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Armed with enough evidence, AAP state convenor says BJP president will get exposed in legal battle By Suyash Padate

he Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) state convenor Anjali Damania has said that the party has sufficient evidence against former BJP president Nitin Gadkari and will expose him before the people of the country. Gadkari, on Saturday, slapped a legal notice on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, for making allegations against him and including him in his list of India's most corrupt. In the notice served through his lawyer, Gadkari has asked Kejriwal to withdraw his statements within three days, failing which legal action will be taken against him. Against the backdrop of a possible legal battle, speaking to the ADC, Damania challenged Gadkari to pro-

had told me in a one-on-one meeting that he has business relations with Sharad Pawar and had asked me not to push hard to expose the scam. Now he is sending the notice. Let him do that. The time has come to unmask him”, Damania firmly stated. When asked about who will be the AAP candidate against Gadkari, Damania said, “ The AAP is fielding candidates from all 48 seats across the state. The process for conAnjali Damania ducting the screening of the candidates will begin soon”. ceed with the defamation Kejriwal had named 28 suit against Kejriwal. leaders as corrupt including “I have ample evidence Rahul Gandhi, P. Chinagainst Gadkari that exposes dambaram, Kapil Sibal, Nitin his double standards. I have Gadkari, Sharad Pawar, already stated that he has Suresh Kalmadi and others. business dealings with NCP The AAP has made it clear chief Sharad Pawar and his that the party will field cannephew Ajit Pawar. When he didates against all these was the chief of the BJP, he leaders.

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FAVOURITE FINISHES FOURTH: Outsider Alaindair winning the McDowell Signature Derby in a close finish with Starry Eyes and Circle Of Life, yesterday. Favourite Murioi, which was regarded by everyone as a certain winner, came in only fourth.

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By Khushboo Panjabi

he long wait for the monorail ride for Mumbaikars has finally come to an end as the country’s first monorail was thrown open to the public yesterday. More than 10,000 commuters were found traveling in the monorail, breathing a huge sigh of relief as they journeyed through the 8-9 km distance, away from the crowded local trains and the heavy traffic on the roads. The journeys started from both, Chembur and Wadala stations at 7am up to 3pm with a frequency of 15 minutes and commuters were seen traveling from different areas of the city – Andheri, Nalasopara, Ulhasnagar, Karjat and other areas. The first person to reach the Wadala monorail station, at 2.15 am on Sunday. was Sunil Appakhade (37), a resident of Nalasopara who said: “Mumbai’s long wait for the monorail has finally come to an end. I was unable to sleep the entire night due to the excitement of traveling in the monorail and I hope that the Andheri-linked metro railway also starts soon so that Mumbaikars can escape the heavy traffic woes they have to face every day.” Another commuter from Chembur, Swastik Park, S. Ranglajalam (63) said,

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Thousands of Mumbaikars have a grand experience on the country's first monorail

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on the monorail. Rutuja Ahire (15), a resident of Ulhasnagar was seen enjoying the ride and clicking pictures. Speaking to the ADC she said: “I am studying in SSC but more than studies and examinations I was waiting for the monorail to start so that I can the

enjoy the jolly ride and now I am satisfied. Now I can get back to my studies.” Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority's (MMRDA) monorail runs with a frequency of 15 minutes and will halt at seven stations –Wadala, Bhakti Park,

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“I was eagerly waiting for the monorail to start ; when I go for my early morning walk daily I used to notice the work going on and always wanted to experience the first monorail ride.” Along with senior citizens, youth were also seen enjoying the first ride

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Mumbaikars thronged to the Fort area on Sunday where the Kala Ghoda festival is being held. The festival is on until February 9.

Mysore Colony, BPCL, Fertiliser Township, VaNP-RC Marg Junction and Chembur – running at speeds between 31 and 80 kmph. It will be a boon to the city as it will help to de-congest the roads. khushboo.panjabi@afternoondc.in

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He is one man who has been on the forefront, bombing judges with numerous Public Interest Litigations (PILs) in courts across the country. This Mumbai-based activist is not a new face or name to judges, lawyers and even litigants at the Bombay High Court as he has been fighting for judicial reforms for decades. Philip Varghese spoke to master litigant Bhagvanji Raiyani, who has the highest record of filing over 104 PILs since 1996, winning 50 of them. Staggering as it is, his work's magnitude becomes clear when you consider that a PIL takes about four years to receive a judgment and Raiyani often personally argues his case.

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aiyani has now become a crusader among the legal eagles, and has started a new nationwide campaign 'Save Judiciary – Save Nation' for judicial reforms. He met the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and the Chief Minister of Maharashtra last week with a memorandum prepared by an expert panel appointed to go through 243 Law Commissions within a period of six months, with the report to be forwarded to the Union government, Chief Justice of India and the President. Rayani has founded organisations like the Janhit Manch and the Forum for Fairness in Education, and has fought and filed numerous PILs on issues related to jam-packed trains, encroachments and illegal hoardings and banners put up by politicians. A civil engineer and architect by profession, his office at Kuber Bhavan in Vile Parle, however, represents a courtroom with piles of litigation papers – of the cases won by him and of those still pending in the courts. “Yes, it is true no one believes that I am civil engineer. Everyone thinks I am a lawyer after looking at my office and seeing my case files. However, I am just a simple man trying to protest against any injustice in society,” says Raiyani.

What made Raiyani turn into a serial litigant? “I never ever thought I would venture into the legal arena. During my science years, the question papers were leaked. It just didn't seem right for poor kids like me who had put in a lot of hard work that the papers were leaked. I kept quiet at that time. However, when the 1996 SSCE exam papers were leaked, it was to much for me and I filed a PIL demanding a re-examination. And I won the PIL. Thus started my journey into the field of litigation,” says Raiyani, who quit his own construction firm ‘La BuilDe’ Group to embrace judicial activism. Interestingly, most of the PILs filed by him are associated with reforming the education and construction sectors, both of which he has a stake in. “I was an architect and a

Raiyani’s talked-about legal victories include the demolition of 1,300 illegal shrines, restoration of the heritage Borivli and Mandapeshwar caves, the formation of Parents Teachers Association (PTA) mandatory in schools, moving tabelas out of city limits, the establishment of a sessions court in Dindoshi, and getting the state government to increase the number of lifeguards on our beaches.

builder myself. Still, I won a litigation stalling the transfer of development rights (TDR) in the suburbs of the city, which was placing a huge burden on inadequate infrastructure. While the stay was vacated in two years, something good did emerge, as it was in this petition that the High Court set the cut-off date for legal slums as January 1, 1995. I lost the TDR case, though it is still pending before the SC. But in losing, I also won. Setting the slum cutoff date was a major decision for the city,” Raiyani said. What made this legal crusader take a step against illegal shrines in the city? “In 1993, if you recall, there were maha aartis all over Mumbai in roadside temples. The Muslims reciprocated by saying more aazans and praying on the roadside. This created too much disturbance for the common man and caused tension in the city. In the year 2000, I read an article in a newspaper that there were 827 illegal shrines in Mumbai. Further, in 2002, I read in a newspaper that an illegal temple was demolished in Khar. I thought when a temple could be demolished in Khar, why cannot this happen to all illegal shrines in Mumbai? So, I filed a petition appealing to demolish all illegal shrines in Mumbai,” Raiyani said. Through his NGO, Janhit Manch, he has filed more than 50 PILs, including the one against giving subsidies to Mansarovar and Haj pilgrims at taxpayers' expense. He also got cracking against local astrologers and faith healers who make false claims. This encouraged us to ask him, doesn’t he fear god? And pat came the reply, laughing, “Do you know, I was a semi-atheist earlier, but now I am a complete atheist. But let me make this clear, I don't object to people believing in God. I respect people's sentiments towards God. I have no problem with their belief. However, faith should not disturb others.” Raiyani, who wound up his construction business in 2007, is now focused on judicial reforms in the country and has roped in several known retired judges, lawyers and other people from the legal fraternity to seek change in the judicial processes. “It is true that I quit my business to concentrate on activism. Do you know that according to 2010 figures, there are over 3.1 crore cases pending in India? That’s why I have filed a PIL in the Supreme Court to increase the number of judges in the country five-fold. In fact, I met Rahul Gandhi on January 16, 2009 and requested that the Congress manifesto please include the setting up of a Judicial Reforms Commission. As Veerappa Moily was the party’s Manifesto Committee Chairman, Rahul Gandhi suggested the matter be discussed with Moily. As a result, the manifesto mentioned that the party would pursue the setting up of Judicial Reforms Commission. My protest at the Azad Maidan last week was a success and soon we plan to take this movement pan-India,” says a confident Raiyani. philip.varghese@afternoondc.in

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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 St. Jude and Jesus 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. Mary Collins. C-33304

CHANGE OF NAME

I have changed my name from Ramniklal Khimji Shah to Ramnik Khimji Shah as per Affidavit dated 31-1-2014. C-33305 I have changed my name from Deependra to Deependra Kushalchand Jain as per Affidavit dated 01-02-2014. C-33306 I have changed my name from Anal Ashok Shah to Aanal Deependra Jain as per Affidavit dated 01-02-2014. C-33307 I have changed my name from Sajida Shree Ansar Kazi, to ‘Mrs. Shaziya Yakub Khan’ as per Affidavit Dated: 30/01/2014. C-33308 I have changed my name from Najmussaba Sadre Alam, to ‘Najmussaba Mohd Kafaitullah Shaikh’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (X-67484) Dated: 16/01/2014. C-33309 I, Sarita Ganesh Moraye have changed my Son’s name from Soham Ganesh Morye, to ‘Soham Ganesh Moraye’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-61060) Dated: 23/01/2014. C-33310 I have changed my name from Abdul Latif Mohd Isahak, to ‘Abdul Latif Mohd Isahak Malik’ as per Affidavit Dated: 31/01/2014. C-33311 I have changed my name from Mohamed Azruddin, to ‘Azharuddin Abdul Latif Malik’ as per Affidavit Dated: 31/01/2014. C-33312

I have changed my name from Pravinkumar Dulabhdas Mehta, to ‘Pravinchandra Dulabhdas Mehta’ as per Affidavit Dated: 31/01/2014. C-33315 I have changed my name from Gauri Mukundrai Kamdar to Shruti Mukundrai Kamdar as per Affidavit. C-33316 I have changed my name from Jagruti Udaykumar Thakkar to Mamta Hiten Thakkar as per Affidavit dated 01.02.2014 C-33317 I have changed my name from Thanwar Rochomal Jaisinghani to Thanwardas Rochomal as per Affidavit. C-33318 I have changed my name from “Pankajkumar Ramchandrarao Bagal” to “Pankaj Ramchandrarao Bagal” as per Affidavit dated 09th January,2014. C-33319 I have changed my name from “Rameshkumar Anandji Dedhia” to “Ramesh Anandji Dedhia” as per Affidavit dated 01st February, 2014. C-33320 I have changed my name from “Kumar Ramesh Kumar Anandji Dedhia” to “Ramesh Anandji Dedhia” as per Affidavit dated 01st February, 2014. C-33321 I have changed my name from “Roopa Kantiswarup Agrawal” to “Rupa Ramesh Dedhia” as per Affidavit dated 01st February, 2014. C-33322 I have changed my name from “Ritu Ramesh Dedhia” to “Rupa Ramesh Dedhia” as per Affidavit dated 01st February, 2014. C-33323 I have changed my name from “Jasmine Ramzanali Katawalla” to “Jasmine Ramzan Katawala” as per Affidavit dated 01st February, 2014. C-33324 I have changed my name from “Ramzanali Katawala” to “Ramzan Katawala” as per Affidavit dated 01st February, 2014. C-33325

I have changed my name from Khudaja, to ‘Khudaija w/o Abdul Latif Malik’ as per Affidavit Dated: 31/01/2014. C-33313

I have changed my name from “Ramzanali Katawalla” to “Ramzan Katawala” as per Affidavit dated 01st February, 2014. C-33326

I have changed my name from Zaibunnisa Abdul Gani, to ‘Topiwala Zaibunnisa Abdul Gani’ as per Affidavit Dated: 31/01/2014. C-33314

I have changed my name from “Dilshad Ramzanali Katawalla” to “Dilshad Ramzan Katawala” as per Affidavit dated 01st February, 2014. C-33327

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I “Mrs. Prarthana Siby” changed name of minor son “Swaagat Siby” to “Swagat Siby” as per Affidavit dated 01st February, 2014. C-33328 I have changed my name from Virensavio Fernandes to Viren Neville Fernandes, as per the Affidavit. C-33329 I have changed my name from Bharti Ashok Kulkarni to Bharati Ashok Kulkarni, as per the Affidavit. C-33330 I have changed my name from Vishal also known as Michael Anthony Crasto to Michael Anthony Crasto, as per the Affidavit. C-33331 I have changed my name from Mohsin Hussain Qureshi to Mohsin Anwar Husain Qureshi as per Affidavit. C-33332 I have changed my name from Vyankateshwar Satya Kotkochwala to Venkateshwarlu Sattaiah Katkojwala as per Affidavit. C-33333 I have changed my name from Kaniz Anwar Husain Qureshi to Anis Fatima Anwar Husain Qureshi as per Affidavit. C-33334

I have changed my name from Sayed Moin Rizvi to Moin Hasan Rizvi as per Affidavit C-33342 I have changed my name from Syed Saif Rizvi to Sayed Saif Rizvi as per Affidavit C-33343 I have changed my name from Parmanand Keshari Prasad Dwivedi to Parmanand Keshari Prasad Dubey as per Affidavit C-33344 I have changed my name from Keshari Prasad Dwivedi to Keshari Prasad Dubey as per Affidavit C-33345 I have changed my name from Savitridevi Dwivedi to Savitridevi Dubey as per Affidavit C-33346 I have changed my name from Subhash Baug to Subhas Baug as per Affidavit C-33347 I have changed my name from Rajpal Parag Kannaujia to Rajpal Parag Kanojia as per Affidavit C-33348 I have changed my name from Shoba Rajpal Kannaujia to Shoba Rajpal Kanojia as per Affidavit C-33349

I have changed my name from Samiya Jan Moahmed Balik to Shamiya Mohd. Husain Belief as per deed poll Affidavit. C-33335

I have changed my name from Praneet Suryakant Mithbavkar to Pranit Suryakant Mitbavkar as per Affidavit C-33350

I have changed my name from Shainaz Salim Sarang to Shehnaz Salim Sarang as per deed poll Affidavit. C-33336

I have changed my name from Sunitakumari Hanumanprasad Dhanuka to Sunita Vinayak Karande as per Affidavit C-33351

I have changed my name from Dariyaben / Dariyadevi / Dariyakumari Bokadia to Dariya Ramesh Jain as per Affidavit. C-33337 I, Anubrata Devabrata Das, born on 22/05/1975 residing at Ranjani A-3, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai - 400094, and working as Scientific Officer in B.A.R.C, have changed my name as Anubrata Das for all purpose, vide Deed Sr. No - 29137 dt 30/01/2014. before Notary M. T. Thacker. This change of name is also notified as per Maharashtra Gazette No (U-52278). C-33338 I have changed my name from Leelabai Sankalchand Jain to Leela Kirtikumar Jain as per Affidavit C-33339 I have changed my name from Meenaxi Ashok Hotwani to Richa Kanval Dagia as per Affidavit C-33340 I have changed my name from Santa Prabhakar Nair to Anandavally Prabhakar Nair as per Affidavit C-33341

I have changed my name from Shabbir Mohammad Jabbar to Shabbir Mohammad Jabbar Shah as per Affidavit C-33352 I have changed name from Raju Radhakishan to Raju Radhakishan Jadhav as per Affidavit C-33353 I have changed my name from Kalpeshkumar Amrutlal Rajpara to Kalpesh Amrutlal Rajpara as per Affidavit C-33354 I have changed my name from Mohammed Ziyaan Khalid Siddique to Mohammed Zeeshaan Khalid Siddique as per Affidavit C-33355 I have changed my name from Noorsubha Begum Sharafat Ali to Noorsubha Sharafat Ali Sayed as per Affidavit C-33356 I have changed my name from Faizan Zahir Ahmed to Mohammed Faizan Zaheer Ahmed Parve as per Affidavit dated 01/02/2014 C-33357

I have changed my name from Zahir Ahmed Abu Ahmed to Zaheer Ahmed Aboo Mohammed Parve as per Affidavit dated 01/02/2014 C-33358 I have changed my name from Shivananda Vasantha Shetty to Shivanand Vasantha Shetty as per Affidavit dated 01/02/2014 C-33359 I have changed my name from Mrs. Madina Khatoon Mohd Afzal to Mrs. Madina Khatoon Afzal Ansari as per Affidavit C-33360 I have changed my name from Ashique Ali Hashim Ali Shaikh to Ashique Ali Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-33361

I have changed my name from Hashim Ali Shaikh to Mohd Hasim Ali Shaikh as per Affidavit C-33362 I have changed my name from Dalip Singh Sucha Singh to Dalip Singh Matharoo as per Affidavit C-33363 I have changed my name from Nabi Sarwar Mehdi Hasan to Nabi Sarwar Mehdi Hasan Shaikh as per Affidavit C-33364 I have changed my name from Mohd Ishtiyaque Abdul Qadir to Ishtiyaq Khan as per Affidavit C-33365 I have changed my name from Hitesh Shambhuprasad Chotia to Hitesh Sharma as per Affidavit C-33366 I have changed my name from Mridula Hitesh Chotia to Mrudula Sharma as per Affidavit C-33367 I have changed my name from Faridabanu Mohd Shafiq to Faridabanu Mohammed Shafi Radiowala as per Affidavit. C-33368 I have changed my name from Mohd Shafiq to Mohammed Shafi Yunus Radiowala as per Affidavit. C-33369 I have changed my name from Gazalabanu Mohd Shafiq to Gazala Mohammed Shafi Radiowala as per Affidavit. C-33370 I have changed my name from Akbar Ahmed Jafar Ahmed to Mohammed Akbar Jaffar Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-33371 I have changed my name from Bilkish Banu/ Ben Noor Mohamad Alijibhai Momin to Bilkish Salim Sunesara as per Affidavit. C-33372 I have changed my name from Munni Devi Gupta to Mani Brijbihari Lal as per Affidavit. C-33373

I have changed my name from Vishvakarma Sandeep Gobing to Sandeep Gobind Singh as per Affidavit. C-33374 I have changed my name from Jakirashekh to Zakir Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-33375 I have changed my name from Sulabai Ravat to Savita Shivaji Shinde as per Affidavit. C-33376 I have changed my name from Saidabee D/o Abdulmunaf Araballi, Sayedabhi Mohammad Husain Shaikh, Sayeedabegum W/o Mohd Husain Ali Ahmed to Saeedabi W/o Mohammad Hussain Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-33377 I have changed my name from Ruksar Mohd Husain Ali Ahmed, Rukhsar Md Hussain to Rukhsar Mohammad Hussain Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-33378 I have changed my name from Saddam Hussain Ahmed Hussain, Saddam Ahmed Hussain to Saddam Hussain Ahmed Hussain Ansari as per Affidavit. C-33379 I have changed my name from Mansuri Mahmad Husen to Mansuri Mohammad Husen as per Affidavit. C-33380 I have changed my name from Deshmukh Maimuna Husain Khan to Deshmukh Maimoona Husain Khan as per Affidavit. C-33381 I have changed my name from Deshmukh Bilqees Amanulla Khan to Deshmukh Bilqis Amanulla Khan as per Affidavit. C-33382 I have changed my name from Mohammad Javed Ansari to Javed Ahmad Nizamuddin Ansari as per Affidavit. C-33383 I have changed my name from Mohd Sageer Ansari to Sageer Ansari as per Affidavit. C-33384 I have changed my name from Brijmohan Sikchi to Kedar Sikchi as per Affidavit. C-33385 I have changed my name from Shaikh Mohammad Wasim Mohammad Yunus to Waseem Mohammad Yunus Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-33386 I have changed my name from Khan Mausuf Mohammad Imran to Mushif Imran Khan as per Affidavit. C-33387 I have changed my name from Sunil Kumar to Sunil Kumar Pillai as per Affidavit. C-33388

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Poll Bug Bites T

he poll bug or should we call it the contagious poll virus that has caught on like wild fire, with technocrats, bureaucrats and others jumping on to the election bandwagon. Post the Delhi assembly elections, everybody seems to have gauged which way the political wind is blowing. The 2014 Lok Sabha elections would be one which will guarantee all and sundry a share of the limelight, never mind whether they come up trumps or not. Success will only depend upon how accurate is your choice about which side of the fence you want to be. The poll bug seems to have bitten the technocrats and bureaucrats more than anybody else. The latest casualty being Mumbai Police Commissioner Dr Satyapal Singh who has literally bitten the poll bullet as it were. But the measure of his political ambitions was quite evident as during his tenure in the Indian Police Service (IPS) he was busy sermonising college students and airing rather strong views on security mat-

ters at seminars. It is rather surprising to find that the ruling Congress-NCP led Democratic Front alliance did not take due notice of Singh's views while he served the state right under their noses.

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Singh is not the first to bite the poll bullet and neither is he likely to be the last. Some have tasted electoral success while some have not. Former IAS officer T Chandrashekhar quit the service and tried his luck, unsuccessfully though, from Andhra Pradesh. While former bureaucrat Shriniwas Patil was more successful as an MP. The only one who did not bite the poll bullet was former DGP Arvind Inamdar who, despite being frequently transferred, quit the service in 1999. The latest to successfully ride the wave has been ex-IRS officer, AAP founder and now Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.

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n all probability the 2014 Lok Sabha election dates are likely to be declared either on March 3 or March 4; the Election Commission of India (ECI) has called for an all party meeting on February 4 to deliberate on the preparations. The General Elections, in all probability, will be held in phases in April to May. By June first week the new Lok Sabha will have to be constituted. According to the final publication of the electoral rolls as on January 31, the total voter population of Maharashtra stands at 7.89 crore, that of all of Mumbai 96.20 lakh and Thane 70.61 lakh. Significantly, 18.17 lakh are First Time Voters, New Registrations (Additions) are 40.48 lakh. The top five assembly constituencies to have recorded the highest voter population include: Chinchwad 4.33 lakh, Khadakwasla 3.74 lakh, Kalyan West 3.63 lakh, Airoli 3.57 lakh and Gangakhed 3.48 lakh. The five assem-

By Suresh Golani

leuths of the Navghar Police are on the lookout for a conwoman who fled after robbing a jewellery showroom of gold ornaments worth more than Rs.40 lakh after feeding the owners with 'prasad' laced with sedatives. According to the police the crime was reported from Mangal Murti Jewellers, located in the Golden Nest area of Bhayandar (east). The accused woman (name withheld) who was known to the shop owner, Lokesh Joshi, under the pretext of bringing prosperity

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bly constituencies to have recorded the lowest voter population include: Wadala 1.82 lakh, Kudal 1.97 lakh, Aheri (ST) – 2.07 lakh, Byculla 2.13 lakh and Mumbadevi 2.25 lakh respectively. Out of the total 261 voters registered in the Others category (Transgenders, LGBT): Maximum number of 50 have been registered in Ghatkopar West assembly constituency, followed by Nalasopara 44, Ichalkaranji 34, Bhandup West 19, Mahim 18, Airoli 16, Ahmednagar City 11, Sangli 10, Byculla 7, Mumbadevi 8 among other assembly constituencies. The total voter population in Mumbai Suburban district now stands at 73.11 lakhs, which includes:40.45 lakh male, 32.66 lakh female and 75 Others voters. The total voter population in Mumbai City district stands at 23.09 lakh, which includes – 12.84 lakh male, 10.24 lakh female and 33 Others voters. The total voter population in Thane district now stands at 70.61 lakhs, which includes –

38.51 lakhs male, 32.09 lakh female and 67 Others voters. Out of the total 7.89 crore voter population in the state:A total of 18.17 lakh voters are First Time Voters, which includes 10.58 lakh male and 7.59 lakh female voters. Out of the total 13.49 lakh names deleted from the voters list, 7.22 lakh are male and 6.26 lakh female voters. While out of the total 40.48 lakh New Registration (Additions) to the voter list, it includes – 20.91 lakh male, 19.57 lakh female and 227 Others voters. In respect of First Time Voters, Deletions and New Registration (Additions):In Mumbai Suburban district the First time voters are 1.09 lakh, Deletions 49,685 and 3.25 lakh New Registrations. In Mumbai City district the First time voters are 35,753, Deletions 1.75 lakh and 1.04 lakh New Registrations. Overall in the state there are – 18.17 lakh First time voters, while 13.49 lakh names have been Deleted as against this 40.48 lakh New Registrations have been made in the voters list.

Drugged-n-robbed offered to perform a ritual at his shop. Following Joshi’s nod, the woman reached the shop at about 11 am on Sunday and after carrying out some rituals, offered sweetmeat and a liquid substance laced with sedatives claiming it to be 'holy prasad'. After consuming the eatables and drinks, Joshi and his employee, Vikram Singh, fell uncon-

scious, following which the woman escaped with all the gold ornaments and data storage set of the CCTV cameras installed in the shop. Joshi and Singh were rushed to the nearby Jugura Hospital. Even as the exact value of the stolen booty is yet to be ascertained, the woman has reportedly decamped with ornaments worth more than Rs 45 lakh, police said. Further investigations are on.

Infrastructure is yet to become a popular poll agenda, though political parties want it or try to exploit it to their electoral advantage. The ruling alliances bank upon it hoping that their big ticket infrastructure projects will win it for them on poll day. But that factor is yet to catch the imagination of the voter, who is more concerned with mundane matters like price rise, taxes and other essentials that concern their daily lives. While there are some who, in their bid to whip up popular sentiments on issues like Toll tax, have started going about smashing or setting the Toll plazas on fire across the state. Little does anyone want to realise that, ultimately, by destroying public property they in the end are not only harming the state, but also the very people whose tax money goes into building this infrastructure. But who cares when it is election time every other

05 politician seems to think that he has got his finger on pulse of the voter? That is why you have politicians barking up the wrong tree when it comes to demanding cut in power tariff rates. Whether everyone seems to be missing the point, or it is deliberate hoodwinking, is not known. Because the power to reduce or hike the tariff rates lies with the tariff regulatory and not the government. The government can merely subsidise and pay it to the power distribution utilities, but that too it cannot do it indefinitely as the subsidies begin to bite the state's fiscal health. Because ultimately, the government generates revenue to pay for the subsidies by taxes it levies on the public. In the end the public pays for the follies of their political masters.

06 CHANGE OF NAME I have changed my name from Sakur Shaikh to Sukur Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-33389 I have changed my name from Mohamed Mohaboo Khan to Mohammed Mehboob Khan as per Affidavit. C-33390 I have changed my name from Lata Rani Madanlal Alag to Snehlata Kamalraj Dev as per Affidavit. C-33391 I have changed my name from Jainub Bi Mohamed Ishaq Gangrekar to Zainab Yaseen Jalgaonkar as per Affidavit.

CLASSIFIEDS I have changed my name from Shaheda Mohamed Azim to Shaida Mohammed as per Affidavit. C-33405 I have changed my name from Kamal Kadar Shaikh to Mustafa-Kamaal Kadar Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-33406 I have changed my name from Sumitra Kanjibhai Gala to Smita Haresh Shah as per Affidavit. C-33407 I have changed my name from Nareshkumar Shamji Shah to Naresh Shamji Shah as per Affidavit. C-33408

C-33392 I have changed my name from Khadijabi Ibrahim Dhansay to Khadija Kasim Dhansay as per Affidavit. C-33393 I have changed my name from Natal Wilson Colaco to Natalia Wilson Colaco as per Affidavit. C-33394 I have changed my name from Imtiaz Ahmed Mukhtiar Ahmed Khan to Imtiyaz Mukhtar Khan as per Affidavit.

I have changed my name from Shah Dilip Purshottam to Dungarani Dilip Purshottam as per Affidavit. C-33409 I have changed my name from Ashokkumar Khyalilal Samota to Ashok Khyalilal Samota as per Affidavit. C-33410 I have changed my name from Shoukat Kadar Thakur to Shaukat Kadar Thakur as per Affidavit. C-33411

C-33395 I have changed my name from Veronica Precilla Leo Pais to Precilla Leo Pais as per Affidavit. C-33396

I have changed my name from Majidali Hasanmiya Sarguroh to Abdulmajid Hasanmiya Sarguroh as per Affidavit. C-33412

I have changed my name from Lata Yeshwant Hadkar to Suvarna Lata Yeshwant Hadkar as per Affidavit. C-33397 I have changed my name from Mitchelle Angela Miranda to Michelle Milind Shirsekar as per Affidavit. C-33398 I have changed my name from Sharifaben Momin to Sharifa Akbarali Momin as per Affidavit. C-33399 I have changed my name from Ramesh Mallah to Rameshchandra Mallah as per Affidavit. C-33400 I have changed my name from Zaki Anwar Mohammed Shafi to Zaki Anwar Mohammed Shafi Shaikh as per Affidavit.

I have changed my name from Parvej Ahmad Muhammad Idris to Parvej Ahmed Muhammad Idris Khan as per Affidavit. C-33413 I have changed my name from Aiyaz Mohammed Mohammed Aiyaz to Mohammed Aiyaz Dastagir Jawali as per Affidavit dated: 01/02/2014 C-33414 I Pravin Chandra Devshi Nathu Savla have changed my name to Pravin Devshi Savla as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33415 I Heena Dhirajlal Foria have changed my name to Hina Pravin Savla as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33416

C-33401 I have changed my name from Mr. Ateeullah Shahadatali to Mr. Ateeullah Shahadatali Khan as per Affidavit. C-33402 I have changed my name from Mr. Huzefa Hasan Nadkar to Mr. Huzefa Hasanmiya Nadkar as per Affidavit. C-33403 I have changed my name from Mr. Mirza Jamsher Jamil Ahmed to Mr. Jamsir Jamil Ahmed Mirza as per Affidavit. C-33404

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I Jigna Ketan Savla have changed my name to Jignasha Ketan Savla as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33417 I Jianyasah Devji Gada have changed my name to Jignasha Ketan Savla as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33418 I Mr. Rituraj Khimraj Mehta have changed my name to Mr. Ridhraj Khimraj Mehta as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33419

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I Miss. Reenakumari Chhaganlal Jain have changed my name to Mrs. Reena Vijay Mehta as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33420 I Miss. Prema Pandurang Desai have changed my name to Mrs. Anjali Arvind Ghaisas as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33421 I Pempo Chaturbhuj Suthar have changed my name to Prema Chaturbhuj Jangid as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 01/02/14 C-33422 I Chaturbhuj Lunaram Suthar have changed my name to Chaturbhuj Lunaram Jangid as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 01/02/14 C-33423 I Chaturbhuj Lunaram Jangid have changed our minor son’s name from Rawal Chaturbhuj Suthar to Rawal Chaturbhuj Jangid as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 01/02/14 C-33424 I Juliet Anitha John Sequeira have changed my name to Mrs. Juliet Anita Charles Saldanha as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 20/01/14 C-33425 I Rupal Jitubhai Shah Alias Rupal Jitendra Shah have changed my name to Rupal Prakash Shah as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 31/01/14 C-33426 I Ghanshyam Teju Vishwakarma have changed my name to Ghanshyam Teju Lohar as per Maharashtra Government Gazette No X-66688 dated: 17/01/2013 C-33427 I Sheela Ghanshyam Vishwakarma have changed my name to Sheela Ghanshyam Lohar as per Maharashtra Government Gazette No X-66689 dated: 17/01/2013 C-33428 I Shivkumar Ghanshyam Vishwakarma have changed my name to Shivkumar Ghanshyam Lohar as per Maharashtra Government Gazette No X-81326 dated: 22/12/2011 C-33429 I Chirag Bava Mithana have changed my name to Chirag Bavabhai Mitna as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33430

I Zala Mohmad Sajed Gulam Rasul have changed my name to Jala Sajid Gulam Rasul as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33433

The “C” form issued by Esain polymers Pvt. Ltd. To Yash Printers, has been lost in transit through Maruti Courier details of form are as follows: “C” form No. 480523, dated: 11/08/2012 Rs. 20, 19,370 N.A.C. JEN – B – 003. Any person finding the same is requested to return it to Yash Printers G a l a N o . 11 , S o l i t a i r e Building Trupati Industrial Estate Vasai (East) Thane.

I Mohd. Mahiboob Pasha @ Md Mahiboob Shaik have changed my name to Mohammed Mehboob Shaikh as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33435 I Akbarli Saiyed @ Akbar Ali Saiyed have changed my name to Akbar Ali Sayyad as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33436 I Shamimbanu Akbarli Saiyed @ Shamim Akbar Ali Saiyed have changed my name to Shamim Bano Sayyed as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33437 I Chapsi Farida @ Chapsi Parida have changed my name to Chapsi Fariya as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33438 I Jyoti Chapsi Farida @ Jyoti Chapsi Parida have changed my name to Javer Chapsi Fariya as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33439 I Sidarth Chapsi Farida @ Sidarth Chapsi Parida have changed my name to Siddharth Chapsi Fariya as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33440 I Wakash Nizam Ahmed have changed my name to Waqas Nizam Ahmed Farooqui as per Deedpoll Affidavit. C-33441 I Nizam Ahmed have changed my name to Nizam Ahmed Farooqui as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33442 I Fahaimida Nizam Ahmed have changed my name to Fahmida Nizam Ahmed Farooqui as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33443

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I Madhu Bava Mithana have changed my name to Madhuben Bavabhai Mitna as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33431 I Bava Narayan Mithana have changed my name to Bavabhai Narayan Mitna as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33432

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I Ansar Abdulgani Qureshi have changed my name to Ansar Abdulgani Khan as per deedpoll Affidavit. C-33434

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My client Mr. Daniel Augustine, Owner of Flat No. 103, “B” wing, on 1st floor, in Chandresh Swagat CHS Ltd., situated at Shankheshwar Nagar, Achole Road, Nallasopara (E), Dist. Thane, had lost his Original Builder Agreements dated 13/07/1993 executed between M/s. Shankeshwar Enterprises and Mr. Valentine George Johnson is lost by him in Auto on 23/01/2014. So I on behalf of my clients do hereby invite claims/objections /third party claims within 15 days from the publication of this notice, if any person/s having any kind of claim/objection should contact P.S. Shamdasani & Associates, at Shop No. 11, Sagar Complex Bldg. No. 1 CHS, Jesal Park, Bhayandar (E), Dist. Thane., along with copies of such documents, proofs, in support of their claims, demands etc. If no claims is received within 15 days of publication of this Notice then it shall be assumed that the title of the said Flat No. B/103 is clear and marketable and free from all encumbrances accordingly the Certificate will be issued. No claims thereafter shall be entertained. Sd/P.S. Shamdasani & Associates (Advocate High Court) Date : 03/02/2014

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Kalina FSL to submit forensic report on Wednesday in Esther Anuhya case

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FSL checked taxis too

he Kalina Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) has disclosed that it will table its report in the murder case of software engineer Esther Anuhya, on Wednesday. The FSL had created a special team to examine the evidences after taking up the case on a priority basis. The team has reportedly gathered plenty of evidence from the spot where Anuhya’s body was found, and the report, which is expected to be completed on Tuesday, will be formally Murder victim Esther Anuhya.

Sources from the FSL have also stated that after the incident, suspecting that a taxi will have been used in the crime, the police detained several auto and taxi drivers and had sent two taxis for chemical testing. One is a Maruti Omni van, while the other is a Santro. A bloodstain was reportedly found in the Omni.

Arrests most likely of builder’s wife, brother Police zeroing on builder Nitin Mehta’s partners in Borivli building scam where each of the 19 flats was sold off to more than one buyer By Neel Shah

early a week after a builder was arrested for duping seven people by selling off their flats to others buyers, more arrests in the case seem imminent. The builder’s brother, who is a partner in his company, might be arrested this month, as will also the builder’s wife, who was a partner in the company in the past, said investigators from the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai’s crime branch. It may be recalled that last month, the EOW had arrested builder Nitin Mehta for cheating people by falsely selling off 19 flats which had already been sold earlier to the seven complainants. Mehta was the first person to be arrested in the cheating case, which was then confirmed by Addl. CP (EOW) Rajvardhan Sinha. Speaking with the ADC, the latter had said, “More arrests in the case cannot be denied.” According to the police, in 1995, the accused had cheated seven people by giving them allotment letters of 19 flats. In return, Mehta had taken almost 75 per cent to 80 per cent cost of the flat from the victims, said the investigators. However, for more than a decade, the accused did not hand over the flats to the victims, added police. Moreover, the flats which were sold to the victims, were then sold to others for a second time. This means that the accused earned double the amount of

money or more by selling one flat to two or more buyers. In doing this, the accused also violated the Maharashtra Ownership of Flats (MOF) Act, in which the builder or the developer has to give the possession of the flat within the mentioned time given in the allotment letter or the agreement. In 1995, Mehta, builder/developer of Anamika Real Turf Pvt Ltd, started the construction of a building on private land in Borivali (E), said police. Prospective buyers purchased the flats from Mehta but have not got the flats till today, informed police. Considering this, the victims approached the EOW and on July 31, 2013, a case of cheating and criminal breach of trust was lodged against Mehta and the concerned

people who cheated the victims. The total cost of the 19 flats sold to the seven people was approximately Rs.1.50 crore, said police, explaining that the cost of the flats in the late 90s were quite low in comparison with today’s real estate scenario. Considering the current prices of the flats as per the present real estate prices, each flat might be costing more than Rs.1 crore, added the officers. Meanwhile, the accused, at present is in judicial custody and no bail has been granted. The EOW would seek further custody of the accused depending on the evidence they would gather. Mehta was arrested under section 406 (Punishment for criminal breach of trust), 420 (Cheating) and 34 of IPC. neel.shah@afternoondc.in

submitted on Wednesday Talking to the ADC, FSL Director M. Malve said, “Some newspapers have stated that we had submitted the report in which we had reportedly mentioned that the deceased Esther Anuhya was not raped. I want to make it very clear that we have not finished making a report till now. We will submit it on Wednesday to the police. “We have collected quite a bit of evidence from the spot including soil, hair and the liquid which was used to

Kalina Forensic Science Laboratory: Will it have some answers? burn her body, as well as other evidence. However, I cannot reveal more about the case yet. Yes, we have taken it on a priority basis and will submit the report on time with the DNA and other tests,” added Malve. On January 16, Anuhya’s family members had discovered her partially burnt body inside the bushes near a creek in Kanjurmarg, 11 days

after she went missing from the Lokmanya Tilak Railway Terminus. Her body was identified by her father S. Prasad, a retired Professor of Andhra Pradesh University. Anuhya, who hailed from Andhra Pradesh, was employed with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Her family however, has alleged that the Mumbai police has not cooperated with them.

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Chandrabhushan Tiwari Moderator for Hindi, St. Xavier’s High School, Fort HINDI ENTIRE p`Sna 5 icanmaya AaOr caa$ nao BaagatI T/ona maoM JapTmaaraoM sao iksa p`kar maukabalaa ikyaaÆ ]%tr: gaNatM~ idvasa samaaraoh ko Avasar pr pìt vaYa- 26 janavarI kao saahsaI AaOr vaIr baalakaoM kao ]nako saahsa Baro karnaamaaoM ko ilae ‘raYT/Iya vaIrta baalak purskar’ sao sammaainat ikyaa jaata hMO.icanmaya AaOr caa$ Baa[- bahna hOM.10 ApÒlaÊ 2002 kao Apnao maaÐ ko saaqa laaokla T/ona sao khIM jaanaa qaa. vao ijasa iDbbao maoM savaar hueÊ dao badmaaSa BaI ]saI iDbbao maoM caZ, gae. gaaD,I calato hI ek badmaaSa nao saaz saala kI maihlaa yaa~I ka h^nD baOga ]sako haqa sao CIna ilayaa. dUsaro badmaaSa nao caa$ AaOr icanmaya kI maaÐ ka baOga CIna ilayaa. ]sako haqa maoM caakU qaa. gaussao maoM Aakr caa$ nao JaTpT badmaaSa ko haqa maoM baOga CIna ilayaa. [sa pr badmaaSa nao caa$ ko baala pkD,o. ]sao drvaaja,o kI trf Qakola idyaaÊ [tnao maoM pIC,o sao Aakr icanmaya ]sa badmaaSa ko baala KIMcanao lagaa AaOr daÐtaoM sao ]sao kaT ilayaa. badmaaSa ko haqa sao caakU igar gayaa. icanamaya nao ]sao lapkkr ]za ilayaa AaOr baahr fok M idyaa. Aba dUsara badmaaSa icanamaya sao BaID, gayaa. ]sanao icanamaya kao saIT ko naIcao Qakola idyaa ifr BaI Baa[bahna badmaaSaaoM ka saamanaa krto rhoM. ]saI drimayaana badmaaSa ko haqa sao baUZ,I maihlaa ka ba^ga igar gayaa.icanamaya nao ]sao lapkkr ]za ilayaa yah doKkr daonaaoM badmaaSa Gabara gayaa. AaOr Agalaa sToSana Aato hI T/ona sao kUdkr Baaga gayao. [sa p`kar icanmaya AaOr caa$ nao BaagatI hu[- T/ona maoM JapTmaarao sao maukabalaa krko Apnao saahsa ka pircaya idyaa. p` 6 TosaI qaa^masa kaOna hOMÆ ]nako kaya- imasaa[-la pòma kao spYT ikjaIe. ] 6 Aajakla maihlaaeÐ p`%yaok xao~ maoM ApnaI pìtBaa idKa rhI hOM. hr xao~ maoM ]naka yaaogadana [tnaa mahana hO ik kao[BaI vyai@t ]nakI p`SaMsaa ike ibanaa nahIM rh sakta. [nhIM maoM ek hOM sau EaI TosaI qaa^masa ijanhaoMnao imasaa[-la jagat maoM AiWtIya QaOya- AaOr saahsa ko saaqa ]%ÌYTta pàPt ik hOM. p`stut vaO&ainak inabaMQa maoM qaa^masa kI ]%kMTtaÊ laganaÊ ]plaibQayaaÐ tqaa laxya Aaid ka ica~Na ikyaa gayaa hOM. TosaI qaa^masa Baart sarkar ko rxaa AnausaMQaana AaOr ivakasa saMgazna ³DI Aar DI Aao´ maoM kama krnao vaalaI ek p`mauK AaOr yaSasvaI maihlaa vaO&ainak hOM. ]nhaoMnao imasaa[-la jagat maoM ABaUtpUva- QaOya- AaOr saahsa ko saaqa ]%ÌYTta pàPt kI hOM. sau EaI TosaI qaa^masa Aigna v imasaa[-la kI pàojao@T Dayaro@Tr qaI ]nhaoMnao kuC samaya ko ilae puNao maoM pUva- raYT/pit AaOr vaO&ainak Da^ e pI jao klaama ko naotR%va maoM DI Aar DI Aao ko ilae gaa[-DoD imasaa[-laaoM kI fOklTI ko $p maoM kama ikyaa qaa. vaoM vaI[kla AaOr imaSana kI pàojao@T Dayaro@Tr ko $p maoM Aigna IV kI mauiKyaa BaI banaI qaI. iflahala ]nhaoMnao ApnaoAap kao Aigna imasaa[-la ko navaInatma saMskaraoM maoM lagaa rKa hOM.]nako imasaa[-la pòma ka AMdaja, [saI baat sao lagaayaa jaa sakta hOM ik ]nhaoMnao Apnao baoTo tojasa ka naama Baart ko hlko ka^MmbaOT jaoT ko naama pr rKa hOM. [sa p`kar TosaI qaa^masa imasaa[-la inamaa-Na AaOr p`xaopNa sao jauD,I imasaa[-la pòmaI vaO&ainak hOM.

Protest rally against mandatory NOC for Deemed Conveyance By Suresh Golani

undreds of members representing of housing societies in Mira Bhayandar participated in a protest rally on Sunday against the unjust demand of No Objection Certificate, to be procured from a private company for Deemed Conveyance. The protest agitation in Bhayandar was held under the aegis of the Mira Bhayandar Housing Co-Op Housing Societies Federation Limited. Several leaders cutting across party lines pledged their support to the agitation. It should be noted that envisaging quick transfer of land ownership to housing societies, the State Government, introduced provisions allowing deemed conveyance. But unfortunately for housing societies in Mira Bhayandar, it is mandatory to obtain a NOC from Estate Investment Company – a private firm whose name appears in the land revenue record of vast land tracts in Bhayandar, Mira Road and Ghodbunder.

RACING THE RAINS BMC set to complete all road repair works by May, well before monsoon arrives By Khushboo Panjabi

earning a lesson from last year, that repairing roads just too close to the monsoon results in the number of potholes increasing, and some work inevitably being left incomplete, the civic body is planning to start the work from the month of March itself so that it all gets completed by the month of May. Dattatray Dixit, Chief Engineer - Roads Department, said, “The tender process for the city has been completed and for the eastern and the western suburbs will begin soon. For the city and eastern and the western suburbs, a tender of Rs.8 crore each has been invited, out of which Rs.6 crore will be used for the repairs of the major road and Rs.2 crore for the minor roads.” “Up-gradation of asphalt and concrete roads, filling of potholes and other premonsoon works will be completed well in time, so that Mumbaikars will not suffer in the rains,” he added. The tenders received for the city have already been scrutinised in the committee, and they will be discussed during the coming standing committee meeting, after which a call will be taken and then the tenders for works in the suburbs will also be scrutinised. khushboo.panjabi@afternoondc.in

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‘Dead’ man given building permission FIR lodged against 7 Including Asst. Town Planner in MBMC By Suresh Golani

the RTI revealed that the Town Planning wing had given et another case of corrup- Commencement Certificate in tion tumbled out from the April-2011 to Justin Pandey, a closets of the Mira Bhayandar Mira Road resident who had Municipal Corporation died in June, 2003. (MBMC). The police filed a FIR The builder on the virtue of under sections 409, 420, 465, stay orders, added 8 illegal 467, 468, 471, 477(A), 427, 506 floors to the structure which of the IPC against seven peo- had been sealed after direcple including the Assistant tions from the judiciary. After Town Planner (ATP) and two verifying the documents, the local developers for their al- police registered a case against leged involvement in a case of ATP Satyavan Dhanegave, degraft. However, no arrests have velopers Bharti Thakur and been made so far. Ehsaan Alimuddin, architect The action followed after Anish and Associates and two Bhayandar resident Kamal legal advisors of the construcDadich filed a complaint tion company. against the accused for their As a standard modus involvement in fraudulent ap- operandi used by builders to provals for a stilt-plus one protect their illegal structures, storey structure, Jamuna several flats in the tower are Tower, Kanakia Complex (Mira now occupied by fly-by-night Road, S. No:410/5) on the members who have been duly basis of fabricated papers. In- registered as a society with the formation sourced out from Sub-Registrar.

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Ponder awhile... “Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.” – Alex Haley

Interaction among Indians: No racism A

21-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh was killed in Delhi after he had an argument with a shopkeeper. Some people allege that it was a case of racism. This, however, does not seem to be the case. When he entered the shop, the owner made some remark about his hair and appearance. The remark made the boy angry: He smashed a window glass and that made the shopkeeper furious. The boy realised he had made a mistake and gave the shopkeeper Rs.10,000. That, however, did not end the event. The boy was taken to the police station where he was questioned and shortly afterwards brought back to the shop and left there. The boy later found he was unwell. Suddenly he collapsed. A few days ago, a student is reported to have been harassed by some goons in Bangalore. They are said to have made fun about his looks and there were some heated exchanges but there was not any tragic happening. It is a fact, our knowledge about the northeast is very little. There are some who, do not know where Arunachal Pradesh is. It is a fact that people's knowledge about people in all other states is very limited. Actually people in a state make fun of people in other states. A north Indian perhaps will be amused by a 'Madrasi' with large caste marks on his forehead and the 'mundu' which he tucks up. People in different regions have different modes of dress and behavioural patterns. Perhaps in no other country are there so much differences with regard to beliefs and customs. And quite often their appearance too is quite different. In diversity, however, there is enmity. The question of racism does not arise at all. It is a fact people descend from various races. There are Christians, Hindus and Muslims born from marriages between Indians and foreigners. At any rate, an effort must be made to make Indians aware of living styles of people in other states. It is a fact, very little is known about the people of northeastern states. Those living in that region also know little about people living in other states. A greater effort is necessary for interaction between various states.

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CHIDAMBARAM is probably right. Narendra Modi’s knowledge of economics is so scanty, so sketchy, that it can all be written on the back of a postal stamp. Clearly implied in that barb is the claim that the Finance Minister of India himself is an economic wizard. And of what sort is not hard to find. From the top-most corporate honchos to the aam aadmi in Chandni Chowk, there is a near unanimity that Chidambaram, the great economic pundit that he is, has presided over the ruin of the national economy. By all accounts, the economy is in the worst crisis since the start of the liberalisation process in the early 90s. It will be a miracle if growth touches the five per cent mark this year. As for Modi, well, the people of Gujarat cannot be fools, having elected him thrice in a row on the back of a very sound management of the state’s economy. Now, if you said that economic experts like Chidamabram are dime a dozen, and, you may like to include in that list Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his alter ego Montek Ahluwalia as well, but non-experts who actually do an excellent job of managing the economy, for instance, Modi in Gujarat, are hard to come by, you wouldn’t be entirely wrong. Small wonder, then, that there is a buzz in the country about Modi while Chidambaram is hard put to locate a safe seat for himself which will return him to Parliament later this year. By the way, whether he won his Parliamentary seat last time around fairly and squarely is a question that is yet to be settled by the courts, though his five-year term is about to end. Since we lay no claim to being economic experts, certainly not in the league of Chidambaram who has the unusual ability to sell 'dream budgets' which eventually turn out to be nightmares for the health of the economy, we will stick to the reported facts. Let us begin with the furious pace with which the Finance Minister is engaged in passing the burden of the election-eve goodies to the next government. In order to earn brownie points for containing the fiscal deficit within the budgeted 4.8 per cent of the GDP, he is leaving a huge burden of unpaid bills for the next government. The under-recoveries of the oil marketing companies alone are said to be over Rs.1.4 lakh crore. Three more LPG cylinders, granted as per the wishes of Rahul Gandhi, will add another Rs.5,000 crore to that Rs.1.4 lakh crore bill on account of LPG, diesel, kerosene subsidies, but which Chidambaram would pass on to the next government. This business of rolling over the expenses to cook up the budget figures is akin to a man who borrows from A to pay B and then tells them to settle the issue between themselves while he seeks to leave the scene. Chidambaram may not be

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even an MP when the next government is formed, considering media reports which said that because of the strong anti-Congress, antiDMK mood in Tamil Nadu he may opt out of the race altogether. But he is making sure that his successor in Finance does not have an easy time clearing the mess after him. Even on meeting the budgeted target on current account deficit (CAD), Chidambaram has indulged in underhand practices. For, the ten per cent duty on gold imports only officially reduced the import of yellow metal but unofficially it caused a huge spurt in its smuggling. Encouragement to hawala trade was a clear outcome of the harsh duty on gold imports. Realising his error, he now says that he might reduce the duty on gold in March. Why March? Because in February he would have exercised the boasting rights in Parliament that he had succeeded in bringing down the trade deficit to the budgeted limits. It is the same 'after me, the deluge' syndrome at

T is very difficult to follow the path of a sheet of paper. It is as difficult as to find God. The sheet of paper continues to be there, present. It is difficult for our conceptual eyes to see and discern but we know that it is always there and everywhere, also. And this little amount of ash may be returned to the earth later on. Maybe next year when you come back here, you will see it in the form of a little flower or part of a plum leaf. We don't know. But we do know that nothing died. Nothing has become nothingness. So the true nature of the sheet of paper is no-death. Looking deeply into our self, our body, our feelings, our perceptions. Looking into the mountains, the rivers, to another person, we have to be able to see, to touch the nature of

‘Haath’ flatters ‘Kamal’

JP complains that the Congress media campaign – Mein Nahin, Hum – is a straight lift of its earlier campaign in Gujarat with the very same tag line. In any case, a family-controlled party, where even chief ministers have to wait for months to get an audience with the party president or its number two, emphasising the collective 'hum' rather than the individual 'mein' is a great irony. Unless, of course, the 'hum' signifies the mother-and-son duo alone. The ad agency clearly does not know the product it has undertaken to market. However, the present lot of BJP leaders seem to be unaware that even the catchVirendra Kapoor phrase in the Congress campaign, Har Haath work. Likewise, the public sector units are Shakti, Har Haath Tarakki, is a lift of its media being pressured to cough up higher divi- campaign way back in the 1974 UP assembly dends so that the FM can meet the fiscal tar- campaign. The Jana Sangh, party’s previous gets. Coal India Ltd., which has not developed avatar, had gone into that election on the sloa new mine in years, was made to shell out a gan of Har Haath Ko Kaam, Har Khet Ko record interim dividend of Rs.29 per share, Paani. It did not work for the Jana Sangh. Will which enriched the national treasury richer it now work for the Congress? We have strong by some Rs.18,000 crore, including the doubts. Rs.3,000-crore dividend tax. Likewise, other agencies are under pressure to help the FM meet the 4.8 per cent deficit target. OU have to grant it to the politicians. They But at what cost? Outlays across various will do anything to try and win elections. sectors are slashed, defence purchases are on hold, social sector schemes and infrastruc- Consider this: In Maharashtra, they have reture projects are denied the requisite funding. duced power tariffs by 20 per cent, but not for Even the outlay for the Delhi Metro has been an unspecified period in the future. No. Only cut. In short, the red line drawn by Chi- for ten months, between January and Octodambaram around that 4.8 per cent target ber 2014. Why, what is so special about that which he has committed not to cross has be- period? A lot, if you consider that both the come a millstone for the growth of the econ- Parliamentary and Assembly elections would omy. Putting personal ego ahead of national have been held by the end of October. By then, a fresh hole of over Rs.7,000 crore would interest has virtually derailed the economy. Meanwhile, do you recall what Chi- have been dug in the budget of the already dambaram had said about the Aadhar-based bankrupt state which is saddled with a debt cash transfer scheme? A game-changer. Yes, a of nearly Rs.3 lakh crore. Of course, it is neigame-changer. That had earned the Finance ther good politics nor good economics.

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Minister bold headlines in the national media. Last week, the UPA government of which Chidambaram is the senior-most minister, abandoned the direct cash-transfer of LPG subsidy to the targeted groups. So much then for the efficacy of the self-anointed economic expert! Chidambaram, lots of people argue not without justification, is all about bluff and bluster without any concrete achievement on the ground. His record in the Finance Ministry fully endorses that view. Look at the number of foreign companies operating in India which are facing trouble at the hands of the taxmen. Is that how you facilitate foreign investment in the country? Why not ensure complete transparency in tax matters so that foreign companies are in no confusion as to their tax obligations?

no-birth and no-self in them. This is one of the practices that are very important in the Buddhist tradition. In the teaching, you may distinguish two dimensions of reality. The first dimension is

MATTER & SPIRIT called historical dimension and the second dimension is called ultimate dimension. We should be able to touch both dimensions if we have enough concentration and mindfulness. Mindfulness and concentration cultivated by our daily practice must be used to look deeply into the nature of what is there. When we look into the ocean, we can see

the waves, different kinds of waves. Some are very big; some are very small. It seems that each wave has its private existence, its birth and its death. A wave can have a lot of complexes. I am smaller than you. I am less important than you. You are more beautiful than me. My life is short. I will no longer be here in a few minutes, a few seconds, and things like that. Ideas like beginning, end, high, low, more beautiful, less beautiful, being here, not being here, all these ideas are assaulting the wave all the time. It cannot live its life as a wave in a peaceful happy way. We are very much the same. We are assailed by so many ideas including the ideas of birth and death, the idea of being and non-being, and we are scared. We get scared. Because of that fear, true happiness is not possible. So deep looking helps us to remove the fear. — Thich Nhat Hanh

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Lions at home, paper tigers abroad WITH four losses and a solitary tie in a five match ODI series, M.S. Dhoni and his boys have performed miserably versus New Zealand. We are lions at home, but paper tigers abroad, which doesn't augur well, as the next World Cup will not be held in our country. India's bowling is the weakling, but surprisingly, our strong batting lineup has also faltered in recent times. M.S. Dhoni has led his boys with example but his colleagues have unfortunately not supported their leader leading to our downfall. Tournaments like the IPL – which are all about money – have affected our boys who give their best playing for their franchisees, but are often worn out and perform below standards for the national side. We should scrap the IPL and pay players according to their performance to bring out the best in them. Players who do not perform should be sacked and new players should be given a chance to build a solid team for the next world cup.

they seemed to be lacking common sense. None of our batsmen, except Kohli and to some extent our skipper Dhoni, showed us how to build an innings. India could certainly learn a lesson or two from Ross Taylor and Williamson. The main reasons for our failure were over dependence on Virat Kohli, the failure of the openers, even though they received a start in some matches which they failed to capitalise on those. Too much faith on Ashwin, thereby ignoring Amit Mishra and the consistent Pragyan Ojha,lack of variety in bowling as all medium pacers where right handed, one left hander would have made some difference, and a weak middle order witnessed in the unreliable and technically weak Raina and unpredictable Jadeja. — Mahesh Nair, Dombivili

TEAM India was totally outplayed in every department of the game and was left with no chance of winning a single match in the series. — S.N. Kabra, Goregaon After an ordinary show in South Africa, it was New Zealand's turn to make us sweat throughout the seA spineless performance by our ries. New Zealand beat India by 87 cricketers against New Zealand runs in the fifth and final ODI at saw us crumbling to unimaginable Wellington and sealed the fivedefeat and also losing our No. 1 match series 4-0. Batsmen Kane status. Forget losing the status, the Williamson and Ross Taylor reway our players performed, there fused to take their collective foot was no determination, no grit and off India bowlers' throats and took

their partnership tally for the series to 463, which is the highest for four partnerships and fourth-highest overall. In the process, Williamson set the New Zealand record for most runs in a bilateral series, and Matt Henry, who was handed his debut on the back of a five-for in first class cricket last week, responded to the call with a fourwicket haul. Captain Dhoni needs to be shown the door as he is solely responsible for all the loses overseas in recent times. Make him responsible for the loss and axe the players who played pathetic cricket, and pave the way for a new captain and infuse young blood in the days to come.

Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh for their magnificent performance in domestic cricket, failing which the Indian team have no chance of winning any match. — Jayanthy S. Maniam, Sion It is high time the selectors take this matter seriously and select a well balanced side for the forthIT was a pathetic and disgraceful coming ICC World Cup. — Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai display by Team India who were thrashed by New Zealand in the five match ODI series which they lost. New Zealand outplayed India IF Team India's loss in the ODI sein every department of the game ries in Kiwiland is analysed dispasand did not allow them to take ad- sionately without branding our vantage at any stage. I strongly feel players as 'paper tigers', it will be that the weak Indian team selected seen that the first match was lost by our selectors popularly called a by 24 runs with the hosts scoring 'bunch of jokers' made a mess of 292, but our Virat Kohli posted a the entire team by selecting play- magnificent century that needs to ers on the zone quota system. The be taken note of. The villain of the urgent need of the hour is that piece in the second encounter was players like Ishant Sharma, the suspect Duckworth-Lewis forShekhar Dahwan, Ajanky Rahane, mula, which was applied since the must be replaced with Gautam game was interrupted by rain. This

Reduce pollution THE spurt in air pollution has been highly detrimental to the health of Mumbaikars. One major reason is global warming, but it is also the rapid urbanisation, depletion and degradation of greenery as well as of other natural bodies, that are equally responsible. The government does not have a policy on population control and on the contrary is increasing the size of families to increase their vote-bank and appease the minorities. Despite there being a study and suggestions on reducing vehicular pollution and congestion in Mumbai the then Maharashtra government and all subsequent governments have put the report in cold storage and spent hundreds of MAKING TRAVELLING EASIER: The ultra-fast monorail is all set to ease the crores of taxpayers' money to build travelling travails of Mumbaikars. flyovers and sea-links. Hope better sense prevails and immediate steps are taken to curb urbanisation and reduce vehicular and industrial polAS the Monorail is set to make life AS per the age old saying, rats are lution. — Rashmi Khandelwal, Mumbai easier for Mumbaikars a verse grips the first to desert a ship when it me. Here goes, for bad or 'verse'. starts sinking. Our modern day poHail! the Monorail litical zealots seem to have followed From Chembur to Wadala this maxim too. Sensing a strong We will ride with our Madhubala anti-Congress wind blowing across AN official announcement by the Will there be half ticket, in the the country, some of the trusted al- concerned medical authorities was new rail ? lies of the party appear to have made in the press a couple of days Colours will be pink and blue charted their own course of action. ago, to the effect that the strips that We no longer will feel blue Indications to that effect are there are used in glucometers, to check The pushes may be incidental for everyone to see. The TMC has the level of glucose in the blood, will Not like in Virar fast, where left the coalition long ago, the DMK be available at a cheaper rate. At pushes are temperamental is laden with its internecine war, an present, one such strip costs more After the ride, you may not need NCP leader has taken a pro-Modi than Rs. 30. This price reduction a shampoo stand and the National Conference was also confirmed to take effect The stations, will be small and is thinking of dissociating itself from the last week of November nice they will surely entice from the alliance. One does not 2013. But enquiries at a few medical Bathrooms may not stink, tiles know what will remain of the once shops in Mulund reveal that shopwill be rose pink mighty UPA when the EC sounds keepers are not yet aware of this deBut the havaldar may not be on the bell for the commencement of cision to cut down on the price. duty as he may be enjoying his fried the largest electoral exercise in the What is the present situation, please? rice world.

An ode to the monorail

intriguing calculation has been seen to put the team batting second always at a disadvantage, and it was in this match also. Full marks to our team in the third match which was tied against all odds with the heroics of Jadeja and Ashwin. It was sheer bad luck however, that one more run was not scored on the last ball by Jadeja who lofted a six off the previous ball. So, it was not as if Team India was thrashed by an overwhelmingly strong team as all the games were pretty close. Our 'Captain Cool' was remarkably consistent right through and it was the pacebowlers, besides Shikar Dhawan, who let him down. As he has pointed out, they need to bowl more with their heads than with hands and be accurate in line and length if we have to retain our World Cup crown next year. — Dr. V. Subramanyan, Thane

Poor Rahul

Is the Cong being deserted?

Price reduction

— Altaf H Ladiwala, Bandra

SCRAP IPL: The IPL should be scrapped and players should be paid according to their performance to bring out the best in them.

— Arun Malankar, Santacruz

— Arundhati Wajge, Narayangaon

BAD DECISION? Was the Congress PROs decision to approach the host for an interview with Rahul Gandhi a bad one? POOR Rahul Gandhi seems to have got himself into a spot after his 'infamous' TV interview a couple of weeks ago. This is clearly visible by the kind of images of the Gandhi scion doing the rounds on various social networking sites. One, for example, shows the host of the show telling Rahul, “Your party did the two biggest scams of India, 2G and Coalgate”, to which Rahul replies, “I use 3G and Pepsodent”. Another one shows a picture of a packet of Amul milk, with the slo-

gan, 'Amul the taste of India', with a picture of Rahul Gandhi beside it which reads, 'Rahul the waste of India'.These are among the many others, some not worth publishing, that are doing the net rounds today. If reports are to be believed, it was the Congress PR himself who approached the anchor with a request for an interview. I wonder if the PRO has been be hauled up by the party and Rahul himself, for giving rise to an 'Aa baill mujhe maar' situation. — Prakash Gill, Mumbai

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he 17-year-old Manoj Vaman today is leading a normal life and but a few months ago he was not even in the condition to move because he had been severely injured in a road accident and was in a state of coma for around 20 days. While Manoj is lucky to have survived the accident not everyone could be. “Had he worn a helmet at the time of riding a bike, his injuries would have been lesser. Wearing a helmet while riding a bike is a must”, said Vaman Ahit, Manoj’s father. Manoj who lives in Raigad met with a road accident where his bike collided with another vehicle in November. “The man whose vehicle hit Manoj took him to a public hospital. But we weren’t satisfied with the treatment there Manoj Vaman with the doctors and staff of Wockhardt Hospital, Vashi.

at Sterling Wockhardt Hospital. “He was in coma for 18 days, with right-sided leg bone fracture. A tracheostomy was done and appropriate care was taken. It was important that he slowly and steadily comes out of ventilator support and we were successful in achieving that goal”, said Dr. Akshay Chhallani, Consultant Physician and Intensivist , Sterling Wockhardt Hospital. Manoj had to undergo orthopaedic and maxillofacial surgeries. After undergoing successful surgeries and responding well to physiother-

apy, Manoj was discharged in December much to the relief of his family. “During the time when Manoj was undergoing treatment, we were spending sleepless nights. We had stopped eating and were very worried. We had left it all to God. We knew that He would do the best for my child”, said Vaman. “I would advise everybody to wear a helmet and follow road safety rules so that nobody’s life is endangered. What happened to my child can happen to anybody. Everybody should be careful”, said Vaman.

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Manoj Singh

he late Pt. Prabhakar Chary was an accomplished musicologist and an artiste of distinct repute who propagated the love for classical music in India. As a tribute, a unique classical concert, Vandan, is being organized in Mumbai on February 6 at the Nehru Centre in Worli at 7.30 pm.The concert will feature percussionists Trilok Gurtu and Sivamani, along with jazz legend Louis Banks, Sheldon D’silva on bass guitar and Prabhakar Chary's son Ravi Chary on sitar. Incidentally, Trilok Gurtu and Sivamani will be on stage together for the very first time. Ravi Chary, who expressed gratitude to the musicians for agreeing to come together for this occasion, stated that the Prathisthan, which was founded in his father's memory, offers a platform to upcoming and established musicians in Hindustani music and dance across India, and also gives scholarships to musicians. Concert tickets are available at Rhythm House, Tel No.43222727, and Nehru Centre, Tel No.24964680, and online at www.bookmyshow.com

and so we shifted him to Wockhardt Hospital at Vashi. There he was treated well and started recovering soon”, said Vaman. Manoj had been unconscious for many days and was in the ICCU for almost a month. He had a severe head injury and his ear, nose and mouth were bleeding. He also had a displaced fracture in right leg and the nasal bones. A CT-scan revealed that Manoj had subdural hematoma and intracerebral haemorrage. He was shifted with Ventilated Associated Pneumonia (VAP) in a critical state for further management

No internship, no mark-sheet! Colleges make internships compulsory for students; retain their mark-sheets if a student fails to submit a job experience letter to the college By Yatin Ingle

KIDNAPPED 4-YEAR-OLD REUNITED: Thane rural police rescued four-year-old Ayush from the clutches of his kidnappers in Kolkata. An extortion amount of Rs.25 lakh was demanded for his release. The police arrested four persons, including three women, of whom the main accused is Pinki Tulsi Gupta. The boy was reunited with his family on Saturday.

hile the Mumbai University (MU) has introduced new job-oriented courses, city colleges have come up with compulsion of internships or job experiences for their students. Colleges running management courses have stated that a student's mark-sheet will be released by them only after they issue their job experience certificates to the concerned colleges. This issue has cropped up among the Bachelors of Mass Media (BMM) courses. As a student enters the fourth semester of the course, he/she is asked to issue his job experience certificate to the college. If a student fails to do so, his

mark-sheet is withheld with the college until he/she submits the experience certificate. This compulsion has created trouble for students as they don't always find internships or jobs. A student from a Bandra-based college said, “We are still under-graduates, its very difficult for us to find a jobs or internships at this level. Even if a few students are able to get internships, the rest cannot find them always. Colleges are holding back our mark-sheets for not having job experiences. This is unfair". In 2013, the MU had introduced 50 new courses with an aim to start job-oriented courses. The varsity has also declared that it will no more give

permissions to new colleges for traditional courses of Arts, Commerce and Science, but will only give permission for conducting newly-introduced joboriented courses. Pradeep Sawant, senate and grievance cell member, MU, said, "This is injustice to the students. How can all of them find jobs or approach a company, organisation without a degree or proper knowledge? Students should step ahead and complain against these rules of colleges to the grievance cell of the varsity". Dr. Naresh Chandra, Pro Vice Chancellor, MU, said, "As per rules and varsity acts there are no so such compulsions. The varsity will look into this issue as soon as possible".

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CLIFTON DESILVA is an investment expert and a Director at Altina Securities.

Outlook For 2014 Appears Positive T

he stock markets have been operating within a range for a prolonged period of time. During the last five years the markets have not generated returns to investors and in fact most of the stocks in the small cap and mid cap segments have witnessed huge depreciation in values and investors have incurred substantial losses. The Sensex which recorded a life time high of 21207 on 8th January 2008 was unable to surpass the high over the last five years, though twice in the five year period it came very close the life time high. In fact during this period the Sensex has been witnessing high volatility mainly with a downward bias, which has hurt investor sentiment especially at the retail level and just a few days back when the Sensex broke the life time high and closed at 21374 there was no jubilation as investor sentiment still remains at a low ebb. Over the past years, low growth and high inflation had weakened demand and had stalled investment activity. At the same time there was little political intent to revive the economy except in recent times and this had negative repercussions on investment and business confidence However the outlook for 2014 appears positive and it is likely to be a year of many inflection points. Most key variables influencing equity markets are at an inflection point â&#x20AC;&#x201C; after a long gap and may result in 2014 heralding the beginning of a market with an upward bias. Economic growth appears to have bottomed; the corporate earning cycle is seeing a second successive quarter of recovery, investment starts are seeing a glimmer of hope, driven by public sector projects and domestic disenchantment with equities appear to be ebbing. Although the domestic economy appears to have bottomed out, its recovery is likely to be Continued on pg 14 Âť

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End of season sales number are turning out to be better than festive season sales

By Mayura Shanbaug

umbai's media professional Gayatri Rajwade is a happy woman this year as most of the end of season sales at the city retailers have not only been extended, but the discount and freebies are also increasing with every passing day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love branded stuff but I cannot afford it on a regular basis. Season sales are the best time to get good bargains and own stylish branded clothes and accessories which are beyond my reach during the festive season like Diwali,â&#x20AC;? says Rajwade. She is amongst thousands of buyers who do not buy during the festive season, but wait for the same stuff to go on sale during an end of season sale. May be that is the reason that retailers this year have not only extended their sale periods, but are also outdoing each other in terms of discounts. Most retail outlets and malls in the city are now offering discounts from anywhere between 50%-70%. According to a retailer, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sales during season or after season are done with the following objectives: To clear unsold stocks as the slow-down is likely to create excess inventory. To promote sales by offering special deep discounts and lure customers to buy more and pre-pone their purchases or to attract them away from competition. Line or product failures are better cleared during the season at higher discounts rather than offseason where the off take will be anyhow very poor.â&#x20AC;? According to BS Nagesh, Founder, TRRAIN, the Indian retail industry is going through a consolidation stage wherein existing players are/have corrected their models and learnt from their mistakes and are growing from their cash flows rather than borrowings or further equity infusion.â&#x20AC;&#x153;As far as season sales are concerned the market news is that it has been slower than what retailers expected,â&#x20AC;? he says. Though the country's retail sector is set to grow at an annual rate of 16 to 19 %, reaching Rs. 56.8 trillion ($901 billion) in 2016, as per a research report, most of the mid segment retailers barring, some top ones, seem to struggle with dipped sales, lower margins and high cost of funds. This year India has witnessed the worst festive season sales in almost a decade. As per reports, sales have dipped by 15-20% and the cost of funds have increased by 15-20%. For the businesses, the effective loss adds up to around 35-40% during this festive season. According to industry experts, the

desperate retailers have already extended their sale duration by a week to 10 days. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This has become a yearly phenomenon. Retailers have been advancing their sale duration by 10-15 days every year. It shows their desperation due to poor sales,â&#x20AC;? he says. Chief Executive, Malls, Runwal group, Anupam T, says â&#x20AC;&#x153; car traffic has gone up 15% across the group's mall in the city. Its R City mall is holding a flat 50% sale in all 100 brands.â&#x20AC;? However, Jay Gupta, Managing Director, The LOOT, believes that the response has not been good in the initial days of the sale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brands on discounted sales through the year have not seen a good

response during the current sale period,â&#x20AC;? he says. Gupta reveals that the sale would go on till valentine day as retailers are hoping to cash on to the lover's day euphoria. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The end of season sales number is just about better than festive season sales, but are a disappointment if compared to the last year's figures,â&#x20AC;? explains Gupta. According to B S Nagesh, the sup-

ply side has also been toned down as most mall players have become more cautious after the euphoria of 2008 09. However, he is optimistic and says â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see more success in the next 5 years than what we have seen in the past. My belief is the golden period of Indian retail is 2015 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2020.â&#x20AC;?

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DR. RAKESH SINGH

is Director, Durgadevi Saraf Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

« VIEWPOINT

he recent visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe preceded by the Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko clearly indicates a change in the geopolitical relationship that is beginning to take shape in the Asian subcontinent. Abe has been vocal about building up the Indo-Japan security framework and a bigger role of these two countries alongwith the U.S. in the Asian subcontinent. This has been primarily driven by China, who is pushing its long standing maritime claim

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stretching deep into South China Sea and claims to the islands in the East Asia Sea, which is now owned by Japan and South Korea, as well as defining the air defence zone which eats into the air defence of Japan. India too is concerned about land borders where China is challenging India and claiming ownership of Arunachal Pradesh. All those who thought that the Chinese will rise and lead the Asian economy towards better prosperity are beginning to wonder about all these developments. A large number of questions arise on whether China with its aggressive posture today will push the whole Asian subcontinent into a war like situation? Will the Asian countries unite together to keep China’s aspirations of military power at bay. Is China really in a position to do so? Where does India stand in all these? The special relationship between India and Japan, which has started to take place, is quite beneficial to the two countries. Japan is the largest source of foreign direct investment in India as well as the largest donor. Bilateral trade is increasing by leaps and bounds. Abe has announced a loan of 200 billion Yens for

infrastructure in India. Japan is a part of several infrastructure projects in India. It is playing and will play a great role in the economic development in India as a partner. What is also heartening is that China who has been pushing India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar and almost all other countries in the East China Sea will force non-Chinese countries to build a comprehensive security system, with India and Japan playing a big role, obviously with the help of U.S. as a major partner, in assuring security in the Asian region. Chinese new leadership has become nationalists. The primary reason of pushing the nationalist issue too far is because the economy has started showing cracks and if one has to contain the Chinese population, aspirations for their team, nationalism and Chinese pride is the only way forward. But this nationalism can be a costly affair for China as it is a great open power with a higher ratio of trade to gross domestic product than U.S. and Japan. Being resource poor, China depends on the imports of host of raw materials as well as know-how and technical support. The conflict with most other Asian neigh-

Good Experience Is Good Business A New Dimension In Real Estate Selling

mid as a “physiological need”. Those were the days when shelter only meant a roof on your head- a place to dwell in. Today, the concept of shelter has evolved into a more dynamic term is a Senior Consultant, called ‘real estate’, with shelters costing milAcumen Business lions, promising luxury or a dream home. If Consulting Maslow was alive today, would he still place shelter at the bottom of the pyramid? He may get baffled by the magnitude of the gulf between the opulent and the needy. But he would agree that shelter as a need, at least for a certain sections of society has been elevated to the second level of the pyramid. This shift in categorization of shelter from basic need to a self esteem need is clearly an outcome of the realtors’ understanding of he marquee Samudra Mahal property set mindsets of today’s consumers. Owning a a record in mid 2013 when a property house is everyone’s dream. But for a few, the there was sold at a whopping rate of Rs dream is a symbol of power, status and wealth 1.23 lakh per square foot. Nevertheless, rather than that of safety and security. These upmarket properties in South Mumbai localihomes speak for the persona of the ones who ties such as Malabar Hill and Altamount Road earn big and spend big! Armed with increased seem to have reached saturation and we have purchasing power, the prospective shelter newer clusters in town, where buyer now seeks exclusivity. Realtors have preproperty prices seem to be waitcisely identified this ing to rocket the skies. need for creating a In 1943, an American psy‘Brand ME’ by virtue chologist Abraham H. Maslow’s Pyramid of Self of exclusivity. Maslow, proposed a pyraHierarchy of Needs in Actualization The question is: mid shaped hierarchy of today’s scenario Are these needs real needs in which he Your ideas, conceived, Realized, and impactful or perceived? placed shelter at the Naturally existing or manufactured? bottom of the pyraSelf-Esteem Whether the demand for this niche existRecognition and respect from ed or whether it was engineered by the Peers, the community, the world suppliers is a ‘chicken first or egg first’ question! Belonging - Love How are the suppliers or realBeing part of a community of people who you tors catering to the needs of this care about, and who care about you. newly created niche segment? Sefety Also, in a competitive and Balacing the need for physical safety with the need for risk largely unorganised industry, and competitive danger. what differentiates the top real estate developers Physiological from the clutter? Shelter, food, office space, funding resources. Owning a luxury

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home not only caters to the need for exclusivity or status, but also addresses the needs like comfort and lifestyle. Realtors are definitely addressing these needs by offering uniqueness in terms of design or creating self contained habitats or living spaces. Moreover, the Indian customer is being exposed to elevating levels of customer experience in all product categories and is spoilt for choice, especially in the real estate sector. Thereby, more than reinventing the wheel by tugging at the 4Ps, luxury realtors are now focussing on enriching the customer experience. To help the aspiring dream home buyer create a ‘Brand ME’, the real estate sector is now focusing on the phrase, ‘good experience is good business’! Largely concentrating on professionalising the entire buying experience, realtors are on a relentless quest to deliver exceptional customer experience. Keeping the customer at the centre of the value proposition, top realtors such as The Wadhwa Group and Godrej Properties Ltd. are reassessing and streamlining processes - right from the point of enquiry to the HOTO (hand over- take over), as well as the entire living experience. They are investing in coaching their channel partners in managing high net worth individuals, hiring professionals from different yet relevant industries like hospitality, airlines etc. The unorganised real estate sector is now seriously looking at adopting the concepts of value delivery and living the brand promise. Targeting this need in today’s real estate industry, management consultants are working as enablers, driving an entire cultural change across organisations. Right from conducting customer experience surveys, perception mapping to redesigning entire organizational strategies, consultants are crafting mechanisms to create a sea change in the way real estate is sold. Maslow may smile or frown but the fact still remains that, the shift is evident in the entire value chain of real estate segment.

bours can put a block to these aspirations of China as a global super power. China has been aggressively investing into military, which has led Abe to increase defence budgets, modernise military and define security measures from Chinese perspective. USA has been a great ally of both Japan and South Korea. Even if we assume if China will be hell bent on taking on its Asian neighbours, U.S. data suggests that this would be too risky for the future of China. As a military might, Japan is far superior to China and with South Korea, Japan and India supported by the U.S., partners to keep Chinese ambition contained, China will be at the losing end. What is also to be noted here is that U.S. still controls the seas and if open conflict arrives, U.S. can cut off world trade with China and it can also create problems for China’s liquid foreign assets. The economic consequences would be devastating for China and hence China should be cautious and not push this aggression too far. In conclusion, it can only be said that it would be good for Asian integration as China will be forced to recognise its limitations of aggression and the benefits would occur to all other countries, including India.

Outlook For 2014 Appears Positive Continued from pg 13 «

gradual, showing a perceptible improvement once the private sector investment cycle starts to revive. At the same time, expectations of a strong synchronized global economic recovery are now becoming consensus with actual data supporting the thesis. For foreign institutional investors currency stability remains a core determinant of faith and RBI has now emerged as a key enabler of investor confidence following its management of currency volatility last year and addressing external vulnerabilities With most of the negatives being addressed except inflation the focus has now shifted to the outcome of the general elections slated in the month of May. Two opinions released on last week has predicted that the NDA will get at least 210 seats and the BJP itself would cross the 180 mark and perhaps even 210 in the coming Lok Sabha elections The view is that so long as the new government is not led by the socialist third front, the government should be stable. The number of aspiring leaders among the third front is also at an all time high and it is unlikely that these outlying parties will group together to form a government, instead these parties may choose to support a larger national party, reducing the likelihood of a regional party led government formation at the center. As far as investors are concerned it is an opportune time to accumulate select large cap stocks at current prices and at further declines. Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Reliance Ind, Maruti, L&T, Tata Motors, and HDFC continue to remain favorites and could generate handsome return with limited risk once the tide turns.

Grow Rich With Mutual Funds

Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MUMBAI | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2014

By Dominic Rebello

he Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) with an aim to expand the mutual fund investor base across India, has recently started a multi-city radio campaign called "Mutual Fund - Savings Ka Naya Tareeka". The radio campaign urges individuals from across the strata to use the mutual fund route to regular savings on a long term basis. But, the campaign is ineffective as it only touches the aspect of fear amongst investors towards a new avenue of investing. In a country where the literacy level is low and financial literacy even lower, it is very difficult to bring forth the correct picture of how one can invest, beat inflation and grow rich through mutual funds. Also the risk factor plays an important part in the mind of the investors. The concept of Mutual Fund is quite easy to understand, but at the same time the complex nature of the schemes are difficult to understand for the common man. Mutual Fund is basically an investment vehicle that allows many investors to pool their resources in order to purchase stocks, bonds and other securities. These collective funds are called Assets Under Management (AUM). These AUMs (funds) are then invested by expert fund managers appointed by mutual fund companies. These mutual fund companies are called Asset Management Company (AMC). The combined underlying holding of the fund is known as the 'portfolio', and each investor owns a portion of this portfolio in the form of units. A

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ast week the USD/INR Pair started on a weak note but slowly gained during the week and towards the end of the week the Rupee eventually appreciated and closed on a positive note after a two week fall. The Rupee traded strong mainly after RBI surprisingly raised interest rates to reduce inflation and also stated that if retail inflation eases as projected, it does not foresee further near-term monetary policy tightening. Local equities continued to fall and closed down at a 9 week low. The trading range for the spot USDINR pair is expected to be within 62.00 to 63.50. It is recommended to be cautious and Buy USD/INR Futures on dips with the appropriate

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person can track his/her investment status on a day to day basis by simply referring to the Net Asset Value (NAV). The NAV is the price per unit or exchange-traded fund's (ETF) per-unit value. In both cases, the per-unit rupee amount of the fund is calculated by dividing the total value of all the securities in its portfolio, less any liabilities, by the number of fund shares outstanding. A person can calculate his net worth every day by just referring the Net Asset Value (NAV). The NAV per unit is computed once a day based on the closing market prices of the securities in the fund's portfolio. NAV is the value of an entity's assets less the value of its liabilities. The two main types of mutual fund schemes are open ended and close ended. The open ended schemes allow investors to buy and sell units at any point of time. They do not have any

fixed maturity date, whereas the close ended schemes has a fixed maturity period and investors can invest only during the initial launch period.

MUTUAL FUND UPDATE

Tata Balanced Fund declares dividend Tata Mutual Fund has announced dividend under the monthly dividend option under Plan A and Direct plan of Tata Balanced Fund. The record date for declaration of dividend is February 05, 2014. The amount of dividend will be Rs 0.20 per unit under each plan on the face value of Rs 10 per unit. IDFC Equity Opportunity - Series 1 announces dividend IDFC Mutual Fund has announced dividend

UTI Mutual Fund launches UTI Banking & PSU Debt Fund UTI Mutual Fund has launched a new fund named as UTI Banking & PSU Debt Fund, an open ended income scheme. The investment objective of the scheme is to generate steady and reasonable income with low risk and high level of liquidity from a portfolio of predominantly debt & money market securities by Banks and Public Sector Undertakings (PSU). The New Fund Offer (NFO) is open for subscription from January 27, and will close on January 30, 2014. The scheme will re-open for continuous purchase and redemption from 6 February 2014 onwards. The New Fund Offer price for the scheme is Rs 10 per unit. BNP Paribas Short Term Income Fund announces change in exit load BNP Paribas Mutual Fund has announced that with effect from January 27 the load structure of BNP Paribas Short Term Income Fund, an open ended income scheme shall be 0.50% for redemption within 6 months, against the previous, 0.50 % for redemption within 3 months.

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stop loss as Rupee at this stage is expected to depreciate more against dollar. Pivot Point for the Pair is at 63.08 and below is the Support & Resistance levels. Last week GDP and jobless claims reports were projected to have a modest impact on market’s movement, even despite the fact that they give an insight on what is happening with the key labour market and at what pace the economy is developing. It seems that the Federal Reserve was already aware of the data when it took decision to trim down monthly purchases further. Therefore, even GDP report gives little information about possible future actions from the Fed, as they have already signaled further cuts. None the less, the fourth quarter growth came in line with analysts’ forecasts, as economy benefited from higher household spending and trade receipts, which both posted strongest gains in three years. The world’s largest economy expanded 3.2% in the final quarter, losing momentum from the third quarter, when growth stood at 4.1%. Meanwhile, the expansion is likely to pick up and at least stay above 3%, as drags from fis-

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cal policies and political disputes dissipate after the Congress passed the budget, diminishing hopes of another shutdown. American families bought 3.3% more goods and services, while purchases of long-lasting goods remained little changed. The main drag, however, become business investment, which exacerbated fewer spending made by the U.S. government. Also Thursday, the Labor Department said the number of initial jobless claims rose 348,000 last week, coming below analysts’ expectations. German unemployment retreated more than 25th Feb 2014 Open

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forecast in January, adding to signs the Germany economy will continue to lead euro area recovery. Jobless rate in Europe’s biggest economy recorded 6.8%. Markets will be keeping a close watch on a Euro zone inflation report for January as the European Central Bank (ECB) comes under mounting pressure to tackle deflationary risks. Inflation is expected to rise to an annual rate of 0.9% in January – sharply below the ECB’s inflation goal of 2.0%, boosting expectations of near interest rate cut if signs of economic deterioration emerge during the upcoming period. Policymakers at the ECB are scheduled to meet next week to set the next direction of monetary policy, where expectations signal the Governing Council will leave the rates unchanged. ECB President Mario Draghi repeatedly reiterated the monetary policy will stay accommodative for an extended period of time.

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« BRAND GYAN JAGDEEP KAPOOR

is CMD of Samsika Marketing Consultancy

By Mayura Shanbaug

Brand Service Prescription

Brand Service Professional needs to shower his customers with love, care and a lot of attention. Especially when the customer’s need is acute and deep. When the Brand Service Professional over-indulges the customer, use my Prescription – Pampering Brand Service Prescription. There is a certain set of customers who have a higher expectation than others because of the lifestyle they are used to. They are quite willing to pay a higher rate and expect the service quality to be in keeping with the high standards they are used to. The segment needs to be treated differently. The Brand Service Professional needs to go far beyond the threshold level of service that is otherwise provided. Naturally, this does not mean that regular customers should get bad service. But if the service quality that regular customers are provided with is rated as a ‘good’ Brand Experience, then nothing short of an ‘excellent’ Brand Experience should be preferred to customers treated with the Pampering Brand Service Prescription. The reason why they demand and should get service quality that is rated ‘excellent’ is because they give large volumes of business or that they aspire to the best and are willing to pay for it. That is why they must be pampered with a superlative Brand Experience. A good example of my Pampering Brand Service Prescription in action is the Jet Airways Privilege Card holder who gets pampered every inch of the way while flying the airline. Right from check-in, its right royal treatment for him. Jet’s Privilege Lounge provides transit passengers with a quality of service that regular passengers can only dream of. The setting is warm and relaxing. The hostess, constantly concerned about the customer’s comfort, is always on hand with a delicious morsel, a tempting drink or even something to read. In-flight, the choice of hot or cold towel can be very refreshing; the choice of menu is designed to titillate the palate. Down to the last detail, the customer feels privileged and pampered. It is a special experience he will yearn for again and again and again ….. and nothing else will do whenever he needs to travel by air. Because Jet Airways has made him feel special. To get a feel of what my Pampering Brand Service Prescription is like, let us dine at the Southern Spice in the Chennai Taj. This is one eating experience in which the rich strains of history and culture are orchestrated with the nuances of taste to provide an experience that is truly divine. The soft ambience of the place adds to the glow. And the subtle, invisible yet omnipresent Brand Service Professional makes it a Brand Experience the customer will cherish forever. Another example brings out the thoughtfulness and the concern for the customers that the Pampering Brand Service Prescription brings to the fore. It was the first day of Navratri, the nine-day festival that heralds the Indian feast of Dussera. So it was on the morning of the first of the nine Navratri days that a regular customer strolled into a Monginis outlet and asked the counter sales person for items containing chicken. It suddenly struck the counter staff that it was a day of abstinence. She could easily have ignored it and notched one more sale for Monginis, the largest cake franchise and fast food store chain in India. Instead, she said, “Isn’t today a day of fasting?” and the customer sheepishly realized that she was saved by the bell. This caring attitude of the Monginis staff endeared the brand to the customer. My Pampering Brand Service Prescription highlights the fact that all Brand Service Professionals should treat some customers better than others. Everyone cannot be treated alike because there will always be a premium segment of customers who have to be pampered. Regulars should get service, which never dips below a certain standard. Special customers should get special treatment. Copyright © 2013, All rights reserved. Jagdeep Kapoor can be contacted at jk@samsika.com

« SPOTLIGHT

rand matrix's are changing. And surprisingly, yesterday's big boys have dropped on the charts. So says a just released study. And the shocker is that 'Audi' the pride of most car owners has moved down from the 14th rank in 2013 to 323th in 2014. Similarly, the German BMW has lost its 4th ranking of last year to end up at 150th position this year. This was revealed by the Brand Trust Report, India Study ,2014, last week. The study is a comparison of the trust held in brands across all the sectors in India. Samsung has emerged as India’s most trusted brand this year. Sony ranks as India’s 2nd most trusted brand followed by Tata which has ranked 3rd this year. In 2013, the three brands had ranked second, third and fifth respectively. LG, ranks

proactive analysis uses the “why” approach with a focus on system and process-level modes of failure. Prior to any major undertaking, the leaders utilize tools like Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) to identify the critical modes of failure and address them, as per the priority of the risks involved. They are wise to know that merely conducting FMEA’s does not guarantee failure-free projects or endeavors. But when a failure occurs, leaders generally take a proactive approach to prevent future failures – they take the time to conduct “5 Why” analysis4, identify the root cause(s), eliminate the root cause(s) and, update lessons learned databases. Although this seems quite simple, it is one of the most difficult aspects of problem solving as it not only needs leaders who have a foresight and ability to peer beyond the horizon but it also needs a culture which supports their leaders and formalizes this process. In the long-term, taking short-cuts by instituting a reactive approach to problem solving will most certainly jeopardize product and service quality, credibility, growth and even survival of even the most successful and powerful organization. A perfect case-in-point is NASA. The history of NASA clearly indicates that the price of taking a reactive or a Human Level approach to solving problems is extremely high. The catastrophic explosion and the disintegration of the Challenger over the Atlantic Ocean on January 28, 1986 is one of the darkest moments in NASA’s history of space exploration. The initial cause of the explosion that nearly everyone believes, even today, is that an O-ring caused the catastrophic failure (Human or Mechanical mode of failure). However, according to the Rogers Commission created by the US government to investigate this accident the root cause of the failure was not determined to be the infamous O-ring, but in fact, the true root causes identified were “System Level” failures at NASA which included the “failure of communication” and “decisions based on conflicting or incomplete information”. According to the hearings in the U.S. House Committee, the primary root cause identified was the “weakness in the decisionmaking processes at NASA and its’ various

4th in this year’s list, followed by the three year leader, Nokia, at 5th place. There are some surprise gainers as well . Micromax, the Indian mobile manufacturer which has signed Hollywood star Hugh Jackman as their brand ambassador has moved up to 45th position this year from the 119th place last

year. The Indian brand is gaining popularity for its smart phones at affordable prices. Other gainers include Mahindra & Mahindra which has ranked 10th most trusted brand this year compared to its 79th position last year. Hero Motocorp is another success story as far as customer trust is concerned. In 2011 when it parted ways with Honda it ranked 86th, but

within two years it managed to reemerge as a brand with astrong presence and trust and ranked 7th this year redefining the success story. Hewlett Packard move up fourteen ranks over last year to become India’s 6th most trusted brand. The clear trend that emerged

this year tells the story of the nation plagued with high inflation and higher cost of living. “The brands in the luxury segment like cars, electronics and lifestyle products have taken a direct hit losing majorly in the ranking, whereas brands that fall in functional or utility segments have been net gainers,” said N. Chandramouli, CEO, Trust Research Advisory (TRA), a company dedicated to understanding and simplifying concepts related to Trust. “The clear focus is on the value for money this year ,”added Chandramouli. “Among the top 100 Most Trusted brands, 75 were

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contract organizations”5 – a much more serious “System Level” problem. In fact, this is a kind conclusion. It has been pointed out that NASA had strong political reasons to go through with the launch, in spite of the fact that the engineering staff was aware of the high probability of the O-ring failures at low temperatures. The engineers had refused to sign off on the launch. Richard Feynman, a Nobel Laureate and the leading physicist of the period, conducted a personal investigation. He found that the engineers estimated the probability of a mission failure was on the order of 1 in 100, a figure that has turned out to be very close to what has transpired. NASA leadership on the other hand, estimated the probability of failure at less than 1 in 1,000. According to Feynman, “It would appear that, for whatever purpose, be it for internal or external consumption, the management of NASA exaggerates the reliability of its product, to the point of fantasy.,,,. When playing Russian roulette the fact that first shot got off safely is of little comfort for the next”6. Unfortunately, the leaders at NASA failed to deal with system causes, beginning with their own erroneous beliefs about the likelihood of failure. This culture of

“decision-making based on conflicting or incomplete information” also resulted in other major failures. We witnessed the crash-landing of the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), on the Red Planet on September 23, 1999 - a loss of $125 million to the tax-payers. The root cause of failure given by NASA was a unit conversion error (Human level) but a commission determined that the root cause which truly led to the failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter mission was NASA’s “culture of poor communications, inadequate training, and significant stress caused by multitasking” (System Level failure). NASA again did not address this root cause and it resulted in a much more serious incident of the loss of the crew of 7 astronauts along with the shuttle during the re-entry of the Columbia shuttle on Feb 1, 20037. It is clear that if NASA leaders had taken a System Level approach versus a Human Level approach to failure analysis, the history of spaceexploration may have been more effective and accident-free. According to Dr. Deming, “the aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort”8. Thus, great leaders and successful corporations must learn the art of System Level analysis in order to be proactive in their quality assurance and quality control programs. They must realize that the fundamental flaw of the reactive approach focused on the Human-Level mode of failure is that it not only does it

fail to address the root cause of the problem but it results ina culture of fear, culture of distrust and a culture of risk aversion, lacking creativity and innovation. On the other hand, using a pro-active approach could help them create a culture of engagement and a culture of scientific problem solving, proactive human error prevention and a culture of “open learning”9, innovation and creativity.

Case Study: Using a Proactive Approach to Determine the Root Cause of an Accident In May 2011, while consulting a manufacturing facility, I was requested to identify the root cause of an accident in which a mechanic, attempting to fix a problem with a material hopper on the night shift, narrowly missed his hand being cut-off, but lost the tip of his finger on his right hand and had to be rushed to the hospital. Upon investigation, it was determined that a mechanic had put his hand inside a hopper box to loosen the pellet clumps which was causing the equipment to shut-off. With his right hand still inside the hopper, using his left hand to push a switch, the mechanic

activated the pneumatic knife which shuts off the hopper throat in order to prevent few thousand pounds of plastic pellets rushing onto the floor. There was a “Caution sign” posted on the equipment, which clearly indicated that no body parts could be introduced to dislodge materials from the hopper. At first glance, it was an “open-and-shut case” of negligence. Human Resources got involved to initiate punitive action against the mechanic for ignoring the caution sign and putting himself and the company at risk. One of the HR managers approached me to further investigate this using my System level approach. I used the simple 5-Why approach as follows: It took the team about 45 minutes to go through the complete exercise of reviewing data and collecting evidence from eye-witnesses and asking the 5-Why’s. The root cause identified was that there was a possible lack of air flow which resulted in plastic resin pellets being dried at too high a temperature, which resulted in the clumping of resin which needed attention for proper functioning of the equipment, thus leading to the injury. The system was not

Problem: Injury while trying to De-clump Material in a Hopper Box Why

Mechanic put his hand in the hopper in restricted area and actuated the pneumatic knife while hand was in the box

Why

“Coat hanger” and screwdriver used to un-clump material was not working and not breaking up the material.

Why Why Why

Trying to un-clump the material and he did not want material flowing out. Material clump ball continued to bounce up and away from the coat hanger/screwdriver being used in the hole.

Drying resin at too high a temperature can cause clumping. We are not monitoring the temp on back hopper. Possible lack of air flow.

net gainers while 25 took a fall. The gainers garnered an average of 86.23 ranks, while those that fell took a dip of 27.16 ranks on average, showing that the average gain among the top hundred beats the average loss in ranks by 317%,” he said. An analysis of the 100 most trusted brands in 2014 revealed that most brands were represented from Diversified with 11, Consumer Electronics with 10, Bath/Beauty with 9, Mobiles with 8, 4Wheelers, Telephony, and 2-Wheelers with 4 each, and Personal Technology, Sportswear and Aerated Drinks with 3 brands each. The Brand Trust Report, the fourth in its series, is conducted on the proprietary 61Attribute Trust Matrix of TRA . This year’s study involved 15000 hours of fieldwork covering 2500 consumer-influencers across 16 cities in India and generated 5 million data points and 20,000 unique brands from which the top 1200 brands have been listed in this year’s report.

designed to monitor the air flow or temp on back hopper. It was actually a System level Issue. If we had misdiagnosed it as a Human level problem, it could have resulted in some form of punitive action which could have included firing of an employee who was provided no tools to fix the problem and used a coat hanger, a screw-driver and ultimately his own hand. Although the actions of the employee were without question unsafe, he was trying to do his job within the system designed for him and with the limited resources provided. It was definitely a culture issue and several short and long term steps were immediately implemented to address and eliminate the root cause so the other 24 machines will not similar issues in future resulting not only safer operations but in improved productivity. Thus, this example clearly points out the fact that an investment of some time and effort in the System level approach to problem solving can result in significant hard and soft benefits for the organization in the long-term. In order to steer the organization culture towards a System-level failure analysis, we need to constantly ask ourselves and our leaders on projects and other undertakings, some critical questions: 1. Do we consider every failure as a “new lesson learned” to build on, so that the organization never encounters the same failure ever again? 2. Do we encourage our teams to learn from mistakes throughout the entire project and use the “closing phase” to focus on identifying failures, analyzing the root causes, and learning from each and every failure? 3. Do we categorize failures based on the root cause analysis as “system level”, ”process level,” and “human-level” failures? 4. Do we believe in finding and eliminating the system-level failures first as they can be serious and can have an adverse effect on more than one project within the organization? 5. Do our leaders always utilize a system-level” analysis on projects and consciously attempt to create a culture of “open learning”, innovation and creativity?

MUMBAI | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2014

« STRAIGHT TALK

ROOP KARNANI

is a Senior Journalist, Author and Industry Analyst

Its All About RBI, Fed and Elections

ill the new government comes in June, market volatility will be dictated by the RBI and the Fed. This time around RBI gave a negative surprise by increasing the Repo Rate by 25 basis points. Dr. Rajan has decided that CPI would be his benchmark and interest rates would be data dependent with inflation being his key concern. The immediate target is to bring down CPI to sub 8%. In his con-call Dr. Rajan said that his team has studied the cause of high and sticky inflation in a well thought out analysis. They have clearly spelt out that the main reason which led to high inflation during the last 4 years of UPA2 was the consistent increase of Minimum Support Price (MSP), year after year of food grains and sugarcane. But Dr. Rajan was polite enough to say that policy makers have of late moderated the MSP increase. Not only did this lead to high prices of food grains (read mainly paddy, wheat and sugarcane), but it also resulted in a change in cropping patterns, with farmers growing less of other essential food items like pulses, dals, vegetables, etc. as farmers who were assured of high prices started switching to wheat, paddy, coarse grains (jowar, bajri in certain pockets) and sugarcane in Maharashtra, UP, Karnataka, etc. The problem was compounded by the Food Corporation of India, which didn’t have enough storage space like silos which are inexpensive and easy to build. Since many years, food grains were stored by FCI in the open and during the rains they rotted and had to be thrown away. This was further compounded by the APMC Act. In short, it was gross mismanagement, but Dr. Rajan was polite enough not to say so, except that he hoped that the future government would moderate MSP. The UPA2 think tank in its wisdom, four years ago took a strategic decision to raise MSP, thinking that the transfer of wealth from the Urban rich to farmers which constitute 70% of population, will bring it to power for a third term. But things went horribly wrong. This only benefited the rich farmers, increased inflation, increased fertilizer subsidies and MNREGA which proved a success later, but never reached the targeted poor, throwing fiscal math out of the window. Not to speak of the various scams which brought about policy paralysis. Worse still crude oil prices remained high and oil subsidy shot up and imports of oil and Gold spiraled out of control and created a CAD problem. The Fed meanwhile decided to end QE3 and first announced it in the mid 2013 which sent currencies into a tizzy in the EM’s which had high CAD. All kudos to P. Chidambaram and Dr. Rajan to control CAD. Seeing the chaos in the currency markets, Bernanke decided to hold QE3 taper, and frantic and targeted efforts of the Fin Min and RBI brought the INR stability. But now India is better prepared to handle QE3 taper. A reduction of 10 bn dollar in Bond Purchases by the Fed is inevitable. But despite that the actual event has caused nervousness in stock markets around the world. Mark Mobins head of Franklin Templeton (Asia) says, that during the last 4 years, trillions of dollars have been printed by the world’s 3 largest economies namely US, Japan, China. Banks around the globe are flush with too much liquidity. No asset class is safe except equity. Gold is no longer a safe haven. Crude is trending downwards due to US shale gas revolution. And real estate is yet to recover. So equities are bound to inch up, once the markets knee jerk reaction to QE3 taper settles down. In India markets will watch each RBI and Fed move closely till the election results are declared. Political ups and downs will also cause volatility. So its all about RBI, Fed and elections till June 2014.

Afternoon Despatch & Courier

Company

ABIRLANUVO ACC

ADANIENT

ADANIPORTS

ADANIPOWER ALBK

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1091

1038

262

280

226

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1032

147

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151

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1195

1012 240

1143

1061 157

35 87

JISLJALEQS

208

JPPOWER

973

944

140

134

30 71

AMBUJACEM

159

158

160

162

156

155

APOLLOTYRE

114

111

121

131

100

ANDHRABANK

ARVIND

150

146

158

ASIANPAINT

473

477

487

1131

1184

ASHOKLEY

AUROPHARMA AXISBANK

473

1121

453

513

BHEL

BIOCON

187

154

381

406

330

304

242

259

207

189

325

330

298

293

307

414

413

CANBK

223

224

CAIRN

CENTURYTEX CESC

CIPLA

326

438

335 322

320

403

390

418

424

143

408

498

355

CNXIT

9991

9948

10077

10207

9819

9690

COLPAL

1312

1307

1325

1343

1288

1270

DABUR

172

169

178

188

160

151

DIVISLAB

1327

1307

1366

1424

1248

1190

DRREDDY

2629

2635

2674

2712

2597

2559

COALINDIA CROMPGREAV DISHTV DLF

EXIDEIND

FEDERALBNK GAIL

GMRINFRA

GODREJIND GRASIM

HAVELLS

HCLTECH HDFC

HDFCBANK HDIL

HEROMOTOCO HEXAWARE HINDALCO

249 116 48

138 102 80

354

272

2580 782

249

111 48

138 101 79

351

273

2587 764

254 124 49

144 104 82

359

289

2609

818

306

2631 872

342

256

2565

711

333

240

2543

657

636

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673

618

600

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2007

2102

2197

110

111

117

123

578

584

567

136

820

133

841 46

141

132

ICICIBANK

995

996

1042

IDEA

144

143

149

INFY

630

814

130

INDUSINDBK

368

1343

130

IGL

125

1398

HINDZINC

IFCI

107

132

1562

257

IDFC

151

1507

240

IDBI

239

1452

246

IBREALEST

138

244

1471

HINDPETRO

HINDUNILVR

259

573 54 56

249

386

573 55 56 93 23

247

387

59 95 24

861

149 275

1912

125 105

780

1816

117 99

222

204

127

125

1088

950

904

155

137

131

135

62 98 25

253

260

405

800

424

240

368

561

89 21

234

350

3722

3716

3774

3831

3658

3600

IOC

247

239

261

284

217

195

ITC

326

330

333

322

IOB IRB

JINDALSTEL

46 76

252

254

263

52 85

272

42 69

244

M&MFIN

MCDOWELL-N

MCLEODRUSS MRF

NHPC

283

264

462

LUPIN

876

279

426

189

39 63

318

235

NTPC

ONGC

ORIENTBANK

888 244

259 18

127

258 18

254

264 18

943

264

269 19

855

852

233

253 18

142

128

144

130

145

133

141

125

3126

175

174

187

201

161

148

276

281

287

270

109

115

121

102

537

568

599

506

131

132

137 97

141 98

321

340

358

303

RECLTD

174

173

178

183

168

858

880

327

RELIANCE

836

RPOWER

SIEMENS

SRTRANSFIN SSLT

374 62

121 324

333

372

386

836 62

646

671

596

190

192

360

357

265

259

TATAGLOBAL

142

141

TATAMTRDVR

176

TITAN UBL

UCOBANK

ULTRACEMCO UNIONBANK UNITECH

279

574

206

292

144

148

351

353

364

2254

357

220

228

840

823

223 67

243

138 172

336

2199

561 72

226

260

135

333 167 69

314

2158

927

771

719

237 77

211 62

115

190

199

WIPRO

579

576

585

ZEEL

265

262

273

314

571

875

1672

310

492

1602

1758

104

1382

1688

1730

107

1948

1701 108

792

344

1861

190

YESBANK

1710 109

163

306

337

577

2324

108

347

343

400

285

165

374

378

476

179

269

188

2282

1775

519

294

183

2241

1804

377

276

286

358

219

622

277

178

601

607

367

UPL

VOLTAS

621

546

TATACHEM

TECHM

629

555

TCS

358

1464

TATASTEEL

814

400

1710

SYNDIBANK

TATAPOWER

315

1628

592

TATAMOTORS

341

114

1546

592

TATACOMM

135

1520

SUNPHARMA SUNTV

128

122

325 123

264

127

RANBAXY

SBIN

139

123

3170

SAIL

3301

PTC

RELINFRA

247

3258

543

RELCAPITAL

819

222

3214

277

PNB

RCOM

826

3228

111

POWERGRID

243

914

963

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PETRONET PFC

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975

182

OFSS

176

355

211

315

165

364

204

142

294

BPCL

196

NMDC

318

412

197

391

387

474

631

5952

364

453

6031

341

433

110

6267

348

439

104

6189

9526

297

6110

9927

339

6112

11130

325

940

645

NIFTY

472

10729

311

1008

686

17744

10328

316

1214

673

18523

10277

162

1146

659

20861

147

BHARTIARTL

1077

661

20082

172

BHARATFORG

1068

19303

246

910

19562

221

1012

837

2168

197

978

877

2346

193

944

998

2879

BANKINDIA

955

957

2701

1841

BATAINDIA

917

2524

1881

BANKNIFTY

923

2495

332

1024

2003

512

948

456

630

916

1962 591

884

1922 551

895

1908

552

LICHSGFIN

M&M

BAJAJ-AUTO

BANKBARODA

KTKBANK

1013

466

392

KOTAKBANK

1000

497

1078

JUBLFOOD

988

121

573

JSWSTEEL

989

133

1237

JPASSOCIAT

170

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112

333

123

100

203 57

1643

93 11

208

181

171

595

566

556

283

252

241

120

352

295

276

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

Afternoon Despatch & Courier

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« TOP VIEW

One reason for high inflation is supply-side mismatches and other is too much demand. We are trying our best to improve health of the economy and we will do whatever it takes to improve that. As far as growth goes we are addressing it through a variety of reforms which make finance easier and more widely available but I hope the answer for us in the demand-side is doing something different from what we are doing now — Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan

« BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS RELIGARE CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON GAIL

Markets Indecisive

NSE India : CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Monday (February 3, 2014) By Dominic Rebello

REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY:

The Nifty rose marginally on Friday (January 31, 2014) a net 15.80 points (0.26%) and closed at the 6089 point level. The market opened up with a gap at the 6082 points level. It then declined sharply into the red and registered the day’s low at the 6067 points level at 9.18 a.m. The index then rose sharply into the green and turned into a range bound movement until 2.10 p.m. It then rose sharply and then registered the day’s high at the 6097 points level at 2.30 p.m. The index then declined marginally into the red but bounced back into the green and then turned into a range bound movement until closing at the day. The Nifty witnessed a volatile session and moved in a narrow range of 30 points Sentiment was bullish and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 35 were gainers, 14 were losers while 1 remained unchanged. All the sectoral indices barring auto closed in the green. Substantial buying was witnessed in realty, PSU, metal and oil & gas stocks. TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Volume: Volume (Qty shares) decreased 20.46%. This change is substantial and indicates a less than full participation by investors.

Market Breadth: Overall Market Breadth on the NSE was positive. Amongst all the traded stocks, 939 were gainers, 502 were losers and 47 remained unchanged.

Slow Stochastic Indicator: The Slow Stochastic Oscillator has risen in the over-sold zone. The Slow K line in the Stochastic Oscillator has risen above the slow D line (positive and a buy signal). RSI Indicator: The RSI is above the 30 level and is now rising (positive if it continues).

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

Overall Market Strength/Weakness: The indicators and oscillators discussed here are indicating a weak market but with a neutral bias. Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main support is at the 5958 points level. The next support is at the 5877 points level. Resistance Levels: The immediate main resistance is at the 6372 points level. The next resistance is at the 6424 points level.

Pivot Point Analysis: For intra-day traders the support and resistance levels are calculated according to the pivot point theory and are: Pivot point = 6085 (This is the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-day). Support (1) = 6072. Support (2) = 6055. Resistance (1) = 6102. Resistance (2) = 6115.

OUTLOOK FOR TODAY: On Japanese candlestick patterns the index has formed a second consecutive doji pattern. This indicates that the indecisiveness amongst investors continues. The next candle formation will confirm whether the bias is towards the buy or sell side of the market. However, the index is still below its 5, 15 and 25 days moving averages and all the three averages are declining. Further, the velocity parameters too are negatively trended. All these indicate a negative bias. Investors are advised to avoid buying at present levels.

Work with strict stop losses on all positions

ADX Indicator & DI Lines: The +DI line is below the –DI line but both lines are converging (positive if it continues). The ADX is rising while the Market Index is rising, which indicates that the present up trend is increasing in strength.

MOVING AVERAGES (TREND INDICATORS) The index: Is below its 5-day average (at 6109) Negative. Is below its 15-day average (at 6235) Negative. Is below its 25-day average (at 6229) Negative. Is above its 200-day average (at 5971) Positive.

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CMP: Rs. 359 Target Rs. 475 GAIL posted an above-expected Q3 PAT of Rs 16.8bn (+83% QoQ) on higher LPG realisations/margins and a one-time gain of Rs 3.5bn. Highlights: (a) NG transmission/trading volumes improve QoQ to 96/80 mmscmd (Q2: 95/ 79). (b) Transmission tariffs/trading margins at Rs 1361/ tscm and US$ 0.32/mmbtu. (c) Petchem volume sales/realisations at 122TMT (+13% QoQ)/Rs 95.5 per kg. Maintain BUY on (a) a likely increase in NG transmission vol. and p/l tariffs and (b) likely lower subsidy in FY15/FY16E. LPG realisations shore up operating profits: Operating profits improved to Rs 22.8bn (+56% QoQ) on better realisations (Rs 58/kg) in the LPG segment along with higher EBIT margins at Rs 7.6bn (39.4%) due to subsidy exemption. PAT-level performance was also driven by a one-time gain of Rs 3.5bn from divestment in China gas holding. NG transmission volumes likely bottom out: NG transmission/trading volumes improved marginally in Q3 to 96/80mmscmd (Q2:95/79mmscmd) and are likely to have bottomed out. We expect an improvement over the coming months led by (a) a likely increase in RIL’s KG-D6 production, (b) commissioning of GSPC’s east-coast Deen Dayal field and (c) improved RLNG intake. Maintain BUY with a revised TP of Rs 475 on (a) rolling over earnings to FY16, (b) a likelihood of tariff improvement for new p/l, upon revision, (c) an expected improvement in NG transmission/trading volumes and (d) improved profitability on exemption/reduction of the subsidy burden .

KARVY STOCK BROKING CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON INDOCO REMEDIES

CMP: Rs. 120 Target Rs. 143 Indoco’s revenues increased by 25% YoY to Rs1,884mn in Q3FY14, in line with our estimates of Rs1,770mn. Margins were higher due to favorable product-mix. Net Profit has shown growth of 91% YoY to Rs141mn in Q3FY14. Revenue Details: The Company’s Domestic branded Formulations (DF) business grew 22% YoY to Rs1,149mn, while its Exports Formulations rose 32% YoY to Rs. 620mn(our estimates). Domestic and Export API grew by 40%YoY and 12% YoY respectively. Formulations exports in Regulated markets are up by 24% YoY to Rs523mn compared to Rs423mn in Q3FY13. Non regulated market grew by 116% YoY to Rs96mn compared to Rs44mn in Q3FY13. Outlook & Valuation: We increase our revenue estimates for FY14E by 2% to Rs7.3bn and maintain our revenues for FY15E. We decrease our EDBITA margins for FY14E from 13.1% to 12.7% and from 19.2% to 18.4% for FY15E. This has been on account of higher R & D and staff expenses. We decrease our EPS estimates from Rs5.8 to Rs4.4 for FY14E and from Rs13.8 to Rs13 for FY15E. As a matter of prudence we continue to write off R & D from the P & L and remove amortization from depreciation. We rate the stock as BUY with a price target of Rs 143 based on 11x FY15E

NOMURA CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON SHRIRAM TRANSPORT FINANCE

CMP: Rs. 626 Target Rs. 740 What happened in Q3: SHTF reported AUM growth of 15%y-y vs our estimate of 18.9% as it chose not to grow even its used CV book sequentially. The lender also reported a 20bps q-q compression in NIMs due to negative carry of excess liquidity during the quarter. In addition quarterly LLPs came in at 226bps, the highest in last nine quarters. FY15F outlook: We expect NIMs of 6.65%, AUM growth of 14% y-y and LLP of 225bps for FY15F. Within CVs we expect used CV to grow at 20% yy. We expect some support to growth from increasing rural penetration for the lender and strong fee income traction on its transaction base platforms like Automall. Catalysts: Strong pick-up in loan growth, decline in LLPs Valuation: TP cut on decrease in both multiple and earnings estimates SHTF currently trades at 1.5x FY15F ABV of INR409.5 and 8.8x FY15F EPS of INR70, for ROA of 2.9% and adjusted ROE of 18.3%. Our revised TP implies 2.3x FY15F ABV (vs. 2.3x earlier). Our valuation methodology remains unchanged. Please send all business and corporate related mails to business@afternoondc.in

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Health Plan Must For The Entire Family MANOJ ASWANI

is VP at MyInsurance Club.com

« INSURANCE

I am 36 year old male and looking to cover myself and my wife aged 31 with Health cover plans and Critical Illness. Please give some suggestions for taking the right plan (Mediclaim) and whether it’s best to take from general insurance players or life insurance players with Maternity Benefit? Should one take CI (critical illness cover) policy separately or clubbed with Mediclaim as rider? —Jay Bhuvan, Khar It totally depends on your requirement whether you need a health plan from a General Insurance Company or from a Life Insurance Company. Family Floater Plans for Self and Spouse: 1. Apollo Munich Optima Restore Health Insurance Plan- In this Plan, the Sum Assured gets restored after the same is exhausted. 2. Tata AIG Wellsurance Family Health Insurance 3. Chola MS Family Health Insurance Plan 4. National Insurance Mediclaim Policy

Plan for Self: You can opt for Max Bupa Heartbeat Insurance Plan where anyone from birth to death can be covered and you would also get maternity benefits but after 2 years on waiting. But, in this plan, 1st year child vaccination would also be covered. Other Plans for Maternity: Star Health Wedding Gift Insurance Policy and Apollo Munich Easy Health Insurance Plan

There are some basic differences between a Critical Illness Plan and a Critical Illness Rider: 1. Standalone Critical Illness Plan – Such a plan can be bought from any general insurer. It provides coverage for only critical illnesses. Unlike critical illness riders on life insurance plans, standalone policies do not provide a death benefit. 2. Critical Illness Rider – A critical illness rider can be clubbed with your existing life or health insurance plan. In the case of a life insurance plan, the policyholder can benefit from a death benefit or a critical illness benefit. When added on to a health plan, the critical illness benefit could come as a lump sum even as the health coverage takes care of other medical expenses under its purview. Which insurance policy should I buy for myself and my joint family? I am 41 years old, Wife 38 years and I have 1 son aged 12 years and a daughter aged 8 years. I also need a plan for my father 62 years, mother 58 years and brother 37 and brother’s wife 35. It would be great if I can take 1 single plan for all of us instead of opting for 2-3 plans separately. Kindly guide the best plan where everything will be

Key Features This is a single premium plan Loyalty Addition accrues at least after 5 Policy Years Loyalty Addition is payable on Policy Maturity or on earlier death 15% of the Sum Assured is paid after every 3 years as Survival Benefit There are 3 policy tenures possible- 9 years, 12 years and 15 years There is a Sum Assured Rebate for large Sum Assured

Benefits: Death Benefit – Death Benefit – In case of death of the Life Insured, Within the first 5 Policy Years, the Nominee would receive the entire Sum Assured, irrespective of the Survival Benefits already paid After the first 5 Policy Years, the Nominee would receive the entire Sum Assured, irrespective of the Survival Benefits already paid + Loyalty Addition

Plan, your entire family will get Rs 5 Lacs of Floater Coverage as well as each individual will have Rs 1 Lac of individual coverage. Thus, it is a unique combination and one of a kind in the industry. This plan has no sub limits, covers all hospitalization and day care procedure and has direct claim settlement with no third party intervention. This policy can be continued lifelong with guaranteed renewability. (The author is Vice President at www.MyInsuranceClub.com, insurance comparison website in India. You may write to him at manoj@myinsuranceclub.com)

« PRODUCT REVIEW: LIC NEW BIMA BACHAT PLAN

By Manoj Aswani

Plan Summary LIC New Bima Bachat Plan is a Single Premium Guaranteed Returns Money Back Plan. This is a Non Linked Insurance Traditional Plan where 15% of the Sum Assured is paid at the end of every 3 years. On survival till the end of the Policy Tenure, the Single Premium paid along with Loyalty Addition would be paid to the Policyholder as Maturity Benefit. However, if the Life Insured dies within the policy tenure, the entire Sum Assured is paid irrespective of the amount of money paid as Survival Benefit.

taken care of and I have nothing to worry about later as well. —Ramesh Singh, Dombivali Considering all factors, the best option for your entire Joint Family would be Max Bupa Heartbeat Family First Plan for your family. It covers individuals from birth to death and all day care procedures as well for 13 relationships and upto 50 people. This plan has been formed keeping the Joint Indian Family in mind. This plan is a combination of Individual + Floater Plan, i.e. if you opt for say 1+5 Lacs coverage for your family under Family First

A Single Premium Guaranteed Returns Plan Eligibility

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

Min.

35000 for 9 Years Tenure 50000 for 12 Years Tenure 70000 for 15 Years Tenure

No Limit

9, 12

Premium Payment Term (in years) Entry Age of Life Insured (in years) Age at Maturity (in years) Payment Modes

Max.

Single

66 for 9 Years Tenure 63 for 12 Years Tenure 60 for 15 Years Tenure 75

Only Single Premium

Sur vival Benefit – The Life Insured would receive the following Survival Benefit For a Policy Term of 9 years, 15% of Sum is payable at the end of 3 and 6 years, a total of 30% of Sum Assured is payable For a Policy Term of 12 years, 15% of Sum is payable at the end of 3, 6 and 9 years, a total of 45% of Sum Assured is payable For a Policy Term of 15 years, 15% of Sum is payable at the end of 3, 6, 9 and 12 years, a total of 60% of Sum Assured is payable Maturity Benefit – On survival of the Life Insured till the end of the Policy Tenure, the entire Single Premium paid along with Loyalty Additions would be payable to the Policyholder as Maturity Benefit and the policy terminates. Income Tax Benefit Life Insurance premiums paid up to Rs. 1,00,000 are allowed as a deduction from the taxable income each year under section 80C. The Maturity Benefit is also tax free under section 10(10)D subject to fulfillment of all terms and conditions. Discontinuance of Premiums This is a single premium plan, so no question of stopping to pay your premiums Surrender Benefit There is a Guaranteed Surrender Value.

Riders There is no Additional Rider available with this plan: Riders

Available

Accidental Dismemberment Benefit

Critical illness

Accidental Death, Disability and Dismemberment Benefit Waiver of Premium

Family Income Benefit

Accelerated Sum Assured

No No No

Guaranteed Surrender Value in Year 1 = 70% of Single Premium Paid – Taxes and Excess Premium Guaranteed Surrender Value from Year 2 onwards = 90% of Single Premium Paid – Taxes and Excess Premium – All Survival Benefits already paid.

Loan Loan facility is available under this policy upto 60% of Surrender Value as on the Date of Loan.

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Ajaya: Roll of the Dice By Anand Neelakantan The Lowland By Jhumpa Lahiri Sycamore Row: The sequel to A Time to Kill By John Grisham And the Mountains Echoed By Khaled Hosseini Inferno By Dan Brown Bankerupt By Ravi Subramaniam The Oath of the Vayuputras: Shiva Trilogy Book 3 By Amish Tripathi The Immortals of Meluha : Shiva Trilogy Book 1 By Amish Tripathi The Cuckoo's Calling By Robert Galbraith Asura: Tale of The Vanquished Anand Neelakantan

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Three novels this week had their individual degrees of literary finesse. Red Hill by Jamie McGuire attests to the fact that love will find a way to overcome situations, no matter how hopeless they seem. The Einstein Pursuit by Chris Kuzneski sees rogue elements being countered by those who have the good of the world at heart. The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti makes you live and love under military occupation. Very moving.

If the world gets taken over by the infected els and movies, but in most of these, the evil ambulators are powered by the nether world, and are scary demons that have to be destroyed before they manage to chew on us. A contagion originating in Germany, because of some researcher, has breached American shores, and passengers falling ill on incoming international flights have begun attacking the airline employees and paramedics who are getting them off the planes at major airports. Jamie McGuire, however, has us confronted by infected persons who have 'turned' into zombies after being bitten and have now developed a need for human flesh ed Hill by Jamie McGuire is and blood. They are shuffling doomsday scenario revisited. about, biting and eating up their We have a surfeit on 'undead' nov- victims, and the numbers increase

to where towns and cities get overrun by the walking corpses. As main characters, when all hell breaks loose in the American mid-west, you have Scarlet, a redhaired nurse separated from her philandering husband who has taken her daughters Halle and Jenna on an outing. Nathan, a hardworking man at a desk in an electric co-op, gets home with his daughter, Zoe, only to find that his indifferent wife has left them and run off. Miranda and her sister, Ashley, are two vivacious collegegoing girls out with their boyfriends, Bryce and Cooper. They are the daughters of Dr. Hayes who owns Red Hill Ranch, a wonderful secluded place which becomes the last stand in this story. The novel is about Scarlet trying to reach her daughters and

husband, becoming a desperate fighter, knocking off the animated creatures as she heads for and occupies Red Hill Ranch. Nathan too is doing his best to get his little Zoe to safety, with his brother-in-law, the quick shooting Skeeter, who plays a super fighter role. The Hayes girls go through hell, as death and despair take over. All find themselves reaching Red Hill with Joey, who has just got back from Iraq, and is handy with the gun when it is time to pick off the converging walking dead. This is all written so well that you feel you are part of the story and are wracked with all the traumatic emotions as loved ones fall prey to the walking dead. There is a lot going for this book as we live through it and emerge survivors. Red Hill by Jamie McGuire Simon & Schuster Rs.350

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When science becomes a tool of the crooked den, gets blown up and a massive inferno destroys all evidences that could help uncover the truth behind the incident. The Interpol gets in because it emerges that a great number of scientists who were involved in research and technology and had clandestinely congregated there over some mysterious project, were of different nationalities. The blast seems to be handiwork of a master expert. Interpol Director Nick Dial has to fly in from France to network with local police expert, Johann Eklund. There in the United States, in Pittsburgh, another scientist involved in bio-medical research, 80-year-old Mattias Sahlberg, back from a morning walk, is he Einstein Pursuit by Chris about to enter his home when he Kuzneski takes the meddling espies gunmen entering the place, with science a little further. A se- and the chase begins. He manages cret laboratory in Stockholm, Swe- to elude the men and calls for

help, contacting the only person who can save him, belonging to the Payne family that had hired him to work for their industries when he first stepped ashore in America from Sweden. Enter Jonathan Payne and David Jones, ex-Special Forces. There is a superb, action-packed long drawn out punch up and shoot-out at the Monongahela Incline cable car station. There is a tough Egyptian, Omar Masseri, entrusted with extracting Sahlberg and his team of crack commando-types comes to grief after a gripping gun battle. In the aftermath, an injured attacker is killed in police custody as is the lawyer who met him. So keen is someone about leaving no traces or tracks. For us readers, it is essentially a paisa vasool entertainment right from the start. It emerges that this book is about molecular biology, espe-

Palestine will one day become a land of peace pain if you read it with an open mind. After suspending unjustifiable and indefensible pro-Israeli, pro-West bias, (why do Indians have it?) and accepting the Palestinians as human beings, the suffering of a people who have been denied the right to exist in their own homeland can leave you shocked and speechless. This is not a case for Hamas or the Hezbollah, but suppression in whatever form breeds resentment, and living in the fear of death for too long makes one indifferent, to the extent strapping a belt laden with explosives, or lobbing one at your tormentors doesn't seem so frightening. There must therefore be peace, is what the reader will endorse. This is the world view of 12he Almond Tree by Michelle year-old Ahmed Hamid, that is why Cohen Corasanti can inflict the comparison to Khaled Hos-

seini's The Kite Runner. It is also an indictment. Mama began to retch. A soldier spat at her. Baba lay on the ground, his lips parted innocently, his eyes closed as if he were asleep, except that blood poured out of his nose and under his head. My eyes never left him as two soldiers dragged his limp body out into the darkness...Outside I heard three gunshots fired at close range. My heart convulsed. I looked over at Mama. She had dropped to the ground,her arms around her knees, rocking back and forth...My family's wails, as we huddled together, penetrated my bones. I willed myself dead in Baba's place and knew, as simply and certainly as a twelve-year-old boy knows anything, that I'd never be happy again. Two weeks later: The screech of

cially connected with cellular manipulation, and if it may sound like gobbledegook here, credit to Chris for simplifying it in the book. The various characters involved offer some science lessons with fascinating insight, and importantly so, because that is where the real world is actually heading. There is a secretive watchdog Einstein Club operating from the US. Only problem is that various elements and high funding billionaires like a Zidane have become unscrupulous for their own reason, for which purpose research is being hijacked. In the bargain, scientists like Tomas Berglund go missing and are found operating at remote unknown facilities, or are being bumped off like at the start of the story. Payne and Jones with Interpol makes for a lethal combination. The Einstein Pursuit by Chris Kuzneski Hachette India Rs.350

tyres at the bottom of the hill brought me to reality...Boots dug into the hill, crushing the terrain. 'Everyone out of the house!' The faceless voice of the army called through its megaphone from our yard. Mama's eyes widened with terror.I opened the tin door that I'd just fixed. A dozen gas-masked soldiers stood in our yard like giant insects. A soldier lifted his mask.'Out! Now!' He was a chubby-cheeked teenager, a grotesque doll come to life...Sara's face was covered in blood that came from a huge gash on her forehead. I placed her limp body on the ground...Mama leaned over my shoulder. 'Save her, Ahmed.' Sara never moved. Her eyes never fluttered. 'Please, Ahmed,' Mama cried. The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti Fingerprint Rs.295

SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS

TV GUIDE

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and his longtime trusted associate, Doctor Watson (Jude Law), take on their arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), with the help of Holmes’ older brother Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) and a gypsy named Simza (Noomi Rapace). HBO, 9 p.m.

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SOAPS & SERIALS

Kalavati has trapped Mrityunjay, Radha and Tara and gangsters start beating up Mrityunjay. After great difficulty, Radha and Tara trap the gangsters in a net and Mritunjay manages to fight Kalavati and the trio tries to escape. But Kalavati is much faster and traps them again Will the three ever be free again or will Kalavati kill them before help arises? Life Ok, 8.30 p.m .

Akshara is pregnant for the second time. What special surprise and care has Naitik planned for her. Star Pl us, 9.30 p.m.

SAPNE SUHANE LADAKPAN KE

KT takes Rachna out for a Fashion Symposium but on their way they meet with an accident. KT saves Rachna from drowning in a pool of water and carries her to a nearby cottage. Zee T V, 7.30 p.m.

BE THE CREATURE

The best way to understand a creature is to BE THE CREATURE; follow the Kratt Brothers on Animal Planet’s BE THE CREATURES as they throw themselves into the wild lifestyles of animals to discover what it’s like to live with animals around the globe. Ani mal Plan et, 9 p.m.

Ek Boond Ishq, Life Ok, 8.30 p.m.

Across the Earth, there are traces of a long-lost world. From seashells 8,000 meters above sea-level to species that seem to have jumped thousands of miles of ocean and rock formations that end in thin air - the clues are there to be found. This series

Showcasing the world of science in truly unexpected ways, tune into HOW TECH WORKS on Discovery Science as it features an eclectic mix of all science things and explore how they work. D iscovery Science, 9 p.m.

RISE OF THE CONTINENTS

will piece together these clues to reveal the story of how our world came to be. In this three-part series we will go on an epic journey through a land that no longer exists; the long lost supercontinent of Pangea. Discover y, 9 p.m .

HOW TECH WORKS

MOVIES OF THE DAY

In New York, unemployed and divorced Larry Daley is a complete loser. His son Nick is very disappointed with his father who is going to be evicted. Larry accepts the job of night watchman in the Museum of Natural History and takes the place of three old security guards that have just retired in order to raise some money and pay his bills. On his first shift, Larry soon realizes that everything at the museum is not as it seems as the statues begin to come to life after the sun sets. The Museum transforms into complete chaos with the inexperienced Larry in charge as he learns that an old Egyptian stone that came to the Museum in 1950 brings these statues to life until dawn. When Larry brings his son to spend a night with him, the three old guards break into the Museum to try to steal the magical stone. Larry organizes all the historic characters to help him stop the criminals and save the museum. Star M ovi es, 9 p.m.

KAASH

Bollywood actor Ritesh and Pooja are married and live a fairly wealthy lifestyle. When he ventures to produce a film, a huge risk considering his naivety, results in financial losses, which they have to make good by selling all their personal properties, vehicles, and belongings. They re-locate to live in a small flat, and Ritesh loses himself in an alcoholic and nostalgic world. Pooja decides to take over the reins of this family by seeking employed, much to the chagrin of her husband, who would prefer that she stay at home - a discussion that may well be the turning point of their relationship and signal the end of their marriage. Fil my, 9 p.m.

SABSE BADHKAR HUM

The movie starts in the late 1980s when a group of friends celebrate their farewell party. They promise each other to keep in touch. Among them are Hanumantha Rao (Tamil actor PrabhuGanesan), who has a son named Prabha, and Vishwanath (Ahuthi Prasad) who has daughter Nandini. To reach their professional goals, Vishwanath and his daughter travel to Switzerland, while Hanumantha Rao becomes a criminal lawyer and settles in India. Thus, Prabha and Nandini get separated in their childhood. Years later, these old friends call for a reunion where a grown-up Prabha (Prabhas) is eager to see his love Nandini (Kajal Agarwal) but it turns out that she doesn’t love him at all. Further many complications and twists and turns take place throughout the movie. M ax, 9 p.m.

PLAYERS

Mastermind Charlie Mascarenhas (Abhishek Bachchan) and his accomplice Riya (Bipasha Basu) are one of the greatest pair of thieves in India. A friend of Charlie, Raj (Aftab Shivdasani) is killed by the Russian mafia. At Raj’s funeral, his wife hands Charlie a CD containing information about the transfer of gold by train from Russia to Romania. Charlie decides to rob the train with the help of imprisoned Don and con-artist Victor Braganza (Vinod Khanna). They hire a team of criminals to join them in the rob-

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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

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Night At The Museum, Star Movies, 9 p.m. bery. The group includes Spider (Neil Nitin Mukesh), who is a world-classhacker, an explosives expert Bilal Bashir (Sikander Kher), a prosthetic makeup artist Sunny (Omi Vaidya), and an illusionist Ronnie (Bobby Deol). Zee Ci nema, 8.30 p.m .

THE COUNTRY BEARS

Based on an attraction at Disneyland, the Country Bear Jamboree, “The Country Bears” (2002) is one in a long line of live action Disney family films. The movie is a satire of Behind the Music rock & roll bands. Beary, a young bear raised by a human family in a world where humans and talking bears coexist, attempts to trace his roots. He meets up with the Country Bears, a long-since broken-up band, a parody of bands like the Eagles. Beary helps the Country Bears reunite for one final concert, while searching for who he truly is. Zee Studi o, 8.40 p.m.

INTEHA PYAR KI

Bombay-based Rohit is the only son of multi-millionaire widow of Shankar Dayal Walia. She would like to get him married, but Rohit is more interested in alcohol, dancing courtesans, and late nights out with his friends. Disappointed, his mom talks to him and asserts that he look after the family business and get married. This talk has considerable effect on Rohit and he decides to assist his mom run the business, so for starters he goes to picturesque Pallampur to supervise and assess the situation. Once there he meets with a stunningly beautiful young woman, Tania, the niece of Dr. Lall Jaiswal, and both fall in love with each other. Both plan to get married, however, they have an accident and end up getting hospitalized. When Rohit is discharged he finds out to his shock and disbelief that Tania has left Pallampur in the company of her dad. Efforts to locate her are in vain. When he returns to Bombay, he finds that his mother had picked Tania to get married to him. Thrilled both .. CVO, 9 p.m.

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TV TATTLE Horror tour

'Bhoot Aaya', depicting real life super natural incidents showing on Sony Entertainment Television, is set to get scarier and spine chilling. The month of February will showcase ‘The most haunted places in India’ and reinvent incidents that took place in Kuldhara, Ooty and Kerala. While a newly married couple go to Kerala for a honeymoon and land up in Thattekad forest – which is known for black magic practices; a family of three encounter supernatural forces as they pass through Kuldhara – an abandoned village 15 kms from Jaisalmer. Taking the audiences on this spooky tour would be Neha Dhupia, Manoj Bajpai, Sonu Nigam and Jimmy Shergill.

Magical entry

The young and charming Akshay Sethi makes his way to enter SAB TV’s fantasy show ‘Baal Veer’ as a devilish magician ‘Mogambo Gomango’. Known for his earlier negative roles in 'Saat Phere' and 'Sasural Genda Phool', Akshay will be seen in a complete different character as Mogambo Gomango. He plays a magician with a negative shade, who possesses special magical powers, through which he can create his own clone, becomes invisible and fools people through his magical tricks. Akshay Sethi said, “It’s for the first time that a male antagonist has been introduced”.

Suneel Grover, the most popular funny man of Indian television who walked out of his Gutthi avtar on Kapil Sharma’s 'Comedy Nights', will now be seen in a Chutki avtar on his own stand-up reality show ‘Mad in India’ which starts February 16 on Star Plus to be telecast every Sunday. Sandeep Hattangadi spoke to the comedy king about his new show and role

How did this concept of ‘Mad in India’ come about? I like to make people laugh and I thought about this comedy concept where I will be seen as ‘Chutki’ who has her own gags and situations which will make the viewers laugh on a Sunday which will be a stress-buster for them and they can go to work happily on a Sunday. My main aim is to put a smile on my viewers' face.

Will it be similar to Kapil’s 'Comedy Nights'? Not really. The show director is the same but my cocomedians are different like Kiku Sharad, Siddharth Jadhav, Dolly Ahluwalia, and Khayali which is a good team, I guess. I will be speaking to celebs and movie stars but that will be co-ordinated by the channel. Initially Purbi Joshi and Rajeev Thakur were slated to be a part of the show but now they have opted out. What was Kapil’s reaction to your show? Have you spoken to him? Do you want me to? I guess he would be happy for me and I wish him well for his show and we will always remain good friends.

What exactly went wrong between you two? Lets get it right for once and for all? Nothing went wrong as speculated in the media. We had an amicable parting. My character on the show (Gutthi) will always remain close to my heart as it gave me so much name and fame and I should thank Kapil for that.

What will Chutki’s avtar be like? It will be a slightly similar to Gutthi, a small town lady, but my writers have developed new gags and funny situations which will make the viewers laugh uproariously. Chutki wears bright salwar-kameez, cheap perfume, funky, blue shades and two plaits. Her body language defines the typical small-town girl and her Punjabi accented broken English makes her likeable. Manish Paul has gone about town saying it’s his show. It’s nothing like that. He will just be the emcee of the show.

Reportedly you have poached on Kapil’s 'Comedy Nights' director and brought him on your show. It was his decision and he had always wanted to work with me. Who are your favourite comedians? Myself (he says nonchalantly). Your inspirations in comedy? My mirror (he says matter-of-factly).

What about films? I am getting good offers. My role in the recent ‘Zilla Ghaziabad’ was appreciated.

Admiration society

Poonam Dhillon, who is back on television with Sony Entertainment Television’s fiction show ‘Ekk Nayi Pehchaan’ has been gaining a lot of praises for her portrayal of a traditional Gujarati mother-in-law. The twitter account of the actress tells us that after the launch of this show, Poonam has received an appreciation call from BJP leader L.K. Advani and his family for her incredible performance. They also mentioned that 'Ekk Nayi Pehchaan' is one of their favorite shows on television. Poonam said, “Advani’s daughter Pratibha Advani is a friend of mine and any feedback from her and her family makes a big difference to me”.

High praise

India’s music sensation, Sonu Nigam, is not shy of complimenting good work. In fact, he prefers to do it on a public forum like Twitter. Recently, he complimented 'Gustakh Dil' artiste Sana Sheikh for her performance in the show. She said that he had recently seen the promo and was proud of Sana. His tweet said, “Love and all the best. Saw the new promo of Gustakh Dil and you’re looking like a pro”. Sana promptly replied, “Thank you sir, will always try my best to make you proud”. Sonu keeps an eye on Sana’s growth and constantly tries to help her with advice.

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Focus shifts to drama, comedy in 'Khatron Ke Khiladi-5'

Gokuldham society members are now set to enjoy. Not only tapu sena but even bapuji along with the other members are willing to join the fitness camp that is being set in the society. Now the tadka of the fitness camp is the hot and super fit Nigaar Khan who is making her entry in 'Taarak Mehta Ka Oltah Chashmaah' as the yoga trainer. She is going to teach the members yoga practices and tell them the secrets for getting body like hers. “It was real crazy fun working with the Taarak Mehta team. I was having absolute laughter riot the whole time, not realising that I was actually there for a shoot”.

Notching a century

he fifth season of adventure TV reality show 'Fear Factor – Khatron Ke Khiladi' will have an added dose of entertainment and drama besides the usual stunt element. While the last three editions of the show were about dare devil stunts, this season will see more of comedy and human emotions thanks to the addition

of 'Chennai Express' director Rohit Shetty as a host. The reality game show is based on the American Fear Factor. “This season there will be action, entertainment and human emotions. The format of the show is different. There will be stunts but its going to be about entertainment. We want to add humour on the show and enter-

tain people”, Rohit said. “My team is writing the show and I want this season to be more entertaining”, he said. Out of the four seasons, three which were hosted by Akshay Kumar were a hit while the one with Priyanka Chopra did not garner as much response.The 13 contestants on the show are actor Ranvir Shorey, choreogra-

pher-actor Salman Yusuff Khan, Mugdha Godse, Rajniesh Duggal, Niktin Dheer, Dayananad Shetty known as Daya, Mahhi Vij, Pooja Gor, stunt woman Geeta Tandon, couple Gauhar Khan and Kushal Tandon, Femina Miss India International and IPL host Rochelle Maria Rao. The show on Colors is likely to go on air from March.

Sony Entertainment Television's romantic show ‘Kehta Hai Dil Jee Lee Zara’ recently completed 100 episodes and on this joyful occasion the cast were seen enjoying to the fullest. A special cake cutting ceremony was organised by the team where the cast cut not one, but three types of cakes! Recalling her first few days of shoot, Sangeeta Ghosh said, “We all are very happy on the completion of 100 episodes. It’s been a wonderful journey. I would say 'Kehta hai Dil…Jee Le Zara' is about teamwork.” On this occasion Ruslaan Mumtaz said, “I hope that we complete 1,000 episodes and more”.

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ESPITE proclamations of communal riots in the state having waned over the last four years, a recent report released by the Catholic Secular Forum reveals Maharashtra had witnessed the largest number of communal attacks on Christians in 2013, second only to Karnataka. Barely a month back, Union minister of State for Home R P N Singh presented a report during a Parliament meeting according to which there were 117 incidents of communal and 16 deaths in Maharashtra in 2010, but the number dropped to 11 deaths in 64 incidents in 2013. State officials maintain that, after carefully studying communal riots that have happened over the past

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two decades, measures have been taken to ensure recurrence of such incidences do not happen. This is perceived as a radical improvement for a state like Maharashtra, which, according to information revealed through an RTI application filed in 2009, witnessed an average one communal violence in about every 20 days in the period between April 2004 and April 2009. According to the data, 525 cases of communal violence were registered of which, investigations had been completed in 298 cases at the time the query the reply to the RTI query was made (in 2009). Concurrently, a recent report released by the Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) was an antithesis to the Union Minister of State for Home’s report. According to the Forum, Maharashtra had witnessed the largest number of communal attacks on Christians in 2013, second only to Karnataka. Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) is an organisation chaired by a former judge at the Bombay and Karnataka High Courts, Justice Michael Saldanha. The reports states, all around the country, there have been 4,000-odd offences aimed at Christians, with 400 clergy and around a 100 churches attacked in 2013. The report suggests Karnataka has witnessed a higher number of attacks on Christians over the last year and also termed Maharashtra as the ‘next Hindutva laboratory’. “The new government in Karnataka is sensitive to the attacks on Christians. However, in Maharashtra, the police and the lower levels of state administration are highly saffronised,” maintained general secretary of CSF Joseph Dias. It is reportedly believed that attacks on Christians often go unnoticed because it is not of as ‘high-intensity’ as Hindu-Muslim riots and hence it does not attract as much attention.

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Official claims of communal riots having abated in Maharashtra notwithstanding, a Catholic Secular Forum report reveals otherwise, writes Gajanan Khergamker

According to the Forum, Maharashtra had witnessed the largest number of communal attacks on Christians in 2013, second only to Karnataka. Dias also maintained that in cities like Mumbai where administration is ruled by BJP-Shiv Sena union there has been discrimination against the church. “There have been instances where Christian burial grounds were destroyed to widen nullahs on one side of the road, leaving the other side of the road untouched,” Dias was reported saying. When it comes to riots, Uttar Pradesh with last year’s Muzaffarnagar riot, that took place in AugustSeptember, topped the list of states with the maximum communal violence. The riot had claimed 62 lives. Government data on communal violence presented in the Parliament for 2012 and 2013 – until October 2013 - showed that UP along with Bihar had witnessed exponential rise in such incidents. Both the states had reported double the figures of riots and deaths in 2013 (up to October) when compared to the statistics of 2012. Gujarat too featured on the list and made it to the ‘top five’ in terms of communal incidents. According to the data provided by

the Minister of State for Home RPN Singh to Rajya Sabha, Uttar Pradesh recorded a total of 250 incidents of communal violence in 2013 which led to 95 deaths and injuries to 313. Comparatively in 2012, Uttar Pradesh had witnessed 118 incidents leading to 39 deaths and 500 injuries. The total number of such incidents in 2013 stood at 725 leading to 143 deaths in the country. Similarly, Bihar too witnessed a spike in communal violence with 48 communal riots with seven deaths in 2013 as compared to 21 incidents and three deaths in 2012. Gujarat, however, didn’t show any major changes in the statistics of 2012 and 2013 and featured fourth on the list with 57 incidents. In 2013, 61 incidents of communal violence led to seven deaths in Gujarat and 57 incidents and five deaths occurred in 2012. Madhya Pradesh with 70 incidents and eight deaths showed a decline in communal incidents compared to 2012, when it witnessed 92 incidents and nine deaths. Maharashtra featured third on

the list with 64 incidents leading to 11 deaths in 2013 as compared to 2012 where it witnessed deaths of 15 persons in 94 incidents. Andhra Pradesh saw the sharpest decline in communal incidents with just 14 incidents in 2013 as compared to 60 in 2012. North-Eastern states of Sikkim, Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland reported no communal incidents this year. The data produced in Parliament had placed Assam in ‘zero’ category even for 2012 despite the riots between Bodos and Muslims in the state that had transpired till Mumbai as well. But, this incident was apparently not mentioned in the report as it was not classified as ‘communal violence.’ Just last month the Cabinet cleared The Prevention of Communal Violence Bill, 2013 even though several states had protested against it. States like Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Odisha had even written letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying the proposed legislation was exclusively in the domain of the States and also questioned the government’s intention; the timing of the bill being so close to Lok Sabha election 2014. The BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi had termed the bill as a ‘recipe for disaster’ and had asked the government to desist from not passing such a bill. But, apparently, the government was keen on pushing the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2013 in this winter session itself. The Union Government assured that the draft bill prepared has been made neutral among all groups and communities and does not have any perceived over-riding power over states, as were most concerns. (With inputs from Prerna Pandey)

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EARLY half (45 per cent) of the highly educated and tech-savvy consumers in the country access the Internet only through their mobile devices, while 72 per cent of them do research on prices and features of the products before making a purchase, says an online survey. Three-fourth of the people surveyed say their role in the family's purchasing decisions is to research prices and features, while 63 per cent use their mobile device for search and information and 53 per cent use the same to download apps, says an Aimia, which is into loyalty management globally, in a survey titled 'Emerging Indian Millennial (highly educated and techsavvy people) Consumers' that

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45pc consumers access internet on mobile devices: Survey that it is important for them to know the nature of data being gath“At least 63 per cent ered, while 50 per cent respond to email offers, while just 13 per cent of the people use their of the Americans polled respond to mobile devices for email offers. research and Also, 54 per cent are likely to respond to social media and online information and 53 ads than millennials in other reper cent use the same gions (24 per cent in Britain and just to download apps.” 15 per cent in the US), says the survey. — says Aimia in The report has been compiled ‘Emerging Indian over the last eight months and covMillennial’ survey ers ten tier I and tier II cities across the country. The study also finds that as many tracks unrban consumer behaviour, as 70 per cent of the people surreports PTI. veyed here have heard about loyalty It also finds that consumers here programmes, but only 54 percent of are careful about sharing their per- them are members of any prosonal data with 72 per cent agreeing gramme.

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n Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party government had come with a hope. Anna Hazare did not want to fight the assembly elections - his opinion was that if an election has to be fought, then the Lok Sabha elections should be contested, so that the right beginning can be made to changing the system. He believes even today that the Lok Sabha makes policies, therefore, it is the Lok Sabha elections which should be contested. But Arvind Kejriwal had his differences with this and with his colleagues decided that they would contest the Delhi assembly elections first. Their thinking was that if they won the Delhi assembly elections, it will be easier for them to win the country. Anna Hazare’s only say on this was that if a mistake is made in the assembly elections, such people are selected who do not understand the ideology or there is any contradiction in one’s own decisions, then it will raise a question mark on the andolan or movement all over the country, and it will be perceived that these

people are unfit to bring about a system change in the country. It will be too early or too hasty to say that Anna Hazare’s fear is proving correct, but the way MLA Vinod Kumar Binny levelled allegations against leaders of his party, a risk has cropped up that these allegations do not become the ones made by many other people as well. Perhaps Arvind Kejriwal declared a time table without any thought. This ‘work’ in so many days, this ‘work’ in so many days. He made promises like calling a special session of the assembly at the Ram Leela Maidan within 15 days to pass the Jan Lokpal, which the assembly just cannot do. Now the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has got tangled in the maze of these questions and issues. Vinod Kumar Binny has made allegations of Kejriwal being a dictator and telling lies. Whether there is substance in the allegation of being a dictator can only be answered by the workers of the AAP or its legislators. There is a section which says that Arvind Kejriwal is a dictator, is short tempered, and gets things done his way, but his close associates say that the charge is devoid of any merit. So this has to be decided by the AAP itself and it may be that excess of work, the tension of work has made Arvind Kejriwal peevish and irritable. People often assume that peevishness and irritability means being crusty and a dictator. That Kejriwal is a liar or is

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Arvind Kejriwal telling lies, I do not agree with that either. I believe that he forgets, his memory is weak and because of this people take it that he is a liar. If an example of this has to be given, I would like to give my own example. Three or four days before the voting for the Delhi assembly took place, Anna Hazare wrote a letter to Arvind Kejriwal. Arvind Kejriwal highlighted this letter in a press conference and without answering the questions raised it in, said that this letter had been written by Anna and to get it written, the Congress and the BJP spent nearly Rs. 100 crore. Arvind Kejriwal himself said on television that Anna Hazare had been misled and made to write this letter by one person. On probing him, Kejriwal said, “Ji, some man by the name of Santosh Bhartiya, who calls himself a journalist and

I do not know him”. It is from this that it seemed to me that Kejriwal’s memory is weak, because in the office of journalist Apoorva Joshi, Kejriwal wanted to meet some journalists. Apoorva Joshi invited journalists to his office and it was there that I and my colleague Dr. Manish were introduced to Arvind Kejriwal. I cannot remember any other direct contact before this with him. This incident dates to approximately a year after Anna’s fast at the Ram Leela Maidan in Delhi. We talked on various subjects with Kejriwal for one to oneand-a-half hours in the office of Apoorva Joshi, when Kejriwal said, “Santoshji, I would like to sit separately with you”. After this I met Arvind Kejriwal at the 'Chauthi Duniya' office located in south Delhi, where Kejriwal had come along with Prashant Bhushan to meet General V.K. Singh. There too Kejriwal stayed for about one and a half to two hours. During this discussion, Prashant Bhushan, General V.K. Singh, Arvind Kejriwal and I were present. In Arvind Kejriwal’s party there is no unity over policies. What are their economic policies, nobody knows. Without worrying about opposition from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Arvind Kejriwal should now declare a new time table. He should handle his promises carefully and should give more opportunities to his associates to meet and talk to him.

AAP TAKING EVERYONE FOR A RIDE Dr. Manish Kumar

fter the formation of the Government in Delhi, in the first 15 days, the only policy decision that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) took, was on foreign investment in the retail market. There was a lot of condemnation of this decision in the media, but what was surprising was that voices of dissent were heard from within the AAP too. Arvind Kejriwal said that in Delhi there will be no foreign investment in the retail market. Market supportive economists termed this a wrong decision, but the surprise came when Captain Gopinath opposed this decision, and the scene changed. This proved that the party does not have any ideology and that there is no unity in the party on issues. An amusing incident took place during a TV debate, when Captain Gopinath and the new party

spokesman Ashutosh locked horns on this issue. Ashutosh went to the extent of saying that nobody should join a party without reading its manifesto. However, this was not clarified before the declaration of the membership campaign. In any case, the party manifesto was for Delhi, what do the people of Mumbai have to do with the Delhi manifesto? The AAP’s ideology should be on its website, but it is not. During the TV debate mentioned earlier, when Kiran Bedi confronted Ashutosh with the statement on foreign investment ,in which he had called those opposing it fools, Ashutosh was exposed. In fact, ever since the government was formed, the AAP began getting entangled in some ideological issue or the other, and each time it proved that the party has no party ideology or economic, foreign, security, industrial or agricultural policies, nor a blueprint to deal with problems like inflation, unemployment, illiteracy and health. In fact, this party has a narrow vision. It thinks that an ‘ideology’ is to bring forward the problems of the country. This is why the AAP is gradually being exposed.

Kejriwal talks of a change in the system in the country. However, taking into account the vastness and many layers of India and its population, the framers of the Constitution of India had made it a representative democracy, in which people choose their representatives who make decisions on behalf of the them. It has several shortcomings of course, which need to be corrected, but there seems to be something else in Kejriwal's mind. He wants to convert India into a direct democracy or participatory democracy. In this system, in every decision taken by the government, public opinion is essential. Therefore, Kejriwal talks of things like taking the government directly among the people, policies being made by the people, and running the government after seeking people’s opinion. It was to prove this that Kejriwal called a Janta Darbar on the road, but when people came, a question arose about Kejriwal’s view on a system change, and there was almost a stampede from which Kejriwal was the first to flee. However, when he turned to the people from the roof of the Secretariat, he was seen shouting and addressing the Janta Darbar

as a Janata Adalat (court of the people). This is very amusing, because a Chief Minister cannot ‘hold’ a court. Of course ‘public courts’ are held in the country, where justice is administered in a non-legal manner, a sentence or decree is given ranging from a slap to death, but it is Naxalites who set up such public courts. The AAP is about to fight the Lok Sabha elections where it claims that it will field 400 contestants. Now the question is, if Kejriwal jumps into the fray for the Prime Minister’s post, what will happen to Delhi? The other thing is that after the elections, the AAP will not get a majority in the Lok Sabha, therefore, they will have to disclose which party they will team up with after the elections. Will it be the BJP or the Congress? The AAP will also have to keep its policies and ideologies before the people. The biggest question however, is should they support a party which does not have an ideology, policies, and an unknown agenda? It shouldn’t happen that like the people of Delhi who are feeling cheated after the assembly elections, the people of the country will feel similarly after the Lok Sabha elections.

DILLI KA BABU Deceptive Terminology

ureaucratese is bland, but its harmless sounding terminology sometimes carries dire connotations for those who inhabit that world. Among the deceptive phrases most dreaded by a babu is 'compulsory waiting', which refers to a condition that is about punishment than reward. This phrase crept out of bureaucratese in the instance of K. Jayaraman, the erstwhile police commissioner in Siliguri who arrested an IAS officer G. Kiran Kumar, District Magistrate of Malda in West Bengal and, consequently, was put on 'compulsory waiting'. Translated, the phrase means that not only does the officer not have a regular posting but is also deprived of such 'perks' of authority as use of government car, reimbursement of bills, etc., and intangibles, the biggest being sense of power and authority. The officer needs to report to the designated office and wait for a position to become vacant so that he may join, if and when, that is. So, the benign phrase actually connotes a form of punishment for those who have offended the powers-that-be and hence is feared.

Late Awakening?

ew Delhi has been puzzling over the eruption of a diplomatic row between India and the US over the arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade for the alleged visa fraud. But what has really surprised many is the unusually aggressive Indian reaction to the treatment meted out to the young Indian Foreign Service officer. In a clear break from past practice, where Indian responses were usually considered meek and insubstantial, today some are wondering whether India may have gone just a bit overboard in reacting to the US action. While the bleeding hearts have been worrying about the Indian maid, who is at the heart of the ‘crisis’, others see in the present diplomatic row an opportunity for the Indian foreign affairs establishment to flex its rarely used muscle and stand up for one of its own.

Prepping For Partition

n public at least, Andhra Pradesh CM Kiran K. Reddy continues to hold out the hope that the state will not be bifurcated. However, behind the prying gaze of the media, the impending creation of Telangana is a foregone conclusion, awaiting only the President’s assent to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill. State Government officials have already begun the division of government assets. According to sources, Chief Secretary P.K. Mohanty has written to all heads of departments and public sector units asking them to prepare lists of divisible assets, liabilities, employees and offices. Since the division of the state is likely to be a complex exercise, Mohanty has started the process, under instructions from the Centre, and assuming the President’s formal assent as a given. Among the other requirements, babus in the state have also been asked to fill forms declaring information which will have a direct bearing on whether they will serve in Telangana or Seemandhra. — Dilip Cherian

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 700

ENIGMA CODE 700

ACROSS: 7 Clever! London hospital finds know-alls (4,4) 9 Dogged Army volunteers I commanded (6) 10 Incoherent due to not being able to pay the telephone bill? (12) 11 Paddy and the agent bumped into each other coming back (6) 13 The Jewel in the Crown? (8) 14 Induce to become religious (4,2,7) 17 Success, or the failure before this (8) 19 Qualified to make a comeback when a man's around to approve (6) 20 Its construction was highly confusing (5,2,5) 22 Sound quality of foreign railway lines shown in the course of years (6) 23 Recount details about the anaesthetic (8) DOWN: 1 Do the wrong thing in providing literary characters (8) 2 Drop a bunch of keys (4) 3 Cavalryman, American, in reckless uprising (6) 4 Way to stop Henry becoming a writer (8) 5 Break off an engagement? (10) 6 The ore mentioned within, legally ! (6) 8 Suspension for a poor electrician? (5,8) 12 Cheap buffet casts blame on dessert (5,5) 15 Go to next page to see amount of business (8) 16 Does something to make the law effective? (8)

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Each colour in our code represents a letter. When you have cracked the code you will be able to make up seven words. The clue to first word is given to help you get started.

T T

The Clue: Migratory grasshoppers

T T T

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S ENIGMA CODE LENDER, LEERED, LIDDED, NEEDLE, REELED, RELIED, RIDDLE

T T

MATH PYRAMID 700 18 A letter in the language of Ionia might be derisive (6) 19 Dressing like a judge can be

boring (6) 21 Divinity graduate leaving a letter for the priest (4)

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS: 6 Bijou, 7 Printer, 9 Stressing, 10 Rave, 11 Edison, 12 Ordinary, 13 French windows, 16 At the bar, 18 Astern, 21 Mead, 22 Overtired, 23 Elapses, 24 Deify. DOWN: 1 Abused, 2 Fjords, 3 Subsonic, 4 Singed, 5 Proverbs, 7 Prison warders, 8 Toronto, 13 Fattened, 14 Echidna, 15 Neap tide, 17 Browse, 19 Torpid, 20 Redeye.

QUICK CROSS 700

ACROSS: 1. Lhasa ___ 5. Afternoon affairs 6. States of mind 7. Velvet fabric 8. Acoustical measures 9. Czech river 10. Allows

The goal of Math Pyramid is to fill the given pyramid with numbers such that the following three rules are satisfied. 1. A cell value must be sum or difference of the two cells below 2. A row cannot have duplicate numbers 3. A number cannot be less than 1 or more than the grid size

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

DOWN: 1. Expiators 2. Indian serfs 3. "Smooth Operator" singer 4. CIA formerly 6. Olympia, painter 7. Attitude 8. "S" of RSVP

HIDATO 700

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

MATHDOKU 700

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

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TODAY’S FORECAST

JAGJIT UPPAL

WIZARD OF ID PARKER & HART

B.C. JOHNNY HART

BEAU PEEP THE ADVENTURES OF LEGIONNAIRE BEAU PEEP

FRED BASSET ALEX GRAHAM

PHANTOM LEE FALK

MODESTY BLAISE PETER O’DONNELL

COFFEEBREAK MOON TITHI NAKSHATRA RASHI LUCKY COLOUR LUCKY NUMBER

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Pisces Vinayak Chaturthi Uttarabhadrapad Meen (Pisces) D.Ch.Z. Deep Blue 3

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: Those who have recently started a new job or work could feel dissatisfied with the emoluments. They should, however, give their work a try and not to look for an alternative job immediately. Youngsters will make rapid advancement in their career, education or training program, through their hard work and determination. Students appearing for tests, interviews or competitive exams will emerge successful. BABIES BORN TODAY: Will be plump, good-looking and magnetically beautiful eyes. Will be cordial, respectful and adaptable. After basic education, an interest in a wide range of subjects and a knack of putting across ideas in a convincing manner leads to many opportunities. A career in marketing or academics will lead to gains. Will also be interested in fine arts. ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Everything you do will lead to gains. Efforts put in now will definitely lead to gains that may take a while to fructify. If you take one day at a time you will be quite safe. Do try to plan too much into the future right now. You can look forward to a relaxed evening with beloved or with the family.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): Don’t give up and try again if you want positive things coming your way. Pull yourself out of a nostalgic and morose mood that is bound to prevail. Also take care of a minor health problem that seems to crop up whenever you are low. Meeting friends and old acquaintances is an enjoyable way of spending the day. It will give you a chance to know what others have been up to.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): You will conclude your task ahead of schedule. You could be attending a seminar or convention. You will feel inclined to work independently or set up your own enterprise. You will have the necessary resources and support to do so. Employed are given more facility at work. You may decide to invite friends home for an evening together. This is a good opportunity for you to introduce a special person to family.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): You will take advantage of some of the new offers you receive. Those who are self-employed or involved in trading will carry out successful dealings. You may prefer working in familiar surroundings to finish your assignment. Your schedule plan may have to be postponed. An intimate friend may seek your advice on a personal matter.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): Cut down unnecessary expenditure. Don’t try to cut corners with work or your finances. You just need to organize your work schedule better. Keep a check on your temper if you want deal with certain issues in relationships rather than depend on others to do it for you. Use patience and tact with someone who is upset.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): This is the right time to ask for help if you need it. Adjustments are necessary almost at every level. You must adapt to some things that you cannot change. Do not be rigid and accept readily with grace. Use your money wisely, for there may be several demands. A long distance journey to a pilgrim spot or the need to meet a person you look up to is likely. The need to get an unbiased opinion about your affairs is strong.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): A viable opportunity to work in partnership with friend is worth considering for it may have ability to grow into a sizeable enterprise. Besides a hectic work schedule, you may also have to take on the some other responsibilities. You will manage everything quite efficiently and diplomatically. Make it your business to spread happiness and laughter where ever you go. You have the ability to give a lot of yourself to others.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): The financial position will be good but there is a need to watch wasteful expenditure. Legal issues get resolved. With your ambitious nature you may wish to acquire more knowledge and may join a short-term course. Plan finances carefully for there may be unexpected expenses around the corner. Handle relationships with tact. A minor clash could flare up and become ugly. You may end up saying things you would not normally and later regret.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): Today is a good day when you would like to try your hand at something new. Those in sales, media and communication will do very well. Gains from your efforts are indicated. Work proceeds smoothly throughout. Try to bring back romance and excitement in your life. Relationships are getting too staid and boring more due to neglect and being busy. AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): Change of house or promotion at work is likely. The way in which you handle an assignment on hand is of importance for your future. Spare no expenses to get work done as there are monetary gains indicated. Juniors may have to undergo further training, in preparation for an important position. You will have to work harder to create the right mood for a relaxed and enjoyable evening in the company of your family.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): At work, your easy rapport with colleagues and associates makes you even more popular and likeable. Your positive interaction with people will certainly lead to growth in your career and financial stability. You are doing quite well for yourself. A hope you have been cherishing will come true. The married will get more affection and love from their mate.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): A long-standing problem situation is eased out bringing much relief. There are temptations to start new work promising instant gains. Time is not the right to make investments or change your job or work. There will be ample opportunities for you to improve your financial situation. You appear to be reserved but are not normally one to be tongue-tied when you meet a new overwhelming person today.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 4883 ACROSS: 3 Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display (5) 8 Cogs with teeth (5) 10 Seeped (5) 11 Prime Minister's Off. (3) 12 Flood, sink or drench? (5) 13 A group of cut flowers (7) 15 ___ up with : closely associated with? (5) 18 Oft used computer port (3) 19 Ceramics producer (6) 21 Bloodsucking flies (7) 22 Brest milk (4) 23 Theda of Hollywood (4) 24 Necessary (7) 26 The belief that conflicts with orthodox religious beliefs (6) 29 An alcoholic drink (3) 31 Indo-European, should we say? (5) 32 Astronomical instrument (7) 34 Dismisses rather curtly (5) 35 Acknowledgement of debt (3) 36 A cat making a sound, perhaps? (5) 37 Feeling of anxiety and guilt - "gnats" anagram? (5) 38 In physics force is measured by these units (5)

DOWN: 1 Indian soldier in British service (5) 2 Game played with hoops and mallets (7) 4 Trade centre, in short? (4) 5 Fighter of the Injuns in the Westerns? (6) 6 __ ___ touch : refrain from touching? (2,3) 7 Paris stands on this river (5) 9 Atomic mass unit, acronym (3) 12 Interview after sortie (7) 14 Exploit, employ (3) 16 Character actor __ Dutt (5) 17 Fear or awe (5) 19 Promises (7) 20 Hawaiian greeting (5) 21 Daily written record of one's own thoughts, feelings and experiences (5)

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SUDOKU 2069 Sudoku is a number placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid such several given numbers.To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every digit from 1 to 9 must appear in each of the nine vertical columns, in each of the nine horizontal rows and in each of the nine boxes.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Difficulty Level

CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: F equals L

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

23 Decorative flags (7) 24 Consisting of nine (6) 25 ___ upon : choose, decide on? (3) 27 Blundered, made a mistake (5)

28 Allayed (5) 30 Engaged (5) 32 Inner Hebridean island (4) 33 Aircraft-On-Ground (3)

SOLUTION TO SATURDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 4 In need, 7 Derision, 8 Dawned, 10 Plebs, 13 Oust, 14 Toga, 15 Lush, 16 PTA, 17 Spit, 19 Rays, 21 Aryabhata, 23 Kyat, 24 Iamb, 26 Inn, 27 Hods, 29 Akin, 32 Cows, 33 Lynda, 34 Armani, 35 Narrator, 36 Typing. DOWN: 1 Adopt, 2 Grieg, 3 Asks, 4 Indus, 5 Newt, 6 Erects, 9 Ashram, 11 Log, 12 Basra, 13 Outbids, 15 Lia, 16 Pya, 18 Python, 20 At bay, 21 Ayn, 22 Has, 23 Knurly, 25 Kid, 28 Owing, 30 Knots, 31 Nacre, 32 Cadi, 33 Lard.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1888 To solve an Irregular Sudoku puzzle, every digit must appear once in: Each of the vertical columns Each of the horizontal rows Each of the regions

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SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

H F T R E A R G

H F F

Y R K S M Y A

A Z J

H D E M C S P A L H C P E J E

P T P A H A P R K

N Z R T

N J

R G

Y H K K R A

G C R T A Z R E J

C J E J T D F J

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch

Afternoon WORD MINE

Q I

How many words of four or more letters can you make from the letters shown in today’s puzzle? In making a word, each letter may be used once only. Each word must contain the letter at the top of the pyramid. There should be at least one nine letter word. Plurals, foreign words and proper names are not allowed. Today’s ratings: 08 average; 09 good; 11 outstanding. SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: come, comet, commit, COMMITTEE, emit, emote, item, meet, memo, mete, mice, mime, mite, mitt, mote, omit, teem, time, tome, totem

HEATHCLIFF

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Saketh, Yuki complete India's 5-0 whitewash of Taipei

By Amanpreet Singh

NDORE: Saketh Myneni and Yuki Bhambri recorded dominating straight-set victories as India completed a 5-0 rout of Chinese Taipei in the first round of their Asia/Oceania Group I Davis Cup tie, here on Sunday. Myneni, who contributed in India's doubles win yesterday, carried his good form into the singles rubber as captain decided to play him in place of Somdev Devvarman, who won a marathon singles against Ti Chen. This is the first time after 2005 that India have recorded a whitewash over an opponent. The 26-year-old Myneni, ranked 313, took just 48 minutes to dispatch higher-ranked Tsung Hua Yang 6-1 6-4 in the dead fourth rubber to put India on the cusp of a whitewash. Hsien-Yin Peng, who played in place of Ti Chen, fought his heart out to get that elusive win for his side but Yuki Bhambri was too good for him. The 22-yearold closed the tie with an impressive 7-5 6-0 scoreline in the second reverse singles, which lasted just 55 minutes. Yuki played with complete authority for his second win in the tie and was hardly troubled by Peng, who was nonetheless impressive with his ground strokes. Peng had nothing to lose so he gave everything to the contest but Yuki was too strong for him. India now lead Chinese Taipei 2-0 in head-to-head record having beaten them in an away tie in 2009. India will now travel to Korea in April to fight for a place in the World Group play-offs. The scoreline may suggest otherwise but the way Ti

Chen pushed Somdev in the second singles and the tremendous pressure put up by the Chinese doubles pair of Peng and Yang against Rohan Bopanna and Myneni yesterday, India had to work hard for a win in the first two days of the tie. Myneni hardly broke a sweat in continuing India's winning run as Yang only made it easy for him by not challenging the Indian much. Yang could not play to his potential in the whole tie. Before coming here, he had reached the final of a Challenger in the USA and it took him almost three days to reach Indore, directly from Hawaii. Perhaps the long journey and a tough preceding week took a toll on his performance. With their top players Yen-Hsun Lu and Jimmy Wang not in the side, the responsibility to take the fight in the home camp was on Yang but he failed to deliver. Both Myneni and Yang played from the baseline, hardly coming towards the net. Yang was down 0-40 in the second game. He saved the first chance with a forehand winner but sent the second long to hand Myneni a 2-0 lead. Myneni's perfectly calculated lob earned him his second chance to break Yang, who double-faulted on that point to hand the Indian a 5-1 cushion. The Indian served out the set at love with an ace. Unforced errors continued to flow from Yang's racquet and he was down a break point in the seventh game when he netted a volley. The following backhand, sailing over the lines, handed Myneni a 4-3 lead which he consolidated with a solid hold. He closed the match with a backhand winner. In the second match, the first set was on serve till the 10th game. Peng lost the 11th game from 40-0 due to unforced errors. When Peng smashed an easy overhead volley to net Yuki had his first chance to go up and the visiting player only helped the Indian by burying a backhand to net. Peng's foot fault, converting into a double fault on a breakpoint in the first game of the second set gave Yuki a perfect start and it was one way traffic after that.

Good that boys were tested in this tie: Zeeshan Ali

India's Yuki Bhambri in action against Chinese Taipei's player in the reverse singles at Asia/Oceania Group I Davis Cup tie in Indore on Sunday.

URICH (SWITZERLAND): Fivetime world champion Viswanathan Anand opened his account after signing peace with Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the third round of Zurich chess challenge now underway here at the Savoy. After two uncharacteristic defeats coming against world champion Levon Aronian of Armenia and Hikaru Nakamura of United States, Anand put an end to his losses with a solid draw wherein he had to defend for a while in the early stages. World champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway was the lucky one in the third round as he not only escaped from a certain defeat at the hands of Nakamura but also turned the ta-

INDORE: India's Davis Cup coach Zeeshan Ali said it was good for home team players to have got the chance to test themselves in the tie against Chinese Taipei but felt that Saketh Myneni need to develop fast as a big player if they are to win matches against tough opponents. India beat Chinese Taipei 5-0 but Somdev Devvarman and the doubles pair of Rohan Bopanna and Myneni were tested to the hilt by the visiting players in at least two matches. "Yes, they were tested. Somdev needed a match like this because the confidence goes up. Saketh too came out and played really well. He came for the doubles in this tie but also pulled off a singles, which was great. But if we have to compete in World Group, we need a specialist doubles pair," Zeeshan said after

India completed the win. "The way Rohan and Saketh played in the first set of the doubles, it was like top-10 players playing but after that they really had to work hard. Competition would be much tougher in World Group, so Myneni really have to work hard and reach that level, if we are win there," the coach added. Myneni did well last year on the ITF Futures Circuit, reaching five singles finals and winning four of them. He also did well in the doubles as he reached semifinals of the Chennai Open with his Russian partner. Myneni, who beat Tsung-Hua Yang in the fourth singles, said playing for the country was "absolute magic" and he would focus on cracking Grand Slam qualifiers this season.

"The focus now is to remain healthy this season. A lot of emphasis will be on fitness and getting stronger, so that I can graduate to the next level," he said. Yuki Bhambri said he was expecting a tough last match. "When I came in the morning, I saw Ti Chen doing practice. I thought, it will be a long day but they did not play him. Peng played well, he served well and his forehand was really good. But for someone who basically plays more doubles, he can't do it for long in singles," he said. Yuki was optimistic of India making the World Group play-offs. For that they need to beat Korea in the second round in April. "We have not beaten Korea in their home but if we play to our best, it should not be a problem," he said.

Anand draws with Caruana in Zurich Chess bles upside down to score a victory. The second win in his third game gave Carlsen a full point lead over nearest rivals as the Norwegian took his tally to five points. Under the unique scoring system that gives two points for a win and one for a draw in Classical games, Aronian slipped to second spot on four points and he is now followed by Nakamura and Caruana on three points each. Israeli Boris Gelfand stands sole fifth in the six-player tournament

on two points while Anand with a sole draw is at the bottom of the tables with two rounds in Classical and five rounds in Rapid chess still to come in the tournament. It may be recalled that in rapid, the usual point scoring system with one point for a win and half for a draw will be used and the winner will be the one who scores maximum points based under both scoring systems. Anand went for the Slav defense as black and the game went in to

uncharted territories early. Caruana was looking for some advantage with his pair of bishops in the ensuing middle game but Anand came up with a pawn sacrifice to neutralise white's initiative. The Italian himself came under pressure after returning the pawn and many experts believed that Anand could have played for more. However, after an indifferent start, the Indian played it safe and settled for his first point in the highest category tournament.

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UCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Wizards and Jaypee Punjab Warriors finished 2-2 to register the first draw of the second edition of Hero Hockey India League (HHIL) at the Dhyan Chand Stadium. It was a free-flowing contest between two evenly-matched teams. The game was a treat for the fans as both the sides produced some thrilling end-to-end hockey. Even though the UP Wizards had the better share of ball possession, there was very little to differentiate between the two sides. The goalkeepers of both UP Wizards (George Bazeley) and Jaypee Punjab Warriors (Jaap Sotckmann) had

a busy day in office as the two teams played attacking hockey throughout the entire 70 minutes. The Wizards started on an aggressive note and earned a penalty corner early but skipper V R Raghunath flicked the ball straight to Jaypee Punjab Warriors goalkeeper Stockmann. But it was Jaypee Punjab Warriors who took the lead as early as in the sixth minute through Jake Whetton's field goal after he was set up by S V Sunil. Jaypee Punjab Warriors' joy, however, was shortlived as the Wizards drew level six minutes later. David Alegre (12th minute) equalized for the visitors from a rebound after Stockmann denied Luke Do-

Players in action during the match between Jaypee Punjab Warriors and Uttar Pradesh Wizards in the Hockey India League in Lucknow on Sunday.

erner from a penalty corner. Both the teams got two more scoring chances in the opening half in the form of penalty corners but failed to convert the opportunities. Tied at 1-1, Jaypee Punjab Warriors had the first shot at goal after halftime, again in the form of a penalty corner, but their star dragflicker Sandeep Singh was not upto the mark. The Warriors surged ahead once again when Satbir Singh (50th minute) scored with a forehand shot in the third quarter after he was set up by Simon Orchard and Whetton's fine work from the right flank.But the Wizards did not give up hope and pressed hard in search of the equalizer and managed to draw level four minutes later through S K Uthappa (54th), who slapped home from close range Alegre's pass. The draw gave both Jaypee Punjab Warriors and Wizards two points apiece from the match. Jaypee Punjab Warriors have consolidated their position at the top of the standings with 18 points from five games. By virtue of the draw, the UP Wizards have moved up the table, garnering 13 points from four matches. The UP Wizards will next play Delhi Waveriders at New Delhi on February 5, while Jaypee Punjab Warriors will take on Dabur Mumbai Magicians in Mumbai after five day's rest on February 8. Speaking on the performance, Uttar Pradesh Wizards coach Roelant Oltmans, said: "A better show today. Last match we were lacking in few areas but we prepared well and performed well today.”

ith so many books on Bridge floating around, any Bridge player who takes interest in the game can master, in theory all the intricate technical plays. But in Bridge the problem is always of recognition of the problem. In spite of knowing the technique many players fail to play correctly. Watch Ajit Chakradeo of Pune solve this problem S- A 6 H- A Q 8 5 D- Q 9 7 4 C- K 10 7 S- K Q 4 H- K 6 3 D-A 8 3 2 C- A J 9

Ajit was south. He opened 1 no trump & soon found himself declaring 6 no trumps West led a small club. The lead solved a major problem for Ajit that of guessing the club Queen. Still he was not out of the woods. He had only 9 tricks on top. He had to make something of the diamond

suit. He won the opening lead in hand & played a small diamond. West played a small card without hesitation. Ajit’s table presence told him that he did not hold the diamond King, so he played the 9 from dummy. Eat won with the Jack & continued with a club. This time he won it in dummy & played the

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diamond queen, east covered with the King, Ajit put up the Ace & released his breath when west played the 10 of diamonds. He was home. This was the famous intrafinesse This was a team match & Ajit was quite confident of scoring a sizable amount of IMPs for his team. But when the score sheet was compared he found that the deal was quits. His opponent had also scored 6 no trumps. He was mildly surprised so he asked his team mate how the declarer made 12 tricks. He was flabbergasted when his team mate told him” What is the problem after the lead of 10 of diamonds?”

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BPCL captain Suyrakumar Yadav (right) receives the Dr. D.Y. Patil Cup from Dr. Vijay Patil (second right), Chairman of the D.Y. Patil Sports Academy and Vice-President of the Mumbai Cricket Association and former Indian cricketer Balwinder Singh Sandhu. Also seen is former Indian pacer Abey Kuruvilla, Director DYPSA.

AVI MUMBAI: Buoyed by Abhishek Nayar’s heroics with the bat, BPCL (Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited) easily cruised to a six-wicket win over ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas Corporation) in the final of the 10th All India Dr. D.Y. Patil T20 Cup at the D.Y. Patil Stadium, Nerul over the weekend. The Mumbai all-rounder Nayar opening the innings for BPCL, who were in pursuit of a victory target of 159 runs, showed great character and composure as he dealt with the ONGC bowling attack. The left-handed batsman scored a quickfire 50 off just 26 balls with eight hits to the ropes and a solitary six. Nayar was unlucky to be run out in the 8th over, but by then he had laid the foundation for their win. He along with Bhavin Thakkar 49

Mekhla rallies to down Saakshi; Gideon set for double

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UMBAI: Mekhla Ambekar after dropping the first game, came back with vigour to snatch the next two games to storm into the girls under-13 final of the All India Balkan-Ji-Bari Open badminton tournament, held at their complex at Santacruz, over the weekend. Mekhla triumphed 15-21, 21-17, 2114. She takes on Saashi Shete, who made short work of Ritika Paiath 2110, 21-13 in the other semi-finals. Among boys, Gideon D’Souza excelled. He made the boys under-18 and under-15 finals with a straight games victories over his respective rivals. Gideon first knocked out fancied Aditya Desai 21-13, 21-13 in the under-15 singles and followed it by beating Karan Kshatriya 21-13, 23-21. However, Aditya Desai had the consolation of making the under-13 finals, where he takes on Dhruv Oza, who was given a tough tie by Viya Bade before Dhruv won 21-17, 22-20. Results: Girls U-18 singles: Oorvi Roje bt Divya Hegde 21-8, 21-9; Shruti Sinha bt Khushi Kambli 21-6, 21-10. Girls U-15 singles: Anagha Karandikar bt Khushi Kambi 21-11, 21-7; Divya Hegde bt Zara Desai 21-17, 21-17. Girls U-13 singles: Mekhla Ambekar bt shachi Kukar 15-21, 21-17, 21-14; Saakshi Sheye bt Ritika 2110, 21-13.Girls U-11 singles: Saakshi

Kukar bt Mahek Nayak 21-12, 23-21. Boys U-18 singles: Anish Nair bt Pulkit Dalmia 21-8, 21-12; Gideon D‘Souza bt Karan Kshatriya 21-13, 23-21. Boys U-15 singles: Gideon D’Souza bt Aditya Desai 21-13, 21-13; Devansh Mehrotra bt Vikhyat Panchal 24-22, 21-13. Boys U-13 singles: Adiyta Desai bt Vikyat Bangera 2117, 21-12; Dhruv Oza bt Viyan Bade 21-17, 22-20. Boys U-11 singles: Aryan Ghosh bt Daivya Jain 21-12, 21-17; Atharva Joshi bt Sahil Oak 21-17, 23-21.

(43 balls, 3x4, 1x6) stitched together a match-winning first wicket partnership which yielded 78 runs from 47 balls. Later skipper Suryakumar Yadav made an unbeaten 39 (28 balls) to help BPCL achieve their target and regain the title, they last won in 2011. ONGC electing to bat first after winning the toss struggled a bit before all-rounder Sumeet Narwal cracked an exact half century to prop the innings to 158 for 5 wickets. His feisty knock was studded with 3 massive sixes and 4 boundaries. Mayank Tehlan 35 runs (32 balls, 3x4), Tanmay Srivastava 29 (23 balls, 5x4) and Unmukt Chand 26 (20 balls, 3x4, 1x6) were the other batsmen to make useful contributions.

Zimre, Gaikwad advance to next round MUMBAI: Nishigandh Zimre of Air India prevailed over Sunil Gaikwad of Mumbai in a straight games 257, 25-9 to enter third round of the men singles event in the sixth Maharashtra State Ranking Carrom Tournament organized by Shivaji Park Gymkhana, Dadar at Shivaji Park Gymkhana. In a second round match state champion LIC's Prakash Gaikwad (Pune) blanked Sandeep Kolambekar of Mumbai 25-0, 254. In a thrilling contest, Nandkumar Guram of Mumbai prevailed over Dhananjay Khaware of Mumbai 25-0, 18-25, 25-4 in a three game encounter to advance in to third round. In another second round match Sandeep Mutyal of Pune easily prevailed over Datta Kumbhar of Mumbai in straight games 25-2, 25-7. Sandesh Kamble of Mumbai easily prevailed over Prabhakar Katalkar of Mumbai 25-0, 25-9 to advance further. Results Men Singles Second Round: Top Seeded State Champion Prakash Gaikwad (Pune) bt. Sandeep Kolambekar (Mumbai) 25-0, 25-4.

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ELLINGTON: Former all-rounder Chris Cairns feels New Zealand must remain hostile to the touring Indian cricket team by preparing seaming tracks for the coming Test series but has backed the off-field support that the Kiwi Board has offered to the BCCI in a controversial ICC revamp plan. In his column for a sports website here, Cairns said the Black Caps have astonished one and all by thrashing Indian 4-0 in the recently-concluded five-match ODI series. "Predicting a four-nil result against an Indian team that was ranked one in the world when they hit our shores in January would have been seen by some as grounds for declaring you certifiably insane," Cairns wrote in a column published on 'stuff.Co.Nz'. "So to have achieved this, the New Zealand cricket team has shown me not what I thought would occur just yet, but what I thought they were capable of all

AHORE: Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal was released from jail after spending an entire day in lock-up for allegedly thrashing a traffic warden and tearing his uniform after being stopped for violating a signal here. Umar was locked up at the Gulberg police station in whose jurisdiction the incident occurred in the afternoon as the police registered three cases against him. "He has just been released on personal surety by the station house officer of the Gulberg PS but will have to appear before the magistrate on Monday to get his bail confirmed until the cases are heard against him," SSP Zahid Aziz told reporters. Umar, who was whisked away in a waiting car to his residence, spent the entire day at the police station prompting a large number of his supporters to gather

along. Results previously were not aligned to their talent," he said. "This group of men are learning and performing at a remarkable rate." Cairns said New Zealand can build on the positives of the ODI series by taking the home advantage in the two Tests, starting February 6 in Auckland. "Two Test matches are what we now turn our attention to. The players have shown their desire and courage on the field during the ODI series and it's now time for New Zealand Cricket to show the players they are on the same page by producing wickets that will seam," he said. "It is not about producing the pitches of 2002/03, they were too green bordering on the ridiculous, but they must place the Indian batsmen under pressure and give our team the advantage. "Zaheer Khan is an exceptional bowler and will have to be watched on seaming pitches, as

will Mohammed Shami. I think it is going to be a fascinating Test series if the national body allows it to be," Cairns said. "It will be disappointing on so many fronts if we have featherbed pitches. Results are needed to lift New Zealand off the bottom of the world rankings and this team can produce wins if they are given the right platform to achieve this," he explained. On to off-field matters and Cairns supported New Zealand Cricket's support to a proposed ICC revamp which would cede executive decision-making to India, Australia and England. "There has been much written about the winds of change in cricket. Some have written that these winds are hurricane force and will cripple cricket forever. I must say I have looked at it from the angle that it is not about jumping in to bed with India but more akin to asking India to jump in to everyone else's bed," he reasoned.

UMAR AKMAL RELEASED ON BAIL outside and raise slogans against his arrest. "I have burnt my entire cricket kit today in front of the station because if this is the way our national cricket heroes are treated for a minor traffic offence I don't want to play cricket again," irate fan and club player Reza Bhatti said. Umar's elder brother, Kamran, who was allowed to take his sibling home earlier, told reporters that he was very upset with the way a national team player had Pakistani cricketer Umar Akmal tries to been treated. "We are not terror- avoid the media as he leaves court ists and we know and respect the after being granted bail in Lahore, law of the land but this is not the Pakistan, on Sunday. way to treat a Pakistan player like an ordinary criminal for a inciEarlier in the day, efforts by the dent which has been blown out Akmal family to secure bail for of proportion," Kamran said. Umar failed as by the time the

police produced him in a judicial magistrate court it had closed for the week and the judges had gone home."They purposefully delayed taking him to the court so that he couldn't get bail and now he has to spend time in lock up. We are trying to find a solution but this is a unfortunate incident," his father, Muhammad Akmal told reporters. Senior superintendent police, Zahid Aziz told the media that three charges were registered against Umar but all were bailable offences. "They carry a prison term of three months to two years and fine but he can be bailed out. We filed the case because he committed a serious offence," Aziz said.

India find some form in practice match, Dhoni takes a break By Chetan Narula

India, Dhoni and Virat Kohli were missing as they stayed back in HANGAREI (NEW Auckland, enjoying some rest ZEALAND): India's faltering after a hectic ODI series. Ravincricketers found some rhythm as dra Jadeja was the third player they reduced New Zealand XI to missing from action, although he 262/9 declared on the opening did travel with the team to day of a two-day practice match Whangarei. As it happens in such which was skipped by big guns of two-day practice matches, 11 the team including skipper Ma- players from each side were stiphendra Singh Dhoni. ulated to bat or bowl. In reply, the Indians were India's Test specialists who placed India were placed at 41/0 flew in this past week -- Zaheer in 14 overs after New Zealand XI Khan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Murali declared in 78 overs in the only Vijay, Umesh Yadav and Wriddhipractice game ahead of the two- man Saha -- were all included in match Test series starting Febru- the playing eleven. Meanwhile, ary 6 in Auckland. After a dismal Mohammad Shami and BhuODI series that was surrendered vneshwar Kumar were not listed 0-4 to New Zealand, the Indian to bowl, but came on for fielding team enjoyed a good outing at duty as a couple of Indian batsthe Cobham Oval, albeit in a men spent some time practising non-competitive match. For in the nets as well.

India's Ishwar Pandey traps New Zealand XIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tim Seifert lbw for 8 on the first day of a pre Test warm up cricket match at Cobham Oval in Whangarei.

New Zealand XI's captain Anton Devcich, the lone player in the squad to play for the national side, won the toss and elected to bat first, after 97 overs were stipulated to be bowled each day. Openers George Worker and Robbie O'Donnell put on 81 runs for the first wicket as the hard work for Indian bowlers seemed to carry over from the ODI series. O'Donnell, captain of the New Zealand Under-19 team for the upcoming World Cup, warmed up with a nice half-century, scoring 80 runs (124 balls, 13 fours). R Ashwin (2-45) provided the breakthrough and then Zaheer (1-42) removed skipper Devcich cheaply, before another little partnership worth 57 runs came up between O'Donnell and Jono Hickey.

IN BRIEF Punjab inch closer to book a Santosh Trophy main round berth

NEW DELHI: Last year's semifinalists Punjab inched closer to clinching a berth in the Senior National Football Championships for the Santosh Trophy after defeating Jammu and Kashmir by a solitary goal. Gurpreet Singh scored the all-important gaol in the 38th minute in the Group B tie of the North Zone qualifying round at the Ambedkar Stadium. Punjab now have six points from two matches while Jammu and Kashmir remained on three from that many matches. Jammu & Kashmir had two good chances to equalise in the second half but centre forward Prem Kumar and substitute Toufeeq Ahmed missed the target. In the other match of the day, Uttar Pradesh got the better of Himachal Pradesh 1-0, courtesy a sixth minute strike from forward Sumit Kumar Dubey. Dubey prodded from close after being set up by midfielder Rustam Pal. Uttar Pradesh now have three points from two matches while Himachal are yet to open their account.

Mohun Bagan beat United Sikkim by solitary goal in IFA Shield

KOLKATA: Looking for their elusive trophy, Mohun Bagan started their IFA Shield campaign on a positive note beating United Sikkim FC 1-0 in their opening group league encounter. Kerala lad CS Sabeeth converted a flag-kick from statemate Denson Devadas in the 27th minute to help the green and maroon brigade log home full points. In the match otherwise dominated by Mohun Bagan, the hosts had got another opportunity to buttress the lead in the 85th minute from a penalty, but the opportunity was missed by midfielder Zakir. In the 37th minute, Japanese livewire Katsumi Yusa also took a powerful shot but it missed the net and hit the post. Despite the absence of star striker Odafa and goalie Shilton Paul, Bangan were in control all through the match. United Sikkim had got one opportunity in the 42nd minute to bring parity but the shot of Sukhwinder Singh was saved by Bagan goalie Manatosh Ghosh.

Sasikumar scores upset win over top seed Hiroki Kondo

CHENNAI: Talented Indian youngster Mukund Sasikumar caused a major upset ousting top seed Hiroki Kondo of Japan 6-4, 6-4 in the second round of the Shriram Capital P L Reddy Memorial USD 50,000 ATP Challenger tennis tournament. Exhibiting his skills on good measure, Mukund served and stroked smoothly to break Hiroki early in the first set to gain the advantage and then never looked back. In another match, Prajnesh Gunneswaran (7th seed) kept his cool to break Joshua Milton of Great Britain to emerge victorious.

Taunk ties for second, qualifies for Asian Q-School final stage

HUA HIN (THAILAND): Indian amateur golfer Karan Taunk survived a mid-round lapse to card an even-par 72 and finish a five-way tie for second place in the Asian Tour Qualifying School First Stage Section A. A total of 32 players from the First Stage Section A progressed to the Final Stage and leading them was Simon Griffiths of England. Of the 32, 11 came from the qualifiers at Royal Thai and another 21 came from Imperial Lakeview Golf Club. Taunk, looked set to take sole possession of second place with birdies on first and third hole, but bogeys on fifth, seventh and ninth set him back. But the youngster had birdies on 10th and 12th before dropping a shot on the 13th.

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Sluggish Barcelona stumble to loss against Valencia

Karnataka win their seventh Ranji Trophy title beating Maharashtra

FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi duels for the ball with Valencia's Juan Bernat and Oriol Romeu during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona.

Jubilant Karnataka team with the Ranji Trophy after defeating Maharashtra by 7 wickets on the final day of the Ranji Trophy match between Karnataka and Maharashtra at Hyderabad on Sunday.

YDERABAD: Favourites Karnataka deservedly won their seventh Ranji Trophy title after beating a spirited Maharashtra side by seven wickets on the fifth and concluding day of the final match. Chasing a modest victory target of 157 in little over two sessions, Karnataka batsmen reached the destination with ease as they knocked off the runs in 40.5 overs. Robin Uthappa (36), KL Rahul (29) and Amit Verma (38) made useful contributions as Karnataka made amends for their disappointing sixrun loss in the 2009-10 final against Mumbai. Young opener Rahul was awarded the Man-of-the-Match for his century in the first innings while Karnataka were richer by Rs 2 crore. Maharashtra earned a purse of Rs 1 crore but what would be more disappointing is the fact that they couldn't break their more than seven decade long jinx of not being able to win the national title. But one needs to laud Maharashtra for trying to make a match of it despite being down and out by the second day itself. Starting the final day at 272 for six, Maharashtra's tail wagged as they scored 366 with Shrikant Mundhe contributing 42 off 75 balls. The target of 157 was never going to be a tall-order for Karnataka with huge depth in their batting. h Maharashtra seamer Samad Fallah intially asked some questions but Uthappa hit a flurry of boundaries to help Karnataka stay firmly on course. His 47-ball innings had six boundaries and he was especially severe on left-arm spinner Akashay Darekar, repeatedly giving him the charge as the first wicket partnership yielded 65 runs. Rahul on the other hand played second fiddle to

around 25-26 years and they all want to play for the country, they all aim big and are doing well. We had the ability to win and the belief and took it forward match by match as a positive unit. Lifting the Ranji Trophy is a great honour and I'd like to thank my team-mates for that." A normally reticent junior Rahul said that he was happy to have saved his best for the last. "I was hoping I would save my best for the end and that's what happened. I took it one game at a time and that helped my batting. I was getting the starts but was not covering them. All my team-mates supported and pushed me to do well. We wanted to enjoy the batting and the bowlers Vinay Kumar, skipper of the Karnataka put a lot of pressure, so our plan was Ranji team celebrates with his wife Richa to attack the spinners. Always a after defeating Maharashtra by seven dream to win Ranji Trophy." wickets on the final day of the Ranji Trophy. Maharashtra skipper Motwani on his part harped on the positives. Uthappa before he launched into "Extremely proud of my side, they one Chirag Khurana over where he have been showing a lot character lifted him for consecutive sixes over from game one, there are a lot of long on before cutting him past positives. They have been working point for a boundary. hard as a unit. Motwani did admit Manish Pandey (28 no) and find- that dropping four catches on the of-the-season Karun Nair (20 no) second day cost them heavily. finished with a flourish as he hit Catches win matches and that Khurana for a boundary and lofted was important and we dropped a him straight for a six to finish the few but we overcame quite well on match. the second day with seven wickets. A pleased captain R Vinay Kumar, If we had taken those, we would who also completed 300 wickets in have given a better fight. When we first-class cricket said that it was made it to quarter-finals, that's nothing compared to lifting the when we thought we can lift the Ranji Trophy. "Ranji Trophy is big- Ranji Trophy. ger than individual achievements "The hope started building up (300 wickets). We all worked very from there, even the Bengal game hard for this, with the support staff finished in three games. Only thing and it's an amazing moment. We've was we didn't bat well on day one been doing well for many years but and things didn't go our way. The we couldn't win in 2009-10 and batting - Jadhav, Khadiwale, Bawne then made the quarter-finals but and till No. 8 they all contributed, couldn't go further. So we wanted to with the bowlers who took 35-40 win it this time and it's a superb wickets." team effort. Most of the players are

ADRID: Barcelona stumbled to a 3-2 home loss against Valencia on Saturday, giving Atletico Madrid a chance to move into sole possession of first place in the Spanish league. The Spanish champion’s decision not to sign a defender during the January transfer window may have backfired after Valencia took advantage of a lethargic, uninspired effort by their hosts at the Camp Nou, where former Spain coach Luis Aragones — who previously coached the Catalan side — was honoured after his death on Saturday. Barcelona led through Alexis Sanchez’s eighthminute goal but Dani Parejo equalised for Valencia before the break. Pablo Piatti headed Valencia ahead after the restart before Lionel Messi’s penalty — and first league goal since September — levelled the game again. But Barcelona’s defence let Sofiane Feghouli burst free into the

area to set up Paco Alcacer’s 59thminute winner. Barcelona played with 10 men from the 78th after Jodi Alba was shown a second yellow card. Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino was preoccupied by Barcelona’s drop in play after just half an hour. “I’m always worried after every one of our losses,” Martino said. “Despite us having played well for a while against Valencia, I’m very worried, much like the players are.” Messi set up the opener after slashing a pass across the box beyond the far post where Alexis connected oddly to float it over goalkeeper Diego Alves. Barcelona failed to build on its early momentum. Valencia took control from the 44th when Parejo exploited a turnover inside the Barcelona half to lead a breakout with Feghouli, who returned a pass inside the area for Parejo to score easily.

Badminton player PV Sindhu at the launch of new Li-Ning shuttlecock at Kochi on Sunday.