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Rich investors were lured into buying non-existent flats in Central Mumbai at very low rates

By Neel Shah

M

ore than three months after booking a fraudster for duping several people by falsely selling non-existent flats from a project of another developer, the Mumbai police are yet to arrest the

main accused, Jitendra Jain, and his cartel.

Jain, who is a well-known developer from the western suburbs, has reportedly duped several people by claiming that he was the director of Vighnaharta Builders, and had undertaken the project worth sev-

eral crores in Central Mumbai.

To make his claims look factual, Jain forged various documents, including the letterhead of Vighnaharta Builders, and raked in crores of rupees from perspective Continued on pg 7 «

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COPS PULLED UP DCP initiates high level probe to nail policemen involved in Vakola illegal detention case

By Zuber Ansari

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The bruised palm of Rajesh Gupta (inset) who was illegally detained and assaulted by the Bandra police.

high level probe has been initiated

by Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCPZone X), who is having additional charge of Zone VIII, for the illegal detention of a 20 year-old youth who was picked up from Kalina by the Ban-

dra police, in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, on suspicion that he dealing in drugs.

DCP Zone X, Dr Mohan Dahikar, told the ADC, “I was not aware about the incident, and came to know of it only from your publication. It is shocking to learn about the illegal detention by the Bandra Police, but I can assure you that no one will escape the consequences be it anyone, including the Police Inspector (PI).

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Keep cash and jewelery in the safe or locker which opens in the north.

VASTU TIP OF THE DAY

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Sakshi with her grandmother Ratan

By A Staff Reporter

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ine-year-old Sakshi Mahapure from Kolhapur recently got a new lease of life from her grandmother after undergoing a kidney transplant at SevenHills hospital in April this year.

Having been diagnosed with chronic renal failure in August 2012, dialysis started taking a toll on Sakshi’s In kidney dysplasia, the internal structures of one or both of the baby’s kidneys do not develop normally. Normal kidney tissues are replaced by fluid-filled sacs called cysts.

Kidney dysplasia usually happens in only one kidney.

ing the transplant, Sakshi was discharged on April 27, 2013 and was declared “completely recovered” on May 25, 2013.

Dr. Avanish Arora, Transplant Surgeon, SevenHills Hospital said “Post transplantation, the patient immediately started producing good volumes of urine from the transplanted kidney and started regaining good health.”

Bharat Shah, one of the treating consultants said, “Sakshi was suffering from congenital dysplastic kidneys. The reason her family did not get to know about this problem earlier is that many kidney diseases are slowly progressive. The family realised about her disease only when her blood pressure started increasing. She was put on peritoneal dialysis.”

After having completed all the necessary formalities for a transplant, the surgery was scheduled on April 16, 2013.

After successfully undergo-

morale so the Mahapures decided to find a suitable donor for Sakshi’s transplant. SevenHills hospital found the donor in Ratan, her grandmother, who readily agreed to donate her kidney to her grand daughter.

Sakshi suffered from a kidney disorder since birth. Dr.

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NO GREEHORNS THESE: Children participated in the Green Fashion Show at the Amphitheatre, Carter Road, as part of World Environment Day celebrations, on Wednesday.

Sponsor year-long lunch for school kids Corporate collaboration aims at promoting Midday Meal Scheme in Indian schools

By A Staff Reporter

I

n what can be a boost to the Midday Meal Scheme – a campaign aimed at preventing malnutrition, curbing classroom hunger and increasing school enrolments and attendance – Groupon India has collaborated with GiveIndia and The Akshaya Patra Foundation to support scheme.

As part of this partnership, Groupon India will introduce a special offer for Rs.660 which will sponsor a yearlong supply of nutritious lunch for a school child through GiveIndia and the Akshaya Patra Foundation. GiveIndia is a donation platform that allows donors to support a cause of their choice from about 200 NGOs that have been scrutinised for transparency and credibility. The online platform has reviewed over 3,000 non-profit organisations from all over India to identify over 200 plus organisations and work for causes ranging from child welfare and education to disability, poverty, and women's empowerment.

Dhaval Udani, CEO, GiveIndia, said, “Today as India's middle class grows and be-

comes more ambitious, they want to make individual lifestyle choices. As disposable income grows, more and more people are getting conscious of their social responsibility as well. With the fast paced life today, they want to contribute to social causes but don’t find convenient, trusted platforms to make donations.

We truly appreciate Groupon India for stepping forward and giving us a larger donation platform to make a difference to hundreds of innocent children across the country.”

Speaking about the support to the Midday Meal Scheme, Ankur Warikoo, CEO, Groupon India, said, “We believe in making a contribution to the society that we are a part of. To help GiveIndia and The Akshay Patra Foundation take their Midday Meal Scheme to a larger audience, we are extremely proud to be a part of this noble initiative.

We are positive that through this special deal more and more children will receive nutritious meals and education.

The deal is priced at a nominal cost and is transparent as donors will receive a feedback report on the utilisation of their donation.”

Script writer ends life

By Suresh Golani

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small-time Bollywood film script writer committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence in Mira Road, late on Tuesday night.

According to the police, the deceased, who has been identified as Amir Yusuf Mir (25), stayed alone in a rented accommodation in the Beverly Park area of Mira Road.

The security personnel of

the building spotted Mir’s body hanging from the ceiling in his flat at about 6 am on Wednesday. Investigations revealed that he was a small time script writer for Hindi films and had moved into the flat six months ago.

As no suicide note has been recovered, the police are yet to ascertain the reason why Mir took the extreme step. Further investigations are on.

Do you think GRP constables giving their contact numbers to railway guards will ensure better safety?

Santosh Anatharaman Merchant Navy

If it ensures better safety for the constables and the passengers then it is a good move.

Suresh Raja Banker

Having numbers handy always helps in times of emergencies.

Mohit Alva Working Professional

If more people are involved in taking care of the security of the people, help can be expected from several quarters. So yes, it seems to be a good move.

Rashmi Iyer Student

On duty women constables might need help when situations go out of hand. Under such circumstances, it would be of help if they can contact the guards.

Shweta Goud Working Professional

Better networking and increased coordination always helps.

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Age is no bar for this artist

He comes in rarely now, age is catching up, but Vijay Sawant’s portfolio of drawings, of trees, of landmarks, of faces, waxes and wanes each time we see him. It waxes when he has come into the city from Nashik, where he makes his home. And it wanes just before he goes back, so it is a good waning, caused by people buying his work.

Over the years, we have both received and bought from him his ink drawings of trees, stately, lush, meticulously done. An art critic and curator took a look at the latest one, a towering banyan in his usual monochrome, and said, “It’s good, but it’s not inspired. You could learn to do this yourself”.

So we took back the drawing and looked carefully at it and thought, not likely. If we lived to be a hundred, we could never replicate Mr Sawant’s lovingly detailed depictions of the emperors of forests – banyans, acacias, gul mohurs, standing sturdily in the earth, rooted forever. On the branches, if you ask him nicely, he will sometimes draw really tiny birds.

Left to ourselves we would have dashed them off in a second, but Mr Sawant spends time even on these artistic little dots. We know.

We have watched him.

This time he has had a good trip, sold a few more drawings and paintings to known names. He has a few more up his sleeve and at least one in his portfolio.

This is a line drawing of a ship, the London, a multi-masted vessel with 90 guns that he is doing for a group of Gujarati traders whose forefathers once traveled in the same ship to trade overseas. He saw the picture, now he has done the drawing.

With the rains (hopefully) almost upon us, he will go back to Nashik, and when there is a lull, off he will go to a nearby forest, put up his easel, his stool, then stand or sit and draw from nature.

but determined to live life to the fullest. Luckily, she is in a position to do it. Unluckily, she is speciallyabled in India.

Recently she went to a city hospital to have an x-ray and during the procedure, she moved involuntarily. She says the ex-ray technician was convinced she had done it on purpose.

So much said in so few words. So much display of ignorance in the first city of a nation that prides itself on its ancient culture, its academic brilliance, it’s preeminent position in the world of technology.

That technician wouldn’t last a second in any job in the west.

Can’t ignore NaMo

Monday we were at the NCPA’s Godrej Little Theatre, attending a panel discussion organized by Anil Dharker’s Literature Live on the A young woman we know is smart, recently launched book by clever, afflicted with cerebral palsy journalist Kingshuk Nag titled The from birth, confined to a wheelchair Namo Story: A Political Life.

The panel itself comprised three other journalists, Siddharth Bhatia, Bharat Raut, also a Shiv Sena MP, and Kumar Ketkar, editor of Divya Jyoti, and of course Dharker himself also has a journalistic background and in fact, most of them had worked with each other at some point or the other so it was all very comfortable even when it was unavoidably confrontational.

For instance, as moderator Dharker kicked off by asking why the whole book seemed more reportage than anything else and why no victim stories had been included. To which Nag, who seemed a man of rather few words, said, “Everyone knows the sites of the worst atrocities, enough has been written about them, this is the book trying to explain Narendra Modi’s political life, and anyway, I was a victim.”

So Dharker said, “Oh really, how?” And Nag replied that he had been threatened by Modi and at one point required four guards. But it went on like that, the questions

being asked and all the panelists responding with gusto as only journalists can when asked to open their mouths.

Then the audience got into the act and there were more questions and finally Dharker asked the question everyone was really waiting for – what did they think would happen if Narendrabhai ever became PM? What emerged largely was that no-one thought he would and if he did, the results could be horrendous.

So, asked one member of the audience of the panel comprising one author, two openly against Namo, one fence-sitter and one Shiv Sainik, if all of them thought there was no chance of Modi becoming PM, how come the media itself seems to think that he’s going to be the next PM. Was it because of the sample sizes, she asked?

Which was a very good question, but we’re going to have to wait for 2014 before we get a real answer.

VIKAS SABNIS

Fortunately, waterlogging is only this much following the initial showers!

Thanks to the BMC and its pre-monsoon action plan.

Pics: Azad Shrivastav | ADC

An insensitive country

MUMBHAI

Busy as ever, our Vijay Sawant, artist, painter, lover of trees, dropped in yesterday to tell us he has sold a few more fine specimens of his work to well-known names like Cyrus Guzder and the Sadanand Sules, people he has known for a long time and who always seem ready to welcome him warmly. As we do – most of the time!

Police bharti: First they line up outside the gate, coming inside in carefully counted batches at the police ground in Naigaon. You can almost feel the hope in the air, says our photographer. On Wednesday, there must have been nearly 500 of them, already through getting their measurements taken. Inside the ground, they were told what to do, first long jumps, then shot putt, then running, to meet the basic physical criteria. As each candidate ran up to the take-off line, you could almost see the strain on the face, the thud on the sand and then the hope as the scorers bent to their jobs. Many will go away disappointed but the lucky ones will stay on to join the ranks of the police force in Mumbai or the rest of the state. Not one of the easiest jobs in the world but you would never think that, watching them almost breaking down the gate to get in!

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CHANGE OF NAME

I, Sudhakar Dinananth Gholap, have changed my name to Sudhir Dinanath Gholap as per Maha. Gazette No. X-12766.

C-6373 I, Sangram Popatrao Patil, have changed my name to Sangram Popat Patil Vide Affidavit dated 25th May, 2013.

C-6374 I have changed my name from Kothare Chandrashekhar Satyendranath to Kothare Shekhar Satyendranath 27AA250877 as per Affidavit dated 28/03/2013.

C-6375 I have changed my name from Fatak Satishkumar Ambavi to Patel Satish Ambavi Vide Affidavit dated 29/05/2013.

C-6376

CLASSIFIEDS I, Udaykumar Mahendrakumar Shah, have changed my name to Uday Mahendrakumar Shah as per deed poll Affidavit dated 05/06/2013.

C-6388

I have changed my name from Disha Narendra Shah, to ‘Disha Narendra Bothra’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-6396) dated 02/05/2013.

C-6402

I have changed my name from Rameshkumar Punjabhai Mor to Ramesh Punjabhai Mor as per Affidavit dated 05/05/2013.

C-6389

I have changed my name from Sapna Jaywant Shah, to ‘Sapna Jaywant Bothra’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-6397) dated 02/05/2013.

C-6403

I have changed my name from Miss Sushila Vallabhdas Panchmatia to Mrs. Sudha Rameshchandra Dattani (According deedpoll Affidavit dated; 6/5/2013).

C-6390 I have changed my name from Chandnibahen Vasantlal Shah to Chandni Anand Mehta as per Affidavit dated 5-6-2013.

C-6391

I, Pravinbhai/ Pravinkumar Vasoliya, have changed my name to Pravin Vasoliya as per deed poll Affidavit dated 10/05/13.

C-6377

I have changed my name from Vijay Kumar Bhaishankar Pathak to Vijay Bhaishankar Pathak as per Govt. of Maha.

Gazette No. (U-6342) dated 24th May, 2012.

C-6392

I, Geetaben Vasoliya, have changed my name to Geeta Vasoliya as per deed poll Affidavit dated 10/05/13.

C-6378

I have changed my name from Raj Laxman Kandarkar to Raj Laxman Naik as per Maha.

Govt. Affidavit No. HE 788981.

C-6393

I, Darshankumar Vasoliya, have changed my name to Darshan Vasoliya as per deed poll Affidavit dated 10/05/13.

C-6379 I, Nitin Kumar Rasiklal Mehta, have changed my name to Nitin Rasiklal Mehta as per deed poll Affidavit dated 04/06/13.

C-6380 I, Madhu Sohanlal Chourasia, have changed my name to Madhu Sohanlal Chaurasia as per deed poll Affidavit dated 01/06/13.

C-6381 I, Sohanlal Shyamlal Chourasia, have changed my name to Sohanlal Shyamlal Chaurasia as per deed poll Affidavit dated 01/06/13.

C-6382 I, Nileshkumar Vinodrai Desai, have changed my name to Nilesh Vinodrai Desai as per deed poll Affidavit dated 04/06/13.

C-6383 I, Miss. Rashma Suryakant Parikh, have changed my name to Miss. Reshma Suryakant Parikh as per deed poll Affidavit dated 04/06/13.

C-6384 I, Laherchand Hirji Keniya, have changed my name to Laherchand Hirji Shah as per deed poll Affidavit dated 04/06/13.

C-6385 I, Ms. Deepa Keshav Kadam, have changed my name to Mrs. Devita Anand Nalawade as per deed poll Affidavit dated 04/06/13.

C-6386 I, Sadap Maibu Khan, have changed my name to Sadaf Mehboob Khan as per deed poll Affidavit dated 02/06/13.

C-6387

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I have changed my name from Jasmin Anil Shah to Jasmine Anil Shah as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-6394 I have changed my name from Ramesh Kumar Lalchand Jain to Ramesh Kumar Lalchand Kothari vide Affidavit.

C-6395 I have changed my name from Imtiyaz Gulam Hafeez, to ‘Imtiyaz Gulam Mohammad Shaikh’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (X-64143) dated 08/12/2011.

C-6396 I, Ujjal Bhattacharya, have changed my Daughter’s name from Ujjainee Ujjual Bhattacharjee, to ‘Ujjainee Ujjal Bhattacharya’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-8489) dated 16/05/2013.

C-6397 I have changed my name from Taraben Hastimal Shah, to ‘Taraben Hastimal Bothra’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-6392) dated 02/05/13.

C-6398 I have changed my name from Hastimal Vachhraj Shah, to ‘Hastimal Vachhraj Bothra’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-6393) dated 02/05/13.

C-6399

I, Narendra Bothra have changed my Son’s name from Divyang Narendra Shah, to ‘Divyang Narendra Bothra’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-6398) dated 02/05/13.

C-6404 I, Jaywant Bothra have changed my Son’s name from Jashveer Jaywant Shah, to ‘Jashveer Jaywant Bothra’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-6399) dated 02/05/2013.

C-6405 I, Jaywant Bothra have changed my Daughter’s name from Heer Jaywant Shah, to ‘Heer Jaywant Bothra’ as per Maha. Govt. Gazette No. (U6400) dated 02/05/2013.

C-6406 I have changed my name from Mohamed Ilyas Mahamad Hanif Goval, to ‘Ilyas Hanif Goval’ as per Affidavit No. HE 093678 dated 27/05/2013.

C-6407 I, Ilyas Hanif Goval have changed my Son’s name from Mohammed Mujtaba Ilyas Goval, to ‘Mujtaba Ilyas Goval’ as per Affidavit No. HE 093679 dated 27/05/2013.

C-6408 I have changed my name from Shaikh Habib Ahmed Rehman to Habib Rehman Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit.

C-6409 I have changed my name from Zoheb Jan Mohammed Nakhwa to Zohaib Jan Mohammed Nakhwa as per Affidavit dated 05/06/2013.

C-6410 I have changed my name from Neetu Kumari Ghwarchand Mehta to Neetu Nilesh Jain as per Affidavit.

C-6411 I have changed my name from Rameshkumar Mishrimal Jain to Ramesh Mishrimal Jain as per Affidavit.

C-6412 I have changed my name from Savita Kumari Rupchandji Jain to Savita Ramesh Jain as per Affidavit.

C-6413 I have changed my name from Ashok Kumar Ukchand Jain to Ashoka Ukchand Salecha as per the Affidavit.

C-6414

I have changed my name from Narendra Hastimal Shah, to ‘Narendra Hastimal Bothra’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-6394) dated 02/05/13.

C-6400

I have changed my name from Mohomed Sadique Gulam Shafi to Mohammed Sadique Gulam Shafi Khan as per the Affidavit.

C-6415

I have changed my name from Jaywant Hastimal Shah, to ‘Jaywant Hastimal Bothra’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-6395) dated 02/05/13.

C-6401

We, Khan Mohammed Sadikh and Ghazala Parveen Khan, have changed our minor son name from Khan Jahur to Khan Zahoor as per the Affidavit.

C-6416

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C-6417

I have changed my name from Gomes Awalor Mary Juliet to Samuel Juliet Pratab as per Affidavit.

C-6433

I have changed my name from Prescilla Margaret Dcruz to Priscilla Sharad Naik as per Affidavit.

C-6450

I have changed my name from Arul Jenifer to Jennifer Vinoth Britto as per Affidavit dated 05th June, 2013.

C-6418

We, Mr. Samuel Pratab Raju and Mrs. Samuel Juliet Pratab, have changed our daughter’s name from Samuel Jane Pratap to Samuel Jeanie Pratab as per Affidavit.

C-6434

I have changed my name from Miss. Kiranben Laxmidas Barodia to Miss. Kiran Laxmidas Barodia as per Affidavit.

C-6451

I have changed my name from Soosaipaul Francis Fernandies to Soosaipaul Francis Fernando as per Affidavit dated 05th June, 2013.

C-6419 I have changed my name from Abdul Ameed to Abdul Hameed Shaikh as per Affidavit dated 05th June, 2013.

C-6420 I have changed my name from Zubair Mohamed Nisar Kadiwalla to Zubair Mohamed Nisar Kadiwala as per Affidavit dated 05th June, 2013.

C-6421 I have changed my name from Sangita Chandrakant Patil to Sonali Prasanna Kotekar as per Affidavit.

C-6422 I have changed my name from Mohamed Yunus Usman to Mohamed Yunus Qureshi as per Affidavit.

C-6423 I have changed my name from Minaz Mohamed Yunus to Minaz Mohamed Yunus Qureshi as per Affidavit.

C-6424 I have changed my name from Mohammad Jamil Mohammad Qasim to Mohammad Jamil Mohammad Qasim Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-6425 I have changed my name from Dimpal Kesharimal Jain to Dimple Vijaykumar Sanghvi as per Affidavit.

C-6426 I have changed my name from Nawid Akhtar Mohamed Ali Fangari to Navid Akhtar Mohamed Ali Fangari as per Affidavit.

C-6427 I have changed my name from Ghevarchand Poonamchand Sanghvi to Ghevarchand Poonamchand Jain as per Affidavit.

C-6428 I have changed my name from Viswanathan to Vishwanath Ramalingam Pillai as per Affidavit.

C-6429 I have changed my name from Shanbegum Santhanakkruppan Thevar to Shenbagavalli Santhanakkruppan Thevar as per Affidavit.

C-6430

We, Mr. Samuel Pratab Raju and Mrs. Samuel Juliet Pratab, have changed our daughter’s name from Samuel Kevin Joy Pratap to Samuel Kevin Pratab as per Affidavit.

C-6435 I have changed my name from Manish Ramlakhan Mishra to Manishkumar Ramlakhan Mishra as per Affidavit.

C-6436 I have changed my name from Jyoti Baskar Kamath to Jyothi Narasimhan Bappanad as per Affidavit.

C-6437 We, Mr. Khalid Khalil Miya Shaikh and Mrs. Shabana Khalid Shaikh, have changed our child’s name from NurAin Khalid Shaikh to Nurain Khalid Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-6438

I have changed my name from Jouweriyah Zahid Ansari to Jaweriyah Adnan Ahmed Ansari as per Affidavit.

C-6452 I have changed my name from Sobin Salwader Fernandis to Deepa Dinesh Khade as per Affidavit.

C-6453 I have changed my name from Nagesh Mallappa Poojari to Nagesh Mallappa Pujari as per Affidavit.

C-6454 I have changed my name from Dineshkumar Rajaram Yadav to Dinesh Rajaram Yadav as per Affidavit.

C-6455 I have changed my name from Farzeen Firdosh Patel to Farzeen Adi Irani as per Affidavit.

C-6456

I have changed my name from Khalik Khalil Miya to Khalid Khalil Miya Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-6439

I have changed my name from Vicky(Vikram) Pradip Machhi to Vicky Pradip Machhi as per Affidavit.

C-6457

I have changed my name from Faimida Bano Rashid Khan to Faimida Sirajuddin Khan as per Affidavit.

C-6440

I have changed my name from Ajaykumar Ramsagar Tiwari to Ajay Ramsagar Tiwari as per Affidavit.

C-6458

I have changed my name from Siraj Khan to Sirajuddin Azimuddin Khan as per Affidavit.

C-6441

I have changed name from Basant Bangad to Basant Kumar Bangur as per Affidavit.

C-6459

I have changed my name from Jagdish Prasad Manroop to Jagdish Manroop Malviya as per Affidavit.

C-6442

I have changed my name from Narendrakumar Ravilal Patel to Narendra Ravji Patel as per Affidavit.

C-6460

I have changed my name from Mavji Ladha Patel to Mavji Ladha Fatak as per Affidavit.

C-6443

I have changed my name from Narendra Ravjibhai Ramjiyani to Narendra Ravjibhai Patel as per Affidavit.

C-6461

I have changed my name from Avalben Mavji Patel to Aval Mavji Fatak as per Affidavit.

C-6444 I have changed my name from Aval Mavji Patel to Aval Mavji Fatak as per Affidavit.

C-6445 I have changed my name from Palghat Subramanian Lakshman to Palghat Subramanian Laxman as per Affidavit.

C-6446 I have changed my name from Ajit Laxman Kumbhar to Ajit Laxman Kurlekar as per Affidavit.

C-6447

I have changed my name from Shanthi Vishwanath Pillai to Shaktivel Vishwanath Pillai as per Affidavit.

C-6431

I have changed my name from Usha Ajit Kumbhar to Usha Ajit Kurlekar as per Affidavit.

C-6448

I have changed my name from Samuel Pratap Raju to Samuel Pratab Raju as per Affidavit.

C-6432

I have changed my name from Sharat Vithal Naik to Sharad Vithal Naik as per Affidavit.

C-6449

I have changed my name from Pramila Narendra Ramjiyani to Pramila Narendra Patel as per Affidavit.

C-6462 I have changed my name from Dhaval Narendra Ramjiyani to Dhaval Narendra Patel as per Affidavit.

C-6463 We are changed our minor child name from Neel Narendra Ramjiyani to Neel Narendra Patel as per Affidavit.

C-6464 We are changed our minor child name from Yashovardhan to Yashovardhan Nagori as per Affidavit.

C-6465 I have changed my name from Harshvardhan to Harshvardhan Nagori as per Affidavit.

C-6466

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fter 121 days, the Solapur farmers’ protest for the ‘just and natural’ release of drinking water supply from the Ujjani Dam, has become the second longest protest in the recent history of Mumbai, second only to the historic mill workers protest which has, to date, never been officially called off even after 32 years!

And though the farmers’ efforts to engage Mantralaya in their problems has not borne fruit, at least they have succeeded in holding a special ritual aimed at appeasing the rain gods.

This ritual is the marriage of two donkeys and it was held at the Poddar College in Dadar today, in spite of attempts to scuttle it by the authorities.

Prabhakar Shivajirao Deshmukh (aka Ajit Pawar’s “some

Deshmukh”) of the Solapur Zilla Janahit Shetakari Sanghatana, along with his fellow farmers, has been protesting at Azad Maidan from February 5, 2013, against the state government’s failure to release drinking water from the Ujjani Dam. The city police were instructed (reportedly by the Home Ministry in new Delhi under instructions from none other than Sushil Shinde, the Home Minister who comes from Solapur), that no donkeys’ marriage was to be held.

Earlier it had been planned at Azad Maidan on Tuesday. The Mumbai police successfully thwarted this and some policemen were deployed to keep a watch on farmers who slept at Azad Maidan.

On Wednesday before dawn, Deshmukh, along with selected farmers, jumped over the Azad Maidan fences and managed to escape. As

Cong retains Yavatmal assembly seat

By Prashant Hamine

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uch to the relief of the Congress leadership its nominee Nandini Nilesh Parvekar managed to retain the Yavatmal assembly seat yesterday by defeating her nearest BJP rival ex-MLA Madan Yerawar by a margin of 15,231 votes.

In the counting of votes, which was taken up yesterday, Parvekar polled 62,509 votes, while Yerawar acquired 47,278 votes.

This time around the victory margin has come down by 4,644 votes.

The low voter turn out of 36.57 percent on June 2 was attributed to the 237 marriages that happened on that day. In the final analysis the low voter turnout proved beneficial for the Congress as its committed voters seem to have bailed it out.

In the 2009 assembly elections late sitting Congress MLA Nilesh Parvekar had defeated his Yerawar by a margin of 19,875 votes.

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Following this story, Assistant Police Inspector (API) Mukund Yadav, attached to the Bandra police station, was called to the Vakola police station to give his statement regarding the controversy.

On Tuesday night, Rajesh Gupta alias Guddu, was picked up by the police on charges of dealing in drugs.

Shockingly, soon after he was taken away from his home in Vakola, some unknown persons landed up and emptied the flat of all his belongings.

The same persons also forcibly took away another

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Farmers from Solapur district, including the now famous ‘that Deshmukh,’ gathered at Poddar College yesterday and got these donkeys ‘married’ in a bid to please the rain gods. soon as they realized what had happened, policemen began hunting for them via mobile locations. But the farmers, most of whom have just finished school or studied till Standard 12, proved

more than a match. They switched off their mobile phones, removed the SIM cards and virtually disappeared into the city.

All secretly gathered in front of Poddar College in

Dadar, brought a couple of donkeys and got them married in a bid to make the rain gods bless the whole state.

Deshmukh said, “It is very unfair that our just and natural demand for water is denied. Instead, the deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar made a mockery of our demand publicly. We met with Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to resolve the issue amicably. However, while both assured us of their help in releasing water from the Ujjani Dam, neither kept their promises.”

He added, “121 days is a very long time. It is high time we went back our farms now as the monsoon will come shortly. Our protest is not over yet.”

In 121 days, Deshmukh has made 14 different protests; most of them were at Varsha,

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the official residence of Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Mantralaya and Azad Maidan.

1) Dharne andolan at Azad Maidan 2) Prayer at Varsha Bungalow to give wisdom to ‘Gora Vitthal’ (CM Chavan) 3) Handa Morcha at Mantralaya 4) Dandi march from Byculla zoo to Azad maidan 5) 4 Farmers made an attempt to suicide by hanging at Azad Maidan 6) Bhik Mago Andolan (Begging for water) 7) Protest at Varsha bungalow.

8) Black ribbon protest against Ajit Pawar’s mockery (shall I piss in dam, instead of water).

9) Protest at Collector’s office, Solapur 10) Deshmukh became Potaraj and flagellated himself.

11) Hutatma abhivadan

First Aid workshop at Fortis HIGH CLASS RIP-OFF

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orrect and timely first aid can help an accident victim survive till the time he or she reaches the hospital is what Fortis Hospital at Mulund wanted to teach the rickshaw drivers of the city at the workshop held on June 5, 2013.

This is the first time that a workshop of this kind is being held for the rickshaw drivers of Mumbai.

“With the monsoons approaching and the bad condition of the roads, accidents become more common. Autos are seen in huge numbers in the Mumbai and given the helpful nature of the auto rickshaw drivers; it would help save lives if they know how to give immediate and correct first aid to victims of accidents. It would give several victims a chance for survival after reaching the hospital,” said Dr. Manjeet Singh, Occupational Health Physician and exclusive first aid/CPR trainer who conducted the workshop.

The bunch of thirty odd rickshaw drivers enthusiastically participated in the workshop and also took an oath that they would keep in mind and apply these techniques of first aid.

“I have learnt so much today from this session. Previously, we used to hes-

itate to help accidents victims for the fear of doing something wrong and causing further harm to the victim and also being interrogated by the police.

But now, we have realised our duty as citizens of the city. We know that we can do the right thing to help an accident victim and that police also won’t harass us unnecessarily. We will be proactive in helping people,” said Mahendra K Naram, a thirty year veteran rickshaw driver.

Dr. Singh also spoke about how common everyday use items like combs, keys, dupattas can act as organ/life savers in case of accidents.

“An unconscious person can survive for thirty to forty fives minutes if he is brought to the recovery position, buying him enough time get medical help.

Several fractures can be avoided from getting worse if the victim is handled the right way,” added Dr. Singh.

“Presence of mind during times of emergency is the key to help victims reach hospital on time,” said Dr. Singh.

The drivers were taught to impart Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) which helps save a casualty from heart attack till medical help arrives.

Fortis plans to hold a similar workshop for BEST bus drivers also.

COPS PULLED UP neighbor, Sufiyan Sheikh alias Munna (28), who remains untraceable till now.

It is believed that the whole drama was instigated by the Vakola landlord, J.C. D’Souza, who wanted to get the flats where Gupta and Sheikh resided, vacated under some pretext, and got the Bandra police to raid the place for drugs.

According to Assistant Commissioner of Police, Vakola Division, Jhunjiral Garal, “We have added more sections in the FIR, including kidnapping, and the guilty

policemen will be disciplined.”

Rajesh Gupta alias Guddu told this paper, “I am very thankful for the timely article, otherwise I don’t know what would have happened to me.

I was threatened by an informer named Kausal, who brought the Bandra police to my house in Vakola.”

Naina Patil, a social worker who took the initiative to intervene in the matter, said, “We will take out a morcha to the Vakola police station if the guilty officers are not punished. This is the most bizarre

incident I have ever heard of.

On Tuesday night, two constables from the Bandra police station approached me and asked me to take back our complaint.”

API Mukund Yadav from Bandra police station, in his defence, said, “We got a tipoff about drugs at Rajesh’s house. We were in a hurry to crack the case and therefore did not maintain the diary with the Vakola local police. I did not find anything from Rajesh, so presented him before senior police inspector of Bandra police who ordered me to release him.” However, a police officer, who wished not to be named, said the procedure was wholly illegal and morally wrong.

Continued from pg 3 « flat buyers, said police. The act of forgery has also been corroborated by experts, said police.

Talking to the ADC, senior inspector of Mahim police station, Dashrath Patil, said, “The police have received reports from experts about the documents being forged, based on which a detailed report of the case has been submitted to the Zonal DCP, who is to decide on the further course of action against the culprits.”

Adding further, “It would not be appropriate for me to talk about the investigations part, as I have already been transferred from the police station and am currently waiting for my relieve orders,” said Patil. Last week the latter was transferred to the Special Branch-1 (SB-1) department of Mumbai police.

Explaining the modus operandi of Jain, who is director of Kamla Landmark Construction, investigators from Mahim police station said that Jain came know that Vighnaharta Builders were treading slowly to complete all the legal formalities before starting the project.

Taking the advantage of this, he masterminded the racket by announcing the prelaunch booking of the flats at cheaper rates in comparison with the ongoing rates in Central Mumbai area.

“This, perhaps, attracted prospective flat buyers, mostly rich investors, who immediately booked a few flats in the two saleable towers, which were supposed to be constructed by the complainant,” informed sub-inspector Ritesh Aher, investigating officer in the

case.

Moreover, Kamla Landmark Construction, said police, had prepared false plan and elevation and posted the details of the redevelopment project on its global website, designating the building as ‘Trident’, added the investigators. It was here that Santosh Mane, the original director of Vighnaharta Builders, learned about Jain hoodwinking people by his false claims and besmirching his company’s reputation.

Subsequently, Mane filed an FIR at Mahim police station, naming Jain and Sukhprit Avtar Singh Kalsi, as the main accused among several other names mentioned in the complaint.

Police has booked the accused under sections 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465 (Punishment for forgery), 467 (Forgery of Valuable Security), 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (Using as genuine a forged document), 120 (b) (Punishment of criminal conspiracy) and 34 (Acts done by several persons in futherance of common intention) of IPC. Meanwhile, when the ADC asked Jain whether he was involved in such fraudulent acts, the accused through sms replied, “It is false and my company is not involved in any such activities.”

Box Item (To be highlighted) When asked about the delay in arrest by police, despite of having enough proof against the culprits, DCP (Zone 5) Dhananjay Kulkarni, said, “I would inquire with the investigating officer of the case.” neel.shah@afternoondc.in

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C-6469 I, Jayantibhai Chhaganbhai Gopani, have changed my son's name from Delmesh Jayant Gopani to Delmesh Jayantibhai Gopani as per Affidavit.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given that the Share Certificate Nos. 20 for 5 Ordinary Shares bearing Distinctive Nos. 0096 to 0100 (both inclusive) of Crystal Palace Co-Op Housing Society, Link Road , Kanch Pada Malad West. standing in the name of Mrs Pushpa Hariram Achpilya, Flat No.B-502 have been reported lost / stolen and that an application for issue of duplicate certificate in respect thereof has been made to Secretary of the above mentioned society to whom objection, if any, against issuance of such Duplicate Share Certificates should be made within 15 days from the date of publication of this notice. Share certificate is not mortgaged or any loan taken against the flat. .

I have changed my name from Bhagat Babu N to Bhagat Babu Nannamkeril as per Affidavit.

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e-TENDER NOTICE The Commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai invites e-Tenders for various works from the government registered contractors, who are also registered as ‘MCGM Vendor’; Bidder should also give Rs. 1 lack performance guarantee for the details of 5 number of Tenders of estimated amount Rs. 2220716.50 respective tender documents and process of e-Tendering, please visit www.mcgm.gov.in Sd/Public Relations Officer PRO/252/ADV/2013

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Police called several people, including the doctor who treated Jiah Khan when she attempted suicide the last time, to provide their statements

By Zuber Ansari

include Sooraj Pancholi’s servant Deva and Neelu, whose he Juhu Police station name was written by Jiah in has recorded statement her mobile phone, as well as of four prominent peo- Doctor Anantpal Singh who ples into the Jiah Khan suicide treated her around eight case, including the servant of months ago when she ather boyfriend Sooraj Pancholi, tempted to commit suicide. on Wednesday Afternoon.

Police also called actor Aditya Pancholi’s son Sooraj Pancholi’s servant Deva who last visited at Jiah house with “We will also call her mother bouquet and recorded his Rabiya to provide a statement statement. again but she is not in a condiBut since the case is a high tion to say anything. She is in profile one police are refusing deep regret. We will call in to talk about specifics.

Sooraj also,” the officer added.

Actress Jiah Khan was According to Juhu Police station sources, four individu- buried at Santacruz Jama als related to the Jiah Khan Masjid after Namaz-E-Zohar suicide case were asked to amid tight security, many come in on Wednesday. These Bollywood personalities in-

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DUST TO DUST: Pallbearers are joined by relatives and friends in Jiah Khan’s funeral procession.

Real survey this time After listing a building that did not exist, NMMC will undertake fresh survey of dangerous structures in the satellite city

By Amit Srivastav

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he anti-encroachment and town planning department of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) will carry out a fresh survey of dangerous buildings in the city and submit its report in a week’s time, said Jagannath Sinnarkar, deputy municipal commissioner of NMMC, during the standing committee meeting held onWednesday at the civic headquarters in Belapur. The earlier survey, details of which were released a week ago, had mistakenly included a school building which was already torn down by the civic body for redevelopment.

The issue cropped up after Congress corporator Santosh Shetty raised a query, wanting to know on what basis the civic body had declared 72 city buildings as dangerous. He also asked whether the NMMC had appointed the right agency, competent enough to carry out a proper survey before declaring a building as dangerous.

In an article titled Ghost Building, carried on June 4, the ADC had pointed out that an Urdu medium school in Turbhe, which had already been torn down for redevelopment, had been erroneously included in the 2013 list of dangerous buildings. This happened in spite of the fact that, over one year ago, Navi Mumbai Mayor Sagar Naik had himself presided over the bhoomi pujan of a new structure being built on the same spot.

It was also discovered that while last year, the list had 70 buildings, this year the num-

ber had gone up to 72, and the list was the same as that of last year with only two new names added to it.

R.K. Mathpati, deputy municipal commissioner, antiencroachment, informed that the list was based on a visual survey conducted under the supervision of a junior engineer. “The report was based on a visual survey and did not include technical aspects like checking the RCC for structural faults,” said Mathpati.

But members of the House were not satisfied with the reply and sought more clarifications from the deputy municipal commissioner on the entire issue.

Sinnarkar added that the civic body had already warned the residents, through advertisements in newspapers, that the 72 buildings listed as dangerous could crash during the monsoon. “We have made people who are residing in these building aware of the dangers and have appealed to them to vacate the structures as per the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act 264 (1), (2) and (3). If they continue to reside there even after the warnings and something amiss happens during the monsoon, the civic body will not be responsible,” said Sinnarkar. But he acknowledged that there was a mistake on the part of the anti-encroachment and town planning department and said a fresh survey would be carried out in a week’s time and results of the same would be tabled at the standing committee meeting for further discussion. amit.srivastav@afternoondc.in

cluding Ritesh Deshmukh, Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao, Sidhartha Mallya, Riteish Deshmukh, Urvashi Dholakia, Nagma and Sophie Choudry were also spotted at the funeral and other were paid their last respect to Jiah.

Aditya along with his son Suraj Pancholi, was spotted at Jiah’s funeral, but just when he was entering Jiah’s Juhu residence, his car rammed into a reporter’s tripod resulting in a serious scuffle between the two.

It has to noted that Sooraj and Jiah were a couple for the last one year but were having troubles since the last few months caused by Jiah’s suspicion that Sooraj was two timing her.

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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

— Emma Goldman

Goodbye Ramrajya?

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e are approaching a most important anniversary on June 15 — the day Parliament passed the Right To Information Act (RTI) in 2005 and, in so doing, ushered in what we hoped would be an era of much greater transparency in government that would itself lead to a modern Ramrajya.

It is true that it has wrought great change in our lives, not the least important being that we have the right to know. For if knowing and information is empowerment, then we would have to admit that our own government has, over six decades of Independence, tried its best to keep us barefoot and ignorant.

At first, it can be honestly said that our maibaap felt that too much information would addle our brains and that governing and how it was being done was best confined to those who were doing it. Later, as corruption ballooned, it just made very good sense to invoke the Official Secrets Act and issues of National Security at every step.

Finally, we had to fight for our RTI and we actually won. Since then, we have not looked back. Maybe we should have, for then we would have seen the genie of insecurity emerging from the awareness that is gradually dawning upon our ruling classes – that when it comes to them and their narrow ambitions, the RTI has been worse than the scythe wielded by the Grim Reaper.

And now the worst has happened. The Chief Information Commission, through an order, has sought to bring political parties (the sheer temerity!) within the ambit of (horror!) the RTI Act and thus open them to public scrutiny. In other words, the public will be in a position to know about the monetary dealings of each political party, and will actually get a fair idea of who is being paid off by whom and for what.

So what do they do through their legislators? They close ranks of course, and get ready to oppose it for all they are worth. Not just that, there is already talk of diluting the Act which would make all six parties likely to come within the ambit of RTI, actually answerable to citizens. Perish the thought!

Google RTI Success Stories in India (as we did) and we came up with 5,82,000 links. That is how wide-ranging the impact has been on the country. Now, just because we would like to know exactly what makes political parties so powerful, and we would like them to be subject to RTI, we are in danger of everything slipping away.

Ramrajya is a long way off.

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HEN you write a column that is called ‘On the spot’ it can be very annoying when you sometimes just miss being on the spot. This is what happened to me in Istanbul. I was there, as you know if you read this column, a couple of weeks ago and staying in a hotel overlooking Thaksin Square. On my first day in the city I explored the square and the winding streets and narrow alleys that led downwards from it towards the Bosporus. In the square I stopped at pavement stalls selling posters and knickknacks. In a little jewellery shop I bought myself an evil eye bracelet and in a small café I ate delicious kebabs and drank cold, dry Turkish wine. And, then with others attending the conference I had come to attend I wandered down a street filled with restaurants, bars and shops selling Turkish sweets to an old building where in a room with large windows there was a reception. We drank more Turkish wine and ate mezze. So it was that I spent two peaceful and lovely days in Thaksin Square without realising for a moment that days after I left it would erupt in protests and violence that political commentators all over the world are already beginning to call a Turkish spring.

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because it was once a cathedral that was converted into a mosque in Ottoman times and so it is best that it remains a museum. But, now on Fridays protesters gather outside and demand that it be converted back into a mosque.’ Luckily for humanity this place of worship that was built as the largest cathedral of its time by a Roman emperor was not destroyed by the Ottoman sultans. They simply plastered over the Christian frescoes and mosaics on its vaulted ceilings and covered the faces of angels with masks. If it is converted back into a mosque now what will happen?

While I was in Istanbul I noticed some signs of creeping Islamisation. There were many more women wearing hijab than I remembered from when I was here two years ago although when I mentioned this to the Turkish women I met they said I may have seen Arab

The winter of discontent Did I sense the possibilities of this spring in the four days that I spent in Istanbul? Yes, I did and it was mostly from talking to women.

I met a former bureaucrat who told me that she thought she had lost her job in government because she was not Islamic enough.

She was an attractive, middle-aged woman who said she believed in God, just like most people did, but she did not think this prevented her from enjoying a glass of wine. The people who denied her a renewal of her government contract clearly did and according to her version of what happened she was told when she was being dismissed that it had been noticed that she publicly drank wine.

She was not the only woman who sensed what many people described as ‘Erdogan’s insidious Islamisation’.

The woman guide who showed me around the magnificent Agya Sofia said that there were attempts to turn it back into a mosque.

‘It has been a museum now since Ataturk’s time,’ she said ‘and it should stay a museum

ON THE SPOT Tavleen Singh tourists and mistaken them for locals. While I was in Istanbul a ban on liquor being sold between 10 pm and 6 am was announced. This would have a direct effect on Turkey’s huge and very lucrative tourism industry. Turkey gets more than 30 million international tourists a year and Istanbul alone gets close to 13 million. This is a nightmare for traveling foreigners like myself, who was deterred from seeing many wonderful mosques and palaces by the long queues, but has helped Turkey’s economy grow enormously.

The Turkish economy has done very well under Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But, what worries people is not just his Islamic streak but his tendency to be ruthlessly authoritarian. I

met a woman journalist while I was there who told me that when it came to controlling the media his administration now used subtler means than before. Instead of sending inconvenient journalists to prison they simply lose their jobs, she said. But, there are enough who have been sent to jail. The Erdogan government has a reputation for sending more journalists to jail than any other and this makes the media less critical of his grandiose plans than it may have been. Among them is a truly grandiose plan to build what is being called a ‘second Bosporus’ to link the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara.

Looking to the west What worries people even more are Erdogan’s alleged plans to remain in power after his second term as prime minister ends next year. I heard on my wanderings in Istanbul that he is considering becoming President and moving Turkey to an American style presidential form of government. So the protesters in Thaksin Square were not just protesting against the decision to turn a public park into a shopping mall or a mosque. What they were protesting against was a leader who seems to have allowed his decade in power to go to his head. Perhaps the protesters are really only a small majority, perhaps they are those of secular bent who do not represent the vast majority of Turkish people who are deeply religious and see no problem with Islamisation or an authoritarian ruler. But, as a visitor to one of the most beautiful cities in the world I have to say that it would be a great tragedy if Istanbul suddenly lost its bars and restaurants and if Islamisation caused monuments of great international importance to be turned into mosques.

What I will say in Erdogan’s defence is that in the days I spent wandering about Thaksin Square I never sensed for a single moment that I was in a city in which repression lay under the surface in any deep way. There were no signs of repression that I detected at all nor were there signs of an eruption of public anger or I may have stayed on longer in Thaksin Square than I did. If there is going to be a long and hard Turkish spring we can only hope that it does not in any way ruin Istanbul which is truly one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Awareness of the self that transcends the body I

n this situation, commitment to swadharma is not enough. Constant awareness of two other principles is necessary. One of them is: ‘I am not this feeble and mortal physical body; the body is only the outer covering.’ The other is: ‘I am the Self that is imperishable, indivisible and all-pervading.’ These two together constitute a whole philosophy of life. The Gita values this philosophy so much that it enunciates it at the very outset and only thereafter brings in the concept of swadharma. Some people wonder why such abstruse philosophical theorems are there at the very beginning. But I think that if there are any verses in the Gita whose place cannot at all be changed, then these are such verses.

If this philosophy is imprinted on the mind, the practice of swadharma will not appear difficult. In fact, it will be difficult not to practise it. It is not difficult to comprehend that the Self is eternal and indivisible and the body is worthless and transient, as these are the truths. But we should reflect over them, ruminate constantly over them.

We should train ourselves to belittle the body and exalt the Self.

Look! This body is for ever changing, caught in the cycle of childhood, youth and old age. Modern scientists say that every

seven years it is renewed and not a drop of old blood remains. Our ancestors believed that this takes twelve years. That is why they prescribed a period of twelve years for study, penance, atonement of sins or wrongdoings etc. We often hear that mothers failed to recognise their own sons after years of separation. The body changes every moment, dies every moment. Is this body you? Twenty four hours a day its sewers operate, and despite indefatigable scavenging it remains unclean.

Is this body you? No, the body is dirty; it is

MATTER & SPIRIT you who wash it. It gets ill; it is you who treat it with medicine. It fills three and a half cubits of space; you are free to roam in the whole of the cosmos. It changes endlessly; you observe those changes. It is open to death; you accept it. When the distinction between your body and yourself is so clear, why do you say that only that which relates to the body belongs to you? And why do you grieve for the death of the body? The Lord asks: “Is the destruction of the body a cause for grief?”

The body is, in fact, like a garment we wear. We can put on a new garment as the old one fortunately gets worn out. Had one

and the same body stuck to the Self for ever, the Self would really have been in a sad plight? That would have stopped all growth, extinguished all joy and dimmed the illuminating power of knowledge and wisdom.

Hence, perishing of the body is not a thing to grieve over. Had the Self been perishable, that would indeed have been a cause for grief. But the Self is imperishable. The eternal Self clothes itself in a succession of bodies. That is why it is utterly wrong to get attached to a particular body and its relations and grieve over their loss; and it is also wrong to consider some as kin and others as aliens. The universe is a beautifully woven whole. Were we to cut up the undivided Self, immanent in the whole universe, into bits of separate selves using the body as a pair of scissors like a child who willfully cuts a whole piece of cloth with a pair of scissors, would it not be the height of childish folly, and moreover, an act of extreme violence?

It is really a pity that India, the land where Brahmavidya (the science of realising the Brahman) was born, is now teeming with innumerable incongruent groups and castes. We are so much afraid of death that one wonders whether such fear has any parallel anywhere else in the world.

— Vinoba Bhave

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LETTERS

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It’s time for Dhoni to break his ‘maun vrat’!

THE ongoing crisis has further deepened in Indian cricket after the BCCI president, N. Srinivasan stepped aside due to spot and match fixing and has come to haunt the Indian Team captain M.S. Dhoni who has been charged for illegally acquiring 15 per cent stake in sports management firm Rhiti Sports Managment Pvt Ltd which also manages three other national team players—Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja and Pragyan Ojha. The revelations are akin to the incestuous culture that has come to define Indian cricket.

Rhiti Sports who market the IPL Chennai Super King (CSK) franchise owned by alleged corrupt fixer Gurunath M. and the exBCCI chief N. Srinivasan involved in illegal betting exemplifies this point. I strongly feel that the Indian cricket has to be rescued from the present crisis and the conflict of interest must be tackled with iron hand and ruthlessly as the cricketing administration has failed to address this issue due to the in-built nepotism at every level of the game. The urgent need of the hour is that Dhoni must break his silence and come clean on the exact nature of his association with Rhiti Sports.

— Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

TOP sportsmen earn money in millions of dollars and so has M.S. Dhoni who is India’s richest sportsman today. He has earned every bit of his penny through hard work and dedication and invested the same profitably in the same manner he plays his game which has benefited our country.

Putting Dhoni’s earnings and business interest under the lens is unfair as legitimate business and the ongoing match fixing scandal

should not be mixed by people with vested interest. Dhoni has always played his cricket with a straight bat. Why would India’s top earning sportsmen indulge in unethical ways to earn his fortune when he is able to earn his fortunes in a legitimate manner?

We must let the India skipper concentrate on his game as our country is playing an important tournament and here is wishing Dhoni the very best for the Champions trophy.

page headlines of all the newspapers in India. He is the cricket boss. N. Srinivasan. And the publicity he has received in the media till date, can even exceed that accorded to any Indian legend, past or present, and to any superstar from Bollywood.

— Vineet Phadtare, Borivali

with cricket all need to be undertaken urgently to get the hang of the goings-on in the marathon tournament so far. If Dalmiya’s hands are not tied by the ex-BCCI chief, he must act to restore the name of the game.

— Dr. V. Subramanyan, Thane

THE heady mixture of money and sex has turned the IPL tamasha into a gambling circus as seen from the present fixing scandal that has erupted like a volcano.

The once pristine gentleman’s game has become a bookies’ paradise. The only way to bring the

THIS is with reference to the report ‘Dalmiya promises to clean — S.N. Kabra, Goregaon up cricket’ (ADC, June 4). He has only talked about banning the

post-match parties in the IPL and seems to have forgotten what he SENIOR cricketer Sachin Tensaid the other day—to put on hold dulkar has pleaded ignorance about the spot and match fixing curse prevailing in Indian cricket for such a long time. As a member of Indian Team, in his 25th year, Sachin knows in and out of fixing from the early 1990s but he chooses to keep silent and that is the sad part of Indian cricket.

Cricket is a gentleman’s game and hence players who are in the limelight for so many years should come out in open and clear the air for the sake of clean cricket.

Sachin chose the other option and now shows surprise about the fixAB BOL DALO! Now that N. Srinivasan has stepped aside as BCCI chief and his soning charges prevailing in Indian in-law Gurunath Meiyappan has been granted bail, Indian cricket skipper M.S. Dhoni Cricket for centuries. It would have been a great favour to Indian must break his silence on the ongoing scandal. cricket had Sachin acted more reBCCI to heel is for the major sponsible and revealed his knowl- the whole IPL tourney at least for sponsors like Sahara and others to one year. This is the need of the edge about the crime. Instead of withdraw. All advertisers who pay just keeping mum like our PM and hour and reflects the pulse of the astronomical sums for a few seccountry and with more and more M.S. Dhoni, somebody should onds slot should also stop their skeletons falling out of the IPL have the guts to call a spade a ads. The cricketing loving public cupboards every day, after the spade.

— Calicut K. Subramaniam, Vashi alleged involvement of the CEO too should not patronize matches.

When the money lubricant ceases of the KKR team in the betting

racket as per Vindoo‘s revelations, to flow then the BCCI will realise that it is the players and paying a close scrutiny of the IPL DURING the last couple of weeks public that keep it in existence format, the huge payments to the players and the association or so, only one person’s name and not the other way round. The of celebrities totally unconnected entire body and structure of the continued to occupy the front

Careless pedestrians

punishable. When pedestrians move to the footpath then it will THE recent death of a pedestrian also be necessary to remove unauwho was run over by a bus while she thorised structures, including was listening to her i-pod device is hawkers.

— T.R. Ramaswami, Kandivli symptomatic of a problem that all drivers face. People are hooked on to their cell phones and music play-

For a judicious judiciary

AS per a report appearing in a leading English daily, the Union Law minister has said that the govt. must have a say in the appointment of judges. This is reminiscent of the days of early 1970s. At that time, the then PM, heading the govt. of the same Party and enjoying a clear majority, had floated the concept of committed judges. This simply meant that the judiciary must deliver the verdicts that are in consonance with the policies of the govt. in power. Perhaps, this thinking was prompted by the decisions of the apex court in Keshav Singh (1964) and Abolition of Privy Purses for the Erstwhile Princes (1970) cases.

have to burn more calories and then in turn you lose weight. More electricity bills, less income! And in old age when habituated, YOU have no source of income to support the electricity bills. Some people complain of stiffening of joints and body ache while in AC. You may get sneeze attacks, severe cold and chronic cough as well as unstopping asthma attacks. So, the people residing in the cities with humidity like Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Karachi, Colombo, Bangkok and other cities in the south Asia near a sea or ocean MUST beware of the use of AC. — Hansraj Bhat, Borivali

Gifted singer!

IT makes us Tamil film enthusiasts very sad after the passing away of CRUEL FATE: Nidhi Pandey died in an TMS (T.M. Soundararajan). A legaccident while listening to music on her endary Tamil playback singer, TMS earphones on a busy road. Pedestrians with a strong and assertive voice, reshould also be barred from using cell galed filmgoers with solo hit songs — Arun Malankar, Santa Cruz of Tamil movies featuring evergreen phones/Ipods while on the road. heroes like MGR, Sivaji Ganeshan, Gemini Ganeshan and also many ers while crossing the road even memorable romantic duets, and when the traffic is moving. If those AS per NASA’s latest research report devotional songs. driving cars cannot use LETTER OF on use of AC (air conditioner) in R.I.P. Soundararajan! cell phones, pedestrians THE DAY south Asia you may get addicted to — S. Venkatnarayan, Matunga also must adhere to the rule when on the road. It is time that AC and then never feel comfortable this menace is curbed. Listening to without AC. It brings down your EVERY year, World Environment music or even talking on the phone body temperature and to maintain Day observed on 5th June reminds while on the road must be made your body temperature you will people from all walks of life to come

Avoid addiction to ACs

together and ensure to make our planet cleaner and better place for our future generation. All we are supposed to do is to contribute effectively towards making this planet a greener and healthier place to live in. With the growing concern for environment, we can observe this day with activities like planting trees, community clean up, organizing

BCCI should be dismantled and only past cricketers must take the charge. Since betting in horse-racing is legal, the same should made applicable to cricket as well. Perhaps this may help in avoiding scandals and scams like the present one.

— Calicut Ramani, Sion

A FEW weeks ago, a South African colleague remarked to me, that the “IPL cricket matches have contributed immensely to enhancing the image of India abroad, as a sporting and modernising country”. With the exposure of “spot-fixing” and “match fixing”, that image now stands severely dented. Now, it has become a colossal shame.

— Rajendra K. Aneja, Wadala

AS the coffers of the BCCI started filling, the arrogance, conceit and its bullying tactics too went up.

The ego of the body and its constituent members bloated like a hyper inflated balloon. It brooked no nonsense from any other board. The ICC became a mere spectator and puppet in its hand bowing down to all their dictates.

BCCI was the only one not to accept UDRS. The Board keeps harping that since it is a private body no one else will have any authority over it. Hence it conveniently refuses to come under the RTI act. If it is a private body how can it treat the whole country as its domain. For international and test matches the playing eleven is named as Team India. The money power and clout makes other boards submissive to its whims and fancies.

— Jayanthy S. Maniam, Sion

environmental campaigns beyond this day and taking active interest in bird watching and much more such things that can help in playing your part in making things green. On this day in 2013, let’s pledge to carry out some activities, which can help in conserving our planet and avoid long term damage.

— Mohd Ziyaullah Khan, Nagpur

End miseries faced by women!

PREETI RATHI, the victim of a gruesome acid attack on a railway platform has passed away, her funeral pyre asking a lot of burning questions to society at large. Social commentators could do well to inquire why our society is enveloped with hate, anger and intolerance. The principles of humanity have taken a beating, and somehow we don’t subscribe to the ‘live and let live’ policy anymore. To my mind, apart from other reasons our hate ridden social and political scenario, has breathed a lot of intolerance into society. I appeal to our law enforcing agencies to hunt and hang the people behind Preeti’s death and ensure justice to her family. I hope that from the womb of her pyre, a rev-

HANG ’EM HIGH! The perpetrators of the inhuman attack, which killed Preeti Rathi, should be nabbed and given capital punishment. olution breaks out putting an end to miseries faced by women.

— Altaf H. Ladiwala, Bandra

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TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON

TV GUIDE

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

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. HBO, 9.30 p.m.

BANI — ISHQ DA KALMA

SOAPS & SERIALS

In tonight’s episode we will see, Sangeet celebrations taking place at the Gill house with all the women, and the men will be celebrating at the dhabba. Further, Bani and Rajji catch hold of a thief and he is none other than our Dharmendra. What will happen next? Colors, 10.30 p.m.

RISHTON KE BHANWAR MEIN ULJHI…NIYATI

During Niyati’s mehendi ceremony one of the press reporter sneaks inside without permission to click pictures when Parvati spots him. While escaping the reporter accidentally hits a burning lamp that falls on the mandap curtain and catches fire.

Sahara One, 9.30 p.m.

KAISA YEH ISHQ HAIN... AJAB SA RISK HAI

Rajveer gathers courage to tell Tau about Simran. But as soon as he is about to broach the topic of Simran, a man comes rushing in asking Tau to help him as his daughter has eloped with a boy of different caste. Khanna on his way to Ranakpur comes across a mob headed by Baldev and gets to know about the matter. Khanna is taken aback to see the violent streak of people of Haryana. What will Rajveer do know? How will Khanna react to the violent behavior of people? Life Ok, 10 p.m.

THE GAME

With the encouragement of Melanie and Kelly, Tasha decides that it is time to let Malik know who his real father is. Meanwhile, just as Melanie is about to attempt to fix her relationship with Derwin, Janay decides that her relationship with Derwin should be re evaluated due to their pending roles together as parents.

Big CBS Love, 8.30 p.m.

ONE TREE HILL

Peyton finally realizes that her brother Derek isn’t her real brother but in fact the very same person that’s been sending her online messages using the alias “watchmewatchyou”. When she learns this and starts pushing him away, Derek breaks into her house and tries to hurt her. She is saved in the last minute by her real brother Derek and Lucas. In the end, Derek disappears after

LOCK UP

Bani-Ishq Da Kalma, Colors, 10.30 p.m.

surviving a bad fall through Peyton’s window. Star World, 10 p.m.

WILDWIVES OF SAVANNAH LANE

WILDWIVES OF SAVANNAH LANE casts the spotlight on the overlooked females of the animal kingdom. Tune into the show and explore these real queens of the savannah. Animal Planet, 8 p.m.

GOLD RUSH

After two years of equipment breakdowns, infighting and battling Mother Nature, one of the mining teams finally hits paydirt… but which one? Parker Schnabel has a new crew, new land and a newly rebuilt wash plant on his side. After months and months of digging, Dakota Fred finally hit bedrock and started to see the best gold yet just as winter set in last year – and has high hopes that this will finally be the season he walks away a millionaire. And in his quest to find 1,000 ounces of gold this season, Todd Hoffman doubles down with two claims and twice the crew and equipment. Discovery, 10 p.m.

SAATH NIBHANA SAATHIYA

Urmi’s urge to earn back the money and her feeling that she has an upper hand as her daughter gave birth to two boys is going to make a mother sad. How is Gopi going to react when she sees Urmi being bad towards Meera. Will she raise her voice against Urimi? Star Plus, 7 p.m.

MOVIES OF THE DAY

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day. Star Movies, 9 p.m.

DIL MAANGE MORE

For young Nikhil, Samarpur is everything. But when his beloved Neha gets ambitious and takes off from Samarpur to pursue her dreams, Nikhli can’t help following her to Mumbai.

But fate has something else in store for him in Mumbai. An unrelenting Neha , a perky workmate Sara & an irksome, yet petite neighbour Shagun. When Neha finally bids goodbye, Nikhil’s world is shattered… Ironically Sara now stands for everything that he had wanted in Neha. But another quirk of fate decides who the ideal girl for Nikhil is & just when he thinks it is the perfect setting for love, his romantic roof caves in burying him in a rubble of hilarious situations. Filmy, 9 p.m.

THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE

Baghdad, the playground for the rich and infamous, where anything can be bought - but for a price. This is Uday Hussein’s world and with his depraved lust for debauchery and immorality, he helps himself to whatever turns him on. When army lieutenant Latif Yahia is summoned to Saddam’s palace, he is faced with an impossible request - to be Uday’s ‘fiday’ - his body double, or have his family condemned to death. In a world entrenched in betrayal and corruption, knowing who to trust becomes a matter of life or death for Latif, as he battles to escape from his forced existence. Zee Studio, 9 p.m.

SNATCH

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Turkish and his close friend/accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets badly beaten

by Pitt, a ‘pikey’ who comes into the equation after Turkish, an unlicensed boxing promoter wants to buy a caravan off the Irish Gypsies. They then try to convince Pitt not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story,

Lock Up, Star Movies, 9 p.m.

including ‘Cousin Avi’, ‘Boris The Blade’, ‘Franky Four Fingers’ and ‘Bullet Tooth Tony’. Things go from bad to worse as it all becomes about the money, the guns, and the damned dog! Pix, 9 p.m.

MASTERJEE

Percocious village belle, Radha, the daughter of Mukhiya Jamnadas, takes a liking to the widowed school-master, Masterji, the father of a toddler; when he spurns her, she publicly accuses him of having an affair with her and forces him to marry her. She then finds out that he really loves his colleague, Shobha, and becomes embittered towards him. Things get out of hand when he and the villagers start suspecting that she may have been responsible for trying to kill his son. CVO, 9 p.m.

YAMALA PAGLA DEEWANA

Yamla Pagla Deewana is a family drama of a man in search of his separated family. Paramveer Singh Dhillon , an upright and honest man working as a loan recovery agent in a bank stays with his mother, his Canadian wife and two sons in Vancouver, Canada. Paramveer’s mother is a typical Punjabi housewife, had decided to leave her husband Dharam Singh because she was fed up with his unreliable ways. But one night Dharam Singh quietly took away the younger son and vanished. Paramveer decides to go to India to look for his Father and brother. Max, 9 p.m.

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STAR PLUS

P.M. 2.00 Masterchief Kitchen Ke Superstar 2.30 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas-Veera 3.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyara Pyara 3.30 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai 4.00 Saraswatichandra 4.30 Diya Aur Bati Hum 5.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 5.30 India’s Dancing Superstars 6.00 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas-Veera 6.30 Ek Gahr Banaunga 7.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 7.30 Saraswatichandra 8.00 Master Chef Kitchen Ke Superstar 8.30 Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behnaa Hai 9.00 Diya Aur Bati Hum. 9.30 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hain 10.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai….

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

8.30 9.00 10.00 11.00 P.M. 7.00 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 11.00

2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30

8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00

LISTING

Punarvivaah Hitler Didi Pavitra Rishta Qubool Hai DD Super Moms Hitler Didi Punarvivah Aaj Ki Housewife Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke Rab SE Soha Isshq Hitler Didi Pavitra Rishta.

Qubool Hai Connected Hum Tum Punarvivah Badalte Rishton Ki Dastaan

LIFE OK

P.M. 2.00 Sasural Simar Ka 2.30 Balika Vadhu

6.30 Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali 7.00 Tujh Sang Preet Lagayee Sajna 7.30 Haunted Nights 8.00 Ghar Aaja Pardesi 8.30 Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali 9.00 Jhilmil Sitaron Ka Aangan Hoga.

9.30 Rishton Ke Bhawar Mein Uljhi Niyati 10.00 Piya Ka Ghar Pyaara Lage 10.30 Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali.

11.00 Rishton Ke Bhawar Mein Uljhi Niyati

SAB TV

P.M. 2.00 Taarak 2.30 Hum Aapke Hain in Laws 3.00 F I R 3.30 Chintu Bun Gaya

DISCOVERY KIDS

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

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

One Tree Hill Mad Men Modern Family Big Bang Theory Masterchef US One Tree Hill Grey’s Anatomy Modern Family Big Bang Theory Masterchef US One Tree Hill Mad Men

ZEE CAFÉ

Grey’s Anatomy The Mentalist Just for Laughs Grey’s Anatomy Numbers America’s Funniest Home Videos American Dad The Mentalist Grey’s Anatomy Numb3rs

BIG CBS LOVE

Entertainment Tonight Rules of Engagement Game Australia’s NTM Summerland Excused

SONY TV

ZEE TV

P.M. 2.00 Aaj Ki Housewife HaiSab Jaanti Hai

One Tree Hill, Star World, 10 p.m.

3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30

5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00 P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30

5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00

Na Bole Tum… Madhubala….

Bani Ishq da Kalma Sanskaar…Dharohar Apnon Ki Na Bole Tum… Madhubala Balika Vadhu…

Uttaran Bani – Ishq da Kalma Sasural Simar Ka Balika Vadhu Madhubala Sanskaar…

Na Bole Tum… Kaisa Yeh Ishq Hain...

Bani – Ishq da Kalma Balika Vadhu

COLORS

Sasural Simar Ka Balika Vadhu Na Bole Tum… Madhubala….

Bani Ishq da Kalma Sanskaar…Dharohar Apnon Ki Na Bole Tum… Madhubala Balika Vadhu…

Uttaran Bani – Ishq da Kalma Sasural Simar Ka Balika Vadhu Madhubala Sanskaar…

Na Bole Tum… Uttaran Bani – Ishq da Kalma Balika Vadhu

SAHARA ONE

P.M 2.00 Jhilmil Sitaron Ka Aangan Hoga.

2.30 Piya Ka Ghar Pyaara Lage 3.00 Sitapur Ki Geeta: Film.

Hema Malini 6.00 Ghar Aaja Pardesi

Tuze Maze Jamena, Zee Marathi, 9 p.m.

Gentleman Taarak Mehta…

Malegoan Ka Chintoo Baalveer Taarak Jeanie Aur Juhu Baal Veer Taarak Chidiyaghar Jeanie Aur Juju Hum Aapke Hain In Laws 10.30 F I R 11.00 Taarak 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00

P.M. 2.00 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 9.30 10.30 11.00

ZEE MARATHI

Tu Tithe Mee Tuze Maze Jamena Mala Sasu Havi Radha Hi Bawri Fu Bai Fu 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 Fu Bai Fu Radha Hi Bawri Tuze Maze Jamena

ANIMAL PLANET

P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00

Marvellous Marven Animal Planet’s A to Z Mutant Planet Animal Planet Safari Fooled By Nature Planet Wild Web of Life Big Cat Diary Wildwives of Savannah Lane 9.00 Marvellous Marven 10.30 Animal Planet’s A To Z 11.00 TV with Teeth

DOORDARSHAN

DDI (Main Channel)

Tarane Purane News in Marathi Hasat Khelat Swayamsiddha Mazi Maye Mayechi Sawali Suvarnakshan News in Marathi Rang Badaltya Natyache Aamhi Karbharni Krishi Darshan News in Marathi Dam Dama Dam News Samachar

MOVIE CHANNELS

STARMOVIES

8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00 11.30

Hum Phir Melenge Ek Kiran Roshni Ki Saraswatichandra Byomkesh Bakshi Lal Kothi Alwida Rangoli Mohiniattam by Vinitha Nedungadi

DDII (Metro Channel)

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.30

Samachar.

News Sports News Campus Samachar.

News.

Rajyon Se Samachar.

10.30 Wild Kratts 11.00 1001 Nights

SCIENCE

P.M. 2.00 Mythbusters 3.00 How It’s Made 3.30 Some Assembly Required 4.00 Dark Matters: Twisted But True 4.50 War Zone 5.40 DEconstructed 6.00 The Greatest Ever 7.00 How Do They Do It 8.00 Mega Moves 9.00 Storm Chasers 10.00 Future weapons 11.00 Frontier of Flight

HISTORY CHANNEL

P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 6.30 7.00 8.00 9.00

The Kennedys Top Shot Hostage Do or Die Thatcher: A Memoir Invention Intervention Kings of Restoration Last Woman Standing Ancient Aliens JFK 3: Shots that Changed America 10.00 Kings of Restoration 11.30 Saving the Ganga

NAT. GEOGRAPHIC

P.M. 2.00 3.00 3.30 4.00 5.00 6.00

7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00

Cold Blood Mad Scientists Monkey Thieves Dangerous Encounters Inside The Tiger Trade Engineering Connections Caught in the Act Dangerous Encounters IC 814 Air Hijack Banged Up Abroad Taboo

STAR CRICKET

P.M. 1.30 Cricket Extra 3.00 ICC Champions Trophy 2013 India vs S Africa 11.00 Cricket Extra 11.30 Champions Ka Champion

ESPN

Mohiniattam by Vinitha Nedungadi

6.05 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.15 10.00 11.00 11.05

Metro Scan Business Wrap Samachar Focus News Night Samachar Late Edition Mukhya Samahcar.

Khel Smachar

P.M. 1.00 ICC Champions Trophy 2013 h/ls 3.00 Champions Ka Champion 4.00 Best of Bpl 12/13 5.00 ICC Champions Trophy 2013 h/ls: India vs Aus 7.00 Champions Ka Champion 8.00 Best of Bpl 12/13 9.00 ICC Champions Trophy 13 h/ls 11.00 Champions Ka Champion

ZEE TALKIES

P.M. 1.50 Tangled 3.50 John Carter 6.25 The Hulk 9.00Lock Up 11.10 Priest A.M 8.25 Colombiana 10.35 Bean

P.M. 12.00 Galli Gondhal Dillit Mujara: Makrand Anaspure 3.00 Tcchar Tharla Paaka: Bharat Jadhav 6.00 Saade Made Teen: Ashok Saraf 9.00 Gondhalat Gondhal: Ashok Saraf

P.M. 12:05 Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows 2.30 Conan The Destroyer 4.25 Bloodsport 6.15 Troy 9:30 Transformers: Dark of the Moon A.M. 7.10 Ben 10: Race Against Time 10.00 Yogi Bear 11.30 Troy

P.M. 2.00 Tom and Jerry meets Sherlock Holmes 3.30 Oggy and the Cockroaches 4.30 Adventure Time 5.00 Ben 10 5.30 Oggy and the Cockroaches 8.00 Roll No 21 8.30 Tom and Jerry Blast off to Mars 10.00 Tom and Jerry Show 11.00 Adventure Time A.M. 7.30 R21 Kris Ki Toli 9.00 Obbochama-Kun 9.30 Adventure Time 10.00 Ben 10: Alien Swarm

HBO

P.M. 1.00 4.05 6.05 9.00 11.25 A.M. 10.05

STAR WORLD

P.M. 2.00 Bharat Ka Veer Maharana Pratap 2.30 Bade Acha Lagte Hai 3.00 Chhanchan 3.30 Crime Patrol 7.00 Bharat Ka Veer Maharana Pratap 7.30 Dil Ke Nazar…

8.00 Anamika 8.30 Amita Ka Amit 9.00 Chanchhan 9.30 Nayi Umra Nayi Chunauti Par. 10.00 Bharat Ka Veer Putra Mahara 10.30 Bade Achhe Lagte Hai 11.00 Indian Idol Junior

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.10 4.35 5.00 5.05 5.30 6.00 7.00 7.25 8.00 8.15

DISCOVERY

P.M. 2.00 Wild China 3.00 Frozen Planet 4.00 Superhuman Showdown 5.00 Body Bizarre 6.00 Wildest Africa 7.00 Man vs Wild 8.00 Frozen Planet 9.00 Dual Survival 10.00 Gold Rush 11.00 Desire And Pleasure Decoded

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LIFE-CHANGING Sometimes a single, defining moment can change your perception of life. Rhea Dhanbhoora & Priyanka Singh find out what that one moment was that changed everything for some women in the city

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>> A lot of the women we spoke to tell us that having a baby changed their lives completely, while losing weight also features on our list of things that can really impact your life positively

>> Daughters (top) can be friends, companions and a real blessing for mothers, as women in our article have pointed out >> We spoke to several career women (left) and found that a step forward in your career can be that one, defining moment for the rest of your life

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bad breakup can be a silver lining on a dark cloud and the birth of your first child can teach you new things about life. From new careers and baby bumps to more self-confidence and visiting slums in Liberia to give you better perspective, the women we spoke to have all had truly defining moments. Take a look at what changed them.

Bundles of joy Medha, Manjiri and Pallavi all have one thing in common. All their defining moments came with the birth of their children.

Artist Medha Rangnekar says, “Though both my sons, one a dentist and the other a restaurateur, have been the joys of my life and made me proud, I have always missed having a daughter. This desire was fulfilled in the form of my daughter-in-law who instead of ageing me has only made me feel younger. We have bonded on all levels and she has been one of my pillars of support by encouraging me to fulfill a long cherished dream Continued on pg 14 «

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Continued from pg 13 « of showcasing my art on a larger platform and having my own art exhibition. I consider these new events to be truly life-changing.”

Dr. Manjiri Patankar Puranik, founder of InstaSculpt, agrees that being a mother gives you a sense of fulfillment. She explains, “My children showering me with unconditional love and joy is unparalleled.

My bonding with my children has grown every day and I am a better human being only because of my children. They are proud of their mother and encourage me to excel in all my endeavours. Being a doctor in a medical profession such as mine, sharing, caring and being emphatic towards the world is something I learnt from them.”

Pallavi Bhoir, like Medha, also says that her life-changing moment was when her daughter, Krishna was born. “I went from a woman to being a full time mother and my daughter became my princess. I live for the beautiful feeling that I felt when it happened — it was definitely life-changing,” she tells us.

Careers that speak volumes Chef Nicole Gonsalves Pereira has an amazing job today. She is a corporate chef at Pico and she says that the one moment that changed it all for her was when she was promoted to senior sous chef at Rules Restaurant. “It’s London’s oldest and most prestigious restaurant! This was a great achievement for me as very few Asian female chefs have had the opportunity of enjoying this position in the restaurant’s kitchen,” she says.

Advocate Minal Parab says that every moment your life presents certain changes, but you don’t realise them unless they are special. Her special moment came when she achieved a personal milestone that made her entire family proud. She says, “After three years of hard work, I became a lawyer in 2008. I went from Minal Parab to Advocate Minal Parab. It’s been the biggest change of my life and definitely the most enriching.”

Career is also important to Soulflower CEO, Natasha Tuli, who says that a chance internet meeting with Amit Sarda, her husband, was her defining, life-changing moment. “I had just installed this social chat called ICQ when I was pinged by Amit.

We didn’t have any common friends and would have not ever met if not for this chance encounter. Of course we never looked back and our partnership lead to the genesis of Soulflower.

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everyone's lives,” she explains.

“I have worked in the tax field for almost five years. But, I always wanted to start something of my own,” says managing partner of Marryafriend.com, Sonal Khatri Somani. Just like Natasha, it was her husband who helped make it all happen.

She says, “My husband convinced me to start my own business.

Inspired by him and our relationship, I started the site Marryafriend.com, a portal where you can find yourself a like-minded life partner.

Our togetherness and honesty towards each other made me understand how important it is to have a partner who knows you and understands you. Our portal is inspired by this. The support that my husband gives me has been an inspiration for me to achieve what I have with this website and now there is no looking back!”

Weighty issues Self-confidence is a precarious thing and often, not very easy to come by. PR consultant Satakshi Singh has had her fair share of confidence issues, but believes that everything in life happens for a good reason. “Eight years ago, I had weight issues which impacted my life. I had low self confidence and the fact that people kept taunting me for looking like an elephant de-motivated me so much that instead of doing something about it, I increasingly took refuge in food. Then one day, I discovered that I weighed close to 85 kilos.

It took me a good two years to lose weight.”

Today, she weighs a lot less than what she used to, but she still has a long way to go.

That one defining moment that made her see that she needed to change has really helped her with her work and made her feel happy from within. For others in a similar situation, she says, “It’s not difficult to lose weight if you are determined, but it’s very difficult to maintain it. My advice to everyone who wants to lose weight is to be patient because every small effort that you make counts. Just take small steps. This experience has changed my life in a positive manner.”

Culture shoCks Not too many people have done what supermodel, psychologist and philanthropist, Anjhula Mya Singh Bais has. Her life-changing moment occurred on a trip to Liberia, where she went on a drug raid in the poor slums of Monrovia.

“After meeting the deputy director of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of Liberia, the Honourable Albert K. Chelley, he quizzed me on what I would do or say in a myriad of situations. He also timed me on a 50-yard dash and after teaching me how to handcuff, I went on a drug raid at night. It was complete with bullet proof vests. He believed in me and something changed in me. I saw people thrown to the ground, slapped, punched, prostitutes, coke, heroin, a ‘staged’ buy, lookouts — it was like the movies, but real.

I was saddened as a female and a Buddhist, but it has deepened my commitment to serve others to the best of my ability. I chanted under my breath for their happiness because these people have hopes and dreams too. But, they live in a country that suffocates it through poverty, corruption and lawlessness. They would rather die one death than 1,000 painful ones every day,” she explains, telling us that it made her realise that it’s important to be the change you want to see and of course, to say no to drugs.

an artist’s touCh Sandhya Gorthi, the director of Sanctum store, has an illustrious career that sees her travelling a lot. The one moment that made her life what it is today, is the month she got to spend with artist FN Souza (the founding member of the Progressive Artists’ Group of Bombay) in 2001. She explains, “Seeing Francis at work, going on walks with him and arguing with him, all made me see his innocence and sense of wonder at the rest of the cosmos.

Ironically, despite his anti-organised religion stance, it was he who ignited in me a curiosity for spirituality, one that I have pursued and studied to this day. He was known as L’Enfant Terrible of the art scene, but to me he was truly a child of the universe.”

musiC for life Music helps you to cope through the porpoise of your life. And for several, music teaches them to move past their judgements and prejudices and create a broader horizon in their minds. This was the case with Pearl D’mello, a journalist by profession. According to her, it served as a lesson she learned for life. She says, “I had just entered my teens and listened to all the popular (read: pop) music artists of that time. My elder brother had a more advanced taste in music. He used to bring home CDs with interesting cover art. Out of curiosity, I started listening to his kind of music instead of just my own and, surprisingly, I liked it. It opened my mind to songs that were not part of mainstream music, which I probably wouldn’t have ever heard. How is this life-changing? It made me less judgemental about things different from what I’m used to and to give unusual things (and people) a fair chance.”

travelling to freedom Travelling gives many of us, not just a sense of joy, but a sense of purpose and freedom.

Sneha Iyer, a media professional, found her winged delight of liberty through a lone excursion. Says Sneha, “Travelling alone was never a comfortable feeling for me, but 1,000kms did change my perspective towards it. Seven years ago, when I was just 16, I managed to travel from Mumbai to Bengaluru, a good 16 hours journey, all alone. It may not have been the bravest deed of my life, but it did make me a more fearless person. I’m now someone who is not lost or afraid of being left alone. Being brought up in a protective environment, this was the first achievement that changed me as a person. Eating alone, paying restaurant bills and taking care of my belongings were the little things that I did with a lot of pride. Thanks to that one journey, I now know that I can take care of myself and travel the country or the world without apprehensions.”

Celeb speak

“I think it was my recent illness. After suffering for almost a year, I emerged victorious because I started to think differently, look at life differently. I became more positive in my vision and started to introspect, which is a must.”

— Aishwarya Sakhuja

“For me, the one incident that changed my life was when my dad passed away. I thought I would see him get old and I would get a chance to look after him.

After his death I realised how pampered I was, what a great friend he was to me, how much I relied on him and how much I actually loved him. I don’t think I will ever get over that incident. It changed me for good and bad. The good is that it taught me to be responsible and to not take things for granted. The bad is that his death has left an emptiness in my heart.”

— Sara Khan

“One thing that changed my life would be having a child. It opens your mind and heart and forever changes you for the better. It has made me more human, more patient, more understanding and more loving. I now understand what it means to love someone more than you love yourself.”

— Roshni Chopra

“My TV character Sandhya changed my life.

As the eldest daughter, it was my responsibility to share family duties. I started acting after my MBA. With God’s grace all went well, and I got incredible outcomes for my struggle and hard work.”

— Deepika Singh

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MEET THE NEW GIRL IN TOWN

From the US to India, Lauren Gottlieb has been dancing up a storm! She talks to Rohit Pramar about her new projects and getting jiggy with it... Bollywood style!

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auren Gottlieb first caught our attention when she took center stage on So You Think You Can Dance Season 3. She made it to the final six and since then there has been no looking back for the dancing queen! And now, her love for dancing has brought her to India. After appearing in Remo D'Souza’s Any Body Can Dance, she is currently burning up the dance floor on celebrity dance show Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Season 6. We speak to her about the show, moving to India, learning Hindi and whether she’s joining Bollywood any time soon.

Bollywood dance is so wide that you can’t classify it as just one style of dancing. It’s a blend of different dance styles brought together. It can be hiphop with contemporary dance or something completely different.

Who’s your favourite Bollywood dancer?

Hrithik Roshan. He is a great actor and a great dancer as well. He performs really well on stage. I love him.

You have worked with many A-listers in Hollywood. Which stars would you like to work with in Bollywood?

What can we expect from you in I am not sure. But, whoever I’d Jhalak Dikhla Jaa? complement as a co-star on screen.

I haven’t really done much Bollywood dancing so I’m really excited. I’m going You’re also learning Hindi. How’s to push myself and work hard. That’s that going? the biggest challenge for me.

It’s tough. It’s really exciting for me though because I grew up in a different What do you think of choreographer country. The culture is different. It’s Punit Pathak? fascinating to learn a new language As a dancer, he keeps going. As a and new culture. I’m going to keep choreographer, he’s great. And as an learning and hope to speak more soon. artiste, he’s original. He is a really I feel like I’m back in school. creative person who thinks out of the box. I’m very happy that I’ve got him as People liked you in Any Body Can my partner on the show.

Dance. Have you signed any new Bollywood films?

Who do you think will be tough It’s too early to talk about that right competition on the show? now. I’m in talks for a couple of I think whoever has a bigger fan base. projects. But I hope everyone will see As time passes, everybody will have to me in a Bollywood film again. improve their dancing. It also depends on who is a trained performer and who What’s next for you? isn’t. All of them are going to give me I am a new person in a new country, so competition and it’s too early to pick I’m slowly discovering things. I trust my one person as the toughest competitor. instincts. Somehow I knew that I was going to go to India before I was offered How different do you think Bollywood Any Body Can Dance. The next day, I dance is from other dance forms? told my parents I was going to India. I When I first saw a Bollywood dance, I thought it would be great to come was like ‘Wow, why didn’t we get to see down and get to know my fans over this before?’ It’s a structured dance here. I love dancing and whatever form with cultural heritage. I think comes next, I will know when it arrives.

>> Catch Lauren Gottlieb on Jhakak Dikhla Jaa Season 6 on Colors every Saturday and Sunday at 9pm

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treSSemmÉ Shampoo & coNditioNer Your hair gets frizzy during summer. Your hair gets frizzy during the monsoon. There’s really no winning over the next few months… or is there?! To be honest, the affordability of the Tressemmé Shampoo and Conditioner made me a little skeptical about how good the product would be — after all, the higher the price, the better the product, right? Not in this case. The shampoo needs to be used sparingly or it will dry out your hair, but if you use one wash with a small amount of shampoo, your hair stays soft and shiny. Used without the conditioner my hair was soft, but there was no noticeable difference. And then, I used it with the conditioner. It didn’t leave my hair limp (which most straightening shampoos do) and it did, in fact, give it a salon-like shine. And, the frizzy flyaway hair almost disappeared. I found that my hair didn’t even need to be blow dried to look like it was styled. However, more unmanageable hair it might need a little more product or maintenance. All in all, it delivers and is very affordable. price `160 (shampoo) and `80 (conditioner) where Major retail outlets Star rating ****

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1. ayeSha acceSSorieS We love this star scarf. It’s young without being too childish. The denim blue is a great colour to dress up any outfit without taking the attention away from it. price `598

2. kaZo Kazo has a collection of great scarves but the reason we like this white one with gold trimmings is because of its simplicity. Let the gold edges show for a polished look and tuck them in when you want to go casual. price `599 3. traduS.iN A splash of colour and a bouquet of florals. What’s not to love about this scarf? The splashes of blue and yellow mixed with subtle red flowers make it a pretty and feminine scarf that’s bold enough to brighten up the dullest outfit. price `310 Lakme 3-Step NouriShiNg gLow Promising a salon-like cleanup in three easy steps, the Lakme Cleanup Nourishing Glow range is the latest on the block to promise removal of dust, smoke and pollution.

Our experience of the range is a mixed one. While the face wash is nice, the scrub is great for removing whiteheads and blackheads and leaves your face looking evenly toned.

While for some people, the mask made no difference, my face looked bright and clean afterward. The pleasant strawberry smell is not too strong and my skin was not dry even after using the face wash, scrub and mask three times a week. But, the effects don’t last very long so you can expect your skin to go back to its normal state in a few hours. price Wash `145, Scrub `199 and Mask `199 where Major retail outlets rating ***

4. StaLkbuyLoVe.com We love printed scarves! Animal prints are still in trend and if you’re going gaga over them, you’ll love this scarf. The red and blue combined with dog motifs make it really fun. price `299 Madhurjya Saikia | HRM

5. deSigNemporia.iN If you’re not a big fan of prints and prefer a simple scarf, but still want something that grabs attention; try this scarf by JammuStyle on for size. It’s a bold combination of red and blue, but simple enough to be your go-to coloured scarf… if you don’t mind spending! price `4,100

There are several fashionable looks you can create using a simple, square scarf. Rhea Dhanbhoora gives you the top three simple ways to style your scarf so your hair is protected come rain or shine

eaSy turbaN Turban’s don’t have to be complicated to look chic. Try this simple one on for size:

Step 1 Fold your scarf over from end to end in the shape of a triangle and place it on your head, with the pointed side hanging over your face as shown in the picture.

Step 2 Tie a knot at the top of your head to secure the scarf and then twist the ends tight. Neatly tuck them into the scarf towards the nape of your neck.

Step 3 Roll the pointed end of your scarf up and tuck it into the knot at the top of your head. Secure it with pins if the scarf is to smooth or if it doesn’t sit still on your head.

top-kNot hairbaNd For a simple, no-fun look, this DIY hairband is a great look

Step 1 Tie your scarf into a triangle shape as you did with the turban and start to fold it over to form a straight line. Place it on your head as shown below.

« CELEB HIT OR MISS: GLYNDA ALVES GIVES US HER VERDICT ON WHAT THE STARS WORE THIS WEEK Step 2 Tie your hair up in a bun or ponytail, or leave it loose if you prefer. Making sure that both ends are evenly placed, tie a simple knot at the top of your head.

Step 2 Carefully shift the hairband so it’s at a slight angle and not right at the centre of your head. Knot it again and then tuck the ends in for a neater look.

the haLf buN This is a fun way to leave some of your hair down and secure the rest in a scarf:

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While the vibrant, semi-formal, peplum top and flowy boho maxi skirt are pretty, there’s just something about this outfit that doesn’t work well together. Maybe it’s the colours fighting for attention of the odd mix of fabrics. Better luck next time!

Most women would love to shave a few inches off their hips. Not Tisca. It seems that the actress isn’t content with her curves. Why else would she wear so many voluminous layers across her bottom? The outfit makes her look like a wonder... and we mean the Pyramids.

When will these stars realise that less is more! The outfit is demure and has a nice structure but the foil wrapped stuck on it randomly and the velvet and the sheer and the work on the neck kills whatever class the look orignally had. Nice makeup though.

Prachi Desai is a pretty girl who can get away with a few fashion flops.

But this formal dress with neon highlights is cringe-worthy. The neon looks out of place on the dress and the belt cuts her off in the middle. The shoes should also be given back to the Kardashians.

It’s not that this outfit is a hit, it’s safe with a few fun elements. Which is all we’re hoping for these days.

The blazer and matchy shoes are a little too much but the fit of her clothes is perfect and we like that her torn jeans and sling bag make her look laidback.

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>> A head scarf can keep you looking fashionable while your hair is protected

Step 1 Tie part of your hair with a rubberband and place your scarf over it, not too close to your forehead. Secure it on your head with bobby pins so that it doesn’t slip down when you’re tying it.

Step 2 Carefully knot the two ends at the nape of your neck and under the pointed end of the scarf. Make sure that the scarf hasn’t slipped back before the next step.

Step 3 Tuck the pointed end of the scarf under and over the knots to form a neat bun as shown in the picture. Make sure there are no loose ends and pin any if necessary.

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This bag from W doubles up as a sling bag as well as a hand-held bag.

Price `1,999 Where W stores in the city

Want to change careers? first, read What We have to say I have been working in technology PR (Public Relations) for five years.

Over the past year I have grown tired of my job. I think I should quit this stream altogether. As I have an engineering background, getting into technology PR was the most sensible thing to do, since I didn’t want to be an engineer. But, now I’m having second thoughts about this.

I’ve not quit my job as yet because I live alone in Mumbai and have bills to pay. Even the quality of my work is suffering because I’m thoroughly fed up of it. Can you please suggest a sensible plan?

— damini malhotra, colaba dear damini, In the field of public relations, it’s likely that things can get monotonous. But you’ve spent five years of your life in this career. Do you think it’ll be the right thing to quit the stream altogether after the years that you’ve invested in it?

Especially, because of your monetary commitments? Starting from a scratch, that too when you don’t know what to do next, can backfire.

Maybe you are just bored with ‘technology’ PR? Try looking for PR positions that deal with other segments such as lifestyle or hospitality. Even consumer technology is a bright option considering your technical background. So, before calling it quits, apply at a few other nontechnology PR companies. There are high chances that it’s just the technology bit that you are fed up of.

Due to a high workload, our boss has set a temporary leave policy — only one person can go on leave at a time. To avoid fights, we as a team, informally decided to not take leave. But, one of our colleagues went on leave behind our backs.

She is quite nice and usually, everyone likes her, but now there is anger brewing. We know we can’t complain, but is there anything else we can do?

— Priya mulchandani, andheri dear Priya, The anger your team is feeling is understandable. But, we would urge all of you to be level-headed about this. Firstly, she has already gone on leave, so there’s nothing you can do about it now. So, instead of letting your focus get affected, you’ll should just concentrate on your work.

Secondly, it doesn’t seem like she had time to talk to the team before she went on leave and vice versa.

That suggests that it could have been a genuine emergency that she had to rush off for. And since you say that she is nice and everyone likes her, we think it is the most probable reason. Wait for her to come back and we are sure that she will provide a valid reason. In case she doesn’t, the best thing would be to just forget and move on. send your questions to womansworld@afternoondc.in before Wednesday

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If you’re stuck in a boring corporate office, brighten up your look and day with this bright orange bag.

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When it comes to choosing a handbag for work, you need something that’s big enough, chic and sophisticated. If you want an upgrade, Dev Goswami lists out the best handbags out in the market a unique design

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Hands of time

If you are in your 30s, chances are that your plate is full of responsibilities.

Amid so much to do, are you forgetting your own parents? Priyanka Singh gives you pointers on balancing your life and taking care of your elders

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If you are earning, make sure that you have a regular amount allocated for your parents’ needs.

They might be dependent on their pension or savings and might not accept your money. But, in case of an emergency, you should have a good amount of money that you can bank on. Make this aspect clear before getting married and if you already are, you must discuss this with your spouse as well. If he has a problem with it, it depends on you whether you would still want to go ahead with it or not. At the end of the day, it’s money that you’re earning. If you aren’t working, you can save some from your household expenses. You need to figure out the financial aspect depending on your financial situation.

Doctor’s visits

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It’s not about taking the responsibility, but more about how much you care for them. Make a doctor’s visit a weekly ritual. Regular trips will keep you updated on their health and will also keep you in the loop of when their doctor’s appointments are scheduled. If it’s a regular check up, then you can let them go alone. After all, they should also be able to visit the doctor unaccompanied in case of an emergency. If you are in another city, put technology to good use; teach your parents how to use Skype. At least, you’ll be able to see them frequently. Parents have this bad habit of underplaying their illness.

By looking at their faces, you’ll probably know if something is wrong and if you need to visit them.

The mentality of most Indian parents is such that if you visit them too often, they will start thinking there is something wrong with your marriage.

They’ll start worrying that you’re unhappy with your partner. If you plan to visit them often, coax your husband to tag along occasionally. This way they’ll know everything is okay. More than you being there, it’s the emotional support that they need. They should know that they have someone to talk to. While you have your set of friends and extended social circle, in old age, company becomes a luxury. Speak to them often. They’ll be more than happy with that.

First aiD >> Your parents don’t have as many friends as you. So, ensure that they know they can always talk to you

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commercial that’s been airing frequently shows a mother nagging her son about how he doesn’t call her often. The son, in turn, retorts with the classic, I-don’thave-time. Replace the son with a daughter in her 30s and the situation goes further downhill. If you are an Indian woman in your 30s, it’s likely that you are married, have a child or two and are tackling a job, in-laws and marital life. If not married, then you’re balancing your personal and professional life and contributing to your family.

While you are busy dealing with such daunting tasks, your parents are getting older. If you are a responsible daughter, you won’t let them be on their own. So, how do you take care of your parents while dealing with your own life? Here are a few tips:

No matter where they stay, whether alone or with family, make sure that you make them undergo a first aid course. In several cases, first aid given in the nick of time has saved many lives. Both your parents must know what to do in case of an emergency. Also, make sure that they have a nearby hospital’s number handy.

You getting olDer It’s not just your parents who are getting older, you are as well. Running errands three times a day didn’t feel like a task five years ago, but it does now. In order to take care of your responsibilities and also support your parents, you need to take care of yourself. So, take time out for yourself.

Exercise, eat well and go for a physical examination once a year. Only if you take care of yourself, will you be able to take care of others.

« TOP 5: FOOD BLOGS WE LOVE Rhea Dhanbhoora lists out a few blogs she can’t stop logging on to salivate over 1. purple FooDie We’ve been following Shaheen Peerbhai’s blog for years now and it’s only got better with time. Shaheen has helped us out with hints and tips, valuable shopping guides, delectable pictures and the most delicious recipes you can imagine. Her blog is invaluable more because she has experience, knowledge and a passion that we haven’t seen on any other blog before or after. And the Le Cordon Bleu certification sure helps!

Log on www.purplefoodie.com 2. FinelY choppeD Kalyan Karmakar’s blog is a slow starter, but once it grows on you... well, you’re going to keep going back to it. This is a melting pot of everything food related; it includes restaurant reviews, tidbits, tips and delicious

dig in to tasty food! It’s extremely informative, so if you want a good lesson in different types of food and a lot of interesting links, log on.

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recipes. What first stoked our interest about this blog were the curated walks that take you on a food trail around the city and include community walks as well as walks that can be cutomised according to the size of your food-loving group.

Log on www.finelychopped.net 3. euphorhea Rhea Mitra Dalal is the wife of caterer Khurush Dalal and it shows in her blog.

Passionate about both eating and cooking, the pretty purple blog is filled with lip smacking pictures, witty posts and a lot of writing that comes straight from the heart.

From the nostalgic Railway Mutton Curry to Bacon Cake (you read that right!) and a sprinkling of Parsi cuisine delights, we love browsing through this blog.

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4. chronicles oF the sassY Fork For a spattering of culture and a lot of exploring, visit this blog that’s filled with food events, stories about different cultures and a lot of good food. We don’t love this blog for the recipes (there aren’t too many), we love it for the inspiration it gives us to

5. saFFron trail There are a lot of healthy blogs out there, but none are as appealing as this one. We love the recipe index, with everything neatly categorised so that you can find a good, healthy recipe in a hurry. Nandita Iyer is a doctor and nutritionist, so you can be sure the food is good for you. The blog is a treasure trove for vegetarians, with everything from snacks and salads to main course and dessert options accompanied by attractive pictures and great recipes. Add this one to your bookmarks.

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They are not under me per-se, but they do take directives from me.

They are both in their mid to late thirties and I consider them my peers, not my juniors. Last Thursday...

So, you will come? I really want you to meet Dev! Yes! I got a new dress that I can’t wait to wear!

Many relationships have gone sour because the woman earns more than the man and eventually, starts flaunting the same. Priyanka Singh tells you how you can skip the ego issues

They are always whispering together.

Big party, Charu?

>> Don’t keep on rubbing it in that you earn more.

This is only going to worsen your problems

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I am a single, fun-loving girl in my early forties. I work for a prominent accounting firm in a senior position and get along very well with my colleagues, specially Charu and Tina who are in the same department as I am.

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n the days of our parents and grandparents, wives didn’t have to worry too much about ego clashes over finances. Husbands were the prime earning members of the family and women used to spend their time taking care of the children and chores. As times changed and equality emerged, the financial dynamics of a relationship changed too. It was a rarity a few years ago when the woman used to earn more than the man. But, with each passing year, this statement becomes less true and this has often been the prime cause for many relationships to fall apart. The reason behind this is your man’s gigantic ego. If you are a woman in such an undesirable situation, there are few things that you can try to keep your love boat afloat.

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I was feeling social and to be frank, thought if they were talking about it so openly in front of me, that I was probably invited too.

But...

Err... No. Nothing like that. Err...it’s... a... ummm...

children, don’t discuss money matters in joint account wherein you both put 20% front of them at all. of your individual earnings. This will make him feel like both of you are contributing equally.

Money Decisions Let him take the lead (if you trust him enough) when it comes to handling a part of the expenditure. You can take care of the household expenses and let him handle the rest, such as bills and loan installments. This way, he’ll feel like you consider him an equal even though he earns less than you. Gaining a sense of financial contribution is necessary for men; it makes them feel important. If you think he’s spending more than necessary and you can’t point it out, lest he gets offended, then let him handle the expenses for a month. That way, he’ll know that the onus on making the funds last is on him and he’ll start spending wisely.

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You wouldn’t be interested... I will talk to you later Charu.

Bye!

Keep talKing These problems don’t get solved in a single conversation. Nor can you assume that the distribution of household chores, money and decision-making power will work itself out on its own. Such issues are fraught with emotion. Maybe he’s also dealing with an issue of self-doubt because of his seemingly inadequate situation. Give him time to get used to this and keep telling him how he’s better at several things.

They were so awkward!

Oh...

professional help

If you think that matters are getting worse, don’t hesitate to get professional help at Yes, you may earn more money than him, joint account the earliest. Sometimes a third person’s but don’t keep flaunting it. Try to avoid situations that would rub in the fact that The fact that he has to ask you for money opinion might be much more helpful you rake in more moolah. If you have can get embarrassing for him. Make a than what you are trying to convey to him.

« DEAR GRACE, I HAVE A PROBLEM...

Dear grace,

At a recent party, my boyfriend (I’m considering making that ex!) announced that I was wearing a corset! A lot of my friends jumped to my rescue and laughed off the matter, but the truth is I am so angry with my boyfriend for revealing this in front of everyone. I have no idea why he did it and to be honest, I don’t think he knows why either.

How do I get over this rage I feel towards him?

— yasmin naik, Worli Dear yasmin, The best way to subside your rage is by laughing off the matter. Guys don’t get it — they just don’t know when to keep their mouths shut and when to speak. Give him hell for a bit, but ultimately, let it go. In a few years time you’ll be laughing off the matter

too, because while embarrassing, it isn’t such a big deal. But, look on the bright side, you know you have great friends and hopefully, some poor chap at the party will realise that revealing what undergarments your girlfriend is wearing is a complete no-no.

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"I know they are closer in age and that they go out together a bit and never call me. I’m usually fine with it but this time I felt slightly ostracised. There’s just three of us in our department and I feel like the odd woman out. They have also been avoiding me since.” — K. a) It sounds like Charu was fixing Tina up on a double date. So, obviously you’d be the extra wheel. Deal with it and be professional at work. b) They are your colleagues, not your friends. Obviously, friends and colleagues are not the same thing. Call your own friends to be social. c) Take them out to lunch and be a friend to have friends.

LAST WEEK: Maheka should pick Option A: This seems to be the case of once bitten twice shy. It has only been a year. That may seem long enough for you, but it might not be for him. He loves you. Be patient.

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TV TATTLES MY MOMMIE DEAREST

At the auditions of DID Super Moms, Farah was taken back to her younger days. She spoke at length about how her parents were instrumental in her pursuing a career in Bollywood. “Had it not been for my parents, I would have definitely gotten married at the age of 21. At that time, most of my friends were getting married once we were barely out of college. I too, had planned on getting married after turning 21, but it was my parents who asked me to concentrate on building a career as well.

Seeing these young mothers makes me think that had I not gotten into Bollywood, I too would have been happily married and had kids by the time I was in my twenties,” said Farah. Watch Farah Khan as she judges DID Super Moms along with Marzi Pestonji every Saturday and Sunday at 9 pm, only on Zee TV!

Actor Rahul Sharma who hails from a small town near Dausa got his big break from writer/ producer Raakesh Paswan in ‘Ek Ghar Banaunga’ on Star Plus, and here, he speaks about his life and career journey.

By Sandeep Hattangadi

What are the shows you have done?: ‘Kahani Chandrakanta Ki, ‘Teri Meri Lovestory’ (movie) and my current show ‘Ek Ghar Banaunga’; this is my launch, a major show for me so I’ll count this as my first.

Please tell us something about your background.

I belong to a small town, Dausa, It is the second smallest town in Rajasthan. I have completed my graduation and BSc. from there. Even my father has his business there.

In your school and college, were you a good student? Were you drawn to participating in cultural activities in school and college?

I was bad in studies till 9th Std but after that I was somewhere between top and average. I scored between 70 to 80 per cent. Wherein cultural activities are concerned I had just done a small Sanskrit play in 9th Std and had just one dialogue in it. No one has ever considered me a good student. My school had no scope for cultural activities so I never got a platform either.

How was the struggle period for you when you came to Mumbai?

It was very bad and difficult. When I came to Mumbai I shared a living space with my friend. I was an introvert and shy and my small town culture showed up. I was not even aware of Mumbai culture

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at all. I didn’t know how to speak English but I was confident about my acting skills. In Jaipur I had done an acting workshop and even made some friends so I contacted them and got some contacts from them. Some I searched myself. Went for so many auditions but no proper response; it was a sad phase and it was difficult to hold myself at that moment. After 8 to 9 months I got a Vodafone print ad. After 300 auditions I got a Tata Docomo ad.

When you look back now, how do you feel?

Not much of a difference, but yes people who had no time to talk to me, I receive calls from them now. This is the initial stage of my struggle, there is lot more to come. Let’s see what lies in stock for me. One thing that I notice is the change in today’s generation. People just forget what they are while showing what they want to be. They are just not themselves and I feel how ever much you achieve in life you should never change and if you do it should be only as much as the time and situation demands at that moment or else you end up losing your existence.

What do you like/dislike about daily soaps?

I like the variations in acting. In just one day you get to enact so many emotions and you get a chance to grow as an actor. I only dislike one thing in daily soaps, that is lack of personal space, even at emergency times it becomes difficult to adjust.

MTV Splitsvilla gets hot as hell with its new Hotness Quotient task as this time the boys will flaunt a raw sex appeal by showing off their ‘Hot Abs’ to the audience. Sexy siren, Sherlyn Chopra has a hearty laugh while the boys vote among themselves by hitting raw eggs on the ones with worst abs. The one with the well-chiseled abs wins the Hotness Quotient task. The King and Queen show their mean side to the fellow Splitsvillians by taking their powers too literally and churning loads of gossip against them. The last few minutes will take everyone by surprise as Nikhil will introduce two new contestants to the game. What will happen next?

How is your equation with Ishita, your co-star from the show? Do you mingle with her a lot off-screen?

It is very good. From the very first day we vibed well with each other as if we knew each other since long. While shooting I have good chemistry with her. We are contrast in nature but jell quite well.

Right now no time to spend off screen as we are busy with shoots and hectic schedules. When we get time we just want to sleep. But whenever we get time and it is possible we all go out and make ‘masti’.

How was your interaction with Rakesh Paswan?

It is very good. He is a gem of a person and writer. He is like an overall package.

He is just too good at understanding the exact emotion that is required. He treats me like his own family. He is good hearted, genuine, down to earth and innocent person. Simple but very talented person What is your style mantra off the screen?

Jeans and t-shirt. They are cool and comfortable.

Your favourite actor, actress, films?

Tom Hanks, Dilipji. Deepika Padukone. I can’t actually compare anyone. All actors are idols for me. All actors are good in terms of their performance and qualities and I can learn from all of them. I love action and romantic movies.

‘Lapataganj’ second season begins ‘L

apataganj’, Sab TV’s most popular show, traces the journey of a common man who struggles for basic amenities yet lives a fulfilled life. The show, based on the backdrop of rural India, which etched fond memories in the hearts of the viewers, is back on public demand! Having always endeavoured to provide refreshing and

engaging content to its viewers, Sab TV announces ‘Lapataganj Ek Baar Phir’!

Directed by Ashwini Dhir and produced by Garima Productions, the show will go on air on June 10.

‘Lapataganj Ek Baar Phir’ boasts of relatable characters, newer elements and an extremely engaging storyline that is sure to revive memories from

the previous season. This well received and much appreciated show caters to viewers across all age groups, reflecting Sab TV’s brand promise ‘Asli Mazaa SAB Ke Saath Aata Hai’.

The show stars Rohitashv Gaur, Sucheta Khanna, Shubhangi Gokhale, Aditi Telang, Vineet Kumar, among others.

MUSICAL SHOW

Vh1 Easy Listening which premieres on Saturday, June 8 will take viewers on a joyride through the coolest chill-out, trip hop, ambient, indie and mellow tracks. So all you guys who are in after a heavy night out, this show is definitely going to be just what the doctor ordered. Let Vh1 be your stereo because staying in is the new going out! That’s not all! Vh1 brings you a twenty-four hour Easy Listening road block starting June 7, 12 noon that will lead into the premiere of Vh1 Easy Listening.

STARDOM EXPERIENCE

Actor Jay Soni gained recognition from ‘Sasural Genda Phool’ but with ’Sanskar’ he is getting different kind of fame. Recently, when he stepped out of his gym a lady bumped into him and offered him her daughter's hand. She seemed to be a lady from a well to do family and she was very serious about fixing up his meeting with her daughter. She openly asked him that she wants him as his son-in-law. His next door boy image is enhanced. He is playing Jaikishan Karsandas Vaishnav in the Swapna Waghmare Joshi's ‘Sanskar’ and when he shot abroad in New York there also he came across lot of people who recognised him and asked for photographs and autographs.

SUPERDANCER LAUDED

Salman Yusuff Khan became a sensation when he won ‘Dance India Dance’ and went on to floor the audience with his performance in ‘ABCD’. Very few know that there was another Khan involved in launching this talent and that was none other then Salman Khan, where he had choreographed a song for the super hit ‘Wanted’. Since then there was no looking back for SYK . The choreographer turned actor was estatic when he recently got a compliment from none other than Ranbir Kapoor. A source from the sets of ‘JDJ’ (Jhalak Dikhla Jaa) stated that Ranbir was there on the show and he stated that Salman Yusuff Khan is one of the best dancers of today’s generation. Salman Yusuff Khan says, “ It feels great to have words of praise from Ranbir who is himself is way beyond brilliant in Batameez Dil”.

‘DURVA’ TAKES A TURN!

The popular show ‘Durva’ on Star Pravah based on rural politics will take an interesting turn at the end of this week. The political strife between Annasaheb Patil and Vishwasrao Mahadik takes a serious turn as Annasaheb is attacked. Does Annasaheb survive the attack? Who will win the political battle?

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The Real Estate Bill aims at restoring confidence of the general public in the real estate sector; by instituting transparency and accountability in real estate and housing transactions which in turn will enable the sector to access capital and financial markets essential for its long term growth. It seeks to ensure consumer protection, without adding another stage in the procedure for sanctions.

Ajay Maken, Union Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation

BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS Nirmal Bang calls a ‘Buy’ on CCL Products CMP: Rs. 294

Markets Indecisive

NSE India: CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Thursday (June 6, 2013) (Based on the activity of the previous trading day) by Dominic Rebello

PEVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY: The Nifty rose marginally on Wednesday (June 05, 2013) a net 4.40 points (0.07%) and closed at the 5923 point level.

The market opened down with a gap at the 5908 points level. It then declined sharply and registered the day’s low at the 5883 points level at 9.42 a.m. The index then rose and turned into a range bound movement until 2.00 p.m.

It then rose sharply into the green and registered the day’s high at the 5935 points level at 2.08 p.m. The index then declined and turned into a range bound movement to close the day on a flat note. The Nifty witnessed a volatile session and moved in a range of 52 points. Sentiment seemed bullish and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 28 were gainers, while 22 stocks closed in the red. Substantial buying was seen in oil & gas and realty stocks, while selling was witnessed in IT, technology, FMCG and consumer durables stocks.

a weak market but with a neutral bias.

Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main support is at the 5867 points level.

The next support is at the 5673 points level.

Resistance Levels The immediate main resistance is at the 6156 points level.

The next resistance is at the 6223 points level.

Pivot Point Analysis: For intra-day traders the support and resistance levels are calculated according to the pivot point theory and are: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Pivot point = 5914 (This is the level where the trend is likely Volume: to change during intra-day).

Volume (Qty shares) increased 3.80%. This change is small Support (1) = 5893. and indicates a moderate participation by investors.

Support (2) = 5863.

Resistance (1) = 5945.

Market Breadth: Resistance (2) = 5966.

Overall Market Breadth on the NSE was neutral. Amongst all the traded stocks, 668 were gainers, 693 were losers OUTLOOK FOR TODAY: and 62 remained unchanged.

On Japanese candlestick patterns the index has formed a doji pattern. This indicates that the indecisiveness Slow Stochastic Indicator: amongst investors continues. The next candle formation The Slow Stochastic Oscillator has declined in the over-sold zone. will confirm whether the bias is towards the buy or sell The Slow K line in the Stochastic Oscillator is below the side of the market. slow D line (negative if it continues).

However, the index continues to remain below the 5, 15 and 25 day’s moving averages, and all the three RSI Indicator: averages are declining. Further, the velocity parameters The RSI is above the 40 level and is now turned flat too are negatively trended. Both these indicate a (positive if it rises). negative bias and the possibility of a decline unfolding.

Investors are advised to avoid buying at present levels.

MACD Indicator: The MACD is above zero but is now declining (negative if it Work with strict stop losses on all positions continues). It is below its 9-day Average (negative).

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

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

Moving Averages (Trend Indicators) The index: Is below its 5-day average (at 5978) Negative.

Is below its 15-day average (at 6057) Negative.

Is below its 25-day average (at 6050) Negative.

Is above its 200-day average (at 5785) Positive.

Overall Market Strength/Weakness: The indicators and oscillators discussed here are indicating

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Target Rs. 375

Consolidated Revenues for the quarter grew by 23% YoY but were down by 14.4% QoQ at Rs. 177 crore. Sales were below expectations due to trial runs and testing made at the Vietnam plant and some maintenance issues at the Indian plant. In addition, production at Vietnam plant also got affected by 10 - 12 days due to Chinese New year holidays. Vietnam plant has re-gained operations from the end of April 2013. Company would be adding another 5000 MT capacity by Sep 2013 in Vietnam taking the total capacity to 15000 MT. For FY14E, management expects to produce 6500 MT at the Vietnam plant.

CCL operates a 3000 MT plant in Switzerland where it adds value addition to the products. Operations from this unit have been lackluster during the quarter since the Swiss government has imposed additional duty. EBIDTA margins have remained flattish QoQ at 20.8% (despite high power cost) as the company was able to stock up beans when the prices were lower. Coffee prices have remained stable during the quarter. PAT was lower by 25% YoY at Rs. 10.9 crore due to higher taxes (39% of PBT) during the quarter. Management expects this to be lower in FY14 since Vietnam would start making profits in FY14E. Valuation & Recommendation: Current quarter results were below our expectations. Though sales have got affected due to maintenance issues we believe this is a temporary issue and would be resolved in the coming quarters. Margins however have grown 100 bps in FY13 to 19.2% and we believe these are sustainable with the company adding superior quality products into the portfolio.

First quarter is a seasonally weak quarter for the company; however with increase in capacities we can see good growth in YoY numbers. The stock has corrected post its Q4FY13 results and at CMP it is trading at 5.6x its FY14E earnings which look attractive. We continue to be positive on the stock and maintain BUY rating; however has reduced our target price to Rs. 375 due to lower Q4FY13 performance

Motilal Oswal calls a ‘Buy’ on BATA CMP: Rs. 865

Target Rs. 975

Massive restructuring places Bata on a strong footing: Bata scripted a successful turnaround story in 2005, post three consecutive years of losses. Key initiatives were: 1) revamp of retail operations from CY05-12 by opening 718 new large format stores, remodeling of 296 stores and closure of 524 cash - drain stores, 2) extended working hours and keeping stores open on Sundays lead to sales improvement, 3) drastic reduction in employee headcount (9,631 in CY05 to 5,162 in CY12) by providing voluntary retirement and option to move to K Stores format and 4) outsourcing labor-intensive operations to prune costs.

Valuation and view: We estimate Bata’s revenue would increase by ~17% and net profit by ~22.5% over CY12-15E. It has a strong balance sheet, with cash of INR 1.9b and healthy return ratios of 27% RoE and 39% RoCE in CY12. With limited capex of INR 2b over the next three years, we believe the company will generate free cash flow in excess of INR 5.9b over CY1315E. All these factors make a strong case for re-rating. At CMP of INR 811, Bata trades at a PE of 26.4x/20.8x/16.5x CY13E/14E/15E EPS. We value the stock at 25x CY14E EPS and arrive at a target price of INR 975, with a Buy rating.

Prabhudas Lilladher calls a ‘Buy’ on DLF CMP: Rs. 199

Target Rs. 234

Results disappoint: Post an extremely dismal Q3FY13, revenues witnessed an increase of 70% QoQ to Rs 22.2bn; however, well below expectations.

As per the company, the new accounting guidelines, which calls for revenue recognition after 25% of the budgeted construction cost is incurred on the project, resulted in lower revenue recognition to the extent of Rs 3.2bn for the quarter. Further, margins were also low at 32.6% although no cost escalations were built-in this quarter. This was again on account of the accounting guidelines, coupled with old ‘low margin’ projects coming in for recognition. The company reported a loss of Rs 42m at the net level.

However, adjustment for an exceptional item resulted in profit of Rs 288m.

Our View & Valuations: Although the company has a clear plan towards achieving its sales targets as well as debt reduction, both these are dependent on 1) an impending court case and 2) culmination of non-core asset sale transactions. Hence, for the interim, we are reducing our rating from BUY to ‘Accumulate’ and would take a re-look when atleast one of the two events pans out in the right direction. We revise our target price to Rs 234.

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Airtel gets shareholders nod for 5% stake sale to Doha-based Qatar Foundation Endowment for around Rs 6,796 crore. Government plans to disinvest 7.64% stake of National Fertilisers Ltd (NFL) through OFS route at Rs 172 crore. TCS bags four-year deal from UK’s Network Rail estimated to be around 350 million pounds.

Penalises promoters and directors for failing to comply with minimum public holding norms. Freezes voting rights and corporate benefits; bans them from dealings in shares and from holding any new position on boards of listed entities

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aking a strong position against companies which failed to achieve minimum 25 % public holding, market regulator Sebi says it had sent as many as 191 reminders to these firms in the runup to the deadline.

In these reminders, which began in November 2012 and continued till April this year, the companies were asked to initiate steps to meet the requirement or be ready for penal actions in the event of non-compliance within stipulated time.

Cracking the whip on the promoters and directors of 105 private sector companies that failed to at-

tain minimum 25 per cent public holding by June 3, Sebi late last night barred them from dealings in shares and from holding any new position on boards of listed entities.

Besides, Sebi also ordered freezing the voting rights and corporate benefits of promoters of these companies, in proportion of their noncompliance to the minimum public holding norms that require at least one-fourth of the share capital to be held by the non-promoter public shareholders.

The other possible actions that Sebi might take against these companies include moving their shares to trade-to-trade segment, excluding them from futures and options trade, monetary penalties

under adjudication proceedings, initiation of criminal case by way of prosecution and other actions, as may be deemed appropriate at a later stage.

Sebi said a total of 105 companies failed to meet the norms within the stipulated deadline of June 3. These included 72 companies whose shares are actively traded on the stock market. The shares of 33 other companies are currently suspended for various reasons.

The companies whose promoters and directors face the prohibitory orders, which came into effect yesterday, include Adani Ports, BGR Energy Systems, Essar Ports, Omaxe, Plethico Pharmaceuticals and Tata Teleservices.

Slower Demand Growth To Hit Power Generators 7 GW aggressively bid power projects likely to be unviable, says Crisil Research

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eturns of competitively bid power generation projects will be under pressure on account of slowing power demand growth and aggressive bidding, believes Crisil Research.

According to it “Over the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-13 to 2016-17), power demand growth is expected to be tepid at 6.2 per cent due to slowing demand growth from the industrial and commercial segments on account of muted GDP

growth. This is despite significant latent demand, translating to a healthy 10 per cent CAGR for the domestic segment, and strong substitution demand, arising on account of gradual shift to grid power from diesel-based generation.”

Incidentally, based on the availability of domestic coal and increased need to use high cost imported coal a levelised tariff of close to Rs. 3.1 per unit is necessary to make healthy return on equity of 16%. However 18 GW domestic coal based projects bid below Rs 3.1 per unit, and are likely to see severe

pressure on their profitability as per existing PPAs. Of these, 7 GW are at significantly high risk of being unviable due to aggressive bidding with tariffs below Rs 2.9 per unit.

In a bid to make these viable, under the cost plus mechanism, the Government has asked the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to suggest a mechanism to compensate competitively bid projects for higher cost of imported coal. Returns of these projects dependant upon availability and magnitude of tariff revision.

L&T JV Wins Saudi Aramco Contract

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Joint Venture Company of L&T Larsen Toubro Arabia LLC, has achieved a major breakthrough in Saudi Arabia by securing a large EPC contract from the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco).

Larsen Toubro Arabia is one among the multiple joint ventures of L&T in the high- growth markets of the GCC countries.

The contract is for setting up gas

processing facilities, for the Midyan Gas Fields, with a capacity to treat 75 MMSCFD of gas and 4500 BPD of condensate, and the laying of over 90 km of gas and condensate product pipelines. The project is scheduled to be completed in 37 months.

The purpose of the facilities is to efficiently meet the Kingdom’s energy demands in the west coast region.

The prestigious contract is part of L&T’s strategic growth plan in the international hydrocarbon sector.

IIFL Dynamic Bond Fund NFO Opens Today

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IFL Mutual Fund has announces its new offering of an openended Income Scheme—IIFL Dynamic Bond Fund (‘Scheme’), with an objective to generate income and long term gains by investing in a range of debt and money market instruments of various maturities.

The scheme which opens today and will close on June 17, seeks to flexibly manage its investment across the maturity spectrum with a view to optimize the risk return proposition for the investors. The

asset allocation will be in Debt Market Instruments and/or Money Market Instruments to the extent of 100%.

Says Gopinath Natarajan, CEO, IIFL AMC, “With the current macroeconomic scenario giving more space to RBI for monetary easing measures, we are pleased to offer an investment opportunity to investors to benefit from current scenario of falling yields but also aim to optimize returns in the long term by flexibly allocating assets across category of instruments and maturities.”

The concept for the Midyan Gas Processing Facilities Project is to collect gas and process it in a modular gas plant, and export treated gas to a proposed power plant in a location approximately 90 km from Midyan.

The scope of the contract includes project management, detailed engineering, procurement, supply, fabrication, manufacturing, inspection, transportation, construction, installation, testing, mechanical completion, pre- commissioning, commissioning assistance including performance testing.

In the past, L&T has worked for establishing onshore gas processing complexes for Reliance Industries Limited at Kakinada, Cairn Energy at Barmer and gas treatment projects at Uran and Hazira for ONGC. Currently, L&T is executing two projects for PDO, Oman viz. Lekhwair Gas Field Development Project and Saih Rawl depletion project and an export gas compression facility upgrade for Dolphin Energy Limited, Qatar.

With significant growth potential in the natural gas market in the Kingdom, this order is strategic from the point of view of L&T’s capability to execute such projects in an extremely competitive environment.

BUSINESS BRIEFS Just Dial Soars On Listing

Shares of local search engine Just Dial yesterday made a smart debut on the bourses, listing with a gain of over 19 % against its issue price of Rs 530. Just Dial’s shares listed at Rs 590 on the NSE soon surged 19.22 % to touch a high of Rs 631.90 before closing with a net gain of Rs 75 at Rs 605. The company had recently raised Rs 950 crore through its IPO. Just Dial’s issue, which was the largest offer by an Indian web-based and local search company, was subscribed almost 12 times. Besides, it is the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in calendar year 2013 so far.

Amazon Launches Online Marketplace For India

Global retail giant Amazon.Com yesterday announced its full scale foray into the Indian e-commerce space with its online marketplace Amazon.in. The company will begin operations with just two product categories — books and movies — and later on add more selections such as camera and mobile phones. “E-commerce is at a very nascent stage in India and we see it as an exciting opportunity for us. There’s lot of opportunity for innovation and to provide value to our customers,” Amazon India Vice President and Country Manager, Amit Agarwal told PTI.

HSBC India services PMI jumps to 3-month high in May

India’s services sector activity expanded in May and the pace was the fastest in three months, driven by up tick in new orders, an HSBC survey said yesterday. The HSBC/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index for the services industry has inched up to 53.6 in May, pointing to a solid expansion in output, one that was the fastest in three months. It has registered 50.7 in April. A reading above 50 shows that the sector is expanding, while a reading below 50 shows that the output in the sector is contracting. The services sector which accounts around 60 % of the India’s GDP expanded largely driven by higher levels of new work placed at private sector firms in India.

Qatar Airways To Host 70th IATA Conference

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced Qatar Airways as the host airline for the 70th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Transport Summit to be held in the Qatari capital Doha from June 1 – 3 next year.

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MUMBAI | THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013 (which is presuming you still want to say them), when will you? At the same time you don’t want her getting into a relationship with you on the rebound. Therefore, making your feelings known to her is as important as giving her time to be ready for another relationship.

You could express your feelings and tell her that you would respect and understand if she needed to take some time before she responds to you in a Yes or a No.

How should I say those words?

I am faced with a queer problem. Well, I had an on-off relationship with a woman but never really got the chance to say those words. And now she was on the verge of getting along with someone else just when

Fear of the condom

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What the cards say: Just chill Path: Seek harmony.

Don’t doubt. Believe Ally: Pisces who show you the path of love. Be a little careful with critical Virgo Card for the week: Tarot key no. XIV Temperance. Will bring joy and satisfaction

What the cards say: Look within.

You will find what you seek Path: Recognise your true nature of nurturing. Don’t take things for granted Ally: Libra will show you how to care. Avoid Gemini and their analytical nature Card for the week: Tarot key no. II The High Priestess. Look within and discover your true strength

What the cards say: Time to reconcile Path: Be simple and transparent.

Don’t close your eyes to avoid the truth Ally: Libra will be a good friend. Avoid impulsive Aries Card for the week: Tarot key no. XII The Hanged Man. Know your deeper impulses and surrender to the will of God. Let go and you will gain

What the cards say: Justice is at play Path: Face the truth.

Don’t cover up Ally: Objective Virgo will help you see things.

Avoid Sagittarius who will fan your emotions Card for the week: Tarot key no. XI Justice. As you have sown so you will reap

What the cards say: Recklessness can cause you pain Path: Seek and find balance. Don’t close your eyes Ally: The stable Taurus will be a good support.

Avoid Cancer and their clinging ways Card for the week: Tarot key no. 0 The Fool. Be innocent as a child but not as careless as one. Infinite possibilities if you see things rightly

What the cards say: Sadness is only for now Path: Accept the will of God. Don’t be afraid. You will be taken care of Ally: Leo confuses you. Go with gentle Taurus Card for the week: Tarot key no. XII The Hanged Man. Indicating surrender will transform your life. Just let go and put God in charge

What the cards say: Take the responsibility Path: Stand up and take the bull by the horn. Don’t be sentimental or expect understanding Ally: Original Aquarius will guide you.

Avoid Leo. Their ego could come in the way Card for the week: Tarot key no. The Emperor. Take charge and move ahead. You will get success

What the cards say: Try to undo what you may have done Path: Knowing your mistakes and learning from them. Don’t fool yourself.

Face your issues Ally: Gemini will know your mind. Be careful of Sagittarius who could irritate you Card for the week: Tarot key no. XX Judgment. You need to understand yourself and others in the right way

What the cards say: Let your generosity surface Path: Be constructive. Don’t keep a closed mind Ally: Capricorn will be astute. Avoid Cancer, they will cling to you and confuse you Card for the week: Tarot key no. VIII Strength. Seek within the power that you have

What the cards say: Be less dissatisfied.

There is no reason Path: Use your strength and intelligence to know the positives that you have. Don’t see things through a prism of bleakness Ally: Listen to objective Virgo. Avoid Pisces who will be emotionally inclined Card for the week: Tarot key no. IX The Hermit. See the truth and be wise and objective

What the cards say: Uncertain times Path: Compromise and adapt. Don’t sit on a high horse Ally: Gracious Libra will help you. Avoid Scorpio and his biting negativity Card for the week: Tarot key no. XIII Death. Change is the order of the day.

Know and flow

What the cards say: Give your judgment Path: Go with the right. Don’t be weak or dependent Ally: Be guided by generous Sagittarius.

Avoid Capricorn for their negativity Card for the week: Tarot key no. IX The Hermit. Be objective and wise. See and do what is correct. You will be in the role of an expert

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New schemes to rejuvenate J&K horticulture industry

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CAPD ministry said that state is in the process of replacing old orchards and introducing insurance schemes for farmers

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RINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir earns around Rs.4,000 crore annually from horticulture activities as fruit production in the state crossed 2.2 million metric tonnes last year, Minister for CAPD, Chaudhary Mohammad Ramzan said.

“Horticulture industry is the backbone of the economy of the state. It gives annual income of Rs.4,000 crore to the state,” Ramzan said addressing an awareness camp for farmers at Handwara, 85 km from here, in Kupwara district yesterday.

He said 55 per cent of the

total land is under orchards, with fruit production touching 2.2 million metric tonnes last year.

“The orchardists of Kashmir are experts in fruit industry but there is a need to make them aware about the new challenges in the industry,” Ramzan said.

He also highlighted the need for introduction of insurance schemes for orchards and installation of juice plants for ‘C’ grade fruit.

Minister for Horticulture Raman Bhalla, in his address, said, “The government intends to introduce several

new schemes to rejuvenate horticulture industry in the state”. He said the process for replacement of old orchards by high density plants have already been started in all parts of the state and have shown good results, with increase in fruit production.

Nurseries are also being accredited to maintain the quality of plant material, he said. The plant protection machinery, which includes farm tractors, irrigation pumps and major power sprayers, are being provided to the orchardists at a subSRINAGAR: A boatman collecting weeds from Dal Lake on World Environment Day in Srinagar, on Wednesday. sidy, Bhalla added.

NCTC should not be given unbridled powers: Siddaramaiah N EW DELHI: Voicing reservations over the full-fledged operationalisation of the ambitious NCTC, Congress-ruled Karnataka today said the body should not be given “unbridled powers”.

Newly-appointed Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also said that Naxal movement is “definitely trying to disturb” the security situation in his state.

“Some safeguards are necessary before setting up NCTC so that it is not given unbridled powers to encroach upon states’ domain,” Siddaramaiah said in his speech during the CM’s internal security conference convened by the Ministry of Home Affairs here.

“As envisaged by the Union government, the National Counter-Terrorism Centre will have to involve multi-dimensional intelligence gathering and an action planning agency. Earlier efforts of containing terrorist activities by the existing organisation for intelligence networking have proved inadequate and ineffective.

“In principle, the government of Karnataka has recognised the importance of data and intelligence sharing, planning of anti-terrorist activities including activities that are aimed at preventing, disabling or even tackling a terrorist attack in progress and the need for coordination between state and central agencies and sometimes

police of other states and even international agencies,” he said.

The CM said Naxal activities are “expanding” in the state “albeit slowly” and hence Karnataka should be categorised as a Left Wing Extremism affected state.

“As I have earlier said, the Naxal movement is definitely trying to disturb our state. I, therefore urge the union government to declare this as a Naxal affected state and provide central assistance by funding and imparting special training to our personnel.

Alternatively, assistance may be extended for undertaking preventive measures so that the Naxal movement does not make inroads into the state,” he said.

—PTI

NOTIFICATION

BY THE ADDITIONAL COLLECTOR, MUMBAI SUBURBAN DISTRICT MAHARASHTRA REGIONAL AND TOWN PLANNING ACT 1966.

No. C/ACQ/Desk-9/LAQ/CR-607/08/LAQ/SR-573 Whereas, the Government in Urban Development Department under, Notification No. T.P.B. 4392/6176/UD-11/RDP dated 29/04/1993 issued under sub section (l)-of section 31 of Maharashtra Regional & Town Planning Act 1966 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Maharashtra Act") sanctioned Revised Development Plan for 'K (West)' ward (hereinafter referred to as the said Revised Development Plan for 'K (West)' ward of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai to come into force with effect from 30/06/1993.

And whereas the land specified in the schedule appended hereto (hereinafter referred to as "Said Land") are affected by the site designated for the purpose of "Garden" (hereinafter referred to as the said "Public Purpose" in the said Revised Development plan of 'K (West)' ward.

And whereas the Municipal Corporation of Gr. Mumbai (hereinafter referred to as the said "Acquiring Body") has made an application to the Government under sub section (1), of section 126 of the said Maharashtra Act for acquiring the land for the said Public purpose.

And whereas, under Government Notification, Urban Development & Public Health Department No. TPS/2175/5106/UD-7, dated 3.3.1979 issued under sub section (1) of section 151 of the said Maharashtra Act, the powers exercisable by the State Government in respect of sub Section of (1) (2) & (4) of section of 126 of the said Maharashtra Act relating to the Acquisition of the land required for public purpose specified in the Revised Development Plan, have been delegated to the Collector.

And whereas the Collector. Mumbai Suburban District, is satisfied that the said land is needed for the said Public purpose.

And whereas the compensation to be awarded for the said land is to be paid wholly by the said Municipal Corporation.

And whereas, the time limit specified under sub section of (2) of section 126 of the said Maharashtra Act is expired.

Now, therefore, in exercise of delegated powers and under sub section (4) of section 126 of the said Maharashtra Act read with section 6 of the Land Acquisition Act 1894, (1 of 1894) (hereinafter referred to as the "said Acquisition Act") the Collector, Mumbai Suburban District hereby declares that the said land is need for the said purpose.

The Deputy Collector (Land Acquisition) No. 2, Mumbai Suburban District is hereby appointed under clause (C) of section (3) of the said Acquisition Act to perform the functions of the Collector for all proceedings hereafter to be taken in respect of the said land. He is also directed to proceed with the acquisition proceedings in respect of the said land by making all necessary arrangement for that purpose.

The plan of the said land can be inspected during office hours at the office of the Deputy Collector (Land Acquisition) No. 2, Mumbai Suburban District, 9th Floor, Administrative Bldg., Govt. Colony, Bandra (East), Mumbai 400 051.

Village: Kurar, Sr. No. 1.

SCHEDULE Tal- Borivali, Dist: Mumbai Suburban

Village

City Survey No. of land to be acquired

Kurar

391/C

Approximate Area of land to be acquired in Sq. mt.

721.6

Public Purpose: For the purpose of "Recreation Ground”for Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation.

Bandra Mumbai Dated: 19-12-2012 Sd/(Sanjay Deshmukh) Collector, Mumbai Suburban District.

ALLAHABAD: Students with placards took out an awareness rally on the occasion of World Environment Day in Allahabad, on Wednesday.

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 566

ENIGMA CODE 566

ACROSS: 1 Money not permanently invested in INS New Delhi? (8,7) 8 Finding it a struggle to get one fish (7) 9 Change to a rich leguminous food (7) 10 Ten react badly during the interval (8) 11 They live an ordered existence (6) 13 Scent trouble if Gran takes a nip possibly (10) 15 Being detained once more, those at the back took it easy (10) 19 Scattered to fight at different points (6) 20 Get little Roland into Parliament?

That's the negative bit ! (8) 21 Alarm created about a graduate held in India (7) 22 Eastern ceremony initially at minor Roman ruin (7) 23 Most directed power in a sad shot possibly causing a splash (4,5,6)

DOWN: 1 Jolly chap sacked over the holiday (6,9) 2 Passed over (7) 3 Clannish? (6) 4 A retiring habit (10) 5 Picture of parrot, it needed renovation (8) 6 Jazz fan in rumpled coat playing Bach possibly (7) 7 News story that's only just been thought of (6,9) 12 It's not his business to run in

Each colour in our code represents a letter.

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

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

The Clue: Counsel

SOLUTION TO TUESDAY’S ENIGMA CODE BODEGA, BAGGED, BEGGED, BOGGED, DABBED, DOGGED, GOADED

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MATH PYRAMID 566 between (10) 14 Travel through East End district with offensive weapon (8) 16 A few were not well served (7)

17 The romp round a place in Northumberland (7) 18 Rascal one takes for something to eat (6)

SOLUTION TO TUESDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Frankincense, 8 E'en, 9 Palindromic, 11 Operating, 12 Hodge, 14 Dusting, 16 Nonplus, 17 Epaulet, 19 No set-up, 20 Ad lib, 21 Plasterer, 23 River police, 25 Own, 26 Falling glass.

DOWN: 1 Finger-stall, 2 Alpha, 3 Killing, 4 Nonagon, 5 Ear phones, 6 Sum, 7 Beyond repair, 10 Cheese-paring, 13 Deleterious, 15 Illiberal, 18 Typhoon, 19 Nearing, 22 Theta, 24 Via.

QUICK CROSS 566

ACROSS: 1 Accident remains (5) 6 Replenish (3,2) 7 Flee to marry (5) 8 Ponti's Sophia (5) 9 Paid to play (5)

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The goal of Math Pyramid is to fill the given pyramid with numbers such that the following three rules are satisfied.

1. A cell value must be sum or difference of the two cells below 2. A row cannot have duplicate numbers 3. A number cannot be less than 1 or more than the grid size

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DOWN: 1 Engraved pillar (5) 2 Punctuation mark (5) 3 Land as a ship (5) 4 Monetary unit of India (5) 5 Blow a paycheck (5)

MATHDOKU 566

HIDATO 566

The goal of Hidato is to fill the grid with consecutive numbers that connect horizontally, vertically, or diagonally from first to the last number in the grid. The first and last numbers of a puzzle and a some other numbers are already filled in.

TUESDAY’S SOLUTION

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

TUESDAY’S SOLUTION

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MOON: Moon in Aries till 9.03 p.m.

TITHI: Shivratri NAKSHATRA: Bharni RASHI: Mesha (Aries) A.L.I. LUCKY COLOUR: Red LUCKY NUMBER: 1 BIRTHDAY FORECAST: The next 12 months assure financial growth and prosperity. It will be smooth sailing and opportunities will abound for expanding your sphere of work. Businesspersons will enter into new contract. Financial gains and government awards are assured to those connected with television or film trade. The employed will consolidate their position; younger employees will get opportunities to show their skills.

Jagjit Uppal The married will enjoy domestic felicity.

Youngsters will have a delightful romance this year. Regular exercise and yoga can help you towards leading a healthy life.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Will be of medium height with lovely eyes and ruddy complexion. They are honest, generous, forgiving but can be very obstinate. They generally are good in studies and hardworking. They attain success in their career after considerable effort. They generally lead successful life.

TODAY’S FORECAST

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Developments about a new proposal for work will take a favorable turn. A prestigious assignment, which you had been expecting, arrives finally. You will have a rush of energy and vigor that has been missing. You will be in the limelight for your recent achievements.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): You will capably handle a tricky meeting and sign a fresh deal on good terms. Hard work has been your plus point but it should not result in over strain affecting your efficiency at work.

Find time to relax. Some of you are likely to travel on work-cum-pleasure.

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GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Attend to routine affairs. Get ahead with jobs that you have been putting off, as you may not have time for them later when the tempo of work will increase. You will also have to keep a check on your expense. You are vulnerable today. Someone may try to take advantage of that.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): You will receive an important piece of information, which will enable you to make some profits in a trading transaction. A journey to meet someone will be successful. Family affairs are favorable but there could be some tension with a loved one .This is a temporary phase and things will improve.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): The pressure of new work, which comes along suddenly, could upset your plan for taking a break or withdrawing from routine work. There may be some problems at home.

Perhaps heavy entertaining has increased expenses and you are now finding it difficult to cater to the needs of the family.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): You will be able to recover your dues and also gain from unexpected sources, thereby helping build a strong foundation for your business. Go ahead with plans. New developments may also actually propel you to a position of importance.

A trip undertaken will work out well.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): Any applications made today will bring a favorable response. Students will do very well in their Tests and interviews. Whatever you do may not bring about immediate rewards but if you keep on going with sincerity your efforts are bound to bring adequate results later.

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SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): You will be able to successfully conclude a project that has been keeping you busy. Written reports and submitted projects will also get a favorable response. You may decide to go home early perhaps to help sort out a problem that has been upsetting your mate or family. You will enjoy good health and a feeling of security.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 - December 20): Gains are indicated.

Expenses are also heavy. Consolidate your financial position before you start making fresh plans. A dear friend may have an interesting business proposal, which could well be a money-spinner. Keep your mind open to suggestions. Matters concerning children make you proud.

MODESTY BLAISE PETER O’DONNELL

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): You may have to contend with a sudden problem without any warning. Try not to wallow in self pity. You will be of course well rewarded for your arduous efforts at work. In matters of the heart you will have to take the first step towards making amends.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): Even the usual routine tasks will prove cumbersome and you face obstructions at every step. Avoid wasting time and take up paperwork that needs to be looked into.

Avoid arguments. If you get involved in a verbal duel you may have regrets later. Try to listen rather than speak out and repent.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): You seem to be in no mood to work today. A break from your regular routine should help to lift your spirits. Some of you are likely to drive out of town to a nearby resort in the company of your family or your beloved. Try to leave all your cares and worries behind and enjoy yourself.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 4681

ACROSS: 1 City in Uttar Pradesh (6) 7 Compels observance of law, etc. (8) 8 Malay dagger (4) 10 Customer (6) 11 Position, at the tee perhaps (6) 14 Consume, devour (3) 16 A dim-witted or moronic person (5) 17 Hospital room (4) 19 Van Gogh residence (5) 21 Famous mountain ranges in Russia (5) 22 Intense hatred (5) 23 Drink, left (4) 26 __ nova (5) 28 Shylock, for one? (3) 29 Acid in vinegar (6) 30 Documents or manuscripts (6) 31 Units for measuring electric current, in short (4) 32 Sufficient and enough (8) 33 Abrupt (6)

DOWN: 1 Capital of Russia (6) 2 Peruse or go through again? (6) 3 Examination (4) 4 Air attacks on enemy territories? (7) 5 Boadicea's people (5) 6 A little island (5) 8 Dye vat - "rike" anagram? (4) 9 Indian National Theatre, in short (3) 12 Advertisements, abbr. (3) 13 Cringe or shrink back in fear (5) 15 Deceive or trick someone (5) 18 Concerned with a specific subject (5) 19 Jackie's second (3) 20 Law professor's degree (3)

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SUDOKU 1867 Sudoku is a number placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid such several given numbers.To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every digit from 1 to 9 must appear in each of the nine vertical columns, in each of the nine horizontal rows and in each of the nine boxes.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Difficulty Level

CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: P equals T

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

21 Rajasthan city known for its 25 Dutch navigator (6) 26 Akbar's grandfather (5) palaces (7) 27 Court star Monica (5) 22 The German for 'east' (3) 28 ___ on : apply breaks forcibly? (3) 23 ___ up : enthused or elated? (6) 30 Leander of Indian tennis (4) 24 Has to pay some money (4) SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Uttar, 6 Secco, 9 Boggled, 10 Enjoy, 11 Egret, 12 Poppy, 13 Sustain, 15 Stu, 17 Ceps, 18 Agrees, 19 Moose, 20 Ballot, 22 Agar, 24 Apt, 25 Certify, 26 Aswan, 27 Salvo, 28 Tacit, 29 Oolitic, 30 Flynn, 31 Chime.

DOWN: 2 Tongue, 3 Aborts, 4 Roy, 5 Egg on, 6 Seepage, 7 Edgy, 8 Create, 12 Pivot, 13 Scuba, 14 Spilt, 15 Sergi, 16 Usury, 18 Ashen, 19 Monsoon, 21 Appall, 22 Attach, 23 Affirm, 25 Cabin, 26 Avon, 28 Tic.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1686 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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P L R P

P L M

B Z J P R P M B

O G Z M N C D ,

X Y Z E M G A M O X P

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise

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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: 33 average; 38 good; 43 outstanding.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: bulldoze, BULLDOZER, doze, zero.

HEATHCLIFF

Yesterday’s

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IN BRIEF Vikas, Shivam and Pranjal off to London for coaching camp

MUMBAI: Vikas Dixit and Shivam Chauhan from Delhi, and Pranjal Puri from Indore will fly to London for a 25-day camp and train under former Somerset cricketer Thomas Webley at Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood, Hertfordshire. The school is wellknown in the English cricketing fraternity and offers world-class facilities in cricket coaching. The trio were selected following the eight month long Coca-Cola Cricket Cup in which 12,000 young players from 780 schools in 70 districts participated. The selections were made at the end of an intensive three match series where the team played against the Sri Lankan National Under-16 team in, touring Sri Lanka from May 27 to June 3 2013.

New Hind Sports Club annex CIA’s U-10 Premier League title

New Hind SC with cricketer Pravin Amre.

MUMBAI: New Hind Sports Club bagged the under 10 Premier League title defeating Shiv Sena by two wickets in a tight finish which saw the match going down to the wire. Held at the Kohinoor cricket academy ground, Shiv Seva club were bundled out of 135 runs with Dev Karan Parmar top scoring with 42 runs. The bowling department of New Hind was led by captain, Suryansh Shedge who claimed two wickets with Yadnesh Salvi and leg spinner Manan Bhatt bagging two each. It was not an easy task for the New Hind boys with Vedprakash Jaiswal coming to the rescue scoring quick 41.

Brief Scores: Shiv Seva: 135 all out (Devkaran Parmar 42, Suryansh Shedge 2-28) lost to New Hind: 139 for 8 (Vedprakash Jaiswal 41, Amit Wagh 2-22) by two wickets.

Mishra upsets GM Timoshenko to move into joint second

MUMBAI: IM Swayams Mishra (ELO 2406) of Odissa upset GM Timoshenko Georgy (ELO 2522) of Ukraine, while GM Akshayraj Kore (ELO 2508) of Pune defeated IM Ravichandran Siddharth (ELO 2361) to leapfrog into joint second position with 7.5 points at the end of the penultimate round of the 6th Mumbai Mayor International Chess Tournament played at National Sports Club of India, here, on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the top slot is occupied by three players with eight points, the overnight leader GM Pantasulaia Levan (ELO 2563) of Georgia joined by two others, namely top seed GM M. Mekheil (ELO 2645) and second seed GM Amonatav Farrukh (ELO 2616) of Tajikistan, followed by GM Akashayraj Kore, IM Swayansh Mishra and GM Andriasian Zaven (ELO 2608) of Armenia with 7.5 points.

IM Swayams Mishra played aggressively in his match against GM Georgy Timoshenko, which started in Nimzo Indian Defense, breaking his opponent by castling on the ninth move and preferred to keep his King in the centre to activate all his pieces.

Timoshenko resigned in 30 moves when he saw his mate was imminent.

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ARDIFF: Drawn in what is being dubbed as the Group of Death, India will look to carry forward the form they exhibited in the tournament's warm-up games as they lock horns with South Africa in the Champions Trophy opener, which will be their first match outside the sub-continent in 15 months.

With every game a virtual shootout, both the former winners will be eager to make a head start in the tournament which is being held for the last time. As World Cup champions, India will have more than reputation to defend in the 50-over format contest. They have not played a limited over international outside the sub-continent in the last 15 months but the two big wins in their practice matches against Sri Lanka in Birmingham and Australia in Cardiff will give the Indian team management a fair idea of the conditions to confront.

India will also look to put behind them the recent spot-fixing scandal surrounding the IPL. Although history never counts in international cricket, India have a good record against South Africa in the Champions Trophy. India lead 2-0 in head-to-head having won by 95 runs at Nairobi's Gymkhana ground on October 13, 2000 and by 10 runs at Colombo's Premadasa Stadium on September 25, 2002.

With two out of the four battlehardened teams qualifying for the semifinals, all matches in group B are expected to be closely-fought affairs. Except Pakistan, India, South Africa and the West Indies have won the Champions Trophy at least once each and hence more than just pride will be at stake in the last edition of the tournament that began as the Mini World Cup in Dhaka in 1998.

South Africa also arrive with a lot of reputation to protect. They are the world's No. 1 Test team but

The Indian team during their warm up match against Australia. their ODI fortunes have been scratchy and it showed during the one-off warm-up game they played against a talented Pakistani attack on Monday.

At The Oval, South Africa lost by six wickets and the defeat exposed the chinks in a batting lineup without two solid customers, Jacques Kallis and Graeme Smith.

Most captains have pooh-poohed their defeats in the practice games. The 15-a-side, bat and field 11 hybrid concept may be good for practice but considerably waters down the competitive edge of a real contest.

South African skipper AB De Villiers dismissed the Oval defeat

saying: "It's not about the result, it's about what you get out of it. I am sure each guy will stand up when the time is right." That time will come tomorrow and India will be the first big hurdle. Fresh from the T20 Indian Premier League, most Indian players are quickly trying to adjust to the 50over variety. It's been a test for application and temperament and if the results in the two warm-up games are anything to go by, the feedback is mixed.

When Mahendra Singh Dhoni stepped out of Indian shores he said this Champions Trophy will be a test for the team's junior boys.

29 Dhoni continues to keep mum on recent controversies CARDIFF: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni continued to maintain a stoic silence on the IPL spot-fixing scandal and also showed no willingness to give his version in the 'conflict of interest' controversy over him having stakes in a sports management company which handles him.

Asked if there are any distraction going into the Champions Trophy in the wake of recent controversies surrounding Indian cricket and the captain himself, Dhoni smartly dodged the query. "I think these are all the stuff that we're not even thinking about or does not even cross our minds. What we are really looking forward to is the challenge," Dhoni said.

"This is the first time we'll be playing under the new set of rules outside India, and we need to adapt quickly and see how our boys are reacting... So that's what we are looking forward to," he added.

Dhoni has come under sharp attack from some former cricketers for his alleged conflict of interest for having stakes in Rhiti Sports, which handles him and three of his Indian teammates.

Dhoni found himself in a controversy when it came to light that he had 15 per cent stake in Rhiti Sports, which also manages Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja and Pragyan Ojha, besides the Indian captain.

Prior to the Indian team's departure for England, Dhoni was asked questions about the spot-fixing scandal, but he answered none of them in a press conference in Mumbai.

Saina, Arundhati reach pre-quarters in Thailand Open B

ANGKOK: Defending champion Saina Nehwal and rising star Arundhati Pantawane advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of Thailand Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament after notching up contrasting wins in women's singles competition here. World No 2 Saina didn't break much sweat as she prevailed over Shih Han Hung of Chinese Taipei 21-11, 21-16 in a 29-minute match here. The 23-year-old from Hyderabad will next take on Febby Angguni of Indonesia in the second round today.

Nagpur shuttler Arundhati, who returned to India's No 1 position after two years, saw off Min Ji Lee of Korea 14-21, 21-9, 21-15 in a 45minute battle in the opening round. Arundhati will next meet the winner of fifth seed Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand and Yeni Asmarani of Indonesia.

However, PC Thulasi suffered a 14-21, 17-21 loss to third seed Porntip Buranaprasertsuk of Thai-

donesia's Shesar Hiren Rhustavito 21-11, 19-2,1 21-9.

Prannoy defeated local player Nonpakorn Nantatheero 21-11, 21-19 in another match and will take on fellow Indian Jayaram in the second round. Pawar also prevailed over Indonesian Riyanto Subagja 21-15, 9-21, 21-14, while Sourabh defeated another local player Khosit Phetpradab 21-16, 21-18 in another match.

Srikanth, meanwhile, thrashed Korean Hyuk Jin Jeon 21-17, 21-12 to also reach the second round. In the women's singles match, Saina was not tested much as her opponent Shih Han's fight lasted till the sixth point. The Indian soon reeled off seven straight points to move to 16-7 and then comfortably pocketed the first game. land in another women's singles the second round.

Shih Han tried to put up a fight match. In men's singles, Sai PraPraneeth stunned 2003 All Eng- in the second game and breathed neeth B, fifth seed Ajay Jayaram, land Champion Muhammad Hafiz down Saina's neck initially but the HS Prannoy, eighth seed Sourabh Hashim of Malaysia 21-12, 9-21, Indian broke off from 12-12 and Verma, 10th seed Anand Pawar 22-20 in a match that lasted 47 widen the gap to eventually close and 13th seed K Srikanth reached minutes, while Jayaram beat In- the door on the Taiwanese girl.

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in the World Cup You were the first Afghan to play football outside your country. How was your entire experience of playing in the I League?

It has been a great experience as I am the first Afghan player to play outside the country. At first, I didn’t know much about the league in India. I thought it wasn’t as good as the other leagues in South East Asia but when I came here all my doubts were cleared.

How did the journey from Kabul to Mumbai take place and how were you spotted by Mumbai FC? In 2010, I came here with a Kabul team and we played some friendly matches in Mumbai.

Yusuf Ansari, the Air India goalkeeping coach noticed me and called me for trials. But due to technical reasons I couldn’t play that year. The next year, he approached Mumbai FC coach Khalid Jamil and I signed a contract with them.

You recently won the Fans Player of the Year Award.

Was this one of your biggest achievements in India and in your career?

This is the biggest achievement of my entire football career. In my second year of the I League and I won the ‘Fans Player of the Year’ award and now I realise how much the Indian people and the fans love me. I helped my team fight relegation but this year we are in a good position. This is the best season of my life in my career.

playing in my house or with my neighbours on the streets.

When in 2005, I was selected for the national team, I wasn’t so serious then. Later, I realised what is the actual value of a national team player. With leading the country, I feel that the Almighty has given me everything I need.

Kabul’s lone stadium was used for executions by the Taliban. After their exit, what all has changed in the Olympic Stadium in the nation’s capital?

That time people knew that the stadium wasn’t being used to play football. They were killing everyone there. But after they left, everything has changed. Earlier, people were scared to step foot on that ground because they were scared of the rulers. Now we have the FIFA Goal projects in the country, where the international federation will build stadiums for us.

What dreams do you have for Afghanistan?

My dream for Afghanistan is that I play in the World Cup. It may not happen in 2018 but definitely in 2022, we should play. It’s my dream to play the World Cup and I am sure Afghanistan will qualify for the World Cup.

What is your federation doing for its team in its build up for the World Cup? AFC is supporting football from 2005. They are focusing on how to build a strong national team. They are bringing players back to their home country from around the world. They are now giving salary to players and we have been playing a number of friendly matches. Our main target is the 2018 World Cup.

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Afghanistan has reached their best FIFA rankings of 139. Apparently, your country is rated higher than India.

From being ranking 200 in 2004 to 139 in 2013, what has sparked the development of football in the war locked country?

In the last five years, we saw how the Afghanistan Football Federation is improving every day. As a proud captain of Afghanistan, we have crossed all records, whether it is the FIFA ranking or breaking in among the top 20 countries in Asia. This is the beginning and it’s the start and in two to three years time, we will be a strong contender in every tournament we participate.

As a kid did you always want to play football as the Taliban regime had banned sports in the country?

As a kid and during the Taliban reign, no one imagined that the Afghan national team would climb so high. No one was thinking about sports. The only thing on their minds was ‘fighting’ and how do we survive. They may not have supported sports, but the Taliban loved football. After the Taliban exit, football took a dramatic leap upwards. Now everyone wants to play football. Parents dream of seeing their boys playing for the Afghanistan team.

During your younger days, did you secretly practice somewhere and tell us about the journey in eventually leading the Afghanistan team?

When I was six to seven years, I never dreamt that I would play football one day and go on to represent the country. I started

Along with football, cricket has taken the fancy of many Afghans. How is the most popular game in India shaping up?

Cricket is also popular in Afghanistan after football. It is very easy to qualify for the World Cup because there are only 1012 countries playing the game. On the contrary, it is very difficult to qualify for the football World Cup, because there are so many countries playing the game.

Afghanistan reaching the SAFF Cup finals in 2011 was one of your biggest achievements. You team received great away support. What kind of experience was that for you?

Earlier, teams felt it was easy to defeat us and could easily earn three points. But of late, everyone is planning on how to beat us. In this SAFF Cup no one thought that Afghanistan would reach the final but due to our hard work, it was like a dream coming true for all the players and the entire country were waiting for such a moment. One man brought all Afghan fans for free to India in a plane. With this you can see how passionate we are about the game.

How has been you experience staying in India and playing with different teams and travelling to different places?

It has been great. I am enjoying every second of my playing career here. I never felt for a second that I am out of my own country. In I League, to come, play and perform and to get famous with huge crowds cheering you feel great.

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JELENA FAILS TO SOLVE PROBLEM CALLED MARIA SPORTS

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ARIS: Maria Sharapova rarely gets stung in Grand Slam matches, especially when she’s fit, so after Jelena Jankovic hung a 60 bagel on her in the first set of the their quarterfinal clash, there was a possibility that she was so off her form that she would go away quietly in two sets.

But that’s just not in the defending champion’s nature.

In yet another remarkable performance from the world No. 2, Sharapova dug deep, rediscovered her Grand Slam-winning form and came away with a 0-6, 64, 6-3 victory and clawed her way into the semi-finals where she will meet Victoria Azarenka.

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic scored a 6-3, 7-6(5), 7-5 win against Tommy Haas in the Roland Garros quarter-finals on Wednesday in Paris. Djokovic will face Rafael Nadal for a place in the final. Nadal outclassed 9th seed Stanislas Wawrinka 6-2, 6-3, 6-1.

I-League teams set for rebellion

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UMBAI: The lack of clarity or rather the difference between the I-League football teams and the All India Football Federation with respect to IMG-Reliance mooted league has reached new heights with all the first division I League clubs refusing to loan any players for the new league.

The Indian Professional Football Clubs Association (IPFCA) which was started last year blankly refused a three month window during the I League seeking reason for the new league, which would run parallel to the I-League. Thirteen I -League teams met in Mumbai on Wednesday although Sporting Clube de Goa

was absent, the club wholly supported in absentia the decision of the IPFCA. Two newly promoted clubs Rangdajed United and Mohammedan Sporting and two newly inducted clubs – Bangalore based JSW and Mumbai Tigers - favoured that the I- League structure should maintain the status quo and should not do away with the home and away format, a structure which is adopted by most of the European leagues.

The meeting which was held under the chairmanship of Raj Gomes, who also represented Salgaocar Football Club mentioned that the clubs should be taken into confidence when any decision regarding alteration of the format of

India’s premier club tournament is taken.

They also opposed the shortening of the League and go the ‘conference’ way or the zonal way which is prevalent in the Major League Soccer in the United States.

Chirag Tanna, Head Operations, Pune FC said the three month tournament would not help better the grassroot game . “We have decided that we will not allow any players to play in the league. We won’t employ any players either who play the league. I don’t know how a bunch of players who are retired or on the verge of retirement can make a successful league. The AIFF never approached any of the clubs on what was our opinion about the league.”

Djokovic controlled the 30minute first set. He broke Haas in the seventh game with a forehand winner down the line and broke the German again in the ninth game with another forehand winner to clinch the opening set.

The Serb dictated the baseline rallies, hitting 14 winners to just three from Haas.

Nadal is on a quest to become the first man in history to win the same Grand Slam trophy eight times. He has a staggering 56-1 record at the Paris major, with his lone defeat coming at the hands of Robin Soderling in the 2009 fourth round.

Former World No. 1 Jankovic played a beautiful and consistent first set. She was smart, hitting the ball deep and keeping her one-time rival from the juniors off balance. It was also clear that Sharapova was way off her game as she committed 20 unforced errors in the set.

When the Russian stood up from her chair to begin the second, she

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had already put the first set behind her and off she took, battering the Serb with big forehands, taking big cuts at Jankovic’s second service and, despite being a good deal slower than her foe, hustling after every ball to coax the latter into errors.

Jankovic managed to come back from a 1-5 deficit in the set to 4-5, but Sharapova served big and held on to the win the set.

2008 semifinalist Jankovic, who has been playing very well during the past three months, refused to go away however and got off to a 3-2 lead on service.

Victoria Azarenka has always been the sort of player you would want on your side in a fight. Her appetite for victory got her through a lengthy last-eight encounter with former doubles partner Maria Kirilenko 7-6(3), 6-2, meaning she will become the first woman ever to fly the Belarus flag in the final four at the French Open. She also completed her personal Grand Slam semi-final set, as this was the only major where she had fallen short.

IPL-style football league could see Beckham, Raul in action

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EW DELHI: There is a possibility that the franchisebased football tournament, to be jointly organised by the AIFF and its commercial partner IMGReliance early next year, could see retired stars such as David Beckham and Raul Gonzalez in action.

According to a British website, Sports Management Agency IMG is trying to recruit recently retired stars like Beckham, his former England teammate Michael Owen and former Spain captain Raul

Gonzalez to help boost the profile of the venture.

However, no AIFF official was willing to confirm the development when asked about it.

“I have only heard about it, so I cannot confirm you anything as of now,” a top All India Football Federation official told PTI. Having being granted a window from January 15 to March 15 next year, the IPL-style football tournament will feature eight franchises with a squad of 25 players each to play a series of matches.

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EW DELHI: Rajasthan Royals owner Raj Kundra and his business partner-friend Umesh Goenka were questioned for several hours today in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal following the claims made by a cricketer and to know about the ownership pattern of the team.

A senior Delhi Police official refused to clear the air on Kundra, who said he owns 11.7 per cent stake in Rajasthan Royals, whether he is a “suspect or complainant”, stating he was an “important person” needed for questioning.

The questioning of both Kundra and Goenka began around 10 am and continued till late in the evening. Sources said the name of Goenka, with whom Kundra owns a company dealing in steel business,

came during the recording of statement of Rajasthan Royal player Sidharth Trivedi, a prosecution witness in the case.

In his statement recorded before a magistrate, sources said, Trivedi claimed that Goenka approached him and sought details about the cricket pitch in Ahmedabad and details about team formations.

According to police sources, Kundra was called over phone to appear before investigators who wanted to ask about the ownership details of Rajasthan Royals.

“Kundra told police that he owned 11.7 per cent while Suresh Chelaram, co-brother of Lalit Modi owned 43 per cent and Manoj Badale has 34 per cent. Rupert Murdoch’s son Lalchan Murdoch also has stake in the team,” a senior po-

lice official said.

Kundra, a British national, has 42 per cent stake in the steel business with Goenka who has 16 per cent shares in the firm, they said.

“Kundra did not have much to say about the players. Whenwe told him that as the owner, he has to ensure that players do not get in touch with unscrupulous elements as per BCCI instructions, he said the cricketers were adults and many times they took guests inside hotels saying they were personal friends,” the official said. Asked whether they were treating Kundra as a suspect, the official said, “We are neutral about him now. We are interrogating him.”

“Goenka was close to Kundra.

Kundra has invited Goenka for after-match parties. Goenka used to meet players,” he said.

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