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A meaningful dialogue process that culminates Good that Omar has accepted in a solution of Kashmir issue: Omar Abdullah Modi is a factor the polls: BJP
an impact on the elections.We would have to wait and see but won't use the word wave, definitely no" he added. Referring to controversy over his recent statement on Kashmir's accession with India, Omar emphatically said "Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India, Jammu and Kashmir is a part of India and no two ways about there. There may be differences in the way the state acceded as contrary (opposed) to other states but that does not call into the question of accession", "Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India, if you accede to India. Are you not part of India, of course you are", chief minister clarified. Replying to another question about its coalition partner's (Congress) aversion to opinion polls, Omar said that he has no opinion about his allies felt about the subject. "As far as NC is concerned, the opinion polls rarely are conducted in Jammu and Kashmir and therefore this is more a theoretical question rather than a practical one". "The day, I feel that meaningful opinion polls are conducted in the state and they have a bearing on the elections, I will form an opinion till we are regional party for us to form an opinion that matters in rest of the country not here'. To a question about Ireland type solution in resolving Kashmir imbroglio, he said that as a chief minister "it would be gross impropriety, if I was to promote one solution as opposed to others. As a leader of the National Conference, my party has promoted a roadmap they believe in is an ideal one. It is the only roadmap that has the stamp of state legislature". "As chief minister, I must take into consideration other proposal as well.My proposal have a proposal, the Peoples Democartic party has a proposal, Bhartiya Janta Party has a proposal, 8Contd p2 NEW DELHI, NOV 04: BJP today welcomed Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's contention that there will be a Narendra Modi"effect" in the forthcoming elections and suggested that Congress should also accept this fact. "It is good that Omar Abdullah has accepted that Modi is a factor in these elections. This is something that the Congress is not yet ready to accept," BJP spokespersonPrakash Javadekar said, adding that the ruling party should come around to accepting the fact. Asked about Omar's view that though Modi will be an influence in the polls, there is no "Modi wave", he said, "He has the freedom to say so." BJP has claimed that the mammoth crowds at Modi's rallies show there is a euphoria in the country about its prime ministerial candidate. The opinion polls have also

Rahul seeks more time to respond to EC notice

NEW DELHI, NOV 04: The Election Commission on Monday granted four days more time to Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi to reply to its notice for model code violation over his remark that Pakistan's ISI was in touch with Muzaffarnagar riot victims. The EC has now asked Mr. Gandhi to reply to it by 11.30 am on November 8, as to why action should not be initiated against him for violating the model code by making such remarks in his speeches in Churu, Rajasthan on October 23 and in Indore on October 24 while campaigning. "The Commission has considered your request for extension of time for submitting your reply to the commission's notice ...has decided to extend the time for reply to the said notice up to 1100 hrs on November 8, 2013 (Friday)," the EC letter to him said. In seeking more time from 8Contd p2

JAMMU, NOV 04 Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Omar Abdullah, Monday pooh poohed the Modi wave in the country and said it was a bit of exaggeration. "As far as, Modi wave is concerned. I think the Modi wave would be a bit of exaggeration", he told media per-

sons during an interaction in Jammu, the winter capital. "However, it would be be wrong on our part to deny the influence of Modi in elections.. There is an effect of Modi and that effect may not be on the average voter but it is visible amongst the cadre of BJP to the extent that it has

favoured Modi over Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi as the likely prime minister of the country. Omar had noted that there is a Modi effect in the elections but ruled out a wave in his favour as an exaggeration. "It would be wrong on our part to deny any influence of Modi in the elections--I cannot say there is Modi wave -there is effect of Modi," Omar told reporters in

Jammu earlier in the day. In response to a query about "Modi wave" going on in the country ahead of Lok Sabhaelections, Omar said, "I think Modi wave would be a bit of an exaggeration". "There is an effect of Modi-That effect may not be on the average voter but it is visible on cadres of BJP. What impact it will have on elections let us wait and watch," the chief minister said.

Seven killed in militant attack in Assam

GUWAHATI, NOV 04: The death toll in the attack by suspected Garo National Liberation Army insurgents on a group of people gambling on the occasion of Diwali in Assam's Goalpara district has risen to seven. "Six persons were brought to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital and one of them was brought dead. One seriously injured has been operated upon and another four injured are undergoing treatment", Hospital Superintendent R Talukdar said on Monday. Three other wounded were admitted to Goalpara Civil Hospital and 8Contd p2

BJP protests against state government LTC scam: CBI seeks papers
JAMMU, NOV 04: Under party's "Secretariat Gherao" programme on the opening day of Secretariat on Darbar Move at Jammu, BJP State President Jugal Kishore Sharma, alongwith BJP Leader of Legislative Party Ashok Khajuria, National Executive Members Dr. Nirmal Singh, Shamsher Singh Manhas, MLAs-Sham Choudhary and Sukhnandan Choudhary, State VicePresident Chander Prakash Ganga and other leaders, courted arrest near Civil Secretariat against state government to highlight and protest against discriminatory attitude with Jammu and Ladakh in all matters and at all levels. Earlier, Jugal Kishore Sharma and other leaders led a protest march of party workers and citizens of Jammu from Indira Chowk and they were blocked by a heavy contingent of police enroute Secretariat but they finally managed to overcome all the police barricades amidst scuffle with policemen and reached Shalimar chowk where massive the hands of Kashmiri leaders because of the stoic silence by the elected representatives of NC and Congress from Jammu for the sake of power. He said that the chief minister Omar Abdullah is raking up the settled issue of accession of the state with India and is trying to unsettle this question which has been long back settled by his own grandfather. He said that the CM has concern and time for making repeated utterances on K-issue but least concern and time for masses. Ashok Khajuria said that constitutionally and legally J&K is the integral part of India but unfortunately some elements rake up the issue of accession or merger to divert the attention of the masses from real issues. He said that the provision of separate state flag in addition to the national tri-colour too has induced a sense of separatism and sooner it goes better it would be for the state. Dr. Nirmal Singh said that the people have now realized 8Contd p2 NEW DELHI, NOV 04: The CBI on Monday approached the Rajya Sabha secretariat seeking documents related to fake travel bills allegedly submitted by a JD(U) MP against whom a case has been registered for making such claims. CBI sources said a team has again gone to the secretariat to collect these documents. The agency has registered its first FIR in the Leave Travel C o n c e s s i o n ( LT C ) scam against JD(U) Rajya Sabha MP Anil Kumar

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and boarding passes. Besides Sahani, Air India customer Service agent Rubaina Akhtar and Lajpat Nagar-based travel operator Air Cruise Travels Private Ltd have also been named in the FIR in the scam in which LTC claims were forged for travel on state-run Air India. In his defence, Mr. Sahani had refuted the allegation claiming that it was he who had complained to the authorities about 20 fake tickets being submitted in his name. He has alleged that it was his personal 8Contd p2

protest was held. Jugal Kishore Sharma, criticized the NC-Congress coalition government for discriminating with Jammu and Ladakh regions in matters related to development and extension of welfare schemes. He said that Jammu has also suffered at

Sahani for allegedly siphoning off around Rs. 9.5 lakh by presenting fake air tickets

China sets up radar station near Ladakh to monitor Indian planes

official sources today, has come up across the DBO on the Chinese aide which has described it as a weather station. Indian technical experts, who have been monitoring this structure closely, have opined that it could be a radar station which apparently did not exist before. However, no signal has been emitted or received so far. The work on this structure was expedited by the Chinese after IAF made a surprise historic landing of its C-310J Hercules on a military air strip in 8Contd p2

Chopper scam: CBI to send judicial request to Italy

NEW DELHI, NOV 04: With a view to finalising the charge sheet in VVIP helicopter purchase scam, CBI will send a judicial request to Italy seeking statements of the accused who have been facing trial in that country. The CBI sources said a detailed questionnaire on various aspects of financial transactions, meetings of alleged middlemen and their interests in Indian and Tunisian companies, among others, would be part of the judicial request. They said the agency wanted to first get the statements through the judicial request - also known as Letters Rogatory -- after which it might seek extradition of the suspects, if needed. The top executives of Italian firm Finmeccanica and its United Kingdom-based subsidiary AgustaWestland are facing trial in Italy for alleged corruption in supply of 12 VVIP helicopters to India. The Rs. 3600-crore contract is under probe of Italian and Indian agencies for alleged kickbacks paid to Indian officials, including former IAF chief S.P. Tyagi, to clinch it. Mr. Tyagi has denied allegations of 8Contd p2

State needs a CM dedicated to the state : Nirmal Kamal

JAMMU, NOV 04: It is unfortunate that the J&K State has Chief Minister like Omar Abdullah who still lacks mindset to govern the state with pro-people issues and gives confusing verdicts by repeatedly saying that J&K is not merged with India, removal of AFSPA and latest by saying that K-issue has political genesis not economic basis even after completing four years as Chief Minister says BJP State Spokesperson Dr. Nirmal Kamal. Omar Abdullah need to read the history in correct perspective and chronological order, analyse the events which took place in J&K state immediately after division of the country and he will find that most of the time his grandfather, father and now Omar himself have elections. Such a gimmickry further proves hollowness of his mind rather than a dynamism which could prove helpful for the states economic development. People do require basic amenities of education, roads, power, employment and not the music infested with tones appealing Pakistan and supporters of Pakistan says Dr. Nirmal Kamal. Omar Abdullah by ignoring interests of unemployed youth and placing irrelevant priorities like mystical Kissue before the public has only authenticated that NC with Omar Abdullah on the top has nothing to deliver to the public and so he has ridiculed himself with his band wagon as incompetent to rule the state before the eyes of the public. Dr. Nirmal 8Contd p2

LEH/NEW DELHI, NOV 04: With IAF now able to operate C-130 Hercules transport aircraft at high-altitude Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) sector in Ladakh,

China is reported to have built a radar station on its side of the border ostensibly to monitor movement of Indian planes over the area. The structure, according to

OMARS DARBAR ENTRY: GUARD OF HONOUR , DISLIKE OF MODI PLUS PROTESTS

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ROHIT SINGH RANA The Darbar has opened yesterday and as per tradition, the Chief Minister was presented with a Guard of Honour. It reminds one of Alexanders entry into Persia--pomp, show, military drill and then the overreaching statement ---All that is not Greek is ugly. Omar uttered the same style statement about Narendra Modi, the BJPs PM candidate--- I can dislike him but not ignore, he can galvanise the BJP. Days earlier, in order to set the political stage for his grand entry into the Jammu Secretariat, he laid out his vision about the political future of Kashmir. He evinced interest in the North Ireland formula or Scotland pattern relationship for Kashmir with India. When questioned about this statement, he resorted to his usual parroting; Kashmir is an integral part of India and shall always remain so. This was one scene, set for the people by Omars National Conference. While he was receiving the Maharaja style Guard of Honour, PDP, his main political opponent in his home turf took out a large rally to oppose Omars war mongering on Kashmir. PDP rally led by Mehbooba Mufti sensing the proverbial iron is hot strike now opportunity, hit hard on the Chief Ministers stance on Pakistan when he said India should hit hard at Pakistan. PDP in true testimony to its version of another faade of political haze does not want India to hit hard at Pakistan. What makes them crib and complain on Omars stance when Pakistan is indulging in total hate India; bash India approach is equally not understandable. Back at Jammu, when Omar entered the Civil Secretariat, another must political scene was created by BJP, who believe Jammu is their fundamental stronghold. They too had to show their political worth and what an opportune moment than to take out a protest rally and march as near to secretariat as possible. Then have a sit in, mission accomplished, job done and work statement completed with a big media photo shoot clicking their every move, they think Jammus aspirations have been given vent to. Three political dramas in a single day, yet all such efforts only enacted to influence constituencies or play to the galleries. In first place, Omar Abdullah is the Chief Minister of a sensitive state. He has no right to speak in public about contentious issues which will only rake up controversies remotely connected to any solution on Kashmir. Given the penchant of politicians to comment on anything, it makes a dispassionate observer hang his head low over the political opportunism being displayed by them. Regarding Modi one preponderating factor today is that he has galvanized his party to action. He is becoming a bogeyman for the opposition and Omar being a partner with un-likeminded Congress at the Centre and in coalition with it in the State it is but natural to pay some tribute to it via Modi bashing. Remember all Modi dislike or hate statements are being registered at 10 Janpath, so why not to get a decent entry there. Darbar move is an administrative exercise and not an ideal stage for a political fight. Omars statements, PDPs protest and BJPs loud demonstration are not needed on such occasion. Instead all the political parties should have released their policy principles in order to make administration corruption free and responsive to the aspirations of the people. In a spirit of coordination it was one moment when there should have been some unanimity on making governance effective. As Darbar move and opening of Secretariat in Jammu means after six months it is now time for this region to taste the fruits of good and effective governance. That spirit is miles away and not in sight at all given the opportunism and political slug-fest, all parties are indulging into. In the bargain Jammu will continue to suffer on many counts.

remained at the helm of powerful affairs and also that dynastic rule of NC could develop the state economy but no effort was made to convert the state into viable economic entity. Now giving such statements prove meaningless efforts only to remain dear to the people and win their sympathies to garner their votes in the coming

HAIL JAMMUITES: PROMOTION FROM TRIBALS TO SUBJECTS

As Darbar move has arrived in Jammu, it is promotion time for the citizen. Now he will see with his eyes stretched from ear to ear plus mouth wide open, the whizzing past of special people called politicians, administrators and ministers. Otherwise, they were living a remote Jharkhand jungle style life with no insight about fast moving white cars, police jeeps and sirens. Poor Jammites will now feel and have darshan of these special people. Promotion is a great soothing cause to celebrate. Previously tribals and now subjects as Darbaris have arrived to rule them, the citizens have been given peak hour time to celebrate. Between 9 and 10 AM, they will be stopped at all important roads and crossings for long time. They will be made to guess and play Kaun Banega Karorpati on which minister is passing and how many cars are following him. The government has given been gracious and those who miss the morning show have been given another prime time slot in the evening. They can indulge in all fancies and look to the sky and thank God about real democracy and arrival of Darbaris and listen to their peculiar Raag Darbari. The show will continue for six months so, Jammuites are fortunate enough to thank their stars. Great governance and the lucky Jammu citizen what else he wanted than this valuable bargain. RANASAHIB

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lems of youth, refugees, migrants, senior citizens, ex-serviceman, farmers and so on. He said that this "Secretariat Gherao" programme is for highlighting the discrimination with Jammu and seeking attention of the government towards the Jammu and Ladakh regions. Shamsher Singh Manhas said that despite massive funding from the Centre for development of all the three regions but major portion of these funds is expended in valley. Not only this, even the funds exclusively meant for Jammu too are diverted to Kashmir and the Congress is responsible for such act of the state government. Amarnath Gupta, Prof. Hari Om, Chander Prakash Ganga, Suresh Jamwal, Bali Bhagat, Kavinder Gupta, Sat Sharma (C.A), MLA Sham Choudhary, MLA Sukhnandan Kumar, Chander Mohan Gupta, Mamta Singh, Munish Sharma, Yudhvir Sethi, Ravinder Raina, Pt. Ashok Kumar, Parmodh Kapahi, Rajesh Gupta, Baldev Singh, Keshav Dutt, Subash Jandial, Sat Pal Pappi, Daljeet Singh, Bansi Lal Bharti, Nand Kishore Sharma, N.D. Rajwal, Chaman Lal Kanathia, Subash Bhagat, Raj Singh, Kashmir Singh, Rajinder Chib, Kamla Gupta, Vikram Randhawa, Rajiv Charak, Praduman Singh, Ayodhya Gupta, Kuldeep Kandhari, Sat Pal Choudhary, Tarseem Choudhary, Parveen Arora, Anju Dogra, Arvind Gupta, Dinesh Gupta, Surinder Choudhary, Prem Gupta, Priya Jral, Gulshan Mahajan, Sangeeta Gupta, Balwan Singh, Vidya Devi, Amarjit Dogra, Ishant Gupta, Mnumanav Mahajan, Vivek Gupta, Pawan Gupta, Pt. Mela Ram, Surinder Mahajan, Iqbal Singh, Dalip Kumar, Ajay Vaid, Jeet Angral, Ashish Sareen, Vijay Sharma, Ajay Chalotra, Uttam Singh, Bindu Singh, Rampal, Ashok Singh, Vinay Sharma and hundreds of others courted arrests. said. CBI sources said the agency has registered a case of cheating and forgery among other charges under Indian Penal Code (IPC) and relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. CBI has alleged that the MP purchased seven return e-tickets in connivance with the tour operator and the Air India employee. He also allegedly used online service to get boarding passes using web check-in basis. The sources said just before the boarding time, these boarding passes and tickets were allegedly cancelled using the sign-in code of Akhtar, the Air India customer service agent, and money was refunded with little deduction. Meanwhile, the e-tickets and boarding passes which were earlier issued were allegedly presented to claim the travel expenses by the MP. The sources said even though no expenses were incurred by the MP, he allegedly claimed the amount using these e-tickets and boarding passes which were cancelled. of AgustaWestland respectively, are facing trial in Italy for alleged corruption. Mr. Orsi was heading AgustaWestland when the deal was signed in 2010 and is now the Chief Executive Officer of parent company Finmeccanica. The statements of both these top executives are important for CBI for finalising its charges which would be levelled in the charge sheet, the agency sources said. India has become a civil party in the ongoing trial in Italy which helped it in getting court documents submitted by Italian prosecutors in connection with the case. The CBI needs statements and answers to its queries focusing on its probe so far in the case. The agency will have to corroborate allegations levelled in its FIR, besides piecing together the entire sequence of events in its charge sheet. It has named both the firms in its FIR in which 11 others including Mr. Tyagi and three alleged European middlemen have also been named for "tilting" the deal in AgustaWestland's favour in lieu of 51 million euro bribes. The agency has alleged that the bribes were transferred through a web of Indian and Tunisian softwares firms in the garb of technical contracts. It has alleged that during his tenure as the IAF chief, Mr. Tyagi and "with his approval" the Air Force, "conceded to reduce the service ceiling for VVIP helicopters from 6,000 m to 4,500 m as mandatory to which it was opposing vehemently on the grounds of security constraints and other related reasons". According to the FIR, "Haschke Guido and Gerosa Carlo (middlemen) managed to send 5.6 million through Mohali-based IDS Infotech and Chandigarhbased Aeromatrix Info Solutions Private Ltd to India and kept the remaining amount out of about 24.30 million received from AgustaWestland with themselves in the account of IDS Tunisia." Both the Indian companies have denied involvement in the bribery scandal.

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led by the centre government and the para military forces not the irrelevant genesis of incompetent of Chief Minister, says Dr. Nirmal Kamal.

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Sajjad Lone's People Conference has a proposal. How can as a chief minister say that all those proposals should be ignored and only one should be accepted", Omar elaborated. "When meaningful dialogue starts it must take into consideration all those proposals and then work out the most appropriate one. May be it is not possible to take anyone solution and impose it in full. May be you take bits from each of the solutions and work out a comprehensive roadmap". The chief minister said that he was not promoting a power sharing agreement. "I am not promoting here anything other than the fact that we want a dialogue, a meaningful process_ a dialogue process that results in a solution".

Seven killed ...

one in a private hospital, officials said. Armed with automatic weapons, suspected Garo National Liberation Army insurgents from across Meghalaya had on Sunday night indiscriminately opened fire upon a group of people gambling on the occasion of Diwali at remote Gendamari, under Aagia Police Station. Six persons were gunned down on the spot, while 10 others were seriously injured with one of them succumbing to his wounds on way to hospital, they

said. Those killed on the spot were identified as Bholanath Rabha, Amarendra Rabha, Jayanta Rabha, Puran Rabha, Kalpanath Rabha and Lulu Rabha. Security measures have been intensified in the district following the incident, the sources added. Goalpara district has been witnessing violence since October 20 last with protests against the upcoming Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council elections between November 13 and 25 demanding exclusion of non Rabha areas from the Council. Sources ruled out that last night's incident was connected with the Council elections. Proscribed GNLA based in the Garo hills jungles of Meghalaya, adjacent to Goalpara district, has been fighting for a separate state since 2009 indulging in killings, attacks on security forces and civilians, blasts, kidnappings and extortions.

China sets ...

DBO on August 20 this year. The matter was raised at the border meetings during which the Chinese side claimed it was a weather station, a statement which the Indian side contested as there was no civilian population in the area. The DBO air strip had been activated after 43 years in 2008 when an AN-32 transport plane landed there. However, after the landing, the transport plane was used only for air dropping material for troops of Army and ITBP, manning the hostile terrain in this region. Hercules has made at least seven landings so far in the area, the sources said. It is capable of carrying up to 20 tonnes of load. In a related move, Chinese troops mounted on vehicles entered five km deep into Indian territory at Trade Junction area in north of Ladakh. However, there was no face-off as the Chinese troops pulled back on their own, the sources said.

LTC scam: ...

assistant who had submitted these tickets for claims but no money was ever transferred to his account. The MP has claimed that he had brought this matter to the notice of concerned authorities and even submitted that complaint letter to CBI when it searched his premises here. The tour operator and Air India did not offer any comments. CBI has alleged that Mr. Sahani made false claims of approximately Rs. 9.5 lakh for seven business class return air tickets costing nearly Rs. 1.34 lakh each to Port Blair in December 2012 using fake air tickets and boarding passes for himself and six associates, the sources

State needs ...

Kamal further added people of J&K require a chief minister who is accessible to the common masses, understand their sentiments, requirements and aspirations and not ambitious opportunists catering only to the vested interest of his kiths and kins and not the down-trodden. The border issues can be tack-

Rahul seeks ...

the EC, Mr. Gandhi in his letter on Monday cited his prior travel commitments during the week ended November 3 and holidays due to the festive season as reasons for not been able to reply to the EC in time.

Chopper scam: ...

any kickbacks. Giuseppe Orsi and Bruno Spagnolini, former and current Chief Executives

BJP protests ...

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Rana decries political opportunists for exploiting weaker sections

Technical workers architects in redesigning profile of the State: Bhalla

JAMMU, NOVEMBER 04- Minister for Housing, Horticulture and Culture Mr. Raman Bhalla has said that technical workers are the main architects in redesigning the profile of the State through their planning, adding that in this regard they are helping the Government in completing various ongoing projects within the stipulated time frame. This was stated by the Minister while addressing a huge gathering of technical workers on Baba Vishwkarma Day function held at Marble Market in Trikuta Nagar, here on Monday. Mr. Bhalla said that Government was committed to develop every corner of the State on modern lines, adding that peace is a vital for taking development to the door steps of people. He said Government has ensured good governance for the effective implementation of various welfare probeen witnessed across the State during last five year tenure of the present Government adding that many new projects were in pipeline to upgrade the living standard of the people. The Minister said that instructions have been issued to the concerned department to complete all the new projects being executed in their jurisdictions and make optimum use of funds. He urged the people to personally monitor the development works being executed in their respective areas. Mr. Bhalla assured the inhabitants that their remaining genuine developmental demands would also be fulfilled on priority basis. While throwing light on the life of Baba Vishwakarma Day, the Minister said Vishwakarma is the divine architect of the universe, one of the fourteen precious things born of the Samundra Manthan and he also constructed the holy city of Dwarka where Lord Krishna ruled. He said this day is not only celebrated by the engineers and architectural community but also by all professionals. Listing new projects sanctioned for his home constituency, Mr. Bhalla said that Health Ministry has approved Rs. 71 crore for construction of 6-storey Maternity hospital within Gandhi Nagar hospital premises. He said that the hospital would be constructed with all facilities at par with SMGS hospital. The Minister said to ease rush in the city and Gandhi Nagar hospitals the Government has also approved Rs. 4.77 crore for construction of Primary Health Centres at Bhore Camp and Lower Gaddigarh besides NS Urban Health Centre at Trikuta Nagar. Earlier, the Bhojpuri artists presented colourful cultural items which were highly appreciated by the huge gathering of Bhojpuries.

grammes so that more and more people get benefitted. The Minister said Government promulgated several acts like Right to Information Act, Public Service Guarantee Act etc by which the participatory involvement of people has been ensured in day-to-day governance. He said through these acts a common man can get the requisite services and information within the stipulated time frame. Mr. Bhalla highlighted various reformative steps being taken up by the Government

in making available all necessary basic amenities to the people of the State especially those living in rural and far-off pockets. The Minister said that the Government was working under a comprehensive plan to develop modern infrastructure facilities across the state. He said that there was no constraint of funds under development sectors like R&B, PHE, ERA, PDD, Health, Education and other sectors. Mr. Bhalla said that unprecedented development has

JAMMU NOV 4- Decrying political opportunists for exploiting weaker segments of society to further their electoral interests, Provincial President Mr Devender Singh Rana on Monday said that National Conference has all along worked for their welfare and dignity. "In fact, National Conference has been a movement of the weaker sections", he said while addressing a large gathering of workers on the occasion of Vishwakarma Jayanti at Mishriwalla, near here this afternoon, adding that Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh

Mohamned Abdulah pioneered several initiatives to ameliorate the lot of the under privileged people. In this context, he made a particular reference of various initiatives that empowered lakhs of people and brought cheer in their lives. "This initiative gained momentum over the years which brought about a discernible change in the living conditions of poor people," he said adding that Jammu and Kashmir is perhaps the only state in the country where everybody has a roof to live under. Otherwise, the

condition is precarious in several other states, where the poor people are forced to live on footpaths. He also reminded the people about the great role played by National Conference in generating awareness among various segments about their rights. The Provincial President exhorted the weaker sections to unite under one banner and strive for their justified rights. National Conference, he said will remain in the forefront, as it has been always in the past, to mitigate their problems.

Sadhotra addresses public meeting at Ladore Vishwakarma Day celebrated at Govt Agri workshop
JAMMU, NOV 04Cautioning the people against the political groups, which are bent upon to divide the people on religious, caste and regional lines, Minister for Planning and Development, Labour and Employment, Ajay Sadhotra on Monday appealed them to supplement government efforts of ensuring overall growth of the State. He was addressing a public meeting at Ladore in Marh block. He said that National Conference will emerge victorious in 2014 assembly elections under the leadership of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to steer the state towards progress and prosperity. Sarpanches, Panches and other prominent persons of Ladore and adjoining villages apprised the Minister JAMMU, NOV-04: Use of Modern Agriculture Machinery like Rotavators, Zero Till Seed Drills, Laser land levelers, Reaper-Cum Binders, Cono-weeders, Knap Sac Sprayers and Irrigation Pumsets are being popularized on a large scale under various Centrally Sponsored Schemes like NFSM and ISOPOM. This was disclosed by Director Agriculture, Jammu Sh Ajay Khajuria while addressing the workers and officers at Government Agriculture Workshop during the Vishwakarma Day Celebrations. The Director further said that we are getting a very good response and results of the Demonstration of different Agriculture Machinery from the field. The use of Paddy Transplanters, Reaper-Cum-Binders, SeedCum-Fertilizer Drills, Power Weeders, and Diesel Hill Ploughs is being demonstrated under the component Training, Testing and Demonstration of National Food Security Mission. 1114 demonstration of Seed Treatment Drums have been planned in current wheat crop to be sown during Rabi 201314 season covering the farmers of all the panchayats of the Province. The Annual Worshipping of Bhagwan Vishwakarma was held at Seed Processing Unit, Seed Multiplication Farm (SMF), Chinore, SMF Chakrohi and Government Agriculture Workshop, Talab Tillo, Jammu by the workers and officials working in these units. On this occasion worship of tools and machines with special prayer for safety of the operators and workers was done After the function the Director along with team of officers had a round of workshop and inspected the various newly installed machines. On the occasion Agriculture Research Engineer, Sh Devinder Sharma apprised the team that the machines like Sheet Cutting Machine, Sheet Bending Machine, Sheet Rolling Machine, Swagging & Beading Maching and Power Hammers purchased under the component Strengthening of Workshop under RKVY has contributed towards increased operational efficiency, better quality of implements fabricated and higher output of the workshop. Joint Director (Inputs), Jammu, Sh Susheel Sawhney, Agronomist Vegetable, Jammu, Sh Sunil Koul, C. M. Sharma, Deputy Director (Central) Jammu, Sh Kuldip Dhar, SMS (Engg), Sh Sh B. M. Rana, SMS, Sh Uttam Sharma, President All J&K, Agriculture Employees Association, Jammu also attended the programme.

Season's lowest temperature so far recorded in Leh

with their demands and problems including construction of Bridge in the area to provide connectivity with Marh and blacktopping of approach road to Ladore. Responding to their demands, Mr. Sadhotra announced that construction of bridge would be started before March next year and said that after completion of the same, the people of the area would be benefitted a lot.

He also appealed youth to come forward and avail the benefits of self employment schemes launched by the State and Central Governments, especially SKWEPY. He said that Coalition Government, headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, is committed to channelize the energy of youth towards right direction for equitable and speedy development of the state.

MLA Distributed Cheques among 150 beneficiaries at Bhaderwah

BHADERWAH, NOV 04: MLA Bhaderwah Mohd Sharief Naiz on Monday in a simple but attractive function held here at Dak Bunglow ,Bhaderwah organised by Susheela Devi Educational Cultural Welfare Society , New Delhi distributed cheques worth Rs 2250 and 6000 to each and every beneficiary as package of incentives among 150 women s and girls to boost the Textile production and Handicrafts works production in the area . All Cheques were distributed under the scheme of distribution of wages compensation to the artisans of SUTP & DP TDW. National President of the Susheela Devi Educational Welfare Society , New Delhi Arun Kumar Panday and Nadeem Sharief Youth Congress leader were also present on the occasion Interacting with the members and workers of Susheela Devi Educational Welfare Society who are getting training in handicraft and textile works centers in Bhaderwah He said government endeavors to strengthen such NGOs so that the poor artisans both men and women can be benefited.Naiz called for organizing Handicraft and textiles exhibitions in nook and corner of the Bhaderwah to give boost to this sector. Responding with the demands put forth by the Society, the MLA Bhaderwah assured them that their genuine demands will be solved in a phased manner. He assured that full support would be provided to them to improve their livelihood. He said pending issues would be taken up with the Khadi Village Industries Commission, Govt. of India shortly for early redressal. Earlier, National President of the Society Arun Kumar Panday highlighted the achievements of the Board. Sarpanchs Shabir Ahmed Khan , Sartaj Ahmed Kellu , Mohd AShraf Batt , Kulbhushan Kotwal and others were also present on the occasion.

PHQ resumes functioning in Jammu

DGP inspects moving police establishments, chairs officers meeting

JAMMU, NOVEMBER 04: Director General of Police (DGP), Mr. Ashok Prasad inspected Police Headquarters and other moving police establishments which resumed functioning in the winter capital Jammu here this morning, following annual darbar move. Mr. Prasad was received at PHQ lawns by senior police officers and was presented guard of honour by a contingent of armed police. Accompanied by Additional Directors General of Police, Mr. P. L. Gupta, Mr. S. P. Vaid and Mr. S. M. Sahai, the DGP visited various sections of PHQ and enquired from the officials about the working of their branches. Mr. Prasad also chaired a high level meeting of police officers at PHQ and discussed various issues related to the Police Organization. He enquired about the progress achieved on different fronts of policing in the State. He instructed the officers to maintain close rapport at all levels to keep the law and order maintained. Urging the officers to work with greater zeal for achieving desired results in different areas of policing, Mr. Prasad said that major thrust should be given to public service and all matters related to the common people should be settled on priority. He said that safety and security of the people is our prime concern and efficient measures and deployment should be made to ensure it. During the meeting, Mr. Prasad asked the officers to initiate the exercise for the upcoming challenges and in this connection all Wings of the Organization needs to be mobilized. While dealing with the challenges it should be ensured that common people does not face any inconvenience in the day-to-day working, he added. Later, the DGP visited other moving offices of the organization including Armed, Home Guard, Police Housing Corporation, CID, Security, Railways and Crime Headquarters.

SRINAGAR, NOV 04: Cold wave continues to tighten its grip on the Kashmir Valley as the mercury fell considerably, recording the season's lowest temperature so far in Leh. Leh area of Ladakh division was the coldest place in the state with a minimum temperature of minus 8 degrees Celsius, recorded as the season's lowest so far, a MeT department official said today. The mercury plunged nearly four degrees in Kargil town last night to settle at minus 6 degrees Celsius, the official said. Pahalgam also witnessed a drop of 0.5 degrees as the south Kashmir tourist resort recorded a low of minus 3 degrees Celsius, he said. State's summer capital,

Srinagar, registered a drop in night temperatures with the minimum of 1.2 degrees Celsius, compared to yesterday's 1.7 degrees Celsius. The night temperature in Gulmarg was up by a degree to settle at minus 1 degree Celsius, the MeT official said, adding snowfall is predicted for the famous skiresort in the mid-week. The official said other places in the valley like Qazigund and Kupwara also recorded a minimum temperature close to the freezing point. The weather office has forecast that a fresh western disturbance would likely affect the state from tomorrow and said the weather would remain dry and pleasant till then.

Speaker inspects various sections in Assembly Secretariat

Asks employees to work with dedication, follow up ATRs
JAMMU, NOV 04- The Speaker, J&K LA, Mr. Mubarak Gul on Monday inspected various sections including question section, hospitality and protocol branch, legislation, library, store and stock in the Assembly Secretariat after opening of offices here after the darbar move. The Speaker directed the officers of Assembly Secretariat to work with utmost dedication. He also asked them to follow up Action Taken Reports of the proceedings held in previous Assembly Session besides the directions given by various Committees to the departments. sHe asked the concerned to prepare the list of library books immediately and ensure its availability online so that interested people can get information about the library books of the Assembly Secretariat. The Speaker directed the concerned to maintain cleanliness in and around the Assembly Complex. Mr. Gul said that the meeting of the all the Chairmen of different financial and other Committees will be convened soon. He said that the functioning of the Committees will be reviewed every fortnightly. The Speaker directed the Secretary Assembly Mr. M. Ramzan to ensure the functioning of winter Assembly Secretariat at Srinagar so that any grievances of the public are redressed as and when he (Speaker) visits the Valley.

established Society , the MLA Bhaderwah reiterated Government's commitment to provide every possible help to boost industrial units in rural areas especially related to handicrafts and hand looms adding that several schemes have been launched to improve the standard of artisans in the State. He said artisans are provided special incentives to boost handicraft production as

Handicrafts and textiles are famous worlds over. He appreciated the NGO Susheela Devi Educational Welfare Society, New Delhi for establishing their training centers in Bhaderwah and said that the government has enhanced stipend to the handicraft trainees and rupees 1 lakh shall be given as National Award to the best performing Artisans of the State.

Public Durbar Held at Drass

Tehsil Status for Drass under Consideration: Qamar Ali Akhone

Murtaza Ali for Student Age KARGIL, 04TH NOV: To assess the problems and difficulties faced by the people, the Advisor to CM Qamar Ali Akhone along with the State Minister for Science and Information Technology, Medical Education, School Education, Youth Service and Sports Feroz Ahmad Khan, MLC Kargil Syed Ahmad Razvi, Councilor Ghulam Rasool Nagvi, other councilors, Additional Deputy Commissioner Kargil and other district officers visited Drass Sub Division and attended a Public Durbar. During the Public Durbar Sarpanches and Panches form different villages of Drass made aware the Ministers about the problems faced by the people of their villages and demanded for immediate redressal of these problems. On this occasion interacting with the people present there the Advisor to CM assured for meting and redressing their problems one by one on priority basis. Recounting the developmental schemes completed and running in Drass Sub Division, Qamar Ali Akhone said that the Zojjila Tunnel has been initiated by the Chief Minister of J&K last year and work will start soon. He also told that Tehsil Status for Drass, Niyabat for Tai Suru, Block for Soth and Sub Division Status for Sankoo and Chiktan are under the keen consideration of the State Government. The State Minister for Science and Information Technology, Medical Education, School Education, Youth Service and Sports Feroz Ahmad Khan and Councilor Ghulam Rasool Nagvi also interacted during the Public Durbar. Likewise the Team also attended such Durbars at Zanskar, Taisuru and Sankoo.

Trade Union activists demand restoration of labour laws

SRINAGAR, NOV 04: Coming down heavily on Jammu and Kashmir government for using "undemocratic methods" and force against striking workers at Chenani-Nashri tunnel project, large number of Trade Union activists on Monday demanded immediate release of workers and demanded the restoration of labour laws. Scores of Trade Union Activists belonging to different employees and workers organizations staged a protest against Australian based 'Leighton Company' alleging that it is putting pressure on Administration and police to muzzle the voice of the workers who demand increase in wages and implementation of Labour Laws. President, Jammu and Kashmir Coordination Committee of Trade Unions, Muhammad Maqbool told CNS that police is using undemocratic methods and force against striking labourers at Chenani-Nashri tunnel project. "We demand that arrested workers should be released immediately and their demands should be accepted," he said. Pertinently, Tunnel project workers' union had gone on strike on October 27 demanding reinstatement of ten employees, wages in lieu of overtime, weekly off, risk allowance while Leighton Company, which runs the tunnel works, did not concede to their demands resulting in the face off. "Government is making hollow claims and their actions make it clear that it is not interested in decreasing the level of unemployment. Workers are not only being thrown out of jobs, but also punished with force," the protestors said adding that government in Jammu and Kashmir has snatched the right to protest peacefully.

100 more model villages approved: Sagar

JAMMU, NOV 04- Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Mr. Ali Mohammad Sagar has said that one hundred more model villages have been approved for ensuring sustained development of rural and far-flung areas of the state. The Minister was addressing officers during a review meeting of the Rural Development Department. Directors Rural Development, Jammu, Kashmir Mr. Shafiq Ahmad Raina and Mir Altaf Ahmad, Director Panchayati Raj, Mr. Farooq Ahmad Khan, Director Finance, Special Secretary Rural Development, Joint Director Planning Rural Development, ACDs, DPOs, Exens of both the divisions were present in the meeting. Mr. Sagar said that the government has completed the already taken up model villages and the need of the hour was to take up some more so

that the more rural and farflung areas become developed and get the requisite facilities. He said that by taken up these villages; people living in these areas will get the requisite facilities as available in towns. The Minister further directed the officers to speed up the work on the left over Panchayat Ghars so that they can be given to their respective Panchayats. He said that these infrastructural assets

are essential for the day-today functioning of the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) which have been empowered with the powers of 14 vital departments. "Under 13th Finance Commission, 1800 Panchayat Ghars are supposed to be completed, out of which a considerable number have been taken up and completed, the need is to complete the remaining ones as soon as possible", the

Minister added. "The officers should work in close coordination to ensure the speedy completion of the remaining Panchayat Ghars as the requisite funds have already been placed at their disposal. The bottlenecks, if any, should be removed by holding regular meetings so that the pace of work is expedited", the Minister said and maintained that there should be no deviation from the already approved plan.

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gesturing to Dhawan about ways to play the rising ball. At the fag end of the practice, when the Indian players were busy in fielding drills, Dhawan spent some time discussing matters with Tendulkar. Before moving out with his teammates, Tendulkar had a brief fielding session where he concentrated on some catching practice. Earlier, on his arrival at the venue. Tendulkar was greeted by his wax replica placed at the entrance of the dressing room by the local staging body, Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), which is leaving no stone unturned to make the master's swansong Eden outing for India memorable for him, the city, as also his countless admirers. One hundred youngsters stood on both sides of the stretch from the main gate of the stadium upto the dressing room and formed a human chain when the Team India bus arrived and Tendulkar alighted from the vehicle. Saluting 24 golden years of Tendulkar's international playing career, 24 confetti cannons burst spraying red paper on the cricketing genius.

Indian women crush Malaysia 5-1 to Sachin Tendulkar prepares hard for his final outing at Eden Gardens enter Asian Champions Trophy final
NEW DELHI: Indian women continued their impressive show at the Asian Champions Trophy (ACT) hockey tournament as they spanked Malaysia 5-1 to secure their place in the summit clash of the event at Kakamigahara, Japan on Monday. After being locked 1-1 at half time, India scored four field goals after the changeover to register their second consecutive win in the four-team women's competition. India, who stunned higherranked China 4-2 in their tournament opener, will take on hosts Japan on Thursday in their last round-robin match, which will also be a were slow to get off the blocks. It was Malaysia who took lead in the 15th minute through a penalty corner conversion by skipper Nadia Abdul Rahman. But India hit back nine minutes later when Poonam Rani (24th) converted a penalty corner to level the scores. In the second half, it was India all the way as Neil Hawgood's girls displayed incredible attacking hockey to run away with the match. Namita Toppo (44th minute), Ritu Rani (52nd), Amandeep Kaur (54th) and Deep Grace Ekka (65th) scored for India to take the game out of Malaysia's reach.
KOLKATA: Preparing for his last outing at the iconic Eden Gardens, legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar was a picture of focus and concentration as the Indian team hit the nets on Monday ahead of the all important Test match against the West Indies beginning November 6. Tendulkar started off with some warm-up exercises and subsequently rolled his arm over at the nets. Bowling in tandem with spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha, Tendulkar dished out leg breaks and Murli Vijay had some difficulty negotiating the spin at the nets. He was beaten on a couple of occasions by Tendulkar's sharp turning deliveries. After bowling for a few minutes, the little master padded up and chatted with coach Duncan Fletcher as he waited for his turn at the nets. He first faced the pacers, displaying his watertight defence. While other batsmen at the adjacent nets missed or edged a few, Tendulkar looked at ease hitting his trademark drives. He tackled the pacers for around 15 minutes before

dress rehearsal ahead of Saturday's final. With two wins from as many games, Japan also sealed their place in the final of the

women's event. Japan on Monday defeated China 5-1 in another match. Against Malaysia on Monday, the Indian girls

Here, too many people judge Halep beats Stosur to win sixth title in 2013 you at all times: Gambhir

moving to the adjacent net where the spinners were on the job. He also asked Ojha, who was bowling more at the stumps, to alter his line which the left arm obliged. Tendulkar, who seems to have lost none of the zeal for batting despite spending a marathon 24 years in top flight cricket, was in his element against the spinners as he executed elegant drives and cuts much to the delight of a motley crowd of aspiring cricketers. The batting legend knocked at the nets for another 20

minutes and then made way for the others, as he watched the youngsters practice at the nets. After a brief rest and chat with teammates, Tendulkar moved to the far away net where local club bowlers were in action. He knocked a few balls and later gave a few tips to the youngsters. Meanwhile, Fletcher was seen engaged in an animated chat with opener Shikhar Dhawan whose stint at the nets was uncomfortable as he continuously missed or edged. The coach was seen

Leander Paes eyes piece Novak Djokovic beats David Ferrer in Paris Masters final of history in London
MUMBAI: The two matches that India lost in the ODI series against Australia were the only times when the Indian batting order was tested to the fullest. In the three games that India won, the top three ensured that Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh and the others simply didn't have to pad up. While that should certainly put a great deal of pressure on these middle-order contenders, those in the queue for an opportunity top of the order, have already realised that now is not a time when selectors are going to come calling at the door. Among them is Gautam Gambhir, who has decided that he'll be concentrating on the Ranji Trophy this season in an effort to help Delhi retain the coveted title. Mind you, here's a batsman who was reckoned to be the world's best between 2008 and 2011, a World Cup-winning Team India cricketer, and also someone who led the Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders to a famous title win last year. "I prefer not playing cricket just to make comebacks. I don't believe in that thought. Whether it's the Indian team or KKR or Delhi, India 'A' or any other team, I prefer to play to win... Even if it's for my club or my company," says the left-handed batsman. In an exclusive conversation with TOI, Gambhir said that the decision to head to England and play for Essex was also based on the philosophy that he simply wanted to get a taste of county cricket, not because scoring there would've meant selectors looking at him from a different point of view. "As a kid, I always wanted to experience the English county scene. It's unfortunate that I had to return midway because of a personal loss. I had just scored a century and was beginning to enjoy the stint," he says. SOFIA: Romanian Simona Halep battled back from a set down to beat former U.S. Open champion Samantha Stosur 2-6 6-2 6-2 in a thrilling Tournament of Champions final on Sunday to capture her sixth title of the year. Winning the season-ending WTA event at the Armeets Arena in Sofia earned the 22year-old Romanian a cheque for $270,000 and helped her rise three places in the world rankings to a career-high 11th. Stosur began her 19th WTA final confidently and took the opening set with ease, surrendering just five points in the first four games with Halep struggling with a very low first-serve percentage. But Halep, an aggressive baseliner, stepped up her game and broke three times in a row to win the second set with hard-hitting Stosur, the oldest player in the tournament, losing her rhythm. Stosur, who had looked in blistering form in the semifinals where she humbled Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, continued to rely on powerful kick serves in the third set but Halep broke decisively in the 21st game and got the upper hand, winning the next three games.

Italy cruise to fourth Fed Cup title

CAGLIARI: Italy cruised to a fourth Fed Cup title on Sunday when Sara Errani gave the hosts an unassailable 3-0 lead with a comprehensive 6-1, 6-1 victory over Russian Alisa Kleybanova. Roberta Vinci and world number seven Errani had given Italy, the champions in 2006, 2009 and 2010, a 2-0 lead on Saturday with victories over Alexandra Panova and Irina Khromachava respectively. Kleybanova represented the depleted Russian team's last chance to rescue their bid ahead of the final singles and concluding doubles rubbers later Sunday. However despite showing glimpses of promise, notably a powerful serve which at times Errani struggled to return, the 24-year-old Russian was outclassed by the more experienced Italian. Errani, 26, had the Cagliari Tennis Club in jubilant mood

LONDON: India's Leander Paes and Czech Radek Stepanek, the seventh ranked team in the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, will be looking to do serious damage to the eight-team draw in a bid to make history at the O2 Arena this week. The US Open champions, playing together for the first time since they triumphed in New York in early September, are gunning for their first yearend title. The 40-year-old Indian veteran, who qualified for the event for the 14th time, having made his debut in 1997, is a four-time finalist, but is yet to win the crown that has also eluded his coun-

trymen. The Indo-Czech combine will open their campaign against the AustrianBrazilian pairing of Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in a Group 'B' engagement on Tuesday. The all-Spanish affair that pits Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez against Fernando Verdasco and David Marrero completes the group. In the opening doubles clash of the championships on Monday, Pakistan's Aisam Ul-Haq Qureshi and Dutchman JeanJulien Rojer will play Pols Marcin Matkowski and Mariusz Fyrstenberg, the last team through the doors, in a Group 'A' match-up.

PARIS: Novak Djokovic beat defending champion David Ferrer of Spain 7-5 75 to win the Paris Masters on Sunday and keep alive his hopes of reclaiming the world number one spot by the end of the year. The Serb recovered from a break down in both sets to snatch his third consecutive title, following victories in Beijing and at the Shanghai Masters last month, and the 40th of his career. "It has been a very difficult match for me," Djokovic said in a courtside interview. "It has been very hard against one of the best competitors on tour, someone who never gives up. I have been patient, I played aggressive. I am

very happy with this win." It is the first time Djokovic, the 2009 Paris Masters champion, has won back-toback Masters Series events since his successive triumphs in Rome, Madrid and Montreal in 2011. He could still overthrow world number one Rafa Nadal if he wins next week's ATP World Tour Finals in London and the Davis Cup final with Serbia, who host Czech Republic in Belgrade later this month. Ferrer, who collected his first Masters Series crown last year in Paris, became the fifth defending champion to reach the final at the indoor event and fail to retain their title.

Fred Couples wins Charles Schwab Cup Championship

SAN FRANCISCO: Fred Couples won the Champions Tour's season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship on Sunday, and Kenny Perry topped the yearlong points race to earn a $1 million annuity. Couples ended a 16-event winless streak dating to the Senior British Open in July 2012, closing with a 2-under 69 for a six-stroke victory over Bernhard Langer, Peter Senior and Mark O'Meara. The Hall of Famer has nine victories in four seasons on the 50-and-over tour after winning 15 times on the PGA Tour. Couples finished at 17-under 267. Langer, second behind Perry in the Charles Schwab Cup standings, shot a 67. Senior had a 69, and O'Meara closed with a double bogey for a 70. Perry had a 68 to share fifth at 10 under. He led the tour with three victories.

PCB misses out on $1.5 million after SA tour cancelled

after racing to a 6-1 victory in the first set and although Kleybanova rallied in the second to take the third game on serve, Errani was never under threat. The Italian broke Kleybanova to take a 4-1 lead when the Russian sent a wild return into the tramlines. And after reinforcing her advantage in the next game the Italian finished in style, breaking Kleybanova's serve when the Russian fumbled a return at the net in the seventh and final game to secure the win. KARACHI: The legal wrangles of the Pakistan Cricket Board has led to the cancellation of the short limited over series in South Africa this month, which could have earned PCB at least $1.5 million. An official in the Pakistan board said that both countries had discussed Pakistan going to South Africa directly from the UAE this month to play three one-dayers and couple of T20 matches. "The South Africans were also keen on the short tour because of the fact that India has shortened its tour this December," he explained. "But we decided against making any commitments because of the legal complications in the cricket set up right now," the official stated. The short series was planned during a two-week window in November after the two sides wrap up their current bilateral series in the UAE on November 15. The South African board had offered the PCB $1.5 million to host them but Sethi said he could not discuss the matter as he was suspended. "CSA had offered us to play a short series in South Africa. But due to the ongoing legal crisis in the PCB, we cannot extend discussions with them," Najam Sethi said on a television show. "The day I had started working on the proposal by CSA, the court suspended me and the IMC, so the idea could not materialize," he confirmed. A divisional bench of the Islamabad High Court is due to hear an appeal filed by the PCB against a full judgment of the IHC today under which the court has suspended the Chairman of the board, Najam Sethi from working and also put aside a government order to appoint a interim management committee for three month to run cricket affairs. The court has instead for the time being given powers to the general body of the board to manage day to day affairs and also appointed a retired judge of the supreme court, Justice Munir A Sheikh to conduct elections for the post of PCB chairman by third week of November.

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literally) are today more like dump yards with dirt and filth decorating the antiques. Even the roads and paths leading to these museums and monuments are spotted with heaps of garbage with no maintenance in the vicinity. Regular thefts of antiquities are something that is a norm in these museums. The above-mentioned CAG report documents that ASI did not even maintain a database of the total number of antiquities in its possession... 131 antiquities have been found to be stolen from various museums /sites/monuments...with the ASI completely ineffective in recovering them. Compare this to the museums that are maintained across the globe like The Louvre, which was established in 1793 and experiences more than five million footfalls every year. Likewise, in the UK, major museums and galleries invest more than 1.5 million pounds annually and their turnover is nothing less than 900 million pounds. A case in point is the Canadian Museum of Nature, which generates a total revenue of $6,129,000, backed by the Canadian Government, which has pitched in $26,666,000 for the museums support. Compared to this, websites of Indian museums are shameful. For example, the website of the Indian Museum, Kolkata, is worse than websites that are nowadays created by school children as projects in schools. And the National museum website is like a celebrity it gives a special appearance once in a blue moon. How many Indian museums feature in the global top 100 list? None. Museums of countries like France, the US, the UK, Taiwan, South Korea, Russia, Spain, Brazil, China, Australia, Japan, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Israel and others find themselves permanently in the list of the most-visited museums in the world with a visitor count of 9,720,000 for the museum that tops the list and 6,45,000 for the one that ranks 100th on the list. What can be more depressing for a nation like ours, which claims cultural heritage forms a part of its fundamental identity, than to have crumbling museums and vanishing monuments? Monuments like the ancient copper-plated temple and ancient cave temples of Basohli are today reduced to ruins. The much-touted Tanjore Royal Palace is now a broken down ghost building with gutter water, stench, shrubbery and vandals populating the whole palace. The famed Mahatma Gandhi Museum in Madurai (containing the original blood-stained cloth of Mahatma Gandhi when he was assassinated) has his original letters and microfilms eaten away by rats. The moot point here is just not about the theft and sorry state of our monuments but also about the approach. Rationally, for a country having more than 5,000 museums and monuments and a body like the ASI (that is completely handicapped and unprofessional), it is important to replicate the system that is practiced all across the world. National heritages like Eiffel Tower, The Yellowstone Ecosystem, Victoria Falls, The Tower of London, Blenheim Palace and all others are professionally maintained by private companies or through the public-private-partnership model. India has experimented rarely with such models, but has not sustained the same. Taking the entire essence to the next level, these global museums and monuments also get involved in public education. These famous museums regularly conduct educational seminars and workshops for students and citizens and make them conversant with the national culture & heritage, and also with the latest scientific developments. Such events are rarely, if ever organised by the Indian authorities. The Government should immediately take the help of professionals and private companies to rebuild our museums and monuments. These sites not only vividly speak volumes about our culture and heritage but can form a strong economic backbone. Well-maintained and marketed museums and monuments are able to generate heavy tourist footfall, which in consequence generates an economic upswing for those regions. All in all, an Incredible India campaign would not reap results till our authorities do not check the ground reality. India needs to position itself beyond the Taj Mahal and tigers.

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They are not servants
Following horrific reports of teenage maids being tortured and brutalised by their employers, the spotlight is once again on India's vast but almost invisible workforce of domestic helps. Cleaners, cooks, nannies and drivers may be integral parts of the average Indian household, yet they function almost entirely outside of the purview of the law. This not only makes them susceptible to harassment and exploitation at the workplace but also allows them only limited recourse to justice. Moreover, their impoverished background means that domestic helps are either unaware of their rights or so short on money (often, they are both) they believe they have no other option but to quietly accept abuse. Put together, these factors have bred a culture of impunity that makes it okay for employers to treat their domestic helps, not as professionals offering services for a fee, but as individuals in a state of servitude. The first response to this problem has to come from the state machinery, in the form of comprehensive laws designed for domestic workers. Yes, some existing laws can also be used but they are hardly adequate. Domestic workers, for instance, are included in the Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act, 2008 but only nominally so. Instead, the Domestic Workers Welfare and Social Security Act, 2010, which has been in cold storage, offers a better template. Drafted by the National Commission for Women, it lays the framework for a decent work environment starting with a registered employment contract, pre-defined working hours, paid holidays and protection against harassment. State Governments must also set minimum wages for domestic workers presently, this is done in only a handful of places. Additionally, Parliament should ratify India's support for the Domestic Workers Convention, adopted by the International Labour Organisation in 2011 and notify the National Policy on Domestic Workers formulated by the Labour Ministry. But while each of these measures should help put in place a legal framework for the protection of the rights of domestic workers, it will have little effect if not enforced by the Government. The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, that includes domestic workers, for instance, has made almost no impact; much like the 2006 ban on employment of children under 14 in households, roadside eateries and hotels is observed in the breach. Similarly, the Government's efforts to bring domestic workers under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana have also fallen flat. Ultimately, it is the employers educated professionals themselves who have to change their mindset. And one does not need laws to be humane.

Arindam Chaudhuri

A report by the Comptroller and Auditor-General has exposed the Archaeological Survey of India as an unprofessional body that is utterly incapable of protecting the countrys museums and monuments
Sample this! October 2013: The Archaeological Survey of India, one of the most coveted agencies in India, started excavating at the fort of the former king, Raja Rao Ram Baux Singh in Daudia Khera village at Unnao in Uttar Pradesh in search of gold supposedly worth Rs30,000 crore, and all based on a dream of a sadhu. Where other nations invest money in excavations only after research and geographical surveys, the premier national excavation agency, which operates under the Union

Ministry of Culture, relies on the dreams of seers. If you found that rollickingly laughable, the dents get more visible when one browses through the recent Comptroller and Auditor-Generals report that states that when asked to give details of past excavations, the ASI could not give any details about any of the 458 excavations that had been approved in the past five years. If you wanted to search for evidence of mismanagement and fraudulent investments, one neednt go far. The CAG also found out that out of the sample of 1,655 ASI protected monuments it investigated, 92 were absolutely untraceable. Yes, you read it right. Untraceable! And the ASI was supposed to be the agency at the forefront of protecting and maintaining ancient monuments. Such is the pathetic condition of the existing monuments that a tourist rarely would like to spend time and money visiting any but a handful. Only 116 monuments out of 3,500 monuments have ticket counters; and these have generated only a measly Rs95.64 crore in the last five years, averaging around Rs20 crore per year. Out of this amount, two crore rupees is contributed by Taj Mahal alone, followed by Agra Fort that contributes one crore rupees annually. If monuments were distressing, the less said about Indian museums the better. In Western nations, museums are the places parents take their children to on weekends. Schools have museum visits as an essential part of the overall learning experience. Not so in India; and the reason is not far to find. Most national museums in India have now reached a pathetic state of maintenance, and most even lack basic amenities and facilities. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has found around eight national museums in India that are in a state of distress and at no point are close to global standards. Most of our museums are closed since ages or are under renovation since decades. Many museums lack any notable artefacts; and for those artefacts that are there, most descriptions are absent. More than 50 per cent of our museums (a very conservative estimate,

Empowering the honest

ALLIES UN MOVE CREDIBILITY CRISIS FOR OBAMA

S Rajagopalan
From weak denials to contradictory statements and vague responses, the United States has tied itself up in knots in trying to deal with its still-unravelling Snoopgate. It is more than five months since whistleblower Edward Snowden left the American shores for Hong Kong, the first port of call in his agonising quest for political asylum and three months since the Russians did grant him a temporary asylum for a year. But there is still no stopping the copious flow of sensational disclosures on Americas far-reaching surveillance operations, all based on top-secret documents leaked by the onetime CIA staffer and National Security

The Supreme Court's directives that civil servants must not take oral orders from the executive and that the Government should assure a fixed tenure for them, will go a long way in unshackling the bureaucracy from excessive political influence. While the impact of the rulings will not be limited to the Government in power and will have a bearing on successive regimes, the fact is that the court's intervention has come in the backdrop of a series of actions the Congress-led UPA and a few State Governments have taken to clip the wings of honest bureaucrats who dared to do the right thing. IAS officers Ashok Khemka and Durga Shakti Nagpal are just two of the most highlighted cases that instantly come to mind. While Mr Khemka has faced more than 40 transfers in his career spanning two decades with the latest round of hounding triggered by his move to bring Congress president's son-in-law Robert Vadra's dubious land deals under the scanner in Haryana Ms Nagpal was summarily transferred after she cracked down on the sand mafia in Uttar Pradesh. There will be many more unknown cases of upright bureaucrats across the country who routinely face political ire for discharging their duties in a fair and competent manner, and these civil servants have reason to cheer now. For far too long they have been made scapegoats and held accountable for decisions that their political bosses made, because those decisions were never put to paper and could, therefore, not be traced to the executive. Those who refused to follow the oral orders were shunted out. But, while it is heartening that the apex court has come to the rescue of honest bureaucrats, it is not as if there has existed no mechanism to shield the committed civil servant. It's just that the political class has merrily flouted many existing guidelines, and pliant sections of the bureaucracy have colluded in the act. Service rules of many States do provide for fixed tenures for senior bureaucrats, and the executive is supposed to record its instructions to civil servants in writing. In a sense, therefore, the apex court's Thursday order reinforces the existing guidelines that did not, for instance, prevent the Congress regime in Haryana from transferring Mr Khemka for political reasons or the Samajwadi Party's Government in Uttar Pradesh from suspending Ms Nagpal on fictitious grounds. Given the reality, the Supreme Court will have to do more than just pass orders; it will have to punish regimes that flout the rules. Where the apex court has broken new ground is in its directive that the Government must establish a Civil Services Board which will advise the executive on transfers and postings of bureaucrats. Although a clutch of petitioners (retired senior civil servants) in the apex court, who have been crusading for a free bureaucracy, had demanded a CSB comprising independent' members, the court turned down the plea and settled for the proposed body to be manned by serving officers. Still, it's an improvement over the present system where the executive is free to transfer and post officers on its whims and fancies. The CSB, coupled with fixed tenures for bureaucrats a directive from which the executive can deviate only under exceptional and clearly identified and legitimate circumstances together have the potential to dramatically overhaul the functioning of the bureaucracy. One hopes that the Union Government will embrace the court's initiative and not seek to challenge it on frivolous grounds.

Although the United Nations draft proposed by 20-odd countries, including India, doesnt name the United States as its target, it is an open secret who it is aimed at
Agency contractor to select media outlets. For President Barack Obama, the last two weeks have been a particularly testing time. The new disclosures have been acutely embarrassing as never before, relating as they do to some of Americas close European allies: France, Germany, Spain and Italy. A Guardian report that the NSA has been monitoring the telephone conversations of as many as 35 world leaders has been followed by the stunning dispatch in German weekly Der Spiegel that Chancellor Angela Merkels mobile phone has been tapped by NSA right since 2002. An outraged Ms Merkel wasted little time in picking up the phone and confronting Mr Obama, who sought to assure her that the US was not eavesdropping on her. The German chancellor is apparently far from convinced. For the better part of the past week, a team of German officials and a delegation from European Parliament have pitched themselves in Washington, complaining of breach of trust and demanding that the Obama administration make amends forthwith. Their hurried trip followed another set of damning disclosures: That the NSA tracked more than 70 million phone calls in France, some 60 million in Spain and 46 million in Italy. It led to the incredulous spectacle of these allies summoning the respective US Ambassador and giving an earful over what Washington has been up to. France and Germany have demanded a no-spying pact, like the one the US has with Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. So horrified have German diplomats been that they teamed up with their counterparts from Brazil in an effort to draft a resolution for consideration and adoption by the UN General Assembly. Brazils President Dilma Rousseff, after all, is one of the first reported victims of American snooping, so much so that she cancelled a scheduled State visit to Washington in September. The proposed UN resolution may well be aimed at America, but the draft being deliberated upon by some 20-odd countries, including India, does not name the United States as such. Instead, it simply calls upon all States to uphold the right to privacy and review their extra-territorial surveillance of private communications and interception of personal data of citizens in foreign jurisdictions. With one report or another popping up every passing day, the Obama administration is still to get its act together on how to deal with what willy-nilly has become a credibility crisis for it among its own allies and other friendly nations. As in the case involving Chancellor Merkel, the question being asked is whether President Obama was really unaware of what has been going on for years. US officials insist Mr Obama had no knowledge of the reported tapping of Ms Merkels phone till she raised the matter with him, but the German newspaper, Bild am Sonntag, quoted US intelligence sources as saying that NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander had briefed Obama on this specific matter back in 2010. Yet, Mr Obama did not halt the operation but rather let it continue, the paper said. NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines, however, refuted the assertion. US intelligence chief James Clapper, however, came up with an altogether different take during a Congressional hearing, surprising everyone by stoutly defending Americas spying on world leaders, includ-

READER SPACE Death on roads

Dear Editor, In a democratic country, like ours where we still have no provision to Right to Life, owing to the increased accidents on our roads. In J&K, in the hilly districts, the deaths on roads are on rise. Accidents are a routine yet the government has not learnt a lesson from these accidents. Apart from daily routine basis, there seems to be no vigil check on the errant drivers. Generally the people thriving below the poverty line become the prey to these accidents. Bhalessa is no exception to this rule. There is not even a single traffic check post to take care of the traffic chaos in Bhalessa. The area has witnessed a number of accidents, which claimed the lives of many innocent persons. On June 6, 2000, at least 11 people died and 15 others injured as a bus rolled down a road and fell into a gorge at Manoi Bhatyas. On 17 January 2009 again, 11 people died and 15 others injured as a bus rolled down a road and fell into a gorge on the same road. On February 10, 2012, nineteen persons were killed and one was injured when a passenger carrier fell into a 200 feet deep gorge at Manoi Gandoh. On June 4, 2011, in a tragic accident in the mountainous Doda district, six persons including a minor girl were killed when a Tata Sumo carrying them plunged into a nallah at Bathri. In August 2009, two children were killed and 30 others got injured when a matador plunged into 350 feet deep gorge on the same road. On October 9, 2011, one person was killed, 13 injured in an accident on the same road. On September 1, 2013, a minor boy was killed, while 10 others were injured, when the Tata Sumo they were travelling in skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge near Gandoh. Recently, a Tempo Traveller plunged into a gorge in which two persons lost their lives while several others were injured. Although several precious lives have been lost but nothing tangible has been done by the government to contain these deaths. Regrettably, no one has tried to look into the root cause of accidents and come out with a plan to decrease the frequency of accidents. Through your esteemed daily, we, the inhabitants of Doda-Bhalessa, request to the concerned authorities to set up four Traffic check Posts (TCPs) at Donadi, Kahara, Bhatyas, Gandoh and Gowari in order to avert these tragedies in Doda district and Bhalessa. Yours faithfully, Khureed Bhelassa.

Need for stronger foreign policy

Dear Editor, In the international arena of developing countries, every country is judged by its foreign policy towards its relations with all the countries of this world, especially fast developing countries and above all its neighbouring countries. If foreign policy of a country is strong the nation will be automatically respected and big countries will prefer to have relations on priority with that nation and will like to invest in business, development economy, and nuclear energy defence trade etc. Regarding Indias foreign policy, for the last some years it is becoming weaker and weaker especially with neighbouring countries like China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and even smaller countries like Bhutan and Maldives. India is not treated so well in the international forum presently in comparison to some years back. G Parthasarthy has very rightly pointed out in a media discussion on foreign policy of our country that after Indira Gandhi regime, the foreign policy of India has become very weak. Due to our weak policy we are lagging far behind as compared to fast developing countries of the world in respect of defence, trade, economy, monitory position etc. Sometime back, the veto powered countries were thinking of bringing India in their group and we were eagerly waiting for the moment. It was almost final that India will be a veto powered country but that file remains pending and now nobody talks about it. What happened to that issue? Weak foreign policy of India has taken India far behind. Value of rupee is decreasing as compared to American dollar, fluctuating day by day. With the result prices of all commodities are rising day by day, forcing common people to cut short their necessities of daily life, theres a pall of groom in the minds of common man of the country. India being a nuclear country is lagging far behind in latest weaponry of defence as compared to China, France, Germany and many other developing countries. Indias muteness to recent incursions by Chinese troops in Doulat Beg Oldie area of Ladakh and in Arunachal Pradesh are an indication. Similarly Pakistan army is on front foot again violating ceasefire many times after PM Manmohan Singh and Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif held talks about peace. What type of foreign policy is this? It is not that india being a large country in the world has no strong leadership, there are many intellectuals , policy makers, great thinkers but when the time will come that nation will be headed by such type of leadership who will make Indias foreign policy more effective in the world. Yours faithfully, Kaushal Kotwal, Jammu.

ing close allies. His rationale? The other nations, including allies, were doing much the same. For Mr Clapper, it is a basic tenet to collect, whether by spying on communications or through other sources, confidential information about foreign leaders to find out if what theyre saying gels with whats actually going on. The embattled Gen. Alexander was quick to concur with him at the same hearing, commenting that one of the first things he learned in intelligence school was that how valuable it would be to learn about the intentions of foreign leaders. But the Senate Intelligence Committees chairperson Dianne Feinstein appeared to disagree with the Obama administrations intelligence brass. With respect to NSA collection of intelligence on leaders of US allies including France, Spain, Mexico and Germany let me state unequivocally: I am totally opposed, said the senior California Democrat, who was particularly critical of NSAs monitoring of the calls of such friendly leaders as Chancellor Merkel. Senator Feinstein mooted a total review of all intelligence programmes. She spoke of indications from the White House that intelligence collection on USs allies would be done away with. But there has been no formal communication from the White House on this score. Spokesman Jay Carney, however, acknowledged: We recognise there needs to be additional constraints on how we gather and use intelligence. All these assertions notwithstanding, noted American scholars are skeptical if the allied nations would put an end to their spying on one another, given that it has been going on for centuries. As ex-CIA veteran Peter Earnest, citing a famous quote by 19th century British statesman Henry Temple, told CNN: We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow. One of the strong defenders of the far-reaching American surveillance is former Vice President Dick Cheney. The fact is, we do collect a lot of intelligence, he says, noting: That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defence matters, to economic matters. For President Obama, however, the worldwide American surveillance and the backlash from its allies and friends have only added to his other recent woes, notably the poor handling of events leading to the Government shutdown that lasted 16 days, and the ongoing problems with the rollout of his signature healthcare initiative. All these have combined to bring down Mr Obamas approval rating to an all-time low of 42 per cent in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released this week. The only consolation for him is the even lower rating of 22 per cent for Republicans in the US Congress, who have made the going tough for him on about every major policy decision.

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unidentified passenger in Bokaro Express pulled the alarm chain after rumours about billowing smoke from S-1 and S-2 coaches of the train. A number of passengers from the general compartment jumped out in a hurry on to the adjacent railway track. At the same moment, the Rayagada-Vijayawada Fast Passenger was hurtling down on the track leaving no scope for four men, three women and a child, to escape. The track from the nearby level crossing up to a little beyond signals post is sharply curved. No object, including the signal light on the Rayagada-Vijayawada track, is visible, even during daytime. A points man at Gotlam East Cabin confirmed invisibility of the signal post. Karu Pasi (49), worker in an iron and steel factory in Coimbatore, who was being

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VIZIANAGARAM, NOVEMBER 4: Twelve hours after the eight train passengers were crushed to death by the RayagadaVijayawada passenger train at Gotlam, some curious visitors to the spot found pieces of human flesh lying scattered. Minutes after the incident,

the news spread like wild fire. Collector Kantilal Dande, Superintendent of Police Tafseer Iqbal, Joint Collector P.A. Sobha and RDO Venkata Rao rushed to the spot with mobile medical teams and offered assistance. Some of the passengers who were witness to the incident informed them that an

treated for a fractured left leg at the district headquarters hospital, was on way to his native village Baranama in Nevada district of Bihar. He fell unconscious after he hit a stone and fractured his leg in the darkness. Rajesh Yadav, his co-passenger, who hails from Bihar, came to his rescue and is attending on him at the hospital. Mr. Yadav said he could not come out of the packed general compartment of the express train and it saved him. The orthopaedic attending on him said he would be shifted to the K.G.H in Visakhapatnam after his family members arrived at the hospital because an operation was to be performed. TDP leaders P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, D. Jagadish, and others called on Karu Pasi at the hospital and enquired about the incident this morning. The railway officials cleared the track after 10 p.m.

President Pranab Mukherjee greets members of 53rd NDC Course & Faculty of National Defence College at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.

Merely endorsing EC on opinLaser weapons among futuristic MBDA products ion polls, Congress clarifies
H Y D E R A B A D , NOVEMBER 4: High energy laser weapons, light weight shoulder-launch missiles and scalable warheads through dial-a-yield technology are among the hi-tech futuristic products for military applications being developed by the MBDA group, a consortium of European missile manufacturers. During a recent visit to the missile production and integration facilities of MBDA Germany at Schrobenhausen, 90 km from Munich, and MBDA U.K. at Lostock, near Manchester, a group of Indian journalists were briefed on the wide range of advanced missiles and warheads being produced by the two entities. Vice-president Operations of MBDA Germany Walter Stammler said a very light weight missile with a 2-km range that could be fired by an infantry soldier from his shoulder was tested in demonstration firings. The low cost, high-precision weapon with all the elements of a missile weighed just 6-7 kg. The future generation-flexible response warheads using scalable technology would provide armed forces with a unique option of pre-selecting the detonation of only a part of the explosive and thereby reducing the degree of lethality. These warheads would provide high operational flexibility and could be used effectively in avoiding collateral damage during Military Operations in Urban Terrain. TDW, a subsidiary of MBDA, has a license agreement with Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) for producing warheads for anti-tank guided Milan missiles. Under the agreement signed in 2007, it had transferred the knowhow to BDL to produce warheads for Milan. Meanwhile, with MBDA awaiting Indias response for its offer of air-to-ground PARS 3 LR missile, Dr. Stammler claimed that during field evaluation trials of the weapon in Sweden in 2012 for the Indian Army and HAL officials, all requirements were fulfilled. The missile is planned to be mounted on ALH Dhruv combat helicopters. Dr. Stammler said that to meet Indian requirements for the PARS 3 LR missile, a twin-engine launcher was designed and developed in collaboration with an Indian company. Four launchers, each carrying two missiles, would be mounted on the helicopter. The prototype of the twin launcher was seen by HAL officials soon after the field trials. The project manager of PARS 3LR Munition, Walter Mackrodt, said PARS 3 LR was a high-precision fireand-forget weapon that could be fired in salvo mode from the helicopter, and four missiles could be launched in 10 seconds to engage as many targets. NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 4: Faced with a political controversy over its stand seeking a ban on opinion polls, Congress today struck a cautious note, saying it had merely endorsed the Election Commissions views even as various party leaders slammed these surveys as being a racket, farcical and manipulated. Reading from a bunch of letters from the Election Commission, party spokesperson Meem Afzal said, Since (today) morning, there is an attempt to show that Congress is opposing opinion polls. That is wrong. We did not say anything on our own. Of course, we have given our opinion... Our party fully endorses the EC view. So, we have given a view when an opinion was sought... We have not written a letter on our own. We have just replied, he added. It is wrong to accuse Congress of demanding it (ban) when EC, which con-

Spurt in injecting drug users forces Centre to open more therapy centres
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 4: Alarmed over the rising number of injecting drug users, the government has decided to increase the number of Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) centres in the country from the present 52 to 300 by the end of this year. Of the existing OST centres spread across 14 States, Manipur and Nagaland alone have 29 where around 3,000 injecting drug users are availing themselves of the services. OST involves replacing a drug users primary drug of use (opioid), for example heroin or spasmoproxivon, with a medically safe drug in a safer mode of administration under medical supervision.Injecting drug use is no longer confined to the Northeast States of Manipur and Nagaland. We have hotspots of drug use in Punjab, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, said Lov Verma, Secretary, Department of AIDS Control, speaking at the two-day national dissemination workshop here. The two-day workshop is being organised by Emmanuel Hospital Association to share harm reduction initiatives and experiences among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) implemented by Project ORCHID in Manipur and Nagaland since October 2004. HIV among injecting drug users remains a great challenge in the Northeast, with Manipur still having the highest HIV prevalence among PWID. There are similar challenges emerging in other States which need to be emphasised, added Mr. Verma. Pointing out the difficulty in scaling up OST he urged community-based groups and networks in Manipur and Nagaland to put pressure on the State governments so that the scale-up process is hastened. Zodingpui, a female injecting drug user from Churachandpur district in Manipur who took part in the workshop, has benefited from the OST initiative in Manipur. A Peer Educator in Shalom, one of the NGOs implementing OST in Manipur, Zodingpui started doing drugs in 1983 during a college sports event. Still under OST, she had experienced a cycle of treatment and relapse in the past. Relapse is more common among female drug users. Once the line is crossed [for women using drugs], they are not accepted in the society even when she is not doing drugs any more. Reintegration is easier in case of male drug user. Due to this factor, there is very low motivation among them to give up drugs, Puii, Director Shalom, Manipur. Around 180 Female Injecting Drug Users are currently accessing harm reduction services from Shalom. Representing the Indian Drug Users Forum, Abou Mere urged the government and other stakeholders to look into the issue of drug overdose and Hepatitis-C, causes of unnecessary deaths every year.

ducts elections, is saying all this. We have only endorsed ECs opinion, Mr. Afzal said. Party general secretary Digvijay Singh, however, minced no words in slamming opinion polls, saying These have become a farce. They should be banned altogether. The kind of complaints, information that I have got, show that anybody can pay and get a survey as desired. Wondering how a few thousand people could predict election trends for a country of 1.2 billion people, he said, It has become a racket. So many groups have sprung up. Union Minister Rajiv Shukla said that opinion polls were also at times manipulated and, thus, the party had done the right thing by having opposed it. To hammer home his point, Mr. Afzal also quoted from the EC letter to parties stating that there could be several manipulated opinion polls, which could impact the voting pattern.

Seven killed in militant attack in Assam Patel would not have endorsed Modi: Rajmohan Gandhi
GUWAHATI, NOVEMBER 4,: The death toll in the attack by suspected Garo National Liberation Army insurgents on a group of people gambling on the occasion of Diwali in Assams Goalpara district has risen to seven. Six persons were brought to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital and one of them was brought dead. One seriously injured has been operated upon and another four injured are undergoing treatment, Hospital Superintendent R Talukdar said on Monday. Three other wounded were admitted to Goalpara Civil Hospital and one in a private hospital, officials said. Armed with automatic weapons, suspected Garo National Liberation Army insurgents from across Meghalaya had on Sunday night indiscriminately opened fire upon a group of people gambling on the occasion of Diwali at remote Gendamari, under Aagia Police Station. Six persons were gunned down on the spot, while 10 others were seriously injured with one of them succumbing to his wounds on way to hospital, they said. Those killed on the spot were identified as Bholanath Rabha, Amarendra Rabha, Jayanta Rabha, Puran Rabha, Kalpanath Rabha and Lulu Rabha. Security measures have been intensified in the district following the incident, the NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 4: Amid a slugfest between Bharatiya Janata Partys prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and Congress over Sardar Patel, a noted biographer of Patel has said the countrys first home minister would not have recognised Mr. Modi as his ideological heir and been very pained with his behaviour towards Muslims. Rajmohan Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi who has written a biography of the countrys first home minister, said Patel certainly would not have felt at the time of 2002 riots in Gujarat, that Mr. Modi fulfilled his rajdharma, a phrase used by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to chide Modi.I think it is quite obvious that he (Patel) would have been very disappointed, very pained and saddened not only as an Indian statesman but also as coming from Gujarat, that this should not have happened in Gujarat and the government of the time was not able to prevent it, he said.Talking to Karan Thapar in CNN-IBNs Devils Advocate, Mr. Gandhi said that claims by BJP supporters or Mr. Modi himself to project him as Patels heir misunderstands and misrepresents Patel. If Modi can grow into that kind of image that would be wonderful, but by two reasons he has fallen short. After all Patel grew as a disciple under the umbrella of Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. Modi had his career under the umbrella of RSS and that makes a difference. Also Patel as an individual was always a team builder; other people were prominent in his daily life. Whether Modi is like that... I would like him to be like that, he said. Congress and Patel Mr. Gandhi, however, accepted the criticism that Congress has forgotten Patel or relegated him to the background in the 63 years since his death. He noted that Nehru was succeeded by Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and now Rahul Gandhi while none of Patels children

sources added. Goalpara district has been witnessing violence since October 20 last with protests against the upcoming Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council elections between November 13 and 25 demanding exclusion of non Rabha areas from the Council. Sources ruled out that last nights inci-

dent was connected with the Council elections. Proscribed GNLA based in the Garo hills jungles of Meghalaya, adjacent to Goalpara district, has been fighting for a separate state since 2009 indulging in killings, attacks on security forces and civilians, blasts, kidnappings and extortions.

inherited or benefited from his power. Patel was proud to be a Congressman and accepted that Mahatma Gandhis decision to make Nehru Prime Minister was correct, Gandhi said, adding the Mahatma chose Nehru over Patel because he was older by 14 years and in poor health. Nehru was also better known internationally, he said. The Iron man, a popular term used for Patel, had appreciated the work of RSS during riots in 1947 but after Gandhis assassination, his

attitude changed and he was thereafter an implacable opponent if not an enemy of the Hindutva organisation, he said. Mr. Modi and Congress leaders have engaged in a war of words over Patel with the BJPs PM candidate claiming that the countrys destiny would have been different had he been the first PM instead of Nehru. Congress has hit back at him, saying he was trying to hijack Patels legacy as BJP lacked any icon.

Minor girl gang- UPA holding back funds for U.P.: SP One-stop testing facility CPI wants India to keep off CHOGM raped in Mumbai mooted for aircraft parts
MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 4: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in suburban Goregaon here by four of her friends, police said on Monday. According to police, six boys from Santosh Nagar area in Goregaon had on Friday asked the victim to join them for Diwali celebrations. As she knew the boys, she went with them. The boys took her to an isolated place before offering her a spiked soft drink. While she lost consciousness, four of the six boys all of them in their 20s took turns to rape her. Shocked, the girl kept quiet till Sunday and later narrated the ordeal to her grandmother. Subsequently, the girl along with her grandmother went to Dindoshi Police Station where an FIR was registered on Sunday. Sensing that the girl would approach police, all six accused escaped the area, police said, adding that several teams have been formed to nab the six. On Sunday, the girl, who is an eighth class dropout, was sent to Bhagwati Hospital where she underwent medical examination and the report will be ready soon, police said. LUCKNOW, NOVEMBER 4: The Samajwadi Party has accused the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the centre of holding back Rs.30,000 crore meant as central funds for Uttar Pradesh. Criticising the Congress for its double talk party spokesman Rajendra Chowdhary on Monday said that despite a positive environment of development and cordial relationship created by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, the Congress-led government had so far released only 20 percent of the central funds earmarked for Uttar Pradesh. Despite the best of efforts by the state government, the union governments attitude continues to be of non-cooperation, Mr. Chowdhary said. He pointed out how the state government had promptly given free of cost land to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to be built at Rae Bareilly the parliamentary constituency of UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The party spokesman said that there was no response to the special package sought by Mr. Yadav. Mr. Chowdhary said the Congress is trying to sabotage the progress and development schemes initiated by the SP government and is trying to defame the government. Political observers see this as a growing divide between the two parties. While the Congress government has been dependent of SPs 22 MP support, the SP has also bailed it out on crucial situations in the Parliament.On many recent occasions, however, the state unit of Congress and its central leaders have attacked the Akhilesh Yadav government for failing to safeguard the security of minorities and have demanded his resignation. B A N G A L O R E , NOVEMBER 4: The Defence Research and D e v e l o p m e n t Organisations (DRDO) Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification is pushing for a one-stop facility where it can allow domestic industries supplying components for military aircraft, among others, to test their wares for qualification. Such a single infrastructure can vastly improve the time taken to complete critical defence projects and also spur indigenous industrial production, according to K. Tamilmani, DRDOs Director-General for R&D in Aeronautics. He heads over a dozen of DRDOs aeronautical labs including CEMILAC, most of them based in Bangalore. The facility, estimated to cost over Rs. 300 crore in the first phase and possibly to be set up with partners, is being discussed with the Department of Defence Production. Aeronautical testing is scattered across the country in various public sector companies and labs. Currently the 300-plus small and mid-sized private industries that supply hundreds of items for military aviation cannot afford to create them on their premises and must wait several months for their turn to do repeated tests at the government centres. Setting up an Integrated Aeronautical Test Facility could save them the running around between different testing centres, the time and the cost needed to produce items to stringent military specifications, Dr. Tamilmani told The Hindu. Indian industrys potential to contribute to aeronautical development is yet to be fully tapped, We also place much premium on indigenous production for the armed forces. Such a platform will help to get more local industries into our military production programmes. The facility would help the many new and large military aircraft programmes that are due to come up, he said. NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India has said India should keep off the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo and not even have ministerial-level representation at the multilateral summit later this month.CPI Rajya Sabha member D. Raja said this demand was not new as the party had supported the resolution passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly calling for a total boycott of the meeting in Sri Lanka to express solidarity with Tamil sentiments on the Sri Lankan Tamil issue.Even the Congress had supported this resolution, Mr. Raja pointed out adding that Congress leaders were now speaking in different voices on the issue. While Union Minister G. K. Vasan wanted India to boycott the summit, Minister of State for Commerce E.M. Sudarshana Natchiappan was in favour of Indias participation.

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BEIJING/SHANGHAI, NOVEMBER 3: The military chief of Chinas western Xinjiang region has been removed from the top Party body overseeing the region, State media reported on Sunday, less than a week after a group from Xinjiang was alleged to have carried out a terror attack in Tiananmen Square that left five people killed and 40 injured. Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) General Peng Yong was no longer serving on the Communist Party of Chinas (CPC) Standing Committee in Xinjiang the top ruling party agency for the region reported the Xinjiang Daily, which is the official mouthpiece of the Xinjiang Party committee, in a brief front page statement. The newspaper did not mention the reason for the removal of General Peng, who was in November appointed to the CPCs 370-member Central Committee, following the leadership change. Top officials in Xinjiang have, in the past, been removed from their positions after high-profile incidents. In September 2009, the Urumqi Party

Secretary, Li Zhi, was sacked following the ethnic riots in July of that year, which left at least 197 people killed. His sacking was followed by the unexpected removal in 2010 of the powerful Party chief in Xinjiang, Wang Lequan, who was known for his

hard-line policies and directed the regions development for more than a decade. His successor, the current Party secretary Zhang Chunxian, has sought to portray a less tough approach by emphasising economic development over security issues,

although he has persisted with many of Mr. Wangs security policies. On Sunday, the CPC Party Chief in Beijing, Guo Jinlong, called on police and security forces to look for vulnerable links following the October 28 incident, as he conducted a twoday inspection tour in the capital. A jeep carrying three Uighurs the ethnic Turkic minority native to Xinjiang managed to evade the security barriers in place around the famous square as it drove into a crowd at the Tiananmen gate and burst into flames. Two tourists were killed and 40 others were injured. The cars three passengers the driver, Usmen Hasan, his wife and his mother also died. Five suspects all from Xinjiang were detained last week in connection with the incident, police authorities said, adding that their investigations found that the group had put together funds of 40,000 Yuan (Rs. 4 lakh) as well as 400 litres of petrol used to set the jeep on fire for what they described as a violent terrorist attack.

(NORTHERN SRI LANKA), NOVEMBER 3: It is 6.30 p.m., already pitch dark along the shore in Analativu, a tiny island off Sri Lankas northernmost tip. Except for the silhouettes of palm trees and of the fisherfolk gathered there, nothing much else is visible under the star-studded night sky. The village is quiet its silence only punctuated by the periodic splash of the waves against the shore and occasionally, by a lone pup barking shrilly. There is yet another unfamiliar, faint murmur. Can you hear the engine? asks Pushparayan Kayathampillai (63), head of fisheries cooperative in Analativu. He then points to a flickering light in the sea. Here they come the Indian trawlers, he says. This, apparently, is just the beginning. Wait for a few more hours and you will see many more, says Mr. Kayathampillai, sounding fairly certain. He is right. At 7.15 p.m., chilly and considerably

darker, a few more sparks are visible in the sea now more clearly. The murmur is louder. None of the fishermen of the village has set out fishing. Their small, wooden boats stand tied to the shore trawlers are banned in Sri Lanka as they watch the Indian trawlers, as they are popularly known here. Today being Monday, we dont go fishing. It is pointless, says Robert Jayakumar, who does not take any chance after a sharp-bottomed trawler recently tore his fishing net worth about LKR 30,000 (approximately INR 14,100) apart. I had taken a loan to buy the net. But now, I cannot go fishing, nor do I have money to repair it. I have borrowed more money. The trawlers come on Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays, say fishermen about the now well-

known ritual, which has left Analativus own fishermen out of business thrice a week. All of us have borrowed heavily to ensure that our families can have two meals a day, says Mr. Kayathampillai. Most fishermen in the village have taken loans amounting to LKR 2 lakh (About INR 1 lakh). Much like most of Sri Lankas Tamil-speaking north and other islands off Jaffna, fishing is a crucial means of livelihood in Analativu, with its 2,175-strong population depending almost entirely on fishing and agriculture for survival.

Morsy defiant in opening session of trial

CAIRO, NOVEMBER 4: After four months in secret detention, Egypts deposed Islamist president defiantly rejected a courts authority to try him Monday, saying he was the countrys legitimate leader and those that overthrew him should face charges instead. The trial was then adjourned until Jan. 8 after several interruptions. Mr Morsy, Egypts first freely elected president, had been held at an undisclosed location since the military ousted him in a coup on July 3. Looking healthy, Mr Morsy appeared in court wearing a dark blue suit, but no tie. He had refused to wear a prison uniform as the judge had ordered, according to security officials. Mr Morsy and 14 co-defendants, prominent figures from his Muslim Brotherhood, face charges of inciting the killing of protesters who massed outside the presidential palace in December, demanding he call off a referendum on a new constitution drafted by his Islamist allies. Brotherhood members attacked a sit-in by the protesters, sparking clashes that left 10 people dead. If convicted, Mr Morsy and the 14 other defendants could face the death penalty. The longtime Brotherhood leader rejected the proceedings and said he had been forced to attend.This is a military coup whose leaders must be put on trial in accordance with the constitution, Mr Morsy told the court. I am the president of the republic and I am here against my will, he said. What is happening here is providing cover for the military coup, he said, as his co-defendants chanted down, down with military coup. Mondays raucous session reflected the highly charged atmosphere of a nation deeply polarized between Morsys Islamist supporters, and the military-backed administration and moderate Egyptians who support it. The judge, Ahmed Sabry Youssef, had to adjourn the hearing twice because the chants disrupted the proceedings. The announcement that the trial will resume Jan. 8 was announced by the courts secretary. After Mr Morsys statement, the trial was adjourned until Jan. 8 to allow defence lawyers to review documents. Defence lawyers said the judge has ruled that they have access to

Two killed, 40 injured during Bangladesh strike

DHAKA, NOVEMBER 4: At least two persons were killed and nearly 40 injured in clashes Monday as violence returned to Bangladeshi streets during a 60-hour nationwide strike called by opposition parties demanding a neutral caretaker government to oversee the next general elections. Supporters of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its rightwing ally Jamaat-e-Islami hurled bricks at vehicles and exploded crude bombs in the capital city Dhaka as the strike got under way early this morning. Incidents of clashes and arson were reported from other parts of the country, including Natore, Rajshahi, Comilla and Bogra. Authorities deployed thousands of additional police and paramilitary officers countrywide to prevent any untoward incident during the second 60hour strike called by the BNP with a week. A member of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, BNPs student wing, was killed when police opened fire on clashing cadres of the ruling Awami League and strike supporters in Lalmonirhat. The incident injured 39 people, including 15 policemen. Demonstrators stabbed a youth leader of the Awami League in Comilla while a worker died of injuries sustained when protesters hurled bricks at a truck carrying labourers in Natore district. The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance enforced the shutdown from 6 am demanding a non-party government to oversee the next parliamentary election.

their clients in prison. The military says it removed Mr Morsy only after the public turned against him with protests by millions demanding his removal, accusing him and the Brotherhood of trying to subvert the law and impose their will on the country. Mr Morsys supporters accuse the military of crushing Egypts nascent democracy by overturning the results of multiple elections won by the Islamists since the ouster in 2011 of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising. Rights advocates have expressed concern about the fairness of the trial as it is taking place in the atmosphere of a widescale crackdown on the Brotherhood and its Islamist allies in which several thousand have been arrested and hundreds killed.

Gun battle leaves 13 dead in Mexico Suicide bombing in Syrian village kills 6
MEXICO CITY, NOVEMBER 4: At least 13 people were killed in three separate clashes between Mexican marines and gunmen in the border city of Matamoros, officials said. Matamoros is across the border from Brownsville, Texas, and is in an area that is being fought over by the rival Gulf and Zetas drug cartels. The government of Tamaulipas state says the three gunbattles occurred on Sunday when gunmen attacked troops in different parts of Matamoros. Its statement describes the attackers only as armed civilians and doesnt say if the gunmen are suspected of belonging to cartels. Officials said one woman was among the 13 dead civilians. No marine casualties have been reported. DAMASCUS, SYRIA, NOVEMBER 4: A suicide bomber detonated an explosivesladen truck in a central, Shia Syrian village on Monday, state media reported, killing six in the latest attack to underscore the growing sectarian nature of the countrys three-year-old conflict. Three children and a woman were among the dead in the early morning bombing at a school in Sabtiyeh, near the city of Homs, official news agency SANA said, adding that some 40 people were also wounded. Footage aired on state television showed panicked residents rushing to ambulances carrying wounded children. Facades of buildings were ripped away and cars lay smashed. What did these children do to be killed? a man angrily shouted. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, but such bombings are the hallmark of al-Qaeda linked groups who have joined Syrian rebels battling to overthrow the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad. Syrias war began as mostly peaceful demonstrations against Mr Assads rule, but turned into an armed rebellion after government troops violently suppressed demonstrations. The country is formed of a mosaic of different sects, and the conflict has largely split the country along sectarian lines.

Commission Sale of 5-kg LPG cylinders allowed at petrol pumps Vodafone India stake sellers liable to pay capital gains tax Telecom to discuss spectrum
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 4: After the success of pilot programmes in five metro cities, Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily on Monday allowed the sale of 5-kg cooking gas (LPG) cylinders at petrol pumps across the country. The scheme, launched on October 5, allowed petrol pumps owned and operated by oil companies in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore to sell the 5-kg cylinders. Company owned and operated outlets make up for 3 per cent of the 47,000 petrol pumps in the country. Now, Mr. Moily has permitted the sale of these smaller cylinders at all petrol pumps across the country, official sources said. The smaller cylinders will be sold at market rates, which are more than double the subsidised price of Rs. 410 per 14.2-kg cylinder in Delhi. However, the scheme will be deferred in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, where Assembly Elections are being held in November and December. The Petroleum Ministry on Monday issued orders extending the scheme to other parts of the country. Retail outlets not owned and operated by the oil companies may be included in the scheme, subject to statutory clearances, it said. Such petrol pumps have to fulfil the safety norms and conditions provided in the scheme. Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum own and operate a combined 1,440 outlets across the country. For the launch of the scheme, a few dozen pumps in the five cities were initially chosen. The scheme will be a boon for the migratory population such as students, IT professionals and BPO employees, as well as people with odd work hours. It offers them the flexibility to the country, subject to the Election Code of Conduct. This decision is expected to benefit the common man as sale of 5-kg LPG cylinders at market price with minimal documentation would facilitate easier availability of LPG at more selling points, it said. Traditionally, OMCs have sold LPG cylinders through their LPG distributor networks. Customers are enrolled by collecting proof of identity and address and a deposit for the cylinder and regulator. There is an emerging segment of new consumers like IT professionals, BPO employees who want LPG but in absence of proper proof of address cannot access the same, the statement said. Further, because of their irregular work timings, they may not be able to visit the distributor or be at home to receive cylinders during normal working hours. For some consumers, the need is in small parcels or arises at odd times of the day when distributors may be closed. NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 4: Indian minority shareholders in Vodafone India, including Analjit Singh, will have to pay 20 per cent capital gains tax after selling their stake to the UK-based parent company, a Finance Ministry official said. There is a capital gain for the minority shareholders and it will be taxed, the official said when asked about the tax implications of Vodafone Plcs plan to buy out the minority shareholders in its Indian telecom venture. The tax on gains made from financial transactions is levied at 20 per cent. Vodafone Plc last week applied to the Foreign Investment Promotion Board for approval to increase its stake in Vodafone India to 100 per cent from the current combined direct and indirect holding of 84.5 per cent. It proposed to buy the remaining stake in the company for Rs 10,141 crore. Besides Mr. Singh, who is the

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pick up cylinders and obtain refills at the time of their choice because petrol stations are open for longer hours than LPG dealers, sources said. The first-time purchase of a 5kg cylinder will cost Rs. 1,000 plus taxes, while a regulator will be available for Rs. 250 and taxes. The cost of the product and refills will be based on non-subsidised rates. An official statement said Mr. Moily has a proposal to extend the scope of the scheme for sale of non-subsidised 5-kg LPG cylinders from petrol stations (petrol pumps/retail outlets) of oil marketing companies (OMCs) in other parts of

non-executive chairman on the board of the Indian company, the minority shareholders of Vodafone India include Piramal Enterprises Ltd chairman Ajay Piramal holding an 11 per cent stake. Vodafone entered India in 2007 by buying Hutchison Whampoa in Hutchison-Essar Ltd in a $ 11 billion deal. The company faces a tax liability of over Rs 11,200 crore, along with interest, for the acquisition and is in discus-

sions with the government to resolve the issue. Vodafone had offered to settle the dispute through conciliation and the government has agreed, but there are differences over the rules under which it would take place. While Vodafone wants to resolve the dispute under the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, the government insists on applying the Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act.

Coal India misses production, Finance Ministry seeks 30 per cent dividend from oil PSUs GST: State FMs to meet in Shillong on Nov 18-19 Top eight companies add Rs offtake targets in October
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 4: State-owned Coal India (CIL) has produced 35.03 million tonnes (MT) of coal in October, missing its target for the month. The companys output target for the month was 40.82 MT, according to the PSUs filing on BSE. The company also missed its offtake target of 41.55 MT during the month. CILs actual offtake in October was 35.51 MT, it said. However, no reasons were given by the company for missing both the output and offtake targets. Against the output target of 247.45 MT in the first seven months of the current fiscal, CIL produced 235.51 MT of coal, the company said. The companys offtake from April-October was 259.87 MT, while the target was 268.78 MT, the company added. Last month, a Coal India official had said that the PSU has suffered a production loss in October due to Cyclone Phailin, which has affected the key coal producing states of Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal. The loss came amid the firm drawing flak from all quarters for missing its production target. Also, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal had earlier said that though production at CIL has been hit in October due to Cyclone Phailin, We are hopeful that (Coal India) will achieve its production target for the current fiscal. CIL, which accounts for over 80 per cent of the domestic production, contributed 452.5 MT of coal in the previous financial year compared with the target of 464 MT. The Coal Ministry has set a production target of 482 MT and offtake of 492 MT for CIL for 2013-14. NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 4: The Finance Ministry has asked all profit-making oil PSUs to pay a minimum 30 per cent dividend in the current financial year. Presently, all profit-making central public sector undertakings (CPSU) are required to declare a minimum dividend on equity of 20 per cent or a minimum dividend payout of 20 per cent of post-tax profit, whichever is higher, subject to availability of disposable profits. However, for the 14 PSUs in the oil sector, including Oil & Natural Gas Corp, Indian Oil and GAIL India, the ministry has sought a 30 per cent dividend, official sources said. The Finance Ministry believes dividend from CPSUs is a return on investment made by the government and it should be commensurate with profits. A lower than reasonable level of dividend would be construed as an implicit subNEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 4: The Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on GST will meet in Shillong on November 18 and 19 and may firm up views on issues concerning the taxation of liquor and petroleum products in the proposed Goods and Services Tax regime.The EC will meet in Shillong on November 18-19 and issues concerning taxation of liquor and petroleum products are expected to figure in the meeting, said a senior Finance Ministry official. At its last meeting on October 21, several states had opposed the inclusion of petroleum products and liquor in the proposed indirect taxes regime as the move would severely affect their revenues. Some states had also expressed reservations to the inclusion of entry tax in the GST fold. While the Centre wants that liquor and petroleum products should come under the GST, states are keen to retain their power to tax these items as they are major sources of revenue.The Empowered Committee Chairman and Jammu & Kashmir Finance Minister A R Rather had told reporters after the last meeting that only 10-12 state Finance Ministers could present their views due to paucity of time and the remaining states would get chance in the next meeting scheduled in Meghalaya.In the revised draft of the Bill circulated to the states on September 18, the Centre had proposed inclusion of petroleum and liquor under GST.The revised Constitutional Amendment draft incorporates the views of the Parliamentary Standing Committee which had suggested minimum exclusion to ensure an integrated, comprehensive and seamless GST regime. The issues of petroleum products and liquor have already been deliberated upon by a sub-committee of officials which was set up to study the recommendations of Parliamentary Standing Committee and the revised draft of the Constitutional Amendment Bill, and suggest ways for reconciling different positions. The roll-out of GST, which will empower the Centre and states to simultaneously tax supply of goods and services, has missed several deadlines due to differences between them over the contentious issues of the CST compensation as well as the design of the GST structure.

NEW DELHI: Telecom Commission, the highest decision making body of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), is likely to discuss key issues, including spectrum price for the third round of auction and M&A guidelines, in a meeting on November 6.The TC will be discussing the merger and acquisition (M&A) guidelines and spectrum price issue on November 6, a source in DoT said.The inter-ministerial panel was expected to discuss M&A guidelines and spectrum price issues on October 29 but the meeting was cancelled. In its clarifications to DoT, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had reiterated its recommendations for a huge cut in the spectrum price for the upcoming auction. The regulator had recommended up to 62 per cent reduction in reserve price for 900MHz spectrum in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata circles, and a 37 per cent cut in reserve price of 1800MHz spectrum band. Trai also stood by its recommendation of not auctioning of 800 MHz band, used by CDMA operators.

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sidy, which the government can ill afford, given the level of its commitments, especially in the social sector, and its obligations to meet the fiscal targets, it wrote to the Oil Ministry last month. It asked the government nominees on the boards of profit-making CPSUs under the Oil Ministry to ensure that the state-owned firms

comply with the dividend guideline for 201314. The Finance Ministry said in the case of PSUs with large disposable profits or healthy cash reserves, a higher or special dividend may also be considered, they said. ONGC, GAIL India and Oil India have declared 30 per cent dividend for the past few years.

MUMBAI: Helped by rally in the market value of Coal India Ltd and Bharti Airtel, topeight Sensex companies saw their total market valuation climb by a cumulative Rs 47,381 crore last week. While TCS, RIL, ONGC, CIL, HDFC Bank, Bharti, HDFC and HUL saw rise in their market capitalisation (m-cap), ITC and Infosys suffered losses.The m-cap of Bharti spurted by Rs 8,675 crore to Rs 1,46,045 crore, making the telecom major the biggest gainer among the top-10 firms.After Bharti, state-run CIL was the star performer as its valuation surged Rs 8,274 crore to Rs 1,84,532 crore. RILs market cap jumped Rs 7,318 crore to Rs 2,93,534 crore, while mortgage lender HDFC added Rs 6,680 crore to its value reaching Rs 1,32,867 crore mark and TCS saw its valuation zoom by Rs 6,312 crore to Rs 4,11,234 crore.

MISC Dy CM reviews activities of education department 2nd J&K Women's Science Congress
Directs for time bound filling of vacancies
JAMMU, NOV 4- To review progress of the education department with regard to set targets, Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand on Monday on the maiden day of Secretariat opening in winter capital chaired a high level meeting of the provincial officers. The meeting took a detailed review of the activities of the department in various districts of the province. The meeting was attended by Director, School Education Jammu T.K. Sharma, Director, SSA S.C. Sawhney, Additional Secretary Mr. R.A. Inqalabi, Personnel Officer to Director Education, CEO, ZEOs, Principals, DIET and other officers of the department. Taking note of available vacancy position in the department, the Deputy Chief Minister directed the concerned to take up the matter on priority and fill the vacant posts in time bound manner. He called for speeding up the process of recruitment besides fast tracking JAMMU, NOV 04- Govt. College for Women, Parade Ground is going to organize the 2ND J&K WOMEN'S SCIENCE CONGRESS on the theme "Empowering Women through Science and Technology" from 5th to 7th of Nov. 2013 sponsored by the J&K State Council for Science and Technology, Dept. of Science and Technology, J&K and Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. This program is designed to spread the understanding of the need to empower women who constitute nearly 50% of the population and involve them effectively in nation building activities tapping their potential as innovators and implementers of innovations other than being beneficiaries of innovations. The participants of the Congress encompass the scientists, researchers, academicians from University of Jammu, University of Kashmir, Central Universities, SMVDU, Katra, BGSBU, Rajouri, SKUAST, Jammu, Govt. Medical College, Jmu, ASCOMS, Jmu, SKIMS, Srngr, Govt. Engineering College, Jmu, IIIM, Jammu and other leading institutions of the state. The 2nd Women's Science Congress shall cover the subject areas, viz., Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Biotech, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Applied and allied Sciences. In addition, with a view to encourage, popularize and inculcate scientific temper among the children of the state, a Children Science Exhibition shall be organized where students from Govt. and Pvt. Schools of Jammu will showcase their talents in Science and Mathematics and their applications in different areas related with our everyday life.

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promotions of eligible workforce. "Rural and border belt students are suffering most due to the shortage of staff and early recruitment and fast track promotions would address the problem to quite an extent," he added. He said the concept of recruiting ReTs in those areas where regular teachers fail to reach has shown results and now all the vacant positions of ReTs should be filled within fifteen days. Calling for early regularization of education volunteers,

Tara Chand said all those volunteers who have completed seven years should be regularized with a period of one week and no delay on this part would be tolerated. He said recruitment for socially and educationally backward area and those near Line of Actual control has been approved on the pattern of ReTs, adding that the same should also be completed at the earliest so as to give a boost to education in these backward areas of the state. Underscoring on completing civil works undertaken in

different schools in a time bound manner, Tara Chand said the works should be expedited and concerned CEO should personally monitor the pace and report delays if any to the concerned authorities. He said Infrastructure in the schools should be commensurate to the strength of the students and directions were issued to the executing agencies to hold proper consultations with the concerned head of institutions before taking up construction in the schools.

Army conducted sewing knitting and stitch- Awareness proing classes for women at Chinta, Bhadarwah gramme organized
BHADERWAH, NOV 04: Army has been constantly undertaking variety of projects for welfare of AWAM. In pursuance of this noble aim the Rashtriya Rifles located at Bhadarwah will be conducting "Sewing, Knitting and Stitching Classes for Women" under Operation Sadhbhavana for a duration of one month commencing from today at Chinta village .The event was inaugurated by Mrs Suman Bhagat, Member Panchayat Jalga, Block Bhadarwah in presence of Mr Om Prakash Kotwal, Sarpanch, Jalga and residents of nearby villages of Chinta. Women from social economically backward strata of society will be trained on nuances of stitching by Mrs Shazia Begum, Dugga with an aim to enable them to stand on their own feet and become financially independent and selfemployed. The project aims to bring about advancement and empowerment among the trainees by way of imparting them a skill which would

Lone reviews functioning of GGM Science College

JAMMU, NOV 04- Minister for Higher Education Mohammad Akbar Lone on Monday paid a visit to the Government Gandhi Memorial Science College to review the functioning of the institution. He also inspected the ongoing development works in the college and directed the concerned executing agencies to ensure timely completion of the works. He directed R&B authorities to take up the black topping of roads in the college and asked JMC to ensure proper hygiene in the premises. He exhorted teachers to accomplish their duties with dedication to provide quality education and moral values to the students. Minister said that all efforts are being made to develop infrastructure in educational institutions and provide conducive atmosphere for the overall development of the students. Principal of the College Dr. Satinder Singh informed the Minister that the NAAC team is visiting to assess the ongoing development works in the college from November 20. Minister was accompanied by Secretary Higher Education Sheikh Mushtaq Ahmed, Director Higher Education Tariq Ahmad Kawoosa and other senior officers of concerned department.

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HANDWARA, NOV 04: Cooperative Marketing Society (CMS), Handwara organized a daylong awareness camp here on Monday. The camp was attended by the members of Cooperative Society and locals. The experts highlighting the significance of cooperative movement urged the people to take full advantage of the movement by actively taking part in the movement. On this occasion, it was revealed that during 201112, CMS Handwara recorded a revenue of Rs. one crore by distributing chemical fertilizers among the farmers. Besides, distributing 1.54 lakh litre kerosene oil among the consumers between April to October 2013, it was also told that construction of a new shopping complex in Handwara is apace which on completion would provide job opportunity to scores of local unemployed youth.

MUMBAI, NOV 04: Pune University has grown larger than its much older counterpart in Mumbai. This year, Pune went on to add many more colleges under its ambit, thus emerging as the second largest university of the country. According to the latest data from the University Grants Commission, Hyderabad's Osmania University is the biggest with 901 colleges. Pune University with 811 affiliated colleges comes second, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University a close third with 800 colleges, and Rajasthan University fourth with 735 colleges. The fifth largest Indian public university is Mumbai University with 711 colleges. Affiliated colleges are the mainstay of the country's higher education system. They enrol 89.3% of undergraduate students and about 72.2% of postgraduate pupils. Pune University was estab-

lished 65 years ago to reach out to studentsspread across 12 districts of western Maharashtra, but its jurisdiction was redrawn later when universities came up in Kolhapur and Sholapur. Yet, its biggest expansion happened recently when many colleges came up in Pune, said experts. Planning Commission member and former Pune University vice-chancellor Narendra Jadhav said, "The growth has come about in the last 10 years. This growth is not by accident; it is balanced. Of all the foreign students travelling to India for education, about 45% come to Pune. Mumbai and Pune universities are not comparable." Just five years ago, the University of Mumbai had 531 affiliated colleges, with a student population of about 6.5 lakh, Pune University had 474 affiliated colleges with 5.5 lakh students, and Nagpur University had 375 colleges.

Shakuntala Devi's 84th birthday: Google doodles a calculator for the human computer

help them to pursue an independent vocation and inturn make them confident and independent individuals. A total of ten sewing machines are also being distributed to the needy women from economically backward strata who will also term post of the classes. During the inauguration ceremony Mr Om Prakash Kotwal remarked " The Army has always been on the forefront in organising constructive activities for the locals, and we are thankful to

the organization for the same, this noble initiative of organising tailoring classes for the under privileged local ladies free of cost will do them a lot of good to sustain their families" Miss Shivani Bhagat who hails from village Jalga expressed her gratitude to the Army for assisting her to pick up a new profession which will enable her to earn livelihood and stand on her own feet, in long run enhancing her confidence and selfesteem.

'Life and Services' book released

SRINAGAR, NOV 04: Awami National Conference (ANC) president Begum Khalida Shah released a book, "Life and Services of Late G.M.Shah at a function held at SKICC on Monday. The book contains the life history and important events pertaining to Shah and it describes his personality in a better manner. The function was attended by galaxy of political leaders including Senior vice president ANC, Muzafar Ahmed Shah, Addl General Secretary National Conference, Dr Shiekh Mustafa Kamal, Chairman National Panthers Party Prof Bhim Singh, Member Parliament Ghulam Nabi Ratanpuri, MLA Langete Er Rashid, Dr Syed Nazir Geelani and senior Congress leader Gulchain Singh Chadak. Describing late Gulam Muhammad Shah as a great statesman, the speakers in one voice said that Shah was well wisher of Kashmiri people and this is a fact that he never compromised with his principles. They said that G.M. Shah was an able and strict administrator. He was known for his integrity and sincerity. But he was not allowed to function. They said that Shah provided employment opportunities to the people of Kashmir and did wonders for them. "Shah not only laid stress on the development but he also helped poor and needy. It was he, who entrusted permanent job orders to at least 60, 000 daily wagers. People of Kashmir will never forget his contributions," the speakers said. One of the speakers said that Shah was asked to abdicate by New Delhi after he refused to compromise with his principles. "Had he been a power monger, he could have enjoyed life time and compromised with his principles, but he did not. He kicked the power and acted as a true well wished of Kashmiri people. New Delhi asked him to abrogate Article 370 and induct more and more IAS and IPS officer in JK cadre which he bluntly refused," the speaker said NEW DELHI: Google is celebrating the 84th birth anniversary of mathematical genius Shakuntala Devi, nicknamed "human computer" for her ability to make complex mental calculations, with a doodle on its India home page. The doodle salutes Shakuntala Devi's amazing calculating abilities with a doodle that resembles a calculator. Shakuntala Devi found a slot in the Guinness Book of World Record for her outstanding ability and wrote numerous books like 'Fun with Numbers', 'Astrology for You', 'Puzzles to Puzzle You', and 'Mathablit'. She had the ability to tell the day of the week of any given date in the last century in a jiffy. Coming from a humble family, Shakuntala Devi's father was a circus performer who did trapeze, tightrope and cannonball shows. It was while she was playing cards with her father at the tender age of three that he found his daughter's calculation abilities. It turned out that she beat him not by sleight of hand, but by memorising the cards. At the age of six, she demonstrated her calculation skills in her first major public performance at the University of Mysore and two years later, she again proved herself successful as a child prodigy at Annamalai University. However, despite apprehensions in some quarters, Devi did not lose her calculating ability when she turned adult like other prodigies such as Truman Henry Safford. In 1977, Devi extracted the 23rd root of a 201-digit number mentally. On June 18, 1980 she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She answered the question in 28 seconds. Shakuntala Devi died on April 21, 2013 in Bangalore.

Australian University to impart social media training to Indian Information Service officials
CHENNAI, NOV 05: Officers in the Indian Information Service will get training from an Australian university on how to use modern technology and social media to share information of government policies with stakeholders. Mid-level and senior officers will be trained to understand and adapt to the changing media landscape, under a memorandum of understanding signed between the Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, on Monday. The institutions signed an international cooperation agreement to collaborate on academic programmes and research in media and communication. The agreement envisages bringing information and communications technology in academic programmes. The institutes will enter into joint ventures and develop a collaborative doctoral programme. The agreement will also lead to joint academic and scientific activities, including courses, conferences, seminars, symposia, lectures, student and faculty exchange programmes, and exchange of materials and publications of common interest. The agreement signed for five years will be reviewed six months before expiry and may be renewed for a further term by mutual agreement.s

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Indian university to tieup with Israeli institutes

JERUSALEM: With the Israeli government opening its doors to attract Asian talent for its research institutes, an Indian university has opened a centre here to facilitate cooperation in wide ranging areas for sustained exchange of expertise. Kerala-based minority institution, Karunya University, has signed multiple Memorandum of Understandings with several leading Israeli academic institutions. The UGC-recognised institution has signed MoUs with the BenGurion University (BGU), Technion of Haifa and Institute of Archaeology of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof Yoram Oren of the Zuckerberg Institute of Water Research of BGU is already a 'Visiting Faculty' at Karunya University and has established a laboratory to study electrochemical methods for water treatment. Last year, Israel announced over 100 post-doctoral fellowships for Indian and Chinese scholars, to attract Asian talent to Israeli research institutions. Indian researchers managed to avail a r o un d twowill diligently work towards benefiting from this association. We will also actively pursue exchange of faculty and students to strengthen these ties", James said. Karunya University is also in the process of formulating joint projects with Technion on food processing and aerospace engineering. Besides joint scientific projects, the Coimbatorebased university is also mulling the establishment of a 'Centre of Excellence in History and Archaeology of the Land of Bible' with the support of Institute of Archaeology of Hebrew University. Karunya University has also established a Museum in its Outreach Office in Jerusalem depicting 'Jewish Heritage in India', which has a photo gallery and several models and also the replica of the Copper Plate Charter given to the Jewish leader in 1000 AD by the king of Kerala. The models on display include that of the Pardesi Synagogue of Mattanchery of Jews of Cochin in Kerala.

Private schools gain students at expense of govt ones

MUMBAI: Around 4.1 lakh students were added to the enrollment figures at private unaided schools in the state in 2012-13. In the same period, schools run by government/local bodies and even private-aided ones saw a dip in enrollment by 2.6 lakh and 1.7 lakh respectively. The reducing head count in government and aided schools shows the unwillingness of parents to compromise on their children's education and also their ability to afford higher fees. Data compiled by the unified District Information System
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for Education (DISE) reveals that around 68.6 lakh students were enrolled in elementary classes in Maharashtra's schools in 2011-12, when the corresponding numbers in the last academic year (2012-13) plunged to 66 lakh. Similarly, the enrolments in private aided schools also dipped from 65 lakh in 2011-12 to 63.3 lakh in 2012-13. The number of students enrolled in private unaided schools in the state during the same period, however, increased from 28.3 lakh to 32.4 lakh.

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