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Teacher from Kashmir is caught by CISF for straying into and strolling inside high security dock area

By Zuber Ansari

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Kashmiri native was intercepted by personnel of the Central Industrial Reserve Force (CISF), who nabbed him from within a restricted area after he entered from Orange Gate and was about to exit from the New Yellow Gate, which is the entry point to the city. He was handed over to Yellow Gate police station for further investigations on Thursday evening.

Mohamad Jamid Malik (30)

claims he is teacher in a government school in Kashmir, and his father Ibrahim Malik is a government servant.

The Anti Terrorism Squad is also investigating and interrogating Malik.

The police officials said that Malik was intercepted while he was trying to exit from the New Yellow Gate which is completely restricted, and not allowed for civilians. Shockingly, no one intercepted him at the Orange Gate and therefore he proceeded fur-

ther ahead, said the cops.

Malik claimed he had mistakenly entered the area and he was heading towards a masjid in Dongri where he has been keeping his luggage. He told police that someone misguided him saying there was a shortcut to Dongri from Orange Gate.

Malik is resident of Ahlam Patry in Kashmir which comes under Alham Gadol police station over there. The CISF handed him over to Yellow Gate police who jointly grilled him with the ATS.

NCP THREATENS DIVORCE

Cong pooh-poohs 3-day ultimatum over seat sharing, after which, NCP says, it will contest all 48 LS seats

By Suyash Padate

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he NCP yesterday gave an ultimatum to its ruling partner, the Congress, asking it to take a call within the next three days on seat

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sharing issue for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. The NCP has also warned that if the Congress fails to respond, it will convene a meeting to decide on multiple options for its own future.

Significantly, the state Congress chief, Manikrao Thakre, has countered the NCP, saying that it is free

pleasure over the reluctance of the Congress to give it a better equation.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, senior NCP leader and Union Heavy Industry Minister Praful Patel said, “I spoke to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and explained the NCP’s stand with re-

mir and keep a watch on Malik. A police officer said, “We found a SIM card in a bag, and the syllabus he was talking about. He was charged under section 447 (punishment for criminal trespass) of IPC ad 120 (entering prohibited area) Bombay Police Act. He was presented before court and remanded to Judicial Custody (JC).”

ATS Chief Rakesh Maria said, “Our team is also interrogating him, but its too early to comment on the issue.

WHO CARES? Several private hospitals in Mira Bhayandar opt out of ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayi Arogya Yojana, saying subsidy offered by government is untenably low and that there are too many delays by insurance companies

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For a ‘toll free’ ride upto Pune, just follow that Raj Thackeray’s Mercedes!

He told his interrogators that he came to Mumbai to get the syllabus of the International Islamic School as he is planning to open a school in his hometown in Kashmir.

The police said after leaving Kashmir, Malik went to Delhi, then to Deoband in UP, and from there to Aurangabad. He later came to Mumbai and resided in a masjid in Dongri, where he kept his luggage.

The police will now verify all the details provided from Kash-

NCP’s Praful Patel

State Congress chief Manikrao Thakre

to chart its own path. “Such an ultimatum will not work and NCP is free to go its own way,” he said.

A meeting of the senior NCP leaders was held to take stock of the party’s preparedness for the Lok Sabha elections. The issue of seat sharing with the Congress was discussed with many leaders expressing dis-

gard to seat sharing. We will wait for another two to three days and later discuss future strategy in our party meeting. There are multiple options before us.” However, he declined to divulge further details on this issue.

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he ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayi Arogya Yojana (RGJAY) had brought welcome relief for 51-year-old rickshaw driver, Sukhdeo Suryanshi, who suffers from chronic renal failure for the past three years and needs dialysis treatment twice a week. A resident of Bhayandar, Suryavanshi underwent free dialysis once at a private hospital empanelled under RGJAY. However, his relief was shortlived as the private hospital, along with several other empanelled medical intuitions in the twin-city, has reportedly backedoff from the State Government’s free healthcare scheme.

Now, Suryavanshi is amongst hundreds of other poor patients who will have to continue to struggle in their fight for survival.

Several hospitals had voluntarily empanelled themselves in the health insurance scheme, how-

Patient Sukhdeo Suryavanshi ever, leaving aside a couple of multi super specialty medical institutions including Bhakti Vedanta and Umrao Hospitals, most have decided to back-off.

The reason is that these hospitals feel that the price list offered by the government is extremely impractical and ridiculously low.

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TB control programme gets a ‘central’ boost

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CITY OPINIONS

Do you think will the political party gain after former CP Satyapal Singh joins them?

Afzal Hussain PR Executive No. I don't think so because it depend upon the constituency from where he will contest the election.

Arunn Kumar Journalist No. Satyapal Singh is recognized in Mumbai and not in other parts of the country, and if he contests election from out of Mumbai than a political party which he joins may not gain.

Nagnath Babar Cameraman Yes. Satyapal Singh is wellknown face and any political party which he may join will gain due to his clean image as a Mumbai CP. Rizwan Ansari Businessman Yes. After reports in the media that Mr. Singh has many offers from political parties, it indicates that politicians know well about the mileage to be gained if the former CP joins them.

Parveen Qureshi Housewife Yes. I feel Satyapal Singh should contest the polls on an AAP ticket, since the party has like-minded workers who are willing to do something for the country.

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The other proposals approved by the Centre for the city are providing nutritional supplements to people suffering from drug resistant TB, getting private practitioners to make their TB patients be a part of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) while retaining the patients with them so that the ill-affording patients can avail of free medications under the RNTCP, giving individualised treatment to drug resistant TB patients and setting up a respiratory Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Sewri TB hospital. Also, five more GeneXperts would be set up in Mumbai in year 2014.

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t looks like the recent visit by a team from the Central Government has given the tuberculosis control and detection programme of the BMC, a boost. The centre has approved certain proposals put forth by the BMC which the BMC feels will better its TB control programme.

One of the several approvals is allowing second line TB testing for any patient suffering from TB and not responding to the first line treatment.

“The algorithm that is being currently followed takes anywhere between nine months to an year for a person to be diagnosed with drug resistant TB because after being out on category I and then on category II treatment and being unresponsive to them, the sputum is sent to GeneXpert and the individual is put on category IV of treatment if required. And after a follow up after six months, either category IV treatment is continued if the person is responding to it or else he is given a category V treatment, depending upon the results of the second line testing for sensitivity for drugs. This process takes anywhere between eight to nine months and a year causing loss of

precious time leading to prevention of early detection of drug resistant TB and treatment. So, we had proposed that when an individual shows resistance to first line treatment for TB itself, the sputum sample should be sent to GeneXpert and also for second line testing. And this has been approved by the Centre”, said Manisha Mhaiskar, Addiotnal Commissioner (West), BMC. The BMC is now preparing to increase its capacity to conduct second line testing for drug resistant

TB by getting the required infrastructure in BMC-run Sewri TB Hospital, at state-run JJ Hospital and working with Hinduja Hospital which has recently got accreditation for conducting second line tests.

Within a year, we will be able to conduct 2,000 tests in a year. The requirement is of 4,000 as on an average, 3,000 to 4,000 people annually suffer from drug resistant TB in the city. We are working towards increasing the testing capacity”, said Mhaiskar.

Statistics by the BMC:

Every year, on an average 30,000 people suffer from TB in Mumbai.

There were 31,000 cases in 2013, 30,000 in 2012 and 29,212 cases in 2011. There were 53 cases of multidrug resistant TB in 2010, 181 cases in 2011, 2429 cases in 2012 and 2903 cases in 2013. There were no cases of Extensively Drug Resistant TB (XDR TB) in 2010 and 2011, in year 2012, 32 people were on treatment for XDR TB and in 2013, 90 were being treated for XDR TB.

Container classrooms!

City colleges use cargo containers as temporary classrooms, furnished with ACs, benches and projectors

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traction in the college premises.

After the Mumbai University inhe introduction of more courses troduced new job-oriented courses in colleges have created a prob- for the students, many colleges enlem for allotment of classrooms. rolled for conducting the courses.

Keeping in mind the shortage of This led to shortage of classrooms, classrooms, city colleges have hence the colleges brought in cargo started converting cargo containers containers and after furnishing into furnished classrooms for con- them, began using them as classducting lectures. These container rooms. classrooms have become a star atThe containers are decorated with

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wall paper from the inside and have comfortable seating for the students. Along with air conditioners and fans, projectors are also set up for projects and assignments. The students find the containers comfortable.

Nitesh Dubey, a student from K.E.S. Shroff College, Kandivali says: “It feels comfortable in these ‘classroom containers’ as it has all the re-

quired facilities. I fact, it feels better than the normal classrooom.”

Dr Kanan, Vice-Principal, K.E.S. Shroff College told the ADC: “These classrooms are temporary. As the construction of new classrooms takes time, we have accommodated the students in these ‘container classrooms’. As soon as the new classrooms are ready, we will shift the students there.”

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n the early morning hours of January 5, Esther Anuhya, a software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, working for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) at Goregaon, was returning to the city from her home in Hyderabad, and had disembarked at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT), situated in the Tilak Nagar area of Chembur.

The train, the VishakapatnamLTT Express, which she had boarded from Vijayawada at 8 am on January 4, entered LTT station at 4.52 am and by 4.57 am, Anuhya had alighted. At the same time, Anuhya had checked her WhatsApp messages on her cellphone, and as per her copassengers who were questioned by the police, she started walking towards the only entry-exit point of the station, looking for transport to take her to the YWCA Hostel at Andheri, where she was staying.

approach the Tilak Nagar police, as the LTT station falls under their jurisdiction. The Tilak Nagar police informed the relatives that they would search the Tilak Nagar area, but asked them to approach the Kurla police station, as some part of Tilak Nagar comes under the latter's jurisdiction.

The Kurla police then collected all of Anuhya's relevant details and started the probe. Considering the gravity of the case, Addl. CP (Central Region) Praveen Salunke on January 8, sent three police officers – two sub-inspectors and an assistant inspector – with Anuhya’s relatives while they were looking for her in the city.

“The three officers from Kurla police station were with Anuhya's relatives 24 hours of the day, inclding January 16, when her body was found,” said Salunke.

However, Anuhya’s uncle Ramanna said, “It’s true that three officers had accompanied the relatives, but on January 16, when Anuhya’s brother Deepak found the body, these officers were looking for it in a differ-

Is Mumbai safe for women? This is, perhaps, the question on any everyone's mind after the recent incident where 23-year-old techie, Esther Anuhya, was kidnapped and brutally killed by unidentified persons. The murder also brought to light how the police – the city police, crime branch and the railway police – did not take appropriate action and measures, which would have atleast led to the discovery of the girl's body much earlier. Neel Shah takes a look into the incident, as well as the roles of those concerned – particularly the police from the various departments.

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SHOULD WE LIVE IN FEAR?

However, before Anuhya managed to find transport, her co-passengers had already left the station, said police personnel from the Kurla railway police, who are probing the case.

According to Anuhya’s mobile location, which was tracked by the city’s crime branch, as well as by the railway police, the girl was at the railway station till 5.35 am. At 6.08 am however, her mobile location was between Kanjurmarg and Bhandup in the Eastern suburbs of Mumbai.

This is considered to be her last location according to the surveillance team of the crime branch, as the latter – after receiving the complaint of her disappearance – started tracking her mobile network signal right fromVijaywada railway station.

Due to her mobile being switched off after a couple of hours of showing her last location on January 5, her last location stayed the same till her body was found on the afternoon of January 16.

Anuhya's body was found lying on dry land, far from the Bhandup Talav, and just a little away from the service ent place.” road leading towards Meanwhile, the city’s crime branch, who got Mulund. Most of her At 4 am in November 2012, a victim, whose name has been witheld, had to know about the incident, immediately initibody was eaten up by alighted from a train at LTT railway station. The victim had come from Amritsar ated a parallel probe and started tracing rodents and scavengers, and had hired a rikshaw from outside the station to go to Andheri (W). As soon Anuhya's mobile location. While probing, believe the police and as the rickshaw was hired, a person known to the rickshaw driver came sleuths from the crime branch found out that Anuhya's relatives, and had entered the rickshaw and sat beside the driver. When the victim questioned the Hemant Meda, Anuhya’s classmate and a close turned black. She was iden- driver about the perosn sitting besides him, the driver said that since he didn't friend, had met her at Sikandrabad railway statified only by the gold ring on know the road to Andheri his friend was accompanying him. tion. “On the afternoon of January 4, between Around 25 minutes into the journey the vicitm suddenly saw a signboard her right hand, a few clothes 1 pm and 1.30 pm Hemant had met Anuhya on her body, and her mobile, which mentioned that the road she was on was leading to Kalyan. Realising and had handed over a lunch box to her,” which was lying near her. Her that something was wrong, she immediately asked the driver to stop the confirmed Prasad. “On the night of January vehicle. When the driver halted the rickshaw, the man sitting next to the driver luggage was missing.

4, at around 9.30 pm Anuhya called me went behind and sat beside the victim. The driver then started the vehicle, after and in our conversation informed me which the man started misbehaving with the woman. The latter cried for help Post Anuhya’s mysterious about her meeting with Hemant,” said and was noticed by a few fishermen, who were sitting in the back of a the disappearance Prasad. When Anuhya had called her By the afternoon of January 5, tempo taht was passing by. The tempo driver stopped the tempo a little away father, she had reached Solapur railJonathan Prasad, Anuhya's father, had from the rickshaw and the fishermen got down to help the woman. way station, said officials from the When the rickshaw driver saw this, he stopped his vehicle during which time already surmised that something had crime branch. gone wrong with his daughter, as she the woman managed to jump off. The rickshaw driver and the his friend sped didn’t answer the two calls made by him. away via a different route. The victim approached the D.N. Nagar police station Did the cops do their job?

Prasad (53) had called Anuhya at 7 am to lodge a complaint, but was told to approach the Tilak Nagar police station, The accurate answer to this quesas she had hired the rickshaw from there. and later at 11.30 am on the same day. tion cannot be given found in She finally lodged an FIR against the duo at Tilak Nagar police station under When Anuhya did not answer the first call, just a 'yes' or 'no', believe cops Prasad thought that she was tired after nearly Sections 363 (Punishment for kidnapping), 366 (Kidnapping, abducting or from almost all agencies that inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc), 354 (Assault or criminal force to 20 hours of travelling and might be asleep. were involved in the probe of woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily However, after she didn't answer the secAnuhya's death. Moreover, causing hurt) and 34 (Acts done by several persons in futherance of common ond call at 11.30 am, Prasad started calling up the cops also believe that reintention) of IPC. his relatives in the city, informing them about gardless of initiating the The case was investigated by sub-inspector Gajanan Sonawane, who Anuhya not answering his calls. He registered a search or combing operaarrested both the accused identified as Satish Singh (30) and Anil Sharma missing complaint at Vijaywada railway police tion, the crime could not (31), while the chargesheet was filed by assistant inspector Ashok Jadhav. station. Simultaneously, his relatives in the city, have been thwarted, as The trial went on for a year and the city police's poor invsetigation skills approached the railway police, informing them Anuhya was killed in a came to the fore, when the prosecutor could not corroborate the evidence about Anuhya's sudden disappearance. couple of hours after collected by the police against the accused. The prosecution failed to establish On the morning of January 7, Prasad arrived being abducted from the role of the accused in the allegations against them, and on September 27 in Mumbai and registered a missing complaint LTT. Consequently, it last year, Addl. sessions judge V. Joshi acquited the duo from all charges with the Kurla railway police, who after taking cannot be termed as levelled against them. a picture of Anuhya from him, started the failure on the part probe. However, they also told her relatives to of the police, ex-

Similar case at LTT highlights police’s poor probe

Esther Anuhya

plained investigators.

“On various ocassions, police officials had accompanied the relatives in looking for Anuhya. However, this initiative was not as strong as it should have been, as the cops were

simply relying on surveilance trackers and thought that the girl, in a bid to prevent the cops from tracing her location, must have thrown her cellphone in the Kanjur-Bhandup area and must have eloped,” explained a highly placed police official in the Mumbai police while requesting anonymity.

In this regard, Anuhya's relatives say that the bone of contention lies with the police's lackadaisical approach towards taking appropriate action. “Considering Anuhya's mobile constantly showing her location to be between the Kanjur-Bhandup area, it becomes logical for police officials, from any department, to initiate a combing operation in the area,” said a relative, adding that this didn't take place, as a repeated request asking the police to initiate a search operation, was put-off by the cops who siad that they would do it in a day or two.

Finally, on the morning of January 16, at around 8 am, two of Anuhya's cousins, her aunt's driver, and few locals started a search in the areas of Kanjurmarg and Bhandup. In addition, two among the three police officials, who were assigned to be with the relatives during the search, had also accompanied the relatives, said the police, as well as Prasad.

The Anuhya's relatives were also helped and, at times, were properly guided by a former state Director General of Police (DGP), who happens to be a family friend, said sources. This former DGP, whose name has been witheld, also spoke to a high ranking crime branch official, in which he requested the officer to personally look into the matter, added the sources.

Considering this, was the probe in the 10 days from the abduction to the discovery of the body handled haphazardly? Does this incident highlight the careless attitude of the police towards taking the cognizance of such incidents seriously? These questions still remain unanswered by the police.

Further investigations As soon as the body was discovered, the city as well as the crime branch swooped into action and started questioning and introgating taxi and rickshaw drivers – more than 100 of them – who usually conduct their business at LTT. The police also interrogated drivers with criminal anticidents, under the suspicion that they might be involved in the crime.

Two weeks have passed after the body was discovered, but the postmortem and the chemical reports are yet to arrive. The latest development in the case is that investigators have learnt from the CCTV footage at LTT railway station, that Anuhya, after alighting from the train, was sitting in a waiting room when a man in his 30's had approached her.

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04 THANKSGIVING May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored glorified loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever Sacred Heart of Jesus thy kingdom come St. Jude worker of miracles pray for us St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us. Amen C-32320 Most Holy Apostle St. Jude Thaddeus faithful servants & friend of Jesus. The name of the traitor, who delivered thy beloved Master into the hand of his enemies has caused thee to be forgotten by many, but the church honors & invokes thee Universally as the Patron of pray for me who am so needy, make use me. I implore thee of that particular privilege accorded to thee to bring visible & speedy help where help is almost despaired of come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolations & succor of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations & sufferings particularly (here mention your petition) and that I may bless God with thee and all the elect throughout enemity. I promise thee, o blessed St. Jude to be ever mindful of this favour and I will never cease to be honour thee as my special and powerful patron and to do all in my power to encourage devotion to thee. Amen, say our father hail Mary, Glory be to the father. Say this prayer for nine consecutive Thursdays. Never known to have failed. Thank you St. Jude, our lady, Jesus, St. Anthony for favours granted.

— GM C-33161 Prayer to Holi Spirit thou who makes me see everything & show me the way to reach my ideal, you who gives me the divine gift to forgive and forget all wrong tht is done to me and who are in all instances of my life with me. I, in the short dialogue want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you, no matter how great the material desire may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones on your perpetual glory. — GM. C-33162

CHANGE OF NAME

I have changed my name from Mrs. Hina Mahesh Rambhia to Mrs. Heena Mahesh Rambhia as per Deedpoll Affidavit.

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CLASSIFIEDS I have changed my name from Kulsum Munnir Bhot, to ‘Kulsum Mohamed Munir Boat’ as per Affidavit Dated: 29/01/2014.

C-33167 I have changed my name from Misbah Noormohamed Ebrahim, to ‘Motivala Misbah Noormohamed’ as per Affidavit Dated: 22/01/2014.

C-33168 I have changed my name from Gonda Kausar Pervin Abdul Aziz, to ‘Motiwala Kausar Pervin Abdul Aziz’ as per Affidavit Dated: 24/01/2014.

C-33169 I have changed my name from Fazal Rajjab Ali Shaikh, to ‘Fazal Rajjab Ali Khan’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (X- 9975) Dated: 09/06/2011.

C-33170 I, Fazal Rajjab Ali Khan have changed my Daughter’s name from Kaifiya Fazal Shaikh, to ‘Kaifiya Fazal Khan’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (X- 9976) Dated: 09/06/2011.

C-33171 I, Fazal Rajjab Ali Khan have changed my Son’s name from Kashif Fazal Shaikh, to ‘Kashif Fazal Khan’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (X- 9977) Dated: 09/06/2011.

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I have changed my name from Kailashkumar Kanhaiyalal Jain to Kailash Kanhaiyalal Rajawat as per deed poll Affidavit 32AA 208271 dated 28 / 01 / 2014.

C-33181 I have changed my name from Sangeeta Sharad Khandelwal to Sangita Sharad Khandelwal as per Affidavit dated 30.01.2014.

C-33182 I have changed my name from Sharadkumar Khandelwal to Sharad Kumar Khandelwal as per Affidavit dated 30.01.2014.

C-33183 I have changed my name from Yagnaben Navinchandra Rana to Yagna Manish Rana as per Affidavit dated 30.01.2014.

C-33184 I have changed my name from Manish Moanlal Rana to Manish Moanlal as per Affidavit dated 30.01.2014.

C-33185 I have changed my name from Mohanbhai Daiabai to Moanlal Daiabai as per Affidavit dated 30.01.2014.

C-33186 I have changed my name from Jaleel Ahmed Khan or Jaleel Habib Khan to Jalil Khan as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Nikhat Fazal Shaikh, to ‘Nikhat Fazal Khan’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (X-9978) Dated: 09/06/2011.

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I have changed my name from Maheshkumar Shevantilal Akoliya to Mukesh Sevantilal Akoliya as per Affidavit dated: 29 Jan 2014.

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I have changed my name from Saima Jamil Ahmed Khan, to ‘Saima Afroz Khan’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (X-72642) Dated: 04/03/2010.

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I have changed my name from Mukesh Kumar S. Akoliya to Mukesh S. Akoliya as per Affidavit dated: 29 Jan 2014.

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I, Mohammad Khatib have changed my Son’s name from Majeed Mohd Khatib, to ‘Majid Mohammad Khatib’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-26409) Dated: 20/10/2011.

C-33175 I have changed my name from Mahalaxmi Mohan Venkatesh, to ‘Mahalaxmi Mohan’ as per Affidavit Dated: 24/01/2014.

C-33176 I have changed my name from Ahmed Shah Sayyhd, to ‘Sayyed Ahmed Shah’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-57098) Dated: 02/01/2014.

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I have changed my name Deelip Sonaba Lokhande to Dilip Sonaba Lokhande as per Maharashtra Gazette No. U-44046.

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I have changed my name from Rehmabai Abdul Latif, to ‘Rehmabai Abdul Latif Halai’ Affidavit Dated: 30/01/2014.

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I have changed my name from Junir Munnir Bhot, to ‘Junaid Munir Boat’ as per Affidavit Dated: 29/01/2014.

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I have changed my name from Devika Kailash Jain to Devika Kailash Rajawat as per deed poll Affidavit 32AA 208272 dated 28 / 01 / 2014.

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I have changed my name from Munnir Abdul Raheman Bhot, to ‘Mohamed Munir Abdul Raheman Boat’ as per Affidavit Dated: 29/01/2014.

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I have changed my name from Jenish Kailash Jain to Jenish Kailash Rajawat as per deed poll Affidavit 32AA 208273 dated 28 / 01 / 2014.

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I have changed my name from Dineshbhai Shah to Dineshkumar Shah as per Affidavit dated: 31 Jan 2014.

C-33190 I have changed my name from D’souza Liberata Zita to D’souza Liberata as per Affidavit dated: 28 Jan 2014.

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I have changed my name from Anjali Thiagraj to Anjali Thiagraj Pillai as per Affidavit dated 30th January 2014.

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I Dinesh Babu Chohan have changed my name to Dinesh Babu Chouhan as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33212

I have changed my name from Mohmmed Mateen Shaikh to Mohammed Matin Sangram as per Affidavit C-33229

I have changed my name from “Mohd Salim ” to “Mohd Salim Shafat Hussain Shaikh” as per Affidavit Dated 31st January” 2014.

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I Inamul Khan have changed my name to Inamulhaq Khan as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33213

I have changed my name from Yusuf Ibrahim Shaikh To Yusuf Ibrahim Sangram as per Affidavit C-33230

I have changed my name from “Arshi Mohd Salim” to “Arshi Salim Shaikh” as per Affidavit dated 31st January” 2014.

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I Manisha Ramchandra Sagwekar have changed my name to Samiksha Shirish Palkar as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 30/01/14 C-33214

I have changed my name from “Mujaheda” to “Mujaheda Salim Shaikh” as per Affidavit dated 31st January” 2014.

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We Mr. Anup Prataprai Mehta & Mrs. Meghna Anup Mehta have changed our minor daughter’s name from Janavi Anup Mehta to Janvi Anup Mehta as per Maharashtra Government Gazette No C6258 dated : 24/05/2012 C-33215

I have changed my name from “Bhavna Ulhas Bhavekar” to “Bhavna Vishwas Tambe ” as per Affidavit dated 31st January” 2014.

C-33201 I have changed my name from “Ataullah Hayatullah” to “Attaulla Hayatulla Khan ” as per Affidavit dated 31st January” 2014.

C-33202 I have changed my name from “Yogeshbhai/Yogeshkumar Shantilal Vyas” to “Yogesh Shantilal Vyas” as per Affidavit dated 28th January” 2014.

C-33203 We “ Mr. Harish Rawal” & “Mrs. Bhartiben Rawal” have changed name of our minor son from “Sanjay Kumar Harish Rawal” to “Sanjay Harish Rawal” as per Affidavit date 31st January” 2014.

C-33204 I have changed my name from “Neha Vilas Gawde” to “Reshma Kantilal Panchal” as per Affidavit dated 30th January” 2014.

C-33205 I have changed my name from “Guruprasad Pai Koila ” to “Guruprasad Vishwanatha Pai ”as per Affidavit dated 30th January” 2014.

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I have changed my name from D’souza Faustin to D’souza Faustine as per Affidavit dated: 28 Jan 2014.

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I have changed my name from “Rukmini Nagraj Sabnis” to “Rukmini Nagaraja Subnavis” as per Affidavit dated 24th January” 2014.

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I Velmurgan Thulasingam have changed my name to Velmurgan Thulasingam Naker as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 30/01/14 C-33208

I have changed my name from Murtuza Mustansir Hardwarewala to Murtaza Mustansir Hardwarewala as per Affidavit.

I Guddi Soni have changed my name to Guddi Singh as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 30/01/14 C-33209

C-331934 I have changed my name from Badul Murtuza to Batul Murtuza Ratlamwala as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-33195 I have changed my name from Batul Murtuza Ratlamwala to Batul Abbas Channiwala as per deed poll Affidavit.

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I Tarunkumar Ghosh have changed my name to Tarun Ghosh as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33210 I Rashmika Rajnikant Patel have changed my name to Reshmika Ramanbhai Desaria as per Maharashtra Government Gazette No U56919 dated : 02/01/14 C-33211

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C-33216 I Jigarbhai Shah have changed my name to Jigar Shah as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-33217 I Jigarkumar Sureshkumar Shah have changed my name to Jigar Suresh Shah as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-33218 I Gandhi Jahnavee Jwalin have changed my name to Jahnavee Pradeep Kakkad as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-33219 I Pradeepbhai Malankiya have changed my name to Pradeep Malankiya as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-33220 I Miss. Sandhya Dhruv Waghdhare have changed my name to Mrs. Smita Suryakant Khanolkar as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33221 I Pratibhakumari Shukdeo Jha have changed my name to Pratibha Nilesh Jha as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-33222 I Seraj Husain have changed my name to Siraj Hussain as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-33223 I Sheetal Kishan Gokani have changed my name to Shital Kishan Gokani as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-33224 I Ranjanben Mahendra Mamania have changed my name to Ranjan Mahendra Mamania as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-33225 I Binaykumar Padey have changed my name to Vinay Pandey as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-33226 I Maheshkumar Pandey have changed my name to Mahesh Pandey as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-33227 I Sanjudevi Pandey have changed my name to Sanju Pandey as per deedpoll Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Halima Yusuf Shaikh to Halima Yusuf Sangram as per Affidavit C-33231 I have changed my name from Firojabai Siddik Dhankwala to Firoja Siddik Dhankwala as Per Affidavit C-33232 I have changed my name from Tejalben Dineshchandra Shah to Tejal Ketan Shah as per Affidavit C-33233 I have changed my name from Tejalben Ketankumar Shah to Tejal Ketan Shah as per Affidavit C-33234 I have changed my name from Ketankumar Somchandbhai Shah to Ketan Somchand Shah as per Affidavit C-33235 I have changed my name from Somchandbhai Shah to Somchand Shah as per Affidavit C-33236 I have changed my name from Hitakshi Ketankumar Shah to Hiral Ketan Shah as per Affidavit C-33237 I have changed my name from Ketankumar Somchand Shah to Ketan Somchand Shah as per Affidavit C-33238 I have changed my name from Benjamin Gomes to Benigno Gomes as per Affidavit C-33239 I have changed my name from Clinton Marcus Leslie Milton Machado to Clinton Marcus Machado as per Affidavit C-33240 We Mr. Sajid Jamal Huriri & Mrs. Farida Sajid Jamal Huriri have changed our child’s name from Hureri Arfat Mohammed to Hariri Mohammed Arfat Sajid Jamal as per Affidavit C-33241 We Mr. Sajid Jamal Huriri & Mrs. Farida Sajid Jamal Huriri have changed our child’s name from Hureri Mohammed Areeb to Hariri Mohammed Areeb Sajid Jamal as per Affidavit C-33242 We Mr. Sajid Jamal Huriri & Mrs. Farida Sajid Jamal Huriri have changed our child’s name from Hureri Mohammed Ayman to Hariri Mohammed Ayman Sajid Jamal as per Affidavit C-33243 I have changed my name from Shaikh Ameena Mammusa Mohamed to Shaikh Amina Mammusa as per Affidavit C-33244

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lmost a month after the Forest Department officials told the Bombay High Court that the 14-yearold elephant Sunder was in a musth (period of heightened sexual urge which can make captive bull elephants aggressive from frustration) condition and had, therefore, been behaving aggressively and was refusing to be moved, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on Friday presented an evidence to the court proving that 14-year-old elephant Sunder is tortured and is not in musth.

The lawyer representing PETA told the court that the elephant was not in musth as had been claimed by member of legislative assembly Vinay Kore and the Kolhapur division of the forest department.

PETA’s lawyer said, “This was an excuse for failing to implement the High Court’s

order to move Sunder to a sanctuary and to avoid contempt of court. Sunder is at the centre of a case in which PETA is calling for his release to a sanctuary. Kore donated Sunder to the Jyotiba temple in 2007, and the elephant has been kept chained and inside dark sheds for most of that time.

In December 2013, PETA obtained video footage showing Sunder’s mahout violently beating him with a pole near a poultry shed where he had been moved at the behest of Kore.

That same month, the High Court ordered Sunder’s transfer to a sanctuary, but he has

yet to be released by the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests”.

PETA Director of Veterinary Affairs Dr. Manilal Valliyate said, “Vinay Kore and the Kolhapur forest department had been claiming since December 2013 that Sunder is aggressive due to musth and that they are therefore having a difficult time moving him to a sanctuary. Pre-musth lasts for approximate three weeks, musth for about one month with a post-musth condition for approximately another month. During musth, there would be swelling of the temporal gland on elephant’s forehead. A smelly and bitter

secretion dribbles from the gland, often reaching the elephant’s mouth”.

PETA’s lawyer pointed out a report from Dr. T.S. Rajeev of the Centre for Elephant Studies, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Mannuthy, and Dr. Sasindra Dev, Forest Veterinary Officer, Konni – two independent elephant experts from Kerala who examined Sunder on December 20, 2013 and were authorised by the Animal Welfare Board of India a statutory body operating under the Ministry of Environment and Forests to do so – states that Sunder is neither in musth nor showing physi-

Sand mafia attacks Abu Azmi and Antulay’s family also among revenue officers water bill defaulters

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he notorious sand mafia continues to unleash its reign of terror in the rural parts of Thane district. Revenue officials, including local Talathi D.N.Jadhav and Circle Officer Shashikant Bhoir, were attacked and threatened by the mafia which is involved in the illegal extraction of sand in Virar, late on Thursday night.

According to the police, a team of revenue officials had halted two sand laden trucks at Bolinj Village, and were checking the permission documents required to ferry sand, when the miscreants mounted a violent assualt on them.

Three people, identified as Jeetendra Kushwaha, Chetan Vaze and Virendra Kushwaha, have been arrested and booked under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code. The accused have been remanded to four days of police custody when they were produced before the Sessions Court. Further investigations are on.

Another mobile store robbed in Vasai Cellphones worth `30 lakh stolen

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missioner Ratnakar Gaikwad, the civic body uploaded fter Bal Thackeray and the names of the defaulters Sachin Tendulkar, State on the website President of the Maharastra www.mcgm.gov.in.

Samajwadi Party, Abu Azmi, Mayor Sunil Prabhu, said and the family of former Ma- “The list has been prepared harashtra Chief Minister A.R. based on the information we Antulay, have made it to the received from 24 ward ofBMC’s water bill defaulters fices, and action against the list. As per this list, the high- defaulters will be decided est number of defaulters based on the amount that have been found to be from they have to pay.” the police department and Prabhu also said, “A sepathe PWD. rate meeting will be held More than Rs.1,000 crore with leaders of all political from over 2,00,000 defaulters parties on this issue, and if is yet to be collected by the needed the BMC will also BMC as of January 16, 2014. disconnect the water supply After receiving an order from of the defaulters.” the State Information Com- khushboo.panjabi@afternoondc.in

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Unidentified thieves entered the store by removing an air-conditioner from the window and decamped with high end cellphones and accessories worth more than Rs.30 lakh in the wee hours of Friday.

The CCTV camera installed inside the shop has captured the footage of the miscreants stealing the goods.

The constantly increasing instances of thefts and break-ins have been giving local residents and shopkeepers sleepless nights, both of whom are now questioning the efficiency of the Thane (Rural) police. The Manekpur police are investigating the case.

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cal or behavioural signs of pre-musth and is generally apathetic, not aggressive, in nature. PETA’s lawyer also pointed to a video telecasted by a new channel on January 23, 2014 and another new channel the same date which shows Kore and other people standing right in front of Sunder making the point that if Sunder would have been in musth, nobody would have dared stand so close to him as it would have been dangerous.

PETA pointed out that the temple management holds the ownership certificate for Sunder, not MLA Vinay Kore, and that the temple manage-

05 ment has recently written to the forest department stating that it can no longer take responsibility of the elephant.

It pointed out that there is therefore no reason for the forest department to fail to implement the court’s order to move Sunder to a sanctuary. PETA’s rejoinder which has been filed with the court also states that Sunder has been under the unlawful custody of MLA Vinay Kore since October 2012 and its offer to move Sunder to a sanctuary for the forest department has been ignored.

In its petition, PETA has sought intervention of the Maharashtra forest department to implement its own order – as well as the recommendation from Project Elephant under the Ministry of Environment and Forests – and retire Sunder to a sanctuary.

Based on the hearing, the court posted the matter for further hearing till February 12. philip.varghese@afternoondc.in

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CLASSIFIEDS I have changed my name from Memon Asif Abubakar to Asif Abubakar Valyani as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Meenazben Hushenali Nurani to Meenaz Hussain Nurani as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Jitendra Bhahadur Yadava to Jitendra Bahadur Yadav as per Affidavit C-33265

I have changed my name from Sunayana Dattatraya Gore to Sunaina Dattatraya Gore as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Nurani Aleem Ali Hushenali Nurani to Aleem Hussain Nurani as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Chetankumar Kirtikumar Kothari to Chetan Kirtikant Kothari as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Mahesh Kumar Suryaprakash Pandey to Mahesh Suryaprakash Pandey as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Salim Chotemiya to Salim Yusuf Shaikh as per Affidavit C-33266 I have changed my name from Satar Ahmed Gori to Abdul Sattar Ahmed Ghori as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Shardaben Rajabhai Waghela to Sharda Sandeep Kamble as per Affidavit C-33249

I have changed my name from Alka Babu Vaghela to Alkaben Sureshbhai Rathod as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Sumana Gopalkrishna to Sumant Devadiga as per Affidavit C-33250

I have changed my name from Mohd Imran Hasinuddin Ansari to Imran Hasinuddin Ansari as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Dimple Dembla to Kashvi Marwaha as per Affidavit C-33252 I have changed name from Shaileshkumar Rajmangal Sharma to Shailesh Rajmangal Sharma as per Affidavit C-33253 I have changed my name from Brajeshkumar Rajmangal Sharma to Brajesh Rajmangal Sharma as per Affidavit C-33254 I have changed my name from Harendrakumar Yadav to Harendra Yadav as per Affidavit C-33255 I have changed my name from Jolly Easow to Jollykutty Easow as per Affidavit C-33256 I have changed my name from Shabana Mohd Nasir Rizvi to Shabana Mohammed Nasir Rayeen as per Affidavit C-33257 I have changed my name from Arati Mukherjee to Ankita Mukherjee as per Affidavit C-33258 I have changed name from Hemanta Kumar Mukherjee to Hemant Kumar Mukherjee as per Affidavit C-33259 I have changed my name from Avtar Singh Baldev Singh to Avtar Singh Baldev Singh Padam as per Affidavit C-33260 I have changed name from Kewal Sngh Baldev Singh to Kewal Singh Baldev Singh Padam as per Affidavit C-33261 I have changed name from Rajendra Kumar Badgujar to Rajendra Namdeo Badgujar as per Affidavit C-33262 I have changed my name from Meghji Arjun Charaniya to Meghji Arjun Charania as per Affidavit C-33263

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I have changed my name from Meena Meghji charania to Mithi Meghji Charania as per Affidavit C-33264

I have changed my name from Shreya Sandeep Kamble to Sharda Sandeep Kamble as per Affidavit C-33248

I have changed my name from Bharat Anopchand Parekh to Bharatbhai Anopchand Parekh as per Affidavit C-33251

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C-33270 I have changed my name from Shama Siraj Shahiwala to Shama Shiraz Shahiwala as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Mr.Mohamad Adil Yusuf Khatri to Mr.Adil Yusuf Khatri as per Affidavit dated 31/01/2014 C-33285 I have changed my name from Khushnama Rafik Ahmed to Khushnuma Begum Mohammed Soyab Shaikh as per Affidavit Dt. 31-01-2014.

C-33286 I have changed my name from Saddam Husian Abdul Jabbar Shaikh to Hamza Abdul Jabbar Shaikh as per Affidavit Dt. 3101-2014.

C-33287 I have changed my name from Kanayo Balomal Sughand to Kanayalal Balomal Sughand as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Siraj Rajabali Shahiwala to Shiraz Rajabali Shahiwala as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Qureshi Parvez Ahmed Abbas to Parvez Abbas Shaikh as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Vidya Ramchandra Gokhale to Jyoti Ravindra Joshi as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Nazneen Bano Shaukat Husain to Nazreen Parvez Shaikh as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Durga Dinanath Gaitonde to Asmita Arjun Malgaonkar as per Affidavit.

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We Mr. Chandrashekhar Bhopal Ram and Mrs. Fiona Karnam changed our minor daughter name from Kyra Florence Ram to Kyra Chandrashekhar Ram as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Pramila Shankar Apte to Urmila Laxman Kelkar as per Affidavit.

C-33275 I have changed my name from Thadani Jaikishin Rajkumar to Thadani Jaikishan Rajkumar as per Affidavit.

C-33276 I have changed my name from Salins Esther Chander to Salins Esther Chandramohan as per Affidavit.

C-33277 I have changed my name from Mary Chander Issak to Salins Mary Chandramohan as per Affidavit.

C-33278 I have changed my name from Chander Issak to Salins Chandramohan as per Affidavit.

C-33279 I have changed my name from Ester Chander Issak to Salins Esther Chandramohan as per Affidavit.

C-33280 I have changed my name from Hemrajani Sunil Lilaram to Hemrajani Sunil Leelaram as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Flona Karnam to Fiona Karnam as per Affidavit.

C-33292 I have changed my name from Mr. Mohammad Salim Mohammad Ramzan Khan to Mr. Mohammad Salim Mohammad Ramzan Baig as per Affidavit.

C-33293 I have changed my name from Mrs. Ashiya Mohammad Salim Khan to Mrs. Ashiya Mohammad Salim Baig as per Affidavit.

C-33294 I have changed my name from Nurani Hushenali to Hussain Habimulla Nurani as per Affidavit.

C-33295 I have changed my name from Nurani Hushenali Habimulla Nurani to Hussain Habimulla Nurani as per Affidavit.

C-33296 I have changed my name from Nurani Meenaz Hushenali Nurani to Meenaz Hussain Nurani as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Vishraddhaben Vishwanath to Latika Vishwanath Walavalkar as per Affidavit.

C-33301 I have changed my name from Juhi Rashmi Shah to Juhi Rashmikant Shah as per Affidavit.

C-33302 I have changed my name from Manorama Brijmohan Malan to Manorama Govind Hegaden as per Affidavit.

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After being accused of going soft, police finally arrest mushaira event organisers for violating 10 pm deadline on January 25

Kalina shooting victim was attacked for similar offence earlier too by a neighbour

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he Deonar police have booked the organisers of a Mushaira held on January 25 at 600 tenements at the BMC ground near Deonar abattoir for exceeding the 10 pm SC deadline. The event was attended by local MP Sanjay Dina Patil, Munaf Hakeemi – Minority Commission chairman, NCP spokesperson and MLA Nawab Malik, and Dr. Mumtaz Salim Sayyad – a member of the Minority Commission.

“A case has been registered against organiser Vishwakarma Prasad and Yunus Abdul Latif Khan alias Javed Police officials having a word with Mushaira orgainsers on January 25.

(44) under Environment Act, Noise Pollution Act and MaSimilarly, in yet another in- New Year’s Eve. The event was harashtra Police Act. We have cident on December 31, the held at Sahu Maidan in Shivarrested speaker player Shivaji Nagar police booked aji Nagar along GM Link Road Mohd. Rahmat Barik Khan Mushaira organiser Rameez and local MLA Abu Asim (22). The court has granted Karim Sayyad (25) and deco- Azmi was the chief guest. him bail for Rs.10,000. How- rator Yunus Abdul Latif Khan Police Inspector Chanever, Vishakarma has been alias Javed (44), under vari- drakant Patil of Shivaji Nagar absconding since then”, said ous sections viz. 33 (R), 131, said that during New Year, the Pandit Thakre, crime PI of 134, 135, 153(3) for holding deadline was extended up to Deonar police station. the event until 12.30 am on 12 midnight. “When the organisers extended the Mushaira till 12.30 am, we booked them and they were later arrested. However, the When contacted, Abu Azmi said that even though New court granted them bail for Year event was extended only for half an hour, the police Rs.10,000 each”. booked the organiser and the SRPF was stationed in full force. But, during the January 25 event at Deonar, even Local residents, on conthough the deadline was 10 pm, the function went on for dition of anonymity, said several hours past the deadline, and continued beyond that these politicians 12 midnight. “The Sahu Nagar Maidan, where we had should stick to Supreme our event is only a 30 per cent residential area, while 600 Court guidelines while tenement ground is 80 per cent residential. An MP, an holding events and must MLA and the Minority Commission member and chairnot disturb the peace of man all are from the ruling party, hence this bias”, Azmi local residents. retorted.

Why this bias? asks Abu Azmi

Pawar meeting Modi is baseless report: NCP (Hydraulic Engineering Department)

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he NCP yesterday has denied a news report that its party president Sharad Pawar held a secret meeting with BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, last week.

The front-page report in a Marathi daily yesterday stated that the two leaders had met for nearly 30 minutes in Delhi on January 17.

So secret was the meeting, the report alleged, that even senior leaders of the NCP and the BJP were not aware of it. It hinted at a growing closeness between the two parties.

Yesterday, state NCP president Bhaskar Jadhav at a press conference said, “It is totally baseless report. Pawar was not even in Delhi on the day when the meeting was supposed to have taken place. He was in Sangli on that particular day. He has never met Modi barring the official meetings and conferences”.

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day after the shooting incident at Kalina, the investigating officers of the Vakola Police have found some more facts about the past of victim Ramchadra Pal, who was shot by Izhar Khan on Thursday morning near the Noori Masjid.

Sources from Vakola Police revealed on condition of anonymity that around four to five years back, Pal was attacked by one of his neighbours who came to know about Pal’s relationship with his wife. The accused in that case left the locality after he was released on bail.

According to Senior Police Inspector from Vakola Police Vinayak Mulay, Nazir Khan, a nephew of Izhar who had arranged for the revolver used in the crime is still absconding though a manhunt has been launched to nab him.

“We have formed a special detection team which is on the lookout for Nazir and he will be caught soon,” Mulay

Izhar Khan came all the way from Malaysia to shoot Ramchandra Pal. added.

To take revenge for the sexual abuse of his mentally challenged sister by Pal for several years, Izhar had come down from Malaysia and shot at him on Thursday.

After shooting Pal, Izhar tried to flee in a BEST bus but was caught by Arshad Ali

Saddiq Sheikh (23), a deaf and dumb man, who witnessed the shooting, and handed over to two traffic cops who were on duty.

Meanwhile, Pal is recuperating in hospital. Izhar and his niece Saba were produced before the court and sent to police custody till Feruary 4.

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Says the money is required to provide better infra services for next 10 years

By Khushboo Panjabi

Rs.20,041 crore.

The mayor added: “MCGM he 14th Finance Com- has been improving its storm mission meeting was water drain network based held in the city yester- on modified BRIMSTOWAD day under the chairmanship report with the help of the of former RBI Governor Y.V. Government of India grant of Reddy wherein Mayor Sunil Rs.1,000 crore but now due to Prabhu submitted his pro- deployment of unconvenposal of Rs.70,000 crore to be tional technology and enallotted by the central gov- croachment issues, the ernment to the BMC in order project cost has gone up to to provide better infrastructure services to the citizens of the city in the coming ten years.

Mayor Sunil Prabhu said, “MCGM requires financial support to bridge the infrastructure gap of the city as the existing infrastructure has not been able to keep up with the growing urbanisation; as a result, there are gaps between the aspiration levels and the ground reality.”

For the development of the By Vishnudas Sheshrao city in the coming ten years new foot over bridge in various sectors, the mayor (FOB) is being conkept a proposal which stated that for construction of roads structed at Chhatrapati Shivand bridges, the estimated aji Terminus (CST), north cost is expected to be end, to connect main line

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Rs.3,927 crore.”

He added, “Capital requirement for general budget of MCGM is to the tune of Rs.32,565 crore and the requirement for water and sewerage is Rs.39,048 crore; thus, the total capital requirement for MCGM is around Rs.71,613 crore for the next ten years.” khushboo.panjabi@afternoondc.in

Requirement for other sectors: Solid waste mangement: Rs.1,617 crore Health care: Rs.2,340 crore Education: Rs.2,126 crore Fire services: Rs.2,514 crore

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MBMC starts razing illegal tower in Mira Road demolition, the MBMC used jack hammers to create large holes in the floorfter cracking down on il- ing of the common legal shops, bungalows passages of each storey. The and industrial units, the civic administration claims Mira-Bhayandar Municipal to have already registered a Corporation (MBMC), case under the relevant secseems to have taken a tough tions of the Maharashtra stand against multi-storey Regional Town Planning Act towers that have been ille- (MRTP) at the local police gally constructed by fly-by- station against the connight builders. struction company. HowFollowing the direction ever, the recent of civic chief Suresh Kakani, amendments in the MRTP

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platforms to suburban platforms, which will save the time and efforts of passengers coming from long distances.

The FOB, once operational will reduce from 4 km to just few hundred meters, the distance which passengers who alight at the main line platforms used to walk to reach the suburban platforms. Thes passengers currently take the route via P D'mello Road to enter the suburban area or

from platform no. 18 towards the main gate and then to suburban platforms.

Once the new bridge comes up, they will get onto it and alight at the desired suburban platform. This bridge will be attached to the existing FOB which connects the end of Dadabhai Naoroji Road and to suburban platforms.

Central Railway had made a provision of Rs.7 crore for the FOB which is 270 metres long and 5.3 metres wide and connect platform no.18 of the main line to suburban line.

According to senior officials, the bridge was supposed to be ready by March do not create millions of new end, but work has been dejobs … fast. This is the scale layed and it will open anypart of the problem. Please time during the second half note that nowhere in this of April 2014. analysis so far have we implied that un-employment has anything to do with rape.

It does not. We have simply implied that the global correlation between un-employment and crime applies to India as well, but with one Continued from pg 1 « critical difference, its potentially vast scale. with no stan- sharing formula on the lines dards to speak of and with of the 2009 general elections, free exposure to porn in the and has already started media what do we expect preparation for 22 seats. these young men to do when However, Congress has opthey have not been taught by properly qualified teachers?

Also, we are forgetting that lack of an education does not mean lack of aspiration. So tens of thousands of young men in India feel that if they cannot win a girls affections in courtship and then ap- Continued from pg 1 « proach her parents for her hand as is the proper way, Further, the unprecedented they can just rape her There- delays by the insurance comfore Rape is also going to rise panies in reimbursing claim ... maybe by 300 % by 2018 amounts have also adversely due to widespread low moral impact in the successful imattitude brought on by “poor plementation of this flagship teacher quality “.Rising rape health project.

“The scheme rolled out by is therefore essentially the fallout of a “teacher quality the government is really apbut “problem. It is NOT due to preciable widespread illiteracy but be- requires changes to make it cause of widespread and more viable for participating hospitals. The scheme seems poor teacher quality

RISING RAPES IN INDIA

By Dr. Mukund Aparajit

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O O R TEACHER QUALITY in India is the fundamental reason behind the huge rise in violence a g a i n s t women, including Rape.

Rapes are rising mainly because just 40 % of teachers have studied beyond Xii. This situation is radically different, in terms of teacher quality, from that, which existed just 25 – 30 years back. Today, the worst qualified, with nowhere else to go are becoming teachers. It follows therefore that Poor Teacher Quality will have a devastating impact, on social values (respect for women) , Attacks against women are a global phenomenon but the recent surge in brutal crime against women in India is very different from global experience on two specific parameters: 1 ) its scale and 2) its brutality The steep rise in the number of rape cases in recent times indicates that it is a systemic problem. The brutality that we are seeing also appears to be systemic but the reasons for this“ scale “ and “

brutality “ each , are very different. It is therefore extremely important to first understand the causes for rising rape in India before we even attempt to solve the problem.

Understanding must come first, the remedies will follow. Let us first examine the “Scale “issue and why crime in general is rising so rapidly in India. . It was known and forecasted that the fact that we would soon have the largest percentage of the worlds young population.,, that by 2018, some 200 million young people would enter the job going age group in India in addition to over 1oo million that are unemployed today, and as a result on every street across India you find young men in the age groups 15 – 22 just sitting around with nothing to do.

Their parents do not want them inside the house and so they play cricket on the streets and they stare at you as you go by. Their parents will soon tell them to generate their own cash and they are currently wondering what they will do. Look outside your gate anywhere in India and you will see these young men. This is why crime of all kinds ( theft, extortion , kidnappings etc ) is rising and may well triple by 2018 if we

This illegal structure stood for four years before being noticed. a demolition squad led by in-charge, Srikrishna Mohite, started knocking down the interior walls in the units of a seven storey tower in the Pleasant Park area of Mira Road. All the seven floors had been illegally constructed by Chavhan Builders (Survey Number: 469 Old, 143 New) in total defiance of the law more than four years ago.

“The structure is totally illegal. The builder had managed to procure a stay which had been recently vacated,” said Mohite.

While civic personnel were deployed for a manual

seem to have remained on paper, despite the judiciary taking serious note of the massive illegal construction plaguing the Thane district.

Another law, the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations and Councils Act, allows the prosecution of ward officers under whose jurisdiction the illegal constructions take place. Ironically, there has not been a single prosecution till date, nor is anyone aware of action been taken against the concerned architects who are allowed to go scot-free for their brazen defiance and utter disregard for the model town planning rules.

NCP threatens divorce posed the 22:26 formula saying that NCP’s strength has been reduced since the 2009 polls in the state. The Congress has indicated that NCP should be allotted 17 or 21 seats with an option to ex-

WHO CARES? to have been drafted without consulting healthcare providers and the involvement of a third party mediator between the insurance company and the hospitals negates the entire scheme,” said the administrative head of a private hospital in Mira Road.

The RGJAY offers free treatment for 972 procedures, along with 121 follow-up packages in 30 identified specialised cate-

change some seats.

According to sources, the NCP is open to contest all 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state if there was no electoral pact with the Congress.

gories to those who fall in the Below Poverty Line category, with an annual ceiling of Rs 1.50 lakh per family on treatment with all pre and post investigations, medicines post discharge for up to 10 days.

Besides a compulsorily camp per week, the empanelled hospitals have to bear carriage charges for the body in the event of a patient’s death. Initially, hospitals, despite the low rates, had shown keen interest in participation for a social cause, but the red-tapism leading to undue delays seems to have posed has a dampener, taking out the fizzle from the much-hyped health scheme.

Munde dismisses alliance with NCP, keeps people guessing about Satyapal Singh

Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MUMBAI | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2014

By Prashant Hamine

S

enior BJP leader and deputy leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Gopinath Munde yesterday, dismissed all talks of an alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). However, on the issue of whether Mumbai Police Commissioner Dr. Satyapal Singh – who quit recently – was in touch with the party leadership, Munde pleaded ignorance. Party sources however, indicated that Singh is keen on contesting the Lok Sabha polls from either Meerut or Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh. In

Later in the day while talking to the electronic media, Singh remarked that his inner voice had said to him and that he wanted to serve the country and work in an organisation. He denied that he quit the police force as he was overlooked for the post of state Director General of Police post. When asked which party he was likely to join, Singh remarked that he had offers from several political parties. But as yet he has not decided as to whether he would join the BJP or Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

When asked to comment upon the reported Pawar-

Gopinath Munde

Satyapal Singh

a major indication, Munde argued that Singh was ideologically close to the BJP as he was a staunch Arya Samaji.

Replying to queries over Singh, he said that the party’s central leadership has not communicated or asked the state leadership about its feedback. Munde added that Singh belongs to the Jat community which is strong in UP. Replying to further queries he remarked, “Let him first approach the party with a formal proposal. So far he has not communicated anything to us. Let his resignation be first accepted. The party did not extend any invitation to Singh”.

Modi meet, Munde welcomed NCP leader and union Heavy Industries minister Praful Patel’s statement on the Supreme Court clearing Modi’s name in the 2002 Gujarat riots. He, however, pleaded ignorance about whether the meeting did indeed take place. Munde was quick to point out that the NCP chief had clarified on his Twitter handle that reports of the meeting were baseless. He added that there was no scope for the NCP to join the BJP-led Mahayuti or NDA alliance.

Munde even speculated that it could be the ploy of the NCP to put pressure on the Congress, which is refusing to

Andheri Block Congress Committee organised a meeting at Malkhani hall. at that time ex. municipal councillor Barudgar Abdul Ajij Bablu has saying to Congressman to strengthen the party and take oath for Gurudas Kamat {m.p} has again sending the parliament. at that time block president Vinod Khajne, Mumbai Mahila vice president Bhawna Jain, Rajkumar Shinde, Joshna Ben, Shahnawaz Sayed and thousands of congress man present in the programme

grant them more Lok Sabha seats to contest in Maharashtra. It may be recalled that the BJP then, under the banner of Jana Sangh, was part of the Progressive Democratic Front

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SHREE GLOBAL TRADEFIN LIMITED

REGD. OFF. : 35, Ashok Chambers, Broach Street, Devji Rantensey Marg, Mumbai , - 400 009.

UNAUDITED FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE QUARTER & NINE MONTHS ENDED 31st DECEMBER 2013 Part I (` in Lacs) Quarter Ended Nine Months Ended Year Ended Sr. 31.12.2012 31.12.2013 31.12.2012 31.12.2013 30.09.2013 31.03.2013 No (Unaudited ) (Unaudited ) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Audited) 1 Net Sales/Income from 8,078.38 Operations - 8,078.38 2 Expenditure a. Purchase of Traded Goods 7847.59 b. (Increase) / Decrease in Stock 7847.59 in Trade 50.36 c. Employee Benefit Expense 38.84 17.20 17.97 56.26 19.51 d. Depreciation and Amortization 1.09 Expense 1.67 1.11 0.08 0.28 0.08 e. Loss on sale of shares 1,060.00 148.89 f. Other Expenditure 105.37 16.44 24.91 84.87 39.21 8047.93 Total Expenses 7993.47 34.75 42.96 1201.41 58.80 3 Profit/(Loss) from Operations before other income, finance 30.45 84.91 (34.75) (1201.41) costs & exceptional items (1-2) (42.96) (58.80) 4 Other Income 1088.32 966.64 0.01 11.45 47.08 35.53 5 Profit/(Loss)from ordinary activity before finance costs & 1118.77 1051.55 (34.74) (1154.33) exceptional items (3+4) (31.51) (23.27) 6 Financial Costs 909.17 909.15 0.01 5.45 8.61 1.01 7 Profit/(Loss) from ordinary activity after finance costs but 209.60 142.40 (34.75) (1162.94) before Exceptional Items (5-6) (36.96) (24.28) 8 Exceptional Items 9 Profit / (Loss) from Ordinary 209.60 (34.75) (1162.94) 142.40 Activities Before Tax (36.96) (24.28) 10 Tax Expenses 67.88 11 Net Profit / (Loss) from Ordinary 141.72 (34.75) (1162.94) 142.40 Activities After Tax (36.96) (24.28) 12 Extraordinary Items 13 Net Profit / (Loss) for the period 141.72 (34.75) (1162.94) 142.40 (36.96) (24.28) 14 Paid-up equity share capital (Face Value Rs.5/-per share) 10445.05 10445.05 10445.05 10445.05 10445.05 10445.05 15 Reserves excluding revaluation - 26,546.94 reserves 16 Earnings Per Share (EPS) a) Before Extraordinary items 0.07 (0.02) 0.07 Basic & Diluted (0.02) (0.56) (0.01) b) After Extraordinary items 0.07 (0.02) 0.07 Basic & Diluted (0.02) (0.56) (0.01) Part II A. PARTICULARS OF SHAREHOLDING 1. Public Shareholding --Number of Shares 41027770 54809293 54809293 41027770 54809293 54809293 26.24 26.24 26.24 --Percentage of Shareholding 26.24 19.64 19.64 2. Promoters and promoter group Shareholding a) Pledged/Encumbered --Number of Shares 10000000 10000000 15200000 10000000 15200000 15200000 9.86 9.86 9.86 --Percentage of Shares 6.49 5.96 5.96 (as a % of the the total shareholding of promoter and promoter group) 7.28 7.28 7.28 --Percentage of Shares 4.79 4.79 4.79 (as a % of the the total share capital of the company) b) Non-encumbered --Number of Shares 157873323 144091800 138891800 157873323 138891800 138891800 90.14 90.14 90.14 --Percentage of Shares 93.51 94.04 94.04 (as a % of the the total shareholding of promoter and promoter group) 66.48 66.48 66.48 --Percentage of Shares 68.98 75.57 75.57 (as a % of the the total share capital of the company) (as a % of the the total shareholding of promoter and promoter group) --Percentage of Shares (as a % of the the total share capital of the company) Qtr Ended 31.12.2013 Particulars B. INVESTOR COMPLAINTS 0 Pending at the beginning of the quarter 0 Received during the quarter 0 Disposed during the quarter 0 Remaining unresolved at the end of the quarter

Particulars

Notes : 1. The Statutory Auditors have carried out a " Limited Review" of the financial results for the Quarter Ended 31.12.2013 2. The Board of Directors of the Company at their meeting held on 28.08.2013 has approved the ' Scheme of Amalgamation' between Indrajit Properties Pvt.Ltd., Indrajit Power Technology Pvt.Ltd. and Trump Investments Ltd. with the Company subject to approval of the Stcok Exchange, Shareholders, High Court and any other authority as may be required. The Appointed date of the Scheme is 01.04.2013.

3. Company is operating on only one broad segment and hence no separate segmental results have been given.

4. The above Financial Results were reviewed by the Audit Committee and approved by the Board of Directors at their respective meetings held on 31st January 2014 5. Figures for the Previous period have been regrouped/reclassified wherever necessary.

Dated : 31.01.2014 Place : Mumbai

For Shree Global Tradefin Limited Sd/Director

ASP TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

Regd. Off. : Trade World, 16th Floor, 'C' Wing, Kamala City, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai - 400 013.

STATEMENT OF UNAUDITED FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE QUARTER AND NINE MONTH ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 2013 (` in Lacs)

Sr. No 1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

9 Months Ended

Year Ended 31.12.2013 30.09.2013 31.12.2012 31.12.2013 31.12.2012 31.03.2013 (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Audited)

Quarter Ended

Particulars Net Sales / Income from Operations Other Income Total Income (1 + 2) Expenditure a.Purchase of traded goods b.Employees Cost c.Depreciation d.Other Expenditure Total Expenditure Interest Exceptional Items Profit / (Loss) from Ordinary Activities before Tax Tax Expense Deferred Tax Adjustment Net Profit/(Loss) from Ordinary Activities after Tax Extraordinary Items ( Net of Tax Expenses ) Net Profit / (Loss) Paid up equity share Capital (Face Value Rs.10/- per share) Reserves excluding revalution reserves Earning Per Share (EPS) Before & After Extraordinary Items - Basic & Diluted Public Shareholding - Number of Shares - Percentage of Shareholding Promoters and promoter group Shareholding a) Pledged/Encumbered - Number of Shares - Percentage of Shares (as a % of the the total shareholding of promoter and promoter group) - Percentage of Shares (as a % of the the total Share capital of the company) b) Non-encumbered - Number of Shares - Percentage of Shares (as a % of the the total shareholding of promoter and promoter group) - Percentage of Shares (as a % of the the total Share capital of the company)

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(4.03)

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72.77

Notes : 1. The Statutory Auditors have carried out a Limited Review of the financial results for quarter ended 31st December, 2013 2. Company is operating on only one broad segment and hence no separate segmental results have been given.

3. The above results were approved and taken on record by Board of Directors of the company at their meeting held on 31.01.2014 4. No Investor complaints were pending at the beginning of the quarter. During the Quarter NIL Investor complaints were received.

5. Previous year figures has been regrouped / reclassified wherever necessary.

By order of the Board of Directors Sd/Place : Mumbai A.R. Jain Date : 31st January, 2014 DIRECTOR

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DESPATCH & COURIER

Ponder awhile…

“Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.”

– Ambrose Bierce

Will he govern Delhi I or keep dealing with lawsuits?

T

HE primary duty of a chief minister is to ensure governance in his own state. It is a wholesome job. In the case of Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, he has to work overtime. He cannot possibly have time for any work beyond the boundaries of his own state. He has kept several portfolios with himself and that means he has to do more work.

But it looks like Kejriwal has forgotten all about Delhi and is attending to extra work.

For instance, he is fighting in a big way the Lok Sabha elections which are only a few weeks away. He is planning to put up his party candidates for the Lok Sabha poll.

In addition to all this work, Kejriwal has started identifying corrupt rulers across the state. He has already prepared a list of them and disclosed the names to the press. The list includes ministers of the central government, leaders of political parties and top politicians.

He must have done a lot of research to identify the corrupt folks. He must have collected all details about the cases against them and maybe some evidence too. How can he have time to prove they are corrupt? He will definitely have to face some action on the part of the corrupt man and woman he has named.

BJP's Gadkari has already told him that unless he proves his (Gadkari's) guilt within three days, he will file a suit against him.

Many others whom he has included in his list of corrupt leaders, are also likely not to take his charges lying down.

A startling accusation made by him is that the Congress party vice-president is corrupt.

Will the Congress ignore his remark and decide to take action?

The big, pertinent question is whether he will govern Delhi or face numerous lawsuits against him?

Afternoon DESPATCH & COURIER

CAROL ANDRADE Editor

A.R. KANANGI Associate Editor

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T would be a dereliction of my duties as a political columnist if in the week that Rahul Gandhi chose to give his first interview ever on national television I chose to write about something else. This interview is the biggest political story in India whether you are a Congress supporter or not because Rahul speaks so rarely to us hacks. The man who has inherited the legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi has never before in the ten years that he has been a politician deigned to give a formal interview. He has preferred in his relations with the media to take the shoot and scoot route perfected by his mother. What this involves is making a prepared statement and then departing before anyone can ask the first question. You can count on the fingers of one hand the interviews that Sonia Gandhi has chosen to give in the decade she has been India’s de facto prime minister. And, she has personally selected the interviewer and arranged in advance that certain questions be avoided. It appears that Rahul Gandhi may have come to some similar agreement because Arnab stayed away from asking him tough questions about his economic vision, his ideas on foreign policy and avoided probing him deeper on the limited political views he expressed.

with the largest majority in the Lok Sabha. Perhaps, Rahul has not been informed that there is nobody in the Congress Party who does not know for sure that he will be prime minister if Congress is in a position to choose after the next general election.

When P. Chidambaram was asked by the editor of the ‘Financial Times’, Lionel Barber, recently if he was a candidate for this job he said that the party had decided that this job belonged to Rahul.

In fairness to Arnab he did try to corner

Many pertinent questions avoided

Rahul on the Congress Party’s constant charge that Narendra Modi does not qualify for the prime minister’s job because of what happened in Gujarat in 2002. He repeatedly asked Rahul why Congress should not be similarly held responsible for the violence that happened within days of his father becoming prime minister in 1984. His persistence paid and Rahul admitted that some Congress politicians could have been involved in the pogroms against the Sikhs (or the seekhs as he called them) but said the difference between 1984 and 2002 was that the government had tried to stop the violence in 1984 while the government had perpetrated the violence in 2002. At this point Arnab could have reminded Rahul of his father’s justification of the violence but chose not to.

What intrigued me most about the views expressed by Rahul was his repeated condemnation of ‘the system’. It was this system, according to him, that had killed his grandmother and father and it was this same system that prevented ordinary people from entering politics because the political parties chose candidates behind closed doors after consulting no more than

So when he repeated more than once that he wanted to ‘empower’ women and young people Arnab never asked him how he planned to do this. Did he believe that it was something that could happen only when women and young people have access to halfway decent government schools or did he have some alternative idea in mind? Could he explain why none of the prime ministers from his illustrious family had built the quality state schools India so desperately needs for Indian women and her young people to be given the smallest chance of becoming ‘empowered’?

These were obvious follow-up questions that Rahul should have been asked when he rambled on and on about empowerment but Arnab did not get around to asking them and it is this that left me with the clear impression that he was chosen for this ‘scoop’ of an interview on the understanding that he would not harass the Congress Party’s candidate for prime minister.

He let Rahul off the hook even on this by allowing him to babble on about how the prime minister is chosen by the party

Rahul needs lessons on politics

ON THE SPOT Tavleen Singh

A Small Cricket Bat..!

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SMALL table in my living room displays my very modest collection of trophies: A few for writing, one for oratory, some from Rotary Clubs for addressing their meetings, and even one from the Indian Navy for compeering the Navy Week for them. But among all these rather elite dignitaries stands upright, a small wooden cricket bat, on whose broad surface different players have signed.

Visitors glance at it, look quizzically at me, and look away. I don’t look a cricketer to them, nor does the bat explain a tale, but a tale there is and such tale will I tell today: Of a tournament called the MTPL, the brain child of an airline’s flight steward, who dreamed a dream of seeing his whole colony forming bonds of friendship through cricket.

‘Bob Uncle you are playing!’ said the boys of the colony, and before I could say ‘Sachin

500 people. For Rahul to have said this indicates that he has learned almost nothing in the ten years that he has been a politician or he should have discovered long, long ago that ‘the system’ currently is his mother. Nobody can get a Congress ticket unless she personally approves and this has been the system since the time Indira Gandhi decided to raise the interests of her family above those of the Congress Party. Those who dissented with this were forced out of Congress and it was renamed Congress (I) for Indira to make things brutally clear to those who wanted to join the party.

Tendulkar,’ there was I on the field playing under a delightfully inspiring captain. “Open the batting!” he told me, “Play your game!”

Who was I to tell him the only game I knew was of seeing myself clean bowled every time

BOB’S BANTER Robert Clements I batted. But with fear in my heart and trepidation in my walk I stumbled to the crease lifted the ball, and found it traveling by some God given wind to the boundary for four.

‘Didn’t know you play cricket uncle!’ they said later. I didn’t too. But it was not technique that helped me in my small skirmishes, it was love, the camaraderie, encouragement

After listening to the entire interview more than once what became painfully clear to me was that Rahul had not been taught the history of the Congress Party. What little of it he knows he has picked up from his own life so he sees himself as a sort of poor little political heir who never had any choice but to become a politician because of having been forced to inherit the mantle handed down to him. This is quite simply not true and someone needs to tell him this so that if he is serious about rebuilding the ‘structure’ of the Congress Party he can do it keeping in mind that in imitation of the example set by his family nearly all of the party’s younger MPs have inherited their seats from their daddies and mummies.

Has he not noticed this?

The other thing that Rahul made painfully clear by giving his interview was that he has become singularly adept at picking up buzzwords like empowerment without fully understanding what these words mean. So the only economic idea he expressed was about India’s failure to build a strong manufacturing sector and admitted that he had heard about this from visitors who came from abroad. If he had paid more attention to this failure he may have noticed that it is the ‘socialist’ policies followed by his own government that have made it impossible for India’s manufacturing sector to acquire the muscle that communist China has been so skillful at building. Before giving his next interview Rahul Gandhi would be well advised to take a few lessons on politics, economics and most importantly history. He may discover that he is not indispensable to the Congress Party and certainly not indispensable to India. So there is no harm in giving up the ‘poison’ of power. and fellowship that egged me on.

We won, yes a team called the Model Town Royals, fancy name: Adorned in blue, we played our hearts out for our captain and after two days of grueling sometimes back to back matches, lifted the trophy, and with it a small wooden bat to each member.

I look at the bat; it is not about the victory I think, nor the fours I hit or missed, or bowlers who petrified me; all I remember is a tournament that cast its net of joy around a colony of different caste creed and cultures and drew everyone into its embrace. All I remember is a thaal dinner organized by Mazhar the captain, with players sitting around a huge plate, tearing into the most delicious food. All I remember is tens of thousands of rupees being gathered overnight by players for a poor watchman sick in hospital. All I recall are new friendships and smiles twixt players; strangers no more.

It’s a small cricket bat, but a big thank you I silently say each time I look at it..!

— bobsbanter@gmail.com

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Afternoon Despatch & Courier

EDIT PAGE

DESPATCH & COURIER

Ponder awhile…

“Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.”

– Ambrose Bierce

Will he govern Delhi I or keep dealing with lawsuits?

T

HE primary duty of a chief minister is to ensure governance in his own state. It is a wholesome job. In the case of Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, he has to work overtime. He cannot possibly have time for any work beyond the boundaries of his own state. He has kept several portfolios with himself and that means he has to do more work.

But it looks like Kejriwal has forgotten all about Delhi and is attending to extra work.

For instance, he is fighting in a big way the Lok Sabha elections which are only a few weeks away. He is planning to put up his party candidates for the Lok Sabha poll.

In addition to all this work, Kejriwal has started identifying corrupt rulers across the state. He has already prepared a list of them and disclosed the names to the press. The list includes ministers of the central government, leaders of political parties and top politicians.

He must have done a lot of research to identify the corrupt folks. He must have collected all details about the cases against them and maybe some evidence too. How can he have time to prove they are corrupt? He will definitely have to face some action on the part of the corrupt man and woman he has named.

BJP's Gadkari has already told him that unless he proves his (Gadkari's) guilt within three days, he will file a suit against him.

Many others whom he has included in his list of corrupt leaders, are also likely not to take his charges lying down.

A startling accusation made by him is that the Congress party vice-president is corrupt.

Will the Congress ignore his remark and decide to take action?

The big, pertinent question is whether he will govern Delhi or face numerous lawsuits against him?

Afternoon DESPATCH & COURIER

CAROL ANDRADE Editor

A.R. KANANGI Associate Editor

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MUMBAI | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2014

T would be a dereliction of my duties as a political columnist if in the week that Rahul Gandhi chose to give his first interview ever on national television I chose to write about something else. This interview is the biggest political story in India whether you are a Congress supporter or not because Rahul speaks so rarely to us hacks. The man who has inherited the legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi has never before in the ten years that he has been a politician deigned to give a formal interview. He has preferred in his relations with the media to take the shoot and scoot route perfected by his mother. What this involves is making a prepared statement and then departing before anyone can ask the first question. You can count on the fingers of one hand the interviews that Sonia Gandhi has chosen to give in the decade she has been India’s de facto prime minister. And, she has personally selected the interviewer and arranged in advance that certain questions be avoided. It appears that Rahul Gandhi may have come to some similar agreement because Arnab stayed away from asking him tough questions about his economic vision, his ideas on foreign policy and avoided probing him deeper on the limited political views he expressed.

with the largest majority in the Lok Sabha. Perhaps, Rahul has not been informed that there is nobody in the Congress Party who does not know for sure that he will be prime minister if Congress is in a position to choose after the next general election.

When P. Chidambaram was asked by the editor of the ‘Financial Times’, Lionel Barber, recently if he was a candidate for this job he said that the party had decided that this job belonged to Rahul.

In fairness to Arnab he did try to corner

Many pertinent questions avoided

Rahul on the Congress Party’s constant charge that Narendra Modi does not qualify for the prime minister’s job because of what happened in Gujarat in 2002. He repeatedly asked Rahul why Congress should not be similarly held responsible for the violence that happened within days of his father becoming prime minister in 1984. His persistence paid and Rahul admitted that some Congress politicians could have been involved in the pogroms against the Sikhs (or the seekhs as he called them) but said the difference between 1984 and 2002 was that the government had tried to stop the violence in 1984 while the government had perpetrated the violence in 2002. At this point Arnab could have reminded Rahul of his father’s justification of the violence but chose not to.

What intrigued me most about the views expressed by Rahul was his repeated condemnation of ‘the system’. It was this system, according to him, that had killed his grandmother and father and it was this same system that prevented ordinary people from entering politics because the political parties chose candidates behind closed doors after consulting no more than

So when he repeated more than once that he wanted to ‘empower’ women and young people Arnab never asked him how he planned to do this. Did he believe that it was something that could happen only when women and young people have access to halfway decent government schools or did he have some alternative idea in mind? Could he explain why none of the prime ministers from his illustrious family had built the quality state schools India so desperately needs for Indian women and her young people to be given the smallest chance of becoming ‘empowered’?

These were obvious follow-up questions that Rahul should have been asked when he rambled on and on about empowerment but Arnab did not get around to asking them and it is this that left me with the clear impression that he was chosen for this ‘scoop’ of an interview on the understanding that he would not harass the Congress Party’s candidate for prime minister.

He let Rahul off the hook even on this by allowing him to babble on about how the prime minister is chosen by the party

Rahul needs lessons on politics

ON THE SPOT Tavleen Singh

A Small Cricket Bat..!

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SMALL table in my living room displays my very modest collection of trophies: A few for writing, one for oratory, some from Rotary Clubs for addressing their meetings, and even one from the Indian Navy for compeering the Navy Week for them. But among all these rather elite dignitaries stands upright, a small wooden cricket bat, on whose broad surface different players have signed.

Visitors glance at it, look quizzically at me, and look away. I don’t look a cricketer to them, nor does the bat explain a tale, but a tale there is and such tale will I tell today: Of a tournament called the MTPL, the brain child of an airline’s flight steward, who dreamed a dream of seeing his whole colony forming bonds of friendship through cricket.

‘Bob Uncle you are playing!’ said the boys of the colony, and before I could say ‘Sachin

500 people. For Rahul to have said this indicates that he has learned almost nothing in the ten years that he has been a politician or he should have discovered long, long ago that ‘the system’ currently is his mother. Nobody can get a Congress ticket unless she personally approves and this has been the system since the time Indira Gandhi decided to raise the interests of her family above those of the Congress Party. Those who dissented with this were forced out of Congress and it was renamed Congress (I) for Indira to make things brutally clear to those who wanted to join the party.

Tendulkar,’ there was I on the field playing under a delightfully inspiring captain. “Open the batting!” he told me, “Play your game!”

Who was I to tell him the only game I knew was of seeing myself clean bowled every time

BOB’S BANTER Robert Clements I batted. But with fear in my heart and trepidation in my walk I stumbled to the crease lifted the ball, and found it traveling by some God given wind to the boundary for four.

‘Didn’t know you play cricket uncle!’ they said later. I didn’t too. But it was not technique that helped me in my small skirmishes, it was love, the camaraderie, encouragement

After listening to the entire interview more than once what became painfully clear to me was that Rahul had not been taught the history of the Congress Party. What little of it he knows he has picked up from his own life so he sees himself as a sort of poor little political heir who never had any choice but to become a politician because of having been forced to inherit the mantle handed down to him. This is quite simply not true and someone needs to tell him this so that if he is serious about rebuilding the ‘structure’ of the Congress Party he can do it keeping in mind that in imitation of the example set by his family nearly all of the party’s younger MPs have inherited their seats from their daddies and mummies.

Has he not noticed this?

The other thing that Rahul made painfully clear by giving his interview was that he has become singularly adept at picking up buzzwords like empowerment without fully understanding what these words mean. So the only economic idea he expressed was about India’s failure to build a strong manufacturing sector and admitted that he had heard about this from visitors who came from abroad. If he had paid more attention to this failure he may have noticed that it is the ‘socialist’ policies followed by his own government that have made it impossible for India’s manufacturing sector to acquire the muscle that communist China has been so skillful at building. Before giving his next interview Rahul Gandhi would be well advised to take a few lessons on politics, economics and most importantly history. He may discover that he is not indispensable to the Congress Party and certainly not indispensable to India. So there is no harm in giving up the ‘poison’ of power. and fellowship that egged me on.

We won, yes a team called the Model Town Royals, fancy name: Adorned in blue, we played our hearts out for our captain and after two days of grueling sometimes back to back matches, lifted the trophy, and with it a small wooden bat to each member.

I look at the bat; it is not about the victory I think, nor the fours I hit or missed, or bowlers who petrified me; all I remember is a tournament that cast its net of joy around a colony of different caste creed and cultures and drew everyone into its embrace. All I remember is a thaal dinner organized by Mazhar the captain, with players sitting around a huge plate, tearing into the most delicious food. All I remember is tens of thousands of rupees being gathered overnight by players for a poor watchman sick in hospital. All I recall are new friendships and smiles twixt players; strangers no more.

It’s a small cricket bat, but a big thank you I silently say each time I look at it..!

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MUMBAI | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2014

SC’s landmark judgement CONGRATULATIONS to the two Supreme court judges for refusing to reconsider its verdict that affirmed the legality of Section 377 and criminalised gay sex, dealing a severe blow to the government’s attempt to have the law changed through a legal — rather than parliamentary — process. Gay rights activists described the Supreme Court’s decision as disappointing, but the judges will have the blessings of various religious groups and their followers as most religious followers are against the rights of the LGBT Community, also keeping in mind that it is against Indian culture. The decision is wholeheartedly welcomed CURBING FREEDOM: The Supreme Court's recent decision to criminalise homosexuality has met with severe criticism from various sections of the society, by the nation.

— Mansoor Umer Darvesh, Jogeshwari even while some have supported the decision.

IT is time that national legislators stooped avoiding the issue of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.

It is up to them to do away with an archaic colonial law that tends to discriminate against a person on the strength of his sexual orientation. This defiance of the basic principal of natural justice in the modern age, must be overcome with direct legislative action, rather than leaving it to the court to decide whether gay sex should

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remain a criminal offense in our book of statutes. The Supreme Court has refused to review the judgement on the subject, overturning the 2009 judgement of the Delhi High Court decriminalized gay sex. It is high time that parliament handles the issue keeping in mind that it is a matter of justice, to enable a human being's choice of sexual orientation.

— Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

I welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to criminalise gay sex.

Homosexuality is a disease and people who practice it need shrinks to knock some sense into their heads. If God had intended the human race to be fulfilled with both heterosexual and homosexual marriages, he would have designed our bodies to allow reproduction through both means and made both means of sexual intercourse healthy and natural.

— Jubel D’Cruz, Dombivali

Wednesday's proceedings were particularly under the Arms Act on the aspect of illegal arms while the poaching case under the Wildlife Protection Act is going on separately in the same court. The next hearing is fixed for February 14.

It was a day of setbacks for Salman as the court rejected his counsel Hastimal Saraswat's plea to postpone the recording of his statement till the hearing on the parallel case was complete.

we notice how the electricity is wasted in just testing. Even at Wankhede Stadium we notice flood lights used two days before the match just for testing purposes.

Some time the lights in Fort area and Nariman point are on up to afternoon. We have also seen that Air Conditioners, fans and lights are on in Mantralayas even if not needed.

Very sad to note that for such a noble cause our netas do not have even a few units to spare.

— K.V. Raman, Malad

— Yogesh R. Bhavsar, Dahisar

Sunshine after darkness THE last few days have been a disaster on the bourses as stock prices have decimated, with the stock exchanges witnessing a free fall of around 5 per cent. The trimmed market, which looked overbought before the fall, might look attractive now, but small time investors should invest in blue chips, only with high weightage, keeping safety KILLED THEM? Salman Khan, in 1998, and a long term view in mind, as the was charged with killing two blackbucks, markets might give good returns which are protected animals, in a village after the elections, when a stable near Jodhpur. government is in power. The golden rule of the stock market is to sell when everybody buys and vice versa, but don't trade or speculate Actor Salman Khan had appeared for short term where most accidents before the Magistrate in the Jodh- happen in a greed to make a fast pur Court to plead innocence in the buck. Discipline while investing is blackbuck poaching case, but the the key to success and every inchief judicial magistrate managed vestor should follow the basic printo stump with his very first ques- ciples to make decent gains.

— S.N. Kabra, Goregaon tion.

"Is this Salman Khan? Check and verify his identification", said the magistrate, after which the public prosecutor verified the records and EVERY year I visit the Exhibition cum sale of Gandhiji and Vinoba replied in the affirmative.

Salman, as well as his fans pres- Bhave's books at Hutatma Chowk, ent on the court premises, were Fountain. It feels good to see still taken aback by the question - but lots of people interested in reading CJM Chandra Kala Jain insisted on their books. The only one thing that hurts me is that this organisation going by the documents.

Besides the poaching charges, doesn't get electricity supply in the there was also a case of using arms evening and has to use battery with an expired license to kill the lamps. So many functions are held at Hutatma Chowk every year and blackbucks.

Salman in Jodhpur Court

A noble cause in darkness

Special treatment to MPs THE reported advisory of the Ministry of Civil Aviation to all the airlines about special treatment to MPs reminds me of a similar directive issued by the Centre during the dark days of the Emergency. That time, an exhaustive circular was issued to all the government departments across the country about the protocol to be followed during the visit of an MP or an MLA to the premises. All have to stand up and salute the VIP visitor, and everyone has to see to it that no stone was left unturned in showing the utmost courtesy and highest respect to the privileged guest.

— Arun Malankar, Santacruz

SIT probe of 1984 riots THE SIT investigation proposed by the AAP to provide justice to the 1984 riots in Delhi as an adverse consequence of assassination of the then PM seems to have been agreed to by the Congress. This is a welcome step. The authorities concerned should initiate an SIT probe immediately to bring the culprits to book within a stipulated timeframe. Some investigation seems to have been going on for 30 years which is a sad commentary on a riot said to have butchered about 3,000 Sikhs for no fault of theirs. They were citizens of Delhi and were entitled to be respected and treated well. Let us

hope that the SIT probeshall be productive and unhindered.

— T.M. Uday Shankar, Mumbai

Biased treatment EVEN till last week, for the past three decades, the Thackerays have been marauding, burning and damaging property and human life.

From the Governor down to the lowest cop, everyone stands silently in awe. No action is ever taken. At best, it is examined and the results are forgotten to be announced!

The AAP, on its first outing, makes a bit of a furore and its not liked by anyone! Strange, isn't it?

— Jamshed Irani, Grant Road

AAP's 'achievements' THIS refers to your edit-piece 'Achievements of AAP: Most unimpressive' (ADC, Jan. 30) which is laudable for its objectivity and clarity in calling a spade a spade. The hard truth is that this totally new political outfit never had Delhi in its agenda for doing anything good and in fact, much beyond its expectations, got to ruling the city-state so soon for which it was not at all prepared or equipped. If one looks back, it will be seen that Kejriwal and company rode piggy-back on Anna to build some image as anticorruption activists which they used to the hilt in floating a party much against the wishes of Anna himself with the sole aim of reaching the Lok Sabha and the naive Delhiites fell for their tall but false promises to the extent of giving them 28 seats. And most unexpectedly and entirely unnecessarily, the Congress chose to extend outside support to enable it to form a government just to keep the BJP out of power and that was a big chunk of luck. When the so-called aam aadmi's in the party are all busy preparing for the Lok Sabha polls, nothing better can be expected from the upstarts.

— Dr. V. Subramanyan, Thane

Tennis Tantrums TIME and again we come across tennis players from India revolting without much of a high power performance in international games.

Earlier, both Ramanathan Krishnan and his son Ramesh Krishnan played with significant success but

never opened their mouth in such a silly manner as Paes did recently.

The senior Krishnan was two set down, 2-5 down and 0-40 down but still he could pull out an egg out of the hat of a Mexican player. Leander Paes is trying to blame the Tennis Association and fellow players. If he is so great a player he should behave with poise rather than posing problems all the time. If he cannot win an Olympic Medal as he pointed, it is due to the tough challenge in the World of Tennis and for which the Association should not be blamed. By winning doubles matches, the senior pro is talking this much and had he won singles titles like Sampras or Federrer he would have dictated terms all the time. The truth is out now.

— S. Jayanthy Maniam, Sion

Tata Sky is being arbitrary TATA Sky has joined the fray of corruption recently with their unethical and selfish methods. Lately they suddenly disconnect many famous channels and pass instructions and advise that your box does not support these channels and are asked to purchase a new box on payment.

Customers thus are forced to pay more and purchase new boxes. This is indeed very unethical and wrong.

First of all the question arises as to why certain channels which were shown earlier are suddenly withdrawn and service is discontinued and then forced to purchase a new box. This definitely lowers the prestige and dignity of TATA, which was famous for honesty, sincerity and giving selfless service to all its clients who have total faith and confidence in them. Such policies may add to the profit of Tata Sky but it is only fleeces customers.

— S.P. Sharma, Mumbai

Who wins 2014?

I am not bothered about who becomes the next PM after the Lok Sabha polls in April/May 2014. I just know one thing that any man or woman, whether from NDA, UPA or the third front, would certainly do a better job than the kisan leader of 1979. I cannot imagine anybody worse than him, who remained PM only for 21 days and during those three weeks, flatly refused to face the Lok Sabha.

— Jorhat Singh, Kandivali

Homage to the Father of the Nation MAHATMA Gandhi did us proud by getting us freedom from the British rule, and we enjoy the freedom of an independent India thanks to his efforts and those of other illustrious leaders, who took active part in the freedom movement. The struggle, the trials, tribulations and the suffering undertaken by them, gave us the much needed impetus to go out and achieve our goals. 66 years have gone by and it is our duty to value the efforts of the great leaders and pay homage not only Martyr's Day but through the year. Instead, we fight over trivial matters and make a mockery of our freedom by attacking each other. It is our duty to maintain the services of Gandhiji and give him due respect and remember him with an aim to achieve more from this day onwards.

— C.K. Ramanathan Iyer, Bhandup

MARTYRS' DAY: January 30, Martyrs' Day, is the day Mahatma Gandhi was shot at by his assassin and the day is dedicated to all the freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives for a free India.

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Hunt is on LOOKING lovely indeed and in

Wine shine

the pink of health was Kalki Koechlin.

She was there as Max Fashion India launched its Max Fashion Icon 2014, a nationwide hunt for the coolest rising stars, in association with Cosmopolitan.

Seen at this pizza and soft drink soiree at Olive Bar & Kitchen were Vasanth Kumar, executive director, Max, ace photographer Jatin Kampani, fashion designer Gaurav Gupta, choreographer Aparna Bahl and Cosmopolitan editor Nandini Bhalla.

cheer was THE on at Pali Village Café as

SHAMITA SINGHA & SUMEDH SINGH MANDLA

Charosa Vineyards launched its new world wines that was complemented by appetizers like roasted bell pepper and jalapeno hummus, prawns in lemon coriander broth, and a main course of winter veg lasagna, panseared Cambodian bassa and more, along with desserts of hazelnut mousse flan and flourless chocolate fudge.

Charlsa’s Parag Kamat and Clive Castelino were there along with winemaker Ashok Patil.

MANISH PAREKH & ANUPA MEHTA

Stomp romp

All natural

TRULY

great was The Great Grover Stomp in Nashik. This noon to sundown affair commenced with a walk in the vineyard, winery tour, wine tasting, live cooking demonstrations and the traditional wine stomp. Jatin Das and Rini Dumal created some striking artwork, while the band Junckt featuring Roshni Baptist on song pepped up the proceeding. Of course, guests happily sipped and savoured some award-winning wines and relished the food by The Gateway Hotel.

KAJAL AGGARWAL

eyes were on ‘Epiphanies’ by Manisha Parekh presented ALL

by Bhau Daji Lad Musuem director Tasneem Mehta and Anupa Mehta of The Loft. The artworks of handmade paper and organic material, jute sculptors intricately modeled, looped and tied created ingenious abstract forms, intimate and sensual, taking the shape of nature. Seen at the preview at Bhau Daji Lad Museum were Amita and Ajay Chauhan, Sangita Jindal, Jaideep Mehrotra and Manu Parekh.

AMITA CHAUHAN

ASHOK PATIL KALKI KOECHLIN

Marcellus Baptista

STEPHANIE TIMMINS

Chic pick

Incorporated was STYLE what they called it at Lakmé Absolute Salon as the

Bandra salon teamed with Glitterati Co. and fashionmostwanted to present a chic evening with a mélange of fashion with beauty and business. Anisha Shetty, Esha Bagla, Ritu Gupta, Stephanie Timmins and others unveiled their latest collections and salon stylists gave guests a glam and ramp-ready look. Guests included Ann Mitchai, Mansi Moghe, Anjali Kirpalani, Amrit Rai and Felix Bendish.

MANSI MOGHE

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TV GUIDE

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN

The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyzes Leon’s work and asks him to improve the quality of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darkness. Zee Studi o, 11 p.m.

BOOGIE WOOGIE- KIDS CHAMPIONSHIP

In tonight’s Dharmesh Yelande the extremely talented choreographer and winner of Boogie Woogie Mahayudh 2008 will make a special appearance. With his grand opening performance, an extremely elated Dharmesh will then set the Boogie Woogie stage on fire yet again leaving one and all in cheer and fervor. Soon, Sargun along with the contestants will queue up to Dharmesh to teach them a step or two on the Boogie Woogie stage. Sony T V, 8.30 p .m.

SUPERCOPS VS SUPERVILLAINS...

SHAPATH

Supercops get caught in a fierce river whirlpool, and get transported into a strange world ruled where pre-historic savages enjoy killing people and are led by fierce Queen Amara. They realize that they are trapped in a magnetic field that cradles this strange world, but exists in the same time zone. How will Supercops get out of there alive? Life Ok , 9 p.m.

FIT FOR THE WILD

Explore 13 of Africa’s fascinating habitats and the creatures that thrive there, from the Kalahari to the Indian Ocean. Discover thirteen of Africa’s most fascinating natural habitats and the creatures that thrive there. From the red dunes of the Kalahari to the reefs of the Indian Ocean, we experience each habitat through the eyes of a key species, revealing animals that are able to thrive in nature against all odds. An imal Planet, 10 p.m .

SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE

Epic black holes, nuclear furnaces at the core of giant stars and volcanic pressure cookers inside planets - all across the immense reaches of time and space, the universe is being transformed by seething caldrons of energy. In its groundbreaking new series, SECRETS OF UNIVERSE, Discovery Science follows a trail of energy into the power centers of the universe. Di scover y Sci en ce, 10 p.m.

ADAALAT

Nandita has been accused of her ex-boyfriend Deepaks murder that was staying in the same building with his present girlfriend. However she says it wasn't her it was someone who looked exactly like her. However the cc TV footage of the build-

GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS

Boogie Woogie, Sony TV, 8.30 p.m.

ing shows that she was coming out with a knife with blood on it.

The PP ridicules this statement. Her colleague says that she was in the office and was discussing how angry she was with her ex.

She denies having had this conversation. In the next court proceeding Nanditas cousin said he had encountered his doppelganger. It’s shocking when the colleague of hers come in the dock and says he never gave that statement. Later we see that the PP in the second court was some1else he never came to the court. KD also encounters Varuns doppelganger and the PP had encountered KD s doppelganger. What is happening? Sony T V, 7.30 p.m.

FOOD FACTORY

Behind each bag of chips, can of beer, bar of chocolate and loaf of bread is a mega-industrial production line that brings each product to the masses. FOOD FACTORY is a mesmerising behind-the-scenes peek into the weird and wonderful processes that produce everyone’s favourite foods. From fresh ingredients to finished products, the series reveals in awe-inspiring detail just how mass-produced favourites are really made. Put on a hard hat and get ready to meet the food. Discover y, 9 p.m.

TWO AND A HALF MEN

Alan begins dating a divorcee who used to be best friends with him and Judith. He's happy until he learns more about Herb and Judith's sex life than he actually wanted to know. Sta r World, 10 p.m.

MOVIES OF THE DAY

Car theft in Long Beach went down 47% when Randall “Memphis” Raines walked away from the life. He gets dragged back into it by assuming the job his brother Kip screwed up for stolencar broker Raymond Calitri: steal 50 exotic cars and have them on a container ship by 8 AM Friday morning, and he got this news on a Monday. With Calitri threatening to kill him and Kip, and the police GRAB unit breathing down his neck, Memphis reassembles his old crew and attempts to pull off the logistically impossible. Star Movies Action, 8 p.m .

RANGREZZ

Three friends fight against all odds, the main ‘odd’ being a friend’s girlfriend getting married to someone else as per her parents’ wishes. M ax, 9 p.m .

SHAOLIN SOCCER

After a fateful mistake costing his career, an ex-soccer player bum meets a shaolin kung fu student trying to spread the word of kung fu. The ex-soccer player helps reconcile with his five brothers, and teaches them soccer, adding shaolin kung fu as a twist. HBO, 11.26 p.m .

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth’s core is heating up.

He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world’s population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world’s leaders race to build “arks” to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world. Pix, 11 p.m .

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Gone In Sixty Seconds, Star Movies 8 p.m.

PHATA POSTER NIKALA HERO

After Vishwas Rao is raised by his Mother, who apparently dreams of him becoming a Police Inspector. However, he has different plans in mind. Vishwas wants to become a film star. In Mumbai, after helping out a social-worker, Kajal, whilst dressed as an Police Inspector for a photo shoot, she mistakes him as an Inspector, and he eventually plays along. Suddenly her mother arrives in Mumbai. How will Vishwas get rid of his troubles? Zee Ci nema, 9 p.m.

MUMBAI MERI JAAN

Shortly after 1800 hours, 11 July 2006, Mumbai was shattered by seven bomb blasts on Western Railway stations: Matunga, Mahim, Khar, Bandra, Jogeshwari, Borivali, and Bhayandar. It took the Police and ambulance over an hour to attend at various sites. This incident changes lives of Thomas, originally from Chennai, who sells tea from his bike; Rupali Joshi, a TV News reporter, who has to deal with the death of her to-be spouse, Ajay Kumar Pradhan; Suresh, in debt, starts to suspect all Muslims, especially Yusuf; Inspector Tukaram Patil, about to retire, goes about collecting bribes as usual, much to the chagrin of his embittered, honest and soon to-be suspended subordinate, Sunil Kadam; while Nikhil Agarwal, a Nationalist and environmentalist, debates whether he should re-locate to the United States, along with his pregnant wife, Sejal. B4U, 9 p.m.

STAR PLUS

Ye Hai Mohabbatein Nach Baliye Star Guild Awards 2014 Star Verdict Nach Baliye

STAR WORLD

Castle Koffee with Karan Bunheads Two and A Half Men 2 Broke Girls Crazy Ones

ZEE CAFÉ

Pretty Little Lions Poirot Switched at Birth SAG Awards 2014 Pretty Little Liars

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Britain’s Next Top Model The X Factor USA Chaos Oliver’s Food Escapes Maximum Exposure Life Unexpected Maximum Exposure Olvier’s Food Escapes The X Factor USA Rules of Engagmenet America’s Next Top Model

SONY TV

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STARMOVIES

Tom Yum Goong Ghost Rider The Chronicles of Riddick Gone in Sixty Seconds Battleship Van Helsing Battleship

HBO

P.M. 12.15 The Three Musketeers 2.30 Aeon Flux 4.20 Around The World in 80 Days 6.45 Romeo Must Die 9.00 Indiana Jones & Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 11.26 Shaolin Soccer

ZEE STUDIO

P.M. 1.00 Screen Actors Guils A.M. 7.54 9.44 11.30 P.M. 2.02 4.27 6.35 9.00

CHORI CHORI CHUPKE CHUPKE

Raj and Priya are newly married. Priya is heavy with children, but due to unexpected circumstances, she loses her child and is unable to conceive again. Enter Madhoo, a prostitute who is willing to become surrogate mother for the couple. Their relationship becomes entangled with love triangle when Madhoo falls in love with Raj. Filmy, 9 p.m.

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SOAPS & SERIALS

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ParaNorman Mr Bean’s Holiday Jurassic Park

Chinese Zodiac The Adventures of Tintin Prometheus Avatar

HBO

A.M. 9.45 Romeo Must Die P.M. 12.00 Shaolin Soccer 1.45 Indiana Jones & Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 4.10 10,000 BC 6.20 National Treasure 9.00 Tron: Legacy

7.30 Aadalat 8.30 Boogie Woogie Kids 10.00 CID P.M. 12.00 2.30 5.00 8.00 9.00 10.30 P.M. 2.00 5.00 8.00 9.00 P.M. 2.00 3.00 7.00 9.00 10.00

LISTING

ZEE TV

Qubool Hai Film Dance India Dance Bh Se Bhade Dance India Dance Fear Files…

LIFE OK

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Ball Veer Taarak Mehta Ka… Sab Ke Anokhe Awards Sab Khelo Sab Jeeto

ZEE MARATHI

Tu Tithe Mee Eka Lagnachi Tisari Goshta Honar Suun Me Hya Gharachi Juluni Yeti Reshimgathi Radha Hi Bawari

Wild Planet Baby Planet AP Safari Most Extreme Equator River Monsters Fit for the Wild The Web of Life Austin Steven

DISCOVERY

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Shapath, Life Ok, 9 p.m.

Food Factory American Digger World’s Top 5 Man vs Wild Revealed: National Defence Academy 9.00 Food Factory 10.00 Incredible Mr Goodwin 11.00 No Kitchen Required

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HOLIDAY HAVOC WITH MR. BEAN Rs. 299/Cast: Rowan Atkinson Director: John Howard Davies, John Birkin, Paul Weiland

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A Savage Truth

12 Years A Slave

At: Cinemax and other cinemas Directed by Steve McQueen Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong’o, Brad Pitt and others Rating: ½

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teve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, coming with several wins and award nominations, reminds America of its shameful slaving past.

There have been films about slaves before—the grim Amistad to the comic book Django Unchained, and several Civil War epics too— but McQueen’s film is an unblinking documentary-like look at the human rights horror that caused untold suffering to so many Africans forced into slavery, something that demeaned the victims and dehumanised the perpetrators.

Based on a true story, Solomon

One By Two

At: PVR and other cinemas Directed by Devika Bhagat Cast: Abhay Deol, Preeti Desai, Lillete Dubey and others Rating: ½

forced into silence. He has to admit to being someone he is not, pretend he cannot read, and ignore the suffering of his fellow slaves, if he is to save his own life Northup’s book on his ordeal as a He sees men tortured and killed, slave, made by a British filmmaker, children pulled away from their it tells it as it is, all the cruelty and mothers, women raped, and, in one cowardice, the sheer fight for sur- gruesome scene, he is forced by his vival. sadistic master (Michael FassbenChiwetel Ejiofor (brilliant) plays der—overacting) into flaying a Solomon, a free slave from New York young woman (Lupita Nyong’o) till and a musician, who is tricked, her flesh is mangled and bloody. drugged and sold into slavery. He is Slavery was a tragedy on a monuwhipped into submission, and mental scale and even the ‘kind’ plantation owners, like the one played by Benedict Cumberbatch, were still slavers and participants in the atrocities committed against the black people. Seeing it now, with McQueen’s sock-‘em kind of treatment, the melodrama is as disturbing as the relentless brutality.

Brad Pitt, a co-producer of the film, turns up as Northup’s saviour, but there is another, perhaps more complex and hopeful film in what happened to Northup after he returned to his family and threw himself into the abolitionist cause.

Deepa Gahlot That’s the story that needs to be told.

FILM REVIEW

Down The Drain

R. BEAN has got his share of those who either love him or hate him, but I must say this modern day comedy show, of a modern day Charlie Chaplin promises loads of laughter for the entire family. The DVD also comes with subtitles, which is strange as the show is 99.9 per cent silent, similar to the Chaplin series.

This DVD clocking close to one hour shows the best bits of Mr. Bean which many might have already enjoyed watching on Indian TV. But then getting all the episodes from 1 to 14 on one DVD, helps in enjoying Bean’s antics anytime of the day, especially if you want to calm down a wailing toddler.

The 9 episodes here are of Bean’s best holiday moments. So you have Bean creating a scene of himself on the beach - where he tries to change into his swimming trunks, and another time when he tries to dive into a swimming pool where his nerves (and his swimming trunks) get the better of him on the top diving board. You then have him packing for a holiday, later he finds himself on a train with someone who is rather loud and does all he can to get a

more peaceful train journey. The best comes while he’s flying for a holiday, where he tries to cheer up a young unaccompanied boy. The bizarre moments carry on to the golf course, to taking a picture with one of the Royal Guards without making them laugh, and Bean trying to take a train without buying a ticket. His last sojourn is when he enters his little pet teddy bear in a dog show.

Though most viewers will think Bean is just being stupid, it still makes you laugh every single time you watch him. This is a gentle, delightful comedy with universal appeal, and though a few bits might be objectionable, but on the whole it just good clean fun.

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ne By Two must be the only film ever in which the meet cute device is flatulence. Any film that is so obsessed with bowels, is bound to be flushed down the drain.

The potty motif –verbal and visual—is relentless, and you want to send digestive pills to the team that came up with this film. Abhay Deol, who had smartly positioned himself as the thinking viewers’ indie film actor, actually co-produced this tedious, trying-so-hard-to-be-cool flick, about today’s youth.

And what does it mean to be young? Needless angst, bad behaviour, drinking binges (with bottles in a potty-shaped cooler), skimping on work and, yes, passing wind.

And this sterling example of the new urban youth (youth?) is Amit boring (he is!)

Jayant Kripalani) who bicker over Sharma (Deol), dumped by his girlHe works with an IT company, table tennis on the dining table, has friend (Geetika Tyagi), because he is has batty parents (Rati Agnihotri- squabbling gyaan-giving friends

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(Preetika Chawla-Tahir Bhasin) almost joined at the hip, a sharp tongued girl (Yashika Dhillon) his mother wants him to marry. And what’s with the several police department poetry slams just so that an uncle (Darshan Jariwalla) can spout silly verse?

The girl who has a parallel track— which means lots of split screen, passing by each other, sharing adjoining stalls in the loo (yes that potty fetish!)—is Samara Patel (Preeti Desai) from London, who has an alcoholic mom and stuffed shirt dad (Anish Trivedi) who won’t acknowledge her but gives them a palatial apartment in Mumbai; there’s commitment-phobic boyfriend (Yudhishtr Urs) too. She has a passion for dance, which leads her to a TV reality show,Dance

AVERAGE GOOD VERY GOOD EXCELLENT

Wars.

Amit and his loser buddies are responsible for Samara and her chatterbox partner, a street dancer called Bunty (Netarpal Singh Heera) getting evicted from the show, because they manipulated the results for a reason too idiotic to go into.

The two unhappy bores really deserve each other, but Bhagat, aiming to make a quirky film, never gets them to meet till the audience is half asleep and not really bothered about how this non love story will end. (There was a poignant foreign film about two people perfect for each other, who never meet, but get people rooting for them to connect, the title slips the mind) Amit sings a number that goes, “I am pakaoed”...the audience shares the sentiment.

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Legal conditions for a plea to qualify for ‘Lis Pendens’ Afternoon Despatch & Courier

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EXPERT SPEAK is a media-legal consultant on Housing, Intellectual Property, Medico-legal, RTI and Consumer Law issues

SALE OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

BY AN OSTENSIBLE OWNER A TRANSFER by an ostensible owner cannot be avoided on the ground that the transferor was not authorised thereof, according to Section 41 of the Transfer of Property Act. This, however, is subject to the condition the transferee should take reasonable care to ascertain the transferor had the power to make the transfer and to act in good faith before a benefit thereof is claimed by him.

This provision is based on the law of estoppel - if a man has represented the transferor consents to an act which has been done and that he would not offer any opposition thereto, although the same could not have been lawfully done without his consent. By that if he induces others to do that from which they would have abstained normally, he cannot question the legality of the act he so sanctioned to the prejudice of those who have so given faith to his works or to the fair inference to be drawn from the conduct.

For one to claim benefits of Section 41 of the Act, it must be proved that the transferor is the ostensible owner; he is so by the consent, express or implied, of the real owner; the transfer is for consideration and the transferee has acted in good faith taking reasonable care to ascertain that the transferor had power to transfer. The purchaser must ascertain from the office of the Registrar that the transferor had the power to transfer the property.

FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY TO BE AS MUCH ‘AS NECESSARY’

BY LAW, there is nothing fixed by statute to ascertain the quantum of force that can be used. But, as precedent bears testimony, the force could be to the extent of causing the death of the aggressor.

Nevertheless, the issue of force to be used is settled by law that the force used should not be more than what “is necessary”. Also, whether the force used is in excess or not is a question of fact that will be determined by the facts and circumstances of each individual case. There cannot be a generalised solution to the issue of force.

Allowances are made by law for the person’s feelings at that point of time which may be incidental to the force needed to protect the property from the aggressor. The law will take into consideration if he is faced with a real apprehension that the aggressor might cause death or grievous hurt or his property is faced with an element of danger. Such apprehensions inevitably create in his mind a sense of excitement and confusion.

It is understood that at the opportune moment, the one thought that would be foremost in his mind would be to ward off the imminent danger and save himself or his property. He would be most keen on doing anything possible in exercise of his right.

Therefore, while dealing with the issue of whether more force is used than was necessary or justified by the prevailing circumstances, it would be inappropriate to adopt tests of detached objectivity that’s natural in a court room.

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A transferee pendente lite is bound by the decree just as much as he was a party to the suit.

My property is presently under litigation with my sister having moved court over an issue of right to ancestral property and has contested a will drawn up by my father bequeathing the entire property to me. Now, I wish to transfer the property 'as is' to a third party. Can I do it legally or do I need to do it informally?

- Gulpreet Kharbanda Section 52 of the Transfer of Property Act (TOPA) is an expression of the principle “pending litigation nothing new should be introduced.” Accordingly, in a litigation concerning property, if any right to such property is a question during the pendency of such litigation, neither party to the litigation can alienate or otherwise deal with such property so as to affect his appointment.

This principle specified in Section 53 of TOPA is in accordance with equity, good conscience or justice, because it rest upon an equitable and just foundation that it will be impossible to bring an action or suit to a successful termination.

The move is intended to protect the parties to the litigation against alienation by their opponent during the pendency of the suit.

A transferee pendente lite is bound by the decree just as much as he was a party to the suit. The principle of lis pendens embodied in the section being a principle of public policy, no question of good faith or bonafide arises, the principle underlying section 52 is that a litigation party is exempted from taking notice of a title acquired during pendency of the litigation.

However, mere pendency of a suit does not prevent one if the parties from dealing with the property constituting the subject matter of the suit. The section only postulates a condition that the alienation will in no manner affect the rights of the other party under any decree which may be passed in the suit unless the property was alienated with the permission of the court.

To constitute a lis pendens, the following must be present:

Over a period of time, records in a society pile up and it storing these records becomes a problem for societies. The Federation of Cooperative Societies realised this problem and decided to request the Commissioner for Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Housing Societies, Pune to prescribe a preservation period for the records maintained by societies so that they could destroy the records after the prescribed period.

Accordingly a very exhaustive list of records and various documents to be maintained by societies with varying periods of preservation was prescribed by the Federation. It was referred to the Commissioner for Cooperation and the Registrar of Cooperative societies, Pune who after examining the list accorded his approval to the periods of preservation of the records and documents as suggested by the Federation with slight modifications.

Several cooperative housing societies can now take steps to destroy records, which have crossed the preservation periods. The work of destruction of records is very important and involves a lot of risk. The office bearers of societies will have to first weed out the entire It is imperative that cooperative housing records and documents so as to avoid societies maintain their books of records the possibilities of destruction of any as per the Maharashtra Cooperative important records and documents, Societies Act, 1960; Maharashtra which have not completed the preserCooperative Societies Rules 1961 and the vation period. bye-laws of the society.

After the work of weeding out of the In the past, the accounting year for records and documents proposed to be societies ended on 30th June or the day destroyed is complete, a detailed list of fixed by a particular society with the the records and documents proposed to approval of the Registrar. be destroyed will have to be prepared However, with an amendment made in and circulated amongst all the mem1993, the cooperative year was changed bers of the managing committee, so to end on the 31st March or as the that they will have sufficient time to go Registrar thinks fit for a few particular through the list and doubly ensure that chosen societies. no records and document which ought Generally, except a few fortunate coop- to be preserved will be destroyed. erative housing societies that have large The actual destruction of the membership, others have no separate records and documents should be office premises. Under normal circum- undertaken only after the list of records stances, honorary secretaries of these and documents proposed to be societies have to store the records in their destroyed is approved by the managing own premises. committee.

• Firstly, there must be suit of proceeding pending in a court of competent jurisdiction.

• Secondly, the suit or proceeding must not be collusive.

• And, the litigation must be one in which right to immovable property is directly and specifically in question.

• Also, there must be a transfer of or otherwise dealing with the property in dispute by any party to the litigation.

• And finally, such transfer must affect the rights of the other party that may ultimately accrue under the terms of the decree or order.

It is the discretion of the court to whether or not to permit transferee pendente lite to be added as a party to the suit. However, as of, right he cannot claim to be added as a party to the sit.

However, it the interest of the transferee pendente lite in the subject of the suit is substantial and not just peripheral or incidental, he can be added as a proper party to enable him to protect his interest.

COMMITTEE NOD BEFORE DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS

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SAMURAI SUDOKU 295 MUMBAI | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Each Samurai Sudoku puzzle consists of 5 overlapping “classic” 9x9 Sudoku sub-puzzles. Each 9x9 sub-puzzle must be solved according to the rules of Sudoku: each row, column and 3x3 box must contain all digits from 1 to 9 therefore, digits cannot be repeated. Each Samurai Sudoku puzzle has one solution only.

LEISURE

DOMINOES 295

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A normal set of dominoes — that is, one instance of every (unordered) pair of numbers from 0 to 6 — has been arranged irregularly into a rectangle; then the number in each square has been writen down and the dominoes themselves removed. Your task is to reconstruct the pattern by arranging the set of dominoes to match the provided array of numbers. Please note that each domino is a unique one and occurs only once in each puzzle.

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CODE WORDS 178

In each puzzle every letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a number; the same number represents the same letter throughout the puzzle. To start you off, we give you three letters and the numbers which have replaced them.

When you’ve filled in these letters throughout the puzzle you’ll have enough clues to start guessing words and discovering other letters. To help you keep track, as you find a letter, slot it into the grid provided and cross it off the list.

To help you keep track, as you find a letter, slot it into the grid provided and cross it off the list.

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HITORI 295

The objective of Hitori is to mark out the incorrect cells. The rules are: a) A Number may never appear more than once in each row or column. b) Marked or incorrect cells are never adjacent in a row or a column. c) Unmarked cells create a single continuous area, undivided by marked cells.

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LEISURE

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FIGURE OUT Each square contains part of a complete picture that is to be copied into its matching numbered square in the diagram. Start with square A1, drawing it into the diagram where row A and column 1 intersect. Continue with A2, A3 etc.

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SOLUTION TO DOMINOES 294 118

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SOLUTION TO HITORI 294 118

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SOLVE THIS FREE FORM CROSSWORD WHERE THE WORDS ARE REPRESENTED

BY PICTURES SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK’S PICTURE CROSSWORD

ACROSS: 1 Student, 4 Hanger, 7 Holi, 8 Wolf, 9 Tortoise, 11 Pyramid, 14 Jeans, 15 Wallet.

DOWN: 1 Star, 2 Shirt, 3 Uniform, 5 Goat, 6 Leopard, 10 Sofa, 12 Rose, 13 Mobile.

SOLUTION TO CODE WORDS 177

Can you find the words connected in one way or the other with the theme indicated by the title in today’s Word Search? The words may be read horizontally, vertically or diagonally either forwards or backwards, but always in straight lines. Use a ruler to cross them through as you find them.

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ACROSS: 1 ___ Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven rockers 4 Phnom ___ 8 Economist Smith 12 To know, archaic 15 Renato's aria ___ Tu 16 Perplexed 17 Inhabitant 19 Perfumes 21 Our capital (3,5) 22 Membranes 23 Lower part of a fraction, should we say?

25 What to do with fruit 26 Hungarian liquid measure 27 Equated Monthly Installment in short 28 Sp. and Fr. milieu 29 Trumpet blast 32 Mars: the __ planet 34 Juniper 36 South Indian snack (6,4) 39 ____ out : brought gradually out of use?

40 '-- Got a Secret' 41 Sleeve band 42 French connectives 43 Trillion: prefix 45 Prefix: children 46 Former Russian abbreviation 48 Quarrel 52 Prime Minister's Off. 54 Carnivorous green insect of tropical regions 57 Eastern flute: var.

58 Being in the center 61 Thrifty 63 Dirge 64 "Tang" or "port" follower 65 Organ providers 66 Down or back 67 Air: comb. form 69 Japanese peninsula 72 Schoolyard game 73 Vodka cocktail 76 Pertaining to us and our country 79 Capital of Arunachal Pradesh 80 Wearing identifying uniform 82 Bearded like grain 83 Buck may be one such creature

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1960 chess champion A dynasty in China Cleopatra's maid Frothy drinks Rossini's Count ____

DOWN: 1 Marvin and Majors 2 Highland tongue 3 Device meting out measured proportions 4 Slender cigar 5 Computer key 6 I don't __ _ thing (4,1) 7 Czech author, Jaroslav __ 8 River to the Ligurian Sea 9 Believed 10 Afloat 11 The bewitching hour?

12 Wallows 13 Publication type 14 ____ up : mixed thoroughly or stimulated?

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Buy _ __ in a poke : get deceived (1,3) Station, abbr.

Under an assumed name Apprehensiveness Currency of Banarain?

UP CM till very recently Play finale, perhaps (3-2) Extinguishes fire by covering it wih ashes, etc.

Handel work Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra Get off the Pullman Aloft (2,3) Corrections ___ Rice Burroughs Mrs..F..Scott.Fitzgerald Member of a celestial hierarchy Nav. officer Provokes ___ sir : letter opener In a lazy or unhurried manner Winning sign

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MRS. SUMAN S. PRABHU, K, ‘C’ Wing, Building No. 19, Camellia Central Park, Nallasopara (E).

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Fit the letters each column into the boxes directly above them in order to form words. The order in which the letters are to be placed is to be decided by you. Each letter is to be used once. When completed you will find a quotation about the theme given.

Today’s Theme: LEARNING PROCESS

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION: "Excuses are the easiest things to manufacture, and the hardest things to sell."

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TODAY’S FORECAST

JAGJIT UPPAL

WIZARD OF ID PARKER & HART

B.C. JOHNNY HART

BEAU PEEP THE ADVENTURES OF LEGIONNAIRE BEAU PEEP

FRED BASSET ALEX GRAHAM

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MODESTY BLAISE PETER O’DONNELL

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Aquarius 2nd Magh Shuklapaksha Dhanishta Kumbh (Aquarius) G.S.Sh. Maroon 5

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: Entrepreneurs or the self-employed, especially those who work from home are likely to benefit this year. Those in creative and artistic fields will find this to be a particularly rewarding year. Love life will be satisfactory for the married.

You need to take care of your health. The hectic schedule of the past couple of months could lead to a rundown condition. Students will have to put in extra hours of studying to get a reasonably good grade.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Healthy and long-lived. Will be tall, slim, in extreme cases stout. Very independent, intelligent and good at logic. A career in law or government services is best suited. Family life will be happy and contented. Should avoid putting trust in people.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Manage your own affairs at work rather than depend on others.

Check out every phase of your work for there could be a tendency to make silly mistakes in your anxiety to get ahead quickly. You Have a way with people and will be making ample use of this quality with those you meet today.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): Be contented with what you currently have in your career for no better options are likely to come your way right now. Actually you are in quite a good position which has potential for further growth. Be patient and you will attain your goals step by step. It is time to tell the one you love of your feelings rather than remaining just a silent admirer. Look forward to warm response.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): You will make monetary gains today. Temptations to invest your money are likely, but avoid long term plans, for you could block your money.

Sudden social activity and the arrival of a loved one will be a pleasant surprise. Students will achieve some success in sports. You will enjoy good health and a feeling of contentment.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): You are overcome by a feeling of fear or anxiety. It is quite likely that you have a lot on your mind today. If you are in doubt regarding a certain business proposal or investment, just drop the deal altogether. It could be your premonition that seems to warn you about an impending loss. Misunderstanding with your mate happens quite unexpectedly. With a little effort you can save the day by showing you care.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): Your profits can be increased by certain radical changes. Begin from cutting down expenditure, and get rid of unproductive investments. Long distance travel is destined to prove beneficial. You can combine business with pleasure by finding time for some of your own personal interests. Romantic influences are rather strong and despite a tight work-schedule, the impish charm and playful mood of your beloved will lure you.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): You will receive no bouquets for your achievements at work but emotionally you will be happy that you have done your work well.

Your responsibilities may exhaust you mentally and physically but your mate will be a source of encouragement and strength. At a social event you will create a lasting impression. Romance offers its share of thrills.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): A proposal you had refused earlier may be extended to you again. Don’t let personal bias come in the way of your work and business. Too much attitude could create more problems for you in relationships. A little time off from your hectic schedule will help you to unwind. For those who are keen to settle down a good marriage proposal could come through a family friend or someone known to you.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): Wait a while before thinking of making any changes in your working environment. A change of job or work at this juncture is not advisable. Do not be carried away by attractive promises of financial gains and avoid investing any money in ventures about which you know very little.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): You may be able to grab a prestigious deal in spite of tough competition. It is time to get the help of those who you can trust to see you through. With your capacity for managing things successfully you may be given charge of organizing an important event in your organization. If unattached you will soon get involved in a romantic affair, which has the making of a lasting association. Some get a marriage proposal.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): Watch out for attempts at deception. You cannot completely trust people working around you. Someone may spread rumors which could hurt. The employed should not resign under pressure of oppressive situation created by others in the work environment. You feel lost and forsaken. In love you may feel neglected and unloved. Someone may spread rumors which could hurt. Have faith and wait for your time to come.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): Circumstances are turning in your favor. Concentrate on the target you wish to reach. Your accomplishments so far have been quite remarkable. Though you have not achieved your goal you are moving ahead in the right direction and it is now within your grasp. Matters at home are happy and joyful. There will be a celebration where the family is likely to be reunited after a long time.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): You may be feeling a little under the weather for no apparent reason at all. Subconsciously you may be seeking a change, which does not seem to be happening right now. If you are patient you will hear some good news later in the day which gladdens your heart. Destiny at times works faster if we leave burning issues alone and get on with life. A good time to party hard and meet your friends.

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SUDOKU 2068

ACROSS: 4 A friend __ ____ is a friend indeed? (2,4) 7 Disdain, mockery (8) 8 ___ on : began to be understood by? (6) 10 Common people (5) 13 Banish, cast out or dislodge (4) 14 Ancient Roman garb (4) 15 Abundant or lavish; as in "the field was ____ green"? (4) 16 Parents Teachers Assoc. (3) 17 ___ and polish : soldier's cleaning work?

(4) 19 They may be alpha, beta or gamma? (4) 21 Mathematician and astronomer of ancient India after whom our first satellite was named (9) 23 Monetary unit of Burma (4) 24 A metrical foot consisting of a short or unstressed syllable followed by an accented syllable (4) 26 Hotel by the wayside, should we say? (3) 27 Carriers for bricks (4) 29 Related, as in a family (4) 32 Milk-giving animals (4) 33 "Wonder Woman" star Carter (5) 34 Fashion label since 1975 (6) 35 Storyteller (8) 36 Learning to use a keyboard proficiently (6) DOWN: 1 ___ a child : give home and love to an orphan, perhaps? (5) 2 Edvard ___, composer (5) 3 Inquires, calls or examines, in a way? (4) 4 River of India, Pakistan & Tibet (5) 5 "Went" anagram for a little creature (4) 6 Builds, constructs (6) 9 Hindu hermitage (6) 11 ___ off : terminate a work session on a multiuser system, or a connection to such a system? (3) 12 Iraqi port (5) 13 ___ others : is in a condition to silence others at an auction? (7) 15 "Ali" turning into a girl? (3) 16 Monetary unit of Burma - "pay" anagram?

(3) 18 A large non-poisonous snake that kills its prey by crushing and squeezing it (6) 20 Cornered with no escape (2,3) 21 "Any" change for "Atlas Shrugged" au-

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

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

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CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: F equals P

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

thoress? (3) 22 A ___ been : a spent force? (3) 23 Gnarled (6) 25 A child or a young person, informally speaking (3)

28 ___ to : because of; thanks to? (5) 30 Ties, bunches (5) 31 Mollusk-shell material (5) 32 "I cad" maybe a judge (4) 33 Animal fat (4)

SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Dermis, 5 Wet, 8 Dace, 9 Half, 10 Anthem, 11 Sportsman, 13 Ibis, 15 Lid, 16 Novel, 17 Sweep, 20 Gem, 22 Had, 23 Dared, 24 Mores, 26 Bad, 27 Tell, 28 Defaulted, 31 Solemn, 32 Bale, 33 Retd, 34 Lot, 35 Youths.

DOWN: 1 Dyadic, 2 Retainer, 3 Ides, 4 Sampler, 5 Weird, 6 Thus, 7 Pleased, 12 Oil, 14 Some, 18 Whet, 19 Easement, 20 Gateway, 21 Modesty, 24 Mat, 25 Blends, 26 Blurt, 29 Axel, 30 Dodo.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1887 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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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: 16 average; 18 good; 20 outstanding.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: askew, skew, slaw, SLEEPWALK, slew, spew, swap, sweep, swell, wake, wale, walk, wall, wasp, weak, weal, weasel, week, weep, well.

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Pawar withdraws transfer application

MUMBAI: Newly-elected Mumbai Cricket Association President Sharad Pawar withdrew his transfer application in the suit filed by senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde.

Munde, who had thrown his hat in the ring for MCA president's post, has challenged the rejection of his nomination in the election. Pawar had earlier sought transfer of case to another court. "Pawar's lawyer told the court that they want to withdraw the application with liberty to approach the Bombay High Court," said Munde's lawyer, advocate Vivekanand Gupta. The city civil court allowed the withdrawal. Pawar's transfer application had said that the suit was based upon the interpretation of rules of MCA and the judge had dealt "exhaustively" with them at an earlier stage.

ROSS THE BOSS...

New Zealand's Ross Taylor is applauded by India’s MS Dhoni on reaching his century in the fifth and final one-day international cricket match in Wellington. win on the tour, the Men in Blue got off to a disastrously slow start as they needed six overs to get to a double-digit score, losing a wicket in the interim.

Rohit Sharma (4) was the first to go, giving slip-catching practice to Taylor in the 5th over bowled by Kyle Mills (2-35).

Shikhar Dhawan (9), coming back into the eleven after spending the last match on sidelines, also looked uncomfortable as Henry finally get rid off him, taking this first international wicket.

The young pacer wounded up the left-handed batsman in the 10th over of the innings, before inducing an edge which was safely pouched in the slips. Four over later, with the score at 30/2, Ajinkya Rahane (2)

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India suffer worst defeat in NZ, lose fifth ODI by 87 runs

ELLINGTON: A listless Indian cricket team slumped to its worst ODI series defeat in New Zealand, going down 04, after the Black Caps hammered them by 87 runs in the inconsequential fifth and final one-dayer here.

Going into the match trailing 0-3 in the five-match series, the famed India batting came a cropper once again, bundled out for 216 in 49.4 overs by New Zealand, while chasing 304 at Westpac stadium here.

Virat Kohli's 82 was the only saving grace as the visitors failed to put up a fight against the Kiwi bowlers, led superbly by debutant Matt Henry (4/38). Earlier, Ross Taylor slammed his second successive hundred to power the hosts to an imposing 303 for five.

Besides the tie in the third ODI in Auckland, India had suffered defeats in Napier and Hamilton (twice) and today's defeat continued their disastrous overseas performance as they had lost the ODI series against South Africa before coming here.

India had lost 2-5 to New Zealand in a seven-match ODI series in 2002-03. The last time the Indians failed to win even a single match in New Zealand was in 1975-76 and 1980-81, losing 0-2 in both the twomatch series.

Put into bat, Taylor (102) shared a 152-run partnership with Kane Williamson (88), who scored his fifth consecutive half-century, for the third wicket to rescue New Zealand from a precarious 41-2 at one stage.

Taylor's 106-ball innings was studded with 10 hits to the fence and one six, while Williamson blasted eight fours and one six in his 91-ball innings here.

For India, Varun Aaron (2-60) was the most successful bowler, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1-48) and Mohammad Shami (1-61) provided decent support. Virat Kohli took the only other wicket to fall, while the spinners, R Ashwin (0-37) and Ravindra Jadeja (0-54) went wicketless. Chasing 304 runs for their first

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missed a straight delivery from Henry, trying to play it off his legs and was out plumb LBW. India were staring at another massive defeat even as Kohli put up some resistance and finally he found some support in Ambati Rayudu.

The latter took his time getting set, hitting two fours off the 40 balls he faced, but he couldn't get past 20 runs.

Looking to hit Henry over square on the off-side, Rayudu stepped out and made room only to hit it straight to Williamson. This was a serious blow for India, as the two batsmen had added 48 runs 64 balls, at a decent run-rate of 4.5 per over.

Yet again, India were left relying on Dhoni and Kohli and the duo

tried hard, putting up 67 runs for the fifth wicket in 61 balls, stirring some hope for their hapless team.

In the 30th over of the innings, Kohli brought up his 30th ODI fifty, off 60 balls with five fours and one six. Immediately thereafter, with the run-rate now climbing past 10-perover, he decided to play big shots and found some success. But he fell in the process, caught at long-on by substitute Peter Young-Husband off Nathan McCullum (1-33) in the 37th over.

He scored 82 runs off 78 balls, with seven fours and three sixes.

There after, it was another slow procession for the lower-order batsmen as R Ashwin (7) and Ravindra Jadeja (5) failed to provide support to Dhoni.

Ground-breaking series win for us: Brendon McCullum

WELLINGTON: Delighted after drubbing India 4-0 in the justconcluded ODI series, New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum called it a ground-breaking triumph for his side and the most satisfying of his career so far.

New Zealand dominated the five-match series, the third game of which was a tie, even though India were considered handsdown favourites at the start of it.

The Kiwis' fantastic run ended India's reign at the top of the ICC ODI rankings.

"From an ODI point of view, this series is the most satisfying I have been a part of," said McCullum after the fifth and final ODI which the Kiwis won by 87 runs.

"India arrived here as the number one ODI team in the world and not many expected us to compete with them, let alone get a series white wash. We are delighted with the way we played in this series especially on the back of fine performances from Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson, and also the way our bowlers stepped up. Overall, it was a ground breaking series for us," he added.

When asked pertinently if Team India had proven worthy opponents, McCullum said he respected Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men. "We didn't allow them to play to their potential.

But they are a very good team.

The Indian cricketers all have proven careers and proven statistics over a period of time," he said. "We were very respectful of their standing in the game as the number one team when they arrived on our shores and for us as the number eight team to put in a performance to topple these guys is something that makes this victory even sweeter," he added.

Wasim Jaffer against expulsion of Mumbai coach

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UMBAI: Former Mumbai skipper Wasim Jaffer voiced his support for ousted Mumbai coach Sulakshan Kulkarni after Mumbai got a drubbing in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final match against Maharashtra.

Speaking at an event which will see Indian Oil host the 34th Petroleum Sports Promotion Board Inter Unit T20 cricket tournament which is to be held from February 3-7 in Mumbai, Jaffer said the decision by the Mumbai Cricket Association was premature and 'harsh' to the coach and added that the coach should have been allowed to complete the season before assessing his performance. “The Mumbai team had last season lifted the Ranji Trophy title under the same coach and this year were playing without big names like Sachin Tendulkar [retired], Zaheer

Khan, Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane [India duty] and had to get in fresh talent for the season,” Jaffer said The highest run getter in domestic cricket in India Jaffer said that to expect the same results from the current team to to the team won the

Ranji Trophy title was incorrect. “I kept on saying that to expect the same performances from the younger players [as compared to the seniors] would be hard because we had a different team last year also. So to take out the anger and disappointment on the coach is slightly harsh,” said Jaffer.

Mumbai on a whole had a bad season with none of the teams across various age groups making any sort of impact in the national circuit. Jaffer said that Kulkarni was the only coach across all categories that took Mumbai to the knock out stage. “It obviously looks bad because out of all teams across different age groups, the Ranji Trophy team was the only team that got through to the knock out stage and the coach of that team has been sacked. It is not a nice thing. Probably they should have waited for the one day tournament

and the T20 to finish and taken a decision then,” he said.

Due to national commitments, the Mumbai team played under various skippers, and hence there must have been different ideas floating about in the dressing room, however, he insisted the it was the skipper who depends on his intuition to take his team through. “The captain has his own ideas, the coach can only give his inputs. The boss is always the captain because he is there to handle the players and he is the one to take the decision. You would take everybody's advice but at the end of the day, it is the captain who delivers and he should get charge. You can say, the captain may not have listened to the coach's advice but whoever is there by the end of the day you have an intuition and you stick to that. I did not have a problem [with Kulkarni],” he added.

Jeremiah for McDowell Signature Indian Derby SPORTS

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11. Traffic Jam 55.5 Kavraj Singh 12. Rambutan 54.5 A. Sandesh here are 15 runners in the Mc- 13. Thunder Star 54 Neeraj Rawal Dowell Signature but it looks 14. Ashwa Yodhaa 53 P. S. Chouhan like only three of them have Win: Double Diamond, Ashwa chance: Agostini, Jevmiah, Murioi. Yodhaa The favourite in the race is MAM Ramswamy’s Muriori. It is in top 2. The Four Seasons Cup 1600 form and all the three times it ran, it Metres. 1.45 P.M. has won. Vijay Mallya’s horse Agos- 1. Daishonin 55 P. S. Chouhan tini has won all the three times in 2. High Expectation 55 Suraj Narredu Bangalore. Trainer: J.S. Dhariwal. Je- 3. Legend Of The Seas 55 A. remiah’s performance has been ex- Sandesh cellent. Owned by Haresh Mehta 4. Quick Angel 55 Shrikant Kamble and Manav Mehta, the horse has 5. Speed King 55 Dashrath Singh been never once defeated when it 6. Stalwart 55 Y. S. Srinath ran in Hyderabad, Bangalore and 7. Strategic Move 55 C. D. Hayes Mumbai. It has run five times. Bred 8. Incandescent 53.5 Neeraj Rawal at Sohna Stud, I feel the horse has Win: High Expectation, Strategic the best chance.

Move Jeremiah is trained by Pesi Shroff.

He is the maximum number of 3. The White Mischief Cup Derby winners. Inshallah, he will win.

As usual the Derby day is sure to attract a big crowd: Chairman Vivek Jain expect 20-25 thousand. The 1000 Metres. 2.15 P.M. Derby offers many attractions: In- 1. Emerging Star 60.5 S. Mosin vest on Super Jackpot Pool: carried 2. Hawk Of The Wind 59.5 P. Trevor forwrd amount Rs. 10 lakh. There 3. Victorious March 59.5 P. S. will be a fashion show, music and Chouhan skits.

4. National Glory 58.5 S.G. Prasad There are nine races on Sunday 5. Way Out 56 A. Sandesh and the first starts at 1.15 p.m.

6. Jimbo 55 R. Woodworth 7. Pitbull 55 Dharmendar CARD AND SELECTIONS 8. Catharsis 53.5 Imran Chisty 1. The Royal Challenge ‘Game For 9. Ice Empire 53.5 Akash Agarwal Life’ Cup - Division II 1200 Metres.

10. Brindaban 53 Neeraj Rawal 1.15 P.M. 11. Gangnam Style 53 Shrikant 1. Hidden Asset 59.5 S. G. Prasad Kamble 2. Magic Vision 59 C. S. Jodha 12. Incentio 53 C. S. Jodha 3. Blush 58.5 B. Nikhil 13. Wings Of Glory 51 Dashrath 4. Zaagros 58.5 I. Pasha Singh 5. Jens Secret 58 Mansoor Khan 14. Invincible 50.5 Kavraj Singh 6. Sun Hot 57.5 P. Trevor 15. Magic Star 49 B. Nikhil 7. Double Diamond 56.5 Dashrath Win: Way Out, Invincible Singh 8. Ice Rink 56 Akash Agarwal 4. The R. N. Kanga Gold Trophy 9. Rock The Turf 55.5 V. 1600 Metres. 3.00 P.M. Chandrakant 1. Hachiko 59 A. Sandesh 10. Snow King 55.5 Sandeep Jadhav 2. Storm Tracker 56 P. Trevor

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3. Clinton 53 Imran Chisty 4. Deja Vu 53 Dashrath Singh 5. Supreme Star 53 C. D. Hayes 6. Zoraavar 50 P. S. Chouhan Win: Supreme Star, Storm Tracker

8. Strawberry Crush 56 P. Trevor 9. Full Moon 54.5 Neeraj Rawal 10. Iridescence 54.5 B. Sreekanth 11. Ladybird 54.5 R. Hughes 12. Laurita 54.5 P. S. Chouhan 13. Melinda 54.5 C. S. Jodha 14. On The Quest 54.5 Fr'co F Dasilva 15. Shivaliks Glory 54.5 A. Sandesh Win: Quasar, Lady Bird

5. The Antiquity Blue Fusion Of The Finest Cup 1600 Metres. 3.40 P.M. 1. Mighty King 59 B. Nikhil 2. Nush 58.5 Imran Chisty 3. Haunting Moments 57.5 B. Sreekanth 4. Zidaan 57.5 Prabhu Naidu 5. Sheer Class 54.5 P. Trevor 6. Glorious Reward 53.5 P. S. Chouhan 7. Elite Model 52.5 A. Sandesh 8. Su O Moto 51.5 C. S. Jodha 9. Cyclops 51 Kavraj Singh 10. Presidential 49.5 R. Woodworth 11. Star Of Babylon 49 Dashrath Singh

8. The Mcdowell Signature Indian Derby 2400 Metres. 5.30 P.M. 1. Ace Bucephalus 57 Suraj Narredu 2. Agostini 57 Beuzelin Louis 3. Alaindair 57 Y. S. Srinath 4. Archie 57 Imran Chisty 5. Falcon 57 R. Woodworth 6. Jeremiah 57 S. Zervan 7. Murioi 57 C. D. Hayes 8. Southern Emperor 57 B. Sreekanth 9. Wentworth 57 N. S. Parmar 10. Amazing Grace 55.5 P. Trevor 11. Circle Of Life 55.5 R. Hughes 12. Highraz 55.5 S. John 13. Isn't She Special 55.5 David Allan 14. Keukenhof 55.5 C. S. Jodha 15. Starry Eyes 55.5 A. Sandesh Win: Jeremiah, Murioi

MUMBAI RACES SUNDAY-DERBY DAY Win: Elite Model, Nush

6. The Mcdowell's No.1 Platinum Trophy 2400 Metres. 4.10 P.M. 1. Reynolds 62 R. Hughes 2. Zlato 59.5 J. Fortune 3. Pumba 58.5 Neeraj Rawal 4. Lucky Thirteen 57.5 C. S. Jodha 5. Ricochet 57.5 Kavraj Singh 6. Hot Pepper 57 S. Mosin 7. Danse Debonaire 55.5 Shrikant Kamble 8. Aviator 54 P. Trevor 9. Ace Fantasy 53 David Allan 10. Romantic Beauty 53 A. Sandesh 11. Wish Upon A Star 53 S. G. Prasad 12. Cliffs Of Moore 52.5 P. S. Chouhan 13. Wind And Rain 51.5 Hanumant Singh Win: Zlato, Wish Upon A Star 7. The B. K. Rattonsey Memorial Maiden Multi-Million 1200 Metres.

4.50 P.M.

Jeremiah, owned by Haresh Mehta, Manav Mehta and R.R. Jhunjunwalla. Trained by Pesi Shroff.

1. Arizona Sun 56 J. Fortune 2. Hunting Pleasure 56 Mansoor Khan 3. Last Chance 56 Y. S. Srinath 4. Merchantofvenice 56 Imran Chisty 5. Purple Moonlight 56 Shrikant Kamble 6. Quasar 56 R. Woodworth 7. Scarlet Emperor 56 David Allan

Chance: El Wonder, Picasso, Analeah

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his Saturday it is a special day. It is McDowell Signature weekend with many sponsored races. There are ten races and the first starts at 1 p.m.

CARD AND SELECTIONS

1. The Mcdowell Signature Premier Trophy - Division II 1400 Metres. 1.00 P.M. 1. Foinaven 59 S. Sunil 2. Earth Tamer 58 B. Nikhil 3. Alectar 57.5 Prabhu Naidu 4. Glorious Opinion 57.5 Neeraj Rawal 5. Medanito 57.5 Dashrath Singh 6. Giant Luck 57 Kavraj Singh 7. Guns N Roses 57 V. Chandrakant 8. Pamushana 57 S. Zervan 9. Tempest 57 Shrikant Kamble 10. Shaughnessy 56 C. S. Jodha 11. Stormyday 56 Sandeep Jadhav 12. Ancient World 55 D. A. Naik 13. Osric 54.5 P. Trevor Win: Pamushana, Tempest

2. The United Spirits Challenge - Division II 1200 Metres. 1.30 P.M. 1. Zoom Zoom 59 A. Sandesh 2. Ace Angelfire 58 Neeraj Rawal 3. Dreamliner 58 J. Pradeep 4. Analeah 57 S. Zervan 5. Ice Zone 57 Prabhu Naidu 6. Sheer Romance 56 Dashrath Singh 7. Awesome Smile 54.5 V. Chandrakant 8. Gloria 54.5 B. Nikhil

9. Alecto 54 S. Mosin 10. Brynhill 54 N. S. Parmar 11. Mountain Song 54 Sandeep Jadhav Win: Analeah, Alecto 3. The Mcdowell Signature Premier Trophy - Division I 1400 Metres. 2.00 P.M. 1. Cactus Cash 62 Kavraj Singh 2. Stiletto 60.5 B. Nikhil 3. Divine Solitaire 59.5 P. Trevor 4. Mountain Ruler 59 S. P. Ranjane 5. Menage A Trois 58.5 Neeraj Rawal

9. Pepe Senior 54 I. Pasha 10. Home Factor 53.5 R. Shelar 11. Winds Of Change 53.5 Akash Agarwal 12. Flying Kiss 53 V. Chandrakant 13. Rocking 52.5 Hanumant Singh 14. Wind And Stars 52.5 S. P. Ranjane 15. Be Cool 52 S. G. Prasad 16. Song Of Africa 51.5 Kavraj Singh 17. Plan B 50.5 Imran Chisty Win: El Wonder, Pepe Senior 5. The Bouvet - Ladubay Championship Division I 1000 Metres. 3.00 P.M.

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6. Patriotic 58 B. Sreekanth 7. Matrioshka 57 C. S. Jodha 8. Chicharito 56 S. Sunil 9. Star Gazing 56 Shrikant Kamble 10. Dancing Splendour 55.5 Zameer Sayyed 11. Samba Warrior 55.5 Dashrath Singh 12. Nirbhaya 55 S. G. Prasad 13. Burn 54 Hanumant Singh 14. Supertramp 54 Y. S. Srinath Win: Menage A Trois, Samba Warrior

4. The Bouvet - Ladubay Championship Division II 1000 Metres. 2.30 P.M. 1. Snow Angel 60 Vikram Walkar 2. Windsor Queen 59 C. S. Jodha 3. Zoe 56.5 Shrikant Kamble 4. Three Roses 54.5 B. Nikhil 5. Waves Of Magic 54.5 S. Sunil 6. Bethlehem 54 Sandeep Jadhav 7. El Wonder 54 S. S. Baria 8. Negredo 54 Akshay

1. Tachyon 62 Shrikant Kamble 2. Albuurz 60.5 Kavraj Singh 3. Crowned Princess 60.5 J. Chinoy 4. San Rafael 60.5 C. S. Jodha 5. Mountain Wind 58.5 Akash Agarwal 6. Mumbai King 58.5 Y. S. Srinath 7. Wind Craft 58 Prabhu Naidu 8. Samay Balwan 57.5 B. Nikhil 9. Nicanora 57 S. G. Prasad 10. Blind Date 56 Dashrath Singh 11. Pretty In Patpong 56 Hanumant Singh 12. Palace Girl 55.5 Pasha 13. Wind Of The North 55.5 Sandeep Jadhav 14. Classic Ruler 55 H. G. Rathod 15. Emerald Fortune 55 Akshay 16. Nicanor 54.5 Imran Chisty 17. Walking Tall 52 S. Mosin Win: Alburz, Blind Date 6. The Antiquity Rare Cup 1600 Metres.

3.45 P.M.

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1. Jen's Glory 60 Shrikant Kamble 2. Splendid Light 60 Fr'co F Dasilva 3. Maqsad 59.5 A. Sandesh 4. Mesmeric 59.5 S. Mosin 5. Senor Hill 59.5 Zameer Sayyed 6. The Other Song 59.5 Y. S. Srinath 7. Zoltan 59.5 Dashrath Singh 8. Amaya 58 S. S. Baria 9. Penny Lane 58 R. Woodworth 10. Shockalot 58 C. S. Jodha 11. Adams Prince 57.5 Kavraj Singh 12. Mega Star 57.5 V. Chandrakant 13. Star Prince 57.5 S. P. Ranjane 14. Gold Necklace 57 B. Nikhil 15. Taj E Shahi 57 Akshay 16. Armel 54.5 Hanumant Singh 17. Dhishkyaon 54 S. Sunil Win: Splendid Light, Adam’s Prince

7. The Mcdowell's No.1 Trophy 1000 Metres. 4.15 P.M. 1. Chase The Ace 55 Satish Nayak 2. Divine Spark (Paci) 55 H. G. Rathod 3. Double O Seven 55 Neeraj Rawal 4. Great Expectation 55 C. D. Hayes 5. Indus Prince (Blk) 55 I. Pasha 6. Artiste 53.5 Dashrath Singh 7. Ashrafie (Ts) 53.5 Shrikant Kamble 8. Golden Lilly 53.5 S. Mosin 9. National Gold 53.5 S. Sunil 10. Shivalik Breeze 53.5 N. S. Parmar 11. Shivalik Skies 53.5 A. Sandesh 12. Something Special 53.5 Kavraj Singh 13. Without Fear 53.5 J. Chinoy 14. Zumi Zumi 53.5 P. Trevor Win: Great Expectation, Shivalik Breeze 8. The Black Dog Trophy 1200 Metres.

5.00 P.M.

9. The Royal Challenge Game For Life Cup - Division I 1200 Metres.

6.15 P.M. 1. Backstreet Bay 60 David Allan 2. Dark William 60 A. Sandesh 3. Neptune's Ocean 60 S. G. Prasad 4. Sparkling Gem 60 V. Chandrakant 5. Star Zone 60 Dashrath Singh 6. Rajasthan Glory 59.5 F. Irani 7. Suntan Beauty 59.5 Shrikant Kamble 8. To The Moon 59.5 B. Nikhil 9. Good Memory 58.5 S. Mosin 10. Wild Waves 58.5 P. Trevor 11. Mahima 57.5 R. Shelar 12. Annabeth 57 C. S. Jodha 13. Bella Figura 57 Neeraj Rawal 14. Mountain Treasure 57 Akash Agarwal 15. Mt Tianmen 56 Kavraj Singh Win: Star Zone, To The Moon 1. Yuville 60.5 Sandeep Jadhav 2. Sharaarat 58.5 Neeraj Rawal 3. Weizhou 58 J. Fortune 4. Anahi 57.5 S. Mosin 5. Saints N Sinners 56 B. Nikhil 6. Silver Streak 55 P. Trevor 7. Dancing Prances 54.5 Y. S. Srinath 8. Picasso 53.5 Imran Chisty 9. Monza 53 Kavraj Singh 10. Rio 52.5 R. Woodworth 11. Myla Rose 50.5 C. S. Jodha 12. Neath 50 Dashrath Singh 13. Amelia 49.5 S. Zervan Win: Picasso, Neath

9. The Kunigal Stud Breeders' Produce Stakes 1400 Metres. 5.30 P.M. 1. Be Safe 57 B. Sreekanth 2. Don Corleone 54 Dashrath Singh 3. Vision Of Romance 54 S. Sunil 4. Your Royal Majesty 54 S. Zervan 5. Majestic Opinion 52.5 C. D. Hayes 6. Schiavone 52.5 Beuzelin Louis 7. War Machine 52.5 C. S. Jodha 8. Celtic Prince 50 Shrikant Kamble 9. Top Commander 50 A. Sandesh 10. Koalaa 48.5 Imran Chisty Win: Koalla, Be Safe

10. The United Spirits Challenge Division I 1200 Metres. 6.00 P.M. 1. Fortune Hunter 61.5 Y. S. Srinath 2. Moon Shadow 61.5 S. G. Prasad 3. Ultrasonic 59 J. Fortune 4. Intesar 58.5 S. P. Ranjane 5. You're The Boss 58.5 Shrikant Kamble 6. Celsius 58 C. S. Jodha 7. Rajsamman 58 Kavraj Singh 8. Mauna Kea 57 A. Sandesh 9. Isadoro 56 S. Mosin 10. Ice Affair 55.5 Hanumant Singh 11. Feodor 55 Imran Chisty 12. Relic Hunter 54.5 B. Nikhil Win: Mauna Kea, Ultra Sound

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YUKI BATTLES INJURY TO GIVE INDIA WINNING START IN DAVIS CUP Afternoon Despatch & Courier

SPORTS

Apostolic Carmel, St. Lawrence emerge champions

MUMBAI: Apostolic Carmel, Bandra emerged champions, winning the Swamivivekanada and Sister Nivedita Memorial Trophy for girl’s under-16 in the Bengal Club Sports Academy organised interschool’s football tournament, and played at the MSSA ground.

Joanna Jenson netted the allimportant winning goal for Apostolic Carmel.

Later, St. Lawrence, Kandivali shot down Antonio D’Souza High School (ANZA), Byculla 4-3 via the penalty shootout after the scores were locked goalless at the end of regulation period to clinch the J.C. Maitra and J.C. Battacharjee Memorial (boy’s under-16) Trophy. Vivek Kanani, Harsh Rall, Nehal Shetty and Yash Sawant were on target for the Kandivali lads, while ANZA scored through Shahdab Ansari, Usaid Ansari and Umair Ansari. Kamran Ansari’s try was saved by St. Lawerence make-shift goalkeeper Harsh Rall and captain and goalkeeper Moulasim Khan shot bounced off the horizontal bar.

The Bandra school-girl’s held their nerves and did not panic despite being under pressure from their opponents. They survived several anxious moments before scoring a late winner.

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NDORE: Yuki Bhambri overcame a mid-match foot injury to down Chinese Taipei's number one player Tsung Hua Yang and give India a 1-0 lead in the Asia/Oceania Group I Davis Cup tie.

Yuki was cruising at one stage but a right ankle problem in the third set hampered his progress. However, he battled out pain and his sluggish rival for a 6-2 6-4 6-7 (1) 6-3 win in two hours and 52 minutes.

Now, Somdev will lock horns with Ti Chen in the second singles rubber.

The battle between the two former junior world number one players was turning out to be quite comfortable

for the Indian but Yuki's injury in the ninth game of the third set almost scuttled the home team's chances in the opening rubber of the first round.

It was surprising that Yang could not dictate terms even when Yuki was struggling to serve and his movement was restricted severely. Yang had a fantastic opportunity to push Yuki out of the match but he blew away the chance with his error-prone game.

To his credit, Yuki did not give up and kept fighting and his persistence finally paid. At the start, Yuki started dominating the contest with stupendous control over his shots. He kept

‘Last goodbye to 22 yards’ now on social media NEW DELHI: A documentary charting the euphoria around the final days of legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar in the game will be available on social media platforms, including Youtube from today.

The film brings out people emotions during Tendulkar's last Ranji Trophy encounter in Haryana and the final Test-series against the West Indies in November last year. The documentary, prepared by sports journalist Jasvinder Sidhu, is called "Last Goodbye to 22 yards".

"This film is a tribute to the greatest cricketer the world has ever seen.

This 38-minute film, subtitled in English, is like a documentary evidence of what exactly Sachin means to India," said Sidhu. "It has been an amazing experience making this film. From a three-year-old girl to a 64year-old retired government official, everyone eagerly wanted to be a part of Sachin's journey," he said.

the ball in and targeted the lines for winners.

Yang started to struggle after a disputed call in the fifth game, when he was facing two break points, disturbed his rhythm. Yang thought he had served an ace but the linesman called it out which the umpire did not notice. Yang had no option but to go for a second serve.

He somehow saved the first chance but Yuki smashed a forehand winner to convert the breakpoint for a 3-2 lead.

The Indian consolidated the lead in the next game, which he served out with his first ace of the match.

Yuki set up the points with ease, specially the easy put away volleys and was consistently hitting winners.

Yang was struggling to keep the ball in as unforced errors crept into his game. In no time, Yuki was up 5-2 and he served out the set in just 32 minutes. Yuki was running away with the match as he opened up a huge 52 lead in the second set by breaking Yang twice. But suddenly the Indian started to lose control over his shots.

He failed to serve out the set as a double fault at 15-30 and the following unforced error put him down by two break points. He hit a backhand long, handing Yang his first break of the match.