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SUNDAY 19 May 2013

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DELHI POLICE NABS THE PAWNS ONCE AGAIN

In a repeat of earlier cases of Spot fixing and Match fixing in professional cricket, the Delhi Police have once again caught some of the players, But what eludes the eye that the lords of the rackets are never caught, and the police can only say that it is run by the underworld. The matter then goes to the courts where they may take years for the trial to begin, the cricket boards do their duty by declaring a ban on the players. Thus, the crowds who follow cricket as a religion are cheated in the name of a gentlemans game, which is no more gentle.
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Mood of the Workers Survey

U Connectt-SMI conducted a comprehensive survey of the workers of leading political parties of Chandigarh in the run up to the Lok Sabha Elections. This is a follow up survey to our mood of the voters survey conducted in immediate aftermath of the CBI raids on MP Pawan Bansals kin, that predicted a slender lead for the Congress in the city.
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2 All In the Game

OPINION
EDITORIAL DESK
of international stature. Due care was proposed to shade the emerging brand from any threat of corruption or other malpractices. However all does not seems to be well with the franchise. Some politicians and over anxious fans have been quick to blame the enterprise itself and have made unreasonable demands. What is lacking in most of the commentary over the issue is a complete lack of context. Corruption in India has come to permeate the very being of the country. Earning your dough the hard and

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Manu Sharma
the right way is considered neither doable nor correct. Emphasis is on making a quick buck by cutting a deal here or plotting a conspiracy there. The public is all too happy to watch this funny spectacle of the high and mighty falter and succumb to the greed and lure of lucre. Such a state of affairs is neither desirable nor sustainable in the long run. There is a need to reinvent the value system of our nation to avoid this bizarre spectacle of every one from sportsmen to ministers being caught in the game of corruption!

LOUD & CLEAR

Social Media and Arrests

In a country where the police has tough time finding qualified persons for its cyber crime wing it is interesting to note the number of arrests under the article 66-A Information Technology Act. The Supreme Court in one of its decisions recently, has made it mandatory for the police personnel to seek the nod of a senior officer before proceeding ahead with an arrest of some one under Article 66 A. The ruling is pertinent in face of the fact that somehow the police are finding it harder to digest dis-

The Indian Premier League is to cricket what yelling is to music. Similar in letter but not in spirit. Arrest of three players amidst allegations of spot fixing have not brought shame to the game but they have definitely confirmed the intrinsically commercial and flaky character of the league. Indian Premier League is now in the dubious company of Indian political class that has seen numerous of its own go behind the bars. A brainchild of business scion Lalit Modi who is now on the run, IPL was envisaged as a commercial league

S.K. Sinha

I thought our National Game is ___________ Hockey

The state of sports in our country resembles the ping-pong very often. To find the right answers you must first ask the right questions. A huge list of questions drifts across the mind whenever the thought of sports appears in the horizon. Let us begin the rapid fire- Why is Hockey not made compulsory in every school? Why do modern cities have more beautifying gardens and less play grounds? Why are politicians and not sportsmen allowed to head sports bodies? Why is the young generation addicted to jeans? Why are school girls made to wear skirts and tunics? Why do the chief ministers of states attend IPL matches? Why does the prime time media telecast cricket as if it is the next episode of the Ramayana? Why do commentators who belong to the saffron league display extreme theatrics surrounded by skimpily dressed cheering experts? Why do they want to give the highest honor, The Bharat Ratna to someone who plays the game for money? Why are the bollywood stars so interested in one particular game only? Why did it take so long for a great nation to create a Rathore, Abhinav , Susheel, Saina ..? Why does the country of the great queen of Jhansi have so few Mary koms? Why does the nation forgive or forget a bunch of rogues who convert a great sporting event into a mechanism to develop their own common wealth? Are we so meek and weak that we will continue to let the heist happen in the sporting treasure of this country again and again? It may do all the good if we can find the right answers to these questions and many more that are yet to be answered for the better of sports of this nation. Jai Hind

sent online rather than offline. Political workers and activists get away by saying far more controversial stuff offline than some random youngsters online. Perhaps it is a case of have law will apply or maybe a misdesigned element of law that is being used by local administration to please their political bosses. Freedom of speech may not be absolute in our land but it is also not a weak construct either. By placing increasing number of laws in the hands of the police, somewhere the state is showing its insecurity and

fear of the citizens. Abuse, harassment and vulgarity are something that are entirely different from dissent. Hence it makes no sense that a law preventing the former are misused against the latter. Life as we know is changing and India has started to lumber inexorably towards its future. The future is a dynamic and amorphous commodity, we should not empower police raj going into the future. In fact the emphasis should be on building structures of empowerment around our citizens, no more arrests please!

Sharif must use third chance to break cycle of revenge

politics, known as siaasat (in Urdu) and take a high road as far as his ouster from power in 1999 by then military chief Pervez Musharraf is concerned. He might be tempted to settle that issue in Pakistans traditional way of taking revenge, but how Sharif deals with his old foe will be a measure of the change he claims to represent. Sharif must realise that the countrys democratic institutions, such as judiciary and free press, have matured over the past five years and that is evident from the fact that Musharraf is in jail for his actions. There is hope because, until now, the idea of a mere judge ordering a former army chief into confinement was unthinkable. He must also realise that changing the civil-military balance in favour of the civilians would be ideal, but if it is done without cautious planning, it could jeopardise the democratic gains of the last several years. Sharif should also try to bring, as he already said, every other party to the table and work together for improving the plight of the average Pakistani. It is up to him to bring the country out of the abysmal chasm of hopelessness and despair. His victory being based on his partys popularity in the Punjab province, Sharif now will also have to reach out to the leaders of other provinces. About improving relations with India, he has already indicated during his interviews that the two sides must restart back channel diplomacy to resolve problems while sticking to the stated positions in public. Sharif has publicly stated his intention to pick up the threads of the peace process he initiated with Indian leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999. That process was undermined by the Kargil war. According to one senior official of the PPP, Sharif will have a tough time changing Pakistans posture towards India and Afghanistan. It is something that the establishment did not allow even the PPP-led coalition to pursue. But if there is any issue on which bitter political rivals agree, it is on improving trade relations with India in view of its fast growing economy and the burgeoning market. Sharif, in fact, has always been supportive of granting India most-favoured-nation (MFN) status. His comfortable position in parliament should allow his party to push forth with this agenda. But it will not be easy because of the forces within Pakistan that have always succeeded in ratcheting up the anti-India rhetoric when it suits them. So the new leader should make the issue of improving trade relations with India a part of a bigger plan, a plan to develop a flourishing transit economy for the country. He must revisit the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement 2010 to

By Ravi M. Khanna The fledgling democratic process in Pakistan has churned out a leader, who now has the rare opportunity to chart a new positive and peaceful course, not only for his own country but for the whole South Asia region, and leave a legacy that, so far, no other Pakistani leader has. Nawaz Sharif must use the proverbial third chance - he was prime minister twice before but never completed his full term - to break the vicious cycle of revenge in domestic politics and the unnecessary cycle of rivalry with India in its regional politics. It will not be easy and will be full of challenges, but eventually it will make him rise as a great Pakistani leader who genuinely wants to bring peace and prosperity to his country and the whole region, perhaps more than even Indian leaders. He should shun the well travelled Pakistani road of taking revenge in

allow India to send goods to Afghanistan and beyond through Pakistan. He must convince his rivals that the country can really have a flourishing transit economy because it provides the shortest land routes from Western China to the Arabian Sea, through the Gwadar Port, while linking India with Afghanistan and the Central Asian Republics and providing land route from Iran to India. The transit economy idea can be crucial for Nawaz Sharif because he might have to find new ways to compensate for the US aid worth millions of dollars that might stop because of his objections to the country`s support to the US war on terror. However, the view in the power corridors of Washington is that since his priorities are really economic, he will not upset the apple cart and will have enough reasons and incentive to keep the one billion dollars a year aid from the US flowing into Pakistan.

By Vatsal Srivastava Mark Twain once said that a gold miner is a liar standing next to a hole dug up in the ground. The time has come for financial market participants to stop looking at the world through the prism of a goldbug. Gold finished in the green for 12 consecutive years providing investors a gain of more than 600 percent over the same period. It was considered a buy at any price in a zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) environment, providing a store of value in a possible inflationary environment, a hedge against global systemic risk and a way to play the liquidity driven rally which followed after DM central banks pumped billions of dollars into the system. The upside seemed unlimited as gold has no yield or cash flows, thus valuation metrics to derive an intrinsic value did not exist. Price targets by commodity gurus of $3,000 per

Return of US dollar, end of gold run

ounce and above seemed very much within the realms of possibility. But the massive April sell-off in gold in which prices fell more than $250 per ounce on record trading volumes has led many gold bulls to take a closer look at their long positions. One of the major pillars on which the bull market in gold relied on was the weak dollar. For the first time since the financial crisis we are witnessing a stronger dollar leading to a risk on move. Expectations of the Federal Reserve tapering off its open ended monthly purchases of long-term bonds and mortgage backed securities, commonly known as quantitative easing, is slowly being priced in by the market with the dollar index trading above 83. Better than expected non-farm payrolls data, housing starts and a good start to the earnings season are also contributing to the up move of the greenback. The weakness in the Euro due to weak PMI data, lowered forecast by the ECB of the Eurozone GDP growth to -0.4 percent from 0 percent in 2013 and the upcoming German elections are also adding to dollar strength. Far east, Abenomics has been a great success with the Japanese Yen breaching 101 against the dollar. Yen weakness is expected to continue in the second half of the year with the Yen averaging about 110 to a dollar by year-end, according to many currency analysts. Thus, both domestic factors in the US and the relative weakness of the other G-3 currencies have led many to call for a new dollar bull run. Australias central bank cut its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 percent on May 7 attributing it towards below trend economic growth and maintaining room for further cuts as inflation remained consistent with the target and, if anything, a little lower than expected. The Aussie breached the parity mark against the US dollar on May 10 and its continued weakness will support the gold bears conviction. It is also important to view gold as a part of the commodity basket play. The equity rally with US and European indexes breaching all-time highs has failed to carry commodities with them. Crude, copper, corn and other components of the CRB commodity index have been laggards in the recent risk-on move. The 20th century has seen three secular bull markets in commodities, each averaging about 17 years- 19061923, 1923-1953 and 1968- 1982. Thus historically speaking the current bull run in commodities which began in late 1998 with the driving catalyst being physical demand from emerging markets - most notably China is now near its end. Even though fears of Chinas possible hard landing have been abated, the new normal for Chinese GDP growth is now between 7-8 percent, well below the average 10 percent it clocked the previous decade. Gold is reaching an inflection point in the sense that its period of outperforming bonds and equities is most likely behind us. It is now in bear market territory having fallen by more than 20 percent from its all-time nominal high of $1,923 per ounce and having beached the key technical support of $1,524 per ounce.

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Delhi Police Nabs The Pawns Once Again

New Delhi The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) swung into action Friday calling an emergency meeting and suspending a cricketer, but more and more sordid details of the spot fixing scandal came tumbling as the three arrested players, including S. Sreesanth, reportedly confessed to their crime. The BCCI called for its working committee meeting in Chennai Sunday to discuss the arrests of the three cricketers and suspended Gujarat medium pacer Amit Singh who, during his stint with Rajasthan Royals, was allegedly used by the bookies to fix deals with cricketers. After a day of intense interrogation and investigation, Delhi Police sources said they stumbled on the spot fixing racket after they recorded the phone calls of aides of Tiger Memon with bookies. They also found out that one of the players was told to rope in others in the sordid saga. It was Ajit Chandila, arrested Wednesday night from Mumbai along with his Rajasthan Royals colleagues Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan, who reportedly told police that he tried to rope in two more players at the behest of bookies who had promised to offer him Rs.20 lakh for bowling a fixed over. But the two players refused. During questioning, Chandila told police that he met bookies at Country Club in Manesar (adjoining Delhi) on April 6. In the meeting, the bookies asked him to rope in more players for spot fixing. He gave two names and the bookies asked him to After he had had his brunch, Sreesanth was questioned by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. Coming out of the Special Cell office, the top cop said Sreesanth was cooperating in the investigations. The first to break down was Chavan, a senior police officer told IANS. He broke down when we questioned him. He accepted that he made a mistake. He also accepted his role in spot fixing, he added. Of the 11 bookies, Chandresh Patel, who was arrested from Mumbais Andheri area, may be the main conspirator in this case, police said. He was into the profession for many years, police added. Sources also said that Sreesanth was directly approached by cricketer-turned bookie Jiju Janardhan, his distant cousin who has also been arrested. He had played for Kerala U-25 cricket team. Although the three accused confessed to their crimes, their families and lawyers maintained they were innocent. Deepak Prakash, Sreesanths lawyer, said: Sreesanth has been falsely or mistakenly arrested. They (Delhi Police) have got some wrong information or mistakenly arrested him. Delhi Police said more teams have been sent to other states to conduct raids. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, meanwhile, congratulated Delhi Police for the investigations. Asked about the underworld link in the betting racket, he said: Police is investigating.

COVER STORY

Cricketers S. Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila and bookies being produced at Saket court in New Delhi
bring them to a party where the deal could be discussed, police sources told IANS. However, the two cricketers refused to attend the party. Chandila also reportedly told interrogators that in the 2012 IPL season, the last two overs of a match between Delhi Daredevils and Rajasthan Royals might have been fixed. Amidst media reports that Rajasthan Royals co-owner Shilpa Shetty, her husband Raj Kundra and captain Rahul Dravid would also be questioned, police denied calling them for the probe. The police said they were able to trail the sleazy connection when they started to intercept the calls of aides of Tiger Memon, who is said to be in Dubai, since March 2013. They also said that escorts were used to lure the players into the net. Sources also told IANS that when Sreesanth was arrested from Trident Hotel in south Mumbais Nariman Point late Wednesday, he was with a woman. Police refused to give more details about her. They also ruled out her involvement in spot fixing. The three players, who along with 11 bookies have been remanded to five days police custody, have been lodged in the office of Delhi Polices Special Cell in Lodhi Colony. Police said all the three players have confessed to their crime. While Sreesanth was the only who went without dinner, his two team mates along with the 11 bookies had a hearty meal Thursday night in police custody. But the fast bowler had rajma-chawal as brunch Friday, police sources said.

Match Fixing History Sheet

Year 1994 Year 1997 Year 2000

In 1998, Warne & Mark Waugh confess that they had been passing on weather and pitch information to an Indian bookie during the Singer Cup in Sri Lanka in 1994. Mark Waugh and Shane Warnes fines from the Australian Cricket Board for offering information about the weather and pitch information to John the bookmaker.

Azharuddin was found guilty of match-fixing, while Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Ajay Sharma and former Indian team physio Ali Irani were found guilty of having links with bookies. On Dec 5, 2000, Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma were banned for life.

India-South Africa Match fixing in which Delhi police charged the South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje in which they found that Cronje accepted money to throw matches.

Year 2010

Year 2012
The 2012 Indian Premier League spot-fixing case was a controversy which arose during the 2012 Indian Premier League and led to the banning of five cricketers. Bans were imposed on all five, with a life-ban on Deccan Chargerss TP Sudhindra, a five-year ban on Kings XI Punjabs Shalabh Srivastava, and a one-year ban on Pune Warriors Indias Mohnish Mishra and Kings XI Punjabs Amit Yadav. Abhinav Bali, who was not involve with any team during the 2012 season, was also banned for a year.

British Court charged three Pakistani cricket players Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif in 2011 over No-balls, bowled deliberately in a game against England at Lords in 2010

NATIONAL NEWS
New Delhi Two officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), including one reportedly investigating the coal scam, were arrested here while taking a bribe of Rs.7 lakh for settling down a land dispute, an officer said Friday. Superintendent of Police Vivek Dutt and Inspector Rajesh Karnatak were arrested by the internal

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Bengal notifies panchayat poll schedule, Two CBI officers arrested in Delhi for bribery deadlock continues
Kolkata The West Bengal government Friday issued a notification proposing a three-phase panchayat polls July 2, July 6 and July 10. However, the deadlock on the issue continued with State Election Commission (SEC) officials indicating their reservations on the schedule. The schedule will be finalised once the SEC issues a notification after studying the state governments proposal. We have received a notification from the state government. We are examining it and accordingly we will take a decision, said SEC secretary Tapas Roy. The government notification proposed polls in nine districts - North 24 Paganas, South 24 Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly, East Midnapore, West Midnapore, Bankura, Purulia and Budwan - in the first phase. Four districts - Malda, Murshidabad, Birbhum and Nadia - go to the hustings in the second, and four other districts - Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur and South Dinajpur - in the final leg. Roy did not rule out writing to the state government on the issue. The SEC can always write to the state government. The three-day time-frame given by the court was to the government, and not to the SEC, he said. An SEC official said there were differences between the commission and the state government over the schedule on the district-wise division and on eletion dates clashing with religious occasions like Rathayatra and Ramzan. As per the proposed schedule, more than 60 percent of the polling will be over on the first day. That includes the three left wing extremist-hit dis-

vigilance unit of CBI from Lodhi Colony area in south Delhi. Dutt was taking bribe of Rs.7 lakh for settling down a land dispute related to the Delhi Police. He was accompanied by the inspector, an agency official told IANS. Further investigations are on. Dutt was said to be an investigating officer in the coal scam.

Mukherjee, Karzai to attend varsity convocation in Jalandhar

tricts of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia. We will have to examine it, said the official. The opposition Left Front and the Congress said at an all-party meeting Friday that the third phase clashes with the Rathayatra, and should be advanced to July 9. In the third phase, the polls are proposed to be held in Cooch Behar, where the Rathayatra festival is celebrated with great enthusiasm, said Left Front representative and CPI-M state secretariat member Rabin Deb. The month of Ramzan begins July 11. Keeping in mind the Rathayatra festival, the final phase can be brought forward to July 9. Election Commissioner Meera Pandey recorded our suggestion and said she would speak to the government, said Congress leader Manas Bhuniya. Deb also expressed his opposition to Howrah district being included in the first phase of the polls. The Howrah Lok sabha by-polls are scheduled for June 2. So ahead of that, there would be a 48-hour no campaign period. If the district is included in the first phase, the campaign period for the panchayat polls will be far less. The poll schedule has been drawn up carelessly, he said. The lead up to the polls has been marred by constant friction between the Mamata Banerjee led state government and the SEC, as both claimed primacy in announcing the schedule. After the state government announced two-phase polls, the SEC moved the Calcutta High Court demanding scrapping of two sections in the state Panchayat Election Act, which empowers the state government to decide on the schedule. High Court judge Biswanath Sommader upheld the primacy of the SEC and said it would announce the election timetable. But after the state government moved an appeal to the division bench, the court ordered the panchayat polls to be concluded in three phases by July 15, and directed the state government to notify the dates and schedule. The court had also asked the state government to propose the dates within three days by Friday. be the chief guest at the convocation. It is one of the rare occasions as the president of another country, Afghanistan, would also be present. Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, would be receiving universitys first Honoris Causa degree. He would be receiving this degree for his outstanding work in the area of social upliftment of the country, he added. A total of 8,501 degrees will be conferred by LPU, a leading private university in Punjab with nearly 30,000 oncampus students, including scores of students from other countries. Punjab Governor Shivraj Patil and Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal will also be present at the convocation, he said. With the two presidents coming for the same event, tight security measures are being put into place by the local authorities and the Punjab Police. Central security agencies and state police are already camping here to ensure fool-proof security arrangements.

Jalandhar President Pranab Mukherjee will confer the first honoris causa degree of the Lovely Professional University (LPU) to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at the varsitys convocation to be held in this Punjab city Monday (May 20), a varsity official said. LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal said: President Pranab Mukherjee will

Navy sex scandal: Antony Saradha scam: New bench to says guilty wont be spared hear PIL seeking CBI probe

Aarushi case: Rajesh Talwar records statement

New Delhi Stressing that there would be no cover-up, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said an inquiry had been ordered into the complaint of a naval officers wife that her husband had tortured her and forced her to have sex with his colleagues. The moment I got the complaint I have ordered an inquiry. Whenever the complaints have come, we inquire about that. We will not coverup so let us wait, Antony told reporters here. The minister added that he would not jump to any conclusions before the probe is completed. I dont want to jump to any conclusion. If anybody is found guilty, we will take strong action. At this moment, dont expect me to come to any conclusion. The wife of the naval officer posted at the Naval Ship Repair Yard (NSRY) at Karwar in Karnataka al-

leged that her husband tortured her mentally and physically and forced her to sleep with his colleagues. According to a source, the womans father has written to the navy and the defence ministry on April 25 with the complaints. The woman has left her husbands home. They had married in February 2012 and have filed for divorce with mutual consent, the source added. The navy has been hit by a string of sex scandals of late. In early April, the wife of an officer had alleged that wife-swapping was prevalent in the navy and that she had been molested by her husbands superiors. Last month, a naval commander was dismissed for sending lewd texts to women. In another case, an officer was dismissed for entering into an illicit relationship with the wife of a superior.

Kolkata With Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Arun Mishra unavailable, a new bench will hear afresh a public interest litigation seeking a CBI probe into the multi-crore-rupee Saradha Group scam. Chief Justice Mishra will not be available to hear the case in the next hearing (Thursday). He is going out of the city. Since the matter is of grave importance, we urged him to assign a new bench, said Subrata Mukherjee, who filed the PIL. Chief Justice Arun Mishra today (Wednesday) will assign a new bench which will hear the case afresh, added Mukherjee. Hearing the petition, the bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice J.M. Bagchi had Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file an affidavit by Thursday stating whether the central investigating agency had been handed over investigation by other states into the multi-crore-rupee chit fund scam that affected lakhs of in-

vestors. On the day, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) too sought the consent of the court to investigate the Saradha Group issue under the Money Laundering Act as there have been several allegations of misuse of funds collected by it. Following its request, the court directed the West Bengal government to hand over a copy of first information report to the ED. Saradha Group CEO Sudipta Sen, and two of his close aides are currently behind bars and prosecuted for cheating and conspiracy after the group collapsed unable to repay lakhs of depositors, most of them poor people from villages and small towns, who had parked their hard earned money with its companies, lured by promise of huge returns. A number of agents and depositors of Saradha and similar chit fund companies have committed suicide while offices of a large number of such dubious concerns operating in the state have been attacked.

Ghaziabad Recording his statement in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, accused and Aarushis father Rajesh Talwar Friday answered questions raised by the court from the evidence of the witnesses. To the about 180 questions asked, Talwar either denied the allegations or alleged the prosecution was trying to influence the witnesses, deviating from original statements recorded under section 161 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Asked by the court whether he agreed over a doctors statement of trying to influence him to change the post mortem report, he said he agreed on whatsoever is mentioned on postmortem report but whatever was beyond the written report was recorded under the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) influence That was nothing just an character assassination of the deceased, he added. The dentist categorically denied allegation that he tried to influence the doctor who performed autopsy through a retired police officer. The court of special CBI judge S. Lal Friday initiated recording Talwars statement under section 313 of Cr.PC. The recording of statement started at 2 p.m. and continued till the court rose for the day. It would continue on Monday, said Manoj Shishodia the lawyer for the defence.

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NATIONAL NEWS
PM files Rajya Sabha nomination from Assam
Guwahati Prime Minister Manmohan Singh filed his nomination for a fifth consecutive term in the Rajya Sabha here .Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh, who is in charge of Assam, accompanied the prime minister, whose fourth term in the upper house ends next month. Manmohan Singh arrived at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in the morning and headed straight for the state assembly to file his papers. There was some trouble with student bodies and political parties hoisting black flags and staging demonstrations for what they said were his failure to bring development to Assam and fulfill his commitments. Media personnel also staged a protest and shouted slogans outside the assembly premises after they

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India abstains from UN resolution on Syria

Delhi gang-rape accused being poisoned, lawyer tells court

New Delhi An accused in Dec 16 gang-rape case has been vomiting blood as his food was being poisoned over several weeks in Tihar Jail, his lawyer told a fast-track court Wednesday, adding that he was critically ill. Additional Sessions Judge directed Tihar Jail authorities to ensure that proper medical care is given to him. The accused, Vinay Sharma, was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, where he was taken from Tihar Jail with high fever. He has not attended court proceedings since May 8 due to his health issues. His counsel told the court that Sharma has been hospitalised and is in a critical condition. He added that the accused was not getting proper treatment in hospital as the doctors were on strike. The court asked the jail authorities to find out whether the doctors were on strike and to inform it if Sharma could be shifted to a private hospital where better facilities are available. The judge in the order said: The jail superintendent is directed to look into the matter. If doctors are on strike then make arrangements to shift the accused Vinay (Sharma) to another hospital where better facilities are available. On the other hand, Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan denied Sharmas counsels claims saying the doctors were on strike only for a few hours. The court rejected Sharmas 15-day interim bail plea for his medical treatment. Sharma is being tried in Dec 16 gang rape case among others. The 23-year-old woman was brutally tortured and gang-raped in the bus by five men and a juvenile. She later died in a Singapore hospital. The juvenile is facing proceedings before a Juvenile Justice Board, while the four other accused were put up for trial in the fast track court. One of the accused allegedly committed suicide in jail.

were barred from covering the programme. The prime minister, however, later came towards the journalists and thanked the people of Assam for continuously electing him to the Rajya Sabha for all these years. He assured that his effort would be to do all he could for the states development. He then left for the airport. The current term of the two Rajya Sabha members representing Assam -- Manmohan Singh and Asom Gana Parishads (AGP) Kumar Deepak Das -- ends June 14.

Collegium system of judges appointment opaque, says Sibal

New Delhi Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal said that the present collegium system of appointment of judges was opaque and non-transparent, but nothing could be done to change it overnight. Present (collegium) system of appointment of judges is opaque and non-transparent, Sibal said in his informal interaction with media persons soon after assuming the charge of the law ministry, given to him as an additional responsibility after the resignation of Ashwani Kumar. Appointment to the higher judiciary must be through transparent process, which ensures that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed, Sibal said, adding that there are short-term and longterm objectives to achieve it. For achieving the short term objectives, Sibal said, We need to have consultations with the judiciary. For the long term, you need to bring law for which existing bills can be passed, if opposition plays ball with the government. He favoured radical and structural changes for judicial reforms. Somewhat tentative when asked about his agenda for the law ministry, Sibal said that a roadmap for his new assignment would be clear in a couple of weeks. Big-big people boosted a lot, but

Manmohan Singh has been representing Assam in the upper house since 1991 after he became the union finance minister. Then Assam chief minister Hiteswar Saikia had offered him a Rajya Sabha seat that had fallen vacant. He is expected to win comfortably this time too as the Congress and its allies occupy 94 berths in the 126-member assembly. According to official sources, May 20 is the last date to file nominations. The scrutiny of nominations will be held the next day. Polls, if necessary, will be held May 30.

nothing has happened so far, Sibal said, in an obvious pointer to his predecessors promising radical transformation in judicial functioning and erasure of backlogs in a promised time frame. Sibal ducked the more contentious issues on which he was queried, saying these matters were sub-judice. We have 12 to 13 judges per million population. In other countries, it is 50 or 100 per million people. If two to three crore cases are pending, can I change it in one day? There is a need for dialogue with the state governments. There is need for a new way of thinking. It cant be done tomorrow, Sibal told newsmen.

India joins Arctic Council as observers

New Delhi The Arctic Council agreed to include six new nations, including India and China, as observers to their eight-state diplomatic council. The council includes the eight Arctic nations: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States. India welcomed the decision to include it as an observer. We welcome this consensus decision admitting India as an Observer State of the Arctic Council and affirm our commitment to contribute our proven scientific expertise, particularly in polar research capabilities, to the work of the Arctic Council and to support its objectives, the external affairs ministry spokesperson said in a statement. Officials estimate the Arctic holds 13 percent of the worlds undiscovered oil reserves, and 30 percent of undiscovered gas deposits. Membership to the Arctic Council has become increasingly attractive as with the melting Arctic ice the regions waterways have become open to commercial shipping traffic. It has also made accessible the regions abundant quantities of oil, gas and minerals as well as the waterway for shipping and for commercial fishing.

Besides China and India, the other countries granted observer status are Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. The European Union application was deferred until Arctic Council members are satisfied that issues of concern -- Canadian objections about EU restrictions on seal products -- have been allayed. US Secretary of State John Kerry joined foreign ministers from the

eight Arctic nations and several indigenous groups for the biennial meeting of the Arctic Council. The ministers endorsed recommendations to protect the ecologically fragile habitat. Canada, which hosted the founding conference of the Arctic Council in 1996 and was its first chair, has again taken on the responsibility at the meeting in Kiruna, Sweden.

The ice cap in the Arctic Circle is fast disappearing. Last month, scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a study that predicted the Arctic will be ice-free by 2050, much earlier than previous estimates. In September last year, the thick ice cover had shrunk to half the average for that month during the years 1979-2000, researchers found.

United Nations Calling it a sleight of hand and a dangerous precedent which we cannot acquiesce in, India abstained on a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly calling for a political transition in Syria, saying unilateral action will not resolve the crisis and would only exacerbate the problem. India and 58 other states abstained on the resolution drafted by Arab states supporting the rebels. A solid majority of 107 states voted in favour, but that contrasted with 133 that supported a similar resolution in August. There were 12 votes against it. Explaining Indias vote, the countrys Permanent UN Representative Asoke Kumar Mukerji said: Whether a group, any group, is the legitimate representative of the Syrian people or not can only be determined by the Syrian people, not this Assembly. Certain provisions of the resolution can be interpreted as effecting regime change by sleight of hand, he said calling it a a dangerous precedent which we cannot acquiesce in. Reiterating Indias position that the leadership of Syria is a matter for Syrians to decide themselves, Mukerji said: unilateral action of any kind will not resolve the crisis. It will only exacerbate the problem and cause greater instability and violence even beyond Syrias borders, he said expressing Indias view that following the settlement of the conflict, Syrians themselves should establish accountability for crimes committed by Syria. This cannot be done by outsiders, he said. We also believe that promotion of political dialogue requires engagement with all parties concerned, and calls for boycott of the government and support of the opposition will not help. Russia fiercely opposed the resolution saying it was clearly a one-sided text and would undermine the peace initiative. But the US representative argued that the resolution was consistent with the US-Russian initiative. The resolution reiterated its call for a political transition, which it said represented the best opportunity to resolve the situation... peacefully. The resolution also expressed outrage at the rapidly increasing death toll, and strongly condemned the Syrian governments use of heavy weapons and the widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The text called for urgent financial support to neighbouring countries, which are hosting 1.5 million refugees, and highlighted the dire situation of the 4.25 million internally displaced people.

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Washington US President Barack Obama will meet his Myanmarese counterpart Thein Sein here May 20 and discuss democracy building in the Southeast Asian nation, the White House said. The president (Obama) looks forward to discussing with President Thein Sein the many remaining challenges to efforts to develop democracy, address communal and ethnic tensions, and bring economic opportunity to the people of his country, and to exploring how the United States can help, Xinhua quoted White House spokesman Jay Carney as saying in a statement. Thein Seins visit to the US as president will be the first for a Myanmarese leader following the countrys military leader Ne Wins visit to Washington in 1966 at the invitation of then US president Lyndon Johnson. Obama visited Myanmar in November 2012, while Thein Sein visited New York where he addressed the UN General Assembly in September. Washington has, among others, restored diplomatic relations with Myanmar, eased a visa ban and

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Unlike India, China not helping Nigeria stop fake drugs

Accra Unlike India, China is not assisting in the fight against counterfeit medicines even though the influx has been mainly from that country, Nigerias National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says. Comparative analysis has shown that China is not doing anything to help the Nigerian government in its attempt to control the import of counterfeit medicines, even though much of these medicines have been traced to China, NAFDAC spokesman Abubakar Jimoh told IANS on the phone from Nigerian capital Abuja. On the other hand, the Indian government has joined hands with the Nigerian authorities to fight the influx and has thus reduced the flow of such medicines from India, Jimoh added. Nigeria has been faced with the influx of counterfeit medicines over the years and has tried several methods to overcome the scourge. Last year the government proposed a bill providing stiffer punishment for organisations and individuals who may be arrested for dealing in the manufacture and sale of counterfeit medicine. The government at the time wanted to use the bill to protect local manufacturers against inferior imports that were selling cheap on the market. It was proposed to provide support to three agencies - Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) - to link their activities and work in concert. The government at the time promised to support to the organisations in the enforcement of regulations in the control of fake products. It has been revealed that NAFDAC has been able to bring the prevalence rate of fake drugs down to six percent from

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the 16.7 percent over the past five years. The proposed bill, however, turned out to be much ado about nothing as there was no movement forward. Jimohs comments come to confirm an earlier statement by NAFDAC director general Paul Orhii that most fake, substandard and counterfeit drugs imported and openly sold on the Nigerian market were from China through smuggling with the connivance of some unscrupulous persons whose only interest is to make money. Orhii said even though Nigeria had been doing everything possible to fight the scourge of counterfeit drugs, China had remained a problem. This is because the authorities in China have refused to show any interest to assist in the elimination of the chain that had been traced to their country . India has tried to collaborate with Nigeria maximally on strategies to reduce the importation of counterfeit medicines to the country, Orhii said, adding: But, concerning China, we are still trying to work out how to collaborate with each other. For now, without fear of contradiction, I will say that China remains the highest exporter of these fake products and China is a problem for Nigeria. He said the Agency was working closely with the Chinese embassy in

Nigeria to track down the company in China that connived in the shipping of counterfeit medicine into this country. Orhii said the recent discovery of a huge consignment of counterfeit drugs had also revealed that these drugs were being sold in the market by those who also dealt in other products to escape the attention of the security agencies. Expressing his determination to fight the influx, Orhii said: There will be no sacred cow in the fight against counterfeit medicines. Any counterfeiter arrested will be prosecuted according to the law of the land. This is an indication that foreigners who hide behind the cordial relationship between their country and Nigeria to engage in negative activities will not be spared the rod. It is however not clear how the Nigerian authorities intend to deal with the Chinese diplomatic mission that doesnt seem to be interested in helping to fight the influx of counterfeit medicine. To achieve its aim to beat the influx, NAFDAC has also appealed to the general public, market unions and transporters to report any suspicious activities that would help it ensure that those who may try to avoid arrest were not spared but were prosecuted according to the law.

Iran Navy to get advanced cruise missiles

ended sanctions on investment in the country in response to the advances made in the countrys reform efforts initiated by Thein Sein after he took office in March 2011.

Moscow Iranian Navy are all set to receive cruise missiles having a range of more than 300 km, a senior official with Irans Aerospace Organisation said Sunday. The new missiles will have enhanced precision and other super advanced capabilities, Brigadier General Mehdi Farahi, the director of defence ministrys Aerospace Organisation said. In late April, Defence Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi announced plans to unveil new ballistic and cruise missiles as well as other new military

achievements within the next five months. Iran has successfully test-fired a medium range shore-to-sea ballistic missile in the Persian Gulf as well as three new surface-to-surface domestically produced missiles. It test-fired the Nazeat 10 and Fajr 5 during a military exercise in midMarch. The Fajr-5 is a long-range artillery rocket with a maximum range of 75 km, while Nazeat-10 is a mediumrange ballistic missile capable of hitting targets within a radius of 100-300 km.

US Mothers Day parade shooting suspect identified

Washington US police are looking for a 19-yearold man identified as a suspect in the Mothers Day parade shooting in New Orleans, the largest city in Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindals state of Louisiana, that injured 19 people. Police are looking for one Akien Scott who has previous arrests on charges of possession of firearms, possession of narcotics and resisting arrest, New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas announced Monday night. I would recommend strongly that Mr. Scott contact anybody who he is comfortable with to turn himself in, Serpas was quoted as saying by CNN. When asked if Scott was the lone shooter, Serpas said it was still early in the investigation. Images of the parade, released by police Monday, show a man standing at the outskirts of a packed parade route. A moment later, he charges toward the crowd. The dramatic surveillance camera images see the panicked crowd scrambling for cover. The man runs away, leaving scattered bicycles and bodies on the ground behind him. Federal investigators cited by CNN said they have no indication that the shooting was an act of terrorism. Its strictly an act of street violence in New Orleans, New Orleans FBI spokesperson Mary Beth Romig said Monday. The shooting, during a festive New Orleans Mothers Day parade, renewed concerns about crime in the city known as the home of jazz. Its the third holiday this year when guns have been fired into crowds, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said. Its a culture of violence that has enveloped this city for a long period of time ... and its one of the things that we as a community have got to stop, he was quoted as saying. A Jan 21 shooting near a Martin Luther King Day parade left five wounded. Four people were hurt in a February Mardi Gras attack, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. Authorities are offering $10,000 reward in the case. Remi Braden, a police spokesperson, described the shooting as an extremely unusual occurrence. The attack included shots that were fired from different guns, police said Sunday, and officers saw three possible gunmen running from the scene. On Monday, at least three victims were in critical condition, said Louisiana State University Medical Center spokesman Marvin McGraw.

Islamabad The Pakistani authorities did not succeed in ensuring level playing ground for all parties, their candidates, activists and voters, said the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan which recommended a serious initiative to revamp the Election Commission of Pakistan. The panel has brought out its preliminary report which recommended revamp of the ECP, redefine its priorities, reduce bureaucrats meddling in political matters, and grant due representation to women in key positions. It also noted that the 2013 election was the costliest ever in the countrys history, and the people with modest means were put at further disadvantage. The report, however, did not peg the costs. It also recommended that the legal obligation to review the electoral rolls on year-to-year basis should be strictly honoured and the election staff and the political parties given adequate training in the use of new lists a considerable period in advance of the polls. The panel noted that the pre-poll environment was seriously marred by large-scale violence that denied a significant number of candidates and voters of a tension-free climate

Rights panel finds shortcomings in Pakistan polls

for campaigning and voter-candidate interaction. The authorities did not succeed in ensuring level playing ground to all parties, their candidates, activists and voters. The report said the fact that violence continued to disrupt election-related activities till the day of polling raised serious doubts about the efficacy of the scheme of having elections under caretaker regimes. There were a number of complaints of voters facing coercion in whom they did or did not vote for, including in a number of constituencies in Karachi. There were several clashes between workers of political parties across the country, which is something that these parties need to take a serious look at if they intend to

realize their professed goal to work together to overcome the challenges facing the country. It went on to say that the 2013 election was the costliest ever in the countrys history, and the people with modest means were put at further disadvantage. The expenses incurred by parties and candidates on publicity through the electronic and print media crossed the limits of decency. On womens rights, it said despite a consistent campaign by womens organizations and rights activists for ending discrimination against women they were again denied their right to vote at numerous places, such as Lower Dir, although at a few places they did cast vote for the first time.

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with the law, designed to punish Russian officials involved in the imp r is on men t and controversial death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. The passage of the Magnitsky List was the end of the so-called reset relations, if they even existed in principle, Burmatov said. And, its unlikely, if theres an appropriate reaction from the American side, that this incident that happened with the spy who was caught has the ability to add heat to the situation. The 18 people on what is known as Dhaka A cyclone packing a wind speed of 100 km per hour made landfall in Bangladesh Thursday, ravaging the southeastern Patuakhali district. Bangladesh meteorological department issued warnings of 8 to 10-feet high waves as torrential rain and increasing wind speed signalled the advent of cyclone Mahasen here. Around 200 cyclone centres have been set up across Bangladesh and thousands of residents in coastal areas evacuated following the grim forecast. Airports at Chittagong and Cox Bazar have been shut. Ports in lowlying coastal areas have also been closed. In Patuakhali, 110 medical teams have been readied and several control rooms set up. Xinhua reported that cyclone Mahasen made landfall in Bangladeshs extreme southeastern Patuakhali district Thursday morning as a category 1 storm with top wind speeds of 100 kph, where authorities warned that the slow-moving storm could hit inland areas hard as well as coastlines. Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) reported strong winds and a dangerous storm surge along

Russia Summons US Ambassador in Spy Scandal

Moscow Kremlin officials on Wednesday denounced an alleged attempt by a U.S. diplomat to recruit a Russian intelligence officer, but suggested the scandal would have little effect on U.S.-Russia relations. Earlier this week, Russian authorities briefly detained the diplomat, who was accused of trying to recruit the Russian agent to work for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The diplomat was later expelled from the country. President Vladimir Putins press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, told the state news agency Itar-Tass on Wednesday that the incident does not contribute to the future process of strengthening mutual trust between Russia and the United States and putting our relations on a new level. Putins foreign policy adviser, Yuri

Cyclone slams Bangladesh

worked in the political department at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, as well as for the CIA.

U.S. - Russia Spy Incidents

Ushakov, expressed surprise over what he called the crude and clumsy recruitment attempt, in light of pledges by both sides to improve cooperation. Ushakov added, however, that he did not think the incident would affect Russian-U.S. cooperation. A member of the State Duma, Russias lower house of parliament, also predicted the spy scandal would have little effect on U.S.-Russia relations, noting that the relationship was already strained. Vladimir Burmatov said Wednesday that the passage of the Magnitsky Act by the U.S. Congress last December ended the so-called reset of relations, a policy aimed at improving ties between Washington and Moscow. Last month, the U.S. imposed sanctions on 18 people in accordance

Fees waived for Indians Toronto Sikhs organising marathon to help seeking to leave Saudi Arabia children in need Dubai
The India government has exempted Indian workers in Saudi Arabia, seeking to leave that country, from paying fees for issue of emergency certificates (ECs) for one-time travel to India, according to the Indian embassy in Riyadh. However, the waiver is applicable only for those EC applications made during the grace period announced by the Saudi government, which is currently under way and will end July 3. Indian workers are thronging the embassy in Riyadh and the Indian consulate in Jeddah after a new labour policy was implemented in that country. The Nitaqat or Saudisation policy makes it mandatory for all Saudi companies to reserve 10 percent of jobs for Saudi nationals. There are around two million expatriate Indians in Saudi Arabia, many of them blue collar workers. The embassy had earlier appealed to Indian workers to either rectify their Toronto Britains Fauja Singh, believed to be the worlds oldest marathoner, will be among those participating in the first ever marathon being organised by the Sikh community of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in Canada May 19. The event is being organised by the Guru Gobind Singh Childrens Foundation (GGSCF) to raise funds for children in the developing world and promote a healthy and active lifestyle, The Globe and Mail reported. Founded by children and youth in 1999 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Khalsa and to honour the 10th Guru of the Sikhs, GGSCF organises interesting, challenging, and enjoyable charity fundraising events with a focus on children helping children. Our major achievement is getting youth involved. We keep them engaged in different activities around the GTA, Sarpreet Khera, one of the

the Magnitsky List are subject to visa bans and asset freezes. Most of them are Russian officials accused of involvement in the Magnitsky case. In response to release of the Magnitsky List, Russia issued a list of 18 Americans banned from Russian soil. Also Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov summoned U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul in connection with the U.S. diplomats arrest late Monday. McFaul declined comment following the meeting. Russias Federal Security Service identified the diplomat as Ryan Fogle, saying he was carrying special technical equipment, disguises, a lot of cash and written instructions for the Russian intelligence officer he was trying to recruit. The security service said Fogle

2013 Russia accuses U.S. Embassy official Ryan Fogle of spying and expels him. 2013 U.S. military policeman William Colton Millay convicted of selling U.S. military secrets to an FBI agent posing as a Russian spy. 2012 Retired U.S. Navy officer Robert Patrick Hoffman arrested for trying to provide classified information to FBI agents posing as Russian spies. 2010 U.S. authorities arrest 10 Russians, including Anna Chapman, and accuse them of being sleeper spies. They are handed to Russia in a swap deal. 2010 Russia jails Gennady Sipachev for selling secrets to the U.S. 2001 FBI agent Robert Hanson arrested for selling secrets to Moscow. 2000 Russia convicts businessman and former U.S. naval intelligence officer Edmond Pope for espionage. He is later pardoned and allowed to return to the U.S. 1996 U.S. convicts FBI agent Earl Edwin Pitts of giving classified information to Moscow for money. 1996 Veteran CIA officer Harold James Nicholson sentenced for selling identities of intelligence officers to Russia. 1994 U.S. counter intelligence officer Aldrich Ames pleads guilty with his wife to spying for Russia since 1985.

the coast after the storm came ashore at 7 a.m. A second landfall was expected by Thursday afternoon. No casualties have been reported so far. Authorities said the cyclonic storm started crossing the coast near Patuakhali at about 7 a.m.. The coastgrazing cyclone is likely to move northeastward further and may cross Chittagong-Coxs Bazar coast by noon of Thursday. Bangladesh Wednesday ordered evacuation of about 1 million people from its coastlines. Television footage showed widespread flooding in coastal areas of Coxs Bazaar, Chittagong and Patuakhali and 12 other districts where hundreds of thousands of people have also reportedly been evacuated from their homes.

Chinese labourers seek $60 mn from Japan

Beijing An alliance of groups representing labourers who were forced to work for Mitsubishi Materials in Japan during World War II have sought about $60 million as compensation. An executive at Mitsubishi Materials (Shanghai) Corp accepted a document requesting compensation of 370 million yuan (about $60 million) for forced labourers used by Japan during World War II. The executive promised to keep and hand over the document to Mitsubishis headquarters in Japan after half an hours dispute, with the presence of some Chinese and Japanese media, said Kang Jian, a lawyer for the alliance groups. The document asks for 100,000 yuan for each of the 3,765 Chinese labourers, including 711 people who died in Japan. The groups also demanded the com-

pany issue an apology, which has never happened. The groups, composed of some survivors and their families, handed officials at the Japanese embassy in Beijing a letter urging the Japanese government and companies to apologise and provide compensation. In 2009, the Japanese court announced the loss in the lawsuit of the Chinese forced labourers suing Mitsubishi, which proclaimed the 14 litigations against Japanese enterprises since 1996 came to nothing. But the court recognised the malfeasance of the government and the companies to forcibly enslave Chinese labourers, which, according to Kang, paved the way to initiate negotiations outside judicial action. The court suggested the government and companies provide compensation to the labourers, and well never give up, she said.

residency status or leave that country. According to the latest statement from the embassy, those who want to avail this waiver scheme should have to fill up an additional application form expressing their desire to avail this scheme. The application format has been uploaded on the embassy website www. indianembassy.org.sa, and those who have already applied for ECs can fill this new form at the time of collecting their ECs, the embassy said.

five-member board of the GGSCF, was quoted as saying. We bring children on board to get involved to do positive things in the community, the community in which they live, thereby taking them away from other things like loitering, joining gangs, etc. Since its inception, the foundation has raised over $800,000 to help children in need. According to the report, Fauja Singh

will be participating in the event only in a symbolic manner. Although the running parts are (now) not as long any more, I still run a little, but much more of my daily run has been replaced by a brisk walk, he said. The marathon will be held from the Dixie Road Gurdwara in Missisauga in the western part of the GTA to the Gursikh Sabha Gurdwara in Scarborough.

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New Govt. in Pakistan

Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister Pakistan We will pick up the threads from where we left in 1999,That is the roadmap that I have for improvement of relations between Pakistan and India.

Imran Khan, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Leader We have serious political differences but we decided that we will work together to solve the countrys problems, including terrorism.

Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister India Congratulations to Mr. Nawaz Sharif and his party for their emphatic victory in Pakistans elections. I hope to work with Sharif to chart a new course for the relationship between the nucleararmed neighbours and invite him to visit India at a mutually convenient time.

Barrack Obama , US President The US and Pakistan have a long history of working together on mutual interests, and my administration looks forward to continue our cooperation with the Pakistani Government that emerges from this election as equal partners in supporting a more stable, secure, and prosperous future for the people of Pakistan.

Rajnath Singh, BJP president Mr. Sharifs statement on rebuilding relations with India is a positive one. Since Mr. Sharif has publically started to pick up the peices of 1999 peace process, we hope that the agenda for peace and stability of the region is not hijacked by the vested interest operating from Pakistan.

Prakash Karat , CPI(M) We welcome the Prime Ministers invitation to Nawaz Sharif. We even want Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to visit Pakistan. We are in favour of good bilateral relations.

Farooq Abdullah, Union minister for New and Renewable Energy The invitation extended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Sharif is a welcome and bold step.Such confidence-building measures will bring the two countries together and hold the key to resolution of issues between the two (neighbours).

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Patna RJD chief Lalu Prasad Wednesday launched a scathing attack against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for rampant corruption, bribery and rising incidents of rape in the state and said he would throw him out of power in the next elections. People of the state are looking for a change (parivartan) and the RJD will oust Nitish Kumar from power, Lalu Prasad said at a parivartan rally of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) at Gandhi Maidan here. Lalu Prasad said people are tired of the Nitish Kumar governments misrule, corruption, bribery and rising rape cases. It is clear from the unexpected response of the people who have gathered here to borough a change, that RJD will defeat Nitish Kumar. It is a beginning of the end of Nitish Kumars government, Lalu Prasad said. He accused Nitish Kumar of promoting and encouraging corruption and bribery. It is a well-known fact that bribery has increased like never before and people are hit by it, he said. Nitish Kumar is a parrot of the RSS and communal forces have become stronger during his rule, the RJD chief said. He said he would give 50 percent of party tickets to youths to con-

Lalu Prasad slams Nitish for corruption, rape incidents

test elections and will regularise 2.5 lakh contractual school teachers if his party forms the next government in Bihar. The rally was also addressed by other party leaders, including Lalu Prasads wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi. Contrary to speculations, the RJD chief did not launch his sons Tejasvi Yadav and Tej Pratap at the rally, though they were present on the occasion.

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UPA conspiracy to book Kataria in shootout case: BJP

New Delhi The CBI case against senior BJP leader Gulab Chand Kataria in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh shootout case was a conspiracy by the ruling UPA and not based on facts, the opposition party said . The booking of Kataria is not based on facts. It is a political conspiracy by the UPA to defame our leaders, BJP president Rajnath Singh told.We will fight the case both politically and legally, he said.Kataria, from Rajasthan, is the second high profile politician to be named in the alleged fake encounter case after former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah, considered close to Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Besides Kataria, the others summoned by a Mumbai court include Andhra Pradesh Indian Police Service officer N. Balasubramaniam, police inspector Shrinivas Rao, and R.K. Marbles director Vimal Patni. The developments follow a supplementary chargesheet. Kataria becomes the second prominent politician involved in the case so far, the first being former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah. The Supreme Court had Sep 27 last year ordered the sensitive case ot be transferred to Maharashtra after the CBI said that witnesses were being threatened and the trial could not be conducted in a free and fair manner in Gujarat. According to the CBI, Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi were allegedly kidnapped by Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad from Hyderabad and killed in a gunfight near Gandhinagar in November 2005. A year later, Tulsiram Prajapati, a prime witness to the incident, was allegedly killed in another staged gunfight in Chapri village of Gujarats Banaskantha district.

New Delhi India and Pakistan have a long way to go before they can establish better relations, the CPI-M said .It will also have to be seen if the Nawaz Sharif government will be able to persuade the ISI to halt cross-border terrorism, the Communist Party of India-Marxists mouthpiece Peoples Democracy said.The most crucial would be the equation this civilian government would have with the ISI

India-Pakistan peace process not easy: CPI-M

which will determine if the declarations such as cross border interference is against the declared policy of the democratically elected government is implementable, it said. The CPI-M was commenting on the victory of Sharifs Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in elections, marking the first ever transfer of power by one civilian government to another in that country. Though democracy seems to have taken deeper roots in the fields of Pakistan, there is a long way to go to establish better relations between India and Pakistan, the journal said. It noted that key aides of Sharif had made public pronouncements that cross border interference is against Sharifs policy. It added: While we, in India, cannot afford to lower our guard, we can only wish Sharif all the best in meeting (the many) tasks at hand.

As he is sworn-in as Pakistan prime minister for a third time, perhaps he will be third time lucky. It went on: The civilian leaderships equation with the Pakistani army and with the judiciary are crucial for strengthening the institutions of a democratic State. It noted that Pakistan had formidable challenges including on the economic front and that Islamabad would need US help to secure an IMF bailout.

CBI grills Raja Bhaiyya for UP cops murder

Lucknow Former Uttar Pradesh minister and independent legislator Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya was grilled by the CBI over the murder of Kunda deputy superintendent of police Ziaul-Haq and two others. Raja Bhaiyya, an independent legislator from Kunda, was quizzed for over seven hours by the CBI on charges levelled by Haqs widow, Parveen Azad.Parveen has accused Raja Bhaiyya of masterminding Haqs murder. He was questioned about his whereabouts at the time of the killing of Haq, Balipur village head Nanhe Yadav and his brother Suresh March 2. He was also asked questions about certain phone calls that were made to him in the aftermath of the triple murder. Also questioned was Hari Om Srivastava, Raja Bhaiyyas local representative, who is also an accused in the case.They were questioned about their proximity to another accused, Sanjay Pratap Singh aka Guddu Singh. Guddu, his brother Rajiv and Raja Bhaiyyas bodyguard Bullepal are in jail. Following the allegations and his name surfacing in the first information report (FIR), Raja Bhaiyya was asked to resign as Food and Civil Supplies minister by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minster Akhilesh Yadav. Several close aides of the former minister, including his legislator cousin Akshay Pratap Singh, have already been questioned by the CBI. However, Raja Bhaiyya has denied any role in the killings. Haq was killed in Pratapgarh after an angry mob went berserk following the murder of Balipur village head Nanhe Yadav and his brother Suresh Yadav. Four cases have been registered by the CBI regarding the triple murders.

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Congress, BJP trade barbs as CBI Decision to drop two ministers was joint books Kataria
New Delhi The CBI case against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gulab Chand Kataria in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh shootout case led to war of words between the BJP and the Congress with the former alleging it as a conspiracy by the ruling UPA and the latter questioning the opposition partys double standards. The booking of Kataria is not based on facts. It is a political conspiracy by the UPA to defame our leaders, BJP president Rajnath Singh told.We will fight the case both politically and legally, he said. Singh said that the party stands behind Kataria and it will expose the attempts of the CBI and the Congress both legally and politically. Arun Jaitley, BJPs leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, said the case was part of a well-planned conspiracy and there is not a shred of truthful evidence against him. Congress leaders hit back at the BJP. Home Minister Suhilkumar Shinde said that the BJP always cries foul when there are questions over its leaders. Whenever there is question about them, they do this. You have seen the Congress does not do misuse the CBI, Shinde told reporters here. Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed wondered how the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was terming the CBI charges against Kataria - who was Rajasthan home minister when Sohrabuddin was killed in 2005 - as not correct, while calling the charges against former railways minister P.K. Bansal as right. Bansal had to quit as railways minister last week following allegations that his nephew took a bribe of Rs.90 lakh to fix a post in the plum railway board for an official. New Delhi The Congress says that decision to drop Pawan Kumar Bansal and Ashwani Kumar from the cabinet was joint decision of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi even as BJP sought his resignation over reports that he was nudged into taking the decision. Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said that it had appeared in a section of the media that it was at the insistence of Gandhi that the two ministers were dropped. This perception is not correct. The correct position is that it was the joint decision of the Congress president and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, he said. Party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed also said that the decision to drop the two ministers was a mutually agreed decision of the prime minister and Congress president. Reports had suggested that Bansal and Kumar, seen to be close to the prime minister, were asked to resign after a nudge from Gandhi to the prime minister. Ahmed said it was wrong to say that the prime minister was reluctant to drop the two ministers after a decision had been taken. Senior BJP leader L. K. Advani Sunday hit out at prime minister

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This is puzzling, that the BJP thinks it is right when the Congress takes action on its own minister for corruption, but when its own people are concerned they say it is witch hunting by the CBI. They should explain, said Ahmed. The CBI has made a certain claim against P.K. Bansal, and the BJP is saying what the CBI says is true, but when it concerns Kataria, then they say something else. I am at a loss to understand this, he added. Holding posters and banners mocking the BJP, Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress (DPYC) protestors gathered outside the BJPs 11, Ashoka Road office in central Delhi and said the BJP was corrupt. The BJP is a total corrupt party and they have no right to attack our prime minister, who has such a clean image, Amit Malik, president of DPYC, told .Kataria, from Rajasthan, is the second high profile politician to be named in the alleged fake encounter case after former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah, considered close to Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Besides Kataria, the others summoned by a Mumbai court include Andhra Pradesh Indian Police Service officer N. Balasubramaniam, police inspector Shrinivas Rao, and R.K. Marbles director Vimal Patni. The developments follow a supplementary chargesheet. The Supreme Court had Sep 27 last year ordered the sensitive case to be transferred to Maharashtra after the CBI said that witnesses were being threatened and the trial could not be conducted in a free and fair manner in Gujarat. According to the CBI, Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi were allegedly kidnapped by Gujarat AntiTerrorist Squad from Hyderabad and killed in a gunfight near Gandhinagar in November 2005. A year later, Tulsiram Prajapati, a prime witness to the incident, was allegedly killed in another staged gunfight in Chapri village of Gujarats Banaskantha district.The CBI filed murder and conspiracy charges against Kataria, Balasubramanyam and two others in the Sohrabuddin shootout case.

Nod for common site for funeral rites of departed leaders

New Delhi A common memorial site for performing the last rites of departed national leaders, including presidents, vice presidents, prime ministers and other leaders is to come up near Ekta Sthal, located near Rajghat, in New Delhi. The union cabinet Thursday gave its approval for construction of a Rashtriya Smriti at the Samadhis Complex near Ekta Sthal in New Delhi, to establish a place to perform the last rites of departed national leaders namely presidents, vice presidents, prime ministers, former presidents, vice presidents, prime ministers and such other leaders as decided by the cabinet, said a statement. The cabinet had in 2000 taken a decision to have a common memorial site in the wake of shortage of land for

over reports that he was reluctant to drop the ministers and said that selfrespect demands he should quit. Has the prime minister abdicated his right even to decide about his own cabinet? Todays news reports about the removal of two union ministers generally emphasise that, it is Soniaji who has sacked two PMs men. Sheer self-respect demands that the PM calls it a day, and orders an early general election, Advani wrote in his blog. Bansal had resigned following the arrest of his nephew for allegedly accepting Rs.90 lakh for fixing a promotion in Railway Board. Kumar quit in the wake of controversy over his vetting the Central Board of Investigation (CBI) probe report in the coal block allocations. The BJP is also demanding prime ministers resignation over coal block allocation controversy.

Resist political pressure or pay for it, SC tells co-op registrars

New Delhi The Supreme Court Thursday said that the registrar or the joint registrar of co-operative societies should resist political pressures and if they choose to succumb to it then they would be personally liable to bear the cost of litigation that would arise out of their decisions inspired by extraneous considerations. Registrar/joint registrar shall not act under political pressure or influence and, if they do, be subjected to disciplinary proceedings and be also held personally liable for the cost of the legal proceedings, said an apex court bench of Justice K.S.Radhakrihnan and Justice Justice Dipak Misra in their judgment. Registrar/joint registrar therefore is duty bound to exercise his powers bona fide and not on the dictation or direction of those who are in power, said the judgment pronounced by Justice Radhakrishnan. The court imposed a cost of Rs.1 lakh on Madhya Pradesh government that it would pay to the Madhya Pradesh Legal Services Authority within one month. It also imposed cost of Rs.10,000 on the joint registrar, co-operative societies, Sagar who had passed the order superseding the board of directors of District Cooperative Central Bank Ltd., Panna. The court said that the sum, to be deducted from his salary, would be deposited with District Co-operative Bank within two months. The court said this while dismissing two appeal against the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court by which the high court) had set aside the order of the Sagar joint registrar, passed without previous consultation with the Reserve Bank of India. Such a consultation with the RBI is provided under the second proviso to Section 53(1) of the Madhya Pradesh Cooperative Societies Act, 1960. The board of directors was superseded Sep 30, 2011 but the high court set aside the decision by its order dated Feb 13, 2012. The order of the high court was challenged by the Madhya Pradesh government and the joint registrar. Stating that it had failed to notice why the Madhya Pradesh government and the department of cooperative societies had taken so much interest in this litigation, Justice Radhakrishnan said that the state government should not spend public money in unnecessary litigation involving dispute between different factions of the society. Public money not to be spent by the state government or the registrar for unnecessary litigation involving disputes between various factions in a co-operative society. Tax-payers money is not expected to be spent for settling those disputes. If found necessary, the same

be spent from the funds available with the concerned bank, said one of the seven general directions issued by the court. Directing that the elected body should be allowed to complete the term for which it is elected, the court sad that the supersession of an elected managing committee/ board should be an exception and be resorted to only in exceptional circumstances. The court further directed that the elected committee in office be not penalised for the short-comings or illegalities committed by the previous committee, unless there is any deliberate inaction in rectifying the illegalities committed by the previous committees. The court said that the approach in dealing with the co-operative societies should be making them correct their mistakes that are pointed out in the audit report and for which they should be given sufficient time, say at least six months. Underlining that registrar/joint registrar are legally obliged to comply with all the statutory formalities, including consultation with the financing banks/controlling banks etc, the court said that they should always bear in mind the consequences of an order of supersession which not only ousts the board, but also disqualify its members from contesting the succeeding elections.

separate memorials. The memorials there, including Rajghat for Mahatma Gandhi, Shantivan - for Jawaharlal Nehru, Shakti Sthal - for Indira Gandhi, Samta Sthal for Jagjivan Ram - are built on sprawling lawns. Earlier, separate memorials for departed national leaders were created near Rajghat which covered a large space. In view of Cabinet decision taken in the year 2000 that Henceforth Government shall not develop any Samadhi for departed leaders and the paucity of land at the Samadhis Complex area, Rashtriya Smriti is being developed to perform last rites of departed national leaders. The Smriti area will provide space for last rites of departed national leaders in future, besides space for a public gathering, the statement said.

Digvijay Singh attacks judiciary

New Delhi Congress leader Digvijay Singh launched an indirect attack on the judiciary for calling the Central Bureau of Investigation a caged parrot. The Congress leader said such comments belittle national institutions. CBI is a parrot in a cage, a bench calls IB (Intelligence Bureau) a chicken... Now, I have put a question to the people in general - are we not belittling our institutions? the Congress general secretary asked reporters. The Supreme Court dubbed the CBI a caged parrot last week, while making observations after the investigation agency submitted an affidavit on the governments interference

in its probe report on coal block allocations. The Bangalore bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) said Sunday that the Information Bureau (IB) was like a chicken, while hearing a petition from a woman Indian Police Service officer who sought revocation of the move to send her back to her original cadre, ending her deputation to the IB. When reporters asked Digvijaya Singh for his reaction to the analogy between institutions and fowl, he said: I will also request you to get access to all those who are calling institutions chicken or parrot, you should get reaction from them as well.

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A presentation during the meeting stated that over 13 lakh visitors visited Kashmir Valley during 2012 while the number of pilgrims visiting the Mata Vaishno Devi was over 103 lakhs. Besides, more than 6.21 lakh pilgrims visited the Amarnath Cave shrine and Ladakh received more than 1.79 lakh visitors last year. The meeting also noted that 66 tourist development projects have been completed in the last four years, while work on the mega tourism projects like the Trans-Himalayan Cultural Centre at Leh - estimated to cost Rs.22.43 crore, Nagaar-NagarWatlab project in Kashmir (over Rs.38 crore) and conservation and restoration of Mubarak Mandi Heritage Complex is on. Three more mega projects of Sufi Circuit in Kashmir, Spiritual Circuit in Jammu and Buddhist Circuit for Leh, each involving Rs. 50 crore have been prepared and submitted to the central government.

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Peace imperative for growth of tourism in Aftershocks from May 1 quake continue in Jammu areas Kashmir: Omar
Sringar Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Monday stressed that peace and tranquility hold the key to groom and grow the tourism industry in the state for which over Rs.383 crores have been sanctioned during the last four years by his government. People from all the three regions of the state are equal stakeholders in the tourism industry. Balanced approach has to be taken to rope in tourists from within the country and abroad, he said. Chairing the tourism advisory committee meeting here, he said that the tourist market for Kashmir in southeast Asia, Middle East, Gulf countries and Germany need to be harnessed in full besides working for attracting tourists from other foreign countries. The government is making all endeavours to help holistic development of tourism by encouraging adventure, sports, pilgrim and conventional tourism in the state and help creation of up to the mark infrastructure with the aim to generate economic activities and expand job market for youth, he said, calling on private players in this industry have complement government efforts so that the stupendous goals are achieved.

The government has also extended concession on hotel tariff tax by one year besides reducing VAT on sale of cooked food items from 13.5 to 5 percent. Various sports, cultural, adventure and other events were held within the state to promote tourism while as participation in road shows, rallies and marts was made within and outside the country to showcase Jammu and Kashmir tourism, the meeting was told. For the capacity building programme, about 10,000 youth have been trained under the Hunar-seRozgar programme during the last four years and out of these, about 5,000 have already been absorbed in the tourism industry. During the next four years, more than 25,000 youth will be trained under this programme.

War-like store of arms seized near LoC in Kashmir

Jammu Jammu and Kashmirs mountainous Doda and Kishtwar districts are getting aftershocks even a fortnight after the May 1 earthquake of 5.8 magnitude that led to one person being killed about 100 injured. On Tuesday night, people of the region once again panicked when tremors shook the area. Four shocks, with magnitudes of 3.8 to 4.8 on the Richter scale, rocked Doda and Kishtwar districts Tuesday night, a met department official in Srinagar said. Though we cannot forecast earthquakes but from experience we can say that aftershocks occur till the tectonic plates stabilise. This can take from five days to 20, Abdul Rashid Zargar told over the phone. According to Doda Deputy Commissioner Mubarak Singh, the region had experienced 28 aftershocks since May 1. This has naturally caused panic among the people here.

The area is mountainous and many parts are inaccessible. We are still in the process of assessing the losses. So far, we have recorded damage to 37,000 buildings, including residential, government, religious, educational and others. Of these, 600 are totally damaged and 9,000 severely damaged, he said. The monetary losses are still being evaluated. The administration is gradually reaching out to the effected families and is providing tents and ration to them, the official said. Many of those injured in the May 1 quake are children as many school buildings were damaged in the shocks. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said school buildings had been disproportionately damaged as compared to other structures and this needed to be looked into. We have to ascertain why this has happened and what is the cause is for it, he said while directing the planning minister to engage an independent third-party.

Jammu The Jammu and Kashmir state police and army troops in a joint operation unearthed a large cache of arms and ammunition from a location close to the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan in Poonch district Saturday evening. A defence spokesman in Jammu said the cache was a war-like store. Based on specific intelligence inputs about cache, a joint search operation was launched by the army

India-Israel to set up centre for fruits Haryana to close 1,372 in Haryana

Sirsa Having set up a Centre of Excellence for Vegetables in 2011, India and Israel have now joined hands for setting up a Centre of Excellence for Fruits in Haryana, an official said here Wednesday. Set up under an Indo-Israel project, the new centre will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Mangeana village of Haryanas Sirsa district May 21, a state government spokesperson said. The centre for fruits will be spread over an area of 72 acres. The centre for vegetables is in Gharaunda town near Karnal. Ambassador of Israel Alon Ushpiz will also present during the inaugural ceremony. Saplings of citrus fruits, pomegranate, olive, guava and date had been planted in this centre. Apart from this, shed net house, anti-insect house and high-tech greenhouse had also been set up. Indo-Israel technology is being applied in this centre. Micro-irrigation with automatic system had been installed in separate blocks of orchards and nursery, the spokesperson said. He added that horticulture farming would enhance income of farmers and fresh juice would be available to people of the adjoining areas. Over 8,300 hectares of land have been brought under horticulture cultivation in Sirsa district in west Haryana, 270 km from here. The vegetables centre project in Gharaunda, in which both countries share technology and jointly undertake protected cultivation of various vegetables, including tomatoes, cucumbers and capsicum, has been operational since January 2011. Chandigarh The Haryana government is likely to order the closure of 1,372 schools in the state for violating the provisions the Right to Education (RTE) act, an official said Thursday. The department of school education has a plan to close all the identified 1,372 schools that are being run contrary to the provisions of Section 18 of the (The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education) Act, a departmental spokesman said.

and Jammu and Kashmir Police in Sabra Nala of Mendhar, Poonch district , Saturday afternoon, the spokesman said. The area is 230 km northwest of Jammu. By evening, security forces recovered a war-like store from a hideout. A large quantity of weapons, ammunition and magazines were seized, A among them were: two AK 47 rifles with plastic magazine, one 7mm caliber weapon with magazine, one bolt action rifle,

three 7mm pistols with .30 calibre magazine, one 7.65mm pistol with magazine, one under-barrel grenade launcher (UBGL), five magazines of AK 47, 1019 rounds ammunition of AK 47, two magazine of .30 calibre pistol, three rounds of .30 calibre pistol, four rounds ammunition of 7.65 calibre pistol, one Arges grenade, besides six radio sets and two mobile phones. The spokesman described the recovery as a major blow to efforts of revival of terrorism in the state.

Chandigarh The Haryana Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sealed an unauthorised factory which was selling medical devices, especially heart kits, to hospitals in national capital, a spokesman said here Thursday. A factory of medical devices, M/s Super Cardio Pvt Ltd, Bahadurgarh, which was being run without any manufacturing licence, has been raided by a team of and they have seized medical devises worth Rs.4 lakh, the spokesman said. Life saving devices were being manufactured under unhygienic conditions without following the good manufacturing practices provided in

Unauthorised factory selling heart kits to Delhi hospitals sealed

Schedule-M of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules. The devices, known as Heart Lung Pack, are used in major surgeries, including heart surgery, he said. He added that the devices were being supplied by the factory to major hospitals in the national capital, including government institutes. All the devices were sealed in 23 cartons and produced before chief judicial magistrate at Jhajjar, he said. FDA Commissioner Rakesh Gupta said that prosecution under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act would be launched in the court against the factory owners.

schools for RTE violations

He said that the department has cautioned people against such schools and urged them not to admit their wards in them. These schools are running in an unauthorized manner. People should help the department by informing it about any such school which is being run without permission and authority in their neighbourhood so that the appropriate action in accordance with rules can be taken against such schools, he added.

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Stay fashionable while travelling

A pair of casual jeans, stylish cotton tees, sunglasses and hats are a must when you are travelling, says designer Rina Dhaka and adds that women should carry outfits and accessories according to the nature of destination. A woman should carry clothes according to the place she is going to. If you are going on a holiday on a beach, carry light-weight resort wear like one-piece dresses, short skirts and cocktail gowns in bright colours with matching accessories and shoes. She added: If you are going to a holy place, carry something ethnic. One should always carry a pair of casual jeans and stylish cotton tees. Also, I am fond of accessories like sunglasses and hats. I carry them everywhere, but I tend to loose them. An avid traveller, Dhaka recently visited Amritsar, Pushkar, Benaras, Mumbai and Lucknow for Fox Travellers show Style And The City. I have been travelling all my life for my collections. Recently, when I was in Amritsar, I dressed like a Punjabi kudi. I wore salwar kameez and covered my head with a dupatta. When I go to markets, I wear tees, off shoulder top, jeans or palazzos. I wear a gown or a dress when I attend an evening function, said Dhaka known for her expertise in creating bridal wear. Although she is still particular about her wardrobe, but make-up doesnt interest her any more. Now I really dont bother about wearing make-up. I just apply sunscreen lotion and thats it. I feel I am too old to wear make-up, she said. But suggests that one should carry bright coloured lip shades, nail colours and kohl for daytime. For evening parties, go for heavy make-up, depending on the place you are going to, she added.

The records given below are verified by India Book of Records as National Records, and has been published in India Book of Records 2013. All the photographs are copyright of India Book of Records.
NON STOP DANCING OF MARAKKAL ATTAM ON TALLEST MARAKKAL

Kite surfing to be unveiled in India

Mumbai An exciting pulse-racing event, kitesurfing, awaits adventure lovers in the costal district of Raigad coming weekend. It is for the first time in India that as many as 70 Indian kite-surfers will take part in the showpiece event, which will be guided by 20-year old Ines Correia, the 2011 Womens World Kitesurf champion and current top-ranked in Kite Surf Pro World Ranking and Wave Riding World Ranking. On Thursday-Friday, she will take to the sea at Mandwa, in Raigad and judge the participants based on speed, manoeuverability and attitude, before eliminating 20 kitesurfers on both days. The remaining shall travel to the famous Murud-Janjira Fort for the final round Saturday (May 25), in the event organised by Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation, Red Bull and Quest Adventures Pvt Ltd.

This is a one of its kind kitesurfing event which is hardly known in India and will enable the kitesurfers to circle the skies above the Murud-Janjira Fort, situated nearly a kilometre in the Arabian Sea off Raigad, said a spokesperson. The final lot of participants selected

after the Murud-Janjira Fort event, entitled Red Bull Quila Surf, will travel to Tuticorin Port for an exclusive two-day training with Ines Correia. There, Correia will teach them how to enhance their kite surfing techniques, details on cross-shore and

on-shore winds, safety, fitness regimen and other aspects of the tough adventure sport. Situated around 170 kms south of Mumbai on Konkan coast, the Murud-Janjira Fort was built around 1490 by the Siddis of Abyssinia. It remained unconquered during its heydays and till Indias Independence despite efforts by the Portuguese, Marathas and British. The marine fort, standing tall and imposing even today with 19 bastions, is in a relatively good condition even after five centuries of battering by natural and human forces. According to the organisers of Red Bull Quila Surf, the ancient fort is ideal for kitesurfing as it allows the wind to curve off the fort walls and enhances the windsurfing experience. Presently, lovers of windsurfing in India have to spend huge amounts and travel to certain countries like the US, Australia, South Africa where there are strong winds, for the enjoyable experience.

D. Govindharaj (born on October 24, 1992) from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, performed the dance Marakkal Attam continuously for 8 hours on a 5 ft high marakkal, at the Record Breakers Festival, on April 14, 2013, at the MGM resort, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. MOST ROLLS OF A COIN ACROSS THE FINGERS

Pradeep Kumar (born on June 7, 1987) of Erode, Tamil Nadu, rolled a coin across his fingers for a total of 15 times, at the Record Breakers Festival, on April 14, 2013, at the MGM resort, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. YOUNGEST CCNA AND IELTS

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K. Visalini (born on May 23, 2000) from Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, became a CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) at the age of 12 by scoring 90% in the exam. She also became the youngest to pass IELTS (International English Language Testing System), an International standardized test of English language proficiency with a band score of 6. MOST OMELETTES MADE IN 10 MINUTES

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NIPS School of Hotel Management, Kolkata, organised an event in which a total of 150 students of the institute prepared 188 different varieties of omlettes, including Baby Corn Omelette, Banana Omelette, Cheese Omelette and many more, in just 10 minutes, on March 17, 2012. They prepared the omlettes at their Campus itself.

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The first session of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR)
New Delhi, Special Correspondent

Till recently, the approach to Disaster Management has been reactive and relief centric. A paradigm shift has now taken place at the national level from the relief centric syndrome to holistic and integrated approach with emphasis on prevention, mitigation and preparedness. These efforts are aimed to conserve developmental gains as also minimize losses to lives, livelihood and property. A two day National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR) was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh at Vigyan Bhawan , New Delhi on 14th and 15th May 2013.The NPDRR was created by the government in February. It aims to bring together stake holders including the government, parliamentarians, mayors, media, international organisations, NGOs, local community representatives, scientific and academic institutions and corporate businesses. The two-day conference was held on the theme Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in Development: From Risk to Resilience. It would guide central, state and other concerned agencies on the implementation of the disaster management policy. The Disaster Management Act was legislated in 2005. Though the first session had a great aim the attendance in terms of stake holders was a great cause of worry. While only about eight states managed to give active participation , some of the most disaster prone states were missing. The organizers managed the show very well in terms of ambience but the discussions were dominated by the academicians and mired by technical details and thus at times it seemed that the theme of Risk Reduction was lost somewhere in the jargon of earthquakes and tsunamis. Overall it was good effort to begin with and the general feeling of the delegates was that atleast we now have a platform. The representatives of few NGOs who attended the session were lost as a minority in the crowd of officials in attendance.

Long way to go for disaster mitigation, says PM

India has made progress in institutions for disaster prevention and mitigation but there is still a long way to go, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said and called for the involvement of communities in the effort. The prime minister called for mechanisms to provide risk insurance and contingent credit facilities to people affected by natural disasters. Addressing the first session of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR) here, the prime minister called for greater attention to arrangements for providing funds to people to cope with losses suffered in the wake of natural disasters. The current systems, particularly at the national level, lack institutional incentives and do not promote mechanisms such as risk insurance and contingent credit facilities, Singh said. The development of such... arrangements is particularly important because they typically serve as a primary source of immediate funding that would reduce human suffering, economic losses and fiscal pressures in the aftermath of natural disasters, Singh said. He said disaster management is an area of vital national importance and integration of disaster risk reduction strategies into development initiatives must necessarily involve local communities. We must make full use of our Panchayat Raj institutions to achieve this objective, the prime minister said. He said managing disasters is necessarily a collaborative and complex exercise involving central, state and local governments and civil society organisations and people at large. I believe that while we have made encouraging progress in recent years in putting in place institutions and mechanisms for disaster prevention and mitigation, we have still a large distance to travel, the prime minister said. Noting that the 10th Five Year Plan for the first time emphasised the need to consider disaster risk as a developmental issue, he said the development processes could not be really sustainable without risk mitigation efforts being built into them.

He said the 12th Five Year Plan focuses on the new developments that have taken place in the area of disaster risk reduction, like early warning systems and communications, and mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction in some of our major development programmes. For example, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme now includes drought mitigation efforts as an eligible activity allowed to be taken up under the scheme, the prime minister said. He said the national platform for disaster risk management meets Indias commitment to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. He said India was among 80 countries which have a national platform. Noting that India was vulnerable to a large range of natural and man-made disasters, including earthquakes, floods, droughts, cyclones, landslides and industrial accidents, he said climate change has posed fresh new challenges in recent years. These are in the form of the increased intensity and frequency of disasters like floods, cyclones and droughts. We must, therefore, ensure that disaster preparedness and development of adequate disaster response mechanisms receive priority attention, he said. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said there was a need for strict enforcement of hazard reduction design, and making the community informed about safety measures. He called for an effective technolegal regime so that unsafe buildings in seismically vulnerable areas are scrutinised properly. We have to take measures so that disaster risk reduction becomes an integral part of the planning process, he said.

Bikram Singh Majithia Proposes permanent NDMC at Ludhiana

Taking part in the the inaugural session the Punjab Revenue & Rehabilitation Minister Bikram Singh Majithia pointed out that keeping in view the gravity of various disasters right from flash floods to earthquakes, industrial , air , train and road accidents, it was high time to chalk out our effective Disaster Management Plans both at National as well as states level to deal with any eventuality besides ensuring preventive measures. He underlined the need for major enhancement in the present limit of Rs.6000 per hectare compensation under State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF), in case of crop damage beyond50%. He said that keeping in view the rising input costs in agriculture and its more vulnerability to adverse climatic challenges; it becomes imperative to double this amount immediately. He informed that Punjab government was paying Rs.5000 per acre i.e. Rs.12500 per hectare by itself bleeding for this huge difference. He also demanded to double the damage compensation for loss of cattle heads and house due to various natural calamities. He also advocated for a comprehensive techno legal regime to limit the ill effects of disasters through formation of effective policies, guidelines and bye laws and their strict enforcement by relevant state departments, local bodies, agencies and private establishments. The Revenue Minister informed that the Punjab being one of Indias prosperous states was equally vulnerable to both natural & manmade disasters. He pointed out that due to severe drought during last Paddy season, the Punjab government and hard working farming community of

the state had to bleed themselves to ensure the food security of the country. He lamented that even after in principal admission, the Union government did not grant a single penny to state against a demand of Rs. 5112 crore drought compensation. Reiterating the Punjab governments demand for setting up of a permanent National Disaster Management Centre at Ludhiana , Majithia revealed that the State had already offered 50 acre of land free of cost to Government of India for this purpose. He pointed out that in a recent major Industrial Accident in Jalandhar, 7th Battalion of NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) stationed at Bathinda played a laudable role in rescue operation, that was widely appreciated. He revealed that his government has already started the process for preparing detailed Disaster Management Plan at village, block, district and state level and at the level of individual departments through active participation of various stake holders. Besides this, the State has already developed its Disaster Man-

agement Policy, Standard Operating Procedures, and Training Manuals for various stake holders. He further said that the State has constituted its own State Disaster Response Force. A total of 600 persons of Punjab Armed Police have been trained by an NDRF Battalion, Bathinda for this purpose. More than 65,000 village volunteers and 1.30 Lac school children along-with teachers have been trained on search and rescue and life saving practices during in 13 districts of the state. 10 District level and One State level emergency operation centre has been established. Remaining 12 district emergency operation centres would be set up in one year, he added. The Revenue Minister also demanded to raise the 5% bar on SDRF for creation of Disaster Response Infrastructure to minimum 20% so that required infrastructure could be created to meet any eventuality due to any calamity strike. He also demands for provision of at least 10 percent of SDRF money for preparatory or emergency flood protection measures.

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Mood of the Workers Survey

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U Connectt-SMI conducted a comprehensive survey of the workers of leading political parties of Chandigarh in the run up to Lok SabhaElections. This is a follow up survey to our mood of the voters survey conducted in immediate aftermath of the CBI raids on MP PawanBansals kin, that predicted a slender lead for the Congress in the city.

Introduction

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.Nelson Mandela Leadership of a political party constitutes the thin line between a win or a loss in the hyper competitive world of politics. Most electoral surveys try to predict the treacherous voting behaviour of general electorate. Electorate can and often gets swayed by last minute machinations or incidents thus bringing the electoral conclusions of a detailed survey to nought. Such machinations and incidents are set off by the stronger organizations or electoral teams. Therefore to make any political analysis comprehensive it is imperative to survey the voters and the participants alike. Political parties rely on foot soldiers to plan and implement their electoral strategies. In tough electoral battles a well oiled organization capability and high morale of workers can prove to be a life saving asset for a candidate. Victory in an election is the sum total of candidate plus organization convincing the voters to vote for their side.

We asked the workers Q) What are your partys chances in Lok Sabha polls nationally? Q) Is your local party in fine shape for next elections? Q) Please express your preference from the part panel of probable candidates BJP: a) Satyapal Jain b) Sanjay Tandon c) Harmohan Dhawan d) Others INC: a) Pawan Kumar Bansal b) BB Behal c) Manish Tiwari d) Others BSP: Candidate declared (Mrs. Jannat Jahan) Q) Should High Command decide the candidature? Q) How excited you are personally about the next elections?

Methodology

The survey was conducted across a randomized crossection of workers and party executive members to avoid the pitfalls of groupism and coterie management. SMI sampled over 200+ workers across parties and civic society denominations. We came across coarse language and aggressive posturing by some workers eager to please their political godfathers. Such behaviour is suggestive of the fierce power struggle taking place behind the scenes.

Party Wise Analysis

BJP: Split Cadre and Confused Workers
The Bharatiya Janata Party is a mirror copy of its national condition. The workers of BJP are sensing a mood for change amongst the electorate but are not sure of channelizing that into a way to ensure the party victory. When team SMI contacted the workers and leaders within the party, an atmosphere of suspicion and hesitation was observed. Local BJP President Mr. Sanjay Tandon and former MP Mr. Satya Pal Jain are locked in a bitter and close fight to emerge as the workers choice. There is a small section of the party that wants an outsider candidate to preserve the unity of the local unit of the party.

The mood of the workers survey for BJP yielded the following answers Q) What are your partys chances in Lok Sabha polls nationally? Good 73% Average 5% Bad 10% Cant say 12% Q) Is your local party in fine shape for next elections? Yes 40% No 50% Cant say 10% Q) Please express your preference from the part panel of probable candidates BJP: a) Satyapal Jain b) Sanjay Tandon c) Harmohan Dhawan d) Others a) 35% b) 38% c) 19% d) 8% Q) Should High Command decide the candidature? Yes 92% No 8% Q) How excited you are personally about the next elections? Significantly 25% Average 47% Not Much 28%

INC: United Cadre but Confusing Environment

amongst the electorate, Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal is clearly the leader when it comes to cadre preference. The other names in the currency include BB Behal, Manish Tiwari and unnamed high commands choice. Q) What are your partys chances in Lok Sabha polls nationally? Good 30% Average 43% Bad 5% Cant say 22% Q) Is your local party in fine shape for next elections? Yes 60% No 30% Cant say 10% Q) Please express your preference from the part panel of probable candidates BJP: a) Pawan Bansal b)BB Behal c) Manish Tiwari d) Others a) 57% b) 21% c) 12% d) 10% Q) Should High Command decide the candidature? Yes 95% No 5% Q) How excited you are personally about the next elections? Significantly 39% Average 50% Not Much 11% The INC does present a more coherent and cogent face to the outsider however they are facing adverse environment in terms of anti-incumbency and the image of the central government. Despite the negative factors INC is still in the play due to its more robust organizational structure.

manage their elections really well, they could set the stage for a triangular contest on this seat. The morale survey for BSP under Mrs Jahan is as follows Q) What are your partys chances in Lok Sabha polls nationally? Good 67% Average 21% Bad 5% Cant say 7% Q) Is your local party in fine shape for next elections? Yes 82% No 3% Cant say 15% Since candidature and leadership are a settled affair for the BSP, the main question was about morale. Ironically enough the party that has only a stiff outside chance at winning the seat has the most enthusiastic workers in it fold. Perhaps something to take away for the big two!

Conclusion:

The Survey:

The aim of the survey was to temper our voter survey with thought process of the workers of leading political parties of Chandigarh. We asked the workers of BJP, INC, BSP and civil society about their morale, preferences and predictions with reference to the upcoming ChandigarhLok Sabha polls.

The Indian National Congress occupies the other end of the political spectrum in the citys politics. Reminding one of the dominance enjoyed once by JN Kaushal, Pawan Bansal the incumbent MP looked all set for a comfortable repeat till April 2013. However the CBI raids on his kin and the subsequent activity by his detractors within the party has helped open a chink in his armour. Despite a decline in his support

Others:

The most significant player in the others category is Mrs. Jannat Jahan of the BSP who was officially declared as the BSP candidate for the Chandigarh seat. It beggars mention that she is the wife of Anwar Ul Haq who secured over 11,000 votes on his own steam in the previousLok Sabha elections. Haqs personal vote coupled with transferable and sticky vote bank of BSP is a potent threat to the big two in the fray. If the Haqs

The parties in the fray should resolve the leadership and candidature issues at the earliest to have a good shot at winning the seat. Current crop of workers is a relatively well networked educated class that dislikes being kept in ambiguity. BJP is at a significant disadvantage due to a lack of direction stalling its upward momentum in the current environment of distrust against the central government. INC needs to be cautious about its slender lead as BSP has fielded a significant vote splitter as its candidate that will prey upon its traditional vote bank. Despite the voter trend of closing the gap between BJP and the INC, the final results may turn out to be significantly divergent from voter opinion polls on account of the degree to which leadership feuds will get resolved by the parties concerned.

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I am a loner: Ranbir Kapoor Jolie underwent double mastectomy to

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Los Angeles Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie says she has had a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of getting breast cancer and that her partner Brad Pitt was very supportive. Jolies mothr died of breast cancer at 56. The 37-year-old said she had had reconstructive surgery with implants, nine weeks after the operation at the start of February. I carried a faulty gene, BRCA1, which sharply increased my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer. My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman, Jolie said in a first person account in the New York Times. Only a fraction of breast cancers result from an inherited gene mutation. Those with a defect in BRCA1 have a 65 percent risk of getting it, on average. Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex, she added. Jolie said that on April 27, she finished the three months of medical procedures that the mastectomies involved. During that time I had been able to

Mumbai Actor Ranbir Kapoor, who loves travelling, says he is a loner and prefers to travel alone. I like to travel alone and over the years I have become a loner. I dont need any company... I can even have my lunch alone. I am very comfortable with myself and dont need any company, the 30-year-old told reporters at an event organised by MakeMyTrip here .The online portal announced its role as official travel partner of the upcoming film Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. The youth-centric romantic drama has been directed by Ayan Mukerji and also features Deepika Padukone.

Recollecting his memories of his first trip with his friends, Ranbir said: My first trip with my friends was when I finished my 10th standard and we went to Goa. It was a great experience as it was my first trip without my parents. The way I looked at life completely changed after that trip. I cant say what we did there. When asked what his favourite romantic destination is, the actor says romance can happen anywhere. Ranbir says: I think romance can happen anywhere. There is no romantic destination as such. As long as you are in love with a person, there is nothing like it.

keep this private and to carry on with my work. But I am writing about it now because I hope that other women can benefit from my experience, she wrote further. Discussing her minimal scars after surgery, Jolie said: On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity. Crediting her partner Brad Pitt for his support, she added that the procedure had brought them closer as a couple. I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive. So to anyone who has a wife or girlfriend going through this, know that you are a very important part of the transition. Brad was at the

Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries. We managed to find moments to laugh together. We knew this was the right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us closer. And it has, she wrote. Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low-and middle-income countries. I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options, said Jolie.

My struggle strengthened my bond with my daughter: Shweta Tiwari

Mumbai Television actress Shweta Tiwari has been through a lot in her personal life, but says her daughter was the one constant support in her life and their bonding became stronger while battling problems together. I think whatever has been happening in my life, after that the bonding between my daughter and me has become stronger. She was with me through all the troubles and difficulties, Shweta told IANS. She was just 18 when she married Raja Chaudhary but after seven years of marriage, the two separated. Their divorce was finalised last year. They have 12-year-old daughter Palak. The 32-year-olds hectic schedule and erratic working hours do not allow her to spend quality time with her daughter, who has found a solution in the form of letters to stay connected with her busy mom. We dont have time for Mothers Day. My daughter always tries to make me feel special...She writes letters and makes cards. She writes things, which I dont know she wants to say. Many times if she has done something wrong, she confesses in these letters... She sticks them in the entire house and when I come back, I read them, she said. Talking about the understanding between them, Shweta said her daughter knows that I am busy and by the time I come back, she is asleep. She knows she will not get the time to tell me anything and the fact that I dont get time on the phone as well, she said. The actress, currently seen as a hands on mother in Parvarrish - Kuchh Khatti Kuchh Meethi, is hard pressed for time in real life. Do you fear missing important events in Palaks life? This is a reality of my life. I do miss most of her important events. There are times when I am not there with her. I feel bad and guilty for being so busy, she said. Sometimes her daugther does complain. But once she calms down, she comes to me and lies down next to me and says sorry. I am so happy that I have brought her up in a way where she understands and is sensible, she said. But these small things do not affect their bonding and Shweta, not a strict mom, feels they are more like friend. I am very close to my daughter. I dont try to be strict with her. I try to be friendly and find out things about her life from her. She tells me everything. She also tells me stuff, which she doesnt tell her friends. I think I am her best friend, she said. Talking about her bond with her own mother, Shweta revealed that her mother was supportive too. Recalling an incident from her childhood, she said: I was young and had to complete a project. I needed some shiny papers. It was a holiday and no shops were open. My mom went out looking for ciga-

Barrymore likes to play roles in reel life too

Los Angeles Actress Drew Barrymore and her husband Will Kopelman like to role play. The couple will often have dates nights at various hotels where they pretend to be strangers who meet at the bar, reports contactmusic. com. Theyll get a sitter for their daughter, Olive, and take turns arranging a monthly overnight stay. Theyll meet at the bar and pretend to be business travellers. Once Drew dressed up as a chambermaid and Will was a hotel guest, a source told Star magazine. Drew has previously spoken about her and Wills night out without their daughter, saying it is important for their relationship that they have time alone. You just have to do it, you just have to squeeze in the occasional date night. For our last date night he took me downtown for ramen noodles. Of course I woke up so swollen the next day from all of the salt that I looked like a puffer fish but it was worth it, she said.

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Amitabh addresses Cannes audience in Hindi

New Delhi It was a historic moment for Amitabh Bachchan to be invited to open the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival with his The Great Gatsby co-star Leonardo DiCaprio. Big B made the experience more special by addressing the audience in his mother tongue Hindi. Truly a historic moment for me, but immensely historic and honourable for the Indian film industry, a fraternity that I am and shall always be most proud of, Bollywood Amitabh posted on his blog srbachchan.tumblr. com. The Cannes extravaganza celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema this year, and Amitabh was there also for the premiere of his Hollywood debut movie The Great Gatsby. The 70-year-old veteran was truly delighted at the importance given to him at the fest. It was an emotional experience, he shared on Twitter. The honour and respect meted out by Cannes, incredible. Announcing suddenly for Leonardo DiCaprio and myself to open the festival. With the entire world film fraternity at Cannes, applauding and welcoming our presence, treating us like royalty ... its emotional. For a complete alien in the midst of Cannes to be acknowledged, is the proudest moment for me as an Indian. Acknowledging Cannes in recognising 100 years of Indian cinema, it was absolutely imperative for me to address, in my mother tongue, posted Big B.

New Delhi Designer Sabyassachi Mukherjee, the man behind styling Vidya Balans look at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival, says that as India is known as a bling country he used a little embellishment to bring freshness. Vidya made three appearances in traditional Indian costumes - maroon lehenga, an ivory sari paired with a brown blouse and light pink anarkali

Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya not Shruti Haasans comeback film

Mumbai After a two-year gap, Shruti Haasan returns to Hindi movies with Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya and clarifies that the Prabhudheva directorial venture cant be tagged as her comeback movie. Actually I dont believe in the concept (of coming back in Bollywood). Once you have debuted in films, you are here for life, hopefully. But having said that, this (Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya) was an absolutely brilliant opportunity, Shruti told reporters here Wednesday at the music launch of the film. I enjoyed playing the character. It was an enjoyable experience and I hope the audience enjoy the films as much as we enjoyed making it, added the 27-year-old. Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya, a love story, also features Girish Kumar, Sonu Sood, Vinod Khanna, Randhir Kapoor and Poonam Dhillon.

- on three different occasions on the festival inaugural day Wednesday. Mukherjee says she was dressed in a purist ethnic look, almost like a Golconda princess. Drawing inspiration from William Dalrymples book The White Mughal and the bygone days of princesses, the outfits were made with Indian textiles such as khadi, kanjeevaram, handspun cottons, and Benarsi textiles.

The designs were accessorised with traditional jewellery, strings of pearls, sapphires and beautifully set polkis by Amrapali and Pankaj Surana. India has always been a country of excess, rather than minimalism. We brought back what India truly stands for. Cannes saw a representation of Indian textiles and handicrafts. The jewellery is by Pankaj Surana and Amrapali, the designer said in a statement.

He shared how the director of Cannes (was) delighted to hear the music of the Hindi language spoken as it brought in the universality of the occasion. Big B also loved watching The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann. I loved The Great Gatsby better the second time ... understood the nuances, the words, the pathos and energy, he added. The actor plays Meyer Wolfsheim in the $125 million 3D project, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel of the same name.

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Health, finance will improve. You might be attracted towards opposite sex and may fall in love at first sight. People in authority will be ARIES supportive. Sun, Jupiter Mar 21-Apr 19 and Venus and Mercury in your second house will provide all sorts of comfort. Try to maintain cordial relations with spouse and business partners. Remedies for Ketu and Rahu is suggested. Some gain through speculation is seen, health will also improve, but overall mental strain is seen. LIBRA Do not let emotions Sep 23 - Oct 22 catch you. Gain from inheritance is on the cards. People in medical profession can do well. Some genitourinary problems are indicated. Some unexpected gain can cheer your mood. Remedies of Rahu and Ketu is suggested.

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Religiousness, Good health, good finances, and good business. Some anxiety related to property or mother. TAURUS Children will bring Apr 20 - May 20 in good news. You shall gain from speculation. You siblings will be happy this week. Beware of your enemies as they can try to tarnish your image. Remedy for Ketu is suggested.
Good health, good business, and good income. This weeks promises you to go beyond your limits and do the unachievable. Be cautious SCORPIO about hidden enemies. Oct 23 - Nov 21 Your business and business partners will flourish. If single, period of marriage. Success from Government and higher authorities is also seen. Relations with spouse will improve. Remedy for Sani and Rahu. Some mental anxiety will make you unhappy so try to avoid any sort of negativity. Foreign contacts will be very benGEMINI eficial. Expenses will May 21 - Jun 20 be high. Someone may try to tarnish you imaging with false accusation. Minor stomach upset is seen. Do not blind trust anyone. Avoid speculation. Remedies for Sani and Rahu is suggested. If you are looking for a government job now is the time to work hard on it and you will succeed. Gain from speculaSAGITTARIUS tion and property Nov 22 - Dec 21 matters. Avoid litigation at all cost. A pilgrimage is on the cards. Things will start improving from 1st June onwards. Do not indulge in illegal or short cuts for money. Strengthening of Jupiter will ward off all negativity. Very fortunate week. Friends will be very supportive. A wish can come true. Income will be high as is the status. Try to maintain calm. CANCER Some property related will need your Jun 21 - Jul 22 matter attention. People in government service may expect a very good week. Luck will be on your side. Health will be good. Do not sell or buy property this week. Remedies for Rahu and Ketu is suggested. Success in speculation, love affairs, and property is seen. Overall a very good week, so make the CAPRICORN most out of it. You Dec 22 - Jan 19 can buy a house of car this week. If single, can go into a committed relationship. Business will be average. Favor from political officials is seen. Remedies for Ketu and Rahu is suggested. Expenses related to litigation will be high. Mind will be full of anxiety. People in job can expect a good week. Rise in status is seen. Good luck will preJul 23 - Aug. 22 vail all this week. Foreign journey or contacts will bring in good news. People in teaching and beauty profession can expect good week. Worshiping of Sun and Remedies for Sani and Ketu is suggested.

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Panchang in Brief: Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter in Taurus, Moon in Leo, Mars and Ketu in Aries, Sani and Rahu in Libra. Nakshatra is Purva phalguni.
Good luck, marriage, foreign travel everything can be achieved this week. Overall a very fortunate week for all virgos but some anxiety will overyour mind this week. VIRGO rule Aug. 23 - Sep 22 Do not let negativity surround you. A foreign guest or journey is on the cards. A visit to a holy place cannot be ruled out. Avoid litigation. Remedies for Sani and Rahu is suggested. Finance will be good. Enhancement in education field is also seen. Medical professionals can expect good week. Communication will the best possible PISCES yield Feb 19 - Mar 20 results. Set back in love life. A pleasure journey is seen. Do not blind trust anyone. Some genitourinary or arthritic problems are seen. Take extra care of your health. Have less sugar as much as possible. Remedies for Ketu.

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Some differences with spouse and business partners can surface but overall a good week regarding property deals. debt will decrease. AQUARIUS Your Happiness will prevail Jan 20 - Feb. 18 at the home front. A foreign journey or a pilgrimage is on the cards. People in hospitality field will do well this week. Condition of siblings will improve. Remedy for Sani and Rahu is indicated.

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Stress Management For Students

Stress affects students, from graduate level to those in the kindergarten. The term stress refers to the response you have when facing circumstances that force you to act, change or adjust in some way to keep things balanced. It is your bodys way of responding to any kind of demand. It can be caused by both good and bad experiences. In the right dose, stress can be healthy or even enjoyable. However, stress can be very damaging for students when it becomes excessive. It can harm students health, happiness, performance, relationships and personal development.

Causes Of Stress
Causes of stress in school children include; bullies, a mismatch

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between student and teacher, concerns about not having enough friends, not in the same class as friends, peer pressure, lack of family time, over scheduling of extracurricular activities, insufficient sleep, poor diet, lack of preparation, noise pollution and a host of other factors As the students progress higher levels the causes of stress often increase. When students go to college or university, they have to contend with leaving their parents and beginning the process of finding their own identity as adults and their place in the world. The main causes of stress here includes ; the new university or college environment, payment of fees, the new relationships formed, the competitive circumstances, exams, lack of proper time management techniques, peer and parental pressure.

How to Manage Stress

Some of the techniques students can use to manage stress : 1. Learning to manage their time wisely. This is done by setting up a study schedule, breaking up studies into smaller chunks. Students are advised to formulate study timetables , with the help of their teachers and parents, and adhere to them. 2. The student also need to have a system of organization for notetaking, keeping track of assign ments and other important papers. 3. Creating a good study environment is a great tool for stress management. Students have d i ff e r ent study habits. While some need a completely quiet room free from interruptions, others actually study better listening to quiet music in the background. A student should pick which is best for him or her. 4. Determining the most appropri-

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ate learning style: whether the student is a visual, kinesthetic or auditory learner. Tailoring your study practices around your particular learning styles makes success easier to attain and keeps stress at bay. 5. Using relaxation techniques like deep breathing, visualization or imagery, progressive muscle relaxation, meditation and yoga. Additionally, being optimistic helps students become healthier, less stressed and more successful. 6. Learning how to spend wisely and pay bills on time, if any, is very important for the students to lead a life with less stress. 7. Lastly, students must take care of their bodies and minds by getting proper nutrition, getting some form of physical exercise and getting enough sleep. Seven hours of sleep each night is recommended for optimum body and brain function. Naps, not exceeding one hour, should also be taken when needed.

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

A superficial saga
Cast: Riz Ahmed, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, Martin Donovan, Nelsan Ellis, Imaad Shah, Adil Hussain, Haluk Bilginer and Meesha Shafi Director: Mira Nair The film, based on the acclaimed novel of the same name authored by Mohsin Hamid, is a typical Mira Nair film in terms of the cascade of colours, textures, frames and characters. Unlike the novel, the films is a blunt, slow and pretentious work of art. Its about the meteoric rise and fall of a Pakistani migrant in the US. The film begins with an intimidating situation, where an American professor at Lahore University is kidnapped. The CIA with the help of Bobby (Liev Schreiber), an American journalist, tries to ferret out information about the kidnapping through Changez Khan, also a professor at the same university. At the start of the conversation, Changez insists that Bobby should listen to his story -- How his life has been turned topsy-turvy after 9/11. How he was inadvertently humiliated. And why he had to abort his American Dream to return to Lahore. The 130-minute narration meanders for the first hundred minutes and rapidly picks up pace during the last thirty minutes in a very melodramatic manner.

Power, Revenge and Relationships

depicted Gurgaon against the backdrop of two families who are at loggerheads with each other. Story The story follows Yashvardhan (Jackie Shroff) a real estate developer in Gurgaon known for illegal works, due to Yashvardhans top crew member Ajay (Arjun Kapoor) who leaves no evidence after a job is done. The police department then capture Ajay and torture him, while they send out Ajays lookalike, Vishal, to Yashvardhan. Vishal joins the crew and becomes an informer, whilst Ajay is being tortured into snitching all of Yashvardhans business secrets. It is further revealed that Ajay and Vishal were twins who were separated and now the Police is taking advantage of it. `Aurangzeb` is all about a world where Kingship knows no Kinship and where there can be only one Emperor.

Aurangzeb

Riz Ahmeds portrayal of Changezs transition from a pragmatic and efficient business analyst to a patriotic professor in his country is superficial. The intensity of neither his humiliation nor his pain reflects in his demeanour. This is evident in the two scenes that could have changed the equilibrium of the film. The first scene is where he disagrees with his boss (Kiefer Sutherland) to sack the editor publisher of a publication in Turkey and the other scene is at the art studio, when he is angry with his girlfriend Erica (Kate Hudson) when she displays her indulgent art exhibits. Liev and Sutherlands performances are solid but add little beyond their characters stereotypical American reactions to Changezs decisions. Hudson with her unkempt hair and gaudy dramatics is a misfit. Om Puri as Changezs father is a fas-

cinating personality, but his limited screen presence is a shortcoming so also is the case with Adil Hussains character, Mustafa Fazil. Shabana Azmi as Changezs mother walks through her role nonchalantly. Imaad Shah as Sameer, a student activist, appears comfortable on familiar grounds and is noticeable. The only plus point in the movie is its soundtrack. The film kickstarts with the qawaali Kangnaa sung by brothers Fareed Ayaz and Abu Mohammed, but it is the song Mori araj suno by Atif Aslam that is haunting. Meesha Shafis brilliantly sung Bijli aaye ya na aye steals the show. Meera Nair has taken great pains to ensure the authenticity of the settings. The smooth flow of the visuals, though appealing, is often broken with the unsteady hand-held camera work. So the rapid edits, especially during conversations, are jarring.

Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Sashaa Agha, Amrita Singh, Jackie Shroff, Rishi Kapoor Aurangzeb is made under the banner of Yash Raj films and produced by Aditya Chopra. This is Arjun Kapoors second movie after Ishqzaade, under the same production house. The film brings back the double role story after a long time. Aurangzeb is about a real estate developer who uses muscle power to support his business. Atul has

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Music Director: Pritam Singers: Benny Dayal, Shefali Alvares, Vishal Dadlani, Shalmali Kholgade, Arijit Singh, Tochi Raina, Rekha Bhardwaj, Sunidhi Chauhan, Sreeram Packed with fast energetic numbers, the soundtrack of director Ayan Mukerjis forthcoming movie Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani has nine tracks. High on energy and beats, its an out and out fun and masti album. Though the inclination is towards vibrant and youthful compositions, it does have its share of emotional songs. Badtameez Dil sung by Benny Dayal and Shefali Alvaris. Get ready to groove to the number as its fast beats will definitely pull you to the dance floor. The young, peppy and crazy tune justify the title of the movie. The peppy lyrics are in sync with the mood. Thoroughly enjoyable. Balam Pichkari sung by Vishal Dadlani and Shalmali Kholgade, is one those rare songs. The naughty number would make you dance. The lyrics are witty. Its starts on a high note and ends on a high note. A must hear. Dilliwaali girlfriend Sung by Arijit Singh and Sunidhi Chauhan. It may not be as perfect as the first two numbers, but the element of fun and naughtiness is intact in this one too. If the title has the word Dilli in it, then Punjabi element has to be there. The rap, in the beginning of song, is impressive and lyrics are fun. How-

ever, after a point it loses its grip. Ghagra is the next track, an interesting duet by Rekha Bhardwaj and Vishal Dadlani. It has a touch of local tamasha and Rekhas voice sings the song in her typical way. With whistles and ghungroo sounds, the singers make it a fun number. The lyrics are worth paying attention to. Ilahi A simple song, sung by Arijit. It has chorus by children singing in background brings freshness to it.There is another version of the song called Ilahi reprised. Its faster than the original, otherwise the rest of the elements are similar to the original. Kabira sung by Rekha Bhardwaj and Tochi Raina together. The music is liberating and Tochi sings beauti-

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CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 19 May 2013

Astronaut makes first space music video

Kerala-based Telmoco launches Android tablet phone

Washington Canadian astronaut and outgoing International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield has recorded the first music video in space while floating in zero gravity, strumming an acoustic guitar and crooning his own rendition of David Bowies Space Oddity as a special farewell before heading back to Earth. The lyrics - tweaked a bit here and there - are particularly fitting: Ground control to Major Tom Lock your Soyuz hatch and put your helmet on Ground control to Major Tom Commencing countdown, engines on Detach from station and may Gods love be with you

Now, shoes that generate electricity

Houston Four US students have developed shoes that extract energy with every step to power portable electronics and, perhaps someday, life-preserving medical devices, US media reported. Four mechanical engineering students at Rice University in Houston, for a project required for graduation, created PediPower shoes, which deliver 400 milliwatts of energy through wires that connect the shoes to a belt-mounted battery pack, according to on- line version of Texas Medical Center News. They knew of a previously patented device that draws energy from the motion of the knee, and decided to apply those principles to the foot. Working with the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Shriners Hospital for Children in the Texas Medical Cen-

Hadfield launched from Kazakhstan as part of Expedition 35 Dec 19, 2012, and took command of the ISS March 13. Since then, he has found time to tweet to more than 800,000 followers, share photos of the galaxy, and wow fans with cool videos of playing guitar and cooking spinach in space. His video of wringing out a washcloth in zero gravity quickly went viral, netting more than five million views in the days after it was posted. In short, he made space travel cool. He tweeted about the video in announcing its release Sunday. And got a reply from Bowie a short while later.

Hadfield turned over control of the space station to Russian Pavel Vinogradov Sunday, and is scheduled to return to Earth and land in Kazakhstan. Whod have thought that five months away from the planet would you make you feel closer to people, Hadfield said in a video about his journey. The music video is interspersed with shots of the ISS orbiting the Earth and Hadfield floating inside the capsule singing and playing the guitar, and was produced with help from the Canadian Space Agency and Canadian musician Emm Gryner, who played with Bowies band.

15 aircrafts to ensure ISS crew lands safely

Thiruvananthapuram Telmoco Development Labs Pvt. Ltd., Keralas first incubated consumer electronics start-up based in Technopark here, has forayed into the retail segment with Attitude Next 6339 -- a seven-inch Android tablet phone. The companys new offering was unveiled by Minister for Industries and Information Technology P.K. Kunhalikutty and handed over to Francis Mukkannikal, director of MFJ Communications and Marketing Pvt. Ltd, which will be bringing the product onto retail shelves. The product will be available in over 400 retail stores in Kerala and over 100 online stores from May 26 onwards at a price of Rs.7,999.

Kunhalikutty said the government was happy to see a consumer electronics company from Technopark developing state-of-the-art products at par with global brands. It was last year in April that Telmoco launched their first product - Attitude Daksha - which was touted as a competitor for the central government promoted Aakash tablet computers. Dakshas success in the market was overwhelming and we sold over 2,500 tablets. We are constantly researching to bring in latest technological advancements and our Next 6339 is equipped with the latest features along with fully loaded informative and entertaining apps, said C.R. Nijesh, director, Telmoco Development Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Mars bombarded by over 200 Robot explores Mexican archaeological site (Mexico) space rocks per year: NASA Teotihuacan A robot that weighs just 25 kg is
Washington Scientists have estimated that Mars is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 3.9 meters across, US space agency NASA said. It said these asteroids or comet fragments typically are no more than 1 to 2 meters in diameter, too small to reach the ground on Earth. These space rocks cause craters on Mars because the Red Planet has a much thinner atmosphere. Its exciting to find these new craters right after they form, said Ingrid Daubar of the University of Arizona, Tucson, lead author of the paper published online in the journal Icarus. It reminds you Mars is an active planet, and we can study processes that are happening today. According to NASA, researchers have identified 248 new impact sites on parts of the Martian surface over the past decade, using images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to determine when the craters appeared. The 200-per-year planetwide estimate is a calculation based on the number found in a systematic survey of a portion of the planet, it said Wednesday, adding that earlier estimates pegged the cratering rate at three to 10 times more craters per year. helping scientists explore the underworld of Teotihuacan, an archaeological complex. The complex is located some 50 km north of Mexico City. The robot is exploring a tunnel built by Teotihuacans residents under the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, the third-largest pyramid at Teotihuacan, leading archaeologists to expect an important discovery. The technology really helps us archaeologists in doing our work, we use (the robot) as another tool. It has provided very valuable information and helps us plan how to better conduct the research, project director Sergio Gomez told. This is only the second time a robot has been used at the site and only the third time in history, following the use of a similar apparatus in Egypt to

ter, the students discovered that the force at the heel delivered far more potential for power than any other part of the foot, so they selected the heel-portion of the shoe to generate power. When the PediPower shoe hits the ground, a lever arm strikes first. The arm is attached to a gearbox that replaces much of the shoes sole and turns the gears with each step. The gears drive a motor mounted on the outside of the shoe that generates electricity to send up to the battery. Right now the shoe is simply a prototype, and is too large for day-to-day wear. The students expect the project to be picked up by another team at Rice in the fall, with the hope they can refine the materials, shrink the size and boost the power output, all of which will get PediPower closer to being a commercial product.

Moscow Fifteen aircraft and six rescue vehicles will be deployed to ensure the safe recovery of the Soyuz TMA-07M landing capsule when it brings back to Earth three mem-

bers of the International Space Station (ISS) crew early Tuesday, Russian aviation agency Rosaviatsia said. The spacecraft is expected to land in a designated area in Kazakhstan

around 06.31 a.m. Moscow time (0231 GMT). The aircraft include three planes and 12 Mi-8 helicopters, Rosaviatsia said in a statement. The Soyuz TMA-07M will bring back to Earth ISS crew members Chris Hadfield of Canada, Roman Romanenko of Russia and Thomas Marshburn of the US. The ISS orbit was raised by 2.6 km to 413.8 km May 8 to create the best conditions for the undocking of the Soyuz TMA-07M from the orbital station. After the departure of Soyuz TMA-07M, the ISS will temporarily host a three-member crew: Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin, and NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy. The Soyuz TMA-09M, to be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan May 29, will

explore one of the Great Pyramids, Gomez said. The Tlaloc II robot, which was named after the Aztec god of rain and fertility, uses a camera and scanner to provide an exact picture of the condition and shape of the tunnel, Hugo Armando Guerra, one of the engineers who designed the robot, said. The robot performs a danger-

ous job, entering areas that may have loose rocks or be subject to collapse, Guerra said. These are the types of dangers we avoid by using the robot, Guerra, who also helped create the first-generation robot, said. The project to explore the 103-meter tunnel under the Temple of the Feathered Serpent started in 2010.

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Make Your Own Paper Beads Jewellery

There is still so little known about life in space by modern science. But of that little, there are some extraordinarily amazing things. This is a list of facts about how astronauts have to adapt life in space. Lets take a look at their life while working and living in a space shuttle. What do they eat in space? Space foods are in plastic containers. Some space foods can resume their uniformity by adding cold or hot water, while others can be heated up in the oven. Foods such as fruits, bread and nuts can be eaten just as they are. When drinking liquids, a straw is used to suck the liquid out of a sealed package. This is done so that it will not spill or possibly cause any damage to machines. Whereas salt and pepper are available but only in a liquid form. This is because astronauts cant sprinkle salt and pepper on their food in space. The salt and pepper would simply float away. There is a danger they could clog air vents, contaminate equipment or get stuck in an astronauts eyes, mouth or nose. The Difficulties of Sleeping in Space The astronauts in a space station usually see the sun rise once every 90 minutes -- thats about 16 sunsets every day. They experience multiple sunrises and sunsets. Consequently, the windows are covered at night to give the crew a sense of darkness. The necessity of exercising If astronauts dont exercise, their bodies start losing bone and muscle. Bone and muscle loss mean decreased size and strength, and can reduce an astronauts ability to do work because it makes them weak. Weakened astronauts would be less able to do tasks while in space. Also, if there were an emergency, the astronauts would need to be in good shape to get out of the Space Shuttle or Space Station quickly. Once they land on Earth, weakened muscles and bones would

SPACE TALK

Making paper beads is a fun and easy craft for kids.Making paper beads can also be an eco-friendly craft if you use paper from your recycling bin instead of brand new paper to make the beads with.

Enjoy our funny tongue twisters for kids and have fun trying to say some of the most difficult sentences in the English language. I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream. A tricky frisky snake with sixty super scaly stripes

Materials Required Few sheets of old newspaper Water Strong glue Sandpaper Acrylic paint Varnish Ribbon Method Take a small pile of newspapers from your recycling pile, and rip into small pieces. Pop these into your Mixing Bowl! Pour enough boiling water over the paper to cover Allow newspaper and water to sit for an hour, stirring occasionally to break the pieces up. Add glue to the paper. Roll the paper into round balls. Let them dry for a few days. Smooth each bead down with a bit of sandpaper. It helps when applying paint. Drill a hole in each bead that is big enough for the material that you want to string them with Paint them. Coat beads with varnish. String a colorful ribbon through the beads to make a uniques kind necklace. Recycling is a wonderful way to thank nature

If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch? One-One was a racehorse. Two-Two was one, too. When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too. The blue bluebird blinks Kitty caught the kitten in the kitchen

make walking difficult. Muscle can be built back with therapy. But lost bone is not as easy to get back. Waterless Bath Since water does not flow in a zero-gravity environment, the astronauts cannot wash their hands under a faucet as you do on Earth. So, there are no sinks or showers inside the space shuttle.When the astronauts want to clean their hands or faces, they either wipe themselves clean with alcohol or by using a wet towel containing liquid soap. When the astronauts wash their hair, they use waterless shampoo, which does not need any water for rinsing. Waterless shampoo is used since it has no foam, which could spatter inside the Space Shuttle.

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Longest stay in space Valeri Polyakov (a Russian former cosmonaut holds a record for the longest single spaceflight in human history, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 hours) during one trip. His combined space experience is more than 22 months.

Put your knowledge to test and make our body parts word scramble your next challenge. Can you solve the range of word problems related to the body parts of human body ? EARHT GUTNOE OSNE PLIS UNGLS RAE

Hollywood film Epic, a 3D animated adventure comedy, will hit Indian screens May 17, a week be-

Answers to word scramble: Heart, Tongue, Nose, Lips, Lungs, Ear

Directed by- Chris Wedge Produced by- Lori Forte Jerry Davis Written by-Tom J. Astle Matt Ember

fore it opens in the US.The Fox Star Studios fantasy movie is based on William Joyces book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs. It has voiceovers by Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Pitbull, Steven Tyler and Beyonce Knowles. After the success of the studios Rio, which was also released a week earlier, this is said to be the second foreign animation film ever to release first in India over the international territories, said a statement. Epic tells the story of an ongoing battle between the forces of good, who keep the natural world alive, and the forces of evil, who wish to destroy it. When a teenage girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she must band together with a rag-tag team of fun and unique characters to save their world.

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Obscure Meaning- not clear or plain Example- The sign was not clearly visible, it was obscured by the heavy fog. Plight Meaning-A bad or unfortunate situation Example- The young orphan told of his plight so passionately they were moved to tears. Quench Meaning-satisfy (thirst) Example- I drank the lemonade so that it would quench my thirst. Regale Meaning-Entertain or amuse with talk. Example-He would always regale friends with entertaining stories of his travels. Sedulous Meaning-hard working Example-The sedulous landscaper refused to leave until his work was done.

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BUSINESS
New Delhi Indias wholesale price-based inflation decelerated to 4.89 percent in April, as prices of vegetables, milk, egg, meat and fish eased, government data showed Tuesday Inflation based on Wholesale Price Index (WPI) fell to 4.89 percent in April, from 7.50 percent in the corresponding month of 2012, the lowest levels in nearly three and a half years, the data showed. The headline inflation was recorded at 5.96 percent in the previous month and 7.28 percent during February, according to data released by the ministry of commerce and industry. Food inflation fell to 6.08 percent during the month under review as compared to 10.92 percent in the corresponding month of last year. In March, food inflation rose by 8.73 percent and in February by 11.95 percent. The prices of vegetables decelerated by a negative 9.05 percent, while those of milk were lower by 4.04 percent from an increase of 15.68 percent in the corresponding month

CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 19 May 2013

Ranbaxy to pay $500 mn to settle US Indias inflation falls to 3-year low at 4.89 percent fraud charges
Washington A subsidiary of Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories has pleaded guilty to federal charges of selling adulterated drugs with intent to defraud and agreed to pay $500 million to resolve false claim allegations. The US justice department Monday described as the largest drug safety settlement with a generic drugmaker related to manufacture and distribution of certain adulterated drugs made at two of Ranbaxy USA Incs manufacturing facilities at Paonta Sahib and Dewas in India. Ranbaxy also agreed to pay a criminal fine and forfeiture totalling $150 million and to settle civil claims under the False Claims Act and related State laws for $350 million, the department said in a media release. Ranbaxy USA pleaded guilty to three felony counts under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), and four felony counts of knowingly making material false statements to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it said. This is the largest false claims case ever prosecuted in the District of Maryland, and the nations largest

Indian food industry to touch Rs.408,040 crore by 2018 Russian state

financial penalty paid by a generic pharmaceutical company for FDCA violations, said US Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. The joint criminal and civil settlement, which reflects many years of work by FDA agents and federal prosecutors, holds Ranbaxy accountable for a pattern of violations and should improve the reliability of generic drugs manufactured in India by Ranbaxy, he said. Ranbaxy USA admitted to introducing into interstate commerce certain batches of adulterated drugs that were produced at Paonta Sahib in 2005 and 2006, including Sotret, gabapentin, and ciprofloxacin, the justice department said. Sotret is Ranbaxys branded generic form of isotretinoin, a drug used to treat severe recalcitrant nodular acne; gabapentin is a drug used to treat epilepsy and nerve pain; ciprofloxacin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic. Ranbaxy USA acknowledged that

FDAs inspection of the Paonta Sahib facility in 2006 found incomplete testing records and an inadequate programme to assess the stability characteristics of drugs, the justice department said. The company also admitted to making false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements to the FDA in Annual Reports filed in 2006 and 2007 regarding the dates of stability tests conducted on certain batches of Cefaclor, Cefadroxil, Amoxicillin, and Amoxicillin and Clavulanate Potassium, which were manufactured at the Dewas facility, it said. Ranbaxy USA was found to have conducted stability testing of certain batches of these drugs weeks or months after the dates reported to FDA, the department said. In a statement on the conclusion of the US investigation, Ranbaxy said it had on Dec 20, 2011 signed a consent decree with the FDA agreeing to further strengthen procedures and policies to ensure data integrity and to comply with current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP).

of 2012. Eggs, meat and fish prices too eased at 10.44 percent from 17.54 percent in April 2012. However, onions became costlier by 91.69 percent from last years price. Cereals became 15.63 percent costlier and pulses were dearer by 10.28 percent. Manufactured products inflation that has 64.97 weight in the WPI index eased to 3.41 percent in the month under review as compared to 5.27 percent recorded during the corresponding month of the previous year. Primary articles-based inflation eased to 5.75 percent in April, as compared to 9.55 percent in the corresponding month of last year.

oil firm to invest $100 mn in Vietnam

Moscow Russian state-run oil giant Rosneft has pledged to invest around $100 million in geological prospecting and drilling off Vietnam after it received approval for a new oil bloc there, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said. We have received approval for another bloc, 05-3/11, close to the existing bloc. Well be able to use the existing infrastructure. This year, well spend about $27 million on geological prospecting while overall obligations (for Rosneft) for geological prospecting and drilling amount to about $100 million, Sechin said. The Rosneft head signed a production-sharing agreement for the bloc Wednesday between TNK Vietnam, a subsidiary of TNK-BP taken over by Rosneft, and Vietnamese state company Petrovietnam. Sechin said geological prospecting for the new bloc would take about two years but did not specify the amount the company might spend on the whole project. Rosneft did not have any stakes in Vietnamese projects until it took over Russian-British joint oil venture TNK-BP, which had acquired from BP a 35 percent stake in the offshore gas condensate production Block 06.1, which contains the Lan Tay and Lan Do gas condensate fields. Rosneft has offered Petrovietnam cooperation in eight blocks on the shelf of the Pechora Sea in the Russian Arctic, Sechin said.

US degree in supply chain management from Mumbai

Mumbai With India opening up the retail trade sector to overseas investment, the University of Southern California is offering a master of science degree programme in global supply chain management through the SP Jain Institute here. The programme is aimed at facilitating the needs of working professionals in the Asia Pacific region (US, China, India and South Korea) who wish to expand their knowledge of the rapidly-changing world of global supply chain management, the institute said. Awarded by the Marshal School of Business, those pursuing this degree programme will have the choice of on-campus learning experience at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, as also online programme option. Online courses are transmitted from studio classrooms via an extensive internet delivery system to enable the students to access their classes anytime, from anywhere. Lectures are made accessible for the entire semester, the school said. Teaching assistants monitor class-related bulletin boards to provide timely responses to questions asked by students. Face-toface discussions and instructional activities are available at local partner institutions to enhance learning opportunities, the school said. Courses may require in-person midterm and final examinations. These exams will be administered at local partner institutions, requiring that students travel to these locations, the school said, adding an information session has been organised at SP Jain on May 20. To qualify for admission, applicants should have earned a bachelors degree of four-year equivalence as in the US system with a good performance. This apart, a three-five year full-time work experience will be preferred.

Mumbai The current size of the Indian food industry stands at Rs.247,680 crore per annum and is expected to grow at 11 percent to touch a staggering Rs.408,040 crore by 2018, an official said. In terms of market segments, the Quick Service Restaurants and casual dine-in formats account for nearly three-fourths of the total chain and cafes make up 12 percent, with fine dining outlets, pubs, bars, clubs and lounges comprising the rest. This is the key highlight of the India Food Service Report-2013 of the National Restaurant Association of India, which was released Tuesday afternoon by Maharashtra Tourism Minister Chhagan Bhujbal here. The report states that the chain and licensed stand-alone industry would contribute around Rs.11,500-11,900 crore in 2013, which will more than double to Rs.25,000 crore by 2018. This would provide the government an opportunity to generate an additional collection of Rs.17,000Rs.26,000 crore through closer monitoring of tax collection from the unorganised sector, said NRAI Mumbai chapter head Amit Jatia. The Indian food services industry has witnessed strong growth over the past few years and is expected to continue growing at an exponen-

tial rate over the next five years. It is expected to touch $28 billion on the back of changing consumption habits of consumers and emergence of new players in the sector, said Jatia. However, he lamented that this healthy growth is marred by multiple taxes, high food and commodity costs, shortage of skilled human resources, infrastructure development to help better manage the supply chain and cold storage systems, and multiple licensing issues. The report also draws awareness to the opportunities and challenges which the Indian restaurant industry has been facing and recommends solutions to overcome them. The report says that the key growth drivers and emerging trends include increased share of delivery and take-away formats focussing on convenience, experimentation, Indian brands going global, larger focus on value meals, tech-savvy consumers using online, social media, food websites and mobile applications, and growing interest from private equity and venture capital investors in the food industry. Founded in 1982, the NRAI represents independent and chain restaurant owners and operators in the country with over 1,200 members in 20 cities.

Japanese agency offers funds for Lucknow Metro project

Lucknow The Japan International Cooperative Agency (JICA) has offered the Uttar Pradesh government financial assistance for the Metro rail project and a host of other projects, including the Agra-Lucknow expressway, officials said Tuesday. JICA sought details of the projects at a meeting with Chief Secretary Jawed Usmani Monday. The World Bank has already expressed its willingness to give funding for the Lucknow Metro rail and Agra-Lucknow expressway projects. Both these projects require funding of Rs.12,000 crore each. Officials said the central government has also assured financial assistance for the projects, but offers of assistance from JICA and the World Bank have come as a big relief for the state government. So far, 15 companies have showed interest in the Agra-Lucknow expressway project. The state government is likely to finalise a developer for the ambitious project soon, an official said. The Metro rail project also has been expedited with the state housing department giving final shape to the route it will take in the state capital Lucknow. Officials of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) have already inspected the route.

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BUSINESS
Patna The Income Tax (IT) department has served a notice to Lalu Prasads Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), seeking details of expenses incurred during the partys Parivartan rally held here May 15, an official said Friday. The IT department wants to know about all the expenses incurred in connection with the (RJDs) rally, said Prashant Bhusan, an IT department official. The details sought include payments made to contractors, railways, transporters, catering service providers, besides the money spent on banners, flags, hoardings, posters and temporary shelters erected for those who attended the rally. Billed as the Privartan rally (transformation rally), Lalu Prasadorganised it laregly to whip up public opinion against the government of Chief Minister Nitish Kunmar and to launch his two sons, Tejaswi and Tej Pratap, in politics. Senior RJD leader Ram Kirpal Yadav said that he was not aware about the IT department notice. I have no information about the notice, he

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Mamata regime releases performance report on two years rule

Kolkata West Bengals Mamata Banerjee led government Thursday released a performance report, claiming the state has clocked a growth rate higher than that of the overall country during the nearly two years it has been in power. The performance report showcasing the achievements of the state government was released at the state secretariat, four days before the regime completes two years in office. Making public the report titled Powering Progress Empowering People, Finance Minister Amit Mitra said the document highlights the initiatives taken by all the 63 departments under the state since the Banerjee regime began its stint May 20, 2011. It is due to the efforts of the state government that our gross domestic product (GDP) in various sectors have been far better than the national average, Mitra told reporters. He said while the overall growth rate in the country in 2012-13 was 4.96 percent, the corresponding figure for

the state was 7.06 percent during the same time. The expenditure in the rural employment guarantee programme has gone up by a whopping 107 percent during the Trinamool government, while 10 lakh farmers have been equipped with Kisan Credit Cards to help them access credit facilities. Mitra said the state government has passed a bill reserving half the seats in local bodies for women, while the

Kanyashree scheme aims to promote womens education. Regarding the Saradha Group chit fund scam, Mitra said the state government has constituted a Rs.500 crore fund for compensating small and medium depositors who have lost their hard earned money by parking it with chit funds run by the Group. However, he refused to answer questions on the chit fund scam.

RBS to cut 1,400 jobs over next two years

London The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has that it will cut 1,400 jobs over the next two years as part of plans to restructure its retail head office operations in Britain, a media report said. No customer-facing staff will be affected, but support staff for the banks retail arm including those working in communications, marketing and customer analytics are expected to be affected by the job losses, Xinhua cited RBS as saying in a press release. To serve our customers well we have to ensure that our resources are focused on the things that matter most to them, Ross McEwan, chief executive officer of the banks UK Retail, was quoted as saying. Regrettably, we can only do that by restructuring the way we work in head office so that every effort is concentrated on supporting our customers and the frontline staff that serve them, said McEwan. This is clearly difficult news for our staff and we will do everything we can to support them, including seeking redeployment opportunities wherever possible to ensure compulsory redundancies are a last resort, he said. With about 8,000 staff as the fourth largest employer in Edinburgh, RBS also announced that it would invest 175 million pounds (around $270 million) in Scotland over the next three years in areas such as branch refurbishments, improved complaints handling, quicker and simpler processes for account opening and mortgage processing and improved technology in branches. John Swinney, Scottish cabinet secretary for finance, employment and sustainable growth, said: The Scottish government will do everything we can to provide support and help to those affected by job losses in Scotland through the Finance Sector Jobs Taskforce and our Partnership Action for Continuing Employment.

Employment rate of Japanese college graduates rise

Tokyo The employment rate for those who graduated from colleges in Japan in March rose for the second straight year to 93.9 percent as of April 1, up 0.3 percentage points from a year earlier, according to government data released Friday. But the rate is still 3 points below its peak in 2008, and around 24,000 graduates are believed to be jobless, reported Xinhua. The employment figures exclude those who went to graduate schools or stayed on in college for another year because they could not find jobs. Among all graduates, the rate for landing jobs came to 66 percent, showed data. The employment rate for female graduates came to 94.7 percent, up 2.1 percentage points, surpassing that of male graduates, which stood at 93.2 percent, down 1.3 percentage points.

said. He, however, added that if such a notice has been served, the party would provide all the details sought. The RJD had booked 13 special trains, hundreds of buses and other vehicles to ferry its supporters to Patna for its Parivartan rally. Last year, the IT department had served a similar notice to the Bihars ruling Janata Dal-United in connection with its Adhikar rally held in the city Nov 4.

Reliance Capital profit surges 77 percent in 2012-13

Mumbai Reliance Capital said its net profit surged by 77 percent to Rs.812 crore ($149 million) in the financial year ended March 31, 2013. The company, a part of Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group, said its consolidated total income jumped by 13 percent to Rs. 7,519 crore ($1.4 billion), largely due to a sharp increase in topline of general insurance, commercial finance and asset management businesses, and sale of stake in Reliance Capital Asset Management. Reliance Capitals earning per share increased by 77 percent to Rs.33.1. The companys total assets jumped to Rs.40,588 crore ($7.5 billion) as on March 31, 2013, registering an increase of 15 percent year-on-year. Reliance Capital is one of Indias leading private sector financial services companies, having interest in asset management, mutual funds, life and general insurance and broking businesses among others. Share price of Reliance Capital rose 0.35 percent at Rs.373.70 at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) here.

Over 800,000 US government employees face furloughs

India-South Africa trade to cross $20 bn soon

Kolkata Trade between India and South Africa is expected to rise to more than $20 billion in the next two to three years and value-added products would be thrust area of the South African exports in the coming days, two South African diplomats said Thursday. Bilateral trade between the two countries stood at $14.7 billion during 2012-13. We expect that in the in next two to three years the trade volume would cross the $20 billion mark, Sarat Pradhan, senior economic advisor, High Commission of South Africa in India, said at an interactive meeting organised by Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BNCCI) here. Bilateral trade between the two countries grew exponentially from $3 million in 1992-93 to $4 bilWashington More than 820,000 US federal government employees will have to take several days off without pay due to mandatory federal spending cuts for this fiscal year.Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel informed Defense Department civilian employees that some 680,000 of them will have to take a total of 11 days off without pay, one per week from July until the fiscal year ends Sep 30. The number of forced furlough days could possibly be further reduced if savings in other areas can be found, officials said. The automatic spending cuts are the result of the inability of lawmakers in Congress - where Republicans have a majority in the lower house - and the White House to agree on how to reduce the deficit, which is calculated to reach $642 billion this year and which in recent years has exceeded a trillion dollars. The daily Politico and other media have calculated that some 140,000 federal government workers at other agencies have already been informed that they will have to take days off without pay. The Pentagon is the department most affected by the budget cuts, although Hagel managed to reduce the number of furlough days for civilian Defense Department employees from 22 to 11. The furloughs also affect the White House, where approximately 480 workers in the Office of Management and Budget and in other departments linked to the presidential residence will have to take unpaid days off.

lion in 2005-06, while the figure was close to $7 billion by the end of 2011. While raw materials, gold, inorganic chemicals, precious metals and oils have been the major export items to India, South Africa is now emphasising on several value-added products for export promotion. Value-added products such as capital equipment, electrotechnical equipment, safety equipment as well as mining and mineral products will

be the thrust areas, said Stefanus Botes, minister counsellor (Economic) at high commission. Informing that currently Indian firms had a total investment of $7 billion in South Africa, Botes invited more companies to invest and form jointventures in different sectors in the country. The officials said inland fishing was an important area where Indian companies could invest.

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SPORTS Kaka, Ronaldinho just the start of Abhinav Bindra recommended for Bharat Ratna Brazils dilemmas
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Rio de Janeiro Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari will announce a 23-man squad for next months FIFA Confederations Cup. Until now, media has largely focused on whether the list will include Ronaldinho or Kaka or if Scolari will backtrack on his claim there is only room for one by picking both. But while the battle between two ageing stars has grabbed the headlines, there are other, perhaps more pressing, issues facing the coach, reports Xinhua. Chief among them is who from Brazils vast list of defensive midfielders will be picked, and if Scolari can continue to ignore a growing band of young forward-drifting playmakers. Scolari has long held the notion that attacking midfielders are a luxury rather than a necessity. When Brazil won the World Cup during his first spell as national coach in 2002, the teams foundation was built around Gilberto Silva and Kleberson, at the time little-known defensive midfielders playing their trade in Brazils national league. The 64-year-old has given every indication he is again looking to include at least two holding midfielders to sit in front of a back four in the Confederations Cup. This idea of having goal-scoring central midfielders sounds really nice to the media, but not for the coach. When you have full-backs like Daniel Alves and Marcelo you need to have protection, Scolari said last month. During Brazils recent friendlies, Scolari has experimented with Cor-

inthians pair Paulinho and Ralf, Bayern Munichs Luiz Gustavo, Gremios Fernando and Fluminenses Jean in the defensive midfield role. Each appear to be vying for a spot alongside Chelseas Ramires, whose Blues teammate David Luiz could also play in central midfield if not in defence. While attack-minded midfielders are not as abundant, Scolari is certain to call up Hernanes (Lazio), Oscar (Chelsea) and Lucas (Paris Saint-Germain). There are also a couple of bolters who have pressed late claims for a berth. Among them is 20-yearold Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho. The 20-year-old former Vasco da Gama playmaker has been a revelation since joining Liverpool from Inter Milan in January, winning the clubs player of the month award in March and April.

Another option is Atletico Mineiros Bernard, who has reportedly attracted the interest of Chelsea and Borussia Dortmund. Doubts surround who will partner Thiago Silva at the heart of defence. If Luiz plays in midfield, the position could go to Bayern Munichs Dante, Rever (Atletico Mineiro) or Dede (Cruzeiro). Scolari has indicated that Fluminenses Fred will be his first-choice target man to play just in front of Neymar with Hulk also expected to be included in the squad. Alexandre Pato and Leandro Damiao are other centre-forward options but have hardly made compelling claims for selection. Queens Park Rangers Julio Cesar is set to be first-choice in goal and will be backed up by either Fluminenses Diego Cavalieri or Botafogos Jefferson.

Shocked, disappointed, distressed: Sharmila finishes tied 17th in Turkey Rahul Dravid
Hyderabad Rajasthan Royals captain Rahul Dravid said Thursday he was shocked, disappointed and distressed by the spot-fixing scandal that led to the arrest of three of the teams players. I am shocked, disappointed and distressed by the events that resulted in arrests last night and this morning. Rajasthan Royals is a special team and we have always operated like a family so this is devastating. Spot fixing and corruption hang over the game of cricket which is extremely sad and dangerous, he said in a statement read out at the Rajiv Gandhi international stadium here Thursday evening before the teams last league match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Friday. A grim-looking Dravid along with coach Paddy Upton came before the media to make their separate statements shortly after the team arrived at the stadium around 6.30 p.m amid tight security for the practice under lights. Mediapersons were strictly barred from asking any questions. The duo walked out of the press conference hall silently after making the brief statements. The team had their practice session amid tight security. Mediapersons were asked to leave the stadium immediately after the captain and the coach made their statements. Dravid said the BCCI and Rajasthan Royals take the same zero tolerance view of the situation. The Rajasthan Royals owners and management have made their zero tolerance view clear on every possible occasion and I am sure that they will support any action taken. For me as a captain and leader I have to focus on ensuring that the team fulfill their enormous potential and continue to play in Rajasthan Royals way. Our players are devastated that our performances may have been affected as they have the desire to win and this has been evident throughout the tournament. The players and people around the team are hurting, he said. I hope that our fans get behind us and we become stronger as a unit which often happens in a time of adversity. This has been tough day for me, team and for the cricket, the captain added. As Rahul says, the Rajasthan Royals environment is a very special one. We focus on team first and playing entertaining cricket, identify new players and promoting young players to the front line. We create an environment where inexperienced compete with the most experienced - and that approach has its risks, coach Paddy Upton said. Antalya (Turkey) Indian golfer Sharmila Nicollet played brilliantly on the final day of the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open to finish tied 17 here. The Bangalore-based golfer had a final day score of one under 72 with four birdies Sunday to secure tied 17th position with a cumulative score of five over 297 at the end of the final round Sunday. The 250,000 euro prize money event was held at the National golf Club in the resort of Belek and was played May 9-12. Sharmila played brilliantly on the final day to rise from 30th. Sharmila returned with earnings of 3,158.33 euros. The tournament had a playing field of more than 120 golfers from across the world. Sharmila is currently ranked fourth

New Delhi Shooter Abhinav Bindra, the only Indian to win an individual Olympic gold, has been recommended for the Bharat Ratna, the countrys highest civilian honour, by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI). We have recommended Abhinavs name for the Bharat Ratna. He has become a legend in Indian shooting. His achievements are for all to see and we think he should get the Bharat Ratna, NRAI adviser Baljeet Singh Sethi told IANS Bindra won the gold August 11, 2008 in the 10 metre air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics with an incredible 700.5. Bindras gold was the first for India since the hockey team won the gold medal in the 1980 Moscow Games. Sethi said honouring Bindra with the Bharat Ratna will encourage the next generation of Indian shooters. After Bindras exploits in 2008, his fellow rifleman Gagan Narang won the bronze and pistol shooter Vijay Kumar won the silver at the 2012 London Games. We feel Bharat Ratna for Bindra

will encourage the next generation of Indian shooters, Seth said. NRAI president Raninder Singh, in a letter to the Prime Ministers Office, recommended Bindras name. We hereby recommend the name of Abhinav Bindra, Olympian goldmedallist who created history by winning the first individual gold medal in 2008 Olympic Games held at Beijing. This is the only gold medal by an Indian athlete in Olympic Games and deserves the highest award of the land, Raninder Singh said in the letter. He won the individual gold medal and the team silver during the 12 Asian Shooting Championship held in Doha and was also a part of the Indian contingent that won participated in Olympic Games at London in 2012. We strongly recommend that he may be conferred the Bharat Ratna Award for his excellent achievement in sports, Raninder Singh added. Sportspersons became eligible for Bharat Ratna in 2011 after there was a clamour for Sachin Tendulkar to be honoured with the prestigious award.

Today has seen an unfurling of events that have left us all shocked and disappointed, and we will support the franchise, the BCCI and the authorities in taking all necessary actions to root out an evil that plagues our game. The coach said they would not let the team lose its focus on completing what has been a magnificent tournament so far. We will not let bad eggs ruin the game that we all love. We will not affect the values that Rajastan Royals hold dea. We will not let them destroy the fantastic environment that we have worked so hard to build and achieve this season The Royals character has been tested on field many times this IPL. Today our character as a team and franchise is being tested off the field. As we have done on the field, we will stand up and be counted, he added.

in the Order of Merit of the Womens Professional Golf Tour of India.

IPL Match Schedule this Week

Date 19-May 19-May 21-May 22-May 24-May 26-May IST 16:00 20:00 20:00 20:00 20:00 20:00 GMT 10:30 14:30 14:30 14:30 14:30 14:30 Match 71st IPL 72nd IPL Qualifier 1 IPL Eliminator IPL Qualifier 2 IPL Final IPL Details Pune Warriors vs Delhi Daredevils Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders TBC vs TBC TBC vs TBC TBC vs TBC TBC vs TBC Venue Pune Hyderabad Chennai Chennai Kolkata Kolkata

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SPORTS
New York A day after NBA owners rejected Sacramento K i n g s move to Seattle, the Maloof brothers, owners of the franchise, have agreed to sell the basketball side to a Sacramento-based group headed by Indian Vivek Ranadive. Ranadive, who is a software billionaire, will purchase 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof family in a deal that is expected to be announced later Friday, reports ESPN. The 65 percent purchase of the Kings from the Maloof family will be for a reported fee of approximately $348 million. The Kings total valuation in the sale is $535 million, an NBA record. The Maloof family, have owned the team since 1998, and it

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Sharapova pulls out of Rome meet to boost Indian-headed group buys French Open chances Sacramento Kings NBA team
Rome World No. 2 Maria Sharapova admitted Friday that the upcoming French Open played a part in her decision to pull out of the Rome Masters. Sharapova withdrew citing illness Friday, hours before she was due to play world No. 6 Sara Errani in the Rome quarterfinals. I usually dont withdraw from tournament and all the competitions I play in mean a lot to me, but in the run-up to the French Open you have to take the right decisions, she told R-Sport. The main draw play at Roland Garros starts May 26, and Sharapova said she would spend two days resting before flying to Paris and starting training to defend her title. A packed match schedule has taken its toll on Sharapovas health, the Russian said. Ive played a lot of matches in the last few weeks, first Stuttgart then Madrid, ten matches in a row on clay, she said. I knew Id be playing while tired in Rome, and in Madrid I got ill with the same thing and went out on court

like that. Thats why I think the illness returned. Last night I felt very bad. I simply couldnt go out on court today in this condition. Withdrawal in Rome ends Sharapovas run of reaching the semifinals of

every tournament she has played in this season. She won the Indian Wells tournament in March and the Stuttgart clay tournament last month, and lost to Serena Williams in the finals of Miami in March and Madrid last week.

World TT Championships attract record entry

Paris The 52nd edition of the worlds premier table tennis event will be held in Palais Omnisports de ParisBercy May 13-20 with a record 463 men and 360 women participating. The players are from 130 countries and regions competing for the five gold medals on offer - mens singles, womens singles, mens doubles, womens doubles and mixed doubles, reports Xinhua. International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) president Adham Sharara said, We are back in Paris 10 years after the great success of the World Championships in 2003. We are in the same venue again, a nostalgic feeling for sure, but a big change. This year we will see an all-time record in the number of participants. It would seem that our member associations have a great appetite for World Championships. The Chinese have named a fullstrength team with 23 players and are looking to defend the clean sweep of titles they made at the 2011 worlds in Rotterdam, Netherlands. I am not really concerned of being the top seed. The world ranking is just about placements, it is not enough to give you good results. So I still adopt a lower profile and have a positive attitude to fight, said World No.1 Xu Xin of China. Germanys Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov head the challenge to Chinese supremacy. In the womens side, World No.1 Ding Ning will seek to gain revenge for the disappointment of losing to Chinese teammate Li Xiaoxia in last years Olympic final. Li is the third seed in Paris behind another teammate Liu Shiwen. Belgiums Jean-Michel Saive, 43, will be playing in a record 22nd consecutive World Championships, a voyage that started in 1988 and shows no signs of stopping.

Format changed for Womens Ashes

Melbourne Cricket Australia (CA) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Tuesday announced that, starting in England in August, the Womens Ashes will be contested through a new multi-format series. The Ashes will encompass one Test match, three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 Internationals (T20I). The winners of the Test will be awarded six points, with two points awarded to the winners of each of the limited overs matches. The team that accrues the most points across all three formats will win the Womens Ashes. CA senior manager Belinda Clark said: Cricket contests between Australia and England have a special place in the hearts and minds of players and the public. The new Womens Ashes series format acknowledges the past, embraces the present and takes a bold step towards the future. Head of England womens cricket Clare Connor said: The womens game has seen huge growth in interest and profile as a result of the limit-

seemed they were more interested in dealing with a Seattle bidder, whos leader is Chris Hansen, for a minority stake in the franchise. However, that situation changed once the NBA voted down the Seattle sale.

Ferdinand retires from international football

London England centre-back Rio Ferdinand has decided to retire from international football and concentrate on his club career with the Premier League giants Manchester United. At 34, I feel it is right for me to stand aside and let the younger players come through, which allows me to concentrate on my club career. The team looks in great shape and there is an influx of young, talented players coming through the ranks which bodes well for the future, Ferdinand said in a statement . I regard it as a great honour and a privilege to have represented my country at every level from U-17 upwards, said the defender, who has won 81 caps for England and scored three goals. The last game Ferdinand played for England was in 2011 under former manager Fabio Capello. He was recalled to the squad for the first time in March under current manager Roy

ed overs formats in recent years. The new Womens Ashes looks to combine this reality with the prestige and tradition of Test cricket. We believe that this new multi-format series will gain significantly more profile and context than can be generated by playing a one-off Test match every

couple of years. Australia are the current Ashes holders having reclaimed them in Sydney in 2011. Of the 18 Womens Ashes series that have been played since its inception in 1934-35, Australia have won seven, England have won four and seven series have been drawn.

Short-term visa Indian women strike gold at free travel for Asia 3x3 basketball meet Sochi Olympians Doha and puncturing holes in the rival
Moscow Athletes, coaches, referees and foreign delegations participating in the Sochi Olympics will enjoy shortterm visa-free travel, the Russian foreign ministry said Thursday. Participants of the 2014 Games need only their accreditation cards to enter Russia with a validity period of three months, the ministrys Ambassador at Large Valery Kuzmin said, reports Xinhua. The accreditation card will be valid from Jan 7 to April 16, 2014. As for possible visa-free travels for sports fans during the Sochi games, the decision has not been made. According to the official, Russia adopted emergency situations response experience from former Olympics host cities like Vancouver and London. Strict restrictions will be imposed on private vehicles during the Sochi Olympics for safety concerns, he added. Indian women beat Mongolia 2114 to win the gold medal at the inaugural FIBA Asia 3x3 basketball event here. The team with Geethu Anna Jose at the vanguard of their challenge won the three play-off games without breaking much sweat Thursday. India won all their three games reaching the 21-point mark with ample time left on the clock in each of their games. We achieved what we set out for, said Jose, who was an overwhelming favourite in the All Stars nominations. Jose was at the vanguard, but the rest of the Indian members indeed had their share in the victory - first for India in FIBA Asia events. India had won the gold at the Asian Beach Games at Haiyang last year. Anitha Pauldurai was as crafty as ever in marshalling the resources

Hodgson, after almost two years out of the England fold, for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers against San Marino and Montenegro, though subsequently he pulled out of the squad due to fitness concerns.

defence with her outside shooting and Manisha Dange gave a good account of herself in her comeback to international competitions with Pratima Singh providing the needed support. Mongolia and Turkmenistan, the other two medallists, went through bitter-sweet moments each in the opposite order. Mongolia were gung-ho on beating Turkmenistan in the semifinals, despite playing with only two players - the other two having ejected four fouls apiece - but when it came to the gold medal game they found the experience and expertise of the Indian line-up a bit too hot to handle. Turkmen women, on the other hand, were visibly distraught after losing to Mongolia, but their moment of joy for the day came in the bronze medal play-off.

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