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GLOBAL SELL-OFF, WORST MARKET SLIDE IN SIX YEARS
Crisis, Made in China, sends Sensex into

1600-point fall: Govt sees opportunity
Displeased
PMO tells
Ministries:
give details
of MoUs
Arun Jaitley and Raghuram Rajan

assure investors: It is transient,
temporary; can be our opportunity
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 24
A GLOBAL sell-off triggered by a
Chinese rout sent the Indian
market crashing Monday as it
plunged the most in over six
years 5.94 per cent or 1,624
points to close at a 12-month
low of 25,741. Rs 7 lakh crore in
market capitalisation of all BSE
listed companies was wiped out
within hours.
This sent the government
into a huddle and Prime Minister
Narendra Modi was said to have
reviewed the economic and financial market situation with
senior ministers and officials.
Indicating more reforms on
the anvil, Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley said the Prime Minister

wants more steps taken to
strengthen the economy, including higher government
spending.
PM wants to take steps to
convert the worldwide crisis into
an opportunity for India, Jaitley
told a press conference in the
evening.
Mondays fall came on the
back of a sharp decline in the
Chinese and Japanese markets
that fell 8.5 per cent and 4.6 per
cent respectively as concerns
over global growth mounted.
While major European markets
were down by around 6 per cent,
the Dow Jones Industrial in the
United States too opened on a
weak note Monday and was
down over 4 per cent in the
AVISHEK G DASTIDAR
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian in New Delhi on
Monday. Renuka Puri
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Most commodities tumble: why Special session for GST?

for importer India, news isnt bad Govt may take call today
HARISH DAMODARAN
MONDAYS MARKET bloodbath
the Sensex down almost 6 per
cent and the rupee falling to its
lowest since September 4, 2013
revived memories of JuneAugust 2013. That was the time
of taper tantrums, when the
markets began factoring in an
imminent winding down of the
US Federal Reserves $ 85 billiona-month long-term asset pur-
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chases or quantitative easing

programme. The possibility of it,
first suggested by then Fed chairman Ben Bernanke in end-May,
triggered huge capital outflows
from
emerging
market
economies (EME).
India was, then, among the
most vulnerable of EMEs
given its current account deficit
at $88.16 billion or over 4.7 per
cent of GDP in 2012-13, retail inflation rates of nearly 10 per cent,
and uncontrolled fiscal deficits.
No wonder, foreign institutional
BUSINESS AS USUAL
PRADEEP KAUSHAL
BY UNNY
THE GOVERNMENT is likely to
take a call tomorrow on the possibility of a special session of
Parliament to pass the Goods
and Services Tax (GST) Bill. It is
going to be an informal meeting
with the likelihood of Prime
Minister also being present,
sources said.
Sources in the Congress, Left
parties and the Janata Dal
(United) said there had been no
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such feelers from the government so far. They said the current
atmosphere thick with attacks
and counter-attacks was
hardly conducive for such a session. More so, when NDA leaders are out, campaigning against
Congress and Left members of
the Lok Sabha in their constituencies.
Though its the privilege of
the government to call a session,
a unilateral move doesnt help.
For, the GST Bill, being a
Constitutional amendment, has
to meet two requirements for
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PRIME MINISTER Narendra

Modi is said to be upset with the
way some ministries have been
slipping under the radar and
signing memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with different entities.
The Honourable Prime
Ministers displeasure has been
conveyed to the errant ministries by the Cabinet Secretary
who has instructed them to fall
in line.
In a letter to ministries,
Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha has
asked them to henceforth furnish details of all MoUs to the
Cabinet Secretariat within a
month of the signing of MoUs.
Following the letter, the
Railway Ministry, which has
been on an MoU-signing spree
of late, has initiated a process to
collect information on all MoUs
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ECONOMY
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Drug racket: HC
stays transfer of EDs
special prosecutor
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
CHANDIGARH, AUGUST 24
THE PUNJAB and Haryana High
Court on Monday put a stay on
the transfer of EDs special public prosecutor who is looking into
the money laundering aspect in
Punjab's multi-crore drug racket
case. Suresh Kumar Batra has
been
transferred
from
Chandigarh to Bengaluru.
The special division bench
comprising Justices Surya Kant
and PB Bajanthri also ordered
that its earlier stay orders on the
transfer of Enforcement
Directorate's Assistant Director
Niranjan Singh, from Jalandhar
to Kolkata, would continue till
the next date of hearing on

September 23. Niranjan Singh,
too, was probing the drug racket
case.
Directions have also been issued to the Central Bureau of
Investigation, on an application
moved by advocate Navkiran
Singh, to file its reply on the extradition of various NRIs who are
accused in the drug racket.
Taking up an application
moved by former Punjab DGP
(Jails) Shashi Kant seeking directions to also extend scope of the
case to Haryana and Chandigarh,
as they are also fast showing up
on the drug map, the court issued notices of motion to
Haryana and Chandigarh for filing their replies.
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Cant book hall for

anti-govt activity:
Gujarat Governor
The Mehdi Nawaz Jung Hall in Ahmedabad. Javed Raja
Hall booking only on undertaking of no

political or anti-govt activity: Raj Bhavan
PARIMAL DABHI
AHMEDABAD, AUGUST 24
YOUR RIGHT
TO KNOW
E
AN AHMEDABAD hall widely

used by civil rights organisations
has been made out of bounds by
Gujarat Governor O P Kohli for
any political activity or any activity against the government.
A kabulatnama or written
undertaking that there will be no
such activity has been made
mandatory for anyone who
wishes to book the Mehdi
Nawaz Jung Hall, named after
the first Governor of Gujarat.
This follows an oral decision by
Governor Kohli.
The Mehdi Nawaz Jung Hall
has been the venue of several
meetings, including those on the
2002 riots, screening of films on
the riots, and where the riot-hit
have spoken out.
More recently, the hall
hosted organisations which
backed Teesta Setalvad, the social activist booked by police for
alleged embezzlement of funds
meant for riot victims, and others critical of the Centres crackdown on NGOs.
The hall is part of the
Himavan complex which is administered by a board of trustees
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of the Governors Social Welfare
Fund. The Governor is one of the
trustees and chairman of the
board.
Responding to an application
filed by The Indian Express under
the Right to Information Act, Raj
Bhavan said the decision on a
kabulatnama was taken on May
26, 2015 a day after expelled
AAP leader Yogendra Yadav was
denied entry to the hall despite a
booking by organisers of a meeting. Yadav then held a meeting
with workers outside the hall.
In its reply, the Governors
Office said: Since the persons
who approach the management
of Mehdi Nawaz Jung Hall, Paldi,
Ahmedabad for booking the hall
are orally instructed to give their
kabulatnama to the effect that
they will not use the hall for any
political activity or any activity
against the government, the hall
is not given on rent to any party
which refuses to give a signed
kabulatnama.
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FEROZEPUR BRIBERY SCANDAL
Why should I resign, asks

Punjab BJP chief after
arrest of his former PA
RAAKHI JAGGA
LUDHIANA, AUGUST 24
LANKA WANTS HIM IN UK AS ENVOY

Kumar Sangakkara, wife Yehali during his retirement ceremony after India won the second
test against Sri Lanka in Colombo on Monday. The Sri Lankan government has asked him to
become its High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. Reuters PAGE 18
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UNDER fire after his former private secretary was arrested on

charges of taking bribes to get
drug cases quashed in Ferozepur,
an unfazed BJP state president
Kamal Sharma Monday categorically said he would not resign as
he was not at fault.
Sharma also denied that
Jimmy Sandhu was his personal
assistant ever.
Sandhu was never my PA,
though he was the president of
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
(BJYM, party's youth wing), he
said.
KAMAL SHARMA
In Ludhiana to participate in
a dharna against the Congress
over the Parliament impasse,
Sharma underlined: There is no
question of my resignation. I
took action against them (the accused) much before the
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ANOTHER REPORT, PAGE 4
Desperate call goes out to Delhi: Sir, Digital India not reaching us
Nabarangpur MP complains to Minister, PM: Poor BSNL service, minister spoke in threatening tone
DISTRICT
ZERO
AJAY SHANKAR
NABARANGPUR, AUGUST 24
REPORTING CHANGE AND

CHALLENGE IN INDIAS
POOREST DISTRICT
A ONE-YEAR EXPRESS
ASSIGNMENT FROM AUGUST 15,
2015, TO AUGUST 14, 2016
Reports, photographs, videos at

indianexpress.com/topic/district-zero
The BSNL office in Nabarangpur. Neeraj Priyadarshi
DISTRICT ZERO is waiting for a

response from Delhi after its
elected representative wrote to
the Telecom Minister and the
Prime Minister last month, complaining about poor BSNL service in the least developed
among 543 constituencies.
Highlighting the disconnect
between Delhis Digital India and
the countrys poorest district in

southern Odisha, the BJD MP of
Nabarangpur, in his letter to
Modi, said: Sir, your dream
Digital India seems to be too
distant to reach the villages
when I am fighting for Internet
service in (the) block level.
Stressing that the situation
is deteriorating day by day,
Balabhadra Majhi, who is a firsttime MP and a Gond tribal,
wrote that due to the poor
broadband service, examinations are postponed and stu-
dents are deprived of taking admission to colleges, apply for

jobs. More often Govt service is
also affected causing inconvenience to general public.
In a two-page letter, received
by the PMO on July 29, Majhi also
complained that when he met
Union Telecom Minister Ravi
Shankar Prasad to hand over a
separate letter listing his grievances on July 22 in Parliament
House Room No. 41, he (the
Minister) was annoyed and answered in a threatening tone
that nothing was wrong with the

BSNL service.
The MP, a former chief engineer in the Railways, wrote to
the PM: Respected sir, I am not
a mad person to tell (a) lie to the
Honble Minister and waste his
and my time.
When contacted by The
Indian Express, Majhi confirmed
he had written the letters and repeated his charge against the
Minister: If this is the way he responds to a representative of the
people, I wonder how he would
behave with the public. Is this the

way to showcase the PMs slogan
of Sab ka Saath, Sab ka Vikas?
However, a spokesman for
the Telecom Minister described
the MPs allegation as totally
baseless. Being a political activist, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad
gives due respect to all Members
of Parliament and is most accessible to all. The concerned MP is
free to meet him if he still has
some grievance, the spokesman
said in a statement emailed
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FROM OUR OTHER EDITIONS TODAY
FROM THE FRONT PAGE
Crisis sends Sensex into 1600-point fall
LUCKNOW
DELHI
SP MLAs brother
manhandles cop
on traffic duty
Class IX student
beaten to death in
Southwest Delhi
SAMAJWADI PARTY MLA Irfan Solankis

brother allegedly manhandled a police
sub-inspector who stopped his vehicle
while controlling the traffic in Chakeri police station area of Kanpur city on
Monday.
According to police, Solankis brother
Faizan was going to his tannery when he
was stopped by Sub-Inspector Devendra
Yadav of Chakeri police station at Durga
Mandir intersection. Yadav was manning
the traffic as there was a huge crowd
rushing to a Shiva temple in the area on
the occasion of the last Monday of the
holy month of Shravan.
Chakeri SHO Rajiv Dwivedi said the traffic was banned to enter the lane which
Faizan was trying to enter, and was open
only to those who had their residences or
offices there. The tannery is run by
Solanki. He further said that the SI
stopped Faizan, leading to an argument
between them. Faizan, however, denied
that the SI was physically assaulted.
Kanpur SSP Shalabh Mathur said he
had ordered an inquiry into the incident.
A CLASS IX student of a private school in

southwest Delhis Chhawla area was brutally beaten to death with wooden sticks,
allegedly by two of his classmates, after
he complained to teachers that they were
misbehaving in class. Police said the duo
used a rock to bash the boys head. Both
juveniles have been apprehended.The
victim has been identified as Shubham
Jindal. Joint Commissioner of Police (JCP)
(southwestern range) Dependra Pathak
said the juveniles, who are cousins, were
jealous of Shubham after he was made
the class monitor. The incident came to
light on Sunday around 11.30 pm. The victims father approached police and informed them that his 14-year-old son had
not returned home. Police immediately
registered a case of kidnapping and several teams were formed to trace the boy,
Pathak said. Four hours later, police found
Shubhams body near a crematorium
500 metres away from his home in
Roshan Nagar.Pathak said their investigation revealed that the victim was last
seen along with two of his classmates.
Justice M L Tahaliyani with his wife

at Raj Bhavan. Ganesh Shirsekar
MUMBAI
Retd Justice M L
Tahaliyani sworn in
as Lokayukta
JUSTICE (RETD) M L Tahaliyani was sworn
in as the new Maharashtra Lokayukta
Monday, at Raj Bhavans Darbar Hall
where Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao administered him oath. Chief
Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Education
Minister Vinod Tawde and judges of the
Bombay High Court also attended the
swearing-in ceremony, along with members of Tahaliyanis family, a statement
from the Maharashtra government said.
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Rs 387 on Page 22, the sentence, At least 20 per cent
of the offer size has been reserved for retail investors,
who will also get a 5 per cent discount to the cut-off
price, according to the offer document was inadvertently repeated.
The errors are regretted.
Drug racket: HC
stays transfer of
EDs special
prosecutor
The court also directed the Union Ministry of Home
Affairs to inform about the taken on Border Security
Force's report for sealing of Indo-Pak border to check
narcotics smuggling from Pakistan into Punjab and
steps taken to provide adequate manpower at
Chandigarh Narcotics Control Bureau office
In case of Batra, the court said, "Since Batra has specialised knowledge of money laundering cases, we direct that Batra shall continue to hold charge of
Chandigarh region in money laundering case in the
drug racket."
The court further observed that the ED should not
have allowed to go its officer posted at Bengaluru on
deputation, in whose place Batra was transferred, when
it knew that it has scarcity of officers and there was
more litigation at Bengaluru.
The court refused to buy any of the arguments raised
by Assistant Solicitor General of India Chetan Mittal
that Batra was in Chandigarh for the last five years, it
was his first posting, that officers with less than five
years in one posting have been transferred in ED, the
ED drug racket case may take years to conclude in
courts; and that Batra being the special proesecutor
cannot be associated with a court case hearing.
All the pending drug racket cases when taken to
logical conclusion, you can then transfer him (Batra),"
the court said clearly.
Appearing for Niranjan Singh, senior advocate
Anupam Gupta vehemently argued that "Niranjan
Singh was transferred because he summoned Bikram
Singh Majithia (Punjab revenue minister). It is unfortunate but absolutely true and the dates would speak
for itself."
He further submitted, "There is a pattern. ED is putting entirely new people in the drug racket case who
have never dealt with such cases. I suspect (the) intention behind this. Earlier, Niranjan was transferred to
Kolkata and now Batra to Bengaluru."
Gupta further submitted that Batra's assistance is
required by Niranjan Singh in probing the case, as
"Prevention of Money Laundering Act is a highly complicated subject. There are very powerful persons involved having roots in Punjab. This is case which requires very strong shoulders otherwise entire process
would come to a not".
Shashi Kant argued, "It is a question of thousands
of human lives being lost and Haryana and Chandigarh
should also be impleaded parties in the case."
my constituency could not download

their admit cards.
He said that in his parent block
Chandahandi, there is frequent disruption of OFC (optical fibre cable) route,
which are hanging on roadside tree
tops and are prone to frequent damage by external agencies or the slightest wind.
In its first ground report from
District Zero, published on August 15,
The Indian Express had quoted K K
Mishra, Deputy General Manager,
BSNL, as saying that the rapid pace of
construction and road work has disrupted our optic fibre cable network
at many places (in Nabarangpur).
Mishra, who is based in Koraput
and is in charge of services in
Nabarangpur, had said that BSNL was
working on various solutions including providing wireless mini linking
from one tower to another and linking up with the neighbouring state of
Chhattisgarh to effectively reach the
border areas. The mini linking is expected to be complete within two
months, Mishra had said.
Responding to Majhis complaints
about BSNLs service, the spokesman
for Prasad said that the minister and
senior officials from the ministry had
recently visited Odisha to review the
functioning of various departments
in the state.
During the visit he also inaugurated a Wi-fi facility in Jagannathpuri.
One such meeting in Bhubaneswar
was attended by many members of
Parliament. Senior members of
Parliament present at the meeting
publicly appreciated the performance
of BSNL in their constituencies, the
spokesman said.
We agree that further scope for improvement always exists and the government is committed to do so. In fact,
the Minister has taken the unique initiative of organising meetings between
members of Parliament and senior
BSNL representatives. MPs from Orissa
were also invited to one such meeting,
the spokesman said.
Bhubaneswar: With 22 infants dying in

Cuttacks Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Postgraduate Institute of Paediatrics in
the last four days, the Odisha Human
Rights Commission Monday asked the
state health secretary and director of
National Rural Health Mission to submit a report within 3 weeks. In the last 24
hours, nine infants have died in the hospital with the parents attributing the
deaths to negligence of doctors, nurses
and other hospital staff. ENS
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Peru to Indonesia, Malaysia and South

Africa. For them, and also for the likes of
Australia and New Zealand, China buying
less has huge implications that extend to
impacting global prices for commodities
be it crude oil, coal, iron ore, copper,
aluminium, nickel, soybeans or milk powder.
India, on the other hand, is unique as
an EME that is predominantly an importer
rather than exporter of commodities. In
2014-15, India imported, among other
things, $116.44-billion worth of crude petroleum, $17.69 billion of coal and coke,
$6.59 billion of bulk minerals and ores, and
$6.33 billion of finished fertilisers. Low international commodity prices - for minerals and ores, though not farm products are, thus, beneficial for India. A Chinese
slowdown, in that sense, is not the same
as monetary tightening by the US Fed
Reserve. For India, the threat from latter is
far more serious, both by way of affecting
capital flows to EMEs and making it that
HOME
NATION
passage: presence of at least a majority of

members and two-thirds of them voting
in its favour in each House. And, for voting
to take place, the House has to be in order,
too. The Government cannot get a Rajya
Sabha endorsement unless its able to mobilise support from a section outside the
ruling coalition.
If the Government doesnt opt for a
special session, tomorrows meeting could
serve as a prelude to proroguing the
Parliament. The Government stopped
short of doing this when the monsoon session of Parliament concluded on August
13. It only got the two Houses adjourned
sine die to keep open the option of calling

a special session technically a continuation of the last session. But the Land
Acquisition Ordinance, issued for the third
time last month, expires on August 31.
If the Government plans re-issuing it
for the fourth time, it has to prorogue
Parliament, or, at least, one of the two
Houses. While an ordinance has a life of
six months, it has to be approved by
Parliament within six weeks of the commencement of the session which follows
its promulgation. An ordinance cannot be
re-promulgated while Parliament is in
session.
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the question of giving copies thereof does

not arise.
Gautam Thaker, general secretary of
the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties
(PUCL) in Gujarat, who is also administrator of the hall, said he had not been informed about the decision.
I have not been intimated about the
decision. I handle issues like salaries of
The hall is currently booked for carrying out educational, social, humanitarian and cultural activities, the reply
stated.
The Indian Express had also sought minutes of the meeting in which such a decision was taken. To this, Raj Bhavan said:
Meetings were not held and no notings
were made while taking this decision, so
the staff of the hall etc. The booking part

is being handled by a watchman who is
also performing the role of a manager,
he said.
Thaker criticised the insistence on a
written undertaking. I think it is a move to
stifle the voice of dissent. It is an attempt to
suppress the freedom of speech and expression of civil society, he said.
Air India votes to elect just 2 unions

the move on fear of being derecognised. Ten
court cases were filed across Delhi, Mumbai
and Chennai high courts and the Supreme
Court. But we managed to successfully hold
the elections last week, said a senior executive who did not wish to be identified.
Air India has drawn up a blueprint to rationalise the number of recognised unions
in the airline to two one for pilots and the
other for all other employees.
The selection of the two unions, done

OVER TWO years after the proposal was first
mooted and 10 court cases later, Air India last
week held elections to cut the number of
recognised unions in the airline from the current 15 to two. The results will be announced
on August 26. Several unions were opposing
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much difficult for the RBI to reduce interest rates.

The third reason for India being much
better placed than in June-August 2013 is
its macro fundamentals. The current account deficit in 2014-15 was a mere $27.94
billion or 1.3 per cent of GDP, an improvement over even the $32.4 billion (1.7 per
cent) for the preceding fiscal. Between
August 30, 2013 and now, the RBIs forex
assets have swelled by roughly $83.5 billion and the current reserves of $354.43
billion can finance well over nine months
of imports. The twin deficits (including
the governments finances) arent as serious a concern, even while CPI inflation for
July was just 3.78 per cent.
All said, the confluence of global factors
is not as bleak today for India as it was in
the taper tantrum days. One shouldnt be
surprised to see international investors, too,
make a distinction between India and other
EMEs more so, in a scenario where oil
would hover around $ 40-50 per barrel.
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Key member of Ktaka

Lokayukta extortion racket
arrested
Bengaluru: THE SIT of Karnataka Police made its tenth
arrest in the extortion case involving the states anticorruption watchdog and Lokayukta Justice Bhaskar
Raos son, Ashwin Rao.
The SIT on Sunday arrested Hotte Krishna a realtor
known to be a close associate of Ashwin Rao from
the Chennai airport. During the preliminary investigation by the Lokayukta police, Krishna was named as a
key member of the extortion gang operating in the
Lokayukta.
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as Krishna Rao, a relative of Justice Bhaskar Rao, to allegedly demand bribes from targeted officials, while
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June-August, the RBIs foreign currency assets dipped by $11.1 billion over this period and the rupee hit a record low of
68.85-to-the-dollar on August 28, 2013.
This time, however, things are somewhat different. To start with, the cause of
the current meltdown is not the US Feds
prospective monetary policy actions a
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has sparked concerns that the countrys
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strengthen our own economy and we have
to continue to be the best performing
economy globally.
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cent in the last fortnight, Rajan assured the
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using its forex reserves it now amounts
to over $354 billion to contain volatility
in the rupee. Experts also spoke on similar lines and suggested investors stay put
with their investments. The near-term
pain is likely to continue on the back of global developments. While investors should not press the button to sell, they must
also avoid bottom fishing, Pankaj Pandey,
head of research at ICICIdirect.com, said.
Why for importer India, news isnt bad
Sir, Digital India not reaching us

to The Indian Express.
Majhi represents Nabarangpur
constituency, which includes the districts of Nabarangpur and Malkangiri,
and four blocks of Koraput.
Nabarangpur district is the focus of a
year-long assignment titled District
Zero, which was launched by The
Indian Express on August 15, 2015, to
track poverty and transformation in
Indias poorest district.
In his letter to Modi, Majhi wrote
that the poor BSNL service has further
contributed to its bad condition.
Stressing that other companies were
able to provide uninterrupted service in Nabarangpur, he wrote: This
gives suspicion that the Government
is favouring private players.
Majhi also complained in the letter
about frequently disrupted BSNL
mobile and broadband services in
Chandahandi, Jharigam, Raighar,
Umerkote and Dabugam blocks of
Nabarangpur district.
The Indian Express found echoes of
the MPs complaint, particularly about
BSNLs Internet service, in the interior
parts of the district, such as Jharigam
and Chandahandi in the north.
Among the many voices that complained about the service was that of
Simanchal Bisoyi, a paddy farmer in
Umerkote, who said he was not getting a proper signal on his BSNL line
and had to go for a second mobile connection from a private operator.
Majhi had earlier detailed his grievances in a three-page letter, dated July
21, to the Telecom Minister in which
he pointed out that with the implementation of e-governance, official
work was dependent on broadband
services. Due to frequent failure & delay in restoration of optical fibre network, all the official works are being
paralysed causing immense hardship
to the public, he wrote.
He referred to a specific instance
when a recruitment exam for the posts
of postman, scheduled to be held on
September 19, 2014, had to be cancelled because many candidates of
investors during trading hours, maintaining that the Indian economy was relatively
better positioned and that the government
and RBI were keeping a close watch on the
global situation.
Describing the market crash as transient and temporary, Jaitley blamed the
fall on external factors: There has been for
the last few days a great amount of turbulence in the global markets. Obviously, that
turbulence has been felt in the Indian markets as well. The factors responsible for this
are entirely external. There is not a single
domestic factor in India which has either
contributed or added to it. I have not the
least doubt that this turbulence is transient
and temporary in nature and markets will
settle down.
morning trading hours. Last Friday, it

closed with a loss of 3.1 per cent, setting
the tone for Mondays fall.
The broader Nifty at NSE too fell 5.9 per
cent to close at 7,809 Monday.
The fall was led by a sharp sell-off by
foreign institutional investors who sold
Indian equities worth a net of Rs 5,275
crore Monday. On Friday, they had sold equities worth a net of Rs 2,299 crore.
The sell-off also saw the rupee decline
to a new two-year low of 66.65. On the
global front, the brent crude fell to a new
six-and-a half year low of $43.2 per barrel,
offering some respite to India which is a
net commodity importer.
Jaitley and RBI Governor Raghuram
Rajan looked to provide some comfort to
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during negotiations between the management and union representatives.
The airlines two subsidiaries Air India
Engineering Services Limited (AIESL) for
maintenance repair and overhaul and Air
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unions.
Why should I resign, asks

Punjab BJP chief
registration of the FIR. I shunted
them out of their posts. I have taken
proper action against the errant
members. Why should I resign?
Police is investigating the matter and
they must take action as per the law."
Sharma had taken resignations
from Sandhu and Jagraj Katora, who
were presidents of BJYM, Ferozepur
and district BJP, respectively, on
August 4, while an FIR was lodged
against both of them on August 6.
However, they have not been expelled from the party, though Sandhu
is in police custody now, and confessed to have taken Rs 5 lakh in one
case.
Give details of MoUs

it has signed.
Secretary Railway Board G R
Agarwal, referring to Sinhas letter and
the reference to the PMs displeasure,
has asked all directorates to collect
MoUs that have been signed by the
ministry and its allied organisations.
The last date for submission of such information to the Chairman Railway
Boards office is August 25.
Cabinet Secretary vide his letter
dated 14.8.2015 has also communicated the Honourable PMs displeasure
in delayed submission of such information..., Agarwal stated in his note.
Katora's role has yet not been established by the police.

SD Chugh, chairman of the disciplinary committee, BJP, said, "My role
comes when the state chief sends any
case to me, so far I have not received
anything from him."
Meanwhile, Sandhu was Monday
produced in Ferozepur court and was
sent in one-day police remand.
Sandhu during interrogation has
named another BJP leader who is also
Sharma's close aide.
Superintendent of Police
Amarjeet Singh said, "We are investigating the role of yet another person named by Sandhu."
The ministry enters into MoUs with
various organisations and entities including other countries. Some of these
MoUs have to be placed before the
Cabinet post-facto or for information
within a time limit. It now turns out that
not all such information has been
reaching the top office in time.
This year, the Railways has been
signing MoUs with different entities
LIC, National Institute of Design,
University of Mumbai, Ministry of Coal,
Power, Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship and others. It has also
signed MoUs with some states for joint
ventures and, among other countries,
one with the Slovak Republic.
MEANWHILE
RS 11 LAKH AWARD FOR UNANIMOUSLY
ELECTED PANCHAYATS
3 REGION
Haryana government will award Rs 11 lakh each to panchayats that are elected
unanimously during the upcoming panchayat elections in the state. The money
will be used for development of the village.
Punjab cancels tenders for silos, HC issues notice to

lowest bidder Adani disappointed Haryana govt
EWS ADMISSION CRITERIA
THE PUNJAB State Warehousing

Corporation (PWSC) has cancelled tenders for setting up 11
grain silos across the state, leaving Adani Agri Logistics Limited
disappointed as it had offered
the lowest bids in most of the
projects.
The corporation has readvertised the tenders, bids of which
would be opened Tuesday. The
reason attributed for cancellation is that the cost was high and
economically unviable for
PWSC.
We are disappointed. We do
not know the reasons behind the
cancellation. But we are trying
hard to prepare a project and bid
for the project in tomorrows

conference, said Puneet
Mehndiratta, General Manager
Adani Agri Logistics.
The Adani Group were the
lowest bidders in three out of
four groups of 11 silos, of 25,000
metric ton capacity each. Now,
PWSC has enhanced the capacity of silos from 37,000 metric
tons to 50,000 metric tons.
Only three months ago,
Punjab Deputy CM Sukhbir
Singh Badal was batting for the
Adani Group to set up the silos,
against the wishes of his brotherin-law, Food Minister Adesh
Pratap Singh Kairon.
At a May 21 cabinet meeting
chaired by Sukhbir neither CM
Badal nor Kairon were present
it was decided to make PSWC
the executing agency, while
PUNGRAIN, which answers to
Kairon, was allowed to go ahead

with the construction of its own
5 lakh tonne capacity silos at ten
places in the State.
The PWSC project, worth Rs
130 crore funded by NABARD
and PWSC on (90:10) basis, was
advertised by the corporation
last month and bids were called
through e-tendering amidst
controversy that the silos were
divided into four groups and the
interested company had to bid
for all the groups.
This prompted some smaller
agri-logistics players to level allegations that the tenders were
tailor-made so as to help only
major agri logistics companies.
These silos, to be constructed
under
Engineering,
Procurement
and
and
Construction (EPC) model, are to
come up in Chheharta, Bhulath,
Chawa Payal, Sangrur, Bathinda

and Ajitwal and create a storage
space of 2.87 lakh metric tons.
Earlier, the silos were advertised
for Nurmehal, Macchiwara,
Mullanpur, Patran, Sirhind and
Jalalabad also.
The silos have to be set up
before the next wheat season.,
said H S Brar, Additional
Managing Director, PWSC.
The company that would set
up the silos would construct it
for the state and operate it for 20
years to recover its cost. The
PWSC would pay them operation and maintenance cost. Later,
these would be handed over to
the state, said sources.
While the tenders under the
EPC model have been recalled,
the PWSC has also readvertised
tenders for 10 more silos in different parts of PPP model.
Chandigarh: The Haryana Police

on Monday registered a case
against Rati Ram, outgoing
sarpanch of Bawana village, and
several others following a complaint from some members of
the scheduled caste community
alleging that they were forced
out from the village they had
been living for several years.
As per the complainants
who belong to the Sapera com-
munity, they were asked to vacate their houses. They also alleged that they were forcibly removed from the site. The
families have shifted to temporary houses on the outskirts of
Mahendragarh.
Police have registered a case
under Sections 147, 149, 323,
379 and 427 of the IPC and
Section 3 of SC/ST Act against
the outgoing sarpanch who also
belongs to the community and

around 15 other persons from
the village.
A panchayat was held in the
village on Monday evening
where it was decided that the
villagers will for the medical examination of those who allege
that they were beaten up.
When the members of the
Sapera community started construction on panchayat land, the
former sarpanch moved the

court against this in 2006. They
lost the case and appealed to the
DC. They lost there as well, Rati
ram said
He adds that the complainants were not forcibly vacated. They were asked to vacate the land, which they did.
Now some outsiders are raking
up the issue, he said.
KANCHAN VASDEV
Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Prem

Kumar Dhumal with other BJP MLAs walk out from the
Vidhan Sabha in Shimla on Monday. Lalit Kumar
HIMACHAL PRADESH
ED officers
repatriation: Sarpanch accused of forcible eviction
BJP walks out
ASHWANI SHARMA
SHIMLA, AUGUST 24
THE OPPOSITION BJP Monday
disrupted proceedings in the
Assembly and staged a walkout
over its demand for a discussion
on the state governments move
seeking recall of a police officer
who is on deputation with
the Enforcement Directorate
(ED).
The officer, Bhupender Singh
Negi, was handling investigations in a money laundering
case against the Chief Ministers
principal private secretary,
Subhash Ahluwalia.
The Indian Express had on
August 23 reported about the
state government seeking
Ahluwalias repatriation from
the Centre.
Earlier in the day, the BJP had
moved an adjournment motion
on the issue.
Disallowing the Opposition,
Speaker B B L Butail said he
cannot allow discussion on a
subject that was not under the
consideration of the House and
that the state governments response was also awaited in the
matter.
I have sent the notice for the
motion for adjournment to the
government. Once I get the reply, I will consider the issue for
allowing the discussion, the
Speaker told the enraged
Opposition.
However, his persistent
pleas to calm the BJP MLAs, who
had started shouting slogans
against Chief Minister Virbhadra
Singh, fell on deaf ears even as
he threatened action.
Minutes after the House assembled this morning, BJPs
chief whip Suresh Bhardwaj
tried to press an adjournment
motion, which, he along with
Ravinder Singh Ravi, had submitted earlier in the day to seek
suspension of the Question
Hour and discuss a matter of
grave concern.
There were also strong reactions from the ruling party
members led by Minister for
Parliamentary Affairs Mukesh

Agnihotri, who opposed any
discussion on the matter, and
maintained that only the listed
businesses should be taken up
and not the extraneous issues.
The House continued to witness noisy scenes even as the
Speaker decided to proceed
with the Question Hour despite
the Opposition refusing to relent.
All the remarks made in the
House by the BJP members
were expunged by the Speaker.
Butail ruled that he cannot
be forced to agree to a discussion on the adjournment motion, which is against the rules.
The BJP members, including
leader of Opposition Prem
Kumar Dhumal, were on their
feet seeking a discussion. They
later staged a walkout .
Dhumal accuses govt

of influencing probe
Outside the Assembly, Prem
Kumar Dhumal accused the
Congress government of trying
to influence the ED investigations against Chief Ministers
private secretary, first by threatening the officer who was called
to the CMs officer, and later
seeking his repatriation to the
state .
Ravinder Singh Ravi, who
had moved the adjournment
motion, contested the governments claim on shortage of additional SP-rank officers, asserting that out of total 34, only two
are on deputation while the rest
have postings.
Why cannot the government recall six additional SPs
currently posted in the state vigilance without posts if there
is a shortage in the field ? he
asked.
The Chief Minister, when approached by the mediapersons,
denied having ever called the
Bhupinder Singh Negi to his office and accused him of making
unnecessary accusations that he
was being threatened.
He
contested
the
Oppositions accusations as
well.
Bail plea of
Punjabi
University
sports director
turned down
Chandigarh: The court of f
Additional Sessions Judge Naval
Kumar in Patiala on Monday
turned down the bail plea of
Punjabi University sports director Dr Raj Kumar who was
booked in a case of cheating on
August 13 for allegedly attaching
forged copies of two sports
certificates while applying for
the post of sports director at the
university.
The bail application was
moved by Dr Kumars counsel on
Monday.
The case under sections 420,
467, 468 and 471 of the Indian
Penal Code was registered
against Kumar at Patiala Urban
Estate Police Station.
The case was registered on
the complaint of universitys retired joint secretary Dr
Bhupinder Singh, who alleged
that the certificates forged and
attached by Kumar while applying for the post of sports director
were originally of Narinder
Singh and Surinder Singh Bhatia,
who had bagged first and second
positions in hammer throw, respectively, while playing in two
competitions in 1975-76 and
1977-78, respectively.
The complainant alleged that
while applying for the post of
lecturer through PPSC, Kumar
had attached an attested copy of
a certificate as per which he secured first position in hammer
throw while playing for
Government College Nabha in
1975-76.
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Hooda to protest against

govt policies on Aug 28
FORMER HARYANA Chief
Minister B S Hooda will protest
against the BJP governments decision to require candidates to
have minimum education qualification to contest panchayat
elections. The protests will be
held in Yamunanagar and
Naraingarh on August 28.
The government could have
imposed the conditions in the
next elections. Already 5 lakh
forms for filing nominations had
been printed. A huge population
is being deprived of their right to
contest. I had said that someone
will go to court against this and
the matter will be delayed. There
is no condition for elections for
MPs and MLAs. The BJP should
first seek resignations of their
Former Haryana CM
Bhupinder Singh Hooda
addresses a conference in
Chandigarh on Monday.
Jaipal Singh
own MLAs who are not educated, said Hooda.

Hooda said in rural Haryana,
around 70 per cent of people in
the general category studied below Class X and XII. He accused
the government of imposing the
conditions and ignoring ground
realities. Hooda said the government should fulfill its election
promise of giving Rs 2,000 as

pension to widows, the physically challenged and the elderly.
They should have the right to
decide whether they want to receive the amount directly to
their bank account or in hand,
he said. He claimed that new
beneficiaries have not been
added to the list since the new
government came to power.
He also pointed that the price
of fuel has not dropped despite
international crude oil prices
having fallen.
Hooda gave the government
time till August 31 to fulfill the
demands he has put forth for the
people of the state. He warned
of intensifying the agitation
against the state government if
these demands were not met.
He said his party would raise
these issues during the Assembly session that will start from
September 2.
ENS

Court has issued notice regarding stay to the Haryana government on its circular issued on
August 12 with regard to the
mechanism of admission to be
adopted in private unaided
recognised schools to admit 10
per cent Economically Weaker
Section (EWS) children from
Class II to VIII as per Section 134A of the Haryana Education
Rules, 2003.
Directions came from the division bench comprising Justices
Hemant Gupta and Raj Rahul
Garg on a petition filed by
Federation of Private Schools
Welfare Association, Haryana.
Appearing for the petitioner, advocate Pankaj Maini had alleged
that the admission criteria
adopted by the Haryana education department was faulty and
in case it is allowed to continue,
it would hamper the legitimate
interest of the Federation.
The court was informed that
the there were two contradictory judgments of the two division benches of the High Court
in two different cases on the
same subject with respect to reimbursement of fees to the private schools.
The state government vide its
Private unaided
schools were required
to fill 10% seats from
classes II to VIII with
EWS students
circulated dated August 12, under challenge, had constituted
block level committees for the
purpose of admissions and as
per the schedule draw of lots for
admissions to various schools
were to start from August 14 to
August 28.
The government had made it
clear to all the private unaided
schools that if they fail to admit
10 per cent EWS students from
Class II to VIII under the provisions of Section 134-A of the
Haryana School Education Rules,
2003, their affiliation would be
cancelled.
The High Court had, in April,
ruled that private unaided
schools in Haryana would have
to admit 25 per cent meritorious
students belonging to EWS in
Class I and pre-school education,
wherever provided, as per RTE
Act, 2009.
However, 10 per cent EWS
students would be admitted in
all classes from II to VIII as per
Section 134-A of the Haryana
School Education Rules, 2003.
The case would now come
up for hearing on October 20.
MEANWHILE
FARMERS BEGIN 5-DAY STIR
4 PUNJAB
DHURI POLICE FIRING
Members of the Bharati Kisan Union on Monday started a fiveday dharna against farmer suicides in the state outside DC offices in many districts of Punjab. They blamed the state government for not helping farmers during the agrarian crisis.
ARREST OF KAMAL SHARMAS FORMER PA
Cops blame unarmed Calls for BJP chiefs resignation

youths, say they
grow, even from within party
admitted to mistake
NAVJEEVAN GOPAL
RAAKHI JAGGA
LUDHIANA, AUGUST 24
THE SANGRUR Police on Monday
said the case, relating to six of its
personnel having fired at two unarmed men, had been closed and
appeared to blame the duo for
the incident.
The youths admitted their
mistake. Had they initially
stopped at the police naka, there
would have been no confusion.
The chase started when they
didnt stop their car. We admit
that our personnel fired on the
wrong people but the case
stands closed. The families said
that they dont want any further
action, SSP Sangrur Pritpal
Singh Thind said on Monday.
One victim, Sunil Kaushal,
still admitted at the DMCH in
Ludhiana, denied the SSPs
claims. Police from Dhuri came
to take our statements on
Sunday night and we clearly
told them that the six policemen fired at us. We want justice.
Police are forcing us to compromise and are offering to foot our
medical expenses but we refused. Tomorrow this could
happen to someone else,
Kaushal said.
The brothers, who were
Satinder Sharma, one of the

youths injured in the
incident. Gurmeet Singh
rushed to Ludhianas DMCH,
were adamant at tough action
against the offending policemen
but the Sangrur police appeared
to be working towards a compromise from the very first day.
Despite Kaushals statements, Thind insisted that the
family wanted the case closed.
The family has compromised. It
was a misunderstanding from
both sides , Thind said.
The incident occurred on the
night of August 18 when six staff
of the Crime Investigation
Agency (CIA) at the Bahadurgarh
police station opened fire on a
white Ford Figo which was being driven by brothers Surinder
Sharma and Sunil Kaushal.
Police claimed they had mistaken the car to be of gangster
Ghudda whom they had been

chasing.
While Sunil had sustained an
injury on his arm during the incident, Surinder sustained injuries after allegedly being assaulted by the policemen.
The closure of the case, however, leaves a number of unanswered questions.
The polices new claim, that
the two refused to stop at the
naka, sits at odds with their theory that they had been chasing
the gangster before mistaking
cars during the chase. Police had
earlier stated that Ghudda had
shot at a head constable manning a naka, which they claimed
had prompted the chase in the
first place. They now claim that
the two brothers had also refused to stop at a naka.
Moreover, the identity of the
offending six CIA staff is still unknown.
While they had been booked
on attempt to murder charges,
they were never named in the
FIR. While the Sangrur SSP admitted that police had fired on
the wrong people, no probe has
also been ordered on the actions
of the six police personnel.
The SSP, meanwhile, appealed to the city residents to
stop at nakas set up by police so
that police could do their duty.
Bihar needed aid

package more
than Punjab
Ludhiana: Union Minister Ram
Shankar Katheria on Monday
called the economic package announced by the Prime Minister
for Bihar as a need-of-the-hour
measure. Bihar cannot be compared with Punjab. Bihars needs
are different from Punjab and
hence an economic package was
a must for the state which is reeling under poverty and needs robust development, Katheria said,
while addressing BJP workers
outside the mini secretariat in
Ludhiana. The PM had announced a Rs 1.25 crore package
for the poll-bound state. When it
was pointed out that the BJP had
made similar statements in the
past, the minister said: Some improvements had been witnessed
but Bihar is again going backwards. So the economic package
came at the right time. ENS
TWO DAYS after the arrest of his

former assistant for alleged corruption, the chorus for Punjab
BJP president Kamal Sharmas
resignation continued to grow
on Monday, not just in the
Congress and AAP but also from
within the BJP and the Akali Dal.
Jaspal Singh Jimmy Sandhu,
Sharmas former assistant, was
arrested in a bribery and corruption case on Saturday. Sandhu is
alleged to have accepted lakhs of
rupees promising to influence
the police to drop cases against
the accused.
Kamal Sharma should resign. He never stood for any BJP
worker. I needed to make numerous calls to speak to him.
Jimmy used to answer his phone
and at times it took four attempts to reach him, said BJP
Chief Parliamentary Secretary
Navjot Kaur Sidhu. She added
that said it was Sharma who
misled Arun Jaitley regarding
contesting from Amritsar during
the Lok Sabha elections. I raised
a number of issues relating to my
constituency and requested him
to take those up with SAD but he
never did. With this case, it is
now clear as to why he did not
want to confront SAD, Sidhu
said. Sharma should also come
clear on how he went on to become a crorepati from a person
who only had a scooter, she
added.
While Sharma has maintained that it was he who blew
the lid off the scam by reveal-
BJP state chief Kamal Sharma(right) with Ram Shankar Katheria (left) at a dharna in Ludhiana. Gurmeet Singh
ing it at a press conference even
before a case was registered,
state Congress president Partap
Singh Bajwa and the Aam Aadmi
Partys Punjab convenor Sucha
Singh Chhotepur laid the blame
squarely at the state BJP presidents door.Kamal Sharma
should have resigned by now. He
was among those who sought
the resignation of Akali Minister
Bikram Singh Majithia when the
inquiry was under way in the
drug racket case. Kamal Sharma
should practice what he
preaches. He should resign now
when the inquiry is on in the
case involving his former PA,
Bajwa said.
AAP Punjab convenor Sucha

Singh Chhotepur, while demanding a CBI probe into the
case, also said Sharma should
step down. SAD and BJP are
chips of the same block and this
case has proven that beyond any
doubt, Chhotepur said.
Not everyone, however, is
gunning for Sharmas ouster. The
BJP national secretary from
Punjab Tarun Chugh said there
was no reason for Sharma to resign. He did not shield the accused and when his former PA
allegedly committed the wrongdoing, he no longer worked with
Sharma, Chugh said.
Once the blue-eyed boy of
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash

Singh Badal, Kamal Sharma was
among the Punjab BJP leaders
who gradually began asserting
themselves after the Modi government came to power.
When Jaitley is understood
to have conveyed his displeasure
at the BJP playing second fiddle
to SAD, following the disastrous
poll campaign in Amritsar, the
saffron partys leadership took to
aggressive posturing with its alliance partner. Such was the
turnaround that Sharma went
on to publically demand the resignation of powerful Akali minister Bikram Singh Majithia, the
brother-in-law of Deputy Chief
Minister Sukhbir Badal and

brother of Union Minister
Harsimrat Kaur Badal.
With the way events have
unfolded in last few days,
Sharma finds himself at the receiving. Kamal Sharma used to
seek resignations at the drop of a
hat. Going by those standards, he
too should resign now, said SAD
chief parliamentary secretary
Virsa Singh Valtoha. But, I want
to add that it is never a good idea
to level baseless allegations
against those who are not guilty.
Sharma, ironically, had been doing that. Now, he is getting a taste
of his own medicine, said
Valtoha.
BJP protests LS washout, blames Cong for disruption

KAMALDEEP SINGH BRAR
AMRITSAR, AUGUST 24
PERSONAL attacks, references to
Nehru and Pakistan were the order of the day as the BJP took on
the Congress over the washout
of Parliaments monsoon session, in Amritsar on Monday.
At a dharna in the holy citys
Bhandari Bridge, Union Minister
Vijay Sampla, the main speaker
at the protest, said the Congress
was more dangerous than
Pakistan as he blamed the opposition for the disruption. The
Congress is a threat to the nation
from the inside. Its 44 MPs want
to stop the development of the
nation. The Congress is more dangerous than Pakistan in many

ways, Sampla told the gathering.
He took a dig at the NehruGandhi family before making a
personal attack on the Amritsar
MP, the Congress Captain
Amarinder Singh. We do not
know where Captain was during
the Monsoon Session. Maybe he
was with his friend from
Pakistan. We counted only 43
Congress MPs in Parliament as
Captain, despite being the
partys deputy leader in the Lok
Sabha, was absent for unknown
reasons, Sampla said.
Speaking before Sampla, the
BJPs MP from Jammu Jugal
Kishore Sharma slammed the
Nehru-Gandhi family for the im-
passe in Parliament. The NehruGandhi family has always

worked for their personal gain by
harming national interests. The
story of the Gandhi familys betrayal dates back to 1947 when
Jawaharlal Nehru had forced partition of India and Pakistan. The
Congress has once again been
successful in its policy to disrupt
parliament during monsoon session by going against national interests, Jugal said.
There were, however, more
leaders than workers at the BJP
dharna.
At the BJP protest in

Amritsar on Monday.
Rana Simranjit Singh
Bajwa loyalist Brar joins Capt camp SAPNA to distribute

FOR THE LOVE ONIONS
KANCHAN VASDEV
THE BITTER internal Congress
feud between state president
Partap Singh Bajwa and his predecessor Capt Amarinder Singh
witnessed another development
as Bajwa loyalist and former
Punjab minister Darshan Singh
Brar switched loyalties and
joined the Amarinder camp.
Brar, the former MLA from
Bagha Purana, had been tasked
with preparations for a Bajwa
rally on September 9 but he has
announced that the rally would
Darshan Singh Brar has

announced that the
September 9 rally
would be addressed by
Captain Amarinder
instead of Bajwa
be addressed by Amarinder instead.

His sudden shift of loyalty
should come as a setback for the
Congress president.
Darshan Brar, it is learnt, is
upset with Bajwa as his son,
Kamaljit Singh Brar, failed to get

the latters support during the
Punjab Youth Congress elections. Kamaljit Singh Brar had
contested for the post of general
secretary.
Bajwas staying away from
the poll appear to have left the
Brars disappointed. They were
won over by certain MLAs close
to Captain.
I have not done anything. I
just observed the public sentiment. People want Capt and
not Bajwa. Hence I told my people in Bagha Purana that we
will organise the show for
Amarinder. CLP leader Sunil
Jakhar and others also have
been invited, Brar said.

He added that he was willing
to invite Bajwa for the event:
But I am sure he would not
come with Amarinder being
there. I got a call from him also
yesterday.
Brar, who was seated with
Bajwa on Wednesday, when the
latter addressed a press conference to announce his protest
against sugar mills, surprised
everybody when he sat next to
Amarinder during his dharna on
Friday.
The former minister had always been with Bajwa even
when most of the others
switched their loyalties.
CM seeks Centre help to

deal with agrarian crisis
MALAUD (LUDHIANA),
AUGUST 24
CHIEF MINISTER Parkash Singh
Badal has appealed for the
Centres help in finding a solution to the agrarian crisis that has
gripped Punjab. According to the
National Crime Records Bureau,
24 farmers had committed suicide last year.
The chief ministers statements came on a day when
thousands of farmers began a
five-day long dharna against
farmer suicides in the state.
Badal also blamed the
Congress for the grim state of affairs. He said that successive
Congress governments at the
Centre had made the issue a central subject when agriculture is
actually a state subject.

He supported this statement
by claiming that the Centre now
fixed the minimum support
price (MSP), prices of diesel, pesticides, insecticides and other
agriculture inputs. The state controls only electricity supply for
tubewells for which the Punjab
government is paying more than
Rs 6,000 in subsidy.
To a question on using the
Swaminathan formula for fixing
price of agricultural produce, the
Chief Minister said that he has
been demanding the same for a
long time and has always advocated this formula, but its the
Centre which has to take the final call in this regard.
The chief minister was
speaking to the media after laying the foundation stone of the
Shaheed Baba Maharaj Singh
ITI.
high-yield seeds
from next season
DIVYA GOYAL
LUDHIANA, AUGUST 24
A PUNJAB farmers group is doing what the Punjab Agricultural
University couldnt distributing high-yield onion seeds to ensure that the gap between demand and production of onions
is reduced in the next season.
Onion stocks in the country
have been hit due to unseasonal
rain and hailstorms, raising
prices.
The Seeds and Nursery
Producers Association (SAPNA)
has taken it upon itself to market and strengthen PAUs onion
variety, the PB Naroya, which
gives a yield of 150 quintal per
acre.
Speaking to The Indian
Express, P S Pangli, founder and
president of the association said,
PAU has its own infrastructure
and they provide us with technical knowledge. But still, marketing of seeds is lagging.
Farmers do not get to know
about pure and good quality
seeds available with the PAU.
And even if they know, PAU lacks
in production facility. For instance, only 200 of 2000 farmers get the seeds during the
kisan mela due to low production. We are reducing this gap
and urging farmers not to use
duplicate seeds of private firms.
SAPNA members reproduce
seeds and distribute among fel-
low farmers who further reproduce and give seeds to their fellows. Currently, SAPNA has 137
members.
On Monday, SAPNA submitted an application to director of
research at the university and
reserved 150 kgs of seed of PBNaroya. They plan to double the
quantity and distribute it to
farmers for the upcoming season in November. Last year,
SAPNA distributed 80kg of
onion seeds.
The onion seeds varieties
from outside Punjab like Nashik
record sale of Rs 3 crore in
Punjab and farmers suffer losses
because they are not suitable to
our climate. They are available
for Rs 800 to 2000 per kg but
with a yield less than 100 quintal per acre, it is not acceptable.
Their storage quality is zero with
smaller onion size and weight
loss problem if stored. We want
farmers to use PAU recommended varieties only and save
themselves from losses, said
Pangli.
Onion prices have rocketed
because there is shortage of produce. Had farmers been more
aware and grown varieties suitable to our climate producing
more yield, we might have
avoided this situation, said
Pangli. Apart from onions,
SAPNA is working for basmati,
wheat, barley, mustard, fodder
seed varieties and also provides
PAU recommended varieties for
chillies and tomatoes.
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Despite ban, Pune doc Jains protest against Santhara order

readies for Santhara
MILIND GHATWAI AND
MAHIM PRATAP SINGH
BHOPAL, JAIPUR, AUGUST 24
ANURADHA
MASCARENHAS
PUNE, AUGUST 24
JAINS MARCHED in hundreds
Monday to the office of the
District Collector in Pune against
the Rajasthan High Court order
banning the communitys practice of facing death voluntarily
at the end of ones life. But a 71year-old Jain physician remained unperturbed, preparing
for Iccha Maran just like the
beautiful death of his father 19
years ago.
Kalyan Gangwal, consulting
physician at the KEM Hospital, is
firm on taking up Sallekhana aka
Santhara aka Samadhi Maran.
He even made a will six months
ago.
I do not have any terminal
illness, but I have informed my
family members that I am
preparing myself to eventually
take up Sallekhana, Gangwal
told The Indian Express.
Father Motilal had gone the
same way he practised
Sallekhana for 12 years before
dying at the age of 94. Gangwal
says that even as a doctor, he
We have a right to die with

dignity: Dr Kalyan Gangwal
found his fathers death beautiful.
My father slowly gave up
consumption of ghee, salt. In his
last seven days, he had only water. He eventually died, in a fully
conscious state in March 1996.
This is Iccha Maran. He had
hoped to die on the auspicious
occasion of Gudi Padwa (the
Maharashtrian New Year) and
he did. All of us are so proud of
him.
Gangwal said history will be
repeated in his case.
My sons urged me to reconsider my decision, but I am firm.
This is my decision. Sallekhana
MAHARASHTRA
Govt to acquire
Ambedkar house
MUMBAI, AUGUST 24
THE MAHARASHTRA government Monday said it will acquire
a 2,050 sq ft three-storey bungalow in London where BR
Ambedkar lived in 1921-22,
within 15 days .
The government said it wants
to transform the house, located
on King Henrys Road, London, ,
into a memorial.
Emphasising that the
Maharashtra government was
committed to buying the house,
CM Devendra Fadnavis said, We
have sent the confirmation letter
and money has been released for
the purchase, though there were
some issues since it related to
purchase of property overseas.
The government, which initiated the process of acquiring the
property in 2014, has been ac-
CBI must
probe all
Vyapam
cases: SC
THE SUPREME Court on
Monday said that all cases related to Madhya Pradeshs
Vyapam scam would have to be
taken over by the CBI, including
cases where investigations are
over or trial courts have delivered
the
final judgment.
All cases have to go to the
CBI now even if the investigations are complete and
chargesheets are filed. Even
where orders of acquittals have
been passed by trial courts, you
(CBI) will have to read the judgment and see the reasons.
People have faith in you. Even
the state government has reposed its faith in you, a bench
led by Chief Justice of India H L
Dattu told Solicitor General
Ranjit Kumar, who appeared for
the agency.
The clarification came after
Attorney General Mukul
Rohatgi, representing the
Madhya Pradesh government,
asked the bench to explain
whether the CBI also had to
take over cases in which
chargesheets had been filed by
the state police.
Allowing CBIs plea, the
bench, also comprising Justices
Kurian Joseph and Amitava Roy,
gave it three weeks to take over
all the cases and to appoint public prosecutors.
In the meantime, the state
government will continue prosecuting these cases.
Citing the number of cases
now 212 Kumar complained
about lack of manpower and
said there were around 800 vacancies in the agency.
cused of delaying the process by

Congress and NCP leaders in the
state. Opposition leader
Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil said, If
the government has no money,
we will buy the London house.
Dismissing the allegations,
state minister for social justice
Rajesh Badole said, There is
nothing like last day of striking a
deal for the property. There have
been some delay with the purchase. But the process will be
completed in a fortnight.
After the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Fadnavis, who was then the
state BJP president, had discussed
the issue of Ambedkars London
house. The prime minister gave
his nod but formal negotiations
began only after October 31, 2014,
when Fadnavis took charge as the
Maharashtra chief minister.
The government's attention
to the property had been drawn
by Federation of Ambedkarities
and Buddhist Organisation.
is not an exercise in trying to

achieve an unnatural death.
Sallekhana or Santhara is allowed only when a person is suffering from incurable disease or
great disability or when a person is nearing his end. This is a
highly respected practice among
members of the Jain community
and is intrinsic to a persons ethical choice to live with dignity
until death, he said.
Gangwal has a simple meal
once a day he does not eat
onions and has stopped drinking water after sunset.
I am still active. I go to hospital and attend to patients at my
clinic. It is not that I am inviting
death to my doorstep. But even if
I reach the age of 80, I want
death to be beautiful. I have told
my children to take me to
Gajpantha caves near the Jain
temple at Nashik where I will
eventually leave my body, he
said.
My child, my wife have
nothing to do with my soul. If we
have a right to live, then we have
a right to die with dignity. This is
our religious practice, our spiritual philosophy. Law should not
hurt the sentiments of the community, he said.
Alemao denied
bail in graft case
RASHMI RAJPUT
MUMBAI, AUGUST 21
A SPECIAL court in Goa rejected
the bail application filed by former PWD Minister Churchill
Alemao Monday. Alemao was
arrested by Goa police on August
6 for his alleged involvement in
the Louis Berger bribery case.
On July 21, the Crime Branch
had registered an FIR against unknown ministers in the then
Congress government and company officials. Besides Alemao,
former Goa CM Digambar
Kamat is also under the scanner.
The district court had earlier
granted anticipatory bail to
Kamat. Alemao, who moved the
bail plea last week, argued that
there should be parity in justice
as he was facing the same
charges. Alemao is booked under IPC section 120-B (criminal
conspiracy) and sections of the
Prevention of Corruption Act in
connection with the case.
THE JAIN community Monday

held protest marches in
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh,
Gujarat, Maharashtra and Delhi
against the Rajasthan HC order
declaring the practice of
Santhara illegal. Criticising the
judiciary for its ignorance, they
asked judges to consult religious
heads before passing such verdicts.
Setting aside their inter-denominational differences, community members gathered in
large numbers and submitted
memoranda demanding revocation of the judgment.
Religious heads, community
leaders and politicians slammed
the August 10 judgment, which
had called the practice suicide
and said those undertaking and
encouraging the practice should
be punished for attempted suicide and abetment to suicide.
Santhara or fast unto death is
not an essential tenet of Jainism,
the high court had said.
Neemuch.
Our protest is not against the
government but the judiciary,
said RSS activist Kantilal Chhatar,
who said he attended the protest
in his capacity as a Shwetambar.
Who are you to decide religious
matters? Chhatar said, adding
lack of knowledge was responsible for the verdict.
Ajit Sagar Maharaj threatened
to bring the economy to a halt by
shutting down businesses.
Acharya Vivek Sagar Maharaj
said Santhara was a soul-purifying exercise. He demanded a separate law for Jains. Some speakers made a distinction between
Jainism and Hinduism, demanding that Jains and their issues be
treated separately.
IN RAJASTHAN: A silent rally of

about 1 lakh people was organised in Jaipur. The Dharma
Bachao Andolan rally was called
by Sakal Jain Samaj, and backed
by VHP, Bajrang Dal and other
outfits. Commercial establishments including schools and
colleges run by members of
the Jain community were closed.
Children of the community boycotted schools and some government officials did not go to work.
MADHYA PRADESH: Protests

were held in Bhopal, Indore,
Jabalpur, Gwalior, Guna,
Shivpuri, Ashoknagar, Betul,
Sironj, Ratlam, Mandsaur and
IN GUJARAT: Thousands of Jains

took part in a protest march in
Surat. They went up to the collectors office to give their repre-
sentation.
The rally was not attended by
any Jain monks, though leaders
of the community were present.
They included standing committee chairman of Surat Municipal
Corporation Nirav Shah.
Vadodara saw a silent protest
with placards saying Santhara
is not suicide. They submitted a
memorandum to the district collector against the HC order.
IN MAHARASHTRA: Protests
were held at Mumbai,

Aurangabad and Nashik. Several
shops and businesses were
closed. The protests affected the
onion markets in Nashik district.
IN DELHI: Religious head of all

Jain sects congregated at Jantar
Mantar to participate in a similar protest.
WITH INPUTS FROM ENS

AHMEDABAD/PTI
A Jain protest in Jaipur. Rohit

Jain Paras
6 EXPRESS NETWORK
Suspend all trials against marines: UN tribunal to India, Italy

on Italys request for provisional
measures in the case and Indias
arguments against it.
The ITLOS directed the countries to refrain from initiating
new court proceedings which
might aggravate or extend the
dispute submitted to the Annex
VII arbitral tribunal or might
jeopardise or prejudice the carrying out of any decision which
the arbitral tribunal may render.
The tribunal also decided that
both countries would submit an
initial compliance report by
September 24, and authorised its
president to request such information from the two parties as he
may consider appropriate. In effect, with status quo prevailing in
the matter, India will not have to
give in to Italys demand for lifting restrictions on Italian Sergeant
Salvatore Girone to allow him to
SAGNIK CHOWDHURY
THE INTERNATIONAL Tribunal
for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in
Hamburg, hearing the case of
two Italian marines accused of
killing two Indian fishermen off
the Kerala coast in February
2012, on Monday directed, as
part of provisional measures,
that both Italy and India shall
suspend all court proceedings
relating to the matter.
While a final decision on
which country can exercise jurisdiction over the marines is yet
to be taken by an Annex VII
Arbitral Tribunal under the
United Nations Convention on
Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the ITLOS was, meanwhile, deciding
WILL ABIDE BY ORDER: MEA

STATING THAT India would abide by the tribunals order,
Sergeants Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre. Archive

travel to Italy and remain there
throughout the proceedings before the Annex VII Tribunal.
The 21-member ITLOS issued the order with 15 in favour
and six against. Among those
who dissented were the tribunals vice-president Boualem
Bouguetaia and member
5 injured in J&K clash over harassment

jured after clashes erupted between security forces and protesters over a case of a womans
harassment by a J&K policeman
in South Kashmirs Pulwama
district on Monday. Residents alleged that a constable of the J-K
ADIL AKHZER
SRINAGAR, AUGUST 24
FIVE PERSONS, including a senior J&K police officer, were in-
polices counter insurgency

group had harassed a girl at
Rajpora Chowk in Pulwama
around 3pm. Pulwama SP Tejinder Singh said the cop has been
placed under suspension and a
case registered against him.
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Officer Incharge (HPD),
P.G.I.M.E.R., Chandigarh.
P Chandrasekhara Rao. Rao, who

served as the tribunals president
from 1999 to 2002, dissented
against any sort of provisional
measures being passed.
The record in this case shows
that there is absolutely no real
and imminent risk that irreparable prejudice will be caused to
Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup said:

...Italy had approached the tribunal for two provisional measures: that India should refrain from taking or enforcing any judicial or administrative measures against the two Italian marines
and from exercising any form of jurisdiction over the incident;
and for the return of Sgt Girone to Italy and continued stay of Sgt
Latorre in Italy...
He said: ...It is clear that the tribunal did not consider the two
provisional measures sought by Italy to be appropriate as that
would have pre-judged the merits of the case and would not have
equally preserved the rights of both parties...
Italys rights before the Annex VII
arbitral tribunal would be able to
deal with the case. In view of the
above, there is no urgency such
as that required to justify the exercise of the power to prescribe
provisional measures, Rao
wrote in his dissenting opinion.

Though it appears that the
measure prescribed by the tribunal is addressed to both parties, it is actually addressed only
to India. The measure prescribed
by the tribunal in this case is en-
tirely one-sided and is not wellfounded in law, Rao opined.

As provisional measures,
Italy had asked ITLOS to precribe
that India refrain from taking or
enforcing any judicial or administrative measures against
Sergeants Massimiliano Latorre
and Girone in connection with
the firing, and from exercising
any other form of jurisdiction.
It also wanted the tribunal to
direct that India shall take all
measures necessary to ensure
that restrictions on the liberty,
security and movement of the
marines be immediately lifted to
enable Sergeant Girone to travel
and remain in Italy and Sergeant
Latorre to remain in Italy
throughout the duration of the
proceedings...
Countering these demands,
India had asked ITLOS to reject
the submissions made by the

Republic of Italy for the prescription of provisional measures and
refuse prescription of any provisional measures in the case.
The ITLOS order states that
since it will be for the Annex VII
Tribunal to adjudicate the merits
of the case, the tribunal does not
consider it appropriate to prescribe provisional measures...because that touches upon issues
related to the merits of the case.
Placing the arguments from
both countries, the ITLOS order
stated: Considering that the first
and second submissions by Italy,
if accepted, will not equally preserve the respective rights ofboth
parties until the constitution of
the Annex VII arbitral tribunal...
the tribunal does not consider
the two submissions by Italy to
be appropriate.
MLA among 5 killed as truck hits train

Brakes of speeding truck failed and crashed into first class AC coach of Bengaluru-Nanded Express
SANTOSH KUMAR R B
PENUKONDA (ANDHRA
PRADESH), AUGUST 24
FIVE PERSONS, including
Congress MLA A Venkateshnaik
(82), were killed when a graniteladen truck crashed into the
Bengaluru-Nanded Express
around 1.10 am on Monday at a
level crossing in the Anantapur
district of Andhra Pradesh.
Police said four of the victims,
including Naik, were travelling in
a First Class AC compartment,
while the helper on the truck was
the fifth victim. Naik, a four-time
legislator from Devadurga in
Karnataka, was travelling from
Bengaluru to his home district
Raichur. His son B V Nayak is Lok

Sabha MP from Raichur.
The others who died in the
crash have been identified as
Mysore resident Syed Ahmed
(45), who was travelling as an
air-conditioning staff on the
train, E Pullarao (47), a farmer
from Raichur, and TST Raju,
managing director of a private
firm in Bengaluru. The cleaner of
the truck who died in the
mishap was identified as S
Nagaraju, hailing from Yallanur
in Andhra Pradesh. Three persons were injured in the crash
and were treated at a government hospital in Penukonda.
According to South Western
Railway officials, the incident occurred when the truck crashed
through the level crossing gate
ANANTAPUR AGAIN
The mangled remains of the train coach in Anantapur on

Monday. PTI
between Rangepalli and
Penukonda stations and crashed
into the train, causing four bogies to derail.
Anantapur additional SP K
Malyadri said the truck driver
had told them that the vehicles
brakes had failed.
The truck was travelling at a
high speed and the driver said
that he could not stop the vehi-
cle as the brakes had failed. The

truck crashed into the First AC
compartment. The impact was
such that the block of granite the
truck was carrying crushed the
truck cabin, crashed into the
train coach and rolled out from
the other side. It also derailed
two coaches, he said.
Malyadri added: The truck
driver jumped out seconds be-
Mondays accident was the

third major train accident
to occur in Anantapur
district of Andhra Pradesh
in the past three years. It is
also the second serious accident on the BengaluruNanded Express in the past
two years. In December
2013, a fire broke out on
the train late in the night at
Kothacheruvu near Puttaparthi in Anantapur. As
many as 26 passengers
were killed. The district
witnessed another major
train accident in May 2012.
fore the impact and survived. He

is being questioned.
Commissioner for Railway
Safety Sunil Kumar Mittal examined the spot and said that a
thorough investigation would
be conducted to ascertain the
reason behind the crash.
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A SHOP owner and his cousin

have been booked for the murder of a BJP minority leader and
his son here on Saturday.
The politicians two other
sons have also been booked on
attempt to murder charges.
Cross complaints filed by
both parties Sunday revealed
that the murders could be the result of a dispute over installation
of CCTV cameras.
Iliyas Pathan, 50, and Asif, 28,
were shot by two assailants near
their residence on Raiya Road
Saturday. Iliyass eldest son
Akbar (31) suffered stab wounds
while the youngest son Arbaz
was beaten up.
In his complaint to Gandhigram police, Akbar named Abbas
Kachara (21) and Abbass cousin
Sajid Kachara as accused. Abbas
is in hospital while Sajid has
been detained.
Akbar said that his father had
bought space in a building on
Raiya Road 10 years ago. Just below the space bought by Pathan,
Abbas ran a shop that sold seasonal goods.
We installed CCTV cameras.
Abbas suspected that this would
jeopardise his business of selling
illicit liquor from the shop. So
there were disputes, and he attacked my father, he said.
In his cross complaint, Abbas
claimed his family had had disputes with the Pathans since the
latter bought space in the building in 2007.
He alleged that his cousin
Sajid had hatched a conspiracy
against Iliyas.
According to Abbass complaint, he and Sajid went to
Iliyass residence on Saturday
night and attacked them.
Abbas was injured during the
attack while Sajid managed to
flee.
On the basis of Akbars complaint, Gandhigram police
booked Abbas and Sajid for murder and criminal conspiracy.
On the basis of Abbass
complaint, they booked Akbar
and Arbaz for attempt to
murder.
GOVT & POLITICS 7
BIHAR POLLS
BJP second
round of
campaign
from Aug 26
LIZ MATHEW
WITH THE first round of its campaign touching all villages in
Bihar, the BJP is all set to unleash
the next round from August 26
focussing on the partys agenda
for the state.
BJP leadership claimed that
the partys social engineering
strategy, rolled out during the
first phase, was a huge success
with 25-30 per cent of the voters,
as per party estimates, willing to
rise above caste criteria in their
voting preferences.
According to a senior leader,
the JD(U)-RJD alliance was the
main issue for the BJP in the
Bihar elections. Development,
law and order, shortage of power
and jungle raj all these issues
come within it, said the leader.
He added the BJPs campaign
machinery would go to town
with Prime Minister Narendra
Modis Rs 1.65 lakh crore Bihar
package to highlight the NDAs
agenda for the state.
We will convey to the people that BJP is best for the state.
We will also tell the voters that
Nitish has accepted Lalu Prasad,
against whom he was fighting,
for power, but the loser in this
game will be Bihar, he said.
BJP sources said that the first
round of their strategy, prepared
by Amit Shah, had reached
43,000 villages where partys
posters and banners were already visible. Meanwhile, BJP
sources denied that seat sharing
among the NDA allies would be
a tough task. While two key allies RLSP and LJP suggested
that seat-sharing arrangement
be finalised within a week with
BJP leaving 142 seats for its allies,
the BJP said the seat-sharing
would be completed only after
announcement of election dates.
All proposed eco-sensitive zones to be cleared by March

DAYS AFTER notifying an ecological sensitive zone (ESZ) around
the Okhla bird sanctuary in
Noida, Environment Minister
Prakash Javadekar today promised to finalise all the pending
proposals for demarcation of
ESZs around protected areas
445 proposals in all by March
next year.
Javadekar claimed that he
had already approved 176 of
these proposals since taking of-
fice. While 32 of these been notified and are operational, the

others are in the process of being notified.
There are 624 wildlife areas
in the country which are designated as protected areas. These
include national parks, bird parks
and wildlife sanctuaries. There is
a proposal to notify an ESZ
around each of them. Human activities in ESZs are restricted and
regulated, so that the negative
impact of such activities on the
fragile ecosystem within the protected areas is minimised.
Javadekar said after much
prodding from the Centre, the
Environment Minister
Prakash Javadekar (in
pic) said he had already
approved 176 of these
proposals. Around 32
of these have been
notified
state governments had put forward 445 proposals for demarcation of ESZs around protected
areas 100 proposals came
from Andaman and Nicobar
Islands alone. I have already

cleared 176 of these in the last
eight months. There is a process
to be followed after the approval
is granted. A draft notification is
put in public domain for comments and suggestions, and after a stipulated time these suggestions are incorporated into
the draft notification. A final notification is then issued after
which the ESZ comes into being.
I am very happy to note that out
of the 176 ESZ proposals that
have been approved, 32 have already been notified. Draft notifications for another 31 are out
in the public domain. We would
soon be issuing draft notifications for the remaining,
Javadekar said.
By March 21, 2015, all the remaining proposals (of the 445
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submitted by the state governments) will be processed and approved so that there is no confusion in the country in the name
of ESZs. There will be full clarity,
he said.
When the ESZs were originally proposed in 2002, it was
suggested that all areas within a
10 km radius of a protected area
should be declared an eco-sensitive zone. However, the National
Board on Wildlife had, in 2005,
recommended that the delineation of ESZs should actually be
site-specific. But the Supreme
Court had ruled in 2006 that till
the exact boundaries of the ESZ
were decided, a 10-km radius

around the protected area would
continue to be treated as an ESZ.
Currently, there is a lot of
confusion about what kind of activities will be allowed and till
what distance from the protected
area. We are working overtime to
reduce this uncertainty. And we
are doing it with due diligence in
a very scientific manner with extra teams and in full consultations with the state governments.
We will ensure that the wildlife
areas are protected and development works are allowed to continue without any hindrance,
Javadekar said.
HARYANA PWD (B&R)

TENDER NOTICE
EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, PROVINCIAL DIVISION NO. I, PWD B&R BRANCH, KARNAL

The Governor of Haryana re-invites the bids from eligible bidders through online bids for the work detailed below:
Sr. Name of Work
No.
1.
Cost of Work Cost of Bid

documents
Rehabilitation of Bridge on 40.38 Lacs

Karnal Kachhwa Sambli
Kaul Road to Taraori via
Jatpura in RD 7700, in
Karnal District.
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5,000/-
Bid Security
Last date of bid

preparation/
Hash submission
0.81 Lac for

Contractors & 0.41 Lacs
for Societies
24.08.15
10.01 hrs. to
13.09.15, 17.00 hrs
Full details including tender documents are available on the website: www.haryanapwd-bandr.org &
http://haryanapmgsy.etenders.in
30446/HRY
Public Health Engineering Department, Haryana

Public Health Engineering Division No. 3 Hisar
Notice Inviting Tender
THE MORINDA CO-OPERATIVE SUGAR MILLS LTD.,

MORINDA, DISTT. ROOPNAGAR PUNJAB
TENDER NOTICE
Website: www.morindasugar.com
E-mail: mcsm.morinda@gmail.com
Tel. No. 0160-2630025, 2634119, 2634120
The Morinda Co-op Sugar Mills Ltd., Morinda-140101,

District Roopnagar (Punjab)
e-Tender Notice for Sale of Molasses
A. E-Sale of Molasses: e-Tenders are invited for sale of 25000 Qtls. of Molasses
of production year 2014-15 on As is where is basis on 11.09.2015 upto 2.00 P.M.
in the Mills and same will be opened at 3.00 P.M. on same day. The detailed
terms & conditions of tender may be obtained from the Office of the Mills on
any working day or can be downloaded from www.morindasugar.com.
3815/Pb
Tel: 0160-2630025, 2634119, 2634120 Sd/- General Manager
1. Online bids are hereby invited on behalf of Governor of Haryana for the works mentioned below
from Firms/Agency/Contractor enlisted/Registered at least upto DNIT cost with any Department
Board/Corporation of Central Govt. of any State Govt. on the date of opening of tenders and also
meeting eligibility criteria as mentioned in the tender document.
Name of Work: Aug. Water Supply Scheme Narnuand Town. Designing, Constructing, Testing, and
Commissioning of 2.50 MLD Water Treatmnet Plant. Const. of RCC NP3 pipe inlet Channel, 2 No.
RCC storage and sedimentation Tank, 1 No. Clear Water Tank, extension Pump Chamber Staff
Quarter, B/Wall Renovation existing Structure (Pump Chamber, CWT), laying of pipe line 4, 6, 12,
Const. of 1 No. Boosting Stations, RCC U.G.T. Rising main, Supply, Erection, Testing & commissioning of pumping machinery for Raw water and clear water complete with all electric and Mechnical
Equipment, Operation and maintenance of Existing/ Proposed Structure Pumping Machinery and
complete Distribution System for Five Years after 1 year defact liability period and all other works
contingent thereto.
Sr. No.
of Work
Estimated Cost
Time Limit
Earnest Money
Rs. 677.10 Lacs
12 Months
Rs. 13,54,200/-
Tender Document & e-Service

Fee
Rs. 20000 + 1000/- Rs. 21000/-
1. Possession Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) and Registration of the Contractors on the Portal i.e.
http://haryanaeprocurement.gov.in is a pre-requisite for e-Tendering.
2. Last Dates For various activities by Bidder:
(i) Start Date & Time of Bid Preparation & Submission: 14.08.2015 upto 1800 hrs.
(ii) Expiry Date & Time of Bid Preparation & Submission:- 10.09.2015 at 1400 hrs.
For further details and e-Tendering schedule, visit website: http://haryanaeprocurement.gov.in
For & on Behalf of Governor of Haryana
Sd/Executive Engineer,
PHE Division No. 3 Hisar
30447/HRY
PERSONAL
GOVERNMENT OF HARYANA
I, SHAMSHER SINGH S/O PYARA

SINGH R/O Kurali Distt. Mohali have
changed my name to SHAMSHER
SINGH BASANTI. I will hereby be
known as SHAMSHER SINGH BASANTI.
0020289487-1
I, GURMEET KAUR W/O SHAMSHER
SINGH BASANTI R/O Kurali Distt.
Mohali have changed my name to
GURMEET KAUR BASANTI. I will
hereby be known as GURMEET
KAUR BASANTI.
0020289487-2
I, SHAMSHER SINGH BASANTI R/O
Kurali Distt. Mohali have changed my
sons name from AKASHJOT SINGH
to AKASHJOT SINGH BASANTI.
Concerned please note.
0020289487-3
TENDER NOTICE
HARYANA STATE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BOARD,
SIRSA
Director BPS Govt. Medical College

For Women, Khanpur Kalan (Sonepat)
Tender Notice
The H.S.A.M. Board invites online tenders (through e-Tendering) for the following works:-
Sealed tenders from reputed Firms are invited for providing Books for Central Library in BPS Govt. Medical College
for Women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat upto 22.09.2015 at
3.00 P.M. and to be opened on 23.09.2015 till 2.00 P.M. The
Tender forms can be collected from O/o Director, BPS Govt.
Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat on
Cash payment of Rs. 2,000/- from 28.08.2015 onwards upto
21.09.2015 (3.00 P.M.) and to be submitted in the same
office. Tender documents can be downloaded from the website i.e. www.bpsgmckhanpur.ac.in.
30435/HRY
Sr. Name of Work

No.
Sd/Director
BPS Govt. Medical College for Women,
Khanpur Kalan, (Sonepat)
I, SHAMSHER SINGH BASANTI R/O

Kurali Distt. Mohali have changed my
daughters name from NAVJOT KAUR
to NAVJOT KAUR BASANTI.
Concerned please note.
0020289487-4
1.
Special Repair of Road from Taruana to Kaluana Minor Bridge (ID-2118).
2.
Special Repair of Road from Dhaban Road to Dera at Village Jhiri (ID2100).
8.84
16.09.2015 at Sirsa
3.
Special Repair of Road from Dhani Kaluwali to Sirsa-Ellenabad Road (ID2366).
8.62
16.09.2015 at Sirsa
4.
Providing & Repair of Water Supply facilities in NGM at Mallekan.
6.22
16.09.2015 at Sirsa
5.
Special Repair of Road from Nauana to Sultanpuria (ID-5122).
15.08
16.09.2015 at Sirsa
6.
Providing interlocking paver block in Phirni portion at Village Jandwala

Bishnoian on Road from Chautala to Jandwala Bishnoian via Bharu Khera
(ID-2452).
4.07
16.09.2015 at Sirsa
I, Parmod Kumar & my wife Meena

R/o Patwan Mohalla, Hanuman Gali,
Karnal, Distt. Karnal (Hry) disowned
my son Ashish Singla, his wife Shilpa
Khemka Singla & their son Vivan
Singla from our all movable & immovable property. Anybody dealing with
them at his own risk.
0020289495-1
LOST & FOUND

It is notified for the information that my
original mark sheet at Xth Class
Examination Year 2014 from CBSE
Delhi Roll No. 2231112 has been lost.
Name of candidate: Pawan Kumar Pal
S/o Uday Raj Pal R/o H.No. St.No. 4,
Guru Harkishan Nagar, Giaspura,
Ludhiana.
0020289498-1
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Date of Receipt/
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tender
16.09.2015 at Sirsa
For details please visit our website: https://haryanaeprocurement.gov.in

Condition:- Deposit of Earnest Money online by the bidders. The bidders will finalize the
Financial bids only after depositing the EMD, e-Service Charges & Tender document fee in our
Bank Account No. 00682041000456 Oriental bank of Commerce, Sirsa IFSC Code ORBC
0100068. Earnest Money and other supporting documents of bid will be received only online
and no paper document will be received manually.
Sd/Executive Engineer
30448/HRY
PUBLIC NOTICE
I Bimla Devi W/o Ved Prakash #22459

Paras Ram Nagar Bathinda declares
Neeraj Kumar is the son of my daughter Gita Rani and he staying with us.
and he is out of my control. Me & my
family have no concern/dealings with
Neeraj Kumar. He is solely reponsible
for all.
0020289476-1
Estimated
Cost
(in Lacs)
9.45
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER (ELECT.),

HARYANA STATE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BOARD,
C-6, SECTOR-6, PANCHKULA
NOTICE INVITING TENDERS
The HSAM Board invites On-line Tenders (Through e-Tendering for the following works:
Sr.
No.
No. 4/4-2/2015-16-C-2259
Government of India
Archaeological Survey of India, Srinagar Circle
No. 4/4-12/2015-16-C-2269
Government of India
No. 4/4-7/2015-16-C-2278
Government of India
141 A/D Green Belt Park, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu-180 004
Dated: 24th August, 2015
Sealed tenders are invited on behalf of the President of India

by the Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India,
Srinagar Circle, Jammu for Supply of Building Material at Pari Mahal,
District Srinagar from the Eligible Contractors Registered with
PWD/ CPWD/ MES/ Railway/ Irrigation who has minimum Two
Years experience in dealing with Archaeological Conservation
and Preservation Works. The tenders should be accompanied with
Earnest Money of 12,800/- (Rupees Twelve Thousand Eight
Hundred) only in the shape of Call Deposit in favour undersigned
from any Recognized Scheduled Bank. All the tenders should invariably mention the name of work & date of opening of tenders on the
individual envelope. The tenders will be received on 09.09.2015 upto
03.00 P.M. and will be opened on the same day at 03.15 P.M. The
Tender Forms can be had from the office of the undersigned on all
working days on applying on Letter Head of Firms/Contractors/
Suppliers individually for each tender upto 07.09.2015 on payment of
500/- (Non-refundable) on production of Registration
Certificate, PAN Number along with Proof of Permanent Address
Correspondence. All tenders in which any of the prescribed conditions enclosed with Tender Form are not fulfilled or are incomplete in
any respect are liable to be rejected. The Authority to reject any or all
of the tenders received, without the assignment of a reason. The discretion of acceptance of a tender, will rest with the Circle Officer,
Archaeological Survey of India, who does not bind himself to
accept the lowest tender and reserves to himself the authority to
reject any or all the tenders received without assignment of a reason. In case of rejection of application for issue of tender form by
the Subordinate Officer, Contactor may appeal to the
Superintending Archaeologist for issue of tender form whose
decision shall be final. The NIT can also be seen on website i.e.
www.asi.nic.in & www.asisrinagar.com.
The Firms/Contractors must ensure the fulfilment of
time line given by the Office in the Supply Order/Work Order
failing which the Firms/ Contractors shall be debarred from
further tender process in this Office and the Security Deposit/
Earnest Money shall be forfeited. The auction pertaining to
black-listing the Firms/ Contractors may also take place.
The Tender Forms can also be downloaded from our
website: www.asi.nic.in. The tenderers must attach a DD/
Bankers Cheque (Issued on or before last date of selling the
Tender Forms) of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) only as Cost
of Tender Form (Non-refundable) in favour of SUPERINTENDING ARCHAEOLOGIST, ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF
INDIA, SRINAGAR CIRCLE while tendering.
Sd/- Superintending Archaeologist.
Phone No. 0191-2433145.

Srinagar Circle, Jammu for Supply of Building Material at Ancient
Temple at Naranag, District Ganderbal from the Eligible
Contractors Registered with PWD/ CPWD/ MES/ Railway/
Irrigation who has minimum Two Years experience in dealing
with Archaeological Conservation and Preservation Works. The
tenders should be accompanied with Earnest Money of 13,187/(Rupees Thirteen Thousand One Hundred Eighty Seven) only in the
shape of Call Deposit in favour undersigned from any Recognized
Scheduled Bank. All the tenders should invariably mention the name
of work & date of opening of tenders on the individual envelope. The
tenders will be received on 09.09.2015 upto 03.00 P.M. and will be
opened on the same day at 03.15 P.M. The Tender Forms can be
had from the office of the undersigned on all working days on applying on Letter Head of Firms/Contractors/ Suppliers individually for
each tender upto 07.09.2015 on payment of 500/- (Non-refundable) on production of Registration Certificate, PAN Number
along with Proof of Permanent Address Correspondence. All
tenders in which any of the prescribed conditions enclosed with
Tender Forms are not fulfilled or are incomplete in any respect are
liable to be rejected. The Authority to reject any or all of the tenders
received, without the assignment of a reason. The discretion of
acceptance of a tender, will rest with the Circle Officer,
Archaeological Survey of India, who does not bind himself to
accept the lowest tender and reserves to himself the authority to
reject any or all the tenders received without assignment of a reason. In case of rejection of application for issue of tender form by
the Subordinate Officer, Contactor may appeal to the
Superintending Archaeologist for issue of tender form whose
decision shall be final. The NIT can also be seen on website i.e.
www.asi.nic.in & www.asisrinagar.com.
The Tender Form can also be downloaded from our website: www.asi.nic.in. The tenderers must attach a DD/ Bankers
Cheque (Issued on or before last date of selling the Tender Forms)
of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) only as Cost of Tender Form
(Non-refundable) in favour of SUPERINTENDING ARCHAEOLOGIST, ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, SRINAGAR CIRCLE while tendering.
Phone No. 0191-2433145.

Srinagar Circle, Jammu for Supply of Building Material at Sun Temple
Martand, District Anantnag from the Eligible Contractors
Registered with PWD/ CPWD/ MES/ Railway/ Irrigation who has
minimum Two years experience in dealing with Archaeological
Conservation and Preservation Works. The tenders should be
accompanied with Earnest Money of 10,047/- (Rupees Ten
Thousand Fourty Seven) only in the shape of Call Deposit in favour
undersigned from any Recognized Scheduled Bank. All the tenders
should invariably mention the name of work & date of opening of tenders on the individual envelope. The tenders will be received on
09.09.2015 upto 03.00 P.M. and will be opened on the same day
at 03.15 P.M. The Tender Forms can be had from the office of the
undersigned on all working days on applying on Letter Head of
Firms/Contractors/ Suppliers individually for each tender upto
07.09.2015 on payment of 500/- (Non-refundable) on production
of Registration Certificate, PAN Number along with Proof of
Permanent Address Correspondence. All tenders in which any of
the prescribed conditions enclosed with Tender Form are not fulfilled
or are incomplete in any respect are liable to be rejected. The
Authority to reject any or all of the tenders received, without the
assignment of a reason. The discretion of acceptance of a tender,
will rest with the Circle Officer, Archaeological Survey of India, who
does not bind himself to accept the lowest tender and reserves to
himself the authority to reject any or all the tenders received without assignment of a reason. In case of rejection of application for
issue of tender form by the Subordinate Officer, Contactor may
appeal to the Superintending Archaeologist for issue of tender
form whose decision shall be final. The NIT can also be seen on
website i.e. www.asi.nic.in & www.asisrinagar.com.
The Tender Forms can also be downloaded from our
website: www.asi.nic.in. The tenderers must attach a DD/
Bankers Cheque (Issued on or before last date of selling the
Tender Forms) of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) only as Cost
of Tender Form (Non-refundable) in favour of SUPERINTENDING ARCHAEOLOGIST, ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF
INDIA, SRINAGAR CIRCLE while tendering.
Phone No. 0191-2433145.
Name of Work
Estt.
Cost
Amount
of
Earnest
Money
Cost of
Tender
Forms +
e-Service
Charges
Last Date
of
Tender
Technical
Bid
Last Date
of
Tenders
Time
Limit
1.
Pdg. S/I/TC of
Emergency Panel
for Agro Shopping
Mall,
Sector-20,
Panchkula.
Rs
23,68,200/-
Rs.
47,400/-
Rs. 1,000/+
Rs. 1,000/only
07.09.2015 07.09.2015 08.09.2015

upto
upto
upto
10.00 A.M. 11.00 A.M. 03.00 P.M.
One
Month
2.
Pdg. S/I/T/C of Fire

Compartmentation
System for HSAMB,
Agro
Shopping
Mall,
Sector-20,
Panchkula.
Rs
29,81,200/-
Rs.
59,600/-
Rs. 5,000/+
Rs. 1,000/only
07.09.2015 07.09.2015 08.09.2015

upto
upto
upto
10.00 A.M. 11.00 A.M. 03.00 P.M.
One
Month
3.
Pdg.
Gas
Separation System
in Agro Shopping
Mall at Panchkula.
Rs
Rs.
Rs. 5,000/68,01,000/- 1,36,020/+
Rs. 1,000/only
07.09.2015 07.09.2015 08.09.2015

upto
upto
upto
10.00 A.M. 11.00 A.M. 03.00 P.M.
One
Month
4.
Pdg. Bus Trunking

System
for
Emergency Panel
in Agro Shopping
Mall, Panchkula.
Rs
17,14,300/-
Rs. 1,000/+
Rs. 1,000/only
07.09.2015 07.09.2015 08.09.2015

upto
upto
upto
10.00 A.M. 11.00 A.M. 03.00 P.M.
One
Month
5.
Hiring of 4 Nos. 500

KVA D.G. Set to be
installed at Agro
Shopping
Mall,
Sector-20
at
Panchkula.
Rs.
Rs. 5,000/1,00,000/+
Rs. 1,000/only
07.09.2015 07.09.2015 08.09.2015

upto
upto
upto
10.00 A.M. 11.00 A.M. 03.00 P.M.
Two
Years
and
extendable
upto Five
Years
Rs.
34,300/-
i) The Bidder has to deposit the Earnest Money, Cost of Tender Documents and e-Service
charge as indicated. RTGS only in favour of Executive Engineer (E), HSAM Board,
Panchkula in the ICICI Bank, SCO-6, Sector-11, Panchkula in Account No. 004301031318
IFS Code ICIC0000043 and no manual Earnest Money will be accepted.
ii) For more details please visit our website: http://hsamb.haryanaeprocurement.gov.in.
30440/HRY
Sd/- P.L. Pahuja,

Executive Engineer (E),
HSAM Board, Panchkula.
8 GOVT & POLITICS

Rahul to visit LoC
areas hit by Pakistan
MIR EHSAN
17 terror camps in PoK part of

dossier India prepared for Pak
SRINAGAR, AUGUST 24

AFTER HIS whirlwind tour of
Amethi, Congress vice-president
Rahul Gandhi is set to travel to
Jammu and Kashmir next to
meet villagers affected by
Pakistani shelling and to highlight the failures of the PDP-BJP
government in the state. During
his three-day trip to the state,
Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to
visit the Line of Control in the
Poonch district.
He will also interact with
Congress workers and address a
rally in a Kashmir village
either in Sopore or Sangrama.
Party leaders said that they
planned to use Rahuls visit to
expose the failure of the PDPBJP regime in all the three regions of the state.
Apart from party workers,
Rahul Gandhi will also interact
with the civil society members,
said Congress leaders.
It will be an extensive tour.
Rahul Gandhi will stay here for
three days. He will reach Jammu
on August 27 and after meeting
party workers he will leave for
Poonch where he will be meeting villagers affected due to continuous shelling from across the
Line of Control, state Congress
president Ghulam Ahmad Mir
told The Indian Express.
According to Mir, the
Congress vice-president will
Will visit Srinagar on Aug 28

travel to Srinagar on August 28.
He will be addressing a big
public gathering either in north
or south Kashmir. We are finalising the venue for the public
rally. It will be a big gathering,
he said.
At Pampore, the Congress
vice-president will speak to the
farmers on the status of Saffron
Mission that was launched during Congress rule in the state,
added Mir.
Congress leaders were already busy making preparations
to make the visit successful.
Interestingly, Rahuls tour of
the Valley comes days before the
first anniversary of the devastating Kashmir floods on
September 8. Congress leaders
and workers said they were
hopeful that he will effectively
expose the disparity shown by
the Centre towards the people of
Kashmir. Both Congress and
National Conference have been
critical of Centre for not allocating Rs 44000 crore as flood relief
to Kashmir.
AS PART of its dossier prepared

for the NSA-level talks with
Pakistan that was called off, India
was planning to give evidence on
around 17 terror camps in
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
(PoK) that are active and being
run with support from Pakistans
Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)
and its Army.
According to sources, Indian
intelligence agencies have found
that around 300 armed terrorists in these camps, belonging to
the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaishe-Mohammed (JeM), Hizbul

JAMMU, AUGUST 24
NATIONAL PANTHERS Party
president Bhim Singh Monday
wrote to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi questioning
Indias reluctance in discussing
the issue of Jammu and Kashmir
with Pakistan. Expressing surprise over Indias defensive posture whenever Pakistan tried to
Mujahideen (HM) and some

other groups, were waiting to infiltrate into India.
The intelligence agencies had
provided details of these 17
camps, along with information
on the strength of recruits in
Daura-e-Khas training at the

LeTs Markaz-e-Aqsa camp.
LeT founder Hafiz Saeed visited these camps to indoctrinate
recruits,
Naveed
told
interrogators.
He also reportedly claimed
that occasionally, men who
looked like they were from the
army visited the camps and
gave instructions.
A detailed file based on
Naveeds interrogation, on fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahims
continued presence in Pakistan
and on around 56 most-wanted
fugitives in Pakistan, were also
part of the dossier to be handed
over by National Security
Advisor Ajit Doval to his counterpart Sartaj Aziz.
Naveed to record statement before court

ARUN SHARMA
JAMMU, AUGUST 24
PAKISTANI
TERRORIST
Mohammed Naveed, alias
Usman, was on Monday sent to
the Ambphalla district jail for
two days after he was produced
at a local court by the NIA for
recording his statement, which
was deferred till August 26.
Naveed was brought before
Chief Judicial Magistrate Sunnet
Discuss Kashmir, counter Pak

on facts: Panthers Party
raise Kashmir bilaterally or at
the international level, he asked
the Central leadership to study
the UN Resolution carefully and
its violation by Pakistan right
from the day it was passed on
August 13, 1948.
In his letter to Modi, Singh
also implored Modi government to argue like a lawyer on
facts, law and reality to let the
international community know
the truth. He pointed out the
speeches made before the UN
Mohammed Naveed
each camp as well as the

Pakistan Army formations directly supervising each camp,
sources said.
According to intelligence
sources, Pakistani terrorist
Mohammed Naveed had revealed
during interrogation that he had
joined the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) at
the outfits Markaz-e-Khyber office in Nishatabad, Faisalabad. He
reportedly underwent 21 days of
the introductory Daure-e-Aam
training at a camp in Garhi
Habibullah in Mansehra district in
the
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
province of Pakistan.
There were 20 to 25 LeT terrorists at the camp, Naveed reportedly disclosed. He also attended a three-month advanced
by the then defence minister

Krishna Menon in 1957 and
1962. The Prime Minister must
make it compulsory for all his
ministers and diplomats to sit in
a class and understand the
minute details of UN Resolution
on J&K, he added.
Referring to the violations of
UN resolutions committed by
Pakistan, Singh said that the UN
had directed the neighbouring
country to vacate all occupied
territories of J&K.
Gupta for recording his statement under Section 164 of the

CrPC. As the captured terrorist
was first in police and and later
in the NIA custody ever since he
was apprehended on August 5,
the CJM deferred the recording
of his statement. Sources said
that the CJM sent Naveed in judicial custody for two days as
part of procedure under Section
164 to ensure that the statement
was given voluntarily and not
under duress.
Naveed, along with his ac-
complice Nomen, had attacked

a BSF convoy in J&Ks Udhampur.
While Nomen was killed,
Naveed was caught by villagers
he took hostage in Udhampur
during his bid to escape.
For the last 14 days, Naveed
was with the NIA after the
agency took his remand for custodial interrogation from Special
Judge for NIA cases, Y P Kotwal.
As his remand period ended
on Monday, the NIA produced
him before the special judge
with a request that Naveed
wanted to make a confessional

statement under Section 164
CrPC. Kotwal referred the case to
the CJMs court pointing out that
confession under provisions of
CrPC must be recorded by a judicial magistrate.
According to sources, Naveed
has confessed to being a Lashkar
terrorist from Pakistan. Based on
his disclosures, the NIA arrested
some people for helping him
stay in the Valley, including the
truck driver who ferried both the
terrorists to Udhampur.
Govt must make efforts to

resume stalled talks, says CPM
TERMING THE cancellation ofthe
NSA-level talks between India
and Pakistan unfortunate, CPM
general secretary Sitaram
Yechury on Monday said that the
composite dialogue between
the two countries must continue.
The composite dialogue between the two countries must
continue. The growing tension

along the border can only be deescalated through dialogue. We
want this government to make
efforts to resume composite dialogue with Pakistan, Yechury
said. He also said that Kashmiri
separatist leaders meeting
Pakistani officials was nothing
new. We wonder why Indian
government didnt keep it as a
pre-condition in Ufa. This was
mysteriously not done by India,
he added. During the three-day
meet of partys central committee that concluded on Sunday,

the leaders also discussed preparations for the partys organisational plenum scheduled for
December in Kolkata.
On the economy, Yechury
said the Modi government has
done nothing in favour of the
people since it came to power.
He also said that Left parties will
contest the Bihar assembly elections independently to defeat
the communal BJP.
Political
parties cant
be under RTI:
Govt to SC
UTKARSH ANAND
THE GOVERNMENT has opposed in Supreme Court a plea to
bring political parties under the
ambit of RTI Act, saying this would adversely impact their internal working and political functioning. Submitting an affidavit,
the Department of Personnel
and Training (DoPT) has said the
Central Information Commission (CIC) erroneously ruled in
June 2013 that political parties
are public authorities under the
RTI Act and, hence, are accountable under the transparency law.
If political parties are held to
be public authorities under RTI
Act, it would hamper their smooth internal working, which is not
the objective of the RTI Act and
was not envisaged by Parliament.
Further, it is apprehended that
political rivals might file RTI applications with malicious intentions,
adversely affecting their political
functioning, the affidavit stated.
The DoPT claimed that the CIC
had made a very liberal interpretation ofRTI Act, leading to an
erroneous conclusion that political parties are public authorities.
In its judgment, the CIC had
said political parties should be
held accountable under the RTI
Act since their constitution was
akin to setting up a body by the
government and they also performed public functions after
availing various financial aid
and concessions by the Centre.
But this judgment remained on
paper and the parties did not
comply with the mandate of
RTI Act.
Complaining non-compliance, applicants Subhash Chandra Aggarwal and Anil Bairwal of
the Association of Democratic

Reforms (ADR) approached the
CIC which, in March, directed the
DoPT to take action. ADR and
Aggarwal moved a PIL in
Supreme Court, seeking a declaration that political parties are
public authorities and should disclose details of income and expenditure for public scrutiny.
A bench led by Chief Justice H
L Dattu issued notice in July and
the DoPT filed an affidavit last
Friday, stating RTI Act never envisaged to bring political parties
under its ambit. Itsaid the CIC was
wrong in its judgment since political parties cannot be termed as
public authorities because they are
formed neither under the Constitution nor under any law of Parliament. Performance of public
duty is also not a condition mentioned under the law for defining a
body as a public authority, it stated.
About checks on financial
transactions of parties, the DoPT
said there were provisions under
the Representation of the People
Act and the Income Tax Act, fastening a liability on them to make
sufficient disclosure regarding income and expenditure.
Adequate provisions for explanations and penalties, it claimed, were also stipulated under
these Acts and that Election Commission places all requisite information on its website. These
provisions ensure adequate transparency in financial aspects of a
political party, the DoPT said.
With a view to annul the adverse effects of the erroneous
conclusion by the CIC, the government said, a Bill was introduced in 2013 to amend the RTI
Act so as to specifically exclude
political parties from the definition of public authority but it
lapsed with the dissolution of
the Lok Sabha in 2014.
Essar favoured relative of Pranab,

gave iPads to VIPs: PIL in SC
UTKARSH ANAND
THE CENTRE for Public Interest
Litigation (CPIL) has alleged that
President Pranab Mukherjee
sought a favour from the Essar
Group for appointment of his
granddaughter at the companys
London office.
This allegation has been
made in an additional affidavit
filed in the Supreme Court
Monday by the petitioner NGO
through its general secretary and
lawyer Kamini Jaiswal.
The PIL has sought a courtmonitored probe into an alleged
nexus of Essar with politicians,
bureaucrats and journalists to
promote its business interests.
In March, The Indian Express

reported on the PIL and how a
former Essar employee decided
to go public with the Essar
Groups internal company communications these have been
attached to the petition as instances of alleged impropriety.
The body of correspondence
includes purported emails and
memos on meetings with government officials and alleged
favours to ministers, bureaucrats
and journalists.
The latest affidavit, based on
the correspondence, claims that
in September 2013, Pradeep
Gupta, secretary of the President,
forwarded an email mail to a corporate affairs executive at Essar.
This email, it is alleged, contained
no text but had an attached copy
of a passport belonging to
Mukherjees granddaughter. This

email was then forwarded to another
Essar
employee.
An internal email exchange
dated October 3, 2013 shows
that Essar discussed and decided
that she be appointed as an intern for one year at their London
office and after the said year she
will be made permanent. It was
discussed that her pay would be
30,000 pounds per year and in
addition to that she would get
other benefits, the affidavit
stated.
Phone calls and text messages to the Rashtrapati Bhavan
spokesperson did not get a response.
The CPIL has also alleged that
an internal communication of
November 2010 mentioned
names of 222 people, including
top politicians, bureaucrats and

journalists, who had been given
iPads.
In March, the court issued
notices to Essar and the Central
government, seeking their
replies on the PIL which is likely
to be listed on September 23.
When The Indian Express
sought a comment on the allegations, a spokesperson for the
Essar Group said: The questions are sub-judice and we,
therefore, refrain from giving
our response. Nothing stated by
us herein should, however, be
construed as an admission of all
or any of your allegations made.
We reiterate and say that Essar
is a responsible corporate and
we adhere to the highest standards of governance and
ethics.
Naga peace pact: PM shares credit,

says past govts also contributed
PRIME MINISTER Narendra
Modi Monday sought to share
credit with previous governments for the successful talks
with NSCN (I-M) and hoped it
would lead to development of
not only Nagaland but the entire
Northeast region.
All past governments made
efforts. There were ups and downs
during the process but everybody
has contributed and it would not
be right for any one government
to claim credit for its success,
Modi said at a function organised
to celebrate the birth centenary of
Naga spiritual leader and freedom
fighter Rani Gaidinliu, popularly
known as Rani Ma.
It is the result of these efforts
that today in Nagaland there has
been a successful dialogue with
those people (NSCN leaders). The
result is that now we have had
successful talks with those people
in Nagaland, he said. Referring to
the peace accord as well as the
Land Boundary Agreement with
Bangladesh, Modi said these
moves would bring in peace and
PM Modi talks to artistes during Rani Gaidinlius birth

centenary celebrations in New Delhi Monday. Prem Nath Pandey
prosperity to not only Nagaland
but to the entire Northeast. I am
sure the journey that has begun of
walking together will bear best of
results and the country will achieve
greater heights, he said in an obvious reference to the Naga accord.
It is sad that the people of
the country have not been made
more aware of great personalities like Rani Ma from the
Northeast. The contributions
and teachings of several such
greats have either been forgotten or have been deliberately ignored in Indias history, he said.
Speaking of peace in North-
east, Modi said the commemoration of Gaidinlius birth centenary signals the governments
intentions as Gaidinliu stood for
national integration with the rest
of the country. Through her
struggles for independence, Rani
Ma always preached the freedom of not just Nagaland but of
India and she spread Gandhijis
words across Northeast, he said.
The culture ministry under
Mahesh Sharma also released
commemorative coins of Rs 100
and circulating coins of Rs 5 in
memory of Gaidinliu, who
passed away in 1993.
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COLOMBO, AUGUST 24
Kumar Sangakkara with India captain

Virat Kohli after the match. AP
SCORECARD
SRI LANKA VS INDIA
2ND TEST, P SARA OVAL
Toss: India won, chose to bat
India (1st Innings)

393
Sri Lanka (1st Innings)
306
India (2nd Innings)
325
Sri Lanka (2nd Innings) (Target: 413 runs)
HANGING UP his boots from international

cricket, Kumar Sangakkara is scheduled to
fly out to London Tuesday to continue his
stint with Surrey in the English County
Championship. But theres a possibility that
when Surrey step out to play their next
match, they will have the Sri Lankan High
Commissioner to the United Kingdom
padding up for them as their overseas cricketer.
For, only minutes after Sangakkaras 15year cricket career had come to an end, Sri
Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena publicly offered the retiring legend an opportunity to take guard for his second innings, this
time as a diplomat.
As the thousands in attendance to bid
farewell roared in unison, for once
Sangakkara was lost for words. All he could
in response do was smile. Later in the day, he
would deal with the offer in diplomatic fashion, neither denying it nor accepting it.
I actually just heard it and it was quite a
surprise. I have to go and think about it and
really have a proper chat with His Excellency
as well, he said.
Bigger plans
It all started with Prime Minister Ranil
I respect the Presidents request.

I need to talk more with him about
it. Im very inexperienced in such
things. You need to have special
knowledge for that post as well. I
have to think about it and work out
a reply.
KUMAR SANGAKKARA
Wickramasinghe informing Sangakkara that
the government had bigger plans for him.
The Prime Minister was at the P Sara Oval to
present the former Sri Lankan captain with a
plaque.
You have been an ambassador for cricket
over 15 years. We feel its time you become

an ambassador for Sri Lanka, he is said to
have told him.
Those present for the plaque ceremony
said Wickramasinghe then walked up to
Yehali, Sangakkaras wife, and told her, You
finish one job today. Get ready to start a new
job from tomorrow.
Asked whether this was the Presidents
way of coaxing him into politics, Sangakkara
said: Ive only got one invitation so far. I
havent got the second one. I respect the
Presidents request. I need to talk more with
him about it. Im very inexperienced in such
things. You need to have special knowledge
for that post as well. I have to think about it
and work out a reply, he said.
End is also a beginning

Kohli notches up first Test win as captain; India spoil Sangas farewell party by 278 runs to level the series
K Silvac Binny b Ashwin

1(9b)
D Karunaratneb Ashwin
46(103b, 6x4)
K Sangakkarac Vijay b Ashwin
18(18b, 3x4)
A Mathewsc Rahul b Yadav
23(39b, 3x4)
D Chandimalb Mishra
15(30b, 1x4, 1x6)
L Thirimannec Pujara b Ashwin
11(26b, 1x6)
J Mubarakc Kohli b Sharma
0(1b)
D Prasadc Mishra b Ashwin
0(4b)
R Herathnot out
4(17b)
T Kaushallbw b Mishra
5(12b, 1x4)
D Chameeralbw b Mishra
4(5b, 1x4)
Extras(lb 4, w 1, nb 2)
7
Total(all out, 43.4 overs )
134
FoW: 1-8 (Silva, 2.4 ov), 2-33 (Sanga, 8.5 ov), 372 (Mathews, 21.1 ov), 4-91 (Chandimal, 27.2 ov),
5-106 (Thirimanne, 34.6 ov), 6-111 (Mubarak,
35.4 ov), 7-114 (Prasad, 36.4 ov), 8-123
(Karunaratne, 38.4 ov), 9-128 (Kaushal, 41.5 ov),
Bowling:
R Ashwin
16-6-42-5
U Yadav
7-1-18-1
I Sharma
11-2-41-1
A Mishra
9.4-3-29-3
It's pretty satisfying, especially

knowing we came pretty close
twice before at Adelaide and Galle.
I think the Galle defeat hurt us in
the right way. It's a commendable
effort by all the boys, to regroup so
well after the loss like that
knowing that we should have won
the game. I think it's tremendous
effort to get yourself together, put
yourself in and play the same way
again.
VIRAT KOHLI
Indian captain Virat Kohli claps after his team's massive win over Sri Lanka in the second Test at the P Sara Oval. AP
EXPRESS IN SRI LANKA

BHARAT SUNDARESAN
NUMBER PLATE
1
Virat Kohli's first win as Test
captain. It came after the loss in
Adelaide, two draws in Sydney and
Fatullah and the loss in Galle.
278
India's 2nd-largest margin of
victory after their 279 runs win at
Leeds in 1986.
12
R Ashwins Test five-fors. At 27
Tests-old, only Sydney Barnes (24),
Waqar Younis (16), Ian Botham
(14), Clarrie Grimmett (14) and
Hugh Tayfield (13) had more.
COLOMBO, AUGUST 24
YES, KL Rahul had kept wickets before. In
school, as a junior cricketer for India and even
for two of his IPL franchises. But this was Test
cricket. This was the fifth morning of a potentially epoch-breaking encounter, not just
for Virat Kohli & Co but for Indian cricket.
Only last week the young team had lost their
nerve and collapsed in a heap after having
held sway for three whole daysalmost like
rabbits in front of headlights that werent
even originally headed in their direction.
So when Angelo Mathews edged an outswinger from Umesh Yadav first up on
Monday morning, Rahul simply had to catch
the ball. It wasnt too straightforward. It was
dying on him as it got there, and was headed
in that dreaded gap between the wicketkeeper and the first slip. It was a catch that
would have tested even a regular wicketkeeper, one that does this on a daily basis.
Rahul had to dive. Rahul had to stretch.
Rahul had to hang on, come what may.
Ever since he took over as Test captain
to start off with as a stand-in at Adelaide and

then as the permanent replacement at
Sydney Kohli has harped endlessly and
rather vainly on his young team not seizing
the initiative and on their inability to take the
final step towards glory.
This was the opening. This was the moment. This was the opportunity for India to
emerge from the shadows. And as Rahul rose
up with the ball lodged in his right glove,
India had all but turned the corner.
It was obvious that Sri Lankas hopes and
the duration of the fifth days play would depend almost entirely on how long Mathews
hung around. He was the final peg. The only
obstacle between India finally tasting victory
with Kohli holding the reins. Unfortunately it
was probably what Sri Lanka were thinking
as well. For, once Mathews left, the rest
seemed keener on rushing up the process
and leave Kumar Sangakkara more time to
enjoy his final day as an international cricketer. And R Ashwin was perfectly poised to
hasten the end as he ripped through the middle-order to lead India to a 278-run win, their
first under Kohli and hopefully for them the
first of the new era, and level the series with
one more Sangakkara-less Test to go.
Weather or not
If Mathews was a controllable obstacle,
there was another one that they could do little about lurking in the horizon, and at times
ominously so over the P Sara Oval.
There had been heavy rain the previous
night. The sun had broken on Monday morning with dark clouds for company. There was
rain in the air. But somehow even the Sri
Lankan batsmen didnt seem too keen on

hanging around and getting wet in it. And
they kept exiting the scene quicker than the
passing clouds.
The dark clouds werent really playing
hide-and-seek. It was more like they were
beat cops surveying the area, not sure
whether to raid or not. Around the time,
Dinesh Chandimal played a predetermined
sweep to Mishra and was bowled around his
legs if anything the untoward shot only ruined the aesthetics of an otherwise dream
delivery a chunky dark cloud hovered over
the P Sara Oval. But it passed, and very soon
so did Lankas hopes of hanging on.
By now Ashwin was spinning webs
around the Sri Lankans. Dimuth
Karunaratne, whose record in second innings
outdoes his first by quite a margin, had
waged a lone war after Mathews dismissal.
He had been the only to use his feet against
Ashwin, and put the Indian off-spinner under some pressure. But all it took to mess
with his confidence was an off-break that
pitched on leg and ripped past his outsideedge. Karunaratne never left his crease again.
He didnt last too long either. Ashwin had
him in his grasp. He had him in his spell. Then
came a slightly flatter delivery that pitched
right outside the off-stump, skidded on and
hit the left-handed openers stumps. Lahiru
Thirimanne had already come and gone,
struggling to read Ashwins guile. Then he
jumped out of his crease, tried to flick an offbreak against the turn and offered
Cheteshwar Pujara, who will open for India
come the third Test, an easy grab.
Dhammika Prasad had joked about
wanting to win the Test with his bat for Sri

Lanka after stumps on Day Four when asked
about his preparation for saving the Test. And
he looked like he was actually living up to his
word as he charged at Ashwin and tried hitting him over the sight-screen, but only managing to give Mishra a simple catch.
Quietly effective
Ishant Sharma has quietly had a terrific
series so far, even if wickets havent really
come his way. But then Jehan Mubarak was
ready to oblige, as he edged a length delivery to Kohli at slip off the first delivery he
faced. It was a crucial spell from Ishant. He
was brought on as soon as a cloud-cover took
over the Oval. And he ensured that the batsmen were kept under check, and the spinners were bowling at exactly who they had in
their sights. And soon Mishra had his second
wicket of the innings. India were now a
wicket away from victory. Obviously they
had avoided the rain. But just then the skies
finally opened up, and suddenly Kohli must
have felt like even the heavens were conspiring against his captaincy reign.
But like has been the case in this series,
the rains didnt last long enough to affect the
cricket. And Sri Lanka lasted hardly more
than a couple of minutes upon their return.
Sri Lanka were bowled out for 134 in
Sangakkaras 134th and final Test.
Interestingly, they had scored 134 in each of
his final ODI and T20 match.
Even if the rest of the day was dedicated
to Sangakkara, for India it will be the day
when Rahul took that catch and Kohlis India
finally got a taste of that winning feeling.
Thank you,
India, for
being our
toughest foes
COLOMBO, AUGUST 24
An emotional and eloquent Kumar
Sangakkara delivered his farewell speech at
the P Sara Oval following his international
retirement. He remembered to thank everyone from his first coach to his school teachers and got misty eyed while speaking about
his inspiration, his parents. Excerpts:
Your excellency, the President of Sri
Lanka, the honourable Prime Minister,
Members of Parliament, all the well wishers
and the invitees, fans, all my friends, my family who are all here, which is a rare occasion
that all of us are together Virat Kohli and
the Indian team, Angelo and my team, I have
got so many people to thank here.
I will start off with my school Trinity
College, Kandy. Trinity College gave me a fantastic ground there in Kandy. It was an amazing school to go to. I owe a lot of who I am today to the grounding and foundation I got
there. To all my coaches I had so many because my father used to take me to so many
coaches when I was young a big thank you.
To all my past captains, to Sri Lanka
Cricket, to all my team-mates, thank you very
much for everything that you've done for me.
The support that I received, the inspiration,
the drive and the commitment you have
shown, not just to the game but also to each
other and to me, I value all very, very highly.
I am going to miss all that chat we had in the
dressing room...
I didn't have to look far for inspiration.
My parents are here. I had amazing siblings.
I am blessed with a wonderful family. I was
blessed to be born as your children. When I
look up at the box, people that I've known for
30 years, friends, family, everyone is here and
to see that they love me is great and it will be
my greatest achievement.
Lot of people ask me who inspired me
and I always say I didn't have to look far for inspiration. I am sorry I don't want to embarrass you too much, but I didn't have to look far
from my home for inspiration because I have
the most amazing parents that anyone could
wish for.
...All the support, the love that they
showed over the years, whether I played
cricket or not, whether I did well or not, the
only place I could go and feel safe was home
and thank you 'amma' (mother) and
'apachchi' (father). Thank you.
It's been one of the most special privileges of my life to play in front of the Sri
Lankan people and Sri Lankan fans. I'm especially thankful to your love and support.
My innings has ended. I won't play international cricket again. But I'll come with you
Khettarama, to Galle, to Tamil Union, and to
SSC to watch the young cricketers play.
To Virat and his team, thank you most of
all for the wonderful cricket that you've
played. I can't ask for anything more than
tough cricket when I am leaving and you
guys over the years have been our toughest
opponents.
We've planned to beat you, we have at
times and at other times we have failed, but
thank you so much for putting in that effort.
It doesn't matter whether we lost today, we
will try to beat you again in the next game,
but thank you for the toughness, thank you
for giving no quarter, and thank you for really making it a privilege of mine to play
against you.
And to Angelo and the team Angie
you've got an amazing team, you've got an
amazing future and I just hope you will work
hard and enjoy this sport, this sport we only
play for a short times. It comes and goes, but
don't be afraid. Don't be afraid to lose when
you are searching for a win, and keep Sri
Lanka and the flag flying high.
Thank you.
Did Kumar achieve his true potential? I dont believe so

Special to The Indian Express: Retiring greats father, first coach & harshest critic KSHEMA SANGAKKARA writes his son had skills to do better that what he did
LET ME start by admitting that I was always
on tenterhooks while
watching my son bat. I
don't know how this
sounds but I just knew
when he was going to get
out. It was like an intuition but I was never
wrong, and that's why it would make me
even more nervous. I could pick it almost an
over before it eventually transpired.
That is one of the reasons; I preferred not
watching it live from the ground. Even from
home I would only watch his innings in
phases when I knew he was in good flow, and
his body was getting into perfection position,
eye over the ball.
I have always been his harshest critic. And
he knows about it all too well. For the world,
Kumar was this venerated technician. But in
my opinion, he never reached that level. He
could have done so much better with the
skills he had. Everybody speaks about his average being in the same league of Graeme
Pollock and Garry Sobers, but Kumar could
have done better. He too often let bowlers
dismiss him rather than them having to get
him out.
For me, Don Bradman was the ultimate
batsman. He scored a century once in every

three innings. If you truly consider yourself to
be a world-class batsman, you should be able
to do that. Kumar did well, don't get me
wrong. But did he achieve his true potential?
I don't think so.
I started working on Kumar's cricket from
a very young age. He always had great touch.
You could see that from the way he connects
his shots. But touch and technique are two
totally different concepts. According to me
Mahela Jayawardene had a much better
technique, and a much tighter defence.
Kumar's temperament and grit is what ensured he scored more runs and averaged
more than Mahela. But I still believe the likes
of Mahela, Marvan (Atapattu) and Aravinda
de Silva were more in control of their game
in the middle.
There is hardly a shot Kumar plays that I
haven't mentored him or harangued him
about. He was always very competent
against the short-ball. He had a very good
back-foot technique. The pitches in Kandy always have had more bounce and carry than
those in the south. Kumar grew up batting
on them. Mahela was lucky in the sense he
faced a lot of spin in his early years.
Kumar never used his feet to the spinners
Jayawardene had a much better

technique, and a much tighter
defence. Kumar's temperament
and grit is what ensured he
scored more runs.
though, and he wasn't comfortable against
them early in his career. He did get better at
it. But he took too long to get there. It also
took a lot of pestering from me, often to his
chagrin. Even now at times, I feel he gets too
leaden-footed.
For me, the one batsman I admired a lot
was Sunil Gavaskar. He was someone who
tired the bowlers out first with his temperament, and then put them to the sword with
his array of strokes. But never did he succumb to their relentless pursuit to raid his
citadel. A successful batsman is a lot like a
boxer. You have to last till the 12th round to
win the battle. And I ensured that Kumar
grew up watching a lot of Bradman and
Gavaskar, and reading about them too.
I wouldn't call Kumar a natural talent. He
has always had very skilful hands.
Not many know this, but he was a very
good tennis player. Tennis was his first sport.

His sister, Saranga, was a more accomplished
player than him. She won the senior national
title when she was just 15. I think she's still
the only up-country girl to have done so. She
went to the US and did really well too, and
had a great future ahead of her but she suffered a shoulder injury that killed her career.
She had a forehand that most male tennis
players in Sri Lanka would have struggled
against. But Kumar was more talented on the
tennis-court. One day Saranga beat him
though in an inter-family battle of the sexes.
That's it. He never played tennis very seriously again. Cricket became his primary passion right after that defeat. I'm sure he won't
agree with me though.
Kumar and I have always had our debates,
on cricket mostly. He has a very modern view
of politics and general life in Sri Lanka, unlike mine. He has travelled the globe and got
great exposure. And he certainly has an opinion about everything. But in most cases, in
my opinion I get the better of him in our
healthy discussions. My wife always feels
he's a lot like me, and that we both are
equally stubborn over our respective views
on everything.
There are some of Kumar's innings that I
remember fondly though not all of them. His

192 in a losing cause against Australia in
Hobart always gets talked about a lot. It was
my favourite knock. It was alright. His four
centuries in four matches in the World Cup
was a good achievement too.
There are many batsmen who have been
tagged as great. But I consider those who really come into their own after they turn 35
and their reflexes start slowing as the true
legends. I do agree that Kumar has scored
plenty of runs after turning 35. Some say he
has hit a purple patch. But I wish he had hit
that purple patch earlier, he could have easily scored many more runs and tons then.
My son might be a cricketer but cricket is
not close to my heart. It has brought too
much of malice into sport. It is no longer the
gentleman's game even if my son played it
with great integrity. The corrupt practices we
hear about from the IPL and T20 leagues have
marred the image of the sport, quite indelibly. I didn't have a problem with Kumar playing in the IPL but I think he never got going
there. His was a game built to be successful
across all formats, but he never reached a
great level in T20 cricket-even if he was there
in the middle when Sri Lanka won the World
T20 last year.
There wasn't much sorrow or anguish

when he informed me about his decision to
retire. We both agreed that his time was up,
and that there was no point hanging around
for much longer.
These days I travel to Colombo a lot to
meet my daughter, Thushari, and her kids. I
am very confident about my grandson
Methvan. He is a combination of Kumar and
Saranga, and I see him becoming an excellent tennis player. I am not sure what Kumar
has planned for his future. I don't see him
taking up law seriously at this stage. I wouldn't advice it. He's 37 now. By the time he finishes his law studies, it will be another five
years and by the time he establishes himself
he will be well over 50. There's no point then.
I do have a new challenge for him, and I
hope he accepts it. I want him to take up golf
very seriously. It's a sport where his touch
and skilful hands will hold him in good stead.
He's been a professional sportsman for two
decades now. That competitive spirit will
never die. Golf will provide him that opportunity and at the same time it's a sport that
he can pursue for another 30 years. Age doesn't really matter as we have seen. And I can
assure you this: I will not be half as nervous
watching him on a golf course.
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SHEER DOMINANCE
WORLD TITLES in the 100m
have now been won by Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce courtesy her win on
Monday. The Jamaican becomes
the first woman to achieve the
feat. Fraser-Pryce gold was her
sixth in world championships and
lifts her to second place only
behind US sprinter Allyson Felix
who has eight gold medals.
29
STRAIGHT competitions
been won by Colombian triple

jumper Caterine Ibarguen who
won in Beijing with a leap of
14.90m.
4/4
WAS Kenyas
performance in the 3000m

steeplechase event. Ezekiel
Kemboi won gold, Conselsus
Kipruto took silver while Brimin
Kipruto took bronze. In fourth
place was countryman Jairus
Birech. Kenyas sweep of the first
four places is a feat only achieved
twice before at the World
Championships by the USA in
the 2005 mens 200m and
Ethiopia in the womens 5000m
the same year .
I think 10.60 is there.

Hopefully in my next race Ill
get it together. I just trust in
god and I work hard, and
focus on executing. I dont
focus on just winning but on
executing.
Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (C) won the womens 100m final. Dutch Dafne Schippers (L) finished second best while American Tori Bowie won the bronze. AP
In Birds Nest, a Jamaican swift

Fraser-Pryce matches Bolt stride by stride, wins third 100m title at the World Athletics Championships
REUTERS
BEIJING, AUGUST 24
JAMAICA'S SHELLY-ANN FRASER-PRYCEwon
an unprecedented third world championship 100 metres title in 10.76 seconds at
the Bird's Nest stadium on Monday.
Former heptathlete Dafne Schippers ran
a second Dutch national record of the night
in 10.81 to win silver, while American Tori
Bowie claimed bronze in 10.86.
The 28-year-old double Olympic champion powered home in 10.82 seconds to lead
Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare (10.89) through
from the opening heat. Earlier, Kenya's Vivian
Cheruiyot won a thrilling last lap sprint to
claim the women's 10,000 metres gold
medal, capping her comeback season with
her second world title in the longest track
event.
The 31-year-old, who took 2014 off to
have a child, hit the front with 300 metres to
go and powered her way to victory in 31 minutes, 41.31 seconds to reclaim the title she
won as part of a 5,000-10,000 double at the
2011 world championships in Daegu.
Ethiopia's Gelete Burka stayed with
Cheruiyot when the Kenyan sprinted away
on the back straight but could not handle the
pace down the final straight and had to settle for silver in 31.41.77.
The bronze medal went to American
Emily Infield (31.43.49), who pipped Molly
Huddle on the line when her American team
mate slowed to celebrate what she thought
was going to be third place.
In the absence of Ethiopia's three-times
world champion Tirunesh Dibaba, who has
taken the year off to have a child, Cheruiyot's
victory kept the title in East Africa for the 10th
straight championships. Infield's was the first
world championship medal for a nonAfrican born runner in the women's
10,000m since her compatriot Kara Goucher
won bronze in Osaka in 2007.
Away from the track, Canada's Shawn
Barber nailed his first four jumps to win pole
vault gold, leaping 5.90 metres to win his first
major global title.
Barber and Raphael Holzdeppe failed
with three attempts at six metres but the
German defending champion had cleared
5.90 on his third jump while the Canadian
This gold Bolts toughest so far: Coach Mills

BEIJING: Usain Bolt's coach, Glen Mills,
hopes the Jamaican can recover from sore
legs to complete a world championship
sprint double for the third time in his career after what he rated as the athlete's
toughest win yet. Mills was elated after
Bolt upset the form book to win his third
100m world title at the Bird's Nest
Stadium on Sunday with a season-best
9.79 seconds.
The Jamaican ended a 28-race unbeaten run by his American rival, Justin
Gatlin (9.80), while extending his headto-head record to 7-1. "I think this is
toughest victory he's had," Mills told
Reuters. "For the past two years, he's had
significant challenges with his preparation plagued by intermittent injuries and
unfitness and (being) unable to actually
complete. It was a very trying time and it
took a lot of skill and work and determination for him to get (to) what he was able
to achieve by defending his championship."
Bolt, who had struggled for form and
fitness all season, stumbled his way
through the semi-finals and got nowhere
close to the times that Gatlin had been
posting until he surged past the American
over the last 30 meters at the Bird's Nest
Stadium. "It was a lot of mental pressure
and we had to do work on a lot of different things in the last two weeks or so to
had gone over on his first attempt and

claimed the gold. France's Olympic champion and world record holder Renaud
Lavillenie was left with a fourth bronze
medal in four world championships after
failing in all three of his jumps at 5.90. He
shared third place with Poles Piotr Lisek and
Pawel Wojciechowski.
Colombia's Caterine Ibarguen, unbeaten
since the 2012 Olympic Games, retained her
world championship triple jump title.
The salsa-dancing nurse, who had to settle for the silver medal in London three years
ago, led from the second round and her fifthround effort of 14.90 metres secured the gold
medal in Beijing. Silver was won by Hanna
try and get on track," said Mills, who has

been coaching the 29-year-old since
2005.
"He really showed that he was a true
champion. It's not the easy ones that
show your character, it's those that you
can win when you are not supposed to
win." Mills disclosed that he and Bolt had
decided to focus their preparations on the
100m at the expense of the 200. The
Jamaican will go for successive world
championship sprint sweeps with the
200 meters final scheduled for Thursday,
and his coach said they would assess their
build-up to the half lap race round by
round, starting on Tuesday.
"I know he was a bit sore coming out
of the 100, which is understandable because the things he's missing is the kind
of competitive edge that allows you to go
maximum speed," Mills said. "So we're
going to see ... tomorrow will give us an
indication of just how much he has recovered."
Bolt, the reigning Olympic champion
and world record holder, completed the
world championship sprint double in
Berlin (2009) and Moscow (2013). With
his 100m triumph on Sunday, the
Jamaican sprinter increased his career
medal haul at the worlds to nine golds
and two silvers.
REUTERS
Knyazyeva-Minenko who set an Israeli
record with an effort of 14.78.
Olga Rypakova, the Olympic champion
from Kazakhstan, snatched bronze in the last
round as she stretched out to claim a season's
best 14.77. Ibarguen enchanted the packed
crowd at the Bird's Nest Stadium, engaging
the fans after she outjumped KnyazyevaMinenko's best effort with a leap of 14.80 in
the second round.
The fast track caused the men's long
jumpers problems in measuring their runups in the morning session and, while there
were no such concerns for the women's
triple jumpers, some struggled to control
their approach speed.
Try as they might, Ibarguen's rivals could

not eclipse the 31-year-old Colombian.
Ekaterina Koneva, the Russian considered
the champion's biggest threat, was disappointing as she finished seventh with a best
of 14.37. Bulgaria's Gabriela Petrova recorded
a personal best 14.66 in the fifth round before being cruelly denied the bronze by
Rypakova's final effort.
Knyazyeva-Minenko's silver is only the
third medal to be won at the world championships by Israel since 1983.
The 25-year-old previously competed for
Ukraine and finished fourth in the 2012
Olympic final.
Gatlin scowls at moms heckler

If you heckle Justin Gatlin's mom, he will
respond even if he's in the middle of an
awards ceremony. Standing on the podium
after receiving his 100-meter silver medal
Monday at the world championships, the
American sprinter gestured toward a heckler
who was bothering his mother in the stands.
He scowled and pointed in the direction of
the offender.
"I was like, 'Hey, chill out with that. Be a
gentleman,''' Gatlin told The Associated
Press. Gatlin has been a controversial figure
in the sport since his return from a four-year
doping ban in 2010. After losing to Usain Bolt
in a tight race the night before, Gatlin was
asked over and over if he thought his loss was
good for sprinting. There were some who
portrayed his race with Bolt as "Good vs.
Evil.'' That, he can handle. But this, he insisted, crossed the line. "No one has to talk
disrespectful to anybody,'' Gatlin said. "We're
just here to run. They pay tickets to see us
run. Let us run and do what we do.''
Gatlin made eye contact with his mother
just before receiving his medal from IAAF
President Lamine Diack. He seemed perturbed and his eyes wandered into the stands
as Diack approached to place the medal
around his neck.
Once Diack moved past him to give Bolt
his gold medal, Gatlin glared at someone and
then point with his right finger. Gatlin returns
to the track Tuesday for the opening round
of the 200.
He is trying to forget about his stumble
that cost him a chance at beating Bolt in the
100 and is looking forward to another shot
against the powerful Jamaican.
SHELLY-ANN FRASER-PRYCE
Babar makes history,

breaks national mark
SHAHID JUDGE
MUMBAI, AUGUST 24
BREAKING NATIONAL records in the 3000
metre steeplechase is no longer a novelty for
Lalita Babar she's done it thrice in two
years. Yet her latest endeavour at the World
Athletics Championships in Beijing has put
her among the top 20 in the world. Clocking
9:27.86 during the heats on Monday has promoted the 26-year-old to 19th best in this
year's best timings, a push up by 11 paces.
Fourth in the second heats held at the
Bird's Nest, her finish was good enough for
her to qualify for the finals. She qualified for
the final round as one of the six fastest timers
outside three top finishers in each of the
three heats who got automatic qualification.
In sheer timings, she was eighth among
the 15.
Improving her best by almost seven seconds since June's Asian Championships
(9:34.13), Babar's feat has also given her the
distinction of becoming the first Indian
woman athlete to qualify for the final of a
running track event on the world stage. In
fact, only Inderjeet Singh (men's shot put),
Anju Bobby George (women's long jump),
and Vikas Gowda (men's discuss throw) have
reached the finals of their event at the world
event.
Previously, PT Usha , KM Beenamol, Tintu
Luka have made the semis after clearing the
heats. Babar, the girl from Sahyadri's foothills
in Maharashtra, will run in the finals on
Wednesday.
However, for the 26-year-old to be considered a challenger for a podium finish, athletics commentator Rahul Pawar opines that
the runner has to shave off seven more seconds from her timing.
"To be among the medal contenders, one
needs to run under 9:20," he says.
Nonetheless, the fastest timing recorded at
the heats was 9:24.38 by Tunisia's Habiba
Ghribi.
Incidentally, of the 15 athletes that have
qualified for the final of the steeplechase
event, Babar's timing has her slotted as
eighth fastest on the list. "If she finishes in
the top eight in the final, then that would
make her a world class steeplechase runner,"
Pawar adds.
Lalita Babar qualified for 3000m

steeplechase final. Previously, PT Usha ,
KM Beenamol, Tintu Luka had made
the semifinals after clearing the heats.
No stranger to hard work

Hailing from Satara, the drought prone
Sahyadri region of Maharashtra, Babar is no
stranger to hard work. With her parents as
farmers and the terrain being rendered difficult for agriculture, the toil during her youth
has given her body the ability to recover
faster than most. This aspect also aids her
versatility as the 5'6" steeplechaser used to
train in the 10,000 metre race along with the
42.195 km marathon.
Yet ever since she has begun specialising
in the steeplechase event, Pawar has noticed
a significant improvement.
"Lalita has sharpened her posture,
rhythm of pace and composure. She's covered plenty of miles in the training which
made her bettered prepared. She's also got
this single minded focus on her training and
firm faith in her ability that she can take on
any challenge," explains Pawar.
Important to her training regime was the
rigidity her coach Dr Nikolai Snesarev
brought to her preparation program.
The experienced master tactician conducted his training at a secluded facility in
Coonor with only Babar, OP Jaisha and Sudha
Singh as his wards. The standard camp in
New Delhi was given a miss for the high-altitude set-up in order to not undo the skill
the athletes had gained.
The strict training program earned her
the fastest finish she has managed in her career so far. What she does in the final though
will determine if she is world class.
On Mumbais slow local, U Mumba ride the wave of success

SHAHID JUDGE
MUMBAI, AUGUST 24
The U Mumba team after winning the2nd edition of the PKL. Dilip Kagda
A PAIR OF formally dressed Japanese businessmen shuffled urgently towards the reception at a posh city hotel. Their enquiries
resulted in the hotel staff pointing towards
a group nearby. Further investigation
brought forward Masayuki Shimokawa, the
U Mumba kabaddi team's Japanese player.
Thoughts were exchanged and laughs were
shared, along with a few business cards.
At the other end of the lobby, Rishank
Devadiga was sharing a light moment with a
chef. "We've stayed at this hotel since our
camp two months ago. We've all become
good friends," says the raider. Nearby, the pair
of Mohit Chhillar and Surender Nada goofed
around, taking selfies.
Meanwhile, veteran Jeeva Kumar, dressed
in the prescribed black jersey that read
"Champions 2015," patiently waited by the
travel desk for the unprecedented journey.
Just as Mohun Bagan had done a few months
ago after winning the I-League, and the 2014
IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders before
Passengers and passersby alike

were pushed aside to make
room for the U Mumba players.
Among those moved aside were
members of the Indian Oil
hockey team that was travelling
to the nearby hockey stadium.
them, the U Mumba team was to embark on
a victory parade around Mumbai.
The festivities were arranged to mark the
team being crowned champions in the second season of Pro Kabaddi League, when
they beat Bengaluru Bulls 36-30 in the final,
the previous night. Plans on the day included
a taxi ride to Andheri railway station, where
the team would board a local train to
Churchgate, followed by an open jeep procession along Marine Drive.
Just as a crowd gathers around a film set,
a sizable congregation assembled to praise
and congratulate the players. Skipper Anup
Kumar, the most recognisable face in the
tournament was the target of amateur shut-
terbugs, scrambling for that perfect shot with

their cell phones even as a group of sternlooking security personnel, hired by the franchise, kept the crowd at arm's length.
Through the narrow lane the group
marched. The bouncers in the front moved
civilians to either side. Fans cheered, stuck
their hands out in hope that a player would
shake it.
On platform No. 7, the mood and curiosity remained the same. Travellers in trains
passing by had their gaze fixed on the group
dressed in black jerseys. While Anup was the
most adored, the Dabbawallas were chanting
the names of Devadiga and Vishal Mane, the
two local boys. Aboard the 3:12 pm slow
train to Churchgate, the group finally had
time for themselves. In a corner, Nada,
Chhillar and Shimokawa had already dozed
off, true to the spirit of train travel.
In turn Jeeva, who worked at the Western
Railway for three years way back in 2003,
Devadiga and Mane asserted that this was
the easiest train ride they've ever had. "We
would normally be hanging outside the train
because of the crowd at rush hour. Playing
kabaddi is easier than tackling the train rush,"
says Devadiga.
As in Andheri, the reception at

Churchgate was one of awe and bewilderment. Students from nearby colleges ran to
catch a glimpse of the players, forgetting they
had to catch their trains. Through public demand, Anup was hoisted along with the 18
kg trophy. But just as it was before, the security crew came forward to usher the players
toward the exit.
Passengers and passersby alike were
pushed aside to make room for the U Mumba
players. Among those moved aside were
members of the Indian Oil hockey team that
was travelling to the nearby hockey stadium
for a match. Former India player Prabhjot
Singh was made to make way, greeting the
kabaddi team with a wry smile.
Another leg of the journey awaited the
team as they boarded the four open-roof
jeeps parked just outside the station.
Devadiga and Mane though rode pillion on
the two pilot Harley-Davidson motorcycles
that was leading the entourage.
Chhillar and Nada had by then regained
their energy as they were the first to begin
waving at the fans. The rest took their lead,
ready to go through the entire procedure all
over again.
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Barcelona take opening credits

Suarez makes up for Messi miss in win; Real held by budget club Gijon on Benitez debut
Juve bid for record 5th

title off to bad start
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MILAN, AUGUST 24
MADRID, AUGUST 24
LIONEL MESSI missed a penalty but Luis
Suarez scored in the second half to give
Barcelona a 1-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao in
their Spanish league opener on Sunday. That
gave the defending champions a small gap
on archrivals Real Madrid right away, as Rafa
Benitez started his stint in charge with a 0-0
draw at promoted side Sporting Gijon.
Suarez netted the winner from close
range after a left-flank cross by Jordi Alba in
the 54th minute at Bilbao's San Mames
Stadium. Messi had a chance to open the
scoring in the first half after a disputed foul
on Suarez inside the area, but the Argentine
playmaker had his low shot from the spot
saved by goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz. "We won
the game and that's what's important,"
Suarez said.
A disappointing result in the opener
would have raised more questions about
Barcelona after an unusually difficult start to
the season. The club was stunned by Bilbao
last week in the Spanish Super Cup final, losing the title 5-1 on aggregate.
Bilbao presented the Super Cup trophy to
the nearly 50,000 fans that packed the San
Mames on Sunday, but the team could not
keep their momentum going against the
Spanish powerhouse.
Barcelona played just well enough to earn
the victory, and had most of the significant
scoring opportunities. Sergi Roberto hit the
crossbar with a right-footed shot in the 60th,
and Messi made one of his traditional runs
past several defenders near the end of the
game but his shot came out weak for an easy
save by Iraizoz.
Messi's best chance was the 32ndminute penalty kick, when his left-footed
shot was deflected wide as Iraizoz dived to
his right to tip the ball away. Bilbao players
loudly complained at the penalty call as it appeared there was only light contact by defender Gorka Elustondo on Suarez. Replays
also showed that the Uruguayan striker appeared to be offside at the time of the pass
from the back field.
Luis Enrique's team began its season with
a depleted squad because of injuries and suspensions, and it only got worse Sunday when
right back Dani Alves had to be substituted in
the first half and Sergio Busquets in the sec-
Suarez netted from close range in the 54th minute after Messi had a weak penalty saved by Bilbao keeper Iraizoz.
ond because of apparent injuries. Star striker
Neymar was recovering from the mumps
and fellow Brazilian Adriano was injured,
while Gerard Pique and Jeremy Mathieu
were suspended.
"It's a difficult situation, they are very important players for our team," Suarez said.
"But we have a lot of quality players to replace them if needed."
Madrid, trying to end a three-year title
drought in La Liga, dominated at the El
Molinon Stadium but couldn't capitalize on
their scoring chances, including a few good
ones involving Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth
Bale. Sporting Gijon goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar
made a great save on Ronaldo's shot in the
84th to keep the deadlock intact.
Newly signed Croatia midfielder Mateo
Kovacic made his debut in the second half
but wasn't able to spark Madrid to victory.
After the final whistle, Sporting Gijon players
and fans celebrated the result in the team's

return to the top flight. "We showed character and personality in the second half,"
Benitez said. "We went for the win but just
couldn't score."
In one of the late games, Celta earned a
2-1 win at Levante, which played a man
down nearly the entire match after losing
midfielder Simao Mate to a red card in the
fifth minute. Real Betis salvaged a 1-1 home
draw against Villarreal thanks to a late goal
by Ruben Castro.
Atletico Madrid began with a lackluster
1-0 win over newcomer Las Palmas at their
Vicente Calderon Stadium on Saturday
thanks to a 16th-minute free kick goal by
Antoine Griezmann, while midfielder Salva
Sevilla scored early in the first half to give
Espanyol a 1-0 win over 10-man Getafe. The
league struggled to produce goals on its first
two days, with scoreless draws between
Valencia-Rayo Vallecano, Real SociedadDeportivo La Coruna and Sevilla-Malaga.
Lack of goals worry Rafa

Benitez said last week he was not concerned about his side's relative goal drought
in their final warm-up matches before they
began their latest La Liga campaign at promoted Sporting Gijon. Those words came
back to haunt him on Sunday as his expensively assembled team were held to a 0-0
draw at Gijon's Molinon stadium, with the
likes of FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano
Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, the world's most
expensive player, drawing a blank.
It was a triumph for modest Gijon, whose
annual budget in 2014-15 was more than 100
times smaller than Real's, while Benitez was
left bemoaning a lack of shooting accuracy
from his players but insisting he was still optimistic Real can secure silverware this term.
UDINESE STUNNED Juventus by winning 10 in Turin on Sunday as the Italian champions' bid for a record-equaling fifth successive
league title started with their first loss in 48
Serie A home matches.
Juventus dominated but were unable to
finish any of their many chances and Udinese
made the host team pay when Cyril Thereau
scored 12 minutes from time with one of his
side's few opportunities. The Bianconeri's last
league defeat at the Juventus Stadium was
on January 6, 2013, against Sampdoria.
It was Stefano Colantuono's first match in
charge of Udinese although his 200th as
coach in the top flight.
In the evening matches, Fiorentina eased
past 10-man AC Milan 2-0, while Sassuolo
beat Napoli for the first time in Serie A, coming from behind to win 2-1. Inter Milan
snatched a 1-0 win over 10-man Atalanta
when on-loan Manchester City striker Stevan
Jovetic curled a stunning strike into the top
right corner in the third minute of stoppage
time.
Newly-promoted Carpi missed a penalty
in their first ever match in Serie A as they lost
5-2 at Sampdoria, which had David Ivan sent
off late on. Frosinone was also playing in the
top flight for the first time in their history and
lost 2-1 at home to Torino, despite taking the
lead in the seventh minute through Danilo
Soddimo.
Elsewhere, Chievo Verona won 3-1 at
Empoli and Palermo beat Genoa 1-0 with a
stoppage-time strike from Abdelhamid El
Kaoutari. Juventus won the domestic double
of the Italian league and cup last season, and
also got to the Champions League final. But
they lost three of their star players in the offseason, with Andrea Pirlo, Arturo Vidal and
Carlos Tevez leaving.
It has signed top names such as Mario
Mandzukic, Paulo Dybala, Sami Khedira and
Simone Zaza among others. Khedira was out
injured, along with Alvaro Morata, Claudio
Marchisio and Kwadwo Asamoah but
Mandzukic was fit to start, while Dybala
came off the bench in the second half.
Udinese defender Ali Adnan became the
first Iraqi to play in Serie A. Juventus had already picked up their first piece of silverware
this season, beating Lazio 2-0 in the Italian
Super Cup, and the players paraded the tro-
NUMBER BOX
48
NUMBER OF consecutive matches
Juventus had been unbeaten at
home prior to their loss against
Udinese on Sunday.The Bianconeri's
last league defeat at the Juventus
Stadium was on January 6, 2013,
against Sampdoria.
phy before kickoff.
Juventus started brightly and Udinese
struggled to get out of their half, with the
hosts enjoying 11 shots in the first half to just
one effort by their opponents.
Breaking deadlock
Promising young talent Kingsley Coman
was at the heart of many of Juve's attacks. He
almost set up a goal just before the hour, with
a smart turn on the byline before cutting the
ball back to Simone Padoin, whose effort was
straight at Udinese goalkeeper Orestis
Karnezis.
It was Udinese who broke the deadlock
in the 78th minute with their first shot on target. Panagiotis Kone put in a tantalizing cross
from the right flank and Thereau escaped his
marker to volley in low at the far post. Both
Fiorentina and Milan had new managers in
Paulo Sousa and Sinisa Mihajlovic, respectively. The match turned in the 36th minute
when Rodrigo Ely was sent off for two bookings, both for fouls on Nikola Kalinic. Marcos
Alonso scored from the resulting free kick,
curling a sensational strike into the top left
corner.
"We are still under construction," Juve
coach Massimiliano Allegri, who has lost
Carlos Tevez, Andrea Pirlo and Arturo Vidal
from last season, told Sky Sports Italia. "We
must have patience to rebuild. "It's to be expected when you have so many new players,
it takes a while to refine the mechanism."
There was further nightmare for Milan as
new signing Alessio Romagnoli, who was
signed from Roma for 25 million euros ($28.5
million), gave away a penalty when he fouled
Josip Ilicic by the byline. Milan goalkeeper
Diego Lopez who had pulled off a stunning
save moments earlier guessed the right
way but could not prevent Ilicic's spot-kick
from going into the bottom right corner.
King in his castle: Federer wins

his seventh title at Cincinnati
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MASON (OHIO), AUGUST 24
ROGER FEDERER jutted his right index finger toward the summer-blue sky to celebrate his latest Cincinnati title. He would
have needed both hands to count all of
them. Might as well just rename it the
Federer Open. Or maybe subtitle it the
Djokovic Heartbreak.
Federer remained perfect in Cincinnati
finals, winning an unprecedented seventh
championship on Sunday while denying
Novak Djokovic the one title that always
eludes him. Federer never faced a break
point during a 7-6 (1), 6-3 victory at the
Western & Southern Open.
Serena Williams got her name on the
Rookwood trophy for the second time on
Sunday, beating third-seeded Simona
Halep 6-3, 7-6 (5) for back-to-back
Cincinnati titles. She heads off to the U.S.
Open trying to become the first player
since Steffi Graf in 1988 to pull off a calendar Grand Slam sweep. I'm ready,''
Williams said. I don't care if I win or lose
or break even. I'm ready to start it, get it
over with, and be done and go on to the
next event. But I'm so ready for New York.
Let's go, right?''
It took Williams six tries before she got
her first Cincinnati title. Federer has never
failed. The Swiss star is 7-0 in the finals,
which always brings out the best in him.
He loves the fast-playing courts and the
small-town atmosphere in suburban
Cincinnati heading into the big-city pressure of the U.S. Open.
I don't know how many years I can
come back, but I'll try my best to be here
many more years to come,'' Federer said
after the win.
No surprise there. Federer is the undisputed king of this court. He's very good
on this center court,'' Djokovic said. He's
more confident each year.
By contrast, the world's top-ranked
player is 0-5 in Cincinnati championship
matches, never winning so much as one
set. Djokovic covets the title the only one
he needs to become the first to win all nine
of the current ATP Masters events.
The fifth time I've been in the title
(match) and never won this title, so I guess
I have to wait for Roger to retire,'' Djokovic
said. I've been coming back each year
wanting it more.
Federer feels for him.
I really hope you can win here someday, Federer told him on court during the
trophy presentations. He deserves it.
C'mon, so close.
In addition to Cincinnati, Federer has
won seven titles at Dubai and Wimbledon,
eight at Halle. It was Federer's first tour-
Federer never faced a break point during his 7-6 (1) 6-3 win over Djokovic.
NUMBER BOX
0/5
IS NOVAK DJOKOVICS record in the
finals of the Cincinnati
championships. He has never won a
single set in the finals.
0
NUMBER OF TIMES Roger Federer
was broken in his five matches at
Cincinnati this week. He only faced
three break points in the same
period.
nament since he lost to Djokovic in the finals at Wimbledon. With the win, he'll be
seeded second behind Djokovic at the U.S.
Open.
Federer spent the last few weeks practicing in Switzerland, and he arrived in
Cincinnati hoping to get his game
smoothed out for the U.S. Open. His serve
is right where he needs it. During his five
matches in Cincinnati, Federer wasn't broken during 49 service games.
He faced only three break points all
week, none on Sunday when he lost only
13 points during his 11 service games and
the tiebreaker. Federer also won the 2012

title without having his serve broken all
week.
Djokovic fought off four break points
early in the first set, and Federer never gave
up more than two points a game off his
serve as it went to a tiebreaker. Djokovic
became animated as he dumped three
shots into the net during the tiebreaker,
helping Federer take control. At that point,
it was clear where this one was head.
Another Federer win. Another Djokovic
disappointment.
Federer broke him and went up 3-0 in
the second set. Djokovic fought off three
breaks points during an 18-point game
that pulled him within 4-2, but Federer
held serve and closed it out when Djokovic
returned a serve long. Then he raised his
racket in his left hand and his right index
finger in celebration. One of seven.
Halep was the runner-up at Toronto a
week earlier and was hoping to beat
Williams for the second time in less than a
year she upset her at the WTA Finals in
October. Halep broke Williams' serve to
open the match, but couldn't sustain it.
Williams won four of the last six points
in the tiebreaker, finishing it when Halep
sliced a backhand shot into the net. And
then, the talk about the Grand Slam sweep
began.
I know you can do four, Halep told her
during the trophy presentation.
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THE LAST DAY OF CAMPAIGNING
On the last lap, leaders appeal to students: You must vote

About 60 per cent turnout recorded in the last two years; DSW says it may go down this time due to Raakhi, which falls on August 29
PU STUDENTS
ELECTIONS
MEGHNA MALIK
ON THE last day of campaigning before the
Panjab University Campus Students Council
(PUCSC) elections, all student organisations
were seen putting their best foot forward, as
the leading three party alliances
SOI+HIMSU+INSO+NSO+YOI,
ABVP+PUSU+SAP and NSUI+HPSU+HSA held
rallies across the PU campus on Monday.
Throughout the last week during campaigning across the university departments
and hostels, student parties urged all the students to vote. Many students just do not
turn up to vote, but each vote is very important, which is why we have been stressing
the fact that each and everyone must vote
this year, said Arshpreet Kaur, a supporter
of SOI.
Chairman of the Himachal Students
Union (HIMSU) Anshul Nainta said, We
have been appealing to all the voters to at
least cast their votes, irrespective of the party
Amarinder, Nagra warn students against SOI

Chandigarh: Senior leaders of the Punjab
Congress on Monday targeted the
Students Organisation of India (SOI), the
student wing of Shiromani Akali Dal, alleging that the party was using money
and muscle power to intimidate the students in the run-up to the elections to the
Panjab University Campus Students
Council. While former chief minister of
Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh alleged
that the Punjab Police had been asked to
help SOI, Congress MLA Kuljeet Singh
Nagra wrote an open letter stating that
the SOI that has political backing of
Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh
Badal and Bikram Singh Majithia was using money and muscle power.
Captain Amarinder warned the police officials against involvement in the
they choose to vote for. We have also requested the hostellers wishing to go home
to stay back till 11.30 am on Wednesday, and
go home after that.
Over the last two years, a voter turnout
of about 60 per cent has been recorded during the PUCSC elections. Dean Students
students election. In a statement issued

by him, he said that he had received a
number of complaints stating that the active volunteers of the National Students
Union of India (NSUI) living in and around
Mohali were being harassed by the
Punjab Police. The former CM also observed that the students elections should
best be left to the students only. He said
misusing the police force for the students
elections was shocking and shameful.
In his open letter, Nagra stated, I appeal to my dear students to stand against
the activities of the student outfits like SOI
and vote according to your conscience. The
Badals have ruined the youth ofPunjab for
their vested interests. Unemployment,
drugs and crime are on the rise in Punjab
under political patronage.
Welfare Navdeep Goyal said, Over the years,

there has been no significant change in the
voter percentage. The voter turnout in 2014
was lesser than in 2013. The change was very
small, as in 2013 we recorded a voter percentage of about 60.1 per cent, and in 2014 it
was 59.8 per cent. SEE ALSO PAGE 2
Some students are hopeful that the voter

percentage is likely to increase this year, as
the elections are being held on a weekday.
Divyanshu Budhiraja, president of last years
Students Council, said, Last year, on the day
of the elections, it started raining. A higher
voter percentage could have been recorded
last year, but it came down because of the
rain. This year, however, the elections are being held on a weekday, i.e. Wednesday, so we
are hopeful that there will be at least a
turnout of about 65 to 70 per cent.
However, others feel since Raakhi is being
celebrated on August 29, many students
have already gone home. Elections are being held on Wednesday, which is why students have assumed that less classes will be
held throughout the week. Therefore, many
have already gone home, and that might affect the voter percentage this year, said
Rajesh Kumar, a student of PU.
DSW Goyal added, It is very likely that
the voter percentage may go down this year,
since the elections are happening just a few
days before a festival.
The PUCSC elections were likely to be
held on August 28, but later, a recommendation was sent by the PU authorities and the
UT Police for holding the elections on August
26, as many students would be going home
for Raakhi on August 29.
Protest against poll codes; ABVP

member injured in clash
AFTER BEING provided with respective poll
codes for the PU elections, members of ABVP
and PUSU protested against the authorities
on Monday night.
Saurav Kapoor, a member of ABVP, said,
This year, the authorities have not allotted
the poll codes in an alphabetical manner. So
far, we were campaigning using a poll code,
which has now been given to SOI.
During the protest, members of SOI and
ABVP clashed, and a member of ABVP,
Mehak Veer Singh, was injured. He suffered
injuries on his head, and was taken to GMSH,
Sector 16, where he received two stiches on
his head.
Singh said, I was assaulted by four
unidentified people who came in an SUV
outside PUs Gate No. 2. The car had a sticker
of the Students Organisation of India (SOI)
on it.
A written complaint was submitted by
(above) ABVP members protesting

outside PU gate no.2 on Monday night;
an injured ABVP member. Express
Singh at the Sector 11 Police Station later in
the night. Police officials, however, said that
no case had been registered yet.
Diagnostic
Decide Ambala mayor plea Temporary power connections for those
centre sealed on red beacon, security in 3 living in colonies soon: Panchkula MLA
for violating months: HC to Haryana
THE METER MATTER
PCPNDT Act
PANCHKULA, AUGUST 24


HEALTH OFFICIALS on Monday sealed a private diagnostic centre in Sector 20 for seven
days after it was found violating the PreConception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic
Techniques (PCPNDT) Act.
This followed a raid conducted under the
supervision of Director (Health Services) V K
Gagneja. Four-five diagnostic centres were
raided, out of which M/S New Diagnostic
Centre, Sector 20, was found violating the
Act.
The doctor working in the centre conducted an ultrasound of a pregnant woman
without registering the details. As per rules,
before conducting an ultrasound, the doctor should have asked for the identity proof
of the woman, Form F should have been
filled out, an entry is required in the register. But without checking any details, the
doctor conducted an ultrasound, said the
DHS.
Details of each and every ultrasound conducted in the city are submitted to the DHS.
An official statement of the UT
Administration noted, The said centre has
been sealed, the registration has been suspended for seven days and a show cause notice has been issued to the centre for violations of maintenance of record under
PCPNDT Act.
THE PUNJAB and Haryana High Court on

Monday directed the Haryana government
to take a decision within three months on
the representation submitted by Ambala
Mayor Ramesh Lal seeking restoration of red
beacon for his vehicle and police security.
The directions came from the court
headed by Justice Paramjeet Singh while disposing of Lals petition challenging the
Haryana governments notification of April
24, 2014, wherein the mayors post in
Haryana was taken out of those dignitaries
who can put red beacon on their vehicles and
enjoy police security. Lals police security was
also withdrawn by the Haryana government
on January 17 this year.
Appearing for Lal, advocate R P Singh
Ahluwalia argued that the Chandigarh
Administration has given its mayor the status equivalent to Advisor to the Chandigarh
1 C above
normal
MIN: 26.2
3 C above
normal
SUNRISE: 5.54 am, SUNSET: 6.56 pm
Kundi connections in Abhaypur colony

in Panchkula. Sumit Malhotra
month, largely from colonies. But with the
implementation of the recent notification,
we will able to bring down the number.
As per the notification, a resident will have
to submit an affidavit and an indemnity bond
stating that he shall be liable for any legal ac-
16-year-old Chandigarh golfer to represent India in Taiwan

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ASSERTING THAT around 40 per cent of electricity loss is reported in Panchkula every
month, local MLA Gian Chand Gupta on
Monday said the residents of unauthorised
colonies would now be given temporary
electricity connections to bring down the
power theft figure.
This follows the notification issued on
August 11 that says the government has decided to release temporary connections to
the residents of unauthorised colonies,
which had been restricted since 2010.
There are a large number of colony residents who are interested in seeking a temporary connection, but since these colonies
are illegal, they cannot get an authorised
connection. In such cases, they end up taking
illegal electricity connections (kundi connections), leading to electricity thefts, MLA
Gupta told a press conference at HUDA Fields
Hotel, Sector 6, here. As per Uttar Haryana
Bijli Vittaran Nigam (UHBVN), Panchkula reports an electricity loss of 40 per cent every
The energy meter will be

installed on the pole outside the
premises
Only single-phase connection
will be provided
The electricity bills for such
connections will have a
different colour
ASIA PACIFIC JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP
FORECAST
Partly cloudy sky with
thundery development
Administrator and thus the mayor can put

red beacon on the vehicle with a flasher. Also,
it was submitted that after the Supreme Court
judgment in Abhay Singh versus Union of
India case was pronounced on December 10,
2013, with regard to curtailing the use of red
beacons, even the West Bengal government
has authorised its mayors for red beacons on
vehicles. The counsel argued that in the protocol a mayor comes above the MLA as well
as the MP and thus the mayor should be authorised to use red beacon.
The Supreme Court in its judgment had
observed that various people were misusing
red beacons on their vehicles as a status symbol and had directed various states and union
territories to redraw the list of dignitaries
who can use such lights. The Supreme Court
had even remarked, A large number of persons are using red lights on their vehicles for
committing crimes in different parts of the
country and they do so with impunity because the police officials are mostly scared
of checking vehicles with red lights, what to
say of imposing fine or penalty.
tion regarding his premises by the Local

Bodies Department or Town and Country
Planning Department concerned. An identity proof will also have to be submitted.
However, it has been made clear that the
connection will be provided purely on a temporary basis and the consumer with such an
electricity connection will not be entitled to
any right over the land or property, if any.
The colonies are illegal, and this fact is not
being challenged here. We are just providing the basis civic amenities, which is the
duty of the government, the MLA said.
The energy meter will be installed on the
pole outside the premises through cable, and
only single-phase connection will be provided. The colour of the electricity bills for
such connections will also be different from
that of the bills for the other connections.
All the electricity bills of such consumers
will have a detailed disclaimer clearly stating
that release of power connection and collection of bills from them does not confer on
him/her any occupation or ownership rights
on the property concerned and that he/she
is simply making a payment for the electricity actually consumed by him/her and nothing more, said Gupta.
LAST WEEK when 16-year-old Chandigarh

golfer Karandeep Kochar was selected in the
Indian junior team for the Asia Pacific Junior
Championship beginning from Monday at
Sunrise Golf Club, Taiwan, he had other
plans. He wanted to spend some time with
his grandfather Dr G S Kochar, a veteran
golfer and committee member at the
Chandigarh Golf Club. Dr Kochar had been
diagnosed with a stomach ulcer and was admitted to a city hospital.
But now Karandeep will play, drawing inspiration from his grandfather.
My grandfather has been my mentor

and I took up golf because of him. When I returned from the USA after taking part in US
Kids Golf Championship, he asked me to
concentrate on my game and the Asian
Championships. Its an honour representing
India at the tournament and I will be giving
my best, the youngster told Chandigarh
Newsline.
Being the second-ranked golfer in the
Indian Golf Union (IGU) Order of Merit list,
Karandeep will tee off in Taiwan along with
Aditi Ashok, who won the British Amateur
title last week. He will also be a member of
the Indian amateur team for the Asia Pacific
Amateur Golf Championship to be held in
Hong Kong in September later this year.
A regular winner in the categories D, C
KARANDEEP KOCHAR. Express Archives

and B on the IGU circuit, Karandeep made it
to the Indian team on the basis of his second
rank in the category A. He won the title in the
Haryana Junior Golf Championships played

in Gurgaon in April before he claimed the
runner-up slot in the Southern India Junior
Championships played in Bengaluru in June
early this year. The youngster then played in
the US KIDS Golf Championships in
Pinehurst, North Carolina, USA, where he finished a credible eighth. It has been a fine
start to his season this year when he won the
title in Gurgaon and claimed the second spot
in Bengaluru. Playing at Pinehurst was a challenge and to finish eighth among the worlds
best golfers boosted his confidence a lot.
Playing along with the likes of Aditi Ashok
will motivate him a lot and he has also set his
eyes on the Hong Kong event. Indias top six
amateur golfers play in such events and he
wants to utilise this chance, said Sandeep
Kochar, Karandeeps father.

Karandeep, who is a student of St Johns
High School, trains at Chandigarh Golf
Association Range under coach Jesse Grewal
and does fitness training under coach Sagar
Diwan.
He has been a regular winner on the junior circuit and these tournaments will add to
his confidence. He has played all over the
world and competing among Asias best junior golfers will be a challenge. Competing
along with the likes of Aditi Ashok, who won
the British Amateur title last week, will help
his game. His biggest strength has been his
confidence and such tournaments will provide him the platform to compete at the international level before he turns professional, said coach Grewal.
2 THE CITY
ADMISSION TO CLASS XI
Those left out in 3 counselling

sessions can apply on Aug 27
Around 450 students in humanities stream and 200 in science stream are on the waiting list
FOLLOWING A number of requests from parents and students, the UT Education
Department on Monday issued a notice stating that in case a candidate could not get a
seat in the first, second and third round of
counselling for admission to class XI, he/she
might submit the application form on
August 27.
Even after three counselling sessions for
admission to class XI, over 150 seats are still
lying vacant in 13 government schools.
Around 450 students in the humanities
stream and 200 students in the science
stream are on the waiting list.
The admission forms are still available
The students wishing to apply in the science stream can fill out the
admission forms for these schools: Government Model Senior
Secondary School (GMSSS), Sector 33; GMSSS-46; GMSSS-20 and
GSSS- Dhanas. For the humanities stream, the students can apply at
Government Senior Secondary School (GSSS), Khuda Lahora,
Maloya, Behlana, Kaimbwala and Raipurkhurd
free of cost at the six designated centres:
Government Model Senior Secondary School
(GMSSS), Sector 10; GMSSS-28; GMSSS-40;
GMSSS-20; GMSSS-46 and GMSSS- Modern
Complex, Manimajra.
Officials of the Education Department
maintain the seats are lying vacant because
the students do not want to go to a school
which is more than 5 km from their home.
Thus, a majority of seats are vacant in the

periphery schools. Students from Manimajra
are coming with a request to get a seat in the
Mamimajra school despite the fact that they
are getting admission at Khuda Lahora, said
an official.
As per the notice, the students wishing
to apply in the science stream can fill out the
admission forms for these schools:
Government Model Senior Secondary School

(GMSSS), Sector 33; GMSSS-46; GMSSS-20
and GSSS- Dhanas. For the humanities
stream, the students can apply at
Government Senior Secondary School
(GSSS), Khuda Lahora, Maloya, Behlana,
Kaimbwala and Raipurkhurd.
Candidates can apply for fashion designing and garment technology at GSSS-23,
GMSSS-20, GSSS-45, GSSS-Manimajra; for
textile designing, dyeing and printing at
GMSSS-32; for stenography and computer
application (Hindi) at GMSSS-Karsan; and
for accountancy and taxation at GMSSS-18.
Director Public Instructions (Schools)
Rubinderjit Singh Brar said, We have issued
a fresh notice so that vacancies can be filled
up as soon as possible. Admissions will be
done subject to seat availability in the schools
mentioned or nearby rural schools.
CBSE directs schools to

hold mock parliament
TO COMMEMORATEthe 125th birth anniversary of Dr Ambedkar and to improve the debating skills of students, the Central Board of
Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked all affiliated schools to conduct mock parliament
in schools.
The students of classes XI and XII will be
eligible to participate. The teachers have to
familiarise students about the Constituent
Assembly debates held between 1946 and
1950 and will have to identify the issues that
are relevant in the current socio-political context. The board has also directed the schools
to choose a venue to hold the sessions.
As per the boards directions, the school
heads along with the teachers and the students will have to visit the Parliament or state
Assembly to watch debates.
The board has also given a list of topics
that could be debated, such as the governments plans to enforce tribal rights through
appropriate interventions and while retaining and preserving their cultural ethos; re-
The students of classes XI and

XII will be eligible to participate.
The teachers have to familiarise
students about the Constituent
Assembly debates held between
1946 and 1950
defining the basis for reservation to ensure
balance, equity and inclusiveness in the areas of health, education and employment opportunities; free speech; women reservation;
capital punishment; invent in human resources, youth employment; and consumerism.
At present, only three city schools
Bhavan Vidyalaya School, Sector 27; Vivek
High School, Sector 38; and Strawberry Fields
World School, Sector 45 hold mock parliamentary debates which see participation
even from international students.
The school heads believe that such debates will especially help the students of the
government schools where debates are not
a regular phenomenon.
COLLEGE ELECTIONS
PANJAB UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ELECTIONS
Campaigning closes with

rallies, social media canvassing
Last-minute election fever grips students
IFRAH MUFTI
THE LAST day of campaigning at the city colleges saw colourful rallies, mass sloganeering, and treats in the canteens. The students
were seen donning party stickers on their attire and waving party flags. The student leaders were also seen wooing voters through
Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.
The student organisations at SD College,
Sector 32, held door-to-door campaigning
and were updating their manifestos on their
respective Facebook pages since morning. At
DAV College, Sector 10, the student organisations along with 200 supporters each, took
out rallies in Sector 10, screaming slogans
such as Aayi aayi PUSU aayi and waving
party flags.
One of the presidential candidates at Sri
Guru Gobind Singh College for Women,
Sector 26, Sukriti, said, It was a busy day. A
lot of campaigning took place on the campus. I met the students and apprised them
of my agendas. An assembly was conducted
on the campus and later on an open discussion with the students, where everyone was
given two minutes to speak on college-related issues.
We have not made any Facebook pages
as such, but we are in constant touch with
the students through WhatsApp groups,
she added.
Outside Khalsa College in Sector 26, Chandigarh, on Monday. Sahil Walia

Sukriti also shared some of the agendas
including making the campus Wi-Fi enabled,
providing clean washrooms and parking facilities for two-wheelers, and introducing
extra-curricular activities.
Chairman of the Student Organisation of
Panjab University (SOPU), Abhijot Singh, said
the day was spent meeting students individually and convincing them to vote for
whichever party they felt like.
Poonam Adhikari, presidential candidate

from Dev Samaj College, Sector 45, said campaigning was done without any hooting or
screaming on the campus.
Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Sector 26;
the Post-Graduate Government Colleges in
sectors 11 and 46; and the girls colleges including MCM DAV, Dev Samaj, PGGCG-11
and 42, also saw heightened election
excitement.
MEGHNA MALIK
AS MONDAY was the last day for campaigning for the Students Council elections at
Panjab University (PU), supporters of all student organisations campaigned extensively.
Rallies were conducted by the three major parties on the PU premises, and the supporters appealed to the voters in person.
Wearing colorful scarves and stickers supporting their parties and waving party flags,
around 800 to 1,200 supporters of various
parties went around the university campus,
asking for votes in their favour.
Students could also be seen campaigning in the university hostels. The students
were allowed to campaign till 9 pm in the
boys hostels, and till 7 pm in the girls hostels.
According to Chairman of Youth
Organisation of India (YOI), Balvinder Singh,
All the student parties have been working
day and night for the last one month, and it
all comes to an end today. Now it is the voters who will decide the fate of Panjab
University.
Members of Students For Society (SFS)
organised a play at the Students Centre, explaining how all student organisations at PU
were in some way or the other politically
backed. Despite having a presidential
woman candidate in last years students
elections, SFS is not contesting for the elections this year. Members of the group claim
that they just want to work for the welfare
of students, and do not wish to be in power
for the same.
We have been campaigning against sex-
Supporters of ABVP+PUSU+SAP take out an election rally at Panjab University on

Monday. Sumit Malhotra
Referendum on four-wheeler-free academic area

On the day of the elections, a referendum will be conducted on whether to make
the academic area of PU four-wheeler-free or not. According to PU authorities,
students will be given a separate ballot paper to vote in favour or against this
motion. The decision will be based on the verdict of the students, said Dean
Students Welfare Professor Navdeep Goyal.
ual harassment, and are now rooting for a
four-wheeler-free campus, said Amandeep
Kaur, who was the presidential candidate

from SFS last year.
NSUI creates stir with cartoons

IFRAH MUFTI
THE NATIONAL Students Union of India
(NSUI) seems to have assumed that their victory in the Students Council elections is sure
this year. A cartoon on the partys Facebook
page Monday depicted the presidential candidate of NSUI to have won the election race.
Meanwhile, in yet another Facebook update targeting the Students Organisation of
India (SOI), NSUI posted a cartoon with a tag
line that Panjab University (PU) would run
on SOI terms. The cartoon shows Vicky
Middhukhera, senior leader of SOI and the
state chief, with a message in his hand, Let
promises go in bin, inflow of drugs will not be
a problem after winning the election.
Another cartoon depicts a professor saying to a student that he cannot get admission
in Panjab University as he has scored very
low marks, to which a friend of the student
replies, Yaar tu tension na le, hum Vicky se
cheating seek lenge. (Do not worry, we will
learn from Vicky how to cheat)
The NSUI cartoons

Brinder Dhillon, senior leader of NSUI,
said, We are not targeting anybody. The cartoons depict reality, and it is the best way to
reach out to more students. A lot of students
on the campus are having a good laugh.
Vicky Middhukhera, while commenting
on the cartoons targeting him and his party,
said, These cartoons do not matter, which
WHATS ON
PLAY: Department of Cultural Affairs,
Haryana, to stage play Chandu Bhai
Natak Karte Hai, directed by Ravi
Mohan, at Tagore Theatre, Sector 18,
Chandigarh, 6.30 pm
MALHAR UTSAV: Pracheen Kala
Kendra, Chandigarh, to organise Malhar
Utsar at Bhaskar Rao Indoor
Auditorium, Pracheen Kala Kendra,
Sector 35-B, Chandigarh, 6.30 pm
RAMAKRISHNA MISSION:
Programme: mangal aarti, bhajans and
meditation, Ramakrishna Mission
Ashram, Sector 15-B, Madhya Marg,
6.30pm to 8.30pm
ISKCON: Hare Krishna Dham, Sector 36B, sringar darshan, guru puja and
bhagvatam class, 7.15am, free

homoepathic dispensary, 6.30pm to
7.30pm, gaur arati, sahil vihar, sankirtan
and bg discourse, 7 pm to 8.30pm.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Meeting
for people with drinking problem who
want to give up alcohol
addiction,Welcome Group, Carmel
Convent School, Sector 9, Disha Group,
Shivalik Public School, Sector 41-B,
Chandigarh, 6.30pm
APNI MANDI
CHANDIGARH: Dhanas (Zone-B) and

Sector 29-C, Chandigarh, 9am to 9pm
MOHALI: Sector 71 (Near St Xavier
School) 9am to 9pm, Sector 68
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chd.del@expressindia.com
is why we do not want to waste our energy

on replying to all of them. Students on the
campus want to know about our work and
our contribution to the university and NSUI
does not have any answers to the same.
Through these cartoons, we get to know
about their state of mind. They are just wasting their time and nothing else.
Members of SFS stage a play on students elections at Panjab University on Monday. Sahil Walia
Free trip to Shimla, this time organised by NSUI

This is an unfair way of getting
votes, but there is no denying that
all the student organisations are
willing to do anything to make sure
they get the maximum votes.

WITH JUST two days left for the Panjab
University Students Council elections, student organisations are doing their best to
get support from voters. While campaigning at the university departments and hostels has been one way of appealing to the
voters, the parties have also been resorting
to other ways to lure the voters, free trips
being one of them.
Members of the National Students
Union of India (NSUI) allegedly took students on a free trip to Shimla on Monday
morning. The students allegedly assembled
in the market area of Sector 15 at 6.30 am
on Monday, and were taken to Shimla in two
separate buses.
On Sunday morning, members of the
Students Organisation of India (SOI) also allegedly took around 100 students from PU to
A MEMBER OF NSUI
NSUI sponsored a trip to Kasauli for PU students on Monday. Sahil Walia
Thunder Zone Amusement and Water Park

near Mohali. Sources said that on Saturday,
a few students from the Department of
Chemical Engineering were taken to Sukhna
Lake by the SOI members free of cost. Prior
to this, over the last one week, student organisations claimed that there had been
more instances of using such unfair means
to get votes.
This is an unfair way of getting votes,
but there is no denying that all the student
organisations are willing to do anything to
make sure they get the maximum votes,
said a member of NSUI.
THE CITY 3
Punjab assures HC
of fair Mohali mayoral
polls on August 28
THE PUNJAB government has
assured the Punjab and Haryana
High Court that the Mohali
mayoral elections will be held
on August 28 in a transparent
manner. Voting for the posts of
mayor, senior deputy mayor
and deputy mayor will be done
by the councillors only.
After taking on record a state
governments reply, the division
bench comprising Justices Surya
Kant and Jaspal Singh disposed
of a petition filed by Mohali
Congress councillor Kuljeet
Singh Bedi seeking video
recording of the elections and
appointment of a neutral election observer.
The elections were to be
postponed to August 28 after
the elections proceedings on
August 18 were marred by a
ruckus.
Elections for the Mohali
Municipal Corporation (MC)
were conducted on February 22.
SAD had bagged 17 seats, BJP
had got six seats, Congress 14,
the Azad Group 11, and the
Independents had got two in the
50-member House.
S Karuna Raju, Divisional
Commissioner of Roopnagar,
informed the court that the
elections would be held at 3 pm
on August 28 and an FIR would
be lodged against the councillors who would try to disrupt
the election proceedings.
He further said that the
councillors would not be allowed to carry their mobile
phones inside the meeting halls
of the MC where the elections
would be held. The councillors
would vote by raising their
hands in favour of a particular
candidate and would have to
bring their identity proofs on
the election day, said Raju.
Surprisingly, Raju mentioned in his reply submitted in

the high court Monday, The
district administration will be
requested to declare a holiday
on the day of the elections.
Raju further said that Section
144 of the Criminal Procedure
Code would be imposed within
a distance of 500 m from the
election venue on the day, barring gathering of more than four
people at the same place.
He added that the election
proceedings would be recorded,
CCTV surveillance would be ensured and adequate security
arrangements made.
The petitioner, Bedi, had
submitted, The councillors are
being allured or being threatened to vote for a particular candidate. Despite there being only
23 seats in favour of the ruling
party, the deputy chief minister
has said that the mayor of
Mohali will be from the ruling
party.
Panchkula MC meet
to consider key issues
PANCHKULA, AUGUST 24
MUSIC IN THE AIR

During Sawan Mela at MCM DAV College in Sector 36, Chandigarh, on Monday. Jasbir Malhi
MISSION SMART CITY
On residents wish list education

reforms, more jobs, zero corruption
IN A first-of-its-kind programme held at Tagore Theatre

Monday, the Chandigarh
Administration sought the participation of the city residents in
making Chandigarh a smart city.
The members of several
Residents Welfare Associations
(RWAs) were present on the occasion, besides city residents
and senior officers of the administration including Adviser to
Administrator, Vijay Dev, MP
Kirron Kher and Mayor Poonam
Sharma.
Major General M S Kandal
(retd), a member of the citys
senior citizens association,
wished for education reforms
and heightened security for the
citys senior citizens and
women under the ambit of the
smart city project. He, however,
stressed that the implementation of the same would be possible only if the city residents
were forthcoming in their responsibilities. How can we see
a city being called if people keep
littering the streets? said
Kandal.
Baljinder Singh Bittu,
Chairman, Federation of Sector
Welfare Association, called for a
drive against open defecation in
the city. Emphasing that cleanliness should be the prime
agenda of the administration
under the smart city mission, he
said, RWAs need to be more
empowered and involved in
civic work, he said. He also
called for a crackdown on beggars in the city.
Ayushi Arora from MCM
DAV College asked for a Wi-Fienabled Chandigarh and execu-
LILY BAWA
COUNCILLOR FROM WARD NO 14
street lights, parks and sanitation facilities. The other departments are held by HUDA.
How can we draft a fresh
proposal when the old issues
have not been properly dealt
with? The dog sterilisation drive
is going at a slow pace, and there
has been no development in the
villages which are under the
corporation. Projects can be suggested only after the basic
amenities are provided, said
Lily Bawa, councillor from Ward
no 14, who also highlighted the
increasing number of dog-bite
cases being reported in the town.
Some councillors said the issue of low revenue generation
through collection of house tax
would also be discussed in the
meeting.
The civic body had held a
House meeting in March to approve its annual budget.
Dev asks for white paper on

citys core infrastructure
RISE ABOVE BLAME GAME: KHER
UNDER THE smart city mission,
UT Adviser Vijay Kumar Dev has
directed all concerned government departments to prepare a
white paper on the core infrastructure elements in the city.
During a citizen interaction
programme at Tagore Theatre
Monday, Dev said that continuous electricity and water supply
in the city would be his priority.
Dev has stated that the report
should highlight UTs solid waste
management processes, urban
mobility with focus on cycling
THE PANCHKULA Municipal

Corporation (MC) will hold a
House meeting on September 1.
Repair of potholed roads, stray
dog menace, sanitation, and
solid waste management are
some of the issues that are likely
to be taken up at the meeting.
The upcoming meeting will
be the first House meeting of
MC Commissioner, Jagdeep
Dhanda, who took charge last
month. Dhanda had also recently called a meeting of the
councillors to discuss the issues
to be taken up at the House
meeting.
The roads in the town are in
a bad shape; residents have
been complaining, and we want
to ensure that the patch work of
all roads is done. Then there is
the menace of stray dogs and
cattle on the roads. It is important to discuss these issues and
question the delay being
caused, said C B Goel, councillor
from Ward no 9.
The civic body, which completed its second year in July, is
responsible for providing basic
civic amenities, namely roads,
The dog sterilisation

drive is going at a slow
pace, and there has been
no development in the
villages which are under
the corporation.
City MP Kirron Kher has said that the administration and

the citizens cannot play blame game if UT is to earn the smart
city tag. Only if we keep aside personal and political grudges
and benefits, can we unitedly work towards a smart city and a
smarter country, said Kher.
She also asked the administration to follow a time-bound
policy of maintaining the civic infrastructure.
corridors and pedestrianfriendly localities, and the status

of public transport.
The administration will incorporate the views of the city
residents on these issues in its
smart city proposal, said Dev. He
added, I have directed the con-
NRI MBBS ADMISSIONS
HC refrains UT,
GMCH from
finalising six seats
cerned officials to prepare the report at the earliest so that the

consultation process with the
residents can be started at the
earliest. Dev further said that the
officials of the administration
were striving to provide the maximum ease to the citizens.
Now, pay
house
tax online
During the citizen interaction programme at Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh on Monday. Jasbir Malhi

FORMER MAYOR SLAMS UT OVER HOUSE TAX
CALL FOR SUGGESTIONS
Former mayor Subhash Chawla said the imposition of

house tax by the administration was wrong. He stressed that
the administration should seek political consensus before
imposing any tax.
The administration has developed an updated version

of the smart city app through which citizens can submit their
views on smart city. One can also upload files along with the
text.
tion of the Metro project at the

earliest. She also said that the
city should generate more employment opportunities for the
youth.
A city resident, S K Khosla,
said, For Chandigarh to become
a smart city, the officers at the
lower rung should become responsive to the public. We also
want
a
corruption-free
Chandigarh.
Adviser Dev said teams from
the administration would visit
the different sectors and listen to
the problems of the residents.
The views of the residents
will be incorporated in a proposal that is to submitted under
stage 2 of the smart city mission, he added. He also called
upon the residents to become
Log onto www.mygov.in to to submit proposals for

reforms in water and electricity supply, urban mobility plan,
sanitation, etc
Email suggestions at smartchd.fcs@gmail.com, or post
the same on the Facebook page, Smart Chandigarh
responsible.
Several people present at the
event were, however, upset with
the programmes proceedings.
Harish Kumar, a city resident,

said that it was only councillors
and some selected residents
who were allowed to speak.
Students of Government
School, Dadumajra, stage a
play at the Sector 17 Plaza in
Chandigarh on Monday.
Jasbir Malhi

Court Monday directed the
Chandigarh Administration and
the Government Medical College
and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32,
not to finalise the admissions for
six MBBS seats for NRI candidates for the academic year
2015-16.
Directions came from Justice
G S Sandhawalia on a petition
filed by Rajat Jain and two other
NRI aspirants for MBBS seats. The
court also allowed the petitioners to appear in the counselling
to be held for NRI seats on August
27. These three candidates were
among the four candidates who
had qualified an entrance test
held on June 21 out of a total of
24 candidates. The petitioners
had approached the high court
challenging
Chandigarh
Administrations decision of
changing the selection criteria after the written entrance test was
conducted.
As per a circular issued by the
Medical Council ofIndia (MCI) on
January 16, admissions to NRI
category MBBS seats were to be
made through a common entrance test for the academic session 2015-16. But later, the
Karnataka High Court, while
dealing with the issue of the NRI
Kher felicitated
at varsity
Chandigarh: Member of
Parliament (MP) and Panjab
University (PU) alumnus Kirron
Kher was felicitated at PU
Monday for playing a pivotal role
in getting 50 seats of MBBS restored at Government Medical
College and Hospital (GMCH),
Sector 32. Last year, the number
of seats in the college was reduced by 50 percent, for which
Kher had raised her voice. The
students had also thanked her at
an event held last year. ENS
Directions came on a
petition filed by Rajat
Jain and two other
NRI aspirants
seats in private unaided medical
colleges, held that these colleges
had a right to make admissions
by following their own procedures and quashed the MCIs circular. This judgment was also upheld by the Apex Court.
On August 18, the
Chandigarh Administration, on
the basis of a communication received by the MCI, changed its
criteria and decided that the
GMCH would follow the same
criteria for admissions to NRI
MBBS seats which was followed
in 2014 and that was on the basis
of merit achieved in class XII and
no written test. However, the petitioners submitted that there
was a full-bench judgment of the
Punjab and Haryana High Court
that once the prospectus was issued, the criteria could be
changed. It was also submitted
that GMCH was not a private
medical college and the
Karnataka High Court had issued
the order in the case of private
colleges.
The UT Administration and
GMCH have to file their replies
before the next date of hearing
on August 31.
ADVISER TO UT Administrator
Vijay Dev Monday launched the
e-payment facility for house tax.
Log onto www.sampark.chd.nic.in
to avail of the option.
Highlighting that the administration was committed to improving the quality of citizencentric services, Dev said, All
public services which involve
money transaction with the government will be digitised.
S B Deepak Kumar, Deputy
Commissioner-cum-Secretary
Information Technology, who
was present on the occasion, said,
We are continuously working
on adding more such services to
optimise the delivery of government services.
Pocket pinch
The residents, however, will
have to bear some additional
charges while making e-payment. Customers who opt for net
banking will be charged Rs 11.40
per transaction, including Rs 10
as standard fee and 14 per cent as
service tax.
Payment through debit and
credit cards will attract an additional charge of 0.85 per cent if
payment is below Rs 2,000 and
1.14 per cent for amounts above
Rs 2,000. Director, IT, Prince
Dhawan, said these charges
would be applicable as per RBI
norms.
4 TALK
NO HAPPY ENDINGS
BRITISH artist Banksy has brought out the dark
side of Disneyland in Dismaland. He has converted
an open air swimming pool in England into a gloomy
theme park. Featuring works by 60 artists, grumpy
guards greet visitors here and sparrows lift the dead.
Art, Music, Style, Food
Global Local
With their sights trained on exotic locales, designers are set to bring flavours of different cultures and
exotic destinations to Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015
PRINT RUN
KIMI DANGOR AND SHIKHA KUMAR
FROM the kilim weaves of Shiraz, Iran,
and motifs from the Mayan civilization to
Islamic architectural influences closer home
these designers may draw inspiration from
varied sources, but their renditions remain
rooted in Indian craft traditions. Even as they
give wings to the fanciful via embroideries
and prints, the accent is on easy silhouettes,
practical separates and contemporary connotations. Here are four collections that
promise to balance the exotic with the
essential at Lakme Fashion Week (LFW)
Winter/Festive 2015 that begins on August
26 in Mumbai:
EASTERN TIME
WHEN PUTTING together
the latest collection for her
label Pinnacle, Shruti
Sancheti had to look no further than the spiritual city
of Benaras. However, she
wanted to give the traditional weaves a contemporary twist. Drawing inspiration from Prime Minister
Narendra Modis proclamation of making Benaras like
Kyoto, Japan, Sancheti decided to incorporate motifs
of Japanese flora and fauna
like maple leaves, mushrooms, flower buds and
even abstract interpretations of birds. People tend
to perceive handloom fabrics as very fragile. Ive
used brocade, jamdani
and woven silks, but in
forms like jackets,
dresses, midi dresses, kimonos and crop tops,
she says. Her colour
palette spans a range
from deep reds, purples and browns
to ivories.
MUCH LIKE his Spring/Summer 2015 line,

that was aimed at the ready-to-wear (RTW)
market and was a medley of art prints and
colour, Tarun Tahilianis Winter/Festive RTW
line too is a homage to construction, albeit
in exotic prints. While the earlier line drew
inspiration from the paintings of Britainbased artists, the Singh Twins, this season he
trains his sights on Central Asian textiles and
print inspirations. The Russian influences in
bold and colourful stripes and chintz remind
you of the rich visual intensity of the Central
Asian textile tradition. The Shiraz (a city in
Iran) inspiration takes from their famous mosaics and kilim weaving practices, explains
Tahiliani. Easy silhouettes, ready-to-wear
separates, vibrant prints and autumnal hues
form the crux of Tahilianis fall line. Dhoti
pants, lungi skirts and jumpsuit sarees, along
with capes, kedia jackets, tees, tunics and
peplum gilets give the collection a free-flowing versatility. The prints add to the drama.
The collection embodies the young, hip and
happening Indian, who, although rooted in
the past, is a global citizen and has an individual sense of style, says Tahiliani.
A HISTORY buff, Payal Singhal chanced

upon pictures of pre-historic jewellery
on the online image collective Pinterest
a few months ago. Dating back to 300
A.D., Singhal was mesmerised by the detailing of the pieces, including intricate
filigree patterns and pyramid stacks. The
latter has now found its way into her collection Mayaa, in the form of a triangular motif. Mayaa draws inspiration
from the Mayan, Sumerian and
Egyptian civilizations. If you see
the fashion at that time, like togas, it was not restrictive. My
pieces, crafted out of silk, tulle,
taffetta and mul, feature relaxed
kurtas, dhotis and palazzos. The
geometric-style embroidery is
done using zardosi, pita kora,
mukaish and leather accents,
she says.
ANKUR AND Priyanka Modis first LFW

outing is essentially a continuum of the
Delhi-based duos minimalistic technique and clean lines. AM:PMs FallWinter 15 line Siyah, which literally
means black, is a monochromatic interpretation of their architecture-meetsart inspiration. We were inspired by
the beauty of Mughal architecture as
well as the exquisite black sheesham
wood inlay work native to Hoshiarpur,
Punjab. So we blended the two, albeit
in a modified and contemporary manner, says Priyanka. Intricate carvings

and jaalis and inlay work motifs are interpreted onto the clothes in the form
of prints and mukaish (beaten silver)
embroidery. Theres a strong Islamic influence in the silhouettes as well, with
draped tunics, anarkali jackets, palazzos, layered skirts and nazakat dhotis.
While the silhouettes remain modest
through innovative layering, weve
given subtle peeks of skin through
cowled backs and cutaways at waists,
says Priyanka.
India writes the script for us

SOMYA LAKHANI
in mind. There is Im a Babri don that Ram

wrote a few months ago, on right-wing intellectuals, set to the melody of the pop
song Im a Barbie girl.
Apart from political satire, there is also
commentary on societal norms, family systems, social media websites, among other
such topics. Rajouras piece on questioning
ones parents, albeit humourous, questions
patriarchy. These personal stories are
deeply political. There is a wrapper around
family as a unit and that pushes patriarchy, he says. Grover, on the other hand,
will talk about the plight of couples who
choose not to have children, as well as the
rainbow-coloured display pictures on
Facebook when the US court verdict about
gay marriages was announced. I also talk
about porn, my memories of growing up
and the porn ban, says Grover, who wrote
the critically acclaimed film Masaan.
With Grover in Mumbai, Ram and
Rajoura in Delhi, a lot of their work happens
on Skype and a WhatsApp group. There are
no rehearsals that the three ever indulge in
due to logistical reasons. Luckily, we have
the same politics and the same humour. It
works, says Ram.
Aisi Taisi Democracy will perform in
Bangalore, Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi from
September 7-10. Tickets are available on
www.bookmyshow.com
Mujtaba Ali has sung the lyrics penned by Muhammad Hassan Miraj
SUANSHU KHURANA
Tears Apart
One Direction
HIS PROPENSITY to cry in public has

earned him more criticism than brownie
points. Aamir Khan first did it on his television talk show of social issues, Satyamev
Jayate, and recently after coming out of a
screening ofhis close friend Salman Khans
Bajrangi Bhaijaan. When a newspaper
reported that he cried again after watching
nephew Imran Khan starrer Katti Batti,
it resulted in a field-day for the twitterati
on Monday. Twitter had all sorts of jokes
on his tear ducts. If one tweet questioned
if Khan is merely allergic to watching
movies, another one cheekily said that the
actor doesnt cry in rains because no one
can see him crying.
YET ANOTHER boy band seems set to

break its fans hearts. Apparently, One
Direction, which will release its fifth studio album in March next year, will be
splitting up for a year, the first time they
would do so since the band got together
on The X Factor in 2010. Although the
bands publicity team has chosen to remain mum for now, sources have leaked
information about band members Harry
Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and
Niall Horan, wanting to go their separate
ways. While Styles wants to explore
Hollywood offers, Payne might become
a judge on The X Factor.
Cheena Kapoor
ALL INDIA Artisans and Craft workers

Welfare Association (AIACA) in collaboration
with Google has launched Indian Artisans
Go Digital in order to use the internet to
make the handicraft business more efficient
in the current global scenario. Through this
initiative we are trying to create a direct link
Musician Rahul Ram Kunal Batra
Like you, we want peace too
SNAP SHOTS
Net Craft
Indian outfit Aisi Taisi Democracy and a band led

by an Army officer in Pakistan tackle subcontinent
politics through poetry and music
EVEN though the NSA-level talks between

India and Pakistan have been called off,
a different kind of dialogue has ensued on
the internet. When the trio from stand-up
act Aisi Taisi Democracy posted their song
Mere saamne waali sarhad pe recently to
promote the second season of their performance, it became an instant hit in the
two countries and went on to even spawn
its counterpart in Pakistan.
The song, available on YouTube, is part of
a 90-minute act by stand-up comic Sanjay
Rajoura, musician Rahul Ram (of Indian
Ocean) and Varun Grover. Back on stage
with new content, part two of Aisi Taisi
Democracy takes potshots at all involved in
shaping the current political landscape of
India. Humara desh humaare liye khud hi
script likhta hai, says Ram. Modi suit, the
Sardar Patel statue, Rahul Gandhis sabbatical, Swachch Bharat Aandolan, Kejriwals
constant fighting with the centre, the FTII
debaclenow that Mulayam Singh has
made that atrocious rape comment, it
might become part of the script. A fair
amount of improvisation also happens,
says Rajoura.
The act is punctuated with a few songs,
written keeping the political atmosphere
BYGONE ERA
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India, Pakistan Sing

At Each Other
between the artisans and the market, says

Madhura Dutta, Executive Director, AIACA.
Under the initiative, artisans will be made
aware of various schemes and social entitlements, such as the Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana,
through regular SMS. In order to increase
customer awareness, videos showcasing the
entire production process of some handicraft
products will also be posted on YouTube.
Gaali dena ab chhod bhi do,

baitho kuch kaam ki baat kare
Kab tak bandook banayenge,
bachho ko ab kuch dhyaan bhi dein
Na Bhutto ka na Gandhi ka,
ye tera mera funda hai
JUST when External Affairs Minister Sushma
Swaraj was briefing the press in Delhi on the
NSA-level talks, a Rawalpindi-based Major
in the Pakistani Army, Muhammad Hassan
Miraj, was penning these lyrics. He wanted
to make sure that the talks happened at
least at some level.
Titled Aisi Taisi Hypocricy, the political
satire is a counter-narrative to an Indo-Pak
piece on the same lines by Indian outfit Aisi
Taisi Democracy. Both songs are poetic
parodies-cum-messages set to the tune of
RD Burmans Mere saamne wali khidki mein
from Padosan.
Miraj sings, Mere saamne wali sarhad par,
sunte hain ki dushman rehta hai. Sattar baras
hone ko hai kuch ukhda ukhda rehta hai. Sung
by Mujtaba Ali, the song has gone
viral on both sides of the border and in many
other countries.
I heard the song created by Aisi Taisi
Democracy and was impressed. I thought we
must respond. Its not just you, even the people of Pakistan want peace. While I was writing, we had the press briefing by Foreign
Minister Sartaj Aziz, followed by Sushma
Swarajs press conference about the talks,
says 33-year-old Miraj, who is also a writer
of stories about the Partition. The song was

released on Facebook by Miraj since YouTube
is banned in Pakistan. In a matter of minutes,
Indian fans put up the song on YouTube.
The Pakistani Army hasnt had anything to
say on the song yet. They encourage me to
write, says Miraj, who writes travelogues
when travelling with the Army. In the past,
Miraj has been posted in Siachen and patrolled the LoC in 2005. Uski sab filmo aur
gaano mein mujhe dehshatgarh dikhaate hain/
Yahan mere school mein teacher bhi use dushman keh kar bulaate hai, he writes.
Mirajs family didnt migrate from India
but he read Amrita Pritams works on the
Partition. Everyone said Hindus killed
Muslims and Muslims killed Hindus. No one
spoke of the old tonga guy from Chakwal
who saved a Hindu family, or a Sikh, who hid
a Muslim girl and raised her as his daughter,
says Miraj.
Sanjay Rajoura, who wrote the track with
Varun Grover for Aisi Taisi Democracy, says
that it is the timing of the song that makes it
so special. And the fact that it has been written by a Major in the Pakistani Army. This is
a talk through the medium of internet that
didnt require any protocol or a dossier.
He is politically incorrect and makes the
song sound like a polite complaint. We are
stoked with the response, adds Rajoura.
Meanwhile, Miraj concludes with a satire on
the subcontinents politics Tum Dubai mein
bande jama karo/ hum Cheen se
pyaar badhaate hain/ tum BJP ko ballot do/
hum Mulla se jaan chhudaate hain/
Wahan RSS ki sena hai, yahan Zaid ka manjan
bikta hai.
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