The Golden Sparrow on Saturday 19/07/2014

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SPORTS

START-UP CITY

“Provide resources to popularise kabaddi” P 16

A spot for women’s talent to shine P9

NITIN VIRKAR

Signpost Action begins on black money abroad The Indian government has started proceedings against citizens who have stashed away ill-gotten money abroad, with a Special Investigating Team (SIT) looking at how to get it back, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in the Parliament on Friday. “We are in the process of communicating to the Swiss authorities. Whatever is possible within the parameters of law, we will do,” the finance minister said in the Lok Sabha during question hour. “Tax proceedings have begun,” he said, replying to a question posed by Anurag Thakur, a fellow lawmaker of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He said the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had nothing to hide on this.

BJP sends legal notice to Kejriwal A Delhi BJP legislator on Thursday asked Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal to pay Rs 1 crore in damages for tarnishing the party’s image by making “baseless” allegations of horse-trading against it. In a legal notice to the former Delhi chief minister, RP Singh said if the Bharatiya Janata Party is defamed on the basis of false allegations, then it will also be his defamation. “I had no other option but to send Kejriwal a legal notice for defamation since he has levelled baseless charges against the BJP of indulging in horsetrading to form the government in Delhi,” Singh told reporters here. Singh demanded Rs1 crore from Kejriwal for causing “mental agony, harassment and defamation”. He also asked the AAP chief to tender a public apology for his false and defamatory allegations within seven days. Kejriwal has accused the BJP of offering Rs20 crore to Congress legislators to form the government in the national capital.

Mamata critic prof alleges police excess An eminent economist, known for his trenchant criticism of West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee regime, has alleged police harassment after officials came calling at his house claiming his car was involved in a crime. Debasish Sarkar, a professor at the government-run Jhargram Raj College in West Midnapore district, Thursday met city police Joint Commissioner Rajiv Mishra and complained that he was needlessly harassed by the police. A known face on TV debates, Sarkar said that the police on Wednesday night posed him a volley of questions claiming that four-five people travelling in his car were allegedly involved in a crime at Khidirpur earlier in the day. “I don’t have a driver and my car was nowhere near Khidirpur yesterday (Wednesday). I had gone to the airport to drop my wife and daughter and at the time of the alleged offence, in all probability, my car was either at my home or near it,” Sarkar said. He said Mishra told him that a truck driver whose money and mobile phone were snatched by some miscreants, had given police Sarkar’s car number saying the vehicle had sped away from the area soon after. Earlier in 2012, the state education department had served Sarkar a notice seeking explanation about his criticism of the state government on local TV channels.

Flight MH17: One of many flights shot down in Russian airspace TGS NEWS SERVICE @TGSWeekly

Your city is a

Design Hub

This city of young people has emerged as one of the major design hubs in the country. Who are the people who made this possible?

Special Report on P13

The annual India Design Mark awardees’ exhibition was held in the city in February

Sexual Harassment Act

India gets first free online course TGS NEWS SERVICE @TGSWeekly The Centre for Social Research (CSR), New Delhi, has developed India’s first online course on the Sexual Harassment at the Workplace Act 2013 in partnership with Rainmaker. The course is a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), which is a free course featuring lectures by Dr Ranjana Kumari, Director of CSR, accompanied by written course material explaining the requirements of the sexual harassment law. “The course is about Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act, on completing the course the user will be thoroughly informed about the new law and also know how to proceed in case of such an occurrence,” said Amitabh Kumar,

Head of Media and Communications, Centre For Social Research. He explains that sexual harassment is the single most under-reported crime in most societies. Mostly all sexual assaults are against women. Sexual harassment is encountered by women in all spaces of the everyday life, be it the household, the streets, the offices etc. In every space the dynamics vary and thus the way to tackle the issue of sexual harassment would also vary. One such space that needs significant intervention is that of the ‘workplace’. Sexual harassment at workplace typically ranges from mildly distasteful sexist comments and jokes, pornographic pin-up posters, provocative electronic mail and X-rated computer software all the way to outright assault and rape in extreme cases. Sexual fa-

While the exact cause of the crash of Malaysia Airlines fl ight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur wasn’t clear initially, it is now almost certain that the commercial airline was shot down by a surface to air missile while it was in Ukrainian airspace. All the 298 people on board died in the crash. It isn’t clear yet which group fired the missile at the commercial jet, but this isn’t the first time that a commercial aircraft has been shot down over Russian or former Soviet nations’ airspace. Mashable, The Guardian and NPR have put together lists of commercial aircraft that have been shot down over Russian airspace, most of which took place in the Soviet-era. And guess what, the borders of former Soviet nations and Russia have had the most strikes with 9 of the 22 incidents that have ever taken place since 1940 being recorded in the region. However, when it comes to aircraft being shot down by surface to air missiles the list is much shorter. Unfortunately the last such incident is reported to have taken place in 2001, ironically enough in Ukraine. Here’s a brief history of all the commercial aircraft that have been shot down in the region: June 14, 1940: A aircraft of Finnish airline Aereo O/Y from Estonia to Finland is shot down by USSR bombers despite a truce between the two nations. The plane crashed in the sea and resulted in 9 deaths.

July 27, 1955: Bulgarian jets shoot down an El Al fight from Vienna to Tel Aviv after it accidentally strayed into the nation’s airspace and refused to land. 58 people on board the aircraft were killed. April 20, 1978: Soviet jets intercept and reportedly fire at Korean Air

Our prayers with victims: Modi Prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that his thoughts and prayers were with the families of those who lost their lives in the Malaysian Airlines flight that crashed in Ukraine on Thursday. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives on board Flight MH17. We stand with them in this hour of grief,” Modi said in a tweet.

fl ight 902 near Murmansk after it went off course and entered Soviet airspace. The airline pilot, however, managed to make an emergency landing on a frozen lake and casualties were limited to just two deaths. September 1, 1983: Korean Air Lines fl ight from New York to Seoul is shot down by a Soviet jet near the Russian island of Sakhalin after it reportedly drifted into USSR airspace. All 269 on board, including US Congressman Larry McDonald. The Russians reportedly believed the aircraft was a US military surveillance plane.

Who are these people? Investigating agencies have released this picture from a CCTV grab of the two suspects who allegedly planted the bomb at the parking area of Faraskhana/ Vishrambaug police stations on July 10. After obtaining the CCTV recording of the duo, it is now suspected that the allegedly bomb assemblers, carrier and planters had made the planning and assembling in Satara. However, there are still no clues where the suspects made all the preparations, including the plot to steal the motorcycle. The two suspects had allegedly stolen the motorcycle of a policeman from Satara district court premises sometime between July 25 and July 27. The cop had lodged a complaint of theft against unknown persons with the Satara police station. The suspects have been seen in the image riding the stolen motorcycle from Satara towards Pune early on the morning of July 10,Thursday. Later, the motorcycle was parked at the police station and blast took place at 2.05 pm on July 10. Six persons were injured in the incident. gitesh.shelke@goldensparrow.com Related report p3

vours rather than merit and hard work often effect women in male-dominated workplaces of any kind. “Information is the most sustainable form of empowerment. Working women need to be aware about their rights at the workplace, this enables them to protect themselves from exploitation. As sexual harassment at workplace act, is a pan India act, applicable across the country it’s essential that all employees women and men are aware of it,” he adds. This course will help the working women understand the steps to take in case of such a violation and can also act as support for other colleagues, who might be facing such exploitation. This course will provide a fundamental understanding of this Act in a simple, concise and comprehensive manner.

World Cup celebrations were subdued for Puneri Germans BY PRACHI BARI @prachibari

Germans in the city enjoying their historic moment with Indian friends

There are as many as 1,000 Germans living in Pune and what they missed most on July 14th was being at home to celebrate the stunning German victory at the FIFA World Cup. They wanted to be back in Germany partying out on the streets, drinking beers as a toast and basically basking in the win. But since they were in Pune they could not shout and scream and take out winning rallies as it was in the middle of the night. Anna Marie Mamar who works in Pune said, “I wish I was back in my country when the team won the FIFA World Cup. It is difficult to tell you

how much Football means to us. Right now, they are celebrating in Germany. I miss the atmosphere, everyone is talking about it throughout, and here it was only till the game lasted. But we won and I still can’t believe it.” Frank Hoff mann who works with Indo German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC) said one actually needs to be loyal and an ardent fan of football “to under the craziness of our country for this game.” He would have liked to party throughout the week for the national team but all that he and his friends did was to “get together in my home and watch the match.” Jannis Schwebs, an intern with IGCC, plays football as a hobby. He

calls himself a loyal follower and is willing to go at lengths to promote this sport. “Th is game holds a lot of promises and means as much to us as does cricket for you. Football is the ultimate game for us. It is a great achievement for our country to win this cup after coming close to winning it in the last tournament,” he said. Jannis and his group of friends held a lot of discussions about tactics and players and each of the players had a supporter. “We did not have a particular person to head, but looked at the matches as a team. It was a fantastic moment and wish I was in Germany when we won.” Contd on p 10


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