BEIJINGChina is deeply con-

cerned over India's reser-vations to its mega SilkRoad projects and looks toaddress the issues duringPrime Minister NarendraModi's visit here nextmonth, as it could be"problematic" if India triesto obstruct them, a Chinesethink-tank today said.

"India is a bridge for theone belt and one road (orthe the Silk Road andMaritime Silk Road)," saidHu Shisheng, Director ofChina Institute ofC o n t e m p o r a r yInternational Relations, aChinese foreign ministrystrategic think-tank.

-Foreign Ministry haspreviously issued state-ments expressing China'swish to link the MSR withIndia's Mausam project inthe Indian Ocean to avoidany friction.

"Chinese governmentwants to carry forward(the) vigorous cooperationwith India," he told theIndian media, referring tothe Foreign Ministry state-ments.

"If India keeps away it isokay. But China is con-cerned if India will dosomething to block it, thenit is terrible," he saidadding that if India standsaside, then China can

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BHUBANESWARIndia on Thursday success-

fully test-fired its nuclear-capable Agni-III ballistic mis-sile, with a range of over3,000 km, from a base inOdisha, an official said. The

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India successfully test-fires nuclear-capableAgni-III ballistic missile

COLOMBOIndia has extended the e-

Tourist Visa (eTV) scheme forSri Lankan citizens in keepingwith a pledge made by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi dur-ing his visit to Sri Lanka lastmonth. The Indian High

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India Extends E-Tourist Visa FacilityFor Sri Lankans

NEW DELHIJD(U) president Sharad

Yadav's controversial demandthat Padma awards be discon-tinued has found support fromJustice (retd) Rajindar Sachar,who had refused the honour in2008.

The former Delhi HighCourt Chief Justice has said

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Padma awards bediscontinued: Sachar

NEW DELHIA sessions court here has

asked a magisterial court tohear afresh a defamation com-plaint filed against Aam AadmiParty (AAP) and its leadersincluding Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal. AdditionalSessions Judge Dinesh KumarSharma set aside the November 14 last year

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Court to hear afresh defama-tion plea against AAP, Kejriwal

SIDDHARTHNAGARTerming the merger of the

offshoots of 'Janata Parivar' as"opportunism", Union TourismMinister Mahesh Sharma saidthat such arrangements did notsustain earlier.

"The merger (of six parties) isnot due to some ideology, itsopportunism and such arrange-ments did not sustain earlier,", Sharma said told

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Merger of Janata Parivar offshoots oppor-tunism: Union Minister Mahesh Sharma

NEW DELHIA Delhi court will hear on

April 25 a private complaintfiled against Union HRDMinister Smriti Irani forallegedly giving "false" infor-mation about her educationalqualification in her affidavitsfiled with the ElectionCommission of India.

The petition came up before MetropolitanMagistrate Akash Jain who fixed it for hearing on

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Court to hear complaint against Smriti Iraniover educational qualification on April 25

NEW DELHILike individuals, there

should be a ceiling on expen-diture made by political par-ties during polls, says anElection Commission draftdocument based on the 'gener-al agreement' among

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EC suggests ceiling onexpenditure by partiesduring elections

NEW DELHIDelhi government on

Thursday announced its plansto set up patient welfare com-mittees at all government hos-pitals to deal with publicgrievances on various healthand medical issues.

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Delhi govt to set uppatient welfare com-mittees in hospitals

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NEW DELHIUnion Minister Ram

Vilas Paswan todaytermed as "fraud" themerger of six 'JanataParivar' offshoots andwondered if it was forreal as the new party waswithout a name, flag andsymbol.

"Janata Parivar is afraud. Intentions of itsleaders are not clean andthey are cheating peopleof the country," MrPaswan told reporters, aday after the six partiesannounced their mergerand said a decision on thename and symbol of thenew outfit would betaken later.

"Somebody should askSharad Yadav todaywhich party he belongsto and what is his posi-tion. They have madeMulayam Singh Yadav

the head of the newparty. But where is theparty? Which party doeshe head?" the Presidentof Lok Janshakti Party

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Merger of 'Janata Parivar' Offshoots aFraud: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan

China worried over India's reser-vations to Silk Road projects

NEW DELHIWorried about huge

cane arrear of Rs20,000 crore to farmers,the Centre on Thursdayasked sugar-producingstates, including UttarPradesh, to take all pos-sible measures to facili-tate payment of dues.

Addressing themedia, Food MinisterRam Vilas Paswanassured states that theirdemand, including hikein import duty and cre-ation of buffer stock,

would be discussedwith Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

"All possible effortsmust be made to facili-tate payment of thearrears by the state gov-ernments," Paswansaid, adding that theCentre has alreadytaken a number of ini-tiatives to help theindustry. The ministerfurther said, "Clearingpending cane dues isthe responsibility of

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NEW DELHIThe much-awaited Time magazine's annual

list of 100 most influential people is out and itfeatures Indian Prime Minister NarendraModi, who took office just last May.

He is joined by two other Asian leaders –Chinese President Xi Jinping and hisIndonesian counterpart Joko Widodo.

Writing about Modi in the TIME 100 issue,US President Barack Obama notes that theIndian Prime Minister has “laid out an ambi-tious vision to reduce extreme poverty,improve education, empower women andgirls and unleash India’s true economic poten-tial.”

The magazine notes that unlike many of hispredecessors, PM Modi has worked to leadfrom the front.

“He’s already carved out an impressiveinternational profile — not too many otherinternational leaders can pack MadisonSquare Garden for a speech, as Modi did lastSeptember,” writes Time.

PM Modi was also voted among the 100most influential people in the world in anonline poll by readers of Time magazine.Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alsofeatured in that list.

Apart from PM Modi, ICICI Bank chiefChanda Kochchar and Vikram Patel, co-founder of the NGO Sangath and the Centrefor Global Mental Health at the London

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PM Narendra Modi voted amongTime's 100 most influential people

NEW DELHIIndian Railways, the

lifeline of the country andperhaps its most preferredmode of transport,Thursday completed 162years in the service of thenation.

It was on this day in1853, that the country'sfirst passenger train oper-ated between Bombay andThane, marking the birthof the railways.

Built by the Great IndianPeninsula Railway(GIPR), the train wasdrawn by three enginesnamed -- Sahib, Sindh andSultan -- and covered thedistance of 21 miles in 57

minutes.The Ministry of

Railways marked the occa-sion today on social mediaby sharing old, historic andnostalgic photographs,saying -- "162 years of

Indian Railways!"The photographs include

one of the rare picture of aviaduct between Bomabayand Thane taken during the1850s, a gate man standing

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NEW DELHIThe high-stake Delhi may-

oral polls scheduled to takeplace next week, seem toheading for a two-way contestbetween the ruling BJP andCongress, even as the saffronparty exuded confidence ofrepeating its electoral triumph

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BJP, Congress setfor a battle inmayoral polls

NEW DELHIRebel Aam Aadmi Party

(AAP) leader PrashantBhushan on Thursdaycalled the disciplinarycommittee formed todecide on action againsthim and his colleagueYogendra Yadav as 'ille-gal'.

Bhushan's reactionscame a day after AAPreferred the case againstits dissident leadersBhushan and Yadav to theparty's National

Disciplinary Committee.Taking to the media after

the two-hour long AAP

Political AffairsCommittee meeting at

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AAP disciplinary committee illegallyconstituted: Prashant Bhushan

NEW DELHIForeign fighter jet mak-

ers see a multi-billiondollar opportunity inIndia's decision to scaleback purchases of high-end aircraft from France,which may free up cash inthe world's largest armsimporter to buy a newfleet of mid-range planes.

Prime MinisterNarendra Modiannounced last week thatIndia would buy 36French Rafale jets for anestimated $4.3 billion, ineffect ending talks on a

larger deal for 126 planesthat would have suckedup some $20 billion andlocked rivals out of themarket for a generation.

Sweden's Saab and USLockheed Martin are setto re-pitch their Gripenand F-16 planes,

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Fighter Jet Makers EyeIndia After French Deal

WASHINGTONUS president Barack

Obama has written aboutNarendra Modi in TIMEmagazine, talking about hisrise in politics from a teaseller to India's PrimeMinister. Obama has alsolauded Modi's vision of tak-

ing India on the path ofgrowth and plans to elevatemillions from clutches ofpoverty among other things.

Following is the text pub-lished in the magazine:

As a boy, Narendra Modihelped his father sell tea tosupport their family. Today,

he’s the leader of the world’slargest democracy, and hislife story - from poverty toPrime Minister—reflects thedynamism and potential ofIndia’s rise.

Determined to help moreIndians follow in his path,

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Barack Obama writes PM Modi's profile in Timemagazine, calls him 'India’s reformer-in-chief'

Centre nudges states for Rs20k-cr cane dues clearance

Indian Railways turns 162

NEW DELHIPrime Minister

Narendra Modi onThursday thanked USPresident Barack Obamafor writing a profile onhim in Time magazine.

He also called Obama'swords touching and inspir-ing. PM Modi took to

micro-blogging siteTwitter saying: “DearBarack Obama, yourwords are touching andinspiring. Thanks TIME.”

The PM also provided alink to the article in themagazine which namedthe Modi among the 100

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PM Modi thanks Obama for'touching and inspiring' words

in Time magazine profile

China feelsawkward overMumbai terrorattack: OfficialBEIJING

China feels "awkward"about the 2008 Mumbaiterror attack carried outby Pakistani militants andwants to address India'sconcerns over terrorismemanating from Pakistanin a more "constructiveway", a Chinese officialsaid in a rare criticism ofthe all-weather ally.

"China also feels quiteawkward. It does not

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TORONTOPitching for Canadian

investment for his 'Makein India' initiative, PrimeMinister Narendra Moditoday held a meeting withCanada's business leadersin Toronto.

Ministry of ExternalAffairs SpokespersonSyed Akbaruddin tweetedafter Modi held a round-

table conference withthem. PM Modi wasaccompanied by hisCanadian counterpartStephen Harper during themeeting.

"Demand to do businesswith India has gone upexponentially; India nowon top of our list -Canadian investors to

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PM Modi Makes Strong Pitch for 'Makein India', Meets Top CEOs in Canada

NEW DELHI | FRIDAY | APRIL 17, 2015Delhi News2 SAADDA HAQ

NEW DELHIVikas Yadav, serving a

30-year jail term withoutremission in the NitishKatara murder case, onThursday moved the DelhiHigh Court challenging thedecision of a single judgerefusing extension of theparole granted to him.

Yadav was recentlygranted seven-day custodyparole by the high court'ssingle judge to visit his 93-year-old ailing grandfatherand to challenge the highcourt order in the SupremeCourt.

After expiry of parole,he had again moved thecourt for extension of threemore weeks. Justice A.K.Pathak on April 10 dis-missed the plea.

Challenging the April 10order, Yadav said he wasnot able to prepare the

appeal in seven daysparole time granted to him.

A division bench ofChief Justice G. Rohini andJustice R.S. Endlaw wouldhear the plea on Friday.

Yadav said he needsextension of parole as thedocuments in the case arebulky and more time wasneeded to prepare hisappeal.

The high court onFebruary 6 had enhancedto 30-year jail term with-out remission the life sen-tence awarded to VikasYadav and his cousinVishal Yadav for Katara'smurder, a friend of VikasYadav's sister.

Vikas Yadav, son ofpolitician D.P. Yadav, hadearlier pleaded before thecourt that his conduct hasbeen good throughout his13 years in jail.

NEW DELHIDevansh Mehta, editor and

co-founder of online maga-zine 'St Stephen's Weekly', onThursday moved the DelhiHigh Court against the col-lege and its principal ValsonThampu, challenging his sus-pension and banning of themagazine's publication.

On April 15, Mehta wassuspended till April 23 after aone-man inquiry committeeappointed by the St Stephen'sprincipal found him guilty of"breach of discipline".

Mehta, a third-year philos-ophy student, was allegedlysuspended for launching theonline magazine.

Last month, the collegebanned the e-zine started byMehta and other studentsover an interview of the prin-cipal, which, he said, had notbeen cleared. The e-zine wentlive on March 7 and regis-tered over 2,000 hits on theinterview.

Filing the petition, Mehta

called the ban "arbitrary, ille-gal, malafide and shockinglyunreasonable".

"The main malicious accu-sations against the petitioner(Mehta) in this case aretwofold - that of publishingan online magazine withouttaking prior approval fromthe principal and subsequent-ly conveying the news of theproscription of this magazine,to the media," said theplea.

Mehta sought "quashing ofthe order banning/suspendingpublication of the StStephen's Weekly, stay on thesuspension order andrestraining the principal fromtaking any further actionagainst him".

Mehta has also requested inhis petition that he be award-ed the Rai Saheb Banarsi DasMemorial Prize, for which hewas earlier selected by thecollege. He was droppedfrom the list in the wake ofthe controversy.

St Stephen's studentmoves HC seeking stay

on his suspension

NEW DELHIChief Minister Arvind

Kejriwal on Thursdayasked AAP leaders andMLAs to popularise theDelhi government's deci-sion to give Rs 20,000 peracre as compensation tofarmers affected by unsea-sonal rains as the partygears up for a rally againstthe Centre's land acquisi-tion bill on April22.

Kejriwal held a meetingwith all the party MLAs,district heads, and seniorleaders including ManishSisodia, Kumar Vishwas,Sanjay Singh and Ashutoshto discuss the details of theagitation.

The party will hold arally on April 22 outsidethe Parliament Houseprotesting against the LandAcquisition Bill and agri-

cultural policy of theCentre.

"We were asked to popu-larise the decisions takenby the government in therural areas. Also, we have

been asked to get farmersalong against the Centre'sLand Acquisition Act,"said an MLA who was inthe meeting.

The MLA said the party

intends to make this a bigevent and farmers fromPunjab, Haryana, UttarPradesh and MadhyaPradesh will participate inlarge numbers.

NEW DELHIDespite claiming to be the

most transparent party, theAAP was the last politicalparty to submit its expenditureincurred in 2013 Delhi polls tothe Election Commission, morethan a year after the deadline, areport by Association forDemocratic Reforms (ADR)and National Election Watchhas claimed.

The BJP too submitted itsexpenditure more than 10months after the due date,while the Congress was threemonths late in furnishing thedetails to the ElectionCommission. The deadline tosumbit the expenditure detailsof December 2013 Assemblypolls to the EC was February24, 2014.

The report analysed the fundsreceived and expenditureincurred by the BJP and AAPduring the election period of 26days of Delhi Assembly pollsof 2013.

The AAP submitted itsexpenditure details to the EC aslate as April 6 this year whilethe BJP submitted the detailson December 31, 2014 and theCongress furnished its expen-diture details on May 13, 2014---three days before the LokSabha polls. Interestingly, BJPally, the Shiromani Akali Dal(SAD) submitted its expendi-ture details on February 5, wellbefore the deadline.

The AAP received Rs 20.75crore donation--of which Rs 20crore was in form of cheques--while the BJP received Rs 27

lakh of which Rs 21 lakh wasin cash and rest in cheque. TheAAP spent Rs 26.11 crore onelection.

Interestingly, during theAssembly polls which saw ahigh-profile campaign by theBJP and rallies addressed byPrime Minister Narendra Modi,the party incurred expenditureof just Rs 3.15 crore.

Of the total expenditure, theAAP spent Rs 17.06 crore onexpenditure towards its candi-dates, while Rs Rs 7.26 crorewere spent on publicity.

Similarly, the BJP incurredzero amount towards its candi-dates, followed by publicity onwhich it spent Rs 2.63 cror,which constitutes 83 per centof its total election expendi-ture.

NEW DELHIThe Supreme Court on Thursday ruled

that the plea of artistic freedom could notbe advanced to justify attribution of vulgarand obscene expletives to Father of theNation Mahatma Gandhi.

It said it was the collective responsibili-ty of the nation to respect Gandhi.

"Is it not a collective responsibility ofthe nation to respect Mahatma Gandhi.You cannot respect an ideal but vulgarisethe man who gave the ideal in the garb andguise of artistic freedom," the apex courtbench of Justice Dipak Misra and JusticePrafulla C Pant said.

The court said this as it reserved verdicton a petition by Devidas RamachandraTuljapurkar -- editor and publisher of abulletin magazine of All India BankEmployees Association -- who has chal-lenged filing of a case against him by thePatit Pawan Sanghtan for publishing in1994 a poem by Marathi poet VasantDattatray Gujjar 'Gandhi Mala BhetlaHota' (I met Gandhi) that was written in1984 and allegedly attributed someobscene and vulgar expletives to Father ofthe Nation.

As senior counsel Gopal Subramaniumsought to defend the poet, saying artisticfreedom could only be curtailed by consti-tutional and statutory provisions and notby the halo of historic personalities, thecourt asked him: "If some were to put

these words in the mouth of QueenVictoria how would the British have react-ed.

"Linguistic freedom is not a problem butusing the linguistic freedom to say some-thing to Mahatma Gandhi is an issue," thecourt said, adding that it was not a ques-tion of individual comfort of an artist butthe statutory and constitutionalcomfort.

Defending the author of the controver-sial poem, Subramanium said howsoeverbig a person may be but his persona couldnot be allowed to "knock at the liberty ofan artist and the constitution is based onideals and not the persons who gave thoseideals".

"The framer of the constitution were notabove the constitution," he said, addingthat the "idea of hallowed historical per-sonalities was alien to the constitution".

Telling Subramanium "you can lam-poon, satire or criticise the historical per-sonalities but you can't attribute expletivesto them", the court said: "When the ques-tion is of artistic freedom and its collectiveimpact on the generation today and tomor-row then Mahatma Gandhi would stand onhigher pedestal" in proceedings againstthe author under penal provisions.

Addressing the court, amicus curiae FaliNariman said the Emblem Act protectsMahatma Gandhi from such depiction. Heurged the court that it should go only by

the statutory provisions and not the otherpleas advanced by the counsel for the peti-tioner.

While Nariman told the court that whileinterpreting Section 292 of the IPC itshould take care that "this is an age of den-igrating the national heroes and drag themto dust and court should not be a party toit".

On the other hand, Subramanium urgedthe court that any reading of Section 292of IPC keeping in mind hallow of histori-cal personalities could give a handle toState to get back on the media and people.There has to a balance between the dan-gers and over-protectionism.

Patit Pawan Sanghtan had filed the com-plaint in 1994 both against the publisherand the author of the poem.

The complainant organisation hadaccused both of using the obscene lan-guage and creating enmity between differ-ent sections. Both Tuljapurkar and Gujjarwere absolved of charge of creating enmi-ty between different sections but both thetrial court and the Bombay High Courtdeclined to unsaddle them of the obsceni-ty charge.

Tuljapurkar had moved the court in2010 and it stayed all the proceedingsagainst him on July 7, 2010. The author ofthe poem Gujjar did not challenge the highcourt declining to quash the obscenitycharge against him.

Artistic freedom not above respect for father of nation: SC

Reach out to farmers with govt move oncompensation: Kejriwal to AAP leaders

'AAP last party to submitexpenditure details to EC'

NEW DELHIAAP MLA Rakhi Birla's

birthday celebrationsturned sour yesterday amidallegations of her receivingan expensive SUV as giftand a brawl between sup-porters of party MLARituraj Jha and a group ofprotesters at the venue.

Social media was abuzzwith pictures of the carwhich forced the party toissue a clarification sayingthe car belonged to a partyvolunteer.

"The Scorpio in questionbelongs to a volunteer. We

have already shown own-ership papers. The car wasdelivered to him yesterday.It had nothing to do withRakhi," AAP spokespersonDeepak Bajpai said.

Meanwhile, a group ofpeople carrying placardshad turned up in front ofthe venue at Mangolpurialleging that Jha, an inviteeat the celebrations, wasshielding a murderaccused.

"We want justice forGurudas who was kid-napped from his office onApril 10. His body was

later found dumped atJharoda Kalan. The sus-pects are known to Rituraj.No body is listening to us,"a protester alleged.

The party claimed whenthe protesters tried to"barge" their way into thecelebrations a minor scuf-fle ensued.

"Jha had launched a cam-paign against gambling inhis constituency because ofwhich several anti-socialelements were affected.The so-called protest was aresult of his proactive-ness," Bajpai added.

Gift controversy, brawl mar AAPMLA Rakhi Birla's birthday event

NEW DELHIA Delhi court Thursday fixed

May 1 for hearing the Uber cabrape case after it was informedthat the Supreme Court has contin-ued the stay on the proceedings tillfurther orders.

Additional Sessions JudgeKaveri Baweja deferred the hear-ing as the apex court has alreadysummoned the trial court recordfor April 22.

The parties in the case informedthe court that the apex court's stayon proceedings pending before itcontinues till further orders.

The proceedings were stayed asthe appeals filed by the victim andpolice challenging the Delhi HighCourt's order allowing the accusedto recall and re-examine 13 prose-cution witnesses, including the

woman, are pending before theapex court.

The Supreme Court on April 8had said that it would lay down alaw as to whether an accused hasgot the right to recall witnesses fortheir re-examination in a criminalcase.

The proceedings of the case inthe trial court were first stayed bythe apex court on March 10.

On March 24, the apex court hadalso issued notice to accused ShivKumar Yadav seeking hisresponse on the appeals.

According to the prosecution,the incident took place on thenight of December 5 last yearwhen the 25-year-old victim, afinance executive working inGurgaon, was heading back home.

Police had said the woman had

taken the taxi from Vasant Vihar toreturn to her house in Inderlokarea of North Delhi and theaccused, who took another route,allegedly raped her. Yadav wasarrested on December 7, 2014from Mathura.

In her statement recorded beforethe court earlier, the woman hadidentified Yadav as the one whohad raped her.

The court has framed chargesagainst Yadav under IPC foralleged offences of endangering awoman's life while raping her,abducting with an intent to compelher for marriage and criminallyintimidating and causing hurt. Thecourt had also recorded the testi-mony of the accused in which hetermed the charge against him as"false".

Court fixes Uber rape case for May 1

Katara case: Vikas Yadavmoves HC against refusal

of parole extension

NEW DELHIBharatiya Janata Party

Rohini legislator VijenderGupta was on Thursdayappointed the leader of oppo-sition in the Delhi assembly,an official statement said.

"The speaker has recog-nized Vijender Gupta who isthe leader of the house of theparty in opposition to thegovernment having the great-est numerical strength asleader of opposition in thelegislative assembly withimmediate effect," a state-ment by the Delhi LegislativeAssembly Secretariat said.

"Recognised as LOP(leader of opposition) as perSec 2 of the Leader ofOpposition in the LegislativeAssembly of the NCT of

Delhi Act,2001," Gupta, oneof the just three BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) legislatorsin the house, tweeted.

The BJP won only threeseats in the Feb 7 polls whichis less than a tenth of the totalstrength of 70 of the Delhiassembly. The Aam AadmiParty (AAP) won 67seats.

However, the BJP had onFebruary 18 appointed Guptaas the leader of opposition inthe Delhi assembly, despitethe party's failure to win therequired seven seats to claimthe status of the main opposi-tion party.

A former BJP state presi-dent, Gupta defeated AAP'sC.L. Gupta by around 5,000votes.

BJP's Vijender Guptaappointed leader ofopposition in DelhiNEW DELHI

The Aam Aadmi Party gov-ernment has sought Rs 1,200crore from the DelhiDevelopment Authority(DDA) to build the third phaseof the Barapullah ElevatedRoad connecting Sarai KaleKhan to Mayur Vihar.

Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh laid foundationstone of the project inDecember last year before theDelhi Assembly poll. The totalproject cost, however, is Rs1260.63 crore. DelhiGovernment has sought almostthe entire project cost bydemanding Rs 1,200 from theDDA, saying that it shouldfund the project for the devel-opment of capital.

Public Works Department(PWD) of Delhi governmenthas to build the Elevated Roadflyover. "We have written to

DDA to give us Rs 1,200 croreto fund the third phase of theBarapullah Elevated Road.DDA has sufficient fund forthe development of Delhi.

"In view of this, the develop-ment authority should fund thisproject," PWD ministerSatyendra Jain said here.

Jain said that DDA has sepa-rate development fund, whichhas been collected from theDelhiites and hence as it isdevelopment project, DDAshould give money for thirdphase of the BarapullahElevated Road.

If DDA wants to build thisproject on its own, Delhi gov-ernment would not have anyobjection. Giving furtherdetails about the project, theminister said that governmenthas also proposed to build ajogging track on the side ofBarapullah Elevated Road.

Delhi govt seeks Rs 1,200 crorefrom DDA for Barapullah project

NEW DELHIIn a move to establish if

any Delhi governmentofficial had favouredpower distribution com-panies, authoritiesThursday asked the threefirms in the city to furnishinformation regardingtheir relationship withformer government offi-cials. In a letter to theChief Executive Officers(CEOs) of discoms, thePower Department askedthem to provide detailsregarding employment orconsultation of formerofficials of DelhiElectricity RegulatoryCommission (DERC) andvarious departments ofthe state government.

"Provide details regard-ing any relationship ofBSES Yamuna Power Ltd(BYPL), BSES Rajdhani

Power Ltd (BRPL) andTata Power DelhiDistribution Limited(TPDDL) with any for-mer senior officers of theDERC including its chair-man/members or officersof the department ofpower and Delhi govern-ment, since inception ofyour company till today,"the letter said.

It further mentionedthat information may begiven irrespective of thenature of relationshipwhich may include per-manent employment/ parttime employment /longterm or short term con-tract, consultancy, advi-sory, availing of any serv-ices, any outsourcingwork and any involve-ment in purchases includ-ing payment of any com-mission etc.

Delhi govt seeks info onrelations between power

discoms, ex-officials

CBI arrestsDeputyCommissionerIncome TaxNEW DELHI

The CBI Thursday arrested aDeputy Commissioner of IncomeTax at his Central RevenueBuilding office here for allegedlyreceiving a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakhfrom an industrialist for settlingtax issue.

CBI sources said an IRS officerof 2008 batch M Logapathy, post-ed as Deputy CommissionerIncome Tax here, along with analleged middleman Hitesh Kumar,Logapathy's personal attendantAbhishek Kumar and business-man Vikas Singla were arrested inconnection with the briberycase.

The sources said the four weredetained yesterday and were takeninto custody early this morningafter a thorough search andseizure operation during whichthe bribe amount was recoveredby CBI.

They claimed the agency hasrecovered property documentsworth crores of rupees fromLogapathy's possession indicatinghis alleged connivance in manyother such cases in which it sus-pected that he was taking one percent of the tax demand asCommission for settling theseissues.

The sources said bribe of Rs 1.5lakh was allegedly given toLogapathy by Vikas Singla,Director CBS Steel PrivateLimited, through advocate HiteshKumar in a case of alleged taxevasion.

Giving details of the operation,the sources said Kumar andLogapathy were under the scannerof the agency for quite some timeand CBI was keeping an activesurveillance on them listening totheir conversations through phoneintercepts and other means.

Continuation 3NEW DELHI | FRIDAY | APRIL 17, 2015SAADDA HAQ

PM Narendra...School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,

have also been named in the annual list of themost influential people in the world "who areshaping the future".

Barack Obama...he’s laid out an ambitious vision to reduce

extreme poverty, improve education,empower women and girls and unleashIndia’s true economic potential while con-fronting climate change. Like India, he tran-scends the ancient and the modern - a devo-tee of yoga who connects with Indian citizenson Twitter and imagines a 'digital India'.

When he came to Washington, Narendraand I visited the memorial to Dr MartinLuther King Jr, we reflected on the teachingsof King and Gandhi and how the diversity ofbackgrounds and faiths in our countries is astrength we have to protect. Prime MinisterModi recognizes that more than 1 billionIndians living and succeeding together canbe an inspiring model for the world.

PM Modi was recently voted among the100 most influential people in the world in anonline poll by readers of Time magazine.

On his part, PM Modi thanked the USPresident for 'touching and inspiring' wordsand tweeted about Obama's write-up in themagazine. Syed Akbaruddin, officialspokesperson, Ministry of External Affairs,too tweeted about it saying: "A leader writesabout another. President Barack Obamawrites about PM Modi."

Modi stormed to power in May 2014 afterleading BJP to majority in the GeneralElections with 282 seats on its own.

The BJP-led NDA won 335 seats in theLok Sabha.

Modi had led the campaign from the frontlaunching a blistering attack on ten years ofCongress-led UPA government rule.

The Congress managed to win only 44seats in the Lower House, ending with worstever figures in General Elections.

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Partyconvener, Arvind Kejriwal, is also in the listof 100. Barack Obama is himself on the list.

Others who made it to the list of 100 wasRussian President Vladimir Putin, pop starsLady Gaga and Rihanna, US presidentialhopeful Hillary Clinton, the Dalai Lama,Harry Potter actress Emma Watson, Nobelpeace prize winner Malala Yousafzai, PopeFrancis, US First Lady Michelle Obama,Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AppleCEO Tim Cook and Chinese President XiJinping.

Meanwhile, the official list of the 100 mostinfluential people in the world will beannounced later this week.

The TIME magazine had asked readers tocast their vote online for people from poli-tics, entertainment, business, technology, sci-ence, religion and other fields who "changedthe world this past year, for better or worse,"as per PTI. Modi however garnered just 0.6per cent of the votes cast, with only 34 per-cent of the people voting in his favour and 66per cent against.

Kejriwal got 0.5 per cent, with 71 per centvoters saying he should not be in the list.

More than half of the votes 57.38 per centwere cast within the US. Canada and the UKfollowed with 5.54 percent and 4.55 percentrespectively.

PM Modi thanks ...most influential people in the world.In the article titled 'India's reformer-in-

chief', Obama has described Modi's life story"from poverty to Prime Minister" as one thatreflects the dynamism and potential of India'srise.

"Today, he's the leader of the world'slargest democracy, and his life story frompoverty to Prime Minister reflects thedynamism and potential of India's rise,"Obama said.

"Determined to help more Indians followin his path, he has laid out an ambitiousvision to reduce extreme poverty, improveeducation, empower women and girls andunleash India's true economic potential whileconfronting climate change. Like India, hetranscends the ancient and the modern adevotee of yoga who connects with Indiancitizens on Twitter and imagines a 'digitalIndia'," the US President wrote.

Obama recalled Modi's visit to Washingtonlast year when both the leaders visited thememorial to Dr Martin Luther King Junior,an American civil rights activist.

"We reflected on the teachings of King andGandhi and how the diversity of back-grounds and faiths in our countries is astrength we have to protect. Prime MinisterModi recognises that more than one billionIndians living and succeeding together canbe an inspiring model for the world," Obamasaid.

PM Modi Makes...PM," he said.He also met officials of the Pension Fund

of Canada which has the corpus of 200 mil-lion dollars and discussed how to ease theinvestment opportunities for it. Canada'spension funds include some of the world'sbiggest investors.

"They are looking for avenues where theycan get secure and safe returns over the longterm. They realise India is one of the coun-tries that offers what they are looking for,"India's High Commissioner in Canada,Vishnu Prakash, had said yesterday.

PM Modi, who arrived in Canada yester-day on the last leg of his three-nation tour,has made a strong pitch for 'Make in India'initiative.

The bilateral trade increased to USD 5.18billion in 2013-14 from USD 4.83 billion inprevious year. PM Modi yesterday said thatenvironment is changing in India and high-lighted that various international agenciesincluding World Bank and IMF have saidthat India is the fastest growing economy.

China feels ...mean China is sympathising with terrorist

attacks. It is awkward diplomatically. Itneeds to handle this ticklish issue in a morediplomatic way," Hu Shisheng, Director ofthe China Institute of ContemporaryInternational Relations, a Chinese foreignministry strategic think-tank told Indianmedia here. He was responding to questionson China's double standards over Pakistaniinvolvement in terrorism, especially regard-ing the recent release of the Lashkar-e-Toibaoperative Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, a primeaccused in the case. "Chinese diplomats aregetting more mature. The challenge is noninterference," he said, adding that a way outhas to be found. "India's concerns over terror-ism will be addressed in a more constructiveway," Hu said, adding China, too, suffered alot due to terrorism, referring to militancy inXinjiang which borders Pakistan-occupiedKashmir (PoK).

Since last year, China has stepped up itsanti-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan, hesaid, adding that Pakistan Army's crackdownin its own tribal region yielded positiveresults.

"We really suffered a lot, though we aregood friends," he said, adding that Pakistantoo suffered due to terrorism.

China is also pushing Pakistan to intensifyits crackdown on terrorists as security is keyto the multi-billion dollar China-PakistanEconomic Corridor connecting Xinjiang withGwadar port. It runs through the PoK.

China cannot afford the Corridor to be afailure because of the security risks, he said,adding that the Nawaz Sharif governmentalso feels the same.

Pakistan has set up a Special Security divi-sion for the protection of the Corridor with12,000 security personnel, he said.

Fighter Jet...eliminated in the Rafale tender, as the kind

of lighter, single-engine aircraft that DefenceMinister Manohar Parrikar said on Mondaythe air force needed to rebuild its fleet.

"We are here and we are ready," said asource close to Saab. Saab was proposing toestablish "fully-fledged production" of theGripen in India alongside a local partner.

Lockheed Martin may also tout its F-16,one of the most widely used fighter planes inthe world, as a replacement for Russian-made MiGs that are a mainstay in India'sfleet, industry sources said. Lockheed Martindeclined to comment.

"The light combat aircraft opportunity isgoing to be there in the near future becausethe MiGs have to be replaced really fast,"said Delhi-based defence commentator andanalyst Neelam Mathews.

Russia, traditionally India's largest armssupplier, is hopeful it can sell more of itsSukhoi Su-30s, a plane partly assembled inIndia, to tide over the air force while it waitstwo years to receive the first Rafales.

Foreign manufacturers have also wel-comed India's decision to negotiate directlywith the French government for furtherRafales.

"What is positive about the announcedRafale deal is that purchase is supposed to bebased on a government-to-governmentagreement. We have been asking the Indianside for a long time to get back to this prac-tice instead of tenders," said one Russiandiplomat.

Moscow wants to speed up the conclusionof talks with India for the joint manufactureof a new generation stealth fighter jet, thediplomat said.TWO-FRONT CHALLENGE

India needs to replenish an air force fleetthat has fallen to 34 operational squadrons,down from 39 earlier this decade and belowthe government-approved strength of 42 con-sidered necessary to face a two-front chal-lenge from Pakistan and China.

Mr Parrikar said on Monday that Indianeeded 100 new light combat aircraft withinfive years to replace the MiG-21s, and thatthe heavier and pricier Rafale was not theplane to do it.

His preference would be for the indige-nously-made Tejas to fill the void. But MrParrikar himself has admitted the jet, indevelopment for three decades, has limita-tions while the latest version still awaits finalclearance.

Either way, air force officials and industrysources say India is unlikely to buy anythinglike the 126 planes agreed in the original dealwith France after all-in costs doubled to anestimated $20 billion.

Indian Railways...at a level-crossing watching a steam engine

puff out in front of him, a Bombay Barodaand Central India (BB & CI) railways trainand a coloured image of a stationed freightexpress hauled by a diesel locomotive haul-ing at Nangloi.

The other posts shared more recentachievements of the railways, one of thelargest networks in the world and one of the

biggest employers.Operated during the colonial time by pri-

vate-run companies, the firms were amalga-mated after Independence into one nation-alised entity, Indian Railways.

Merger of...(LJP), a BJP ally, asked.He said leaders like Bihar Chief Minister

Nitish Kumar, RJD leader Lalu Prasad andSharad Yadav had been saying for over sixmonths that they would merge their partiesbut no details were given during yesterday'sannouncement.

Mr Paswan, himself a key member of theJanata Parivar bloc before he joined handswith BJP before Lok Sabha elections, saidmost of these parties would maintain theirseparate identities.

"Or they would all merge into SamajwadiParty. They will be finished," he said.

China worried...cooperate with Bangladesh, Myanmar and

Sri Lanka and other countries."But if it blocks it and prevents it then it

becomes problematic. I do not think Indiawill do that," he said.

Hu said the Silk Road projects aimed atreviving China's economy, which sloweddown to 7.4 per cent last year, will figureprominently in Chinese President XiJinping's talks with Modi.

He said the Chinese leadership will try toconvince Modi that the Indian and theChinese projects have the same purpose andthe two can cooperate "to make much biggercontribution to this region."

"We are major powers and we have theresponsibility to contribute more.Infrastructure projects in India can be newagreements," he said.

Asked whether the issue could have animpact on the border settlement, he said "ofcourse." "We have to address the issue.Development of people of the two countriesand rise of the countries is much more impor-tant."

"I think the two government will have thiskind of thinking to make some breakthroughon the border issue in the next five to 10years. From our side this government wantsto make full use of Modi's strong regime.This is critical opportunity to address thisticklish issue," he said.

"So in the coming years, we are expectinganother term for Modi them the two govern-ment's can overlap. Then you will finally getrid of this problem," he said.

Asked about China's perception of India,Hu said "the hospitality provided to Xi dur-ing his last visit to India is really impressiveand it touched and moved Chinese people."

Centre nudges...millers and not the responsibility of the

Centre and state governments. The state gov-ernments have all powers to take actionagainst mills who have failed to clear canedues to farmers."

Sugar mills are finding it difficult to payfarmers as they have been incurring lossesfor the last few years due to low realisationand high production costs.

Paswan said the set of demands by statesincludes increase in import duty on sugar to40 per cent from 25 per cent, creation ofbuffer stock, restructuring of interest-freebank loans and extending export subsidy onwhite sugar.

"The government will take up this sugges-tion with ministries concerned and take afinal view in the interest of farmers andindustries both," he added.

The states made their demand at a consul-tation meeting called by the Union FoodMinister in view of mounting cane arrear togrowers, who find themselves at the receiv-ing end in the wake of crop damage due tounseasonal rains and hailstorm.

Union Ministers Radha Mohan Singh,Maneka Gandhi and Sanjeev Balyan werealso present in the day-long meeting.

Asked if the government will take steps toincrease sugar prices to help improve liquid-ity of millers, Paswan said, "No governmentwants to take such measures because con-sumers will be affected. We need to findsolution that is in the interest of farmers, con-sumers and millers."

AAP disciplinary ...Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's res-

idence, party leader Sanjay Singh said, "Wehave referred the matter of Yogendra Yadav,Prashant Bhushan, Ajit Jha and AnandKumar holding the 'Swaraj Samwad' to thenational disciplinary committee. It will takesuitable action."

While speaking to the media, Bhushantoday questioned the intention of forming thecommittee as it comprised of same peoplePankaj Gupta and Ashish Khetan, who hadearlier made serious allegations against himand Yadav.

Yadav and Bhushan, ousted from theparty's national executive on March 28 foralleged "anti-party" activities, held a day-long conference on Tuesday that was attend-ed by over 4,000 people, many of whomclaimed to be AAP volunteers.

The event was seen as an attempt to breakthe AAP-led by Kejriwal. However, Yadav,Bhushan and Kumar have denied any inten-tion to split or leave the party.

Earlier in the day, Yadav and Bhushan hint-ed at forming a political party and alsonamed Kumar as the national convener of the

steering committee of 'Swaraj Abhiyan' -- anon-political movement to establish 'swaraj'(self-rule) in the country's cultural, political,economic and social fields.

Court to...judgement passed by the magisterial court

which had dismissed the complaint filed bythe CEO of a news portal against Kejriwaland five others, including the party.

The sessions court passed the order on arevision petition filed by Anuranjan Jha,CEO of news portal Media Sarkar, anddirected the complainant to appear before themagisterial court on April 20.

"Vide separate detailed order the impugnedorder dated November 14, 2014 is set asideand the matter is remanded back to the trialcourt. The complainant is directed to appearbefore the trial court on April 20," the judgesaid.

The sessions court on April 8 had reservedits order on the plea challenging the magiste-rial court's verdict.

Jha had challenged the magisterial court'slast year's order dismissing his criminaldefamation complaint against AAP, Kejriwal,Manish Sisodia, Kumar Vishwas, YogendraYadav and Shazia Ilmi.

The magistrate had dismissed the plea onthe ground that despite providing sufficientopportunities to Jha to lead pre-summoningevidence in support of his plea, he opted notto do so. Jha had only examined himself insupport of his plea.

In his revision petition, Jha has said themagistrate had failed to appreciate that fromhis sworn statements and the documents pro-duced by him, it was clear that the leadershad made alleged defamatory imputationsagainst him.

Court to hear complaint...April 25. The complaint filed by Ahmer

Khan, a freelancer, alleged that in an April2004 affidavit filed by Irani for the LokSabha elections, it was stated that she hascompleted her BA in 1996 from DelhiUniversity (school of correspondence).

It claimed that in another affidavit of July11, 2011 by Irani for election on Rajya Sabhaseat from Gujarat, it was stated that her high-est educational qualification was B.Com partI from the School of Correspondence, DU.

The complainant alleged that in anotheraffidavit of April 16, 2014 filed by her for theLok Sabha polls, it was said that she was aBachelor of Commerce Part-I from theSchool of Open Learning, DU.

"It is evident from the contents of the affi-davits filed by Smriti Z Irani that at best, onlyone of the depositions by her on oath inrespect of her educational qualifications iscorrect," the plea claimed.

It alleged that she had given "false infor-mation" about her educational qualificationsin the affidavits.

It further said, "the aforesaid affidavits ofSmriti Z Irani, apart from the ostensibly falseand discrepant statements in respect of hereducational qualifications, also appear tocontain false/ discrepant statements inrespect of immovable properties owned byher, and other details set out by her."

"The aforesaid facts and circumstancesreveal commission of offences by theaccused under section 125A of theRepresentation of People Act, 1951, besidesany other offences that may attract otherpenal provisions as an outcome of an addi-tional investigation," the plea said.

It requested the court to take cognisance ofthe offences alleged in the plea and summonIrani for trial.

Merger of Janata..reporters here yesterday."BJP got 73 seats (including Apna Dal) in

Loksabha polls (out of 80). The future in thestate is of BJP,", he added.

Six parties had yesterday merged to form anew party to take on a resurgent BJP, espe-cially in the context of the upcomingAssembly elections in Bihar later this year.

The ruling parties in UP and Bihar,Samajwadi Party and JD(U), RJD, INLD,JD(S) and Samajwadi Janata Party formallydecided to merge at a meeting at the resi-dence of SP President Mulayam SinghYadav, who has been chosen the head of thenew outfit.

The merger had come almost two decadesafter the then Janata Dal disintegrated in the90s.

India successfully...surface-to-surface missile was fired from a

launch complex at the Inner Wheeler Islandoff the coast of Dhamra in Bhadrak district,about 200 km from here.

"It was a user trial. The test was success-ful," test range director MVKV Prasad told anews agency.

Agni-III is capable of carrying warheadsweighing up to 1.5 tonnes. It is 16 metres inlength and weighs 48 tonnes. The missile hasa two-stage solid propellant system. It can re-enter the atmosphere at a very high velocity.

Agni-III is a rail mobile system capablemissile and can be launched from anywherein India.

India Extends ...Commission said the Tourist Visa on

Arrival enabled by Electronic TravelAuthorisation (ETA) scheme has come intoforce with effect from April 14, 2015.

"The eTV can be utilised by all Sri LankanNationals holding ordinary passports whosesole objective of visiting India is recreation,sightseeing, casual visit to meet friends orrelatives, short duration medical treatment orcasual business visit," a statement said.

Applicants have to apply and obtain ETAonline prior to undertaking travel to India.

The eTV will be for single-entry, and validfor only 30 days stay from the date of arrivalin India while the entry into India must bethrough any of the following 9 designatedairports only - Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi,Goa, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbaiand Thiruvananthapuram.

Padma awards...that the awards are fundamentally flawed

and urged Yadav that his new party shouldtake it up as a public issue.

"I believe that this practice of givingPadma awards by the central government isfundamentally flawed and should be discon-tinued," he said in a letter to Yadav.

"Your party should take it up as a publicissue and demand that the practice be discon-tinued," Sachar, whose report on poor socio-economic condition of Muslims had prompt-ed the then UPA government to launch sever-al measures for their welfare.

"I welcome it," Yadav said.He had earlier alleged that the awards were

given to dishonest people or those close topower and demanded that the practice shouldbe discontinued. Though Yadav later clarifiedthat he had termed the selection process asdishonest and not the people getting it.

EC suggests...participants who were part of a recent con-

sultation on electoral reforms.At present, while there is a ceiling on cam-

paigning fund for individual candidates inelectoral fray, there is no such cap on themoney political parties can spend for elec-tioneering.

The Election Commission today came outwith a draft outcome paper based on theMarch 30 consultations on political financeand the latest Law Commission report onelectoral reforms.

It said there was a "general agreement"among participants on fixation of a ceiling onparty election expenditure, depending onnumber of candidates sponsored by them.The participants felt that details about theceiling amount should be worked out by EC.

Delhi govt ...According to officials of the health depart-

ment, the city's government hospitals willhave 38 such committees to be headed byMLA of the area who will get an office in thehospital to address patients' grievances.

Health Minister Satyendra Jain said thepatient welfare committees will ensure com-munity participation and monitor functioningof health care facilities.

"Their role will be to deal with day to daypublic grievances and resolve these issues atlocal level. Decisions on issues like lack ofmedicines, cleanliness and treatment will betaken on the spot by these committees," hesaid.

The government has also formed 10 districtcommittees, to be chaired by MLAs, to lookafter dispensary and health related schemesand programmes.

Jain further announced that DelhiGovernment has given medicines to 35 lakhstudents (1 to 19-years of age) of the cityunder the de-worming drive and now it plansto involve students of private schools in thecoming months.

"Even students of private schools are hav-ing junk food and have irregular food habits.So they will also be included in the de-worm-ing programme. So far they were not includ-ed in the programme," Jain said.

A Health department official said immu-nization programme Indradhanush Kawachwas carried out from April 7 to 14.

In the first phase 1,11,613 students and13,222 pregnant women were immunizedand 14,198 ORS, 26,073 zinc tablets, 60,887vitamin-A tablets were given.

"This immunization programme is beingheld in all parts of the city and the idea is tostrengthen it in the coming months. Thismonth we held it at 700-800 centers but weplan to take this number to 1,000. Our targetis that 100 per cent kids of the city are immu-nized," Jain said.

BJP, Congress...for the top municipal posts. Candidates

from both the parties are set to file nomina-tions for the polls, while the Aam AadmiParty, which staged a stunning comeback topower in last Delhi Assembly polls, has sofar not figured on this polling arena.

The erstwhile unified MunicipalCorporation of Delhi (MCD) was trifurcatedin 2012 into -- North, East and South DelhiMunicipal Corporations (NDMC, EDMCand SDMC).

The elections, slated to be held on April 24will elect new mayors, deputy mayors andmembers of the standing committees of thethree civic bodies. Today is the last date tofile nominations.

All three corporations are BJP-led and theparty had swept the mayoral polls last year.

"BJP and Congress candidates are bothscheduled to file nominations today for thethree posts at the north corporation. The finallist of candidates would become clear byevening," a senior official of the NDMC said.

BY WAJAHAT HABIBULLAH

The debate over the moves bythe Central and the Jammuand Kashmir governments to

resettle Kashmiri Pandits inKashmir is one that will only bringpain to any well-wisher of the State.To understand this, one has to goback in time, when the second halfof the 1980s saw Kashmir spiral outof control, gripped by violence, sus-picion and dread. What had begun asan ethnic conflict was soon imparteda religious colour by Pakistan’sInter-Services Intelligence (ISI).The Pandits, a Hindu minority in theKashmir Valley, were targeted bythe Jammu Kashmir LiberationFront (JKLF), even though theorganisation had sought to build onthe original secular foundations ofthe National Conference, and by theHizb-ul-Mujahideen, a secessionistoutfit, which sparked their exodus.By 2008, their population, asassessed by the Kashmiri PanditSangharsh Samiti (KPSS), wasreduced to 651 families from 75,343families on January 1, 1990. Nearly70,000 families fled in the turmoilof 1990-92, and even though theviolence was brought under control,most of the remaining families leftthereafter.

Years of turmoil

By 1990 — I was SpecialCommissioner, Anantnag, in SouthKashmir then — the public hadceased to visit government offices.But in early March, several hundredpeople from the Nai Basti neigh-bourhood went to the SpecialCommissioner’s office in Khannabaldemanding to see me. Because ofthe disturbed circumstances, I hadset up office and residence in therest house in the district headquar-ters. Mohammad Syed Shah, gener-ally known as Syed Shah, the broth-er of the separatist leader, ShabbirShah, and Muslim United Front(MUF) member of the dissolvedState Assembly, demanded to knowwhy Pandits were leaving en masseand in turn why the administrationwas doing nothing about it. Mr.Shah accused the administration of

encouraging the migration so thatthe Army would be left free tounleash its heavy artillery on allhabitations.

When I asked the delegation if itbelieved that I would be party tosuch a plan, this was their response:‘I had been kept in the dark, whilethey were privy to “secret” informa-tion’.

That the Pandits were apprehen-sive was hardly surprising, I said.Places of worship, like the one inAnantnag, where the majority went,were being used to issue threats tothem over loudspeakers. I learntlater that these inflammatory ser-mons, and their reverberating publicapplause, were audio recordings cir-culated to mosques to be playedover loudspeakers at prayer time.Local Muslims needed to reassurethe Pandits of their safety, I said.The administration would providesecurity whenever a threat to thePandits was anticipated, but howeffective it would all be woulddepend on unstinted public support,given that the residences of thePandits were scattered. The gather-ing concurred and dispersed.

I requested State GovernorJagmohan that he appeal to thePandits, in a telecast, that they stayon in Kashmir, and assure them oftheir safety on the basis of the assur-ances of the Anantnag residents.Unfortunately, the only announce-ment to this effect was that“refugee” camps were being set upin every district, and Pandits whofelt threatened could move to themrather than leave the Valley. Panditsin service who felt threatened werefree to leave their stations; theywould continue to be paid theirsalaries. I relate this story becausethe present flurry of allegationsbrings a sense of déjà vu. ThePandits — more than 1,20,000 in theearly 1980s — numbered about7,000 in the Kashmir Valley, in2005.

Talk of a return

There has been much talk of the

return of Kashmiri “migrants” totheir homes in the Valley ever sincean elected government took office inthe State in 1996. The separatistleaders, Mirwaiz Omar Farooq andShabbir Shah, have repeatedly askedthe Kashmiri migrants to return. Butevery time the issue would be raisedat the national level, Pandits in theValley would be attacked brutallyand the issue would be put on theback burner.

Any talk, therefore, of their returnwill continue to be pointless unlessthose living in the Valley are secure,physically and economically. By2003, the Pandits were scatteredacross 270 neighbourhoods in townsand villages. They soon formed anon-governmental organisation, theHindu Welfare Society, whichattempted to document the locationsand requirements of their brethren.This body managed to stop anotherexodus after 23 Pandits were killedin Nadimarg village in early 2003.At the time, the demands of theValley Pandits were simple: a housein a secure locality and jobs for 500men and women. They were gratefulfor Muslim support and the mainreason for their staying back wasalso the need to pursue a livelihood.Their only complaint: official apa-thy to their plight. Although theState Chief Secretary in 2005-2006,Vijay Bakaya, also a Pandit, waswilling to lend them a ear, the Stateadministration remained unrespon-sive.

Data and reality

On June 21, 2008, on a visit toSrinagar, I met three large groups ofPandits who had stayed on in theValley; two were from two groups ofthe Hindu Welfare Society, Kashmir(which had split by this time), andthe third, from the KPSS. I hadcalled for the meeting to urge themto come together to place theirrequirements before the governmentrather than pursue separate roadmaps.

I was presented an interim censusreport by the KPSS, and financed by

members of the Pandit diaspora,covering 62 mohallas of Anantnag,Bandipore, Baramulla, Budgam,Ganderbal, Kulgam, Kupwara,Pulwama, Shopian and Srinagar, aswell as a consolidated survey ofland. The conclusions, although sub-ject to reverification, were alarming.The number of Pandits in the Valleywas just 3,000. While there wassome record of buildings havingbeen occupied by the security forces— houses for which the ownerswere receiving rent — there was noconsolidated record of land andproperty of this group, which was ofjusticiable “munsif’ quality. Therewas no record of the propertiesattached to temples, thoseencroached upon, those leased out,or under occupation. The groupscame up with varying data on unem-ployed youth, as their job prospectswas a primary concern. On anotheroccasion, they had spoken of chil-dren castigating parents for havingstayed back in Kashmir. Sadly, Ilearnt that there were about 150families in the outlying areas whofaced penury. However, these num-bers were not an unduly cumber-some figure as far as their employ-ment potential in the State servicesin the Valley was concerned. Ireceived a final list, of 200 youngmen and women, from the HinduWelfare Society in April 2010.

Let’s get back to the present. In areply to a question asked recently inParliament, the Union Minister ofState for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju,said that the Centre had announced apackage of Rs.1,618.40 crore in2008 for the return and rehabilita-tion of migrant Kashmiri families,which included a grant for the pur-chase or construction of houses, ren-ovation of damaged or dilapidatedhouses, construction of transitaccommodation, and cash relief andemployment. “The package is beingimplemented by the Jammu andKashmir government and till now,one family has returned to the valleyavailing the benefit of Rs.7.5 lakhfor construction of house,” Mr.Rijiju had said in a written reply.

Further, as many as 1,474 State

government jobs had been providedto newly appointed migrant youthswho stayed in newly constructed1,010 transit accommodations insouth, east and north Kashmir.

Central package

In reply to another question, Mr.Rijiju said that at present, 60,452families of Kashmiri migrants wereregistered in the country, of whom38,119 were in Jammu, 19,338 inDelhi and 1,995 families in otherStates. Migrants mainly comprisedKashmiri Pandits and Sikhs.

This is the culmination of thePrime Minister’s successive pack-ages for the rehabilitation ofKashmiri Pandits, announced in2004 and 2008. Along with ID cardsbeing given to the migrants, thesesteps have brought them much need-ed recognition. In the first of thesepackages, 5,242 two-room tene-ments were constructed in Jammu,and 200 at Sheikhpora in Budgamdistrict of the Valley. Of these 200flats, initially constructed formigrants from the Valley, 31 havebeen allotted to local migrants with-in the Valley, including Pandits. Butit didn’t meet with success asSheikhpora is not near the town.

This was acknowledged by MuftiMohammad Sayeed in his lasttenure as Chief Minister, when hesaid that there would no longer becommunally exclusive townships. Itdoesn’t require much imagination torealise that apart from the danger ofghettoisation, such a step would ren-der the Pandit community vulnera-ble. But the present initiative, whilebuilding on the earlier ones, seemsto have been arrived at without con-sultation with the community.

Even in the unlikely event of thePandits resolving to return, the num-bers provided by Mr. Rijiju wouldscarcely overwhelm the Valley.However, what would those return-ing do? What does one do to earn aliving? In 2012, as Chairman,National Institute of Technology(NIT), Srinagar, I had visited Jammu

to request migrant teachers and staffto return to Srinagar, where the NIThad been headed by a Pandit. All ofthem rejected the idea.

Looking ahead

The answer lies in going muchfurther. What I told my Kashmiriinterlocutors from Nai Basti,Anantnag, in 1990, still holds true.The ground situation in the Valleymay not reflect a threat to returningPandits, but it is the responsibility ofKashmiris within the Valley to reas-sure those returning of their wel-come. There can be no quibblingover this.

There has been a long-standingdemand for a MinoritiesCommission in the State along thelines of the National Commissionfor Minorities (NCM), and support-ed by at least two past Chairpersonsof the NCM, including myself. TheState government has been receptivebut little has been done. This alonewill not encourage the return ofmigrants.

In the long term, a meaningfulplan for the State must include for-eign direct investment and develop-ment in the form of the much-talkedabout smart cities, which can be thenew townships. This will encourageyoung Kashmiris, many of whomhave achieved excellence in theirchosen fields, to invest and think ofa new life in Kashmir, providinglivelihoods and living space to oth-ers.

As peace returns in large measureto Kashmir, is it not time that it joinsthe rest of the country in marchingahead and in ushering in the eco-nomic revolution that all Indianslook forward to?

(Wajahat Habibullah is theauthor of My Kashmir: The Dying

of the Light.)

Editorial4 NEW DELHI | FRIDAY | APRIL 17, 2015SAADDA HAQ

BY AASHISH GUPTA ANDKARTHIK RAO CAVALE

The new government inDelhi is reportedly plan-ning to dismantle the 5.8-

kilometre-long pilot Bus RapidTransit (BRT) corridor andreplace it with a six-lane roadinstead. Those who have fol-lowed the saga of the BRTexperiment in Delhi will not besurprised by the decision to dis-mantle the corridor despite itsapparent benefits.

The BRT corridor in SouthDelhi provides dedicated lanesfor pedestrians, cyclists, andbuses, creating an incentive forpeople to use public transportwhile also ensuring a fairer dis-tribution of space on urbanroads. A concerted policy ofencouraging public transport, inconjunction with policies topenalise the use of private vehi-cles, could have helped reduceair pollution levels in the city aswell. Instead of taking concretesteps to reduce traffic congestionand pollution in the city, the gov-ernment is planning to dismantlethe limited facilities that publictransport users enjoy in this city.

Since the corridor’s inaugura-tion in 2008, it has faced stiffopposition from the car-owningelite. As a result, the project hasnever been expanded, despiteinitial plans to construct a 100kilometre network of BRT corri-dors in the city. In recentmonths, Saurabh Bhardwaj,MLA, Aam Aadmi Party, hasbeen quite active in trying to getthe bus lanes dismantled. He hasargued that while BRT corridorsare desirable in theory, this cor-ridor was poorly designed andtherefore unable to meet itsobjectives. While some of thedesign criticisms advanced byhim are valid, none of them log-ically lead us to the conclusionthat the Delhi BRT project can-not be salvaged and made towork.

The criticisms

The most common point ofcriticism has been that the roadis too narrow and has too muchvehicular traffic to be able toafford two dedicated lanes for

buses. Assuming that vehiculartraffic is indeed slower when theBRT is operational (which is notalways true), we must recognisethat making the additional laneavailable for vehicular traffic isonly a temporary solution to theproblem of traffic congestion.The root cause of congestion isthe increasing use of cars. Busesalong this stretch carry twice thenumber of people as cars do,while occupying much less roadspace. Public transportation isthe long-term solution to theproblem of traffic congestion,and the BRT encourages it.

The other criticism is that theDelhi BRT does not follow thebest standards of BRT planning.The Delhi BRT is often com-pared unfavourably to the

“closed” Ahmedabad BRT corri-dor, which does not allow citybuses to enter the BRT lane.Such a BRT system allows bettercontrol over the flow of dedicat-ed BRT buses, and is able to pre-vent any fluctuation in the num-

ber of buses entering the corri-dor at a given point in time.While these are real advantagesof a “closed” BRT corridor, italso denies a large share of bususers the benefit of using the buslane. It is worth noting that pre-cisely because the Delhi BRT is“open” and more inclusive, itcaters to more than five timesthe commuters of theAhmedabad BRT. Even if busesin the Delhi BRT run at a slowerspeed on average, the overallimpact is much greater, and thebenefits more evenly distributedamong various classes.

It is true that buses in the DelhiBRT corridor have not been ableto attain the speeds commonlyachieved by BRT systems else-where. However, this is primari-

ly because cars are not finedwhen they enter the BRT lane.Any transportation system con-sists not just of physical infra-structure — roads, traffic sig-nals, bus stops, etc — but also aninstitutional infrastructure that

makes the system work asintended. There wasn’t enoughcoordination between the DelhiIntegrated Multi Modal TransitSystem Ltd. (DIMTS), theorganisation in charge of design-ing, constructing, and operatingthe BRT corridor; the DelhiTransport Corporation (DTC),which operates the buses; andthe Delhi Traffic Police, whichhas the authority to enforce traf-fic rules.

No institutional support

The attitude of the trafficpolice has been bizarre. Fromthe inception of the project, thepolice has flatly refused toenforce traffic rules on the BRTcorridor. They have not prevent-ed private vehicles from entering

the bus lane, or fined driverswho flouted the rules. While theDIMTS was forced to hire traffic“wardens” for this role, theywere ineffective because theydid not have the authority to fineor punish drivers who violatedthe rules. Little was done to pre-vent the parking of cars on foot-paths, or car drivers from misus-ing cycle lanes. Pedestriancrossings were often unmanned,and motorists who terrorisedpedestrians trying to reach thebus stop went scot-free. In anycase, the traffic police has neverseen the protection of the rightsof way of buses, cyclists andpedestrians as a part of its job.

None of these institutionalfailures are likely to be mitigatedby improvements in the physicaldesign of the BRT corridor,either in this location or else-where. Fundamentally, theypoint to a lack of political lead-ership, and more broadly to theindifference of both civil andpolitical society towards themarginalised classes of com-muters who stand to benefit themost from a functioning BRTsystem. Apparently, even thispro-poor government led by theAAP is willing to expropriatetime from the poor and give it tothe rich, for that is what “scrap-ping” the BRT infrastructureamounts to. Many commentatorsseem to believe that the involve-ment of international expertisein the design of Delhi’s BRT willsolve its woes, but experts inphysical design will have noremedy to offer for this deepermalaise of indifference.

(Karthik and Aashish aremembers of the newly formedBus Ko Rasta Do Abhiyaan –Make Way for Buses Campaign.Aashish is a research fellow atthe research institute of compas-sionate economics (r.i.c.e).Karthik is an assistant professorof public policy at the JindalGlobal University, and a doctor-al candidate at the Department

It is no surprise to see online retailer Flipkart pullingout of Airtel Zero, the controversial plan offered byIndia’s leading telecom provider Bharti Airtel to pro-

vide its subscribers free access to select websites.Flipkart had to contain the fallout after Airtel Zero wasseverely criticised by the proponents of Net neutrality,the principle that all Internet traffic has to be treatedequally. The e-retailer faced a severe backlash on socialmedia over its decision to join Airtel, and even had itsapp down-rated on app stores by die-hard Net neutralityadvocates. For all the pro-Net neutrality utterances itmakes now — ironically, Airtel also does so — what isstill a surprise is what made it join the platform in thefirst place. Flipkart did so disregarding the wave of sup-port for Net neutrality that has been sweeping acrossIndia following the recent publication of a consultationpaper on it by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.Politicians, celebrities and the common person alike havejoined the cause. Did it not occur to Flipkart that its ownsuccess until now could not have been possible but for anopen Internet? Was it pushed into such a deal by privateequity investors who have pumped in a few billion dol-lars into the business in recent years? Or was it embold-ened by the relative silence of Net neutrality supporterson a similar scheme, which goes by the name of inter-net.org? Facebook introduced internet.org a few monthsago to subscribers of Reliance Communications. AirtelZero and internet.org are very similar schemes. Airtelwould know; it is Facebook’s partner in Africa. The onlydifference is in positioning. Internet.org is presented asan attempt to make the Internet available to those whodon’t have access to it. There is no denying that many inIndia still do not have Web access. But the actors in inter-net.org are all commercial enterprises, as they are inAirtel Zero. The list includes Facebook, RelianceCommunications, and many of the nearly three dozenIndian content and news sites, some of which have beenvocal in their support for Net neutrality. Many of theirbusiness models are based on their ability to accumulatebigger audiences and more readers. Such free plans, alsocalled zero-rating plans wherein the subscriber getsaccess to select sites, are deemed to be against Net neu-trality and banned in countries such as Chile. Whatevermade it join Airtel Zero in the first place, Flipkart is nowmaking the right redemption noises, leaving Airtel in thelurch. The dramatic pullback has given supporters of Netneutrality more ammunition, much more than would havebeen the case had Flipkart not decided to join Airtel Zeroin the first place.

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NEW DELHIFormer telecom minister A

Raja, an accused in the 2G spec-trum allocation case, Thursdayattacked Congress spokesmanPC Chacko for his comments onthe prosecutor's arguments thatcommenced on Wednesday.

In a statement, he said the argu-ments of the public prosecutorwere the exclusive domain of theproceedings of the court andmedia was entitled to reportthem.

"However, to our shock andsurprise, Mr P C Chacko, whowas earlier the chairman of theJoint Parliamentary Committee(JPC) for spectrum issue andsubmitted his report beforeParliament, is now commentingon the proceedings of the otherforum, namely the trial court,"Raja said.

He said Chacko did not callhim before the JPC for deposi-tion despite several requestsfrom him and leaders of variousparties and assurances from him.

"Again, the man who did nothave the courage to call mebefore the JPC for my deposi-

tion..... Is now attempting tointerfere in other ways with theproceedings of the trial court tomislead the media and publicwhich is totally untenable,uncivilised and unwarranted," hesaid.

Yesterday Chacko had said thatthe CBI statement, which includ-ed points like Raja misled thethen Prime Minister ManmohanSingh, "is a fact".

Chacko, who headed the JointParliamentary Committee intothe 2G spectrum allocation issue,said that there were "deviations"to the first come first served prin-ciple, a point that was also madeby the prosecutor.

2G scam: Raja attacks Chacko forhis comments on trial proceedings

NEW DELHIThe "in-house" procedures,

devised by a five-judges panel andadopted by the Supreme Court wayback in 1999, on taking "suitableremedial" actions against judges,accused of misconduct and impro-priety, of the apex court and thehigh courts was today put in publicdomain. The apex court registryput the report of the committee onits website in pursuance of a direc-tion issued by the court whiledeciding a sexual harassment com-plaint of a former woman judicialofficer against a sitting judge ofthe Madhya Pradesh High Court.

The 1997 report of the panel,consisting of SC judges, Justices S

C Agrawal, A S Anand, and S PBharucha and two senior-mostChief Justices of High Courts, P SMisra of the Andhra Pradesh HighCourt and D P Mohapatra of theAllahabad High Court, was adopt-ed with some changes by theSupreme Court in its full courtmeeting on December 15, 1999.

The report prescribes three dif-ferent sets of procedures for takingaction on complaints againstjudges of the High Courts, Chiefjustices of HCs and judges of theSupreme court respectively.

The procedures to deal withcomplaints against HC judges saysthat if a complaint is received bythe Chief Justice of the High court

concerned then "he shall examineit". "If it is found by him (CJ) thatthe complaint is of a serious natureinvolving misconduct or impropri-ety, he shall ask for the responsethereto of the judge concerned,"the report said, adding if the CJ issatisfied that no further action isneeded, then he shall close the pro-ceedings and inform the CJIaccordingly. If the Chief Justice isof the opinion that the complaintneeds "deeper probe", then he shallforward to the CJI the complaintalongwith the response of thejudge concerned and his own com-ments.

The panel further suggests theprocedures when the CJI either

directly receives the complaint orthey are forwarded by thePresident against a HC judge.

"If it is found by him (CJI) that itis either frivolous or directly relat-ed to the merits of the substantivedecisions in a judicial matter ordoes not involve any serious com-plaint of misconduct or impropri-ety, he shall file it," it said.

If CJI is of the view that it needsprobe then he "shall forward" thecomplaint to the Chief Justice ofthe High court for further com-ments and the same procedurewould be followed as in the casewhen the complaint is firstreceived by the CJs of the HighCourts.

Procedures on complaints against judges on SC website

NEW DELHIIn response to Congress's

April 19 rally where itplans to paint the Centre"anti-farmer", ruling BJPwill engage its MPs on thesame day in a workshopwhere Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will speakon how to take the govern-ment's 'pro-poor' schemesto the masses.

The workshop 'GaribKalyan Yojnaye: ItsEffective Implementationand role of MP' will focuson the government's pro-poor welfare programmesand how to take them to thegrassroots level.

Modi will deliver theinaugural address and partypresident Amit Shah willgive the concludingspeech, while senior minis-ters like Sushma Swaraj,Thawar Chand Gehlot,among others, would

address the MPs, andParliamentary AffairsMinister Venkaiah Naidumaking a presentation.

The workshop comes at atime when the Congress-led opposition is consis-tently working to paint thegovernment as "anti-poor"and "pro-industry".

tHE vice presidentRahul Gandhi, who hasreturned from a sabbatical,is set to address the publicat the national farmers'rally to be held at RamlilaMaidan on Sunday, whileBJP's workshop takes placeat Parliament's BalayogiAuditorium on the same

day.Sources in the BJP

Parliamentary Party, whichis organising the workshopin association with ShriRambhau MhalagiPrabodhini, a training andresearch academy of socio-political activists, said thegovernment had conceivedseveral pro-poor and wel-fare schemes and will seeksuggestions from MPs toimprove on these whilealso spreading the wordaround that the governmentcares for the poor.

BJP will hold similarworkshop for private secre-taries and personal assis-tants of MPs.

The workshop will focuson ensuring success of sev-eral welfare schemeslaunched by variousMinistries.

"The conference's agen-da would focus on intro-

duction of various centralgovernment welfareschemes, the role of MP inexecuting them and prepa-ration and follow up fortheir implementation," sec-retary of BJPParliamentary PartyB a l a s u b r a h m a n y a mKamarsu said.

He said the success of theschemes directly dependson the involvement of localpublic representatives, whoneed to have proper under-standing and should makea concerted effort for coop-eration of people andinvolvement of the bureau-cracy.

The success of theschemes is not only impor-tant for government butalso for local MPs and if aconcerted effort islaunched then they will beimplemented properly, heunderlined.

BJP to hold workshop for MPs onpro-poor schemes on April 19

NEW DELHITo ensure uninterrupted telecom net-

work during the Amarnath Yatra, theHome Ministry has taken a series ofsteps that include augmentation ofmobile connectivity and making avail-able satellite phones in designatedplaces. At a high-level meeting, theHome Ministry reviewed mobile andtelecom connectivity for the upcomingAmarnath Yatra 2015 and orderedensuring better connectivity during thetwo month-long pilgrimage beginningJuly 2 as connectivity was crucial forthe conduct and regulation of the pil-grimage. "BSNL is also working onaugmentation of VSAT capacity andincrease in bandwidth. BSNL will alsoenhance number of base transceiverstations and their configuration to takecare of congestion where pilgrims willbe halting for night stay or en-route.

"Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board has

identified camps located at the holycave, Panjtarni, Sheshnag and Sangamas the camps where satellite phonesand VASAT connectivity is crucial forthe conduct and regulation of theYatra," an official release said.

Meanwhile, the process of registra-tion of pilgrims for this year's ShriAmarnathji Yatra, through both Baltaland Pahalgram routes, has started.

The Amarnathji Shrine Board,chaired by Jammu and KashmirGovernor NN Vohra, has notified pro-cedure for registration of pilgrimsthrough bank as without the permitnone will be allowed to undertake thepilgrimage. A pilgrim can secure his orher pilgrimage permit through 87selected branches of the J&K Bank,305 branches of Punjab National Bankand 38 branches of YES Bank locatedacross the country, an official releasesaid.

Govt to ensure uninter-rupted telecom network

in Amarnath Yatra

NEW DELHIHome Minister Rajnath

Singh on Thursday categori-cally stated that the Centre willnot tolerate anyone raising slo-gans like 'Pakistan zindabad'on the Indian soil.

Singh was reacting on a rallyorganised in Srinagar yester-day by the HurriyatConference at which recentlyreleased separatist MasaratAlam waved the Pakistani flagand raised anti-India slogans.Hardline Hurriyat leader SyedAli Shah Geelani was alsopresent at the rally.

The Jammu and KashmirPolice has already registered acase against the duo in connec-tion with the incident.

Singh said he has spoken tostate Chief Minister MuftiMohammad Sayeed and toldhim that the country won’taccept pro-Pakistani sloganson Indian soil.

"There can be no compro-mise on national security.

Politics cannot impinge onnational security," the ministeris reported to have told Sayeed.

Singh said he has also askedthe CM to take strict actionagainst Masarat Alam.

Sayeed on his part today saidthat the waving of Pakistaniflags and raising of anti-Indiaslogans were "not acceptable"and "will not be tolerated'.

The state government, in

which BJP is an alliance part-ner, came in for a flak over itsdecision to allow Geelani tohold a rally after five years inSrinagar city.

During the rally, MasaratAlam, released from jail lastmonth, praised founder ofLashker-e-Toiba terror outfitHafiz Mohammed Sayeed andasked people to join handswith his outfit.

Won't tolerate anti-India slogans:Rajnath Singh on Masarat Alam

VISAKHAPATNAMResolving to step up

fight against the"Hindutva" forces andtheir political offshootBJP, CPI(M) Thursdaymade it clear that the partywas ready to join struggleswith secular forces tosecure interest of themasses without strikingalliance with non-Leftentities at national level.

The review report on the'political-tactical line'adopted by the party hereduring the ongoing 21stNational Congress,CPI(M) also emphasisedon the need to strengthenits own support base toequip itself for campaignson hand.

The party further calledfor reservation in jobs forthe Scheduled Castes andScheduled Tribes(SCs/STs) in private sec-

tor as people from thesecommunities had been hithard by neo-liberal eco-nomic policies.

The main direction ofthe CPI(M)'s attack shouldbe against the BJP since itis in power at the Centre.But this should not beconstrued as having elec-toral trucks with theCongress as fight againstthe saffron forces shouldnot be reduced to mereelectoral tactics, the reportsaid. "Priority should begiven to enhance the inde-pendent role of the partyand expanding its strengthand mass base. The forth-coming 'tactical line'should be able to give aconcrete direction andcontent to the struggleagainst the Hindutvaforces and the communalideology at the political,ideological and organisa-

tional planes."It underscored the need

for electoral tactics beingdovetailed with buildingthe Left and democraticfront as there is no basisfor national alliance withregional parties at all-India level in the givenpolitical situating.

However, there can besome electoral adjust-ments with non-Left par-ties in states wherever ithelps rally the Left anddemocratic forces.

Seeking to provide anew impetus to the organ-isation and devise freshways to reach out to dif-ferent sections of the peo-ple, the ideological orien-tation of the cadres will bestrengthened through criti-cal examination of meth-ods and style of function-ing at all levels, thereports.

CPI(M) to step up fightagainst 'Hindutva' forces

KOLKATAThe Centre's Jan Dhan Yojna,

which has brought the poor intothe banking network, will stoppeople from going to chit fundcompanies, BJP nationalspokesperson M J Akbar said hereon Thursday.

"Jan Dhan Yojna is the realanswer to Saradha and RoseValley. That is the answer. Why arethe poor going to the chit funds?Because they have no otheroption," Akbar said at an interac-tive session organised by 'Friendsof BJP' here.

He said if the poor are given abank account, the chit funds willdisappear.

"That is the brillance of thisscheme," the BJP leader said,adding, as a result the people whosupport chit funds are againstPrime Minister Narendra Modi.

Stating that it was a matter ofshame that 400 million peoplewere still below the poverty line inthe country, Akbar claimed thatgrowth during UPA's time was inthe number of 'jobless'.

Since the Modi governmentcame to power, the manufacturingsector has increased from a nega-tive figure to around five per cent,he said.

On the issue of declassificationof files relating to the disappear-ance of Netaji Subhas ChandraBose, he said the age of truth onthe issue is coming.

"There has been a conspiracy tostop the truth from coming out.Now the age of truth on Netaji iscoming. When it comes out, it isgoing to destroy a lot of reputa-tions of people who have gone andof the people who are still alive,"Akbar said.

Jan Dhan Yojna answerto chit fund scams: Akbar

BENGALURUFormer prime minis-

ter and Janata Dal(Secular) supremo HDDeve Gowda Thursdaysaid the merger ofJanata Parivar parties isnot to destabilise theNarendra Modi govern-ment but to highlight its"failures" to fulfil elec-tion promises.

Gowda said theParivar will highlight,inside and outside of theParliament, the prob-lems faced by farmers,labourers and poor peo-ple, who are sufferingfrom malnutrition,adding, even one yearafter Modi came topower, farmers werecommitting suicide.

"The merger of Janata

Parivar is not to desta-bilise the NarendraModi government at thecentre, but to highlightits failure to fulfil thepromises made duringelection campaign,"Gowda told PTIhere.

When reminded aboutthe failure of multi-party alliances in thepast, he said, "It is thefailure of the Congress... 2G scam and coalgatethat helped BJP toemerge as the singlelargest party in the lastLok Sabha elections. Inaddition to that severalregional parties hadassociated with Modi'sleadership."

On multi-party com-binations not lasting

long due to leadershipissue, Gowda said,"How many times, theCongress party, whichis 130 years old, splitbefore?"

To another query,Gowda said there is nodispute on MulayamSingh Yadav headingthe Janata Parivar."Mulayam is a seniorleader. We all haveaccepted his leadership.There is no dispute onthat," he added.

Asked whether JanataParivar sees itself stag-ing a comeback topower in the next LokSabha polls, Gowdasaid it will depend onfulfilment promisesmade to people duringgeneral elections.

NEW DELHIThe government owes around Rs 600

crore to Air India for using its aircraft fortravel of VVIPs. The Ministry of CivilAviation has taken up the issue with vari-ous ministries regarding the pendingamount related to the services of Air Indiaaircraft availed for such VVIP travel.

According to official sources, Ministriesof Home Affairs and External Affairs,among others, have accrued "Rs 500-600crore" dues till March 31.

"These are dues to be paid to Air Indiafor using aircraft for travel of VVIPs," asource said. Air India is surviving on abailout package approved in 2012.

The erstwhile UPA dispensation had inApril 2012 approved Air India's turn-

around plan, with a committed publicfunding of Rs 30,231 crore, staggered overa period of nine years, with some specificriders.

Besides a debt of Rs 40,000 crore, theairline had reported losses to the tune ofRs 5,388 crore in FY-14 as against Rs5,490 in the fiscal 2012-13.

After a streak of losses, Air India hadreported a net profit of Rs 14.6 crore inDecember last year, from a loss of Rs168.7 crore in the corresponding period of2013.

The airline in its budget estimates forthis fiscal, presented late last month, hasforecast that it would become operational-ly profitable by March next year, muchahead of the TAP projections

Govt owes around Rs 600 crto Air India for VVIP travel

Janata Parivar merger not todestabilise Modi govt: Gowda

VISAKHAPATNAMThe CPI(M) Thursday

demanded reservation forScheduled Castes (SC) andScheduled Tribes (ST) inprivate sector jobs andresolved to run a campaignto bring pressure on theCentre to bring a legislationto help people of these com-munities, hit hard due toneo-liberal economic poli-cies.

Briefing reporters ondeliberations at the ongoing21st party Congress here,politburo member BrindaKarat said the meet hastaken serious exception tothe "blatantly exclusionaryand discriminatory" policiesbeing followed by succes-sive governments at theCentre towards the rightsand entitlements of the peo-ple of SC and ST communi-ties. 21st party Congress ofCPI(M) demands that reser-vation for SCs and STs beextended to the private sec-tor through appropriate leg-islation and that allocationsfor Scheduled Caste SpecialComponent Plan (SCSCP)and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP)

be made mandatory throughan appropriate law.

"The party Congress callsupon all units of the party totake up these issues andbuild public pressure toforce the Government tofulfill these demands," shesaid.

As a consequence of neo-liberal policy, people of SCand ST communities havefaced a reduction of theirlegitimate share in nationalresources.

"In spite of the mandatoryreservation in jobs for SCand STs in government andpublic sector undertakings,there is a huge backlog. TheGovernment records indi-cate that the backlog in2011 in the Governmentsector for Scheduled Casteswas 24,779 posts.

"Vacancies for ScheduledCastes and ScheduledTribes would be much high-er if Group A, B, and Cwere calculated along withvacancies in StateGovernments and the publicsector," the resolutionadopted by the party onSC/ST reservation stated.

CPI(M) demands reservationfor SCs, STs in private sector

iBall has launched theAndi 5M Xotic smart-phone in India, pricing

it at Rs. 8,199. The iBallsmartphone was previous-ly listed for purchase inFebruary by an onlineretailer at Rs. 8,950.

According to company,the biggest USP of theiBall Andi 5M Xoticis its 2GB of RAMat the price, as wellas 16GB of built-instorage. The dual-SIM smartphoneruns on Android 4.4KitKat that the firmsays will be upgrad-ed to Android 5.0Lollipop. It featuresa 5-inch qHD(540x960 pixels)IPS display thatoffers a pixel densityof 220ppi.

The smartphonepacks a quad-core1.3GHz Cortex-A7processor coupledwith 2GB of RAM.Besides an 8-megapixel autofocusrear camera withBSI sensor and LEDflash, the iBall Andi5M Xotic alsoincludes a 3.2-megapixel front-facingcamera. The 16GB ofinbuilt storage is expand-able via microSD card (up

to 32GB).Connectivity options

on the iBall Andi5M Xoticinclude 3G,W i - F i

w i t hh o t s p o t

functionali-ty, Bluetooth,

Micro-USB, GPS/A-GPS, and FM radio

with recording. The hand-set is backed by a2000mAh battery. Thesmartphone is also bundledwith a protective cover.

At the launch of Andi5M Xotic, iBallDirector SandeepParasrampuria said instatement, "We arevery pleased toannounce the launchof Andi 5M Xotic2GB. The users arenow desiring 2GBRAM with good dis-play and alluringdesign. Our iBall Xoticfulfills this desire!"

The firm early lastmonth launched theiBall Andi 5Q CobaltSolus, priced at Rs.11,499. The dual-SIM(GSM+GSM) smart-phone runs the Android4.4 KitKat, and comeswith a 5-inch (720x1280pixels) HD OGS display. Itis powered by a 1.4GHzocta-core MediaTekprocessor coupled with2GB of RAM.

Other specifications ofthe iBall Andi 5Q CobaltSolus include 16GB ofinbuilt storage expandablevia microSD card (up to32GB); a 13-megapixelautofocus rear camera withLED flash; a 5-megapixelfront-facing camera; con-nectivity options including3G, GPRS/ EDGE, Wi-Fi802.11 a/b/g/n, Micro-USB, and Bluetooth, and a2250mAh battery.

Huawei launched its flagshipsmartphone, the HuaweiAscend P8, alongside its

large-screen variant, the HuaweiAscend P8max. The dual-SIMAndroid 5.0 Lollipop-based smart-phones feature the company'sEmotionUI 3.1 skin on top.

The Huawei Ascend P8 will beavailable in two versions, Standard(16GB inbuilt storage) andPremium (64GB inbuilt storage).While the standard version ispriced at EUR 500 (roughly Rs.33,300), the premium versioncosts EUR 600 (roughly Rs.40,000). Huawei says Europe,Middle East and South Africa willbe the first regions to get the flag-ship smartphone, followed by aworldwide release within onemonth.

The Huawei Ascend P8max isdue to launch in 30 countries andwill arrive almost a month after theAscend P8. Priced at EUR 550(Rs. 36,700) for its 16GB inbuiltstorage variant, the phablet willalso be available with 64GBinbuilt storage version at EUR 650(roughly Rs. 43,300). Both theAscend P8 and Ascend P8maxsport a metal unibody design madeof space-grade aluminium.

The Ascend P8 (seen above) alsocomes with a special nano-coatingthat the company says makes itsplash-proof. The handset houses a5.2-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pix-els) resolution display (424ppi).

Huawei says the display takes upto 78.3 percent ofthe front panel,as compared toApple iPhone 6's65.8 percent andSamsung GalaxyS6's 70.8 per-cent. The 4G-enabled smart-phone also hasan E-Ink coveraccessory, whichadds a 4.3-inchdisplay suitedfor outdoor read-ing.

Huawei saysthe Ascend P8uses what it callsthe world's first13 -megap ixe lrear camera sen-sor that captureslight in RGBW( R e d - G r e e n -Blue-White) pat-tern and featuresoptical images t a b i l i s a t i o n(OIS). This techis supposed tohelp the devicecapture better low-light images. The camera can bal-ance jerks and vibrations of up to1.6 degree, which Huawei says isbetter than the stabilisation on theiPhone 6 Plus. The firm adds thatan independent image processorfor DSLR-quality images, ISP fornoise reduction and more has been

added forb e t t e rresults. An8-megapix-el front-fac-ing camerais alsoonboard fors e l f i eimages andvideo chats.

T h eAscend P8is poweredby a 64-bito c t a - c o r eCortex-A53H i s i l i c o nKirin 935S o Cclocked at2GHz cou-pled with3GB RAM.Backed by a2 6 8 0 m A hbattery, thesmartphoneis said torun for 2.3days of reg-ular use and1.5 days onh e a v y

usage. Thesmartphone's Signal+ tech enablesthe device to switch between thetwo antennas (one on top and oneat bottom), which Huawei sayswill help find best the data and callconnections.

The smartphone measures

144.9x72.1x6.4mm, weighs 144grams and will be available inMystic Champagne and TitaniumGrey colour variants.

Coming to the bigger phablet,Huawei Ascend P8max (seenabove), the device features a 6.8-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels)resolution display with pixel den-sity of 326ppi. Huawei says thedisplay takes almost 83 percent ofthe front panel. Besides featuring alandscape mode, the handset'shuge display can also performsplit-screen multi-tasking opera-tions.

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NEW DELHI | FRIDAY | APRIL 17, 2015SAADDA HAQScience & Tech6

1. The Manhattan Project was started by PresidentRoosevelt in 1942 to ensure that the U.S. beat theGermans in developing a nuclear bomb. Whom didRoosevelt appoint as scientific head the ManhattanProject?A.Robert Oppenheimer B.James B. ConantC.Leslie R. Groves D.Vannevar Bush

2. When was the first lawn mower invented?A.1830 B.1854C.1835 D.1849

3. In which decade were the first successful diode andtriode vacuum tubes invented?A.1800s B.1880sC.1890s D.1900s

QUIZ TIME

Answer: 1(A), 2(A), 3(D)

TODAY’S STARARIES You could feel a bit low today due to disappointment in someone

important to you, Aries. It could be that a mentor no longer sup-ports you or perhaps an authority figure has shown his or her truecolors. Rather than casting about for a new role model, why notfollow the path that you know is right for you? You're experiencedenough now not to need anyone else to lead the way.

TAURUS You're likely changing your mind about something that hasbeen important to you, Taurus. Perhaps you're questioningyour job, career path, or choice of a mate. Confusion maydominate your thoughts today. Don't expect to arrive at anyconcrete answers by day's end. This is a situation that willonly be resolved with time. Try to be patient.

GEMINI Romance is in the air today, Gemini. Alas, it seems to raindown on everyone but you. You must have put on yourromance-repellent raincoat before leaving the house thismorning. Don't fret. Your time will come. Try to focus yourpassion on a creative endeavor. If you've been thinkingabout trying your hand at writing or painting, do it now.

CANCER Your creativity is at an all-time high, Cancer, so take advan-tage of it. This would be an ideal day to paint or write. Eventhough you consider your talents well below amateur status,you may be surprised by what you're able to produce. Ignoreyour strict internal editor and work for the pure pleasure of cre-ating. You will be delighted with the results.

LEO Your inspiration and creativity are high today, Leo. If you'vebeen thinking about taking up painting or poetry, this would bean ideal day to get started. Make sure your perfectionism does-n't get in the way of your creative urges. You can be a criticaleditor. For now, don't worry about the end product. If you enjoythe creative process, the end result will reflect your joy.

VIRGO It's bad enough having too many cooks in the kitchen, but whenthose cooks argue not only about how to cook the meal but alsoabout how to design the kitchen, you know you have trouble on yourhands. Tempers are likely to flare today. Everyone has an opinionabout how you should decorate your home. Whoever pays the mort-gage gets to make the final decisions. That should settle it.

LIBRA Your self-confidence is at a low point these days, and this ismaking you especially vulnerable. It's likely that a recent con-frontation with a close friend has you worrying about the over-all health of the relationship. With all kindness, Libra, you'reoverreacting. It's likely that your mate feels just as troubled asyou right now. Why not meet halfway?

SCORPIO You may feel some frustration over your perceived inability toreach an important milestone in your career. It's possible thatyou only need to reevaluate the benchmarks you've set inorder to see that you've made more progress than youthought. Remember, ultimately, the time it takes you to reacha goal matters less than the fact that you reach it.

SAGITTARIUSSometimes you can be too passive and let others trample all overyou. Your lack of ego is admirable, but only up to a point, Sagittarius.Why let others take credit for your ideas? There could be a situationwhere you feel compelled to speak up. Protect your rights anddefend yourself against an unethical person intent on downplayingyour contribution. Hold your ground and you will be vindicated.

CAPRICORN An unethical acquaintance could be spreading unfounded rumors.Don't take anything you hear today at face value, Capricorn. Get allthe facts before drawing conclusions. Equipment being installed oracting up adds to the confusion. If the situation weren't so frustrat-ing, it would be comical. Take deep breaths throughout the day.Tomorrow things will be on a more even keel.

AQUARIUS A longtime friend may become something more today,Aquarius. It could be that there has always been a certainspark between you, but you haven't been able to acknowledgeit until now. Make extra sure that the time is right, however.You don't want to hurt anyone else's feelings as you begin toexplore the new aspects of this old relationship.

PISCES You may be frustrated today, Pisces. An anticipated romanticencounter may be postponed or canceled. There's no reason toconsider it a major setback in the relationship. If you feel doubt anduncertainty, it's likely for other reasons. You're agitated and not ina good place to make any sweeping judgments. Let your headclear for a few days and then plan the next steps.

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India's biggest onlinecab-hailing service Olahas raised $400 million

from investors led byRussian billionaire YuriMilner's DST Global, thecompany said onThursday.

The company hadreported $314 million(roughly Rs. 1,958 crores)of this investing round in afiling to the Registrar ofCompanies earlier in themonth. Other participatinginvestors in the Series Eround of funding includedGIC, Falcon Edge Capitaland existing investorsSoftBank Group, TigerGlobal, Steadview Capitaland Accel Partners US.

Of the overall $400 mil-lion (roughly Rs. 2,495crores) announced, $100million (roughly Rs. 623crores) would go towardsexpansion and growth ofits TaxiForSure arm, Olasaid in a statement. Thecompany bought rivalTaxiForSure for $200 mil-lion in March as it com-petes with its domesticrivals and the emergingchallenge of fast-growingUnited States-based rivalUber. The money will alsogo towards expansion ofits Ola brand as it plans tonearly double its footprintto 200 cities by the end ofthe year, the company said.Ola added it has expandedto 100 cities in the currentyear from 10 cities a yearago, with the acquisition ofTaxiForSure also helpingaugment its scope.

The company statementadded the "additionalinvestment will allow Ola

to go deeper into smallercities to build personaltransportation ground-up.Ola has already seentremendous growth in tier2 & 3 cities owing to verylimited transportationoptions that currentlyexist. There is a largeopportunity waiting to beunlocked, to transform theecosystem from within.Ola will help drivers fromthese small towns turnentrepreneurs, creatinglasting social and econom-ic impact for them, while arobust transportation utili-ty is created for the citi-zens."

Bhavish Aggarwal, Co-founder & CEO, Ola said,"DST Global, GIC andFalcon Edge have beenpartners in some of theleading Internet successstories globally and we areexcited about having themonboard. Our vision is thatpeople shouldn't find theneed to own a car. And wehave been able to makethis possible for millionsof customers in the pastfour years and creatingover a hundred thousanddriver entrepreneurs on theplatform. With increasingsmartphone penetrationand immense growth insmaller cities and towns,we will be able to drive thebenefits of this on-demandplatform deeper into thelives of our customers andpartners."

Ola said it had raisedearlier rounds of fundingfrom Tiger Global, MatrixPartners India, SteadviewCapital and SequoiaCapital.

Ola Raises $400 Million in Funding,Aims to Expand to 200 Cities This Year

Micromax's YuYureka Sale onThursday to See20,000 Units Upfor Grabs

Micromax's Yu Yureka smartphonewill be available in its 14th flashsale, which kicks off at 2pm IST

on Amazon India for registered users. Thecompany has revealed 20,000 smart-phones will be made available in the sale.In the 14th flash sale last week, the com-pany announced that 25,000 units hadgone out of stock in 7 seconds. The com-pany did not provide figures of how manyunits were up for 12th sale; though itannounced that the available handsetswent out of stock in 8 seconds. Similarly,Yu did not reveal how many Yu Yureka

units were available to buy in the 11th saleon Amazon India; however laterannounced that they went out of stock in 7seconds.

The Yu Yureka smartphone is set to get asibling soon, the Cyanogen OS poweredsmartphone previously codenamed'Project Caesar'. Running Android 5.0Lollipop out-of-the-box, the smartphonehas been named Yu Yuphoria after a nam-ing contest.

To recall, Micromax's Yu Yureka, pricedat Rs. 8,999, offers some rather impressivespecifications at the price. The dual-SIM

smartphone features Cat. 4 4G LTE con-nectivity, and runs Cyanogen OS 11 basedon Android 4.4.4 KitKat. It bears a 5.5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) IPS displaywith Gorilla Glass 3; a 64-bit 1.5GHzocta-core Snapdragon 615 SoC(MSM8939); an Adreno 405 GPU; 2GB ofRAM; a 13-megapixel Sony ExmorCMOS sensor rear camera with an f/2.2aperture and flash; a front-facing 5-megapixel fixed-focus camera; 16GB ofinbuilt storage expandable via microSDcard (up to 32GB), and a 2500mAh Li-Pobattery.

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VISAKHAPATNAMRiding on Ajinkya Rahane's fifty

Rajasthan Royals beat SunRisersHyderabad by six wickets to notch up theirfourth consecutive win in this edition ofthe IPL cricket tournament here onThursday.

Chasing a modest 128 for a win, thetable-toppers made heavy weather of therun chase, achieving the target on the lastdelivery of the match.

The SRH bowlers did well to take thematch thus far but Rahane's 56-ball 62proved to be the difference between thetwo sides.

Man-of-the-match Rahane, who regis-tered his first half-century of the this sea-son, and Sanju Samson (26) worked wellfor their 64-run opening stand before a fewwickets made the match exciting in theend.

A chance for SRH came in the seventhover when Samson clubbed the ball in themid-off region but the skier was floored byAshish Reddy after the fielder got to theball by making good ground but failed topouch it. The unlucky bowler was PraveenKumar.

But come the 11th over and Ravi Boparawas more than lucky as wicketkeeperNaman Ojha came up with a brilliant div-ing catch to send back Samson back in thedug out to give SRH some hope.

The wicket did dry up the flow of runsfor the visitors, but the lack of runs on theboard helped their cause as Rahane stayedon with skipper Steven Smith (13) to bringthem closer to a win.

Smith (135 in 4 matches), who was

overtaken by opposition captain DavidWarner (131 in 3 matches) in the firstinnings, edged out the Australian in therun-scorers list but Rahane (155) it was

who surpassed the two to wear the OrangeCap.

Smith though was done in by leg-spinnerKarn Sharma in the 14th over and Boparastruck for the second time in the very nextover to get Karun Nair (1) caught andbowled.

Rahane, whose knock was lace with 9

boundaries, couldn't enjoy taking the teamto the finish line as Trent Boult got the top-scorer clean bowled in the 19th over.

Needing 5 to defend of the final 6 deliv-

eries, Kumar bowled well but JamesFaulkner (6 not out) hit the winning fouroff the final ball. Stuart Binny did well tostay unbeaten on 16.

Earlier, backing Smith's decision to fieldfirst on a slowish track, RR bowlersDhawal Kulkarni and Pravin Tambepicked up two wickets each to restrict

SRH to 127 for five in 20 overs.SRH did not have the best of starts after

losing their top four batsmen for just 35runs but a 52-run fourth wicket partnershipbetween Ojha (25) and Eoin Morgan (27)did put a stop to the wicket-fall thoughonly for a while.

Opener Shikhar Dhawan was the first togo after being caught behind off DhawalKulkarni (2-9) post a scratchy 10-run stayat the crease.

Warner (21) was unlucky after Rahaneended the in-form openers blitz in the mid-dle with a direct throw to run him out.

Kulkarni kept the good work going aftertrapping Lokesh Rahul LBW for 2 as SRHlooked wobbly on their second homeground.

SRH nearly lost another wicket in the11th over when Ojha mistimed a pull to becaught by Samson, but the TV replaysshowed that Faulkner had bowled a no-ball.

add to the misery of the bowler, Ojha hitthe next ball for a six and also got a bound-ary in that over. Ojha though was done inby leg-spinner Tambe (2-21) in the 15thover.

Tambe struck in his very next over, afterMorgan was trapped LBW while attempt-ing a reverse sweep.

In the end, Bopara (23 not out) andReddy (11 not out) did try to get maximumhits in the bag but the RR bowlers did wellto allow SRH only 37 runs in the last fiveovers. The Tom Moody-coached SRH arenow placed seventh above MumbaiIndians, with a win and two losses in theirthree games so far.

IPL 8: Ajinkya Rahane Fifty Helps RajasthanRoyals Beat Sunrisers Hyderabad

MONTE CARLONovak Djokovic and

Rafael Nadal posted winsinto the quarter-finals ofthe Monte Carlo Masterson a turbulent Thursday forseeded Swiss upset victimsRoger Federer and StanWawrinka.

Top seed Djokovic dis-patched Andreas Haider-Maurer of Austria 6-4, 6-0to line up on Friday againstUS Open champion MarinCilic, the number eight,who defeated French 11thseed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 7-6 (7/5).

Djokovic, perhaps rush-ing to get home a few hun-dred metres to his flat tohelp with the evening bathof new son Stefan, neededonly 56 minutes to win.

"Conditions were differ-ent today, the balls weremuch heavier. I'm stillpleased with my perform-

ance. It's so nice to playnear to home," said theSerb.

Nadal fought off a chal-lenge from John Isner toearn a 7-6 (8/6), 4-6, 6-3win and said the successmarked a big step in hiscomeback effort.

"Is an important victoryfor me. I lost in three setsin Rio (in February), I lostin three sets in IndianWells, I lost in three sets inMiami.

"I had an improvementduring the match, that ispositive. In general, I'mvery satisfied about thereaction on the third. Ithink I played at the rightlevel the third set."

Nadal, bidding for aninth title on the clay of theCountry Club, was testedby a dozen aces from Isner,a huge hitter not noted forhis finesse on the dirt.

NEW DELHIDean Jones has made an

out-of-the-box "two-coach" proposal to India'scricket bosses who sitdown later this month tochoose Duncan Fletcher'sreplacement. TheZimbabwean, whoreplaced Gary Kirsten afterthe 2011 World Cup, endedhis tumultuous assignmentwith BCCI after Indiabowed out in the semifi-nals of the World CupDown Under. (Amre NextTeam India CricketCoach?)

Jones pointed out Indiahave some great options inSourav Ganguly (for short-er formats like T20s andODIs) and Rahul Dravid(Tests). The Aussie saidRavi Shastri should beappointed as the high-per-formance manager, whowill oversee everything.This is typically anAustralian format. Will itwork in India?

India's tryst with foreigncoaches has been mixed.Generally, low-profile menhave done well in a teamwhere players, across gen-erations, are high on ego.Personality clashes aretherefore not uncommon.

While the aggressiveGreg Chappell, whose run-ins with Sourav Gangulyare famous, failed to liveup to his massive reputa-tion, Kirsten guided Indiato the World Cup. TheSouth African was happyto remain behind thescenes and let the playersenjoy the spotlight. So wasJohn Wright.

Fletcher was a great sur-vivor. After India lost eightTest matches overseas,experts like SunilGavaskar wanted the for-mer England coach sacked.But Fletcher completed hisfull tenure largely due tothe support he got from

captain Mahendra SinghDhoni. Fletcher managedto retain his job afterIndia's horrible show inEngland last year. RaviShastri's appointment asTeam Director somewhatclipped Fletcher's wings.The decision to appointShastri was reportedlytaken without keepingDhoni in the loop. The cap-tain was merely conveyedthe BCCI decision over alate-night call.

Jones suggests Indiashould retain Shastri as ahigh-performance manag-er. Australia have a similarposition under which acoach (Darren Lehman)

works. Shastri was India'sdirector till the recently-concluded World Cup. Thenew BCCI managementmay not be willing to retainShastri in this role and thenhave a Ganguly and Dravidunder him. The equationsjust don't work.

Of course, Shastri cancontinue to work with theset of Indian support staffat his disposal. The proba-bilities are many butShastri seems to be enjoy-ing his media assignmentsin IPL 2015. He has proba-bly made more fame as aTV commentator than as adecent international all-rounder or Team Indiadirector. The pressures as aplayer or coach are alwayshigher.

Ganguly and Dravidhave their hands full withmedia assignments.Dravid, the RajasthanRoyals mentor, is happydoing short coaching stintsand handle his mediaassignments at the sametime. Ganguly remains oneof the most sought after TVexperts. And Ganguly willcertainly not work underShastri. At best, shortassignments as team direc-tor may suit him.

Jones' Australian modelsounds nice. "India haveenough coaches. No needfor a foreigner. Two coach-es under Ravi will be great.There is way too muchcricket and players hate tosee the same face everytime," professed Jones.

India already have twocaptains - Dhoni for short-er formats and Virat Kohlifor Tests.

The two-coaches theorylooks good on paper but itis impossible to seeShastri, Ganguly, Dravidand Anil Kumble (Jonesmentioned him too) work-ing together as coaches.Probably a low-profile per-son like Pravin Amre is abetter bet. The formerIndian batsman is respect-ed and knowledgeable too.

Whoever is going to becoach, he should get agood start as India arescheduled to tourBangladesh (June), playSri Lanka in an away seriesin August and then hostSouth Africa in India(Oc tobe r-November ) .There are series againstPakistan and Australiaplanned at the turn of theyear. The real test will beoverseas.

India Cricket Team Needs Two Coaches, Says DeanJones; Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid Great Options

DUBAISaeed Ajmal returns to the

centre stage after almost eightmonths hoping to strike earlyform with a remodelled bowl-ing action when Pakistanopen their tour of Bangladeshon Friday.

The prolific off-spinnerbecame the most high-profilecasualty of the InternationalCricket Council's crackdownon illegal actions when hewas suspended from the gamelast September.

The 37-year-old wascleared to bowl again inFebruary just before theWorld Cup Down Under, butwas not picked for the show-piece event where Pakistanlost to eventual championsAustralia in the quarter-finals.

Ajmal's effectiveness witha reworked action will betested during the month-longtour of Bangladesh whichcomprises three one-dayinternationals, a solitaryTwenty20 game and twoTests.

"It was torture living with-out cricket," Ajmal told AFP

ahead of the tour. "I am confi-dent of bowling as effectivelyas I used to before the suspen-

sion."Pakistan will hope their

main strike bowler, who hastaken 178 Test, 183 one-dayand 85 Twenty20 wickets,will deliver in all three for-mats on the traditionally slowpitches in Bangladesh.

With skipper Misbahul Haqand senior pro Shahid Afridihaving retired from one-daycricket after the World Cup,Pakistan named batsmanAzhar Ali as captain for the

three-match series starting onFriday.

Ali, who has not played

one-day cricket since 2013,leads a new-look team thatincludes just five players whofeatured in the World Cup.But the experiencedMohammad Hafeez returns tothe side along with Ajmal.

Team Green was hit byinjuries to two of their WorldCup squad, batsman SohaibMaqsood and fast bowlerSohail Khan, prior to the tourand on Thursday leg-spinnerYasir Shah was ruled out with

a hand injury.Meanwhile, Bangladesh

were bustling with confi-dence after making the WorldCup quarter-finals eventhough they have beatenPakistan just once in 47games across all formats.

The lone victory came dur-ing the 1999 World Cup atNorthampton, England, whenPakistan lost a group matchby 62 runs even though theywent on to reach the final.

Seasoned all-rounderShakib al Hasan saw theupcoming series asBangladesh's "best chance" toimprove his nation's recordagainst the unpredictablePakistanis.

"I think we should be start-ing as favourites to win theone-day series," said Shakib."This is our best chance towin against Pakistan. If weplay our best cricket, we canbeat any side at home."

Shakib will leadBangladesh in the first one-dayer in the absence of regu-lar captain MashrafeMortaza, who is serving aone-match ban for slow over-

rates during the World Cup.Fast bowler Mortaza will

return for the second andthird matches on April 19 and22.

The Twenty20 match willbe held on April 24, beforethe two-Test series starts onApril 28.

All matches will be playedat the Sher-e-Bangla Stadiumin Dhaka, except the first Testwhich will be held in Khulna.

One-day internationalsquads:

Bangladesh: MashrafeMortaza (capt), Tamim Iqbal,Rony Talukdar, SoumyaSarkar, Mominul Haque,Mohammad Mahmudullah,Shakib Al Hasan, MushfiqurRahim, Sabbir Rahman, NasirHossain, Arafat Sunny,Taskin Ahmed, RubelHossain, Abul Hasan

Pakistan: Azhar Ali (capt),Sami Aslam, Sarfraz Ahmed,Mohammad Hafeez, AsadShafiq, Fawad Alam,Mohammad Rizwan, HarisSohail, Saad Nasim, SaeedAjmal, Wahab Riaz, RahatAli, Ehsan Adil, JunaidKhan

Saeed Ajmal in Focus Ahead of 1st ODI Between Pakistan and Bangladesh

NEW DELHIThe fluctuating and com-

plex nature of rankings insports has smiled on "spe-cial child" Saina Nehwalagain. The top Indian shut-tler has become world No.1 less than a fortnight afterlosing it. Saina, whoskipped last week'sSingapore Open, is prepar-ing in Bangalore for theAsian badminton champi-onships in China startingApril 21.

Saina's elevation to theNo. 1 spot has come afterOlympic champion LiXuerui dropped crucialpoints after skipping theSingapore Open.

Saina, the first Indianwoman shuttler to be worldnumber one after her IndiaOpen Grand Prix Gold tri-umph earlier this month,had dropped to secondplace following her semifi-nal finish in the MalaysiaOpen Super Series

"Didn't dream of thishappening. Nobody gets tobe world number one forthe second time," Sainasaid on Thursday.

It's been a dream year forSaina so far after shedropped to No. 9 in theworld. "I lost confidence.

My coach Vimal Kumarhelped me get my confi-dence back. I thank myselftoo! I have worked veryhard," she said.

Last year before theIncheon Asian Games,Saina changed coaches.She left Pulella Gopichandin Hyderabad to join for-mer national coach VimalKumar in Bangalore.

"The shift to Bangalorehas proved even luckier forme. Vimal Kumar told me Iam a special child," saidSaina, who almost quitbadminton in August last

year.Saina looks very deter-

mined to win her nextSuper Series title in China.

"I hate losing . I am play-ing the best badminton ofmy life, but can still do bet-ter," she said.

Saina congratulatedSania Mirza for becomingthe world's No. 1 doublesteam in tennis.

"Happy to read aboutSania. It's not aboutHyderabad, it is about thehard work you put in,"Saina, a London Olympicsbronze medallist, said.

My Coach Tells me I am a Special Child,says World No. 1 Again Saina Nehwal

PORTO, PORTUGALFC Porto have one

foot in the ChampionsLeague's semi-finalsafter their shock 3-1win at home overBayern Munich inW e d n e s d a y ' sChampions Leaguequarter-final, first leg.

Porto carry aweighty advantage toMunich for Tuesday'sreturn leg at the AllianzArena while Bayernhave a glimmer ofhope after their awaygoal, but still need toscore at least twice athome.

"That result is a sur-prise and we knew itwouldn't be easyagainst a side who con-trol possession," saidPorto captain and goal-scorer JacksonMartinez.

"But we took ourchances and provedthat we can play too.

"I don't feel 100 per-

cent still, but I trainedhard in the last fewdays and was pleasedto get a goal," he addedhaving missed the pre-vious six weeks with ahamstring injury.

In Munich, Portowill be without RealMadrid-bound defend-er Danilo, who is sus-pended after pickingup a late yellow, butthey deserved their winafter exploiting mis-takes by Bayern's XabiAlonso and Dante.

"We always want toplay from the back andthis style can some-times be dangerous,but mistakes are part offootball," said Bayerncaptain Philipp Lahm.

"The 3-1 defeathurts, but neverthelessthere is still all to playfor in the return leg."

Host coach JulenLopetegui got one overhis ex-Barcelona team-mate Pep Guardiola

with Porto poised for afirst semi-final appear-ance since 2004 whenthey won theChampions Leagueunder Jose Mourinho.

- Bayern rattled -Lopetegui had said

Porto needed to be the'perfect protagonists'against Guardiola'sBayern and they gotoff to a dream start asright winger RicardoQuaresma scored twicein the opening ten min-utes.

Bayern pulled oneback through ThiagoAlcantara with 28 min-utes gone.

But Porto captainMartinez, a surpriseinclusion after sixweeks out, added theirthird on 65 minutes forhis 27th goal of theseason.

The hosts rattled theGerman giants atPorto's Estadio doDragao and had the

Champions League: FC Porto Poised forSemifinal Berth After Stunning Bayern Munich

Novak Djokovic, Rafael NadalThrough to Monte Carlo Quarters

Emraan Hashmi andfamily film don’treally go hand in

hand. He is a kissingsuperstar and believes inkeeping his films raunchy.So expecting cuts on hisfilms for home viewing ispretty usual for him andthe producers who workwith him but since there isan exception to every rule,Mr. X will go unscathed.After all, it’s a family filmwith Emraan Hashmi init.Not only that, the satel-lite rights of the film wentfor a whopping amounttoo!

Now it hardly happenswith Emraan that his filmsget to the Television setswithout revision and hard-ly does his projects fetchso much money. But evenbefore Mr.X‘s release, thesatellite rights have fetchednearly Rs. 25 crore whichfunnily has left even theBhatts amused. It seemsthey never managed such asum with an Emraan star-rer before. Well, there’salways a first time.

We wonder if the film isas good as the satellite price sounds. If not, we hope the channel airing it doesn’t take offence to it.

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For many of us,breathing is justanother mundane

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Wondering how to bene-fit from breathing? Startwith 'deep-breathing'.Here's a simple-yet-effec-tive step-by-step guide byHarvard Medical School toshow you how to practicedeep breathing.

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2) Close your eyes, sitcomfortably with yourback straight and take anormal breath.

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4) Hold on to it for just afew seconds.

5) Now breathe outSLOWLY through yourmouth, again lasting within5-6 seconds.

6) Continue the process.And now try to observe therhythm of your body asyou go about breathing.Put one hand on yourabdomen, just below your

belly button. Feel yourhand rise about an incheach time you inhale andfall an inch each time youexhale. Your chest will riseslightly, too. Remember torelax your belly so thateach inhalation expands itfully.

7) Repeat the process.Only, now you shouldblend deep breathing withsomething that will helpyou relax and focus. It canbe an image (of pizza ordogs), or a scene from yourfavorite movie or perhaps

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Moonlight productions addedanother feather in its cap.They were recently found in

the capital for their recent shoot of afilm titled 'Khwahishen' with actressSamira Khan of Parwarish famewhich was her debut film ofMoonlight productions while herother serials like 'Kabhi saas bhi kabhibahu thi', 'Kahani Ghar Ghar ki' ofBalaji films. The showman ParamMLP, Producer & Director the filmspeaking on the occasion said, "Mythis film is a family drama. Our artistshave put in their hundred percent toshowcase so called showbiz life of thesociety and I hope that like every hitdrama, this film will attract peoplefrom all walks of life." Actress Samiraexpressed that it was a different expe-rience to work with Moonlight pro-ductions. I will try to give my best inthis film too like my previous filmsand I am optimistic that people willfind my character with the pace of thefilm, she says. The film has been shotat various locations of Delhi andJaipur. Arya Singh has been musicdirector whereas Vivang,Noor, andKailash-Amit has given playback.Promos of film are expected soon.

MY THIS FILM IS A FAMILYDRAMA: PARAM MLP

Varun Dhawan andShraddha Kapoor’sABCD 2 poster

was recently leaked online.While both the lead actorswere unhappy with theleak, they eventuallydecided to play along andintroduce the first look oftheir film to the world.

But an insider sourceEXCLUSIVELY revealedto us how Varun reactedwhen he first heard aboutABCD 2's poster leak.Varun was in Goa atSachin Joshi’s PlanetBollywood resort launchparty (which was alsoattended by Shah RukhKhan and Gauri) when hegot a call regarding theposter of ABCD 2 leakingonline. A naturally furiousVarun blasted the produc-tion guys asking them howthey could release theposter of the film withouteven informing the leadactors about it!

The source also revealsthat there was anotherposter made for the dance-based film which didn’thave Varun’s name on itand that upset the actoreven more! Obviously, thatposter wasn’t released dig-itally.

Our source also told us

that Varun felt terriblypissed about the posterleak because he thought itwas too early for the film’sfirst look to be revealed.But once Varun regainedcomposure he decided totreat his fans with animpromptu Twitter chatand straighten out theposter leak problems. Hedid so because he didn’twant his dampened spiritsto let down his fans whohad eagerly been waitingto get the first look for hisand Shraddha’s film.

Varun also tweetedabout how the poster leaksaying that whoeverleaked the poster has“tried to break our(Shraddha and his) spirit“.

All said and done, nowthat we have seen theposter of ABCD 2, wecannot wait to see Varunand Shraddha put theirdancing shoes on and daz-zle us with their moves!The film looks reallypromising especiallyShraddha and Varun’schemistry which looksrefreshing and we lovehow the poster hasimpressively capturedthat! Are you ready towatch the dance marvelthat is ABCD 2?

Varun Dhawan & Shraddha Kapoor’s ABCD 2 poster was recently leakedAglimpse of

Kangana Ranaut‘sdual role in Tanu

Weds Manu Returns havebeen well appreciated.Everyone is talking aboutit and it goes on to provethat Kangana is definitelybecoming yet another heroof the industry rather thanbeing a heroine. But itseems she is also one ofthose who can spot talentin people. She urgedSandeep Singh to startmaking films.

Sandeep has been a jour-nalist before and headedmany entertainment divi-sions at various organisa-tions. He was also a part ofSanjay Leela Bhansali’steam and has worked onmovies like Gangs OfWasseypur, Mary Kom andothers. Now he has turnedinto an independent pro-ducer and has signedKangana for his first film.He reveals that Kanganacan spot talent and hadasked him to make filmslong back. She was readilyavailable to work in hisfirst film without listeningthe longer version of thescript.

Now that’s some trust, I

must say! As for Sandeepwe too have some mind-blowing suggestion. Howabout roping in RanbirKapoor opposite theQueen heroine. After all

both the actors have notonly openly expressedtheir admiration for eachother but have been talkingpublicly about workingtogether in a perfect script.

Kangana Ranaut cannow spot talent too!

Emraan Hashmi’s Mr. X fetches Bhatts25 crore through satellite rights sale