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Did Sentinelese tribes drop their hostility?Friendly gesture of Sentinelese

Tribes, a serious matter of concern

Port Blair, May 02: It hasbeen reported that during therecent expedition of a teamof experts and senior officialsof Andaman and NicobarAdministration to theSentinelese Island, the teamhad thrown coconuts in sea,which were collected by theSentinelese tribes. During theentire expedition they man-aged to reach very close tothe Island and they recordedthat the tribes were showingfriendly gestures and werenot hostile at all, unlike thecommon beliefs.

Though it was a goodsign for the team but for thesafety of the tribes this is dan-gerous. The Tribes were till

now safe because they werehostile and they were protect-ing their land. If the tribes droptheir hostility then tomorrowthey will have to face intru-sion threat from poachers ormay be pirates.

Talking to AndamanSheekha, the Secretary ofTribal Welfare Mr. ThevaNeethi Dhas recently ac-cepted that lack of hostility isnot a good sign for the safetyof the tribes in the lonely Is-land.

Till now there was noneed to protect the shores ofSentinel Island but after thisreport the Administration mustmake sure that Coast Guardand Naval Ships patrol aroundthe Island more often to pro-tect the tribes from Poachersattacks. There is also need to

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conduct aerial survey and cir- cumnavigation of the Islands

Advisory for Islandersvisiting Mainland

Port Blair, May 02: TheChairperson, MunicipalCouncil, Mr. K Ganeshanhas urged the Gener alPublic , especially thosewho are proceeding tomainland or inter islandsd u r i ng t he s c h oo lvacation period, to keepthe water tap connectionsof t he ir q ua r t er s an dho us es a s we l l a soverhead tanks closed to

avoid wastage of drinkingwater.

“ I n c a seoverflowing, wastage ofwater is noticed, the watertap connect ion t o suchhouses and quarters willbe disconnected withoutan y no t i c e a nd t heoccupant has to get a re-connection by completingall the codal formalities,”a release added.

Andaman Girl Commits Suicideinside College Hostel at Andhra Pradesh

Port Blair, May 02: In a verysad incident a girl from Dairy

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Farm area, studying in SriVenkateshwara College ofEngineering and Technology(SVCET) Chittoor, AndhraPradesh committed suicide

inside her room of SriLakshmi International Girls’Hostel. According to reports,Sadhna (name Changed), 4th

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BJP's Giriraj Singh gets relieffrom HC in case of hate speeches

RANCHI: Jharkhand highcourt on Friday quashed thearrest warrants issued by aBokaro court against BJPleader Giriraj Singh who isaccused of making hatespeech during poll meetings.

Justice R R Prasadquashed the arrest warrantsafter the former Bihar minis-ter moved the court follow-ing rejection of his anticipa-tory bail petition by BokaroDistrict and Sessions Court.

Bokaro sub-divi-sional judicial magistrate hadissued non-bailable arrestwarrant on April 23.

Singh has been

charged with delivering hatespeech saying those who op-posed BJP's prime ministerialcandidate Narendra Modiwould have to find a place inPakistan at a rally in Harlapolice station area in Bokaroon April 18.

He also faced a sec-ond FIR in Deogarh on thesame charges. The Deogarhdistrict and sessions courtstayed the arrest of Singh tillMay 3.

On April 25, Singhgot an anticipatory bail byPatna District and SessionsJudge Birendra Kumar on anFIR on the same charge.

Commission to probe snoopgate tobe in place before counting day: Govt

SHIMLA/NEW DELHI: A ju-dicial commission to probe'snoopgate' allegedly involvingGujarat chief ministerNarendra Modi will be in placebefore the Lok Sabha poll pro-cess comes to an end on May16, the government assertedon Friday rejecting questionsraised by the BJP over it.

The assertion byhome minister SushilkumarShinde and law minister KapilSibal evoked a sharp reactionfrom BJP which said it reflects"arrogance" of UPA which, heclaimed, is being voted out ofpower soon.The governmenthad decided four months backto set up the inquiry commis-sion but the process has gotdelayed reportedly because ofits inability to zero in on a

judge."The Cabinet had takenthe decision to appoint a Com-mission of Inquiry to probe theincident of snooping on awoman in Gujarat. We willsoon appoint thejudge....before May 16,"Shinde told a press conferencein Shimla.The case involvessnooping of a woman by theGujarat authorities allegedly atthe behest of Modi.Shinde wasasked whether the appointmentof a judge in the midst of LokSabha elections would notamount to violation of theModel Code of Conduct."It willnot as the decision had beentaken by the Union Cabinetmuch before the model codeof conduct came into force,"he said.The Union Cabinet haddecided on December 26, 2013

to set up a Judicial Commis-sion of Inquiry to probecharges of spying on a womanin 2009, triggering a politicalrow."I am worried. The waythe chief minister of Gujarathad snooped into the life of awoman, I am really worriedwhat will happen to the womenof the country if he becomes thePrime Minister," Shinde said.InNew Delhi, law minister KapilSibal also said that a judge willbe appointed by March 16.Herubbished the contention by BJPleader Arun Jaitley that he wouldbe "surprised" if there is a judgewho has "agreed to 'lend' him-self to the UPA".BJP leaderSubramanian Swamy said ECwould be approached if the an-nouncement is made during thepolls.

Akhilesh Yadav calls Modi 'biggestliar', hits back over 'chest' remark

BAHRAICH (UP): UttarPradesh chief ministerAkhilesh Yadav on Friday hitback at Narendra Modi for the"56-inch chest" remark allud-ing to his father and SPsupremo Mulayam Singh, say-ing the BJP prime ministerialcandidate is the "biggest liar"with a "56-inch belly".

"He is the biggest liar inthe world. His campaign isbased on lies.. he does not havea 56-inch chest but a 56-inchbelly," Yadav said while ad-dressing an election rally atKaiserganj.

"In politics what isneeded is a big heart not a bigchest," he added.

Modi while addressing arally in Gorakhpur on January23 had said, "Netaji(Mulayam), do you know themeaning of converting UP toGujarat? It means 24-hourelectricity in every village andstreet. You cannot do it. It re-quires 56-inch chest".

Yadav said that theGujarat model propagated and

highlighted by Modi was "noth-ing but a lie", adding that "its amodel of dividing India byRSS, VHP a nd B a j r a ngDal".

Attacking BSP, Yadavsaid that previous govern-ment had spent thousandsof crores in constructionof pa rks and memor ia lsand left losses to the tune

of Rs 35 thousand croresto the state exchequer.

" I used to ca l l her'buaj i ' (paternal aunty) .When people older than mecall her behenji, I call herbuaji", he said.Yadav reit-erated that Third Front willform the next governmentat the Centre and MulayamSingh Yadav will lead it.

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Port Blair, May 02: A team ofseven BJP leaders from A&NIsland are proceeding toVaranasi, Uttar Pradesh tooffer their voluntary service inelectioneering in favor of Mr.Narendra Modi, PM Candi-date, Bharatiya Janata Party.

The team will renderservice at Varanasi for 5 daysstarting from 5th of May andthe team will return back toIsland on 11th May.

The members of theBJP team visiting Varanasi in-clude Mr. R Mohan , Ex- StatePresident, Smti Sheela Singh,State Secretary and PBMC

Councilor , Ward 15, Mr. OmPrakash Singh , Convener ,BJP Traders Cell, Mr. C HBabu, State Coordinator,Statue of Liberty & BJP Pro-tocol officer, Mr. SP Ellango ,

Chairman , Election MediaCommittee , Shri SShanmuganathan , Convener ,IT Cell, BJP, A&N Island , Mr.Bharat Sharma , PanchayatSamity Member, Wandoor.

BJP leaders leaving for Varanasi

CHENNAI: A day after twinblasts at the Central RailwayStation here left one persondead, a spate of hoax bombthreat calls kept the city po-lice on their toes, even as theywarned of strict action againstthose spreading rumours.

A prominent cityshopping mall, an educationalinstitution and a suburban rail-

way station received bombthreat calls, prompting secu-rity officials to launch full-scale search of the respec-tive premises, police said.

However, all thesecalls turned out to be hoax,city police commissioner J KTripathy said.Strongly con-demning such rumours, hewarned of strict action

against anybody spreadingsuch falsehoods.Meanwhile,police were on the lookout forthose who had made the hoaxbomb threat calls.A 24-year-old techie from AndhraPradesh was killed and 14persons were injured in twinblasts in two coaches of theBangalore-Guwahati Expresslast night.

Chennai Blasts: Hoax bomb threatcalls keep police on their toes

Priyanka has pushedRahul 'out of the frame':

Jaitley's dig at the GandhisNEW DELHI: BJP leaderArun Jaitley on Friday took asnipe at Priyanka Gandhi say-ing by using somewhat impo-lite language againstNarendra Modi every day shehas succeeded in "robbing herbrother from being in thelimelight" and pushed him "outof the frame".

"Ostensibly intendedto attack Narendra Modi dailyin somewhat impolite lan-guage, the sister has suc-ceeded in robbing the brotherfrom being in the limelight.Attack Modi was the strategybut 'dilute Rahul' is the con-sequence...

"Having pushed thebrother out of the frame, thesister has to realize that thereis much more in politics andthe country than only 'ourfamily'," Jaitley said in anarticle.The BJP leader alsocharged the Congress withshowing desperation, sayingthe likelihood of a BJP-NDAgovernment at the Centre

headed by Narendra Modi hasresulted in courtesies and ra-tionality slipping out of theCongress's campaign.

Jaitley also urged hisown partymen and supportersto concentrate only on threeissues - development, leader-ship and stability.

"Visibly losing thevote of India the Congresscreated an impression that theheart and idea of India are stilla Congress property. The ar-gument did not cut much ice.

"The eclipse ofRahul Gandhi as the defactoprime ministerial candidate ofCongress is virtually com-plete.

When he was notseen as being able to deliver,the mother stepped in. Thefocus has now shifted to thesister," he said.

?Jaitley said there isa streak of "misguided ag-gression" in the Congress, asit was trying to leave the vot-ers more and more confused.

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EDITORIAL.....Seventh round of Lok Sabha

polls may throw up interesting resultsWith 89 seats up for grabs, theseventh round of Lok Sabhapolls featured high-profilecandidates cutting across partylines. While both BJP's PMcandidate Narendra Modi(Vadodara) and Cong-resspresident Sonia Gandhi (RaeBareli) are expected to wintheir seats comfortably, amuch closer result is expectedin Amritsar where BJP's ArunJaitley is pitted againstCongress's Amarinder Singh.Similarly, a tricky three-waytussle in Lucknow featuringBJP president Rajnath Singh,Congress's Rita Bahuguna andAAP's Jaaved Jaaferi couldspring a surprise even thoughRajnath appears to have theupper hand. Meanwhile, BJPveterans L K Advani(Gandhinagar) and MurliManohar Joshi (Kanpur) areexpected to ride to victory onthe Modi wave.

That said, the contestin Punjab may buck nationaltrends and serve up googlies.The ruling SAD-BJP combineis facing stiff anti-incum-bency at the state level. Con-tributing to this is the drugmenace in Punjab, with theAkali-led state governmentbeing ineffectual in curbingthe problem.

This not only givesCongress a chance to gainsome ground but also leavesroom for AAP to put up a goodperformance. Admittedly,

AAP was slow off the blockand fielded candidates withlinks to the erstwhileKhalistan movement. How-ever, there are signs that theelectorate is getting frustratedwith Punjab`s bipolar politics,creating scope for AAP tomake serious inroads.

The other interestingbattle being waged is inTelangana where Lok Sabhaelections and polls to the yetto be created state assemblytook place simultaneously.Congress's failure to stitch upa pre-poll alliance with TRShad dampened its hopes of get-ting a good harvest of seatsfrom the newly created 29thstate of the republic. But withthe possibility of a hung as-sembly looming, the two par-ties may be forced to joinhands. That in turn should fa-cilitate a post-poll understand-ing between Congress and TRSat the national level.

While Punjab andTelangana may turn out to bebright spots for Congressfrom the seventh round ofpolling, BJP is looking for aclean sweep in Gujarat andcentral UP. Although BJP'sdominance in the Gujarat as-sembly hasn't exactly trans-lated into the same kind ofdominance when it comes toLok Sabha seats from the state,Modi's pitch for PM shouldgalvanise Gujarat's electoratein favour of the saffron party.



Extreme wet and dry spells ups riskof flooding, drought in central India

Too much of something is in-deed bad. Such is in the caseof weather patterns in cen-tral India, where research-ers found out that there hasbeen a significant change inthe wet and dry seasons ofthe region, a huge jump fromthe patterns recorded in thelast 60 years.

A study by a groupof researchers in StanfordUniversity found out that thelikely cause for the fluctua-tions in the spells are thechanges in the winds andmoisture level of the atmo-sphere, but it is still too soonto blame climate change forit.

"There are manypredictions that globalwarming should causeheavier downpours andmore frequent dry spells,"said Noah Diffenbaugh, se-nior author of the study."That's what we've foundhere, but India is a complexregion, so we want to besure before we point the fin-ger at global warming or anyother cause."

The study centeredon one of the most impor-tant weather systems in theworld that brings the Indiansubcontinent 85 percent ofits rainfall every year - theSouth Asia monsoon. Indiais one of the most populouscountries on Earth and it ishighly dependent on its ag-riculture sector. Hence, In-dia is also heavily reliant on

the monsoon. But what hap-pens if they receive toomuch of the extremes?

In the months whencrops are usually grown,drought can result to a worstcase scenario of crop fail-ure. On the other hand, shortbut intense heavy rain fallsmay result in anotherMaharashtra and Gujaratfloods of 2005, leaving thou-sands of bodies in theirwake.

In the study, if therehas been three or more suc-cessive days that haverained heavily or lowly, theyare to be considered as wetand dry spells in that order.

With data from theIndian Meteorological De-partment and other sources,the team evaluated rain fallsbetween two specific peri-ods: from 1951 to 1980 andfrom 1981 to 2011, thenchose the peak months of

July and August.While the technique

used in gathering and ana-lyzing data was deemed"off-the-shelf" and "classi-cal" as it employs observa-tions on spatial and tempo-ral relationships, the findingssupported accounts from In-dian farmers who have per-sonally felt the changes overthe years."My grandfathergrew up in a village that isprimarily dependent on ag-riculture, and the farmersthat live there say that themonsoon rainfall pattern haschanged," lead author of thestudy Deepti Singh, whosefamily resides in a regionusually hit by the monsoon,shared. "They've noticedover the last decade thatrainfall occurs in heavybursts and comes earlier inthe monsoon season, andthat the dry spells lastlonger."


40 students fall ill aftereating midday meal in Bihar

PATNA: At least 40 childrenfell ill on Friday after havingtheir midday meal at a gov-ernment school in Bihar'sRohtas district, officials said.The students are now out ofdanger.

The children com-plained of uneasiness afterthe meals at Katar MiddleSchool, and were admitted ata hospital, a district officialsaid.

"All the children arenow safe," he said. "All ofthem, except two, were dis-charged after preliminary

treatment at the hospital," headded.

Samples of the mealhave been collected by policefor forensic examination.

According to offi-cials, some children said a liz-ard was found in the middaymeal served to them, whichclaim "may be true or arumour". However, the doc-tors who examined the chil-dren did not find any sign ofpoison in their bodies.

Last month, a lizardwas found in the midday mealserved in Sheohar district and

a dead rat was found in themidday meal served to stu-dents of a primary school inPatna.Last July, 23 childrenlost their lives after they con-sumed the mid-day mealcooked in contaminated oil atthe government primaryschool in DharmasatiGandawan village of Sarandistrict.

The midday mealscheme is being run in 72,000schools across Bihar to serveday meals to 16 million stu-dents so that they continueschooling.

Choice not limited to UPA or NDA only, says TRSHYDERABAD: TelanganaRashtra Samiti on Friday saidthe choice for it is not essen-tially limited to NDA andUPA government after theelections, indicating that itmay sail with the third fronteven as it kept its optionsopen.

"We do see the pos-sibility of us winning a signifi-cant number of Lok Sabhaseats as well which shouldallow us to play a key role inDelhi (formation of govern-ment)," party leader and MLAK T Rama Rao, son of TRS

supremo K ChandrasekharRao, told PTI here.

Asked if the TRSwould support UPA or NDA,KTR, as he is popularlyknown, said he does not thinkit's a bipolar country.

"I don't see throughthe prism of bipolar politicalsystem. I don't think thechoice is essentially betweenthe two coalitions that youmentioned. I don't think thechoice is only between UPAand NDA," he said.

Realignment and lotof changes would happen

post-poll, he said."No matter what hap-

pens, TRS will play a crucialrole (in the formation of thegovernment)," he claimed.

On whether TRS isbetting on third front to cometo power, KTR said: "I am notbetting on third front or fourthfront. Anything could happen.We have our options open.Whatever is in the interest ofTelangana, definitely we willdo that."

TRS, which fought inall the 119 Assembly and 17Lok Sabha constituencies in

Telangana on its own, seemedextremely upset with the BJPfor forging an electoral alli-ance with TDP in Telanganaand Seemandhra.

"Narendra Modihas shot himself in the footin Andhra Pradesh by align-

ing with a man called (N)Chandrababu Naidu, who isa discredited leader. BJPand Narendra Modi havecommitted suicide inAndhra Pradesh. OnlyLord Rama can save them,"KTR said.

year B-Tech, CIVILEngineering, committedsuicide by hanging herselfwith the ceiling on April 30at evening hours but her bodywas found only on the nextday. According to

unconfirmed report the bodywas shifted to hospital aftera gap of more than 24 hours,which shows irresponsibilityof the college authorities.

The reason behindthis suicide is not yet known

and the college authoritiesseem to be hiding the newsfrom media. The father of thegirl today reached theChittoor for claiming the bodyand conducting last rites, itis learnt.

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Coal scam: CBI startssecond round of Parakh's questioning

NEW DELHI: CBI on Fridaystarted second round of ques-tioning of former coal secre-tary PC Parakh in connectionwith alleged irregularities inallocation of Talabira-II coalblock to Hindalco in 2005.

Parakh was exam-ined for nearly eight hoursyesterday during which hewas given number of queriesrelating to allocation processand reasons for changing hisscreening committee decisionwhich had rejected Hindalco'sapplication. After examina-tion, when he was askedwhether he was satisfied withthe questioning process, as hehad alleged in his book thaton previous instances inspec-tor-level officers with no ex-perience of policy formula-

tions were involved in his ex-amination, Parakh had said hewas satisfied. "The wholeidea of the questioning is tounderstand. I am in the pro-cess of making them under-stand. They have a point ofview. I am trying to put mypoint of view," he had said.

Parakh was ques-tioned by a team led by a su-perintendent of police (SP)level officer, which was moni-tored by a joint director andhe was given access to alldocuments related to thecase, sources said.

69-year-old Parakh,who retired as coal secretaryin December 2005, has beenaccused in a CBI FIR ofabusing his official position togrant a coal block to

Hindalco, an Aditya BirlaGroup company. CBI had lastyear registered a case againstParakh, Birla and unnamedofficials of Hindalco and thecoal ministry. Birla andHindalco have denied allega-tions of irregularities.

The agency has al-leged that during 2005, thesepersons had entered into acriminal conspiracy and thethen public servant (Parakh)abused his position andshowed undue favour to theOdisha-based industry in al-location of Talabira II andTalabira III coal blocks.

CBI has also quizzedformer minister of state forcoal Dasari Narayan Rao andthe Prime Minister's advisorTKA Nair in the case.

Akash missile successfullytest fired for second day in a row

BALASORE: In a perfectlaunch of the same mis-sile for second day in arow, India on Friday suc-cessfully test fired indig-enously-developed sur-face-to-air Akash missileas part of a user trialfrom the Integrated TestRange (ITR) at Chandipurin Odisha.

The missile with astrike range of 25 km andcapability to carry war-head of 60 kg, was testfired for the second con-secutive day at about2.28pm from launchcomplex-3 of the ITR,defence sources said.

Akash, whichaimed at a para-barrel tar-get during the trial, is amedium range surface-to-air anti-aircraft de-

fence system developedby the Defence Researchand DevelopmentOrganisation (DRDO) aspart of the IntegratedGuided Missile Develop-ment Programme.

Two Akash mis-siles were successfullytest fired from the samebase on April 26 whileanother such missile alsohit the target yesterday, anofficial said addingtoday's test fire was alsoanother success story.

Compared withAmerican MIM-104 Pa-triot surface-to-air mis-sile system, Akash hasthe capability toneutralise aerial targetslike fighter jets, cruisemissiles and air-to-sur-face missiles.

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