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SPEEDING TANKER JUMPS DIVIDER AND RAMS HEAD-ON INTO LUXURY BUS, KILLING 14, INJURING 40, NEAR KASA ON THE MUMBAI-AHMEDABAD HIGHWAY

By Suresh Golani

Newly-wed couple dead

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he deceased in the tragic collision include a newly married couple who resided in Alibaug. Identified as Dilip Mahendra Ostwal (28) and Pooja Dilip Ostwal (20), the couple had married just

Had boarded the ill-fated bus after they failed to get confirmed rail tickets

four months ago and had planned their reception ceremony in Alibaug next month.

The couple, who had gone to Dilip’s native place in Godan village of Jalore District in Rajasthan, were accompanied

by Dilip’s younger cousins, Ashish (15) and Darshan (12) on their return journey to Mumbai, from where they had planned to Continued on pg 6 «

Dilip and wife Pooja

Pics by Manoj Singh & Suresh Golani

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n one of the worst road accidents on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad National Highway, 14 passengers were killed, and 40 injured, 20 seriously, when a private luxury bus they were traveling in, was rammed into by an over-speeding tanker near Kasa on Wednesday morning.

The tanker that was heading towards Gujarat, jumped the divider and rammed into the bus coming from the opposite direction, after the driver lost control of his vehicle.

The head-on collision occurred on the Mendhwan Bridge near Kasa at about 7 am on Wednesday. The illfated luxury bus, operated by Kabra Travels, was heading towards Mumbai from Ahmedabad.

While the condition of 20 passengers continues to be critical, the police have ascertained the identity of 13 out of the 14 victims, who include five women and one child.

The Gujarat-bound tanker was carrying polyester resin. Such was the Continued on pg 6 «

‘Why did police not conduct test?’

Doctor facing rape charge tells court he had voluntarily offered to submit himself for medical tests, but the police had refused

By Philip Varghese

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even days after the Sessions Court in South Mumbai had rejected the application filed by a citybased doctor, accused of raping his 27-year-old patient suffering from tuberculosis, the Bombay High

Court on Wednesday directed the Mumbai Police not to arrest the doctor until his application seeking to submit his blood and semen samples to the police, is heard on June 11.

This move to the Bombay High Court comes after Dr. Rustom Soonawala (44), in his plea to the Sessions Court, had mentioned that he was ready to give his blood and semen sample for investigation purposes, provided that he will not be arrested in the hospital. The Sessions Court had, however, rejected the said application.

The woman, a migrant from Orissa, who stays with her husband in Ghatkopar, had gone to his clinic on May 17 for a follow-up of her tu-

berculosis treatment when, she alleged, the doctor raped her while her husband and his receptionist were waiting outside the examination room.

Meanwhile, Dr. Soonawala has also applied for an anticipatory bail claiming he had been framed and the court scheduled to hear his bail plea again on May 31.

While arguing in the High Court on Wednesday, advocate Abad Ponda, lawyer representing Dr. Soonawala in the case, told the court, “The police can wait to arrest the doctor till the medical reports are out, as section 53 (A) of the Criminal Procedure Code (Examination of accused by medical practitioner) says that the rape ac-

cused has the right to submit himself to the police for medical examinations. For the commission of the offence to be established, the medical tests have to be positive with the tests conducted on the victim.”

However, Public Prosecutor Prajakta Shinde, opposed the application and argued that if relief was given in this case, other accused would seek the same relief.

Reacting to this, Justice A.M. Thipsay asked, “Why are you refusing to conduct a medical examination on the accused? If the result of the report is positive, the doctor would have to face the consequences. I think the prosecution has not given any satisfactory rea-

son for not taking the accused person’s medical. We suggest that the police should get the medical tests done on the accused and place the result of the report before the Sessions Court which will be hearing the accused’s anticipatory bail application on May 31.”

The police, however, refused to accept the suggestion following which the High Court placed the hearing of the application for June 11 and directed that the accused shall not be arrested till the next hearing and will report to the Khar Police station for interrogations and if the police wish, Dr. Soonawala shall undergo the medical examinations. philip.varghese@afternoondc.in

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Eastern Freeway to open in June State keen to inaugurate showpiece project at the hands of Sonia Gandhi or PM Manmohan Singh

By Prashant Hamine

Pawar shaken and stirred over IPL controversy

Union Agriculture Minister and former BCCI chief, Sharad Pawar.

By Suyash Padate

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he former BCCI chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has yesterday broke his silence on IPL spot-fixing scandal and demanded that Union Home Ministry’s inquiry into all the 75 matches of the scandal-hit sixth session IPL which concluded recently. Pawar also pointed out that this nonsense would not have happened if he was at the helm of the affairs of the board.

Speaking to reporters, Pawar said, “If the BCCI gives in writing to the Home Minister and request to investigate all the matches, the government can start the investigation in all the matches. They can interrogate anybody.

They have legal sanction.

However, the board does not accept it and says its own anti-corruption wing will do the job, I feel the board is not serious in dealing with the wrongdoings. Apart from this it will give an impression that the Cricket Board is not serious about dealing with corruption in the sport.”

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“I personally feel sad at what is happening presently.

But I think this case should go to the Home Ministry as Shashank Manohar has said.

The anti-corruption unit of LIJJA AT AD. AGENCY 8811/LA A Eng. the BCCI has no authority to take any action. Suppose the board’s probe reaches to any team owner or any bookie, they will not pay any heed or cooperate in investigation.

One has to go to the root of the problem by taking very effective, ruthless, corrective action against anybody at any level,” Pawar added.

Pawar said that he is deeply hurt and feels sad about the prevalent scenario, further clarified that BCCI president N. Srinivasan is accountable for the whole spot-fixing controversy”. He, however, didn’t speak on the resignation of Srinivasan as the BCCI chief. When asked if Srinivasan should step down from his post on moral grounds, pending investigation, Pawar said, “I don’t want to comment on any individual. I will make one thing clear here that the spot-fixing and betting scandal has shaken the confidence of cricket fans”.

A bird’s eyeview of the Eastern Freeway, illuminated yesterday evening.

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project either at the hands of Congress president Sonia ontrary to reports ap- Gandhi or Prime Minister Dr pearing in a section of the Manmohan Singh.

With an eye on the 2014 media, the inauguration of the Eastern Freeway is likely Lok Sabha elections, Chief to be held sometime in the Minister Prithviraj Chavan first week of June. Sources in had indicated that the project the state government, while would be inaugurated before speaking to the ADC yester- the onset of monsoon in day, disclosed that the gov- the city.

The 16.8 km long four-lane ernment is keen on inaugurating the showpiece Eastern Freeway connects

All I can say is that I am optimistic that BMC can tackle monsoons.

south Mumbai with the Eastern suburbs.

The toll-free road will provide direct access to motorists from the Eastern suburbs and beyond to south Mumbai through P D’Mello Road, without having to take the Eastern Express Highway and the Ambedkar Road. According to sources, motorcyclists will not be allowed entry on the Freeway.

Built at a cost of Rs.1,135 crore, the Eastern Freeway project is divided into three parts. The first part is the 9.3 km long elevated road from P D’Mello Road to the beginning of the Anik-Panjrapole Link Road. The second part is the 5 km long corridor from Anik to the beginning of Panjrapole-Ghatkopar Link Road.

The third corridor is the Ghatkopar-Panjrapole Link Road which is a 3 km elevated road which starts at the Sion-Panvel Link Road and

ends at the junction of the Chembur-Mankhurd Link Road.

The Eastern Freeway starts near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in south Mumbai, passes along Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Wadi Bunder on P.D ’Mello Road and further enters into Mumbai Port Trust Road and finally joins the Eastern Express Highway via Anik Panjrapole Link Road (APLR), near Wadala.

There are limited entry and exit points along the Freeway at Dockyard Road, Cotton Green, iMax at Wadala and at Panjrapole.

One of the unique features of this project is the construction of Mumbai’s first twin tunnel at the footsteps of the BARC mountain. The twin tunnels are 505 meters and 555 meters in length and will have four carriageways in each tunnel. prashant.hamine@afternoondc.in Sushil Kadam | ADC

Do you think the BMC is prepared to tackle the monsoons this year?

Sandeep Deshpande MNS councilor

The civic body is preparing to tackle the monsoons. It is late in starting the clean up of the Mithi River.

Contractors are yet to be appointed for repairs of potholes. Progress is slow.

Munna Hakke Student

Over the years, the BMC had cleaned and widened its nullah and they are now prepared to drain out rain water quicker. So there would be no water logging in the city.

Dnyanraj Nikam Leader of the Opposition

Our fate is in the hand of God. We don’t know what will happen of the city.

Sunil Prabhu Mayor

We, along with Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray, have inspected the nullah cleaning work. Work is satisfactory and city will have happy monsoons ahead.

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Poor publicity notwithstanding, there was a crowd at Dadar Chowpatty for the final performance of the Bandstand Revival Project last Saturday. Nor were they disappointed with (From top right) the Police Band, Uday Benegal of Indus Creed and Suneeta Rao getting the crowd to relive the past, sing along and generally enjoy themselves.

Bandstand Revival’s last show for this year

OCCASIONAL contributor Margaret DaCosta was at the final performance of the Bandstand Revival Project last Saturday and has much to impart to readers in Mumbai, nostalgic for at least some of the ‘good old days’ when this was an integral part of the cultural landscape: “For those of us fortunate to be present at Dadar Chowpatty, the Grand Finale of the Bandstand Revival Project 2013 was a treat.

“It is the largest gathering we’ve had,” says Stuart DaCosta, who, along with the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, has been organizing this eight weekend long musicfestival for the last five years. The crowd jostled for space to get a better view of the performances of the evening and they were not disappointed.

“The events, also held at Hanging Gardens, Malabar Hill,

MUMBHAI VIKAS SABNIS

Yes, we had to arrange separate foundation stones for the same project!

The VIPs here are from two different political parties.

took place in the evenings from 5.30 to 8.30. Last Saturday there was something for everyone. The Mumbai Police Band, a 25 piece strong orchestra, recent runners up in the National Police Band contests, kicked off the evening with their rendition of popular tunes that included ‘The Final Countdown’, and ‘ I just called to say I love you’ as well as some popular Bollywood music.

“This was followed by Uday Benegal and Mahesh Tinaikar, members of the legendary rock band Indus Creed, performing in their acoustic avatar - the Whirling Kallapas with an upcoming drummer Vivaan. They kept the audience riveted and there were some nostalgic moments for their older fans.

“The final performer of the evening was the evergreen Suneeta Rao, who brought the

night alive with a very interactive performance, getting the audience members to sing and dance along.

She also joined the Mumbai Police Band and performed a song with them.

The festival concluded with the Bombay Police Band playing the ever popular patriotic number “Sare Jehan se achha” and had the audience singing along. The performances over the eight Saturdays have not just introduced new talent but also included shows by Sunita Bhuyan (classical violin), Chandrashekar Phanse (sitar) and Live Cycle (hip hop jazz). Unfortunately, lack of adequate publicity meant that many in the audience found out about the performance only during their walks on the beach.”

So hopefully next year, more will benefit!

Cricket and Vedanta

EASILY our favourite swami, and not least because he is so downright personable, is Swami Parthasarathy, founder of the non-profit Vedanta Academy at Malavali near Pune, who at 86 has been featured in Sports Illustrated India as an example to us all of the benefits of plain living and very high thinking.

We know him as the teacher of Vedanta philosophy whose discourses and lectures are followed all over the world. He keeps a punishing daily routine that includes waking at 4 am and jogging three km around his campus, lecturing and yoga. But there is a reason why he’s in SI (India) and that reason is cricket.

Swamiji (as he is generally known), still plays cricket and does everything else, after hip replacement surgery last year.

According to the article, “he bowls a mean gentle off spin”

Swami Parthasarathy, Vedanta philosopher, cricketer, counselor, teacher, at 86 and post hip replacement surgery, still very much a player.

while his batting is described as “elegant”. And the back story is when he started playing cricket and who he played with.

He played competitive cricket

Who will go to wake up Uddhav?

EVERY year Shiv Sena leader Uddhav goes to personally inspect for Loyola College in Chennai and King’s College in London. He played with the likes of C.D. Gopinath, Kannaiyaram, G. Kirpal Singh, C. Rangachari and B.C. Alva. Then Vedanta philosophy took over but cricket was never forgotten. He just mixed up both his interest and his passion so that it is difficult to decide which is which!

“Cricket is followed by millions so I can use it to pass on the theme of success and peace,” he is quoted as saying. And a logical outcome of both is that he has been counseling cricketers as well as the world’s best known CEOs – Ashok Mankad, Sachin Tendulkar, Hashim Amla, VVS Laxman.

What does he tell them? Don’t worry about the past, this will affect the present and the future.

He means matches and success of course, but we can pretty well apply it to everything in our lives as well.

As indeed, most of the time we do.

nullah cleaning work, and this year was no different. It’s a serious affair, and as head of the ruling party that rules the city, representatives and civic officials accompany him.

The first visit was scheduled for the eastern suburbs last Monday afternoon. All gathered at the “final” scheduled time of 3 pm.

For reporters it was 1.30pm, for party leaders it was 2.30 pm.

All were waiting for Uddhav at the Mithi river bed at New Telephone Bridge in BKC. This is not exactly a place we would recommend for friendly meetings. The air is rank with rotten smells and the civic officials stood around with handkerchiefs over their noses.

Finally, after one solid hour of waiting around in the stink, some one turned up with the news that Thackeray was asleep and no-one had the guts to go and wake him up.

Finally at 4.20pm, the leader reached at spot. He got down from the vehicle, all other leaders circled him. He came to a corner of the bridge to pose for a photograph. He raised his hand pointing towards the JCB machine cleaning nullah.

There were multiple clicking sounds.

Then every one moved to inspect the next nullah.

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C-5760 I have changed my name from Indrajeet Thakur to Inderjeet Thakur as per Affidavit.

C-5761 I have changed my name from Devendra Jain to Devendra Mithalal Bafna as per Affidavit.

C-5762 We are changed our minor child name from Trisha Ankit to Taashvi Ankit Bajaj as per Affidavit.

C-5763 We are changed our minor child name from Shreya Basant Bangad to Shreya Basant Bangur as per Affidavit.

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Two pumping stations intended to drain rainwater during monsoons are way behind schedule thanks to the lethargy of contractors

posal System (BRIMSTOWAD) project phase II, under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) proposed to built Love Grove and Cleveland pumping stations which were intended to drain out rainwater during monsoon.

Ms Unity and M&PWPK consortium was entrusted with construction of Love

By Vishnudas Sheshrao Grove and Cleveland pumpove Grove and Cleve- ing stations. On November land, two pumping sta- 23, 2011, the civic body gave tions which were the consortium work orders supposed to be functional by and set a deadline for Octothis monsoon, have, due to ber 5, 2013. The deadline the negligence of contractors, is fast approaching and only finished a mere 5 per little real work has been cent of what had originally accomplished.

Under the JNNURM, the been intended. As if to add insult to injury, the civic au- central government granted thorities are still soft on the Rs.1,200 crore for BRIMSTOWAD. Till date, the civic careless contractors.

As part of Storm Water Dis- body had spent Rs.1500 crore

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Standing Committe chairman Rahul Shewale talking with civic officials.

(1,000 from central government and 500 from the BMC) on this project, but the first phase is still to see completion.

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BRIMSTOWAD projected was divided in two phases.

The first phase includes a total of 20 small projects of which only 13 are presently

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complete. The second phase is to have 34 projects in all of which some are in progress and few are yet to start.

According to the official BMC survey, Love Grove pumping station is at 35 per cent completion and while Cleveland is at a mere 5 per cent. Both projects are grossly behind their schedules.

According to Storm Water Drain (SWD) records, the civic body had repeatedly sent ‘show cause notices’ to the consortium in regards to low progress of the projects.

Since there was hardly any improvement, the SWD fined the Love Grove pumping station with a fine of Rs.10 lakh and Cleveland with a fine of Rs.19 lakh.

Standing Committee Chairman Rahul Shewale said, “By not completing the project the contractors are

espite Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray giving his consent to naming the Press Box at the Wankhede stadium after late Sena chief Bal Thackeray, the Sena mouthpiece Saamana struck a contrary note. Saamana editor and party MP Sanjay Raut in his column Rokhthok had sarcastically remarked ‘why the clamour to name any tin-shed after the Sena chief.’

A couple of days later Uddhav Thackeray gave his consent to the proposal, raising

eyebrows in Sena circles about differences between Uddhav and Raut.

The divide appears to be clear as the proposal to name the Press Box after the Sena chief was made by Sena leader Milind Narvekar who is close to Uddhav Thackeray.

The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) duly obliged yesterday by adopting a resolution to this effect. The Sena based its demand on the grounds that late Sena chief was not only an avid cricket fan but was also an accomplished journalist himself.

HSC results out today; MU preparess for admissions T

he Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) results are out. The

Mumbai University (MU) is now gearing up for the subsequent admission process for the academic year 2013-2014.

While traditional courses like large number of seats for manageArts, Commerce and Sciences still ment courses this year.

Colleges will be handing out adhave the maximum number of seats, the MU has also added a mission forms starting today.

List of seats available for admissions across the city colleges:

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) B.Com (Accounting & Finance) B.Com (Banking & Insurance) B.Com (Financial Market) Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) B.Sc (Information Technology) B.Sc (Computer Science) B.Sc (Hospitality Studies) B.Sc (Bio-Technology) B.Sc (Micro-Biology) B.Sc (Bio-Chemistry)

27,070 81,692

12,425 6,102 4,448 1,829 14,324 9,512 3,494 1,321 1,248 204 72

B.Sc (Bio-Analytical Science) B.Sc (Forensic Science) B.Sc (Home Science) B.Sc (Nautical Science) B.Sc (Maritime Hospitality Studies) B.Sc (Aeronauties) B.Sc (Aviation) M.Sc in Bio-Analytical Science (5 yrs course) Bachelor of Law (LL.B 5 yrs) Fine Arts Bachelor of Mass Media (BMM) Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Diploma in Social Work

neglecting their assigned task and consequently jeopardizing the safety of the city during the monsoon. The civic body is taking soft stand on it; instead these contractors must be blacklisted.”

Additional Municipal Commissioner Aseem Gupta said, “I understand that the progress of the project is very slow. We have heavily penalised the contractors. For us, the completion of the project is very important. We have given them a strongly worded notice, asking them to finish the project as early as possible.”

When asked if the administration had increased the deadline, which is due for four months, Gupta said, “We have not increased the deadline yet nor will we escalate the budget. That will be a punishment to the contractor.”

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In a related development yesterday, Narvekar who heads the New Hindu Cricket Club has proposed to the MCA urging it to name its proposed Sports Academy at Kandivli after Little Master Sunil Gavaskar. The Thackeray family’s love for cricket is quite well known. The late Sena chief had once even hosted Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad at his Matoshree residence. Uddhav Thackeray too had once contemplated contesting the MCA elections, while his son Aaditya is a member of the MIG cricket club in Bandra.

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he city experienced unexpected showers of rain in the early morning, following which temperature soared to 35.9 degrees centigrade on Wednesday. The Indian Metrological Department has said that the city will experience light showers of rain.

Pre-monsoon showers had reached the city. Children enjoyed their first shower of monsoon season on Wednesday. In the afternoon temperature soared high.

According to IMD records, Santacruz recorded highest 34.6 c and minimum 27.8 c temperature. Similarly, Colaba recorded 35.9 c maximum and 29 c minimum temperature on Wednesday.

IMD Mumbai director V.K. Rajeev said, “The sky would be cloudy and city may experience light shower of rain and winds.”

CHANGE OF NAME We are changed our minor child name from Veer Jairam Jaithliya to Rajveer Jairam Jaithliya as per Affidavit.

C-5765 I have changed my name from Bharti Rohra to Nikita Rohra as per Affidavit.

C-5766 I have changed my name from Rajndevi Inder Singh Pundir to Rajeshwari Inder Singh Pundir as per Affidavit.

C-5767 I have changed my name from Harendrakumar Rambachan Yadav to Harendra Rambachan Yadav as per Affidavit.

C-5768 I, Mr. Mohammed Shahid Shaikh, have changed my daughter’s name from Miss.

Summaiya Bi Mohammed Shahid to Miss. Sumaiya Mohammed Shahid Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-5769 I, Mr. Mohammed Shahid Shaikh, have changed my son’s name from Mst. Umair Mohammed Shahid to Mst. Umair Mohammed Shahid Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-5770 I have changed my name from Jayadatta Jagannath Bhoir to Jaydatt Jagannath Bhoir as per Affidavit.

C-5771 I have changed my name from Santosh Kumar Dubey to Santosh Kumar Dwivedi as per Affidavit.

C-5772 I have changed my name from Shaikh Nabil Mohd to Nabil Mohd Ismail Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-5773 I have changed my name from Sainaaz to Shahenaaz Mohammed Ismail Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-5774 I have changed my name from Rejani Chandrika Sadasivan to Rajani Suresh Kumar as per Affidavit dated 29-05-2013.

C-5775 I have changed my name from Reya Prafulla Roy to Reeya Prafulla Roy as per Affidavit.

C-5776 I have changed my name from Prafull Nipan Roy to Prafulla Nipan Roy as per Affidavit.

C-5777 I have changed my name from Reya Prafulla Roy to Reeya Prafulla Roy as per Affidavit.

C-5778 I have changed my name from Ms.Samina Baig to Ms.Samina Shehnaz Patel as per Affidavit.

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Cops suspect a tailor and a woman in Elphinstone bizman murder case

CLASSIFIEDS I have changed my name from Ahuja Parshuram to Ahuja Parsram as per Affidavit.

C-5782 I have changed my name from Chawla Chandanlal to Chawla Chanderlal as per Affidavit.

C-5783 I have changed my name from Chawla Jeetender to Chawla Jacky as per Affidavit.

C-5784 I have changed my name from Jalpa Jayant Parekh to Khyati Jayant Parekh as per Affidavit.

C-5785 I have changed my name from Amrutbhai Dayabhai Mistry to Amrutlal Dayabhai Mistry as per Affidavit.

C-5786 I have changed my name from Jamila Mohammad Nadim Siddiqui to Jamilabanu Mohammad Nadim Siddiqui as per Affidavit.

C-5787 I have changed my name from Mohamed Salim to Mohammed Salim Abdul Karim Batliwala Memon as per Affidavit.

C-5788 I have changed my name from Dilrajhusen to Dilraj Vali Mohamad Gogada as per Affidavit.

C-5789 I have changed my name from Mohamed Ismail Abdul Reheman to Mohamed Ismail Abdul Reheman Patni as per Affidavit.

C-5890 I have changed my name from Pallavi Eknath Nikam to Vaidehi Vaibhav Mahadik as per Affidavit.

C-5891 I have changed my name from Mary Yun Hsiang Tseng to Mei Chen Wong as per Maha. Gt No.X-59738 Dated 3-9 Jan 2013.

C-5892 I have changed my name from Sunita Pandurang Fatkare to Sunita Pandurang Phatkare as per Affidavit dated on 29/05/2013.

C-5893 I have changed my name from Vaibhav Pandurang Fatkare to Vaibhav Pandurang Phatkare as per Affidavit dated on 29/05/2013.

C-5894 I have changed my name from Ms.Merin Zaherali Sherwa to Mrs.Mehrin Imran Karedia as per deed poll Affidavit dated 29/05/2013.

C-5895 I have changed my name from Ghulam Mustafa Azmatullah to Gulam Mustafa Azmatullah Momin as per Affidavit.

C-5896

I have changed my name from Roopchandani Nanki to Rupchandani Nanki as per Affidavit.

C-5780

I have changed my name from Mr. Mohammed Zaahid Sheikh to Mr. Zahid Moinuddin Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit dated 28/05/2013.

C-5897

I have changed my name from Roopchandani Naresh to Rupchandani Naresh as per Affidavit.

C-5781

I have changed my name from Paramjit Singh to Paramjit Singh Bhola as per Affidavit.

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week after the murder of Deepak Krishna Kadam (45), a businessman at Fitwala Road in Elphinstone at a garment store under mysterious circumstances, the cops from N.M. Joshi Marg police station are on the lookout for a tailor and a woman from Peddar Road who had apparently visited the deceased just hours before the murder.

Kadam was found murdered at a rented flat, a garment store on the 3rd floor at Sadguru Darshan in a seminude state in his undergarments .The door was found bolted from the outside. A pair of tailoring scissors, the murder weapon was found lying near his body along with his cell phone.

Kadam lived just two buildings away at Siddhi Sadan.

According to Sudhakar Ghagre, Senior PI, N.M. Joshi Marg police station, “We have got the information that a woman from Peddar Road along with a tailor had approached the deceased on the day of the murder. A team has been sent to further investigate the matter.” Deepak Kadam was murdered in this building.

“A suitcase with cash worth

Rs.5,00,000 is yet untraceable. The CCTV images obtained from the second floor of the building are blurred. We are also investigating the matter on the basis of the blurred images captured by the CCTV camera.” said Ghagre. The images captured by the CCTV camera are blurred since it was night time and the passage lights on the floor were dim.”

As part of the investigation, we have questioned the neighbors in the building who had seen the man who had asked for directions for the rear exit of the building,” added Ghagre.

According to a neighbour, “A man who was coming down through the staircase on the 2nd floor asked me for directions for a rear exit of the building.

He was wearing a blue shirt and a blue pant and was carrying a black bag on his shoulders. The man was bleeding on his head and he had bruises on his forehead and near his right eye. He was hiding a blood-stained handkerchief.”

“Since the building has two entrances and two exits, the man seemed confused. I was going out and he again met me outside the building premises confirming the directions for the exit” she added.

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impact of the collision that the bus was reduced to mangled remains. While the tanker driver died on the spot, the driver of the bus is battling for life. The injured were rushed to the sub-district health post in Kasa, from where they were shifted to Bhagwati and KEM hospitals in Mumbai.

Rescue operations restricted traffic movement on the highway for over two hours and the problems were compounded due to the spilling of chemical from the tanker which had turned turtle in the mishap.

In an attempt to avert another chemical triggered disaster, fire fighters from the Tarapur MIDC reached the spot and started operations to cool down the flammable liquid.

"The deceased have been identified as Anees Ahmed Ansari (50), Jubeir Ahmed Ansari (21), Akil Ansari (35), Sadik Ansari (25) -- all residents of Nagpada, Dilip Mahendra Ostwal (28), Pooja Dilip Ostwal (20), Irin Shaikh and Sitara Shaikh.

The 40 injured include 21 men, 10 women and nine children," said API Bharat Choudhary.

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board a train to Alibaug.

While the couple died on the spot, Ashish

and Darshan suffered serious injuries and have been admitted to Bhagwati Hospital.

After Dilip, who operated a furniture making unit in Alibaug, failed to get confirmed rail tickets on the Mumbai-bound Duronto Express from Ahmedabad, he opted to travel on the ill-fated bus, a relative revealed. Dilip.

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By Kainaz Choksey

n Wednesday, three minors in the age group of 15-17 years were found stealing seven Honda Unicorn bikes for a joyride. The cops from Dharavi police station were on patrolling duty at 10:30 am, when they suspected the minors who were found in possession of the bikes.

The minors had used a master key to steal all the 7 bikes.

According to PSI Parth Kone, “The boys had found keys of one of the Honda bikes lying on the road. They stole the keys and tried it in all the 7 bikes. After using the bikes for a joy ride, they abandoned it.”

According to Senior PI Dharavi police stn, “The minors first confessed to the crime that they had stolen bikes from Dharavi, Sion fort and Bandra. Later they confessed that they had stolen the bikes from Dadar, Matunga, SionDharavi and Antop Hill.

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he Kherwadi police is looking for three car robbers who allegedly broke the window glass of two Tata Indigo cars and with the help of duplicate keys, tried to drive the cars away, but locals foiled the bid.

Interestingly, this incident took place on Wednesday at Bandra Kherwadi Service Road, when three robbers trying to flee with two cars, and when locals stopped them, they knocked down two persons, leaving them severely injured.

Both the cars belong to a travel and tourism business company and the cars were usually parked on the service road.

For a good cause

Vishwanath Salian | ADC

Consul General of Israel, Orna Sagiv, interacting with Adivasi children, on Wednesday.

By A Staff Reporter

playing, drawing and painting with the children. The visit he Consulate General of Is- was part of their CSR initiative rael, Mumbai, and Nirman and an attempt to give back to Foundation came together to society and spend time with celebrate ‘Fun Day’ with Adi- the local community.

At the event Sagiv said, “As vasi children living in Sanjay Gandhi National Park at Ra- diplomats, most of our time heja Estate, Borivli (East) on goes in promoting trade, investments and bilateral relaWednesday.

Nirman Foundation, an tions between Israel and India.

NGO comprising of Raheja Es- It is important for us to take tate residents, has been work- some time out and spend it ing toward the education and with the society in which we welfare of tribal children living live.”

Programs for orphanages, inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park. The Consul Gen- girl schools and MCGM hospieral of Israel, Orna Sagiv, and tals have also been organised her colleagues spent time by them in the past.

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fficials of the Versova police station arrested six members of a gang that ran a milk adulteration racket on Tuesday morning in Andheri.

The police, following a tip off, conducted a raid at the Bharat Nagar area in Four Bungalows and caught the accused red-handed adding water to milk.

“They had a smart way of releasing water into the sealed milk packets. First they cut off the upper half of

the packet with a blade and removed a little milk and replaced it with water. Then they reattached the milk packets,” said senior police inspector Ashok Pimple of the Versova police station.

“The six accused are all locals and during interrogation revealed that they had been arrested by Juhu police, DN Nagar police and Versova police station in the past for the same offence. We are still on the lookout for one more accused who is still wanted in this case,” said Pimple.

According to Police Sub Inspector from Kherwadi Police station Sheetal Kumar Patil, “We are looking for three unidentified robbers who decamped with Tata Indigo car and abandoned another car after knocked down two people, on Wednesday morning, three robbers were trying to flee but after local intervened they ran away from the spot.”

“Looking at their modus

operandi, it seems that they are professional robbers,” Patil added.

Talking to ADC, injured Tanuj Tiwari (30) who is recuperating in private hospital said that, “I and my colleague Sanjay Singh (30) were shocked to see three robbers who were trying to robbed our car, they were in their 30s, when we try to stop them, they knocked us down and later dashed against the divider, in this, one car was damage badly while another was successfully stolen.”

“We have registered the case under section, 392, 394, 379 and 34 of IPC against trio robbers and with the help of two injured people, we are trying to developed sketches of the robbers,” Patil added.

in IPL betting racket

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versa, said police.

According to the police, he investigators probing they are trying to ascertain a the spot fixing as well as vital fact whether Victor was the betting racket of re- a bookie or a punter, betting cently concluded IPL-6 sea- heavily on the IPL-6.

Meanwhile, the police are son strongly believe that the wanted bookie Jupiter was preparing a detailed report the common link between about the ongoing probe Ashwin Agarwal alias Tin- into the racket and will be koo Delhi and Vikram Agar- submit to city police Chief wal alias Victor, an hotelier Satyapal Singh on Thursday.

From May 18th to May 28th, from Chennai.

Tinkoo, who will be Singh was abroad, said pobrought from Delhi to the lice adding that it was becity on Friday by Mumbai’s tween this time that most of crime branch, will be ques- the arrests and facts about tioned on several aspects the murkier racket into IPLand especially about his re- 6 season came to fore. lations with Victor and vice neel.shah@afternoondc.in

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am Aadmi Party (AAP), which has been taking up several issues that concern the general public, met Sanjay Bhatia, managing director of CIDCO on Wednesday and submitted a charter of demands and attracted his attention towards the poor facilities at railway stations across Navi Mumbai.

CIDCO currently supervises the maintenance of all the railway stations in Navi Mumbai, starting from Rabale to Panvel including Vashi. The party has de-

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AAP meets CIDCO director to draw attention towards poor facilities at railway stations

Members of the AAP in a meeting with Sanjay Bhatia, MD of CIDCO. manded that all the shops selling liquor, gutkha, pan, beedi and cigarettes should be removed from the station premises. Encroachments by shops, eateries, gaming parlours should also removed and be given alternate placement.

Among other demands, the party requested Bhatia to at least convert one room of the station to provide first aid and basic medical facilities during emergencies.

The CIDCO has recently launched the ‘Transparency

Action Plan’ which carries all information of concerned personnel of CIDCO and other relevant information will be uploaded from time to time and can be accessed by anyone. “It was indeed a pleasant surprise for all of us since Bhatia was more then willing to listen from us and looking for such feedback. He instantly summoned his associate and issued directives for implementation,” said Ravi Srivastava, convenor, AAP, Navi Mumbai. amit.srivastav@afternoondc.in

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— Richard P. Feynman

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f there is one law that seems to relate directly to Mumbai University, it is Murphy’s fourth law of thermodynamics. “Anything that can go wrong, will”. And yes, we know that there was probably no Murphy but a mid-19th century mathematician named Augustus de Morgan, misremembered, and that there is no fourth law of thermodynamics, but in the last decade or so, we have come to believe that Mumbai University itself is not real, but a surreal composition of one bad decision after another. And that even Franz Kafka would have run screaming into the night if he were faced with the bizarre state of affairs that reigns at present under the distinguished vice-chancellorship of Dr Rajan Welukar.

Mumbai University.

Consider this – over the years, bad news emanating from MU like a bad smell, has gotten to be more the rule than the exception.

From teachers strikes requiring High Court intervention to ensure students results are declared in time for their next year of academics, to the most grotesque faux pas in question papers and corrections, we have seen them all.

In the last decade, paper leaks are the norm. In 2004, one paper in the B.Com stream was leaked twice! On one occasion an MU textbook was dubbed communal by experts. There are shortfalls in teaching strength, accusations of malpractice in the appointment of lecturers, mistakes in examination questions and corrections, accompanied by a continuous revelation of a stream of bad, negligent and poor practices in administration.

Resentment and discontent among students, teachers and working staff of the University are a fact of life. The lack of transparency, indeed is so great that the National Students Union of India has demanded that the MU put up its annual budget on the official website.

To add to the problems, MU often pretends to be held to ransom by its own rules, as the latest outrage illustrates. Many students who took exams under the Allowed To Keep Term (ATKT) rule, and who were announced failed again, got their papers out and discovered that they had actually passed, that the University had itself tallied their marks wrongly.

Will they be getting certificates? Of course not, at least till MU verifies that it has committed the mistake, needless to say at its own pace. This means that for the next couple of months at least, the students thus affected will be in limbo.

Short of a complete overhaul, first in mindset, it looks as if the journey downhill for MU is just gathering speed.

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HERE are some things that are so important that they should be above petty politics. The awful massacre in the pitiless jungles of Chhatisgarh is one of them. Injured eyewitnesses have told stories from hospital of how the Naxalite killers were so well organized that they carried laptops along with their guns and so brutal that they danced around the bodies of their victims. It is not a bunch of amateur revolutionaries we are dealing with but an organized insurgency that affects several districts in the heart of India so it should be treated as a national emergency and not reduced to childish games of political one-upmanship. And, you would think that since the Congress Party lost important local leaders in the massacre that it would have the grace to mourn them without making a horrible tragedy worse by making senseless and insensitive charges.

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tute for Conflict Management in Delhi, and edits an online publication called the South Asia Intelligence Review (SAIR), described the massacre as a disaster waiting to happen. In an article in SAIR, Sahni pointed out that political and administrative complacency, at the highest level, was one of the things that had gone seriously wrong. Quoting from statements made by senior ministers of the central government he shows how they have patted themselves on the back for causing the Naxalites to be ‘in a phase of tactical retreat’.

Sahni quotes the Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh as telling a parliamentary commit-

Undying gratitude If only before charging the BJP chief minister with being complicit in the massacre, the Congress Party’s senior leaders in Delhi had stopped to ask themselves whether his involvement was even possible. If the chief minister was so deeply involved in Naxalite activities, so aware of their movements, would he not have been more successful in eliminating the threat? Would it not be in his interest to do this since it would surely earn him the undying gratitude, and the votes, of villagers who routinely become victims of crossfire? If Raman Singh has failed to curb the Naxalite menace in his state it is not from Machiavellian plotting but from criminal incompetence. In my book this is negligence amounting to treason.

When it comes to matters of counter-terrorism there is nobody I trust more than K.P.S. Gill. Having seen first hand how he broke the back of the insurgency in Punjab in the nineties I know that he knows what he is talking about. And, so I take his comments on this massacre seriously. In an interview to Harinder Baweja, published in the Hindustan Times (May 28, 2013) this is what he said about his time as security advisor to the chief minister in 2006. “I was posted in Chhattisgarh for one year as advisor and, after three or four days into my stint, Chief Minister Raman Singh told me to relax and enjoy my stay… I had drawn up an elaborate plan on how to deal with the threat from Naxals but it was never implemented.”

Ajai Sahni who works with Gill in the Insti-

ON THE SPOT Tavleen Singh tee on March 28, 2013 that, “There has been absolute turnaround in Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand and now we are chasing the Naxal groups.”

The complacency was of such staggering proportions that the ever loquacious Rural Development Minister, Jairam Ramesh, gave many interviews in recent months in which he said that the solution to the Naxalite problem lay in ‘development’. It took the massacre of his colleagues for him to notice that the Naxalites totally oppose both development and democracy and are committed to an armed struggle to overthrow the Indian state and impose the Maoist dictatorship that they are ready to kill and die for.

Some years ago when the prime minister described the Naxalite movement as the most serious threat to national security, I was shown documents containing Naxalite strategic plans by a security expert in Delhi that left me stunned by their sophistication and clarity. At the time I remember writing that I could not think of a government department that could come up with such intricate planning or such articulate writing. This was be-

fore they arrested Khobad Ghandy and discovered that Doon School boys were among the senior leaders of the movement and before all the romantic outpourings of people like Arundhati Roy. Roy is not alone in her efforts to try and romanticize the murderous thugs who call themselves Maoist revolutionaries. There have been other writers who have wandered with them in the jungles to depict them as basically decent young people who have been forced to resort to an armed struggle against the Indian state because of the injustice with which Adivasis and Dalits have been treated.

The Indian state has usually responded hamfistedly by arresting men like Binayak Sen on silly charges and by torturing, in the most sickening way imaginable, women like Sori Soni. She is a village schoolteacher who after her arrest was sexually assaulted so brutally that stones were found lodged deep inside her body.

It is India’s tragedy that these things should happen and India’s tragedy that despite the prime minister having noticed nearly ten years ago that the Naxalites were the biggest threat to national security he did nothing about it. There is still no strategy for dealing with what is quite clearly a civil war being waged in the very heart of India. Instead of amateurs spouting stupidities about ‘development and poverty’ what we need are experts in counter-terrorism who can work out a comprehensive strategy.

K.P.S. Gill It was because K.P.S. Gill had exactly such a comprehensive strategy that he was able to end the insurgency in Punjab. And, had he been allowed to do his job in Chhatisgarh there is little doubt, as least in my mind, that last week’s massacre would not have happened. If the chief minister of Chhatitsgarh is to be blamed for anything it is for his inability to have used Gill’s services when he was appointed as his security advisor. If he had just listened to what Gill had to say he would have learned at least that young policemen admitted to Gill that their police stations controlled only five to ten per cent of their districts and that Naxalite writ was imposed on the rest. He would have learned that senior police officers punished these men for telling the truth.

Raman Singh has much to answer for but to charge him with deliberately organizing the massacre of Congress leaders is to turn everything into a travesty.

‘Mere possession of wealth does not make a man rich’ As

a lamp does not burn without oil, so a man cannot live without God. There are pearls in the deep sea, but you must hazard all perils to get them. If you fail to get at them by a single dive, do not conclude that the sea is without them. Dive again and again, and you are sure to be rewarded in the end. So also in the quest for the Lord, if your first attempt to see Him proves fruitless, do not lose heart. Persevere in the attempt, and you are sure to realize Him at last.

Meditate upon the Knowledge and the Bliss Eternal, and you will have bliss. The bliss is indeed eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachments to the sense-objects, the more will be your love for God. Mere possession of wealth does not make

a man rich. The sign of rich man’s house is that a light burns in each room. This temple of the body should not be kept in darkness; the lamp of knowledge must be lighted in it.”

Light the lamp of Knowledge in your

MATTER & SPIRIT room, and look at the face of the Mother Divine.” Every one can attain Knowledge.

There is the individualised self and there is the higher Self. Every individual is connected with the higher Self. There is a gas connection in every house, and gas can be had from the gas company. Only apply to the proper authorities and the supply will be arranged. Then you will have gas light in

your room.

The digit 1 may be raised to a figure of any value by adding zero’s after it; but if that 1is omitted, zeros by themselves have no value. Similarly, so long as the Jiva (individualsoul) does not cling to God, who is the One, he has no value, for all things here get their value from their connection with God. So long as the Jiva clings to God, who is the value-giving figure behind the world, and does all his work for Him, he gains more and more thereby; on the contrary, if he overlooks God and adds to his work many grand achievements, all done for his own glorification, he will gain nothing there from.

— Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

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Dhoni’s playing dumb has shocked and amused us THIS is with reference to ‘Scindia calls for Srini’s ouster’ and the related report on Dhoni’s gagging (ADC, May 29). The young minister, Jyotiraditya Scindia, needs to be complimented for his very mature statement. “I believe in all sense of the word propriety that Mr. Srinivasan must step aside”.

Another senior minister, Kamal Nath, was the first to have said so but for reasons that are not clear, he has gone back to the shell and is not reiterating his stand now. This is in keen contrast to Farookh Abdullah, a member of the BCCI, who shot back to a journalist angrily asking “If my son-in-law is arrested, why should I resign?” It needs to be pointed out that is not just the question of a non-descript son-in-law’s betting and possible spot-fixing in the IPL, but it is more of a question of Srinivasan’s failure to run the marathon tournament which is his baby in a clean manner. He cannot just close his eyes to the mass of evidence that the Delhi Police and our own Mumbai Crime Branch have painstakingly collected which shows quite clearly that the multi-crore extravaganza has indeed been a fertile ground for all types of objectionable acitivities. He has also been quite visibly responsible for saving the head of the Team India captain, M.S. Dhoni, who is also the vice president of India Cements. It is not surprising that Dhoni was gagged in the press meet—how will he spill the beans about his mentor?

— Dr.V. Subramanyan, Thane

N. SRINIVASAN, the BCCI President who must have perceived that the mood of the country is pathetic in summarily declining to put in his papers and thus setting a wrong precedence. Instead of blatant refusal which is hypothetical, it is in-

A few pertinent questions

POINT TO PONDER: Rahul Gandhi is not a govt. official, nor is Maharashtra his constituency. Then how can he declare grants for drought relief?

WHILE covering the visit of the crown prince to the scarcity affected areas in Maharashtra, a vernacular electronic channel has given a different version. It has reported an on-the-spot grant of Rs. 16 crore towards the drought relief in the State. This gives rise to a few pertinent questions. Was it sanctioned out of the discretionary fund of the MP and that too, for utilisation outside his constituency? Or, if it is from the State treasury, then how an MP who is the VP of a political party, but does not hold any official position in the govt, can make such a donation.

— Arun Malankar, Mumbai

SILENCE OF THE LAMB: There must be very compelling reasons for Dhoni to remain mum, but they do not pertain to cricket. cumbent on his part being the President to put forth the facts before the public in a convincing manner. Already his claim that his son-in-law is merely an enthusiast and not the owner appears to be a lie as per the documents available with the media. There is some morality attached to every profession and post and he cannot try to defend the indefensible which is ludicrous and despised by the public. He cannot hide a full pumpkin in a plate of rice which exactly he is doing at this moment.

— T.M. Uday Shankar, Mumbai

WE have been reading a lot, over the last few days, about cricketers, actors and even the cricket body officials being involved in the “betting and fixing of matches”. The police and the investigating authorities have been also showing great initiative, enthusiasm and zeal in not only going after such “culprits” but also have been arresting them and even confiscating their items such as mobiles, iPads, laptops ,cash etc.

Bank’s credible gesture

IT is a wonderful idea by the Bank of India, New Panvel Branch, to install a Passbook Printing Service machine for the self passbook update by the customers. Bank officials have provided a bar code slip in the individual SB pass book which enables the customer to update their passbooks in the machine, recently installed by the bank. This system will save lot of time of the customers. The effort made by the bank is laudable and all bank customers are very happy with this system. Hope others banks too follow the same service for their customers to and install Passbook Printing Service machines in their branch.

— Probir Kumar Bose, New Panvel

Tough task for Indian football

AFTER the conclusion of the IPL 6 season final at the Eden Garden, Kolkata, Sachin Tendulkar has articulated optimism that India will qualify for the FIFA 2022 World Cup to be held in Qatar.

Is Sachin aware for that to happen we need to be in top 3-4 in Asia? As of now we are somewhere between 20-24 in Asia. Hence if we do have the obsession and the will, then we could accomplish any goals in life.

Hard work, dedication etc. will ensure success. I think we

Now my vital question to the same investigating and police and other authorities: we all know how many ministers and high-profile bureaucratic officials, PWD engineers etc. have been indulging in massive corrupt deals worth lakhs of crores of rupees. Ministers have been totally exposed and made to resign from their posts too. But have we ever witnessed these “honourable but core corrupt men” being immediately put under arrest and behind bars? Greater the power and magnitude of the crime and higher the value of money involved, greater are the chances of getting “VVIP treatment”. It’s always the “small fish” and the “scapegoats” who get caught and butchered! Mera Bharat Mahaan indeed!

— S. Krishna Kumar, Dombivli

CRICKETERS are no slaves of BCCI and a gag on cricketers, more so on Captain M.S. Dhoni to keep his lips sealed on the ongoing fixing scandal has every cricket lover in our country shocked and amused. should target 2030 World Cup. What say Sachin?

— K.V. Raman, Malad (W)

Privileged municipal agencies

APROPOS ‘Road problems will be the same as ever’ (ADC, May 27), I cannot agree more on this edit piece that the job of this city road repairs is given to the privileged

BCCI should show a ‘Red card’ to their President N. Srinivasan instead and ask him to leave as he is reluctant to resign even after so much scandal which even involves his family members. BCCI is the richest cricket board in the world because of its cricketers and cricket crazy Indians worship cricketers like Tendulkar, Dravid etc and not board members who have made cricket a business. Tainted cricketers if proven of their guilt should be banned for life and we must not paint all cricketers with the same brush only because some are greedy and not honest.

— S.N. Kabra, Goregaon

BEFORE leaving for England to participate in the Champions Trophy, the Indian Captain, M.S. Dhoni ducked all the tough questions asked by the media during the press conference on IPL spot and match fixing as per order from the dishonest, fraudulent and inefficient BCCI chief N Srinivasan proves that he has become the ‘MUM SHAME DHONI’ despite knowing all the details about illegal activities in his team Chennai Super King (CSK) and with his two corrupt bosses N. Srinivasan and Gurunath Maiyappan. By not answering the questions remaining mute he has lost all the credibility among the cricket fans who held him in high esteem. I strongly feel that he knows everything and keeping mum to save the BCCI chief N. Srinivasan who will one day be caught for making the game of cricket a business and saleable for his own personal interest. The urgent need of the hour is that Mumbai Police and Delhi Police who have caught match fixers and the betting personnel must investigate the matter with iron hand to find of the real contractors, that said, it means the contractors comprising of the kith and kin of the municipal staff with vested interest who shamelessly lobby for these agencies to get them the jobs, wherein their stakes are involved. Needless to say that most of these agencies bother least about the quality of repairs as we continue to witness over the years, but these are good to keep the concerned

truth as the millions of people for whom the game of cricket is a religion must know all the details about the illegal happenings in the IPL league.

— Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

IS the IPL really worth winning?

Perhaps only for franchise owners who have an ego to be maintained and for some poor cricketer who wants to add the trophy so that he can announce his retirement. But look at it this way. For some team to win other must lose. What if the other strongest contenders to the top four positions were paid to lose? If they get one or two crore for each match lost then they can net 8-10 crore – much better than at least the runner up! So is the IPL worth winning, or worth more, with more certainty, losing badly?

After all, if money is the prize other results hardly matter.

— T.R. Ramaswami, Kandivli

HATS off to the sleuths of the Mumbai Police for working diligently to bring the fixers and shakers of the IPL to book. Often accused of sitting over matters related to match fixing in cricket the police have given a fitting reply by nailing bookies connected with the underworld. In my opinion many a times the police can’t act against big time culprits due to political pressure. A free hand needs to be given to our cops who have proved many a times that they are next to the best in the world when investigating cases. Now the leagal eagles of our country should show some spunk and on moral grounds should refuse to defend the culprits who have sullied the gentleman’s game, and this way we shall see SATYAMEV JAYATE! — Altaf H. Ladiwala, Bandra

municipal staff happy, by other means. This trend should be stopped immediately by the intervention of the municipal top brass to ascertain the quality of the repairs as otherwise during every monsoon the motorists face a grueling time in maintaining the vehicles and facing the notorious traffic snarls due to poor condition of roads.

— Bikram Banerjea, Mumbai

Tamil film industry’s monumental loss T.M. SOUNDARAJAN’S death has brought a big vacuum in Tamil film industry. He started his career with a song ‘Radhey onakku Kobam Aagathadi’ and he never looked back singing more than 10,000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu. His song for Kadhal Mannan Gemini Ganesh ‘Naan padiya mudhal pattu, aval peseya Tamil kettu still lingers in our ears.

Tamil playback legend Soundararajan, popularly known as TMS, passed away at his residence in Chennai last Saturday, He was 91. TMS was ailing for some time. He is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. An undisputed king among playback singers in the Tamil cinema world, TMS rendered numerous hit songs

TAMIL LEGEND: T.M. Soundarajan, the undisputed king among playback singers in Tamil cinema for over 60 years, passed away at the age of 91. for heroes likes MGR, Sivaji Ganesan, Jaishankar, Ravichandran, Sivakumar and others from the

next generation. Most of his popular hit songs had been composed by music directors M.S. Viswanathan, K.V. Mahadevan and the Viswanathan-Ramamurthy duo. The meaningful lyrics of Kannadasan and soulful music composed by Mahadevan, Viswanathan, V. Kumar, Veda and others coupled with his great voice makes many of his sad solos heartwrenching even now. Born in Madurai, TMS started his singing career in 1946 and was active till 2007. He also acted in a few films and rendered several devotional songs on Lord Karthikeya. His songs are a treasure to preserve in the music world. Let the departed soul rest in peace.

— Calicut Krishnan Subramaniam

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TV GUIDE

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by Tanaka to participate in the Kumite, the ultimate martial arts tournament, where participants are seriously injured, even killed. Frank decides to go despite being told by his superiors in the army that he can’t because they need him.

Two army officers are sent to get him and the trail leads to Hong Kong but Frank eludes them. While Frank advances, he knows that he may have to face Chong Li, the defending champion, who has killed a few participants. H BO, 10.45 p.m .

SAVDHAAN INDIA

SOAPS & SERIALS

Tonight’s episode traces the story of criminal conspiracy crafted by a husband who involves in extra marital affairs. He tries various ways to kill his wife, because he loves another women. Life Ok, 10.30 p.m.

SASURAL SIMAR KA

In tonight’s episode, we see that the family Pooja is all set to be performed. Jhumki is a little uncomfortable and uneasy since she is performing the Pooja with Siddhant. She is also nervous when she will be asked to sing a prayer song by the other family members. But everybody is in for a very big surprise when she sings it in the form of a filmy modern Aarti. Color s, 7.30 p.m.

BIG CAT DIARY

Join Simon King and Jonathan Scott in BIG CAT DIARY as they travel to Masai Mara and follow the lives of three cat families.

Animal Planet, 7.30 p.m.

MAN VS WILD

Plunge into more extreme adventures with Bear Grylls in MAN VS. WILD only on the Discovery Channel. In each episode, Grylls is left stranded in a region and uses his efforts to survive and find a way back to civilization. Using his specialist survival techniques, he attempts to navigate his way through these environments and make it out alive. Along the way, he braves the biting cold, treks through desolate deserts, encounters dangerous predators and for food he has to make do with whatever he can catch or find – dead or alive! Discover y, 7 p.m.

MEGA MOVES

Imagine the challenge of moving a towering lighthouse perched on the edge of a cliff or an oilrig in the deep ocean. Tune into MEGA MOVES and follow these daring engineers as they grapple with extreme removals. Discover y Science, 8 p.m .

SUMMERLAND

Bradin falls for a rich party girl, and Ava finds herself in a tough pedicament when she discovers a joint in Bradin’s jeans. Meanwhile, Johnny’s promises to help Derrick with his baseball practice go unfulfilled when his work at the realty office consumes all of his time. Big CBS Love, 10 p.m.

OPEN SEASON

Savdhaan India, Life Ok, 10.30 p.m.

ONE TREE HILL

Nathan worries about Haley as they prepare to renew their vows. Deb confesses to Dan about the fire. Peyton and Brooke’s friendship becomes strained when Peyton confesses she still loves Lucas. Nathan, Cooper and Rachel’s lives hang in the balance after a car accident. Someone might be pregnant. Star World , 10 p.m.

THATCHER: A MEMOIR

HISTORY TV18 brings to you an intriguing documentary on the “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher, the United Kingdom’s first and thus far only female Prime Minister. Comprehensive and candid, Margaret: A Memoir captures the life and times of this British visionary. Capturing some of the most crucial facts of the “Margaret Saga’, this documentary does not shy away from the controversy and bitter opposition faced by the Iron Lady during her time in government. Histor y, 8 p.m .

SAATH NIBHANA SAATHIYA

After a night in hospital and check-ups, Rashi comes back home with two baby boys. everyone in the family is happy. Urmi brags about her daughter for delivering two sons. Koki calms her down. Rashi is trying to keep extra care of hygiene for the baby. She over does it and doesn’t allow anyone to touch the babies without washing hands. Star Plus, 7 p.m .

MOVIES OF THE DAY

Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters. Star Mov ies, 7.10 p.m.

TEZZ

Tezz is about engineer Akash Rana’s (Ajay Devgan) life who gets hunted by the British immigration, who declare his marriage invalid with a British citizen Nikita (Kangana Ranaut) and deport him from the country. After a span of four years, Akash Rana returns seeking revenge and targets the London-Glasgow Express.

The train has 500 people on board and is laced with a bomb that’ll explode if the train drops under a certain speed. Arjun Khanna(Anil Kapoor) and his team is assigned to get the situation in control, this is when the exciting chase between Arjun and Aakash begins. M ax, 8.55 p.m.

MANGAL PANDEY - THE RISING

Open Season, Star Movies, 7.10 p.m. thing too insignificant to escape his attention. The film opens with his trial and charts his rise from the projects of crime ridden suburban Delhi to the very heart of the corridors of power. Along the way he makes lifelong friends, falls in love. B4U, 8.30 p.m .

1857 AD. The entire Indian sub continent is ruled by a company. The British East India Company. The most successful business enterprise in history. The company has its own laws, its own administration, its own army. It controls the destiny of one fifth of humanity. Mangal Pandey - The Rising is an epic tale of friendship, betrayal, love and sacrifice set against the backdrop of what the British called the sepoy mutiny but which for the Indians was the First War of Independence. ‘Company Raj’ as it was known, had been plundering the country, treating the locals unjustly and causing widespread resentment. After a hundred years of subjugation, the Indian consciousness is rising through the revolutionary prospect of change and self-rule. Filmy, 9 p.m.

Shrek has rescued Princess Fiona, got married, and now is time to meet the parents. Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona’s mother and father. But not everyone is happy. Shrek and the King find it hard to get along, and there’s tension in the marriage. It’s not just the family who are unhappy.

Prince Charming returns from a failed attempt at rescuing Fiona, and works alongside his mother, the Fairy Godmother, to try and find a way to get Shrek away from Fiona. Pix, 11.05 p.m .

Inspired by the incredible true story of Lucky Singh, an extremely charismatic and fearless confidence man and thief who socialized with the rich, famous and influential of Delhi society and then proceeded to rob them blind. He was the bête noire of the police and had stolen millions by the time he was caught. A modern day Robin Hood with a twist, he robbed both the rich and the poor without prejudice. Nothing was too big nor was any-

Jean-Claude will be playing a Combat Vet who’s just spent the last 3 years fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, who is hired to be a bodyguard to a former World Heavyweight Boxing champ to protect him and his family against a Rap Music Mogul. He sets up a team called “The Hard Corps”, complications arise when the boxer suspects that his sister may be in love with the bodyguard. Zee Stud io, 10.30 p.m.

OYE LUCKY! LUCKY OYE

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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 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. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30 6.00 7.00 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 11.00

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P.M. 2.00 Aaj Ki Housewife HaiSab Jaanti Hai 2.30 Badalte Rishton Ki Dastaan 3.00 Hitler Didi 3.30 Pavitra Rishta 4.00 Qubool Hai 4.30 India’s Best Dramebaaz 6.00 Hitler Didi 6.30 Punarvivah 7.00 Aaj Ki Housewife 7.30 Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke 8.00 Rab SE Soha Isshq 8.30 Hitler Didi 9.00 Pavitra Rishta.

9.30 Qubool Hai 10.00 Badalte Rishton Ki Dastaan 10.30 Punarvivah 11.00 Fear Files

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10.00 10.30 11.00 P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30

Lagayee Sajna Haunted Nights Ghar Aaja Pardesi Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali Jhilmil Sitaron Ka Aangan Hoga.

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

Rishton Ke Bhawar Mein Uljhi Niyati

SAB TV

Taarak Hum Aapke Hain in Laws FIR Chintu Bun Gaya Gentleman Taarak Mehta…

Malegoan Ka Chintoo Baalveer Taarak

Frozen Planet My Shocking Story Factory Made Destroyed In Seconds Wildest Latin America Man vs Wild Frozen Planet I Shouldn’t Be Alive Body Bizarre Haunting

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

Gadget Boy Transformers Prime Mystery Hunters India Maya The Bee 1001 Nights Transformers Prime Sally Bollywood Adventures of Tintin 1001 Nights Maya The Bee Mystery Hunters India Transformers Prime Think Big

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ZEE CAFÉ

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

BIG CBS LOVE Beauty and Beast American Idol Britain’s NTM Game Excused American Idol Beauty and Beast ELR Game BNTM Beauty and Beast Excused

SONY TV

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 Crime Patrol

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

P.M. 12.42 2.40 4.50 7.10 9.00 11.15 A.M 8.40 10.35

Sasural Simar Ka, Colors, 7.30 p.m.

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 4.00 4.30 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30

10.00

10.30 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

LIFE OK

Savitri Devo Ke Dev Mahadev Bst of Savdhaan India Iaisa Yeh Ishq Hai-Ajab Sa Risk Hai Savdhaan India Amrit Manthan Devo Ke Dev Mahadev Savitri 2613 Junoon Aisi Nafrat To Kaisa Ishq Kaisa Yeh Ishq Hai-Ajab Sa Risk Hai Savadhan India

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 Mawaali: Film. Jeetendra 6.00 Ghar Aaja Pardesi 6.30 Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali 7.00 Tujh Sang Preet

7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00

Man vs Wild, Discovery, 7 p.m.

Jeanie Aur Juhu Baal Veer Taarak Chidiyaghar Jeanie Aur Juju Hum Aapke Hain In Laws 10.30 F I R 11.00 Taarak P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30

ZEE MARATHI

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>> A white shirt is so versatile, you can dress it up or keep it casual.

Take a look at some of our favourite looks

With the heat at its peak, it makes sense to ditch the dark colours and pick something lighter. And Glynda Alves & Rhea Dhanbhoora feel there’s nothing more versatile than a good, button down white shirt. They bring you seven different looks that you can try out… look 1: fawn over floral

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Look 2: pretty in pink

stay cooL For a laidback summer look, pair your shirt with printed pants and a statement necklace. l Brown bag: Pepe Jeans London, `1,699 l Beaded necklace: Avirate, `950 l Printed pants: Zara, `2,790 l Flat sandals: The Beach Company, `900 l Lipstick: MAC, `1,1795

feminine chic A chunky watch and heels can add a little oomph to the classic white shirt and jeans look. l Brown metallic Kohl: Avon, `249 l Necklace set: Max, `699 l Hot pink heels, Marc Cain: `15,900 l Salvatore Ferragamo watch, Timex: `57,900 l Ripped, wash jeans: Pepe Jeans London, `4,799

Look 5: work wear

Look 4: formaL dressy

dress it up Transform your basic office look with a few choice accessories and a bright jacket. l Necklace: Avirate, `1,500 l Black heels: Bebe, `9,500 l Emerald jacket: Max, `1,799 l Black formal skirt: Zara, `2,790 l Black clutch: Mineral, `1,599

>> This white, cotton shirt from Zara (`1,790) looks great in all of these looks

Look 6: hippie

work in styLe For a formal, fashionable work look that’s not over-the-top, pair your shirt with brown trousers. l Brown trousers: Madame, `1,695 l Blue ballet flats: Max, `499 l Necklace: The Beach Company: `810 l Giordani gold lipstick in nude: Oriflame, `598 l Salvatore Ferragamo watch: Timex, price on request

Look 7: orange spLash

hippie chic Embrace your casual side with this fun, hippie look channeling the ’70s. l Necklace: Juvalia and You India, `1,375 l Bangles: Westside, `199 l Slippers: Global Desi, `1,099 l Palazzo pants: Global Desi, `1,499 l Scarf: Marc Cain, `6,900 l Hair clips: Ayesha, `190

make waves Dress up this summer in these hot beaded shorts and bright accessories. l Necklace: Avirate, `1,300 l Orange candy watch: Versace, Timex: On request l Beaded shorts: Zara, `3,790 l Peach pattern slippers: Vanilla Moon, `3,750 l Orange stud earrings: Vollya.com, `299 l Orange handbag: Avirate, `2,900

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ucheta Pal is a go-getter. From an engineering degree and her diploma in fine arts, to being the first Indian to be selected as a Zumba Education Specialist (ZES), she’s got a lot going for her. While she’s also a piloxing instructor, AFAA certified group fitness instructor and masala bhangra instructor, zumba is what drives her passion. She talks to us about that and much more.

Why did you pick zumba?

Always being interested in dance, I initially thought zumba was a dance form. After attending a few classes in the U.S., I realised that it was a hardcore workout made into a fitness party by adding the flavours of global dance forms and music. Fitness and dance are the two things closest to my heart; both combined in a world class brand is what made me want to specialise in it. There is a whole lot of science behind zumba fitness and that is what is getting people hooked on to the classes of trained and licensed instructors across the world.

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Zumbabe!

Sucheta Pal believes everyone has the time to stay fit and that doing what you love is your best option. Rhea Dhanbhoora talks to the zumba instructor about her passion for the fun workout

• My one guilty indulgence: Desserts, which I happily indulge in once a week.

• My favourite activity: Learning new forms of dance. I’m currently into salsa.

• My hobbies: Painting; it relaxes me.

• The fittest celebrities right now are: Bipasha Basu and Madonna.

• One person I really admire: A 61-year-old lady who never misses a class, stands in the first line, has no sense of rhythm or beat but is totally uninhibited. I have never met such a free soul.

• One thing no one would have guessed: I hold a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and worked in the IT world for five years.

You’ve been featured in a fitness game as well! Do you think fitness games are an effective trend?

I think it’s an awesome concept. The gaming trend is here to stay. The best way to drive people to a gym or a group fitness class is to bring fitness into their homes. Once they get addicted to it through a video game, they crave more.

This drives them to fitness studios.

You say that a work-life balance is important. How did you manage one?

I cannot emphasise enough on this aspect. There was a time when I didn’t know how to do this, but with consistent efforts it’s possible. My work doesn’t have fixed timings, so I need to keep aside time for my family and myself. I make sure I have at least one family dinner every week and time for a movie once a week for myself. TV time is also spent together with the family.

You were recently selected as a Zumba Education Specialist. What does that mean for you?

There are less than 200 Zumba Education Specialists across 150 countries in the world and I am proud to be the first Indian to be selected as one. This included rigorous auditions, trainings and tests. It means that I have a great responsibility to educate right. There is no trend of fitness in India, nor are we used to the Latin rhythms of zumba, so it requires immense dedication and patience to train new instructors. With over 600 instructors already trained in the past one year, it gives me immense pleasure to say that Zumba Fitness has provided several job opportunities. Zumba has different specialties and every one of them requires licensed training. I have a license in all.

quick questions for the zumbabe:

best suggestion I could give anyone is to embrace a fitness form which you enjoy.

Don’t try to follow the crowd. Only if you enjoy a workout, will you stick to it and only regularity will make it effective.

Tell us about your Breast Cancer Awareness drive classes?

The first one I ever did was in the U.S. It was an open event and everyone came dressed in pink. Zumba fitness, because of its easy, fun nature, is a great crowd puller and we were able to spread our message to a larger audience. Since then I have held similar events both in the U.S. and India. Zumba Fitness also has its official Party in Pink concept with the sole purpose to raise awareness about breast cancer.

Where did you train and what got you hooked?

My training was in the U.S. and the fact that zumba is for everybody pulled me into it. The key to the success of zumba is the music, produced by music legends such as Pitbull, Wyclef, DaddyYankee and Li’l Joh. It got me hooked and is addictive to date.

How important do you think it is to stay fit in this day and age?

Obesity has become a growing concern in India. Getting into a fitness regime is no longer a choice, but has become a necessity and needs to be a lifestyle. The

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What tips would you give people aspiring for a ZES career?

A ZES life seems glamorous with all the travelling that’s involved, but first you need to train hard and understand all aspects of fitness to qualify to become one. The only thing that will drive you is raw passion. It’s a tough job, but highly rewarding if you love teaching.

What’s in the future?

The goal is to spread the message that fitness can be fun and should be a lifestyle. It can completely change your world. My future goal is to apply the same on me and through my example inspire others. Zumba will change the rules of the fitness world in India and I’d like to lead that change. >> Who would have thought that an IT professional could become a world class certified Zumba Education Specialist?

Meet Sucheta Pal, a woman with many feathers in her hat

benefits of zumba Zumba gives you a host of health benefits and is a really good option to try if you want a fun, but effective workout. Here are a few of its benefits: • It improves your cardiovascular health. Perform a zumba dance for at least 30 minutes every other day to get the benefits. It stresses your heart (in a good way!) and keeps your muscles working well.

• If you need to lose weight, this is the best way to do it. You can burn up to 400 calories for every hour of zumba that you do.

• Lack a little co-ordination? Zumba can help there too by improving your co-ordination and balance.

• It releases happy hormones, like any other form of dance. This will help keep you calm and works as a really good stress buster and mood enhancer.

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look tall

and make the bottom half of your hair sleek and frizz-free to look younger and more vibrant.

Go short: If you’re petite, you’ll want to l Scrunch it up: Loose, beachy waves have cut your hair slightly shorter, because always been youthful. Switch to a centre longer haircuts can actually make you parting and scrunch up your hair, letting it fall seem smaller. loosely to frame your face. You’ll look l think of your features: If you’re petite but years younger! your features are not, avoid pixie or l Do it up: Don’t be afraid of up dos, but keep them messy. A tight bun will make you look older but a messy one can be very youthful when styled properly. A low chignon is a great, youthful option. l angle it out: An angled bob looks lovely, especially if it is slightly layered in the front. It’s young and chic. l Go short: Even if you’re going short, make sure that your cut is a little shaggier as that will look younger than a styled look. l

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tanya Malik

When in doubt, keep it simple and classic. Preity rocks her casual look and we love her simple and chic outfit. The sweater is a lovely colour and her shoes are simply stunning!

We also like that she’s left her hair in it’s natural state. Well done!

Sometimes, we just can’t understand why and how these famous ladies dress so badly! This dress is ill-fitting and looks like an extention of the red carpet. The drape is so strange and unflattering it makes Tanya look terrible.

look Mature tight updos: A pulled back ponytail or a high, tight bun can make you look severe, so be careful with it. But, a clean, professional updo will give you the mature look you’re aiming for. l Single colour: Highlights and bright colours make you look younger. If older is what you’re aiming for, keep your locks a single, light colour. l Straight and simple: Poker straight hair does add a few years to your look. Keep it straight and slicked to look older. l Very blunt: Even a bob cut can make you look older! Keep the cut straight and blunt and avoid a fringe or side parting. l lengthy issues: Long hair in one length can add years to your face. If that’s what you want, ditch the layers and keep it all one length.

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very short cuts. Don’t leave your hair too long, but make sure it’s not so short that it accentuates your large features. l Stay in middle ground: Medium-long hair is your safest bet if all you want is to add a few extra inches to your overall look. l Don’t go over-the-top: Big, wide hairstyles are a no-no if you want to look taller, as are heavily curled styles.

look thin Frizz control: You need to avoid adding any extra weight to your face or your body, so to appear slimmer you need less volume and no frizz. We’re not saying slick your hair back; just smooth it down a little to appear thinner. l Go long: It’s a common myth that short hair will make you appear thinner. Long hair actually slims you down. Wear your long hair in light layers to add a little definition. l Create curves: Why would you want curves when you’ve got enough, right? What we’re trying to say here is that you need to avoid straight cuts. Get a cut that frames your face in soft curves instead of falling flat so that your face is softened, appearing slimmer. l Fringe benefits: If you have a round face, avoid heavy bangs. Side-swept bangs are a much better option.

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HAIR HINTS Hairstyles are just like clothes — pick the right type and they can change your entire look. Rhea Dhanbhoora gives you some helpful hints

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ate your narrow face? Want to add an extra inch to your petite frame?

Consider styling your hair differently or getting a new haircut. Hairstyles can drastically change the way you look. Read on to find out how to appear fuller, slimmer, taller, shorter and even younger, just by changing the way you do your hair.

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We all loved tiered cakes but this layered creation is anything but sweet.

The material looks cheap and the style is very... yuck. The gathers, the one shoulder and weird jewels on her face surely put this look in the Hall of Shame. Time to get a new stylist.

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l Go pixie: Pixie cuts work well on petite Get a little light: Highlights make your hair women but the right cut can also be look softer, more vibrant and stylish instead of breathtaking on a very tall frame. If you’ve got a the boring, one colour look that makes you big frame, avoid this cut, but for tall, slender frames, it will give a slightly younger and seem older and more mature. l Go half and half: Leave a little volume on top shorter look. l Flick layers: Flicks can make you look a little shorter as compared to more elegant cuts. l Smoothen the bumps: Hair worn halfway up, poofs and hair bumps add unnecessary height that will look bad on too tall a person. l Go short: Very long hair will make you look long and drawn out. Stay short to look more proportionate.

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look Fuller FaCeD turn up the volume: A little volume goes a long way making your face look a little rounder than it is. l horizontal fringes: Instead of straight, blunt cuts, try sideswept bangs and horizontal fringe lines to add a little bulk to your look. l Go all out: Avoid inward cuts and flick your layers outward when you’re styling your hair.

This will make your face look fuller. l Curl up: While too much volume will make your narrow face disappear, a head of curls is fun and will make you look fuller.

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Sophie ChauDry

The look is cute we suppose, but so very boring. The dress doesn’t go with the shoes at all. But, the shoes do manage to stand out (it was a shoe show after all, so point well made). A plain white dress would have highlighted the sparkly footwear much better.

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If you’re choosing a cute little dress, don’t pair it with an over-the-top sexy pair of black heels. The pieces are okay on their own but look mismatched together. However, we do like Sophie’s side plait — the perfect hair do for summer we think.

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MONOCHROME 1. one at a tiMe You can either go monochrome with your dress, bag or shoes. Don’t unleash your love for monochrome on all of them together. Do it one at a time. Overdoing monochrome pieces can end up making you look like a human cousin of the zebra. Not a good look.

1. a WiDe tootheD CoMB If you are a girl with a curly mane, you simply cannot survive without a wide toothed comb because a normal comb will do nothing but get stuck in your hair over and over again. A wide toothed comb will untangle your curls with sufficient smoothness and without much pain.

2. StateMent pieCe Monochrome (depending on your outfit) can sometimes get very bland. In order to spice things up for your look, wear a statement piece, preferably around your neck. It can either be black, white or a pop colour.

2. a Cute aCCeSSory To keep those unruly curls stylishly in place, get your hands on a cute hair accessory such as the one on left

by Ayesha accessories. It can be a hair band, a hair pin or even a hair clip. If your hair has wild curls, semi-tie them with one of the aforementioned hair accessories.

3. ClutCh it If your outfit is monochrome, carry a bright, poppy coloured, oversized clutch to add an interesting contrast to your outfit. However, if your clutch is monochrome, try and wear something not very monochrome-like. Too much of matching in your overall look is not fashion forward.

3. ConDitioner A conditioner is very important after your hair wash. Curly hair tends to dry faster and a conditioner gives it the much needed hydration and moisture, making your curls look non-frizzy. Our pick would be the Totally Twisted conditioner by Herbal Essence for `190.

4. BloW Dry DiFFuSer The regular nozzle that you get with blow dryers disrupt the curl pattern of your hair and focuses hot air on one small section at a time. That’s why you need to get a diffuser that dries curls evenly for a full, uniform look.

4. heaD oVer heelS A monochrome outfit can make you the cynosure of all eyes when paired with neon coloured heels. Don’t don a chunky pair though; a sleek and simple design works best with shades of neon as the colour is eyecatching. If you have a monochrome pair of heels, wear it with a solid coloured outfit.

5. Silk pilloW CaSe Cotton soaks up moisture from your hair, causing frizz.

Cotton fibres also tug on hair as you toss and turn, which can lead to breakage. A silk pillowcase cuts down on friction and keeps things smooth. So make sure that you buy one now and see yourself waking up with a tamer mane.

5. Makeup For MonoChroMe If your outfit is too monochrome-y (too many black and white stripes or prints), go for subtle makeup. However, if one shade dominates more, opt for bold eye makeup or a matte red lipstick. Many celebrities have been rocking the latter look lately.

>> Jennifer Lawrence gets it right at Cannes by donning a simple monochrome look with scarlet lips

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« CAREER ADVICE learn WhaT To do When your Work exCeeds your brief I joined a new company a few weeks ago. One of my colleagues has been especially welcoming and I enjoy her company. A few days ago, she introduced me to her boyfriend when he came to pick her up.

Then, yesterday, I saw her boyfriend enter a coffee shop with another girl. They were acting like a couple — holding hands and cuddling. Should I tell my co-worker? I don’t want to come across as nosy.

Please help!

— saketa menon, malad

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ThaT’s enough!

R From being ignored for a promotion to constant pranks that stopped being funny a long time ago, sexism can raise its ugly head in many forms at your workplace.

Dev Goswami tells you how best to deal with it

dear saketa, You’re in a sticky spot! You don’t know your colleague well enough to judge how she will react to you delivering this bad news to her. So don’t. Instead, drop her an anonymous letter saying exactly what you saw.

Make sure that you don’t exaggerate what happened.

But, as far as you are concerned, her private life is not your business. Who knows… maybe they have an open relationship!

>> Jokes and comments related to your gender are one of most common the forms of sexism.

Read the article to find out how to deal with them

I work as a secretary in a big advertising company. I am happy with my job but lately, a situation has been bothering me. My boss has started giving me some of his personal work such as drawing up a list of junior colleges for his daughter.

I’ve been working for him for over a year now and this has never happened before. I don’t want this to become a regular occurrence but at the same time, don’t want this to lead to a confrontation. What can I do?

— deepika shah, andheri

send your questions to womansworld@afternoondc.in before Wednesday

The everyday ‘jokes’ This is perhaps the trickiest of all fields to negotiate when it comes to sexism at the workplace. After all, you don’t want to be that girl who takes an offense to everything. The best way to handle such situations is to ignore them. Or if you’re up for it, respond with some banter of your own. For example, if someone talks about how women are better at organising things, respond by saying, ‘That’s just because we use our minds.’ At the same, if you find something deeply offensive, politely confront the person then and there. You’d be surprised at how most of the time, they will own up and apologise.

The sexisT boss

This is usually the easiest to notice and hardest to deal with. From not being trusted with solo assignments to not being given the same treatment (good or bad) as your other co-workers, you know you are being discriminated against, but what can you do about it? The answer is that you need to talk to your boss. Sometimes, there might actually be a reason behind his behaviour. Quite obviously, he won’t come out and say that he’s being sexist. So, judge his reasons and if they seem dubious, you’re best off talking to your company’s HR head. However, if the situation comes to that, it would be better if you go along with other female co-workers who might have come across similar unfairness.

during meeTings You might not have thought of this before, but if your team or company has few women employees, sitting in a meeting can be tough. You might find that speaking up and getting your ideas accepted can get difficult. However, that doesn’t mean that everyone in the room is sexist, because those who are will ignore you and those who aren’t won’t notice that you’re being ignored. The best way to beat this is by being assertive and making your presence felt early on in the meeting. Have a no-nonsense attitude while talking and don’t hesitate to speak up, even for a second.

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dear deepika, First of all, we would like to tell you that as a secretary, you will have to accept a few things with a pinch of salt. One of those things includes having to do a bit of your boss’ personal work. However, what’s important here is that it should just be a ‘bit’ and not more than that. You say you’ve been working for a year and it’s never happened before. So, it’s quite possible that this is a one off situation and maybe he really needs your help. For now, we suggest you let this go and do what he’s asked you to do.

But, if it keeps happening in the future, you should have a straight talk to him about your responsibilities and what you’re expected to work on. Don’t hesitate to raise the topic with him, otherwise it’ll just keep happening.

ight now, there may be a chance that you’re thinking that this is a pointless article.

Sexism? In cosmopolitan Mumbai? We’re kidding, right? Unfortunately, we’re not. If you have thoughts like those, you are one of the lucky few professionals who do not have to deal with sexism at your workplace. It might not be apparent and it might not be as bad as before, but snide comments generalising women, being ignored for a promotion solely based on gender and the chance you’ll go on maternity leave, not being taken seriously in a meeting — are all scenarios that exist and reek of gender bias. For those times, keep the following tips in mind:

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This can be tough to deal with.

Be sure of your observations as you don’t want to go around accusing your entire company of sexism unless you have substantial proof. However, if repeated complaints about your boss or a particular coworker fail to have any effect, it’s an indication that rot is deep rooted in your company.

The best thing here would be to consider quitting. We know that running away doesn’t sound appealing, but sadly, that’s the best alternative. You can get into a legal scuffle with your company if you want, but remember that you will need vast resources for that and the case will mostly drag on for years. If you’re up for it, you should certainly go ahead, but always ask yourself the question — will it be worth it?

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here’s one thing that most Indians clearly don’t do — ask the right questions before trying to start a family. That’s the main reason many couples are either unhappy when they become pregnant or after the baby is born, as they start to feel as though their growing family is a burden on them because they are unprepared for it; either financially or emotionally. Not asking the correct questions before having a baby can also lead to a lot of health problems for the mother, especially if she’s been leading an unhealthy lifestyle.

That’s why, we bring you a list of questions that you need to ask yourself before starting a family. This isn’t about the obvious questions that talk about whether you have a nicotine and alcohol-free system before getting pregnant or whether you’re mature enough, but about things that you often ignore. Make sure you ask yourself these before the stork pays you a visit.

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Before you start planning a family, there are a few significant questions that every woman needs to ask herself. Priyanka Singh brings forth some of the not-so-obvious ones

1. Sid The Science Kid Sid is a funny boy who is immensely smart and curious about the things around him. The best part about this show, which engages your kid throughout the 30 minute episode, is that Sid asks a question at the beginning and spends the rest of the episode trying to find an answer.

He gets help from his family, friends and teachers and comes out with an answer using scientific observations and facts.

Make sure that you get your body ready for all the extra kilos that you’ll pile on during pregnancy. For this, especially if you are on the ‘healthy’ side, lose any additional weight as it will only make matters more difficult for you during your pregnancy. If you are currently overweight, getting pregnant will lead to additional weight gain. Getting those extra kilos off you will also make childbirth easier and gaining your pre-pregnancy figure back will be a quicker process. It has been found that women who are fit have comparatively shorter labour and experience less pain during childbirth.

2. Wordgirl Forget Wonder Girl and embrace WordGirl instead! Becky Botsford is a small girl who knows a lot of surprisingly big words. She transforms into a WordGirl when an evil man attacks her town. Her weapon is, of course, her expansive vocabulary with which she defeats her enemies.

have i hit the gym yet?

We don’t mean rigorous workouts or spending hours at the gym (which you probably don’t do unless you’re a fitness freak), but making time for your body. Just try to devote an hour a day for a little physical activity, whether it’s a walk, yoga or even a dance class. Being physically active strengthens your core, which you require a lot during the process of labour.

Staying fit, active and healthy also improves your chances of conceiving.

A baby is a massive financial commitment.

Make sure that if you are bringing him/her into this world, then he/she gets the best of the most you can provide. For this, being financially secure is primary. Apart from childbirth and post delivery care, create an account for unexpected medical emergencies as well. Begin to save one year in advance before you actually start trying for a family.

DiD i miss my appointment with the Dentist?

If a visit to the dentist never figured in your list of things to do, then it’s time that you make the necessary changes. Most to-be-mothers are not even aware of this, but hormonal changes which occur during the pregnancy can create havoc with your gums. Get your preventive care in place before you get pregnant.

is my work life suitable for my life as a mother?

You don’t have to give up your career, but the place that you work at shouldn’t be too physically taxing or put strenuous pressure on your mind, as that could affect your baby. If you deal with chemicals at your workplace, meet your doctor and ask him if that would be safe for your unborn baby or not. Some changes might be required in your work life, but don’t fret as most companies have special policies for pregnant women.

FOR SMART KIDS All children look forward to TV time, but instead of cursing the idiot box, why not let them watch intelligent programs?

Priyanka Singh hands out a list appropriate for four to six-year-olds

am i the right weight?

Do i have the vitamin m?

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3. PhineaS & Ferb This is a series about two brothers who are science geeks and utilise their summer vacations trying to discover and make some scientific devices. They also have a platypus as a pet, who leads a second life as a spy and a sister who fails at trying to expose the dangerous experiments of her brothers to their parents. This is a funny but clever show.

>> Make sure that your body, lifestyle and mental state are well-prepared for pregnancy

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BABY Do i know my genes?

This is an extremely crucial step that you need to take before you start planning a family. Get genetic counselling done along with your partner.

Chromosomal or genetic

abnormalities, or even inherited disorders (such as Huntington’s disease, the susceptibility to breast cancer and heart diseases) that the unborn baby might be at a risk of can be detected before the pregnancy via genetic counselling.

4. angelina ballerina Your child isn’t interested in reading or math but loves the performing arts? There’s something for him/ her too!

Angelina is an adorable mouse with dreams of becoming a famous ballerina. There are entertaining dance and music sequences with a recurrent lesson of ‘practice makes you perfect’.

5. The caT in The haT KnoWS a loT abouT ThaT! This show follows Cat as he takes his friends Fish, Nick and Sally on two different educational adventures. Everyone boards Cat’s flying Thingamajigger machine, which transports the crew to interesting places. In one of the episodes, Cat takes Nick and Sally to meet wildlife with exceptional hearing abilities in a study of sound and how it travels.

The science facts are ageappropriate and storylines promote problem-solving and logic.

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>> Waking up from a dream that involves your partner cheating on you can affect your attitude towards him in real life

Have you recently dreamt about your partner cheating on you? a. Yes. b. No. Do you feel angry and irritable with your partner the minute you wake up? a. Yes. b. No. Have you been experiencing inexplicable feelings of insecurity in your relationship? a. Yes. b. No.

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I have been in a relationship with Dharmesh for about a year. We are both in our mid to late thirties and are serious about each other. The only thing is...

He used to be married.

Have you found that some of your bad dreams have been coming true lately, especially with regards to your relationship? a. Yes. b. No. Do you think your dreams are life-like because you argue as much in them as you do when you’re awake? a. Yes. b. No.

... and it was a very bitter divorce.

While reading this quiz, are you suddenly realising that your dreams might be influencing how you feel about your partner? a. Yes. b. No.

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Dream team Do you suddenly find yourself fighting with your partner for no valid reason? Rhea Dhanbhoora suggests you take this quiz to find out whether your dreams are to blame for your spats

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ou’ve been crabby and moody and finding fault with everything your partner has been doing lately — and he, for the life of him, can’t figure out why! If you’ve been feeling that your dream guy just doesn’t exist anymore, it’s time to take a look at what you’ve actually been dreaming about. A recent study done by the University of Maryland found that jealousy or betrayal felt in a dream can affect your real life relationship for days on end, without you even realising it. Take this quiz and find out whether your dreams are making you fight or if your partner is actually getting on your nerves.

Your dreams are clearly affecting your relationship. Every time you have a bad dream, you wake up feeling a little less loving and a lot more irritated with your partner. If you dream of your partner cheating on you, you wake up feeling insecure and your dream arguments can actually translate into real-life arguments. The next time you have a bad dream, tell it to your partner first, so that both of you know what’s affecting you and you can work through issues that you feel may have a deeper meaning in real-life.

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If you’re still fighting a lot with your partner, you may have issues that you need to resolve.

Your dreams are not affecting your relationship in any way, so your fights and problems are actual relationship issues. The good news is that you’re most likely secure enough in your relationship to not have bad dreams that include betrayal and arguments. Good for you!

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Dear Grace,

My friend recently broke up with her boyfriend of seven years. They were going through a rough patch and instead of talking it out, she called it quits. He’s heartbroken while she’s out living it up. I am disgusted by her behaviour and disregard for her ex. Should I tell her?

— Annlynn Jacobs, Malad

Dear Annlynn, Tell her just once. After that, leave her to her own devices and don’t interfere. We’ve learnt through experience that there’s a winner and a loser in a breakup and she is clearly the former. Also, nothing you tell her is going to make a difference. Let her do what she feels she needs/ wants to do.

Just because you both are friends, doesn’t

mean that you have to support her in every decision that she takes. But, be wary of her ex crying on your shoulder because then you’ll be seen as the betrayer. Be neutral and stay out of it as far as possible.

They are adults — let them sort out their own mess.

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We became friends then lovers six months after it was final.

He often compares me to his ex positively and ends up telling me that he really loves me and that I’m special.

But, whenever I bring up a real commitment, he goes cold on me until I stop talking about it.

"I am not getting any younger and have already invested a lot in this relationship. How can I get him to try again?” — Maheka 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. b) Do you want to be with him or get married? Ideally, it would be both but he doesn’t seem to be over his ex-wife. Constant comparing (even positive) means she is still on his mind. You are, sadly, his rebound, shoulder to cry on, stepping stone etc. c) Explain your needs to him. Give him a time frame and then move on.

LAST WEEK: Paranoid Parinaz should pick Option B: Calm down. Get a friend to give the unknown number a call when Mr. Security is in the vicinity. If it’s him, tell the agency.

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Private hospitals should adhere to the stipulated guidelines of 20% free medical service and a contribution of 2% revenues towards medical facilities for the poor. Institutes unwilling to abide by these conditions may function as corporate hospitals sans benefits.

Suresh Shetty, Minister of Protocol and Public Health, Maharashtra at a AIAI Round Table meeting on India Russia Health Tourism and Co-operation

Markets Indecisive

NSE India: S&P Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Thursday (May 30, 2013) (Based on the activity of the previous trading day) by Dominic Rebello

PEVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY: The Nifty fell marginally on Wednesday (May 29, 2013) a net 6.95 points (0.11%) and closed at the 6104 point level.

The market opened up with a gap at the 6120 points level.

It then rose further and registered the day’s high at the 6125 points level at 9.16 a.m. The index then declined sharply into the red and turned into a range bound movement until 12.45 p.m. It then declined further and registered the day’s low at the 6069 points level at 1.15 p.m.

The index then rose and turned into a range bound movement until closing at the day. The Nifty witnessed a volatile session and moved in a range of 55 points. Sentiment was bearish and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 33 were losers, while 17 were gainers. Buying was seen in healthcare, consumer durables, FMCG, auto and oil & gas stocks, while heavy selling was seen in realty and metal stocks.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Volume: Volume (Qty shares) decreased 0.05%. This change is small and indicates a moderate participation by investors.

Market Breadth: Overall Market Breadth on the NSE was negative. Amongst all the traded stocks, 537 were gainers, 857 were losers and 62 remained unchanged.

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

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

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

Pivot Point Analysis: For intra-day traders the support and resistance levels are calculated according to the pivot point theory and are: Pivot point = 6100 (This is the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-day).

Support (1) = 6074; Support (2) = 6044.

Resistance (1) = 6130; Resistance (2) = 6155.

OUTLOOK FOR TODAY:

On Japanese candlestick patterns the index has formed a small black body candle with a long lower tail. A long lower tail indicates that sellers dominated trading and drove prices lower during the session. However by the end of the session, buyers resurfaced and pushed prices back. This indicates that buying support is emerging at lower levels. This candle also indicates that the indecisiveness amongst investors continues. The next candle formation will confirm whether the bias is towards the buy or sell side of the market.

However, the index is above the 5, 15, 25 and 200 day’s moving ave rages and al l the four averages are risi ng.

This is positive. But, the 5 day’s moving average is still below the 15 day’s moving average. This is negative. The velocity parameters c ontinue to remain neutrally trended. As such these are mixed signals. Investors are advised to adopt a wait and watch policy for a day or two until a clear signal emerges.

Work with strict stop losses on all positions

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

ADX Indicator & DI Lines: The +DI line is above the –DI line but both lines are converging (negative if it continues). The ADX is falling while the Market Index is flat. No signal here.

Moving Averages (Trend Indicators) The index: Is above its 5-day average (at 6049) Positive.

Is above its 15-day average (at 6086) Positive.

Is above its 25-day average (at 6039) Positive.

Is above its 200-day average (at 5769) Positive.

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

Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main support is at the 5942 points level.The next support is at the 5867 points level.

Resi stance Level s: The immediate main resistance is at the 6223 points level. The next resistance is at the 6357 points level.

BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS Sushil Finance calls a ‘Buy’ on Maruti Suzuki CMP: Rs. 1634 Target Rs. 1918

Prabhudas Lilladher calls a ‘Buy’ on ICICI Bank CMP: Rs. 1216 Target Rs. 1325 GEPL Capital calls a ‘Buy’ on Tata Chemicals CMP: Rs. 302 Target Rs. 351

RBI Needs To Be Made More Accountable

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Rupee hits10-month low at Rs 56.37 against dollar. TCS bags a Rs. 1,100 crore, six-year contract from the Dept of Posts for its end-to-end IT modernization programme.

Supreme Infra FY13 PAT up by 26.6% to Rs.100.2 crore, Declares 20% dividend. Trent Q4 net dips marginally to Rs 19.5 crore. fold at Rs 24.99 crore.

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egulators like RBI are to aide the government in administering and governing. No single central bank in the world can say, I am autonomous, therefore, I will decide what I will do,” Chairman of the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) and former Supreme Court judge B N Srikrishna said yesterday, while pitching for making the Reserve Bank of India more accountable.

He was addressing an event organised in New Delhi. The FSLRC had been set up to rewrite financial sector laws and to bring them in tune with current requirements.

The commission had recommended the creation of a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that would determine the policy interest rate.

As regards the existing financial regulatory structure, he said “By the year 2020-25, we hope to achieve USD 30-40 trillion economy. Ambi-

tion can not be achieved unless there are steps taken towards it.

Therefore, you need something that is drastic, something that is total overhaul of the existing financial system…There is urgent need of merging oversight functions of market, commodity, insurance and pension regulators, he added.

The FSLRC committee had also suggested creation of the Unified Financial Agency (UFA) that would subsume the functions of key agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Board of India, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority and the Forward Markets Commission.

It had also suggested doing away with the multiple agency architecture for scanning foreign capital inflows. Besides, it had suggested setting up of a debt management office (DMO) for raising resources for the government expense.

At present, the government raises funds by issuing bonds

“No single central bank in the world can say I am autonomous; therefore, I will decide what I will do…”

— B N Srikrishna Chairman, FSLRC through the RBI. Incidentally, Finance Minister P Chidambaram had recently said there are regulatory gaps and efforts are being made to frame a new law to oversee financial sector.

Analysts feel that the company’s performance has been lower than expectation, as well as competition for the company is expected to intensify going forward

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n the usual dirge of bad news coming out of the power sector in India nowadays, Power Grid Corporation of India has posted a contrarian performance, according to figures and statistics released by the company officials. Financials, and other parameters have all posted a good growth rate.

However, in an aside company officials did concede that the competition is heating up.

“This is a dream figure,” says R.N. Nayak, Chairman and Managing Director of the Power Grid Corporation of India. He was referring to the RONW (Return on Net Worth) of the company which for the FY13 period stands at 16.15%, from the 13.86% of the previous year. So why is this significant? Simply because regulatory

body the CERC allows a 15.5% return on a controlled environment. “The figure is something that other companies look at as a benchmark,” says Nayak. The differential between the RONW and the CERC permitted figure is due to early performance of the company in their projects.

Power Grid posted a net profit of Rs. 4,235 crore on a turnover of Rs. 13,328 crore in the FY13 period representing a 24% growth in turnover and a 30 increase in net profits. For the Q4 FY 13 period the company saw a net profit of Rs 1,109 crore.

Analysts however are not impressed with these numbers. “Power Grid reported Q4 FY 13 (Standalone) numbers lower than our expectation,” say Daljeet Kohli and Abhishek Jain of India Nivesh a brokerage. The Transmission business grew 7.9% year-on-year to Rs. 31.91 billion may

Arvind Mafatlal Group Consolidates Businesses

By A Business Reporter eeing a great opportunity in expanding its textile business across all product categories in India and globally in the future, the Arvind Mafatlal Group (AMG) has embarked on consolidating its textile businesses into Mafatlal Industries Limited (MIL). The scheme of arrangement and amalgamation of Mishapar Investments Ltd, a 100 percent subsidiary of Mafatlal Industries and Mafatlal Denim Ltd with Mafatlal Industries Ltd has be-

come effective from April 28, 2013, MIL said in a statement here. The scheme of amalgamation has already received sanctions from High Courts of Gujarat and Bombay, the release said.

The amalgamation will help the company in operational synergies, flexibility in use of manufacturing facilities which would result in quicker “speed to market”, opportunity for expanding the denim and textile businesses, sharing of manufacturing overheads and economies of scale.

BUSINESS BRIEFS Brilliant Move By Tata Housing

Tata Housing has signed a MoU with the National Safety Council of India (NSC) to create awareness and promote the cause of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) in the Indian real estate industry. This agreement represents Tata Housing’s persistent efforts to make EHS rules and regulations a priority for the real estate industry. The MOU was signed between Brotin Banerjee, MD & CEO Tata Housing and V. B. Sant, Director General – the National Safety Council of India. The key objective of the MoU will include streamlining exchange of technical expertise between two organizations and to collaboratively work towards making EHS a norm for the real estate industry. Says Brotin Banerjee, MD and CEO, Tata Housing “The Tata Group being a pioneer of Employee Welfare approach in India, EHS naturally ranks on top as one of the Group’s core philosophy of doing business. In line with the group’s ethos, we are looking at building the most effective approach for building an EHS-conscious industry.”

NHC Foods Net Profit Jumps 248%

Power Grid Posts Good Performance, But…

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attributed to lower short term access volume and lower capitalization of assets,” the analysts say.

The outstandings; that is bills that are 60 days past due stand at Rs 565 crore for the current FY. “These outstandings are from the SEBs (State Electricity Boards),” says R. T. Agarwal, Director Finance Power Grid.

No IPPs (Independent Power Producers) are part of the outstanding list.

The company has declared an interim dividend of 16.1% and now proposes a final dividend of 11.4% for the financial year 2012-13 as against a total dividend paid in the last financial year. “We wanted that dividend would be some 30% of PAT (profit after tax),” says Nayak explaining figures that are usually rounded off, i.e. 15%, 20% etc.

The company has raised funds both in India and abroad that are benchmark figures. Sources noted that the company intends to raise funds from the domestic markets on a priority basis. Power Grid’s cost of funds from domestic sources in the FY13 period was just over 9% according to the director finance. International finance was in greater part at US Treasury Rates plus 210 basis points (one basis point is one hundredth of a percentage point).

Going forward though company officials do concede that while they are a monopoly in the transmission business, there are a number of new entrants into the field that would give them a lot of competition in the days to come.

NHC Foods Ltd., a government recognized Star Export House has shown impressive results for the financial year ended 31st March 2013. The total turnover went up to Rs.136.43 crore, against Rs. 92.68 crore in the previous year ended 31st March 2012. Net profit after tax increased to Rs. 1.61 crore, which was Rs.46.32 lakhs in the last year. Thus net profit increasing by 248%.The company is engaged in the manufacture & export of a wide range of whole & ground spices, oilseeds, food grains and animal feeds to 60 plus countries across the globe. The company has more than 200 international customers.Says Apoorva Shah, CMD “the company would raise Rs. 2500 Lakhs from Qualified Institutional Placements (QIP) shortly”. He further stated that the company is exploring various avenues of investments which would put company on a growth path. Companies’ domestic initiative under the brand name “Saaz Masala” have evoked very good response in Mumbai, Maharashtra and Gujarat, where the same has been launched.

Sony Launches Xperia Tablet Z At Rs 46,990

Expanding its Xperia range of gadgets, Sony India yesterday launched the Xperia Tablet Z, which the company claims is the world’s thinnest design at 6.9 mm, priced at Rs 46,990. The dust and water-resistant tablet sports a 10.1 inch 1920X1200p WUXGA display with a mobile Bravia Engine 2. It runs on Snapdragon S4 Pro processor with 1.5 GHz asynchronous quad CPUs and has a 2 GB RAM.

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LOVIN’ IT UP

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MUMBAI | THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013 portant to you than what she needs. It is possible that she has been placed in an uncomfortable situation at home due to your actions as both of you are so young. If she is part of an orthodox family then the situation could be worse. I think a sincere apology is in order. Remember—Love is caring about the other more than yourself.

Love is caring about the other

I AM madly in love with a girl since class 8 and from her looks and way of talking, it appeared that she loved me. I had her phone number and rang her up in spite of her asking me not to do so. I hope her parents guessed the matter out as they both knew me. Since then she has refused to talk to me and has said that she is not interested in me. I have pleaded with her but to no avail. Please tell me how to restore the relation. I can’t live without her. We are both in college (1st year) now.

First of all both of you are way too young. You have very correctly written ‘it appeared that she loved me’. So you are willing to reevaluate your interpretation of her ‘way of talking’. That is good.

You have also acknowledged that you went against her ‘specific

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wishes’ to not call her. I am sure you can understand if she is upset and angry with you.

Not respecting her wishes amounts to not respecting her i.e. what you want is more im-

What the cards say: Be generous Path: Don’t expect returns. Don’t be calculative Ally: Virgo will cool you down. Avoid morbid Capricorn Card for the week: Tarot key no. III The Empress. Abundance is coming your way. Giving and enjoy giving is the way to richness.

What the cards say: Be a peacemaker Path: Understand what your loved ones want. Don’t see your good but theirs Ally: Libra show you balance. Avoid Scorpio who will make you one-sided Card for the week: Tarot key no. XVII The Star. Deep insight could transform your perspective to life. Great love is coming your way. But for this understand relationship which is giving and taking

What the cards say: Stand up for the right Path: You will need to know the truth without prejudice. Don’t see what you want and close yourself to what anyone else tells you Ally: Sagittarius will show you gratefulness.

Avoid Aries who could fan your impulsiveness Card for the week: Tarot key no. XI Justice. You will need to take a stance. Don’t sit on the fence of self interest

What the cards say: Your health improves Path: Take it easy and enjoy the moment Don’t make the same mistake again and again Ally: Scorpio will show you the true picture. Don’t get dominated by Gemini.

Card for the week: Tarot Key no VIII The Strength . Find the strength within to face the truth and go with it .Expediency will result in loss.

What the cards say: Your impulse could make you selfish Path: Be committed to truth not to people. Don’t encourage the wrong even if it is being done by your loved ones Ally: The mature Virgo will be a good friend. Avoid Capricorn, you will get bored with them Card for the week: Tarot key no. IX The Hermit.

The wisdom of the hermit will show you the light. A sudden illumination could transform your thinking

What the cards say: Chasing and competing will get you nowhere Path: Be sympathetic to less fortunate.

Don’t use logic to convince yourself.

There is a greater reality Ally: Gemini will give you good advice.

Don’t depend on Virgo Card for the week: Tarot key no. XII. Surrender to God could transform your destiny

I AM 25 and my wife is 21. We are married for over one year. How can I change a wife who always finds excuses to evade physical intimacy on the pretext of being busy? We used to have sexual intercourse earlier but since last six months there has been no sexual contact between us. Please help!

It is important to understand why she needs to evade physical intimacy. Is it because she has been left unsatisfied

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or has had painful experiences of the sexual act with you? Is it because of fear of pregnancy? Is it because she disapproves of the kind of sexual behavior you demand? Is it because she considers the sexual act as sinful, dirty, etc.?

Is it because she has been a victim of sexual abuse? Is it because she has unresolved emotional issues with you and so cannot give in to intimacy without resolving them? Is she unwell? Is she overworked and too busy with the home and children? Is she involved with someone else? Does she have lesbian tendencies?

All this needs to be explored with your wife. I suggest that both of you have a session with a good relationship counsellor to reach to the bottom of the matter.

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What the cards say: An opportunity to reconnect Path: Be sincere and honest. Don’t justify yourself but accept your mistake and make up Ally: Your ally this week Taurus who will be firm with you.

Avoid slippery Pisces who could be as changeable as you Card for the week: Tarot key no. XIII Death. It is important that you change radically for the happiness that awaits you. Get out of the rut

What the cards say: There will be a price to pay for your material clinging Path: Let go and see yourself. Don’t be blind Ally: Scorpio will support you. Stay away from Aquarius who could be on a tangent Card for the week: Tarot key no. XVI the Tower. Your ego will take a beating.

There could be a public catharsis

What the cards say: A new phase Path: Enjoy what you have. Don’t brood over your past but move on in life Ally: Taurus will make you strong. Don’t tangle with Scorpio. He/she could hurt you Card for the week: Tarot key no. XIV Temperance. Balance needs to be restored for healing that is at hand. The elixir of life and happiness can be mixed by you…so go ahead

What the cards say: Be kind and fair Path: If you have made a mistake then admit it. Don’t hide behind your ego Ally: Aquarius will show you the truth. Be careful of Cancer who could misguide you Card for the week: Tarot key no. XVII The Star. Indicates insight and deep understanding that will help you in unraveling matters

What the cards say: Surrender, Give up and compromise Path: Face the truth. Don’t continue being pigheaded Ally: Libra will show you the truth. Avoid Cancer who will make you cling to things Card for the week: Tarot key no. XIII Death. Change is the order of the day. It will bring a new and radiant tomorrow

What the cards say: Rein in your fears Path: Be objective and Judge correctly.

Go with it. Don’t be someone else‘s mouthpiece. Have the courage to speak your mind Ally: Seek advice from a Scorpio who will know how to make you feel confident.

Don’t go with high strung Sagittarius or Aries Card for the week: Tarot key no. XVIII The Moon.

Creativity will be high. It could give you great satisfaction. Avoid negative fears

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MUMBAI | THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013 What made you accept Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa when there are so many dance reality shows around?

First of all, the participants really try their best and it’s a journey for every participant who may not start off as a good dancer but by the end of the show he or she may be the best dancer around. I like this journey of every participant on the show.

Post your iconic Ek Do Teen, till now how has dance evolved especially after your marriage?

Now it’s a mélange of forms like western, classical, hip-hop, contemporary etc. which the new choreographers and dancers are influenced with.

What do you like to see in a good dancer?

I like to see grace and confidence and expressions and the entertainment factor the dancer provides. I should feel the performance and I am looking for someone who provides his heart and soul into it.

MADHURI RETURNS AS ‘JHALAK DIKHLA JAA’ JUDGE

The popular dance reality show Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa will begin its new season on COLORS starting from June 1, every Saturday and Sunday at 9 pm. Sandeep Hattangadi spoke to Madhuri Dixit Nene, one of the judges on the show at its launch at a suburban studio. This is what she said...

How will your equation be with your co-judges?

Karan Johar and Remo D’Souza understand me very well and we vibe well when we judge a dancer and Remo being a choreographer, his inputs are valuable to us as a team.

Who will be emceeing the show?

Manish Paul and Kapil Sharma.

Who are the 12 celebrity participants?

Singer Shaan, actors Aarti Chhabria, Shweta Tiwari, Meghna Malik, Karanveer Bohra, Ekta Kaul, Dhrashti

LEARN AND ACT

DEEPIKA, popularly knows as Sandhya from STAR Plus’s show ‘Diya aur Baati Hum’ is missing college. Wondering why? It is because the current track on her show, where she is studying for the final exams reminds the actress about her college exams. Sandhya, who wants to become an IPS officer is studying along with Chavi to clear the final exams. “The books that I am using during the shoot are the same books that I studied in college.

When I was reading the books I felt that I was back in college. While it was fun shooting this sequence I also got a chance to relive the life of a student. It reminded me of the fun days with friends and preexam stress and post exams celebrations”, said Deepika.

ABHAY REFUTES RUMOURS

IN an exclusive interview with zoOm, Abhay Deol not only rubbished the rumours of being offered ‘Dostana 2’, his irritation reached the next level altogether. When asked by the zoOm reporter, Abhay candidly confessed that he didn’t think much of ‘Dostana’ as a movie so why

Dhami, Siddharth Shukla, Suresh Menon, Hollywood actress Lauren Gottlieb and the winners of India’s Got Talent -- Sonali and Sumanth.

Recently you did an item song with Ranbir Kapoor.

Tell us about the experience.

TV TATTLES would he ever want to be a part of the next franchise!

Furthermore, the actor added that he has instructed his manager to get ‘Dostana 2’ removed from his filmography wherever published, dismissing any association with the movie.

At a time where actors are willing to give an arm and a leg to be a part of renowned banners, Abhay seems to be quite picky! To know more, tune into Planet Bollywood News every day at 7 pm on zoOm – India’s No. 1 Bollywood Channel.

DHARAM GRACES SHOW

IT was a joyous day for Gokuldham Society because their favorite actor Dharmendra had visited the sets. “I love him in the films. In real life too he is equally warm and sweet,” says Dilip Joshi. Adds Disha Wakani, “it is so hot but he went ahead with all the scenes with a smile.” Team also celebrated Dilip Joshi’s

It was a great experience and the song from Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is already a chartbuster and Ranbir is a fantastic dancer and actor. I have seen some of his films and really liked him.

You also had a dance choreographed by the

birthday by cutting a huge chocolate cake.

So there was Bhangra on the sets and there was merry making, all Punjabi style. And did Daya do her trademark Garba in Bhangra style? Check this out in the coming episodes of the show. ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah’ airs from Monday to Friday at 8:30 pm with repeat telecast at 11:00 pm o SAB TV.

STAR PERFORMER

OWING to the intense competition that would determine the top twelve on the show with the first face -off, this week STAR Plus’ India’s Dancing Superstar saw some amazing performances on stage. Inspiring the contestants and taking their excitement higher was Bollywood’s ultimate dancer Govinda as a special guest on the show. The talented actor made a grand entry on the show playing a double role and sizzled the dance floor with a medley performance on some of his most popular tracks. The spontaneous dancer performed without any rehearsals and awed the audiences. The contestants were overwhelmed to welcome Govinda on the show.

iconic Pandit Birju Maharaj.

Yes. I had the privilege of being choreographed by the great dance guru as I had always wanted to work with him.

Who among the stars’ dancing steps is your favorite?

I have always admired Dharamji for his unique steps and his handsome looks!

What next?

I have two films Dedh Ishquiya and Gulabi Gang lined up for release!

Thus spake the diva of Indian cinema!

Ankita Lokhande back in ‘Pavitra Rishta’

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NKITA LOKHANDE, more popular as Archana in the popular Zee TV show ‘Pavitra Rishta’ is back on the show after a sabbatical of three months amidst rumours that another actor will replace her. But now, Balaji Telefilms and Ekta Kapoor have announced her comeback on the show.

Speaking about her comeback Ankita says, “Yes, I had indeed taken a break as I wanted to spend some quality time with Sushant and my family. These three months have been a refreshing change of pace. What many people don’t realise is that when you are a part of a

daily soap for as long as I have been associated with ‘Pavitra Rishta’, you don’t really find time for anything else besides shooting. Now that the show has completed 1,000 episodes, and my request for a much deserved break has been suitably accommodated, I’m back for a second innings on the show. I look forward to an equally enthusiastic response from my fans” says Ankita about her return. “Ekta ma’am has been very kind to allow me to take the break I asked for and I am really grateful to her and the team for that.”

For the last few months, Ankita’s character, Archana was shown to be in a coma and doctors are trying their best to bring her out of it. Ankita has started shooting for the show from the weekend, so all Ankita fans can rejoice now!

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 562

ENIGMA CODE 562

ACROSS:

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.

1 Put boss out at a point of disembarkation (3,4) 4 You're at liberty to enjoy it (7) 8 Dodging a nullity action (8) 10 In the South-East, one of five has glittering ornament (6) 11 Nostalgic message tersely explaining absence from school (8) 12 A new stage setting may include them (6) 15 Number possibly in danger in Russia (9) 17 Light thread on sack (3,2,4) 19 Doing nothing right in an examination (2,4) 20 Confine the union within the country's laws (8) 22 Port is the way to make one degree at Cambridge (6) 23 They may toss at sea or on the pitch (8) 24 Ingests somethings impressive, perhaps (7) 25 Not beginning to get high rent changed ? Correct ! (7)

The Clue: Stamen part

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SOLUTION TO TUESDAY’S ENIGMA CODE

AGLEAM, ALLEGE, EAGLET LEGATE, MALLET, METTLE TAMALE

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MATH PYRAMID 562 14 French philosopher's strange sad secret (9) 16 Great performer with fish given the bird (8)

18 Up yours if it's what suit you (6) 21 She has some sex appeal in daylight (5)

SOLUTION TO TUESDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across: 7 Chain saw, 9 Isomer, 10 Delivery note, 11 Shiner, 13 Outrages, 14 Point of honour, 17 Palpable, 19 Father, 20 Village idiot, 22 Cassia, 23 Granules.

Down: 1 Chop chop, 2 Find, 3 Ashlar, 4 Libretto, 5 Roundabout, 6 Fettle, 8 Wave of feeling, 12 Nail polish, 15 Toboggan, 16 Re-echoes, 18 Animal, 19 Friday, 21 Thug.

QUICK CROSS 562

ACROSS: 1 Espied (3) 4 Consumed (3) 5 Amphibians (5) 8 Traitor (3) 9 Disillusion completely (5) 12 Parliamentary vote (3) 13 Solidified (3)

HIDATO 562

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DOWN:

1 Self-assertive bishop of impetuous nature (5) 2 Fumes capable of causing a lot of damage (6) 3 Medicament obtainable in nice pill form (10) 5 Sudden arrival at a no go situation (9,4) 6 Suspicious characters (8) 7 Versatile fellow takes team into the yard (4-5) 9 Ignore stock in this bargain shop ? (8,5) 13 One appears to show promise in the boxing business (10)

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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

TUESDAY’S SOLUTION

TUESDAY’S SOLUTION

DOWN: 1 Held session (3) 2 From _ __ Z (1,2) 3 Puts on (5) 6 Hoover, for one (3) 7 Remains (5) 10 ___ red, seethe (3) 11 Stovepipe, for one (3)

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

MATHDOKU 562

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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COFFEEBREAK MOON: Moon in Capricorn till 7:41pm TITHI: 6th Vaishakh Krishnapaksha NAKSHATRA: Shravan RASHI: Makar [Capricorn] J. Kh LUCKY COLOUR: White LUCKY NUMBER: 2 BIRTHDAY FORECAST: Important decision taken by you will bring in major breakthrough in your career. Those planning a merger or partnership will be able to do it. Senior executives will be given additional allowances. Love life will be fine. You will spend quality time with your beloved taking weekend trips. Your mate will be very loving and understanding.

Minor health ailments irritate you.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Healthy, medium height, good-looking and long lived. Intelligent, caring, will always speak up for the not so fortunate. Will make a good advisor and has the ability to adapt to any circumstance and make the best of it. Will have a good family life and enjoy success.

TODAY’S FORECAST Jagjit Uppal

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): You seem to be having a great time enjoying your recent success and in the process neglecting your routine work. You can ill afford to neglect your work for there is a strong opponent waiting to occupy your place. A hectic schedule will leave you exhausted with fatigue. A special gesture or favor that you make will make you feel very good about a close relationship that may have suffered earlier.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): At work, your easy rapport with colleagues and associates makes you even more popular and likeable. Your positive interaction with people will certainly lead to growth in your career and financial stability.

You are doing quite well for yourself. A hope you have been cherishing will come true. The married will get more affection and love from their mate.

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GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Accept financial proposals on terms that they are offered. If you ask for higher emoluments, you could miss out on a good bargain. After having taken up the work you will find even better avenues opening up due to this particular project and you will create two or more sources of income. Time is short and you may not be able to meet your beloved. However a phone call or an exchange of sms will help to keep in touch and make you feel good about your relationship.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): Your business activities will be carried out smoothly without any hitches, tension or financial obstacles. Some happy event taking place in your family will turn the family atmosphere into a festival of sorts. All differences and discord vanish when everybody joins in wholeheartedly. Put behind the past and look forward to a nice day. Genuine appreciation and understanding will come your way.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): Hard work will be effective and advantageous. Collaboration will ensure success in whatever you are doing at present. You may head a significant undertaking, which will guarantee a steady flow of money.

You will do well but are advised to guard against complacency. Romance will play a pivotal role and if you are thinking of a permanent relationship initial steps can now follow.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): Multi tasking will not work today; you need all the help that you can get from others. Work in cooperation to achieve optimum results. Those of you who may have started something on the side to supplement your income may get into trouble as far as their routine job or work is concerned. What you imagine is love could turn out to be an infatuation. Do not seek or give a commitment right now in a relationship for there could be a deception.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): Don’t give up and try again if you want positive things coming your way. Pull yourself out of a nostalgic and morose mood that is bound to prevail. Also take care of a minor health problem that seems to crop up whenever you are low. Meeting friends and old acquaintances is an enjoyable way of spending the day. It will give you a chance to know what others have been up to.

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SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): Today is a good day when you would like to try your hand at something new. Those in sales, media and communication will do very well. Gains from your efforts are indicated. Work proceeds smoothly throughout. Try to bring back romance and excitement in your life. Relationships are getting too staid and boring more due to neglect and being busy.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 - December 20): Work that you are pursing is not happening the way it should. It is time to change your stance or strategy. You will be surprised at the results. After consistent setbacks you will begin to feel that things are moving in the right direction after all. You may have the dissatisfied feeling that your loved ones are not doing enough to help you but at the moment it is best to let things be as they are.

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CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): There will be better turnover in your business resulting in more gains. The cash crunch is a thing of the past. The employed will receive bonus or some additional incentives that will help them overcome their budgetary constraints. You receive some dues from a person known to default. The need to share your dreams and aspirations with those you are close to you will make you happier. A marriage is likely for the single.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): You can look forward to unexpected gains. The successful completion of a contract will lead to an improvement in your finances and a better position in your work. Try to be more flexible while negotiating terms and conditions for a new contract. A journey undertaken now will prove fruitful.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): You may be concerned about your financial position. Be practical in matters about money. The picture may not be very rosy right now but there are interesting developments in the pipeline that can lead to gains. Perhaps a friend will be the one to initiate things. A change of place is likely. Meetings and talks are successful.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 4675 ACROSS:

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17 19 21 22 23 26 28

29 30 31 32 33

8 9 12 13 15 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Majestic (6) Indigent type (6) Thomas Hardy's heroine ? (4) Virginia Woolf's husband (7) Foretold, was an omen of (5) Ancient West Europeans including Britons and Gauls (5) Axis leader (4) Gamble, lay odds (3) Whimsical; strange (3) Sordid, disreputable or unattractive? (5) Lesser, not many (5) Cinema award (5) A person of Hebrew descent (3) Bright colour (3) Investigate or examine (3,4) Sing wordlessly (3) A substance which kills (6) Bristle-like appendages of certain

SUDOKU 1861

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Difficulty Level

CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: M equals D

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

grasses (4) 25 Designed, made or named (6) 26 Port on the Bay of Acre (5) 27 A homeless child (5)

28 Thai language - "Ola" anagram? (3) 30 The company which provides telephone services to our metropolitan, acronym (4)

SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD Across: 1 Tamil, 6 Rears, 9 Negated, 10 Knife, 11 Adage, 12 Hurly, 13 Hanuman, 15 Iaf, 17 Alex, 18 Bowler, 19 Elgar, 20 Django, 22 Gary, 24 Nal, 25 Panacea, 26 Direr, 27 Degas, 28 Addis, 29 Iterate, 30 Galls, 31 Sniff.

Down: 2 Anneal, 3 Influx, 4 Lee, 5 Karun, 6 Realtor, 7 Eddy, 8 Reggae, 12 Hallo, 13 Haydn, 14 Nepal, 15 Iliac, 16 Freya, 18 Babar, 19 Egoists, 21 Jadeja, 22 Garden, 23 Relief, 25 Peers, 26 Dail, 28 Ats.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1680 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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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.

__ __ nothing : be ruthless ? (4,2) Covering for letter (8) Small casks (4) Runs away to get married (6) Invade a host's body (6) It flies at supersonic speeds (3) Genus of mosquitoes - "a seed" anagram ? (5) Crude person (4) Tom's comic strip companion ? (5) Used needle and thread (5) Used an axe ? (5) Cancels or discharges a debt (4) The ____ : Netherlands' famous city? (5) ___ - down : abject, mean or dishonourable (3) One of the Musketeers (6) For the most part (6) Flip of a coin (4) Rubbing one thing against another (8) Cut open as surgeon did a boil (6)

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Writing well mean never having to say, "I guess you had to be there"

Afternoon WORD MINE

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

Today’s ratings: 28 average; 30 good; 33 outstanding.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: census, CONSENSUS, cuss, noun, onus, ounce, souse

HEATHCLIFF

Yesterday’s

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IN BRIEF Indian squad for Champions Trophy departs

DAVID FERRER:

R. Ashwin during the team’s departure at the Mumbai airport on Wednesday.

MUMBAI: The 15-member Indian squad for the ICC Champions Trophy commencing on June 6 left here for London via Dubai.

The 15-member team led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni who was gagged by the Cricket Board (BCCI) from answering any questions over the raging spot-fixing and betting scandal at the pre-departure news conference yesterday, is scheduled to address the world media today.

Two warm-up games have been scheduled for the squad on June 1 and 4 ahead of the Champions Trophy opener against South Africa on June 6 at Cardiff, Wales.

The squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik, Murali Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Irfan Pathan, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra and R Vinay Kumar. Coach: Duncan Fletcher.

Hindustan Unilever lift Champ Cup

MUMBAI: Hindustan Unilever Ltd. defeated Birla Sunlife Insurance by 24 runs to lift the Champions Cup in the finals of the17th edition of the Vodafone Corporate Cricket 7’s 2013 at the Western Railway Sports ground, Mahalaxmi.

After winning the toss and batting first, Hindustan Unilever Ltd., managed to get 85 runs for loss of four wickets in their seven overs quota. Darshan Panchal was the top scorer with 31 runs. In reply, man of the match winner Ashwath Swaminathan captured five wickets in just 11 runs to help his team win by 24 runs to lift the Champions Cup title.

Pawan breezes into men’s quarters

MUMBAI: Top seed Deep Rambhia, a product of Shrikant Vad’s badminton academy at Thane, displayed superb all round strokes as he subdued Rahul Vermuri in straight games to sail into boys under-15 singles semifinals of the MCF Silver Jubilee Open Badminton tournament, hosted by Mandpeshwar Civic Federation at their sports complex at Borivali.

Deep was in command as Rahul struggled to match him as the Thane boys made him chase the him all over the court before Deep triumphed 21-10,21-10. In remaining quarterfinals, Pratik Ranade, another Thane boy, also coached by Vad made short work of Omkar Joshi 21-10, 21-12. Others to make the last four were Pratik Tiwari, who beat Jaidev Ranade 21-13, 21-18 and Nikhil Wadekar, 2112, 21-12 who won against Vedant Sahai.

Second seeded Pawan Singh brushed aside Sangli’s Prathmesh Mhetre 21-12, 21-10 to enter the men’s singles last eight.

Results: Men’s singles (Pre-quarterfinals): Pawan Singh bt Prathmesh Mhetre (Sangli) 21-12, 21-10; TejasDayalkar bt Clifford Naronha (Silvasa) 21-12, 21-13; Aditya Kale bt Yash Hardikar 21-8, 21-6; Rohit Athley bt Kaushalya Kulkarni 21-14, 21-19. Boys U15 singles (quarterfinals): Deep Rambhia bt RDahul Vermuri 21-10, 21-10k; Pratik Ranade bt Omkar Joshi 12-10, 21-12.

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ARIS: In any other generation, David Ferrer would have been the Spanish No.1 for the past few years. He might or might not have had a Slam to his name here at Roland Garros (Messrs Federer, Djokovic and Murray would no doubt have had something to say about that too) but he would certainly have had a few ATP Masters 1000 titles to add to his meagre cabinet which contains just one of those trophies (won ironically on the hard courts of Bercy on the other side of Paris last November).

As it is, he is permanently in the shadow of Rafael Nadal, but if Rafa is the king of clay, then Ferrer is indubitably the prince. On Wednesday the world No.5 saw off fellow SpaniardAlbert Montanes 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 in a manner reminiscent of Nadal in his pomp.

The problem with playing Nadal on clay is that you are damned if you do, damned if you

THE PRINCE OF CLAY

don’t. You can play baseline tennis and lose 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 or you can go out in a blaze of all-outattack glory and lose 6-1, 6-2, 6-0.

Montanes tried to play his usual brand of solid defence and still only managed to take six games spread across three sets, despite coming off a victory in Nice last Saturday where he defeated Gael Monfils in the final.

In his opening match here against American Steve Johnson, Montanes won 55% of the baseline rallies. Today he managed only one in five as Ferrer gobbled up the rest. Early breaks in each set were enough to set the tone, and the match was done and dusted in 1 hour 41 minutes.

"It was a pleasant match and the score doesn't really show that it was easy," said Ferrer. "We had long rallies and I'm very satisfied."

And who knows, with Nadal and Djokovic in one half of the

Stanford University is a threatening all-court player, she has yet to develop Radwanska’s deep understanding of point construction.

She also lacks variety and does not move as smoothly on clay.

Burdette did manage to get up RADWANSKA AS HEALTHY AS an early break in the second set, SHE IS EFFECTIVE A few weeks ago, Agnieszka Rad- but then Radwanska roared right wanska was unsure how fit she back, brilliantly controlling the would be for Roland Garros as she centre of the court and mixing up was nursing a shoulder injury. She her attack.

The Pole finished the contest took a week off prior to the tournament which turned out to be a with only 14 winners, but was her great decision as she has been in normal super-steady self and fine form in her first two matches, committed only five unforced erincluding in her 6-3, 6-3 victory rors, while Burdette nailed 23 winover rising American Mallory Bur- ners but committed 28 unforced errors. dette on Wednesday.

“Well, it's up and down, but defWhile on paper it might have looked like a cakewalk for world initely it's a little bit worse on clay,” No. 4 Radwanska, in her first full Radwanska said of her back injury. year on tour Burdette has already “So it was good for couple months shown herself to be a tough and but now the inflammation is (back capable player, rising more than again. But) I think I'm used to the 100 spots in the rankings. But pain. Definitely now I'm ready to while the former standout from go and I'm 100% fit.” draw and Murray absent from the other, perhaps it is finally time for Ferrer to follow up last year’s maiden semi at the French and make his first Grand Slam final.

Patience pays for Djokovic, Tomic sticks with dad P

ARIS: Novak Djokovic, bidding to win a first French Open and become just the eighth man to complete a career Grand Slam, played a game of patience with the Paris rain and it paid off. The world number one only got onto Court Philippe Chatrier just after 1830 (1630GMT) yesterday after a marathon women's match and a four-hour total rain stoppage left him kicking his heels. But the top seed came out fired-up to beat David Goffin of Belgium 7-6 (7/5) 6-4 7-5 to reach the second round.

"Thanks to all the fans for waiting.

It was a good match, David is a good player and has a lot of talent," said Djokovic, who next faces Guido Pella of Argentina.

"I'm happy to win and hope to continue like this." Djokovic, the runner-up to Rafael Nadal in 2012, would have been wary of the challenge posed by Goffin, who made the last 16 in 2012 after coming through qualifying.

But the world number 58 lacked the firepower to consistently trouble the world number one. On a day when 13 matches of the 40 scheduled were held over until Wednesday and three were uncompleted, it was troubled Australian Bernard Tomic who found himself at the centre of attention during the cool and damp afternoon.

Tomic, 20, retired from his first round match against Victor Hanescu with a muscle tear. The world number 61 then launched a passionate defence of his father, and coach, John Tomic who is facing criminal charges in Spain after

being accused of assaulting his son's training partner.

"My dad is in Paris, he's still my dad and he will remain my coach.

I love him a lot," said Tomic, who dropped the first two sets against Hanescu before quitting in the third to hand a 7-5 7-6 (10/8) 2-1 win to his Romanian opponent.

John Tomic was banned from attending the tournament after he was accused of attacking Thomas Drouet, in Madrid on May 4.

Drouet was left with a broken nose after a brawl outside the hotel where players in the Madrid Masters were staying.

Highly-rated Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, dubbed 'Baby Federer' because of his similar style to the 17-time Grand Slam winner, went through when Colombian opponent Alejandro Falla retired with the Bulgarian 26th seed 6-4, 1-0 to the good.

Hesh-Bops crash out PARIS: India witnessed a mixed outing in the men's doubles event of the French Open as Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna crashed out in the first round even as veteran Leander Paes and his Austrian partner Jurgen Melzer eased into the next stage, here.

Seeded fourth, Bhupathi and Bopanna had a forgettable outing at the Roland Garros last night as they were stunned 5-7 4-6 by unseeded Polish combination of Tomasz Bednarek and Jerzy Janowicz. However, veteran Leander Paes gave Indian fans something to cheer about when he and Melzer notched up an easy straight-set win in the opening round. The ninth seeded Indo-Austrian duo took little less than an hour to get the better of local pair, Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Renavand 6-3 6-3.

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IN BRIEF Graeme Smith may be out of action for more than four months

JOHANNESBURG: South African Test captain Graeme Smith might remain out of action for four to six months due to the ankle surgery which he underwent recently, leaving him uncertain for the home series against India later this year. "It's too early to tell with any certainty as he had a highly unusual operation and it is difficult to predict how long it will take for the stress fracture to heal," Shuaib Manjra, head of Cricket South Africa's medical committee, told the daily 'The New Age'. "The best case scenario is that he returns to playing in around four months, but that could stretch to six months or even longer," he added, raising concerns that Smith may miss not just the tour by India in November but also the Test and ODI series in Abu Dhabi against Pakistan preceding that.

Sandeep, Shivendra returns; Danish, Gurvinder out with injury

NEW DELHI: Senior dragflicker Sandeep Singh and forward Shivendra Singh today returned to the Indian men's hockey team for the FIH World League Round 3 (semi-finals) to be held at Rotterdam, The Netherlands from June 1323. Sandeep, who was left out of the Indian squad for the FIH Hockey World League Round 2 held here earlier this year, made a comeback to the national side along with Shivendra, who last played for India in last year's London Olympics.

Sandeep, incidentally, was part of the Indian squad that went to The Netherlands in April for an invitational tour. Sardar will continue to lead the 18-member squad while dragflicker V R Raghunath has been named his deputy.

NRAI alleges shooting body of violating court orders

NEW DELHI: The National Rifle Association of India said a "de-recognised" shooting body in Jharkhand is seeking to earn affiliation from the NRAI and run the sport despite a stay on it by the Ranchi High Court. Sanjesh Mohan Thakur, secretary of the Jharkhand Rifle Association, is trying to get affiliation from the NRAI for the past few years, and has led a protest with about a dozen members in front of the NRAI office. After his attempts to convince the NRAI to grant his body affiliation failed, Thakur had filed a case in 2008 at the Ranchi High Court against grant of affiliation. The case is still pending in the High Court.

Akshay takes 3 gold, Lalu bags one silver and 2 bronze

NEW DELHI: Akshay B Gaikwad clinched three gold medals while Lalu Taku bagged a silver and two bronze as Indian Weightlifters continued to shine at the 15th Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships in Doha. After two days, India now have secured eight gold, five silver and four bronze medals in the championship. Akshay clinched a gold each in snatch and clean and jerk (C&J) with efforts of 109kg and 135kg respectively, to secure overall first position in the 62kg category. Lalu (69 kg) bagged a silver in snatch and followed it up with a bronze in C&J and finished with overall effort of 242 kg to claim another bronze.

cleaned up very soon," Laxman told reporters on the sidelines of a promotional event.

He said he was going through a "feeling of anguish" in the wake of the spot-fixing and betting scandal that have hit Indian cricket but sounded optimistic the sport would be cleaned up soon. "It's very disappointing. Last two weeks, it's been quite distressing and a feeling of anguish was definitely there. The various investigation by police in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, I am sure they will come to a logical conclusion.

The cause of this problem is raised," Laxman said.

The Hyderabadi also said the cash-rich Indian Premier League will miss iconic players like Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.

"Sachin and Rahul have been real icons for the game not only IPL but also for the game of cricket. Definitely IPL will be missing them.

Both of them are very important members of their respective franchise. The game of cricket including IPL will be missing them. Both of them have done well for their franchises over the last six years. The game of cricket will miss them," he said.

Laxman, who mentored the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the recently-concluded IPL 6, said the manner in which the team won close matches augurs well for the future. "I think the experience has been fantastic working with the Sunrisers team and the team has done really well. I am pleased with the way they responded to some challenging matches. We won some close games especially at the start of the tournament, it is purely because of the attitude of the entire team.

"We showed a lot of fighting spirit and won some close games. I think it is very encouraging for the future of Sunrisers," he said.

Laxman was part of Gillette 'Soldier for UMBAI: Former great V V S Laxman Women' campaign. "Women have played an today said the "credibility" of crick- important role in my life, starting with my eters should not be "affected" just mother. The way she brought me up right because of the presence of some greedy play- from my childhood. The kind values she iners who are lured into malpractices such as culcated in me because of that I have been spot-fixing through use of big money and able to achieve I have done.

"After marriage it has been my wife. It is freebies.

"It is very important because just for some tough being the wife of a cricketer because greedy players, the credibility of the rest of the most of the time you are travelling. She had players should not be affected. I think it is a to make a lot of sacrifices which she did," he very important issue and I am sure it will be said.

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OLKATA: Former BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya remained evasive on the mounting demand for the resignation of Cricket Board chief N Srinivasan but also dismissed reports that he had advised him not to resign.

"Who am I to say this or that ? I have nothing to do. Why will one listen to me?," he said in reply to a volley of questions on whether he would ask Srinivsan to quit in the wake of the spot-fixing scandal that has rocked the IPL. "This is a golden opportunity to clean cricket. Dirt in cricket has gone down deep and no one is bothered," he said about the current scandals surrounding Indian cricket.

"Instead of asking Srinivasan to resign, clean cricket. If people are serious, they should use this opportunity and cricket can be cleaned," the CAB president said.

Asked about the appointment of a three-member commission to go into the current allegations, he said it is "very very good". Replying to a question about media reports that he had backed Srinivasan after his Saturday dinner, Dalmiya said it is "nonsense" that I have asked him not to resign. "I am not defending anybody". "It makes me really allergic. I have not taken sides on Srinivasan resigning or anyone's side. I have not spoken to anyone on the issue, not even Srinivasan. This matter was not discussed in the Saturday dinner party." He said he had not taken a stand and he would discuss all the issues with his colleagues in the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB).

I WILL BE HAPPY TO FACE ICC'S ACSU INQUIRY: RAUF LAHORE: Embroiled in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf today broke his silence for the first time ever since his name cropped up in the Mumbai police's investigation, saying he was ready to face the ICC's Anti Corruption and Security Unit to clear his name.

"Money, gifts, spot-fixing and match-fixing have never been my goal and target.

They have never been a topic in my life," Rauf said.

BCCI probe commission is an eyewash, says Modi’s lawyer

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UMBAI: Former IPL chairman Lalit Modi's lawyer Mehmood Abdi ridiculed BCCI's three-man inquiry commission to probe the betting charges against President N Srinivasan's son-in-law as mere an eye wash.

Abdi contended that the committee was devoid of requisite mandate and could not investigate into the conduct of somebody who was not a member of the BCCI. "Under the BCCI bye-laws, a disciplinary committee (read commission in this context) is appointed annually by the general body of the board consisting of all 30 members.

Twenty one days' notice is mandatory for any such deliberation. This is why a committee or commission appointed by Srinivasn is devoid of the essential mandate," Abdi said in a statement.

Abdi, the president of Shriganganagar District Cricket Association, a constituent of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) which is a full member of BCCI, said the manner in

Since Srinivasan has declared his son-in-law as just a cricket enthusiast and totally unconnected with the franchisee CSK. The commission can only probe into the conduct of Srinivasan, the owner of the franchisee CSK who happens to be the Board President. — Mehmood Abdi

which it has been constituted showed that the BCCI president was unsure of support from the majority of the general house. "The hurried manner in bypassing the general body in appointing the commission shows that

Srinivasan is unsure of the support of the majority of the members of the general house and wants to have a clean chit issued to him through the short cut. I hope that the honourable ex-judges of Madras High Court look into the mandate of their appointment and should not allow their esteemed names to be used in this self certification exercise by Srinivasan," he said.

Abdi was of the view that the commission cannot probe into the conduct of an outsider like Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan. "Any BCCI committee or commission can enquire into the conduct of its members only and not a rank outsider since Srinivasan has declared his son-in-law as just a cricket enthusiast and totally unconnected with the franchisee CSK. In such circumstances, the commission can only probe into the conduct of Srinivasan, the owner of the franchisee CSK who happens to be the Board President," he pointed out.

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EW DELHI: Pressure mounted from within the BCCI on N Srinivasan to resign as its President today with two Board heavyweights, Rajeev Shukla and Arun Jaitley, asking him to "disassociate" himself from the inquiry proceedings against his son-in-law and IPL franchise CSK. Interestingly, Shukla, who is also the IPL Chairman, did not utter the word resignation in reference to

We have made this suggestion and the decision on this matter is up to him. He has told us that he is not at fault and why should he be punished — Rajeev Shukla

Srinivasan when he met the press after a meeting with Jaitley, a BCCI Vice President. Shukla's demand came on a day the Union Sports Ministry also entered the fray to ask for Srinivasan's resignation on moral grounds. There has been relentless media pressure on the "silence" of the BCCI officials on the issue of Srinivasan's continuance.

The new momentum against Srinivasan, who owns CSK, grew a day after Board functionary Jyotira-

ditya Scindia asked him to resign pending the inquiry against his sonin-law Gurunath Meiyappan, who was the Team Principal of CSK, before being arrested on charges of bet-

ting.

"Till the pendency of inquiry, he should disassociate himself from the procedure as earlier also, it was discussed that he should disassociate.

BCCI Prez should tender resignation: Sports Ministry

NEW DELHI: N Srinivasan's cup of woes seems to be spilling over with the Sports Ministry today joining the growing chorus of demand for his resignation as BCCI President pending inquiry into the ongoing IPL spot-fixing scandal.

After senior Board officials such as IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla, vice-President Arun Jaitley and Jyotiraditya Scindia urged him to step aside, the Ministry has also sought his ouster. "BCCI is inquiring into allegations of match and spot fixing. As

there is a conflict of interest in this inquiry, therefore BCCI President should tender his resignation on moral grounds, pending the outcome of the inquiry," the Ministry said in a statement. Srinivasan's son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings CEO Gurunath Meiyappan has been arrested by the Mumbai Police for alleged involvement in betting. A three-member BCCI inquiry committee is also probing Meiyappan and the allegations against three Rajasthan Royals players and its franchise as well as

the Chennai Super Kings. Justice T Jayaram Chouta, former Judge of the Karnataka and Madras High Courts, Justice R Balasubramanian, former Judge of the Madras High Court, and BCCI Secretary Sanjay Jagdale are members of the Commission.

The Ministry said it is observing the unfolding events "with considerable disquiet" and reiterated its commitment towards a strong anti-corruption law for sports.

Disassociate, what it means is very clear. He will have to take a decision now. Me and Mr Jaitley had suggested him," Shukla said after meeting Jaitley. "Credibility of the Board is supreme for us.We will act in best interest of the Board and Indian cricket," he added.

A three-member BCCI inquiry committee is probing Meiyappan and the spot-fixing allegations against three Rajasthan Royals players and its franchise as well as the Chennai Super Kings.

Justice T Jayaram Chouta, former Judge of the Karnataka and Madras High Courts, Justice R Balasubramanian, former Judge of the Madras High Court, and BCCI Secretary Sanjay Jagdale are members of the Commission. "What we are suggesting is that the recommendation of this commission should be binding on BCCI for implementation. It will not be that the report will be sent to BCCI and they will ponder over it, it would be binding. That has been agreed on," said Shukla.

Ever since the scandal broke out, Srinivasan has shown defiance, refusing to quit and insisting that his resignation is only being sought by a "hounding media". Wednesday’s developments indicate a hardening of stand among some of the key members of the Board who are active politicians and could prompt others to make similar demands.

"He is an elected President. We are of the view, even Mr Jaitley feels so, that it would be good if he stays away from this procedure. We have made this suggestion and the decision on this matter is up to him. He has told us that he is not at fault and why should he be punished," Shukla said.

"A probe committee has been made and we wanted majority of them to be outsiders, that's why we have brought in two judges. We have suggested the report should not go to the BCCI, the findings should be recommended as it is. This is what we want," he added. The Sports Ministry has also sought Srinivasan's resignation for the sake of propriety.

I will not take up IPL position again: Rajeev Shukla N

EW DELHI: Frustrated with the spot-fixing scandal and a series of other controversies that have plagued the Indian Premier League, the event's chairman Rajeev Shukla said he was not keen to take up the position again.

Shukla said his tenure was for a one-year period which is renewed every year and he was not willing to take up the high-profile post for a third consecutive term. "IPL Chief is a one-year post which gets renewed every year in the AGM but I don't intend to do the job for a third year," Shukla told PTI in an interview here.

"I am not craving for any position in the BCCI, my job was to organise the matches and the matches were well organised. The stadiums were packed irrespective of the controversies," he said.

"I have never hankered for any position. When the IPL Chairman's

position was given to me, I took it up as a challenge and I did my job to the best of my ability," he added.

Shukla said there has been a lot of discussion among the Board members over N Srinivasan's continu-

ance as BCCI President in the aftermath of the spot-fixing scandal.

"Discussion among BCCI members have already taken place and our immediate concern is to protect the image of BCCI and Indian cricket," he said.

Shukla's decision not to take up the position again could put added pressure on a defiant Srinivasan, who has steadfastly refused to quit, maintaining that he has not done anything wrong. Shukla, who became the IPL chairman last year replacing Chirayu Amin, said the event was going on fine till the spotfixing scandal broke out and the most important thing now is to restore its credibility.

"Misdeeds of a few players and certain people cannot and should not bring bad name to hundreds of players who participated in the IPL with full honesty. The reputation of

the IPL cannot be tarnished by a few greedy individuals," he said.

Asked what steps should be taken to restore the credibility of the tournament, Shukla said, "The anti-corruption wing must work in coordination with the Police agencies. Keeping an eye on bookies is the job of police. The second suggestion which I has been accepted already is that one ACSU official should be attached with each team throughout the tournament because he will be able to make out which is a rotten egg in the entire basket."

"Third suggestion is whoever is caught should be punished severely by the law of the land. It will teach them a lesson. And lastly, there should be a provision in the contract of the players if anyone is found indulging in corruption, he should be criminally prosecuted."

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BANGALORE: Retired Justice T Jayaram Chouta, who is a part of the three-man inquiry commission probing the alleged betting charges against Gurunath Meiyappan, today ruled out any interference from the BCCI chief N Srinivasan and said nobody can influence his investigation.

"As far as I am concerned, nobody can influence me. Even if he (Srinivasan) comes, I don't think so. I will work independently and act according to the Constitution," former Karnataka and Madras High Court Judge Chouta told PTI here.

The BCCI had on Tuesday constituted a three-member inquiry commission including two retired High Court judges to go into allegations against Meiyappan, son-in-law of Srinivasan, who has been arrested on charges of betting on the recently-concluded Indian Premier League matches.

Justice Chouta, Justice R Balasubramanian, former Judge of the Madras High Court, and BCCI Secretary Sanjay Jagdale are members of the commission, which will also go into the allegations against three players of the Rajasthan Royals team and its franchise, as well as the Chennai Super Kings, of which Meiyappan was the Team Principal.

Chouta said he would be able to comment on his area of probe once he receives a written communication from the Board.

"I have not received written communication as yet. Hence I am not in a position to speak about it. I don't know the reference to a particular area.

Only after seeing the written communication, I will be knowing about my area of probe," he said.

QUESTION IS ABOUT THE CREDIBILITY OF BCCI: SHIRKE NEW DELHI: Preferring not to say it in as many words, BCCI treasurer Ajay Shirke today hinted that N Srinivasan's continuance as BCCI president could raise a question mark over the "credibility" of the Board.

"I am a very junior member of the Board. Srinivasan is higher in stature and age. I don't think I need to advise him. The question is about the credibility of the Board," a guarded Shirke said.

"We have to instill the confidence of people in the Board. Here the decision is a moral one and that is a very individual decision," he added.

Shortly after IPL Chairman Rajeev Shukla demanded that Srinivasan "disassociate" from the inquiry against his son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings Team in the wake of IPL spot-fixing scandal, Shirke said the two senior members of the Board have just expressed their own opinions.

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