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I GOT THE KIDNEY… CAN I GET MY TRANSPLANT? Suresh Agarwal undergoing dialysis at the Global Hospital in Parel.

By Shwetha Kannan

old Suresh, who is currently undergoing dialysis at Global Hospital in Mumbai. omorrow is a big day for Suresh Agarwal Suresh had been diagnosed with kidney and his family because it is the day for problems in year 2008 and was advised to unthe interview that will hopefully get him dergo a transplant in May 2013. Hailing from a go ahead signal for undergoing a kidney Chhattisgarh, he came to Mumbai to get transplant. medical help but little did he know that he “Itne din ke intezaar ke baad ye din aaya hai. Ab dekhte hai kya hota hai,” said 50-yearContinued on pg 8 «

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VINDICTIVE VC? Suspended for violating rules, professor who lodged PIL against Vice Chancellor hints that reasons may be different

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Both of them are doing roaring business ever since Adarsh probe’s resumption!

rofessor Neeraj Hatekar, who was suspended by Mumbai University Vice-Chancellor Dr Rajan Welukar, has questioned the move, stating that citing the true information contained in the documents given out by Right to Information (RTI), cannot lead to his suspension as per the rules and code of conduct of the varsity. Debunking Welukar’s statement that suspension was discussed in the management council meeting, Hatekar states that there was no topic or issue taken up about the suspension during the meet, and it was after the meeting that the VC has broached the subject of his suspension.

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Patient from Chhattisgarh, with mother as donor, is waiting since November for ‘permission’ for operation from authorities who meet only twice a month

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900 PARTICIPATE IN LAVASA HILL RUN

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CITY OPINIONS

Do you think the Govt of Maharashtra can PROVIDE AAP-like governance?

Afzal Hussain PR executive Yes, the AAP is in favour of the common man. So the state government should indeed follow the AAP technique.

Munna Hake Student No, we have many corruption cases and the state government will find it difficult to emulate the Aam Aadmi Party’s way of governance.

Kedar Aitwadekar Pharmacist Yes, there are many changes done by the AAP government and I think the state government here can do the same things if they intend to follow good governance.

Lijo Titus Service No, the AAP governance is pro-people and so if the state government is honest they can follow AAP techniques for the common man’s benefit.

Albana Khatri Training No, I don’t think the Maharashtra government has the will or inclination to do so. Getting rid of corruption is going to be very difficult unless there is a strong will to do so.

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standing in international sports,” said Cherakulam.

he Lavasa Hill Run held on January 5 at Lavasa City saw around 900 odd runners from different parts of the state coming together with age and gender being no bar. The enthusiasm levels and the zest to win were at an all time high as people readied themselves for a first of its kind uphill run.

Virendrasinh Arvind Patil seemed to bear a similar hope as Cherakulam. Eightyear-old Virendrasinh from Koparde, a village 12 kilometers away from Kolhapur – has been participating in several local running competitions, and this is the first time that he was a part of a run held outside Kolhapur.

“He was very keen that he takes part and finishes the 10 kilometers endurance race. It was only after several phone calls from me and special permission from the organisers that he was allowed to take part in the run,” said Arvind, Virendrasinh’s father and coach.

Virendrasinh, whose idol is Milkha Singh, said, “I want to meet him and train under him. But I will also continue to train under my father. I want to participate in the Olympics one day.”

Age No Bar: The eldest participant was 70-year-old Gopinath Cherakulam from Kandivali, Mumbai. This gentleman, who calls himself a fitness freak, is a regular at marathons and believes that being healthy and fit is of utmost importance.

“Health is wealth. I value fitness very much. Therefore I keep participating in such sport activities,” said Cherakulam, who completed the 10 kilometer endurance run.

It was his friends’ frequent leg pulling that made him get into fitness activities he said.

“When I turned forty, my friends kept saying that I am old. So to prove that despite being old I can be fit, I start getting involved in sports and fitness activities.

And today I am fit and very happy about it,” he said.

Cherakulam – who runs four kilometers every alternate day and took no special training for this uphill run – was confident of being able to complete the endurance run.

According to him, sports need to be taken more seriously by citizens as well the government, so that India produces more sportsper-

Gopinath Cherakulam sons who can participate in international competitions and tournaments.

‘We lack seriousness when it comes to sports.

Also, there isn’t enough impetus and infrastructure to train and develop budding sportsmen. When these issues are taken care of, our country will have a better

A section of those that dared run.

Gender no bar: Out of the 900 odd participants, twenty per cent were women. “We are all very enthusiastic about being fit.

While winning is definitely our objective, being a part of the run and being able to complete it, is in itself a satisfying experience,” said a group of women who completed the five kilometer dream run.

And the big win…

Winners: L-R, India’s Man Singh (third), Daniel Yegon of Kenya (first) andAlma Yehu of Ethiopia (second).

‘Saptarang 2014’ musical extravaganza begins

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aptarang 2014’, a musical and cultural festival organised by the Government of Maharashtra, will help provide a platform to budding music talent, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said. The festival is being held from January 3 to 9.

At the inaugural ceremony held at the Gateway, noted singer Shankar Mahadevan and percussionists A Selvaganesh, Vikku Vinayakram and A Shivamani, enthralled the audi-

ence through their performance, titled 'Southern Express'.

A host of programmes have been organised at Gateway between January 3 and 5, Ashutosh Ghorpade, Director of Cultural Affairs, Maharashtra government, said.

The show will then move to Vishnudas Bhave Auditorium in Navi Mumbai on January 6 and 7 and will culminate at Kashinath Ghanekar Natyagriha in Thane on January 8 and 9, Ghorpade said.

January 4 saw an early

Hindustani classical singer Kishori Amonkar performs at a festival organized by the Govt of Maharashtra, on Sunday.

morning recital by singer Roopkumar Rathod who featured in 'Sufiana', a musical fest of Sufi music. The same evening saw Reeva and Group presenting youth music.

Singers Bhupinder and Mitali Singh followed with an enthralling ghazal rendition. In the morning hours on Sunday, veteran vocalist Kishori Amonkar rendered various ragas to the delight of connoisseurs of classical music.

Leading Bollywood composers Salim-Suleman performed in the evening.

The 10 kilometer endurance race was the main category in this run. In the 10 kilometer Endurance Run for men, Daniel Yegon from Kenya was the winner, with a timing of 31 minutes and 32 seconds. Alma Yehu from Ethiopia was declared the first runner up with a timing of 32 minutes and 19.10 seconds, and Man Singh from the Army Sports Institute, Pune came third with a timing of 32 minutes and 26.20 seconds. In the 10 kilometer Endurance Run for women, Gladys Tarus from Kenya emerged the winner, with a timing of 37 minutes and 24 seconds, Asefa Dezabeh from Ethiopia was declared the first runner up with a timing of 39 minutes and Swati Haridas Gadhave from India with a timing of 39 minutes and 14.3 seconds came third.

For once, eavesdropping is not bad manners

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Man held with illegal firearm in Mira Road

By Suresh Golani

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n alert citizen recently overheard a person discussing plans for a robbery and promptly informed the police about the same. This resulted in the arrest of four persons who turned out to be seasoned robbers.

The four have strong criminal backgrounds. Two of them were earlier convicted for murder with robbery and two others are habitual robbers.

A few days ago, one of the arrested accused Monu was talking with his friend over the phone, de-

scribing the robbery plan to him when this man overheard the conversation. Monu was talking to his colleague regarding robbing OM Jewellers in Dharavi.

The alert citizen informed the local police the robbery had been planned for Friday.

Senior Police Inspector from Dharavi Police Ambadas Pawar said, “As per the citizen’s information, we laid a trap and arrested four accused in this connection when they landed to rob the shop.

They were identified as Bablu Patil (31), a resident of Mulund, Gangadas Kudesa (21), Sanjay Kumar

Mahant (33) and Monu”.

Bablu and Gangasinghhad earlier been booked for robbery with murder but are now out on bail. In their confession, they revealed that they had visited the shop many times to target it, Pawar informed.

A country-made pistol, live cartridges, two choppers, a koyta, chilli powder and nylon rope were recovered from the four. All the accused were produced before the court and sent to police custody till December 8. It is suspected that they may be involved in other robberies too, Pawar added.

Four gold smuggling cases busted

By Tariq Khan

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our cases of gold smuggling with a collective seizure of Rs.67.89 lakh were busted by customs officials at the Mumbai international airport late Saturday night. The concealment ranged from hiding them in the undergarments, secret pockets and forging them into crude jewellery.

In the first case, officials of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the customs caught one Syed Mozim Raza arriving from Bangkok in Thai Airways flight TG 317 around 11:10 pm on Saturday with a ‘crudely made’ gold chain. It weighed around 304 grams worth Rs.7.49 lakh.

The next seizure was done at around 2 am on Saturday as Mohammed Sharif Jafar Ali landed from Dubai in a Jet Airways flight. Upon frisking him near the green channel, he was found to have fastened five gold biscuits around his waist with the belt on his jeans. The biscuits

weighed around 583.2 grams and are worth Rs.14.37 lakh.

Around 4:30 am, Abdul Bawa Fakir Apkar who had landed from Riyadh in Jet Airways flight 9W 523 had hid four gold bars weighing 466 grams inside his underwear. The bars cost around Rs.11.50 lakh. All the three accused are aged between to 30 and 40.

In the last case, around 8 am, Alibabu Abdul Mateen in his late 20s, was caught with 10 gold bars worth 10 tolas each costing Rs.34.51 lakh. The bars weighed 1399 grams. Alibabu was coming from Dammam in Saudi Arabian Airlines flight SV 740 and was acting suspicious and “nervous” according to customs officials when they used the Hand Held Metal Detector for additional frisking.

The HHMD began beeping near his waist when customs sleuths found a specially stitched pocket beneath the waistband of his trouser and the gold bars there.

Sushil Kadam | ADC

Alert citizen overhears conversation between robbers and informs police

Dharavi police team show the weapons seized from the four arrested criminals (sitting with masked faces), yesterday.

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et another person found to be in possession of an illegal firearm, landed into the custody of the Thane (Rural) police on Saturday.

According to the police following a tip-off that a suspected member of an arm dealers gang would arrive near the Mira Road railway station, a team led by Police Sub Inspector Aslam Khateeb, laid a trap and arrested the accused identified as Javed Manzoor Qureshi (32) below the skywalk. He was found to be carrying a country made revolver – inscribed with Made in Italy – and two live cartridges, said the police.

Investigations revealed that Qureshi – a native of Azamgharh in Uttar Pradesh – was staying in the Shanti Nagar area of Bhiwandi. “We are trying to find the source of the firearm and to whom it was to be supplied,” said an investigating officer.

A case under the relevant sections of the Arms Act has been registered against the accused who has been The accused Javed Manzoor Qureshi with PSI Aslam Khateeb and his colleague. remanded to police custody.

Gold worth `67 lakh seized from 4 passengers

By A Staff Reporter

In the second case, Mohammed Sharif Jafar Bapu, who arrived from he Air Intelligence Unit of the Dubai, was caught carrying five Customs Department recovered gold biscuits weighing 583.2 grams undeclared gold collectively worth valuing 14.37 lakh inside the waist Rs.67 lakh from four passengers in portion of his jeans pant, they said. separate cases at the city internaA gold chain of 304 grams worth tional airport, officials said on Sun- Rs 7 lakh was recovered from anday. other passenger identified as Sayed Customs officials intercepted Mozim Raza, who had come from four passengers on Sunday morn- Bangkok. ing at the Chhatrapati Shivaji InterThe officials recovered 12 gold national Airport in the city and bars weighing 1,399 grams worth Rs recovered the gold, reports PTI. 34.15 lakh from one Alibabu Abdul In the first case, Abdul Bawa Fakir Mateen Mohiddin. He is a resident Apkar, who arrived from Riyadh, of Karnataka, who had arrived from had concealed four gold biscuits Saudi Arabia. The accused had conweighing 466 grams worth Rs 11.50 cealed gold in a specially stitched lakh in his underwear, officials said. pocket in his pants.

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Bank a/c helps crack murder case Extra marital affair led to man being killed by maternal cousin

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hit-and-run case claiming the life of an unidentified man, registered at the Kashimira police station on January 2, turned out to be a well planned murder executed by the maternal cousin of the deceased.

The murder was reportedly the fall out of an illicit relationship between the deceased Raju Mandal (32) and the wife of the accused who has been identified as Dilip Chotan Mandal (32).

According to the police, they recovered the body of an unidentified man lying near a hotel adjacent to the Mumbai-

Ahmedabad Highway on January 2. They initially registered a hit-and-run case against an unidentified person. “However after post-mortem reports confirmed that the man was not only strangulated but had also been assaulted by a sharp weapon, the police registered a case of murder,” said SDPO Chandrakant Joshi.

An investigating team led by API Shahji Pawar found a small diary from the pocket of the deceased which had a bank account number scribbled on it.

The account number revealed the identity of the deceased as Raju Mandal, a native of Jharkand who stayed at Khar.

Further investigations led to the involvement of his maternal cousin Dilip and his accomplices identified as Kishore Mandal and Dinesh Mandal.

Dilip was enraged after learning that Raju was having an illicit relationship with his wife.

Moreover Raju had even circulated vulgar pictures of his wife which prompted him to plan the murder. Dilip strangulated Raju to death in Kishore’s autorickshaw and slashed his throat with a knife and dumped the body near the highway.

While Dilip and Kishore have been arrested and booked under Section 302 of the IPC, Dinesh is still at large.

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I have changed my name from Pawan Bhandupants Satpute to Pawankumar Bandopant Satpute as per Affidavit.

C-29324 I have changed my name from Nasrin Banoo Ahmed Hingwala to Nasreen Ahmed Memon as per deed poll Affidavit Dtd. 02/01/2014.

C-29325 I have changed my name from Khatija Irfan Katlerywala to Khadija Irfan Burmawala as per Govt. Gazzette No: (U-30289).

C-29326 I have changed my name from Maisar Bano Mohamed Latif to Mehsar Bano Mohamed Latif Qureshi as per deed poll Affidavit.

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THANKSGIVING A million thanks to Jesus Christ, St. Anthony, St. Martha, St. Jude, Mother mary.

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CHANGE OF NAME

I have changed my name from Miss Sonali Giridhar Parab to Mrs. Pranali Pravin Hatiskar Vide Affidavit No. KE 448326 dated 03-01-2014.

C-29315 I have changed my name from Sattar Abdul Tayyab Chappalwala, to ‘Abdul Sattar Tayyab Chharawala’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-21779) Dated: 18/07/2013.

C-29316 I have changed my name from Ejaz Abdul Sattar Memon, to ‘Ejaz Abdul Sattar Chharawala’ as per Maharashtra Govt.

Gazette No. (U-49458) Dated: 28/11/2013.

C-29317 I, Ejaz Chharawala have changed my Daughter’s name from Shahana Ejaz Memon, to ‘Shahana Ejaz Chharawala’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-49459) Dated: 28/11/2013.

C-29318 I, Ejaz Chharawala have changed my Son’s name from Taufiq Ejaz Memon, to ‘Taufiq Ejaz Chharawala’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-49460) Dated: 28/11/2013.

C-29319 I have changed my name from Irfan Salim Chappalwala, to ‘Irfan Salim Chharawala’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-49461) Dated: 28/11/2013.

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I have changed my name from Mohamed Latif Niyamatulla to Mohamed Latif Niyamatulla Qureshi as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-29328 I have changed my name from Mehshar Taufail Ahmed Khan to Mehsar Bano Mohamed Latif Qureshi as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-29329 I have changed my name from Fakhruddin Alimohamed to Fakhruddin Alimohamed Dewaswala by deed poll Affidavit.

C-29330 I have changed my name from Muktar Ahmed Kalan Choudhary to Mukhtar Ahmed Kalan Choudhary by deed poll Affidavit.

C-29331 I have changed my name from Seraj Kallan Chowdary to Seraj Kallan Chowdhary by deed poll Affidavit.

C-29332 I have changed my name from Jain Shri Mishrimal Kapoorchand to Jain Mishrimal Kapoorchand as per Affidavit.

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I Mukki Grishma Gagaldas have changed my name to Barkha Pradeep Narang as per deedpoll Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Abhijit Venkatrao Kolhe to Abhijeet Vyankatrao Patil as per Affidavit.

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I Joshi Mohan Manoharpant have changed my name to Joshi Mohan Manohar as per deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Rahulkumar Lachhiram Gupta have changed my name to Rahul Lachhiram Gupta as per deedpoll Affidavit.

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I have changed name from Sajjat Ali to Sajjad Ali Wajir Ali Jatniwala as per Affidavit.

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I Kiran Ravindra Dixit have changed my name to Kiran Dixit Shandilya as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 02/01/14.

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I Sanjaykumar Jitendra Singh have changed my name to Sanjay Jitendra Singh as per deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Ms. Saranya Thiruterri Shivdas have changed my name to Ms. Sharanya Sivadas Nambiar as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 04/01/14.

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I Ramashray Singh Virendra @ Singh Virendra Ramashray @ Virendra Kumar Singh R Singh have changed my name to Virendra Singh as per deedpoll Affidavit.

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I Mr. Miteshkumar Vinodkumar Hindocha have changed my name to Mr. Mitesh Hindocha as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 04/01/14.

C-29342 I Hetal Kalpesh Modha have changed my name to Hetal Jitendra Modi as per Maha.

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C-29343 I Hetal Jitendra Modi have changed my minor son’s name from Sahil Kalpesh Modha to Sahil Hetal Modi as per Maha.

Government Gazette No U-33709 dated : 12/09/13.

C-29344 I Mrs. Harineet Kaur Ahluwalia have changed my name to Mrs. Harneet Kaur Ahluwalia as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 03/01/14.

C-29345 I Miss. Gita Nanalal Kamdar have changed my name to Mrs. Geeta Dilip Ghelani as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 03/01/14.

C-29346 I Sneha Devendra Bharwala have changed my name to Sneha Devendra Bharwada as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 04/01/14.

C-29347 I Rohan Devendra Bharwala have changed my name to Rohan Devendra Bharwada as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 04/01/14.

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I have changed my name from Sudhanshu Bhatta to Sudhanshu Rameshchandra Bhatt as per Affidavit.

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I Roopesh Kashiram Karmalkar have changed my name to Rupesh Kashiram Karmalkar as per deedpoll Affidavit dated: 04/01/14.

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I have changed my name from Salony Vinod Tank to Saloni Vinod Tank as per Affidavit dated 04th Oct., 2013.

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I Rehana Bi Khalil Ahmed Khan have changed my name to Rehana Khalil Ahmed Khan as per deedpoll Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Renukaben Himatlal Makwana to Rupa Vinod Tank as per Affidavit dated 31st Dec. 2013.

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C-29357 I Kishorchandra Adthakeer @ Kishorchandra Adthakker have changed my name to Kishore Adthakkar as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-29358 I Bhavinkumar Kishorchandra Adthakeer @ Bhavunkumar Kishorchandra Adthakker have changed my name to Bhavin Kishore Adthakkar as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-29359 I Ranjan Kishorchandra Adthakeer have changed my name to Ranjan Kishore Adthakkar as per deedpoll Affidavit.

C-29360 I have changed my name from Mohammed Shah Mohd Minhaj Ansari to Mohammed Shah Ansari as per Affidavit.

C-29361 I have changed my name from V Kameswara Rao to Kameswara Rao Vemuri as per Affidavit.

C-29362 I have changed my name from Mohamed Kamil Mohamed Aslam to Mohammed Kamil Mohamed Aslam Ansari as per Affidavit.

C-29363 I have changed my name from Nimesh Jayantilal Shah to Nimish Jayantilal Shah as per Affidavit.

C-29364 I have changed my name from Ahrullah Abdul Salam to Ahrullah Abdul Salam Siddiqui as per Affidavit.

C-29365 I have changed my name from Roshmajaha Ahrullah Abdul Salam to Reshma Ahrullah Siddiqui as per Affidavit.

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C-29367 I have changed my name from Pintuben Girishchandra Sirodariya to Priya Devang Kotak as per Affidavit.

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C-29371 I have changed my name from Sailendra Damodar Agrawal to Shailendra Damodarlal Agarwal as per Affidavit.

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C-29373 I have changed my name from Tatyarao Asharuba Kakde to Taterao Asharuba Kakde as per Affidavit.

C-29374 I have changed my name from Suman to Bhagubai Taterao Kakde as per Affidavit.

C-29375 I have changed my name from Ronald Rosario Domnic Dalmeida and Ronald Domnic Dalmeida to Ronald Dalmeida as per Affidavit.

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C-29377 I have changed my name from Rosa Philomena Dalmeida to Philomena Dominic Dalmeida as per Affidavit.

C-29378 I have changed my name from Jyoti Santoshkumar Rajput to Jyothi James Praveen Dsouza as per Affidavit.

C-29379 I have changed my name from Luiza Cecilia Francisquinha Po to Luiza Cecilia Dsouza as per Affidavit.

C-29380 I have changed my name from Nazar Mohd Fateh Mohd Shaikh to Nazar Mohammed Siddiqui as per Affidavit.

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C-29382 I have changed my name from Shahebzadi Fateh Mohd Shaikh to Shahebzadi Fateh Mohammad Siddique as per Affidavit.

C-29383 I have changed my name from Lalita Nishad to Lalati Nishad as per Affidavit.

C-29384 I have changed my name from Maihshar Jahan Abid Ali Shaikh to Maiser Mohammad Tarique Khan as per Affidavit.

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he ghost of the Adarsh scam is far from buried and the saga is yet to see its end. Already it has taken its toll in the form of Ashok Chavan and has forced his successor Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to once again take a half-turn, albeit after a rap from the party bosses. Is it too little too late in the day? The virtual exoneration of the politicians and the bureaucracy in the entire scam clearly underlines how thick the politician-bureaucrat nexus has always been.

Hardly had Congress Vice President, Rahul Gandhi asked Chavan to reconsider his governments decision to junk the report, some of the tainted lot of the bureaucracy in the scam promptly threatened the government with legal action. That explains why most of them appear to be let off the hook, at least for now. As we had stated earlier, the government found easier option of taking action against the benami and outof-turn flat allottees, some of whom are alleged to be from the BJP and the Shiv Sena as well. That serves as a handy tool to hit out at the opposition during this election year.

But this is clearly not the end of it. Although the government may have, for the time being, saved the political and bureaucratic class from the harsh whip of the law, it remains to be seen as to what view the court takes over the CBI plea for prosecution of some politicians and bureaucrats involved. Clearly, the developments do not bode well for the political class and the only entity that can exploit the issue to its political advantage to an extent is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

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he cascading effect of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) success story and freebies of water and power are already being felt in Mumbai. In a pre-emptive move, Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam has already demanded that the power tariff rates be slashed.

The Rane committee, set up by the government, has already given favourable signals to that effect. Both power and water (irrigation that is), which have been burning is-

sues in Maharashtra, have been fully exploited by the AAP in the New Delhi polls.

In the BMC, of the BJP-Shiv Sena ruling alliance, the BJP has already red-flagged the civic body’s proposal to fill trenches left behind by contractors of public utilities.

The spat between Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and NCP Home Minister R R Patil over driving licenses and drunken driving is another example. State Congress president Manikrao Thakare may dismiss the challenge posed by the AAP in the ensuing elections, but these instances of open dissent against one’s own party exposes the scare that the new political outfit has set in the minds of the established ones.

Cooperative power distributing outlets like MulaPravara in Ahmednagar have often been in the news for their dues being written off by the government. One consequence is that the foundry business in Kolhapur has begun shifting base to neighbouring states where the power rates are relatively low.

Then there are politicians and the powerful who feel offended if asked to pay toll tax and beat up the cops, a tendency which is the side-effect of the dole culture.

But in this election year, no

one wants to answer the one big question - from where will the government get resources like power and water, give them at concessional rates and raise resources for them. In the end it is going to be like the case of ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul.’ Thanks to provision of assured wages and food grains under the government’s own rural employment schemes, farm labourers are refusing to work on farms, leaving the owners and farmers at their wit’s end.

Of late, freebies like free tablets, free colour TVs, foodgrains at throw away prices, waiver or slashing of power and water bills all have become the standard practice of political parties to woo the electorate, especially the

SIMHASAN Prashant Hamine | ADC poor during elections. The ruling BJP-Sena alliance in

the BMC too has come up with another sop of having

WiFi cover in South Mumbai.

But nobody seems to have the answer as to how the expenditure burden is going to be met. Giving subsidies to the poor and the needy is fine. It is equally important to ensure that the subsidies reach the targeted beneficiaries in an already leaky system.

But where is the money for all that going to come from?

Everyone these days does seem to admit that governance is the issue, but no one has the solution. The Election

05 Commission of India is seized off the matter in respect of party election manifestos. No political party seems to offer an economic model to sustain the freebies that it wants to offer. Or has rarely been taken to task or questioned as to how it plans to foot the bill. Beset with the problem of election manifestos, the Election Commission of India has an onerous task of reigning in political parties that virtually promise the moon to the electorate at the time of elections.

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C-29388 I have changed my name from Mr. Altaf Ahmed Jalaluddin to Mr. Altaf Ahmed Jalaluddin Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-29389 I have changed my name from Manzoor Hasan Alikhan Pathan to Manjur Alikhan Pathan as per Affidavit.

C-29390 I have changed my name from Raju Kedar Maurya to Rajkumar Kedar Mourya as per Affidavit.

C-29391 I have changed my name from Dileep Digambar Chavan to Dilip Digambar Chavan as per Affidavit.

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C-29394 I have changed my name from Dakuwa Poornchandra Khalli to Purnchandra Khalli Dakua as per Affidavit.

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C-29396 I have changed my name from Deepaesh Dayanand Hegde to Deepesh Dayanand Hegde as per Affidavit.

C-29397 I have changed my name from Mr. Syed Afsar Ali Abdul Rahman to Mr. Afsar Ali Abdul Rehman Mir as per Affidavit.

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C-29399 I have changed my name from Mr. Shabbir Afsar Ali to Mr. Shabbir Afsar Ali Mir as per Affidavit.

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C-29409 I have changed my name from Pillai Shankar Aravindhakshan to Pillai Shankar Aravindkshan as per Affidavit.

C-29410 I have changed my name from Leelavati Dineshkumar Mehta to Leelaben Dineshkumar Mehta as per Affidavit.

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Plots of land in Palghar and Wada meant for dog shelters will go back to the state government as the BMC has failed to construct the shelters since 2008.

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GOs and animal lovers are worried that 48 acres of land in Palghar and Wada meant for dog shelters will go back to the state government as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has failed to construct the shelters in the last five years.

The Bombay High Court had directed the state and the BMC to establish a shelter for stray dogs in 2007. Citing the lack of will on the part of the civic administration, the state government has asked the civic body to return the return the land.

In early 2008, the state on the direction of the High Court, had given 30 acres of land in Palghar and 18 acres in Wada to the BMC to construct a dog shelter which would house all the stray dogs from Mumbai.

In a case filed by the All India Animal Welfare Association Petitioner against the BMC, the Bombay High Court had observed negligence on the part of the BMC with regards to the welfare of animals, particularly stray dogs. The court observed that the project to sterilise strays worth Rs.4 crore allocated by the BMC had lapsed in 2006-07.

The court therefore directed that, “The Chief Secretary of the State of Maharashtra, shall identify on a top priority basis two plots of land, one beyond Dahisar and one beyond Thane. The aforesaid plots should be at least of an area of 25 acres each, on a barren Government land, away from human settlement. The aforesaid two plots should be used for the setting up of large Dog Shelter Homes, one beyond the Western Suburbs and another beyond the Eastern Suburbs. The said Dog Shelter Homes should have proper dog homes, veterinary doctors to take care of the dogs and to carry out sterilisation programmes in an organised and effective manner.”

The court added that the main objec-

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I have changed my name from Mohd Salahuddin Abdul Husain Shaikh to Salahuddin Abdul Hussain Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-29414 We Abdul Qayyum and Sharifunnisa Abdul Qayyum have changed our minor sons name from Ali Ahmed Abdul Qayyum to Ali Ahmed Abdul Qayyum Kazi as per Affidavit.

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tive of setting up two such big dog shelters was to shift a substantial number of stray dogs from Mumbai in a phased manner.

According to civic officials, the state government gave the civic body two open plots of land but asked it to pay Rs.1 crore for them, which the civic body refused to do.

In 2008, senior officials had said, “We had asked the state to give us the land at a nominal rate of Rs.1 per acre per month as rent, since it is the duty of both authorities, but the state was not

ready. The dog shelter was costing Rs. 25 crore to Rs.30 crore per annum.”

Dr. Uday Kulkarni of Animal Welfare said, “Had the BMC got possession of the land and handed it over to NGOs, they would have managed the stray dogs. These shelters were in the best interest of stray dogs as well as the city.”

Former Mayor Shubha Raul said, “In my opinion, it is contempt of court on the part of the BMC by not establishing the dog shelters. We should not let the land go back to the state government.”

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he twenty fifth annual Maharashtra State Road Safety Campaign was yesterday inaugurated by Anil Khumbre, Superintendent of Police, Thane Rural.

Khumbre praised his staff for their vigilance and efficiency, in respect of deWe Abdul Qayyum and tecting a crack in the Vesava road bridge Sarifunnisa Abdul Qayyum over the Bhayender creek, its speedy rehave changed our minor daughters name from Fatima pairs, and the control of chronic traffic Abdul Qayyum to Fatima Abdul snarls along the National Highway.

He then cited an incident where an Qayyum Kazi as per Affidavit.

C-29416 unknown woman served his subordinate staff cake, snacks and soft drinks for New Year as a token of appreciation, We Abdul Qayyum and while simultaneously taking a dig at the Sarifunnisa Abdul Qayyum media, stating, “Good work does not have changed our minor sons merit reporting”, thereafter candidly name from Mohammed urging the press to carry the narrated Ahmed Abdul Qayyum to piece of news.

Mohammed Ahmed Abdul There were also posters and handbills Qayyum Kazi as per Affidavit. with do’s and dont’s regarding road C-29417 safety.

HOLDING FORT… BJP’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi along with party’s senior leader Vinod Tawde during a function at the Raigad fort, organised by Sangli-based foundation Shiv Pratishthan, in Raigad, on Sunday.

Two more house breaking cases reported from Chheda Nagar

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detected. With this, the lack of security measures in he first week of the New residential buildings as well Year saw two house as the police’s inability to breaking thefts (HBT) in tackle such crimes comes Chheda Nagar in Chembur, to fore. which comes under the jurisOn Sunday morning, 34diction of Tilak Nagar police year-old Navnath Kamble, an station.

IIT graduate and an emThe police are already ployee of a private firm, was probing the four murders shocked to witness that his and a HBT which took place house was burgled and valulast month under the juris- ables worth approximately diction of Tilak Nagar Rs.75,000 were stolen. On Depolice station and shockingly cember 21, Kamble along all these cases are yet to be with his wife and children

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had gone to his wife’s native place in West Bengal and returned on Sunday morning.

On returning, he witnessed that the latch of his door was broken and valuables were missing.

Similarly, on January 3, burglars struck a house in Chheda Nagar and fled with valuables worth nearly Rs.30,000.

When asked about the reason behind the sudden increase of such crimes in Tilak Nagar and Chheda Nagar,

senior inspector of Tilak Nagar police station, Laxman Bhalerao said, “Such crimes are taking place mostly in the old buildings of the area, where there is no security at all. Not a single watchman is deployed or CCTV’s are installed”.

Meanwhile, police personnel from Tilak Nagar police station are probing the four murders which occurred on December 1, 6, 11 and 29. neel.shah@afternoondc.in

MAN RAPES MINOR UNDER PRETEXT OF MARRIAGE

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accused identified as Subodh Pandurang Shirke (29) who leuths of the Uttan Coastal works as a waiter and stays in police station in Bhayan- the Kashi Nagar area of dar have arrested a 29-year- Bhayandar (east) established old man who allegedly raped physical relation with the a 16-year-old girl for more girl who is a standard XI than six months under the student. false pretext of marriage. AcShirke frequently took the cording to Assistant Police In- girl to a picnic point near a spector Priyatma Muthe, the beach at Bhatte Bunder in

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Uttan and raped her and threatened to keep the relationship a secret else he would defame her in the society. The accused kept raping the girl for over six months, until she managed to muster enough courage to narrate the ordeal to her parents who immediately lodged a complaint with the police.

“The accused has been arrested and booked under section 376 (Rape) of the Indian Penal Code and under the relevant sections of the stringent Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. He will be produced before the District Sessions Court, Thane.”

Muthe said.

Father and daughter attacked by bike-borne robbers The accused pulled the woman’s dupatta, snatched her chain and assaulted her father when he tried to protect her

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n another case indicative of unsafe women are on the roads, at 1.30 am on Saturday, a woman and her father were returning from their relatives place at Kherwadi, when seven men on four bikes who were racing on the Western Express Highway followed them. One of them passed lewd comments on the woman, while another pulled her dupatta.

Another biker then pulled her chain. Her father managed to catch hold of the pillion rider by yanking at him.

However, when the pillion rider fell on the road, the bikers pushed the woman and started assaulting her father with paver blocks.

They punched and kicked him, even as the woman raised an alarm by screaming. Soon a crowd of locals who heard her, rushed to the

The seized bikes of the gang members who snatched the gold chain. spot. Five of the bikers rushed from the spot, but two were caught by the crowd.

A patrolling vehicle then reached the spot and took the accused into their custody.

Later, the police caught four more accused, all residents of Antop Hill in Sion. The Kherwadi police have arrested six accused, while one remains

at large.

The accused have been identified as Muthu Devendra (24), Angin Pondar (24), Kadappan Muthuswami (24), Gulanand Tevar (26), Manikand Subhramanyam (23) and Srinivas Naidu (24).

The cops have arrested all the six and have seized four bikes, and have launched a

manhunt for the seventh culprit. The police are also checking on whether the accused have been involved in similar crimes in the past.

The victim said that she and her father were returning home when the seven men came on bikes and passed lewd comments on her. One of them then pulled her dupatta and other snatched her chain.”

Ashok Kadam, Senior Police Inspector of Kherwadi police station said, “We have arrested six men and are searching for the seventh. We have registered a case of molestation and assault against the accused. One accused has a case against him and we are checking the records of the others. The father of the woman was admitted to the hospital by us and we have recorded his statement and also that of the daughter.”

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he Vasai police on Sunday found the decomposed body of an unidentified woman floating in the creek near Naigaon Bridge, with a large stone tied to its waist. Not ruling out the possibility of the woman being raped and then dumped in the creek to drown by unidentified as-

sailants, Assistant Police Inspector Anil Thorve said, “While autopsy reports are being awaited, we are going through missing complaints in and around the region to ascertain the identity of the victim.”

As of now, a case under Sections 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered in this connection, police said.

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he Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested a Chennaibased man in connection with the last month's seizure of 1.2 tonnes of the banned drug Ketamine in Jalgoan. It was the singlebiggest Ketamine seizure in Western India to date.

DRI sources said Shentil Kumar, a key link between the alleged kingpin Vikas Puri (already arrested) and another accused, was arrested on Saturday.

Kumar told DRI sleuths that he was in touch with

two persons in Chennai Ayyamani and Sakayan - for whom he arranged supply of the drug.

Sources also said that he had taken a consignment of Ketamine worth Rs 75 lakh from Vikas Puri and transported it to Chennai for the commission of Rs 5.5 lakhs.

"He seems to be a very important link between Mumbai and Chennai," said a DRI officer.

On Saturday, Kumar was produced in the local metropolitan magistrate's court which granted his transit remand to DRI for production in Jalgaon court.

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With these appointments, the number of High Court ive lawyers will be judges will go up to 65. sworn-in as additional The notification appointjudges of the Bombay High ing the five lawyers as Court on Monday. additional judges of the Lawyers Vinay Manohar High Court was issued Deshpande, Ajey Gadkari, by the Union Ministry of Nitin Sambre, Girish Kulka- Law and Justice on rni and B S Colabawalla will January 2. be sworn-in on Monday The ceremony, which will morning in the presence of be held in the Bombay High Bombay High Court Chief Court, will be telecast live to Justice Mohit Shah and the Aurangabad bench of other judges. the High Court.

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PRAY, DANCE IN PRAISE OF THE LORD…

As thousands of Warkaris, devotees of Lord Vitthal, wait for the ‘palkhi’ during the traditional ‘Ringan’ ceremony, the others sing abhangs (hymns of Lord Vitthal) and play games of ‘phugadi’ and ‘lezim’ at the Five Gardens in Wadala on Sunday. It is during the Hindu month of ‘Magh’ that the Warkaris from Mumbai, Pune, Thane and Raigad districts come together for the festival in the city.

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ADIVASIS’ MARCH FOR RIGHTS TO THEIR LAND…

I GOT THE KIDNEY… Continued from pg 1 « and his family would get caught in a dreary circle of lengthy procedures and paperwork.

“I came to Mumbai in August and, as advised by doctors, I started with the required procedures. I started undergoing tests here in Mumbai but some paperwork had to be done in Chhattisgarh. So I had to make many trips to and fro. It took me four months to get all tests and formalities completed. It was tiring, but I had no option but to do it,” said Suresh, who is going to get a kidney from his mother, Lilavati Agarwal (67).

It was in the month of November that Suresh completed all the formalities.

Then he was told that he and his family would have to go for an interview before he got the permission to undergo a transplant. This surprised Suresh, but still he did not question the authorities and waited for a date for the interview. And when he was given a date in the month of January he was shocked.

“Mai shock ho gaya jab January ki date di gayi. Pehle se hi kharcha itna ho gaya hai ab November se lekar January tak phir se kaise wait karu? Mai transplant isliye karana chahta tha ki dialysis ka kharch humse nahi uthaya jaa raha tha. Par ab transContinued from pg 1 «

Adivasis from Aarey Milk Colony, led by Mumbai Upanagar Adivasi Samaj leader Anil Dalvi, staged a protest in front of Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan’s official residence Varsha on Sunday over claims of land belonging to them.

PORTRAITS OF SACHIN TENDULKAR…

Mayor Sunil Prabhu inaugurated ‘Portaits of Sachin - Moods & Expressions of Sachin Tendulkar’ captured in water colours by Artist Ashok Karnik in presence of veteran cricketer Padmakar Shivalkar, BMC House leader Shailesh Phanse and Aadesh Bandekar, Managing Trustee at Shahaji Raje Bhosale Sports Complex, Andheri on Saturday evening.

plant ki interview ki date hi itni dur hai toh na jaane transplant kab hoga. Aur tab tak mai dialysis ke bina reh nahi sakta tha,” said Suresh, who works as an RTO agent in Chhattisgarh.

But with no other option in hand, since November 27, Suresh has been under dialysis, which is a pocket draining and physically exhausting and painful procedure.

“I requested for an earlier date so that I could be spared the expenses of dialysis and of living in Mumbai. But I was told that there are many people waiting for the interview and that this is the earliest date that could be given to me, as the concerned officials meet only twice a month,” said Suresh.

“Why do the officials meet only twice a month when they know that many people in need of transplant are waiting for an interview?” questioned Suresh.

Dr. Satish Pawar, Director of Directorate of Health Services, when asked, said, “There are meetings on fixed dates every month but if there is a case that needs immediate attention and the concerned hospital informs the DHS, then a representative from the DHS will be sent and an emergency meeting can be held. It is the hospital’s responsibility to bring to notice the cases that need attention.”

Dr. Pravin Shingare, Director, Directorate of Medical Education and Research, said, “We meet three times or even four times a week if required. And if there is a request from the hospital or a patient for an earlier date we do call for a meeting immediately. I don’t know what caused the delay in the case you are mentioning. Send them to me and I will do the needful within four days.”

This time frame of four days happened to be January 7, the date that Suresh has been already given.

Dr. Bharat Shah, Director of Institute of Renal Sciences, Global Hospital, said, “The patient had asked for a early date and we too put in a word for an advanced date as the hospital had cleared Suresh’s file on December 12 and we saw no reason for him to wait till January 7. But nothing was done.”

Suresh is currently spending around Rs.8,000 every week. His finances have gone for a toss. “Mine was the major source of income for the family, which has stopped.

Expenses are mounting up. I have taken loans from people as my treatment can’t be stopped. I am planning to sell my property to get money for my transplant,” said Suresh, who has two children of schoolgoing age. shwetha.kannan@afternoondc.in

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Department of the varsity, is graded as one of the finest professors of the MU. He is also the head of the Community Radio of the varsity. On December 12, 2013, Hatekar, who is also the convenor of the Joint Action Committee, had conducted a press conference where he stated that the VC was not eligible for his post, and many issues of the varsity were not being addressed as per the rules and regulations. The information he provided there was what he had got through an RTI query.

On Saturday, a notice was sent to Hatekar and his department stating that as per section 14(9) he was being suspended for violating the rules and regulation of the varsity and a departmental inquiry would soon be instituted against him.

Talking to the ADC, Hatekar said, “Firstly, as per the code of conduct, nowhere Victimised? Professor Neeraj Hatekar. is it mentioned that giving impose his own personal deout true information from the cision upon the management It may be recalled that RTI can lead to a staffer’s suscouncil?”

Professor Neeraj Hatekar, pension. Secondly, during the The ADC spoke to Dr along with Dr A.D Sawant, management council meetNaresh Chandran, PVC, MU, had lodged a PIL against ing, the issue of my suspenwho said, “As per rules, any Welukar, alleging that he sion had not been taken up. staffer of the varsity giving was ineligible for the post Even the minutes of the wrong information or violatof VC and had issued a meeting indicate that the ing the discipline of the varlegal affidavit in the press topic of my suspension was sity will be punished. The conference about the not brought up. It was raised action has been taken as per same. only after the meeting was rules and for violation of code concluded. How can the VC of conduct of the varsity!”

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he Sharad Pawar led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has swung in to action, and yesterday decided to field new faces including the youth, professionals and women, in addition to ministers in the state cabinet, in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections to take on the Aam Admi Party (AAP) and the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance.

The effect of the AAP was quite visible during the meeting of the NCP leaders.

The two day meeting of the NCP leaders started on Sunday to discuss the poll strategy and finalise the candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. While speaking at the meeting, Pawar called upon party members not to be depressed by the Congress party’s rout in the four Assembly elections and the emergence of the AAP. Pawar also spoke about the emergence of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in 1985.

The NCP chief further urged his party members to learn the effective use of social media including Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, in a serious bid to reach out to a large number of voters, especially first time voters and the youth. He also directed the leaders to gear up to face the voters in the ensuing general elections.

Pawar said, “After the emergency, the Congress party was routed and new faces were elected in the Lok Sabha. The opposition and critics argued that for the next two decades, the Congress party would not assume power, but they were proved wrong as Indira Gandhi later led the party to victory.” The NCP chief’s obvious reference here was the electoral victory of the AAP in

NCP President and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar during the party’s two-day Lok Sabha elections preparation meeting at Y.B. Chavan Auditorium in Nariman Point on Sunday. the recently held New Delhi elections.

He indicated that the NCP would approach voters purely on a development basis. Pawar also reiterated that he will not contest the Lok

Congress corporator dismayed over govt’s refusal to reduce power tariff

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o-opted Congress corporator from Latur municipal corporation Ravindra Y. Phatak has expressed dismay at what he calls state government’s refusal to implement the proposal mooted by him to reduce power tariff rates and load shedding in the state. In a statement issued here yesterday, Phatak stated that just because of the government’s adamant attitude the state has lost Rs.25,000 crore worth revenue. The Congress co-opted corporator argued that had the scheme been implemented the demand for power would have gone down by 11,340 MWs and saved 144 lakh metric tones of coal. Besides, it would have prevented environmental pollution and raised revenue earnings.

He stated that the government had taken policy decision to reduce power tariff rates and load shedding almost five years ago. The scheme named Rahul Gandhi Load Shed-

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ding Free Campaign sought to promote usage of 10 per cent of Solar Power and granting 10 per cent concession in installing non-conventional sources of energy like Solar Power. He said that had the scheme been implemented since 2008-09 it would have fetched the government Rs.12,395 crore. Today the same loss to the exchequer is to the tune of Rs.25,000 crore.

Phatak stated that despite the notice of the Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court in November 2011 to the government, state power utility Mahavitaran and Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), the power tariff rates have been hiked. He wanted to know whether the hike was deliberate or not. Commenting upon the government’s move now to reduce power tariff rates following growing clamour for the same, he said that the move now displays the utter ignorance of the government to its own policy decisions.

Sabha elections, but will prefer to enter into the Rajya Sabha.

The NCP, which is second after the Congress in the local self government and the top in the civic bodies, is quite keen to improve its tally

from eight – which the party won in the 2009 elections. NCP state president Bhaskar Jadhav said that all efforts will be made to increase the party’s tally.

The NCP hopes to win 12 to 15

seats by contesting 22 seats out of the total 48 seats in the state. It also hopes to soon finalise the seat sharing with the Congress, which will field its candidates in 26 seats.

Maha alliances will face AAP hurdle in LS, assembly polls

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s Maharashtra’s main political players, the Congress-NCP alliance and BJP-Shiv Sena combine, brace for the Lok Sabha and subsequent state assembly polls this year, they would have to contend with a new opponent, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has decided to take the electoral plunge in a big way.

Arvind Kejriwal's AAP, which made an electrifying electoral debut in the Delhi polls forming its government in the very first outing, has set up its units in all 35 districts of Maharashtra and is trying to penetrate deeper to taluka level and beyond.

AAP, with its core comprising the volunteers of Anna Hazare's India Against Corruption movement, already has a significant potential support base in the state not new to aggressive social activism, courtesy the Gandhian and others like Medha Patkar.

"We have put in place structured committees in all the 35 districts in the state. In some talukas too, we are building a base, while we are working to set up committees at polling booth level," AAP leader Mayank Gandhi, a key member of Team-Kejriwal told PTI. The party, which galvanised ordinary voters, particularly the youth

AAP’s team member Prashant Bhushan and Mayank Gandhi at a press conference held in the city, last week. through its aggressive and sustained campaign through the social media, has already constituted 14 state-level committees for managing the elections. These committees include experts in media management, volunteer training, manifesto drafting among others.

The party is, however, yet to decide on the number of candidates it would field in the Lok Sabha polls from the state which sends 48 MPs, second to Uttar Pradesh (80).

When asked about the leader-

ship issue in the state, Gandhi said AAP has a collective leadership with Anjali Damania as the state convenor.

"All our leaders at the district level are mass leaders who have been working in their areas for a long time. AAP is attracting not just professionals like Meera Sanyal (Royal Bank of Scotland CEO) and Sameer Nair (former chief executive of Star TV) but also dabbawalas, hawkers and autorickshaw unions," he said.

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Manmohan dons the saintly stripes but wily politician shows in abuse of Modi

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“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference.

They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”

— APJ Abdul Kalam

PM’s exit due to pressure by the party?

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HE Congress party leaders must have been quite happy that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself announced his decision to step down. Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and other top Congress leaders evidently found it difficult to make any announcement about Rahul Gandhi being their party’s nominee for the post of the PM. They did not want to hurt him. Though they do not say it openly, they feel that Manmohan Singh is in no small way responsible for the corruption taint the party has got. The prime minister had to take steps in order to save the party and avoid the mid-term elections. There is a hidden perception among the top Congress leaders that with the exit of Manmohan Singh, the party’s image will be better. It is clear that the party has forced him out. They would like to quietly make a scapegoat out of him and present a better image.

Some of the Prime Minister’s statements – when he announced his exit – were quite desperate. For instance, his declaration that if Narendra Modi became the prime minister it would be disastrous for the country is far from the truth. After the riots of 2002, there has been no disaster in Gujarat. There has been total peace in Gujarat and there has been growth in industry and agriculture: in fact, Gujarat has fared better than many other states in achieving good governance and growth.

Will Rahul Gandhi, the PM nominee, be able to lead the Congress party to victory? If we go by his past performance, it can be clearly seen that he will be a big flop. In Delhi, there was thin attendance at rallies addressed by him. He campaigned for a long while during the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections but the Congress was trounced.

The Nehru or Indira Gandhi dynasty charisma no longer exists. He can do precious little when there is a mass perception against the Congress government. It will be impossible for him to wipe out the corruption taint which the Congress has acquired during the last ten years.

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SIDE from using some uncharacteristically strong words against BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Manmohan Singh’s third, and possibly last, press conference as Prime Minister was a non-event. Even after making allowance for the fact that the leader of the largest democracy in the world is a poor communicator, the PM had little to say. The few searching questions that were asked he ducked with his usual deadpan non-committals. A lot of fudge and evasion was on display but no fresh insight was forthcoming about the workings of the UPA and its future prospects.

Apologists would argue that the big news was his non-availability for heading the UPAIII government. But wasn’t that a given, considering that only a miracle can make a UPA-III possible. Besides, was Singh the prime ministerial candidate at the time of the UPA-I formation, or, for that matter, could he have staked his claim to the post had Sonia Gandhi nominated someone else to the PM’s post in May 2009? So, Singh impresses none while opting out of the race to lead the UPAIII. For all you know, whatever remains of the UPA might disappear after the next general election, given the ill-winds blowing against the Congress as evidenced by its rout in the recent Assembly polls.

But what he said about Modi was very much unlike Singh. In all likelihood, his aim was not so much to hurt Modi as it was to curry favour with his bosses in the Congress Party. He was keen to humour the Gandhis, who espy in Modi a very real threat to their own cosseted world, by using rather harsh words against the Gujarat Chief Minister.

Singh’s prognostication about Modi’s prime ministry to be a disaster clearly had a great element of self-delusion and self-absorption.

Had he paused for a moment to reflect on his own record, we are sure the PM would have refrained from using the disaster word for anyone else’s present or future government.

Again, the PM’s allusion to the Gujarat riots and to ‘the bodies lying on the Ahmedabad roads’ was in rank poor taste. It showed a deep sense of personal bitterness at Modi’s soaring popularity even as his own leaders’, who had thrust him in the prime ministerial gaddi in the first place, was sinking with each passing day. The prime ministerial restraint was missing in the attempt to paint Modi in the darkest of hues.

For a prime minister who had personally lived through, with an uncommon equanimity, in the worst-ever pogrom in the post-Partition India, in 1984, to talk of ‘bodies lying on the Ahmedabad roads’ was rather disingenuous, nay, opportunistic. Ahmedabad did not happen under his watch. Muzaffarnagar did.

And if Singh felt so strongly about communal violence, how one wishes he had said a word edgeways in the 75-minute press meet to show that he cares for the Muzaffarnagar victims who are running from pillar to post to rebuild lives after being uprooted from their centuries-old homes. Humanity and goodness ought not to be trumped by the compulsions of electoral politics.

On corruption and various scams, the PM mouthed the defence that is usually the preserve of the corrupt and criminal legislators.

Since the 2-G and the Coalgate scams had occurred in the UPA-I, and since the people had re-elected the UPA in 2009, corruption was only an issue for a section of the media and the Opposition. We did not expect the PM to try and white-wash the sins of the Government by relying on electoral outcomes.

For one, these scams might have occurred under UPA-I but these were revealed to the people only under the UPA-II. Besides, electoral verdicts never condone or justify crimes. If that was so, the Congress Party had won a record 420 seats in the parliamentary poll that had followed immediately after the

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anti-Sikh pogrom in Delhi and elsewhere in the country.

Also, the PM congratulated himself for having performed wonderfully well in framing a slew of new laws, in steering the economy in the difficult times, passing the Lokayukta law, etc. Much to-do was sought to be made about the economy recording nine per cent growth for the first time ever in 2004-05. Again, Singh was being too clever by half.

As any economist would readily acknowledge, growth rates are not like instant coffee, ready to be made at the turn of a key. The truth is that it was the momentum, the business cycle set in motion by the NDA government which resulted in the nine per cent growth in 2004-05. Since then it has been a downward march for the economy. And in the last year of the UPA-II, it would be a miracle if

INSIDE STORY Virendra Kapoor the economy can log even five per cent growth.

But the prime minister, the economist prime minister, would neither credit the Vajpayee government for the accelerated growth in the first couple of years of UPA- I, nor would he accept responsibility for the sharp deceleration in growth — thanks to the misgovernance and policy paralysis of the UPA governments. Having assumed that he is a saint who can do no wrong, Singh would blame all that is wrong with the economy — and there is a lot that is terribly wrong with it — on the global factors, while reserving kudos for self and his government. Frankly, that makes one ask: is Manmohan Singh sleep-walking through the prime minister’s job?

The prime minister seemed to have no use for the opinion of his contemporaries, saying that history would be kind to him than the prevailing public wisdom about his performance in office. Such historians who may rank him high in the pantheon of prime ministers would have to be totally oblivious to the current realities or must belong to the Congress school of history where a leader’s place is determined not by his intrinsic worth but by his proximity to the reigning durbar. Thus, one of the greatest Congress prime ministers, Narasimha Rao, can be airbrushed out of history while a goody-goody one like Rajiv Gandhi accorded a pride of place. For Singh to get on top of history, he will have to choose his own hagiographer.

Cancellation of chopper deal a cover-up

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HE cancellation of the Rs.3456-crore VVIP chopper deal is the most devious ploy to push the charges of bribe-taking under the carpet. The government last week cancelled the agreement for the purchase of 12 VVIP choppers from the Italian company, AgustaWestland NV, the Anglo-Italian firm. In the current anti-corruption atmosphere, the decision was clearly dictated by the Congress party’s need to present a clean front. Unfortunately, it is a case of too little, too late. For, the bulk of the money has already been paid.

Three choppers have already been delivered.

Above all, the procurement of choppers for the use of the VVIPs was need-based. Canceling the deal would mean that the President, Prime Minister and other high-ranking dignitaries would have to rely on the old, slow and often troublesome choppers. All this ought to have persuaded the government to insist on the refund of the huge amount paid in bribes to Indians to procure the order but not to cancel the delivery of the remaining nine choppers.

The panic decision to cancel the deal outright is akin to the government cutting its nose to spite its face. For, not only it stands to forgo a substantial part of the money already paid but it would have to go without modern and fully-equipped choppers for an unconscionably long period given the protracted procurement process leading to the final order. But a government neck-deep in corruption seemed to be unconcerned about the loss of taxpayers’ money so long as it could brazen out its public ordeal by arguing that it had cancelled the deal.

Cancellation of the deal in effect would mean that neither AgustaWestland nor the Indian bribe-takers would feel under any pressure to return the monies they had been paid directly or indirectly by the Indian government.

Indeed, cancellation is the ploy of the weak and vulnerable. Had the ruling party been convinced of its own innocence in the matter, it would have not only insisted on getting the ordered choppers but on getting the names of the bribe-takers also so that: (a) it could prosecute them here in India and, (b) extract the bribe amounts from them with simple interest.

In the earlier defence deals in which bribes had been taken, for example, the Bofors guns and the HDW submarines, the government had threatened to cancel the deal but stopped short of doing so. In fact, when it threatened to cancel the Bofors deal, the top executives of the Swedish gun-makers landed in New Delhi to name the bribe-takers and it was the Rajiv Gandhi government which shunned them like the plague. It was because Rajiv Gandhi already knew who the real bribe-takers were. In the AgustaWestland deal, though the Indian media has been amiss in not following the story more diligently, reports from Italy suggest that the documents filed in the ongoing trial of the company executives have yielded some tantalizing information.

As per reports, the diary seized from one of the key middlemen has revealed that not unlike the Bofors diary here again names of bribe-takers in not-so-cryptic abbreviations were written in a diary. For instance, there is an entry of a sizable amount against the name of AP. Now, if you wracked your brains a bit you will have no difficulty figuring out who that might stand for in the ruling establishment. Again, a huge chunk of bribe money has gone to an entity simply called, FAM. Again, if you put two and two together you should have no difficulty figuring out which family can be in a position to swing the deal in favour of the bribe-givers, especially when nearly half of the total bribe money involved in the deal is said to be entered in the diary against its name.

Now, one cannot completely rule out that the said middleman made these entries without actually giving a penny to AP or FAM, but given the history of bribe-taking and giving in all big defence deals, is it not the duty of the government to get at the root of the scandal and penalize the guilty? By simply canceling the deal, the effort seems to be to cover-up yet another scam of the UPA government.

This should not happen. Maybe the next government will try and get at the root of the scandal!

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Personal victory for Arvind Kejriwal Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal who arrived in small car to win the trust vote with the support of the Congress Party, addressed his first speech in the assembly hall recently. This speech was simple and honest and impressed everybody except the BJP who voted against him during the trust vote. I feel that with his simple living and high thinking as an aam admi he has overshadowed both the corrupt national parties – the BJP and the Congress – and has become the national challenger for the 2014 general elections.

This has in turn forced all the other political parties to change their style of functioning for their own survival. Kejriwal has become the darling of the crowd and has put a stop to the BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi’s way and its effect. All political parties must ape Kejriwal and his party’s policy to remove corruption and help the people, failing which they will be rejected by angry electorates.

— Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

THE Aam Aadmi Party government won a crucial trust vote in the Delhi assembly after the Congress and two other legislators extended support to it.

With only 28 legislators in the 70 member house, the AAP needed the backing of the Congress whose 15-year rule ended in December - to remain in office.

Eventually, the confidence vote moved by AAP leader and Education Minister Manish Sisodia was passed 37-32. This is a victory for the people of Delhi and for truth and honesty. The AAP depended on the Congress’ eight legislators who helped it cross the first hurdle. However, it will take time to topple the Congress government in the next six

months, unless Kejriwal takes immediate stern action the exCongress CM and other corrupt legislators. Kejriwal won the first round as his emotional speech made him the hero of the day. But how long the coalition will work is a thousand dollar question.

— C.K. Subramaniam, Sanpada

AS reported, Arvind Kekriwal has become the Chief Minister of Delhi with the support of the Congress party which was considered the beehive of corruption, scams and scandals by the AAP before the elections. It is therefore difficult to believe that there has been no secret deal, understanding or compromise between the two. Further it is almost a big mockery that superficially the AAP refuses to accept the support of the Congress, while the Congress insists on giving its suport and wants Kejriwal to become the CM though in minority. This almost amounts to, ‘You scratch my back and I scratch yours.’ The whole move by Kejriwal is a political ploy and exposes his double standard and hypocrisy. He is no crusader against evil, corruption, scams and scandals as he pretends to be.

politicians seem to have become aam aadmi friendly. It’s amazing how one man’s working has changed the way political parties now look at the electorate. The calendar of 1947 and 2014 are said to be identical. Can we expect a second independence this August 15, with the AAP government providing us with freedom from corruption nationally as well?

— S.P. Sharma, Mumbai

— Abdul Monim, Vashi

unilateral decision. His reverence to Anna Hazare is unquestionable, but he also believes that Hazare is only a good preacher sans performance. He focused his sole attention on New Delhi converting it into a model region to show the nation his intention and skill to deliver goods. He has decided to be the CM in Delhi to avoid the possibility of dilution of his concrete pre-poll promises. As of today, the AAP can grab the best national talent to its fold, along with couple of lakhs of hardcore volunteers. Though it is too early to predict anything we at least have something to cheer for the New Year amidst the current political cacophony!

— V.V. Narayan, Thane

THE VICTOR: With his simple living and high thinking Kejriwal has forced all political parties to change their style of functioning for their own survival.

THE Aam Aadmi Party is in top demand at the moment as top executives including industrialists and CEOs are resigning from their positions and joining the party to cleanse Indian politics of its dirt.

This is a new revolution after the pre-independence freedom movement but is more difficult as it involves dethroning our own corrupt politicians.

Ex-CEO Meera Sanyal of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the ex-CFO of Infosys, Balakrishnan are two of the AAP’s biggest catches among lakhs of educated citizens that have made a beeline to join Kejriwal’s new style of clean politics. Other celebrities must also join this movement which is gaining ground as it is now or never that we can drive corruption out of our shores.

EVERY politician seems to have an AAP in him. Days after Kejriwal and his party formed the government in Delhi and started implementing their agenda of providing free water and subsidised electricity politicians of other parties have suddenly been ‘awakened’ by the AAP inside them . Sanjay Nirupam seems to be the latest one who has written to the Maharashtra CM to subsidize electricity based on the AAP model. Suddenly

THE abrupt emergence of AAP on our political horizon has given us some genuine reasons to smile for the New Year! Well conversant with the current political imbroglio Kejriwal seems hellbent on turning the tables for the better. Ever since he shaped out the AAP he has been putting across an intelligent strategy to resurrect New Delhi from its present situation. Needless to say, he has a distinct clarity of vision.

The formation of the AAP was his

passes are sold, the event company should be ready to make up for the ON the last day of the year, people shortage which is bound to occur. have various plans with their fami- However, the organisers abscond lies and friends to enjoy the parties and leave gullible customers to foot organised in different parts of the their own bill over and above the city. But what happens when one amount paid. Since a number of buys passes for events which are permissions are required, the orbadly organised like the ones at ganisers and the venue should be Tulip Star and Hotel Renaissance. blacklisted, which will then make One wonders why permissions are the owners more careful about given to it to organise such events. whom to lend their place for an If the party is organised for a given event to. The incidents at Tulip Star number of persons, and if more and Rennaissance should wake up the authorities and the companies that organised the events and the owners who have collected a commission should be penalised and patrons should have the entire amount refunded to them.

introduced in India so that rapists are not spared, and the lewd lot will think not twice but a hundred times before committing such a heinous crime.

sharing their views on this subject.

Reverse sweeps, switch hits, and other moves have certainly made the game richer and more interesting.

— Jubel D’Cruz, Dombivili

— Altaf H Ladiwala, Bandra

New Year fiasco

— Mahendra Kalantri, Mumbai

‘Secular’ press THE activists of the Sanatan Sanstha, who were prosecuted for their alleged involvement in the Margao bomb blast case in Goa, were acquitted of all charges by the designated court. The ‘secular’ press has not carried this news in any of their channels. However, these channels were in a race with each other to highlight the arrests by the police for offences which they were not even remotely connected with.

— Vineet Phadtare, Mumbai

The problem of rape

PUNISH THE ORGANISERS: The companies that organised the events and the owners who have collected a commission should be penalised and patrons should have their money refunded.

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RAPE has become a terrible problem in India and has become endemic because our laws don’t act as a deterrent often leaving the culprits unpunished. Some rapists escape with light punishment or no punishment at all as they enjoy political clout, or our laws become a hindrance, as seen in the December 16, 2012 gang rape case where a rapist escaped severe punishment because he was a juvenile. Barbaric laws like stoning to death should be

Bat or skill?

THE game of cricket is getting faster with batsmen scoring centuries at 200 kms an hour. The recent 36 ball hundred by Kiwi all-rounder Cory Anderson spiked with 14 OF long hits over the fence LETTER THE DAY tells you the speedy cricket tale. Are the superbly crafted bats responsible for this or is the new breed of cricketers, phantoms with the bat? Cricket observers can do a service to cricket lovers by

— S.N.Kabra, Mumbai

SOME months ago when he visited this country, Phillips Kotler, the marketing guru, had made a very significant statement. In marketing, we have to do what the customer wants.

In the 1970s, a Japanese small car flooded the US auto market because the Japanese knew that

the Americans wanted a change and they ensured it. (Courtesy: Taiichi Ohno) The AAP too knew that people in this country wanted a change as they were fedup with corruption, fake promises and the looting by bureaucrats and politicians. The result is the cascading avalanche of support that the AAP is receiving across the country. The Congress, the BJP did not see the writing on the wall. Rahul wanted change but his ideas possibly were not appreciated by senior Congressmen. The 2014 elections are going to throw mind-boggling surprises as it happened in the recent Delhi elections.

— Harischandra Parshuram, Juhu

THE magnanimity of the Congress was in full display at the Delhi legi slative assembly when its state president, Arvinder Singh Lovely, delivered a lovely speech, tearing apart the new government’s wrong-doings in the last four days, particularly the impropriety of rushing through major populist decisions without the nod of the assembly and any budgetary provisions. Normally this stick alone would have been enough to go against the ‘confidence motion’ but, to the extreme fortune of the common man’s party, it was all meant to be constructive criticism without any detriment to the stability of the government – which he has been assuring time and again that “Dr. Harshvardhan remains a Chief Minister-in-waiting just like Narenda Modi for the PM’s post”.

Kejriwal also could not reply to any of the points raised by Dr. Harshvardhan, particularly where the money for all his populist measures will come from and annoyingly did not thank the Congress for bailing his party out.

Sooner or later this discourtesy and indifference is bound to be taken note of by the Congress, which will not be good for the AAP. — Dr. V. Subramanyan, Thane

The innocent suffer The Muzzafarnagar riots seem to have sparked off a blame game among major political parties in and around U.P. The ruling SP suspects a collusion between the BJP and the Congress. The BSP finds fault with the SP’s administration of the State. The Congress holds the BJP and the SP jointly responsible for the tragic events. In all this passing-the-buck-drama, the real sufferers are the innocent victims living in the relief camps, for whom nobody has any tears to shed.

WHERE DOES THE BUCK STOP? In all this passing-the-buck-drama, the innocent suffer since nobody has any tears to shed for them.

the newly elected CM of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal? In fact our CM should consider this and ensure that it is implemented as quickly as APROPOS ‘Congress leaders de- possible. He could also suggest to mand cut in power tariff for Mum- power suppliers that they reduce bai’ (ADC, Jan 2), it is indeed the cases of power theft and transa thoughtful and practical pro- mission losses, to cut down an posal to cut the current exorbitant avoidable loss of government revpower tariff, which enue. I think every Mumbaikar will Mumbaikars have been bearing for welcome this proposal of Sanjay a while. In fact, why can Mum- Nirupam, if it is taken up by the govbaikars not receive a 50 per cent cut ernment of Maharashtra.

— Bikram Banerjea, Mumbai in tariff as has been sanctioned by — Arun Malankar, Kalina

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own. Even if you do not worship tree spirit, you can love the tree.

Solve the Following Activity Sheet. Students who wish to avoid mistakes in the board examination and score well in the English subject, should practice this activity sheet. The following activity sheet is based on the Board Examination paper pattern. Answers of this activity sheet will be published on Friday.

b) Complete the following: (2) When you want to make a wish on a mango tree you should i) ......................... ii) ............................ iii) ............................... iv) ...............................

1) Read the following passage and do the given activities. 10 (a) Say whether the following statements are true or false 2

c) Form appropriate collocations by matching Column A with Column B 2

I) The salesman was unbearably slow.

II) The departure had not been delayed because of me.

The driver stopped at each shop we passed so I could look from the taxi window. The store has all sorts of ties, but not the kind I was looking for.

When I finally thought I had located the right shop, I decided to go and check. The driver refused to wait. Parking was prohibited, he said, I promised to double the fare, jumped out and ran into the shop. Was I going to miss the plane just for a damned tie?

The salesman was unbearably slow. When I realized that the smallest change I had was a ten dollar note, I grabbed ten ties of different colours so I wouldn’t have to wait for change. I rushed out with the ties in a paper bag.

On the street I looked around. The taxi had vanished, taking my suitcase. What is more, I was going to miss the plane.

I ran to the corner, and hope flared up again: the taxi was waiting in the next street. Quick, to the airport. As I settled down inside the taxi. I sighed with relief. Gilson was going to have enough initialized ties to last him, lifetime.

When I reached the airport, I paid the taxi driver the double fare and grabbed my suitcase. Panting, I boarded the plane under the reproachful gaze of the other passengers, all primly seated with their seat belts fastened. Ready to take off. Departure had been delayed because of me.

“At least I hope you found your tie,” said one who knew the story. “ I did,” I answered triumphantly.

I reached for the paper bag to show the ties. I had left it behind, in the taxi. (b) Why did the writer decide to pick up all the ten ties? 2 (C) Find out words from the passage which mean the following and write it in the blanks provided.

2 i) Seize suddenly and roughly ____________ ii) Victoriously _____________ (d) Combine the sentences using joining words given in the box.

1 (but, if, because, which) 1) I decided to go in and check…………….. the driver refused to wait.

2) We might go to school on time ……………….you hurry.

II) Fill in the gaps in the sentences choosing the correct question tag. 1 1) I looked around, (don’t I, didn’t I ?, haven’t I ?)

2) Gilson was going to have enough initialized lies,……………... (didn’t he? Isn’t he?, Wasn’t he?) (e) Narrate such an experience which happened in your life.

2 2) Read the following passage and do the given activities.

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I) II) III) IV) V)

ENGLISH (FIRST LANGUAGE) - 6 tunnel. Perhaps few teachers realize how far their influence extends or how much of a difference their actions and words can make. A number of my teachers have unfortunately taught me kindness and tolerance and patience by being precisely the opposite and quite obviously they aren’t the people I like to thank about but many of my teachers have been extra ordinary people who have not only taught in class but also helped made me and my character in every other way. I only hope that I live up to what their endeavors were undoubtedly meant to create.

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difficulty d) I am not even certain she remembers it.

2 (Rewrite using a word with prefix for the underlined word.)

(Make changes wherever necessary) e) Do you think teaching should go beyond the four walls of the classroom? Express your views.

2 Q II a) Read the following passage and do the given activities.

10 The Gods mentioned in the passage

Two trees mentioned in the passage

Influence of teacher

Sister Monica, however, wasn’t quite as lenient as that and spent most of the time telling me about the importance of regularity and hard work. She made me realise that success is like genius 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. It’s a lesson that has stood me in good stead.

The teachers I’m most grateful to, though, are not those who have taught me the most, but those who have simply been friends to me, believed me and believed in me. Prominent among them is Sudha Ramasubramanium - Rambo, as we used to call her. I didn’t know her too well. She taught me in college and apart from being incredible in class unless one missed class she also believed that I actually had a problem when I developed an injury. Despite my missing an exam - the HSC, of all exams - she was the only person who told me to concentrate on my health and assured me that I could take the exam off the top of my head any time I wanted to.

I’m not even certain she remembers it, but at the time, it felt like one of the only rays of hope in an extremely dark

Column B 1) Fulfilling 2) Grove 3) Vriksha 4) Spirit 5) Spring

d) I) No sooner was his pyre lit than he got up and walked away.

1 (Rewrite the sentence beginning with; As soon as.)

II) You do not worship the tree. You can love the tree, (but, when, because) 1 (Rewrite using the correct conjunction from bracket.) e) Trees are protectors of nature. What is your opinion? 2 c) Read the following passage and do the activities given below.

10 a) Fill in the blanks choosing the correct word from the passage.

2 i) One brother was married and had .................... ii) The brothers shared their produce and profit ...............

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b) Why was the author grateful to some teachers?

Column A Sacred Wish Tree Kalp

In the folklore of India, the mango is the ‘wish fulfilling tree’.

When you want to make a wish on a mango tree, shut your eyes and get someone to lead you to the tree, then rub mango blossoms in your hands and make your wish. The favour granted last only for a year and the charm must be performed again at the next flowering of the tree. In spring, the young leaves and buds symbolize the darts of Manmatha or Kama-deva, god of love. Another ‘wishing tree’ the Kalp-vriksha, is an enormous old mulberry that is still cared for at Joshimath in Garhwal. It is said to be the tree beneath which the great Shankarchrya often meditated during his sojourn in the Himalayas. Judging by its girth, it might well be over a thousand years old.

Whole forests have been held sacred, such as that in Berar which was dedicated to particular temple, no one dared to buy or cut the trees. The sacred groves near Mathura, where Lord Krishna sported as youth, were also protected for centuries. But now, alas, even the hallowed groves are disappearing, making way for the demand of an ever increasing population. A pity, because every human needs a tree of his

Two brothers worked together on the family farm. One was married, had a large family. The other was single. At the day’s end, the brothers shared everything equally, produce and profit.

Then one day the single brother said to himself, “It’s not right that we should share equally the produce and the profit. I’m alone and my needs are simple.” So each night he took a sack of grain from his bin and crept across the field between their houses, dumping it into his brother’s bin.

Meanwhile, the married brother said to himself, “It’s not right that we should share the produce and the profit equally. After all, I’m married and I have my wife and children to look after me in years to come. My brother has no one, and no one to take care of his future.” So each night he took a sack of grain and dumped it into his single brother’s bin.

Both men were puzzled for years because their supply of grain never dwindled. Then one dark night the two brothers bumped into each other. Slowly it dawned on them what was happening. They dropped their sacks and embraced one another. b) How did the brothers try to express their love for each other?

(2) c) i) The spellings of the following words are in a jumbled up manner. Write them correctly.

1) edrcaemb (1) 2) dewnda ii) Find out the antonyms of the following words from the passage.

1) loss (1) 2) nothing d) I) They dropped their sacks and embraced one another.

1 (Rewrite the sentence beginning with “Dropping their...

II) I express my love towards my brother and sister by 1 i) .............................. ii) ................................ iii) ................................ iv) ................................ e) My feelings 2 I express my love towards my brother and sister by i) .............................. ii) ................................ iii) ............................... iv) ...............................

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While inbound mergers & acquisitions (M&A) deals drop, outbound investments by the Indian corporate sector grow, clearly revealing a change in the dynamics of cross border deals.

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By Dominic Rebello

ndia’s Outbound Indian mergers & acquisitions (M&A) deals are on the rise and have surged 83.1% to US$9.7 billion in 2013 after witnessing a slow 2012 (US$5.3 billion).

Similarly, foreign firms acquiring Indian companies in 2013 reached US$15.0 billion, a 43.5% increase from last year, despite number of announced deals slipping 13.3% from 2012.However, the country’s Overall M&A Activity Down 11.5% in 2013 – Lowest since 2009, reveals the Thomson Reuters latest report ‘INDIA M&A Review for Full Year 2013’.

India’s outbound acquisitions focused on the Energy & Power sector as deal value reached US$5.6 billion, and captured 58.4% of India’s foreign acquisitions. Industrials followed in second place with 27.8% of the market share, or US$2.7 billion worth of announced M&A deals.

Mozambique was the top most targeted nation in terms of value which accounted for 52.9% of the

market share worth US$5.1 billion from three deals. United States, however, saw the most number of announced transactions with 21 deals valued at US$2.8 billion, a 53.3% increase from last year and captured 28.8% of India’s outbound M&A market share.

However, India’s Overall M&A Activity was Down 11.5% in 2013; the lowest since 2009. The value of announced mergers & acquisitions (M&A) deals involving Indian companies reached US$31.5 billion in 2013, an 11.5% decline from last year’s activity, and the lowest annual period since 2009 (US$21.5 billion). Deal count also slowed down as number of M&A transactions dropped 12.6% to

967 from 1,107 announced deals in 2012.

In the fourth quarter of 2013, overall Indian M&A totaled US$7.1 billion, a 28.5% sequential increase from the third quarter of 2013 but, on the other hand, saw a 29.8% drop from the fourth quarter of 2012.

The average M&A deal size for transactions with disclosed values involving India climbed up to US$76.1 million so far this year, as more deals were announced above US$1-billion in value, compared to US$73.5 million in 2012.

Domestic M&A stood at US$5.2 billion, down 68.9% compared to last year, and the lowest annual period since 2004 (US$2.0 billion). The bulk of domestic activity focused on the Materials sector with US$1.5 billion, down 75.4% from last year, but nonetheless captured 29.4% of India’s domestic M&A activity this year.

Total crossboard M&A grew 56.8% to US$24.7 billion compared to the annual M&A activity in 2012 driven by the 43.5% and 83.1%

increase in India’s inbound and outbound M&A activity, respectively.

Completed M&A deals involving Indian companies totaled US$29.0 billion, a 49.5% growth from last year’s US$19.4 billion volume.

Energy & Power Takes the Lead with 21.1% Market Share The Energy & Power sector accounted for majority of the acquisitions involving Indian companies with 21.1% market share worth US$6.7 billion, a 173.3% increase from last year.

Healthcare followed next and captured 15.8% of the market share with US$5.0 billion worth of deals, up 24.5% from the previous year.

The Industrials (14.9%) and Telecommunications (13.9%) captured an aggregate market share of 28.8% as both sectors witnessed a significant rise in deal value with a triple digit percentage increase of 164.7% and 347.3%, respectively, from 2012.

Private Equity-backed M&A in India Down 46% - Lowest since 2009 Buyside Financial Sponsor M&A activity targeting Indian companies totaled US$2.6 billion in 2013, a 45.6% decline from 2012, and witnessed its slowest annual period since 2009 when deal value fell to US$2.4 billion.

The Healthcare sector accounted for 25.7% of the private equity-backed M&A activity in India with US$661.3 million, despite the 1.1% drop in deal value from last year. High Technology accounted for 22.7% of the private equity-backed M&A activity in India with US$584.0 million, a 225.7% increase from the comparable period last year despite the 15.0% drop in the number of announced private equity-

backed M&A deals this year.

India Inbound M&A Activity Up 43.5% in 2013 Foreign firms acquiring Indian companies in 2013 reached US$15.0 billion, a 43.5% increase from last year, despite number of announced deals slipping 13.3% from 2012.

The bulk of inbound acquisitions focused on the Healthcare sector in terms of deal value and captured 27.3% of India’s inbound M&A activity with US$4.1 billion, a 102.2% growth from the previous year’s volume.

United Kingdom-based Unilever PLC raised its interest to 51.55% by acquiring a 14.78% stake in Hindustan Unilever Ltd for INR 600 (USD 11.177) in cash per share, or a total value of US$ 3.573 billion (INR191.82 billion).The deal bolstered acquisitions in India from United Kingdom to reach US$7.0 billion, which accounted for 46.9% of India’s inbound M&A activity in terms of deal value. Meanwhile, United States saw the most number of deals with 86 announced M&A transactions worth US$3.6 billion.

Incidentally, completed M&A Advisory Fees in India are also Up 33.2%. According to estimates from Thomson Reuters/ Freeman Consulting Co., M&A advisory fees from completed transactions in India totaled US$133.4 million in 2013, a 33.2% increase from the comparable period in 2012.

Citi took the top spot for imputed fee rankings on M&A advisory work related to completed M&A deals in India for the year 2013 with US$16.2 million, and accounted for 12.1% market share of the fee pool.

Defence Shipbuilding Gets A Boost

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By Clifton Desilva apidly changing global geopolitical equations and cross-border terrorism require every country in the world to maintain strong defence capabilities. India’s geostrategic location from the global perspective, its territorial borders of over 15,000 kms and its coast line of about 7,500 kms make it critically important to keep defence preparedness up at all times and create requisite infrastructure that completely safeguards the

national interests.

From this perspective, the Government of India has remained committed to strengthening defence capabilities of the Country, which is evident from the increased defence allocation of Rs 2,03,672 Crore in the Union Budget 2013-14, representing growth of 14% from previous year’s revised defence outlay.

Increased defence allocation includes hike of 25% in planned defence capital expenditure, which will rise to Rs86,741 Crore for acquiring/ accessing modern equip-

ments and technologies, despite the prevailing economic climate that has necessitated rationalized spending in several other areas. The Government has also committed that no constraints will come in the way of providing any additional resources for the security of the nation.

India’s military modernization initiatives currently lean heavily towards the Air Force and Navy. This conforms to a larger defence landscape where aerospace and maritime domains are likely to play a

critical role in the future. The Country’s naval modernization expenditure is expected to increase by 33% next fiscal year to Rs 23,479 crore, the highest increase of the three armed forces.

In order to establish self-reliant indigenous provision of defence products and services and enhance national competence while achieving modernization of the Indian Armed forces, the Ministry of Defence initiated series of reforms to allow Indian private sector access to defence contracting.

The Indian Navy presently has a fleet of 121 active ships and 15 active submarines. In addition, about 50 (as per information available on Indian Navy website 2011) warships are under construction at public sector shipyards and more than 100 vessels are still in the pipeline. This includes a wide range of vessels of strategic importance to the Country – aircraft carriers, submarines, landing platform docks, destroyers, patrol vessels etc.

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Future Bright For Pipavav Defence And Offshore CLIFTON DESILVA

is an investment expert and a Director at Altina Securities.

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« COMPANY VIEW

ipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Company Limited is India’s first integrated Defence Company with focus on Warship building and the company contributes towards the Indian Government’s policy of self-reliance in manufacture of strategic defence assets and in the process the company has emerged as an exporter of Warships.

The company is also a global maritime player in fabrication, repair and refurbishment of Offshore Oil & Gas Exploration and Production assets (“Offshore Assets”) and Commercial Ship building and is also the largest maritime infrastructure in India and one of the largest dry docks in the world.

The Joint Venture Company “Mazagon Dock Pipavav Defence Private Limited” formed in December 2012 –is the first public-private partnership in the defence sector in India to build surface warships for the Indian Navy.

Mazagaon Dock Ltd. Is India’s premier defence public sector undertaking accounting for more than 85% of naval vessels built in India and having an existing order book of more than Rs 95,000 Crore?

SAAB AB, Sweden (“SAAB”) invested approx.

Rs 201 Crore in the Company. This is the first strategic investment made by a global defence major in an Indian company focusing on defence market. SAAB is a global leader in military hardware, meant for Army, Navy and Air force and will bring in advanced technology into India through the Company, which will immensely benefit India’s armed forces.

To execute the anticipated Naval and Offshore Assets projects, construction of a new dry dock is in progress. Upon completion of the new dry dock, the Company will have one of the largest dry-docking capacities at a single location in the world.

The Company operates in various business segments that are sub-classified into the following (i) Defence Shipbuilding; (ii) Offshore Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Assets Construction (“Offshore”); (iii) Commercial Shipbuilding and Repairs; (iv) Defence Hardware & Services for the Indian Armed Forces; and (v) Heavy Engineering.

i. Defence Shipbuilding In order to establish self-reliant indigenous provision of defence products and services and enhance national competence while achieving modernization of the Indian Armed forces, the Ministry of Defence initiated series of reforms to allow Indian private sector access to defence contracting.

The Company has made significant progress in aligning with this national objective. During the year under review, the Company became the first private sector company in India to form a joint venture company with Mazagon Dock Limited, India’s premier defence public sector undertaking, to build surface warships for the Indian Navy. ii. Offshore Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Assets Construction The market for offshore business depends primarily on the oil and gas industry, which is rapidly expanding due to increased exploration and production activity, particularly in the western

coast of India.

India is highly dependent on import of oil to meet its rising demand. India consumes about 3.3 million barrels of oil per day, making it the fourth largest oil consumer in the world and the fifth largest oil importer at about 2.4 million barrels per day. India’s oil demand is ever increasing; it is expected to become the third largest consumer globally by 2030 based on current trends. India imports majority of its crude oil from the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia and Iran. On the other hand, India produces only 942 thousand barrels per day and ranks 22nd globally on total oil production and 24th on crude oil production.

Offshore exploration accounts for 67% of India’s total crude oil production and the Government of India recognizes the need for intensifying exploration initiatives to address the growing need for energy resources, thereby increasing energy security of the Country. The Government conceptualized the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) to boost domestic production of oil and natural gas. Under NELP-IX, a total of 33 exploration blocks were offered, majority of which were awarded to Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (“ONGC”), Oil India Ltd. and Reliance Industries Ltd. This will accelerate oil & gas exploration and production activities in the Country resulting in increased demand for advanced offshore structures, subsea architecture and advanced drilling technology The Company possesses requisite infrastructure and technical capabilities to fabricate, repair and maintain offshore assets like mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), mobile offshore production units (MOPU), jackets, offshore platforms, topside modules, floating production, storage & offloading units (FPSO), floating storage and regasification vessels (FSRU) etc.

The Company also secured contract worth approximately Rs 400 Crore from ONGC for “Sagar Laxmi Modification Project”. „Sagar Laxmi’, a Mobile Offshore Production Unit, is a critical asset for ONGC for its offshore operations.

In the years to come, given the facts, there will be tremendous demand for efficient and technically advanced offshore structures on the back of increased exploration activity and replacement demand as majority of global offshore assets are more than 20 years old and among Indian players, the Company is well positioned to capitalize on this opportunity. iii. Commercial Shipbuilding and Repairs

The world’s commercial shipbuilding industry is highly co-related to the developments in the global shipping industry. The global shipping industry is dependent on key indicators like world Gross Domestic Production, demand and supply of various commodities. Moreover, charter rates across all shipping segments remain subdued on concerns of over capacity, reduced demand from international trade and unfavorable economic climate. All these factors contributed to sluggish growth of global shipbuilding industry during financial year 2012-13.

India’s overseas trade has been growing at a good pace. The Indian merchant fleet will need significant capacity additions leading to immense scope of growth for Indian shipbuilding industry.

Domestic shipbuilding companies also enjoy cost advantage as compared to their global peers in South Korea, Japan etc.

Considering the recommendations of the National Manufacturing Competitive Council and Shipyards Association of India, it is understood that the Ministry of Shipping has proposed revival of the subsidy scheme for private shipbuilders in the country after nearly six years, after it was discontinued in 2007. It is further understood that besides subsidy support, the Ministry of Shipping has also proposed various initiatives such as removal of customs duty on capital goods imported for shipbuilding, Infrastructure status to the Shipbuilding industry, reservation for Indian built-Indian flagged ships to transport coastal cargo, 10% purchase price preference to Indian companies as well as relaxation of eligibility criteria for Indian yards in tenders of state-owned companies, to boost the sagging domestic shipbuilding sector.

In addition to this, Ship repairs industry is likely to make a significant contribution to the industry’s turnover as India is located strategically on the busy international sea trade routes. India is poised to establish itself as a hub for ship repair/ refit activities. The Company is ideally positioned to seize these opportunities as it boasts of most modernized state of the art shipbuilding and repair facilities. This will translate into a continuous flow of business and consistent generation of revenue.

iv. Defence Hardware & Services for the Indian Armed Forces India is amongst the world’s top countries in terms of defence expenditure. Opportunities from the defence hardware & services sector are huge as the Government is encouraging indigenous production of defence hardware required for the

armed forces. The Company is well placed to capture the ensuing demand, based on its infrastructure and engineering capabilities. v. Heavy Engineering Indian Heavy engineering industry has witnessed unprecedented growth as a result of increased investment in infrastructure development and is expected to grow in future owing to favorable regulatory policies and new investments in power projects, metals, rail infrastructure, oil & gas exploration & production, aviation sector etc. The upsurge in industrial growth coupled with supportive government policies has augured well for the heavy engineering sector.

The Company is set to benefit from these initiatives.

Outlook The financial year 2012-13 was full of milestones for the Company. During the year, the Company delivered three (3) vessels; one (1) no. of Panamax Bulk Carrier, the largest bulk carrier of its class to have ever been built in India, for its international customer and two (2) nos. of Offshore Supply/ Support vessels (OSVs) to ONGC. Apart from comprehensive initiatives in the Defence sector contract for construction of five Naval Offshore Patrol Vessels, the Company strengthened its position in the offshore space, by winning a contract from ONGC worth Rs 400 Crore, for Sagar Laxmi Modification Project.

Going forward, the fiscal year 2013-14 holds many opportunities for the Company. The Company looks forward to inflow of orders from the Defence and Offshore sectors following JV with Mazagaon Dock and on the back of stronger partnerships in the offshore space. The Company has, since inception, developed state-of-the-art infrastructure and remains dedicated to building on the foundation by constructing a new dry dock. This project is moving forward as planned, based on capital commitment of about Rs 4,000 Crore. The Company believes that these investments will pay off as revenues expand consistently, the objective being to significantly reduce debt in the near future.

The Company went public in the year 2008 by issuing 8.55 crore shares to the Public at a price of Rs 58. The current price is Rs 43.50. The 52 week high was Rs 93 while the low was at Rs 39.

In view of the bright prospects for the company we are of the view that the stock is a good buy at the current rate with a target price of around Rs 60 over the next 12 months time generating a return of around 40%.

MF Assets Rise By Rs 85,000 Cr

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By Dominic Rebello

he assets managed by mutual funds rose by nearly Rs 85,000 crore or about 11% to Rs 8.78 lakh crore in 2013, with HDFC MF retaining its top position. The country’s 44 fund houses together had an average AUM (Asset Under Management) of Rs 7,93,331 crore at the end of 2012, which increased to Rs 8,77,973 crore in 2013, as per latest data available with industry body AMFI (Association of Mutual Funds in India). Commenting on the MF numbers, Sundeep Sikka, AMFI chairman and chief of Reliance MF said,” Growth in AUM is mainly due to good liquidity and higher inflows in debt funds.”

Fund houses are upbeat about an even better performance in 2014 on account of various measures initiated by market regulator Sebi as well as plans of individual players to expand the distribution network across the country, particularly to smaller cities.

The total AUM includes about Rs 5,777 crore managed through domestic funds. Of the 44 fund houses, 26 saw their AUMs rise during the period, while 17 witnessed a decline. The registration of Daiwa MF has been cancelled by Sebi following the transfer of its schemes to SBI MF. Among the large funds, ICICI Prudential MF was the biggest gainer followed by Reliance MF, while HDFC MF saw the smallest growth. In terms of total funds, HDFC MF managed to retain the top slot, followed by Reliance MF and ICICI Prudential. HDFC MF had an average AUM of

TOP PERFORMING FUNDS

Scheme Name ICICI Prudential Exports and Other Services Fund - Growth Templeton India Ultra Short Bond Fund- Super IP - Growth HDFC Index Fund - Sensex Plan LIC Nomura MIP - Cumulative Kotak Banking and PSU Debt Fund - Growth Religare Invesco Overnight Fund - Growth IDFC G Sec Fund - Short Term– Reg - Growth SBI Magnum Balanced Fund - Growth

Nature Equity Debt Equity Debt Debt Liquid Gilt Balanced

1 M% 4.52 0.88 -0.03 0.65 0.8 0.68 0.11 1.89

6 M% 35.5 5.01 7.83 4.71 5.34 4.58 5.57 11.08

1 Y% 41.23 10.05 7.04 8.18 9.68 9.8 10.31 9.84

mum investment amount ICICI Prudential MF has changed the maximum investment amount under ICICI Prudential EquityArbitrage Fund and ICICI Prudential Blended Plan A. The maximum investment amount per investor across all folios on the basis of cumulative cost has been capped at Rs. 10 crore under each scheme. The change will be effective from January 01.

3 Y% 13.13 9.88 0.93 5.22 8.43 8.52 6.92 5.21

*Note:- RReturns calculated for less than 1 year are Absolute returns and returns calculated for more than 1 year are compounded annualized. NAV as on January 03, 2014.

about Rs 1.09 lakh crore at the end of 2013, a 7.5% rise from the preceding year.

ICICI Prudential’s AUM rose by an impressive over 19% to Rs 97,200 crore, while Reliance MF’s AUM climbed by 13% to Rs 1.02 lakh crore.

Besides, Reliance MF has surpassed Rs 1 lakh crore mark after a gap of two quarters.

In 2013, overall AUM increased on strong inflows in categories such as bonds and liquid funds, industry estimates show. This was the second consecutive yearly rise in the MF industry AUM, after a drop in the assets base for two preceding years.

MUTUAL FUND UPDATE

JM Arbitrage Advantage Fund Announces Dividend JM Financial MF has announced January 7 as

the record date for declaration of dividend under dividend option and (direct)-dividend option of JM Arbitrage Advantage Fund.

Kotak MF announces change in fund manager Kotak MF has announced that Kotak Mahindra 50 Unit Scheme (Kotak 50) will be managed by Harish Krishnan, with effect from January 01.

Sahara MF appoints Subhash Chander Gupta as independent director Sahara MF has announced that Subhash Chander Gupta has been appointed as an independent director on the board of Sahara AMC with effect from December 27, 2013.

ICICI Prudential MF has changed the maxi-

Tata MF announces changes Tata MF has decided to revise the load structure under all the plans/options of Tata Treasury Manager Fund with effect from January 01.

Accordingly, the revised exit load will be nil.

Canara Robeco MF announces changes in exit load Canara Robeco MF revised the exit load of Canara Robeco F.O.R.C.E Fund to 1.5%, for redemptions within 12 months and 1% for redemptions between 12 and 18 months. Earlier, the fund charged load at 1% for redemptions within 12 months. Further, the fund house removed exit load from Canara Robeco Gilt Fund, which previously charged 0.5 % for redemptions within 6 months of allotment. The changes will be effective from January 01.

Axis announces dividend Axis MF has announced dividend under the dividend option of Axis Long Term Equity. The record date has been fixed as January 6.

USD/INR Expected To Trade Between 62 - 64 PRAMIT BRAHMBHATT is CEO of Alpari Financial Services (India)

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uring the last week, the Rupee depreciated by over 1% after taking cues from local equities which traded weak and closed down by almost 2% on a weekly basis as lower than expected Services PMI data dented the confidence of investors. Last year alarming domestic and global economic concerns substantially depreciated the Rupee. The

USD/INR pair made a historical high of Rs 69.22 in the month of Aug 2013, after the Federal Reserve released a statement, and said that it could begin to reduce the amount of bonds it buys. Rupee depreciated by over 12% for the year 2013. Immediate resistance for spot USD/INR pair is at 63.00. The trading range for the USD/INR for coming week is expected to be within 62.00 to 64.00.

It is recommended to be cautious and Buy USD/INR Futures on dips with the appropriate stop loss as Rupee is expected to depreciate against dollar. Pivot Point for the Pair is at 62.28 and below is the Support & Resistance levels.

After the gains in the year 2012, most major markets continued to rise in 2013, with some reaching their record or multi-year highs.

However, the markets became more volatile on concerns over a tapering of the monetary stim29 Jan 14 USD/INR

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ulus in the US in June. Towards the end of the last year, the much awaited tapering decision was taken in a two day meeting. In mid December, the Fed said it would cut the size of its monthly asset purchases; the tapering will begin in January 2014, with likely cuts of $10 billion/meeting, which would bring the program

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to an end in mid-December 2014. The tapering news did not affect much as it was already discounted by the market. Before the FED announcement of tapering, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan showed confidence on achieving fiscal deficit target for 2014 and stated that India is in better position if FED taper takes place. Indian markets in 2013 were mainly dominated by domestic events, data and policies like Inflation, GDP, CAD, State Elections and Monetary Policies. The high point for Indian equity market came at the end of the last year; it celebrated the business-friendly BJP’s win in four state assembly elections, as exuberant investors lifted the stock indices to new intraday highs. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex and the NSE Nifty soared to hit new all-time high of 21,483.74 and 6,415.25 points, respectively, on sustained fund inflows after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s spectacular performance in assembly elections amid a firming overseas trend.

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« BRAND GYAN JAGDEEP KAPOOR

is CMD of Samsika Marketing Consultancy

Develop A Robust Brand

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n order to develop, grow and sustain a robust brand, it is crucial that strategic brand management is systematically deployed and practiced. On a widespread and objective assessment, most Indian companies are still adopting tactical, short term measures for managing their brands. In many domestic companies, sales and operations pass off as brand management. Only a few Indian companies have built strong brands which have helped them grow in sales, volume, market share and profitability. Many FMCG groups are beginning to raise awareness of the corporate image which will in time provide the ultimate in brand power. Internationally, Nestle has led the way, while in India Dabur has effectively used its corporate image.Brands have been mostly built by sustained advertising, promotion, product improvement and sales and distribution efforts, including activity at point of sales. In India, the value of brands emerged only after liberalization. To my mind, the sale of brands like Thums-Up and Limca, Good Knight and even Kissan, made Indian companies sit up and start taking the values of brands seriously.

This led to the desire and need to build brands.

To achieve this, it is important to have trained manpower and effective brand managers. I have found an immense gap in terms of what is desired from a brand manager and what is being delivered.

If one were to examine the elements of the marketing mix and segregate them into eight sub elements, it will be found that most brand managers are unable to contribute to more than three of these. In the case of advertising and sales promotion, both sub-elements are fairly well coordinated by today’s brand managers. The next two elements, namely costing and pricing, are invariably neglected in hope that the finance department would handle those. Of the next two sub-elements, sales and distribution most brand managers look down upon these from an apparently high pedestal. Finally, of the last two sub-elements of packaging, design and product ingredients, the first is taken care of while the latter is left to the production department. As can be seen, these three-eight brand managers miss out vital tasks in practice.

In food sector, Uncle Chipps had done well for itself in keeping its brand excitement alive while Monginis has systematically built its brand through the franchising route. Frooti has made a great progress through innovations in packaging and spread of distribution. Mineral water Bisleri used its first mover advantage.

There are still robust brands like Panama cigarettes, Bedekars, Bakemans and Hipolin detergents that can do well provided consistent strategic brand management is deployed, Indian brands doing well in highly competitive fields are Amul, Nirma, Parachute and Cinthol.

In the ultimate analysis, it is crucial to note that there must be a strategic direction taken towards the building of brands. It is heartening to note that Indian companies are now starting to practice brand management for brands. Oonth Chhap Bidis is an excellent case in point, in Maharashtra. If Indian companies can open their eyes and minds and move towards strategic brand management, they are bound to see a surge in sales, market share and profits.

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Jagdeep Kapoor can be contacted at jk@samsika.com

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as the much-awaited green shoots in the economy look illusive in several segments of industry and services sector, the new government at the Centre will be faced with a difficult fiscal situation.

“On the one hand, there would be increasing expenditure due to populist and mega schemes in the social sector, on the other, the taxation kitty would not be robust enough in the face of slowdown,” the study said. Moreover, it found that the “prospects of a highly fractured mandate look real and that would not be a good development for the economy, ironically at a time when we are getting desperate for a turnaround.”

The study identified main challenges which will have to be fixed immediately by the new government, which

By A Special Correspondent

he uncertainty over the outcome of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections is likely to cast a shadow on the economy, adding to investor concerns, says a study by industry body Assocham.

The study said there was a rising concern among investors, industry leaders and economists about the possibility of an unstable government after the polls that may follow more of the ‘populist and Left of Centre policies’.

Such prospects increased after the results of the recent Assembly elections and strong emergence of the Aam Aadmi Party, it added. Assocham said even

Banks’ Bad Loan Rising On Pending Projects

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he burden of rising bad loans on banks can be reduced by speedy clearances and execution of pending projects, a top official of industry body PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry said. In an interview with PTI, the newly elected president of the chamber, Sharad Jaipuria, said economic slowdown and pending projects are the major reasons for rising bad loans of banks.

“Many of the projects are pending due to lack of clarity on the policy front between central and state governments, while many projects are being held up because of unavailability of raw materials such as coal,” he said.

Jaipuria, who is the Chairman & Managing Director of Ginni International, said that Congress VicePresident Rahul Gandhi has also accepted that there have been some hurdles on part of the government to execute these projects and all the impediments should be removed.

The Reserve Bank in its eighth Financial Stability Report expressed concerns on rising bad loans of public sector banks. The report cautioned if the situation is not improved, it may affect the banking system as well. In the last six months, there has been in an increase in bad loans of banks and their gross NPAs which stood at 4.2% in the quarter ended September may rise to 4.5% by September 2014, says the report.

On expectations of the industry

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from the new government after the General Elections, Jaipuria said: “Whosoever forms the government at the Centre after the elections, it should be strong and stable.”

“There should be confidence in the industry and businesses, policies should be implemented fast, and the projects which are being held up should be given speedy clearances. This will ensure disbursal of loans to these projects and thrust growth.”

He said projects worth Rs 10 lakh crore are being held up due to various reasons.

Fast implementation of these projects will generate employment and thrust the economic growth. He also emphasised on early implementation of GST, saying the tax regime will add about 2% to the GDP (gross domestic product).

On inflation, Jaipuria said the agriculture sector needs major reforms. “The farmers should be given information on crops before sowing and there is a need to develop mixed-crop technology. Vegetables could be grown along with traditional crops such as wheat and paddy.

“Most importantly, there is a need to develop storage facility to prevent wastage of vegetables and fruits.”

include maintaining a tight leash on government finances, besides chalking out and implementing a blueprint for restoring high growth which can generate large scale employment.

Apart from these challenges, Corporate India which is battling high debt in several sectors like real estate, telecom, wind energy, capital goods and infrastructure would have its own expectations from the new government, it said.

“The industry would need a big push from the new government in terms of reviving manufacturing and investment in the big ticket infrastructure projects requiring large scale financial debt,” the study said.

Proactive Political Leadership Is The Need Of The Hour

“T

he Indian economy currently growing below 5% GDP has huge potential for probable development. However roadblocks in the form of fragile leadership, lack of competent governance and poor infrastructural facilities play hindrance. Proactive leadership, progressive industrial policy and a conducive investment climate will fast pace economic growth of the nation”, said Joseph Owen, President, Development and Investment Advisory Services and Former Director, World Bank during an interactive meeting organized by MVIRDC World Trade Centre Mumbai and All India Association of Industries with the Ex-World Bank official.

The demographically large Indian nation should look forward to diversifying its economy. The rapidly progressing South American, Central American and Caribbean markets hold tremendous prospects for the Indian business community. This region is home to a large middle income consumption markets with access to formal credit institutes. The region is rich in natural resources such as iron, coal, oil and natural gas which may be tapped by potential investors. Also, the region commends itself for a stable political climate and conducive commercial atmosphere, he said.

Citing the growth story of China Owen said that the Chinese economy has undergone rapid industrialization due to paramount emphasis on its infrastructural sector. Also, China has invested huge capital in global markets which shall bear fruits in days to come. On the

similar lines it is suggested that Indian investors invest in global markets as well, Mr. Owen noted.

However, Owen cautioned Indian investors about the possible pitfalls in investing in an unfamiliar economic region. Prospective investors must study the macroeconomic scenario, the political situation and foreign investment norms before investing in an economy, he added.

The Latin American region and India must look forward to enlarging bilateral ties for mutually beneficial relationship in the long run. The Latin American region which is rich in natural resources such as iron ore, coal, oil and natural gas and agricultural products such as coffee, soya, sugar, pulp and paper may export the same to India. India may utilize these resources to boost its manufacturing sector and serve its large population, Mr. Owen said.

Secondly, the Latin American region can take learning lessons from the competent tertiary sector of India comprising of engineering and IT services, education, etc, Mr. Owen added.

Earlier, in his welcome remarks Vijay Kalantri, ViceChairman, MVIRDC World Trade Centre Mumbai and President, All India Association of Industries said that the Indian economy in its pursuit towards growth needs to address lingering issues in the form of sluggish industrial growth, rising inflationary pressures, lack of infrastructural facilities and deficient capital.

Also, establishing transparency in government

<<From (L-R) : Joseph M Owen, President, Development & Investment Advisory Services and Former Director, World Bank, Vijay Kalantri, Vice Chairman, MVIRDC World Trade Centre Mumbai and President, All India Association of Industries, Capt. Somesh Batra, Vice Chairman, MVIRDC World Trade Centre Mumbai during an interactive meeting on “Tapping the lucrative South and Central American and Caribbean markets- avoiding pitfalls and finding cost effective entry strategies” organized

by MVIRDC World Trade Centre Mumbai and All India Association of Industries. norms is vital. In order to boost its manufacturing sector and addressing the inflationary concerns India may import raw materials and crude oil from the Latin American countries.

Also, a conducive investment climate and able political leadership will attract foreign capital from the Latin American countries into India.

Corporate Debt Sales Dip, Overseas Bonds Sales Up

By A Special Correspondent ndia Inc raised USD 51.8 billion in debt during 2013 through primary bond sales, 19.5% down from the record USD 64.3 billion in the previous year.

The offshore US dollar-denominated bond sale by domestic companies touched a record USD 12 billion, up 47% after surpassing last year’s record annual volume of USD 8.1 billion, according to a report. According to investment bankers, the overall international debt raising

(including non-USD raising) by domestic firms touched a new high of USD 15.8 billion, up from USD 10 billion the preceding calendar year. Telecom major Bharti led the pack, raising USD 2.25 billion in overseas bonds, followed

by Reliance (USD 800 million in a perpetual bond sale), ICICI Bank (close to a USD 1 billion in multiple currencies), SBI (USD 750 million), Exim Bank over USD 1 billion in multiple currencies, HDFC (USD 500 million).

Debts raised during the October-December quarter touched USD 11.1 billion, a jump of 147.6% on sequential

basis from the third quarter, but down 32.6% from the year-ago period, as per Thomson Reuters report.

According to fee estimates by Thomson Reuters, i-bankers raked in USD 98.1 million in fees in the year, which is a 22.2% decline from the previous year.

The report further said, the majority of bond sales were issued by the financial sector players capturing 65.9% of the market share worth USD 34.2 billion in proceeds, but this too is down 26.9% from the previous year. Energy and power companies occupy the second slot raising USD 7.2

billion, down 7.1% from 2012, accounting for 13.9% of the market share. Notably, telcos saw a significant increase in proceeds this year with USD 3.6 billion raised from 8 new bond sales compared to USD 287.9 million from two issues in 2012. Decline in the domestic currency saw rupee-denominated bond sales falling 23.5% to Rs 2,21,680 crore from Rs 2,89,890 crore in 2012, as the number of new issues dropped 49.4% to 502 from 992 in 2012. Total proceeds in Q4 reached Rs 43,710 crore, a 66.4% sequential growth from Q3, but saw 41% decline

from the year-ago period when it stood at Rs 74,150 crore.

The financial sector accounted for 67.9% of the rupeebond sales worth Rs 1,51,510 crore — a 24.7% decline.

Energy and power sector followed with 11.8% of the deals worth Rs 25,530 crore, down 16.3%. Axis Capital, the ibanking arm of Axis Bank, topped the ranking for bonds underwriting, with related proceeds of USD 6.7 billion from 160 deals and accounted for 12.9% of the bonds issuance by domestic companies. In terms of its fee, the bank took home USD 6.9 million or 7% of fee pool market share.

MUMBAI | MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014

« STRAIGHT TALK

ROOP KARNANI

is a Senior Journalist, Author and Industry Analyst

Year Of The Smart Investor

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et me begin by greeting all readers a belated Happy New Year.

2014 will again be the year of the smart investor, just like the year gone by, but will create more wealth than before. Not too much more, but depends on how you read between the lines and anticipate situations both good and bad. Basically you have to be nimble and street smart. Broadly the first earnings season this month will set the tone for H1, while equations can change quite quickly in H2.

At the end of January, expect Nifty to move up to between 6300 to 6500, which will remain a trading range thereafter. During the Vote on Account in end February, I expect PC to meet his redline target of Fiscal Deficit below 4.8% of GDP. True the current deficit figure is almost touching the budgeted deficit – it is 94% of the budgeted deficit. But the spectrum auction will be a saving grace. Auction has been pushed back by 10 days to Feb 3, to extract maximum juice from it, some of it could also be utilized for populist scheme and yet the redlines will be met. PC is expected to sign off his innings with his usual wry smile on a triumphant note as far as saving the country from a downgrade by the international rating agencies.

As far as stock ideas for 2014 are concerned export oriented themes, private midcap banks and host of other beaten down sectors can give fairly good returns. More Indian brands will go global this year while those like Tata JLR, Tata Corus, Mahindra Ssangyong will consolidate.

I hear that Amul is going to make a foray into the big US Market, while Dabur will foray with more brands in South East Asia. These are just few names that come to mind. But Indian brands are definitely coming of age.

Bajaj, Bharti Airtel and Hero are other big brands which will consolidate themselves in Asia and Africa either organically or through acquisitions or both.

Auto Component manufacturers like Mother son Sumi, Amtek Auto, Bharat Forge and a host of others are scaling up to meet overseas demand.

Aviation stocks can also come into their own after a spate of big ticket tie ups by foreign players in this sector.

Why export themes will benefit is due to the fact that the INR has depreciated by 13 to 14% during 2013 which makes Indian companies very competitive compared to Chinese, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka.

While Indian manufacturing companies will beat Chinese both in quality and price the textile companies are now in a position to take on Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

For this reason big economies do not want their currencies to appreciate. Even US wants the dollar to remain weak and Japan has deliberately weakened its currency. Both US and Japan want exports to increase. India is no different and will keep the INR weak against the dollar going forward. 2014 therefore is going to be a year where shares of export oriented companies will outperform. But for smart investors they must be wary of the quality of managements, quality of products, and the quality of the balance sheets of these companies and policy action implications of the Government of the day.

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F&O SCRIPS WEEKLY SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE LEVELS FOR JANUARY 6 -- 10, 2014 Close

PP

1225

1269

251

259

284

1093 151 37 97

1101 154 38

66

APOLLOTYRE

106

106

ARVIND

ASHOKLEY

ASIANPAINT

AUROPHARMA AXISBANK

BAJAJ-AUTO

BANKBARODA BANKINDIA

BANKNIFTY BATAINDIA

BHARATFORG BHARTIARTL

146

308

234

209

169

64

181

64

187

111

44

103

495

512

1272

1283

655

655

1911

242

93

100

492

393

35

117

164

399

146

174

67

153

18

1075

194

142

19

62

60

95

1319

1354

1248

670

685

641

410

1918

1945

241

250

427

1972

259

376

15

358

1213

1891

1864

233

224

626

11277

11343

11591

11840

11095

10847

324

327

335

344

318

310

1049

1055

1099

1142

504

529

455

CAIRN

322

324

328

333

319

164

332 280 308 451

395

167

339 280 307

457

400

174

360 296 329

477

414

355

1012

480

CIPLA

167

461

17

488

CESC

89

478

22

BIOCON

CENTURYTEX

31

529

20

344

CANBK

139

120

334

BPCL

1048

131

331

BHEL

S2

1136

161

41

S1

1180

1155

100

178

R2

1314

1128

96

AMBUJACEM

ANDHRABANK

R1

1210

182

380 311

350 496

427

324

438

386

263

419

373

1365

1390

1415

1339

1314

DABUR

168

170

175

180

165

160

1283

1316

1217

1183

DISHTV

DIVISLAB DLF

DRREDDY EXIDEIND

FEDERALBNK FRL

58

1261 169

2518 118 85

79

59

1250 169

2533 120

85

77

63

174

2578 127 89

84

141 66

179

2622

134 94

91

271

121 55

164

2489

113 81

70

258 114 52

159

2444

106

77

63

GAIL

338

341

348

356

333

326

GODREJIND

272

275

285

295

265

255

GMRINFRA

24

24

26

27

23

22

GRASIM

2646

2678

2775

2871

2582

2486

HCLTECH

1270

1266

1282

1297

1250

1234

669

670

683

696

656

643

2112

2102

2133

2164

2071

2040

HINDALCO

120

121

125

129

117

113

HINDUNILVR

568

570

582

594

558

546

70

75

80

66

61

HAVELLS HDFC

HDFCBANK HDIL

HEROMOTOCO HEXAWARE

HINDPETRO HINDZINC

IBREALEST ICICIBANK IDBI

820 795

54

136

797

54

134

229

233

132

133

1076

1087

69 67

IDEA

164

IFCI

26

IDFC

812

67

166

837

803

57

140 245

136

1120 69

862 809

61

147

258

139

1153

72

787

792

50

128 221

130

1054

65

762

786

46

121

208 127

1021

62

175

184

156

147

27

28

25

23

106

108

113

IGL

271

271

276

280

266

262

INDUSINDBK

418

420

433

445

408

395

INDIACEM

60

26 60

64

119

68

102 57

97

53

INFY

3581

3555

3635

3716

3474

3393

IOC

203

207

217

228

196

185

ITC

316

319

328

337

311

302

71

75

67

64

IOB IRB

JINDALSTEL

JISLJALEQS

52 96

257 70

52 95

260

54

100

268

55

105

276 78

LT

LUPIN M&MFIN

MCDOWELL-N

MCLEODRUSS MRF

NFTYMCAP50 NHPC

NIFTY

50 91

252

49

PP

R1

R2

S1

19

20

21

18

53

54

1003

1012

1039

1065

722

745

769

1264

1270

112

112

718 217

218

57

1291

61

51

985

47

17

958

1313

1249

1228

118

123

106

100

229

240

698 207

674

196

1040

1100

1160

980

920

908

925

974

1023

876

826

321

932 322

961

327

990

332

903

316

874

311

2720

2667

2826

2985

2508

2349

19331

19362

19714

20065

19011

18659

19

19

20

21

19

324

2259 6252

324

2284 6287

335

2358

6394

346

2431

6500

313

2210 6181

302

2136

18

6074

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NTPC

141

146

150

3395

3364

3457

3549

3271

3178

218

223

237

251

209

195

133

ONGC

ORIENTBANK

278

PETRONET

123

PNB

623

PTC

61

PFC

POWERGRID

160

101

RANBAXY

483

RECLTD

214

RCOM

RELCAPITAL

SBIN

269

627

652

677

602

63

69

75

57

163

101 474

416

423 71

71

310

137

129

128

360

72

297

148

126

357

RPOWER

141

123

134

872

SAIL

283

133

RELIANCE RELINFRA

135

172

104

501

143

180 106

99

255

118 145

577 96

52

448

421

207

198

153

226

235

883

915

947

73

154

132

122

527

216

376

121

125

116

392

344

328

445

467

401

379

74

77

76

79

850 70

69

818 67

66

1722

1739

1789

1840

1688

1638

SRTRANSFIN

678

674

693

711

656

637

SUNPHARMA

584

581

592

603

570

SYNDIBANK

96

141

369

597

158

159

165

189

191

SIEMENS SSLT

SUNTV

631

200 372

TATACHEM

269

TATAMOTORS

366

TATAPOWER

85

TATAGLOBAL

TATAMTRDVR TATASTEEL TCS

TECHM TITAN

416

2227

UCOBANK

ULTRACEMCO UNIONBANK UNITECH

202 376

272

206 392

283 383

87

95

421

714

211

360

293

262

171

396

152

146

357

185

434

447

408

80

344 179

72

394

2152

2096

230

235

240

225

220

78

1884

1919

795

829

83

89

1815

729 73

1733

1749

1798

1847

1700

15

16

16

17

15

130

135

141

200

204

208

WIPRO

560

557

566

ZEEL

282

281

373

251

2320

762

116

344

2264

761

130

193

558

-314

202

102

571

-86

197

202

YESBANK

197

409

UPL

VOLTAS

607

2208

1849

78

678

370

1852

229

UBL

642

117

372

120 386

285

124

1780

695 68

1651

119

14

197

193

574

548

540

288

278

124

400

113

358

86

243

S2

1020

942

M&M

OFSS

285

1368

135

LICHSGFIN

249

265

COLPAL

128

KTKBANK

NMDC

315

9303

125

KOTAKBANK

297

431

9469

CROMPGREAV

JUBLFOOD

318

9968

311

JSWSTEEL

152

9801

298

19

159

9635

284

JPPOWER

314

9691 280

Close

969

CNXIT

COALINDIA

Company

JPASSOCIAT

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

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« TOP VIEW The basic premise should be that if our own Indian corporate sector has faith in economy, system and governance, and they are investing robustly, then foreign investments will come automatically. Fundamentals are strong and there is longevity. There is a deep market, jurisprudence, political stability and good economic fundamentals.

— Union Minister Sachin Pilot

« BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS FIRST CALL RESEARCH CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON DALMIA BHARAT

Adopt A Wait And Watch Policy NSE India : CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Monday (January 6, 2014) By Dominic Rebello

REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY:

The Nifty fell marginally on Friday (January 03, 2014) a net 10 points (0.16%) and closed at the 6211 point level. The market opened down with a gap at the 6194 points level. It then declined and turned into a range bound movement until 12.36 p.m. It then declined sharply and registered the day’s low at the 6171 points level at 1.00 p.m. The index then rose and then turned into a range bound movement until 3.00 p.m. It then rose sharply and registered the day’s high at the 6221 points level at 3.29 p.m. and then turned into a range bound movement until closing at the day. The Nifty witnessed a volatile session and moved in a range of 50 points. Sentiment was bearish and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 28 were losers, while 22 were gainers.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Volume: Volume (Qty shares) decreased 29.24%. This change is substantial but indicates a moderate participation by investors.

Market Breadth: Overall Market Breadth on the NSE was positive. Amongst all the traded stocks, 739 were gainers, 604 were losers and 86 remained unchanged.

Slow Stochastic Indicator: The Slow Stochastic Oscillator has declined in the neutral zone.

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

RSI Indicator: The RSI is above the 40 level but is now declining (negative if it continues).

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

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

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

Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main support is at the 5958 points level. The next support is at the 5877 points level.

Resistance Levels: The immediate main resistance is at the 6372 points level.

The next resistance is at the 6424 points level.

Pivot Point Analysis: For intraday traders the support and resistance levels are calculated according to the pivot point theory and are: Pivot point = 6201 (This is the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-day).

Support (1) = 6181.

Support (2) = 6151.

Resistance (1) = 6231. Resistance (2) = 6252.

OUTLOOK FOR TODAY: On Japanese candlestick patterns the index has formed a doji pattern. This indicates indecisiveness amongst investors. The next candle formation will confirm whether the bias is towards the buy or sell side of the market.

The index is below its 5, 15 and 25 days moving averages. Further, the 15 days moving average has dropped below the 25 days moving average. Moreover, the velocity parameters which were neutrally trended have now turned negative. All these indicate a negative bias.

However, the index still above its 200 days moving averages and is rising. Further, the 5 days moving average is above its 15 days moving average. Both these indicate a positive bias. As such these are mixed signals. Investors are advised to adopt a wait and watch policy, for a day or two until a clearer signal emerges.

Work with strict stop losses on all positions

MOVING AVERAGES (TREND INDICATORS) The index: Is below its 5-day average (at 6265) Negative.

Is below its 15-day average (at 6239) Negative.

Is below its 25-day average (at 6243) Negative.

Is above its 200-day average (at 5914) Positive.

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

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. 165 Target Rs. 184 Dalmia Bharat has reported a standalone total income from operations for the quarter stood at Rs. 547.90 million against Rs. 459.90 million in the corresponding quarter of the previous year and Rs. 560.30 million in the previous quarter. The EBIDT for the quarter was to Rs. 227.90 million from Rs. 206.90 million in the previous quarter an increase of 10.15 percent.

Net profit slightly increased to Rs. 188.50 million against Rs. 186.70 million in the corresponding quarter ending of previous year, an increase of 0.96 percent.

The consolidated total income from operations was Rs. 7400 million for the period as against Rs. 6840 million for the corresponding quarter ending September 30, 2012, an increase of 8 percent driven by increase in sale volume by 11 percent. The EBITDA for the quarter was Rs. 1010 million as compared to Rs. 1870 million in Q2 FY13. The industry continues to face challenging scenario with low demand and volatile prices. The Company is mitigating this risk through focused initiatives to reduce cost and capture market share.

The Company continues to improvise further on their efficiency parameters which have shown positive impact and it has been able to optimize the cost of production in North East and South operations. It is focusing on enhanced usage of petcoke & alternate fuel in klin and lignite in Captive Power Plants. Besides this, it also is doing necessary capex to bring down power consumption in cement grinding in North East operations. The company's all upcoming projects are progressing as per schedule. Over FY2012-15E, we expect the company to post a CAGR of 14 percent and 24 percent in its top-line and bottom-line respectively. Hence, we recommend 'BUY' on the stock with a target price of Rs 184,

SUNIDHI CALLS A ‘BUY’ ON BANNARI AMMAN

CMP: Rs. 108 Target Rs. 140 Prospects: High labour cost in the developed countries is driving out the textile and clothing business to low cost Asian countries such as India and China. Thus, there is no reason why Indian textile and clothing exports should not witness an upsurge from and sustain growth for years to come.

Indian textile industry plays major role in the economy of the country. The Indian textile industry secures over 17% of total foreign exchange of India.

It is having a significant share in the total Indian industrial production.

Indian Textile and Clothing Industry is the second largest producer of cotton and yarn in the world. India's young, upwardly mobile and lifestyle conscious demographic profile and the growing mall culture are likely to enhance the domestic market opportunity. Export prospects also look encouraging because economists worldwide are now increasingly convinced that recover y is gathering pace and are therefore revisiting their GDP forecasts. India has potential to increase its textile and apparel share in the world trade from the present level of 4.5% to 8% and reach US$ 80 billion by 2020.

Outlook: Going forward, BASML is positioning itself as a niche player specializing in fine counts and other value added segment and making every effort to earn relatively higher margins. Since inception BASML has evolved to be a leader in cotton yarn spinning in South India, commanding a premium in the market for its products. Participating across value chain will help the company to be a One - Stop - Shoppe player and face the growing competition going forward. This also help BASML to customize its product offerings as the global retailers are rationalizing the vendor base based on quality, specifications and pricing. With consistent modernization and expansion with machinery of latest technology, BASML is able to improve efficiency and successfully face global competition.

Valuation & Recommendation The expansion of its spinning unit and integration into fabrics and home textiles has enabled BASML to compete in the export markets with larger scale of operations. The higher value addition insulates it from pricing pressures in the highly commoditised cotton yarn industry. At the current market price of Rs 105, the share is trading at a P/ E of 3. 9 x on FY14E and 2. 8 x on FY15E. We recommend BUY with a target price of Rs 140 at which the share will trade at a P/E of 3. 7 5x on FY15E. Please send all business and corporate related mails to business@afternoondc.in

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« TAX SOLUTIONS ANAND TIBREWALA

MUMBAI | MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014

Riders Are Always Good And Should Be Availed MANOJ ASWANI

is a CA and Senior Partner at the leading Chartered Accountancy firm, AD & Company

Benefits Of PAN Number

I have just completed my education. I wish to start as a consultant and have received certain contracts. The parties are asking for my PAN No. I do not have any PAN No with me. What are the implications of not having a PAN No? —Radheshyam Tiwari, Andheri As mentioned, you have begun as a consultant. The Parties who have awarded contract would deduct Tax at Source. The normal rate of TDS is 10 % for consultant. If you do not have PAN No. then TDS rate would be 20 %. Also when you file your return of income, it would be difficult to claim TDS credit without PAN No. You should therefore apply for a PAN No. immediately.

is VP at MyInsurance Club.com

« INSURANCE

I am 28 years old. I want to take LIC Jeevan Anand policy with a sum assured of 25 lakhs for 20 years. How much will I have to pay as premium yearly and after 20 years what maturity and bonus can I expect? What is the medical requirement?

—Ramesh Sinha, Vikroli Let me answer you one by one.

Premium: For a Sum Assured of Rs 25 Lakhs for 20 years for Jeevan Anand Plan, your Annual Premium would be Rs 1,33,005.

Medical Requirements: The medical requirements would be FBS, Lipidogram, Elisa for HIVHb%.

Maturity Benefit: The Maturity Benefit in LIC Jeevan Anand Plan is Sum Assured + accrued Bonus + Final Addition Bonus.

Bonus: However, how much Bonus you will get paid depends on what the company declares depending upon their profits, etc. which cannot be ascertained or determined from now. However, you will get Bonus + Final

Addition Bonus According to the present rate of bonus, you would get: Bonus: Assuming Rs 40 per thousand of Bonus on an average every year of the Sum Assured X No of Years, i.e. Rs 40 per 1000 X Your Sum Assured X No of years, i.e. Rs 40/1000 X 2500000 X 20= Rs 20,00,000 as Bonus along with Rs 25 Lakhs of Sum Assured.

Final Addition Bonus: Assuming Rs 350 per thousand Sum Assured = Rs 350/1000 X 25,00,000= Rs 8,75,000 Total Maturity Benefit: Hence your Maturity Amount is the Bonus Amount that you would have calculated above PLUS your Sum Assured continues for the rest of your life, which also you can take the cash value and stop the lifelong coverage. Thus, Total Maturity Benefit = Rs 20 Lakhs (Bonus) + Rs 8.75 Lakhs (Final Additional Bonus) + Rs 25 Lakhs (Sum Assured) However, the returns would definitely for be comparable to any pure investment tool since this plan guarantees a WHOLE LIFE coverage for the protection of your family. So, now, you have judge for yourself!

However, after 20 years the Bonus Rate may change and you would get the rate of bonus at the time of Maturity. Hence it cannot be ascertained accurately now.

I want to buy a Term insurance policy of 75 lakhs upto 65 years. My date of birth is 19.01.1975. I also want accident benefit and critical illness rider too. What will be my annual premium and which is the best policy for me?

—Sajid Khan, Bandra

Premium: 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 Your actual premium would vary according to your date of birth, occupation, health, etc.

However, just to give you an estimate, your premium would be: (assuming you are a non-smoker).

38 Year old non smoker taking a Rs 75 Lakhs of Sum Assured for 27 years: 1. Aegon Religare iTerm Plan= Rs 9525 and with Accidental Death Benefit Rider and Waiver of Premium on Critical Illness is Rs 12862 2. Aviva iLife Plan= Rs 11019 3. Tata AIA iRaksha Supreme Plan= Rs 10618 (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: HDFC ERGO PERSONAL ACCIDENT INSURANCE PLAN My Company has sponsored me for a health program. This is not a part of my compensation package. The cost of the package is Rs. 65000/-. Please advice what would be the treatment for this health program in my return of income?

—Mangal Kumar, Chembur It appears that this health program is made available to you for ensuring good health.

This is not the company’s obligation.

However, as an incentive this is being given to you. Thus the company is meeting your obligation and hence the entire cost would be treated as a perquisite and taxable in your hand.

I have booked a house property in September 2010 whereby I was given a letter of allotment by the Developer.

Subsequently in August 2012 the agreement was executed and registered. Now in December 2013 I want to sell this property. Please advice whether the gains are short term gains or long term gains?

—Anand Kothari, Matunga When you had booked the flat and were given a letter of allotment, it amounted to acquiring right in a movable asset.

Subsequently, when you executed the agreement and registered the same you converted your right in movable asset to immovable asset. Now when you wish to sell the flat, you have not completed 3 years of holding for the immovable asset and hence, it would be treated as Short Term gain.

If you have any Tax Query email it to us at Business@afternoondc.in

An Online Personal Accident Insurance Plan H

By Manoj Aswani DFC ERGO Personal Accident Insurance Plan is an Online Personal Accident Insurance Policy which offers compensation in case of Accidental Death, Permanent Total Disability and Permanent Partial Disability along with Burns, Broken Bones, Reimbursement for Ambulance Costs, Daily Cash for Hospitalization due to Accident or Sickness.

In this plan, premium needs to be paid and can be availed for a period of 1 year. This policy can be availed for the entire family as well which includes self, spouse, dependent parents and dependent children under a single plan.

This plan covers Accidental Death, Total and Permanent Disability. There are some Additional Benefits in this plan: • Burns • Broken Bones • Reimbursement for Ambulance Costs • Daily Cash for Hospitalization due to Accident or Sickness Thus, in this plan, the coverage spans for any Sickness in India and Personal Accident Coverage worldwide.

Key Features: This plan provides cover for treatment for any injuries or illness caused by accidents This plan covers o Accidental Death o Total and Permanent Disability o Permanent and Partial Disability o Dismemberment like loss of limbs, etc.

This plan pays a Lump Sum Amount in the event of death of the Life Insured due to an accident

Additional Benefits of this Plan: o Burns o Broken Bones o Reimbursement for Ambulance Costs o Daily Cash for Hospitalization due to Accident or Sickness This policy compensates for accident occurred anywhere in the world and sickness within India There is no medical checkup required at the time of policy issuance This policy can be purchased online

What is covered?

All medical expenses due to the following are covered: • Accidental Death - Pays 100% of the Sum Insured if bodily injury results in death from an accident • Permanent Total Disablement - Pays up to 100% of the Sum Insured if bodily injury results in permanent disablement due to an accident • Broken Bones – Pays up to 10% of Sum Insured in the event of bodily injury resulting in broken bones due to an accident • Hospital Cash (Accident & Sickness) Provides a daily benefit up to a maximum of 45 days in case of hospitalization due to an accident or sickness • Burns - Pays up to 5% of Sum Insured if an accident results in hospitalization and treatment of burns • Ambulance Costs - Pays up to the Sum Insured towards the reimbursement of costs for ambulance charges Exclusion: This policy does not provide benefits for any Death, Disability, expense or loss

Eligibility Criteria

Sum Assured of Life Insured (in Rs)

Policy Term (in years) Entry Age of Life Insured/Spouse (in years) Entry Age of Children (in years) Entry Age of Parents (in yrs) Renewable till Age (in yrs)

Min.

Max.

2,50,000 15,00,000 18 0

18 -

1

65 18

70 70

incurred in result of any injury attributable directly or indirectly to the following: • From intentional self-injury, suicide or attempted suicide • Whilst under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs • Whilst engaging in aviation or ballooning, or whilst mounting into, or dismounting from or travelling in any balloon or aircraft other than as a passenger (fare-paying or otherwise) in any duly licensed standard type of aircraft anywhere in the world • Directly or indirectly caused by venereal disease or insanity • Arising or resulting from the Insured committing any breach of the law with criminal intent • War, invasion, act of foreign enemy, hostilities (whether war be declared or not) civil war, rebellion, revolution, insurrection, mutiny, military or usurped power, seizure, capture, arrests, restraints and detainment of all kinds • Nuclear weapon induced treatment • Childbirth or pregnancy or in consequence thereof.

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Ajaya: Roll of the Dice

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The horror of harm being done to those who cannot defend themselves continues to haunt us in 2014. The shameful subject of Child Sexual Abuse is therefore examined through Bitter Chocolate by Pinki Virani, as we desperately search for answers. Reviewing Hero by Rhonda Byrne was our own attempt to salvage things, as we know the change must come from within

ingly, the victim is often known to cooperate.

Notebook 2 examines real cases, exposing the psychological impact and implications: There are most often physical scars, compounded with emotional insecurity Constant abuse leads to confused sexuality, even promiscuous behaviour by the victim, who has gotten used to tactile pleasures or uses it to cope with memories of the abuse.

They are never able to cope with normal interactions with family, leading to severe adjustment problems.

There are instances of the hunted become hunters, copying the behaviour pattern of their abusers. The trauma continues to manifest in aberrant behaviour throughout life if unaddressed by counseling by psychologists and psychiatrists.

Notebook 3 clues concerned readers on how to prevent CSA, and about the laws that are in place.

If you are wondering how this nation is handling it so far, the best response can come only from the victims. Here it is, in the form of a poem written by a 12 year old girl: I asked you for help, and you told me you would If I told you the things he did to me.

You asked me to trust you, and you made me Repeat them to fourteen different strangers

The betrayal of India’s children B

itter Chocolate (Child Sexual Abuse in India) by Pinki Virani may not fall into the category of your favorite book or compete out there for number one spot on the bestsellers lists – but the issue it addresses, molestation and rape of children, happens to be a terribly popular perverted pastime of quite a few people, so consequently, there are quite a few victims, and sadly, their number is growing even as you read this…

There are scores of cases starkly discussed, each one worse than the other in its callousness and brutality. The victims range from infancy, many as young as 3 months of age and the molestation shockingly, has nothing to do with gender of the child. Any victim will do.

In fact, sexual abuse of boys and men has been on the rise and, while Goa, Kovalam and Mumbai were originally hotspots, with foreign tourists being the prime ‘consumers,’ the contagion of male child abuse has spread to all parts of the country. Another shocker is that the crime is all-pervasive, and occurs regardless of the social strata that the victims belong to, their gender or their age. The fact is that children can be silenced with minimal threats, and most stay silent in the face of repeated abuse. Further, they make for very poor witnesses in court, given that a highly qualified lawyer places his wits against that of a small terrified child in an Indian court of law, presided upon by a ‘learned’ judge, where the legalities defeat justice. The abuser inevitably walks free, and the child is scarred for life.

Pinki Virani’s book looks at physical and emotional abuse of children below 16 years of age, covers cases from all over the country.

Comments, advice, observations are cited by doctors, social activists, police officials, in the hope that something may change for the better. Children are unsafe in their own homes, so the task and the problem we are confronted with are stupendous. The only hopes lie in deterring not just strangers, but that ‘friendly uncle,’ the sly acquaintance who could be a family friend or a relative.

The term here is CSA – Child Sexual Abuse and the book should be treated as an essential read for all those who can make a difference in society, though parents could be the first in line of an audience, because much abuse happens right under their noses, under their watch. The author explores at length about the psychological trauma that abused children have to cope with, and almost always alone.

Those who read it may be able to identify the telltale signs that could then make all the difference, and ensure that our kids remain safe.

While some kids are almost destroyed, the others are too young to even know that what they are being subjected to is perverted sexual abuse. Parents reading about the ‘trends’ can actually warn or advise their children to be wary when confronted by questionable conduct. After all, the abuser could be anyone, from family friend, trusted relative, not necessarily uncle, but also aunty, similarly, also a cousin sister or the trusted maid or governess (ayah). Now even fathers have been making the sick grade.

This large effort, really painstaking in the literal sense, is divided into sections: Notebook 1 depicts the author’s own traumatic experience in her childhood, and then cites terrible examples of instances of CSA from various parts of India: The reasons why CSA is not strongly tackled are myriad: Shame, so keep it within the family. If it is a boy, it is shocking and if a girl, who will marry her after the news gets out? Family honour overrides every other concern.

Very often the abuser is clever enough to make the victim feel guilty and responsible for what has happened. This often ensures that he or she will continue to suffer in silence. Chill-

To help you change the world H ero by Rhonda Byrne is another classic by this phenomenal writer, whose first effort, The Secret, is still at the top of the bestseller lists all across the world.

There were subsequent equally seminal works, The Power and The Magic, both top bestsellers.

In the wake of these all, comes Hero, and it is already in the ‘book your copy’ category. Doubtlessly, the inspirational content must be moving minds, hearts and therefore lives, for it to have made its mark within days of its release.

I asked you for help and you gave me A doctor with cold hands Who spread my legs and stared at me Just like my father.

I asked you for protection And you gave me a social worker.

Do you know what it is like I have more social workers than friends?

I asked you for help And you forced my mother to choose between us.

She chose him, of course.

She was scared, she had a lot to lose.

I had a lot to lose too.

The difference is, you never told me how much.

I asked you to put an end to the abuse You put an end to my whole family.

You took away my nights of hell And gave me days of hell instead.

You have changed my private nightmare Into a very public one.

Bitter Chocolate

by Pinki Virani Penguin Books India Rs.350

The book profiles twelve extremely successful people who have what the author refers to as a map to greatness, and they share their experiences which actually reveal, that like them, we too have everything within us to attain our greatest dreams. There are extremely quotable quotes from each of them in almost all the 17 chapters, and reading them is a very motivating experience. The author adds some fascinatingly simple insights that serve to make this book a must have, regardless of your

persuasion or ambition in life: You can be your own coach.You can urge yourself on with positive self-talk; tell yourself you can do it, that you’ve triumphed in far tougher times, that you’ve got what it takes…Your subconscious mind will hear every word you say, and then you will do it!

Now, for the best news – one of the twelve greats is G.M. Rao, philanthropist and founder chairman of the GMR Group, one of the world’s largest infrastructure giants.

Hero

by Rhonda Byrne Simon & Schuster Rs.699

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TV GUIDE

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MUMBAI | MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014

A series of articles designed to hand hold SSC students as they revise towards the Boards 2014

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States.

He makes it his mission to eliminate them. Starring Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper, Star Mov ies, 9.p.m.

SOAPS & SERIALS

BEINTEHAA

In tonight’s episode we will see, Aaliya blows Zain’s cover at the restaurant, when she realizes that he has been playing a prank on her all this while pretending to be Zeeshan. Color s, 9 p.m.

ALMOST HUMAN

A deadly new drug called ‘the Bends’ is wreaking havoc on the streets, supplied by a mysterious criminal called “Bishop”. The only way to take him down is from the inside, which means Kennex and Dorian need to help Rudy infiltrate the Bishop’s organi zation as a drug cook. Star Wor ld, 10 p.m.

SAVDHAAN INDIA – INDIA FIGHTS BACK

Aditi suffers a fatal miscarriage. She realizes that someone has secretly given her abortion pills. Is Aditi’s husband doing all this or it her Mother-in-law who wants a boy child. Will Aditi, find the real culprit? Life Ok, 10.30 p.m.

WILD TALES

Imagine being a young leopard cub; only four months old and totally dependant on your mother for everything. She takes you out to play down by the river where you can chase butterflies; she shows you how to climb trees and she finds your food. But not everything is that easy; gangs of baboons, prides of lions and perilous river banks all stand in your way as you grow up. WILD TALES is the ultimate animal rites of passage series that follows a variety of young pups, foals, cubs and calves on their turbulent journey through childhood and adolescence to adulthood.

Full of drama and excitement, this engaging series is perfect for younger viewers. Ani mal Pl anet, 5 p.m.

INCREDIBLE MR. GOODWIN

Impossible is merely a challenge for Jonathan Goodwin, a man who combines the skills of Houdini and Superman with the everyday trials of fatherhood and family life. He is the new breed of escapologist and a professional danger-man, putting himself in the most extreme situations and dodging death every time.

Now this amazing series will leave viewers breathless as Goodwin emulates his childhood heroes, taking his unique brand of entertainment onto the streets. He’ll attempt to pull off spectacular feats of out-of-this-world bravery, agility and physical

THE GUILLOTINES

Beintehaa, Colors, 9 p.m.

strength. He’ll climb buildings, catch arrows and fire a rifle blindfolded in front of stunned onlookers. But viewers will get to know him even better, witnessing the extraordinary processes Goodwin goes through behind the scenes as he trains intensively for his performances, many of which have never been attempted before. D iscover y, 10 p.m .

WEAPONOLOGY

Discovery science reveals the innovation and fire-packed power of the world’s most elite fighting units in WEAPONOLOGY. D iscovery Science, 10 p.m .

YE HAI MOHABBATEIN

Romi returns home with a bloody lip, and tells the Bhalla family a cooked up story about how Mihir misunderstood the situation and beat him up. Raman confronts Mihir about the same, and believes his side and slaps Romu which infuriates Romi. Mihika tells Ishita about what happened and Ishita is worried about Ruhi. Shagun awakes to the day of her final divorce hearing where she would also fight for the custody of Ruhi on Ashok’s insistence. Ruhi, waiting outside the room, is upset that Raman didn’t even look at her. Amma pacifies her by calling Ishita who decides to come to court to be with Ruhi. At the court, Raman remembers the times when Shagun told him that she is leaving with Ashok, we come to know about Aditya. Star Pl us, 11 p.m.

MOVIES OF THE DAY

During the Manchurian-ruled Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yong Zheng established a secret assassination squad known as the Guillotines to eliminate all who opposed him. Once heavily favored by the Emperor, the Guillotines are deemed expendable once Emperor Qian Long ascends to the throne and adopts Western ideas and technology. To consolidate his power under a new regime, the Emperor continues to use the Guillotines to persecute the conquered Han Chinese in a reign of terror and oppression. H BO, 9 p.m.

King belongs to the royal dynasty of Coimbatore. He has a doting mother and a loving brother. He has three brother-in-laws who are after the blood of the king in order to get a share in their property. In this scenario, King gets killed when he visits Dehradoon for a project work.. M ax, 9 p.m.

A very honest, simple and prestigious young man named Vishnu lives with his parents in a Bombay city slum. Everyone including his parents and people around his neighborhood hates his site because of the way he looks, he makes his living by working as a sales man but due to the lack of confidence and education his status could not be raise. He is quite shy and spend most of the time by himself. Then one day he spots a young woman named Mohini and is attracted to her at that very moment, he keeps on staring at her most of the time and sometimes blushes by himself. A young man named Sameer later marry Mohini and is settled with her. Enraged and fed up of life at this stage Vishnu prays everyday to god so that he can be an invisible person. One day his wish came through and he decides to territorialize and punish his perpetrators namely his parents and Mohini and her husband. He gets into the... Fil my, 9 p.m .

BHAI

Tired of facing assaults by the corrupt policemen and lawbreakers in the hilly village areas, Kundan decides to move to Mumbai with his younger brother Kisna. With the help of honest lawyer Satyaprakash and his two daughters Pooja and Meenu , Kundan soon gets a job as an auto driver, and begins to send Kisna to school. Soon they change their lifestyle and become city dwellers. Don David and Malik are arch rivals in the city, struggling to come to power, and corrupt minister Mantri tries to sup-

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.05 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 4.00 4.30 6.00 7.00 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 11.00 P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 11.00 P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 4.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00

KING NO.1

GAYAB

STAR PLUS

P.M. 2.00 Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi..Meri Bhabhi 2.30 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon..

3.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha 3.30 Diya Aur Bati Hum 4.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 4.30 Saraswatichandra 5.00 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas-Veera 5.30 Ye Hai Mohabbatein 6.00 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon-Ek Baar Phir 6.30 Ek Ghar Banaunga 7.00 Saath Nibhaana...

7.30 Saraswati Chandra 8.00 Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi..Meri Bhabhi 8.30 Mahabharat 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 Ye Hai Mohabbatein

The Guillotines, HBO, 9 p.m.

port both for his own gain. Zee Cinema, 8 p.m.

CRASH AND BURN – GUN SHY

STARS:LIAM NEESON, SANDRA BULLOCK, OLIVER PLATT An undercover DEA agent almost gets killed, and to continue with his mission he needs to attend group therapy. Starring Liam Neeson, Sandra Bullock, Oliver Platt, Zee Studio, 10.30 p.m.

TERMINATOR SALVATION

In 2003, in the Longview State Correctional Facility, the criminal Marcus Wright is on death row, and is convinced by the cancerous Dr. Serena Kogan to donate his body to her research and he accepts. In 2018, after an unsuccessful attack to a Skynet facility, only John Connor survives, but he discovers that Skynet is developing the powerful new model T-800. Out of the blue, Marcus appears naked and with amnesia in the location. Marcus befriends the teenager Kyle Reese and the girl Star who help him to survive the lethal machines and they travel together in a Jeep.

Meanwhile the resistance discovers a signal that might turn-off the machines and John offers to test it. When Kyle is captured by a machine and brought to the Skynet headquarters, Marcus decides to help the youngster and heads to Skynet; on the way, he saves Blair Williams who suggests to him that he should meet John Connor first. Pi x, 9 p.m .

LISTING

2.30 Doli Armaano Ki 3.00 Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke 3.30 Pavitra Rishta 4.00 Qubool Hai 4.30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan 5.00 Jodha Akbar 5.30 Bh se Bhade 6.00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se 6.30 Pavitra Rishta 7.00 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan 7.30 Sapne Suhane...

8.00 Jodha Akbar 8.30 Do dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se 9.00 Pavitra Rishta.

9.30 Qubool Hai 10.00 Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi 10.30 Doli Armaano Ki

LIFE OK

P.M. 2.00 Best of Savdhaaan India

10.30 Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali.

11.00 Aakhir Bahu Bhi toh Beti Hee

SAB TV

P.M. 2.00 Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah..

2.30 FIR 3.00 Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah…

6.00 Sab Khelo Sab Jeeto 8.00 Baal Veer 8.30 Taarak Mehta…

9.00 Chidiya Ghar 9.30 Jeanie Aur Juju 10.00 Lapataganj-Ek Baar Phir 10.30 F I R 11.00 Taarak Mehta

ZEE MARATHI

P.M. 2.30 Eka Lagnachi Tisari Goshta

HISTORY

P.M. 2.30 Superhuman 3.30 The Universe 4.30 101 Things That Changed The World 5.30 Duck Dynasty 6.00 Shipping Wars

STAR WORLD

Crazy Ones Raising Hope Season 4 Castle Last Man Standing Two and A Half Men Boston Legal Castle Koffee with Karan Last Man Standing Two And A Half Men Boston Legal Almost Human Castle

ZEE CAFÉ

Switched At Birth Ellen Degeneres Show Crazy Hidden Camera Just for Laughs Switched At Birth The Vampire Diaries The Big Bang Theory Happy Ending Lost Switched At Birth The Mentalist

BIG CBS LOVE

Next Top Model NCIS Maximum Exposure The X Factor 90210 30 Minute Meals Maximum Exposure Jamie’ 30 Minute Meals Rules of Engagement 90210 Next Top Model NCIS

SONY TV

Maharana Pratap Bade Achhe Lagte Hain Ekk Nayi Pehchaan Crime Patrol Main Naa Bhoolugi Ek Nayi Pehchaan Desh Ki Beti Nandini Kehta Hai Dil Jee Le Zara Maharana Pratap Bade Achhe Lagte Hai Crime Patrol

ZEE TV

P.M. 2.00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se

Savdhaan India, Life Ok, 10.30 p.m. Almost Human, Star World, 10 p.m.

7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00

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ENACTS DRAUPADI POOJA SHARMA

By Sandeep Hattangadi

How will you define Draupadi as a woman?

Draupadi is a strong, just, dignified woman with a strong sense of self. She is the lady who managed to keep herself dignified despite the trials and tribulations faced by her.

We heard your costumes are dominated by the colour red- why is that?

Red is the color of passion and energy. Draupadi is a fiery character born out of fire and a very strong individual so the theme of my costumes is dominated by red.

23 Pooja Sharma is all set to enter Siddharth Kumar Tewary’s magnum Opus ‘Mahabharat’ on January 10 as Draupadi, the most awaited character of the show on Star Plus. Delhi girl Pooja Sharma, a student of Commerce and International Relations moved to Mumbai a couple of years ago to Kumar Tewary’s Magnum Opus to make a career in the film industry

sets people are called with their character names, so mine being Draupadi, I’m always called out loudly as ‘Draupadi’. There’s a property department for all the props, whenever ‘property’ is called out it sounds like Draupadi and I run out! It’s so funny.

Your family’s reaction to your acting career?

They are very excited, encouraging and supportive.

Roopa Ganguly became famous for her excellent screen presence and acting- do you feel the pressure?

Honestly I’m not under any pressure, I’m not competing. I’m doing my own thing. The screenplay of each character is differently done in this ‘Mahabharat’ which makes the show different. I’m just doing my job to my best.

Please tell us something about your look in detail.

Detailing is the central part of my character. As I said, red is the theme colour towards marriage.

Lotus is the theme of my jewellery. Since Draupadi Your hobbies? is associated with blue lotus it is used too. There is a I like to read, watch huge emphasis on my look. movies and hang out with How are you preparing yourself for the vastra friends. haran track?

No preparation, I’m taking each day as it comes.

The graph to Draupadi’s vastra haran raises eventually and gradually. I’m not making any special preparations for the haran episode.

Which are the actors you look up to? Any particular film which influenced you or impressed you?

I look up to Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, Julia Roberts. I really liked ‘Bombay’, ‘Parinda’ and ‘Omkara’ in movies.

Did you always want to pursue acting?

If not an actor what would you have been?

I always wanted to be an actor somewhere.

I was already an anchor, a ramp model, print model, or into advertisements. I refused a journalism offer with a prime time channel.

TV TATTLES Royal lineage

Abbas Khan whose character Biji Pandey is a road side romeo in SAB TV’s ‘Lapataganj – Ek Baar Phir’, will be seen playing a Lucknowi Nawab in the show for the first time ever. Though Abbas will play a Nawab on screen, it is a lesser known fact that Abbas actually belongs to an erstwhile royal family from Lucknow!

Talking about his Nawabi connection, Abbas says, “Not many people know that I belong to the family of Nawabs from Lucknow. It is always fun to play a character you can relate with on screen. It has been a pleasure shooting with the Ada, Tehzeeb and Lehaza of a Nawab!

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Meet the parents

After getting the green signal from Saanchi’s (Sangeeta Ghosh)

Who is your favorite co-star from the show?

Any specific incident from the set?

I haven’t interacted with many people yet so it’s not fair to answer that.

There’s a funny incident; on the

family, Dhruv (Ruslaan Mumtaz) takes her to meet his folks, and there are a gazillion factors to weigh before the actual meet. Saanchi meets Dhruv’s father, the famous business tycoon of the

city, Yashvardhan Goel (Amit Behl).

Saanchi who was very nervous, thrilled and excited was highly disillusioned after meeting Dhruv’s father. Yashvardhan Goel wished to speak to Saanchi alone for some time. In that meeting Saanchi was humiliated, insulted and was asked to

go out of Dhruv’s life at any cost. Tune into ‘Kehta hai Dil…Jee Le Zara’, Monday to Friday at 9:30 pm on Sony Entertainment Television.

New entry

Amit Behl who is doing Zee TV’s ‘Buddha’ at present is in a happy space at the moment. The versatile actor, Amit Behl who was recently seen in ‘Pradhan Mantri’ and ‘Jo Biwi se Karein Pyaar’ is now all set to enter Sony TV’s popular show ‘Kehta Hai Dil... Jee Le Zara’. The show produced

by Shrishti Arya’s Rose Productions is about a young boy falling in love with a girl who is elder to him. The different storyline along with mature handling of the show has caught the attention of the audience. Behl will play the role of a suave businessman who is DV’s (Ruslaan Mumtaz’s) father.

Aamir Khan’s ‘Satyamev Jayate’ is back!

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By Sandeep Hattangadi

he first season of the Aamir Khan-hosted show ‘Satyamev Jayate’ on Star Plus and Doordarshan which caught the fancy of the entire nation will soon be telecast in it’s second season and this time the issues will be bigger and burning. The second season directed by Satyajit Bhatkal is most likely to be aired in January.

The show’s latest report sure sounds promising.

Turns out, Aamir's prior work commitment concerning ‘Dhoom 3’ had held him back. But knowing him to be the perfectionist he is, we're sure the show will launch soon.

‘Satyamev Jayate’ is a show that covers all social issues like female foeticides, child sexual abuse, dowry, medical malpractice, honour killings and so on. Many called him the Oprah Winfrey of Indian television, but some were skeptical seeing Aamir breaking down in every other episode. The actor was recognised globally because of his TV show and was also featured on the TIME Magazine cover for it.

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The disabled aren’t giving up as yet T

he New Year Eve celebrations ended on a safe note for city revellers. While most of the people across the world were busy celebrating the last day of 2013, ready to welcome the New Year with much fanfare, a section of people was silently fighting for the rights of the disabled in India, urging the passing of Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill.

A small group of people held a silent protest at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai at New Year’s Eve. The group was holding a candlelight vigil to protest against the delay in the introduction of Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill in the Rajya Sabha.

Similarly, the Disabled Rights Group, an advocacy group for the rights of physically challenged, held a silent protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi where around 500 people gathered on the same day and held a candlelight protest. The protestors also included the affected.

Various disabled groups all over the country were hoping that the Bill would be introduced in the winter session of the Parliament. But the winter session was ended abruptly without the bill being introduced.

“We are protesting against the fact that even after the approval by the Cabinet of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill on December 12, the Bill wasn’t even tabled in Parliament before the Houses got adjourned,” said the convenor of the Disabled Rights Group (DRG), Javed Abidi, “Four years went into drafting that Bill. We are scared that the government does not give this Bill any priority and given upcoming general elections, Parliament may not be re-convened early next year for any legislative business. If this happens, then all our effort since the past four years will go down the drain,” he added.

A candlelight vigil was also held in Chennai to demonstrate displeasure over the delay in the introduction of the bill.

Banks, post pffices aren’t disabled friendly as yet THE disabled feel they have been at

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The disabled feel the Bill would provide them the privileges they need, writes Gajanan Khergamker

The disabled feel they have been at a disadvantage for long and this Bill was a ray of hope that would provide them the privileges to help them to keep up with the rest in society. a disadvantage for long and this Bill was a ray of hope that would provide them the privileges that would help them to keep up with the rest in society.

A string of RTI applications filed over the years only underline the government’s pussyfooting the issue of giving the disabled the rights they deserve.

In July 2009, circulars were issued by the Reserve Bank of India advising all the banks to provide all the ATMs with ramps so that persons on wheelchairs do not have problem accessing the ATMs. Also, RBI had directed the banks to make automated teller machines in the city disabled friendly.

That apart, the chief commissioner for persons with disabilities

had also written to the department of banking operations and development in December 2011 for the same, but nothing much had been done in the that matter. An RTI application filed in 2012 asking about the number of ATMs that have been made disabled-friendly revealed that RBI had no information on the matter.

Section 46 of the Persons with Disabilities Act 1995 provides for non-discrimination against persons with disabilities in the built environment.

In another case, despite several complaints and reminders filed to make post offices in East Delhi disabled friendly, no action has been taken in that matter.

An activist had filed an RTI appli-

cation asking about the status of process of making the post offices disabled-friendly.

The reply from the Department of Posts revealed that many post offices there were still inaccessible to people with disabilities.

In another case, in a reply to a query filed under the Right to Information ACT in 2012 by the DRG, the Airports Authority of India had said,“There is no scope for leniency in respect of invalid/disabled/sick persons during the pre-embarkation screening/procedures. On the contrary, there is ample reason to be more alert and wary.” As a result, disabled passengers face undue harassment at the hands of untrained security personnel.

More often than not, disabled passengers on wheelchairs are asked to ‘stand up’ or ‘transfer’ from their personal wheelchair to ‘sub-standard’ airport wheelchairs.

There have been many incidents with different airline companies mistreating passengers in the past.

In February 2012, a visually-challenged student was refused a ticket by an airlines company unless he was escorted by a person or a guide dog on more than one occasion.

Around the same time, in another incident, a woman suffering from cerebral palsy was asked to get off the plane because the pilot was uncomfortable with her being on board without an escort, even though the woman had travelled for years without an escort.

The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill would have helped the disabled get treatment on par with the rest of the population.

The delay in passing of the bill only means being doled out such discrimination and embarrassment for a much longer time.

But, groups fighting for rights of disabled are up in arms with the government and will stop at nothing.

The Kolkata unit of Sruti Disability Rights Centre and Human Rights Law Network are considering contempt proceedings against the West Bengal government for not following Calcutta High Court’s directions in regard to facilities for physically challenged people.

In June 2013, the High Court after hearing a Public Interest Litigation

(PIL) on the subject, had directed the state government to ensure disabled people aren't harassed, arrangement are made to ensure reservation of two seats for the blind, provision for orthopedically or congenially handicapped in stage carriage vehicles, including private and mini buses and better facilities for disabled people on roads. But, the government, so for, has done nothing in the matter.

Disabled woman, child faced tough ordeal in Kolkata bus IT WAS around a fortnight back when a disabled woman, who runs a Kolkata-based NGO to fight for social equality and her 10-year-old daughter were reportedly subjected to inhuman treatment by the conductor and the driver of a minibus.

Reportedly, the woman has a card issued by the government that entitled her to free rides on public transport.

But the driver and the conductor of the bus insisted that she paid up and when she refused the duo didn’t let her get off at her stop.

Allegedly, the conductor pushed her back inside the bus while she was trying to get off her stop and the driver of the bus sped.

The duo insisted that they wouldn’t let her off the bus until she paid her fare.

The woman and her child had to face a tough ordeal before help came after she dialled a helpline number and later went and filed an FIR against the bus driver and conducted with the police.

It is instances like these that make this new bill that much more important.

And, the abrupt ending of Winter Session, without the bill being tabled, put an end to the hope of the bill being passed in the coming session with the general election so close as well.

But, there are still groups fighting for rights of people with disability who will urge the bill be tabled in the February session because if the bill is not tabled in this session, the fight will start anew, this time with a new government.

With inputs from Prerna Pandey

Readers keen on seeking help on drafting RTI applications may write in to rti@draftcraft.in or call Gajanan Khergamker on 022-22841593 for any assistance on RTI or to have their findings / issue featured on this page Pics: Azad Shrivastav | ADC

FOR A CAUSE… (Left) The differentlyabed students of Eshaan Humanity Foundation, performing during the occasion at the Y.B. Chavan auditorium on Saturday.

(Right) Governor K. Sankaranarayanan and filmstar John Abraham attended the Foundation Day celebrations of Eshaan Humanity Foundation, an NGO working for differentlyabled children.

INSIDE STORY OF THE LOKPAL BILL

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nna Hazare fasted in Ralegan Siddhi for nine days.

Workers of the Jantantra Morcha held demonstrations, sitins and fasted in many cities and towns of the country. They did not feature in the national media, but the local regional print and TV channels gave them prominent coverage. According to one estimate, people came out on the streets in support of Anna at more than two hundred places in the country. The government was constantly getting information that if, as in 2011, the media began giving reports from different cities, then this time the ‘andolan’ or movement would become even larger than the last time.

This time Anna chose the right time for going on a fast. The Congress Party had lost the assembly elections in four States. During these elections, corruption in the central government had emerged as a major issue. In the last two days of Anna’s fast, his health had started deteriorating. His kidneys began to get affected. Anna’s strategy of struggle and sacrifice came out in all its colours and the Lokpal Bill was passed in Parliament. What is the inside story of the Lokpal Bill getting passed?

Here it is – a story not known to many.

Anna had made sound preparations. He had very determinedly made up his mind that before the dissolution of this Lok Sabha, he would get the Lokpal

Bill passed. He had started correspondence with the Prime Minister several months earlier and waited for a reply from the government. In every letter, he reminded Singh of his promise. In response to these letters, the Prime Minister’s office also wrote to Anna.

First, there was an assurance to bring in the Lokpal Bill during the Monsoon Session, but the government did not present the Bill.

In fact, the Lokpal Bill had been passed in the Lok Sabha on December 27, 2011. This very Bill was presented in the Rajya Sabha

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Sabha. Anna repeatedly pointed this out in his letter and urged that there was no need to keep delaying it further. But the government did not present the Bill in the Rajya Sabha. Since changes had been made in the Bill, after being passed in the Rajya Sabha, it had to be passed in the Lok Sabha too. It was going to be the last session of Parliament before the Lok Sabha elections and therefore Anna informed the Prime Minister through a letter that he would sit on an indefinite fast from the first day of the Winter Session of Parliament so that

and assured the country that the Lokpal Bill would be passed at any cost. The BJP also said that it was ready to support the passage of the Lokpal Bill without a debate. But the Samajwadi Party did not budge. They were opposed on the point that if the Prime Minister who represented two hundred crore people could not be honest, then there is nobody who is or could be honest in the country.

The Samajwadi Party wanted the Prime Minister to be kept out of the purview of law. Their plan was that in both Houses of Parliament they would continuously create uproar and stall the passage of the Bill.

During Anna’s first fast, nobody from Anna Hazare’s team had initiated a dialogue with any of the political parties. With such a communication gap, all the parties stood up in protest against Anna. After clearing confusions and rumours, Rahul Gandhi's statement came and the position of the BJP also became clear, that both parties wanted the Lokpal.

Now only the opposition from the Samajwadi Party remained. Santosh Bhartiya, Editor-in-Chief, Chauthi Duniya, met two leaders of the Samajwadi Party in the Parliament itself and asked for their support for this Bill. The party's senior leaders Ram Gopal Yadav and Naresh Agrawal then assured on December 29, 2011, but no de- the Bill could be passed. When that they would bring changes in cision could be taken. This was a the Parliament session began, the their strategy. weak Bill anyway. This Bill was Lokpal Bill was not on the agenda In the Bill there is provision for handed over to a select commit- of the proceedings of Parliament. the constitution of a Directorate tee. Members from all parties But as soon as Anna started his of Prosecution. The Director of were in this committee. Its chair- fast and a series of demonstra- Prosecution will be appointed on persons were Congress party tions and sit-ins began in the the recommendation of the Chief leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi and country, the government in- Vigilance Commissioner (CVC).

BJP leader Arun Jaitley. The select cluded the Lokpal Bill in the The investigating officials hancommittee deliberated inten- agenda. The government said dling cases referred by the Lokpal sively on this Bill and a fresh Bill that it would pass the Lokpal Bill will not be transferred without was prepared, which was sent in the current session itself. But a the consent of the Lokpal. In back to the Rajya Sabha on No- problem cropped up: the Sama- cases being investigated under vember 23, 2012. Since then, this jwadi Party opposed the Bill. Up- the Lokpal, CBI officials involved Bill kept languishing and re- roar began in the Rajya Sabha. in the investigation will not remained pending in the Rajya Rahul Gandhi stepped forward main under the government.

The new, very important priority: ‘Educating’ people about Lokpal

Santosh Bhartiya

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he people of the country finally won the battle for the Jan Lokpal. Credit was given to Anna Hazare. It is natural to do so, because had Anna Hazare not gone on a fast, this Bill would not have been passed in Parliament. It was neither the Congress’ desire nor that of the Bharatiya Janata Party that this Bill should be passed, because many were under the delusion that they would become the next Prime Minister, and therefore perhaps the Lokpal could become a source of trouble for them. But such conditions and circumstances developed where

all the parties had to pass the Lokpal Bill. The Samajwadi Party made its opposition to the Bill known and contended that the passage of this Bill will deepen the feeling that politicians are either corrupt or are thieves.

The Samajwadi party’s thinking is not wrong. In fact, the image of politicians has become such that nobody can see anybody honest in politics. The Lokpal Bill may bring about some caution that there is a constitutional institution by the name of Lokpal, where, if a complaint is made, it will be seriously looked into and those against whom the complaint has been made could come under the purview of law.

But now questions like what kind of Lokpal, how was it passed, who is behind it, who should get credit, etc. have reached the last, final border.

Now the question is: what after the Lokpal? Will Anna start another andolan? Anna has used a word – ‘watch dog’, under which committees will be formed in every district and after responsi-

bilities have been assigned to them, he will see how those committees are functioning.

Some people have queried whether those working in the institution of the Lokpal will be honest? For this, people have started giving the example of the judiciary which includes the Supreme Court, that when allegations are being made against Supreme Court judges, where will an honest Lokpal come from?

Actually, it has become difficult to search for honesty. Good people are not there, and the few who are there are humiliated.

False allegations are made against them, due to which the honest person steps outside the circle of power. But today is not a day for asking questions. When the institution of the Lokpal will be formed then it will have to be seen as to what problems arise.

The Lokpal will also have to keep in mind how complaints to harass people or those to settle scores can be recognised. Institutions like this are often used

for settling vendettas and fights.

The most important thing is, how, after the Lokpal Bill has been passed and becomes a law, will information about it be disseminated amongst the people.

I remember that when the Right to Information (RTI) became law, very few people made use of it at first.

The Right to Information law has given a lot of strength to people. The law is not perfect in itself, but whatever it may be it is being used in the interest of the people. Some people do misuse it but that happens in every democratic system. Obviously, ‘educating’ the people in respect of the Lokpal is a big task. Some people will have to come forward to take up ‘teaching work’ about the Lokpal, explain to the people of India that there is such a law and this is how it can be used.

It seems to me that the people of India will most certainly play an ‘andolankari’ role in taking the Lokpal law to the public at large.

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DILLI KA BABU Alternate Employment?

After its resounding success in Delhi elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has set its eyes on the national elections. AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal (few remember he is a former babu) now wants “likeminded” people to join Arvind Kejriwal the party from across the country to attain this objective. Though still a fledgling idea, among the “likeminded” people that Kejriwal has urged to join his cause are Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who has recently been charge-sheeted by his government and who came into the public eye for allegedly exposing land scams, and UP IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, who battled the sand mafia and was suspended by the state government for her efforts.

Though the babus name-checked by Kejriwal haven’t responded to his offer, the AAP offer does seem to be a tantalising opportunity for alternate employment for those beleaguered babus. Even if Khemka and Nagpal don’t accept the offer, it could be quite tempting for other babus hoping to escape the system. And one of them has even met Arvind. Now guess on!

Shake-up at MEA

Three months after taking over, Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh seems to have hit her stride at the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) by initiating a series of organisational changes. The most significant change is the creation of a new division within MEA, headed by 1988-batch IFS officer Suchitra Durai, to oversee the Indian Ocean region. Similarly Bangladesh and Myanmar are the key to India’s Southeast Asia policy and will have a division to focus on them, to be headed by Sripriya Ranganathan. Apparently Singh feels the need to create many more divisions to deal with South East Asia, but she is hampered by a paucity of IFS officers, especially those at the under secretary and director levels. At the same time Singh has ensured gender balance by appointing women IFS officers to head the various territorial divisions in MEA. Besides, she has named Mukta Tomar and Riva Ganguly Das to head the consular and Latin America divisions.

Controversy over?

By returning the controversial plot of land in Mumbai to the Maharashtra Government, Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla hopes that he has nipped a growing controversy in the bud. The upshot in our scamtainted times (and it Rajeev Shukla being election time) is that the political class is increasingly wary of anything that spells controversy. Certainly, sources say, a huge sigh of relief went around in the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) when officials received Shukla’s letter addressed to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, urging him to repossess the land.

The land deal had led to heated discussions in the Maharashtra Assembly, with rumours about how babus had been pressurised to clear the files during former Chief Minister and Chavan’s Congress party colleague Vilasrao Deshmukh’s tenure. Though CMO officials are relieved it remains to be seen whether the chapter has been closed on this particular episode.

— Dilip Cherian

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 685

ENIGMA CODE 685

ACROSS: 1 Searching and stealing in fear of some small thing going wrong (8,5) 8 Ashes may be so preserved (5) 9 It may lead to death in the afternoon (4-5) 11 Irish leader embraced by Scandinavian woman (5) 12 Fitting the wrong thing into a parody (4-5) 15 Gets carried away (5) 16 A French maid (4,2,3) 17 Dance up an escalator rather than a staircase (9) 18 Crest of a game bird having part missing (5) 19 Where the cricket ball soars if you throw it too far ? (9) 23 The French enlightened the local lad? (5) 24 Enabled or otherwise, a gunman may sport it (9) 25 Just given the cartographer a job (2,3) 26 Pompous, pi matrons left in disarray (4-9) DOWN: 2 Ordinary members seen at chessboard (4,3,4) 3 Gifts Ed keeps on moving (7) 4 One hundred-odd bits of bombs in some projectiles initially (5) 5 Abnormal growth on one insect that stings lizard (9) 6 Brief allusion to the thing needing an overhaul (5) 7 Money you don't get for nothing?

(10) 10 Laugh either way (3) 13 Splendid fellow in later life, Gladstone (5,3,3) 14 ECG confetti? (6,4) 16 Black master affected high airs

Each colour in our code represents a letter.

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

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

The Clue: Connected to the net

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SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S ENIGMA CODE OCTANE, ACCENT, CANNOT, CANTON, COTTON, NEATEN, TENANT

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MATH PYRAMID 685 (3,6) 18 Exclude a possible cause of faulty measurement (4,3) 20 6a, Roman Way (3)

21 Convincing evidence of following the export (5) 22 Marx used to talk endlessly endlessly (5)

SOLUTION TO FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS: 3 Wolfram, 8 Swami, 9 Elfin, 10 Breadfruit, 11 Patronising, 13 Stains, 16 Mimics, 22 Dehydration, 24 Unromantic, 25 Rydal, 26 Needs, 27 Donning.

DOWN: 1 Assuages, 2 Tamboura, 3 Wide open, 4 Luddite, 5 Run riot, 6 Medici, 7 Diatonic, 12 Sam, 14 Tuesdays, 15 Ivy, 17 Igniting, 18 In secret, 19 Sargasso, 20 Carotin, 21 Hibachi, 23 Donald.

QUICK CROSS 685

ACROSS: 1. Beat of drums, locally 5. ___ up, anger 6. Meek 7. Editor's mark 8. Drunkard 9. Moslem teacher 10. Coarse leg wool

HIDATO 685

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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. Ancient warship 2. Marksman, e.g.

3. Came down 4. Calculator display 6. Hoofed mammal 7. Pepsi,e.g.

8. __ along : follow

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 685

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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JAGJIT UPPAL

WIZARD OF ID PARKER & HART

B.C. JOHNNY HART

BEAU PEEP THE ADVENTURES OF LEGIONNAIRE BEAU PEEP

FRED BASSET ALEX GRAHAM

PHANTOM LEE FALK

MODESTY BLAISE PETER O’DONNELL

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MOON : Moon in Aquarius till 2:53pm/ Venus Retrograde in Sagittarius TITHI : 6th Paush Shuklapaksha NAKSHATRA : Purvabhadrapad RASHI : Kumbh [G. S. Sh.] LUCKY COLOUR : Silver Grey LUCKY NUMBER : 9

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: You will make rapid progress in your career and improve your financial status. Plans that you may have had for further expansion in your work can safely be implemented this year Students have a successful period ahead. Those keen on studies overseas will get an opportunity to enroll themselves in institutions of repute.

Love life will be fine. The married will enjoy the holiday of a lifetime in the company of their mate.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Will be good looking, well built, with attractive lips, eyes, healthy and long lived. Will like good food, especially well presented. Honest, sincere with good leadership qualities. Humane and kind but discerning about whom to extend help. Good business acumen, a career in banking, government or even a creative field in the media will lead to gains.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): You will receive good news about work. If you need to raise money for your new project, this will be available through someone you know. A delay in an important decision will work to your advantage. Perhaps there could be help coming from another source too. If you are seeking a chance to rekindle a romantic association that is more or less over you could be disappointed with the response you get.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): Changes in your routine will be good and to your advantage.

Pending legal matters if any could get resolved in your favor. Your finances will get a boost. Travel for a long distance journey is likely or there could be some favorable news from overseas. It is up to you to make a commitment in a relationship or you could lose out. Your beloved may be tired of unkempt promises.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Be practical in matters concerning money. Uncertainties regarding future could be upsetting at times. Do not try to seek answers for you may not be very happy with result. You will have completed some work that you have been putting off for some time. In personal relationships avoid confrontations in your own interest. Minor upsets at home should be tackled diplomatically.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): A good time is indicated. You win acclaim as well as financial gains for work done well. You will feel much more positive and optimistic about the future. An important journey will be fruitful. This is something perhaps you have been planning for a long time. You will feel happy and content in your relationship. Doubts or fears about the past are overcome. Love on a journey is likely.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): Avoid arguments with colleagues. Remain calm against all odds. Worries are part of life. Find time to be with friends who inspire you positively.

Differences with your mate over minor issues are likely but with foresight you can avoid touchy subjects which invite strong feelings. You cannot wish away mistakes you have made. Show remorse and no attitude.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): New deals look tempting but could turn out to be expensive delusions.Sticktowhatyouknowbest.

You are good at what you do and know when there could be some deception involved. You will be able to deal with situation satisfactorily.Bidyourtimeforabetteropportunity.Ata social gathering you are much in demand.

After stimulating exchange of ideas and amusinganecdotessharedyouwillfeelhappy that were able to find time for such an outing.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): Maybe the way you’re handling difficult situations is becoming counterproductive. Don't hedge your bets simply take up something that needs attention. You stand to benefit from short term deposits. A leisure pastime could lead to great achievements and could propel you into the limelight. There is someone interested in you romantically but you have not noticed. A certain development might show you the way to proceed.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): Negotiations and discussions held today will go in your favor. You are on the upswing where money is concerned. Do not re-invest right now. Overseas influences are strong and very beneficial. However, there could be some unforeseen household expenses.

You will be happy in your present relationship. Though there will be several temptations in the form of another person seeking your attention.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): Apply your mind to work leaving nothing to chance.

Keeping a tab on what’s happening around you will work to your advantage. Success is assured to you in all that you do. There will be opportunities to travel for work and pleasure. Financially too the period is good.

Including your mate on a travel plan for work could do wonders for your relationship. Try not to discuss family and related issues. Just enjoy and forget about others right now.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): Stressful situations at work will increase. But monetary gains will also accrue and you will perhaps be investing in a property.

Working conditions for the employed are going to improve. There will be some additional benefits like a new house or a new means of conveyance. After a hectic day look forward to a few relaxed moments with your beloved to unwind. Your mate will be indulgent and expressive.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): A good opportunity with a few risks thrown in is difficult to resist. You can go ahead with your plans but only after a thorough scrutiny of the deal and its long-term significance. Minor misunderstandings or snide remarks could become an issue if you allow it to happen. In love you feel neglected and unloved. Cheer up, you are just feeling low and sorry for yourself.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): There are going to be changes in your work set-up. Do not think too much about it, Take the plunge and implement your new plans. Those in creative field or in communications will find today a very rewarding day. Gains through family estate are likely. You could be overly possessive towards your beloved that could get to be quite irritating. It seems you are victim of suspicion or insecurity.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 4860 ACROSS: 1 Money substitute (5) 6 Rajasthan city famous for its Muslim pilgrims (5) 9 __ Hills : a group of mountains in Southern India (7) 10 Not appropriate (5) 11 A type of quartz (5) 12 Searches thoroughly (5) 13 Part or section (7) 15 300 in Roman numerals (3) 17 Film director Bunuel (4) 18 A wooden container with round, flat ends and sides that bulge (6) 19 Disdain (5) 20 God's name in Hebrew (6) 22 A deep draft of liquor (4) 24 ___ at a person's feet : be his pupil? (3) 25 Garden gatherings ? (7) 26 Skip like a goat (5) 27 An ornamental loop (5) 28 Ball of yarn (5) 29 Respectful (7) 30 Fairy tale monsters (5) 31 A hard heat-resistant glass (5) DOWN: 2 Black tea from China (6) 3 Information of various kinds that go into a computer, perhaps (6) 4 A manmade hole in the ground (3) 5 Encourage or incite (3,2) 6 ___ Nights: stories everyone likes to hear ? (7) 7 Appliances that hold pieces of work and guide the tool operating upon them (4) 8 Arouse desire (6) 12 Divan, sofa (5) 13 __ the devil with : causes severe damage to ? (5) 14 ___ and left : on all sides ? (5) 15 A regal headgear ? (5) 16 Wooden-soled shoes (5)

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SUDOKU 2046 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: U equals B

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

18 19 21 22

Wild rose (5) The S of SPQR (7) In poor health (6) Unhealthy (6)

23 Set fire to (6) 25 Exudation from plants (5) 26 A set of rules; set of secret words (4) 28 Have a meal, eat dinner (3)

SOLUTION TO SATURDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 3 Alpha, 8 Pusan, 10 Ahead, 11 Gir, 12 Jerry, 13 Barsaat, 15 Reads, 18 Nal, 19 Vision, 21 Jingles, 22 Whip, 23 Sent, 24 Toddles, 26 Madman, 29 Ier, 31 Poach, 32 Sceptre, 34 Civet, 35 Eco, 36 Ition, 37 Snark, 38 Yield.

DOWN: 1 Sugar, 2 Parsnip, 4 Leet, 5 Harris, 6 Ah yes, 7 Waldo, 9 Sir, 12 Jalgaon, 14 Aan, 16 Aides, 17 Snath, 19 Verdict, 20 Swamp, 21 Jidda, 23 Serpent, 24 Tahini, 25 Lee, 27 Aorta, 28 Mccoy, 30 Frore, 32 Sell, 33 TCA.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1865 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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Saturday’s solution: Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves

Afternoon WORD MINE

HEATHCLIFF

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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: 30 average; 34 good; 38 outstanding.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: amir, emir, game, gamier, germ, gleam, glom, gram, grim, grime, image, lame, lamer, lima, lime, loam, magi, mail, male, mare, meal, mile, mirage, mire, molar, mole, moral, morale, more, omega, ramie, realm, ream, rearm, RIGMAROLE, roam

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Australia crush England to seal 5-0 whitewash; Mitchell Johnson named man of the series

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YDNEY: Australia completed a 5-0 Ashes clean sweep against England as the hapless tourists crumbled to a humiliating 281-run defeat in the fifth Test in Sydney.

Demoralised England capitulated after tea against the home side's pace attack, losing seven wickets in 52 minutes on their way to being bundled out for 166 in 31.4 overs -- getting nowhere near the 448 target for victory. It was the sixth time the beleaguered tourists had been skittled for under 200 in the series and the crushing defeat is expected to have major ramifications for English cricket just months after they beat Australia 3-0 in England.

Paceman Ryan Harris finished with five for 25 and man-of-theseries Mitchell Johnson -- who took 37 wickets in the five matches -- had figures of 3-40. Skipper Alastair Cook (7), Ian Bell (16) and Kevin Pietersen (6) all fell in the middle session as England limped to tea on 87-3 but it was carnage after the interval as four wickets tumbled in two overs with the tourists falling apart against inspired Australian bowling and fielding.

Michael Carberry (43) feathered Mitchell Johnson to wicketkeeper Brad Haddin just two balls after the resumption and three balls later debutant Gary Ballance was trapped plumb in front by Johnson for seven.

Wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow was caught close in by George Bailey off spinner Nathan Lyon for a three-ball duck and debutant legspinner Scott

Michael Clarke and Peter Siddle show their affection for the urn after winning the final test match against England by 281 runs in Sydney.

BRIEF SCORES: Australia 326 & 276 all out in 61.3 overs [Chris Rogers 118, Scott Borthwick was magnificently caught one over before he played Harris on Borthwick 3/33, James Andersen 2/46] by skipper Michael Clarke off Lyon to his stumps for 32 off 16 balls with beat England 155 & 166 all out in 31.4 for four. three fours and two sixes. Stuart overs [Michael Carberry 43, Ryan Harris Ben Stokes offered some belated Broad also went down swinging with 5/25, Mitchell Johnson 3/40, Nathan Lyon resistance, punishing Lyon for 20 off four sixes and three fours in his 42 off 2/70] by 281 runs.

Aussies ready for South Africa challenge: Clarke

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YDNEY: Michael Clarke said Australia will take the greatest bowling attack in world cricket to South Africa next month in a bid to challenge the number one Test side, after securing a 5-0 Ashes whitewash over England.

Australia climbed above England and Pakistan from fifth to third on the ICC world rankings, behind South Africa and India, after a 281run trouncing of England to sweep the Ashes series here. The victorious Australian skipper knows that Graeme Smith's Proteas will give his Australians an idea of where they stand in Test cricket after a lopsided series against England, which culminated in a three-day final Test win.

"We have the greatest attack in the world and they've shown it," Clarke said.

"It's certainly going to be a challenge for us to perform over there and then our next Test series is in the UAE against Pakistan which is going to be extremely tough as well.

Playing away from home in international cricket seems to be hard to get results. We believe we have the team to have success."

Clarke said it will take more than one series win to prove Australia are the best team in world cricket. "We are not going to win in South Africa and all of a sudden think we're the best team in the world," he said.

"It's not about that. It's about consistency home and away over long periods of time and if you do that you will get the results you're after."

Australia play South Africa in three Tests, starting at Centurion on February 12.

36 balls before bowled by Harris, and Boyd Rankin was last man out, caught overhead by Clarke at second slip to complete the victory.

Earlier Cook, who has endured a miserable series with the bat, was caught behind off Johnson for seven and was followed by Bell, who was snapped up the gully off Ryan Harris.

Pietersen was athletically caught by Bailey close to the bat off Harris as England's top order once again failed to fire. The England skipper has scored just 246 runs at 24.60 in this series, in sharp contrast to the last tour of Australia in 2010/11, when he amassed 766 runs at 127.66.

Bell, who was impressive in last year's Ashes series in England, and Pietersen, have both averaged less than 30 in the series. Australia were dismissed for 276 in their second innings shortly after lunch with Chris Rogers top-scoring with 119.

Haddin became the highest-scoring Australian wicketkeeper in a Test series with his breezy 28 off 40 balls.

Haddin, the nemesis of the English bowlers with his lower middle-order batting, finished the series with 493 runs at 61.62 to better the previous best of 473 held by Adam Gilchrist against South Africa in 2001-02.

Mitchell Johnson removed Alastair Cook for a final time in the series.

‘JOHNSON AMONG THE PACE GREATS’ Victorious skipper Michael Clarke rated Mitchell Johnson among the fast bowling greats after spearheading Australia to a 5-0 Ashes whitewash of England here.

The lethal left-arm paceman captured three for 40 as England surrendered to a 281-run defeat in the final

Test to finish with 37 wickets for the series at 13.97. Johnson edged wicketkeeper Brad Haddin as the man of the series, and he set the tone for Australia's domination with man-ofthe-match honours in three of the five Tests.

Clarke said 32-year-old Johnson's sustained aggressive bowling throughout the series was an amaz-

Cook ‘right man’ to rebuild shattered England

Captain Alastair Cook said he knows what it takes to rebuild shattered England from the rubble of their 5-0 Ashes series humiliation against Australia.

Cook said he has been given the vote of confidence from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to continue on as captain as England look to rebuild after sliding to fourth in the ICC rankings below Australia at three. Cook quipped about the news of the ECB support, telling reporters: "I was given the vote of confidence from the board which usually means in football terms you have two weeks and then you're on your bike. But I am desperate to try and turn it around. I feel as if I am the right man to do it. If I'm not and people higher up want a change because they think that's the best way, I have to take it on the chin." ing achievement.

"I hate to say I told you all so but I told you all so," Clarke chided reporters at his post-match conference. "Man of the series, who would have thought? Except me and perhaps Mitch. He's been an amazing bowler for a long time. I think the way he's come back into this team...

He's bowled with great aggression.

To be able to do bowl at that pace is one thing, to do it for five Test matches, every single innings to be able to back it up is an amazing achievement." Clarke said Johnson ranks alongside modern-day Australian pace greats with his Ashes performances. "Mitchell bowled a couple of spells in this series that are without doubt as good a spells as I've seen in my career," the skipper said.

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I still have hunger to perform: Gambhir

By Kushan Sarkar

NEW DELHI: Unfazed at being ignored for the upcoming tour of New Zealand, struggling opener Gautam Gambhir said he still has the hunger to perform and would fight his way back into the national team. "It's a reality that I am not in the team to New Zealand. I wish all the 16-17 guys best of luck for the tour. As I have maintained that I don't play for comebacks, I play the game because I still have that hunger to perform," Gambhir told PTI in an interview.

"I want to be part of the team that wins a Test series in England and Australia. This is what drives me on as in my 54 Tests, we only won a series in New Zealand and drew in South Africa," Gambhir said. Determined he is to fight his way back but Gambhir doesn't want to take the "selfish" route by scoring heavily on flat tracks to stage his return.

"I have never played cricket for selfish reasons like scoring 800900 runs on flat tracks to make a comeback. It's up to an individual and I am not one of those guys who would back out from competition. The Delhi team needed outright wins and I insisted on playing on green top at the Roshanara rather than on a flat track. Had I played on a flat track, I could have got close to 900 runs. I have never ever played cricket that way with such selfish motives," Gambhir said.

The 31-year-old scored 578 runs in the Ranji Trophy this season with a top score of 153 at the Roshanara on a green top against Haryana just before the Test squad to South Africa was announced. Gambhir didn't wish to comment on skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni's take that he is the No 3 opener in the country now.

"Frankly, I don't know whether I am 1, 2, 3 or last. I know that my job is to score runs and I will continue to do that. Someone asked me what exactly is a finished product, I said that no one ever is a finished product.

We strive to improve everyday," Gambhir said.

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Nanded boy Kaivalya topples top seed Poojan

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UMBAI: Nanded boy Kaivalya Kalamse knocked out top seed Poojan Desai 7-5, 6-4 to storm in to the boy’s under-16 final of the All India Ranking Championships tennis tournament hosted

by Chembur Gymkhana at their courts. The most remarkable feature of Kaivalya’s win was his ability to fight back after trailing 2-5 in the first set and then again 2-4 in the second.

Poojan tried to be aggressive and in the process made unforced errors time and again, Kaivalya, on the other hand, chased and beat Poojan with sharply angled volleys.

Second seeded Piyush Salekar from Pune downed Shobit Behl 64, 6-0 in the other semifinal. Shobit

Results: Girls U-16 (Quar terfinals): Dakshata Patel bt Sharanya Shetty 5-4, 4-0; Aaily Ebrahim bt Swarda Parab 4-2, 4-2; Kinnary Panchal bt Smriti Nair 4-0, 5-3; Sereh Menezes bt Trjal Kulkarni 4-1, 5-3.

(Semif inals): Dakshata Patel bt Aaily Ebrahim 3-6, 7-6 6-3; Sereh Menezes bt Kinnary Panchal 6-3, 6-2.

Boys U-16 singles (Quarterf inals): Poojan Desai bt Harsh Meswani 4-1, 5-4 (3); Kaivalya Kalamse bt Saurabh Sharma4-2, 4-0; Vikrant Tandel bt Rahil Mehta 4-1, 1-4, 7-6; Tanay Mehta bt Shreyas Mankane 5-3, 4-2; Shobit Behl bt Tanay Mehta 5-3,4-2; Piyush Salekar bt Dhanul Kargal 0-4, 4-2, 8-6.

(Semif inals); Kaivalya Kalamse bt Poojan Desai 7-5, 6-4; Piyush Salekar bt Shobit Behl 6-4, 6-0.

For improving players

By Anant Bhagwat

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or some time now I am receiving complaints from players who are still learning rudiments of Bridge.

The complaint is that the hands which I narrate in my column are a little difficult for them to understand. & could I give hands from which they would learn something & also enjoy reading them. Well from now onwards once every month I shall be giving a hand to please these readers of mine. Here is the first one.

BRIDGE S- A 10 8 6 H- J 10 7 6 4 D- 3 C- A Q 3

S- 7 4 S- K Q 3 2 H- 9 H- 3 D- A 9 7 6 5 4 D- K Q 10 8 2 C- 10 9 8 2 C- K 7 6 S- J 9 5 H- A K Q 8 5 2 D- J C- J 5 4

East deals & opens 1 diamond (Natural). South bid 2 hearts which in their system shoed a strong hand & North without hesitation bid 4 hearts. West led the Ace of diamonds. Upon seeing dummy east saw no reason to encourage partner & played a small diamond. West was at

crossroads. He knew he should not continue diamonds because it might give declarer a ruff & discard.

So he got out safely with 10 of clubs. South played small from dummy, east won with King & placidly returned a club. Now south was home. He won the club return, drew trumps, cashed the clubs & then ran the Jack of spades to east’s King. East was hopelessly end played. He had to either return a spade forgoing his trick or give declarer a ruff & discard. Either way the contract rolled home. Whose mistake is it?

Of course east is the culprit. On the lead of Ace of diamonds he can see that a spade shift is likely to defeat the contract. Therefore he must somehow tell partner to shift to spades. Since winking at him is illegal, he must find a legitimate way. There is one! On the Ace of diamonds he must drop the King. Partner knows that another diamond trick is not available on this hand.

So east is not encouraging to continue diamonds. This unnecessary high card is known as “Suit Preference Signal”. It tells partner to shift to the highest suit apart from trumps & diamonds.

West will get the signal & shift to a spade & east is saved from the end play. The contract goes down. If east plays a small card as this east did, it calls for a shift to a lower suit; the club. Defence becomes easier.

B’LORE MARATHON WINNER YEGON CLINCHES LAVASA RUN MEN’S TITLE

L-R: Asefa Dezabeh (second runner up), Gladys Tarus (winner) and Swati haridas Gadhave (second runner up) after their victory at Lavasa Hill Run, the first of its kind hill run launched by Lavasa Corporation.

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AVASA (PUNE): Kenyan athletes dominated the inaugural Rs 8 lakh prize money Lavasa Hill Run by clinching the titles in the men's and women's 10km endurance run here.

Bangalore full marathon champion Daniel Cheruiyot Yegon of Kenya clinched the first place in the men's 10-km endurance race, held in the scenic city, with a time of 31 minutes and 32 seconds. The corresponding women's tile was won by Kenya's Gladys Tarus. The 30-year old Yegon, who had finished second in the Melbourne half marathon held in October last, edged out Ethiopia's junior cross country champion Geberesodik Alemayehu and India's Hawaldar Mansingh to win the race, held on twisting and climbing roads that tested the endurance of all runners.

Professional long distance runner Yegon, for whom it was his third title in long distance road races in India in 30 days, thus took home the top prize of Rs one lakh while runner up Alemayehu and 3rd-placed Hawaldar Mansingh, a national cross country champion who won the 10 km road race at Pune last month, bagged Rs 50,000 and 25,000, respectively.

Incidentally, cross country running expert Alemayehu had come first in the 10-km races at Bangalore and Goa last month before finishing

second here. In the women's 10km race, Gladys Tarus won the gold with a measure of comfort clocking 37:24.00 leaving Asefa Dezabeh (Ethiopia, 39:00.01)) and 17-year-old Sangli girl Komal Ahiwale (India, 47:25.02) to win the silver and bronze. The winner took home Rs one lakh.

Yegon, who is returning home now for training before coming back to take part in the Standard Chartered Mumbai full marathon

on January 19, said he had run around 15 road races in the country after his first visit in 2009. Yegon, who had won the Goa half marathon and was second over the same distance in Pune last year, and the 19-year-old Ethiopian cross country expert fought a battle for supremacy, with the lead changing hands, till the eighth kilometer when the experienced Kenyan runner surged ahead and maintained the advantage to romp home.

MIG, Mumbai Police Gym start as favourites

MUMBAI: Holders MIG and last runners-up Mumbai Police Gymkhana start as favourites in the 4th commence from January 8, at various venues in Mumbai.

Organised jointly by Sporting Union Club and Kalyandas Memorial Foundation the 16 team tournament has other notable outfits like Dilip Vengsarkar Foundation, Karnataka CC, Payyade SC vying for top honours.

Being one of the premier tournaments for the under -16 age group it has received support from institutions like MET, Bank of India and Union Bank of India this year too. The matches will be played over two days as per the MCA rules. The event is being played under the aegis

of the state body to promote the game at this level. The semi finals and finals are scheduled for Jan 2122 and 28-29 respectively with the latter to be played at the Police Gymkhana. There will be special awards for the best batsman, bowler and fielder of the tournament as well as man of the match awards. The winners and runners up will also get cash awards. The matches will be conducted at Azad Cross Maidan and Shivaji Park.

Fixtures: MIG vs Stylo CC; Navroze vs Karnataka; Sainath SC vs Sporting Union; Kurla SC vs Mahim Juveniles; Vengsarkar Foundation vs United Cricketers; Bengal Club vs Payyade SC; New Era SC vs Aarey CC.

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Poojan Desai and Kaivalya Kalamse greet each other after their match.

appeared to have lost his way after a close fight in the first set as his forehand time and again sailed over the baseline and his ploy to make Piyush rush to the net misfired often as the lanky Pune lad was quick and hit passing shots with alacrity.

The girls singles semifinals proved to be rather tame affairs as top seeded Dakshata Patel got the better of Aaliya Ebrahim in a pulsating three-setter ( 3-6, 7-6 (3), 64) while and second seeded Sereh Menezes did not lose much time to beat Tejal Kulkarni win the tie 6-3, 6-2.

Over 500 participants across Maharashtra took part in the Square Off Mumbai Swimmathon off the coast of Gateway of India on Sunday. Ramesh Tamatta from Pune broke the event record with 38 mins 43 seconds to emerge first in the age 17-35 men’s category in the five kilometre swim while Namita Madgundi won the women’s event.

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Nanded boy Kaivalya topples top seed Poojan

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UMBAI: Nanded boy Kaivalya Kalamse knocked out top seed Poojan Desai 7-5, 6-4 to storm in to the boy’s under-16 final of the All India Ranking Championships tennis tournament hosted

by Chembur Gymkhana at their courts. The most remarkable feature of Kaivalya’s win was his ability to fight back after trailing 2-5 in the first set and then again 2-4 in the second.

Poojan tried to be aggressive and in the process made unforced errors time and again, Kaivalya, on the other hand, chased and beat Poojan with sharply angled volleys.

Second seeded Piyush Salekar from Pune downed Shobit Behl 64, 6-0 in the other semifinal. Shobit

Results: Girls U-16 (Quar terfinals): Dakshata Patel bt Sharanya Shetty 5-4, 4-0; Aaily Ebrahim bt Swarda Parab 4-2, 4-2; Kinnary Panchal bt Smriti Nair 4-0, 5-3; Sereh Menezes bt Trjal Kulkarni 4-1, 5-3.

(Semif inals): Dakshata Patel bt Aaily Ebrahim 3-6, 7-6 6-3; Sereh Menezes bt Kinnary Panchal 6-3, 6-2.

Boys U-16 singles (Quarterf inals): Poojan Desai bt Harsh Meswani 4-1, 5-4 (3); Kaivalya Kalamse bt Saurabh Sharma4-2, 4-0; Vikrant Tandel bt Rahil Mehta 4-1, 1-4, 7-6; Tanay Mehta bt Shreyas Mankane 5-3, 4-2; Shobit Behl bt Tanay Mehta 5-3,4-2; Piyush Salekar bt Dhanul Kargal 0-4, 4-2, 8-6.

(Semif inals); Kaivalya Kalamse bt Poojan Desai 7-5, 6-4; Piyush Salekar bt Shobit Behl 6-4, 6-0.

For improving players

By Anant Bhagwat

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or some time now I am receiving complaints from players who are still learning rudiments of Bridge.

The complaint is that the hands which I narrate in my column are a little difficult for them to understand. & could I give hands from which they would learn something & also enjoy reading them. Well from now onwards once every month I shall be giving a hand to please these readers of mine. Here is the first one.

BRIDGE S- A 10 8 6 H- J 10 7 6 4 D- 3 C- A Q 3

S- 7 4 S- K Q 3 2 H- 9 H- 3 D- A 9 7 6 5 4 D- K Q 10 8 2 C- 10 9 8 2 C- K 7 6 S- J 9 5 H- A K Q 8 5 2 D- J C- J 5 4

East deals & opens 1 diamond (Natural). South bid 2 hearts which in their system shoed a strong hand & North without hesitation bid 4 hearts. West led the Ace of diamonds. Upon seeing dummy east saw no reason to encourage partner & played a small diamond. West was at

crossroads. He knew he should not continue diamonds because it might give declarer a ruff & discard.

So he got out safely with 10 of clubs. South played small from dummy, east won with King & placidly returned a club. Now south was home. He won the club return, drew trumps, cashed the clubs & then ran the Jack of spades to east’s King. East was hopelessly end played. He had to either return a spade forgoing his trick or give declarer a ruff & discard. Either way the contract rolled home. Whose mistake is it?

Of course east is the culprit. On the lead of Ace of diamonds he can see that a spade shift is likely to defeat the contract. Therefore he must somehow tell partner to shift to spades. Since winking at him is illegal, he must find a legitimate way. There is one! On the Ace of diamonds he must drop the King. Partner knows that another diamond trick is not available on this hand.

So east is not encouraging to continue diamonds. This unnecessary high card is known as “Suit Preference Signal”. It tells partner to shift to the highest suit apart from trumps & diamonds.

West will get the signal & shift to a spade & east is saved from the end play. The contract goes down. If east plays a small card as this east did, it calls for a shift to a lower suit; the club. Defence becomes easier.

B’LORE MARATHON WINNER YEGON CLINCHES LAVASA RUN MEN’S TITLE

L-R: Asefa Dezabeh (second runner up), Gladys Tarus (winner) and Swati haridas Gadhave (second runner up) after their victory at Lavasa Hill Run, the first of its kind hill run launched by Lavasa Corporation.

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AVASA (PUNE): Kenyan athletes dominated the inaugural Rs 8 lakh prize money Lavasa Hill Run by clinching the titles in the men's and women's 10km endurance run here.

Bangalore full marathon champion Daniel Cheruiyot Yegon of Kenya clinched the first place in the men's 10-km endurance race, held in the scenic city, with a time of 31 minutes and 32 seconds. The corresponding women's tile was won by Kenya's Gladys Tarus. The 30-year old Yegon, who had finished second in the Melbourne half marathon held in October last, edged out Ethiopia's junior cross country champion Geberesodik Alemayehu and India's Hawaldar Mansingh to win the race, held on twisting and climbing roads that tested the endurance of all runners.

Professional long distance runner Yegon, for whom it was his third title in long distance road races in India in 30 days, thus took home the top prize of Rs one lakh while runner up Alemayehu and 3rd-placed Hawaldar Mansingh, a national cross country champion who won the 10 km road race at Pune last month, bagged Rs 50,000 and 25,000, respectively.

Incidentally, cross country running expert Alemayehu had come first in the 10-km races at Bangalore and Goa last month before finishing

second here. In the women's 10km race, Gladys Tarus won the gold with a measure of comfort clocking 37:24.00 leaving Asefa Dezabeh (Ethiopia, 39:00.01)) and 17-year-old Sangli girl Komal Ahiwale (India, 47:25.02) to win the silver and bronze. The winner took home Rs one lakh.

Yegon, who is returning home now for training before coming back to take part in the Standard Chartered Mumbai full marathon

on January 19, said he had run around 15 road races in the country after his first visit in 2009. Yegon, who had won the Goa half marathon and was second over the same distance in Pune last year, and the 19-year-old Ethiopian cross country expert fought a battle for supremacy, with the lead changing hands, till the eighth kilometer when the experienced Kenyan runner surged ahead and maintained the advantage to romp home.

MIG, Mumbai Police Gym start as favourites

MUMBAI: Holders MIG and last runners-up Mumbai Police Gymkhana start as favourites in the 4th commence from January 8, at various venues in Mumbai.

Organised jointly by Sporting Union Club and Kalyandas Memorial Foundation the 16 team tournament has other notable outfits like Dilip Vengsarkar Foundation, Karnataka CC, Payyade SC vying for top honours.

Being one of the premier tournaments for the under -16 age group it has received support from institutions like MET, Bank of India and Union Bank of India this year too. The matches will be played over two days as per the MCA rules. The event is being played under the aegis

of the state body to promote the game at this level. The semi finals and finals are scheduled for Jan 2122 and 28-29 respectively with the latter to be played at the Police Gymkhana. There will be special awards for the best batsman, bowler and fielder of the tournament as well as man of the match awards. The winners and runners up will also get cash awards. The matches will be conducted at Azad Cross Maidan and Shivaji Park.

Fixtures: MIG vs Stylo CC; Navroze vs Karnataka; Sainath SC vs Sporting Union; Kurla SC vs Mahim Juveniles; Vengsarkar Foundation vs United Cricketers; Bengal Club vs Payyade SC; New Era SC vs Aarey CC.

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Poojan Desai and Kaivalya Kalamse greet each other after their match.

appeared to have lost his way after a close fight in the first set as his forehand time and again sailed over the baseline and his ploy to make Piyush rush to the net misfired often as the lanky Pune lad was quick and hit passing shots with alacrity.

The girls singles semifinals proved to be rather tame affairs as top seeded Dakshata Patel got the better of Aaliya Ebrahim in a pulsating three-setter ( 3-6, 7-6 (3), 64) while and second seeded Sereh Menezes did not lose much time to beat Tejal Kulkarni win the tie 6-3, 6-2.

Over 500 participants from across Maharashtra took part in the Square Off Mumbai Swimmathon off the coast of Gateway of India on Sunday. Ramesh Tamatta from Pune broke the event record with 38 mins 43 seconds to emerge first in the age 17-35 male category in the five kilometre swim while Namita Madgundi won the women’s event.

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WAWRINKA CLINCHES HIS SECOND CHENNAI OPEN SPORTS

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Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland poses with the ATP Chennai Open 2014 trophy after defeating Roger Vasselin of France in straight sets (7-5, 6-2) in Chennai on Sunday.

HENNAI: Top seed Stanislas Wawrinka lifted his fifth ATP World Tour title and second Chennai Open trophy after a convincing straight sets win over Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the final.

The world number eight, who won a title here in 2011, scored a dominating 7-5 6-2 win in the summit clash, which lasted one hour and 35 minutes. Roger-Vasselin was trying to win his first ATP title but going past an opponent, who came into the tournament after a phenomenal season, was more than a difficult job.

Wawrinka, in the form of his life, was clearly a superior player. He stood out with his powerful returns and solid ground-strokes, specially his single-handed backhand. He hardly gave an inch to Roger-Vasselin, who though tried everything in his repertoire but was not enough.

With each passing game, Wawrinka imposed himself more and more on his rival and now leads Roger-Vasselin 2-1 in Head-to-Head record. Roger-Vasselin had beaten Wawrinka three months back at the Swiss Indoors Basel, while the Swiss

won in Chennai two years ago.

"That's (5th title) really big for sure.

It is my second title here so I am enjoying. I did my best here. I battled against top-10 in 2013 and I am doing everything (to improve). It's been an amazing first week and I will take this confidence to first Grand Slam," Wawrinka said. "The tournament is improving and looking forward to come back here," Wawrinka added.

Roger-Vasselin, appreciating the winner, said "It's like a heartbreak to lose in final. Warinka was too good, so he deserves to win. He played amazingly whole week. He was simply too good. Hope next time, I will finally win a tournament."

Vasselin had ended runner-up to Ernests Gulbis at Delray Beach Open in February, 2013. There was a good fight in the first set as it was on serve in the first 10 games. A backhand winner earned Wawrinka his first break point in the 11th game and an unforced error from Vasselin handed the Swiss a mini lead. Wawrinka had no problem to serve out the set and he did that at love.

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Roger-Vasselin was facing a break chance in the very first game of the second set but averted the danger with an audacious backhand winner following an exciting rally. Soon Wawrinka earned himself his second chance in the same game when the Frenchman approached the net and the top seed blasted him past a forehand winner. Roger-Vasselin buried a backhand on the net to hand the Swiss advantage.

It was an easy drive for Wawrinka after that as he raced to a 5-1 lead and completed the win in the eighth game. It was memorable tournament for Wawrinka as on Friday, he recorded his 300th match win of his career with victory over Aljaz Bedene.

He became just the fourth Swiss player to reach the landmark after Roger Federer (926), Marc Rosset (433) and Jakob Hlasek (432). However, a number of top players pulled out of the event, robbing it off some sheen. Serbian Janko Tipsarevic did not come to defend his title and later on second seed Russian Mikahil Youzhny, third seed Italian Fabio Fognini pulled out due to injuries.

Hindoostan Mills, Hewitt beats Federer in Brisbane final Spica Elastic B make final A

AMBY VALLEY: In a close contest, teams from Hindoostan Mills and Spica Elastic emerged winners on the first day of the Take Solutions World corporate Golf Challenge, Mumbai Leg played at the Aamby Valley golf course to enter the National final of the World Corporate Golf Challenge to be played in May in Malaysia.

Hindoostan Mills, represented

by Riaz Batliwala (33 pts, h’cap 8) and Kushal Thakersay (38 pts, h’cap 8) took top honours with a team score of 71 points. They were joined by Spica Elastic comprising Manish Jaitha (31 pts, h’cap 4) & Manisha Jaitha (31 pts, h’cap 14), who scored 62 points for coveted spot in the National Finals.

In the National finals, these two teams will match their skills with 14 other teams from other cities for the opportunity to represent India at the World Finals to be held at the NH Almenara Hotel & Golf Resort and La Reserva Club de Golf at Sotogrande, Spain from 1st to 6th July 2014. The other two teams will be selected from the second day of the Mumbai leg on Sunday, January 5.

RISBANE: Australia's Lleyton Hewitt stunned top seed Roger Federer of Switzerland to win the Brisbane International.

Hewitt raced through the first set, then held off a comeback from the world number six to win 6-1 4-6 6-3 in two hours seven minutes.

It was Hewitt's 29th title on the ATP tour but his first since 2010, when he also beat Federer in the final at Halle. Hewitt, the world number 60, is projected to rise to 43 on the rankings as a result of the win, and will be one of the most dangerous floaters when the Australian Open draw is made on January 10.

Federer started poorly and made a staggering 22 unforced errors in the first set, perhaps showing the effects of playing both singles and doubles in the heat and humidity of a Brisbane summer. The Swiss great hadn't lost his serve all week, but he appeared sluggish from the beginning and was broken to love in the first game. He managed to stop the rot on his next serve, however Hewitt was soon back in control, breaking Federer twice more to take the first set in only 27 minutes.

Hewitt lost only one point on serve in the first set as Federer imploded, stunning the sellout crowd on Pat Rafter Arena. The second set started much the same way with Hewitt

Somdev fails to qualify for Sydney ATP event

Lleyton Hewitt of Australia celebrates after winning the men's final match 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 against Roger Federer of Switzerland during the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia on Sunday. holding easily and Federer struggling. But the top seed gradually worked his way into form, halving his error rate and beginning to pressure the Australian.

He had the chance to break Hewitt in the fifth game but couldn't convert, however he struck immediately to break the Australian, then served three aces on his way to levelling the match. Hewitt struggled to hold serve at the start of the third but surpris-

ingly it was Federer who cracked first, dropping serve in the fourth game when a tired looking forehand sailed long on break point. The Australian then held serve easily to jump out to a 4-1 lead in the decider and maintained the advantage to win the title.

He managed to stop the rot on his next serve but Hewitt was soon back in control, breaking Federer twice more to take the first set in only 27 minutes.

Ashoke Dinda should concentrate on doing well in Ranji ties: Sourav Ganguly K

OLKATA: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly advised temperamental Bengal pacer Ashoke Dinda to "concentrate" on doing well for the state team in the upcoming Ranji Trophy quarterfinal against Railways rather than grumble about not getting a national call-up.

"Dinda should concentrate on his performnace now. His immediate

task should be to do well in the Ranji quarter-finals. If he performs well, he will again get a call-up in the national team," Ganguly replied when asked about Dinda's recent comments that he wants to leave Bengal. The 41-year-old's suggestion to Dinda was that he should keep patience and wait for his turn.

"A player has to pass through vari-

ous phases of life. But he has to keep patience and carry on". Ganguly praised Bengal paceman Mohammad Shami's performance for the national side.

The stylish left-hander of yesteryears feels that Indian team would do well in New Zealand and the mistakes made in the last series against South Africa could be corrected.

"But there are some loop holes, which can't be removed with just advices. The players themselves have to find it and remove them," he said on the sidelines of Kolkata Marathon here. "The same team has performed positively earlier. I hope they would be able to do the same on the New Zealand tour as well," Ganguly said.

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YDNEY: Somdev Devvarman could not make it to the main singles draw of the ATP Apia International tournament as he bowed out of the Qualifiers after suffering defeat in the second round against Jan-Lennard Struff.

Somdev made a bright start against his German opponent but lost 6-2 2-6 3-6. Struff had shocked top seed Mikhail Kukushkin 7-6 (6) 6-2 in the first round. India's Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna are competing in the doubles main draw. Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek have been seeded second and their first round opponents are Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin from France.

Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi have been seeded third and they will open their campaign against Dutch player Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau from Romania. The tournament is last ATP event before the Australian Open, season's first Grand Slam, starting January 13 in Melbourne.

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