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W ith a major poll debacle staring the Congress in its face, the grand old party of India has now started dis- cussing the relevance of alliance politics and feels it should charter a new course by going it alone in future elections. The party has also decided to defend outgoing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the hilt in case of a “poor” show and create a firewall to shield party vice-president Rahul Gandhi from criticism for the likely electoral setback. “Senior party leaders were of the opinion that though the Congress ruled two terms suc- cessfully with alliance part- ners, but still the party should think of going alone in future. There is no need to have truck with regional parties in States like Maharashtra, Bihar, Jharkhand, Punjab and Tamil Nadu,” said a very senior leader present in the meeting. He pointed out that Rahul Gandhi had repeatedly expressed a similar view on alliance politics in the past and the party is likely to con- sider it for future politics. The Congress Core Group decided that alliance politics has restricted growth of the party in several key States where regional players have gained at the cost of the Congress. Several leaders stressed that the Congress must revive itself in Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Seemandhra by strength- ening the party cadre and going it alone. “This has to be a long-term strategy and this is the only way the Congress could regain it pan-India character,” said a senior leader. Despite giving the thumbs down to the opinion and exit polls, the party’s audit of the just concluded Lok Sabha polls discussed that out of 20 seats in Kerala, the Congress was projected to get between 11 and 14 while in Karnataka, the party is projected to get nearly half of the 28 seats. The ruling Congress-led UPA was tipped to get between 101 and 148 seats while ‘others’, including regional parties and Left, were projected to get between 146 and 156 seats, according to the exit polls, which too came in for discus- sion briefly. The core group also dis- cussed post-poll options before senior women politicians like Mayawati, Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee who “have committed themselves to sec- ularism” and have ruled out any tie-up with the BJP. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s party also figured in the discussions since it has denied any post-poll alliance with the BJP. Those present at the delib- erations included party gener- al secretaries BK Hari Prasad, Shakeel Ahmed, Ajay Maken, Janardan Dwivedi, CP Joshi and party leaders Vayalar Ravi, Oscar Fernandes, Rajiv Shukla and Randeep Surjewala. Sources quoted the party High Command as appreciat- ing the leaders and strategists for contesting the elections at the height of a strong anti- incumbency factor to stop Narendra Modi from becom- ing the Prime Minister. Sonia is also believed to have expressed that all the senior leaders in future should “always” credit Singh for his able leadership and never should he be blamed for anom- alies, if any. In the meeting, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s “able stewardship” was hailed by the Congress which under- lined that he had led the coun- try through difficult times. The AICC too praised the Prime Minister on the eve of a farewell dinner for him hosted by Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday. Continued on Page 4 W hile the BJP is confident that the NDA will bag around 300 seats and a com- fortable majority in the Lok Sabha elections, the party is keeping its door open for prospective allies. “We fought for 272+ seats and we are getting them. Any party which has even a single MP and wants to support us, we will welcome it in national interest,” BJP leader and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh poll Amit Shah told reporters on Tuesday. Shah’s overture to smaller parties, which could come handy in case the NDA fell short of the 272 mark by a few seats, came a day after the exit polls indicated absolute major- ity for the BJP-led alliance. Shah himself claimed the NDA would get anywhere between 290 and 305 seats, including 50 to 55 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. However, Shah dodged a question about the BJP estab- lishing contacts with prospec- tive new allies. Narendra Modi had in recent interviews also said the BJP is open to the support of allies even though it will get a majority of its own. With the BJP leadership silent on the possible role for veteran leaders LK Advani and MM Joshi in the organisation and the Government, Shah said the party’s Parliamentary Board, the supreme decision- making body, would take a call on it. Last week, Joshi flew to Nagpur for a meeting with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. Seen as the architect of BJP’s revival in UP, Shah said the State was divided in 30 blocks, with each block having a few seats and a different strategy was adopted for each of them. Continued on Page 4 H ours before counting of votes for the 16th Lok Sabha begins, the Union Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a slew of proposals — including appointment of Lieutenant- General Dalbir Singh Suhag as the next Army chief despite opposition from the BJP and ratification of stake sale in BHEL. At the same time, President Pranab Mukherjee gave assent to the Whistle- blowers Protection Act, which provides a mechanism for pro- tecting the identity of whistle- blowers — a term given to people who expose corruption. Vice-Chief of Army Staff Lt-Gen Suhag will assume the new responsibility after incum- bent General Bikram Singh retires on July 31. Former Army chief General VK Singh has been in the forefront of opposing Suhag’s appointment. VK Singh had put a ‘Disciplinary and Vigilance’ ban on Suhag when he was the 3 Corps Commander two years ago for “failure of command and control” as an Intelligence unit under him had allegedly carried out dacoity in Assam outside the jurisdiction of the Corps. The ban, which pro- hibits a promotion, was lifted immediately after incumbent Army chief Gen Bikram Singh took over on May 31, 2012. “What and whom are they trying to protect? What are the Defence Ministry and UPA-II scared of?... This harms the individual as people will ques- tion the UPA’s motives,” General VK Singh said. “The Defence Ministry seems determined to push the file through the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) and the Prime Minister’s Office despite the fact that given the ongoing Jorhat dacoity case, which has been a blot on the name of the Army, there can be no vigilance clearance. “They got away with it two years ago when Gen Bikram Singh was appointed the chief, so they feel they can do the same thing again,” Gen Singh said before the Government announced Suhag’s appointment. Suhag was recommended for the Army chief’s post on Monday by the Defence Ministry to the ACC chaired by the Prime Minister after the Election Commission gave the go-ahead for the appointment. The BJP had protested over the selection process dur- ing the ongoing electioneering and said an outgoing Government with three or four days left in office should leave the appointment to the next Government. Commissioned into the Gurkha Rifles in 1974 after passing out from the National Defence Academy, 59-year- old Suhag will have 30 months in office after taking over from Bikram Singh. An alumnus of Sainik School, Chittorgarh, Suhag was commanding 3 Corps prior to his present appointment as Vice-Chief in January this year. Continued on Page 4 A t least two persons died and many others were injured in the continuing post-poll vio- lence across Bengal while the Election Commission and the State police tended to sit silent spectators giving free hand to the bike-borne Trinamool Congress goons who went on rampage raiding villages after villages in parts of Hooghly, Burdwan, Howrah, South Dinajpur, North and South 24 Parganas and elsewhere. A bike-borne gang of about 30 Trinamool men led by local MLA Asima Patra on Tuesday attacked BJP workers at booth number 111 at Dhaniakhali in Hooghly Lok Sabha constituen- cy leaving at least four people injured grievously, sources said adding the attack took place just after the re-polling ended. “Our workers were relaxing at a tea stall after the elections when about 25-30 bike-borne people attacked us with rods, lathis and other weapons injur- ing four of us even as we ran for our lives,” said a party worker adding, “Our vehicle was also smashed by the goons.” Dhaniakhali had of late been rendered into a cold-ter- ror zone with all Oppositions being forced by the Trinamool to close their party offices and flee the area. An FIR had been lodged and a complaint filed with the Returning Officer, BJP sources said adding the rul- ing outfit once again resorted to booth-capturing during the concluding hours of the polls. Six people had been arrested in this connection, SP SK Chowdhury said. The Commission had ear- lier ordered re-polling in 11 booths across the State that went to polls on April 30. The State continued to bleed and burn even as the administra- tion looked the other way while reports of firing and bombing came from Howrah where a Congress worker was shot dead by alleged Trinamool goons, sources said. Another death was reported from Balrampur in Balurghat con- stituency where the body of a missing CPI(M) worker was recovered by the police. Continued on Page 4 New Delhi: With exit polls pro- jecting BJP-led new Government, the benchmark Sensex skyrocketed to a new life-time high of 24,068.94. The broader index Nifty also surged to a new record high of 7,172.35, in the third straight record-setting session. Rupee also shot up by 37 paise to 59.68 per dollar. Hopes of stable Government at Centre helped the Sensex conclude the session at a new high of 23,871.23. Nifty also ended the day at a new closing high of 7,108.75, logging a rise of 94.50 points. Detailed report on P10 A day after the exit polls pre- dicted that the voters had decided to hand over the reign of the country in his hands; it was business as usual for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at Gandhinagar. On Tuesday morning, Modi held a meeting on water scarcity in Gujarat, and reviewed drinking water situation in the State and dis- cussed Narmada water grid distribution system. Modi instructed water sup- ply board officials to supply drinking water in rural areas of the State using all possible sources apart from Narmada grid. The meeting was attend- ed by Revenue Minister Anandiben Patel, Water Resources Minister Babu Bokhiria, Rural Development Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Energy Minister Saurabh Patel and Chief Secretary Varesh Sinha. “Collectors of the entire district have been given ade- quate powers to arrange proper water supply. The State Government machinery will monitor on daily basis that sources are being used to supply water to different villages. The State has already done satellite mapping on water sources,” said Modi during the meeting. He also instructed officials to monitor all the dams and other major water sources and submit reports on weekly basis. He also gave instructions to conduct separate satellite map- ping to find out water for now extinct Saraswanti River. Currently the State Government provides 130 crore litre of water to 5,588 vil- lages and 79 towns in Gujarat through Narmada water grid. The Chief Minister also ordered to arrange water tankers for the villages facing water scarcity. Meanwhile, Modi also chaired an important meeting of BJP’s MLAs in the evening. It is believed that Modi would give hint about his suc- cessor as it is almost final that he will move to Delhi after the poll results. Apart from MLAs, senior Gujarat BJP functionaries were also present during the meet- ing. Large number of media personnel assembled outside the Chief Minister’s Office at ‘Swarnim Sankul’. Clearing the air on the MLAs’ meeting, Gujarat BJP general secretary and spokesman Vijay Rupani said that the party will decide on Modi’s successor only after the poll results and it will be decid- ed by the party’s central par- liamentary board. He said that the meeting was focused on upcoming Krushi Mahotsav and Kanya Kelavani Mahotsav (Girl Child education campaign), in which Modi insisted all the MLAs to participate actively. “Personally I thought that Narendrabhai will take rest for 3-4 days after months’ long hectic poll campaign. However he decided to continue work instantly and also concentrat- ed on the water situation of the State,” he added. New Delhi: A day after the Income-Tax Department gave him a clean chit in a case of alleged irregularities in the Nagpur-based Purti group of companies, former BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday denied reports that he wanted to be back in the chair of party chief. “I have been BJP presi- dent for three years; I have no ambition to become the party president. Our priori- ty is to form a Government under Modi,” Gadkari said. The BJP leader added: “I have been cleared of all charges against me. I am happy about it and ready to accept any role party will decide for me.” Detailed report on P5 I n an unprecedented decision, the Supreme Court (SC) col- legium has forwarded the names of two prominent SC senior lawyers for appointment as judges of the apex court. Sources in the Government said the names of Gopal Subramaniam and Rohington Nariman came up for discussion in the Cabinet Committee of Appointments that met on Tuesday to decide on crucial appointments. Both have served as Solicitor- Generals in the UPA Government’s tenure. Continued on Page 4

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With a major poll debaclestaring the Congress in

its face, the grand old party ofIndia has now started dis-cussing the relevance of alliancepolitics and feels it shouldcharter a new course by goingit alone in future elections.

The party has also decidedto defend outgoing PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh tothe hilt in case of a “poor” showand create a firewall to shieldparty vice-president RahulGandhi from criticism for thelikely electoral setback.

“Senior party leaders wereof the opinion that though theCongress ruled two terms suc-cessfully with alliance part-ners, but still the party shouldthink of going alone in future.There is no need to have truckwith regional parties in Stateslike Maharashtra, Bihar,Jharkhand, Punjab and TamilNadu,” said a very senior leaderpresent in the meeting.

He pointed out that RahulGandhi had repeatedlyexpressed a similar view onalliance politics in the pastand the party is likely to con-sider it for future politics.

The Congress Core Groupdecided that alliance politicshas restricted growth of theparty in several key Stateswhere regional players havegained at the cost of theCongress. Several leadersstressed that the Congress mustrevive itself in Tamil Nadu,Odisha, Bihar, Uttar Pradeshand Seemandhra by strength-ening the party cadre andgoing it alone.

“This has to be a long-termstrategy and this is the only waythe Congress could regain itpan-India character,” said asenior leader. Despite giving thethumbs down to the opinionand exit polls, the party’s auditof the just concluded Lok Sabhapolls discussed that out of 20seats in Kerala, the Congresswas projected to get between 11and 14 while in Karnataka, theparty is projected to get nearlyhalf of the 28 seats.

The ruling Congress-ledUPA was tipped to get between101 and 148 seats while ‘others’,including regional parties andLeft, were projected to getbetween 146 and 156 seats,according to the exit polls,which too came in for discus-sion briefly.

The core group also dis-cussed post-poll options beforesenior women politicians likeMayawati, Jayalalithaa andMamata Banerjee who “havecommitted themselves to sec-ularism” and have ruled out anytie-up with the BJP. OdishaChief Minister NaveenPatnaik’s party also figured inthe discussions since it hasdenied any post-poll alliance

with the BJP. Those present at the delib-

erations included party gener-al secretaries BK Hari Prasad,Shakeel Ahmed, Ajay Maken,Janardan Dwivedi, CP Joshiand party leaders Vayalar Ravi,Oscar Fernandes, Rajiv Shuklaand Randeep Surjewala.

Sources quoted the partyHigh Command as appreciat-ing the leaders and strategistsfor contesting the elections atthe height of a strong anti-incumbency factor to stopNarendra Modi from becom-ing the Prime Minister. Soniais also believed to haveexpressed that all the seniorleaders in future should“always” credit Singh for hisable leadership and nevershould he be blamed for anom-alies, if any.

In the meeting, PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh’s“able stewardship” was hailed bythe Congress which under-lined that he had led the coun-try through difficult times. TheAICC too praised the PrimeMinister on the eve of a farewelldinner for him hosted by SoniaGandhi on Wednesday.

Continued on Page 4

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While the BJP is confidentthat the NDA will bag

around 300 seats and a com-fortable majority in the LokSabha elections, the party is keeping its door open forprospective allies.

“We fought for 272+ seatsand we are getting them. Anyparty which has even a singleMP and wants to support us,we will welcome it in nationalinterest,” BJP leader and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh pollAmit Shah told reporters on Tuesday.

Shah’s overture to smallerparties, which could comehandy in case the NDA fellshort of the 272 mark by a fewseats, came a day after the exitpolls indicated absolute major-ity for the BJP-led alliance.

Shah himself claimed the NDAwould get anywhere between290 and 305 seats, including 50to 55 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.

However, Shah dodged aquestion about the BJP estab-lishing contacts with prospec-tive new allies.

Narendra Modi had inrecent interviews also said theBJP is open to the support ofallies even though it will get amajority of its own.

With the BJP leadershipsilent on the possible role forveteran leaders LK Advani andMM Joshi in the organisationand the Government, Shahsaid the party’s ParliamentaryBoard, the supreme decision-making body, would take a callon it. Last week, Joshi flew toNagpur for a meeting withRSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

Seen as the architect ofBJP’s revival in UP, Shah saidthe State was divided in 30

blocks, with each block havinga few seats and a differentstrategy was adopted for eachof them.

Continued on Page 4

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Hours before counting ofvotes for the 16th Lok

Sabha begins, the UnionCabinet on Tuesday cleared aslew of proposals — includingappointment of Lieutenant-General Dalbir Singh Suhag asthe next Army chief despiteopposition from the BJP andratification of stake sale inBHEL. At the same time,President Pranab Mukherjeegave assent to the Whistle-blowers Protection Act, whichprovides a mechanism for pro-tecting the identity of whistle-blowers — a term given topeople who expose corruption.

Vice-Chief of Army StaffLt-Gen Suhag will assume thenew responsibility after incum-bent General Bikram Singhretires on July 31. FormerArmy chief General VK Singhhas been in the forefront ofopposing Suhag’s appointment.

VK Singh had put a‘Disciplinary and Vigilance’ban on Suhag when he was the3 Corps Commander two yearsago for “failure of commandand control” as an Intelligenceunit under him had allegedlycarried out dacoity in Assamoutside the jurisdiction of theCorps. The ban, which pro-hibits a promotion, was liftedimmediately after incumbentArmy chief Gen Bikram Singhtook over on May 31, 2012.

“What and whom are theytrying to protect? What are the

Defence Ministry and UPA-IIscared of?... This harms theindividual as people will ques-tion the UPA’s motives,”General VK Singh said.

“The Defence Ministryseems determined to push thefile through the AppointmentsCommittee of Cabinet (ACC)and the Prime Minister’s Officedespite the fact that given theongoing Jorhat dacoity case,which has been a blot on thename of the Army, there can beno vigilance clearance.

“They got away with it twoyears ago when Gen BikramSingh was appointed the chief,so they feel they can do the same thing again,” GenSingh said before theGovernment announcedSuhag’s appointment.

Suhag was recommendedfor the Army chief ’s post onMonday by the Defence

Ministry to the ACC chairedby the Prime Minister afterthe Election Commission gave the go-ahead for theappointment.

The BJP had protestedover the selection process dur-ing the ongoing electioneeringand said an outgoingGovernment with three orfour days left in office shouldleave the appointment to thenext Government.

Commissioned into theGurkha Rifles in 1974 afterpassing out from the NationalDefence Academy, 59-year-old Suhag will have 30 monthsin office after taking over fromBikram Singh. An alumnus ofSainik School, Chittorgarh,Suhag was commanding 3Corps prior to his presentappointment as Vice-Chief inJanuary this year.

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At least two persons died andmany others were injured

in the continuing post-poll vio-lence across Bengal while theElection Commission and theState police tended to sit silentspectators giving free hand tothe bike-borne TrinamoolCongress goons who went onrampage raiding villages aftervillages in parts of Hooghly,Burdwan, Howrah, SouthDinajpur, North and South 24Parganas and elsewhere.

A bike-borne gang of about30 Trinamool men led by localMLA Asima Patra on Tuesday

attacked BJP workers at boothnumber 111 at Dhaniakhali inHooghly Lok Sabha constituen-cy leaving at least four peopleinjured grievously, sources saidadding the attack took place justafter the re-polling ended.

“Our workers were relaxingat a tea stall after the electionswhen about 25-30 bike-borne

people attacked us with rods,lathis and other weapons injur-ing four of us even as we ran forour lives,” said a party workeradding, “Our vehicle was alsosmashed by the goons.”

Dhaniakhali had of latebeen rendered into a cold-ter-ror zone with all Oppositionsbeing forced by the Trinamool

to close their party offices andflee the area. An FIR had beenlodged and a complaint filedwith the Returning Officer,BJP sources said adding the rul-ing outfit once again resorted tobooth-capturing during theconcluding hours of the polls.Six people had been arrested inthis connection, SP SKChowdhury said.

The Commission had ear-lier ordered re-polling in 11booths across the State thatwent to polls on April 30. TheState continued to bleed andburn even as the administra-tion looked the other waywhile reports of firing andbombing came from Howrahwhere a Congress worker wasshot dead by alleged Trinamoolgoons, sources said. Anotherdeath was reported fromBalrampur in Balurghat con-stituency where the body of amissing CPI(M) worker wasrecovered by the police.

Continued on Page 4

New Delhi: With exit polls pro-jecting BJP-led newGovernment, the benchmarkSensex skyrocketed to a newlife-time high of 24,068.94.The broader index Nifty alsosurged to a new record high of7,172.35, in the third straightrecord-setting session. Rupeealso shot up by 37 paise to�59.68 per dollar.

Hopes of stableGovernment at Centre helpedthe Sensex conclude the sessionat a new high of 23,871.23. Niftyalso ended the day at a newclosing high of 7,108.75, logginga rise of 94.50 points.

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Aday after the exit polls pre-dicted that the voters had

decided to hand over the reignof the country in his hands; itwas business as usual for Gujarat Chief MinisterNarendra Modi atGandhinagar. On Tuesdaymorning, Modi held a meetingon water scarcity in Gujarat,and reviewed drinking watersituation in the State and dis-cussed Narmada water griddistribution system.

Modi instructed water sup-ply board officials to supplydrinking water in rural areas ofthe State using all possiblesources apart from Narmadagrid. The meeting was attend-ed by Revenue MinisterAnandiben Patel, WaterResources Minister BabuBokhiria, Rural DevelopmentMinister Bhupendrasinh

Chudasama, Energy MinisterSaurabh Patel and ChiefSecretary Varesh Sinha.

“Collectors of the entiredistrict have been given ade-quate powers to arrange properwater supply. The StateGovernment machinery willmonitor on daily basis thatsources are being used to supplywater to different villages. TheState has already done satellitemapping on water sources,” saidModi during the meeting.

He also instructed officialsto monitor all the dams andother major water sources andsubmit reports on weekly basis.

He also gave instructions toconduct separate satellite map-ping to find out water for nowextinct Saraswanti River.Currently the StateGovernment provides 130crore litre of water to 5,588 vil-lages and 79 towns in Gujaratthrough Narmada water grid.

The Chief Minister alsoordered to arrange watertankers for the villages facingwater scarcity.

Meanwhile, Modi alsochaired an important meetingof BJP’s MLAs in the evening.It is believed that Modi would give hint about his suc-

cessor as it is almost final thathe will move to Delhi after thepoll results.

Apart from MLAs, seniorGujarat BJP functionaries werealso present during the meet-ing. Large number of mediapersonnel assembled outsidethe Chief Minister’s Office at

‘Swarnim Sankul’. Clearing the air on the

MLAs’ meeting, Gujarat BJPgeneral secretary andspokesman Vijay Rupani saidthat the party will decide onModi’s successor only after thepoll results and it will be decid-ed by the party’s central par-

liamentary board.He said that the meeting

was focused on upcomingKrushi Mahotsav and KanyaKelavani Mahotsav (Girl Childeducation campaign), in whichModi insisted all the MLAs toparticipate actively.

“Personally I thought thatNarendrabhai will take rest for3-4 days after months’ longhectic poll campaign. Howeverhe decided to continue workinstantly and also concentrat-ed on the water situation of theState,” he added.

������������� ����� ��������� ������������New Delhi: A day after theIncome-Tax Departmentgave him a clean chit in acase of alleged irregularitiesin the Nagpur-based Purtigroup of companies, formerBJP president Nitin Gadkarion Tuesday denied reportsthat he wanted to be back inthe chair of party chief.

“I have been BJP presi-dent for three years; I haveno ambition to become theparty president. Our priori-ty is to form a Governmentunder Modi,” Gadkari said.

The BJP leader added: “Ihave been cleared of allcharges against me. I amhappy about it and ready toaccept any role party willdecide for me.”

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legium has forwarded thenames of two prominent SC senior lawyers for appointment as judges of the apex court.

Sources in theGovernment said the names ofGopal Subramaniam andRohington Nariman came upfor discussion in the CabinetCommittee of Appointmentsthat met on Tuesday to decideon crucial appointments. Bothhave served as Solicitor-Generals in the UPAGovernment’s tenure.

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The Ghaziabad police havesolved the high profile

murder of a ruling SamajwadiParty leader who was shotdead in the city on May 6 andhave arrested four people.

Addressing themediapersons, the SSP SachiGhildiyal said local SP leaderKapil Yadav was killed as hewas allegedly involved in amurder a year ago and aproperty dispute with somelocals.

The arrested are identifiedas Devyansh Yadav, SachinYadav, Rohit Yadav and Prince.

Kapil was shot dead atNandini petrol pump 24 nearLal Kuan on National Highwayon May 6 morning.

The police found thatDevyansh Yadav, son of apolice constable was themastermind behind themurder. Sachin, a localresident, gave his Tata Vistacar and Rohit Yadav provideda .9 mm pistol to him.Devyansh and Prince shotKapil dead when he waschanging his car at the petrolpump.

Devyansh took a pistolthat Kapil had on him alongwith �6 lakh kept in a handbag.

After ensuring Kapil was dead,the attackers escaped in theTata Vista car.

The murder led to muchhue and cry since Kapil wassaid to be close to UttarPradesh Chief MinisterAkhilesh Yadav, who directedthe state police to arrest thecriminals at the earliest.

SSP Ghildiyal said thepolice succeeded in nabbingDevyansh, Prince, Sachin andRohit, who confessed to

shooting Kapil.The police also recovered

the .9 mm pistol used in thecrime and the .30 calibre pistolthat Kapil had.

Police said Kapil kept hisuncle’s pistol for safety since hehad deposited his own with thepolice as required by law sinceelections were on.

Police also recovered theTata Vista car and a mobilephone. However, the cash is yetto be recovered.

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The areas around the existingand upcoming Metro

stations, especially those withhigh footfall would soon beconnected through multi-modal transport facilities liketravelators, skywalks andelevators. The DelhiGovernment is working toimplement the ‘integration ofmulti-modal transport’ aimedat decongesting and regulatingboth pedestrian and vehiculartraffic in the areas around theMetro stations.

Lieutenant GovernorNajeeb Jung on Tuesdayreviewed the presentationmade by Unified Traffic andTransportation infrastructure(planning engineering) Centre(UTTIPEC) which has alreadyworked out detailed plans fornine Metro stations out of the44 others which have beenidentified as having highfootfall and requireintervention to regulate humanand vehicular traffic.

Jung issued instructions tothe DMRC to take up the work

related to five Metro stations,those in Laxmi Nagar, NirmanVihar, Preet Vihar,Karkardooma and Chhatarpur.Work related to Metro stationsin INA, AIIMS, Green Park andHauz Khas has been assigned to

the Public Works Department.Jung also issued

instructions to the UTTIPEC tocomplete their plan on theremaining 35 Metro stations atthe earliest. He will review theprogress of their work at regular

intervals. He will also take ameeting with all concerned inJune to review the design plansof UTTIPEC for the 3rd phaseof DMRC construction.

On the other hand, PWDhas identified 60 such

intersections across the citywhere travelators with elevatorsand skywalk will beconstructed to give easy accessto those using Metro. ITO andNew Delhi Railway Station areamong the first where PWDand Northern Railway isplanning to put revelators andskywalk to give free access.

According to a proposalprepared by the railway’s Delhidivision, the skywalk, enabledwith escalators, will connectthe railway station to the exits ofDelhi Metro station and AirportMetro line. Currently, passengershave to walk through a maze oftraffic to get inside the NewDelhi station. Senior railwayofficials said a feasibility study onthe one-of-a-kind skywalk wasbeing done and rough estimatesput its cost at �8 crore. Similarlyfor ITO, the PWD has askedLieutenant Governor to make apresentation on the project.

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With the arrest of threepersons, the Delhi Police

on Tuesday claimed to have bu-sted a gang of highway robbers,who used to drug truck driversat isolated locations and robthem of their goods. The gangmembers, including a DelhiPolice Home guard, carried abottle of water laced with Ativantablets that acted as anintoxicant. Goods worth over acrore have been recovered fromthem. They were arrestedfollowing specific information tothe Crime Branch.

“The accused have beenidentified as Deepak Verma,Yogesh Kumar, alias Bunny,Somvir, alias Tota Plash, andPardeep Kumar. Their arrest ledto the recovery of stolen articles— including 162 cartoons ofexpensive life-saving medicineworth �30 lakh, 407 bucket(5,479 litres) of Asian ApexUltima paint worth �16.50 lakhin the market, imported Plasticgrains, 124 tablets of intoxicantsand a Bolero jeep used in thecommission of crime,” saidAdditional Commissioner ofPolice (Crime Branch) AshokChand. He said, “The accusedusually overpowered and forcedthe driver and cleaner of thetruck to drink the intoxicatedwater. When they wereunconscious, the gang unloadedthe goods and abandoned thetrucks.” Pardeep belong to Har-yana and was presently runninga milk dairy with his father whileDeepak Verma was earlier aconstable in Delhi Home Guard.Somvir used to sing Haryanvifolk songs in buses.

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The mobile applicationrecently launched by the

Delhi Traffic Police to make thecity congestion free has gotwarm response from the roadusers. In just four days, theapplication has got more than8,000 downloads. Besides, therehave been 96 complaints ofovercharging and refusal.However, there has been nocomplaint of harassment so far.

“The number ofcomplaints for overchargingreported in four days is 96. Outof these, eight complaints havebeen against auto-rickshawdrivers for overcharging andfour complaints for refusal.Rest, 84 complaints are againstthe taxi drivers for refusal. Wehave already forwarded thesecomplaints to our signal cellconstituted to take actions against the lawviolators,” said, Anil Shukla,Joint Commissioner of Traffic Police.

The new mobileapplication is currentlyavailable on Android phonesand can easily be downloadedfrom Google Play Store. It willbe soon available on Windowsand Apple Store. According tothe officials, second versionswill be enhanced and newtools as available indepartment’s website will beincorporated.

“We are getting goodresponse from users. Most ofthe people, who havedownloaded our application,are giving us five stars as areview. There is further scopeto add new functions and

features to the application,which will service our citizensbetter. We are working tointegrate some of the featureslike e-challans and otherservices,” Shukla said.

This application enablesthe public to utilise the e-services provided by the DelhiTraffic Police like obtaininginformation about traffic alertsand advisories to plan thejourney accordingly, inadvance. People can assess farecharges to be paid to auto-rickshaws, Taxi, Radio Cabs,calculation of distance travelledand shortest route to be takenfor destined journey in Delhi.“This is a useful application. Iam using it from four days andtill now it has assisted me toescape traffic jams whileleaving from office or home,”said Akhil Verma, an advocatewho has been using theapplication.

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With the national Capitalwitnessing frequent power

cuts, the call centres ofdistribution companies areflooded with complaints. In a bidto ensure quick grievanceredressal to the consumers, theDelhi Government on Tuesdayinstructed the discoms to registercomplaints through phonenumbers and home addresses.Meanwhile, to ensure uninte-rrupted power supply, theReliance-owned discoms —BSES (BRPL) and BSES (BYPL)— launched a massive campaignagainst power pilferage.

While taking stock of thediscoms grievance redressalmechanism on power failurecomplaints, Goyal directed thediscoms that they instruct theirofficials in call centre not toinsist on providing consumernumber or meter number fromthe caller. In addition tomanual registration, theconsumers can also registertheir complaints throughInteractive Voice ResponseSystem (IVRS) on above callcentre numbers if his/hercontact number is registeredwith the discoms.

To tap on more energy, theBSES discoms have planned 500mass raids spread over the nextthree months. “For increasedeffectiveness of the drive and tounearth power-theft of varioustypes, the raids are being carried-out literally 24 x 7 — evenduring late-night, early morninghours and also on Saturdays andSundays. The campaign coverover 150 areas across South, WestEast and Central Delhi,” said aBSES spokesperson.

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Following the reports of largescale encroachment on

notified lands during elections,Noida Authority has decided toundertake massive anti-encroachment drive across theregion. In the initial phase,authority has planned toreclaim illegally occupied landin city area and once LokSabha election process ends,focus will be on floodplainareas along the Yamuna andHindon rivers, lands belongingto gram sabhas and areas in thevicinity of Okhla BirdSanctuary. With over halfpolice’ strength, along withofficials of other departments,busy in election duty in otherparts of Uttar Pradesh, around10-15 per cent area of openspace has illegally beenoccupied by the colonisers,property dealers, musclemenand farmers.

Nearly 1,000 policemenalong with hundreds ofofficials of other departmentshave been deployed to otherdistricts of Uttar Pradesh forelection duty leading to staffcrunch in entire GautambudhNagar area. The area witnessedspurt in encroachmentactivities during this period.The squatters have not onlyoccupied lands in riverbed buthave constructed smallcolonies in sanctuary area also.

They have also encroached

big chunk of open land in cityarea and have erected buildingsalso. Sources claim that around30 per cent area of notified landis in illegal possession ofsquatters across the Noidaregion. Most affected regionsare Sorka, Hindon and Yamunariver region, sectors alongNoida-Greater NoidaExpressway, Okhla BirdSanctuary area and regionsalong with NH 24 whereseveral projects are delayeddue to illegal encroachment.

A senior official of Noidaauthority said that they were

reported about spurt inencroachment and have startedcrack down. They have startedreclaiming land in city areas firstand once police force will backin the district, massive drive willbe conducted across the city.“We have sought reports fromcircle officers of the area. Oncethe encroached areas areidentified, we have startedeviction drive. However, wewill conduct anti-encroachmenton large scale once total allottedpolice force is available,” said VK Panwar, Additional CEO of Noida Authority.

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District administration ofGautam Budh Nagar is yet

to act against school authoritywhose bus met with anaccident in Greater Noida onMonday. The administrationordered to register FIR againstthe accused driver, and notagainst the school authority.Officials said the action will betaken once election process isover in Uttar Pradesh.However, the lackadaisicalapproach of the administrationirked the parents who are nowdemanding properinvestigation into the matter.Meanwhile, police arrested busdriver Brijpal on Tuesday.

One dozen students andfour teachers were injured onMonday noon when bus ofVishwa Bharti Public School inGreater Noida had met with anaccident near Crown Plaza inSurajpur. Himanshu, ClassVIII student, had sufferedsevere injuries and his righthand was amputated in KailashHospital. He was later shifted

AIIMS Trauma Centre in NewDelhi. As many as 40 studentsand six teachers had boardedin the bus which was goingtowards Noida from Beta-I ofGreater Noida. The errantdriver of the bus had fled thespot leaving the victims insidethe bus.

City Magistrate of GreaterNoida Jaipal Singh had said onMonday that theadministration would orderinvestigation into the matterand issue notice against theschool for negligence.However, no action wasinitiated on Tuesday.

When enquired, the CityMagistrate said that they couldnot initiate action againstschool administration as theschool was closed for twodays. Apart from this, they arealso busy in election-relatedactivities. “We have registereda case under appropriateSections of IPC. However, nonotice has been issued toschool administration yet. Wewill see the matter only afterelection results areannounced,” said Jaipal Singh.

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With an aim to attractIndian students in large

number, UK-based Bath SpaUniversity has offeredscholarship to 30 aspirants tostudy there. The scholarshipwould vary from �1 lakh to �4lakh depending on student’sperformance. The university isin England’s Bath city which isreported to be the ‘safest city forforeign students’. The universityoffers numerous coursesranging from arts to sciences.Besides, the university isfamous for its innovativeprogrammes in businessmanagement.

“India is strategic countryfor us as nearly 10 per cent ofour international students arefrom the country. We areoptimistic that this woulddouble to 20 per cent within ayear. We offer wide range ofprogrammes across arts,sciences, education, socialscience and business to morethan 7,500 students. We are

expecting to enroll around8,200 students for the newsession from variouscountries,” said Imran Oomer,the MD and CEO GlobalAdmissions of Bath SpaUniversity on Tuesday.

During a mediainteraction in the Capital, hesaid the university will also beoffering merit-basedscholarship up to 30 Indianstudents. Beside universityscholarship, Indian studentswill have to spend Rs 8 lakhannually on an average.

Claiming India is fastestgrowing economy, Oomer said,“There is no place better thanIndia to start internationalprogrammes. Our efforts are toadd to the Indian economy.”

Students after thecompletion of three-years-graduation programmes aregiven work permit for oneyear. Moreover, the visa allowsthem to work for 20 hours perweek. The university gets 93per cent campus placementfor all the students.

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Brand Delhi College ofEngineering (DCE) was

terminated to give way to DelhiTechnological University(DTU) but the engineeringuniversity envisaged by theprevious CongressGovernment has failed to func-tion to its full strength. It notonly lacks the infrastructurebut also there is an acute short-age of over 100 teaching staff invarious faculties that has result-ed in decline in overall acade-mic standard of the DTU. Outof 345 sanctioned posts, over100 posts are lying vacant forthe past several years.

As per All India Council forTechnical Education (AICTE)norms, total vacant post is 177that include professor, associateprofessor and assistant profes-sor. Students of DTU are bear-ing the brunt of inadequateinfrastructure, compounded bythe shortage of teaching staff.

The DCE was granted the sta-tus of Delhi TechnologicalUniversity in 2009.

With the availability of ade-quate staff, the purpose of givenuniversity status to the erstwhileDCE seems to have been defeat-ed. In addition to hampering the

smooth functioning of the insti-tution, it certainly leaves animpact on quality of educationbeing imparted at the universi-

ty and ultimately students are atthe receiving end.

Taking a strong note ofshortage of staff of various fac-

ulties, Lieutenant-GovernorNajeeb Jung has also expressedconcern over the prevailingvacancies and said that the

vacancies should be filled upwithout any further delay at areview meeting recently. Forrecruitment of faculty on regu-

lar basis, Jung has suggested thatJamia Millia Islamia model to fillvacancy could be studied. JamiaMilia University is the onlyuniversity in the country where,95 per cent posts have beenfilled. The university fills vacantposts every year. According tosources, DTU has chalked outan action plan to fill these postsand presented it before the L-G.

To avoid disruption ofteaching till regular appoint-ment is made, Jung asked the

vacancies in the colleges andother technical institutes to befilled up on contract basiswithin three months as ‘stop-gap arrangement’, officials said.Further when the officials sug-gested that a separate selectioncommittee should be consti-tuted to fill up the large num-ber of vacant teaching posts,Jung said that it was advisableto go through the UPSC rulesto ensure recruitment in a fairand transparent manner.

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Once a wetland and nowreduced to a garbage

dumping site, the ShahdaraLake in East Delhi is set to geta fresh lease of life. The EastDelhi Municipal Corporationhas begun the restoration of thedried up lake that is alsoplanned to be developed into atourist hotspot with green area,water body, boating deck, anisland, children’s park and anamphitheatre. On one side ofthe lake, there will be a fishpond and lagoons to add to theaesthetics of the lake. Thisaims at bringing back the wet-land and aquatic ecosystem inthe region along with com-mercial utilisation of the same.

Having received fundingfrom the Trans-Yamuna Boardand with the NationalEnvironment EngineeringResearch Institute (NEERI) asits consultant, the civic body isin the process of awardingcontract for the project. Theestimated cost of the project is�25 crore and is likely to becompleted by next year. Thecivic body will use PhytoridNatural Technology; the first ofits kind in India to revitalize thelake which has completelydried up over the years. As perthe proposal, 30 million ofwaste water would be treated

every day to recharge theground water and redevelop 30acres of land into a beautifulgreen area with the water bodyspread over 10 acres. A portionof the lake has been encroachedupon while the remaining landis being used for dumping ofgarbage by the locals.

“The EDMC has over 30acres of land in Shahdara.While the lake will be devel-oped on 10 acres; the remain-

ing area will be green coverwith a playground for children.Once completed, the lake willbecome a recreational centrewith provisions of boating,amphitheatre and other activ-ities,” said Yogendra SinghMann, Director (Press &Information), EDMC. The lake will be surrounded by amoat, where water will be treated through Phytoridtechnology.

“The amphitheatre can beused for holding culturalevents while a banquet hall isalso proposed at the site. Thecommercial utilisation of theproject will generate addi-

tional revenue for the civicbody. The lake will be sur-rounded by a non-motorisedtrack leading up to the Metrostations and residentialcolonies in nearly areas.

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Students who didn’t get achance to study a particular

language in school but wish topursue it in college have nowfound a golden opportunity inthe University of Delhi. In thisyear’s admission guidelinesissued by the college, if a studenthas not studied a particular lan-guage in school, can still applyfor an Honours degree in it afterbearing a disadvantage of fiveper cent in the ‘best of four’average. This way the studentwould at least be eligible for thecourse if one meets the cut-off.

According to universityofficials, this guideline hascome in lieu of the increasingnumber of such applicants inthe past. “We noticed in thepast few years that a lot of stu-dents were not able to pursuean Honours degree in a lan-guage they hadn’t studied.This was not fair on them asa lot of people don’t end uppursuing a language becausethe school they are studying indoesn’t offer it. That doesn’tmean the student is barredfrom that course,” said officialsat the Dean of Student’sWelfare office.

Nonetheless, this rule isnot applicable for Hindi andEnglish. The guidelines issuedby the university read, “Incase, a candidate has notstudied the language at qual-ifying exam and is seekingadmission in Honours in thatlanguage, a disadvantage offive per cent in ‘Best of Four’percentage may be given tothe aspirant. However, foradmission to Honours inEnglish and Hindi, the can-didate must have studied therespective language and has tobe included for calculation ofBest of Four percentage.”

However, some relief hasbeen provided by the univer-sity in this aspect as well.Earlier, only if a student haddone the elective or core lan-guage in Class XII was one

eligible to apply to the lan-guage. But now, even if thestudent has studied function-al language, can apply but ona slight disadvantage. Officialsadded, “While students who

have studied the core lan-guage will be given no advan-tage or disadvantage, stu-dents who have studied elec-tive language will get a twoper cent advantage and stu-

dents who have studied func-tional language will get a twoper cent disadvantage. Thiswill place all of them on thesame level and not deny any-one admission.”

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In a bid to discourage manu-al system of application for

admissions in Delhi University,the administration hasincreased the price of applica-tion forms by �50. The onlineapplication forms will, howev-er, be available for �100. Earlier,the forms were available atuniversity centres at the sameprice but the latest move aimsat encouraging online applica-tion system among students.The offline forms will now cost�150 for general/OBC and �70for SC/ST students.

Sources in the universitysaid a lot of unnecessaryexpenditure is incurred by theuniversity through the offlinemethod which is why theywant to exterminate themethod slowly.

“There is a lot of humanresource, paper and time beingspent on this process. Eventuallyeverything has to be collatedand put online. So instead ofwasting time in this process, itis better that everything is putonline and centralised. Thiseven saves children the troubleof running around in the heat,”sources said.

However, this move of theuniversity hasn’t gone too wellwith students as the NationalStudents’ Union of India(NSUI) on Tuesday protested

outside the Dean of StudentWelfare (DSW) office demand-ing the pullback of this incre-ment. According to them, a lotof students find it difficult toapply online.

“There are problems regard-ing mode of payment or evenaccess to Internet that a lot of stu-dents face. Many feel that it is eas-ier to apply manually. Thus,

increasing the fee has made it dif-ficult for them as such studentswill still go for the offline methodand invite heavier costs,” said avolunteer from NSUI.

Other than this, anotherdemand was put forward byNSUI volunteers. They askedthe DSW to make the Facultyof Arts an admission centrelike the previous years as it is

a known location and chang-ing it would create confusion.This year the university hasannounced 18 admission cen-tres of which five are in theNorth Campus. Officials,however, argued that theadmission centres were con-veniently located near metrostations and that this wouldcause no hassle to students.

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The Delhi High Court onTuesday asked a top Delhi

Government official to appearbefore it over non-implemen-tation of its order on issuanceof a circular to 15 schools tokeep aside at least two nurseryseats each in the present acad-emic session for children withspecial needs.

Seeking the presence ofthe Principal Secretary ofEducation, a bench of justicesS Ravindra Bhat and VibhuBakhru also issued notice to theDelhi Government for itsresponse on a contempt pleaalleging “willful and deliberateomission” on its part for notcomplying with the court’sMay 7 order.

The bench also brushedaside the Government’s con-tention that guidelines cannotbe modified during the admis-sion process, saying it hadordered only what has beenmandated under the Personswith Disability Act.

“Let the PrincipalSecretary, Education be here onnext date,” the court said andlisted the matter for furtherhearing on May 16. The orderwas passed on the petition ofPramod Arora, father of achild with special needs.

The contempt plea filedthrough senior advocate KirtiUppal and advocateAnshumaan Sahni has allegedthat despite the court’s May 7order, the Government till datehas not issued any circular. Thebench on May 7 had orderedthe city Government to issuethe circular within 24 hours tothe 15 private schools.

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Amid concerns over Delhibeing categorised as the

most polluted city in the worldby World Health Organisation(WHO), Lieutenant-GovernorNajeeb Jung has constituted ahigh-powered committee head-ed by Chief Secretary SKSrivastava to look into theincreasing pollution in riverYamuna and vehicular pollu-tion in the city.

The high-powered com-mittee will specifically lookinto two aspects — pollutioncaused by growing number ofvehicles on the roads of Delhiand pollution levels in Yamunabecause of outpouring of indus-trial and sewer waste in theriver. The committee will exam-ine all aspects of pollution, itscause, its levels, and suggestboth long term and short termmeasures to be adopted totackle the issue of pollution.

At a statement issued bythe L-G office, Jung said, “Wecannot allow for pollution togrow unchecked. It is ourmoral responsibility to pro-vide a healthy environment toour citizens.”

The high-powered com-mittee will be chaired by theChief Secretary and will haveSpecial CP (Traffic), DelhiPolice; Secretary(Environment); Commissioner(Transport) and AdditionalSecretary (Delhi PollutionControl Committee (DPCC))as its members. The commit-tee has been empowered to co-opt members, both from theGovernment and the privatesector, including NGOs. TheLieutenant-Governor hasdirected the High-PoweredCommittee to submit its reportto him within the next fourweeks, so that suitable actioncan be initiated on its basis.

L-G had recently conveneda meeting with the ChiefSecretary and all senior officersof the Delhi Government,where he had expressed con-cerns over the growing levels ofpollution in Delhi. At the meet-ing, Jung had directed the

DPCC to ensure closure of pol-luting units and had instruct-ed the concernedCommissioners to demonstratecompliance with DPCC orders.

However, the experts andenvironmentalists expressedtheir surprise saying that thecity has already a panelappointed by the SupremeCourt — EnvironmentPollution Control Authority(EPCA) headed by Bhure Lal— for monitoring the pollu-tion. They said the existingcommittee has been submittingits report regularly to theSupreme Court and on theother hand, the DelhiGovernment has failed tofinalise a policy to make theCapital’s air clean in the last twoand half year.

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The Sahebganj SP onTuesday earned the wrath

of the State’s DGP Rajiv Kumarafter it was pointed out by theRegional Passport Officer(RPO) how police wereindulging in shoddy verifica-tion of the persons for gettingBangladeshi passports.

The DGP was interactingwith the district police head-quarters across the State alongwith Regional Passport OfficerSanatan and other senior policeofficials taking grievances fromthe people on the issues of issu-ing passports and charactercertificates for getting jobsunder ‘DGP Apke Dwar’ pro-gramme.

Raising serious questionsover passport verificationprocess in the State, Sanatan,during the programme, point-ed out that he had issued eightBangladeshi passports aftergetting the verification report

regarding their address andcharacter from the SahebganjSP. But later, when the policereached to the said addressesfor spot verification, found theaddress to be fake. Reactingswiftly, the RPO was informed

by the SP regarding the mistakerequesting to cancel those passports.

“The passports were can-celled after getting a requestfrom the office of SahebganjSP,” Sanatan said.

“We act on the correspon-dence with the concerned SPand had issued the passportafter getting a clearance fromhim some three months back,but the moment we got a freshcorrespondence from

Sahebganj SP, we cancelledtheir passports,” pointed outSanatan. Those who wereissued passports on fakeaddresses, according to officialrecords are said to be self-employed and are still beyondthe reach of the police.

Taking a serious view of thelapse, the DGP immediatelyordered an inquiry and soughtan explanation from theSahebganj SP as to how it hap-pened. The DGP later toldThe Pioneer that he was notimputing any motive for issu-ing fake passports but will takeaction against the police officialfound guilty of committingsuch a serious offence.

“The police need to godeep into the matter andshould find out on which levelthe mistake was committed.Also, the passport officershould have informed usimmediately when the goofup happened,” he added.

Meanwhile, the DGP, while

hearing another grievance froma person in Bagodar, asked theGiridih SP to file a reportwithin 24 hours. The Bagodarresident’s complaint was thatthe police issued a negative ver-ification report to the passportauthorities when he gave thepolice official only Rs 400.

The DGP reviewed theapplications pending for addressand character verificationrequired for getting a job anddirected the concerned SPs toexpedite the process. “Issuesmostly related to passport ver-ification and negative reportswere raised by the applicantswhich I tried to sort out on thespot,” the DGP added.

Under the programme, theDGP interacts with people andsuperintendents of police in 24districts through video-con-ference. Any person who hasbeen harassed by police forcharacter certificate or passportverification can lodge a com-plaint with the DGP.

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The exit poll results, predict-ing total rout of Congress-

led UPA Government at theCentre and formation of the BJPGovernment headed byNarendra Modi, has set inmotion a spate of speculation about the future ofHimachal Chief MinisterVirbhadra Singh.

In the event of bad perfor-mance of the Congress inHimachal Pradesh, the ChiefMinister, who had been denyingthe existence of Modi wave andboasting of winning all the fourseats, could be in trouble.

The sword of CBI enquiryreport into the serious corrup-tion and pay-offs charges againstVirbhadra Singh, the report ofwhich has already been sub-mitted to the Delhi High Courtwith all documents including adiary seized by the Income-Taxdepartment during search andseizure in the premises of a steelmanufacturing firm whenVirbhadra Singh was the SteelMinister containing a list of per-sons bribed. This and othercharges of pay offs can land himin trouble.

The action was delayed bythe Congress high commanddue to general elections. Nowwhen the wind is blowingagainst the Congress andVirbhadra Singh, observersfeel that in the changed cir-cumstances it may not be fea-sible or possible for theCongress high command toprotect or defend him.

The dissidents within theCongress party would alsobecome active. A recent meet-ing in the native house of the for-mer Director General of Police,I.D. Bhandari, who had beenaccused of phone tapping, inGhumarwin village of Bilaspurdistrict in which some big gunsof the Congress includingDharmani, Chief ParliamentarySecretary, who recently resigned,also took part.

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Afour-year old boy, who haddisappeared mysteriously

from the premises of LadyHardinge Hospital, has beenrescued by the Special cell onTuesday evening. The childhad come to the hospital alongwith his mother and policesuspect that he was lured by awoman, as his mother forgot tokeep an eye on him. The childwas rescued from Jhandewalanarea from a woman, identifiedas Sunita (34), who is into childtrafficking. Her interrogationlater revealed that she wasabout to strike a deal with aprospective buyer for the child.

According to policesources, the incident wasreported around 10:30 am. Thepolice officials had searched thehospital thoroughly but thechild, identified as Anshul,could not be found. CCTV

footages at the hospital revealedthat the child has been kid-napped and a case was regis-tered at Mandir Marg policestation. In the CCTV footageAnshul was seen following awoman near the OPD block.The information was alsoshared with other divisions ofthe Delhi Police and a team ofSpecial Cell which was alreadyworking on cases regardingchild trafficking traced thechild. Sources revealed thatSunita’s associate Anita, whomshe was supposed to sell thechild, was earlier arrested in arobbery case and was on earli-er occasions involved in kid-napping cases too.

Meanwhile, the AdditionalCommissioner of Police (NewDelhi District) SBS Tyagi said,“The boy will be taken before theChild Welfare Committee andwill be handed over to his par-ents after the legalities are done.”

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Re-polling will be held ateight polling stations of

Gurgaon parliamentary con-stituency, said ReturningOfficer Shekhar Vidyarthi onTuesday.

The re-polling will beheld between 7 am and 6 pmon May 15 at eight polling sta-tions — one polling stationeach of Sohna and PunhanaAssembly segments and threeeach of Nuh and Ferozpur-Jhirka — in Mewat district.The Election Commissionhas announced the decisionafter taking cognisance ofcomplaints and report of theReturning Officer.

Vidyarthi said the re-polling would be held atbooth No. 126 of GovernmentPrimary School Bawla (LeftWing) in Sohna Assemblysegment, booth No. 90 atGovernment Middle SchoolThek in Punhana Assembly,and booth No. 44 atGovernment Middle School

Rahna (Left Side), booth No.46 of Government PrimarySchool Tapkan and booth No.103 of Government PrimarySchool Majra BharganwaSundaka in Nuh Assemblysegment. In Ferozpur-JhirkaAssembly segment, repollingwill be held in booth No. 34at Government Middle SchoolBanarsi, booth No. 101 ofGovernment High SchoolNeem Khera and booth No.166 of Government PrimarySchool Shahpur.

He said the ElectionCommission had declared thepolling held in these eightbooths on Apri l 10 as “void” under relevant sec-tion of the Representation ofPeople Act.

The results of thesepoll ing stat ions wil l beannounced along with otherpolling stations on May 16.These eight polling stationswitnessed high turnout —above 95 per cent —on April10. Such high voter turnouthad also raised suspicions.

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On the complaint of AamAadmi Party candidate

from Gurgaon, YogendraYadav, the Elect ionCommission of India onTuesday ordered re-poll ineight polling stations in fourAssembly segments of theconstituency on May 15.

Chief Electoral Officer,Haryana Shrikant Walgad,said polling stations, wherere-poll has been scheduled onMay 15 are in the Mewat areaof the Gurgaon Parliamentary constituency.

In a letter to ChiefElection Commissioner VSSampath, Yadav had men-tioned that a village in Mewat,which reported a highturnout, didn't have a pro-portionate number of peoplewith their finger inked andvillagers admitting to a pre-poll “consensus” on who theywould vote for.

On the basis of a scientif-ic analysis of the polling sta-

tion-wise turnout data, hehad submitted to the CEC,added that there was a clus-ter of booths that recordedabnormally high turnout,upwards of 90 per cent oreven 95 per cent, that thesewere concentrated in the areaswhere we had complainedabout rigging and that the dis-persion of turnout did not fol-low normal statistical pat-tern in the three segments(Nuh, Firozpur-Zhirka and Punhana) of the con-stituency.

Yadav had demanded fora re-poll in 110 booths acrossthe constituency. He had alsogiven details of the nature ofirregularities in 110 pollingstations and provided audio-visual evidence to back uptheir claims.

Now, the polling stations,where re-polling would beheld on May 15 are in theNuh, Firozpur-Zhirka andPunhana areas. Walgad addedthat the re-poll would be heldfrom 7 am to 6 pm.

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With Assembly polls inOctober and exit polls for

Lok Sabha suggesting aCongress rout in Haryana,Chief Minister BhupinderHooda is in deep trouble. Noteven the staunchest Congresssupporter in the State sees himwinning again and becomingChief Minister for the third time.

“The exit polls have writ-ten Hooda’s political obituary.The situation on the groundreflects what the exit pollsshowed. No amount of jug-glery could save him from theimpending doom in theAssembly polls later this year,”a senior BJP leader said.

The exit polls have givenonly 0-2 seats out of 10 toCongress in Haryana. Manyin the State speculate that thelone seat which the Congresscould perhaps win is Rohtak,the stronghold of Hooda from

where his son DeepinderHooda is contesting.

Though BJP has alwaysbeen a marginal player inthe State and banked onalliances for electoral suc-cess, the Modi wave seems tohave worked in its favour. Ifthe exit polls come true, thesaffron party would, for thefirst time, emerge as a domi-nating political force in the State.

Interestingly, unlike theCongress or the IndianNational Lok Dal, there is nostrong BJP leader in Haryananor is the organisation presentin the rural areas. Party lead-ers attribute the success to the“Modi factor” and the desireof change due to double anti-incumbency, both in theCentre as well as the State.

After shunning the scamtainted INLD, led by theChautalas, BJP formed a non-Jat platform in Haryana as itallied with Haryana JanhitCongress led by Kuldeep

Bishnoi. While BJP fought on 8

seats, HJC contested from theremaining two.

The two parties are inalliance for the Assembly pollsas well but BJP is clearly emerg-ing as the dominating partnerin this alliance. Distancingfrom INLD and its leader OmPrakash Chautala perhaps ishelping the BJP in the State ascorruption emerged as a majorpoll issue.

BJP was also able to suc-cessfully negate the challengeof Aam Aadmi Party as itsteadfastly refused to allywith INLD despite its repeat-ed overtures. Both the topleaders of INLD—OPChautala and his son Ajay arein jail, convicted in theteacher’s recruitment scam.

Sensing the public mood inthe State before the Lok Sabhapolls, two Congress MLAs—Venod Sharma and Dharambirleft the party with the intentionof joining the BJP. While

Sharma was refused entry afterthe objection of Sushma Swaraj,Dharambir was given BJP tick-et and contested from Bhiwani-Mahendragarh.

As political leaders are thefirst to sense public opinionand hunt for better opportuni-ties, several desertions tookplace in Congress while itfailed to attract any leaderfrom any party.

Sitting Gurgaon MP RaoInderjit, who was also aMinister in the UPA I, was thefirst to leave Congress andcontest from Gurgaon on a BJPticket. Three former minis-ters—Krishna Gehlot, SarojSarwan and Ramesh Kaushikalso joined BJP.

With exit polls showing arout of the Congress and grass-roots assessment of the partiessuggesting decimation of theruling party, BJP sourcesclaimed that that there are atleast half a dozen Congress andIndependent MLAs who are intouch with the party.

From Page 1Meanwhile, senior party leaders

and Union Ministers Kamal Nath,Jairam Ramesh and Salman Khurshiddistanced Rahul Gandhi from theimpending poll debacle following exitpoll predictions. Reacting to exit pollpredictions of a Narendra Modi-ledNDA Government in the making, theysought to suggest that Rahul was neverpart of the UPA Government and theManmohan Singh-led Government wasnot able to convey to the people aboutits programmes and the work done.

“All this discussion is absurd. RahulGandhi is our leader and hewill remain our leader in goodand bad times,” said Khurshid,

the Minister for External Affairs. RuralDevelopment Minister Jairam Rameshdescribed Rahul as a “indefatigable” cam-paigner who toured all over the coun-try and said: “Ultimately it is for theorganisation to translate whatever pos-itive impact Mr Gandhi or Mrs Gandhi'scampaign has into electoral advantage.”

Urban Development MinisterKamal Nath also rejected suggestionsthat a likely poor show in the electionswill be a reflection on Rahul's leadership,saying he was never a part of the UPAGovernment. He said the ManmohanSingh-led Government was not able toconvey to the people about its pro-grammes and all the good work it wasdoing.

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As the Elect ionCommission approved

the appointment of Anup TMathew to replace NirmalKumar Mishra as the new SPof Dumka, the JharkhandVikas Morhca (JVM) cameforward and blamed the out-going SP Nirmal Mishra forrigging during the April 24polling.

The JVM, at the sametime, also demanded removalof present Dumka DC and conduct a CBI probeinto the entire poll process,including deployment ofmachinery.

Marandi is a party candi-date from Dumka and upagainst JMM patriarch ShibuSoren in an intense poll battle.

The Babulal Marandi-ledparty on Tuesday alleged that the ruling JMMGovernment used the existingmachinery in its favour toinfluence the outcome of theelection.

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From Page 1Modi's close aide, who was

sent specially by the BJP's primeministerial candidate to work inUttar Pradesh, said he had towork a lot to tone up the party'sorganisational structure andhoped the party would emergevictorious in 50 to 55 seats.

Predicting a major gain forthe BJP in western and easternUttar Pradesh, Shah claimedthe Bahujan Samaj Party, whichhas been decimated by many exitpolls, will emerge as the secondplayer in the current Lok Sabhapolls. As exit polls projectedregional parties in power insome States to face a drubbing inthe Lok Sabha elections, Shahsaid these parties will lose theirauthority to rule once the man-date goes against them. “Whenthey do not get a mandate fromthe people, they lose the moralauthority to rule,” he said, in an

From Page 1Just before the UPA

Government seemed all set tobe ousted from office, thePresident on Tuesday gaveassent to the WhistleblowersProtection Act. TheWhistleblowers Protection Act,2011 provides a mechanism forprotecting the identity ofwhistleblowers — a term givento people who expose corrup-tion.

The Act also provides fora system to encourage peopleto disclose information aboutcorruption or the wilful misuseof power by public servants,including ministers.

As per the law, a personcan make a public interestdisclosure on corruptionbefore a competent authority -- which is at present theCentral Vigilance Commission(CVC). The Government, bynotification, can appoint anyother body also for receivingsuch complaints about cor-ruption, the Act says.

The Act lays down pun-ishment of up to two years inprison and a fine of up to Rs30,000 for false or frivolouscomplaints.

Meanwhile, Union Cabinetcleared private equity majorKKR's proposal to acquirestakes in two pharmaceuticalcompanies in deals worth overRs 1,400 crore and ratified thedecision to sell 4.66 per centstake in power equipment PSUBHEL.

The Cabinet Committeeon Economic Affairs (CCEA)headed by the Prime Ministerratified the Finance Ministry'sMarch decision whereinBHEL had sold 4.66 per centstake in the state-owned com-pany to Life InsuranceCorporation (LIC) for aboutRs 1,889 crore.

LIC purchased 11.41 croreshares in BHEL at a price of Rs165.55 apiece through a blockdeal on the BSE. Following theblock deal, Government stakein BHEL came down to 63.06per cent, from 67.72 per cent.

The Empowered Group ofMinisters, headed by FinanceMinister P Chidambaram, hadin February decided on thetiming and mode of disinvest-ment in BHEL. However, theCCEA approval was pendingfor the stake sale.

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From Page 1Gopal was Solicitor- General

between June 15, 2009 and July 14,2011. He abruptly quit following theGovernment's decision to replacehim in the 2G case with RF Nariman.With his resignation, Nariman wasbrought in as Solicitor-General onJuly 23, 2011. But even he did notcomplete his tenure as he put in hispapers on February 4, 2013 follow-ing differences with the then LawMinister Ashwini Kumar.

Official sources said that thecollegium further had recommend-ed two other names for appointmentas judges of the top court. They areJustice Adarsh Kumar Goel, ChiefJustice of Orissa High Court andJustice Arun Mishra, Chief Justice ofCalcutta High Court.

The four names will require for-mal approval by the Government anda warrant of appointment issued bythe President. The names ofSubramaniam and Nariman had beendoing the rounds for elevation asjudges for quite some time. But thisis the first time two members of thebar have been together selected forappointment to the highest court. In

the past, members of the Bar havebeen elevated as judges of the HighCourts. But it is rare that lawyershave been elevated as SC judges.

There is only one precedent inthe past when the SC collegium haddecided in 1999 to elevate practicinglawyer N Santosh Hegde as judge ofthe apex court. Incidentally, JusticeHegde had also served as a Solicitor-General prior to his appointment.

The collegium comprising CJIand four senior-most judges of the SChad taken an urgent decision to rec-ommend the four names as consensus had built around clearingthe backlog of vacancies in the SC.Three SC judges retired at the startof the summer break last week pre-ceded by the ret irement of former CJI P Sathasivam and JusticeGyan Sudha Mishra in the last weekof April.

The actual strength of judges inSC is 31. If the four names comethrough, the working strength ofjudges in SC will increase to 29. Withthe reopening of court in July, thisnumber is expected to come down to27 as two more judges will be end-ing their tenure in the top court.

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From Page 1More firing was reported

on Tuesday from Haroa theplace of violent attacks onMonday evening with five peo-ple getting bullet injuries, policesaid. While the Trinamoolaccused the Left for the attacks,locals said the clash was theresult of infighting betweenthe ruling outfits. “Miscreantscame and fired at us fromnowhere even as we were gos-siping” said a victim who hadsustained bullet injuries in hislegs.”

Houses belonging to theOpposition workers were loot-ed, shops torched at Kasba inSouth Kolkata where the policeresorted to lathi charge afterresidents blockaded the road.Even pregnant women were notspared and badly beaten atBasanti in Joynagar, while atleast 40 houses of Left sup-porters were looted atKharagpur, and Ghatal. AtNaihati in North 24 PargansCPI(M) supporters wereattacked, their houses bombed.A Congress worker was kid-napped in Purulia for defyingthe ruling party diktats not tovote. The police complacencywas more apparent at Haroa inNorth 24 Parganas Basirhatconstituency where 21 peoplewere injured four of them seri-ously in a firing allegedly led bylocal MLA Usha Rani Mondalon Monday when the publicprosecutor not asking for policecustody of those arrested.Despite the fact, that the policehad lodged complaint under theArms Act.

Curiously the police wereyet to recover arms and arrestthe prime accused Mondal andher husband. Out of 11 arrest-ed on Monday only two hadbeen named in the originalcomplaint and the remaining 28were still at large.

The spate of violence mul-tiplied in the final phase onMonday in Bengal which hadalready been seeing a bloodypoll throughout. At least 50people were injured and twodied, one at Behrampore con-stituency on Monday in thepolitical clashes that got animpetus exactly 48 hours beforethe final lap started.

Ironically Monday andTuesday saw more people join-ing the 45-thousand homelesspeople who had fled their vil-lages since the last year's pan-chayat elections.

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apparent reference to NitishKumar's JD(U) in Bihar andMulayam Singh Yadav's SP inUttar Pradesh. On Punjab, wherethe ruling Shiromani Akali Dalin alliance with BJP is facing anti-incumbency, the BJP leader saidthe earlier exit polls about theState have been proved wrongand hoped the same this timetoo.

Asked about the supportreceived by the BJP from RSSvolunteers in this Lok Sabha elec-tion, Shah said, “Not just Sangh,a number of nationalist organi-sations openly supported the BJPand the party will largely bene-fit from that.” While predictingmore than 35 seats for BJP-ShivSena alliance in Maharashtra, hehoped a good number for theBJP in Bihar as well and said theparty's vote-share in West Bengalis likely to see a major increasebut could not confirm if it willtranslate into seats there.

Asked about Varanasi'sdevelopment if Modi won fromthere and retains the seat, he saidthe area and the State will seemajor development. He said theriver Ganges was alreadydeclared a national river and theCentral Government can bringabout a lot of development eventhough the State is ruled by theSamajwadi Party.

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Afew days ahead of demit-ting office and retiring

from active politics, PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh onTuesday met his office staff tosay goodbye to them and thankthem for their assistance.

The 81-year-old PMexchanged pleasantries withhis 110 personal staff membersand about 400 other peripher-al staff members in SouthBlock. He expressed his grati-tude towards them and the staffmembers returned the accolades by cheering him, thesources said.

Singh, who became thePrime Minister in 2004 andretained the post in 2009, metthe staff before holding Cabinetmeeting this evening. He willhold his last Cabinet meetingon Saturday, a day after thecounting of votes.

After that, he will go tomeet President PranabMukherjee. Singh had in

January stated that he willhand the baton over to a newPrime Minister after the elec-tion results. After returningfrom his meeting with thePresident, Singh will addressthe nation, the sources said.

On the same day, Singhwill host high tea for the mem-bers of his Council of Ministersafter which the President willhost a dinner for all of them.The PMO, including the hallwhere Cabinet meetings areheld, is being refurbished, towelcome a new Prime Minister.

“It is for the first time in 10years that the PMO is spending

money on refurbishment andchange of upholstery,” a sourcesaid, adding, “This is beingdone to give a fresh look to it.”

Singh is expected to vacatehis official residence at 7, RaceCourse Road and move into abungalow at 3, Motilal NehruRoad, which, too, has beenrefurbished.

New Delhi: They may havecrossed swords on several occa-sions over a variety of issues, butsenior BJP leader Arun Jaitley onTuesday praised ManmohanSingh, saying the PrimeMinister’s personal integrity wasalways above board.

He also termed him as a“syana aadmi” or a wise man,saying with an element of schol-arship, he was always be wellread and well prepared on anysubject that he dealt with.

While Singh is the Leader ofthe House in the Rajya Sabha,Jaitley is the Leader of theOpposition in the Upper House.He said as curtains draw to aclose after a ten-year-long peri-od of providing leadership to theGovernment, the PrimeMinister “goes out with dignity and grace”.

“He will remain an elderstatesman and a man of credi-bility to guide the nation. Onlyif he had stood up at the righttime and disagreed he wouldhave been regarded with still agreater honour,” Jaitley wrote onhis blog.

He said Singh became a

Prime Minister on account ofcertain circumstances whichcompelled Congress PresidentSonia Gandhi towithdraw her namefrom the reckoning.“He was literally aPrime Ministerannounced bySoniaji. He had tofunction within thatlimitation.”

“....When he addressed thecountry, he never came out as aleader. The reason for not com-ing out as a leader was clear. Henever wanted to rock the boat.He knew that he was vested withlimited power and on all majordecisions he had to keep theparty and its first family ingood humour,” Jaitley wrote.

He said Singh has twostrong qualities. “Firstly, when-ever you discussed a serious sub-ject with the Prime Minister hecame out as a man of scholar-ship. He was what we call to asa syana aadmi.”

Singh’s words, Jaitley said,were measured and he wouldreflect before making a com-ment. “Secondly, his personal

integrity was always aboveboard. With an element of schol-arship he was always be well read

and well prepared onany subject that hedealt with.” Jaitleysaid he had theopportunity ofobserving thePrimeMinister from closequarters for the lastten years. He said in

the last five years as Leader ofOpposition, he virtually hadheard his every intervention inParliament and dissected eachone of his performances.

“Unquestionably DrManmohan Singh was a verygood Finance Minister. He gota lot of support from his PrimeMinister, P V Narasimha Rao,for initiating the economicreforms in 1991. For a CongressParty Government which hadalways professed the virtues ofregulation a reformist approachwas creditable,” the BJP leader wrote.

He said Rao has never beengiven the level of credit which hetruly deserved. “I am sure his-tory will reassess him.” PTI

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Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley’sremarks for Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh and Congresswere received with mixed reac-tion by Congress leaders. Whilea senior minister said that Jaitleyshould worry about BJP and notCongress, a party spokesmansaid that at least people have spo-ken the truth, though by default.

External Affairs MinisterSalman Khurshid hit back at

Jaitley, saying that he should bemore bothered about the BJP’sPrime Ministerial candidateNarendra Modi. “How comeJaitley is realising things aboutManmohan Singh now? Heshould worry about his PMcandidate,” Khurshid saidspeaking to a news channel.Khurshid also rejected thepost-poll surveys that havegiven the Modi-led NDA aclear mandate. “There is noneed for the BJP to celebrate,

they should wait for the 16th.They had started celebrating in2009 too,” Khurshid said.

As he demits office laterthis week, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh’s “able stew-ardship” was being hailed byCongress as well as BJP onTuesday. “I think at somepoint of time, we must learn tobe graceful, including themedia. Sometimes peoplespeak the truth by default,”party spokesman Abhishek

Singvi remarked when askedabout how Jaitley and BJPspokesperson PrakashJavadekar stating good thingsabout the Prime Minister.

“Singh’s experienced andseasoned stewardship, his per-sonal integrity and ability tolead the country through dif-ficult times is noteworthy andIndia is proud to have earnedso many laurels and respectduring the ten years,” Singhvisaid at the AICC briefing.

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India is becoming a dumpingground for the hazardous

Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), pop-ularly called picture tubes. Theywere earlier used in computermonitors and erstwhile televi-sion sets. In the age of LEDs andLCDs, these obsolete CRTs pre-sent an alarming trend as itsglass is being recycled for mak-ing bangles, marbles, bottlesand other day to day items. Thishas been observed in a recentstudy conducted by Toxic Link,(NGO working on the hazards of e-waste). The CRTs havebeen found to contain highpercentage of lead and otherheavy metals which are majorhealth and environmentalthreats to the country today.

The study points out thatdue to high presence of lead,the CRT monitors have beendeclared “hazardous” and sub-sequently “banned” from land-fills and incinerators in mostdeveloped countries. Due to ashift in technology, most coun-tries including those in Asia,have shifted to new projectionsystems (LCD, Plasma), there-by creating a huge pile of thishazardous waste.

In an important find, thestudy says that though CRTmarkets are dwindling, the

import of this component con-tinues in India. According to theinformation corroborated fromthe Ministry of Commerce,about 64 lakh and 58 lakh CRTswere imported in the year 2010-11 and 2011-12, respectively,even though the quantities camedown in 2012-13 (47 lakh).

The study traced that cath-ode ray tubes are being shippedto India primarily from China,Malaysia and Indonesia.Surprisingly, the quantities sawa sudden jump between 2009and 2011 even though this wasthe time when the CRT marketwas slowing down. Interestingly,this was also the phase whenmost of the developed countriesphased out this technology.

Such dumped CRTs areposing a chief concern in elec-

tronic waste recycling due totheir volume, recycling costs, tox-icity, disposal restrictions insome developed countries, andtheir trans-boundary movementof the same into poor develop-ing countries.

Due to heavy metal contentlike lead, strontium and phos-phor, present in specially theglass of CRTs, it is consideredto be extremely hazardous.Lead affects a variety of bodyprocesses and is toxic to manyorgans and tissues including theheart, bones, intestines, kidneys,and reproductive and nervoussystems. It also affects devel-opment of the nervous systemand is therefore particularlytoxic to children, causing permanent learning and behavior disorders.

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Aday after Income Taxdepartment gave him a

clean chit in a case of allegedirregularities in the Nagpur-based Purti group of compa-nies, former BJP presidentNitin Gadkari on Tuesdaydenied reports that he want-ed to be back in the chair ofparty chief.

“I have been BJP presi-dent for three years, I have noambition to become the partypresident. Our priority is toform the Government underModi,” Gadkari told reportershere.

The BJP leader added, “Ihave been cleared of allcharges against me. I amhappy about it and ready toaccept any role party willdecide for me.”

Gadkari met LK Advanion Tuesday and discussedwith him the unfolding situ-ation and post-poll scenario.Gadkari had met party’s

Prime Ministerial candidateNarendra Modi on Monday.

After Gadkari’s meetingwith party patriarch Advani,speculation were rife that theex-party president is lobbyingfor either post of BJP president or home minister.

Gadkari, however, deniedthe claims, saying “It is a totalfalse rumour. RSS never toldme that I will get back as BJPpresident if charges arecleared against me. I havenever approached any leaderfor any post.”

On the roles of seniorleaders after the formation ofa BJP-led Government at theCentre , Gadkari said, “ it wasnot true that Sushma Swarajhas been sidelined in theModi age.

She has been visiting dif-ferent states. This is not amother-son party. It will bethe privilege of the primeminister to decide roles forsenior party leaders.”

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary JawedUsmani was saved the embarrass-

ment of appearing in the AllahabadHigh Court after the Supreme Courton Tuesday dispensed his personalpresence in a case where he failed toproduce original service records of anofficer under him. Usmani had toappear in the HC on Thursday.

Usmani, whose name is doing therounds as a possible contender for theCabinet Secretary post in the event ofthe NDA Government coming topower, approached the apex courtthrough advocate CD Singh, seekingstay of the HC order passed on May12. He sought urgent intervention ofthe Court to stay his personal presencebefore HC and seek additional timefor production of records pertaining

to one Arun Kumar Mishra, current-ly the Chief Engineer of UP StateIndustrial Development Corporation,as sought by the High Court.

The Vacation bench of Justices BSChauhan and AK Sikri agreed to grantrelief to Chief Secretary, but remainedadamant on production of recordsbefore the HC for which it gave anadditional five days time.

The HC had sought details ofMishra’s meteoric rise from AssistantEngineer to Executive Engineer to hispresent post as Chief Project Engineerheading the Architecture and TownPlanning Division in UPSIDC. In apetition pending before AllahabadHC, it was alleged that Mishra did nothave a valid B Tech degree. Even theenrolment number on his High SchoolPass Certificate was that of one ArugyaKumar Mishra. In fact, records pro-

duced by the petitioner indicated nostudent by the name Arun KumarMishra studied in the school men-tioned in the degree. Moreover, the dateof issue of the degree relates to the yearwhen Mishra was only 12 years.

When the HC called for his orig-inal degrees and mark sheets, Mishrainformed the HC that he lost themand was in the process of obtaininga duplicate copy. The HC then soughthis service records to know his qual-ifications and track record in orderto ascertain his promotion that camein quick succession.

Despite several opportunities,the State Government failed to pro-duce the files. An affidavit filed byPrincipal Secretary, IndustrialDevelopment had informed the HCthat the files were “yet to be traced”due to inter-department transfer of

files between Industrial Developmentand Mining departments.

Tired of repeated reminders, theHC on May 12 directed the removal ofPrincipal Secretary, IndustrialDevelopment and directed ChiefSecretary to be present in Court as alsoinitiate departmental proceedingsagainst the Principal Secretary.

Mishra is currently facing probefrom CBI and EnforcementDirectorate for possessing dispro-portionate assets, money launderingand fake bank accounts.

To track the files required by HC,State Government even wrote to CBIto ascertain if they were seized by theinvestigating agency. On April 21,2011 an order of suspension waspassed against him followed by depart-ment proceedings, the status of whichwas also sought by the HC.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesdayturned down a last ditch effort by

the Defence Ministry for getting thestay vacated on the scrapping ofIndia’s first warship INS Vikrant.

“There is a real urgency,” citedCentre’s counsel R Balasubramaniamas he pressed for vacating the order of“status quo” directed by a SupremeCourt bench on May 5.

The Government informed theVacation Bench that May 16 was thedate for execution of the sale order forwhich auctioning was over and a sumof over �60 crore had been paid to aprivate company that agreed to reducethe mighty warship to scrap. But withthe SC order coming its way, theprocess had been stalled.

The bench of Justices BSChauhan and AK Sikri declined tointervene. “We are not going tomodify this Court’s order.”

The Court directed the Ministryto persuade the other bench whichdirected status quo and convince itto lift the stay once the Courtreopened in July.

INS Vikrant had been in newsafter Defence Ministry’s decision todismantle the iconic aircraft carri-er inducted into the naval fleet in1957. Activists who demanded thewarship to be preserved as a mar-itime museum, had opposed to anymove to bring down the ship anddemanded that the ship should behanded over to any other port trustfor better maintenance.

The demand did not find favourwith the Mumbai High Court whichin January dismissed a petition filedby one Kiran Paigankar and allowedthe Government to go-ahead with itsplans to scrap the ship. But on May

5, the SC entertained the appeal byPaigankar and issued notice toDefence Ministry on their demandto preserve the ship built by Englandand that played a vital role in theWorld War II.

The Defence Ministry is under-stood to have filed its response to thepetition. According to the Centre,the ship was unsafe and was notviable to be preserved as a museum.It was for this reason it was decom-missioned in 1997. Even the HC hadaccepted the contention of theCentre that the ship’s hull, almost 70years old, was unfit to be preservedand hence required dismantling.

The auction finally led to a con-tract given to a Mumbai-based shipbreaking company a month ago whichwas required to steer the ship offMumbai coast by May 16.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Courthas given its nod to the contro-versial Jal Mahal tourismdevelopment project nearJaipur’s Mansagar lakewith certain modifica-tions in the 2005 leasedeed, executed by theState Government andscrapped by the RajasthanHigh Court in 2012. A benchof justices Gyan Sudha Misra andPinaki Chandra Ghose last monthset aside the High Court verdictcancelling the multi-crore rupeesJal Mahal tourism developmentproject adjoining the 17th century lake.

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The CBI on Tuesday asked the Stateinvestigative agencies in West

Bengal, Odisha and North-east tohand over all the relevant documentsrelated to the inter-State Saradha chit

fund scam probe to it. CBI officials in these States

are already in touch with theagencies there to get hold ofthe necessary documentsbefore registering an FIR in

the scam,” said a senior CBIofficial, adding the

collection of documents will becompleted in the next two weeks andthereafter a strategy to register FIRswill be thrashed out.

The agency has already set up a spe-cial investigation team (SIT) to probethe scandal and suspect that that larg-er conspiracy was involved and did notrule out the involvement of highly influ-ential persons including politicians,bureaucrats and regulatory officials.

On Friday the apex court orderedthe CBI to launch a probe the inter-state Saradha deposit-mobilisations c a n d a linvolvingm a n ycompanies, in Bengal, Odisha, Assamand Tripura. Led by Rajeev Singh, jointdirector (North East), the SIT willcomprise CBI officials from Calcutta,Odisha, Northeast and Bihar.

The apex court had raised big aquestion mark on the role of regula-tory authorities like SEBI and officialsof the RBI. “Investigations conductedso far put a question mark on the roleof regulatory authorities like SEBI,Registrar of Companies and officialsof the RBI within whose respectivejurisdictions and areas of operation the

scam not only took birth but flourishedunhindered,” a bench headed by JusticeT SThakur said in the order. The deposit-

mobilisa-tion rack-et, involv-

ing about �10,000 crore at a conserv-ative estimate, also has inter-stateramifications and possible interna-tional money-laundering angle.

“Our focus of the probe is tounearth the larger conspiracy. We aretaking legal opinion on whether to reg-ister one FIR in the case or more,” saidthe agency’s official.

The agency will also probe the roleof regulators like SEBI, officials underthe Companies Act and the ReserveBank of India as directed by theSupreme Court.

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Expressing concern over thegrowing frauds in the cor-

porate sector, Comptroller andAuditor General (CAG) ShashiKant Sharma said “these inci-dents are undeniable reality inour economy; there should beconstant vigil against fraud-sters”. Addressing aseminar here, Sharmasaid the recentSupreme Court ver-dict was landmark oneand has removed, oncefor all, the doubts onthe constitutionalmandate to audit pri-vate firms by the CAGso far as it relates torevenue sharing withthe Government.

“Corporate fraud wouldremain an undeniable reality ofour economy, especially as finan-cial growth picks up pace andprovides more avenues for bothentrepreneurs and fraudsters.Fundamentally, both business-

men and fraudsters are temptedto their acts for the same reason:to make money. While honestbusinessman would try to makemoney through entrepreneurialways, the fraudster would try tomake money through dishonestcriminal acts. While we need toapplaud and support the honestentrepreneur, it is also equallyimportant for us to be on con-

stant vigil againstfraudsters. Fraudshould be distin-guished from error.The distinguishingfactor betweenfraud and error iswhether theunderlying actionis intentional orunintentional.

“However, inthe present economic scenario,where government has gradu-ally withdrawn from severaleconomic activities and hand-ing over those responsibilitiesto private sector, the very con-cept of corporate fraud, has tobe expanded to understand

what we are dealing with. Andwhy is it so crucial for us to beawake to the complex realitiesof corporate fraud, be it by adevious individual or by com-panies that aim to manipulateour regulatory frameworksand market dynamics,” saidSharma.

CAG said the audits on2G, Coal Block allocation,irregularities in Delhi Airpot,KG Basin reveled a pattern of“private players trying to dis-tort competition, upset freemarket fairness, and, causeloss to both public exchequerand competitors.”

“I urge the captains ofindustry to appreciate thefact that Indian economy hasto grow into a mature marketeconomy, which would pre-sent opportunities to max-imise your profits and helpyou expand across the globewith confidence and credi-bility. I am certain that youwouldn’t want to be known aslynchpins of a crony capital-ist economy,” said Sharma.

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With the exit poll projec-tions by private news

television channels showingperformance of the BJP, JD(U)and the RJD-Congress-NCPalliance in Bihar, leaders of dif-ferent political parties havecome out with their own expla-nations and clarifications.

Apparently jubilant withthe party’s projected perfor-mance in the State, Bihar BJPpresident Mangal Pandey saidthat people have reposed theirfaith in party and its leaderNarendra Modi in a big way.

“It’s all because of people ofthe State reposed their faith inour party and leadership ofNarendra Modi. Now it is clearthat the BJP-led NDA is goingto form the next Governmentat the Centre with NarendraModi as the next PrimeMinister of the country,”Pandey told mediapersons. Theexit poll projections have given22-30 seats to the BJP in Bihar.

Apparently enthused withthe exit poll predictions, the BJPleader and party candidate fromBhagalpur Syed ShahnawazHussain too has said that nowthe NDA was going to form theGovernment at the Centre

“despite all the negative cam-paign unleashed by the CongressGovernment against the BJP”.

Our Government’s mottowould be as Narendra bhai hassaid in his campaign slogan,“sabka saath, sabka vikas,” saidHussain, who has had a toughcontest on the Bhagalpur seat.

However, Bihar ChiefMinister and JD(U) leaderNitish Kumar has dismissed theexit poll projections saying itwas all being projected bymedia and we all should waittill May 16. “Yeh sab to app logkeh rahe hain… May 16 takintezar kijiye,” said Kumar withconspicuous signs of worry onhis weather-beaten face.

His partymen and MLCNeeraj Kumar, though, saidthat all these exit polls havebeen proven wrong in the past.“If the BJP is so desperate to

form the Government at theCentre, they should wait for 72hours or take trika (medicine)three times a day to be relaxed,”he suggested.

The exit poll projections bydifferent news channels havegiven not more than five seats tothe JD(U) and cited party’s snap-ping ties with the BJP provedelectorally fatal for the Bihar CM.

But, NCP leader TariqAnwar, who had contestedfrom Katihar Lok Sabha con-stituency as a lone contender ofhis party in the State, said thatif the exit poll projects weretrue everybody should acceptthis. “Yadi yeh exit poll projec-tion sahi hai to hum sabko iskoaccept karna chahiye … yehi todemocracy ka beauty hai,” saidTariq Anwar whose projec-tions to win the Katihar seat ishigh in exit polls.

However, RJD chief LaluPrasad Yadav, who had cam-paigned hard (with his heli-copter being landed at 243places, equal of State Assemblyseats and 27 roadshows) hasoutrightly rejected the exit pollprojections, which significant-ly has shown a good number ofseats for his party.

“May 16 ko yeh sab exit pollka khul jayega pol (just wait tillMay 16 and all exit poll projec-tions will be proved wrong),” hetold mediapersons. Barring onechannel poll projection, all othernews channels have given Laluand his alliance partners a goodnumber of seats from 12-14.

Lalu had given a toughfight to the NaMo wave onmany seats in Bihar and asmany said that fair assessmentssuggested that he would getaround 14-15 seats in this elec-

tion which might “revive hislost ground in Bihar politics”.

Meanwhile, after almosttwo months of whirlwind pollcampaign, almost all the topleaders of the parties are said

to be taking rest inside theirabode while waiting anxious-ly for the final result on May16, when the variant mood attheir luxuriant abode would bethe real story.

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It took the ElectionCommission of India (ECI)

72 days for conducting the LokSabha elections 2014 andannouncing the results, makingit the longest ever pollingprocess in India.

The process for the LokSabha election 2014 was set inmotion by the ElectionCommission on March 5, 2014and the results would bedeclared on May 16. Thepolling was held in nine phas-es starting from April 7 andculminating on May 12.

The suspense and tensionundergone by the candidateswhose fate was sealed on April7 is understandable. Even thepeople who cast their votes arefeeling irritated over the waitfor the D-day which is onFriday. “Isn’t this a proof of thefailure of the ECI which has allmodern communication andtransport facilities at its com-mand? The whole processcould have been completedwithin two weeks,” MDNalapat, Professor andDirector, department ofGeopolitics and InternationalRelations, Manipal University,told The Pioneer.

He pointed out that pollingwas a cumbersome process tillthe 1990s as polling materialsand officials had to be dis-patched and deployed to faraway corners of the country.“Those were the days whenpolling materials were taken tothe booths with the help of ele-phants, mules and even don-keys. Not anymore. The UPAGovernment itself has beenclaiming in its publicityblitzkrieg that there were no un-motorable roads in the country.The whole country is connect-ed with broadband. Thesethings could have brought downthe gap between the dates ofnotification and counting to lessthan a 30 days,” said Nalapat.

There is a section among thepolitical fraternity who fear thatthe electoral process has beenspread over two months fordenying the Opposition, partic-ularly the BJP and its prime min-isterial candidate the advantageit gained in the initial phase.“They feel that they can tonedown the Modi wave over a peri-od of time and help the Congressto regain the lost ground,” saidGowthaman Ramakrishnan,Director, Vedic SciencesResearch Centre, Chennai.

But experts in election choseto differ with such apprehen-sions and comments. “This is thebest the Election Commissioncould do with the kind ofpolitical parties and leaders wehave,” said N Gopalaswami,former Chief ElectionCommissioner of India.

As news of booth capturingby the TMC in Bengal onMonday was flashed across theTV screens, Gopalaswamiasked: “Do you need moreexplanation why the electionprocess in the country is differedover 72 days? If there is no sterneye, political parties are willingto do anything to win. One-daypolling could be undertaken inStates like Rajasthan, Gujarat,Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.But polling can be completed inStates like Bengal, UttarPradesh, Bihar and Maharashtraonly in two or three days. Thenthere is the Naxal-infested areaswhere the ECI has to providemaximum security to the can-

didates as well as electors,”pointed out the former CECGopalaswami, who was alsothe Union Home Secretary, saidmore than 150 districts in thecountry are Naxal infested.

“The entire country can gofor two-day poll provided nopolitical parties in power mis-use the administrative machin-ery and no political partiesindulge in questionable meanslike booth capturing and rig-ging,” he said. He added thatIndians can dream for the next50 years for this to happen.

But Gopalaswami wasemphatic on one condition.“When the next Lok Sabhaelections are held, all theElectronic Voting Machinesdeployed in the country shouldhave the voter verifiable paperaudit trail (VVPAT) as direct-ed by the Supreme Court. It willmake our election the mosttransparent process in theworld,” he said.

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New Delhi: This was the mostexpensive Lok Sabha electionsentailing a cost of �3,426 croreto the national exchequer, asubstantial jump of 131 percent over the expenses incurredin 2009.

The Election Commission(EC) attributed the jump inofficial expenses inflationbesides a series of measuresundertaken to increase votingfigures for the substantial rise inpoll expenditure.

Several political parties havejumped into electoral fray andthe number of Independentscontesting polls have alsoincreased. The more the candi-dates, the more the expenditure.

Voter awareness campaigns,distribution of voter slip aheadof election date, use of VoterVerified Paper Audit Trail forthe first time in these pollspushed the expenditure further.

According to the ElectionCommission, the cost of con-ducting the general elections

had already witnessed a 20-foldincrease in 2009 as against thefirst polls held in 1952.

In 1952, the cost was 60paise per elector which became�12 in 2009.

Considering expenditure inabsolute terms, �10.45 crore wasspent in 1952, while �1,483crore was the amountGovernment spent for 2009polls. The 2004 Lok Sabha elec-tions cost the Governmentexchequer about �1,114 crorespent in the exercise. In 2004, pervoter cost was �17 per elector.

There was an increase in theelection cost by 17.53 per centvis-a-vis the 1999 general elec-tions despite the fact that therewas reduction in number ofpolling stations by 11.26 per cent.

In first six Lok Sabha polls,cost per elector was less than arupee, but subsequent elec-tions saw a massive hike inelection expenditure.

The entire expenditure onactual conduct of elections toLok Sabha is borne by theCentre. But, expendituretowards law and order main-tenance is taken care of byrespective State Governments.

Besides the Governmentexpenditure, political partiesand candidates also spent largeamounts of money.

Significantly, theGovernment had this timeraised the cap of spending bya candidate from �40 lakh to�70 lakh, which was expectedto push up the total expendi-ture on the polls. PTI

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Patna: Buoyed by projections ofa massive victory in Bihar in theLok Sabha elections, the BJP onTuesday said Chief MinisterNitish Kumar will getvery few seats and can’tstall Narendra Modifrom becoming thePrime Minister.

“Nitish Kumar caneven join hands withShaitan (Satan) to stall NarendraModi from becoming the PrimeMinister ... but he will get onlya few seats in Bihar and will notbe able to stall the BJP leaderfrom becoming PM,” formerDeputy Chief Minister SushilKumar Modi said. He also ruledout any chance of a tie-up withLalu Prasad’s RJD after the elec-tion results. “Lalu Prasad sekabhi samjhauta nahi ho saktahai (there can never have anagreement with Lalu Prasad),”

the senior BJP leader said. He said Nitish Kumar would

try to “influence” leaders likeAIADMK chief Jayalalitha to not

go with NarendraModi, but would notsucceed. Modi said theparty would performbetter than what waspredicted in the exitpolls for Bihar.

He said the exit polls weresaying that BJP had contestedagainst the RJD-Congress com-bine. “The truth is you cannotwin elections on the basis of MY(Muslim-Yadav) combine for-mula. Many sections of the soci-ety like backwards, extremelybackward castes, forward castesand Dalits, had left Lalu andcome to BJP,” Modi said rulingout any rise in the number ofseats for the RJD and theCongress in the State. PTI

Amethi: Aam Aadmi Partyleader and party nomineefrom Amethi Lok Sabha seatKumar Vishwas on Tuesdaysaid he will not leave the con-stituency whether he wins orloses the election.

“I’m not going to leaveAmethi whatever the decisionmay be. My campaign to breakthe network of alleged touts willcontinue in Amethi,” he said.

The AAP leader claimedthat he has won the hearts ofvoters here.

“Whosoever may be thewinner in Amethi, I have wonthe hearts of Amethi people,”Vishwas said.

Claiming that around 17,500people have registered them-selves with AAP in this con-stituency, he said the party will

establish permanent offices atblock level to meet the challengesfaced by the common man.

“AAP’s volunteers will bedoing there work in the interestof the society without disturb-ing any person or party,” he said.

Amethi went to polls onMay 7. PTI

New Delhi: Union MinisterJairam Ramesh on Mondaydemanded a “serious expendi-ture audit” of the money spentby parties in the just conclud-ed Lok Sabha polls, claimingNarendra Modi’s campaignspending had reached an“obscene level” while Congress’was “peanuts” in comparison.

“The amount of money thatBJP’s prime ministerial candi-date has spent is astronomical ...I think obscene level of funding.But clearly our level of spendingwas peanuts compared to whatMr Modi was able to raise,” theCongress leader said here.

In an interaction with medi-apersons at the Indian Women’sPress Corps here, Ramesh alsocame out with a proposal tocheck overspending of moneyduring poll campaigning, sug-gesting abolition of the MPLADscheme and using the money toState-fund elections.

A whopping �30,000 crorewere projected to have beenspent by the Government, polit-

ical parties and candidates in thenine-phased.

Referring to the BJP’s adcampaign through print media,Ramesh said “front page ads innewspapers” given by Modi “willtell you the story — the amountof money that has been spent”.

“Taking a front page ad innewspaper is not cheap. TheCongress didn’t take out evenone full page front page ad,”

Ramesh said.Ramesh, who was chief

Congress campaigner inSeemandhra and Telangana,said he was “appalled” at thelevel of spending by candidatesbelonging to all political partiesfor winning assembly and LokSabha polls there.

“I was apalled. Crores havebeen spent in Assembly seats,in Parliament seats irrespective

of political parties. In this cir-cumstances, only big contrac-tors and real estate developerscan contest elections,” he said.

The Rural DevelopmentMinister said that all partiesshould reach a consensus onelectoral reforms.

“If you are asking me thatthere should be a seriousexpenditure audit. I agree withyou. There must be realisticexpenditure norms, there mustbe genuine expenditure audit.Because with this level of fund-ing that we are seeing, this isanother threat to Indiandemocracy,” he said. PTI

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Lack of own intelligencegathering capabilities and

non-cooperation by the localpolice in sharing inputs hasmarred operational capabilitiesof the elite anti-Naxal CoBRAbattalions of the CentralReserve Police Force (CRPF).

With pressure beingmounted from the UnionHome Ministry and the CRPFdirectorate to deliver, theCoBRA battalions are routine-ly advised to undertake large-team operations. In the absenceof actionable intelligence, suchmove is fraught with seriousconsequences, insiders said.

CoBRA (Combat Battalionfor Resolute Action) on its parthas been directing its battalionsto improve own intelligencegathering capabilities by pene-trating the contractors engagedin road construction and thoserelated to public distributionsystem to ascertain the supply

chain of the Naxals. This apart,the battalions have also beenadvised to seek the database ofNaxals from civil police in writ-ing. By taking contractors andsuppliers into confidence, theprofile of the Naxals operating inthe respective area can be made.

Apart from strengtheningintelligence cell, CoBRA hasbeen seeking to enhance itsperformance and operational

achievements by conductinginput-based action against theNaxals including layingambushes against them.

The Intelligence Cell is beinggeared up to keep a track of foodgrain/condiments suppliers tovillagers. The frequent buyerscan be identified and then be putin suspect list and then theirnexus with the banned outfit canbe identified, a source said.

“At present, in spite of hav-ing enormous capabilities, theCoBRA unit is unable to oper-ate even in small teams appar-ently due to the fear factor. Nowonder the Force has been fac-ing reverses in the recent past,”the source added.

The CRPF headquartershere is also considering a pro-posal from CoBRA to postdomiciles of the Naxal-affectedareas so that they have a betterunderstanding of the local lan-guage and can penetrate theNaxal ranks in an effective way.

As many as 10 battalions(10,000 personnel) have beencreated for the CoBRA whohave been given specialisedtraining and armed withsophisticated weapons and gad-gets including X-95 assaultrifles, night vision devices andsatellite phones. But only 209and 210 CoBRA battalionshave a relatively better opera-tional performance record, thesources added.

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New Delhi: A Joint SecurityReview (JSR) has been carriedout following a complaint toExternal Affairs Ministry byPakistan High Commission ofreceiving a letter threatening toharm Pakistani officials even asa probe into the matter was on.

Following the threat letterreportedly received by theHigh Commission here onMay 6, the concerned securi-ty wing scheduled a JSR, inwhich representatives of thePakistan mission also partici-pated. It is understood that theJSR assessed the security forthe mission, reviewed mea-sures to secure the premisesand discussed means tocounter perceived threats,including deployment andresponse mechanisms.

Meanwhile, it is learnt thatthe investigation into the threatletter is in progress.

The issue of receiving threatletter was taken up by thePakistan’s Deputy High Commi-ssioner to India with the MEA.

Apart from seeking a com-prehensive probe into the issueincluding ascertaining identityof the sender of the letter, theHigh Commission has asked foradditional security, maintainingit was India’s responsibility toensure the safety and security ofPakistani diplomats and otherstaff in the mission. PTI

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Siddaramaiah-led CongressGovernment in Karnataka

has completed one year in office.Siddaramaiah, who playedbackward class politics said, “theLok Sabha results, whatever itmay be, is no referendum on myGovernment.” The KarnatakaChief Minister expressed hap-piness and satisfaction overone-year-long administrationand said financial position of theState has improved. He toldreporters in Mysore he washappy with his performanceduring last one year.

65-year-old Siddaramaiah,who had announced a slew ofprogrammes aimed at empow-ering backward classes, hasplayed vote-bank politics to thehilt consolidating his positionin the State.

The Congress Government

led by him assumed office onMay 13 last year. According toCongress sources, no celebra-tions have been planned tohighlight achievements of thepeople in view of the prevail-ing code of conduct of the

Election Commission which isin operation till the completionof counting of votes to the LokSabha on May 16, and also dueto the drought conditions insome parts of the State.

“I am happy with my

achievements. People haveappreciated the achievementsof my Government. However,there is a need to achievemore,” said Siddaramaiah.

He also said that the finan-cial condition of the State hadimproved during his regime.He would place his achieve-ments at the State-level and thedistrict-levels. “The new pro-grammes of the Government,like ‘Anna Bhagya’ and ‘KsheeraBhagya’, have reached the peo-ple. People will assess the per-formance of my Government,”the Chief Minister said.

Meanwhile, the leadingOpposition BJP slammed theperformance of SiddaramaiahGovernment on completion ofone year in office, and called it“a withdrawal Government”.

BJP State unit presidentPrahlad Joshi said the CongressGovernment led bySiddaramaiah has not taken off.He said “...You (Government)lied through the Governor’sspeech which promised to pro-vide free laptops and sanitarynapkins on which you later

backed off. Governor’s addressis policy guidelines for the fullyear and you have backed offfrom what you have promisedin that.” “In the same way youhave withdrawn from many ofyour own decisions. If we go oncounting, it will grow over adozen,” he added.

Accusing the Governmentof not doing enough to managethe drought situation, he saiddistrict in-charge Ministerswere not working towards sup-plying drinking water in theirrespective districts and werenot paying enough attentiontowards drought relief work.

“The State Government iscompletely non-functional,they are just calculating on theoutcome of the Lok Sabhapolls ...,” he added.

Stating that the Governmenthas totally failed in its first year’sperformance, Joshi said, “ThisGovernment has not even takenoff. There are no signs of it tak-ing off. Even before it may takeoff, the Government is likely tocome to a complete halt due totechnical snag.”

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In a first ever meeting ofGujarat BJP MLAs after the

longest ever Lok Sabha polls,the saffron party’s legislaturesgave a standing ovation totheir leader, Narendra Modifor his mammoth efforts tolead the party’s most success-ful poll campaign.

Apart from 117 BJP MLAs,senior Gujarat BJP functionar-ies including Gujarat BJP pres-ident RC Faldu, State party in-charge Om Mathur, in-chargeof State BJP election campaigncommittee Parshotam Rupalaand others also remained pre-sent in the meeting.

Lots of excitement was cre-ated among BJP MLAs, partycadre and media fraternityahead of the meeting on thedeclaration of Modi’s successor.Though State Revenue MinisterAnandiben Patel is believed tobecome the first ever womanChief Minister of Gujarat,names of other senior BJP lead-ers are also being discussed.

Apart from Modi’s closeaide Amit Shah, seniorMinisters like Nitin Patel andSaurabh Patel are also believedto be in the race. The issuebecame important after asenior leader of the partyBhikhubhai Dalsania threw hishat in the ring for chief minis-

tership. Bhikhubhai, who wasfunctioning as the link betweenthe executive and the organi-sational wings of the State BJPand had played very importantroles in the selection of the can-didates for the general elec-tions, was believed to havebeen backed by the RSS to suc-ceed Modi in the State.

When the meeting started,against all expectations, theGujarat Chief Minister talkedabout upcoming annual eventsof the State Government –Krishi Mahotsav (AgricultureFair) and Kanya KelavaniZumbesh (Girl-child EducationDrive). Modi also insisted hiscolleagues to participate for thenoble cause.

While talking to media-persons, Gujarat BJP generalsecretary and spokesman VijayRupani said that no discussion

on the successor of NarendraModi took place during themeeting. “Decision on the newChief Minister will be takenonly after the poll result by theparty’s central parliamentaryboard. Focus of the meeting wason Krishi Mela and KanyaKelavani drive,” Rupani added.

He said that personally hethought Modi would take restafter the months long electioncampaign on national scale, butthe Gujarat CM straight awaystarted work and toll the stalkof the State’s water situation.

On Modi’s successor,Gujarat BJP in-charge Mathursaid that there is a system in theparty and decision would betaken at an appropriate time.“Such decisions are not takenhaphazardly. This party does-n’t belong to one family or per-son,” he added.

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Accusing the ElectionCommission of being

biased, Samajwadi Party gen-eral secretary and UttarPradesh’s Cabinet MinisterMohammad Azam Khan saidthe poll panel supported com-munal forces during the 2014parliamentary election and itshould apologise to the nationfor its “misdeeds”.

“The EC had first servednotice to BJP leader Amit Shahfor his derogatory statementthat Azamgarh was nursery ofterrorists and then it suddenlywithdrew the notice. This provesits bias towardsc o m m u n a lforces,” theMinister saidand demandeda public apolo-gy from the EC.

He said if the EC was notbiased, it should take actionagainst Shah under Section317 of the Indian Penal Code.

Khan, who was banned bythe EC for his hate speech, saidthat it was unfortunate that thepoll panel said that Shah hadnot said anything wrong. Hesaid action should be takenagainst the EC for this.

“The EC’s work is to con-duct free and fair election, butthis time it gave oxygen to a par-ticular party. The EC shouldspeak the truth and do its duty,”Khan told reporters in Rampur.

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Predicting that “achche dinaane wale hain”, the State

unit of BJP asked the ElectionCommission to make allarrangements for free and faircounting of votes in the Stateon May 16. It also demandeddeployment of para-militaryforces, particularly in con-stituencies from whereSamajwadi Party supremoMulayam Singh Yadav andhis family members have con-tested the election.

“The ruling SamajwadiParty went for large-scale rigging

during polling at Firozabad,Etawah, Mainpuri, Kannauj andBudaun, from where the familymembers of Mulayam SinghYadav contested the election. Theavailable trends suggest that theSP is losing in these constituen-cies and therefore it may do mis-chief to recover lost ground,” BJPState president Laxmikant Bajpaisaid here on Tuesday.

Bajpai has sent a memo-randum to the ElectionCommission in which he hassaid that the EC shoulddeploy only Central forcesand Central observers at thecounting centres.

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The curtain behind the out-come of parliamentary elec-

tions showing a very poor showby the Congress would unveiledon coming Friday, but Statepresident Nirmal Khatri hadmade a unique record of notholding a single election rally oreven an address to mediaper-sons here at State headquartersthroughout the polling.

When the presidents ofother national political parties oreven regional outfits were busycampaigning for the party aswell as also taking media queriesthrough Press conferences,Khatri remained confined to hisown parliamentary constituen-cy Faizabad, and even after vot-ing was completed there onMay 7, Khatri did not take painto go and address for some othercandidates who were contestingin the last phase.

Congress sources confirmedthat posters had been preparedto put at party’s office showingKhatri as ‘missing’ but on time-ly intervention of some seniorcolleagues, the juniors droppedthe idea. Sources, however, con-firmed that even before theoutcome of the elections on thisFriday, a big section of theCongressmen voiced their con-cern towards this apatheticapproach of Khatri towards the

party and demanded that heshould not remain as president.

“It is strange that a leader likeNirmal Khatri has been sent asState president, particularly whenour vice-president Rahul Gandhialways talked of strengtheningthe organisation if we wanted toperform good in this biggestState,” quoted a senior Congressleader who was formerspokesman of the UPCC.

“The concern of Khatri ofgiven a solid leadership to theorganisation and that too at the

most crucial time of Parliamentelections can be easily gaugedfrom the fact that the MP fromFaizabad not found time toaddress even a single rally for anyother party candidate or even toaddress mediapersons about thepolitical strategy or other aspectsof the party,” cited the leader. “It’snever in the history of Congressthat the State chief had notaddressed any rally or hold aPress conference”, added theleader saying that by doing soKhatri only registered a uniquerecord in his name for not givena single minute to the organisa-tion during the elections.

Demanding removal ofKhatri another Congress leaderwho is also a member of AICCsaid that it is irony of theparty that the organisation inUP has been given in thosehands who were interestedonly in their own elections.

“While Khatri, not given anytime to the party or improvechances of any other candidatethrough-out the elections andremained confined in his ownParliament constituency, theincharge of Party affairs here inUP, Madhusudan Mistri tooconcentrated just on his ownelection in Gujrat and only in theend spared some time in UP”,cited the leader adding that howthe Party orgnisation could bestrengthened under the leader-ship of such leaders.

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The Army can resumebreathing normally fol-lowing the unnecces-sary tension caused bythe political contesta-

tion on appointing the next Chiefof Army Staff. Good sense hasprevailed and Lieutenant GeneralDalbir Singh Suhag, who hasencountered hundreds of snakesbut only a few ladders, has ulti-mately been appointed India’s25th Chief of Army Staff. The firstBritish Chief was, General RobertLockhart who was sacked andreplaced by Gen Roy Bucher. GenKM Cariappa was the first IndianCOAS appointed in 1949.

Considerable confusion wascreated over the announcement ofthe next COAS by the incumbentGovernment due to the apparentpublic rift in the ElectionCommission and dithering byUnion Defence Minister AKAntony. Finally a decision wastaken by the ElectionCommission last Monday reiter-ating that the case is not coveredby the Model Code of Conduct.

The ball was back in MrAntony’s court, where it had beenfor weeks now. The Government,by making the formal announce-ment, has done an ‘Arun Prakash’— when the NDA, two days beforedemitting office in 2004,announced the Chief of Naval Staff.

The Election Commissionmomentarily chickened, consider-ing that its Principal SecretaryAjay Kumar, in a March 27 letterto the Defence Secretary, had writ-ten: “The Model Code of Conductis not applicable to any matter per-taining directly to the Defenceforces be it recruitment, promotion,defence purchases... and all servicematters and consequently no ref-erence need to sent to theCommission pertaining to theModel Code of Conduct in thesematters. These instructions will beapplicable for all future elections.”

But why was Mr Antony over-cautious? An unnamed SouthBlock source said Mr Antonywanted to compliment his leg-endary probity with strict pursuitof the procedural rule book. Heordered and received a fresh roundof regulation clearances includingfrom the Central Bureau ofInvestigation with respect to GenSuhag and, to be sure, he alsosought permission from theElection Commission despite the27 March circular. The sourceadded that Mr Antony was underpressure from what he called‘shadow of the past’ which wascompelling him to leave the COASappointment to the next

Government. He was also underpressure from his own party, angryover his prevarication to name theCOAS. And then came MrSubramaniam Swamy. Caught ina pincer, he bought time by goingto the Election Commission.

The shadow of the past wasmanifest in the psy-war waged byMr Swamy and Gen VK Singh,Gen Suhag’s bete noire. LastMonday, Mr Swami was heardbragging on television that he hadstopped the Government fromappointing the COAS by approach-ing President Pranab Mukherjee,who according to him, sent thecomplaint to the ElectionCommission. While Mr Swamyand Gen Singh have politicised theappointment of COAS, Gen Singh’sintention was deeper: The orches-tration of Gen Suhag’s supersessionso that his relative, Lt Gen AshokSingh, the next senior-most officercould become COAS.

My last column explained inmeticulous detail that the seniori-ty principle has been sacrosanct andscrupulously observed for morethan a 100 years since 1905, baronce in the politically motivatedsupersession of Lt Gen SK Sinha by

the Congress Government. For thefiddling and tinkering done with thepromotion system, credit goes to theCongress. The BJP came close toclaiming this dubious distinction aswell by trying to interfere in GenSuhag’s appointment.

Lest readers have forgotten,Gen VK Singh and Lt Gen AshokSingh were the only two officersprivy to the unusually suspiciousmovement of Special Forces —commandoes and mechanisedcolumns — converging on NewDelhi in what the Indian Expresshinted carried the whiff of the ‘C’word. Subsequently, DirectorGeneral of Military Operations LtGen Ashok Choudhary admittedhe was unaware of the troopmovements and that they oughtnot to have taken place synchro-nised with Gen Singh taking theGovernment to court; and formerAir Chief Marshal NAK Brownestated that the exercises for whichtroops were ostensibly movedwere to be held a month later.Defending the Armed Forces, MrAntony said last month in refer-ence to these curious manoeuvresthat “they will never stage a coupd'état”. No Defence Minister has

ever had to state the obvious.In this newspaper, last week

a columnist argued against thenecessity of making the selectionand announcement two to threemonths in advance of the incum-bent demitting office. Rathernaively, he cited the case of GenShankar Roychaudhury whobecame COAS upon the death ofGen BC Joshi. What more needbe said on this except that onlygod can forewarn the Ministry ofDefence about such a mishap.Gen Roychaudhury had not leadan Army Command but only aTraining Command; still hisseniority trumped all other con-siderations. Air Vice MarshalArjan Singh’s appointment asChief of Air Staff was made onMay 11, 1964, a clear two and halfmonths ahead of August 1, 1964,when he took over. Gen Suhag’sappointment will replicate this.

Unfortunately in the heat ofthe most intense, violent andlongest fought election campaign,the Election Commission andMr Antony appeared to have tem-porarily developed cold feet. Theinexplicable delay by theGovernment in deciding on nam-ing the next COAS has adverselyaffected our apolitical Army, trig-gering groupism and casteism, aswell as activating lobbies. This isundermining military discipline.

This is the first time that theappointment of a service Chief waspoliticised and became the subjectof public debate and presidentialand Election Commission inter-ventions. Credit for this goes to GenVK Singh who has been dubbed‘the most controversial COAS inthe history of the Indian Army’. Theother person to blame is MrSwamy, who is the master of PublicInterest Litigations (although hehasn’t won even one), and has beenseverely misguided by Gen Singh.Clearly, they sought to alter the lineof succession.

Mr Antony has finally shownsome spunk in this last act of gritand defiance of the politicalopposition, thereby curtailingthe extraordinarily infructuousdebate over a routine appoint-ment, politicised by individualsinimical to the institutionalintegrity of the Army.

The new Government wouldhave been committing harakiri bysuperseding Lt Gen Suhag andappointing Lt Gen Ashok Singh asthe new COAS. And if the newGovernment even remotely consid-ers remotely appointing Gen VKSingh, likely MP from Ghaziabad,as the Defence Minister, it will bethe recipe for you know what.

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“A spectacular show” (May 13).The Election Commission hasdone a superb job, considering thatthe dice was heavily loaded againstit, in reducing rampant electoralmalpractices and keeping the lidshut on hate speeches. It did wellin ensuring a peaceful poll, devoidof significant clashes at booths. Italso did reasonably well in explain-ing its stand on the allegations ofbeing a partisan entity.

Though the 10-phase electioncould have been a necessity forthe EC, it should find ways to cur-tail the long-drawn process in thefuture. A marathon electionprocess brings all important deci-sion-making to a grinding halt.The EC should also act on thelarge-scale missing voter rolls insome constituencies.

However, the winner of 2014poll is the voter who bravedinterspersed Government holi-days, children’s vacations, scorch-ing heat, and threat perceptionsin certain areas to record a 66 percent turnout. Advertisements,peer advice and relaxation of rulesby rigid office managers whomight have given a day-off totheir employees, also helped.

But the biggest motivation fac-

tor for the voters was the presenceof Mr Narendra Modi and his cap-tivating development-orientedspeeches. People had begun tosense a change of guard, and wereeager to be part of such a change.As exit polls have trickled in, peo-ple’s belief stands vindicated, andthey cannot wait for May 16.

Ganapathi BhatAkola

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Sir — This refers to the article,“This is not just Nigeria’s problem”by Sonam Mittal (May 12). It hasbeen a month since the abductionof 276 Nigerian school girls by thextremist Islamist group, BokoHaram, but the whereabouts ofthese girls are not yet known. Thisreligious extremist group hasdemanded the release of somedreaded terrorists lodged inNigerian jails, failing which theseinnocent girls will be sold off tosex-slavery racket.

It is disheartening to notethat none of the Islamic countrieshas either denounced this dastard-ly act or come forward to locatethese girls, as has been offered bythe US and some European coun-tries. No Indian Muslim organisa-tions has come forward either incensuring this reprehensible act.

This notorious group wantsto take the Muslim communityhundreds of years back in thename of religion. On the otherhand, we have Malala Yousafzai’scase before us, who was shot inPakistan by the Taliban forespousing the cause of girls’ edu-cation. These inhuman acts ofIslamic extremists must be con-demned by every human being,irrespective of their religion.

Sagar SinghNew Delhi

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Stop cruelty to animals” (May 9).Bull fights are not unique to India.In Spain and other Latin Americancountries, bull fights are common.Moreover, if the animals have theright to life, shouldn’t the slaugh-ter of animals also be banned? Yet,India is a leading exporter ofmeat. The court also mentionedthat humans are harmed duringbull fights. Humans are also hurtduring Muharram when Muslimsself-flagellate. Can the Governmentban this practice?

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The rupee has gained a bit.It touched a high of�59.77 to the dollar in

April and remained around�60 during the general election.The ‘favourable’ political cli-mate, a supposed stability afterthe poll, is said to be the causefor its rise.

Does this mean that therupee will regain its strength?Not necessarily. Since 1996,almost at every election therupee has gained during thepoll but lost soon after. Duringthe past few years, UnionMinister for Finance PChidambaram predicted therupee’s rise a number of times.It touched an 18-year low of�68.80 in August 2013.

In 1996, the rupee lostfour per cent soon after theelection. The reason cited wasthat no party had gainedmajority and the political sit-uation was fluid. During thepoll it had hit �34 and by

December 1996, it had touched�35.80. During the 13th LokSabha poll, in 1999, it fell by 0.7per cent after the poll; in 2004,it lost 3.8 per cent and in 2009,it recorded a four per cent loss.

The rupee went up by 5.8per cent this time hoveringaround �60. The rupee was at�63 to a dollar in January. It isdifficult to predict whetherthe rupee will remain at thislevel after the poll results are declared.

It will be a challenge and aticklish problem for the newGovernment. A stronger rupeewill add to its political sheen.It may add to the hopes of thepeople. It will also be consid-ered the beginning of eco-nomic strength. Most people inthe country view the currencyas a mark of prestige. It is adream of many Indians thatwhen they go abroad instead ofdollars, people demand rupees.It has not happened since 1966,

when, under the InternationalMonetary Fund and WorldBank pressures, the rupees wasfirst devalued by 36.5 per cent.At that time a dollar was avail-able for �4.76. The decision didnot help the country. Inflationcontinued to peak.

With each devaluation, thecountry was assured its exportswill rise. There had been nom-inal increases. A weaker rupeeadded to the cost of imports,which remain around 30 percent of GDP.

Even as the rupee toucheda historic low of almost �69despite dollar itself losing againsteuro, the cry of a group of econ-omists, BPOs and some otherexporters was the same. Exportsonce again did not do the trickfor the Indian economy.

In fact, even in 1966 it wasconsidered bad economics. Forminor export gains or not, thecountry added much more to itsimport costs. Certain imports

like petroleum are a necessity tokeep the home fire burning. Italso burnt much of the strengthof the Indian economy.

The new Government, if itwants to give the economy anew direction, will have to shiftthe focus from exports. TheUN agencies, UNDP andESCAP, aver that the focus onexports has made their importsexpensive and led to inflationary trends.

Buying imported items willbecome a costly affair, if rupeeis allowed to fall. The countrywill have to shell out extra onimported goods. For instance,if one bought a product valuedat one dollar, one paid around�54 in March 2013 but one willnow have to shell out over �60for the same product. If this isallowed to slide after the poll,the outgo will be more.

On the contrary, a strongerrupee will reduce the burden ofoil marketing companies,

nuclear and alternative poweragencies, and this will reducefuel and transportation cost. Itmight usher in a lower priceregime. The fuel prices havebeen the major reason for highinflation during the last few years.

If the rupee appreciates, thecost of investments too willcome down. In such a situationthe Reserve Bank of India willhave options to cut policyrates. Lending will become lessexpensive. But the RBI will alsohave to hedge the depositorsagainst losses. It has to workout a policy for banks to workon low margins.

The RBI policy should giveweightage to savings so that theGovernment has to depend lesson borrowings. This will helpcut in fiscal deficit and willmake more money available forinvestment by banks. It cangive a fillip to the economy.Students too will be a happier

lot as the cost and accommo-dation of studying abroad willcome down. Their debt burdentoo will be reduced.

A stronger rupee will alsoprotect the country againstcurrent account deficit as theimport bill will be reduced.The present woes are due towidening of the CAD whichhas been kept kept undercheck by showing foreigninstitutional investor short-term inflows as earnings —certainly bad economics.

There can be some prob-lems too. Overseas Indiansmight prefer a depreciatingrupee as it adds to their rupeeearnings. Those workingabroad might have worries ofgaining less through theirremittances. The newGovernment, with a vision ofbreaking away from the past,will be able to create a newIndia. It might be the begin-ning of a stronger India.

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After over two years of flip-flops by the Union Ministryof Environment and Forests,the Supreme Court gave theMinistry 10 days, untill April

30, to start the process of setting up anational environmental regulator underthe Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.According to the order, the regulator willcarry out independent, objective andtransparent appraisal and approval ofprojects for environmental clearances.The regulator will also monitor theimplementation of the conditions laiddown in the clearances and imposepenalties on polluters. While exercisingsuch powers, the regulator will alsoensure that the National Forest Policy,1988, is duly implemented.

One can understand the misgivingsof the judiciary. The Supreme Court’sgreen bench has been dealing with for-est-related issues for almost two decades.The bench has expressed its reservationsabout the way clearances are granted. Ithas had to deal with poor EnvironmentImpact Assessment reports and baddecisions of the Forest AdvisoryCommittee. It has found conflict ofinterest in the way an EIA report is pre-pared and forest area is identified,demarcated and finally diverted for non-forest uses. In the court’s view, therefore,an independent national regulator is thesolution. In its order dated July 6, 2011,the court — in the case of LafargeUmiam Mining Private Limited versusUnion of India & Ors — had directedthe Union Government to appoint anational regulator.

In its public notice filed the very nextday, the Environment and ForestsMinistry agreed to set up an independentregulator. But then the Minister forEnvironment changed, and so did theposition of the Ministry. For the next twoyears, it did not take any action on thecourt’s direction. It did not file anyreview petition. In fact, in an effort toreverse its earlier position, it argued thatthe court’s direction of July 6, 2011, wasa mere suggestion and not a mandamus.When the court refused to accept it, theMinistry asked for six more months —which was again refused. Exasperated, thecourt has now given it just 10 days.

Though the court’s intentions arewell meaning, insisting on a newnational regulator might backfire.

There are major problems with theway projects are granted green clear-ances in the country. Too many clear-ances are sought for the same thing, andnone of them seem to be working forthe environment or for protecting therights of communities. Worse, they areadding to the burden of industry interms of high transaction costs. Let uslook at the key clearances.

There is environment clearanceunder the EIA notification, 2006. Bigprojects are appraised by anEnvironment Appraisal Committeeand cleared by the Ministry. Small pro-jects are handled by the State-levelEnvironment Appraisal Committeesand State-level Environment ImpactAssessment Authorities. Most EIAreports are not worth the paper they arewritten on. The regulators — EAC etc— are not accountable to anyone.

There are now many cases in which theclearances granted by the regulatorshave been rejected by the courts. On topof all this, hardly any post-clearancemonitoring is done. The six regionaloffices of the Ministry that are supposedto enforce the clearance conditions donot have the resources to do it.

Then there is forest clearance underSection 2 of the Forest (Conservation) Act,1980. A Forest Advisory Committeeappraises the projects and recommendsdiversions. An impact assessment reportis not required. The report on the basisof which forest land is diverted reads likea botanical paper — number of trees, girthof trees, etc. There is no assessment of theimpact of the forest diversion on ecolo-gy, water resources or the people living inthe area. Worse, none of the reports aremade available in public domain.

There is coastal clearance under theCoastal Regulation Zone Notification,2011. Under this, there are State CoastalZone Management Authorities and theNational Coastal Zone ManagementAuthority. The SCZMAs are supposed tomap the coastal zones of the States anddevelop integrated coastal zone manage-ment plans. Based on these, they have torecommend clearances for coastal projectsto SEIAAs or the Ministry as the case maybe. But very few States have mapped theircoastal zones and developed integratedplans. As in the case of environment clear-ance, there is a conflict of interest inpreparing the EIA report and demarcat-ing the coastal areas. The project propo-nent pays to the consultant to do all this.Although preserving the livelihood of thecoastal community is one of the mainobjectives of the CRZ notification, the lawdoes very little in this regard.

Wildlife clearance under the WildlifeProtection Act, 1972, is for taking up non-

forestry activities in wildlife habitats andwithin 10km from the boundaries ofnational parks and wildlife sanctuaries.The National and State Boards for Wildlifeare involved in giving these clearances.

In addition to these, there is theCentral Pollution Control Board and theState Pollution Control Boards — thebiggest pollution regulators of thecountry. Before a project can come up,it has to take Consent to Establish andConsent to Operate under the Water(Prevention and Control of Pollution)Act, 1974, and the Air (Prevention andControl of Pollution) Act 1981 fromSPCBs. Some of the SPCBs demand EIAreports before giving the consent.

Besides these, there are area/issue-specific regulators like the EnvironmentProtection Authority for Eco-sensitiveZones, the Compensatory AfforestationFund Management and PlanningAuthority, etc.

A project, hypothetically speaking,can require all the above-mentionedclearances. The level of multiplicity of reg-ulators can be gauged by the fact that aplace like Bengaluru has a Department ofEnvironment and Forests (headed by aMinister), a regional office of theEnvironment and Forests Ministry, a zonaloffice of the CPCB, headquarters andregional offices of the Karnataka SPCB,the Karnataka SEIAA and SEAC, officeof the Karnataka State Coastal ZoneManagement Authority, office of theKarnataka Forest Department, and so on.

Despite all the laws, regulations,authorities and regulators, 99.9 per centof all projects are awarded environ-ment-related clearances and 94 per centof all projects are given forest clear-ances. Despite the propaganda by theindustry, the fact is that in the past sixto seven years the pace and scale of

environment and forest clearances hasbeen unprecedented. For example,from 2007 onwards, the Ministry hasgranted environmental clearance tomore than 2,00,000 megawatt of coal-based thermal power projects — inother words, 60,000 MW more thanwhat we have installed in the past 67years. It has granted clearances tomine more than 350 million tonne perannum of coal and to install more than100 MTPA of steel capacity. For everyone of Posco or Vedanta stopped,there are hundreds that are grantedclearances without proper scrutiny.

This multiplicity of regulationsand regulatory authorities helpunscrupulous elements in the industryand the Government. But this is bad forthe environment and economic growth.In such a scenario, adding anothernational regulator will not help.

What we need is a second-genera-tion reform for environmental regula-tion, which will safeguard environmentand community rights as well reducetime and transaction costs for theindustry. Reduce multiplicity, removearchaic laws and streamline regulatoryprocedures. In this reform process, thereis certainly a possibility of setting up anational regulator that can consolidateall clearances — environment, forests,wildlife and coastal — so that the pro-ject’s impact is fully understood anddecisions taken. This regulator shouldbe given enough power and resourcesto do proper post-clearance monitoringand assessment and also impose finesand sanctions. The regulator must betransparent and accountable and pro-mote deepening of public assessment,participation and scrutiny.

(The writer is the deputy director gen-eral of Centre for Science and Environment)

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Sunny Leone, one of theworld's biggest porn-star**,

is trending on twitter. It's herbirthday, you see!

@SunnyLeone isn't@SuperstarRajini, the Tamilsuperstar Rajinikanth's handleon the micro-blogging site,launched last week. Nor has sheachieved 3.67 lakh follows thatThalaivar did and with justthree tweets at that.

But Ms Leone's brand gotenviable amplification onlythanks to poor governance -6.57 lakh followsand growingand the status of one of themost searched humans thisside of the Suez.

So, here's the point.Just two-and-a-half-years

back, 0n November 22, 2011,this column addressed self-regulation bodies in India's Rs80,000-crore media space. Iargued that via Colors, a home-entertainment TV channel, thepornstar and her entire array ofsex products are being cross-promoted on the internet,mobile applications and thesocial media space.

Inamed Press Council chiefMarkandeyKatju and NewsBroadcasting StandardsAuthority chairman JS Verma(since deceased). The recourse,I argued, lay with Justice APShah, a former chief of DelhiHigh Court, who the enter-tainment channels have toguard the broadcasting contentscomplaints council (BCCC).Here, he and a panel of 12 othernotables shoulder societalresponsibility towards non-news TV (IBF) channels.

Before I realized, notedRTI activist DevashishBhattacharya had impleadinghimself. Dev's complaint ofNovember 24 was finally heard,but a month after its filing.Meanwhile, Ms Leone's porno-graphic site out-Googled allother sites in India, her namesearched several times morethan Katrina KaifandAishwarya Rai Bachchan!

India Today and Mint cel-ebrated these search figures. Butno one questioned the cross-promotion!

Justice Shah acceded toDev's personal submissions anda horrid set of colour printsestablishing the mess. He gaveColors three days to stop thecross promotion. But therewere no penalties for damagesalready done.

Shah's order meant very lit-tle -today's Twitter trend bearsme out.

Waking up after onemonth, BCCC catapulted the

feisty lady's site www.sun-nyleone.com on everyone's lips.That includes children, right!Lest we forget, Optenet claimsthat 37 per cent of pages on theinternet contain porn material- Extreme Tech claims total 30per cent of traffic is sleaze. Readthese with Sintef figures where90 per cent of all data on theplanet was created in the lasttwo years.

I am all for India embrac-ing Ms Leone, aka KarenMalhotra for the first 22 yearsof her life. Her eclectic mix ofskin and anglicised Punjabihas every right to find a mar-ket as an actor! But since end-2011, it is her ensemble ofporn that is bang inside ourbedrooms.

The judge has been justi-fying his weak judgment, ie, 'onTV, which is what the BCCCregulates, Ms Leone was inghaghra-choli and was reallydemure too.' He decipher dou-ble entendre in Ms Leone's,"main yahan FUN kar-nachahtihoon," in huskyCanadian accent et al.

Did Justice Shah expectMs Leone to shed her clotheson TV? Did he care how big theworld's pornography industry isand serious bucks riding on MsLeone since Penthouse's BobGuccione stripped her of a'Malhotra' association, makingher Pet of the Y2003!

Credit streaming HD con-tent downloaded from themembers area of www.sun-nyleone.com (not to mentionother such 'addas'), stuff on herathleticism Indians can smug-gle from her online DVD store,and mobile downloads, help-fully promoted via@SunnyLeone for 84thousandfollows in November 2011 to6.57 lakh now.

In the complainant's pres-ence, Justice Shah's aidessaid,Colors may have "know-ingly or unknowingly" pro-moted all of the above. IBFemploys them only to managehonourable vindication for thedeviant.

I wonder what the bodycan actually do after lakhs(including children) hadretweeted and shared thatmobile apps can be boughtfrom [email protected]'s the penalty for MTVIndia that tirelessly promotedthis among3.88 lakh twitterfollowers at that time - a num-ber Sunny Leone's verified han-dle has outpaced eversince?

Mr Bhattacharya had citedin his complaint: "Normallywomen kept tissues handy whilewatching TV soaps; thanks toSunnyLeone, men will keep theirtissues handy during BigBoss5."

There was prescience in hissarcasm.

(The columnist works at theintersect of media, regulationand strategy on RIL. The viewsare personal. Follow on @thero-hitbansal)

** TopTenReviews (in2006) claimed that the glob-al porn industry was worth$97 billion!

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With exit polls pro-jecting BharatiyaJanata Party led new

Government, the benchmarkSensex skyrocketed to a newlife-time high of 24,068.94.The broader index Nifty alsosurged to a new record highof 7,172.35, in the thirdstraight record-setting ses-sion. Rupee also shot up by 37paise to Rs 59.68 per dollar.

Hopes of a stable busi-ness-friendly Government atthe Centre led by NarendraModi helped the Sensex toconclude the session at a newhigh of 23,871.23, showing asharp gain of 320.23 points.Nifty also ended the day at anew closing high of 7,108.75,logging a rise of 94.50 points.

The BJP-led NDA is pro-jected to form theGovernment at the Centrewith exit polls on Mondaynight giving between 249 and290 seats to the NarendraModi-led grouping, which isclose to the half-way mark inthe 543-member Lok Sabha.

Both, stocks as well asforex markets have given awarm welcome to the coun-try's next Prime Minister.Interestingly, on January 20,2009 when Barack Obamaassumed the office as the44th President of UnitedStates of America (USA),Dow Jones plummeted by 4per cent or 332 points. It wasthe biggest fall in the index onthe first day of any USPresident. Now all eyes are onhow the Indian stock marketswould react on the dayNarendra Modi comes topower.

Before Obama assumedpower, economy in US wasalso struggling with similarissues which are prevailing inthe country right now. Whilethe economy was tackling aslowdown, the market reac-tion to Obama becoming thepresident was negative. But inIndia, things are looking com-pletely opposite.

In US, during the run upto forming the newGovernment, Dow Jones hadslid by almost 1,000 points in

a month's time. But Indianmarkets have out performedits global peer as it has surgedby almost 1,400 points in thelast month on hopes ofNarendra Modi taking chargeas the new Prime Minister ofthe country.

An uncanny resemblancebetween Obama and Modi isthat the ascent to the top ofboth the leaders was alsobuoyed by the aspirations ofthe common man. Just likethe common man is expectingthe moon from Modi's ascentto Prime Ministership,Obama's arrival in 2009 toohad been driven by similarexpectations.

While markets have beenmaking new highs, brokersare more concerned thanoverjoyed with the 1,500points rally in the last threesessions. Ashok Agarwal fromEscorts Securities said, "Therally has seen almost no par-ticipation from retail investorsas most of the buying is com-ing for foreign institutionalinvestors (FII) and domesticinstitutions."

While commenting onthe overall mood of smallinvestors, Agarwal added,"Our smaller clients are onlybooking profits and not ini-tiating any long term invest-ments. The only retail partic-ipation is coming from shortterm traders who are buyingin the morning and bookingprofits by the end of the ses-sion."

Fortune Fiscal's JagdishThakkar stressed that the cur-rent market is only in thehands of FIIs and other insti-tutions. "Retail investors aremainly net sellers. They havetaken full advantage of therally and are booking profits."

As far as FII buying isconcerned, Thakkar said,"Most of the FII buying iscoming in bank, infrastruc-ture, real estate and capitalgoods sector, while they areselling in the pharmaceuticalsector."

Expecting the markets tocontinue to rally till the finalelection results are out,Rakesh Bansal of R K Globalsaid, "The current surge in

markets clearly signifies thatNarendra Modi is going to bethe next Prime Minister. Weexpect markets to continue tosurge for the next few daysuntil the momentum diesout."

He further stressed thatonce the buying momentumfizzles out, markets areexpected to correct sharply."FII buying is strong in banksand infrastructure shares. It isexpected that the newGovernment would clear outall the pending infrastructureprojects which in turn wouldhelp reduce the bad debts ofpublic sector banks."

The sentiments in thedomestic markets was alsoboosted by data showing thatforeign funds have beeninvesting heavily in the

Indian markets. As per thedata provided by the stockexchanges, FIIs bought sharesworth Rs 2 ,026.23 onTuesday alone. In the last twosessions, FIIs have investedover Rs 3,200 crore in equi-ty markets. Even rise in retailinflation was not able torestrict the rise in the mar-kets.

Indicat ion of higheropening in US index futuresalso boosted the market sen-timent. On Sensex, 24 stocksadvance while the remaining6 declined. On Nifty as well,of the 50 stocks comprisingthe index, 40 shares advancedwhile only 10 ended in red.BHEL was the biggest gain-er on Sensex and surged by10.25 per cent. Other gainersincluded Hero MotoCorp,

ONGC, Tata Power, Wiproand Reliance Industry whichsurged by 5.39 per cent, 3.81per cent, 3.62 per cent, 3.36per cent and 3.15 per centrespect ively. Dr Reddysdropped 3.99 per cent, thebiggest drop in the six Sensexlosers of the day.

Among the BSE sectoralindices, power index rosethe most by 3.26 per cent.Consumer durables, oil&gas,IT, capital goods, real estateand technolog y indicessurged by 2.92 per cent, 2.84per cent, 2.59 per cent, 2.51per cent, 2.44 per cent and2.23 per cent respectively.However, healthcare indexfell 0.45 per cent.

With the stock marketscontinuing to record sharpgains for the third straight

session on Tuesday, as manyas 225 stocks touched their52-week high on the BombayStock Exchange. Amongmajor companies who scaledtheir one-year peak wereACC, BHEL, BPCL, CoalIndia, HDFC Bank, HPCL,ICICI Bank, L&T, NMDC,Tata Motors and Tata Steel.

Shares of power, con-sumer durable, refinery,information technology (IT),capital goods, real estate andtechnology shot up on per-sistent buying. In threestraight days, the Sensex hasgained over 1,500 points andthe Nifty nearly 450 pointsahead of May 16 electionresults.

Market breadth turnedpositive as 1,623 stocks fin-ished with gains, 1,268 stocksended with losses while 147ruled steady. The tota lturnover rose to Rs Rs4,620.58 crore f rom Rs3,592.61 crores on Monday.

Meanwhile, tracking ris-ing stocks, the rupee alsosurged by 37 paise on tuesdayto end at a nine-month highof Rs 59.68 per dollar onrobust foreign capital inflowsinto equities after exit pollsprojec ted BJP- led NDAwould form the next gov-ernment at the Centre.

Weakness of the dollar inthe international markets alsoboosted the rupee that post-ed its strongest gain againstthe dollar in two weeks, aforex dealer said. The BJP-ledNDA is projected to form thegovernment at the Centrewith exit polls on Mondaynight giving between 249 and290 seats to the NarendraModi-led grouping, which isclose to the half-way mark inthe 543-member Lok Sabha.

This is the best gain forthe rupee since April 25 whenit appreciated by 47 paise. Asper historic data, the rupeehad last ended at 59.41 perdollar on July 29, 2013.Experts further added thatthe banks and exporters pre-ferred to reduce their dollarposition on hopes of moreforeign capital inflows onthe back of strong equitymarket.

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Expressing concern over thesudden spurt in stock markets

ahead of poll results, FinanceMinister P Chidambaram hasasked regulators, including Sebiand RBI, to remain alert and takenecessary actions to curb excessivevolatility.

Sebi Chairman U K Sinha onhis part sought to calm the mar-kets saying that regulations are inplace to curb any excessive volatil-ity and the regulator in keeping avery close watch on stock move-ments.

Emerging from the meetingof the FSDC on Tuesday, wherethe volatility in stock markets fig-ured during discussions, RBIGovernor Raghuram Rajan saidthe central bank is prepared to dealwith any kind of eventuality thatmay occur over next fewdays.Over last three trading ses-sions, the BSE benchmark Sensexhas rallied over 1,500 points andthe NSE's Nifty nearly 450 points.The markets are expected toremain volatile in view of theresults of the general electionswhich will be announced on May16.

At the meetingChidambaram, according to aFinance Ministry statement, urgedall the regulators to be watchful of

developments in the market andlarge volatility in key parame-ters.Chidambaram also calledupon the regulators and theMinistry officials "to be in a stateof readiness and take necessaryaction if the situation so war-rants".Sinha said the market reg-ulator is watching the situationvery carefully and all the systemsare in place.

"There is no need for anybodyto worry. If we find that anybodyis doing anything wrong, is in vio-lation of any of Sebi's regulation,we will take prompt action," Sinhasaid.RBI Chief Rajan too said: "Theregulators have examined thefinancial system over last fewweeks. We have conducted a vari-ety of tests. We are in many waysprepared for any kind of volatil-ity that might emerge over thenext few days"

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The fair trade watchdog is already probing the Internet majorfor alleged anti-competitive business practices.

The latest order came on a complaint by one Vishal Gupta againstGoogle Inc, Google Ireland Ltd and Google India Pvt Ltd allegingthat Google Adwords accounts are extremely "opaque and not trans-parent."

The CCI also directed its Director General (DG) to investigatethe role, if any, of persons who were in charge of, and were respon-sible to the companies for the conduct of their businesses, after giv-ing due opportunity of hearing to such persons.The AdWords pro-gramme, which allows Google to sell keywords to advertisers anddisplay them in the form of short ads online, is a big money spin-ner for the company.

In an order released today, the Commission said that "Google'spractices prima facie stem, to a large degree, from its undisputabledominance in the online search market."

"Therefore, Google's practices towards AdWords customers suchas the RTS (remote technology support) firms in this case, need tobe investigated," the watchdog added.The order dated April 15 wasreleased on Tuesday.

In September 2012, the complainant's group of companies hadresolved to set up an RTS business and an Adwords account wasopened and activated on January 2013.The complainant had allegedthat several remote tech support companies, including his firm, hadbeen suspended from the Adwords programme to promoteGoogle's own activities in an unfair, discriminatory and uncompetitivemanner.According to the CCI, the investigation is required to deter-mine the nature and extent of problems that prompted Googleto take actions against the RTS industry and whether or notthe termination of the Adwords account was legitimate. ��

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Depository Receipts, whichcompanies use to raise cap-

ital from overseas investors, willbe soon treated as shares if theyhave voting rights.

The Finance Ministry onTuesday said it has accepted therecommendations of the M SSahoo Committee that was setup in September to review ofrules governing foreign curren-cy convertible bonds (FCCBs)and depository receipts (DRs).

The Committee has rec-ommended that the DRs shouldbe counted as "public share-holding if they have attachedvoting rights for the holders".

It has also suggested thatcompanies (listed or unlisted)should be allowed to issue DRsagainst any underlying securi-ties, which may be equity ordebt.

It further said that DRs canbe issued for raising funds byissuing new shares or against theexisting equity.

According to the commit-tee, the tax treatment of DRsshould be similar to that ofunderlying securities.

"The conversion of a DRinto the underlying securitiesand vice versa should not be tax-able events. The trading of DRsoutside India should not attractany tax in India," it said.

The Committee was set upunder ICSI Secretary and formerSebi member Sahoo to review

the decade-old ForeignCurrency Convertible Bondsand Ordinary Shares (throughDepository Receipt Mechanism)Scheme, 1993.

The Finance Ministry saidit has decided to accept the rec-ommendations of the commit-tee and the new scheme and taxrelated amendments would benotified later.

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Suggesting that theGovernment should cut its

holding in public sector banksto under 50 per cent, an RBIpanel report has criticising theway in which the lenders arebeing currently governed.

The panel, headed by ex-chairman of Axis Bank PJNayak, said governance at the26 Public Sector Banks (PSBs)suffers due to several "exter-nally imposed constraints" likedual regulation by the RBIand finance ministry and

external vigilance by agencieslike the CVC and CAG, amongothers.

"If the Government stakein these banks were to reduceto less than 50 percent, togeth-er with certain other executivemeasures, all these externalconstraints would disappear,"the report said.

"This would be a beneficialtrade-off for the governmentbecause it would continue to bethe dominant shareholder and,without its control in banksdiminishing, it would create theconditions for its banks to

compete more successfully," itsaid.

The panel said the gov-ernment should distance itselffrom several governance func-tions and repeal the BankNationalisation Acts of the1970 and 1980, together withthe SBI Act and the SBI(Subsidiary Banks) Act.

All banks should be incor-porated under the CompaniesAct and a Bank InvestmentCompany should be constitut-ed where the government hold-ing in all the banks should betransferred, the report said.

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Making it clear that theGovernment will not able

to give more than Rs 8,000 crorein terms of additional capitalsupport during the current fis-cal, the Finance Ministry onTuesday asked PSU banks toexplore the possibility of settingup holding companies andSpecial Purpose Vehicles (SPVs)to raise funds for expansion.

Meanwhile, bad loans ornon-performing assets situa-tion of state-owned banksimproved to 4.44 per cent for thethree-month period endedMarch 2014 as against 5.07 percent at the end of December2013.

This was stated by FinancialServices Secretary G S Sandhuafter Finance Minister PChidambaram took stock ofannual financial performance ofgovernment banks here.

Sandhu said various optionslike ESOPs, SPV model andholding company model werediscussed during the meeting bywhich banks could raise fundsfrom market to meet their cap-

ital requirement.However, no decision on

any of the options was taken inwant of clearances from regula-tors like SEBI and IRDA.

“We have been telling banksthat they should come out without-of-box options...Becausethey will also have the respon-sibility to raise funds from themarkets,” he said.

One option, he said, a bankcould set up an SPV to which itwill transfer its real estate assets.The bank then can pay rental orlease to the SPV to create anincome stream for the SPV.

“Based on this incomestream, the SPV will raise moneyfrom the market,” he added.

Under the bank-wise hold-ing company model suggestion,he said, the bank will transfer allits subsidiaries to the new com-pany which in turn can tap mar-ket for funds.

“RBI has approved it (hold-ing company model). We arewaiting for Sebi's reply then wewill go ahead,” he said.

Another option, he said isperpetual bond route to raisecapital.

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Country's largest telecomoperator, Bharti Airtel on

Tuesday announced that thecompany raised nearly $2 bil-lion in a dual currency inter-national bond sale. The com-pany further added that it is thelargest debt issuance by adomestic firm till date. Bhartiraised $1 billion and euro 750million from sale of dual cur-rency dollar and euro bonds.

The company plans to usethis money for repayment andrefinancing of company's exist-ing foreign currency debt.Airtel said it is a first ever dualcurrency issuance by an Indianissuer and also largest everfund raising exercise at a sin-gle time by an Indian issuer.

The company said in astatement that its wholly-owned subsidiary Bharti AirtelInternational (Netherlands)has successfully priced a dualcurrency issuance of guaran-teed senior notes comprising of$1,000 million, 5.350 per centnotes due to expire in 2024 andEuro 750 million, 3.375 percent notes due to expire in2021.

“The notes will be fullyand unconditionally guaran-teed by Bharti Airtel. Bhartiwill apply the net proceeds torefinance its existing debt,”the statement added. The dol-lar notes were oversubscribed8 times and saw participationby over 550 accounts whereasthe Euro bonds were oversub-scribed 5.3 times and saw par-ticipation by over 400accounts, the company said.

“The $ notes have beenpriced at 270 basis points over10 year $ Treasury with afixed coupon of 5.350 per centper annum to yield 5.361 percent,” the company added. Itadded the euro notes havebeen priced at 225 basis pointsover 7 year EUR Mid Swapswith a fixed coupon of 3.375per cent per annum to yield3.498 per cent.

The company said thisrefinancing exercise has sig-nificantly lengthened the aver-age maturity profile of Bharti'sdebt. “With this, the companyhas fully refinanced the origi-nal $ 9 billion acquisition facil-

ity and also taken care of allnear term maturities,” it said.

The net debt of the com-pany at the end of March 31,2014 stood at Rs 60,541.6crore. “With this transaction,Bharti is the single largest pri-vate issuer out of India. Wenow have $5 billion of bondsoutstanding,” Bharti AirtelGroup Treasurer Harjeet Kohlisaid.

Barclays, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas,HSBC, JP Morgan and StandardChartered Bank acted as jointlead managers for the offering.“Through this as well as the pre-vious bond issuances, all acqui-sition finance facilities taken forthe acquisition of Zain in 2010,have been successfully refi-nanced well ahead of theirtenure,” Kohli added.

In March this year, thecompany had raised around Rs2,453.2 crore through issue ofbonds in the Swiss market. InDecember 2013, the SunilMittal-led firm had raised euro750 million or about Rs 6,350crore in the first such bond issueby an corporate and receivedbids worth euro 3.8 billion.The company than re-openedthe issue in January and raised250 million euros.

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India will surpass Japan onits way to becoming the

world's third largest oil con-sumer behind the US andChina by 2025, US EnergyInformation Administration(EIA) has said.

EIA in its Annual EnergyOutlook said India's oil con-sumption will rise from 3.68million barrels per day (173.5million tonnes) in 2012 to5.19 million bpd in 2025,overtaking Japan's 4.38 mil-lion bpd consumption.

Japan consumed 4.75 mil-lion bpd of oil in 2012.

India currently is thefourth largest oil consumer inthe world behind the US,China and Japan.

The US will continue tobe the world's biggest oil con-sumer but with almost nodemand growth. The US con-sumed 18.21 million bpd ofoil in 2012 which is project-ed to rise to 19.23 million bpdin 2020 before falling to 18.97million bpd in 2025 and to18.42 million bpd in 2040.

China's oil consumptionis projected to rise from 10.36

million barrels per day in2012 to 15.70 million bpd in2025 and 20.48 million bpd in2040, posting a compoundedannual growth rate of 2.5 percent.

India's oil consumptiongrowth rate from 2012 to2040 will be highest in theworld with a 3 per cent com-pounded annual growth rate.Its oil consumption, accord-ing to EIA, will reach 6.11million bpd in 2030 and 8.33million bpd in 2040.

As much as 80 per cent ofIndia's oil needs is metthrough imports.

China's GDP is roughly4.5 times more than that ofIndia and the US GDP isalmost nine times that ofIndia.

India had in 2013 over-taken Japan as the world'sthird- biggest crude oi limporter. It imported 3.86million bpd of crude oil, near-ly 6 per cent higher thanJapan's customs- clearedimports of 3,648,372 bpd.

The International EnergyAgency (IEA) estimates thatIndia will become the world'slargest oil importer by 2020.

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Confident of hitting half-a-million sales mark in just

a week's time, MotorolaMobility launched the cheap-est Android KitKat poweredsmartphone, Moto E in theIndian market on Tuesday.

It launched the Moto G inFebruary, followed by Moto Xa month later, exclusivelywith online retail majorFlipKart.

“We have seen tremen-dous response for Moto Gand Moto E and we are con-fident of crossing the half mil-lion units sales mark in thenext few days. Moto E, ourlatest launch, will further fuelthe growth that we have seenin Indian market,” said

Motorola Mobility IndiaGeneral Manager Amit Boni.

Moto E blends perfectlywith needs of Indian users,who are looking to switchfrom feature phones to smart-phones and those who haveswitched to smartphones buthave not had a great experi-ence, he added.

“Of the total sales so far,Moto G (which is currentlyretailing for �13,999 for

16GB) comprises a majorchunk of the sales in volumeterms. We expect the sales toonly grow further with MotoE, which we believe is a ter-rific phone for the Indianmarket,” FlipKart VP (Retail)Michael Adnani said.

Moto E is powered by thelatest Android KitKat operat-ing system, 1.2 Ghz dual-core with 1GB RAM and 4GBinternal memory (expand-able upto 32 GB). With a1,980 mAh battery, the dual-SIM device has a 5MP rearcamera.

The handset, which hasbeen simultaneously launchedin the UK, competes directlywith handsets from home-grown players like Micromaxand Karbonn in India.

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On the heels of the Finance Ministry asking state-owned banksto explore options for raising funds, State Bank of India (SBI)

on Tuesday announced plans to set up a holding company forthe purpose.

“It (setting up a holding company including all subsidiaries)is one of the possibilities (for raising capital)....Currently, thereis no clear view on this,” SBI Chairperson ArundhatiBhattacharya said.

The proposal for setting up of a holding company with thegovernment, she said, adding, it requires regulatory clear-ances.Setting up of holding company would also require amend-ment to SBI Act, she added.

Earlier in the day, Financial Services Secretary G S Sandhusaid various options like ESOPs, SPV model and holding com-pany model were discussed in the meeting of Finance MinisterP Chidambaram with heads of PSU banks by which banks couldraise funds from market to meet their capital requirement.

Under the bank-wise holding company model suggestion,he said, the bank will transfer all its subsidiaries to the new com-pany which in turn can tap market for funds.

“RBI has approved it (holding company model). We are wait-ing for Sebi's reply then we will go ahead,” he said.

Sandhu said government can provide capital only up to alimited extent remaining funds have to be raised from themarket.

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Pharma major Dr Reddy's Laboratory (DRL) onTuesday announced that its board has decided

to have separate roles for the company's Chairmanand the Managing Director and CEO. ConsequentlySatish Reddy has been appointed as Chairman of theBoard, while G V Prasad would continue as the CEO.

Prasad has also been appointed as the Co-Chairman and Managing Director. Earlier, SatishReddy was Vice Chairman and Managing Director.

“By re-organising our roles, we would be ableto focus more on distinct activities while simulta-neously providing space for internal growth to ourtalented senior management team,” Reddy said.

A company statement quoting Prasad said, “inhis new role, Satish can contribute significantly toshaping the direction and course of action on thesefronts, in addition to being a custodian of the cor-porate brand and driving governance processes andagenda of the Board.”

“It is an honour to be nominated as Chairmanof the Board,” Satish was quoted as saying by the DRLstatement.

Meanwhile the company's net profit fell by near-ly 16 per cent to �481.60 crore for the quarter endedMarch 31, 2014, due to higher research and devel-opment (R&D) expenditure.

The company had posted a net profit of �570.89crore for the January-March quarter of 2012-13.During Q4 2013-14, net sales of the company grewby 4 per cent to �3,480.90 crore, from �3,339.94 crorein the year-ago period, DRL President, CFO andGlobal Head of HR, Saumen Chakraborty said,adding the R&D expenditure for the current fiscalwould be in the range of 10 to 11 per cent.

“The profit margin is down due to increasedR&D spending on an year-on-year basis. Last year,we spent only 6.6 per cent (during the fourth quar-ter) and this quarter's R&D spending was 11.4 percent. This is the reason why net profit has come down,”Chakraborty said at a press conference afterannouncing the company's results.

R&D expenses rose to �398.48 crore for the quar-ter, from � 232.61 crore in Q4 2012-13, the DRLofficial said, adding that as much as 60 per centof the total R&D spend would go into globalgenerics.

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For the first time in Israel’shistory, a court on Tuesday

sentenced former PrimeMinister Ehud Olmert to sixyears in prison for his involve-ment in a real estate project,considered the largest in thecountry.

The disgraced former pre-mier, who had to resign after aseries of allegations of graftstarted to come to light, wasalso fined USD 300,000 by a TelAviv court for his role in the

‘Holyland Affair’, so called afterthe name of the project.

Judge David Rosen hadconvicted 68-year-old Olmertat the end of March of twocharges of bribery, and said heaccepted USD 160,000 fromdevelopers of the Holylandproject in Jerusalem at thetime when he served as thecapital’s Mayor.

The judge said, “those whogive bribes are corrupt, butthose who receive it inspire dis-grace and cause the public tolose faith in the State. A pub-lic servant who accepts bribesis equivalent to a traitor.”

Rosen further noted thatthe graft charges Olmert was convicted of include moral turpitude. The courtruled that the seven jail sen-tences handed out to peopleinvolved in the scandal wouldbegin on the first of Septemberand fines should be paid out in10 payments.

Olmert spoke in court reit-erating his denial of the alle-gations regarding his role inthe affair. He said the “convic-tion was a shock for me. I knewit was based on a fundamentalmistake, which is just wrong”. “I am proud,” Olmertstressed, “of the decade inwhich I ran the honest city(Jerusalem)”. “The right path isto appeal the decision andturn to the High Court.

I believe it will make theeffort to see the whole pictureand reach the conclusion thatI never took any bribe, notdirectly and not indirectly, notfor my affiliates and not for myfamily — that is the truth,” heemphasised.

Olmert, an attorney who in1973 became the youngest per-son ever elected to Israel’s par-liament, the Knesset, served asprime minister from 2006 to2009.

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The US has deployed sur-veillance aircraft over a

remote area of Nigeria as partof a mounting internationaleffort to find over 200 schoolgirls abducted by the dreadedBoko Haram Islamist militantsnearly a month ago.

“We have shared commer-cial satellite imagery with theNigerians and are f lyingmanned ISR (intelligence, sur-veillance and reconnaissance)assets over Nigeria with theGovernment’s permission,” asenior US official said on Monday.

Though the types of aircraftdeployed have not beenreleased, the US has sophisti-cated planes that can listen intoa wide range of mobile phoneand telecommunications traffic.

A team of about 30 USexperts - members of the FBI

and defence and state depart-ments - is already in Nigeria tohelp with the search.

The plight of the school-girls and the desperation oftheir families has capturedworld attention, with abhor-

rence focused on Boko Haram,the violent jihadist group thatis holding the girls.

State Departmentspokesperson Jen Psaki said theUS was “providing intelligence,surveillance and reconnais-

sance support”.Military and law enforce-

ment teams on the groundwere “digging in on the searchand co-ordinating closely withthe Nigerian Government aswell as international partnersand allies”, she said.

More than 270 girls weresnatched by militants fromtheir boarding school inChibok, north-eastern Nigeria,on April 14. Some managed toescape, but most were takeninto the remote Sambisa forest.

Boko Haram on Mondayreleased a 27-minute video,showing about 130 girls inMuslim dress and reading from the Quran. Most of theseized girls are Christians. Twowere singled out to tell the camera they had converted to Islam.

In the video, the BokoHaram leader, AbubakarShekau, said the girls could be

released in exchange for jailedmilitants. “I swear to almightyAllah, you will not see themagain until you release ourbrothers that you have cap-tured,” he said.

A US official said theyhave no reason to question theauthenticity of the video.

High-profile figuresaround the world have backedthe campaign for the girls’release.

US First Lady MichelleObama took over her hus-band’s weekly presidentialaddress to express “outrageand heartbreak” over the massabduction, and to pledge USGovernment support for therescue effort.

Apart from the US assis-tance, Britain, France andChina have sent teams toNigeria to help the search, andIsrael has offered to join theinternational effort.

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People should have some sayover the results that pop up

when they conduct a search oftheir own name online, Europe’shighest court said on Tuesday.

In a landmark decision, TheCourt of Justice of the EuropeanUnion said Google must listenand sometimes comply when in-dividuals ask the Internet searchgiant to remove links to news-paper articles or websites con-taining personal information.

Campaigners say the rulingeffectively backs individual pri-vacy rights over the freedom ofinformation.

In an advisory judgementstemming from a lawsuit againstGoogle that will impact on allsearch engines, including Yahooand Microsoft’s Bing, the courtsaid a search on a person’s nameyields a results page that amountsto an individual profile, onethat a person has some right tocontrol over under European privacy laws.

As such, the court said people should be able to ask tohave links to private informationremoved. That’s true even whena non-Google website is stillhosting the information.

In the ruling, it said people“may address such a requestdirectly to the operator of thesearch engine..Which must thenduly examine its merits.” Inaddition, it said search enginesmust weigh “the legitimate inter-est of Internet users potentiallyinterested in having access to thatinformation” against the right toprivacy and protection of per-sonal data.

When an agreement can’t bereached, the Luxembourg-basedcourt said the matter can bereferred to a local judge or reg-ulator. The decision came as asurprise since it went counter tothe advice the court receivedfrom its own top lawyer last year.

The European court becameinvolved after a Spanish appealscourt asked for its opinion in 200pending cases.

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At least 13 people wereburned alive in the Central

African Republic at the week-end when they were roundedup by armed men and barri-caded inside a home that wasset alight, a police source saidon Tuesday.

The attack was carried outby men believed linked to for-mer rebels of the mainlyMuslim Seleka group and thePeuls ethnic group in theregion of Kaga Bandoro in thecountry’s centre.

“One resident who tried toescape through a window wasriddled with bullets. All wereburnt to death in the house fire.Many other residents, who hadmanaged to flee, arrived hor-rified at Kaga Bandoro, wherethey took refuge in St Theresacathedral”, source added.

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The ship that led ChristopherColumbus’ mission to dis-

cover America has been foundafter 500 years, lying at the bot-tom of the sea off Haiti’s coast,an archaeological investigatorhas claimed.

“All the geographical,underwater topography andarchaeological evidence strong-ly suggests that this wreck isColumbus’ famous flagship,the Santa Maria,” BarryClifford, the leader of a recentreconnaissance mission to thesite off Haiti’s north coast, wasquoted as saying by TheIndependent.

If the claim is proved to betrue, the recovery of the ship-wreck more than five centuriesafter Columbus’s flagship, theSanta Maria, was wrecked inthe Caribbean is likely to beone of the world’s most impor-tant underwater archaeologicaldiscoveries. “The HaitianGovernment has been extreme-ly helpful and we now need tocontinue working with them tocarry out a detailed archaeo-logical excavation of the wreck,”Clifford said. So far, Clifford’steam has carried out purelynon-invasive survey work atthe site , the British daily said.

Tentatively identifying thewreck as the Santa Maria hasbeen made possible by quiteseparate discoveries made byother archaeologists in 2003suggesting the probable loca-tion of Columbus’ fort relativelynearby, the report said.

Armed with this new infor-mation about the location ofthe fort, Clifford was able to usedata in Columbus’ diary towork out where the wreckshould be, it said. An expedi-tion, mounted by his team adecade ago, had already foundand photographed the wreck -but had not, at that stage,realised its probable identity.

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As a host of exit polls pro-jected a clear victory for the

Narendra Modi-led NationalDemocratic Alliance, USPresident Barack Obama wasquick to declare that his coun-try would work closely with thenext Indian Government andmake the coming years “equal-ly transformative” for the twocountries.

As the ninth and finalphase of voting ended in themarathon general elections,Obama put out a statementlauding Indians for having “setan example for the world inholding the largest democrat-

ic election inhistory, a

vibrant demonstration of ourshared values of diversity andfreedom”.

“The United States andIndia have developed a strongfriendship and comprehensivepartnership over the last twodecades, which has made ourcitizens safer and more pros-perous and which hasenhanced our ability to worktogether to solve global chal-lenges,” Obama said, adding:“We look forward to the for-mation of a new governmentonce election results areannounced and to workingclosely with India’s next admin-istration to make the comingyears equally transformative.”

Both the White House andthe State Department, whichput out a separate statement,did not make any reference toModi per se, indicating that

Washington would preferto wait for the formal

declaration of resultsafter the counting of

votes on Friday.The State

Department, facedwith the ubiquitousquestions on the issueof US visa for Modi,

declined to offer anycomment, with spokesper-

son Jen Psaki averring: “Wedon’t speak on visa accep-tances, applications, etcetera.”Nor was she willing to say any-thing on the exit polls pointingto the formation of a ModiGovernment.

“We look forward to work-ing with the leaders chosen bythe Indian people to advancethis important partnership andto set an ambitious agenda,”Psaki said in a statement thatcalled the Indian elections “aninspiring example of the powerof the democratic process inaction”, adding: “The UnitedStates, like so many othersaround the world, has greatadmiration and respect for thevibrancy, diversity, andresilience of India’s democracy.”

The statement commend-ed India for playing a criticalrole in advancing prosperity,democracy and stability acrossthe Indo-Pacific region.“Whether we’re workingtogether to educate the nextgeneration of engineers andentrepreneurs, or combattingglobal challenges like climatechange and violent extrem-ism, the US-India partnershipis essential to securing abrighter future for both of ourpeoples,” it said.

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Sao Paulo: A mob report-edly lynched a Brazilianwoman, suspected of beinga witch, to death after aFacebook post for a localnews outlet spread an alert,claiming she had been seenabducting children.

The woman died inGuaruja city near Sao Paulolast week. “HousewifeFabiane Maria de Jesus diedon May 5 after being beat-en by a group of peoplefrom Guaruja two daysago,” said a newspaperreport.

“The lynching... wasmotivated by suspicion thatFabiane was connected tochild abductions thought tobe linked to black magic.However, there is no indication that she hadcommitted such a crime,”the report added. Agencies

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On the recent announce-ment of the JEE (Mains)

examination, 2014, organisedby the Central Board ofSecondary Education (CBSE),11,111 students of Resonancequalified for the JEE (Advance)exam which makes it the high-est number of selections fromany institute in India.

Out of 11,111 students,7,625 are from the regularclassroom programme and3,486 from distance and e-learning programmes run byResonance. As per the resultsso far, the 5,560 selected stu-dents are from the regularclassroom programme ofResonance Kota and 2,065from other study centres ofResonance.

Anirudh Shetty, a studentof Kota Study Centre, andRajat Chaturvedi, a student ofthe Bhopal Study Centre ofResonance, have scored 335marks each out of 360 (93.05per cent), which is the highestscore from Resonance.

Manoj Sharma, VP,Resonance said: “In JEE (Main)2013, a total of 9,521 studentsof Resonance got selected,which was the highest selectionfrom any institute in Kota.We’ve observed a growth of16.69 per cent, giving a total11,111 selections.”

The University School of Basic andApplied Sciences (USBAS), IP

University in collaboration withCommission for Scientific andTechnical Terminology, Departmentof Higher Education, Ministry ofHRD, Government of India, is goingto organise a two-day seminar onApplication of Computer Software inMathematical Modeling startingfrom May 16 at the Dwarka campus.

The renowned doctor and for-mer director of AIIMS Dr PK Dave

is the chief guest of the occasion. HLAttri, former director, Ministry ofEnvironment and Forests,Government of India and BK Sinha,member of Central AdministrativeTribunal will be the guest of honour.The Vice Chancellor of theUniversity prof Anil K Tyagi will pre-side over the function. The seminarwill focus on live demonstration with

hands on experience for the appli-cation of mathematical modeling inreal life problems. Around twodozen experts on the subject fromacross the country will participate inthe seminar.

The seminar will be hosted byprof AK Narula, dean, USBAS andDr Rashmi Bhardwaj, coordinator ofseminar.

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The Reva University,established under the

Government of Karnataka,invites applications for theIndustry Integrated andBusiness AdministrationProgramme at theirBangalore campus.

The two programmes—Bachelor of BusinessManagement-Industr yIntegrated and Bachelor ofC o m m e r c e - I n d u s t r yIntegrated is of three yearsand requires minimum qual-ification of Class XII pass.

Their PG programme inMaster of BusinessAdministration is of twoyears and requires a bachelorsdegree of three years in anystream or BE/ BTech with 45per cent (40 per cent in caseof candidates belonging toSC/ST) of marks in aggregatefrom any recognised univer-sity. The last date for admis-sion is July 15, 2014. Formore details log on towww.reva.edu.in.

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Delhi, is a campus-basedpublic university establishedin 2008, invites applicationfor their MA and BA pro-grammes.

The campus offers cours-es from the field of SocialScience, Humanities toBusiness Administration,Publishing, Design,Performance Studies,Cinematic Studies etc. Itoffers research, UG and PGprogrammes in social sci-ences and humanities withthree types of honoursdegrees in BA (hons) viathree-year with a major in asingle discipline; three-yearwith a major in social sci-ences and humanities; andfour-year with a dual major

in two disciplines. There isno separate admission

for the dual major pro-gramme, lateral admis-sions are allowed fromother institutions in the

second year.The university has

introduced two new coursesas well — MA in EarlyChildhood Care andEducation and MA in SocialEntrepreneurship. They arealso planning to launchcourses for cinematic arts andperformance arts, a skill-based UG vocational studiesprogramme twinned withpolytechnics.

Admission to the UGprogrammes will be based onmarks obtained in Class XIIexaminations. For MA pro-grammes, candidates musthave a Bachelor’s degree witha minimum of 45 or 50 percent marks as the case maybe, in different programmesfrom a recognised universi-ty in any discipline.

The deadline for apply-ing is June 16, 2014. Formore details log on towww.aud.ac.in.

Prof Anil K Tyagi, a leading scien-tist in Biotechnology and recipi-

ent of the Shanti Swarup BhatnagarAward, has joined as the new vice-chancellor of IP University for a fullfive-year term. Prior to this assign-ment, Prof Tyagi was chairman,Advisory Committee of WUS HealthCentre, University of Delhi, SouthCampus. His area of specialisation isBiochemistry, Biotechnology,Molecular Biology, TuberculosisResearch with special emphasis onvaccine development and drug dis-

covery. He was HoD of Biotechnologyfrom 1990 to 2011. He is recipient ofseveral national and internationalawards and member of numerousnational and international scientificbodies. Prof Tyagi holds an MScdegree in Biochemistry from theUniversity of Allahabad and a PhDdegree in Medical Biochemistry fromthe University of Delhi.

After the retirement of previousvice-chancellor Prof DKBandyopadhyay, on December 11,2013, the senior most dean of theUniversity Prof Anup Singh Beniwalhad been appointed as interim V-Cto run the university administrationin the interim period.

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Centre (UIRC) of IPUniversity organised atwo-day book exhibitionat its Kashmere Gate cam-pus. Inaugurated by profAnil K Tyagi, VC of theuniversity, around two-dozen leading publisherson the subject ofArchitecture andPlanning like ElitePublishers, Puja Books,Educational Book Centreetc participated in theexhibition.

Subhash Deshmukh,university librarian, profNeeraja, prof-in-chargeof USAP and LuganiSethi, dean, UniversitySchool of MassCommunication, profCP Singh and other fac-ulty members, officialsand students of the uni-versity were present onthe occasion.

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The current Indian economicscenario is stable with the GDP at 5.9per cent, many large companies are still

waiting for the results of the General Elections,although the growth of investment by globalcompanies still continue to be strong. Havingsaid that, there is visible increase in demand ofskilled workforce in India. Often it has been seenthat in order to fill in the vacancy of a skilledemployee the number of applicants are large butonly a very few have the required skills to dothe job.

Due to stringent labour laws many globalfirms are still skeptic to invest in India and havebeen looking at other Central Asian countrieslike Vietnam and Philippines to invest as the costof labour is less than India. In the comingmonths improved global growth prospects andcompetitiveness gains from currency depreci-ation will bolster external demand. India’s pol-icy challenge is to create significantly more pro-ductive and well-paying jobs which are vital tosustain high growth and ensure it is inclusive.

It has been observed that out of every 10applicants only 1 has the required skills that fitthe job description. An important point to benoted is that the requisite educational qualifi-cation is present but the candidate often lacksthe skills required to do the job. Due to the short-age of skills, the company employee’s workforcefrom abroad this leads to increase in the cost oflabour. This has led to a rise in the attrition levelacross various sectors and also the recruitmentfor fresher employees is low.

Low level of competence leads to inconsis-tency of performance;therefore many organi-sations desire a certain level of required skill andcompetence in its employees for specific jobposts. An organisation’s best source of compet-itive advantage lies with its employees and it hasbeen seen time and again that the demand foreffective and competent employees is continu-ously increasing in both public and privateorganisations.

Competency mapping is a strategic HRframework for monitoring the performance anddevelopment of human assets in organisations.Competency based talent management can

improve both productivity and performance byidentifying key characteristics of top perform-ers and how those traits differ from averageemployees. These characteristics in turn can fil-ter in a set of core competency profile that con-sistently lead to successful workforce.

With growing emphasis on technology, pro-ductivity and quality standards, organisationsneed more competent and self-directed teamsto suit changing work needs. This requiresemployees to learn new skills and competencies,adhered to values, behave professionally andenhance risk taking capabilities, all of which rep-resent a set of competencies that can be culti-vated through training and development.

Effectively mapped competencies translatethe strategic vision and goal of the organisationinto behavioural actions that employees mustdisplay. Competency based talent managementconcentrates first on the person and then his orher outputs or results.

With the constant change in the Indian busi-ness environment, it is vital for a company toregularly identify the need of these skills andinculcate various training modules to updatetheir employee abilities and reduce attrition rate.

In order to initiate these training modulescompanies need to first analyse the shortfall thatemployees or team members are facing and thiscan be done by monitoring the impact of pre-vious training activities and constant awareness

of business activities. Therefore, the success ofa training programme depends primarily on theneed assessment.

If training is integrated into the normal busi-ness activities of an organisation it must be bothstrategic and collective. At the same time whilerecruiting new employees, the company shouldbe able to identify the skill the candidate pos-sess and the areas where skill development isrequired and accordingly align them with thecompany needs to make him/ her more pro-ductive and efficient. Additionally, when anemployee is exiting a company, they should beable to recognise the reasons for the exit alongwith the key learning from the organisation.

Identifying training need and providing ade-quate training to employees leads to perfor-mance which ensures increased productivity.Competence mapping on the other hand focus-es on the need of the company which furtherhelps in strengthening the employee base,longevity of the employee in the company andreduces attrition.

The success of a company depends on howwell the employees are able to contribute interms of both knowledge and skill. With this inmind, companies must continually review theirtraining strategies so that they can quickly adaptto constant change.

Company should be aware of the currentskill and knowledge level of employees in detail.This is the basic prerequisite to facing new chal-lenges in a target-oriented way, and to seeingthrough changes in a timely manner. Therefore,with constant need analysis and competencymapping a company will be able to employeeefficient candidates and also inculcate the righttraining modules that are required for skill devel-opment on the basis of requirement for a par-ticular job profile. Overall, these strategies fur-ther help in strengthening the company corecompetency and increase profitability.

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IMT Hyderabad hascome up with Capstone— aa renowned worldwide busi-ness challenge which is apart of the strategic man-agement course at the insti-tute. The challenge is a partof the curriculum in whichthe simulation exercise iscarried out in two parts—first in a group of five mem-bers each, over a period of

10 days and then at an indi-vidual level as a comprehen-sive six hour long examina-tion. Being a part of thestrategy course, the exerciseinvolves implementing con-cepts from all the coursework of the first year tomake business decisions inthe areas of marketing,finance, accounting, HR,Leadership and Strategy.

The Sunstone BusinessSchool offers Pre InternshipModel MBA courses whereevery candidate will have tofinish a compulsory twomonths corporate internshipbefore he is admitted to theclassroom. The internshipwill help a candidate tounderstand the sector he isentering into and broaden hislearning horizons as well.

Sunstone BusinessSchool was conceived withthree fundamental concepts—low cost structure, focuson learning than teachingand connecting the worldthrough intense collabora-tion. The curriculum is builtaround real business prob-lems and the faculty acts likecoaches who help studentssolve problems.

B-Town Institute ofCelebrity Management is allset to start their first batchfrom June 1, 2014 in NewDelhi and would offerCelebrity Managementcourse that will expose stu-dents to case studies ofcelebrity management, talentmanagement, artist manage-ment and public relationsmanagement. The durationof the course is three months

and the classes would be oftwo hours thrice a week. Theinstitute will offer a spe-cialised course of CelebrityManagement that focuses onmanaging various aspects ofa celebrity’s PR, business,image and brand positioning.The course will provideemployment opportunities inPR agencies, sports organisa-tions, entertainment and pro-duction house.

Prabhaav Learnings pvtLtd, a registered vocationaltraining provider under theskill development initiative ofMinistry of Labour andEmployment, Government ofIndia recently launched avocational training center inShri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar,Kalkaji. 14 courses have beenintroduced like soft skill forbase line staff in service sec-tor, front line assistant and

supervisors, spoken Englishand communication skill,accounting, banking associ-ate, small office and homeoffice coordinator, juniormarketing associate, juniorhuman resource associate,assistant counsellor, positivehealth and well being coun-sellor, child and adolescentcounsellor. The basic agerequirement to get into thesecourses is 14 years and the

educational qualificationvaries differently according tothe course. After completingthe course candidate will beawarded a certificate byNational Council ofVocational Training (NCVT)on the basis of which theycan apply for jobs. The cours-es are from 100 to 480 hoursand classes will commencedaily at Satya Sai ViharCenter.

The Harvard BusinessSchool (HBS) will host anexecutive education pro-gramme— Aligning andExecuting Strategy— fromJune 9 to 12, 2014 at the HBSstyle classroom, Taj Lands’End, Mumbai. The pro-gramme will examine howorganisations have to adapt

their leadership style as theyshift from a regional to amultinational focus, facilitat-ing the participants to achievesuccess once India’s economyrebounds. This leadershipdevelopment programme isdesigned for senior executivesdoing business in India andaround the globe across a

wide range of industries, rep-resenting large establishedprivate companies seeking toenhance their business strate-gy as they expand into newmarkets and business lines.Participants will learn howto build and sustain compet-itive advantage, thrive inperiods of uncertainty etc.

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The Muthoot Group inassociation with Save theChildren recentlyannounced that 1,200 chil-dren in the age group of 5 to12 years from most margin-alised families were referredfor enrollment inGovernment schoolsthrough an innovativeEnrollment and Retentiondrive in North East Delhi.The drive sensitised parents

and community memberson issues such as benefits ofeducation for children,information on the nearestschool, the admission proce-dure, and about sendingchildren less than five yearsto the nearby aanganwadicenters in order to developschool readiness skills.

The aim is to improvethe quality of education inprimary schools managed by

East Delhi MunicipalCorporation and to supportthe National objective ofuniversal enrollment andretention. In a survey it wasobserved that more than 90per cent of the parentsreached out during theenrollment drive were notaware of the existence ofschool management com-mittees, one of the featuresof the Muthoot programme.

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Scholarship for Mastersdegree courses at theUniversity of Sussex.

Eligibility: One must be aself-financing student fromIndia and have accepted anoffer of a full-time place on amasters course at theUniversity of Sussex com-mencing in September 2014.

The scholarship is avail-able only to self-financingstudents. If your tuition feesare funded by an externalfunding body you will not beeligible to receive the scholar-ship. The scholarship cannotbe combined with any otherscholarship funded by theUniversity of Sussex.

Application: You mustapply for admission to an eli-gible Masters course via theUniversity’s PG Apply onlineapplication system.

Application deadline:The application deadline isAugust 1, 2014.

The Dempo and theFomento Group collabora-tively formed the Goa educa-tion trust with the BritishCouncil in the year 2009 toprovide Goan students with aplatform to undertake post-graduate study in the UK inany field of academic study.

Eligibility: Be an Indiannational with a valid Indianpassport, domiciled and resi-dent in Goa, or born to Goan

parents or ofGoan origin. Be in India

at the time of applying forthe Scholarship. Be not more

than 30 years of age at the timeof applying. Have excellenttrack record in academic andextracurricular achievements.Identify a suitable Mastersprogramme in the UK andapply for a course beginningin September/ October 2014.You need to secure admissionand bring proof of admissionat the time of interview.

Guidelines: Along withthe application form pleasesubmit the following docu-ments: Documentary proofof share of the applicant or theapplicant’s parents having anancestral property in Goawhich is utilised as the fami-ly’s residence or businesspremises.

Proof of birth certificate(born in Goa) of the applicantor any one of the applicant’sparents or grandparents. Acopy of conditional/uncon-ditional admission letter fromthe UK institution. Submit oneacademic and one profession-al reference letter, althoughrecent graduates may submittwo academic references. Twohard copies of reference lettersof not more than one A4 sizepage each.

Contact: British CouncilDivision, British DeputyHigh Commission, 901Tower 1, One IndiabullsCentre, Elphinstone Road(West), Mumbai 400 013

One can write to: [email protected] for more information.

Astudent who wants to enroll for visual com-munication should know the art of usingvisual, images and texts to communicate

or convey a message to the audience. Graphic andmultimedia design is a part and parcel of this visu-al communication as both express their conceptand implication through visuals. Professionals inthis field try to use visuals to connect with theiraudience convincingly.

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such as annual reports, advertisements, logodesign, magazine production, packaging,brochure design and so on. One of the skills thata graphic designers should acquire is to have agood layout skill and judgment. Multimedia, onthe other hand, concentrates more on softwarewhere they can apply their knowledge on webdesign, video editing, etc. As multimedia is anoffspring of graphic design, it too needs to havea good layout sense and the understanding ofthe basic design elements. It’s essential for mul-timedia students to study and examine designfundamentals as well before they advance toexplore software knowledge.

Many people don’t consider design as a high-ly regarded education, particularly in Asia,because people assume that it’s less academiccompared to other professions. This notion ismisunderstood. Design does have scholarlyvalue. It is different but it isn’t any less signifi-cant if we observe in detail. Design is unique andrare. It requires talent just like a good surgeonor accountant needs.

Graphic and multimedia design allows stu-dents to be creative and creativity is valuablebecause design requires problem solving skillsto achieve a unique expectation. Students willget to learn and see things in different per-spectives when a design problem is given tothem. Such analysis helps to develop new ideasand invention.

������ �����)���When you shop in a shopping mall, what

makes you choose between items that have dif-ferent appearances or brand names but the samefunction or utility? Do you decide on purely aes-thetic grounds, or because one offers somethingspecial? Or because your choice has beeninfluenced by a successful marketing campaign?At home, in the street and at work you are sur-rounded by designed objects that you seem totake for granted, yet which are more significantin our daily lives than you perhaps realise.

While people take granted of the visuals theyare surrounded by every day, graphic design stu-dents are the ones who contemplate how andwhy the consumers buys certain products andbrands. The ability to comprehend consumers’needs suggest that a good designer doesn’t justput together images and texts on a packagingbox. The placement of font, colours and picturesare all well examined and evaluated before adesign is put on visuals. Since designs are usu-ally packaged as a popular culture, many peo-ple don’t take the career seriously. But these days,product designers and multimedia players arepaid handsomely.

The process to develop a good design in real-ity needs critical, rational, methodicaland valuable analytical skills to accom-plish. A good design does not appearsuddenly. Cultural and cognitive psy-chology is put into consideration so

that the message is understood within a culture.

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major will have a lot of opportunities to workin an advertising agency where they get to designads for various brands. They may also beinvolved in the production of magazine photoshoots for some fashion or product brands.Graphic designers can also opt for packagingcareer.

Multimedia students will be able to take upa profession as a web design-

er and perform studiowork that involves

video editing andphotography. Whichever

title the students get in thefuture, it’s crucial that they receive

quality training that can help themdevelop a good eye for detail and a good

intellect for design problem solving skills. Both multimedia and graphic design stu-

dents will be taught to predict the design prob-lems they would face. When an idea is conceived,a problem will also occur along the way.Having a good learning attitude is important forstudents when they are hunting for jobs.

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�What sets apart SunderdeepGroup of Institutions (SGI) ?

The group serves an ambi-ence of humanity, creativity andinnovation with affordable andmodern education in order tonurture students to become cul-turally and ethically rich profes-sionals with bright future.Sunderdeep provides the bestand latest learning environmentto students, so that they can getthe practice followed in thebusiness and industrial world.Sunderdeep education societyencourages promoting local andinternational communicationand collaboration. �What are the courses offered?

The group has many col-leges and therefore we haveplenty of courses to offer to thestudents. Sunderdeep College ofEngineering offers BTech,MTech, MBA and MCA. Ourmanagement college offers BBA,BCA, PGDM, the HotelManagement arm offersBachelor of hotel managementand catering technology, cook-ery and bakery courses.Sunderdeep Pharmacy Collegeoffers PHA BPharma andMPharma.�What about scholarship pro-grammes?

Scholarships based on per-formance in exam are offered tostudents. For example, any stu-dent obtaining 75 per cent inUttar Pradesh TechnicalUniversity exam is given a schol-arship of �5,000. There is norestriction on number of schol-arship to the students. �What’s the importance ofvocational education andpart–time executive courses?

It is very important forimparting direct skills to stu-dents, in various fields, throughshort courses, which are morepractical and hands on experi-ence provider. Through this waywithin a short period cuttingedge training can be provided toa large base of students who areindustry ready after completingthe course.

Part-time executive coursesare a valuable substitute for reg-ular courses. With this way indi-vidual worker can upgrade hisskills and contribute to the qual-ity enhancement at his workplace, without hindrance to hiswork schedule. �What are the problems facedby today’s entrepreneurs?

Some of the problems thatthe industry faces are: qualitywork force, Government policiesand controls, competition frommultinational companies, effectsof global trade like imports fromabroad and absence of affordablecapital from banks and financialorganisations. �What are the gaps in the edu-cation system?

Old syllabus, which isn’trevamping with the changingscenario and modern practicesfollowed in the industry. Scarcityof industries and academic rela-tionships, lack of practical skills,imparting methodology andteaching level etc are some of theissues that needs to be sort out.�What are some of the careeroptions with a bright future?

Biomedical waste manage-ment, nuclear energy, alternativesource of energy, mechatronicsare some of the sectors that havea bright future. The growth herewill be tremendous in the com-ing years.

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The last time the two sidesfaced off in the tournamentopener in the United ArabEmirates, the Knight Riderscame out triumphant.

The Kolkata outfit, though,has been struggling to find itsfeet in the ongoing tournament,but back-to-back victories, espe-cially a win against a strongPunjab side at this very venue,must have done its confidence a

world of good.Come Wednesday, KKR,

who are placed fourth in thepoints table with four wins andfive loses in nine games, would

certainly be keen to go all outfor a victory and brighten theirchances of making the play-offstage. Kolkata’s batting hasclicked against both DelhiDaredevils and KXIP, withunderfire skipper GautamGambhir leading from thefront striking a couple ofsuperb half-centuries to guidethe team to victory.

Robin Uthappa and ManishPandey have also made signifi-cant contributions in the last twogames and would be looking tocontinue with their exploits.The bowlers will also draw con-fidence form the fact that theymanaged to restrict Punjab’smarauding batsmen to a mere149 for eight here. ,-2

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The KXIP have had a ram-paging campaign in this editionof the IPL before the KKR gotthe better of them in a match onMay 11 at Cuttack. Having suf-fered a sudden setback, thePunjab side would be keen tocome all guns blazing againstthe Sunrisers, who cannot affordto lose any more matches inorder to stay in contention fora place in the semi-finals.

Punjab’s star duo of GlennMaxwell and David Miller havebeen in scintillating form andthe team’s old warhorseVirender Sehwag has also, oflate, been reminding about his

batting prowess.While batting has been the

mainstay of Punjab, the bowlingdepartment is no less potentwith the presence of pacerSandeep Sharma, one of the topwicket-takers this season andAustralian import MitchellJohnson, who slowly gatheredsome momentum after a ratherindifferent start.The Punjabside also boasts of the seasonedThisara Perera, who played forSunrisers last year, CheteshwharPujara, Shaun Marsh, MuraliKartik and L Balaji.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni reaffirmedhis status as the best finisher inlimited overs cricket with yet

another fluent final flourish as the ChennaiSuper Kings romped home by five wick-ets against Rajasthan Royals in an IPLencounter here on Tuesday.

Chasing a modest target of 149, CSKreached the target with two balls to spareas skipper Dhoni hit a six off JamesFaulkner’s final over to make required 12runs off the final over look like a walk inthe park. Dhoni’s unbeaten 26 came off16 balls with a four and a six after in-formDwayne Smith (44) and Faf du Plessis(38) set up the chase. Ravindra Jadeja’s 11off 6 balls also was important in the finalcontext of the match. Jadeja also helpedthe Royals being restrict to a below parscore with brilliant figures of two for 18in four overs.

CSK now are on top of the eight-teamtable having 16 points from 10 gameswhile Kings XI Punjab with 14 from ninegames are a notch below.

Despite the loss, Royals, on 12 pointsfrom 10 games also remain firmly in con-tention for a play-off berth holding ontotheir third place.

While Smith batted in his customaryattacking fashion hitting five fours and twosixes off 35 balls, Brendon McCullum (6)and Suresh Raina (2) were out playongpoor shots to left-arm spinner AnkitSharma. Smith hit a couple of straightsixes off Faulkner and was involved in a35-run partnership with Du Plessis, whowas having problems with runningbetween the wickets.

While Smith mistimed a pull-shot offKevon Cooper to be caught by glovesmanDishant Yagnik, Ravichandran Ashwin(14) was done in by a customary slowerdelivery from Rajat Bhatia.

However CSK’s batting depth againcame to the fore as Dhoni’s presenceensured that it was the umpteenth timethat the formidable outfit successfullychased down a target in the death overs.

Earlier, Royals skipper Shane Watsoncame up with his best score of the season- a fiery 51 - but his team lost momentummidway through the innings to score amodest 148 for eight in stipulated 20 overs.

Watson’s decision to promote himselfto the opening slot paid dividends as heemerged top scorer for his side with a 36-ball knock, which featured four sixes andthree boundaries.

They were going steady and strong,reaching 84 for one at the half-way markbut lost wickets in a heap after that as thebatsmen tried to step up the gas.

Except for a 60-run stand betweenWatson and his young opening partnerAnkit Sharma (30), RR failed to put uppartnerships and that pulled them down.

Paceman Mohit Sharma (3/31) andleft-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja (2/18)shared five wickets between them.

West Indies leg-spinner SamuelBadree began for CSK and bowled asuperb three-over spell, conceding just 11runs. He bowled a tight wicket-to-wick-et line and Watson and Ankit Sharmaplayed the bowler on merit.

The left-handed Ankit made apromising start, offering straight-bat

shots to Mohit, hitting the paceman fortwo consecutive boundaries. The young-ster then showed his aggressive side byplundering 17 runs off R Ashwin’s over,hitting the experienced spinner for twofours and a six. Ashwin returned and hadhis revenge, having the youngster caughtnear the ropes.

Watson was cautious initially eventhough he was striking the ball well. Theburly Australian exploded later as he pun-ished debutant Vijay Shankar, reeling off19 runs in the 10th over to take the team’sscore to 84 for one.

Ajinkya Rahane (4) was needlessly runout in a terrible mix-up with his captain,who later completed his fifty with a big hitoff Mohit but was bowled immediately offa beauty that swung from good length toshatter the stumps.

RR’s downfall started with Watson’swicket as they kept losing one batsmanafter another. Their last match’s heroesSteve Smith (9) and James Faulknar (1)also returned to the dug-out cheaply.

Brief ScoresRajasthan Royals: 148/8 in 20 overs(Shane Watson 51, Ankit Sharma 30;Mohit Sharma 3/31) lost to ChennaiSuper Kings: 149/5 in 19.4 overs(Dwayne Smith 44, Faf du Plessis 38, MSDhoni 26 not out; Ankit Sharma 2/20)by 5 wickets.

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The impasse over the shift IPLvenue took a new turn after

league’s chairman Ranjib Biswalput the ball back in MumbaiCricket Association’s court byattaching a few riders in orderto get the summit clash backfrom M Chinnaswamy Stadiumin Bangalore.

Biswal on Tuesday replied toprotest letter it received from theMCA attaching a list of do’s anddont’s which have been clearlydefined in the letter.

“We got a letter from RanjibBiswal but there are some con-ditions to host the finals. Wehave called for a managingcommittee meeting to discussthese conditions,” MCA vice-

president Ravi Savant said.Biswal confirmed to PTI

that he has replied to the MCA’sletter but refused to divulge thecontents of it.

As per reliable sources, theprimary condition was BCCIhaving access to the bulk of thehospitality box passes as theywould have a number of high-profile guests arriving from var-ious parts of the world.

This includes some of theministers of the UAE govern-ment, who had helped insmooth organization of the firsthalf in their country.

More hospitality box pass-es with BCCI means that MCAwhich had the monopoly onhospitality box passes will haveto give up their share if they

want the final to be back in thefirst place.

Another of the conditionslaid was getting permissionfrom the Mumbai Police toallow bursting of crackers andplaying loud music post 10 pmwhich is not allowed as per stategovernment diktat.

Some of the conditions list-ed out were no ambush market-ing at the stadium, 85 per centof the car parking with BCCI,and limited number of accred-itation for the MCA.

Savant said the meetingwould be held tomorrow but itis unclear whether it wouldhappen as the MCA officeremains closed on account ofBuddha Purnima.

Earlier, the IPL Governing

Council deferred its decisionover the protest letter it hasreceived from the MumbaiCricket Association (MCA)against the shifting of the cash-rich league’s final fromWankhede to M ChinnaswamyStadium in Bangalore.

“No decision was takentoday,” interim BCCI-IPL pres-ident Sunil Gavaskar told thewaiting reporters at the BCCI’sheadquarters.

Gavaskar, however, did notreveal when the GC coulddecide to put an end to theimpasse.

Stung by the GoverningCouncil’s decision to shift thefinal assigning any specific rea-sons, MCA president SharadPawar had shot off a protest let-

ter to the Board.Pawar had shot off the let-

ter to the IPL GoverningCouncil and all BCCI membersdemanding the real reasonbehind shifting the T20 extrav-aganza’s grand finale toBangalore from its originalvenue.

The letter by Pawar hadasked for the reason for this deci-sion of the Governing Council.

“Considering that 20 match-es of the ongoing Pepsi IPL sea-son were played overseas, theGC took a decision to try andtake the play-offs to as many sta-dias as possible. Several venueshad expressed their interest inhosting the play-offs,” BCCIhad said when announcing therevised knock out schedule.

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����������Delhi Daredevils still required 85 more runsto win from 42 balls against Royal Challengers Bangaloreat the time of going to press. Chasing a victory target of187, the visitors were stranded on 102 for five in 13 overs.

Earlier, a sensational six hitting exhibition by star bats-man Yuvraj Singh late in the innings took Bangalore to186 for four hereon Tuesday.

The in-form Yuvraj (68 not out) set the ChinnaswamyStadium on fire as he hit nine sixes and a four from just29 balls in his unbeaten knock to single-handedly tookhis side to a formidable total after being put into bat.Yuvraj, who had scored a brilliant 83 against RajasthanRoyals in their last game, shared a 79-run partnershipwith Sachin Rana (15 not out) for the unconquered fifthwicket as Bangalore scored 79 runs in the last five oversto end their innings with a flourish.

A B de Villiers contributed a useful 33 off just 17 ballsafter the match started 70 minutes behind schedule dueto light drizzle. Coming out at the 15th over after the fallof Parthiv Patel (29), Yuvraj hit sixes almost at will towardsthe end of his side’s innings to the vociferous cheer byhis home crowd.

Yuvraj, who received criticism from some quartersfor his indifferent form in recent times, began with threesixes off successive balls off South African leg-spinnerImran Tahir to gather 21 runs in the 17th over and thensmashed a maximum each in the next two overs bowledby Mohammed Shami and Siddarth Kaul. The star bats-man reserved for the best for the last as he hammered

Rahul Shukla for 27 runs in the final over,belting four consecutive sixes.

Earlier, the Bangalore innings was offto a decent start after Chris Gayle made22 off 23 balls, smashing two sixes andand a four during his knock. The big-built West Indian, who is yet to get a bigscore under his belt in this IPL, got outoff pacer Rahul Shukla as he tried tosmash the ball on the legside only to getan inside edge that uprooted the stumps.

Captain Virat Kohli (10), who is yetto fire from his bat in this IPL so far, onceagain disappointed the fans as he failedto ground his bat while trying to steal asecond run of the throw of Shukla fromfine leg.

AB de Villiers walked into the mid-dle when Bangalore were in the spot ofbother after losing two quick wicketswith just 45 runs on the board comingfrom 8.1 overs.

Brief Scores Royal Challengers Bangalore: 186 for4 in 20 overs (Yuvraj Singh 68 not out,AB de Villiers 33) against DelhiDaredeils: 102 for 5 in 13 overs (KevinPietersen 33, JP Duminy 23 batting;Muttiah Muralitharan 2 for 25).

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Roger Federer’s decision to return to ten-nis a week after the birth of his second

set of twins has the full support of his wifeMirka. And don’t expect his schedule tochange much now that he has four kids.

When the boys were born earlier thanexpected, Federer consulted with his wifeand team about playing the Italian Open.

“And they all said I should quicklycome and play here. So I was like, ‘OK, ifyou don’t want me around I’ll go away,’”Federer recounted Tuesday. “That wasbasically it. Things went well, the boys arehealthy. Mirka’s good, too,” the 17-timeGrand Slam champion added. “So it’s agreat time in our lives right now.”

The boys’ names are Leo and Lenny.“Boys names are hard. It was all lastminute,” Federer said. “Girls, I feel likethere’s so many nice names and they’re allcute but with boys it’s totally a differentstory.

“I miss them a lot already and also thegirls,” the fourth-ranked Swiss playersaid. “It’s a different type of week but I’llget through it and I hope I can still playsome good tennis.”

The couple’s twin girls, Myla Rose andCharlene Riva, will turn 5 in July.

“This time around, we kind of knowhow to handle kids on the road,” the 32-year-old Federer said. “I’m aware it’sgoing to be a lot of work but at the sametime I know what I’m getting into. So it’ssomething I’m very much looking forwardto. ... There will be a long time without anytraveling after the tennis is over, so I’mlooking forward to the next couple of yearsnow.”

Federer had a strong start to the clay-court season by reaching the final of theMonte Carlo Masters. The Italian Open isthe last key warmup for the French Open,which starts in less than two weeks.

“I expect a lot from myself but thenafter what happened I come here a bit morelaid back, just enjoy it,” Federer said.

“I’ve had such a good start to the sea-son that I want to just keep momentumon my side. I didn’t want too big a break.And it doesn’t matter whether I play fivematches or one match here, as long as I staywith the pulse of things on tour. Of courseI hope I can win my first-round match butat the moment I have totally different pri-orities.”

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Brazil had seven years to getready for the World Cup,but it enters the final

month of preparations with a lotyet to be done.

There are three stadiumsstill under construction, some ofthe temporary structures need-ed for matches are delayed, andit remains unclear if all cities willhave time to organize the fan-fests required by FIFA.

It’s already known that notall infrastructure work will becompleted no matter how muchorganizers rush ahead of theJune 12 opener. The governmentadmits communications insidestadiums won’t be perfect, unfin-ished airports remain a concernand there are widespread threatsof violent protests by Brazilianscomplaining about the billionsof dollars spent to organize thetournament.

Brazilian officials guaranteeeverything will be fine. FIFAremains concerned.

“All arrangements are beingmade to guarantee a successfultournament,” affirms Brazil’ssports ministry, which is incharge of getting the countryready for the World Cup. “Themeetings to finalize the opera-tional plans in the varied areasinvolved in the event’s prepara-tions will be concluded thisweek in all 12 host cities.”

FIFA Secretary GeneralJerome Valcke says there’s notime to waste in the World Cupproject. “I would not say it’s notready, but it’s not finished,” hesaid recently.

“You feel that the competi-tion is coming, so there is anexcitement,” Valcke toldFIFA.com. “In the meantime, it’s

important to test everythingand making sure it’s working.The pressure is there to makesure we will be perfectly ready.”

The local governmentshave the responsibility of mak-ing sure everything is workingto receive the hundreds ofthousands of visitors expectedfor the monthlong tourna-ment, from transportation topublic services to security.

FIFA is worried mostlyabout the stadiums where the

64 matches will be played.Football’s governing bodywanted all venues completed bythe end of last year, but Brazilwas not able to get half of themready in time. Many will nothost all the test events that wereplanned for the tournament.

Among the three stadi-ums under construction is theItaquerao, where the high-pro-file opener between Brazil andCroatia will be played. Therewill be some 14,000 guests

among the nearly 70,000 peo-ple in attendance, includingmany heads of state.

Some of the 20,000 tempo-rary seats needed for the open-er are still being installed, andthe only official test eventplanned for the Itaquerao willtake place on Sunday, aboutthree weeks before the opener.It won’t even happen in front ofa full crowd, as only 40,000 fanswill be allowed into the venue.

“For the World Cup it will

all be 100 percent ready,” saidAndres Sanchez, who is incharge of the stadium’s con-struction.

Another unfinished stadi-um is the Arena da Baixada inthe southern city of Curitiba,which was nearly excludedfrom the tournament by FIFAearlier this year. The first fulltest at the venue is scheduledfor this week.

“There were some set-backs in some of these stadi-

ums,” said Brazil’s SportsMinister Aldo Rebelo, whohas been arduously downplay-ing the delays. “Everythingwill be ready.”

There is also concern withthe temporary structures at theBeira-Rio Stadium in southernPorto Alegre, and the otherincomplete venue is the ArenaPantanal in the western city ofCuiaba, which is only expect-ed to host an official test eventat the end of the month.

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In a major boost for archers,boxers and wrestlers, the min-

istry of Sports and Youth Affairshas decided to organize a NationalPrize Money Tournament Circuit(NPMC) starting from this year.

During the circuit, each disci-pline will have four tournamentsper year and will carry a stagger-ing prize money of �5 crores,which is much more when com-pared to the amount that the ath-letes receive during the nationalchampionships of the respectivegames.

Top eight ranked national play-ers (in each weight category of box-ing and wrestling) will be invitedto compete in both men’s seniorand junior and women’s senior andjunior categories in each tourna-ment to be organized in the fourzones of the country.

“This is an effort to create a sys-tem of incentives for players andalso improve the bench strength inthese sports. We will finalise thedates very soon. In the beginning,we have decided to include thesegames because they don’t have aleague as of now and we willinclude more sports in the future.In the three disciplines, we have

been winning medals and areexpected to do well in cominggames as well,” Ajit K Sharon, sec-retary of the ministry said onMonday, on the sidelines of anevent at Sonepat in Haryana wherea new swimming pool was inaugu-rated at the Sports Authority ofIndia (SAI) centre.

Elaborating on the project,Shanon added that the funding forthe events had already been

approved and a plan was in place. “The funding will come from

the National Sports DevelopmentFund (NSDF) and its executivecommittee has already approved ofit. It has been planned that the fed-erations with the cooperation of theSAI will be responsible for conduct-ing and providing technical supportto it.

“As for the expected timeframeis concerned, we will ensure thatthe dates don’t clash with thenational camps and the interna-tional tournaments. Archery willnot feature in the CommonwealthGames so it may start early and forthe other two games, the circuitcould begin once the CWG andAsian Games are over.”

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carried out by some agencies ofshortage of funds, saying that theministry was not short of funds andwill spend money prudently for thepreparations for the upcomingCWG and Asian Games.

“All these reports are baseless.We have been funded well on ourmedal prospects. There is no short-age of money. If someone has nochance of winning a medal and asksfor abroad training, we are not infavour of such things,” he clarified

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The performance of Jwala Gutt and AshwiniPonnappa’s would be as important as the

likes of from Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu ifthe hosts want to make it to the knockout stageof the 2014 BWF Li-Ning Thomas and UberCup. beginning in the Capital from the 18th ofMay onwards.

The 2011 World championship bronzemedallist and the 2010 Commonwealth Gamesgold medallist team is confident of a good showat the tournament that will take place at the SiriFort Sports Complex.

“As a team we are playing well. Recently wewon the Asian Badminton Championship.There are lot of expectation from doubles as wellwe will give our best to clinch victory for India,”said Jwala, who made her India team debut inthe Uber Cup qualifiers back in 2000 at the ageof 16.

Jwala and Ashwini helped India win theteam silver in the 2010 Commonwealth Gamesat this very venue and the experienced shuttlerinsists that it is the charm of the team eventsthat makes them punch about their weight.

“The whole idea of playing for a team is sodifferent from playing individually, I am a teamplayer and I like the feeling around that we areone team. We all have one aim, represent Indiaand win it for the country,” Jwala added.

Ashwini also believes that while playing ina team one has to think like a team and not asan individual.

“In the individual events we play for our-selves. Even if we play for the country, thereis no one relying on us. But when we play fora team, it is different. When we play teamchampionships, we ensure that whatever we do

the end result needs to be that team is doingwell. We have to think as a team and not justabout our own performances alone, so it is dif-ferent.”

Ashwini insisted that the combinationwas getting better with every tournament andwere confident of playing their part in thecampaign.

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Only six England playersin Brazil will have pre-

vious World Cup experi-ence after Roy Hodgsonturned to younger playerswho have impressed himwith their spirited PremierLeague performances.

The oldest squad mem-ber is midfielder FrankLampard, who turns 36 nextmonth, while the youngest is18-year-old defender LukeShaw, who only made hisinternational debut inMarch. Eleven members ofthe 23-man squad havemade 10 appearances orfewer for England, whichopens its campaign in Brazilagainst Italy on June 14.

“Circumstances willprove whether the decisionto take the younger playerwas right or not,” Hodgsonsaid at the squad announce-ment at a car factory inLuton, north of London.

“You get experience bygetting the opportunity. It’swrong to focus totally on thefact there are those who areinexperienced becauseeveryone is inexperienceduntil they get the chance todo the job. I think they’veplayed so well and been soeffective in their club teamsthat they’ve really imposedtheir ability on my thinking.”

Shaw, who is being pur-

sued by Manchester Unitedin the summer transfer win-dow, displaced 33-year-oldAshley Cole from the squadto be understudy at left backto Leighton Baines. But, withCole announcing his inter-national retirement afterbeing dropped, the decisioncould backfire if Baines isinjured in the first warm-upmatch.

England squadGoalkeepers: Joe Hart,Fraser Forster Ben FosterDefenders: Leighton Baines,Gary Cahill, Phil Jagielka,Glen Johnson, Phil Jones,Luke Shaw, Chris Smalling Midfielders: Ross Barkley,Steven Gerrard, JordanHenderson, Adam Lallana ,Frank Lampard, JamesMilner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, RaheemSterling, Jack WilshereForwards: Rickie Lambert,Wayne Rooney, DanielSturridge, Daniel Welbeck

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