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Rapists of photo-journalist pelted with eggs outside court

Angry women activists pelted the rapists with eggs at the Esplanade Court, yesterday.

By Philip Varghese

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lmost a week after the gangrape of a photojournalist in the defunct Shakti Mill Compound at Mahalaxmi, public outrage erupted on Friday when women protesters, reportedly be-

longing to a political party, pelted eggs at the accused in the case as they were being produced at the Esplanade Court in South Mumbai.

Among the five accused only three - Shiraz Rehman Khan, Vijay Jadhav and Kasim Bengali, were being brought in police vans when

they were attacked right outside the court. Another accused could not be produced before the court after his family produced a certificate stating he was a minor. However, the police chose to remain silent on the issue of the certificate.

The fifth accused, Salim Ansari, who was nabbed from Delhi, is already in police custody till September 5.

The women protesters raised slogans as they pelted eggs at the vans. There were also some unconfirmed reports that the accused were attacked with an axe. The protesters, who were later detained by police, demanded that the rapists be hanged.

The court remanded the trio to extended police custody till September 5, after the Crime Branch told the court that they are yet to recover some clothes of the accused and hence their remand was required. The minor accused was produced before a juvenile court, from where he was sent to the juvenile remand home in Dongri.

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Development plans for Maharashtra

By Khushboo Panjabi

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hief Minister Prithviraj Chavan yesterday announced a fivepoint programme for the development of Maharashtra. ”Chavan said that his govern-

ment would focus on quality education, make Maharashtra secure, have planned urbanisation and efficiency in agriculture. Chavan’s five point agenda is a clear indication of the ruling DF government exercise ahead of the 2014 general

Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is flanked by Siddharth Birla Sr VP, FICCI and Naina Lal Kidwai, president-FICCI and country head of HSBC India, at a press conference.

and assembly elections.

There are more than 5,000 MMRDA projects commissioned this year, including the Metro Railway, Monorail, the Eastern Freeway, while a new airport terminal is to be opened this year. The Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link project has got a coastal regulation zone clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).

The Navi Mumbai International Airport, which will soon be set up, is facing problems due to the Karnala bird sanctuary, which is situated along the Mumbai- GoaKonkan National Highway No.17 and is 12.5 km south of the proposed project site, but falls outside the core area. The sanctuary is very rich in avifauna and harbours 147 species of resident and 37 species of migratory birds that visit during winter. The sanctuary is away from the landing and take-off funnel of Navi Mumbai International Airport. Moreover, the position of Continued on pg 8 «

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DNA NAILS RAPISTS

By Neel Shah

n a significant development in the gang rape case, the DNA samples found on the victim’s body matched with all the five accused’s DNA profiles. This confirmed their role in the ghastly committed crime, even though an accused in the case was found to be minor.

“We have received the forensic reports from Directorate of Forensic Sciences Laboratory at Kalina. The DNA samples found on the victim matched with the DNA samples of all the five accused. This is one of the strongest evidences to confirm that all the arrested accused were

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OPINIONS

Do you think idlisambhar is the most nutritious breakfast as stated in the study?

Arun Kumar Journalist ‘Idli-sambhar’ is a light food which most of us, especially people from South, have been relishing as a breakfast item for ages together.

I think it is the most nutritious food.

Parveen Qureshi Homemaker Twice a week, I cook ‘idli-sambhar’ for my family, because it is one of very safe, healthy and nutritious foods.

Sagir Ansari Cameraman I prefer to eat nonvegetarian food most of the times, but ‘idli-sambhar’ is a safer food I like for breakfast.

Nagnath Babar Working professional I love ‘idli-sambhar’ for breakfast, and the study has revealed that it is one of the nutritious food items.

Now, I’ll have it twice a day.

Jitendra Mallah Media professional Any vegetarian snack is most safe, healthy and nutritious, and ‘idlisambhar’ can be eaten at any time and is available at almost all places.

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Shatabdi Hospital at Kandivli has made special cabin space for those who normally avoid civic hospitals

By Vishnudas Sheshrao

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he Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is developing a section of its upcoming 17th peripheral hospital in Kandivali along the lines of posh private facilities, in order to attract middle class people who normally don’t opt for treatment at civic hospitals.

The Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivli, a 150-crore project, would be first civic hospital in the suburbs to have a dialysis system, chemotherapy and complete set of TB care. It will also have space specially earmarked for middle class folk, civic officials said.

The hospital will have a of total 320 beds, including 30 for intensive care units (ICU) and another 35 ‘reserved’ for middle class and made available at slightly higher rates.

Major civic hospitals, including KEM, Nair and Sion, are over-

crowded, and several patients are can sometimes be seen sleeping on the floors, and the empty passages nears the porches or stairs. Another issue that had come before the general meeting of the BMC was that civic hospitals are occupied by

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Navi Mumbai doctors first in India to remove rare tumor from youth’s abdomen

By A Staff Reporter

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he removal of an 8 cm chylous cyst, an extremely rare tumour containing milky white fluid, which is usually benign, from one of the most difficult and inaccessible areas of the abdomen, made the doctors at Niramaya Hospitals at Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, the first team of

Rohan however, was keen on having a laparoscopic surgery and searched the Internet for surgeons who have performed this sort of procedure before and discovered Dr. Amit Thadhani, Consulting General and Laparoscopic Surgeon and Director, Niramaya Hospitals.

“Rohan’s case was particularly challenging. The tumour was located on top of the

Dengue scare in Bhayandar 11 patients tested positive in NS1 Antigen test

By Suresh Golani

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doctors to have handled such a case successfully in India.

Earlier this year, 18-year-old Rohan (name changed to protect identity) was diagnosed and treated for testicular cancer and at the time, his tests revealed the presence of a large cyst in the retro peritoneum (the space in the abdominal cavity behind the peritoneum located over the aorta, pancreas and left kidney). Despite taking the necessary treatment and completing chemotherapy, when the cyst did not reduce in size, Rohan was advised to have it removed through open surgery.

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major blood vessels and organs, and separating it from these structures safely was crucial,” said Dr. Thadani.

In a six hour long laparoscopic surgery, the tumour was successfully removed and Rohan is now on his way to recovery.

“Very few cases of chylous cysts have been reported worldwide in the last century and only once earlier has it been removed through a laparoscopic surgery worldwide. This case is definitely the first of its kind in India and in this location, probably the first in the world,” said Dr Thadhani.

non-Mumbaikars, with most patients coming in from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, in search of critical healthcare at cheaper rates.

The 35 ‘reserved’ beds will have separate small rooms and prompt service, and charges may be around Rs.1,500 to Rs.3,000, subject to the treatment being availed.

Additional Municipal Commissioner (Public Health), Manisha Mhaiskar said, “To attract the middle class, we have made 35 small cabins, one cabin per patient.

Rates there will be higher, while the remaining 90 per cent of bed will be open and at rates on par with other civic hospitals.

leven suspected dengue patients in Bhayandar have tested positive in the NS1 Antigen test. Interestingly, eight patients are from the same residential complex – Arihant Darshan, in Bhayandar (West).

However, health officials in the Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) have claimed ignorance about any detection of suspected dengue cases in the region.

The NS1 antigen test is done during the initial days of suspected dengue which makes early detection of the killer disease possible.

Five suspected dengue patients including a two-year-

old are currently hospitalised at two private hospitals – Ravi Surgical Nursing Home and Sanjeevani Children Care Hospital in

Bhayander. “We have not been informed about any such cases,” said MBMC Health Officer, Dr. Pramod Padwal.

Except rose and a few medicinal ones, all thorny plants give rise to tensions in the environment. Plants exuding white sap should also be kept off. Lime and karonda etc. are OK in an orchard but not in residence or business premises.

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Worth a watch

THIS should be a program worth catching on BBC when it opens next Saturday with Simon Reeve exploring Australia like never before.

Normally you would associate an Aussie trip with the Great Barrier Reef, a visit to the Gold Coast, doing the restaurant and vineyard route around Sydney, perhaps the Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk, and of course, visiting Melbourne for its old world Victorian charm, right?

Reeve, however, has a whole new take on what constitutes unforgettable experiences in Australia. And here are a list of the ten things he does. *Simon joins a team of poisonous cane toad-busters catching the amphibian invaders which causes a threat to Australia’s largest national park in Kakadu. *He meets Australia’s best -- and only -- tank regiment who will soon host 6,000 American Marines, an evidence of Australia’s strategic importance in the Asia Pacific region. *He heads out on patrol with Norforce, a unique military unit

who use ancient aboriginal knowledge to help them survive in the bush *In Cape York Peninsula he joins scientists catching the most poisonous and deadly box jellyfish, whose venom could prove to have great medicinal value *At the Great Barrier Reef he dives in search of the starfish destroying coral. *He flies 100 miles out into the ocean to watch a huge tanker being expertly guided through the fragile reef *While police are cracking down on outlaw motorcycle clubs, accused of being criminal gangs, Simon meets the most notorious and feared biker group in Australia to hear their side of the story *He works with a vet and his team who rescue and treat injured koalas -- thousands of which are killed every year by cars and pet dogs *Simon gauges Australia’s attitude to immigration and meets the country’s first Muslim ladies Aussie Rules Football team *Simon takes to the air to

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witness the devastating and deadly bush fires ripping through the country, before reaching his final destination, Melbourne, just in time to celebrate Australia Day All of which makes for great footage and be Simon’s idea of a perfect Australian experience.

However, that is not necessarily ours!

Psy the Secret Weapon!

AT a time when there is so little to cheer about, there is something positively delightful about the picture created of Israeli soldiers on patrol in the West Bank actually getting into trouble because they let their hair down – with Palestinians!

It was reported yesterday that they were on duty in the little town of Hebron, an a dreary duty it is indeed, when they came across a night club in which people were grooving to Gangnam style – and they promptly joined them. They were disciplined later, and we understand, for music has a way of getting one’s guard down. But oh what a thought, that Psy could actually be a secret weapon aimed only at bringing peace to a very troubled part of the world.

Mandana Karimi, who would like to project herself into 2035 so that she can act opposite AbRam Khan who will be 22-year-old!

The art of chamchagiri

Simon Reeves and his number 4 unforgettable experience – joining scientists in catching deadly poisonous jellyfish.

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FILM director Vikram Bhatt, brother to Mahesh Bhatt, has a new discovery who is to act in his latest, a film called ‘Bhaag Johnny’, with Kunal Khemu who is also Soha Khan’s boyfriend.

Her name is Mandana Karimi and she really looks delectable, which is why we are using this picture of her. She also has an indefatiguable publicity who assures us earnestly that she stands out not just because of her looks, “but also for how she thinks”. Then he proceeds to tell us what he means.

Recently, when she was doing a shoot for a gadget magazine, she was asked what gadget she would invent (if she could invent anything), and she replied that she would invent a time machine that would take her into 2035.

And why? Because by then AbRam Khan, the mite at the heart of Shahrukh Khan’s surrogacy hoo ha, would be 22

years old and she would like to act opposite him because by then he would have grown into “a dashing debonair” (sic) even more handsome than his illustrious father”.

Frankly we feel that the woman is a distasteful example of out-and-out chamchagiri, though she has a nice simple mathematical mind (35 minus 13 is, after all 22!). Not even Mr Khan’s most fervent admirer would call him a pretty face. As for illustrious, we hear that he was attending Dahi Handi at Ghatkopar on the invitation of NCP MLA Ram Kadam and reportedly “shaking a leg” with the host.

The same MLA who, along with Kshitij Thakur of Vasai, spent time in Arthur Road jail for allegedly taking part in the beating up of a policeman within the Vishan Sabha premises. As for the policeman, he has been transferred to Sangli.

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Sd/Mr.Mustaqeem.A.Ansari (Advocate of High Court ) Date:31/08/2013 Place: Mumbai

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MUMBAI | SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2013 I Mrs. Sakinaben Zulfikarali Kadiwal have changed my name to Mrs. Sakina Zulfikarali Kadiwal as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 28/08/13.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Under the instruction of my client Mr. Mohammed Wasim Ansari S/o Manzur Ahmed Ansari of Mumbai Residing At flat No 201,Sahil Safina, 2nd floor, Behind Rahul Tower ,Mira Nursing Home Gali, Naya Nagar ,Mira Road (E), Thane 401107. I have to address you as under: My client states that on 15/03/2005 he had purchased the Shop No. 13, Admeasuring about 250 Sq,ft,at Building known as KHAN ESTATE, situated at plot bearing C.T.S. Nos 38,39,40,284 o f v i l l a g NOTICE e-Bandivali, / 2 8 5 PUBLIC Jogeshwari (W), Mumbai - 400102 and the said agreement is duly registered with the Registrar of Assurance Andheri 3, on 20/03/2007 bearing Registration No. BDR 9-02725-2007 . My client states that he had purchased the above said premise for a valid consideration from the M/s MALKANI CONSTRUCTIONS CO. having address at MALKANI BUNGLOW, NEAR MALKANI TOWER ,BANDIVALI HILL RD, ,JOGESHWARI (W), MUMBAI 400102. My client further states that a public notice to be issused in daily newspaper if any other title/ interest/ right or litigation arises on the said premises within a period of 15 days .under the circumstances I hereby call you to inform me if any dispute arising or in the event ,you shall be liable for all cost and consequences resulting there from.

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THANKSGIVING May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored glorified loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever Sacred Heart of Jesus thy kingdom come St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us. St. Jude worker of miracles pray for us.

Amen.

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CHANGE OF BIRTHDATE

My old Date of Birth First April Nineteen Sixty was not correct.

My actual Date of Birth (As per Affidavit Dated: 30/08/2013) is First April Nineteen Sixty Three.

(Syed Mohammed Aslam).

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CHANGE OF NAME

I have changed my name from Yugandhara Anant Nabar to Saloni Saket Dharwadkar Vide Maharashtra Gazette No. U-28499.

C-14760 I have changed my name from Khushboo Narendra Lakhi to Deeta Jay Thakural Vide Maharashtra Gazette No. U-25794 dated Augst 8-14, 2013.

C-14761 I have changed my name from Jay Kishore Thakurel to Jay Kishore Thakural Vide Maharashtra Gazette No. U-25795 dated August 8-14, 2013.

C-14762 I, Khokar Rehana Begum Ibrahim, have changed my name to Rehana Aslam Behlim Vide Deed Poll Affidavit dated 30th August, 2013.

C-14763 I Balaso Shankarrao Jagtap have changed my name to Balasaheb Shankarrao Jagtap as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 28/08/13.

C-14764 I Vandanakumari Jha have changed my name to Vandana Jha as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 29/05/13.

C-14765 I R. Rajakannu have changed my name to Rajkannu Shetty as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 28/08/13.

C-14766 I Sangeeta Mahadev Dicholkar have changed my name to Akshata Abhay Purandare as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 07/08/13.

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I have changed my name from Tejas Jayesh Kumar Punater to Tejas Jayesh Punater (Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. X -29087,dated; August 30 September 5, 2012).

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I Mr. Karan Prakash Shah have changed my minor daughter’s name from Aashi Karan Shah to Arya Karan Shah as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 29/08/13.

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I have changed my name from Yateen Ramesh Parab to Yatin Parab vide Affidavit dated 29/8/2013.

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I Karan Prakashkumar Shah have changed my name to Karan Prakash Shah as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 29/08/13.

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I have changed my name from Prachi Shantaram Sansare to Prachi Mandar Matkari as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. X-17036.

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I Krutiben have changed my name to Kruti Karan Shah as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 29/08/13.

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I have changed my name from Khan Mehbub Yusuf Khan, to ‘Khan Mehboob Yusuf Khan’ as per Affidavit Dated 30/08/2013.

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I Dineshbhai Indukumar Talsania have changed my name to Dinesh Indukumar Talsania as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 28/08/13.

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I have changed my name from Mohamed Sabir Nizamuddin to Mohammed Sabir Nizamuddin Ansari as per deed poll Affidavit.

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I Mrs. Nirmala Christopher Xavier Mascarenhas have changed my name to Mrs. Nirmala Xavier Christopher Mascarenhas as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 29/08/13.

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I have changed my name from Jayashree Ashokkumar Jain to Jayashree Ashoka Salecha as per Affidavit.

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I Sadrubhai Hasam Samnani have changed my name to Samnani Sadruddin Hasam as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 28/08/13.

C-14774 I Barkatali Hasam Samnani have changed my name to Samnani Barkat Hasam as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 28/08/13.

C-14775 I Zubedabahen Karamali Kotadia have changed my name to Samnani Zubeda Barkat as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 28/08/13.

C-14776 I Devani Amin Ahmed Ali have changed my name to Dewani Amin Ahmed as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 23/08/13.

C-14777 I Miss Dinaben Balmukundbhai Pandya have changed my name to Mrs Bhavna Mahesh Dixit as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 30/08/13.

C-14778 I Vipulkumar Pravinchandra Doshi have changed my name to Vipul Pravinchandra Doshi as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 30/08/13.

C-14779 I, Ullysses Joseph Fernandes, have changed my name to Ulysses Joseph Fernandes as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 30/08/13.

C-14780 I have changed my name from Jayesh Kumar Amritlal Punater to Jayesh Amritlal Punater (Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. X - 29086 dated; August 30 September 5, 2012).

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I have changed my name from Manzoor Kazi to Manzoor Hussain Kazi as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-14789 I have changed my name from Mariya Kaizer Lakdawala to Mariya Akberali Kagalwala as per deed poll Affidavit dtd.29/08/2013.

C-14790 I have changed my name from Mukeshkumar Pravinchandra Chauhan to Mukesh Pravinchandra Chauhan as per Affidavit dated: 28.08.2013.

C-14791 I have changed my name from Hemant Mahadev Godiya to Hemant Mahadev Godia as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-14792 I have changed my name from Randhir Kumar Tulanand Mishra to Randhir Tulanand Mishra as per Affidavit dated 29th August 2013.

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I have changed my name from Satishbhai Bhanjibhai Joshi to Satish Bhanjibhai Joshi as per Affidavit dated: 30 August 2013.

C-14798 I have changed my name from Deepakbhai Babubhai Suru to Deepakbhai Babubhai Soni as per Affidavit dated: 30 August 2013.

C-14799 I have changed my name from Jyotsna Deepakbhai Suru to Jyotsna Deepakbhai Soni as per Affidavit dated: 30 August 2013.

C-14800 I have changed my name from Vishal Deepakbhai Suru to Vishal Deepakbhai Soni as per Affidavit dated: 30 August 2013.

C-14801 I have changed my name from Rehman Ferozabanu / Firozabanu Fazalu to Kagzi Firozabanu Abdul Majid as per Affidavit.

C-14802 I have changed my name from Sabia Noor Shah to Anwari Fisha Mohammed Noor Shah as per Affidavit.

C-14803 I have changed my name from Veena Ratanchand Navlani to Aarohi Sunil Kotwani as per Affidavit.

C-14804 I have changed my name from Ranjit Singh Beant Singh Wadhwa to Ranjeet Beant Singh Wadhwa as per Affidavit.

C-14805 I have changed my name from Rita Dongarsen Bhojwani to Sneha Ranjeet Wadhwa as per Affidavit.

C-14806 I have changed my name from Meena Kantilal Katpara to Moti Kantilal Katpara as per Affidavit.

C-14807 I have changed my name from Jarnail Singh Sohan Singh Sayani to Jarnail Singh Sohan Singh Saini as per Affidavit.

C-14808 I have changed my name from Ratan Kanwar Dwarkadass Rathi to Ratan Brijmohan Taparia as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Jyoti Kishanlal Manghani to Simran Rajkumar Makhijani as per Affidavit dated 30th August 2013.

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I have changed my name from Rasilaben Narendrakumar Shah to Darshana Narendra Shah as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Mahender Dhiman to Mahendra Dhiman as per Affidavit dated 30th August 2013.

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I have changed my name from Narendrakumar Suryakant Shah to Narendra Suryakant Shah as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Hasmukhlal Meghani to Hasmukh Meghani as per Affidavit dated 26th August 2013.

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I have changed my name from Karodimal Bhawarlal Jain to Hinendra Bhawarlal Jain as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Rasik Chawada to Rasiklal Chawda as per Affidavit dated: 30 August 2013.

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I have changed my name from Hinendrakumar Bhawarlal Tated to Hinendra Bhawarlal Jain as per Affidavit.

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Delhi-based mother-daughter duo create drama inside Bandra Police Station after they fail to meet Salman Khan

By Zuber Ansari

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he officials of the Bandra Police Station on Thursday night had a tough time handling two women who were brought to the police station for creating ruckus outside actor Salman Khan’s house in Bandra and beating up police officials inside the police station.

A Delhi-based woman, along with her daughter, had reached Salman Khan’s Galaxy Apartment at Carter Road, Bandra and wanted to meet Khan because they wanted to sign him for their project.

Interestingly, both the women were trying to meet

Harpreet Sethi and her daughter, Amita, were very keen to meet up with the star and sign him up for their project.

TPC, Sena lock horns over modernisation of Mahul plant

By Prashant Hamine

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he proposed plan of the Tata Thermal Power Station (TTPS) to convert its fuel from oil and gas to coal for Unit 6 at its Mahul plant has become a bone of contention between Tata Power Company (TPC) and the Shiv Sena. The TPC argues that it needs to convert the fuel

from oil to coal because of the high costs of imported oil with low sulphur content and natural gas. The Shiv Sena, on the other hand, has been arguing that the use of coal will only pose more health hazards to locals.

The TPC had conducted an Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) study of the environment in Chembur and the surrounding areas through Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd (TCE). The report addressed the issue of air pollution estimates and prediction

ing areas, especially in highly populated regions.

The perception of the poor quality of air in Chembur is due to various other factors such as garbage burning, vehicle emissions during congested traffic, biomedical waste incinerators and other factors. The TPC further argues that with the installation of various state of art equipment at coal berths for coal unloading will help to control fugitive emissions during coal unloading and handling.

At a recent public seminar held in Chembur over the issue, senior Sena MLA Subhash Desai alleged that the Congress led governments in the last 40 years have converted Chembur into a Gas Chamber with unchecked industrial expansion. The Bombay Natural History Society’s (BNHS) Chief Executive Officer Dr. Deepak Apte stated that the various industrial projects in the region are causing an adverse impact on the food chain in the region.

Noted environment activist and trustee of the Conservation Action Trust Debbi Goenka remarked that breathing air in Mumbai is (NEERI) was asked to con- akin to smoking 20 cigarettes duct a review of the EIA re- a day. In a recent health survey conducted by the BMC port prepared by TCE. The TPC argues that the standing committee chairNEERI in its report contends man Rahul Shewale and oththat the overall air pollution ers, it was found out that will actually come down mar- residents in the nearby Marginally due to better air pol- avli village were facing health lution control equipment problems like throat infecproposed for the coal conver- tions, burning sensation in sion project. It further argues eyes and asthama. The semithat the emissions from the nar passed a resolution deimmediate TTPS are falling in the south- manding east and south direction into scrapping of the TTPS the sea during summer and modernization plan and winter which will not cause stopping the use of coal at its any impact on the surround- Units 3 and 5. of the particulate matter (PM) of Mono-Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) and Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) emissions.

However, that report was contested by the Sena which argued that the TCE was a Tata group company and hence a third party independent evaluation was necessitated.

Hence, the National Environment Engineering Research Institute

Salman Khan from the last five days.

The drama began at around 6 pm, when Harpreet Sethi, along with her daughter Amita Sethi, tried to enter Galaxy Apartment stating contacts with Salman Khan’s manager Reshma Shetty, but the watchman asked them

not to enter the building.

After hearing this, both Harpreet and Amita left only to return at around 8.30 pm when they failed again, and came back yet again at around 11 pm with their driver and began abusing the watchman and passersby.

Salman Khan’s body guard then came and asked the ladies to leave. In the meanwhile, on duty police patrolling constables reached the spot.

According to Bandra Police Station officials, both the women along with their driver Nitin Singh were brought to the police station, but the women started abusing the lady constables and

on duty police officers. They claimed of being in contact with Salman’s manager Reshma and that they owned a production house in Delhi.

The police booked two FIRs against both the ladies and their driver Nitin Singh.

The ladies are absconding and we have taken their driver into custody, who is sent to police custody for two days, a police officer informed. Social activist Siddique Taraporwala, who was also beaten by the two women inside the Bandra Police station, said, “The women slapped me twice and I got nose injury which is why I registered an FIR against them”.

06 CHANGE OF NAME I have changed my name from Diptiben Hinendrakumar Tated to Dipti Hinendra Jain as per Affidavit.

C-14814 We Mr. Hinendra Bhawarlal Jain and Mrs. Dipti Hinendra Jain have changed our son’s name from Kashish Hinendrakumar Tated to Naitik Hinendra Jain as per Affidavit.

C-14815 I have changed my name from Mariyam Riyaz Ahmed to Mariyam Riyaz Ahmed Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-14816 I have changed my name from Maghi Javed Shaikh Muneer to Javed Muneer Meghji as per Affidavit.

C-14817 I have changed my name from Eliyas Ahmed Iqbal Hasan Sayyed/ Ilyas Iqbal Sayyed / Ilyas Sayyed to Ilyas Ahmed Iqbal Ahmed Sayyed as per Affidavit.

C-14818 I have changed my name from Mustafa Ikbal Sayyed / Mohd Mustafa Iqbal Sayyed / Mustafa Iqbal Sayyed to Mohammed Mustafa Iqbal Ahmed Sayyed as per Affidavit.

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CLASSIFIEDS I have changed my name from Jamaniben Kanji Gothi to Jamani Rasik Devda as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Vijay Kumar Surendraprakash to Vijay Surendraprakash Sharma as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Haresh Rasik Devda to Harsh Rasik Devda as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Vasant Ganpatrao Sabnis to Vasantrao Ganpatrao Sabnis as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Jaman Rasik Devda to Jamani Rasik Devda as per Affidavit.

C-14832 I have changed my name from Savjibhai Hirabhai Devda to Savji Hira Devda as per Affidavit.

C-14833 I have changed my name from Hirabhai Auchar Devda to Hira Auchar Devda as per Affidavit.

C-14834 I have changed my name from Manisha Kalyanbhai Jivani to Manisha Savan Kalathiya as per Affidavit.

C-14835 I have changed my name from Pappu Erfan Beg to Aafak Erfan Beg as per Affidavit.

C-14836 I have changed my name from Ashok Kumar to Ashok Kumar Chetandas Pahilani as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Arati Shridhar Tare to Asha Vasantrao Sabnis as per Affidavit.

C-14850 I have changed my name from Saleem Abdulla to Saleem Abdulla Qureshi as per Affidavit Dt.29-08-2013.

C-14851 I have changed my name from Fatma Imtiyaz Mankar to Fatima Imtiyaz Mankar as per Affidavit Dt. 24-08-2013.

C-14852 I have changed my name from Kitty Katherine Zita Mascarenhas to Kitty Zita Mascarenhas as per Affidavit.

C-14853 I, Kitty Zita Mascarenhas have changed my son's name from Manosh to Nikhil Mascarenhas as per Affidavit.

C-14854 I have changed my name from Pallavi to Kitty Zita Mascarenhas as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Anjali Darne to Anjali Arvind Chaubal as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Ganesh Sitaram Nikumbh to Ganesh Sitaram Nikam as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Emteyaz Ahmed Sayed to Imtiaz Nafis Sayed as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Shakil Mohmed Kasim Shaikh to Shakil Mohammed Kasim Shaikh as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Babu Dilip Parab to Aakash Dilip Parab as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Mr. Vinod Pannalal to Mr. Placie Fonseca as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Susheel Anand Shetty to Susheela Anand Shetty as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Faqvi Zuber Shaikh Ali to Fakih Zuber Shaikh Ali as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Kartikbhai Haribhai Tanti to Kartik Haribhai Tanti as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Ananda Monappa Shetty to Anand Monappa Shetty as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Firdos Begum to Firdous Amanullah Shaikh as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Kanchan Ravindra Mangale to Reshma Ravindra Mangale as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Pooja Sainath Patran to Pooja Sainath Putran as per Affidavit 30 Aug 2013.

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I have changed my name from Trupthy Ravindra Mangale to Trupti Ravindra Mangale as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Pravinchandra Jayantilal Munjiyasra to Pravinbhai Jayantilal Shah as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Kanta Udhavdas Tana to Barkha Ravi Shamnani as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Dipti Pravinchandra Munjiyasra to Dipti Pravinbhai Shah as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Ashok Mahadeo Survase to Ashok Mahadeo Suryawanshi as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Rekhaben Pravinchandra Munjiyasra to Rekhaben Pravinbhai Shah as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Akharware Aqueel Hasanmiya to Akharware Aqeel Hasanmiya as per Affidavit.

C-14824 I have changed my name from Sayed Husain Sayed Mohamed Sadique to Sayed Hussain Sadiq as per Affidavit.

C-14825 I have changed my name from Karubhai Hirabhai Devda to Karu Hira Devda as per Affidavit.

C-14826 I have changed my name from Shantiben Kanji Gothi to Shanti Karu Devda as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Nandkumar Keshav Deolekar to Nandkumar Keshav Devlekar as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Shantiben Karu Devda to Shanti Karu Devda as per Affidavit.

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I, Manoj Chanderlal Jeswani have changed my daughter's name from Pooja Manoj Jesawani to Pooja Manoj Jeswani as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Ashraf Badshah Dadabhai Kazi to Ashraf Dadabhai Qazi as per Affidavit.

C-14864

I have changed my name from Rasikbhai Hirabhai Devda to Rasik Hira Devda as per Affidavit.

C-14829

I have changed my name from Ramesh Kumar Amar Singh to Ramesh Amar Singh as per Affidavit.

C-14847

I have changed my name from Mohamad Javeed Amir Hasan to Mohammed Javeed Shaikh as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Sreelekha to Sreelekha Rajan as per Affidavit.

C-14866 I have changed my name from Koodaly Rappai Elsy to Elsy Paul as per Affidavit.

C-14867 I have changed my name from Elcy Jacob to Elsy Jacob as per Affidavit.

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There is hope to groom environmentally conscious students to participate in conservation projects

I have changed my name from Rewati Shivdasan to Glancy Rego as per Affidavit.

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By A Staff Reporter

I have changed my name from Ajit Tejani to Aziz Tejani as per Affidavit.

C-14870 I have changed my name from Nevil Mohammed Charania to Naveen Mohammed Charania as per Affidavit.

C-14871 I have changed my name from Chetankumar Madhusudan Trivedi to Chetan Madhusudan Trivedi as per Affidavit.

C-14872 I have changed my name from Abhijitrao Digambar Patil to Abhijeet Digambar Patil as per Affidavit.

C-14873 I have changed my name from Balveersingh Pakharsingh Badwal to Mohammed Bilal Saini as per Affidavit.

C-14874 I have changed my name from Qamrunnisa to Qamrunnisa Faiyaz Ahmed Shaikh as per Affidavit.

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them with each other.

This seminar aims to docn the occasion 20th ument and estimate the envianniversary of its Con- ronmental literacy in our servation Education state by measuring the target Centre (CEC), the Bombay reached by its participants. It Natural History Society will check the impact of Na(BNHS) will organise a day- ture Clubs in schools and collong seminar on Promotion leges, and evaluate whether of Environmental Literacy in educational institutions with Maharashtra, in collabora- active nature clubs are more tion with United States-India environmentally conscious Educational Foundation than those who do not have one? Do they groom environ(USIEF) on September 21.

Apart from insightful field mentally literate students research and environment who take actions for nature conservation projects, the conservation?

Mumbai is commercial 130-year old BNHS India has also been doing pioneering capital of the country and work in the area of nature ed- houses hundreds of corporate companies. The seminar ucation. issues about The CEC which is based addresses in 33-acres of forested land in whether these companies Goregaon, has been playing a take social responsibility to vital role in creating aware- maintain the ecological balness among the general pub- ance of environment, and lic, including students and how they are promoting enteachers, about the impor- vironmental literacy among tance of conservation and their employees, shareholders and associates. sustainable living.

It will also check how effecThis seminar is being organised to give a common tive is environmental reportplatform for all stake-holders ing in the city and over all including institutions and in- state, and how in the cut dividuals working in the field throat competition of TRPs, of nature education to com- are media houses handling pile their studies and share environment challenges.

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RPI demands Asaram apology T

he Republican Party of India (RPI) said yesterday that it would not allow selfstyled godman Asaram Bapu, who is an accused in a sexual assault case, to enter Maharashtra if he does not tender an apology on the statement he made on Gautam Buddha.

“He should tender an apology. Otherwise, we will not allow him to enter the state.

We will also disrupt the ‘satsang’ organised by him in the state,” RPI president Ramdas Athawale told PTI on Friday.

He also said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi should not be blamed for the trouble faced by Asaram Bapu.

“How can he say that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi is responsible for his troubles?

Asaram Bapu should be arrested. Even his followers should think if they wish to follow the self-styled godman or not,” Athawale said.

“We will not allow Asaram Bapu in Maharashtra. The police should not give him permission to organise satsang here,” he said.

Meanwhile, Hindu rightwing organisation Sanatan Sanstha said that it would protest against accusations levelled against Asaram Bapu.

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Prime accused in firing case identified, car used in crime recovered from Thane

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he Bangur Nagar police, in collaboration with the Mumbai crime branch, made some headway in the Ajay Gosalia alias Ajay Ganda firing case, when they managed to identify the accused who fired the bullets at the victim, and subsequently traced the vehicle used in the shooting to Thane.

The police had been investigating all angles and have now confirmed that the firing was done by a criminal, and was not a fake one like that which was previously staged by Ganda himself. It is learned that Ganda, along with his associates, had been filing RTI’s against builders from Malad, Kandivali and other parts of the city, and after finding some weak points, were extorting money from them. Police are suspecting that the firing is the result of a problem between Ganda and a builder.

Depressed and suicidal

Sources from Bangur Nagar police station say that Ganda was active in the real estate industry and was involved in land grabbing and extortion cases.

His involvement is suspected in the Millat Nagar property issue, in which

Rajan gang behind shootout?

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n a major development, Mumbai’s crime branch has zeroed in on one of the culprits on Friday night. With this, the crime branch has become very sure about the involvement of the Chhota Rajan gang behind the firing on Ajay Ganda.

Talking to the ADC, JCP (Crime) Himanshu Roy said, “We have got the leads in the case and a breakthrough is imminent.� The cops, however, are not divulging any information with regard to the culprits as well as the motive.

Ajay Gosalia alias Ajay Ganda

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businessman Ijaz Khan was shot dead in public by a rival group over his opposition to a housing society redevelopment proposal. The prime accused in this case, Abrar, is still absconding, and police have come to know that Ajay Ganda had also filed an FIR in the same matter. Abrar is reported to have killed Ijaz, and police suspect he may be responsible for the shoot-

Jalinder Kamble, 65, was robbed by Girl runs away Ashok Gaura and from home and tries to kill self at Sabir Shaikh Mahalaxmi station near Panvel

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22-year-old mentally depressed girl tried to commit suicide at Mahalaxmi station on Friday. The girl, who identified herself as Shabra Banoo to the doctors who were treating her at Nair hospital, had run away her from her home on E. Moses Road at Worli at around 6 a.m. on Friday morning.

According to Rajendra Trivedi, Senior Police Inspector, Government Railway Police Mumbai Central, “After we discovered her identity, we contacted her father Isaralu Haq Ansari, who had already filed a missing complaint at the Worli police station.� “The girl’s father has informed us that the girl was suffering from depression and was undergoing psychiatric treatment,� said Trivedi.

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sweeper who works at Mumbai Central railway station for the Western Railway, was molested while she was sleeping in the train at a yard, on Friday.

The train had reached Kandivli yard when the incident took place. An unidentified man paid her a certain amount and grabbed her hand and asked her to accompany him without making any fuss. The victim chided him and started beating him up with her sandals.

After escaping from the clutches, the victim approached Government Railway Police (GRP), Borivli.

According to S.D. Babul, Senior Police Inspector, GRP-Borivli, “Kandivli yard comes under the jurisdiction of Samata Nagar police station. So the case will be handed over to Samata Nagar police. While the GRP Borivli is on a manhunt of the accused.�

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ing of Ganda.

In the meanwhile, the city crime branch has recovered the gray color Tavera vehicle from Thane, and have learned that it is booked in the name of a lady who had given the vehicle to a travel agency.

Railway sweeper molested in Kandivli yard

Two held for looting senior citizen Sumesh Rajan

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he duo who robbed a 65year-old man waiting for a bus to Sangli on the Mumbai-Pune Highway were arrested on Wednesday. “The victim Jalinder Kamble had come to Panvel from Sangli on Sunday morning.

While returning home at 10:30 pm, the two men approached him in a Maruti Ecco car and offered him a lift towards Pune�, said Krishna Kokne, API, New Panvel Police Station.

As the car reached Bhokarpada in Panvel, the two accused asked Kamble for all the valuables he had and when he refused to do so, the duo snatched his bag which had Rs.75,000 and then pushed him out of the car.

Kamble reached the New Panvel Police Station at 11.45 pm and lodged a complaint. The investigation process started on Sunday night itself, but the police took four days to find the culprits.

The arrested have been

API Krishna Kokne and his team of New Panvel Police Station with the arrested robbers, yesterday. identified as Ashok Gaura lice custody till September 4. “Both the accused are ha(27), and Sabir Shaikh (32), residents of Nerul and Pan- bitual offenders. They comvel respectively. The accused mitted a similar crime a few have been booked under years ago in Turbhe and sections 392 and 34 of the were arrested by the police�, Indian Penal Code. They Kokne said. have been remanded to po- khushboo.panjabi@afternoondc.in

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Even as crime graph shoots up in the region, all is well say cops

By Suresh Golani

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crimson spectre rife with chain-snatching, thefts, break-ins, the mysterious disappearances of people, fake cops, fraud, armed robberies, assaults, illegal weapons, rape and murders has returned to haunt Nalasopara.

Thanks to lax policing, fear lives in the minds of residents and local businessmen, as the crime graph of the Nalasopara police station has shot up significantly in the past one and half year. While most cases, including a couple of murders and major

break-ins that have occurred in the recent past remained unsolved, Wednesday’s brazen daylight Rs.3.87 crore heist from a bank cash van has bared ineffective policing, even as criminals enjoy a free run across city streets.

Having four beat chowkies under its jurisdiction, the Nallasopara police station boasts of a staff strength of about 170 personnel led by Senior Police Inspector Mukund Mahajan, two PI’s, six API’s and ten PSI’s. The areas covered include: Patankar Park, Sriprastha, Chheda Nagar, Samel Pada, Sopara Gaon, Nilemore, Cen-

SPI Mukund Mahajan tral Park, Santosh Bhuvan, Gaas, Tulinj, Alkapuri and Billal Pada. The Nalasopara police station along with its

Virar, Vasai and Manekpur, Arnala and Valiv counterparts is controlled by the SDPOVasai headed by Dy. SP Deepak Devraj.

Although the official population of Nalasopara is pegged at 5.45 lakh, the figure has already crossed the eight lakh-mark in which migrant population covers a significant number. While intensified patrolling and random checking drives have become a thing of the past, it has been alleged that petty criminals mostly chain snatchers cocka-snook at the so-called naka-bandis (check-points) which are mere show pieces

An eerie silence at the Nalasopara police station. where on-duty police personnel either act like traffic cops or crusaders of moral policing who scout for easy targets, especially young love birds, to extort money.

However police officials, who attributed a manpower crunch for such a vast area as the reason for the spurt in crime cases, have claimed that almost all murder cases have been cracked while oth-

ers are in advance stages of investigation. “The increasing floating population has become a major problem for us to keep a tab on the crime graph, as it is easy for such offenders to commit crimes and leave the city. We are, however, trying to keep tabs on the movement of the floating population,” said an official who did not wish to be quoted.

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Mega Block between Kalyan and Thane

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PROTEST RALLY… Youth activists of progressive social organizations joined hands to protest against the brutal killings of social activist Dr. Narendra Dabholkar, seeking swift action against the perpetrators, at a rally held at Chaityabhoomi, on Friday.

he Central Railway will operate a Mega Block on Sunday on its suburban sections on the Up fast line between Kalyan and Thane. Up fast services leaving Kalyan from 11 a.m. to 2.48 p.m. will be diverted on the Up slow line between Kalyan and Thane stations and will halt at all stations between Kalyan and Thane. These services will further will be re-diverted on the Up fast line and will halt at Mulund, Bhandup, Vikhroli, Ghatkopar, Kurla, Dadar and Byculla stations and will arrive at their destination 20 minutes behind schedule.

All Down fast line services leaving Mumbai CST

from 11.22 a.m. to 2.51 p.m. will halt at Ghatkopar, Vikhroli, Bhandup and Mulund stations in addition to their scheduled halts and arrive their destination 15 minutes behind schedule.

All slow suburban services arriving and leaving CST between 11 a.m and 5 p.m. will arrive at their destination 15 minutes behind schedule.

Down line services leaving Kalyan from 1.32 pm to 3.17 pm and Up line services leaving Badlapur from 1.49 pm to 3.22 pm will remain suspended. However, shuttle services will run between Badlapur and Karjat during the block period.

Down Harbour line services towards Panvel/ Belapur/ Vashi leaving CST

from 10.23 am to 3.01 pm and Up Harbour line services towards CST leaving Panvel/ Belapur/ Vashi from 10.20 am to 3.04 pm will remain suspended.

“Special trains will run between CST and Kurla as well as between Mankhurd and Panvel during the block period. In addition to the above, eight special local trains will run between CST and Panvel via the Main Line / Trans Harbour Line. These locals will run via the Main Line between CST and Thane halting at Masjid, Sandhurst Road, Byculla, Dadar and Kurla and further via the Trans Harbour Line halting at all stations between Thane and Panvel,” said the CR spokesperson.

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DNA NAILS RAPISTS Continued from pg 1 « involved in the crime,” said Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy. Another officer explained that the DNA samples discovered in victim’s vaginal swab matched with that of the accused samples.

Unfortunately, one of the five arrested accused was found to be minor after his brother produced a school leaving certificate and a birth certificate issued by the city’s civic body. “Considering this, the accused would escape a stringent prison sentence and would just spend three years at a correctional facility,” said Roy. When asked the reason for which the investigators will not be conducting the ossification test, Roy said, “According to the apex court’s

guidelines, when all the concerned documents, corroborating the accused’s age, are produced before the investigators and the latter is convinced after proper verification of the submitted documents. Then it is not requirement to conduct the ossification test for determining the accused’s age.”

“We have also verified with the authorities concerned (with regards to the date of the birth of the minor accused). The certificates states that the accused was born in the month of February in 1997,” added Roy. After the arrest of this particular accused, police had declared his age as 18 years but his family claimed he was a minor, following which police had planed to conduct ossification test on him.

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Continued from pg 1 « moved an application before Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Uday Padwad, saying he was a minor and cannot be produced before the regular court. The Judge, however, rejected his claim

and observed that last year, when he was tried before a court in Girgaum in another case, he was treated as an adult and that his physical appearance did not suggest he was a minor. philip.varghese@afternoondc.in

Development plans for Maharashtra One of the rapist being led away at the Esplanade Court, yesterday. tors have added three more sections 377 (Unnatural offences), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) of IPC against the accused.

All the five accused have been earlier booked under various sections of IPC – 376(D) (rape), 342 (wrongful

confinement), 506(2) (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) to mention few. Bengali, a historysheeter, moved an application before Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Uday Padwad, saying he was a minor and cannot be produced before the regular court. neel.shah@afternoondc.in

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needs to be provided to farming sector and indusaircraft during missed ap- tries,” Chavan said, adding, proach and circling will be “Priority should be given to sustainable employment more than 750 metres.

The compensation figures generation proposals.”

The CM further cited that have gone up from 12.5 perMaharashtra has a tradition cent to 22.5 per cent.

The main focus now is on of administration and finanthe Land availability and the cial discipline. “It is everyresponsibility to infrastructure projects of the one’s industrial sector. The major maintain the tradition in fuchallenge before Maharash- ture too,” he added. tra is the economic slowdown. “Ample electricity khushboo.panjabi@afternoondc.i

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Jaitapur residents soften their stance

Narayan Rane

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he residents of Jaitapur who were up in arms against the nuclear power project in their vicinity have taken a back seat and have agreed to a dialogue with the government.

Industries Minister Narayan Rane who was in Ratnagiri yesterday had a meeting with the agitating

Agree to a dialogue with Narayan Rane over nuclear power project

residents of Jaitapur. Speaking to the ADC, Rane said, “The people of Jaitapur had a meeting with me and they have submitted a detailed memorandum of 25 demands. What I feel is that the people have softened their stance and have expressed their willingness to continue the dialogue.”

“A special cell has been formed in the district collec-

tor’s office to look in to land related complaints. The officials have been directed to solve farmers’ grievances within 90 days. The government has decided to withdraw the cases registered filed against the villagers and farmers during the antipower project agitation,” Rane added further.

Meanwhile, residents have begun accepting a compen-

NGO, students raise awareness on CR stations

By Kainaz Choksey

The students displayed placards with various mesailway Suraksha Abhiyan sages on railway safety, savand a cleanliness aware- ing the girl child and ness campaign were organ- environmental awareness. ised by the Giants The programme was inauguInternational Federation 1C, rated in Kalyan and conan NGO along with the Gi- cluded at Chhatrapati Shivaji ants Group of Birla College, Terminus (CST) with a small social gathering in the presKalyan on Friday.

17 major stations from Kar- ence of dignitaries like Rajan jat/Kasara to CST were cov- Welukar, Vice Chancellor, of Mumbai, ered under the programme. University 200 students along with Naresh Chandra Pro-Vice members of the Giants Inter- Chancellor, University of national Federation partici- Mumbai and Shaina NC, pated in the awareness Treasurer, BJP. Padma Dhamne, Director campaign.

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sation of Rs.22.5 lakh per acre being offered by the Nuclear Power Corporation Limited (NPCL). The nuclear power plant in Ratnagiri district, spread over 9,000 acres and the largest in the country, will generate 10,000 MW when commissioned.

Praveen Pardeshi, Principal Secretary (Revenue and Forests), said that the payment process started two

weeks ago and so far, 320 land owners had accepted the compensation, while 500 had taken the basic amount paid as per the ready reckoner rate.

Land acquisition has been done in six villages and the payment of compensation is underway in the village of Madban, where maximum land has been acquired.

The NPCL, which is paying

the compensation, has deposited the entire amount with the Ratnagiri district collector.

The construction of roads and offices has begun on the acquired land. Until now, only a compound wall had been constructed around the land. This project has affected 2,000 families in the area of Jaitapur and Madban.

Palghar bandh over bifurcation delay

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pset over the bifurcation delay and false assurances by the State Government authorities towards the

formation of Palghar as the 36th district in the State, locals staged a peaceful protest in the form of ‘Palghar Bandh’ on Friday. While educational institutions, shops and other

commercial establishments remained closed, auto-rickshaws also voluntarily stayed off the roads to participate in the bandh which turned out to be a success.

Suresh Golani

Unit-2 Fed IC said, “We explained to commuters about the hazards of crossing the railway tracks. We have received a favourable response from the Central Railway commuters.”

Naresh Chandra, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Mumbai said, “Through education we need to focus on the character building of the students. The aim should be to groom students into good individuals. The initiative undertaken by the students of Birla College is worthy of praise.”

MBMC schools finally get headmasters

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Members of the Giants International Federation with students of Birla College during their drive.

fter more than two years of procedural wrangling, students of six municipal operated schools in MiraBhayandar have finally got principals. There are 29 civic schools in the twin-city which offer education in Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati and Urdu languages. However, administrative work remained affected in seven

schools, as the top posts were lying vacant ever since the respective principals had retired more than two years ago.

Sources revealed that there has been no promotion from amongst the teachers in the concerned schools as the administration had failed to prepare any seniority list.

The matter was taken up by veteran BJP corporator

Rohidas Patil, following which the education department woke up from its slumber and as per seniority amongst teachers, elevated six to of them to handle the principal’s post.

The selection committee has cleared the names of Hemangi Patil, Prachi Patil, Hemangi More, Cathrine Gracious, Arun Singh and Masood Ansari for the top posts, officials confirmed.

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

— Sholom Aleichem

Fair deal to land owners W

ith the passing of the Land Acquisition Bill in the Lok Sabha, it becomes a little more difficult for public and private parties to grab land. Nobody can buy land now at unfair low prices. The consent of 80 per cent of owners is needed. If there is more opposition than this percentage, the land cannot be taken away. It looks like the act will provide a fair deal to those who own land in rural areas.

The kind of land deal which took place in Nandigram in Bengal is not likely to happen again. There has been a huge cry across the country for providing a fair deal to farmers who own ancestral property and who have nowhere to go if land sharks use force to get them out. The act prevents land being taken away by force from anyone; it also ensures that a fair price is given to the owner. What will take place is mutually advantageous and acceptable agreements.

The Land Acquisition Act will help poor farmers to a great extent. It minimises the ability of land sharks to chase away small owners of land by giving them a pittance.

The UPA, which dubs the move as the brainchild of Rajiv Gandhi, had, for once, total co-operation from the main opposition – the Bharatiya Janata Party – in Parliament. In fact, an amendment moved by BJP’s opposition leader in the House, Sushma Swaraj,was accepted by the government. The 2014 poll considerations might have made the Opposition cooperate with the Congress and pass the bill.

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Vol. XXIX No. 136

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How can MPs with pending rape cases support tough laws?

member who has a pending rape case against him is sitting in parliament: He is a lawmaker. He is participating in the work of making laws – pertaining, among other things – to various crimes in the country.

He abides by his party decisions, but he has a say in making them. When a bill on rape laws is under preparation, he expresses his opinions. There is public clamour for a tough act on rape. The rapist member, however, does not want tough laws: for instance, he does not want a death sentence. He is even in favour of giving a compensation offer of marriage by the victim’s family. He is firm on the awarding of a light sentence when a rapist is convicted.

Evidently, his party thinks of the situation in which he finds himself and decides to favour a light sentence. The party wants to protect him. After all, he has won an election and come to the House. The government is in a minority and every vote matters. A death sentence therefore is out of the question. The ruling party has no choice but to protect members with criminal records.

After the horrible Nirbhaya gangrape, there was public clamour for tough rape laws. A panel set up by the government considered the issue. Evidently, it was against death sentence. Death sentence it said had to be awarded in the “rarest of rare cases”.

The congenital, compulsory rapists of India heaved a sigh of relief. The newcomers also saw that there was no need to be afraid since soft laws had been passed.

No wonder then that rape cases have increased. It is stated that every 12 minutes a rape takes place across the country. This of course is totally a wrong estimate.

Consider what has been revealed after the interrogation of the five accused who gangraped a woman at Mumbai’s Shakti Mills compound. So far, the accused criminals have stated that as many as four women they have raped have remained silent. The victims of a rape usually do not report to the police and decide to suffer in silence. Many rapes never see the light of day. The families of victims are scared of the stigma they would get in case the crime was made public.

Chances are, there is one rape a minute in our country. In Mumbai, a rape is the done thing. In rural areas, poverty, hopeless dependence on powerful landlords and others, leads to the rape of vulnerable girls.

It would be interesting to find out how many convictions have taken place in trials of rape cases and how many death sentences there have been. It looks like the “rarest of rare cases” which attract a death sentence do not happen in our country. The criminals think they can commit the crime and get away with it.

In the rape scenario, the fear factor appears to be totally absent. A death sentence alone

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PRIEST’S job is behind the pulpit, right?

Guiding people on their journey to the divine! Be it church, mandir or masjid. But what a revelation to meet one who had moved beyond the pulpit, moved from sermon, to helping hand, preaching to building, pie in the sky, to bread in the hand!

“Go with Shobha to the slums Bob,” he told me as I met him at his simple office in a Mumbai suburb. I went with Shobha, a social worker, huffed and puffed as she led me up hills, where I’d thought only leopards existed to find shanty town after shanty town, filled with happy, smiling, bliss filled slum dwellers!

Yes, you heard me right: Slum dwellers!

Ones who live in eight by six feet tenements, men and women who struggle to rise above the four legged canines scrounging on rubbish heaps outside! Children who grow up in filth and excreta; never knowing the difference between gutter water and drinking water!

But these people were different: I sat with

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can have a deterrent effect.

It is a matter for investigation why our lawmakers are still against tough punishment for rape, an inhuman, heinous crime.

Another happening on the rape scenario is the big delay in the trial of cases. The judiciary procedures which are now followed do not help speedy trial. The judiciary must itself find quick means of conducting trials but it is leaving decisions in this regard entirely to the executive. There are rape cases pending in courts for years. There is no time frame for completing a case. A trial of a case can go on even for ten years or more. The delay in trial often leads to denial of justice.

After Nirbhaya’s gang rape, the case was put on fast track. Now the question has arisen as to how fast is a fast track. The Nirbhaya trial began in January and even after eight months there is no sign of the trial ending. Actually a three- month trial – without adjournments –

ROUND-UP A.R. Kanangi is enough to try a case. But the judiciary will not change. It will continue its same old ways.

Combined challenge at China, Pak borders India evidently faces a two-pronged challenge along its borders with China and Pakistan. The confrontation has begun and it is likely to reach flashpoint sooner or later.

Pakistan on our North-West border is making our jawans spend sleepless nights. Five Indian jawans who were sleeping were shot dead by the Pakistani soldiers in cold blood.

Why is the Pakistani army resorting to continuing firing along the LoC? Is it only to facilitate intrusion of terrorists to India?

It is certain Pakistan has a well-thought out game plan with regard to its confrontation with India. The situation was a bit quiet when Zardari was the president. The army too was behaving in a restrained manner. But under Nawaz Sharif, the situation seems to have vastly changed. Pakistan seems to have de-

Beyond The Pulpit...! them in spotlessly clean, tiny rooms, heard about this organization called BUILD, which did not believe in handouts or money, but taught them step by step, to use hugely available government machinery, educated them to get their rights, improve their lot, change surroundings, and instead of lifting

BOB’S BANTER Robert Clements them out of the slum, changing the slum itself into a place they were proud to call ‘home’!

I watched women learning to make imitation jewelry, some studying cooking, some tailoring classes, I heard about family groups, empowered to deal with local politicians to get what was rightfully theirs.

cided to take some effective steps to grab Kashmir. The question of having talks in this regard seems to have receded. Kashmir has become a top priority issue for Nawaz Sharif.

There is a greater degree of rapport now between China and Pakistan than before.

It would not be guess work to suggest that the two countries have come together. Both have border disputes with India.

Large-scale intrusions into India along its long border have been taking place for the last six months. In the North-East, China has established posts and moved troops. China has claimed this area as its territory. Then it occupied parts of Bhutan – claiming it is part of its territory. And finally, it has made incursions into Arunachal Pradesh.

It is for the first time that China has made such moves. It is also building a communication network. Both China and Pakistan have been aggressive: Chinese army chiefs have asked the Indian side to move back. If it did not, there would be grave consequences.

There have been discussions on the diplomatic level. China may not use force just now but it has started making all the required preparations for dealing with any eventuality.

In the event of a war, India cannot wage a war on its borders – with Chinese and Pakistani troops.

America is withdrawing from Afghanistan early next year and there is likely to be a rush for occupying the space left behind. China will be right there to play a major role in the region after the exit of the U.S. China would be welcomed by Pakistan. In the circumstances, India’s role in Afghanistan could only be limited. It is a fact that there is no immediate danger to India either from China or Pakistan, but there could be developments that could involve India in an unequal conflict. It is a fact that the northern border was decided by the British before they left India.

The fixing of the border might not have been to the liking of the Chinese.

What we should do is to agree to some give and take. There are areas which we cannot give up because the people living there do not want to move away. For instance, the people of Arunachal Pradesh will not agree to becoming a part of China.

Pakistan is already has a part of Kashmir. It wants to grab all of Kashmir. This is an unreasonable, impractical demand. What is also certain is that except a few pro-Pakistani elements like the Hurriyat, nobody wants to leave India and become a part of Kashmir.

There is no other way but having talks to settle disputes that India has with China and Pakistan. The question of any war is completely ruled out because there cannot be a war between countries which have nuclear weapons.

Vaishali, a leader showed raging rainwater drains, fully covered, shelters and open spaces for children, and miracle of miracles; zero garbage!

This was religion beyond the pulpit. And maybe that’s where our religious leaders ought to step out for awhile at least. I talked to the priest: Rev George Daniel: He told me BUILD stood for Bombay Urban Industrial League for Development. How as cities became industrialized migrants from villages shifted in and lived in the most pathetic conditions to eke a living. “You don’t have to look far to search for the poor!” he told me, “They are there, right outside your window!”

Smiling faces! Happy families! Men wanting to come home, not stop at a bar for their regular round of liquor after work!

What better testimony to a group that’s decided to look beyond the pulpit. What better message for all of us: to equip, enlighten and empower those men and women living just outside our window. .! bobsbanter@gmail.com

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LETTERS

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To save rupee, this govt has to go THE financial position of our country is so scaring and any damage-control exercise is beyond the comprehension of the Govt., with the Rupee continuing to further embarrass them. The FM seems to be finally exhausted and unable to justify optimism any longer and instead giving one reason or another for the Current Account Deficit looming large.

This was not totally unexpected after the FM had taken over the charge of the M/o Finance. Right from the beginning, his highsounding talks vis-a-vis realities were contradictory ramifying fast into several intricate problems which have driven the people reeling under unprecedented inflation, no control over the retail market, CAD, Fiscal deficit et al., and the FM was clueless to handle any one of the issues except burdening the Tax-payers more and more and is not wasting time to introduce DTC which is said to be draconian even to the senior citizens and the employees scheduled for retirement. This is nothing but the result of his gross inefficiency and we are so unfortunate to have these sort of people as our Ministers. As Shri Yashwant Sinha rightly stated, the only solution is to remove this Govt., and have a new one, of course, free of Congress. Sooner the better as it is becoming intolerable day-by-day.

— T.M. Uday Shankar, Mumbai

‘Pee’nalise the offenders THE triumvirate of Kevin Peterson, Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad must have left many ‘ash’en faced after the fifth and final Ashes test ended in a draw, when they shamelessly urinated on the Oval pitch. I was flabbergasted to even read about the ghastly incident. These three must have written the final epitaph on their cricketing career

SHAMELESS ACT: Kevin Peterson, Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad should be severely reprimanded for their unpardonable act of urinating on the Oval pitch after the final Ashes Test match. and must surely be severely ‘pee’nalised in the most stringent manner. Or were these men venting their spleen (or should we say their bladder) at the decision of the umpires to call off play due to bad light when the Pommies were within sniffing distance of a sensational victory. Incidentally, England was on the brink of their first ever 40 win in a home Ashes series which they were robbed off. However, no explanation would justify the horrendous act, and should be condemned by all.

— Hemant Hemmady, Virar

measures to cut shot loss and make rupee more stronger.

On the whole, we find lack of communication gap that needs to be established to avoid slide and slip of Indian economy.

— C.K. Subramaniam, Sanpada

MUCH talked about Food Security Bill, markets’ thumbs down and rupee suffers with sharpest fall in 20 years and breached 68 rupee mark and sensex sinks below 18 K mark. Let us not just sit on past achievements and look at the future of our country. Hype about economical growth received a setback as foreign investors started withdrawing funds heavily with fear of collapse of Indian Economy. In the guise of Food Security Bill and the policy paralysis all brought made the country’s economy to suffer and it is difficult repair the damages. By simply putting blame on earlier policies or blaming the moves of predecessor Pranab Mukherjee, the present Finance Minister is not going to achieve anything. The writing is on the wall and there are no remedial THE Ashes this year was more about individual brilliance than a team effort. While both the teams struggled to assert themselves on the other, it was left to the few individuals to rise to the occasion and deliver the goods. Amid OF this struggle though there LETTER THE DAY was one man who stood tall. Ian Bell was the top scorer in this series as he amassed a whopping 562 runs. The most consistent bowler in the series was Graeme Swann with 26 wickets, but it was James Anderson and Stuart Board who started it all for England. Both claimed 22 wickets to help England retain the Ashes.

Well done to both sides for creating an exciting last day when the match looked all but dead. Criticising Clarke for coming off when the light was bad would be a bit bad as a moment’s reflection would show that England would have surely done the same. Losing 4-0 after setting a sporting declaration would have been harsh.

— Mahesh Nair, Dombivili

Mumbai has lost its sanctity I AM horrified and ashamed at the recent incident of gang rape case of the 22-year-old photojournalist.

It is very sad that a city which was deemed safe for women is turning into a nightmare for them. Now Mumbai has slowly but surely lost its liberal status. It’s sad that a few indisciplined men are doing irreparable damage to the image of our city. The Mumbaikar still has great regard for media representatives, but with the increase of crime and criminal elements, security and safety is definitely a big issue.

AS the rupee plummets against the dollar, it pulls even the sensex down by nearly 450 points which shows that there is no control by RBI or the Finance Minister at the Centre. Indian exporters are now making more profit and families of those working overseas are getting more rupees for every dollar remitted by such persons to India.

But foreign tourists coming to India will pay less dollars for their vacation in India. Also, imports have become costly, affecting consumer durables. So, it’s indeed a mixed bag for Indian economy--which is more bad than good. Rupee’s fall will also have a direct impact on foreign investors pulling out of Indian equity markets and the students studying abroad, as they will have to cough up more in rupee terms.

The money kept in Swiss Bank accounts by the bureaucrats, politicians and our national leaders will appreciate substantially and the so earned as profit due to rupee fall can be made use during the 2014 General Elections liberally to purchase votes.

— Jayanthy S. Maniam, Sion

More and more crime against woman are reported in Mumbai which is a great concern. In this age of globalisation such situation cannot and should not be accepted by any forwardlooking city.

The social fabric of the city is eroding. The heavy influx ,unless checked can completely destroy the city which was once considered safe for woman even in the middle of the night. Last but not least the police must crack down on such criminals.

— Probir Kumar Bose, New Panvel

Protecting Asaram Bapu BOTH the national parties Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are supporting the tainted godman Asaram Bapu who allegedly raped and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in his ashram recently, due to his large following and the vote bank politics. Despite an FIR being filed by the police after complaint from the victim in writing, the cheat and fraud Asaram Bapu has still not been arrested and is playing dirty politics by getting support from corrupt and selfish politicians. I strongly feel that this is the most disgraceful happening in the country where all the sadhus and babus are involved in illegal activities in the name of religion and are taking full advantage of the support from political parties. Since the whole nation is watching them the time is not far off when both these national parties will have to pay very heavy price in the forthcoming elections for supporting cheat and fraud Asaram Bapu and denying justice to the victim who is crying and struggling for survival.

— Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

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OPEN LETTER TO GOVT. ON THE FREE FALL OF RUPEE IT wasn’t only Humpty Dumpty who had a Great Fall! Now we are hearing, seeing and feeling the Great Fall of the Indian Rupee and how it is making life difficult for the common man.

The Value of the Rupee fell from 55 to a $ to 68.80 to a $ in a matter of a few months. Currently hovering at around 67.

How is this affecting the common man?

Sure as the Sun, the prices of petrol and cooking gas were increased. The cost of transport will go up, Vegetable prices will go up. The cost of power will go up, business cost goes up. This in turn will push up the cost of living. Inflation goes up! Common man’s household expense goes through the roof! Now there are talks of interest rates also going up, pushing up the EMI! There is no end to the common man’s woes!

Is his salary going up?

NO. Since everything is becoming expensive, inflation is going up too, economy is going down and cost of running businesses is going up. If economy is going down soon we could stare at higher unemployment and salaries actually going down!

What the govt. is doing to stem the fall of the rupee: The govt. has planned to lift the rupee by bringing in more FDI! 1. More FII money in Indian Bonds and Debts.

This is hot money, comes in fast and goes out fast; since May FIIs have pulled out Rs.50,000 crore out of the Indian Bonds and Debt instruments and, in fact, started the rupee fall. This money comes in fast and goes out fast. Creating further damage rather than cure.

2. Opening up FDI in Retail, Insurance, Airline Industry and Defence.

At least there is some action!!! But none of these are essential to kickstart the economy; eg: The Insurance sector will not help in any form of import substitution or create a base for exports or create jobs in large quantities? It will do nothing to improve the economy.

3. Curbing gold imports: Gold is the second biggest item in our imports, going upto $60 billion. This the govt. is doing in right earnest.

The only way to keep the rupee at a respectable level is to reduce imports and increase exports For this imports of the top three items in our import bill needs to be reduced: 1. Oil and Gas, 2. Gold, and 3. Defence ONLY ONE THING CAN MAKE THE RUPEE HOLD ITS HEAD HIGH AND THAT IS A STRONG ECONOMY. A strong economy will also help: Reduce Imports and Increase Exports.

Obviously the bigwigs in the Govt know what needs to be done but, for some reason, are not doing it.

Few Things That Govt Can Do to Kick Start the Economy: 1. Invest in Infrastructure: Create world class roads, trains and other facilities, including industrial facilities, that are better than the world or at least on par. People who have visited the US or Europe or even China or Singapore know the difference in infrastructure. Thousands of crores will be infused in the economy to create a world class infrastructure. It will give people a better environment to do business and a better place to live too. It will create thousands of Jobs.

Start the economic engine.

2. Invest in Power and Power Resources: The biggest item in our import list is Oil, Gas, Petrol and it includes Coal also now. Power is very expensive in India making business and living expensive, making us uncompetitive with the rest of the world.

We are talking about Gas at $8 whereas in America they are talking about $2. We are four times more expensive! How can our business survive against competition. If we exploit our own resources, like oil, gas exploration and production, we will save billions in imports and cheaper fuel will be available for power, create huge assets and thousands of jobs. Cheap power will mean cheaper economy, lower expenses a boon to business and to the common man. It reduces imports.

3. Invest in Solar and Wind Power: The initial costs of renewable energy are high but the recurring costs are much less and it brings in clean pollution free energy! It reduces imports too.

4. Promote Manufacturing: The biggest investment should be done to promote and set up manufacturing. The more the investment in Manufacturing, local or FDI, the better for the country. It will involve Long Term investment, Create Assets, Create Jobs. Mass manufacturing will make things cheaper, globally competitive, will help increase exports and reduce imports, eg: Maruti was set up years back amidst a lot of opposition but look now it has created lakhs of jobs over the years, including a whole ancillary industry around it and it now even exports cars!

5. Promote Healthy and Hassle Free Business Environment: These are just the very basic points that everyone knows but for some reason are not being done. If the govt starts taking these basic steps and keeps on track, in a few years India will be on the growth path again! If growth is good and steady, rupee would be steady; more importantly, we might just become a not so expensive economy!

Who knows, we might see the days of petrol at Rs.50 once again. And the smile back on the common man’s face.

— Shwetal Sheth, Kandivli

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TOWN & ABOUT

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TOWN & ABOUT Care and share

Fashion feast

fashion fraternity flocked to Yauatcha THE at the LFW midweek party. Nitin Motwani from Yauatcha, Amrita Puri, Rohit Bal,

Pria Kataria Puri, Nikhil Thampi, Nishka Lulla, Ken Ferns, Shruti Sancheti, A D Singh and many more were there to have a food feast of duck roll, chive pan-fried turnip cake, shitake mushroom dumpling, chicken dumpling, baked chicken puff and much more. And party people lived it up with Tigre Blanc, Teacher’s and Fratelli.

SHRUTI SANCHETI & KEN FERNS BISOU BISOU MODEL

Feeling good

felt good as Rachel Varghese EVERYONE sang ‘Feeling Good’ at the grand finale of Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2013

Kiss and tell

girl, Bollywood darling and GLAM super singer Priyanka Chopra strutted down the ramp, blowing little kisses at

the Bisou Bisou show by Reliance Trends at Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2013 at Grand Hyatt. Yes global fashion label Bisou Bisou (French for a little kiss) had come to town with Priyanka in a oneshoulder peplum blouse with a sheer back interest, teamed with cigarette pants. Also on the catwalk was Juhi Gogoi, Sunsilk Mega Miss North East 2013.

PRIYANKA CHOPRA

at Grand Hyatt. Guests feasted their eyes on the rich range of couture creations by Sabyasachi Mukherjee, inspired by the limited-edition Lakmé Absolute Royal collection. The setting transported you to the splendid interiors of a gentleman’s jazz club in London with classic chandeliers, twinkling bulbs, silvery pillars, mirrors and red roses.

Golden glow gleam of gold THE glistened on the catwalk as Pond’s

Marcellus Baptista

Gold Radiance presented Vikram Phadnis at LFW. Golden girl Karisma Kapoor, the face of the brand, was on the catwalk, bringing alive the splendour of Pond’s Gold Radiance and the precious metal that has been desired by women since times immemorial. To match the theme of this super show, the colour palette was restricted to gold, ivory and white. Sure looked good in the night.

KARISMA KAPOOR LFW GRAND FINALE

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Upcycled was what they FASHION called the initiative aimed at reusing excess raw materials from designers. Seen at

AMRITA PURI

PAYAL SINGHAL, NISHKA LULLA, ANITA DONGRE, MANA & SUNIL SHETTY, SAKET DHANKAR & BENEFICIARIES

LFW were designers Anita Dongre, Nishka Lulla and Payal Singhal who launched this initiative along with Mana and Sunil Shetty of Save The Children India, Saket Dhankar of IMG Reliance and Poornima Lamba of Lakmé. The designers were happy to present their excess material to the beneficiaries supported by Save The Children India.

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RUBY SPARKS

TV GUIDE

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

Calvin is a genius novelist who begins to type a new novel on his manual typewriter about Ruby, his dream girl. He can’t believe his eyes, because the next day, Ruby becomes a real person, and they begin to have a beautiful relationship together. If the relationship isn’t perfect, all Calvin has to do is simply type the words on the page and Ruby’s actions change to what he needs.

Starring Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening.

Star Movies, 9 p.m.

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STAR PLUS

P.M. 2.00 Diya Aur Bati Hum 5.00 Star Verdict 5.30 Junior Masterchief-Swaad Ke Ustaad 7.30 Star Verdict 8.00 Har Yug Mein Aayega Ek Arjun 9.00 Junior Masterchef – Swaad Ke Ustaad 10.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya

STAR WORLD

P.M. 2.00 Revenge 9.00 Glee

SOAPS & SERIALS

COMEDY NIGHTS WITH KAPIL

GLEE

A tribute to the film Love Actually with five different storylines all dealing with the holidays. Sam and Brittany live as if it’s the end of the world as the Mayans know it. The Puckermans, including half-brothers Puck and Jake and their mothers, come together for Chanukah. Artie suffers a head injury in which he slips on ice and has an epiphany through a dream sequence in which he reflects what may have happened if he never was in a wheelchair and glee club never formed. Star World, 9 p.m .

ARJUN - TODEGA HAR GUNAAH KA CHAKRAVYOOH

A black cat is on a killing spree...it has killed three people...are these people random victims of the cat? Or do these victims have a connection? Can a cat really be responsible for deaths? How will arjun crack this case. Star Plus, 8 p.m.

BIGGEST & BADDEST

Are there really animals as huge as dragons, creatures longer than the total height of nine men, enormous beasts so elusive that they have never been photographed, or birds that are so fierce that they are labeled as man-killing beasts? Join adventurer and biologist Niall McCann, as he heads out on one of the most exciting global adventures, to track down the BIGGEST AND BADDEST creatures. Animal Plane t, 11 p.m.

MAN WOMAN WILD

Imagine the heated discussions you have at home with your significant other about where to go for dinner. Now imagine being stranded in the middle of the wild with her with no food, no water and in most formidable conditions. In this season of

Comedy Nights with Kapil, Colors, 10 p.m.

Man Woman Wild, the stakes are higher and the misery compounded as survival expert Mykel Hawke and his TV journalist wife Ruth brave raging forest fires, find their way out from the Amazon’s flooded jungles. Discovery, 10 p.m.

MEAN MACHINES

MEAN GREEN MACHINES is a fast paced show, which explores the latest, hottest and greenest vehicles fresh from inventive minds to just off the assembly line. Discove ry Science, 7.30 p.m.

INDIAN IDOL JUNIOR

In tonight’s episode, the Top 4 juniors will showcase their singing prowess during the gala episode which has the legendary music composer Pyarelal as the special judge. All the contestants will be seen mesmerizing the judges with their brilliant performances. Also, the guest judge Pyarelal will enthrall the audience with a scintillating performance along with his team of 45 musicians. So ny TV, 8.30 p.m.

SHAPATH

In tonight’s episode a foreign delegate is shot dead by a man who is already dead. When Shapath cops gun him down his body turns into ashes and disappears. After this incident, a minister is murdered by a dead man. Who is behind all of this? Life Ok, 9 p.m .

MOVIES OF THE DAY

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE GHOST PROTOCOL

In the fourth installment of the Mission Impossible series, Ethan Hunt and a new team race against time to track down Hendricks, a dangerous terrorist who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt by the team to stop him at the Kremlin ends in a disaster, with an explosion causing severe damage to the Kremlin and the IMF being implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to invoke Ghost Protocol, under which the IMF is disavowed, and will be offered no help or backup in any form. Undaunted, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks to Dubai, and from there to Mumbai, but several spectacular action sequences later, they might still be too late to stop a disaster. 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. Max, 9 p.m .

Barney Ross leads the “Expendables”, a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road and loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the merciless dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee head to the remote locale to scout out their opposition. Once there, they meet with local rebel Sandra and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city. When they escape the island and Sandra stays behind, Ross must choose to either

P.M. 2.00 3.00 8.00 10.00 11.00 P.M. 2.00 4.00 6.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00

Priyanka Chopra and Ram Charan on Comedy Nights with Kapil wherein they will promote their upcoming film Zanjeer.

Normally on this show, people experience tears of Joy but Priyanka Chopra became emotional and cried when she was presented with a collage of pictures of Dr. Ashok Chopra (her late father) and her together by a member of the audience.

To bring back her smile, Kapil was seen complimenting Chopra on all her achievements till date and even called her the Lady Amitabh Bachchan of the big screen since she has worked in all of Big B’s remakes. Colo rs, 10 p.m.

THE EXPENDABLES

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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, HBO, 9 p.m.

walk away and save his own life - or attempt a suicidal rescue mission that might just save his soul. Pix, 9 p.m .

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES

Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) crosses paths with a woman from his past (Cruz), and he’s not sure if it’s love — or if she’s a ruthless con artist who’s using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard (McShane), Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn’t know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past. Starring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush. Zee St udio , 11.15 p.m.

CHORI CHORI CHUPKE CHUPKE

Raj and Priya are newly married. Priya is heavy with children, but due to unexpected circumstances, she loses her child and is unable to conceive again. Enter Madhoo, a prostitute who is willing to become surrogate mother for the couple. Their relationship becomes entangled with love triangle when Madhoo falls in love with Raj. Filmy, 9 p.m.

ZEE CAFÉ

The Carrie Diaries Pretty Little Liars Scrubs The Carrie Diaries Body of Proof

BIG CBS LOVE 90210 Under The Dome Game Under The Dome X Factor Game Excused

SONY TV

P.M. 1.30 Tere Naal Love ho Gaya: Film 4.00 Rowdy Rathore: Film 7.30 Adaalat 8.30 Indian Idol Junior 2013 10.00 CID

STARMOVIES

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STARMOVIES

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Film DID Super Moms Club DID Super Moms Fear Files Kahani Ab Tak

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Shapath Kahani Mahadev Ki Savadhaan India Shapath Savadhaan India

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

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Saturday Special Who Hue Na Hamare Yeh Dil Ke Rishtey Meri Baat Special Agriculture Programme Documentary Pet Care Rajdhani Samachar Film Songs News in Marathi News Samachar Yeh Zindagi Hai Gulshan Ek Kiran Rishni Ki

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River Monsters Animal Planet’s A to Z Wildest Latin America Biggest and Baddest Wildest Islands Wildest River Monsters Yeh Mera India Animal Planet A To Z Biggest and Baddest

SAHARA ONE

P.M. 12.00 Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani: Balraj Sahni 3.00 Haunted Nights 5.30 Mumbai Ki Kiran Bedi: Film 8.30 Gair: Ajay Devgan

SAB TV

P.M. 2.30 Jeanie Aur Juju 3.00 Taarak Mehta Ka…

Sab Ke Anokhe Awards 2013, SAb TV, 8 p.m.

2.30 Tuze Maze Jamena 3.00 Honar Soon Me Hya Gharchi 3.30 Radha Hi Bawri 4.00 Pakke Shejari 5.00 Tu tithe Mee 5.30 Honar Soon Me Hya Gharchi 6.00 Tuze Maze Jamena 6.30 Home Minister 7.00 Tu Tithe Mee 7.30 Radha Hi Bawri 8.00 Honar Soon Me Hya Gharchi

Indian Idol Junior, Sony TV, 8.30 p.m.

DISCOVERY

P.M. 2.00 Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve 3.00 How Stuff Works 4.00 What Happened Next 4.30 Destroyed In Seconds 5.00 Man Woman Wild 6.00 Wildlife 7.00 Man Vs Wild 8.00 Man Woman Wild 9.00 I Shouldn’t Be Alive 10.00 Man Woman Wild

MOVIE CHANNELS-SATURDAY

6.00 Back To The Future III 8.40 Honey I Shrunk The Kids 11.15 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides P.M. 12.53 2.35 4.32 6.21 9.00 11.05

SCIENCE

P.M. 2.00 Monsters Inside Me 3.00 Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman 4.00 Triggers: WTCTW 5.00 Frontline Battle Machines With Mike Brewer 6.00 Weapon Master 7.00 How It’s Mad 7.30 Mean Machies The Transatlant 8.00 Food Detecives 8.30 EverythingYou Need To

COLORS

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P.M. 12.00 2.55 5.50 9.00

Beta: Anil Kapoor Vidhwansak: Tamanna Hera Pheri: Akshay Kumar Nautanki Saala

CVO

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MOVIE CHANNELS-SUNDAY

6.15 Surrogates 7,45 National Treasure 10.30 The Switcyh

HBO

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A.M. 8.20 10.15 P.M. 12.33 2.48 4.40 6.48 9.00

PIX

Labor Pains Robocop 2

Iron Man The Expendables Species III Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Black Hawk Down

STAR GOLD

A.M. 8.25 Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!

11.05 Veer P.M. 2.40 Black Water

DDII (Metro Channel)

P.M. 2.00 Samachar 2.30 News 3.00Samachar 3.30Mehnat Rang Layegi 4.00Prime Meridian 4.30News 5.30Rajyon Se Samachar 6.00News Headline 6.05Roving Report 6.30Ehsaas 7.00Samachar 7.05Khel Samachar

Back To The Future I, Zee Studio, 1 p.m.

B4U

P.M. 12.00 Mrityudand: Ayub Khan, Madhuri Dixit 4.00 Sailaab: Aditya Pancholi 8.00 Chance Pe Dance: Shahid Kapoor 11.00 Jahan Jaayega Hamein Paaeyega: Govinda 4.35 Baadshah 8.00 Hero The Action Man 10.25 Mera Insaaf

Yamla Pagla Deewana, DDI, 9.30 p.m.

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CARTOON NETWORK

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Hanuman

Himmatwala: Jeetendra Devdas: Shahrukh Khan Raaj Tilak: Raj Kumar Mawaali: Jeetendra

CVO

Ji Chahta Hai: Joy Mukherjee

Parwana: Ajay Devgan Rakshak… Chiranjeevi Chhote Sarkar: Govinda

B4U

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NGC

Secret of the Taj Mahal Tabo Engineering Connections Megacities Explorer Top 125 Inside Dead or Alive Taboo

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ESPN

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Bhoot and Friends K &B Kalvakra Returns Tom and Jerry Tales KB Special Happy Bday Krishna 11.00 Obbochama-Kun

POGO

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DISNEY XD

Phineas and Ferb Ultimate Spider Man Iron man Armored Adventures Spiderman Iron Man Armored Adventures VRToopers

8.00 Return of Ashoka 10.00 Chatur Narad

DISNEY CHANNEL

MAX

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

9.30 YAMLA PAGLA DEEWANA: Dharmendra, Bobby Deol, Kulraj Randhawa

HISTORY

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DOORDARSHAN

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Black Hawk Down, Pix, 9 p.m.

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MUMBAI | SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2013

Satyagraha

Director: Prakash Jha Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Manoj Bajpayee and others Rating: ½

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film, with his son’s friend and rising telecom entrepreneur Manav (Ajay Devgn) establishes their points of view. One does wonder, however, at the rather lavish home of Daduji, also, the film doesn’t seem to worry about how people who give up jobs

gives up a junket to Japan with the PM, to cover ‘Ambikapur is burning’ stories. The evil Balram Singh uses charm, threats, skulduggery to derail the growing ‘revolution’ against corruption at the collector’s office.

All of this is relevant and topical in many ways, but it occurs in a fictional town with fictional political parties exchanging insults and cutting deals. The so-called revolution covered by one TV channel does not seem to have any repercussions outside the district, leave aside the

EMEMBER what happened in real life—the anti-corruption movement initiated by Anna Hazare first lost steam with all the infighting and political ambitions coming to the fore, then fizzled out altogether. The public that came out in support of the movement with all the tokens in place—Gandhi caps, T-shirts, Facebook pages and Twitter handles— gave up and returned to apathy.

Instead of capturing and shaking up this mood of cynicism and hopelessness, Prakash Jha makes another tub-thumper of a film, that takes up issues, over dramatizes them and then drops the flaming ball into cold water. Not that anyone expects a film to provide solutions, but the solution it comes up

FILM REVIEW Deepa Gahlot with, should not be one that has so clearly failed in real life.

Retired school teacher Dwarka ‘Daduji’ Anand (Amitabh Bachchan) believes capitalism is bad; an argument early on in the

We’re The Millers

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter and others Rating:

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HE only reason to see this film is probably Jennifer Aniston, whose private life and hair styles provide as much tabloid entertainment as Rawson Marshall

to join a cause make a living, but they are all dressed in street chic.

Daduji’s idealistic engineer son is killed in a road accident, the home minister Balram Singh (Manoj Bajpayee), who is also the MP from the district of Ambikapur where the story takes place, announces a Rs 25 lakh compensation. The money never reaches the widow Sumitra (Amrita Rao), who wants to start a school for the poor with it, and she is given a humiliating runaround.

Daduji strides up to the sneering collector and slaps him, for which he is arrested. Manav uses his IT skills and palm-greasing savvy to start a Free Daduji campaign. Local student (?) leader Arjun (Rampal) joins up with his supporters, and TV journalist Yasmin (Kareena Kapoor),

state or country.

Prakash Jha’s last few films have dealt with reality in mofussil India, and he has to be commended for that, but they have seldom gone into in-depth exploration of the issue he picks up. Satyagraha too is more noise and bluster—starting well and then deteriorating into embarrassing melodrama.

If it weren’t for seasoned actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn and Manoj Bajpayee (convincingly slimy), the film would have sunk into its own quicksand of good intentions and confused treatment.

That said, if people were really angry, they would not need a film to fire up their outrage, and if they did need a catalyst, then Satyagraha would fall far short.

FAMILY PLOT Thurber’s We’re The Millers. Her toned bod is obviously the focal point of the film, since she plays a stripper, and has to appear in her underwear in a few scenes—not

completely stripped though (did the guys just go Awwww! Or have they already moved on to K Stew or Miley C and couldn’t care less?).

Anyway, the idea—if conven-

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OBLIVION Rs. 599 Cast: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Melissa Leo, Zoe Bell Director: Joseph Kosinki

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blivion is adapted from a graphic novel by Joseph Kosinski who also doubles as the director of the film. One look at the opening sequences and you will know that a fair amount of money has been spent on this fantasy based sci-fi feature, something like a Star Trek flick.

Set on a plot that shows Earth 60 years in the future (2077), we have Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) move into a space devoid of humans, all of whom have resettled on a moon of Saturn. Only Jack and his friend Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) remain. They are partners (both romantically and professionally) whose mission is to watch over the drones that patrol the area for scavengers, who were the defeated invaders.

While Earth won the war, they lost the planet which continues to be harvested for water and other ecological matter.

While investigating an unusual radio beacon, Jack witnesses a spacecraft crash. One of the survivors is a human flight officer Julia (Olga Kurylenko) who he has occasionally dreamed about. Jack has erased his memories of the terrible war that ravaged the world, and is unable to recollect

Julia. Julia knows everything about Jack and can trap him easily.

When Jack moves into their territory, in search of scavengers, he finds the darkly-spectacled, cigarsmoking leader Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman) and his collection of survivors instead.

They reveal that they are not the alien race they appear to be. With this information, Jack sets his mind on his next step in order to protect humanity. Jack must find the truth, and the only one who can help him is Julia. Victoria warns him against trusting Julia, but Jack has no choice. He has to find the truth.

If science fiction makes your day, this one is sure to find favour with you. The special effects, set design, sound design, spaceships and acting are top notch. Don’t miss the soundtrack, mostly provided by French electronic band, M83.

— By Verus Ferreira

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Who are the two humans

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What time period is the film set

in? a) 2013 b) 2070 c) 2077

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tional morality is to be set aside— has comic potential. Small-time drug dealer David (Jason Sudeikis) loses a stash, and to pay back his drug boss Brad (Ed Helms) he has to smuggle some dope across the border from Mexico. Not easy for a straggly single man, but not so tough for an all-American, corn and steak fed family.

So David plans a fake family, vacationing in an RV, for which he hires a stripper, Rose (Aniston) to play the wife, and two nutty and neglected teens Kenny (Will Poulter) and Casey (Emma Roberts) to play his kids. Who would suspect the Miller Family of being drug carriers?

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ters in a car on a long road trip and there will be bickering; there will also be several obstacles, which will be funny (and a bit foul), because this is a comedy and not a Tarantino film in which case everybody would be terrified and end up shot in the head.

It would be no spoiler to say that the pretend family actually ends up bonding, and the actors keep up the comic gags working, even the stupid or smutty ones. American movies are often obsessed with families, wholesome and dysfunctional, and the fake Miller family has enough warmth to make a case for family loyalty, even if the film teeters precariously on the edge of darkness.

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LEGAL

Flat purchasers can initiate procedure to form own CHS

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MUMBAI | SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2013

EXPERT SPEAK Gajanan Khergamker

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

PROPER VALUATION HAS LONG-TERM BENEFITS Where redevelopment is concerned, the issue of benefits and returns pivots on valuation of property.

While on the one hand, the ordeal usually associated with taxation procedures makes the prospect of ostensible undervaluation of properties seem a viable option on the face of things.

The most obvious advantage of undervaluation being it saves the stamp duty payable on the transfer deed. Also, only the declared consideration amount has to be paid in what is popularly known as the “white” money that earns an associated tax.

The obscure part of the consideration can

exchange hands in cash to the benefit of the buyer and the seller but at the cost of the public exchequer.

The buyer can hide the income from where he has created funds to buy property and the seller can hide capital gains on the property and thereby dodge any taxation associated with the transaction.

There are, however, huge risks associated with the undervaluation of property at the time of transfer.

Often, the seller is prone to lose the hidden undisclosed part of the consideration should a dispute arises, relating to specific performance of contract.

Also, the buyer runs the risk of losing the property at the ostensible consideration at the hands of any person having a right of pre-emption like say under Punjab Pre-emption Act, 1913 or similar statutes applicable to the local regions. In order to maximise the benefit of valuation issues, it needs to be carefully handled.

It is but evident that every reasonable seller will expect a higher price than the actual market price but wouldn’t settle for anything lesser.

Concurrently, no sensible buyer will settle for an amount more than the actual market value at any point of time.

It is, hence, of utmost importance that a market value, as exact as possible, be arrived at before the deal of sale/purchase is finalised.

Also, at the same time, its proper valuation on paper has to be arrived at in order to avoid the known pitfalls associated with undervaluation.

Queries may be mailed to gajanan@draftcraft.in

How can flat purchasers initiate a procedure to form a Cooperative Housing Society? How much is the builder involved in the process?

— Amit Joglekar

Very often many flat purchasers don’t receive any cooperation from their respective builders to help them begin the procedures towards the formation of a registered cooperative housing society.

In such situations, flat purchasers should take the initiative and initiate procedures to form a cooperative housing society themselves.

Before submitting a registration proposal without any cooperation from the builder, flat purchasers should first draft a letter to the builder indicating their intention to form a cooperative housing society.

A copy of such a letter should also be addressed to the Deputy or Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Societies of the Ward where such a building is located.

The copy should include a request to call upon the concerned builder to furbish an explanation regarding his failure to comply with the provisions of the Maharashtra Ownership Flat Act, (MOFA) 1963.

The chief promoter then has to submit a number of documents, statements, undertakings etc., along with the registration proposal. The registration authority should be satisfied: a) The proposed society has complied with the provisions of the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1960, the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Rules, 1961 and any other laws that are in force for the time being; b) The proposed society has complied with the policy directions issued by the state government under section 4; c) The bye-laws being proposed are not contrary to the Act or Rules.

Once the proposal procedures are complete and the registration authorities are satisfied, the registering officer is under an obligation under section 59(1) of the MOFA to register such proposed societies within two months of the lodging of the application with the registering authority. If the registration is not completed within two months, then within fifteen days from the expiration of the time limit, the registration authority is under an obligation to forward the proposal for registration to the government for further action.

After a society is registered under Section 9 of the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1960 the registration authority should grant a certificate of registration to the society along with a certified copy of its bye-laws.

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LEGAL QUERIES

The owner of the property has to produce all the originals of the title deeds in his possession, after which records pertaining to the property have to be searched from the specific offices.

filled in order to obtain a clear title to a property.

The owner of the property has to firstly produce all the originals of the title deeds in his possessions after which records pertaining to the property have to be searched from the specific offices maintaining them. Even slight discrepancies in the title of the property can lead to immense problems in the future vis-à-vis rights that arise from ownership and possession. Like public notices that have to be issued in newspapers inviting claims or objections from anyone affected in respect of the said transaction.

Following the public notice, if an objection is lodged, the person should be asked to substantiate it within a stipulated period of time or else, ignored.

For a transaction to be considered valid in a court of law, it must be registered accordingly. The registration of a document serves as a notice of the transaction to those affected by it. The seller has to clearly mention in unequivocal terms that there are no encumbrances or mortgages on the property being sold.

Very often, several months after the deal has been struck, an unassuming buyer realises that the property purchased has been mortgaged to someone What is the procedure for clearing out all else and that he has been duped.

Often, in order to save on a little legal discrepancies in the title of a property before one invests money in it? Is it a money, a buyer may ignore the registralengthy one that needs the involvement of tion aspect of a document.

If a document isn’t registered properly, a lawyer? Could they create any problems in the future vis-à-vis the legality of the it fails to confer any title to the buyer who could land with several problems. ownership or possession?

However, mere registration of the doc— Shanti Goel There are a few factors need to be ful- ument doesn’t affirm its genuineness.

LEGALITY OF OWNERSHIP

Both the parties need to have executed the document and shouldn’t be in dispute with regard to the transaction.

The sole registration of a document very often is commonly misunderstood as being evidence of a transaction.

This, however, doesn’t provide whole and complete proof of execution which needs to be fulfilled. Incidentally, for premises purchased in a registered cooperative society, a buyer needs to check a few documents before going in for the deal. The share certificate issued by the society to the owner has to be checked in order to authenticate the owner’s credentials and standing in the society.

Very often, the seller could be a subtenant in a society flat with the actual owner oblivious of the transaction. In that case, the seller would be unable to produce the share certificate in his favour. In case, the deed has been lodged for registration, the seller should be asked to produce certified true copies of such conveyance, sale deeds and other documents along with the original receipt of the sub-registrar where the document has been lodged for registration. In case, a buyer opts for a flat in a society that hasn’t been registered, he should look for previous chain of agreements with past owners; Original stamped receipts of payments issued to the previous and present owners by the builder/development authority/society and transfer authorisation papers from the respective authority as well as a copy of approved plan and occupancy certificate issued by the civic body.

Visit www.draftcraft.in for further information. Email your detailed queries complete with name and contact details to the columnist Gajanan Khergamker at legal@draftcraft.in and/or call 022-22841593 for personal intervention

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A1

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BY PICTURES SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK’S PICTURE CROSSWORD

ACROSS: 4 Tricycle, 6 Suitcase, 7 Tree, 9 Eraser, 13 Notebook, 14 Diamond, 15 Icecream.

DOWN: 1 Shirt, 2 Boy, 3 Wallet, 4 Toucan, 5 Fire, 8 Eskimo, 10 Farmer, 11 Hand, 12 Violin.

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ACROSS: 1 More: Sp. 4 Wall St. workplace 8 In the same place, briefly 12 Wire measure 15 Band aid?

16 Artois articles 17 Bear with, stand 19 Ships that usually travel close to the land?

21 Kin of B-pluses (1-7) 22 Systems, in short 23 Woodstock wear 25 Dominos game ___ -jongg 26 Bear, in Barcelona 27 Akkadian god 28 At no time: Ger. 29 Fake 32 Ship's curved planking 34 Union demand 36 Frame of seat for horse rider 39 Wild cards, maybe 40 Go to Stowe in winter 41 Actress Hedy 42 Annapolis's branch of the armed forces 43 Short, sharp-pointed nail or pin 45 Coastal region of Morocco 46 No Clue 48 Prince charming to be?

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58 Turkish noblemen 61 Comfortable living (4,6) 63 Ceramic worker 64 Days of yore 65 Look for something 66 Mao ____ -tung 67 PC panic button 69 Indonesian tribe 72 International racqueteer gp.?

73 In physics, units of pressure equal to one kilogram per square centimeter?

76 Lost 79 Brought into existence 80 Bind together 82 Had a yearning for

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10 Ancient Troy 11 Sets of artificial teeth 12 Fraternal order 13 State as discrete pieces 14 Tenants 18 Monotonous routine 20 Band or grand 24 Also-ran?

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Note: Please collect your letter from Afternoon Office.

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: RIGHT ORDER

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION: "Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."

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TODAY’S FORECAST

JAGJIT UPPAL

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MOON TITHI NAKSHATRA RASHI LUCKY COLOUR LUCKY NUMBER

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Gemini 10th Shravan Krishnapaksha Ardhra Mithun Black 7

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: You have a good period ahead of you from your birthday this year. The employed will get an opportunity to set up an independent business that will flourish. If you wish to travel overseas, or emigrate, you will set out on your journey soon. Some of you will travel abroad for work on a contract of one and a half to three years. Your love life is on an upward swing. The married will enjoy perfect rapport.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Good looking, prominent nose and Charming eyes. Will be healthy and long-lived. Will be responsible, witty, intelligent, critical but helpful.

After a good education, career in research, shipping, communications or industry is indicated. Success and gains are indicated perhaps, away from place of birth.

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): Do not be in rush to conclude a new contract. You need to scrutinize each and every aspect, including its viability.

It seems someone is trying to pass on a liability giving you false assurances of quick gains. It would be better to stick to routine activities at this juncture. Most things in your life are going along smoothly but personal relationships cause tension. Your mate or beloved could have a problem. Try to give things a more personal touch.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): Chances are there to do something that you have wanted to do besides your normal work. Someone known will help you with all that you may need. Youngsters desirous of a career in the media or television serials may approach the right person and can get a positive response. Look forward to exciting events that are likely in your love life.

Keep yourself in check and do not let your emotions get the better of you.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): You may be required to take some important decisions, which could mean re-organizing your work set-up.

Your handling of the current crisis will earn you the respect and admiration of those who matter. A close associate or a colleague may try to get a little too familiar with you. There is a possible threat of being taken advantage of especially if you are with someone you do not know too well or know too much about.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): Interesting work offer turns up from overseas. You will achieve wonders at work through further financial investments to expand your setup. Do not waste your time and energy in chasing small benefits. Aim for something spectacular howsoever difficult it may appear. Misunderstandings can crop up in relationships but you can count on support of your mate and loyalty of friends who know your problems.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): A good financial position is indicated. A purchase of some property or house will be an asset that you have been planning for long. If you have taken any loan earlier now is the time you can pay back and clear all the dues. Happiness and excitement is all around. In your daily routine you could meet someone interesting and strike a friendship. This could lead to an exciting romance.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): Fresh negotiations for work could run into a few problems. A more flexible attitude will help you to overcome your difficulties. It will be in your interest and gainful to sign the agreements on whatever terms are decided mutually. Personal activities connected with romance may have to be postponed or cancelled. You could feel trapped in a situation that you have no control.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): With the help of a colleague you will be able to catch up with pending work with a particularly difficult assignment. You may have an opportunity to travel on a professional assignment. You will have a good chance of winning over an opponent if you use a bit of tact and set aside your ego. Improve your stance which seems intimidating right now.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): News from overseas about work, education or even a marriage proposal is worth considering. Try to improve your relationships with others. Avoid being suspicious about the ulterior motives of people around you.

A more positive approach will do wonders for you in your rapport with others. After overcoming your fears and anxieties about nothing at all you realize that life is good after all .A carefree indulgent mood brightens up your love life.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): A breakdown in communication could upset your plans for the day. This could also lead to cancellation of a certain contract.

It is better to have a contingency plan in advance for there seem to be some trouble on the way to your office or an important meeting. Uncertainties in your mind could affect your relationships with others. Some tension in family life is indicated. Don’t listen to hearsay.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): Payments get held up due to technical reasons making you edgy. You could end up with a headache that will further interfere with your work. You are prone to suffer from minor ailment like digestive disorder or perhaps a sprain more due to stressful situations and carelessness. The evenings are full of fun with friends dropping in unexpectedly. See that you do not overdo the enjoying bit. There could be some good news from a loved one.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): Tact and diplomacy will win the day in handling workers or government officials. You may have to settle dues or perhaps repay a loan that has been pending for a while. Avoid getting involved in any gossip at work. It could go against you as others think you to be above petty behavior. The accent is on family, friends, and social pleasures. You will be in mood to splurge money on pleasures or organize a lavish party.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): If you are thinking of starting a new venture this is the right time provided you have completed all preliminary work in advance with an eye to the details. Be more practical and less emotional while taking a decision which conflicts with what you believe and what you should do. A happy relationship is a two-way fare. Your mate may need to be assured of your love and care today.

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SUDOKU 1941

ACROSS: 1 Cavity (6) 5 Stuffiness of air in room (3) 8 It parallels the radius (4) 9 The giant is some goer (4) 10 Dreary (6) 11 Choosing or preferring (9) 13 ___ in love ____ .... Air Supply hit song? (4) 15 ___ by ___ (same word ) : in parts?

(3) 16 Rotate or revolve rapidly (5) 17 Instrument used in Indian classical music (5) 20 Nintendo's gaming console (3) 22 Pamela's nickname (3) 23 ____ Garbo, who wanted to be alone? (5) 24 All rounder ___ Kohli (5) 26 Thinker of great thoughts hopefully, abbr. (2,1) 27 Beatles' meter maid (4) 28 Productive of heat (9) 31 Without difficulty (6) 32 Earthbound bird (4) 33 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (4) 34 Very Imp. Person (3) 35 Tantalizer (6)

DOWN: 1 They may be attached to one's luggage to identify it during travelling (6) 2 Agatha ______: the queen of crime, as she is popularly called? (8) 3 Convent women (4) 4 Branch of mathematics dealing with a,b,c and x,y,z? (7) 5 Aspect; (gem) side (5) 6 Spurt (4) 7 Bar above window (7) 12 Girl's name (3) 14 Stupid one? (4) 18 On _ _ with : equal to (4)

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.

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Today’s clue: A equals G

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

19 Confirms or accepts by formal consent (8) 20 Adorn with a wreath (7) 21 Most orderly (7) 24 Very High Frequency (3)

25 Mark Twain's Tom ___ (6) 26 Photo of pop-star perhaps (3-2) 29 Norse saint (4) 30 Take ___ of : look after; deal with?

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SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Sand, 4 Causes, 8 Bot, 10 Acne, 13 Notation, 14 Premise, 15 Teacup, 17 Contagion, 21 Key, 22 Any, 23 Fat, 26 Conscious, 27 Aerial, 28 Limited, 32 Illfated, 34 So-so, 35 Ilk, 36 Glower, 37 Caps.

DOWN: 1 Slap, 2 None, 3 Cons, 5 Awaken, 6 Sri, 7 Sunups, 9 Toe, 11 Crook, 12 Empty, 15 Toys, 16 Ciao, 18 Near, 19 Gaol, 20 Inn, 23 Finis, 24 Tubes, 25 Caning, 26 Carafe, 28 Lei, 29 Idly, 30 Toga, 31 Doss, 33 Loo.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1760 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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Each word must contain the letter at the top of the pyramid. There should be at least one nine letter word. Plurals, foreign words and proper names are not allowed.

Today’s ratings: 30 average; 35 good; 40 outstanding.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: egoist, ensign, gent, gist, gone, ignite, ingest, INGESTION, ingot, nesting, nosing, noting, sign, signet, sing, singe, siting, song, sting, stoning, tensing, tinge, toeing, tong, toning.

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FEDERER, SERENA ROLL ON WHILE ERRANI EXITS US OPEN

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EW YORK: Five-time winner Roger Federer and defending champion Serena Williams breezed into the US Open third round while Italian fourth seed Sara Errani became the biggest upset victim yet. Swiss 17-time Grand Slam champion Federer, who swept the New York hardcourt crowns from 2004-2008, dispatched Argentina's 48th-ranked Carlos Berlocq 6-3 6-2 61 in 95 minutes, firing six aces and 37 winners. "I was pretty comfortable out there," Federer said. "So that was a good sign."

Federer, at his lowest US Open seed since 2002 at seventh, advanced to a matchup with either US 26th seed Sam Querrey or Frenchman Adrian Mannarino. Federer lost for the first time in 50 appearances in a Grand Slam second-round match last month at Wimbledon, falling to 116th-rated Sergiy Stakhovsky in his earliest Slam exit since the 2003 French Open.

"Just keep on winning. I don't care how," Federer said of his goals. "Right now it's about winning for me, trying to gain confidence and enjoy myself.

I hope I can progress. We'll see how it goes."

Federer and Spanish second seed Rafael Nadal, a 12-time Grand Slam winner who captured his eighth French Open crown in June, could meet for the first time at the US Open in this year's quarter-finals. "I hope I'm going to be there," Federer said.

"The biggest mistake I can do is focus on Rafa right now. Clearly I would love a match with Rafa."

Nadal, unbeaten this year on hardcourts and a US Open favorite, makes his bid for a third-round berth later against Brazilian qualifier Rogerio Dutra Silva.

Spanish fourth seed David Ferrar and French eighth seed Richard Gasquet kept rolling toward a potential quarter-final matchup of their own.

Ferrer dispatched compatriot Roberto Bautista Agut 6-3 6-7 (5/7) 61 6-2 while Gasquet also ousted a countryman, dumping Stephane Robert 6-3 7-5 7-5.

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India storm into final, qualify for World Cup

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POH (Malaysia): Virtually assured of a World Cup berth, India produced an inspiring performance beating hosts Malaysia 2-0 to enter the final of the 9th Asia Cup hockey tournament here today.

The Koreans have already qualified for the World Cup while India and Malaysia have all but qualified for the World Cup as the first and second reserves. There was some fantastic news awaiting the Indian team prior to the start of their semifinal clash against the Malaysians after defending champions South Korea beat Pakistan 2-1 in a hardfought first semi-final at the Sultan Azlan Shah stadium.

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defeat meant that India and Malaysia now have virtually qualified for next year's World Cup, the official confirmation of which will come only after the conclusion of the Oceania Cup in November.

It will also be the first time Pakistan will not feature in the World Cup since it started in Barcelona back in 1971.

Buoyed by this development, the Indians started the semi-final against Malaysia on a confident note and stunned the packed home crowd at the Azlan Shah Stadium with an early goal.

Raghunath took his goal-tally to seven when the burly dragflicker converted India's first penalty corner in the eighth minute.

However, it was the home team which enjoyed the early share of exchanges and had couple of scoring chances at the start.

While on the first occasion Faizal Saari missed from a close range, an unmarked Nabil Fiqri Mohd Noor shot wide a minute later with only Indian custodian P R Sreejesh to beat.

The Malaysian's created lot of scoring opportunities in the entire 70 minutes but the Indian defence led goalkeeper Sreejesh stood like rock to thwart the chances.

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would become the oldest US Open women's champion at 31 if she repeats, advanced her quest for a 17th Grand Slam title and fifth US Open crown by downing 77th-ranked Galina Voskoboeva 6-3 6-0.

Williams won the last eight games, breaking to capture each set, and advanced in 69 minutes.

Yaroslava Shvedova, like Voskoboeva a Russian-born Kazakh player, defeated Austrian Patricia Mayr-Achleitner 6-2 6-3 to become the next Williams foe. Errani, a semifinalist last year, was ousted by one of her best friends and the 2012 French Open runner-up was in tears after falling to 83rd-ranked Flavia Pen-

Bhupathi crashes out of men’s doubles

NEW YORK: Indian stars Sania Mirza and Leander Paes made winning starts in their respective doubles events even as another veteran Mahesh Bhupathi bowed out with a first-round loss at the US Open here.

Sania and her Chinese partner cruised into the second round of the women's doubles event after they easily saw off German Annika Beck and Puerto Rican Monica Puig in straight sets, winning 6-2 6-2. The 10th seeds will play the Hungarian-American combine of Katalin Marosi and Megan Moulton-Levy. Sania and Zheng come to Flushing Meadows high on confidence after winning the New Haven title last week. Paes paired up with

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Radek Stepanek and breezed through to the second round of men's doubles event with a straight set win over the unseeded pair of Jarkko Nieminen and Dmitry Tursunov. The scoreline read 6-4 7-6 (7-4) at the end of the game.

The 4th seeded pair displayed attacking net game and winners, and looked to have full control over the game from the word go. The Finnish-Russian pair played some fine tennis in the second set, and a few unforced error from the seasoned campaigners saw the game go into the tiebreaker. But Paes and his partner held their nerve to take the game in straight sets.

netta 6-3 6-1 in 71 minutes.

Pennetta improved to 4-2 against Errani in their first meeting off clay. She next faces Russian 29th seed S v e t l a n a Kuznetsova, the 2004 US Open winner who beat China's Peng Shuai 6-1 4-6 6-4.

"I never beat her.

She's a really good player, a strong powerful player," Pennetta said. In another upset, Japanese qualifier Kurumi Nara advanced to the third round by defeating Romanian 19th seed Sorana Cirstea 7-5 6-1. Nara next faces Serbian ninth seed Jelena Jankovic, who beat Russian Alisa Kleybanova 6-3 6-2. Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka defeated Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak 6-3 6-1 in 68 minutes, the Belarus second seed booking a match against French 26th seed Alize Cornet for a spot in the last 16.Former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, who won the women's singles at Flushing Meadows in 2004, is also into the last 32 after beating China's Shuai Peng 6-1 4-6 64.Women's seventh seed Petra Kvitova also progressed, beating Serbia's Bojana Jovanovski 6-2 6-4.

Rafael Nadal dashes for a return against Rogerio Dutra Silva of Brazil during the second round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York.

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OUTHAMPTON: Aaron Finch's record-breaking innings saw Australia to a first competitive international win in 200 days as they beat England by 39 runs in the first Twenty20 international here.

Man-of-the-match Finch's stunning 156, the highest individual score in all Twenty20 internationals, was the cornerstone of Australia's 248 for six, itself the second-highest team score at this level. England, who wrapped up a 3-0 Ashes series win with a draw at The Oval on Sunday, unsurprisingly lost early wickets when faced with such a colossal chase and finished on 209 for six on Thursday.

Victory saw Australia go 1-0 up in a two-match series that concludes in Durham on Saturday. Australia hadn't won a major international match since a 17-run victory over the West Indies at Melbourne on February 10 saw them complete a 5-0 one-day international series clean sweep. Finch's runs came from just 63 balls and the 26-yearold Victorian opener, playing just his seventh match at this level, comfortably surpassed the previous Twenty20 world record of 123 set by New Zealand's Brendon McCullum against Bangladesh at Pallekele in September last year.

Remarkably, Finch got off the mark, reached his 50, hundred and 150 with sixes. Indeed his 14 sixes were also a world record for

the most in any individual T20 international innings, with Finch also striking 11 fours. Finch's century was only the 10th in all T20 internationals, the first by an Australian and the first by any batsman at this level in England.

His extraordinary innings ended when he was bowled by seamer Jade Dernach who, in the midst of the mayhem, took three wickets for 34 runs in four overs.

In view of the run-spree to come, England, who won the toss, started well when dangerman David Warner lost control of his bat as he holed out off home Twenty20 captain Stuart Broad for one.

From then on, the innings belonged to Finch who struck an extraordinary six over cover on one knee off medium-pacer Ravi Bopara to the astonishment of a 20,000 capacity crowd.

His 50 came off 27 balls, with a straight six off Bopara, and he appeared on course to beat South African Richard Levi's record 45ball century. Finch had to be content with a 47-ball hundred, going to the landmark with a top-edged six, while McCullum's previous record was surpassed with yet another six, this time over cover off Broad.

Dernbach finally bowled Finch and removed Shane Watson as Australia fell short of Sri Lanka's T20 international record team total of 260 for six against Kenya in Johannesburg in 2007.

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far, winning all her six singles matches thus far. The crowd would be eagerly looking forward to the second match in the finale between Saina and her challenger Sindhu, the icon for her team. The 19-year-old Sindhu paved the way for Warriors’ entry into the final by winning her match last night in the semifinal against Mumbai Masters’ top woman player and thrice All-England champion Tine Baun in Bangalore.

In their first encounter of the tournament, Saina blew her Hyderabad city rival and Guangzhou world championship bronze medal winner Sindhu off the court.

UMBAI: Spearheaded by women’s world no. 4 Saina Nehwal, Hyderabad Hotshots would be determined to stamp their authority once again on the world no. 10 P V Sindhu-led Awadhe Warriors in what promises to be a rip-roaring Indian Badminton League (IBL) finals here today.

At stake are not only reputations and the overall championship, but also a big prize fund in the USD 1 million league that reaches its climax at the NSCI’s newly built air-conditioned indoor stadium. Hotshots have relied a lot on their icon player Saina’s show and the shuttle queen has not disappointed so

Amistad for Gen Rajendrasinhji Million

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here are eight races today and the first starts at 1.30 p.m. There are only six runners in the General Rajendrasinhji Million. Pesi Shroff trained Amistad won easily last time out. It can win. Danger: Low weighted Ghanghorr.

CARD AND SELECTIONS

1. The Northern Command Plate – Div II (Class V) 1200 M 1.30 P.M. 1. Speed Up 59 A. Sandesh 2. Thunder Star 59 R. Shelar 3. Golden Spurs 58.5 S. Shinde 4. Winds Of Change 58 S. P. Ranjane 5. Jaipur Gem 56 R. Vaibhav 6. To The Moon 56 Dashrath Singh 7. High Returns 55.5 8. Winchester 55.5 Vikram Jodha 9. Polar Zone 53.5 A. Ashhad Asbar Win: Winchester, Polar Zone

2. The Zafayona Plate Class IV 1400 M 2.00 P.M. Race No: 105 1. Grand March 61.5 Ikram Khan 2. Tell Me More 57.5 Dashrath Singh 3. Oriental Masti 56.5 N. S. Parmar 4. Eye Of The Tiger 54 I. Pasha 5. Nigella 54 S. Mosin 6. Adams Spirit 53.5 R. Vaibhav 7. Indiscrete 52.5 Suraj Narredu 8. Monteray 52.5 Akash Agarwal 9. Pepe Senior 49.5 Nirmal Jodha Win: Oriental Masti, Indiscrete

3. The Northern Command Plate – Div I (Class V) 1200 M 2.30 P.M. 1. Salsa 59 Zameer Sayyed 2. Sleuth 59 T. S. Jodha 3. Earth Tamer 58 S. P. Ranjane 4. Miracle Of Mercy 57 S. Sunil 5. Prince Arius 56.5 S. Mosin 6. By The Way 56 A. Ashhad Asbar 7. Courtesy Call 56 R. Shelar 8. Al Zamarud 55.5 Dashrath Singh 9. Always Smile 55.5 S. Shinde Win: Prince Arius, Earth Tamer

4. The Amber Royal Plate 1000 M 3.00 P.M. 1. Gran Amigo 56 R. Vaibhav 2. Heatwave 56 S. P. Ranjane 3. My Freedom 56 A. Sandesh 4. Rashun 56 T. S. Jodha 5. Shockalot 56 C. S. Jodha

6. Aurnia 54.5 Nirmal Jodha 7. Express 54.5 Dashrath Singh 8. Frisco Bay 54.5 Vijay R. Kadam 9. Mambo Magic 54.5 R. Shelar 10. Tempest 54.5 N. S. Parmar Win: Tempest, My Freedom 5. The Star Millionaire Plate

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Class IV 1000 M 3.30 P.M. 1. Classic Ruler 62 S. Mosin 2. Celsius 61.5 C. S. Jodha 3. Titleist 58.5 Dashrath Singh 4. Mumbai King 56.5 P. Trevor 5. Mountain Queen 55.5 Prasad 6. Star Zone 54.5 V. Chandrakant 7. Domain Anna 53 Kavraj Singh 8. Captain Smart 51 R. Vaibhav 9. Prize Fighter 50.5 Altaf Sayyed 10. Rising Angel 50 Neeraj Rawal Win: Rising Angel, Celsius 6. The Radio One Run (Class III) 1200 M 4.00 P.M.

1. Panthera 59 S. Mosin 2. Jewels Of The Hill 58.5 P. Trevor 3. Edwina 56.5 A. Sandesh 4. Ice Empire 56 S. P. Ranjane 5. King Julien 56 Shrikant Kamble 6. Quid Pro Quo 53.5 Neeraj Rawal 7. Bourbon Street 53 Malcolm Kharadi 8. Stormy Princess 53 Sandeep Jadhav 9. Petite Fleur 52.5 C. S. Jodha 10. Cream Of The Crop 50.5 R. Vaibhav 11. Champakali 50 Dashrath Singh 12. Remember Me 49.5 N. S. Parmar Win: Cream of the Crop, Champakali 7. The General Rajendrasinhji Million 1800 M 4.30 P.M. 1. Amistad 57 A. Sandesh 2. To The Manor Born 55.5 Neeraj Rawal

3. Hawker 54 Suraj Narredu 4. The Ministerian 54 C. S. Jodha 5. Shygirl 52.5 Dashrath Singh 6. Ghanghorr 49.5 A. Ashhad Asbar Win: Amistad, Ghanghorr

8. The Legal Steps Plate (Class V) 1600 M 5.10 P.M. 1. Alvira 59 Nirmal Jodha 2. Haunting Moments 59 A. Sandesh 3. Ice Beauty 59 Kavraj Singh 4. Mesmeric 59 Neeraj Rawal 5. Sea Pearl 58.5 P. Trevor 6. Viva Zapata 58.5 Shrikant Kamble 7. Lightening Thunder 58 Akshay 8. Macho Uno 58 A. Ashhad Asbar 9. Merck 57 Ishwar Pardeshi 10. Taal Ammi 57 Akash Agarwal 11. Ibis 55 T. S. Jodha 12. Winds Of Luck 51.5 Vikram Jodha Win: Haunting Moments, Macho Uno

Chance in Panchashil Million: Trisara and Indian Touch

By Timur

Anahi 56 Saints N Sinners 51 Win: Amahi, Dancing Phoenix

here are nine races on Sunday and the first starts at 1 p.m. Horses which have chance in the Panchashil Juvenile Million are Trisara, Indian Touch and Caruso.

4. The Artois Plate (Class IV) 2400 M 2.30 P.M. Bonobo 59 Savage Garden 58 Allegiance 55.5 Jen's Glory 58.5

1. The Champagne Gold Plate (Class V) 1000 M 1.00 P.M. Three Roses 59 Snow King 58 Victorious Cause 53 Eveready 58.5 Storm Lightning 57.5 Angel's Dream 52 Ice Rink 58.5 Showers Of Heaven 56.5 Pretty In Patpong 58 Ice Gate 56 Win: Angel’s Dream, Three Roses

Zambezi 57.5 Antonius Maximus 54.5 Razeenaa 58 Oxbridge 56.5 Win: Razeenaa, Oxbridge

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2. The Star Shine Plate (Class II) 1400 M 1.30 P.M. Set To Fly 59 Mable 56 Papakura 58 Aigaion 53.5 Win: Papakura, Aigaion

3. The Odds On Trophy (Class I) 1000 M 2.00 P.M. Turf Lightning 60.5 Emerging Star 52 Dancing Phoenix 49

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5. The Giacosa Plate – Div I 1200 M 3.00 P.M. Ancient Warrior 56 Four Star General 56 Nevada 54.5 Brown Dynamite 56 Just By Chance 56 Power Princess 54.5 Concorde 56 Midnight Run 56 Zaagros 54.5 Dhishkyaon 56 Caesars Wife 54.5 Win: Four Star General, Ancient Warrior 6. The Akkasaheb Maharaj Trophy 1200 M 3.30 P.M. Nefyn 61 Ishpingo 54 Orito 51 Ancient Wonder 59 Amadeus 51 Star Trainer 51 Master Bullet 59

Amazing Desire 51 Weizhou 51 Win: Weizhou, Star Trainer

7. The Panchshil Juvenile Million 1400 M 4.00 P.M. Caruso 57 One Kept Secret 57 Rekindle 55.5 Deep Diver 57 War Horse 57 Trisara 55.5 Isadoro 57 Indian Touch 55.5 Dior 51.5 Win: Trisara, Indian Touch

8. The Aspiring Star Plate Class III 1600 M 4.30 P.M. Lake Paradise 60 Zidaan 56.5 Sherlock Holmes 52.5 Ice Zone 57.5 Supreme Minstrel 55.5 Lorelei 52 Bombardier 56.5 Fortune Hunter 55 Purple Patch 56.5 Mon Ami 54.5 Win: Lorelei, Mon Ami

9. The Giacosa Plate – Div II 1200 M 5.00 P.M. Foinaven 56 Skywalk 56 Indispensable 54.5 Good Memory 56 Analeah 54.5 Seacaucus 54.5 Huntsman 56 Aravali 54.5 Summer Eclipse 54.5 Rocky Balboa 56 Earth Quake 54.5 Win: Foinaven, Seacaucus

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IN BRIEF Kaka wants to leave Real Madrid

MADRID: Real Madrid midfielder Kaka wants to leave the Spanish club after seeing that his role as a bench player has not changed under coach Carlo Ancelotti. Kaka said late Thursday that he wanted to change clubs after scoring two goals in a friendly for Madrid. "I have less and less of a place on the team," said Kaka. "The club knows that I would like to leave and I want it to help me find a solution." The 31-year-old Brazilian will have until Monday to secure a move before the summer transfer window closes. Kaka said he wants to move to another European team, discarding a return to Brazil because "the market is closed" there. "I don't know if there are offers for me," said Kaka. "But the club is talking to my father. They are looking at the possibilities to see if something comes up before Monday.

Dempo acquire Japanese defender Honda

NEW DELHI: Dempo Sports Club completed the process of acquisition of Japanese midfielder Shinnosuke Honda from Thai premier league side Buriram United. Honda is Dempo's fourth signing of the season after Beto, Billy Mehmet and Simon Colosimo.

Honda, 23 is a 6 feet tall defender from Fukushima. Having represented Japan in the U-22 championships, he began his career at J-League side Jubilo Iwata before moving on to Buriram United in the Thailand Premier League. He was a member of Buriram squad which won the Thai premier League and Thai FA Cup in 2011.

Latif seeks to convince PCB of his bookie claim

KARACHI: Pakistan's former captain, Rashid Latif will meet the PCB officials and its legal team next week to convince them that he has enough evidence to back up his claim that an alleged Indian bookmaker, Annu Bhatt, was the guest of the board in 2005/06. Wellinformed sources said that after the board sent him a legal notice asking him to provide evidence to back his claims about Bhatt having visited Pakistan as a guest of the board, Latif told them he wanted to meet them in person. "Rashid said he would prefer to meet with PCB's top officials and legal team in person next week in Lahore," a source said. "He has indicated that he will provide them with all the documents on the basis of which he made the claim about Bhatt having visited Pakistan as a guest of the PCB when England and India toured Pakistan in 2005/06."

PCB asks BCCI for explanation on money default issue

KARACHI: Pakistani cricket authorities have sought an explanation and details from the Indian Cricket Board after media reported that the PCB owed the BCCI around seven to eight million rupees. Media reports said after a BCCI meeting recently that a number of Test-playing nations were to clear outstanding dues with the BCCI and the PCB was listed as one of the defaulters. The reports said the PCB owed the cash rich BCCI around seven to eight million since early 2000-2001. "We sent a letter to the BCCI asking them to kindly let us know the details of this amount which we are supposed to owe them," a board official said.

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Afternoon Despatch & Courier MUMBAI

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