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2006 Lakhan Bhaiya fake encounter case sees 21, including Pradeep Suryavanshi, who led encounter team, convicted

Pradeep Sharma coming out of the Session Court, yesterday.

By Philip Varghese

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even years after the 2006 alleged fake encounter case of Ram Narayan Gupta, suspected aide of gangster Chhota Rajan, the Sessions Court on Friday acquitted dismissed police officer Pradeep Sharma of all

charges in the case, while convicting suspended Senior Crime Branch Police Inspector Pradeep Suryavanshi.

Suryavanshi, who was leading the encounter team, was convicted for murder and twenty other accused, including 13 policemen, were also convicted for various charges

by Sessions Judge V. D. Jadhwar.

Even as the court is likely to pronounce the sentence on Monday, advocate Ramprasad Gupta, brother of Lakhan Bhaiya, who fought the case for last three years, said that he was only partially happy with the court order.

“The real culprit is scot-free and we will be challenging this in the High Court,” he said.

The prosecution’s case in the court was that a police team picked up Lakhan Bhaiya from Vashi in Navi Mumbai on suspicion that he was a member of the Chhota Rajan gang, on November 11, 2006 and along with Anil Bheda, his associate along with him. Lakhan Bhaiya was killed on the same day in an encounter near Nana-Nani Park in Versova.

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ONLINE MUDDLE? After second and third lists fail to take them into consideration, students get stuck with colleges allocated to them in first merit list of online admissions; toppers too affected

By Yatin Ingle

W

ith the third and final list of the First Year Junior College (FYJC) online admission merit list being declared yesterday, students have lost all hope of getting to a better institution of their choice, and have to settle for the college allotted to them in the first list.

Even after giving 35 prefer-

ential colleges as per the rule, a large number of students have their names only in one college which was given to them in the first merit list, now that the second and third lists did not feature their names. Toppers scoring more than 85 per cent have too suffered the same fate and now have to settle for the college they took provisional admission to in the first place, to

pursue their studies.

After the State School Education Department declared the first merit list, only 15,000 seats were left for the remaining 25,231 applicants. In all, 65,999 students who were on the first merit list did not take admissions. Seats belonging to management, in-house and minority quotas, which Continued on pg 8 «

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Dr. Prem Gupta can be reached on 9820045774/9930318119 www.drpremgupta.com

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MUMBAI | SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2013

By Philip Varghese

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our days after the Bombay High Court passed strictures against the Education Inspector (EI) of the city’s South Zone for taking advantage of his own wrong and going ahead to debar Fr. Baptist Pinto from functioning as the principal of St. Mary’s School (SSC), Mazgaon, activists in the city have welcomed the order by.

A division bench of Justice S. J. Vazifdar and Justice M. S. Sonak had delivered a strongly worded order on July 2, 2013, which stated that the EI’s order of April 2013, which

debarred Pinto, was affecting the smooth functioning of the school which has been in existence for over 80 years.

The court was hearing a petition filed by the Bombay St Mary’s Society and the school, challenging the EI’s order directing Pinto not to function as principal, as no approval had been given to his appointment by the state Education Department. The petitioners also challenged the EI’s March 22, 2012 order directing the school to refund Rs. 1.45 crore to its students. Pending the final disposal of the petition, the

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judges directed the Deputy Director of Education, the EI

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and the state government to pay Pinto’s salary and permit

him to function as principal.

Fr. Baptist Pinto told the ADC, “I haven’t applied for the salary yet after this order has come out. However, I am sure that the department will pay me my dues since the court has already ordered a release of my salary. I am happy that justice is done.”

Dolphy D’Souza, activist and former National VicePresident of the All India Catholic Union and Past President, The Bombay Catholic Sabha, said, “We welcome the HC order and this is a vindication of the stand that the school has taken all along. It is very unfortunate, and we fail to understand that among all the schools in the city of Mumbai, how the Education Department has been targeting only one school. In the light of this development, we are appealing to the Chief Minister and the Education Minister that this concerned education official who seems to have a prejudiced mind against the said institution should be transferred immediately. In addition, the Education Minister should put in place, a system that no minority institution should be humiliated or harassed when they are working in the field of education which normally the government should have done.”

Joseph Dias, General Secretary, the Catholic-Christian Secular Forum (CSF) said,

“This is not the first instance of the Education Department officials behaving in a high handed manner. Stringent disciplinary action must be taken by the government against him. The Education departments of both the state government and the BMC have become a law unto themselves and threaten Christian institutions. The HC judgment comes as a great relief and should send a strong signal that all such abuse of power will not be tolerated. The Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) will strive to organise the community to safeguard Christian minority institutions that bear the brunt of such acts and demand departmental action against such officials, as such behaviour is not without ulterior motives. If need be, the CSF will not hesitate to file criminal cases against such officers.”

Dr. Abraham Mathai, former Vice-Chairman of the Maharashtra Minority Commission said, “This judgment of the HC is a welcome relief to the Christian institution as a whole as Christians have always being targeted by certain government departments, and the reason has always been that they have not obliged admission to these government official’s ward in their schools. This judgment is a slap on the face of the government.” philip.varghese@afternoondc.in Azad Shrivastav | ADC

MfSGNP hosts discussion on leopard problem in Mumbai

By A Staff Reporter

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n interesting discussion ‘Leopards in our backyards’ was held at the Press Club on Friday, by the members of Mumbaikars for SGNP (MfSGNP). A collaborative effort between the Forest Department, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Centre for

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Wildlife Studies (Bangalore) and members of the civil society.

‘Mumbaikars for SGNP’, a yearlong project, was initiated to address the humanleopard conflict being faced in and around the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.

The audience was addressed by Vidya Athreya

(Ecologist with the World Conservation Society-India), Sunil Limaye, IFS (Chief Conservator of Forests and Director, SGNP), Dipti Humraskar (Ecologist with Gharial Conservation Alliance Conservation Education Programme), Sunetro Ghosal (Independent Researcher) and Sonu Singh (Volunteer at MfSGNP).

The speakers spoke in great detail about their yearlong research findings, issues that instigate the conflict and how the problem should be mitigated.

Sunil Limaye, IFS (Chief Conservator of Forests and Director, SGNP), addressing the gathering, at the Press Club, yesterday.

Do you think a shoddy investigation by the police is the main reason for maximum acquittals in the state?

Parveen Qureshi Journalist

The police are too busy to file FIRs against innocent people, and in high profile cases they simply act out of formality. It is because of this and a lack of evidence that most people accused in high profile cases are acquitted.

Tahir Beig Cameraman

The police department is just sitting to make money and is not bothered about who is acquitted and who is imprisoned.

Vandana Chibbar Housewife

The police have a lot of work and have to register several cases daily. How can we say that it is due to their negligence that maximum acquittals are taking place?

Afzal Hussain PR Executive

The police are doing their work, but to acquit anyone of a sentence is in the judiciary’s hands.

Rizwan Ansari Businessman

Not all, but some police officials are lazy in doing their work leading to the acquittal of some criminals.

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Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MUMBAI | SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2013

Some observations…

WE have decided to keep Saturdays for our own observations on the state of the week just past and our first observation is that there is no comfort at home so we should look elsewhere.

By home of course we mean within our neighbourhood, Mumbai, the state of Maharashtra, and finally India, where the news is gloomy and the outlook pessimistic, with lowering skies that reflect the general mood. What else can you expect when the government feels it is forced to set up special vegetable selling centres so that people can eat, when all it really needs is a sharp crack on the heads of the thousands of retailers of vegetables in Mumbai who have taken the law into their own hands on pricing.

The state of everything else actually becomes moot.

So we look outside for cheer and laugh at stories about the Mandelas fighting each other over where their legendary relative will be buried when he passes on, about singers Beyonce and husband Jay Zee buying thousands of dollars worth of baby stuff for the new born child of famous for being famous Kim Kardashian and famous for being a bad boy Kanye West, and no-one thinking it cruel that they should have named their off-spring North West. Rumours have it that naturally they will want three more to round off their little family and also so they can have every direction covered.

And laugh at the story of the Vatican prelate who has been revealed tobe living a life of luxury in Salerno, in a flat that has hallways divided by Roman columns and walls covered with art. And he actually contacted the police to complain about the theft of some of this art which is when he as asked very uncomfortable questions.

“All donated”, he is reported to have said grandly when asked how he could afford to buy works by Giorgio Chirico, Marc Chagall and pieces of religious art worth millions of euros.

And we chuckled over the thought of every baby born in England on the same day as the new royal expected to pop at any time, being given a newly minted silver penny to mark the day and to wish him or her a life of good health and happiness. It is a sweet and thoughtful gesture.

Vishwanath Salian | ADC

THE LORD COMETH... With three months left for the biggest festival of the state, Ganesh festival, which will be celebrated on September 9 this year, several artisans in Mumbai and adjoining localities, like Shri Ganesh Sai Arts near the W.E Highway at Rawalpada in Dahisar, have started erecting makeshift workshops for Ganesh idols.

Why are we looking outside?

Because inside, there is Uttarakhand and its devastation, and the details now exposed of 19year-old Ishrat Jahan being gunned down in cold blood one early morning in June 2004 as a terrorist by men in uniform. The story gets harder and harder to bear, especially the image of her brought out with her three friends, blindfolded at 5 am to face their execution. We keep wondering what her family must feel as the images boil out, so sad, so scary.

And as for Uttarakhand, if the final toll is not one lakh, we shall be very surprised indeed. 3,000 deaths indeed!

tends occasionally to get on one’s nerves for that very reason.

But what he says he has done, he has done, and the account

A sheriff for all seasons

WE have known Dr Leo Rebello for a very long time, as an exuberant, blunt, tell-it-like-it-is individual who

Dr. Leo Rebello

books are impressive.

For instance, he really had been interviewed by Time and LA Times and Pravda and TOI and the Indian Express and BBC TV and Radio, TV Asia, Star TV, Doordarshan, NDTV, Asian Age, Observer, Outlook, etc etc. We are sure you get the picture.

We know for a fact that the walls of his home are lined with awards and accolades, that he has written 42 books, given 15,000 lectures, and has trained and treated huge numbers of people since 1978.

Long before IGNOU, he had started a 60-class correspondence course in naturopathy, has guided doctproal and post-doctoral students, and is an anti-drug activist who counsels AIDS patients and activists.

In 2003, he wrote a revived oath for doctors, and knowing Dr Rebello, this probably earned him

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neither friends nor brownie points!

But he is an avid social media user and claims he is in touch with five million people through Facebook groups, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and emails. We are tempted to believe this since we are on the receiving end for a lot of his emails.

The thing is, Dr Rebello wants to be the next sheriff of Mumbai, and we don’t see why he should not be.

After all, how many sheriff have ever stated that it is their ambition to build a huge complex at the side of a river, comprising an AIDS and cancer hospital where everyone will be treated through naturopathy, also a university, a herbarium, a centre for all religions, a place to grow food bio-dynamically, conference halls, laboratories, veg restaurants, and an old age home and an orphanage.

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EDUCATION

CLASSIFIEDS I, Azhar, have changed my name to Shaikh Azhar Ahmed vide Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. U-15876, dated 20/6/201326/06/2013.

C-9487 I, Faiz Ahmed, have changed my name to Shaikh Faiz Ahmed vide Maha. Govt. Gazette No. U-15877, dated 20/06/201326/06/2013.

C-9488 I, Bradley Neville Langford, have changed my name to Armaan Neville Langfordvide Maha. Govt. Gazette No. U15879, dated 20/06/201326/06/2013.

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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. Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us. St. Jude the worker of miracles pray for us.

St. Jude the helper of the hopeless pray for us. Your prayers will be answered by the publication must be promised.

(GHF/RF).

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CHANGE OF RELIGION

I, Armaan Neville Langford, have changed my religion from Christian to Islam vide Maha.

Govt. Gazette No U-15878, dated 20-26/06/2013.

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CHANGE OF NAME

I, Sanjay Bhagwan Tarcker, have changed my name to Sikandar Bhagwan Tarcker as per Maha. Govt. Gazette No. U16803 dated June 27, 2013.

C-9483 I have changed my name from Suhasini Nana Chavan to Karuna Kiran Sawant Vide Maha. Govt. Gazette No. X4215 dated 15-07-1999.

Ornate-C-9484 I, Joaquim Anthony Fernandes, have changed my name to Joaquim Cyril Fernandes Vide Affidavit dated 3-7-2013.

C-9485 I, Naved Ahmed, have changed my name to Shaikh Naved Ahmed vide Maharashtra Gazette No. U-15875, dated 20/06/2013-26/06/2013.

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I, Miss. Hasti Hansraj Bhatia, have changed my name to Mrs. Hasti Neil Naik as per deed poll Affidavit dated 03/07/13.

C-9491 I, Mr. Bipinbhai Durlabji Mahyavanshi, have changed my name to Mr. Bipin Durlabhbhai Mahyavanshi as per deed poll Affidavit dated 10/01/13.

C-9492 I, Miss Shitalkumari Pravinbhai Bhagat, have changed my name to Mrs. Sheetal Bipin Mahyavanshi as per deed poll Affidavit dated 10/01/13.

C-9493 I, Ashokkumar Keshavlal Limbachiya, have changed my name to Ashok Keshawlal Limbachiya as per deed poll Affidavit dated 04/07/13.

C-9494 I, Fennel Vijay Shah, have changed my name to Fenil Vijay Shah as per deed poll Affidavit dated 05/07/13.

C-9495 I, Kirti Shantram Lade, have changed my name to Nishtha Narayan Mejari as per deed poll Affidavit dated 05/07/13.

C-9496 I, Hanuman Ranchandra Surve, have changed my name to Mr. Hanumanth Ramchandra Surve as per deed poll Affidavit dated 05/07/13.

C-9497 I, Bhavana Ratilal Joshi, have changed my name to Bhavna Yagnesh Joshi as per deed poll Affidavit dated 03/07/13.

C-9498 I, Miss. Manju Mohanlal Shemlani, have changed my name to Mrs. Manju Dinesh Punamiya as per deed poll Affidavit dated 05/07/13.

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We, Amit Ramakant Mehta and Harmeet Amit Mehta, have changed our Minor son’s name from Jay Amit Mehta to Jai Amit Mehta as per deed poll Affidavit dated 05/07/2013.

C-9503 I, Aktari Begam Sadaru Ali, have changed my name to Akhtari Sadruali Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit dated 5/7/13.

C-9504 I have changed my name from Mrs. Agharia Rehanabanu Sajjadhussain to Mrs. Agharia Rehana Sajjadhussain as per Court Affidavit dated 21/6/13.

C-9505 I have changed my name from Lakshmi Jayashankar to Bhagyalakshmi Jayashankar as per Maha. Govt. Gazette No. (U-15742).

C-9506 I have changed my name from Vinit Kumar Choudhary to Binitkumar Yadunandan Choudhary as per Affidavit dated 3rd July 2013.

C-9507 I have changed my name from Hardik Ramesh Ghutka to Hardik Ramesh Gutka as per Affidavit.

C-9508 I have changed my name from Ramesh Dayalal Ghutka to Ramesh Dayalal Gutka as per Affidavit.

C-9509 I have changed my name from Bhanumati Ramesh Ghutka to Bhanumati Ramesh Gutka as per Affidavit.

C-9510 I have changed my name from Mohd Arif Mohd Yusuf, to ‘Mohd Arif Mohd Yusuf Shaikh’ as per Maha. Govt. Gazette No. (X-79797) dated 22/12/2011.

C-9511 I have changed my name from Hajra Mohammed Abbas, to ‘Hazra Mohamed Abbas Shaikh’ as per Maha. Govt.

Gazette No. (X-45515) dated 12/02/2009.

C-9512 I have changed my name from Rizwan Mubarak Siddiqe, to ‘Mohd Rizwan Mubarak Ali Khan’ as per Maha. Govt.

Gazette No. (U-10963) dated 28/06/2012.

C-9513 I have changed my name from Miten Mahindra Chadda to Miten Mahendra Chheda as per Affidavit SRNo. 3747/2013 Mumbai dated 29/06/2013.

C-9514 I have changed my name from Rohidas Khan to Rohidad Khan as per Affidavit.

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MUMBAI | SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2013 I have changed my name from Soayeba Banu Farooq Bagsaria to Soyeba Mustafa Memon as per Affidavit dated 04/07/2013.

C-9519 I have changed my name from Anilkumar Ratilal Bhagawandas Mehta to Anil Ratilal Mehta as per Affidavit dated 3-7-2013.

C-9520 I have changed my name from Bharat Pandya to Bharatkumar Pandya as per Affidavit dated 21st June, 2013.

C-9521 I have changed my name from Prafulchandra Bhatt to Prafull Bhatt as per Affidavit dated 21st June, 2013.

C-9522 I have changed my name from Manjihshta Jashpal Singh Kainth to Manjishta Jashpal Singh Kainth as per Affidavit dated 05th July, 2013.

C-9523 I have changed my name from Kiran Suryabhan Dhanave to Kiran Suryabhan Dhanve as per Affidavit dated 5-7-2013.

C-9524 I have changed my name from Sonal Kaur Darel to Sonal Kaur Deo as per Affidavit.

C-9525 I have changed my name from Hari Singh Sohan Singh Darel to Hari Singh Sohan Singh Deo as per Affidavit.

C-9526 I have changed my name from Kamaljit Kaur Hari Singh Darel to Kamaljeet Kaur Hari Singh Deo as per Affidavit.

C-9527 I have changed my name from Pooja Kumari Jagotra to Pooja Jagotra as per Affidavit.

C-9528 We have changed our child’s name from Fatima Shabi Anwar to Fatima Shabi Anwar Qureshi as per Affidavit.

C-9529 I have changed my name from Manohar Chandayya Hegde to Manohar Chandayya Hegde as per Affidavit.

C-9530 I have changed my name from Mansi Nalinkumar Dani to Mansi Nalin Dani as per Affidavit.

C-9531 I have changed my name from Rajadar Maksood Khan to Mansoor Maksood Khan as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Hirdeyjeet singh to Hirdeyjeet Jarnail Singh as per Maha.

Govt. Gazette No (U-11328).

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I have changed my name from Shaikh Abdul Rashid Ahmed Shaikh to Danish Rashid Ahmed Shaikh as per Govt.

Gazette No. X-86198 dated March 2013.

C-9533

I, Manisha Prakash Raorane, have changed my name to Sejal Santosh Ghanekar as per deed poll Affidavit dated 05/07/2013.

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I, Ennisai Selvi I, mother, have changed the name of my minor daughter from Sneha Suresh to Veronica Prasad Thalluri as per Affidavit dated 03.07.2013.

C-9517

I have changed my name from Jitendrakumar Hridaybahadur Tripathi to Jitendra Tripathi as per Affidavit.

C-9534

I, Neemesh Balmukund Shah, have changed my name to Nimishkumar Balmukund Shah as per deed poll Affidavit dated 05/07/2013.

C-9502

I have changed my name from Shanza Khanum Raees Siddiqui to Shanza Sameer Shaikh as per Affidavit dated 04/07/2013.

C-9518

I have changed my name from Shubhra Kumar Dutta to Shubhra Kamal Dutta as per Affidavit.

C-9535

I, Faisal Abdul Majid Thakar, have changed my name to Faisal Abdul Majid Thakur as per deed poll Affidavit dated 05/07/2013.

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I have changed my name from Sangeeta Lal Khan to Sangita Lal Shahi as per Affidavit.

C-9536 I have changed my name from Kashish Lal Khan to Kashish Lal Shahi as per Affidavit.

C-9537 I have changed my name from Syeda Rahimunnisa Begum to Saeeda Begum Khan as per Affidavit.

C-9538 I have changed my name from Pravinbhai Dahyalal Patel to Pravin Dahyalal Patel as per Affidavit dated 05/07/2013.

C-9539 I have changed my name from Anandiben Pravinbhai Patel to Anandi Pravin Patel as per Affidavit dated 05/07/2013.

C-9540 I have changed my name from Hirenkumar Dhudalal Shah to Hiren Dhudalal Shah as per Affidavit dated 05/07/2013.

C-9541 I have changed my name from Mr. Sunil Zenkarsing Thakur to Mr. Sunil Zhankar Singh as per Affidavit.

C-9542 I have changed my name from Mrs. Hasina Zenkarsing Thakur to Smt. Asha Zhankar Singh as per Affidavit.

C-9543 I have changed my name from Mrs. Sujata Hoskote Mody to Miss. Sujata Mody as per Affidavit.

C-9544 I have chang my name from Manjulatha Babulal Jain to Manjulata Chandraprakash Jain as per Affidavit.

C-9545 I have chang my name from Shirishkumar Ramchandra Desai to Shirish Ramchandra Desai as per Affidavit.

C-9546 I have chang my name from Dipesh Kanubhai Patel to Dipeshkumar Kanubhai Patel as per Affidavit.

C-9547 I have chang my name from Sunil Raju Sethia to Sunil Raju Shettiyar as per Affidavit.

C-9548 I have chang my name from Raju Senugam Sethia to Raju Senugam Shettiyar as per Affidavit.

C-9549 I have chang my name from Rajeshree Raju Sethia to Rajeshree Raju Shettiyar as per Affidavit.

C-9550 I have changed my name from Mary Antone Patil to Shailaja Nilkanth Nakhwa as per Affidavit.

C-9551 I have changed my name from Kumod Chauta to Kumuda Chauta as per Affidavit.

C-9552 I have changed my name from Pinal Dhansukhlal Shah to Pinalkumar Dhansukhlal Shah as per Affidavit.

C-9553 I have changed my name from Prafulchandra Jayawant Gangar to Praful Jevat Gangar as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Kanojiya Pradeepkumar Pyarelal to Kanojiya Pradeep Pyarelal as per Affidavit.

C-9555 I have changed my name from Jyoti Subhash Pandey to Jyoti Subhashchandra Pandey as per Affidavit.

C-9556 I have changed my name from Sunilkumar Ramchandra to Sunilkumar Ramchandra Soheyta as per Affidavit.

C-9557 I have changed my name from Mr. Ashik Husein Asgarali Dolaria to Ashiquehusein Asgarali Dolaria as per Affidavit dated 05/07/2013.

C-9558 I have changed my name from Mohamed Tabrez Shafi Syed to Tabrez Shafi Syed as per Affidavit.

C-9559 I have changed my name from Mushtaq Hamdule to Mushtaq Hamdulay as per Affidavit.

C-9560 I have changed my name from Masoodahmed Abdul Kadir Gulbar to Masood Abdul Kadir Gulbar as per Govt. of Maharashtra Gazette No. 19986 dated 05-07-2013.

C-9561 I have changed my name from Bhagwanji Chaniya Mitna to Bhagwan Chaniya Mitna as per Affidavit.

C-9562 I have changed my name from Suneel Dhondiram Jadhav to Sunil Dhondiram Jadhav as per Affidavit.

C-9563 I have changed my name from Mohsin Ahmad Jamil Ahmad Sheikh to Mohsin Jamil Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-9564 I have changed my name from Mohammed Adil to Shaikh Adil as per Affidavit.

C-9565 I have changed my name from Mr.Kadayamkottil Ibrahim Basheer to Mr. Basheer Kadayan as per Affidavit.

C-9566 I have changed my name from Mohmad Yasin to Shaikh Yasin as per Affidavit.

C-9567 I have changed my name from Shagufta to Shaikh Shagufta as per Affidavit.

C-9568 I have changed my name from Kothari Sampat to Kothari Sampatmal as per Affidavit.

C-9569 I have changed my name from Saheblal Ramdhari Bhardwaj to Saheblal Ramdhari Rajbhar as per Affidavit.

C-9570 I have changed my name from Rameshkumar Gayaram to Rameshkumar Gayaram Bhardwaj as per Affidavit.

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Yukta Mookhey complains against hubby, in-laws Former Miss World files cases of harassment for dowry

By Zuber Ansari

F

ormer Miss World and actress, Yukta Mookhey, has filed an FIR against her husband and in laws for torturing her for dowry at the Amboli police station

her husband had been harassing her to have unnatural sex with him.

Officials at the police station said Mookhey submitted a written application alleging harassment after which, the police conducted an inquiry and registered an FIR under section 498 of the IPC. However, no arrests have been made as yet.

Mookhey, basically from

Yukta Mookhey and husband, Prince Tuli on Friday afternoon.

This is not first time that Yukta has filed a complaint against her husband, Prince Tuli, and his family members at the same police station. Police sources reveal that, in one of her complaint letters she mentioned that

Mumbai but she moved to Nagpur after her wedding in 2008 to hotelier Prince Tuli, but her marriage was not successful and she moved back to Mumbai after three years and started filing complaints against her husband.

IPL betting: Key bookie Shobhan Mehta arrested CITY

By Kainaz Choksey

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he Property Cell of the Mumbai Police arrested bookie Shobhan Mehta aka Shobhan Kalachowki from a casino in Goa, in connection with the Indian Premier League (IPL) betting scandal. According to Crime Branch officials, Mehta made Rs.60 crore through betting.

According to the Mumbai Police, Mehta placed his bets through jeweller siblings Pawan Chhabra aka Pawan Jaipur and Sanjay Chhabra aka Sanjay Jaipur, as well as Shobhan Mehta Delhi based bookie Ashwin Agarwal alias Tinkoo. Mehta using mobile phones to place was also in touch with bookie bets on cricket matches and call up people in Pakistan, the Chandresh Jain aka Jupiter.

A look-out circular had United Arab Emirates and been issued against Mehta on Dubai.

According to the Mumbai June 2, under the suspicion that he had left the country police, Agarwal has already since his last call had been given them details about made from the Chatrapati Mehta.

Mehta will be produced Shivaji International Airport.

However, Mehta was living in before the Metropolitan MagGoa since June 20. He was istrate Court today. with his family when the arWho is Shobhan Mehta? rest took place.

“He has made Rs.60 crore Shobhan Mehta is a diamond from betting in the Indian merchant who is a native of Premier League (IPL)” said an Palanpur, Gujarat. He started official from the Mumbai out as a punter in 1987 and gradually became a bookie, Property Cell.

Mehta had been arrested later reportedly roping his by the Mumbai Police in 2005 younger brother into the as well. He was accused of business to help him main-

Dangerous ride Two boys come under BEST bus while learning to ride gearless bike

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wo boys, who were learning to ride a gearless bike, were killed after they hit a divider and were then run over by a BEST bus at the old Bandra Terminus in the wee hours of Friday.

According to the Nirmal Nagar Police, the two who have been identified as Ramji Urachand (19) and Ishwar Balaji Nishani (17) were on a Honda Activa bike when the accident took place at around 12.30 am on Friday.

The police said that Nishani, a native of Kutch in Gujarat had come visit his relatives and had been staying in Jogeshwari since the last eight days. He had gone to visit his uncle who lives in Hanuman Nagar in Bandra East, Teenagers Ramji Urachand and Ishwar Balaji were when he befriended Urachand. learning to ride this Activa when they were killed.

According to the police, on Thursday night at 11 pm Urachand called up Nishani and saw the boys and rushed them to the hospital, told him to come out and teach him to ride a but they were declared dead on arrival. bike. Since both the boys did not have li"The two have suffered internal injuries on censes, they decided to practice riding on the their heads. We have informed Nishani’s parBandra Terminus road. At around 12.30am, ents and arrested the bus driver Ramakant Urachand lost control of the bike with Nis- Saroj (47) for death due to negligence and rash hani as the pillion, and both fell, hitting their driving," said PSI Swati Gavade, from the Nirheads against a divider. mal Nagar police station. The driver in his The BEST bus which was traveling from statement however, told the police that the two Dharavi to Bandra was on its way to the Ter- boys had already fallen and were dead before minus when it ran over the two. Passersby he ran over them.

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33-year-old man from Nalasopara was on Friday arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of his wife, police told PTI. Pinky, 27, who was married to Rajesh Sarda (33), allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her parents' home in Bhayander on Thursday evening after being tortured by her husband for giving birth to a girl child. The couple already have a son.

The accused, who was unemployed and was addicted to liquor, would often harass his wife for giving birth to a baby girl, as per the complaint filed by the victim's parents, Nalasopara police sub-inspector B.S. Londhe said.

The accused has been booked under Sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 498 (cruelty) of the IPC, police said, adding that they were probing the case.

tain his books. He operated a huge betting network, allegedly fixing international cricket matches.

Along the years, he is alleged to have established a well-connected network spreading across Mumbai, Jaipur, Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi.

In 2005, Mehta was alleged to have been close to Ramesh Vyas, a bookie using the ille-

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gal telephone exchange to run his betting network. The Mumbai Police had busted an illegal telephone exchange in South Mumbai, which was operated by Ramesh Vyas.

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joining the Congress. Now I am seriously considering urious with the allega- lodging a complaint with the tions made by the state state Election Commission Congress Chief Manikrao against Thakre for violating Thakre, the Rural Develop- the code of conduct by makment Minister Jayant Patil ing such allegations”.

Thakre’s comment, made has decided to lodge a complaint with the Election in front of the Chief Minister Commission against Thakre. Prithviraj Chavan, is an indiManikrao Thakre, at a cation of the unease bepublic rally on Wednesday, tween the two allies that alleged that Patil was keen plan to contest the 2014 on joining his party and had polls together. Chavan did made this petition to the not mention the NCP, but party president Sonia appealed to voters not to Gandhi several times before. vote for goons.

The NCP has fared better Patil rubbished these allegations, claiming that this than the Congress in the was an attempt by the Con- local municipal elections gress to vitiate the NCP’s over the last one year. In fact campaign. “This is an at- in a majority of local electempt by the Congress to tions, the allies have ended bring disrepute to me and up being the main rivals. On create confusion before the the eve of the Sangli civic polls. They know we are in a polls, the Congress and the clear position to win,” he NCP who were allies turned said. He denied discussing into foes with the former the issue with Gandhi and making a frontal attack on a said, “I was not interested in senior NCP leader.

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The Maruti van that was driven by Pranjal Warang.

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hours on the Achole Road area in Nalasopara (East).

According to the police, leuths of the Nallasopara police have arrested a Pranjal Warang (15), first hit 15-year-old boy involved crashed the Maruti Omni Van in a case of rash and negli- which he was driving into the gent driving, in which twelve tri-cycle of a physically chalpeople were injured on Fri- lenged person and later, in a day evening. The mishap was bid to escape crowd fury, reported during peak traffic accelerated the vehicle, only to ram into ten other pedestrians.

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Rescue workers busy clearing up the debris on Friday evening.

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total number of six people have been reported dead in the Bhi-

wandi collapse as of Friday.

Meanwhile, the police have also arrested the architect of the building from his residence in Bhiwandi.

On Thursday night two storied garment factory collapsed at around 1 am while 45 workers were working in it during the night shift. On

MYSTERIOUS CAR, MYSTERIOUS COPS Hooch-laden car rams into pedestrian while escaping cops who were chasing it; car’s occupants and cops disappear

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man died under unusual circumstances when a car loaded with alcohol rammed into him early on Friday morning. The car was allegedly being chased by a police vehicle which moved away without stopping at the

According to prime eyewitness and complainant in the case, hotelier and youth president of Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi, Rakesh Shetty, 26, “I left the Dahisar police station at 4 in the morning when I noticed a Fiat Palio being chased by another car which had yellow beacon on

MHB police inspecting the hooch filled in tyres and gunny bags, yesterday. accident spot. Two persons who were in the car managed to escape and remain untraceable. The police have recovered 1,000 litres of country made liquor which was filled in truck tyre tubes.

The police, who were called, took up the case after a good two hours as three police stations were confused about under whose jurisdiction the incident took place.

the top, indicating it belonged to the Mumbai police. Just as the police vehicle was about to intercept it, the Fiat touched the divider and tragedy struck.”

Shetty explained, “At the Sudhir Phadke Bridge (off Bhagwati Bridge which connects Borivali East and West) the police managed to intercept the car but it banged against the railing and then ran onto the divider killing

one pedestrian. Two people got out and ran off from the fiat car, leaving it at the accident spot itself, with the pedestrian under it. Most importantly, the police car was also nowhere to be seen.”

Shetty, who immediately called up the Mumbai police control room said that “At 4.10 am I called control room but even after 20 minutes now one came to spot. I then called justdial and took the MHB police number, but no one came. I took the station officer’s number and called him several times, but he did not answer. He later told me that he forgot his mobile at the police station. After an hour, a beat marshal arrived at the spot and they began fighting about the jurisdiction. The body was lying under the car for two hours.

The school children gathered about and were shocked to see the body in a pool of blood.”

Later the senior police inspector of MHB police station decided that he would take the case and later his senior would decide about the jurisdiction.

Shetty met the additional commissioner of police Sunil Paraskar who has initiated inquiry into the matter. PSI Sandesh Palande of MHB police station said, “We have registered case under section 279 Rash driving or riding on a public, 304 (A) Causing death by negligence.

Thursday night two more dead bodies were recovered from the debris, while on Friday morning one more was discovered while the debris was being cleared by the NDRF team. The 26 people injured in the collapse are still recuperating in the hospital.

The Narpoli police, where the case has been registered, arrested the architect of the building Ravish Rahman (49) from his residence in Bhiwandi on Friday.

According to the police, the architect had made a plan to add an additional storey to the structure which increased the load on ground floor pillars resulting in the collapse.

M K Bhosale, DCP, Bhiwandi Zone said, "The architect of the collapsed structure has been arrested while the five other accused including the builders are still at large. Our teams are in search of them.”

A team of NDRF, Thane Fire Brigade and the local administration completed the rescue operation on Friday evening.

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Electric bills at scrap shop

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of Nalasopara (East).

On inquiring about how f you are yet to receive your the bills found way to his electricity bill, there are shop, the scrap vendor rechances that it has been sold vealed that someone had sold to the local kabadiwala (scrap the bundles for Rs.200.

“This is a serious lapse as vendor).

The matter came to light not only the consumers are when social activist Pardeshi bound to be harassed, but Karmarkar, spotted bundles also the bills can me misused of MSEDCL electric bills lying as documents (residential in the shop of a scrap vendor proofs) to procure SIM cards in the Tanki Road area of and PAN cards,” said Karmarkar, who has registered a Nalasopara (East).

After close inspection, Kar- complaint with the local pomarkar, was surprised to find lice and MSEDCL authorities.

The power supply that there were more than 2,000 bills recently generated providers have assured to inbills supposed to be distrib- stitute a probe into the matuted in the Vijay Nagar, Tanki ter and take stringent action Road and Ostwal Nagri areas against the guilty.

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Govt offers quota flat to CBI Shitole to take charge as first officer probing Adarsh scam Additional Commissioner in MBMC CRASHING DOWN SUDDENLY… Traffic along Dr. Ambedkar Road in King’s Circle almost came to a standstill after huge tree fell onto the road on Friday. It was later cleared by the officials of the Fire Brigade. Another tree fell onto a slum near Siddheshwar Talao in Thane on the same day.

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he state government has tweaked the rules to include the name of the CBI officer Rajkumar Vhatkar probing the Adarsh scam, in the members list of Kadambari Society at Amboli in Andheri”, stated the leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council, Vinod Tawde. Speaking to newspersons yesterday he alleged that while the society had 39 members, the rules were bent to include the names of Vhatkar, Amin Modak, who was not even a government employee, Vasant Ajgaonkar and Anita Umesh Rao. The BJP leader stated that those government employees and officers who have been allotted more than one flat should give up the additional flat, which should then be allotted to those officials in dire need of official accommodation.

Tawde added that although there

Vinod Tawde was nothing wrong in officials receiving flats allocated under the government discretionary quota, MHADA or CIDCO, most of them do not stay in the flats but opt to live in official government accommodation and rent out these flats, thus making a fortune.

Some of the controversial societies where officers, employees, even politicians and their kin have been allotted more than one quota flat include: Vasundhara (Juhu), Saiprasad (Bandra), Meera (Madhura) in Oshiwara and

others. Most of these flats and societies are located on prime plots in Bandra, Oshiwara, Worli, Andheri and Versova. The officers earn an annual rent of between Rs.34 to Rs.68 crore and on an average earn a profit of Rs.100 crore a year.

He added that instead of allocating discretionary quota flats to the needy, these flats have been allotted to politicians, ministers and their kin. In some cases more than one flat has been allotted to such people.

Commenting upon the issue of Deemed Conveyance, Tawde alleged that the Co-operative Department officials in connivance with builders are seeking huge sums from co-operative housing societies thwarting their moves in seeking conveyance registration. Tawde further demanded a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the allotment of Wakf Board lands in the last decade.

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was a case of brutal murder, which ordered a magisterial was initially detained at D. inquiry in this case in 2008.

N. Nagar police station in The inquiry report submitAndheri (West) and was later ted to the High Court in Aushifted to Kolhapur. He was gust 2009 stated that Lakhan later brought back to Mum- bhaiya was killed in cold bai and was detained for blood from point-blank about a month. range. Following the report, Lakhan Bhaiya’s brother, the High Court appointed a Ramprasad Gupta, ap- Special Investigation Team proached different authori- (SIT), which subsequently ties in the case and later filed arrested 22 people, includa petition in the Bombay ing Sharma and another Sr High Court claiming that the P.I. Pradeep Suryavanshi. All encounter was fake and it a the accused were lodged in

the Thane Central jail since 2010.

During the trial, around 100 witnesses were examined in the case, while eight turned hostile. Bheda, who was the only eye witness in the case, went missing from March 2011 and his decomposed body was later found in Manor area of Thane.

Bheda’s death hampered the prosecution’s case and it had to depend on the deposition made by Bheda’s wife. philip.varghese@afternoondc.in

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the deputy collector of Thane district, is known for his administrative skills. An AMC functions as commissioner for departments which are deputed to him by the Municipal Commissioner.

fice on Monday.

Presently, there are three he Mira Bhayandar Munic- deputy municipal commisipal Corporation (MBMC) sioners in the civic body. will get its first additional mu- Apart from has serving at imnicipal commissioner (AMC), portant positions across the when Bharat Shitole takes of- state, Shitole, who was also

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Continued from pg 1 « totaled 11,397, were also included in the admission process.

The second merit list had 25,000 applicants for 77,000 seats, in which the names of only 16,023 students appeared. Subsequently, 9,205 students were waiting to see their names in the final merit list. The final merit list declared seats for 29,938 students.

According to the rules, a student has to submit 35 preferential colleges from the Mumbai Metropolitan Regions (MMR) and the zones and wards where he or she resides. Even after the 35 preferences being given, students who have not got their names on the subsequent lists, left

Mulund; I waited for the second and third merit lists, but the it was of no use! I will have to take admission in the given college. If I don’t take admission for the given seat, I am scared that I will be barred from the admission process and wont be able to book a seat in any other college!”.

According to the rules, a student getting his name in the merit list has to compulsorily take provisional admission in the given college, failing which the student will be barred from the admission with no option, will have to process. attend classes in the college The final merit list had algiven to them in the first list, lotted 7,540 seats to students failing which they may get with first preferences whereas thrown out from the admis- 4,974 seats were given out for sion process. the second preferences.

Talking to Riyya Shinde, a The ADC spoke to N.B student says “I Have secured Chavan, Deputy Director, 88 per cent in the SSC exams State School Education Deyet I have got my name only partment, who said “Merit in the first merit list and I was lists have been declared acnot included in the other two cording to the preferences merit lists. I have no option given by the students. Acbut to book the seat in the cording to the cut offs of the given college. It seems that percentages in colleges, seats even after getting marks, this have been allotted to the stuonline admission process has dents. The declaration of the made it tough for us students seats depend entirely upon to get a better college based the preferences of colleges on our scores.” given by the student, the perAnother student who did centage he has scored in the not wished to be named, said exams and the cut offs of the that she resides in Ambar- colleges.” nath and in the online admission process got a college in yatin.ingle@afternoondc.in

Saving doctors from TB

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he recent case of Dr. Samidha Khandare from the BMC-run Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital (Sion Hospital), succumbing to multi-drug resistant TB has once again drawn attention to the poor living conditions, unavailability of nutritious food and exhaustive working schedules that make doctors susceptible to communicable diseases like TB. The unfortunate part is that despite TB being curable, people in the city are still falling prey to it.

“We are not saying that the

BMC and the Government shouldn’t take care of its patients, but we doctors are also human and vulnerable to diseases. We treat people with communicable diseases, and our chances of contracting the disease are higher.

All we want is adequate protective gears like masks, good nutritious food to build our immunity, better pay so that we can take care of our other needs for nutrition and better living conditions. If doctors themselves aren’t healthy, how will they treat patients,” said Dr. Santosh Wakchaure, President, Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD).

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“There are currently fifteen

doctors in Sion Hospital and two in Nair and KEM hospitals who are suffering from TB”, he added.

To make the authorities wake up to their demands, MARD along with the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Mumbai, is planning to send a petition to the Government asking for help to keep doctors safe from TB and for diagnostic facilities across all BMC-run hospitals.

“Right now, testing for drug resistant TB is done only at Sewri TB hospital, JJ and Hinduja. This testing should be made available at all BMC hospitals,” said Dr. Sandeep

MARD and ORF to petition for adequate measures to safeguard doctors’ health Gadekar, MARD, KEM hospital.

Sudheendra Kulkarni from ORF said, “We will be submitting the petition sometime next week. We have already got four hundred signatures and are expecting a hundred more.”

On Friday (July 12), the doctors and other medical staff at these hospitals plan to observe a day of protest against avoidable TB deaths by wearing black masks while on duty. “Our war against avoidable TB deaths will continue till they are reduced and finally cease to exist,” said Dr. Wakchaure.

MBMC BY-POLLS

Litmus test on Sunday for NCP and BJP ahead of assembly elections

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ith electioneering coming to an end on Friday, elaborate arrangements have been made to conduct the by-elections to ward number 36 (A) in the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) on Sunday, July 7. Four candidates including Seema Jain (NCP), Varsha Gopani (Congress), Seema Shah (BJP-Shiv Sena alliance) and Pushpa Soni (Independent) are in the fray. “A total of 10,241 voters, 5,288 male and 4,953 female, will cast their votes to decide the fate of the candidate. There are altogether 13 polling booths,” informed returning officer, Vasant Rane.

The by-election was necessitated after sitting BJP corporator, Seema Jain, tendered her resignation following her dramatic absence in the elections to the chairman of the coveted standing committee, giving a jolt to her party (BJP). Jain later crossed over to the NCP and is now their official candidate.

An overview of the MBMC’s waste management plant at Uttan.

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ith the waste management plant in Uttan already exceeding its existing capacity, the civic administration is seeking new avenues for dumping and treating waste generated in the Mira Bhayandar region. It may be recalled that the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) was the first in the state to successfully initiate a garbage recycling plant in 2008.

The unit, run by a private agency under the Built Operate and Transfer (BOT) model, handles the waste to segregate it and produce organic manure. As of now, the twin-city generates an average of 425 metric tonnes of garbage on a daily basis.

However given the quantum of solid waste generated in the twin-city, the holding ca-

pacity of the plant is now inadequate, prompting the MBMC to seek new avenues.

Moreover, going by its faulty geographic location (the plant is located on a hill) and adverse environmental impact, there is virtually no possibility of upgrading the existing process plant, said officials.

Apart from this, villagers staying in the vicinity of the plant located on Dhavgi Hills near Uttan, have been facing numerous problems due to the unbearable stench emanating from the plant. “It is true the existing land fill sites have exceeded its capacity, but we are already working over three proposals, to resolve the issue,” confirmed Municipal Commissioner Suresh Kakani.

While efforts were on to identify and use abandoned quarries on the outskirts

(outside municipal limits) of the city as land fill for scientific disposal of solid waste, the other two options the MBMC was exploring included- Speedy acquisition of land at Versova near Kashimira, to establish a process plant, and to try and include the Mira Bhayandar region (along with six other civic bodies) in the Waste Treatment Plant mooted by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) authorities, to dispose 2,500 metric tonnes of waste daily at a multi-acre plot in Taloja. “This is one of the top issues on my agenda and all possibilities are being explored. Consultations are on with higher-ups in the concerned departments, including the District Collectorate, MMRDA and the State Urban Development Wing,” said Kakani.

Even though the NCP and Congress share power in the MBMC, they are now pitted against each other in the by-elections which is being considered a litmus test between NCP legislator, Gilbert Mendonca and BJP district president Narendra Mehta, ahead of the assembly elections scheduled next year. On the other hand Congress MLC, Muzaffar Hussain, is trying hard to regain his lost bastion.

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Towards a viable political strategy

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HAT are the issues of critical significance for the people and what is the preoccupation of the ruling classes?

This includes not only the ruling party and its allies and adherents, but also the main of“Life has its own hidden forces which you ficial opposition, its supporters and the whole can only discover by living.” lot of beneficiaries of the present order, in— Soren Kierkegaard cluding large sections of the print and electronic media.

First the preoccupations of the ruling classes: On the economic side, declaration of the rate of growth of GDP and the widening fiscal and current account deficits constitute their main concern. While the ruling party’s embedded economists seek to establish that the roots of the trouble lie largely abroad, their critics in the official opposition point to the HY is the Congress party in a hurry “policy paralysis”, on the one hand, and allto pass the Food Security Bill? The pervading corruption, on the other. In other Monsoon Session of the Parliament is words, there is no divergence on policy goals.

Both are blissfully blind to the fact that two only a month away. Instead of promul- decades of “economic reforms” have brought gating the ordinance now, it can intro- us to this pass! Let us take some parameters duce it and get it passed in Parliament. for comparison. The current account deficit It is possible there is a hidden agenda (i.e. what the country’s economy owes to the behind the more. It is pertinent to ask rest of the world in a given year on current why the ordinance was postponed last transaction basis) has now reached an untime? Is it possible the government felt precedented level of 6 per cent of GDP. In that when the ordinance was brought 1991-92 when the balance of payment “crisis” before the Parliament, it would not be was used as the lever to justify the U turn in India’s economic policies, the magnitude of able to muster majority? the current account deficit was almost half, The situation appears to have that is, 3 per cent. At that time, the inflation changed: The government does not have was in the region of 10 to 12 per cent as to depend on the Samajwadi Party to get measured in terms of consumer price index. majority. It can now look forward to the And the rupee had to be devalued by 20 persupport from the JD(U) which has with- cent. Now the consumer price inflation has drawn from the NDA and the DMK. The been ranging close to 10 per cent for the last bill approving the ordinance has to be three years and no respite is in sight. And the passed within six weeks after it is intro- rupee has been tumbling down rapidly, reaching the lowest ever value in terms of the duced in Parliament.

US dollar.

Ponder awhile…

Ordinance: Why is the govt in a hurry?

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depends on the agrarian economy; where twothirds of the population lives in the rural hinterland; where ownership of land is extremely the indefensible policy of reforms and all it skewed, with 8 per cent of holders owning 56 spawns, the opposition merely seizes the per cent of land and 92 per cent holding the resymptoms of corruption and adopts a maining 44 per cent of land; where 92 per cent “holier- than- thou” stance, despite skeletons of peasantry is small or marginal, i.e. with tumbling out of its own cupboard! Both are landholdings less than two and one hectares unanimous on the goal; their only difference respectively; where two-thirds of cultivable is about who wields the power to push the land is rain-fed with no assured source of process further and appropriates the result- water; where access to water, better implements, and other inputs is largely determined ant booty.

On the political side, there is complete una- by the scale of operation; where farming is a nimity between the two when it comes to the loss making proposition for the overwhelming question of dealing with what is described as majority of peasantry; where even the better“the terrorist threat” to national security with off section of farmers is caught in the double an iron hand. Both have promoted and legis- jeopardy of increasing input costs and un-related draconian laws to deal with the situation. munerative/ volatile output prices and driven Both compete in ultra-nationalist sloganeer- to despair and suicide; and where adequate ing. In giving a free hand to big capital in re- avenues of alternative off- farm employment source-rich tribal areas and in crushing all are not in sight: obviously the agrarian question is the most important concern of people.

And that finds no place in the preoccupations of the ruling classes.

Decimation of peasantry ignored

The Twelfth Plan document wishes away the question. With its obsession with raising the rate of growth, reducing twin deficits, generating “investor confidence”, attracting flows of global capital and the goal of acquiring global competitiveness, the Question of Land seems alien to its thinking. The land is treated as just one input, one resource at the disposal of capital and market. The rapid S.P. Shukla shrinking of arable land and its serious long tribal discontent and resistance with a heavy term consequences are overlooked. The unhand, there is no disagreement among them. declared but easily decipherable path that When it comes to the terrorist threat es- underlies the thinking is the adoption of consentially originating from the Islamophobic tract/corporate farming as the eventual solupolicies of the US-Israel combine, both are tion. Inevitable decimation of peasantry that The Food Security Bill seeks to give 3 equally shy of going to the root of the problem this would bring about is not on the radar of kgs of rice, 2 kgs of wheat and 1.5 kgs of lest that may annoy the bosses in Washington. the Planning Commission. coarse cereals. Total cost: Rs.1,24,724 The only difference is that while the ruling Only palliatives are proposed in the name At that time the wholesale change of poli- party professes its pragmatic secularism, the of new act on land acquisition, resettlement crore. As much as 67 per cent of the urban and rural population is expected cies was justified to remedy the situation. opposition has no qualms in using the con- and rehabilitation. Higher monetary comNow the remedy has proved worse than the juncture to push its divisive communalism in pensation in line with the prevailing market to be covered.

In the implementation of the Food Se- disease! Yet the mantra of “reforms” contin- an aggressive fashion. But in actuality, gov- rate for the land acquired; token provision of ernments of the states ruled by either of the jobs/compensation/ shares in the enterprise curity Act, the government is likely to be ues to enthrall the ruling classes.

“Reforms”, in a nutshell, call for drastic re- two adopt the same chauvinistic, anti-demo- eventually set up for those displaced/affaced with huge problems. Will the PDS duction in public expenditure; aligning the cratic, oppressive policies and practices. fected; eventual access to a fraction of the debe able to undertake the massive extra domestic prices of imported essentials like On the subject of international relations, veloped land;, an at tempt to eschew work? The government has to secure fuel with the global prices (both of which af- both have clearly accepted the lode-star di- multi-cropped land; and mandatory provimore foodgrains from the farmers, fect the masses very adversely); opening up rection of the US strategic and economic in- sions for resettlement and rehabilitation are arrange storage facilities – which do not the economy further and further to the global terests. Some differences arise in the contemplated. The approach is essentially exist now – and speed up movement. finance capital; ensuring that losses are borne immediate neighbourhood, mainly out defined by the dynamics of market. Its main Huge quantities of foodgrains are rotting by the state, and profits are guaranteed to the of their different domestic political histories objective is to legitimise the process of loot of land by speculative capital. Besides, this apnow in many places across the country capital through the so-called “Public Private and trajectories.

The most tragic consequence of this bi- proach misses the woods for the trees. The due to lack of storage facilities: the prob- Partnership”; and above all, legitimising, facilitating and encouraging the loot of natural partisan near-unanimity is the growing alien- problem of Land Acquisition is only a subset lem is likely to be worse when arrange- resources (land, water, forests, minerals, spec- ation of Kashmir, which also casts a deep of the larger Question of Land. No piecemeal ments have to be made for storing larger trum) by private, mainly speculative, capital. shadow on the very integrity of our polity. The approach will do. quantities of foodgrains.

The writer is IAS (Retd), former Finance All this in the name of releasing “animal other dangerous consequence is the growing There is speculation that the govern- spirits” of the business class. It does not need jingoism vis-a-vis two most important neigh- Secretary, Government of India, and former Member, Planning Commission; ment is in a hurry because it wants to any profound knowledge of economics to see bours, Pakistan and China.

Growth in GDP is a necessary but not suffiChairman and Managing Trustee, have a mid-term poll. The possibility that these policies will only aggravate rapaccient condition for people-centric developCentre for Policy Analysis that the government has a plan in this re- ity, plunder and venality.

While the ruling party continues to defend ment. Where 60 to 70 per cent of the workforce To be continued next Saturday gard cannot be ruled out.

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here’s someone in the room,” I whispered aloud to myself.

“It’s me, Corruption!” said a monster like figure coming out of the night’s shadows.

“What are you doing in my room?” I asked fearfully.

“Just came for a few laughs Bob. I heard people are trying to get rid of me? Exposing me in TV shows, newspaper columns, candle night marches, ha, ha, ha!”

“The way we are going about it, soon you will be history.” I said.

“Ha, ha, ha!” laughed Corruption, “Maybe it’s time you know a few truths about me!”

“We know enough to expose you!”

“Won’t work,” said Corruption,“because you carry on exposing me in others, whereas you dare not search for me inside your own selves!”

“In the last candle light march…”

“You all vowed to support the Anti-Me Bill?”

His Hiding Place.!

“Yes,” I said, “The anti-corruption bill!”

“Have things changed?”

“No,” I admitted, “But it soon will!”

“Never,” laughed Corruption showing his horribly ugly face.“You will never get rid of me!”

I got out of bed and stared Corruption in the eye.

BOB’S BANTER Robert Clements “Don’t!” shouted Corruption.

“Don’t what?”

“Don’t look at me like that, it’s scary! If you continue looking at me in the eye, you may find out where I hide!”

I stared Corruption in the eye, then had a

queasy feeling he was going back to his hiding place. I squirmed as I followed him, as he caught me in his arms and finally moved to settle in my heart. “You hide in me?” I whispered terrified. “How can I get rid of you?”

“By following the Truth!” thundered a voice from above as Corruption shivered, then started chuckling again.

“You laugh?” I asked.

“Because no one will believe you when you tell them, I live in the hearts of the same who want to get rid of me. The day they decide to stop giving a bribe, to choose to be just and fair, to commit themselves to Truth, that is the day I will vanish, but there’s no hope of that, is there? Ha, ha, ha!”

“Clean my heart Lord!” I prayed, “Let truth route out this monster living in me!”

And then I heard the laughter grow silent within.

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6,000 files missing? Shame on BMC IT is impossible for even a single file to go missing from any organisation, whether big or small. It is therefore amazing that 6,000 files related to prime properties in Mumbai have disappeared from the BMC office. This is clearly the intentional handiwork of the officials and staff of the Building Proposals Department, whose houses should be raided by the Anti-Corruption Bureau and their amassed wealth unearthed.

The Municipal Commissioner should also be taken to task and dismissed by the Government immediately for conniving with them. Unless strict action is initiated, such thefts will become a routine phenomenon in the BMC. Ultimately, it is the common man who has to suffer and is already suffering because of the nexus of the BMC, builders and politicians.

The fact that the Municipal Commissioner was aware of this massive theft, but chose to keep mum, clearly indicates that he was also hand in glove with the thieves.

Learn from the US WHEN there is a terror strike we look at the US and how they have dealt with the menace after 9/11.

However, when we are faced with a national calamity, we rely on the ingenious formula of pointing fingers.

Recently in America when the cyclone struck, US President Obama didn’t think twice about declaring it a national calamity and both parties- the Republicans and OF Democrats forgot their LETTER THE DAY political differences and stood together to initiate rescue work and rehabilitation. Can’t we learn something from them? Or does this not ‘suit’ our agenda?

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the hearts of the common man.

— Laxminarayanan Balakrishnan, Mumbai

The BMC Chief should also be held responsible for this shameful incident.

Who will now take the responsibility of bringing all these files back?

Since the elections are round the corner, it would be more appropriate for the government to initiate a CBI enquiry and punish all those guilty and win Food Minister intends to cover the entire country with the benefits of Food Bill by early January next year so that the UPA will reap the full benefits for the 2014 General Elections. It is indeed a political war and the people are the losers every time.

— Anandambal Subbu , Khargar

Remembering Motilal

THIS refers to the article ‘Motilal, the original Devdas’ (ADC, July 5). It speaks volumes of the actor, that he is remembered still even 48 years after he passed away. With his uncanny resemblance to another great, Balraj Sahni, Motilal stood — Abdul Monim, Vashi out for his polished, effortless acting that inspired many like Dilip Kumar and Rajesh Khanna in our filmdom.

His performances AT a time when the Himalayan in Mr.Sampat and Devdas were a Tsunami struck Uttarakhand and class in themselves and in the latter caused heavy losses, the Union he had the thespian Dilip Kumar as Government instead of having a the lead actor and excelled himself disaster management plan and a in the role of Chuuni Babu, Flood Security Bill to avoid such a with a flower garland around his calamity in future, is trying hard to wrist. He had an inimitable miscreate a Food Security Bill. The idea chievous look which set the tone of is to have a Food Security Bill which his acting and is unimitable by can set off a consumption boom in today’s actors who tend to be more India. However, by footing the bill theatrical and put up a more in Parliament, the Congress is trying laboured performance. It is quite to score brownie points that might fitting that ADC has come out with help it to face the public after being an article on him in this centenary tainted by scams and corruption year of our film industry. charges. Even if the bill is passed in — Dr.V. Subramanyan, Thane both Houses of the Parliament with a majority, it would guarantee rice at Rs. 3 per kg, wheat at Rs. 2 per kg and coarse grains at Rs. 1 per kg. BENI Prasad Varma’s reported comThere is stiff opposition within the ments on Mulayam Singh Yadav are Congress as Union Development certainly not in good taste and are Minister Jairam Ramesh wanted to despicable. The PM should not know if attempts to build a political allow such loose tongues to wag consensus were taken before hand. and should take stringent action to However, the Government is bound prove that a compliance of decency by law to get the ordinance ap- and diplomacy is essential and inproved by the Parliament within 6 evitable to remain in the Congress, weeks of its promulgation. Thus the and insanity will be shown the door Bill is hanging in a balance and the without any hesitation. We are sure Congress is just trying to push it to that the PM would enforce disciscore brownie points against the pline for the reason that such repopularity of the BJP under marks adversely affect the Modi. Further, the promulgation as- credibility of the party and himself. sumed urgency after reports The PM should also strongly advise emerged that the Election Commis- Digvijay Singh to keep himself away sion may announce elections in five and shun mouthing hypothetical states in September. Again, the versions of the BJP and other par-

Food Bill over Flood Bill

Loose tongues shouldn’t wag

‘6,000 files missing ‘ ( ADC , July 4 ), reveals the massive mismanagement of the city municipality, which is a deliberate attempt to suppress vital information of the builders constructing buildings and adopting malpractices in collusion with the Building Proposal Department staff, since both parties have a vested interest and can make money at the cost of hapless Mumbaikars . The BMC top brass should conduct an inquiry by an independent authority and investigate this colossal wrong doing as well as expose all those who are involved in this money making racket. It is a tough task for the Commissioner as there would definitely be interference by political heavy weights since they also face a threat to their own vested interests.

ing but an eyewash. Commuters have to pay a toll to use the ill-maintained roads where two-wheelers often skid leading to a loss of lives.

This proves that many potholes have become murderous weapons as they are never maintained by contractors on a regular basis. It is high time the officials take this matter seriously and ensure that all potholes are filled with good quality material thereby making for a smooth ride for the motorists and avoiding any further casualties and accidents.

— Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

Aadhaar card loopholes

ties, since it looks like that he is out to iron out and nullify any possibility of the Congress returning to power. Digvijay Singh’s remarks are being laughed out by well-meaning people with a brazen attitude.

THE Aadhaar card is useful in ascertaining a person’s identity and is therefore a must in the present system. It has now been proved as a ticket for property transaction as well. However, in certain pockets like banks, the Aadhaar card proves ineffective as it does not carry the much needed date of birth but only the year of birth. The card therefore has its advantages and disadvantages as well. For any property transaction, an individual will have to provide his biometric information (finger prints) as well as his Aadhaar Number to link the land or property record data with his UID number. This will ultimately make sure that no fraudulent and benami sales or transactions take place.

However, it is time to plug all the loopholes in the issue of Aadhaar cards in the future, so that their actual purpose is served.

— T.M. Uday Shankar, Mumbai

— R.S. Meenakshi, Nerul

— Bikram Banerjea Mumbai

Doppler and dopes

Cong must rev up tactics

IN the ongoing discussions on the Uttarkhand disaster, much noise is being made on the absence of the Doppler radar – which if available could have presumably prevented this disaster. What a joke. In 2005 after the Mumbai floods a Doppler radar was purchased. When it came there was no place to install it! It is probably rusting in some corner now. Let us assume that a Doppler radar was available at Uttarakhand.

Let us assume that the warning was given. Would people have listened or would the state government have had the courage to stop anyone from going to the dhams?

THE Congress appears to be unduly concerned about Narendra Modi’s

—T.R. Ramaswami, Kandivli

Pothole menace looms THE repair of potholes and their subsequent re-occurrence never seems to end. Less than 10 days ago after potholes on various roads were repaired, they have again started appearing, much to the annoyance and inconvenience of motorists. This highlights the negligent attitude of the authorities and reaffirms the general perception that the so-called repair work was noth-

— Arun Malankar, Santa Cruz

A safer TB Hospital THE BMC has decided to have air cleansing machines for the TB hospital at Sewri. It is good to see that the Additional Municipal Commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar is taking positive steps to ensure safety and health for the attending doctors who otherwise work in inhuman conditions at the TB hospital. The gas scavenging system has been successfully used abroad, as it pulls away the deadly virus surrounding operation theaters and circulates clean air. Scores of patients are waiting to be operated upon at the Sewri Hospital, and I am positive that once safety measures are in place, doctors will leave no stone unturned to treat the sick.

— Altaf H. Ladiwala, Bandra

Unutilised gas sources should be tapped IT is indeed a sad state that the Indian Government has not been able to control prices as the Indian rupee falls perilously low against the dollar. The government has now made a move to increase the prices of power, urea and CNG. This in turn will lead to an increase in the price of commodities, thereby burdening the common man. In a significant decision, which could have a farreaching impact on the price line, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the doubling of the price of natural gas for the first time in three years.

It is indeed a testing time for the Indian Economy and how it is going to come out of the rut in the days before General Election 2014 is only left to be seen. The RBI, as a watchdog, should play a pivotal role and the Union Government should be pro-active in making quick decisions before the situation goes out of hand.

— Calicut Krishnan, Seawood

There is no end to this disgusting, recurring menace.

media blitzkrieg. They have to just give a thought to the following and can be rest assured of a third successive term at the Centre: 1. The people who are swayed by Mr. Modi’s achievements in Gujarat and are hoping to see him as the next PM are those who just happen to support him by words and in writing only. They rarely take the trouble of visiting the polling booth.

This is evident from the very poor voter turn-out in the predominantly white-collared constituencies in all the elections held so far.

2. The presence in large numbers of the Aam Aadmi Party candidates in the country and MNS nominees in Maharashtra can make a severe dent in the traditional vote bank of the Saffron alliance. In Maharastra alone, the ‘secular’ CongressNCP combination can hope to grab a record number of 40 seats in the 2014 polls.

THE doubling of gas prices from April next year is a clear move by the government to please Reliance Industries before the next Parliamentary elections, as it would be the major beneficiary.

Gas procuring companies like Reliance and ONGC are clearly doing well, as they dish out huge dividends from mammoth profits they make each year. This means that the price they receive for gas produced is reasonable and one is really shocked at the govern-

Doubling of fuel prices will only increase the burden on the common man. ment’s decision to double prices next year.

While a gas producing company’s profits would rise immensely, the reverse would be the case for companies using power for manufacture and other activities. The poor would be badly affected, as not only will these companies pass on the power hike, but cooking gas as well as travel would also become costlier and unaffordable in the years to come.

We have vast resources of gas which have not yet been utilised adequately. We must use our resources to their value, thereby bringing down the prices of gas.

Also, people should not waste power and fuel. Power consumption can be reduced if we share vehicles and switch off power when not needed as ‘an ounce saved is an ounce earned’.

— S.N. Kabra, Goregaon

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MODELS & LFW JURY MEMBERS

Kuzma, Parul Duggal, Marcela Sevcikova and Akshi Khari. They are the chosen ones at the Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/ Festive 2013 model auditions.

The jury at Grand Hyatt comprised actor Sonal Chauhan, designers Vikram Phadnis and Marcellus Baptista Pria Kataria Puri, show directors Anu Ahuja and Rashmi Virmani, Saket Dhankar, head fashion, IMG Reliance and Bulbul Hooda, brand manager, Lakmé.

Style file

fashion flashed before your eyes as INIFD presented Vibrance FRESH 2013 at St. Andrew’s auditorium. Several student

LINDSAY PITTER

designers showed off their styles on top models like Alesia Raut and Candice Pinto among many more. The shining showstoppers were actors Prateik Babbar and Amyra Dastur who star in the upcoming film ‘Issaq.’ And joining them on stage was the film producer Dhaval Gada, college president Vivek Dhawan and vice-president Disha Dhawan.

SARITA & RAJESH ISRANI

Cheer factor

chatter blended with the beautiful music by COCKTAIL Reena Vaz and Lindsay Pitter at the launch of the

Ballantine’s lounge at Khar Gymkhana.

Inaugurated by Khar Gymkhana president Shyam Shroff and Nishant Jain of Pernod Ricard India, the place was packed with a merry mix of guests who sipped and savoured Ballantine’s Scotch whisky and also Absolut vodka cocktails and Nine Hills wines, plus fabulous finger food by Melting Pot. Yes, the cheer was well and truly on.

KALPANA GANDHI & SOMENATH MAITY REENA VAZ

Spaces and faces ABSTRACT

Between the lines THE

MINISSHA LAMBA

three-day India Non Fiction Festival, Asia’s first non-fiction festival, turned out to be a hit. Day one witnessed a book launch by M K Raghavendra in conversation with Mahesh Bhatt, Rahul Bose and Minissha Lamba. The festival also saw the presence of popular blogger Malini Agarwal, Tavleen Singh, Meena Menon, Harish Nambiar, Naresh Fernandes and celebrity yoga guru and author Payal Gidwani Tiwari.

AMYRA DASTUR, PRATEIK BABBAR & DHAVAL GADA

KALPANA SHAH

cityscapes were on view as Somenath Maity previewed his exhibition titled ‘Structures’ at Tao art gallery. Braving the rains and viewing the artworks were the likes of Kalpana Gandhi, Sarayu Doshi and gallery owner Kalpana Shah. And Somenath Maily was holding forth about the show, saying that ‘Structures’ was his expression of cityscapes in semi-abstract form, mainly comprising a play between colours and spaces.

LISTING

All Pics: Sumesh Rajan

1. The Navi Mumbai Science Foundation is conducting a seminar for

parents on ‘Managing a Child Scientist’ on Sunday, July 7 between 10.30 am and 12.15 pm at ICL School, Sector 15, Vashi. The key speakers are Dr. Lalit Sharma and Prakash Mhadik. Entry is free.

For more details contact: Dr. A. M. Bhagwat – 9324168510.

2. IWSA is conducting a one year diploma course in Pre-Primary

Teacher’s Training. Those who have failed in their HSC exams, but have passed their SSC boards and are unable to get admission in Junior College are eligible for the course. For more information contact on 9769239906.

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Damini Bagul, a student of St Joseph’s High School, New Panvel, won the gold medal in the 16 and 17 years Individual Kumite event + 48.1 kg Cadet Category of The Mumbai Mayor Cup Karate Championship held in Mumbai recently.

Special institute for special children I do not consider myself a victim of fate. But I am afraid...

I will become a victim of your neglect- Special Child.

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he proverb, ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’ suits Vinod Rawat and Mark Dharmani well. Both these men are not as fortunate as most of us, but have achieved so much by sheer will power; much more than what most of us achieve across our entire lifetime. Being differently-abled, Rawat and Dharmani have not only overcome the hurdles that life has thrown at them, but are now helping people around them to do the same.

Weaving their magic Overcoming physical disabilities which would be a serious setback to most, two magicians have harnessed their will power and set out to make a difference. By Amit Srivastav

By Amit Srivastav

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pecial children from Navi Mumbai have now got a permanent educational address with the opening of the new Education and Training Centre (ETC) by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC). The facility, which was inaugurated by Thane MP Sanjeev Naik in the presence of the Mayor, Sagar Naik, has been designed to ensure the all round development of these children.

Sanjeev Naik also appreciated the work of the ETC in bringing special kids to the mainstream in society. Mayor Sagar Naik praised the work of ETC and said, “I visited various cities in the country, however the NMMC is the only civic body which is working towards making special kids self-reliant and independent.”

Varsha Bhagat, Director of the centre expressed that there is need to see the children as special and not disabled. “If we refer to these kids as special kids, it will boost their morale and increase their self-confidence. The work undertaken by the NMMC as part of its social responsibility is worth appreciating,” said Bhagat. She added that the centre is not

a school, but in fact a resource centre where special kids are made to compete with normal children.

The new building has come up on a 4,000 sq. metre land at a cost of Rs 12.25 crore and has 67 classrooms. The centre has set an international benchmark for providing education, facilities and instruments to the children.

“Our main emphasis is on developing the overall personality of students and making them independent,” said Bhagat.

Mayor Naik said, “The NMMC has won many laurels in various fields and I have accepted awards as the first citizen of the city. However, it was a proud moment when I accepted the prize for the ETC’s functioning.” The ETC has won various awards at the national level including the Prime Minister’s award, the State Government Award for Best Organization working for the upliftment of the physically handicapped, and the Quality Council of India’s School Accreditation Certificate.

The ETC was first started by the NMMC in Rabale and then in Airoli. With the launch of this centre the students will now start learning at the new school.

Vinod Rawat (39) is proof that being differently abled is not a disability. A hardcore biker and trekking enthusiast, he has seen life’s dizzying heights (the man climbed 22,000 feet in the Himalayas) and its worst lows (a failed suicide attempt). Rawat, who lost his right leg at the age of six, has with his determination, participat-

I AM POSSIBLE MAGIC

Ugesh Sarcar, the magician, is one of the driving forces behind the duo’s dream of serving society. He taught them magic and made them believe that ‘I am Possible Magic’.

They now organise all their shows under the name ‘I am Possible Magic’ since they believe that everyone in the world has the power within them to make a change.

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ed in 10 seasons of the Mumbai marathon seeking assistance only from an artificial leg he received from Jaipur Foot in 1997. His life is more of a roller-coaster, leaving him facing several difficulties, particularly involving people taking advantage of his disability.

Mark Dharmani (29) may stand only four feet tall, but is a living testament that perseverance can help a man to overcome all obstacles. A former Paralympics medallist, he never let his background or circumstances hold him back. Dharmani grew up with what most people would consider a curse. He was born with a disability which left him shorter than most children his age and less intelligent. His slow learning forced him into isolation, but he fought against all odds and decided not only to make his presence felt, but also to support society.

The duo who for the last two months have been conducting magic shows at different venues in Mumbai and Bangalore, has decided to support the villagers of Uttrakhand who have lost everything in the recent flood. “This is what we can do at present for them.

Tourists have returned home with harrowing experiences, but what about the villagers who have lost everything including their houses,” said Rawat. In the last two months, they have conducted over 30 shows in the two cities after going through an initial training of six months from their mentor, veteran magician Ugesh Sarcar. “We have planned to conduct as many shows as we can till the Uttrakhand government allows us to go there. We will then help the villagers to return to their normal lives,” said Dharmani.

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Autobots Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide, Mirage (aka Dino), Wheeljack (aka Que) and Sideswipe led by Optimus Prime, are back in action taking on the evil Decepticons, who are eager to avenge their recent defeat. The Autobots and Decepticons become involved in a perilous space race between the United States and Russia, to reach a hidden Cybertronian spacecraft on the moon and learn its secrets, and once again Sam Witwicky has to come to the aid of his robot friends. The new villain Shockwave is on the scene while the Autobots and Decepticons continue to battle it out on Earth. H BO, 9 p.m.

STAR PLUS

P.M. 1.30 Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi-Meri Bhabhi 4.00 India’s Dancing Superstar 7.00 Ek Anand Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi-Meri Bhabhi 8.00 Har Yug Mein Aayega ek Arjun 9.00 India’s Dancing Superstar

STAR WORLD

COMEDY NIGHTS WITH KAPIL

In tonight’s episode, Kapil and his wacko family will welcome Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and director Rohit Shetty into their home for the promotion of their film, Chennai Express. The audience was in for a treat as some of them were invited on stage to interact with the stars. Kapil did not fail to make the stars burst into laughter, and Deepika was wiping away tears of laughter, with the handkerchief she could not let go off. The stars were seen catching their breath and doubling over in laughter. Colors, 10 p.m.

Miles and the troops provided by the Georgia Federation have been having a good deal of success and Monroe travels to their hometown where he threatens to kill every living soul unless Miles gives himself up to him. He says he will start the killing with Emma, a woman they both loved long ago. Monroe hasn’t returned to his hometown since his family died and Emma has an important piece of information for him. Rachel and Aaron travel west, crossing the Mississippi to the Plains Nation, arriving at La Grange, Missouri. In the marketplace, Aaron sees someone from his past. When they finally meet face to face, the reception isn’t what he had hoped for. Star Worl d, 9 p.m.

HOW TO GROW A PLANET

We might think humans are the most powerful living thing on Earth, but it’s plants that time and again have set the agenda for life. All animals rely on plants for their survival. This is not an accident - they are the most powerful evolutionary force on Earth.

Plants enabled amphibians to leave the water, they had a hand in the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and they ensured the ultimate triumph of insects, mammals, birds and even us - all for their own benefit. Because, plants have only ever had one goal - the total domination of the planet. It is a story of ruthless ingenuity, seduction and deception; of unimaginable power and ambition. An epic tale, How to Grow a Planet offers a stunning new perspective on Earth’s history. Discover y, 9 p.m.

THE AMAZING SPIEZ

The story of 3 brothers, TONY, MARC and LEE CLARCK, and their sister MEGAN. These kids have been secretly selected by the World Organization of Human Protection - WOOHP to become international spies. Together, these young spies will have to juggle between the daily lives of an average 12 year-old, and intense, realistic spy missions. Di scover y Sci en ce, 5 p.m.

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

INDIAN IDOL JUNIOR

Sonakshi and Ranveer visited the sets of Indian Idol Junior to promote their upcoming movie ‘Lootera’. The stage was set and one by one the little wonders weaved melody along with songs with a twist. For each junior selected to sing songs from the year in which they all were born. Not to be left behind Sonakshi and Ranveer both took center stage alongside Indian Idol Junior contestants to sing their favorite songs too. Sony T V, 8.30 p.m.

POLICE DIAL 100

In tonight’s episode two real crime incidents are cracked by the Delhi police. In the first incident a mother kills both her children and then commits suicide. Investigations are on to figure out what was the real reason behind the woman taking such an extreme step. Meanwhile in the second incident 2 young girls are caught wandering by a constable. He questioned them and brings them back to police station. They claim that they were kidnapped by a group of men. What happened to these girls and how will they be reunited with their parents? How will the police catch the real culprits in both the cases ? Life Ok, 7 p.m.

TV WITH TEETH

From reptiles to amphibians to terrestrial animals, TV WITH TEETH explore these fascinating animals eating more than what we actually imagine they can actually chew. Ani mal Pl anet, 11 p.m.

MOVIES OF THE DAY

A rich quadriplegic, living in a mansion in Paris, requires a livein carer. A young offender turns up for an interview, but he is not really looking to get the job. However, to his surprise, he is hired.

The two men then develop a close friendship. Starring François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny. Star Movies, 9 p.m .

INDRA - THE TIGER

INDRA is a soft, caring and kind zamindar of a village near Hyderabad. In the same village lives another zamindar family of Shivnath, his sons Veershankarnath and Four brothers, daughter Sneha. Indra and Veerashankarnath’s families are enemies, and this is coming from their forefathers. Seeing Indra’s nature and braveness, Sneha starts loving Indra. Veerashankar & brother plans to kill Indra on weddingday, but accidentally Indra’s sister and brother-in-law dies. Indra gets angry and hurts everyone at Veerashankar’s home and kills his brothers, seeing this Sneha gets angry with Indra. Indra leaves the village along with his neice and Nephew and settles down at Varanasi. Film y, 9 p.m.

JAB TAK HAI JAAN

Jab Tak Hai Jaan, is a love triangle between the 3 central characters- Samar, Meera and Akira . In the movie, Shahrukh Khan plays the character of Samar who is angry & unforgiving. His role will span two ages, one in his late twenties as a musician based in London and the other at an older age as an introverted, composed, dutiful army officer in Kashmir. Meera play as a seductress, an This drives Samar to despair and he joins the Indian Army as a bomb diffuser. Samar challenges God to keep him alive while he will risk his life every day because he believes his death is the only way to make Meera lose her faith in the deity who stole his love. Akira is a young reporter who while researching on the indestructible unattainable beauty who steals Samar’s heart but vows to stay away from him after a life threatening accident. Samar, uncovers the real reason for this stoic nature. Max, 9 p.m.

Jimmy Tong is just a lowly chauffeur for millionaire Clark Devlin, until Devlin has an accident that puts him in the hospital.

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

REVOLUTION

THE TUXEDO

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P.M. 2.30 Mastrchief Australia: The Professional 6.30 Two and A Half Men 7.00 Grey’s Anatomy 8.00 New Girl 9.00 Revolution 10.00 The Next Three Days

SOAPS & SERIALS

INTOUCHABLES

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Intouchables, Star Movies, 9 p.m.

Tong is sent back to fetch some things for Devlin and unknowingly tries on Devlin’s tuxedo and finds that it gives extraordinary powers to anyone that dons the suit. This discovery thrusts Tong into world of international intrigue and espionage and pairs him with an inexperienced partner. Pix, 9 p.m.

TRON;LEGACY

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 20 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant, father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous. Zee Studio, 11 p.m.

DEV.D

Dev who, after spurning Paro’s love due to a misunderstanding, turns to drugs and vodka for solace. Paro moves on but Dev still is in remorse. He meets Chanda, a prostitute with problems of her own. Dev likes her but his penchant for self-destruction prevents him and Chanda from truly getting together. He also meets sleazy people like Chunni, Chanda’s pimp who drags Dev further into self-destruction to further his own needs.

B4U, 9 p.m.

P.M. 2.30 5.30 7.30 8.30

ZEE CAFÉ

The Carrie Diaries Grey’s Anatomy Under the Dome The Carrie Diaries

BIG CBS LOVE

Beauty and the Beast Summerland Under The Dome X Factor Game

SONY TV

Crime Patrol Mere Dad Ki Maruti: Film Adaalat Indian Idol Junior 2013 10.00 CID

STARMOVIES

P.M. 1.55 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 4.25 Snow White and The Huntsman 6.55 Baby’s Day Out 9.00 Intochables 11.10 Death Race

HBO

P.M. 1.35 The Matrix Revolutions 4.25 Transporter 3 6.35 Charlie and The Chocolate Factory 9:00 Transformers: Dark of the Moon

ZEE STUDIO

P.M. 1.00 Smoking Aces 3.00 Surogates 4.55 The Waterboy A.M. 9.20 11.30 P.M. 1.15 3.55 6.25 9.00 11.05

STARMOVIES

Safe House Death Race

The Hulk John Carter X Men: First Class Rise of the Planet of Apes Con Air

HBO

A.M. 8.50 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 11.45 Transformers: Dark of The Moon P.M. 3.00 Charlie and The Chocolate Factory 5.25 Disaster Movie 7.05 Puss In Boots

ZEE TV

LISTING

P.M. 12.00 2.30 5.00 7.00 9.00 10.30

Punar Vivaah Film DID Super Moms Club Repeat DID Super Moms Fear Files

P.M. 12.00 3.00 5.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00

Film Shapath Devo Ke Dev Mahadev Police Dial 100 Kahani Mahadev Ki Shapath Savadhaan India Police Dial 100

P.M. 12.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 11.00 P.M. 12.00 3.00 5.30 8.30

LIFE OK

2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00

Tuze Maze Jamena Mala Saasu Havi Radha Hi Bawri Pakke Shejari Tu Tithe Mee Mala Sasu Havi Tuze Maze Jamena Home Minister Tu Tithe Mee Radha Hi Bawri Unch Maza Zoka Mala Saasu Havi Tuze Maze Jamena

DDI (Main Channel)

Saturday Special Who Hue Na Hamare Yeh Dil Ke Rishtey Meri Baat Jashn-E-Bahar Music Pet Care Rajdhani Samachar Film Songs Swas The Bharat News Samachar Yeh Zindagi Hai Gulshan

11.00 Desire and Pleasure Decoded

Know About 10.00 Snippers 11.00 Monsters Inside Me

P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 10.00 11.00

P.M 2.00 3.00 4.30 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.30 11.00

P.M. 2.00 Aamir Khan Decoded with Karan Johar 3.00 People in Motion 4.00 Stan Lee’s Superhumans 9.00 The Business Buffet 11.00 Black Ops

ANIMAL PLANET

River Monsters Animal Planet’s A to Z Wild Connections TV with Teeth Wildest Africa Wildest River Monsters Animal Planet A To Z. TV with Teeth: Gannets

Nautanki Ke Super Over Sasural Simar Ka Balika Vadhu Madhubala Jhalak Dikhlajaa Comedy Nights with Kapil Shaitan – A Criminal Mind

SAHARA ONE

Pehchaan: Film: Raveena Niyati Himmatwala: Jeetendra No Entry: Anill Kapoor

ZEE MARATHI

P.M. 2.00 Tu Tithe Mee

9.00 Pearl Harbor

PIX

P.M. 12.30 Agent Cody Banks 2.15 Catch Me If You Can 4.45 Blue Lagoon: The Awakening 6.45 Rango 9.00 The Tuxedo 11.05 Spiderman

STAR GOLD

P.M. 2.30 Vijaypath 5.25 Baadshah 9.00 Wanted

MAX

P.M. 2.00 Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani: Govinda

9.30 Eka Peksha Ek P.M. 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 8.00

SAB TV

Jeanie Aur Juju Taarak Chidiya Ghar Lapataganj-Ek Baar Phir FIR Chintu Bun Gaya Gentleman Taarak Mehta Ka… Gutur Goon 2

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 4.00

5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00

DISCOVERY

House Hazards Swamp Brothers How Stuff Works What Happened Next Man vs Wild Wildlife American Guns Man Vs Wild How to Grow A Planet Man Woman Wild

ZEE CINEMA

P.M. 2.30 Chaalbaaz: Sunny Deol 6.00 Veerana: Hemant Birje 9.00 Dhamaal: Sunjay Dutt

CVO

P.M. 2.00 Bade Dil Wala: Rishi Kapoor 5.30 Aakhri Ghulam: Mithun C 9.00 Janbaaz: Feroz Khan, Sridevi

FILMY

P.M. 12.00 Blackmail: Ajay Devgan

9:00 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 11.25 The Three Musketeers

ZEE STUDIO

Gladiator

Last Night Pearl Harbor Hostel Goal II: Living The Dream Mars Needs Moms

PIX

Paul Blart: Mall Cop Rango

The Tuxedo Spiderman

4.45 7.05 9.00 11.05

A.M. 9.00 P.M. 12.00 3.40 6.00 9.00

Robocop 2 Daddy Day Camp Kung Fu Panda Red

STAR GOLD

Main Krishna Hoon

Housefull 2 Janbaaz Ki Jung Akhiyon Se Goli Maare Ek Tha Soldier

MAX

A.M. 7.00 Kishen Kanhaiya: Anil Kapoor 10.30 Ishaqzaade: Parineety C P.M. 2.00 Sooryavansham: Anupam Kher

9.00 Ek Kiran Roshni Ki 9.30 TARA RUM PU M : Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherkee

DDII (Metro Channel)

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.30 6.00 6.05 6.30 7.00

Samachar News Mehnat Rang Layegi Prime Meridian News Rajyon Se Samachar News Headline Roving Report Ehsaas Samachar

Tara Rum Pum, DDI, 9.30 p.m.

7.05 7.30 8.00 9.30 10.00 11.00 11.05 11.30

Khel Samachar Market This Week Samachar Ek Mulaqat Badi Charcha Mukhya Samachar Khel Samachar Market This Week

P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30 6.00 7.00 7.30

SCIENCE

Pop Science Future Of… Storm Chasers How Do They Do It The Amazing Spiez Massive Machines Frontier of Flight Some Assembly Required Mean Machines Translantic Challenge 8.00 Food Detectives 8.30 Everything You Need To

ZEE TALKIES

P.M. 12.00 Aamhi Saatpute: Sachin 3.00 Kaaksparsha: Sachin Khedekar 6.00 Guldasta: Makrand Anaspure 9.00 Vastraharan

5.30 Yamla Pagla Deewana: Sunny Deol 9.00 Jab Tak Hai Jaan: Shahrukh K

MOVIE CHANNELS-SUNDAY

A.M. 8.30 10.25 P.M. 12.40 2.30

1001 Nights Transformers Prime Wild Kratts Amazing Spiez 1001 Nights Sally Bollywood Adventures of Tintin Transformers Prime Wild Kratts 1001 Nights

Aamir Khan Decoded with Karan Johar, History, 2 p.m. Indian Idol Junior 2013, Sony TV, 8.30 p.m.

MOVIE CHANNELS-SATURDAY

A.M. 10.20 P.M. 1.00 3.00 6.55 9.00 11.30

DISCOVERY KIDS

COLORS

DOORDARSHAN

P.M. 12.00 3.00 3.30 4.00 5.00 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.15 7.30 8.00 8.15 8.30

9.00 Chintu Bun Gaya Gentleman 10.00 Waah Waah Kya Baat Hai

CARTOON NETWORK

The Tuxedo, Pix, 9 p.m.

3.00 Dhan Daulat: Rishi Kapoor 6.00 Gair: Ajay Devgan 9.00 Indra-The Tiger

B4U

P.M. 12.00 Amar Deep: Rajesh Khanna 4.00 Life Ki Script: Ronit Roy 8.00 Dev D: Abhay Deol

5.30 Ek Tha Tiger: Salman Khan 9.00 Policewala Gunda: Pawankalyan

P.M. 1.30 Chhota Chintu Bada Feku 3.00 Henry Special: Chhutti Kardunga 4.30 Ben 10 5.30 Oggy Oli La Lu Li 7.00 K&B Kalvakra The Dark Enemy 8.30 Chhota Chintu Bada Feku 10.00 Balkand 2

POGO

P.M. 2.00 Krish Trish Bal Tiboy

CVO

A.M. 10.00 Sharabi: Dev Anand P.M. 1.30 Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate: Anil Kapoor 5.30 Kshatriya: Sunny Deol 9.00 Red Alet-The War Within: Sunil Shetty

FILMY

A.M. 9.00 Heer Ranjha: Raj Kumar P.M. 12.00 Sandwich: Govinda 3.00 Vishwanath: Shatrughan Sinha 6.00 Lajja: Anil Kapoor 9.00 Indra-The Tiger: Chioranjeevi

B4U

A.M. 8.00 Ek Duje Ke Liye: Kamala Hasan P.M. 12.00 Jungle: Fardeen Khan 4.00 Black Don: Mohanlal

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P.M. 2.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00

NGC

Banged Up Abroad In the Womb Most Amazing Moments Lion Ranger Into The Crystal Cave Inside Taboo

STAR CRICKET

P.M. 2.30 T20 Dhamaka 3.00 ICC Champions Trophy 2013 h/ls 7.00 Palostam Tour of India 12/13 h/ls 7.10 Friends Life T20 2013 10.30 T20 Dhamaka

ESPN

P.M. 2.00 Jai Ho 2.30 Friends Life T20 2013 h/ls 3.00 T20 Dhamaka 3.30 Champions Ka Champion 4.00 Friends Life T20 2013 highlights 4.30 T20 Dhamaka 5.00 Wimbledon C’ships 2013 11.30 MLB Regular Season ‘13 3.30 Chhota Bheem 4.30 Hamara Heo Shaktimaan 6.00 Chhota Bheem In The Master of Shaolin 7.30 Krish Trish Baltiboy 9.00 Chhota Bheem Marathon

DISNEY CHANNEL

P.M. 2.00 3.30 4.00 8.00 8.30

Doraemon Phineas And Ferb Doraemon Shake It Up Doraemon

DISNEY XD

P.M. 2.00 Rescue Force 5.00 Iron Man Armored Adventures 6.00 Spiderman 8.00 Iron Man Armored Adventures 9.00 Beetleborgs Metallix

10.00 Scooby Doo and the Samurai Sword

POGO

ZEE CINEMA

A.M. 9.45 Maine Pyaar Kiya: Salman K P.M. 1.45 Players: Abhishek B 5.15 Hum Saath Saath Hain: Salman K 9.00 ABCD_Any Body Can Dance: Prabhu Deva

HISTORY

Goal II: Living The Dream, Zee Studio, 9 p.m.

9.00 Fashion: Priyanka Chopra

ZEE TAKIES

P.M. 12.00 Hirya Kunku: Teja Devkar 3.00 Ya Gol Dabyatalya: Ashok Saraf 6.00 Fu Bai Fu 9.00 Navra Maza Navsacha: Sachin P

CARTOON NETWORK

A.M. 8.00 9.30 10.00 10.30

P.M. 12.00 1.30 3.00 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 7.00 8.30 9.30

Krishna The Birth Angry Birds Ben 10 Oggy and the Cockroaches

Roll No 21 Ben 10 Oggy & the Cockroaches Dragons: Riders of the Berk Gumball Ki Atrangi Duniya Oggy & the Cockroaches Oggy Oli La Lu Li Roll No 21 Ben 10 Beywheels

A.M. 8.00 Khoj Behta Khoj 9.30 Chhota Bheem 10.30 Chhota Bheem And Crown of Valhalla P.M. 12.00 Chhota Bheem Incan Adventure 1.30 Chhota Bheem In The Curse 3.30 Gurgura Special 5.00 Bachao Bachao Special 6.30 Chhota Bheem Incan Adventure 8.00 Barbie Of Swan Lake 9.30 Mr Bean 10.00 Sacn 2 Go 10.30 Mr Bean

DISNEY CHANNEL

A.M. 8.00 9.00 10.30 11.00 P.M. 12.00 3.00 3.30 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00

Doraemon Art Attack Best of Luck Nikki 3 Shake It Up

Doraemon The Suite Life of Karan And Kabir Shake It Up Best of Luck Nikki Phineas and Ferb Doraemon Art Attack Suite of Karan & Kabir Shake It Up Best of Luck Nikki Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Three Mouseketeers

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Lootera

At: Cinemax and other cinemas Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane Cast: Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha, Adil Hussain and others Rating: ½

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HEN every other nonmainstream filmmaker in Bollywood is aspiring to be Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino, here’s a young filmmakers from the same school who tries to go the way Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Rituparno Ghosh. There are the Charulata moments, the Khandhar moments and drama happening in old Bengal Baadis (mansions) was such a Ghosh obsession. There seems to be a trace of The Bengali Night too.

Audiences in urban areas today, particularly the type that frequent multiplexes, are so unused to a tradition of slow, period romances that they might be startled into either loving it or rejecting it outright.

The 1950s and its mores are also so alien to Motwane and his young protagonists, that they may get the ‘look’ right and set the tone by playing film songs of that period in the background, but there is still a feeling of watching kids playing at fancy dress.

To deal with repressed emotions and passion of that period, needed a Raj Kapoor or Bimal Roy — think Aah or Bandini — and though Motwane tries his best and so do the ac-

When a man claiming to be an archaeologist lands up at their mansion, he is welcomed and offered all help. Varun (Singh) is a charmer and Pakhi is immediately enamoured. To find a way to meet him without censure, she pretends to learn painting from him, though she has been educated at Santiniketan and knows more about art than he does.

A romance develops while there is tumult around. Post Independence, socialism being the political stance then, zamindari is abolished; while losing his land causes Pakhi’s father much anguish, it is the betrayal by Varun, the stealing of priceless artefacts and the humiliation of his daughter abandoned on the day of her engagement, that kills the dignified old man.

The already ill Pakhi moves to the family’s summer home in Dalhousie — the outside as desolate as her broken heart. The local cop K.N. Singh wants her help to catch the gang of thieves who prey on weaktors Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi ened royalty. Pakhi knows Varun Sinha, even channelling an O’Henry will show up and keeps a silent vigil. climax doesn’t touch the heart or When he does arrive, and pursued cause the eye to tear up to a cathar- by the cops, ends up hiding at her sis that such a story ought to have home, she shows anger but also a evoked. See Barun Chanda playing curious indifference to having the the dignified zamindar and the man punished. For Varun, it is a heroine’s father, to understand what time to atone and seek redemption. acting is all about. Or Adil Hussain Those who know O’Henry’s The Last as the world-weary cop K.N. Singh Leaf, can guess how it ends, those (a nod to the famous character who don’t will probably not be all actor of the time) expressing so that surprised, because of the foreshadowing. But the end is abrupt and tagged on, without adequate build up.

Sonakshi Sinha, who has so far played the typical hip-swinging Bollywood heroine, does the second half with a deglam look and a stillness that has almost been lost in mainstream cinema. She keeps interest in the film alive, even after the slow pace and scattered screenplay has started to kick in boredom.

Ranveer Singh brings out the conflict of his character to some extent, Deepa Gahlot but Varun is obviously out of his range.

The production design is splenmuch with just his voice.

However, the film is not without did, and Mahendra Shetty’s cineits merits, and that it was allowed to matography painterly. The music is be made at all on such a lavish scale, pleasing, though the background in the time of lumpen-pleasing score could have been used with films by the very producers who some restraint.

Because Lootera is a cluttermake them, is a minor miracle in itself. Motwane does handle the first breaker, so good-looking and made half of the story with delicacy, hu- with such an eagerness to please, it mour and affection for his heroine. deserves a look, but be prepared to Pakhi (Sinha) is the pampered be underwhelmed... because masdaughter of a Zamindar who dotes terpieces happen, they are not on her and bows to her every whim. planned.

FILM REVIEW

The Wild West The Lone Ranger

At: Cinemax and other cinemas Directed by Gore Verbinski Cast: Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson and others Rating: ½

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OLLYWOOD is digging out any possible source that can give rise to an action franchise — books, comics, video games, amusement park rides and what not. Often simple stories of bravery, friendship, loyalty get the full CGI bloat, with no pause or subtlety whatsoever.

The Lone Ranger a retro Cowboy

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and Injun story set in the Wild West, that fans around the world must have grown up on, is turned into an action adventure like Pirates of The Caribbean.

The radio series had run for about 3000 episodes , spawned TV series and two films, none and extravagant as this one. Verbinski’s film is entertaining in most part, but also over long. It is also obvious that a franchise will come out of this film.

In the tried and tested tradition of superhero and vigilante films, Armie Hammer plays the legendary alter ego of lawman John Reid, with his Red Indian sidekick Tonto played by Johnny Depp with much relish.

The film begins in 1933, with a boy seeing a carnival attraction called “The Noble Savage.” The kid is astounded when what he thought

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Life of Pi – 2 Disc Special Edition Rs. 599/Cast: Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Suraj Sharma Directed By: Ang Lee 4 Academy awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual effects and Best Original score; Life of Pi has a great plot and outstanding performance by debutant Suraj Sharma. The movie has many highs; from directly connecting with the Indian audience on home turf, it also excels with amazing special effects, cool background score and breathtaking locales.

Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Yann Martel, Life of Pi is a heart touching story of the human spirit in times of tragedy. It displays the courage and hope with which we have to live during times of trial.

Pi Patel (adult - Irrfan Khan) tells a story of his life to journalist Yann (Rafe Spall) through flashbacks. Chided by his school peers whose tease him for his name, Piscine (aged 13) finally shows his intellect when he shortens his name and uses the mathematical side to what his name means. Meanwhile, back home, Pi is wonderstruck by God and God’s creation.

He becomes entranced by Islam, Hinduism, and Catholicism and one day informs his family that he wants to be baptised. Pi, who is the youngest son of circus owner Santosh (Adil Hussain), feels that even

animals have a soul just like humans, and when reprimanded for getting close to a tiger, he feels that there is no harm in interacting with them. His parents think otherwise.

When Pi (teenager - Suraj Sharma) turns 16, Santosh decides to sell the family business in Pondicherry and immigrate to Canada with his family.

Enroute a raging storm causes the cargo ship with zoo animals to overturn. Pi loses his family, but manages to save himself and escapes in a lifeboat with four animals. Here lies the crux of the story where Pi fights off the animals and is left with the tiger called Richard Parker. Trapped for countless days, Pi learns how to live each day with the tiger.

Disc 1 has a bonus features while Disc 2 has a short featurette.

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What is the name of the tiger? a) Scott b) Richard Parker c) Rex

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of as a statue comes alive. The leathery old Native American narrates his adventures 60 years ago.

The upright anti-gun Reid becomes a reluctant ranger after his bounty hunter brother Dan (James Badge Dale) and his team are brutally killed by the evil Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner) in an ambush. It takes a while and some action set pieces for Reid and Tonto (in weird dead-crow-on-head getup) to become a baddie-fighting team.

Meanwhile there’s the railroad tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson), who has nefarious plans of his own and a corrupt US Marshal (Barry Pepper) to complete a troika of vil-

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lains. Helena Bonham Carter hobbles in at some point, as a onelegged madam just to give the boys’ movie a bit of female presence, along with Ruth Wilson in a minor and pointless role as Reid sister-inlaw.

It’s comic book story telling, so audiences are not supposed to think of or question the American conquest and subjugation of the Native Americans or exploitation of poor Chinese railroad workers. Just enjoy the old-style recreation of the Wild West, and its beautiful vistas. With the introductions and background done here, the next Lone Ranger and Tonto movie might actually be more fun.

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CHS cannot collect transfer fees as voluntary donations

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EXPERT SPEAK Gajanan Khergamker

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

TODAY, A COPARCENER CAN BEQUEATH ‘HIS’ SHARE MUCH on the lines of a joint tenancy, coparcenary is distinct in that it is constituted within the family. The doctrine of survivorship as against the law of succession is also applicable in the coparcenary which is a creation of law and cannot be created by a contract.

In the Old Hindu School (Mitakshara) a coparcenary came about by the birth of a son in the family joint in food, worship and estate.

Here, upto four degrees of male members of a Hindu family counting from the head of the family – the Karta, constitute what is known as the coparcenary. The coparcenary, incidentally, excludes female members.

The members of coparcenary are known as coparceners who by virtue of birth in the family have a corresponding interest in the joint family property.

The coparcener’s interest continues to fluctuate with the births and deaths in the family.

A family is known to be a pool of common interest in its unity of possession in that every coparcener has a right to be in joint possession and enjoyment of joint family property. That said, a coparcener also has a corresponding right to be maintained and get married.

All the necessary expenses for the same are to be defrayed out of the joint family funds.

Coparceners are bound by the alienation of joint family property made by the ‘karta’ for legal necessity or for the benefit of the estate.

The Hindu Succession Act, 1956, however, watered down the concept of the coparcenary significantly.

Following the enactment of the Act, undivided share in the joint family property of a coparcener dying intestate, but leaving behind female heirs, passes to his heirs according to Hindu law and not by survivorship to the surviving coparceners.

Today, a coparcener can also bequeath his share of the joint family property. If a coparcener dies intestate without leaving behind any female heirs, his share would still devolve by survivorship on the surviving coparceners.

No coparcener has a definite right, title and interest in any particular item or portion thereof.

That said, a coparcener has right, title and interest in every part and parcel of the joint property or coparcenary property.

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Can a society clear a seemingly ‘illegal’ transfer fee in excess of what’s laid down by the law? Isn’t donation supposed to be a voluntary act?

— Taufiq Qureshi

Any time, a cooperative housing society member wants to sell his property anywhere in Mumbai, he is bullied into coughing up way beyond the officially ‘legal’ transfer fee of a maximum Rs 25,000. The excess he pays ranges from Rs 5,000 in case of small societies to as high as a few lakhs of rupees depending on the size, status and level of moral accountability of society in question.

Cooperative housing societies and their managing committees charging the fees are spurred by a skewed sense of logic in their acts of misdemeanor. “If a member’s getting a good price for his flat, it’s because we’ve collectively maintained the society and the common amenities too, right? Why then, should the member be reluctant to ‘donate’ something for the society that he’s lived in, for years? He pays only voluntarily and as a gesture of goodwill!” is the regular quip of managing committee members ‘charging’ donation fees.

Any argument, however illogical, is permissible in a democracy but only in the context of a debate and within socially-approved parameters. Managing committee members have even evolved ways to elbow outgoing members into paying up the excess. Dumping all notions of legal decorum and social etiquette, society’s managing committee members refuse to provide their ‘No-Objection Certificate’ for the purpose of sale and transfer to the outgoing member.

While it may be realised that, by law, no member needs a No-Objection certificate for the sale of one’s own property in a cooperative housing society, there’s a bit of a glitch here. A potential buyer intending to ‘purchase’ a flat in a society usually pays the amount through a loan approved from a financial institution which, almost mandatorily, insists upon a No-Objection certificate from the cooperative housing society housing the property. If the outgoing member refuses to pay up the excess, in cash or in the form of a ‘voluntary donation to the society’ as is usually the case, the managing committee would delay, procrastinate, sometimes outrightly refuse to give the new member, the required No-Objection certificate in order to avail the loan on the property. In the absence of a clear intention to provide a No-Objection certificate, no buyer would be keen on ‘buying’ a property however clean in its title.

So, by creating a sense of ambiguity to the otherwise legally-clear title of a property, the societies’ managing committees continue to intimidate and blackmail members keen on selling their own properties.

The Co-operative Court has held the housing society can place “reasonable restrictions” on the transfer of a flat to prevent nuisance from unwanted elements but that does not mean that the society can have such a right of profiteering out of the co-operative movement.

However, in practice, the complete

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The very concepts of ‘donation’ and ‘coercive tactics’ employed by the managing committees of Cooperative Housing Societies urgently need to be examined at length. adverse holds true.

The law clearly puts down that even though there is no necessity of the society’s No Objection certificate for the transfer of flat, according to Rule 24 of the Rule 1961, he has to give a 15-day notice to the society before transferring the flat. On receipt of such notice, the Secretary should place the same before the meeting of the committee and take decision thereof before 30 days and inform such decision to the member within 8 days from the decision of society. If Society has not taken any decision of transferring the share certificate within the 3 months stipulated period as per provision in Section 22(2) there is a provision to appeal before the Register under Section 23(2).

Now, no outgoing member selling his property will want to delay the process of transfer by resorting to the law so he puts up with the vagaries of his managing committee and pays up, what he sees, as his last dues, however illegal. That apart, while there’s no need for a society’s No Objection Certificate to validate a transfer where a seller is concerned, it’s needed by financing agencies much on the line of a Non Encumbrance Certificate to ensure the title’s clear of risk in financing the buyer’s interest.

The very concepts of ‘donation’ and ‘coercive tactics’ employed by Cooperative Housing Society’s managing committees urgently need to be examined at length. While the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act (1960) and the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Rules (1961) don’t address the subjects exclusively, contesting members could check whether the funds collected are accounted for Gift Tax, Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax as the case may warrant.

Also, with every transfer of property within a cooperative housing society

eliminating the ‘voluntary donation’, despite it being a pre-requisite for the transfer, could well be a breach of the Indian Stamp Act and Indian Registration Act. The cooperative housing society, by way of non-disclosure of income and concurrent non-payment of legal dues, deprives the State of taxable dues. The state authorities may, in time, plug the snag by way of legislation but till then corrupt managing committees will continue to compromise the law and bully members into paying up and, pocket the ‘voluntary donations’ which are simply lost in the quagmire of societal accounting that concentrates on ‘collected dues and outstanding amounts’, ‘dayto-day expenditures to run the society’ and ‘service charges’ all of which are accountable and ‘open’ to member examination.

Cooperative housing societies, in the absence of a legitimate ‘check’ on their general body meetings, continue to pass ‘patently-illegal’ resolutions by simple ‘show of hand’ majorities, ‘signature campaigns’ and ‘bullying tactics’.

Resolutions of a ‘general rule’ to collect ‘fixed’ yet ‘voluntary’ donations from all sellers are passed in general body meetings in violation of the law and the very spirit of cooperation.

Now, how can a ‘voluntary’ donation be ‘fixed’ and collected as ‘a rule’ from members selling their premises?

However, even if a single or few members object, the stand of most corrupt managing committee members – Chairmen and Secretaries is: “What difference does it make? If we all are agreeable to something, his singular opinion doesn’t matter.”

But then, whether it’s against a single felon or a group of rioters, the law on it doesn’t change. It takes its own course!

Stick to it.

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SAMURAI SUDOKU 265 MUMBAI | SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2013

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DOMINOES 265

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A normal set of dominoes — that is, one instance of every (unordered) pair of numbers from 0 to 6 — has been arranged irregularly into a rectangle; then the number in each square has been writen down and the dominoes themselves removed. Your task is to reconstruct the pattern by arranging the set of dominoes to match the provided array of numbers. Please note that each domino is a unique one and occurs only once in each puzzle.

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CODE WORDS 148

In each puzzle every letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a number; the same number represents the same letter throughout the puzzle. To start you off, we give you three letters and the numbers which have replaced them.

When you’ve filled in these letters throughout the puzzle you’ll have enough clues to start guessing words and discovering other letters. To help you keep track, as you find a letter, slot it into the grid provided and cross it off the list.

To help you keep track, as you find a letter, slot it into the grid provided and cross it off the list.

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HITORI 265

The objective of Hitori is to mark out the incorrect cells. The rules are: a) A Number may never appear more than once in each row or column. b) Marked or incorrect cells are never adjacent in a row or a column. c) Unmarked cells create a single continuous area, undivided by marked cells.

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SOLVE THIS FREE FORM CROSSWORD WHERE THE WORDS ARE REPRESENTED

BY PICTURES SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK’S PICTURE CROSSWORD

ACROSS: 4 Leaf, 6 Cake, 7 Ginger, 8 Farmer, 13 Elephant, 14 Balloons, 15 Heart.

DOWN: 1 Kitten, 2 Icecream, 3 Camera, 5 Flemingo, 7 Grapes, 9 Angel fish, 10 Jeep, 11 Donkey, 12 Baby.

SOLUTION TO CODE WORDS 147

Can you find the words connected in one way or the other with the theme indicated by the title in today’s Word Search? The words may be read horizontally, vertically or diagonally either forwards or backwards, but always in straight lines. Use a ruler to cross them through as you find them.

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WORDLIST: Ashes, Bail, Ball, Bat, Block, Box, Bye, Cover, Cut, Drive,

Duck, Extras, Four, Googly, Gully, Hook, ICC, Lbw, Leg Bye, No Ball, ODI, Off Spinner, Over, Pad, Pitch, Point, Pull, Run, Short, Silly Point, Single, Six, Slip, Square, Stump, Stumped, Sweep, Wicket, Wide, Yorker.

SOLUTION TO SAMURAI SUDOKU 264

SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK’S TETRAVEX

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SATURDAY CROSSWORD 265

WORD PUZZLE 265

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ACROSS: 2 Beguiling, captivating (11) 7 Identification tab (5) 8 Grouper garnish (5) 9 NCO's have them (7) 13 Identify, distinguish, know (9) 15 Portray, depict or exemplify (9) 18 Bulls and ___ : the share market animals (5) 20 Indicated (7) 21 Hammer and tongs (5) 22 Buy and sell (7) 25 Mundane, conventional (7) 27 Makes less hostile; wins over (7) 28 Examinations (5) 32 Loft (5) 35 Photographers need them (7) 40 Understand (7) 41 Beach characteristic (7) 42 Secretive ones (5) 43 Sounds of salutes (7) 44 Poetic rhythm (5) 45 Student of English must be good with his ___ (9) 49 Regards or treats as precious; cherishes (9) 53 Estimates without calculations or measurements? (7) 54 Heat source (5) 55 Correspond (5) 56 L:ikelihood, odds, chance (11)

DOWN: 1 Facilitate (4) 2 Banner (4) 3 Slashes (4) 4 "Get ___ behind me, Satan" (4) 5 Paste (4)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

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Sad sound (4) Less complicated (7) Brings to mind; suggests to? (7) Shield (7) Cue rests (in billiards) (7) It is used by girls to tie their hair (6) Came to an end (6) Recherch. (6) Samples (6) Watery expanses (4) So (4) Clear, with of (3) What the Queen of Hearts made (5) No ____ Love (5) Road sign (3)

DOMINOES 264

ACRO STIX

30 ___ down on : takes severe measures against? (6) 31 Royal place (6) 32 Goals (4) 33 Ripping apart (7) 34 Compile (7) 35 Rabbit food (7) 36 Childhood disease (7) 37 Peregrinate (4) 38 A next of kin (6) 39 Broadway backers (6) 46 Dogs, often (4) 47 Clod (4) 48 Spear and squirt (4) 50 Not to be taken lightly (4) 51 Reside temporarily (4) 52 Interminably (4)

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

Today’s Theme: EMERSON ON SCHOOLS

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION: "Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source."

3 LETTER ATE BRA ETA EWE GMT LAM LAN NIL OAR RAW RYA SOU SRI URI 4 LETTER ALSO ANNE AUTO BARE BEEB BORE

COOK CUSS EELS ESPY GLIB IRAN LYES MA'AM MUON NINE OOHS PLEA SEAT SELL SLIT SLUR STAR STOP SUBS SYNE TALA TAME

TETRA VEX

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TetraVex is a challenging brain teaser. The object of the game is to fill the grid with the tiles so that the patterns on the adjacent edges of each tile match, much like aligning domino tiles. The object of the game is to place all the tiles in the grid so that the figures on the adjacent edges of each tile match. You can place any tile anywhere in the grid, but you cannot place a tile in the grid if its edges do not match all of its neighbors. Find a digit that occurs only once on a given puzzle. You know that this digit must lie along the outer edge of the grid, since there are no other tiles that can match it. You can simplify solving by cutting out the nine squares and juggling them in the grid.

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MUMBAI | SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2013 MOON: Moon in Taurus till 3:37pm TITHI: 13th Jyesht Krishnapaksha NAKSHATRA: Mrig RASHI: Vrishubh (Taurus) B.V.U. LUCKY COLOUR: Silver Grey LUCKY NUMBER: 3 ON SUNDAY: MOON: Gemini TITHI: Darsh Amavasya from 10:18 am.

NAKSHATRA: Ardhra Ahoratri RASHI: Mithun [Gemini] K.Ch. LUCKY COLOUR: Black LUCKY NUMBER: 1 BIRTHDAY FORECAST: A good time to meet associates especially those who may have shown an interest in your work. You are bound to gain from your efforts. Freelance workers will be flooded with new assignments that could keep them profitably engaged for long. Professionals like doctors, engineers, architects, or those who are in hotel industries etc. may travel abroad on work. Domestic life will be satisfactory. Your health will be good throughout this year.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Beautiful, tall, lean body, healthy and long-lived. Intelligent, social mentally alert, quick witted, they could be misunderstood occasionally. After a good education, a career as a financial advisor or administrative services would lead to gain. Considerable wealth and happiness is indicated.

TODAY’S FORECAST Jagjit Uppal

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): You will have to make a strong concerted effort in managing problem issues. You will have the good fortune of having the support of able advisors and also the financial backing to sort out a few financial matters. Try to keep a low profile and avoid any kind of new commitments. If single you may find yourself getting drawn to person who is a part of your social or study group.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): You may have to work against a lot of deadlines.

But do not let that daunt you. Simply concentrate on completing your work with meticulousness and things will go your way. You will have to be extra careful in money matters whether you are borrowing or lending or investing. There could be some developments in your personal life that will bring to you a person who will become a good friend. Love is a possibility

BEAU PEEP THE ADVENTURES OF LEGIONNAIRE BEAU PEEP

FRED BASSET ALEX GRAHAM

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): You will be able to reach your goals thanks to your ability to believe in yourself and what you do. The funds you require will show up. Don’t rest contented in your current success. You need to consolidate your position in order to ward off competition that will catch up with you. You will be walking down memory lane with your beloved to pledge your feelings for each other. A happy relaxed evening likely.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): There is a tricky work situation but with your experience you will be able to get over it. The future course of work is entirely in your hands. It is for you to make positive decisions and then stick by them. It may require more physical effort on your part. Profits are likely. Personal relationships too leave a lot to be desired. Be patient with those who are unreasonable today. The best of intentions can be misconstrued if not put across properly.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): You need to push through new ideas and give individual attention in trying to finish the projects in hand. Keep an affable disposition when with others. Good news from out of the country is likely. You will do very well if you are friendlier and more amenable with others. At a social gathering you may still be anxious about developments at work while participating in the fun and games. Take it easy and enjoy.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): New and challenging areas are opening up to you. You will get one such interesting offer today. You can afford to be choosy. If in exports/imports, advertising and news media you will make rapid progress in your career. Your focus will be on other areas in your life rather than love life. Your beloved will understand about your need to follow your dreams.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): You have a very busy day at work. You will be meeting a lot of people. Perhaps some will come with new work proposals. Some unpleasantness around can be upsetting. You have a woderful opportunity to solve some of the long-standing issues in the family, which have caused a lot of pain and anxiety. Do not make any impulsive decisions.

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SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): In your dealings with others be alert and keep your options open. Do not take work that is boring or you know little about. Avoid renewing an old association about work. There could be deception. Try not to worry too much about it. Keep a low profile. Minor tensions at home will be overcome with tact and understanding. Rash decisions or outburst will not solve the issue.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 - December 20): Associates may not be helpful when you need. Try not to make important decisions right now. Maybe, you are under too much stress and it is reflecting on your relationships with colleagues. Routine work will bring in money. Expenses are also likely, perhaps more than expected. At a meeting or large gathering, you will be very popular.

Members of the opposite sex will be drawn to you quite unexpectedly.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): Make the most of your strengths but don’t try to achieve perfection. Take stock of your weaknesses and work your way around them. The future course of work is entirely in your hands. It is for you to make positive decisions and then stick by them. Profits are likely.

You need to understand your loved ones. Your irritation over small matters may cause unnecessary discord on the home front.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): Look forward to positive developments around. A repayment or news of some finance will make you feel very optimistic that business profits can now be increased. Cut down unnecessary expenditure, and tighten your budget on purchase of goods that you really don’t need right now. In a marital relationship you may be feeling inhibited not because of your mate but more because you are not able to do what you want.

Be patient.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): You will succeed at work much against every odd. Proceed with caution as far as associates are concerned. It would not be a good idea to share your plans and aspirations with colleagues who may not be your sincere well wishers. Eventually everyone wants to get ahead in life.

Love life is full of excitement, but you should guard against flirtations, which could cause problems in love relationship.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 4707

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SUDOKU 1893

ACROSS:

Eastern state of India (6) Abate, flow back (3) Sumerian sun god (4) Shaped like an egg (4) He accepts your bets ! (6) Happen or occur (4,5) A job that has to be done (4) A removable cover for a container (3) 16 It may bring tears to the eyes of it's peeler ? (5) 17 __ __ as a hatter ? (2,3) 20 Batman and Robin, e.g. (3) 22 ___ off : start off on a round of golf ? (3) 23 Eccentric (5) 24 Had a row? (5) 26 Tenth month, in short (3) 27 Bear ____ : tolerate patiently ? (4) 28 Brief article (9) 31 Naked-faced Amazon monkey (6) 32 Look brightly or smile (4) 33 Man's title in Germany (4) 34 Introduction to Latin (3) 35 Certify, bear witness (6)

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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DOWN: 1 Roundabout routes? (6) 2 Removes wrinkles; smoothens (5,3) 3 Diamonds, for one (4) 4 Gorged oneself (3,1,3) 5 ___ on : encouraged or abetted? (5) 6 Cotton seed pod (4) 7 Worshippers of Bacchus (7) 12 Another word for 'family' (3) 14 Half hitch, e.g. (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Difficulty Level

CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: P equals G

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

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A meal of boiled meat (4) Be in contemplative thought (8) Gave as a grant (7) Mountain range in Central India (7)

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Wood sorrel (3) Confession to a priest (6) Right at the beginning? (5) __ mater (4) Rodgers collaborator (4)

SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD Across: 1 Sita, 4 Blends, 8 Gaz, 10 Ewok, 13 Tortilla, 14 Calypso, 15 Belt up, 17 Believers, 21 Die, 22 Ola, 23 Iaf, 26 Custodian, 27 Cashes, 28 Mathura, 32 Right arm, 34 Open, 35 Sow, 36 Yogurt, 37 Wows.

Down: 1 Spec, 2 Tool, 3 Hats, 5 Lathes, 6 Nil, 7 Scamps, 9 Zoo, 11 Waved, 12 Kylie, 15 Brat, 16 Thai, 18 Lids, 19 Vous, 20 ELS, 23 Idaho, 24 Faire, 25 Scurry, 26 Center, 28 Mrs, 29 Amok, 30 Upto, 31 Ands, 33 Gag.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1712 To solve an Irregular Sudoku puzzle, every digit must appear once in: Each of the vertical columns Each of the horizontal rows Each of the regions

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

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Afternoon WORD MINE

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How many words of four or more letters can you make from the letters shown in today’s puzzle? In making a word, each letter may be used once only. Each word must contain the letter at the top of the pyramid. There should be at least one nine letter word. Plurals, foreign words and proper names are not allowed.

Today’s ratings: 17 average; 19 good; 21 outstanding.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: late, lilt, little, tail, tale, tall, tattle, teal, tell, tile, till, tilt, TITILLATE, title, tittle

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EW DELHI: Bantamweight boxer Shiva Thapa put up an impressive show against Chinese Taipei’s Li Lin Yen to book his place in the quarterfinals of the Asian Championships in Amman, Jordan today.

With Olympian L Devendro Singh (49 kg) getting a bye in his pre-quarterfinal match, half of the Indian team now stands a chance to make the final four of their respective weight divisions.

Commonwealth Games gold medallist Manoj Kumar (64 kg), National Games bronze medallist Mandeep Jangra (69 kg) and reigning National Champion Sukhdeep Singh (75 kg) had qualified for the last-eight yesterday.

Thapa (56kg), gold medal winner at the 2012 Asian Olympic Qualifying tournament, came out all charged against Lin Yen, who was caught off guard against the young Indian. Thapa, making his second international appearance since the 2012 London Olympics, made some sharp attacks coupled with great

footwork to complete a much-deserved win and enter the quarters with a unanimous decision from the judges.

In the next round, he will square off against Kazakhstan National Champion Kairat Yeraliyev.

Earlier in the tournament, L De-

vendro, a bronze medallist at the Limassol Boxing Cup in Cyprus, secured his spot in the quarters by virtue of a bye. The 21-year-old will now face off against a young and upcoming Uzbek boxer Nodirjon Mirzakhmedov.

But, there was disappointment in store for the Indian boxers in other weight divisions.

Olympian and Asian Games silver medallist, Dinesh Kumar (91kg) seemed out of sorts in his quarterfinal encounter against Mirzabek Hasanov of Uzbekistan. Dinesh tried hard to overpower the Uzbek boxer with some feisty blows in the final round as well, but was unable to make the necessary damage.

His campaign at the Asian Championships came to an end with loss on a split decision.

Gold medal winner at the Limassol Boxing Cup, Madan Lal (52kg) also came up short in his pre-quarterfinal bout against Shakhobiddin Zoirov of Uzbekistan. Zoirov’s early pace and domination proved to be the undoing of Lal.

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Match-fixing is widespread: Chappell been given. If ever I go to court to talk about this and the judge says ‘Well, you didn’t say anything about it at the time,’ I can say to the judge, ‘You go back and listen to my commentary there, and if you listen very closely there’s an indication there that I wasn’t happy with what was going on’,” he said.

Chappell said the Pakistan-Australia Test match at Sydney in 2010, which was investigated and later cleared by the ICC, could have been fixed. He questioned the ONDON: Convinced that now-retired and the then Pakistan match-fixing is much more captain Mohammed Yousuf’s tacwidespread than what is already in tics in the match which his team public domain, former Australian lost. “Take your pick. That was eicaptain Ian Chappell says he uses ther very, very bad captaincy or it his commentary to drop subtle was dodgy captaincy,” he said.

Chappell said it would be naive hints of wrongdoing whenever he suspects anything fishy during a to think that any team in the world has remained immune to the menmatch.

Chappell, who captained an ace.

“Match fixing in cricket is much Australia team described as one of the best in history, said he had al- more widespread than what the tered his cricket commentary in public thinks,” Chappell said.

“When all the fixing allegations the past to hint at any “dodgy” practice during games. “I don’t have been going on in the cricket want people to look back at me world, the first thing that people and say, ‘Well, he was hot on fixing say to you in Australia is that ‘none but he didn’t do anything about it’,” of our guys are involved are they?’ think you’re a very game person to Chappell told ‘The Guardian’.

“I’ve done what I think I have to say that any team is not involved. do with the information that I’ve It’s pretty widespread,” he added.

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Chance: Sprint Star, Saltoftheearth Sreekanth B. 6. Sovereign Rule 56 P. Trevor ANGALORE: There are eight 7. Summer Dawn 56 Withdrawn races today and the first is at 2 8. Viktor 56 S. John p.m.

9. Madame Bovary 54.5 Imran Chisty CARD AND SELECTIONS 10. Prazsky 54.5 Fr'co F Dasilva Win: Southern Emperor, Prazsky 1. The Tippu Sultan Cup – Div II 1200 M 2.00 P.M. 4. The Noble Princess Plate 1. Aashikaara 56 A. Sandesh 1400 M 3.30 P.M. 2. Ancient Title 56 V.R.Jagadeesh 1. Viva Diva 62 Arshad Alam 3. Noble Citizen 56 A.M.Tograllu 2. Smokehead 59 Rajesh Kumar M 4. Oriental King 56 H. G. Rathod 3. Arun 58 Prasad M. 5. Ezee Go Lucky 54.5 Imran Chisty 4. Supreme Regime 56 Sreekanth B. 6. Hard To Get 54.5 Neeraj Rawal 5. Well Known 55.5 A.Ashhad Asbar 7. Kolaveri Di 54.5 P. S. Chouhan 6. Peter Parker 54 Imran Chisty 8. Loveofmylife 54.5 Suraj Narredu 7. Another Voice 53 Anil J.H. 9. Natural View 54.5 Sreekanth B. 8. Extra Spark 53 V.R.Jagadeesh 10. Someone Special 54.5 Fr'co F 9. Magical Filly 52.5 Vivek Dasilva Win: Loveofmylife

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2. The Churchill Downs Plate 1400 M 2.30 P.M. 1. Shivalik Beauty 62.5 P. S. Chouhan 2. Simra 62 Suraj Narredu 3. Copper Red 61 M. Noornabi 4. Endurance 61 Mohd.Feroz 5. Lepton Pennatus 60.5 Aqeed Waheed 6. Independence Day 59 Ashok Kumar A. 7. Encourager 57 H. G. Rathod 8. Prince Of Kintyre 56 D. Gnaneshwar 9. Autumn Red 55.5 V.R.Jagadeesh 10. Immaculate 55.5 A.Ashhad Asbar 11. Blue Origin 53 Kiran Rai P Win: Simra, Endurance 3. The Tippu Sultan Cup Div I 1200 M 3.00 P.M. 1. Czar Rule 56 V.R.Jagadeesh 2. Deep Diver 56 A. Sandesh 3. Dofantasy 56 Ahsan Qureshi 4. Power Of Time 56 M. Noornabi 5. Southern Emperor 56

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10. Byronic 52 Adarsh G. 11. Royal Rein 52 A.Ramu 12. Beautiful Life 51.5 Kuldeep Singh 13. Himavari 51.5 Irvan Singh Win: Royal Rein, Peter Parker

5. The H. B. Gundappa Gowda Memorial Cup 1200 M 4.00 P.M. 1. Sunday Storm 65 K. P. G. Appu 2. Sprint Star 63 Suraj Narredu 3. Chul Bul Pandy 62 Anjar Alam 4. Secret Punch 59.5 Imran Chisty 5. Shivalik Star 59 S. John 6. Sovetskaya 59 P. Trevor 7. Aristos 58 Mohammed Shoaib 8. Quick Enough 55.5 Sreekanth B. 9. Talisker 55 M. Prabhakaran 10. Sunstone 54 S. Selvaraj 11. Brabus Speed 50 V.R.Jagadeesh Win: Sprint Star, Sovetskaya

6. The Kumararajah M.A.M. Muthiah Cup – Div I 1200 M 4.30 P.M. 1. Final Countdown 62 Indrajeet Singh

2. Violent Storm 62 Y. S. Srinath 3. Swift Star 61 Saddam Hussain 4. Magnomical 60.5 M. Prabhakaran 5. Hillstone 59.5 Ahsan Qureshi 6. Lads Gladiator 59.5 P. Trevor 7. Balas Glory 58.5 K. Raja Rao 8. Flying Tricolour 58.5 S. John 9. Kripa 57.5 M. Noornabi 10. Ultimate Fantasy 57.5 Aqeed Waheed 11. Super Surprise 57 Khurshad Alam 12. Neron 56 Ch.K.Chary Win: Violent Storm, Hillstone

7. The Manjri Stud Plate 1600 M 5.00 P.M. 1. One Time Magic 60 Shelar R. 2. Sussex Downs 57.5 Imran Chisty 3. Spaniard 55.5 P. S. Chouhan 4. Arrabian Gold 55 J.H.Christopher 5. Simply Stylish 55 Deep Shanker 6. Apollo King 52.5 Arshad Alam 7. Cinnamon Rush 52.5 Ch.K.Chary 8. Saltoftheearth 51 P. Trevor Win: Saltoftheearth, Susses Downs 8. The Kumararajah M.A.M.Muthiah

Cup Div II 1200 M 5.30 P.M. 1. I Specialist 61 Sahanawaz 2. Affirmative 60 A.Imran Khan 3. Superb Style 58 S. John 4. Hackett 56.5 A.Ramu 5. Mark Of Genius 56.5 S. Zervan 6. Kilimanjaro 55.5 Rajesh Kumar M 7. Mountain Beauty 54 Kiran Naidu 8. Sunday Cruz 54 Adarsh G. 9. Lucky Sam 53.5 Vivek 10. Gustavo 53 Anjar Alam 11. The Guardian 52.5 P. S. Chouhan 12. Jaldi 50.5 V.R.Jagadeesh Win:Superb Style, The Guardian

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3. The Endorsement Plate 1200 M 3.00 P.M. ANGALORE: There are eight Mister Grey 62 Cool Baby 61.5 races on Sunday and the first Royal Romario 59.5 Signifies 62 starts at 2 p.m. The Maharaja Cup Summer Sensation 61.5 Emphatic appears to be an open race. Victory 58.5 Big Copper Penny 61.5 Ocean & Beyond which placed Balance Of Nature 59.5 Distinctive last time needs to be watched. 57.5 Caraway 61.5 Corleone 59.5 Samovar 53 Don’t ignore Hemisphere.

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1. The Royal Tern Plate - Div. II 1200 M 2.00 P.M. Brigade's Supreme 60 Isle Of Fire 56 Delilah 53 Nocturnal Hunter 57.5 Red Admiral 56 Fortunate One 52.5 Bold Nature 56.5 Icecream 54 Boudicca 56.5 Thunder 54 Win: Thunder, Boudicca 2. The Divine Light Plate 1100 M 2.30 P.M. Bolts Colt 56 Stormer 56 Strombolite 54.5 Real Show 56 Jolie 54.5 Woodberg 54.5 Scorching Vulcan 56 Standing Tall 54.5 Win: Strombolite, Bolt Colt

4. The Justice P.Medapa Memorial Cup 1400 M 3.30 P.M. Nabisco 60 Open Page 55 Union Jack 53 Sutton Prince 57.5 Valerian 54.5 Scarlet O'hara 52.5 Applejack 56.5 Resurgent 54 Active Grey 52 Indian 56 Too Cold To Hold 53 Win: Union Jack, Active Grey

5. The Maharaja's Cup 2200 M 4.00 P.M. Borsalino 60 Spearhead 56.5 Hemisphere 54 Wind Stream 58 Cool Approach 55 Ambrosia 53.5 Ocean And Beyond 57 Drop Of Honey 54.5 Panamera 53.5 Win: Ocean And Beyond, Panamera

6. The Young Rajput Plate 1200 M 4.30 P.M. Smooth Shine 61 Magic Wave 55.5 One Of A Kind 53 Rock With U 59.5 Prince Academy 54.5 Yourescintilating 53 Sumela 59.5 Sue Nevell 53.5 Pacific Blue 52.5 Princess Lara 58 Anmol Hira 53 Pendolino 50 Win: Pendolino, Magic Wane 7. The N. M. Lingaraju Memorial Trophy 1800 M 5.00 P.M. Sandstorm 62.5 Ice Storm 59 Imperial Verse 51 Saganaki 61.5 Stellar Ambition 53.5 Strive And Serve 51 Alianz 59 Cowboy Cal 51.5 Volans 51 Win: Imperial Verse, Sandstorm

8. The Royal Tern Plate - Div. I 1200 M 5.30 P.M. Starista 62 Haute Ecole 58 Smithsonite 56.5 Anfield 61.5 A Move To Remember 57 Better Than Ever 55 Abbas Dreams 60 Saphira 57 Magnetic Power 50 Key Of Knowledge 58.5 Silver Stone 57 Win: Smithsonite, Haute Ecole

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IN BRIEF Cueist Aditya Mehta reaches semifinal in Asian Indoor Games

INCHEON: Aditya Mehta annihilated Chinese Taipei’s Wu Yu Lun 4-0 to reach the semifinals of the 15-Red snooker tournament and assure India of another medal in the Asian Indoor Games, here today. Mehta reigned supreme on the green baize and put on display some exceptional potting to outclass Wu Yu Lun in the quarterfinal. The Mumbaikar had defeated UAE’s Sultan Al Joakar 4-1 in the previous round. Meanwhile, the other Indian in the fray, Kamal Chawla, went down 1-4 against veteran Mohammedi Saleh Mohammad of Afghanistan.

Koevermans to educate Indian football coaches

NEW DELHI: National football coach Wim Koevermans will oversee the first-ever AFC Professional Diploma Licence Course in the country during which he intends to “upgrade the knowledge of Indian coaches to the highest possible standard” in the world. The course will kick off at the Cooperage Football Ground in Mumbai from July 8. “We want to upgrade the knowledge of the coaches to the highest possible standard of the world which in turn will benefit the quality of football in India in the future. I’m here to share my experience as an UEFA Pro-Licence Instructor with all the participants,” Koevermans said.

Ankita, Mouma, Shamini out of Asian TT singles

SUDHA FAILS TO WIN GOLD, INDIA SLIP TO 6TH SPORTS

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UNE: Asian Games gold medallist Sudha Singh failed to live up to the expectations as India settled with two silver and two bronze medals on a rather disappointing third day of the 20th Asian Athletics Championships here today.

Having broken her own national record last month with an Asian leading time, Sudha was tipped to bag the women’s 3000m steeplechase gold but she failed to do so as she was beaten by a long distance by Ruth Chebet of Bahrain, who ran a brilliant race to notch up her personal best of 9:40.84s, in the last event of the day.

Sudha, who has already qualified for next month’s World Championships, could only clock 9:56.27, well below her personal best of 9:45.60 as the seizable crowd at the Shiv Chhatrapati Stadium at Balewadi here were stunned into silence.

Sudha was left behind by a big distance by Chebet from around one kilometer mark and the Indian could not recover her lost ground as the Bahraini maintained her tempo till the end.

“I felt tightness after 1km mark and after that I had to maintain for silver spot. Our event was delayed because the preceding events took more time. We were kept waiting at the track for a long time and that could be the reason for my tightness,” Sudha said later.

“The Bahrain runner was too good at the end. I am disappointed that I could not get a gold but silver is also good enough,” she added.

Prem Kumar Kumaravel gave India the second silver in long jump while J Hemashree and Samarjeet Singh Malhi bagged a bronze Prem Kumar of India leaps to silver in the long jump each in women’s 100m hurdles and men’s event of the Asian Athletic Championships.

BUSAN (Korea): Olympian Ankita Das lost to China’s Chen Meng 0-4 in the pre-quarters while national champion K Shamini and seasoned Mouma Das made third round exits as the Indian challenge in the women’s singles event came to end at the Asian TT Championships, here today. Coming off from a splendid seven-game encounter against Yang Haeun, Ankita (268) did not pose much challenge to Chen Meng (8) as she lost 6-11, 1-11, 5-11, 8-11. Ankita had earlier shocked 20th-ranked Korean 4-3 (11-7 11-4 5-11 11-8 9-11 7-11 11-4) in a keenly fought battle at the Sajik Gymnasium. Shamini (261) lost to world number-one Ding Ning of China 7-11, 3-11, 1012, 5-11.

Lifters pick up two medals on opening day of Asian C’ships

NEW DELHI: Indian weightlifters began their campaign on a positive note bagging a silver and a bronze medal on the opening day of the 20th Women and 27th Men’s Asian Junior Championships being held at Bishkek, Krygyzstan. The silver came through women with Saikhom Mirabai Chanu finishing second in the 48kg division by lifting a total of 165kg.

The bronze was clinched by Apurba Chetia in the 56kg category. Even though Chetia’s Snatch lift was the same as the eventual silver-medallist, he had to settle for silver on the account of his heavier body weight. He lifted a total of 230kg.

javelin throw respectively.

After today’s four medals, India’s tally swelled to nine with one gold, three silver and five bronze. The hosts have now slipped to sixth spot in the standings.

China are leading the table with eight gold, three silver and two bronze, followed by Bahrain (4 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze) and Saudi Arabia (3 gold) at second and third respectively. Japan (2 gold, 2 silver, 6 bronze) and Uzbekistan (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) were fourth and fifth respectively.

Prem Kumar, one of the promising athletes who had done exceedingly well in last month’s National Inter-State Championships, came up with a creditable 7.92m in the men’s long jump. The 20-year-old youngster gave India its first medal in 13 years after Sanjay Kumar Rai won a silver in 2000 Jakarta Asian Championships with an effort of 8.03m.

In a tight three-way contest, Prem Kumar was at third after penultimate round behind Wang Jianan of China who eventually won the gold with a jump of 7.95m and bronze winner another Chinese Tang Gongchen.

The Indian leapt to 7.92m in his sixth and final jump to bag the silver and push Gongchen, who had 7.89m, to bronze. This was Prem Kumar’s first international medal at the senior level.

“I am happy to have won a silver for my country but I was hoping that I could cross 8m mark and then try for the World Championhsips ‘B’ standard of 8.10m,” Prem Kumar said later. His coach Shyam Kumar said Prem Kumar’s take off was a problem.

“He had problems with his take off. He did not get proper take off in all his jumps,” Shyam Kumar said.

PCB bans tainted Kaneria for life K

ARACHI: Pakistan’s disgraced spinner Danish Kaneria’s career seems all but over with the country’s Cricket Board today imposing a life ban on him for indulging in spot-fixing during the 2009 English county season.

The PCB said it was handing down the punishment after Kaneria lost his appeal against the life ban imposed on him by the England and Wales Cricket Board this week.

“The ECB appeals panel has upheld the life ban on Kaneria and the PCB is bound to recognise, respect and enforce the ban in Pakistan,” the statement said. The Board said the 32-year-old would be suspended for life from any involvement in the playing, organisation or administration of cricket in any form or manner under the jurisdiction of PCB. The PCB said under the ICC and PCB’s Anti-corruption code, it had been made aware of the decision by the appeals panel of

Pranay, Karl bag India’s first medals in Karate

NEW DELHI: In a first for the country, Indian karate players Pranay Sharma and Karl Vatcha have bagged bronze medal each in the WKF Youth Cup and Karate1 World Championship in Corfu, Greece. Sharma (50Kg) won the medal in Sub Junior category of Kumite event while Vatcha claimed podium finish in the Sub Junior of Kata, All India Karate-Do Federation (AIKF) said in a release.

Eight-member Indian Karate team is currently participating in the championships being held from July 1-7.

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the cricket discipline commission of the ECB. And contrary to what Kaneria has claimed, the PCB said the player was duly represented in the ECB commission proceedings through a legal counsel of his choice and no question with regard to jurisdiction, composition, procedure or fairness of the Appeal Panel was raised by his counsel.

Kaneria, whose international cricket career came to a halt in August, 2010 after a spot-fixing scandal broke out in English county cricket in September, 2009, was banned for life from playing in England by the ECB disciplinary commission last year in June which found him guilty of corruption and cheating.

The panel said Kaneria posed a grave danger to the sport and said he had attempted to lure other players into spot-fixing.

ECB chief executive Giles Clarke said this week that Kaneria had tried to form a team of spot-fixers in English county cricket.

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ARIS: Jamaican sprint sensation Usain Bolt has a gold medal haul like no other but the global superstar says he is far from finished yet.

Three golds from the London Olympics in the 100, 200 and 4x100m relay mirrored his success in the Beijing Games of 2008.

In between he nailed a gold treble at the 2009 Berlin world championships and also won two golds in Daegu in 2011, a false start in the 100m putting paid to another clean sweep.

He holds the world records in the 100 and 200m (9.58 and 19.19sec, both set in Berlin), and was part of the record-breaking Jamaican relay squad (36.84sec in London Olympics).

But now the 26-year-old, who will race the 200m at the Paris leg of the Diamond League at the Stade de France on Saturday, has his sights set on further “dominating” the sport.

“I want to dominate sprinting until the Rio Games,” said Bolt.

“To dominate the competition, remain the best despite all these young, ambitious sprinters appearing on the scene, all wanting to beat me.

“I remember asking (US track legend) Michael Johnson the year he retired from sport what he thought of his career. He explained to me his pride at having been able to dominate his sport all the way to the end. My objective is the same.”

Bolt explained that a love of “competition” was key to his motivation.

“I still get just as much of a kick out of it.

The more I run in competition, the more I want to surpass myself,” he said.

“My challenge over the next three years will be to go right to the end of the Olympiad whilst remaining at the top. To achieve that, I’m going to have to maintain the same level of performance season after season. I’m ready for it though. I’m working towards that every single day.”

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ONDON: Novak Djokovic did well to weather a ferocious onslaught from Juan Martin Del Potro to subdue the Argentine 7-5 4-6 7-6(2) 6-7(6) 6-3 in a titanic Wimbledon semi-final on Friday.

The top seed needed all his skill and fighting spirit to tame the eighth-seeded Del Potro who made light of his knee injury to keep the world number one on court for four hours 43 minutes, the longest semifinal ever seen at Wimbledon.

Djokovic broke in the 12th game of the first set to win it 7-5 but Del Potro took the Serbian’s serve midway through the second set and levelled the match on a baking Centre Court.

Del Potro saved three set points at 5-6 in the third but Djokovic stepped up his level to romp through the tiebreak 7-2.

The top seed struck again with a break in the seventh game of the fourth set but Del Potro broke straight back and saved two match points in an incredible tiebreak before taking it 8-6.

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Lisicki, Bartoli on cusp of maiden title

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ONDON: It’s a match-up few could have predicted when the Wimbledon fortnight began, yet the 2013 women’s Wimbledon Final will feature veteran Marion Bartoli against grass court upset queen Sabine Lisicki on Centre Court Saturday.

Lisicki, who made headlines just four days ago by beating top-ranked Serena Williams in three sets, survived another grueling match against Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 26, 9-7 to earn her first trip to a Grand Slam final.

Next up for the 23-year-old grass court specialist is Bartoli, who earned her second trip to a Wimbledon final with a dominating 6-1, 6-2 dusting of Belgian Kirsten Flipkens.

Bartoli advanced to the 2007 final at the All England Club before falling short against Venus Williams.

While neither Lisicki nor Bartoli were ex-

Djokovic broke again to lead 5-3 in the deciding set and he recovered from 0-30 down to seal victory with a searing backhand down the line. Djokovic will play second seed Andy

Raj Bharath qualifies O

FORMULA MASTERS CHINA Backed by Bangalorebased real estate developer Embassy Group and driving for Indian outfit Meco Motorsport, Raj will start from the second row of the grid for two out of three races of the weekend.

At the start of the weekend,

Murray or Jerzy Janowicz, seeded 24th, in the final on Sunday when he will bid for his second Wimbledon title and seventh grand slam crown.

3rd at Ordos International Circuit the 3.7-kilometre layout was extremely dusty as expected but given the large number of races scheduled for the weekend, the track gripped up in no time. Throughout the free practice sessions, Raj was continuously in the top five and the team managed to make a step forward in the qualifying, even though the session didn’t go smoothly due to yellow flags.

RDOS (China): Having clinched his first win of the season at Shanghai International Circuit in May, young Indian driver Raj Bharath qualified third at round three of Formula Masters China at Ordos International Circuit here today.

pected to be here when the 2013 Wimbledon Championships began, both stand on the precipice of perhaps their best opportunity to win a Grand Slam title in their careers.

Certainly for Bartoli, who has had the unfortunate timing of playing in the era of the Williams sisters, it’s a monumental chance for glory perhaps thought out of reach for the 28-year-old, considering the talented women’s field.

For Lisicki, it’s a terrific opportunity to finally win a slam at Centre Court, the All England Club stadium she has played so well on during this championship.

In what has been one of the most strangest and unpredictable fortnights in recent Wimbledon memory, it’s the perfect final featuring a pair of players trying to reach unexpected and career-defining glory.

“There was a yellow flag at the first corner due to some incident and it happened so that I got my fastest first sector on that lap. I backed off but next time around the yellow was still there and I posted my fastest lap on that lap,” said Raj. Six other drivers went through the same routine and had their fastest qualifying laps cancelled as a result. Luckily though, Raj’s consistency paid off as his second fastest-qualifying time was just one-tenth off his best time and he didn’t lose any grid positions as a result.

“The grid is so tight, if I had been threetenths or so slower on my second best lap, I would’ve lost at least three positions. So from where we are now, we can still hope to get on to the podium and even win,” he said.

Race one and two are scheduled for Saturday with race three on Sunday.

Rasool first J & K cricketer in Indian team, Dhoni rested

M Skipper Virat Kohli slams a four in his splendid century of 102 runs in the India vs West Indies tie which saw India pile up a massive 311 for 7 in their 50 overs. Rohit Sharma (46) and Shikhar Dhawan (69) were the other main contributors to the Indian total.

UMBAI: Young all-rounder Parveez Rasool today created history by becoming the first cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir to be named in the Indian team as the selectors opted to rest captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and four other key players for the upcoming ODI tour of Zimbabwe.

The 24-year-old Rasool, who has been in

contention for national selection for a while now after a string of impressive performances, got the nod in the 15-member squad with the selectors preferring to go in with a young team for the five-match ODI series, to be held from July 24 to August 3 at Harare and Bulawayo.

Prolific batsman Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane were also recalled in the squad to be led by young Virat Kohli who is currently captaining the team in the West Indies following a hamstring injury to Dhoni.

Saurashtra pacer Jaydev Unadkat staged a comeback while Haryana speedster Mohit Sharma, who made an impression in the ILP6 for Chennai Super Kings, was rewarded with his maiden call-up in the senior team announced by BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel after a meeting of the selection committee here.

Apart from Dhoni, pacemen Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav and spinner Ravichandran Aswhin were also rested while opener Murali Vijay was dropped from the team.

India A team for tour of South Africa: Cheteshwar Pujara (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Dinesh Karthik, Ajinkya Rahane, Wriddhiman Saha, Parvez Rasool, Shahbaz Nadeem, , Mohammed Shami, Stuart Binny, Ishwar Chand Pandey, Jaidev Unadkat, Siddharth Kaul.