NEW DELHI, MARCH 17Maldives Tuesday

voiced its "hurt" at PrimeMinister Narendra Modinot visiting it during hisrecent trip to the regioneven as it sought to allayIndia's concerns over theimprisonment of formerpresident MohammedNasheed.

Reacting to the responseof international communi-ty, including India, whichexpressed "deep concern"over Nasheed's convictionunder anti-terror law and13-year jail sentence, itsaid, "It is as per law andpurely a domestic issue."

"We do understandIndia's concerns. It is natu-

ral to be concerned ifsomething is happening inyour neighbourhood, espe-cially given Modi's neigh-bourhood first approach,"Fathimath Inaya, DeputyMinister in MaldivianForeign Ministry, said.

She also reiterated herPresident Yameen AbdulGayoom's remarks thatMaldives wanted toengage constructively withits international partners,based on mutual respectand dialogue, in consoli-dating and strengtheningdemocratic values andinstitutions in the country,implying that it will notlike any interference in the

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HAQSAADDAFIGHT FOR RIGHTWednesday, March 18, 2015

Arvind Kejriwal to attend PACmeeting today

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Sonakshi Sinha starts filmingfor AR Murugadoss P8

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 17Leaders in Haryana treaded

cautiously after the SupremeCourt quashed the reservationfor Jats on Tuesday.

Leaders of various partiessaid they would first examinethe apex court judgment

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Haryana leadersstumped by SCruling on Jat quota

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 17In the first budget by a

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)government in Haryana,Finance Minister Abhimanyuon Tuesday proposed no newtaxes.

"There is no move toimpose any new taxes or toincrease the existing taxes,"

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No new taxes inHaryana budget

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17It was a sunny Tuesday

morning here with the mini-mum temperature recorded at14.4 degrees Celsius, which isslightly below the season'saverage. "The day ahead islikely to be partly cloudy. Themaximum temperature of the

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Sunny Tuesdaymorning in Delhi

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17Government proposes to

amend the Juvenile Justice Actto address the complex issue ofcrimes committed by juvenilesand pave the way for makingadoption easier, UnionMinister Maneka Gandhi saidon Tuesday.

The proposed amendment would also bring in the CONTD. ON PAGE 3

Juvenile Act to be amended toaddress crime, adoption: Maneka

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17The Union cabinet today

cleared bill on black money,which proposes harsher pun-ishment for tax offenders andto provide muscle to taxauthorities dealing with illegalwealth stashed abroad.

In a meeting held in the lateevening today the governmentproposed penalty of 30% on the total money accumu

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Cabinet clears black money bill, introducesharsher punishment for tax offenders

MUMBAI, MARCH 17Former IPS officer Julio

Ribeiro today created a flutterwhen he said that as a Christian,he felt like a stranger in his owncountry, and that he was not sureif the ruling party can check“elements” indulging in cam-paigns like “ghar wapsi”.

“To say that I belong to oneparticular religion and therefore, I am an Indian is

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Not sure if BJP can check elementsbehind Ghar Wapsi: Ribeiro

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17Calling and chat app Viber

on Tuesday said PrimeMinister Narendra Modi'spublic chat has attracted thebiggest following on its plat-form. Modi, who joined ViberPublic Chat on January 26,2015, has seen his following

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PM Modi has over 8.5lakh followers on Viber

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17In a good news for state

cadre officers, age limit forinduction in all-India serviceslike the IAS and IPS has beenincreased from 54 to 56. TheDepartment of Personnel andTraining (DoPT) has notified

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Increase in inductionage in IAS, IPS, IFS forstate cadre officers

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Weather ReportDELHITemperature: 260CPrecipitation:10%Humidity: 60%Wind: 21Km/hr

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BENGALURU, MARCH 17Refusing to yield to

mounting pressure for aCBI probe into the mys-terious death of anupright IAS officer,Karnataka Governmenttoday announced a CIDprobe into his death thathas evoked statewideoutrage and protests.

As the 35-year-old IASofficer DK Ravi's deathrocked the Assemblywith public pressure alsobuilding up for a CBIprobe, Chief MinisterSiddaramaiah said theCrime InvestigationDepartment would probethe case to unravel the"truth"--whether it was a

suicide or murder or dueto "some other" reasons.

"Is it a suicide or amurder or has he died ofsome other reasons, wealso want to know thetruth. People should alsoknow it," Siddaramaiahtold the assembly, assert-

ing that the city policewere also efficient, as theOpposition insisted on aCBI probe and stormedinto the well of theHouse.

The opposition protestled to adjournment in the

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Karnataka IAS officer DK Ravi'sdeath: Govt orders CID probe

'Hurt' that Narendra Modicould not visit: Maldives

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17Only one Kashmiri

Pandit family hasreturned to the Valleyavailing a centrally-sponsored schemeannounced by the gov-ernment for return andrehabilitation ofKashmiri migrants, theLok Sabha wasinformed on Tuesday.

Minister of State forHome HaribhaiParathibhai Chaudharysaid that a comprehen-

sive package amountingto Rs 1,618.40 crore wasannounced by the gov-ernment in 2008 forreturn and rehabilitationof Kashmiri migrantswhich provides formany comprehensivefacilities that includesfunds for purchase orconstruction of house.

"The package is beingimplemented by theJammu and Kashmirgovernment and so farone family has returned

to the Valley availing thebenefit of Rs 7.5 lakh forconstruction of house,"he said in reply to a writ-ten question.

The Minister said stategovernment jobs havebeen provided to 1,446migrant youths and 469transit accommodationshave been constructed inthe Kashmir Valley andallotted to the newlyappointed migrantemployees under the

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NEW DELHI, MARCH 17The armed forces are fac-

ing an overall shortage ofover 11,000 officers withthe Army facing the maxi-mum shortfall, the RajyaSabha was informed onTuesday.

In a written reply,Defence Minister ManoharParikkar said Army is fac-ing shortage of 9,642 as onJanuary 1. He said theincrease in shortage is dueto increase in authorisedstrength.

Similarly, Navy is facing

shortage of 1,322 officersand the Air Force 152 as onJanuary 1. The total comesto 11,116. He clarified thatthe figures do not includeshortage in medical anddental branches.

He said the governmenthas taken various steps tomake jobs in Armed Forcesattractive. These includeimplementation of the rec-ommendations of the 6thPay Commission withimproved pay structure,additional accommodation

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Only one Kashmiri Pandit familyreturns to Valley under govt package

Armed Forces facingshortage of 11,116 officers

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NEW DELHI, MARCH 17In a blow to the erstwhile

UPA government, theSupreme Court on Tuesdayset aside the notification toinclude Jats in the Centrallist of Other BackwardClasses (OBC) for accord-ing benefits of reservationto them.

The judgement, reservedon December 17, 2014,was pronounced by abench of Justice RanjanGogoi and JusticeRohinton Fali Nariman.

"We set aside the notifi-

cation to implement Jats inthe Central list of OtherBackward Classes (OBC),"

the bench said.The bench also found

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SC quashes extension of OBC reservationto Jats, says community not backward

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17A united opposition on Tuesday

sounded its battle cry over the landacquisition bill as leaders of 14 politicalparties, led by Congress president SoniaGandhi, marched to Rashtrapati Bhavanto urge President Pranab Mukherjee notto let the government go ahead with the"anti-farmer bill".

"Yeh aar paar ki ladai hai (this is afight to the finish)," declared JanataDal-United chief Sharad Yadav.

"This is the beginning of a major bat-tle that will be waged in every nook andcorner of the country," he said atRashtrapati Bhavan where the MPsassembled.

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Land Acquisition Bill: United Opposition urge Presidentnot to let govt go ahead with 'anti-farmer bill'

UN, MARCH 17India has lashed out

against the "systematicstate supporta" from out-side to terrorist organisa-tions bent on destabilis-ing Afghanistan and hascalled on the UNSecurity Council to actimmediately against thethreat from these forces.

Speaking at a SecurityCouncil debate Mondayon aid to Afghanistan,India's PermanentRepresentative AsokeKumar Mukerji said, "It

is terrorism and not tribaldifferences or ethnicrivalries, which is themain source of insecurity

and instability inAfghanistan."

"Secretary-General CONTD. ON PAGE 3

India demands UN action againstterror threats to Afghanistan

JAMMU, MARCH 17As the 12th Assembly came in

form on Tuesday, BJP MLARavinder Raina triggered a contro-versy when he took the name ofMata Vaishno Devi while takingoath as MLA in the name of God,drawing objections from the oppo-sition.

Raina, who is an MLA fromNoushera Assembly segment andhead of state BJP youth wing,came upto the Speaker's chair andtook oath in the name of MataVaishnodevi and said "I do swearin the name of Mata Vaishnodevi".

CPI(M) MLA M Y Tarigamiobjected to him first and said thereis a prescribed format for takingoath.

"It was not provided to swear inthe name of Vaishnodevi,"Tarigami said.

Others from opposition, includ-ing National Conference andCongress, supported Tarigami overobjection.

However, Protem SpeakerMohmmad Shafi intervened askingRaina to take oath in the name ofGod.

Raina tried to convince opposi-tion members and said "I am aworshipper of Ma Vaishnodevi and

consider her as my Ishwar".He told the House that some peo-

ple take oath in the names of Jesusand Allah, why can't he take theoath in the name of MataVaishnodevi.

"If I am doing that it will be truerespect to my Ishwar," he added.

His statement drew clappingsfrom the people sitting in the visi-tors gallery on the stand of Raina,raising objection from oppositionNC benches.

They said that it is not the meet-ing of a political party and themember needs to advise his sup-porters to take the proceedings ofthe house seriously.

Later, after the intervention ofthe Deputy Chief Minister NirmalSingh, Raina took oath in Hindi inthe name of Ishwar.

Raina before joining BJP hasbeen an RSS worker after resign-ing as Commissioned Officer fromIndian Navy.

On coming out of the Assemblycomplex, Raina unfurled a tri-colour and started chanting withhis supporters 'Bharat Mata KiJai...Jai Mata Jai-- Bharat Mata KiJai'. All BJP legislators, exceptDeputy Chief Minister Nirmal

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J&K Assembly: BJP MLA trig-gers controversy at swearing-in

Modi's religiousbeliefs helpedshape his politi-cal viewsNEW DELHI, MARCH 17

Prime Minister NarendraModi`s religious beliefshelped shape his politicalviews and he has no desireto jettison Hindu national-ist ideology, says a newbook and notes that Modirisks alienating a sectionof his supporters if heallows the more extremeelements of Hindutva toinfluence governance.

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Opposition determinedto defeat land bill:Sonia Gandhi NEW DELHI, MARCH 17

The opposition is determined todefeat the government`s controversialLand Acquisition Bill, Congress presi-dent Sonia Gandhi declared on Tuesday

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AIADMK supportedLand Bill for `returnfavour`, says CPI(M)CHENNAI, MARCH 17

The CPI(M) on Tuesday alleged thatAIADMK had supported NDA's 'anti-farmer' Land Acquisition Act in theLok Sabha "expecting a return favour."

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AGRA, MARCH 17A teenager has been arrested

for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl who had ven-tured to graze goats, policesaid on Tuesday.

The 14-year-old boy wasarrested late Monday in SadarBazar area, police officer JNAsthana said. Police said the

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'PM Modi pulls up MPsabsent from voting onLand Acquisition Bill inLok Sabha'NEW DELHI, MARCH 17

Prime Minister Narendra Modi onTuesday pulled up party MPs, duringparliamentary board meeting on

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Teenager rapes eight-year-old in Agra

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17Delhi Chief Minister Arvind

Kejriwal along with three otherswill take oath as member of theNew Delhi Municipal Council onMarch 20. "We have received theofficial notification from theMinistry of Home Affairs aboutthe Delhi CM and CantonmentMLA Surinder Singh being nom-inated to the Council. I have alsosent them letters conveying thesame. They will now take oath onMarch 20," NDMC ChairmanJalaj Srivastava said.

According to NDMC Act,MLAs from New Delhi andDelhi Cantonment constituenciesautomatically become membersof the New Delhi MunicipalCouncil. Once the Union Home

Ministry notifies the NDMC ofthe appointment, the membersare officially sworn in.

"The two members had takenoath as NDMC members onJanuary 31 last year. However,with fresh elections, they willhave to be re-inducted into theCouncil," he said. Two otherswho will be taking oath as thecouncil members are PunyaSalila Srivastava, Secretary ofDirectorate of Education andRakesh Singh, Joint Secretary(UT).= "Singh was nominated tothe council in November last yearbut he has not taken oath yet,"Srivastava said.

The Council is also scheduledto present its Budget for the nextfinancial year on March 25.

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17True to his aam aadmi creden-

tials, Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal has asked Public WorksDepartment to remove all airconditioners from the 6 FlagstaffRoad residence in north Delhi'sCivil Lines area where he will beshifting soon.

The demand, however, has leftsenior PWD officials in a tightspot as removing ACs from thefour-bedroom house will leavelarge openings in the walls whichwould then have to be filledeither by making windows orthrough some other makeshiftarrangement.

Kejriwal's new house has twolawns, a drawing and dining areaand two servant quarters. It is theofficial residence of the Delhi

assembly Speaker and was earli-er occupied by former SpeakerPrem Singh of Congress.

"He has asked us to remove allthe air conditioners from thehouse which is a difficult task forus as it would mean almostredesigning the house. We willhave to make windows or somealternate arrangements to hidethe empty spaces created in thewalls.

"We have now requested himto reconsider this demand, but ifhe remains adamant, we willhave to do the needful," said asenior government official.

Apart from that, the ChiefMinister had asked us not tospend much time and money onthe renovation of the house, noteven a new coat of whitewash,

saying he doesn't want morechanges.

"We, however, have got thehouse repainted and cleaned as itwas lying unused for more than ayear," the official said.

Renovation work has almostreached the final stage and innext one or two days, the housewill be completely ready for liv-ing.

"If CM wants to shift in nexttwo or three days, the house isalmost ready," the official said.

Sources said that Kejriwal doesnot even switch on the ACsinstalled in his office at DelhiSecretariat.

Kejriwal, an MLA from theNew Delhi constituency, hadstayed in Tilak Lane when hefirst became Chief Minister.

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Arvind Kejriwal wants ACs removedfrom new house, officials in fix

Taj Mansingh to gounder hammer soonNEW DELHI, MARCH 17

The iconic Taj Mansingh Hotel in the heartof the national capital will go under the ham-mer soon with the New Delhi MunicipalCouncil (NDMC) initiating proceedings aftergetting a go-ahead from the Union HomeMinistry for its auctioning.

The property, owned by the NDMC, wasgiven to Tata-backed Indian Hotels CompanyLimited (IHCL) on lease for 33 years.

The lease had ended in 2011 and IHCL wasgiven six temporary extensions to operate thehotel since then on various grounds.

The last extension was given on January 31as the NDMC could not hold an auctionbecause of the Model Code of Conduct forthe Delhi Assembly elections. The extendedlease agreement will expire on March 31.

“The MHA has recently given us a clearverdict that Taj (Mansigh Hotel) ought to beauctioned so we will be taking up the issueformally before the Council on March 20,”NDMC Chairman Jalaj Srivastava said.

The NDMC works under the administrativecontrol of the Union Home Ministry.

While the NDMC was in favour of givingthe first right of refusal to IHCL in case anauction took place, the Home Ministry hadargued that it might attract lowerbids.

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17The Bus Rapid Transport

(BRT) corridor in South-EastDelhi, which has been consid-ered an impediment bymotorists and a political hotpotato, is likely to be scrappedsoon.

A senior government offi-cial said the Delhi IntegratedMulti Modal Transit SystemLimited (DIMTS), whichoversees the stretch, had beenasked to carry out a feasibilitystudy and find out if it wasable to achieve the objectivefor which it was constructed.The report is expectedsoon.

The decision was taken at ameeting on Saturday, a dayafter a Class V student diedwhile passing throughAmbedkar Nagar.

Aman Kumar was crushedby a low-floor DelhiTransport Corporation busrunning on route No. 544. Hisdeath had led to a fracas, withangry protesters torching overtwo dozen DTC buses parked

at the Khanpur bus depot.“Saurabh Bharadwaj, the

legislator from GreaterKailash constituency who wasthe Transport Minister duringthe 49-day Aam Aadmi PartyGovernment in 2013, broughtthe issue to the fore. Hedemanded that something bedone about the stretch givenits track record of fatal acci-dents,” said an official.

Mr. Bhardwaj had thenmoved a Cabinet note fol-lowed by Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal’s in-principleapproval for the scrapping ofthe BRT corridor.

The nearly six-kilometrestretch is an issue for residentsacross the Assembly con-stituencies of Greater Kailash,Devli and Ambedkar Nagar.Its scrapping had also figuredamong the key promises madeby the AAP in its 70-pointaction plan for the Capital ifvoted to power.

According to a source, theDelhi Traffic Police too had,in October last year, suggested

to Lieutenant-GovernorNajeeb Jung that the BRT cor-ridor be scrapped.

In 2004, 34 BRT corridorshad been suggested for con-struction in Delhi. DIMTShad even carried out the feasi-bility study for six of thecorridors and detailed projectreports (DPRs) were preparedon two out of these six:Bhajanpura-Mori Gate andKarawal Nagar-Akshardham.However, a subsequent TrafficDemand Forecast Study in2010 made several observa-tions on the nature of roadusage in Delhi.

Based on the finding of thatstudy, DIMTS was asked toprepare DPRs for sevenpotential BRT corridors out ofa total of 14. The corridors areGandhi Nagar to Chila(10km), ISBT Kashmere Gateto Dilshad Garden (8 km),Gokulpuri to Karkari More (8km), Mukundpur to Kondli(26 km), Badarpur toAirport(25 km) and DhaulaKaun to Chhawla (20.3 km).

BRT likely to be scrapped soon

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17A day after returning here from Bengaluru,

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attendAam Aadmi Party's elite political affairs com-mittee (PAC) meeting to be held at his resi-dence.

This will be the first PAC meet after seniorAAP leaders Prashant Bhushan and YogendraYadav were dropped from the committee.

The meet commence at 8 pm.Talking to a news agency, AAP leader

Sanjay Singh said that Kejriwal, whoreturned yesterday after 12 days of naturopa-thy treatment in Bengaluru, will today sitdown and discuss everything with PAC mem-bers.

Kejriwal, who resumed work today, hasreportedly expressed unhappiness over state-ments in the media on party rifts. Notably,AAP has been torn into two factions, one ofKejriwal's loyalists and the other led byBhushan and Yadav.

Senior AAP leaders Sanjay Singh, KumarVishwas, Ashutosh and Ashish Khetan havebeen deputed by Kejriwal to hold talks withYadav and Bhushan.

In the meanwhile, roadblocks continue to

hinder reconciliation between the warringfactions of AAP.

Albeit Yadav held talks with senior AAPleaders at his residence late last night,Bhushan refused to give time to Khetan, who

had sought to meet him along with other partyleaders. Later, reports said that Kejriwal hassaid that he would meet Yadav and Bhushan“soon".

Senior AAP leaders Sanjay Singh, Kumar

Vishwas, Ashutosh and Ashish Khetan heldtalks with Yadav until 3 am and termed thetalks as "positive".

After last night's meeting, Sanjay Singhtold reporters that the talks, which went on fortwo-and-a-half hours, revolved around therecent happenings in the party. Describing themeeting with Yadav as positive, Singh saidthat more rounds of talks will take place.

Later, Yadav told reporters: “A dialoguewas initiated today. It was good. Talks havejust started.”

“It is not a matter of ego. They are friends.Discussions were held earlier too and willcontinue to take place in the future as well.”When the consensus is reached, it will berevealed, he added.

The discussions took place at a time whenYadav and Prashant Bhushan had sought timefrom Kejriwal for a meeting to put an end tothe ongoing controversy. A message was sentto Kejriwal last morning on behalf of both theleaders.

Though there was no response fromKejriwal to the SMS till late last night, theAAP leaders then met Yadav.

"We were bothered with what was happen-

ing in the party for the past few days. Westarted talks with Yogendra (Yadav) bhai. Thestart was good," Sanjay Singh tweeted.

Sources close to Yadav too echoed similarsentiments.

"There is peace after a three-hour sleep.There is peace now. We will be successful,"party leader Kumar Vishwas tweeted thismorning.

Over the past few weeks, AAP had beenembroiled in internal turmoil with leadersfrom both the camps making accusations andlevelling allegations against each other.

The Kejriwal camp had alleged thatBhushan and Yadav wanted the party to losethe Delhi Assembly Elections and wereattempting to remove the Delhi ChiefMinister from the post of AAP NationalConvener. In the course of the vicious in-fighting, Bhushan and Yadav were droppedfrom PAC, allegedly at the behest of theKerjiwal faction within the party.

Later, a letter war and sting operationsinvolving Kejriwal embarrassed the party.

Kejriwal flew back to Delhi last night after12 days of naturopathy treatment inBengaluru for chronic cough and diabetes.

Arvind Kejriwal to attend PAC meeting today;Prashant Bhushan refuses to meet AAP leaders

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17Congress leader

Manish Tewari onTuesday criticised theHaryana government'sdecision to ban beef, say-ing that the state does nothave the right to pro-scribe the culinary pref-erences of an individual.

"India is a diversecountry and in a diversecountry people have dif-ferent culinary habits.Beef is also a poor man'sprotein. So, this is noth-ing else but a politicalagenda," Tewari said.

He said that first theM a h a r a s h t r aGovernment had done

the same step and nowthe Haryana Governmenthas followed suit. "So,therefore, the entire

agenda of the RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh(RSS) is sought to beimposed on this country.

Nobody advocates thatyou should eat beef ornot eat beef, or youshould eat meat orshould not eat meat, oryou should become avegetarian, but ultimate-ly it is an individual'schoice. The state doesnot have the right to pro-scribe the culinary pref-erences of an individ-ual," he added.

The HaryanaAssembly has passed aBill that has banned cowslaughter across thestate.

According to reports,those people found vio-lating the law, will face

rigorous imprisonmentranging from three to 10years.

The new law also pro-vides for a fine rangingfrom Rs 30,000 to Rs 1lakh. In case of default inpayment of the fine, theconvict will have toundergo an addition oneyear jail term.

The HaryanaGauvansh Sanrakshanand GausamvardhanBill, 2015, for protectionand upkeep of cows, wasreportedly discussed forabout an hour, and thenpassed by voice vote onMonday night.

The bill was moved by

state Animal Husbandryand Dairy DevelopmentMinister OP Dhankar,and had the support frommain opposition INLDand Congress.

Dhankar informed theHouse on Monday thatno permit for export ofcows shall be issued fora state where cowslaughter is not bannedby law. However, he added thatthe state governmentshall have power to issuespecial permits forexport of cow in casewhere it is of the opinionthat it shall be in the pub-lic interest to do so.

Haryana beef ban: State cannot proscribe culinarypreferences of individual, says Congress

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17After undergoing naturopathy treatment in Bengaluru

for 10 long days, a "fit and fresh" Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal resumed work on Tuesday.

Kejriwal held a range of meetings with his six cabi-net ministers, apart from having a long discussion withDeputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, a long-timeconfidant. "He met all the minsters. He was apprised ofall the decisions taken during his absence," a govern-ment official said. Kejriwal, who holds no portfolio,returned here on Monday night, cured of his chroniccough and high blood sugar.

"He also took stock of the achievements of his gov-ernment in its first month in office," the official added.

Kejriwal became chief minister on February 14 afterthe Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) swept the Delhi assemblyelection, bagging an incredible 67 of the 70 seats.

The chief minister reached office on Tuesday around10.30 a.m.

After spending some time at the Secretariat, Kejriwaland Sisodia along with party leader Yogendra Yadavappeared at the Karkadooma court in connection with adefamation case.

After treatment, Kejriwalresumes work Tuesday

Kejriwal to take oath asNDMC member on March 20

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17Deploring the ambient air quality in

Delhi and its surrounding areas, theNational Green Tribunal sought the DelhiGovernment’s views on taking off theroads diesel vehicles that are over 10years old. The Tribunal also sought “theexact number of diesel vehicles on Delhiroads and their impact on ambient airquality”. It noted that levels of nitrogendioxide, particulate matter, carbonmonoxide and benzene, a by-product ofdiesel burning, exceeded prescribed stan-dards. “Presence of pollutants in theambient air quality of Delhi is a matter ofconcern for all stakeholders. Humanhealth is a right to life and this must takeprecedence over all other commercial andinfrastructure projects. The existing stateof affairs, as the scientific data undoubt-edly indicated the problem, is very severeand its results would be ghastly.”

On November 26, 2014, the NGT hadordered that all vehicles — diesel orpetrol, public or private — that are over15 years old shall not be permitted to plyon the roads. “The NCT of Delhi to sub-mit its views as to why all diesel vehicles,whether commercial or personal, plying

in Delhi for over 10 years be not taken offDelhi roads,” NGT chairperson JusticeSwatanter Kumar ordered on Monday.

Following a Tribunal order, the CentralPollution Control Board and the DelhiPollution Control Committee had earlierthis month randomly inspected 15 old and15 new low-floor DTC buses. It was dis-covered that six buses did not adhere tothe prescribed pollution control checks.Leaving no scope for a lackadaisical atti-tude, the Tribunal ordered that “all sixbuses be taken forthwith off the Delhiroads”. Meanwhile, an NGO had movedcourt praying that hawkers and vendorsnot be removed from the streets in LajpatNagar in the name of decongestion ofroads and easing traffic to cut pollution.The Traffic Police had proposed earlierthis month that rickshaw-pullers andstreet vendors be removed from LajpatNagar as they were causing traffic con-gestion. “Everybody comes claiming thisis my right. Nobody is opposed to rick-shaw-pullers and street vendors.Everybody knows it is very hard on theirlife. You see the situation in Lajpat Nagar.An 80 feet road is reduced to mere 10feet,” the Bench remarked.

NGT seeks reply on proposalto ban old diesel vehicles

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17Delhi High Court on Tuesday

agreed to hear tomorrow a pleaseeking to place before it a copyof the controversial documentaryon the December 16 gang-rapecase. The application to place aCD of the video and other docu-ments was mentioned before abench of justices BD Ahmed andSanjeev Sachdeva which allowedit to be listed tomorrow before theappropriate bench. The applica-tion was filed in the PIL by lawstudent Vibhor Anand who hassought broadcast of the documen-tary. The matter was alreadyscheduled to be heard tomorrowby the bench of Chief Justice GRohini and Justice Rajiv SahaiEndlaw.

On March 12, the court hadobserved that media trials tend toinfluence judges by subcon-sciously creating a pressure.

The observation was made by

the bench headed by Justice BDAhmed before whom the PILs ofAnand and two other law students- Arun Menon and Kritika Padode- were listed as the bench of theChief Justice was not sitting onthat date. The court had also saidthat although it is prima facie notopposed to airing of the docu-mentary, it should be releasedafter the Supreme Court decideson the appeals of the convicts inthe matter. The court was also ofthe view that the documentarycould "interfere with the justicesystem" but had refused to passany interim orders saying it has tobe decided by the appropriatebench - of Chief Justice.

The PILs were filed after a trialcourt on March 4 had banneduntil further orders the broadcastof the interview of December 16,2012 gangrape convict MukeshSingh, allegedly conducted inJuly 2013 inside Tihar jail here.

HC to hear plea to put Dec 16 gang-rape documentary CD on record

Continuation 3NEW DELHI | WEDNESDAY | MARCH 18, 2015SAADDA HAQ

Land Acquisition...take on the Narendra Modi government

over the bill, which they allege would allowcorporates to gobble up agricultural land.

Sonia Gandhi, with former prime ministerManmohan Singh standing next to her,declared that the opposition was determinedto defeat the land acquisition bill.

Gandhi said "democratic, secular and for-ward-looking forces are determined to defeatthe Modi government`s designs" to promotecorporate interests at the cost of farmers bytaking away their land.

Shouting slogans like "Narendra Modihosh me aao (come to your senses)" and"Modi sarkar hai hai (Modi governmentdown, down)", the around 100 MPs, led byGandhi, and Congress` Ghulam Nabi Azadand Ambika Soni, with Sharad Yadav andleaders of other parties, marched the aroundone km distance from Parliament House toRashtrapati Bhavan.

Around 20 of them went in to submit thememorandum -- signed by 28 leaders -- to thepresident.

The two-page memorandum said "all theprogressive, secular, democratic forward-looking forces are determined to defeat theModi Sarkar`s design to promote divisionand social disharmony.

"We request Rashtrapatiji to intervene toprotect the interests of the kisans (farmers),and impress upon the Modi sarkar, not to goahead with the amendment in the RajyaSabha."

The ruling BJP-led National DemocraticAlliance which is in majority in the LokSabha passed the Right to Fair Compensationand Transparency in Land Acquisition,Rehabilitation and Resettlement(Amendment) bill, 2015, with nine amend-ments.

However, it looks destined for tough timesin the Rajya Sabha where the oppositionholds the upper hand.

The united opposition is demanding thatthe amendments should have been consid-ered by a standing committee before beingtaken up in parliament.

According to the opposition memorandum,the bill does away with the crucial SocialImpact Assessment (SIA) clause which isessential to safeguard the interests of farmersand land owners and to ensure that multi-cropped land would be only acquired as a lastresort.

The memorandum says the amendments doaway with the requirement of consent of landowners for a number of key private projects.

The march saw sworn enemies, theTrinamool Congress and the Left, cometogether to be part of the 14 party combine.The Bahujan Samaj Party of Mayawati wasnot present.

Besides the Congress, the 14 political par-ties included the Samajwadi Party, JD-U,Janata Dal-Secular, the DMK, theCommunists, Trinamool Congress and theNationalist Congress Party among others.

"This is a historic march. All parties are init together and we hope the Modi governmentis watching this march," Trinamool leaderDerek O`Brien told reporters.

The bill was passed in the Lok Sabha earli-er this month amid stiff protest.

However, the government is yet to presentit in the Rajya Sabha, where it lacks majori-ty.

'PM Modi...Tuesday, who were not present for voting

on Land Acquisition Bill in Lok Sabha.According to sources, the names of the

MPs who were not present during votingwere announced and were asked to stand up.

The names of 20 MPs including VarunGandhi, Babul Supriyo, Poonam Mahajanand Pritam Munde were taken.

Several party members were also pulled upfor arriving late for the meeting today even asModi reached 10 minutes before the meetingwas scheduled to begin.

The BJP parliamentary board meeting washeld today as Opposition parties will hold aprotest march against the “anti-farmer” bill.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, formerprime minister Manmohan Singh and leadersof several other parties will march fromParliament House to Rashtrapati Bhavantoday.

Other senior leaders including JDS chiefHD Devegowda, CPI-M's Sitaram Yechury,CPI's D Raja, Trinamool Congress leaderDinesh Trivedi, SP's Ramgopal Yadav,DMK's Kanimozhi, INLD's DushyantChautala and RJD's Prem Chand Gupta arealso expected to be part of the protest march.

The leaders of the opposition parties arealso likely to submit a memorandum againstthe new land bill to President PranabMukherjee.

Even social activist Anna Hazare hasreportedly written to the opposition partiesasking them to oppose the bill when intro-duced in the Rajya Sabha.

He had also held a two-day protest againstthe bill at Jantar Mantar last month andthreatened mass agitation if the bill is passed.

AIADMK supported.."The AIADMK high command had taken

such a stand (supporting the Act) expecting areturn favour," CPI(M) state unit Secretary GRamakrishnan said here.

However, he declined to elaborate whenasked what the 'return favour' meant, sayingit was up to the journalists to make it out.

Ramakrishnan was responding to a queryon AIADMK supporting the controversialBill in the Lok Sabha and its chief JJayalalithaa explaining in detail why herparty had backed it.

Earlier, DMK chief M Karunanidhi hadwondered if AIADMK's supporting the BJP'sLand Act had to do anything with its partychief Jayalalithaa's appeal against her con-viction in the Rs 66.66 crore assets case, inwhich the Karnataka High Court hadreserved the judgement.

Ramakrishnan recalled that though UnionFinance Minister Arun Jaitley's meeting withJayalalithaa in January was billed as a 'cour-tesy call,' the ruling party in Tamil Nadu hadlater supported the Centre on the increase inFDI cap in insurance and had now backed theland act.

He said the AIADMK, had howeveropposed the Land Act brought in by the pre-vious UPA government in 2013.

Flaying the BJP's Land Act as 'anti-farmer'which would affect agriculture and farmers,Ramakrishnan said that joining the nation-wide protests against the same, his party willhold agitation in different parts of the state,including Chennai, Coimbatore, Salem,Tirunelveli and Tanjavur on March 23.

Opposition determined...after leading leaders of 14 political parties

in a protest march to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.In the first major display of opposition

unity after the 2014 Lok Sabha election,Gandhi told the media that they had urgedPresident Pranab Mukherjee not to let thegovernment go ahead with the bill, saying itwould badly hurt the interests of farmers.

Gandhi said that "democratic, secular andforward looking forces are determined todefeat the (Narendra) Modi government`sdesigns" to promote corporate interests at thecost of farmers by taking away their land.

The protest that Gandhi led drew membersof 14 political parties, including her ownCongress, Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal-United, Janata Dal-Secular, the DMK, theCommunists, Trinamool Congress andNationalist Congress Party.

Former prime minister Manmohan Singhalso joined the protest.

JD-U leader Sharad Yadav said Tuesday`sprotest had brought together all the opposi-tion forces that had got scattered since theLok Sabha election catapulted the Modi-ledBharatiya Janata Party to power.

"This is a land of farmers. It is the farmerswho have made this country self-sufficient infood. To snatch their land is a sin," he said.

"This is the beginning of a major battle thatwill be waged in every nook and corner ofthe country," he said.

J&K Assembly...Singh, came to the House wearing Dogra

turbans. Before coming to the Assembly, theygarlanded the statue of late Maharaja HariSingh, the last Dogra ruler of the state, andPrem Nath Dogra as a matter of respect.

Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed was the firstone to take oath. Former Chief MinisterOmar Abdullah also took oath among others.

Modi's religious ...effect: Inside Narendra Modi`s campaign

to transform India" (Hodder&Stoughton; pp352; 25 pounds (hardcover) 14.99 pounds(paperback) by British writer, broadcasterand commentator Lance Price, says thatModi`s success in last year`s Lok Sabha elec-tions can be compared to that of landslidessecured by former British prime ministersMargaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.

The book says that in Britain three leadershave secured landslides since the SecondWorld War: Clement Attlee, MargaretThatcher and Tony Blair.

"Their majorities in parliament were farlarger that Mr. Modi`s in 2014, but whileeach left a permanent legacy behind them,none was able to defy the swing of the polit-ical pendulum forever. Indian politics is farmore fragmented than Britain`s; by winningas convincingly as he (Modi) did, his successat the polls deserved to be compared withtheirs."

India demands...Ban Ki-Moon's report to the Security

Council last month on Afghanistan and inter-national security backs up this view ofIndia," he said.

"These terrorist groups, including theLashkar-e-Taiba or LeT, are active despitethe efforts of the valiant personnel of theAfghan National Security Force (ANSF) andthe international coalition forces," Mukerjisaid. "It is obvious that their activity cannotbe sustained without systematic state supportfrom beyond Afghanistan's borders."

Although he tactfully avoided namingnames, singling out Lashkar-e-Taiba madeclear the source of the "systematic state sup-port." The terror group is based in Lahoreand operated training camps in Pakistan-administerd Kashmir, a fact acknowledgedby the US State Department.

"Reports indicate these groups are mutat-ing into more virulent forms, in a regionalready impacted by terrorism," Mukerjiadded. "The Council must act against thisthreat with a sense of urgency."

Ban's report said that "the rise in the over-all number of security incidents recordedindicates a mounting challenge to the Afghansecurity forces from insurgent groups."

Highlighting the growing violence, it said,

"In 2014 there were 22,051 recorded (insur-gent) incidents, which surpassed those of2013 by 10 per cent. In terms of incidentsrecorded over the past 13 years, 2014 was thesecond-highest, after 2011."

Acknowledging that "as anticipated, vio-lence has escalated", Pakistan's newly-appointed Permanent RepresentativeMaleeha Lodhi asserted that her country's"military operation has targeted all terroristgroups without distinction".

The trend of Afghanistan warming towardsPakistan and China under the new govern-ment of President Ashraf Ghani and Beijing'sbacking for the Islamabad-backed dialoguebetween Kabul and the Taliban was in evi-dence during the Security Council discus-sions.

SC quashes...fault with the Centre's decision to overlook

the findings of the National Commission forBackward Classes (NCBC), stating that Jatsneed not be included in the Central list ofOBC as they don't form socio-economicbackward class.

"Caste, though a prominent factor, cannotbe the sole factor of determining the back-wardness of a class," the bench said, whilereferring to the historic judgement renderedby a larger bench on the implementation ofthe Mandal Commission recommendationson OBC reservations.

"Neither can any longer backwardness be amatter of determination on the basis of math-ematical formulae evolved by taking intoaccount social, economic and educationalindicators", the court said.

The bench also said the "possible wronginclusion of a class in the past cannot be abasis for the further wrong inclusion."

Determination of backwardness, the courtsaid "must also cease to be relative; possiblewrong inclusions cannot be the basis for fur-ther inclusions but the gates would be openedonly to permit entry of the most distressed.Any other inclusion would be a serious abdi-cation of the constitutional duty of the state".

It also noted that the inclusion of political-ly organised class like Jat would adverselyimpact the welfare of the other backwardclasses.

"We can't agree that politically organisedJats are backward class so as to be entitled toOBC reservation."

The bench said though the Union of Indiais empowered under the constitutionalscheme to provide reservation to a particularclass but it cannot be permitted to do so onthe basis of a decade-old-finding about thebackwardness of a caste.

Related VideosSupreme Court scraps OBC reservation for

Jat communityHolding that the notification issued on

March 4, 2014 was not justified, the courtsaid: "The view taken by the NCBC to thecontrary is adequately supported by good andacceptable reasons which furnished a soundand reasonable basis for further consequen-tial action on the part of the union govern-ment."

"In the above situation, we cannot hold thenotification dated 4.3.2014 to be justified,"the court said.

"Accordingly... the aforesaid notification...including the Jats in the Central List of OtherBackward Classes for the States of Bihar,Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh,Madhya Pradesh, NCT of Delhi, Bharatpurand Dholpur Districts of Rajasthan, UttarPradesh and Uttarakhand is set aside andquashed."

The decision came on a PIL filed by theOBC Reservation Raksha Samiti - an organ-isation of members of communities that areincluded in the Central List of BackwardClasses.

Besides the organisation, three other indi-viduals from Delhi - Ram Singh, AshokKumar and Ashok Yadav - belonging to OBCcategory have also challenged the Centre'snotification.

They submitted that members of Jat com-munity have performed much better thanthose of other castes.

They have sought a direction holding thatJat community is not a backward class and isnot entitled to be included in the list of OBC,and annexed findings of the NCBC, which inits February 26, 2014 report had rejected theCentre's request for recommending inclusionof Jat community in the central list of back-ward classes.

Karnataka IAS...pre-lunch session and after the House

reassembled, BJP and JDS MLAs continuedtheir dharna. Speaker Kagodu Thimappa thenadjourned the House for the day, but BJP saidits members would sit through the night tillthe demand for CBI probe was met.

Protests marked by sporadic incidents ofstone pelting erupted in Kolar district, whereRavi, before being moved to Bengaluru, hadserved as Deputy Commissioner, taking onsand mafia and striking a chord with peoplewith a pro-poor image.

Angry protesters in Kolar stoned the houseof local MLA Varthur Prakash and blocked aNational Highway placing burning tyresbefore being chased away by police.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner M NReddi said that forensically, medically andexamination of the situation all point to"prima facie understanding of a suicide."

He said Ravi, found hanging from a ceilingfan in his room at his official flat here yester-day, was a "bold officer" and it was naturalfor people to think he was not a person to

have committed suicide.But, he added, "let us wait for the medical

report...No single angle will be untouched....Every angle will be covered.

"We have not found any suicide note as ofnow and prima facie, we don't see any roomfor foul play," he said.

Reddi said police would examine theCCTV footage from the apartment complexand analyse Ravi's mobile records.

Thousands of people turned up on the roadleading to Ravi's native village Doddekopaluin Tumakuru district, as they bade an emo-tional farewell when his body was taken forlast rites. Ravi hailed from an agriculturist'sfamily.

"Definitely Ravi is not a person who willcommit suicide; if at all he has committed asuicide then there should be a strong reasonbehind it. Let's see what comes out of inves-tigations," an emotionalHanumantharayappa, father-in-law of Ravi,told a T V channel.

'Hurt' that...matter.Asked about Modi choosing not to visit

Maldives during his recent visit to the coun-tries in the region, she said, "We had exten-sive discussions with Indian side for a possi-ble visit by Prime Minister Modi but we weretold that environment was not conducive forhis visit."

"We are hurt that the Prime Minister couldnot visit this time."

Admitting that there was no interventionfrom any country, including India, the deputyminister said, "No country has intervened.Our government has maintained that it is adomestic judicial process, so we do not fore-see any country coming into intervening inwhat is essentially a domestic issue inMaldives."

Yesterday, Maldivian Foreign MinisterDunya Maumoon, in Colombo, had said, "Ihave consistently said that India respects oursovereignty and our independence. While onthe basis of the friendship, we can discussconcerns and have a dialogue. But I don'tthink India nor any other country would begiving us directions...On a particular matter."

Armed Forces...through married accommodation project

and improvement in promotion prospects.

Only one...package.Under Prime Minister's package 2004, a

total of 5,242 two room tenements have beenconstructed in Jammu at four locations andhave been allotted to migrants.

Further, 200 flats have been constructed atSheikhpora in Budgam district and have beenallotted to the migrants on sharing basis whohave joined the state government serviceunder employment component of PrimeMinister's package 2008.

"Out of these 200 flats, 31 flats have alsobeen allotted to the local migrants who havemigrated from their native places to otherplaces within the Kashmir Valley," he said.

Juvenile Act ...concept of foster care to enable children to

be placed with willing families instead ofchildren homes, and the government wouldbe ready to pay for this, she said in RajyaSabha while replying to a discussion on theworking of the Women and ChildDevelopment (WCD).

"The amendment to the Juvenile JusticeAct will address complex issues of heinouscrimes committed by juveniles as well aspave the way for making adoption of childreneasier in the country," the Minister said.

Gandhi also said an amendment to theNational Commission for Women (NCW)Act would be another instrument to strength-en the institutional infrastructure for provid-ing safety and empowerment to the women inIndia.

She also sought to allay the concerns ofseveral members from various parties whohad expressed unhappiness over the reduc-tion in the budget of her ministry.

"The situation is not so bad", Gandhi saidas she told the MPs that with increased allo-cations to states, she hoped that a lot of itwould be directed towards women and chil-dren issues. She said her ministry was intouch with the Finance Ministry in thisregard.

Several opposition members had, duringthe discussion, questioned Gandhi as to howshe would meet the objectives of her ministrywith reduced allocations.

Terming the declining Child Sex Ratio(CSR) as "alarming", Gandhi said the mind-set of the society needed to be changed onmany issues relating to women and childrenand "nothing less than a people's movementis required" to address them.

The CSR has declined from 945 in 1991 to927 in 2001 and 918 in 2011, she said, addingthat 100 critical low CSR districts have beenidentified for focussed action.

The government's 'Beti Bachao, BetiPadhao' initiative was launched after realis-ing the need for urgent action, she said.

Not sure...funny,” Ribeiro, who made a deep impres-

sion as Punjab police chief, said. Asked if he expected Prime Minister

Narendra Modi to act against such elements,Ribeiro said “people are not listening to

him”, in an apparent reference to the SanghParivar.

To a query whether he thought the BJPcould check such elements, Ribeiro said, “Idon’t know if they can rein in such ele-ments”.

“Can they (BJP) do it? I am not sure. Whatwe need now is inclusive development of allpeople in the country and not just some sec-tions,” Ribeiro, who also served as an envoyto Romania said.

Cabinet clears...lated though illegal means. This will be in

addition to the 30% tax levied on the amount.Showing its strict stand on such offenders

the government has even proposed imprison-ment of ten years for the financial crime. Thebill is expected to be tabled in the current ses-sion of parliament.

In his budget speech this year, FinanceMinister Arun Jaitley had said the govern-ment will come out with a new law to effec-tively deal with the black money stashedabroad.

He said a "comprehensive new law to trackblack money" would be framed. The law willcontain provisions for 10 years' rigorousimprisonment. It is worth a mention thatPrime Minister Narendra Modi, time andagain, had promised to get back every pennyof the black money stashed abroad.

Haryana leaders ...before making any observation."Our government (in Haryana) will exam-

ine the Supreme Court decision. Only thenwe will be able to say something," saidFinance Minister Captain Abhimanyu, whopresented his maiden budget in the assemblyon Tuesday.

He said the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) believed in allowing reservation forthose who were socially and economicallylagging.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday quashedthe March 4, 2014 notification by the thenUPA government extending OBC reservationto Jats in nine states.

An apex court bench of Justice RanjanGogoi and Justice Rohinton Fali Narimansaid: "We can't agree that politically organ-ised Jats are backward class so as to be enti-tled to OBC reservation."

Haryana BJP president Subhash Baralasaid he would comment only after studyingthe Supreme Court order.

No new ...the minister told the state assembly.He said the state government will bring in

efficiency in collection of existing taxes andplug loopholes.

Abhimanyu announced reduction in VAT(value added tax) on some items.

Sunny Tuesday...day is likely to hover around 27 degrees

Celsius," said an official of the IndiaMeteorological Department.

Humidity at 8.30 am was 90 percent.Monday's maximum temperature was 26.6

degrees Celsius, three notches below the sea-son's average, while the minimum was 14.2degrees Celsius, a notch below the season'saverage.

PM Modi...swell to more than 8.5 lakh followers on

Viber, it said in a release.Launched last year, the chat allows users to

discover, share and follow live discussionsfrom a wide variety of known personalities,celebrities and brands across genres likemusic, sports, politics, fashion and entertain-ment, it added.

Viber is a mobile app with 37 millionIndian users offering free messaging andHD-quality calls and more than 50 publicchat platforms.

Viber has launched its Public Chats withpersonalities like Sachin Tendulkar, PriyankaChopra, Anushka Sharma, Parineeti Chopra,Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor among others.

Modi has a huge following on social mediaplatforms like Facebook and Twitter and isamong the top three politicans globally, interms of fan following on social media.

Increase in...new rules for three all-India services --

Indian Administrative Service (IAS), IndianPolice Service (IPS) and Indian ForestService (IFS) -- in this regard.

As per rules, a Union Public ServiceCommission (UPSC) committee is responsi-ble for making selection to IAS, IPS and IFSfrom state services.

"The Committee shall not consider thecases of the members of the state civil serv-ice, who have attained the age of fifty-sixyears on the first day of January of the yearfor which the select list is prepared," as perthe notified rules for the three services.

The increase in age limit is likely to helpCentre filling the vacancies in the three all-India services, DoPT officials said.

There are 4,619 IAS, 3,798 IPS and 2,668IFS officers working against the sanctionedstrength of 6,270, 4,728 and 3,131, as per thelatest government data.

Teenager rapes...boy later tried to strangle the girl but she

escaped. Her family contacted the police.

Editorial4 NEW DELHI | WEDNESDAY | MARCH 18, 2015SAADDA HAQ

BY PETER RONALD DESOUZA

The picture of hundreds of peo-ple lining the road showeringmarigold petals on an ambu-

lance as it sped past on an empty roadin Vijayawada, during daytime,brought tears to my eyes. I was puz-zled by this strange emotion, unpre-pared for the tears welling up withinme however fleeting they may havebeen. To see hundreds of peopleshowering marigold flowers on anambulance, led by a pilot car whosesiren announced the urgency of itspurpose, was difficult to explain.Something very special was takingplace, something the people seemedto collectively understand andendorse. With their marigold flowers,they had come to salute and confer asacred status on the passing ambu-lance. In it was the heart of a youngman who had just been declaredbrain dead and whose family, after abrief period of counselling, in asupreme act of humanity, gifted it toanother human being. For someoneto perform such an act of humanity,at a time when they are strugglingwith the pain of loss, is an act of tran-scendence that only the gods canunderstand. And perhaps even theycannot.

Of collective will

V. Raju’s photograph, alongside anarticle by P. Samuel Jonathan titled“Brain dead man gives life to 8 peo-ple”, clearly moved me. It seemed totouch something deep within and Ifelt the need to comprehend not justthe tears but the whole episode sinceit contained more than just a person-al emotion. Was it the sense of humil-ity that the story produced in mewhen I reflected on the gesture of asister donating the heart of her lovingbrother to a complete stranger? Wasit some deeper understanding of themeaning of life that she had, or per-haps some spiritual feeling of humanoneness, that produced such a self-less act? Was there no anger at life’sirony that another can live becauseone’s loved one has died? Or envy oreven self-pity? Where did these emo-tions go? Did the sister see, in thegift, her brother living on? While thatseems a credible explanation, thegesture in fact says much more.

Saving the life of another alsoappeared to count. I wondered if Iwas humbled by the spectacle of the“collective will” in action as peoplestepped out of the path of the ambu-lance, and waited on the side of theroad so that it would not be delayedeven for a second. The marigoldpetals being showered on a heart thatwas not beating, but that containedthe gift of life, had something meta-physical about it. I needed to pursue

these thoughts a little more.

I did a Google search with thewords “green corridor for heart trans-plant” and was amazed at the storiesthat appeared on my screen. Chennai.Bengaluru. Vijayawada. Hyderabad.Hearts donated by grieving relatives,harvested in one place and taken toanother to bring relief to an anxiousfamily. A heart carried from one hos-pital to another, in Chennai duringpeak time, in 21 minutes on a routethat normally took more than anhour, ending in a successful trans-plant. A heart being airlifted fromBengaluru to Chennai in record timeto save the life of a woman whoseown heart was fading. From theInternet, one read of many cases,within a city, and in some instancesacross two States, as families, coun-sellors, hospitals, doctors, ambulancestaff, airport authorities, aircraftcrew, city authorities, police and thecommuting public, cooperated tomake the heart transplant a success.The green corridor worked. And justas I was preparing to formulate a the-

sis about the superior civic virtues ofthe emerging new public in the Southof India, of the South’s expressivehumanism — since the numbers werecoming mainly from Bengaluru,Chennai, and Hyderabad — I read inearly March of a similar green corri-dor which was successful in trans-porting a heart from Gurgaon toDelhi. It was clear that the time hadcome to look at the many elements ofthis new humanism.

“For someone to perform such anact of humanity, at a time when theyare struggling with the pain of loss, isan act of transcendence.”

The first is the counsellors at thehospital who assist the grieving rela-tives to bear their loss and also tothink about allowing the cadaver tobe harvested for its organs so thatanother can live. This requires notjust courage, but also deep empathy,to approach a family in the middle ofits sorrow and to ask its members toconsider the donation of the heart ofthe loved one, who has just beendeclared brain dead, to another. Forthe family to give up the hope thatthe loved one will live again, toaccept death, and then to think abouta gift of the heart to another is an actof spirituality that every priest, ofevery religion, must talk endlesslyabout. The counsellor’s job is per-haps the hardest in the world. Yet,some people opt for it because of acommitment to humanity. The fami-lies of the deceased, in their act of

giving, display a quality of sprit thatcan both humble and elevate us.Many vipassana camps may not beenough to comprehend the enormityof the gesture.

The system’s response

The second aspect is the hospitalauthorities and the relevant govern-ment body tasked to ensure that theorgan donation and transplant are

legal. The emergence of a systemwhich ensures that the donation iswithout coercion or inducement,which coordinates with the varioushospitals involved in the transplant,which maintains a database of needypatients so that various persons canbenefit from the donation of multipleorgans, which communicates the pos-sibility of such a donation to thereceiving hospitals, which does thisin a short time frame, since time is ofthe essence, in other words a systemthat removes all the constraints forthe transplant to be successful, is asystem that we must salute.

The third element is the police andthe city authorities. It is easy, as isoften the case with governmentauthorities, to negatively respond to arequest by enumerating the manyobstacles that lie in its way. Thesemay relate to rules, or to deliverylogistics, or to social behaviour. Bornfrom years of habit, the immediateresponse of a government official, toan unusual request, is to deny thegranting of it. Such negativity is eas-

ier to live with since it is a no riskstrategy. So, suddenly to witness adifferent response from the policeand the municipal authorities whoprepared and imposed a “green corri-dor” on the travelling public —where all the traffic lights on theroute to be taken by the ambulancecarrying the donated heart are keptgreen and all other lights of roadsleading to the corridor are turned red— is again a response by the govern-ment that can only be applauded.

The fourth aspect is the effort ofthe ambulance and aircraft crew.Reading the reports, one got an ideaof their sense of purpose. As onedriver stated, after a particularlytense drive, carrying a heart from onehospital to another in the same city,was for him the drive of his life.Also, of another life. For him, theanxiety of not succeeding, of lettingdown the patient waiting for theheart, of dealing with the uncertaintyof driving at speeds in excess of ahundred, on an Indian road, where adog or a cow or a child may sudden-ly cross the road, despite the bestefforts of the police, was an anxietythat had to be endured. Many peopleacross some Indian cities have risento the challenge and delivered ahealthy heart from one hospital toanother.

The fifth aspect relates to the doc-tors and nurses at both ends, thosewho remove the heart from thecadaver and those who prepare thereceiving patient for the transplant.They have to believe that it will bedelivered, that the system will workand that they must play their part inthe long chain of success. The receiv-ing team has to check all parametersand keep the patient operated andready. For all of them this is not busi-ness as usual but a commitment tothe Hippocratic oath of saving a life.The numbers of such doctors aregrowing.

Expression of fraternity

The final element is the publicwaiting for the ambulance to pass.Patiently. Respectfully. Such publicshave emerged across many cities inIndia. Spontaneous publics moved by

a higher purpose than just self-inter-est. It is the first light, I hope, of anew India. What seems so natural inthe picture, of people lining up at theside of the road to let the ambulancepass, is actually quite extraordinary.In the picture we see hundreds ofpeople suspending their self-interest,and instead of rushing home to dotheir personal work as they would ona normal day, willingly waiting bythe side of the road for a heart topass. Can we read in this behaviourtheir subscription to an idea of thepublic interest and the commongood?

Let us now look at all these ele-ments together. There are no caste,community, or gender biases here.None of India’s prejudices can beseen in this act of giving life to totalstrangers. What we see instead is theother as part of the self. How differ-ent from the politics of today wherethe other is regarded as a hostileother, to be hated and excluded fromour public life. Will this expressionof fraternity become a movement andreplace the politics of hate that istoday being sown? I remember read-ing, several years ago, of an elderlyupper caste gentleman in Bengaluruwho had been hit by a car when onhis evening walk, who wept when hehad been told that the person — whohad travelled many miles on hisscooter at night, after the hospital hadcalled the latter and asked him todonate his blood belonging to a raregroup — was a gentleman whobelonged to a community that he hadmaligned all his life. The old manwept for a wasted life. He wept forhis smallness of spirit. My thoughttrain, which had started when I sawthe picture of people waiting for theambulance to pass, now continued.Why is it, I wondered, that we canreceive blood and a heart from anoth-er, without worrying about caste,creed or gender, but we cannot wearanother’s skull cap?

(Peter Ronald deSouza isProfessor at the Centre for the Studyof Developing Societies, Delhi. The

views expressed are personal.)

BY UDHAV NAIG

The recent cold-bloodedmurder in Dhaka of U.S.-based writer Avijit Roy,

who fought for a more liberaland secular Bangladesh, byIslamic radicals, holds an impor-tant lesson for the global liberal-Left.

The liberal-Left’s response toa string of events across theworld — the attack on a culturalcentre in Copenhagen for host-ing a debate on Islam and blas-phemy, the attack on CharlieHebdo cartoonists for ‘insultingthe Prophet,’ the flogging of lib-eral Saudi blogger Raif Badawi,and the anti-Islam protests inGermany — exposes the cracksin its discourse surrounding vio-lence perpetrated by religiouszealots. The liberal-Left’sdenunciation of such attacks hasbeen mostly ambiguous, raisingdoubts over its commitment tothe values that it claims todefend.

‘Tolerating’ differencesHaving accepted the privi-

leged position of capital, a sec-tion of the liberal-Left has beenaccused of resorting to the ‘cul-turalisation of politics,’ whereinall social schisms are seen as theresult of ethnic, racial or reli-gious differences. The solution,we are told, lies in simply ‘toler-ating’ these differences. InEurope, the liberal-Left intelli-gentsia seems to be losing out tothe Right: its response to theRight’s systematic campaignsagainst minorities and immi-grants has not been to attack thesevere austerity measures orunjust immigration laws. Norhas it been able to carve out aspace for atheists, liberals andex-Muslims to criticise their cul-tures and religion — withoutbeing co-opted by the EuropeanRight. Instead, it has tried tosmear those who look criticallyat faith and culture with chargesof xenophobia, ‘Islamophobia’and racism.

The liberal-Left has often

defended practices of someminority cultures, such as privi-leging of males in religiouscourts, under the pseudo-liberallogic of “accommodating cul-tures in their own terms.”

The result is that large sections

of the native working class in theWest perceive immigrants andtheir cultures as being privilegedover others in Europe, a conti-nent bogged down by severeausterity measures and risingunemployment.

While several high-profilesecular intellectuals — like neu-roscientist Sam Harris and evo-lutionary biologist RichardDawkins — have been accusedof ‘Islamophobia,’ the list curi-ously includes many Muslimsand ex-Muslims who are striv-ing to create a narrative againstpolitical Islam.

Maryam Namazie, an IranianCommunist party worker onexile in the U.K., has been calledan ‘Islamophobe’ for her ‘OneLaw for All’ campaign againstSharia law in Britain. AyaanHirsi Ali, a Somali-bornAmerican writer and activistwas harshly criticised by theLeft for leading a campaignagainst female genital mutilation— a procedure that she under-

went herself and which is preva-lent in some Muslim communi-ties (though the Holy Korandoes not prescribe it). In a con-versation with Dr. Dawkins, Ms.Ali compared the criticism shereceived from the liberal-Left to

traditional racism in the West,saying, “If the genitals of littlewhite girls were being cut off,there would be enormous out-rage.” Similarly, in a debatehosted by American politicalhumorist Bill Maher, religiousscholar Reza Aslan and actorBen Affleck insinuated thatthose who claim a direct linkbetween Islam and the violenceare just “gross and racist.”

In an interview to the NewYork Times Magazine, Dr. Aslansaid people bring their values totheir religion. In other words,widespread misogyny in WestAsia and other nations in Asiahas nothing to do with religiousconditioning, but is somehowthe result of a person’s ethnicityand place in which a person wasborn.

The liberal-Left has consis-tently argued that religiouslymotivated violence is simply afunction of racial discrimination,lack of opportunities and pover-ty, downplaying the role of reli-

gion even if the perpetratorsexplicitly say so.

While these factors have to beacknowledged, is it also not afact that tens of thousands ofyoung, educated and middleclass Muslims from liberal soci-

eties in the West are joining theIslamic State in Iraq? JihadiJohn, who featured in the videosshowing beheading of captivesby the Islamic State, is an exam-ple: he grew up in London andhas a degree in ComputerScience. Similarly, Umar AbdulMuttalab, the “underwearbomber” who tried to blow up apassenger jet over Detroit onChristmas in 2009, was a son ofwealthy Nigerian businessman.Even Osama bin Laden and thecurrent al-Qaeda chief, AymanAl-Zawahiri, hail from well-to-do families. The predicament ofthe liberal-Left arises from theconfusion between criticism ofideas and racist profiling/carica-turing of people. The distinctionbetween them is clear: Islam is aset of ideas which can be sub-jected to close scrutiny; howev-er, Muslims are people anddeserve equal respect. The faultperhaps lies with the liberal-Left’s inability to imagine a pro-gressive political project where-

in ethnic, racial, sexual and reli-gious minorities can coexistwith shared beliefs in universalideals.

Shutting down criticism ofIslam is problematic at a timewhen countries jail political dis-senters, discriminate and killsexual and religious minorities,and sustain dictatorships in itsname.

The murder of Roy and thedecision to flog Badawi for pro-moting free thinking presents aquestion: how can we upholdtheir right to say what they wantto without allowing criticism ofthe ideology that victimisesthem?

Several commentators such asMiddle Eastern correspondent ofThe Independent Robert Fiskand American linguist andphilosopher Professor NoamChomsky have explained theseevents as the result of historicalmistakes committed by the West.

Fisk wrote in The Independentabout how those involved in theattacks on Charlie Hebdo wereof Algerian descent, arguing thatthe oppression they might haveexperienced in France couldhave resulted in them takingrefuge in religion. Chomskyreferred to the U.S. missileattack on the headquarters ofSerbian state radio and televi-sion in the Kosovo war in 1999to reiterate that it is hypocriticalfor political leaders and themedia in the West to speak offree speech when it has support-ed such attacks in the past.

While we must indeed criticisethe West’s foreign policy, weshould not underestimate thepower of religious ideology ininspiring people to fight for autopia. With Nigeria’s BokoHaram pledging allegiance tothe IS, we are faced with atransnational alliance of danger-ous fascist groups seeking toreorganise society in their ownvision. In such a scenario, weshould not just condemn the actsof such groups, but criticise theirutopia itself.

Even as some of its State units — within and outsidegovernment — have shown a zeal in seeking totoughen laws on cow slaughter, the Bharatiya

Janata Party (BJP) has nationally been more guardedabout the issue. The BJP government in Haryanaannounced that it is instituting a law that provides for a10-year prison sentence for those caught slaughteringcattle. In doing so, it has taken its cue from its counter-part in Maharashtra which extended the ban on cowslaughter to all cattle, even as two other BJP-ruled States,Jharkhand and Rajasthan, are considering similar legisla-tion. Reports also suggest that in West Bengal — a Statethat permits cow slaughter with a “fit for slaughter” cer-tificate — the BJP State unit is seeking to deploy vigi-lante groups to prevent the ferrying of cows toBangladesh for slaughter. This activist zeal by the BJP inthe States contrasts with the party’s national position.While Prime Minister Narendra Modi had attacked the“pink revolution” — the export of cattle meat — duringlast year’s general election, his government has notchanged its meat export policy since then. That policyprohibits the export of the meat of cows, bulls, calves,any milching bovine or calves less than four months old.Only the meat of non-milching buffaloes, along with thatof goats, is allowed to be exported. Even though mostStates, except Kerala and parts of the northeast, havelaws of varying degree banning cow slaughter, it is a sen-sitive subject. Beef and buffalo meat are sources of cheapprotein not just among sections of the minorities, but alsofor poor Hindus. The BJP has also not forgotten a speechmade in the Lok Sabha by the late G.G. Swell, an MPfrom Meghalaya, in 1996 during the party’s 13-daytenure in government. On that occasion, Swell spokeabout the intolerance of the BJP and its inability to acceptthat in parts of India, including large swathes in thenortheast, beef is a cultural, culinary preference. Morerecently, in Kerala, leaders belonging to the Congress andthe Communist Party of India (Marxist) have describedthe efforts by BJP-ruled States as a “sign of increasingencroachment of personal liberty and democratic free-dom”. While Central ministers have ruled out a Centrallaw as livestock is a State subject, even hardlineHindutva-oriented BJP MPs like Yogi Adityanath say thatit is important to let the government focus on develop-ment for some more time. The national executive of theBJP has remained silent on the issue since its governmentcame to power. Clearly, the party will calibrate its posi-tion on the issue in the long run, not letting it distractattention from its reforms agenda.

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India’s heart is in the right place

There are no caste, community, or genderbiases here. None of India’s prejudices can be

seen in this act of giving life to totalstrangers. What we see instead is the other as

part of the self. How different from thepolitics of today where the other is regardedas a hostile other, to be hated and excludedfrom our public life. Will this expression of

fraternity become a movement and replace thepolitics of hate that is today being sown?

The liberal-Left’s response to a string of events across theworld — the attack on a cultural centre in Copenhagen

for hosting a debate on Islam and blasphemy, theattack on Charlie Hebdo cartoonists for ‘insulting theProphet,’ the flogging of liberal Saudi blogger Raif

Badawi, and the anti-Islam protests in Germany —exposes the cracks in its discourse surrounding violence

perpetrated by religious zealots. The liberal-Left’sdenunciation of such attacks has been mostly

ambiguous, raising doubts over its commitment to thevalues that it claims to defend.

State Watch 5NEW DELHI | WEDNESDAY | MARCH 18, 2015SAADDA HAQ

KOTESHWAR, MARCH 17An array of modern

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs), fast-attack craft and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) willsoon bolster the dominion powerof the BSF deployed to guardthe marshy and arid Rann ofKutch region along the Indo-Pakborder.

The country's 'first line ofdefence' is also planning to sta-tion some all-weather floatingvessels near the disputed watersin the region including aroundSir Creek and Harami Naalaareas, a top BSF commandersaid.

"The border guarding force isvigorously pursuing to getUAVs and we are very hopefulthat very soon we will be able toget these," BSF InspectorGeneral (Gujarat Frontier)Santosh Mehra said.

Mehra said, as of now, routinesorties by UAVs are being car-ried out by the Indian Air Force(IAF) on the request made byBSF along the 850-km stretchon the Indo-Pak border.

The patrolling in the marshyKutch region, which is currentlybeing done by foot soldiers andfour all-terrain vehicles, will fur-ther be enhanced with the induc-tion of more all-terrain vehicles(ATVs), the IG said.

The demo of the ATVs havebeen taken and some customisa-tions are being done by the sup-plier firm as per the suggestionsmade by the BSF, Mehra said,without disclosing the exactnumber of procurements to bemade.

"We have projected require-ment for getting more ATVs. Iwould not like to mention theexact number, but a very large

number of ATVs will be coming,not only in terms of numbers butvarieties also," Mehra said.

Also in the pipeline are fast-attack craft that the force hasbeen seeking for sometime tofacilitate quick action along thevast stretches of the Great Rann.

"We are also getting fast-attack craft very shortly. A teamhas recently visited the UnitedStates of America. It had been inthe pipeline for quite some timebut maybe in the next three-fourmonths we will be able to getfast-attack craft that will be ableto move at very short notice,"Mehra said.

"Their range is more, they areable to move at faster speed, cancarry more number of individu-als and they have greater stabili-ty," Mehra said, speaking aboutthe capabilities of the soon-to-be-inducted warship.

AHMEDABAD, MARCH 17Congress on Tuesday

accused the Modi govern-ment of trying to impose'Police Raj' on 'Gujaratmodel' in the country after aDelhi Police communicationasked the MPs not to hold aprotest march on land billfrom Parliament House asprohibitory orders were inforce in the area.

"Narendra Modi govern-ment wants to have a PoliceRaj here as per the Gujaratmodel. Modi wants to convertdemocracy into a police state.He wants to convert thenation into Gujarat. We willnot allow it to happen.Congress will not tolerate sti-fling of farmer's voice.

"We know that the particu-lar section (Section 144 of theCrPC) is imposed inParliament here during ses-sions but it is not for the first

time that Opposition leadersheld protest march," partyspokesperson Rita BahugunaJoshi told reporters at theAICC briefing.

Alleging that the govern-ment was trying to stop thismarch, she said it has madearrangements of water can-nons and barricading to stopthe peaceful march, like whatwas done to people during theBritish raj when public voicewas stifled.

Leaders of 12 partiesincluding Congress PresidentSonia Gandhi, former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh,CPI-M's Sitaram Yechury,CPI's D Raja, former PrimeMinister and JDS leader H DDevegowda are participatingin the march.

JD(U) President SharadYadav is coordinating themarch, which will see Leftparties and Mamata Banerjee-

led Trinamool Congressjointly marching on any issuefor the first time in recentpast.

Joshi refused to buy thegovernment's argument that ithad no idea of the policedecision and described as "U-turn" its intervention to allowthe protest march.

"A DCP and ACP sent a let-ter saying that the lawmakerscould not collect atParliament House as the areais under Section 144 of theCode of Criminal Procedure.Just now the government tooka U-turn and said that we didnot know about it and no per-mission was needed for themarch.

"How two officers can takesuch decisions without keep-ing the government informed.Home Minister says he wasnot aware of the decision ofthe police. Government is

quite used to in taking U-turns. Let government comeout with its draconian meansand ways. We will fight itout," Joshi said.

Attacking the NDA govern-ment's new land bill, she saidit smacks of "anti-farmer andpro-corporate" policy of thegovernment.

A large contingent of secu-rity personnel drawn from theDelhi Police and paramilitaryforces was deployed in thearea in riot gear. Barricadeswere put up and water can-nons were also placed on theproposed march route, lead-ing from Parliament to thePresident's House.

When questioned over theissue, Delhi PoliceCommissioner B S Bassisaid, "If there is a demonstra-tion, we prohibit it. But ifsomebody walks why wouldwe stop them?"

Modi govt trying to impose PoliceRaj on Gujarat model: Congress

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 17Thousands of commuters on

Tuesday faced inconvenienceacross Haryana as the busservices remained paralysedafter employees of the stateroadways went on a one-daystrike to protest against theissuance of new time-table forprivate bus operators.

The buses, including theluxury Volvo service, were offthe roads in the state.

"The strike is complete andall buses including the fleet ofVolvo buses are off the roads,"Haryana Roadway WorkersUnion president Sarbat SinghPunia said today.

He said the strike call wasgiven by the HaryanaRoadways EmployeesCoordination Committee andall Roadways employee

unions are supporting it."We decided to proceed on

strike following the issuanceof new time-table and granti-ng long route permit to privateoperators by the government,"Punia said.

The Roadways employeesheld demonstrations acrossthe state at various bus depots,demanding withdrawal of thenew time-table and grantinglong route permits to privatetransporters.

Informing that the Stategovernment has invited theRoadways Unions for discus-sion on their demands today,Punia said, "Let's see whatwill be the outcome of thismeeting after which we willtake a call on future course ofaction."

Meanwhile, a Haryana gov-

ernment spokesman said herethat Principal Secretary,Transport, Avtar Singh andTransport Commissioner,Ashok Khemka and otherofficials will hold talks withthe Roadways Unions.

The Punjab and HaryanaHigh Court has directed theState government, "to issuetime table strictly in accor-dance with the Stage CarriagePermit of each petitionerunder the 2013 policy", thespokesperson said.

The time-table for addition-al districts would be withheldtill discussions, thespokesperson said adding thatthe government has appealedthe employees to return towork to ensure that no dis-comfort is caused to the com-muters.

SURAT, MARCH 17A man working as a courier of a

city-based diamond firm allegedlydecamped with 2,500-carat roughdiamonds worth Rs 3 crore, forc-ing the owner to file a case ofcriminal breach of trust against hisemployee, police said on Tuesday.

"Owner of Shree Ram Krishna(SRK) Exports in the city'sKatargam area filed a complaintagainst his employee SagarRamesh Kapuriya of criminalbreach of trust after he decampedwith 2500-carat rough diamondsworth Rs 3 crore," police inspectorPramodkumar Deora, investigat-ing the case, said.

Police has filed a case underSection 408 of the Indian PenalCode (IPC), which stands for crim-inal breach of trust by a servant ora clerk.

When asked if the police has

charged Kapuriya for theft, Deorasaid that the case pertains only to abreach of trust and not theft, sincethe employee served there for threeyears and he decamped with thediamonds, by breaching hisowner's trust.

Kapuriya, who had been work-ing as a courier for SRK Exports,was given the task of supplyingrough diamonds to another unit ofthe firm yesterday, Deora said.

He collected the rough diamondsfrom one unit of SRK Exports, buthe did not hand them over to itsother units, Deora said.

Meanwhile, the police has col-lected crucial closed circuit televi-sion (CCTV) camera footage fromthe diamond firm, which has cap-tured Kapuriya's act of taking dia-monds from the office.

The police has also formed threeteams to nab him, Deora said.

UAVs, ATVs soon to shore upBSF power in Rann of Kutch

Lakhimpur DM ordersprobe into irregulari-ties in payment to NGOsLAKHIMPUR KHERI, MARCH 17

The District Magistrate here has ordereda high level probe into alleged irregulari-ties in the payment of over Rs 18 lakh tosome NGOs by district programme offi-cer. The NGOs had been assigned toserve cooked food to young kids atAanganwadi centers of Phoolbehar andRamiabehar blocks of the district.

On March 11, DM Kheri Kinjal Singhhad issued instructions to district treasuryofficer and district programme officer inwhich she had specifically asked them notto make any payments till she approvedthem as per the recent government guide-lines.

However, it came to the DM's noticeyesterday that payments worth Rs7,55,274 and Rs 11,06,490 were made totwo NGOs respectively with no approvaleither from the district magistrate or chiefdevelopment officer.

PATNA, MARCH 17Legislators of the opposition

BJP on Tuesday created a ruckusin the Bihar Assembly after anRJD lawmaker said unionHuman Resource DevelopmentMinister Smriti Irani was just"matric (Class 10) pass".

Angry over Rashtriya JanataDal legislator Akhtarul IslamShaheen`s statement that Iraniwas a "mere matric pass",Bharatiya Janata Party legisla-tors including Leader ofOpposition Nand Kishore Yadavgathered near the speaker`spodium and shouted slogans.

"It was a deliberate attempt bythe RJD member to make such astatement that was not connect-ed with any discussion ordebate," Yadav said. Some BJPlegislators also tried to uprootmicrophones.

Later, RJD legislature partyleader Abdul Bari Siddiqui

expressed regret over any suchremark made by his party mem-ber.

Earlier, as soon as the assem-bly proceedings began, BJPmembers created a ruckus over

the hike in electricity charges by15 paise per unit in urban areasand 10 paise per unit in ruralareas and asked the governmentto immediately roll back itsdecision.

Bihar Assembly sees protestover remarks on Smriti Irani

Employee decamps withrough diamonds worth

Rs 3 crore

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 17Haryana Police on Tuesday

arrested the main accused inthe vandalisation of anunder-construction church ina village in Hisar district.

"The main accused AnilGodara has been arrestedfrom Hisar today," Hisar SPSaurabh Singh said.

He said that the accusedwill be produced before acourt and police would seekhis remand.

"Further investigations inthe case are under progressand search is on for remain-ing accused," he added.

An under-constructionchurch in Kaimri village nearHisar was vandalised by agroup and the cross replacedwith an idol of Hanuman on

Sunday, triggering tension inthe area.

The complainant, FatherSubhash Chand ofWilliwarsh church, statedthat the group fragmentedthe cross and installed thestatue of Hanuman and a flagdepicting Lord Ram andthreatened to kill him.

It was alleged that theystole a cooler and some itemsfrom the church that wasunder construction.

Chief Minister ManoharLal Khattar had earlier toldreporters here that action willbe taken against those whohad allegedly vandalised thechurch.

Khattar had said that anFIR has been registered onthe statement of church

priest Subhash Chander,against several personsincluding Anil Godara,Dalbir Singh, Raj Kumar,Kuldeep, Satpal, Krishan,Suresh, Dinesh, Jogender,Kulwant, Sudhir, Bijender,Satnarain and Chhotu Ram.

Khattar had told theAssembly yesterday that thebuilding was reportedly builtin an illegal colony and thevandalisation was the resultof an altercation between thepriest and those whoattacked the place of wor-ship.

Prime Minister NarendraModi today expressed hisconcern over the incidentand asked for an immediatereport on facts and actiontaken.

Passengers suffer across Haryanaas roadways staff on strike

Main accused in Haryana churchvandalisation case arrested

JAMMU, MARCH 17The PDP-BJP coalition gov-

ernment in Jammu andKashmir faces its first majorfinancial challenge as it bracesup to present the annual budgetin the assembly session startingWednesday and though econo-mist Haseeb Drabu is thestate`s first professionally qual-ified finance minister, his taskis far from easy, say experts.

"The total revenue of thestate including central devolu-tion by way of share in taxesetc would be in the vicinity ofaround Rs.18,000 crore for thefiscal 2015-2016, and Jammuand Kashmir is likely to havean annual budget of Rs.50,000crore in 2015-2016," ShakeelQalandar, a local industrialistand member of civil society,told IANS.

"On the other hand, oursalary and pension bill for gov-ernment employees wouldshoot up to Rs. 20,000 crore,the expenditure on electricitywould be around Rs.5,000crore out of which our revenuein this sector would be aroundRs.2,000 crore leaving a cashloss of Rs.3,000 crore whichneeds to be addressed," headded.

Qalandar said Drabu`sbiggest challenge would begeneration of revenue fromstate`s own resources, address-ing the growing unemploymentand to achieve the balance oftrade.

"We import goods worthRs.4,500 crore annually. Thefinance minister has two

options to achieve the balanceof trade. This can be done byincreasing exports through pro-ductive investment since curb-ing imports, the other option,might not be commercially pru-dent.

"The finance minister cannotimpose fresh taxes for revenuegeneration since the people ofthe state are already taxed tothe optimum. Imposing freshtaxes would not be wise in thebackdrop of the people`s suf-fering due to last year`sunprecedented floods,"Qalandar said.

He, however, stronglydefended Drabu`s concept of azero deficit budget which thefinance minister`s adversariesin the opposition NationalConference have labeled as"mere jugglery of figures".

"Drabu`s concept of a zerodeficit budget does not justmean bridging the gap betweenincome and expenditure. Hisbasic concept of a zero deficitbudget means not to carry for-ward liabilities in terms of fundallocation for projects/schemesnot completed in time - as hasbeen fiscal practice for fivedecades in the state.

"This practice always result-ed in cost overheads besidescreating additional liabilities onthe state. The minister believesschemes to be completed in acertain fiscal should not be car-ried forward.

is Drabu`s conception of azero deficit budget which hasperhaps been misunderstood.Technically speaking, other-

wise all budgets are zero deficitbudgets because no budget canleave a gap between incomeand expenditure," he contend-ed.

The other problem for thestate is the plan holiday whichwill happen in the next twoyears because the PlanningCommission is being woundup.

"Whatever central fundingwill come, will be through theFinance Commission alloca-tions, but the fact is that infuture even the centrally spon-sored schemes will have to befunded for most of their finan-cial component by the states,"said retired senior banker NoorMuhammad Wani.

He said the FinanceCommission has recommendedRs.59,666 crore as grant in aidfor the state during the nextfive years.

"Through this route, Jammuand Kashmir will get Rs.9892crores during 2015-2016.

"The NITI Aayog is a policythink-tank that will not dis-charge the duties of the outgo-ing planning commission.

"The challenges for thefinance minister are, therefore,multi-layered. Since he is aneconomist, expectations runhigh among traders, industrial-ists, unemployed youths andabove all the common man.

"The proof of pudding wouldlie in its eating and not in thepowerful profile of the financeminister. Hopefully, he willdeliver", Wani asserted.

Uphill task for Kashmir''s first profes-sionally qualified finance minister

LUCKNOW, MARCH 17In the backdrop of

alleged snooping on RahulGandhi in Delhi, the UttarPradesh government onTuesday assured that itwill ensure "foolproof"security of the Congressgeneral secretary as he isan MP from the state.Parliamentary affairs min-ister Azam Khan told theAssembly that since RahulGandhi is an MP from UP"it is the responsibility ofthe state government and itwill ensure fool-proofsecurity and special moni-toring wherever required."Congress members raisedthe snooping issue in theUP Assembly today anddemanded proper securityfor their leader, who is alsoan MP from Amethi.

The issue came upthrough an adjournmentnotice by Anugrah NarainSingh and Akhilesh PratapSingh in the Zero Hour.Anugrah said the Delhipolice had visited Gandhi'sresidence on March 14 andsought some personalinformation which, "ifdivulged, could pose athreat to Congress vicepresident."

Speaker Mata PrasadPandey rejected the noticeon the grounds that it con-cerned the Centre andcould not be raised in thestate Assembly. ButCongress leaders insistedthat since Gandhi was anMP from UP and frequent-ly visited the state, it hadsufficient relevance for thestate assembly.

Two women killed, four injured in LPG fire in BiharSHEOHAR, MARCH 17

Two women belonging to a family lost their lives, while four persons were seriously injured in afire due to cooking gas leakage in their house in Sheohar district of Bihar during the wee hours onTuesday, the police said. The incident happened at Lachhu Tola in Nayagaon village underShyampur Bhatha police station in the district, and the deceased as well as injured belonged to afamily of migrant labourers. Shyampur Bhatha Station House Officer (SHO) Anil Kumar Prasadsaid, "The family had left open the knob of gas regulator after switching off the stove last night. Itseems rats cut the gas pipe, or it cracked somehow. The gas leaked and spread in and around thekitchen." "A woman woke up during the early hours today to relieve herself. She carried a kerosenelamp and went towards the bathroom, which was close to the kitchen, when the fire erupted. Shecaught fire and screamed. Other family members suffered serious burns when they rushed there tosave her," he added.

UP govt assures of foolproofsecurity to Rahul Gandhi

Engineer andwife murderedin UPBAREILLY, MARCH 17

A retired engineer andhis wife were killed inSuresh Sharma nagar afterthey were hit by an ironrod by some unidentifiedmiscreants, police said onTuesday. GopeshwarSingh (61) and his wifeAsha (57) were murderedby some miscreants whohit them with iron rod,Additional Superintendentof Police (ASP), RajivMalhotra said.

He said that the incidentcame to light when Singh'sson called his parents andtheir phones were notreceived and he alarmedneighbours, who reachedthe house and found themdead. Police is probing thematter. No arrests have sofar been made in this con-nection, he said.

At the press conferenceannouncing DeNA and

Nintendo's partnership, NintendoCEO Satoru Iwata put to rest spec-ulation that Nintendo's future iscompletely mobile. He stated thatthe company is working on its nextpiece of gaming hardware code-named NX.

"Nintendo has decided to deployits video game business on smartdevices, but it is not because wehave lost our passion or vision forthe business of dedicated videogame systems", he said.

"On the contrary, because nowwe have decided on how we willmake use of smart devices, wehave come to hold an evenstronger passion and vision for thededicated video game system busi-ness than before."

"As proof that Nintendo main-tains strong enthusiasm for thededicated game system business",Iwata adds, "let me confirm thatNintendo is currently developing adedicated game platform with abrand new concept under thedevelopment codename 'NX'."

More information on the newgame platform will be announcednext year. The prime candidate fora replacement is the Wii U ,

Nintendo's home console that hasnot been doing as well

as the compa-ny had antici-pated.

F u r t h e r m o r e ,both companies out-lined their plans todevelop a multi-device membershipservice similar toXbox Live andP l a y S t a t i o nNetwork.

"Nintendo andDeNA expect todevelop a new coresystem compatiblewith a variety ofdevices includingPCs, smartphonesand tablets as wellas Nintendo's dedi-cated video gamesystems, and are tojointly develop amembership serviceutilising this system,with a launch target-ed for the fall of2015. The compa-nies expect to fur-ther enhance theircustomer relation-ships through themembership serv-ice," reads the pressrelease.

Anew 64GB variant of the Asus ZenFone2 ZE551ML has been confirmed by theTaiwanese handset brand. Asus at its

Taiwan event last week revealedpricing of the new ZenFone 2series alongside unveiling newvariants of the handset. Thecompany however missed toreveal the ZenFone 2ZE551ML with 64GB inbuiltstorage and 4GB of RAM.

Now, the Asus ZenFone 2ZE551ML with 4GB of RAMand 64GB inbuilt storage hasbeen confirmed along with aprice of TWD 9,990 (approxi-mately Rs. 19,900). It will begoing on sale in Taiwan startingMarch 23 alongside the AsusZenFone 2 ZE551ML (4GBRAM and 32GB storage).

The Asus ZenFone 2ZE551ML with 4GB of RAMand 64GB inbuilt storage is alsothe most premium handset inthe ZenFone 2 series.

The new ZenFone-seriesinclude the Asus ZenFone 2ZE551ML (4GB RAM, and32GB storage) priced at TWD8,990 (approximately Rs.18,000); the Asus ZenFone 2ZE551ML (2GB RAM) atTWD 6,990 (approximately Rs.13,900); Asus ZenFone 2ZE550ML at TWD 5,990 (approx-

imately Rs. 11,900), and Asus ZenFone 2ZE500CL priced at TWD 4,990 (approx-imately Rs. 9,900).

According to WhatsOnTech,Asus Taiwan is currently takingpre-orders for the ZenFone 2ZE550ML and ZenFone 2ZE500CL, which are expected toship starting March 25.

Apart from Taiwan, the AsusZenFone 2 will be available inChina, Hong Kong, Singaporeand France starting in Marchwhile other countries such as Italyand other Southeast Asian marketsincluding India will see a launchin April. The Asus ZenFone 2 willbe also released in Brazil in June.

The Asus ZenFone 2 ZE551ML,as seen above, will be available inthree variants - one with 2GB ofLPDDR3 RAM and 32GB inbuiltstorage, second with 4GB ofLPDDR3 RAM and 32GB built-in storage, and third with 4GB ofLPDDR3 RAM and 64GB built-in storage. All three versions sup-port expandable storage viamicroSD card (up to 64GB).

All variants of the AsusZenFone 2 run the company's newZenUI based on Google's Android5.0 Lollipop.

The company last week inTaiwan also launched new acces-sories named ZenFlash and

LolliFlash.

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The MotoTurbo is avariant of theM o t o r o l aMoto Maxx,which itselfwas the glob-al variant ofthe MotorolaDroid Turboexclusive toUS mobilec a r r i e rVerizon.

The newM o t o r o l aMoto Turbocomes withsome top-notch speci-f i c a t i o n s ,such as aQHD display- which hasbeen seen onsmartphonessuch as LGG3 andSamsung GalaxyNote 4, and is perhaps thehighlight of the device. Itfeatures a 5.2-inch QHD(1440x2560 pixels)Amoled display offering apixel density of 565ppi,much higher than the 5.5-inch LG G3 at 534ppi and5.7-inch Galaxy Note 4 at515ppi. The screen alsoincludes a Corning Gorilla

Glass 3 protective layer.

It features a massive3900mAh battery, thebiggest amongst mosthigh-end phones such asSony Xperia Z3, Samsung

Galaxy S6, SamsungGalaxy Note 4, and eventhe Moto X (Gen 2). Thecompany notes that thesmartphone can deliver upto 48 hours of mixedusage. The Moto Turboalso supports Motorola'sTurbo Charger, a newaccessory from the com-pany stables that is said to

provide 7 hours of batterylife in just 15 minutes ofcharging.

The smartphone is pow-ered by a quad-coreQualcomm Snapdragon

805 processorclocked at2.7GHz cou-pled with anAdreno 420GPU and 3GBof RAM.

T h eM o t o r o l aMoto Turbosports a 21-m e g a p i x e lrear autofocuscamera withf/2.0 apertureand dual-LEDflash. The rearcamera comeswith featuressuch as slowmotion video;burst mode;auto HDR;P a n o r a m a ,and tap tof o c u s .Meanwhile, itcan alsorecord 4Kvideos at24fps. Itincludes a 2-m e g a p i x e lfront camera.The Android5.0 Lollipop-based MotoTurbo features

water-repellentnano-coating. It

m e a s u r e s143.5x73.3x8.3mm andweighs 166 grams.

Connectivity options onthe Moto Turbo include4G LTE with LTE Cat. 4,Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Micro-USB, and GSM/ EDGE/HSPA+. The smartphonecomes only in one storagevariant - 64GB.

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1. In utensils worth Rs 1000 are produced with copperworth Rs 500, wages paid are Rs 100, other materialpurchased is worth Rs 100 and depreciation ofmachinery is zero, then what is the value added inprocess?A. Rs 1000 B. Rs 500C. Rs 400 D. Rs 300

2. Paper currency first started in India inA. 1861 B. 1542C. 1601 D. 1880

3. The ARDC is now a branch of theA. RBI B. NABARDC. IDBI D. SDBI

4. Devaluation of currency leads toA. fall in domestic pricesB. increase in domestic pricesC. no impact on domestic pricesD. erratic fluctuations in domestic prices

5. Since 1983, the RBI's responsibility with respect toregional rural banks was transferred toA. ARDC B. SBIC. NABARD D. PACs

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TAURUS A study of a philosophical or metaphysical concept or perhapsan ancient or foreign culture could take up a lot of your timetoday, Taurus. Your mind is especially sharp and penetratingnow, so you should notice more, learn more quickly, and retainmore of what you read. The only downsides are possible eye-strain and a buzzing mind. Take a walk before you go to bed.

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CANCER A long phone conversation could take place between you and aromantic partner, Cancer. You could discuss philosophy, currentevents, the weather, and your opinions. The only thing you prob-ably won't touch on is the status of your relationship, which couldbe frustrating for you. Nonetheless, you will learn a lot about yourfeelings that will enable you to understand each other better.

LEO Creative work could require more focus and concentration than usualtoday, Leo. You might need to do some in-depth research, intricatedetail work, or another type of intense process that could strain youreyes and overstimulate your mind. Take breaks. Lie back and closeyour eyes now and then. Certainly don't forget to eat! By the end ofthe day, you should be pleased with what you've done.

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SPORTSSPORTS 7SAADDA HAQNEW DELHI | WEDNESDAY | MARCH 18, 2015

SYDNEY, MARCH 1 7AB de Villiers has what

he considers a simple solu-tion to end more than twodecades of World Cupheartache for SouthAfrica’s cricket fans.

“All I can say is we’renot going to choke tomor-row,” de Villiers told thepress on the eve of theWorld Cup quarterfinalagainst Sri Lanka. “We’regoing to play a good gameof cricket and come out ontop. Simple.”

South Africa hasn’t wona knockout game at themarquee event in the 50-over format,s t a r t i n gwith an

unfortunate loss in a rain-affected match at theSydney Cricket Ground in1992.

“We have to win tomor-row. That’s what it comes

down to no one is going toask us if we played excep-tional cricket when we winthe World Cup,” he said.“ W e

are just going to say that‘we won the Cup.’ So wewant to find a way to winthe game tomorrow.”

Sri Lanka won the 1996World Cup and has reachedthe final of the last two edi-

tions losing to Australia in2007 and to India in 2011.

Both teams won four andlost two games in the poolstage this time, with SouthAfrica placing second inPool B behind India whileSri Lanka placed third inPool A after losses to co-hosts New Zealand andAustralia.

The Sydney CricketGround showdown onWednesday is the first offour quarterfinals on con-secutive days.

The South African took aday off practice onTuesday, with de Villiersthinking it was more

important to bementally fresh

than any-t h i n g

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gest-i n gtha tper-haps

p r e -viousSouth

Africasquads

m a yhave over-analyzed the sit-uation.

“The guys are very awareof what’s happening andwhere we are at in thistournament. Part of the rea-son we took the day off and

spent some time in the parkand had a good time and alaugh, felt each other out alittle bit,” he said. “Weknow exactly what’s com-ing tomorrow. It’s a veryimportant game; it’s exact-ly what we’ve been work-ing for the last two to threeyears. Comes down totomorrow. We’re very pre-pared for this.

“Obviously there’s histo-ry to be made and if wecome through it, it will begreat. But we know it’simportant to focus on thebasics, to do a few thingsright and all our focus willbe on that.”

Sri Lanka captain AngeloMathews was cautiouswhen asked if SouthAfrica’s failure to win aknockout match to datewould play into his hands.

“The history is history.You can’t really take any-thing from it, and you’vegot to move on and look

forward to the games thatyou play,” he said.“Statistics I don’t reallybother (about). We have togo out there and performwell to beat the SouthAfricans.”

De Villiers hasn’t had areal batting failure duringthe tournament, and scoredan unbeaten 162 againstthe West Indies in Sydneyand 99 in the last groupgame against the UnitedArab Emirates. He said thelosses to India and Pakistanwere setbacks during thepool stage, but he washappy with how the teamwas positioned ahead ofthe knockout stage.

“I’m very comfortablewith where the team is atthe form that everyone hasshown,” he said. “I believewe play really good cricketwhen we’re mentally fresh,and we play those pressuresituations so muchbetter.”

De Villiers confident the choking tag will become old news

MELBOURNE, MARCH 17If India, the most watched and

heavily scrutinised team in worldcricket, are under any pressureahead of Thursday`s World Cupquarter-final against Bangladesh,they are doing well to hide it.

With the weight of expectationof the world`s second most popu-lated country on their shoulders,India`s players could hardly beany more relaxed.

On Tuesday, less than 48 hoursbefore the start of the match, theplayers ventured to theMelbourne Cricket Ground.

Rather than hitting the nets topractise their batting and bowl-ing, the players took it easy, witha light-hearted game of soccer onthe stadium`s sprawling outfield.

Despite being followed by amassive Indian media contingent,the team did not make them-selves available for media inter-action, maintaining a cloak ofsilence until Wednesday`smandatory pre-game news con-ference.

As the defending World Cupchampions and one of twounbeaten teams in the tourna-

ment -- the other is New Zealand-- India will go into Thursday`smatch as overwhelmingfavourites to win but still waryabout their opponents.

Bangladesh famously beatIndia at the 2007 World Cup buthave beaten their great rivals justonce since then and retired Indiabowler Javagal Srinath said his-tory would not repeat itself this

week."I know that every time India

meet Bangladesh in the WorldCup, everyone goes back to 2007and what happened in Port ofSpain. This Indian side bears noresemblance to that team whosemorale was so low right from thestart of the competition," hewrote in a column that appearedin Tuesday`s Hindustan Times

newspaper."Even though Bangladesh are

playing their best cricket, this is ahappy Indian side that has mas-tered the art of winning crunchgames."

For India, the weight of expec-tation can sometimes be over-bearing. They have been fetedlike rockstars at every match theyhave played during the tourna-ment and a crowd of 80,000 isexpected to flock to the MCG forThursday`s sudden-deathencounter. It may have loomedas the biggest danger but Indiacaptain Mahendra Singh has saidthe pressure to succeed wasenough to ensure they never lettheir guard down.

"Irrespective of which team weplay or which tournament weplay, we are under pressure," hesaid after his team`s final poolgame win.

"The good thing, the boys arequite used to it. Once a few timesthere have been instances wherewe are down, but from that posi-tion, also, we have come backstrongly and we have donewell."

Team India relaxed before World Cup quarter-final clash against BangladeshMELBOURNE, MARCH 17S

In-form opener SarfrazAhmed believes the pres-sure of expectation will beon Australia when the co-hosts take on Pakistan in ahighly-charged World Cupquarter-final, vowing anattacking approach fromhis team. The 27-year-oldwicketkeeper/batsman hithis team`s first hundred ofthe World Cup whichhelped Pakistan beatIreland in Sunday`s lastPool B match to earn thema place in the last-eight.

Sarfraz said Australiawill be under huge pres-sure on Friday because oftheir status as titlefavourites and due to theattention on them playingat home. "I think the pres-sure is on them so we willtry to attack them and playpositive cricket," saidSarfraz on Tuesday.

"We have always hadtough contests with

Australia. Against them inthe United Arab Emirates,we beat them in a compet-itive Test series," addedSarfraz, of Pakistan`s 2-0win last October -- theirfirst over the Australians in20 years. Pakistan aresweating over the fitnessof key pacemanMohammad Irfan whodidn`t bowl in Tuesday`straining session and willhave a scan on his hipinjury later in the day.

Sarfraz admitted theAustralian bowling attack -- comprising left-arm pac-ers led by leading wicket-taker Mitchell Starc -- willbe challenging. "We alsohave three left-arm fastbowlers so we are prepar-ing with their help. I thinkour preparation againsttheir left armers will begood as we have three daysto do that. We know theyhave a very good bowlingattack.” he said.

LONDON, MARCH 17Calls by Ukraine for a

boycott of the 2018 soc-cer World Cup finals inRussia were given shortshrift by double Olympic1,500 metres gold medal-list Seb Coe on Monday.

Coe, who is standingagainst Ukrainian polevault great Sergey Bubkafor the presidency ofworld athletics bodyIAAF, won his medals atthe boycotted Moscowand Los AngelesOlympics of 1980 and1984.

"I will always opposeboycotts of sport," theLondon 2012 Olympicchief told Reuters at anevent to promote the10km Great NewhamLondon Run to be held inthe Olympic Park in July.

"I don`t think theyactually achieve whatthey set out to do. Theonly people they reallydamage are competitorsand athletes," added Coe,who was on the Englandcommittee that bidagainst Russia for the

finals.He think it is far better

to have sport as a softpower, helping changeall sorts of things.

"You either believe inits power to change andto be a catalyst for socialand political change oryou don`t. I happen tobelieve that sport hasdone far more to bringcommunities togetherthan to isolate and sepa-rate them."

Ukrainian PresidentPetro Poroshenko postedon Twitter that "while

there are Russian forcesin Ukraine, I believe thatholding the World Cup inthat country (Russia) isnot possible."

He also told Germannewspaper Bild that hiscountry`s allies shouldconsider a boycott ifMoscow failed to pull itstroops out of Ukrainianterritory.

The IAAF election isin August and Coe hasbeen busy campaigning,visiting four continentsin the past two weeks.

He said the most press-

ing issue was to engagemore young people inathletics.

"If the challenge forsport in the 20th centurywas taking it to commu-nities, the big challengein the 21st century is tak-ing it to young people,"said the Briton.

"And you really doneed to recognise thatwhile your sport is ath-letics...the business isentertainment.

"The biggest challengewe have is to renew ourfan base, our audienceand make sure that ourcompetitions are relevantto young people."

Newham London Runorganisers aim tobecome Britain`s biggestmass participation run-ning event with a targetof 60,000 people takingpart annually within fiveyears. The Great NorthRun is currently thebiggest annual runningevent in Britain with57,000 participants. TheLondon Marathonattracts roughly 40,000.

Seb Coe against any boycott of soccer World CupCALIFORNIA, MARCH 17

Five-time Grand Slam winner MariaSharapova needed six match points togrind out a 6-4, 6-3 win over VictoriaAzarenka in a rare early marqueematchup at Indian Wells on Monday.

The 27-year old Russian appeared tobe ready to close out the third roundmatch in the eighth game of the secondset but two-time Australian Open win-ner Azarenka decided she wasn`t goingdown without a fight.

Azarenka saved four match points inthe eighth game of the final set andanother in the ninth before finally suc-cumbing on a Sharapova cross-courtbackhand that she clobbered into thenet.

"She played right to the last point,"Sharapova said of Azarenka.

Sharapova moves through to theround of 16 where she will square offagainst defending women`s champFlavia Pennetta of Italy.

Monday`s third round centre courtclash between two former world numberones in the California desert tournamentwas a rematch of the 2012 Indian Wellsfinal which was won by Azarenka.

They have met 14 times with eachwinning seven but Sharapova has nowwon the last three contests.

"We have played so many tough

matches in our careers. It is great to seeher back because she was injured mostof last year."

Belarus`s Azarenka, who is ranked 32in the tournament, says she is beginningto get her form back on the court.

And she played a strong serve andvolley game Monday but was undone bysome careless mistakes at key moments.

Azarenka had nine double faults,committed 37 unforced errors and wasbroken four times by Sharapova in theone hour, 51 minute match.

She created too many opportunitiesnot to take them," said Azarenka, who

played just nine tournaments in 2014because of injuries. "You cannot affordit against a player like Maria.

"That`s very disappointing. I`ve got tostep it up with finishing those gamesand really taking my chances."

Sharapova blasted five aces and won75 percent of her first-serve points.

Sharapova, a two-time champion, tra-ditionally plays well in the Californiadesert, where she made her WTA Tourdebut as a 14-year old.

She`s coming off a strong perform-ance in the final of the Australian Openwhere she lost to Serena Williams.

ndian Wells: Maria Sharapova battlespast error-prone Victoria Azarenka

Pressure on Australia notPakistan, says Sarfraz Ahmed

SYDNEY, MARCH 17Ten facts for Wednesday`s World Cup

quarter-final between South Africa and SriLanka at the Sydney Cricket Ground(14:30 local/03:30 GMT):

* Seven of the last eight one* day interna-tionals between these teams have beenwon by the team that batted first. Alleight of these matches were played inSri Lanka.

* The last 16 ODIs between South Africaand Sri Lanka have produced eight winsapiece.

* Mahela Jayawardene averages 22.9 inthe 42 ODI innings he has playedagainst South Africa, his second lowestaverage against the 18 teams he hasfaced.

* Lasith Malinga recorded the onlyinstance in ODIs of a bowler taking fourwickets in four balls in the 2007 WorldCup clash between these teams, a one-wicket victory for South Africa.

* Malinga has taken 92 ODI wicketsbowled, the joint-fifth most with AnilKumble. Wasim Akram (176) has themost.

* Kumar Sangakkara needs one stumpingto become the first wicket-keeper to take100 ODI stumpings.

* Sangakkara needs four runs to becomethe seventh player to score 500 runs in aWorld Cup tournament. He has four cen-turies in this tournament, the mostrecorded in a single World Cup.

* De Villiers (1,142 runs in 21 innings)needs seven runs to pass Jacques Kallis(1,148 in 32) as South Africa`s leadingWorld Cup run-scorer.

* Tillakaratne Dilshan has scored 148runs off the 144 balls Morne Morkel hasbowled to him in ODIs and been dis-missed twice.

* David Miller has scored 32 runs off the19 balls Thisara Perera has bowled tohim in ODIs, hitting two fours and threesixes, without being dismissed.

ICC Cricket World Cup quarter-final:South Africa v Sri Lanka - Factfile

SYDNEY, MARCH 17Spin great Muttiah Muralitharan told Sri

Lanka to bat first against South Africa and notobsess over the destructive batting power of ABde Villiers in Wednesday`s World Cup quarter-final. Muralitharan, a veteran of Sri Lanka`sdefeated sides in the 2007 and 2011 finals,believes all the pressure will be on the team bat-ting second at the Sydney Cricket Ground andthat Angelo Mathews`s men can capitalise onSouth Africa`s poor record when chasing. "Ihave two messages -- win the toss and do not gettoo hung up thinking about AB de Villiers," theoff-spin great wrote in his latest ICC column.

"The side batting first in one-day internation-als at the Sydney Cricket Ground wins 58 percent of the time according to the statistics but, in

the pressure of a knock-out match as this one is,I reckon the advantage of runs on the boardcounts for even more than that figure suggests."South Africa`s four group game victories allcame batting first -- piling up 411 againstIreland, 408 facing the West Indies, 341 to beatthe UAE and 339 in the win against Zimbabwe.

But batting second, de Villiers`s team madejust 177 chasing India`s 307 and a disappointing202 in pursuit of Pakistan`s modest 222.

"A total in excess of 300 batting first meansthe side needing to get those runs has to go at arun a ball from the outset and, if wickets godown and the run-rate increases, and in theknowledge of it being a win or bust encounter,batsmen`s brains can get scrambled very easily,"added Muralitharan.

"South Africa have a reputation for bucklingat the business end of major tournaments. SriLanka have no such hang-up having won theWorld Twenty20 last year and reaching theWorld Cup final in each of the past two edi-tions."

Muralitharan advised Sri Lanka not to get dis-tracted by de Villiers who has made 417 runs atthe tournament with his best score a blistering162 not out against the West Indies at the sameSCG where Wednesday`s quarter-final will takeplace. Instead, Sri Lanka have their own game-changers in Kumar Sangakkara, the leading run-maker with 496 and four successive centuries, aswell as Tillakaratne Dilshan on 395 runs andboasting a best of 161 undefeated againstBangladesh.

Cricket World Cup: Bat first, don`t obsess over AB de Villiers, says Murali

Fearless Bangladesh have`nothing to lose` against IndiaMELBOURNE, MARCH 17

Bangladesh will have to playfearless cricket to reproduce theirshock 2007 World Cup win overIndia and knock the defendingchampions out in their quarter-final, Shakib Al Hasan saidTuesday. The star all-rounder hit apivotal 53 as the Bangladeshis randown India`s 191 to win by fivewickets in Port-of-Spain,Trinidad, at the 2007 World Cupin one of the minnows` biggestachievements. India, unbeaten intheir six pool games, are expectedto add Bangladesh to their tally atthe Melbourne Cricket Ground onThursday and confirm their supe-riority over their neighbours in anall-Asian knockout game.

Not many give Bangladesh ahope in their first-ever World Cupquarter-final, but Shakib says con-fidence is high inside the campafter their three wins and rained-out point with Australia and any-thing is possible in a one-offgame.

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5 Steps to a flat tummy in 7 daysBollywood is at war with the

censor board. The censorboard chief Pahlaj Nihalani is

doing a lot to annoy the B-town peo-ple. The chairman has faced severecriticism earlier too, and it seemsthat he isn’t satisfied with what hegot! He is only getting deeper intotrouble with every passing day. Andnow, Mr. Nihalani has landed intofurther trouble as not one or two, butseveral Bollywood celebs haveraised their voice against the “hos-tile” environment that the chairmanis creating.

Rajyavardhan Rathore is the min-ister of state for information &broadcasting. The minister met withseveral actor and filmmakers.Among those in the meeting were –Shabana Azmi, Aamir Khan, presi-dent of Film & TV Producers Guildof India, Mukesh Bhatt, AnuragKashyap, Karan Johar, Ekta Kapoor,Vidya Balan, Vishal Bharadwaj,Ritesh Sidhwani, , Ramesh Sippy,Deepika Padukone and Gulzar.Following the meeting, a sourcereported to the media, “It is unfortu-nate but we are unable to work withthe present chief. He has created ahostile environment and made itimpossible for us.”

In 2003, there had been an orderfrom the censor board to ban somecuss words in Indian movies.Nahalani is the one who took the

dare and revived this order. It is theresult of this action, that he faces somuch opposition from the filmindustry. Filmmakers and actorsstarted complaining some time afterNihalani took to the post of CentralBoard of Film Certification (CBFC)chief on 19th January this year. Hereleased a list of 28 Hindi andEnglish words to be banned in filmsand the list includes simple wordssuch as ‘Bombay’ too. As if this isn’tenough, Nahalani has violatedCinematograph Act and he wants toclear films on his own.

Following the meeting, MaheshBhatt said- “We had a fruitful meet-ing with the minister. We put our

point across that as an industry wehave started to feel insecure and vul-nerable because of the recent deci-sions of the CBFC. We also stressedthat as a soft power which needs toevolve internationally, we need inde-pendence and creative space.” Theminister will hold a meeting onMonday to discuss the matter withcensor board members. Recently, theAnushka Sharma starrer ‘NH10’ wasa victim of the unnecessary choppingby the chief. Director VikramdityaMotwane said, “It is disappointingwhen your vision is curbed.” WhileAnushka too, felt that “it is actuallykilling the scope of coming out withoriginal ideas.”

Bollywood at war with the censorboard.chief Pahlaj Nihalani

Kareena Kapoorwho is best knownfor groovy num-

bers, ‘Chammak Challo’for 'Ra One' and FevicolSe for 'Dabangg 2' is allset to scotch the silverscreen with her sizzlingitem song, ‘Merry Mary’from ‘Brothers’. In theitem song titled, 'MerryMary', Kareena will beseen seducing SidharthMalhotra.

Kareena who shares agreat working relationshipwith Karan Johar hasapproached the actress forthe item song and sheagreed. Kareena, who is

busy shooting for KabirKhan's 'BajrangiBhaijaan', will shoot thespecial numbersoon.

'Brothers', an officialremake of the 2011Hollywood film 'Warriors'and it will see AkshayKumar and SidharthMalhotra play siblings.'Brothers' directed byKaran Malhotra is an offi-cial remake of the 2011Hollywood movie'Warrior'. It tells the storyof two estranged brothers.They took part in mixedmartial arts tournamentand their past come into

forefront.In the Hindi remake,

Akshay Kumar andSidharth Malhotra playtwo estranged brothers.Jackie Shroff apparentlyplays the role of the father,essayed by Nick Nolte inthe original.

'Brothers' shows AkshayKumar and SidharthMalhotra sporting arugged looks.

The film is being pro-duced by Karan Johar andJacqueline Fernandez willbe seen as the leadinglady.

‘Brothers’ will releaseon 14th August 2015.

Brothers: Kareena to seduceSidharth Malhotra in ‘Merry Mary’

Bollywood’s dancing kingGovinda is making hiscomeback on small screen

with dance based reality show,'DID Super Moms'. He will donthe judge hat for the dance showand the veteran actor is lookingforward to it.

"I'm game for everythingwhich is correct and good. Butyes, the show should make mefeel that I have something to giveto the audience. Then only will Ibe able to say 'yes' to TV shows,"the actor, who was in the capitalduring the launch of the dancereality show, said.

Earlier, Govinda hosted 'JeetoChappar Phaad Ke' in 2001.Govinda will judge the Zee TVshow 'DID Super Moms' alongwith choreographers GeetaKapur and Terence Lewis.

When asked about the reasonof giving a nod to 'DID SuperMoms', the actor says his motherwas the reason.

"Mother has always been spe-cial to me. My mother is veryresponsible for whatever successI have achieved today, and I'msure many people will accept thattoo. A mother is one of the most

beautiful creatures made by god.I think this was one of the rea-sons why I said 'yes' to thisshow," he said.

Geeta Kapoor is equally excit-ed to work with Govinda after along time.

"Govinda sir is the reason whyI'm in this field and it's an honourto work with him through thisshow. I remember that afterwatching his dance moves, I wasdying to work with him and I gotthis opportunity during an awardfunction but that was a briefencounter. Today I can say thatgod always has better plans," shesaid.

To be hosted by Karan Wahi,the show will go air on March28th. "Having given 'umeed'(hope to scores of mothers acrossthe country with the immenselysuccessful first season of 'DIDSuper Moms' - a hope that thereis more to life than the daily rig-marole of household responsibil-ities and that they too can pursuetheir own dreams and hidden tal-ents, we are back with the secondseason of 'DID Super Moms',"said Pradeep Hejmadi, businesshead of Zee TV.

Dancing king Govinda to judge 'DID Super Moms'

It was recently reported that the Sinha daddy daughter duo would beseen in AR Murugadoss’s film. Sonakshi Sinha has now startedshooting for this film, as the actress herself tweeted. She took to

Twitter to for telling her fans how excited she is for her next. She start-ed the filming on Monday and tweeted, “My first day of shoot today for@ARMurugadoss sirs film! Cant wait to be in front of the camera!!Super charged up...Wish me luck.”

This upcoming film is a very special one for Sonakshi. She would besharing the screen space with none other than her own father and veter-an actor Shatrughan Sinha. Though the title of this film hasn’t beenrevealed yet, the storyline is out. It is an official remake of‘Mounaguru’ - a Tamil sleeper hit. Other than the father and daughter,the movie features filmmaker Anurag Kashyap too. He has been signedto play a villain. He would be playing a Bhojpuri man, his look com-plete with a moustache. Yet another upcoming film of Anurag is‘Ghoomketu’ which shows him in a contrary role. In this one, he wouldbe seen doing comedy as a police officer. Anurag donned the role of abaddie in the 2011 Nana Patekar starrer ‘Shagird’. He played a gangstercalled Bunty Bhaiya.

This is the third time that AR Murugadoss is making a Hindi film.The director’s first Hindi film was ‘Ghajini’ in 2008, remake of his ownTamil film of 2005. The Aamir Khan and Asin starrer ‘Ghajini’ provedto be a super hit and holds the record of being the first Hindi movie tobreak the record of Rs 1 billion. The film won positive reviews, withcritics calling it “a winner all the way” and even “Aamir’s performanceas his best till date”. It was liked more than the Tamil version, “Ghajinihowever succeeds when it is compared to the Tamil version directed bythe same director” as critics said.

AR Murugadoss’s next Hindi directorial venture too, proved to be a

huge success. This time it was Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha inthe lead. In 2013, ‘Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty’ hit the screensand went on to become the biggest nett grosser of the first half of theyear. This one received reviews such as “fast paced, exhilarating rollercoaster ride”. Now Sonakshi is ready for yet another project with thedirector and this one too is a thriller.

SonakshiSinha startsfilming for ARMurugadoss