NEW DELHI, MARCH 07Eight hours have been

allotted for the discussionon the controversial LandAcquisition amendmentBill which is likely tocome up for considerationand passage in the LokSabha on Monday.

Financial business,including the discussionon railway and generalbudgets for 2015-15 andconsideration and passingof the Bills to replace theordinances will be themain focus of the businessbefore both the Houses ofParliament during the thirdweek of the budget sessionof Parliament beginningMarch 9, government said

today.Government business in

the Lok Sabha for the nextweek includes considera-tion and passing of theRight to FairCompensation andTransparency in LandAcquisition, Rehabilitationand Resettlement(Amendment) Bill, besidesdiscussion and voting onRailway Budget, Demandsfor Grants onAccount(Railways) andconsideration and passingof related AppropriateBills and discussion andvoting on general budgetfor 2015-16.

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HAQSAADDAFIGHT FOR RIGHTSunday, March 08, 2015

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal appeals to mento make capital safe for women

46,000 Twitter Accounts Linked toIslamic State: Study

Inside Salman Khan's Holi party:Shirtless Sallu poses with hot girls P8

SHIMLA, MARCH 07Due to heavy snowfall in

the hills of Himachal Pradeshin the last few days, the statedisaster management authori-ty on Saturday issued an ava-lanche warning in some areas,especially in Chamba district.

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Avalanche threat inHimachal Pradesh

JAMMU, MARCH 07A "robust" counter-infiltra-

tion grid along the Indo-Pakborder has helped in bringingdown intrusion into the coun-try significantly, Jammu andKashmir police chief KRajendra Kumar on Saturdaysaid. "Our counter infiltration

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Cross-border infil-tration has comedown in J&K: DGP

SAHARANPUR, MARCH 07Six persons including two

women were injured after aclash broke out between twocommunities in Chakdevalivillage in the district today,police said. SP (City)Mahendra Yadav said that aclash broke out between thetwo communities who resorted

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Six injured in a clashin Saharanpur (UP)

BENGALURU, MARCH 07Delhi Chief Minister Arvind

Kejriwal's blood sugar levelswere still on the higher side buthe was responding well to thenature cure regimen for his ail-ments, a senior doctor treatinghim at the naturopathy institutehere said today. "We conducteda blood test on Kejriwal, and the sugar levels in his

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Kejriwal's sugar still high,but responding well, doctor

THRISSUR, MARCH 07Congress leader Jairam

Ramesh today hit out atNarendra Modi, saying thePrime Minister's one pointobjective is to "completelydebunk" Jawaharlal Nehru.

He also asked the Left par-ties to join the Congress at aplatform to "rediscover"Nehru and use Nehruvian thoughts and approach to

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Modi's objective is to 'completelydebunk' Nehru: Jairam Ramesh

LUCKNOW, MARCH 07Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister

Akhilesh Yadav informed onSaturday that his father -Samajwadi Party supremoMulayam Singh Yadav, wasrecovering well after beinghospitalised late on Fridaynight. Akhilesh tweeted this to

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SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadavrecovering well, tweets UP CM Akhilesh

NEW DELHI, MARCH 07The national capital wit-

nessed sudden rain in theevening on Saturday followinga sunny day with the maxi-mum temperature settling onenotch below the season`s aver-age at 27.6 degree Celsius.

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Light rain in Delhi,similar weatherexpected on Sunday

THANE, MARCH 07Nine persons were arrested

on charges of unlawful assem-bly and rioting in KulgaonBadlapur area of the districtfollowing clashes betweentwo groups, police said onSaturday. The arrests were

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Nine held for riotingafter two groupsclash in Maharashtra

KATHUA, MARCH 07A minor girl was allegedly

kidnapped and raped for twodays by a youth here, policesaid on Saturday.

The accused, Vinod Kumarkidnapped her on Thursdayfrom Chak Sardar Desa Singharea here and raped her fortwo days, they added.

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Minor kidnapped,raped in J&K

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NEW DELHI, MARCH 07External Affairs

Minister Sushma Swarajon Monday met SriLankan Prime MinisterRanil Wickramasinghe inColombo and discussedthe issue of LankanNavy's actions againstIndian fishermen.

The External AffairsMinister toldWickramasinghe that theissue of fishermen was ahumanitarian one, whichwas different from thecase of Italian marines.

Swaraj is in Colomboahead of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's Lankavisit to finalise thedetails of his tour.

Informing this,Spokesperson ofMinistry of ExternalAffairs, SyedAkbaruddin said, "TheExternal Affairs Minister(EAM) discussed areasthat PM's visit willcover," and added, "The

EAM raised issue ofIndian fishermen andhow it is a humanitarianissue."

Spelling out the detailsof the dialogue betweenthe leaders of the twonations, Akbaruddin

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Issue of Indian fishermen different from Italianmarines case: Sushma Swaraj tells Sri Lankan PM

8 hours allotted to discussonon land acquisition bill in LS

NEW DELHI, MARCH 07A PIL has been filed in

the Delhi High Courtseeking lifting of the banon telecast of the contro-versial documentaryfeaturing an interview ofone of the convicts ofthe December 16 gang-rape case.

A Delhi court had onMarch 4 said that itsorder restraining broad-casting of the convict'sinterview, which was

conducted inside Tiharjail here, will continuetill further orders.

The petition, filed by alaw student, has soughtlifting of the ban on theground that it is "noth-ing but a honest look atthe mind and mindset ofone of the convictedrapists of the youngwoman".

Mukesh Singh, one ofthe convicts in the gang-rape case, is featured in

the interview.It has claimed that the

parents of the December16 gang-rape victimhave also not objected tothe telecast of the docu-mentary.

The petition, filed byVibhor Anand, has alsosaid that "it is legallywrong to oppose thescreening of the filmafter giving it legalapproval and after the

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NEW DELHI, MARCH 07The Bharatiya Janata

Party (BJP) on Saturday hitback at Shashi Tharoorover his remark that thegovernment embarrassedIndia by asking UK to banthe Nirbhaya documentary,saying the Centre took upthis issue in a most maturemanner and reminded theCongress leader that therestraint order has been putin place by Delhi's magis-terial court.

BJP spokespersonSambit Patra said Tharooris entitled to hold his per-sonal views but the party towhich he belongs to holdsa different view.

"We had seen in theParliament when thiswhole issue was discussedhow parliamentariansacross the party lines hadsaid that there has to be arestraint order on this doc-umentary. And more

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PIL in HC seeks lifting of ban onDec 16 gang-rape documentary

Nirbhaya documentary row:BJP takes on Tharoor over'govt embarrassed' remark

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NEW DELHI, MARCH 07Ahead of RSS' three-day

All-India Pratinidhi Sabhameeting next week, BJPpresident Amit Shah metwith RSS chief MohanBhagwat and is learnt tohave discussed importantpolitical events like BJP'salliance with PDP inJammu and Kashmir andcontroversial remarksmade by the Chief MinisterMufti Mohammad Sayeedafter that.

The meeting betweenShah, Bhagwat and RSS's

s e c o n d - i n - c o m m a n dSuresh Bhayyaji Joshi atorganisation's headquarters

in Mahal area in Nagpurlasted over eight hours

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BJP chief Amit Shah discusses Jammu andKashmir, other issues with RSS leaders

JAMMU, MARCH 07Ignoring the opposition

from the Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP), the Mufti MohdSayeed government in JammuKashmir, Saturday, releasedchief of Muslim league andsenior Hurriyat Conferenceleader Masarat Alam fromBaramulla jail.

Alam was lodged in theBaramulla jail since 2010after he was arrested fororganising anti-India protestsacross the Kashmir valley.

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NEW DELHI, MARCH 07The Arvind Kejriwal camp on

Saturday went on the offensivewith an AAP leader fromMaharashtra Anjali Damaniaaccusing Prashant Bhushan ofwanting the party to lose therecent Delhi assembly polls.

Damania, an aide of Delhichief minister Arvind Kejriwal,also accused Bhushan of discour-aging the donors from givingfunds to the party at a crucialjuncture, ahead of the polls.

"On January 27, I met Prashantji (Bhushan) at his office. I wasstunned when he said that hewanted the party to lose in Delhiassembly elections.

"I was so upset that I picked upmy bag and walked out of hisoffice," Damania said.

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AAP rift: Anjali Damaniaaccuses Bhushan of wanting

AAP to lose in Delhi polls

Mufti govt releases Hurriyat hardlinerleader Masarat Alam form Baramulla jail

NEW DELHI, MARCH 07President Pranab

Mukherjee on Saturdaycondoled the passingaway of G Karthikeyan,Speaker of the KeralaLegislative Assembly.

"I am saddened tolearn about the passingaway of G Karthikeyan," President Mukherjeesaid in a condolencemessage to his wife, DrMT Sulekha.

"Karthikeyan madeimmense contribution tothe State of Kerala as a

senior Congress leader,six term MLA, Ministerand Speaker of theKerala Legislative

Assembly. I fondlyremember the meticu-lous care and attention

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President Pranab Mukherjee condolespassing away of G Karthikeyan

JAMMU, MARCH 07People's Democratic Party

(PDP) leader MehboobaMufti on Saturday said thatthe release of political prison-ers was not new, adding thatthere was no need to makesuch a big issue aboutit.

"We talked of political pris-oners not militants and therelease of political prisoners

is not new. In year 2002,when we were in the govern-ment in alliance with theCongress and Vajpayee ji wasleading the Centre in Delhiand LK Advani was the HomeMinister , senior politicalprisoners against whom no nocriminal charges were regis-tered were released ," shesaid. "There is no need to

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Release of political prisonersnot new, says Mehbooba Mufti

JAMMU, MARCH 07Jammu and Kashmir unit of

BJP youth wing today held aprotest here against therelease of top separatistleader Masarat Alam even asCongress asked PrimeMinister Narendra Modi,Home Minister Rajanth Singhand RSS to clarify their standon the release of Alam.

"The protest was led by thestate general secretary of theBJP youth wing and I wasalso part of it," senior BJPleader Yudhvir Sethi said.

Terming Masarat Alam asanti-national who would fur-ther fuel militancy in Jammuand Kashmir, the protestersdemanded his immediate

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India calls for mak-ing UN effective incountering terrorUNITED NATIONS, MARCH 07

India has called for mak-ing the UN and its entities"relevant and effective" incountering terrorism whileasserting that the nationallegal systems must beresilient enough to prose-cute and penalise the men-ace. Underscoring the com-mitment of UN memberstates to zero tolerance ofterrorism, India'sAmbassador to the UNAsoke Mukerji said terror-ism is the single biggest

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NEW DELHI | SUNDAY | MARCH 08, 2015Delhi News2 SAADDA HAQ

NEW DELHI, MARCH 07On the eve of International Women's

Day, Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal on Saturday appealed to allmen in the national capital to make thecity such that women can feel free andlive happily.

In an audio message released onradio, Kejriwal, who is in Bengaluruthese days for naturopathy treatmentfor high blood sugar and cough, credit-ed his wife and mother for whatever heis today.

"Two women are behind whatever Iam today...They are my wife and moth-er. During my fight against corruption,my wife ran the house while my moth-er supported me," Kejriwal said.

Stating that men had a lot to learnfrom women, the Delhi CM said, "Mymessage is to all the men in the city. Itis admirable how women fulfill theirresponsibilities honestly and withoutmaking any fuss. They play many rolessuch as that of a mother, daughter, wife,sister and daughter-in-law... They dotheir job and also take care of their fam-

ilies.""I salute their rock solid tolerance.

There is a lot of things that men shouldlearn from them (women), but I haveseen that some men comment on theirdresses and do an assessment of theircharacter..They talk absurd thingsabout women and also molest them.Men who do not respect women outsidecan never respect women in theirhomes," he said in nearly one-minutelong audio message.

Appealing to all Delhiites to makethe city safe, he said, "I want that weshould make Delhi such a city whereevery woman feels free and lives happi-ly. On the eve of Women's Day, I saluteall women of Delhi...Happy Women'sDay." This is Kejriwal's second audiomessage since AAP was voted to powerin Delhi. He had earlier issued an audiomessage to invite people of the city forhis oath-taking ceremony as ChiefMinister at Ramlila Maidan.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal appeals tomen to make capital safe for women

NEW DELHI, MARCH 07After the Lok Sabha

debacle when Aam AadmiParty saw a series ofdesertions and seniorleaders like YogendraYadav questioning the"supremo style" of func-tioning within the party,Arvind Kejriwal brokedown in the NationalExecutive meeting andhad even offered to quit.

This was revealed byAAP leader Ashutosh,convenor of AAP's Delhiunit and a confidant ofKejriwal in his book 'TheCrown Prince, TheGladiator and The Hope'.

The National Executive

was held from June 6-8last year at PrashantBhushan's residence inJangpura to discussparty's debacle in the LokSabha. But a few weeksafter the party's drubbing,Kejriwal was sent to jailfor refusing to furnish abond in a defamation caseby Union Minister NitinGadkari.

After the defeat, Yadavtoo had questionedKejriwal's "supremostyle" rather than a demo-cratic style of function-ing. Shazia Ilmi, anotherleader and a one-timeaide of Kejriwal, had quitthe party citing a lack ofinner party demoracy as

the reason."Arvind's face fell. He

rose and excused himselfto leave the room. Hestarted to say something,but could not complete.He broke down and astears fell unheeded, hecrumbled to the floor.Anjali (Damania, AAPleader from Maharashtrawho unsuccessfully con-tested against Gadkari)and I (Ashutosh) rushedto him. She put her armsaround him and rushed tohim.

Soon Anjali began cry-ing as well and shouted.'We should all beashamed of ourseleves.This is what we have

given him. After sometime Arvind regained hiscomposure. By now,everyone had gatheredaround him.

'I have not left my joband other good things oflife just to become a con-venor of the party. I dontwant this. Please electsomeone as the NationalConvenor'. And his eyeswelled up again,"Ashutosh writes in thebook.

Leaders who were apart of that meeting saidthat Kejriwal broke downthrice.

"I have taken on RobertVadra (son-in-law ofCongress President), I

have taken on MukeshAmbani and evenNarendra Modi, but Ihavent come up to fightmy own people,"Kejriwal had said,according to a leader whowas a part of the meeting.

Incidentally, even in NEheld last week, Kejriwalhad offered to resign fromthe post of NationalConvenor.

In a blog, a senior AAPleader from Maharashtra,Mayank Gandhi wrotethat Kejriwal had earlierconveyed that he will "notbe able" to work as theAAP National Convenerif Bhushan and Yadavwere part of the PAC.

Arvind Kejriwal had broken down after Lok Sabha debacle: Book

NEW DELHI, MARCH 07This Holi was the safest in Delhi

since 2006 with the lowest numberof fatal accidents, a police officersaid here Saturday. A total of11,492 vehicles were fined for var-ious traffic violations during thefestival.

"Strict traffic and police enforce-ment resulted in only eight fatalaccidents leading to the death ofeight people, which is the lowestfatal accidents reported in the cityon the occasion of Holi since2006," Joint Commissioner ofPolice (Traffic) Anil Shukla said.

The largest number of casualtieson Holi was reported in 2006 when22 people were killed in 20 fatalaccidents. In 2014, 11 fatal acci-dents took place during the festi-val.

A total of 14 fatal accidents werereported in 2013 and in 2012 it was13. At least 11 fatal accidents werereported in 2011 and 15 in 2010.

Police, however, did not givedetails about 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Shukla said: "Despite our efforts,several people violated traffic rulesand we issued 11,492 challans onthe occasion of Holi (Friday). Mostof the people were drunk drivers."

A total of 1,569 people werechallaned for drunken driving --including 336 prosecutions of reg-istered vehicle owners whoallowed their vehicles to be drivenby unauthorised people or drunkdrivers -- and 898 for over speed-ing.

Also 787 vehicles were chal-laned for traffic signal jumping and418 revellers were fined for notwearing seat belts while driving. Atotal of 971 vehicles were alsoimpounded from different places,police said.

In addition, 249 vehicles werechallaned for wrong parking, 192for dangerous driving, 787 fortriple riding on two-wheeler, 954

for two-wheeler rider or pillion notwearing helmet.

A total of 1,383 vehicles werechallaned in 2014 while 10,339prosecutions were done in 2013.

Besides, police received over2,000 calls at the Police ControlRoom and attended to around 500.

The police had made elaboratetraffic arrangements to ensure thesafety of motorists. Special check-ing teams with alcometres weredeployed at major intersections todetect and prosecuteviolations.

Over 200 special traffic policechecking teams were spread allover Delhi to check drunken driv-ing, over speeding, reckless driv-ing and violation of traffic rules.

"Joint checking against drunkendriving was undertaken jointly byDelhi Traffic Police, PoliceControl Room and local staff ofrespective police stations," saidShukla.

CHENNAI, MARCH 07Coming out in support of

Delhi Chief Minister andAam Aadmi leader ArvindKejriwal, a senior func-tionary of the Tamil NaduAAP on Saturday accusedYogendra Yadav andPrashant Bhushan of beingundemocratic and allegedthat they had "ulteriormotives of capturing theparty leadership".

Bringing internal bicker-ings to the fore, the party'sNational Executive in NewDelhi had on Wednesdayremoved founder membersYadav and Bhushan from thePolitical Affairs Committee,the party's key decision-making body.

Against this backdrop,State Co-Convenor, AAPTamil Nadu, M Lenin

alleged that Yadav tried tobuild his group by announc-ing his loyalists as state lead-ers and ignored people whosupported Arvind Kejriwal.

"In most states which theseduo oversaw, it was com-plete chaos. Tamil Nadu is

leaderless as Yadav andBhushan were preventing thefounders of the party in thestate from taking up leader-ship and trying to bring theirNGO related people," hesaid. The duo conductedthemselves undemocratically

in party affairs in TamilNadu and tried to installproxies, he said.

"Both of them flouteddemocratic norms in the can-didate selection for the 2014Lok Sabha elections in TamilNadu," Lenin said.

Yadav, Bhushan had ulteriormotives, says TN AAP leader

Lowest number of fatal acci-dents this Holi since 2006

NEW DELHI, MARCH 07More than 5,500 people were fined for

violating traffic rules by Delhi TrafficPolice today on the occasion of Holi,which included 1,100 for drunken driving.

Delhi Police made elaborate arrange-ments to ensure a safe Holi. Over 200 spe-cial checking teams of traffic police alongwith PCR vans and local police weredeployed to check incidents of drunk,speeding and reckless driving.

Special teams with alcometers and 20interceptors were also deployed at majorintersections to detect and prosecute viola-tors. "During our sustained drive, till 5 PMwe have challaned more than 5,500 peoplefor violating traffic norms which include1,100 for drunken driving, 590 owners ofthose vehicles which were found to bedriven by drunkards, 438 for red light

jumping and 418 for not wearing seat belt."We have also impounded 774 vehi-

cles," said Joint Commissioner of Police(Traffic) Anil Shukla. The numbers arebound to go up as police had also posi-tioned men armed with cameras whovideo graphed offenders so that if theycannot be prosecuted on the spot due torush, challans can be sent at home. Lastyear, over 4,000 people were booked attheir residences for indulging in trafficviolations during religious festivals andwere prosecuted later after being videographed by police. Delhi Police datashows that last year on Holi, 13,015 pros-ecutions were made out of which 5,633were for riding without helmet, 1,544 forred light jump, 1,464 for triple riding, 139for dangerous driving and 2,090 driverswere prosecuted for drunken driving.

NEW DELHI, MARCH 07Twenty one new cases of

swine flu were today reportedin the national capital, takingthe total number of peopleaffected by the virus to 3,438so far this year while the tollstill stands at 10. The deadlydisease today claimed the lifeof Jitendra Raghvanshi, a the-atre personality and formerHoD of foreign languagesdepartment of Agra Universityat Safdarjung hospital. "Hisdeath, however, will not becounted in Delhi's figure fordeaths due to the disease,"Health department officials

said."As he hails from Agra, his

death will not be counted in thedeath figure for Delhi despitehe succumbing to H1N1influenza virus at a hospitalhere," said Charan Singh,Additional Director in-chargeof Public Health, Healthdepartment. "A total of 143people were tested for theH1N1 influenza virus of which21 turned positive. No freshdeath has been reported today,"he said. However, officialsclaimed that the number ofcases have started to go downover the last few days.

Over 5,500 challaned for trafficviolations in Delhi on Holi

NEW DELHI, MARCH 07Delhi's Deputy Chief

Minister Manish Sisodia onSaturday ordered an enquiryinto the allegations made by adisabled youth who was deniedentry into a plush restaurant inthe city.

Sisodia, who took to Twitter,said that he has ordered anenquiry into the matter and hasasked the DM to submit reportby Monday.

Nipun Malhotra, who wasborn with arthrogryposis, a rarecongenital disorder, whichleads to lack of muscles in armsand legs, was denied entry tothe restaurant last night.

Malhotra, who is also co-founder of the NipmanFoundation, was allegedly toldby the security and the managerof the restaurant that he wouldnot be allowed inside as he wasdisabled.

"Our friends had decided togo to Keya for dinner. So nineof my friends, five boys andthree girls went to the restau-

rant. One of my friends politelytold the manager that one uswould be coming on a wheel-chair and that he should ensurethat he reaches the table.

"The manager asked if thefriend was injured or had a dis-ability. When my friendinformed him that he has a dis-ability, the manager said that as

a policy they do not allow dis-abled people inside," Malhotraclaimed.

"When my friend told meabout it, I could not believe himand reached there with mybrother. The security therestopped us from going insidesaying the hotel as a policydoes not allow disabled inside

and started pulling my wheel-chair.

"I was shocked. The managerthen came out and to flip theargument said that we do notallow stag entires. When I toldhim that already three of mymale friends and many otherswere inside, then how could hesay that they do not allow stagentires?" Malhotra said.

The restaurant said it was acase of misunderstanding.

"It is a clear case of misun-derstanding. Because of Holiwere were getting a lot of drunkpeople at the gate. As a precau-tionary measure we wererestricting the number of boysinside," said General ManagerPremjit Kumar

"Nipun was accompanied bytwo more boys and allowingthem inside would haveincreased the number of men.So we just said that we are notallowing anymore stag entries,"the manager claimed.

Javed Abidi, Convener of theDisability Rights Group, said

those behind the incidentshould be punished.

"It is horrible without anydoubt. It defies the DisabilityAct of 1995. Infact the Actshould not just be condemnedbut also severely punished," hesaid.

TMC leader Derek O' Brientweeted his email id toMalhotra asking for details andpromised to raise the issue inParliament next week.

Disability Rights activistMalvika Iyer said the incidenthighlights the need to launch asensitisation drive about therights of the disabled people.

"We talk about the rights ofthe disabled people, aboutinclusion in education andemployment sector. But thisincident clearly shows thatsocietal attitude is the biggestbarrier for disabledpeople.

"It indicates there is a needfor massive sensitisation andwe are glad that this incident isbeing talked about," she said.

Disabled activist denied entry to Delhi's upscalerestaurant, Manish Sisodia orders enquiry

NEW DELHI, MARCH 07The re-examination of

the woman, allegedlyraped by a driver of Ubercab service provider, con-tinued on Satuday in aDelhi court where theaccused asked her abouther visit to a Gurgaonhotel with her friendsbefore the incident.

The victim is being re-examined in-camera bythe counsel for accusedShiv Kumar Yadav,whose plea to recall sev-eral prosecution witness-es was recently allowedby the Delhi High Court.

According to sources,Yadav's counsel asked thewoman several questionsrelating to her outing withfriends in the hotel on theevening of December 5,2014, after which she hadboarded the taxi drivenby the accused fromVasant Vihar and was

allegedly raped by him.Additional Sessions

Judge Kaveri Baweja, thesources said, disallowedseveral questions askedby the defence counseland the woman alsorefused to answer them.The statement wasrecorded in the presenceof the judge and only theparties concerned.

Her cross-examination,which remained incon-clusive, would continueon March 9.

The 25-year-oldwoman was called for herre-examination by thedefence counsel onMarch 5, when she wasunderstood to have toldthe court that she wastraumatised due to theundue delay in proceed-ings owing to dilatorytactics of accused andbeing made to relive theghastly incident.

The court, which washearing final argumentsin the case, had againsummoned the woman incompliance of the DelhiHigh Court order that waspassed on an appeal filedby Yadav seeking torecall all the 28 prosecu-tion witnesses to crossexamine them again inthe case.

The high court hadhowever allowed Yadavto recall only 13 prosecu-tion witnesses includingthe victim, doctors, foren-sic expert and investigat-ing officer of thecase.

According to the prose-cution, the incident tookplace on the night ofDecember 5 last yearwhen the victim, afinance executive work-ing in Gurgaon, washeading back home.

Police said the woman

had taken the taxi fromVasant Vihar to return toher house in Inderlok areaof North Delhi and theaccused, who took anoth-er route, allegedly rapedher. Yadav was arrestedon December 7, 2014from Mathura.

In her statement record-ed before the court earli-er, the woman had identi-fied Yadav as the one whohad raped her.

The court has framedcharges against Yadavunder IPC for allegedoffences of endangering awoman's life while rapingher, abducting with anintent to compel her formarriage and criminallyintimidating and causinghurt.

The court had alsorecorded the testimony ofthe accused in which hetermed the charge againsthim as "false".

Uber cab rape case: Re-exam-ination of victim continues

21 new cases of swine flu in Delhi,1 dies at Safdarjung hospital

Continuation 3NEW DELHI | SUNDAY | MARCH 08, 2015SAADDA HAQ

Mufti govt...cases pending against him, had gone

underground after the protests and wasnabbed by the police after four monthsfrom Telbal.

The separatist leader rose to prominenceduring the Amarnath land row in 2008. Hewas arrested in September 2008 and bookedunder Public Safety Act (PSA).

However, Masarat does not face anycriminal charge despite his detention underPSA for the last over four years.

The 42-year-old science graduate, isknow to enjoy substantial support on bothsides of the Line of Control (LoC). He isalso widely seen as a successor to Syed AliShah Geelani as head of the Hurriyat.

Meanwhile, People's Democratic Party(PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti said that therelease of political prisoners was not new,adding that there was no need to make sucha big issue about it.

"We talked of political prisoners not mil-itants and the release of political prisonersis not new. In year 2002, when we were inthe government in alliance with theCongress and Vajpayee ji was leading theCentre in Delhi and LK Advani was theHome Minister , senior political prisonersagainst whom no no criminal charges wereregistered were released," Mufti said, as perANI.

BJP leader Ravinder Raina, on the otherhand, opposed the J&K government's deci-sion to release hard-line Hurriyat leaderMasarat Alam from the prison after thestate government adopted a policy to freepolitical prisoners who do not face criminalcharges.

"Any move by the state government torelease anti national, Pakistan supporters,separatist leaders and terrorists from jailwould lead to serious consequences. BJPoutrightly rejects this move and demandsthe abolition of surrender and rehabilitationpolicy. This policy is an insult to the secu-rity forces, Indian Army and the nationalistpeople of Jammu , Kashmir and Laddak,"said Raina.

Bharatiya Janata Party workers evenstaged a protest here against the release ofHurriyat leader Mashrat Alam.

Earlier on Wednesday, J&K CM MuftiSayeed had directed the police to start theprocess of releasing political prisoners whodo not face any criminal charges.

By releasing Alam, Chief MinisterSayeed has once again risked alternating itsally BJP. He had earlier stoked a major con-troversy with his remarks that Pakistan andmilitants had facilitated the smoothAssembly elections in the state.

BJP protests ...arrest."We will never tolerate the release of an

anti-national leader who is a threat to thenational security," a protester said.

He said the youth wing of the party wouldincrease its agitation in the days to come ifChief Minster Mufti Sayeed does not orderthe re-arrest of Alam.

Meanwhile, questioning the decision ofthe BJP-PDP state government to releasethe separatist leader instrumental in trigger-ing 2010 stone pelting agitation, Congressasked Prime Minister Narendra Modi,Union Home Minister Rajanth Singh andRSS to clarify their stand on release ofMasarat.

"The Prime Minister, Union HomeMinister, RSS besides MoS in PMO DrJitendra Singh and Deputy Chief MinisterNirmal Singh, who belongs to Jammuregion, should clarify their stand on theMasarat issue," Jammu and KashmirPradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC)Chief Spokesman and MLC RavinderSharma told reporters here.

"We question the decision of the MuftiSayeed government, of whose BJP is coali-tion partner... Where is BJP gone. It seemsBJP has gone in coma or they are on venti-lator after becoming part of the govern-ment," Sharma said.

Release of...make such a big issue about it. People are

released all the time," she added.According to reports, Masarat Alam,

chief of the Muslim League and a seniorHurriyat Conference leader is likely to bereleased in the evening as the JammuKashmir government has started theprocess for his release from jail.

AAP rift...donors whenever party people went to ask

for donations. The statements by ShantiBhushan ji too were bad in taste when theparty was fighting," Damania said.

Her statments come at a time whenMayank Gandhi, another AAP leader fromMaharastra accused a "small group of partydecision makers" of targeting him after hedecried the decision to remove Bhushanand Yogendra Yadav from the PoliticalAffairs Committee and said it could compelhim to quit.

Gandhi, who shares an uneasy relation-ship with Damania, had expressed shockand slammed the manner in which Bhushanand Yadav were removed from from thePAC.

India calls...

threat to international peace, security andsocio-economic development today.

"We support making the UN, especiallyits more than two dozen entities reportingto the General Assembly, relevant andeffective in countering terrorism," he saidhere yesterday at the UN Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) AdvisoryBoard Meeting.

Mukerji said using the rule of law tocounter terrorism is the most effective wayto deal with the global challenge.

"National legal systems must be resilientenough to effectively prosecute andpenalise terrorism, using the UN legalnorms contained in the appropriate counterterrorism instruments," he said.

Mukerji said while UN Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon has spoken extensively atvarious public forums on the necessity ofpreventing deadly conflict, it is not clearwhat concrete steps he has proposed toachieve this objective.

He suggested that in order to assist thenations in drawing up a multi-year'Programme of Work', it would be neces-sary for the Secretary General to communi-cate his recommendations on the role of theUnited Nations in Countering Terrorism,including countering violent extremism.

Mukerji also noted that the challengeposed by foreign terrorist fighters has beenflagged as a priority adding that the issue isdirectly related to the work of the UNCCTon the ground, including in thematic priori-ties relating to countering violent extrem-ism.

"Considering the trans-boundary foot-print of this phenomenon, we would sug-gest that the UNCCT study of this phenom-enon be expanded in its scope to cover allthose member-states which have felt theadverse impact of foreign terrorist fight-ers," he said adding that to be relevant onthe ground, the study should not onlyenhance understanding, but also recom-mend action, on tackling this transnationalphenomenon.

President Pranab...with which he organised my address to

the Kerala Legislative Assembly inOctober, 2012 on the occasion of its 125thanniversary," he added.

"In his death, the nation has lost a tallleader whose selfless service to the peopleof Kerala will be always remembered. Ipray to the Almighty to give your familyand you the strength and courage to bearthis irreparable loss. Please accept myheartfelt condolences and convey the sameto all members of your family," thePresident added.

Karthikeyan, who was undergoing treat-ment for liver cancer, passed away at theHealth Care Global (HCG) hospital inBengaluru earlier in the day. He was 66years old.

BJP chief ...yesterday.While BJP and RSS leaders termed the

meeting as "routine", sources said duringthe meeting BJP chief is learnt to have dis-cussed party's position with regard to thecommon minimum program of PDP-BJPalliance, its position on Article 370 and thecontroversial Land Bill that will come up inParliament.

The meeting assumes significance in thewake of recent controversy over Sayeed'sremarks giving credit to Pakistan and sepa-ratists for peaceful polls in Jammu andKashmir, besides other controversial utter-ances made by some PDP leaders, fromwhich BJP has distanced itself.

Sayeed's statement had created a row andPrime Minister Narendra Modi had to clar-ify in Parliament that the Union govern-ment did not endorse his view.

The meeting is also significant as theRSS's Pratinidhi Sabha, its highest deci-sion-making body, is meeting in Nagpurfrom March 13 to 15. RSS takes its impor-tant decisions at this key annual meeting.

Though Shah did not disclose anything onwhat transpired between him and the RSStop brass, leaders said important politicalevents in the country were discussed.

Shah is also learnt to have discussed hisnew team members in BJP which he is like-ly to announce soon, as some of party's keyfunctionaries have become Ministers in theNarendra Modi government's reshuffleeffected last November.

Issue of...said, "As a first step it has been agreed

that after PM Modi's visit FishermenAssociation of both nations (India-SL) willmeet to take the matter forward."

The External Affairs spokesperson saidthat the focus was on finding an interimsolution while the countries work to findlong term solution. "Both EAM and PMWickramasinghe are satisfied that this(fishermen) issue is to be addressed in ahumanitarian manner and through dia-logue," he added.

The controversy was stoked byWickramasinghe's statement that suggestedthat Indian fishermen would be shot if theyintruded into the island nation's waters.

Alleging that Indian fishermen were tak-ing away the livelihood of Northern Lankafishermen, he told Tamil Thanthi TV that,"If someone tries to break into my house, Ican shoot. If he gets killed...Law allows meto do that."

Talking about the fishermen issue, hesaid, "As far as I'm concerned, I have veryvery strong lines. This is ourwaters...Fishermen of Jaffna should beallowed to fish. We stopped them fromfishing , that's why the Indian fishermencame in, they are willing to have adeal...Let's have a reasonable deal. But notat the expense of the income of theNorthern Fishermen...No."

Wickramasinghe also raised the issue ofItalian sailors being arrested, saying that ifIndia is friendly with Italy, it should showthe "same magnanimity to Italy that youwant us to show."

There have been several cases of arrestand abduction of Indian fishermen in thelast month.

Sri Lankan fishermen have been com-plaining that since the advent of new gov-ernment, the number of Indian fishermenbreaching the country's waters for illegalfishing have been increasing.

As many as 86 Indian fishermen werearrested and their 10 fishing boats seizedby the Sri Lanka Navy for allegedly poach-ing in the country's waters last month.

8 hours...allocated for discussion on the LARR

(Amendment) Bill,2015 in the Lok Sabha.The House will also take up discussion onthe agrarian situation in the country nextweek, a statement by Ministry ofParliamentary Affairs said.

In the Rajya Sabha, two Bills to replaceOrdinances -- The Mines and Minerals(Development and Regulation)Amendment Bill, 2015 and Motor Vehicles(Amendment) Bill, 2015, both as passed byLok Sabha, have been listed for considera-tion and passing on Monday.

Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2014is one of the three Bills already pending inthe Rajya Sabha, for the withdrawal ofwhich the government has earlier movedmotions and the same were deferred fol-lowing some issues raised by theOpposition. The other two pending Billsrelate to hiking FDI limit in insurance sec-tor and allocation of coal blocks throughopen bidding.

Nirbhaya documentary ...everyone, the people from the Congress

and other political parties also wanted thatan inquiry should be set up as to who gavethe permission and how the interview wasshot," said Patra.

"The government, looking into the sensi-bility and sensitivity of the issue, took upthe issue in a most mature manner. Andtoday, when Shashi Tharoor speaks con-trary to it, he should also be reminded ofthe fact that this restraint order has beenput in place by magisterial court of Delhi,"he added.

Tharoor had earlier criticized theNarendra Modi-led NDA Government forasking the United Kingdom to banNirbhaya documentary on the December16, 2012 gang-rape-murder case. Tharoorsaid the government embarrassed the coun-try by its move and all men should watchthe documentary.

The documentary made by British film-maker Leslee Udwin features the interviewof one of the convicts of the Delhi gang-rape, Mukesh Singh, who held womenmore responsible than men for rape.

PIL in HC...documentary-makers fulfilled all legal

commitments."It has also said that as per social media

the public at large wanted to see the docu-mentary within 24 hours of its being put upon YouTube, it was viewed by more 2.86lakh people.

The victim, a physiotherapy student wasraped and assaulted with an iron rod aftershe was tricked into boarding a bus to gohome after watching a movie with a malefriend on December 16, 2012.

Her male companion was badly beaten upand could not come to her rescue when shewas assaulted in the bus. The two werelater dumped naked and bleeding on theroadside.

The woman was airlifted to a Singaporehospital for treatment where she died -- 13days after the assault -- of the injuriesinflicted upon her.

Mukesh, along with three others, wasconvicted and sentenced to death last yearfor the gang-rape and murder of the victim.

Kejriwal's sugar...blood are on the higher side," Dr Babina

Nandakumar, Chief Medical Officer atJindal Nature Cure Institute on city out-skirts, said.

The 46-year-old Aam Aadmi Party leaderwas admitted to the Institute for a 10-daynature cure treatment of his persistentchronic cough problem and uncontrolledsugar level on Thursday last.

For the first time tomorrow, Kejriwal willundergo colon hydrotherapy, which willremove non-specific toxins from the colonand intestinal tract, Nandakumar said.

"Colon hydrotherapy is a treatmentwhich is used to wash out the contents ofthe large bowel by means of copious ene-mas using water or other medication," shesaid.

Nanadakumar said Kejriwal will undergothis therapy three-sessions of 40 minutes,

every alternate day.Asked if there has been any signs of his

cough receding, she said it will take at leasta month for it to recede, but Kejriwal isresponding very well to the nature cure reg-imen.

"It will take at least 21 to 30 days for thecough and sugar levels to recede, butKejriwal is responding very well to thenature cure regimen," she said. All othertreatments including castor oil massage andabdomen pack are going on as planned, shesaid.

Kejriwal is staying in an accommodationwith two bedrooms, a hall and a treatmentroom, called "Nest" at the Institute, a spe-cialty charitable naturopathy and yoga hos-pital in an eco-friendly campus of 100acres.

A set of four senior doctors, including anacupuncturist, physiotherapist and a yogaofficer, are taking care of Kejriwal, sheadded.

AAP chief's parents also are undergoingnaturopathy treatment, she said. "Thefather is suffering from constipation andthe mother from diabetes and arthritis," shesaid.

The AAP leader has come to Bengaluruamidst internal turbulence in the party andits after effects following the party'sNational Executive meeting in New Delhithat eased out founder members YogendraYadav and Prashant Bhushan from thePolitical Affairs Committee, the party's keydecision-making body.

SP supremo...thank you all for the good wishes and

blessings for his speedy recovery (sic)."Mulayam had been admitted to a hospital

in Gurgaon late on Friday night after hecomplained of uneasiness and breathingdifficulty.

The 75-year-old has been advised restand there is no need to panic, SamajwadiParty Spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary hadinformed earlier today.

Earlier this week, Yadav had been admit-ted to the Sanjay Gandhi Post GraduateInstitute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) inLucknow and was discharged after anovernight stay in the hospital after sometests.

On the advise of doctors, Yadav hadstayed back in Lucknow during the Holicelebration cancelling his programme tovisit his native Saifai village in Etawah.

Modi's objective...check communal forces in the country."...Nehru continues to be relevant, Nehru

continues to be written about, continues tobe debated. But Narendra Modi's one pointobjective is to completely debunk and dele-gitimise Jawaharlal Nehru. That is BJP'sone point agenda -- to delegitimise Nehru,"Ramesh said at a public discourse, organ-ised by C Achutha Menon Centre here.

The Rajya Sabha MP said Modi, whoassumed charge as Prime Minister ninemonths ago, has never mentioned the wordJawaharlal Nehru.

"Not once... Vajpayee was not like that.Now, I have to say something positiveabout Advani... Advani was not like that...

"If you destroy the Nehruvian legacy, youdestroy the idea of India," the formerUnion Minister said. He said Nehru wasmore than an individual who stood for acertain vision.

He told the programme, also attended byCPI (M) MP P Rajeeve and CPI leaderBinoy Viswam, that "this is a most crucialjuncture in our political history" and askedthe Left parties to support the Congresswhich is at a "historic juncture".

"The country was looking to theCongress. With the support of all of you, Iam sure that we will find a way forward..."

Ramesh warned that India is in danger ofbecoming an "illiberal democracy".

"There are two types of democracies -- aliberal democracy and an illiberal democra-cy. Jawaharlal Nehru created a liberaldemocracy. Atal Bihari Vajpayee believedin a liberal democracy. But today you havean environment where the supreme leader(Modi) believes in illiberal democracy," hesaid.

"Political parties have been there.Parliament will meet, but the approach isone of authoritarian nowadays. The spacefor alternative point of view is shrinking,"Ramesh said. He also cited the incident ofGreenpeace activist Priya Pillai's offload-ing from a London-bound plane by author-ities at New Delhi airport recently.

"If a 28-year-old girl, Priya Pillai isoffloaded from a plane going to Londonand be termed as anti-national...For doingwhat? For raising concerns of environmen-tal consequences of coal mining. She wasnot committing a crime," he said.

Avalanche threat...to venture out in avalanche-prone areas

on Sunday and to stay indoors," an officialfrom the Himachal Pradesh State DisasterManagement Authority (HPSDMA) said.

The authority has directed the districtadministration to take all precautionarymeasures keeping in view the possibilitiesof avalanches in the district.

A government spokesperson said that thestate government is fully prepared to meetany exigency.

He advised the locals and tourists not toventure out in the high hills of Shimla,

Kullu, Sirmaur, Chamba and Kinnaur dis-tricts as chances of heavy snow and ava-lanches are high from March 8 to 9.

"Even the snow-bound areas near thetourist resort of Manali like Solang, BeasKund, Nehru Kund, Gulaba and Marhi areavalanche-prone," he added.

Cross-border...grid is robust. Our troops are alert on the

borders. Infiltration came down in 2014 ascompared to 2013. We have had a lot ofsuccesses last year," the DGP (J&K) toldreporters here.

"And this year also, we have seen a goodamount of successes so far. People arecoming forward with actionable intelli-gence and as a result of this, there hasn'tbeen any collateral damage," Kumar said.

The DGP was replying to questionsregarding security situation in Jammu andKashmir and cross-border infiltration.

On security situation, the DGP said,"There is peace and everybody wants peacenot violence".

Asked on the issue of J&K youths beinglured to join militant groups by cross-bor-der elements, he said, "We are identifyingall that causes that lead our youth to takethe wrong path and we will ensure that theyget blocked. Those found involved wouldbe punished severely".

Replying to a question regarding thegrowing drug menace in Jammu andKashmir and efforts by the state police todeal with the problem, the DGP said, "It ismatter of concern for the entire Jammu andKashmir... It is worrying us".

"We have seized a lot of drugs beingsmuggled into this side from Salamabadarea during checking of cross-border trucks(involved in cross-LoC trade).

"We have shown them (PoK authorities)evidence...And they have shown serious-ness. Big action was taken and the in-charge of that side has been arrested. Wehave identified people, involved and theprocess of arresting them is on," he said,adding smuggling was also taking place viaRajouri and Poonch.

Six injured...to stone pelting after water flow was

stopped for ongoing construction of cul-vert.

After getting information, police reachedthe spot and have detained those personswho were indulged in stone pelting, hesaid.

The matter is being investigated and theguilty will not be spared, SP said.

As a precautionary measure, security hasbeen stepped up with a large number ofpolice personnel deployed in the village.

Light rain...The Met office has forecast light rainfall

or thundershowers in some parts of the cityon Sunday.

"There will be light mist early morningtomorrow (Sunday). Partly cloudy sky, oneor two spells of very light rain and thunder-shower could occur in some areas," said anofficial with the India MeteorologicalDepartment.

The maximum and minimum tempera-tures are likely to hover around 27 and 15degrees Celsius respectively. Saturdaymorning was pleasant and the minimumtemperature settled at 12.5 degrees Celsius,a notch below the season`s average.

The day`s maximum humidity wasrecorded at 95 percent while the rain wasnoted at 7.6 m.m. Friday`s maximum tem-perature was recorded at 27.3 degreesCelsius, a notch below the season`s averageand the minimum temperature settled at 14degrees Celsius, a notch above the season`saverage.

Nine held...made late last night after two groups of

children clashed with each other in Vanganivillage during the Holi celebrations, APIDhananjay Pore of the Kulgaon Police sta-tion said. "The fight between two groups ofchildren led to several men joining the twosides and creating ruckus. It all started oversmearing of colours in the festival," hesaid.

Members of both the groups filed crosscomplaints against each other at Kulgaonpolice station. One of the groups belongedto a minority community.

Following the incident, tension prevailedin Wangani and additional police force wasrushed to maintain law and order. The situ-ation is under control, police said.

Further investigation into the episode ison.

Minor kidnapped...managed to escape and informed her par-

ents about the incident after reachinghome. Later, the victim's parents registereda case in this connection, after which theaccused was arrested, they said.

"The accused allegedly raped for for twodays after which she somehow managed toescape and narrated the whole incident toher parents, who reported it to the policefollowing which the accused was arrested"a police spokesman ssaid

The police has conducted the medicalexamination of victim at district Hospitaland have started further investigation in thecase.

BY SHIV VISVANATHAN

Ifind myself at odds with our cur-rent society which is ravenousabout news, greedy for informa-

tion, disgruntled about noise, and yetnever talks about silence. I thinksilence needs a storyteller. In fact,silence needs a demography to mapits messages. In all the noise aboutself-conscious selfies, I want to talkabout a different world. At one level,it is the same world, but no one talksabout it. This world of silence has norepresentation, no voice, no effort ofart that captures its messages, itsnuances.

A city’s attitude

I still remember this old man whosits near the red light, poised precar-iously on a pavement. He is prema-turely old. He looks beseechingly atyou as the car stops. He does not beg,he does not speak. He sits silently,quietly, exploding with questionsand still watches sadly as the carpasses him by. My driver, a folkauthority on Delhi, told me that thereare hundreds of old people like thisacross Delhi. Their families don’twant them. They feel unloved. Aftera meagre breakfast, they leave homeand spend the day sitting on pave-ments, watching people, tired withexpectation and hope. Their eyesspeak speechlessly. There are notears. They watch with innocence.The driver said, “I hate red lights ina city. They remind me of the home-less, the beggars, the old. It is a stopfor all the people we abandon andforget.” He uttered an obscenitywhich described the attitude of thecity, a heartlessness which had noplace for the defeated.

I probed a bit more. A few dayslater, a friend and I were drivingaround Kashmiri Gate bus stop inDelhi. It was night. Men were lit-tered all over the pavements, asleep.They were covered in gunny bags. Afew had patched up quilts and wereshivering in the cold. My friend said,“Homelessness is a strange world ofcitizenship. Do you know these peo-ple have to pay land sharks to sleepon the road?” Many looked dis-traught, too tired to speak. Some laydrugged in tiredness. One or twoslept with stray dogs which added to

the warmth and possibly to the com-panionship. It was a nightly tableauacross the pavements of Delhi enact-ed in silence. Silence does not mere-ly claim the poor. Its census ofuntold stories includes the old, theunemployed, the widowed, thedefeated in every niche of society. Ihave seen it even among middle

class executives, especially thosewho retire in their prime. They seemfull of ideas, alive with inventions,and in the beginning one senses theiranger with an economy that sudden-ly does not want them. They areangry at first but as their worldshrinks, as listeners disappear, Ioften see them walking alone.Sometimes I feel untimely retire-ment and unemployment destroysmore people than illness. Illness atleast produces the speech of suffer-ing and screams of pain. Even deathprovides the litany of mourning butretirement, retrenchment create frag-ments of silence. In fact, people dis-appear. They cease being a part ofthe social. They belong to what I callthe new shadow economy, a societywithout speech.

Development and promises

I know that religion and philoso-phy speak about the wisdom ofsilence. Here, silence seems to be its

own ecology. It does not need words.I have imagined sages sitting insilence. Gandhi used to keep days ofsilence. But this silence was volun-tary. It was a set of punctuationmarks in a life marked by speech. Itwas a silence which was comple-mentary to speech. I am more wor-ried about a silence that goes beyond

muteness to speechlessness. I knowthis silence can speak, even protest attimes, yet that speech of silence islike a dying spark without the fire.

Silence and history

I still remember a picture thathaunts me. It appeared recently in allthe national newspapers. It was aprotest by a group of Narmada damoustees, a whole group lying sub-merged in silence. They sat silentlyin the water for over a fortnightbefore the media even took cogni-sance of them. The silence of theprotesters spoke of the amnesia ofdevelopment, of the empty promisesof the nation state. The picture disap-peared quickly and yet the faces andfeet of the protesters haunted. Theyhad discovered the speech of silenceand yet it hardly left a trace on themedia. The media today seems fullof noise and its amnesia about suffer-ing makes it obscene. It is as if ourinformation society has no memory

for the defeated and the abandoned.One suspects that our aspirationalmobile society is embarrassed by thedefeated.

Silence and the muteness ofsilence seem to be our true history.The history, the real history ofPartition, is the history of its

silences. When Partition is writtenabout in political terms as a transferof power, its political history appearsto be pomposity. As history, it is aconversation of nation states and asilencing of a people.

I wish I could write a history on thesilences of Partition. I realise that itis a silence desperate for speech, andpraying for a community of listeners.The absence of memory and a lack oflisteners condemn silence to a dou-ble ritual of torture. I remember apoignant moment where the journal-ist, Shefalee Vasudev, telephoned meonce to talk of an old man who wentto see the movie “Gadar” 52 times.He was a Partition victim, a lone sur-vivor haunted by memories whichhad no community. He went and satin the theatre so that his silence couldat least find a double, even an idiotdouble in a Partition film. If Partitionwas obscene, the silence that fol-lowed it was doubly obscene. Iremember the psychologist, Ashis

Nandy, once mentioning that evenhusbands and wives who had livedthrough Partition sometimes nevertalked about it. Such is the tyranny ofpain and silence that hauntsPartition.

Sometimes the silencing of a storycomes from official definitions. Iremember Ganesh Devy, the literary

critic, once told me that the official isa form of silencing. The governmentof India defined a language as a formof life which needs a script. In oneindifferent stroke, it condemned allthe oral languages of India to silence.The silencing of the tribal was one ofthe great crimes of modern India. Itgoes beyond the deafness of mutes.In silencing the tribal we robbed himof his identity, his memory, his myth.It was an imposition of vulnerabilityleading inevitably to annihilation.

Sometimes as I watched thissilence unfolding like a shadow playor a tableau, I feel a sense of desper-ation. I sense it particularly with oldage. I think it takes courage to be oldtoday and I am not sure I have it.

Age and information

A friend of mine once exploded indesperation. He told me we havedestroyed old age with information.Old age had a beauty before the

information revolution. Now, assoon as we hear about Alzheimer’sdisease we react mechanically. Werush to the net and analyse every lit-tle information. Today, Alzheimer’sis a downloaded disease. It preventsus from reaching out to the old,reaching out to their memories.Instead, we follow the instructionsfrom the Internet. The more literatewe are, the more digital we become.We follow abstract instructionsinstead of conversing with the old.They become objects. We silencethem, without listening. My friendmourned that his father died con-fused, perplexed and silent becausethe official idea of Alzheimer’sdenied him his sensitivity, his experi-ences of old age. The noise of scien-tific information reduces old age tohelpless silence, a pathetic despair.

I often feel history and modernmedia is too much noise. When Iwalk around India, whether it is in itssmall towns or the little localitywhere I live, I often felt the act ofstorytelling will be an attempt toresuscitate the story of its silences. Ithink of the silence of Muslimwomen raped in 2002, the silence ofthe displaced, the silence of old age,of faces on the pavement and I sensethe helplessness of my social sci-ence. I think India is a society wherethe poor, the nomad, the abandonedare waiting mute so someone discov-ers their silence. Silence is today thesecret untold commons of a forgottenIndia. I feel democracy will comealive the day we decode the silenceof our majorities. Then, that silencewill move from impoverishment tolife. Desperately, urgently, a newecology of life needs to come alive, astory telling which goes beyond thelanguage of rights, and captures thehistory of the last 100 years. Ademocracy subject to the sadness ofsilence is doomed to the most devas-tating of tyrannies. This is the futurethat haunts India.

(Shiv Visvanathan is a professorat Jindal School of Government and

Public Policy.)

Editorial4 NEW DELHI | SUNDAY | MARCH 08, 2015SAADDA HAQ

BY RAM SINGH

Next week the economicagenda of the NarendraModi government will

face its biggest test inParliament. The controversialRight to Fair Compensation andTransparency in LandAcquisition, Rehabilitation andResettlement (Amendment)Bill, 2015 (LARR) that hasbeen introduced in Lok Sabhais due for consideration of thehouse on March 9. While thegovernment seems determinedto push the Bill throughParliament, the opposition par-ties have vowed to oppose ittooth and nail.

The stakes are very high forboth sides. Ensuring hassle-freeand cheap land to private com-panies is a crucial componentof the economic agenda of thegovernment. The governmenthas made it clear that it willconsider only ‘meaningful’amendments, but will notchange the core of the Bill. Onthe other hand, for oppositionparties the Bill offers an oppor-tunity for revival. They want tocapitalise on the battle that hasbeen raging outside Parliament.

A foot-march by tens of thou-sands of farmers, agriculturalworkers and tribals from 16States reached Jantar Mantar onFebruary 23 to join a protestlaunched by Anna Hazare. Thesocial activist has described theordinance as a grave form ofinjustice to farmers and otherswho depend on land for liveli-hood. Mr. Hazare has made itclear that the current protest isjust a beginning of a largermovement that will continueuntil the anti-farmer Bill waswithdrawn.

That many organisations offarmers, agricultural workersand tribals from different partsof the country have startedprotests is not surprising. SinceIndependence, millions have

been displaced and dispos-sessed of their livelihood due toland acquisition, and havereceived a pittance by way ofcompensation.

Farmers get a pittance

A study I undertook of 1,660judgments of the Punjab andHaryana High Court, deliveredbetween 2009 and 2011,demonstrates how farmers havebeen receiving the short end ofthe stick. It shows that the aver-age government compensationis just about one-fourth of themarket value of land. In otherwords, for a land worth Rs. 1lakh, on average, the farmer hasreceived Rs. 25,000 and paid asubsidy of Rs. 75,000 to who-ever received the land. If this isthe case with farmers whocould afford costly litigation,what about those too poor to doso?

As to the landless livelihoodloser — sharecroppers, labour-ers, fishermen and artisans —their situation can best bedescribed in the words ofShylock in The Merchant ofVenice, Act 4, Scene 1: “Youtake my life when you do takethe means whereby I live.”

Over the years, farmers havelost 1.80 lakh hectares of farmland to acquisition. Many atime, land has been acquired forprivate companies under theguise of public purpose.Recently, large tracts have beenacquired for real-estate devel-opers and the Special EconomicZones (SEZs). The companieshave earned huge profits bydiverting the acquired landtoward commercial activities.Developers in Noida andGurgaon have made fortunes.

A recent report of theComptroller and AuditorGeneral of India provides adamning account of misuse ofland in SEZs. It concludes:

“Land appears to be the mostcrucial and attractive compo-nent of the scheme. Out of45635.63 ha of land notified inthe country for SEZ purposes,operations commenced in only28488.49 ha of land.” It furtheradds: “5402.22 ha of land wasde-notified and diverted forcommercial purposes in severalcases. Many tracts of theselands were acquired invokingthe ‘public purpose’ clause.”

The LARR Act, 2013 had putpaid to such practices. It man-dated prior consent of 80 percent of the affected families forland acquisition for privatecompanies — 70 per cent forPPPs. The consultative and par-ticipatory acquisition processunder the Act drasticallyreduced the scope for arbitrarydispossession. Moreover, itmade Rehabilitation andResettlement (R&R) the legalright of the displaced and thelivelihood losers.

By scrapping these progres-sive features, the Bill haslegalised dispossession and dis-placement of people whodepend on land, water andforests for their livelihood. Ithas added a large number ofprivate projects to the exemptedlist for which land can beacquired without consulting theaffected people, never mindtheir consent. In fact, severalchanges effected by it havemade the acquisition law worsethan the colonial LandAcquisition Act (LAA), 1894.

For instance, it has expandedthe scope of SEZ-like malprac-tices by adding ‘Public-privatepartnerships’ (PPPs) to theexempted list. Ostensibly, thesepartnerships are formed to tapprivate funds for the provisionsof public goods. However,many of such partnerships areused as means to acquiring landfor companies. This is how itworks. The government con-

cerned acquires land citingsome public purpose and trans-fers it to the partner companies.Post-acquisition, companiesuse the land for real-estate andother commercial purposes tomake huge profits. Housingprojects under PPPs for the Tajand the Ganga expresswayprojects, and hospitality proj-ects clubbed with Delhi andMumbai airports are some ofthe many cases in point.

As if this was not enough, theBill has abolished the socialimpact assessment (SIA) formany projects, including SEZs,PPPs, dams, power plants, andwaterways. The SIA mandatedunder LARR, is vital to ensurethat the acquisition happensonly when it is in the socialinterest and excess land is notacquired. It also helps reducethe adverse effects of acquisi-tion — in terms of the loss oflivelihood and habitat, anddamage to the environment. Itsimportance cannot be overem-phasised for large projects.

To be meaningful the R&Rrequires careful documentationof those who lose their land andlivelihood. Under the bill thiscan be done only as a part of theSIA, which stands scrapped formost projects. Consequently,R&R has been rendered to amere charade. What a tribute tothe Narmada Bachao Andolan!

Misleading claims

The government has sought tojustify the Bill by attacking theLARR as anti-development.The Finance Minister, who isthe architect of the ordinance,in his blog has criticised theland acquisition process underthe Act as: “A highly compli-cated process of acquisitionwhich renders it difficult oralmost impossible to acquireland can hurt India’s develop-ment.”

Such claims are completely

misleading. The LARR hadbeen in place only for a yearand there is no evidence sug-gesting that project delaysincreased during this period. Onthe contrary, data from theMinistry of Statistics andProgramme Implementationshow that more than 82 per centof projects suffered delays evenunder the 1894 Act — the noto-rious ‘urgency clause’ underthis colonial law permitted landacquisition without any scruti-ny or hindrance whatsoever.Clearly, several factors otherthan land acquisition also causedelays.

Also, the government hasmade much of the increase incompensation; now, it can betwo to four times the ‘marketrates’. The corporate sector andits sympathiser claim that theincreased compensation hasrendered many projects unsus-tainable, threatening the growthprospects. Some UPA leadersalso seem to share this view,which is totally baseless, sincethe officials assess marketvalue using stamp-duty and thesale-deeds rates as proxy. Asthe above-mentioned study ofcourt cases shows, the latterrates are a fraction of the actualmarket prices. Therefore, evenat two to four times the stamp-duty rates, the compensationwill be less than the actualvalue.

The SIA and the R&R arecrucial for ensuring that peopleget dispossessed and displacedwhen it is really worth it.Similarly, prior consent of theaffected families is a necessarycheck on the misuse of the emi-nent domain power of the state.With these provisions absent,how can the bill be pro-farmerand pro-poor?

(Ram Singh is AssociateProfessor, Department of

Economics, Delhi School ofEconomics.)

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The manner in which the Devendra Fadnavis govern-ment in Maharashtra has scrapped the judiciallyallowed 5 per cent reservation for Muslims in educa-

tional institutions shows it has no qualms about being seenas discriminating against the minority community. The rea-son given in the Government Resolution scrapping thequota, introduced first through an ordinance in July 2014, isspecious: it merely states that the ordinance lapsed inDecember. The irony behind the policy decision is that thisquota was the only portion of the ordinance that was permit-ted to operate by the Bombay High Court in its interim orderof November 2014. The High Court held, prima facie, thatthe 16 per cent quota for the Maratha community in botheducation and employment was unconstitutional. The Courtagreed with the conclusions of the State Backward ClassesCommission that the Maratha community could not betermed backward in view of its dominant social position.The Court stayed reservation for Muslims in public employ-ment, while allowing it in government and aided education-al institutions. Yet, the government got a Bill passed in theState Assembly providing for reservation for Marathas. Itappears bent upon implementing a policy measure that helpsthe Maratha community despite the fact that this approachwas stayed. Yet the government is not interested in continu-ing with the Muslim quota, which has judicial sanction. Itmay be argued that reservation for Muslims is invalid as itamounts to discrimination on religious grounds, which isexpressly prohibited by the Constitution. Yet, several courtshave recognised that where the reservation is for identifiedsubgroups within a religious community, and extended onthe ground of social and educational backwardness based onquantifiable data, such affirmative action is valid. In the caseof Maharashtra, the quota is applicable to 50 identified sub-communities among Muslims. In Tamil Nadu, too, 3.5 percent reservation for Muslims is being implemented withoutany problem, mainly because it is applicable to them not onthe ground of religion but on the basis of their social andeducational backwardness. Several reports, mainly those ofthe Sachar Committee, the Ranganath Misra Commissionand the Mehmood-ur-Rehman Study Group have acceptedthat Muslims are educationally and socially backward, andspecial measures are needed to bring them into the main-stream of secular education. The government could havepursued the ongoing litigation on both kinds of reservationto its logical conclusion in the Supreme Court before actingin a manner contrary to what the interim orders permit. If itis serious about its commitment to minority welfare, itshould provide better access and greater opportunities toMuslims to pursue avenues of secular education.

I wish I could write a history on the silences of Partition. I realise that it isa silence desperate for speech, and praying for a community of listeners.The absence of memory and a lack of listeners condemn silence to a dou-ble ritual of torture. I remember a poignant moment where the journalist,Shefalee Vasudev, telephoned me once to talk of an old man who went tosee the movie “Gadar” 52 times. He was a Partition victim, a lone survivorhaunted by memories which had no community. He went and sat in thetheatre so that his silence could at least find a double, even an idiot dou-ble in a Partition film. If Partition was obscene, the silence that followed itwas doubly obscene. I remember the psychologist, Ashis Nandy, oncementioning that even husbands and wives who had lived throughPartition sometimes never talked about it. Such is the tyranny of pain andsilence that haunts Partition.

HYDERABAD, MARCH 07Andhra Pradesh aims to

complete the prestigiousPolavaram irrigation projectby March 2018, GovernorESL Narasimhan told the statelegislature on Saturday.

In his address on the firstday of the budget session, hesaid though allocation of ameager Rs.100 crore forPolavaram in the union budgethas put the plans in disarray,the state would make all-outefforts to complete the dreamproject by March 2018. TheGovernor said the projectwould be the life-line ofAndhra Pradesh and has beendeclared by the Centre as anational project.

First conceived in the 1940s,the irrigation project acrossGodavari river is likely to irri-gate over seven lakh acres in

Andhra Pradesh and produce960 megawatt (MW) of hydelenergy. The project in 2010-11was estimated to costRs.16,500 crore

Narasimhan said the govern-ment had identified six irriga-tion projects to be completedon priority.

He told the joint session thatthe state proposed to add a sig-nificant quantum of wind andsolar energy during 2015-16.Two ultra mega solar parks of1,000 MW capacity each arebeing set up by NationalThermal Power CorporationVidyut Vyapar Nigam Limitedin Ananthapuram andKurnool. The government alsoproposed to provide 10,000solar pumpsets to farmers dur-ing the current financial year.

Reiterating the plan to makeAndhra Pradesh a logistic hub

and gateway to South EastAsia, the governor said fournew ports would be developedduring the current year. Thestate also plans to develop onegreen field international air-port at Bhogapuram, nearVisakhapatnam besides mod-ernisation of three existing air-ports at Tirupati, Vijayawadaand Rajahmundry to interna-tional standards, and develop-ment of six no frillairports.

Narasimhan said the firstphase of the master plan of thenew state capital nearVijayawada would be readyby June this year. Stating thatthe world-class capital citywould be a role model for theentire country, he said nearly33,000 acres of land has beenvoluntarily provided by farm-ers.

State Watch 5NEW DELHI | SUNDAY | MARCH 08, 2015SAADDA HAQ

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 07The BJP-led Haryana

government today said that"inequitable" allocation offunds by the previousCongress regime duringthe past 10 years led to"skewed development" and"regional disparities" in thestate. The districts whichreceived maximum fundsfor the development duringthe last regime includedRohtak, Panchkula,Rewari, Ambala, Jhajjarand Sonepat, as per secondpart of the 'White Paper onState Finances' for the peri-od 2004-05 till 2013-14released by the Haryanagovernment here today.

Rolling out the data per-taining to developmentexpenditure in Haryana,Chief Minister ManoharLal Khattar said, "HUDAhad discriminated whileallocating funds for thedevelopment in the state.The department spent max-

imum funds in Rohtak,Panchkula, Rewari andAmbala districts during thepast 10 years."

A close look at the dis-trict-wise resources col-lected by the HaryanaUrban DevelopmentAuthority (HUDA) duringthe period under referenceand the correspondingfunds allocated to thesedistricts for works revealedthat some districts likeRohtak, Panchkula, Rewariand Ambala received "farmore" funds than were col-lected from these districts.

Districts like Rohtak,Rewari, Panchkulareceived funds for devel-opment from HUDAamounting to Rs 2,412crore, 1,347 crore and2,959 crore as against Rs809 crore, 665 crore and2,141 crore of funds gener-ated from these districtsrespectively, as per WhitePaper.

staggering sum of Rs5,525 crore more was spentin 14 such districts, as perpaper.

However, HUDA spentjust Rs 8,106 crore inGurgaon as against Rs15,633 crore as totalresources generated fromthis city, as per the paper.

This indicates a skewedfocus on some districts atthe cost of others Haryanaduring the last ten years,said the paper.

Rolling out anotherexample of regional bias,the Chief Minister claimedthat Haryana RuralDevelopment FundAdministration (HRDF)Board also did not allocatefunds for development in"correct" way.

He said HRDF spentmore on few districts likeJhajjar, Rohtak andSonipat despite lesser col-lection of rural funds likefee from these

districts.HRDF sanctionedRs 359 crore, Rs 369 croreand Rs 462 crore forRohtak, Sonipat andJhajjar districts even assum of Rs 59 crore, 195crore and 22 crore weregenerated from these dis-tricts, respectively, as perpaper. Khattar, however,said districts like Karnal,Sirsa, Kaithal were allocat-ed "lesser" funds despitehigher resources genera-tion from these places.

"It is observed that cer-tain districts have beenallocated a disproporion-latley large amount offunds for development ofrural infrastructure whencompared with receiptscollected from these dis-tricts. This indicatedinequitable allocation offunds for development giv-ing rise to regional dispari-ties in creation of ruralinfrastructure," the papersaid.

'Skewed' development duringCongress rule: Haryana govt

MUMBAI, MARCH 07A day after it threatened to corner the

Maharshtra government over Muslimreservation in the ensuing budget sessionof the state legislature, Opposition partiestoday stepped up its attack on the BJPsaying the decision to scrap the minorityquota exposes the "communal" face of theparty. While Congress said that BJP'sdecision on Muslim reservation hasshown that it has been working with a cer-tain "hidden agenda", NCP said it is aploy to consolidate the party's votebankand that they do not understand the socialrealities of the minority community.

"The decision do away with Muslimreservation, which was agreed upon bythe last government and the Bombay HighCourt is very unfortunate. It shows thereal face of the communal forces onwhose behalf the decision has beentaken," Leader of Opposition inMaharashtra Legislative Assembly

Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil said. "By doingaway with the reservation, the govern-ment has shown its hidden agenda. TheCongress has been consistently demand-ing reservations be implemented forMuslim community which has beenagreed upon by the court and we will def-initely take this issue up in the Assemblysession," he said. Former Maharashtracabinet minister and NCP leader JitendraAwhad said, "The message is loud andclear that they want to polarise the wholeissue and send a message that we onlycare for people who vote for us. Muslimshave not voted for this communal partyfrom the last 60 years. They have failed tounderstand the social realities of theMuslims. "All three committees - Sachar,Ranganath Mishra and Mohammed UrRehman - have categorically stated intheir reports that the financial, social andeducational conditions of Muslims areworse than that of Dalits.

'Move to scrap Muslim quota hasexposed BJP's communal face'

JAMMU, MARCH 07Jammu and Kashmir police

on Saturday submitted a chargesheet against five accused,including an examination cen-tre superintendent, who wereinvolved in a racket of masscopying in school board exam-inations.

"A criminal case under vari-ous sections of the RPC wasregistered in 2012 against fivepeople, including ShamsherSingh, the then superintendentof the examination centre, forallowing mass copying andallowing students to imperson-ate," Senior Superintendent ofPolice Crime Branch MubassirLatifi said.

An investigations by thecrime branch established that astudent named Prabjot Singhwas allowed to impersonatehimself as Parvinder Singh as

he was allowed to sit in theexamination hall, Latifi said.

"At that time the answersheet, roll number slip andattendance sheet were seizedthough a seizure memo pre-pared on the spot," hesaid.

Further probe revealed thatstudents were indulging inmass copying and other activi-ties in connivance with staffdeployed by Jammu andKashmir state board of schooleducation.

After the offences wereestablished against ShamsheerSingh, Pawan Kumar,Parvinder Singh, PrabhjohtSingh and Sukhbir Singh, acase was registered againstthem and the charge sheet wassubmitted before the ChiefJudicial Magistrate in Jammu,the officer added.

Andhra to completePolavaram project in 2018

GUWAHATI, MARCH 07Assam Chief Minister Tarun

Gogoi today condemned the lynch-ing of an Assamese youth inNagaland for allegedly raping a girland termed the incident as "barbaric,heinous and inhuman".

The opposition All India UnitedDemocratic Front (AIUDF) too hascondemned the incident as "unfortu-nate" and demanded a CBI inquiryinto it.

"The manner, in which the youthwas dragged out of custody andkilled brutally by a mob on thestreets, is highly condemnable,"Gogoi said in a statement.

He termed the act as "barbaric,heinous and inhuman" and said thatno one could take law unto theirhands and stern action must be takenagainst those involved in the

"heinous crime".At the same time, the Chief

Minister said the alleged crime com-mitted by the youth is equally con-

demnable but law should have beenallowed to take its own course.

Gogoi also said that the incidenthas been taken up at both Chief

Ministerial and Chief Secretary lev-els.

Meanwhile, opposition AIUDFPresident Badruddin Ajmal said theincident was "unexpected and unfor-tunate".

"The incident has created a com-munal tension in Dimapur. shops,business establishments andmosques are being vandalised now.We demand a CBI inquiry into theincident," he said in a statement.

He also said a delegation under theleadership of party MP RadheshyamBiswas will be sent to Nagaland todiscuss the issue with the state gov-ernment.

Besides, the party demanded anex-gratia of Rs 25 lakh to thedeceased and sought security toAssamese people in Nagaland, thestatement said.

Gogoi terms Dimapur lynching'barbaric', AIUDF seeks CBI probe

HYDERABAD, MARCH 07Governor ESL Narasimhan on

Saturday noted that new AndhraPradesh did not get anticipated sup-port from the Centre after bifurca-tion, thus putting the state in a tightspot over revenue deficit and absenceof a level-playing field.

"Our expectations for the state inthe Union Budget 2015-16 did notfructify. Andhra Pradesh has lost sig-nificant resource base after divisionand is at a disadvantage to competewith its revenue-surplus neighbour-ing states. This has put the state at agreat disadvantage which is not of itsown making," he said, while address-ing a joint sitting of Andhra PradeshLegislature on opening day of theBudget session.

"To compete with the developedcities like Bangalore, Chennai andHyderabad of the neighbouringstates, the Centre should giverequired assistance for a level playingfield vis-a-vis its neighbouringstates," he said.

The Governor maintained that thegovernment has availed every oppor-tunity to meet the Prime Minister,

Union Finance Minister and otherministers to strongly put forward itscase towards the end (for assistance).

The "unscientific and hurried"bifurcation of undivided AndhraPradesh has cost hardship to the newstate, he said.

"The post-bifurcation issues, espe-cially the huge financial deficits con-

tinue to affect the new state ofAndhra Pradesh, which is home to58.32 per cent of the population ofthe erstwhile undivided AndhraPradesh state," he said.

The twin effects of Hudhudcyclone last year and drought com-pounded the problems of the statefacing deficit, Narsimhan said.

Andhra still awaiting Centre'shelp post bifurcation: Governor

Man held for brutalising 6-year-old girl in GujaratAHMEDABAD, MARCH 07

In a shocking incident, a security guard allegedlyinserted an iron rod into a six-year-old girl's privateparts, causing her critical internal injuries.

Kaushal Anilsingh Chauhan, 24, a native of UttarPradesh, assaulted the six-year-old girl in Sola areahere by inserting an iron rod into her private partsyesterday, Sola police station inspector BV Gohilsaid. Chauhan has been arrested.

The officer said Chauhan did not rape the minor buthas been booked under IPC section 375 (d) (manipu-lating any part of the body of a child so as to causepenetration of the private part), as per the new anti-rape laws and under relevant sections of Protection ofChildren from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012.

The incident took place when the girl was playingat an under-construction site near Sola over-bridge,he said.

According to preliminary investigation, there wassome old rivalry between Chauhan, who worked assecurity guard at the site, with the girl's parents, whoalso worked there as labourers, said Gohil.

The girl has been sent to Sola civil hospital and hercondition is stated to be stable, he added.

FARIDABAD, MARCH 07Four persons, including a

woman and a child, wereshot at when two men triedto save a boy from beingbeaten by a group of peoplewhile celebrating holi inDayalpur Village nearPrithla in the district, policesaid.

People were playingcolour when a scuffle start-ed on issue of a group ofpeople beating a boy. Twoof the villagers, Neeraj andhis cousin Dheeraj tried tosave the child and asked theother group to leave theboy, they said.

According to eyewitness-es, interruption by the twochanged the situation andthe group, also from the

same village, entered into afight with Neeraj andDheeraj.

Then someone called thepolice which settled thematter.

But after few hours, agroup of over 20 peoplecame on two SUVs and fivemotor bikes and opened fireon Neeraj and Dheeraj.

Neeraj, 22, received mul-tiple bullet wounds whileDheeraj was attacked withsome sharp edged weaponon his head and alsoreceived a bullet injury,police said, adding that inan attempt to save the duo,their aunt Mukesh came infront and was seriouslyinjured.

Also, a 9-year-old Vidit, a

relative of Neeraj andDheeraj, also received bul-let injuries as he was play-ing in the where firing wasgoing on.

Neeraj and Dheeraj wererushed to SarvodayHospital in Sector-8Faridabad, while their auntMukesh, in her late forties,was referred to ApolloHospital Delhi.

Vidit is admitted in AsianHospital Faridabad.

All the four are said to bein serious condition, saidPritpal, SHO Police Stationand Sadar Ballabgarh.

The officer said that fami-ly have confirmed that therewas no old enmity betweenthe two parties.

4 injured after a group of vil-lagers opens fire on another

SRINAGAR, MARCH 07Hardline Hurriyat

Conference chairmanSyed Ali Shah Geelanitoday said India andPakistan should movebeyond their traditionaldialogue process andadopt a serious approachfor resolving Kashmirissue. "The present gov-ernments of India andPakistan should come outof the traditional and cus-tomary dialogue processand adopt a serious andfar sighted approachtowards the final andlasting resolution of theKashmir dispute,"Geelani said in statementhere.

Geelani said PrimeMinister Narendra Modiand his Pakistani coun-terpart Nawaz Sharif can

write a new chapter in theworld history by resolv-ing Kashmir issue thatwill bring in peace andstability in the region."Prime MinisterNarendra Modi andNawaz Sharif, if willing,can write a new chapterin the history of the worldand they can play animportant and memo-rable role in making thewhole South Asianregion a region of peace,stability and prosperity,"he said. The unresolvedKashmir dispute is theonly reason which hasresulted in a wall ofhatred, enmity and rival-ries between the twocountries, he said.

said "Kashmir is notthe issue of good or badgovernance so, it can nei-

ther be solved by chang-ing the governments norcan this ulcer be treatedthrough cosmetic meas-ures".

Commenting on thechange of guard inJammu and Kashmir,Geelani said Kashmir isnot the issue of goodgovernance and provid-ing better facilities whichcould be solved by thechanging the govern-ment.

"The common mini-mum program on which(Chief Minister) MuftiMohammad Sayeed hasagreed to work with hisalliance partner is allabout the administrativeissues and it has nothingto do with the final reso-lution of the Kashmirissue.

KOLKATA, MARCH 07Amid speculations that

Trinamool Congress MP TapasPaul might be called for quizzingby the CBI for his alleged linkswith a ponzi firm, sidelined partyleader Mukul Roy on Saturdayinsisted that all law abiding citi-zens have an obligation to cooper-ate in such a probe. Roy, who wasearlier quizzed by the CentralBureau of Investigation in connec-tion with the multi-crore-rupeeSaradha scam, also called forindemnifying the investors whowere ruined by the scandal thatcame to light in April 2013."While there should be efforts toindemnify the investors, I feel ifany law abiding citizen is calledfor the sake of inquiry, in the inter-est of the probe he should cooper-ate," said Roy when asked to com-ment about Paul whose Kolkataresidence was raided by the CBIon Wednesday. Paul`s house was

one of the 43 locations of the RoseValley Group that was searched bythe CBI as a part of its probe intoa chit fund scam. Accused of rais-ing money from the publicthrough unapproved investmentscheme, the Rose Valley has beenunder the scanner of various cen-tral agencies including market reg-ulator SEBI, the Serious FraudInvestigation Office (SFIO) andthe Enforcement Directorate (ED).A former director of the group`sfilms division, Paul has virtuallyaped Roy in professing coopera-tion with the central agency if hewas summoned. Incidentally, Roy- once considered West BengalChief Minister MamataBanerjee`s right hand man - wasgradually sidelined from the partyand even stripped of the positionof national general secretary,when he went against the partystand to promise cooperation withthe CBI.

Law abiders should cooperatewith CBI probe: Mukul Roy

Jammu mass copying case:Chargesheet submitted against 5

Geelani calls for adoptingserious approach on Kashmir

The US MarshalsService held itsthird auction of

Bitcoins seized from RossUlbricht, convicted ofoperating black-marketwebsite Silk Road, with asale of 50,000 unitsattracting higher demandthan the previous auction.

The government had 14registered bidders for the34 bids received, saidMarshals Service spokes-woman Lynzey Donahue.That was higher than thebids received at the lastBitcoin auction inDecember, when just 11buyers submitted 27 bids.

The first auction in Juneattracted 45 bidders and63 bids. Donahue expectsthe auction process to befinished on Monday, atthe earliest, when thefinancial transactionshave been completed andthe Bitcoins transferred tothe winning bidders. Thewinners though areexpected to be notified.

The Bitcoins on the auc-tion block are valued at$13.9 million at currentprices.

The six-hour onlineauction began at 8 a.m.EST (1300 GMT). The50,000 Bitcoins wereoffered in 20 blocks: 10blocks of 2,000 Bitcoinsand 10 blocks of 3,000Bitcoins.

The Marshals Serviceconducted auctions inJune and December fornearly 80,000 Bitcoinsseized during the 2013raid of Silk Road, a web-site on which authoritiessay drugs and other illegalgoods could be bought.Ulbricht, 30, was foundguilty on Feb. 4 of con-spiracies to commitmoney laundering, com-puter hacking and drugtrafficking.

SecondMarket, ownedand founded by BarrySilbert, won the biddingfor 48,000 Bitcoins auc-tioned in December.Silbert said that SecondMarket would participatein Thursday's auction, buthis firm has not created asyndicate for the sale.

In late trading, Bitcoinprices were up 2.3 percentat $277 .

NEW DELHI | SUNDAY | MARCH 08, 2015SAADDA HAQScience & Tech6

1. Gross domestic capital formation is defined asA. flow of expenditure devoted to increased or main-taining of the capital stockB. expenditure incurred on physical assets onlyC. production exceeding demandD. net addition to stock after depreciation

2. On July 12, 1982, the ARDC was merged intoA. RBI B. NABARDC. EXIM Bank D. None of the above

3. Which of the following is the most appropriate causeof exports surplus?A. Country's exports promotion valueB. Country's stringent import policyC. Developments in national and international mar-ketsD. None of the above

4. If the cash reserve ratio is lowered by the RBI, itsimpact on credit creation will be toA. increase it B. decrease itC. no impact D. None of the above

5. Which of the following items would not appear in acompany's balance sheet?A. Value of stocks of raw materials heldB. Total issued capitalC. Revenue from sales of the company's productsD. Cash held at the bank

QUIZ TIME

Answer: 1(D), 2 (B), 3(C), 4(A), 5(A)

TODAY’S STARARIES Enthusiasm for spiritual and metaphysical studies could have you

feeling optimistic about the future. Your physical energy is high,Aries, and this suggests that you want to try yoga, tai chi, oranother discipline that combines physical exercise with develop-ing psychic and spiritual faculties. Friends could want to join youin this activity. Let the insights flow, and write them down.

TAURUS Today you might want to host a meeting of your metaphysical-ly inclined friends, Taurus. Discussions could lead to insightsthat none of you would have come up with alone. Your mindswill be going a thousand miles an hour. None of you may everbe the same! Don't forget to take notes of your discussions.You won't want to forget a thing you've heard or said.

GEMINI Books or lectures on spiritual or metaphysical matters couldinspire you to pursue a subject and perhaps do some writing,Gemini. Contact with friends or colleagues with similar interestscould result in fascinating discussions. You might receive someinsights about how to pursue your goals more effectively. It willadvance you materially as well as intellectually and spiritually.

CANCER A new and previously unacknowledged talent for working in social,humanitarian, or spiritual fields could come to light today, Cancer.This could have you thinking seriously about changing jobs or pursu-ing an entirely new career. The opportunities are there if you look. Ifyou're serious about this change, it's best to pursue it now. If you waittoo long, the process might prove more difficult.

LEO Increased intuition, imagination, and spiritual insight could inspireyou to either undertake a course of study or move ahead withrelated creative projects, Leo. You might be very pleasantly sur-prised at what you learn or produce, and so be motivated to con-tinue with whatever you're doing. This could be an inspiring andproductive time for you. Make the most of it!

VIRGO Recent new ideas, insights, and visions could motivate you toinvite friends with similar interests over today, Virgo. You willwant to share your experiences, listen to their stories, and tryto make sense of it all. This may be an important process,even if some of what's said doesn't seem to make sense.Write down your thoughts and go over them later.

LIBRA An invitation to a social event in your neighborhood could put you intouch with artistic or spiritually inclined people. There could be somefascinating exchanges, Libra. The event might continue into thenight. No matter how late, no matter how tired you are when you gethome, try to get a little exercise to clear your head and quiet yourmind. You might have trouble getting to sleep otherwise.

SCORPIO Spiritual insights you received over the past few days could turn yourthoughts to serving others. You might have a talent for teaching andchoose to share what you've learned in this way, Scorpio. You shouldfeel especially healthy and energetic, so you may be tempted toplunge ahead. Plan carefully. Even the most admirable of enterpris-es needs to be faced in a practical frame of mind.

SAGITTARIUSRomance should pick up speed today, Sagittarius. You could discov-er that you and a current or potential romantic partner have manyspiritual interests in common. You might attend some lectures orworkshops on one of these subjects together. Take care not to plantoo much at once. One or both of you could run into conflicts and endup disappointing the other. Schedule a few and stick to your plans.

CAPRICORN You might have intense dreams and visions tonight that could bealmost prophetic, Capricorn. These premonitions could be per-sonal, but they're apt to be more worldly, such as political eventsor something in the life of a celebrity you admire. What you senseshould be positive, so there are no warnings involved. Write themdown so you can verify them later. You might be surprised!

AQUARIUS A lecture given by a magnetic speaker could excite your imaginationand interest you in a new and intriguing field, Aquarius. You couldalso learn about some books on the subject that you want to read.This could give you new motivation to pursue some cherished goalsthat you've let slide for a while, perhaps inspiring some writing ofyour own. Friends could prove supportive in this enterprise.

PISCES A friend or colleague could introduce you to a way to increaseyour income by doing what you love most, Pisces. This mayinvolve the creative arts, healing, or spiritual or metaphysicalmatters. Although this might take weeks or months of prepa-ration to put into effect, it should be worth the effort. Check outthe facts and think about it. If you still like it, go for it!

At least 46,000 Twitter accounts havebeen linked to supporters of the IslamicState in late 2014, a research report

released in Washington showed.

The study released Thursday by theBrookings Institution found that even thoughmany accounts were suspended by the messag-ing platform, the numbers remained high.

"From September through December 2014,the authors estimate that at least 46,000 Twitteraccounts were used by ISIS supporters,although not all of them were active at the sametime," the report said.

Authors JM Berger and Jonathon Morgansaid analysis of the social media efforts of themilitant Islamic group also known as ISISneeds to go beyond the core leadership.

"Previous analyses of ISIS's Twitter reachhave relied on limited segments of the overallISIS social network," they wrote in the reportcommissioned by Google Ideas.

"The small, cellular nature of that network -and the focus on particular subsets within thenetwork such as foreign fighters - may createmisleading conclusions."

Analyzing the location embedded in thetweets, the researchers found the largest num-ber of ISIS supporters in Saudi Arabia, fol-lowed by Syria, Iraq and the United States.

Nearly one in five of the IS supporters tweet-ed in English, they found, with three quarterstweeting in Arabic.

The supporting accounts had an average ofabout 1,000 followers each, higher than mostTwitter users. Accounts that tweeted most oftenand had the most followers were most likely tobe suspended.

The authors said social media companies andthe US government "must work together todevise appropriate responses to extremism onsocial media."

They noted that "although discussions of thisissue often frame government intervention as aninfringement on free speech, in reality, socialmedia companies currently regulate speech ontheir platforms without oversight or disclosuresof how suspensions are applied."

Twitter said this week it was working withlaw enforcement officials on unspecifiedthreats, amid reports that the social network hadbeen targeted for blocking accounts linked to

the Islamic State.

A page on the online bulletin board Pastebinshowed an image of Twitter founder JackDorsey in what appear to be the crosshairs of arifle scope and a message in Arabic.

SITE Intelligence, a US group that monitorsjihadist threats, said the post was made by Al-Nusra Al-Maqdisiya, a pro-Islamic State mediagroup.

A translation of the message by SITE said thatDorsey and Twitter are now being targeted byIslamic militants for suspending certainaccounts.

"You began this failed war, and we have toldyou from the beginning that it is not your war!But you did not understand. You shut down ouraccounts and we quickly return, but when ourlone lions shut down your breathing there willbe no return!" the message said.

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UST Global - the biggestemployer of IT pro-fessionals in Kerala

- Friday launched itsmobile-based app forwomen's safety, ahead of theInternational Women's Dayon March 8.

The app was unveiled byKerala Home MinisterRamesh Chennithala inThiruvananthapuram in thepresence of high rankingpolice officers.

To start with, the app -iSafe - has been rolled outfor ThiruvananthapuramCity Police and would soonbe made available in othercities.

The app is currently avail-able for Android phones andwill soon be available onother platforms.

Through the app, womenwill be able to send instantalerts to police control roomby using panic button or just by thelong press of volume rocker (down) keyof their mobile phones.

The police control room receives thealert along with information of the loca-tion, the subscriber ID and the IMEInumber of the mobile.

Police then immediately dispatches

help viapolice CRV( C o n t r o lR o o mVe h i c l e )that is near-est to thed i s t r e s slocation.

O n c eiSafe sendsan alert tothe controlroom, itsp o s i t i o ncan bet r a c k e duntil the sit-uation isresolved.

The posi-tion is visi-ble topolice atthe controlroom andalso ontablets that

police forcecarries.

Alexander Varghese, UST Global'scountry head, said innovation and tech-nology can go a long way in bringing sus-tainable transformations to communities.

Headquartered in California, USTGlobal is a leading provider of end-to-end IT services and solutions for Global1,000 companies.

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AUS space probe slippedinto orbit around Ceres, aminiature planet beyond

Mars believed to be left overfrom the formation of the solarsystem, Nasa said on Friday.

Launched in 2007, the Dawnspacecraft made a 14-month tourof the asteroid Vesta before steer-ing itself toward Ceres, thelargest body in the asteroid beltbetween Mars and Jupiter.

Dawn shifted its path to allowitself to be captured by Ceres'gravity at 7:39 a.m. EST (1239

GMT), becoming the first space-craft to orbit a dwarf planet.

"We feel exhilarated," leadresearcher Chris Russell at theUniversity of California, LosAngeles, said in a statement afterDawn radioed back to Earth.

Nasa's New Horizons probe isscheduled to fly by another dwarfplanet, Pluto, in the far reaches ofthe solar system later this year.Like Ceres, Pluto was once con-sidered a full-fledged planet, butwas reclassified after the discov-ery of similar bodies.

Dawn will spend about amonth repositioning itself fromits initial orbit about 38,000miles (61,000 km) above Ceresto the first survey altitude of2,730 miles (4,400 km).

By the time the mission ends inJune 2016, Dawn will have flownas low as 230 miles (375 km)above the surface.

Scientists already have a mys-tery to solve. Last month asDawn neared Ceres, it relayedimages of startlingly bright spotson the surface, which could be

patches of subsurface iceexposed after an asteroid orcomet impact. They also could bedeposits of salt or other minerals.

"These spots were extremelysurprising," Dawn scientist CarolRaymond of the NationalAeronautics and SpaceAdministration's Jet PropulsionLaboratory in Pasadena,California, told reporters onMonday.

Scientists suspect Ceres mayhave had an underground oceanearly in its history that later

froze. Europe's Herschel tele-scope last year detected watervapor around Ceres, a clue thatimpacting bodies may periodical-ly send plumes of watery materi-al shooting into space. Dawn willtry to confirm those findings.

The mission, which is costingNasa about $473 million, is thefirst to include stops at more thanone extraterrestrial body.

Dawn is outfitted with an ionelectric propulsion engine, whichrequires far less fuel that tradi-tional chemical engines.

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AUCKLAND, MARCH 07Pakistan`s trio of left-arm

pacemen bowled their team to athrilling 29-run win over SouthAfrica on the Duckworth/Lewismethod as they revived theirbid for a World Cup quarter-final place in Auckland onSaturday.

Rahat Ali grabbed a career-best three for 40, whileMohammad Irfan (three for 52)and Wahab Riaz (three for 45)were also in the wickets asSouth Africa, chasing a revisedtarget of 232 in 47 overs, weredismissed for 202 in 33.3 overs.

South Africa captain AB deVilliers hit a brilliant 58-ball 77with five sixes and sevenboundaries but failed to stopPakistan from registering theirthird win in five matches -- andtheir first victory over theProteas in all World Cups.

Pakistan were all out in 46.4overs after two rain interrup-tions which reduced the match

to 47-over-a-side. SkipperMisbah-ul-Haq scored 56 whileSarfraz Ahmed made run-a-ball49.

De Villiers, who completed

1000 World Cup runs, was dis-missed by Sohail Khan in the33rd over for wicketkeeperSarfraz Ahmed`s sixth catch inthe match -- equalling the

world record for most catchesbehind the stumps in a one-dayinternational.

South Africa were off to adisastrous start as opener

Quinton de Kock was dis-missed in Irfan`s first over ofthe innings.

Hashim Amla, who hit nineboundaries in his 38, steadiedthe innings during his 67-runsecond wicket stand with Fafdu Plessis before Pakistan hitback.

Ali removed Du Plessis andDavid Miller (nought) whileRiaz dismissed Amla and RileeRossouw (six) as South Africalost four wickets for just 10runs in the space of 39 balls.

Irfan returned for his secondspell to dismiss JP Duminy for12 as South Africa, who wouldhave been in the quarter-finalshad they won this match, wereleft reeling at 102 for six.

De Villiers took the fight tothe Pakistani bowlers adding 36with Dale Steyn (16) and anoth-er invaluable 33 for thse eighthwith Kyle Abbott who made 12.

He hit two sixes in oneShahid Afridi over to reach his

fifty off just 45 balls beforePakistan staged a late come-back.

It was Misbah who steadiedPakistan`s innings with a deter-mined 86-ball knock -- hisfourth half-century in fiveWorld Cup matches.

The Pakistan captain alsocompleted 5,000 one-day inter-national runs when on seven inhis 160th match.

He was the 12th Pakistani toreach the landmark but the firstfrom any country to do so with-out scoring an individual hun-dred.

Misbah hit four boundariesbefore he holed out at third manoff fast bowler Steyn who fin-ished with three for 30.

Afridi made a 15-ball 22 withtwo sixes and a boundary as hewent to 8,000 ODI runs.

Ahmed put on a confident 30-run opening stand with AhmedShehzad (18) -- the best open-ing stand for Pakistan in this

tournament -- before Steyn helda smart diving catch to giveSouth Africa the breakthrough.

Shehzad hit Abbott towardslong-on where Steyn, on therun, held a low chance.

Ahmed, who did not play inPakistan`s first four poolmatches, hit three sixes in oneDuminy over before he ranhimself out while taking a sec-ond run in a bid to reach hisfifty.

He also hit five boundaries inhis run-a-ball knock.

Younis Khan, dropped afterpoor run of scores in the firstthree matches, made an attrac-tive 44-ball 37 with fourboundaries before falling tosoft dismissal off the part-timebowling of de Villiers.

But South Africa`s lack of agenuine fifth bowler provedcostly, with de Villiers andDuminy conceding 77 runsbetween them in a combinednine overs.

ICC World Cup: Pacers bowl Pakistanto stunning win over South Africa

NEW DELHI, MARCH 07Saina Nehwal on Saturday

scalped yet another Chinese shut-tler to make her first All EnglandBadminton Championships finaland become the first Indian womanto do so. The Indian star madeshort work of unseeded Sun Yu,winning the semi-final matchunder an hour in Birmingham.

The world-number three fromIndia had earlier defeated herChinese nemesis and former WorldChampion Wang Yihan for the firsttime in more than two years intheir last-eight encounter at theBarclaycard Arena.

Saina, who has been regarded ason the top players able to challengethe Chinese might, started hersemi-final match in a sluggishway, but went onto win the first set21-13. After a brief fight-backfrom the Chinese, the 24-year-oldIndian took the second set in anidentical score-line to reach hermaiden All England final.

In her previous eight attempts atthe prestigious tournament, she

reached the semi-finals twice in2010 and 2013. She lost in the lasteight stage last year.

The 24-year-old Olympic medal-ist will play the winner of secondsemi-final match between reigning

World Champion and sixth-seededCarolina Marin of Spain and sev-enth-seeded Tai Tzu Ying ofChinese Taipei in the women's sin-gles title clash. Overall, Saina isthe third Indian to qualify for the

singles finals, after legendaryPrakash Padukone and her formermentor Pullela Gopichand.Padukone and Gopichand won thechampionships in 1980 and 2001respectively.

Saina Nehwal, HS Prannoywin at All England C'shipAUCKLAND, MARCH 07

South Africa failed tochase down an oppositiontotal for the second time inthe cricket World Cup onSaturday to resurrect olddoubts about their abilityunder pressure.

Captain AB de Villiersdid his best to win the PoolB game against Pakistanon his own as wickets fellat the other end but his dis-missal for 77 signalled theend of South Africa`s chal-lenge.

Pakistan eventually wonthe match by 29 runs on theDuckworth-Lewis methodafter South Africa col-lapsed to 202 all out from33.3 overs. They lost anearlier group game to Indiaby 130 runs.

It was also the secondmatch in a row at EdenPark to be dominated bythe bowlers after lastweekend`s epic one wicketwin by New Zealand overco-hosts Australia.

"It was a disappointingloss once again," deVilliers told reporters. "Wedidn`t have good enoughpartnerships. I thinkPakistan wanted it morethan us"

De Villiers said he hadnot felt any energy fromhis team before the match.

"I didn`t feel any electricvibe," he said. "It`s myresponsibility to get theguys going which I didn`t.They weren`t prepared to

fight."I firmly believe there`s

nothing wrong with thebatting lineup, nothingwrong with the cricketteam. I don`t feel there anyscars."

De Villiers said he alsobelieved his team shouldhave been able to chasedown 300 on Saturday,despite rain interruptionswhich freshened the pitchfor the Pakistan fastbowlers.

ICC World Cup 2015: South Africarevive old doubts in defeat

HOBART, MARCH 07Ireland survived a mighty scare

before pulling off a sensationalfive-run win over Zimbabwe tokeep themselves in the hunt for thequarterfinals of the cricket WorldCup, here on Saturday.

Ireland posted their best everODI score of 331 for eight with EdJoice scoring 112 and AndyBalbirnie 97 as the two batsmenshared a 138-run stand for the thirdwicket after they were invited tobat.

Zimbabwe put up a valiant fightthrough skipper Brendon Taylor,who smashed a fighting 121, andSean Williams who played asuperb knock of 96.

However, Zimbabwe fell shortby five runs with Ireland pacemanAlex Cusack taking the last twoZimbabwe wickets in the firstthree balls of the final overs toknock the Africans out of the tour-nament.

are placed fourth in Pool B withthree wins and a defeat after fourmatches.

Zimbabwe were reeling at 74 forfour and it was the pair of Taylorand Williams who brought themback with their 149-run stand for

the fifth wicket.Taylor was dismissed by Cusak

in the 38th over but Williams kepthis side in the hunt. But onceWilliams was scalped by Kevin OBrien in the last ball of the 47thover, Zimbabwe looked in struggleagain.

Some gritty batting by RegisChakbwa (17) and TawandaMupariwa (18) raised hopes asthey needed only seven runs off

the last over, but Cusack bowledCjakabwa in the first ball and thenhad Muprariwa caught by skipperWilliam Porterfield to end the con-test.

Zimbabwe's decision to putIreland in after winning the tossbackfired spectacularly as theEuropean giant-killers rode onJoyce and Bilbirnie's knocks tobetter their previous best of 329,made against England in the 2011

edition.Bilbirnie was unlucky to miss

out on a hundred when he was runout by Zimbabwe's stand-in skip-per Taylor in the 50th over whileattempting a tough second run.

It was not the ideal start for theIrish as they lost the reliable open-ing pair of Porterfield (29) andPaul Stirling (10) cheaply, but theteam's middle order more thanmade up for it.

Joyce and Bilbirnie were the starperformers with their brilliant indi-vidual innings and their 138-runthird-wicket partnership.

They were together at the creasefor a total of 18.3 overs and laidthe foundation for Ireland's bestODI score before a late collapseprevented them from going ballis-tic in the slog overs.

Joyce struck nine fours and threesixes during his 103-ball stay inthe middle, while Bilbirniesmashed seven fours and clearedthe rope four times during his 78-ball knock.

Gary Wilson's 25-run cameo,which came off 13 balls andincluded three fours and a six, wasanother noteworthy contribution inthe team total.

ICC World Cup: Ireland see off Zimbabwein thriller, remain in hunt for quarters

RIO GRANDE, MARCH 07Arjun Atwal playing his

first PGA Tournamentsince September last yearmade the cut with a one-under 71 in the secondround of the Puerto RicoOpen on Friday.

The only Indian to havewon on the PGA Tour shot73 in the first round andadded a 71 in the second.

At even par 144, he wastied 31st after gaining 10places from his overnight

41st place. Also makingthe weekend action wasDaniel Chopra (74-69) intied 21st place after awindy second round. The44-year-old Czech-bornGerman Alex Cejkabirdied three of his last fiveholes on Friday for a 5-under 67 and that gave hima one-shot lead.

Cejka birdied 5th, 7thand 9th in a bogey-freeround to reach seven-under137 at Trump International

- Puerto Rico.He has made only one

bogey in 36 holes.Brandon Hagy was sec-

ond after finding a birdieon his final hole for a 67.

Argentina's EmilianoGrillo was third at 5 underafter a 70. Defendingchampion Chesson Hadleytopped the group at 3 underafter a 70. First-roundleader Mark Hubbard fol-lowed his opening 68 witha 74 to drop to 2 under.

Arjun Atwal, Daniel Chopramake cut at Puerto Rico Open

Davis Cup:Milos Raonic,Kei Nishikorihave Canadaand Japan level

NEW YORK, MARCH 07Milos Raonic and Kei Nishikori

won their opening matches on Fridayto put Canada and Japan level at 1-1and set themselves up for a block-buster Davis Cup clash.

Canadian number one Raonic,ranked sixth in the world, got theWorld Group first-round tie off to asmooth start for the hosts, overpow-ering the 85th-ranked Tatsuma Ito 6-2, 6-1, 6-2.

The Canadian converted six of hisseven break chances, breaking Ito

twice in each set to wrap up the open-er in one hour and 27 minutes.

Raonic fired 17 aces and neverfaced a break point.

Nishikori, the 2014 US Open run-ner-up, ranked fourth in the world,leveled the tie with a 6-4, 7-6 (7/5),6-3 win over Vasek Pospisil.

Friday`s split means that no matterwhat happens in Saturday`s doubles -- in which Daniel Nestor and Pospisilare slated to take on Go Soeda andYasutaka Uchiyama -- Sunday`shighly anticipated singles match

between Raonic and Nishikori willbe key.

Nishikori owns a 4-2 career recordagainst Raonic. They exchanged apair of fourth-round Grand Slam vic-tories in 2014, and Nishikori beatRaonic in the 2012 and 2014 Tokyofinals and in the 2014 ATP MadridMasters round of 16.

Raonic took their most recentmeeting in a Brisbane semi-final.

In Sunday`s final singles rubber,Pospisil will take on Ito.

Canada are out for a bit of Davis

Cup revenge against Japan.The Canadians rolled to the 2013

Davis Cup semi-finals before fallingto Serbia at Belgrade but last yearlost 4-1 to Japan at Tokyo, falling to0-6 all-time against Japan in DavisCup play.

Beating Canada last year launchedJapan into the second round of theWorld Group for the first time, butwith Nishikori injured and absent inthe quarter-finals, they were ham-mered 5-0 by then-defending cham-pion Czech Republic.

Party lover SalmanKhan hosted a smallholi party at his

Panvel farmhouse andclose pals and familymembers of the superstarget together to ring in Holicelebration together.Shirtless Khan is seen herewith Daisy Shah, ElliEvram and Dianne Pandey.They posed for the camera.

Salman Khan’s sisterArpita Khan and her hubbyAayush Sharma alsoplayed Holi with all. AlviraKhan clicked photo withArpita and Aayush. Arpitaposted pictures of the fam-ily on her Instagram page.

Salman Khan seemsmore busy playing holiwith brother Sohail Khanand designer Seema Khan's

younger son. DirectorKabir Khan was also seenin full action.

Bollywood actress PreityZinta also made to theparty. She posed with AtulAgnihotri. Arpita posed

with brother Sohail Khan.Arbaaz Khan and wife

Malaika Arora Khan wasmissing from the celebra-tion. Salman also posedwith his mother SalmaKhan.

The alarm constantlyeludes you and evenwhen you do wake up

on time, you're inevitablylate. Naturally, there's notime for tidying up andlooking presentable — or soyou think! There are beautyhacks for every kind of girl,even the latecomers:

Emergency kit: Always carry a mini bag

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5-minute wavy hair:

Spritz damp hair with awave-enhancing spray,scrunch and twist into twobuns. After you're done put-ting makeup on, shake yourhair out for a tousled wavylook.

Makeshift gel liner: Don't have the time to do

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Quick brightener: A creamy, light-reflecting

concealer covers up red

spots and those nasty zitsfor an even complexion. Italso makes for an amazinghighlighter.

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On-the-go beauty tricks for busy girls

After debuting inBollywood withBipasha Basu star-

rer, ‘Alone’, small screenactor Karan Singh Groverhas been signed in to playmale lead in ‘Hate Story3’, to be directed by NikhilPandya. The film also starsZarine Khan as female lead

and Sharman JoshiIf we look back, ‘Hate

story’ had a concept of twoactors. In the original film,it has Nikhil Dwivedi andGulshan Devaiah and thesecond one featured JayBhanushali and SushantSingh. So the third partwill now have Karan Singh

Grover and SharmanJoshi.

The erotic thriller, 'HateStory' directed by VivekAgnihotri has Paoli Dam inthe original taking revengeon her ex-lover while thesecond part has SurveenChawla directed by VishalPandya.

Karan Singh Grover toromance Zarine Khan

in ‘Hate Story 3’ Varun Dhawan andShraddha Kapoorwraps up ‘ABCD

2’ shoot. The duo tweetedthat they have enjoyed a lotduring the film shoot and itis a life time experience forthem.

Shraddha wrote, It's offi-cially a film wrap on#ABCD2 :(Going to missit so much...going to missmy boys sooo much. It'sbeen the most fun experi-ence ever."She added to itby saying, "On way toshoot last day of#ABCD2... Aaaaahhhhh!!!These mixed feelingssss #D o n t W a n t I t T o E n d#LetsStartAgain."

Varun tweeted, It's awrap #abcd2 is officiallyover. Can't wait for youguys to watch this one. It'sindia vs the world." and

later he wrote, "#ABCD2last day today. Never feltso sad that a film is gettingover. Gonna miss everyone

on this set. Thank u."Directed by Prabhu

Deva, the film is a sequelto the dance drama,

‘ABCD’ released in2013.

The sequel is producedby UTV Motion Pictures

and Siddharth Roy Kapur.The movie is expected tohit the big screens by 19thJune, 2015.

Varun Dhawan, ShraddhaKapoor wrap up ‘ABCD 2’ shoot

Inside Salman Khan's Holi party:Shirtless Sallu poses with hot girls

"Di s c h a r g e d !Home sweethome!," tweets

Sonam Kapoor as she gotdischarged from hospital.Sonam was admitted atKokilaben hospital inMumbai for swine-flutreatment and now shefinally headed home afterrecovery.

Sonam wanted to gohome on Thursday to cele-brate sister Rhea’s birth-day, but the doctors kepther under medical supervi-sion for two more days.

Sonam Kapoor sustainedto swine-flu while she wasshooting for SoorajBarjatya’s ‘Prem RatanDhan Payo’. Immediately,she was admitted to Rajkothospital but later shifted toMumbai.

Doctors advised theactress few days restbefore returning to work.

Katrina Kaif, ‘Bura Na Mano,Holi Hai! On Thursday, vet-eran actress and Ranbir’s

mom Neetu Kapoor surprised herInstragram followers when shewished her fans on the social mediaposting a holi image of her sonRanbir with his ex-flame DeepikaPadukone. The photo is fromRanbir, Depika starrer, ‘Yej JawaaniHai Deewani’.

The still is from the popular Holisong, ‘Balam Pichkari from YJHW.This is not the first time, NeetuKapoor snubbed Ranbir’s live-inpartner Katrina Kaif. Few monthsbacks, when the Kapoor familygathered for RK's cousin, NitashaNanda's birthday, Neetu tweeted apicture from the birthday bash crop-ping out Katrina from the familyphotograph.

While Neetu remained unavail-able for comment, Rishi Kapoorretorted, saying, "I imagine it isHoli thus a picture of revelry andthat's a song her son has sung. Don'toverstretch your imagination!"

Snubbing Katrina Kaif in both theoccasions indicates that Neetu is notsharing great rapport with KatrinaKaif. The actor’s parents are miffed

that Ranbir left KrishnarajBungalow and moved in with hisladylove.

On the other hand, Katrina Kaif istrying all levels to maintain a cor-

dial relationship with the Kapoors.She visited Rishi Kapoor last yearwhen he left sick and recently paid avisit to Ranbir’s sister RiddhimaSahni in Delhi.

Sonam Kapoor recovered fromswine flu, gets discharged

Neetu Kapoor posts Ranbir andex-flame Deepika’s Holi photo

Even God can’tbring SRK-Salman-Aamirtogether,Farah Khan

Cine-goers crave to see three Khans,Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan andAamir Khan together on-screen.

Choreographer turned filmmaker Farah Khanbeing good friends of the three reigningKhans fails to bring them together on-screen.

In an interview with a leading daily Farahsaid that she thinks even God can’t bring thethree superstars together, “I think even Godcan’t bring them together so I am not evenattempting that.”

She added, “Let’s see, -fingers crossed, ifI’m able to cast Shah Rukh, Salman and

Aamir -together, it’ll be fabulous. Chancesare less but may be some day I might just getlucky, so never say no.”

Farah also revealed that she failed toreunite the three Khans for the title song of‘Om Shanti Om’ way back in 2007. “I tried tobring them together eight years back for thetitle track of Om Shanti Om but even thatdidn’t happen”, added Farah.

Recently, during ‘Aap Ki Adalat’ 21 yearcelebrations, host Rajat Sharma successfullybrought all the three Khans together on thesame platform.