NEW DELHIUttar Pradesh will get to

nominate maximum num-ber of cities to be devel-oped as 'Smart Cities', fol-lowed by Tamil Nadu andMaharashtra.

Ahead of the megalaunch of NDA govern-ment's flagship urban proj-ects, the government hasassigned number of citieseach state/union territorycan nominate under the100 Smart Cities project aswell as those to be devel-oped under the AtalMission for Rejuvenationand Urban Transformationscheme.

UP leads the pack as ithas been given the oppor-

tunity to nominate 13 citiesto be developed as smartcities, while 54 cities in thestate have been identifiedunder AMRUT scheme,according to a seniorUrban DevelopmentMinistry official.

Tamil Nadu comes sec-ond with the allocation of12 smart cities and 33AMRUT cities.

While Maharashtra hasbeen alloted 10 cities tonominate under the smartcity project, Gujarat andKarnataka are eligible todevelop six cities each.

Under AMRUT scheme,37, 31 and 21 cities havebeen identified in

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HAQSAADDAFIGHT FOR RIGHTWednesday, June 24, 2015

Delhi resident doctors on indefinite strike,CM Kejriwal backs 'genuine' demands

Bail plea of St Stephen's professor, accused ofmolesting PhD student, dismissed

Arjun Kapoor to catch Bajrangi Bhaijaanscreening first day first show! P8

RATLAM (MP)Five persons, including

Riyazuddin, brother ofSohrabuddin Sheikh who waskilled in a fake encounter inGujarat, have been arrested forallegedly trying to grab land byforging papers at a village here,police said on Tuesday.

Sohrabuddin's brother, 4 othersheld for trying to grab land

LAHOREA 15-year-old school boy

who was taking a selfie whilepointing a toygun at his frienddied after the police inPakistan's Punjab province mis-took them for armed robbersand opened fire on them.

The boys, identified asFarhan, 15, and Fahad, 14, were

15-yr-old Pak boy's penchant forselfie cost him his life

NEW DELHIThe All India Muslim

Personal Law Board (AIM-PLB) has written a letter to thecentral government opposingits policies and has spoken outagainst the rising influence of'Hindutva' forces.

The letter written by MaulanaWali Rehmani, working

AIMPLB warns against risingHindutva forces

BENGALURUIn a setback to Tamil Nadu Chief

Minister J Jayalalithaa, theKarnataka government on Tuesdaychallenged in the Supreme Courther acquittal by the state high courtin the illegal wealth case. The Karnataka governmenthas urged the apex court to stay the operation of theMay 11 verdict. "Pass an ex-parte ad-interim order ofstay, staying the operation ofimpugned final judgment and

Karnataka govt moves SC againstJayalalithaa's acquittal in DA case

NEW DELHIExternal Affairs Minister

Sushma Swaraj returned to thecapital on Tuesday after a three-day visit to the US during whichshe participated in theInternational Yoga Day celebra-tions at the United Nations.

During her visit, Swaraj met UN Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon and discussed several regional and glob-al issues including climate change and sustainabledevelopment. "Back from New York after InternationalDay of Yoga celebrations

Sushma Swaraj returns from US visit

NEW DELHIBJP leader Subramanian Swamy

on Tuesday sought Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's intervention inensuring that the SIT on blackmoney is not put under any min-istry and has an independent exis-tence.

In a letter to Modi, he said the Special InvestigationTeam should not be made to function under any min-istry as its work involves several ministries includingFinance, Home, Defence, Corporate Affairs andExternal Affairs.

Do not put SIT under any Ministry: Swamyto PM Modi

VISAKHAPATNAMThe seizure of 63 kg gold at

Visakhapatnam internationalairport has revealed a newstrategy adopted by smugglinggangs to conceal the yellowmetal in consumer electronicgoods and landing at less fre-quented airports.

Gold seized at Visakhapatnam airportreveals new tactic by gangs

NAGPURIn a unique case, the Bombay

High Court awarded one morelife sentence to a murderer aftera trial court sentenced him todouble life imprisonment forkidnapping and killing an 8-year-old school boy here in2011. Upholding the trial courtverdict of double life

Triple life sentence to man for kidnapping, killing school boy

P3P2

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KOLKATATemperature: 360CPrecipitation: 10%Humidity:67% Wind: 24Km/hr

CHENNAITemperature: 390CPrecipitation:0%Humidity:54%Wind: 21Km/hr

WASHINGTONUS President Barack

Obama has saidAmericans stand unitedin rejecting the targetingof any religious group ashe opened the White

House to MuslimAmericans for a tradi-tional Iftar dinner duringthe holy month ofRamadan.

The annual Iftar wasattended by eminent

Muslim Americans andmember of the diplomat-ic corps from Islamiccountries including thosefrom Bangladesh and

Barack Obama hosts annualRamadan Iftar at White House

Most smart cities to come upin Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu

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BeijingWestern countries have a lack

of appreciation about China`ssacrifices and contributionsduring World War Two, a sen-ior official said on Tuesday, asthe government outlined plansfor a military parade throughcentral Beijing to mark thewar`s end. Sino-Japan relations

China slams Western misconceptions ofrole in World War Two

XIASIMAIndia might be suffering

USD 47 billion tradedeficit with China, but it ismaking a big splash in thisborder town with severalshops using 'Made in India'sign boards and traderscashing on border tradethrough the Nathu La pass.

Many shopkeepers inthis small town in the cen-tre of Tibet, who importIndian handicrafts, spicesand textiles, use signboards highlighting 'Made

in India goods available'.The India-China trade

through Nathu La, which is

just 50 km from this town,

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEW DELHIDelhi Chief Minister

and Aam Aadmi Partychief Arvind Kejriwalwas on the back footon Tuesday over alle-gations against formerDelhi law ministerJitender Singh Tomarin an alleged fakedegrees case.

Amidst hullabalooby the Opposition dur-ing the Budget Sessionof the Delhi Assembly,the CM broke hissilence over the issueand said that if what-ever is shown in themedia is true, then he

was kept in the dark. Iwas shown wrong doc-uments, added

Kejriwal.A probe is on into

the case of Tomar

and if he is provenguilty, he would be

UNITED NATIONSAfghanistan is witnessing an

“intensification of conflict” asa result of collective challengeposed by Taliban, and foreignfighters including the IslamicState, the UN SpecialRepresentative for AfghanistanNicholas Haysom saidTuesday.

In a briefing addressed to theUnited Nations SecurityCouncil, the UN envoy addedthat Afghanistan is meeting itssecurity challenges, but isnonetheless being “increasing-ly tested”.

Praising the Afghan NationalSecurity Forces' , he added thatthe demanding security sce-nario in the country was testingthe Afghan forces who have

remained “resilient” despitebeing “undeniably stretched”.

“While the ANSF face oper-ational challenges, their com-mitment is beyond questionand they are demonstratingresilience in the face of insur-gent efforts to take and hold

ground,” Haysom said.have seen an intensification

of conflict across the country,including in areas previouslyconsidered to be safe. Onlyyesterday, there were fresh

Kabul Parliament attack: 'Afghan conflictescalating; Taliban, ISIS pose challenge'

Jitender Tomar fake degrees case: I waskept in the dark, says CM Arvind Kejriwal

'Made in India' makes big splash in Chinese border townas Beijing opens Nathu La for Kailash-Manasarovar yatra

J&K man claims his picture usedin wanted militant's posters

SRINAGARA shopkeeper from

north Kashmir'sKupwara district hasclaimed that the pictureof a wanted militant inSopore, circulated bythe police, was actuallyhis and has alleged thatthe posters have put hislife in danger.

Irfan Shah, a residentof Bomhama area ofKupwara, said he wassurprised to see his pic-ture taken during a pic-

nic, being circulated asthat of the most wantedmilitant Abdul QayoomNajar who is believed tobe behind a spate ofattacks in Sopore whichleft six persons dead.

"I was surprised tosee my picture, which Ihad taken during trip toa park in Baramulla lastyear, in the posters. Thepicture in police postershas been cut out fromthis picture in which I

NEW DELHIIn a major develop-

ment, the SpecialInvestigating Team (SIT)probing the black moneycase, on Tuesday askedEnforcement Directorate(ED) to give details of itsprobe into a foreignexchange violation caseagainst former IndianPremier League (IPL)boss Lalit Modi, whichinvolves alleged illegalrouting of Rs 21 crorefunds from a Mauritius-based company.

Official sources said thecase pertains to the rout-ing of the amount a fewyears ago into a firm saidto be owned by Modiwhich is based inRajasthan and has abranch office in thenational capital.

Meanwhile, the'Lalitgate' episode hasbrought the ruling BJP inthe line of opposition's

fire.The help extended to

Lalit Modi by ExternalAffairs Minister SushmaSwaraj and RajasthanChief MinisterVasundhara Raje has putthe BJP in dock, with the

opposition gunning forthe heads of both the sen-ior leaders.

The issue has snow-balled into a major politi-cal storm for theNarendra Modi govern-ment even though BJP

has defended both theleaders.

Swaraj and Raje havebeen facing flak for help-ing Lalit Modi in procur-ing travel documents in

Lalit Modi case: SIT seeks detailsfrom ED on probe

BJP challenges Nitish overblack money issue

PATNAThe BJP on Tuesday

challenged Bihar ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar "toprove" when PrimeMinister Narendra Modipromised that Rs 15 lakhwill be deposited in everyIndian's bank account onceall the black moneystashed in foreign coun-tries is brought back.

"I am challenging Kumarto prove when and wherethe Prime Minister saidthat Rs 15 lakh will bedeposited in every person'sbank account once all theblack money is recovered,"senior BJP leader and for-mer deputy chief ministerSushil Kumar Modi said.

Modi said Kumar contin-uously attributed such afalsity to the PM and keptharping on it without anyproof.

"What the PrimeMinister had said that therewas so much black moneystashed abroad that it wasenough to make roads to

connect all villages, installhand-pumps and providebasic amenities to every-body. But, Kumar twistedit wrongly," Modi added.

Modi was speakingwhile sharing the dais withLJP chief and UnionMinister for Food andPublic Distribution, RamVilas Paswan at HindustanSamagam programme,organised by a vernaculardaily to set the agenda for

the upcoming assemblyelections.

Slamming Kumar fur-ther, the senior BJP leadersaid he went against thepublic mandate againstRJD chief Lalu Prasad justto go against NarendraModi.

"Kumar was given themandate to check the 'jun-gle raj' (rule of forest) ofPrasad, but he shook hands

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Over 500 AIIMS doctors to join strikeby FORDANEW DELHI

Over 500 AIIMS doctors here will on Thursday joinan ongoing strike called by Delhi-based Federation OfResident Doctors Association (FORDA), a senior resi-dent doctor said.

Over 20,000 members of FORDA, an association of25 Delhi-based government hospitals, went on an indef-inite strike on Monday, demanding adequate stocks oflife-saving drugs, security at work place, fixed dutyhours and timely payment of their salaries.

Initially, the association had asked the resident doc-tors of AIIMS not to join the strike in the wake of like-ly problems such a move may cause to patients.

“As the government is not in a serious mood to payheed to the problems of resident doctors, so we haveasked resident doctors of AIIMS also to join the strike.Let them (government) know what it leads to if theproblems of doctors are ignored,” a FORDA membertold IANS on Tuesday.

The strike has affected the Outpatient department(OPD) services at AIIMS. On Tuesday, at least 2,000patients from other government hospitals in Delhi,including Safdarjung hospital, were referred to AIIMS.

Despite all demands of the doctors being met by theDelhi government, FORDA continued their strike say-ing: “Our association also has members working in hos-pitals run by the central government and the municipalcorporation.”

"We want that the demands are accepted by others(the Centre and Delhi's civic bodies) also," a senior res-ident doctor from Safadarjung hospital told IANS.

Delhi Assembly adjourned overTomar degreeNEW DELHI

The budget session of Delhi Assembly was adjournedfor 15 minutes on Tuesday after the BJP sought anexplanation from Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on thealleged fake degree of former law minister JitenderSingh Tomar.

"We demand an explanation from the chief ministerover the fake degree of former law minister JitenderSingh Tomar," said BJP legislator OP Sharma.

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel adjournedthe House for 15 minutes following commotion in theAssembly.

Caste certificate forgery: Courtorders FIR against womanNEW DELHI

The Delhi Police has been directed by a court here toregister an FIR against a woman for allegedly forgingcaste certificate to get admission in a college here.

The court observed that allegations against thewoman disclose "commission of cognizable offences"and asked the police to file a compliance report by June26.

"The complainant has alleged that accused womanhas been using forged caste certificate and other docu-ments. The allegation of complainant disclose commis-sion of cognizable offences. In these circumstances,SHO PS Jaitpur is directed to register an FIR under rel-evant provisions of law," Metropolitan Magistrate Nehasaid.

The complaint was filed by Raj Babu who alleged thatthe woman has used forged caste certificate and otherdocuments to secure admission at a Delhi Universitycollege.

In its order, the court noted that despite opportunitiesgiven to the police, it has not filed action taken report inthe case.

In his complaint, Raj Babu has alleged that thewoman and others "with the help of some dishonestgovernment employees have succeeded in getting afalse OBC certificate from a tehsildar in her favour".

He alleged that the woman got admission in the col-lege on the basis of false certificate and she had givenwrong residential address of Uttar Pradesh whereas sheoriginally belongs to West Bengal and was residing inDelhi for the past three decades.

Babu claimed that initially he had given the complaintto the police but no action was taken and therefore heapproached the court under relevant provisions of thelaw.

Scorching morning in DelhiNEW DELHI

It was a scorching morning in Delhi with the mini-mum temperature settling at 27.2 degrees Celsius evenas the weatherman has predicted light rains or thunder-showers in later part of the day.

The humidity level was recorded at 53 per cent at 8.30PM, a MeT official said.

"Later in the day, the sky will turn partly cloudy lead-ing to one or two spells of light rain or thundershowers"the official added.

The maximum temperature is expected to settle at 39degree Celsius.

Yesterday, the maximum temperature was recorded at38.2 degrees Celsius while the minimum settled at 25.6degrees Celsius.

Light rain likely in Delhi todayNEW DELHI

It will be a partly cloudy Tuesday here and the MetOffice has forecast light rain and thundershowers insome areas.

The morning was sunny and the minimum tempera-ture settled a notch below the season's average at 27.2degrees Celsius. "The day's maximum temperaturewould be around 39 degrees Celsius," said an official ofthe India Meteorological Department.

Humidity at 8.30 am was 66 percent. Monday's max-imum temperature was 38.2 degrees Celsius, normal forthis time of the season, while the minimum temperaturewas recorded two notches below the season's average at27.2 degrees Celsius.

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IN BRIEF

NEW DELHIAll India Pre Medical

and Dental Test (AIPMT)for medical and dentalcourses for the year 2015-16 will be re-conducted onJuly 25, the Central Boardof Secondary Education(CBSE) announced onTuesday.

The decision comes afterthe Supreme Court lastweek granted more time toCBSE for re-conductingthe All India Pre MedicalTest-2015 and directed it todeclare the results byAugust 17 after the boardhad pleaded that it wouldbe impossible for it to holdthe test afresh in fourweeks.

In a statement issuedtoday, the CBSE, whichconducts the examinationsaid: "In compliance withthe Supreme Court orderon June 15 and June 19,CBSE has decided to re-conduct the All India Pre-Medical and Pre-DentalTest 2015 on July 25(Saturday)."

It added that no freshapplications would beaccepted for the examina-tion and it would be a"retest only in respect of

the candidates who hadapplied within the stipulat-ed time from 01/12/2014 to31/01/2015 with requisitefee".

The apex court had madeit clear that the first coun-selling "shall be held on orbefore August 28, the sec-ond counselling on orbefore September 4 and thethird counselling on orbefore September 11,2015".

A vacation bench ofJustice RK Agrawal andJustice Abhay Manohar

Sapre extended time tillAugust 17 after AttorneyGeneral Mukul Rohatgitold the court that theCBSE needed threemonths time to re-conductthe examination, citingvarious logistical difficul-ties including availabilityof 1,050 examination cen-tre and invigilators.

The court by its June 15order had cancelled theAIPMT examination heldon May 3 following theleak of the question paperand circulation of the

answer keys through elec-tronic devices across 10states in the country,observing that the examwas rendered "futile by ahandful of elements seek-ing to reap undue financialgain by subjecting theprocess to their evilmanoeuvres".

While ordering the re-conduct of the examina-tion, the court had notedthat on previous occasions,"such type of examinationhad been held anew withina period of one month".

AIPMT 2015 exam to be re-conducted on July 25: CBSE

Delhi resident doctors on indefinite strike, CM Kejriwal backs 'genuine' demandsNEW DELHI

Essential ServicesMaintenance Act (ESMA)was imposed on residentsdoctors of Delhi govern-ment hospitals, who con-tinued their indefinitestrike on Tuesday andfailed to resume work by11 am as ordered by theDelhi government.

The Aam Aadmi Party(AAP), which yesterdayaccepted all 'genuine'demands of the agitatingresident doctors, hadwarned them to end theirindefinite strike as it wasbadly affecting the medicalservices here and resumework by 11 am today.

Delhi Health MinisterSatyendra Jain had toldreporters this morning thatthe AAP government hasasked the agitating residentdoctors to end their strikeby 11 am today, failingwhich they will face

action.The warning from the

government came a dayafter the AAP governmentaccepted agitators'demands for proper securi-ty, accommodation andadequate availability ofgeneric drugs in hospitals.

The doctors, however,decided to continue theirstrike.

The strike, which beganon Monday and severelyaffected functioning in the

25 government hospitals inthe capital, was the secondprotest by the resident doc-tors in the past six months.

The doctors had wornblack badges in Februaryfor a few days seeking bet-ter working conditions.

The Delhi governmentyesterday evening issued astatement saying it hadaccepted all 19 demands ofthe resident doctors.

The resident doctorswere on strike under the

banner of the FederationOf Resident DoctorsAssociation (FORDA), anassociation of 25 Delhi-based government hospi-tals run by the MunicipalCorporation of Delhi, theDelhi government and thecentral government.

A resident doctor saidthat even if they were con-vinced by the sincerity ofthe Delhi government`spromise to improve theirworking environment, theyhave to wait till the UnionHealth Ministry intervenesand pays heed to the prob-lem.

"Only the Delhi govern-ment has accepted ourdemands but our associa-tion also has membersworking in hospitals run bythe central government andthe municipal corporation.

"We want that thedemands are accepted byothers also," a senior resi-

dent doctor, who works inSafadarjung Hospital, toldIANS.

With about 20,000 resi-dent doctors on strike,medical services werebadly hit.

Intervening in the matter,Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal directedthe health officials toimplement the demands ofresident doctors, callingthem "genuine problems".

An official said shortageof doctors led to treatmentof only 10 percent ofpatients in the Out PatientsDepartments (OPDs).

"It was not possible todeal with all the patientswith resident doctors onstrike. Senior doctors treat-ed emergency cases andother patients needingimmediate attention," anofficial of the Lok NayakJai Prakash Hospital toldIANS.

Delhi govt accepts all 19demands of striking doctors,

but strike to continueNEW DELHI

Resident doctors inDelhi`s government hospi-tals on Monday decided tocontinue their strike evenas their demands for prop-er security, accommoda-tion and adequate avail-ability of generic drugs inhospitals were accepted bythe Arvind Kejriwal gov-ernment.

The doctors had wornblack badges in Februaryfor a few days seeking bet-ter working conditions.

The Delhi governmenton Monday evening issueda statement saying it hadaccepted all 19 demands ofthe resident doctors.

The resident doctorswere on strike under thebanner of the FederationOf Resident DoctorsAssociation (FORDA), anassociation of 25 Delhi-based government hospi-tals run by the MunicipalCorporation of Delhi, theDelhi government and thecentral government.

A resident doctor saidthat even if they were con-vinced by the sincerity ofthe Delhi government`spromise to improve theirworking environment, theyhave to wait till the unionhealth ministry intervenes

and pays heed to the prob-lem.

"Only the Delhi govern-ment has accepted ourdemands but our associa-tion also has membersworking in hospitals runby the central governmentand the municipal corpora-tion. "We want that thedemands are accepted byothers also," a senior resi-dent doctor, who works inSafadarjung Hospital, toldIANS. With about 20,000resident doctors on strike,medical services werebadly hit.

Intervening in the mat-ter, Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal directedthe health officials toimplement the demands ofresident doctors, callingthem "genuine problems".

An official said shortageof doctors led to treatmentof only 10 percent ofpatients in the Out PatientsDepartments (OPDs).

"It was not possible todeal with all the patientswith resident doctors onstrike. Senior doctors treat-ed emergency cases andother patients needingimmediate attention," anofficial of the Lok NayakJai Prakash Hospital toldIANS.

Those who are opposed to Yoga should go to Pakistan andthat they have "no right" to stay in the country: Sadhvi Prachi

NEW DELHIVHP leader Sadhvi

Prachi on Tuesday kickedup another controversywith her remarks that thosewho are opposed to Yogashould go to Pakistan andthat they have "no right" tostay in the country.

The comments came byway of Vishwa HinduParishad's (VHP) responseto All India MuslimPersonal Law Board's(AIMPLB) opposition toyoga.

The Sadhvi also did notspare Vice PresidentHamid Ansari, saying themain celebrations inRajpath here on the occa-sion of the World's FirstInternational Day of Yogaon Sunday was not thewedding of a politician'sdaughter that he needed an"invitation."

"They should connectthemselves with the tradi-tions of India, culture ofIndia...There is no need forany objection. If they areobjecting then they shouldgo to Pakistan. People whoare objecting to it have noright to reside in India," thefiery VHP leader said whenasked about AIMPLB'sopposition to Yoga.

The remarks came days

after firebrand BJP MPYogi Adityanath said thatthose who are opposed to'Surya namaskar' should"drown in the sea" amidprotests by Muslim groupsover the drill during theYoga Day celebrations onJune 21.

"They have India's foodand sing songs ofPakistan...Yoga works likea binding factor. It is notrelated to a single reli-gious belief...Democracydoes not tell you to objectIndia's traditions and cul-tures," Sadhvi Prachi said.

The Sadhvi wasslammed by the Congress.

"In a democracy, peoplehave the full right to prac-

tice yoga or not,"Congress spokespersonSanjay Jha said, as heaccused the BJP of force-fully imposing Yoga onpeople.

distanced itself fromSadhvi's comments andsaid Yoga has nothing todo with religion.

"You can't call VHP apolitical party...VHP hasits own agenda at sociallevel," BJP spokespersonNalin Kohli said.

AIMPLB has reportedlytargeted the NDA govern-ment for propagatingyoga, surya namaskar andvande matram, saying theyare part of "BrahminDharma" and "are against

the ideology of Muslims".It is reported to have

come out openly againstwhat it calls is the risinginfluence of "BrahminDharma and Vedic culture(that) are out to harmIslamic beliefs by allmeans".

The Board, which posi-tions itself as a spokesper-son of Muslim opinion inIndia and the chief custo-dian of Muslim personallaw and the Shariat, has,for the first time, reachedout directly to Muslimorganisations, institutionsand the imams of mosquesin an appeal to close ranksagainst the forces ofHindutva.

Delhi Assembly Budget Session:Question hour on two days onlyNEW DELHI

The question hour in thesix-day long Budget ses-sion of the DelhiAssembly, which beginsTuesday, will be held ontwo days only due to delayin issuing the notificationfor the session.

Delhi Assembly SpeakerRam Niwas Goel todayaccepted that there was adelay in issuing the notifi-cation of Budget sessiondue to which there waslack of time to hold ques-tion hour.

Earlier, one hour on eachday of the session was ded-icated to question hour.

"Budget went to centralgovernment which tooksome time and its notifica-tion was received byAssembly on June 17, sowe had no sufficient timeto allot time for star ques-tion. But we have allottedtwo days in which we havegot a list of 67 questionsfrom the MLAs.

"I have exercised thepower and allowed themembers, by relaxing themandatory minimum timelimit of 12 days for sub-mitting a question, to sub-mit their questions, so thatquestions could be asked

on June 29 and 30 in theHouse," Goel said.

Speaker todayannounced that DelhiFinance Minister ManishSisodia will table theBudget on June 25, whileEconomic Survey will bereleased on June 24.Members will discuss theBudget on June 29 and 30.

Goel said members canalso raise short noticequestions, however, mem-bers can only ask threeshort notice questions in aday for which three daysnotice is required.

MLAs will be able toraise their issues during thespecial mention session(under Rule 280). "10members can give noticefor raising special mentionby giving notice upto 11am for the same day of sit-ting," Goel said.

Speaker added thatmembers can discussimportant public issuesunder Rule 107 and underRule 114 MLAs can givecongratulations or raiseother motions. Under rule55, a member can discussmatter of utmost publicimportance. Total 43notices have been receivedso far.

Allocation foreducation may bedoubled in DelhibudgetNEW DELHI

In order to improve edu-cation infrastructure, theArvind Kejriwal-led Delhigovernment may doublethe fund allocation foreducation sector in its firstbudget.

In the run up toAssembly polls, the AamAadmi Party had promisedto construct 500 newschools and 20 colleges inthe national capital.

Deputy Chief MinisterManish Sisodia, who isalso Education Minister,has also advocatedimproving teaching sys-tem in governmentschools. According to offi-cials, the allocation foreducation sector will behighest in 22 years.

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NEW DELHIThe Supreme Court on

Tuesday stayed the ArmedForces Tribunal (AFT)order setting aside the dis-missal from service of asailor for slapping an offi-cer and altering the punish-ment by directing him toundergo 75 days detention.

Issuing notice to now dis-missed sailor R Karthik, avacation bench of JusticeMY Eqbal and Justice ArunMishra stayed the opera-tion of the order by theChennai bench of the tribu-nal setting aside the dis-missal.

As Additional SolicitorGeneral Maninder Singh

urged the court to stay theoperation of the AFT order,the court observed that thesailor had already regrettedhis conduct and apologisedfor the same.

Pressing for the stay ofthe order, Singh told thecourt that such a behaviourcould not be condoned inthe armed forces and thedismissal has been decidedby the navy chief.

The court was told thatthe gravity of the offencegets further compounded asit happened in the course ofjoint naval exercise withanother country (Brunei).

The tribunal, whileupholding the summary

trial of Karthik, held thatdismissal from service wasdisproportionate to thegravity of the offence andaltered it with a detentionof 75 days.

Its February 6 order hadsaid that after undergoing75 days detention, thesailor would, within sixweeks, report to designatednaval unit.

The tribunal, while alter-ing the punishment saidthat the act of officer con-cerned, Lt AbhishekVardhan, in instigating thesailor by using explicit abu-sive language needs to beconsidered while decidingthe quantum of sentence.

The incident in questiontook place on May 29,2013 on board INS Gharialwhich had sailed fromVishakapatnam to Bruneito participate in the jointexercise. While on the ship,the members of the aviationcore team were called forrecovering a 42C helicop-ter. Karthik was calledtwice but reached half anhour later. On account ofthis, Lt Vardhan usedstrong language thatallegedly provoked thesailor, who had a GoodConduct Badge, and result-ed in his assaulting the offi-cer. Karthik had first GoodConduct Badge.

KOLKATACPI-M general secre-

tary Sitaram Yechury onTuesday said that theOpposition would notallow the land bill to beeither passed or defeated,so that the governmentcannot convene a jointsession of Parliament toget the bill passed.

Yechury's assertion fol-lows Union FinanceMinister Arun Jaitley'scomment that if the landreform bill was not passedin the Rajya Sabha, then ajoint session of Parliamentwould be convened,because the bill's passagewas key to success of thenext phase of reforms toallow the country to meetthe growth target.

According to theConstitution, no joint par-

liamentary session couldbe called until a bill waspassed by one house andrejected by the other. So ifthe land bill was rejectedby the Rajya Sabha afterbeing passed by the LokSabha, a joint session waspossible, Yechuryexplained to reportershere.

"The bill has not beenpassed in the Rajya Sabha.There are various ways inwhich the bill will not bepassed. Neither will it bedefeated too.

It will be referred by thejoint parliamentary com-mittee. Then the reportwill be examined by theRajya Sabha. Then onlythings will happen," heobserved.

Yechury accused theNarendra Modi govern-

ment of pursuing anaggressive pro-corporatepolicy and ignoring poorfarmers' interests.

"The spirit of this bill isthat they want to give no-holds-barred right to thecorporates, both foreignand domestic, to acquireland from farmers andbulldoze them. It will cre-ate a disaster and it willkick off an agrarian cri-sis," he felt.

Yechury said that thebill aimed at amendmentswhich would enable themto acquire more than onethird of total cultivatedland in the country.

"What is the experienceof the acquired land. Morethan 50 percent of the landacquired for an SEZ atleast five years back islying unused," he said.

Land Acquisition Bill not be allowedto be passed, nor defeated: Yechury

SC stays AFT order setting asidesailor's dismissal

CALIFORNIAVisiting Indian Finance

Minister Arun Jaitley hastold participants at an eventin California that the NDAGovernment could consid-er calling a joint session ofparliament if the RajyaSabha stalled the passing ofthe Land Acquisition Bill.Speaking at a presentationon India's economic future,Jaitley said government isstill hopeful about not hav-ing to reach that situation,

and iuf it had to, it had thenumbers as per the consti-tutional mechanism. Jaitleysaid the government wouldlike to make sure that thislandmark reform in Indiadoes take place, but refusedto give a time line for con-vening a joint session ofParliament.

He said the BJP and itscoalition partners haveenough numbers to get thebill passed if there is a jointsession.

NDA has numbers to passland bill in joint Parliament

session: Jaitley

KATHMANDUIndian External Affairs

Minister Sushma Swarajwill attend Thursday'sinternational donor con-ference here on Nepal'sreconstruction post earth-quake.

Nepal had invitedPrime Minister NarendraModi to participate as aspecial guest. NepalFinance Minister RamSharan Mahat extendedthe invite to Modi onbehalf of Nepal PrimeMinister Sushil Koirala.

"We have received con-firmation from the Indianside that Sushma Swarajwill lead the Indianteam," Madhu Marasani

of Nepal's finance min-istry told IANS.

Senior Indian officialswill travel with SushmaSwaraj to attend the con-ference where India isexpected to announce aidor soft loan for Nepal ormake a financial commit-ment.

India was the first coun-try to respond after a ter-rible earthquake on April25 left around 10,000people dead and causedwidespread destruction.New Delhi sent searchand rescue teams, heli-copters and military per-sonnel.

India has alreadyextended over Rs 4.5 bil-

lion (Nepal Rs 6.5 bil-lion) assistance toKathmandu following thequake.

"Towards ResilientNepal" is the theme of theconference that will beinaugurated by PrimeMinister Koirala, whowill pitch for commit-ments from governmentsto rebuild his country.

Sushma Swaraj, whowill arrive here onWednesday, will call onPresident Ram BaranYadav and Koriala.

Nepal is holding theconference in a bid toraise funds for its recon-struction work and torebuild the structures

damaged by the quake.According to officials,

Nepal needs around $7billion for rebuilding halfa million houses, thou-sands of other structuresand infrastructure.

Representatives from60 countries, donor com-munity and developmentpartners will be at confer-ence, according toNepal's finance ministrythat is coordinating theconference.

Finance Minister Mahatsaid: "The economicgrowth rate this fiscalending mid-July isexpected to be the lowestin eight years, at 3.04 per-cent."

Sushma to attend NepalSushma to attend Nepaldonor conferencedonor conference

NEW DELHIThe Supreme Court on

Tuesday stayed the orderof the Armed ForcesTribunal (AFT) that hadmodified the order of theChief of Naval Staff tosack a sailor for slappinghis senior, that too whileon duty.

The tribunal, thoughupholding the summarytrial of the Navy that hadheld R Karthik "guilty",had also diluted the pun-ishment of dismissal fromservice by awarding 75days of detention.

A bench of justices MYEqbal and Arun Mishraissued notice to Karthik onthe plea of the Centre andstayed the AFT order afterAdditional SolicitorGeneral Maninder Singhsought an urgent interven-tion on the issue.

The Centre, in its plea,claimed that if the tri-bunal's order was notstayed, it would have a badeffect on the morale of theservices.

"The conduct of therespondent (Karthik) wassuch that it tends to shake

up the confidence and trustthat was reposed in himand the misconduct direct-ly impinges upon the disci-pline and morale of theforce on which the entireedifice of Navy is built,"the government said.

"The AFT having upheldthe finding of 'guilty' couldnot have substituted thepunishment of dismissalwith detention for 75days," it said.

Karthik, who was part ofthe Aviation Core team on

board of INS Gharial thathad sailed fromVisakhapatnam to Brunei,was awarded punishmentof detention for 60 days forslapping his superior offi-cer on his face on May 29,2013.

He had pleaded guilty,and later his punishmentwas modified by theadministrative authority,the Flag OfficerCommanding-in-Chief,and was dismissed fromnaval services. The dis-

missal was upheld by theChief of the Naval Staff.

The AFT, however,altered the punishment andawarded detention for aperiod of 75 days, observ-ing that sacking was notcommensurate with thegravity of offence.

It had held that theaction on part of the officerto instigate Karthik byusing explicit abusive lan-guage needed to be consid-ered whilst mitigating thequantum of sentence.

SC stays tribunal order re-instatingsailor in Indian Navy

NEW DELHIA Delhi court is likely to pronounce

tomorrow its order on a complaintagainst Union HRD Minister SmritiIrani for allegedly giving "false"information about her educationalqualification in affidavits filed withthe Election Commission.

Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jainhad on June 1 reserved the order onthe plea after hearing arguments onthe aspect of limitation and whethercognisance can be taken or not.

The complaint was filed by free-lance writer Ahmer Khan, whoalleged that Irani in her three affi-

davits before the EC while filingnominations for her candidature forLok Sabha as well as Rajya Sabhapolls had purportedly given differentdetails about her educational qualifi-cation.

Senior advocate K K Manan,appearing for Khan, had told thecourt that in her affidavit for April2004 Lok Sabha polls Irani had saidthat she completed her BA in 1996from Delhi University (school of cor-respondence) whereas in another affi-davit of July 11, 2011 for contestingRajya Sabha election from Gujaratshe said her highest educational qual-

ification was B.Com part I from theSchool of Correspondence, DU.

The complaint alleged that in theaffidavit filed for nomination of April16, 2014 Lok Sabha elections fromAmethi constituency in UttarPradesh, Irani said she had complet-ed Bachelor of Commerce Part-Ifrom School of Open Learning, DU.

"It is evident from the contents ofthe affidavits filed by Smriti Z Iranithat at best only one of the deposi-tions by her on oath in respect of hereducational qualifications is cor-rect," the complaint alleged.

"The aforesaid affidavits of Smriti

Irani, apart from the ostensibly falseand discrepant statements in respectof her educational qualifications,also appear to contain false/ dis-crepant statements in respect ofimmovable properties owned by herand other details set out by her," itclaimed.

"The aforesaid facts and circum-stances reveal commission ofoffences by accused under section125A of Representation of PeopleAct, 1951, besides any other offencesthat may attract other penal provi-sions as an outcome of an additionalinvestigation," the plea alleged.

Complaint against Smriti Irani: Court order likely tomorrow

Bail plea of St Stephen's professor, accused ofmolesting PhD student, dismissed

NEW DELHIA Delhi court on

Tuesday dismissed antici-patory bail plea of StStephen's college professorSatish Kumar accused ofmolesting a PhD student.

Additional SessionsJudge Sanjay Garg dis-missed the plea of profes-sor Satish Kumar.

An FIR was registeredagainst Satish Kumar, anassistant professor in StStephen's chemistrydepartment, after the PhDstudent filed a complaintalleging sexual harassmentby him.

In the FIR, the com-plainant said that Kumar"sexually assaulted" her inOctober 2013 inside a lab-oratory. As per the com-plaint, Kumar also fol-lowed the victim to a metrostation close to the collegewhen she fled after freeingherself from him.

The victim also allegedthat she was first harassedin May 2013 in the samelaboratory. She said that itcontinued despite herrefusals. In her complaint,she also said that Kumar

stopped guiding her in herresearch and kept a watchon her social mediaaccounts.

On the victim's allega-tion, police registered acase on different chargesincluding stalking and sex-ual harassment.

St Stephen's college prin-cipal Valson Thampu onSunday claimed he hadoffered the girl to changethe guide but she had"refused" to accept the sug-

gestion. The student, whois doing her PhD underKumar, has also allegedthat college principalValson Thampu tried toprotect him when the mat-ter was reported to the col-lege authorities.

The student has alsoaccused him of stalkingher, passing lewd remarksand making inappropriatephysical contact formonths before the incident.

Kumar once even threat-

ened to "pour sulfuric acidon her if she didn't wear ayellow sari to college", thecomplaint read.

The complainant hasalleged that Thampu dis-couraged her from filing asexual harassment case,leaving her with twooptions -- "go to DelhiUniversity's grievanceredressal cell and jeopar-dise my degree or term theissue an academic prob-lem".

Deep depression crosses Gujaratnear Diu, says IMD

AHMEDABADA deep depression over

the Arabian Sea onTuesday crossed coastalregion of Gujarat at Diu,which is likely to bringheavy rainfall with strongwinds across the state.

"Yesterday's depressionover the Arabian sea hasturned into deep depres-sion and crossed thecoastal town of Diu, andsurrounding areas ofSaurashtra region ofGujarat today," DeputyDirector of Ahmedabad

Meteorological centre,Manorama Mohanty said.

Due to the crossing overof deep depression over theland border, the coastalareas surrounding Diu arereceiving rainfall,Mohanty said.

"It will bring heavy toheavy rainfall with strongwinds across the state forupcoming 48 hours," shesaid.

Met department, in con-nection with the forecastfor June 23 and 24 on itswebsite, said that moderate

to rather heavy rain orthundershowers wouldoccur at most places in thedistricts of south Gujaratregion, Saurashtra-Kutchand in Diu, Daman, DadraNagar Haveli and at manyplaces in the districts ofNorth Gujarat region aswell. "Sea will be veryrough with waves fromsoutheasterly to southernlydirection. Fishermen areadvised not to venture intoopen sea during the sameperiod," a warning on theMet department's websitesaid.

"Winds will be 45 to 55kmph from easterly tosouth- easterly direction.Wind speed in squall maytemporarily reach 65kmph," it said.

In Diu, tourists were alsoadvised not to go near thebeaches.

BY MADHAV GADGILNoodles laced with lead have made the

news. But humans have been imbibinglead with their food and drink for over2,000 years. Lead is an abundant, easilyaccessible metal that has been in use formillennia. The Romans used lead exten-sively in cooking vessels, water pipes,and as an alloy in their silver coins.Annual production in the Roman Empireamounted to 80,000 tonnes. Grape juiceboiled in lead vessels was added to wineand other dishes, all of which meant thatRomans guzzled lead in substantial quan-tities throughout their lives. This hap-pened despite the fact that Greco-Romanphysicians knew that lead was highlytoxic; they had vividly described thesymptoms of lead poisoning. Some histo-rians speculate that the collapse of theRoman Empire was brought on by leadpoisoning.

The wordwide annual production oflead today amounts to 50 lakh tonnes; it isused in solder, paint and even foodcolouring. By now, lead has accumulatedin significant quantities in human bodiesand the environment. But the major cul-prit in the spread of lead is the anti-knockadditive to the automobile fuel, tetraethyllead (TEL). The history of how TEL wasunnecessarily thrust on humanity and thebiosphere makes a riveting story.

Push for TEL and oppositionTEL was first synthesised in Germany

in the mid-19th century, but never put touse, being highly toxic. It was resurrectedby the American automobile, oil andchemical industry as an anti-knock agentin the early 1920s. By then it had beenwidely acknowledged that mixing alcoholwith petroleum could effectively serve thesame purpose, with Scientific Americanreporting on April 13, 1918: “It is nowdefinitely established that alcohol can beblended with gasoline to produce a suit-able motor fuel.” By 1920, a U.S. NavalCommittee had concluded that alcohol-gasoline blends “withstand high compres-sion without producing knock.” But alco-hol cannot be patented and cannot bringlarge profits to companies. So, all discus-sion of its potential was deliberately sup-pressed, and TEL pushed with vigour.

This push met with much oppositionbecause there were many deaths and seri-ous injuries in plants manufacturing TEL.As a result, several U.S. states banned itsuse. Many distinguished medical scien-

tists opposed it. In response, the U.S.Surgeon-General convened a meeting in1925 that, in turn, appointed a committee.This committee reported that there was noexisting evidence of the ill-effects oflong-term exposure to lead in the atmos-phere on human health, but also pointedout that this was because there had beenno research on the topic, and suchresearch needed to be initiated urgently.Industry happily funded a pliant medicalscientist, Robert Kehoe. For the next 40years, the Surgeon-General and Kehoeundertook forceful advocacy of TEL.Many noted scientists remained uncon-vinced, but Kehoe challenged them toshow clear evidence of the ill-effects ofTEL. An important element of Kehoe’sclaim of the absence of ill-effects of TELwas that the natural levels of lead inhuman blood were as high as 0.2-0.4 ppm.Notably, toxic effects of lead appear atjust slightly higher blood levels of 0.5-0.8ppm. Since Kehoe monopolised theresearch, it was impossible for the manydoubters to produce counter-evidence.

The logjam was broken in the 1960swhen a brilliant young geochemist, ClairPatterson, entered the scene. Pattersonwas working on iron meteorites to deter-mine the age of our earth, for which it wasessential to determine the levels of lead in

the meteorites accurately. But this provedincredibly difficult, for Patterson discov-ered that the whole environment was sopolluted by lead that it was well-nighimpossible to set up a lead-free laborato-ry. Finally, Patterson succeeded, and in1956 determined the earth’s age to be 4.56billion years, an estimate that continues tobe accepted to this date. Patterson wasthen stimulated to look into the issue oflead in natural and human-impacted envi-ronments. Surprised by the closeness ofthe ranges of presumed natural and toxiclead levels in human blood, he began toexamine the levels of a series of elementsin the non-living environment and thebiosphere. Patterson showed that livingorganisms preferentially take up usefulelements such as calcium and activelyexclude toxic ones such as barium fromthe same group.

This led to his second major contribu-tion to science in the form of the conceptof biopurification. According to this prin-ciple, natural concentrations of harmfulelements in human body should be farlower than levels that are toxic, and thatKehoe’s claim of natural levels of lead inhuman blood being as high as 0.2-0.4 ppmwas very much suspect.

Rising levels of leadPatterson then systematically investi-

gated levels of lead in rocks, rivers andsea water, ocean sediments, the atmos-phere and the biosphere. He demonstratedthat over the last few centuries, the levelsof lead in the remains of marine organ-isms incorporated in sediments had goneup a hundredfold. He took ice cores fromthe Arctic and Antarctic and demonstrateda similar increase. The obvious conclu-sion was that the prevailing levels of leadin the human body were a result of pollu-tion, and were not natural levels at all, asKehoe had been claiming so far. Pattersonprovided clinching evidence of this whenhuman teeth and bones from ancient buri-als turned out to have just one-thousandththe amount of lead as teeth and bones ofmodern-day humans.

Summarising his work, Patterson pub-lished a ground-breaking paper in 1965that destroyed all of Kehoe’s unsustain-able claims. The scientific, especially themedical research, community that hadbeen mutely witnessing the unacknowl-edged ill-effects of lead pollution wasimmediately convinced. After sidelininghis work and oil companies cutting off hisfunding, the U.S. government was finallyforced to ban TEL a full 20 years after thepublication of his paper.

But this chemical, thrust upon the worldonly because it is patentable, continues tobring in profits to its manufacturers fromacross the world, including India’s neigh-bours, Afghanistan and Myanmar, whostill use it as an automobile fuel additive.Indeed, as Larry Summers, then a vice-president of the World Bank, and laterSecretary of Treasury under Bill Clinton,had written in his notorious memo of1991: “The measurements of the costs ofhealth impairing pollution depends on theforegone earnings from increased morbid-ity and mortality. From this point of view,a given amount of health impairing pollu-tion should be done in the country withthe lowest cost, which will be the countrywith the lowest wages. I think the eco-nomic logic behind dumping a load oftoxic waste in the lowest wage country isimpeccable and we should face up tothat.” Perhaps India, too, is acting todayon this “impeccable” logic, to the evidentdetriment of its environment and the qual-ity of life of its people.

(Madhav Gadgil is D.D. KosambiVisiting Research Professor, Goa

University.)

Wednesday | June 23, 2015

BY R. K. RAGHAVAN

Last week’s gruesome shootingin Charleston, South Carolina,in the United States, at one of

the nation’s most renowned African-American congregations, is resurrect-ing the city’s and the U.S.’s troubledpast. This city’s history is steeped inslavery and the kind of racism thatfuelled the murders on June 17.About half of all African-Americansin the U.S. can trace their arrival tothe country from the Charlestonregion.

At the Wednesday evening Biblestudy, on June 17, six women andthree men, including Pastor ClementaPinckney, a state Senator, were shotdead at the Emmanuel AfricanMethodist Episcopal church, locatedin a predominantly white area of thecity’s downtown peninsula. The 21-year old white gunman, Dylann Roof,emptied his semi-automatic handgunon an essentially African-Americancongregation. The Federal Bureau ofInvestigation is now treating this as ahate crime, a category of deviancethat has become part and parcel ofAmerican life. There were more than3,000 hate crimes committed during2013, the last year for which statisticsare available. Of these, 2,000 weredirected at the African-Americancommunity. Whites were victims inabout 700.

Importance of CharlestonRoof was in the gathering and after

listening to the discourse for nearly45 minutes, entered into an argumentin dissent of what was being said bythe pastor. Following what wasdescribed as a vitriolic exchange ofviews, Roof stood up and openedindiscriminate fire. Just before shoot-ing, he reportedly said: “I have to doit. You rape our women. You’re tak-ing over our country. And you have togo.” Such was the intensity of hishatred for African-Americans. Therehave been past incidents of violencein churches across the nation. But,somehow, Charleston seemed differ-ent, and the nation, includingPresident Barack Obama, soon ral-lied together to express its shock anddisapproval.

Why did Roof select Charleston tounleash his savagery? In a website,“Last Rhodesian”, opened as recentlyas February 2015 and attributed toRoof, he said: “… I chose Charlestonbecause it is the most historic city inmy state, and at one time had thehighest ratio of blacks to whites inthe country. We have no skinheads,no real KKK [Ku Klux Klan], no onedoing anything but talking on theinternet. Well someone has to havethe bravery to take it to the realworld, and I guess that has to be me.”Roof will now have to face chargeson nine counts of murder and one ofpossession of a firearm while com-mitting a crime.

The rights movementThe history of the Emmanuel

Episcopal Church, one of the oldestblack churches in the country, goesback to the early 1800s. A few yearsafter it started attracting congrega-tions, in 1822, it was burnt down by afew local white landowners whoresented an attempted slave rebellionengineered by Denmark Vesey, oneof the church’s co-founders. It alsobore the brunt of an earthquake in1886. Notwithstanding such tribula-tions, it has played a significant rolein the African-American Civil Rightsmovement for more than a century,especially in the 1960s. It began to berecognised as “the symbol of blackfreedom”, and attained fame whenRev. Martin Luther King spoke thereurging congregants to vote in 1962.More recently, Pastor Pinckney hadled rallies against the police killing,in April 2015, of Walter Scott, anAfrican-American youth, in nearbyNorth Charleston, an incident whichled to large-scale riots. The pastorwas very vocal in the state Senate,pressing Charleston policemen tomandatorily wear body-mountedvideo cameras — a move aimed atcurbing police misconduct.Therefore, there was enough provo-cation for a white backlash and ran-cour, especially against the pastor.

The Charleston attack bore strongresemblance to the racist attackagainst a politically active blackchurch in Birmingham, Alabama,

back in 1963. This incident, a bomb-ing, was attributed to the dreadedwhite supremacist KKK, and con-tributed to the strengthening of theCivil Rights Movement. This pastexplains why Roof zeroed in onCharleston. The Charleston attackraises many critical issues impingingon the polity and social fabric of theU.S. There are age-old racial fissureswhich just refuse to go away. As Prof.Jack Greene, a leading expert on theU.S. Police and my professor atTemple University, says: “Inequalityaffects the poor and marginalizedmost, of course, and AfricanAmericans have been marginalizedbefore and following the days ofslavery.”

Reckless attacks by white suprema-cists are more than a menace, howev-er infrequent they may be. For exam-ple, there was the gory incident of1995, where Timothy R. McVeigh,formerly of the U.S. Army, detonateda truck bomb in front of a federaloffice building in Oklahoma Citykilling 168 people. Although initiallydescribed a terrorist, there was subse-quent speculation that McVeigh wasnot acting alone, with one of his asso-ciates being a white supremacist.

Gun lobby and rightsFrom the criminal justice point of

view, there are at least two issues

here which should be a matter of con-cern to the U.S. The first is the vexa-tious question of how to ensure thatfirearms do not fall into the wronghands. We do not yet know whetherRoof’s firearm was licensed or not.However, it is known that in Marchthis year he was arrested for trespassand possession of a narcotic painkiller. The cold reality in the U.S. isthat persons with a more dubiousrecord than Roof can get gunlicences, taking advantage of theConstitutional “right to bear arms” —one that has been so loosely and lib-erally interpreted that even mentallyimpaired individuals and those with acriminal record can hide their pastand obtain a licence and buy the mostsophisticated weapons. A catalyst inthis appalling situation is the cloutthat the pro-gun lobby, in the form ofthe National Rifles Association(NRA), enjoys. Mr. Obama, whowaxed eloquent in favour of a strictergun policy before he was elected, hadto tone down his opposition to theNRA because the latter is politicallytoo powerful to be antagonised.White House does go all out to giveexpression to its determination to putan end to the gun menace wheneverthere are serious incidents. Examplesare the Virginia Tech case in April2007 in which 32 people were shot

dead by a South Korean undergradu-ate student, and the ConnecticutSandy Hook Elementary School casethat claimed 26 lives when a formerstudent went berserk in December2012. Such resolve does not gobeyond rhetoric.

The administration’s travails arecompounded by a judiciary that hasput its foot down against any whole-sale ban on firearms. It endorses onlyreasonable restrictions on ownershipand the right to carry a weapon fromplace to place.

Fragile race relationsThe fragile relationship between

whites and blacks in America isanother reality that shows up in inci-dents like Charleston. We mustremember here that an averageAfrican-American still believes thathe can get no justice at the hands of awhite-dominated jury system andmilitant police forces who have beenexcessively beefed up in the past fewyears by liberal federal assistance tobuy heavy arms that are clearly out ofplace in a civilian police system. AsProf. Greene says: “ ...the continua-tion of ‘crime attack’ and ‘war’ ide-ologies, as well as the actual milita-rization of police.... fuels the aggres-siveness and war footing of thepolice.”

The antagonism between blacksand the police goes back manydecades. At least three importantincidents are relevant. The landmarkcase is that of Rodney King in 1991in Los Angeles, where the haplessAfrican-American motorist was bru-tally assaulted by a posse of police-men for not stopping when asked todo so. The episode was caught oncamera and widely circulated,inflaming passions across the coun-try. The acquittal of the policeinvolved led to large-scale riots. Themere civil liability fastened on themfurther infuriated the African-American population. Two decadeslater, in February 2012, an African-American youth, Trayvon Martin,was shot dead in Sanford, Florida, onthe flimsy plea of self-defence by aneighbourhood watch volunteer. Allhell broke loose and black sentiment

overflowed to express what was con-sidered to be a case of white policeatrocity against an African-Americanyouth. Here too, the policeman waslet off after being given the benefit ofthe doubt. Most recently, last August,the fatal shooting of an African-American youth, Michael Brown, bya Ferguson (Missouri) policemanerupted in large-scale violence. Thejury’s decision not to indict the offi-cer only widened black and whiteestrangement.

Perhaps the most questioned aspectof the criminal justice policy andenforcement is the continued highrate of incarceration of African-Americans, considered dispropor-tionate to their numbers in the coun-try’s population. This perceivedimbalance causes maximum offenceto most African-Americans across thenation.

The practice of “stop and frisk”prevalent in most police departmentsis another irritant. Recently, the NewYork Police Department has had todrastically revise its guidelines topatrolmen to ensure a more circum-spect exercise of its authority. Allthese factors greatly reduce theadministration’s credibility in theeyes of the African-American com-munity.

In the ultimate analysis, incidentslike Charleston pose a question markover the U.S. administration’s capac-ity to harmonise ties between thenation’s two largest communities. Noamount of official window dressingor affirmative action to uplift theblack masses has helped to bridge thechasm. Undoubtedly, there is a trustdeficit in the U.S.

India also has a problem of policebiases against minorities. But then,some deft balancing of administrativeprocesses has helped us to achieve amore than marginal positive impacton furthering social cohesion.Perhaps the U.S. has something tolearn from us.

(Dr. R.K. Raghavan is a formerCBI Director and a graduate in

criminal justice from the TempleUniversity, Philadelphia, U.S.)

Dance of deathDance of death

Old debate on lead rekindled

The unrealised American Dream

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The smell of death continues to hang over theLaxmi Nagar slum in Malvani in Mumbai’swestern suburbs. The first reports of deaths

from spurious liquor came in last week, and over thenext four days the toll has crossed 100, making itMaharashtra’s worst such tragedy. In 2004, the deathtoll in a similar tragedy went up to 87. The use ofmethanol, the highly toxic alcohol, is once again thefactor in these deaths. The human scale of the tragedyis shocking. It has killed the chief bread-winners,widowed several women, some as young as 18, andorphaned small children who have no means to sur-vive. Mainkaini Swami alias Akka, the alleged mas-termind, runs a bootlegging network, and is on therun. Two of her associates were arrested, but Akkaremains elusive. She was arrested five times in thepast, but has continued to run the network right underthe nose of law enforcement agencies. It is tragic thatmass deaths among the poor due to illicit liquor con-sumption is still prevalent. Since 2001, illicit hoochhas killed over 700 people across India in 18 recordedincidents. The biggest such tragedy, which killed 180people in May 2008, was in Karnataka. Then, 170people were killed in West Bengal in December 2011.

The latest tragedy has been an embarrassment to theBJP-Shiv Sena government, and Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis will in all probability now clampdown on illicit liquor units across the State. After the2004 tragedy the Congress-NCP government hadmade Section 65 of the Bombay Prohibition Act anon-bailable provision with the maximum punishmentranging from six months to three years. However,excise and police officials say bootleggers like Akkamanage to get bail and return to the business. Thegovernment is now considering the application ofmore stringent laws such as the MaharashtraPrevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords,Bootleggers, Drug Offenders and Dangerous PersonsAct, 1981, or even the Maharashtra Control ofOrganised Crime Act (MCOCA) which will make baila difficult proposition. The government has receivedmany representations, especially from women, to banliquor in temple towns such as Pandharpur, andTuljapur, Nagpur and Yavatmal, In January the gov-ernment declared Chandrapur “liquor-free”, making itthe third “dry” district after Gadchiroli, and Wardha,where Mahatma Gandhi’s Sevagram ashram is locat-ed. But, in Gadchiroli and Wardha districts, in the lastfour years the Excise Department has lodged some2,000 cases and seized illicit alcohol worth overRs.2,000 crore. So for now, effective police actioncombined with stringent laws remains the only way tostop this dance of death.

Reckless attacks by white supremacists aremore than a menace, however infrequent they

may be. For example, there was the gory incident of 1995, where Timothy R. McVeigh, formerly of the U.S. Army, detonated a truckbomb in front of a federal office building inOklahoma City killing 168 people. Although

initially described a terrorist, there was subsequent speculation that McVeigh was not

acting alone, with one of his associates being awhite supremacist.

The wordwide annual production of leadtoday amounts to 50 lakh tonnes; it is

used in solder, paint and even foodcolouring. By now, lead has accumulatedin significant quantities in human bodiesand the environment. But the major cul-

prit in the spread of lead is the anti-knock additive to the automobile fuel,

tetraethyl lead (TEL). The history of howTEL was unnecessarily thrust on

humanity and the biosphere makes ariveting story.

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Lalit Modi casethe UK, a country which he has made his

home to avoid legal processes in India.Raje is facing allegations of giving a secret

testimony supporting Lalit Modi's immigra-tion plea in the UK. Her son, DushyantSingh, has also been accused of receivingmoney in illicit transactions from Lalit Modi.

Further, External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj has admitted to helping Lalit Modisecure travel documents in the UK.

Modi, 49, travelled to London in 2010 afterthe IPL became embroiled in allegations ofmatch-fixing and illegal betting.

BJP challengeswith him just to go against Narendra

Modi. The public is much aware aboutthings. It will ask him why he did so andbetrayed their trust," he said.

Modi, who is also the Leader of Oppositionin Bihar Legislative Council, challenged theBihar CM to name any new scheme orachievement by him after he broke awayfrom NDA in June 2013.

Kabul Parliamentchallenges to Government security control

in an area close to strategically importantKunduz City. And today there was a failedattack on parliament as it was about toreview the nomination for the Minister ofDefence,” Haysom said.

Haysom's comments come as the Talibanstaged a coordinated suicide bombing-cum-gun attack on the Afghan Parliament onMonday. Afghan forces claimed to havekilled all seven militants and no MPs weresaid to be harmed.

Talking about the tough security scenarioin the country, UN envoy Haysom also men-tioned the ISIS attempt to establish afoothold in the country, raising further con-cern.

“Foreign fighters from Afghanistan’snorthern neighbours and elsewhere present aparticular challenge. There also remains con-siderable concern that ISIL, referred to inAfghanistan as Daesh, is seeking to establisha foothold. This demands greater regionalinvolvement and collaboration to addressthis shared threat,” the UN envoy urged.

He added that the deteriorating security sit-uation was taking a toll, especially on thecivilians as so far this year 4,216 civilianshave been killed or injured.

Another UN ambassador to Afghan ZahirTanin also remarked that Afghanistan was atthe receiving end of an “unprecedented con-vergence” of Taliban insurgents, over 7,000foreign fighters and other violent groupsincluding the ISIS.

These groups not only target Afghan troopsand civilians with suicide bombings, impro-vised explosives, hostage-taking and assassi-nations but they seek control of districts andprovinces as bases for their activities inAfghanistan as well as south and centralAsia, a news agency quoted Zahir Tanin astelling the UN Security Council.

The Taliban has stepped up attacks acrossthe country ever since it launched its “springoffensive” in April. It has launched a seriesof suicide attacks on various governmentbuildings and key strategic hubs. Meanwhile,the Taliban has also captured two districtsChardara and Dasht-i-Archi, in the northernprovince of Kunduz.

Afghan forces have been struggling tomaintain the security on their own after theUS and NATO wrapped up their combat mis-sion in Afghanistan in December 2014. Lessthan 10,000 US troops and several thousandNATO personnel remain in the country nowfor training the national troops.

Jitender Tomargiven the punishment, assured Kejriwal.We will not tolerate any wrongdoing, no

matter what. We are not relatives of any min-ister. Hence, we accepted Tomar's resigna-tion, said Kejriwal.

He also said that as soon as he got to knowthe truth, he made Tomar resign from hispost. The AAP chief, however, used theopportunity to train guns at the BharatiyaJanata Party, saying Prime Minister NarendraModi should take action against ExternalAffairs Minister Sushma Swaraj andRajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Rajefor supporting former IPL chief Lalit Modi.

Meanwhile, Congress leader Ajay Makensaid Kejriwal was not kept in the dark. Infact, the Delhi CM did not tell anything toDelhiites despite knowing everything aboutthe issue, added Maken. Senior Aam AadmiParty (now former) leaders PrashantBhushan and Yogendra Yadav brought theissue to Kejriwal's notice, Maken toldreporters.

Earlier today, the Delhi Assembly wasadjourned for 15 minutes after the BJPsought an explanation from Kejriwal on thealleged fake degree of Tomar.

Tomar is currently in jail in the fake degreecase. He was arrested on June 9. Police haveslapped a case of cheating, forgery and con-spiracy against him.

Barack ObamaPakistan. "When our values are threatened,

we come together as one nation. When threeyoung Muslim Americans were brutally mur-dered in Chapel Hill earlier this year,Americans of all faiths rallied around thatcommunity," Obama said in his address tothe guests.

"As Americans, we insist that nobodyshould be targeted because of who they are,what they look like, who they love, how theyworship. We stand united against these hate-ful acts," he said.

Traditional Iftar dinner follows daily fast-ing from dawn to dusk. Ramadan ends withthe Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

"Our annual White House Iftar recognisesthe sacredness of Ramadan to more than 1.5billion Muslims around the world. It is a timewhen Muslims recommit themselves to theirfaith, following days of discipline withnights of gratitude for the gifts that Godbestows," Obama said.

"Challenges around the world and here athome demand the very qualities you summonevery day during Ramadan - sacrifice, disci-pline, patience. A resilience that says wedon't simply endure, but we overcome,"Obama said.

Obama said Iftar is also a reminder of thefreedoms that bind together as Americans,including the freedom of religion - that invi-olable right to practice faiths freely.

"Together, we can overcome ignorance andprejudice. Together, we will overcome con-flict and injustice - not just with words, butwith deeds. With what a hero of mine, civilrights icon John Lewis, calls using our feet -getting out in the real world to organise andto create the change that we seek," he said.

"That is what so many of you do every sin-gle day. And that is what we have to contin-ue to do together here in America and aroundthe world. As the Quran teaches, let usanswer with "Peace", Obama added.

Most smartMaharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka

respectively. Delhi has got one city each forSmart City and AMRUT.

According to the criteria finalised by thegovernment, West Bengal and Rajasthan getto nominate four cities for the smart cityproject; Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Punjabthree cities; Odisha, Haryana, Telangana andChhatisgarh two cities; and Jammu andKashmir, Kerala, Jharkhand, Assam,Himachal, Goa, Arunachal and Chandigarhone city each.

Similarly, under the AMRUT scheme, 31cities have been identified in AndhraPradesh; 30 in Rajasthan; 28 in West Bengal;27 in Bihar; 19 in Odisha and Haryana; 18 inKerala; 17 in Punjab; 15 in Telangana and 10in Chhattisharh.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will belaunching implementation guidelines for 100Smart Cities, 500 AMRUT cities andPradhan Mantri Awas Yojana on June 25.

Twelve states - UP, Tamil Nadu,Maharashtra, MP, Gujarat, Karnataka,Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab,Haryana, Telangana and Chhattisgarh wouldlead the urban transformation piloted by theModi-led government.

These 12 states account for 70 percent ofsmart cities to be developed and AMRUTcities to be rejuvenated.

Of these 12 states, eight are under the ruleof BJP or its allies accounting for about halfof smart cities to be developed and 225 of476 AMRUT cities identified so far. UTs arealso the responsibility of central government.

According to official, each state has beenassigned a specific number of cities for suchnomination by the ministry based on anobjective criteria giving equal weightage tourban population and number of statutorycities/towns in each state.

A statutory town is one that has a notifiedmunicipal body. There are 4,041 statutorycities/towns in the country as per 2011Census. Out of these about 500 cities arewith a population of above one lakh eachwhich are the focus of AMRUT. These 500cities account for 73 percent of country'surban population.

While assigning the 100 smart city slotsamong states/UTs, geographical equity hasbeen taken into consideration to ensure thateach State/UT gets to develop at least onesmart city, the official said.

"Selection of potential smart city candi-dates is based on a two-stage competition --'City Challenge competition. First stage ofcompetition is intra-state. This involves eval-uating all cities and towns in each state basedon a set of criteria evolved by the Ministry ofUrban Development in consultation with allstakeholders including states/UTs," he said.

Cities nominated by each state will partici-pate in the second stage of 'inter-city' compe-tition. These 100 cities will prepare smartcity plans for each city and they will be eval-uated in the ministry by a panel of expertsbased on a set of elaborate criteria.

All 100 cities will be ranked based on thecriteria and the top 20 will be chosen forfunding during 2015-16.

Rest of the cities will be given time tomake up the deficiencies identified beforeparticipating in the next two rounds of com-petition, the official said.

Subsequently, another set of 40 cities willbe selected for financing in 2016-17 and the

remaining 40 in next year.For the selection of AMRUT cities, broad

criteria is that cities/towns with population ofabove one lakh.

Hill cities, Island cities, towns of tourismimportance, and towns on the main stem ofGanga are also to be included even thoughthey have less than one lakh population.

So far, 476 cities/towns have been selectedas per details given in the above table and therest are being finalised.

J&K manhad posed along with my cousin. The arm

of my cousin is visible in the poster used bythe police. The original picture was edited topass me off as the wanted militant," Shahsaid.

Last week, police had announced a rewardof Rs 10 lakh each for two militants, Najarand Imtiyaz Ahmad Kandoo, allegedlyinvolved in the killing in Sopore, 52 kmsfrom here. Posters announcing the rewardwere circulated in the township and adjoin-ing areas.

He said the picture in the posters has puthis life in danger.

"Police claims that I am a lookalike ofwanted militant, but actually my photo hasbeen edited and pasted in the poster whichhas put my life at risk," he said.

Shah said fearing his safety, he approachedSuperintendent of Police, Kupwara to clarifythe issue. "The SP has issued a certificate tome and told me not to worry, but still I amafraid," he claimed.

Inspector General of Police, Kashmir SyedJavaid Mujtaba Gillani said police was inves-tigating the matter. "We have taken cog-nizance of the complaint and are looking intoit," he said.

The militants, Najar and Kandoo, arebelieved to have defied the command ofHizbul Mujahideen supremo SyedSalahuddin and have been operating underthe shadow name of Lashkar-e-Islam outfit.

'Made in Indiais flourishing though it is still just around

Rs 17 crore. China Monday opened a secondroute through the Himalayan pass of NathuLa in Sikkim, 4,000 metres above sea level,for the first batch of Kailash-Manasarovarpilgrims.

Chinese Ambassador to India Le Yucheng,who for the first time visited Sikkm andcrossed over through the Nathu La borderpoint yesterday to receive the pilgrims, metSikkim Chief Minister Pawan KumarChamling and discussed steps to increase thetrade. Speaking to the Indian media here, Lesaid the present volume of over USD 70 bil-lion bilateral trade is inadequate and does notrepresents the potential. He said the trade isset to grow with more Chinese investment inIndia.

Karnataka govtorder of May 11," a petition by the

Karnataka government said in its prayer forinterim relief.

The appeal against the May 11 verdict alsosought setting aside of the acquittal ofJayalalithaa's close aide Sasikala and two ofher relatives, VN Sudhakaran and Elavarasi,on the grounds that Karnataka's prosecutingagency was not made a party by them beforethe High Court.

The petition, filed through advocate JosephAristotle, claimed that the High Court erredin computing the disproportionate assets ofthe AIADMK leader.

"The judge committed a grave mistake intotalling the ten items of loan by arriving at afigure of Rs 24.17 crore when, actually onproper totalling, the same ought to be Rs10.67 crore, resulting in erroneous decisionthat disproportionate assets is only to theextent of 8.12 percent of the income whenactually it works out to 76.7 percent, the dis-proportionate assets being Rs 16.32 croreand the income as found being Rs 21.26crore," the plea said.

The state government in the petition askedas to whether the High Court had "erred inlaw" by according the benefit of doubt toJayalalithaa in pursuance of a Supreme Courtjudgement holding that an accused can beacquitted if his or her disproportionate assetswas to the extent of 10 percent.

It also claimed that the High Court haserred in law in over-ruling the preliminaryobjections raised by the state governmentand added that the accused had filed theirappeals against conviction without implead-ing Karnataka as a party.

The plea also referred to a recent SupremeCourt judgement holding that the TamilNadu government had no right to appointAdvocate Bhawani Singh as special publicprosecutor (SPP) to appear in the KarnatakaHigh Court.

State government has sought a stay on theHigh Court verdict, saying that Jayalalithaa"was holding position of Chief Minister ofthe state at the time of the commission of theoffences. The charges are grave. The order ofacquittal has resulted in gross miscarriage ofjustice".

The 67-year-old AIADMK chief took oathas chief minister for the fifth time in Chennaion May 24 after the single judge bench ofJustice CR Kumaraswamy upheld herappeal, quashed all charges against her and

set aside her conviction and four-year sen-tence a trial court here handed down to heron September 27, 2014.

The Karnataka High Court, holding thevalue of Jayalalithaa's disproportionateassets at Rs 2.82 crore, instead of Rs 53.6crore computed by the trial court, held theamount "not enough" to convict Jayalalithaaon corruption charges.

Justice Kumaraswamy had also acquittedJayalalithaa's three co-convicts, sentenced tofour years jail and fined Rs 10 crore each forallegedly amassing wealth disproportionateto their source of income during her firstterm as chief minister from 1991-96.

The co-convicts are Sasikala Natarajan, hernephew VN Sudhakaran and her aunt JEllavarsi. Sudhakaran is also the disownedfoster son of Jayalalithaa.

Do not put"I seek your urgent intervention to see that

the SIT on black money is not structurallyunder any ministry but has an independentexistence," Swamy said in the letter.

He said if at all, the SIT is "embedded inany Ministry, it will be best if it is made partof the Department of Personnel which isunder your charge".

He also rued that the SIT has not beengiven any office yet and that it was operatingfrom two rooms in a hotel in central Delhi.

The Supreme Court-appointed SIT hasbeen probing various black money cases.

Sushma Swarajat United Nations," she tweeted. The

United Nations had last December declaredJune 21 as International Yoga Day.

Swaraj refused to answer any questionrelating to the 'Lalitgate' when reportersasked her about it on her return here.

She will leave for Nepal tomorrow on atwo-day visit to participate at an internation-al donors' meet on reconstruction of quake-hit Nepal.

Sohrabuddin's brotherA complaint was filed by one Barkat Bhai

and his sisters to Ratlam Superintendent ofPolice Avinash Sharma following which ateam under Sub Divisional Magistrate(SDM) Neha Bharti was constituted and dis-patched to Dharad village where the accusedallegedly tried to grab the land, they said.

Riyazuddin along with his armed associ-ates reached the village yesterday to grab theland on the basis of fake will. But policefoiled the move and arrested them, CitySuperintendent of Police P S Ranawat said.

Three rifles, a pistol, 41 cartridges, a trac-tor and a jeep were seized from their posses-sion, he said.

A case under relevant IPC sections andArms Act has been registered against themand further probe into the matter is on, the SPadded.

15-yr-oldtaking the pictures with the toygun for put-

ting them up on social networking sites whena police officer in Faisalabad opened fire onthem, without any warning.

Both the boys were injured and taken to thedistrict headquarters (DHQ) hospital, whereFarhan, whose condition was critical, died ofexcessive bleeding late last night.

SHO Faryad Cheema, the police officerwho opened the fire on the boys, told aninvestigation team that the police teamthought the two were carrying out a robbery.

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah saidCheema and four other officials have beenarrested and a murder case has been regis-tered against them.

"A judicial inquiry team has also beenformed to probe the incident," he said.

According to family members, the boyswere taking selfies when the police openedfire on them without any warning.

AIMPLB warnssecretary of the AIMPLB, on June 15 states

that 'Brahmanwad' is harming Islam.Addressed to Imams, Muslim organisa-

tions and institutions, an appeal has beenmade to them to get united against the'Hindutva' forces.

The letter reportedly hints that the Centre ispromoting 'Hindutva' through yoga practices,'Surya Namaskar' which are against Islamicbeliefs.

The AIMPLB had threatened of a nation-wide agitation after outrage of inclusion of'Surya Namaskar' in International Yoga Daycelebrations.

Gold seized The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence

(DRI) seized the gold valued at Rs 16.85crore from 56 passengers arriving fromMalaysia and Singapore in the early hoursof Monday.

DRI officials said Chennai-based gangswere bringing the precious metal in differ-ent shapes resembling the parts of the elec-tronic goods, such as magnets in amplifiers,stand of speakers, central pulley of washingmachine, rods of stand/trolley and magnetsin transformer. This was done in a meticu-lous way to avoid detection by customs offi-cials through regular X-ray scanning of the

baggage.Investigations by DRI revealed that these

couriers used to depart from Chennai airportto Malaysia or Singapore and return to lessfrequented airports with gold concealed inelectronic goods or consumer durables suchas music system, amplifiers, mini washingmachine, electric oven, induction stove andtelevision.

It was also found that the gangs wereusing large number of non-frequent passen-gers as couriers.

On specific intelligence, Chennai zonalunit of DRI with the assistance of DRI unitsat Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad and CustomsCommissionerate, Visakhapatnam launcheda major operation which began on Sundaynight and continued till late Mondayevening.

The operation resulted in huge haul of 63kg of smuggled gold from three internation-al flights - Air Asia 83 and Malindo 251,both from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and SilkAir MI442 from Singapore.

The officials identified suspect passengersin the three flights which landed lateSunday night. Their baggage was segregat-ed and scanned.

"The suspect goods were categorised indi-vidually and detailed examination was doneby breaking open the goods in the conceal-ment area," said a statement by DRI.

The gold was brought in an illegal mannerin violation of provisions of the CustomsAct, 1962 and Baggage Rules, 1998. Theofficials were questioning 56 passengers.

"Necessary legal action under CustomsAct, 1962 for offences committed in smug-gling of gold has been contemplated and thefurther investigation is on," the statementsaid.

This is the biggest seizure of the yellowmetal at Visakhapatnam airport and one ofthe biggest hauls in the country.

There has been a spurt in gold smugglingin recent years as the precious metal isbeing brought in illegally to avoid importduty.

Triple lifesentence for the murderer of Kush

Kataria, the Nagpur bench yesterday award-ed one more life sentence holding primeaccused Ayush Nirmal Pugalia (26) guiltyunder Section 364-A of the IPC (kidnappingfor ransom).

On April 4, 2013, a trial court here hadawarded double life sentenced to Pugaliafor brutal and cold-blooded murder of Kush,son of a city businessman Prashant Kataria.

A division bench comprising justicesArun Chaudhari and P N Deshmukh, whileallowing state appeals, described the trialcourt verdict as "legally correct and proper"for the offences of kidnapping, murder anddestroying evidence of offence and alsoupheld the prosecution's claim that the kid-napping was done for ransom.

However, the High Court did not acceptthe prosecution appeal to award death sen-tence to Pugalia and rejected the state gov-ernment?s appeal for enhancing the life sen-tence to capital punishment.

The High Court felt that this was not the'rarest of the rare' case and accused cannotbe said to be a menace to the society.

The trial court had also turned downdemand of prosecution and society at largeto hang Pugalia for extreme cruelty shownin eliminating Kush and had awarded dou-ble lifer considering his young age, lack ofcriminal past and failure of prosecution topin-point motive behind this diabolic mur-der for ransom.

The High Court also dismissed an appealfiled by prime accused Pugalia against hisconviction and upheld the double life sen-tence awarded to him for kidnapping andanother for murdering the child and said thetwo life sentences will go consecutively.

The third one imposed by HC he will goconcurrently with the sentence given by thetrial court..

China slams have long been affected by what China

sees as Japan`s failure to atone for its occu-pation of parts of the country before andduring the war, and Beijing rarely misses anopportunity to remind its people and theworld.

China has been coy about which countriesit plans to invite to the Sept. 3 parade tocommemorate 70 years since the war`s endin Asia, but says it will likely invite repre-sentatives from the Western Allies whofought with China.

President Xi Jinping could be left stand-ing on the stage with few top Western offi-cials, however, diplomats have told Reuters,due to concern by Western governmentsover a range of issues, including the expect-ed presence of Russian President VladimirPutin. Wang Shiming, deputy propagandachief of the ruling Communist Party`sCentral Committee, declined to say whichWestern leaders might attend, but then criti-cised the West for trivialising China`s role inthe war. "Certain people in the West havealways lacked an objective and just recogni-tion of China`s position and role in the worldanti-fascist war," Wang told reporters inresponse to a question from a state mediareporter about why Western public opiniondownplayed China`s role.

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According to a reportfrom China,Xiaomi is expected

to exceed 35 million smart-phone shipments in thefirst half of this year.

The report citing supplychain sources added thatthe company in the sameperiod last year shipped 26million units - leading to a30 percent rise this year.Unfortunately, the reportdoesn't detail the most pop-ular markets for Xiaomi,apart from home landChina.

To recall, Xiaomi hadpreviously claimed it soldover 61 million phones in2014, which was up 227percent from a year earlier.The company in Januaryalso announced it had gen-erated revenue of CNY26.6 billion in 2014.

A report in March citing

Xiaomi's chief executiveLei Jun suggested that thecompany had plans to sellup to 100 million smart-phones this year. Xiaomiwas said to be targeting tosell between 80 and 100million handsets in 2015.The report also claimedthat Xiaomi is looking toachieve total revenuebetween CNY 100 billionand 200 billion this year.

Recently, Xiaomiclaimed that it had sold 10million Mi 4 smartphonesworldwide. Separately, acompany spokespersonclaimed that the Xiaomihad surpassed 6 millionworldwide shipments ofthe Mi Band fitness track-er.

The Chinese company inDecember claimed that itsold 1 million smartphonesin India. The company,

which is also known asChina's Apple, entered theIndian market only in Julywith its Mi 3 smartphone,which meant Xiaomi man-aged to sell 1 million hand-sets in under 6 months. Sofar, Xiaomi launched theMi 3, Redmi 1S, RedmiNote, Redmi Note 4G, Mi

4, and Mi 4i in India.Xiaomi has also

announced that it will setup a research and develop-ment unit in Bengaluru, itsfirst such facility outside ofChina, as the companylooks to enhance presencein the Indian smartphonemarket.

1. The Vedic deity Indra was the Goddess ofA. wind B. eternityC. rain and thunder D. fire

2. Tolkappiyam is associated with theA. first Sangam period B. second Sangam periodC. third Sangam period D. post-third Sangam period

3. Pulakesin II was the most famous ruler ofA. Chalukyas B. CholasC. Pallavas D. Satavahanas

4. The term Brahmadeya occurs for the first time inA. early Vedic texts B. early Buddhist textsC. pre-Gupta inscriptions D. post-Gupta inscriptions

5.Under whose leadership was the all India Muslim League set up?A. Mohammed Ali JinnahB. Sayyid Ahmed KhanC. Aga KhanD. All of the above

QUIZ TIME

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

TODAY’S STARARIES You may be in a difficult position, Aries, as a critical part of a pend-

ing decision. Your first reaction may be to throw up your hands andleave the decision to someone else. Making a choice is too tough,so you find that you'd rather not have to make it at all. Unfortunately,it looks like everyone else has the same idea. Deep down, you havean opinion that needs to be heard.

TAURUS Your self-esteem should be strong these days, Taurus, helping youbuild more confidence in yourself every day. There may be a glitchin the action today, however, as someone with an extreme perspec-tive on things suddenly steps into the picture. Your emotions maysuddenly swing from one end of the spectrum to the other. Do yourbest to stay calm.

GEMINI A ray of sunshine is likely to shine on you, Gemini. Things may have beencloudy lately, making it harder for you to maintain a positive disposition.Today's news will be uplifting, and you will likely be reminded of all the goodtimes in store for you. Others may feel a bit of stress, but you should be ableto see through this and appreciate the benefits of the situation.

CANCER Recent hesitation on your part may have suddenly put you in a bind, Cancer. Itmay feel like you've reached gridlock and your choices are limited. You can nolonger get a solid handle on things. Instead of trying to make a move now, youmay have to wait until the dust settles and you can see clearly again. Let the sit-uation release before you add any more friction.

LEO There are powerful forces operating now, Leo. Whether you realize it or not, youhave tremendous control over the direction of these energies. Take control of thesituation instead of letting someone else do it for you. You will find that other peo-ple are more malleable than usual, making them quite willing to move forward inwhatever direction you point them.

VIRGO If conflict arises in your world, Virgo, you must keep in mind thatthere is no one else to blame except you. Keeping your sights seton one goal is useful as you concentrate all your energy towardthat one thing. At the same time, you may be losing perspective onwhat's going on around you. Make sure you continue to be a teamplayer by keeping an eye out for the people in the wings.

LIBRA Life may seem like a great train ride, Libra. You have yourown little compartment that you're striving to keep comfort-able and neat. The company you keep is important, as isyour proximity to the food car. Be careful that you don't getso wrapped up in your own little world that you neglect topay heed to where the train is headed.

SCORPIO You need to learn an important lesson in follow-through, Scorpio.As you strive for perfection, you may get the feeling that nothing isever fully completed. Try not to be so hard on yourself. The workyou've finished so far is more than likely much better than whatmost people could ever accomplish. Put the final touches on what-ever you're doing and move on.

SAGITTARIUS Most of the time you deal with the facts, Sagittarius. Facts are thingsyou can grasp, categorize, and make rational sense of. Unfortunately,today some of your facts may be challenged by one of the things youfear most - intense emotions. The ensuing friction is like dealing withapples and oranges. You may find it hard to find any common groundfrom which to negotiate.

CAPRICORN You may be hit with some extreme circumstances that causeyou to feel uneasy about continuing along your path, Capricorn.Use this jolt as a reminder that nothing is set in stone. An ele-ment of the unexpected can always creep up on you. Deepdown, you probably had a feeling that this difficult situation wasbound to happen eventually.

AQUARIUS You may feel like you're on a road to adventure and excited aboutthe frontiers you're encountering, Aquarius. Unfortunately, itseems that not everyone is as excited about this path as you are.Blows to your ego are apt to hit hard, but try not to let this deteryou. This is more than likely a result of other people's jealousy ofyour incredible strength and bravery.

PISCES There's a tremendously sensitive side to your personality that's tenderand extremely vulnerable, Pisces. Be careful about putting too muchof yourself out there now. By opening yourself up so much, you're invit-ing in trouble. Others might not be that aware of how sensitive you are.Those with strong, boisterous spirits are likely to be abrasive, so pro-tect your emotions.

Soon after the first-generationMoto X started receivingAndroid 5.1 Lollipop update in

select markets, Motorola has startedthe Android 5.1 Lollipop update roll-out for its Moto X (Gen 2) handset.

Motorola's David Schuster, SeniorDirector of Software ProductManagement, last week had con-firmed that Motorola Moto X andMoto X (Gen 2) entered soak test inseveral markets. Adding further,Schuster had noted that "If all goeswell we would expect full deploy-ments to start next week."

Now, Motorola in a statement (via9to5google) has announced theupdate for Moto X (Gen 2) and said,"We are excited to announce a newsoftware update for Moto X (2ndGen.) by Motorola. This updatebrings Android 5.1 Lollipop to yourphone along with other improve-ments. Android 5.1 Lollipopimproves stability and provides bet-ter control over notifications."

Users can manually check for thenew update by going to Settings >About Phone > System Updates ontheir Moto X (Gen 2). Considering

Motorola has just pushed theAndroid 5.1 update to the Moto X(Gen 2), we can expect it to takesome time to reach the handsetworldwide. To recall, Motorola hadlisted the change log for the Android5.1 update for the Moto X (Gen 2)back in March; though the refreshedchange log has been tweaked.

As per the new change log, theAndroid 5.1 Lollipop update forMoto X (Gen 2) handset will letusers block interruptions until thenext alarm, alter notification volumecontrols while media is playing, dis-miss a head-up notification andswipe it up to remove it from thescreen. Besides a new pull-downmenu for quickly selecting differentWi-Fi access points or pairedBluetooth devices, post the update,Moto X (Gen 2) users would also beable to hide conditional setting tilesin case they are using features like'Invert Colours' or 'Hotspot'.Improvements in ART (Android RunTime), which will result in fasteropening of apps, are also included.

Post the update, if the Moto X (Gen2) is lost or stolen, it will stay lockeduntil you sign in with your Googleaccount, even if someone resets it tofactory settings. A number of otherbug fixes included in the Android 5.1Lollipop update for Moto X (Gen 2)deal with handset's Wi-Fi, Chromebrowser crashes, Bluetooth discov-ery, general stability improvements,and more.

Motorola Moto X (Gen 2) StartsReceiving Android 5.1 Lollipop Update

Fitbit, perhaps the best knownname in the field of wearableactivity trackers, is officially

coming to India. Fitbit's range ofactivity trackers will be available inIndia via Amazon India starting at aprice of Rs. 3,990. Amazon Indiahas an exclusivity period of twomonths starting July 1, but later thedevices will also be available viaother channels. Fitbit is betting bigon India, which will be the 43rdcountry where the San Francisco-headquartered company will launchits operations. Steve Morley, VicePresident & General Manager AsiaPacific, Fitbit told NDTV Gadgetsthat the company is bringing itsentire range of devices to India.These are: 1. Fitbit Zip is the entry-level wireless activity tracker thatallows users to track daily activitystatistics such as steps, distance,calories burned, and active minutes.Fitbit Zip has a US manufacturer'ssuggested retail price (US MSRP) of$59.95 and will be available in Indiaat Rs. 3,990.

fitbit_zip_official.jpg2. Fitbit One is an advanced clip-

pable wireless tracker that tracksstairs climbed and sleep in additionto daily steps, distance, calories

burned, and active minutes. FitbitOne has a US MSRP of $99.95 andwill be available in India at Rs.6,990.

fitbit_one_official.jpg3. Fitbit Flex is the company's first

wristband-style tracker that trackssteps, distance, calories burned,active minutes, and sleep. FitbitFlex has a US MSRP of $99.95 andwill be available in India at Rs.6,990.

fitbit_flex_official.jpg4. Fitbit Charge is a wireless activ-

ity and sleep wristband that trackssteps, distance, calories burned,active minutes, floors climbed, andsleep. Fitbit Charge has a US MSRPof $129.95 and will be available inIndia at Rs. 9,990.

fitbit_charge_official.jpg5. Fitbit Charge HR is a wireless

heart rate and activity wristband thathas all the features available on theFitbit Charge and also includes thecompany's proprietary PurePulseheart rate tracking technology. FitbitCharge HR has a US MSRP of$149.95 and will be available inIndia at Rs. 12,990.

fitbit_charge_hr_official.jpg6. The company likes to position

Fitbit Surge has its fitness "super

watch" that combines features of aGPS watch, heart rate tracker, activ-ity tracker, and limited functionalityof a smartwatch. Fitbit Surge has aUS MSRP of $249.95 and will beavailable in India at Rs. 19,990.

fitbit_charge_surge_official.jpgMorley told NDTV Gadgets that

the company also plans to launchFitbit Aria in India, its Wi-Fi con-nected scale that tracks weight, bodyfat percentage, and BMI. Fitbit Ariahas a US MSRP of $129.95, whichmeans it's likely to be priced in Indiaat Rs. 9,990.

fitbit_aria_official.jpgFitbit's devices can be combined

with popular Android phones andiOS devices using the free compan-ion app that includes an active com-munity and other features you'dexpect from a fitness app.

Since launching its first connectedhealth and fitness device inSeptember 2009, Fitbit had soldover 20.8 million connected suchdevices as of March 31, 2015. Asper the NPD Group, the companyhad 85 percent share of the US con-nected activity tracker in Q1 2015.According to IDC, wearable ship-ments are expected to reach 155.7million units in 2019.

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Nasir Hossain underplays 'Banglawash'talk, says eyeing 3-0 result

MIRPURBangladesh batsmen Nasir

Hossain on Tuesday expressed con-fidence of inflicting a 3-0 serieswhitewash over India when the twosides meet in the third and finalODI tomorrow, but chose to under-play the "Banglawash" refrain usedby the home team's fans.

"There is nothing likeBanglawash or things of that sort.We will try to win the match. Wewill play to win the match," assert-ed Hossain on the eve of the thirdand final ODI.

"It was only a little while ago wehad a chat in the dressing room andwere told that we need to take thesame approach as a team wouldwhen 2-0 up in the series," he said.

Having beaten India in a series forthe first time ever, Bangladesh arealso eyeing their 11th successivewin at home. "As a team we areplaying for a long time and it seemswe are growing as a team. Winning

is a habit. We played well in the lastcouple of series and want to contin-ue it. "We know India would comehard at us but it doesn't really both-er us. We are more concerned onwhat we are doing. Each of us has apersonal role and we want to per-form that," said the 23-year-old,who also bowls off-spin.

Rain threat looms large for tomor-row's game but Hossain said histeam was keen to play. "We want toplay against them. They are a bigside and we have got several thingsto learn from them, so I hope we geta full game. Whether we win orlose, we want to play."

A series win over India and previ-ously Pakistan is a big shot in thearm for Bangladesh, but Hossainsaid there is a need to be consistentfor a longer period. "We are yet tobecome a big team. We are playingin our own conditions so it is a thingto take into consideration. To be abig team we have to play consis-

tently for two-three years. We havewon two series (India and Pakistan)but if we can achieve that consis-tently, we will feel like a big team."

He has been a regular with theball in the series and took two wick-ets in the last match. "Seriously Iam bowling a lot more than beforeand working a lot with Rohan(Kalpage). I always enjoy bowlingand that has been the case in thisseries. Basically I see myself as abatting all-rounder," said Hossain.

Heaping praise on rookie left-armpacer Mustafizur Rahman, who hastaken 11 wickets in two games sofar, Hossain said: "Mustafiz hadbrought 80 per cent of the match inour favour. He is not thinking muchabout it and still has not realised hisachievement. I am sure he will bowlin the same manner in the thirdmatch. He is difficult to face in thenets, so at times we ask him not tobowl any cutters while we are bat-ting."

If MS Dhoni asks me to die on thefield, I'll do it: Ravichandran Ashwin

MIRPURIndia off-spinner

Ravichandran Ashwin hassaid that the team is stand-ing strongly behind belea-guered skipper MahendraSingh Dhoni and there isno change in the dressingroom atmosphere despitethe visitors losing theirfirst-ever ODI series toBangladesh.

India lost the first twoODIs of the ongoing three-match series to allowBangladesh take an unas-sailable 2-0 lead and cap-tain Dhoni received a lot offlak.

"If you don't go behindyour leader (now) thenwhen will you? So as far as

I am concerned it's like anarmy, if you don't gobehind your leader thenyou are definitely going toget shot. If my captain asksme to die on the field, I'lldo it," Ashwin said in amedia conference.

"It's not just now, anycaptain you have to gobehind him. If he asks youto die on the field, then youhave to be prepared to doit." Calling Dhoni one ofthe legends of Indian crick-et, Ashwin said: "He is oneof star cricketers. He hasdone so much for thenation. We can't really for-get what he has done.

"Yes, I know bad resultscrop and all kinds of statis-

tics crop up. With statisticsyou can prove whateveryou want as you please.You have to give credit tothe individual because hehas done a lot of goodthings.

"You can't blame him forthe whole team's perform-ance. That's not fair. Iwould say we have failedas a unit, failed as a group.We need to grow up as agroup. To finish a seasonon a loss is not always bad.You can go back and workon whatever you need towork on," he insisted.

Although Ashwin admit-ted that India did not playgood cricket, he said thatthe dressing room atmos-

phere is exactly the sameas it has always been.

"I think we should behonest in admitting the factthat we haven't played veryflamboyant cricket, and wehave not come out of ourshell. But as a whole, thedressing room atmospherehasn't been anything shortof anything it has been inthe past. I think we areused to the fact that we dolose a few, but we winmore, which has kept us ingood stead.

"But going into thisgame (third ODI), we'vereally got to free the birdsup and try and play as pos-itively as we can," said thespinner.

KARACHIPakistan's Test batsman

Haris Sohail has suffered ashoulder injury in SriLanka and could berecalled home. Chief selec-tor Haroon Rasheed toldPTI that the team manage-ment has not yet decided tosend Sohail back toPakistan.

"He suffered a nasty fallon his shoulder duringpractice but the manage-ment is currently havinghim examined by the bestdoctors and will decidesoon whether he willremain with the team orreturn home," the formerTest batsman said.

Sohail, a southpaw, hasbeen a consistent per-former in Tests and One-day Internationals sincelast year but didn't get achance to play in the firstTest against Sri Lanka,which Pakistan won com-fortably last week at Galle.

Sources in the PakistanCricket Board said that

doctors have advisedSohail at least two weeksof rest to recover from theinjury but the selectors areyet to decide whether tocall him back or retain himfor the ODI series in SriLanka.

The chief selector admit-ted that after Bangladesh'swin over India in the ongo-ing ODI series, Pakistan'stask to qualify for the 2017

Champions Trophy hasbecome challenging.

The top eight teams inthe ICC rankings will auto-matically qualify for theChampions Trophy. "Afterthe Test series is over, weneed to just focus on win-ning the five-match ODIseries against Sri Lanka ifwe want to improve ourone-day rankings," henoted.

Haris Sohail suffers aninjury, may return homeShould MS Dhoni replace Ravindra

Jadeja with Stuart Binny?NEW DELHI

When he toured Bangladesh in2014 under the captaincy ofSuresh Raina, Indian all-rounderStuart Binny wreaked havoc with astupendous spell against the hostsin the second ODI.

On a track which assisted seam-ers, Binny received a lot of pur-chase and scalped 6 wickets forjust four runs. It was Binny's mag-nificent spell which won the matchfor India after Men in Blue werebowled out for just 105 runs bat-ting first.

Now that India have lost the firsttwo ODIs and the series againstBangladesh, MS Dhoni could pos-sibly try playing Binny in the finalmatch of the series, in place ofeither Ravindra Jadeja or AxarPatel.

While Ravichandran Ashwin hasbeen bowling extremely well oflate, the two left-armers havefailed to make any sort of impact.While Jadeja has failed miserablyto prove his mettle in the last oneyear, inexperienced Patel too has-

n't made the best of the littleopportunities which have come hisway.

Since Binny can contribute withthe bat as well, it wouldn't be a badidea playing the Karnataka all-

rounder in the inconsequentialODI at the Shere Bangla Stadiumon Wednesday.

POPULARITY OF TENNIS WILL DIP ONCE ROGER FEDERER, RAFA NADAL RETIRE: BORIS BECKERLONDON

Six-time Major winner BorisBecker on Tuesday feared thattennis could be lacking big per-sonalities and its popularitymight sink in the near future ifRoger Federer and RafaelNadal call time on their careers.

The former world No.1 saidthe modern generation of maleplayers have strengthened theimage of tennis and there ishuge expectation surroundingthe upcoming Wimbledon tour-nament, with world No.1Novak Djokovic, Federer,Andy Murray and Nadal target-ing the title.

The quartet have 41 Majortitles among themselves. Swissmaestro Federer (17), SpaniardNadal (14), Serb Djokovic (8)and Scottish Murray (2) havedominated the sport in the last

decade."I think the men's side is in a

very healthy state, we have an

increase in popularity fromover 10 years ago and the num-bers are staggering," Becker

was quoted as saying by skys-ports.com.

"But the question has to be

asked: what if Roger decides toquit or Rafa is not comingback? It's impossible to carryon with only Novak and Andy,"he said.

Becker, who coachesDjokovic, has raised concernsabout the shortage of consistentchallengers outside the topfour.

"You have a young group ofAustralians -- Nick Kyrgios,Thanasi Kokkinakis, who havegood personalities and areinteresting to watch, but there'sa gap in between of players youdon't know anything about. Intwo or three years' time, wehave to be careful," he said.

Earlier this month, Murrayissued an apology after micro-phones picked up bad languageduring his third-round win overKyrgios at the French Open.

Becker believes the currentstars of the ATP tour could beforced to repress their personal-ities due to the intense mediascrutiny.

"Nowadays everything is sosupervised and so observed andeverybody is very judgemen-tal," said the 47-year-old, whowas nicknamed 'Boom BoomBoris'.

"We live in a day and agewhere players have to be guard-ed a lot, in who they are as peo-ple.

"There are microphones onthe court and social media sothere are a lot of occasionswhen players have to guardtheir emotions and that's unfor-tunate because you want to seethe real person."

This year's Wimbledon win-ner is expected to come from

the top four in the world andBecker, a three-time title hold-er, is predicting an enthrallingfortnight.

"I think there's a very strongrivalry between Djokovic andFederer and between Djokovicand Murray and betweenDjokovic and Nadal," Beckersaid.

"These are the matches thateveryone is looking forward to.Those are the rivalries thatmake the sport that everyone isfascinated by.

"For a long time it was Rogerand Rafa, even though Rafawon most of the matches, butlast year we had a couple ofreally good matches betweenAndy and Novak and I thinkthose are the matches whichmake the sport special," Beckerconcluded.

Okay, so this pieceof informationmay surprise or

shock many of you.Apparently, Fawad Khanwho was to romanceSonam Kapoor in Battlefor Bittora may not star inthe film at all. Though thegood-looking Pakistaniactor is already on board,we hear he is now plan-ning to walk out of theproject. In fact, the talent-ed actor has already spo-ken to Rhea Kapoor whois producing the film.That’s not all! Rumoursare even rife that Sidharth

Malhotra may replaceFawad in the film which iswas supposed to go onfloors this month. But thequestion is – why hasKhan decided to stay awayfrom this Sonam starrer?

Well, not too long ago,we told you about Fawad’sno-kissing policy. Unlikemost B-town hunks, theKhoobsurat hero isn’t toocomfortable kissingonscreen and therefore hasadded the same clause inall his upcoming projects.Since there are quite a fewintimate scenes in BattleFor Bittora, the Pakistani

actor isn’t too happy withit and has expressed hisdesire to bow out of thefilm for the same reason. Iam guessing Fawad Khanis already out of the filmas Sidharth is alreadybeing considered for therole. Recently, the KhudaKay Liye actor had evenrefused to kiss Alia Bhattin Kapoor & Sons Since1921 for which he current-ly shooting. While itsFawad’s personal decisionto not kiss his heroines,this policy in the long runmay cost him a lot of goodfilms, hai na?

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Much before PMNarendra Modim a r k e d

International Yoga Day asa day of national pride,there was an ultra-glambrigade of Bollywood andHollywood stars workingconsistently towards pro-moting yoga as the idealway to fitness. While mostof their colleagues ravedabout hours spent withtheir celebrity trainers,sweating it out at a gym,

they stayed loyal to yoga.Now, celebs like KareenaKapoor Khan, BipashaBasu, Shilpa Shetty andMalaika Arora Khan havebecome the unofficialambassadors for yogaamong the youth.

Be it Kareena's svelteavatar, Malaika's oh-so-perfect physique andBipasha's enviable curves,there is enough inspirationfor anyone to step off thattreadmill and roll out their

yoga mats. Even the youngbrigade of Bollywoodstars, like DeepikaPadukone and Alia Bhatthave embraced yoga. Onthe first International YogaDay , these celebs encour-aged fans to make it part oftheir daily lives, whilesome like Shilpa, JuhiChawla, Tiger Shroff andKriti Sanon led by exampleand showed off their asanamoves.

KAREENA KAPOOR

Knowing how to dosuryana maskar was neverflaunt worthy beforeKareena Kapoor Khanrevealed that's how she gother size zero figure. Theactress' workout included90-minute intense yoga in aheated room.She combinedpower yoga with suryana-maskar to get that size zerobody, a term that becamepopular in almost no time."I am completely intoyoga. I think yoga haschanged my life. My morn-ing practice, that I do for anhour-and-a-half every day,is something that keeps megoing," she had said.Astaunch believer in yoga,the actress has been partici-pating in many publicevents and has even writtena foreword for a book byher dietician, sharing how acombination of diet andyoga can be an effectiveway to lose weight. Thanksto Kareena, now Saif AliKhan seems to be an ardent follower of yoga aswell.

RANI MUKERJI There was a time when

Rani Mukerji pursued yogato tone her bod by combin-ing it with weight training.It worked wonders for her!Her lean avatar in Dil BoleHadippa was a result of anextensive workout thatincluded 100

Suryanamaskars and 2,500Kapalbhatis at a go. To pre-pare herself for the role of acop in her last releaseMardani, Rani practisedyoga three days a week.

BIPASHA BASU When Bipasha is not

doing movies, she is doingyoga or promoting it. Apartfrom releasing her ownDVD, the actress frequent-ly associates herself withfitness brands and talksabout how she has main-tained that enviable figurethrough a combination ofyoga, aerobics and cardioexercises. On her publicappearances, Bipashararely misses a chance tointeract with her youngfans and talk to them aboutthe benefits of yoga. Evenif youngsters are notacquainted with hermovies, her workout videosare quite a hit!

LARA DUTTALara may not have been

exceptionally successful asan actor but she has man-aged to inspire a lot ofwomen. With a majority ofher videos focused on help-ing women deal with preg-nancy stress, the actress hasbecome a role model forwomen. Lara has learnt dif-ferent forms of yogaincluding BKS Iyengaryoga and the Ashtangayoga.

Swearing by yoga

It seems Telly land has been bitten bythe ‘quitting’ bug. Earlier reports sug-gested that Yeh Hai Mohabbatein’s

Divyanka Tripathi will be quitting theshow, post its big leap. While there is noconfirmation by the actress on the same,the latest news on the block is that SaathNibhaana Saathiya’s Loveleen KaurSasan aka Paridhi will be exiting theshow. Her character in SNS, will report-edly meet with an accident and die.

This is how the events will take place.Gopi(Devoleena Bhattacharjee) andKokila(Rupal Patel) will bring Meeraback. Paridhi on the other hand will notbe pleased with Rashi’s presence in thehouse. Kokila and Gopi will ask Paridhito make her peace with Rashi at any cost.The latter will however refuse to do so.Later, it will be revealed that Paridhiwould want to stay only with Jigar andnot the rest of the family members. Samarand Sahir will ask her to move out of thehouse and on her way, Paridhi will meetwith an accident and pass away.

What do you have to say about thistrack BollywoodLifers? Let us know inthe comments section below.

Saath Nibhaana Saathiya’s Loveleen KaurSasan aka Paridhi to quit the show?

Sidharth Malhotra to replaceFawad Khan in Sonam Kapoor

starrer Battle For Bittora?

NEW DELHIIt was so glittery all over the sets of

'khwahishen' - a film by Moonlight pro-duction. Adding a film to it's credit aftergrand success of skits and ad filmsDelhi lad Param MLP, producer anddirector of film expressed 'we addedanother feather in our cap with actressSamira Khan of Parwarish fame.

Her other serials like 'Kabhi saas bhikabhi bahu thi', 'Kahani Ghar Ghar ki'of Balaji films were great hits. "My thisfilm is a family drama. Our artists haveput in their hundred percent to show-case so called showbiz life of the socie-ty and I hope that like every hit drama,this film will attract people from allwalks of life, he said. Actress Samiraexpressed that it was a different experi-ence to work with Moonlight produc-tions. I will try to give my best in thisfilm too like my previous films and I amoptimistic that people will find my char-acter with the pace of the film, she says.

The film has been shot at variouslocations of Delhi and Jaipur. AryaSingh has been music director whereasNoor, Kailash and Amit has given play-back. Promos of film are expected soon.

This film of mine is a familydrama: Param MLP

Arjun Kapoor to catch Bajrangi Bhaijaanscreening first day first show!

Remember the lyricsfrom the song inArjun Kapoor’s

release this year calledTevar? If you don’t, well, itgoes something like this -Main toh Superman,Salman ka fan…Jo levepanga, kar dun maa-bhan!Like his character in thefilm, even Arjun Kapoor isa HUGE fan of the super-star! And he is definitelynot going to miss his idol’supcoming release BajrangiBhaijaan!

Not only that, ArjunKapoor will be joininglegions of Bhai’s die-hardfans in getting to watch themovie first day, first show!

During the PrideGallantry Awards, Arjunspoke about his excitementin watching the flick, ”Theimpact is there in front foreveryone to see. BajrangiBhaijaan looks like anoth-er entertaining blockbuster.

The whole world will gath-er first day first show forthis film and I’m also oneof those people.”

For the ignorant lots outthere, Arjun and Salmanshare a long friendship, asit was Salman who hadencouraged the then chub-by Arjun to lose weight

and try for films. And ithas really worked wondersfor Boney Kapoor’s son!

So If you are watchingthe FDFS show ofBajrangi Bhaijaan, andfind Arjun Kapoor sittingnext to whistling loudlyduring Bhai’s entry scene,don’t get surprised!