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Lalbaugcha Raja Karyakarta assaults Byculla cop

By Zuber Ansari

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ne year after a lady constable deployed in front of the famous Lalbaugcha Raja idol to control the crowd, was slapped by a volunteer when she tried to intervene in an altercation, another case of cop-bashing has been reported this year from the Lalbaugcha Raja Ustav Mandal on Friday evening.

According to sources from Byculla Police station, the incident occurred when Assistant Police Inspector (API) Somling Kumthale attached to the Byculla Police Station was on-duty as a part of the extra force deployed at the Lalbaugcha Raja to man the crowd.

When a 17-year-old unidentified volunteer from the Mandal allegedly tried to forcefully bring in a few devotees from the VIP gate, meant only for the ministers, actors and other bigwigs, API Kumthale objected and asked the volunteer to follow the queue meant for devotees.

Police tightened security in the premises of Lalbaugcha Raja after the cop bashing on Friday evening.

“The volunteer, whose identity is being investigated, immediately started hitting and punching the cop and abused him. Looking at the commotion, other policemen deployed at the spot rushed to rescue the API and called in the mandal officials,” sources said.

Confirming the incident,

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone –III) Vinayak Deshmukh said, “It is true that one of our APIs Somling Kumthale has been beaten up by an unidentified volunteer at the Lalbaugcha Raja Mandal. We have been informed by our on-duty Continued on pg 8 «

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Visarjans go eco-friendly More devotees turn to artificial ponds for Ganesha-Gauri visarjan

By Vishnudas Sheshrao

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Ganesha devotees performing puja of Gauri-Ganpati at the Girgaum Chowpatty, on the 5th day of the Ganpati festivities, yesterday.

ollowing stingray bite incident at Girgaum Chowpatty on Tuesday, many a Ganesha devotees brought their idols at artificial lakes for visarjan. Civic officials estimated around 14,500 Ganesh and Gauri idols were immersed at various artificial and immersion points in the city. However, the trend to immerse idols at artificial ponds witnessed a sharp Continued on pg 8 «

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Here you are sir! The culprit who attacked the persons who had gone in the sea water for immersion of Ganesh idols.

OPINIONS

Do you think Modi as a PM candidate can lead the BJP to victory in the General Elections 2014?

Sanjay Mishra Media Professional Yes. The BJP party workers have been waiting for this announcement for quite some time now and it has finally come true today. The BJP will be stronger now.

Arun Kumar Journalist Yes. Modi is the only person in the BJP who can change the nation and under his leadership BJP will defeat the Congress.

Afzal Hussain PR Executive Yes. We are fed up of the Congress leadership and we are now having some hopes, but it depends on Modiji as to how he manages to win the hearts of secular voters.

Rizwan Ansari Businessman Yes. Everyone should welcome a new face.

I think there is now new face in the Congress anymore, so we should welcome Modi and hope that he will defeat the Congress in the upcoming elections.

Parveen Qureshi Housewife May be. But it is true that, after this announcement, the BJP has some chances of winning more seats, but if the Congress announces Rahul Gandhi as a PM candidate then the youth brigade may change their tracks.

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Advertisements by private health services provider announcing part time jobs for doctors are pasted across the walls of KEM hospital

By Shwetha Kannan

graphs of it pasted on the wall of a building which is adjacent to the lin advertisement by a private brary building and was in full view health services provider an- of the students. (See photograph) According to Dr. Santosh nouncing part time clinical jobs for doctors and ensuring them Wakchaure, president, Maharasha good income had been seen for at tra Association of Resident Doctors least a week or so in the premises of BMC-run KEM hospital. This comes as a shocker because these are times, when the BMC is busy taking action against doctors in various civic-run hospitals indulging in unethical practices like attending to patients at their priExxtra E xxtttra rra vate clinics during hours when they are supposed to be at the BMC hospital.

Sources at the hospital said that Concentrate such advertisements are not supposed to be posted in BMC hospitals and BMC-run medical colleges as they give out wrong message to the students studying there.

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The advertisement by a private health services provider at the BMC-run KEM Hospital, inviting doctors for a part time job.

(MARD), such kind of posters not only tempt student from taking up part time jobs but also devalue a doctor’s profession.

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through such advertisements that talk about a good income is demeaning. Also, this might tempt students to take up such part time jobs which will in some way or the other affect their duties at the BMC hospitals,” said Dr. Wakchaure.

While Dr. Shubhangi Parkar, Dean of KEM hospital, remained unavailable for a comment, Dr. Milind Salve who was unaware of the advertisement said, “I haven’t seen the advertisement.”

On being shown the photographs of the advertisement, Dr. Salve said, “The advertisement would have been removed by the security. But yes, this should not have happened at all. No advertisements of this nature or pamphlets of any kind can be distributed in the hospital premises. This is not allowed. I will enquire with the security.” shwetha.kannan@afternoondc.in

Stingrays might have come through foreign cargo vessels: Experts

By Vishnudas Sheshrao

ballast water carries bacteria, microbes, small invertebrates, eggs, irgaum Chowpatty has no his- cysts and larvae of various species tory of stingray fishes, it might those cause serious threat to local have come through ballast water ecological balance.”

Captain Philip Mathew said, system of foreign cargo vessel in the form of microorganism, say “Seawater fetched from another marine experts. Local fishing com- continent is released in other ports. munity has extended their helping We have no stringent rules like the hand to avoid any untoward inci- Western counties on Ballast Water dent of stingray bite on the ensuing Management.”

He added, “Micro organism and visarjan day, ie. Anant Chaturdashi, next week. To stabilize and balance larvae can pass through such water, the cargo vessels, sea water is but not big fishes like stingray. It is pumped and stored in lower side of common around the city, but the the ship. It reduce the stress on the incident was observed for the first hull, provides transverse stability, time at Girgaum Chowpatty, earlier improves propulsion and maneu- this week.”

It was first time in the recent verability of the vessel, experts told known history that baby stingrays this reporter yesterday.

According to the International attacked Ganesha devotees who Maritime Organisation (IMO) “The went for visarjan ceremony at the

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A man shows dead stingray fish at the Girgaum Chowpatty after the Tuesday’s Ganpati immersion. An estimated 60 people had suffered stingray bites.

Girgaum Chowpatty on Tuesday.

According to the hospital reports, an estimated 60 people had suffered stingray bites.

Damodar Tandel, president of the Maharashtra Machimar Samiti, which is among the largest of the fishermen's associations in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, said, “We are ready to incorporate with civic body for peaceful Ganesh

visarjan on Anant Chaturdashi.”

He added, “If the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) allows us to take our small vessels around Girgaum Chowpatty to go around. We will catch or drive away these fishes.”

He said, “Stingray is very shy and coward fish species. They run away with sound. If our vessels go around these fishes they will run away.”

Construction should be started within 90 days from the completion of the Compound Wall.

Construction should not stop once it begins.

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Bun maska and Irani chai

IN 1890 (or thereabouts) when a famine broke out in the provinces of Yezd and Kerman in Iran, bordering then undivided India, at last Haji Mohammed Showghi Yezdi and thousands of his fellow Iranis, turned their faces towards Hindustan.

They crossed the border at Mirjaveh, and without a pie in their pockets, trudged for nearly five months over land both hospitable and hostile, over lush vegetation and cruel desert, travelling in caravans that were sometimes looted by the peoples they came across, sometimes not.

The Haji came through Quetta and groups began to break off as some stayed back in Karachi, some went off to Lahore. But he travelled on doggedly, coming through Attari-Wagah, going to Amritsar, passing Delhi, heading towards Bombay where family waited. Walking, walking, more walking… towards the realisation of the dream of a better life.

That dream did not fail him. For Haji Mohammed became part of the social and cultural landscape in a way that he could never have imagined. He and thousands of his fellow men from Iran gave this city (and Pune and Hyderabad as well), its Irani cafes, bun maska and its utterly addictive Irani chai, made through a careful process that never fails to satisfy.

This evening at the Islam Gymkhana, there is to be the showing of a documentary, Café Irani Chai, the eponymous title clear indication of the subject. It has been made by Dr. Mansoor Showghi Yezdi, the Haji’s grandson, and he describes it as a complete labour of love, a thank you to his countrymen for the welcome that his forefathers received. “I love my country”, he says, in a voice that quivers with emotion.

“We Iranis cannot do enough for Bharata Mata”.

The documentary is also a fine example of the complete integration that Iranis feel among their own community, whether they are Zoroastrians or Muslims. This is something that the average customer to these wonderfully recognisable places always misses because there is little to distinguish between them. “People have been coming from Iran for more than a millennium, first the Parsis, then the later waves. “Our forefathers knew there would be a welcome because they were Persian after all”, says Mansoor.

The wonderful thing is that there was no disappointment. The welcome was there, not just from fellow Iranis but from India as well.

And so the Irani cafes were set up, selling what they knew to make best – tea! Mansoor himself says that his father, Haji Mirza Habibul-

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lah sold tea in an Irani ketli around Apollo Bunder before he and his brothers got into the canteen business at several cinemas (Plaza, Dharti, Citylight, and Paradise) and street locations like Café Ideal near Radio Club run by his maternal uncle.

Mansoor himself got training not just in the running of an Irani café but also in film, for it was while his father, in partnership with the late Dr. V. Shatanram, ran the canteen at Plaza in Dadar, that he developed his fascination for the medium. And both, an awareness of the café culture and the making of a film, have come together in this documentary which could not have come at a better time, when the very existence of these marvelous socio-economic entities are threatened by the pull of real estate prices and the diverging aspirations of young Iranis who don’t see themselves sitting behind counters for the rest of their lives, dispensing chai, biscuits and short eats! As a result, where there were perhaps 1,300 Irani cafes in Bombay in its heyday, around 300 exist now. The picture is slightly better in Hyderabad, where there are perhaps 400 of these establishments, still flourishing.

Mansoor says this 28-minute film has taken almost 10 years to bring to fruition. He shot 500 hours of film across Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad, and also travelled

Dr. Mansoor Showghi Yezdi has spent ten years making his documentary on the Irani café. The picture shows him seated in one in B. Merwan at Grant Road.

Afficionados will have no trouble identifying it as one, complete with marble-topped table, bentwood chair, bun-maska and of course, a cup of Irani chai.

DONE AND DUSTED: In a photo made with a fisheye lens, the ‘Tribute in Light’ rises above buildings in lower Manhattan, during a test earlier this week. The light display commemorates the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center that were destroyed in terrorist attacks 12 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001. In Mumbai, we have a very long way to go before we are in a position to display the same sort of class, perhaps because we are still to truly resolve any of the assaults upon our city and it’s way of life. For America, after 9/11 there was 5/2, that day in May 2011 when their worst enemy died in a daring midnight attack carried out by the US Marines in Islamabad. For us, there has been no sense of closure, not even with the death of Kasab.

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to Iran to trace the footsteps of his grandfather from Yezd.

“I went to Iran after 30 years, six months ago, to shoot footage, and will be going there again. But this time, to further develop friendship through the Indo-Iranian Friendship Society. In fact, in the first week of October, the organisation will also show the film as a gesture of the close ties between the two countries”, he says.

So, why are Irani cafes always recognisable by their locations, usually a street corner which is rounded so that the café occupies space curving in two directions, we asked. Mansoor laughed. “That was an inadvertent benefit. Waghmukh against gomukh, the first with the front of the property bigger than the back, the second the reverse! Hindus believe that waghmukh is inauspicious, so these properties were sold to us at much cheaper rates than the gomukhs. We had no problem with either!”

Having seen the documentary, we can vouch for the fact that it is delightful and will make valuable archival material for anyone interested in the history of this city.

Most of all, it s a love song for the cafes and everyone who sees it is bound to shout out his favourite.

Kyani, famous for their mawa cakes, custard, pudding, bun maska and khari, Koolar at King Circle, known for their Wrestlers Omlette, Yazdani Bakery, a particular favourite with this writer because of Zend M Zend and his famous line, “Eat my bread and you will have only sons”, and also for bread pudding and eight-grain bread, B. Merwan & Co. opposite Grant Road Station famous for their mawa cakes, Lucky Hotel and Restaurant in Bandra and their biryani, Sarvi at Nagpada and its seekh kabab.

In Pune it is Kyani on East Street and its wonderful Shrewsbury biscuits, Blue Nile for biryani and Chelo kabab and Iranian food, George for rotisserie chicken, Café Vohuman for their cheese omelette and brun maska, Cafe Yezdan at Camp, famous for their bun maska, brun maska and omelettes.

The roll call goes on - Dorabjee and Sons famous for their dhansak and salli boti and biryani, Husseini Bakery for their bakery items, especially their brun.

In Hyderabad, there is Paradise at Secunderabad, famous worldwide for their biryani, able to seat 5,000 people at a go in their restaurant, New Grand Hyderabad for their food items and Bawarchi, famous for their Chicken Rotisserie and biryani. And every one of them most famous of all for their Irani chai!

This evening, the film will be shown and present in the audience will be both Zoroastrians and Muslims, for it is the Iranian Zoroastrian Anjuman of Mumbai which has sponsored it.

You will see a lot of familiar faces, some recognisable as the affable Irani behind the counter at your favourite Irani café. Perhaps none more recognisable, however, than Dr. Ali Irani, best known in this city as doctor to our sportsmen. He is the executive producer!

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L2431359 in the name of Priyanka Sachin Godhania , (2) Lenovo Company Laptop.

Founder Call : 09737597882.

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CHANGE OF NAME I have changed my name from Prashant Dhirajlal Vakharia to Prashant Gordhandas Sheth as per Affidavit.

C-16285 I have changed my name from Alpa Prashant Vakharia to Alpa Prashant Sheth as per Affidavit.

C-16286 I have changed my child name from Shrey Prashant Vakharia to Shrey Prashant Sheth as per Affidavit.

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CLASSIFIEDS I Sydney Francis Milton Fonseca have changed my name to Sydney Milton Fonseca as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 11/09/13.

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I Mehulbhai Mansukhbhai Lunagariya have changed my name to Mehul Mansukhbhai Lunagariya as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 13/09/13.

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I Dmonte Anit John have changed my name to Anti John Dmonte as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 11/09/13.

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I Mohammad Hanif Mohammad Kasim Shaikh have changed my name to Hanif Mohammed Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 13/09/13.

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I Irum Altaf Lala have changed my name to Irum Idris Kazi as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 12/09/13.

C-16298 I Lalitaben Vallabhbhai Patadia have changed my name to Lalita Vallabhbhai Patadia as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 31/08/13.

C-16299 I Yogesh Vallabhdas Darjee have changed my name to Yogesh Vallabhbhai Patadia as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 31/08/13.

C-16300 I Bhavesh Vallabhdas Patadia have changed my name to Bhavesh Vallabhbhai Patadia as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 31/08/13.

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I have changed my name from Basanti Shankardatt Sharma to Basanti Shankardatt Joshi Vide Gazette No. X-4710, dated 21-7-1994.

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I Jayantilal Maganbhai Darji have changed my name to Jayantibhai Maganbhai Darji as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 12/09/13.

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I have changed my name from Husna Begum Furqan Ali to Husna Begum Furqan Ali Siddiqui as per Affidavit No. HM 368808.

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I Sandhy Prabhakar Gurav have changed my name to Kalyani Kishor Gurav as per Maharashtra Government Gazette No. U-385 dated: 20/05/04.

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I have changed my name from Haidar Ali Furkan Ali to Haidar Ali Furqan Ali Siddiqui as per Affidavit No. HL 090129.

C-16290 I have changed my name from Furqan Ali Ahmed Ali to Furqan Ali Ahmed Ali Siddiqui as per Affidavit No. HM 368809.

C-16291 I Mohammed Ahemad Zuber Ahmed have changed my name to Shaikh Ahmad Zubair as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 11/09/13.

C-16292 I John Jockey Dmonte have changed my name to John Jocky Dmonte as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 11/09/13.

C-16293 I Sayed Arif Mansur Qurban have changed my name to Sayed Arif Mansur Ali as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 11/09/13.

C-16294 I Sunil Peter Ghosal have changed my name to Sunil Peter Gonsalves as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 11/09/13.

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I Deepika Bhupendrakumar Dhuvad have changed my name to Mrs. Dipika Bhupendra Dhuvad as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 07/09/13.

C-16304 I Tarakbhai Natwarlal Padiya have changed my name to Tarak Natwarlal Padia as per Maharashtra Government Gazette No. X-29422 dated: 30/08/12.

C-16306 I Dharmishtha/ Dhaval Natwarlal Padia have changed my name to Dharmisth Natwarlal Padia as per Maharashtra Government Gazette No. X-15596 dated: 11/07/13.

C-16307 I Joshna Vijay Jain have changed my minor son’s name from Harsh Vijay Kothari to Harsh Vijay Jain as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 11/09/13.

C-16308 I Sudha Tiwari Pabreja have changed my name to Sudha Tiwari as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 12/09/13.

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I Arvind Kumar Parasmal Jain have changed my name to Arvind Parasmal Gungaliya as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 05/09/13.

C-16312 I Laxmi Abhay Rajput have changed My Name to Laxmi Abhay Mori as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 13/09/13.

C-16313 I Abhay Hamirbhai Rajput have changed my name to Abhay Hamirbhai Mori as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 13/09/13.

C-16314 We Mr. Arvind Dubey & Mrs. Ajita Dubey have changed our minor daughter’s name from Devanshi Dubey to Devanshee Dubey as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 13/09/13.

C-16315 I have changed my name from Aditi Kumari Singh, to ‘Aditi Arvind Singh’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U- 31816) Dated: 29/08/2013.

C-16316 I have changed my name from Mohamed Shakir Mohamed Iqbal, to ‘Mohammed Shakir Mohamed Iqbal Shaikh’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U- 30228) Dated: 29/08/2013.

C-16317 I have changed my name from Yasmeen Mohamed Iqbal, to ‘Yasmin Bano Mohamed Iqbal Shaikh’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U- 30229) Dated: 29/08/2013.

C-16318 I have changed my name from Ramji Vasanji Shah, to ‘Ramji Vasanji Gada’ as per Affidavit Dated: 13/09/2013.

C-16319 I have changed my name from Harnishkumar Ramji Shah, to ‘Harnish Ramji Gada’ as per Affidavit Dated: 13/09/2013.

C-16320 I, Mukesh Drishti, holder of Indian Passport No. H 3270726, issued at Dubai on 25-03-2009, resident of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and presently residing at Fahad AI Baker bldg. No. 302, P.O. Box No. 6682, Bur Dubai, Dubai, UAE, do hereby change my name from Mukesh Drishti to Drishti Mukesh with immediate effect.

C-16321 I have changed my name from Atu Issardas Khatri to Aatu Isardas Khatri as per Affidavit.

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MUMBAI | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 I have changed my name from Parshotam Bhagwandas Rajani to Parshottam Bhagwandas Rajani as per Affidavit.

C-16323 I have changed my name from Mahendrakumar Dhirajlal Shah to Mahendra Dhirajlal Shah as per Affidavit dated: 13 Sept 2013.

C-16324 I have changed my name from Pritiben Prahladbhai Nayi to Priti Bhavesh Parekh as per Affidavit dated: 13 Sept 2013.

C-16325 I have changed my name from Jay khushal Rajesh Bhatt to Jay Rajesh Bhatt as per Affidavit dated: 13 Sept 2013.

C-16326 We Salim Iqbal Qureshi and Seema Salim Qureshi have changed our minor daughter name Saima Salim Qureshi to Salomi Salim Qureshi as per Gazette No. (X-25769).

C-16327 I have changed my name from Manohar Gopal Naik to Manohar Gopal Nayak vide Gazette no. U-26832 dated 14/08/2013.

C-16328 I have changed my name from Amna Abdul Majeed to Amina Abdul Majeed Shaikh as per Gazette No. (U-63094).

C-16329 We (1) Kasam Zainuddin Cyclewala & (2) Mrs. Duraiya Kasam Cyclewala have changed our minor daughter’s name from Fijja Kasimali Indorewala to Fizza Kasam Cyclewala as per deed poll Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Rajesh Kumar Harishankar Paliwal to Rajesh Harishankar Paliwal as per Affidavit.

C-16337 I have changed my name from Gala Dineshkumar Meghji to Diinesh Meghji Gaala as per deed poll Affidavit dated - 13th September 2013.

C-16338 I have changed my name from Amjoed Mammu Shah to Amjad Mammu Shah as per Maharashtra Gazette No (X-40993).

C-16339 I have changed my name from Mustakim Ahemad Makbul Ahemad to Mustaqeem Maqbool Ahmed Sayyed as per Maharashtra Gazette No (X-40529).

C-16340 I have changed my name from Janikumar Jain to Janikumar Shah as per Affidavit dated 24th July, 2013.

C-16341 I have changed my name from Peer Mohammad Fakruddin Shaikh to Peer Mohd Fakruddin Shaikh as per Affidavit dated 26th August, 2013.

C-16342 I have changed my name from Sairabanu Khan to Sairabanu Shaikh as per Affidavit dated 29th July, 2013.

C-16343 I have changed my name from Mohamed Mukarram Khan to Mohamed Mukarram Shaikh as per Affidavit dated 26thAugust, 2013.

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I have changed my name from Kasamali Zainuddin Indorewala to Kasam Zainuddin Cyclewala as per deed poll Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Manjuben Jain to Manjuben Shah as per Affidavit dated 24th July, 2013.

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I have changed my name from Duraiya Kasimali Indorewala to Duraiya Kasam Cyclewala as per deed poll Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Firdous Bano Khan to Firdous Bano Shaikh as per Affidavit dated 26th August, 2013.

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I have changed my name from Mehmood Abdulhaq Shaikh to Mehmood Ahmed Abdulhaque Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-16333 I have changed my name from Shaikh Hatimbhai Abdul Husain Bhanpurawala to Bhanpurawala Mulla Hatimali Abdul Husain as per deed poll Affidavit Dtd.13/09/2013.

C-16334 I have changed my name from Jayawanti Prakash Parmar to Jaswanti Prakash Parmar as per Affidavit.

C-16335 I have changed my name from Sharad Nunnaboina to Sharad Eshwarrao Nunnaboina as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Anand Dulba Raut to Anandarao Dulba Raut as per Affidavit.

C-16347 I have changed my name from Seema Masud Ahmed to Seema Masud Ahmed Justin as per Affidavit.

C-16348 We Mr. Sandeep Vinaychand Khawad & Mrs. Swati Sandeep Khawad have changed our son’s name from Rishabh Sandeep Khawad to Rishab Sandeep Khawad as per Affidavit.

C-16349 I have changed my name from Subodh Kumar Chandrashekhar Agrawal to Subodh Chandrashekhar Agrawal as per Affidavit.

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I have change my name from Girishkumar Laxmidas Suhar to Girish Laxmidas Swar as per Affidavit.

C-16351 I have change my name from Sadhana Mohanlal Satdev to Sangeeta Girish Swar as per Affidavit.

C-16352 I have change my name from Ruchiben Vijaykumar Patel to Ruchi Vikas Patel as per Affidavit.

C-16353 I have changed my name from Karunashankar Joshi to Kanubhai Joshi as per Affidavit.

C-16354 I have changed my name from Bine Pankaj Joshi to Bina Pankaj Joshi as per Affidavit.

C-16355 I have changed my name from Beena Pankaj Joshi to Bina Pankaj Joshi as per Affidavit.

C-16356 I have changed my name from Sanjay Kumar Dhirajlal Shah to Sanjay Dhirajlal Shah as per Affidavit.

C-16357 I have changed my name from Arnayaz Noshir Karvarna to Aran Noshir Kavarana as per Affidavit.

C-16358 I have changed my name from Balasuramanian Mannapra Venkitachala to Balasubramanian Mannapra Venkitachala as per Affidavit.

C-16359 I have changed my name from Rajalekshmy Pazhayannur Balakrishnan to Rajalakshmy Subramanian as per Affidavit.

C-16360 I have changed my name from Dilipkumar Nemaram Choudhari to Dilip Nemaram Chaudhari as per Affidavit.

C-16361 I have changed my name from Saparam Nemaramji Choudhari to Sampalal Nemaramji Choudhary as per Affidavit.

C-16362 I have changed my name from Dattatray Bhagwan Shirke to Dattaram Bhagwan Shirke as per Affidavit.

C-16363 I have changed my name from Pinky Dharmesh Vora / Shah to Pinky Dharmesh Shah as per Affidavit dated 13/09/2013.

C-16364 I have changed my name from Mamatha Mahaveer Chopra to Mamtadevi Sanjaykumar Tater as per Affidavit dated 13/09/2013.

C-16365 I have changed my name from Seema Narpatraj Dheladia to Seemadevi Manojkumar Tater as per Affidavit dated 13/09/2013.

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GRP nabs woman from Lucknow who stole Mumbai resident Manisha Sanap’s baby girl from Haji Ali

By Kainaz Choksey

“The child had gone missing since Thursday from Haji Ali at Worli n Friday, Shahbanu Mukhtar when the child had gone there Khan (35) was nabbed by the along with her mother and a missGovernment Railway Police ing complaint was registered at 2:45 (GRP) at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus p.m. at the Gamdevi police station.”

Khan is a resident of Lucknow, in along with a 4-month-old baby girl, who was apparently kidnapped by Uttar Pradesh.

According to Raja Ram Prabhu, Khan.

The police later handed over the Senior Police Inspector, Gamdevi child to the Gamdevi police since a Police station, “The accused has missing complaint was registered been arrested. She has been booked on Thursday by Manisha Sanap under Section 363 (Punishment for (26), the mother of the baby girl at kidnapping) under the Indian Penal Code.

Gamdevi police station.

According to the senior police officials at Gamdevi police station, kainaz.choksey@afternoon.dc.in The accused Shahbanu Mukhtar Khan at the Gamdevi Police station and Manisha Sanap with her baby girl, on Friday.

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Filmmaker’s office robbery case solved, servant held

By Zuber Ansari

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he Santacruz police have arrested a servant in theft case at the filmmaker Kunal Kohli’ Production office on Thursday. The accused was caught on CCTV camera installed inside the office, but he was not traceable.

Later, the police learnt that the same accused was inside the Arthur road jail involved in some other case. After questioning him, he revealed the truth about the theft. The accused confessed to have committed several house-breaking cases in Khar area.

Senior Police Inspector Arun Chavan of Santacruz police station said, “The accused servant Mukesh Gawde was produced in the court on Thursday where he was remanded to police custody till September 16. Gawde has confessed to the crime.”

Gawde was working as servant at

tacruz police was clueless about the accused and had no leads.

Meanwhile, Khar police was looking for Gawde in several housebreaking cases. He was not found at his residence in Varin Pada in Khar Danda. The Khar police got information that Gawde is hiding in Chembur slums, near RCF, from where he was arrested by the Khar police.

The Santacruz police were unaware of the arrest. However, after interrogation and Khar police’s custody, Gawde was sent to Arthur road Jail for his crime. Santacruz police officials came to know about it from Kunal Kohli’s office at 17th North their sources that Gawde is locked Avenue Road, Guru Gobind Marg, at Arthur road jail. Gawde’s custody Santacruz (West). The accused was taken and brought to Santacruz made away with laptops, silver police station where he confessed to coins, a safe made of steel and some crime.

A source from Khar police station cash. The incident was recorded through CCTV cameras installed in said, “Gavde has several cases on the office. A complaint was made at him. He made several housebreakSantacruz police station. However, ing in Khar. He is habitual ofeven after several days the San- fender.”

MSRTC reinstates sacked driver as a peon

By Philip Varghese

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week after the Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) to reinstate one of their drivers who was sacked after he contracted HIV, the court on Friday, was informed that the driver has been taken into service as a peon.

The driver was sacked by the MSRTC in May 2012 on the grounds that he was ‘unfit to work’.

He had been working as a driver since 1999 and had told the MSRTC that he was physically weak because of the treatment he was receiving. He requested them to provide him with light work, rather than being asked to drive heavy vehicles. Stating that there was no legal provision for changing the job profile of HIV-positive employees, the transport authority had him removed from service.

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cause of he was HIV-positive. He later moved the court challenging his dismissal.

The High Court, at the last hearing on September 6, said that dismissal on account of a person contracting HIV amounted to an infringement of the constitutional right to livelihood.

During the hearing on the matter on Friday, Advocate G.S. Hegde, representing the MSRTC in the matter, told the division bench headed by Justice Abhay Oka that obeying the High Court’s remarks in the last hearing, the driver who had challenged his dismissal, had been taken back into service.

“The reinstatement is subject to a medical examination and he being found fit for the new job. The necessary medical test has been conducted and report of the tests will be available only on September 26,” Advocate Hegde told the court.

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No role of police in Ganda shootout

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nvestigators probing the shootout on bookie-cumland grabber Ajay Borivli aka Ajay Ganda has hitherto not come across the role of any serving police officer of Mumbai police. This was confirmed by a senior crime branch official closely monitoring the probe.

The arrest of Kaushik Rajbhar in the firing case had led to point the needle of suspicion on several police Ajay Ganda officials in Mumbai police, who might have played a Nayak, who is heading the special squad formed by crucial role in the firing.

The reason for this is that Addl CP (West Region) Vishfrom past several years Rajb- was Nangre-Patil.

Considering this, the unhar, famously known as KK in police circle, has been a scrupulous elements in socikey informant for various ety, in a bid to settle their big shot police officials in personal scores with police crime branch as well as city officials, started spreading police. Recently, he had be- rumours about the officers come a trusted informer of and especially Nayak, whose assistant-inspector and en- informant was KK. However, joint commiscounter specialist Daya

sioner of police (crime) Himanshu Roy, did not respond to the phone call and the message on his mobile asking whether the role of Daya Nayak or any officer attached to west region’s special squad is being probed in the firing case.

Looking at the way in which the rumours are being spread it becomes apparent that a lobby is at work to frame assistant-inspector Nayak, said a top crime branch officer.

Meanwhile, the investigators are looking for Amit Sinha, who is the key link between the shooters and the Chhota Rajan gang members lodged in city’s jail, who arranged the shooters to eliminate Ganda. Also, one among the three shooters is still at large, said police adding that the police hitherto has arrested four people in the case. neel.shah@afternoondc.in

EXTERNED CRIMINALS REAPPEAR, LOCALS LIVE IN FEAR

By Tariq Khan

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he Shivaji Nagar police station has several externed criminals on its list.

Once a criminal is externed,

27 externed criminals.

“Hardened criminals who create law and order problem or spread violence in the area are declared ‘tadipar’ so that peace is maintained in

arresting tadipars and producing them in court, they are released by the courts on personal bonds or for other reasons. This demoralises the police force and in-

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the police keep a tab on him through their network of informers. If he enters Shivaji Nagar before the completion of his externment, he is arrested and produced in court.

API Bharat Shendge says, “This year, till date, we have externed 18 dreaded criminals. In 2012, eight were externed.”

The tadipar list of the Shivaji Nagar police names

the area and locals can live without fear. In the eight months of this year, we have arrested 26 tadipars who slyly entered Shivaji Nagar.

Once arrested, they are produced in the court,” said Radheshyam Agarwal, Senior PI, Shivaji Nagar.

However, police sources say that the Shivaji Nagar police jurisdiction has a high presence of criminal elements. In spite of the police

creases a criminal’s confidence. The police feel powerless and citizens lose their faith in the system.

When contacted, DCP Lakhmi Gautam said, “I have no comments on the court’s order. However, I feel that a message should reach the government about the limitations of the police in containing dreaded criminals.

Media reports can help in this matter.”

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Youth killed over petty argument

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22-year-old habitual thief has been arrested by an on duty patrolling team of Kherwadi Police when he broke into the

According to Police Sub Inspector (PSI) from Kherwadi Police Station Pravin Kharade, the accused is a resident of Nalasopara and visited Bandra only for robberies.

This wasn’t his first robbery and has more than 12 theft cases registered against him.

The victim’s family was away at their native place to celebrate Ganpati festival when this incident took

place.

The accused had committed another robbery in Haresh Vishnu Jadva’s house.

In this case he was convicted and had come out of jail in July this year. He is not associated with any gang, Kharade informed.

On Friday, he was produced before the court and sent to police custody for three days.

Lady doctor molested on train

By Kainaz Choksey

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Police inspect the pandal where the murder took place. (Below): The accused Mahavir Singh Yadav.

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Sanpada, on Thursday night, when an argument ensued between the two. However, their friends pacified them after which they all went to sleep in the pandal. Early the next morning, Yadav picked up a wooden bench and hit Shetty with it causing his death.

The Sanpada Police has detained Yadav for further investigations.

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20-year-old man was killed by a friend in Sanpada on Friday morning following an argument. The accused has been identified as Mahavir Singh Yadav (23).

The victim, Anu Shetty, a resident of Sanpada, was playing cards with his friends, including the accused, at a Ganpati pandal near Nageshwar Shiv Temple in Sector 15,

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house of a government servant in Building Number 10 of Government Colony in Bandra (E). The thief was caught with valuables which he had stolen from this house.

On Wednesday, the robber, Sachin Somnath Bodke, entered the house of Pandurang Jairam Naik after breaking the main door lock when no one was present inside his house.

Someone from the building later noticed an on duty patrolling team and immediately informed them of the robber’s movements. The team caught Sachin when he was trying to escape with a mobile phone and cash worth Rs.3,000.

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31-year-old lady doctor travelling by the Gujarat Mail from Ahmedabad to Mumbai was allegedly molested by a co-passenger in the early hours of the morning.

The victim was travelling alone to Mumbai to attend a medical conference and was asleep when the accused, identified as Chandraprakash Malkhan Singh (21), who was occupying the upper berth, touched her inappropriately under the pretext of picking up a fallen bedsheet.

The victim then complained of the incident to the

Ticket Collector (TC) who in turn called up his seniors and the helpline. When the train reached Borivli, the police entered the compartment and brought the accused to Mumbai Central Government Railway Police station along with the victim and the TC. “Singh has been arrested.

He was brought to the Mumbai Central Government Railway Police station after the lady complained that she was inappropriately touched by him,” said Rajendra Trivedi, Senior Police Inspector, Government Railway Police, Mumbai Central. Singh is a resident of Antop Hill.

Bizman held for using red beacon on car

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35-year-old businessman has been arrested by the Thane (Rural) police for allegedly using an unauthorised red beacon and a ‘Police’ placard on his car.

According to the police the accused, identified as Kailash Shah (35), sped past the Superintendent of Police (Thane-Rural), Anil Kumbare, near Charoti Naka on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway on Thursday. The top cop, who got suspicious, immediately directed the nearby Dahanu police station to check the authenticity of the police official’s vehicle.

Shah, who is a resident of Bhiwandi, claimed to be a businessman from Mulund.

The Dahanu police arrested

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Shah allegedly used a red beacon and ‘Police’ placard on his car. him and seized the car after it was confirmed that he was illegally using the red beacon

and the police placard on his vehicle to evade toll.

“Shah was arrested under

Section 171 of the Indian Penal Code, for carrying a token used by a public servant with fraudulent intent and other sections of the Motor Vehicles Act. He was subsequently granted bail,” said Senior Police Inspector, Shriram Koregaonkar.

Last week the Valiv police had arrested a person who moved around in the Vasai-Virar region posing as an IPS officer.

Deceased Keshav Babaji Tarpe and Shanta Keshav Tarpe were joint owners of Flat G/1, admeasuring 425 sq.ft built up on Ground floor in Dattaprasad Co-operative Housing Society Ltd. Retibunder Road, Devichapada, Dombivali (west), Dist-Thane. Keshav Babaji Tarpe expired on 14/10/2007 and his wife Shanta Keshav Tarpe also expired on 24/10/ 2012 who had nominated Shri. Mangesh ParshuramTarpe & Shri. Suresh Parshuram Tarpe. Keshav B. Tarpe and Shanta Keshav Tarpe had no issue from their wedlock.

My clients Mangesh Parshuram Tarpe and Suresh Parshuram Tarpe have made application to the society for transfer of flat and shares of deceased Keshav B. Tarpe and Shanta Keshav Tarpe in their name and also given indemnity bond to the society. if any person/persons have any objection for transfer of the said flat and shares in the name of shri. Mangesh Parshuram Tarpe & shri Suresh Parshuram Tarpe. He/she/they shall inform the same in writing within 14 days of publication of this notice at below mentioned address or to Dattprasad Co-operative Housing Society Ltd., Retibunder Cross Road, Devichapada, Dombivali (west), Dist-Thane. if any objection is not recived within given period, the society will transfer tha flat and share certificate in the name of shri. Mangesh Parshuram Tarpe and shri. Suresh parshuram Tarpe.

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Height of Hubris – again! Visarjans go eco-friendly Continued from pg 1 «

Pawar was deployed for crowd control in front of the policemen that the age of the idol of Lalbaugcha Raja. volunteer is somewhere When she tried to intervene around 17-18 years. We are in an altercation between investigating the matter and Umesh Jadhav, 30, a resident may be we will scan the CCTV of Lalbaug who volunteered cameras for this. I had sent at the mandal, and an my officials to Kalachowki unidentified person, Jadhav police station to lodge a com- allegedly abused her and plaint. They haven’t reverted slapped her. He then fled from the spot. After his idento me yet on this issue.”

Attempts to contact tity was established through Deputy Commissioner of Po- closed-circuit television camlice (Zone –VI) Dattatray Kar- era footage, the Kalachowky ale, to know why a complaint police registered a case was not registered in this against him. Jadhav was booked under sections 353 case, proved futile.

Last year, a volunteer with (preventing a government the Lalbaugcha Raja servant from performing Ganeshotsav Mandal was ar- his/her lawful duty), 323 (inrested for slapping an on- flicting a simple injury) and duty woman constable. On 504 (abusing) of the Indian the evening of September 27, Penal Code. last year constable Hira zuber.ansari@afternoondc.in

Continued from pg 1 « increase, compared to the last year.

At immersion points like Chowpatty 12,498 idols were immersed. Out of these, 92 were from Sarvajanik Ganesh, 11,358 were household Ganeshas and the remaining 1,048 were Gauri idols.

Immersion of idols in artificial lakes is new phenomena. Estimated at 1,666 idols were immersed at artificial lakes. It includes six public

VISARJAN VIGNETTES: Devotees with idols of Ganesha and Gauri at the Girgaum Chowpatty Reserve Police Force (SRPF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Rapid Action Force (RAF) and other companies have been deployed for security purpose. For Gauri immersion at Girgaum Chowpatty, Juhu Chowpatty and Dadar Chowpatty tight security arrangements were made and around 140 extra policemen for Bandra traffic department and more than 200 constables were deployed at Santacruz police station. Around 200 spots large number of devotees gathered are under the close watch of the police.

Arun Gawli down with malaria, recovering well

By A Staff Reporter run Gawli who has been diagnosed with cerebral malaria is admitted at staterun St George Hospital, near CST, since the last two weeks.

“Arun Gawli was brought to the hospital 15 days ago and was diagnosed with cerebral malaria. He is recovering well now and is likely to be discharged within two to three days,” said Dr T.P. Lahane, dean of JJ Group of Hospitals.

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32-year-old female morning walker was yesterday attacked with a sharp object at Marine Drive by two thieves, who made a failed attempt to snatch away her mobile phone worth Rs 6,000, police said.

Victim Meher Jaan Mohammed Lamberaj, working as a manager in a private firm, left home in Tardeo area at about 4 a.m. for morning walk and reached Air India junction in Marine Drive at 5.45 a.m. when the thief and his aide struck her.

She sustained minor injuries but is out of danger.

While she was walking on a footpath hearing music from her mobile using earphones, one of the two accused tried to snatch it but she resisted before raising an alarm, police said.

“The accused failed to get hold of the mobile and attacked her with a sharp object, injuring her on arms. He then

Ganeshas, 1,533 household Ganeshas and 127 were Gauri.

Deputy Municipal Commissioner Kishor Kshirsagar said, “People are inclined towards artificial lakes due to multiple reasons. Some are worried about degradation of environmental imbalance and some were afraid about stingray bites.”

He added, “The civic body is promoting eco-friendly Ganeshotsav and immersion in artificial lake.”

Meanwhile, around 2,800 constables, 2,700 homeguards and soldiers from different forces including State

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Hasan Ali bail plea rejected in money-laundering case ran towards a nearby sports bike on which his associate, wearing helmet, was waiting for him,” R.P. Lole, sub inspector at Marine Drive police station told PTI. As other morning walkers rushed to the victim’s rescue, the accused escaped on the bike, police said adding that the woman was taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries.

The two accused were booked under relevant IPC sections and the CCTVs installed in the area were being sought to see if the incident was captured, police said.

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ombay High Court yesterday rejected a bail plea by Pune-based businessman Hasan Ali Khan, who is facing charges of money-laundering and stashing huge amounts of black money in foreign banks.

Justice RC Chavan rejected Khan’s plea after the prosecution argued that the accused might abscond, tamper with evidence or impede the trial if granted liberty.

He is likely to give a detailed order on Sept. 16, reports PTI. Khan has been in jail

since his arrest in 2011. His bail applications have been rejected earlier by the trial court, high court and Supreme Court.

Khan, accused of holding US $8 billion in the Union Bank of Switzerland, was arrested in 2011 and his bail plea was rejected in September of that year by Supreme Court.

Another bail plea was rejected in October 2012 by a Special Court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Khan’s lawyer Amit Desai argued today that the material before the court against

his client did not disclose any connection between the allegations and the proceeds from the crime, as required under PMLA. Desai also argued that there had been a change in the circumstances after the apex court had turned down his bail plea.

Khan is also facing allegations of obtaining five passports under different names.

He is also under the scanner for alleged terror links, as he is suspected to have laundered money for international arms trader, Adnan Khashoggi.

Uddhav does a U-turn!

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iding on a wave, the Shiv Sena which had earlier supported Sushma Swaraj as the prime ministerial nominee. However, yesterday the party wholeheartedly decided to stand by Narendra Modi for the coveted post. After the late night conversation, Modi had with Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, the oldest alliance partner of the Bharatiya Janata Pary (BJP) had already made a U-turn.

Sena, the constituent of the NDA, has welcomed BJP’s announcement of Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate, saying that the decision reflected the mood of the people. Prior to this, at several occasions, Sena openly expressed its reservations about Modi. The party had also praised Swaraj and rooted for her name as a PM nominee.

Uddhav Thackeray, in statement issued Friday late evening said, “The decision was expected and that is the mood of the people too”.

In apparent reference to the friction within BJP, he further stated, “Nectar has come out of the ‘samudra manthan’ (churning of the sea)”.

“The country is passing through a BJP workers celebrate the nomination of Narendra Modi as prime ministerial candidate, difficult phase. The Congress-led at the Mumbai office, yesterday.

Prithviraj Chavan welcomes death sentence for Nirbhaya’s rapists

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hief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, while welcoming the Delhi court judgment, has said that after this verdict, nobody will dare to repeat such a horrific and grave crime.

Reacting to the court judgment giving the four accused in the gang rape of the Delhi based medical student in December last year, Chavan expressed satisfaction at the order.

He said, “The judgment will offer some solace to the victim’s family.

The case was disposed of within eight to nine months after the crime was committed. To ensure speedy has set up special fast track courts justice in cases involving atrocities in the state.”

Along with the chief minister, against women, even Maharashtra

Home Minister R.R. Patil has also welcomed the Delhi court judgment. Speaking to reporters immediately after the ruling, he said, “The judgment will send an appropriate message to society and I hope that the ruling will be confirmed by the higher courts. Just as the trial had been conducted quickly, further legal formalities should also be taken up, and the accused should be hanged as soon as possible.”

Speaking about the gang-rape of the photojournalist at Shakti Mills compound in Mahalakshmi, both Chavan and Patil made it clear that the police will file a charge sheet in the case soon and the trial will be conducted in a fast track court.

Investors forum to seek legal action against NSEL promoters N

SEL Investors Forum yesterday said it will pursue ‘legal action’ against the promoters of the troubled National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) if they tried to dispose of the assets of the promoter company, which was vehemently denied by Financial Technologies India Ltd. “We will be compelled to take appropriate legal action, including criminal action against the promoters, if they proceed to dispose of any assets owned by the promoter company Financial Technologies (India) Ltd (FTIL) or its promoter Jignesh Shah, pending the settlement of the outstanding defaults,” Forum Secretary Arun Dalmia said in a statement.

Dalmia alleged that the promoters of NSEL are presently in advanced discussion with a prospective investor for the sale of a substantial part of shareholding in FTIL. Any disposition of assets by FTIL in the present circumstances will seriously put at peril recovery of investors’ dues of Rs 5,500 crore.

It is absolutely necessary to safeguard and preserve these assets till such time as the outstanding amounts are not paid to the investors, he said.

“We deny that there is any such move,” a Financial Technologies spokesperson told PTI. In its fourth default, the crisis-

ridden NSEL on Tuesday announced the disbursal of only Rs 13.45 crore to investors, against the total commitment of Rs 174.72 crore.

In the first three pay-out schedules, the exchange had received Rs 120.10 crore from its 24 registered members and recorded a total deficit of Rs 409.56 crore.

FTIL holds a controlling stake of 99.9 per cent in NSEL. Given that NSEL contributes to approximately 50-60 per cent of the overall profits of FTIL, it is only natural that its affairs were closely monitored by FTIL. Therefore, FTIL must have been aware of NSEL’s way of functioning, Dalmia said.

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Shiv Sena, the constituent of the NDA, has welcomed BJP’s announcement of Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate UPA has taken it to the brink of destruction. The ineffective government and a weak prime minister watch haplessly as Pakistan and China nibble at India’s borders. At such a time, if Modi is being handed reins of the country in order to defeat Congress and rejuvenate Hindutva, the Shiv Sena welcomes the move with an open mind,” he added further.

Meanwhile, welcoming the announcement by BJP’s parliamentary board, senior leader of the party Gopinath Munde, said, “The country needs a strong leader like Modi.

BJP and NDA will emerge victorious in the state and country under the leadership of Modi, who has a clean and progressive image”.

State BJP president Devendra Fadnavis said, “India needs a leader with commitment and spine.

India needs Modi”. suyash.padate@afternoondc.in

Altaf Manzil collapse: Showroom owner seeks bail S

andeep Bafna, owner of a showroom on the ground floor of Altaf Manzil building in Mahim area here, a part of which collapsed in June, yesterday moved the Bombay High Court seeking anticipatory bail.

His anticipatory bail application was rejected by the sessions court last month.

Bafna claims that he was falsely implicated by police and com-

plainant Rizwan Merchant in the case, reports PTI. It is alleged that Bafna had stripped off the beams inside his showroom, which weakened the entire structure, a charge denied by him.

The High Court has kept his petition for hearing on September 17. Ten persons were killed in the collapse of the building on June 10 this year.

HC asks Maha to buy food test kits to stop milk adulteration T

aking a serious view of the sale of synthetic milk in Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court yesterday asked the state authorities to immediately appoint a food analyst and procure equipment to ensure that food-testing labs were made fully functional.

A bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud directed Principal Secretary of Public Health Department and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to convene a meeting on or before October 4 to fix time schedule for appointing food analyst and buying equipment for food testing.

The court was hearing a PIL, filed by Pune-based S M Joshi Memorial Association, which said that the FDA had found presence of sodium lauryl ether sulphate (SLES), a carcinogenic substance, in milk samples.

The bench further ordered that the entire process of appointing food analyst and procuring food testing equipment should be completed not later than November 30.

Disposing of the PIL, the court ordered that the state should file a compliance report with the Registrar in respect of these directions.

The bench further observed that there was no reason to justify the delay in setting up mobile labs in the State. In this regard, the High Court directed the FDA Commissioner to set up mobile labs immediately and also to ensure that they were made fully functional not later than November 30.

Jane Cox, petitioner’s lawyer, had earlier contended that of the 15 FDA laboratories in the state, five were non-functional. The bench directed the government to recruit staff for these labs and provide them with adequate equipment.

Additional government pleader Samir Patil said the state had already sanctioned six mobile labs.

The judges said they should be made functional at the earliest.

Cox said that during the raids in 2009, FDA found sorbitol and SLES adulteration for the first time. “The test methods available with the dairies are not equipped to detect these chemicals,” she said, arguing that all the dairies in the state should be equipped with the necessary kits. According to the petitioner, refined Palmolive oil is also used to manufacture synthetic (artificial) milk.

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Ponder awhile…

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”

— Aristotle

Death in rarest of rare cases J

USTICE has been a bit delayed, but it has been done: The judge of the fast-track court trying the ‘Nirbhaya’ gang-rape case has awarded death sentence to the four accused. This was a verdict greeted with satisfaction not only by the family of ‘Nirbhaya’ but also by lakhs of people in Delhi and also across the country.

The judge said that the crime committed by the four accused was nothing but a rarest of rare case which deserved a death sentence. The four men had not only committed a crime, but also behaved like monsters with the hapless victim. Perhaps there has never been such a savage rape committed anywhere in the country. The criminals had tortured the girl and mercilessly threw her nude out of the moving bus.

The worst brute among the rapists has, however, escaped proper punishment just because he is a juvenile – 17and-a-half-year-old. He is enjoying himself at a reform centre: In three more years he will be out and roaming free. It is only when this monster is also hanged, that justice will be done in the ‘Nirbhaya’ case.

There are as many as 30,000 rape cases pending across the country. This shows that the existing rape laws are not being implemented and that many a rapist gets a chance to escape punishment.

Establishing hundreds of fast-tracks and taking the legal means may never be undertaken by the government, with the result the rape scenario will become worse with the passing of each day.

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UNDERSTAND that the United States is officially celebrating the 50th anniversary of Rev Martin Luther King Jr’s famous speech, ‘I have a dream’. I am specially interested in it because I am the first, also the only foreign correspondent then serving the Press Trust of India at the United Nations (1955-56) to have interviewed Rev King, at some length.

I think it was some time in 1956. He had not yet become a celebrity and was more known as a parish priest serving a small black diocese in Montgomery, capital of the southern state of Alabama. He had participated in a civil rights movement and was to undergo a trial. I decided to cover it out of sheer curiosity.

My American colleagues at the UN tried to dissuade me saying that as a non-white I might get assaulted and suggested that if I really wanted to go to the southern state I should at least wear a turban!

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over the issue of the rights of blacks to sit anywhere in a bus and not in seats meant only for blacks.

As I finished the interview I asked him whether he had met any Indian in the past.

Yes, he said, he had met B.B. Diwakar, a distinguished Indian politician and had a short chat with him. Rev King wanted to know more about the Mahatma from me. Then it turned out that it was he who was interviewing me. I resented stories about the Mahatma.

Rev King was not aware of it and kept questioning me, about Gandhiji’s personal equations with people, the nature of his tremendous attraction, the power he exerted over the minds of millions and so on. He sat

a record. I guess I remain the only correspondent of the paper ever, to be given a distinguished reporter ward for the coverage of the first Non-Aligned Conference held in Belgrade, capital of then Yugoslavia, in 1962 when I had the pleasure and privilege to shake hands with the likes of Marshall Tito, Nasser of Egypt and Ghana’s Nkrumah. And when in Washington I received high praise for my coverage of American thinking over the Vietnam War from one no less than the North Vietnamese Ambassador in Delhi who personally flew down to Bombay to thank the then editor at the paper, Mr. Sham Lal. I was not, I am afraid, in the good books of the American Establishment which sought to marginalise me. But then, none of the three other Indian colleagues who represented The Hindu, The Express and Hindustan Times were either.

Grateful to The Times of India

He fought for the rights of blacks

It was a pleasure and honour to be taken by then President Eisenhower for a ride round I decided I will take the risk on the facile ashis estate in Gettyaberg, in his gold cart. It sumption that if anyone attacked me, I would was a pleasure to cover the visits to Washingautomatically make news! I went to Mantton of both Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira gomery and had no difficulty getting a room Gandhi. During my stay in New York (1955in a good hotel. I even managed to have a hair 58) it fell to me to cover in extensor, V.K. Krcut. I learnt later that I was mistaken for a ishna Menon’s historic eight-hour address to Mexican! Anyway, I attended the court prothe Security Council on the Kashmir issue. ceedings, but it was hilarious. I had noticed a M.V. Kamath There never again was such an occasion. black American correspondent who I had Kashmir had been put on the backburner known well and went over to chat with him.

A few minutes later a policeman came over in front of me totally absorbed and thrilled. while I was in Paris and I had the greater and asked me to leave the place. “Officer, am To me it was a great experience. Towards the pleasure to have entertained Indira Gandhi in I talking too loudly?” I asked in my inno- end he wanted me to suggest books on other residence. She was so taken away by my cence. “No” he said, “but you have to be literature on Gandhiji and I remember after American wife that she stayed chatting with returning to New York sending him a com- us from 8.00 p.m. to 2.30 a.m.! seated elsewhere”.

To recall all my contacts with Presidents It turned out that there were two seating prehensive list with the help of the Indian and Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers, arrangements, one strictly for white journal- consulate staff.

Meanwhile, I note that The Times of India Nobel Prize winners, stars in different fields ists and another for black ones only. “But officer” I said, “I am a black and I want to be is celebrating its 150th anniversary and may I will take up a volume (I have written my next to a friend of mine I have known for say that I served it for 22 long years from 1959 Memoirs entitled A Reporter At Large) but I months”. It didn’t help. I had to join my white to 1981 or, say, one day in every week of its am stating all this to express my deep sense colleagues. It was quite a shock that in a court long life. And it has been a great privilege. of gratitude – even at this late stage – to The house there were places assigned to white Again the wishes of editors, the Board of Di- Times of India for the wonderful times I had, and black reporters. rectors first appointed me the paper’s Euro- thanks to the opportunities it provided me to Once the trial was over I went over to Rev pean Correspondent (1959-87) – the only one get close to a wholly new world. The paper is King and introduced myself to him as a cor- the paper was ever to appoint – then invited now, circulation-wise the world’s number one respondent from India and asked him me back to take over the Sunday edition of and may it continue to prosper in decades whether he can spare me a few minutes, The Times of India (1967-69) and then sent and centuries ahead. Thank you sirs and “Surely” he said, “come with me”. He took me me to Washington (1969-78) to be brought thanks to all those who gave me support at to his chapel, a black little building and to his back to edit The Illustrated Weekly of India the sub-editorial level.

Now in my early nineties it feels good barely-furnished office and offered me a cup (1978-81). of coffee.

It was during my sojourn in Europe that I to know that in howsoever small a way He was modest but I could feel his deter- became the only person from all over world I helped hopefully in informing, entertaining mination to fight for a cause dear to his heart. to go to East Berlin, the day it was cut off from and educating at least one generation of Only a few days ago he had organised a strike its western counterpart. That is something of my countrymen.

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ER name was Manjula! (Name not changed.) No fancy name after her death, a month and a half ago. Nor was she entitled to police aggression or water cannons to quell anger for her rape, nor posses of policemen looking for her attacker: The lone constable who fiddled around was an uncle of the rapist!

She was raped, taken to a spot at the foot of a Karjat hill and bludgeoned to death. Her head smashed by the rapist with a fifteen kilo stone: Yet very little was written on her, though it all happened just outside Mumbai, where the same home minister who sent the full police force to look for the mill rapists sits on his kursi: But then it happened outside the city walls didn’t it?

I visited her hut on the banks of the lake: The door was locked, clothes drying on the line, hers I’m sure, waiting forever for a girl who would never ever again get into them. What she’d worn that day was forcibly wrenched away, pathetically

in the Good Shepherd Convent nearby, had decided to pursue her studies even after that, studying computers and on her way lying on jungle floor, crying out for simple back; terminated!

I visited the pathetic hut she’d grown up girl, lying dead nearby, hidden cleverly under bushes, rotting day after day, as rapist in, met her sister, who stared blankly at me. killer joined police in search, proclaiming In whose eyes I saw helplessness, a reflecwith innocent face, how sad such dastardly tion of all the helplessness in this state, with home minister and police more keen on act was.

Till, a village woman told the police she solving city crimes, whereas just outside the city walls: Rapes take place, constables belonging to aggressors family walk around invoking fear, and nothing is done.

A rally was organized by same Good Shepherd nuns who had nurtured her. A rally Robert Clements many kilometers long, sad men and women had seen same boy with Manjula. He had of- walked the length of busy highway, holding fered her a lift as she got down from the placards against rape; posters with her picshared rickshaw, but instead of taking her to ture, of face with childlike smile: Later by her village, had sped down the Mumbai- rapist, ground to gruesome grimace.

Motorists cursed, traffic slowed down, no Pune Highway, reached lonely hill, and comnewspapers covered her rape, her death; it mitted dastardly act.

Her fault: Her education! She stood out was after all, outside the city walls..! from other village girls, was the first boarder bobsbanter@gmail.com

Outside The City Walls...!

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Very strange...newly laid roads develop potholes!

DESPITE relaying roads in posh Bandra, Khar and Santacruz areas, the newly laid roads develop potholes and that shows the poor quality of work done by the BMC. In spite of having given mobile phones to corporators, no useful purpose is served in reducing the pothole-filled roads having a clean look for smooth flow of traffic. Mumbai city is facing the menace of pothole riddled roads leading to deaths and immense inconvenience to commuters during the monsoon. There is the usual hue and cry of anguished citizens and concerned authorities do some cosmetic repairs which is of no use. Every monsoon the same problem crops up with metronomic precision. Is it not strange that many ancient monuments and aqua ducts constructed thousands of years ago still stand but for the wear and tear of weather and depredations

PM’s subservient attitude THE nauseating frequency of brazen display of the Indian PM’s unduly excessive sense of loyalty to the Congress President gets at any right-thinking person. He rarely opens his mouth on matters of public interest, but rarer still, he misses an opportunity to offer his bouquet of loyalty - unasked-for, un-calledfor. Perhaps, it could be a subtle, subterranean attempt to angle for a third term! The crown of the future PM will go to the prince more as a matter of his dynastic right on the small procedure of the mandate of the country. The overflowing sense of individual loyalty will not be left to go unrewarded at least for the length of the innings -- albeit futile and infertile.

— K.K. Wajge, Mulund

Adarsh scam unabated ‘SHINDE to become Adarsh accused?’ (ADC, Sep 3), reveals that the PIL filed in the Bombay HC, indicates that the current Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde be accused as he is an illegitimate owner of a flat, that too fudging the name, while he was the Chief Minister (CM) of the state. Meanwhile, we had witnessed that two other state CMs had been found to be involved, one of whom expired and the other had no other respite except relinquishing the post. Now let us see in this case how the situation unfolds. In this case the activist, Wa-

JUSTICE BE DONE: If Sushilkumar Shinde is found guilty of violating the law in the Adarsh scam case, he should be brought to justice like any other Indian citizen who breaks the law.

poration and road contractors who benefit by making sub-standard roads which are washed away by a few showers, so that they can get contracts on a yearly basis. As usual there is no accountability or punishment and this merry-go-round goes on every year and we citizens have to bear the brunt and at times death too. Potholes pose danger to the road users.

— C.K. Subramaniam, Sanpada

MIND TWISTER: With so much advanced technology available in today’s modern world, it is really a mystery how newly laid roads develop potholes within a year. of man, but roads made by the corporations/municipalities barely last a year. Why can’t the contractors of today make roads with a longer life with so much technology available. In the continent of Europe which has

wet weather most of the year there is no such pothole menace, as can be seen in their superb autobahns and macadam’s which make for pleasurable driving. The answer is obvious: corruption.

There is a nexus between the cor-

tegaonkar’s application should be considered in right earnest and if the facts and figures prove that Shinde’s case is illegal, then he should be certainly brought to justice like any other Indian citizen.

dangerous game played both by BJP and SP and ensure that the communal violence like Babri Masjid demolition of 1992-93 is not repeated.

— Bikram Banerjea, Mumbai

— Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

Defunct Mumbai police force

Ambitious Advani

IT’S a crying shame that Mumbai’s police force, which was second to SHRI L.K. ADVANI & co., are said to Scotland Yard cops, have relegated be opposing the announcement of and defamed this status by allowing Shri Narendra Modi as the PM can- broad daylight crimes to be comdidate of BJP/NDA for the 2014 Lok mitted by criminals with gusto. The Sabha elections and L.K. Advani rampant regular crimes bring to the wants the BJP to announce his good fore the fact that the Mumbai police name instead. This seems to be sup- force has turned totally defunct.

Today, the dignity and modesty of ported by Smt. Sushma OF women is in peril, due to the apathy Swaraj and Shri Shivraj LETTER THE DAY and a lackadaisical attitude of our Singh Chauhan the CM of MP and a few others. They all seem Mumbai police force. These cops to miss a valid point that Shri. Modi are not showing smart thinking and is the most popular leader through- alacrity, in patrolling the streets, out India and the people are des- lanes and bylanes of Mumbai. Nor perately looking forward to him to are they conducting combing operdon the PM’s mantle and put in all ations to nab the criminals who are his experience and skill to pull India a threat to the society.

There are regular cases of rapes, out of the woods. Shri Modi is unique in that the people want only molestation, robbery, eve-teasing, him and none else. The Nation chain snatchings and other crimes needs to move ahead towards pros- going on a war footing spree, beperity and for that the brazen Con- cause of this inactive Mumbai pogress should be replaced by a party lice force. Only when a rape, murder, dacoity or other crimes with Shri Modi at the helm.

— T.M. Uday Shankar, Mumbai take place, only then we can see hordes of policemen patrolling the vicinity.

Absolute vote bank politics

BOTH Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) supporting Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) for Ayodhya yatra and Smajwadi Party (SP) and Uttar Pradesh government banning it for fear of communal violence and law and order situation proves that both the selfish and power hungry parties are playing vote bank politics in the name of caste, creed and religion in the election year and preparing themselves for 2014 general elections. The trend started by both BJP and SP are very dangerous and will divide UP into various parts on the basis of Hindu and Muslims. I strongly feel that people are fed up with dirty politics played by our political parties and are not interested in their personal agenda and want employment, food and shelter for their peaceful living. The need of the hour is that Congress-led UPA government at the Centre must intervene in this very serious and

— Mohd Zeyaullah Khan, Nagpur

Hard working corporators THE BMC has spent a fortune on procuring the trendy Androidbased Samsung Galaxy mobile phones for its hard working corporators to enable them to upload pictures of potholes on its pothole tracking software.

The reason why most of the corporators have not used the App so far is perhaps they are very busy.

Unattended garbage is seen in every nook and corner of the city, and they have been busy attending to it.

Drinking water in some wards comes in “Eastman” colour, has some of the latest bacteria and virus, so maybe they have been busy attending to it.

Illegal structures have come up in most lanes and bylanes of Mumbai, and they have to check the menace.

Manholes, which are daddies of

IT’S said that a common man can never understand the “foresightedness” of a politician. Everyone is so critical about the bad shape of the roads which are full of potholes, not only in Mumbai but practically every city of the country. Only a politician can know and give a detailed explanation on why potholes have been “mainpotholes are open in many areas and a fall in one of them can be fatal to people, so naturally they are attending to it first. Please refrain from blaming our committed corporators.

tained” deliberately. According to them, potholes are not just maintained for the “safety” of the pedestrians but also to “generate” employment. How potholes are for the safety of people and how it can generate employment, well it is that foresightedness that separates a politician from an aam aadmi, who can hardly understand this. Potholes, according to a politician, helps in regulating the speed. One doesn’t have to build speed breakers to slow down rash traffic, potholes take care of that. Can the common man not “sacrifice“ a small bit for the larger interest of the nation.

So next time you encounter a pothole think of those thousands of road accidents that happen due to high speed, which have been avoided by this small pothole.

Also think about the employment this piece of hole generates!

— Abdul Monim, Vashi

Practice what you preach

CONGRATS to the Maharashtra govt for promulgating, though belatedly, an Ordinance to enact the Anti-Superstitions Bill. However, under the new law, if practicing astrology is also proposed to be considered as irrational, then all the soothsayers who are the regular contributors to the newspaper columns, along with the editors, can face arrest and jail term. Does the new enactment propose any punishment for this category of people?

Same fate can also befall on those who recommend and those who manufacture precious stones according to a person’s birth chart.

CONGRESS President and Chairperson of UPA Sonia Gandhi has rushed to the United States for a medical check-up after a health scare in Parliament last week and here is wishing her well & good health.

However, Sonia Gandhi has set a bad example for her followers by rushing to the United Sates for medical check-up when the best of facilities and doctors are available in our country in the field of medicine.

If leaders don’t have faith in our facilities than how are they going to preach their followers to do something which they themselves don’t follow?

Also, we read every now and than that film shootings abroad would get dearer by at least 30 per cent due to dollar escalation. Why shoot abroad when exotic locations are available in our country is my counter argument.

— Jorhat Singh, Kandivli

— S.N. Kabra, Goregaon

— Altaf H Ladiwala, Bandra

Anti-superstition bill

Dravid advocates day-night Tests RAHUL DRAVID, the gentlemancricketer, has come out with a few valuable suggestions to see that the traditional Test-cricket does not die an unmourned death in the face of tough competition from the more glamorous versions of the game like the ODIs and T20s. Speaking at the Kennington Oval Cricket Ground recently, he pointed out that the shorter forms of the game provide poor soil to nurture the full range of a player’s talent and that these forms are sustained by a deep pool of players who have honed their skills in Test cricket. He feels that with the IPL dominated at the moment by below-par T20 players, the quality of the game will inevitably decline in the years to come and so outlines a number of measures to boost Test cricket like introducing a Test championship, paying those playing Test cricket better and, more significantly, instituting day-night Test

INVALUABLE: The BCCI should take the advice of Rahul Dravid seriously and act on it as soon as possible. matches. Shifting Test cricket to a spectator-friendly time, he argues, will immediately boost its financial viability. All lovers of the willow-game will welcome his suggestions and the BCCI needs to take them seriously and act on them.

— Dr. V. Subramanyan, Thane

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—PTI

Death sentence to four hailed across the nation

People shout slogans and display placards at a protest outside the Saket District Court demanding death sentence for the convicts of the Dec 16 gang rape case, in New Delhi on Friday.

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EW DELHI: Across the nation, people on Friday hailed the death sentence given to the four men who gang-raped a young woman in the national capital, demonstrating the strong feelings the horrible crime had evoked.

Political leaders including Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Chief Ministers yesterday welcomed the death sentence awarded to four convicts in the Delhi gangrape case, saying justice has been done and that it will act as a ‘deterrent’ against such heinous crimes.

“This was the rarest of rare crime...Damini and her family have got justice. I welcome the court ruling,” Shinde told PTI in Mumbai.

“The ‘nyay devta’ has set a new example for such cul-

prits that if you commit such a heinous crime, then you will get a stringent punishment,” he said.

Shinde was speaking shortly after the four convicts — Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Mukesh Singh and Pawan Gupta — in the December 16, 2012 gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student inside a private bus in Delhi were sentenced to death by the Saket fast-track trial court.

“There was an atmosphere in the country after this incident....We expected such a punishment,” he said.

Apparently referring to Defence Counsel A.P. Singh’s claim that the verdict was delivered under political pressure, Shinde said, “The judiciary follows the law and not political pressure.”

Shinde also referred to the

(Clockwise from top left): Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh, who were sentenced to death on Friday.

new legislation based on the Justice Verma Committee report which recommended amendments to the criminal law so as to provide for quicker trial and enhanced punishment for criminals accused of committing sexual assault against women. The panel headed by former Chief Justice of India J.S.Verma was formed in the wake of the shocking Delhi gangrape incident.

“The new law has provision for hanging in rarest of rare cases,” he said.

Welcoming the verdict, Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan said, “Nobody will dare do such heinous crime in future.”

Union Minister of State for Home R P N Singh said justice has been done finally to the 23-year-old victim “Justice has been done. (I) agree with

—PTI

the judge there has to be zero tolerance for such crimes.

That is the message that has gone out with this sentence,” he said.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said the severe punishment given to the convicts will act as a deterrent and that she was happy with the court verdict.

“I welcome the judgement.

Justice has prevailed. The fast-track court has delivered the justice expeditiously. I hope that the judgement would prove to be a deterrent,” Dikshit said in New Delhi.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the capital punishment served the requirement of justice.

“It shall act as a deterrent against heinous crimes,” he said in Bhopal.

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EW DELHI: Narendra Modi, a staunch proponent of Hinduvta, was yesterday anointed BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, ending months of suspense over his elevation amid stiff opposition by party patriarch L K Advani.

The announcement was made by BJP chief Rajnath Singh after a meeting of the party’s Parliamentary Board which was skipped by Advani

who expressed ‘anguish’ over the way the party was functioning.

Except Advani, the meeting of the 12-member Board was attended by other leaders like Sushma Swaraj, Murli Manohar Joshi, Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari.

The decision on Modi came on a day of fast-paced developments and back-to-back meetings and last minute efforts to bring around Advani, Joshi and Swaraj.

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litre, kerosene of Rs 2 a litre and LPG of Rs 50 per cylinder as the Oil Ministry looks at ways to tackle a record Rs 180,000 crore of losses from the dipping rupee and surging oil rates.

Following are the revised prices of petrol in four metros after oil firms hiked rates with effect from midnight tonight.

Petrol price hiked by `1.63 a litre EW DELHI: Petrol prices were yesterday hiked by Rs 1.63 per litre, the seventh increase since June, on rising oil rates and falling rupee.

The increase excludes local sales tax or VAT and will be effective midnight, oil firms said.

The petrol price in Delhi will go up by Rs 1.96 to Rs 76.06 per litre, while it will cost Rs 83.63 per litre in Mumbai as against Rs 81.57 currently.

With this increase, petrol prices have gone up by a massive Rs 10.80 per litre since June, excluding VAT. The price in Delhi has surged

by Rs 13.06 per litre, inclusive of state tax, since June 1.

Diesel prices may soon see a one-time hike of Rs 3-5 per

Delhi

Current Revised Increase Price (`) Price 74.10 76.06

1.96

Kolkata 81.57 83.62

2.05

Chennai 77.48 79.55

2.07

Mumbai 81.57 83.63

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ALL FOR THE LORD… Devotees participate in the immersion procession of the idol of Lord Ganesha after the Vinayagar Chathurthi festival organized by Hindu Makkal Kattchi in Coimbatore on Friday.

Modi anointed BJP’s Prime Minister candidate

EW DELHI: All central government departments should identify sensitive posts and ensure rotation of officials within every two-three years so that they do not indulge in corruption or develop vested interest, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has said.

Citing its earlier instructions on the issue, the CVC said it was prescribed that ministries or organisations identify sensitive posts and staff working in these posts and also ensure that they are strictly rotated after every two/three years to avoid developing vested interests, reports PTI.“The Commission

in the superintendence of vigilance administration over the years has observed that such rotational transfers are not effected in many organisations due to which officials continue to remain in the same posts for long periods.

“Such overstay and continuous postings afford scope for indulging in corrupt activities, developing vested interests etc, which may not be in the interest of the organisation,” the CVC said in a recent missive to all ministries and public sector undertakings, including banks.

The Commission, would, therefore, emphasise that pe-

riodical rotation of officials holding sensitive posts or jobs needs to be ensured. As such, officials should not be retained in the same place or position for long by ministries, departments or public sector undertakings, it said.

The CVC has also asked the Chief Vigilance Officers (CVOs), who act as distant arm of the Commission, to send a monthly report indicating number of officials rotated or transferred to it in this regard.

All heads of departments and CVOs have been advised to ensure strict compliance of the Commission’s directive.

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All mystical days, one THREE massive campsite and

over 60 artists, all under a mystical setting – that’s Enchanted Valley Carnival (EVC) brought to you by Twisted Entertainment.

At Sahara Star you heard about this festival of pulsating performances, adventure sports and a unique camping experience, coming up at Aamby Valley City. Arjun Kapoor and Jacqueline Fernandez were there to share this excitement with Asit Koticha, Vivek Kumar, Shoven Shah and Shaju Ignatius.

KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN SHIBANI KASHYAP, RITU SEKSARIA & ROSHNI CHOPRA

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GORGEOUS girl Kareena Kapoor was there at

JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ & ARJUN KAPOOR

Escobar to unveil Filmfare’s allnew stylish avatar of films, fashion and lifestyle. Also revealed was the first look of the promotional campaign ‘And so it begins.’ You learnt that Filmfare has been a keen chronicler for 60 years during 100 years of Indian cinema. You saw some of the old covers on the backdrop while the talk was on the favourite stars’ dreams, their lives and their loves. And then it was time for Black Dog at the bar.

Festive flair

Ritu Seksaria DESIGNER was all smiles as she unveiled her

latest festive line at her store Vyoum.

Also on view were the chic collections

by Hemant and Nandita, Shruti Sancheti, Rajat Suri, Shashank Prajwal and many more. Hues of yellow, orange and peach caught your eye in Ritu’s collection with Roshni Chopra and Shibani Kashyap donning her creations. And on view were the edgy, colourful, bold, yet relaxed chic and amazingly feminine lines of the other designers.

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TV GUIDE

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

This film is set in 2093 and takes place in the same universe as the ‘Alien’ movies. A group of explorers, including some archaeologists, are on an “undisclosed” mission. They arrive at a planet millions of miles away from Earth. The team spot what they believe to be signs of civilization. They go to investigate and find more than just signs, they find conclusive evidence. But some of them have an ulterior motive for being there, including the Weyland Corporation. They believe that this is where the human race actually came from. Things soon turn from excitement to survival once inside their discovery. Starring Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender.

Star Movies, 9 p.m .

KATHA MAHADEV PUTRA BAL GANESH KI

SOAPS & SERIALS

Ganesh is telling the story of his Gurukul years to Ridhdhi-Siddhi. Further in the story Lord Indra instigates the demon of jealousy Matsarasur against Ganesh and Matsarasur decides to kill him. Ganesh takes the Vakratund avatar to slay Matsarasur.

How will Ganesha kill Matsarasur ? Life Ok, 7 p.m.

GLEE

HOUDINI-UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY

Houdini- Unlocking the Mystery: In this 90-minute documentary, magician Lance Burton displays the private collection of objects and memorabilia owned by the illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini and explores the life behind the performance. He offers a unique portrait of the world-class showman, whose real name was Eric Weiss, through Houdini’s most famous constructions. These include the Chinese Water Torture Cell and the Milk Can. Burton reveals, for the first time to the public, how the tricks were done. Hi stor y, 8 p.m.

WILDEST ASIA

Asia is one of the most beautiful and varied regions of the world and its forests hold many interesting creatures that have adapted in the face of adversity. WILDEST ASIA brings for its viewers Asia’s untamed wilderness and an intimate look at the amazing animals that call wild Asia home. From India to Indonesia to Japan, explore Asia’s sparkling shorelines, arid deserts and lush rainforests, unveiling the exotic mysteries hidden within this continent of contrasts. Anim al Plan et, 7 p.m.

JAMIE OLIVER’S FOOD REVOLUTION

Impassioned chef Jamie Oliver is determined to take on the high statistics of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in the United States. By talking to people in their communities, Oliver will attempt to show people the incredible rewards of cooking for themselves and the people they love. Oliver heads to one of the unhealthiest cities in America to start his new cooking initiative. He hopes to start a chain reaction of positive change across the coun-

Katha Mahadev Putra Bal Ganesh Ki, Life Ok, 7 p.m.

try and convince the people of Huntington to change their eating habits and get fresh food into the schools. BigCBS Love, 7 p.m.

FACTORY MADE

Is a series about how things are made and why they’re built the way they are. It’s an all access pass inside some of the most innovative factories to see the magic of mechanized perfection.

The series explores the innovation and manufacture of everything from small jet airplanes, blue jeans, and trumpets to motorcycles, popcorn machines and stamps. Discover y, 8 p.m .

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

It takes only 30 minutes to find out EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. Each episode explores a different theme that is relevant and scientifically intriguing. In the theme focusing on poison find out if you can spot what could potentially kill you, how dangerous innocent looking animals can be, if it’s easy for terrorists to use poisonous chemicals. Discover y Science, 8.30 p.m.

ARJUN - TODEGA HAR GUNAAH KA CHAKRAVYOOH

In a hotel, a girl is found murdered...with “KALANK” tattooed on her forehead...it is revealed that the girl is a call girl...2 more such deaths occur, & it starts looking like the handiwork of a serial killer...ETF comes into the picture to investigate...but Arjun this time comes face to face with the investigating officer, Lata Mane, she is tough & doesn’t want interference. Star Plus, 8 p.m.

MOVIES OF THE DAY

Adam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he loved once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach... a girl named Eden. Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. But when he catches a glimpse of grownup Eden on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back... Not even the law or science! HBO, 9 p.m.

AASHIQUI 2

Aashiqui 2 movie is a musical love story of Rahul Jaykar a famous, successful and self-destructive singer played by Aditya Roy Kapoor and ArohiShirke an aspiring female singer played by Shraddha Kapoor. The leads after a series of coincidental meetings, finally starts dating. Believing in her talent, Rahul gives her a helping hand and her career begins to eclipse his. Arohi is ambitious to become a star. Rahul’s career is his defense against a self-destructive part of himself that has led him into outrageous bursts of drunkenness, drugs, love affairs, fights and adventures that have made him a legend. His career is also what gives him his sense of who he is. Will they accept their success and live life together. Max, 9 p.m.

AMERICAN PIE 2

The whole gang are back and as close as ever. They decide to get even closer by spending the summer together at a beach house. They decide to hold the biggest party ever to be seen, even if the preparation doesn’t always go to plan. Especially when Stifler, Finch and Jim become more close to each other than they ever want to be and when Jim mistakes super glue for lubricant. Starring Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Shannon Elizabeth. Zee Studi o, 10.30 p.m.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

Long ago up North on the Island of Berk, the young Viking, Hiccup, wants to join his town’s fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoik the Vast, will not allow his small, clumsy, but

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STAR PLUS

P.M. 2.00 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas Veera 3.00 Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyan Chaabi 4.00 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon 5.00 Saraswati Chandra 6.00 Junior Masterchef Swaad Ke Ustaad 8.00 Har Yug Mein Aayega Ek Arjun 9.00 Junior Masterchef – Swaad Ke Ustaad 10.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyar Ka P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 4.30 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 8.30

Upside Down, HBO, 9 p.m.

inventive son to do so. Regardless, Hiccup ventures out into battle and downs a mysterious Night Fury dragon with his invention, but can’t bring himself to kill it. Instead, Hiccup and the dragon, whom he dubs Toothless, begin a friendship that would open up both their worlds as the observant boy learns that his people have misjudged the species. But even as the two each take flight in their own way, they find that they must fight the destructive ignorance plaguing their world. Pi x, 9 p.m.

MUMBAI MERI JAAN

Shortly after 1800 hours, 11 July 2006, Mumbai was shattered by seven bomb blasts on Western Railway stations: Matunga, Mahim, Khar, Bandra, Jogeshwari, Borivali, and Bhayandar. It took the Police and ambulance over an hour to attend at various sites. This incident changes lives of Thomas, originally from Chennai, who sells tea from his bike; Rupali Joshi, a TV News reporter, who has to deal with the death of her to-be spouse, Ajay Kumar Pradhan; Suresh, in debt, starts to suspect all Muslims, especially Yusuf; Inspector Tukaram Patil, about to retire, goes about collecting bribes as usual, much to the chagrin of his embittered, honest and soon to-be suspended subordinate, Sunil Kadam. B4U, 8 p.m.

STAR WORLD

One Tree Hills Masterchief Australia 2 Broke Girls Two And A Half Men Masterchief Australia One Tree Hills Grey’s Anatomy 2 Broke Girls The Front Row with Anupama Chopra 9.00 Glee 10.00 One Tree Hill 11.00 Breaking Bad P.M. 2.00 3.00 8.00 10.00 11.00

Past and present New Directions members attend Will and Emma’s Valentine’s Day wedding. Emma does not join Will at the altar, and at the reception afterward, some past relationships are possibly rekindled, current ones progress, and new ones may be beginning. After her return to New York, Rachel gets what appears to be bad news. Star World, 9 p.m.

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ZEE CAFÉ

Political Animals Pretty Little Liars Scrubs Political Animals Body of Proof

BIG CBS LOVE

P.M. 2.00 90210 P.M. 12.30 2.07 4.42 6.49 9.00 11.22

STARMOVIES

X Men X2-X Men United X Men: The Last Stand X-Men Origins: Wolverine Prometheus Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

HBO

P.M. 1.05 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 2.40 The Dictator 4.00 Aisha 6.10 Something Borrowed 8.00 The Social Network 10.00 Upside Down 11.50 Dark Shadows

ZEE STUDIO

P.M. 1.00 The Grudge 3 A.M. 7.20 9.42 11.55 P.M. 12.25 2.02 4.27 6.28 9.00 11.28

STARMOVIES

Green Zone X Men Origins: Wolverine John Carter

The Mummy Prometheus Wall-E You Pick The Flick Battleship Pirates of the Caribbean: Death Man’s Chest

HBO

A.M. 8.00 The Island 10.15 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life P.M. 12.10 Upside Down

4.00 Under The Dome 6.00 Game 7.00 Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution 9.00 X Factor 10.00 Game 11.00 Excused P.M. 1.30 4.00 7.30 8.30 10.00 11.00 P.M. 12.00 2.30 5.00 7.00 9.00 10.30 P.M. 2.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 P.M. 3.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30

2.50 4.45 9.30 10.30 P.M. 12.16 2.16 4.41 6.39 9.00 11.02

LISTING

SONY TV

Jab Taak Hai Jaan Golmaal Fun Unlimited Aadalat Kaun Bangega Crorepati CID Crime Patrol: Dastak

A.M. 8.10 10.00 11.00 P.M. 12.00 2.00 3.00

SAHARA ONE

P.M. 12.00 Insaaf Main Karoongaa: Rajesh Khanna 3.00 Haunted Nights 5.30 Pyari Behna: Film. Mithun 8.30 Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam: Salman Khan

DDI (Main Channel)

6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.15 8.30 9.30

Saturday Special Who Hue Na Hamare Yeh Dil Ke Rishtey Meri Baat Special Agriculture programme Kitaabnama Pet Care Rajdhani Samachar News in Marathi News Samachar Family No 1: Reality Show SWAMI: Film. Manoj Bajpai, Juhi Chawla

LIFE OK

Shapath Kahani Mahadev Ki Savadhaan India Shapath Savadhaan India

COLORS

Comedy Nights with Kapil Mrs Pammi Pyarelal Sasural Simar Ka Balika Vadhu Madhubala

DISCOVERY

P.M. 1.00 Man vs Wild 2.00 Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve 3.00 Man vs Wild 6.00 Anacondas with Nigel Marven 7.00 Man Vs Wild

Food Revolution, Big CBS Love, 7 p.m.

Breaking Bad, Star World, 11 p.m.

P.M. 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 8.00 8.30

SAB TV

Jeanie Aur Juju Taarak Mehta Ka… Chidiya Ghar Lapataganj-Ek Baar Phir FIR Baal Veer Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah 9.00 Waah Waah Kya Baat Hai 10.00 Lapataganj-Ek Baar Phir

7.30 Radha Hi Bawri 8.00 Honar Soon Me Hya Gharchi 9.00 Tuze Maze Jamena 9.30 Eka Peksha Ek Apsara Aali Season II

ANIMAL PLANET

P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00

River Monsters Animal Planet’s A to Z Wildest Latin America Wild Recon

MOVIE CHANNELS-SATURDAY

Surrogates George of the Jungle The Tudors S1 E1 American Pie 2

PIX

Step Up 3 The Tower Rocky IV Robocop 2 How to Train Your Dragon Blue Lagoon: The Awakening

STAR GOLD

MAX

CVO

P.M. 2.00 Zara Si Zindagi: Kamal Hassan

Dark Shadows The Social Network The Matrix Revolutions New Year’s Eve Source Code

PIX

How to Train Your Dragon Transporter: Sharks Dead Drop

A.M. 10.45 P.M. 1.00 3.15 5.35 7.45 9.30 10.30 A.M. 9.55 P.M. 12.00 3.45 5.55

ZEE STUDIO

Bong Connection Steal

Prom American Pie 2 D-Tox Hostel The Tudors S1 E2 Bulletproof

STAR GOLD

Chain Kuli Ki Main Kulli

Haath Mere Saathi Naya Ajooba Fun2Shh

DDII (Metro Channel) Samachar News Samachar Mehnat Rang Layegi Prime Meridian News Rajyon Se Samachar News Headline Roving Report Ehsaas Samachar Khel Samachar Market This Week Samachar News

American Pie 2, Zee Studio, 10.30 p.m.

5.30 Batwara: Dharmendra, Dimple 9.00 Ek Nai Paheli: Kamal Hassan, Hema

FILMY

P.M. 12.00 Hindustani: Kamal Hassan 3.00 Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani:

9.00 Dabangg 2 11.40 Barood

9.30 10.00 11.00 11.05

Ek Mulaqat Badi Charcha Mukhya Samachar Khel Samachar

1001 Nights Transformers Prime Wild Kratts Amazing Spiez

Balraj Sahni 6.00 Indira-The Tiger: Chiranjeevi 9.00 Mohabbat: Akshay Khanna

ZEE TALKIES

P.M. 12.00 Gammat Jammat: Sachin 3.00 Foreignchi Patlin: Girish P 6.00 Huppa Huyya: Siddharth Jadhav 9.00 Rashichakra

CARTOON NETWORK

P.M. 12.00 Shortcut Henry 1.30 Tom and Jerry in a

MAX

A.M. 7.00 Mission To Finish Terror: Hari Kumar 10.30 Mere Dad Ki Maruti: Ram Kapoor P.M. 1.00 Aashiqui 2: Aditya Roy Kapoor 5.30 Robot: Rajnikanth 8.00 Dhoom: Abhishek Bachchan

ZEE CINEMA

A.M. 10.55 Kasam Hindustani Ki: Jayam Ravi P.M. 2.00 Tarzan The Wonder Car: Ajay Devgan 5.30 Agneepath: Hrithik Roshan 9.00 Hum Saath Saath Hain: Salman Khan

CVO

Swami, DDI, 9.30 p.m.

DISCOVERY KIDS

P.M 2.00 3.00 4.30 5.00

P.M. 12.00 Zameer: Amitabh B 4.00 Yess Boss: Shah Rukh Khan 8.00 Mumbai Meri Jaan: Madhavan 11.00 Jurmana: Mithun C

ZEE CINEMA

P.M. 2.00 The Real Tiger: Mahesh Bhatt 5.15 Maine Pyar Kiya: Salman Khan 9.00 Nayak: The Real Hero: Anil Kapoor

8.00 Factory Made 9.00 Bear Grylls: How To Stay Alive 10.00 Tattoo Hunter 11.00 Desire and Pleasure Decoded

B4U

P.M. 1.00 Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic: Saif Ali Khan 5.30 1920 Evil Returns 8.00 Aashiqui 2: Aditya Roy Kapoor

MOVIE CHANNELS-SUNDAY

Harvest General’s Daughter Give The Guy a Hand 4.00 Angels and Demons 6.17 Spiderman 9.00 2012

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.30 6.00 6.05 6.30 7.00 7.05 7.30 8.00 8.30

Tu Tithe Mee Tuze Maze Jamena Honar Soon Me Hya Gharchi Radha Hi Bawri Pakke Shejari Tu tithe Mee Honar Soon Me Hya Gharchi 6.00 Tuze Maze Jamena 6.30 Home Minister 7.00 Tu Tithe Mee

Yeh Mera India Wildest River Monsters Yeh Mera India Animal Planet A To Z

6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.30

1001 Nights Sally Bollywood Adventures of Tintin Transformers Prime Wild Kratts

SCIENCE

P.M. 2.00 Monsters Inside Me 3.00 Tech Toys 360 4.00 Triggers: Weapons That Changed The World 5.00 Frontline Battle Machines with Mike Brewer 6.00 Weapon Masters 7.00 How It’s Made 7.30 Mean Machines: The Transathant 8.30 Everything You Need to Know 9.00 Tornado Rampage 10.00 Snipers

HISTORY

DOORDARSHAN

P.M. 12.00 3.00 3.30 4.00 5.00

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 5.00 5.30

6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00

ZEE TV

Parvarish Film DID Super Moms Club Repeat DID Super Moms Fear Files… Dar Ki Sacchi Tasveerein

P.M. 2.45 Jaani Dushman: ek Anokhi Kahani 5.55 Duplicate 9.00 Dhammu 11.20 Raaz: Mystery Continues

2.00 3.50 5.50 8.00 10:00

9.00 Jhalak Dikhlajaa Grand Finale 10.00 Comedy Nights with Kapil

ZEE MARATHI

A.M. 10.00 Hamrahi: Rajendra Kumar P.M. 1.30 Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi: Shahid Kapoor 5.30 Sainik-The Love Story of A Soldier: Ashish Vidyarthi 9.00 Karz – The Burdern Of Truth: Shilpa Shetty,

FILMY

A.M. 9.00 Malamaal Weekly: Paresh Rawal

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Doraemon, Disney, 9.30 p.m.

P.M. 12.00 3.00 6.00 9.00 A.M. 8.00 P.M. 12.00 4.00 8.00

Awaargi: Anil Kapoor No Entry: Anil Kapoor Sandwich: Govinda Chachi 420: Kamal Hassan

B4U

Naya Kadam: Rajesh Khanna

Fiza: Hrithik Roshan Josh: Shah Rukh Khan Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na: Imraan Khan 11.00 Thanedarni: Mukesh Khanna P.M. 12.00 3.00 6.00 9.00

ZEE TAKIES

Anumati: Vikram Gokhale Rashichakra Anumati: Vikram Gokhale No Entry Pudhe Dhokha Aahe: Bharat Jadhav

CARTOON NETWORK

A.M. 7.30 Scooby Doo and the Samurai Sword 9.00 Oggy and Cockroaches 10.00 Ben 10 Omniverse 11.00 Gon

P.M. 2.00 Science Impossible 3.00 Amazing Moments: Daredevils 3.30 NSE Quiz 4.00 The Works 8.00 Houdini: Unlocking Mystery 10.00 Ancient Aliens 11.00 History Untamed: Monkeys P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 9.00 10.00

NGC

Mega Factories Engineering Connections Secrets of the Taj Mahal Taboo Trapped Explorer Top 125 Situation Critical Dead or Alive

Nutracker Tale 3.00 Oggy Special Billa Bol Halla Bol 4.30 Henry Special : Chal Hatt 6.00 Oggy and the Cockroaches 9.30 Hamara Dost Ganesha

POGO

P.M. 2.00 Chhota Bheem in The Curse of Damyaan 3.30 Dholakpur Express 5.00 Chhota Bheem Aur Krishna in The Rise of Kirmada 6.30 Chhota Bheem Aur Ganesha in The Amazing Odyssey 8.00 Chhota Bheem In Junglee Kabeela 9.30 Bheem Tadka Maarke 11.30 Takeshi’s Castle P.M. 12.00 1.30 4.30 6.00 7.30 10.30

Ben 10 Destroy All Aliens Tom & Jerry Wizard of OZ Shortcut Henry Tom & Jerry Wizard of OZ Jeetenga Kaun Jerry Ya Tom Johnny Test

POGO

A.M. 8.00 Chhota Bheem 9.00 Chatur And Chetan 10.30 Chhota Bheem Dholakpur To Khatmandu P.M. 12.00 Chatur Chetan 1.30 Chhota Bheem In The Crown 3.00 Choota Bhee 5.00 Dholakpur Express 6.30 Dholakpur Sports Day 8.00 Barbie Fiary Topia Mermaidia 9.30 Mr Bean 10.00 Sacn 2 Go 11.00 Mr Bean

DISNEY CHANNEL

A.M. 8.00 DJ-MMCH 8.30 Doramon 11.00 Doraemon Movie-Nobita Aur Khel Khilona Bhul P.M. 1.00 Doraemon n Hum Tum Aur Gian 2.00 Dorameon History ki Mystery 3.00 Nobita Aur Khel Khilona Bhul 5.00 Doraemon 6.30 Nobia Ke Ted Je Medhe Sapne 9.30 Bhaag Nobita Bhaag

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REVIEWS

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JohnDay

At: PVR and other cinemas Directed: Ahishor Solomon Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Randeep Hooda, Elena Kazan, Sharat Saxena and others Rating:

T

HE film is a copy of Spanish film Box 507, so no rating points for originality for director Ahishor Solomon.

Then there are the glaring incongruities — the eponymous John Day is presumably of Goan origin, and speaks Hindi? He is a bank manager in a Mumbai bank and lives in a bungalow? A cop, corrupt though he may be, lives in a bungalow with a swimming pool and has an Alibaug hideout?

If this is random, what is to be made of a scene in which the abovementioned cop, Gautam (Randeep Hooda), tortures a man, in a restaurant, by forcing him to eat biryani

FILM REVIEW Deepa Gahlot and currency notes. To what purpose? Who knows! This same, obviously loony cop, bites out the tongue of a man he is questioning and then beats an informer to death. His excuse is that he was abused as a child in the orphanage.

He has an even more loony girlfriend (Elena Kazan), who is an alcoholic and stuffs cushions up her

t-shirt because she wants to have a baby!

Earlier in the film, John Day’s (Naseeruddin Shah) wife (Shernaz Patel) has her head bashed in with a hammer, and later Mr John (as he is called) bites a goon’s neck in vampire mode. A gangster type (Sharat Saxena) whips himself every Friday to the accompaniment of devotional music. If there was any point to all this cringe-making violence, it would still be acceptable, but the whole film replete with vague characters with a real estate deal as the McGuffin.

John Day’s daughter sneaks off for a weekend with her boyfriend and ends up dead. After two years, there is a robbery in his bank, a nasty episode that leaves him wounded and his wife in a coma.

On scratching the surface, Mr John finds out that his daughter’s

Gross Out Too

death was not accidental, there is a real estate scam in which Gautam and a couple of warring gangsters are involved. All of them are after a file containing papers to do with the land deal, and a lot of violence is unleashed, mostly by Gautam. Mr John wisely walks into the government department concerned, bribes the clerk and gets the papers.

Sigh, all that heavy duty rough stuff and no pay-off in the end. Not even some kind of revenge accomplished or redemption gained or scamsters exposed.

Naseeruddin Shah lends his usual acting muscle to a part that doesn’t deserve it, but Randeep Hooda with his grimaces, twitches and slow drawl is a major irritant. John Day tries to be gritty and noir-ish, but just ends up tedious. The only plus point being, no songs and no item number.

Grown Ups 2

At: PVR and other cinemas Directed: Dennis Dugan Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and others Rating:

E

SCAPING Grand Masti which, by all accounts is disgusting, doesn’t mean one can get away from smut this week, with Dennis Dugan’s Grown Ups 2 dishing it out.

A film that opens with a deer peeing on Adam Sandler, is not likely to get very far in the comedy stakes, but Sandler who was once a good comedian has some residual goodwill left over, and there’s Salma Hayek and Taylor Lautner for eye candy so one sits through nearly two hours of yawns and a couple of reluctant sniggers.

Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Kevin James return from the first outing in 2010, not in the least grown up or sensible. The writing just never goes beyond the peepoop-fart-burp-barf kind of juvenile gags. A viewer has to desperately bored to even want to watch this one. Not only is it mostly

POOR

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GET THE GRINGO Rs. 499 Cast: Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Peter Stormare, Peter Gerety, Dolores Heredia Director: Adrian Grunberg

T

HOSE who have watched a few of Mel Gibson’s older movies would agree after watching this film, that it comes close to his 1999 Payback and Edge of Darkness in terms of tone and plot. Like always the legendary Gibson is great, and gives off a great performance sinking his hands into a dirty role.

The film starts with a masked thief, Driver (Mel Gibson) making his getaway across the desert with a trail of police cars near the US/ Mexico border. A badly injured clown is in the backseat. In Hollywood style, Gibson launches the vehicle across the border, only to be held by corrupt Mexican authorities who take him into custody after finding the stolen cash.

Things aren’t looking good for Driver, and he soon finds himself in El Pueblito, Mexico’s toughest prison, where life is especially harsh for ‘gringos’ (slang in Spanish and Portuguese to denote foreigners).

The prison is more like a city than a detention centre. Prisoners and their families live without shackles and go about their lives much as they would outside the prison walls. But trouble begins when gangster Frank (Peter Stormare) comes to know about

Driver’s presence in the prison. He wants his stolen money back, and Gibson realises he has to get it from the corrupt cops who took it.

He ties up with prison godfather Javi (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) who runs the prison from a luxury penthouse. He befriends a 10-year-old kid (Kevin Hernandez) the streetwise son of two drug dealers and his mother (Dolores Heredia). With their help, Gibson vows to take down Javi and get back his cash and also outwit a corrupt US official (Peter Gerety).

Thus begins Driver’s fight for survival.

Gunfire, car chases, explosions, a prison riot, bloody violence, pervasive language, some drug use and sexual material, not forgetting Gibson’s wisecracking, make up this 90-minute action flick. While the movie is half Spanish, sadly there are no subtitles included.

— By Verus Ferreira

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Which Mel Gibson movie is similar to Get the Gringo? a) The Passion of the Christ b) Lethal Weapon c) Payback

Who does Driver befriend in the prison? a) A gangster

b) A US Consulate official c) A 10-year-old kid

Which language, besides English, is also spoken in the film? a) German b) Spanish c) French

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unfunny, it’s boring.

There isn’t much of a plot — Lenny Feder (Sandler) moves back to his hometown, and hangs out with his buddies (the other three — Rob Schneider is missing), whining about their wives, ogling women and reminiscing about the good old days, all of which leads to a brawl at an 80s theme party.

Adam Sandler probably missing his salad days. Despite the crude content, the film actually makes case for family values. Hypocrisy or smart business trick — it’s tough to

AVERAGE GOOD VERY GOOD EXCELLENT

say, since the first film was a hit.

And the sequel faithfully follows the formula.

The important thing is, that audiences knows just what to expect, and so don’t feel all that disappointed. An Adam Sandler starrer is about puerile humour-- it’s not a Woody Allen movie, so forget about wit and sophistication; it’s not even the rude satire of Sacha Baron Cohen. At some point Sandler says, "We're irrelevant, we're losers, we're old..." If only he acted that way.

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Revoking grant of probate or letter of administration

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EXPERT SPEAK Gajanan Khergamker

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

How can a grant of probate of letters of administration be revoked? What are the grounds on which they are likely to be revoked?

— Sahil Joshi

Duty to disclose material defect in the property or title

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IT is generally the prerogative of the buyer to find out the defects in a property before buying it and also to make the seller rectify such defects.

However, the rights of the buyer to seek reasonable clarification and raise reasonable doubts have been statutorily recognised by section 55 (1)(a) to (c) of the Transfer of Property Act (TOPA).

It is statutory duty of the seller to disclose to the buyer about the material defect in the property of title.

The defects are of two types, patent defect and latent defect.

Patent defect is one which is apparent and can be discovered by the purchaser with ordinary care. For example, dilapidating condition

of the property, use of right of way by the third party etc.

Generally, the patent defects, which are within the knowledge or without the knowledge of seller, are covered by the maxim caveat emptor, and it is for the buyer to know such defects.

Latent defects are those which the purchaser cannot discover with ordinary care. The seller is duty bound to disclose such defects to the buyer. For ex: underground drainage, pipelines laid for public drainage/water supply etc.

Material defect in one which is known by the purchaser he general would not prefer to buy the property or something which is never intended to be brought from the seller in terms of nature of the contract.

What defect constitute a material defect is a question of fact and depends on the facts and circumstances of each case. (Sec 55 (1) (a) of the TOPA).

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Chapter III of part IX of the Indian Succession Act deals with revocation of grants. Under Section 263, the grant of probate or letters of administration may be revoked if the proceedings to obtain the grant were defective in substance; or the grant being obtained fraudulently by making a false suggestion or by suppressing from the court something material to the case or if the grant was obtained by means of untrue allegation or if the grantee has wilfully with or without reasonable cause omitted to exhibit an inventory or account in accordance with the provision of Chapter VII of Part XI. Under section 263, as stated above, grant of probate or letters of administration is liable to be revoked on any of the five grounds mentioned therein.

Section 297 inter alia states that when grant of probation is revoked, all payments bonafide made to an executor under such grant before revocation shall be a legal discharge to the person making payment.

A probate can also be revoked in the following circumstances • The court by which the grant was made had no jurisdiction • In the grant proceedings the parties who ought to have been cited as parties, have not made the parties.

• The will of which the probate was obtained was forged or revoked • Discovery of subsequent will • Discover of a codicil, made subsequently revoking or adding to the appointment of executor under the will • The person who probate has been granted, has subsequently become of unsound mind That where the grant of probate is revoked, the grant does not become void ab initio the revocation will not invalidate any previous dealings of the executor as long as they are done in due course of faith. That an administrator derives his authority from his appointment by the court whereas an executor derives his authority from the will.

That the letters of administration confer rights on the administration but the probate is an evidence of the pre-existing rights of the executor appointed by the will and the probate does not confer any new right on such executor. That the vesting of the property of the deceased in the executor under Section 211 is independent of the grant probate. That Section 211 does not say, with reference to an executor that he becomes the legal representative only on obtaining probate.

On the other hand, Section 307 indicates that an executor can exercise the power of disposition without obtaining the probate. However the executor must administer the estate in accordance with the will. His acts must not be incompatible with the administration of the estate.

That Under Section 211, the estate of the testator vests in the executor even before the grant probate, but by virtue of

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That the letters of administration confer rights on the administration but the probate is an evidence of the pre-existing rights of the executor appointed by the will and the probate does not confer any new right on such executor Section 213, the executor can establish his rights in a court on production of the probate.

When a competent court grants probate or letters of administration it can never be absolutely sure that the deceased left no subsequent will being discovered later on. There is always a possibility of subsequent will being discovered later on. There is always a risk of fraud on the court.

However, such possibility of risk cannot indefinitely hold up the administration of the estate. Therefore Section 273 makes the grant conclusive. As soon as the grant is made Section 273 comes into play. However the law takes note of the possibility of error, irregularity or fraud and accordingly makes provisions for revocation of grant for just cause (Section 263). If a grant is made in any of the circumstances falling in the Explanation to Section 263, the court can revoke the grant.

In this connection, Section 297 of the Act is important. That Section provides that when grant of probate is revoked, all

payments made bona fide to any executor under such grant before revocation shall constitute a legal discharge to the person making such payment, the object of the aforestated scheme of the Act is to make it safe for the public to freely deal with the grantee, the theory if vesting if the estate in the executor at the moment of death of the testator, even before the will is probated, is true enough for the administration of estate but it is subjected to the qualification that the grant even if erroneously made is revocable if the circumstances in the explanation to Section 263 exist, however till the grant is revoked, the grantee is the only legal representative of the deceased and people may safely deal with such representative in good faith in due course of administration and such dealings will be protected even if the grant is subsequently revoked.

In the case of Valerine Basil Pais V. Gilbert William Pais, it has been observed that even in cases where grant has been obtained by fraud, so long as the grant remains unrevoked, the grantee represents the estate of the deceased.

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BY PICTURES SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK’S PICTURE CROSSWORD

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Butterfly, 6 Pencil, 10 Drum, 11 Ostrich, 13 Oyster, 14 Baseball.

Lemon, 7 Cheese, 8 Ladder,

9 Jar, 12 Holi, 15 Axe.

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Grand, High, Huge, Kingly, Large, Lofty, Lordly, Luxurious, Magnificent, Noble, Regal, Royal, Splendid, Stately, Striking, Sublime, Superb.

SOLUTION TO SAMURAI SUDOKU 274

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SATURDAY CROSSWORD 275

WORD PUZZLE 275

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ACROSS: 1 Heidelberg memento 5 Dugouts 10 Wave, perhaps 16 Scat queen 17 Commonplace 18 Like some skates (2,4) 19 Smoking for one, drugs for another (5,5) 21 Poor quarter 22 Hit hard 23 Sounds of laughter 24 Norwegian explorer 25 16th US president (7,7) 29 Nozzle 30 Cap, limit 31 Time long past 32 Distance Measuring Equip.

35 Small eagle 36 Computer network: acron.

37 Cunning (3,2,1,3) 39 Microphone, in short 40 Brogue 41 Poi source 42 EPL team owned by Venky's (9,6) 47 Leander of Indian tennis 48 Upsets 49 No objection certificate, acronym 50 Scatterbrained (3-6) 53 Adj. forming suffix 54 Relieved exclamations 57 Centimeter gram second: abbr.

58 Compass readings 59 Lord is __ _? : Matt. 26:22 (2,1) 60 Rat- _ __ 61 Crime novelist (6,8) 64 Pertaining to the spinal cord 67 102, to Caesar 68 Beatle Ringo 69 Cantankerous 70 Of a sugary sweetness 72 ___ with science : overawes with display of knowledge?

73 California wild plum 74 __ _ Clock : 1300 hrs? (3,1) 75 Couch 76 English dramatist George ____ 77 Rapid transports: abbr.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

DOWN: 1 Feeling 2 Climb with difficulty 3 Loser (4,3) 4 Rapping sound of door knocker (33) 5 Greek capital for TWA 6 Hindu upper caste 7 Coarse 8 Reply to ...who's there?...

9 Six games, usually 10 Mrs. in Italy?

11 Takes a breath 12 Close of 101 Dalmatians 13 Insect eggs 14 Prior: prefix 15 Former heavyweight champion Spinks 20 Affirmation that "She Loves You" 26 Expression of sorrow 27 Stockings 28 More diffident 32 Digital Flight Data Recorder, abbr.

33 Offbeat ones 34 Word form for 'outer' 36 Life Ins. Corp.

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39 Megahit TV series 40 Mr Raina of Indian cricket 42 Ex-India batsman Abbas Ali ___ 43 Irish and Brythonic gods of the sea 44 Bathroom fixture 45 Broadcasting (2,3) 46 German name prefix 47 Soft shoe 51 Fencing call (2,5) 52 Examine or dissect 53 Morally right 54 Achieves or accomplishes 55 Coiffure holder (4,3) 56 Boom boxes 59 Frozen finger of liquid 60 Houston team 61 Don't exist, contracted 62 _ ___ in point 63 'Rose -- rose ...'

64 Persons of wealth and social importance 65 Mystery writer's name 66 Package, e.g.

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

Today’s Theme: AVIATION HISTORY

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION: "In the beginning the Universe was created... This made a lot of people angry and was widely regarded as a bad move."

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TODAY’S FORECAST

MOON : Sagittarius TITHI : 9th/10th Bhadrapad Shukla-

JAGJIT UPPAL

WIZARD OF ID PARKER & HART

paksha NAKSHATRA RASHI LUCKY COLOUR LUCKY NUMBER

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Purvashada Dhan (Sagittarius) Bh.F.Dh. Variegated and Black 3

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: Financial gains are assured in every endeavour. There will be several opportunities for improving your career prospects. This is particularly for those looking for a job or seeking a change. Home and family life could be a bit disturbing. You will have differences with your parents regarding your work. The married could also face tensions in their relationship.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Good looking, healthy and long-lived. Will be generally fortunate, intelligent and a go-getter. Will be fond of outdoor activities and friends.

Humble, honest and adaptable. Does well in most fields especially medicine, media, communication, philosophy and occult services. Success from overseas is indicated.

B.C. JOHNNY HART

BEAU PEEP THE ADVENTURES OF LEGIONNAIRE BEAU PEEP

FRED BASSET ALEX GRAHAM

PHANTOM LEE FALK

MODESTY BLAISE PETER O’DONNELL

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): You should put your plans into action and take personal interest in getting things done. Try to improve your relations with others. Your aggressive and over confident approach could make others uneasy in your company. Consciously or unconsciously you do intimidate others.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): You capably handle the pressures of work and discharge your duties, but somehow you feel empty and insecure. Find time for yourself too. Too much fuss and an exacting nature could offend colleagues and associates. Learn to relax and listen to others views occasionally.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): The success that you have achieved will encourage you to take on new responsibilities with that much more confidence in yourself. An excellent reputation and the affection people have for you will pay off today. You will receive rewards and gratifying messages. An outing could turn out to be lots of fun.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): Expansion of work and fresh activities leads to gain. Those in creative or artistic fields will do very well. Some of you will be commended for your efforts. Better prospects for work and career are indicated. An important meeting scheduled for today will be a success. You will make good contacts. Get through to those who are important to you and show how much you care.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): You will have to work harder to retain your position of advantage. Someone is trying hard to supersede you by showing excellent results. Love life is full of excitement and pleasant surprises.

You can look forward to a pleasant evening with your beloved or friends.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): You seem to be feeling a bit off color. You should take time off and do something that you enjoy. Arguments about expenses and money could be upsetting. You will find a solution to your problems sooner than you think. Do not worry too much about it. A need to get away and spend time with friends may get upset because all are busy. Only you can find an answer to what is bothering you.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): A new contract or a favorable development in your career is likely. These developments will give you hope for the future. This is perhaps something you have been anticipating for a long time. Happiness in love is indicated. A good piece of advice coming from someone you respect is worth some thought.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): You will be in the limelight for your recent achievements. Work is under control. You are likely to travel to sign a new contract or conclude an earlier task. Look forward to the good times. Developments about a new proposal for work will take a favorable turn.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): Your situation at work improves with more responsibilities and increase in your salary.

The employed can look forward to an opportunity to set up a part time business on the side. At a social get-together, you will be very much in demand. Your rapport with your beloved could be a cause for envy to others.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): Devote more time and effort to your present task that appears to be slowing down.

Plan work schedules well in advance to save delays later. Working late along with heavy responsibilities at home could affect your health. Some of you could suffer from stress. A relaxing time with family will ease your problems away.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): You have a good chance of improving your image at your work place by coming up with a neat solution to a problem. In your business if you wish to make optimum use of your capital cut some wasteful expenditure and improve productivity. For Property issues wait for a more opportune time.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): Work proceeds smoothly and you will complete an important assignment on time. New proposals will be offered and should be considered especially when you are being offered advance money. Relationship with your mate improves. Family life that has been strained will now improve. Expenses on house and family are likely.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 4766 MUMBAI | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

SUDOKU 1952

ACROSS: 1 Damp; wet and cold (4) 4 Collision (6) 8 Small round mark (3) 10 Duration (4) 13 Stuff and ____ : exclamation of incredibility or ridicule? (8) 14 Engage in a drunken revel (7) 15 Burst or rush in (6) 17 Self-appointed law enforcer (9) 21 Able or competent (3) 22 Master of Accountancy, acronym?

(3) 23 A marshy district (3) 26 Eastern state of India neighbouring Bangladesh (9) 27 Tissue attaching muscle to bone (6) 28 Flower (7) 32 A wage earner, should we say? (8) 34 Be of sound mind (4) 35 Own personality (3) 36 French dance (6) 37 They are paid to professionals? (4) DOWN: 1 Round plate (4) 2 Close at hand (4) 3 Studies carefully (4) 5 Royal city in Karnataka (6) 6 Bristle of barley (3) 7 A score; twice ten (6) 9 Digit afoot? (3) 11 A sudden fear or terror (5) 12 Type of situation (2-3) 15 Hankering (4) 16 Nitrogenous fertilizer (4) 18 Profit as against a loss (4) 19 Conclusion of a prayer (4) 20 An old horse (3) 23 Embroidery thread (5)

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

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

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CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: M equals U

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

24 An artificial fibre (5) 25 Brook (6) 26 Marked by gloom (6) 28 As busy as a ___? (3)

29 Construction toy (4) 30 Secure (4) 31 Sounds like a cat (4) 33 A vessel; criticise strongly (3)

SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Ac & 26 Dn Dwayne Bravo, 7 Diarrhea, 8 Agio, 10 Maoism, 11 Revere, 14 NNE, 16 Lower, 17 Drei, 19 Pieta, 21 Misty, 22 Vague, 23 Dias, 26 Blain, 28 Gin, 29 Relaid, 30 Jester, 31 Asti, 32 Viaducts, 33 Unlade.

DOWN: 1 Deemed, 2 Yogini, 3 Edom, 4 Cruelty, 5 Shrew, 6 Parer, 8 A-one, 9 Ise, 12 Voa, 13 Redia, 15 Nisus, 18 Rille, 19 Pig, 20 ETE, 21 Manipur, 22 Via, 23 Distil, 24 Inti, 25 Shrike, 27 Allan, 28 GES, 30 Jasu.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1771 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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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Fools rush in where fools have been before

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

Today’s ratings: 27 average; 30 good; 34 outstanding.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: aisle, allspice, aspic, clip, easily, epic, isle, lice, lilac, lily, lisp, pail, paisley, pica, pile, pill, sail, sepia, sill, silly, slice, slip, special, SPECIALLY, spice, spicy, spill, splice.

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IN BRIEF PCB hoping for tri-series invite in India later this year

KARACHI: Desperate for regular cricket clashes with India, the PCB is hoping to convince the BCCI to host a tri-series later this year when the officials from the two Boards come face to face during an Asian Cricket Council meeting in Chennai today.

Reliable sources in the Pakistan Cricket Board told PTI that Chief Operating Officer Subhan Ahmad will not only attend a meeting of the ACC but also hold discussions with BCCI officials. "There is a strong chance that the BCCI might propose to have a triseries sometime in December in India with Pakistan and Sri Lanka and the PCB is ready to accept this invitation," one source said.

FIFA World Cup Trophy to tour India in December

NEW DELHI: World football's greatest prize, the FIFA World Cup Trophy will tour India for the second time when the city of joy, Kolkata hosts it from December 22-24. The CocaCola Company in partnership with FIFA and the All India Football Association (AIFF) will be working together to bring the real and the coveted FIFA World Cup Trophy to India for the second time, the first time being early 2010. The FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola will take an unprecedented journey around the world in anticipation of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. This will allow thousands of football fans in Kolkata to see the real solid-gold trophy in person. The trophy will travel to 88 countries around the globe over a nine month period. The arrival of the trophy in India also coincides with the celebration of 20 years of Coca-Cola's presence in the country.

India issues visa to Faisalabad Wolves for Champions League T20

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's domestic T20 champions, Faisalabad Wolves have been issued visas to tour India to participate in the qualifying round of the Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament to begin later this month."The visa has already been issued. The passports would be handed over as and when they come to collect it at the Indian Embassy in Diplomatic Enclave," an official source told PTI here.The Diplomatic Enclave here is a heavily guarded premises and one can enter only after numerous permissions and security checks. The team was earlier denied visas on the ground that they faced a security risk in India.

Sportstar Trophy MCA U-19 trials from Tuesday

MUMBAI: The Sportstar Trophy under-19 tournament, considered as selection trials to pick the Mumbai colts side for the upcoming Cricket Board-conducted age-limit tournaments, is to commence on September 17 here. The tournament, to be played on a round robin basis among four teams, is in its 28th year and going strong, said N Parthasarathy, assistant vice president (west) of "The Hindu" group of publications, which organises the annual tournament under the aegis of Mumbai Cricket Association, at a media conference last night. The members of the four squads - Vijay Merchant XI, Vijay Manjrekar XI, Dattu Phadkar XI and Khandu Rangnekar XI - will be picked by MCA's junior selection panel headed by former India stumper Chandrakant Pandit. With the grand Ganpati immersion scheduled in the city on September 18, the first game in the tournament - between Merchant XI and Manjrekar XI and between Rangnekar XI and Phadkar XI - would have a break on that day.

EW DELHI: Cracking the whip on corrupt players, the BCCI slapped life bans on Indian Test pacer S Sreesanth and spinner Ankeet Chavan for being involved in the IPL spotfixing scam while handing out lesser punishments to some others in the scandal which rocked the Twenty20 league this year.

Amit Singh, a former Rajasthan Royals player, was handed a fiveyear ban while another RR cricketer Siddharth Trivedi got away with a lighter one-year suspension after the BCCI disciplinary committee met here to discuss anti-corruption chief Ravi Sawani's report on the scam.

"After considering the evidence on record and hearing each of the Players in person, the Disciplinary Committee has passed the following order...Mr Amit Singh is banned for a period of five years from playing any representative Cricket, or in any way being associated with the activities of the BCCI or its affiliates," BCCI Secretary Sanjay Patel said in a statement.

"Mr. Siddarth Trivedi is banned for a period of one year from playing any representative Cricket or in any way being associated with the activities of the BCCI or its affiliates. Mr. Ankeet Chavan is banned for life from playing any representative Cricket, or in any way being associated with the activities of the BCCI or its affiliates. Mr. S. Sreesanth is banned for life from playing any representative Cricket, or in any way being associated with the activities of the BCCI or its affiliates," the statement added.

Young spinner Harmeet Singh was, however, let off for lack of strong evidence against him.

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"The case against Mr. Harmeet Singh has been closed in the absence of evidence against him."

The release had no mention of Ajit Chandila, who allegedly lured the cricketers into the spot-fixing net, but a BCCI official said a decision on him will be taken at a later stage. Since Chandila has just been released on bail, the BCCI would like to give him an opportunity to depose in front of the committee before deciding the quantum of punishment.

The life bans on Sreesanth and Chavan were expected after Sawani had found them guilty of spot-fixing and had himself recommended a life ban. The scandal, which broke out in May, had shaken the cash-rich Twenty20 event and led to a massive churning within the Board. "All the disciplinary committee members were very cooperative and it went off well. I gave them my side of

Life ban for Sreesanth, Chavan; Harmeet Singh let off in IPL scandal the story. All I have dreamt from childhood is to play for India and I will never cheat the game," Sreesanth said today after appearing before the committee.

"I have full faith in the judiciary as well as the BCCI and I will come clean on this whole issue," added the 30-year-old former Test pacer.

The five players' deposition came even as Sawani's report was discussed by the BCCI committee, headed by BCCI President N Srinivasan and comprising Board vice-Presidents Arun Jaitley and Niranjan Shah. Sawani has held Sreesanth, Chandila and Chavan guilty of conceding a "pre-determined number of runs per over in exchange for bribes." Trivedi and 21-year-old Harmeet were cleared of the spot-fixing charges, but were found guilty of not reporting the approaches made by bookmakers.

Sad day for Mumbai cricket: Dalal on life ban on Ankeet Chavan

MUMBAI: Mumbai Cricket Association joint secretary Nitin Dalal said he felt pity for promising left-arm spinner Ankeet Chavan, who was banned for life by the BCCI on IPL spotfixing charges, saying that he was on the verge of being picked for India A. "It's a sad day for Mumbai cricket. It's a pity that Ankeet Chavan has been found guilty. He was set to be picked for India A team as he’s a wicket taking bowler," said Dalal while reacting to the BCCI decision to ban

Chavan.

The BCCI's Disciplinary Committee, comprising N Srinivasan, Arun Jaitley and Niranjan Shah, enquiring into the allegations of spot-fixing against some Rajasthan Royals, imposed the ban on Chavan after a hearing in New Delhi.

Chavan and India Test pacer S Sreesanth were banned for life from playing any representative cricket, or in any way being associated with the activities of the BCCI or its affiliates, said the statement from the Board.

Navratilova taught me healthy lifestyle: Paes Armstrong returns Olympic bronze medal USTIN: Lance Armstrong has returned his Olympic bronze A cycling medal, the latest fallout

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Leander Paes and his former mixed doubles partner Martina Navratilova.

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UMBAI: The oldest player to clinch a Grand Slam in Open era, Indian tennis ace Leander Paes credited his former mixed doubles partner Martina Navratilova for helping him elongate his international career by adopting a "clean lifestyle". "Playing with Martina for many many years, I have learnt a lot.

She is obviously a big inspiration for me to continue to remodel my game and stay healthy. I have also learnt how to live a clean lifestyle and be productive towards my tennis," Paes told reporters on his return after winning the men's doubles trophy at the US Open.

Paes and Navratilova together won two Grand Slam titles, besides finishing

runners-up on two other occasions. He became the oldest man to win a Grand Slam title on Sunday when he along with his Czech partner Radek Stepanek won the men's doubles title at the US Open.

Enduring a tough season this year, Paes was determined to excel at the last Grand Slam of the year. "I had no idea that I was the first person in the Open era to win a Grand Slam at 40. What I did know was that this whole year had been such a rough one - both on and off the court. It has been a very hard year.

Coming into American summer, I knew I had to do really well. My first week in the Canadian Open in Montreal did not go well,� Paes added.

from his confession to using performance-enhancing drugs. Armstrong won the medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The International Olympic Committee in January vacated the medal Armstrong won in the road time trial. Armstrong tweeted on Thursday that he gave it back and a US Olympic Committee spokesman released a statement confirming its return.

Armstrong's tweet included a photo of the medal and its blue ribbon along with the message: "The 2000 Bronze is back in possession of @usolympics and will be in Switzerland asap." Armstrong declined further comment.

The IOC has said it will not reallocate Armstrong's bronze medal, just as cycling's ruling body decided not to declare any winners for the Tour de France titles once held by the American. Spanish rider Abraham Olano Manzano, who finished fourth in Sydney, will not be upgraded and the bronze medal will be left vacant in Olympic records.

Armstrong denied doping for years until his confession in January in a TV interview. The confes-

sion came after a US Anti-Doping Agency report detailed widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs by Armstrong and his US Postal Service team. Armstrong also has been stripped of the seven Tour titles he won from 1999-2005.

The IOC previously stripped Tyler Hamilton, a former Armstrong teammate, of his time trial gold medal from the 2004 Athens Olympics after he acknowledged doping.

Armstrong won his medal two months after winning his second Tour de France title. His USPS teammate, Vyacheslav Ekimov of Russia, won the gold and Jan Ullrich of Germany won silver.

UBI DOWN RCF; MSP SCORE OVER SAI

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UMBAI: Union Bank of India (UBI) put it across Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers (RCF) by a 3-1 margin in a lacklustre league match of the Mumbai Magicians-MHAL Super League 2013, at the MHAL Stadium, Churchgate, on Friday evening.

Rohan Mhatre, Thokchom Kiran Kumar and Usaf ur Rehman were on target for UBI while Rahul Devkar pulled one back for RCF. For UBI, who enjoyed a 2-0 lead at the end of the first session, Mhatre deftly directed into goal Biju B.Y. centre from the right in the 15th minute and two minutes from the half-time hooter, Thokchom Kiran Kumar found the target to double lead for the bankmen. RCF showed signs of a fight back at the start of the second period when Devkar successfully converted their second penalty corner in the 38th minute.

But the experienced Rehman deposited the third goal into the RCF cage. Rehman picked up Biju’s measured through pass inside the circle and then drew out goalkeeper Abhijeet Kadam before slotting the ball into an open goal.

This was the second win for UBI, who now occupy the fourth place in the nine-team standings, with six points. For RCF this was their fourth defeat and they have just three

SAI’s Shahbaz Pathan slides in to score a goal against Maharashtra State Police at the Mumbai Hockey Stadium. points from their win against SAI. Earlier in a tall-scoring match, Maharashtra State Police (MSP) overcame the challenge from a youthful Sports Authoriy of India (SAI) 10-6.

The architect of the policemen’s success was former India player Dhanajay Mahadik who hammered home five goals including a hat-trick.

‘T20 should be played for eight weeks a year’

Mahadik was well-supported by his teammates, Vinod Manugade who struck a brace, Satyajeet Sawant, Kunal Jagdale and Azam Shaikh all chipping in with a goal apiece.

Sports Authority of India scored a goal each through Akash Mishra, Manpreet Singh, Shabaz Pathan,

Mahendra Khokar, Siddharth Gaur, Shoeb Alam and the seventh came from an own goal.

MSP now have two wins to their credit and tally six points from four matches, while SAI suffered their fourth defeat in five outings and just have a solitary point from their drawn encounter with Indian Navy.

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AHMEDABAD: 2013 World Indoor Games Snooker Gold Medallist, Aditya Mehta and Junior National Champion, Dhvaj Haria propelled Indian Oil into the final of the Billiards Team Championship by defeating the fancied BPCL team at the IndianOil hosted - X PSPB Billiards and Snooker tournament at the Sports Club of Gujarat, Ahmedabad.

With every match of the three match tie consisting of a maximum of 200 points, Mehta gave the hosts a flying start beating Manan Chandra by a whopping 194 points. However, seasoned campaigner Devendra Joshi of BPCL brought it back on level terms by trouncing Brijesh Damani by 186 points. With just 8 points separating the two teams, the tie was evenly poised going into the decider between local favourite Dhvaj Haria (Indian Oil) and BPCL’s Shahbaz Khan.

The cool and composed Haria held his nerve to garner the 194 points required to give Indian Oil victory. In the other semi-final defending champions ONGC comprising of stalwarts like Pankaj Advani and Dhruv Sitwala made short work of GAIL to book their berth in the final.

Outsider: Macho Uno; Roswald looks good

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here are ten races today and the first starts at 1 p.m. A good thing is Carpe Diem. Another horse which needs watching is Roswald.

ACCEPTORS & SELECTIONS 1. The Capitulate Plate Class V 1200 M 1.00 P.M. Win: Pezzanovante, Storm Lightning 2. The E D'avoine Trophy (Class V) 1600 M 1.30 P.M. Win: Carpe Diem, Taal Ammi

3. The Glensanda Plate – Div I (Class IV) 1000 M 2.00 P.M. Win: Starsonboard, Emerald Fortune

4. The Fourth Estate Trophy – Div II

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1200 M 2.30 P.M. Win: Superlicious, Heatwave

5. The Pegasus Trophy – Div II (Class IV) 1400 M 3.00 P.M. Win: Oriental Rocky, Sun Saluation 6. The Amarilo Plate (Class II) 2000 M 3.30 P.M.

Win: Roswald, Falco Nero

7. The Glensanda Plate – Div II (Class IV) 1000 M 4.00 P.M. Win: Dark Knight, Warrier Prince

8. The Fourth Estate Trophy – Div I 1200 M 4.30 P.M. Win: Classy Dancer, Affirmation 9. The Alameda Plate (Class III) 1200 M 5.00 P.M. Win: Astronia, Act of War 10. The Pegasus Trophy – Div I (Class IV) 1400 M 5.30 P.M. Win: Archimedes, Queen of Venus

Chance: Macho Uno, Captain Smart

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UMBAI: Former chief selector of the Indian cricket team, Dilip Vengsarkar voiced his concern over the growing influence of the Twenty20 form of cricket all over the world and urged that ‘eight weeks’ of the shortest format will ensure the balance and the survival of other formats of the game.

Vengsarkar who was recently felicitated in Surrey, Canada said that it was ‘Test cricket’ which tested the real skill of the player and not T20.

“CC has introduced T-20 which is a good thing but at the same time in my opinion it should be played only for about eight weeks in a year. If we concentrate only on T-20, it will ultimately kill the game,” said Vengsarkar.

Commenting on the match fixing

and spot fixing scandals, Vengsarkar said that the root cause is the huge amount of money involved in the game. “On the one hand, this is a good thing because unlike our times, young players now can actually make a career playing cricket and it motivates them to play more, but on the other hand, players don’t know how to handle the wealth and the glamour which is associated with being a top cricket player,” said the former Indian batsman.

Vengsarkar said it is important to educate players and their families on how to handle their newly found wealth. “Awareness and education are key, because a number of our players come from humble backgrounds and simply cannot cope with all the money and glamour associated with the game,” he signed off.

here are nine races today and the first starts at 1 p.m. An outsider with a chance is Macho Uno. Captain Smart did not run well last time out, but don’t give up on it.

1. The Act In Time Plate (Class V) 1400 M 1.00 P.M. Mountain Warrior 61.5 Flying Kiss 59.5 Player 56.5 Blue Knight 61 Prize Fighter 59 Only White 54.5 Macho Uno 60.5 Walk Of Life 59 Win: Macho Uno, Prize Fighter 2. The J.E.Hughes Trophy (Class II) 1200 M 1.30 P.M. Saints N Sinners 59 So True 54 Visionist 57 Emerald Valley 52.5 Win: Emerald Valley, Visionist

3. The Yana Trophy (Class III) 1600 M 2.00 P.M. Mint Approach 59 Word Of Honour 56 Silver Arrow 57.5 Menage A Trois 54.5

Win: Trois, Menage 4. The Great Secret Plate – Div II (Class V) 1000 M 2.30 P.M. Follow Me 60 Midnight Lady 56.5 Hot As Ice 52.5 Al Zamarud 58 Fajr 55 Laurus Tikati 49 By The Way 57.5 Rio Del Ray 55 Win: Zamarud

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5. The Sea Ruler Plate (Class IV) 1800 M 3.00 P.M. Hail The King 59 Burn 54 Zoltan 52 Perfect Strength 56.5 Mufasa 53.5 Queen 55.5 Run Like The Wind 52.5 Win: Perfect Strength, Burn 6. The Ismail Khan Plate – Div II (Class IV) 1200 M 3.30 P.M. Autumn Rush 59.5 Arabian Glory 53.5 Blush 53 Starry Ocean 56.5 Speed Up 53.5 Diamondzip 52.5 Oriental Sapphire 55 Tropical Zone 53.5 Win: Tropical Zone, Autumn Rush 7. The Dna Salver 1400 M 4.00 P.M.

Antartica Zone 56 Head Of State 56 Aurnia 54.5 Dhishkyaon 56 Mohegun Sun 56 Magic Vision 54.5 Gallant Lad 56 Reynolds 56 Paris 54.5 Glorious Reward 56 Ricochet 56 Pretty Hot 54.5 Governnor 56 Amaya 54.5 Win: Head of State, Amaya

8. The Great Secret Plate – Div I (Class V) 1000 M 4.30 P.M. Sunshine Heart 61.5 Captain Smart 60 Arabian Lord 58 Tanusha 61.5 Wild Imagination 59.5 Secretive 58 Annabeth 60.5 Zafirah 59.5 Overtime Magic 57.5 Win: Captain Smart, Wild Imagination

9. The Ismail Khan Plate – Div I (Class IV) 1200 M 5.00 P.M. Gloria 62 Mountain Wind 60 Highway Express 55 San Rafael 61 Mumbai King 56.5 Samay Balwan 54 Marine Zone 60 Walking Tall 55.5 Domain Anna 53.5 Win: Walking Talk, Gloria

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