches of the followers. Indeed, Sant Rampal seemed to enjoy being at the centre of all this attention. In his calculations, the longer the stand-off between his followers and the police, the better it would be for his own popularity. The clashes with the police were designed to add inches to his largerthan-life image. Thus, instead of choosing the easier and more sensible option of surrendering to the police, the Sant put at risk his band of supporters.

Legalising sex trade

MUMBAI has been often been regarded as ‘Mini India’ and brings into limelight the growth of India in economic as well as cultural spheres, hence we citizens of Mumbai have to shoulder a great responsibility of keeping men and women safe and sound. Women’s safety is a grave issue that needs attention and people’s support. At a personal level, we can start off by encouraging women to learn self-defense and martial arts. Parents should not send girl’s dreams crashing but instead should teach them to be not submissive, and work at emboldening their personalities. Women should use their sixth sense; like if they find a street lonely, they should ask their friends or relatives to drop them home. Women should not tolerate acrimonious behaviour like eve-teasing, ogling, usage of indecent words; also they must carry pepper spray under all circumstances. Our male-dominated society should not suppress women and consider women to be equal to men, cutting through archaic and stereotypical ideas.

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hockey recently India defeated Australia for the first time in three sucTHE government's core-policy cessive matches in the Test series in thrust on the issue of commercial Australia in their own backyard. In sex work should aim at alleviating the grounds on which a woman is forced into prostitution. For women already entrapped into the bestiality, the focus should indeed be on a strong exit policy for women in the trade with an alloyed 'no questions asked' relief and rehabilitation package – medical, educational and IN this era of robotic surgery, the employment opportunities and horrific deaths following sterilizamost important of all, housing. For tion operations in females in a those too old to work, the governcamp is totally unacceptable and ment could institute adequate soshould be condemned by one and cial security measures, a pension all. I am surprised by the little imeven, if it is really serious about the portance given to the unfortunate marginalised and the poor.

— Vidhya Sridhar, Dahisar incidence as if it was like any other accident or murder.

Doctors concerned should be completely aware of the GRs IT is heartening to witness that the which government is sending to acche din plan or the feel good facall health institutes small and tor mooted and initiated by our large, government, civic, private venerable Prime Minister has and semiprivate hospitals time rubbed off on our sportspersons and again. These GRs (governtoo. The feel good factor was introments rules) include the musts duced by Modi after consulting and dos and don'ts about the sterFacebook honcho Mark Zuckerilization operations in camps and berg. India scaled the podium in the otherwise. Flouting these rules for following disciplines with glory and completing the target is totally abaplomb. The Incheon Asian Games surd and criminal. saw our men's hockey team win the It is an important factor to reGold medal after a gap of 16 years. member that the female sterilizaOur under 21 team notched the top tion operation is a voluntary and spot in hockey in the 4th Sultan of preventive surgery to control popJohor Cup in Malaysia. Also in

THE faceless and shameless Haryana government, at last, arrested Rampal, their (BJP’s) vote bringer. The Chandigarh High Court should be congratulated for forcing Manohar Khattar to arrest the fraudster. In his audaciousness, Khattar had managed to form a corrupt medical group who gave a false certificate stating that the fraudster (Rampal) was sick and hence could not attend court.

The High Court must have sensed the intention of the BJP government and, therefore, rightly, asked as to under whose instruction the medical group was formed. Really speaking, the corrupt doctors should be punished for giving false certificates. It is a routine matter that corrupt politicians and babas get their health certificates to evade punishments. The doctors, who issue false certificates, should be tried and punished.

5-0. In badminton, Kidambi Srikanth who was recuperating from brain fever four months ago clinched the singles title, thereby becoming the first Indian to win a Super Series Premier event. He defeated Lin Dan rated as the greatest badminton player ever. Saina Nehwal also claimed the singles crown. Our ladies cricket team also came up with a thumping victory over the South Africans as they defeated them by an innings in the one off Test match.

— Hemant Hemmady, Virar

Whose fault is it?

APROPOS your cover story 'Worms in mid-day meals' (ADC, Nov 21), the abysmal quality of the free meals served in BMC-run schools has unfortunately becoming a routine affair. As always, the civic education department has tried to absolve itself by slapping a fine on the contractor who supplied the meals. I am amazed and disgusted at the holier-than-thou attitude of these officials. They are as much culpable as the contractor. It is wellknown that the contractor is selected not on merit or experience, — Maneshwar Nayak, via email but who can offer the maximum kickbacks. Not surprisOF

ingly, the contractor tries LETTER THE DAY WITH the latest addition to the list to recover at least partially of jailed babas, the government the cost of bribes paid by buying the should distribute them equally cheapest ingredients available – into all the four corners of the even if they are long past the sell by country so that there are at least a date – and employing untrained couple of them available to the and unhygienic workers at minibhakts in every region of the counmum wages. Of course it is the poor try. The formula of 'minimum govchildren in the schools who suffer, ernment maximum governance' but who gives a damn about that – can be applied as the bhakts may clearly not the BMC. Neither do we get the services of more than one actually. We will shake our heads at baba. This will also facilitate the this travesty and then forget about bhakts to get another expert opinit till the next incident occurs. Our ion in case the first fails. Also the new CM has promised to clean up bhakts would be saved the torture the system, but I am not holding my of travelling hundreds of miles for breath. However pure his intentions the darshan of these godmen. may be, it is virtually impossible to — Abdul Monim, Vashi change a corrupt mind set that has set in over the decades. Only strict accountability and exemplary puncricket, India defeated West Indies ishment for the guilty ones will have 2-1. The coming series against the an effect, but I don't see that hapSri Lankans saw the doughty Indi- pening in my lifetime.

— Firoze Hirjikaka, Colaba ans make a clean sweep as they won

Unacceptable deaths

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UNFORTUNATE: Thirteen women were killed in botched-up sterilisation surgeries in medical camps at Bilaspur earlier this month. ulation and maintain the health of women. Therefore it should have zero or no mortality or even morbidity.

Another important aspect is that of counselling of the women as they are not completely aware rather knowledgeable about the permanent nature of the surgery.

More time should be spent on this factor than the procedure to get a whole-hearted written consent of

the woman and her husband.

In this recent incident in Chhattisgarh, many queries are left unanswered. If the deaths are attributed to the drug administered then which was it given to all the women, if so why only few developed the complication etc? It should be publicised correctly so that general public including doctors will know the mistakes.

— Dr Mina Bhattacharyya, via email

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Army personnel display cache of arms and ammunitions recovered from the hideout of LeT militants during a search operation, in Baramulla on Sunday.

Major arms haul in J&K

In one of the biggest arms hauls in recent times, Army yesterday seized 18 AK-47 rifles and five pistols from a militant hideout in forests near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of pollbound Jammu & Kashmir. The weapons seized include 18 AK47 rifles and five pistols, he said adding searches are still in progress in the area. In another success, army recovered arms and ammunition from Hajibal area of Baramulla district, the army official said.

Rampal taken to his Satlok Ashram, search on

Arrested 'godman' Rampal was yesterday taken to his Satlok Ashram in connection with the probe being conducted by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Haryana Police, which will question him on the recoveries, including arms and ammunition, that have been made. The police said he will be questioned in connection with the recoveries, including arms and cartridges, made from the ashram. There are many lockers inside the ashram and the police will quiz him about these as well.

7 killed, 9 injured as bus falls into gorge in HP

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during an interaction with journalists in New Delhi on Sunday. unquantified amount given to an unidentified section of people. So subsidy must be a quantified amount given to an identifiable section. It cannot be made for unidentifiable section of people," he said, adding duplication of subsidy benefits results in losses to the exchequer to the tune of "thousands of crores".

"We will leave the next generation in debt so that they (next generation) levy higher taxes to pay back the loan of subsidising me, when I am not entitled to the subsidy. So this kind of an economy will keep the country in a trap," he said.

To bring these changes, Jaitley

said: "I am quite aware, that we will face resistance but at least I have started creating some opinion in their favour".

After coming to power, the Narendra Modi-led government deregulated diesel prices and linked them to the market rate. Earlier, the government used to provide subsidy on diesel. Petrol prices were deregulated by the UPA government.

Currently, 12 LPG cylinders are available to consumers at a subsidised rate of Rs 414 each (in Delhi). Any requirement beyond this will have to be purchased at the market price of Rs 880 per 14.2-kg cylinder.

On whether the government is looking at doing away with the Public Distribution System, Jaitley said the Expenditure Management Commission would suggest ways to streamline them.

Following the Budget announcement, the Finance Ministry set up the Expenditure Management Commission, headed by Bimal Jalan, to suggest ways to reduce food, fertiliser and oil subsidies and narrow the fiscal deficit.

In the current fiscal, the deficit is expected to be 4.1 per cent of GDP this financial year, down from 4.5 per cent a year ago.

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EW DELHI: Taking on her critics, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani on Sunday dismissed charges that education was being saffronised even as she turned down demands that Sanskrit be made compulsory in curriculum.

"Those who accuse me of being a RSS mascot or RSS representative possibly want to deflect the attention from the good work that we have done...

This agenda will be flagged and I will be whipped for as long as there is a need to keep attention diverted away from the Smriti Irani good work. I am ready for it. I have no problem," she told PTI journalists.

Responding to demands that Sanskrit be made a compulsory language, the minister said that the three language formula was very clear that any of the 23 Indian languages listed in Schedule 8 of the Constitution could be opted for. But she reiterated that German will continue to be taught as a foreign language. "...We are teaching French, we are teaching Mandarin, we teach German in the same way. For the life in me, I can't understand why people are not understanding what I am saying," she said.

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URGAON: Promising a 'lot of things', Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday outlined a multi-pronged approach of a non-offensive but strong India while making it clear that there will be "zero tolerance to error" in defence-related issues.

"One thing I will promise. I have being given a task. I will see that my task of strengthening India, the position where where people should not dare see eye to eye with India...

We don't intend to be offensive," Parrikar said addressing Navy personnel at the inauguration of the Information Management and Analysis centre (IMAC) of Navy here.

He said India has not ruled any other country which he said was "probably unique to India and probably to some extent to China".

"Even in Ramayana, when Lord Rama went to Lanka he did not rule it. He gave it to Vibhishan to rule it.

This nation does not have the history of ruling other countries," he said, adding, the country cannot be weak.

Parrikar said the biggest defence is to be strong, reports PTI. "I promise the task given to me, I will fulfill...You can expect lot of things," he said.

Asked what was the specific task given to him by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Parrikar said, "defence is one field which requires a Pics: PTI

At least seven persons, including two women, were killed and nine injured when a private bus fell into a gorge at Haripur Dhar-Solan road in Himachal Pradesh on Sunday.

All seven persons were killed on the spot and most of the injured were in a critical condition, SDM Ashok Chauhan of Sangrah, said. The bus, with 20 passengers was going from village Ratwa to Baddi in Solan when it skidded off the road and rolled nearly 500 meters down a gorge near village Chail.

Husbands kill wives, following discord

A 52-year-old woman and her daughter were allegedly strangled to death by their respective husbands, following a discord between the daughter and her husband in Pasodara village of Kamrej taluka of Surat, police said on Sunday.

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EW DELHI: A reduction of the scope of subsidies currently being provided to welloff people appears to be on the anvil with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley questioning the justification of 'unquantified' subsidy amounts to 'unidentifiable' sections.

However, he maintained that some element of subsidy will have to remain for a large section who are entitled to it since the country has lot of poor people who need state support.

"Yesterday, I had said why should people like you and me get an LPG subsidy and look at the kind of burden it is having on the budget. We have started living with the deficit budget. We just make sure that our fiscal deficit is not beyond a particular point," he said at an interaction with PTI journalists at the agency's headquarters. Some element of subsidy, he said, would always be required because there were lot of poor people who need support.

"But then you cannot have such sections enjoying the benefit who are not entitled to," he added.

Under the current dispensation, the Minister said the government targets a specific number for deficit and in turn borrows from the market to fund current expenditure.

"You cannot have a subsidy, an

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DRESS REHEARSAL: NCC cadets from MP and Chhattisgarh participate in the 66th NCC Day celebration in Bhopal on Sunday.

Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar with minister of state for defence, Rao Inderjit Singh, during the inauguration of the Information Management & Analysis Centre (IMAC) of Navy in Gurgaon on Sunday. lot of secrecy," but added that the outcome of the task is to assure that the defence sector gets its due and becomes a cohesive strong force making India self- sufficient.

"Energy security and your own security cannot be dependent on others. You can't depend on some foreign countries for all your procurements," he said.

Parrikar noted that defence equipments are purchased for a period of 20-30 years.

"You can't suddenly find yourself trapped in a condition that the party which has supplied you the material faces some blockade or some sanctions for supply to conflict zone," he said.

Parrikar praised the IMAC and said he appreciates the "quick and fast delivery" of system because he thinks it should ensure "99.99 per cent" against incidents like the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks by earlier detection.

He underlined that there should be "zero tolerance to error".

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A hardcore follower of fundamentals and a firm believer of the India growth story, Devang Mehta has in-depth expertise on market strategy and investment advisory.

Presently, Head of Equity Advisory at Anand Rathi Financial Services, this Market Wizard in conversation with Dominic Rebello reveals some interesting insights into the ball-game called money making, His mantra: ‘Short term trends do not have material impact on long term wealth creation goals’. Community development and spending quality time with family and friends as also cricket and reading are a few activities which he is involved in, when he is not cracking the markets.

WE ARE IN A STRONG STRUCTURAL A little background about yourself?

With 16 years of overall experience in the field of investment advisory, client relationship management and business development, I head the Pan India Equity Advisory for Anand Rathi. I am a hardcore follower of fundamentals and a firm believer of the India growth story; I have traveled across the length and breadth of the country (Urban, semi urban, rural) addressing investor camps to elucidate the advantages and importance of equity in overall financial planning.

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

I was always fascinated by the financial markets right from a very young age. I was barely 14 years old and in my ninth standard, when I used to learn and assist my father in filling up IPO forms. My father is an avid investor. I was raring to go, but was a minor and hence not allowed!

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

I am purely into fundamentals. I believe in the Warren buffet Style of investing. He uses a terminology called the “Economic moat�. The moat is "something that gives a company a clear advantage over others and protects it against incursions from the competition."

How would you describe your methodology?

I buy businesses that have a more sustainable and durable competitive advantage. By having a well-known

BULL RUN brand name, pricing power and a large portion of market demand, a company with a wide moat possesses characteristics that act as barriers against other companies wanting to enter into the industry.

I can talk only about investing. Equity investments are very critical to achieve long-term financial goals.

They play a very important role in cre-

ation, preservation and multiplication of wealth over the long term.

How much of what you do is

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gut felt?

Though fundamentals should be the deciding factor, you have to stick your neck out sometimes and go against the tide. Being a contrarian helps sometimes, but not always. It is absolutely critical to overcome greed and fear while investing in the markets.

Do you try to anticipate or follow market trends?

Short term trends do not have material impact on long term wealth

What appeals to you about Investing; The short or long side?

I am an eternally optimistic guy. I firmly believe that India as a growth destination is here to stay and hence prudence lies in being long only!

Invest in great businesses.

What differentiates you from other traders/Investors?

Everyone has a unique style. When there’s a high quality business selling at a reasonable price, it’s probably a good idea for me to buy. My passion and patience differentiate me from others.

What gives you that edge?

Be positive (B+), even my blood group says that!! You have to be passionate, which I am. The stock market is more about sticking to the basics and logical thinking rather than trying to demystify complex terminologies.

Is there any applicable lesson to investing?

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creation goals. For traders, the trend is their friend, but for an investor volatility can work to your advantage.

That’s because, historically, sharp swings have canceled each other out to produce, over time, a gentle upward trend for stocks. If this pattern continues, volatility should make you richer, since you can periodically buy stocks at a discount.

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?

Never try to average your investment cost in fundamentally-weak or bad stocks. Even if you have made a wrong decision by investing in such stocks, be ready to accept it; exit and book a loss. A three letter word called “EGO” should not come in your way while admitting that you have made an error.

Any positions you ever lost sleep over?

Investors must remember stocks play a specific role in their portfolio, and it’s not to provide solace every night or even comfort over the next year or two. What stocks do is provide crucial protection over time from inflation, which is a bigger threat to your long-term financial well-being than any one-day swing. If you keep looking at the stock tickers every day and act on them, you may miss the bigger picture.

What would make you wary about an Investment?

There can be instances like a) the company which I have bought after thorough research is delivering consistently bad numbers. b) Serious corporate governance issue creeping up. c) New regulatory issues for the sector and hence the company.

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

Since early 2013, when the Sensex

was at 19500, we have been talking about our bullish stance on equities and our belief of market doubling in the next 3 years. We strongly believe that we are in the midst of a strong structural bull run, which can last for at least another 5 years. With a conducive economic scenario, macroeconomic fundamentals bottoming out, with a stable and strong government, we will see earnings growth and PE re-ratings upwards, building a case like never before for the market to reach uncharted territories. If earnings conservatively grow at a CAGR of 15 % in the next five years, you can imagine where the indices will reach!!

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

My first investment turned out to be my best. As soon as I turned 18, the first equity investment I made was in the IPO of Pidilite Industries, the maker of Fevicol. The stock price has returned over 32 % annually since my investment. The company’s robust fundamentals supported the

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strong rally in the stock price. This highlights the power of compounding and long term investing.

What was the story there?

Being in a niche space, the company enjoyed good pricing power that provided the much-needed durable competitive advantage. Pidilite Industries is the market leader in adhesives and sealants, construction chemicals, hobby colours and polymer emulsions in India. The brand name Fevicol has become synonymous with adhesives to millions in India and is ranked amongst the most trusted brands in India. I’m still invested in that stock, despite its price having grown multi-fold in the last 20 years.

What makes an investor successful?

Equities are long-haul investments; they deliver healthy returns over a longer time horizon. Rome was not built in a day. Invest only your surplus and do not leverage. My success mantra is to go for fundamentallystrong stocks with a good business

model. It is also important to ensure that you invest in companies with good corporate governance and trustworthy promoters.

Any final words?

Errors are strongest when uncertainty, inexperience, attitudes and market pressures come together to undermine decision-making ability. If you think you don’t have the time and resources to study companies before investing, let the experts like mutual fund managers do the job for you. Instead of seeking tips and multi-bagger ideas, ask for sound investment and portfolio advice.

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

India is in an enviable position.

Markets will be on an upward trajectory on the back of improved earnings growth, PE rerating, renewed vigor shown by the government to initiate reforms, lower crude prices, lower inflation and supportive global cues and decent earnings.

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By A Business Reporter e are redefining homes and lifestyles by providing ultra-luxurious living.

Ajmera Aria is created to provide an aristocratic lifestyle that is unheard of. This residential project at such a prime location at Koregaon Park, North Main Road, is a benchmark for deluxe living. This project was designed as the final destination for a home-seeker. It is a house that one would aspire to live in. Ajmera Aria is an introduction to quality living – a home for the connoisseur, who desires a luxurious piece-a-terre, and true value for the money spent!” says Ashwin Ajmera, Director, Ajmera Housing Corporation.

He was commenting on his most ambitious project; the Ajmera Aria, super luxurious homes for the high net worth individuals at the prestigious Koregaon Park in Pune. Aimed to reflect sheer class, the bare shell sky villas come with the exciting option of designing and doing up the interiors of each home, to suit the buyers own tastes and preferences, making these insanely ultra-luxury homes!

With the construction complete and apartments ready for fitment, Ajmera Aria comprises of only 25 exclusive homes of 5850 sqft expansive elegance, with 2 flats per floor, in the 13 storeys building. The builtto-suit column-less architecture creates seamless space so that every flat can be designed as per the owner’s preference and flexibility – thus it can be a spacious 4 bedroom layout or a 5 bedroom design. The

<<Ashwin Ajmera, Director, Ajmera Housing Corporation spacious, contemporary home also offers breathtaking panoramic views over the terraces, that flow seamlessly from the living room and the master bedroom..

However, the masterpiece in this prestigious top-end super-luxurious apartment is the vast living room, which has a double height ceiling, standing magnificently tall at 24 ft.

Adding a sense of limitless space and freedom, the ceiling is a testament to expansive luxurious living, designed on par with international

living standards!

A Jacuzzi and personal paddle pools in every apartment adds to its excellence as does a private lift, which provides direct access to the apartment. 3 car parks per residence and 20,000 sqft of amenities area for the 25 residential apartments also add to its status.

At Rs.8.5 crores and upwards, the most expensive millionaire homes in Pune, Ajmera Aria is a modern example of world-class infrastructure for theUber Rich.

he benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty registered new highs by rising 267 points and 75 points respectively to close at the 28334 and 8477 points levels respectively last Friday. While the Nifty closed just short of the 8500 points level, the Sensex closed above the 28000 points level throughout the week.

However, the market is likely to be volatile this week. The Current Account Deficit (CAD) figures for the September quarter will be announced today, while the (F&O) futures & options expiry, coupled with the September quarter GDP data, which will be announced on Friday November 28 may influence the trend. The RBI meet on December 2 will also weigh on the minds of the market players.

Last week the sectors that gained the most were public sector banks, capital goods, infra, auto and FMCG stocks. Positive global cues led by comments from European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi raised expectations for aggressive quantitative easing measures from the ECB going ahead. The upcoming Winter session in which reforms bills are expected to be tabled and passed along with the merger of Kotak Mahindra and ING Vysya led the bullish sentiment.

“Nifty scaled new highs and was led by banking stocks. RBI lifting FII restriction of share purchase of Yes bank, Kotak Mahindra acquisition of ING Vysya, SBI stock split and strength in Rupee together lifted Bank Nifty. Anticipation of GST bill implementation also led to positive sentiment. Globally, Asian provided positive sentiment after China’s central bank’s announcement of $8.17 infusion in its economy, Japan’s snap elections and service tax hike delay,

US jobless claims falling and inflation remaining stable,” said Kiran Kumar Kavikondala Director & CEO, WealthRays Securities said.

“Markets ended the week on a high. Supportive global cues, expectations of improvement in growth rates and expectations of an early interest rate cut, kept sentiments positive.

Banking stocks were the major gainers for the day. We expect markets to remain focused on the upcoming RBI meeting on December 2. Any dovish signal from the RBI will buoy sentiments within the economy and lead to further improvement at the ground level. The markets will react positively to the same, we believe,” said Dipen Shah, Head- Private Client Group Research, Kotak Securities.

"The equity markets were seen rejoicing last Friday. This indicates that investors are hopeful for the announcement of new reforms in the upcoming winter session of parliament, which begins next week.

However, lack of broader participation in the rally made the stock selection difficult for the traders. We believe this upward would continue but broader participation is required to regain the momentum. Meanwhile, participants are advised to uphold stock specific approach and strictly avoid illiquid stocks from the cash segment," said Jayant Manglik, President-retail distribution, Religare Securities..

All About SIP, STP And SWP

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RASHMI RODDAM Director, WealthRays Securities

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utual funds provide an option of investing a lump-sum amount or small amounts on a monthly or quarterly basis. Investing in mutual funds in small installments is called Systematic investment plan in short SIP. It is advised to invest in mutual funds as SIP rather than investing as lumpsum because of cost averaging which increases returns. But

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how does it really work?

Let say if you are starting SIP in November 2014 with Rs. 5000, by the end of February 2015, you would accumulate 1068 units with cost averaging to 18.73 as seen in the table below.

But if it were to be a lump-sum Month

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investment of Rs. 20000 in Nov 2014, then units bought would be 1000 and the cost of purchase is Rs. 20. So it is always good to take SIP route whether it is equity fund or debt

fund. However, if you are investing lump-sum amount in mutual fund then choose Systematic Transfer Plan (STP) option. Under STP, lump-sum amount is invested in one mutual fund and a fixed amount is transferred to another mutual fund on a specified date. If you are investing Rs. 2 lakhs, instead of risking the entire amount by investing in equity fund you may invest in debt fund under STP plan in which Rs. 2 lakhs would be invested in a debt fund and you would specify the amount of Rs. 1000 or Rs. 2000 to be transferred every month on a pre-determined date into a equity fund. This will help investors with comparatively lower risk – appetite to take advantage of returns in equity fund. Either one could choose a specific amount exclusively where amount will be transferred to another fund only when total value of investment in the fund

reaches a certain amount. Also STP works as SIP to equity fund and cost of purchase of equity fund averages out in the long run. Choose STP when lump-sum investment is above Rs. 1 lakh as a decent amount can be invested in another fund on a monthly or quarterly basis. AMC’s also have minimum amount requirement when STP is opted. STP option works well when markets are volatile and investors are not able to judge the direction of markets in the short term. If markets are stable and ready

for a bull run, then SIP would give better returns as compared to STP. If investors are ready to take risk, then STP can be used in the reverse way during a bull run, where you invest lumpsum in equity fund and profits can be chosen as STP amount that goes into debt fund. But this could be risky as retail investors will not have enough tools or resources in terms of time and knowledge to identify the end of a bull run.

Systematic withdrawal plan (SWP) helps investors to redeem certain amount from mutual funds at regular intervals on a pre-determined date.

Here, redeemed amount will be transferred to investor’s bank account.

This acts as regular earnings on a monthly or quarterly basis especially post retirement. Choose SIP, STP and SWP as per your requirement to enjoy optimum benefit from each of these options.

USD/INR Unable To Sustain Above The 62 Level ANINDYA BANERJEE

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fter a long time, we saw the Dollar/Rupee cross the 62.00 handle, but could not sustain as alleged central bank offers coupled with exporter and FII sell interest pushed it down towards 61.78 levels on spot. We have argued in the past that the yen carry flows and other forms of financial flows that are heading into the Indian financial markets, will make it difficult for the Rupee to depreciate in a straight line. We have heard that the demand for reserves from the central bank tends to extinguish above the 62.00 handle and could be another reason why USD/INR is unable to sustain beyond that level.

India's external merchandise trade data had little to cheer about.

Imports rose 3.62% in October to USD 39.45 bn. Oil imports contracted by around 19%, not a surprise, as global crude oil prices had fallen by nearly a fifth in that month. Import of bullion metals rose by nearly 280% at USD 4.1 bn. Non-oil and non-bullion imports, an indicator of domestic consumption and investment demand, rose by nearly 6% at USD 22.98 bn. However, exports contracted by 5.04% to USD 26.09 bn in October from USD 27.48 bn a year earlier. On a month on month basis, exports contracted by over 9%. The fall in exports, was the first this financial year. The decline was primarily due to fall in exports of major export items such as engineering goods, drugs and pharmaceuticals and gems, petroleum products and jewellery. One can argue that the contraction in exports of petroleum goods was on account of plunge in petroleum prices but that argument does not explain the broad based contraction in exports of other goods.

Trade deficit for October rose to USD 13.35 bn from USD 10.59 bn in October 2013. In September this year, it had widened to USD 14.25 bn. Total exports in the April-October 2014 period, at USD 189.79 bn, were 4.72% higher than in the corre-

sponding period of the previous fiscal year. The cumulative value of imports for the April-October period was USD 273.55 bn, 1.86% higher than imports in the same period last year. The trade deficit during this period was at USD 83.75 bn, lower than the deficit of USD 87.31 bn in April-October 2013.

Global markets were in a jubilant mood as two major central banks offered liquidity and promise of more liquidity in the future. Chinese central bank reduced its benchmark oneyear loan rate by 0.4 percentage point to 5.6%, marking the first interest-rate cut since July 2012. The PBOC also reduced the benchmark one-year deposit rate to 2.75% from 3% but gave banks greater flexibility to raise deposit rates above that benchmark. Over the past one year as Chinese economy has been facing the twin menace of slowing growth

and mounting debt. At the producer level, prices have been in deflationary zone for the last so many months. A combination of high debt and deflation is a dangerous cocktail that can swallow any economy. For China, the leverage in the private sector as well as in the government owned enterprises are backed by assets which have become unproductive or idled in the wake of slowing global economy. Such a mix of adverse forces is now slowing growth and making the debt gradually unserviceable.

Last week, global economic data releases had more hits than misses.

US economic performance showed improvement. However, we would expect a slowdown in the final quarter of this year, if the winter continues to harsher than normal. US housing sector is showing some signs of life as mortgage rates have eased. Regional

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economic surveys for the month of November were better than estimates but industrial production for last month contracted by 0.1% m/m.

In Japan, PM Shinzo Abe announced snap elections in December and also deferred tax hike.

Japanese PM also promised fiscal stimulus to boost economic growth.

Japan entered into recession in third quarter as domestic demand has been hit by a one two punch of hike in sales tax and weak Yen. We had in the past argued that weak Yen policy can have adverse impact on Japanese consumers, as cost of imported goods move up. Incase Shinzo Abe is able to secure a strong mandate in the December elections, then we can expect a stimulus package to be announced in January-February of 2015, leading to a sharp boost in GDP during the first half of 2015.

Over the next week, traders will keep a close eye on the Q2F15 current account data from India, where the current account deficit is expected to increase from the USD 8 bn it registered during Q1FY15. Indian Rupee is expected to trade within a range of 61.40/50 and 61.90/62.00 on spot. However, Rupee can remain a candidate for buy on dips against the Euro, Pound and Yen.

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Why Does Everybody Love To Hate The Indian Real Estate Sector?

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Over the years, Indian real estate has been a seemingly limitless source of negative hype. Scams, controversies, rumblings about delayed projects, agitations by consumers and debates about the over/under-regulation of the real estate sector have all provided ready cannon fodder for countless publications, internet forums and assorted activists. In fact, the real estate sector has drawn more media flak and outrage than any other industry in India.

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his tempts the question – why is Indian real estate a sector that everyone loves to hate? It is a valid question, and one that many corporate heads, industrialists and big-ticket investors have asked me during my business travels abroad. The question – or variants of it is sometimes asked in an amused and otherwise unconcerned manner, but more often with real interest tinged with worry. After all, almost everyone with a healthy investor instinct has or intends to have a piece of the massive Indian growth story, and any kind of participation in it invariably involves real estate.

There is no easy answer to this question, which is in any case a rather unfair one to begin with. Nevertheless, the generalized negativity about the Indian real estate sector that has been created in the public mind is a reality.

I usually counter the question with another question – “What have you read or heard about it that makes you think so?” My intention is not to be evasive, but to understand whether the question comes from a real understanding of the Indian real estate industry and its complexities, or whether it just a knee-jerk reaction to yet another hyped-up media report. Very often, the questioner is genuinely informed and has been following media stories about the sector quite closely, but no longer knows what to believe.

This is understandable, and I invariably ask my questioners if they have enough time for a detailed answer.

After all, this confusion is the result of a war of opinion that has been waged against the Indian real estate sector for quite a while. The controversy is made even more complex by the fact that it is being actively encouraged by people who have no interest in presenting a more realistic picture of the Indian real estate industry.

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Real estate is something that lives and breathes at the very core of every Indian’s being, not least of all because

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Globalization has opened wide range of avenues for students. As a result, students are able to realize their ambition of studying abroad in any corner of the world and avail the best of education. Among many other things that are required for trouble-free stay for students overseas, one of the most important items to consider is a Student

it is considered the most important manifestation of success, wealth and power. Unfortunately, the fact that real estate transmits such signals in India has made it an object of not only admiration and desire, but also of something close to fear. While fear is invariably the result of a lack of understanding, it is nonetheless a very real force on the ground.

Naturally, any environment involving fear also needs villains. It is almost axiomatic that Indian real estate developers are the designated ‘bad guys’ – the greedy perpetrators of crimes against the helpless common man, wielding their wealth and political clout with impunity, with the sole intention of turning a profit and furthering their own agenda.

Such a stage-setting lends itself rather well to a protracted public drama involving the tantalizing element of good battling evil; of victims versus perpetrators. The epic battle of the Mahabharata, as it were, translated into present-day brick and mortar. Such a drama is readily absorbed by Indians almost by default, but is more damaging is the fact that it is also exotically interesting to foreign palates.

Market watchers in countries that India has or is seeking to have economic ties cannot but notice the bad press that Indian real estate is getting. This is how the unfair and wildly inaccurate blacks and whites of the Indian condition as depicted by ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, become superimposed on an industry which is - if fact be told - the backbone of the country’s economy.

If we take a closer look at Indian real estate today, there is no escaping how important it is: The Indian real estate sector generates employment for about 7.6 million people across the country last year Real estate is the most single-important consideration for any foreign company eyeing Indian shores to launch operations and create countless more jobs Real estate’s overall contribution to India’s GDP was estimated at about 6% in 2013 Real estate constantly cross-fertilizes other industries like cement, steel, paint, chemicals, tiles, fixtures and fittings The scams that have so seriously impacted the image and credibility of Indian real estate in the past were not the result of a unified developer nexus, but the work of individual players whose crimes have now been attributed to the industry at large. Should we not also consider how some of India’s biggest real estate developers took incredible risks to open up entire new cities to add to the country’s growth?

The urbanization that is the focal point of India’s economic growth hinges on the growth of its cities, and therefore on the products that real estate developers deliver.

Wherever we see new cities rise from obscurity into promi-

innumerable projects and added to overall development costs by about 15%, including the fungible premium builders had to pay for the additional 35% FSI option. The fact that this resulted in a cumulative 20% hike in construction cost and led to price increases across most projects in MMR is just one aspect of the story.

The other fallout was that developers had to re-work the specifications of their upcoming as well as on-going unapproved projects, which led to significant project delays.

Apart from an exacerbated cash-crunch, developers also had to contend with the ire of their buyers.

Likewise, while certain instances of faulty land acquisition or title disputes are endemic to fly-by-night operators, it is also true that cases such as in the Noida Extension, land acquisition issues have been legally established to be the fault of the involved authorities. But as always, the blame has been conveniently laid at the feet of a vaguelydefined builder nexus.

REAL ESTATE SECTOR IS CHANGING

nence, there are developers restructuring skylines, building homes for population and office spaces for them to work in.

No Indian’s heart can help but swell with pride as they perceive a city like Mumbai, Gurgaon or Bangalore from the air as their planes prepare to land there. What gorgeous evidence of progress is displayed in the tapestry of skyscrapers jostling each other for space, road networks spreading out to connect new areas to existing ones, and office and manufacturing complexes providing the economic nerve-centres.

This is the work of real estate developers, but their contributions towards weaving the very fabric of our cities is overshadowed by the specter of antipathy that has been generated against the entire real estate sector. We must try to understand the basis for this antipathy before we can explain it.

At the end of the day, real estate is a business like any other, and no industry can claim to be free of flaws and anomalies. Almost every day, we hear about delayed projects, deviations from project quality and configurations, and additional payments being charged for changes in apartment areas. We read about how real estate is the first port of call for politicians looking to off-load their unaccounted funds, about developers who have launched projects on land which has not been cleared for development, and how others have been pulled up for flouting FSI and environmental norms.

Such things do occur, and the developers who practice business in such a manner must be held responsible and brought to book. However, these developers do not represent the industry as a whole – they are anomalies that must be eradicated, not symptoms of an industry-spanning pandemic of manipulation and wrongdoing.

A CLOSER LOOK AT PROJECT DELAYS

Most of the extensively-reported incidents of delayed project completion are often not the result of malpractice, but of a flawed regulatory environment. It is true that some unscrupulous smaller developers intentionally undertake a slower pace of construction if sales in the project are sluggish or a larger part of the project is unsold. However, in most of the cases being touted as evidence of a corrupt industry, delays have happened because the authorities have not granted timely approvals and the morass of bureaucratic red tape that developers have to navigate for every project.

Before a project is officially launched on the market and offered to buyers, there are myriad permissions that a developer needs to obtain from the state and central agencies and ministries. This does not only lead to delays, but also cost escalations.

Like in any other business, the longer raw material is held, the higher is the holding cost – which, in addition to interest costs in case of borrowed funds, causes an

increase in the overall price of the finished product. In real estate, land is the basic raw material for development, with construction materials being the variable costs. The longer a developer has to hold his land without getting any receipts through the sale of proposed apartments, the higher his project costs escalate.

The time consumed in obtaining all approvals adds to the total time expended in completing and delivering the project as per the promised times. Obtaining the 57-odd permissions to begin construction of a project can take as much as two years. During this time, the cost of acquisition or even just holding the land for a project rises.

Builders already have to cover external and internal development charges, license costs and often charges for change of land use from various departments, which have also risen. Cost of construction has gone up by more than 35%, as well.

Again, if we consider changes in the apartment area or unexpected price increases after consumers have purchased properties from a developer, these too often occur because changes in project plans were required by the authorities before they issue an approval. There are many examples of how abrupt changes in regulations governing real estate development have worked against both developers and real estate buyers.

To cite just one – a couple of years ago, there were revisions made in the DCR regulations for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region which simultaneously road-blocked

The ugly caricature of Indian real estate as an industry controlled by corrupt despots is naive, hopelessly outdated and extremely damaging to the country’s global image as a thriving economic dynamo. The fly-by-night players who were responsible for this image are still around, but their ranks are rapidly decreasing. In the meantime, it makes absolutely no sense to paint every real estate developer with the same brush. Most large listed real estate developers in India today have wholeheartedly embraced the mantra of complete transparency.

They are selling their products on the basis of declared carpet area, firmly refuse any hint of black money monies as part of their sales transactions, and do everything in their power to deliver their products on time. They are also fighting hard to correct the structural deficiencies of the overall regulatory system – not only because their businesses are suffering on account of conflicting rules and regulations, but because they are being held accountable for factors which are beyond their control. They take their roles as industry stakeholders very seriously, and are among the loudest voices in the outcry for positive change at a policy and regulatory level.

Common to all these players is a vision of Indian real estate as a level playing field in which the business of real estate development and consumption can be carried out in a rational, transparent and uniformly beneficial manner.

This is a long and detailed counter-argument to offer to a simple question – why does everyone love to hate Indian real estate? And for this reason, I only answer it if the question comes from someone who is willing to accept a balanced response, no matter how long it takes to give.

Student Travel Insurance Essential For Students Studying Abroad?

Travel Insurance.

India has always been on the forefront in sending students to the overseas universities in the US, UK and Australia. According to estimates, more than 200,000 students applied for the admission in the leading universities overseas in the year 2013. Given their natural affinity towards academics, students from India tend to do well in the global universities, especially in the fields of science and technology. Studying abroad in a foreign land entails a lot of risk. Safety is always a concern for students as well as their families. Staying miles away from the loved ones in a new country with strangers all around comes with its own bag of worries. Also, there is always a need for someone to take care of your worries and be there with you at the time of emergency. Medical expenses / hospitalization costs in foreign currency can also be prohibitively expensive. A student living alone outside India might also need visits from family or other back-ups if something goes wrong.

To be able to focus on their mission and not worry

about any unexpected hurdles that come their way, Student Travel Insurance is a must for students studying overseas. This insurance is specifically for those students who are traveling abroad for higher education purposes. It is mandatory in the US and the UK to have an insurance policy as the cost of health insurance is exorbitant. An insurance cover is mandatory also because of any emergency that may arise during the tenure of stay in a foreign land. Most top Universities insist on students having medical coverage of $250,000 (INR 15,13,750).

Most General Insurance companies in India offer Travel Insurance, especially designed for students travelling abroad. This policy provides a comprehensive medical and non-medical insurance coverage for Indian students travelling to study abroad. It covers much more and costs much less than the medical covers available in

abroad. The cover is primarily meant for accidents and emergencies. This policy also provides medical and nonmedical insurance coverage throughout the student’s period of study with auto-renewal and extension facilities. Pre-existing diseases are excluded from these insurances.

Some of the key coverages one should be looking for in a Student Insurance policy are as follows...

Contents Insurance: A student today will invariably be travelling with at least his/her mobile phone and laptop.

Hence, it makes sense to take insurance that provides coverage for valuables. Some policies have a property and casualty feature, which ensures that you are reimbursed even if your valuables are stolen or damaged during the course of the trip.

Personal Liability Feature: When you are travelling abroad, there are bound to be cultural differences. You would not want to get into a legal bind as a result, but you can at least be prepared for such a contingency. If you

shop around a little, you might even find Travel Insurance policies for students that throw in the personal liability component free of cost.

Medical Coverage: Whether you are travelling for a few weeks or a few years, there is no avoiding medical coverage. Having to go to a foreign hospital can massively dent your limited finances. So instead of wishing for great health for the duration of your travel, make sure that your travel insurance provides adequate medical coverage.

Study Interruption Component: An overseas degree never comes cheap. So, it makes sense to purchase travel insurance that will provide coverage in case your studies are interrupted due to some unforeseen factor.

While buying a Student Travel Insurance policy, one should ensure that the policy is accepted by the overseas university he/she is applying to. Also, students travelling abroad and their parents must know what is typically covered and what is not in the plan that they are selecting for their children.

E-Commerce Needs More Regulation

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onsumer confidence to shop online will continue to rise and India will have 100 million online shoppers by 2016. This was revealed

by Google last week, in its annual online shopping growth trends report, compiled by combining extensive research conducted by Forrester Consulting and Google search trends. The report revealed that India’s e-tailing market is at an inflection point and will see rapid growth to become a $15 billion or over Rs 90,000 crore market by 2016.

Well, thats the good news.But if the debacle of Fliplarts one day sale on October 6, is anything to go by, than clearly our house is not in order. Considering that it is the 'biggest and best name' in the business and yet it floundered is something that raises concern for the future of the industry. That Flipkart, so we learn, has resolved every consumer grievance and was hugely apologetic also provides some relief. But that was not the end of it. Perhaps, it was the huge media and public uproar as also the intervention of Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs .Nirmala Sitharaman's intervention or else it was simply Flipkart's effort to keep its credibility at stake that brought about an ammicable resolution to the issue.

But what about the johnnys'-come-lately? Today, many a companies big and small are flocking the eCommerce space. Not much regulation is required and almost anybody can use the online route to sell wares or services.No attention is being paid to the “fly by night' operators who could creep into the system, and this is where the danger lies.

While e-commerce in India is also required to be conducted in a legally permissible manner and the information technology act 2000 (IT Act 2000) prescribes stringent penal and pecuniary penalties for violation of its provisions during e-commerce transactions, this is not sufficient. It focusses on fraud as a crime. It focusses on other laws that govern general businesses. But what about consumer protection?

What if the transaction is legally, clean and does not amount to a crime, but a consumer is short changed through defective goods orservices or through overcharging? Then the only recourse is the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 that has to be pursued through Consumer Disputes Redressal Agencies. And that in India is a cumbersome and often dissappointing solution. The lenthy and time consuming processes results in many an unfortunate consumer giving up on his rights and writing of his loss as an act of fate.

And herein lies the catch. Fraudsters know that they can play it safe within the periphery of the law.

'Short change, don't cheat and get away with it' would be their route to easy money. And this is where the government needs to pay attention. Else geniune businesses reputations as also the sector as a whole will suffer, as will the Indian consumer.

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

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014

F&O SCRIPS WEEKLY SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE LEVELS FOR NOVEMBER 24 -- 28, 2014 Close

PP

R1

1776

1790

1860

478

485

520

1470

1476

270

136

112

103

104

78

85

87

95

APOLLOHOSP

1197

293

ANDHRABANK APOLLOTYRE ARVIND

ASHOKLEY

ASIANPAINT

224 53

692

50

53

239

252

1178

1329

291

309

228 54

691

JSWSTEEL

286

128

225

414

333

120

226

450

318

119

47

556

244 57

720

43

1321

40

212

198

1481

1027

876

327

273

260 61

749

211 50

662

70

195

255

46

633

AUROPHARMA

1116

1122

1176

1230

1068

1014

BAJAJ-AUTO

2679

2671

2735

2798

2607

2544

BANKINDIA

277

281

306

331

256

231

AXISBANK

BANKBARODA BANKNIFTY BATAINDIA

BHARATFORG BHARTIARTL

479

18554

19175

17312

16691

924

988

1052

860

796

916

401

399

459

454

271

268

BPCL

726

CANBK

397

CENTURYTEX

555

CIPLA

628

CESC

422 266 481

729

756

403

439

565

283

COLPAL

1899

DABUR

DISHTV

DIVISLAB

DJIA.Dec 19 DLF

DRREDDY

EICHERMOT EXIDEIND

FEDERALBNK

FTSE100.Dec 19 GAIL

GLENMARK GMRINFRA

GODREJIND

376

232

783

702

475

367

508 298

728

11617

1249

283

676

11631

CROMPGREAV

445

669

793

COALINDIA

1436

617

715

CNXIT

692

249

1374

974

436

17933

1312

1168

456

18097

1297

1103

515

1039

252

CAIRN

495

1042

BHEL

BIOCON

476

910

1187

12135

11358

11099

1935

2060

2185

1810

1685

232

233

245

256

221

210

1736

1731

1774

196

61

197

61

365 215

68

379

232

75

1817

336

180

55

1688

321

162

48

1645

17638

17619

17749

17879

17489

17359

3531

3510

3650

3790

3370

3230

141

14568

156

148

140

14527 159

146

149

15881 169

155

158

17235

179

164

132

13173 149 137

123

11819

139

128

6532

6545

6583

6621

6507

6469

822

810

887

965

733

656

477 20

287

484

20

294

516

22

315

548

23

336

452

19

273

420

17

252

GRASIM

3547

3569

3699

3828

3440

3311

HCLTECH

1642

1628

1695

1761

1562

1495

935

931

963

995

899

HAVELLS HDFC

HDFCBANK HDIL

HEROMOTOCO HEXAWARE HINDALCO

312

1137 82

311

1127

84

327

1164

1202

94

103

160

159

166

173

151

144

221

220

234

173

1716

170

756 80

1736

71

173

758 81

72

IDFC

158

159

IGL

418

425

INDIACEM

INDUSINDBK

40

104 716

40

107

718

INFY

4160

4177

IOC

346

349

IOB IRB ITC

57

269

376

58

578

156

1789

1862

1643

1570

182

193

158

146

794

89

97

77

168

43

455

118

753

83

741

723

73

65

67

177

150

484

396

47

129

789

472

36 97

682

148 61

141 33

366

86

647

4286

4395

4068

3960

372

396

325

302

387

400

360

346

76

67

62

301

148

168

JPASSOCIAT

31

33

37

85

192

182

776

143

84

206 507

274

373

248 614

JINDALSTEL JISLJALEQS

66

867

2819

165

IFCI

75

2915

164

IDEA

1052

3201

HINDZINC IDBI

1089

3106

543

ICICIBANK

277

3010

536

IBREALEST

294

3026

HINDPETRO

HINDUNILVR

344

95

67

328

54

248

187

129

41

28

104

49

221 110

24

74

79

85

416

1622 154

440

1718

128

464

391

1802

1251

1303

3350

3356

1220 31809

246

441

3529

1431

167

1725

303

NFTYMCAP50

NMDC

11876

350

73

MINDTREE

462

520

648

141

MARUTI

NHPC

560

901

1251

239 330

1660

M&M

253

675

1407

1648

MRF

68

1354

1200

1148

3452

3548

3260

3164

1198

1347

1496

1049

900

32280

33849

35419

30710

29141

308 246

439

3474

333

262

470

3638

1555

358 278

501

3802

1416 282 231

408

3310

21

22

23

19

8459

8601

8743

8317

NTPC

143

145

152

159

138

147

159

170

138

128

131

281

284

312

340

256

228

297

296

361

264

147

147

159

141

102

RCOM

109

619 341

504

1000

RELINFRA

149

18

8175 3084

PTC

RELIANCE

3146

3195

981

RELCAPITAL

377

3530

PNB

RECLTD

215

3419

189

RANBAXY

257

3307

PETRONET

POWERGRID

1370

3309 385

PFC

63

367

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ORIENTBANK

114

1495

1508

8492

ONGC

1336

1571

1462

NIFTY OFSS

63

1032

1154

1470

MOTHERSUMI

73

1125

S2

12

1201

1665

MCLEODRUSS

101

1404

S1

13

1332

1527

LT

M&MFIN

17

1399

416

LUPIN

92

1311

R2

1598

144

LICHSGFIN

16

1532

KTKBANK L&TFH

82

1218

R1

1465

1532

KOTAKBANK

PP

14

1464

JUSTDIAL

215

638

348

83

1191

JUBLFOOD

400

572

14

JSWENERGY

427

514

Close

353

870

624

Company

JPPOWER

1399

ALBK

AMBUJACEM

302

S2

1648

1630

303

45

S1

1719

1553

ADANIPORTS

ADANIPOWER

R2

1931

390 192

406 207

329

423 221

972

1036

1100

101

110

119

621

109

331

505

153

691

125

375

552

178

908

92

356 163

232

844

135

83

761

552

482

418

288

245

959

927

141

93

78

598

459

747

586

533

992

1024

1057

73

78

84

413

626

640

2042

2067

2168

2270

1965

1864

SBIN

305

298

324

351

271

244

SKSMICRO

341

348

315

281

RPOWER

S&P500.Dec 19 SAIL

SIEMENS

71

83

910

85

693

373

91

98

67

78

920

982

1043

859

382

416

62

72

797

SRTRANSFIN

1058

1062

1111

1159

1014

965

SUNPHARMA

845

862

917

973

806

750

SYNDIBANK

128

129

145

121

435

439

SSLT

238

SUNTV

320

TATACHEM

426

TATACOMM

TATAGLOBAL

157

241

260

278

222

317

335

354

428

446

464

409

159

168

177

150

137

467

495

299

473

535

567

598

504

TATAPOWER

88

89

92

95

86

TATASTEEL

464

TCS

2623

TECHM TITAN UBL

UCOBANK

UNIONBANK UNITECH

2611

2667

233

778

ULTRACEMCO

473

2681 368

TVSMOTOR

332

86

354 507

2687

236

253

270

86

93

367 753

394

420

310

287

439

406

2534

218

201

341

667

582 2222

100

79

2838

2376

19

20

22

25

17

234

384

WIPRO

574

570

704

376

273

694 381

315

925

2684

276

2457

2347

2530 216

82

2507

2497 212

141

839

355

ZEEL

2764

2987

350

YESBANK

540

2827

UPL

VOLTAS

376

114

391

383

532 333

280

411

TATAMOTORS

TATAMTRDVR

204

252

198

72

181

15

413

325

296

591

611

550

529

401

421

292

729

311

764

254

660

361

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.

235

625

340

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014

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

—Legendary Investor Warren Buffett

« TECHNICAL PICKS

By Sanjay R. Bhatia

Nifty Scales New Peak NSE India : CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Monday (November 24, 2014) By Dominic Rebello

REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY:

The Nifty rose substantially on Friday (November 23, 2014) a net 75.45 points (0.90%) and closed at the 8477 point level. The market opened up with a gap at the 8408 points level. It then declined and registered the day’s low at the 8398 points level at 9.28 a.m. The index then rose sharply and turned into a range bound movement until 2.15 p.m. It then rose further and registered the day’s high at the 8489 points level at 2.36 p.m. and then turned into a range bound movement until closing at the day. The Nifty moved in a range of 91 points and closed above the psychologically important 8450 points level. Sentiment was bullish and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 36 were gainers, while 14 stocks closed in the red. Substantial buying was witnessed in banking and capital goods stocks.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Volume: Volume (Qty shares) increased 0.30%. 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, 629 were gainers, 873 were losers and 42 remained unchanged.

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

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

RSI Indicator: The RSI is above the 60 level and is now rising (positive if it continues).

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

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

Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main support is at the 8144 points level.

The next support is at the 8026 points level.

Resistance Levels: The immediate main resistance is at the 8496 points level.

The next resistance is at the 8538 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 = 8455 (This is the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-day).

Support (1) = 8421.

Support (2) = 8364.

Resistance (1) = 8512. Resistance (2) = 8546.

OUTLOOK FOR TODAY: On Japanese candlestick patterns the index after having formed a Dragon fly doji (indicating indecisiveness amongst investors) has formed a white body candle on higher volumes.

Further, the index has crossed above its 5 day’s moving average. The index is now above its 5, 15, 25 and 200-day’s moving average and all the four averages are rising and also positively trended. Moreover, the velocity parameters too indicate strength. All these indicate a positive bias and the possibility of a further up move unfolding. Investors are advised to hold long positions.

Work with strict stop losses on all positions

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

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

BUY Federal Bank of India above 149, Stop Loss 144, Target 160 Federal Bank of India is displaying a positive trend and trading close to its historic highs. It is displaying a higher top higher bottomformation. It is placed above its 200-day SMA, which is its long-term moving average and is a positive sign for the stock. The RSI is placed above its average, while the KST is on the verge of moving above its average. The volume recorded is good and is placed above its 10-day SMA. It is likely to move higher and should be bought above 149 with stop loss of 144 and Target Price of 160.

BUY Havells above 313, Stop Loss 307, Target 325 Havells is displaying a positive trend and trading at its historic highs. It is displaying a higher top higher bottom formation. It is placed above its 200-day SMA. The volume recorded is good and is placed above its 10-day SMA. The KST and RSI are placed above their respective averages .It is likely to move higher and should be bought above 313 with stop loss of 307 and Target price of 325.

BUY Godrej Properties above 254, Stop Loss 249, Target 265 Godrej Properties is displaying a positive trend. It is displaying a higher top higher bottomformation. It is placed above its 200-day SMA, which is its longterm moving average and is a positive sign for the stock. The volume recorded is good and it is placed above its 10-day SMA. The KST and RSI are placed above their respective averages. It is likely to move higher and it should be bought above 254 with stop loss of 249 and Target Price of 265.

BUY HDFC above 1137, Stop Loss 1122, Target 1170 HDFC is displaying a positive trend and is trading at historic highs. It is displaying a higher top higher bottom formation. It is placed above its 200-day SMA, which is its long-term moving average and is a positive sign for the stock. The volume recorded is average and it is placed marginally below its 10-day SMA. The KST and RSI are placed above their respective averages. It is likely to move higher and it should be bought above 1137 with stop loss of 1122 and Target Price of 1170.

BUY ICICI Bank above 1739, Stop Loss 1716, Target 1790 ICICI Bank is displaying a positive trend and is trading at historic highs. It is displaying a higher top higher bottom formation. It is placed above its 200-day SMA, which is its long-term moving average and is a positive sign for the stock. The volume recorded is good and it is placed above its 10-day SMA. The KST and RSI are placed above their respective averages. It is likely to move higher and it should be bought above 1739 with stop loss of 1716 and Target Price of 1790.

(Sanjay Bhatia is a leading Technical Analyst and market commentator) (NOTE – The Stop Losses are to be followed strictly on the closing price basis.)

« BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS RELIGARE CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON ASHIANA HOUSING

MOVING AVERAGES (TREND INDICATORS)

CMP: Rs. 174 Target Rs. 245 Initiate with BUY: We like ASFI for its product positioning, strong brand/execution and high ROE profile. Our Mar’16 TP of Rs 245 includes Rs 153/sh from existing projects and Rs 64/sh for the terminal value of business. Key risks to our call are delays in project acquisition and execution/approvals and a slowdown in volumes.

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

CMP: Rs. 530 Target Rs. 606 Valuation: SOTP-based TP of INR 606: We value JLR at INR 521/sh, based on 4x FY17F EV/EBITDA discounted back to Nov 2015. In this, we have added an explicit value of INR113/sh for the JLR China JV. We value the stand-alone business at ~INR34.3/sh, based on 9x FY17F EBITDA (8x earlier) of INR39bn, which is discounted back to Nov 2015 at 13% cost of equity. We value other investments at INR51/sh.

The index: Has crossed above its 5-day average (at 8423) Positive.

Is above its 15-day average (at 8363) Positive.

Is above its 25-day average (at 8190) Positive.

Is above its 200-day average (at 7321) Positive.

All the four averages are positively trended. Positive.

NOMURA CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON TATA MOTORS

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Insurance Policies Can Now Be Maintained In Electronic Form Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MANOJ ASWANI

is VP at MyInsurance Club.com

« INSURANCE I am 30 years old and employed in a Private Firm who provide Comp. Health coverage for 3 Lakhs for me and My Family (Wife and a Kid). My question is Should I still go for an additional health insurance. Are there any benefits of taking additional health insurance so early or can I wait till I am 40 and then start additional coverage.

—Kailash Prabhu, Kalina It is always good to have your individual health insurance policy since you have continuity benefits even if your company does not provide coverage for ever or you change jobs or start something of your own at any point of time.

Also, you can continue your individual health plan till death and the cover will not cease to exist after retirement when you actually need it. Since you would have paid the premiums till your retirement, you would be able to get the benefits of continued

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renewal without any waiting period concerns.

Also, availing the health insurance policy can save a lot of concerns with pre-existing benefits. Thus, having an individual policy of your own is very important.

I'm 50 years old non-smoker. I'm looking to purchase a "Term" policy for Rs. 50 lakhs. What are the best options offered

by LIC (online & offline)? Are there any money back plans that could also be looked upon? I'd appreciate if you could send me detailed links for the same.

—Girija Tripathi, Thane LIC has an offline term plan which can be bought from any LIC agent. 1. LIC Jeevan Amulya II Plan: LIC's Offline Term Plan for Sum Assured greater than Rs 25 Lacs. In addition to this, LIC has launched a cheaper term plan which is being sold online exclusively called the LIC eTerm Plan. If you have a credit card / debit card / netbanking then you should go online and buy the LIC eTerm Death Benefit: In case of unfortunate death of the Life Assured during the policy term Sum Assured shall be payable.

Maturity Benefit: On survival to the end of the policy term, nothing shall be payable.

Eligibility Criteria Plan offers coverage from the age of 18 years to 65 years for individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Impaired Fasting Glucose (IFG), Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) and/or Hypertension.

The policy will be issued for 1 year.

The plan has 2 variants – Gold (cost of wellness test included) & Silver (cost of wellness test excluded), both available with/ without the copayment option of 20%.

Benefits Comprehensive health coverage Day 1 coverage for all hospitalisation arising out of Diabetes and Hypertension (with no waiting period) Inpatient hospitalisation coverage with no sublimits, including coverage for pre and post hospitalisation.

Sum insured options ranging from 2 lakhs to 10 lakhs.

Health management with a health reward program An optional diagnostic monitoring program which includes a doctor consultation, to moni-

Maximum Sum Assured Minimum age at entry

Maximum age at entry

Maximum cover ceasing age Minimum policy term

Maximum policy term Mode of payment

No limit

18 years (completed) 60 years (nearest birthday) 75 years (nearest birthday) 10 years

35 years

Premiums are to be paid annually.

What are the conditions one has to keep in mind before going for health insurance portability?

—Abhay Shetty, Borivali You can port your policy from and to any general insurance company or specialised health insurance company. You can port any individual/ family policies. Your new insurer has to give you the credit relating to waiting period for pre-existing conditions that you have gained with the old insurer. Your new insurer has to insure you at least up to the sum insured under the old policy

Conditions for Health Insurance Por tability 1. You can port the policy only at the juncture of renewal. That is, the new insurance period will be with the new insurance company 2. Apart from the waiting period credit, all other terms of the new policy including the premium are at the discretion of the new insurance company 3. At least 45 days before your renewal is due you have to • Write to your old insurance company requesting a shift • Specify company to which you want to shift the policy • Renew your policy without a break (there is a 30 day grace period if porting is under process)

What are e-Insurance Policies and what’s the use?

—Shyam More, Dadar Now a customer / policyholder can get and maintain your insurance policies in electronic form. IRDA has issued guidelines relating to insurance repositories and electronic issuance of insurance policies.

• Maintain, store and retrieve your policies and the information in them easily • You can modify or revise your insurance policies with speed and accuracy • It will help increase efficiency and transparency • It will reduce the cost of issuing and maintaining insurance policies.

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

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

« PRODUCT REVIEW: APOLLO MUNICH ENERGY PLAN

By Manoj Aswani

Policy Snapshot Apollo Munich Energy Health Insurance Plan is for individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Impaired Fasting Glucose (IFG), Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) and/or Hypertension. It is a unique plan that offers Day 1 coverage for all hospitalisation arising out of Diabetes and Hypertension (with no waiting period). The plan is a combined package providing coverage for Inpatient hospitalisation expenses along with an ecosystem of wellness program & health rewards.

Minimum Sum Assured

Rs. 25,00,000 for Aggregate category Rs. 50,00,000 for Nonsmoker category

A Policy For Diabetes And Hypertension

tor and manage your health.

Wellness incentives are offered on good health management through premium discounts and additional coverage for any health expenses

Support through a Health Eco-System A personalised health coach to help guide you throughout your journey towards a healthy & active lifestyle and also support you with personalised diet and fitness plans.

An access to a wellness portal that conducts an HRA, tracks your medical values, stores medical records, provides offers for health service and products.

Access to a centralised helpline to answer any queries you may have.

A health market place which offers you healthy discounts on health merchandise, pharmacies, health foods, medical equipment’s like glucometers etc.

Others Benefits Cashless Service - You need to obtain a preauthorization for all planned admissions atleast 48 hours prior to actual admission or regularize any ‘emergency’ admission within 24 hours post the admission. The details of the process and the documentation requirements are given in the guide-book sent along with the policy Sum Insured Enhancement - Sum Insured can be enhanced only at the time of renewal subject to no claim have been lodged/ paid under the policy. If the insured increases the sum insured one grid up, no fresh medicals shall be required. In cases where the sum insured increase is more than one grid up, the case

no maximum cover ceasing age in this policy.

Grace Period of 30 days for renewing the policy is provided under this policy.

Waiting periods as mentioned in the policy wordings gets reduced by 1 year on every continuous renewal of your Energy policy.

Renewal premium are subject to change with prior approval from IRDA.-

Exclusions Any pre-existing condition will be covered after a waiting period of 3 years. Any condition or illness, complication or ailment arising out of or connected to the condition of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus or Impaired Fasting Glucose (IFG) or Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) or Hypertension is not a part of this waiting period.

2 years waiting period for specific diseases like cataract, hernia, joint replacement surgeries, surgery of hydrocele etc.

Expenses arising from HIV or AIDS and related diseases.

Congenital diseases, mental disorder or insanity, cosmetic surgery and weight control treatments.

Abuse of intoxicant or hallucinogenic substances like intoxicating drugs and alcohol.

Hospitalization due to war or an act of war or due to a nuclear, chemical or biological weapon and radiation of any kind.

Pregnancy, dental treatment, external aids and appliances unless covered under the Plan.

Items of personal comfort and convenience.

Experimental, investigative and unproven treatment devices and pharmacological regimens.

shall be subject to medicals. In case of increase in the sum insured waiting period will apply afresh in relation to the amount by which the sum insured has been enhanced.

However, the quantum of increase shall be at the discretion of the company.

Portability - If you are insured with some other company’s health insurance and you want to shift to us on renewal, you can. Our portability policy is customer friendly and aims to achieve the transfer of most of the accrued benefits and makes due allowances for waiting periods etc.

Tax Benefits - With Energy Plan, you can presently avail tax benefits for the premium amount under Section 80D of the Income Tax Act. (Tax benefits are subject to changes in Tax Laws)

Renewal Policies Energy offers lifelong renewability i.e there is

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TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

Bilbo Baggins is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield.

Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever ...

Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum’s “precious” ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities ... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to... HBO, 9 p.m.

REVENGE SEASON 3

SOAPS & SERIALS

Aiden helps Emily face her anger towards her father in order to overcome her blackouts and find the reason behind them.

After learning the truth about Patrick’s father, Nolan conspires with Victoria to send him away from the Hamptons to protect him and secure his life for the future. Star World , 11 p.m.

P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 4.30 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 11.00

DEADLIEST WITH NIGEL MARVEN

Animal Planet brings viewers closer to the natural world with Nigel Marven on DEADLIEST WITH NIGEL MARVEN and showcases how Nigel encounters some of the world’s most interesting and sometimes misunderstood creatures. Ani mal Plan et, 9 p.m.

DUAL SURVIVOR

Experts agree that there are some very basic - and universal - rules for surviving in the wild. Find shelter, find water, find food and find help. Beyond that, there is not much they agree on.

Meet two skilled experts, military-trained Dave Canterbury and naturalist Cody Lundin, both of whom have very different methods of meeting survival challenges. Can they survive together?

Or will the need to exert their survival habits lead them to further catastrophe or worse - cost them their lives? Di scover y Ch annel, 9 p.m.

MEGA MOVES

Moving house is a logistics nightmare….but imagine the challenge of moving an entire house - fixtures, fittings, brick walls, chimney, windows and roof….then re-assembling the complete structure somewhere else! Imagine the impossible engineering assignment of relocating a towering Lighthouse perched on the edge of a cliff….an Oil Rig in the deep ocean… or raising a lofty Control Tower into the radar ceiling of the world’s busiest Air-

SHREK FOREVER AFTER

Revenge, Star World, 11 p.m.

port. This series follows engineers as they grapple with these and other Extreme Removals. Every structure is unique, and will pose a different set of engineering problems. An army of gadgetry from ground penetrating radar to X-ray surveyors will be deployed, while spectacular 3-D animations will reveal the structures hidden weaknesses. Discover y Science, 7 p.m.

FATAL ENCOUNTERS

FATAL ENCOUNTERS on ID Investigation Discovery recounts the ill-fated relationship between killer and victim as their paths intertwine. Chance meetings, everyday decisions, and random acts of violence send ordinary people down a deadly collision course toward their own mortality. DI, 9 p.m.

MOVIES OF THE DAY

A bored and domesticated Shrek pacts with deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin to get back to feeling like a real ogre again, but when he’s duped and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away — where Rumpelstiltskin is king, ogres are hunted, and he and Fiona have never met — he sets out to restore his world and reclaim his true love. Zee Studio, 9 p.m.

JURASSIC PARK

Huge advancements in scientific technology have enabled a mogul to create an island full of living dinosaurs. John Hammond has invited four individuals, along with his two grandchildren, to join him at Jurassic Park. But will everything go to plan? Especially when one of the parks’ own workers attempts to steal the dinosaur embryos, and has to shut down critical security systems in the process. It’s now a race for survival with dangerous creatures roaming all over the island. Star Movies, 9 p.m.

LABOR PAINS

Thea Clayhill is the reckless secretary of arrogant publisher Jerry Steinwald. When Jerry fires her having had an accident with his beloved dog, Thea lies and tells him that she is four-months pregnant. Thea lost her parents in a car accident and raises her younger sister Emma alone and can not afford to lose her job.

Jerry goes on vacation to be with his dog and his brother Nick Steinwald assumes his position. Thea decides to fake her pregnancy for more time with the support of her friend Lisa.

Pix , 9 p.m .

ONE TO THREE

Laxminarayan lives a poor lifestyle in Mumbai along with his widowed mother, Kanta, who wants him to be a successful gangster like Batlabhai, and would like him to kill a few people, make enough money, then get married to Khujli’s daughter, Meena. In order to fulfill his mother’s wish, Laxminarayan accepts a contract to kill D’Mello Yadav, a Pondi-based gangster, who has stolen a diamond from Batla. Then there is Laxminarayan, the detailed and obedient Secretary of D.M. Pipat, who wants him to buy a vintage car from a Pondi-based used car dealer, Laila. Finally, there is the third Laxminarayan, who sells undergarments and runs a business ‘Bulbul Lingerie’ along with his son, Sonu, who decides to travel to Pondi to meet with his new supplier, Jiya.

The trio all arrive and book rooms next to each other in Blue Diamond Hotel. CVO, 9 p.m.

VIDHAATA

Shamsher Singh is a very wealthy, poweful, and influential man. His son Pratap Singh was tragically killed at a young age, leaving behind a son, Kunal Singh, who now lives with his grandfather. Also living with Shamsher are a faithful old employee Abu Baba, and his brother Gurbaksh Singh. Kunal grows up without any hang-ups, and is attracted to a local young lady, Durga (Pad-

STAR PLUS

P.M. 2.00 Everest 2.30 Diya Aur Bati Hum 3.00 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon-Ek Baar Phir 3.30 Suhaani Si Ek Ladki 4.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 4.30 Nisha Aur Uske Cousins 5.00 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas-Veera 5.30 Yeh Hai Mohabbatein 6.00 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon-Ek Baar Phir 6.30 Suhaani Si Ek Ladki 7.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 7.30 Ye Hai Mohabbatein 8.00 Ek Hasina Thi 8.30 Nisha Aur Uske Cousins 9.00 Diya Aur Bati Hum 9.30 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hain 10.00 Everest 10.30 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas-Veera 11.00 Ye Hai Mohabbatein

Shrek Forever After, Zee Studio, 9 p.m.

mini Kolhapure), who lives with her mother, and are not wealthy.

When Kunal takes Durga to introduce her to his granddad, and Abu Baba, Shamsher instantly takes a dislike to Durga, due to her poverty, and asks Durga’s mother, not to permit Durga to see nor contact Kunal again. Durga and her mother decide to move out, but are molested. Abu Baba comes to their rescue, and as a result he is killed. Kunal is enraged, and swears to avenge Abu Baba’s death. Zee Classics, 9 p.m.

RAHU KETU

Concerned over the rising death of low-caste people in a remote town in India, the Central Bureau of Investigation assigns this task to Inspector Ravi Kapoor and instructs him to go incognito to investigate these deaths. Upon arrival, Ravi is received

by Collector Rahu Nath, to whom Ravi introduces himself as a Horticulturist. Thereafter Ravi lives in a small house that was owned by a man named Mohandas, who had died under mysterious circumstances. Mohandas’ children, Tulsi and her brother live there now. Ravi and Tulsi fall in love with each other, Ravi offers them all possible protection if Tulsi and her brother help him with the investigation, to which Tulsi agrees. Before Ravi could take any steps he is arrested by the local Police Inspector Thakur and lodged in a cell. Filmy, 8.30 p.m.

LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI

Munna is in love with the voice of popular Radio Jockey Jhanvi Life is beautiful for Munna - his 'dadagiri' business is flourishing, he listens besottedly to the radio for hours every day, he dreams of marrying Jhanvi... There is just one minor problem. Jhanvi thinks Munna is a Professor of History. As he tries to sort out this 'minor' entanglement, the most unusual thing occurs… What happens when the Present meets the Past? Max, 9 p .m.

STAR WORLD House Revenge Simpsons Year The Neighbors MasterChef US House Revenge Simpsons Year The Neighbors Masterchef US House Revenge

ZEE CAFÉ

P.M. 1.50 The Originals 2.45 Desperate Housewives 3.40 America Funniest Home Videos 5.00 Just for Laughs 6.00 The Originals 7.00 The Millers 8.00 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 Two And a Half Men 9.00 Desperate Housewives 10.00 The Originals 11.00 The Big Bang Theory

SONY TV

P.M. 12.00 CID 7.30 Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar 8.00 Itni Si Khushi 8.30 Humsafars 9.00 Tum Aise Hi Rehna 9.30 Hum Hain Na 10.00 Maharana Pratap 10.30 Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar 11.00 Tum Aise Hi Rehna P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30

8.00 8.30 9.00

ZEE TV

Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya Doli Armaanon Ki Kumkum Bhagya Maharakshak Aryan Qubool Hai Bandhan… Saari Umar Doli Armaanon Ki Jamai Raja Kumkum Bhagya Dil Se Naachein Indiawaale Bandhan… Saari Umar Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke Jodha Akbar Jamai Raja Kumkum Bhagya

9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00

Qubool Hai Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya Doli Armaano Ki Jodha Akbar

LISTING

LIFE OK

P.M. 2.00 Savdhaan India 7.00 Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye 7.30 Mere Rang Mein Rangne Wali 8.00 Devon Ke Dev Mahadev 8.30 Pukaar 9.00 Laut Aao Trisha 9.30 Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye 10.00 Comedy Classes 10.30 Savdhaan India: India Fights Back

COLORS

P.M. 2.00 Udann 2.30 Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi

9.00 Ka Re Duraava 9.30 Chala Hava Yeu Dya 10.30 Jai Malhar 11.00 Ka Re Duraava

ANIMAL PLANET

P.M. 2.00 Mutant Planet 3.00 Austin Steven’s Most Dangerous 4.00 The Wild Ones 4.30 Fit For The Wild 5.00 Biggest and Baddest 6.00 AP Safari 7.00 Untamed and Uncut 8.00 Mutant Planet 9.00 Deadliest with Nigel Marven 10.00 The Wild Ones 10.30 Fit For The Wild 11.00 Untamed and Uncut

Qubool Hai, Zee TV, 9.30 p.m.

3.00 3.30 4.00 5.00

6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 10.30 11.00

Sasural Simar Ka Udaan Bigg Boss Comedy Nights with Kapil Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi Shastri Sisters Sasural Simar Ka Balika Vadhu Uddan Bigg Boss Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi Uttaran Beintehaa

SAB TV

P.M. 12.00 Taarak Mehta Ka 7.00 Badi Door Se Aaye Hai 7.30 Chandrakant Chiplunkar..

8.00 Baal Veer 8.30 Taarak Mehta Ka..

9.00 Chidiya Ghar 9.30 Badi Door Se AayeHai 10.00 Chiplunkar…

10.30 FIR 11.00 Taarak Mehta Ka….

ZEE MARATHI

P.M. 2.00 Ka re Duraava 2.30 Jai Malhar 3.00 Honar Suun Me Hya Gharachi 3.30 Juloon Yeti Reshimghathi 4.00 Chala Hava Yeu Dya 5.00 Jai Malhar 5.30 Honar Suun Me Hya Gharachi 6.00 Ka Re Duraava 6.30 Home Minister 7.00 Jai Malhar 7.30 Javai Vikat Ghene Aahe 8.00 Honor Suun Me Hya Gharachi 8.30 Julooni Yeti Reshimgathi

P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 7.30 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00

DDI MAIN CHANNEL

7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00

News in Marathi Sansar Maza Vegala Daivacha Ha Khel Nirala Asi Hi Dharmakanya Karan The Detective News in Marathi Smart Sunbai Krishi Darshan Amahci Mati Amachi Mana News in Marathi Janata Darbar Khamosh Sa Afsana Pavitra Banddhan Zindagi…Ek Bhanwar Dard Ka Rishta Jab Jab Bahar Ayee

DISCOVERY

American Digger Man Vs Wild How Do They Do It You Have Been Warned Farthflight Food Factory What Happened Next How Do They Do It Dual Survival You Have Been Warned My Shocking Story

SCIENCE

The Gadget Show How It’s Made Alien Encounters How Do They Do It? Crash Test Dummies Mega Moves How It’s Made The Gadget Show How The Universe Works 11.00 How Tech Works

HISTORY

P.M. 2.00 Food CIA 2.30 Counting Cars 3.00 Stan Lee’s Superhumans 4.00 Modern Marvels 5.00 Pawn Stars 5.30 Kings of Restoration 7.30 Storage Wars 8.00 Food CIA 8.30 Counting Cars 9.00 Stan Lee’s Superhumans 10.00 Pawn Stars 10.30 Counting Cars 11.00 Aliens Mystery Continues

NAT GEOGRAPHIC

P.M. 2.00 Taboo: Odd Couples

10.30 Kab Kyon Kaise 11.00 MALA AAI VH HAYCHY!: Marathi Film. Starring Urmila Kanetkar, Stacy Bee, Samruoddhi Porey, Aiden Barkely, Vivek Raut

DDII (METRO CHANNEL) P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.05 6.30 7.00

News in Hindi.

News.

Open Frame Repoter’s Diary Samachar.

The News.

Samachar.

Rajyon Se Samachar.

Metro Scan Business Wrap Samachar

Mala Aai Vhhaychyi, DDI, 11 p.m.

7.30 8.00 8.15 8.30 10.00 10.30 11.15

INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY

P.M. 2.00 Dates From Hell 2.30 Beauty Queen Murders 3.00 I Was Murdered 3.30 Dates From Hell 4.00 On The Case 5.00 The Shift 6.00 Redrum 6.30 Evil I

Jai Malhar, Zee Marathi, 10.30 p.m.

DOORDARSHAN

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

3.00 Secrets of Wild India: Tiger Jungles 3.30 Customs 4.00 Do Or Die 5.00 Amazing Moments: Dangerous Moments 6.00 Science of Stupid 7.00 Wild Australia 8.00 Nordic : Reborn 9.00 Science of Stupid 10.00 Do Or Die: Falling Through Ice 11.00 Incredibly Small World

News Samachar News in Hindi.

News Night Charcha Main Raat Saddhe Dus Khel Samachar

7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 10.30 11.00

Dates From Hell Disappeared Fatal Encounters Redrum Evil I Who The Bleep Did Marry

STAR SPORTS1

P.M. 2.00 Close Encounters 2.30 Indian Super League 14 h/ls 3.00 SA Tiouir of Aus 14 h/ls ODI 4.00 Thunder Sown Under 4.30 Close Encounters 5.00 Jai Ho 5.30 Indian Super League 14 h/ls 6.00 Great Knocks 6.30 Thunder Down Under 7.00 Jai Ho 7.30 Cricket In Colour 9.00 Close Encounters 9.30 Thunder Down Under 10.00 SA Tour of Aus 14 h/ls ODI 11.00 Indian Super League 2014 h/ls

STAR SPORT4

P.M. 2.00 Italian Serie A 14/15 4.00 Barclays Premier League 14/15 highlights 6.00 Motorsports@petronas 6.30 Indian Super League 14 h/ls 7.00 Barclays Premier League 14/15 8.00 FIA F1 World Championship 14 highlights 9.30 Liga Bbva 14/15 highlights 10.00 The Football Review 10.30 Football Today

TEN CRICKET

P.M. 2.00 Eng Tour of WI 14 h/ls 2nd ODI 3.00 Aus Tour of SA 14 h/ls 2nd T20 4.00 Aus Tour of Pak h/ls 3rd ODI 5.00 SA Tour of SL 14 h/ls 2nd ODI 6.00 Eng Tour of WI 14 h/ls 3rd T20 7.00 Tri Nation 14 3rd ODI: Zim vs SA 8.00 NZ Tour of WI 14 h/ls 1st T20 9.00 Sa Tour of SL 14 h/ls 2nd ODI 10.00 Aus Tour of Pak 14 h/ls 2nd ODI 11.00 NZ Tour of Pak 14 h/ls 1st Test

MOVIE CHANNELS

STARMOVIES

P.M 1.00 2 Fast 2 Furious 3.00 Scorpion King 2: The Rise of A Warrior 5.00 Tremors 7.00 Taken 9.00 Jurassic Park 11.30 Armour of God II P.M. 2.45 4.50 6.55 9.00 A.M. 7.35 9.35 11.35

HBO

Machete Kills Confessions of A Shopaholic The Smurfs The Hobbit Ong Bak The Smurfs The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

ZEE STUDIO

P.M 12.50 Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End 4.15 Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol 6.55 Scream 4 9.05 Shrek Forever After 10.55 Transformers: Dark of the Moon A.M. 8.00 Scream 4 10.15 The Tuxedo P.M. 1.15 3.00 5.20 9.00 11.20.

A.M. 7.35 10.30 P.M. 12.45 3.50 6.50 9.00 11.45 A.M. 8.45 11.50

PIX

P.M. 2.00 5.30 9.00 A.M. 9.30

CARTOON NETWORK

P.M. 2.00 3.00 5.30 6.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 10.00 11.00 A.M. 8.00 9.00 10.30 11.00 P.M. 1.30 3.00 4.00 5.30 7.00 8.00 9.00

Tom and Jerry Oggy and the Cockroaches Haddi Mera Buddy Oggy and the Cockroaches Johnny Test Roll No 21 Bal Hanuman 2 Oggy and the Cockroaches Adventure Time

Tom and Jerry Kids Show Oggy and the Cockroaches Johnny Test Oggy and the Cockroaches

POGO

Chhota Bheem Marathon Mr Bean Dholakpur’s Got Talent Chhota Bheem Krishna the Great Hagemaru Mighty Raju

The Twilight Saga: New Moon The Forbidden Kingdom

STAR GOLD

Dil Ka Rishta Grama Masala Indian Super League 14 Mai Insaaf Karronga Shool

Labor Pains, Pix, 11.20 p.m.

Veergati Hogi Pyar Ki Jeet

MAX

ZEE CINEMA

Ajooba: Amitabh B Bulandi: Anil Kapoor Krantiveer: Nana Patekar Haatimtai: Jeetendra

CVO

Kudrat: Rajesh Khanna Dhadkan: Akshay Kumar One To Three: Tushar Kapoor Dil Hai Betaab: Ajay Devgan

FILMY

P.M. 12.30 Tejasvini 5.00 Raaj Tilak 8.30 Rahu Ketu A.M.

B4U

P.M. 12.00 Dayavan: Feroz Khan 3.00 Samay-When The Tiem Strikes: Sushmita Sen 6.00 Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam: Rahul Bose 9.00 Page 3: Konkana Sen A.M 7.30 Ghatak: Sunny Deol

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ZEE TALKIES

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‘Historicals’ creating history Mahira Khan wants to

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By Sandeep Hattangadi

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rom reality programmes and saasbahu soaps, prime time television has gallantly galloped into history and legendary folk-lore tales, historical period and costume dramas with historical heroes, opulent palatial sets, elaborate ornate costumes, glitzy jewellery and hi-tech action sequences into homes.

"Our country continues to be religious, and mythological shows continue to have a precious place. They will always work," says Nikhil Madhok, former senior director, marketing and communications, of now defunct Imagine TV. Perhaps that's why costume dramas – whether historical, mythological or fantasy with horses, elephants etc – seem to have caught the fancy of TV producers, who are spending millions, anything between 10 and 50 per cent more than the cost of production of a regular soap, to recreate legendary stories like 'Shobhaa Somnath Ki', 'Dwarkadheesh', 'Kahani Chandrakanta Ki' and 'Jai Jai Jai Bajrangbali' which were once the toast of their channels.

The recent shows include ‘Maharana Pratap’, ‘Vikram Vetal’, ‘Akbar Birbal’, ‘Jhansi Ki Rani’, ‘Har Har Mahadev’, and the only channel devoted to historical and mythological shows now recently launched as EPIC Channel premierEs with shows like ‘Dharmakshetra’, ‘Daanav’, etc. Mahabharata narrated the tale of the Kauravas and the Pandavas, their numerous personal conflicts, ethical puzzles, subplots, and dramatic twists that paved the way to the most powerful yet destructive battles (‘Kurukshetra’) of all time. But the protagonists and the antagonists have never got an opportunity to present their side of the story. All these mytho-characters have walked the thin line between just and unjust, fair and unfair, deceit and loyalty, betrayal and duty, and now must face the consequences of their actions. Several questions lie buried in the ruins of history.

Of late, 'Dharmakshetra', a courtroom drama, unearths these buried questions and allows the legendary characters of Mahabharata to justify their actions for the very first

Popular show

SAB TV’s popular alien comedy series ‘Badi Dooooor Se Aaye Hai’ narrates an exciting and comical tale of an alien family finding its place amongst humans on Earth while learning the intricacies of human nature and behaviour. The alien family aka Ghotala family has been on Earth for a period of six months and have not been able to locate their son 2015.

In the recent track, they have been ordered to return to their home planet which makes them unhappy. To add to their worries, the hidden spaceships have been found during an excavation for a government project resulting in a nation-wide alert for the search of Ghotala family.

Mahira Khan was lauded across Pakistan for her powerful performance as Khirad alongside Fawad Khan in 'Humsafar' and is now all set to make her debut on Indian Television with 'Humsafar' on ZINDAGI channel which is garnering applause from bedazzled Indian fans. Sandeep Hattangadi spoke to the Pakistani beauty about her Indian sojourn So how is your stint in India?

It’s been wonderful and I am getting love and affection from all my Indian fans wherever I go.

The popularity of our TV shows amazes me.

Why do you think Pakistani shows are popular in India?

I think it’s because of the content, the writing, and the performances which are serious and sober and also that they are not long-winding like the Indian shows which run into hundreds of episodes. Also the culture is the same, the language is same and the tastes are same.

Just as popular Hindi cinema in Pakistan has a huge following and stars like Shahrukh, Aamir and Salman are Muslim names which the Pakistani audiences can easily identify. I think the popularity began with shows like 'Ankahee' and 'Dhoop Kinare' which were very popular with Indian audiences including stars like Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan.

time. As with the original Mahabharata, 'Dharmakshetra' has many intriguing facets for us. On a primary level, it attempts to ask these key unanswered questions about the characters and their choices, while at the same time, highlights the lesser known facts about the story we thought we knew. In a post-apocalyptic trial, held in Maharaj Chitragupta’s court, the seeming villains Kauravas will be seen accusing the so-called heroes – Pandavas and vice versa.

After hearing the prosecution and the defenSe, Chitragupta delivers his judgment.

"When 'Mahabharat', 'Ramayan' and 'Shri Krishna' were popular in the 1980s and 1990s, they were aired mostly only on weekends. Those days, nobody thought of airing mythology-based shows on prime time. In the early 2000s, everyone started moving from the once-a-week format to dailies and mythological shows got lost in between. But when we came with the new 'Ramayan' in 2008 as a daily, it

Tell us something about 'Humsafar'.

I was lauded across Pakistan for the powerful performance as Khirad alongside Fawad opened everyone's eyes and Khan in 'Humsafar'. Straight from across the border, it is a beautiful story about the trials there was a resurgence," and tribulations in a married couple’s life and how they are overcome. 'Humsafar' was a Madhok says. However, the huge hit in Pakistan and the winner of many awards for acting, direction, OST (Original producers are ensuring Sound Track), etc. The grand finale episode is about to be shot. there's no repetition – they are either digging for untold hisWill the political and border problems be solved by cultural torical stories or hunting for interaction? new angles from the lives of Politics and art should never be aligned as artistes have no boundaries but they can gods. Take for example Zee TV's only reach out to people and entertain them.

'Shobhaa Somnath Ki' – was based on a Gujarati legend which Many Pakistani stars are starring in Hindi films? talks about Shobha, who fought Yes. It’s a great thing that actors like Fawad Khan and Emraan Abbas are starring fearlessly when Afghan invader in Hindi films and doing well. Even I am looking forward to act in Hindi films and Mahmud of Ghazni tried to dehope to get good offers. stroy the Somnath temple in the 11th century.

What’s your ultimate goal?

The idea was to make 'a fairy tale Even when I was young, I was always conscious with all the elements of valour, roabout my looks. I always felt that if I mance, poetry, adventure, bravery, downplay my looks I can prove myself and fight for cultural identity, among much better in other ways. I don’t like others, according to Sukesh Motwhen someone introduces me as wane, former program‘Pretty Mahira Khan’, I would rather ming head of Zee be addressed as ‘Brilliant Actress TV. Mahira Khan’. That’s what I want to be known as.

TV TATTLE Love story

'Yeh Hai Aashiqui' on BINDAAS will showcase an amazing story of love and fate. A quirk of fate brings Udita and Amar close as they coincidently keep running into each other at various events over a span of five years. While Udita is from a well to do family and a firm believer in sunsigns, in search of her Mr Perfect, Amar is a young lad who comes to the big city to fulfill his dreams.

Amar always had feelings for Udita but does not confess it to her. as he wants to stay focused on his career.

Exciting episode

'Chidiya Ghar’ on SAB is the story of a funloving family comprising different members with their unique mannerisms. In the recent track, things between Kapi aka Saraansh Verma and Trishika Tripati aka Chuhiya are starting to come closer when Kapi decides to take Chuhiya home to protect her from her family who wants to get her married to a boy she does not want to get married to.

Filmy episode

The unnerving ‘Human Bomb’ scene from the movie 'Haider' which made a chill run down the spines of moviegoers is now going to recreate the same thrill on the small screen. Yes you heard it right! The upcoming track on Zee TV’s primetime drama 'Qubool Hai' is going to keep its audience on the edge of their seats as it showcases the same exhilarating sequence which was essayed by veteran actor Tabu. The particular scene will be shot on the protagonist, Surbhi Jyoti, on the show. Jyoti, who is essaying the double role of Sanam and Sehar, has closely watched the particular scene from 'Haider' a number of times to give a perfect shot.

Any favourite Hindi film actors?

I was inspired by Madhuri Dixit so much that I earned myself the nickname ‘Ganga’ from her role in Subhash Ghai’s 'Khalnayak’.

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014 physical and emotional). In the second case, the woman’s psycho-sexual history will more often than not indicate sexual repression at some stage of her growing years. This can be addressed by the counsellor during the sessions, so that the woman is freed from the effects of such repression.

Extramarital attraction

Why does a married woman get attracted to another person for romantic/sexual relationship?

There are only two reasons: One reason is that she is not satisfied in her present relationship with her husband and feels that there is no way that things can ever improve between them. This causes her to look outside her marriage for satisfaction. The other reason is that there is some sort of sexual repression that has taken place in her during her growing years, and that manifests as sexual promiscuity in adulthood. In both cases, counselling is advised. In the first case,

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the couple can be counselled so that healthy communication can be established between the two, wherein both express their needs in the relationship and are adequately motivated to fulfill each other’s valid needs (both

What the cards say: Play safe.

Path: Be positive and introspective. Don’t react so easily out of fear or anxiety.

Ally: Virgo will soothe you. Avoid hyper Leo. Card for the week: Tarot key no II The High Priestess. Look within and find your answers. Pause and discover a new dimension.

What the cards say: You need to be organised and keep the pressure on yourself.

Path: It is time to learn and realise how limited your vision was. Don’t be on the defensive and resist.

Ally: Libra will show you warmth and affection. Avoid Gemini and their changeable ways.

Card for the week: Tarot key no XX Judgment invites to look at your motives and reasons for doing things. Look at yourself objectively and you will grow by leaps and bounds.

What the cards say: You could feel restricted.

Path: Follow your heart but be stable. Don’t keep changing what you want and who you want.

Ally: Sagittarius will give you warmth and tolerance. Avoid Capricorn who will not understand your complex emotions.

Card for the week: Tarot key no XIV Temperance which says that balance and healing is at hand.

What the cards say: Be centered and focused.

Path: Learn your lessons and be kind. Don’t be blind or prejudiced.

Ally: Libra will be a great support. Stay away from Gemini.

They will confuse you further.

Card for the week: Tarot Key no X the Wheel of Fortune.

Things are bound to work out for you.

What the cards say: You can do better by uniting people.

Path: Look at life with fresh perspective.

Don’t accept on face value.

Ally: Capricorn will show you the tough but practical way. Avoid reckless Aries.

Card for the week: Tarot key no XIII Death. Change is inevitable. You will need to manage it.

What the cards say: Your mellow mood will attract friends and well wishers.

Path: Let go and be kind to the less fortunate. Don’t see just your gain. Be objective.

Ally for the week: Gemini who will lighten your ham-handed approach. Avoid Libra who will create more confusion.

Card for the week: Tarot Key no XVI the Tower which indicates breaking down of older thought processes and re thinking about the future. A flash of insight might change your approach totally.

I am a 35-year-old male. I am married and have an active sex life with my wife for the past two years. We have sex four to five times a week. In the last three-four months, I have been observing that I secrete blood mixed with semen. I don’t experience any kind of pain after, during or before sex. Do I have any problem?

The blood noticed during intercourse could be originating from either of the partners (or even both). In your case it is necessary to first find out where it is coming from. It could very well be originating from your wife, as you do not experience any pain before, during or after sex. If you confirm that it is originating from you, if you have noticed it during masturbation, then it needs further investigation. An occasional bleed, particularly

when you have ejaculated after a long gap could be passed off as innocent and does not need any treatment, as it is a common transient phenomenon. However, if it is a persistent occurrence, then it definitely suggests either an injury, inflammation, infection or even growth in your uro-genital tract which needs a thorough check-up and some investigations. Do consult a uro-surgeon for professional help.

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What the cards say: Being rash and recklessness will only bring problems.

Path: Learn control and humility. Don’t be cunning but be simple and accept-

ing.

Ally: Your ally this week is Aquarius. Avoid critical Virgo who will not spare you.

Card for the week: Tarot key no XII The Hanged Man. Surrender and bow your head to the Divine will.

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What the cards say: Pay back time.

Path: Let go of your ego.

Don’t justify but resolve differences.

Ally: Water sign Scorpio will make you stable.

Stay away from Aquarius who could rock the boat for you with radical ideas.

Card for the week: Tarot Key no VIII Strength. Learn your lessons with grace.

You have the power to handle your weakness. Use it.

What the cards say: Be at peace for all is moving in the right direction.

Path: The inner transformation will change the outer. Don’t be depressed or negative. You have the capability to reach the skies.

Ally: Virgo will bring stability and balance. Avoid Scorpio who could hurt you badly.

Card for the week: Tarot key no XIII Death. Shows a need to change from within and you will be unbeatable. Death does not mean literal death. It only means change so don’t worry.

What the cards say: Time to rethink your decisions.

Path: Forgive yourself and re align with life and love.

Don’t hide behind a wall of silence or depression.

Ally: Virgo will give you practical advice. Avoid Taurus who will indulge you.

Card for the week: The Temperance. Healing will come the minute you acknowledge your need for love and relationship.

Right coordination and balance will work out. Harmony and peace on the cards.

What the cards say: Feeling of being cornered.

Path: Try to meet people half way. Don’t sit on a high horse. Undo the wrong that you have done.

Ally: The generous Leo will be a good friend. Avoid Capricorn who will not let you get away.

Card for the week: Tarot key no XII The Hanged Man suggests sacrifice and inner wisdom.

This will gain for you a lot in the future.

What the cards say: Wrong choices could put you in a spot.

Path: Turn around and retrace your steps. Don’t be afraid to stand by what you feel.

Ally: Seek advice from Cancer. Stay away from Gemini who could make fun of your emotions.

Card for the week: Tarot Key no XV The Devil. Negative emotions could make you anxious and worried. Relax and face the devil and see it wilt .

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By Chauthi Duniya Reporter

find out how and from where all this talk started. Actually, when ecently, November 6 was the the Lok Sabha elections were takday of Guru Purab and it ing place this year, a thought came was on this very day that into the minds of two people – forSamajwadi Party leader, many mer Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish times Chief Minister of Uttar Kumar and President of the SamaPradesh and Minister in the Cen- jwadi Janata Party, Kamal tral Government, Mulayam Singh Morarka. Both of them began Yadav called a meeting at his res- searching separately for possible idence of people of his ‘Parivar’ (family). Mulayam Singh’s ‘Parivar’ means the Janata Parivar. At one time, the Janata Parivar ruled the country. It gave four Prime Ministers – Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Chandrashekhar, H D Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral – to the country. In many States a Government of the Janata Parivar remained for years, but a disease infected the Janata Parivar and ate away at it like a mite. A mite that broke everybody’s unity when it came to keeping ideas in front, a mite that slanted personal interests behind the shield of ideology.

Having seen break after break, now everyone has started seeing the danger of a final break up.

Present at the meeting that went on for about three hours were Mulayam Singh Yadav himself, former Prime Minister of the country H D Mulayam Singh Yadav Deve Gowda, two former Chief Ministers of Bihar – Nitish Kumar, ways of uniting the Janata Parivar.

Lalu Prasad Yadav – Ram Gopal Very soon both of them discovYadav, Shivpal Yadav, former Chief ered that they were both talking of Minister of Haryana Om Prakash the same direction.

Chautala’s son and Member of During the Lok Sabha elections, Parliament Dushyant Chautala Nitish Kumar was keen to form a and former Central Minister and broad front by uniting with Navin President of the Samajwadi Janata Patnaik and Mamata Banerjee, Party, Kamal Morarka. In this but at that time Navin Patnaik meeting, the President of Janata and Mamata Banerjee held back Dal (U) Sharad Yadav and General from giving a favourable reply.

Secretary K. C. Tyagi were also Thereupon Nitish Kumar felt that present. In the three hour long dis- first of all, the Janata Parivar cussions, without any arguments, should be brought together and if everyone put forward what they the Janata Parivar came together, had to say with almost the same then in the Lok Sabha elections it viewpoint – that we should move could fight well against the in the direction of unity.

Bharatiya Janata Party. During Before learning who said what that whole process the ‘intelliand why in this meeting, let us gence’ of the Congress was at its

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peak and in its statements, its method of campaigning and due to wrong selection of candidates, was in a way giving a walkover to the Bharatiya Janata Party or the current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Nitish Kumar wanted to hold talks with Mulayam Singh Yadav or Akhilesh Yadav, so that the campaign to unite the Janata

ing at his residence on October 14, to which he invited Mulayam Singh Yadav, Shivpal Yadav, Sharad Yadav, Nitish Kumar, K C Tyagi, H D Deve Gowda and Kamal Morarka. All these people met at Om Prakash Chautala’s residence. Om Prakash Chautala and his son Abhay Chautala were present. It was decided at this

H D Deve Gowda

Nitish Kumar

Parivar could be carried forward, but everybody was intensely busy in their respective States. At that time former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda wanted everyone to fight the elections unitedly, but formation of a single united front could not take place and its result almost everybody saw. Mulayam Singh got limited to four seats, Lalu Yadav too got limited to four seats, Nitish Kumar got two seats, Deve Gowda also got two seats and then all of them began to understand that if we don’t unite, then one by one, we will have to become ‘food’ for Narendra Modi.

The Haryana elections were ahead. Taking the initiative, Om Prakash Chautala called a meet-

meeting that we should move in the direction of uniting and in Haryana should help Om Prakash Chautala. As a result of this decision, Nitish Kumar, Mulayam Singh’s brother Shivpal Yadav, K C Tyagi and Sharad Yadav agreed to hold meetings during the election campaign. Mid-way during the election campaign, Om Prakash Chautala had to go back to jail on the orders of the court. In the Haryana elections, Om Prakash Chautala’s party lost very badly and when everybody analysed that defeat, they realised that if they all don’t unite honestly, then everybody might have to face a fate like Om Prakash Chautala’s party in Haryana.

Making sense of new developments

By Chauthi Duniya Reporter

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t is of course the special privilege of the Prime Minister – who to make a Minister and who not to make. And obviously, he will make only that person a Minister in whom he has complete trust. In the first cabinet expansion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, some discrepancies were seen, which it is certain his associates would not have apprised him about. We want to apprise him about them because we want to see Narendra Modi become successful, and this success is not of a person named Narendra Modi, but is of the Prime Minister of the country. The Prime Minister of the country has been elected for the next 5 years and the pain or curse that the people of the country have suffered in the last 10 years – it is to be rid of it that they have trusted everything that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.

That is why we want Narendra Modi to be successful, especially

in fulfilling those promises which he has made regarding development. Those promises which he has made regarding inflation and corruption and those promises in which he has talked about the doors opening for new hopes.

Narendra Modi has given the responsibility of the most important Ministry in his Cabinet to Manohar Parikkar. Manohar Parikkar was the Chief Minister of Goa and Narendra Modi has made him Defence Minister of the country. However, in between the oath taking and the designations for the Ministries becoming known, informed sources of the Bharatiya Janata Party spread talk that Rajnath Singh may get Defence and Manohar Parikkar may get the Home Ministry. If that would have happened, then it would have been an injustice to both, because the message would have gone across that Rajnath Singh has done something really wrong because of which he was removed from the Home Ministry

and then it would have become difficult for Rajnath Singh to remain in the Cabinet, or at the very least his credibility would have ended. Rajnath Singh’s Ministry remained with him without any tinkering – this will be counted amongst the good actions of Narendra Modi. And he has given the Defense Ministry to a perfectly appropriate person, because the Defense Ministry at this time is actually going through a time of significant turmoil.

I remember that the former Army Chief, General Vijay Kumar Singh, had written 11 letters to the Prime Minister of that time, Manmohan Singh, out of which three letters had been leaked by the Defence Ministry! One of those letters said that our forces don’t even have ammunition to fight a war for even three days. No mention was made in it of good weapons. The basic necessity – meaning, ammunition, that itself was not there. My information tells me that the situation is the same even today. That

is why it is necessary that the new Army Chief make plans to produce ammunition and modern weapons in the country itself. The weapons that are bought, a technology transfer deal should be done for them too and the country should be made completely self dependent in the defense sector.

But why the Prime Minister changed the other Ministry – Railways, this no one could understand. He removed Sadanand Gowda from the Railways Ministry, and made him the Law Minister. But the biggest question is that a person against whose son a case of rape is going on, who is an accused, you have made him the Law Minister! This doesn’t come anywhere within the radius or frame of ethics. Similarly, why did he give the Rail Ministry to Suresh Prabhu, this also is beyond understanding, because Suresh Prabhu is quite knowledgeable about the power sector and his name itself is known in the country for doing work in the power sector.

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DILLI KA BABU Poor vigilance

Trouble trails Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi wherever he goes.

After his muchpublicised litany of woes in Haryana in the erstwhile Hooda sarkar, it was believed that his move to Delhi would spell the dawn of quieter times. But his stint as Chief Vigilance Officer at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was typically stormy. While the last has not been heard on his controversial transfer from AIIMS, the Union Health Ministry, which has also now, after the reshuffle, changed hands, has sunk into further trouble on the appointment of CVOs. After Vishwas Mehta’s repatriation to his home cadre, the Union Health Ministry quietly gave the charge to joint secretary Manoj Jhalani.

Unfortunately, it did not inform the Chief Vigilance Commission about the move.

Interestingly, it completely ignored the fact that it had removed Chaturvedi on the same ground – that his appointment (in the previous UPA Government) did not have the approval of the Vigilance Commission! Clearly, following “due process” is an arbitrary thing, depending on who the Ministry (or rather the Minister) wants to keep. Chaturvedi has clearly few well-wishers in the Ministry!

Hit by scarcity

There are gaping holes in the bureaucratic framework of Odisha, with 37 senior babus on Central deputation and as many as 50 IAS posts out of the sanctioned strength of 226 lying vacant.

Little wonder that the babus who did not move out on deputation are currently struggling to cope with multiple charges.

Senior IAS officer R.K. Sharma is juggling both forest and labour departments; Development Commissioner A.P. Padhi is also Additional Chief Secretary to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik; Agriculture Secretary Rajesh Verma is overseeing the Cooperation Department, among many others. Odisha struggles with shortage of IAS officers is not new, or unique. Many other States too face this problem.

Though the Patnaik Government promoted more than 50 State service officers to IAS rank in the past five years, clearly there are not enough babus to deal with the administrative challenges.

Of course, someone needs to ask why the State Government is not moving fast enough on filling all those vacancies in the IAS cadre allotted to the State.

No rest for babus

The bureaucracy has faced the brunt of the changes wrought by the Narendra Modi’s sarkar. From punctuality to transparency babus across the country are beginning to discover what “achche din” truly mean. While babus in the capital have by now become accustomed to working long hours and during weekends, their compatriots in the States too may find their work life changing drastically. Apparently the Centre is mulling the idea of reintroducing the sixday work week in Government offices.

The fear is real, since this is a model that already operates in Gujarat and the Modi sarkar has painstakingly introduced many processes from the State in the national capital.

— Dilip Cherian

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ACROSS: 1 Objects plotted in the general plan? (6,2,6) 10 A main diversion from the innermost membranes (5) 11 Constantly accommodating a demanding Oriental (9) 12 Gallery rebuilt to a great extent (7) 13 Into which flows the Styx (4,3) 14 A part of interval I dare say is legal (5) 16 Those who put new tunic rods in office (9) 19 Builder's X-ray? (9) 20 Affirmations that are central to goodbye sessions (5) 22 Alien and gnome responsible for mutilating dynamo (7) 25 Decline to join evil top man (7) 27 Change one’s behaviour if marsh plant grows acute (2-7) 28 Dumbstruck (2,3) 29 Revolver fired at evening display (9-5) DOWN: 2 Almost against one singer or another (9) 3 "Raise the spirits somewhat", he later said ! (5) 4 No friendly blaze to give soldiers a warm welcome (5,4) 5 Fellow accustomed to being in a union (5) 6 Graded system from the high priest down (9) 7 A day in Rome with new cardinals (5) 8 Betting about old city, dope to excel (7) 9 Dessert causes drooling when the end is removed (6) 15 27 Infamy of corps in quarrel (9) 17 Crazy about a display of inlaid work (9)

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Each colour in our code represents a letter.

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

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

The Clue: Talk indistinctly

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SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S ENIGMA CODE PLAGUE, ALLEGE, APPALL, PAELLA, LEAGUE, APPEAL, GAGGLE

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MATH PYRAMID 866 18 Getting stubborn beast into trouble (9) 19 Fabric, two-thirds light blue, a little cold (7) 21 Heard team and breathed deeply

(6) 23 As big as Yarmouth, possibly (5) 24 They're wild in central Africa (5) 26 Beastly sound made by the people next door? Not half! (5)

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS: 9 One way or another, 10 Abscess, 12 Repines, 13 T-junction, 14 Ephod, 15 Pugwash, 18 Yuppies, 21 Snags, 23 Laryngeal, 25 Exhumer, 26 Quarter, 29 Bats in the belfry.

DOWN: 1 Tosa, 2 Mess, 3 Valencia, 4 Bonsai, 5 Vagrancy, 6 Couple, 7 Shanghai, 8 Crusades, 11 Bijou, 15 Passer-by, 16 Graphite, 17 Hilarity, 19 Pinnaces, 20 Elate, 22 Summit, 24 Roquet, 27 Tuft, 28 Rays.

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ACROSS: 1. Cut 6. ____ blanche 7. Lend__ __: listen (2,3) 8. Depart 9. Singer Simon

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

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

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FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

DOWN: 1. Ascend 2. Alley divisions 3. We __ __ our wit's end (3,2) 4. Barrel part 5. Start of a toast

MATHDOKU 866

HIDATO 866

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

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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TODAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FORECAST

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WIZARD OF ID PARKER & HART

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COFFEEBREAK MOON Mercury in Scorpio TITHI NAKSHATRA RASHI LUCKY COLOUR LUCKY NUMBER

: Moon in Scorpio till 11.50 a.m./

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2nd Margshirsh Shuklapaksha Jyesht Vrischik (Scorpio) N.Y. Green 1

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: You are going to have unexpected financial gains and your good judgment and ability to work will prove to be very successful. Your services will be in great demand and you will be given an important post or designation. You will consider the marriage proposal that comes your way and it will result in an early engagement. Health of a parent will cause some discomfort on the home front. You might have to cancel your travel plans.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Will be sturdy, attractive, tall, well built, healthy and longlived. Steady penetrating gaze and soft curly hair. Intelligent determined, honest forthright. There will be success in life after age 30.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): You may have to work overtime to conclude your current assignment.

Since you are behind schedule a client could ask for a change in the payment schedule. Keep your accounts clear and use money for the purpose for which it has been given to you. A close associate could also let you down. Relationships have to be nurtured with care. It may mean a little give and take, which is easy, as you have a strong humane side too.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): An unrealistic lifestyle and chaotic timings could begin to affect your health. Take an early break and look after yourself. Home affairs are charged with tension. With too much on your mind you may not be in the mood for love or a romantic meeting. You just need space and time to yourself to sort your thoughts out.

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GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): A risk that you may have taken is going to be a winner and you will be congratulated for your ingenuity.

Do not rest on your laurels. You will take part in a family function for the sake of loved ones. You will do your mate or beloved proud by the way you conduct yourself.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): You are confronted with unusual problem at work. This can intrigue you and yet you may even succeed in solving it. Keep a promise you have recently made to yourself. Also fulfill any work aims you set yourself for the day. If you are meeting someone for the first time rest assured that you will make a good impression. It may not be love at first sight but is a good beginning.

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LEO (July 22 - August 21): At work some issues may create trouble for you. If you are making a key decision it is wise to do it on your own and not get carried away by those around you. A tendency to lose your temper should be avoided. This could do you harm by damaging your image. Try to appreciate the emotional need of your mate in order to improve your rapport. Do not ruin a good relationship by neglect.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): You can look forward to making new alliances in fresh business ventures, which are bound to come your way. Those working independently or as consultants will sign a prestigious contract. An offer for a partnership or a joint venture in a certain deal is worth considering. You will be able to maintain happy, harmonious relations with competence and tact. Some will form new friendships though they could be suspect.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): You could get a bit carried away when spending money on home improvements or making an important investment. However there will soon be some extra money coming in that will help to ease your financial situation.

Make no further investments in business or in securities. At a social gathering you will be very much in demand. Happiness in the family set-up is assured. Your beloved will be great support.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): Previously made deals and assignments can lead to gains. Some of you will be congratulated for a major achievement that calls for a celebration. You will also be required to finalize new projects and sign agreements. You will get the facility of payment in advance in case you need. Look forward to great times in the company of your mate or beloved. You will also have enough time to indulge in love and romance.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): An offer of a partnership or joint venture will augur well for you. Some of you will get together with old colleagues and form a joint venture that has the potential for growth. At a meeting or conference you will make a good and lasting impression.

Some visitors will drop in to see you. If you are meeting someone with a view for a future together rest assured that you are going to make a good impression.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): Interesting work offer turns up from overseas. You will achieve wonders at work through further financial investments to expand your setup. Do not waste your time and energy in chasing small benefits. Aim for something spectacular howsoever difficult it may appear. Misunderstandings can crop up in relationships but you can count on support of your mate and loyalty of friends who know your problems.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): This is a very fortunate day to start anything new or hold an important seminar or meeting. Problems with those who have opposed you in the past will be resolved if you make an effort to forget all and get on with your association with a clean slate. Your love life gets more exciting and you will be inclined to talk about future. Just because you are married and settled does not mean that your mate should understand you care.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): Everything you do will lead to gains. Efforts put in now will definitely lead to gains that may take a while to fructify. If you take one day at a time you will be quite safe. Do try to plan too much into the future right now.

You can look forward to a relaxed evening with beloved or with the family.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 5131 ACROSS: 1 A removable covering for a wheel and axle (6) 7 Causing irritation (8) 8 Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment (4) 10 A small exclusive group of people (6) 11 Gracefully slender (6) 14 Lump or protuberance (3) 16 The one of the two who's lived longest (5) 17 Walking speed? (4) 19 A sudden, sharp bend or twist; a personal mannerism (5) 21 Abounding with juice; full of interest (5) 22 Like some eyes? (5) 23 Thin Indian bread, should we say (4) 26 Nasal cavity (5) 28 A polynesian garland of flowers (3) 29 Indicates with the finger (6) 30 Medicinal herbs (6) 31 Stew ingredient (4) 32 "Here" shouter (8) 33 Breathe with a hoarse whistling sound (6)

DOWN: 1 A spasm in the throat (6) 2 A written order to a bank asking them to pay a sum of money (6) 3 Head (4) 4 "Vary cue" anagram for a South Indian river (7) 5 ___ Marshal : highest rank in the army? (5) 6 Not ever (5) 8 Metal used in making brass and in galvanising (4) 9 Prefix meaning below (3)

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SUDOKU 2317 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:

12 Large deer (3) 13 Entice or lure (5) 15 Leader or pilot? (5) 18 Video's partner? (5) 19 Sine ___ non (3) 20 Very cold (3) 21 Joking (7) 22 Small round sweet bread (3)

23 Fail to follow suit (6) 24 Piggish sound (4) 25 Interior or within (6) 26 Atomize (5) 27 Attractively stylish (5) 28 A side of a ship sheltered from the wind (3) 30 Did in? (4)

SOLUTION TO SATURDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Gurtu, 6 Users, 9 In depth, 10 Dubai, 11 Tabby, 12 Neneh, 13 Retakes, 15 Ali, 17 Orbs, 18 Blinds, 19 Bully, 20 Donors, 22 Glee, 24 Sse, 25 Onerous, 26 Dhobi, 27 Broom, 28 Bison, 29 Zillion, 30 Aspen, 31 Ysaye.

DOWN: 2 Usurer, 3 Tiaras, 4 Uni, 5 Fetes, 6 Utterly, 7 Shah, 8 Ribald, 12 Nevus, 13 Roads, 14 Tbone, 15 Anglo, 16 Isles, 18 Blini, 19 Brahmin, 21 Osiris, 22 Grains, 23 Eulogy, 25 Obeli, 26 Doze, 28 Boy.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 2136 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

CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: H equals W

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

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SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Afternoon WORD MINE

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

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

Today’s ratings: 15 average; 17 good; 19 outstanding.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: atop, beep, opera, operate, pare, parrot, part, pate, pear, peat, peer, pert, poet, pore, port, porter, prate, probate, probe, prorate, rape, rapt, raptor, reap, reaper, repeat, report, REPROBATE, rope, tape, taper, tarp, tope, trap.

HEATHCLIFF

Saturday’s

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VINTAGE FEDERER WORKS MAGIC

Switzerland's Roger Federer lays down on the clay after defeating France's Richard Gasquet during the Davis Cup final at the Pierre Mauroy stadium in Lille, northern France on Sunday. Switzerland won 3-1 to get the Davis Cup.

Federer leads Switzerland's maiden Davis Cup title with a 3-1 with a win over Gasquet

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ILLE, France: Roger Federer produced a vintage performance to crush Richard Gasquet 6-4 6-2 6-2 and seal Switzerland's maiden Davis Cup title with a 3-1 win over hosts France on Sunday.

The 17-times grand slam champion shook off back problems during the weekend and recovered from Friday's defeat by Gael Monfils to hand France a third defeat in their last three finals.

With Federer imperious on serve, there was a sense of inevitability in the air of the Pierre Mauroy stadium despite the support of a record 27,448 raucous crowd and Gasquet's decent level of play.

He made more unforced errors than the gifted Frenchman -- 24 to 21 -- but hit an astonishing 62 winners,

kneeling down before lying on his chest after wrapping up the match with a cunning drop shot.

"We fought hard for it. I've been playing this game for almost 15 years and clearly I had never come as close than this past weekend," said world number two Federer, for whom the only major title missing from his collection is now an Olympic singles gold medal. "I'm happy I stayed calm and played a good match when I had to. I'm really happy for all the guys in the team."

The Swiss dropped only four points on serve in the opening set, which he sealed with a whipping forehand winner after breaking Gasquet, the world number 26, in the third game.

Varying his shots to devastating effect, Federer toyed

Swiss team [from the left] Michael Lammer, Marco Chiudinelli, Stanislas Wawrinka, Roger Federer and coach Severin Luthi hold their trophy after winning the Davis Cup final at the Pierre Mauroy stadium in Lille, northern France, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014. Federer won 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to give Switzerland a 3-1 lead and victory. with his opponent, who seventh games as the Swiss dropped serve in the first and bagged the second set with a

Anand loses 11th game; Carlsen retains World title

Norway's Magnus Carlsen, currently the top ranked chess player in the world, plays his 11th game against India's former World Champion Vishwanathan Anand, at the FIDE World Chess Championship Match in Sochi, Russia on Sunday.

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OCHI: Magnus Carlsen asserted his supremacy over Viswanathan Anand for the second year in running as the Norwegian retained his World Championship title after defeating the Indian Challenger in the 11th game, here today.

The Norwegian world champion closed the 12game match with a 6.5-4.5

scoreline, courtesy his win in the penultimate game.

While this may have been closely fought in the eyes of the experts, the fact remains that Anand lasted only one extra game compared to the 2013 match at Chennai when it was all over in the tenth game of the match itself.

For Anand, there were a lot

of lessons to be learnt and it is clear that the five-time world champion will probably like to get another shy at the title during the next Candidates tournament.

Anand knew that a draw would keep him in the match but expectedly the Indian ace was not hooked to the idea of staying on till the last game of the 12-game match, and tried to complicate when he got the first opportunity.

When Anand went for the real complications the opinion of the experts was pretty divided out of another Berlin defense game. While the opening discussion continued, Anand was the first to deviate from earlier games in the same opening and in the opinion of Ian Nepomniachtchi, a former second of Carlsen, Anand went for unwarranted complexities.

In the 11th game too, Anand made fewer mistakes than Calrsen and some even opined that the Indian had better chance.

drop shot having not conceded a single break point.

Gasquet, sent to the clay court by captain Arnaud Clement in place of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, looked slightly better at the beginning of the third set as Federer became careless.

But the Swiss, who withdrew from last Sunday's ATP World Tour final with a back injury, was still the sharper player and he broke on his first opportunity in the fifth game when Gasquet sent a backhand wide.

Stan Wawrinka gave them the first point by beating Tsonga in the first singles rubber before Monfils levelled on Friday.

Switzerland were 2-1 up going into Sunday's reverse singles after Wawrinka and Federer teamed up to beat Gasquet and Julien Benneteau in the doubles on Saturday.

Chitra books KO berth as Vidya, Kamani inch closer B

ENGALURU: India's Chitra Magimairajan booked her berth in the knockout phase after she completed her league engagements with fifth win in a row, while compatriots Vidya Pillai and rising star Amee Kamani also inched closer to the next stage of the IBSF World Snooker Championship.

Along with Magimairajan, others to make the knockouts from Group D are Floriza Andal of Philippines, Ka Kai

Wan of Hong Kong and Carmelita Yumito of Brazil.

Also to qualify in the round-of-24 was Thailand's Waratthanun Sukritthanes after she delivered a shocking 3-0 blow to defending champion Wendy Jans of Belgium.

Veteran Shyam Jagtiani, a former National champion, showed he still had something left in his repertoire as he gave title favourite and last year's runner-up Zhao Xintong of China a pretty good

fight before losing 1-4. Zha lost a tight first frame on the blue before bouncing back to win the next three for his third win in four outings.

The 17-year-old Zhao has not been in his usual touch though he pulled off a win, he has to keep a watch on Group D result which is heading to the wire with England's John Whitty, India's Faisal Khan and Polish teenager Mateusz Baranowski, having won three matches apiece.

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Rotary district 3140 in partnership with RWITC limited hosted Race for Humanity - horse racing to raise funds for the Rotary Foundation on Sunday. The Guinness world record was created by forming the largest Human Horse to create awareness about the Rotary Club at Mahalaxmi racecourse on Sunday.

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Sprint double for Rohit; Shriya ends with a triple gold

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UMBAI: Sprinters Rohit Bhoir and Shriya Kolge oadded more medals to their kitty in the Poinsur Gymkhana 13th Open Athletics championships, held in Kandivali here on Sunday.

Rohit, who became the fastest runner of the meet by winning the 100m event on Saturday, brooked no opposition as he outclassed his rivals to bag the 200m gold as well.

Shriya, who was just too good as she left her rivals way behind in the 200m to clinch her third gold in 30.1 seconds. She completed the sprint with three gold in the 100, 200 and 400m runs.

However, Shriya had to settle for silver in the high jump

event, which was won by Anjana Kulkarni, her teammate from VPM Sports Club.

In fact the high jump events saw all three spots went to VPM athletes.

Hurdler Hardik Shah bagged gold in the men’s 110m hurdles, clocking 19.79 secs. While Manav Shah, from Malad’s Children Academy added high jump gold to his long jump gold he bagged on Friday. Another boy from the same academy Parin Rambhia, won gold in the boys under16 100m hurdles.

RESULTS: WOMEN: 200m: 1.

Shriya Kolge (VPM Sports Club)430.1 secs. High Jump: Anjana Kulkarni (VPM SC) – 1.10mts.

GIRLS U-16 : 200m: Pearlin Debara (Savio SC)- 28.3 secs.

100m Hurdles:Juily Bhovad (VPM SC) – 18.1 secs. Long Jump: Vaishnavi Shetty (Chiuldren’s Academy, Malad).- 4.75 mts.

GIRLS U-14 : 80m Hurdles: Samaa Poojari (VPM SC) – 15.54 secs. 200m:Kirti Bhoite (VPM SC) – 29.9 secs. Long Jump: Aradhana Dubey ( Ryan SC) – 15.54 mts. MEN: 200m: Rohit Bhoir (VPM SC) – 24.9 secs.

110m Hurdles: Hardik Shah – 19.79 secs. DISCUS THROW: Sanket Mishra (Nirmala college) – 25.10 mts. BOYS: (U-16): 200m: Shrinivas Pujari (Abinav Vidyamandie) – 25.8 secs.100m Hurdles: Parin Rambhia (Children’s Academy, Malad) 16.66 secs. High Jump: Manav Shah (Children’s Academy, Malad) – 1.60 mts. 800m: Manjunath Chavan (Footstriker, P)arel) – 2:16.2 secs. (U-14): 200m: Shlok Pokhriyal (Children’s Academy, Malad) – 26.8 secs.

800M: Shivam Dubey (Abhinav Ciyamandir)- 2:36.9 secs.

The Smiling Assassin

By Anant Bhagwat

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hrikant Tembey is a very popular Bridge player because of his sunny disposition. But he can be ruthless while playing Bridge. See him defend this hand in the National Masters tournament recently.

S- 2 H–KJ964 D–J C – Q J 10 6 3 2 S -6 3 S – J 10 9 8 7 5 4 H–A8753 H – 10 D–Q74 D – 10 9 8 2 C –A K 4 C–5 S–AKQ H–Q2 D–AK653 C–987 South dealt & opened 1 diamond. Shrikant overcalled 1 heart, north passed, east passed & south reopened with a double, passed around to east who rescued with 1 spade. Now south bid 2 no trumps & north bid 3 no

trumps.

Shrikant led the 6 of spades, which declarer won in hand with Queen. Then he erred by playing a club from hand. Shrikant ducked without a second thought.

BRIDGE Declarer continued with a second club. This time Shrikant had to win. He made the key play of a small heart. South won in hand & persevered with a club.

Again Shrikant won & found a deadly rejoinder. He cashed the Ace of heart, cutting declarer off from dummy & brilliantly exited with the Queen of diamonds. South had to go down after this lethal defence. Had the declarer chosen to play on hearts from the beginning he could have scored the contract but that is another matter.

Shrikant was smiling even when he was killing the contract.

ETHIOPIAN GUYE ADOLA

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WINS DELHI HALF MARATHON

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EW DELHI: Ethiopian Guye Adola demolished the course record to win the men's race while Kenyan Florence Kiplagat became the first runner to defend the women's crown in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon.

Among the Indians, the men's category was won by Suresh Kumar 01:04:38 followed by Nitender Singh Rawat 01:04:54 and Kheta Ram 01:04:56. Among the Indian women, Preeja Sreedharan successfully defended her title (01:19:03) followed by Ethiopian runner Guye Adola, winner of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon Monika Athare 01:19:12 and 2014 in men's category poses for a photograph after setting a record during the event in New Delhi on Sunday.

Sudha Singh 01:19:21.

Adola stopped the clock at 59.06 minutes to lower by six Kamworor improved his culated race to topple the seconds the course record of world championship win- Kenyan's dream of taking 59.12, set by countryman ning time from Copenhagen the Delhi title this year.

Atsedu Tsegay last year. by a second to 59:07 in The men's race began at a Adola's winning time took Delhi. A familiar face on fast clip and the entire pack him to third place in this sea- Delhi roads, the Kenyan stayed together up until son's top lists for the above replicated his runner-up po- 17km. From the 19km mark, distance. He was followed sitions here from 2011 and Adola began to break away home by Kenyans Geoffrey 2013 races. from the group and mainKamworor in 59.07 and Ethiopian Adola, who tained his lead. Till about Mosinet Geremew (59.11) came from nowhere to a 400 meters before the finish who also broke the existing third place in the Worlds at line Mosinet Geremew was record.

Copenhagen, ran a well cal- in the second position

closely followed by Kamworor. However, in the last few meters Geoffrey outsprinted Mosinet to take the second place.

On setting new course record, Adola said "The competition was hard, but I am very happy with my podium finish. It was bit cold early in the morning but I am happy with my timing, and more so because I broke the course record."

Among the women Kenyan Florence Kiplagat become the first runner to defend a women's crown in Delhi.

Kiplagat, a world cross-country champion in 2009 and half-marathon champion in 2010, came here with a World Leading 65:12 which she clocked in Barcelona this February. However, today's winning time of 70:04 was slower than her last year's 68:02.

"It was a very nice and strong field today, very tight group. I knew that if I stuck to the group, I could win and that was my strategy for today."

Kalyani Group names I-League team as ‘Bharat FC’ Abhi Foundation

rally to hold Sea View 2-2 M

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UNE: The Pune-headquartered Kalyani Group announced today that their football club has been christened "Bharat FC" which will take part in this season's ILeague season commencing in January, 2015.

The Group's Executive Director Amit Kalyani unveiled the name of the club in Pune today in the presence of Bharat FC's director Kunal Agarwal, head coach Stuart Watkiss and assistant coach Stanly Rozario, a media release said.

Bharat FC would be playing its home games at Balewadi stadium in Pune.

"Though we are the 'Puneri' team, the idea of spreading the magic and joy of football all through our country was

Amit Kalyani, ED, Kalyani Group with Head Coach Stuart Watkiss and Assistant Coach Stanly Rozario. foremost on our minds.

Bharat FC aims not just to be Pune's favourite team but one that all of India can identify with and follow," said Group ED Kalyani.

"We will focus on all aspects of football and going forward

we will look at further enhancing the youth development and grass root programs. We are looking at bringing talent from India and abroad and adopt best practices for building a strong foundation for Bharat FC," he added.

Mumbai FC hit RCF for a six, record fifth successive win M UMBAI: Fancied Mumbai FC cruised to another fluent victory, defeating Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilisers (RCF) by a convincing 6-0 margin in an Elite Division match of the MDFA (Mumbai District Football Association) League played at the Cooperage ground on Sundayevening. This was the fifth successive win for Mumbai FC who are firmly placed at the top of the league table.

The formidable Mumbai FC outfit, the only team from the city participating in the ILeague competition, worked

well as a unit to take total control of the proceedings from the outset and open up a commanding 4-0 half-time lead.

AVDAIT SHINDE STRIKES FOR FR. AGNEL Avdait Shinde’s lone goal paved the way for Fr. Agnel’s 1-0 win against Springfield FC in a Super Division match of the MDFA (Mumbai District Football Association) League played in Parel.

In another Super Division tie, DECA (D’Assisi Ex-students CharitableAssociation)snatched a close 3-2 win over Sellebrity

FC. Malcolm D’Souza, Ramesh Singh and Grenville Murzello scored a goal each for DECA, whileDanielFernandesandSiddhant Pathak scored for Sellebrity.

Results, at St. Xavier’s ground, Parel - Div-I: Goan Sports Association 4 (Rakesh Dhanu 3, Sayresh Bhowkar) beat Rhino SC 1 (Teddy Almeida). St. Paul’s SC 2 (Marshal Francis, Jagdish Lobo) beat Cochin FC 0.

Super Div: DECA 3 (Malcolm D’Souza, Ramesh Singh, Grenville Murzello) beat Sellebrity FC 2.

UMBAI: Twice in arrears, Abhi Foundation showed plenty of determination and fought back to force a 2-2 draw with Sea View SC in a keenly contested Senior Division match of the MHAL (Mumbai Hockey Association Limited) League - 2014 and played at the MHAL Stadium, Churchgate.

Mohit Kaushik converted a penalty corner early in the first half to give Sea View a 1-0 half-time lead. But the young Foundation side fought on gamely and managed to restore parity through Salman Khan. Sea View regained the lead when Mahesh Bagade found the target, but once again Abhi Foundation came back strongly netting the equalizer through Mayur Pawar and secure a welldeserved point.

Meanwhile, consistent goal scorer Amir Khan struck two goals to guide Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) to a comfortable 5-1 win against Ave Maria SC in another match of the same division. Ashutosh Lingesh, Anirudh More and Vijay Patekar scored a goal each to clinch the win for the Port Trust side, while Ave Maria reduced the margin through the efforts of Naresh Kumar.

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Messi breaks Liga goals record with hat-trick

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FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi is lifted by his teammates after scoring against Sevilla during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Sevilla, at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Spain. Messi set a La Liga scoring record of 253 goals when he claimed a hat-trick in Saturday's match at the Camp Nou stadium against Sevilla.

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ADRID: Lionel Messi became the all-time top goalscorer in La Liga history with a hat-trick as Barcelona swept aside Sevilla 5-1 to remain two points adrift of league leaders Real Madrid.

Messi, 27, moved level with legendary Basque striker Telmo Zarra when he opened the scoring with a trademark free-kick to register his 251st goal in his 289th appearance in the Spanish top flight yesterday.

A Jordi Alba own goal briefly brought Sevilla level early in the second-half, but Neymar swiftly restored Barca's advantage before Ivan Rakitic made the game safe when he headed home Luis Suarez's enticing cross

ABSOLUTELY MESSIMERISING When I scored this goal, I couldn't imagine I could break any record, let alone this one previously held by the great Telmo Zarra.

LIONEL MESSI ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE

against his old club.

Messi then took over as he slid in to convert Neymar's low cross to set the new record and extended it moments later with a precise low finish to round off a fine evening for Luis Enrique's men against a side that started the evening just two points adrift of the Catalans.

"When I scored this goal, I

couldn't imagine I could break any record, let alone this one previously held by the great Telmo Zarra," wrote Messi on his Facebook page alongside his first Barca goal against Albacete in May, 2005. "I was only able to achieve tis because of the support I have had from so many people during my time here and I would like to dedi-

cate this achievement to you all."

Earlier, Real Madrid saw off Basque minnows Eibar's dreams of a giant-killing thanks to a Cristiano Ronaldo double to register their 14th consecutive win in all competitions with a 4-0 victory.

Champions Atletico Madrid remain four points off the top as they overcame

Malaga 3-1 at the Vicente Calderon thanks to goals from Tiago, Antoine Griezmann and Diego Godin.

At the other end of the table, Real Sociedad moved a point clear of the relegation zone in former Manchester United manager David Moyes's bow as the Basques new coach as they drew 0-0 away to Deportivo la Coruna.

Kohli heroics see Our Lady Of The Sea crowned Orlem Super Cup champions MUMBAI: Prateek Kohli grabbed the spotlight in the final of the Orlem Super Cup with a spectacular four-goal display that saw Our Lady of the Sea ‘C’ (Madh Island) cruise to a 4-1 win over St Joseph (Mira Road) to be crowned champions of the tournament’s second edition.

The 10-day foobtall tournament, played at the St Anne’s High School ground, had attracted good crowds right through and the final was no different with Mumbai boy and Bengaluru FC left back, Keegan Pereira lending sparkle to the occasion as chief guest. It took a mere 70 seconds for the game’s first highlight as Kohli struck to give the Madh Island lads the lead. St Joseph responded in the seventh minute through Aaron D’Costa who would go on to be crowned ‘Player of the

tournament’. But the final belonged to one man alone with Kohli restoring his team’s lead just before the break and then finding the back of the net twice more in the second half to cap off a special individual performance.

The consolatory third-fourth playoff also produced drama as St Blaise (Amboli) sealed the honours at the expense of Our Lady of Health (Versova) courtesy a coin-toss after the tie was deadlocked at the end of normal time as well as penalties with all 16 players converting their spot kicks.

RESULTS: Final: Our Lady of the Sea ‘C’ (Madh Island) 4 (Prateek Kohli 4) bt St Joseph (Mira Road) 1 (Aaron D’Costa). 3rd/4th playoff: St Blaise (Amboli) declared winners over Our Lady of Health (Versova) after coin toss. Player of the tournament – Aaron D’Costa [St Joseph (Mira Road)].

Sevilla were expected to pose a serious threat to a Barca side that has struggled in recent La Liga outings.

However, the hosts had complete control of the game in the first-half and could have been in front before Messi's historic strike as the Argentine's first effort of the match was smothered by Beto and the Portuguese

'keeper then denied Luis Suarez from a narrow angle.

Messi's moment came midway through the first-half as his free-kick curled perfectly into Beto's top righthand corner to register his 12th goal of the season. Only some frantic defending kept the Andalusians in thegame as Barca ended the half strongly.

Ritu Rani to lead Indian hockey eves on Italy tour N

Bruno Augusto Pelissari de Lima of Chennaiyin FC celebrates after scoring a goal during the Hero Indian Super League against Mumbai City FC held at the D.Y. Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai on Sunday.

Chennaiyin FC won the match 3-0.

EW DELHI: Ritu Rani will lead a 18-member Indian hockey team for the fivematch Test tour of Italy to be played in Rome from December 1 to 12.

The tour, seen as a preparation for the World Hockey League Round 2, was selected

by Hockey India selectors Surinder Kaur, Harbinder Singh, Mamta Kharab, High Performance Director Roelant Oltmans, chief coach Neil Hawgood, and coach N S Saini, after a selection trial conducted in Bhopal on November 19 and 20.

The 18-member team is looking forward to repeat the success of the Incheon Asian Games 2014 where the team clinched a bronze medal.

While the team will be captained by midfielder Ritu Rani,

midfielder Deepika has been named as the vice-captain.

Speaking on the team structure, chief coach Hawgood said, "The team has been continuously improving with each tournament. With Italy Tour coming their way, the players are expected to continue their good form and raise."

The first Test of the series will be played on December 4 followed by games December 6, 7, 9 and 11.

Squad: Goalkeepers: Savita, Rajani Etimarpu; Defenders: Deep Grace Ekka, Jaspreet Kaur, Sushila Chanu, M N Ponnamma, Sunita Lakra, Namita Toppo, Manjit Kaur; Midfielders: Deepika (vc), Lilima Minz, Ritu Rani (c), Lily Chanu, Navjot Kaur, Amandeep Kaur; Forwards: Poonam Rani, Vandana Katariya, Soundarya Yendala.

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Double points finish for Force India at season-ending race

Mercedes-AMG's British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates on the podium at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi on Sunday after the Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix.

ABU DHABI: Sahara Force India ended the season on a high with Nico Hulkenberg finishing the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in sixth position just ahead of teammate Sergio Perez. With double points on offer in the season-ending race at the majestic Yas Marina Circuit, Force India collected 28 points to finish sixth in the Constructors championship with 155 points, 26 less than fifth-placed McLaren.

Last year also Force India had ended sixth but the team had scored only 77 points. In the drivers' championship, Hulkenberg finished ninth with 96 points, ahead of Perez, who scored 59 points this season. Force India has decided to retain both the drivers in the 2015 season.

Last year Force India's Paul di Resta (12) and Adrian Sutil (13) had ended outside the top-10 bracket in the drivers' championship.

MR. CHAMP GAINS DOUBLE CROWN A

BU DHABI: Lewis Hamilton clinched his second drivers' world championship and became the first British multiple champion for 46 years when he won Sunday's seasonending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

The 29-year-old Englishman, who took his first title in 2008 with McLaren, won not only the 55-laps race, but also his private duel with Mercedes team-mate Nico Ros-

berg, who suffered prolonged problems with his car after making a poor start from pole position.

Having started from the prime spot on the grid for the 11th time this year, Rosberg was comprehensively outpaced as Hamilton surged clear to control the race with a well-judged and dominant performance.

Hamilton's victory was his 11th of the season and the 33rd of his record-breaking

Amitoze, Mandeep fifties take Punjab into Vijay Hazare final A

HMEDABAD: Delightful fifties from Amitoze Singh and Mandeep Singh helped Punjab canter to a seven-wicket win over Odisha and enter the Vijay Hazare one-day tournament final.

Punjab will take on Karnataka, who won a six-run cliffhanger against Bengal in the other semi-final, in the title clash on Tuesday at the same venue.

Chasing 239 for a win at the Sardar Patel Stadium at Motera, the Harbhajan Singh-led side rode on a 167-run second-wicket partnership between Amitoze (91) and Mandeep (81) to achieve the target in 48.3 overs.

Amitoze, whose knock was laced with eight fours and a six, however missed out on his first List A century after being run out by Biplab Samantray.

Mandeep was also un-

lucky after being scalped by Deepak Rasananda Behera.

His knock came off 93 balls, which included seven boundaries and a six.

Yuvraj Singh (26 not out) and Taruwar Kohli (35 not out) also provided useful contributions in their 64run unbeaten partnership for the fourth wicket to speed up Punjab chase.

KARNATAKA PIP BENGAL TO ENTER FINAL Abhimanyu Mithun's brilliant bowling at death enabled defending champions Karnataka to edge out Bengal by six runs in a thrilling semi-final of the National One Day Championship for the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Karnataka will meet Punjab in the final scheduled on Tuesday.

Batting first, Karnataka scored a respectable 268 for nine in 50 overs after being down at 222 for nine.

career and secured a record 16th victory of the season for the Mercedes team.

Rosberg finished 14th, lapped by Hamilton and bitterly disappointed. As Hamilton roared his delight "Whoooah world champion Oh my God, cannot believe it - thanks everyone" - Prince Harry responded on the team radio. "Thank you very much Lewis for not letting the British public down, you are a legend."

Australia edge South Africa in final ODI to go top of rankings

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YDNEY: James Faulkner hit the winning boundary with five balls to spare to give Australia a thrilling twowicket victory over South Africa today and push them to the top of the ICC one-day rankings.

The Australians were cruising towards a rain-reduced victory target of 275 in Sydney but then lost four wickets for three runs to give the Proteas a late chance of victory.

But Faulkner (six not out) got Australia over the line with a sweep for four off spinner Robin Peterson, who had bowled the Proteas into contention with four wickets.

Australia secured a 4-1 series win and nudged ahead of India to top the one-day rankings, less than three months before the start of the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock was named man-of-

Hamilton became the fourth British driver to win more than one championship, joining Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark and Graham Hill, the last man to succeed in 1968.

Rosberg struggled with a series of problems that hampered his performance, but refused to retire when offered a chance to pit with two laps remaining.

"I'd like to go to the end," said an emotional Rosberg,

who knew his fate when he was lapped at the end.

Hamilton came home 2.5 seconds clear of second placed Brazilian Felipe Massa of Williams and his teammate Valterri Bottas, who was third. Australian Daniel Ricciardo was fourth for Red Bull ahead of Briton Jenson Button in what may be his last race with McLaren, Nico Hulkenberg and his Force India teammate Sergio Perez.

Four-time world outgoing champion Sebastian Vettel finished eighth in his final race with Red Bull, one position ahead of the man he replaces at Ferrari next season, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen in the second Ferrari. Rosberg, showing great sportsmanship and dignity in defeat, went to the prepodium room to embrace and congratulate Hamilton, a gesture that spoke volumes for their rivalry.

TOP OF THE TOP the-match in a losing side for his 107 off 123 balls in South Africa's innings after they had won the toss.

The Australians seemed in control of the run chase with Aaron Finch scoring 76 (67 balls), Shane Watson 82 (93 balls) and man of the series Steve Smith 67 (74 balls).

But some reckless batting coupled with Peterson's mesmerising spin brought South Africa back into contention after the loss of Glenn Maxwell, Smith, skipper George Bailey, Matt Wade and Pat Cummins.

Faulkner got the Australians home in the final over. "We made it a bit difficult for ourselves in the end and Jimmy (Faulkner) again got us home so it's nice to win the series 4-1," Smith Shane Watson during his innings of said.

"We were a bit nervous sit- 82 during the final ODI against ting and watching and we South Africa on Sunday.

were actually feeling a little bit sick, I don't know what happened, and luckily Jimmy came out and rescued us again."

The South Africans never gave in and coupled with Peterson's bowling, Rilee Rossouw took four catches, including a sprawling effort to dismiss Smith in the outfield at a pivotal time in the match.

De Kock hit the first oneday century by a South African at the Sydney Cricket Ground to help his team to 280 for six. The wicketkeeper's 107 off 123 balls with 14 fours was his sixth ODI hundred but first against Australia.

In the absence of injured skipper AB de Villiers, de Kock stepped up to play a valuable innings for the Proteas, who were looking to avoid a fourth defeat in the five-game ODI series.