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Vol III, Issue XX

16-31 January, 2019 Pages 08, Price Rs. 5/Faridabad (NCR)

India rape crisis:

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Why is it not coming to an end?

The unforgettable 16 December 2012 incident which shook the country to the core has somehow pulled up awareness and tightened the investigation.

But the continuous increase in such crimes has landed India in the list of the most unsafe countries for women. The reported crimes have been going up consistentlyalong with which the conviction rate has improved a little. As per the reports of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) there is slight decrease in the rates of the pendency of rape cases, i.e.from 35.9% in 2012 to 31.5% in 2013.

Priyanka Gandhi launches political career ahead of key India polls Priyanka Gandhi, the charismatic sister of Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, has formally joined politics months ahead of general elections in India.

Ms Gandhi has been appointed the party general secretary for the eastern

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part of the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.

She has campaigned extensively for her brother and mother Sonia Gandhi in earlier elections, but had refused a formal political role for herself.

Fueling the fire of Rafale deal Congress president Rahul Gandhi had on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of weakening the HAL to help his suit-booted friends.

The Rafale Deal Controversy is a political controversy in India related to the purchase of 36 multirole fighter aircraft with an agreement with the French Government for a price estimated to be worth Rs 58,000 crore

1000 trees cut down to make helipad for PM Modi's visit at Bolangir in Odisha did spark controversy When the entire world is struggling to restore the Nature’s paradise, at the same time India seems forgets restoring many plant species. As many as 1000-1200 three years old trees which were grown upto 6-8 feet long planted by Forest department under urban plantation scheme in Bolangir Dist of Odisha were illegally deforested without

JUST ANOTHER JUMLA?

Opposition rubbishes BJP’s 10 % quota for upper caste poor as a political maneuver to woo voters

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BY DHARMENDER SINGH

Names of victims: Many children Names of alleged perpetrators: Shailendra Rathore and others Date of incident: Continuing since 11 November 2018 Place of incident: Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat I am writing to voice my deep concern regarding the Child Welfare Committee handing over rescued children in Alirajpur to the families of the traffickers themselves.

A young student informed the members of Aawaj, a partner organization of the AHRC, about a child sale racket run by one Shailendra Rathore during one of their awareness campaigns. Aawaj found the information reliable after scrutiny and informed the police, with whom it was already working on the issue of child trafficking. The Alirajpur Police, led by Superintendent of Police Shri Vipul Srivastava and Additional Superintendent of Police Seema Alawa, extended all support to the team and started working on busting the racket.

They advised Mr. Prashant Kumar Dubey, a leading activist of Aawaj, to get a new sim card and convince the accused to sell a child to him as a decoy customer. Mr. Dubey pursued the conversation for almost four months, before being able to convince him for the sale.

The team used to record everything to ensure that they did not change any detail inadvertently to arouse suspicion.

Once convinced, the accused asked Mr. Dubey to choose the age of the child to be sold, ranging from 3 days to 3 years. They finally agreed upon a little older child, settling on the price of Rs 1,70,000 from the initial Rs 2,20,000. The accused also agreed to give the child’s birth certificate to Mr. Dubey, hinting at the involvement of local authorities in the racket, especially the health department and the civic administration. He then started sending Mr. Dubey pictures of the children on WhatsApp, showing the kind of impunity he enjoyed. Finally, the deal was done for 11 November 2018.

The police then deployed newly appointed Sub Inspector Chanchala Soni to act as Mr. Dubey’s wife. They then went to Alirajpur from Indore and ‘bought’ the child with cur-

rency notes whose numbers were noted down and some even signed by the police for evidence. Immediately after the sale, and on the signal of the duo, the police raided the houses and arrested the accused and his four accomplices, including a minor girl and filed the First Information Report.

In an investigation, it was revealed that the child sale racket was occurring interstate, with one doctor A Raju, the owner of Kesar Hospital in Chhota Udepur of neighboring Gujarat state being the kingpin of getting the children to sell, while Mr. Rathore arranged the customers. By now, the police has arrested a total 28 persons, including one doctor, four hospital staff and some of the male customers.

Yet, in a strange twist and travesty of justice afterwards, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of District Alirajpur, the nodal agency for the protection and welfare of children handed over many of the children to the very same families that have bought them. The logic that the CWC gave for its order on “Foster Care” under Section 44 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, (hereafter JJ Act) on 19 November 2018, was that the children had bonded well with the families.

In the case of 12-month-old Kunjan for instance, the girl was given into illegal adoption and a criminal case registered at Kotwali Police Station, District Alirajpur, bearing F.I.R. Number 389/ 2018, dated 17 November 2018, under Section 363/370/34/120B IPC and Section 81 JJ Act with Pushpendra Wani being one of the main accused. The CWC ignored this completely, and gave Kunjan back to Jaibal Wani, wife of Mr Pushpendra Wani.

By doing so, the CWC has not only erred in its thinking that the child’s best interest lies with the family accused in a criminal case of buying her, but the CWC has also flouted many provisions of the JJ Act. For example, Rule 23(9) makes it mandatory that the CWC shall obtain a Home Study Report of the foster family through the District Child Protection Unit in Form 30 before placing the child in foster care. The CWC did not call for any Home Study report in this case.

Further, the JJ Act requires that children below the age group of 6 should be prioritized for being placed into adoption. Yet, the CWC handed over the child victims under 6 for foster care to the family of accused itself. Moreover, the CWC did all this without seeking the view of the State Government or the District Child Protection Unit.

It is in this context that Aawaj has challenged the order in the court of the District Collector And Appellant Authority, as well as appealed against the same with the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). The NCPCR has already ordered an inquiry into the case.

AHRC-Asianm Human Right Commission urges appropriate authorities of India to take note of the situation urgently and appeals rescue the children from the families of those accused of trafficking them and/or of illegal adoption, and put them in proper Foster Care as mandated by the provisions of the JJ Act. AHRC, further suggests to ensure that resolute action to stop trafficking, especially in children and women are taken, and that those involved in this nefarious activity are to be strongly prosecuted and punished.

Where no woman has gone before…

SUBRAT PRADHAN Recently women between the ages of 10 and 50 have entered the disputed Sabarimala temple in Kerala.

It is absolutely first case of entry of women even in the period of menstruation for which it is also termed as historic. However, as per many unconfirmed reports, news of women entering into the temple had been coming before.

The Apex Court of India in a verdict decided in September 2018 that women of all ages can enter into the temple of Lord Ayaapa at Sabarimala. After this many women even tried to enter into the temple alone and some tried in group.

But these attempts to enter into the shrine failed due to heavy opposition and attacks of devotees of Swami Ayyappa several times in earlier days.

But on January 2, in the morning at four o'clock in the, two women named ‘Kanakdurga’ and ‘Daksh Ammini’ entered into the temple breaking the longest tradition of Lord Ayyappa and also offered a prayer to Swami Ayyappa. Both of them are absolutely around 40 years old.

Both women were successful in entering the temple of Swami Ayyappa in the protection of policemen and activists in plain clothes following the stricture of country’s highest court of law and order.

The protesters against the admission of women from the age group of 10 to 50 years

in the temple claimed that only after the Supreme Court's decision, women could able to enter Sabarimala temple and this January incident is the very first case so far.

There is an unprecedented evidence that even before the Supreme Court order, women under 50 had entered into the temple of Swami Ayyappa at Sabarimala.

The Travancore Devasam Board, that supervises the Sabarimala temple, also had information about these entrances and these women got permission directly from the board. At the same time, the receipt for the payment of the fees for worshiping these devotees was also released.

The Kerala High Court had given a decision after examining a case earlier in which such cases of entrance of women were mentioned.

As per those decission, it shows that women

who had menstruation could able to eneter into the Shrine as per the order and permission of ‘The Travancore Devasam Board’.

After this S. S. in the Kerala High Court A person named Mahadevan filed a petition and said that VIPs are being given an inappropriately priority in the temple and women from 10 to 50 years are being allowed to enter, which is against tradition.

This petition was later converted into a PIL

In its reply, the Board of ‘Travancore Devasam’ demanded that any rights of the common citizen have not been violated in this matter, so this petition should be canceled.

In the year 2016, after 26 years of this, the Devasam Board in the Supreme Court op-

posed the entry of women. The Board also had acknowledged that women having menstruation, i.e. 10 to 50 years of age, had already entered into the temple and in the event of such the board used to take a fee from the devotees.

According to court judgment, the board allowed women of all ages to enter the temple on the occasion of the beginning of the Malayalam months and on the occasion of food festival. But stunningly according to ‘Makarvalyakulaku Puja’, ‘Mandla Puja’ and ‘Malayalam Calendar’, during the festival , women of 10 to 50 years were not allowed to enter into the temple.

According to a court judgement, "Maharaja of Travancore, Empress and his diwan had entered the temple in the year 1115 for the visit of Swami Ayyappa, according to the Malayalam calendar, there was no restriction on the entry of women in the temple in the olden days but it’s the fact that a large number of women were not coming to the temple to worship Lord Ayyappa.

Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Deepak Mishra, had also remarked the High Court's decision in his verdict that ordered the entry of all women between 10 to 50 is justified.

Regardless of the devotees of Swami Ayyappa and in some media circles, it is claimed that after the Supreme Court order, these two women under 50 years of age who entered Sabarimala are the first , but it is true that the years Earlier this temple was given permission of entry of women of all ages.

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Large scale deforestation to make PM’s helipad in Bolangir of Odisha

BY ANJAN K SAMAL When the entire world is struggling to restore the Nature’s paradise, at the same time India seems forgets restoring many plant species. As many as 1000-1200 three years old trees which were grown upto 6-8 feet long planted

by Forest department under urban plantation scheme in Bolangir Dist of Odisha were illegally deforested without taking any prior permission from the concerned Forest Department for making temporary Helipad

for the Prime Minister’s Visit on 15th January 2019.

A dispute arose in the recent past due to the cutting of trees to prepare temporary helipad two days before the scheduled visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on to Balangir district. Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Balangir Sameer Satpathy said that in order to prepare temporary helipad without prior permission, many trees have been cut in the district near the railway station ground. In this regard, orders have been given to investigate.

At the same time, Union Petro-

leum Minister and senior BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan claimed that those who are scared of the visit of the Prime Minister are running false campaign misusing the forest officials.

Significantly, Dharmendra Pradhan hails from Odisha, but at present he is a Rajya Sabha member from Madhya Pradesh.

Permission required from railway before cutting trees It is claimed that 1,000 trees were cut in the western Odisha town of Balangir.These trees were planted on 2.25 hectares of land under the Urban Plantation Program in Indian Railways in 2016. To make helipad, 1.25 hectare of land where thousands of trees were planted, have been cut down. According to the rules, there is a need to take permission from the Railways before cutting these trees including forest department, but nothing like this has been done here.

A dispute arose on last Sunday due to the cutting of trees to prepare temporary helipad two days before the scheduled visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Balangir district. Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Balangir Sameer Satpathy said that in order to prepare temporary helipad without prior permission, many trees have been cut in

A MASS SLAUGHTER OF 1200 TREES FOR MAKING HELIPAD FOR AKKA’S VVIP CHOPPER

the district near the railway station ground. In this regard, orders have been given to investigate.

At the same time, Union Petroleum Minister and senior BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan claimed that those who are scared of the visit of the Prime Minister are running false campaign while misusing the forest officials.Significantly, Dharmendra Pradhan's relationship is from Odisha, but at present he is a Rajya Sabha member from Madhya Pradesh.

In this case, the railway says that it was necessary to cut trees immediately with the view of the security of the Prime Minister. That's why it was done.

Schools to offer admissions on the basis of new criteria:

Admissions only for kids of vegetarian & Non-smoking parents Nursery admission Expert Sumit Vohra says,” criteria of Interstate transfer admission, has been found a large number of fraud in 2014.”

ANJAN K SAMAL But still many schools are preparing to give admission on the basis of newly initiated criteria that includes points on vegetarian parents and Non-smokers parents.

Anyway, it is important to upload Admission Criteria by all the schools in the National Capital in regard to Nursery Admission. You can get information about this by phone at school or on the education department’s website.

Most schools are demand-

ing Self-Attested Documents. Both the mother and the father will have to do it.

It is enough to attribute the document itself to anyone.

Admission Criteria of Private Schools is now on the Education Directorate’s website and many schools are seen violating the High Court orders. Many schools are preparing to give admission on the basis on which the High Court has prohibited admission. This year’s admission criteria shall be done on the basis of vegetarian, non-smoker parents including transfer and

management quota. The High Court issued a list of 50 Brain Criteria in 2016. There are so many schools that have been defaming the court by violating the verdict of court in regard to admission since two years.

The Directorate of Education has given clearance for admission at the point of transfer case and the High Court has agreed on it two years ago. But still many schools are preparing to give admission on the basis of newly initiated criteria that includes points on vegetarian parents and Non-smokers parents.Public schools in the national capital like Plato

Public School, Cosmos Public School – Vasundhara Enclave, Beautiful Public Middle School – Yamuna Vihar, Arvind Public School – Jauharpur, Gandhi Memorial Public School – Brahmapuri, Motherhood Public School, Adarshan Saran Balvika Vidyalaya are giving 5 to 10 points to children on transfer / interstate transfer.

Some schools have kept the management quota in Criteria. Like Vijaydeep SchoolKarwal Nagar or Monarch Public School-Harsh Vihar.

Apart from 20% of the management quota, it has been included an newly introduced Criteria, which is legally incorrect. If parents are working at Sister Concern School, then the child can not be given points on this basis, but Sardar Patel Senior Public School is also giving 15 points for it which absolutely contradicts the court verdict.

Sumit Vohra says that the Directorate of Education prepared further action plan for those schools who did not upload the Criteria.

Significantly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited Balangir in Odisha on January 15. During the visit of Balangir, PM Modi addressed BJP's Swabhiman rally. At the same time PM Modi also showed the green flag on the opening of Khurda-Balangir railway line.

“Even if it was a small patch of plantation, authorities were required to take due permission before felling the trees. Once plantation programme is taken up in a land, trees cannot be cut down without prior permission. A case should be filed against the officer responsible for the act,” was urged by a Odisha based top environmentalists Biswajit Mohanty.

Balangir Divisional Forest Officer, Samir Kumar Satpathy, alleged “The allegation of tree felling is true. No prior permission was sought from us for it.”

The concerned Forest officer further urged, “When we asked the Railway officials, they said the land had been cleared for a helipad.

From the security point of view, trees were urgently cut down, we were told.”

Mr. Satpathy even further cliamed , “We are apprehending that trees between 1,000 and 1,200 have been lost.”

Zila Parishads to supervise Swachh Bharat Mission in Hry

All works of Swachh Bharat Mission in Haryana would now be undertaken in supervision of Zila Parishads.

This was informed in the 3rd meeting of Executive Committee of Haryana State Swachh Bharat Mission Society held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary, D.S. Dhesi.

Mr. Dhesi directed the Development and Panchayats Department and Haryana Pond and Waste Water Management Authority to work together for liquid waste management in rural areas.

It was decided in the meeting to approve funds under Swachh Bharat Mission for construction of toilets in Anganwadi Centre in rural and urban areas of Haryana.

It was informed that Haryana had bagged first position in Swachh Survekshan Grameen – 2018. Apart from this, the best six districts of the country in terms of sanitation included three districts of Haryana namely Gurugram, Karnal and Rewari.

The Chief Secretary was apprised that all rural areas in the state have been made Open Defecation Free (ODF)

by June 2017. Similarly, all urban areas in the state have been made ODF by October

2017. A target has been set to establish solid and liquid waste management plants in all villages of the state in 2019.

Under the urban solid waste management schemes, all urban local bodies of the state have been divided into 14 clusters. Emphases are being laid on setting up Waste to Energy Plants in the state.

Others present in the meeting included Additional Chief Secretary, Education Department, Mr. P.K. Das, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Department, T.V.S.N. Prasad, Principal Secretary, Development and Panchayats Department, Mr. Sudhir Rajpal, Principal Secretary, Urban Local Bodies Department, Mr. Anand Mohan Sharan, Principal Secretary, Women and Child Development Department, Mr. Raja Sekhar Vundru, Principal Secretary, Town and Country Planning Department, Mr. A.K. Singh and other senior officers.

events Recently Sushil Goyal and Allie Sharma hosted the Success Party for Global Mr & Miss India Asia 2018 Presented by Global India Entertainment Production at Club Kaama. Winners of the Pageant were Rishabh Sachdeva and Mandeep Shergill. Many well known socialites attended the party to name a few were Varun Katyal, Muskaan Narang, Varun Jamb, Anuj Lalwani, Manisha Singh, Navneet Arora.

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DELHI AUDITIONS FOR MR & MISS INTERNATIONAL INDIA UNIVERSE 2019

A GRAND OCCASION WORTH A MEMORABLE CELEBRATION

Rishabh Sachdeva, Mukesh Dubey and Mandeep Shergil

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Recently Sushil Goyal and Allie Sharma hosted the Delhi Auditions for Global Mr & Miss International India Universe 2019 Presented by Global India Entertainment Production at UP and Down Kitchen-Bar. The special Jury Guest was Rohit Khandelwal Mr India 2015 along with eminent members Varun Katyal, Anuj Lalwani, Navneet Arora, Rohit Chaudhary, Manisha Singh, Muskaan Narang, Ankit Nagpal, Mukesh Dubey, Vipin Aggarwal, Rishabh Sachdeva and Mandeep Shergill.

Allie Sharma and Sushil goyal Anuj lalwani and Vandana Vadhera Varun Jamb and Navneet Arora

Deepika Butola and Shariq Ali

Muskan Narang and Manisha Singh

Shilpa Taluja and Rahul Taluja

THE GRAND FINALE OF MRS CAPITAL OF INDIA

Divya Jain and Karan Singh

Recently held was the Grand Finale of Mrs. Capital of India 2018 - 19 presented by Fashion Meraki in Taj Vivanta Dwarka. The event was hosted by Divya Jain and Karan Singh. The finale had two category of winners fit and plus size for which the winners were Shikha Jamwal, Hridheema Singh, Namrita Malik and for the plus segment Vandita Sharma, Priyanka Arya and Aakriti Jaiswal Garg. Many socialites were spotted at the event to name a few were Anuj Lalwani, Irina Kvitko, Varun Katyal, Harsh Khullar, Haneet Basin and Srishti Das.

Sushil Goyal and Rohit Khandelwal

Muskaan Narang and Varun Katyal

Manisha Singh and Rohit Chaudhary

Ankit Nagpal

Ankit Chauhan and Vipin Aggarwal

Navneet Arora and Akshay Sharma

A FASHION EXTRAVAGANZA

Babita Chaudhary & shikha sharma

Recently held were the La Mode Awards and Makeup Competition organised by Navneet Grover & Babita Chaudhary at Pearl Grand Galaxy in association with 360 advertising production. Celebrity guest for the event were Nivedita Basu & Aanara Gupta. Some of the associates of the event were Kiana, Pehla Kadam, Trendy bella and Tejinder Creations. Many well know guests attended the event to name a few were Pooja Garg, Abhijeet Singh, Dharmender Kumar, Pradeep Pali, Shikha A Sharma, Isha Wadhwa.

Srishti Das

Hridheema Singh, Shikha Jamwal, Namrita Malik Irina Kvitko

Priyanka Arya, Vandita Sharma, Aakriti Jaiswal

Shie Lobo and Uttam Bhagat

Navneet Grover & Gomit Chopra

Gopika Midha

Mahima Gaur

Alok Diwedi

Karan sethi & Silky Shillu

Subodh Dalal

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Amrit Dhaliwal, Aman Sharma, Annu Marbaniang

Bindiya Sharma, Satyam Kaul

After having groomed the Monarchs of Great Britain for over 200 years through nine consecutive reigns’ entrepreneurs Istayak Ansari & Krishna Gupta of Lloyd’s Luxuries Ltd. opened the doors of their brand new men’s only luxury barber shop ‘Truefitt & Hill’ in the plush locale of Punjabi Bagh bringing world renowned grooming services to the capital recently.

Co-Hosted by Celebrity Stylist Harsh Khullar present at the launch cocktails were Royalty of Rampur Nawab

Be pampered like a King!!!

Kazim Ali Khan, Socialites Pooja Gogia, Nidhi Sansi, Vanshika Chakravarty, Ruby Bhatia, Veronica Sethi; Artist Meher Juneja; Models Nitin Mehta, Anthonio Leilson Maia, Karim Semcha, Mandeep Singh & Designer Amit Talwar amongst many others.

Truefitt & Hill promises to give Delhiites not just a service but truly a royal experience revolutionizing the men’s grooming industry immensely!!!

Farhan Khan

Fall, Fashion & Fitness Fitness Entrepreneur & Mr. India Farhan Khan launched his Exclusive Fitness and Fashion Clothing Line ‘Aesthetic Bodies’ with India’s First Fitness Fashion Showcase at Club BW, Hotel Suryaa in the capital recently. Internationally renowned Physique Athlete Shweta Rathore truly epitomized the real essence of a Showstopper with many other prominent names from the fitness & fashion industry posing as muses to showcase the label’s new Fall/Winter Collection.

Adding glitz to this extravaganza were Royalty of

Rampur Nawab Kazim Ali Khan; Designer Shalini Chauhan; Socialite Kusum Pathania Nanda; Pop Star Mehfooz Khan; MTV Roadies Famed Nishkarsh Arora; Fitness Industry Veterans Bindiya Sharma, Satyam Kaul, Ranjeet Singh, Chitharesh Natesan; Entrepreneurs Nikhiel Kumar & Maneesh Baheti amongst many others.

Label’s mantra ‘Wear Your Workout’ was justly visible in the collection with each piece of the newly launched line being a true celebration of working out in style with function versatility & fashion!!!

Farzad Palia, Istayak Ansari

Kusum Pathania Nanda, Praveen Thakur

Nawab Kazim Ali Khan, Shalini Chauhan

Anthonio Leilson Maia, Karim Semcha, Mandeep Singh

Nawab Kazim Ali Khan, Amit Talwar

Nidhi Sansi

Rohan Bhela, Veronica Sethi

Harsh Khullar, Krishna Gupta

Sapna Choudhary launched Thackery Delhi promotions by the trailer of her Debut film Nawazuddin & Amrita Rao!

Sensational dancer & Television personality Sapna Choudhary now up to showcase her acting skills with new coming film 'Dosti Ke Side Effects'. As recently Sapna along with the cast of the movie witnessed at Film Division Auditorium, Delhi for the launch of the trailer.

Present in the event was director of the film Hadi Ali Abar, lead actor Zuber Khan, Vikrant Anand and actress Anju Jadhav. As Sapna will be seen portraying the lead character, therefore she interacted with Delhi media and shared her views and experience.

Talking about the same, Sapna stated, "My experience was wonderful, I am more

excited after watching the trailer. I had so much of fun while working for this film.

The entire team was so cooperation. Atmosphere on the set was positive. It's my first time I am working as an actor, I worked really hard infact we all, I made sure not to disappoint my producer and director as well as co-stars. I am really thankful to Hadi Sir for trusting and supporting me."

Featured under the banner of Share Happiness Films. The film also star Sai Ballal and Vaishnavi Mahant. Shot in various locations in Mumbai including Film City, 'Dosti Ke Side Effects' slated to release on February 8.

The upcoming bilingual biographical film "Thackeray" is all set for the release this 25th January, therefore, the cast Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Amrita Rao came together in Delhi to promote their film. Along with them the story writer Sanjay Raut and his daughter producer Purvashi Sanjay Raut were present in the press conference held at Odeon Carnival Cinemas, Connaught Place.

Directed by Abhijit Panse, made simultaneously in Marathi and Hindi. The intense film follows the life of Bal Thackeray, the founder of the Indian political party Shiv Sena, the film stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui as the Thackery and Amrita Rao as his wife. While interacting with media Nawaz stated about his preparation and experience for working in this film, he said, “I feel really happy when I get such type of roles, thank God the bit of my 25 years of hard work will get execution. I really prefer doing challenging roles, I always try to work

out of my comfort zone, and therefore, this role means a lot to me.” Further he added, “When you do such roles, you have to give faith and trust the ideology of that character, then only it will we portrayed in a true manner. So it was really challenging for me to put myself as Balasaheb on the big screen.”

On the other hand leading actor Amrita Rao stated, “This was really a different zone of role for me, being a girl potraying the role of a woman and a mother was

really a great experience for me. I learned a lot, I can say wow, I had so much of fun working for this film. In my research I got to know some special aspects of Balasahe, he was a family man also, I discussed this with our director and we tried to incorporate the fact y the character of Meena Tai.” Featured under the banner of Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Raut'ers Entertainment & Carnival Motion Pictures, the film is releasing on the 93rd birthday of Bal Thackeray.

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JUST ANOTHER JUMLA? Opposition rubbishes BJP’s 10 % quota for upper caste poor as a political maneuver to woo voters KARAMVIR KAMAL

When the BJP Govt. in the canter claimed the Cabinet’s approval as it’s historic to give gift to all the poor in Upper Caste people, in the same time Opposition Congress blamed this 10 % Quota as an another ‘Jumla’ and alleged Politically motivated Policy of the Govt. only to woo voters.

Just after coming of this News , it did spread as if a jungle fire across the country and many of such poor in upper caste in India desperately desire to know the truth of this cabinet approval.

Yeas, the Cabinet of Present NDA government led by Narender Modi has already passed this Quota Bill in which following criteria need to be fulfilled to avail this Quota Opportunity .

This Quota is especially for those poor in upper caste and the parameters to measure you as mentioned below:Are you eligible? #For those who earn less than Rs 8 lakh annually. #For those who have agriculture land below five acres. #For those who avail the quota, a residential house should be below 1,000 square feet. #The residential plot should be below 100 yards in a notified municipality area.

But common men in this country need to know that there are many hurdles in front of this 10 percent Quota Bill for passing this as a Bill in the Parliament by refurbishing Article 5 and Article 6 of our Constitution through an urgent constitutional amendment.

A Union minister said, "The bill will provide a shelter for upper castes under the rubric of fundamental rights. The court's rule of the maximum 50 per cent quota cannot fetter Parliament's right to amend the Constitution," Amending Constitution before the General Election which is likely to be held on the Month of May in 2019 looks not an easy task. After Amendment again the Bill need to be passed from two designated house of Parliament with absolute majority looks impossible within these period of 3 months before election.

It’s the reason for which Congress and other opposition parties of India are terming this historic decision of Modi’s Cabinet is nothing but an another “Jumla’.

India rape crisis: Why is it not coming to an end?

Juhi Chopra The reputation of the family is at stake when a woman’s dignity is tarnished. Society often pretends to have a soft corner for the victim but somewhere in that room of sympathy, lies criticism and tendency to corner ‘Her’ to the state of despondency.

Candle marches and shouting slogans have become a ritual to show condolences and support. However, as time passes, it all fades away.

Hundreds and thousands of women and now even children are not spared from these atrocities. If the number of cases was only a few, it might not have been of much concern, but the actuality is a lot different and is known to everyone.

Coming to the real statistics, numbers are far more than reported. The unforgettable 16 December 2012 incident which shook the country to the core has somehow pulled up awareness and tightened the investigation. But the continuous increase in such crimes has landed India in the list of the most unsafe countries for women. The reported crimes have been going up consistentlyalong with which the conviction rate has improved a little. As per the reports of National Crime

Records Bureau (NCRB) there is slight decrease in the rates of the pendency of rape cases, i.e.from 35.9% in 2012 to 31.5% in 2013.

However, this does not mask the slow judicial process which often blocks the way to justice. As per the data in 2016, total 3.38 lakh crime cases had been reported of which rape cases made up only 11.5%. 1 out of 4 rape cases end up in conviction, which is a slow road to justice in our country.

What else can be expected?

Nearly 30% of all legislatures have a criminal background.According to a studyreleased by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) the most numbers of MPs/MLAs with the cases of crime against women are from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) followed by Shiv Sena

and the All India Trinamool Congress. In a country where lawmakers are lawbreakers, getting justice can never be a piece of cake.

When the comparison is at the global level, India’s average report constitutes to 6.3 only. But the reality is far different from the records. 99% of the cases went unreported due to the lack of awareness and education. If true then it would land India among the nations with the highest levels of crimes against women.

However, in recent years, a massive jump in reporting of sexual violence has been witnessed which is mainly due to outrage created out of the unfortunate Nirbhaya case. With the increased awareness the crime against women increased concurrently.

After another horrific Kathua case in which 8 years

old girl was brutally tortured and gang-raped by a group of men in Jammu had drawn the widespread condemnation.

Following this brutal murder of a minor compelled Cabinet to amend ‘The Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act’ which enforces the death sentence for the accused in charge of rape of a child below 12 years.

To speed up the trial process government came up with an idea of having fast track court. Over 14 states are still not having any despite releasing funds for building FTCs. New laws have been enforced in the constitution for guarding rights of women, children, big promises during elections and painful speeches have become common tools to gain support and garner votes.

It’s a perplexed situation where we can say we have better reporting of the rape cases but parallel to it our criminal system remains vulnerable to political pressures and let accused walk free. In our society, we still feel that this is not of a major concern.

We are living in an era where the mainstream parties are successful in setting the mind-sets of society to believe that issues like love jihad, temples or religions stand with greater importance than this.

Fueling the fire of Rafale deal ANJAN K SAMAL Congress president Rahul Gandhi had on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of weakening the HAL to help his suitbooted friends.

The Rafale Deal Controversy is a political controversy in India related to the purchase of 36 multirole fighter aircraft with an agreement with the French Government for a price estimated to be worth Rs 58,000 crore by the Defence Ministry of India from France's Dassault Aviation. on Sunday Rahul Gandhi over turned Rafael deal accusing the defense minister Nirmala Sitharaman of lying about the order to procure one lakh crore rupees. The Congress accused Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman of calling upon Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to

order Rs one lakh crore is an absolute lie claiming that 'HAL' did not get 'a single penny'.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi tweeted in which he urged that “When you speak a lie, many lies have to be put forward to hide it.

The Defense Minister had to lie in Parliament in the wake of the PM Modi's lie about the Rafael Deal.

The Defense Minister should present the papers in front of Parliament, in which it is mentioned that the government has given orders for HAL Rs one lakh crore or resigns”.

At the same time, Congress President Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he has weakened HAL to help his suitbooted friends.

All most all the opposition parties have accused the government of denying HAL an offset contract with France under the Rafael

Fighter Aircraft deal. The government has rejected these allegations.

On the other hand, BJP-led NDA government has accused the Congress of not supporting HAL during its reign and the government is now strengthening the Defense System of India.

Defense Minister Nirmala

Sitharaman said just before a day on the floor of Parliamnet that Bofors was a scam, while Raphael Aircraft protection is the need of the Nation.

She also urged that this issue will bring Narendra Modi to the creation of a new India, to end corruption.

Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman responded aggressively on the Rafael aircraft deal for two days in the Lok Sabha. In her nearly two-hour speech, she made it clear that the deal was worth the price of the aircraft, on the other hand, in view of the country's defense requirement, the government did not make any slowdown in the deal. In her aggressive style, she made it clear that the Congress would answer rather than ask questions. She also urged that do not compare apples with oranges.

A media report claims that the defense sector government company

HAL is struggling with financial crisis and is forced to borrow money to pay its employees salaries. After this, Gandhi had targeted the government on Saturday.

Congress chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala tweeted, "The Defence Minister was exposed.

Defence Minister had claimed that HAL has been ordered to procure one lakh crore rupees but in fact HAL says that it did not get a single penny as no single order was signed. Even for the first time, HAL is forced to take a loan of Rs 1,000 crore to pay the salaries”.

Surjewala said this in reference to the media report that , "HAL was not able to get a single penny from one lakh crores off set contract because no order was signed."

This was put before media by the Congress party quoting senior manager of HAL

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Business Reform Action Point to improve Ease of Doing Business

Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar Lal directed the departments to ensure hundred per cent compliance on Business Reform Action Point (BRAP) - 2018

by January 31, 2019 so as to further improve the Ease of Doing Business (EODB) ranking in the Country, which is expected to be out by March 2019.

Mr. Manohar Lal was presiding over the meeting to review the progress regarding implementation of Business Reform Action Plan-2018.

As a result of industrial reforms, Haryana has made a considerable progress in terms of EODB ranking by climbing up from 14th spot to third position in the country in 2018, said the Chief Minister directing the departments to gear up to achieve top slot in EODB ranking this year. He said that the departments who have not still achieved the hundred per cent compliance on Business Reform Action Point (BRAP) – 2018 should ensure the same

by January 31. “I will again review the progress of departments in this regard

on February 6 and by then the pending reform points should be covered by the Departments”, he added. This year there would be 80 reform questions with weightage of 143 points.

He said that as this year, besides the compliance of reform questions, hundred per cent feedback of consumer getting various services of departments would also form the base of ranking; the administrative secretaries should personally review the feedback and send the scrutinize list by end of January.

It was informed that at the time of giving service through the portal of Haryana Enterprises Promotion Centre (HEPC), the consumers are asked to give feedback whether they are satisfied with the service delivery or not. All the Administrative Secretaries have been given user Ids and password through which they could personally review the feedback at their own level.

In case, any consumer is found dissatisfied, the officers should reach him

with improvement in the delivery system so as to further enhance the goodwill of the government at the ground level.

Among those present in the meeting included Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr Rajesh Khullar, Additional Principal Secretary Mr V.Umashankar, Deputy Principal Secretary Mrs Ashima Brar, Additional Chief Secretary Revenue Mrs Keshni Anand Arora, Additional Chief Secretary Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Mr Ram Niwas, Additional Chief Secretary Excise and Taxation Mr Sanjeev Kaushal, Additional Chief Secretary Environment and Climate Change Mrs Dheera Khandelwal, Additional Chief Secretary Home Mr S.S Parsad, Additional Chief Secretary Industries Mr Devender Singh, Principal Secretary Labour and Employment Dr Mahavir Singh, Principal Secretary Urban Local Bodies Mr Anand Mohan Sharan and other senior officers of the State Government.

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Beti Bachao Beti Padhao earns Haryana four prestigious laurels Haryana has bagged four awards for its good performance under the National Programme Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP). The state would be awarded in a function to be organised by the Central Government on the occasion of National Girl Child Day (NGCD) at New Delhi on January 24, 2019.

The state has bagged one state level and three district level awards under this prestigious programme.

While stating this here today, an official spokesman said that Haryana has been selected in the state level category ‘Over all support, guidance, monitoring and achieving the targets of BBBP’. He said that three districts of Haryana included Jhajjar, Kurukshetra and Karnal.

District Jhajjar has been selected in the category ‘Enabling Girl Child Education’

and district Kurukshetra in category ‘Enforcement of Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act’.

Similarly, district Karnal has been selected in the category ‘Effective Community Engagement’.

He said that BBBP is completing four years of its implementation. In order to mark the fourth anniversary of BBBP, the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development has decided to recognize and felicitate five States/UTs and 25 districts for their exemplary performance under BBBP. The theme of the National Girl Child Day is Empowering Girls for a Brighter Tomorrow. The day is being celebrated with an objective to generate awareness on the issue of declining Child Sex Ratio (CSR) and create a positive environment around valuing the girl child.

Surprise visit by CM to review Village panchayats authorized to do development works in GGN development works on their own Haryana Development and Panchayats Minister, O.P. Dhankar said that from January 26 onwards, the village panchayats (excluding district Jind) would be able to carry out development works at their own level.

The panchayats have been authorised to carry out any one important development work as per the need of the

Haryana Chief Minister visited Gurugram on a surprise inspection of various development works including Dwarka Expressway in Gurugram.

The Chief Minister along with administrative officers inspected the construction work of Dwarka Expressway, another alternative for connectivity between Delhi and Gurugram. He also reviewed the progress various development works in Gurugram.

During the inspection, the Chief Minister was informed and shown the complete design of Dwarka Expressway project by the Project incharge of L & T Infrastructure Engineering, Sarfaraz.

He was informed that the expressway would be elevated and Clover Leaf would be made on National Highway48, with which it get connected to the road going

towards Sohna near Kherki Daula toll plaza. It would reduce the traffic pressure on NH-48.

The total length of the Expressway is 26 Km, out of which 17 Km falls in Gurugram district. The part of expressway falling in the district would be signal free and elevated. The present sixlane road of the expressway would be made 10 lane on ground level, by adding two service roads on both the sides. On this, 8-lane elevated highway would be constructed. The expressway would also be connected with Indira Gandhi International Airport.

The Chief Minister said that the wall blocking the way connecting Dwarka expressway and NH-48, would be removed. He said that Kherki Daula Toll Plaza would also be shifted soon to a place identified for this.

Six dist. from Hry. among the top 42 winners of World Toilet Day Contest

Six districts of Haryana are among the top 42 districts which have been declared winners of World Toilet Day Contest that held from November 9 to 19, 2018 across the country by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS), Government of India.

While giving this information, an official spokesman said that the six districts are Bhiwani, Faridabad, Karnal, Mewat, Panchkula and Panipat. As many as 412 districts from 25 states and union territories had participated in the contest.

The contest was held to re-intensify the Swachh Bharat jan andolan at the grassroots, this competition was led by District Collectors or Magistrates and CEO (Zila Parishads).

village concerned. With this, Haryana would be the first state where such power has been delegated to Gram Sabhas.

Mr. Dhankar said that this is a historic decision. The Gram Sabhas would organise special meeting on January 26, on Republic Day and approve a work which would be in true spirit of

democracy to further strengthen it.

He said that except district Jind, where Model Code of Conduct is in force in view of bye-elections to the Jind Assembly Constituency, the Gram Sabhas of remaining districts would pass such proposals and the concerned District Development and Panchayat Officer would en-

sure forwarding them to the headquarters. He said that the Gram Sabha of a village with population up to three thousand would be able to approve project amounting up to Rs 15 lakh whereas gram sabha of village with population more than three thousand would be able to approve project amounting up to Rs 20 lakh.

Hry Police to learn courtesy lessons for dealing with citizens

In a novel move to secure and maintain public respect, Haryana Police has decided to launch a month long 'Operation Shriman' to ensure treating the public with courtesy and respect across the state. Under this, police personnel will observe due courtesy during their all-out dealings with citizens.

These instructions were

given by Haryana Director General of Police (DGP), Mr B.S. Sandhu while addressing Range ADGPs/ IGs, CPs and district SPs through a video conference held at Police Headquarters late last evening.

It may be recalled that Chief Minister Mr Manohar Lal recently in a function had exhorted the police of-

ficers to further improve their behavior while dealing with public particularly the poor.

Describing police as the most visible face of any government, the DGP said that police personnel would be required to perform their duties in a diligent and respectful manner. Although, the majority of police personnel are decent and polite to the public, yet they would have to remain polite and respectful and avoid behaving in a rude manner with public while being at naka duty, patrolling duty, checking duty, PCR duty, in police stations, police posts and other units. The ‘Operation Shriman’ will continue till January 31, 2019.

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Priyanka Gandhi launches

political career ahead of key India polls BBC News Priyanka Gandhi, the charismatic sister of Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, has formally joined politics months ahead of general elections in India.

Ms Gandhi has been appointed the party general secretary for the eastern part of the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.

She has campaigned extensively for her brother and mother Sonia Gandhi in earlier elections, but had refused a formal political role for herself.

Analysts say she will infuse fresh energy into the Congress campaign.

The main opposition Congress party was routed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the last general election in 2014 and has found it hard to recover.

Ms Gandhi has always been considered more popular of the Gandhi siblings with many blaming the "lacklustre leadership" of her brother for a string of Congress defeats between 2014 and 2018.

The party has gained some ground in recent state elections and Mr Gandhi's stock has risen, but Congress still faces a tough challenge to beat the BJP and regain power.

Social media had been awash with rumours of Priyanka Gandhi's impending political launch in recent days and on Wednesday, the Congress officially confirmed the news with this

tweet: Through the day, all but one of the top trends on Twitter in India were about Ms Gandhi's plunge into formal politics with thousands of people tweeting about her.

Mr Gandhi told reporters on Wednesday that he was "very happy" that his sister would be assisting him in the general elections and that she was "very capable".

Many in the party had clamoured for a larger role for her for years, but the 47year-old mother-of-two has been reluctant until now to take centre stage.

In previous elections, she had restricted her campaigning to Amethi and Rae Bareli - the parliamentary constituencies of her brother and mother - and is held in high esteem by the voters there.

The Gandhi family has enjoyed cult status in these underdeveloped areas where her father Rajiv and grandmother Indira Gandhi - both

former prime ministers - also won several elections.

Her appointment has been greeted enthusiastically by Congress party leaders, workers and supporters, who have often compared her to her charismatic grandmother.

A BJP spokesman, Sambit Patra, said Ms Gandhi's appointment was an admission by the Congress that Rahul Gandhi had failed as the party leader.

But analysts say the move has the potential of improving the party's showing in Uttar Pradesh, which sends the largest number of MPs to parliament.

Ms Gandhi is married to businessman Robert Vadra who has been accused of wrongdoing in his real estate business in the states of Haryana and Rajasthan and is under investigation.

Mr Vadra and the Gandhis have denied the allegations and accuse the BJP of a "political witch hunt".

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