NEW DELHIPetrol in India costs

more than neighbouringPakistan and Sri Lanka butis cheaper than Bangladeshand Nepal, Oil MinisterDharmendra Pradhan saidon Wednesday.

Petrol price of Rs 63.16per litre in Delhi is morethan Rs 44.05 per litre rateof the fuel in Pakistan andRs 54.75 in Sri Lanka.However, it is cheaper thanRs 76.97 per litre price inBangladesh and Rs 68.13 alitre in Nepal.

Diesel at Rs 49.57 perlitre in Delhi is howevercheaper than all neigh-bouring nations except SriLanka, where it costs Rs44.29 for a litre, he said in

a written reply to a ques-tion in Rajya Sabha.

A litre of diesel inPakistan costs Rs 51.15,Rs 54.27 in Bangladeshand Rs 54.27 in Nepal.

Nepal sources all its autofuel needs from India.

India had on four occa-sions between November2014 and January 2015raised excise duty onpetrol and diesel to takeaway gains coming by wayof global oil prices dippingto six-year low.

Cumulatively, exciseduty on petrol was hikedby Rs 7.75 per litre andthat on diesel by Rs 6.50 alitre. Post these duty hikes,retail price of petrol in

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NEW DELHIThe government on

Wednesday gave its nod tobuilding a second indigenousaircraft carrier, defence min-istry sources said.

In a meeting of DefenceAcquisition Council (DAC)

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Govt gives nod to newaircraft carrier, BrahMosmissiles for six ships

BEIJINGPrime Minister Narendra

Modi will kick off his keyChina visit on Thursday fromXian, the ancient city steeped inChinese and Buddhist culture,offering a perfect backdrop for

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Buddhism providesrich backdrop for keyModi-Xi summit

NEW DELHIThe Rajya Sabha today

named 10 members, includingDigvijaya Singh of theCongress and the TrinamoolCongress' Derek O'Brien, to theJoint Committee that will lookinto the controversial Land

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These 30 Law - MakersWill ReviewControversial Land Bill

KOLKATATerming his joining the BJP a

'mistake', former TrinamoolCongress or TMC ministerManjul Krishna Thakur todayrequested West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee toforgive him and take him backinto the party.

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Joining BJP was a Mistake, Says FormerTrinamool Congress Leader

NEW DELHIUnion Minister of

Parliamentary Affairs MVenkaiah Naidu on Wednesdaylauded the functioning of theParliament during the last oneyear stating that both theHouses of Parliament haveturned in record performance interms of number of sittings and transaction of

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Parliament set new records duringlast one year, says Venkaiah Naidu

AHMEDABADGujarat Chief Minister

Anandiben Patel will be a partof the 26-member delegation ofministers, officials and industri-alists that will visit China withPM Modi. This will be her firstforeign trip as a head of state.

The visit of the ChiefMinister, officials said, is a fol-

low up of the Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit tothe state in September last year, where breaking

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Gujarat Chief Minister toAccompany PM Modi on China Visit

NEW DELHIThe term 'black money' is

racist and should be changed,according to members of theTrinamool Congress and theCommunist Party of India(Marxist) or CPI(M) who

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'Black Money is Racist,Call it Dirty Money',Say Lawmakers

KOLKATATerming his joining the BJP a

'mistake', former TrinamoolCongress or TMC ministerManjul Krishna Thakur todayrequested West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee toforgive him and take him backinto the party.

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Soft Diplomacy OverYoga on PM Modi'sChina Visit

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CHANDIGARHThe BJP government in

Haryana says it's about todeliver on one of themain promises of itselection campaign - athorough investigationinto the land deals thatallegedly deliveredwindfall gains for RobertVadra, the son-in-law ofCongress chief SoniaGandhi.

"We have come acrossdocuments, there are sev-eral proofs of wrong-doings during the 10-year Congress rule. Weare soon going to handover the entire matter to acommission headed by a

retired judge of theSupreme Court,' saidRam Bilas Sharma, asenior minister in theHaryana government.

Sources say that ChiefMinister Manohar Lal

Khattar is consultingwith central party leadersabout the scope andterms of the inquiry intoMr Vadra's real estatedeals in Haryana, where

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Petrol Price in India More thanPakistan, Sri Lanka: Oil Minister

NEW DELHIParliament was on

Wednesday adjournedsine die after sitting formore than 30 days forits budget session.

During the sessionspanning over twomonths with a month'sbreak in between, theLok Sabha and theRajya Sabha passed thefinance bills and tookup for considerationmany important billslike the land acquisitionbill and the Goods andServices Tax bill.

The first phase of thebudget session was heldfrom February 23-March 20. In the secondpart, the Lok Sabhafunctioned from April20-May 13.

The Rajya Sabha,which was proroguedafter the first part, metagain on April 23 andsat till May 13. RajyaSabha Chairperson MHamid Ansari said,"The session showed adistinct improvement inarticulation of

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NEW DELHIAhead of Prime

Minister Narendra Modi'svisit to China, the govern-ment today cleared anumber of agreements tobe inked with that coun-try, including expansionof cooperation in tourismsector.

The agreements on min-ing and mineral sector,tourism and anotheragreement to renew anarrangement on tradition-al medicines were clearedin the meeting, chaired byPM Modi, hours before heleaves for his three-nationtour of China, Mongoliaand Korea.

Under the mining andminerals pact, an institu-tional mechanismbetween the two countrieson cooperation in the fieldof mining and mineralsector will be set upwhich will help inexchange of information

on resources, laws andpolicy, encouragement oftransfer of technologiesand promotion of valueaddition, a governmentrelease said.

The Union Cabinet alsocleared a proposal to

extend the tenure of anagreement signed with theChina StateAdministration ofTraditional ChineseMedicine (SATCM) oncooperation in traditionalmedicine.

It had expired onJanuary 13, 2013 on com-pletion of its validity peri-od of 5 years.

It will enhance bilateralcooperation between thetwo countries in the field

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Agreements to be Inked with China GetsGovernment Nod Ahead of PM Modi's Visit

KABULGunmen have stormed a

guesthouse popular with for-eigners in Kabul, Afghan secu-rity officials have said, withseveral people reportedlytrapped inside.

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NEW DELHIThe Union Cabinet on

Wednesday approved anamendment in ChildLabour Act allowing chil-dren above 14 years towork in non-hazardousindustries run by family.

An official statementsaid that while consideringa total prohibition onemployment of child, itwould be prudent to alsokeep in mind the country'ssocial fabric and socio-

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Budget Session of Parliament Ends

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEW DELHIThe Union Cabinet

today approved a mas-sive Rs. 20,000 crorebudget for PrimeMinister NarendraModi's pet 'NamamiGange Programme' forthe next five years,which is a five-foldincrease over the moneyspent in the last threedecades towards theconservation of theriver.

The Union Cabinet,chaired by PM Modi,approved the flagshipprogramme which inte-grates the efforts toclean and protect the

Ganga river in a com-prehensive manner, agovernment statementin Delhi said.

"The programme hasa budget outlay of Rs.20,000 crore for the next

five years," the state-ment said, adding that itmarks "a significantincrease over the expen-diture in the past 30years".

The Centre has

incurred an overallexpenditure of approxi-mately Rs. 4,000 crorevis-a-vis Ganga rejuve-nation since 1985, itadded.

In order to push theefforts for the Ganga'sclean-up, the statementsaid that the Centre willnow take over 100 percent funding of variousactivities/ projects underthis programme.

Marking a major shiftin implementation, thegovernment is focusingon involving people liv-ing on the banks of theriver to attain sustain

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Centre Okays Rs. 20,000-CroreBudget for Namami Ganga Scheme

KARACHIAt least 47 people have

been killed and 20 othersinjured after a passenger buscarrying members of theminority Ismaili Shia com-munity was attacked by gun-men on motorcycles inPakistan's Karachi onWednesday.

Some leaflets found at thesite of the attack claimed ithad been perpetrated by theDaulatul IslamiyyahBaaqiya, an Islamic State-inspired group, reportedAFP.

The statement claims theattack was in retaliation tothe killing of Lal Masjid stu-dents, deaths of terrorists in

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At least 45 killed in Karachi bus attack,Islamic State claims responsibility

BEIJINGPrime Minister Narendra

Modi will begin his Chinavisit tomorrow from Xian,an ancient city steeped inChinese and Buddhist cul-ture.

Before he meets ChinesePresident Xi Jinping to dis-cuss issues that define thefuture of bilateral ties, PMModi will visit the famousTerracotta Warriors muse-um which has a large col-lection of sculpturesdepicting the armies of QinShi Huang, the firstEmperor of China.

He will also visit thefamous Buddhist Dashangtemple in Shaanxi, thehome province ofPresident Xi, who hasrestored its old glory by

making it the headquartersof his mega Silk Roadprojects.

Mr Xi will join PM Modiin the afternoon and thetwo leaders will spendnearly five hours holdingrestricted as well as infor-mal talks. They are expect-ed to discuss contentiousissues like the border dis-pute and China's big pushto rope in reluctant Indiainto the Silk Road projects,specially the Maritime SilkRoad or MSR over whichIndia has strong reserva-tions.

In Xi'an, Mr Modi willbe hosted by Mr Xi, whodeparts from normal proto-col to reciprocate a similargesture by the Indian

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What PM Modi Will Do in AncientXian, His First Stop in China

21st CenturyBelongs to Asia:PM ModiNEW DELHI

When Prime MinisterNarendra Modi arrives inthe ancient city of Xian onThursday at the start of avisit to China, he will bemet by Chinese PresidentXi Jinping, in an unusualdeparture from normalprotocol.

"I am looking forward tothe trip to China... the 21stcentury belongs to Asia, "the PM said to China'sCCTV ahead of his visit.

Top Chinese leadersalmost never travel out-side Beijing to meet seniorforeign guests on bilateralvisits, and President Xi'sappearance in Xian, locat-ed in his home province of

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KARACHIGunmen on motorcycles

boarded a bus and openedfire on commuters inPakistan's volatile southern

city of Karachi onWednesday, killing at least43, police said, in the latestattack directed against

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CBI registers PE in Delhi air-port land dealNEW DELHI

The alleged irregularities in the grant of land at con-cessional rates for operations to GMR has come underthe scanner of the CBI.

The agency has registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE)against unknown officials of Civil Aviation Ministry,Airport Authority of India (AAI), Delhi InternationalAirports Limited (DIAL) and GMR, official sourcessaid.

Investigations have begun, they said.The PE pertains to leasing of nearly 200 acres of land

belonging to AAI to GMR group which has resulted infinancial losses to exchequer, the sources said.

When asked for comments, GMR spokesperson said"We are not aware of any such enquiry. On the contrary,both High court as well as Supreme court have upheldthe award of IGI Airport to the GMR led consortium asearly as in the year 2006."

The alleged misappropriation was brought out in areport of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) for2012-13 which said that DIAL paid an upfront fee of Rs150 crore to the AAI on April 29, 2006 for which thesupporting documents were not provided to the CAG.

The Board of the AAI decided in a meeting on March6, 2009 to lease out an additional 190.19 acres of landfrom the carved out assets to DIAL for aeronautical pur-pose as per the agreement of Operation Managementand Development Agreement (OMDA).

The CAG has alleged that "no negotiations in goodfaith as enjoined" by the OMDA took place and anupfront fee was used as base to calculate the price forthe additional land provided by AAI to DIAL.

This allowed AAI to lease out an additional 190.19acres at a meagre amount of Rs 6.19 crore.

OMDA allows DIAL to use five per cent of demisedland for commercial exploitation. The current value of9.50 acres (5 per cent of 190.19 acres) as per AERA?scommunication to Audit amounted to Rs 950 crore. Theearning potential for 58 years from 9.50 acres based onDIAL's own projections was Rs 6,475 crore.

The Civil Aviation Ministry had told auditor in March2012 that 190.19 acres of additional land leased out waspurely aeronautical area and cannot be used for any con-struction or commercial purpose.

However, the CAG had questioned why a privateoperator should be levied a fee which is much lowerthan that fixed by Government for its own departments.

Woman hurled abuses, attacked withbrick first: Delhi Traffic policemanNEW DELHI

Two days after a Delhi traffic policeman was accusedof attacking a young mother of three with a brick, anaudio conversation has surfaced on Wednesday whichgives a new twist to the whole episode.

In the audio clip, the woman, Ramandeep Kaur, canbe heard abusing Head Constable Satish Chandra andrefusing to show her scooter's registration papers anddriver license to him.

The audio reveals the head constable initially tellingthe woman that she has jumped the red signal for whichshe has to pay a penalty. When Kaur refused to pay thefine, Chandra warns her that the a 'challan' will beissued to her from court if she doesn't pay the fine.

Following the argument, the lady lost her cool andstarted hurling abuses at the traffic cop calling him aloser (tucchha).

The policeman is also heard shouting at the lady.Meanwhile, Zee Media today spoke to the head con-

stable, who defended himself by saying that his side ofthe story is still unheard.

The traffic cop told Zee Media that the lady used abu-sive language against him and tried to hit him with abrick. He claimed that Kaur was the first to throw astone at him. The cop also alleged that his bike's mud-guard broke and he got hit on his leg when she threwbrick at him.

The Delhi Police head constable was on Monday dis-missed after the news spread. He was booked under rel-atively lighter sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

According to police, a case was registered againstaccused cop Satish Chandra under Section 323 (punish-ment for voluntarily causing hurt), Section 341 (punish-ment for wrongful restraint) and Section 427 (mischiefcausing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) of theIPC. The incident occurred in the posh Golf Link areaof central Delhi, following which he was arrested anddismissed from service as the incident triggered wide-spread outrage.

The matter came to light after a video surfaced onMonday showing a scuffle breaking out between thewoman and Chandra. The mobile clip shows the ladyhurling a stone at the policeman's bike, while the errantcop is seen attacking back the woman with a brick. Thevideo clip clearly showed the lady getting hit on herback. At the time of incident, the women's three daugh-ters including her four-month infant were with her.

Man shot dead by bike-borneassailants in DelhiNEW DELHI

A 35-year-old man was shot and then his throat slit bytwo bike-borne assailants in South-East Delhi's Jaitpurarea here Tuesday evening.

The incident took place around 6.15 pm when the vic-tim, identified as Roshan, was returning to hisFaridabad home.

The victim is said to be the president of Gareeb AadmiParty from ward No. 202 of Badarpur and posters withhis pictures were found on walls in the area.

"When he reached Jaitpur area, two men who wereriding separate motorcycles waylaid him and shot him.Once Roshan collapsed, one of the accused got off hisbike and slit his throat to ensure that he is dead," said apolice officer.

Both the accused managed to flee from the spot andare yet to be identified by the police.

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NEW DELHIUnder attack after

one of its personnelthrew a brick on awoman, Delhi TrafficPolice on Wednesdaysaid that one "blacksheep" should notundermine the effortsand sacrifices of theentire force.

S p e c i a lC o m m i s s i o n e r(Traffic) MukteshChander, who is thehead of Delhi TrafficPolice, posted onFacebook that morethan 44 lakh trafficviolators are prosecut-ed by his force everyyear in an endeavour tomake the city roadssafer.

"One unfortunateand tragic incident byone traffic cop haspotential to wipe outall good work and sac-rifices of police. Everyyear in Delhi more

than 44 lakh trafficviolators are prosecut-ed and the real numberof traffic offendersgoing undetected maybe several times high-er," Chander wrote onthe social networkingwebsite. He mentionedhow several policemenincluding a traffic cophad laid down theirlives in the line of duty,and exhorted peoplenot to forget the sacri-fices made by them.

"Last year, trafficconstable Mana Ramwas killed by a carwhen he was perform-ing his duty. Have weforgotten sacrifice ofhim and several othersin Delhi Police? Policepersonnel are notmachines but humanbeings just like otherswith feelings and emo-tions," he said.

Chander also askedpeople not to be appre-

hensive about police-men but to think ofthose who do their dutywith dedication."When you look at apoliceman, don't havethe apprehension thathe would throw a brickon you. Think of thosecops also who haverecovered kidnappedchildren, saved lives,recovered your stolenvaluables, arresteddreaded criminals andterrorists etc. For oneblack sheep do notblame the entire flock.It hurts!!" he added.

Traffic police headconstable SatishChandra had hit awoman with a brickafter a minor alterca-tion in Golf Link areaon Monday followingwhich he was suspend-ed and arrested. Avideo clip of the attackhad gone viral on inter-net.

Don't forget good work for oneblack sheep: Traffic chief

NEW DELHINorth Delhi Mayor

Ravinder Gupta onWednesday attributed poorfinancial condition of theBJP-led NDMC to lack ofcoordination between theDelhi government and thecivic body, and alleged thatthe AAP administrationwas "not serious" in theirapproach in dealing withthe pressing issue.

Gupta today met DelhiFinance Minister ManishSisodia, after holding ameeting with ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwalon May 9, who the Mayorsaid at that time "hadassured of helping thecash-strapped municipalbody."

"Despite providing

details about the financialconditions of the civicbody four days ago to theChief Minister, we did notsee any seriousness in theirapproach in dealing withthe issue," Gupta said.

The Mayor was accom-panied by Deputy MayorNeelam Goyal andStanding CommitteeChairman MohanBhardwaj. The delegationinformed Sisodia that it is"because of poor coordina-tion between the two sidesthat funds under manyheads have not beenreleased to the corpora-tion."

The North DelhiMunicipal Corporation(NDMC) was constitutedin 2012 as a result of the

trifurcation of the erst-while unified MunicipalCorporation of Delhi(MCD). All three corpora-tions have claimed that thefinancial woes of the civicbodies have worsenedsince the trifurcation.

"Starting from its consti-tution, the NDMC wasunder the debt of Rs 638crore. The corporationshould get 5.5 per cent ofglobal share of the total taxbut the Delhi governmenthas bifurcated this between4 per cent as global shareand 1.5 percent asMunicipal Reform Fundand this 1.5 per cent sharewould be released onlywhen the corporation runsinto profit," Guptasaid.

AAP govt not serious aboutNDMC's financial issues: Mayor

NEW DELHIThe woman who was

beaten with a brick by aDelhi constable hasbecome a "TV star" and"improved her statement"by revising it for themedia, said the Delhi HighCourt today, while express-ing concern about roadrage in the capital, andfaulting both the police andcitizens for "not knowingtheir duties."

The traffic cop who beatthe woman on Mondayafter they got into an argu-ment about her jumping ared light has been arrestedand sacked.

The Delhi High Courtintervened "suo moto" orof its own accord after theshocking assault was

caught on a cellphonecamera by a witness.Ramanjit Kaur was ridinga scooter with her threeyoung daughters when shewas stopped by the police-man. She claims he askedher to pay a bribe of Rs.200. An audio clip releasedtoday establishes theirquarrel before he hit her. In

the clip, the policemanoffers to give the woman areceipt for the fine - whichcontradicts the woman'sversion of events.

The woman threw abrick at the policeman'sbike; he then hit her on theback with another brickand twisted her arm.

The High Court said,

"Road rage (in Delhi) isincreasing, citizens don'tknow their duties." It willnow appoint a seniorlawyer to examine whycases of road rage areincreasing.

Delhi Police Chief BSBassi said, "We will needsystemic changes to seethat even under pressure,police officers act accord-ing to the law." He alsowants policemen to have"recording devices" toensure interactions withthe public are collected oncamera.

Sources said that theDelhi Police is stretchedfar too thin with long shiftsand would benefit greatlyfrom counsellingsessions.

'She Has Become TV Star': High Court onWoman Assaulted by Cop With Brick NEW DELHI

In more trouble for LawMinister Jitender SinghTomar, Delhi Bar Councilhas sent a report to the citypolice, saying that primafacie it has been proved thatthe AAP leader is guilty inthe fake certificate case.

Tomar has been facingcharges that the academiccertificates he submittedwhile filing nomination forDelhi Assembly polls heldin February this year werefake. The Bar Council, inits complaint to DelhiPolice, has stated that bymeans of false representa-tion and on the basis offorged mark sheets anddegree claimed to be aGraduate in B Sc and on thebasis of forged ProvisionalLLB certificate claimed tobe a Law Graduate and on

the basis of such false rep-resentation and aforesaidforged documents, Tomarobtained enrolment withthe Bar council of Delhiwith enrolment No. D/ la4/2011. “It is, therefore,requested that a detailedpreliminary enquiry/inves-tigation, in accordance withlaw, may be conducted withrespect to the aforesaidalleged forged documentsfor commission of offencespunishable under the IndianPenal Code and report maybe submitted before thecouncil on or before28.O5.2O15,” the com-plaint said. Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwalhad earlier defendedTomar, accused of fakinghis law degree, and calledfor a "public trial" of themedia.

NEW DELHIDelhi Police on

Wednesday issued newguidelines for trafficpolicemen after the brick-throwing incident follow-ing an argument over traf-fic violation sparked anger,and batted for the videog-raphy of challans.

Facing criticism in thewake of the incident inwhich traffic constableSatish Chandra attacked awoman with a brick, DelhiPolice chief BS Bassi saidthat recording will be donewith the aim to see if theofficers act as per the law.

He also underlined theneed for police personnelto not lose their tempereven under adverse situa-

tions."We will need systemic

changes to see that evenunder pressure, our officersact as per the law. No mat-ter what the situation is,they must behave withcourtesy and not lose theirtemper.

"As far as training of ourofficers is concerned, ourobjective is to see that ourofficers must not react outof rage," Bassi toldreporters here today.

Asked about HighCourt's observation regard-ing the road rage cases inthe capital, Bassi said hewas yet to receive a copyof the court's order. Once itis received, the necessaryaction will be taken, he

added.Chandra, was arrested

and a criminal case filedagainst him after a videoclip surfaced of him attack-ing a young woman onMonday. He was later dis-missed from service.

Chandra has submitted a44-second audio clip tothose looking into the casein which he is heard tellingthe woman that he wouldissue a court challan toher.

Although the clip sug-gests that there was a heat-ed argument between thewoman and the head con-stable, it does not supportthe victim's claim thatChandra had asked for a Rs200 bribe from her.

Delhi Police issues new guidelines for trafficcops, bats for videography of challans

NEW DELHIDelhi Chief Minister Arvind

Kejriwal will address auto-rickshawdrivers at a public meeting in Burarito hear their grievances and demandson Sunday.

It will be his first public meeting aschief minister with auto rickshawdrivers who stood by Aam AdmiParty (AAP) during assembly elec-tion.

Kejriwal will hear the grievancesof the drivers and the demands raisedby them. Unions representing auto-rickshaw drivers in the city have beendemanding redressal of a number ofissues, including annual charges ofmaintaining GPS, increase in autofare and alleged harassment by trafficpolice.

"We have taken several measuresfor auto drivers, including curtailingof special powers of Delhi TrafficPolice to impound auto rickshaws

and taxis in cases of minor trafficviolations," a senior officersaid.

Government will also revive auto-complaint helpline number 011-42400400.

"As far as the issue of refusal topassenger by auto rickshaw driversare concerned, government is form-

ing a policy, wherein, if an auto driv-er while returning home in theevening puts up a placard on the autoinforming about the direction, thedriver would not be charged forrefusal," official said.

Government is also planning toease driving license renewal policyfor auto rickshaw drivers.

Arvind Kejriwal to meet auto-rickshaw drivers on Sunday

NEW DELHIA day after the Centre

released its consolidatedFDI policy, the Delhi gov-ernment on Wednesday saidit will not allow entry of for-eign direct investment in thecapital's retail sector, sayingthat it will be detrimental tothe interests of traders in thecity.

In the latest edition of theannual FDI document, thecentral government hasretained the previous UPAdispensation's decisionallowing foreign retailers toopen multi-brand stores with51 per cent ownership.

Speaking to reporters atDelhi Secretariat here,Deputy Chief MinisterManish Sisodia said, "Wewill not allow entry of FDIin retail sector in the nation-al capital."

A senior official said thatthe stand of the Delhi gov-ernment, which was commu-nicated to the Department ofIndustrial Policy andPromotion (DIPP) of theUnion Commerce and

Industry Ministry, onJanuary 14, 2014, remainsunchanged.

In an official statement,the Delhi government saidthat it is of the view that thenational capital at this junc-ture is not ready to disturbthe character of its retailtrade.

"Entry of FDI in the retailsector will be detrimental tothe interests of traders andwill lead to unemployment,"the government said in itsofficial statement.

The city government alsosaid that Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal's January2014 decision to withdrawthe approval granted by theprevious Sheila Dikshit-ledstate government remainsunchanged.

"The Delhi governmentwill reiterate its stand to thecentral government toremove all ambiguity on theissue, which may arise dueto the fresh policy documentof theCentre.

Bar Council asks Delhi Police to initiateprobe against Jitender Singh Tomar

NEW DELHIThe Delhi High Court

on Wednesday directedDMRC to construct alter-native hutments to reha-bilitate those slumdwellers at GhazipurDairy Farm in east Delhiwhom the metro wants toevict or has already evict-ed.

Justice Rajiv Shakdheralso directed Delhi MetroRail Corporation (DMRC)to provide all basic ameni-ties, including public toi-lets, to the residents of thearea and to build a wallaround their ongoing con-struction site to preventchildren from gettinginjured.

The court ordered that

its directions be compliedwith in four weeks andlisted the matter for hear-ing on July 9.

It also asked DMRCwhy it cannot engage thepeople of the area to workfor them on daily wageson the construction beingcarried out there.

It issued the directionsafter perusing the reportsubmitted by the localcommissioner, advocateJasmeet Singh who wasappointed by the court toinspect the area.

The court had on May 8directed the authorities,including DMRC, not toevict the slum dwellers atGhazipur Dairy Farm nordemolish their homes.

Will not allow entry of FDI inDelhi's retail sector: AAP govt

Build hutments, toilets for Ghazipurslum dwellers: Delhi HC to DMRC

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PANIPATSpiritual leader Asaram

Bapu, in jail for nearly twoyears over charges of rape,turned to sarcasm today whenasked about an attack on a keywitness against him - the sixthtill now and the third this year.

"Duniyaan mein sabhi hamlemain hi karwata hoon (I amresponsible for all the attacks inthis world)," he quipped whilebeing taking to court inRajasthan's Jodhpur.

The 74-year-old guru hasbeen in a Jodhpur jail sinceAugust 2013, over allegationsof raping a 16-year-old school-girl at his ashram earlier thatyear. Two months later he,along with his son Narayan Sai,were booked for the alleged

rape of two sisters at theirashram in Gujarat's Surat.

In the time that they havebeen in jail, six witnesses havebeen attacked and two have

died. The most recent attacktook place yesterday. MahendraChawla, a former assistant toAsaram's son, was shot at inPanipat in Haryana by two

masked men who came on abike when he was alone athome. He tried to jump off thebalcony but was shot twice inthe back. His security officer,who had joined only a monthback, had taken a break at thetime. The 32-year-old hadworked for Narayan Saibetween 2001 and 2005 andhad agreed to testify againsthim in the Surat rape case. He isstable after a surgery to extracttwo bullets from his body. InJanuary this year, Akhil Gupta,the cook and aide of Asaram,was killed on his way homefrom work in Uttar Pradesh.Last year, Asaram's physicianAmrut Prajapati was shot deadin Gujarat. Three others havesurvived attacks on them.

TELANGANARahul Gandhi isn't due in

Telangana till Friday tovisit families of farmerswho have committed sui-cide, but he's already help-ing them - inadvertently.

The state governmentsent representatives onTuesday to meet with someof the families who havebeen shortlisted for housecalls by Mr Gandhi in thedrought-struck area ofAdilabad, over 200 kilo-metres from Hyderabad.

"One lakh rupees is onbehalf of the government,

50,000 rupees to settle out-standing loans and Rs10,000 is from my side,"said Indrakaran Reddy, aminister from Adilabad,after visiting the home ofBondla Linganna, whokilled himself earlier thisyear. The family of anotherfarmer, V. Rajeswar, wasalso handed Rs 10,000.

Mr Gandhi is scheduledto visit five villages in thearea - each of them hasseen a farmer suicide in thelast year.

"We are happy that atleast by announcing Rahul

ji's visit, the families aregetting some sort of finan-cial help which can easetheir problems," saidSridhar Babu, former min-ister and Congress leader.

The road from theHyderabad airport to MrGandhi's scheduled firststop - Nirmal in Adilabad -is lined with posters andcutouts welcoming him to

India's youngest state,where his party wasreduced to a virtual non-entity in last year's elec-tion.

It was the Congress-ledunion government thatagreed in 2009 to the bifur-cation of Andhra Pradeshand the carving out ofTelangana as a new state.But as the other parts of thestate roiled with a violentbacklash, the governmentputs its decision on hold, agrave miscalculation forwhich it was heavily pun-ished in both the residuary

and new state. AndhraPradesh voted for theTelugu Desam Party, push-ing the Congress out ofoffice. Telangana picked KChandrasekhar Rao orKCR, who had fronted thecampaign for statehood.

This is Mr Gandhi's firstvisit to Telangana state. Hisparty hopes his packed 24-hour tour will reenergizecadres and prove that in astate where at least 700farmers have killed them-selves in the last 10months, it is the Congressthat cares.

NEW DELHIThe Supreme Court has

today said that govern-ment ads can feature pic-tures of only the PrimeMinister, the President,and the Chief Justice ofIndia, but said, "Eventhese three personalitieswill have to approvewhether their photos willbe there."

The verdict applies tothe frequent ads that areplaced by the centre andstate governments topublicize schemes."Photos have the poten-tial of developing per-sonality cult," said thetop court, clarifying thatparty symbols and flagscannot be used in ads.

Today's ruling meansthat Chief Ministers andGovernors cannot featurein government ads. Thetop court has alsoappointed a committee ofthree members to ensurethat the new guidelinesare not violated."Advertisement materi-als should be objectiveand not directed at pro-

moting political interestsof ruling party," thejudges said.

The new guidelineskick in just as PrimeMinister NarendraModi's government isabout to mark its firstyear in office. The topcourt said their instruc-tions will stand till par-liament clears a law orpolicy for governmentads. Today's verdict wasbased on petitions filedby NGOs including thatof lawyer-activist

Prashant Bhushan, whichsaid taxpayer's moneywas being spent liberallyon gaining politicalmileage.

In recent years, actingon Mr Bhushan's peti-tion, the Supreme Courthas cautioned the gov-ernment to curb exces-sive spending on publi-cising its schemes as wellas glorifying politicalleaders with ads placedto mark their birth ordeath anniversaries.

In February, the

Centre had argued incourt that the SupremeCourt should not inter-fere with how the gov-ernment communicateswith the public. AttorneyGeneral Mukul Rohatgiargued, "These are mat-ters which should be leftto the government andare outside the purviewof the courts. The gov-ernment communicatesto the public at largethrough these advertise-ments on policy andother matters."

Only PM, President, Chief Justice Can Featurein Government Ads, Says Supreme Court

KERALAThe four young Kerala athletes

who consumed poisonous fruit lastweek in an apparent suicide pactwere not harassed by their seniors asthey had alleged in a suicide note, theSports Authority of India (SAI) hassaid in its report to the government.

The report says there is no concreteevidence of ragging and no com-plaint of any misbehavior by coach-es. It also absolves its own officialsof any role.

The four girls, all champion row-ers, had alleged harassment and tor-ture by their seniors in a joint note.Their families had supported theirclaim.

One of the girls died on May 6 andthree are recovering in hospital; themother of a teen who survived saysshe has no faith in the investigationso far. "If investigations continue inthis manner, we will be forced tocommit suicide collectively," shesaid, demanding a CBI probe.

The girls' seniors had had allegedthat they had been admonished bytheir warden for drinking beer in the

hostel and were afraid that everyonewould find out.

The report by SAI director generalInjeti Sriniwas appears to corroboratethis version and says that the girlswere reprimanded by their hostelwarden for some lapse. "It seems likea one-off incident," he says, addingthat "specialized investigators" arerequired to examine whether raggingpushed the girls over the edge.

In Parliament today, the govern-ment described the incident as"shocking and tragic" and said urgentaction would be taken on the SAIreport to prevent suchtragedies.

Speaking in the Lok Sabha, theminister of state for sports,Sarbananda Sonowal, said the casereflects the need to strengthen SAI'straining system.

Kerala Athletes Were Not Harassedby Their Seniors, Says Sports Body

Telangana Minister Rushes to Meet Families shortlisted for Rahul Gandhi Visit

'Yes, It's Me,' Quips Asaram Bapu as6th Witness Against Him is Attacked

BENGALURUA college student in Bengaluru

who is being tried for a drunkdriving case in which one persondied has now been charged in anew case of road rage.

Rajesh Reddy, 22, was drivinghis BMW last week when it wasallegedly hit by another car in theheart of the city. The police saysMr Reddy then snatched the keysof the other car, an Etios, from itsdriver. The police complaint saysthat the driver was forced into thebackseat while Mr Reddyslammed on the gas and droverashly to ensure the car would bedamaged. It was found near a treethat it Mr Reddy had allegedlyhit. After being arrested, the stu-dent was granted bail.

Mr Reddy is being tried in a

local court on charges of drivingdrunk in 2013 and speeding in hisAudi when he hit an auto. Oneperson was killed in that accident,which outraged the city afterCCTV footage established howMr Reddy came tearing down thestreet.

Mr Reddy's father is an indus-trialist. He said that the new roadrage case against him is fabricatedand denied that he took the otherdriver hostage in the Etios.Instead, he said, his BMW wasmistakenly driven away by afriend after the fender-bender, andthat Mr Reddy and the driver ofthe Etios agreed to leave the spottogether. The student denied caus-ing any damage to the Etios in anact of revenge. He said the carwas already dented.

Bengaluru Student, on Trial for DrunkHit-and-Run, Now in Road Rage Case

CHENNAIChief Minister O

Panneerselvam and 19other Tamil Nadu ministersmet J Jayalalithaa at herPoes Garden residence inChennai this afternoon,their first official meetingwith the AIADMK chiefafter she was acquitted in acorruption case two daysago.

The agenda of the meet-ing was not immediatelyclear, amid speculation thatthey could discuss modali-ties of Ms Jayalalithaa tak-ing over as Chief Ministerafter the Karnataka HighCourt acquitted her in acorruption case this week.

Or then, her party's nextcourse of action, withpolitical rivals alleging thatthe judge miscalculated MsJayalalithaa's wealth inacquitting her.

On Monday, the

Karnataka High Courtquashed Ms Jayalalithaa'sconviction and sentence offour years in prison by atrial court, and said she hadbeen incorrectly chargedwith accumulating wealthdisproportionate to herknown sources of incomeduring her first term asChief Minister of TamilNadu.

Her conviction inSeptember last year meantMs Jayalalithaa was dis-qualified as a lawmaker

and had to step down.Now, she can now be chiefminister again, and herexultant party has report-edly been looking for anauspicious date for her tobe sworn in.

For now, all the rulingAIADMK's 151 legislatorsare in Chennai and MrPanneerselvam, hand-picked by Ms Jayalalithaato take her place last year,is said to be ready toresign.

Only a day after the ver-

dict, however, the newcontroversy caused a pausein the AIADMK's celebra-tions. High Court judgeJustice CR Kumaraswamyhad said that he based hisdecision to acquit MsJayalalithaa on a calcula-tion of her assets that sug-gested that unaccountedwealth was about 8 percent of her income, whichwas "within the permissi-ble limit of 10 per cent".

But the prosecution hasclaimed that MsJayalalithaa's illegalwealth was miscalculatedand far exceeds the limit.Opposition parties havecried foul and haverequested the Karnatakagovernment to appealagainst the acquittal.

Karnataka chief ministerSiddaramaiah said todaythat his government isexamining it.

Panneerselvam,19 Ministers Call on JayalalithaaAmid Reports of Her Return as Chief Minister

MAUBSP on Wednesday said

the newly conceivedJanata Parivar wouldcrumple due to internalfights between its six con-stituent parties.

"There is no meaning ofthe Janata Parivar...It willcrumple due to its owninternal fights once againas these the the very peo-ple who had once brokenthe Janata Party ...Theycannot stay together",Leader of Opposition

Swami Prasad Maurya toldnewspersons here.

Maurya also said that theJanata Parivar doesn't needany external enemy as itsstake-holders will toppleeach other. "These peopledo not need any enemy..They are enough to toppleeach other," he said.

Meanwhile, Mauryaevaded the questions onformer Tamil Nadu ChiefMinister Jayalalitha's dis-proportionate assets caseverdict.

Janata Parivar will crumpledue to internal fights: BSP

Newspapers bodywelcomes SC verdicton government adsNEW DELHI

The Indian LanguagesN e w s p a p e r s `Associationon Wednesdaywelcomed the SupremeCourt judgment banningthe use of pictures of polit-ical leaders, apart from theprime minister and thepresident, in governmentadvertisements.

"ILNA had been com-plaining that politicians inpower are using selectedpublications, generally inEnglish ones, to promotethemselves.

"Language newspapers,specially medium andsmall ones and also largebut from smaller placeswere denied these adver-tisements.

NEW DELHIThe Taj Mahal is not turning

yellow due to pollution and thenecessary steps are being takenfor the preservation of the his-toric Agra monument,Parliament was informed today.

The required actions are beingtaken to reduce pollution in thevicinity of the 18th centurymonument and it is in a goodstate of preservation, CultureMinister Mahesh Sharma said ina written reply in Rajya Sabha.

"Local authorities are takingthe necessary steps to reducepollution around the Taj Mahal.

"The Archaeological Surveyof India (ASI) is regularly mon-itoring ambient air qualityaround Taj Mahal and attendingto essential conservation,

preservation and environmentaldevelopment works to reducethe effect of pollution on marblesurface," the minister said in hisreply, adding that the iconicmausoleum is in a good state ofpreservation due to the consis-tent efforts of the said agency.

Sharma, meanwhile, deniedthat any international expertswere engaged by ASI for under-taking restoration work at themonument, which has been des-ignated as a UNESCO WorldHeritage Site.

"Conservation work at TajMahal is attended to regularlyby the ASI. Wherever necessary,advice from reputed governmentagencies in the country is takenfor better care of the monu-ment," he said.

Taj Mahal Not Turning Yellow,Government Tells Parliament

NEW DELHIThe Supreme Court

today issued strict newrules for what is permis-sible as government pub-licity and advertising,warning that taxpayers'money should not besquandered on politicalmileage. Sources in theInformation andBroadcasting Ministry,however, point out thatthe new BJP administra-tion has spent 40 per centless on advertising thanthe previous Congress-led government.

Government ads areplaced through theDepartment of Audio andVisual Publicity (DAVP),located within theInformation andBroadcasting Ministry.Parliament was toldrecently that while thegovernment's ad spendwas 1,250 crores in2013-14 fiscal year, thetotal dropped to 780

crores in 2014 15."That's because many

of our ads have nowmoved to the socialmedia platform,' said asenior official who didnot wish to be named.The earlier government,he said, would run fullpage ads that could costup to six crores a day;now, social media isbeing used to communi-cate policies with thegovernment, he claimed.

The Supreme Courttoday said that only pho-tos of the Prime Minister,President and ChiefJustice of India can fea-ture in government ads -and their approval mustbe sought.

The court bannedimages of Governors andChief Ministers, as wellas party symbols in ads.The new rules come asthe Modi government isprepping to mark its firstyear in office.

Government Says It Has SpentFar Less on Ads Than UPA

Thursday | May 14, 2015

Taking a cue from a pending case in the SupremeCourt the BJP government is all set to formalise apolicy for granting citizenship to Hindu immigrants

from Bangladesh while it will continue its battle to rid Indiaof ‘infiltrators’ from that country. This reduction of a com-plex history of migration across India’s eastern border intothis loaded formulation was articulated repeatedly by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi during the run-up to the 2014 LokSabha election. In a speech made in Assam in February2014, for instance, he said: “We have a responsibilitytowards Hindus harassed in other countries. Where willthey go? We will have to accommodate them here.” Inanother speech made later the same month in West Bengalthe target was a different type of immigrant. “Those who aretaking away jobs here have to leave. The priority is jobs forthe youth of this country. That is our first responsibility,” hesaid. More recently, BJP president Amit Shah has made thegranting of citizenship to Hindu immigrants, and the expul-sion of illegals, a key poll promise as the BJP gears up forthe Assam Assembly elections. These statements are under-scored by a broader ideological position, as mentioned inthe BJP election manifesto, that India should be the naturalhome for persecuted Hindus who could seek refuge here.This has overtones of exclusionary doctrines like the Law ofReturn in Israel that gives Jews the right to live and seek cit-izenship there. During the NDA’s last stint in power anamendment to the Citizenship Act was effected in 2003 thatmade it easier for Hindus who had come from Pakistan andwere residing in Gujarat and Rajasthan to be given citizen-ship. Attempting something similar for eastern India, how-ever, will prove more problematic. Since the Supreme Courtcase covers the period from 1971 the government will haveto specify a time period during which it feels that Hindusand other minorities faced persecution in Bangladesh.Depending on which period is chosen this could complicateties with Bangladesh as that would amount to casting asper-sions on its ability to protect minorities. Given that this is agood moment in the confidence-building process betweenthe two countries, with India just having passed the LandBoundary Agreement, such a partisan move could rock theboat again. Rather than make these calculations it wouldhave been infinitely better if India had a national policy onrefugees or was a signatory to the 1951 refugee conventionunder which signatories are obliged not to send refugeesback to where they have a well-founded fear of persecution.In the absence of a coherent policy such issues will contin-ue to be decided in an ad hoc manner, driven by ideologi-cal-political considerations.

BY HAPPYMON JACOB

The uneventful visit of theAfghanistan President AshrafGhani to New Delhi last

month has further strengthened thewidespread belief that India is losingstrategic influence and geopoliticalstanding as far as its northwesternfrontier is concerned, especially Iranand Afghanistan. Just a year ago, dur-ing the Karzai presidency, India wasthe “most favoured nation” inAfghanistan. Today, there is a percep-tible change in the new Afghan gov-ernment’s attitude towards India. Forinstance, no major agreements weresigned during Mr. Ghani’s visit andthe India-Afghanistan StrategicPartnership Agreement of 2011, hard-ly figured in the agenda.

Indeed, India’s new northwesternstrategic environment, in which therelegation of the Indo-Afghan strate-gic partnership is merely one ele-ment, is undergoing a grand geopolit-ical transformation, but New Delhiseems to be clueless about how toengage with it. Moreover, it is worri-some that while the most formidablechallenges to India’s national securi-ty invariably originate from its north-western frontiers, both historicallyand presently, the focus of theBharatiya Janata Party-led govern-ment has primarily been on the glob-al stage and the country’s southernand eastern neighbours.

Regional power vacuum

The most important element of thenew strategic landscape in SouthernAsia is the ongoing withdrawal of theUnited States from Afghanistan andthe resultant power vacuum, as wellas the subsequent rebalancing offorces in the region. China has begunthe process of filling the post-American power vacuum, albeitwithout military involvement for themoment. The withdrawal by the U.S.and the attendant strategic uncertain-ty could also provide a favourableenvironment for forces like theTaliban and the Islamic State (IS) to

enhance their influence in the region.This clearly worries Kabul. Given theAmerican withdrawal and India’sunwillingness to involve itself mili-tarily in Afghanistan, Mr. Ghani isleft with no choice but to engage bothPakistan and China. Moreover, herealises that Beijing is perhaps theonly actor today that has some trac-tion in Islamabad.

It is this that has led to a flurry ofactivity among the three countries.On the one hand, China is enhancingits influence in the region with theunveiling of its innovative ‘New SilkRoad’ strategy and by offering eco-nomic and developmental assistanceto Pakistan, while on the otherBeijing is also increasingly engagedin regional “conflict management”initiatives by mediating betweenKabul and the Taliban, and organis-ing trilateral strategic engagementswith Afghanistan and Pakistan. InNovember 2014, for instance, repre-sentatives of the Taliban from itsDoha-based office met in Beijing fortalks. In February this year, China’sDeputy Foreign Minister, LiuJianchao, Pakistan’s ForeignSecretary Aizaz Chaudhry, and theAfghan Deputy Foreign Minister,Hekmat Karzai, met in Kabul for theinaugural round of a new trilateralstrategic dialogue.

New Delhi has been disappointing-ly quiet in the face of these strategi-cally significant developments,unable and unwilling to contributetowards stabilising the region.

Af-Pak rapprochement

The second significant componentis the newfound warmth betweenKabul and Islamabad. Abandoningthe trend of public spats, they arenow on a path of cooperation andfriendship, or so it seems.Immediately after assuming office,Mr. Ghani signalled a desire for rec-onciliation with Islamabad andRawalpindi. In his September 2014“five-circle” foreign policy speech,

not only did he place Pakistan in thefirst circle of countries that are mostimportant to Afghanistan (with Indiain the fourth circle), but also took theunprecedented step of visiting thePakistan Army’s headquarters inRawalpindi, a gesture signifying thedeep policy changes under way inKabul.

“ Given the American withdrawaland India’s unwillingness to involveitself militarily in Afghanistan,Ashraf Ghani is left with no choicebut to engage both Pakistan andChina, moreover because Beijing isperhaps the only actor today that hassome traction in Islamabad.”

Pakistan has also been makingefforts to strengthen its relationshipwith Afghanistan; its Army and theintelligence chiefs have already visit-ed Kabul to discuss joint counter-ter-rorism measures and to enhance thefight against terror. More important-ly, given Chinese concerns about ter-rorism and its increasing influence onits borderlands, the Af-Pak rap-prochement will most likely besuperintended by China.

While this in itself need not con-cern New Delhi, Islamabad is deeplysuspicious of any cooperationbetween India and Afghanistan.Therefore, the worry in New Delhithat the Af-Pak rapprochement couldhave zero-sum implications for Indiais indeed a legitimate one.

The third major driver is the main-streaming of radical Islamist terror-ism in the form of the rise of the ISand the resurgence of the Taliban.While the West Asian region is cur-rently the hotbed of Islamist terror-ism, the Southern Asian region wouldnot only be a potential target of suchforces but also a fertile breedingground. There are already reports ofgrowing support for the IS in theregion and its focus there.

The IS has reportedly made someinroads into Pakistan and somePakistan-based terror outfits have

offered their allegiance to the organi-sation. While there may not be anyideological unity among them, the IShas the dangerous potential of pro-viding a “wave of the future call” tothe disparate terror outfits in theregion. The IS has also been makingrecruitments from India; the speechby its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,in July last year specifically referredto the “atrocities against Muslims inKashmir”.

For India in particular, the potentialresurgence of the Taliban and the riseof the IS have dangerous implica-tions. The belief, in this context, thatby merely strengthening its borders,India would be able to survive thescourge of terrorism is a mistakenone.

Iran as game changer

The fourth major variable is themainstreaming of Iran into the con-temporary international system.Israel and Saudi Arabia have notmade peace with the idea of a nor-malised Tehran-West relationship,and the nuclear deal between P5+1and Iran is still being finalised. Yet,Iran is potentially the new gamechanger in West Asian geopolitics. Astrong, self-confident and interna-tionally mainstreamed Tehran couldhelp stabilise the region, and theworld is increasingly cognisant ofthat: Australian Foreign MinisterJulie Bishop made a smart move byvisiting Tehran last month. Westerncompanies are already courtingTehran to advance their businessinterests.

The question is whether Indiawould be favoured by Iran as it hasnot been a supporter of Tehran in therecent past. New Delhi’s votesagainst Tehran at the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency (IAEA) stillremains a blot. Given the huge strate-gic stakes New Delhi has in Iran, itshould have been playing a proactiverole by facilitating Iran’s main-streaming, or at the least maintained

an “independent” Iran policy. It isindeed encouraging that New Delhihas reached out to Tehran by inking aMemorandum of Understanding todevelop the Chabahar port whichcould be India’s gateway toAfghanistan and Central Asia. Indiadid the right thing to ignore the unso-licited advice of the U.S. UnderSecretary, Wendy Sherman, who toldNew Delhi to “wait for a final nucleardeal between Tehran and world pow-ers before actively engaging withTehran”.

Southern Asian realignment

The last variable is the Chineseability to realign the balance ofpower equations in the South, Westand Central Asian regions, and themanner in which it would go aboutdoing so. The U.S. may or may not beon the decline, but its standing andinfluence in the Southern Asianregion certainly is. The country thatis increasingly willing and able totake the responsibility of being theregional balancer is China. This isevident in the flurry of high-level vis-its between China and countries inthese regions to discuss developmentassistance, trade, arms sales and tech-nical assistance.

India’s engagement with Chinafocusses on bilateral trade and borderincursions. While they are important,it is also important to engage China atthe broader regional level in the larg-er Southern Asian region.

Explaining the non-strategy

One of the major reasons why Indiais unable to devise prudent and time-ly strategies to engage the northwest-ern region is due to its obsession withgreat power diplomacy. New Delhitakes great pride in engaging thegreat powers of the international sys-tem and this is often done at theexpense of engaging its northwesternneighbourhood. With the relativelysmall corps of diplomats that it has,New Delhi can only do so much.

Hence, if much of the attention isdiverted to great power diplomacy,there would be no space for impor-tant neighbours in connection withthe government’s strategic agenda. Acursory comparison of the BJP gov-ernment’s engagement with the U.S.and other great powers with sayAfghanistan, Iran or Pakistan, wouldclarify the point being made.

Second, Indian diplomacy seems tobe trapped in compulsive bilateralismwherein it is unable to think beyondbilaterally engaging the neighbours,or the great powers. While there hasbeen engagement with Beijing on avariety of bilateral issues, India hasnot been able to join forces withChina and other neighbours in fight-ing terror, stabilising Afghanistan,addressing the IS threat or evenmainstreaming Iran. Why, forinstance, does New Delhi not find ituseful to join the regional fora aimedat stabilising Afghanistan or even ini-tiate such a forum with like-mindedcountries?

The third reason is in its unwilling-ness to have a sustained dialoguewith Pakistan. One way or another,due to geostrategic reasons, Pakistanplays a crucial role in the SouthernAsian subsystem. Given the absenceof a dialogue between the two adver-sarial sides, Islamabad will continueto harm Indian interests in the region,be it Afghanistan or with China. IfNew Delhi wishes to proactivelyengage its northwestern neighbour-hood, it needs to engage Pakistan,bilaterally and multilaterally.

Finally, New Delhi should realisethat the remedies to the region’sproblems lie within the region, andnot in the Western capitals.Therefore, Mr. Modi needs to spendmore time in the neighbourhood.New Delhi also needs to articulate a“pivot to northwest” policy.

(Happymon Jacob teachesDisarmament and National Security

at the School of InternationalStudies, JN University, New Delhi)

BY TAHIR MAHMOOD

“We take no cognisance of this report”… it is based on “limited understand-ing of India, its constitution and soci-

ety.” This is how the Ministry of ExternalAffairs reacted to the 2015 Report of theU.S. Commission for InternationalReligious Freedom released on 30thApril. A prominent politician from theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and belong-ing to the minority community dubbed itas a conspiracy for tarnishing the fairimage of India. The use of such unfriend-ly words for a country whose friendshipwas sought just last year by the new polit-ical dispensation with great fanfare isindeed striking.

Alarmed by the growing trend of reli-gious intolerance and anti-minority preju-dices worldwide, the United Nations hadproclaimed a Declaration on theElimination of All Forms of Intoleranceand of Discrimination Based on Religionor Belief in 1981, and a Declaration onthe Rights of Minorities in 1992. Findingthat these proclamations of the worldbody had remained ineffective, the UnitedStates decided to use its influence to con-trol the unfortunate trend through itsinternational economic-aid laws. It firstset up an Office of International ReligiousFreedom headed by an Ambassador-at-Large. The office remains intact and car-ries out its assigned mission, inter alia,through its reports describing the status ofreligious freedom in all countriesthroughout the world. Mandated by andpresented to the U.S. Congress, thesereports are public documents and aretaken into consideration by the U.S.administration in shaping the country’sforeign policy and foreign-aid programs.

Two-tier clarification

In 1998 the U.S. Senate enacted anInternational Religious Freedom Actunder which a Commission was set up tobring out its own independent and non-governmental annual reports. TheCommission began releasing its reportsthe next year and adopted a two-tier clas-sification of the countries where its probemechanism found the religious freedomsituation and condition of minorities,unsatisfactory. Tier-I under this systemincluded “CPCs” (countries of particularconcern), while Tier-II covered countrieswhich the Commission put on its “Watch

List.” The latter are the “countries wherereligious freedom conditions do not riseto the statutory level requiring CPC desig-nation but which require close monitoringdue to the nature and extent of violationsof religious freedom engaged in or toler-ated by the governments.”

Reporting on India in its first annualreport submitted during the NationalDemocratic Alliance rule in 1999 the U.S.Commission on International ReligiousFreedom (USCIRF) had observed that“animosities within and between religiouscommunities in India have roots that arecenturies old, and these tensions – attimes exacerbated by poverty, class andethnic differences — have erupted intoperiodic violence throughout the coun-try’s 51-year history.” In four consecutiveannual reports since 2001 India wasplaced on the Commission’s Tier-II WatchList. It was removed from there in 2005but returned to it in 2009. TheCommission’s annual report for 2015states that “incidents of religiously-moti-vated and communal violence reportedlyhave increased for three consecutiveyears.”

Listing some noticeable incidents ofreligious intolerance since the change ofregime at the centre in 2014 — and“based on these concerns” — the report“again places India on its Tier-II list ofcountries, where it has been since 2009.”Notably, this seven-year period coversfive years of the United ProgressiveAlliance-II rule in the country. As per theCommission’s finding, thus, religiousfreedom and minorities’ condition inIndia was far from being satisfactoryunder the previous regime too but has fur-ther aggravated since the advent of thepresent political dispensation — thoughnot to the extent of placing the country inits CPC list.

Far from inaccurate

I have been studying and commentingon the USCIRF reports right from thebeginning. Though sometimes marred byinaccuracies and misinformation, theseare not based on hearsay or street gossip.The U.S. embassies in the countries men-tioned in the report locally collect factsfrom all sections of the society includingimpartial observers and various govern-mental and non-governmental informa-

tion-providers. Their drafts are thenchecked and cross-checked by experts inthe U.S., and the final reports are not toofar from reality. Countries like Pakistanand Saudi Arabia have always beenseverely criticised in these reports yearafter year. If the chapters on such coun-tries are based on facts and ground reali-ties — which they undoubtedly are —only those on India cannot be presumed tobe based on fiction and fantasies. Look atsome of the statements about India in the2015 report. “Since the last election reli-gious minority communities have beensubjected to derogatory comments bypoliticians linked to the ruling party” — isthis utter falsehood? And, when the reportsays that “Christian communities, acrossmany denominations, report an increaseof harassment and violence in the lastyear,” can this be dismissed as sheer non-sense and untruth?

In the past, unfavourable USCIRFreports were silently ignored by the rulersof the day — they never took them seri-ously and never took any remedial meas-ures. Vocal “rejection” of the latest reportby the present government was also, tosay the least, unnecessary. These reportsare submitted to the U.S. governmentwhich will not disbelieve them simplydue to the knee-jerk reaction of any par-ticular country. Instead of taking offence,should we not work towards a harmo-nious society? I would urge the govern-ment to set up a small committee of apo-litical and impartial scholars to dispas-sionately study the chapters on India in allthe 17 annual reports of USCIRF thathave been brought out so far and presentits concrete findings to the people of India— exposing falsities wherever found butaffirming the truth, if any. On the basis ofits report the government can initiate allpossible measures to save our countryfrom any such infamy in future.

I hold no brief for the U.S. Commissionand do not claim that its modalities forprocuring necessary information arealways foolproof. Also, its reports some-times reveal an unjustifiable selectivity.The situation of religious minorities inIndia is surely not ideal by any standard,but religious intolerance is not confined toIndia and other third-world countries; itindeed seems to be the order of the day inthe so-called “developed” world as well.Caricaturing chosen faiths, their founders

and holy books has become a favouritepastime of some people in the westerncountries, and their volatile activities areignored or even defended in the name offreedom of speech and expression. Thedisturbing rise of hate speech, angryprotests, and wild accusations directedagainst the religious “other” in the U.S.itself is assuming alarming proportions.This unfortunate development too meritsa serious consideration by the country’spowers that be. A leading nation thataspires, very laudably, to combat religiousintolerance and discrimination around theworld through the medium of its foreignpolicies and economic aid programs mustalso devise means to put its own house inorder. If this is not done, countries criti-cised by the U.S. Commission would notbe too wrong in telling it “Physician, healthyself.”

(Tahir Mahmood is a senior Professorof Law and former Chair of National

Minorities Commission.)

Exclusionary intent

Trial, errors and judgment

For a ‘Look Northwest’ policy

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Agreements to...of "traditional medicine which will

immensely benefit both the countries as theyare blessed with well-developed scientificsystems of traditional medicine", the releasesaid.

During PM Modi's three-day visit to China,an agreement to expand cooperation intourism field is also expected to be signed bycreating an institutional mechanism.

The main objectives of the agreement is toexpand bilateral cooperation in the tourismsector, exchange information and data relatedto tourism and to encourage cooperationbetween tourism stakeholders includinghotels and tour operators, among others.

The agreement is also aimed at setting upexchange programmes for cooperation inhuman resource development and attractinvestment in the tourism and hospitality sec-tors.

Narendra Modi, who is undertaking hisfirst visit to China as Prime Minister, willtomorrow reach the ancient city of Xi'an, thehome town of President Xi Jinping, for asummit meeting.

He will hold talks with his Chinese coun-terpart Li Keqiang in Beijing on Friday on anentire gamut of bilateral ties.

The Cabinet also cleared a slew of agree-ments to be inked during PM Modi's stay inMongolia and Korea which included a pacton transfer of sentenced persons betweenIndia and the Mongolia as also border guard-ing, policing and surveillance. With Korea,the pacts included maritime security and inenergy sector.

21st Century...Shaanxi, underscores China's determina-

tion to set aside past rancour between theworld's two most populous nations, expertssaid.

"It definitely indicates the significance ourpresident puts on Mr. Modi's visit," said LiLi, an India expert at the government-backedChina Institutes of ContemporaryInternational Relations.

"From the Chinese side, we were veryimpressed by the hospitality extended by Mr.Modi during Xi Jinping's visit to India," headded, referring to PM Modi greetingPresident Xi in his home state of Gujaratwhen the Chinese leader visited India lastyear.

Still, the list of problems both countriesface are considerable, ranging from a fester-ing border dispute to China's support forIndia's arch-rival Pakistan.

New Delhi had raised the issue of a pro-posed China-Pakistan economic corridorwith Beijing, Indian Foreign SecretarySubrahmanyam Jaishankar told a press con-ference on Tuesday.

The corridor would pass through Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.

President Xi announced the trade and tran-sit route from Pakistan's southern Gwadarport on the Arabian Sea to China's westernXinjiang as part of a $46 billion investmentprogramme during his visit to long-time allyPakistan last month.

PM Modi's new account on Chinese socialmedia site Weibo, China's version of Twitter,was filled with messages soon after launch-ing this month asking him to "return"Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims asSouth Tibet.

China claims more than 35,000 sq miles inthe eastern sector of the Himalayas - Indiahas firmly rejected this claim.

India says China occupies 38,000 squarekm of its territory on the Aksai Chin plateauin the west.

In September, the two armies faced off inthe Ladakh sector in the western Himalayasjust as President Xi was visiting India for thefirst summit talks with PM Modi.

What PM ...Prime Minister in Ahmedabad in his home

state Gujarat, when the Chinese leader visit-ed India in September last year.

Mr Xi will accompany him to the famousWild Goose Pagoda, a magnificent structurebuilt in the sixth century to commemoratefamous Chinese Buddhist monk Xuan Zang's17-year-long journey.

The two countries are set to announce amulti-million joint film production to recon-struct Xuan's epic journey.

PM Modi will also be accorded a tradition-al Tang dynasty welcome followed by a ban-quet hosted by Mr Xi.

Officials say the Modi-Xi talks in Xian willset the tone for PM Modi's structured talkswith his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang inBeijing on May 15 during which the twosides are set to sign some key agreements.

At least ...“staged” encounters by Karachi police, the

2013 killing of Sunni Muslims inRawalpindi’s sectarian riots of Raja Market,and the “atrocities” committed by“Rawafidh” in Iraq and Yemen.

Also, terror-tracking website Site IntelGroup tweeted that Khorasan Province, adivision of the Islamic State (IS) in theAfghan-Pakistan region, claimed credit for

the deadly attack.The militants have also vowed to continue

their attacks until Shariah law is implement-ed in Pakistan and they have “rid this landof” Shia Muslims.

Media reports initially said that militantgroup Pakistan Tehrik-e-Taliban has claimedresponsibility for the attack.

The hospital confirmed that at least 25 menand 16 women have been killed in the inci-dent, according to a Dawn.com news report.

Pakistan police and rangers arrived at thescene of the terror attack shortly after theincident and cordoned off the area.

A search operation is underway for thegunmen who managed to escape after theincident.

According to eye-witnesses, eight motor-cycle-borne gunmen donning police uni-forms stopped the bus, entered it and andshot the passengers in the head.

The bus was carrying over 60 passengersof the minority community near SafooraChowk in Karachi.

The passengers, including men, womenand children, were travelling to their place ofworship near Aysha Manzil, police said.

The gunmen had reportedly used 9 mm pis-tol to attack the bus, which belonged to Al-Azhar Garden Colony, an Ismaili communityhousing project in Karachi.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif andPresident Mamnoon Hussain has condemnedthe attack. Sharif has sought a report from theInterior Ministry on the incident.

The attack came a day after Sharif's Kabulvisit where he said that enemies ofAfghanistan are also enemies of Pakistan.

"It was a targeted attack," Sindh PoliceInspector General Ghulam Haider Jamalitold reporters.

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) GeneralRaheel Sharif cancelled his visit to Sri Lankato rush to Karachi after the attack.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister NarendraModi took to Twitter to condemn the incidentand tweeted. “We stand firmly with the peo-ple of Pakistan in this hour of grief. I wish allthose injured a quick recovery.”

Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan took toTwitter to condemn the attack and tweeted,“Stunned & grieved at most condemnableterror attack in Karachi on ordinary citizensof Pak belonging to a most peaceful commu-nity.”

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shahtermed it a "terrorist attack" and said the cul-prits will be arrested and justice will be done.He announced Rs 500,000 compensation forthe dead and free treatment for the injured.

'Kill Them...religious minorities this year.

The pink bus was pockmarked with bulletholes and blood saturated the seats anddripped out of the doors on to the concrete.

"As the gunmen climbed on to the bus, oneof them shouted, 'Kill them all!' Then theystarted indiscriminately firing at everyonethey saw," a wounded woman told a televi-sion channel by phone.

Police Superintendent Najib Khan toldReuters there were six gunmen and that allthe passengers were Ismailis, a minorityShi'ite Muslim sect. Pakistan is mostlySunni.

Militant group Jundullah, which hasattacked Muslim minorities before, claimedresponsibility. The group has links with thePakistani Taliban and pledged allegiance toIslamic State in November.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he wassaddened by the attack.

"This is a very patriotic and peaceful peo-ple who have always worked for the wellbe-ing of Pakistan," he said."This is an attemptto spread divisions in the country."

Uzma Alkarim, a member of the Ismailicommunity, said the bus took commuters towork every day. The Ismailis had facedthreats before, she said.

"Around six months ago, our communityelders had alerted us to be careful because ofsecurity threats but things had calmed downrecently," she said.

English leaflets left in the bus were head-lined "Advent of the Islamic State!"

The leaflets also blamed Shi'ites for a dead-ly sectarian attack in Rawalpindi, next to thecapital Islamabad, and raged against extraju-dicial killings by police.

In January, 60 people were killed whenJundullah bombed a Shi'ite mosque in thesouthern province of Sindh. The Talibanbombed another Shi'ite mosque in the north-west city of Peshawar weeks later.

Centre Okays...able results.The statement said that, drawing from past

lessons, the programme also focuses oninvolving the states and grassroots- levelinstitutions such as Urban Local Bodies andPanchayati Raj Institutions for its implemen-tation.

The programme would be implemented bythe National Mission for Clean Ganga(NMCG), and its state counterpart organisa-tions, that is, the State ProgrammeManagement Groups (SPMGs).

NMCG will also establish field officeswherever necessary, the statement added.

In order to improve implementation, athree-tier mechanism has been proposed formonitoring projects, comprising a high- leveltask force chaired by the Cabinet Secretary

and assisted by NMCG at the national level,state-level committees chaired by ChiefSecretary and assisted by SPMG and district-level committees chaired by the DistrictMagistrate.

Robert Vadra's ...the Congress was removed from power in

October after two back-to-back terms.Those 10 years, the BJP has alleged before

and after winning the election, allowed MrVadra to circumvent rules, a point also madeby senior bureaucrat Ashok Khemka, whowas transferred from his post days after hered-flagged a land transaction by Mr Vadra inGurgaon near Delhi.

In March, the national auditor spoke of"undue favours" by the Congress governmentin Haryana to a company owned by MrVadra. The auditor's report said as a result,"huge profits" were accrued while the gov-ernment did not benefit.

As rebuttal for allegations that Mr Vadraleveraged his family's influence for unfairgain, the Congress refers often to theSupreme Court's decision in 2013 to reject arequest for a CBI investigation into MrVadra's business dealings in Haryana.

While campaigning for the BJP inHaryana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hadalleged that Mr Vadra's illicit dealings wereconducted with the knowledge of MrsGandhi and her son, Rahul, who is No 2 inthe Congress party. However, like other topBJP leaders, he pledged the "law would takeits own course" and said his government willeschew "vendetta politics."

Petrol Price...Delhi should have been Rs 55.41 a litre and

diesel Rs 43.07 per litre.Mr Pradhan said a year ago, petrol in Delhi

was second cheapest in South Asia. Petrolprice of Rs 71.41 a litre at Delhi was cheap-er than Bangladesh (Rs 74.43), Sri Lanka (Rs74.92) and Nepal (Rs 83.61) but costlier thanRs 66.17 a litre price in Pakistan.

Similarly, diesel price of Rs 55.49 on May1, 2014 was cheaper than Rs 71.27 inPakistan, Rs 56.17 in Sri Lanka and Rs 65.84in Nepal. It was however costlier than Rs52.55 per litre rate prevalent at that time inBangladesh.

Budget Session...individual member's concern on matters of

urgent interest. This was facilitated byrescheduling of the question hour."

"At present only five to six of the starredquestions for the sittings are answered orally.This number can be increased if both mem-bers and minister adopt the practice of shortcrisp and focused questions and answer," headded.

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajanthanked the members and said though thehouse had lost some valuable time due to dis-ruptions, it had been made up by late sittingsand skipping the lunch hour.

Cabinet approves...number of families, children help their par-

ents in their occupations like agriculture, arti-sanship etc and while helping the parents,children also learn the basics of occupations.

"Therefore, striking a balance between theneed for education for a child and the realityof the socio-economic condition and socialfabric in the country, the Cabinet hasapproved that a child can help his family orfamily enterprise, which is other than anyhazardous occupation or process, after hisschool hours or during vacation."

Besides a new definition of adolescent hasbeen introduced in the Child Labour(Prohibition and Regulation) Act andemployment of adolescents (14 to 18 years ofage) has been prohibited in hazardous occu-pations and processes.

"These provisions would go a long way inprotecting adolescents from the employmentnot suitable to their age," it said.

The statement said that in case of firstoffence of employing any child or adolescentin contravention of the law, penalty would beimprisonment for a term not less than sixmonths but which may extend to two years.

Besides they could be fined an amount notless than Rs 20,000 which may extend to Rs50,000. They could also be penalised withboth imprisonment and monetary fine.

Earlier, penalty for employing any child incontravention of the law was imprisonmentfor a term not less than three months, whichcould extend to one year.

The monetary penalty for the same was afine not less than Rs 10000, which couldextend to Rs 20,000 either alone or with theimprisonment.

In case of a second or subsequent offenceof employing any child or adolescent in con-travention of the law, the minimum imprison-ment would be one year which may extend tothree years now.

Earlier, penalty for second or subsequentoffence of employing any child in contraven-tion of the law was imprisonment for a mini-mum term of six months which may extendto two years.

Besides, the offence of employing anychild or adolescent in contravention of thelaw by an employer has been made cognis-able which allows police to arrest without awarrant.

Government believes that this provisionwould act as a deterrent against the offenceof employing a child or adolescent in contra-vention of the law.

In the principal Act, the same punishmentwas provided for parents or guardians forpermitting a child to work in contravention ofthe Act, as prescribed for the employer of thechild.

However, taking a "realistic view" of thesocio-economic conditions of the parents,there would be no punishment in case of afirst offence by them and in case of a secondand subsequent offence, the penalty would bea fine which may extend to Rs 10,000, thestatement said.

The proposal also provides for the settingup of a Child and Adolescent LabourRehabilitation Fund for one or more districtsfor rehabilitation of children or adolescentsrescued.

Joining BJP...to take me back to the party fold. Just like

any other normal human being I too commit-ed a mistake and requested the party leader-ship to forgive me. Today, I met the speakerBiman Banerjee and party leader ParthaChatterjee," he told reporters.

Mr Thakur had in a letter to the TMC chiefand West Bengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee last month accepted his 'mistake' ofleaving the party and appealed to be takenback.

Asked whether he wanted to get his minis-terial portfolio back, Mr Thakur said "I can'tcomment on this matter. I just want to returnto my party and forget the mistakes. I want towork for the people. I had then taken the stepafter being misguided by BJP."

State BJP president Rahul Sinha refused tocomment on the recent developments.

Mr Thakur had resigned as minister ofrefugee relief and rehabilitation departmentand along with his son Subrata had joined theBJP just ahead of the February 13 bypolls inBongaon Lok Sabha seat.

Gujarat Chief ...protocol Prime Minister Modi had come to

receive him in his home state.In the six-day tour from May 14 - May 20,

the Gujarat delegation led by Ms Patel willvisit cities like Beijing, Guangzhou,Shenzhen and Hong Kong, officials in theChief Minister's Office said today.

Maharashtra Chief Minister DevendraFadnavis is also travelling to China alongwith the Prime Minister.

Last year during Mr Jinping's visit toGujarat, three bilateral agreements weresigned including sister-state province agree-ment to develop cultural and social tiesbetween Guangdong Province and GujaratState, sister-city agreement betweenGuangzhou City and Ahmedabad and settingup of Industrial Parks in Gujarat.

Parliament set ...legislative business. "The Government is

going to complete one year in office soon. Iam happy to report that during the last oneyear, there has been a perceptible improve-ment in the functioning of the Parliamentmarking a beginning towards restoration ofpeople`s respect for and confidence in demo-cratic institutions. This is a significantachievement for all the concerned," Naidusaid while briefing the media on the last dayof the Budget session of the Parliament.

Govt gives...chaired by Defence Minister Manohar

Parrikar, Rs.30 crore was allotted for thepreparations for the carrier.

The DAC also gave nod to arming India`sthree Delhi-class destroyers, and threeTalwar class frigates with BrahMos super-sonic missiles at a cost of Rs.27 billion.

It also approved replacement of Indian AirForce`s ageing fleet of 56 Avro aircraft withairbus C-295.

An amount of Rs.119.29 billion was allot-ted for this purpose, where 16 C-295 planeswill be purchased in fly away condition,while 40 will be made in India.

It also approved buying 145 M777 lightguns from US under foreign sales for Rs.29billion.

The government also approved Russianproposal for manufacturing Kamov Ka-226Tlight helicopters in India. A total of 197 heli-copters will be built.

Buddhism provides ...talks between him and Chinese President

Xi Jinping on issues that define future ofbilateral ties.

Modi would begin his day tomorrow on arelaxed note with a visit to the famousTerracotta Warriors museum which has alarge collection of terracotta sculpturesdepicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, thefirst Emperor of China.

He would later visit the famous BuddhistDashang temple in Shaanxi province, thehome province of President Xi, who hasrestored its old glory by making it the head-quarters of his mega Silk Road projects.

Xi will join Modi in the afternoon afterwhich the two would spend nearly about fivehours with restricted as well as informal talksto build on their rapport discussing the most

contentious issues like border dispute andChina's big push to rope in reluctant Indiainto the Silk Road projects, specially themaritime silk road (MSR) over which Indiahas strong reservations.

In Xi'an, Modi will be hosted by Xi,departing from normal protocol to recipro-cate gesture by Modi in Ahmedabad whenthe Chinese leader visited India in Septemberlast year.

Xi would accompany him to the famousWild Goose Pagoda, the magnificent struc-ture built in sixth century to commemoratethe visit of a spiritual structure build to high-light famous Chinese Buddhist monk XuanZang's 17-year- long journey.

Modi would also be accorded traditionalTang dynasty welcome followed by a ban-quet by Xi.

The two countries are set to announce amulti-million joint film production to recon-struct Xuan's epic journey.

Officials say how Modi-Xi talks go willreflect the next day when Modi will havestructured talks with his Chinese counterpartLi Keqiang in Beijing on May 15 duringwhich the two sides were set to sign somekey agreements.

These 30 Law ...Acquisition Bill.The 30-member Joint Committee of the

Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha would sub-mit its report on the first day of the MonsoonSession on the bill which has already beenpassed by the Lower House.

The other Rajya Sabha members in thecommittee are: Ram Narain Dudi (BJP),Jairam Ramesh (Congress), PL Punia(Congress), Ram Gopal Yadav (SamajwadiParty), Sharad Yadav (Janata Dal-United),Sharad Pawar (Nationalist Congress Party)and Rajpal Singh Saini (Bahujan SamajParty).

The members of the Lok Sabha who are inthe joint panel include KV Thomas, RajivSatav (both Congress), Anand Rao Adsul(Shiv Sena), Kalyan Banerjee (TrinamoolCongress), B Mahtab (Biju Janata Dal),Mohammad Salim (Communist Party ofIndia-Marxist), Chirag Paswan (LJP) and SSAhluwalia, Udit Raj, Anurag Thakur andGanesh Singh (all BJP).

'Black Money...raised the issue in the Rajya Sabha today.Participating in a discussion on the Black

Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income andAssets) and Imposition of Tax Bill, 2015,Derek O' Brien (Trinamool Congress)stressed that the term black

money should be changed as "dirtymoney".

Tracing the history of coining the term'black money' to Europe several centuriesago, he said, money that appeared in black asit was mixed with copper while minting wascalled as black money.

CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury also under-scored that the term black money was"racist" and it should be replaced with someother term.

Soft Diplomacy..."Earlier I had applied to the party (TMC)

leadership to take me back to the party fold.Just like any other normal human being I toocommited a mistake and requested the partyleadership to forgive me. Today, I met thespeaker Biman Banerjee and party leaderPartha Chatterjee," he told reporters.

Mr Thakur had in a letter to the TMC chiefand West Bengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee last month accepted his 'mistake' ofleaving the party and appealed to be takenback.

Asked whether he wanted to get his minis-terial portfolio back, Mr Thakur said "I can'tcomment on this matter. I just want to returnto my party and forget the mistakes. I want towork for the people. I had then taken the stepafter being misguided by BJP."

State BJP president Rahul Sinha refused tocomment on the recent developments.

Mr Thakur had resigned as minister ofrefugee relief and rehabilitation departmentand along with his son Subrata had joined theBJP just ahead of the February 13 bypolls inBongaon Lok Sabha seat.

Mr Manjul, who hails from Matua commu-nity - a vote bank which holds the sway in theBongoan area, had then accused the TMCgovernment and the party of functioning in a'whimsical' way.

Later on, Subrata was given a BJP ticket tocontest from the Bongaon seat against hisaunt, the TMC candidate Mamata BalaThakur.

Mamata Bala had registered a massive vic-tory in Bongaon polls handing a humiliatingdefeat to the BJP and Subrata Thakur.

Gunmen Storm...entered Park Palace guesthouse in the

evening. Security forces have been dis-patched to the area," a senior security officialtold AFP on condition of anonymity.

Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi,who was at the scene of the attack, said gun-shots were heard from inside the guesthouse.

Roads leading up to the guesthouse wereblocked by a large number of security per-sonnel who arrived after the attack, accord-ing to an AFP photographer at the scene.

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Germany's BNDintelligence agencysends mammoth

amounts of phone and textdata to the U.S. NationalSecurity Agency (NSA)each month, Die ZeitOnline reported, highlight-ing the scale of spyingcooperation which hasunleashed a political rowhere.

Critics have accusedChancellor AngelaMerkel's staff of giving thenod to the BND to help theNSA spy on Europeanfirms and officials. Theyalso say officials lied aboutthe prospects of a U.S.-German "no-spy deal"before the 2013 election.

Polls show the scandal isstarting to hurt popularMerkel whose office isresponsible for the over-sight of intelligence.

Citing confidential docu-ments, Die Zeit Onlinereported on Tuesday that ofabout 220 million pieces ofmeta data gathered per day,some 1.3 billion pieces permonth go to the NSA.

The data includes rawmaterial from phone callsand text messages whichshows contact details andtimes of activity but doesnot contain content. In par-

ticular, it sends raw materi-al on foreign communica-tion in crisis regions, saidZeit Online.

"It is questionable as towhether this practice iscovered by German laws,"wrote Die Zeit, citing aBND official responsiblefor data protection.

A spokeswoman for theBND declined to commenton the report. The agencyhas now halted its Internetsurveillance for the NSA,German intelligencesources said last week.

Privacy is a potent issuein Germany due to exten-sive surveillance byCommunist EastGermany's Stasi secretpolice and also by theGestapo in the Nazi era.

Revelations by formerNSA contractor EdwardSnowden about wide-spread espionage inGermany by the UnitedStates caused outrage inGermany when they sur-faced.

A Forsa poll on Tuesdayshowed that the oppositionGreens, who have led criti-cism of the governmentover German spying, hadprofited from the row,climbing 2 points to 12

percent while Merkel'sconservatives dropped 1point to 41 percent.

That follows an InfratestDimap poll last week thatshowed Merkel's approvalrating was down five

points to 70 percent in thewake of the spying scan-dal.

Merkel, who argues thatGermany has to work withthe NSA to fight terrorism,tried on Monday to deflect

criticism, saying her staffacted "to the best of theirknowledge and in goodconscience". Media reportshad said Washington neveroffered Germany a no-spyagreement as Merkel andsenior aides had said.

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1. Ordinary table salt is sodium chloride. What is bak-ing soda?A. Potassium chlorideB. Potassium carbonateC. Potassium hydroxideD. Sodium bicarbonate

2. Ozone hole refers toA. hole in ozone layerB. decrease in the ozone layer in troposphereC. decrease in thickness of ozone layer in strato-sphereD. increase in the thickness of ozone layer in tropo-sphere

3.Pine, fir, spruce, cedar, larch and cypress are thefamous timber-yielding plants of which several alsooccur widely in the hilly regions of India. All thesebelong toA. angiosperms B. gymnospermsC. monocotyledons D. dicotyledons

QUIZ TIME

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

TODAY’S STARARIES You have a wonderful combination of optimism and spirituality, Aries.

You believe in miracles as well as angels, Santa Claus, and the ToothFairy. We support your attitude wholeheartedly! Today something mayhappen that only further solidifies your beliefs. Perhaps your guardianangel saves you from stepping in front of a bus, or you receive a tele-pathic message that stops you from making a bad career mistake.

TAURUS Don't be afraid to ask for help today, Taurus. It may be that yourfriends and family help you with a task or you discover a mech-anized solution that does the job for you. Technology can be awonderful thing. Don't let any aversion to it stop you from incor-porating it into your daily life. You will find that once you embraceinnovation, it improves your quality of life dramatically.

GEMINI You can expect your love life to take a dramatic turn for the bet-ter, Gemini. This may be because you feel more self-confidentthan you have in a long time. In addition, you feel great and lookeven better. It's no wonder your romantic partner is reacting toyou in such a powerful, positive way. Make the most of thisopportunity by spending some quality time together.

CANCER You're looking good and feeling great, Cancer. Now if onlyyour home environment reflected who you are. As you lookaround, you may realize that it isn't as elegant as it could be.Today you can begin to change it. Begin with the basics - tidyup and clear away clutter. Once all the extraneous items aregone, you can begin to look at more serious changes.

LEO Sign up for a class or workshop today. Your career couldgreatly benefit from more training. A short computer coursemight be all you need to move your career a giant leap for-ward. Don't neglect your artistic abilities, Leo. Ideally, youwill find a way to integrate your creative talents into yourdaily business life. There's always room for creativity.

VIRGO You've been working especially hard lately, Virgo, and today you maybegin to reap the benefits of all your hard work. Some project that'sdear to your heart may be nearing completion, and even you areimpressed by the results! All those naysayers who said it wouldnever work are now looking at you with admiration and respect. Giveyourself a pat on the back for your accomplishment.

LIBRA There's no other way to say this, Libra - you're in the moodfor love. Tonight you may feel a strong urge to be with yourpartner. If there isn't one in your life, you should take stepsto correct that. You may meet someone who sweeps youoff your feet. You want to be head-in-the-clouds in love,which is the only way to be!

SCORPIO You have a generous spirit, Scorpio, which could get you into troubleif you aren't careful. When you get a gift of money or even a hint ofone, your tendency is to buy presents for all your friends. It's hard tofault you for this, but there are other ways to show your affection. Youcould bake cookies to distribute, for example. This will keep yourmoney safe and earning interest.

SAGITTARIUSYou hardly even believe in love, much less love at first sight,Sagittarius, but something that occurs today may turn you into abeliever. You never know when it will happen. You could be in lineat the grocery store when someone catches your eye (and heart).Perhaps someone with whom you've only had a phone relation-ship suddenly shows up at your office. Adventure lies ahead.

CAPRICORN It's likely a hidden talent of yours is revealed today, Capricorn.All those scraps of writing could turn into something moreconcrete, such as a novel. Maybe you begin to dabble withyour children's paint set and realize how much you enjoy thecreative process. Be open to all possibilities. You may findyour life takes a different, more authentic direction.

AQUARIUS You will feel especially close to family and friends today,Aquarius. There's a lot of positive energy in the air, and peoplefeel optimistic and congenial. It's a pleasure to be with your lovedones, and interactions with strangers have a lovely flavor as well.Take advantage of the warm astral energy and plan a get-togeth-er with your favorite people. You will enjoy growing closer.

PISCES You're likely feeling confident, optimistic, and enthusiastic today,Pisces. You feel as though anything is possible, and indeed it is.If you feel a bit of wanderlust and are anxious to explore newplaces and meet new people, you may soon receive thechance. Life is one great big adventure. You're fortunate to havethe sort of spirit that embraces it fully.

Xoloo nThursday on

launched a new Android 5.0Lollipop-based budget handset in India,the Xolo Prime. Priced at Rs. 5,699, the smart-

phone is set to compete with theMicromax Canvas Spark, a recentlylaunched budget smartphone also run-ning Android 5.0 Lollipop. The XoloPrime is said to soon be available atretail outlets across in India.

The Xolo Prime is a dual-SIM sup-porting smartphone that features a

4.5-inch IPS display with(480x854 pixels) resolu-

tion and a pixel densi-ty of 218ppi. The

handset ispowered

by a

1.3GHzq u a d - c o r e

M e d i a T e kMT6582M processor

clubbed with 1GB of RAM

and Mali 400 MP GPU.

The smartphone includes 8GB of inbuilt stor-age, which can be expanded via microSD card(up to 32GB). The handset also features a 5-megapixel autofocus rear camera with LEDflash, and 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facingcamera. The Xolo Prime is backed by a1800mAh battery, rated to deliver up to 20.8hours of talk time on 2G networks and 10 hourson 3G, apart from up to 500 hours of standbytime on 2G and 400 hours on 3G.

Connectivity options include GPRS/ EDGE,3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with hotspot functional-ity, Bluetooth v4.0, Micro-USB 2.0, and GPS/A-GPS. The Xolo Prime features an accelerom-eter, proximity sensor, and ambient light sensor.

It bears dimensions of 135x68x9.5mm.Micromax launched the CanvasSpark smartphone last month. The

handset features a 4.7-inch qHD(540x960 pixels) IPS displayalong with Gorilla Glass 3 protec-

tion, and is powered by a 1.3GHzquad-core MediaTek MT6582M proces-

sor coupled with 1GB of RAM. The CanvasSpark bears an 8-megapixel rear camera withLED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing cam-era. 8GB of inbuilt storage and 2000mAh bat-tery is also included inside the smartphone thatis rated to deliver up to 335 hours of standbytime. The handset went on its third flash sale onWednesday.

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In the post-Snowdenworld, end-to-endencryption (E2EE) has

been a topic of concernwith respect to variousservices that involve com-munication. WhileWhatsApp late last yearadded end-to-end encryp-tion to its messaging serv-ice, there are still a fewservices that have still donot feature the same,which makes them suscep-tible to interception.

Google at a recentReddit AUA (Ask UsAnything) session whendetailing the current statusof its role in assisting theUS government in surveil-lance, disclosed it doesencrypt Hangouts conver-sations but remainedunclear on the use of end-to-end encryption. It later,separately clarified thatHangouts does not useend-to-end encryption.

Google's RichardSalgado, Director for LawEnforcement andInformation Security, andDavid Lieber, SeniorPrivacy Policy Counsel,were representing the firmat the Reddit AUA. Duringthe AUA session,Christopher Soghoian,

Principal Technologist atthe American CivilLiberties Union, asked,"Why has Google refusedto be transparent about itsability to provide wiretapsfor Hangouts? GivenGoogle's rather impressivetrack record regarding sur-veillance transparency, thetotal secrecy regarding thecompany's surveillancecapabilities for this prod-uct is quite unusual."

Salgado replied sayingHangouts conversationsare encrypted. He said,"Hangouts are encrypted intransit, and we're continu-ing to extend and strength-en encryption across moreservices."

Google later confirmedto Motherboard thatHangouts doesn't use end-to-end encryption. WithoutE2EE, it is possible forGoogle to intercept con-versations when requestedby law enforcement agen-cies and governments.With its current implemen-tation however, of encryp-tion in transit, ISPs andtelecom operators will notbe able to intercept conver-sations. Google specifiedto Motherboard that the'Off the Record' feature

only keeps messages out ofchat history, but the mes-sages are otherwise indis-tinguishable from regular,on the record ones.

E2EE is employed toprotect communicationbetween two parties (origi-nating party and intendedrecipient) without beingintercepted or read by thirdparties, including the com-pany offering theservice.The data isencrypted by the originat-ing party, and can only bedecrypted by therecipient.

The Mountain Viewgiant in the recent pastrevealed that worldwidegovernment requests foruser data rose 150 percentover five years. The com-pany however is unclearhow many of theserequests were forHangouts.

It's worth noting thatApple's iOS 8 featuresbuilt-in encryption thatprevents the companyitself from accessing dataon the devices without theowner's consent or pass-code. Apple's iMessageand FaceTime video chatservice also feature end-to-end encryption.

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MOHALIKings XI Punjab made

tougher for Royal ChallengersBangalore to reach the IndianPremier League play-offs asthey outsmarted the visitors by22 runs in a match that wasreduced to 10 overs a side dueto rain here on Wednesday.

Wriddhiman Saha's entertain-ing knock (31 runs off 12 balls)at the top of the order helpedKings XI post 106 for sixagainst Royal Challengers.

The star studded batting line-up of Royal Challengers failedto deliver in the short chase asthey could only reach 84 for sixin 10 overs.

Royal Challengers, however,are still very much in con-tention for a play-off berth,having 13 points from 12games with two games remain-ing. Kings XI Punjab, alreadyout of the competition, wononly their third game of the sea-son.

The away team were 33 forone by the first three overs ofthe chase with skipper Kohli(19 off 9) falling to AnureetSingh after dispatching themedium pacer for two fours anda straight six over long-on.

Kohli's fall meant anotherexplosive duo was at the creasewith no target too much forGayle and AB de Villiers.

However, the often dreadedpartnership did not last long aspacer Sandeep Sharma hadGayle (17 of 14) caught behindoff a well-directed short ball,leaving the visitors at 44 fortwo in 4.4 overs.

More trouble was in store for

Royal Challengers when deVilliers (10 off 9) swept straightto the man at short-fine leg, histeam still needing 40 off the last20 balls. The onus was onMandeep Singh and DineshKarthik to get RoyalChallengers over the line but it

proved to be too much of a taskfor them.

Earlier, make shift openerSaha (31 off 12 balls) launchedan all-out attack from ball onebefore quickfire innings fromDavid Miller (14 off 4) andAkshar Patel (20* off 15)

pushed Kings XI to a competi-tive total.

The game, supposed to startat 8 pm, began two hours and45 minutes late with RoyalChallengers putting Kings XIin to bat on a green surface.

Saha, replacing Murali Vijay

at the top, got the hosts off to acracking start much to the joyof fans who waited hours forthe action to begin.

Saha, opening alongsideManan Vohra, smashedMitchell Starc for two fours inthe opening over of the inningsbefore hammering another left-arm pacer Sreenath Aravind inan over that went for 20 runs.At 34 for no loss, Kings XIwere off to a flier.

The Bengal batsman wascaught at mid on by MandeepSingh off the first ball bowledby medium pacer David Wiese,but his cameo was enough togive Kings XI a much neededimpetus early on. However,Harshal Patel (2/12) removedVohra (11) and Glenn Maxwell(10) in in the fifth over to pegback the home side at 54 forthree. The exhilarating pace ofthe innings was seen allthrough out with batsmen get-ting out regularly after hittingsome lusty blows.

Same was the case for DavidMiller (14), who departed aftersmacking leggie YuzvendraChahal (2/25) for two consecu-tive sixes down the ground.

The regular loss of wickets ina 10-over innings eventuallydid not affect the tempo of theinnings as Kings XI set up achallenging target.

IPL 2015: Kings XI Punjab spoil Royal ChallengersBangalore's party in 10-over a side match

ROMERoger Federer defeated

Uruguay`s Pablo Cuevasfor the second time thismonth as the Swiss legendbegan his campaign at theItalian Open with a 7-6(7/3), 6-4 win onWednesday.

The second-round suc-cess in 80 minutes camejust over a week afterFederer beat theUruguayan on clay in thefinal in Istanbul.

Federer was tested all theway by Cuevas, ranked24th in the world, with thesecond seeded 33-year-oldwinning a tiebreak to sealthe opening set in 45 min-utes.

A break for 3-2 in thesecond gave Federer --seeking his first title inRome after losing threetimes in the final in 14 pre-vious appearances -- thelead which he never sur-rendered.

Andy Murray kept hisclay-court purple patchalive, defeating JeremyChardy 6-4, 6-3 to extendhis unbeaten record on thesurface this season.

Murray extended hisrecord to 10 wins in 10matches after making alate decision to see how hisbody had held up after thestunning Madrid Open winon Sunday over RafaelNadal.

Murray, who turns 28 onFriday, beat Chardy in 84minutes with six aces andthree breaks of theFrenchman`s serve.

"My legs were a bit tiredat the start but they startedto feel better after a fewgames," said Murray. "Iplayed a good match.

"He (Chardy) has a bigserve, it was tough for me.

But I hung in, moved welland didn`t give him loadsof opportunities. I servedwell throughout the match.

"I`m happy with how Iadjusted to conditions, Imade it difficult for him towin free points.

"I don`t know how mybody will feel over the nextdays, but I`ll try to spendas much time recoveringand resting as possible."

Nadal, his seeding downto fourth, began his titledefence and the quest for arecord eighth Rome trophyas he crushed Turk MarselIlhan 6-2, 6-0 in barely oneand a quarter hours.

I`m playing better," saidNadal. "it`s true that I`venot played two weeks in arow at the right level yet -but today was a good start.The level or today wasgood.

"I played without manymistakes and that gave methe chance to win by thisscore."

Japanese fifth seed KeiNishikori won his openingtest four days after losingto Nadal in the Madridsemi-finals, with Asia`stop player defeating CzechJiri Vesely 7-6 (7/3), 7-5

Italy`s Fabio Fogninithrilled the home fans as he

upset tenth seed GrigorDimitrov 7-6 (11/9), 4-6,6-0, reaching the thirdround here for the firsttime.

Dominic Thiem beat12th seed Gilles Simon asthe French player quit withneck pain when trailing 7-6 (7/5), 2-0.

In the women`s draw,second seed Simona Halepmade up for last week`ssurprise opening roundexit in Madrid, defeatingAmerican Alison Riske 6-3, 6-0 for a place in thethird round.

Three top 10 seeds lost,with Victoria Azarenkabeating fifth seed CarolineWozniacki for the thirdtime this season, advanc-ing 6-2, 7-6 (7/2).

Russian Daria Gavrilovaput out seventh seed AnaIvanovic 5-7, 7-6 (7/2), 7-6(9/7) barely a month afterupsetting Maria Sharapovain the opening round inMiami. Romanian IrinaBegu ousted German ninthseed Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-3. Canadian EugenieBouchard ended a losingstreak going back twomonths and six defeats asshe held off a late surgefrom Zarina Diyas 6-3, 6-4.

Federer and Murray roll on in RomeLONDON

Sacked England batsmanKevin Pietersen says he isabsolutely "devastated" onhearing the news that hishopes of returning to thenational side have beendashed by England andWales Cricket Board's(ECB) director of cricketAndrew Strauss.

Strauss on Tuesdayrevealed having "trustissues" with Pietersen andfor that he would not be apart of the England team inthe summer.

Pietersen was sacked byEngland in February 2014after having repeated con-frontations with teammatesand the management.

"I am absolutely devas-tated that it looks like myhopes of an England recallhave been brought to a

close, especially giveneverything that has beensaid and asked of me,"Pietersen wrote in a col-umn for telegraph.co.uk onWednesday.

“I had a meeting withAndrew Strauss and TomHarrison (ECB's new chiefexecutive) at a hotel inLondon on Monday night.Tom said, 'You have hadone of England’s greatest

careers and we need towork together.' So, ofcourse, I agreed to themeeting.”

But Pietersen reveals itwas the other way round atthe meeting, saying Straussmade him know his plansof having an England out-fit withouthim.

"Yet it now looks clearTom knew exactly what

Strauss was going to tellme. I messaged Tom afterthe meeting…'You talkabout trust,' I said. He sim-ply replied: 'I am sorry youfeel that way, Kevin,'” hewrote.

“They have used theword trust to justify notselecting me, well, trust isa two-way thing. I couldn’tbelieve just half an hourafter I had my meeting, theresult of it was on the inter-net and on the BBC air-waves. Now I certainlydidn’t tell anybody, so whodid? They say they don’ttrust me but how can any-body trust them?”

The South Africa bornbatsman wrote he wentinto the meeting thinkinghe would be allowed toearn a place in the side, butsays he was "misled".

Devastated that my England hopeshave been shattered: Kevin Pietersen

NEW DELHIMuch to the delight of cricket

fans across the world, Indian gov-ernment on Wednesday gave greensignal to an India-Pakistan seriesexpected to be held in UAE inDecember this year, according toreports.

The approval came afterPakistan Cricket Board (PCB)chief Shahryar Khan met FinanceMinister Arun Jaitley.

While the government was of theview that sports should not bemixed with politics, sources saidthere will be no compromise withPakistan on issue ofterrorism.

During the past few days,Shahryar also held meetings withBCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya

and BCCI secretary AnuragThakur.

Earlier in a ground-breakingmove, cricket administrators from

India and Pakistan agreed to playfive bilateral series in eight years,first of which is tentatively sched-uled to take place in December this

year."The series will start in

December as per schedule and itwill comprise three Tests, fiveODIs and two T20s. The prepara-tion is on in full swing. We have toovercome the final hurdle. Youmay know as per the MOU therewill be five series between the twocountries in eight years," Shahryarsaid.

Shahryar also said that he hadcome to Kolkata to specially con-vey his congratulations toDalmiya?, who was recently elect-ed as the president of Indian crick-et board.

He went on to emphasise thatalong with Dalmiya, he revived themost important cricket series in theworld in 2004 as well.

Government gives green signal toIndo-Pak cricket series: Sources

Most interestingIPL of all, saysWasim AkramMUMBAI

With no team as yet assuredof a last four play-off berth,Kolkata Knight Riders mentorWasim Akram described thisIPL season as the most interest-ing in its eight-year history.

"Good sides are participat-ing. We are still not sure whowill qualify for the last four. Ithas been the most interestingIPL as far as points table isconcerned," said the formerPakistan captain ahead ofThursday's crucial contestbetween Knight Riders andhosts Mumbai Indians at theWankhede Stadium here.

Akram, saying it's obviousthat his team - who are thedefending champions - will goto the top if they win here,sounded cautious about theopposition's abilities especiallyin their backyard. "It's statingthe obvious. But we are play-ing Mumbai Indians in theirden. They are a good side andin good nick. They won fivegames on the trot before losingthe last game. Pressure will beequally on both sides," said theformer Pakistan left arm paceace. KKR are on 15 points, onebehind leaders CSK and a winwill take them past the latter onthe table. Akram was all praisefor captain Gautam Gambhirand said he has been aggres-sive in his outlook rightthrough.

ROMERohan Bopanna made it

to the second round whileSania Mirza reached thequarterfinals of the RomeMasters after scoring flu-ent victories with theirrespective partners, here.

Coming into this eventafter the Madrid Masterstitle win, Bopanna and hisRomanian partner Florintoday tamed the Argentinecombo of Leonardo Mayerand Juan Monaco 6-3 6-4in the opening round of the

Euro 3,830,295 ATP event.Bopanna and Mergea

called the shots from theword go, building up a

healthy 5-1 lead but Mayerand Monaco reduced thedeficit with a gritty fight.

Serving for the opening

set, Bopanna committed adouble fault to be down 30-40 but he saved the breakchance with an ace andwrapped the set after 29minutes of play.

There was better fight inthe second set but eventu-ally the Indo-Romanianpair prevailed, thanks to anearly break which stayedwith them.

For a place in the quar-terfinals, they will fight itwith third seeded team ofDutch player Jean-Julien

Rojer and Romania's HoriaTecau.

In the USD 2,183,600WTA event, being playedsimultaneously, the topseeded pair of Sania andMartina Hingis outclassedthe Romanian pair of Irina-Camelia Begu and MonicaNiculescu 6-4 6-2 in thesecond round,yesterday.

In the quarterfinals, theyface Germany's JuliaGoerges and Spain's S?lviaSoler-Espinosa.

Rohan Bopanna, Sania Mirza make progress in Rome Masters with partners

LIVERPOOLAs he prepares to make his final

Liverpool appearance, footballer StevenGerrard has said he does not like theheightened attention surrounding hisdeparture.

Liverpool host Crystal Palace onSaturday, in what is sure to be an emotion-al farewell as Gerrard bows out in front ofhis team's supporters. The former Englandcaptain will move to American club LosAngeles Galaxy at the end of the season,bringing down the curtains on a 17-yearplaying career for Liverpool in which he

has made more than 700 matches."I'm going to get the attention at the

weekend, it's not something I really like,but hopefully I can put in a good perform-ance for the supporters so we can get a winand I can enjoy the send-off that I'm goingto get," Gerrard was quoted as saying bysoccerway.com on Wednesday.

"It's going to be a difficult day but I'mgoing to try and enjoy it."

Gerrard believes it will be an emotionalday for him his family and all the fans whohave seen him perform over so manyyears.

Raipur Policeraids CSK cheergirls in 'routinechecking'NEW DELHI

The Indian PremierLeague (IPL) cheerlead-ers were left in a state ofshock, when the Raipurpolice on Wednesdayraided their hotel rooms,that too without any war-rant, said a report pub-lished in Times ofIndia. The cheer girlsbelonged to the ChennaiSuper Kings franchisethat played an IPL matchagainst Delhi Daredevilsat Raipur. Most of themhail from England andAustralia. In shock seeingpolice in their rooms, thecheer girls rang up theevent management compa-ny that arranged theirassociation with the IPL.

Don't like the attention surroundingmy Liverpool exit: Steven Gerrard

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Anew research into thelinks between microbes,food and health has sug-

gested that drinking Belgian beerand coffee can help keep youslim.

Tim Spector's study suggestedthat while junk food kills off thegut bacteria that can help keeppeople thin, Belgian beer andcoffee can actually increasethem, the Daily Express reported.

Spector said that microbesmake up 90 per cent of livingcells in our bodies and when dis-rupted, could be a major cause ofobesity and his research alsofound sweeteners in diet fizzydrinks had unfavourable affectson metabolism that led to weightgain, while fasting drinks couldbenefit microbes and metabo-lism.

A statement from the publish- ers Weidenfeld and Nicolson, said that compared to their recent ancestors who lived outside

cities, with rich and varied dietsand without antibiotics, theyhave only a fraction of the diver-sity of species of microbes livingin their guts.

It continued that only by under-standing what makes people'sown personal microbes tick andinteract with their bodies canthey overcome the confusion ofmodern diets and nutrition toregain the correct balance of theirancestors.

The researchers said that typi-cal UK diets are not balanced inaccordance with dietary recom-mendations, with excessive con-sumption of grains and otherstarchy foods, protein-rich foods,oils, fats and sugar, coupled withparticularly low intake of fruitand vegetables. The study will bepublished in a new book called'The Diet Myth.'

Drinking Belgian beer andcoffee can keep you slim!

They make newswhenever they pairup on the big screen

but actress DeepikaPadukone said that nomedia speculation comesclose to explaining therelationship she shareswith former boyfriendRanbir Kapoor.

The actors, who brokeup after one year of dating,were last seen in AyanMukherji's Yeh JawaaniHai Deewani in 2013.

While the media trieddecoding their bond duringthe film's promotions, theaudiences were all praisefor their onscreen chem-istry in the movie.

The two are workingtogether again in ImtiazAli's upcoming romantic-drama Tamasha and the29-year-old actress is pre-pared to be under scrutinyagain.

"No matter how muchwe move on in our livesand no matter how com-fortable we keep tellingpeople we are workingwith each other, the ques-tion will keep coming up.But the point is, it was, isand will always be a veryspecial equation that weshare. Something that one

can't explain and describein too many words,"Deepika told PTI in aninterview.

"Our work is an exampleof that. We did Yeh JawaniHai Diwaani together andit was a super success andpeople gave us so muchlove for that film and thenwe have finished another

film (Tamasha) in less thantwo years. I think that'samazing," Deepika said.

The actress, who is cur-rently riding high on thesuccess of Piku, said a filmwith Ranbir and Imtiazwas on her wish-list sinceshe saw Rockstar.

"I am fascinated by

Imtiaz and then there isRanbir, who again issupremely talented and Ihave worked with both ofthem individually. Why Ilove and respect Imtiaz somuch is also because hecast me in Love Aaj Kaleven before my first filmreleased," said Deepika.

"I knew it would be real-ly exciting for three of us

to come together and Iwanted it one day, thesame way I wanted Ranbirand me as an onscreen pairto be directed by Ayanbecause I had seen theirwork in Wake Up Sid. Iwas like 'I want to workwith these people'. Andthat's what happened whenI saw Rockstar," sheadded.

Deepika Padukone: Ranbir Kapoorand I Share a Special EquationHer mother may be

happy to see herface on newspaper

pages but Anushka Sharmafeels actors should retain acertain amount of mysteryand enigma for their audi-ences.

The 27-year-old actress,who has cemented herposition as a bankable starwith the success of PK andNH10, has been in theheadlines recently be it hermovie projects or her rela-tionship with cricketerVirat Kohli. (Also Read:Ranbir and AnushkaSketched Virat Kohli. DidThey do a Good Job?)

"Actors are overexposedtoday. Every time Iopen the newspa-per, I see my face, Isee myself on hoardings. Itis overbearing to seemyself so much. My moth-er is happy though. Tilldate, she gets excited tosee my face in the newspa-per," Anushka said in aninterview.

"But, I feel a certainamount of mystery shouldremain with actors, thereshould be some enigma.You should go and experi-ence them onscreen," sheadded.

The audience will get toexperience Anushka's per-formance in two back-to-back movies - AnuragKashyap's Bombay Velvetand Zoya Akhtar's DilDhadakne Do - releasing

this Fridayand onJune 5.( A l s oR e a d :R a n b i r ,Anushka,B o m b a yV e l v e t' B i gS h o t s 'Prep ForG o aConcert. AS n e a kPreview)

B o m b a y

Velvet, where she is pairedopposite Ranbir Kapoorfor the first time, will seeAnushka in an "inter-nalised" role, quite oppo-site to her chirpy image."Every actor has a certainenergy which suits certainroles better. I was surprisedwhen he (AnuragKashyap) offered me thisin 2011. It was scary tocontrol one's naturalinstinct and find anotherroute to approach the part.It is a very internalised per-formance. Rosie does notsay much in the movie.She expresses herself onlythrough her songs," saidAnushka.

It is the first time that

Anushka is workingwith Ranbir and

she is happythat theirfirst film

togeth-er is

BombayVelvet."I would

not want anyother film to beour first film

t o g e t h e rbecause

it is sod i f -

ferent from everyone's per-ception. It is a very stronglove story and I can't seeanyone else doing Johnny'srole because Ranbir is sogood in it. We next have aquintessential love story inKaran Johar's Ae Dil HaiMushkil."

Karan, meanwhile, issharing screen space withthe pair as an actor in theperiod drama. He will beseen as the main antagonistKaizad Khambatta, in themovie to Anushka's RosieNoronha and Ranbir'sJohnny Balraj.

"I don't have manyscenes with Karan but hehas done great in themovie," she said.

Anushka Sharma: I See Myself in Newspapers,on Hoardings. It's Overbearing

Aamir Khan To Attend GrandPK Premiere in China

Agrand pre-miere of theC h i n e s e

dubbed version ofAamir Khan's PK,releasing on May 22,is scheduled forWednesday. Theevent will be attend-ed by the superstarhimself, along withseveral of his fans inthe region.

The premiere will be held at the Shanghai Art Center.For the Chinese dubbed version of PK, the China Film

Group has appointed Baoqiang Wang, a popular actorfrom the region, to dub for Aamir's character -- an alienwho lands on earth and questions the prevalence of peo-ple's blind faith in godmen.

In a bid to promote the film across the media and fansin China, a cross cultural publicity plan has been craftedwhere lead actor Aamir, director Rajkumar Hirani andproducer Vidhu Vinod Chopra and the presenters UTVMotion Pictures, along with international sensationJackie Chan as well as Wang will be spreading the buzzaround the film, said a statement.

PK, which released worldwide on December 19 lastyear will experience one of the widest releases for anIndian film in China. It will hit over 3,500 screens.