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INTOLERANCE FALLOUT? SAFFRON

GROUPS STONE CAR IN SHAHRUKH
CONVOY IN AHMEDABAD 10
Breastfeeding
can save `4,300cr

study by medical journal

Lancet has revealed that
lack of breastfeeding causes a
loss of Rs 4,300 crore annually
in India, reports Himanshi
Dhawan. The research suggests that if India were to universalise the practice, it could
reduce 13% of its 1.56 lakh under-5 deaths annually. P 10

Another 6-yr-old
drowns in pit

fortnight after Devansh

Kakrora was found dead
in a tank at Ryan International, another 6-year-old died after falling into a water pit at a
DDA park in south Delhis Kishangarh on Saturday. Sources
said the girl fell into the pit
while construction work was
on. Police are trying to verify
whether she died due to drowning as claimed by her family.

UP polls: JD-U,
RLD to merge

D(U) and the Ajit Singh-led

RLD will merge to form a separate entity with a new name
and symbol to contest the 2017
UP polls, according to RLD
member Jayant Chaudhary,
reports Pankaj Shah. P 14

PS-based wake-up alarms,

LED reservation charts
and berth indicators, Wi-Fi
and vending machines for water, coffee and tea all these
facilities could soon be available in smart coaches on select trains. The Centre is set to
announce the initiative in the
Rail Budget, reports Mahendra Singh. P 13

Porsche crash in
GK-1 injures 2

wo persons were severely

injured and a family had a
close shave when the driver of
a Porsche Panamera rammed
the car into a WagonR and an
auto before crashing into the
wall of a bungalow near the
GK-1 M-Block market on Saturday night. The car, bearing
a VIP number, was being driven by a businessmans son.
He has been booked for rash
and negligent driving. P 3

Snapdeal now
valued at $6.5bn

nline marketplace Snapdeal has closed a $200million financing round, valuing the e-commerce firm at
$6.5 billion. The new investors
include Canadas Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and a
newly floated tech fund, Iron
Pillar, among others. P 19

hen minister of
women and child development Maneka
Gandhi suggested registering
the sex of every child in the
womb to ensure the girl child
is not killed, she probably did
not understand the complex
calculus that Indian would-be
parents go through when to
have a child, how many, and
boy or girl. A glimpse into this
intriguing decision-making
process undertaken by about
2.5 crore parents every year is
provided by Census 2011data.
Among women who had

INDIA SEALS T20 SERIES

AS ASHWIN RIPS LANKAN
TOP ORDER WITH 4-8 17

PTI

Arrears Waiver
To Be Graded
By Colonies

GOVT GIVES UP 2,855 CRORE

Late payment surcharge on
water bills waived for all
consumers till Nov 30, 2015

50% for C colonies (Lajpat

GRADED WAIVER ON WATER

BILL ARREARS UP TO NOV 30:

25% for A & B (Vasant

100% for those living in E, F,

G, H category colonies (Rohini,
Chandni Chowk)

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Chief minister

Arvind Kejriwal celebrated
one year of the Aam Aadmi
Party government by waiving outstanding water bills

75% for D category colonies

(Mayur Vihar, Model Town)

Nagar, Kalkaji)

Vihar, Greater Kailash)

Scheme to run till July 31
Waiver to cost govt
Rs 2854.8cr, which is due
from 11.9 lakh consumers

It was impossible to recover all these arrears. There

would have been long queues outside DJB offices
CM ARVIND KEJRIWAL
and corruption would start

EK SAAL KEJRIWAL: P 6
up to November 30, 2015, giving up arrears and late-payment dues totalling nearly
Rs 2,855 crore from close to 12
lakh consumers in Delhi.
The bonanza will extend
to all domestic consumers
and bulk water connections

with functional water meters, he said. The scheme will

run from Monday to July 31.
The waiver will follow a
graded system with maximum benefits going to AAPs
core constituency the lower middle-class.

Kejriwal explained that

most of the arrears being
written off were due to irregular billing and faulty meters,
and recovering the amount
would have led to corruption.
Inflated bills, P 6

MAKE IN INDIA STAGE GOES UP IN FLAMES

Shailesh Jadhav

Dancers continue to perform even as flames lick the stage at a Make in India event in Mumbais Girgaum
Chowpatty on Sunday. The fire, which broke out in the sound and lighting equipment section, ended
up destroying the stage. Political bigwigs, film stars, foreign delegates, performers and several thousand
citizens had to be evacuated. Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, who was present at the show,
announced an inquiry and said the showcase campaign would go on as scheduled | P 9

PIO favoured to
be judge in US
Supreme Court
Chidanand.Rajghatta
@timesgroup.com

WHO IS SRI
SRINIVASAN?

Washington: In June 2012,

President Obama nominated
Chandigarh-born legal luminary Srikanth (Sri) Srinivasan to the Federal Court of
Appeals, the highest ever judicial appointment of an Indian-American, in what was
then seen as putting him on
track for an elevation to the
Supreme Court. That unprecedented prospect has bubbled to the surface sooner than
expected following the sudden death in Texas on Saturday
of Justice Antonin Scalia, 79,
reportedly of natural causes.
While it may appear indecorous to discuss a replacement even as Scalias body is
returned to the capital, US political and legal circles are
agog with the implications of
his death. It evens a ninemember SC bench that typically bent 5-4 in favour of Conservatives, with Scalia leaning heavily to the Right. It provides Obama an opportunity
to reverse the benchs Rightist orientation, and he was
quick to seize the moment, saying he will fulfil his consti-

Born in Chandigarh, he came

to US with parents in 1970s
Took oath on Gita
held by his mother
Saroja when
sworn in as judge
of DC Court of
Appeals, Americas second
most powerful court, in 2013
Seen as non-ideological;
neither major party holds
much against him; perhaps
Obamas best bet to overcome
Republican opposition
Seen by some as
pro-business, but has also
supported progressive
causes like affirmative action

tutional responsibility to
nominate Scalias successor.
That may be easier said
than done. Given the momentous nature of the appointment, with political and ideological overtones, Republicans
immediately signalled they
would block any Obama nomination, saying it should come from the next President.
Kamala Harris on list, P 18

LIC holding
in govt banks
suffers 30%
loss in value
Mumbai: Life Insurance
Corporation of India (LIC),
the single largest owner of
public sector bank (PSB)
shares after the government, has seen the value of
its holdings shrink by more
than 30% since January 1,
2016, reports Mayur Shetty.

Govt to push reforms

in PSBs: Jaitley

he government will soon

initiate a series of
reforms to improve governance in public sector banks
(PSBs) in an effort to get rid
of bad loans that have piled
up, finance minister Arun
Jaitley said on Sunday. P 19

But LIC still has the

headroom and perhaps the
appetite to invest in stateowned lenders.
LIC had more than 1%
shareholding in 27 banks as
of December 2015. Of these,
21 were public sector banks
in which the value of LICs
stake stood at Rs 36,037
crore as of December-end.
Last week, the value of
these shares dipped to
Rs 24,920 crore down by
Rs 11,107 crore or 31%. P 19

Sex ratio worsens in families with

1-2 kids, improves with more than 3
Subodh.Varma@timesgroup.com

EPAPER.TIMESOFINDIA.COM

Kejri marks 1 year in office Afzal Guru event at JNU

backed
by
LeT:
Rajnath
with big water bill write-off Show Proof,

Smart coaches
on trains soon?

SAHARA SET TO GET

TRUCKLOADS OF PAPERS
BACK FROM SEBI 15

Girl delivers fetus

at Metro station

16-year-old who became

pregnant after being raped by her friend delivered a
dead fetus at the Keshavpuram Metro station on January
31. The girl was on her way to
an abortion clinic and was accompanied by her friend, Gulshan, and one of his friends.
The duo were arrested and a
case of trafficking and rape
was lodged against them. P 3

TIMESOFINDIA.COM

THE CALCULUS OF CHOICE

SEX RATIO 2001

786
742
815
928
983
905

NO. OF CHILDREN IN FAMILY

1
2
3
4
5
All

only one child, the sex ratio

was just 782 girls to every 1,000
boys born.
This is much lower than

SEX RATIO 2011

782
720
814
944
1,005
890

Source: Census 2001 & 2011

the overall sex ratio of the population, (943 females for every
1,000 males), and even lower
than the sex ratio for children

aged up to six years (919). But it

is not yet the rock bottom.
Among families with two children, the ratio plummets to 720
girls. This is where the sharpest drop has taken place, from
742 in 2001. However, with three
children, it improves to 814.
In families with four children, it improves further to

INDIA IN

MOTION

944 and by five, it reaches 1,005

girls for 1,000 boys.
Sex-selection, P 11

Black day, says

BJP; chhalawa
divas: Cong

pposition protests marked the first anniversary

of the AAP government, with
BJP calling it a black day
and Congress observing it as
chhalawa divas (day of deceit). Releasing black balloons,
BJP said AAP hadnt met
most poll promises, such as
installing CCTV cameras and
providing marshals in buses.
It slammed the government
for spending Rs 500 crore on
ads. Congress organised a
torchlight procession from
Rajghat to ITO, with members chanting slogans against CM Arvind Kejriwal. P 6

Haryana set
for big labour
reforms: CM
T

he BJP government in Haryana is confident of clearing major labour reforms in

the assembly in March, including allowing units with up to
300 workers to lay off staff or
close without government permission, CM Manohar Lal
Khattar said on the sidelines of
the Make in India Week in
Mumbai on Sunday. Currently,
the waiver applies to units with
up to 100 workers.
The state is also hoping to
amend the Centres Contract
Labour Act 1970 so that only
units with more than 100 workers have to register, reports
Priyanka Kakodkar. P 9

Says Oppn
Rajiv.Mani@timesgroup.com

Allahabad: Union home minister Rajnath Singh claimed

on Sunday that the event held
at Jawaharlal Nehru University to commemorate the death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Gu-

CAMPUS OUTRAGE: P 2
ru had the backing of Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, attracting a volley of protests from Congress and other
parties who demanded that he
make the evidence public.
The incident at JNU (Afzal event on February 9) has

JNU students and teachers protest the arrest of JNUSU president

Kanhaiya Kumar, at the campus on Sunday

received support from Hafiz

Saeed. This is a truth that the
nation needs to understand,
Singh said. What has happened is very unfortunate. Any
such incident that poses threat to unity, integrity and sovereignty of the country will be

Metro likely to miss

phase III deadlines
Rumu.Banerjee
@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: Delhi Metro looks set to overshoot deadlines for phase III, perhaps by
an entire year.
Work on both new corridors Mukundpur to Shiv
Vihar and Janakpuri (west)
to Botanical Garden is delayed by several months, Delhi
Metro Rail Corporation chief
Mangu Singh admitted. The
immediate casualty is the heritage line, Central Secretariat to Kashmere Gate, which
was to be ready by December
2015. The line, which will connect Delhi Gate, Jama Masjid
and Red Fort, is now expected
by October at the earliest.

MIND THE GAP

Central Sect-Kashmere
Gate line, expected by Dec
last year, now set for Oct
Mukundpur-Shiv Vihar &
Janakpuri (W)-Botanical
Garden corridors unlikely to
meet Dec 2016 deadline
Only Kalkaji-Botanical
Garden section of the latter
corridor expected to be
completed this year

The sanctioning took almost eight to nine months.

This affected work, as did
the delay in land acquisition, said the MD of DMRC.
Unlikely before Oct, P 8

dealt with strongly.

Singhs comments came
two days after a series of tweets, purportedly by Saeed,
asked Pakistanis to support
the agitation in JNU.
Shishu mandir, P 2

F-16 sale new

blow to hope
of Pak talks
T ral dialogue with Pakis-

he comprehensive bilate-

tan appears unlikely to take

off any time soon, with the
sale of F-16 fighter jets by the
US adding to the strain in ties
triggered by the lack of tangible action against Jaish-eMuhammed chief Maulana
Masood Azhar following the
Pathankot attack. Both Indian and Pakistani sources said there was no date yet for foreign secretary-level talks.
On Sunday, Pakistan said
it was disappointed at India
lodging a protest with the US
envoy on the jet sale. Washington defended the move
as critical to Pakistans counter-terror operations. P12