MUMBAI, MARCH 31Describing the ouster of

AAP leaders PrashantBhushan and YogendraYadav from the party'sNational Executive as"frightening", Shiv Senaon Tuesday that said thatopposing party chiefArvind Kejriwal on certainmatters went against theduo.

Taking a dig at Kejriwal,the editorial in Senamouthpiece 'Saamana'pointed out that the JanataParty too had stormed topower after defeatingIndira Gandhi post emer-gency period, but the partywhich was an amalgama-tion of several smaller par-

ties, finally disintegrated."What is the difference

between AAP and otherparties? The way in whichBhushan and Yadav wasousted from party'sNational Executive isfrightening. Their crimewas only that they opposedKejriwal.

Both of them had sup-ported Kejriwal whole-heartedly. While Bhushanexposed several wrongdo-ings, Yadav is famous forhis political acumen," theeditorial, considered toendorse views of partyPresident UddhavThackeray, said.

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NEW DELHI, MARCH 31In a big development, the

government of Delhi has start-ed registration of properties inunauthorised colonies.

Addressing the press,Deputy Chief Minister

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Delhi govt starts registra-tion of properties inunauthorised colonies

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31A fire broke out at east

Delhi's Gandhinagar markethere this afternoon and at least20 fire tenders have beenrushed to the spot to douse theflames. The market is consid-ered the largest cloth market

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Fire breaks out inGandhinagarmarket in Delhi

POONCH, MARCH 31An 18-year old girl was

allegedly raped by a Sarpanchin border district of Poonch inJammu and Kashmir.

"The girl, a class 12 student,had gone out in the night,when the Sarpanch of her vil-lage, identified as Tariq

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18-year-old girl raped byvillage head in Poonch

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31In the wake of alarming air

quality and mounting piles ofgarbage in Delhi, EnvironmentMinister Prakash Javadekar onTuesday said the state govern-ment will have to work in thisregard and assured his min-istry's complete support. Healso announced that National Air Quality Index will be

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Delhi govt will have to act onpollution: Prakash Javadekar

LUCKNOW, MARCH 31Amid reports that the Centre

was mulling erecting a memo-rial to honour P V NarsimhaRao, Uttar Pradesh ministerAzam Khan today said it willbe a reward for the formerprime minister for his "tacit"understating with the RSS indemolition of Babri mosque."It has come to my knowledge that the Centre is going

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Rao memorial NDA's reward forhis role in Babri demolition: Azam

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31Delhi Deputy Chief Minister

Manish Sisodiya is among over130 individuals included in apool of eminent persons andguest speakers formed by theCentre for imparting training togovernment employees.

Besides him, names of Bihar's'super 30' coaching fame Anand

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Delhi Deputy CM in Centre's'guest faculty list'

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 31Haryana Government has

decided to revise theSupplementary NutritionProgramme (SNP) under theIntegrated Child DevelopmentServices (ICDS) Mission andhas also enhanced the amountto be spent on the programme.

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Haryana govt torevise SupplementaryNutrition Programme

MEERUT, MARCH 31Rashtriya Lok Dal Tuesday

staged a protest here demand-ing waving of farm debts andfair compensation for the croploss due to untimely rains inthe state. Joined by somefarmers, the protesters also

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Crop damage: RLDstages protest againstUP govt's 'apathy'

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CHANDIGARH, MARCH 31The Punjab Chief

Minster Parkash SinghBadal on Tuesdaystrongly condemned theassault on a Sikh man ona crowded street inBirmingham in UnitedKingdom earlier in theday.

The Chief Ministersaid the attack was"inhuman, brutal andextremely worrying" anddemanded PrimeMinister Narendra Modito take up the safety andsecurity of minoritiesissue, especially of thelaw abiding members ofthe Sikh diaspora, withhis counterpart in the

UK."Their contribution to

strengthening race andcommunal relations inmulti-cultural societies isacknowledged and high-ly lauded by govern-ments as well as politicaland social leaders in the

countries of their adop-tion. As such, the attackis shocking and totallyunacceptable," he said inthe statement.

Badal has urged theCentre to press the IndianHigh Commissioner in

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CM Parkash Singh Badal condemnsattack on Sikh in Birmingham

Ouster of AAP leaders from NationalExecutive frightening: Shiv Sena

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31The Aam Aadmi

Party on Tuesday nightremoved YogendraYadav from from thepost of chief spokesper-son.

It also appointed anew 20-memberspokespersons panel.

After founding mem-ber of AAP, PrashantBhushan was removedas party's national disci-

plinary committee chiefyesterday, speculationwas rife that Yadav maybe next to face the axeas the party's chiefspokesperson.

"We will soon comeout with a fresh list ofparty spokespersons.Yadav will of coursenot be in the list," a sen-ior party leader request-ing anonymity had said.

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NEW DELHI, MARCH 31The Supreme Court on Tuesday

issued notice to senior BharatiyaJanata Party leader LK Advaniand 19 others on a petition chal-lenging the 2010 Allahabad HighCourt verdict discharging them ofcriminal conspiracy in the demo-lition of Babri Masjid onDecember 06, 1992.

Besides Advani, MurliManohar Joshi, Union MinisterUma Bharti and RajasthanGovernor Kalyan Singh alsohave been issued notice.

A bench of Chief Justice HLDattu and Justice Arun Mishraissued notices to the BJP leaderand the CBI as senior counselKapil Sibal told the court that afresh application has been movedby Haji Mahboob Ahmad, one ofthe petitioners in the Babrimosque case, challenging thehigh court verdict. The AllahabadHigh Court had on May 20, 2010,absolved them of the conspiracycharges in the 22 years old case.

Ahmad, in his plea, has allegedthat CBI may dilute its stand inthe wake of the change in thegovernment at the Centre.

Earlier, the CBI had moved theapex court against AllahabadHigh Court's verdict.

During the brief hearing, CBItoday sought time for filing afresh affidavit on delay in filingthe appeal and on the merits ofthe case.

The court allowed the plea ofthe probe agency and grantedfour weeks time to file theresponse.

The apex court had earlierpulled up CBI for the delay in fil-ing an appeal against theAllahabad High Court verdict.

The CBI has challenged in theSupreme Court the May 21, 2010order of the high court, whichhad upheld a special court's deci-sion to drop the charge againstthe leaders.

In its verdict, the high court hadupheld the special CBI courtorder dropping conspiracy chargeagainst Advani, Kalyan Singh,Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiyar andMurli Manohar Joshi.

The others against whom thecharge was dropped includedSatish Pradhan, CR Bansal,

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Babri Masjid demolition: SC issues notice toAdvani, other BJP leaders over conspiracy charges

GANDHINAGAR, MARCH 31After failing to get

Presidential assent for itsanti-terror bill thrice, theGujarat Assembly onTuesday passed by majori-ty vote the controversialGujarat Control ofTerrorism and OrganisedCrime (GCTOC) Bill in anew form. The Bill allowspolice to intercept andrecord telephonic conver-sations, and submit them incourt as evidence.

The GUJCOC Bill,which is on the lines of the

stringent MaharashtraControl of OrganisedCrime Act (MCOCA), wasrejected in 2004 and 2008

by the then President AJPAbdul Kalam and PratibhaPatil respectively, who had

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Gujarat Assembly passes controversial anti-terrorbill, empowers authorities to intercept phone calls

HYDERABAD, MARCH 31Two children were killed

and their parents injured in awall collapse here earlyTuesday, police said.

The incident took place in acolony meant for the weakersection in the Borabanda area.The family was asleep when

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Two children killedin wall collapse inHyderabad

MUMBAI, MARCH 31The UN nuclear watch-

dog IAEA has called forstatutory backing for thecountry's Atomic EnergyRegulatory Board (AERB)to ensure its decisions arenot unduly influenced byexternal agencies.

This was stated today byAERB Chairman S SBajaj, who quoted a reportprepared by experts of theInternational AtomicEnergy Agency (IAEA).

"The Government

should embed the AERB'sregulatory independencein law, separated fromother entities havingresponsibilities or intereststhat could unduly influ-ence its decision-making.

"The Governmentshould promulgate anational policy and strate-gy for the safety and bringabout a radioactive wastemanagement strategy as astatement of its intent,"Bajaj said here, quotingthe report.

The IAEA experts werein India from March 16 to27 to review - under itsIntegrated RegulatoryReview Service (IRRS)mission - the country'sregulatory framework fornuclear power plants.

The mission is peerreview service designed tostrengthen and enhancethe effectiveness of thenational nuclear regulatoryinfrastructure.

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IAEA favours statutory backingfor India's nuclear regulator

MUMBAI, MARCH 31Registering a hefty rise

of 25 percent in 2014-15,benchmark Sensex onTuesday capped its bestshow in six fiscal yearsmainly driven by surge inforeign inflows after theNarendra Modi-led gov-ernment took charge.

For the day, however,the BSE Sensex settled inthe red after giving upearly gains to end the fis-cal year marginally downby 18.37 points at27,957.49.

The broader market sen-timent remained strong assmall-cap and mid-capcounters outshined theSensex by 0.31 percent

and 0.88 percent, respec-tively.

"It was a mixed tradingsession for the sectoral

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Sensex logs best fiscalyear gain since 2009-10

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31Babri Action Committee

lawyer Zafaryab Jilani onTuesday charged Central Bureauof Investigation (CBI) with hav-ing a transformed attitude in con-nection with the Babri Masjiddemolition case because of achange of government at the

Centre."At this moment, we are feel-

ing that the CBI is not proceedingin accordance with the law and indelivering justice. Therefore, wehad approached the SupremeCourt through Haji Mehboob.And Haji Mehboob had

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Babri Action Committee lawyer says CBI alteringstance to meet NDA govt's expectations

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31The Union Cabinet on

Tuesday decided to recom-mend re-promulgation ofthe land acquisition ordi-nance incorporating nineamendments that were partof the bill that was passedin Lok Sabha earlier thismonth. The decision wastaken at a meeting of theCabinet presided over byPrime Minister NarendraModi as the bill passed bythe Lower House and ispending before the RajyaSabha has no chance ofbeing cleared before April5. Now the recommenda-

tion will go to PresidentPranab Mukherjee, who isexpected to re-issue theordinance in time beforeApril 5 when the previousordinance will lapse.

Sources said that it willbe a new ordinance thatwill incorporate all thenine amendments broughtin Lok Sabha saying it can-not be different from thebill already pending.

The pending measure,titled Right to FairCompensation andTransparency in LandAcquisition,

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Union Cabinet recommendsre-promulgation of land

acquisition ordinance

SC rejects Jatstudents' peti-tion for reserva-tion in medical,dental collegesNEW DELHI, MARCH 31

The Supreme Court onTuesday rejected theplea of students belong-ing to the Jat communityseeking reservation inadmission to post gradu-ate medical and dentalcourses. As per reports,the apex court said thatat the time of All Indiacounselling, these Jatstudents were treated as

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NEW DELHI, MARCH 31Delhi Chief Minister Arvind

Kejriwal stood exposed before thecountry today and should tender apublic apology for practising theopposite of what he preached, BJPhas said, after a former AAP MLAclaimed that the party chief used tospy on his own legislators.

BJP also sought a public explana-tion from Kejriwal, who has beensilent on the spate of sting exposes'on him purportedly showing that hehad tried to keep a tab on its ownMLAs while misusing the name ofBJP.

"Kejriwal used to talk of moralityand honesty. He is practising just theopposite of what he preached to oth-ers. He should come clean on what-ever is going on in his party and theallegations against him made throughstings done by his own party men,"BJP National Secretary ShrikantSharma said today.

He said it is unfortunate thatKejriwal was misusing the names ofBJP leaders and the stings by his ownmen have today uncovered the "veil"(naqaab) he was wearing so far.

"Today, Kejriwal stands exposedbefore the world. He was alwayskeeping others in the dock, but todayafter a series of stings by his ownmen, he is himself in the dock," hesaid.

Sharma also accused the AAPleader of having "lust for power" andbeing an "opportunist".

"Kejriwal speaks a lot about expos-ing wrongdoings of others, but hisown people have done an expose on

him. Their own people have unveiledhis 'naqab' (veil). Kejriwal shouldclarify on the charges levelled by hisown people in the sting. Why is hesilent?" he asked.

Sharma said the AAP leaderpreached a lot of idealism and trans-parency but as per the charges madeby their own people, the same standexposed and the party emerged nodifferent and was like any other polit-ical outfit like BSP, SP, RJD,AIADMK and DMK that was run byindividuals.

Former AAP MLA Rajesh Garg,whom the party had recently sus-pended, today alleged that calls withthe "consent" of Kejriwal were madeto him and several other leadersoffering them crores to support BJP.

Garg claimed that police had arrest-ed a person on his complaint ofreceiving fake calls from UnionFinance Minister Arun Jaitley's officeoffering him Rs 10 crore, who waslater released on AAP's intervention.

Garg further claimed that all callsduring that period were made withparty chief Kejriwal's "consent fromprivate and unknown numbers".

Kejriwal stands exposed, must tender public apology: BJP

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31Several police teams were

working on specific leadsand raids were being con-ducted in Delhi and neigh-bouring states but investiga-tors were yet to make anyheadway into the killing offormer INLD legislatorBharat Singh, who wasgunned down on Sundayevening in southwestDelhi's Najafgarh area.

Refuting allegations madeby Singh's elder brotherKrishan Pehelwan thatpolice did not give adequatesecurity to the former MLAwhich led to his murder,Delhi Police CommissionerB S Bassi on Tuesday said,"We had been giving himsecurity wheneverrequired".

Asked about progress ininvestigation in the case,Bassi said, "We are working

on specific clues.Investigation is on and wewill soon make arrests in thecase. We are doing what thematter calls for".

The police chief also saidthat no gangs are function-ing in Delhi, these are out-comes of local feuds in vil-lages which are controlledgradually.

38-year-old Singh wasattacked by over six armedmen who had reached thespot in a SUV. At least 15-20 rounds of bullets werefired. He was later declareddead at Medanta hospital inGurgaon. Singh hadreceived six bullets, includ-ing two in his head fromclose range.

Other than one of Singh'spersonal guard, a womanidentified as Sunita, Paras(16) and a Delhi Police con-stable, Sandeep were also

injured in the incident.DCP (southwest) R A

Sanjeev today said that allthe four persons who wereinjured in the incident arefine now.

"Investigation is under-way in the case and effortsare on to nab the assailants,"he said.

The needle of suspicionhas been on two gangs whohave had reasons to elimi-nate Singh, one is VikasLagarpuria and the other isUdaiveer alias Kaale.

It is said that Kaale'sfather and brother wereallegedly bumped off bySingh and his brother'sgang. It is being suspectedthat Udaiveer, who wasrecently released from jailhired hitmen to kill Singh.

On the other hand,Lagarpuria, a Haryana-based gangster had a tiff

over a 1400 yard plot locat-ed between Najafgarh andDwarka and the duo's menhad recently come face toface over fencing of theplot.

Police is hunting for thesetwo and their men who havegone underground soonafter the incident.

"Other than these two, weare also looking for all thosebig or small criminal ele-ments that could have bene-fited from the elimination ofSingh. Raids are being con-ducted in Haryana, UP andother in outskirts of Delhi inthis connection," said apolice official associatedwith the probe.

Police is scanning theCCTV footage of the neigh-bouring areas of the banquethall where the attack hadtaken place on Singh to findclues.

Police make no headway in Bharat Singh murder caseNEW DELHI, MARCH 31

A drunken driver is like a suicidebomber who has set out to kill him-self and other road users, a city courtsaid on Tuesday and proposed stin-gent punishment to the offenders.

The court made these observationswhile setting aside the sentence ofan autorickshaw driver who founddriving in an inebriated state.

"It won't be inappropriate to saythat a drunken driver is like a suicidebomber, who has set out to kill him-self as well as the other road usersand thus deserves a very stern sen-tence which should have a deterrenteffect and discourage everyone fromdriving after alcohol intake,"Additional Sessions Judge VirenderBhatt said.

Drunken driver is like a suicidebomber: Delhi court

"The menace of drunken drivinghas assumed alarming proportionsand one of the ways to curb it is byimposing severe sentence on offend-ers," the court said.

The judge, while dismissing the

convict's appeal against a trial courtorder awarding him a jail term of 20days, also observed that excessiveconsumption of alcohol impaired adriver's ability to judge things onroad.

"A stern sentence to these offend-ers would go a long way in makingroads safer, thereby saving precioushuman lives.

The menace of drunken drivinghas assumed alarming proportionsand one of the ways to curb it is byimposing severe sentence on offend-ers," the court said.

It said that a drunken driver risksnot only his own life but also that ofother motorists as well as pedestri-ans. "Excessive consumption ofalcohol blurs one's vision andintensely impairs the ability to judgethings on the road," it said, addingthat a drunken driver cannot takespontaneous and rational decisionsor quick response while driving afterconsuming alcohol.

The court's observations came onthe appeal of Pawan Kumar, an

autorickshaw driver, who had chal-lenged the sentence awarded to himby a magisterial court that had senthim to a 20-day jail term for drunk-en driving in a crowded area hereand imposed a fine of Rs 2,000.

In his appeal against the order,Kumar had said he was not assailinghis conviction but the sentence as hewas a first-time offender and that theimprisonment would leave an"indelible" scar on his life.

The court, while dismissing hisappeal, said the fact that he wasdriving the autorickshaw during thepeak rush hour after heavily con-suming alcohol, made the offencemore severe.

"There would have certainly beena horrible tragedy, if he was notstopped by traffic police officials," itsaid, adding that the sentence of 20days imposed on him was "in noway, harsh or unwarranted."

It also noted that Kumar was driv-ing without a licence, permit, fit-ness, insurance and pollution certifi-cates.

Drunken driver is like a suicide bomber: Delhi court

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31In a shocking image of Delhi,

rotting garbage can be seenscattered on the roads of thenational capital.

Shattering the image of“Swachh Bharat”, huge piles oftrash in Delhi paint a depress-ing picture, all thanks to thestandoff between the AamAadmi Party (AAP) govern-ment and MunicipalCorporation departmentemployees.

The residents of Delhi are notjust facing huge traffic jamsdue to heaps of garbage lyingon the roads, but are also facinga harrowing time due to stink inthe air.

Around 12,000 safai karam-charis of Delhi have been onstrike since Friday due to non-payment of salaries for threemonths by the municipal cor-porations in Delhi. In a bid todraw attention to their woes,

the MCD workers havedumped garbage at traffic inter-

sections.The civic body says it needs

around Rs 300 crore to paysalaries to its employees.

The Delhi government,which reportedly seeks to take

over the reins of civic bodiesfrom the BJP, has told MCDworkers to approach the Centreto air their grievances.

Areas affected includePatparganj, the constituency ofDelhi Deputy Chief MinisterManish Sisodia, Geeta Colony,Laxmi Nagar, Karkardooma,Vikas Marg, Jagatpuri andsome areas of North Delhi.

The Aam Aadmi Party volun-teers were seen on Sunday andMonday hitting the streets andcleaning the garbage.

Notably, the three civic bod-ies, New Delhi MunicipalCouncil (NDMC), South DelhiMunicipal Corporation(SDMC) and East DelhiMunicipal Corporation(EDMC), have run into finan-cial rough weather, with bothNDMC and EDMC sufferinglosses while only SDMC man-aging itself to keep out of thered. While the three corpora-tions have been trying to lookout for avenues for funding, theAAP government has deniedany financial aid to the three

municipal bodies.Earlier this week, Delhi

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwalhad said the AAP would turnthe cash-strapped municipalcorporations into profit-makingentities if the ruling BJP quitsthe civic bodies. OppositionCongress in the North DelhiMunicipal Corporation holdsthe Centre and Delhi govern-ment responsible for the cur-rent financial crisis faced bythe three BJP-led municipalcorporations and claimed thatcivic bodies' share of funds hasbeen "decreased" in the lasttwo years. Taking on the twogovernments, Leader ofOpposition in NDMC MukeshGoel had on Monday allegedthat "in this difficult time,instead of taking measures toresolve the issue, the UnionGovernment and the Delhigovernment are busy blamingeach other for the situation."

Delhi turns into `garbage capital` under AAP rule

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31A Delhi court has

awarded 30 years jailterm to two youths forkidnapping and gang-rap-ing a Ugandan national,observing that "their actbrought India in disreputein the eyes of the world"and both of them deservea very stern and exempla-ry sentence.

Additional SessionsJudge Virender Bhatawarded 30 years jailterm to Delhi residentsRaj Kumar and DineshSharma along with a fineof Rs 50,000 each, sayingthe "two convicts were onthe prowl like a hungrywolf and their eyes shonebrightly on seeing theprosecutrix, a lonely for-eign national, on road at a

late hour of theday."

"By choosing a foreignnational as their target,they have shown that theydo not care even for therespect and dignity of ourcountry. Their act hasbrought India in disreputein the eyes of the world.Incidents like the instantone brings a very badname to the countryitself," the judge said.

The court said the man-ner in which the two con-victs committed the crimeshows that they are "fero-cious criminals with noconcern for respect anddignity of awoman."

"They were roamingabout in their car search-ing for a lonely lady on

the road, whom they canoverpower, abduct andthen satiate their sexuallust," it said, adding theyimmediately swung intoaction by dragging herinside their car and tookher to the house of con-vict's sister where theyraped her and thendumped her early in themorning.

The court had earlierconvicted both Kumarand Sharma for theoffences under sections365 (kidnapping), 356(assault for theft), 506(criminal intimidation)and 376(D)(gangrape) ofIPC, while relying on thestatements of victim andrejecting the DNA reportwhich could not provetheir guilt.

Two get 30-yrs jail term for gan-grape of Ugandan national in DelhiNEW DELHI, MARCH 31

A Delhi court Tuesday recordedthe statements of two prosecutionwitnesses, including a hand writ-ing expert, in a case in which a52-year-old Danish woman wasallegedly gangraped by eight per-sons here last year.

Additional Sessions JudgeKaveri Baweja recorded the testi-monies of AK Gupta, Director(documents) of Truth Labs inDelhi, and Delhi Police subinspector and incharge of thecrime team, Pankaj.

During the proceedings, Gupta,who was earlier director inchargeof Delhi Government's ForensicScience Laboratory, said onJanuary 20 last year, certain doc-uments were received at the Delhioffice of Truth Labs sent by SHOof Paharganj Police Station andthe case was assigned to him.

He said the packet contained abook and an envelope of a bookstore. "After examining the writ-

ing on the book and the copy ofcomplaint given by the woman(to the police) with the help ofscientific aid and equipments, Igave my report.

"After examining them Iopined that writing .... Are of thesame person," the handwritingexpert said, adding that he hadalso given the reasons for hisopinion. The court also recordedthe deposition of sub inspectorPankaj who said on the interven-ing night of January 14-15, lastyear, he along with other policeofficials and a photographer hadgone to the site of incident andinspected the place.

The police, in its chargesheet,had said that eight persons, allvagabonds, had robbed and gan-graped the Danish tourist atknife-point on the night ofJanuary 14, 2014 after leadingher to a secluded spot close to theDivisional Railway Officers'Club near New Delhi Railway

Station.The eight accused, including

two juveniles, were arrested inthe case. The two juveniles arefacing an inquiry before theJuvenile Justice Board here. Thecourt fixed the case for April 20for recording of statements ofother prosecution witnesses.

The court had earlier issuedfresh summons to the woman toappear before it on July 1 forrecording of her testimony.

It had issued the summonsagain as the earlier one, issued onJanuary 13, could not be servedupon the woman to secure herpresence as a prosecution witnessand Delhi Police had sought sometime for calling her here.

The court had directed thatsummons be issued to thewoman, who resides in Denmark,as per the guidelines of theExternal Affairs Ministry whichrequired a processing time of atleast three months.

The court had earlier directedthe IO to furnish a report regard-ing the procedure to secure thevictim's presence before the courtfor recording her statement in theabsence of mutual legal assis-tance treaty between India andDenmark.

The court's direction had comeafter the IO had informed it thatthe summon issued to the womanhas returned unserved as Indiadoes not have a mutual legalassistance treaty (MLAT) withDenmark.

The six adult accused ??Mahendra alias Ganja (24), MohdRaja (22), Raju (23), Arjun (21),Raju Chakka (22) and Shyam Lal(55), are in judicial custody andfacing trial.

The total eight accused havebeen booked under sections376(2)(g) (gangrape), 397 (rob-bery or dacoity, with attempt tocause death or grievous hurt) and392 (robbery) of IPC.

New Delhi: Sanitation work-ers of the East Delhi MunicipalCorporation (EDMC) called offtheir five-day-old strike onTuesday after the authoritiesagreed to most of theirdemands. The 'safai karam-charis' will rejoin work tomor-row and have a major task ahead– to clean up the roads of EastDelhi on which they have beendumping garbage for the pastfew days over non-payment ofsalaries for months. The strikehad started on Friday andcaused chaos on the streetswhich were filled with garbageby municipal workers. Thedumping of garbage by munici-pal workers to highlight theirplight caused traffic jams andthreatened public health. Areasaffected included Patparganj,the constituency of DelhiDeputy Chief Minister ManishSisodia, Geeta Colony, Laxmi

Nagar, Karkardooma, VikasMarg, Jagatpuri and some areasof North Delhi as well. Thethree civic bodies - New DelhiMunicipal Council (NDMC),South Delhi MunicipalCorporation (SDMC) and EastDelhi Municipal Corporation(EDMC) - have run into finan-cial rough weather, with bothNDMC and EDMC sufferinglosses. Only SDMC has so farmanaged to keep itself out of thered. The capital's new govern-ment, of the Aam Aadmi Partyled by Arvind Kejriwal, hadrefused to come to the aid andasked the BJP-ruled municipalcorporations to insteadapproach the central govern-ment. Today, Kejriwal wrote aletter to Delhi LieutenantGovernor Najeeb Jung and reit-erated his demand to hand overthe reins of the municipal corpo-rations to his government.

Delhi municipal workers call offstrike, resume work from tomorrow

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31Taking a jibe at the Aam Aadmi

Party (AAP), the Bharatiya JanataParty ( BJP) on Tuesday said that theideas the former uses are only toearn votes and that it does not actu-ally believe in the Lokpal.

" Lokpal is only something AAPpresented as an issue to reach out topeople, they don't believe in it. IdeasAAP gathers are only to earn votes,they are not committed to it. This istheir model and I hope Delhi peopledon't get this model as governance,"said party spokesperson NalinKohli.

The AAP had earlier on Sundayreleased a 45-minute video of ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal's impas-sioned speech, a day after theremoval of senior leaders PrashantBhushan, Yogendra Yadav, AnandKumar and Ajit Jha from the

National Executive.In the speech, Kejriwal says "he

was betrayed" and "knifed in theback", and ends with an appeal tothe council to choose between themand him.

Meanwhile, the supporters ofYadav and Bhushan have reportedlyalleged that the video was clearlyedited.

AAP uses ideas to earn votes,doesn't believe in Lokpal: BJP

Danish woman gang-rape case: Statements of prosecution witnesses recorded

Continuation 3NEW DELHI | WEDNESDAY | APRIL 01, 2015SAADDA HAQ

Babri Masjid...Ashok Singhal, Giriraj Kishore, Sadhvi

Ritambhara, VH Dalmia, MahantAvaidhynath, RV Vedanti, Param Hans RamChandra Das, Jagdish Muni Maharaj, BLSharma, Nritya Gopal Das, Dharam Das,Satish Nagar and Moreshwar Save.

Bal Thackeray's name was removed fromthe list of accused persons after his death.

While upholding the special court's order,the high court had allowed CBI to proceedwith other charges against Advani and othersin a Rae Bareily court, under whose jurisdic-tion the case falls.

The May 2010 order of the high court hadsaid there was no merit in CBI's revisionpetition against the May 4, 2001 order of thespecial court which had directed dropping ofcriminal conspiracy charge against them.

There are two sets of cases -- one againstAdvani and others who were on the dais atRam Katha Kunj in Ayodhya on December 6,1992 when the Babri mosque was demol-ished, while the other case was against lakhsof unknown 'karsevaks' who were in andaround the disputed structure.

The CBI had chargesheeted Advani and 20others under Sections 153A (promotingenmity between classes), 153B (imputations,assertions prejudicial to national integration)and 505 (false statements, rumours etc.Circulated with the intent to cause mutiny ordisturb public peace) of the IPC.

It had subsequently invoked charges undersection 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPCwhich was quashed by the special courtwhose decision was upheld by the high court.

While upholding the special court's order,the high court had said CBI at no point oftime, either during the trial at Rae Bareily orin its revision petition, ever stated that therewas offence of criminal conspiracy againstthe leaders.

Babri Action...approached the high court in 2003 also

when Advaniji was discharged..and the SChad set aside the order of discharge," saidJilani.

"So, this role of CBI, we have witnessed inthis case, that in the past also, when NDAcame, they dropped Section 120B. When themagistrate dropped the proceedings againstAdvani, then CBI did not file the revision,"he added.

Jilani further said that when the govern-ment changed in 2004, the same CBI sup-ported their revision.

"So, we have seen, in this particular case,the attitude of CBI is changing with thechange of government," Jilani added.

"So now, therefore, we apprehend that bythe change of government and BJP cominginto power, since all the accused persons inthese cases belong to the BJP and RSS, there-fore, it is most likely that the CBI will nottake an interest in the manner it should take.That is why, we have had to approach theSupreme Court," he added.

Jilani's comment came hours after theSupreme Court had issued notices to BJPleader L.K. Advani and 19 others on a pleaagainst the dropping off conspiracy chargesfiled against them in connection with theBabri Mosque demolition case of 1992.

The apex court has granted a month's timeto the CBI and others to respond to the pleain the case.

The bench heard a plea claiming that withthe BJP in power, the CBI may not make ade-quate efforts to get conspiracy chargesrestored against party leader L.K. Advani andothers in the case.

The plea was filed by Haji Mehboob, apetitioner in the title suit representing theMuslim community in the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi case.

Union Cabinet...Rehabilitation and Resettlement

(Amendment) Bill, that was passed in LokSabha sought to replace the ordinance thatwas promulgated in December.

The ordinance should have been cleared byParliament before April 5 if it was to subsist.But the government faced a hurdle in RajyaSabha, where it could not get the bill toreplace it cleared because of lack of numbers.

The Opposition was not in a mood tooblige the government and in fact mounted astrong campaign against it. Led by SoniaGandhi, the Opposition parties demanded thepassage of the original land bill that waspassed during the UPA regime.

Brushing aside Opposition to the ordi-nance, the Cabinet Committee onParliamentary Affairs on Friday decided toprorogue the current session of Rajya Sabhapaving the way for re-issuing it. On Saturday,the President prorogued the House.

Under the Constitution at least one of theHouses has to be prorogued for Governmentto issue an ordinance. Parliament is current-ly on a month-long recess after the Budgetsession started on February 23.

The land ordinance was among the sixexecutive orders issued by the government inthe inter session period. While five of themwere cleared by Parliament, the land measureis stuck. Once it is re-promulgated, it will bethe eleventh ordinance to be issued by theModi government.

SC rejects...OBCs. The Supreme Court had earlier stat-

ed that caste cannot be the sole ground forreservation and quashed the Jat notification

of the reservation bill.The former UPA Government had

announced reservation for Jats in 2014 byincluding them in the OBC category on theeve of the Lok Sabha elections. However, agroup of petitioners claimed that Jats were'politically and socially' advanced and thatthe decision to extend reservation to themwas electorally motivated.

Sensex logs...indices, where oil & gas and healthcare

managed to gain close a percent each, whilerest ended flat to marginally in red," saidJayant Manglik, President-retail distribution,Religare Securities.

For the month, the Sensex fell 4.8 percent,its worst monthly show since February 2013.

The broad-based 50-issue NSE Nifty todayeased by 1.30 points or 0.02 percent to closeat 8,491.

After markets closed for the day, govern-ment data showed growth in eight core sectorindustries slowed down to 1.4 per cent inFebruary.

During the fiscal 2014-15, Sensex has goneup by 5,571.22 points, or 24.88 percent to27,957.49 from 22,386.27 on March 31,2014. The gauge had touched all-time high of30,024.74 on March 4 this year.

On similar lines, the NSE's Nifty zoomedby 1,786.80 points, or 26.65 percent, to settlethe fiscal at 8,491 after scaling lifetime highof 9,119.20 on March 4 this year.

For the day, Refinery stocks were in thelimelight after a brokerage firm upgradedReliance Industries (RIL) stock to over-weight from underweight and also furtherfall in global crude oil prices.

HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, SBI,L&T, BHEL, ONGC, ITC, Infosys, TCS,M&M, and Hindalco suffered losses. RIL,Tata Motors Sun Pharma, Dr Reddy's, MarutiSuzuki, Bharti Airtel and Tata Power notchednoticeable gains.

Meanwhile, mixed Asian cues, weakEuropean trends and sustained capital out-flows also weighed on the local bourses.

Indian companies raised a staggering Rs58,801 crore through equity markets in thefinancial year that ended today -- the bestfunds mop-up since 2010-11 fiscal.

In overseas markets, Asian markets closedmixed, after Beijing announced new policymoves to revive property market.

Key indices from China, Japan andSingapore closed with losses while fromHong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan endedup.

European stocks reversed their initial gainsand were trading lower in late morning deals.The CAC was down by 0.07 percent, theDAX by 0.27 percent and the FTSE by 0.49percent.

Meanwhile, Foreign Portfolio Investors(FPIs) sold shares worth a net Rs 240.34crore while Domestic Institutional Investors(DIIs) bought shares worth a net Rs 651.67crore yesterday, as per provisional data.

Among 30-share Sensex pack, ONGCdropped by 2.51 percent, Tata Steel 1.72 per-cent, Hindalco 1.71 percent, BHEL 1.53 per-cent, HDFC Bank 1.32 percent and M&M1.06 percent.

However, Tata Power rose by 3.42 percent,followed by Gail 2.37 percent, Dr Reddy'sLab 1.91 percent, Tata Motors 1.85 percent,Reliance Industries 1.77 percent, HUL 1.25percent, Cipla 1.24 percent and Sun Pharma1.14 percent.

From sectoral BSE indices, BSE Bankexmoved down by 0.81 percent and CapitalGoods by 0.49 percent while Oil & Gas roseby 1.18 percent.

Reflecting the rally in second-line stocks,the market breadth remained positive as1,588 stocks ended in the green while 1,132closed in the red and 113 held stable.

Total equity turnover rose to Rs 2,980.16crore from Rs 2,552.45 crore yesterday.

Gujarat Assembly...suggested some amendments in the provi-

sions related to telephone interception andconfession made before police officer beingconsidered as evidence in court.

After its passage for the third time in theState Assembly without any changes, the Billis still pending for clearance from thePresident.

The Bill was today passed by a majorityvote amid stiff resistance from OppositionCongress, which walked out of the Houseover its controversial provisions.

The state government re-introduced theGujarat Control of Organised Crime (GUJ-COC) Bill in the Assembly after renaming it.The bill, however, has retained the controver-sial provisions.

The contentious provisions of the Billinclude admissibility of evidence collectedthrough telephonic interception and confes-sion made before police officer as evidencein court.

The Bill was introduced in the House byMinister of State for Home Rajnikant Patel,after which a long debate took place on it, inwhich Opposition Congress demandedremoval of controversial sections like tele-phonic interceptions, confessions madebefore some police officer as evidence andtime limit of 180 days for filing ofchargesheet.

At the end of the discussion, Congressleader Shankarsinh Vaghela and ShaktisinhGohil insisted that the controversial provi-sions should be dropped as per the sugges-tions of past Presidents when they rejectedthe Bill.

However, Patel said that the provisions of

this Bill are in favour of the nation, the peo-ple of this country and it allows us to takeaction against traitors and refused to dropthose sections.

Subsequently, Congress walked out of theHouse.

Later, the Bill was passed by majority votein the State Assembly.

Section 14 of the Bill says,"Notwithstanding anything contained in thecode or in any other law which is in force, theevidence collected through the interceptionof wire, electronic or oral communicationunder the provisions of any other law shall beadmissible as evidence against the accused inthe court during the trial of the case."

According to Section 16 of the Bill,accused's statement before a police officer,not below the rank of Superintendent ofpolice, will be treated as an evidence.

While, Section 20 (2) (b) says stipulatedtime to complete probe and file thechargesheet can be exceeded to 180 days (sixmonths) from the current stipulated time of90 days.

Another controversial provision under thebill is section 20 (4), which reads "noaccused person in this act shall be released onbail or on his own bond unless the publicprosecutor has been given an opportunity tooppose the application, the special court issatisfied that there are reasonable grounds forbelieving that accused is not guilty of suchoffence and that he is not likely to commitany offence while on bail."

The cases under the act can be tried only ina special courts set up for this purpose.

Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil objectedto the provisions of the Bill and said thatsome of them are even unconstitutional.

He told the House that the provision ofconfession before a police officer is contra-dictory with Indian Evidence Act as accord-ing to Section 164 of CrPC and IndianEvidence Act, a statement before the magis-trate can only be considered as an evidence.

On the provision of not releasing anaccused on bail, Gohil said the provision isunconstitutional which deprives the right ofan accused to get released on bail on his ownbond.

CM Parkash ...London to push for a renewed awareness

campaign in the UK about the role played bymembers of the Sikh community in buildingmodern democratic and social institutions aswell economic and intellectual progress inthat country.

Meanwhile, the Shiromani Akali DalPresident Sukhbir Singh Badal has directedthe representatives of the party in England togather all information on the incident andtake every appropriate measure to help inbringing the guilty to book.

Badal has also directed his party leadersand workers there to offer "all possible helpto the victims and their kin" and work incomplete solidarity with them.

Union Minister Bibi Harsimrat Kaur Badalis in a constant touch with the PrimeMinister's Office and with her counterpart inthe Ministry of External Affairs to ensureprompt and effective governmental responseto the painful development.

Ouster of AAP...Janta Party, it said that destiny seems to be

taking AAP towards fate of that party whichwon the 6th Lok Sabha elections, with itsalliances.

"Post the emergency period, people hadhuge hopes with Janata Party. The way JanataParty was destined to get disintegrated aftercoming to power, Kejriwal's destiny seems tobe taking him the same way," it said.

The Sena said given what has been happen-ing within his party, Kejriwal should cease topreach others about politics.

"From the time Kejriwal has returned fromBengaluru after kicking his cough, he hasstarted the business of kicking his partymembers out as well. The party is more innews for the rift within than its work aftercoming to power," it said.

AAP has been facing internal turmoil withsenior leaders Prashant Bhushan andYogendra Yadav sacked from the NationalExecutive after being accused of conspiringagainst the party.

Both Yadav and Bhushan have denied theallegations.

It also removed internal Lokapal Admiral(retd) L Ramdas and Bhushan from party dis-ciplinary committee.

However, Kejriwal, while addressingmedia yesterday, said that all is well withinthe party.

Yogendra Yadav...Interestingly, Yadav was the only leader

who had been designated as chief spokesper-son when AAP constituted the panel of itsspokespersons.

Removal of Bhushan and Yadav from keypanels is being seen as a precursor to theirexpulsion from the party.

AAP's internal Lokpal Admiral (retd) LRamdas was also shown the door for airingcritical views about the party leadership.

Meanwhile, mulling their future course ofaction, Yadav and Bhushan have convened ameeting of their supporters on April 14, amidspeculation that they may a float a separatepolitical party.

Yadav had refused to answer any questionon their next move during an interview toPTI yesterday except to state that their sup-porters, volunteers and well-wishers would

meet on BR Ambedkar's birthday on April14. "My opinion is that the spirit of the AAPmovement has to be kept alive. We mustmarch forward. We must not allow these inci-dents and negativity to affect us. We shouldmove forward. The way to move forwardwould be to generate energy in the country,"Yadav had said without elaborating further.

Yadav and Bhushan were expelled from theNational Executive at a meeting of theNational Council on March 28, weeks afterthey were removed from party's PoliticalAffairs Committee.

IAEA favours...through a gazette notification, is tasked

with regulating the safety and securityaspects of the civilian nuclear facilities.However, till date, it has not been given anautonomous status and the Board depends onthe Department of Atomic Energy (DAE),headquartered in Mumbai, for all practicalpurposes.

In 2011, the Nuclear Safety RegulatoryAuthority (NSRA) Bill was drafted by theDAE and introduced in the Lok Sabha, butcould not be taken up for debate and subse-quently it lapsed. The Bill proposed to set upan autonomous nuclear regulatory body.

"The Bill was introduced in Parliament, butit later lapsed. It will now have to be reintro-duced in the new Lok Sabha," Bajaj toldreporters here.

However, he observed that giving theBoard an autonomous status will changenothing on the ground level as it will onlygive a legal status to AERB.

The IRRS mission suggested that AERBshould review the implementation of its pol-icy and existing arrangements to ensure itmaintains independence in the performanceof its regulatory functions.

Praising the Board, the mission leaderRamzi Jammal said, "the AERB is an experi-enced, knowledgeable and dedicated regula-tory body. It continues to enhance regulatoryprogramme to face the current and futurechallenges."

Delhi govt...launched in ten cities including Delhi to

enhance public awareness and involvementin air quality improvement.

On the pollution in the national capital, theMinister said he had held three meetings withthe state government to discuss the issue.

"We held three meetings with Delhi gov-ernment and held detailed discussions onissues like sewerage management, solidwaste, pollution control, monitoring of dustparticles. They assured us to submit an actionplan till 31 March," he said, adding that theministry has not received any plans so far andwould wait for it.

"It is the responsibility of Delhi govern-ment to come up with the action plan as soonas possible. It will have to work as peoplecan see garbage all around the city and sew-erage is also not being treated properly," hesaid at a press conference here.

Elaborating about the Air Quality index,Javadekar said, "The index will inform pub-lic about air quality in simple understandableform. On real-time basis, it would be avail-able for ten cities," he said, adding that 20state capitals and 46 cities with million-pluspopulation will be covered in the next coupleof years.

Stressing on the need to change mindset,Javadekar said pollution has to be foughtwith on daily basis.

Stressing that dust, coming from neigh-bouring states like Rajasthan and stubbleburning, apart from increasing vehicular pop-ulation and use of diesel, was a major prob-lem in Delhi, he said roads need to becleaned with machines and not by brooms.

"Dust is a serious problem in Delhi as itcomes from neighbourng states likeRajasthan with soil being loose-soil here innorth India. So, we should clean roads withmachine and not with broom so that dustdoesn't blow up," he said.

Delhi Deputy...Bindeshwar Pathak also figure in the list

prepared by the Department of Personnel andTraining (DoPT).

Sisodiya, chief functionary of NGO Kabir;Venkatesh Nayak, Coordinator of NGOCommonwealth Human Rights Initiatives(CHRI); Shekhar Singh from NationalCampaign for RTI and A N Singh, formerCIC, are among the guest faculty who cancan be utilised for giving training on mattersrelated to Right to Information (RTI) Act, asper the DoPT list. The list of 137 individualsalso include retired and serving bureaucratslike R H Khwaja, former Mines Secretaryamong others.

"All central training institutes and adminis-trative training institutes are requested toutilise their services as guest faculty for theappropriate training programme as per theirrequirement," the DoPT said.

Social entrepreneurs including AnshuGupta, founder of Goonj NGO; BindeshwarPathak, founder of Sulabh internationalsocial service organisation and AnandKumar, founder of Ramanujan school ofmathematics in Patna (popularly known assuper 30 coaching centre) are those who con-veyed their willingness to be part of trainingprogramme, it said.

The DoPT conducts various training pro-grammes on office management, ethics, RTIand other topics for central governmentemployees.

Rao memorial...to construct a memorial in the name of

Narsimha Rao. It will be a reward to him fortacit understanding with RSS on December6, 1992 for demolition of Babri mosque andconstruction of 'chabutara' on December 8,"Khan said in a statement issued here.

The controversial leader also alleged thatwith the construction of the memorial, thegovernment wants to ensure that the memoryof the demolition is part of the history.

"The Centre is trying to prove that thememory of whatever happened, due to under-standing between the former prime ministerand RSS, should be a part of the history andmessage of the insulting demolition goes tothe tourists coming from all over the world toDelhi," Khan said.

He said that such an attempt would leavean adverse affect on the society.

According to report in a section of media,Central government is planning to constructa memorial to honour the late prime minister.

Delhi govt...Manish Sisodia said that registry will begin

from April 01. He also said that the demarca-tion work in unauthorised colonies havestarted.

What this means is people living in thesecolonies will now be able to get 'registry' asownership document.

So far, 'power of attorney' was the onlydocument which residents living in thesecolonies could obtain.

There are about 2,000 unauthorisedcolonies in the national capital and around 40percent of the city's total population resideshere.

The Union Cabinet had in December 2014cleared a proposal to amend existing guide-lines for regularisation of unauthorisedcolonies. It had also extended the cut-off datefor unauthorised colonies eligible for regu-larisation from March 31, 2002 to June 1,2014.

Fire breaks...in Asia and it houses a number of textile

units and factories.According to Delhi Fire Department, they

got a call about the fire at 3:15 PM followingwhich 20 fire tenders were rushed to the spot.

"It is a medium category fire and efforts areon to douse. It started from a shop inBhagwan Das building," said a fire official.

Police have evacuated the nearby buildingsand area has been cordoned off to keep thecrowd away.

18-year-old...Manzoor (33), kidnapped and raped her in

a nearby field last evening," a police officersaid. He said the accused later threatened thegirl of dire consequences if she told about theincident to her parents.

"The girl narrated the incident to her par-ents and they filed a police complaint atPolice Station Mandi," he said.

He said the medical examination of the girlconfirmed that she was raped.

Police added the accused was still at largeand several police teams have been formed tonab him.

Haryana govt ...Stating this on Tuesday, a spokesman of

Haryana Women and Child DevelopmentDepartment said that under SNP of the ICDSscheme, milk would also be introduced inheavily burdened districts -- Bhiwani,Narnaul, Rohtak, Gurgaon, Faridabad,Yamuna Nagar, Rewari, Panipat, and Kaithal.

He said that under the new financial norms,the daily supplementary nutrition of childrenaged up to six years has been increased to Rssix from Rs four per day, of pregnant and lac-tating mothers has been increased to Rsseven from Rs five per day, and of childrenseverely underweight has been increased toRs nine from Rs six per day.

The spokesman said that now under theSNP, beneficiaries would be provided withmilk twice a week besides their daily nutri-tion and three times milk in a week forseverely underweight children.

Crop damage...raised the issue of non-payment of the sug-

arcane dues and alleged irregularities inpolice recruitment.

"Farmers are faced with economic crisisafter crop damages and non-payment of sug-arcane dues. Distraught farmers are commit-ting suicide. But the government is indulgedin irregularities in police recruitmentprocess," said RLD's west UP organisationalhead Raj Kumar Sangwan.

He alleged that the apathetic state govern-ment is not even carrying out proper surveyof the damaged crops. The protesters sub-mitted a memorandum addressed to theGovernor asking him to direct the state gov-ernment to give fair compensation to farm-ers, waiving of farm debts and power bills.

The also demanded a CBI probe into thealleged irregularities in the police and otherrecruitment process.

Two children...the wall, weakened due to unseasonal rains

that lashed the city on Monday, collapsed.A three-year-old girl and a four-year-old

boy were killed, while their parents wereinjured and have been admitted to a hospital.

Editorial4 NEW DELHI | WEDNESDAY | APRIL 01, 2015SAADDA HAQ

BY GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)sprang from the Anna HazareMovement in much the same

way that the Janata Party emergedfrom the JP movement of the mid-1970s. Both movements were aboutissues, issues that were agitating thepublic mind — corruption, malad-ministration, political betrayal. Andthey demanded that the voice of thepeople be heard above those of politi-cians, especially those in power. Themovements resonated with the peo-ple because they — we — felt thatthose intoxicated by power andwealth were now listening to “ourside of the story”.

‘I’ and being heard

As Anna Hazare fasted on his stageat Jantar Mantar for a Lokpal to stemcorruption, the high and mighty min-gled — competed — with ordinaryfolk to extend support to the newleader. The appeal of homespuntruth-telling by a man whose Englishwas absent — what a refreshingchange! — and who spoke in arefreshingly homespun Hindi —another huge relief — was now call-ing the shots. As the fast progressed,the common man and woman cranednecks to glimpse the leader, and thepowerful sent quivering messages:“We need you, the country needsyou, please do not endanger yourlife”. He obliged, broke the fast andannounced that if within a date stipu-lated by him, “the needful” was notdone to give India a Lokpal plus meetother “new” demands, he would takethe masses to the Lal Qila. Now thatwas something. Delhi’s Red Fort isnot just a former palace but an all-time palladium of India’s sovereignpower, known to be the citadel thatNetaji Subhas Chandra Bose was toreach, and Jawaharlal Nehru actuallydid. Now that was where AnnaHazare seemed to be going as themovement’s flag and flagmast.

Audi alteram partem, the Latinmaxim meaning “Hear the otherparty” (and now the name of a maga-zine of the National Law University,Delhi) was seen, suddenly, as actual-ly happening in the country. The peo-ple — the other party — were being

heard. But there was also somethingthat was not alteram, something very“I”, about the Anna Hazare move-ment. The movement personified thepeople’s dissent, and did so power-fully, but did it admit of variation,dissent within itself? Were Anna’ssupporters his colleagues, or werethey his disciples? Were they the

movement’s soldiers or the leader’sfootsoldiers? Did it share its platformwith other dissenters in the country?It did not. It had a team, of whichArvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan,Kiran Bedi were the more visible ofthem, but they were more like satel-lites than associates. Other dis-senters, from outside Team Anna,were permitted on the stage only asguests offering solidarity. It wasbecoming a one-man movement.

Team player?

Until, that is, Arvind Kejriwalbegan coming into his own, and itbegan to be said Anna is not JP butVinoba and what JP was to Vinoba,Arvind Kejriwal is to Anna Hazare— the young petrel impatient of theways of the guru. Just watch him, heis not one to remain in the olderman’s shadow. No one was surprised

when Anna Hazare did not quiteanoint Mr. Kejriwal his second-in-command.

Many of those who had knownArvind Kejriwal from earlier daysknew that he was no pushover, thathe was quick to learn, quick to imple-ment. But was he a team man? Would

he share his new platform with menand women who think like him, andyet think autonomously, boldly?When Prashant Bhushan, a freethink-ing and respected dissenter, foundpride of place in the new party andYogendra Yadav joined it, it lookedlike Arvind Kejriwal was indeed ateam man. Admiral (retd.) L. Ramdasbecoming the party’s conscience-keeping ombudsman was anotherreassuring sign.

Elections were coming, to theDelhi Vidhan Sabha, and who did notwant the AAP, to make a good show-ing? It did and how!

The history, saddening and elating,in turn, that has followed needs norecounting.

Becoming another voice

Audi alteram partem is not the phi-losophy of the new ruling formationat the Centre, nor is it to be found inthe chemistry of the Congress today.The BJP is Narendra Modi, NarendraModi is the BJP. He is a democraticsupremo. And as for the CongressPresident, despite her own instincts,the nearly 40 years old, post-

Emergency culture of sycophancy inthat party has made her and her son,democratic monarchs. Both theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and theCongress are on the same page whenit comes to dissent within their ranks.They would see dissent as dissidence,dissent in the country as disturbance.The Left is frozen in a paradox of itsown in being, in itself, not “audialteram”, but “audi Politburo”. TheRTI Act is not likely to be selected bythe CPI or CPI-M as one of itsfavourite laws.

The AAP, especially after itsresounding victory in the secondVidhan Sabha elections in Delhi, haseverything in it to be “the other”voice. It is now in the process ofbecoming just another voice — itsleader’s voice. I would like to believethat Arvind Kejriwal is strong-willedbut is not a dictator. Is it not because

he disliked authoritarian ways that hemoved away from Anna Hazare? Canone who so effectively says “boo” tothe strong and the mighty, to mini-tyrants and major ones, want to beone himself? Is he not intelligentenough to know that the India whichadmires “strong” leaders hatestyrants?

The second chance

At a time when the two nationalparties are not internally democratic,the Left is unable to be one, and sev-eral regional parties are led by localsupremos, Arvind Kejriwal is invalu-able, in fact, irreplaceable, as ademocrat. A democratic promiseshould not become a democraticlament. He must remind himself thatsome of the greatest liberators inAsia, Latin America and Africa haveended up as one of the most hatedand bigoted dictators.

The people of Delhi voted forArvind Kejriwal, let us acknowledgethat. They have given him, not hisparty, another chance. A leader, espe-cially a hugely popular one, needs aHouse of the People in terms of pop-ular backing. But he also needs a

Second Chamber, a Council ofElders, in terms of un-“popular”advice-sharing. He has gatekeepers,he needs conscience-keepers.

Arvind Kejriwal should know thatapplause can be music, but advice ismedicine. The removal of PrashantBhushan, Yogendra Yadav and now,of Admiral Ramdas, from their posi-tions in the AAP does not strengthenhis “hold” on the party’s functioningas much as it weakens his grip on thenation’s political imagination. Allcults are wrong. Cultism in the AAPis wrong.

But the fight for inner party democ-racy must not weaken the fight fordemocracy in the country. Internaldemocracy is vital but there is some-thing called the wrong time for rightthings. At the present moment, whenthe country is looking for an alterna-tive to the majoritarian ego ofHindutva now riding high on theBJP’s electoral victory, the AAP’sdissenters will be playing into thehands of totalitarianism if they makeArvind Kejriwal’s “dictatorial style”,their driving passion.

So, what are Yogendra Yadav,Prashant Bhushan, Admiral Ramdasto do? Just keep quiet? Must they suf-fer great and painful provocations insilence? No, they cannot and shouldnot. They should make their pointabout intolerance within the party butwithout ingratiating the larger intol-erance beyond the party. There is agreater intolerance around in Indianow than the one they are contendingwith within the AAP, the intoleranceof political hubris, of communal big-otry, of a new form of fascism that iscombining with techno-economicmonopolies to create an ersatz“nationalist” dictatorship. The gri-mace of the AAP dissenters shouldnot turn into that bigger dictator-ship’s guffaw.

(Gopalkrishna Gandhi isDistinguished Professor in Historyand Politics at Ashoka University.)

BY POONAM KHETRAPAL SINGH

How often do we ask our-selves if the food we areeating is safe? Do we

know if it is free of bacteria,viruses, parasites, chemicals,other contaminates, additivesand adulterants which can causeover 200 diseases ranging fromdiarrhoea to cancer? Every year,diarrhoea caused by contaminat-ed food and water kills 2.2 mil-lion people, including 1.9 mil-lion children, globally. Unsafefood and water kills an estimated7,00,000 children in the WorldHealth Organization’s South-East Asia Region every year.Access to safe food remains achallenge in the region.Whether as individuals, fami-lies, farmers, contributors toand handlers of the foodchain or policymakers, weneed to make food safetyour priority.

Food safety is critical forpublic health as food-bornediseases affect people’s healthand well-being. Unsafe foodcreates a vicious cycle of diseaseand malnutrition, particularlyaffecting infants, young chil-dren, the elderly and the sick.Food-borne diseases impedesocio-economic development bystraining health care systems andadversely impacting nationaleconomies, tourism and trade.

Multisectoral collaboration

Since food passes throughmultiple hands from the farm toreach our plates, ensuring foodsafety requires multisectoral col-laboration. The approach needsto be preventive — to improvefood safety and quality throughapplication of good farmingpractices by using agro chemi-cals or veterinary drugs only inthe prescribed amount. Goodstorage, transportation, retailand restaurant practices areequally important to make foodsafe.

Street foods are emerging asan important source of food for alarge proportion of the popula-tion in urban and peri-urban set-tings. Street food as a source offood-borne diseases thereforeassumes public health signifi-cance.

Also, new threats to food safe-ty are constantly emerg-ing — the impactof climatec h a n g eo n

foodproduc-tion, distri-bution and con-sumption; emergingbiological and environ-mental contamination of thefood chain, new technologies,new and emerging pathogens;antimicrobial resistance.

Countries need to have a com-prehensive food safety policy,legislation and national foodsafety programmes encompass-ing all the sectors and aspects forfood safety.

Though most countries in theregion have food safety policies,enforcement remains a chal-lenge. Food quality and safetystandards are usually strictly fol-

lowed for exportable food com-modities, but not alwaysenforced for food destined forthe domestic market. Food safe-ty and quality should be ensuredthrough stringent control andinspection mechanisms forexport as well as the domesticmarket.

Adulteration of food is anotherproblem as informal food pro-duction and distribution systemsare deeply entrenched at thecommunity level in the region.Contamination of mustard oilwith argemone oil in 1998 andcontamination of imported milkand infant formula withmelamine in 2008 are among thefew events that raised food safe-ty concerns among consumersand policymakers in the regionand globally.

Five keys to good safety

The most pertinent of all themeasures is creating awarenessamong individuals to ensure thattheir food is safe. In this context,‘five keys’ to food safety need tobe promoted — maintain clean-liness, separate raw and cooked

food, cook thoroughly, keepfood at correct tem-

perature anduse safe

w a t e rand raw mate-

rials.

As food supply becomesincreasingly globalised, there isan urgent requirement tostrengthen food safety systemsin and between all countries.Establishment of a network forfood safety authorities in part-nership with countries can helppromote the exchange of foodsafety information and improvecollaboration among food safetyauthorities at national and inter-national levels.

There is also need to help

countries prevent, detect andrespond to food-borne diseaseoutbreaks using the CodexAlimentarius, a collection ofinternational food standards,guidelines and codes of practicecovering all the main foods andprocesses.

In addition, food safety shouldbe adequately incorporated innational disaster-managementprogrammes and emergencies.Access to safe water and qualityfood is a major problem duringflooding, earthquakes and othernatural disasters. There is a like-

lihood of food in the affectedareas getting contaminated

and causing outbreaks offood-borne disease.

As part of itsRegional FoodSafety Strategy,countries in theregion need to ini-tiate, develop andsustain multisec-toral approaches

and measures forpromotion of food

safety among all popu-lation groups. Some

countries have takennovel and notable initiatives

such as the mobile food courtsin Bangladesh, the establishmentof a Food Standard and SafetyAuthority in India, and certifica-tion of street food vendors with a“Clean Food, Good Taste” logoin Thailand. This year’s WorldHealth Day theme focuses onfood safety. Food safety must bean essential component ofnational health, food, agricul-ture, animal husbandry, fish-eries, water, sanitation and envi-ronment-related programmes.Food safety is a shared responsi-bility. Let us work together tomake our food safe and to con-tribute to better health of people.

(Poonam Khetrapal Singh isRegional Director, World

Health Organization South-EastAsia Region.)

For the Aam Aadmi Party which claims the rationalefor its very being is ushering in more democratic andtransparent governance, the current troubles at the

top levels of the leadership present an existential threat.While Delhi Chief Minister and national convener of theparty Arvind Kejriwal was able to easily win supportwhere it immediately mattered — among the MLAs inDelhi and among the members of the national executive —the issues raised by the dissident duo of Prashant Bhushanand Yogendra Yadav would not go away quickly. What theAAP sees as problems in the Indian political system —corruption, absence of transparency and lack of accounta-bility — now seem very much a part of its own self. Aseries of exposés have shown up the AAP as suffering fromthe very ills it attacks in other parties. From horse-tradingand giving the party ticket to persons of dubious back-ground to autocratic decision-making and suppressing dis-sent, the AAP appears susceptible to all the diseases plagu-ing India’s political system. Instead of the AAP changingthe political system, the political system seems to beassimilating the AAP. While all of these might haveincreased its chances of winning the polls, the party isslowly morphing into another typical Indian party. Withevery compromise made on its founding principles, theAAP betrays its original backers, the youth and civil soci-ety movements who were disillusioned with the hithertoexisting political parties. The AAP owed its success to thepromise of change that it carried; to give up on this prom-ise is to admit political defeat for the sake of electoral vic-tory. If the AAP is to truly succeed, it would have to suc-ceed on its own terms, without surrendering its originalideals and crusading spirit. Mr. Bhushan and Mr. Yadavmight have had different reasons for taking on Mr.Kejriwal, but they were united in their opposition to theway the party was being run. True, Mr. Kejriwal is the faceof the party, its leader as well as its most hard-workingmember. But a leader who does not listen to his followerswill soon be walking alone. As an organisation grows, con-sensus-building and democratic procedures might appearto be cumbersome and as a hindrance to quick decision-making and work efficiency. But there can be no shortcutsfor a political party pushing for systemic changes. Mr.Kejriwal seems to be opting for a highly personalised styleof leadership and campaign, and looks more interested inquick-fix solutions that do not always allow for the com-plexities of the problem. Internal democracy is integral toinformed decision-making in any organisation. Dissentand dissidence might slow down the AAP and Mr.Kejriwal, but these remain essential to keeping them goingin the right direction.

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The AAP as only its leader’s voice

The AAP, especially after its resounding victory in the second VidhanSabha elections in Delhi, has everything in it to be “the other” voice.It is now in the process of becoming just another voice — its leader’s

voice. I would like to believe that Arvind Kejriwal is strong-willed butis not a dictator. Is it not because he disliked authoritarian ways thathe moved away from Anna Hazare? Can one who so effectively says“boo” to the strong and the mighty, to mini-tyrants and major ones,want to be one himself? Is he not intelligent enough to know that

the India which admires “strong” leaders hates tyrants?

“ “Street foods are emerging as

an important source of food for a largeproportion of the population in urban and peri-urban settings. Street food as a source of food-

borne diseases therefore assumes public health signifi-cance. Also, new threats to food safety are constantlyemerging — the impact of climate change on food pro-duction, distribution and consumption; emerging bio-

logical and environmental contamination of thefood chain, new technologies, new and

emerging pathogens; antimicrobialresistance.

State Watch 5NEW DELHI | WEDNESDAY | APRIL 01, 2015SAADDA HAQ

KISHANGANJ, MARCH 31Ruing that prosperity accompanied

by material success has made thepeople selfish and self-centred, RSSchief Mohan Bhagwat on emphasisedon the dissemination of moral educa-tion to make the society a better placeto live in.

"People have become selfish andself-centred after attaining prosperityaccompanied by material success...New-found streak of selfishment hastaken the people to such a levelwhere there could be found no differ-ence between them and animals," hesaid in a speech after inaugurating12th standard Saraswati VidyaMandir building in Tewagha localityin Kishanganj town.

Education is supposed to guide anindividual to become a better personand his goal should be to help othersand build a better society, Bhagwatsaid.

He also asked the people to put ona thinking cap to develop a better per-spective of life than individual suc-cess otherwise there will be no differ-ence between them and animals.

"It's the duty of a person to under-take education in such a manner thatit helps one become a better citizenfor good of oneself and the society at

large," he said.The RSS chief also spoke on envi-

ronmental issues and appealed to thepeople to be sensitive about environ-ment around them by minimisingconflict arising out of development.

"There is a conflict going onbetween development and environ-ment," Bhagwat pointed out.

"There will be problems to envi-ronment due to development andthere will be problems without devel-opment," he said and suggested a bal-ancing act so that both environmentand development could work togeth-er in mutual interest.

Recalling India's position as anapostle of peace, education and spiri-tualism, the RSS chief urged peopleto draw inspiration from the rich her-itage and work collective to restorethe country's pole position at globallevel.

"India has retained its position as aworld leader by surviving throughvarious difficulties in different ages,"he said.

He also asked people to draw pridefrom the country's rich heritage andwork hard so that India continues toshine at global stage for all the yearsto come.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwatstresses on moral education

RAJAHMUNDRY, MARCH 31Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister

N Chandrababu Naidu will distrib-ute Aryogya Sri Card (health card)to journalists in Tirupati on April 6.

State Health Minister K Srinivassaid here on Monday that the chiefminister will distribute Arogya Sricards to scribes in Tirupati on April6.

All steps have been taken to giveaway the cards to eligible journal-ists in the state, he said whileaddressing a gathering.

Zilla Parishad chairman NRambabu urged the minister toextend medical assistance andfacilities to the four mandals,which have been merged intoAndhra Pradesh from Telangana.

To an issue raised by Kakinada

MLA V Venkateswara Rao on thequality of facilities rendered at thegovernment, the minister said, heinspected the Kakinada govern-

ment General hospital yesterdayand took a stock of the facilitiesand services provided athospital.

Andhra CM to distribute health card to journalists

GUWAHATI, MARCH 31The ruling Congress and oppo-

sition AIUDF on Tuesday forcedAssam Assembly SpeakerPranab Kumar Gogoi to retracthis decision to submit a report ondefinition of Assamese to thestate government through theHouse and compelled him togive it in his personal capacity.

During the beginning of theBudget session, Gogoi had saidhe would hold discussions withall stakeholders to arrive at thedefinition of Assamese afterAIUDF MLA Aminul Islamobserved there was no such prop-er definition.

However, without discussingthe topic in the House, theSpeaker today read out a state-ment saying the NationalRegister of Citizen for 1951

should be made the base year anda definition could be given asdescribed in that document.

On the last day of the ongoingBudget session, he claimed hemet dozens of representatives of

various social, ethnic, studentgroups, minorities, autonomouscouncils among many others inthese days.

"Clause 6 of the Assam Accordcould not be fulfilled due to

absence of Assamese definition.I took a personal initiative andwill now submit the report to thegovernment," Gogoi said aboutthe issue, which was not listed inthe day's business.

Gogoi then submitted thereport to Implementation ofAssam Accord MinisterBhumidhar Barman through offi-cials of Assembly.

On this, Congress MLAArdhendu Kumar Dey walked upto the minister, took the reportfrom him and returned it to theSpeaker. "You (Gogoi) have notdiscussed it with the MLAs. Thisis a big deficiency. You have nottaken MLAs into confidence. Wealso represent the people ofAssam. I request you to submit itafter discussion in the House,"Dey said.

Congress and AIUDF force AssamSpeaker to retract decision on report

PANAJI, MARCH 31The Congress in Goa has questioned

BJP's world record membership drive,citing the recently concluded localZilla Panchayat election, where theBJP netted far less votes than its fourlakh registered members.

Congress secretary Durgadas Kamatin a statement issued here said therewas a big gulf between the four lakhvoters registered by the BJP inJanuary this year and the total numberof votes polled by the party in theMarch Zilla Panchayat (ZP) polls.

"The ZP elections in Goa haveexposed the BJP fraud numbers gamenationally. The BJP in Goa managedto bag just 1,50,674, while in Januarythis year, the party claimed to haveregistered four lakh members. Doesthis mean that more than two lakh BJPmembers did not vote for their ownparty they have just signed up for?"Kamat said in his statement, on a daywhen the BJP's national leadershipclaimed that the party with 8.8 crore

members was the world's largest polit-ical outfit.

"The membership fraud in Goa, isjust a small sample of the countrywidemembership fraud committed by theBJP's national leadership by inflatingtheir membership numbers," Kamatsaid.

Reacting to this, Goa Chief MinisterLaxmikant Parsekar admitted that theparty had won lesser votes, but alsodefended the four lakh state member-ship count.

"The Zilla Panchayat elections didnot cover municipal areas. That meansthose members did not vote," Parsekarsaid.

The BJP, which is in power in Goa,put in a lacklustre performance in theZP polls.

The BJP's less-than-spectacular per-formance came at a time when therewas no opposition party in the ZPpollS, with the Congress and theNationalist Congress Party boycottingthe elections.

Goa Congress questions BJP'sworld's largest party claim

PATNA, MARCH 31Bihar Chief Minister Nitish

Kumar today reviewed thesituation across the state inthe wake of the thunderstorm,in which 20 persons died andcrops were damaged.

The chief ministerannounced Rs two lakh com-pensation for kin of everydead, Rs 1.5 lakh from theDisaster Management fundand Rs 50,000 from the CMRelief Fund, an official state-ment here said.

Nitish ordered to pay com-pensation to farmers for lossof their crops due to the thethunderstorm yesterday.

Agriculture ProductionCommissioner Vijay Prakashand Principal SecretaryDisaster Management Vyasjitold the chief minister at the

meeting that masoor crop hasbeen damaged at a large scaledue to the thunderstorm,including wheat and otherproduce, the statement said.

Kumar directed the offi-cials to prepare a district-wisereport of the damage andordered Chief SecretaryAnjani Kumar Singh to hold a

meeting with district magis-trates through video confer-encing to assess the extent ofloss in different districts, itsaid.

State Agriculture MinisterVijay Chaudhary and DisasterManagement Minister LessiSingh were present in themeeting.

Bihar CM announces Rs 2 lakhcompensation to family of dead

PANAJI, MARCH 31Lobbying has begun in

Goa BJP after the SupremeCourt upheld the convic-tion of state ministerFransisco MickkyPacheco, creating likeli-hood of vacancy in theministry.

Pacheco, a Goa VikasParty leader and NuvemMLA, was inducted in thestate cabinet in Novemberlast year after ChiefMinister Manohar Parrikarresigned (to join the unioncabinet) and LaxmikantParsekar took over.

Sources in BJP said sev-eral party MLAs were eye-ing berth in the ministry inthe event of Pacheco's exit.

"At present there are nomoves to drop Pacheco.The government is yet to

study the SC order," said asource close to the ChiefMinister Parsekar.

"There are no indicationsat present that Pachecomight resign," the sourcesaid.

"The party is yet to takeany decision on the issue,"said BJP Goa unit chiefVinay Tendulkar, whenasked whether the partywould press for Pacheco'sexit. Pacheco is currentlyin New Delhi. Sourcesclose to him said he wasexploring the legal options.

The Supreme Courtbench of Justices F M IKalifulla and Shiva KirtiSingh yesterday dismissedthe special leave petitionfiled by Pacheco againstthe High Court verdictwhich had upheld sentence

of six months' imprison-ment for him.

An FIR for assault waslodged on July 15, 2006 byKapil Natekar, a juniorengineer of the govern-ment's ElectricalDepartment, againstPacheco, who was a minis-ter then too.

It alleged that Pachecoabused and slappedNatekar in his chamberafter summoning him overfor not attending the tele-phone call of the minister'spersonal assistant.

A judicial magistrate atMargao convicted Pachecoand sentenced him to one-year jail term and a fine ofRs 5,000. Appellate courtreduced the jail term to sixmonths and the fine to Rs1,500.

Lobbying on in Goa BJP as minis-ter Pacheco's conviction upheld

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 31A delegation led by

Union Food and ConsumerAffairs Minister Ram VilasPaswan will visitChandigarh Tuesday totake stock of crops dam-aged by untimely rains andhailstorms in Haryana.

Union Minister of Statefor Agriculture SanjeevKumar Balyan will also bea part of the delegation, aspokesperson of HaryanaAgriculture Departmentsaid today.

The team would meetChief Minister ManoharLal Khattar and interactwith concerned ministers

and senior officers ofRevenue and DisasterManagement, Power,

Development andPanchayats, Agriculture,Cooperation, Animal

Husbandry and Dairying,Food and Supplies,Irrigation and other depart-ments, he said.

Haryana government hadalready sought assistanceof Rs 500 crore from theCentre for crop loss suf-fered by farmers in thestate because of unseasonalrains and hailstorm thismonth.

The BJP-led state gov-ernment had also demand-ed concession at the timeof procurement for the dif-ference in the quality ofwheat crop due to theadverse impact ofweather.

Paswan to visit ChandigarhTuesday to assess crop damage

VIJAYAWADA, MARCH 31Andhra Pradesh Congress

Tuesday accused the rulingTDP government of "betray-ing" people by not fulfillingthe electoral promises, andstaged demonstrations at vari-ous places.

"The Congress has decidedto observe March 31 as 'TeluguDesam Prajavanchana Dinam'(TDP Betrayal Day) every yearto highlight the failure of theChandrababu Naidu-led gov-ernment in keeping the prom-ises it had made in its electionmanifesto released on March31 last year," said state unitCongress President NRaghuveera Reddy.

He said the opposition partyorganised simultaneousprotests at all 49 revenue divi-sional headquarters in thestate.

Reddy alleged the TDP pur-

posefully removed the mani-festo from its website recentlyto avoid the "wrath" of people.

"During the Assembly elec-tions last year, the ruling TDPhad listed out about 600 prom-ises, including the waiver offarmers' loans, Dwacra(Development of Women andChildren in Rural Areas)groups, and weavers. It alsopromised filling of vacantposts in various governmentdepartments, and not hikingelectricity charges. However,not a single promise is ful-filled," he said.

The Leader of Opposition inAndhra Pradesh LegislativeCouncil, C Ramachandraih,former MLAs Malladi Vishnu,Devineni Nehru and partyworkers participated in ademonstration held at thedistrict sub-collector's officehere.

TDP betrayed people by not keep-ing electoral promises: Congress

GUWAHATI, MARCH 31The Assam government will bring in

a special Act to reign in the operationsof private schools, which are allegedlycharging exorbitant fees and not givingsalaries to teachers as per norms.

Replying to a query by AGP MLAKeshab Mahanta during the QuestionHour, Education Minister SaratBorkotoky said private English medi-um schools are not following thenorms regulated to building, land, safe-ty, fees structure and salaries of teach-ers among others. "I will talk to theChief Minister and see how to handlethis. We will try to control them byenacting a special Act," Borkotokysaid. He alleged the schools do noteven respond to any communication bythe Ministers. "They charge very highfees from students but still do not give

salaries to teachers as per norms. Mostof the schools are also not followingset rules in appointment of teacherslike B Ed qualified faculty members,"Borkotoky said.

He said currently 1,167 privateschools, excluding play schools, and420 private junior colleges are in thestate. The Assam government permitsa private education institute to startoperations if it has own land or landwith at least 20-years of lease and doesnot allow to operate from a rentedaccommodation.

"To get permission, a private insti-tute has to fulfill the norms under TheAssam Non-Government EducationalInstitution (Regulation andManagement) Act 2006 and Rule2007. For elementary education, per-mission has to be obtained under RTE

Act 2009," the Minister said.He, however, said there is no direc-

tion in these Acts and Rule about feesstructure and salaries of teachers.

"There are some directions from theSupreme Court regarding controllingof the private institutes and the DeputyCommissioners of the districts takesteps in their implementation,"Borkotoky said.

Mahanta also suggested the govern-ment to consider the operations of pri-vate educational institute as an indus-try and strictly apply the norms of anindustry like minimum wages.

On Congress MLA Bhupen KumarBorah's query if the government willconsider taking steps in reservation ofseats for poor meritorious students inprivate schools, the Minister replied inpositive.

Assam govt to bring in special Act to reign in private schools

Five lectur-ers amongseven killedin Haryanaaccident

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 31Five lecturers and two students of

a private engineering college werekilled in an accident between theirinstitute's bus and a truck inHaryana, police said on Tuesday.

Nineteen people, mostly students,were injured in the accident whichtook place on the Saha-Shahzadpurroad in Ambala district, 55 km fromhere.

All the victims were from theSRM Institute of Engineering andTechnology in Ambala district.

Police said there were nearly 30people in the bus when the accidentoccurred.

Haryana Health Minister Anil Vijand senior officials visited the hos-pitals in Ambala where 14 of theinjured were admitted.

Five of those critically injuredwere rushed to the Post-GraduateInstitute of Medical Education andResearch (PGIMER) inChandigarh.

The truck driver fled from thespot, leaving his vehicle behind.

NEW DELHI | WEDNESDAY | APRIL 01, 2015SAADDA HAQScience & Tech6

Sony's anticipatedflagship, the XperiaZ4, appears to have

had its specificationsdetailed thanks to a leakedbenchmark test result.

According toGFXBench results (viaMobifo.nl), the Sonyhandset with model num-ber E6553, widely expect-ed to be the Xperia Z4,features a 5.1-inch full-

HD display with a1080x1920 pixels full-HDresolution.

If the benchmark resultsare real, Sony's Xperia Z4will be the first handsetfrom Japanese company tosport the octa-coreQualcomm Snapdragon810 chipset (quad-coreCortex A57 and quad-coreCortex A53). The handsetis said to feature 3GB of

RAM and come with32GB of inbuilt storage.Also listed are a 20-megapixel rear cameraand a 5-megapixel frontcamera. The Android 5.0.2Lollipop-based SonyXperia Z4 is also seenwith an accelerometer,barometer sensor, com-pass, gyroscope, and prox-imity sensor, apart fromNFC, and Wi-Fi connec-

tivity. Earlier this month, aFrench website tippedspecifications of theXperia Z4 which some-what contradict theinnards listed by thebenchmark.

The Xperia Z4 was thentipped to feature a 5.2-inch display with eitherfull-HD (1080x1920 pix-els) or QHD (1440x2560pixels) resolution along-

side 3GB or 4GB of RAM,and Adreno 430 GPU. Thepublication tipped a 21-megapixel rear camera.

Alongside rumouredspecifications, four pur-ported press images of theXperia Z4 earlier thismonth had also surfacedon the Web. The leakedimages showed the white-coloured variant of SonyXperia Z4 flaunting nearly

the same design aestheticsas its predecessor, theSony Xperia Z3. In thefour images showing allthe four sides of theupcoming smartphone, asubtle change was seen -the front-facing speakers,which were placed slightlymore towards the edgethan those seen in XperiaZ3, were also a littlelonger.

OnePlus hasannounced thatthe One '2014

Flagship Killer' smart-phone will available tobuy without anyinvites in India onWednesday.

The third opensale for theOnePlus Onesmartphone inIndia will kickoff at1 0 a mIST on

Wednesday via AmazonIndia. The companyannounced the news on itsofficial forum.

It's worth noting that thisis the second open sale of the

OnePlus One within twoweeks. OnePlus offered One

smartphone without invites lastweek as well.

An open sale for the One smart-phone means that consumers willnot require any invite to purchasethe handset during the sale. The

Chinesec o m -p a n ya s

before has not revealed the numberof units that will be up for sale on

Wednesday; which means the handset will

be available to purchase without invite tillstocks last.

Last month, the OnePlus One smartphonewent up for sale in its first open sale in thecountry.

The 16GB Silk White OnePlus One (Review| Pictures) will be available on Amazon India atRs. 18,999 while the 64GB Sandstone Blackvariant is priced at Rs. 21,999.

The open sale for the OnePlus One onWednesday might be the last sale without invitebefore the company announces revised pricingfor the India market. OnePlus recently hintedthe prices in India may be revised soon.

OnePlus has already hiked pricing of its"2014 flagship killer" smartphone, the One, forEU regions earlier this month citing the declinein value of the Euro, we can expect a slight hikein pricing of the handset in India as well.

To recall, the OnePlus One features a 5.5-inchIPS LCD display with a 1080x1920 pixel reso-lution and offers a pixel density of 401ppi. Thedisplay boasts of Corning Gorilla Glass 3 pro-tection. It comes with 3GB of RAM and is pow-ered by the quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon801 clocked at 2.5GHz with Adreno 330 GPU.It sports a 13-megapixel rear IMX214 sensorwith six lenses and f/2.0 aperture and alsocomes with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.Connectivity options on the OnePlus Oneinclude 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac,Bluetooth 4.0, and NFC functionality. It fea-tures a 3100mAh non-removable battery.

1. The method that cannot be used for removing per-manent hardness of water isA. adding sodium carbonate B. distillationC. adding caustic soda D. boiling

2. The following are the half lives of four active iso-topes. Which one of the following is the most dan-gerous to handle?A. 3 billion years B. 100 yearsC. 0.01 minute D. 13 days

3. The gas used for artificial ripening of green fruit isA. ethylene B. ethaneC. carbon dioxide D. acetylene

4. Zone refining is used for the purification ofA. Au B. Ge C. Ag D. Cu

5. The main chemical constituent of the oil of car-damom which is responsible for flavour of this oil isA. cineole B. engenolC. geraniol D. limonene

QUIZ TIME

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

TODAY’S STARARIES Fascinating new information could arrive today from TV or the

Internet, opening up new educational opportunities. The possibility ofmaking contact and perhaps visiting new friends in other countriesmight come to your attention. You will probably find this very excit-ing, Aries, and make plans immediately. This is fine, but be careful toconsider all contingencies. Be practical and objective.

TAURUS A sudden burst of physical energy and determination could lead toadditional income for you, Taurus. This is probably due to an unex-pected opportunity to do some extra work outside the scope of yourusual employment. It could also be a long overdue payment for pastwork. You could also receive acknowledgement of some kind forwork well done, further firing your enthusiasm. Go for the gold!

GEMINI Friends or a group with which you're affiliated could propose atrip. This might seem like a great adventure, Gemini, so you'relikely to go for it. You will probably have a wonderful time. Youmight make some new friends while you're away, or even fall inlove. A little break might fire your enthusiasm for pursuing careeror educational opportunities when you return. Go for it!

CANCER An opportunity to do some extra work outside the scope of your reg-ular job could present itself to you. Take it, Cancer. Not only couldyou earn some extra money but you might also open new doors thatexpand your professional horizons. The only danger is that youmight work too hard and tire yourself out. It's OK for a while, but don'tmake a habit of it. You need to conserve your strength.

LEO You might be extremely busy now. Invitations to large parties,small gatherings with close friends, and intimate evenings withromantic partners might come up today. Be discriminating in thoseyou accept, Leo. Concentrate on seeing people who share yourinterests. This may bring new friends your way, as well as oppor-tunities to expand your horizons. Romance looks great now.

VIRGO Unexpected visitors could wake you up to the possibility ofnew work opportunities, Virgo. This could advance your cur-rent job or be work you can do on your own - maybe on a vol-unteer basis. Whatever it is, you will probably find it exciting.You might even be impatient to get on with it. Pace yourself. Ifyou tire yourself out, you won't be able to continue.

LIBRA If you aren't romantically involved, an errand, walk, or other forayinto your neighborhood might bring an exciting new person intoyour life. This encounter may or may not lead to something last-ing, Libra, but you will enjoy it anyway! If you're currentlyinvolved, a casual outing with your partner could result in inti-mate conversations that bring the two of you closer.

SCORPIO Money that you may have been hoping to use to better your liv-ing or working condition could suddenly come your way today,Scorpio. Ideas for how to put it to work in the most efficient, sat-isfying way could pop into your mind quickly. You will probablywant to write them all down, consider your options carefully, andthen choose the ones that suit your needs best. Go to it.

SAGITTARIUSWhen you run errands today, check the bulletin boards in local busi-nesses. You may have been longing for adventure and dreamingabout getting away from it all, Sagittarius, but today you might findthe excitement you crave right in your community. New events, peo-ple, and businesses that you will enjoy could be moving in. You mightalso discover a group that shares one of your interests.

CAPRICORN Information received today excites your imagination and encour-ages you to start a new artistic or creative project, Capricorn.Stories, pictures, abstract concepts - all could come together inyour mind and form an inspired idea that could change your life.Gird your loins, write down your thoughts, and see where it alltakes you. You might be surprised by what you produce!

AQUARIUS Adventure is the word for today, Aquarius. A lot of physical and men-tal energy, as well as enthusiasm, might lead you to aim for goalsthat others consider too risky or unrealistic. Don't let their opinionsstop you. After giving each idea an objective assessment, if you stillbelieve you want to try, start looking into it seriously. People haveprobably made stranger dreams than this come true!

PISCES New career goals may come your way with the current aspect, Pisces,opening up possibilities you may not have considered. This could bevery exciting. It might even work toward the fulfillment of childhooddreams that you abandoned long ago. They may involve the arts,modern technology, or both. The only downside is that you might worktoo hard and get exhausted. Pace yourself.

OnePlus One to Be Available in IndiaWithout Invitation on Wednesday

Wh a t s A p pv o i c ec a l l i n g

feature is nowavailable to allusers of the app'sAndroid version.The app had begunrolling out thismonth to someusers and theycould pass it on toothers by making aWhatsApp call dur-ing time-limitedinvite windows.However, the fea-ture has been acti-vated on Tuesdayfor several userswho didn't receiveinvites.

To get this feature on your Android smartphone, all you need to do is download thelatest version of WhatsApp from its website. The feature has appeared on WhatsAppversion 2.12.5 in some smartphones, but most people will need the latest 2.12.19 ver-sion to get WhatsApp calling. The update has already started being pushed to GooglePlay as well, so just sit tight until it rolls out in your region or download the apk fromthe company site.

When the feature is activated on your smartphone, you will notice a new three-tablayout featuring Calls, Chats and Contacts. You can head to the Calls tab, tap the phoneicon, and pick a contact to make your first WhatsApp call.

While the feature is available to Android users now, those on other platforms contin-ue to wait. WhatsApp confirmed that the feature would be rolled out to iPhone userssoon. There's no word yet about the feature when the feature will be available on otherplatforms. Until then, Android users with WhatsApp calls enabled won't be able to callWhatsApp users on other platforms. These people won't appear in the list of contactsthat Android users can call. The long-awaited feature is finally available on one plat-form, and there's no more waiting for invite windows to open again.

WhatsApp Voice Calling NowAvailable to All Android Users,

No Activation Required

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TV Channels ScheduleChina launched an e w - g e n e r a t i o nsatellite into space

for its indigenous BeiDouglobal navigation and posi-tioning network onMonday.

Launched from theXichang Satellite LaunchCentre in the south-west-ern Chinese province ofSichuan, the satellite wasboosted by a Long March-3C carrier rocket devel-oped by the ChinaAerospace Science andTechnology Corporation,reported the state-runXinhua news agency.

This is the 17th satellitefor the BeiDou NavigationSatellite System (BDS).The launch marked thebeginning of an expansionof the BDS from regionalto global coverage.

The latest satellite willbe tasked with testing anew type of navigation sig-nalling and inter-satellitelinks, providing a basis tostart building the globalnetwork, according to thereport.

An independent aircraft

was installed on the carrierrocket, marking the firsttime China has used such atechnology in launching aspacecraft into medium tohigh orbit.

The aircraft, dubbed a"shuttle bus in space", cansend one or more space-craft into different orbits inspace.

China launched the firstBDS satellite in 2000. TheBDS began providingpositioning, navigation,timing and short messageservices to civilian users inChina and surroundingareas in the Asia-Pacific inDecember 2012.

The system has beengradually put into use insectors like transportation,weather forecasting,marine fishing, forestryand telecommunication.

The new satellite wasdeveloped by the ShanghaiEngineering Centre forMicrosatellites, a non-profit organisation estab-lished by the ChineseAcademy of Sciences andthe Shanghai municipalgovernment.

China Launches NewBeiDou Navigation Satellite

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DUBAI, MARCH 31A lacklustre World Cup performance

notwithstanding, Virat Kohli remained thehighest-placed Indian batsman at fourtheven as Shikhar Dhawan rose a rung tosixth in the latest ICC ODI rankingsissued today.

Apart from Kohli and Dhawan,Indian skipper Mahendra SinghDhoni is the other Indian batsman tobe inside the top-10, hanging on tothe eighth spot.

Opener Rohit Sharma made sig-nificant strides up the order ashe jumped seven places tobe joint 12th withAustralian swashbuck-ler Steve Smith andPakistan's Misbah-ul-Haq. Rohitscored 330 runs inthe tournament.

A u s t r a l i aretained the ODIShield and wonUSD 175,000after finishing asthe number-oneranked side on theApril 1 cut-offdate. India collectedUSD 75,000 for finish-ing second in the teamrankings.

Among the bowlers,Australia's MitchellStarc has surged to thetop for the first time inhis career following astellar performance in theWorld Cup that alsofetched him the player ofthe tournament award.

The 25-year-old left-armfast bowler finished ICC's pinnacle 50-over tournament as joint-leading wicket-taker with New Zealand's Trent Boult (22wickets), including two for 20 in eightovers in the final against New Zealand.

This performance has helped Starc torise two places and claim the number-one

position for the first time.Starc had entered World Cup in seventh

position and during the course of the tour-nament, he gained 147 rat-

ings points. Hecur-

rentlysits on783 rat-i n g

p o i n t s ,w h i c h

is also

his career-best ratingand wasach i evedduring thef i n a lplayed infront ofo v e r

93,000 spectators.Australia's James Faulkner, who was

adjudged the player of the final, has alsomade an upward movement along withIndia's Umesh Yadav.

Yadav has broken into the top 20 for thefirst time in his career following his 15

wickets in the series, including four for 72in the semi-final against Australia. Yadavhas rocketed 16 places to join England's

James Tredwell in 18th position.In the rank-

ings forO D Ibats-

men, South Africa captain AB de Villierscontinued to lead the charts and has alsobecome the 11th batsman overall, and sec-ond South African after Hashim Amla, tobreak the 900-point mark. In rankingterms, 900 points marks out a player astruly great.

De Villiers achieved the milestone dur-ing the semi-final against New Zealandwhen he scored 65 not out. He is noweighth on the list behind Viv Richards(935), Zaheer Abbas (931), Greg Chappell(921), David Gower (919), Dean Jones(918), Javed Miandad (910) and BrianLara (908). Desmond Haynes (900) com-pletes the tally of 11 batsmen.

There is no change in the top five battersbut the biggest movers in the latest rank-ings are Smith and Martin Guptill, whowere yesterday named in the Team of theWorld Cup.

Smith finished the series with 402runs with one century and four half-

centuries, while Guptill belted thehighest World Cup individualscore to date while scoring 237not out on the way to finishingas the leading run-getter with547 runs. As a result, Smith has

jumped 19 places to a career-high 12th position, while Guptillhas finished in 22nd place afterrising 12 places.

The curtain fell on the ODIcareers of Michael Clarke,Brendan Taylor, Misbah-ul-Haq,Kumar Sangakkara and MahelaJayawardene. Clarke finishedhis career in 29th spot (up bythree places), Taylor 20th(down by four places), Misbahin 12th (up by one place),Sangakkara (second) andJayawardene 34th (down byfive places).In the Reliance ICC Player

Rankings for ODI all-rounders,Tillakaratne Dilshan has

retained his top spot, followedby Shakib Al Hasan ofBangladesh. The only change

in the top 10 was the entry of SouthAfrica's JP Duminy, who has moved upfour places to ninth spot.

Pakistan's Shahid Afridi has signed offon his ODI career as sixth ranked all-rounder. In the batting chart, he was 44thwhile 30th in the bowling table.

Virat Kohli steady at 4th, ShikharDhawan rises to 6th in ICC rankings

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31A day after his team

ended up being the run-ners-up in ICC CricketWorld Cup 2015, Kiwi leg-end Daniel Vettoriannounced his retirementfrom international cricket.

Soon after arriving at theAuckland Airport alongwith his team mates to acrowd of around 500 sup-porters, the southpaw toldmedia that the final of theCricket World Cup was hislast game representingBlack Caps.

The news was confirmedby New Zealand's officialaccount on Twitter.

In his 18-year-old career,the 36-year-old played 113tests and 295 ODIs.

ICC also confirmed the

news on Twitter.Even though New

Zealand lost to Aussies inthe final of cricket'sbiggest extravaganza, thatdidn't stop the Kiwi sup-porters from turning out inbig numbers to welcometheir World Cupheroes.

Led by BrendonMcCullum, New Zealandwon the hearts of millionsof cricket fans across theworld who hailed theirsportsmanship and qualityplay during the tourna-ment.

They were unbeaten inthe tournament till thefinal, where they suffered acrushing defeat against theAussies, who went on toclaim their fifth title.

MIAMI , MARCH 31World number one Serena

Williams dominated Russia`sSvetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-3 onMonday, advancing to the WTA andATP Miami Open quarter-finals withher 15th consecutive victory at theevent.

Top seed Williams joined her sisterVenus is reaching the quarter-finalsof the tournmament, which theAmerican siblings have won a com-bined total of 10 times.

Serena Williams seeks her eighthMiami title and took a key step tothat goal by dispatching 2006 Miamichampion Kuznetsova in 73 min-utes, Williams winning for theeighth time in their 10 career meet-ings.

Williams improved her Miamirecord to 70-7 as she seeks a thirdconsecutive trophy at Crandon Park.Williams (2002-2004) and SteffiGraf (1994-1996) are the only twowomen to earn consecutive hat-tricks at the hardcourt event.

SerenaWilliamsripsSvetlanaKuznetsova to reachquarter-finals

MIAMI, MARCH 31Defending champion Novak

Djokovic defeated Belgium`s SteveDarcis 6-0 7-5 on Monday to powerinto the last 16 of the Miami Openalong with Japan`s Kei Nishikori andCanada`s Milos Raonic.

The Serbian world number one,who just like last year won at IndianWells before heading to SouthFlorida, will face AlexandrDolgopolov, a 7-5 6-4 winner overBrazilian Thomaz Bellucci, in thefourth round.

Djokovic, who is seeking a fifthwin at Miami, wrapped up a one-sided first set in 26 minutes but faceda sterner test in the second.

Darcis broke to go ahead 5-4 butafter the Serb levelled up the set, hebroke back and held on to secure thematch.

Fourth-seed Nishikori had evenless trouble as he crushed Serbia`sViktor Troicki 6-2 6-2 in 63 minutes.

Troicki, who needed medical treat-ment to his left side during the match,struggled to cope with Nishikori

throughout with the 25-year-old con-verting five of his six break points.

"I was almost perfect on the court.It is so exciting that I am playing wellhere," said Nishikori. "Maybe he washurting a little bit but I was still put-ting him under pressure with myreturn."

Raonic also moved into the fourthround after a hard-earned 6-1 5-7 7-6(3) win over French 31st seed JeremyChardy.

Raonic was broken when serving

for the match at 5-4 in the second andthen Chardy went on to force thethird set.

"He started playing more freely andI sort of went the other way," saidRaonic. "He played well in the sec-ond set and I think he played betterthan I did in the third."

Belgian 18th seed David Goffinbeat Poland`s Jerzy Janowicz 6-4 6-3while Spain`s David Ferrer, the sixthseed, got past Czech Lukas Rosol 6-47-5.

Novak Djokovic, Kei Nishikori, MilosRaonic reach last 16 in Miami Open

Daniel Vettori announcesretirement frominternational cricket

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31A "versatile" and

"speedy" Gurbaj Singhwill be key to Indian hock-ey team's success in theupcoming 24th SultanAzlan Shah Cup to be heldin Ipoh, Malaysia, feels thenational side's vice-captainand goalkeeper P RSreejesh.

Sreejesh was all praisefor Gurbaj's ability to playin the defence as well asupfront.

"He (Gurbaj) is growingwith every game. I wasamazed to see him in therecent Hockey IndiaLeague. The way hedefended and counter-attacked was amazing.

His speed is the keywhich helps him to go for-ward and come back to thedefence line in a short spanof time. His versatile abili-ty will be a boost to our

defence as well as strikersin the upcoming tourna-

ment," Sreejesh said.He will play along side

Australia, New Zealand,Korea, Canada and hosts

Malaysia in the Azlan ShahCup to be held from April5-12. The Sardar Singh-ledIndian team will open itscampaign against Korea onApril 5.

Talking about their tour-nament opener againstKorea, Sreejesh said: "Wemet Korea last in the semi-final of the Asian Games.Although we had won thatmatch we cannot do awaywith the fact that they are avery competitive andstrong team with a goodline of attack.

"To counter them we willhave to be strong in allaspects of the game, withclear focus on trying tocash in on penalty corners.For me, I know they willtry every possible way tosneak goals and I am up forthe challenge. For sure wewill want to start the tour-nament with a win."

"Versatile" and "speedy" Gurbaj Singh keyfor India in Sultan Azlan Shah: P R Sreejesh DOHA, MARCH 31

British double Olympic and worldchampion Mo Farah will open hisDiamond League campaign in Doha onMay 15, organisers said Tuesday.

Farah will compete in the 3000 metres inthe opening leg of the 14-meet series,marking the 32-year-old`s first appearancein Doha. "I`ve heard so many great thingsabout the track, the crowd and the compe-tition in Doha," said Farah.

"There are always very strong fields inthe distances so this will be a great earlyseason test on the track for me. I`m look-ing forward to a good performance."

Farah won the 5,000 and 10,000 metresdouble at the 2012 London Olympics anda year later became only the second athleteto win both titles at the world champi-onships in Moscow. "We are delighted tohave one of the greatest current Olympicand world champions at our meeting thisyear," said Qatari Athletics Federationpresident Dahlan Al Hamad. "Mo Farah`sfirst appearance in Doha will ensure thatour tradition of early season distance rac-ing excellence will continue this year."

Farah`s rivals in Doha as he gears up forthe world championships in Beijing fromAugust 22-30 include traditional distancerunning powers Ethiopia and Kenya.

Ethopians include Hagos Gebrhiwet, the2013 world silver medallist over 5000m,and Yenew Alamirew, who set the Dohameet 3000m record of 7:27.26 in 2011.

Kenya`s contingent includes IsiahKiplangat Koech, the 2013 world bronzemedallist;Thomas Longosiwa, the 2012Olympic bronze medallist, and CalebNdiku, the reigning world indoor 3000mchampion and last year`s Diamond Racewinner in the 3000/5000m.

The field also includes veteran EdwinSoi, the 2008 Olympic 5000m bronzemedallist; Albert Rop of Bahrain, theAsian record holder in the 3000m indoors(7:38.77) and 5000m (12:51.96) outdoors.

Mo Farah kicks off season in Doha

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Trying too hard to be perfect is boring.As latest beauty diktats go, it's thatupturned nose, the too-wide mouth or a

pointed chin that are worth a second glance.

Stephen Bayley in his book, Ugly: TheAesthetics of Everything, says, "If the wholeworld was beautiful, it would, in fact, beextremely boring. We need a measure of ugli-ness to understand beauty. You can onlyunderstand heaven if you have a concept ofhell." Imperfection is 2014's hottest beautytrend. Stiff plaits and buns, overdone eyes,defined lips, matte skin etc. are out. Make-upartists believe perfection is passe. Dr BreneBrown in her book, The Gifts ofImperfection: Let Go of Who You ThinkYou're Supposed to Be and Embrace WhoYou Are asks readers not to be guided bymedia images of how one's body "should"look like. Says make-up and beauty expertBlossom Kochchar, "There's beauty in beingimperfect. Flaws add to individual personali-ty and attractiveness. If your nose is imper-fect, get a wedge-cut done to take away focusfrom the nose, if you have small lips, high-light them with a lip pencil and make themlook fuller. Don't fret over a small neck orsmall eyes, and if you have a scar, it might beyour signature." Make-up artist Bharat ofBharat & Dorris says, "Don't look too pretty,too perfect or too made up. There's a certaindullness to perfection. Don't cover all yourwrinkles or grey hair. Too much make-upcompromises on freshness. Even men whowear make-up lose their manliness trying tobe too perfect."

Relaxed lookA good make-up artist knows when to stop

and put his brush down. Less is more when itcomes to make-up. There' a word for `imper-fect beauty' - it's called `unprocessed,' whichis about revelling in your own skin. SaysKomal Gulati make-up expert, "Make-up ismore relaxed and real this season. Highlightyour imperfections. Use your fingertips to

smudge the eyeliner or smear the bronzer. Tohide dark circles, neutralise the colour. If theperson has wrinkles along with dark circles,apply a thin coat or use a liquid concealer.Ifyou use a heavy concealer, the lines willaccentuate. Make-up cannot hide lines." Forpigmentation, use a concealer or a full cover-age foundation, which also doubles as a con-cealer. Again, be careful to apply it sparingly

and blending it well. Plastic faces look awful.One has to be very careful around the chinand mouth area; don't try to conceal the pig-mentation, it forms creases around the mouth.Leave it natural. When dealing with puffi-ness, be moderate.

Concealer accentuates bags, apply only tothe inner corner of the eyes. Minimise puffi-ness by using an eye gel.

The clone culureAdds Komal, "Keep your eyes also natural,

both brows don't have to be in perfect sym-metry. Im perfect perfection is more glam-orous and eye-catching than usual perfectbeauty. A beautiful woman should not be tootrendy but a relaxed beauty. Hair must beshiny and conditioned. Don't have perfectlyblow-dried and straightened hair every day.This festive season, keep your hair casualwith a bounce: a simple ponytail, a chignon ora bun you plop atop your head will turn moreheads." The idea is not to end up looking likeeveryone else around you.Imperfection is allabout having your own individuality, and thatis sexier than being desperate to hide flaws.Says hair stylist Sylvie, "Don't cover all yourgreys, allow some to show your natural ageand beauty. People who dye their hair blackactually look older."

Don't cover scarsSays cosmetic surgeon Tejinder Bhatti, "If

you are confident of your scars, there's noneed to hide them. It might become your sig-nature mark telling the world that beauty ismore than skin deep." Says dermatologist DrVarun Katyal, "People come to us feelinguneasy with their moles but I often dissuadethem, as it goes with the symmetry of theirface. Let the mole be, it might be addinguniqueness to your face. Nose surgeries arealso unnecessary most of the time, becausethe patient ends up looking worse. The shapeof your face and nose look much better thenatural way."

Turn imperfection into beauty

Bollywood has formedthe best onscreen pairsfor utmost entertain-

ment of the audience. Butthere is one upcoming pair thatpeople couldn’t have imaginedin their dreams! The super hotSunny Leone has been pairedwith the small screen star RamKapoor. And needless to say,Ram would be seen laying hiseyes on Sunny.

The trailer of ‘Kuch KuchLocha Hai’ is out, thus givinga glimpse of the naughtinessthat is to come. Not only is thefilm blessed with RamKapoor’s fun-packed comedy,it is spiced up by Sunny’s sen-suality too. The two highly

entertaining combos make thefilm a must watch. The trailerstarts with Ram admiringladies while he exercises in apark. Other than giving him-self a good dose of exerciseearly morning, this 45 year oldGujarati likes to have an eyefull of some beauty as well.Introducing himself as ParavinPatel, he is seen with hisdahram patni Kokila and theirson who is a wannabe rockstar. Everything is pretty sim-ple in their family, until – ofcourse Sunny Leone! Theactress’s character is calledShanaya. The overwhelmingjoy this beauty brings in Ram’sheart can be very well seen in

the way he says her name.Sunny then enters the show

as a bikini babe and shaking tomusic as she flaunts her dash-ing looks. She is ‘ABollywood Diva’ as the trailersays. Ram is seen pouring herheart over the damsel- whethershe is dressed in traditionalIndian garb or in the mostrevealing swim suit. He gazesat her picture on DVD coverslike a truly crazy fan. But thetwist is yet to come when Ramgets to meet this super star inperson. He goes even morebonkers when Sunny asks himto give a typical father-mother-brother family. And whatmore!

‘Kuch Kuch Locha Hai’ Trailer: SunnyLeone seduces Ram Kapoor

Nargis Fakhri deniesdating the‘ S l u m d o g

Millionaire’ actor DevPatel. The news of theirlove affair surfaced whenNargis was spotted at a aposh eatery in SouthMumbai with Dev.

The eyewitnesses at therestaurant informed thatthe duo seems very happyand comfortable in eachother’s company. Theywere involved in a deep

conversation.

Nargis Fakhri is highlymiffed with the report. Sheclarified that she and Devwas not alone at the restau-rant. They were eight ofthem and were dining inthe suburbs. The picture ofDev and Nargis dining at arestaurant went viral onnet.

Nargis tweeted, "As permedia,apparently a dinnercrowd of 8 at a pizza place

is the same as a "quiet din-ner at a plush sobo hotel."(sic)

Dev Patel, who is cur-rently in Mumbai shootingfor his upcomingRamanujan biopic hasapparently find solace inNargis’s arm. He has bro-ken up with his girlfriendof six years Freida Pintowhile Nargis wasrumoured to be datingUday Chopra and VarunDhawan.

Nargis Fakhri deniesdating Dev Patel

Estranged coupleKalki and Anuragfile for divorce

Bollywood estranged couple KalkiKoechlin and Anurag Kashyap filed fordivorce. The duo has been living sepa-

rately since 2013.Kalki confirmed the news in an interview,

"Right now, I am in a good space. Last yearwas a little bit more of a struggle, as I didn'tknow where I was going. I wasn't sure wheremy relationship with Anurag was going. All ofit was unclear. Now, we are pretty clear that weare not going to be together. We have alreadyapplied for divorce and will get it soon," shesaid in the interview.

The couple announced their separation wayback in 2013 through a joint statement. "Meand kalki are separating, we are taking time offfrom each other to figure things out. We are notdivorcing. We request the media to pleaserespect our privacy and give us our space andnot speculate. Thank you, Kalki and Anurag,"the statement from the couple read.

Anurag Kashyap and Kalki Koechlin fell foreach other on the set of ‘Dev D’ in 2009 andtied the knot in 2011.

On ‘Koffee with Karan’ in 2014, the directorwas all praise for Kalki. After watching theshow the actress said, “He (Anurag) was say-ing what he really felt. I found it very touching.Of course, I was moved by what he said. Wehave a relationship where we can talk to eachother.”

It was reported earlier that Huma Qureshi isthe reason behind the split but Kalki rubbishedthe rumour through a tweet.

This was Anurag Kashyap’s second mar-riage. He was previously married to Aarti Bajajand has a daughter.

When it comes to AmitabhBachchan, the first thingthat pops into mind is

Shenshah of Bollywood. Butunlike any other king, this kingrules with multiple thrones! It isnot just Bollywood that he rules-Amitabh is officially the ruler ofsocial networking sites.

The actor never fails to share thesmallest aspects of his life with hisfollowers. And this very nature iswhat has won him a whoppingnumber of followers- be itFacebook, Twitter or his blog.Amitabh is on cloud number ninelooking at his endless list of fol-lowers. He took to Twitter on 30thMarch and expressed immensepleasure on having so many fans.He tweeted – “OKAAAYYY ! 14million on twitter !! 20 million onFB ... 3 million on Blog .. 40 MIL-LION here I COME !!!! BAD-DDOOOOMMBA !!!!”

Seeing such a huge fan follow-ing makes one wonder, what is itthat makes the veteran actor num-ber one? It is no doubt hisunmatched talent, but most impor-tantly it is his stellar personalitythat makes him the favorite of mil-

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While most of the celebs share

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He does a lot more than simply

revealing what is going on his life,like other celebs do to enhancetheir filmdom. He shares his veryspecial moments with the worldand of course his brilliantthoughts- that too in a very specialway that no one but Amitabh cando.

He makes sure to tweet the best– whether it is the most seriousissues of our country or the mostjoyous occasions. He recentlycongratulated Nehwal, “SAINANEHWAL becomes first Indianwoman shuttler(badminton) to beWorld No 1 ! Saina you make usall INDIANS so proud !! NAR-ISHAKTI” But what is mostunique in the actor is his personalthoughts that come out beautifullywhen he shares it in public –“’Woman's Day’ .. ?? A single daydedicated to women? But awoman dedicates every day of herlife !!!” Posting the most memo-rable photos is yet another thingthe actor likes.

He once tweeted, “The love ofthe daughter is always prime for aFather ..” accompanied by a love-ly picture of himself with daughterShweta. With such wonderful per-sonality, Amitabh’s fan followingis only to boost with time.

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