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Aft er oo DESPATCH & COURIER Mother Nikita Shetty displaying the approved admission form.

WHY PUNISH ME FOR BEING THE DAUGHTER OF A FORMER BAR GIRL?

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By Tariq Khan

12-year-old girl, Jyoti Dinesh Shetty, the daughter of a former bar girl, Nikita Dinesh Shetty, was admitted to the sixth standard of National Sarvodaya High School run by the Sindhi Sarvodaya Society in Chembur Colony on June 17, when the school began its academic session.

“However, after 15 days, the school authorities told my Continued on pg 8 «

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his is a place where under-aged children, who have run foul of the law or society, are brought and detained. The crimes, or the offences, range from murder, rape, robbery and pick-pocketing, to just loitering or being found homeless on a platform. The term ‘juvenile delinquent’ is comfortably applied but is sufficient enough to get you locked in the Dongri Remand Home.

This reporter visited the facility and found out that apart from several problems, there are major Continued on pg 8 «

Trams in Thane!

By Kaptan Mali

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he dream of tram services in Thane may soon become a reality. The Thane

SSC countdown see pg 12

SERVICE AREA: The tram service will run in a 10 km area.

It will start from Anand Nagar and pass from Teen Hath Naka, Wagle Industrial Estate, Cadbury Junction, Kapur Bawdi, Manpada and Patlipada areas.

BENEFITS: Trams are eco-friendly carries more passengers and requires less space to run.

Municipal Corporation (TMC), under the Light Rail Transit Project, has invited global tenders from international agencies, and five such agencies have shown interest in the same. If all goes as planned, the city may enjoy tram services by the year 2016.

The Thane station has been declared as one of the busiest stations in a recent survey, which is due to increase in population and migration from Mumbai city.

This forced the local administration to plan alternate modes of transport, and there Continued on pg 8 «

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MUMBHAI Vikas Sabnis

No heart for organ donation

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Initiative seeking donors from those applying for driving licenses gets a somewhat limited response

By Shwetha Kannan

T According to the party high command, your active participation in Narendra Modi’s poll campaign will help the Congress to regain power, sir!

OPINIONS

Should parents of young motorists/ bikers who drive without licence also be punished?

Sagir Ansari Journalist Yes, because parents do not know that they are endangering their child’s life. They should see to where their children are going.

Vandana Chibbar Housewife No. Parents complete their formalities after giving cars or bikes to their kids. The children should bear the responsibilities themselves.

Durrai Das Media professional Yes. Parents nurture the good things into their children’s lives.

Since they play a very vital role, they should own up and be held responsible if their children go astray.

Rizwan Ansari Businessman Yes. Parents should also be booked for rash and negligent driving of their wards, since they are the one who are providing money to their children.

Meghraj Web Designer No. Most parents are unaware about what their children are doing. If any young motorist or biker caught for rash driving, then the parents should be cautioned, not punished.

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o give organ donation a boost, the Directorate of Health Services (DHS), along with Gift Your Organ Foundation. which is a Bangalore-based NGO, had launched a pilot project for getting people to pledge their organs while they applied for driving licences at the Tardeo RTO since the start of July this year.

It has been almost a month now, and though the results say that Mumbaikars need to be more open and inclined to the idea of donating organs, the NGO and the DHS are optimistic and say that the initiative will gain momentum soon.

According to the statistics given

by Gift Your Organ Foundation, till August 2, 2013, a total of 1,541 people had applied for licences at the Tardeo RTO and out of these, as many as 1,127 (approximately 73%) applicants refused to pledge their organs. Only 414 applicants, which amounts to 27%, have agreed to

pledge their organs. And these 27% comprise the youth from various socio-economic strata of the society.

Speaking about this response to the initiative, Sameer Dua, Founder

and Chief Catalyst of Gift Your Organ Foundation, said, “Yes, there is a long way to go for us with regards to organ donation. But then again, this is just the beginning and we hope things will get better soon.

What is the initiative all about?

Anybody who comes to the RTO office (Currently only at the Tardeo RTO in Mumbai) for driving licence test is given a booklet explaining the need for donation along with a pledge form. If the person voluntarily agrees to pledge his or her organs, then before the license is dispatched, an ‘I am an organ donor’ sticker will be pasted on the licence.

By Yatin Ingle

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hile the Mumbai University (MU) has already brought in a new rule to award aggregate marks to the students if manipulation is verified in their internals marks, it has stepped vigilance on the marks awarded by colleges to their students.

Keeping in mind the various issues and repots of manipulation by colleges to allot maximum internal marks to their students, the MU will now keep an eye on the marking schemes, projects, assignments and class-tests conducted by the colleges.

In short, the MU will be supervising internal assessments and exams conducted by the colleges and will also keep a check upon the marks allotted to students.

Last year, the examinations department of the varsity had noted that most of the colleges had given out maximum internal marks to their students, whereas most of the students were able to score only average marks in the external theory examinations conducted by the varsity. It was clearly noticed that colleges had manipulated the internal marks merely to promote their students.

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There are a lot of myths and doubts in people’s minds that need to be cleared when it comes to organ donation. They ask us many questions before deciding to pledge their organs as it is serious decision. We answer all of them and then leave it to the individual to take the decision.”

Dr Kempi Patil, assistant director of DHS, said, “It is only when the mindset of the community changes that the organ donation drive can improve and it isn’t easy to change the strong mindsets of people. We are doing what we can to bring about this change but this is slow process and will take time.”

Once the Tardeo project sees considerable response, and after the required fining tuning, this initiative is most likely be extended to all the RTOs in Mumbai. shwetha.kannan@afternoondc.in

Checking internally!

MU to keep a strict check upon the internal assessments and class tests of the final year students to reduce manipulation of marks scheme of the MU, a students has to appear for 60 mark external theory examinations conducted by the varsity and 40 marks of internal examinations which are carried out by the colleges themselves. Out of these 40 marks for internals, 20 marks are for a written class-test, 10 marks are for projects, assignments, while 10 marks are awarded for the student’s attendance and class participation. These 40 marks are wholly given out to students by their colleges.

The ADC spoke to Avdesh Yadav, Coordinator, Bachelor of Mass Media, St Clara’s College, Versova, who says “As the MU has brought up this new rule to keep a check upon the projects and tests conducted by the colleges, it will bring out an equal marking for the students. It’s a fair and correct step by

the varsity. Most of the time, colleges give out maximum marks to their students even if students don’t deserve them. It used to be an unfair means for those students who worked hard for the marks and had to be satisfied with what was awarded to them. This new action of the varsity will ensure fair markings for the students.”

In February 2013, the Academic Council of MU had brought up a new rule which stated that internal assessment scores of undergraduate students having higher marks internal exams than in the university’s exam will be automatically reduced and brought in line with the theory exam scores.

The ADC spoke to Dr Madhu Nair, Academic Council member, MU, who said “The varsity will be keeping a check upon the internal

assessments carried out by the colleges. The issue was raised after it was noticed that students having maximum marks in their internal assessments flunked in the external examinations conducted by the varsity. It was soon that the council had brought up a new rule to deduct the manipulation of internal marks carried out by the colleges. To ensure a fair and clean process for marking the students correctly for their internal assessments, MU will be keeping a check upon the students’ internal assessments. Colleges will have to maintain records for the internal assessments. This step has been taken by the varsity to halt the manipulation of marks which misguides the students leading to their failure in the external examinations carried by the MU.”

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SPECIAL REPORT

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VINOD TAWDE MOOTS LAW TO REGULATE SURROGACY FOR THE BENEFIT OF MOTHER AND CHILD

By Prashant Hamine

India is leading destination for surrogacy

In his 27 page private member’s legislation, Tawde advocates that the proposed law should make it otwithstanding the recent controversy over the surro- Arguing his need for a law in the mandatory that the surrogate gate baby of Shahrukh Khan statement of objects and reasons in mother should be a resident of Maand the emergence of Gujarat as the his proposed private member’s bill, harashtra. No ART Bank / ART surrogate baby hub in the country, Tawde states that the Supreme Clinic shall receive or send a resileader of the opposition in legisla- Court, in 2002, recognised commer- dent of Maharashtra abroad or to tive council, Vinod Tawde, urged the cial surrogacy as legal; wherein a other state for purpose of surrogovernment to enact a law to pro- surrogate mother receives financial gacy. No woman less than 25 years tect medical, social, legal and ethi- compensation for performing as a and not over 35 years of age shall cal rights of all those concerned, surrogate. He further argues that be eligible to act as surrogate especially for the protection and the country is emerging as a leading mother. Besides this, no woman well being of surrogate mothers. destination in international surro- shall act as a surrogate for more gacy and in surrogacy-related fertil- than five successful live births in ity tourism. “Indian surrogates have her life, including her own chilbeen increasingly popular with in- dren. In the event of the woman fertile couples in industrialized na- being married, then the consent of tions because of relative absence of her spouse shall be required.

While registering at the hospital, any rules and regulations and low financial cost,” remarked Tawde. the woman will have to declare herself as a surrogate mother. In case the first embryo transfer has failed, then the surrogate mother, if she Vinod Tawde & Shahrukh Khan wishes, can decide to accept at most Tawde had tried to move a private member’s legislation to this effect in the just concluded monsoon session of the state legislature. The private legislation however could not see the light of the day on the last day of the session as the house was saddled with too much important listed business on its agenda.

“Though the mere idea of commercial use of a woman’s body is painful and cannot be encouraged; absence of any legislation to regulate use of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and especially Surrogacy make the woman vulnerable to the exploitation,” states Tawde in his proposed legislation. He argues that in Indian context, surrogacy cannot be viewed only as a commercial contract and has cultural and emotional aspects attached to it.

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Seeking to regulate for the benefit of the woman

ing in India, Non Resident Indians (NRIs) shall appoint a local guardian to take care of the surrogate mother. Besides this, the said foreign couple or foreigner will have to establish, through proper documentation, that their country allows surrogacy and entry of the child born out of surrogacy.

Foolproof documentation two more embryo transfers. A surrogate mother shall not act as an Oocyte donor for the couple or individual seeking surrogacy. The commissioning couple or an individual shall not have the services of more than one surrogate at any given time.

Seeking to regulate for the benefit of the child The child born out of surrogacy shall have all the legal rights as that of a child born out of legitimate sexual intercourse by a legally wedded couple or unmarried couple. Both the parties will have to enter into a legally binding agreement and abide by its conditions.

Upon entering into a contract, the commissioning couple or individual shall deposit with the local guardian or surrogate mother the prescribed amount. In case the commissioning couple or individual fail to take delivery of the child, the surrogate mother shall be at liberty to use the amount to make expenses towards management of such child till the child is handed over for adoption. In case of foreigner or foreign couples not resid-

The proposed private legislation also seeks to lay down registration and regulation norms for ART Banks / ART Clinics in the state with the appropriate registration authority. The application shall contain all the details of techniques and procedures of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) practiced at the Bank or Clinic. Registration of ART Banks / ART Clinics by the authority shall be done on the basis of technology practiced at such clinics or bank. These banks or clinics shall not be allowed to practice any other technique without the certificate or accreditation from the district board.

No ART Bank shall divulge the name, identity or address of any sperm donor or oocytes donor, or surrogate and keep it confidential.

The law provides for storage of donor gamete or embryo for maximum period of five years. The law also provides that the ART Bank / ART Clinic should not carry out sexdetermination tests. Besides this the proposed bill also seeks to imprison up to five years with fine any medical geneticist, gynaecologist, registered medical practioner or any person owning a ART Bank / ART Clinic that violates any provisions of the law.

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GOVERNESS/NANNY

CLASSIFIEDS I have changed my name from Laxman Krishna Khule to Avinash Krisha Khule as per Maha. Gazette No. X-12633.

C-12108 I have changed my name from Kharakbahadur Devanichand Thakur to Bahadur Diwanchand Thakur as per Affidavit dated 5-07-2013.

C-12109 I have changed my name from Sumitkumar Vinod Gupta Urmila to Sumit Vinodkumar Gupta Urmiladevi as per Affidavit dated 03.08.2013.

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ASTROLOGY

I have changed my name from Vijayaben Haresh Patel to Vijaya Haresh Patel as per Affidavit dated 03.08.2013.

C-12111

I, Mr. K. Venkatesh, have changed my minor son’s name from Sathiyaraj Ponmudi to Sathiyaraj Venkatesh as per deed poll Affidavit dated 12/07/13.

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THANKSGIVING Novena prayer to St. Jude. O Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and 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 and 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 and cause you to be invoked. Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Mary’s and Glory be. St. Jude pray for us and all who invoke your aid.

Amen. (Publication must be promised).

C-12104 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.

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CHANGE OF NAME

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I, Mr. George Abraham, have changed my minor daughter’s name from Gorge Malise Maria to Malise Maria George as per deed poll Affidavit dated 04/07/13.

C-12113 I, Mr. K. Venkatesh, have changed my minor daughter’s name from Rajalakshmi Ponmudi to Rajalakshmi Venkatesh as per deed poll Affidavit dated 12/07/13.

C-12114 I, Mr. Haridev Palturam Kahar, have changed my minor daughter’s name from Chetna Haridev Gond to Chetna Haridev Kahar as per deed poll Affidavit dated 02/07/13.

C-12115 I, Mehtab Sadam Hussain, have changed my name to Mehtab Shadab Hussain Farooqui as per deed poll Affidavit dated 01/08/13.

C-12116 I, Sameena Sadam Hussain, have changed my name to Sahmina Bano Shadab Farooqui as per deed poll Affidavit dated 02/08/13.

C-12117 I, Sadam Hussain, have changed my name to Shadab Aziz Hussain Farooqui as per deed poll Affidavit dated 02/08/13.

C-12118

I have changed my name from Chetna Eknath Revadekar to Amrita Apurva Verekar Vide Gazette No. X-47527.

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I, Archana Ashok Pedhamkar, have changed my name to Anjali Amit Palshetkar as per deed poll Affidavit dated 19/07/13.

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We Mr. Ambavi Ladha Patel & Mrs. Ratan Ambavi Patel, have changed our son’s name from Fatak Satishkumar Ambavi to Patel Satish Ambavi Vide Deed poll Affidavit dated 2-08-2013.

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I, Pranali Gajanan Borkar, have changed my name to Anushka Abhishek Palshetkar as per deed poll Affidavit dated 19/07/13.

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I, Ranjan Sukanraj Jain, have changed my name to Rakhee Rakesh Mehta as per Maha.

Government Gazette No U-20903 dated 11/07/13.

C-12121 I, Mrs. Daksha Paresh Gandhi, have changed my name to Mrs. Gopi Paresh Gandhi as per deed poll Affidavit dated 02/08/13.

C-12122 I, Chitralekha Jagannath Keluskar, have changed my name to Rupali Bhalchandra Ajgaonkar as per Maharashtra Government Gazette No X-12220 dated 22/02/1990.

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013 I have changed my name from Arunabahen Chhaganlal Prajapati to Aruna Umesh Bharadwa as per Affidavit dated 03rd August 2013.

C-12135 I have changed my name from Josephina Mary D’mello to Josephine Mary D’mello as per Affidavit dated 02-08-2013.

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I have changed my name from Mohan to Mohanan as per Affidavit.

C-12151

I have changed my name from Kokilaben Bhikhubhai Panchal to Kokila Jaikisandas Mistry as per Affidavit dated 28-5-2013.

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I have changed my name from Santhosh Kumar Pakala to Santosh Kumar Pakala as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Sidharth Laxmidas Naik to Siddharth Laxmidas Naik as per Affidavit dated 28-5-2013.

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I, Miss. Vahidaben Sadruddin Momin, have changed my name to Mrs. Vahida Nazmuddin Dhuka as per deed poll Affidavit dated 01/08/13.

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I have changed my name from Suraj Kumar to Suraj Kumar Singh as per Affidavit dated 28th May 2013.

C-12139

I, Mathur Pancha, have changed my name to Mathur Pancha Padhra as per deed poll Affidavit dated 02/08/13.

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I have changed my name from Pandurang Amdaskar to Pandurang Ambadaskar as per Affidavit dated 28th May 2013.

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I, Bhavana Babulal Shah, have changed my name to Bhavna Kirit Shah as per deed poll Affidavit dated 01/08/13.

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I have changed my name from Sulochana Amdaskar to Sulochana Ambadaskar as per Affidavit dated 28th May 2013.

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I, Kaushik Rajesh Dubey, have changed my name to Kunal Rajesh Dubey as per deed poll Affidavit dated 02/08/13.

C-12127 We, Mr. Kumar Kunal & Mrs. Shweta Singh, have changed our minor daughter’s name from Advika Singh to Avani Singh as per Gazette No. 235825.

C-12128 I have changed my name from Anita Zeba Asghar Ali Godliwala to Zeba Mohammed Manzoor Abdul Salam as per Affidavit.

C-12129 I have changed my name from Naseem Bano to Naseem Bano Adil Mushtaq Cutchi as per Affidavit.

C-12130 I have changed my name from Adil Mushtaq to Adil Mushtaq Ali Muhammad Cutchi as per Affidavit.

C-12131 I have changed my name from Aftab Faqir Mohd to Mohammed Aftab Mohammed Ayub Shaikh as per Affidavit dated 04th May 2013.

C-12132 I have changed my name from Sheetal Rambhajan Singh Thakur to Sheetal Sarjerao Patil vide Maha. Govt. Gazette (U-17582).

C-12133 I have changed my name from Saleem Abdul Majeed Shaikh to Salim Abdul Majeed Shaikh as per Affidavit dated 03rd August 2013.

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I have change name from Mohd.Sufiyan to Mohammed Sufiyan Mohammed Aslam Shaikh as per Court Affidavit dated 29/6/2013.

C-12150

I have change name from Mohmad Aslam to Mohammed Aslam Bahadurali Shaikh as per Court Affidavit dated 03/8/13.

C-12142 I have change name from Mohammad Aslam Bahadurali Shaikh to Mohammed Aslam Bahadurali Shaikh as per Court Affidavit dated 03/8/2013.

C-12143 I have change name from Mehezabee Begam to Mahajabeen Begum Mohammed Aslam Shaikh as per Court Affidavit dated 03/8/2013.

C-12144 I have change my name from Shaikh Ahmed Ali Mohammed Ismail to Ahmed Ali Mohammed Ismail Shaikh as per Court Affidavit dated 3/8/2013.

C-12145 I have change name from Mehjabi Begam to Mahajabeen Begum Mohammed Aslam Shaikh as per Court Affidavit dated 3/8/2013.

C-12146 I have change name from Mehezabeen Begam to Mahajabeen Begum Mohammed Aslam Shaikh as per Court Affidavit dated 3/8/2013.

C-12147 I have change name from Mohd. Numaan to Mohammed Noman Mohammed Aslam Shaikh as per Court Affidavit dated 3/8/2013.

C-12148 I have change name from Salman Mohmad Aslam to Mohammed Salman Mohammed Aslam Shaikh as per Court Affidavit dated 3/8/2013.

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I have changed my name from Valecha Ramchandra Arjandas to Valecha Ramchand Arjandas as per Affidavit.

C-12153 I have changed my name from Valecha Shalini Ramchand to Valecha Shanti Ramchand as per Affidavit.

C-12154 I have changed my name from Bhullar Lakhbinder Kaur Gurmendar Singh to Bhullar Lakhvinder Kaur Gurminder Singh as per Affidavit.

C-12155 I have changed my name from Bhullar Gurmender Singh to Bhullar Gurminder Singh as per Affidavit.

C-12156 I have changed my name from Miss. Priti Kumari Sharma to Miss. Prity Singhaniya as per Affidavit.

C-12157 I have changed my name from Sudalai Panieer Prabhu Mani Chettiar to Prabhu Mani Chettiar as per Affidavit.

C-12158 I have changed my name from Lilavati Govindram Sadhu to Lilavanti Govindram Sadhu as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Nafis Abdul Shaikh to Gulam Dastageer Abdul Aziz Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-12166 I have changed my name from Afifa to Afifa Kapadia as per Affidavit Dt. 29-07-2013.

C-12167 I have changed my name from Musani Mohammed Farook Haroon Abdul to Musani Farook Haroon Abdul as per Affidavit Dt. 01-08-2013.

C-12168 I have changed my name from Asgar Ali to Asgar Ali Kapadia as per Affidavit Dt. 03-08-2012.

C-12169 I have changed my name from Shahbaz Mohd. Shakil Khan to Shahbaz Ahmed Shakil Khan as per Maha. Govt. Gazette No. (X-117140) dated June 13-19, 2013.

C-12170 I have changed my name from Ronak Kumar Pratapbhai Patel to Ronak Pratapbhai Patel as per Affidavit.

C-12171 I have changed my name from Sebastian Fernandes to Sabastian Fernandes as per Affidavit.

C-12172 I have changed my name from Iqbalbhai Alibhai Moosabhai Ibrahimbhai Bapu to Iqbal Alibhai Patel as per Affidavit.

C-12173 I have changed my name from Salini Subramanian Nadar to Shalini Subramanian Nadar as per Affidavit.

C-12174 I have changed my name from Jamil Ahemad Sayyad to Jamil Sayyad as per Affidavit.

C-12175 I have changed my name from Jayeshbhai Ranchoddas Thakkar to Jayesh Ranchoddas Thakkar as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Hussain Shakur Shaikh to Mehfil Hussain Shakur Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-12160

I have changed my name from Pritiben Jayesh Thakkar to Priti Jayesh Thakkar as per Affidavit.

C-12177

I have changed my name from Mujafar Hussain Shaikh to Mujaffar Mehfil Hussain Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-12161

I have changed my name from Miss. Hamidan Bano Abdulla to Mrs. Hamida Mohammed Ayyub Gori as per Affidavit.

C-12178

I have changed my name from Anand Dadu Patil to Ananda Dadu Patil as per Affidavit.

C-12162 I have changed my name from Leela Anand Patil to Leelatai Ananda Patil as per Affidavit.

C-12163 I have changed my name from Rameshkumar Sagarmal Jain to Ramesh Sagarmal Jain as per Affidavit.

C-12164 I have changed my name from Usha Kantilal Rathaud Jain to Usha Rameshkumar Jain as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Mr. Shamsudhin Mohd. Razak Khan to Mr. Shamsuddin Mohammad Raza Khan as per Affidavit.

C-12179 I have changed my name from Mr. Afsarshah Syed Anwar Shah to Mr. Miyagul Afsar Anwar Shah as per Affidavit.

C-12180 I have changed my name from Mr. Ayyub Ahmed to Mr. Mohammed Ayyub Gori as per Affidavit.

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T was not the question of issues, there were plenty of them that were offered on the platter by the ruling Congress-NCP alliance to the BJPShiv Sena led opposition. But thanks to its lethargic and unimaginative approach, the opposition squandered its chances. Technically speaking, with Lok Sabha elections just nine months away, it was expected that the BJP led opposition would have pinned the government on the mat, as it were, through intense grilling on issues, lapses and scams.

Sadly, the performance of the principal opposition party left a lot to be desired.

Save for the Adarsh issue, the BJP led opposition was literally taken for a ride by a smart ruling alliance. Not just the Sena and the PWP, even within the BJP ranks there were voices of dismay over squandered chances due to the lack of political acumen and effective floor coordination.

The much talked Prithviraj Chavan about debate on the Irrigation scams was one such case where the opposition was not only outmaneuvered, it was simply outsmarted and handed over a shortened debate sans any reference to any scam.

After week-long brinkmanship over the issue, what the opposition got in return was a shortened debate and suspension of Diwakar Raote in the legislative council. What has raised the eyebrows and voices within theBJP-Senaistheperceivedabjectsurrenderoftheupperhand.

Many, even in the Sena, are miffedoverthemannerinwhich thetopBJPbrassappearedmore conciliatory towards the ruling alliance, agreeing to almost everything that was being thrown at them. It is not surprising when MNS chief Raj Thackeray recently remarked that the BJP-Sena alliance had a tacit “friendly” understanding with the ruling alliance.

The opposition did raise the issue of infrastructure in the Mumbai region and in turn got whacked by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who questioned the Sena ruled civic body's reluctance to accept third party audit of potholed roads. Another issue that the opposition could have exploited to the hilt was the mess in Online admissions, the goofups in school textbooks, the bad management of the government of the drought in the state. In the end it looked like the ruling alliance was laughing at being let off the hook by a lame duck opposition.

Patch-up bid WHAT appeared to be a distant dream, now looks like a possibility. Though at present it is riddled with too many conditions attached to it, the underlying electoral arithmetic to it is simply to avoid the split in the Marathi or saffron vote bank this time around in the 2014 elections. The 2009 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections

Lame Duck Opposition

SIMHASAN Prashant Hamine | ADC badly hurt the BJP-Shiv Sena thanks to the split in its traditional vote bank by the MNS which rode on a “new untested factor wave” then.

The MNS too has not been able to build on its initial gains and lacks a known leadership base that has not expanded since 2009. The party appears to be heavily reliant on its party president and lacks leadership that has pan-Maharashtra appeal. Apart from that, the MNS has not been able to shrug off its “pro Congress-NCP” tag which has also led to diminishing electoral gains in civic elections that have followed since. But the party still packs a punch and can upset the electoral applecart of the BJP-Sena alliance.

Although the talk had been doing rounds of possible patch up between the two estranged cousins, it took Team Modi to make it realize the danger that

Raj and Uddhav Thackeray lay ahead and hence the desperate patch-up bid. The MNS needs a leg-up in its electoral fortunes and ambition to hog the national limelight. For Uddhav, if he craves a larger role in national politics, he will have to let go of some of his grudges against his own estranged cousin. At present both seem to be unwilling to let go of their claim to what they perceive as their stronghold – that is, the Dadar area.

At present the patch-up bid is more of a work in progress, with endless possible results.

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politics. It is also a sad statement on the failure of the principle opposition parties, more so the Congress and later on the BJP, to retain their pan-

India presence.

The issue is not about allowing the creation of more state; the USA has 50 of them!

The side-effects of fragmentation can best be illustrated with the kind of political instability that has marked states like Goa and Jharkhand.

But while one also cannot deny the people's regional aspirations, this cannot be at the expense of state or national identity. Noted author Shobha De may have kicked off a storm over a tweet, but the way Mumbai and the surrounding Metropolitan Region is being governed may not be tolerated for too long,m given the woeful infrastructure facilities. The BJP again finds itself isolated over the issue of statehood for Vidarbha, though the people of the region still do nurse the feeling that the cunningly powerful politicians from Western Maharashtra have denied them their share of equitable development.

Adarsh Congress

EVER since he took over the mantle of CM from Ashok Chavan, who had to step down in the fallout of the Adarsh housing society scam in 2010, Prithviraj Chavan is faced with his first real political challenge in retaining his post. The BJPSena opposition did try to corner him over the failure of his government to table the Adarsh commission report in BY agreeing to the creation of the state legislature. If sources the fledgling state of Telangana, are to be believed, the report the Congress has once again appears to be giving a clean brought back memories of the chit to his bloody turn of events of the predecessor.

1950’s that led to the reorganizaWith no imtion of states on linguistic lines. mediate This Pandora's box has once possibility of again been reopened and alreturning ready more demands are being back to namade than what was there post tional polithe first reorganisation of states. t i c s , Regional identity and regional Ashok Chavan Prithviraj aspirations are now more domChavan has inant than the national identity. more demons to battle within It is this aspect that has led to his own party than be worried rise of regional political parties about what the BJP-Sena opruling not just at the state, but position might do. also has raised serious questions Ashok Chavan is already about the virtues of coalition craving for political rehabilita-

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tion. The Congress leadership too now admits that it acted in haste in seeking his resignation. The dilemma before Prithviraj Chavan and the Congress also is what to do and when to table the report along with the Action Taken Report (ATR). Both need to show that they have taken some action. The BJP-Sena opposition appears to be in no position as of now to exploit the issue to the hilt. Even if the Congress-NCP succeeds in burying the ghost of Adarsh and washes away the Irrigation taint, it still has to contend with the Bombay High Court.

Mr Cool HE is one Congress minister who some of his detractors might ridicule for his mannerisms and his eternal ambition to be the chief minister of the state one day, but one cannot take him lightly. Of late the NCP and Ajit Pawar suffered a bloody electoral nose in the Sangli civic body polls for running the risk of taking him too

lightly. The always jovial and carefree frame of Minister for Forests Dr Patangrao Kadam belies the political guile that he has though even that often deserts him at crucial times, leaving him with a setback to overcome.

It was during the budget sesPatangrao Kadam sion of the state legislature in 2003 when Dr Patangrao Kadam was the Parliamentary Affairs minister in the cabinet of then chief minister Sushilkumar Shinde.

On the last day of the session, the Shiv Sena-BJP opposition in the legislative council, the upper house forced the government to amend the appropriation bill (budget bill) and provide budgetary allocation for removal of development backlogs in Vidarbha. Now the bill had to be once again passed with the amendments in the lower house. In the lower

05 house, the Legislative Assembly, the house was almost on the verge of winding up its proceedings for the day.

Just then the legislature secretary, knowing what had hit the government, came down in a tearing hurry. To his horror, the lower house was already singing the national anthem.

The poor officer tried to draw the attention of Shinde to what had happened in the upper house. An agitated Shinde turned back to find his parliamentary affairs minister. But he was nowhere to be found.

So the word went out for him.

A livid Shinde wanted to know where the hell he was. A nonchalant Kadam inquired, “What's happened? I am near Lonavala!” Even before the session had effectively ended Kadam was almost close to Pune. His slip-up forced Shinde to convene a one-day special session of the state legislature just to pass the budget. Despite (or perhaps because of!) Kadam lost the parliamentary affairs portfolio,thoughhestillwanders in the wilderness of the Forests.

“Omana, Giver of life: A Woman” A Kashi Jewellers all set to rock IIJW with their latest collection

t the annual Indian International Jewellery Week (IIJW) in Mumbai, a succession of Indian supermodels sashays along the catwalk, glittering with Kashi Jewellers’ most elaborate and exclusive creations.

The jewellery convention gives Kashi the chance to showcase its one-off creations in style. It’s a far cry from the company’s origins as a modest jewellery shop founded in 1955 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

The family-run firm has evolved over the decades to embrace design, manufacturing, retailing and exports. Kashi’s creations have adorned supermodels, Bollywood stars and famous glitterati. Kashi Jewellers is also the preferred brand among businesswomen in India as well as overseas. The lure is the company’s use of various types of precious gemstones and different settings in jewellery that are one of a kind in the market. Kashi was the first Indian jeweller to have received the prestigious President of India National Award (MSME) for ‘Excellence in Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship’. It was also the first to be honoured at Jewellery News Asia’s Awards for ‘Three Decades of Excellence’ as a retailer, an exporter and a manufacturer.

‘These awards and honours recognise our success within the luxury jewellery sector and distinguish us from other jewellers in India,’ says Vice President Shreyansh Kapoor.

Everything that Kashi sells is handcrafted in house, giving the company complete quality control from the initial concept sketch to the selection of gemstones and

term strategy is to focus on maintaining its customers’ satisfaction and to train and educate its staff in order to achieve its goals. ‘The challenge is to maintain the core values of customer satisfaction that we began with,’ says Shreyansh. ‘The company and our staff are our family, and we want to extend that personal touch to customers as we grow, says Shail Kapoor, President.’

They are all set to showcase their latest collection "Omana, Giver of life: A Woman" at the IIJW on August 7th, 2013! This collection is a devotion to all the women: a daughter who serves, a sister who loves, a mother who bears and a friend who cares. It shows a woman as a picture of poise, strength and grace.A dreamer, An achiever-A winner all along. Through their collection, they want to appreciate the multidimensional facets of women in our society. She is the one who faces inequality in all walks of From its base in Kanpur – home life: education, nutrition, legal rights, to its flagship jewellery and watch medical care and workforce, but still showroom – Kashi Jewellers has a strives hard and comes on top. They growing customer base stretching want to celebrate the women of from Kanpur to Mumbai and Dallas today who has blossomed from a to London. One of the first Indian small girl into a successful woman jewellers to begin exporting who is empowered. Their collection internationally back in 1979, it comprises of cut and uncut currently has retail clients in the UK, diamonds and precious and semithe United States, South Africa and precious gemstones. Various new techniques of diamond settings are the UAE. Kashi was also one of the used like the illusion, invisible and first jewellers to employ pressure settings. Each creation has women, in what had hitherto been conceptualized and created in been a male-dominated their in-house state-of -the- art industry. Kashi’s long- factories.

manufacturing the piece. ‘Kashi is known for its design, quality of workmanship and innovation. We take pride in manufacturing 100 per cent of all diamond jewellery in our state-of-the-art factories.

Thanks to our in-house design teams and manufacturing units we can attain a high quality of craftsmanship that is among the best in the world," says Vice President Shreyansh Kapoor.

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SIN OF OMISSION MLA’s passport renewal blocked because he only stood by and watched as traffic cop was thrashed by legislators

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tate police is taking all the possible steps to block the renewal of recently announced state BJP General Secretary and MLA Jaykumar Rawal’s passport.

In this regard, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Dhule, has asked senior inspectors of all the police stations in Mumbai including crime branch’s criminal intelligence unit to provide the information of criminal cases registered against Rawal, an MLA from Dhule’s Sindkheda. The information, stated DY SP’s letter to city police, should be provided by August 6 and the letter should be given top priority, said police adding that the senior inspectors of the po-

lice station would be held responsible for the delay in providing information, stated the letter.

This has, however, baffled the police personnel from the city police department, as the MLA neither possesses any residence in the city nor is he, in any way, related to the city, informed sources in the CIU. While several politicians from the state believe that MLA Jaykumar Rawal’s passport bearing number H-9842501, dated April 28, 2010, expired on April 27, 2011.

this step by the police is to create problems for the MLA, as the latter on March 18 had allegedly stood silent watching assistant inspector (Traffic) Sachin Suryavanshi being beaten black and blue on assembly premises by a group of Maharashtra legislators.

In May, besides BJP MLA Chainsukh Sancheti, the elder brother of Ajay Sancheti, Rawal was appointed one of the general secretaries of BJP by the state unit president Devendra Phadnavis. This new team has been put in place in the view of the forthcoming Assembly and general elections slated to be held in 2014.

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Woman who ended life after drowning daughters was a hot tempered person

are investigating the case.

Sameera Asif Ali (35) drowned her two daughters, Aleena (three and half years) and 2-month-old Nuren, in a water storage drum. She later hung herself from the ceiling of the bedroom in her first floor flat in Sundar Vihar. The

By Suresh Golani matter came to light when he 35-year-old woman Sameera’s elder son, Yaasir who allegedly drowned (7), went inside the bedroom her two kids in a water and saw his mother hanging. storage drum before ending He rushed down crying and life at her flat in Mira Road informed neighbours about on Saturday evening was hot the incident. Although the tempered and apparently exact reason of suicide is yet committed the act in a fit of to be ascertained, Sameera rage, said police sources who had quarrelled with her hus-

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band, Asif Ali, who is a footwear dealer, over a delay in shopping for clothes for the Ramzan Id festival.

“As of now, it appears to be a clear case of crime committed in a fit of rage by the woman, who, according to prime facie investigations, was of a short-tempered nature. However we are yet to get the autopsy reports which will determine the actual cause of death,” said Sr. PI D. Khirgaonkar.

The bodies of Sameera and her kids will be taken to her native village in Gurgaon for the final rites.

‘Shani’var for bikers

Traffic cops, in collaboration with city police, penalized more than 500 bikers on Saturday night for dangerous riding and performing reckless stunts

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or the first time in its history, the Mumbai traffic police carried out nightlong checks and stopped 500 bikers for performing dangerous and unwanted stunts at various locations.

Stunt bikers are normally seen speeding between Bandra and Dahisar and between Marine Drive and Haji

Ali, but on Saturday nights, many college-goers turn up along with their female partners and move very recklessly along the Western Express Highway, sometimes meeting with bad accidents.

The traffic police and city police set up barriers at 26 places, including Kherwadi Junction, Bandra Reclamation, Haji Ali junction, Marine Drive, and various other locations where bikers assemble to perform stunts, said Pratap Digvekar, DCP Traffic. It is known that bikers performing stunts often have bets placed on them. Police have now begun to seize motorbikes fitted with equipments to facilitate dangerous stunts.

So far, bikers were being prosecuted for rash driving under the Motor Vehicles Act, but the police have now started booking rash drivers

under Sec 279 of the IPC too, a crime which if proved can land one behind bars for six months, said Rameshwar Suple, senior police inspector, Marine Drive.

According to Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone VIII N D Chavan, “We conducted a special drive against the bikers and brought them to the Vakola, Kherwadi, Nirmal Nagar police stations to fine them. A few days ago we conducted a drive against bikers and booked more than 11 who were found performing dangerous stunts.”

It has to be noted that today (Monday) night is a big night in the month of Ramzan, and most bikers usually land up on the roads to perform stunts. The police are therefore initiating a special drive throughout the night.

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DRAWING A BLANK Police probing Khar shootout case make no headway as killers are not using their mobile phones and haven’t contacted their relatives

By Zuber Ansari

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ven four days after the a noted criminal opened fire on a rival gang member at a bar, the Nirmal Nagar Police, as well as Crime Branch Unit VIII, have failed to traced their location. The cops have even searched the residences of many relatives of the prime accused.

It may be recalled that three special teams were formed to nab the accused as soon as possible, but are sitting put as all the five accused who have been booked in the case have stopped using their mobile phones.

Talking to ADC, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP-Zone VIII), ND Chavan said, “We are facing problems in tracing their location because they have stopped using their mobile phones. But it is sure that we will catch them within two days, though our teams do not have a clue as yet as to where they are.”

While on the other hand,

close sources from Nirmal Nagar Police station revealed that after this incident, many of relatives who used to stay in Khar have left for their native place in Uttar Pradesh.

Last week, late on Wednesday night, Vijay Pujari alias Batta, was shot by members of a rival gang at Sharada Bar in Khar. Pujari and three of his friends, Chandan Singh,

Lokesh and Kamlesh, were having a drink at the bar when the main accused, 22year-old Rahul Sharma, and his accomplices Magic, Ajay Pandit, Viren Thakur, Subhash Shukla and another unidentified suspect barged into the bar and had a heated argument with Batta and his friends, before shooting at them.

Man drowns in lake, as son watches in horror

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n a tragic incident, a 52year-old man drowned in a lake in Virar, even as his son watched in horror. The incident occurred when the deceased, who has been identified as Narayan Dighe

(52), was displaying his swimming skills to his 13-year-old son at a lake near their residence in Mohak City on Sunday morning.

The father-son duo was on a morning walk, when Dighe stepped into the lake for a swim. He apparently suffered

a heart attack and drowned.

His body was fished out by fire brigade personnel late in the afternoon, police said. A case of accidental death has been registered in this connection and the body has been sent to the Public Health Centre, for post-mortem.

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Continued from pg 1 « issues of hygiene and sanitation at the home, shockingly due to lack of adequate funding.

Surviving on charity When Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan visited the home way back in 2011, he had made an announcement about increasing government funding to Rs.650 per month per child. Last month, the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare announced that the government was actually supposed to provide Rs.1,200 per month per child. “But nothing has been done so far, and we have to survive merely on donations that we receive from non-government organizations,” said Shankar Jadhav, the superintendent of the home.

On an average, Rs.20 lakh per annum is received as donations from NGOs such as Pratham, Vedanta, Abha, Pradeep Memorial Trust, and others. “Most of the private individuals and corporate entities have a mindset that rather than doing charity for juveniles, they might as well donate to the NGOs or pri-

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use the escalators, the railway authorities have mooted a proposal to install 20-member capacity lifts at both the stations,” said Naik.

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ailway commuters at Mira Road and Bhayandar railway stations will find it more convenient to make their way around as the Western Railway authorities have decided to boost passenger amenities, including installation of hi-tech escalators, multi-level parking lots, and passenger lifts at both the stations.

This was informed by Thane MP Sanjeev Naik and NCP legislator Gilbert Mendonca, while interacting with media-persons in the presence of Mayor Catlin Pereira in Mira Road on Sunday.

Apart from setting up the automatic staircases between platform numbers 3 and 4, one of the two escalators will come up on the Balaji Nagar side of Bhayandar railway station for commuters who

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24x7 water supply Speaking on other developmental issues, Mendonca informed that the NCP-ruled governance was committed towards the all-round development of the region and, as part of it, systematic arrangements were on to put a permanent end to the water crisis, by arranging 24x7 take that route to the station. water supply for the region.

The one meter wide esca“The MMRDA is all set to lators will be constructed at commence the ‘Surya Water a cost of Rs.3.20 crore, under Supply Project’ and after the aegis of the Mumbai Rail continuous follow-up, the Vikas Corporation (MRVC). JNURM has approved to “For those commuters, es- fund the internal distribupecially the ailing, those tion work estimated at physically challenged, and Rs.449 crore,” said Mayor senior citizens who cannot Catlin Pereira. vately to street kids,”said Jadhav.

FRIENDS INDEED: Youngsters posing for a group photograph at a Mall in Worli on the occasion of ‘Friendship Day’ on Sunday.

inmates to reform them and make them better human beings,” he added.

From 12 pm to 1 am, the inmates have their lunch. gard to the food timings.

After 9 am prayers to 12 When the ADC visited the The inmates at the home am, the juveniles attend home, the kids were having In all, there are currently 266 start their day at 6 am in the school. “Since most minors lunch of dal-rice, samosas, inmates at the remand home. morning. From 7 am to 7.45 stay at the remand home only chole and chapatis served in Everyday, approximately am is breakfast time. From 8 for a few days, and since most a thali.

From 4 pm to 7 pm it is there are 18 new entrants. On am to 9 am they have their of the juvenile delinquents an average, one entrant stays bath At 9 am, the inmates all get bail immediately, there is time to play or watch televifor 6 months. The capacity of pray together. “Religious tol- no fixed curriculum here. The sion for an hour. Only Doorthe home is for up to 500 in- erance, securalism and students are not taught any darshan programmes and mates, who are classified into equality - are all at par when particular subjects but most educational programmes are it comes to prayers and of the education provided to shown to them. Every Sunfour categories: Those who have been res- meals,” said Jadhav. Since them is vocational in nature. day, they get to watch a Bollythe month of Ramadan is The students prepare em- wood movie and the inmates cued from child labour, on, the Muslim inmates fast broidered mobile covers, are off to bed by 10 pm. missing children, There is an in-house psymentally retarded children during the day and they handicraft items, learn tailordrug addicts, who are also break their fast in the ing, etc,” said Vijay Palve, a chiatrist at the child guidance considered in the missing evening. Special provisions teacher at the school. “Moral clinic for neglected kids. Psyare made for them with re- education is provided to the chologists from Angar, an children category NGO, are involved in counseling students. The juvenile delinquents are taken for regular medical check ups and Since there are only two mental healthcare to J.J. Hoscooks and one assistant cook pital, Sion Hospital and KEM to prepare meals thrice a day, Hospital. the boys at the remand home The ADC came across a are made to cook. When boy who was crying and askasked why only male inmates ing for help. Raju (13) said, “I were given cooking duty, Jadam staying here since one hav replied, “The main reaand a half months. I am from son for giving the boys Andhra Pradesh. I was travelcooking duty is to keep them ling in a train with my occupied so that they do not brother. I was left behind in indulge in any criminal activthe train and my brother got ity, especially sodomy.”

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Stirring the pot

Trams in Thane!

Continued from pg 1 « were plans to run metro and mono rails in the city, but no progress could be seen in both the projects.

According to TMC officials, the tram project may cost around Rs.800 crore and will be implemented through the Built Operate and Transfer (BOT) system. The project details will be available by the year end, in which agencies will provide information regarding the cost of the project, duration of the project, ticket prices, and expected returns from the service.

Thane city is facing heavy pressure in all areas of transportation due to the increasing population.When the former commissioner of TMC had proposed to initiate tram services in Thane during the start of the year, it was opposed by local MLAs. Now, after being convinced about the benefits of the tram project, all parties in the TMC have agreed and unanimously approved the project.

down. I landed up at Dadar police station and was brought here. I requested them to contact my parents but they did not. They beat me up often here (showing the scars on his hands).

When ADC questioned Shankar Jadhav regarding the boy’s case, he snapped, saying, “The boy is a repeat offender. His crime was that he had indulged in drugs. The parents could not pay the bond amount of Rs.20,000, so when they came to meet him they tried to run away with him. We will be handing him over to the parents in a month’s time.”

Another girl who had gone missing from home also complained of being beaten up by authorities.

The ADC spoke to some of the juvenile delinquents who had committed thefts.

One of them, who was a resident of Wadala, boasted about how he and his accomplices had even slapped cops at Wadala T.T. police station. Mohammed, who had committed a murder, when spoken to, walked away. Vijay Palve, the teacher explained, “They do not like to recall their past.

They get hurt.”

Why punish me for being the daughter of a former bar girl?

Continued from pg 1 « daughter not to attend the school and offered to provide admission in other schools,” alleged Nikita, adding that the school neither gave her any verbal reason for the expulsion nor has it provided anything in writing.

Jyoti recently shifted from her grandmother’s place in Badlapur, where she was studying at St. Anthony’s High School till standard V, and began living with her mother in Chembur Colony. She therefore took admission to standard VI in the National Sarvodaya High School in Chembur Colony.

Her mother Nikita narrates her story, “I

became a bar girl not by choice but by compulsion. My husband left me 12 years ago. I wanted to provide my child with a quality education and hence got her admitted to a good school. But now the school is victimizing my daughter.”

The ADC contacted school principal Anil Kriplani, who said, “The girl herself did not attend school and we have not told her not to attend. It was only a provisional admission we had given her initially. It is a delicate issue. The girl’s mother herself took admission for her daughter at the Sadhu Vaswani School.

Why would we deny her admission?”

The distraught mother Nikita, while showing the documents of her daughter

Jyoti, like attested Leaving Certificate of previous school and Aadhaar card having address proof in Chembur, which the National Sarvodaya High School asked her to produce, said, “The school received complaints from other parents about my being a former bar girl, this should not be a reason for denying admission to my child.”

A source who did not wanted to be named, said, “Chembur Colony area has many former bar girls living there and denying quality education to a child merely on the basis of her parents’ profession should never be a basis. Quality education, which she was denied, is her fundamental right.”

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On the campaign trail

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Uddhav Thackeray its ‘booth chiefs’ from various districts of Maharashra and update them about campaigns and to get them to suggest strategies.

There are hopes that the Thackeray cousins, Sena chief Uddhav and Raj Thackeray of the Maharash-

tra Navnirman Sena will come together for the cause of the Marathi Manoos.

Both parties have potential but only if they come together, say experts.

Last week, on Friday night, Uddhav left the city for Aurangabad, the centre of Marathwada, which has been a fortress for the Sena since its inception. In the next three weeks, he will tour through Marathwada, Western Maharashtra and the Konkan. A Sena leader said, “Uddhav is scheduled to visit 14 parliamentary constituencies including Aurangabad, Hingoli, Parbhani, Amaravati, Kolhapur, Ratnagiri, Satara, Maval, Shirur, Kalyan and Thane.

He will address rallies as well as booth leaders and make strategies for the forthcoming elections.” vishnudas.sheshrao@afternoondc.in

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ddhav Thackeray, who got elevated to president of the Shiv Sena after the demise of Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, left the city along with his trusted leaders for a month long tour of Maharashtra.

He has kick-started his campaign for the upcoming general parliamentary elections, and political analysts and experts think that it is the trial by fire for Uddhav, who has to prove his mettle in the parliamentary election for the first time in his career. And he does not have father and supreme Bal Thackeray to drum up support for him.

The election schedule is yet to be decided by the election commission, but the Shiv Sena officially initiated its campaign to gather

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Criticises Congress while distancing himself from Modi and ‘communal’ BJP

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ocial crusader Anna Hazare has once again got back into action with his plans of a satyagraha for his Jan Lokpal at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan today, the first day of the monsoon session in Parliament.

However, this time around, Anna has decided to distance his agitation from the Congress, BJP and also his erstwhile aid, Arvind Kejriwal.

Anna has made it clear that after a long wait, he has decided to start atmaklesh (fast) agitation again at the Ramlila Maidan on the first day of the winter session of Parliament.

Despite the resolution passed in Parliament, the Central Government did not bring in the Jan Lokpal bill in the last

two years. “Twice, the Congress government has deceived us by making false promises to implement the Jan Lokpal bill. But this time, I will not fall into the trap of

the Congress leaders,” he stated.

The anti corruption crusader accused the Central Government of deceiving the country on the Lokpal issue and said that the ongoing Jantantra Yatra aims at educating people and creating awareness among them for bringing democracy in real terms. Advocating for the election of honest and morally right people, Anna said that he did not believe in the party system.

He reiterated that he never described Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as a secular man, and clarified, “My statement was totally twisted and misinterpreted. How can Modi be called secular when he is linked with a communal party like the BJP?”

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THE FLAGBEARER: 60-year-old Nisar Ahmed and his wife, Shahida Banu, with their grandchildren, making the national flags, ahead of the 66th Independence Day, at his residence at Kurla Kasaiwada on Sunday. The family has been making the tricolour for the last 20 years, said Ahmed.

CM assures that main heritage structure of St Anthony’s Church will not be affected by road expansion

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hief Minister Prithviraj Chavan assured the legislative council on August 2 that the main structure of Saint Anthony’s Church on Malad-Marve Road has been protected as Grade II-A, and is not affected under the proposed expansion of the road.

He said this in a written reply to a rule 93 notice moved by Ashish Shelar (BJP) and others. The Chief Minister stated that out of the structures within the bound-

nion Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Sunday underwent a surgery for a lung ailment at a hospital here.

The 71-year-old Congress leader was admitted to the Breach Candy hospital on Saturday night, sources close to him told PTI. Details of his ailment were not immediately known, but the sources said he would be discharged in a day or two.

"Shinde would be attending the Monsoon Session of Parliament," they said.

However, it was not known

Not harming church ary of the church, only structures like the Father’s House, Garage and the Open Space in front of the school would be affected by the proposed road expansion.

As per the available land records, the said plot of land has been in possession of St Anthony’s Church since 1630. The main prayer premises were constructed in 1835. Besides the main church, other structures within the premises include offices, sheds and the school that is run by the church authorities. The BMC included the main church edifice in the Grade II-A list of Heritage

CM Prithviraj Chavan structures on July 31, 2012.

The church authorities had petitioned the civic body to either altogether delete the said church structure from the list of

heritage structures or downgrade the status structure to Grade III. Chavan stated that based on the claims and objections received by the BMC regarding the heritage structure list, he will take appropriate decision. He added that the school management, while being granted the occupation certificate for the school building constructed in 2001, had given in writing that the area affected under the proposed road widening would be handed over to the BMC without any conditions and any delay. He ruled out the intervention on part of the government in the ongoing process as of now.

Sushilkumar Shinde when he would be leaving for Delhi.

"It was a minor operation," the sources said.

Meanwhile, Shinde's daughter Praniti, a Congress MLA, told PTI that her father was doing well after the surgery.

The senior Congress leader had met Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Secretary Jayant Banthia and other senior government officials yesterday and also attended an Iftar party hosted

by Chavan at the Haj House.

He had also participated in a function at the National Sports Club of India in Worli.

Money down the sewer?

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he Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) will be getting jetting, suction and recycling machines to clean sewer lines. The standing committee members have cleared a proposal of Rs.26-crore to appoint a contractor and maintain these machines for the coming seven years.

Aziz Shaikh, deputy municipal commissioner, said, “The municipal corporation has, in all, nine jetting machines of which five are functional. Out of the five machines, three have the capacity of 6,000 litres and

two are of 3,000 litre capacity. The remaining four jetting machines have been scrapped.”

He also added, “The new machines will be carrying out work of suction and jetting and will recycle sewer water for its operations.

Presently, we are using fresh water for this purpose.”

The opposition has dubbed this move as “unnecessary expenditure”. Already we have spent lakhs on purchasing sweeping machines and appointing a contractor to operate and maintain them. And now this new proposal is nothing but a burden on the civic coffers.

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“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

A cover-up operation

by Akhilesh fails AMAJWADI PARTY leaders are going all out to justify the suspenS sion of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal. One of their leaders said the government took quick action because it did not want another incident like Babri Masjid happening.

Chief Minister Akhilesh Singh Yadav is saying that the IAS officer had ordered the demolition of a wall constructed on government land which is near a masjid.

According to him, he took the action to prevent communal tension.

Another leader boasted that he contacted the chief minister and in just 41 minutes got Durga suspended.

The truth is there was no communal tension at all. The wall was pulled down by villagers and the IAS officer had nothing to do with it. There was no communal tension of any kind. It was a cover-up operation by chief minister who must have got an urgent demand from the sand mafia.

Durga Shakti had identified the sand mafia and had begun an investigation. She was suspended without any inquiry within 41 minutes and the order for the suspension was issued at midnight — an unusual happening.

A SP leader had an explanation for this midnight suspension order as well: It only showed how the government worked hard — day and night.

The UPA government should have taken prompt action, but it did not. It had asked the state information about Durga’s suspension – that is all the IAS Officers’ Association is carrying out a strong agitation. There is now tremendous pressure on the chief minister. He has no go but to withdraw the suspension. He must now be trying hard to get a face-saving device — it is not going to be easy.

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ventually, they do cave in, don’t they?

Whether it was the Partition or the creation of new States following it, the Congress behaviour has remained unchanged.

Outright rejection, then an attempt to buy time through intimidation, blackmail and even co-option of protagonists agitating for a new State is invariably followed by a complete surrender. Even the pretence of a dispassionate look at the administrative and financial viability of a new State is dispensed with. When things go completely out of control, indecision and dithering yield to abrupt decisions. Or, as in the case of Telangana, the fear of an electoral rout forces arbitrary actions.

Remember the utter disdain with which Nehru had referred to the fast by Potti Sriramulu in 1952 for the creation of Andhra Pradesh by carving out the composite State of Madras. In a letter to Madras Chief Minister C. Rajagopalachiari, Nehru wrote that “— Some kind of fast— is going on for the Andhra Province… I am totally unmoved and I propose to—ignore it completely. —” Fifty-eight days later, upon Sriramulu’s death, widespread violence, arson and rioting had forced the same Nehru to crumble. That was the birth of the first new State on a linguistic basis. Paradoxically, six decades later the creation of Telangana negates language as a basis for a new State.

The Congress behaved in similar fashion whether it was the division of the composite State of Punjab, Maharashtra, or the creation of several new States in the North-East. Arrogance and contempt for the popular aspirations for faster development is an integral part of the Congress DNA. Only when the leadership faces rejection, or sees percentage in giving in to persistent demands of the people, it reluctantly bestirs into action. Indeed, it is to the credit of the Vajpayee Government that it carved out three new States without a hint of duress. Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh were created because the BJP had for long been a votary of smaller States.

However, the Congress’s motivation is almost always self preservation, not the larger public welfare. Take the concession of Telangana. The decision was taken by the 10 Janpath establishment; the Cabinet only followed its diktat. Notably, the Congress spokesman announcing the decision to form Telangana, in the same breath appealed to the TRS to merge itself with the party. Make no mistake about it. The fear of Jagan Mohan Reddy forced its hand a few months ahead of a crucial general election.

The TRS was a spent force. Its leadership had lost credibility. Last time its leader Chandrashekhar Rao sat on a hunger fast it was only because he was forced to by angry youths. He had done a quiet deal with the Congress. Hyderabad was agog with the talk

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of lucrative contracts and other funds for businesses which had been given to the extended first family of TRS. Even though Andhra Chief Minister Kiran Reddy is a lightweight, and lacks the Machiavellian skills of the late YSR Reddy, the agitation for Telangana was more or less tamed.

Yet, the Congress brought the Telangana demand up front. It was nervous about a complete washout in Andhra, which had given it 32 seats in the 2009 poll. For some inexplicable reason, it would not arrange to have Jaganmohan Reddy released from prison. He is held without bail for more than a year in connection with a CBI probe into a disproportionate assets case.

At best, Jagan is only guilty of being a recipient of the loot resulting from the sale of favours by his late father YSR Reddy as the allpowerful Chief Minister of Andhra. Nor is Jagan the only leader facing investigations in a DA case. Two notable leaders with similar cases are being openly feted by the Congress leadership. Unlike Jagan, both Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav were themselves chief

INSIDE STORY Virendra Kapoor ministers when they allegedly amassed illicit wealth. Yet, the CBI seems to be in no hurry to conclude investigations.

However, nobody should cavil at the birth of a new State. India can do with many more since, on balance, smaller States make for better governance. Bigger States are not necessarily better administered. For evidence, look no further than Uttar Pradesh. Therefore, the size does not matter. Leadership does. For instance, since its birth Jharkhand has been in the grip of rampant corruption and mismanagement. Uttarakhand showed promise to become a model State under the shortlived chief ministership of General B.C. Khanduri. But it is Chhattisgarh which has taken full advantage of its separation from Madhya Pradesh to take development to the hitherto neglected parts of the State.

Meanwhile, now that the Congress for very selfish reasons has taken the genie of smaller States out of the bottle, before the demand for many more States results in large-scale arson and violence in various parts of the country, it should set up a second States Reorganization

Commission. That will provide some respite from the agitations already brewing in West Bengal, Assam, Maharashtra, etc.

Tyagi had exalted company in helicopter scam Last Tuesday, the multi-edition daily, ‘The Hindu’, led with a news report filed by its Paris correspondent from Busto Arsizio, Milan. The lead headline screamed, “Evidence against persons `much above’ Tyagi.” It said that documents seized by the Italian authorities in the Augusta-Westland investigations revealed that persons “much above” the former Air Marshal S.P. Tyagi and his three cousins were “implicated” in the bribery scam.

The former CEO of the Italian armaments giant Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, and the head of its subsidiary, Augusta-Westland, Bruno Spangnolini, along with a couple of middlemen are on trial for violating the Italian law prohibiting bribes for procuring business. India had purchased 12 helicopters from Augusta-Westland at a cost of Rs. 3,600 crore in 2005. Rupees 360 crore was the amount allegedly paid in bribes.

No other paper chose to follow up on the sensational claim emerging from the documents made available by the Italian authorities. More significantly, the unnamed “persons much above” Air Marshal Tyagi had the lead defence lawyer of the main accused, Orsi, dash off a letter within hours of the publication of the ‘The Hindu’ report.

In the letter, published on Thursday, Professor Ennio Amodio said the suggestion about the higher-ups’ involvement “is completely unsubstantiated.” However, paper’s correspondent stood by her report, saying in her rejoinder that Italian “sources did speak to this correspondent about ‘top secret documents from the Indian Defence Ministry’ contained in the 1,10,000 pages of evidence collected by the Prosecutor’s office. Some of that evidence implicates persons ‘much above’ Air Marshal Tyagi…”

Incidentally, Professor Amodio was also the lawyer of the Bofors bribe-taker, the late Ottavio Quattrochi. That should throw some light on the likely route used by AugustaWestland to bag the Indian order. The Indian authorities had lowered the height specifications from the earlier 6,000 meters to 5,000 meters to enable August-Westland to bag the order. The rest is for you to guess. Of course it is pure balderdash to think that Air Marshal Tyagi could have done that on his own.

A lot more could emerge from the court proceedings in Milan in the coming days. But do not expect most media outlets to follow that story. Still, there will be an intrepid paper or two which will remain on its trail. More power to their elbow.

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Awakening to your life’s purpose A

CKNOWLEDGING the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

“Unhappiness or negativity is a disease on our planet. What pollution is on the outer level is negativity on the inner. It is everywhere, not just in places where people don't have enough, but even more so where they have more than enough. Is that surprising?

No. The affluent world is even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content,

but should have. And so they miss the deeper perfection that is inherent in life itself, a perfection that is always already here, that lies beyond what is happening or not happening, more trapped in ego.

“People believe themselves to be depend- beyond form. Accept the present moment ent on what happens for their happiness, and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

“The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any that is to say, dependent on form. They don't form, possession, achievement, person or realise that what happens is the most unsta- event — through anything that happens. ble thing in the universe. It changes con- That joy cannot come to you — ever. It emstantly. They look upon the present moment anates from the formless dimension within as either marred by something that has hap- you, from consciousness itself and thus is pened and shouldn't have or as deficient be- one with who you are.”

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Shotgun’s statement backfires ‘SHOTGUN’ seems to be taking aim and firing shots in the dark based on his calculations. According to him after the May 2014 polls, Nitish Kumar will vacate his chair in Patna and move to Delhi as a consensus candidate of the Third Front, propped up by the Congress. In the event of this taking place, Sinha will step into Nitish’s shoes after crossing the floor from the BJP camp, if he is not already dismissed by the Saffron Party, to the ‘secular’ JD(U).

— Jorhat Singh, Kandivali

BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha’s recent statement on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar being fit to be PM has created an embarrassment for the BJP leadership which has already put their weight behind Narendra Modi as the likely

Teach them mercy THE incidents of 40-year-old Hemchandra Patil being dragged by a biker for a considerable distance and constable Sanjay Rane being punched by a biker who was trying to jump a signal are unpardonable offences. Our problem is that we lack tough laws, LETTER OF to deter merciless bikers THE DAY and drivers from rich families. Such ‘anti-social elements’ should be taken to task to teach them unforgettable lessons.

The traffic department advisory suggestions are worth implementing with immediate effect. The uncontrolled influx of cars and bikes on city streets over the last few years is preposterous. I, being a senior citizen, have escaped near death accidents due to reckless drivers, obviously, from rich families. If these children are being gifted costly vehicles, they should also be gifted basic humanitarian qualities like mercy.

candidate for that post in the 2014 general elections.

Sinha’s statement shows that all is not well within the BJP, as it seems divided over the choice of leadership. I am of the opinion that the BJP is divided because of Modi’s communal and authoritative style functioning. He does not carry a good image among several communities due to his involvement in the Gujarat Riots in 2002.

It’s high time BJP chief Rajnath Singh, who is like a puppet, concentrates on his divided party, rather than blindly supporting people like Modi who will bring doom to the party in the 2014 polls.

— Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

SHATRUGHAN Sinha has lately called Nitish Kumar ‘PM material’ for the move. She may be a tigress in her state at the moment, but a wounded one that everybody is keeping a distance from her before the elections. Politicians should take a leaf out of Narendra Modi’s book as of Gujarat has developed because he encouraged new industries and businesses in his state and people have prospered on account of it.

— S.N. Kabra, Goregaon

Tata Power clarifies

WITH reference to the letter by Mr. Hansraj Bhatt printed in Afternoon D&C dated July 30th, 2013 on the topic ‘Where has JRD’s legacy gone?’ we would like to draw your attention on the argument by Mr. Bhatt For your esteemed readers, we would like to explain the intricacies of the Tata Power tariff in the city.

Tata Power takes its commitment to providing competitively priced electricity to the citizens of Mumbai very seriously.

We would not propose any price — Hansraj Bhat, Mumbai increase unless it was absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, due to a number of factors beyond the Company’s control, Tata Power was forced to apply for new tariffs to the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) which sets prices in Mumbai.

The factors that necessitated the consideration of the proposed new tariffs include: A significant rise in fuel price (more than 80% increase in the last two years). Continued charges that have to be paid (Wheeling Charges) to use other companies’ cables and WOUNDED TIGRESS: Mamata’s infrastructure to deliver to cusdecision to oust Tata’s Nano plant from tomers.

West Bengal has cost her dearly, both in Tata Power has brought in a numstate development and politics. ber of benefits apart from lower tarCAN industrialists and business- iffs to their consumers in the city. men trust Mamta Banerjee’s prom- These include superior customer ises when it comes to setting up services and international benchindustries in West Bengal after what mark standards in customer conshe did to one of India’s most hon- venience.

With the inclusion of utilities like est industrial houses, the Tata’s?

Every state needs development Tata Power, a competitive environwhich can only come through busi- ment has been created in the city ness and industries which not only without which tariffs would have provide employment but also gen- been much higher than what they currently are. erate revenue.

Tata Power is also proactively inIt is well known that Mamata Banerjee forced the Tata’s to move vesting in the future of Mumbai by their Nano plant to Gujarat making creating new infrastructure to enthem incur a loss of crores of rupees sure power can be supplied to resi-

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BACKLASH: Shatrughan Sinha’s comment has earned him the BJP’s ire. while maintaining that L.K.Advani should be the PM, should the BJP come to power. He refers to the BJP Parliamentary Board as the audents safely and cost effectively through a Low Tension network. This investment will not only help deliver power to more customers but ensure that costs are kept low in the long run. Despite these factors we were still able to ensure that our price proposals on an average are cheaper than our competitors’ current tariffs. In proposing new tariffs to the MERC we also ensured that low end users tariffs were cheaper than all our competitors’ current prices in some

thority for the selection of the PM, but seems to have missed out the rousing popularity for Modi all over the country, based on his proven ability to administer for Advani.

The BJP’s chances of winning are only because of Modi. Neither Advani nor Sinha can propel the BJP towards this win. Hence, in the fitness of things, Rajnath Singh should react to Sinha and state that the BJP does not people who have done nothing good in the cadre. In fact, Advani should suo motu, admonish Sinha and remind him that he has no business to criticise the media.

Advani knows that the people at large want Modi as the PM and not him. He should therefore respect the truth and carry himself as a statesman.

tear of our buildings, in particular those which are poorly constructed.

Therefore, every monsoon we witness so many house collapses leading to a loss of lives. This move to rehabilitate hapless people living in make-shift camps, compelled to leave their dilapidated dwelling units which were declared unsafe, should be provided with new dwelling units.

— Bikram Banerjea , Mumbai

Solve the Snowden row

IF a news item aired by an electronic channel is to be believed, then a major diplomatic confrontation is in the offing. The Snowden controversy may snowball into another round of the Cold War, if no solution is found immediately. The White House mandarins are said to have taken a serious note of the

— T.M. Uday Shankar, Mumbai

cases up to 76 p. per unit cheaper.

— Sahana Choudhary, for Tata Power

Speed up approval process ‘TENANTS of cessed, dilapidated buildings to get flats on priority’ (ADC, Aug 2), reveals a thoughtful and public friendly move by the state. In fact this is a metropolis which receives maximum rainfall among all the other metros of India. This is one of the predominant reasons for the fast wear and

STILL RUNNING: The Snowden controversy can trigger off an international crisis if it is not tackled right away. event. If the reporting is indeed factual, then an intervention by the UNO has to be urgently sought to diffuse the crisis from developing into a threat to world peace, like the 1962 Cuba missiles episode.

— Arun Malankar, Santa Cruz

Criminals in politics here to stay?

THIS refers to the politicians taking objection to the Supreme Court Ruling that those charged with criminal offences cannot stand for elections.

Decades ago the government removed the Maharajas of kingdoms in India. However, they still exist today in disguise. Our politicians consider themselves Maharajas and want to do what they like rather than what is needed for the country. They say Parliament is supreme. But as per the Constitution of India, it is the Indian citizen who is supreme. It is good that we have a Supreme Court which looks at the rights of citizens rather than at our ‘elected representatives’ who act like lords and masters of everything around them.

I do not deny that the Parliament is supreme, but only as long as its members consider the citizens’ viewpoint and not their personal freedom or egos. There should be an Ombudsman for the parliament who can take up such wrong doings or the Supreme Court could act suo-motu.

— Sharad Kumar, Mumbai

UP to now, the 5,000 odd lawmakers at the Centre as well as in states were unanimous only on one point—the rise in their pay and perks. All ideological differences are dissolved when this issue crops up, and they speak in one voice. Recently, one more point of agreement for elected members irrespective of their

not politicians? I told him that if he wanted his son to become a politician, he would first nee to be a criminal, because the prerequisite of becoming a politician is a criminal charge in court. Needless to say, he had no reply.

— Yogesh R. Bhavsar, Dahisar

THE GUILTY ARE AFRAID: They who oppose the SC fiat, on banning criminals from the political arena, are culpable—nothing less. party affiliations, has emerged. It is the Supreme Court’s ruling on the disqualification of tainted legislators. All existing MPs and MLAs have now pooled in their combined strength to deliberate on the issue and figure out how to circumvent and annul the Apex Court judgment by the enactment of a suitable law to that effect.

— Vineet Phadtare, Borivali

OUR politicians have joined hands against the Supreme Court order against criminals in politics.

This clearly shows that nobody is clean. Every politician knows his past and his wrong doings. If they have the courage to face the truth, they should not be afraid of the order at all.

This reminded me of an incident when one of my friends asked me why everyone wanted their sons to become doctors, engineers, CAs, MBAs and pilots but

THIS is with reference to your edit, ‘MPs: Out of RTI and criminals okay’ (August 3). It is not difficult to understand why all our politicians have ganged up to keep themselves outside the purview of the RTI Act, and have also decided to appeal against the Apex Court’s order to keep those with criminal backgrounds out of the polls — they simply want to ‘multiply’ their assets many times over while being a legislator, parliamentarian or a minister, subscribing to the Hollywood composer-singer Bobby Darin’s famous song, ‘Multiplication is the name of the game, Every generation does the same’.

The minute a certain degree of transparency is brought into their activities, they will lose all that goes with their position as ‘elected representatives’, and they will obviously not allow this to happen.

Therefore, it is as futile to attempt to ‘cleanse’ the exisitng political system as it is to clean up our Mithi river. Drastic electoral reforms, bringing in literary franchise to replace the prevailing adult franchise, hold the answer.

— Dr. V. Subramanyan, Thane

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EW DELHI: Educational tours for school students have over the last few years picked up steam, with a variety of holiday packages now offering opportunities to take learning beyond the classroom.

Customised tours ranging from walks to neighbourhood forts and monuments to more detailed itineraries in foreign locales or even super-specialised learning trips, say to the facilities of NASA, are being targeted at school children.

A trip to South Africa with a chance to meet and learn the intricacies of cricket from icon Jonty Rhodes is the biggest attraction of an upcoming 10-day ‘Cricket Safari’ organised by Delhi-based Acamor Academy for young sport aficionados from Class 8 to Class 12.

"We are seeking to combine the educational aspects of learning with out-of-classroom experiences in nature which will help develop problem solving abilities and inculcate teamwork and leadership qualities in children," says Charanya Chidambaram, VP Marketing, Acamor Academy.

Participating students also get a chance to explore the attractions of South Africa like the Hluhluwe Game Reserve, the oldest national Park there and the historic

Robben Island where Nelson Mandela, the country's former president, was imprisoned.

Tour operators say travel programmes for students remain a niche territory.

"This was something novel and when we first started in the year 2010, other company was offering such educational opportunities and global enrichment programmes to students from India," says Vishal Verma, MD Frontiers Edutainment, which has organised over 80 such trips since 2010.

The company offers programmes in the US, UK, Ireland and Singapore. "These range from 5 days to 14 days. We work with the education department of NASA's Space Centers to offer programmes to Indian students," says Verma.

The cost of such trips, he says, varies from around Rs 60,000 to over Rs 2 lakh.

Apart from overseas tours, students also get a chance to take learning out of the confines of textbooks by exploring local monuments and heritage.

Academician Navina Jafa designs and executes heritage walks which she says brings in experiential learning for children and school teachers.

"Through heritage children can also be introduced to different professions. A trip to the local stepwell can encourage a child to creating a career in environmental development," says Navina.

Equipped with a doctorate in Performing Arts, Navina, the lead Heritage Consultant for Shahjahanabad Redevelopment Corporation in the Delhi Government, designs travel packages that take students to cultural sites.

"We flag off two walks every month in Delhi on weekends. Anyone can attend these walks. They are usually around a monument and include not only the architecture of the monument but other aspects, like birds too. They also help showcase the changing aspects of Delhi, the areas which have changed over time," she says.

"Slum children of migrants too are involved which create a sense of belonging to the city," she adds.

Another important name in the field of heritage education is Smita Vats who conducts study tours for school students.

"These walks are about understanding heritage and culture by breathing, away from the television and computers. Children inherit heritage from home, city and the country. We try to incorporate heritage into curriculum and encourage resourceful learning," says Smita.

HAS THE MARKET TURNED BEARISH? pg15 MF Advisors Back In Action pg16 Promoting Tourism Through Glamour

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“Stock markets will continue to be volatile and in the near-term, as the visible economic slowdown will weigh on the sentiment and the steep decline in rupee will distort the earnings of those companies that have sizeable foreign exchange liabilities,”

Vikram Dhawan, Director, Equentis Capital.

“The level of 5850 is going to act as a major hurdle for the market and above that 5970 is not ruled out.

On the down side it has support at 5660 and below 5660 it may even fall to 5400 with a minor support at 5560,” Shrikant Chouhan, Head, Technical Research, Kotak Securities

“The temporary steps taken by RBI on money market rates to curb the fall in USD/INR has not really helped to restrict the fall. Hence RBI would be forced to maintain these steps for a longer period,” Siddharth Rajpurohit, Sr. Equity Research Analyst, The Market.

“Don’t try and time the markets... One should use the weakness in the markets to invest in companies with consistency in earnings, strong cash flows, excellent corporate governance and which have decent visibility in their earnings,” Vishal Jajoo, Senior Research Analyst, Nirmal Bang Securities

The Nifty and the Sensex have lost around 6% each in the last eight trading sessions on uncertainty about how long the RBI would continue its measures to defend the rupee. More bad news poured in with Goldman Sachs downgrading Indian stocks to ‘underweight’ and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch downgrading some PSU banks. So can it be assumed that the Indian markets are in a bear phase? Can a further sharp fall be expected? Mayura Shanbaug spoke to some market leaders and brings forth contradicting views. Her report…

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urrently, there are too many bearish flags to ignore in the stock markets. With Foreign investors having pulled out a net 63.36 billion rupees ($1.07 billion) from stocks so far last month, and Indian policy makers in a tight spot with the rupee downfall, along with negatives factors like further adverse movements in the USD/INR, Crude, CAD and Fiscal Deficit, Inflation and some indications of a tapering of QE, many believe that the spring of the Indian stock markets is surely over, but there are others who firmly believe otherwise.

Both indices: the Nifty and the Sensex have lost about 6% each in the last eight trading sessions, on uncertainty about how long the RBI would continue its measures to defend the rupee. More bad news poured in with Goldman Sachs downgrading Indian stocks to ‘underweight’ and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch downgrading some PSU banks.

So will the bear phase continue?

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(L to R) Mr. Markand Adhikari, Vice President and MD of SAB Group, Mr. P. S. Reddy, MD & CEO, CDSL, Mr. Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD & CEO, BSE Ltd. and Mr. M. Narendra, Chairman and MD, Indian Overseas Bank inaugurating the Indian Overseas Capital Market Branch at BSE.

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Slight Upturn In Manufacturing In Q2, FY 2013-14 Afternoon Despatch & Courier

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By A Business Reporter

FICCI Quarterly Survey on Manufacturing for the second quarter of FY 2013-14, has indicated a slight upturn in manufacturing activity. Recent initiatives of the government to remove supply bottlenecks by clearing some of the large projects are perhaps reflected in the higher growth expectation for manufacturing sector in quarter two of 2013-14, noted the survey.

The proportion of respondents reporting higher levels of production in second quarter of 2013-14 has improved to 47% as compared to over 35% in previous quarter. Similarly, proportion of respondents expecting any fall in their production level in second quarter has also fallen to 16% as compared to 26% in previous quarter.

Upturn in industrial sector is particularly evident in sectors like leather, textiles, cement and chemicals. At the same time, sectors like automotive, capital goods, textiles machinery, paper and food are expected to witness sluggish growth in the current quarter.

FICCI’s latest quarterly survey gauges the expectations of manufacturers for Q-2 (July-September 2013-

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% of Respondents Expecting Higher Production in the Respective Quarter visà-vis last year

Q-2 (2013-14) 47%

Q-1 (2013-14) 35% Q-4 (2012-13) 36% Q-3 (2012-13) 45%

Q-2 (2012-13) 44% Q-1 (2012-13) 46% Q-4 (2011-12) 36% 14) for twelve major sectors textiles, capital goods, textiles machinery, metals, chemicals, cement, electronics, automotive, leather & footwear, machine tools, Food and Paper.

Responses have been drawn from 276 manufacturing units from both large and SME segments with a combined turnover of around Rs 2,38,000 crore.

The demand conditions however remain subdued as only 32% respondents reported higher order books for July-September 2013 vis-à-vis previous quarter. In previous three quar-

ters (Q-1 2013-14; Q-4 2012-13 and Q-3 2012-13) only 31 to 39% respondents reported higher order books.

Capacity Addition & Utilization In terms of investment, it remains subdued in manufacturing sector as was the case for previous quarter with 74% respondents not having any plans for capacity addition for next six months. Sector wise, on the one hand we have sectors like chemicals, textiles, leather & footwear where capacity utilization has either improved or almost remained same over the last few months, on the other hand we have sectors like metals, food products and automotive where the average capacity utilization has fallen over the previous quarter.

Exports Slight improvement in export outlook is possible due to some revival of demand in US and Japan and also due to impact of rupee depreciation, but exporters are not able to leverage this opportunity due to following reasons: High import content compensates for any gain from rupee depreciation Exchange rate is hedged in forward markets

Inadequate orders in major markets like EU In Q-1 2013-14 around 36% respondents were expecting better export outlook and in Q-2 of 201314 also similar proportion of respondents expect better export outlook.

However, it seems that growth in exports has bottomed out and exports may not fall further as proportion of respondents expecting reduction in exports has fallen from 32% in Q-1 to 22% in Q-2.

Rupee Depreciation & Imports An overwhelming 85% of respondents reported that rupee depreciation has impacted their raw material input cost. On an average, rupee depreciation has increased input cost by 11% for the manufacturers.

Credit Rate Credit rate paid by the manufacturers ranges from 8 to 16% as per the survey with 42% respondents getting credit at over 12%.

Hiring Over 75% of the respondents are not likely to hire new workforce in next three months. This proportion has increased as compared to previous survey in which around 70% respondents did not expect to hire new work-

force in coming months. This is also reflected by way of lack of expansion plans of manufacturers as explained above. In addition, availability of skilled labour was a significant challenge for the manufacturers with 65% respondents finding it difficult to get right skilled people.

Power Scenario Around 49% respondents view deficiency of power as a major or moderate constraint for the growth of manufacturing. Further, 37% respondents were dependent on captive power for their manufacturing units. The cost of captive power for the manufacturers ranges from Rs 3 per unit to Rs 20 per unit. High cost of captive power is due to high cost of fuel required for running the gensets.

Sectoral Growth Based on expectations in different sectors, the Survey pointed out that five out of twelve sectors were likely to witness low growth (less than 5%) as compared to seven sectors in the previous survey. Only three sectors namely, cement, leather and paper are expected to have a strong growth of over 10% in JulySeptember 2013.

Has The Market Turned Bearish?

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The “Stock markets will continue to be volatile and in the near-term, as the visible economic slowdown will weigh on the sentiment and the steep decline in rupee will distort the earnings of those companies that have sizeable foreign exchange liabilities,” says Vikram Dhawan, Director, Equentis Capital.

According to Dhawan there is concern for past few months that FIIs investments into Indian equities and bonds are at historic highs. “This along with waning interest from the retail investors is resulting in exaggerated market moves either ways, whenever the FIIs are selling or buying in sizeable volumes,” he says.

However, he feels that certain quality stocks and sectors are overdone on the downside, “We expect a sharp rebound in the near to medium term.

So the market will have winners and losers and the right stock and sector selection is the key to making money in current market conditions,” he says. ”We feel that there is a distinct possibility of the markets making fresh historic highs towards the end of the year. Although, in the nearterm the volatility will remain elevated,” he adds.

“If the FIIs pull-out money from the Indian markets en masse then any level is possible on the Nifty on the downside, however if the Nifty goes below 5400 then it will be a good opportunity to buy quality stocks with a medium to long-term horizon,” he advices.

Echoing similar sentiments, Shrikant

Chouhan, Head, Technical Research, Kotak Securities feels that it’s a really a fearful stage for the Indian market.

“As the time is passing it is receiving all negative news flows,” he says.

According to Chouhan, the equation of the rupee and crude prices is also impacting the core economy. “The pessimism is increasing and in case, if FIIs start following it, then the market may fall to extreme levels in the coming few months,” feels Chouhan.

Incidentally, if we consider the overall industries in India, one would witness that the slowdown is persisting for the last one year with GDP growth significantly under pressure and the investment cycle at a near halt. The broader market is moving based on certain sectors such as IT, FMCG, Pharma and Oil &Gas. “The broader market breadth is poor that will keep sentiment weak,” states Chouhan. “In brief, in the long run (6 to 9 months) the market will come down from the current level, but in the short term, due to an over retracement or oversold situation the market may bounce back to retrace some of its losses,” he says.

“The level of 5850 is going to act as a major hurdle for the market and above that 5970 is not ruled out. On the down side it has support at 5660 and below 5660 it may even fall to 5400 with a minor support at 5560,” he adds.

But has the RBI’s decision to stave off the rupee fall really helped?

“Certainly not,” says Siddharth Rajpurohit, Sr. Equity Research Analyst, The Market. “The temporary steps taken by RBI on money market

rates to curb the fall in USD/INR has not really helped to restrict the fall.

Hence RBI would be forced to maintain these steps for a longer period,” he says. Rajpurohit feels that due to the stiff liquidity scenario, banks have started to increase the base rates and in a poor economic scenario; rising of interest rates would further dampen the economic outlook.

Incidentally, the RBI and finance ministry are considering other steps such as increasing margins and restricting trade of USD/INR futures outside India. The government is also trying to boost exports with higher interest rate, increasing subventions and adding more sectors under it to strengthen the currency.

However, Vikram Dhawan feels that the RBI’s decision to defend the rupee is a bold one as history is replete with instances where Central Banks have tried unsuccessfully to manage currency rates over a longer period of time.

“So we presume that it is just a short-term measure and interest rates will resume their southward journey in the not too distant future,” he says.

“Moreover rupee has depreciated very steeply in a very short period of time and we don’t’ see a significant downside from here in the near-term, unless there are policy mistakes or populist moves by the government,” he adds.

Another question doing the rounds is: Will the markets factor in good monsoons?

“Good monsoons are a welcome respite in these tough times and it will definitely improve sentiment for both equity and bond markets,” feels Dhawan.

The share of Agriculture and its allied sector is close to 14% in our GDP. Also Agriculture is the largest employer in India. “A better monsoon is definitely good news for India as it would further give a boost to consumption with increased money supply flow in the economy,” says Rajpurohit. He feels that this would lead to revival in many sectors and hence, the markets may witness a positive move with the onset of the harvesting season.

According to Vishal Jajoo, Senior Research Analyst (PCG), Nirmal Bang Securities, the good monsoons have already started getting factored in the stock prices of FMCG companies. “We expect this trend to continue going forward as well,” he says.

However, Shrikant Chouhan feels that the real fruit of it will be realised only after September 2013. “This time the rainfall is over and above average. How actually, it turns up till the end of August will also matter a lot,” he says.

Chouhan feels that in the past, even if India got good monsoon it was very difficult to get the real advantage of it to boost the economy, due to lack of efficient logistic and storage facility.

So how should your portfolio look like? According to Dhawan, the banking and commodity sectors are cheap from the medium to long term perspective and once the monetary easing resumes, then we expect all the cyclicals to bounce back sharply.

“Accumulate Blue Chips at every steep fall and keep excess cash in Tax-free Bonds,” he says.

Siddharth Rajpurohit feels that one must definitely consider FMCG and

Pharma for investment and apart from this the other better opportunities lies in Agro based sectors (except fertilizers), tractors and certain private banks.

“Small investors must invest in blue chip companies and avoid companies with huge debt and sectors such as power, infra and capital goods. Investors must also diversify their portfolio across various assets classes,” he advices.

“Due to uncertainties and still the picture of a broader economy is not clear, we have to look for defensive sectors like Technology, FMCG and Pharmaceuticals,” says Chouhan.

“They are trading at rich valuations and buying on dips is advisable,” he says.

Chouhan advices retail Investors and NRIs, that they should look at adding and holding on to Index linked Stocks to their current portfolio with a focus on Sector Leaders or Blue Chip Stocks especially at declines. “Further fluctuations are expected especially in the next 30 days and thus, traders need to optimize profits in an ideal situation or minimize loss in a normal trading landscape,” he adds.

Vishal Jajoo warns against speculative investments. “Don’t try and time the markets,” he says. “One should use the weakness in the markets to invest in companies with consistency in earnings, strong cash flows, excellent corporate governance and which have decent visibility in their earnings,” adds Jajoo.

However, he feels, in the short to medium term, IT and FMCG should do better.

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By Anand Birai

fter a phase of oblivion, mutual fund distributors and advisors are surfacing again.

Don’t be surprised if your lost agent is back punching your doorbells to give you his advice.

This is evident from the commission earned by mutual fund distributors that surged by 26% to Rs 2,367 crore in 2012-13, driven by improved market conditions, even as their number fell during the year.

According to latest data available with Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI), the total commissions earned by 332 distributors stood at Rs 2,367 crore in 2012-13, while banks such as Citibank, HDFC Bank and HSBC Bank topped the chart with highest commissions.

This was 26% higher than the total commission of Rs 1,883 crore given by the fund houses to their 373 distributors during the fiscal year 2011-12. Market participants attributed the spike in commission to better capital market conditions last fiscal coupled with measures taken

by Sebi for the benefit of the sector. Interestingly, many distributors earned commissions despite net outflows of the investor money through their accounts. There were seven banks among the top-ten mutual fund distributors in terms of com-

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As per the latest disclosure of commission and expenses paid by various fund houses to their distributors, Citibank led the list earning a commission of Rs 165 crore followed by HDFC Bank (Rs 160.88 crore), HSBC Bank (Rs 144 crore), NJ IndiaInvest (Rs 124 crore) and Standard Chartered Bank (Rs 88 crore).

Besides, there are four other banks among the top-ten commission earners - Standard Chartered Bank, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank. The commission paid to the top 20 mutual fund distributors went up by 23% to Rs 1,448 crore in the past fiscal ended March 31, 2013 from Rs 1,176 crore in 2011-12. During 2012-13, mutual funds’ assets under management (AUM)

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rose by a staggering Rs 1.51 lakh crore or an increase of 23% to touch Rs 8.2 lakh crore.

MF UPDATES

Tata Mutual Fund announces change in exit load structure under its schemes Tata Mutual Fund has announced change in exit load under Tata Floating Rate Fund Long Term Plan and Tata Liquidity Management Fund (all plans and options) with effect from August 2.

Accordingly, for Tata Floating Rate Fund Long Term Plan, the revised exit load will be 0.25% if redeemed on or before expiry of 30 days from the date of allotment and nil for Tata Liquidity Management Fund.

Reliance MF announces merger of Reliance Natural Resources Fund Reliance MF announced the merger of Reliance Natural Resources Fund with Reliance Vision Fund. Accordingly, AMC has announced changes in the asset allocation pattern of the scheme.

Post-merger, the scheme would invest 65% to 100% in equity related instruments and 0% to 35% in Debt and money market instruments.

Investors will have an option to exit without payment of exit load from 8th August 2013 to 6th September 2013. The merger will be effective from 7th September 2013.

Tata MF announces dividend under Tata Balanced Fund Tata MF has announced dividend under the monthly dividend option of Plan A and direct plan under Tata Balanced Fund. The recommended rate of dividend is Rs. 0.35 per unit under each plan on the face value of Rs. 10 per unit. The record date has been fixed as August 5.

Reliance Gold Savings Fund temporarily suspend the sale of units for subscription Reliance MF has decided to temporarily suspend the sale of units for subscription in Reliance Gold Savings Fund, with effect from August 1.

USD/INR Pair Expected To Trade Between 60.70 -- 61.50 PRAMIT BRAHMBHATT is CEO of Alpari FinancialServices (India)

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ast week the rupee dropped to a record closing low on the last trading day of the week. It depreciated by almost 3.50% last week, the worst fall in a week after 22 months. Now the investors have lost the confidence in Rupee as Indian shares has also declined nearly 1% on last Friday, marking their eighth consecutive session of fall and posted its biggest weekly fall since mid-March which has further weakened the Rupee. Constant measures taken by the regulators to defend the currency have failed, as visible by the market sentiments. Spot Rupee is expected to breach the all time low to trade near 62.00 levels. Measures taken by the RBI will

hamper the growth in the short-term period as India’s own record high current account deficit is at 4.8% of GDP and existing fundamental weakness has further depreciated the Rupee. The trading range for the Spot USD/INR pair is expected to be within 60.70 to 61.50.

It is recommended to be cautious and Buy USD/INR Futures on dips with the appropriate stop loss as the rupee at this stage is expected to depreciate against dollar. Pivot Point for the Pair is at 60.75.

Last week the RBI as expected kept policy rates unchanged, the Repo rate at 7.25%, Rev Repo at 6.25%, CRR at 4% and MSF at 10.25%. The steps taken by the RBI are mainly focusing on exchange rate stability which can hamper growth in the short-term period as India’s own record high current account deficit at 4.8% of GDP has made the rupee vulnerable. As per RBI, at present their priorities are to stabilize the rupee, support the growth and to keep down the inflation. Measures taken by the regulators are in line to recover from this situation. The steps taken to revive the rupee condition will not change India’s situation overnight, as to recover from this, India will have to control inflation, increase the foreign fund inflows; and also will have to increase the manufacturing and production base to contin-

ue the India’s growth story.

The weaker than expected payrolls number in addition to the caution in the Fed’s statement suggest that the balance of risks to monetary policy have shifted. While one payroll report may not be enough to dissuade the Fed from tapering in September, it certainly decreases its urgency. Between now and the next FOMC meeting, the Fed will be closely monitoring incoming economic data. We have one more payroll report before the next FOMC

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RBI Chokes Growth; Government Watches Inactively

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espite the growth choking measures and collateral damage caused by RBI, volatility in the Indian currency continues even after 2 weeks. Even as the Governor of RBI addressed TV audiences and later through the day he addressed the press, the rupee fluctuated even more violently last Tuesday, depreciating by a record 1.8% on that day alone. A 50p movement in the rupee has become quite a normal thing. The only way it gets controlled is when RBI directly intervenes.

This is leading to even more flight of capital from stock markets as well as bond markets, resulting in even more depreciation. With US growth figures coming in better than expected, hot money will move to the US. The CAD problem is not new to India. It has been above the comfort zone of 2.5% of GDP for the last 4 years, and was the Government and RBI sleeping or complacent to allow CAD to be financed

by FII flows. The structural reforms of booting growth of exports that the RBI governor is talking about, does not happen overnight. It will take drastic measures to lift exports and even then it will take 8 to 9 months. Was the RBI not aware that the QE3 was not going to go on forever, that growth should have been boosted much earlier by cutting rates. Now it is caught in a bind and the Government is suddenly opening up FDI limits in various sectors. Just raising limits does not bring in FDI rushing into the country.

As a short term measure the Government should announce Sovereign Bonds and long term NRI Bonds which will quickly bring in 20 to 30 billion dollars.

More importantly, it will improve sentiment. But the FM says we are ‘considering’ it and talking to pension funds. ‘Considering’ and ‘talking’ won’t help. We need action and quick action.

Look at the mess the government made of the Jet Etihad deal. It took seven months to fructify when people had thought initially it would happen in a week. It kept going back and forth from DIPP to FIPB to SEBI to CCEA to the Cabinet. All these concerned people could have come together and addressed all concerns, if they sat together, within a month.

It’s only a 900 million deal. What signal does it send to Foreign Direct Investors? That this government can’t make up its mind with all the brightest economists like Raghuram Rajan, Montek Singh, P.Chidambaran and the PM himself. I think perhaps it’s the case of too many cooks spoiling the broth.

This time around they can’t even blame the opposition for stalling their decisions.

Let me again point out that the biggest component of the CAD is the Energy Bill and nothing is being done to encourage onshore and offshore exploration. Who would have thought that there was oil in Rajasthan until a technically competent foreign company was allowed to explore oil. This also brings in quick and large FDI because oil is the scarcest commodity of the world.

When Obama was re-elected 2nd time, he vowed to have an aggressive policy to make US energy independent by 2020. He is well on track with large discoveries of Shale gas and also they are looking for conventional oil in Alberta valley, California, where large fossils of dinosaurs have been found, which is an encouraging sign.

If India continues mismanagement and bad governance, if we slip to below 4% growth next year and US will be closer to 3%. Then the India growth story repeated ad nauseum will die and it will be manmade.

GLAMOUR

Promoting Tourism Through W

By Khushboo Panjabi

here there are Challenges, there are Opportunities. The emerging dimensions in Indian tourism and challenges posed due to globalisation and liberalisation as well as new trends in the tourism market compels tourists destinations to develop new products and strengthen or reengineer the existing products for retaining, enhancing and capturing new markets.

Simply put; effective tourism development is the panacea for the success of the tourism industry.

And countries across the world and even smaller states within them are doing it. But there is a new emerging trend that entails selling tourism with and through film stars and celebrities.

The government of Gujarat took the lead involving superstar Amitabh Bachchan and that seems to have paid off. Now they have also spent around Rs 40 crore for further promoting tourism through a campaign ‘Khushboo Gujarat Ki’ featuring again with Amitabh Bachchan.

“Tourism in India is a large industry. In the last two years, there has been an increase in the total number of tourists by 54 lakh. The sector is predicted to grow at an average annual rate of 7.7% in the next decade. This gave India the fifth rank among countries with the fastest growing tourism industry”,

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said Saurabh Patel Tourism Minister Gujarat, at a function last week to promote the state as India’s tourism hub.

Since, the overall increase in the foreign tourists to India has risen by 300% over the last three years, which is much less compared to the previous years, the primary focus now is the domestic tourists.

The Indian market which is seen as an important investment destination by various hotels and resort chains the world over.

Bollywood has been successfully used by many a tourism board to promote tourism through films.

Riding on this trend is the Sultanate of Oman. The Ministry of Tourism, Oman Air, Tour Oman and The Shangri La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa in Muscat recently collaborated with Balaji Telefilms to shoot a part of Balaji Motion Pictures’ anticipated Once Upon a Time in Mumbai… in Oman. The tourism authority is optimistic about boosting tourism.

Lubaina Sheerazi, India Representative for the Ministry of Tourism, Oman, said: “This was a concerted effort to create an aspiration for travel to Oman. By creating in-roads into Bollywood, we hope to maximize visibility for the destination and promote it as a preferred choice amongst travelers for vacations.”

“We want Indians to recall Oman as an emerging leisure destination and a ‘must-

MUMBAI | MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013 see’ for all those who are seeking an authentic Arabian experience. We have received an overwhelming response to the online contest with over 1000 entries already, which clearly indicates that Indians are keen to visit an unexplored destination like Oman”, added Sheerazi. Similarly, the Hong Kong tourism Board, is announcing the launch of their Tourism Promotional activity in association with Durjoy Dutta’s latest book, “Hold My Hand” - A Love Story based in Hong Kong.

So that’s the new trend and reflects how tourism as a whole has become an important element of the global economy.

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is a Brand Guru and CMD of the successful Samsika Marketing Consultancy

ood Indigo organised by IIT Mumbai, is an excellent college festival with a great track record for many years. The entire organisation is done with great involvement and professionalism.

The college festival done by St. Xaviers College, Mumbai called Malhar attracts a wide spectrum of people based at South Mumbai. It has a different flavour and participation.

Oasis at BITs Pilani is a festival having great depth and participation from India.

Umang College festival organised by NM College at Mumbai, has one of the largest

number of participants and brings in a unique exciting culture at the festival.

Marketing of college festivals has become a thoroughly professional exercise wherein young budding student minds plan, conceptualise, visualise, market and organise the entire college festival as a major event marketing project. Infact the amount of hard work, intelligence, initiative and creativity that goes in creating the success of these festivals can match any professional organization or any aggressive brand launch.

The reason I believe this trend of marketing of college festivals should be respected and should be taken seriously is because this could be the breeding ground for future brand marketing professionals, which could be a great boon to the industry.

Let me analyse the marketing of college festivals and the development of future brand marketing professionals under each element.

I would like to analyse the entire trend in the form of six “I’s”, which would lead to a great insight for the marketing world.

INITIATIVE When teenagers put in their best in the mar-

Implementing a robust risk management is expensive and complex and it cannot be sacrificed in deference to some other component of a firm’s business. Brokers, who are investing in achieving this critical milestone and improving upon it every day, can look forward to improved customer loyalty, increased business volumes and greater partnership with the regulators in the years ahead.

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Marketing Of College Festivals JAGDEEP KAPOOR

Managing Compliance Risks For Broking Operations

keting of their college festival, they seize the initiative and proactively move forward in planning, implementing and monitoring the college festival activities. It is not just long hours but the “self start” attitude which gets them to achieve wonders whether in attracting sponsorships or marketing ideas to other colleges or conceptualising new games or refining old practices.

The corporate world benefits immensely from this practical behaviour when the same youngsters join companies and use their college festival experience in building excitement in brands helping sales growth in a profitable manner.

INGENUITY The corporate marketing world respects originality. The fresh ideas from fresh minds, give a fresh boost to sales. The ingenuity used by the college students to devise activities and generate interest amongst the participants is undoubtedly creative, leading to the development of the young mind to look for new paths and cross new frontiers.

INTELLIGENCE

Marketing of college festivals helps sharpen the intelligence giving great opportunities for its use right from the planning stage to the implementing and monitoring stage. Infact while a lot of people learn by knowledge and a lot of people learn by understanding, these young organizers of college festivals, learn in the best possible manner – learning by doing.

INFORMATION Use of technology is a must, whether in gathering information or using information to make well considered decisions. This definitely helps in future in Marketing Information Systems as well as in the field of market research and in media planning.

INCOME There can be no business activity without a growing top-line and a positive bottom line, Infact revenue streams are thought through, pricing strategies are considered and mutually beneficial deals are struck for sponsorships. Hats off to these young marketing minds who organize college festivals because they have positive reserves built over these years. A lot of corporates and

marketing departments need to learn income management from the marketing of college festivals.

INDULGENCE The quantity and quality of participants is the critical factor in determining the success of the marketing of any college festival. Just like in malls, the footfall at college festival is very important to have participation and cheering and healthy competition.

To my mind the insight to the marketing world is that they should encourage college festivals strongly whether in terms of sponsorship or other support or presence, so that they are later on able to benefit from the development of these young, budding, brand marketing minds who would take their brands to greater heights.

Marketing of college festivals is an excellent training ground for the future managers of India.

Copyright © 2013, All rights reserved.

Jagdeep Kapoor can be contacted at jk@samsika.com

he securities business in India is constantly changing and becoming more complex than what brokers have been used to managing through the years . A structured approach to management of compliance risk is imperative in assuring investor protection and the financial health of Broking firms.

Implementation of all regulatory circulars issued by SEBI and the Exchanges need to be tracked from receipt to implementation with a defined process of proactively identifying and addressing exceptions.

The “risk” that a broker needs to manage is vast and significantly expensive than ever before. It is in the interest of the Broker to constantly take stock of the common risks that this business needs to deal with today and find ways and means to mitigate these risks.

The key five cardinal principles to achieve a robust compliance framework across the organization are as under: Invest in a Compliance Risk Management System: Brokers with a large footprint and a large client base have to constantly reach out to employees and authorized persons/ sub brokers to ensure complete understanding and robust implementation of the prescribed circulars. There must be a consolidated database of all regulatory guidelines and circulars available to all staff involved in servicing customers and dealing with the regulators. There are multiple compliance solution providers who have systems and solutions which can supplement the efforts of the Brokers’ Compliance and Operations Teams to bookmark diaries, cross reference and provide explanatory notes and alerts for effective implementation of the prescribed guidelines across the organization.

Build Prevention of Money Laundering and Customer Due Diligence sensitivity across the organization: Brokers must implement robust process and controls to execute the onerous task of implementing “Know Your Customer” guidelines. This regulation will be the key driver of future strategy of compliance implementation across the broking services industry in India. Brokers must be extremely wary to any possible red flags, which may or may not merit the filing of a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of India. Identifying a potentially suspicious transaction is always a sub-

jective determination and it is in the interest of the Broker to adopt a conservative approach to this challenge. In anticipation of the questions that Brokers typically receive from regulators, it is prudent to ask customers the difficult questions revolving around source of funds and validate documents to establish the income levels of the customer. The regulator with the advantage of hindsight looks not only at what the broker did about a suspicious transaction but also whether the broker took adequate corrective and preventive action to ward off any such risks in the future.

Ensure screening of employees and sub brokers/ authorized persons, formal induction and training, mystery shopping and surprise audits at branches and sub broker locations: Employees and sub brokers are the face of the Broker and the commitments they make to customers and their actions, determine the fate of the business in the long term. Brokers must deploy independent screening agencies that provide such verification services for potential employees and sub brokers. Current trends on customer complaints and business sense demands that this scrutiny, though expensive, may prevent many problems in the future. Further, employees and sub brokers must be trained and inducted into the organization so that the requirements of operating in a regulated environment are well understood. Mystery shopping posing as potential customers using third party agencies may help Brokers identify and correct malpractices and wrong commitments made to customers. Surprise audits at locations where there are large transaction volumes or significant customer complaints is a necessary operational control that Brokers must implement to mitigate investor complaints and regulatory breaches.

Keep electronic and hard copy audit trails of all customer transactions, customer communications and regulatory reporting: Brokers must have strict controls to generate hard copy and electronic footprints of all transactions, customer correspondence and regulatory reporting executed by them and have a robust archival strategy to keep such records for future reference. All returned mail both electronic and hard copy should be subject to detailed follow up and additional due diligence so that all customer records are current and relevant. Inability to provide such records and audit trails can attract severe disciplinary action from the enforcement agencies. It will not matter how good the Brokers’ system or process is unless they can prove it to a regulator – the regulator insists on seeing documentation to validate any transaction.

Implement Key Control Standards and an internal self assessment control checklist across the country: Key Controls Standards and Self Assessments (KCSA) are critical for assurance of regulatory compliance across all locations where the Broker is represented.

This completed self assessment checklist must be reviewed by the Compliance Team regularly to identify any escalations and take proactive action to close any exceptions highlighted by the operating units.

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207

215

193

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243

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329

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299

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204

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10

243

64 7

225

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2596

2756

2917

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810

956

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374

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813

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1785

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55

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104

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52

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50

57

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52 98

247

36

43

376

46

89

229

29

37

351

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3031

3003

3086

3168

2921

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188

195

217

238

173

151

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336

344

370

397

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48

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JINDALSTEL JISLJALEQS

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632

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975

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1317

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301

325

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97

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1176

659

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1135

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13127

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100

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« TOP VIEW “Industry is in financial duress. Indebtness is huge... except for those companies which are foreign held.

And they may need to infuse some capital to meet the new FDI caps, otherwise there are no foreign investors banging down your doors trying to enter the telecom sector.“ — TRAI Chairman Rahul Khullar

« BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS ANGEL BROKING CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON DR. REDDY LAB

Weakness Persists

NSE India : CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Monday (August 5, 2013) By Dominic Rebello

REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY:

The Nifty fell moderately on Friday (August 02, 2013) a net 49.95 points (0.87%) and closed at the 5677 point level. The market opened up with a gap at the 5750 points level. It then rose further and registered the day’s high at the 5761 points level at 9.16 a.m. The index then declined and turned into a range bound movement until 11.30 a.m. It then declined sharply into the red and registered the day’s low at the 5649 points level at 2.47 p.m. The index then rose and turned into a range bound movement until closing at the day. The Nifty witnessed a choppy session, moved in a range of 113 points and closed below the psychologically important 5700 points level. Sentiment was bearish and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 35 were losers, while 15 were gainers. Some buying was witnessed in IT, technology and oil & gas stocks, while substantial selling was witnessed in realty, power and metal stocks.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Volume: Volume (Qty shares) decreased 5.40%. This change is small and indicates a moderate participation by investors.

Market Breadth: Overall Market Breadth on the NSE was negative. Amongst all the traded stocks, 392 were gainers, 937 were losers and 62 remained unchanged.

Slow Stochastic Indicator: The Slow Stochastic Oscillator has risen in the over-sold zone.

The Slow K line in the Stochastic Oscillator has risen above the slow D line (positive and a buy signal).

RSI Indicator: The RSI is above the 30 level but is now declining (negative if it continues).

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

Is below its 200-day average (at 5854) Negative.

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

Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main support is at the 5636 points level.

The next support is at the 5578 points level.

Resistance Levels: The immediate main resistance is at the 5951 points level.

The next resistance is at the 6108 points level.

Pivot Point Analysis: For intraday traders the support and resistance levels are calculated according to the pivot point theory and are: Pivot point = 5696 (This is the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-day).

Support (1) = 5631.

Support (2) = 5583.

Resistance (1) = 5744.

Resistance (2) = 5809.

OUTLOOK FOR TODAY:

On Japanese candlestick patterns the index has formed a second consecutive and long black body candle. This is negative.

Further, the index is below the 5, 15, 25 and 200 day’s moving averages, while the 5, 15 and 25 day’s moving averages are declining. Moreover, the velocity parameters too indicate weakness. All these indicate a negative bias and the possibility of a further decline unfolding. Investors are advised to avoid buying at present levels.

Work with strict stop losses on all positions

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

The ADX is rising while the Market Index is falling, which indicates that the present down trend is increasing in strength.

MOVING AVERAGES (TREND INDICATORS)

The index: Is below its 5-day average (at 5746) Negative.

Is below its 15-day average (at 5910) Negative.

Is below its 25-day average (at 5892) Negative.

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

CMP: Rs. 2237 Target Rs. 2532 Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL) reported lower-than-expected numbers for 1QFY2014 on the top-line and bottom-line fronts. The EBIT margin came in at 13.3% vs our expectation of 16.8%. Consequently, the net profit came in at Rs 361cr, a growth of 7.4%, lower than our expectation of Rs 453cr. The margins fell higher than expected on back of higher R&D expenses during the period, which rose by 55% yoy. We recommend an Accumulate rating on the stock with a price target of Rs 2,532.

Outlook and valuation: For DRL, we expect net sales to report a 14.9% CAGR to Rs 15,350cr and adjusted EPS to record a 10.8% CAGR to Rs 126.6 over FY2013-15. We recommend an Accumulate on the stock with a price target of Rs 2,532.

ICICI SECURITIES CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON MOTHERSON SUMI

CMP: Rs. 209 Target Rs. 237 Motherson Sumi (MSL) reported its Q1FY14 results, which were higher than our estimates on the margins front, as key subsidiaries SMR and SMP performed well. The consolidated topline at Rs 7082.6 crore (~11% YoY growth) came below our estimates as standalone sales grew only 1.7% YoY. Operating margins (adjusted for forex impact) came at 8.8%, up 30 bps sequentially as raw material costs declined and utilisation levels improved.

Subsequently, PAT, adjusted for forex, came at Rs 242.5 crore, a 16% YoY jump. Adjusted for adverse forex movement, PAT was at ~Rs 161 crore.

Significant growth was witnessed in SMR’s performance, as the topline (£283 million) grew 22% YoY and margins expanded to 8.7% (370 bps YoY improvement) as major clients continued to perform well. Notable aspect of the quarterly result was that SMR’s RoCE has increased to 28% from 14% last year. The business profile of MSL continues to grow stronger as it becomes a one-stop supplier for global clients. With utilisation levels improving and new carlines added, we expect revenues and margins to rise for SMR, SMP. We continue to recommend BUY with a target price of Rs 237.

RELIGARE CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON BANK OF BARODA

CMP: Rs. 488 Target Rs. 775 BOB’s Q1FY14 earnings were in line, but asset quality risks remained elevated and future profitability outlook subdued. Business growth was muted and NIMs declined by 9bps QoQ. Impaired asset formation remained high at Rs 40bn (~5% on annualised basis). PAT was higher than estimates at Rs 11.7bn (+15% QoQ), but driven by trading profits. We cut FY14/FY15 EPS estimates by 17%/16% to factor in lower growth and higher provisions, but maintain BUY on attractive valuations (0.6x/4.8x FY14 ABV/EPS).

Slippages/restructuring remain high: Slippages/restructuring were high at Rs 19.6bn/Rs 20bn. Slippages from domestic advances stood at Rs 18.4bn (3.7% on annualised basis). Recoveries/upgrades improved from Rs 2.3bn in Q4FY13 to Rs 3.5bn in Q1FY14 but remained lower compared to peers. GNPLs/NNPLs increased by 59bps/41bps QoQ to 3%/1.7% and the PCR declined to 44.3%. Outstanding standard restructured assets stood at Rs 175bn (5.4% of advances).

NIMs under pressure; advances growth muted: Advances/deposits declined by 1.4%/1.5% QoQ (up 13%/22% YoY). Domestic advances grew by 10% YoY whereas growth in international advances (+18% YoY) was driven by INR depreciation. Domestic/international NIMs declined by 9bps/17bps QoQ to 2.84%/1.3% as pricing power remains weak.

However, the domestic C/D ratio was low at 66.5% which could provide support to NIMs. Other income grew by 60% YoY, but driven by trading profits (Rs 4.1bn as against Rs 815mn in Q1FY13). Opex increased by 27% as the bank provided Rs 1bn/Rs 0.75bn towards pension liabilities/wage revisions.

Subdued near-term outlook but valuations attractive: We cut our FY14/FY15 earnings estimates by 17%/16% to factor in lower growth and higher provisions, and trim our TP to Rs 775 (from Rs 875). While the near-term outlook is challenging given a weak macro, valuations (0.6x/4.8x FY14 ABV/EPS) are attractive.

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Choose Insurance Plans According To Your Needs MANOJ ASWANI

is VP at MyInsurance Club.com

« INSURANCE

I am a 39 year old professional wanting to purchase a Good ULIP for a period of 20 years. The objective of buying this plan is to build corpus for monthly pension.

Please suggest some of the best performing ULIPs —Abhijeet Gawde, Goregaon Right now, there is not many retirement or deferred annuity plans in the market, due to change in rules.

HDFC has recently launched 2 new ULIP Deferred Annuity Plans. You can surely consider those: • HDFC Life Pension Super Plus • HDFC Life Single Premium Pension Super

And LIC has launched a Traditional Deferred Annuity Plan can LIC New Jeevan Nidhi Plan which is a good traditional annuity plan.

Also, what you can do is when you need to buy an annuity plan, is you can take an immediate annuity plan like LIC Jeevan Akshay 6 Plan. But take a term plan immediately. Also, you can invest in other instruments like ELSS, PPF, FD, NSC, etc.

Alternately, if you are looking for a good ULIP, you could opt for: Aviva Life Bond Advantage Bharti AXA Life Future Invest Plan Max New York Life Fast Track Plan ICICI Prudential Lifetime Premier Birla Sun Life Foresight Plan However, please understand past performance does not guarantee future performance and you must choose according to your needs irrespective of how it might perform.

Thus, there is no way to guarantee which ULIP would perform and which wouldn’t.

I am looking for a Good Online Term Plan with some riders.

Please suggest which riders I should opt for and which Term Plan is a good buy given the

requirements. I need a Term Plan of Rs 50 lakhs for a period of 30 years.

—Suneeta Wali, Santacruz Riders are always good and should be availed. The benefits received are much higher than the nominal amount of money that you would have to pay.

Since you are looking for a Term Plan for Protection purpose and taking additional riders is just a process of enhancement of the coverage. Taking a Term Plan is the first step towards protecting your family against unforeseen events and securing their future.

The Riders you can opt for in a Term Plan: 1. Accidental Death Benefit rider: It protects against accidental uncertainties by providing additional coverage.

2. Critical Illness Rider: The entire sum assured is paid on diagnosis of any of the critical illness irrespective of the amount spent in treatment 3. Waiver of Premium rider: The premium would be paid by the insurer if you have opted for the Disability Premium waiver rider You can opt for Aegon Religare

iTerm Plan is an online Term Plan with would have Accidental Death Benefit rider and Waiver of Premium for Critical Illness (CI) Rider attached to it. However, you need to choose a plan as per your requirement.

I have cardiac problem. Now, if I take a Health Plan now, will my Cardiac concerns be covered after 4 years?

—Manoj Gujjar, Vileparle Since there is no written rule for underwriting, you would have to apply and check whether your plan is accepted or not and whether there are exclusions or not. Thus, there is a no guarantee that your cardiac concerns would get coverage after the waiting period for pre-existing illnesses after 4 years or they would be excluded altogether.

However, there is one specific plan for Cardiac Arrest called Star Cardiac Care Insurance Plan You can apply to any plan but whether or not they would accept depends on the risk assessment by the underwriter.

Now, there are many plans which cover pre-existing diseases and the same is covered after a certain

waiting period. Most insurers which do cover pre existing diseases have a waiting period for 3-4 years. However, it is still worth taking the plan, since you would get coverage for all other ailments other than pre-existing conditions from day 1.

The concept of insurance is that it covers unknown risks and not known ones. However it will still cover all your ailments after the certain waiting period is over.

The plans that you can consider now are: • Reliance Healthwise Plan covers all pre-existing diseases after 2 or 4 years of waiting, depending on the plan opted for • Max Bupa Heartbeat Individual Plan covers all pre-existing diseases after 4 years of waiting, • Apollo Munich Easy Health Individual Policy covers all preexisting diseases after 3 years of waiting.

Only remember to mention your previous illness in the proposal form without fail.

(The author is Vice President at www.MyInsuranceClub.com, insurance comparison website in India. You may write to him at manoj@myinsuranceclub.com).

« PRODUCT REVIEW: SBI LIFE SMART HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN

A Fixed Benefit Comprehensive Health Plan

By Manoj Aswani

Plan Summary SBI Life Smart Health Insurance Plan is a Fixed Benefit Comprehensive Health Plan. It is a Traditional Plan without Bonus facility. In this plan, premium needs to be paid for the entire period of 5 years, during which the premium remains constant irrespective of the claim. This policy can be extended for the entire family as well for self, spouse, parents, children as well as parents-in-law.

There are 5 plans of Rs 1 lakh of Annual Basic Sum Assured, Rs 2 lakhs of Annual Basic Sum Assured, Rs 3 lakhs of Annual Basic Sum Assured, Rs 4 lakhs of Annual Basic Sum Assured and Rs 5 lakhs of Annual Basic Sum Assured. Other Benefits are mapped to Annual Basic Sum Assured.

The Basic Health Benefits in this plan are as follows: • Daily Hospitalization Cash Benefit • Daily ICU Benefit • Lumpsum Surgical Benefit • Recuperation Benefit for hospitalization of more than 10 days • Day Care Treatment This is a Benefit Plan and not a Reimbursement Plan and hence it can be used over and above other Health Insurance Reimbursement Mediclaim Plans. This Plan has fixed Lumpsum Benefits, irrespective of the actual

Type

Daily Hospital Cash Benefit Daily ICU Benefit

Listed Surgical Benefit Non Listed Surgical Benefit

Amount of Benefit

1% of Annual Basic Sum Assured 2% of Annual Basic Sum Assured

There are 4 Grades: Grade I Surgery- 25% of Annual Basic Sum Assured Grade II Surgery- 50% of Annual Basic Sum Assured Grade III Surgery- 75% of Annual Basic Sum Assured Grade IV Surgery-100% of Annual Basic Sum Assured 7.5% of Annual Basic Sum Assured

136 Listed Day Care Treatment 10% of Annual Basic Sum Assured

Now, there are certain limits of the Benefits payable as well.

Type

Daily Hospital Cash Benefit and ICU Benefit Listed Surgical Benefit and Day Car e Benefit

Non Listed Surgical Benefit

136 Listed Day Care Treatment

hospitalization amount.

Amount of Benefit

1.3% of Annual Basic Sum Assured in Year 1 100% of Annual Basic Sum Assured from Year 2 onwards

Lifetime Limit 3.6 times the Annual Basic Sum Assured

100% of Annual Basic Sum Assured

300% of Annual Basic Sum Assured

Payable for only 1 time

Payable for only 4 times

Payable for only 2 procedures

Key Features • It is a Hospitalization cum Surgical Benefit Plan • This plan covers till 70 years of age and the premium is fixed for the entire tenure of 5 years, irrespective

Payable for only 10 procedures

of claim • This policy can be extended for the entire family as well for self, spouse, parents, children as well as parentsin-law • This Plan: Provides a fixed payout based on per day of Hospitalization

Eligibility Sum Assured on Vesting (Rs.) Policy Term (in years) Premium Payment Term (in years)

Min

1 lakh

Max

5 lakhs

5 Equal to Policy Tenure of 5 years

Entry Age of Life Insured 18 (in years)

65

Entry Age of Dependent 3 22 Children (in years) months Age at Maturity (in yrs) Age at Maturity for Dependent Children (in years) Age at Maturity for Renewal (in years)

Relationship Covered Payment modes

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70

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65

Self / Spouse / Dependent Children / Parents & Parents-in-law

Yearly, Half-Yearly, Quarterly and Monthly

Offers lump sum payout on all surgical procedures including nonlisted surgeries Helps to cover post-hospitalization expenses through Recuperation Benefit • There are 136 Day Care Procedures coverage in this plan as well

• ‘No Claim Bonus’ available, if there is no claim during the previous Policy Year • Pre-existing illnesses are covered after 2 years of con tenuous renewal • There is a family discount of maximum 10% for 4 members in the plan

BENEFITS Death Benefit Being a pure health plan, there is no Death Benefit payable in this plan

Maturity Benefit Being a pure health plan, there is no Maturity Benefit payable in this plan

Income Tax Benefit Health Insurance premiums paid up to Rs. 15,000 are allowed as a deduction from the taxable income each year under section 80D.

Discontinuance of Premiums: The policy will lapse if the premium stops and all benefits cease. Claim is not payable on a lapsed policy. If the lapsed policy is not revived within 90 days of the due date of the first unpaid premium then the policy will be terminated.

Surrender Benefit: Being a pure health plan, there are no Surrender Benefits under this plan.

Loan: Loan facility is not available in this plan.

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Property racket involving DDA officials unearthed NATION

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India may have 50 states if all demands of new states conceded N

EW DELHI: India may have at least 50 states in future if demands for new states are to be conceded as the Home Ministry has received representations for creation of more than 20 states.

The demands for separate states have come from across the country -- for Kukiland in Manipur to Kongu Nadu in Tamil Nadu, for Kamatapur

chal, Bundelkhand and Pachimanchal or Harit Pradesh.

There is also demand for creation of a Braj Pradesh, consisting of Agra division and Aligarh division of Uttar Pradesh and districts of Bharatpur and Gwalior from Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

A demand for creation of Bhojpur comprising areas of

Activists of Bodoland People's Front (BPF) with painted faces raise slogans for a separate Bodoland during a mass demonstration in Kokrajhar, on Sunday. in North Bengal to Tulu Nadu in Karnataka.

However, except Uttar Pradesh, which during the Mayawati- led BSP government proposed to create four states dividing the country's most populous state, no state government had given any recommendation for carving out a new state. But the demands continue to pour in.

"The demands for creation of separate states were received by the Home Ministry through representations from various organisations or individuals over the years," a Home Ministry official told PTI. The demands for separate states are: In Uttar Pradesh, there have been demands for Awadh Pradesh, Poorvan-

eastern UP, Bihar and Chhattisgarh has also been received by the Home Ministry.

There has been an old demand for creation of a separate Vidarbha by curving out the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.

The most vocal demands for separate states came from Gorkhaland, by curving out Darjeeling and its adjoining areas in West Bengal.

Demands for Bodoland, comprising Bodo dominated areas in Western Assam, and a separate state of Karbi Anglong, comprising the Karbi tribals living areas under Karbi Anglong autonomous district in Assam, have also been pending with the Centre.

There is a demand for

Mithilanchal comprising Maithili speaking regions of Bihar and Jharkhand.

The Centre has received demand for creation of Saurashtra by curving that region out of Gujarat.

The Dimasa people of Northeast have been demanding a separate state called Dimaraji or Dimaland comprising the Dimasa inhabited areas of Assam and Nagaland.

There is a demand for creation of Kongu Nadu comprising parts of southwest of Tamil Nadu, southeast of Karnataka and east of Kerala.

Demand for creating a Coorg state, comprising the Coorg region of Karnataka has also come to the Centre.

Representation has also received for creation of separate Kosal state comprising some districts of Odisha, parts of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

There is a demand for Tulu Nadu comprising a region on the border between Karnataka and Kerala.

The demand for separate Kukiland, comprising Kuki tribal inhabited areas in Manipur has also been raised.

A demand for creation of Konkan, comprising Konkani speaking part of Western India along the Arabian sea coastline has also been raised.

There has been a demand for creation of Kamtapur comprising some districts West Bengal, including Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri.

Some people from Garo regions of Meghalaya are demanding for a new state of Garoland.

Besides, there is a demand for a separate Eastern Nagaland by curving out some parts of the Northeastern state.

The demand for creation of an Union Territory for Ladakh has also been pending with the Home Ministry.

So far, India has 28 states and seven Union Territories.

Telangana will be the 29th state of the country.

PTI

property dealers, who were allegedly acting in collusion with some DDA officials, forged backdated applications on behalf of the allottees stating they had not received their allotment letters due to a change of address.

These backdated letters were then placed in old files which are stored as part of the records of the civic body.

With the help of these forged letters present on file, property dealers managed to press the point that despite the allottees having informed DDA about the change of address, they did not receive allotment letters, hence their allotments should be revived.

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Renuka Chowdary, MP Rajya Sabha carries a Bonam on the occasion of Bonalu festival in Hyderabad on Sunday.

Citing the letters, they sought fresh allotment of flats at the old rates and managed to obtain Low and High-Income Group and Self-Financed Scheme flats which had already been cancelled

by DDA. CBI has so far managed to track three such cases, sources said, adding that proper scrutiny was being done of allotments of a total of 250 flats advertised in 1979.

Six DDA officials, original allottees of the flats, and several property dealers have been accused by CBI of cheating and forgery along with offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

‘Human activities increasing risk of calamities in Kedarnath’ EW DELHI: Increasing human activities are augmenting the risk of natural disasters in the ecologically sensitive region of Kedarnath which was washed away by floods triggered by cloudburst in June, a latest study claims.

A team of scientists from the prestigious Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology has warned that rise in human activities around the area like pilgrimage and tourism would increase the risk of such disasters occurring in future.

Kedarnath is encircled by PTI

THE GRASS IN GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE… An elephant inside its enclosure in the Kolkata Zoo, on Sunday.

EW DELHI: CBI has busted a racket by property dealers who allegedly revived cancelled flats illegally in collusion with DDA officials and made huge profits selling them at premium rates.

The flats involved are those which were advertised in 1979 but got cancelled after the allottees failed to pay up, reports PTI. CBI in its probe has found that in 2007-08, the property dealers approached these allottees who, against payment for the cancelled flats, agreed to sell them their allotment letters.

CBI sources said that the

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(K)NOTTY AFFAIR: Actors Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone during the promotion of their upcoming film 'Chennai Express' in Chennai on last week.

channels of Mandakini and Saraswati rivers which meet near the town.

The study led by scientist D.P. Dobhal, well-known for his work on Himalayan glaciers, says overcrowding of people and constructions have obstructed the natural flow of Saraswati river which now flows just behind Kedarnath town, reports PTI. Similarly on down-stream near Rambara and Gaurikund, houses were constructed on loose soil making them prone to natural disasters and landslides, it said.

Dobhal, who has been named in the Time magazine list of 'Heroes of Himalayas' in 2007, said heavy rains on June 16 evening flooded the catchment area of Saraswati and Dudh Ganga resulting in overflowing of channels which triggered erosion and subsequent silting up in the rivers.

This resulted in huge volumes of water along with loose soil and debris from glacial moraines forming a slush which moved with unprecedented energy towards Kedarnath town and washed off its upper parts where Sankaracharya samadhi, Jal Nigam guest house and Bharat Seva Sangh Ashram are located.

"While reconstruction efforts are going on in the region, government must ensure that construction should take place away from the temple at a safe location.

Strict environment guidelines should be followed and a database of pilgrims climbing towards temple should be maintained to avoid such mis-happenings," Dobhal told PTI.

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BLADE: TRINITY

TV GUIDE

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

Blade finds himself alone surrounded

by enemies, fighting an up hill battle with the vampire nation and now humans. He joins forces with a group of vampire hunters whom call themselves the Nightstalkers. The vampire nation awakens the king of vampires Dracula from his slumber with intentions of using his primitive blood to become daywalkers. On the other side is Blade and his team manifesting a virus that could wipe out the vampire race once and for all. In the end the two sides will collide and only one will come out victorious, a battle between the ultimate vampire whom never knew defeat, facing off against the greatest vampire slayer. HBO, 9 p.m.

UTTARAN

SOAPS & SERIALS

In tonight’s episode we will see, Tapasya tells Meethi that she should marry Vishnu. Meethi is shell-shocked on hearing this. Later on, Meethi goes upto Vishnu and tells him that they need to pretend to be excited for their marriage. Col or s, 10 p.m.

ONE TREE HILL

Nathan’s back is well enough to shoot hoops on the slamball

trampoline, but during matches bruises pile up more spectacularly than Haley can bear to watch. Luckily mountain-size Owen obliges Brooke’s ‘order’ to act as a human shield. Nathan gratefully smooths over his relationship with the fiery ex. They’re just in time to help pick up the pieces -little more is left- after Sam, who joined the club of volunteer babysitters for irresistible Jamie, sneaks out with the angelic rascal to a wild party. Lucas is surprised his first book is considered for a movie, and signs the rights to charming Julian Baker. He knows nothing about the Hollywood exec’s LA past with Peyton. Star Worl d, 10 p.m.

EK NANAD KI KHUSHIYON KI CHAABI - MERI BHABHI

Kittu and Anand decide to celebrate their wedding anniver-

sary after Shraddha convinces them. Kamini decides to throw the party at her place. Star Plus, 8 p.m .

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

Audrey tries to persuade Jeff to eat healthier when he is

diagnosed with high cholesterol, but he can’t help sneaking around with Brenda for unhealthy food. Meanwhile, Russell tries to keep up with his new college intern on the party circuit. Big CBS Love, 8 p.m

GUSTAKH DIL

Gustakh Dil portrays the life of Laajo, a simpleton from a vil-

lage who is the other woman for her husband Nikhil. The husband continues to be madly in love with his childhood sweetheart Ishana. What happens when your husband becomes your best friend but his heart truly lies with someone else? A love story like no other, the wife is the third wheel in this saga of love. Will Laajo ever be truly accepted by her in-laws? Why is Lajoo the Other woman in her own marriage? Life Ok , 7.30 p.m.

JHILMIL SITAARON KA AANGAN HOGA

Soumya is enraged when he hears that Angie had slapped Milan. Angana catches a glimpse of Soumya and the children, but is unable to leave the aarti. Soumya storms into the outhouse and drags Angie out. Sahar a On e, 9 p.m.

X-MEN

Uttaran, Colors, 10 p.m.

ANIMAL PLANET’S A TO Z

Wild animals rely on their instincts as opposed to learned behaviors. Explore about the various wild animals at ANIMAL PLANET’S A TO Z. Ani mal Pl anet, 10 p.m.

GATOR BOYS

Paul and Jimmy defy death capturing alligators. Paul is known

for his commanding personality and unmatched skill capturing any-sized gator underwater with his bare hands. And Jimmy has been gator wrestling since he was 11 years old, giving him the ability to stay quick on his feet and handle dangerous reptiles with ease. In the second season of GATOR BOYS, Paul and Jimmy are fishes out of water - taking up residence at Gulf Coast Gator Ranch in Moss Point, Mississippi. The guys quickly learn that Mississippi gators won’t be showing them any Southern hospitality - the reptiles are bigger and meaner, which means the captures are even wilder. D iscovery, 10 p.m.

DEADLIEST TECH

DEADLIEST TECH on Discovery Science explores the dangerous machines and the edge cutting technologies used by armed authorities during warfare. Discover y Science, 10 p.m.

EK VEER KI ARDAAS – VEERA

Ratan agrees to the fact that Nana-Nani have all the right to take Veera back, leaving Chaiji and Nihal shocked. Meanwhile Nana- Nani move to Panchayat to seek justice. What will be the decision of the Panchayat? Star Plus, 10.30 p.m .

MOVIES OF THE DAY

In a world where both Mutants and Humans fear each other, Marie, better known as Rogue, runs away from home and hitches a ride with another mutant, known as Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine.

Charles Xavier, who owns a school for young mutants, sends Storm and Cyclops to bring them back before it is too late. Magneto, who believes a war is approaching, has an evil plan in mind, and needs young Rogue to help him. Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen. Star M ovi es, 9 p.m.

LADIES VS RICKY BAHL

Ladies vs Ricky Bahl is a fun-filled “ROM-CON” where a smooth

and charming conman, Ricky Bahl, cons girls for a living but finally meets his match. Smooth talker! Charmer! With innocent looks! And a conniving mind! Meet Ricky Bahl! He makes a living conning girls. One super slick caper after another, sends him laughing all the way to the bank. Till the ladies decide to get together, and take him on with his crafty match! Now the REAL fun begins. Max , 9 p.m.

KAALA SONA

Afternoon Despatch & Courier

Several years ago Rakesh’s life was turned upside down when his dad was murdered. The only consolation to be drawn by his passing, was that the assailant was also killed. Years later, Rakesh finds out that his dad’s killer is still alive, and the police have closed this file. He decides to avenge his father’s death and travels to a far-off village, and befriends a young man named Shera. He finds out through Durga, whom he falls in love with, that his father’s killer is Sardar Poppy Singh, who runs a vast underground business empire of growing and selling cocaine. Then Shera and Durga get the shocks of their lives when they find out that Rakesh has joined forces with Poppy, and has even killed a police officer to prove his loyalty. What led to Rakesh’s sudden change of heart - from killing his father’s assailant to becoming partners with him? Fil my, 9 p.m .

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STAR PLUS

P.M. 2.00 Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi..Meri Bhabhi 2.30 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas-Veera 3.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyara Pyara 3.30 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai 4.00 Saraswatichandra 4.30 Diya Aur Bati Hum 5.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 5.30 Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi-Meri Bhabhi 6.00 IIFA Awards 2013 6.30 Ek Gahr Banaunga 7.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 7.30 Saraswatichandra 8.00 Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi..Meri Bhabhi 8.30 Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behnaa Hai 9.00 Diya Aur Bati Hum. 9.30 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hain 10.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai….

10.30 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas – Veera 11.00 IIFA Awards 2013 P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 4.30 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 11.00 P.M. 2.00 3.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 11.00

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LISTING

P.M. 2.00 Qubool Hai 2.30 Punarvivaah 3.00 Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke 3.30 Pavitra Rishta 4.00 Qubool Hai 4.30 Pavitra Rishta 6.00 Jodha Akbar 7.00 Aaj Ki Housewife 7.30 Sapne Suhane Ladakpan...

8.00 Jodha Akbar 9.00 Pavitra Rishta.

9.30 Qubool Hai 10.00 Connected Hum Tum 10.30 Punarvivah 11.00 Jodha Akbar

LIFE OK

P.M. 2.00 Best of Savdhaan India

Mein Uljhi Niyati 10.00 Haunted NightsKangann 10.30 Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali.

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By Sandeep Hattangadi How do you feel on completion of your three years in Balika Vadhu?

In one word, it’s magical. In this last three years I have realised one thing that I can act (smiles). Working with actors like Sulekha Sikhri, Anoop Soni, Satyajit Sharma, Smita Bansal is not a joke. Their experience is huge and they are a source of constant support for me. I am thankful to them and to my viewers for accepting me. Their feedback inspires me as an actor.

How do you feel on completion of five years of this show?

Balika Vadhu is a cult serial.

Running continuously for five years is an achievement.

There are shows which celebrate 400 episodes. I feel this serial is excellent. I love to act and do not bother about the commercial aspect. I don’t understand the TRP business. A good show is all about a good story and script and this serial has all that and more.

The actor, heartthrob of millions after this popular show, talks to the ADC about his life and career AN INTERESTING COMPETITION

‘Home Minister’ the flagship show of Zee Marathi that has visited more than 8,000 homes presents viewers with a unique chance to win a ‘Paithani’ sitting at home. Over the years, the Paithani has been synonymous with ‘Home Minister and winning it is a symbol of pride and honour. Zee Marathi through an unique on-air contest gives the viewers of Home Minister… a chance to win an authentic silk Paithani. The contest has been aptly branded as Home Ministerchi Home Delivery. The contest is a 4-week affair wherein a question related to the day’s prime time shows is asked during Home Minister…. The contest went on air from July 29 last and will have 24 ‘Paithani’ sarees up for grabs during the tenure of the contest.

UNIQUE TOUR FOR VIEWERS

SAB TV has partnered with Bollywood Tourism to launch SAB ki Sawaari, a unique initiative for fans of the stars. For the first time, viewers who have loved Chandramukhi for her dabang policegiri, Gadha for his Ishtyle, Balveer for his superhero stunts—will get a chance to see the stars live in action and a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to watch shoots, rehearsals and to pose with their favourite stars! SAB Ki Sawaari takes viewers from Goregaon to various SAB shoots.

TV TATTLES AMITABH TO APPEAL

Star India, the nation’s leading media and entertainment conglomerate, has begun a powerful public service message featuring Indian cinema’s mega star Amitabh Bachchan, for sensitising and encouraging viewers to extend all possible support for the daunting task of rebuilding flood-rav-

Bade Acche Lagte Hain takes a generation leap!

How has this show changed your career?

A lot has changed. People know me through this show.

After playing Jagya for last three years, I also achieved something— love and appreciation from the audience. Am learning every day.

Many a TV show is dominated by the female lead and in that setup when I get to play a character like Jagya which has so many shades.

It is a challenging and a blessed role.

Don’t you feel saturated playing Jagya since three years?

Not at all. As I said, Playing different avatars of Jagya is so exciting. I consider the set of this show as a school. I get to learn so many things here.

Which co-stars do you love spending time with?

Without being diplomatic I feel everyone has their own space. I eat from Smita Bansal’s lunch box everyday—that has become a custom for me (laughs). I discuss a lot on commercial stuff with Anoop Soni. Philo-

sophical stuff I chat with Satyajit Sharma. And with Sriti, Toral, Anjum and Pratyusha—we are of almost same age—so, with them I share a jokes and have great fun.

What is your most memorable ‘fan’ experience?

Once an old man who came to the set and hugged me right away; the previous night, he revealed, he dreamt of me as his adopted son. I was stunned and felt humbled. God has given me the opportunity to entertain people through my work. I will never forget that man for the rest of my life.

Where do u see yourself five years from now?

I dream big. Professionally, I would rather see myself on a bigger canvas (any medium). I am not particular about that. Today, after three years if I am having a fan following of even 50 people, I am the happiest person. Personal life? I don’t know as I surely can’t predict anything.

aged hill-state Uttarakhand. Bachchan, in his unique and compelling style, asks people to look at the adversity and come together for humanity.

His message ends with an emotional poem: “Karodon aansoon hain toh kya, karodon hum bhi toh hain”.

KBC’S LATEST DRIVE

As we grow, learning becomes an integral part of our lives. Taking this thought ahead, Sony Entertainment Television embarks on a journey with yet another fresh and empowering campaign for Kaun Banega Crorepati 2013 – Seekhna bandh… toh jeetna bandh. The campaign sheds light on the paramount importance of diligent day to day learning in today’s world, where competing minds and advancing technologies continuously expand the realms of human understating. Speaking about the campaign, Gaurav Seth, Senior VicePresident and Marketing Head, SET, said, “KBC has always propagated the belief that knowledge reaps rewards. With the previous seasons soaring to new heights, the essence of our communication was to connect with our audiences and yet bring out a new relatable dimension”.

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CHILDREN’S SHOW

This season, kids’ leading entertainment channel, POGO, is eneration leaps are ‘a must’ for every top TV show and now all set to embark on an excitlittle Pihu of Bade Acche Lagte Hain on SonyTV is all set to ing new quest to the famous bid adieu to the show which will see a 9-year leap. A kid older Neverland with Peter Pan and than Pihu will obviously take her role now. Amrita Mukherjee his friends. Reprising the popwho made a special place in the hearts of viewers by playing ular story, POGO will be launching The New Adventures of Ram and Priya’s daughter Pihu, has already given her last shot.

Peter Pan animated series from August 03, 2013 and will air The new Pihu will be revealed on the episode to be aired on MonCoke Studio@MTV—a platform the show every Saturday and Sunday at 5 pm. that bridges divides by showday, Aug 12. The unconventional love story of Ram and Priya will concasing the musical diversity of tinue to entertain with new twists and turns, where the protagonists Ram and Priya India, is back with Season 3. The will shower their love on their 16-yr-old daughter Pihu. What is left to be seen is will the grown up Pihu be able to create the same magic that little Pihu did so efshow premiering Aug 17 on MTV fortlessly? Whether the equation between Ram and Priya remains brings together eminent musicians India’s favorite lifestyle channel, TLC brings the international favourable on the arrival of the new Pihu remains to be seen. The from different parts of the country. makeover specialists to the country with TRINNY & SUSANNAH’S While A.R. Rahman, Salim Sulaiman and Ram Sampath will make younger Pihu says, “I will miss Ram Uncle and Sakshi Aunty; it MAKEOVER MISSION INDIA. In the series, Trinny and Susannah scout for their debut, Amit Trivedi, Clinton Cerejo, Hitesh Sonik, Papon will build was a wonderful holiday for me while shooting for the young men and women of different body shapes, sizes, fashion preferences on the success of Season 2. Coke Studio@MTV, Season 3 was launched show”. Well Pihu, you can always grow up fast and backgrounds – all in desperate need of a major style intervention. Fastand set the small screen on fire! All in Mumbai today by the music producers along with Sukhwinder Singh, paced, edgy and entertaining, it gives style-challenged men and women, the best! lyricist, screenplay writer and adman Prasoon Joshi along with Cocafrom college students to working couples, a dramatic and glamorous makeover. See TRINNY & SUSANNAH’S MAKEOVER MISSION INDIA from Cola Happiness Ambassadors - Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan and SidMonday to Friday at 9 pm, starting August 12th. hartha Malhotra.

By Sandeep Hattangadi

MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA

INNOVATIVE SHOW

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Apex Court to interpret ‘juvenile’ I

n what seems like a huge fillip to public sentiments, the Supreme Court has, just recently, agreed to consider the plea to reinterpret the term ‘juvenile.’

Last month, president of Janata Party and parliamentarian Subramanian Swamy filed a Public Interest Litigation in the apex court asking the court to consider the emotional, mental and intellectual maturity of the juvenile accused of December 16th, Delhi gang-rape case.

At the time of committing the offence, the minor convict among those involved in the gang-rape was 17 years old. Swamy’s petition challenges the legal protection the nation offers to those less than 18 years of age.

Agreeing to consider the PIL, the Apex Court also halted the proceedings of a juvenile court that was set to give its verdict on the accused in the December 16th gang-rape case. This proceeding is stalled until it could be decided that the accused can be tried as an adult in a special court where five other men (other convicts in the gangrape case) are facing charges of rape, assault, robbery and murder.

For some time now, it is being debated whether the age of juvenile criminals be lowered. Various arguments and counter arguments have been offered over the subject but the matter is still being looked into. Ever since December 16th Delhi gang-rape, many petitions have been filed for lowering the age of juvenile criminals from 18 years to 16 years. Last month, the Supreme Court dismissed a batch of PILs asking to lower the age of juveniles, stating that ‘interference in the Juvenile Justice Act is not necessary.’

But, there have been reasons that vindicate the need for a change in the juvenile judicial system for - the protection of the juvenile convicts and outrage towards those like the juvenile in December 16th gangrape case.

THE LAW NEEDS REFORM URGENTLY...BOTH WAYS EARLIER, in February 2013, the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) released a report “Assam: The State of Juvenile Justice” revealing the sad state of affairs of juvenile justice system in Assam. An RTI application filed and data procured revealed that the case pendency before Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs) in Assam is very high and the pendency ranged from 33.3 per cent in Udalguri district to 100 per cent in Dhemaji and Morigaon districts.

The reports revealed there aren’t many homes for juvenile delinquents and for the 27 districts in the state. Reportedly, there are only four Observation Homes and three Children Homes run by the

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Considering the rate at which juvenile crimes are increasing across the nation, reforms in juvenile judiciary are needed and soon too, writes Gajanan Khergamker

There have been reasons that vindicate the need for a change in the juvenile judicial system for - the protection of the juvenile convicts and outrage towards those like the juvenile in December 16th gang-rape case state in Assam.

It has been reported that these juvenile delinquents are often tortured in the police custody and the juvenile delinquency is high in the state. Around seven Open Shelters were supposed to be set up in Assam in 2011 but the state failed to do so despite the availability of funds under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme, usually offered as the reason for such inactions.

Due to this lackadaisical attitude of the state, the Project Approval Board of the Ministry of Women and Child Development declined to accept the request for grants for three existing Open Shelters in Assam.

In a similar situation in Bihar, around this time last year, it was revealed that over 16,000 juvenile cases were pending with the Juvenile Justice Boards in various districts in Bihar.

In one case of pendency in Uttar Pradesh, a 40-year-old man appeared before the Supreme Court 25 years after allegedly killed his wife for dowry. It turned out that the man was a juvenile when he killed his wife by setting her on fire. He was sent to appear before the juvenile justice board by the SC. While case pendency before the

Juvenile justice board is one serious problem, the debate on the reduction of the age of juvenile convicts from 18 years to 16 years holds ground as well.

According to data revealed by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), it was revealed that most of the juvenile crimes are committed by those in the age group of 16-18 years of age. Reportedly, 64 per cent of the juvenile crimes are done by those between this age group.

NCRB data also revealed rapes committed by juveniles have jumped by 188 per cent. Crimes like robbery and theft committed by minors have also risen around 200 per cent. In 2011, the growth in rape by juveniles, of around 34 per cent, when compared with 2010 was among the highest. The reports showed that in 2011, 33,887 juveniles were arrested for 25,178 instances of crime. Of these, 1,211 juveniles fell in the 7-12 years age group, 11,019 fell in the 12-16 years age group and 16-18 year age group topped the list with 21,657 instances of crime.

In Delhi itself, of the 925 boys arrested for juvenile crimes in 2011, 567 were in the 16-18 years age group.

DEBATES WRONG: MOST JUVS STAY WITH FAMILY

of rare crimes’ like the Delhi gangrape.

He maintained that if, out of 44 AMONG the reasons given for crore children, 0.1 per cent were juvenile delinquency, extreme delinquents, there was a need to poverty and homelessness were reform them but it didn’t translate touted as the main reasons for into a need to treat immature 16 minors turning into delinquents. years old on par with seasoned But, according to the NCRB reports, criminals.

Issues regarding lowering the age in 2011, only 5.7 per cent of all juveniles arrested were found to be of juvenile criminals, considering the ‘mental capacity’ while homeless.

The rest either stayed with their sentencing a person for his crime/s parents (81.3 per cent) or relatives. or holding parents/guardians However, 57 per cent of the juvenile responsible for crimes committed criminals did come from extremely by juveniles, especially in cases as gruesome as the Delhi gang-rape, poor family.

Lack of education is another are yet to be decided.

Considering the rate at which important factor with over 55 per cent juvenile criminals being juvenile crimes are increasing, illiterate or limited to primary reform in juvenile judiciary are needed, and soon. education.

If it isn’t heartrending to hear of Off all the states across country, six states, namely, Madhya Pradesh, crimes as heinous as the Delhi gang Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra rape it’s disheartening to see the Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat cruellest of the accused get away accounted for close to 70 per cent of with light sentences.

Neither does one want to see all juvenile crimes registered in minors rotting away in juvenile 2011.

Earlier, the Union Minister homes for committing minor Krishna Tirath did not favour offences while the process of justice reduction of age of juveniles from gets delayed.

18 to 16 years, but suggested (With inputs from Prerna Pandey) stringent punishment in the ‘rarest

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skillfully in political intricacies, but he is also taking help from f you think that Rajnath Singh pandits and astrologers. Through made Narendra Modi in ritualistic ‘pujas’ and mantras, atcharge of the BJP election tempts are also being made to Campaign Committee with a turn the political situation in the great deal of magnanimity and country in his favour. Calculaeased the way for his candidature tions based on the stars and planas Prime Minister, then you are ets are also being used to making a big mistake. In fact, this influence the possibility that Lok move of Rajnath Singh was de- Sabha elections should be held in signed to remove all obstacles November this year itself, before from his own path. Rajnath Singh their due time. For this, a search very cleverly laid out his checker- is on for an issue which can be board and using Modi as a pre- blown up in the Monsoon session text, sacrificed Lal Krishna of Parliament due to which ParAdvani. In such a situation, liament can be dissolved or an Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley under pressure UPA Government voluntarily stepped back. In the can make the announcement of name of Narendra Modi up- elections.

And all this so that Narendra heavals took place and the NDA scattered, but Rajnath remained Modi, who is being seen as the silent. And now, when everything BJP’s Prime Ministerial candiis happening according to Raj- date, does not get enough time to nath Singh’s intentions, he is en- rally people to his name or that a gaged in undercutting Narendra strategy can be made by his team Modi in an extremely clever man- to ensure his victory. If general elections are held in November, ner.

In fact, Rajnath Singh is trying according to Rajnath Singh’s to establish himself in Atal Bihari plans and intentions, then cerVajpayee’s place because he tainly, due to paucity of time thinks he possesses oratorical Narendra Modi will not be able to skills like those of Atal Bihari Vaj- succeed in changing his image of payee and like him, is acceptable being a divisive leader which to all in the party. It is in this came into being after the Gujarat game of acceptance that he riots. Even if the NDA does reach wants to defeat Narendra Modi. the position of being within reach His idea of fighting elections from of any kind of power, it is unlikely Lucknow is part of this strategy. that its allies and the NDA will For the success of his plans, Raj- come to a consensus over the nath Singh is not only engaging name of Narendra Modi. In such

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an indeterminate situation of ferment, it will be very easy for Rajnath Singh to suddenly put his name forward for the coronation.

For people who have doubts that this could happen, it would be fitting to remember in this context how it was in a similar sudden situation of ferment that Rajnath Singh suddenly became the BJP National President.

How deftly Rajnath Singh is cutting at the roots of Narendra Modi even while standing by him can be assessed from the fact that with Rajnath Singh chanting Modi’s name, the stature of Modi, now in charge of the BJP’s Campaign Committee, has suddenly become bigger than that of the party, whereas this has never happened before in the BJP. In the history of the BJP, no leader has ever been given the command of an election campaign committee in such a hasty and hurried manner and that too almost a year before the elections are due.

On this issue, neither did the Party president nor the party Parliamentary Board ever do things in such a hurry as it has been a sort of BJP tradition to decide on this responsibility four to five months before the elections.

However, most of the party people have now begun to understand the implications behind Rajnath Singh’s purpose. Certainly, the top leaders of the BJP have understood that Singh now

thinks he is Vajpayee. That Lucknow from where Atalji won five times, Singh now wants that place to be in his name. And yet, keeping in mind the advice of his pandits and astrologers there are also doubts in his mind. According to the calculations of his astrologers if instead of contesting from Lucknow, he contests the elections from Ambedkar Nagar, he will register a resounding victory.

Singh understands very well that the country’s next prime minister will be solely decided by Uttar Pradesh and he also believes that who other than him can be a better candidate from UP for the post of prime minister.

Although Modi too desired fighting elections from Lucknow, Singh induced him to fight the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi, citing Hinduism and it being a city of religion as inducements.

Those people who know Singh well are aware that he is adept at removing a thorn with a thorn.

When Singh was the Surface Transport Minister at the Centre, even then he had sidelined Kesarinath Tripathi, Kalraj Mishra and Lalji Tandon in UP and cornered the chief minister’s post.

When Singh was the Uttar Pradesh BJP president, he created an atmosphere in which Kalyan Singh directly revolted against Vajpayee and quit the party.

Before and After the 2014 Elections: New Catalysts of Change

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s the country nears elections, the election activity in political parties is increasing as rapidly.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has started preparing publicly for the elections. Narendra Modi is in a position to control the Bharatiya Janata Party and quite deliberately, such pictures are coming out in which Lal Krishna Advani can be seen sitting with Modi.

Modi has spread his checkerboard, but on that checkerboard he has also adopted a new strategy. He is not playing himself, but is getting the game played through Amit Shah.

It was Modi’s decision to send Shah to Uttar Pradesh and before

that, to keep him in the Parliamentary Board. People in the BJP did not want to see Shah in such a big role. Somebody else should have been there, Arun Jaitley should have been there, but Modi does not have confidence in either Arun Jaitley or Sushma Swaraj. He has confidence in Amit Shah.

Through Amit Shah he has also given a direct message to Uttar Pradesh. The message that if Muslims do not come with the BJP, then the guarantee for the life and property of Muslims cannot be given by the Samajwadi Party, cannot be given by the Congress and nor can the Bahujan Samaj Party give it. I am writing this with confidence because if Modi had made somebody other than Amit Shah in charge of Uttar Pradesh, I would never have doubts about the intention. But now there are doubts because Shah’s mind, his method, his thinking and his history is before the country. The Supreme Court has already accorded approval for a hearing against Shah. Perhaps there are many appeals too related to Shah

in the Supreme Court.

On Amit Shah’s pretext, Modi is threatening not only the Muslims, but also threatening the Dalits. Shah has been a domineering type of minister and has been one who gives a direct message to some communities through some events. When such a minister goes as a political leader to UP, it is a direct message too for those who are orthodox Hindus that you people should stand up. If you stand up, then neither Muslims nor Dalits will dare to come before you.

Modi’s message is spreading in UP through Shah, but the work of a bigger message than this had been done in UP during Kalyan Singh’s time by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. Narasimha Rao’s Government was in Delhi and the Babri Masjid had been ‘martyred’, which people in the BJP call ‘demolishment of the structure’.

Along with UP, this message was for orthodox Hindus in other States too. If they stand up now, after Rao whoever will be Prime Minister will be from the BJP, because the Masjid has been de-

molished and a grand temple of Lord Ram has to be built there.

When the Babri Masjid had been demolished, Kalyan Singh was the chief minister. Singh was such a chief minister who had filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court saying that nothing will happen to the Masjid.

In the next elections, the Hindus of UP made Mulayam Singh Yadav the chief minister. The Hindus of UP or the country did not make Atal Bihari Vajpayee the prime minister. They gave a majority to the parties ranged against the BJP and Inder Kumar Gujral became the prime minister. After this, Atalji did become prime minister, but the reason behind him becoming prime minister was not the Ram temple, or the demolition of the Babri Masjid. There was only one reason behind Vajpayee’s becoming prime minister – that in the name of the Third Front led by Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral became prime minister. They shattered the regard of the people of the country and disillusioned them.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chief Rahul Khullar has suggested that his successor should preferably be from outside the IAS fold.

The suggestion naturally raised eyebrows, as it was made publicly. More than reviving the old specialist versus generalist debate, observers were trying to read the tea leaves for any deeper significance in Khullar’s remarks. Like Khullar himself, former chairmen of TRAI including Pradeep Baijal, Nripendra Misra and J.S. Sarna have all had an IAS background and previous experience as Telecom Secretary before being appointed to the regulatory body. Besides the IAS, the Indian Revenue Service and Indian Telecom Service too also supplied a steady stream of officers to TRAI. But perhaps Khullar really has a genuine non-IAS candidate in mind when he aired his view.

Babu’s revenge

The taxman is feared by everyone, apparently even by the heaven born! Madhya Pradesh IAS officer Rajesh Rajora, for one, recently discovered the perils of annoying an income tax officer at some considerable cost. In 2008, Rajora, who was Home Secretary and also in charge of allocating Government houses to Central Government officials, apparently ignored a request from S.S. Rana, Director General of Income Tax for a sarkari bungalow. Rana, sources say, then got a bungalow allotted by approaching the Chief Minister directly.

But Rana allegedly also ordered an income tax raid on Rajora, who was suspended for nearly 33 months. However, the State High Court has now come to Rajora’s rescue and vindicated his stance that the IT raid conducted at his premises was for not allotting a bungalow to the IT official. The Bench stated that the raid had no logical reasoning. That must have sounded like music to the aggrieved babu’s ears.

Cop versus cop

A senior IPS officer in Bihar who was suspended recently on an alleged extortion charge has now claimed that he has been victimised by his superiors. Former Deputy Inspector General Alok Kumar, a 1997 batch IPS officer of the Jammu and Kashmir cadre, has registered a case against Bihar police chief Abhayanand and two Inspector-Generals Amit Kumar and Praveen Vashistha for allegedly using casteist remarks against him during the course of the investigation. By registering a case against his peers and superior, the suspended officer created a stir in Patna’s bureaucratic circles. Unfortunately, the FIR

filed by Alok Kumar has now been rejected, and he faces a case for “forcibly trying to file a case”. Alok Kumar, however, is determined to carry on his fight. Though Director General of Police Abhayanand has not reacted to the suspended DIG’s accusation, it is clear that the case will not be resolved any time soon, given that it now involves the State judiciary.

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 600

ENIGMA CODE 600

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Each colour in our code represents a letter.

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

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

A cold fish embraces that woman's mortal weaknesses (8,5) Used by cars or ships close in shore (5) Laboriously climbed with a hundred sheep and wild deer (9) He finds fault in fancy nick-names (5) That rider that's taken a spill is no good at all (5-4) Containers of liquid from sewer (5) His stupidity some may find distressing or amusing (9) Fan of former farm-vehicle (9) Land in the south of France at the African end (5) Sieves for man responsible for horses in steamer (9) Small picture I sent out (5) Leader perhaps always on the fiddle (9) Moira becomes a New Zealander (5) Sort of feeling brought on by beastly alcohol (6,7)

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S ENIGMA CODE IMPOSE, ESPIES, OPPOSE POISES, POMPOM, POSIES SEPSIS

16 Is one pound all that you have there? (2,3,4) 18 Person of diminishing importance (7) 20 The real integer is three to begin

with (3) 21 The usual talk of taking ten in mid-turn (5) 22 Take notice but don't retire (3,2)

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across: 3 Alsatia, 8 Nicks, 9 Rifts, 10 Cooking pot, 11 Thunderclap, 13 Remedy, 16 Abused, 22 Use your loaf, 24 Centipedes, 25 Ngaio, 26 Lanky, 27 Nowhere.

Down: 1 Inferior, 2 Ice cream, 3 Assorted, 4 Saviour, 5 Tragedy, 6 Arbour, 7 Strabane, 12 Cru, 14 Ensilage, 15 Ely, 17 Befuddle, 18 Swan song, 19 Doorways, 20 Fret saw, 21 Compare, 23 Oregon.

QUICK CROSS 600

ACROSS: 1 Shows curiosity (4) 5 Ocean liner (4) 6 Disreputable (5) 7 Top performers (5) 8 Characteristic mark (5) 9 Kind of mail (4) 10 Had a look (4)

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Tea by mail leading to more correspondence (5,6) 3 Flies perhaps in separate groups (7) 4 Given a little publicity, as is proper (5) 5 Shopkeeper bursts into tears (9) 6 Title held by head of newspaper plant (5) 7 They are often caught out (10) 10 Little fellow in the relief train (3) 13 Marco deters interference in providing a safeguard against attacking ships (5,6) 14 Points dividing a mathematician and film director (10)

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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

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DOWN: 1 Red-faced (7) 2 Acute (5) 3 Isn't serious (4) 4 Kind of glass (3) 6 Bihar, for one (5) 7 Remain (4) 8 The lady (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.

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

MATHDOKU 600

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

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

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COFFEEBREAK MOON TITHI NAKSHATRA RASHI LUCKY COLOUR LUCKY NUMBER

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Moon in Gemini till 10:33am 14th Ashadh Krishnapaksha Punarvasu Mithun [Gemini] K. Ch. Grey 1

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: You will find yourself happy and resolute on your birthday.

It seems you have made certain plans regarding your work and career, which requires lot of hard work. You will get down to serious business and put all your energy and resources to fulfill your aims and objectives. You are certain to achieve wonders during the course of next twelve months. Family and loved ones will support you in your endeavors.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Will be obedient, sweet natured, attractive, healthy and long-lived. Generally, fortunate, helpful, respectful and will not tolerate dishonesty from others. Will be creative, artistic and an interest in medicine. Happiness, fame and success in life are indicated.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): You may be on the verge of an important breakthrough that could open up all sorts of opportunities for you in your job or business. Do not let up now and keep up the pace. Such opportunities don't come often and this is the one you may have been anticipating for long. A casual Acquaintance could now become a more meaningful association.

There are romantic undertones though nothing is spelt out.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): Your current success could make you overly impulsive and indulge in speculative trading. As long as you make investments after guidance of an expert, you will be safe. Explore new avenues of work to improve your chances of further growth in your career. You spend a good time with family and a few old friends. You may also discuss some plans for a forthcoming holiday trip together.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): You will be full of enthusiasm and able to handle work efficiently. The money received can be gainfully invested in fresh ventures that you may have planned. Make sure you stick to your well thought out plan and not bring any changes on the behest of others. Some of you may consider to get engaged while others may go through an early marriage.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): Be practical in matters about money. If you have travel plans in mind, make sure budget allows you to do the same. Keep expenses down and avoid taking a loan. Complete difficult tasks before attempting to try your hand with the easy ones. A close family member may need some backing from you. Regardless of your other responsibilities you will have find time for love and your commitment to your beloved which is important.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): Working on a potentially clever idea for a new business will give immediate returns. Cash in the present good phase without hesitation for it may not last long.

You will be in the mood to tackle delicate issues with confidence and hope. Your way of presentation will carry the day. All else is fine but when it comes to love either you are too aggressive or not demonstrative enough.

Find a happy medium else you could lose out on a good and romantic companion.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): News that you have been waiting for, concerning a new venture, will arrive soon. Several favorable opportunities for investment on a short-term basis will materialize. Make the most of the current good phase. You will work with a renewed vigor and achieve wonders. As the excitement of holidays and fun times ahead grows, happiness in love and family life is indicated. Travel is also likely.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): Money from a property or a legacy should be invested on a long-term basis for further gains.

Overseas influences are strong. You can look forward to some favorable news perhaps a journey Overseas may be necessary. Family gatherings are enjoyable.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): Focus on your current task and set-up realistic goals in business or career. Think about direct needs and work towards achieving it.

See that you are not neglecting something at work or in your career. If you feel constricted in any manner, do not hesitate to seek help and advice of others. At a social gathering or party you will the life of the party. The married will receive all the support from their mate.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): Your confidence soars as you allow your work to speak for itself today. You can look forward to appreciations accolades coming your way. You will be feeling very happy with life and over spend at an outing. For a change your mate or beloved will not mind.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): You could get dragged into a dispute, which could be distressing. Keep calm and stay out of arguments. Your sincerity will see you through this difficult patch. A loved one you have not seen in a long time will get in touch today. Friends will help to take your mind off your problems. Love life is full of excitement, but guard against a flirtatious tendency, which could upset your beloved for no reason at all.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): Various new opportunities to improve your circumstances are indicated. Last minute hitches and obstacles will have to be overcome before you arrive at any major decision. You will also enjoy the favors of people placed in high positions who will be supportive and helpful. There is a going to be a new romantic interest in your life. If single there are good possibilities for a happy future together.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): A meeting scheduled for today is bound to have good results that lead to further gains for you. Rapport with colleagues and associates improve. A visit to a club or public seminar will turn out to be both enjoyable and enriching. This is a good time to extend a hand of friendship to a person who may have a few grudges against you.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 4732

ACROSS: 4 Make comfortable (6) 7 Beer made at home (8) 8 Improvises a performance or a speech, etc. (2-4) 10 A round ball (5) 13 A set or group of three (4) 14 A trigonometric function (4) 15 Peruvian capital (4) 16 A solemn promise (3) 17 Scottish Highlander (4) 19 Bit (4) 21 Astronomical unit of length (9) 23 TV's Warrior Princess (4) 24 Metrical foot (4) 26 Pamela's nickname (3) 27 Armored combat vehicle (4) 29 An online journal (4) 32 A tough or violent gangster (4) 33 Godly behaviour (5) 34 Consisting of lines (6) 35 Appropriates, annexes or grabs (8) 36 A prank or trick (6)

DOWN: 1 Hoodlums or bullies ? (5) 2 Indonesian island (5) 3 ___ - bodied : healthy or fit ? (4) 4 A large number of insects (5) 5 Capital of Norway (4) 6 Associate on very friendly terms (6) 9 Jewel in the crown ? (6) 11 Actress Tyler (3) 12 Commence (5) 13 In a sloping position or heeling over? (7) 15 J&K district (3) 16 Comedian ___ Das (3) 18 ___ Christie : the "Queen of Crime"? (6)

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SUDOKU 1918 Sudoku is a number placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid such several given numbers.To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every digit from 1 to 9 must appear in each of the nine vertical columns, in each of the nine horizontal rows and in each of the nine boxes.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Difficulty Level

CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: Q equals G

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

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Jewish priest (5) Moon landing vehicle (3) Tibetan beast; chatter (3) Spanish Jesuit missionary (6) Full stop mark (3)

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Of or pertaining to gold (5) Tilted over (5) Romany wanderer ? (5) ___ off : reprimand or scold ? (4) Agricultural implement (4)

SOLUTION TO SATURDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD Across: 4 Cadmus, 7 Nonesuch, 8 Asrain, 10 Unite, 13 Wick, 14 Sinh, 15 Aero, 16 Duo, 17 Rake, 19 Oboe, 21 Gorakhpur, 23 Paws, 24 Easy, 26 Pig, 27 Owns, 29 Ezra, 32 Enid, 33 Trial, 34 Amidst, 35 The ropes, 36 Unholy.

Down: 1 Indus, 2 Onein, 3 Este, 4 Chair, 5 Dirk, 6 Unique, 9 Scoops, 11 Nib, 12 Throw, 13 Weekend, 15 Aka, 16 Dor, 18 Arsons, 20 Buyer, 21 Gag, 22 Has, 23 Pitman, 25 Ora, 28 Witty, 30 Zippy, 31 A last, 32 Eddo, 33 Turf.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1737 To solve an Irregular Sudoku puzzle, every digit must appear once in: Each of the vertical columns Each of the horizontal rows Each of the regions

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SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

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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: 16 average; 18 good; 20 outstanding.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: after, fare, fate, fatten, fatter, faun, fear, feat, fern, font, fore, fort, forte, FORTUNATE, fortune, fount, four, fret, front, often, raft, tuft, turf

HEATHCLIFF

Saturday’s

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India win historic bronze in Junior Women Hockey World Cup as Rani shines

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ONCHENGLADBACH: Indian girls created history by winning country's first ever bronze medal in the junior women hockey World Cup as they pipped England 3-2 penalties, riding on striker Rani's dazzling show.

18-year-old Rani scored India's only goal in the regulation time and then found the net twice in the penalty shoot-out to script India's memorable victory.

India had surprised top teams in the competition and they finished their campaign in superb manner.

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EW DELHI: Hockey India (HI) secretary general Narinder Batra today announced that each member of India’s junior women hockey team which won the country’s first ever bronze medal at the World Cup today will be rewarded with a cash prize of Rs one lakh.

India today won its first ever bronze medal in junior women hockey World Cup after defeating England 3-2.

India’s chief coach Neil Hawgood, who also attributed the women’s team’s success in the ongoing Junior Hockey World Cup, will also receive a cash reward of Rs one lakh, Batra said. Earlier, India had lost 0-3 to champions Netherlands in the second semifinal.

REASON TO CELEBRATE: Indian junior eves hit a historic heigh as they claimed bronze for the first time, even as the joyous team members jubilate after the win over England.

England girls could consider themselves unlucky as they were pipped in the bronze medal match by South Korea in the last edition of the championship in Boston.

The two teams had ended 1-1 after regualtion time. Navneet Kaur's strike handed India a 3-2 lead in the shoot out and when Anna

Toman missed the following shot, it secured India's win. Rani took the first stroke in the shoot-out and scored straight away. None of the England player could score except Emily Defroand, who cancelled India's lead on both occasions.

Navneet had missed her earlier stroke but beat the rival goalkeeper

Parimarjan Negi wins Politiken Cup in Denmark C

OPENHAGEN (Denmark): Indian chess player Parimarjan Negi continued his brilliant form and clinched the Politiken Cup 2013 after emerging with a fine score of nine out of a maximum possible 10 points, here today.

Negi, interestingly, won the same tournament in 2009, but this time around he finished a full point clear of the field, which included top seed Ivan Cheparinov, who has also been a second for former World champion Veselin Topalov. Negi, who had won two ti-

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UMBAI: Nikhil Ghadge of Matunga Gymkhana rallied from 0-2 to shock India junior No. 4 Vishal Vaya 3-2 in a thriller to storm into the quarter-finals of the Malabar Hill Club-BSAM All India Under-25 Snooker Challenge 3 on Sunday. After dropping the opening frame Ghadge narrowly lost the second frame on the black. But he ignored the early setback and his opponent’s reputation to initiate a sensational recovery to set up a last eight clash with qualifier Anurag Giri of Madhya Pradesh.

“I was quite nervous after losing

tles in US recently, scored eight wins and two draws in the Open tournament, which featured about 600 players from all over.

Negi’s performance rating was 2769 which will help him gain about 16-18 valuable ELO points and move past 2660.

Negi was one of the three prominent players to remain unbeaten alongside Edouard Romain of France and Jan Timman of the Netherlands, both of whom were among the bunch of seven players tied for second, one point behind the Indian. Among Negi’s notable wins was one over former World Championship contender veteran 75-year-old Lajos Portisch.

Ghadge stuns India No. 4 Vaya the first two frames. I don’t know what went wrong,” explained a relieved Ghadge.

In other close pre-quarter-final ties that stretched into the decider, state junior and sub junior champion and opening leg winner Ishpreet Singh Chadha of Bombay Gymkhana lived dangerously before rallying from1-2 to prevail over Sumit Kataria of Pune.

Former junior national champion Zubin Leninwala of Juhu Vile Parle

Gymkhana endured another gruelling day, after a 3-2 round robin win on Saturday, to overcome former state junior champion and second leg winner Rovin D’Souza, after leading 2-1. Asian 6-Red bronze medallist Laxman Rawat, NSCI semi-finalist Pranit Ramchandani of Chennai, Aditya Agrawal of Indian Snooker Academy and Aashit Pandya of Dombivli Gymkhana were the others to enter Monday’s quarter-finals.

in her second attempt as India gained upper hand again. Anna, who had found the equaliser in the regulation for England, could not rescue her side this time in the pressure situation.

Earlier, Rani had put India ahead in the 13th minute through her brilliant field goal. The Indian girls de-

fended their citadel well and maintained the lead till the half-time break. England tried hard to get an equaliser and in the second half and Anna Toman brought her side back with her 55th minute strike. The deadlock remained till the full time and the game was stretched to penalty shootout.

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ANCHESTER: Australia built a lead of 331 against England when bad light stopped play on the fourth day of the third Test at Old Trafford on Sunday. Michael Clarke with 30 and Ryan Harris who has yet to score were at the crease as Australia totaled 176 for seven in 36 overs even as rain and bad light stopped play in the highly entertaining Test.

But the tourists had yet to declare in a match they have to win to stand any chance of regaining the Ashes.

Earlier Australia were 137 for five in their second innings, 296 runs in front, with captain Michael Clarke 14 not out, following his superb first innings 187, and Brad Haddin yet to score.

The most any side have made to win in the fourth innings of an Old Trafford Test is England’s 294 for four against New Zealand in 2008.

A draw would see England, 2-0 up in the five-Test series, retain the Ashes and Clarke would have been mindful of the need to give his bowlers enough time to take 10 second innings wickets.

Another factor he had to take into consideration was the weather, with more rain forecast for Monday.

England complicated Australia’s victory bid by avoiding the followon earlier Sunday after resuming on 294 for seven following Kevin Pietersen’s impressive 113 on Saturday.

They needed 34 runs to make Australia bat again and the eighth wicket duo of Matt Prior (30) and Stuart Broad (32) knocked them off with a flurry of boundaries in an eighth-wicket stand of 58.

Indeed it was Broad’s back-foot drive for four off fast bowler Ryan Harris that saw England avoid the follow-on.

Broad scored all but four of his runs in boundaries before he was caught behind off spinner Nathan Lyon.

The left-handed batsman, who controversially stood his ground in the first Test when he got a much thicker edge to slip only for the umpire to give him not out, walked off without waiting for New Zealand’s Tony Hill to raise his finger.

Prior was last man out in England’s first innings 368 when he topedged a pull off Peter Siddle to David Warner at point to give the paceman figures of four for 63 in 29.3 overs.

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IN BRIEF Steve Verghese nets hat-trick for Shastri Nagar

MUMBAI: Steve Verghsese scored a hat-trick to power Shastri Nagar SC to an emphatic 6-0 victory over Dahisar United Boys in a Third Division match of the Mumbai District Football Association League, at the St. Xavier’s ground, Parel on Sunday. John Ferreira, Sumeet Khanna and Rinaldo Fernandes contributed with a goal each to complete the rout. In another match played at the Mumbai Schools Sports Association (MSSA) ground, Dhobitalao, Ruffians FC overcame Athletic Rovers by a close 1-0 margin. Shannon Ferro netted the lone winning goal. In two other matches, Jagruti FC drew with Kalina Young Stars 1-1 and IIT Powai ‘B’ also shared the spoils with Catallians FC by an identical 1-1 margin.

Results - at St. Xavier’s ground, Parel –Div-III: Tarun Sporting 4 (Kashif Bagdapi 2, Ajay Kahar, Abdul Dohadwala) beat Parsn FC 1 (Mitesh Pathare); Shastri SC 6 (Steve Verghese 3, John Ferreira, Sumeet Khanna, Rinaldo Fernandes) beat Dahisar United Boy’s 0. At MSSA ground, Dhobitalao: Ruffians FC 1 (Shannon Ferro) beat Athletic Rovers 0; Jagruti FC 1 (Abhijit Singh) drew with Kalina Young Stars 1 (Lincoln Taites); IIT Powai ‘B’ 1 (Aditya Swami) drew with Catallians FC 1 (Sumit Gaikwad).

AI colts, Fatima in semis

MUMBAI: Air Indian Under-19 and Fatima SC, both advanced to the semi-final round of the Dev Friends Sports Club organised seven-aside football tournament, played at the Colgate Palmolive ground, Bandra (East) on Sunday. The Air India colts got the better of Macabi Tel Avi 3-2 via the tie-breaker after the teams were tied 1-1 at the end of regulation period, while Fatima SC scored a hard-fought 2-1 win against St. Anthony’s, Dadar. Kalina Village Boy’s, sponsored by Uncle’s Kitchen, also made the semi-finals after a tense 5-3 victory over Trashers SC via the penalty shootout after the scores were level at 1-all at the end of normal time. Kirol Village Boy’s completed the semi-final line-up when they put it across Kalina Rangers by a solitary goal.

Siddharth Kaul declared Best Emerging Cricketer at PCA meet

MOHALI: Medium pacer Siddharth Kaul was declared as 'Best Emerging Cricketer' at an Annual General Meeting organized by the Punjab Cricket Association. Kaul was declared as best cricketer for his haul of 68 wickets (across all formats) during the season. He, however, was not present as he is away with the India-A team. In the women's category, Harmanpreet Kaur of Moga was honoured for being the first Punjab women cricketer to captain India Women team against Bangladesh, this was informed by PCA Secretary, M P Pandove.

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ANGALORE: It was always a case of so near yet so far for ace Indian cueist Aditya Mehta in his nearly a decadelong career and the seasoned journeyman said he surprised himself as he graduated from bronze to gold at the World Games in Cali, recently.

"I am just over the moon. This trip to Colombia was probably the best moment in my life. The format was tricky being a best of five and knockout. Even the table conditions were very different from what we are used to. I was surprised at how well I adapted to them. I just focused on the basics and tried to keep it simple," Mehta told PTI in an e-mail interview.

Mehta, the undisputed king of the Indian snooker, has often found himself finishing secondbest in major tournaments but the 27-year-old Mumbaikar has finally been able to break the shackles and silence his critics with a gold medal-winning performance at the World Games.

"It's just been such a long journey. My entire career has been about slow and steady improvement. I have learnt many lessons along the way. And to progress from the bronzes and silvers to gold medal was a matter of selfbelief. I am really happy with this achievement," Mehta said.

By Mehta's own admission, he is living the best moment of his life after putting India on the global snooker map with his stupendous show. "The quarterfinal victory gave me a lot of confidence coming from 2-1 down and 50 points behind in the fourth frame. After that I think I played some of my best snooker till the end. It's easily the biggest moment of my career. It's a massive stage and I am proud that I could put India on the global snooker map," he added.

Mehta became the first Indian to win the World Games title after comfortably defeating his higherranked Chinese opponent and pre-tournament favourite, Liang Wenbo, in the summit clash of the quadrennial event on Tuesday.

This was India's first medal since badminton star Prakash Padukone's bronze in the inaugural edition of the World Games in 1981 and only the second for the country in the history of the Games.

Mehta said the title triumph will hold him in good stead in the second season of the tough Pro-

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fessional Circuit. "It will be a good confidence booster for me. I had a tough end to last season but I worked hard and started the new season well. Even though, I don't have the wins to show for it yet, I can feel the difference in my game. I just need to stay focused and keep working the way I have.

It's a very competitive circuit and

it's not going to be any easier. But I have my goals and targets and let's see how it works out," he said.

The Mumbai cueist, who won silver and bronze medals at the 2010 Asian Games, was in top form throughout the five-day tournament and easily defeated his opponent in the final. "The

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higher than 4. If it was the 10 he could get 4 tricks. With this thought he inserted the 9 from dummy. East covered with 10.

South won & played the 10 of hearts.

If west plays small declarer is North was the dealer. His 6 card suit tempted him to open the home because the heart suit gives hand 1 heart. After that it was dif- him 4 tricks. But west correctly ficult for the partnership to stop went up with Jack. South, also correctly, ducked. West was end before game.

South eventually became de- played at trick 2. A heart continclarer in 3 no trumps. West led 4 uation gives declarer 4 heart of diamonds. South went into a tricks.

Same with spade shift. A small huddle. He knew east had 1 card

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Amitesh Chaubey from Lucknow lands a kick on Nikhil Bhatt from Chandigarh in the lightweight category of the Super Fight League bout over the weekend.

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final was probably the three best frames I have played in a long time. The start was crucial because in a best of five you can't afford to go too far behind. It was the perfect start with an 84 break to take the opener. In the second, Liang had a lead of 20 with 2 reds left.

"I had a tough choice of whether to play safe or go for an aggressive pot. I decided to go for it and cleared up with 40 to go 20. That was a very crucial moment in the match. In the decider, he left me a half chance early on with a tricky red in the green pocket. I potted it and made 117. My positional play was very solid in the final and I never really put myself in trouble. All in all, I couldn't have dreamt of a better performance," he said.

However, Mehta conceded that the quarterfinal match against pre-tournament favourite and World No 19 Joe Perry was the toughest of the lot. "The game against Joe Perry was definitely the toughest. The way I won that match gave me a lot of confidence and belief that I can go all the way," he signed off.

Keen battle to follow between Rana, Agarwal in absence of Gill

BANGALORE: India's leading rallyist Suresh Rana will the driver to watch as Gaurav Gill will not defend his title at the Maruti Suzuki Dakshin Dare Rally, which was flagged off here amidst much fanfare.

Reigning champion Gill will miss the action as his side, Team Mahindra has decided to the skip the event. Gill's Team Mahindra teammate Lohit Urs, who had finished second in the last edition, will also be missing from the action.

Overall, 147 motor racing enthusiasts will traverse through a multitude of dirt, tarmac, gravels and slippery tracks in different categories over the next five days, covering a gruelling distance of 2000 km. Dakshin Dare will witness motorists race across dense forests, river beds, hill stations, wind mill farms, hair-pin bends, and tea and coffee plantations before the rally concludes here on August 9.

The Rally will have night halts at tourist hot spots such as Mysore, Ooty and Coimbatore while it traverses through exotic locations of Chikmagalore, Waynad, Palani, Kodaikanal, Pollachi, Valparai among others.

diamond is equally disastrous. So west flamboyantly exited with the King of diamonds, destroying dummy’s entry to hearts.

This actually created insurmountable problems for declarer.

But south found a neat counter.

On the Ace of diamonds he unblocked the Queen of diamonds.

Then he cashed the Ace, king of hearts & gave east the 4th heart.

All east could now do was to back a club & defenders collected their 2 club tricks.

But south had an entry to dummy in 8 of diamonds & he made 9 tricks with 4 hearts 3 diamonds & 2 spades.

A fine display of sharp Bridge by both sides!

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IN BRIEF Participating countries not to increase in 2014 WC : FIH

NEW DELHI: The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has turned down former Indian captain Dilip Tirkey's proposal for increasing the number of teams in next year's World Cup. Tirkey had written to FIH president Leandro Negre requesting him to increase the number of participating countries in next World Cup to be held in the Netherlands next year. Negre, however, said it is not possible for them. "Your idea is in line with the FIH strategic plan and wishes.

The FIH full agree to increase the number of team nations participating in the World Cup final and in this line the FIH Executive Board took, some month ago, the decision to have 16 teams for the World Cup in 2018," Negre said in his letter.

Rayudu, Mohit become eligible to make it to IPL auctions

NEW DELHI: Middle-order batsman Ambati Rayudu and seamer Mohit Sharma are all set to make it to the auction list of the cashrich Indian Premier League by virtue of having made their international debut in the recently concluded ODI series against Zimbabwe. Rayudu has played four editions of IPL for the Mumbai Indians but being an uncapped player could fetch only Rs 30 lakh despite being one of the most sought-after domestic batsman. The rule for getting enlisted in the auction is to play at least one international for India in the current period.

Rayudu with four ODIs under his belt and Mohit, who was the find for the Chennai Super Kings in the last edition, played two games to make the cut.

Peres tells Barca stars they're 'messengers of peace'

JERUSALEM: Israeli President Shimon Peres today praised Lionel Messi and his fellow Barcelona stars as "messengers of peace" as they made a brief visit to Israel and the Palestinians territories. "Israeli and Palestinian children dream of two goals," Peres told the visitors in remarks broadcast on public radio. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scoring the winning goal at Camp Nou, and the great goal of peace." The players and staff arrived on yesterday on their "Peace Tour" and travelled to the West Bank city of Bethlehem to visit the Church of the Nativity, where Jesus is believed to have been born.

Yet another injury blow to India, Sunil ruled out of Asia Cup

NEW DELHI: India's prospect in the upcoming Asia Cup hockey tournament were dealt a severe blow after star forward S V Sunil had to be ruled out of August 24September 1 event due to an elbow injury.

Sunil has become the latest casualty after injuries forced strikers Akashdeep Singh, Danish Mujtaba and Gurwinder Singh Chandi also to sit out of the all-important tournament. Sunil, a livewire on the turf and a certain pick for the Asia Cup, suffered a ligament tear on his left elbow during the preparatory camp at Bangalore and has been advised rest for six weeks.

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UANGZHOU, CHINA: Bolstered by a favourable draw, a fit-again Saina Nehwal will look to record her maiden podium finish when she leads the country's strongest ever squad at the 2013 BWF World Championships to be played here from August 5-11.

A medal at the World Championships has eluded Saina so far as she could only reach the quarterfinals in the last two editions in 2009 and 2011. The 23-year-old from Hyderabad will look to better her record this time around.

The world number three has been going through a lean patch for the last nine months as she has failed to win a single tournament but a six-week break after the Southeast Asian circuit in June has given the Indian ample time to regain fitness.

Luck also seems to be at her side as she has got a bye in the first round and will open her campaign against the winner of Russian Olga Golovanova (ranked 66) and Bulgarian Alesia Zaitsava (ranked 104). Saina is likely to meet her first challenger in Thai Porntip Buranaprasertsuk, who is ranked No.18 in the world but she has never beaten Saina in five career meetings.

The London Olympics bronze medallist may face either Japanese Minatsu Mitani (ranked 10th) or Korean Bae Yeon Ju (ranked 16th) in the quarterfinals. Though Saina has a 3-1 record against Mitani and a 5-2 advantage against Bae, the Indian would need to be careful against them if she has to win at least a bronze at the Worlds.

According to the tournament rules, any player reaching the semi-finals is assured of a bronze medal. "There were doubts in my mind in June as I was not 100 per cent fit but I have been working very hard for the last few weeks," said Saina, whose first real challenge in the event would come only in the semifinals where Olympic gold medallist Li Xuerui of China is likely to be waiting for her.

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my best I can win again," she added.

Besides Saina, India will have P V Sindhu starring in the women's singles line-up and the world number 12 will look to sprang a few surprises in her maiden appearance at the world championship. Sindhu, who also starts with a bye, will face the winner of Aprilla Yuswandari (ranked 22) of Indonesia and Japan's Kaori Imabeppu (ranked 32) in the second round. If she can cross the hurdle, Sindhu will have a bigger challenge in world number two

Chinese Yihan Wang.

In the men's singles, Parupalli Kashyap is likely to clash with World No 6 Hu Yun of Hong Kong -- who will be his teammate for Banga Beats at the Indian Badminton league (IBL) -- in the third round. If Kashyap can beat Hu Yun, he is expected to face China's Du Pengyu (ranked third) in the quarterfinals.

Ajay Jayaram has been placed in the second half of the draw and in the very first round, the unseeded Indian will face world no.

12 Wong Wing Ki of Hong Kong. In

the men's doubles, Tarun Kona and Arun Vishnu will take on Polish duo of Adam Cwalina and Przemyslaw Wacha, while another Indian pair of Akshay Dewalkar and Pranaav Jerry Chopra will face German combo of Josche Zurwonne and Peter Kaesbauer.

In women's doubles, Ashwini Ponnappa and Pradnya Gadre will meet Marie Roepke and Line Damkjaer Kruse of Denmark, while N Siki Reddy and Aparna Balan will be up against English pair of Gabrielle White and Lauren Smith.

INDIANS WIN 11 GOLD IN WORLD POLICE GAMES

ELFAST: Indians produced an excellent performance at the XVth World Police and Fire Games 2013 here, pocketing 11 gold, six silver and four bronze medals so far.

The 39-member Indian team is taking part in a number of disciplines -- athletics, archery, boxing, judo, swimming and wrestling -- in the August 1 to 10 event. The first medal was pocketed by S I Nandar Anand Divase of BSF yesterday after he finished on top in the men's 400m freestyle swimming by

clocking 4:12:21 minutes.

Divase followed it up by another gold by also winning the men's 200m individual medley in 2:19:12 minutes.

Indian team comprising Divase, Rohit Kumar of CRPF, Rajvir Singh of Punjab Police and Tulse Chetanya of Andhra Pradesh Police then went on to win the 4x50m freestyle relay in 1:44:26 minutes.

Rajvir Singh bagged a silver in men's 50m butterfly. In athletics, India ended up with two medals on the first day. Long distance

runner Anuradha Singh won a gold in 5,000m for women, while Tajinder of Punjab Police stood second in Hammer Throw event for men.

The second day saw the Indians adding as many as eight gold, four silver and three bronze to their kitty. While Ravinder Rautela of Uttarakhand Police pocketed the gold in 1500m for men, S Sini of Kerala Police emerged victorious in 200m for women.

Mukesh Rawat of Uttarakhand Police (5000m for men), Chinchu

Jose of Kerala Police (1500m for men) and Anuradhapura S The World Police and Fire Games are the third largest international multi-sport event in the world and are being held in the European continent for the first time.

The games are organised by the World Police and Fire Games Federation since 1989. It is open to all working and retired police and fire department personnel from all over the world. More than 7,400 athletes and sportspersons from 56 countries are participating in the Games.

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