Neha Lalchandani TNN

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Partyon Sunday released its first listof 20 Lok Sabha candidates thatincludes some of its well-known faces — Yogendra Yadav,Kumar Vishwas, Medha Patkarand Ashutosh among others —along with lesser known

names, with some of the contes-tants taking on Congress heavy-weights.

The candidature of AAPleader Arvind Kejriwal and se-

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A senior IAS officer detainedlate on Saturday has claimedthat he was manhandled bythe Nungambakkam police. Hesaid he was outside a paanshop and helping a friend whohad taken ill. However, policeclaimed he slapped aconstable. P 3

‘Being single keeps mehonest’: BJP’s PM pickNarendra Modi on Sunday saidhis single status allowed himto stay honest. “Who would Iever try to benefit throughcorruption,” asked Modi. P 10

18 feared dead in Nepalplane crash: A planecarrying 18 people fromPokhara in Nepal crashed onSunday. All on board arefeared dead. P 14

I-T proceedings againstlaunderers: The income taxdepartment has begunprosecution of some of the 600Indian-origin entities thatallegedly have money in taxhavens. P 8

Authors protest againstPenguin: In protest againstPenguin’s decision to pulp abook on Hindus, two authorshave asked the publisher towithdraw their books. P 8

India falling off US radar?Observers say Washington ispaying scant attention to NewDelhi and has left India out ofthe East Asia dialogue. P 10

Was manhandledby city cops, sayssenior IAS officer

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nior leader Manish Sisodia hasnot yet been announced thoughAAP is yet to declare nomineesfor five of Delhi’s seats. FormerTV journalist Ashutosh will

take on law minister Kapil Sib-al in Chandni Chowk and an-other former journalist, Jar-nail Singh, will contest againstDelhi veteran Mahabal Mis-

hra. This assumes that sittingMPs will contest from the sameseats again.

20 In First List,Exciting FightsOn The Cards

AAP lines up its big guns forLS polls, targets heavyweights

� Ashutosh vs Kapil Sibal(Cong) | Chandni Chowk

� Jarnail Singh vs Mahabal Mishra (Cong) | West Delhi(Jarnail had flung a shoe at P Chidambaram in 2009)

� Yogendra Yadav vs Rao Inderjit Singh (BJP) | Gurgaon

� Kumar Vishwas vs Rahul Gandhi (Cong) | Amethi

� Baba Hardev vs Mulayam Singh Yadav (SP) | Mainpuri

� Mukul Tripathi vs Salman Khurshid (Cong) | Farrukhabad

� Soumendra Dhaka vs Ajit Singh (RLD) | Baghpat

� Dr Jiyalal Ram vs Dr Baliram(Cong) | Lalganj

� Yogesh Dahiya vs Jagdish Singh Rana (BSP) | Saharanpur

� Khalid Parvaiz vs Mohd Azharuddin (Cong) | Moradabad

� Subash Ware vs Suresh Kalmadi (Cong) | Pune

� Anjali Damania vs Nitin Gadkari (BJP) | Nagpur

� Mayank Gandhi vs Gurudas Kamat (Cong) | Mumbai North West

� Medha Patkar vs Sanjay Dina Patil (NCP) | Mumbai North East

� Meera Sanyal vs Milind Deora (Cong) | Mumbai (S)

� Vijay Pandhare vs Sameer Bhujbal (NCP) | Nashik

� Alok Aggarwal vs Arun Subhashchandra Yadav (Cong) | Khandwa

� Habung Payeng vs Takam Sanjoy (Cong) | Arunachal West

� Lingaraj vs Sanjay Bhoi(Cong) | Bargarh

� H S Phoolka vs Manish Tewari (Cong) | Ludhiana

KumarVishwas

MedhaPatkar

Ashutosh

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Sochi: India completed its re-turn to the Olympic family onSunday when its flag washoisted at the Sochi Games,five days after the Interna-tional Olympic Committee(IOC) lifted its suspension.

India had been bannedsince December 2012 afterelections at its Olympic asso-ciation (IOA) saw a corrup-tion-tainted official voted inas secretary general.

The IOC lifted the ban onFebruary 11 following freshelections last week, allowingIndia to be represented at theOlympics and bringing the to-tal number of nations com-peting at Russia’s first WinterGames to 88.

“Very, very emotional,”new IOA president N Rama-chandran said.

“For us after having beenout of the IOC and the Olym-pic movement for 15 monthsto come back to it and to come

back to it within two days ofour elections, I just couldn’tbelieve it,” he said.

The Indian delegation ar-rived at the ceremony at themountain athletes’ villageamid loud cheers.

“When the IOC lifted ourban in the midst of an Olym-pic event, it’s the first time it’s

happened and I am trulygrateful to the IOC PresidentThomas Bach ... for havinglifted the ban within twodays,” Ramachandran said.

India’s three athletes –luger Shiva Keshavan, cross-country skier Nadeem Iqbaland Alpine skier HimanshuThakur — had marched un-

der the Olympic flag at theopening ceremony but cannow carry their own stan-dard on February 23 when theGames come to an end.

“It’s like coming to theOlympics all over again sothis is the real one,” saidKeshavan.

“Unfortunately my eventis over but you know it is im-portant that India is back andall of us are very happy aboutthat. I hope something likethis doesn’t happen again inthe future,” Keshavan said af-ter the small ceremony thatalso included a few visitingIndian fans.

Two of the three athletes,including Keshavan, are cur-rently Olympic scholarshipholders.

Keshavan and Iqbal fin-ished 37th and 85th positionin their respective events.Thakur competes on Febru-ary 19. AGENCIES

Tricolour flies in Sochi, India in Oly fold

IOA president N Ramachandran (second from left), Indian athletesand supporters celebrate after the tricolour was raised in Sochi

Chennai: A visit to the capi-tal, which promised to helphim win an allyfor the Lok Sab-ha elections,turned out to bea huge disap-pointment foractor andDMDK chief Vijayakanth.

Snubbed by BJP presi-dent Rajnath Singh and fail-ing to extract much from hismeetings with Congressleaders, the actor returned toChennai on Sunday after atwo-day stay in New Delhi,virtually empty-handed.

While Vijayakanth’semissaries are said to haveheld talks with senior lead-ers of both the national par-ties, the BJP, apparentlymiffed by the DMDK leadersimultaneously trying to ne-gotiate with the Congress,turned down the actor’s re-quest for an appointmentwith Rajnath Singh, claim-ing that the party chief was“busy”.

Rajnath hasno time forVijayakanth

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Trichy: DMK chief M Karu-nanidhi on Sunday said hisparty will head a ‘progressivefront’ in Tamil Nadu for theLok Sabha election which willcomprise allies that shuncommunal forces and em-brace secular principles.

Addressing the party’sconvention here, Karunanid-hi gave enough indicationthat he was not averse to ac-commodating more parties ina DMK-led alliance. “Which-ever party accepts the condi-tions we lay down, they will bea part of this winning alli-ance led by DMK,” he said.Karunanidhi said partiesthat desire to be a part of theDMK-led alliance should alsoendorse its ideologies of so-cial justice and reservation ineducation and jobs.

Significant, however, wasKarunanidhi’s remark thatparties desiring to be a part ofthe DMK-led front should alsosupport the Sethusamudram

shipping canal project, theparty’s flagship scheme. Bybatting for the project andmaking support for it a pre-condition for potential allies,he might have been sendingout a signal for the inclusion ofCongress in a DMK-led forma-tion. The UPA governmenthas been a strong proponentof the Sethusamudram pro-ject, which has been stronglyopposed by BJP and AIADMKon environmental grounds.

Karunanidhi batsfor bigger allianceof secular parties

DMK chief M Karunanidhi atthe Trichy convention of the party on Sunday

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Karthick S & Dennis Selvan TNN

Chennai: Calvin, from thecomic strip Calvin & Hobbes,took the words out of BillWatterson, his creator’smouth when he protested,“You can drag my body toschool, but my spirit refuses togo.”

While smidgens of thatsentiment will, most likely, al-ways remain in the student,

most of Chennai’s schools,both new and established,have worked out ways andmeans to turn out accom-plished, well-rounded individ-uals.

It’s always a hard decision,though, to choose the bestschool for your child. Shouldone focus on academics orsports? Arts or personality de-velopment? Liberal educationor life-oriented skills? Can weget a school that provides itall?

To assist in this search,The Times of India commis-sioned the country’s foremostmarket research group IMRBInternational to survey 170

schools in Chennai, and rankthem on the basis of five pa-rameters: academic perform-ance, infrastructure, teachingquality, sports facilities anduse of technology. The schoolswere graded by parents, teach-ers and alumni. The list of 170was drawn up by education ex-

perts and reporters. The par-ents, teachers and alumni didnot rank the schools to whichthey were linked — instead,they gave their perceptions ofthe facilities in other schools.

Reputed names, surprisewinners in TOI edu survey

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City Schools Ranked By Educationists,Parents, Teachers And General Public

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1Chettinad Vidyashram(CBSE) | R A Puram

2 Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Sec School | Pondy Bazar

3 SBOA Matric Higher Sec School | Anna Nagar West Extension

4 Kendriya Vidyalaya (CBSE) | IIT Campus

5 Maharishi Vidya Mandir (CBSE) | Chetpet

6 Vidyodaya Matriculation Higher Secondary Academy | T Nagar

7 Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan School (CBSE) |Nungambakkam

8 Kendriya Vidyalaya (CBSE)| Gill Nagar

9 DAV Matriculation Higher Secondary School |Mogappair East

10 DAV Senior Sec School |Anna Nagar West Extn

1. Chennai Public School (CBSE) | Thirumazhisai 2. Shree Niketan Matriculation School | Tiruvallur 3. Velammal Matriculation School | Panchetti 4. Boaz Public (CBSE) | Gowrivakkam 5. RMK International (CBSE) | Gummidipoondi

OVERALL TOP 10 SCHOOLS

TOI and research agency IMRB conducted a perception survey among parents, teachers and public to rank the city’s schools

REPORT CARD

TOP 5 NEW-AGE SCHOOLS

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New Delhi: Uncertaintyhangs over the creation of Te-langana with Union ministerJairam Ramesh saying thegovernment should not pushthrough the contentious billin the midst of a din or with-out discussion.

Rural development minis-ter Ramesh told a news chan-

nel, “Such a far-reaching billshould be discussed and debat-ed in Parliament andshould not be pushedthrough in a cacophony orprotests of a violent na-ture that are taking placein Parliament.”

Coming a day ahead ofthe government’s likely at-tempt to seek a discussion onthe Telangana bill on Monday,

the comment raises questionsabout the fate of the bill should

the protests resurface inthe Lok Sabha. The lowerHouse was rocked by vio-lence when the bill wasintroduced on Thursday,leading to the suspen-sion of 16 Andhra Pra-

desh MPs cutting across partylines.

While a majority of the an-

ti-T contingent is out of LokSabha now, textiles minister KS Rao has indicated that thoseremaining would continue theprotests should the division ofAndhra Pradesh be taken up.

As many as eight anti-Te-langana MPs, including min-isters, are still in the House af-ter escaping suspension.

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Salem: The 10-year-old girl,whose body was found hang-ing from a tree on a templepremises in a hamlet in Salemdistrict, was raped and stran-gled to death, a team of doc-tors who conducted an autop-sy has said. While initialreports indicated that thegirl’s murder was part of atemple sacrifice ritual by agang searching for hiddentreasure, Vazhapadi policesaid the girl was raped beforeshe was murdered and hungfrom a tree.

“Doctors at the MohanKumaramangalam Govern-ment Medical College andHospital informed us after apreliminary postmortem ex-amination that the girl wasraped and strangled to death,”Vazhapadi police inspector CSivakumar told TOI. Howev-er, it could not be confirmedyet if she was gang-raped, hesaid. “She had injuries to theprivate parts. The viscera andvital organs have been sent fortests,” he added.

10-yr-old girlfound hanging

was rapedV Senthil Kumaran TNN

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