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Regd. No. MH/MR/South-160/2012-14 RNI Regn. No. 43675/1985 MUMBAI MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 24 PAGES `3 Website: www.afternoondc.in

Aft er oo DESPATCH & COURIER Vikas Sabnis

Markets Open Samvat 2070 At New High

Azad Shrivastav | ADC

MUMBHAI

Gold: `30,550 Silver: `49,665 US Dollar: `61.88 Temperature: 330C/250C Humidity: 70%

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he mood was buoyant and the undertone bullish, as the the BSE Sensex closed at a new high at 21,239 after it touched a record high of 21,321 intra-session in the special Diwali Muhurat session, yesterday. While 1561 shares advanced, 468 shares declined, and 97 shares were unchanged. Among the Top Gainers were Tata Motors, Jindal Steel, Sun Pharma, Maruti Suzuki and Tata Power. The losers included ICICI Bank, M&M, HDFC Bank, L&T and HDFC. Among midcap stocks, the top performers were Indian Bank, Amtek Auto and Sadhav Engineering. The Nifty also ended at its highest closing level at 6317.

Wonderful! In the current financial year, nationalised banks are going to open ten thousand new branches.

MINOR Banking on books to skim money GANG RAPED M City colleges submit manipulated records to show extra students and gain money under the book-bank scheme

By Yatin Ingle

Heartless and insensitive cops refused to register case after minor was raped at knife point by six friends who were escorting her home after Dhanteras pooja on Friday night

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By Zuber Ansari

16-year-old girl was raped at knife point by six of her male friends near the Santosh Nagar bridge at Goregaon (East) after they assured her that they would drop her off at her residence. The girl had Continued on pg 8 «

alpractices by various top colleges across the city have surfaced during scrutiny by Local Inspection Committee (LIC). Though these colleges have provided a detailed list of students to the MU for a book bank scheme, the ADC has managed to get records of few colleges which indicate that there is possible manipulation of the number of students shown and the actual number of students eligible for the scheme.

According to the Maharashtra Universities Act, 1994, the University has to provide a certain amount of money to affiliated colleges in order to maintain a book-bank scheme. This amount has to be utilised by colleges solely to issue books to students belonging to

Scheduled Castes, Nomadic Tribes and Scheduled Tribes. Colleges have to submit the total number of students under each reserved category so as to claim the amount for each student under the scheme.

Last week, the LIC visited around 15 colleges and was shocked to learn that although colleges have taken funds for the book-bank scheme, most did not have books from the syllabus. When the committee checked the records, it was found out that colleges had manipulated the students’ lists and added extra students to claim more funds under the scheme.

According to reports submitted by Joshi Bedekar College (Dombivli), the institution has reported 538 students from various reserved categories to claim the book-bank scheme funds, but the inspection reports reveals that there are only 229 such students.

Sanjay Viral, Senate Member, MU said, “We were shocked after we tallied students’ records submitted to the varsity and the facts that emerged after visiting the college. We realized that colleges had manipulated the records. Colleges like D.G Ruparel have been charging money for the application forms which is not correct procedure, as these forms are to be given free of cost. Some colleges like Podar College have started their own BookBank scheme. Chetana, Gokhale and B.R Patil college (Dombivali) have been produced wrong figures to the varsity and the authorities should punish them severely.”

As per records, the book banking scheme has been implemented for 26,000 students. Each college has been given between Rs.10,000 to Rs.2 lakh, depending upon the number of students from the SC, NT and ST categories and applicants for the scheme. Dr. Naresh Chandra, Pro Vice Chancellor, MU said, “After the varsity verifies the reports, we can step ahead and take necessary action. If the figures were manipulated, colleges will surely be punished for their fraudulent act.”

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The editorial and advertisement offices of this newspaper will remain closed on November 4, for Diwali. There will be no edition of the Afternoon Despatch & Courier on Tuesday, November 5.

We wish our readers and advertisers A Very Happy & A Prosperous Diwali.

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SHE’S POSSESSED!

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CITY OPINIONS

Veteran cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has stated that Virat Kohli can break Sachin’s ODI record. Comment.

Neha Shinde PR Executive YES, he is young and in great form.

He can break Sachin’s record.

Gauree More Media professional NO, Sachin’s record is too far for him to reach.

Hardik Tanna Interior designer YES, he still has time on his hands; if he continues in his current form, he will do it.

While possession may be considered superstition or a figment of imagination, psychiatrists have identified the existence of Possession Syndrome, where a victim exhibits traits similar to a person who is possessed

By Shwetha Kannan

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r. Jalpa Bhuta, Consultant Psychiatrist at Global Hospital, Parel recently handled a case of a 21-year-old girl from Mumbai who would periodically go into a state of trance and then exhibit a change in demeanour and style of talking. She would start abusing her mother in the way their abusive neighbour, whom the family isn’t on good terms with, does.

For a layman, this might seem like a case of black magic but psychiatrists call this Possession Syndrome.

“In Possession Syndrome, there is a temporary loss of integrity of memory, identity and awareness of surroundings.

During such episodes, the person goes into a trance like state and starts adopting the mannerisms and demeanour of another person.

Suddenly, there is more energy and strength in the person. Such episodes may last for an hour or so after which the person feels drained. Also, he or she doesn’t re-

member anything that has happened.

In the above case, the family’s first thought was that their daughter was a victim of black magic and took her to local faith healers. But when that did not help, they came to me. It was after several sessions that the actual reason behind the girl’s behaviour was revealed. The girl had recently got engaged and the gold that was given by her mother to her daughter-in-law was much more than what she had received and the girl’s to-be in-laws had apparently mocked her about it. This had affected the girl, but she couldn’t talk to her mother about it as she feared offending her. The feeling kept growing and she finally started venting by behaving like her neighbour and abusing her mother,” said Dr. Bhuta.

Dr. Anshu Kulkarni, Consultant Psychiatrist, S.L Raheja-Fortis, Mahim, has also seen similar cases.

“Cases of possession syndrome have always been around but eighty per cent of these are first taken to faith healers. They go there

their psychiatric problem. But now people are opening up to the idea of a combined approach of consulting a faith healer as well as a psychiatrist and that is a good thing.”

Dr. Bhuta has observed that such cases are more prevalent in the uneducated lower strata of society.

“People from the lower strata of society especially women are the for years together but are not more affected as they are genercured. It is only when they are pres- ally suppressed. They are not in a surised by a friend or a relative to position to voice their feelings seek medical assistance that they and opinions. They don’t get the approach psychiatrists,” said Dr. love, attention, care and the respect that they feel they deserve.

Kulkarni.

“We, as psychiatrists,” continued The pent up feelings then come Dr. Kulkarni, “know that faith heal- out in ways where they feel they ers can only suppress the episodes are possessed because in our sociand not cure the underlying psy- ety, the expression of feeling chiatric problem. But during the through such means is much first few sessions, we don’t ask more acceptable than having a dithem to stop going to faith healers rect conversation about the probbecause for the patient and the lem. When a person goes into family, this may seem like counter- such a trance, he or she gets more ing their faith and they might end attention and respect, which is exup not seeking medical help at all. actly what they want,” added Dr. So, it is only after a few sessions Bhuta. that we make them understand shwetha.kannan@afternoondc.in

One more big fire in Thane Manoj Singh

Abha Dhole Law student NO, as it depends upon the years you are in the game and Sachin has given 20 years for cricket; it’s difficult for anyone else to do so.

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Never sleep in the north western room during Pregnancy. Always sleep with head in south direction.

by Dr. Prem Gupta (9820045774/9930318119, www.drpremgupta.com)

CR gangmen run over

By Kaptan Mali

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Shreedhar Chavan Businessman YES, Virat will break Sachin’s record if he is able to sustain his current form.

VASTU TIP OF THE DAY

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Firemen with the help of snorkel busy dousing the blaze on the 5th and 6th floors of Laxness House, at Wagle Industrial Estate in Thane on Sunday, as hundreds of onlookers stand by.

By Anil Vishwakarma

cuits and other products of Britannia Biscuits in Bhiwandi.

On the occasion of the Diwali, here was another major fire, this time on Sunday afternoon the fire department had cancelled at the Wagle Industrial Estate in the holidays of all fire safety perThane. The blaze engulfed the sonnel, and hence, when Fire fifth and sixth floors of Laxness Control received the call from House. This has happened just Wagle Estate, five engines and two two days after a massive fire de- tankers were rushed to the locastroyed a godown stocking bis- tion. It being a holiday, hundreds

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of local citizens came out on to the roads to witness the fire, which was brought under control within two hours. There were no casualties reported. Kavita, a local resident, said, “Thanks to the alertness and quick action by the brave firemen, the situation was brought under control with no loss of life.’’

iwali turned into a tragedy for the families of four gangmen who were run over by the Koyna Express on Sunday morning close to the Patri Pul near Kalyan railway station. All the gangmen died on the spot. Their bodies were sent to the Rukminibai Hospital in Kalyan for post-mortem.

The relatives of the deceased protested before the Additional Divisional Manager who visited the spot, and demanded immediate action against those responsible for the accident.

According to railway officials, on Sunday morning around 9:55 am, the Koyna Express which was going towards Kolhapur from Mumbai hit the four gangmen who were working on the down fast track near Kalyan railway station, killing them on the spot.

The names of the deceased are Jaychand Gangaram (53), Dattram Devji (56), Hari Nana (58) and Pandurang Ghare (53). Because of Diwali, the Central Railway had not undertaken its megablock on Sunday for the convenience of commuters, but the gangmen were working on the track, doing the maintenance part of their job.

Ravindra Ghare, a relative of victim Pandurang Ghare, said, “We have decided not to perform the last rites of the deceased until strict action is taken against the culprits.” The ADRM of CR, Hari Shankar Varma, who visited the spot, assured them that action would be taken against those responsible within 72 hours.

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Diwali flavours!

MUMBAI | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Varsity celebrates with foreign students and gives them a taste of Indian cuisine and culture

By Yatin Ingle

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VC Dr. Rajan Welukar celebrates with some of the foreign students.

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these Diwali snacks back to Afghanistan and let my people know about this beautiful festival of lights and crackers." Another student Sam, from Nigeria, said, "I loved this snack called 'chakli' and I have also started looking for its recipe. I intend to ask my mother to make it, so it will be like celebrating Diwali in my country."

Around 40 foreign students pursuing their studies in the varsity attended the event, which was held in the presence of MU's Dr Rajan Welukar (Vice -Chancellor), Dr Naresh Chandra (pro vice chancellor) along with directors of various department and officers of the varsity.

The ADC spoke to Dr Rajan Welukar, vice-chancellor, MU, who said "The event was organised to spread the culture and traditions of India across the world. The NRI students were able to celebrate and enjoy Diwali, know its significance and be a part of the traditions of this country." yatin.ingle@afternoondc.in Pics: Azad Shrivastav | ADC

hile students of Mumbai University (MU) are away enjoying their Diwali vacations, foreign students are celebrating the fest inside the varsity itself.

Aiming to spread the tradition and knowledge of Indian festivals, the MU celebrated Diwali with events organized by the cultural and students welfare department.

There were performances from the varsity's singing group which played traditional music from various parts of India. It also arranged for Diwali snacks for the foreign students.

Ayub Khan, a student from Afghanistan, said, "I will be taking

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FIREWORKS & GLITTERING LIGHTS.... A captivating view of the fireworks brightens the Mumbai skyline during the Diwali celebrations on Sunday evening. (Right) Priests chant hymns during the ‘Chopda Pujan’ ceremony performed at Swaminarayan Temple in Dadar, yesterday evening. Businessmen keep their account books for special puja on the day for the ensuing Samvat 2070.

DANGER OF FALLING OFF

By Tariq Khan

larly uses the skywalk laments, “During the night, drug addicts he Chembur skywalk may be steal the iron bars, creating a risk utilised by some citizens, but it for everyone, especially school is a favourite spot for those in love. children. Even if the side bars are It is also frequented by antisocial el- refitted, there is no guarantee that ements who are creating problems drug addicts won't steal them, hence, security, especially during for pedestrians.

There have always been security the night is very essential along the problems, compounded by missing sky-walk stretch.”

This correspondent contacted tube lights during nights, but now the situation is becoming danger- MMRDA Dy Executive Engineer Jaous, thanks to missing the metal madar, who said, “I have been enside bars which are supposed to trusted with the job of repairing protect pedestrians from falling and fixing the missing side-bars.

The problem will be solved within over.

Ramesh, a resident who regu- 15 days.”

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The gaps here are wide enough for school kids to fall through.

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THANKSGIVING

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world. Sacred Heart of Jesus thy kingdom come. Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us. St. Jude the worker of miracles pray for us. St. Jude the helper of the helpless pray for us. Say this prayer for nine times nine days.

Your prayer will be answered by the eighth day. Publication must be promised.

C-21723 May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world. Sacred Heart of Jesus thy kingdom come. Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us. St. Jude the worker of miracles pray for us. St. Jude the helper of the helpless pray for us. Say this prayer for nine times nine days.

Your prayer will be answered by the eighth day. Publication must be promised.

C-21724 Thank you St. Jude for the favour granted. O holy St Jude Apostle & Martyr great in virtue & rich in miracles near kinsman of Jesus Christ faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart & humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance Help me in my present urgent petition in return I promise to make your name known & cause you to be invoked .Say Our father three Hail Mary & three glory be's St Jude pray for us & all who invoke your aid AMEN. Sonal Patel C-21725

LOST & FOUND

CLASSIFIEDS I Gazala Anis Jairaj have changed our minor son’s name from Aquib Ali Saghir Shaikh @ Aquib Ali Shaikh to Aquib Ali Jairaj as per deed poll Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Mr. Alimohammed Haji Yusuf to Mr. Alimohammed Haji Yusuf Molapiya deed pool Affidavit dated 01/11/2013.

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I have changed my name from Altamash Mukhtar Shaikh to Kaij Mukhtar Qureshi as per Affidavit No 779320.

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I have changed my name from Mrs.Zaitoon Alimohammed to Mrs.Zaitoon Alimohammed Molapiya as per deed poll Affidavit dated 01/11/2013.

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I have changed my name from Saifuddin Dagar to Sahir Saifuddin Khan Dagar as per Gazette No (U-42874).

C-21732 I have changed my name from Puranlal Gordhandas Janyani to Puran Gordhandas Janyani as per Affidavit.

C-21733 I have changed my name from Purankumar Gordhandas Janyani to Puran Gordhandas Janyani as per Affidavit.

C-21734 I have changed my name from Mallesh Rayamallu Gankula to Mallesh Raimallu Ganchulla as per Affidavit No. HV 969549.

C-21735 I have changed my name from Rolf Terrence Martin Lobo to Rolf Martin Lobo as per Affidavit dated 2/11/2013.

C-21736 I, Rohan Sandeep Sharma resident at 503, Bauhinea, Nyati Estate, Pune-28 have changed my name to Rohan Sandeep Prinja. Mah. Govt.

Gazette Regn. U-27444 dtd 20 Nov. 2008.

C-21737 I have changed my name from Rupender Singh Sulkhlan to Rupender Singh Tomar as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-21738 I have changed my name from Meena Deva Pujari to Munira Esmail Motiwala as per deed Poll Affidavit Dtd.02/11/2013.

C-21739 I have changed my name from Sumitkumar Ramesh Jain to Sumith Ramesh Jain as per deed poll Affidavit Dtd. 02/11/2013.

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CHANGE OF NAME I Purushottamdas Shyamlal Agarawal have changed my name to Purushottam Shyamlal Agrawal as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 01/11/13.

C-21726 I Ms. Sona Devi Balvindra Singh Pal have changed my name to Mrs. Sona Balvindra Singh Pal as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 02/11/13.

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I have changed my name from Deepika to Dipika Bharatkumar Jain as per deed poll Affidavit Dtd.02/11/2013.

C-21741 I have changed my name from Mangala Ramesh Jain to Manju Ramesh Jain as per deed Poll Affidavit Dtd.02/11/2013.

C-21742 I have changed my name from Rakesh Anil Kumar to Rakesh Anil Sharma as per Affidavit.

C-21743 I have changed my name from Anil Kumar to Anil Sharma as per Affidavit.

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I have change my name from Mrs.Rubina Barkatali Karediya to Mrs.Rubina Barkatali Karedia as per deed poll Affidavit dated 01/11/2013.

C-21749 I have changed my name from Ms.Afrida Barkatali Karediya to Ms.Afrida Barkatali Karedia as per deed poll Affidavit dated 01/11/2013.

C-21750 I have changed my name from Mr.Barkatali Noor Mohamad Karediya to Mr.Barkatali Noor Mohamad Karedia as per deed poll Affidavit dated 01/11/2013.

C-21751 I have changed my name from Ayesha to Ayesha Khan as per Affidavit.

C-21752 I have changed my name from Jyoti Anju Ankam to Sanjana Dattadri Pamula as per Gazette No.U-42719.

C-21753 I have changed my name from Anju Narsayya Ankam to Anjaiah Narsayya Ankam as per Gazette No.U-42720.

C-21754 I have changed my name from Aravindkumar Devichand Jain to Arvind Devichand Jain as per Affidavit.

C-21755 I have changed my name from Miss.Rinkukumari Sagarmal Jain to Mrs.Rinku Arvind Jain as per Affidavit.

C-21756 I have change my name from Nitinkumar Hansaraj Patel to Nitin Hanshraj Pokar as per Affidavit.

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 I have changed my name from Kranti Satish More to Kranti Ravindra Choudhari as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Joseph Francis Dias to Jose Francisco Dias as per Affidavit.

C-21764 I have changed my name from Mohammed Fardeen Khan to Fardeen Khan as per Affidavit.

C-21765 I have changed my name from Ansari Asiya Mushtaque Ahmed to Aasiya Ishtiaq Ahmed Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-21766 I have changed my name from Daullat Ghorpade to Daulatrao Ghorpade as per Affidavit.

C-21767 I have changed my name from Dawalat Vithobaji Ghorpade to Daulat Vithobaji Ghorpade as per Affidavit.

C-21768 I have changed my name from Dinesh Chandra to Dineshkumar Ranka as per Affidavit.

C-21769 I have changed my name from Dinesh Chandra Ranka to Dineshkumar Paleshwarlal Ranka as per Affidavit.

C-21770 I have changed my name from Dineshchandra Paleshwar Raka to Dineshkumar Paleshwarlal Ranka as per Affidavit.

C-21771 I have changed my name from Nasim Salim Khan to Nasimbanu Salim Khan as per Affidavit.

C-21772 I have changed my name from Manohar Rodrigues to Calisto Gonsalo Rodrigues as per Affidavit.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE Govindlal Gokaldas; Devjee Gokaldas; Dinkar Karsandas; Vasantlal Govindlal; Babubhai Mohanlal Patel; Dilipkumar Devjibhai Patel; Smt. MithibenMohanlal Patel Originally holding Property situated at CTS No. 488. Panbaug, Chakala, Andheri (East), Mumbai-99. Entered in partnership agreement Dated 03rd July 1976 with Sh. Bhikhabhai Jivraj; Smt. Kantaben Bhagwanji; Smt. Ranjanben Mukundbhai; Smt. Shardaben Naranbhai; Smt. Vimlaben Natwarlal With mutual understanding & Partnership deed of all 12 partners after which original 7 partners retired on 20th December 1977 as per retirement Deed without any disputes and transferred all rights to New 5 Partners added on 03rd July 1976.

Sh. Bhikhabhai Jivraj Expired On 02nd June 1984, transferring his right title intrest to his only legal heir Sh. Mukundbhai Bhikhabhai Smt. Kantaben Bhagwanji & Smt. Vimlaben Natwarlal retired legally from partnership peacefully and have no claim in future as per dissolution Deed Dated 31st October 1984 and thus transferring all rights, titles interest and Shares on 01st November 1984 to remaining Partners Sh .Mukundbhai Bhikhabhai; Smt. Ranjanben Mukundbhai; Smt. Shardaben Naranbhai The Partners hereby invites claims & objection on above address from heirs or heirs or other claimants & objectors to the said property within 14 Days from the day of Publication of this Notice with copies of Proof /Other Documents.

Sd/- Sh .Mukundbhai Bhikhabhai; Smt. Ranjanben Mukundbhai; Smt. Shardaben Naranbhai Partners Place:-Mumbai Dt.:-04/11/2013

I have changed my name from Rameshbhai Hansaraj Patel to Ramesh Hanshraj Pokar as per Affidavit.

C-21758 I have changed my name from Manjuladevi Sukhram Jaiswar to Manjula Ravinand Shastri as per Affidavit.

C-21759 I have changed my name from Fathima M. to Fatima Shaikh as per Affidavit.

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I Minakshi Ramesh Suru have changed my name to Mehak Milan Soni as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 29/10/13.

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I have changed my name from Papu Jamshed Khan to Sarfaraz Jamshed Khan as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Chedilal Vishwakarma to Chhedilal Vishwakarma as per Affidavit.

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I Dharmishtha Natwarlal Mehta have changed my name to Dharmista Brijesh Pandya as per deed poll Affidavit Dated: 02/11/13.

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I have changed my name from Jayshwal Chandram Chhagurram to Chandram Chhanguram Jayswal as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Afrin Nasir Baig to Avni Sandeep Sharma as per Gazette No. U-2021.

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Politically loaded

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hat an issue as important as Infrastructure should become politicized in an election year is to be expected. The woes of the government in ensuring that big ticket infrastructure projects like Metro and Mono Rail are completed on time were best articulated by MMRDA metropolitan commissioner UPS Madan last week, who talked about how improper ducting of underground public utilities and congested localities were delaying construction of pillars as the design had to be changed in some cases, leading to delays.

Madan expressed optimism about starting the first leg of Metro and Mono Rail by this Decembe. His boss, the chairman and Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, has already admitted that he was not pushing for completion of the infrastructure projects on time.

MCHI-Credai chairman Vimal Shah hit the nail on its head when he pointed out that delayed government clearances were the prime reason for cost escalation of real estate projects, not just infrastructure projects. Take the case of the crucial eastwest connectivity infrastructure project of Santacruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) which is further delayed as the Central Railway is yet to decide on granting mega blocks on its

U.P.S. Madan services on the suburban lines at Kurla so that the girders for the rail over bridge can be launched and the project can be taken to its conclusion.

That aside, the BJP too has jumped on the poll bandwagon, launching a signature campaign drive on the suburban rail corridor seeking response from the public on the problems they encounter while commuting. The initiative is laudable, but will only have any real meaning if it is backed by follow-up action that compels the government to take action. The neglect of the suburban railway network despite it being the largest revenue earner for the government is evident for any commuter.

decade and for 15 years now in Maharashtra.

Sadly, the Election Commission of India and its role is only talked about whenever there are elections to be held.

Otherwise all those crusaders of democracy give a damn about why the voting percentage is steadily declining,

Sharad Pawar

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ome election time and major political parties engage themselves in that awkward exercise of forging alliances, ditching old allies or simply engaging in some arm-twisting with their allies.

The summersaults done by some will even put the best trained trapeze artists to shame. Be it the CongressNCP alliance or the Mahayuti alliance of the BJP-Shiv SenaRPI-A or the ramshackle socalled Third Front alliance, the picture is the same wherever you look.

The NCP, making its presence felt at the first grand meeting of the Third Front alliance, has predictably failed to raise any curiosity. In a quick flip-flop the NCP has clarified that it will not leave the Congress led-UPA fold.

The unmistakable message to the Congress was that if it did not agree to allocate more Lok Sabha seats, then its options post elections were open. However, the wily, smart Congress has refused to bite the bullet and even sarcastically reminded NCP chief Sharad Pawar that, just as he swallowed his self-pride and later accepted the leadership of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, he would eventually accept the leadership of its vice president Rahul Gandhi. The BJP-Sena alliance too faces a difficult proposition in accommodating the demands of its new found ally the RPI-A. Until now the saffron allies did not have a third partner to share, but now faces a new difficult challenge of sharing their sufficiently large pie with the third partner. And there the problems start often leading to sour relations and eventual break-ups.

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or a seasoned politician, a defeat in the elections by a narrow margin of votes and for political parties a loss of few seats here and there, means either sitting in the opposition or forming a government. Predictably the deletion of duplicate entries and names of deceased voters has raised hackles amongst political parties, especially the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance which has been in the opposition in Delhi for a

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05 why so many names go missing from voter lists, voter registration and other issues.

Many are still not aware that an issue like voter registration is a continuous process. But the EC too is guilty of not publicizing the process widely enough. What is more disturbing is that the shoestring EC staff in Maharashtra single handedly conducts Lok Sabha and assembly elections, drawn on the basis of a support staff that is largely derived from the state government.

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Con woman would offer spiked tea to victims and relieve them off their ornaments

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54-year-old woman, who claimed to be a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation employee, was arrested by the Tilak Nagar police on Sunday for allegedly drugging helpless relatives of patients and robbing them of their gold ornaments.

According to police officials, they had received three complaints in the past 15 days from people queuing for treatment outside the civic hospital.

The complainants, who were mostly women, told the police that they were waiting outside the hospital when a woman, wearing a BMC employee badge, approached them and claimed

that she was a sweeper with the BMC and could help get a doctor's appointment or even a bed in the hospital. Not suspecting her, the people decided to take her help.

The woman, while talking to the victims, Kusum Diwangi would take them for a cup of tea to the nearest stall, and while they were busy telling her of their problems, she would spike their tea. When they became drowsy, she would swiftly take off their gold ornaments and flee.

"After receiving complaints, we began

making rounds of the civic hospitals in the vicinity and kept a watch on the women sweepers," said API Vaijnath Upase, from the Tilak Nagar police station. The police observed many women sweepers around the hospitals, and then noticed one approaching relatives of patients and talking to them. The police promptly detained her and then called in the complainants of the earlier cases, who identified her as the woman who had drugged and robbed them.

The accused, identified as Kusum Diwangi, was arrested for cheating and theft by the Tilak Nagar police, who revealed that there are similar cases registered against her in Sion and Chembur also.

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Depressed woman immolates self

By Zuber Ansari

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n a shocking incident, a 65-year-old woman set herself on fire at her Bhandup residence on Saturday morning.

The police said that the woman was facing severe depression as she had suffered a string of tragedies, beginning with her elder son’s demise and the recent death of her younger son and his wife.

The cops said that the grand-daughter of the victim was in a local hospital where she had been admitted for treatment of dengue.

Nirmala Mudaliyar, a resident of New Sai Ganesh Building of the MHADA colony in Subhash Nagar at Bhandup (West), lived on the 6th floor with her 17-year-old grand daughter, Neha, police said.

On Saturday, at around 10 am, Nirmala doused herself with kerosene and set herself on fire. When neighbours saw smoke coming from the house, they broke open the door and found her burning. She was rushed to hospital where she was declared dead on arrival, said an officer from the Bhandup police station.

Her elder son had died a few years ago, after which her younger son and his wife too died of a severe illness.

“Around 15 days ago, the victim’s grand-daughter Neha was hospitalised when she contracted dengue. We have communicated to Neha and will wait to record her statement,” said senior police inspector, Shrirang Nadgauda of Bhandup police station.

According to neighbours, Nirmala was always in a depressed state after her two sons died. No suicide note was found from the spot. The police have therefore registered a case of accidental death.

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uoyed by the marketing initiatives of retailers, shopping through card payments has risen 20 per cent a week before Diwali, according to an industry report.

"The weekend before Diwali saw a growth of about 20 per cent (over an average weekend) in credit card spends across the country.

This growth is likely to be even higher for the Diwali weekend," says a report by payments processor Worldline India.

While credit spends have been on a downslide for quite some time now, debit cards payments were on an uptick

of late. The report, however, did not specify whether rise in purchases were due to debit or credit cards, reports PTI. Segments like cosmetic stores and salons, opticians and book stores witnessed

growth in excess of 20 per cent.

Home appliances and furnishings segment saw a 30 per cent growth in spends, while apparel and fashion retail witnessed 22 per cent

growth in spends.

During October 25-27, all regions exhibited a growth in the range of 15-25 per cent, with the Delhi region showing the highest increase at more than 24 per cent, closely followed by Mumbai and Bangalore at 21 per cent each, it said.

"The transaction volumes also grew in line with the spends, Worldline processed close to 2.5 million transactions during this weekend.

The categories that grew are the typical growth drivers during the festive period and we anticipate a higher growth on Dhanteras and the Diwali weekend," Worldline India head Jean Pascal Duvet said.

BSE’s initial public offering likely to be delayed

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he BSE would be missing the yearend deadline it had set for itself for going public, as the oldest bourse of Asia is yet to hear from market regulator Sebi on its IPO application.

"The exchange is yet hear from the Sebi, despite it submitting all the clarifications that the regulator sought after filing the IPO documents a few months back," a source told PTI. Managing director and chief executive of BSE Ashishkumar Chauhan refused to comment. Sebi officials too could not be contacted.

Last December, BSE appointed 14 merchant bankers for the IPO and had said it was planning to hit the markets by the end of the year.

BSE's benchmark Sensex ended Samvat 2069 scaling a lifetime high at 21,196.81, after touching an intra-day record of 21,293.88, surpassing the previous record of 21,206.77 reached on January 10, 2008.

As per the source, BSE is set to miss the IPO deadline of Q4 of 2013, as it is yet to get some exemptions from the regulator from the new rules.

As per the new rules, IPO-bound market infrastructure institutions like

bourses have to ensure that every shareholder is `fit and proper', which the BSE finds it as an uphill task.

"The exchange has sought certain clarifications and some exemptions from the Sebi from these rules, without which the initial public offering cannot go ahead," the source said.

The new rules came into effect last year, following the Bimal Jalan committee recommendations.

The Sebi allowed stock exchanges over three years old to list their own shares through an IPO in June 2012 after accepting the recommendations of the Jalan committee.

The chain snatcher being led away by the police.

Alert NCP corporator nabs chain-snatcher after hot chase

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n NCP corporator lived up to the meaning of the term, ‘nagarsevak,’ when he, with the help of local residents, caught a notorious chain-snatcher after a hot chase.

The incident was reported at around 12.30 pm on Sunday afternoon from the Balaji Nagar area in Bhayandar (West), when the victim, identified as Vimal Devidas Salve (45), was nearing the Railway Over Bridge. The accused, Alameen Abu Shaikh (20), snatched her chain, and

tried to flee from the spot.

Local NCP corporator Dhruvkishore Patil, who had come to exchange festive greetings in the ward, heard the cries of the woman and ran after Shaikh, and managed to nab him. After a sound thrashing by members of the public, he was handed over to the Bhayandar police, who also retrieved the gold chain worth Rs.33,000.

Investigations revealed that Shaikh, a resident of Bhola Nagar in Bhayandar (West), is said to be a notorious chain snatcher involved in similar crimes in the region. “We have arrested the accused and have booked him under section 384 of the IPC,” said Senior Police Inspector Shantaram Valvi.

GANGWAR FALLOUT: MCOCA

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Police to impose MCOCA on all accused in Nirmal Nagar shootout case; ACP will take them into custody again

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he investigation into the Nirmal Nagar shootout case has taken U-turn with the city police deciding to impose the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act

of Police, Nirmal Nagar police station jurisdiction, will take them again into police custody and re-investigate the matter to get more inputs,” added Chavan.

On August 1 this year, Vijay Pujari alias Batta, was shot by members of a rival gang at

(MCOCA) against all the five accused, including the absconding culprit.

Confirming the development, Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone VIII, Namdev Chavan, said, “We have imposed MCOCA on all the accused in the Sharada Bar shootout case in which one Vijay Poojari alias Batta was shot dead by a rival gang.

This was implemented on Saturday and now we will be reinvestigating the case.”

“All the five accused who were arrested in the case are now in judicial custody, but our Assistant Commissioner

the Sharada Bar in Khar when Pujari along with his three friends, Chandan Singh, Lokesh and Kamlesh, were having drinks at the bar.

The main accused, Rahul Sharma (22), and his accomplices Magic, Ajay Pandit, Viren Thakur, Subhash Shukla and another unidentified suspect, had barged into the bar and got into a heated argument with Batta and his friends. The dispute got out of control and Sharma open fired at Batta, following which his friends stabbed Batta with choppers several times. After the mur-

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old staged a modest rebound after its uninterrupted six-day losing streak while silver failed to glitter during the Muhurat session at the domestic bullion market on Sunday.

"Jewellery stockists and retail investors made token purchases of gold to mark the beginning of the new Hindu Samvat year 2070," a bullion trader told PTI. The industrial metal -- sil-

ver -- dropped owing to sluggish demand as well as lack of buying support.

Standard gold (99.5 purity) edged up by Rs 30 to finish at Rs 30,400 per 10 grams from Saturday's closing level of Rs 30,370.Pure gold (99.9 purity) also gained by a similar margin to end at Rs 30,550 per 10 grams from Rs 30,520.

Silver ready (.999 fineness), however, slumped by Rs 130 to conclude at Rs 49,665 per kilo as compared to Rs 49,795 yesterday.

der, the accused coolly walked out the bar, even as other patrons tried to escape from the spot.

Batta was reportedly becoming a terror in the area

and had even attacked Sharma and Magic, who owe allegiance to underworld gangsters. Around eight months ago, Batta had attacked Sharma and a few of

his family members. Following that incident, Batta also assaulted Magic in the Railway Colony area, which is under the authority of alleged gangster Subhash

Singh Thakur. After the assaults, Sharma and Magic vowed to exact revenge against Batta and that, according to sources, was the reason for the shootout

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THE OTHER SIDE OF FIRECRACKERS... Shocked residents of V.O.C. Housing Society at 90 Feet Road in Dharavi look at the charred remains of at least eight motorcycles burnt due to firecrackers burnt during the Diwali celebrations on Sunday.

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unira Shaikh, a house maid employed by a family living in Infinity Towers in Mazagaon fell from the third floor flat as she wiped the windows on Sunday afternoon.

It was the buildings watchman who, hearing a loud sound at around 2.30 pm, rushed to investigate, and saw Shaikh lying in a pool of blood. She was rushed to the Prince Ally Khan Hospital from where she was shifted to Noor Hospital. A police officer from the Byculla police station said that her condition was critical, while foul play has been ruled out.

The members of the family were just as shocked as other residents, and believe that Munira must have leaned far too much while cleaning the window and lost her balance, causing her to topple off.

In this interesting set of two pictures,the adult is safe from the fumes, thanks to the face being masked with a handkerchief, while the little tot is happily braving and risking it all while lighting smokey fireworks.

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pooja at the house of another friend who lived nearby. As she knew them, and the other accused, Surya, been invited for a Dhanteras pooja Kaalu, Rahul and Arjun, she went at the home of one of the accused with Wasim and Asgar for the pooja. in MHADA colony in Santosh According to Senior Police InspecNagar, and since the pooja finished After the incident, the girl rushed The victim’s mother then aplate, she had requested them to es- home and narrated the incident to proached a person from an NGO tor Jaywant Mane from the Dindoshi cort her home. her mother, who immediately took who took her to police station and, police station, “On Sunday, the girl Taking the advantage of dark- her to the Dindoshi police station. with public pressure, got a gang approached us saying she was raped ness, the accused took her to an It is alleged that the officer on duty rape case filed against the six ac- by six youth on Friday night, and on isolated spot near the bridge and shouted at the mother and told her, cused. that basis, we have registered a case. threatened her with a knife. The “Your girl went willingly with them According to Dindoshi police sta- I am not aware about the issue of Frifrightened girl was then raped by and after enjoying sex, has come to tion sources, on Friday, two of the day, when some officer had reporther six friends, one after the other, register a complaint.” He refused to girl’s friends, Wasim and Asgar, who edly asked them to leave the police for more than two hours from 10.30 register their complaint and asked live in the same housing colony, station without registering an FIR. them to leave the police station. asked her to accompany them to a All the accused are known to each pm onwards.

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other as well as to the victim. At this moment, no arrest has been made as all the accused are absconding. A manhunt has been launched to nab them.

A case under section 376 (G) has been registered, and a special team has been formed. All the accused will be arrested soon, Mane added.

In an earlier instance of gang rape, a 22-year-old photojournalist was raped by five men inside the Shakti Mills compound on August 22, when she went along with her male colleague inside the mill to take photographs.

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Veteran Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi with party president Uddhav Thackeray in this file photo.

eleaguered Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi, who was booed off the dais by his party's supporters at a Dussehra rally last month, on Sunday called on party chief Uddhav Thackeray at his residence.

"I met Uddhavji to greet him on the occasion of Diwali," Joshi told reporters outside 'Matoshree' in Bandra yesterday.

"Since there were a number of party workers who had come to greet, I could not talk extensively with Uddhavji. A comprehensive discussion with him will take place some other day. The Shiv Sena chief will give time for the next meeting," he told PTI. The Shiv sainiks had heckled Joshi at the Dussehra rally as they were annoyed with his utterances against Uddhav Thackeray's leadership style. After Joshi was booed off the stage, Uddhav had said during the rally that he would not fall prey to any pressure tactics.

Meanwhile, Republican Party of India (RPI) chief Ramdas Athawale also met Thackeray at his residence.

"Uddhavji said that he has been discussing with the senior BJP leaders about allotting the Rajya Sabha seat to me. He has promised me that he will allot Rajya Sabha seat from the Shiv Sena or BJP quota," Athawale said.

Fugitive held after 8 years Slumlord had absconded from Mira Road after brutally murdering his rival in May 2005

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anted for a brutal murder committed by him and his accomplices in May, 2005, he had managed to evade the dragnet for more than eight years, but finally landed in the custody of the Mira Road police.

Local slumlord, Sakharam Kaamble (50), had been on the run after killing his rival, Inaaz Atya Pawar during a dispute over the illegal possession of land behind Shivar Municipal Manoj Singh

Garden in Mira Road, said the police. Sakharam, along with his family members Pappu and Sanjya, and another accomplice, Dennis, mounted a murderous assault on Pawar on May 21, 2005. Pawar succumbed to his injuries the following day. While the police managed to arrest Dennis for his involvement in the crime, prime accused Sakharam and his kin remained elusive.

It was only after a tip-off received by the Anti Human Trafficking Wing of the Thane

(rural) police about Sakharam’s arrival at his daughter’s firecracker stall in Mira Road, that a team led by Assistant Police Inspector Atul Aher laid a trap and arrested Sakharam from the MiraBhayandar Road on Saturday night. Investigations revealed that Sakharam had settled down in Dombivli, where he operated as a key-maker.

“After evading the police dragnet for years, Sakharam was apparently confident that he would not be apprehended

and boldly visited his daughter’s fire cracker stall in Mira Road,” said API Aher.

A case under section 302 of the IPC had been registered against the quartet for the murder. “We have taken over Sakharam’s custody and are confident about nabbing the other two absconding killers,” confirmed Senior Police Inspector Dhanaji Kshirsagar, adding that the accused had been remanded to police custody by the District Sessions Court, Thane.

FIVE YOUTH PERISH IN CAR CRASH

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isaster struck residents of Vijay Nagar in Thane on Sunday morning when five persons died in a road accident.

Mahesh Kadam (26), Kishore Ankatii (29), Sandeep Shinde (24), Praveen Raje (24), Ashwin Sawant (23) died near Wadkhal Naka in Panvel.

The victims had decided to visit Wadkhal Temple near Pali and had left their homes in a car early on Sunday morning. Police are investigating into the cause of the accident.

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No shelters for children with spl needs in Pune, HC concerned

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aking serious note of lack of shelter homes for children with special needs in Pune district, Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government and Commissioner For Persons With Disabilities to explain what steps are being taken to address the situation.

A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice M.S. Sanklecha passed the order earlier this week on a public interest litigation filed by the NGO Disability Rights Initiative about the condition of six destitute boys who were physically abused at a Yerwada mental facility.

According to the PIL, the boys were kept at the Yerwada facility near Pune which houses adult persons suffering from mental disorders. The children bore visible signs of fresh wounds and complained of alleged physical abused by a person identified as Mane.

"Apart from the issue raised in the petition...It also appears that there is no arrangement in place for children with special needs in Pune district," the bench said.

Last year, all four existing homes for special children -Shriram Development and Rehabilitation Centre in Daund, Anand Mahila Balkalyan Sanstha in Shirur, Jijamata Shikshan Prasarak Mandal and Sankalp Trust in Donje -- were closed down by the government for serious violations of rules.

"We direct the respondents (state government, Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities and others) to submit a report by November 27 indicating the steps being taken and (that had) been taken for ensuring availability of homes for special children in Pune district," the court said.

The court also directed the authorities to ensure that the six boys are shifted to Sasoon hospital in Pune.

Kunte’s drivers take home bigger pay cheque this Diwali

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n what may come as a surprise to many, civic officials have revealed that Brihanmumbai Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte's drivers have been earning more than him.

"Yes, it is true that his drivers has been drawing a bigger salary then the commissioner himself, but this is due to the overtime that they do," Additional Municipal Commissioner Mohan Adtani told PTI. He said there are two drivers working in shifts to drive the cars of the BMC commissioner as well as vehicles of the additional commissioners.

"The pay for over time fixed by the government per hour, is one-and-a half times more than their regular salary. Therefore, they draw more salary," he said.

According to a civic department transport official, the BMC chief's driver took home Rs 11.9 lakh (Rs 99,550 per month) during the last financial year, which is more than the commissioner himself, whose monthly salary is Rs 90,000.

The average salary of a

BMC driver is in the range of Rs 25,000 and Rs 30,000 per month. As per rules, the commissioner's driver is expected to work 12 hours a day and the others are supposed to work eight hours a day.

Additional hours are compensated with twice the sum of dearness allowance, house rent allowance, transport allowance and basic pay.

So, if a driver works on a public holiday or weekly off, the entire day is counted as overtime.

One of the reasons for high overtime payments is because officials relieve their drivers only late at night.

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Sardar Patel was a pragmatist, Nehru a woolly-headed dreamer

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

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HE CHOGM is not being held by Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has nothing to do with this meeting: Countries of the Commonwealth are chosen by rotation. The happenings in a country – good or bad – have nothing to do with the choice.

The two Tamil parties in India, the DMK and the AIADMK – want the Prime Minister not to go to Sri Lanka. They say that Sri Lanka’s army has commited atrocities and killed many Tamil citizens mercilessly. Two videos which show the savage treatment given to Tamil rebels after the war was over have been released. One of them shows how Prabhakaran’s son – just a kid – has been shot dead. Another shows a woman being stripped, raped and killed. Both the DMK and AIADMK have drawn the attention of the Indian government to the video and have been asking that India should cut off relations with Sri Lanka.

There is however doubt whether the video is genuine or fake. It is not known who has produced the video. The happening in the video can be easily constructed for filming. It is a fact that what is seen in the video is beastly. It is a fact that after the war with LTTE, the Sri Lankan army has mercilessly and savagely persecuted the Tamil folk. The whole world is aware of the war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan army. Actually a UN body has taken note of the war crimes and passed sanctions.

Tamil Nadu keeps asking the Indian government to cut off relations with Lanka. Political rivalry between the DMK and the AIADMK has made the situation worse. They want to be seen by the Tamil people as friends of Tamil citizens in Sri Lanka. In Tamil Nadu, there has always been sympathy for the LTTE rebels and when the Indian Army was sent, there was a hue and cry in Tamil Nadu.

The demand of the DMK and the AIADMK that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should not attend the CHOGM is most unreasonable. To bring in the army’s war crimes and to ask the PM to boycott CHOGM is most unfair because the CHOGM cannot be expected to be involved in any manner with war crimes by Sri Lanka’s army.

India should ignore the unreasonable demand of Tamil Nadu, adopt a realistic approach and attend CHOGM.

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T is good the slugfest between an ascendant BJP and a fast sinking Congress has helped focus on the enormous legacy of Sardar Patel. The man who had single-handedly unified India was sought to be pushed to the margins of history by a Gandhi-Nehru family- obsessed party. Till the other day, the Congress had no heroes outside the Family.

Birth and death anniversaries of leaders from the pantheon of freedom fighters were mostly restricted to members of the Family. Even the Mahatma’s were a perfunctory affair. How much money and effort went to build a cult around the controlling family of the ruling Congress was in sharp contrast to the shabby state of the memorials of the Father of the Nation. No doubt, history is written by the victorious. Legacy of leaders who have direct descendants in power is glorified to the virtual exclusion of that of all their peers.

If you are approaching sixty or so, you will recall how the school textbooks had deified the Nehrus, impressing young minds about their huge sacrifice for the sake of freedom.

Otherwise, telling ten-year-olds that the clothes of the family were sent to Paris for dry-cleaning would not have made any sense.

The myth-making around Nehru, surprisingly, began even when he was still alive. With the early demise of Patel in 1950, Nehru marginalised everyone who could have stood up to him, while other veterans of the national movement were content in their respective fiefdoms in the States.

Till the 80s, there was no State-sponsored function to mark the birth anniversary of the Sardar. As an old Delhiite, one recalls how the late Jana Sangh leader Kanwar Lal Gupta’s Citizens’ Council would hold a small function at the traffic roundabout in Parliament Street early in the morning to garland the Sardar’s statue. The local police and civic authorities would not cooperate as Gupta led a handful of people to the traffic island and strung a garland of marigolds around the neck of the Sardar. Even after cajoling the State-controlled AIR, if he found a bare mention about the function in the nightly news he considered himself extremely fortunate. Next day’s papers were equally cavalier, dismissing the function in a paragraph or two, if at all.

So long as the Family’s pulling power with the voters remained undiminished it had no use for totems from the freedom struggle.

Thus, not only Patel and Gandhi, but even Ambedkar received scant notice from the Congress-ruled governments. No question, of course, of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, a minister in the first Nehru cabinet who went on to form the Jana Sangh, the earlier avatar of the present BJP, being honoured with a commemorative notice by the I&B Ministry on his death anniversary. Mukherjee had died in a Kashmir prison under mysterious circumstances, trying in vain to force Nehru to reverse his suicidal course in the State.

Historians, of course, would better analyse the contributions of the Sardar and Nehru to the nation-building, but it must be noted that the former was the preferred choice of the Congress Party for leading the first government in free India. Nehru refused to work as Patel’s number two. However, Patel, mindful of the grave pitfalls of an open schism at the very birth of a new nation, readily agreed to be Nehru’s deputy. So much, then, for the democratic faith of Nehru. When threatened with the loss of power, years later even his daughter would betray an authoritarian mindset. (Recall the Emergency) Nobody in his right mind would deny that Patel was a pragmatist rooted in the local soil who called a spade a spade and did what was best for the country. In contrast, Nehru was so seeped in westernised culture and thinking that he hardly had an inkling about the reality of India. For proof, go no further than the

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exchange of letters between him and Patel on China and Kashmir. Had Patel prevailed on China and Kashmir, the country would have been spared a huge burden in terms of men, money and materials and, instead, been able to expend the same energies on the socioeconomic development of its people. The woolly-headedness of Nehru had only one objective: to endear himself to the western world. Period.

We can quote chapter and verse to prove that Patel’s secularism was different from the westernised concept Nehru had followed.

Also, the secularist megaphones should remember that all through the decades leading to the Partition, for Jinnah and his followers the Congress was a `Hindu party’ with a token presence of Muslims. Having conceded the division of the sub-continent on the principle of transfer of population on religious lines, Patel was unwilling to mollycoddle the

INSIDE STORY Virendra Kapoor Muslims who for some reasons had stayed back. Nehru, on the other hand, cosseted the minority.

The recent controversy over Patel’s legacy has got enmeshed in the definitional fight over secularism and communalism. Patel’s concept of secularism did not permit him to treat the minority as a special group. His idea of secularism was indeed rooted in the belief pithily encapsulated in the BJP slogan: ‘Equality for all, appeasement of none.’ The vote-bank politics being far away from his mind in those early days when the successful national movement had given the Congress a walkover into all elective bodies at even level, Patel was unequivocal in asserting that “our secular ideals impose a responsibility on our Muslim citizens in India — a responsibility to remove the doubts and misgivings entertained by a large section of the people about their loyalty founded largely on their past association with the demand for Pakistan and the unfortunate activities of some of them.”

Patel’s idea of secularism meant that “ ...

Every Indian citizen, whether Hindu or Muslim, will have to behave as an Indian, and sooner they realise this, the better.” Presumably, that tenet also applied to those in power while seeking votes. However, the ruling party in its desperation to stop the Modi juggernaut has taken to RSS-bashing. The RSS was patriotic enough for Patel to try and get it to merge itself with the Congress Party. That was soon after independence.

Today’s Congress bigwigs may not know that the RSS founder, Dr. Keshav Balliram Hedgewar was a leading member of the Congress. As for those selective quotes from M.S. Golwalkar’s ‘Bunch of Thoughts’, which are being spouted by Congress-friendly anchors and guests on the nightly ‘tu, tu, mein, mein’ sessions on television channels, it must be borne in mind that like all leaders/ thinkers, what he did and said was time- and contextspecific.

Even Gandhi could be quoted to suggest that he had endorsed the caste system, even untouchability, for that matter. But that would be unfair to Gandhi. Because his purported remarks too were context- and time-

specific. Why, some of the early US presidents, great in their own right, were not only defenders of the system of slavery, but had themselves kept blacks as slaves in their homes and farms.

The point is that relying on the past to fight current electoral battles is bound to yield diminishing returns. The party in power should seek re-election on its record in power in the last nine-plus years. Leave the debate over the contributions of Gandhi, Nehru and Patel to the historians. Instead, provide answers to the concerns of a population reeling under the growing weight of inflation, lawlessness, joblessness, hopelessness, et al.

Could-not-care-less Shinde So, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has a life beyond Patna. We have that from the authority of none other than the Foreign Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid. The Oxbridge-educated Khurshid has a penchant for putting his big foot in his big mouth on all such occasions. Remember how he had dismissed the Chinese incursion 19 kilometres into India as a mere acne, not to be taken seriously. Now, when the bombs were blasting in Patna on the day Narendra Modi addressed a mammoth rally, our foot-in-the-mouth champion justified Shinde’s presence at a Bollywood music release function in Mumbai, saying the Home Minister had life beyond Patna. We were wrong in believing that the foremost concern of the Home Minister would be, well, Home Ministry. Apparently, it is not. He would rather consort with Bollywood nymphets than concern himself with the life and death of citizens confronting terrorist bombs in the Bihar capital.

As for Khurshid, we know that his concerns are multifarious. Like running the familycontrolled NGO which was at the heart of a controversy over the use of funds meant for the differently advantaged in UP. Though he had threatened to sue the media outlet that had done a well-documented expose about the misuse of funds meant for the handicapped, nothing was heard of it after the initial noises. Again, he had threatened physical harm against Arvind Kejriwal if he went to his Lok Sabha constituency Farrkhuabad in UP and talked about the misuse of funds meant for the disabled. Khurshid failed to pursue the defamation case against the AAP leader.

Clearly, ‘dal mein kuch kala hain’. Hence the silence. But, we have to admit, Khurshid too has a life beyond MEA.

Your opinion poll is false, mine is true Opinion polls have become a dime a dozen.

Well, every political party worth its name now gets some pollsters to do the surveys for its private use. Because these are commissioned by political parties, their credibility seems to be low. For, the tendency to be generous towards one’s paymasters is natural in all human beings. Therefore, it is wise to lend some credence only to opinion polls commissioned by independent news organisations. Which, incidentally, show that the BJP is on a winning streak in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan while in Delhi it is ahead of both the Congress and the AAP. However, if you were to go by the internal survey of the Congress Party, it is winning in Chhattisgarh, is in with a chance in Madhya Pradesh, has an edge in Delhi due to the split in the anti-Congress vote, while it is doing not so well only in Rajasthan. On the other hand, the BJP survey shows that it is winning comfortably in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan while it is certain to emerge as the largest party in Delhi with a couple of seats short of the majority. Have your pick, will you?

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IT is reported that Kapil Sibal the Union Minister in the UPA-II has challenged Narendra Modi to debate with him on any issue at any time. This is one more feather in his cap which is stinking. Sibal should debate with himself to clarify his notorious claim of ‘zero-loss’ in respect of 2G Scam which was contradicted by the JPC Report. He should have discussed with the Chairman of the JPC who is said to have put the entire blame for the huge loss on the then Telecom Minister. The topic could be ‘Zero-loss versus huge loss’. The next one is that of the Ordinance against the SC Order disqualifying accused MPs and MLAs. Sibal is said to have evinced keen interest and mooted the very idea of an Ordinance and pursued vigorously with the President of India who is said to have exhorted him that this was not viable as it counters the very Constitutional ‘provisions’ to have one law for citizens and another law for Parliamentarians. There is nobody in the Congress who can qualify to discuss with Modi. Sibal should know the ground realities that his reputation is low and has made himself a laughing stock of himself with blatant lies and blusters.

— T.M. Uday Shankar, Mumbai

Sachin, stocks mkts on a high

JUBILATION: The upward trend of the stock markets are like a mark of honour to Sachin Tendulkar who is on way to his record 200th and final Test soon.

SIMPLY STUPID! By daring Narendra Modi to a no-holds-barred debate, Kapil Sibal has only made himself a laughing stock in the eyes of the people at large.

UNION minister Kapil Sibal’s direct challenge to Gujarat Chief Minister and the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to debate on the facts and figure and any other topic must be accepted by the likely future prime minister of the country to set the record straight in the minds of people of this country who have second thoughts about Modi and his promises in the name of growth and the development. I strongly feel that Modi must himself replay to allegations made by Sibal in the press conference. It has been not hold on to their places due to their own mistakes. Zaheer Khan used to be unfit during his playing days and by simply saying that he is fit, the selectors cannot try a spent force for a five-day test match. Sehwag is also overlooked as he used to be a dasher than a sheet anchor in Indian Team. Again, Gautam Gambhir is a gone case. He could not play with a straight bat in his long career. Last but not the least, Harbhajan Singh was shown the door after the completion of his 100th Test match and even allowed to play 101st test match also without much success and chucked out of the side. He is the only bowler in the world to bowl more than 350 balls without taking a wicket twice in Test matches.

ON the eve of Sachin Tendulkar’s re— C.K. Dorai, Nerul tirement, the Indian stock market indices hit an all time high as a mark of salute to the Master Blaster who hangs his boots after his 200th ALL that glitters is not gold. One has Test. It’s euphoria in the markets as to purchase pure gold and not get well as among Tendulkar fans who cheated. Rising gold price is not a get ready for a send-off to Sachin deterrent for the purchase, however, after a memorable career, the like of when quality is ensured there is no which would never be witnessed in worry about the cost. Huge stock of cricket history again. Diwali has gold is definitely a saviour from the come a few days early in the stock Janata Dal markets but the real fireworks government days at the Centre. The would continue and end with lust for gold cannot be termed Sachin’s swan song game at the wasteful. I fail to understand how Wankhede, perhaps with a blister- such a speculation has arisen in the ing and electrifying knock from Ten- minds of the people. From the dulkar’s blade one last time. olden days gold was given as an exA big thumbs up to the Indian stock change for acquiring commodities. markets as well as the legendary It is indeed a jackpot if you properly Tendulkar and hoping and wishing make use of gold in case of utmost both to remain at peak fitness for need and it is easy to preserve at months and years to come. home or bank lockers provided you — S.N. Kabra, Goregaon have a stock for your purpose in small quantity only.

Gold’s expensive but essential

Team selection laudable

— C.K. Subramaniam, Sanpada

Good move by Rail ministry

NATIONAL selectors are bold enough to leave out Zaheer Khan, Virendra Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir IN a major initiative to facilitate and Harbhajan Singh. All of them travel for bonafide and legitimate were tried several times but could passengers and reduce the scope

observed that Modi has only one agenda to criticise the Congress Party and blaming them for destroying the country rather than speaking anything about future vision of the country. It is hoped that the Narendra Modi will not waste his time and come forward honestly to debate with Sibal openly to end the controversy which is lingering for quite some time.

— Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

I HAD heard that when a man becomes old his brain stops working and we say that his for misuse of the reserved ticketing system by unscrupulous elements or middlemen, the railway ministry has decided to extend the condition of carrying original proof of identity during travel on reserved tickets issued through the Passenger Reservation System for all classes with effect from the first of this month onwards. Railway ministry of Railways has also decided to expand the list of prescribed proofs of identity to include photo identity cards having serial numbers issued by public sector undertaking of the Central and State Governments, District, Municipal and Panchayat Administrations.

‘budhdhi bhrasta ho gayi hai’.

Kapil Sibal had recently said that onion prices have shot up because of Narendra Modi. He does not seem to have guts to blame Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar who, in fact, is actually responsible for the rise in onion prices. Now I think Sibal should take ‘sanyas’ from politics and take rest. So that his brain gets some rest and he can think sanely in future. Sibal should think a hundred times before opening his mouth like a gutter.

of what happened on October 31, 1984 on her own lawns. The continuous media-glare only goes to embolden him to use the language of street-corner speeches in his rallies, spewing venom all the time needlessly. The continued vilification campaign needs to be stopped somewhere.

— Dr. V. Subramanyan, Thane

NARENDRA Modi’s stock must have risen immeasurably after getting a pat on the back from none other than Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar (who has also sung a song paying tribute to Veer Savarkar) at a function in Pune.

The ‘nightingale’ said she hoped — Yogesh R. Bhavsar, Dahisar that Narendra Modi is crowned as the Prime Minister of India. Now that things are looking hunky dory

for Modi it would be a goof idea IT is our electronic and print media that have been consciously for him to reach out to the Muslims at large. All said and responsible for the aggrandisement and glorification done, Muslims are an integral part of the Prime Minister-nominee of of India and we the Hindus and the Muslims have to learn to live our main opposition party, the together in camaraderie and BJP, to the extent of almost sweep aside any acrimony. sidelining the death anniversary Digressing a bit, as far as the Third of our former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, who laid down her Force (or rather Farce) is concerned it is merely a life for the country, in their conglomerate of ‘Left’ overs and eagerness to provide a non-stop coverage to the silanyas ceremony would pose no problem and the on the Narmada conducted by the Third Front will take a backseat in the elections and would be ‘Left’ PM-in-waiting, Narendra out. So it would be smooth sailing Modi. Some of the TV channels for Narendra Modi. suddenly remembered her on November 1 and gave some news — Hemant Hemmady, Virar

Mission to Mars unnecessary

— Jayanthy Subramaniam, Sanpada

Too late and wasteful visit ‘RESEARCH or Holiday?’ (ADC, Oct 30), reveals the wasteful and uncaring attitude of the BMC’s senior officials undertaking a visit to a foreign country thereby spending lavishly the hard earned tax payers’ money without any purpose which may cater to the public benefit. Way back in 2008, it was deliberated by the BMC officials on whether this Bus Rapid Transit could be OF feasible in this city. It was LETTER THE DAY observed at that point of time that in view of the central portions of the roads are already occupied by the flyovers, this mode therefore would not work. Although it has been implemented in Ahmedabad and other cities of India wherein the central portions were available to implement this arrangement. I wonder like any other tax payer how such a wasteful expenditure could be be permitted by the BMC top brass, wherein the organisation is reeling for its abysmally low financial condition.

It certainly indicates about deeply frustrating and reckless management by the BMC. — Bikram Banerjea, Mumbai

COLOSSAL WASTE: When US space vehicle Curiosity is already providing abundant info about Mars, where is the need for an Indian mission to that planet?

AS reported, India will send a space vehicle to study Mars on November 5, the cost of which is about Rs.500 crore. The question thus arises: is it not foolish for a poor country like India where the cost of a bare necessity of life like onion is at Rs.170 per kg. At the same time a poor country like India is riddled with inflation corruption and scandals which goes unabated and out of control. Aam admi and poor Indians are suffering a lot and find it difficult to make two ends meet. Thus the common man will be looking towards Mars with eyes bulging out and empty belly due to starvation poverty and hunger.

Thus in what way Mars mission will help aam admi or improve their lot or uplift them from miseries and difficulties they are

going through every day.

The huge amount of money could instead be used in a much better way to improve their lives.

Thus, such a mission is foolish, stupid and unnecessary. Is it not a mere joke or drama to seek advantage in forthcoming elections, Congress government says it will provide lot of information and details about Mars? But what is the use of such information to the aam admi with empty belly and sickness.

USA has already sent space vehicle ‘Curiosity’ much earlier that landed to study and survey Mars which provides us with tons and tons of information, which will add immensely to our scientific knowledge, information and solve most of our doubts and questions.

— S.P. Sharma, Mumbai

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Circle This chapter is the biggest chapter in the Geometry text book, hence it carries the maximum weight age in the Geometry Board paper.

After similarity, circle is the only chapter with theorems and riders students must practice the text book exercises, as the sums in this chapter that appear in the Board paper are from the exercises itself.

Students must stress on the following theorems: Theorems 2.3: The length of the two tangent segments to a circle drawn from an external point are congruent.

Theorem 2.5: The inscribed angle theorem.

Students can prepare the proofs to the two corollaries given below as they do not appear in the textbook.

Corollary I: Angles subtended by a semicircle at a point on the circle is a night angle.

Corollary II: Angles inscribed by the same arc are congruent.

The proof for corollary II is as follows:

PAxPB=PCxPD Property of secants intersecting in the exterior of the circle.

Geometry 4 A

Gaspar Britto St. Xavier's High School, Fort

PAxPB=PCxPD Some extra proofs to some properties which are in the text book.

GEOMETRY - 2

Geometry 4B

Geometry 1 to be placed here Given ∠ABC and ∠ ADC are subtended by AXC TPT ∠ ABC ≅ ∠ ADC

Proof: 1) m∠ABC = m(arc AXC) ଵ ଶ

2) m∠ ADC= m(arc AXC) ଵ ଶ

The measure of the inscribed angle is half the measure of the intercepted arc.

3) ∴ m ∠ABC=m∠ADC from 1 and 2

Theorem 2.6: The opposite angles of a cyclic quadrilateral are supplementary.

Corollary: An exterior angle of a cyclic quadrilateral is congruent to the angle opposite to its adjacent interior angle.

TPT m ∠ ABC= [m (arc AC)Ͳm(arc DE)] ଵ

Geometry 3 to be placed here

Proof: 1) m ∠ AEC= m(arc AC)

The chord AC divides the circle into two parts called segments. ∠ ABC which is an inscribed is formed in one

Above mentioned are the Inscribed angle theorems.

segment, and ∠ ACD arc is formed between the tangent and secant in the second segment. ∴ ∠ ABC= ∠ ACD. TangentͲsecant property

The tangent –secant theorem is usually not asked in the Board Exam, however students must learn the statement and should be able to apply the theorem while solving the circles.

Geometry 3 A to be pasted here Geometry 2 to be placed The angle between the tangent BC and secant AC is half the measure of the intercepted arc.

PT is a tangent to the circle and PB is a secant.

PT2 =PAxPB Property of secants intersecting in the interior of the circle.

ଵ ଶ

2) m ∠ DAE= m(arc DE) ଵ ଶ

3) m ∠ AEC= m ∠ ABC+m ∠ DAE Remote ଵ ଶ

interior angles theorem.

4) m ∠ ABC=m ∠ AECͲm ∠ DAE ଵ

ଵ

5) = m(arc AC)Ͳ m(arc DE) from 1 and 2 6)

ଶ

∴ m ∠ ABC=

ଵ

ଶ

[m(arc AC)Ͳ m(arc DE)]

ଶ

Geometry 5 to be placed here T P T m ∠ AOC= [m(arc AC)+m(arc BD)] ଵ ଶ

Proof: 1) m ∠ ADC=

ଵ ଶ

m(arc AC)

2) m ∠DAB= m (arc BD) ଵ ଶ

3) m ∠ AOC + m ∠ DAB Remote interior angles theorem

4) m ∠ ADC= m(arc AC) + m (arc BD) = [m

∴ m ∠ ABC=

ଵ

ଵ

m(arc AXB) The following are also some important properties.

Angles in an alternate segment are congruent.

ଶ

Count: Join A to E

ଶ

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(arc AC) + m (arc BD)]

Geometry 4 to be placed here

On Wednesday: Geography

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013

India lights up for Diwali TDP founder NTR’s

LET THERE BE LIGHT: Devotees lighting diyas in Keshev Dev temple on the occasion of Diwali festival in Mathura while foreign Odissi dancers along with Guru Sujata Mopatra celebrate Diwali in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.

President Pranab Mukherjee, VP Hamid Ansari and PM Manmohan Singh greeted the people on the occasion of Diwali, saying the festival of lights strengthens the country's resolve to follow true ethical values

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EW DELHI: Fireworks illuminated the evening sky, earthen diyas dotted houses and people exchanged sweets and gifts on Diwali which also witnessed bonhomie between Indian and Pakistani

guards at border posts.

Children and youths burst crackers and lit fireworks while families visited their neighbours, exchanged 'Happy Diwali' greetings and sweets. People also took the route of SMS and social networking websites to wish each other, reports PTI. Diwali is celebrated to mark the return of Lord Rama to Ayodhya from his exile after vanquishing demonking Ravana.

In the national capital, people decorated their homes and shops with colourful 'rangolis' and flowers and lit diyas.

In nearby Amritsar, thousands of people paid obeisance in the Golden Temple,

which was illuminated by fancy lights. Community feast (langar) was arranged for the devotees. On Diwali in 1620, sixth Sikh Guru Hargobind Sahib was released by Mughal emperor Jehangir from Gwalior fort.

Indian and Pakistani forces at the Attari border exchanged sweets on the occasion of Diwali.

BSF's officiating DIG, Deby Joseph, along with other officers and jawans, gifted different types of traditional Indian sweets to their Pakistani counterparts.

Pakistani Rangers Wing Commander Mohammed Asheer Khan returned the gesture with an assortment of Pakistani sweets.

People also celebrated Di-

wali in other parts of the country with traditional fervour and gaiety. Devotees thronged temples and offered prayers.

Bollywood turned to Twitter to greet the people and also to ask fans to go slow on sweets and and crackers.

However, this year there was no Diwali release. Hrithik Roshan starrer ‘Krrish 3’ released on Dhanteras which was on Friday.

President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh greeted the people on the occasion of Diwali saying the festival of lights strengthens the country's resolve to follow true ethical values.

statue torched

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UNTUR: A statue of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founder and actor late N T Rama Rao was found burnt at Pulladi Gunta village, on Sunday morning.

Smoke had blackened the statue and heat had peeled off chunks of cement, when it was found by villagers.

Angry TDP cadres blocked GunturPrathipadu Road and shouted slogans against the Congress, while TDP district secretary M Subba Rao condemned the outrage and vowed to continue agitating until those responsible are nabbed and a new

statue is installed by the government.

It may be mentioned that in the recent past, both the TDP and Jaganmohan Reddy's YSR Congress Party which have spearheaded the agitation against bifurcating Andhra Pradesh, have traded acrimonious charges, accusing each other of being hand in glove with the Congress for political gains.

Political observers said both parties are known to burn effigies of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, while the police assume the role of spectators.

Goa minister equates Nigerians to cancer P

ANAJI: Two days after the Goa government launched a crackdown on the Nigerian nationals illegally living in Goa, a senior state BJP minister on Sunday equated Nigerians as a 'cancer'.

"The Nigerians are like cancer. We are worried what would be the image of Goa for the outside world when the images of Nigerians creating ruckus on the road are showed through television to the world," State Art and Culture Minister Dayanand Mandrekar told PTI. Around 200 Nigerians had

blocked the national highway last week protesting against the drug-related murder of a fellow national. 53 Nigerians had been arrested following the incident. The minister said that the situations like Nigerians taking on the road will have bad repercussion on the tourism industry of the state on which people from the coastal belt earn their living.

Mandrekar said that timely police action could have saved the highway from being blocked by the Nigerians.

"People have seen on the television how Nigerians

forcibly dragged out the corpse from the police van while the policemen remained silent spectators," he said.

The minister also claimed that the drug menace in the state has crossed the limits of coastal belt and has now percolated to the villages.

"You all blame coastal belt for being the hot bed of drugs, but now the scene is different.

The narcotics has entered the villages of Goa and sold there," he said refusing to comment whether "the narcotic trade has lessened in the BJP government tenure."

Lawyer, RTI activist accused of extortion

THE GOD OF ALL THINGS... Fans of Sachin Tendulkar offering prayers to Goddess Kali for his matches ahead of his 199th Test match at Eden Gardens, on the occasion of Kali puja in Kolkata, on Sunday.

NAGPUR: Nagpur city police has registered a complaint of extortion against a lawyer and a Right To Information (RTI) activist for allegedly demanding Rs 30 lakh from the owner of an advertising agency.

Police said that advocate Shrikant Khandalkar and RTI activist Sanjay Agarwal had al-

legedly demanded the money from Shailen Shashkant Mehta, who has won the contract for beautification and setting up of food shops on the banks of Futala lake here.

After obtaining some information under the RTI Act, they approached Mehta accusing him of violation of development rules and threatened to

file a public interest litigation if he did not pay them Rs 30 lakh, reports PTI. Mehta recorded the conversation on dictaphone and lodged a complaint last night with Sitaburdi Police Station here, following which offence under section 385 of IPC (extortion) was registered. No arrest has been made so far.

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cident, Paige is left unconscious, and when she awakes she doesn't remember Leo. Her parents, whom she hasn't seen since she and Leo got together, come and visit her. She can't believe that she hasn't seen them for such a long time. Leo wants to bring her home with him but her parents want her to go with them. She goes with Leo but when she doesn't recognize anything, she goes to her parents. Pi x, 6.50 p.m.

EK DUUJE KE LIYE

Hindi-speaking collegian Sapna lives a wealthy lifestyle in

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Zee Khana Khazana, India’s Premium 24hr food channel presents Kifayati Kitchen, a dhamakedar new show to brighten up your Diwali. MasterChef India season 1 winner, Chef Pankaj Bhadouria, will host the show and prepare delicious recipes within a specific budget without compromising on the taste. This new series will premiere on November 2 and will air every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 12pm.

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Iqbal Khan, who gained popularity as Angad Khanna in Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai, is back after a brief sabbatical with Tumhari Pakhi on LIFE OK, which starts on November 11 at 9.30 pm.

Sandeep Hattangadi spoke to him about his new show.

Why have you been on such a long sabbatical?

I wanted to devote more time to my family after I got married and became a father. I was also waiting for something exciting to come up. I was offered a few shows, but they were very time consuming and I needed something that could offer me a breather.

Rajashri Thakur, as Maharani Jaiwanta Bai Why did you choose Tumhari Pakhi to make a from Maharana Pratap: comeback?

SONY The channel itself made me say yes. The show is based on a Diwali is one festival that I wait for Saratchandra Chatterjee which makes for good content and I the entire year. It's a festival of so readily agreed as the producers are also professional. many lights, different colours, new clothes, gifts, lots of sweets, and What is the show all about? phatake, although I burst very few The story revolves around Pakhi (Shraddha Arya) who has crackers just in the name of tradition. I Magician to the stars, been waiting for 18 years for her love, played by me, to love to spend Diwali with my family. This Dynamo, travels the return. She has been writing letters to him every day but Diwali I am planning to shop a lot and give globe astounding not posting them. While everyone tells her to move on in special gifts to my loved ones. everyone he meets. life, she continues to wait in the hope that her man will Recently, at one of his at least come to call off their relationship. travails, this acclaimed Aniruddh Dave, start met with none-other-than Kareena Do you get along with Shraddha?

Aapki Housewife Kapoor. The dynamic duo was at the launch She is absolutely professional and a nice girl. I Hai Sab Jaanti Hai of the Asian Sunday London Edition at the vibe well with her and this makes the shoot SAB TV House of Commons – Photocall in London, enjoyable.

I always like spending UK on October 29 where Dynamo was Diwali with my family and receiving an award. After having worked with How do you prepare for your role? friends and that's exactly the likes of Will Smith, Lindsay Lohan, Jay-Z I read the novel and discuss it with the what I'm going to do. I'm and Russell Brand, he is currently working on a writer and the director after which I get travelling to my hometown, Jaipur, to new series on the HISTORY Channel – Dynamo: into the skin of my character. spend Diwali with my parents. This is the time to Magician Impossible. Watch Dynamo: Magician meet near and dear ones and spread happiness.

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DILLI KA BABU Babus Question Transfers

the Prime Minister?

There is considerable churning in the media on Rahul Gandhi.

The country has accepted that the 2014 elections will be Modi versus Rahul. Modi is holding big rallies and there is an undercurrent running in his favour. After Modi, if any other name comes up for the post of Prime Minister, it is that of Rahul Gandhi.

Dr. Manish Kumar ‘The Economist’ recetnly ahul Gandhi, despite work- wrote that Rahul Gandhi is not ing so hard, has failed to es- yet ready to lead. It raised questablish his credibility as a tions about Rahul Gandhi’s politstrong national leader. It was be- ical understanding and put his cause of his advisors that he be- very ability in the dock. At first, came an object of mockery in the the Congress presented Rahul Bihar and Uttar Pradesh Assem- Gandhi as a youth leader. People bly elections. Rahul’s advisors who joined Rahul did so temhave become a source of trouble porarily. As elections approached they either stood up against the for the Congress party.

During elections, it is easy for Congress or went to other parties. the Opposition to criticise the Now, when Rahul Gandhi is going work of the ruling party and it is to fight the most important battle more so this time because in the in politics, the country’s youth is last ten years the UPA has been at not with him. His speeches show the centre of scams, price rise, no hopes for the youth.

In any case, a 43-year-old is not unemployment, disrepute etc. In India, there are two issues which a child and we cannot call him a have the most impact on elec- youth either. The manner in tions. They are inflation and cor- which Rahul Gandhi recently put ruption. During the tenure of the the Prime Minister and the entire present government, both these Cabinet in the dock over the issues have reached the nadir. question of tainted MPs and legThis itself is an alarm bell for the islators is not expected from a Congress. The question is sagacious statesman. Issuing an whether in 2014 Rahul Gandhi Ordinance against an order of the can lead the Congress to victory. Supreme Court can create a ConDoes his leadership have the ca- stitutional dispute, contradiction pacity to re-establish the Con- or controversy.

The Assembly election results gress at the Centre and become

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in Bihar and UP are a living example of Rahul Gandhi’s lax and immature leadership. The Congress not only lost the elections, but the party lost its credibility.

Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are not small states. Both these states determine the direction of politics and political conditions in the country. The command and reins of the UP and Bihar elections were in Rahul’s hands, but as the elections approached those people whom Rahul Gandhi had ‘prepared’ as grass-roots leaders and workers became anti-Congress.

The Lok Sabha elections are approaching now. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are very important states, but there is no plan for these states and no preparations can be seen either. Those people who are masters in the politics of Uttar Pradesh are being ignored again. This happens because Rahul works according to the advice of some of his advisors and it seems to him that the understanding of these advisors who are his age is more than that of mature leaders in the Congress.

In fact, Rahul Gandhi is being made a leader through media management. It is essential to understand this. The Congress party has nothing to do with what Rahul Gandhi will say, where he will go and which media will be there and what is to be said to the media, what is to be shown or not shown to the media. There are people to decide all this, and their

task is to project a certain image of Rahul Gandhi. An agency had been hired to create his image.

But look at the irony. The hard work that the Congress had put in for over four years went in to the drain. When Rahul Gandhi, Digvijay Singh went to Azamgarh, Congress workers showed them black flags. In Jhansi, a shoe was thrown at Rahul.

Politics in the country is taking a turn. A mountain of challenges is standing before Rahul Gandhi and the Congress Party. The Congress Party is standing on the verge of its most shameful defeat in history. Along with inflation and corruption, Rahul Gandhi has to wash away the black blot of a government that failed and Manmohan Singh’s ineffective leadership. Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev have carried out the task of awakening the country and Rahul Gandhi will also have to deal with this awakening apart from Narendra Modi’s additional challenge.

Problems Galore In elections in India, whenever there has been a storm of protest against the Congress, there have been only two reasons behind it Inflation and corruption.

In the electoral politics of India it is easy to face an opponent like Narendra Modi, but the biggest problem for Rahul Gandhi and the Congress is the Supreme Court.

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ill now the Supreme Court had been talking of an inquiry into the coal scam and somewhere or the other the direction of inquiry could be seen leading towards Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s. Files from the Ministry of Coal went missing, on which the first statement from the Prime Minister came that he was not a custodian of files. his statement is not the statement of a responsible person.

The Prime Minister is the custodian of the nation and when files disappear – files which have a relationship with the Supreme Court inquiry, with the CBI in-

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quiry and with the concern and worry of the Supreme Court, then the Prime Minister should have said that he too is concerned and worried about the files.

The Supreme Court’s concerns and worries and directions for a CBI inquiry are matters which cannot be ignored and those concerns and worries can be understood. Now a new statement has come from P. C. Parakh, the former Coal Secretary.

He said that if an FIR has been filed against him, an FIR should be filed against the Prime Minister as well. “I did not make any final decision. The final call was the Prime Minister’s”.

On behalf of the Government of India, it was untruthfully stated in the Supreme Court that this policy was decided in the Cabinet, at which the Supreme Court said that proceedings of the meeting of the Cabinet with records should be presented before the Supreme Court. Why

doesn’t the Government of India understand that if something wrong was done, then the responsibility for it should be accepted and it should make efforts to correct the lapse?

Instead of which there is a statement on everything – which is proved wrong in the next few days and there is abhorrence for the government.

The irritation and the language with which the Supreme Court judges are addressing Attorney General G. E. Vahanvati tells us that the Supreme Court does not have much faith on the statements of Vahanvati.

It is not a coincidence that when today’s Prime Minister was the Finance Minister in Narsimha Rao’s Government from 1992 to 1996, the first big scam involving foreign banks took place, in which foreign banks gobbled up to Rs.5000 crore.

The then Finance Minister had confirmed the scam, but no step

was taken to bring back the rupees which had been gobbled up.

The direction towards which Parakh was hinting when he said that if ‘I am responsible the Prime Minister is equally responsible” is a scam of Rs.26 lakh crore.

It is the biggest scam so far after independence and the man directly involved in it is very clearly Manmohan Singh.

Those who want to defend and shield Singh say that he merely signed, the money went elsewhere. Will it ever be known what happened to this money?

It is a matter of great regret that the government never takes any steps regarding an issue on and the Supreme Court has to intervene.

Now the Supreme Court is monitoring the coal block allocations investigations in detail and it has said that the investigations must be completed by December. These are the Supreme Court’s directions to the CBI.

The Durga Shakti episode in Uttar Pradesh seems to have woken up the bureaucracy to challenge what was once the staple weapon of politicians to chastise or punish irksome babus’ transfers. A beginning of sorts was made when the state IAS Officers Association spoke up publicly in support of the IAS officer who was controversially transferred

by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and reinstated only after a nationwide outcry. But now, others too seem to have been inspired to stand up for themselves against wilful state netas, even though the Centre has been unwilling to come out in their support.

The Indian Police Service (Central) Association, sources say, has made a formal representation to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over state politicians abusing their power to suspend or transfer officials. The association general secretary Pankaj Singh has cited the example of a 2003-batch IPS officer Ajay Misra in Uttar Pradesh who was suspended for 15 months and Mayank Srivastava who was suspended in Chattisgarh earlier this year.

Will the Centre try to restrain states from abusing their powers? Don’t count on it yet.

Reclaiming Turf

The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) has managed to recover a prestigious diplomatic post from the clutches of the Indian Administrative Service. India’s new Permanent Representative to UNESCO is a 1987-batch IFS officer Ruchira Kamboj, who at present is Chief of Protocol with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). This ambassador-rank position based in Paris, sources say, used to be reserved for career diplomats, until the Government appointed Vinay Sheel Oberoi, a 1979-batch IAS officer in 2010. This move, naturally, had led to much grumbling in the diplomatic ranks.

With Kamboj’s appointment, the IFS lobby seems to have reclaimed some of its turf from the powerful IAS lobby, which has spread its influence by poaching on what other services consider as their own domains. But how long can the IFS hold on to its turf is what many are wondering about.

Clean-up Time

In a move that has got incompetent babus worried, the government has decided to shed dead wood in the bureaucracy by weeding out officers whose performance has been below expectations.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had first proposed this rule in 2004, soon after the UPA came to power, but it was shelved soon thereafter. Now the government has once again decided to implement it. According to the Department of Personnel and Training three cadres, namely Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and AGMUT have already begun reviewing the performance of IAS officers while Punjab and some other states are likely to start the process soon. Sources say that at least three IAS officers belonging to the AGMUT cadre have been recommended for premature retirement for inefficiency and ineffective performance. Their names have not been disclosed, but those in the know say that the babus are contesting the recommendation, though it is unlikely the DoPT will change its mind.

— Dilip Cherian

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See a sharp decline of 35-40 % in footfalls in the ongoing festive season as the economic slowdown; high interest and job uncertainties have dampened the shopping spirit this year

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hopping malls which are already suffering from large vacant spaces have seen a sharp decline of 35-40 % in footfalls in the ongoing festive season as the economic slowdown; high interest and job uncertainties have dampened the shopping spirit this year. According to an ASSOCHAM survey; economic slowdown, galloping inflation and high interest rates have upset the festival shopping plans of most consumers.

The shopping spirit was found to be at the lowest ebb among Delhiites (33%), followed by Ahemdabad (31%), Chennai (30%), Mumbai (28%) and Hyderabad (27%).

D S Rawat, Secretary General ASSOCHAM said that the trend is on expected lines as the economic recovery is rather slow and consumer confidence is at a low. As per esti-

mates, roughly 250-300 malls came up in the country over the last two years, but 70-80 % of the spaces in these malls lie vacant. The economic slowdown has landed especially heavily on the shopping malls.

The survey further reveals that the slowdown, job cuts and devaluation of the rupee against the dollar is also making imported raw material and finished goods costlier. This also impacts consumer spending in a significant way.

A large number of malls across the country, unable to justify the rents they charge tenants, are shutting down. The currency fluctuation is a major challenge for the consumer electronics industry because the imported consignment is coming in at a higher cost. Dinnerware and cookware companies have already started offering attractive offers and discounts to boost sales, adds the survey.

More than 47 % of the total mall space in nine cities is vacant, the survey found. Delhi-NCR tops the list with 55 % of malls being vacant, followed by Mumbai at 52 %, Ahemdabad at 51 % and Chennai 50 %. In order to lure retailers, many developers have started giving a rent-free period for up to six months for big brands.

While some malls are operating at 60 % occupancy, others are struggling with less than 20 %. “Vacancy levels are due to poor location, poor design and poor parking facilities, while some are operating at 60 % occupancy,� it said. It said the industry is also facing problems like multiple taxes, lack of clarity in policies and shortage of experts in areas such as supply chain and store management.

The sharpest decline in mall rental values was recorded in DelhiNCR followed by Mumbai, Ahmed-

Few footfalls in the malls abad, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata and Pune. Most of the shop owners said that increasing rents will not work because at the end of the day it has to be affordable for retailers to do business.

Both retailers and consultants

feel that the mall magic seems to have disappeared in a puff of smoke on the back of the economic slowdown, poor revenue models, low footfalls-to-sales conversion and lack of special purpose malls, adds the survey.

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Decision taken after enforcement agencies reported difficulty in eliciting information in cases related to Cyprus during probes into money laundering and tax evasion cases.

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ndia has suspended a two decade -old pact with Cyprus that provided benefits to taxpayers conducting business between the two countries, saying the European nation has “not been providing� information to authorities here that are trying to track down black money. “Cyprus has not been providing the information requested by the Indian tax authorities under the exchange of information provisions of the agreement, (hence) it has been decided to notify Cyprus as a notified jurisdictional area under section 94A of the Income-tax Act, 1961,� the Finance Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

The immediate fallout of this decision will be that an individual or a businessman who transacts between the two countries will not get beneficial tax deductions and will have to undergo stricter tax scrutiny. “If an assessee enters into a transaction with a person in Cyprus, then all the parties to the transaction shall be treated as associated enterprises and the transaction shall be treated as an international transaction resulting in application of transfer-pricing regulations including maintenance of documentations,� said the statement.

It added that “any payment made to a person located in Cyprus shall be liable for withholding tax at 30 per cent or a rate prescribed in Act, whichever is higher�. The notifi-

cation also means that “no deduction in respect of any other expenditure or allowance arising from the transaction with a person located in Cyprus shall be allowed unless the assessee maintains and furnishes the prescribed information�.

It also added that if “any sum is received from a person located in Cyprus, then the onus is on the assessee to satisfactorily explain the source of such money in the hands of such person or in the hands of the beneficial owner, and in case of his failure to do so, the amount shall be deemed to be the income of the assessee�.

India and Cyprus had entered into an agreement for avoidance of double taxation of income and prevention of fiscal evasion in December 1994. In the Budget of 2011-12, the Finance ministry had inserted a clause - Section 94A - in the Income Tax Act to notify and guard against countries that do not cooperate in the exchange of information protocol.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in June this year had notified rules under which an entity based in a “notified jurisdictional area� will have to give an undertaking to share information in a prescribed format. Sources privy to the development said the decision was taken after enforcement wings of the ministry reported difficulty in eliciting information in a number of cases related to Cyprus during probes into money laundering and tax evasion cases.

he Sensex hit a record high last week, crossing its previous alltime high of January 10 2008, on the back of foreign inflows of around $3.5 billion. But, the Rupee has been trading range bound for the last couple of months after having

ÂŤ FOREX seen an almost 20% fall to hit a record low in late August. It has recovered mainly on foreign fund inflows into the stock market. Foreign funds have bought $16.5 billion worth of shares so far this year.

As such, the trading range for the Spot USD/INR pair can be ex-

pected to be within the 61.20 to 62.80 range. It is recommended to be cautious and Sell USD/INR Futures on rise with the appropriate stop loss as the Rupee is expected to appreciate against dollar. Pivot Point for the Pair is at 61.92 and the

Support levels are 61.4467, 61.0833 and 60.2433; while the Resistance levels are 62.2867, 62.7633 and 63.6033.

(The author is CEO of Alpari Financial Services India)

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 650 ACROSS: 1 Councillors doing their business in the pubs? (5,10) 8 A gentle arrangement exhibiting good taste (7) 9 Ran race with one time boxer (7) 10 A bighead worked it out and was pardoned (8) 11 The right he and I linked with some married woman somewhere in NE France (6) 13 Mother brings an Algerian round for administrative reasons (10) 15 Cowardly about knife edges and radioactive material (6,4) 19 Like bristles but fixed before English leader so returned (6) 20 A business at Canada is transferred to the coast of East India (8) 21 A private American art-gallery causing disquiet (7) 22 In old Turkey, style was displayed in Indian dress (7) 23 Where they attend to wounded sauce on the platform (8,7) DOWN: 1 In Dallas, however, ye discover an assassin (3,6,6) 2 A direction twice interrupted board game with edibles on the board (7) 3 Fifty-one, competent and responsible (6) 4 Looking to see where the strap is ? (2,3,5) 5 Body of water Sheraton spoiled (5,3) 6 Honorary professors - ie retired but retaining integrity (7) 7 Start Ann in a plot to get moving from place to place (15) 12 Nightmares are not things we

Each colour in our code represents a letter.

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

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

The Clue: Idiomatic expression

H H H H H

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S ENIGMA CODE PEDLAR, APPALL, DEALER LADDER, LEAPER, PADDLE REPEAL

H H

MATH PYRAMID 650 know very much about (4,6) 14 There's no getting rid of Robert at sea ! (8) 16 Let act I be adapted for the

network (7) 17 At one with a fellow seen at an Indian dinner (7) 18 Gap in the resin the girl gets ? (6)

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across: 1 After the ball, 8 Inc, 9 Dressed crab, 11 Headstall, 12 Gecko, 14 Neatest, 16 Starlet, 17 Slips on, 19 Fedoras, 20 Owner, 21 Impromptu, 23 Non-unionist, 25 You, 26 Goldfish bowl.

Down: 1 Acclamation, 2 Tides, 3 Re-enact, 4 Hustles, 5 Bodyguard, 6 Lar, 7 Win hands down, 10 Brontosaurus, 13 Chlorophyll, 15 Enshrined, 18 Nairobi, 19 Foppish, 22 Ortho, 24 N C O.

QUICK CROSS 650

ACROSS: 1 Golden Gate, e.g. (4) 5 A good thing to keep (4) 6 Judicial body (5) 7 Annual award? (5) 8 Authoratative book (5) 9 Between jobs (4) 10 A lack or want of (4)

HIDATO 650

ENIGMA CODE 650

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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

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

DOWN: 1 Went bad (7) 2 Brief stop (5) 3 4,840 square yards (4) 4 After adjustments (3) 6 Antenna alternative (5) 7 Ferris wheel, e.g. (4) 8 Base two (abb) (3)

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.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

MATHDOKU 650

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.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

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TODAY’S FORECAST

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Moon in Libra till 3:50pm Bali Pratipada Vishakha Tula [Libra] R. T. Crimson Red 3

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: New deals signed this year will bring monetary gains. Some of you may travel on work or go on an extensive sales promotion tour. If you were trying to tie up with a business partner, seek opinion of close friends and experts before finalizing any deal. You will be redecorating your home and also investing in landed estate or property. You will be going on a long vacation in the company of your family or beloved. Your health will be generally good.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Will be physically attractive, kind gentle, loving, healthy and long-lived. Full of vigor, vitality and will also be intelligent. Academically qualified, will be able to express eloquently both in spoken and written word. Will be responsible, unconventional and upholder of truth. A career in the media or communication would be most rewarding.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): The purchase of a vehicle or property is strongly indicted. You will receive some news about it. You will succeed in completing what you set out to do. Those who are appearing for interviews are bound to be successful. Have no apprehensions. Family ties will be strengthened.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): While work seems to be under control with great possibilities of further improvement the problem seems to be the home front. Developments in family create an air of uncertainty. Elders and youngsters alike may turn to you to find a solution. You have to be impartial considering that you do not approve of the conduct of one of your relatives. Your beloved may also feel a bit low and neglected.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Many new avenues of work open up to you because of your recently established contacts. Take your time before making a choice. Persons whose intentions are not noble could influence family members. You will have to take preventive steps to guard your interests and those of loved ones. Avoid a person who has been trying to get close to you too quickly. You are too vulnerable. Beware of people who just want to use you.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): You can look forward to dues from work or the receipt of some money. Travel-oriented work will bring about success and profits. You will go out shopping or plan an entertainment program for this evening. Some happy developments in respect of children provide a sense of relief and satisfaction. Your mate plays a useful role.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): No doubt that you have been working very hard both at work and at your relationships, but somehow you have been running into problems and misunderstandings. However a certain development today may make you realize that your efforts were not in vain. Try not to show how overwhelmed you are. A casual relationship suddenly changes color to something romantic and meaningful.

This could be the start of something much deeper.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): An increase in income assures you of a good future. Try to invest some money in savings on long-term basis. There will be demands for money from members of your family.

But you have no choice but to look after the needs of others. Let not your problems interfere in your relationship with your beloved. The single maybe pleasantly surprised by the attention of a silent admirer.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): Finish the task in hand as you have to cope with obstacles at work. However, you will find answers if you make decisions independently. With too much on your mind you may not feel responsive in love. Make your position clear rather than suffer and offend someone close. Save yourself further trouble by refusing the overtures of someone who only means trouble for you.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): Appointments and schedules tend to get upset.

There is a lot to do but not enough time. Your work may need more personal involvement and you are not able to devote much time. You better plan your work strategy well in advance and then follow it sincerely else matters will get out of control. A delicate situation can arise whereby your romantic association may not find favor with family. You will have to make a choice.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): You will make monetary gains today. Temptations to invest your money are likely, but avoid long term plans, for you could block your money. Sudden social activity and the arrival of a loved one will be a pleasant surprise. Students will achieve some success in sports. You will enjoy good health and a feeling of contentment.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): Let bygones be bygones.

You are giving too much importance to an incident which is insignificant. Try not to let emotions come in the way of reason. There are much larger issues at hand that need your attention. Perhaps you are being overly anxious and thinking too much. Just let it go.

Showing care or concern will be good for strained relationships. You can work wonders if you put heart and soul in your efforts.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): Demands are building up. But let it not shake your confidence. Carry on with your work with diligence and good fortune will smile on you. Discretion is advised in matters of finance, whether taking a loan, making a deal or in case of any investment. Insecurities creep into a bond that has weathered earlier storms. Perhaps you need more time together for reassurances.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): Money will come in from recently concluded deals. A game of chance or speculative trading will work out favorably and you could make some quick money. You are likely to get caught up in a very hectic schedule leaving you hardly any time to resolve some personal issue. Excitement is in the air.

You will be lucky in love today whether married or those seeking a relationship.

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SUDOKU 1994

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Difficulty Level

CRYPTOQUIP

DOWN:

Today’s clue: T equals W

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

the camel family (5) 24 Begin (5) 25 Currency of Russia (6) 26 State of equilibrium (6) 28 Floor covering (3)

29 Badly-made cheese? (4) 30 Aims or goals (4) 31 ___ on : delays action about, colloquially speaking ? (4) 33 300 in Roman numerals (3)

SOLUTION TO SATURDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD Across: 1 Nargis, 7 Kautilya, 8 Gigi, 10 Barnum, 11 Sturdy, 14 Adv, 16 Utpal, 17 Rams, 19 Faire, 21 Genre, 22 Iodic, 23 Thar, 26 Crank, 28 Day, 29 Naught, 30 Murmur, 31 Egon, 32 Dateless, 33 So says.

Down: 1 Number, 2 Grinds, 3 Skim, 4 Stature, 5 Slurp, 6 Daryl, 8 Gram, 9 Guv, 12 Ute, 13 Dacha, 15 Canid, 18 Agora, 19 Fed, 20 IRC, 21 Gokhale, 22 Ing, 23 Tarots, 24 Hymn, 25 Reruns, 26 Cnida, 27 Aunts, 28 Dug, 30 Mess.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1813 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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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.

1 Stand or get up, to go upwards (4) 4 Overwhelm (6) 8 Indian rule (3) 10 Brandy letters (4) 13 Pertaining to Galilee (8) 14 One addressing the crowd, perhaps ?

(7) 15 Expresses gratitude for a person, in a way ? (6) 17 New things or occurrences (9) 21 Distant, not near (3) 22 Point at, to try to reach (3) 23 33 1/3 rpm records (3) 26 Demand or specify as a part of bargain or agreement (9) 27 Narcotic (6) 28 Tools used for drilling holes ? (7) 32 By which a man is collared from behind ? (4,4) 34 A word meaning 'against' (4) 35 Chatter, eloquence or loquacity (3) 36 A tax on a sale of a commodity (6) 37 "Pass" anagram for snakes (4)

1 ___ up : increases in strength or accelerates sharply ? (4) 2 ___ - string : small or inadequate amount of money, especially as capital etc. ? (4) 3 Leaf of a book, etc. (4) 5 Equine sounds (6) 6 United Arab Emirates, in short (3) 7 Of most superior quality, in a way ? (6) 9 Glass container (3) 11 Parody, mockery (5) 12 Bill settler (5) 15 Casual worker (4) 16 California wine valley (4) 18 Industrially developed Gujarat city (4) 19 Art gallery (4) 20 Latin trio (3) 23 South american ruminant, related to

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SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

N O

N X

B A O

A L I

I H X S A B X N V N Y N O N H X ,

A L I X H Y J H X ,

X F A L Y U

O G M H

O F G O

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X H I N A L X Y K

Yesterday’s solution: We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people

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

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

Today’s ratings: 02 average; 03 good; 04 outstanding.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: acidly, airy, archly, CHAIRLADY, clay, daily, dairy, diary, dray, hairy, hardly, hardy, idly, lacy, lady, lyric, racy, richly, yard

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ANGALORE: Impressed with his breathtaking display of batting, Australia skipper George Bailey says Rohit Sharma is certainly the one who is in the mix for the spot that will open up after Sachin Tendulkar's retirement from international cricket later this month.

Rohit crack a match-winning double century as India posted a 57-run victory in the series-deciding final ODI against Australia to clinch the rubber 3-2 here Saturday night. "It was an extraordinary innings. He has had a wonderful series. He is obviously flourishing at the top of the order. He would certainly be one who is in the mix for that spot that will open up after the great man (Sachin Tendulkar) departs in a couple of Tests," he told reporters at post-match press conference here.

Bailey also lauded Rohit for pacing up his innings wonderfully after starting on a slow note. "It was extraordinary. I think the record was smashed for most sixes in a game. I thought Rohit batted beautifully.

He summed it up. He wasn't actually that quick early on. I looked at it when he brought his 100 up and he was probably only run a ball.

He just got a bit busier after that," he said.

Rohit had blasted his way into the record books with a breathtaking 209 that included a record 16 sixes.

He also became only third batsman in the history of ODI cricket after Virender Sehwag (219) and Sachin Tendulkar (200 no) to reach the coveted double ton. This was also the highest individual ODI score by any batsman against Australia in ODIs. Asked whether 400-run chase with the new rules of five fielders inside the circle and two new balls good for the game, Bailey said it would be a different ball game in livelier conditions in Australia and South Africa.

"You won't get wickets like this in Australia and South Africa. It does depend a little bit on conditions and then when you get those conditions in Australia, may be the two new balls play a part and the team

might be 3-30, and you have got to find a way to get to 250. It is different everywhere. It is just a matter of striking the balance. I don't mind the odd games like this," he explained.

"The challenge is how do you talk to your bowlers? How do you work out who has bowled well? How do you work out who has done their job? Until we get more feedback on how many of these scores get chased down and how many times teams get these scores, it is going to be hard to actually work out what is par," Bailey said.

Bailey admitted that the Aussies certainly missed the services of pacer Mitchell Johnson. He indicated that Australia lost the match because their top order batsmen failed to score and get partnerships goings. "You need your top-order to score a few to get you on track early.

And if you can get partnerships...What we have seen on these grounds, if you have got wickets in hand you can score anything," he said. Praising James Faulkner, Bailey said the Tasmanian has got a wonderful future ahead and 'teams will fear him because of the energy and competitiveness he brings into the game'. "Teams will certainly fear him. It is just that energy he brings is wonderful. The competitiveness he brings is something you love playing with. He has got a pretty bright future," he said.

Talking about Faulkner's bowling, the stand-in-skipper said, "He bowls in powerplays, at the start and the death. He loves that responsibility. I think we have just seen him come into his own with a bit of confidence."

On India opener Shikhar Dhawan getting engaged in a war-of-words with Shane Watson, Bailey said, "Yeah he is pretty animated isn't he?

He is obviously passionate about how he goes about it. I think there is a bit of that on both sides. There are guys who are very passionate. There is a lot riding on the line. But there is a fine line there I guess.”

Rohit Sharma during his explosive knock of 209 runs against Australia.

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UBAI: Virat Kohli became the number one batsman in Oneday cricket after a superb batting show against Australia in the justconcluded series, in which he scored 344 runs.

Kohli had scores of 61 (in Pune), 100 not out (in Jaipur), 68 (in Mohali), 115 not out (in Nagpur) and 0 (in Bengaluru).

This gave the 24-year-old a series aggregate of 344 runs at an average of 114.66, and a reward of 38 ratings points which helped him to jump three places to top of the ICC ranking table for ODI batsmen. He has achieved the number-one spot for the first time in his career, just a few days before his 25th birthday. Kohli

has now become the third India batsman to hold the number-one batting rank in ODI cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni.

Tendulkar first claimed the number one position when he took over from Brian Lara in February 1996.

He was last number one in March 2008. Dhoni first reached number one when he took over from Ricky Ponting in April 2006. He was last ranked number one in July 2010.

Kohli now leads South Africa’s Hashim Amla by 13 ratings points.

Amla had been holding the coveted number-one position since November 2010. Kohli is not the only batsman who has gained in the latest rankings, which were released.

Australian skipper George Bailey jumped six places to claim the number-three position for the first time in his career. Bailey scored 478

runs with a century and three halfcenturies to earn 121 ratings points, which, in turn, has put him on a career-best 835 ratings points alongside a career-best ranking to-date.

India’s Shikhar Dhawan has broken into the top 20 for the first time in his career after he jumped 12 places to claim 11th position in the batting chart.

The left-handed opener scored 284 runs at an average of 56.8.

Dhawan’s opening partner Rohit Sharma has also achieved a careerbest ranking of 15th after finishing as the leading run-getter in the series, with 491 runs at an average of 122.75, including 209 in the final ODI on Saturday.

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NEW DELHI: Former Australian captain Ian Chappell joined the bandwagon of experts who feel that Virat Kohli can fill in the big shoes of retiring Sachin Tendulkar, describing the youngster as the "prince" of Indian cricket.

Chappell says that the Australians should not feel relieved at the impending retirement of Tendulkar as they could be meted out the same treatment in future from Kohli, who hit two stupendous centuries against the Aussies in the justconcluded ODI series.

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, a few days back, had said that Kohli can break Tendulkar's record number of ODI centuries. "With Tendulkar on the verge of retirement, Australian bowlers, past and present, must be sighing with relief that the torment is nearly over. Those expressions of relief are a bit premature. Virat Kohli's two recent centuries, plundered in winning Indian causes, were eerily similar and a stark reminder of Tendulkar's feat against Australia in Sharjah in 1997-98," Chappell wrote in 'ESPNcricinfo'.

"He (Kohli) is now set to take over not only Tendulkar's coveted No. 4 spot but also his mantle as the Indian player opponents most want out. Long remember the king for he's (nearly) gone; hail the prince, because he's still around to torment bowlers," he said.

Comparing Tendulkar's two Sharjah centuries with those of Kohli's two recent tons, Chappell said, "Tendulkar's first hundred in Sharjah was scored in a game India had to perform exceptionally well to advance to the final, while the second came in the final to pull off an extraordinary win - they were the two best ODI innings I saw Tendulkar play. "He tore into an Australian attack that included Shane Warne, and in both innings Tendulkar scored at better than a run a ball in an era when that wasn't an everyday occurrence.

Kohli went one better than Tendulkar. Both his imperious centuries ended in unlikely Indian victories. That's not to say Kohli is a better player than Tendulkar, but he has acquired the knack of being at crease when the winning runs are hit in extraordinarily difficult chases."

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Sanil Shetty retains crown Charvi Kavle, Dyuti Patki Bag Double

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K All age group winners from Mumbai Suburban Dist. TT Championships with eight times former national TT champion Kamlesh Mehta and Mumbai Ranji cricketer Amit Dani.

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UMBAI: Fancied Sanil Shetty retained the men’s crown in the Mumbai Suburban District Table Tennis Championships by making short work of secondseeded Noel Pinto in straight games at 11-9, 11-9, 11-7 and 11-9.

Sanil knew exactly what he had to do against his practice-mate and demonstrated that in ample measure despite being in arrears in the third and fourth games after he took the second with a stroke of luck. A lucky net cord however, did not dampen Noel’s spirit as he fought with all his might which proved inadequate in the end.

Left-handed Sanil’s forehand top spin drives forced Noel to retreat from the table which proved his undoing. The ladies crown went to Charvi Kavle when she staved off the challenge from Mrinmayee Mhatre at 11-5, 11-6, 7-11, 11-5, 911, 11-7. A little earlier Charvi had beaten Dyuti Patki 11-8, 11-8, 11-5 and 11-8 in the girls youth age group. In the process Charvi retained both her titles. Dyuti on the other hand also completed a grand double claiming the sub –junior and junior age group titles.

Ravindra Kotian the lanky sev-

enteen-year-old and Nishhad Shah fought bitterly for supremacy in the junior and youth age group with the battle ending in a 1-1 draw. Nishaad beat his opponent 11-7, 11-7, 5-11, 11-5, 9-11 and 117 in the junior final. Ravindra exacted revenge a few minutes later after some anxious moments in the last two games which spilled over to extra points. Ravindra used his time-out to good effect to break Nishaad’s rhythm to pocket both the games and match. The score line of 11-7, 11-8, 8-11, 12-10 and 15-13 indicates the intensity with which the match was fought.

RESULTS: Midget-Girls: Avril Saldanha bt Vishishta Haldhar: 12-10, 11-8, 11-13, 12-10. Midget- Boys: Aadil Anand bt Rajveer Shah: 11-4, 11-6, 11-9. CadetGirls: Aaditi Sinha bt Diya Chitale: 11-8, 11-9, 11-4. Cadet-Boys: Chinmay Somaiya bt Yajat Thanawala: 11-9, 11-8, 8-11, 11-7. Sub-junior- Girls: Dyuti Patki bt Manushree Patil: 11-6, 5-11, 11-7, 611, 11-9, 13-15, 11-2. Sub-junior- Boys: Shaurya Pednekar bt Reagan Albuquerque: 11-4, 12-10, 11-7, 11-3.

Junior- Girls: Dyuti Patki btAshlesha Trehan: 10-12, 11-6, 9-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-5.

OLKATA: The 'Sachin Tendulkar Carnival' is all set to hit the 'City of Joy' with the CAB, organisers of his penultimate Test match, chalking out an elaborate list of plans to felicitate the legend as he prepares to walk out at the Eden Gardens for one final time against the West Indies from November 6-10.

From conferring him with an honorary membership, felicitation

by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to naming a gallery after him, the Cricket Association of Bengal officials have chalked out a list of 'to-do' in order to match Tendulkar's home association MCA in giving the maestro a memorable farewell.

"We would like to give him an honorary membership and later we would think of naming a gallery after him. But at the moment, we would not like to disturb his focus from the match," he told reporters.

Tendulkar has always offered puja at Kolkata's famous Kali Tem-

CAB President Jagmohan Dalmia, State Sports Minister Madan Mitra at the inauguration of a Tableau ahead of the 199th test match of Sachin Tendulkar at Eden Garden in Kolkata on Sunday.

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ATULLAH: Shamsur Rahman led Bangladesh to a stunning victory over New Zealand today, completing a 3-0 sweep of the one-day international series. Shamsur's 96 rocketed the home side to 309-6, steaming past New Zealand's 307 with four balls and four wickets to spare at the packed Khan Shaheb Osman Ali stadium at Fatullah just outside Dhaka.

The 25-year-old opener hit seven fours and four sixes in his 107-ball knock as Bangladesh successfully chased down a 300-plus total for only the second time in their playing history. Shamsur, playing only

his second one-day international, fell short of what would have been a well- deserved century when his attempted drive off a Corey Anderson delivery became an edge and flew to wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi.

Naeem Islam continued to lead the charge after Shamsur's departure before he was run out for 63 after facing 74 balls. Nasir Hossain (44 not out) stayed till the end to ensure Bangladesh never lost their way in the chase on the batting-friendly pitch. Earlier, Ross Taylor hit his eighth one-day century as New Zealand posted their highest total in

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t is said that two Bridge experts & two watches never agree. But I have a hand which proves this belief wrong.

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Indian national team forward Steven Dias interacting with the trainees after inaugurating the MSSA-Bipin Football camps at the MSSA ground recently.

ple at Kalighat and the CAB plans to present the cricketer's wife, Anjali, with a saree which was an offering to Goddess Kali during the recently concluded festivities.

"We would present them (Tendulkar couple) with a 'blessed saree' and if Tendulkar scores a ton here, we'll feel proud," the CAB joint secretary said.

CM Banerjee will personally come to Eden Gardens on the last day of the Test to felicitate Tendulkar. With superstars Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan in town for the film festival during that time, they too are expected even though the CAB is tightlipped about the guests list.

It's like 'Sachin Tendulkar Festival' as the countdown has begun for the Indian batsman's last outing at the majestic Eden. CAB president Jagmohan Dalmiya and sports minister Madan Mitra earlier flagged off a tableau carrying memorable moments of Tendulkar's illustrious 24year international career.

have the advantage. On the lead he played a small card from dummy, east put up the King & Suhas won.

If heart Queen is with west & hearts break the contract is easy so Suhas played a small hear & finessed the 10, Alas! East won & played back

BRIDGE S- J 7 2 H- A Q 9 3 D- K 8 5 C- J 9 3

South was Suhas Vaidya, the mercurial expert from Pune, who has played for India on a number of occasions. He opened 1N & soon found himself declaring 3 no trumps. West led the 4 of diamonds.

Looking at all 4 hands it is very to score 9 tricks. But Suhas did not

the diamond 8, as convention demanded. Suhas ducked it to west’s 10. But west was end played in diamonds. So he shifted to 9 of spades. Suhas won in hand & played the heart Jack losing to east’s Ace. East promptly returned the 5 of diamonds. Suhas won, discarding a club from dummy, & cashed the King of heart. The hearts did not break. Now Suhas had only 8 tricks, even if the spades broke 3-3. Suhas found an elegant answer to the problem. He cashed the spade Ace & came to hand with spade King, temporarily blocking the spade suit. This was the position

the series. The visitors were desperate to avoid another humiliating whitewash, after their previous oneday series against Bangladesh.

Taylor, who was part of the New Zealand squad that lost 4-0 to Bangladesh in 2010, remained unbeaten on 107 while Colin Munro made 85 to give the tourists a fighting chance of victory. The pair put on 130 for the fourth wicket after Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim won the toss and elected to bowl at the Fatullah ground, which was hosting its first international match for seven years.

d- J C- K 10 6

S- 10 H- 6 C- Q 8 D- 2 C- A 7 4

H- 9 C- J 9 3

Actually the spade 10 in dummy is a winner, but it is stranded as there is no entry to cash it. But Suhas found a stunning answer to the problem. He exited with the 2 of diamonds to west’s ’Jack.

The hapless west was again end played. He had to return a club.

Suhas won in dummy with Queen.

Now he cashed the spade 10, throwing a club from hand & the club Ace was the 9th trick.

The kibitzers were highly impressed by this efficient display.

When the scores were compared it transpired that this deal was “Push” The reason:Ajay Khare the studious & technically one of the soundest players in India had also made 9 tricks on the board by playing in exactly the same way, card to card.

There is some truth in the saying that”great minds think alike.”

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IN BRIEF Wrong to compare Umar with Kohli, says Kamran

KAR AC HI: Pakistan's out-of-favour wicketkeeper- batsman Kam ran Akmal said it was wrong to compare Umar Akmal with Virat Kohli, despite both of them making their international debut around the same time, as his younger brother did not bat at a regular position in the batting order unlike the Indian batting star. "Umar has not been consistent because he is in and out of the team and plus he does not bat at a regular position in the batting order," Kamran said on Geo Super channel. "You have to see that Kohli has been batting regularly for India at number three and his confidence and skills have grown. Umar has not got this opportunity. Umar is talented and if he is given a chance to bat higher up in the order like Kohli, I think he can also make a bigger impact and improve rapidly as a player. When you have more overs to face, you play with more freedom," he added.

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany kisses the trophy on the podium after winning the Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix at the Yas Marina racetrack in Abu Dhabi.

Whatmore has failed to deliver: Ashraf

KARACHI: Zaka Ashraf, whose election as Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman has been set aside by Islamabad High Court, has refused to accept the responsibility for appointing Dav Whatmore as head coach but conceded that the Australian had failed to live up to expectations. “Yes, I appointed Whatmore as head coach but on the recommendations of a committee comprising cricket experts like Intikhab Alam, Zaheer Abbas and keeping his past performances with the Sri Lankan and Bangladesh teams in mind,” Ashraf was quoted as saying by 'Dawn' newspaper.

Shiv Kapur wins Dubai Cty Challenge, gets European tour card

DUBAI: Shiv Kapur played an extremely steady and solid final round of two-under 70 without any bogeys to claim the seasonending Dubai Festival City Challenge Tour Grand Final at the Al Badia Golf Club.

Kapur celebrated his Diwali in Dubai in a winning way with a total of 16-under 272 and a whopping four-shot margin over the second place duo Jose-Felipe Lima of Portugal (69) and Andrew McLeary of Scotland, both of whom carded 69 each to total 12-under 276. It was not only Kapur's second Challenge Tour title of the year – he won the season-opener in February at Kensville Challenge, Ahmedabad – but it also helped him find his way back to the European Tour for 2014.

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Magnificent Sebastian Vettel makes it seven wins in a row

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BU DHABI: Quadruple Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel eased to victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday for his seventh successive victory and 11th of the season.

The 26-year-old German led home a Red Bull 1-2 -- the 15th time in Formula One and giving them their 100th podium finish - with Australian Mark Webber second, taking him to over 1000 points in his Formula One career which comes to an end at the end of the season.

German Nico Rosberg was third in a Mercedes. Vettel's win drew him level with compatriot Michael Schumacher's mark of seven successive wins (2004) and should he win the last two races of the season he will equal the overall record of nine held by Alberto Ascari (1952/53). The German, who also equalled his personal record set in 2011 of 11

F1 returns to India in 2015

ABU DHABI: A deal has been done for India to return to the Formula One calendar in 2015 and for six years beyond that if tax problems with the country's authorities can be overcome, commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Saturday.

"The door is open for them," the Briton, who turned 83 on Monday, told Reuters at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

"It's all there. Done. That's all done," he added when asked about a contract extension. "Just a case of the government sorting itself out."

The race, held at the Buddh race wins in a season, can also equal Schumacher's overall record of 13 wins in a campaign if he lands the final two races of the season. Vettel was ecstatic at his victory especially as it came in front of his parents. "I have spent most of my life racing in front of

International Circuit south-east of New Delhi, has been dropped from the 2014 calendar with its future uncertain.

Although some in the paddock fear it may be gone for good, organisers said last weekend that they were determined to complete the remaining two years of the existing contract in 2015 and 2016.

Indian motorsports chief Vicky Chandhok told Reuters last week that race promoter Sameer Gaur, of Jaypee Sports International (JPSI), was also speaking of a five-year extension.

Ecclestone said a new deal had now been agreed.

them (his parents) as a kid, the toys are a bit bigger now, but I am so pleased they are here to see me today. They taught me lots of good things and one day I want to pass that on to my children if I have them. So today I dedicate this victory to them."

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Webber said he was content with his end result. "The start wasn't great and Nico got an unbelievable start. I had to battle with Nico for second. I would have liked the win, but I matched my best result here," said the 37year-old. Rosberg said that Mercedes had achieved its objective for the weekend. "I am happy, third place was good. The plan for the weekend was to be the best of the rest behind the Red Bull and we achieved that. It could have been second on another day, but it didn't quite work out." "The most important thing is to finish second in the constructor's' championship not only financially, but also motivationally for the team to see that we have the second best car."

Once again, as he did in India last Sunday when he sealed his fourth title, Vettel threw his Red Bull car into a series of 'doughnut' pirouettes on the circuit to delight the crowd. A week previously, he had been reprimanded and fined for his celebrations. "I think Sebastian can pay the fine this week," said team chief Christian Horner. "That was a champion's drive."

Vettel, recording his 37th win of his career, started second alongside Webber but the Australian once again failed to benefit from starting from pole, he has won just once on the last nine occasions he has started there.

Sensing this Vettel took the lead at the first corner and went on to dominate the race, turning the contest into a master-class. Webber, who had started from pole position, endured a typically incident-filled contest on his way to second ahead of Rosberg while Frenchman Romain Grosjean of Lotus finished fourth.

Two-time champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso, who had started 10th for Ferrari, came home in fifth position and recorded the fastest lap ahead of Briton Paul Di Resta of Force India. Briton Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes was seventh, Brazilian Felipe Massa of Ferrari eighth, Mexican Sergio Perez of McLaren ninth and German Adrian Sutil of Force India 10th.

Ferrari-bound Finn Kimi Raikkonen's rounded off a nightmare week with a suitably flat performance. Indeed the Lotus driver, who has threatened to boycott the final two races of the season because he has not been paid this year, had to start from the back of the grid after a technical infringement in qualifying.

Federer eyes Djokovic revenge mission in Tour Finals L

ONDON: Roger Federer will start his bid for a seventh title at the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals with a revenge mission against Novak Djokovic.

After one of the worst campaigns of his illustrious career, Federer arrives for the prestigious event at London's O2 Arena looking to finish the year on a high note and he has an opportunity to make an immediate impact when he faces world number two Djokovic on Tuesday.

Federer has tumbled to sixth in the world rankings this year and just barely qualified for the ATP's eight-man showpiece tournament. With many pundits writing

off the 32-year-old as a fading force, Federer would dearly love to prove he can still shine against the sport's big guns by beating Djokovic in his opening match before further Group B clashes against Juan Martin del Potro and Richard Gasquet.

It would also go some way to avenging his loss to the Serb in the semi-finals of the Paris Masters on Saturday and also a straight sets defeat in the final of last year's Tour Finals, which ended his hopes of a third successive title at the O2 Arena.

Federer's decline can be measured by his failure to reach a Grand Slam final this year -- the

of his hometown event in Basel before losing to del Potro and then pushing Djokovic hard in the last four in Paris.

"It's unusual to go back to back matches against Novak, but I'm always excited about the challenge," Federer said.

"I have had a good couple of weeks now, and most important now is to recover as much as I can, so maybe the extra day of rest I will get over Novak could be first time he hasn't appeared in an advantage. I know physically one of the four major finals since where I am, and mentally I have 2002. But the 17-time Grand Slam a lot of confidence. I know my champion has at least come body is keeping it up. I still have closer to his peak form over the another week where I have to give last two weeks, reaching the final it all."

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