The death toll from a pow-erful cyclone which bat-tered India's eastern coast-line rose to 25 on Tuesday,as the storm weakenedand moved inland, leavinga swathe of destructionand triggering fears thatheavy rains would bringflash floods. Meanwhile,Prime Minister NarendraModi who made an aerialsurvey of the affectedareas announced an imme-diate assistance of 10 bil-lion rupees.

Packing wind speedsof up to 195 kph (over 120mph), cyclone Hudhudhammered the coasts ofAndhra Pradesh andOdisha on Sunday, forcing

tens of thousands ofcoastal inhabitants to seeksafety in storm shelters.

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Visakhapatnam, home totwo million people, gov-ernment workers beganremoving uprooted trees

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"I do not know howmany days it will take torestore my business. Ihave lost everything," saidHeusikeswa Rao, a traderin Visakhapatnam, as hetried to gather the piecesof wood and metal whichonce formed his stall.

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cultural tiesAlso pays homage to WWI veterans at

a commemoration eventRupanjana Dutta

Sajid Javid, theSecretary of State forCulture, Media andSport visited India topromote business andtourism from 13-15October 2014.

On Monday headdressed an audiencemade up of culturalentrepreneurs, mediaand arts people at the'Culture is GREAT'reception.

On this trip he wasaccompanied by depart-mental heads of theBritish Library, variousmuseums and galleries,who attended a round-table as part of MrJavid's official visit toKolkata. 15 directors ofleading museums inIndia also participated inthis.

In a statement givento Asian Voice, CultureSecretary Mr Javid said,“Britain has a hugeamount to offer as anexciting, cutting-edgeplace to visit, to workand to study. In 2014,British culture has been

all about hi-tech innova-tion and creativity andour door is very muchopen to all those Indianswho want to come andexperience that forthemselves.” With regardto tourism, Mr Javidwent on to say thatBritain would like toinvite Indians to visit astourists. In 2013, visitsto Britain from India andthe amount that wasspent on them bothreached record levels -375,000 visits (morethan 11% in 2012)- andthese tourists spent £441million (more than 32%in 2012) and averagespend per visit being£1,174.

Indian anti-child labouractivist Kailash Satyarthiand Pakistan's MalalaYousafzai shared theNoble peace prize for“showing great personalcourage and in theirstruggle against the sup-pression of children andfor the right of all chil-dren to education.”

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25 killed in Andhra cycloneModi announces Rs 10 billion immediate assistance

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1) Please tell me about your cur-rent position?As the Executive Chairman ofTopsgrup, India's largest securitygroup, and The Shield Group,UK's largest independent totalsecurity solutions provider, it is myresponsibility to ensure that thebusiness continues to thrive. SinceI first joined Topsgrup twentyyears ago, I've witnessed the com-pany experience exponentialgrowth across the globe and myaim is to take that further, hopingto achieve a billion dollar revenuesoon.2) What are your proudestachievements?When I look back at where I firststarted when taking on the familybusiness, Tops Security Guard(TSG), to where it is today, I amimmensely proud of the work wehave achieved. We literally re-wrote the rules for the security

business not only for TOPSGRUP,but for the entire Indian SecurityIndustry at large. I trusted myinstincts and in my heart I knewthat I had a winner on my handswhen I joined TOPS. Today thecompany generates a staggeringturnover of £150 million andemploys over 93,000 employeesspread between India and the UK.We've certainly come a long wayfrom my £10 a month earnings.3) What inspires you?I would consider my father to beone of my biggest inspirations. Heinstilled in me the correct valuesand ethics that have brought me towhere I am today. I hope that allthe hard work I have poured intothe business continues to makehim proud. I was also inspired bySir Richard Branson (VirginGroup) - I admire his personalbrand and his success despite thechallenges he has had to face over

the years. He was an inspirationto me growing up in the streets ofMumbai and over the years, as weestablished our business andbrand in India, the media, ourcustomers and our employeesoccasionally compared my entre-preneurial style to his and I rev-elled in that praise.4) What has been the biggestobstacle in your career?My introduction to the businessworld was a huge obstacle that Ihad to overcome. When I was six-teen, my father suffered from astroke, forcing me to take controlof his share in a chain of Chineserestaurants. Instead of feelingbeat, I used this opportunity toprove myself and with just onerestaurant left, I worked hard toimprove the business and it reallytaught me how to build some-thing from scratch which gave methe confidence in later businessventures. My family memberswere so impressed that after twoyears they decided I should run

the other family business - a secu-rity firm called TOPS SecurityGuard (TSG).5) Who has been the biggestinfluence on your career to date?With every decision I make, Ialways follow my own intuition.You have to believe in your ownstrategy before you can convinceothers to follow suit and I havenever doubted my intuition forbusiness.6) What is the best aspect aboutyour current role?As the company continues toexpand, it's great to expose ourservices to more and more clientsacross the world. Providing topnotch security has always been apriority to me, and it's fantastic toknow that you're making theworld a safer place.7) And the worst?In my position, you're not alwaysgoing to get it right and there willdefinitely be highs and lows.Every decision you make isabsolutely crucial, and sometimesthe pressure of making the wrongone can be daunting. However, Ihave a clear vision for the futureof the company and I'm commit-ted to making that vision a reality.8) What are your long termgoals?Three years from now, I wouldlike to see the business achieveeven more. Since acquiring TheShield Group in the UK, I havebecome more motivated inexpanding our business across allsecurity verticals and explore newmarkets. One of our priorities is

to expand into the UK marketand continue our market domina-tion in India. We have recentlystarted our offices in Netherlandsand France and slowly, we areexploring other European mar-kets as well. Whilst it will be chal-lenging, I really believe that this isa market that needs to be tappedand will allow the company toexpand further.9) If you were Prime Minister,what one aspect would youchange?I believe that some changes defi-nitely need to be made to the busi-ness world, and I would definitelywork on providing more opportu-nities for educated, trained andexperienced people of all back-grounds to work and contributeto the economy of our country.The corporate world and interna-tional economies around us arechanging and evolving all thetime; and unless we don't openour doors, invite and acquireexceptional talent from the field ofbusiness, art and sports aroundthe world, we will face impedi-ments to growth and leadership.10) If you were marooned on adesert island, which historical fig-ure would you like to spend yourtime with and why?Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.He is the one historical figure thatI tremendously admire. I thinkthe intelligence, spirituality, com-passion and tolerance that hedemonstrated throughout his life,are attributes that we should allaspire to learn from.

Dr Richie Nanda Dr. Richie Nanda is the Executive Chairman of The Shield Group andTopsgrup. He is very much the rags to riches entrepreneur, and startedhis business empire with just £10 in his pocket when he took over hisfirst family business, which consisted of a chain of Chinese restaurantsin Mumbai called TUTKUKS. Turning his attentions to the global securityarena, Richie is widely credited with rescuing the ailing security industryin India in the early 1990s. He ushered in a new era of change by intro-ducing a series of strategic initiatives. He also corporatised private secu-rity not only for TOPSGRUP but for the entire Indian security industry.Under Richie’s stewardship, TOPSGRUP became the first Indian multina-tional company to acquire a British security company, The Shield Groupin 2012, resulting in his entry in The Sunday Times Rich List. This was afeat he achieved again in 2013 and 2014, when he made it into the pres-tigious list twice more, with a current wealth of £195 million.

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Jihadi terrorism in IndiaThe spectre of jihadi terrorism continues to castits baleful shadow across India, but nowhere moremenacingly than in West Bengal. The recentBurdwan bomb blasts [see Media Watch, page 12]has been a wake-up call for the authorities inDelhi to a threat that is now deeply embedded inthe State, thanks largely to the deliberate policy ofthe State government to mollycoddle hydra-head-ed Islamist elements with tentacles spreading toits farthest corners. The senior-most officers ofthe State police kowtow at all hours to rulingTrinamool Congress politicians, including govern-ment ministers, the Chief Minister MamataBanerjee among them. They appear to be underorders not to infringe the principles of vote bankpolitics laid down by the State authorities. Thatthe bomb blast was confined to a flat was a strokeof luck. What is truly disturbing is the role of theWest Bengal police. Instead of waiting for theanti-terror sleuths of the National InvestigationAgency (NIA) to arrive from Delhi and examinethe unexploded ordinance for clues, the DIGinstructed that the unexploded devices be takento the banks of a nearby river and destroyedthrough controlled explosions. TheSuperintendent Police of Burdwan, SMH.Meerza,was grilled for three hours by NIA officers., whowished to know, in particular, why this was donebefore the arrival of an anti-terror squad fromDelhi. The standard practice is to store such ordi-nance in pits for experts to examine for possibleclues on their origin, and the imprint of thesource. The Intelligence Branch (IB) in Delhi haslaid the following charges against the State police:

1 An attempt at a cover-up to make it appear thatthe explosion was a cylinder blast; 2. Did notcooperate with the central agencies; 3. Burnt doc-uments linking certain local personages to theJamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh; 4. Coached theaccused arrested at the site to reveal nothing;Ignored IB alert following the trail linking theJamaat to the Sarada ponzi scam; 5. Resolutelyobstructed the NIA investigation. These chargesare of the utmost seriousness. If proved, theywould amount to nothing less than treason, abetrayal of national security. Such accusationsmust surely be investigated at the highest nationallevel, with those having a case to answer broughtto trial and sentenced, if found guilty by thecourts. The law has to take its course. The coun-try has to be protected from villains within whoconspire to destroy it. Naivety is out of place in acombustible world riven by discords fed by theunbridled ambitions of certain great powers andtheir local minions. There are signs that theCentre in Delhi means business. The first mean-ingful step has been taken with the application ofthe Unlawful Activities Act, which paves the wayfor the NIA to take full charge of the inquiry as ananti-terror operation. Mamata Banerjee andJayalalitha protested the establishment of the NIAby the previous Congress-led regime ofManmohan Singh, on the ground that its creationviolated states’ rights in a federal structure. Theirself-righteous opposition has been exposed as asqualid manoeuvre. There is something truly rot-ten in the state of West Bengal. An accidentalbomb blast has revealed its cancerous growth.

Jammu-Kashmir border on fireThe week-long cannonade along the border areasof Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistani forces haveled to lost lives and property on the Indian side.This resulted in a vigorous riposte from Indiantroops, according to TV reports, and a warningfrom the Indian Defence Minister, Arun Jaitleythat Pakistani adventurism would have conse-quences that Islamabad would find difficult tobear. There would be no flag meetings betweenlocal commanders, no talks between officials aswas the standard practice in former times. Toughwords are being complemented by tough action.Where this will end is difficult to say at this stage.But the larger picture deserves close criticalscrutiny. A few weeks ago al Qaeda announcedthat India was in its sights, that jihadi activity inthe country would be intensified. An ISIL flagwas unfurled from a Srinagar mosque. ThePakistani assault started thereafter in a bid tobring international pressure on India through theauspices of the United Nations. Two visiting USsenators Timothy Kaine and Angus King issued astatement in New Delhi welcomed the prospect ofa UN-sponsored India-Pakistan dialogue on thestatus of Jammu and Kashmir. Simultaneouslycame Pakistan’s call for an “international role” byoutside parties to expedite a settlement of con-tentious issues between the two countries. Indiahas resolutely rejected any third party role on theKashmir dispute. This has been the position ofevery Indian government, since Indira Gandhi

enunciated this poicy in 1972 at the Shimla talkswith Pakistan in the aftermath of the Bangladeshwar. Fast rewind to 1989-90, when a Jihadi insur-gency broke out in the Kashmir valley and theuncertain domestic scene put India under pres-sure. Then New York Times Correspondent inSouth Asia, Barbara Crossette, quoting a “seniorWestern diplomat in Islamabad”, anticipated a“change in the power equation in the subconti-nent,” since the Soviet Union no longer existed tohelp India out as it did in 1971, when the Nixonadministration in Washington, and its new defacto ally, Chairman Mao’s regime in Beijing,backed Pakistan’s military dictator, Yahya Khan.India duly withstood the jihadis, thus aborting theCrossette prediction. Echoing the fraught past,Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, heir to Zulfiqar AliBhutto legacy of a 1000-year war against India,has promised that Pakistan under his rule wouldliberate and occupy Jammu and Kashmir. Hisgrandfather Zulfiker Ali ended his days danglingat the end of a rope in a Pakistani prison, so onemust hope that the young grandson’s exuberancedoesn’t lead to a kindred fate, or the assassina-tion, near Islamabad, suffered by his motherBernazir. The question here – and it is only aquestion, but it does require cogitation - are therelinkages between the current events in Kashmirand those in Burdwan in West Bengal, with for-eign powers muddying the waters, as has hap-pened before? Old habits die hard, do they not?

UKIP star in the UK firmamentThe Conservative and Labour party establish-

ments can ignore the United KingdomIndependence Party (UKIP) at their peril. To havethrashed their rivals in the Clacton by-election, andcome second to Labour in its stronghold ofHeywood, in north of England, by a mere 600-oddvotes is an achievement that brooks no denial, norsneers about a party of nuts and fruit cakes. UKIPis rabidly anti-EU, advocating an immediate UKwithdrawal from Europe; UKIP calls for even morestringent immigration controls than those already inplace. UKIP has outbid the Cameron government inthe auction of fear of the Other. Following theScottish referendum, UKIP’s arrival is yet anotherblow to the closed shop Westminster political cul-ture. UKIP, like many hitherto fringe parties inEurope, is garnering a substantial protest vote, butit would be a grievous error of judgment to believethat the trend can go no further, that things will getback to normal, given time. The European Union isdiscrediting itself with stagnating economies, highunemployment levels and continuing austerities.Germany, long the European powerhouse, is head-ing for a recession. Worse: EU leaders were whipped

into imposing sanctions against Russia, boasted theUS Vice President Joe Biden to a HarvardUniversity audience.. The EU’s cringing impotencebefore a swaggering bully sullies its image. Thesanctions regime against Russia is now backfiring.Russia’s putative diplomatic isolation is an absur-dist invention, as it excludes China, India, SouthEast Asia, Latin America and tiny, but hugely pro-ductive Israel, which refused to align with Americaand Europe at the UN against Russia over develop-ments in Ukraine. [Refer Le Monde diplomatiqueSeptember]. UKIP leader Nigel Farage has trashedDavid Cameron’s Russia-Ukraine policy. When youbait the bear, he said, expect to be mauled. TheUKIP package has to be scrutinized with care if weare to grasp the UKIP phenomenon. The Camerongovernment’s scaremongering immigration policyset the UKIP ball rolling. Oxford and CambridgeUniversities lament the declining student visa appli-cations from China and India, from the latter in par-ticular. A globalized world requires that the UK’sbest universities can compete for the best global tal-ent, a point most recently made by AndrewHamilton, the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University.

COMMENT

The value systems of those with accessto power and of those far removed fromsuch access cannot be the same. Theviewpoint of the privileged is unlike that

of the underprivileged- Aung San Suu Kyi

The UKIP political earth-quake based on amongother things immigrationarguments – what does itmean to us – children ofimmigrants.

“I need a white face tointerview who is lookingfor money for his companyfrom India and has comeespecially for that” said theBBC interviewer to me lastyear as I hosted inBirmingham a UKGovernment India Daywith Jaguar Land Roverand other Indian compa-nies in the UK.

“Between 1980 and2005, virtually all net newjobs created in the USwere created by firms thatwere 5 years old or less.That is about 40 millionjobs. Established firms cre-ated no new net jobs dur-ing that period”. This is aquote from an outstandingpiece in the New YorkTimes this week byFriedman, who wrote thebook The World is Flatwhich talks much of Indiaand outsourcing.

The point: If you wantto create jobs then bankbailouts aren’t the way togo. You need new compa-nies. And you need themnow. You need them sothey can pay taxes, to paydown our national debt, topay pension contributions.

But jobs come fromnew companies. Fromstart-ups. And where arethese start-ups going tocome from? They comefrom entrepreneurs. Andyou can either grow entre-preneurs through ourschooling (we haven’t gotthe time), or you importthem – immigrants.

And you don’t attractrisk-taking entrepreneurialjob-creating entrepreneursby taxing them to deathand bashing immigrants.‘Britain’s borders are open– open to talented provenrisk-taking entrepreneurs’should be the politicalmessage. Because long-after the May 2015 elec-tion when the domesticaudience is no longer lis-tening, the rest of theworld will remember thewords which will be spo-ken by our political mas-ters that month. And ifthose words are purely forwinning the election byimmigrant bashing, thenthey will inherit the short-term prize and lose thelong-term reward.

Why do immigrants so

often succeed? The readersof this paper for instance?Because you do not travel7000 miles only to fail.Immigration self-selectsrisk-takers. Risk-takingentrepreneurs create newcompanies which createjobs.

But you know whatelse creates jobs withimmigration? Foreign stu-dents studying at ourUniversities. So what’s thelast thing you want to do?Kill University funding.It’s almost as if periodical-ly Britain decides to writea suicide note. Things get alittle good and it’s time fora death-wish. The late 70swere one period, as werethe early 90s.

Friedman notes the‘job-creators’ visa – createa certain number of jobs,and you get leave toremain in the country. Ivisit India every twomonths to look for highgrowth intellectual proper-ty rich Indian companiesto establish in the UK to goglobal from here. It’s atough job because Indiahas growth approaching10%. Why would theywant to go global fromhere? Because we still inthe UK have a competitiveadvantage; research facili-ties, access to the EU,skilled employees, accessto capital. Each of thoseadvantages is vanishingfast.

Get the entrepreneur-ial immigrants in herequick; keep up Universityfunding, slash the cost ofnew jobs in new compa-nies. That’s why I workwith the Government onits UKTI GlobalEntrepreneur Programme.

Raise taxes if youwant. But for god’s sakedon’t raise it on new com-panies. Make it cheap toemploy people. If theyearn a wage, they willspend a wage. Combatillegal immigration, butflood the country withentrepreneurs, open thefloodgates, let them pourin and let prosperity reign.Remember: ‘Britain’s bor-ders are open – open totalented proven risk-tak-ing entrepreneurs who willcreate companies andjobs.’ What the BBC guyshould have said is, ‘Iwant to interview brownfaces who have come hereas entrepreneurs, notwhite faces asking formoney.’

Of immigration, Innovationand Inspiration

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24 year-old Haroon Ashrafof Bordesley Greenstabbed his wife after threeyears of marriage whenshe refused to let him havehis cannabis. The mother,Neelam Ashraf wanted toprotect her children. JudgeMurray Creed ruled that'she did not want you tak-ing drugs in her presenceor the presence of your son(…) you lost self controland lunged at her, she puther arm up to protect her-self from the knife (…) youwould have hit her in the

face if she had not put herarm up.' Neelam hadfound the drugs stash andhid them in a kitchen cup-

board the court heard. Onthis day Ashraf carried outa three hour attack inwhich he sprayed her inthe face, throttled her andpulled her hair. Five dayslater, after a heavy night ofdrinking, he attackedagain with a knife asNeelam continued torefuse him the cannabis.Ashraf claimed that his

wife had stabbed herself ina jealous rage because shethought he was having anaffair. He has been sen-tenced to jail for five years.

Haroon Ashraf

Birmingham police werecommended for the waythey handled the EDLdemonstration whichtook place on BroadStreet last week.Unlike last year's

abysmal protest whichsaw mass violence andnumerous arrests on thegrounds of public order,this year's protest wascalm and controlled withpolice making only 5arrests.Broad Street boss Mr

Olley said Saturday’srally had a “minimal”impact on businesses andsaid that 'it was down tothe way the police han-dled the protest. I have tocredit them for a having abrilliant plan in place –although it wasn’tutilised as there wereonly around 400 protest-ers. I also credit the coun-cil for the way they han-dled the operation.'

Interestingly the EDLturnout was indeed lowerthan last year's. SuptRich Baker, of WestMidlands Police, stated:'the force has no power to

ban protest groups fromexercising their demo-cratic right to expresstheir opinions but wehave been planning forweeks to minimise dis-ruption to those who live,work or were visiting the

city on the day.'Adil Ray who is star

of the BBC's popular sit-com 'Citizen Khan' whichcelebrates the city ofBirmingham and the area

of Solihull where it isbased, tweeted “I mightgo and join the EDL rallyand shout ‘itoes’ aftereach time they chant ‘nomore mosques’– turn itinto an anti-malariademo.”

Belgrave Circle was setalight with festivity lastSunday 12th. With lastyear's celebration seeingmore than 35,000 peoplefilling the city's GoldenMile, a collection of newlighting columns shouldguarantee at least a fewhundred more in 2014.

Councillor Piara SinghClair, Assistant CityMayor and chair of theDiwali working party, said:'We're incredibly proud tohost these hugely-popularcelebrations which drawthousands of people to theGolden Mile every year.Diwali really showsLeicester at its best, and isa real treat for anyone,especially those who have

never experienced thespectacle for themselves.'Melton Road used

every medium available toannounce the beginning ofthe Hindu festival of light;bulbs, dance moves andfire ignited the streets andsky as the event switchwas flicked on at 7.30pmby a gathering of digni-taries including CityMayor Sir Peter Soulsby

and president of LeicesterHindu Festival CouncilMaganbhai Patel. A fire-work and laser show car-ried the celebrations for-ward at 8pm.The Diwali lights will

come on at 6pm and go offat 11pm each day, apartfrom Diwali Day on the22nd of October whenthey will remain on untilmidnight.

MP for Leicester EastKeith Vaz is debating theover-running of roadworkson Belgrave Road bySainsbury's.The £4 million devel-

opment is being paid for

by the food-store giantwho are relocating fromBelgrave to a larger loca-tion in Rushey Mead.The project is being

overseen by Leicester CityCouncil who say the road-

The Birmingham CityCouncil knew about theTrojan Horse plot whichsaw the infiltration of sev-eral schools' teaching byIslamic state radicals,announced investigationleader Peter Clarke, pic-tured.Clarke told the Sunday

Telegraph: 'very late in myinquiry, my team found anemail buried in a mass ofdocumentation submittedby the council whichshowed they had knownabout it all along.' Hedescribed the conduct ofthe council who haddenied their knowledge tohim and associate IanKershaw at several pointsduring the inquiry, as'extraordinary.''Despite all the inter-

views that both I and Ian

Kershaw had with offi-cials, none of them at anytime made reference tothat earlier correspon-dence,' Clarke said. Whatis more suspicious is thatthe investigator was origi-nally discouraged fromprobing further into case.He said that parts ofWhitehall had tried to'intimidate' him out of theinquiry despite evidenceand instinct that was indi-cating otherwise: 'What Iput in my report was thetip of the iceberg. There isa huge amount of material

which I didn’t put in. Ideliberately focused onwhat appeared to be theepicentre. There wereproblems elsewhere whichI couldn’t evidence suffi-ciently in the time avail-able.'This was part-way in

response to the NickyMorgan, the newEducation Secretary whoassured that 'ministers hadgotten to the bottom ofthe issue.'In light of Clarke's

comments an authorityspokesman said: 'BothPeter Clarke’s and IanKershaw’s full reportshave been received, andboth have fed into a strate-gic action plan which isbeing overseen by theEducation Commissioner,Sir Mike Tomlinson.'

UKIP won the Clacton by-election on 9th Octoberwhich now lands the partya seat in the House ofCommons. The party'sleader Nigel Farage, pic-tured, told the BBC thatthe outcome has 'shakenup British politics.' Thisalso means that DouglasCarswell, who recentlyjoined UKIP after leavinghis Conservative seat asMP of Clacton in August,will now continue as the

anti-immigration's party'srepresentative in parlia-ment.Carswell gained 60%

of the vote, dethroning theConservative's candidateinto second place. In thespeech that followed theresults Carswell told con-stintuents 'I resigned fromparliament to face thiselection because I answerfirst, foremost and last toyou. You are my boss.' In arelated 'shake-up' Labour

managed to secure itsHeywood and Middletonseat, but with a dimin-ished number due to anincrease in UKIP support.

'Diwali is here' pronounces the city of Leicester!

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UKIP gains first seat in Commons

Keith Vaz disputes Belgrave roadworksworks will continue intoMarch of next year.Vaz is set to pursue a

Private Members Bill thatwill ensure that develop-ers address the issue ofcommunity regenerationbefore they build theagreed project. In a publicmeeting held with 70 resi-dents, he explained howSainsbury's had refusedhis invitation to partici-pate in the discussion:'they explained to me atlength why they would notbe sending anyone. Thearrogance of Sainsbury’shas been seen on manyoccasions. A letter will besent to Sainsbury’s tellingthem that if they don’tengage with residents andbusiness people aboutcompensation with regardto this issue then a classaction law suit may follow.The residents and busi-ness people will look tosue them.'

Twenty-four year oldMitul Gadhia ofMountsorrel inLeicestershire has beennominated for a LeicesterMercury Young AchieverAward in the Business andEnterprise category.The young business-

man has already estab-lished his own estate andletting agency inLoughborough and is partof the franchise group

Martin&Co for which herecently won 'Best YoungBusiness Award' at theMartin and Co Annual

Awards in 2014.Proud mum Rekha

gushed that her son 'isextremely hard-workingand always has been. Hethoroughly deserves anomination. She said thatMitul 'employs four fulltime team members and iscontinuing to grow thebusiness. He’s also offeredtraining and guidance totwo school leavers in theform of apprenticeships.'

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Mr. Ajay S. Shriram is thePresident, Confederationof Indian Industry (CII)and Chairman and SeniorManaging Director, DCMShriram Limited. He isalso the Chairman of itssubsidiary company,Shriram Bioseed VenturesLtd.DCM Shriram Limited

is a leading business con-glomerate with a groupturnover of over US$ 1Billion. The Group’sresearch and developmentbased Hybrid Seeds busi-ness has a presence inIndia, Vietnam, thePhilippines and Indonesia. DCM Shriram is also

in a joint venture withAxiall Inc., U.S. for PVCcompounds. After The Doon

School, Dehradun (India),Mr. Shriram obtained aBachelors degree inCommerce fromSydenham College,Bombay. He attended var-ious training and manage-ment development pro-grams in India and over-seas.He participated in the

"Programme for

M a n a g e m e n tDevelopment” at theHarvard Business School,Boston USA. Mr Shriram is also the

Chairman of theGoverning Body of ShriRam College of Commerce(SRCC), a Trustee of SOSChildren Villages of Indiaand a Patron of Save theChildren India. He was President and

Chairman of InternationalFertilizer IndustryAssociation (IFA), Paris;and was Chairman,Agriculture Committee,

I n t e r n a t i o n a lFertilizer IndustryAssociation, Paris.He has chairednumerous otherboards.He talked to

Leading Lights ona recent CII visit toLondon, describ-ing what he feelsabout prospects forthe coming yearsof the BJP govern-ment. This weekanother major CIIconference hitstown.Ajay said that

development and growthwere objectives for PMModi. Also, having been achief minister for over 12years, “He has shownwhat good governance cando. He has broughtGujarat to among thehighest developed statesin the nation. Gujarat inthe last 10 years has hadan average GDP growth inagriculture of over 10%.He’s aware of the need forinclusivity- at the farmeror villager level- and thatagriculture needs a focusbecause 65% of India’s

population lives there.This is one state whereabout 900,000 hectares ofland, he has ensured, hasirrigation so water conser-vation is better and pro-ductivity is higher.When the Tata group

was having problems inwest Bengal, he got intouch with the Tata chair-man and within 24 hoursgave him land. He’sfocused and knows whathe wants. He isn’t plan-ning big bang announce-ments, but structured,planned development overthe next three or fouryears.”The Asian Voice point-

ed out that managingIndia is a different propo-sition to managing a state,with a rampant middle-man problem. “It is com-plex as we have 29 statesand another seven unionterritories. We’ve got a PMwho knows state issuesand who knows the prob-lems with the Centre. Hiswas an opposition state.So he knows how difficultit is. The focus of Centre-state collaboration is theirfocus. I believe they aresetting up secretary, min-ister and chief ministerfora, for interaction withtimeframes. For example,he has said that thereshould not be more than

four levels of permissionsand two weeks of decisionmaking. His memory isphenomenal and he hasgood people, so we areoptimistic. We expect tosee outcomes withinmonths.”

Pressing Mr Shriram,we asked about his wishlist for India.“We require invest-

ments to go up and todeliver what they arescheduled to deliver. On aWorld Bank rating for easeof doing business, out of189 countries, Indiaranked 134. The PM tookup this issue with us whenhe was CM. Our remit hasbeen; what is the best ineach state and how otherstates can copy the best.Let’s not reinvent thewheel.There are also the pro-

cedural requirements forstarting business, gettingpower and items for start-ing a business; the regula-tory environment. Howcan that be simplified? Wesuggest bringing in moreself- certification.

Streamline the legalframework, so that youhave streamlined decisionmaking. For instance wewere discussing recentlywith an American compa-ny in India; Starbucks.They said they required 51signatures!Posco, a South Korean

company, has been inIndia for nine years tryingto do business. Who isgoing to wait that long?A transparent road

path of government policyis important. There needsto be a change of senti-ment; the government hasto work with business andindustry as partners.Business is a partner forthe country’s growth.”Mr Shriram mentioned

that India requires 10-12million jobs to be createdover the next ten years. Hesaid that when the PMmet 75 secretaries recent-ly, he asked them each toidentify 10 laws which areredundant, obsolete, thatcan be removed.Finally, he said, visa

restrictions need chang-ing-especially in business.“We have to make surethat where a person isrequired to come for eco-nomic activity it should beensured that they are nothindered because ofvisas.”

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Actress Joanna Lumleyrallied outside theNepalese embassy inLondon on Saturday 11October, for an end to ananimal slaughter festivaldue to be held in Nepal inNovember. The protestwas attened by AnilBhanot ManagingDirector of Hindu CouncilUK and Nitin MehtaMBEfounder of the YoungIndian Vegetarians,amongst others.The actress said: “I

love Nepal – both the landand its people. TheGadhimai animal sacrificefestival entails horrendous

animal suffering and is acomplete anomaly in thiswonderful country. I urgethe Nepalese Governmentto end it as a matter ofurgency. I hope that ourvoices of protest will cur-tail this year’s festival sothat Hindus in Nepal andelsewhere can once again

Joanna Lumley calls for Nepalto stop mass animal sacrifice

be proud of their true tra-dition of compassion andconcern for animals.”This November as

many as 250,000 farmanimals will be brutallyslaughtered at the festival,which happens every fiveyears. Gadhimai is aHindu festival but is wide-ly opposed by the globalHindu community.Tens of thousands of

animals at a time are cor-ralled into a giant open airpen where their heads arehacked off in full view ofeach other. This blood-soaked event causesuntold suffering to its ter-rified animal victims.

Surya Upadhya,Chairman of the NepaleseHindu Forum in the UK,said: “The NepaleseHindu Forum in the UKcompletely opposes ani-mal sacrifice as Hinduismdoes not sanction thekilling of living beings.“There should not be

any place for this inhu-mane, barbaric sacrifice ofinnocent animals in thename of any religion”.More than 75,000 peo-

ple have signed a petitionurging the NepaleseGovernment to stop thefestival and to stop fund-ing the festival. Sign thepetition atwww.ciwf.org/gadhimai.The last festival was spon-sored by the NepaleseGovernment to the tuneof £36,500, which is near-ly 50 times the minimumNepalese annual wage.

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threatening to vote UKIPafter the decision to rein-state the permit of a Sikhfaith school on the 18thSeptember.

After listening to botharguments posed by offi-cials of the Khalsa second-ary school and the SouthBucks District Council,Communities SecretaryEric Pickles ruled that theKhalsa faith school wouldbe allowed to continue itssession from the £4.5 mil-lion office building it wasgranted to operate fromlast year. This debate fol-lowed through MichaelGove's, former Secretaryof State for Education,appeal for allowing theSikh school to stay on apermanent basis.

At a meeting last week200 villagers are continu-ing to oppose the Khalsa

Sikh institution. Torycouncillor Trevor Egletoninsisted this was due toenvironmental reasons asthe village is in the greenbelt area. The districtcouncil had originally onlygiven the school a one-year permit stating thatthere were problems withtraffic and noise pollution.

Local Tory MP, the for-mer attorney generalDominic Grieve, isalready under threat froma rise in UKIP support inthe village. The incidentwith the school is nowtriggering further anxietyaround Tory defectors.Grieve said he was 'verydisappointed' with Pickles'decision. 'The planninginspector said theyshouldn’t build herebecause of the noise. Forhim to overrule something

so basic makes a mockeryof the planning process.'

Ranjit Sandhu of theKhalsa Academy ParentsGroup said: 'It’s been along hard fought battle butwe are just very pleasedabout the decision.Unfortunately it’s beenvery sad because it’s notsomething we wanted togo through but we’re gladit’s over now and the deci-sion has been made.Hopefully we will be ableto build some bridges withthe local community andshow them that it’s theright decision.'

The school whichbuses students into StokePoges from Slough andwest London, offersPunjabi and Sikh studiesand a meditation pro-gramme in addition to thenational curriculum.

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A physical educationteacher who was workingat one of the schoolslinked with the TrojanHorse scandal was sus-pended after allegations ofposting racist jokes online.

Jonathan Parker ofWashwood HeathAcademy, one of theTrojan Horse-linkedschools, posted commentssuch as 'Muslims causepaedophilia’, and‘Sainsbury have run out ofpork chops. I blame theMuslims. Vote UKIP' dur-ing the European electionsin May on his Facebookpage. Parker alleged thatthe comments, another ofwhich read 'Bloody taxdodging immigrants. Ifthey paid their own way

we’d have more money forhealth, education, publicservices and pensions.Right I’m off for a STAR-BUCKS. Vote UKIP,' weremeant to be satirical andundermine the anti-immi-gration party.

Washwood HeathAcademy is a privately-runinstitution and consists ofpredominantly Muslimstudents out of some1,400 attendees. Onepupil said Parker has'always been a niceteacher. It’s a big shock tous all. Some pupils arevery angry.” A friend whocame to Parker's defencestated that 'the messageswere to friends only' andwere 'directed againstUKIP by sending up the

anti- Islamic aspects oftheir campaign. The postswere gained illegally anddoctored to appear out ofcontext and offensive.”

Senior members ofWashwood HeathAcademy are still consid-ering the messages andtheir gravity while Parkerremains suspended forone month at the start ofthe academic year.

High Commissioner of India organisesreception at the Conservative party conference

Villagers to vote UKIP after Sikh school is reinstated

Birmingham school suspends teacher for racist jokesJonathan Parker

Diwali celebration by Zee TV on Friday 10 October 2014. It was attended by creme de la creme of the Asian communityincluding Deputy Indian High Commissioner Dr Virander Paul, Ranjit Baxi, Co Chairman, Conservative Friends of India,

CB Patel, Publisher/Editor of Asian Voice and Gujarat Samachar and many other dignitaries. Photo courtesy: Raj D Bakrania, Prmediapix

The overcast skies andcontinuous rainfall couldnot dampen the spirit ofpeople celebrating Diwaliin Trafalgar Square onSunday 12th October.

Organised by theMayor of London, theparty began with a pro-cession from the SouthBank where local chil-dren dressed up as LordRama, Sita andLakshmana, and theirarmy of devoted monkeysand made their way downto Trafalgar Square. Fromgarba to classical dances,the afternoon filled withmusic in the air.

There was also a fash-ion show and free mehn-di designs from the officeGuinness Book OfRecords world’s fastest

henna artist, PavanAhluwalia.

Photo credit: Raj DBakrania, Prmediapix

Diwali on the Square

Paul Uppal, a Member ofParliament forWolverhampton SouthWest, recently openedthe new FairTrade shop.

Run by theWolverhampton CityFairTrade Partnership,the shop was originallylocated at DarlingtonStreet Methodist Churchbut had to relocate after afire hit the Church back inMarch. The new storecontinues to offer a widevariety of FairTrade pro-duce form coffee andcookies to craft goods

including jewellery andgifts.

The opening ceremonyalso included a poem bypupils from Bilston CofEPrimary School, and a talkfrom the shop's managerDavid Fulljames.

Paul Uppal opens new FairTrade shop

Residents of the wealthyvillage of Stoke Poges inBuckinghamshire are

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Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities and LordAhmad of Wimbledon

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www.abplgroup.com - Asian Voice 18th October 201410 YOUR VOICENobel Prize and historical

blunderNobel Prize of Peace is a symbolic grati-tude to one’s life long devotion tohumanity and peace and more than anhonor for the nation that owns the hon-ored man who deserves it.

The Nobel Prize for Peace has award-ed 95 peace awards from 1901-2014 andmany to honor in future but how many ofthem were given to people stood purelyfor peace in litterly terms, is still a reason-able question. There must be some validcriterion for the nominees and winnerand probably a responsible team to takehistorically decisions but still some his-torical blunders and omission can be seenin the history of this world famous award.

Mahatma Gandhi and Abdul SattarEdhi are a few cases that can be arguedwith pragmatic evidences. Gandhi, whohas transformed Hinduism, inspiredMartin Luther King to liberateAmericans from their Bigotry and is nowcalled the apostle of peace, was rejectedfour times declaring pure Indian nation-alist.

Dr Abdul Sattar Edhi is the most eli-gible personality for such reorganizationon the parameters of contribution to soci-ety and humanity. Dr Abdul Sattar Edhiwas recommended by then PrimeMinister of Pakistan in 2011, for hiswide association with social servicesthrough his world famous foundationEdhi; imparting social awareness andcourage to humanitarianism, but neverchosen.

Malala Yousaf Zai is said to be award-ed the 2014 peace award for her strugglefor child education at the age of 17. Infact this may be a good news for manyPakistanis but I am totally bewildered atthe decision of the Nobel Committee whocould see Malalas’s four years struggle forchildren but were not bother to thinkabout Abdul Sattar Edhi life long strug-gle. Could Malala have done more thanEdhi has in last 60 years and was shemore devoted than Gandhi and Edhi?

Tauqeer AhmadPeshawar, Pakistan

Improving quality of lifefor rural community

I found your article on Modi’s “SwarcchBharat Abhiyan”, which was publishedlast week but I am laid to wonder if is thisa total commitment or just a tokenism?

I was reading an article on the NirmalBharat Abhiyan (NBA), and I must saythat I am shocked. It seems that in 1986,the Central Government initiated, theCentral Rural Sanitation Programme(CRSP), primarily with the objective ofimproving the quality of life of the ruralpeople and also to provide privacy anddignity to women.

The concept of sanitation wasexpanded to include personal hygiene,home sanitation, safe water, garbage dis-posal, excreta disposal and waste waterdisposal.

28 years on, from 1986 to 2014, noth-ing has changed apart from coming upwith new names to the scheme/s. Ratherthan eradicating, Indians still treat Indiaas garbage dump in both urban and ruralareas. It still has antiquated drains thatget blocked with garbage which cannotcope during monsoon, flooding andbringing up sewage. Rural people stillusing open fields as latrines, where, espe-cially women can be exposed to dangers.Embarrassingly, it takes Mr Modi to bringthis up to the fore again in 2014.

Regarding the current situation, Ihave noticed and find it shocking that noone, including the Indian politicians oryour paper bringing forth the plight of theKaramcharis, mainly dalits, who are thereal heroes/heroines in this matter. Theyare the ones who clear all the garbage.

Mohindra MasterBy email

Is there a place fromMuslim in India?

A question was recently put to PM Modi:When you see the future of India do yousee India that is purely Hindu or do yousee a place for 'Muslims' also in it? PMModi's left the questioner aghast.

"This question is a problem faced bythose people who do not have a properunderstanding of what Hindu orHindutva means and never try to grasp iteither. Hinduism always believes in(quoting Sankrit hymn) 'ekam sat viprabahudha vadanti' which means the "Truthis one but there are many paths to under-stand and get it".

Hinduism is the only religion thatsays that 'God is one' and never says thatthe Muslim God is different, Christiangod is different or Sikh god is different. AHindu does not believe in the absolutismof his own God. He says each God is suit-able and made for His believer.

Hence what a Muslim believes in ishis own faith and if he wants to pursuehis God that way then he should be wel-comed that way. Israel has an officialbook in which they say that they hadbeen persecuted in every part of theworld (especially in Germany). It furthersays that if there is a land where Jewswere welcomed and never persecuted inits history, than it has been India whereJews have been living for centuries peace-fully.

Similarly when the Parsis arrived inIndia in 7th century having been drivenout of Persia by the invading Muslimarmies, they arrived in Gujarat wherethey were welcomed by the local HinduKing. They pleaded to the King that theyhad brought their God also with themand wish to build a temple. In additionthey requested that no non-Parsis shouldbe within 5 km of their fire God. TheHindu King allowed this. So Hindus giveprotection to all other faiths.

Niranjan VasantBy email

Ebola knocking at ourdoors

With the onset of winter, the usualinfluenza season is now upon us. Some ofus will take the ‘flu jab to protect our-selves from the dreadful disease. The eld-erly and other vulnerable groups will getfree inoculations and should be encour-aged to take advantage of this.

Now there is the added danger of theEbola virus invading our shores with thefirst case reported in Spain. There areconfirmed reports of a nurse who treatedtwo victims of Ebola has tested positivefor the disease. The nurse is said to be thefirst person in the current outbreakknown to have contracted Ebola outsideAfrica. We must also not forget that theflu virus was imported here fromTanzania and that Aids first appeared inthe Congo.

It has been said that there is a smallbut real danger of the virus taking holdhere and that the Cabinet’s Cobra com-mittee will be meeting to consider how totackle the potential danger.

There have been nearly 7,500 con-firmed infections worldwide. Guinea,Sierra Leone and Liberia have been hard-est hit. Some 3,400 people have died as aresult. There are reports saying that bur-ial teams dealing with Ebola outbreaks inSierra Leone are on strike with dead bod-ies being left in the streets. Ebola spreadsthrough contact with bodily fluids of

Image of religionThe word “religion” simply means,“union with God”. Definition is compli-cated by different interpretations by vari-ous genuine/ fake personalities. Theirteachings become dogmas to be imple-mented by force, to form a cult. Dogmasinterplay with greed, and power struggleensues. These power struggles are fuelledby vested interests. They sermonizepeace but supply arms and ammunitionto hostile adversaries. False facade of reli-gion is an excuse to hide evil motives ofwar mongers and perpetuate tension.

Turmoil is alter ego of altruistichumanity. Therefore one must neverassociate religion with uncontrollableenergies and vices that drive humanbeings. But ultimate image of any religiondepends on implementation by the fol-lowers. Islam may be teaching compas-sion but followers practice rampant vio-lence. Christians have balanced violenceby precept of eye for eye etc, and non vio-lence by precept of love thy enemy, com-passion and forgiveness!

Hindus/Jains/Budhhists, haverealised that violence begets violence in avicious unending circle. So they havebuilt a brick wall of non violence, toler-ance and equal respect to non Hindu reli-gions. Therefore, violence by volatileHindustani and Pakistani/BangladeshiMuslims is smashed to smithereens bythis brick wall. God being 100% compas-sionate will not allow humans to selfdestruct.

Ramesh JhallaBy email

someone who has the virus and the onlyway to stop an outbreak is to isolatethose who are infected.

Dinesh ShethNewbury Park, Ilford

Nobel Peace PrizeI congratulate from the very core of myheart both Sri Kailash Satyarthi and MissMalala Yousafzai for receiving NobelPeace Prize of 2014. Both of themdeserve the award.

However, one of the most deservingcandidates Mahatma Gandhi was notawarded the coveted prize. It is nice tosee Nobel Peace Prize committee takingthe right decision this time. I hope boththe recipients can successfully achievethe goal they have set for the good of chil-dren in both India and Pakistan. It wouldbe wonderful if they can work cooperat-ing and helping each other as Malala hassaid in her press address in BirminghamLibrary that Sri Satyarthi has alreadyspoken to her and they have discussedthe possible way forward for their work.Whether a programme of this kind cancome into effect and be fruitful that isanother matter.

But the situation with Sri Satyarthi isquite the opposite. Not only is he encour-aged in his work he is actively supported

by all Indians. He has no fear for his life.In view of what Malala has said aboutpossible Indo-Pakistan relation, wouldshe be able to return to Pakistan and be apolitician there? Only time will tell. Themain point is why a Pakistani man hasnot been taking any initiative for girls’education in Pakistan?

Dr Jatindra SahaBy email

Butter v/s margarine I agree with Dinesh Sheth's letter

about Butter being better thanMargarine. I actually tried putting out inmy garden a tub of margarine to see if anyants, insects, birds, etc are attracted by itbut, even after 3 days, not a single crea-ture was interested in the margarine!

Butter is derived from an animalproduct but I prefer plant derived prod-ucts so may I suggest virgin coconut oilinstead. Both are saturated fats butcoconut oil is plant based and is an alter-native for those with foodintolerance/allergy to dairy products.

Rashmi JeshangBy Email

Conservatives should wise-up David Cameron may have healthy

lead over Miliband when it comes tochoosing the PM. But unless Tories formpact with Nigel Farage’s UKIP, Tories willlet Ed in through back-door. Douglaswell’s thumping win for UKIP in Clactonby-election, once Tory stronghold shouldsend shivers to Conservative MPs inShire Counties. PM had narrow escapeon Scottish independence, due to GeorgeBrown’s intervention.

Tories’ misconception of UKIP as oneday wonder, Farage masquerading as seri-ous politician, an equivocator is con-temptuous. Farage will have easy victoryin South Thanet constituency, come nextMay. Die-hard, dissatisfied Conservativesregard luminous Farage as trueConservative and will leave in droves forUKIP which will become the third largestparty. UKIP will split Tory votes, thusenabling Labour to take-over the reign.But alliance with UKIP will giveConservatives safe majority, tenure ofOffice for another term country so badlyneeds to mend the economy, completethe job and make quantum improvementin our living standard.

Let us hope PM will modulate, asdinosaurs have no place in modern poli-tics. Bhupendra M Gandhi

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Volunteering can give an “indescrib-able experience”, according to uni-versity student Amit Puntambekarwho recently returned from a five-week charity mission in Uganda.Amit, 22, was part of a group of

fellow students from the Universityof East Anglia (UEA) who werejoined by students from York St JohnUniversity. Asked how their trip wasfunded: “We had to raise £700,” saidAmit, who ran a sponsored halfmarathon. Funds were raisedthrough the use of social media,thanks to the local community inFenstanton, a small village inCambridgeshire with a population ofaround 3,000. During their assign-ment, the team supported the workof East African Playgrounds, or EAP,a UK registered charity that aims tochange the lives of children acrossEast Africa by developing children’slearning opportunities and environ-ments.“We had a strict work schedule

Monday to Friday, with Wednesdayafternoons off” said Amit. Heexplained how they spent the firsttwo weeks digging the foundationsfor a playground at WansimbaPrimary School, a government-owned school with over 1,500 pupilsin Bugiri, a district in EasternUganda. “Once the foundationswere dug, we made cement fromground rocks, sand and actual mix-ture. We then had to sand all themetal so we could start on the designand painting,” added Amit.Weekday afternoons were devot-

ed to teaching arts and crafts toaround 100 children. This involvedsimple games like ‘duck, duck,goose’, ‘limbo’, ‘bulldog’, ‘rope

jump’ and parachuting. “The artslessons I found difficult, as I’m noVincent Van Gogh,” laughed Amit.“We made animals such as fish outof items we found on the ground.The children played with plasticcups and other simple items that wetake for granted in the UK,” headded. Amit explained how over theweekends they enjoyed leisure activ-ities including white water raftingand quad biking and also managedto go on a water and land safari.They also visited Murchison Falls,also known as Kabarega Falls, awaterfall on the River Nile.Now back at home in the UK, I

asked Amit what he found mostamazing about his experience: “Theculture in Africa is so different tothat in the UK.” He explained: “Thepeople have so little, yet are sohappy and for me it raised questionsabout the materialism we have in theWest, we have so much, yet peopleare so unhappy.” Amit, son of

Prakash – whose family originatefrom Uganda - and Jo Puntambekar,is currently studying Politics at UEA.He hopes to go on to do a Mastersand then a PhD in InternationalRelations.Fellow volunteers on this charity

mission from UEA were EllenBlessington, 19, Harriet Rosier,Kirsten Abo Henriksen, HannahUtting, all aged 21, IIona Moore, 22and Sam Overy, 25. And from YorkSt John University – Laura Bee,Jannah Robson, HannahBuckingham, all aged 21, and NymaBeg, aged 19.Over two-thirds of volunteers

aged between 16-24 see volunteeringas a way of enhancing their careerprospects and when recruiting, 80%of employers value volunteering on aCV, according to a survey of 700 vol-unteers across the UK by charityTimeBank. To find out more aboutEAP visit www.eastafricanplay-grounds.org

Amit, centre, with pupils from Wansimba Primary School, Uganda

Much to learn through volunteering

A former LabourParliamentary candidatehas been adopted as ap r o s p e c t i v eParliamentary candidatefor Hertsmere by theUKIP for next year's gen-eral election.The Hertsmere used

to be represented byConservative MP JamesClappison since 1992,who has announced ear-lier this year that hewould like to resign frompolitics. CouncillorRichard Butler has nowbeen announced as theLabour party candidate.

Frank Ward, 75, whohad been a member ofthe Labour Party for 45years, joined UKIP inOctober 2013 after theLabour party refused tore-elect him in 2006.Mr Ward is well

known for his campaignto prevent the closure of

the Hare Krishna TempleBhaktivedanta Manor inAldenham, which hebelieves caused his riftwith the Labour. On hisappointment, the retiredchartered builder andchartered managerreportedly said, “The rea-son I agreed to stand wasto give the people ofHertsmere the opportu-nity to express theirjudgement on the otherparties and find an alter-native.“I’ve got enough fire

in my belly for this.”

Former Labour MP tostand as a UKIP PPC

Virendra Sharma, MP forEaling Southall, appearedat Ealing Law Centre fortheir official opening.Also attended by such

figures as Shadow JusticeMinister, Cllr Julian Bell -Leader of Ealing Counciland Dr Rupa Huq -Labour ParliamentaryCandidate for EalingCentral & Acton.

The Centre providesfree legal advice and repre-sentation to the people ofEaling. This is a timelygesture as cuts are beingmade to legal aid.Run by volunteer

trustees and as part of theLaw Centres Network, theformal opening showcasedmuch of the Centre's phi-lanthropy.

Virendra Sharma MP officiallyopens Ealing Law Centre

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The ashrams in which he livedwere run on principles of clean-liness and proper hygiene. Thencame individual and collectiveprobity, living the good life with-in the framework of mutual careand collective responsibility.Unbridled greed, according to

the Mahatma was one of themajor causes of violence, towhich the Mahatma wasopposed in a life of constantendeavour for the betterment ofthe poor and needy. Modi hastaken up this cause in earnestand called on the young peopleof the country to make cleanli-ness their and the nation’s mis-sion on the birth anniversariesof Jawaharlal Nehru onNovember 14 and Indira Gandhion November 19 respectively.The Prime Minister sought toenlist a number of eminent per-sons to help in whatever theycould to make this goal a reality.Among these personalities wasShashi Tharoor. Tharoorresponded to the call with affir-mative grace dignity, for whichhe has been pilloried by theKerala wing of the Congressparty. How petty and absurd. Towhat depths has this once greatparty, which took India to itsindependence, now sunk. Otempora O mores! (Times ofIndia, Hindu, Telegraph October8).(Mr Tharoor has now been

sacked as a spokesman of theParty by the Congress PresidentSonia Gandhi for their “sin”)

Jayalalitha in the pits

The former Tamil Nadu Chiefminister, Jayalalitha, who for

years been the monarch of allshe surveyed, has earned a 4-year prison sentence and a heftyfine of Rs 100 crore, having beenfound guilty of massive corrup-tion and the gross abuse ofpower by a Sessions Courtjudge. Her appeal for bail wasturned down by the KarnatakaHigh Court. The case was trans-ferred to Bangalore from TamilNadu because the judicialauthorities felt that due process,in this instance, would havebeen tampered with. The pleafor bail by the high profilelawyer, Ram Jethmalani, appear-ing for the defence, was rejectedby the court. The law, being norespecter of status or reputation,had to take its course. It seemsunlikely that Jayallitha, once somighty and imperious, willescape imprisonment when theappeal against conviction isheard in the Supreme Court.Her political career, it wouldappear, has hit the buffers. Thewheels of justice grind slow, theygrind exceeding well. Thisshould serve as a warning toother politicians who think theyare above the law, and it shouldstrike a blow for honesty inIndia’s public life. (Hindu,Times of India, TelegraphOctober 8)

Jihadi terror in WestBengal

West Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee, has been inthe wars lately. Her untutoredmind, capricious ways and an

inflated ego gave her the exaltedidea that she could be a powerbroker in Delhi. She had a rudeawakening that this was far fromtrue. The good lady is now con-fronted by a sea of troubles. TheSarada ponzi scam, run by aman named Sudipto Sen,presently under arrest, has led atrail to the Trinamool Congresstop brass. The Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI) has takenover the investigation of thismurky affair, putting MsBanerjee and her cohorts verymuch on the back foot. The

scent grows stronger by the dayand the noose tightens.Trinamool cries of a conspiracyagainst the BJP and theCommunist party have a hollowring.

Bomb blasts

If this wasn’t enough, worse wasto follow. Two bomb blasts in aflat in the State’s second city,Burdwan, in which two menwere killed, and one seriouslyinjured, revealed that the occu-pants, including the wives of thedeceased, were running a bomb-making establishment, with allthe necessary tools of the tradeon the premises. The accidental

explosion brought the police andthe local fire brigade hotfoot tothe site. It transpired that thebuilding in which the flat waslocated belonged to a TrinamoolCongress bigwig, who had rent-ed his property at a high pricewithout asking questions of atenant whose livelihoodappeared none too secvure.Undetonated bombs were takento the Damodar River nearbyand disposed through controlledexplosions. The DIG Police gavepermission for this, although theNational Investigation Agency(NIA) anti-terror squad hadn’tarrived on the scene to examinethe evidence. Possible clueswere thus lost. The plot thick-ens. Watch this space Telegraph,Times of India October 6-10)

National securityimperilled

Four arrests have been made,including the widows of the twodead bombers, Gulshan Bibi andAlima Bibi. Both are hardenedoperatives who have withstoodthe interrogation and given mis-leading answers to investigatorsin a bid to throw them off thetrail, which appears to have aBangladeshi angle. Mediareports suggest that their grouphas links with the Bangladesh

Mujahideen. The bombers andtheir handlers – some still atlarge and sought by the police –were apparently preparing to hittargets in Kolkata. The investi-gation has some way to go. TheState government is desperate tokeep the NIA out of the investi-gation. National security isinvolved. Bengal has becomestaging post for jihadi terrorismin the rest of India. (Telegraph,Times of India, October 6) [seepage 3 for comment].

$2 trillion economy inIndia’s sight

India’s economy is poised toreach a $2 trillion value by the

end of the cur-rent financialyear, 2014-15.The challengeis to achieve 5per centgrowth forthis period(the growththus far is 5.5per cent) andthe value ofthe rupeer e m a i n sbroadly con-stant untilthen. At theturn of the

millennium, the Indian GDPwas about $480 billion, by 2007it stood at $1.2 trillion – a periodof exceptionally high growthwhich continued to 2010-11.The global financial meltdownwas a major factor behindIndia’s declining growth figuresthereafter, touching a low 4.7per cent in the last financial year2013-14. Delayed structuralreforms also played a role inIndia’s economic downturn(Mint October 9)

Declining poverty

The rapid growth of the Indianeconomy has led to a significantfall in Indian poverty levels. In2005 the basic poverty bench-mark was an income of $1.25per day, the number of poor atthat level has declined from 41.6per cent of the population to32.7 per cent of the populationin 2010, according to WorldBank estimates. The rapid eco-nomic growth has spurredurbanization. However, employ-ment generation has yet to keeppace with the high GDP figures.The International MonetaryFund (IMF) has admitted thatits growth forecasts for India

were excessively low due tofaulty methodology in the calcu-lation of the statistics. IMF pro-jection for India’s growth for thecurrent financial year 2014-15 is5.6 per cent, up from its earlierestimate of 5.4 per cent. India’ssecond quarter growth this farhas reached 5.8 per cent. (MintOctober 9).

China, Japan, Koreabanks ease lending

Chinese, Japanese and SouthKorean banks in search ofgreater returns on their capitalhave increased lending to Indiancompanies, stepping into thespace vacated by Western bankssqueezed by the Wall Streetfinancial meltdown in 2008.Three recent loan deals bear outthis reality. Reliance JioInfocomm (RJIL), the RelianceIndustries Ltd-owned telecomservices provider said it hadsigned up for a $750 million loanbacked by Korea Exim Bank.The loan will be used primarilyto finance goods and servicesfrom Korea’s SamsungElectronics for RJIL’s roll-out.IndiGo airline has taken out aloan of $2.6 billion to finance itspurchase of 30 new aircraft,while India’s largest power plantNTPC Ltd has $250 million fromJapan’s Mizuho Bank to financeNTPC’s capital expenditure onongoing projects renovation andmodernization of power sta-tions. (Mint October 6)

Mahindra’s 51%Peugeot stake

In a bid to extend its globalreach, Mahindra Two WheelerLtd (an arm of Mahindra &Mahindra) is set to acquire a 51per cent stake worth 28 millioneuros in the French company,Peugeot Motorcycles, whichmanufactures scooters andmopeds across the world. “Indiaaccounts for 21 per cent of theglobal two-wheeler market. Thefocus will be on Europe andIndia,” said Mahindra ExecutiveDirector, Pawan Goenka.(Business Line October 8)

Apology

Apropos of the overwhelmingpresence of scientists and engi-neers on India’s Mars missionbeing from the country’s south-ern states, the sentence shouldhave read “where life is less bur-dened by petty politics….”

Burdwan Blast: Burqa Factory Front for Bomb-Making Plant

Jayalalitha

Shashi Tharoor

Mamata Banerjee, see comment page 3

J&K CM Omar Abdullah visited border area on Eid-ul Azha Festivaland has strongly condemned the killing of innocent civilians in theshelling from across the border in Arenea sector of Jammu district.

See comment page 3

Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the tone for the GandhiJayanti celebrations across India by, among other things, visit-ing a slum to participate in a cleanliness drive, a national pro-gramme on which he has clearly set his heart. To associate thiswith the Mahatma’s birth anniversary was an appropriate act ofremembrance, for public cleanliness and good hygiene are thehallmarks of a socially aware community. The squalor that dis-figures much of urban and rural India amid the general indif-ference are living proof of a serious deficiency in civic sense.,of which Mahatma Gandhi was painfully conscious and soughtto remedy through personal example and unceasing exhorta-tion.

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Cheltenham LiteratureFestival has been host tomany great writers andcelebrities alike and thisyear is no exception.Journalist Abdul-RehmanMalik writer for such pub-lications as Q-News, acurrent affairs Muslimmagazine, led a variedpanel in a debate aboutthe limit of tolerance atCheltenham town hall onthe 3rd of October. Thepanellists addressedrecent political develop-ments such as the UKIPsurge and the disciplinaryproposal of “extremist dis-ruption orders” and dis-cussed the best way todeal with angry ideologiesin a democratic yet multi-cultural nation.

‘Tolerance is a corner-stone of our society,’announced adjudicatorMalik at the start of theevening. ‘Yet if we scratchbeneath British civility arethere not currents ofanger?’ He stated that asurvey done of Britishvoters showed intolerancetowards Islam and immi-gration, but also cau-tioned about using the lawas a response to such dis-sent: ‘when we talk aboutenhancing the power ofthe state in these mattersthat makes me nervous.’

Comedian ShaziaMirza not only providedthe voice for Muslimwomen but the Indiancommunity as a wholewhile David Aaronovitchof ‘The Times’, Claire Foxthe Director of theInstitute of Ideas andMatthew Goodwin,

author of the book 'Revolton the Right', outlined themain political concerns.These included the accu-rate representation of eth-nic minority groups, therole and responsibility ofthe media in circulatingextreme ideas and theissue of ignorance in bothright-wing and liberalactivism.

The speakers came tothe conclusion that gener-ating a more equitabledialogue was the biggestpriority and that we need-ed to work harder toachieve this before resort-ing to the ultimate showof western intolerance;censorship. Fox stated:‘with Theresa May’s pro-posal we will be censoringsocial media.’ In responseto the murderous activityof ISIL ‘we are not allow-ing a battle of ideas. It iscowardly on our part.’However, she also dis-missed the ‘soppy multi-culturalism’ that says ‘all

opinions are equal and weneed to always respecteach other’ which side-steps a genuine meeting ofthe minds in differentway: ‘we need to be moreaggressive intellectuallyand take these issues headon. People forget that totolerate does not mean toaccept. I will tolerate but Iam not going to say thatit’s the best.’

Mirza elaborated onthe need for details and aclearer understanding ofeach other’s social posi-tions when she ques-tioned the definition ofBritish values: ‘first wehave to know what theyare.’ She gave the boldexample that a woman ina burka can feel asempowered as someone ina mini-skirt. In anothercultural parallel one canconsider why an arrangedmarriage that is conduct-ed respectfully is any dif-ferent to online dating.

Aaronovitch added to

the consensus for properdiscourse, commenting onthe anti-immigration feel-ing in the local elections:‘there is a problem withscared politicians whoagree that people are rais-ing genuine issues whenthey are the wrong.’ Hewas also the one to pointout the impossibility oftalking to a terrorist groupthat was as ‘nihilistic,apolitical and irrational’as ISIL: ‘what are wegoing to talk about!?’

However, all in all,facilitating and strivingfor more in-depth discus-sion remained the idealsolution for tackling theissue of tolerance. Thiswas corroborated by thesuccess story of Luton’sCouncil of Faiths.Because of the Council,said the cultural ambassa-dor for Luton, ‘the cityhas only known of theproblem of racism as pro-jected from the outsideworld.’

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Journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik Investigates

Malik and the panellists

London South BankUniversity's dedication tograduate entrepreneurshiphas attracted a £250,000gift from successful entre-preneur and socialreformer Dr Raminder(Rami) Ranger MBE.

Dr Rami Ranger MBEis chairman and founder ofSun Mark Ltd and Sea,Air & Land ForwardingLtd. He started his busi-ness career in the 1980'swith just £2 and a type-writer from a self-storageunit.

Sun Mark Ltd is mar-keting its fast moving con-sumer goods (FMCG) in115 countries with stag-gering results and has wonthe Queen's Awards forEnterprise forInternational Trade anunprecedented five con-secutive years and is theonly company in Britainwith this accolade.

Dr Ranger himself wasnamed the Institute ofDirectors' Director of theYear in 2013.

The generous£250,000 gift to LSBU will

be used to set up a fundfor Enterprise Excellencein Dr Ranger's name tosupport student entrepre-neurship activities at theuniversity.

In addition, LSBU willestablish the Dr RamiRanger MBE Centre forG r a d u a t eEntrepreneurship, whichwill provide a hub andworkspace for studentsand graduates on enter-prise programmes.

The centre wasopened on Friday3rd October by theRt Hon TheresaVilliers MP,Secretary of Statefor NorthernIreland, and guestsincluded the Rt.Hon. Keith Vaz MP,Richard HarringtonMP, Stephen PoundMP, Lord Sheikh,Dr Virander Paul,Deputy HighCommissioner ofIndia and Mr SSSidhu, MinisterCoordination at theIndian HighCommission.

Ms Villiers unveiled aplaque that officiallymarked the beginning ofthe new partnership,which the Secretary ofState praised by saying "Iam sure that the work thatwill be done here will ben-efit the students by givingthem the important skillsthat they will need. It is agreat project and I wouldlike to congratulate RamiRanger and London South

Bank University."In a speech to the

guests, Dr Ranger said: "Iam humbled to have thisopportunity to speak toyou about two subjectsthat have been so criticalto my success – educationand entrepreneurship.Where I am today is a farcry from where I started.Education enriched andshaped the futures ofmyself and my siblings. Istarted with nothing andnow have the opportunityto help others make the

most of their lives. Ibelieve in a strong educa-tional foundation, andhave been impressed byLondon South BankUniversity which plays agreat part in raising theaspirations of its stu-dents."

He made special men-tion of his late mother forher emphasis to educationand to his wife for her sup-port. He said that hehoped the centre wouldempower people througheducation and enablethem to free their imagina-tions and that would playa part in making their aspi-rations come to fruition.

He further added thathe hoped other entrepre-neurs would follow suitand support our educa-tional institutions.

Both Mr StephenPound MP and MrRichard Harrington MPpraised Dr Ranger for hiswork in both the fields ofbusiness and for socialcauses.

LSBU Vice ChancellorProfessor David Phoenix

added: "The Universitythanks Dr Rami Rangerfor his generous donationto support our enterpriseactivities. His entrepre-neurial spirit is shared byLSBU and is somethingwe embed in our ownethos by building realworld experience intoevery aspect of our cur-riculum, nurturing the stu-dent's confidence and self-belief – the very strengththat has helped to makeRami Ranger the successhe is today."

Dr Rami Ranger MBE making hiskeynote speech

LSBU Vice-ChancellorProf. David Phoenixwelcoming the guests

The. Rt. Hon. TheresaVilliers MP, Secretary ofState for Northern Ireland,addressing the guests

LSBU receives generous gift from global entrepreneur

On Friday 17 October, theForeign andCommonwealth Officewill host a UKGovernment receptioncelebrating the UK’sIndian diaspora commu-nity.

The reception willmark the first ever region-al Pravasi BharatiyaDivas event – the IndianGovernment’s flagshipdiaspora convention – tobe held in the UK.

The Foreign Secretary,the Rt Hon PhilipHammond MP, will openthe Pravasi BharatiyaDivas diaspora conven-tion (taking place from17–18 October) alongsidethe Indian Minister forOverseas Indian Affairsand External Affairs,Sushma Swaraj.

At the reception, theDeputy Prime Ministerthe Rt Hon Nick Cleggwill present the very firstUK-India DadabhaiNaoroji Awards to the2014 winners. Speakingbefore the event, he said:

“The UK-India rela-tionship is going fromstrength to strength, as Isaw in August when I vis-ited Delhi, Mumbai andBangalore. The Indiandiaspora community is anintegral part of Britishlife, contributing to everyaspect of our society andhelping to strengthen tiesbetween Britain andIndia.

“The DadabhaiNaoroji Awards celebrateindividuals and their con-tribution to the UK-India

relationship, and I wasproud to launch themduring my trade missionto India in August. I amreally looking forward tomeeting the winners, andhearing their inspira-tional stories.”

Ahead of the diasporaconvention, the PrimeMinister’s UK IndianDiaspora Champion, PritiPatel MP, said:

“I am immenselyproud that the UK ishome to such a talentedand ambitious Indiandiaspora. We areabsolutely delighted thatthe UK – home to 1.5 mil-lion members of the glob-al Indian diaspora – hasbeen chosen as hostnation for this first dias-pora convention underthe new IndianGovernment.

“Building tiesbetween our two greatnations – the UK andIndia – isn’t just an activ-ity for governments.Every member of the UKIndian diaspora commu-nity plays a part. Thisreception will celebratetheir rich contributionboth to the UK itself andto making the UK-Indiarelationship evenstronger.

“As the PrimeMinister’s IndianDiaspora Champion, I amhonoured to be an advo-cate and an ambassadorfor the UK’s Indian dias-pora at the heart of gov-ernment. It’s a uniquerole that is unmatchedanywhere in the world.”

Foreign Office to hostmajor celebration ofUK Indian diaspora

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The Prime Ministerpraised British Muslimsfor their “enormous con-tribution” to the UK at anEid celebration inDowning Street onWednesday 8 October.David Cameron spoke ofthe “kindness and gen-erosity” of BritishMuslims at the eventwhere he was joined byover a hundred guestsfrom Britain and overseas,including faith, communi-ty and business leadersand members of theBritish armed forcesMuslim association.

Speaking at his 5thannual reception to markEid al-Adha the PrimeMinister also condemnedISIL and expressed hispride for British Muslimsfor their response torecent events; he praisedthe Muslim community fortheir continued work tohelp those in need at homeand overseas. He alsohighlighted the UKGovernment's continuedcommitment in helpingpeople in crisis in Syria,Iraq, Gaza and otherregions.

At the reception thePrime Minister also pre-sented a young Muslimwoman a Points of Lightaward for her work in get-ting more young peopleinvolved in politics. Fifi

Kara, a 20 year oldLondoner was commend-

ed for her work which hasinspired 250 young people

to get moreengaged indemocracy byl a u n c h i n gM o d e lWestminster.The organisa-tion launchedjust last yearbut is alreadythriving andworking with anumber ofGovernmentdepartments,t h eParliamentaryO u t r e a c hService andthe DigitalD e m o c r a c yCommission.

Prime Minister celebrates Eid at 10 Downing Street

PM giving the Points of Light awardto Fifi Kara

Prime Minister Cameron meeting Muslim service personnel

Rupanjana Dutta

Names of jobseekers couldbe hidden from employersin a bid to cut discrimina-tion, the LiberalDemocrats havea n n o u n c e d .Unemployment ratesamong ethnic minoritywomen have remainedconsistently higher thanfor white women since the1980s.

An All-PartyParliamentary group onrace and community pub-lished a study showing thatwomen who "whitened" or"anglicised" their names onjob applications had tosend half as many jobapplications before beingasked for interview.

The report also said:"Inactivity rates could behigh partly because somewomen may be giving upsearching for work due todifficulties in findingemployment and the

decreased confidence thisbrings."

Vivienne Hayes, headof the Women's ResourceCentre charity, has saidthat ethnic minoritywomen were facing "a dou-ble jeopardy' of oppressionfor both their race andtheir gender:l Some employers' atti-tudes worsened when theyrealised women withEuropean-sounding nameswere black.l Some Muslim womenwere removing their hijabto increase their chance ofgetting work.l Black and Asian womencomplained of being askedduring job interviewsabout their plans for mar-riage and having children.

Last week the party’smembers backed a ‘name-blank’ application form inthe public sector at itsGlasgow conference.

Commenting, LiberalDemocrat Business

Minister and Minister ofWomen and Equalities JoSwinson said: "LiberalDemocrats are workingtowards a stronger econo-my and a fairer society,enabling everyone to geton in life. We believe inopportunity for all, regard-less of age, gender, sexuali-ty, race or religious views.This policy will help toeliminate subconsciousdiscrimination by ensuringthat candidates are invitedto interview based on theirqualifications and not theirgender or ethnicity. Goodemployers have nothing tofear from these changes.”

The move was part ofan Equality Policy Paperwhich also set out plans toincrease representation ofwomen on boards, pro-mote apprenticeships forgroups who are under-rep-resented in the labour mar-ket and to develop a strate-gy to end FGM within ageneration.

Jobseeker names will be blankedout to avoid discrimination

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Indian child rights activistKailash Satyarthi is theeight Indian to win aNobel Prize, and thirdIndian to win a NobelPrize for Peace. He wonthe 2014 Nobel PeacePrize along withPakistan’s child rightsactivist Malala Yousafzai,who herself is 17 yearsold.The Nobel committee

said: 'Satyarthi, 60, hasmaintained the traditionof Mahatma Gandhi andheaded various forms ofpeaceful protests, "focus-ing on the grave exploita-tion of children for finan-cial gain.'

Here's all that youneed to know aboutKailash Satyarthi:• A human rights

activist, Kailash Satyarthihas been at the forefrontof a movement in India toend child slavery andexploitative child laboursince 1980. He foundedthe Bachpan BachaoAndolan.• Kailash Satyarthi

has headed various formsof peaceful protests and

demonstrations, focusingon the exploitation of chil-dren for financial gain. • In 1980, Kailash

Satyarthi gave up his jobas an electrical engineerto begin the crusade toend exploitation of chil-dren in India. As a grass-roots activist, he rescuedof over 78,500 childrenwho were employed aschild labours and devel-

oped a successful modelfor their education andrehabilitation.• He was instrumental

in making the problem ofchild labour in India as ahuman rights issue. Hehas established that childlabour is responsible forthe perpetuation of pover-ty, unemployment, illitera-cy, population explosionand many other social

evils. • Satyarthi has also

played an important rolein linking the fight againstchild labour with theefforts for achieving'Education for All'.• The Nobel Laureate

is a member of a high levelgroup formed byUNESCO on Educationfor all comprising of selectPresidents, Prime

Ministers and UN AgencyHeads. • Kailash Satyarthi

has survived numerousattacks on his life duringhis crusade to end childlabour, the most recentbeing the attack on himand his colleagues whilerescuing child slaves fromgarment shops in Delhi on17 March 2011. • In 2004 while rescu-

ing children from a localcircus mafia, KailashSatyarthi and his col-leagues were brutallyattacked. Despite of theseattacks and his officebeing ransacked a numberof times his commitmentfor the cause has beenunwavering.• Satyarthi has been

honoured by the FormerUS President Bill Clintonin Washington for featur-ing in Kerry Kennedy'sBook ‘Speak Truth toPower', where his life andwork featured among thetop 50 human rightsdefenders in the world.• Satyarthi has been

the subject of a number ofdocumentaries, television

series, talk shows, advoca-cy and awareness films.

He has also won manyinternational awards,including:

2014: Nobel PeacePrize, shared with MalalaYousafzai

2009: Defenders ofDemocracy Award (US)

2008: Alfonso CominInternational Award(Spain)

2007: Medal of theItalian Senate (2007)

2007: recognized inthe list of "Heroes Actingto End Modern DaySlavery" by the US StateDepartment

2006: Freedom Award(US)

2002: WallenbergMedal, awarded by theUniversity of Michigan

1999: Friedrich EbertStiftung Award(Germany)

1995: Robert F.Kennedy Human RightsAward (US)

1985: The TrumpeterAward (US)

1984: The AachenerInternational PeaceAward (Germany)

All about Kailash Satyarthi, India’s Nobel winner

India has hundreds of problems,but millions of solutions

Kalkaji, a middle-classlocality in south Delhi,was suddenly abuzz withactivity. It's barely an hoursince the news flashed onTV screens. But everybodyknows that L-6, a slim,unremarkable two-storeybuilding, has become avery famous address. Forword has gone around thatit is the workstation ofchild rights crusaderKailash Satyarthi, whohas been jointly awardedthe Nobel Peace Prizealong with Pakistan'sMalala Yousafzai, the spit-fire teenage activist whodefied the Taliban.At a time when the

chronically sparring neigh-bours are again tradinggunfire on the northernside of the border, thesymbolism and largermeaning of sharing theworld's most coveted prizebetween the two is not loston anybody, least of allSatyarthi himself."I know Malala per-

sonally and will definitelycall to congratulate her. Iwill tell her that besidesour fight for child rights,especially for girls, wemust also work for peacein the sub-continent. It isvery important that ourchildren are born and livein peace," says the 60-

year-old activist, dressedin a sober sand-colouredkurta and standing barefeet, even as frenziedreporters jostle for hisattention.Satyarthi's association

with child rights goes backto his first day in school inVidisha, a small town inMadhya Pradesh, when asa five-year-old, he wit-nessed discrimination: achild sitting outside hisschool working with hiscobbler father. "I asked myteachers and my headmas-ter and they said they arepoor children but it wasnot very convincing. Oneday I went to the boy'sfather and I asked, sinceall of us were going toschool, why didn't he sendhis son to school? Hereplied: 'We are born towork.' I could not under-stand why some peoplewere born to work andsome others were born toenjoy life," he says.

The incident became apermanent marker in hismind even though hewent on to become anengineer. The activist saysthat even as a student, hewanted to work againstchild labour but didn'tknow how. There was nostudy or legislationagainst the social evil."Even the agencies ofUnited Nations nevertook up the cause till the1980s. The notion of childrights came only in 1989when the UN conventionon the rights of the childwas adopted," he says.Later Satyarthi quit

his job and startedBachpan Bachao Andolan,an NGO dedicated to res-cuing children frombondage and working fortheir rehab across over140 countries in theworld.His first rescue hap-

pened in 1981 at a brickkiln in Sarhind, Punjab.

Malala, a real life heroineMalala Yousafzai is notthe usual type of Nobelpeace prize winners. Sheis a real life heroine. Shehad to be told of heraward by a teacherbecause she does not carrya mobile phone. Malala,known in her nativePakistan for her diary oflife under the Taliban,became a global figure twoyears ago when she wasshot in the head by aTaliban gunman for advo-cating girls education.When she was in intensivecare her survival was indoubt, let alone a com-plete recovery. But opera-tions and treatment, ini-tially in Pakistan and thenin Birmingham, pulled herthrough. Most of us wouldhave opted for a quiet lifebut she is made of sternerstuff.On her 16th birthday

she addressed the UnitedNations and her campaignfor education for all hasbeen given the recognitionit deserves. Now 17, shesays that what she hasdone so far is “just abeginning” and there arestill 57 million childrenwho are not in school. Shewill continue the fight andwork to overcome thescepticism about hermotives from some groupsin Pakistan.Malala, and her fellow

Nobel peace prize winner

Kailash Satyarthi, theIndian children’s rightscampaigner, are the kindof people who add lustreto this prize. They intendto invite their respectiveleaders, Nawaz Sharif ofPakistan and NarendraModi of India, to Oslo forthe awards ceremony in aneffort to bring reconcilia-tion between their twocountries. Most of all,both have been working toimprove the lot of children- in today’s troubled worldthe best route to lastingpeace - without any expec-tation of reward. Better togive the prize to suchinspiring individuals thanto a war-monger or even ademocratic political leadersuch as Barack Obamawho was awarded his onentering the White House.Recent Nobel peaceawards - to the European

Union or the InternationalAtomic Energy Authority -have made people scratchtheir heads.Malala and Satyarthi

do their work becausethey want to improve thehuman condition. They doit because they believe it ispossible to overcome prej-udice and injustice. Weapplaud them for it as wecelebrate their prize. TheNobel committee has gotthis one right at last.Malala's main preoccu-

pation now is her GCSEexams. She is worriedabout the lessons she willmiss while attending theaward ceremony. The 17-year-old spent

her first evening as theyoungest Nobel laureateat home in Birminghamwith her parents watchingPakistani television. “Ihad caught a cold andwasn’t feeling so good,”she said. Messages pouredin from all over the worldfor the Pakistani girl whotwo years ago was critical-ly ill after being shot in thehead by the Taliban forstanding up for the rightof girls to go to school.“I’m feeling really hon-oured and happy,” shesaid.“People’s love really

helped me recover fromthe shooting and be strongso I want to do all I can tocontribute to society.”

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Through this businessenvoy, the governmentaims to build on this suc-cess, as figures show that55,000 Indians havealready visited Britainbetween January andMarch, compared to41,000 visits for the sameperiod in 2013; an uplift of34%.The Government’s

tourism agency predictsthat by 2016, Britain willbe welcoming some425,000 visits from Indiaand later on this yearVisitBritain will belaunching a countrysidecampaign, an element thatresonates strongly in theIndian market.On Tuesday morning

Mr Javid attended a com-memoration service forthe martyrs of the WWIand laid a wreath at the'Cross of Sacrifice' inCommonwealth WarGraves Cemetery atBhowanipore, Kolkata.The Bhowanipore warcemetery in Kolkata con-tains 617 Commonwealthwar graves of the SecondWorld War and 95 wargraves of the First WorldWar.Expressing his grati-

tude to the Indian armyand Commonwealth WarGraves Commission fororganising the event, theSecretary of State report-edly said, "Whenever wespeak of First World War,

we should speak of oneand a half million men ofthe Indian army who trav-elled thousands of miles tobravely fight for a countrythat was not their own.Thousands of them didnot return home. The sac-rifice of the Indian armydeserves to be properlyhonoured and the British

government is determinedto make sure that it hap-pens."He added that a plaque

bearing the names of thoseIndian soldiers who wereawarded Victoria Crosswill be unveiled soon.The Secretary of State,

also attended Goalz inKolkata, a version of thePremier League’s success-ful Kicks programme thatruns in the UK, encourag-ing young people indeprived communities totake part in football aswell as providing themroutes into employmentand skills.In the evening he

attended a performance byFolk Nations at theKamani theatre, in NewDelhi. The organisationhighlights folk culturefrom the UK and India-the project brings togethermusicians, artists, and thewider creative communityto share ideas and explorenew work.

A concept that beganin 2012, Folk Nations hasnow worked with over 60artists from England,Scotland, Wales, and Indiain showcase performanc-es, artist residencies, net-working opportunities andoutreach workshops. Itcontinues to grow andembrace new and contem-porary music with a folkcore.British Council and

ACE jointly announced anew £1.5million lotteryfund to build creative con-nections between the peo-ple of England and India.Re-Imagine India will pro-vide English artists and art

organisations with oppor-tunities to develop collab-orations and culturalexchanges with theirIndian counterparts.

MuseumsRoundtable

The Secretary of Stateattended the MuseumsRoundtable at theNational Library inKolkata discussing theSocietal attitudes towardsmuseums and culture, atti-tudes to innovationthrough digital strategies,R&D and modernisation,opportunities for funding,partnership and sponsor-ship and International col-laborations, attitudes andchallenges.Here, the British

Council has been workingwith museums in Indiaand the UK, facilitatingtraining in everythingfrom audience mapping,educational programmingand communication topublic engagement andcollections management.To further develop newand sustainable connec-tions between UK andIndian museums, theCouncil embarked on aresearch project thatwould inform and enrichmuseum thinking, policyand practice in both coun-tries.The research is an

opportunity to exploreUK-India opportunities

and partnerships lookingat the best practices in col-lections, policies, strate-gies, HR, education pro-gramming, audience pro-filing etc. in the museumsand galleries of the UKand India. The researchwas presented at theRoundtable and digitalversions was shared andmade accessible.In 2010, the British

Library along with a num-ber of other UK institu-tions, signed aMemorandum ofUnderstanding with agroup of Indian nationalcultural institutions, tocement what was already astrong set of partnershipsin South Asia that hadbeen developed over manyyears.Collaboration with

these organisationsremains at the heart of thepartnership with India;they include the NationalMuseum, NationalArchives and NationalLibrary of India, theCentral SecretariatLibrary, theArchaeological Survey ofIndia, and the NationalGallery of Modern Art.The combined collec-

tions stemming from theIndia office and the BritishMuseum offer the largestsingle resource for thestudy of South Asia out-side the subcontinentitself. Of particular signifi-cance for researchers ofSouth Asia are the collec-

tions of the formerlibraries of the East IndiaCompany and its succes-sor, the India Office, andthe holdings of the BritishMuseum’s Department ofOriental Manuscripts andPrinted Books.The British Library has

worked to build strongpartnerships with HigherEducation institutions,including JadavpurUniversity and JawaharlalNehru University, andother cultural institutions,for example ChhatrapatiShivaji Maharaj VastuSangrahalaya (CSMVS)and Bhau Daji LadMuseum, in Mumbai. TheBritish Library seeks toenable the widest possibleaccess in India to materialin British Library collec-tions that originated in, orrelates to, India.

Dr CatherineEagleton, the Head ofAsian and African StudiesBritish Library, whoaccompanied Mr Javid,met with colleagues atmany of the partner insti-tutions, to update them onprogress with current proj-ects, as well as to discussthe possibilities for futurecollaborations across arange of areas. Theseincluded digitisation anddisplays, training andcapacity-building, the pos-sibility of internships andstaff exchanges, and otherinitiatives to furtherstrengthen these very pro-ductive partnerships.

Secretary of State visits India to strengthen cultural ties

Sajid Javid at the Commemoration event on Tuesdaymorning in Kolkata

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Dear Financial Voice Reader,

With the FTSE falling I’ve been asked if it’s seenthe last of the highs for the year. And how do we profitfrom these falls if it has?

I fear that the highs a couple of weeks ago, may bethe highs of the year. Although company profitabilityremains strong, which would push up prices, the mar-kets move in herds and people will take money off thetable and sell stocks and take profits because others aretoo. That seems what is happening and less to do withreports of a global slowdown.

So how do we profit. If your view is market falls, forsay the next month, you don’t mind selling ‘short’.That means selling in order to buy back cheaper later.This is easy to do with all online brokers. What youwould sell is the value of the FTSE 100.

But, how do you profit on a day to day basis, ratherthan just selling now and hoping for the best onemonth later. This is where your longer term one monthview comes in very handy.

Brokers nowadays allow you to sell short and alsoat the same time have a long position. Why would youdo that?

1. You may consider this when you have a longerterm negative view, but on a, say, one minute chart, seethe price rising, so you go long. The long position is forthe short one minute chart and the short position is forthe longer term down view. This way you are makingmore profit than the long alone.

2. The benefit of this is it allows you to make moreprofits than just a short position as mentioned, but alsoallows you to be hedged whilst the one minute chart isrising. So whilst the FTSE is rising temporarily youprofit from the rises, even though your longer termshort is losing by a corresponding amount. So you arehedged, but as soon as the price starts falling again,you close the buy/long position and hey presto have aprofit pocketed even during the time the market movedagainst your short position.

Traders like this because it gives them the psycho-logical pleasure of not closing a losing position (theshort) whilst they think it will pay off in the longerterm, but want to profit from the shorter term gain.

I like this because it allows me to hedge the FTSEwhen despite believing it will fall eventually it risesalong the way.

Is this too complicated? Describing such things onpaper can look complicated. One seconds practiceshows you how easy it is.

I also wanted to mention this because I want read-ers to be aware of tactics used by professional tradersand understand why the markets sometimes rise beforeresuming their falls – because some people will buyeven when things are bleak!

Vodafone wins $490 mn tax dispute in Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Courtruled in favour ofVodafone in a long-run-ning dispute with theIndian taxman, a boost forthe British telecoms groupwhose tax battles havebeen seen as emblematicof the troubles facing for-eign investors in India.

Vodafone, the biggestforeign corporate investorin India, has been caughtin a string of tax disputessince it entered the coun-try seven years ago, hop-ing to tap the world's sec-ond-biggest mobile phonemarket by customer num-bers.

Vodafone's treatment,seen by many investors asheavy-handed, has fuelleddebate over India's unpre-dictable rules and regula-tions.

In the case decided onFriday, India's tax office

had accused VodafoneIndia Services Private Ltd- a unit of the group - ofunder-pricing shares in arights issue to its parent,and had demanded tax ofabout 30 billion rupees($490 million).

The tax demand wasfor two financial years toMarch 2011, Vodafonesaid. "Vodafone has main-tained consistentlythroughout the legal pro-ceedings that this transac-tion was not taxable," thecompany said in a state-ment welcoming the rul-ing.

Transfer pricing is thevalue at which companiestrade products, services orassets between units indifferent countries - a reg-ular part of doing businessfor a multinational, but apractice which tax author-ities often feel can beexploited.

Rules require all cross-border transactionsbetween group companiesto be valued at arm'slength - or as if the trans-action was with an unre-lated company.

Several other multina-tional including IBMCorp, Royal Dutch ShellPlc and Nokia Oyj are alsofighting transfer-pricingcases in India. Tax claimson foreign firms in thepast year has been a majorconcern for investors.

"The decision will setto rest a lot of controver-

sies and would go a longway in encouraging for-eign investments," S PSingh, a senior director atDeloitte Haskins andSells, said after the courtruling.

Separately, Vodafone iscontesting a more than $2billion tax demand over itsacquisition of Indianmobile operations in 2007from HutchisonWhampoa.

The lure of India'sgrowing market, however,has continued to attractVodafone. This year itspent $1.7 billion to fullyown its main Indian unit,Vodafone India Ltd, whichis India's No.2 mobilephone carrier. VodafoneIndia bought radio air-waves worth more than $3billion in a governmentauction in February tobeef up services.

Sunetra Senior

The Indian governmentunder Narendra Modi hasbeen placed under corpo-rate tax scrutiny againafter another dispute witha mobile phone company;this time with Finnishmultinational Nokia.

The news came forg-ing into the headlines justas Vodafone won itsseven-year long conflictwith the New Delhi gov-ernment. “It's a big dealbecause any company inany industry which isinvesting in shares of anIndian company, itimpacts all of them,” con-fided Vijay Iyer, a taxexpert at Ernst and Youngin India, in a statement.“It was kind of a barrier

for investment.”Now the closing down

and stagnation of Nokia'smobile handset factory inChennai - the companyhas been prevented fromtransferring assets inIndia to Microsoft andmothballing of the build-ing will lose more than6,000 people their jobs -will fuel the ongoingquestion about the Indiangovernment's multina-tional taxing policies.Although India is notalone in its frustrationwith large US companiesexploiting the structure ofdeveloping marketeconomies, 'The FinancialTimes' comments thatPrime Minister Modi 'hasset about the problem inthe wrong way. A particu-

lar bugbear has beenunpredictability.' Thisincludes apparently pick-ing and choosing when tofile a suit depending onrespective revenue targetsrather than a blanketimplementation of a finan-cial regime, and openingcases retrospectively.

Acting on such adviceis of course easier saidthan done, especiallybecause of combating there-routing of foreign anddomestic investmentsthrough tax havens suchas Mauritius or Monacoand the fact that ascertain-ing regional rights withtransfer pricing is a nebu-lous area. However, asdeputy chief executive ofKPMG in India statedconcessions such as the

ruling with Vodafone is“quite a momentousjudgement” for keepinginternational investorsinterested. An everrespectable authority onthe matter, 'The FinancialTimes' implored Modi toaddress “capricious taxdemands” first and fore-most in the next budgetplans.

In the wake of the“make in India” campaignthat drives for manufac-turers to set up in Asia'sthird-largest economywhere Modi plans toincrease the manufactur-ing sector's share of grossdomestic product from 15to 25 per cent, it is impor-tant that there is noenforcement disputewhen there is tax-dispute.

Will India rise to corporate tax conundrum?

India's wholesale priceinflation eased to a nearfive-year low inSeptember, helped by amoderation in food andfuel prices, but the risk ofprice shocks is expected toprevent the central bankfrom cutting interest ratessoon.

The wholesale priceindex (WPI) rose an annu-al 2.38 per cent lastmonth, its slowest pacesince October 2009, com-pared with a 3.3 per centjump forecast by econo-mists. In August, whole-sale prices rose 3.74 percent.

The reading for JulyWPI inflation was revisedto 5.41 per cent from 5.19per cent earlier. "The sharpmoderation in inflationhas been a culmination ofa favourable base effect,moderation in food prices,

softening crude oil pricesand weak growth," saidUpasna Bhardwaj, aneconomist at ING VysyaBank.

Data released onMonday showed con-sumer price inflation,which the Reserve Bank ofIndia (RBI) tracks to setpolicy lending rates,dropped sharply to 6.46per cent in September, thelowest since the latest dataseries started in January

2012. The moderation inprice pressures was drivenby cheaper food and fuel.Wholesale food inflationdropped in September to3.52 per cent on lowervegetable prices from 5.15per cent a month ago.

Falling global crude oilprices, meanwhile, drovefuel inflation down to 1.33per cent last month from4.54 per cent in August.Notwithstanding thedeceleration in inflation,

the RBI is concerned thatpoor monsoon rains andgeopolitical tensions thataffect oil could drive upprices, making it tougherto reduce retail inflation to6 per cent by 2016.

As a result, analystswidely expect it to keepinterest rates on hold untilthe April-June quarter."Going into next year, weexpect RBI to assess thediminishing upside risksto its 6 per cent targetclosely and press the trig-ger only when it is con-vinced of a meaningfulcorrection in prices," saidBhardwaj.

The RBI sent a strongsignal last month that itwould hold off cuttingrates until it was confidentthat consumer inflationcould be reduced to a tar-get of 6 per cent byJanuary 2016.

India's Sept wholesale price inflation eases furtherIndia's market reg-ulator Sebi hasbarred Delhi-based real estatemajor and six of itstop executives,including promot-er-chairman K PSingh, from the capitalmarket for three years dueto lack of disclosure in thecompany's IPO prospectuswhen it went public in2007.

The Sebi order followsa Rs 6.30 billion fineimposed by fair play regu-lator CompetitionCommission of India(CCI) against DLF forabusing its dominant posi-tion to seriously discomfitflat owners in threeGurgaon apartments. Thecase is now in the SC. Theorder, which relates to non-disclosure of an FIRagainst Sudipti Estates - asubsidiary of DLF -during

the IPO process,now curtails DLF'sability to raisefunds from themarket.

In its order,Sebi said that itfound DLF and its

directors, including Singh'sson Rajiv and daughterPia, guilty of “active anddeliberate suppression” ofmaterial information at thetime of its public offer. Thethree others banned bySebi are T C Goyal (MD),Kameshwar Swarup andRamesh Sanka, both for-mer directors on its board.

Sebi, however, did notpass any order against G STalwar, who was a non-executive director at thattime, and gave him `bene-fit of doubt'. According tosources, DLF will likelycontest the order inSecurities AppellateTribunal.

Sebi bars DLF from market for 3 years

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Suresh VagjianiSow & Reap

A Property InvestmentCompany

Currently we are gearing up for a fund raising spree, with the firstlocation being in Geneva, then London, followed by Mumbai andBangalore. The aim is to raise money for our new fund which willbe listed in the AIM Market with a target of £40m.

This is a relatively small amount of money in the scheme ofthings, bearing in mind this is a property fund, the City is used toseeing and digesting far greater amounts by property funds. I seethis as a stepping stone and wish to ensure we improve as we goon. Our first fund which was launched on the 13th December2013 has to date made a net return in excess of 20%, we will befollowing a similar strategy with the up and coming fund. Thefocus as with the first fund will be on trading properties over ashort period of time this will give the cash flow and allow us tooffer generous rates of dividends to the shareholders. Unlike thefirst fund we will also be purchasing and developing propertieswith a view of holding them. These will only be those we perceiveto be very lucrative developments which have a good IRR from theoutset compounded by locations where there is growth over theterm of the development.

It’s human nature to pigeon hole everything, this is also trueof property statistics too. Everyone likes to say property has gonedown/up X%. Even if you look at London there are many differentpockets and each pocket has its own dynamics. Even during thecredit crunch there were pockets which never went down in valueand these were not only in Central London but also surroundingareas. Ethnicity has much to do with this, in areas where there isa high concentration of Jews or Indians living prices don’t gener-ally tend to fall even during downturns.

My perception is there will be good deals to pick up over thenext couple of years, and it will be the aim of this fund to capi-talise on this anticipated downturn in the property market. Thetrading side will be less affected as you look at the current marketvalue in comparison to the immediate purchase price and if themargin is wide enough you strike the deal. The exposure to themarket is relatively short, typically your money will be out in acouple of months. A good example of this is a deal we recentlypurchased in Pont Street in Knightsbridge for £1.5m which com-prised of a two bedroom property of 1,044 sq. ft. and a long leaseof 85 years. We have already had an offer for £1.75m but beinggreedy people we are holding out for more, which if we do not getwe will complete the deal and look to sell after a year for a priceof £2.2m+ which will more than cover the added cost of stampduty and holding costs.

Different Strokes for Different Folks

I nvesto rs who a re s i t t ing on good equity in p rope r ty are those who were br aveenough to purchase in and a round 2009. Th i s i s when mos t peopl e were s i t t ingon the f ence in regards to d iv ing in to prop e r ty investment . Dur ing t ime o funce r ta in ty i s the t ime to s t r ike no t by f o l l ow ing the masses . There are cur -ren t ly c l ouds on the hor i zon in the prop er ty marke t and the re has been a pe r -c e i vab le sh i f t in deal f l ow f rom only a few months ago .

I t ’s in te re s t ing to no te the ren ta l f igure on th is prop e r -ty i s £850pw. Which a l though is a l o t of money, i tworks out to a 2 .21% on a ma rke t pr i c e o f £2m. Onceyou deduc t l e t t ing and management f ees and the h ighse rv ice charges you wi l l only be ab le t o cove r a mor t -ga ge o f £600,000 whi ch i s le ss than 50% o f the pur -chas e pr i c e. Ye t p eop le are fa l l ing over themse lves topurchase he re , I remember an accountant t e l l ing me hete l l s h is c l i en t s no t t o invest in any th ing whi ch has ay ie ld o f l e ss than 6 .5% , I th ink he should s t i ck to h isjob o f do ing accounts .

In preparation for the fund raising seminars I was asked togive a demonstration of my presentation by a PR firm we appoint-ed after which I was decimated in a very diplomatic way and sentback to the drawing board to more or less redo the presentation.

The crowd we will be presenting to need no convincing aboutthe greatness of property as an asset class, they have been invest-ing in property probably since I was in nappies and possiblybefore then. Many of them have amassed property portfolioswhich run into hundreds of millions and so they did not need anyadvice in regards to property being a good investment. There arefamilies who got into buying property after World War II andhaven’t stopped since.

Information about why property is sound, and why one shouldinvest in property consisted of a large proportion of my presenta-tion, I was politely told to dismiss with this portion as it could beseen as patronising. Instead I was told the focus should be on whythey need to invest with us, why is it we are unique.

The answer is the tr ad ing ang l e whi ch requi re s a l o t o fducking and d iv ing and unless you ’ re in the l oca ti on24/7 i t ’ s ve r y d i f f icu l t t o do a t a rm’s l eng th . Thi s issometh ing which i s unique and apparent l y no l i s t edprope r ty fund ha s a f ocus on . Thi s can be eas i l ydemonst rated wi th our audit ed t ra ck reco rd .

This crowd would need to see a proper structure and who’s sit-ting on this structure, so if one part falls away it would still be sta-ble. They would be interested in hard examples of the last dealswe have undertaken and the returns, as well as an emphasis onthe macro economic outlook and how we would look to mitigaterisk in the event of things not going quite to plan.

This is going to be a very different crowd to our usual crowdconsisting of mainly Gujarati businessmen whom we have donebusiness with a hand shake or a nod of the head, despite thepaperwork this is what governed the business we have been doing.

Now we are entering a very different territory, one where youalmost have to learn a whole new language and skillset, eventhough the product hasn’t changed.

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Maria Fernandes

There are a number ofconcerns about the wayin which visits are con-ducted. When the visit-ing officers arrive for avisit, they approach who-ever is on duty that dayregardless of the fact thathe/she may not be incharge of the humanresources part of thebusiness. It is a wellknown fact that Asiansparticularly do not ques-tion the reason for thevisit or decline to answerif they do not have theknowledge or authorityto do so. Many are tootimid in the presence ofImmigration Authorities.It is quite common that ajunior person hasanswered questions, ashas happened on manyoccasions, and this hasresulted in inaccurateinformation being givenand relied upon. A spon-sor licence has anAuthorising officer whoshould be identified priorto the visit and should bethe person who is ques-tioned unless this respon-sibility is delegated bythis person to someoneelse.

The other more wor-rying aspect of the licens-ing system is that suspen-sions and revocations aremeted out when there areminor infractions.Employers are expectedto have experience of anonline system and wherethey fail to report issues,they are dealt withseverely. This is so eventhough the UKVI them-selves continue to makemistakes on a regularbasis. They want a goldstandard that they are notable to meet themselves.The unequal relationshipshould not give them anunfair advantage.Employers are not immi-gration officers. Take oneexample that has comeup again and again. On avisit the ImmigrationOfficers concludes that

an employee concerned isan overstayer and notpermitted to work. Theyonly cave in once provid-ed evidence from thehelpline for employersthat they set up, that theemployee concerned is infact allowed to work.

There is a recurringtheme of employersaccused of breachingtheir duties without evi-dence being presented toback up the claims. Inmany cases suspiciontakes precedence over thefacts. Immigration is acivil matter and as suchthe burden of proving afact must be on a balanceof probabilities, in otherwords more likely thannot. Criminals are givenbetter treatment andjudges would not hesitateto throw out a case whichdid not strictly complywith the rules of fairness.In immigration there isno right of appeal, nomeans of challenging adecision other thanexpensive proceedings inthe High Court whichdoes not consider themerits of the case assuch.

The licencing systemwas brought in to allowemployers the ability toemploy staff providingthey followed the rules.When the system beganthere was a measure ofcollaboration and anopportunity to put rightthings that went wrong asthey must in any organi-sation from time to time.There has been a seachange in that attitudenow with more emphasison penalties for breaches.As an employer recentlyremarked there are visitsby other bodies but noneare so punitive as theImmigration Authorities.It is time that the employ-ers who have licencesmake their views knownas a body. Less of thestick and more of the car-rot.

More stick than carrot

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LEGAL VOICE

The love affair of Indians for goldWith only a few days to gofor October 23, Indiansare eagerly preparing forthe first day of the nation’sfavourite festival: Diwali.This ancient Hindu festi-val, also known as the“festival of lights”, is areminder of how closelyIndian tradition is tiedwith gold and how the loveof Indians for the preciousmetal is timeless.

Many Indian festivalsand auspicious days arelinked to demand for goldand it comes as no sur-prise that India is one ofthe largest consumers ofgold in the world (secondlargest after China).

It could be said thatbuying gold is in the DNAof Indians. Data providedby Credit Suisse suggeststhat the current demandfor gold in India is about800 tonnes; a numberexpected to climb evenhigher following theupcoming festival. Theuptake of gold will be ofparticular interest on thefirst day of Diwali or“Dhanteras” as there is aparticular celebrationaround 'wealth' and giving.

This surge is also expectedto have a profound impacton the price of gold in theshort term. Speculatorsand investors who closelymonitor the current bear-ish sentiment surroundingthe gold market (includinga stronger dollar and risingreal US interest rates) arelikely to follow demandpredictions with interest.

It is, however, goldjewellery that is closelylinked with India, as goldornaments are regarded asa symbol of wealth, a fun-damental part of many rit-uals and a store of value.According to the WorldGold Council (WGC), inthe last decade, 75% ofgold demand in India hastaken in form of jewellery.Moreover, the WGC car-

ried out a survey in 2012which showed that over60% of Indian women andmen approached intend tobuy 22 carat jewellery asopposed to designer hand-bags, designers shoes, lux-ury cosmetics and person-al electronic items.

Bars and coins are alsofavoured given that theyare portable and easilyexchangeable during poorharvests. This year wasexpected to be an El Ninoyear with a commensuratepoor harvest in India; inthe event, the crops weremore than adequate acrossmuch of India and conse-quently demand hasremained more robustthan forecast. An unin-tended consequence ofgold's popularity in Indiais the corrosive effect ithas had on the country'scurrent account deficit.Hoping to reduce the CAD($32.4 billion in the yearended March 31) and sup-port the rupee, new taxeswere introduced (includ-ing higher import duties,strict import quotas andlimitations on gold-relatedlending and coin sales)

which has meant thatIndians in India can bepaying a premium of inexcess of 12% over theprice being paid by theircolleagues here in Englandfor a given gold item. Dataprovided by the WGC alsoshows that gold importsinto India fell 44% to 350tonnes in the first 6months in 2014; however,the scale of illegal smug-gling is hard to quantifyand research at SharpsPixley suggests that theoverall level of totalimports are actually rising.

With inflation in Indiarunning at over 8.5%,locals will appreciategold's ability to maintainits value in inflationaryperiods. As said byDevendra Pant, chiefeconomist at India Ratings& Research: “I don’t seethe measures going awayimmediately”. In spite ofthese counter actions setforth, consumers in Indiacontinue to indicate astrong intention to pur-chase gold over the com-ing years, and the loveaffair is nowhere to beended.

Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi declaredthat following his recentsummit level interactionswith Japan, China and theUS, "investment worth100 billion dollars hadapplied for a visa to India."

Delivering the inaugu-ral address at the "InvestMadhya Pradesh - GlobalInvestors Summit - 2014"at Indore, the PrimeMinister said that follow-ing his recent summit levelinteractions with Japan,China and the US, "invest-ment worth 100 billiondollars had applied for avisa to India." It is now upto the states to grab ashare of this investment,he added.

He also added that theCentre would stand shoul-der to shoulder with allstates, irrespective ofpolitical affiliation of thestate government, to facil-itate investment and eco-

nomic growth.He also said he wanted

the Centre and each stategovernment to worktogether in the spirit of"one and one - eleven."

The Prime Ministeremphasized that India'sstrength is inherent in itsstates, and if India is to bedeveloped, states must goforward. He said he standsfor Team India - a teamconsisting of the Prime

Minister and all ChiefMinisters. If this teamworks together, a lot canbe accomplished, headded. Prime MinisterModi said the Centre andstates are not competitorsor enemies; they are com-plementary.

Complimenting theMadhya Pradesh govern-ment and Chief Ministerfor rapid strides in devel-opment, the Prime

Minister said that theteam of Shivraj SinghChauhan deserves fullcredit for it.

He said MadhyaPradesh has ample land,good infrastructure, andeffective governance; andtherefore is an excellentinvestment destination.He also complimented thestate government forquick follow-up action toderive benefit from keypolicy initiatives of theCentre, such as the "Makein India" vision anddefence manufacturingpolicy.

The Prime Ministersaid India is a country ofyouth, and thereforeemployment is the pri-mary aim of all investmentinitiatives. The GlobalInvestors Summit, whichhas seen participation byambassadors of 28 coun-tries, also has nine partnercountries.

Investment worth 100 bn dollarshas applied for visa to India: Modi

Good time to invest in India, says RBI governor RajanUnderscoring the need forfinancial sector reforms,Reserve Bank of India gov-ernor Raghuram Rajanhas stressed that the "timeto deliver begins now" andthere is political will toundertake reforms andimprove India's economicgrowth. "Financial reformis not difficult - we havethe political will toimprove," the IndianConsulate in New Yorktweeted the RBI governoras saying during an event. The head of India's centralbank addressed a selectgathering of prominent

and influential Indian-American businessmenfrom the finance andinvestment banking sectorat an event organised bythe Consulate General incollaboration with theIndia-America Chamber ofCommerce. Outlining themajor areas that requirechange and immediateimplementation, Rajansaid it was a good time toinvest in the Indian econo-my now. Developing infrastructure,improving quality ofhuman capital, optimumregulation for good busi-

ness and extensive finan-cial sector reform should

be the next steps forimprovement and develop-ment of the Indian econo-my, according a pressstatement issued by theConsulate. Rajan encour-aged the Indian-Americanbusiness community to getinvolved in the "nitty grittyof the implementationprocess," saying suchinvolvement was not diffi-cult especially since theIndian government has thepolitical will to reform.

"Over the years, India hasoutgrown its institutions,"Rajan was quoted as say-

ing. "Such institutionsonly worked well when wehad the practice ofresource allocation, whichwas a source of revenue.This was a time when coalcould be extracted fromthe ground with your barehands." Rajan said theIndian economy can nolonger work with thismodel, adding that just asthere were drastic demo-cratic changes that reactedto the economic slump inthe past decade, institu-tions also have reacted. Heemphasized on the need toconvert talk about change

into delivering and imple-menting reforms. Making crucial recommen-dations to creating a moreinvestment-friendly mar-ket in India, Rajan saidstalled projects need to getback on track and "clear-ance should be from capi-tal and on ground." He fur-ther said that complexlabour laws need to beimproved to benefit bothemployers and workersand self-certificationshould be allowed to elim-inate the stressful andcumbersome process ofinspections.

In this article, Deborah Gottlieb of Bullion Broker “Sharps Pixley” looks at the fascinating connection between gold in the Diwali festival.

Narendra Modi inaugrating the Global Investors Summit in Madhya Pradesh

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United Kingdom industrial pro-duction was unchanged inAugust as shut downs at someNorth Sea facilities sent oil andgas extraction down 1.7 percent.The industrial output figure,matched the median forecast ofeconomists. Manufacturing pro-duction rose 0.1 percent fromJuly, also in line with forecasts. On Friday the

UK's trade deficitwas reported to narrow by £1.3billion compared with July 2014.The main factor behind thedeficit narrowing was not anincrease in exports but a largefall in imports from non-EUcountries. Between July 2014and August 2014, exports ofgoods decreased by £0.7 billionto £23.2 billion mainly attrib-uted to oil. Over the same peri-od, imports of goods decreasedby £2.0 billion to £32.3billion reflecting falls in importsof aircraft, fuels and chemicalsThe US Dollar strengthened

during last week Thursday 9thOctober, after data revealed thenumber of Americans filingapplications for unemploymentbenefits unexpectedly fell lastweek. This pushed the average

over the past month to the low-est level in eight years and sig-nalling that employers are hang-ing on to workers as the econo-my improves.Firings are hovering around

the lowest in almost a decade asemployers retained their work-force to meet rising demand.This excellent jobs figure is con-tinuing the positive trend fromthe first nine months of theyear. It also lays the ground forstronger gains in hiring andwages that will give the world’slargest economy a boost even asglobal growth is expected tocool.The U.S. economy is pre-

dicted to grow 2.2 percent thisyear, compared with a 1.7 per-cent projection in July, theInternational Monetary Fundsaid this week. Federal Reservepolicy makers are watching forevidence the labour market hasbeen restored to full healthbefore raising interest rates,which have been held near zerosince December 2008. Most Fedpolicy makers indicate theyexpect an initial rate rise nextyear.Federal Reserve officials

sounded an alert over the threatto U.S. growth from a slow-down elsewhere in the world,warning it could make themdelay an interest-rateincrease. Fed vice ChairmanStanley Fischer said yesterdayin a speech at the InternationalMonetary Fund’s annual meet-ings in Washington “If foreigngrowth is weaker than antici-pated, the consequences for theU.S. economy could lead theFed to remove accommodationmore slowly."Mario Draghi and Jens

Weidmann are clashing overhow much more stimulus theailing euro-area economy needsfrom the European CentralBank. As Europe’s woes againproved the chief concern atweekend meetings of theInternational Monetary Fund inWashington, President Draghirepeated he’s ready to expandthe ECB’s balance sheet by asmuch as 1 trillion euros ($1.3trillion) to beat back the threatof deflation. Bundesbank headWeidmann responded by sayingthat a target value is not set instone.The ECB is swelling its bal-

ance sheet as it seeks to reviveinflation of 0.3 percent; it’s low-est in almost five years by buy-ing private-sector assets andaccepts collateral from banks inreturn for cheap loans. Stillunresolved is if the ECB willultimately buy sovereign debt, ataboo subject in Germanywhere politicians worry itamounts to financing govern-ments and removing pressureon them to act.India’s rupee snapped four

weeks of losses on optimism aretreat in oil prices will helpnarrow the nation’s tradedeficit. Brent crude dropped to$88.11 a barrel today, the low-est level in almost four years,and is poised for a 3.1 percentloss this week.India imports about 80 per-

cent of its oil and its tradeshortfall narrowed to $10.8 bil-lion in August from $12.2 bil-lion in July as prices fell. TheInternational Monetary Fundthis week raised its 2014growth forecast for the nationto 5.6 percent from 5.4 percentand predicted Asia’s third-largest economy will expand 6.4percent next year.

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Jaffna: Sri Lankan presi-dent Mahinda Rajapakseon Monday launched trainservices to the battle-scarred city of Jaffna near-ly 25 years after a bloodyethnic conflict destroyedthe region's entire railwaynetwork.Rajapakse boarded a

special train from thetown of Palai on thesouthern end of the Jaffnapeninsula and travelled tothe cultural capital of SriLanka's ethnic minorityTamils. His train stoppedat three stations rebuilt aspart of the reconstructionof 250-km of track acrossthe former war zone, bothin the Jaffna peninsula andthe northern mainland."The resumption of the

train service shows Jaffnais fast becoming a centreof development" afterdecades of war, TransportMinister Kumara Welgamasaid.The train service from

Jaffna, 400 km north of

the capital Colombo, cameto a halt in June 1990 afterthe collapse of a trucebetween separatist TamilTiger rebels and govern-ment forces.The Tigers ruled Jaffna

as their de-facto separatestate for nearly five yearstill they were driven out ofthe peninsula after a majoroffensive in 1995.However, train servic-

es could not resumebecause of fighting in therest of the northern main-land. Tiger rebels had alsoripped up rails and sleep-

ers to build bunkers.After the crushing

defeat of the guerrillas inMay 2009, the authoritiesbegan an ambitious recon-struction effort thatincluded restoration of raillinks - a key bridgebetween the Sinhalesemajority in the south andthe minority Tamil-domi-nated north.The railways were

restored under an US$800-million Indian creditline and IrconInternational Ltd, India'sleading public-sector con-

struction company, beganthe work in 2011.The line to Jaffna was

initially laid in the earlypart of the last centurywith the first train com-missioned in 1905 by thethen British colonialrulers.Ircon project director

Shyam Lal Gupta said thenorthern line is SriLanka's fastest track,capable of speeds of up to120 km, triple the averagespeed elsewhere.Workers have also

relaid tracks to the north-west coast of Mannar onthe northern mainlandwhich could allowresumption of a train-and-ferry link to neighbouringsouth India.The rail connection

with India was disruptedthree decades ago whenfighting intensified in aconflict that eventuallyclaimed 100,000 lives,according to UN esti-mates.

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war-battered Jaffna Indian cop wins UN's internationalfemale peacekeeper awardUnited Nations: An Indian police inspector hasbeen named recipient of a prestigious internationalfemale peacekeeper award by the UN's policedivision for her "exceptional achievements" in herduty with the UN mission in Afghanistan, includingher efforts towards helping victims of sexual andgender-based violence. Inspector Shakti Devi of theJammu & Kashmir Police, currently deployed in theUN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), hasbeen awarded the International Female PolicePeacekeeper Award 2014. Devi has been honouredfor her "exceptional achievements" in leading theestablishment of Women Police Councils in severalparts of Afghanistan, the UN Police Division said ina communication to the Indian mission here. It saidDevi has contributed to the improvement of thestatus of female police and has effectively helpedthe police of Afghanistan move towards achievingtheir goals of fully adopting democratic principles ofpolicing. "In addition, her consistent engagement inimproving the service for victims of sexual andgender-based violence has led to successfulinvestigation and prosecution," the UN agency said.

5 Afghan men hanged for gang-rapeKabul: Five Afghan men were hanged for the gangrape of four women despite the UN and humanrights groups criticizing the trial and calling forPresident Ashraf Ghani to stay the executions. Thebrutal attack in Paghman, outside Kabul, provokeda national outcry with many Afghans demandingthe men be hanged, and then-president HamidKarzai signed their death sentences shortly beforeleaving office recently. There was no immediatecomment from the office of President Ghani, whofaced strong public pressure to not stay theexecutions after he came to power on August 29.

US university names business schoolafter Indian-AmericanWashington: A top private US university hasnamed its first business school after an Indian-American real estate tycoon in the Midwest.Rockford University announced the creation of thePuri Business School in recognition of a $5 millioncontribution to the university by First RockfordGroup founder and president Sunil Puri, 1982alumnus and 2013 recipient of an honorary Doctorof Humane Letters from the university. PuriBusiness School is the first named school at theUniversity. "It is important to my family and me,that the Puri Business School offers not only anexemplary space where students, faculty and thecommunity can interact and innovate, but wheresignificant programmatic and curricular advancesthat will deepen the University's commitment toadvance the university and partner in the economicrevival of this region," Puri said.

First Ebola death reported in USDallas: The first person diagnosed with Ebola inthe US, Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan, diedat a Dallas hospital, a hospital spokesman said.Duncan became ill after arriving in the Texas cityfrom Liberia on September 20 to visit family,heightening concerns the world's worst Ebolaoutbreak on record could spread outside the threeworst-hit West African countries. About 48 peoplewith whom Duncan had been in contact are beingmonitored. Ebola has killed more than 3,400 peoplein Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea since theoutbreak began in March, nearly half of all thoseinfected, according to the WHO. While severalAmerican patients have been flown to the US fromWest Africa for treatment, Duncan was the firstperson to start showing symptoms of the diseaseon US soil.

Indian embassy in Kuwait simplifiesvisa procedureDubai: The Indian embassy in Kuwait hassimplified the visa procedure for Kuwaiti nationalsas well as expatriates living in the country with anaim to enhance travel to India for business,tourism, medical treatment and study purposes.The embassy said it has issued 10,000 visas thisyear, as against 7,600 visas issued during the sameperiod last year, registering a jump of 30 per cent."The embassy has been issuing five-year and one-year business visa (multiple entry), one-yearmedical visa (multiple entry) and six-month touristvisas (multiple entry) for Kuwaiti nationals andexpatriates resident in Kuwait so that they can visitIndia for business, tourism, medical treatment, asper their convenience," the embassy said.

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Luxembourg: JusticeMinister Shailesh VaraMP last week representedthe UK at a meeting of EULaw Ministers inLuxembourg. Vara wasattending it as his respon-sibilities include the EUaspects of Ministry ofJustice business.The meeting was

attended by law Ministersfrom all EU countries anddiscussed various legalmatters including whetherto have a European PublicProsecutors’ Office, DataProtection, the

Presumption ofInnocence, Simplificationof Public Documents aswell as issues concerningthe Freezing andConfiscation of goods.This was Vara’s sec-

ond such EU meeting,having previously attend-ed one in June in Milan,Italy. Moreover, in MayVara also representedBritain at aCommonwealth LawMinisters’ meeting inBotswana where the sub-ject for discussion was theRule of Law.

Vara speaks for Britain at EU Meeting

Hong Kong: Hundreds ofHong Kong police usedsledgehammers and chain-saws to dismantle pro-democracy barricades neargovernment offices andthe city's financial centreon Tuesday, reopening amajor road for the firsttime since protests begantwo weeks ago.In a setback to protest-

ers, traffic flowed freelyalong Queensway Roadafter their sit-in and barri-cades were cleared fromthe road. But other majorprotest sites remainedintact in the Admiraltyand Mong Kok districtsand pro-democracydemonstrators were defi-ant. "We will rebuild themafter the police removethem," said protesterBruce Sze. "We won't con-front the police physical-ly."Unlike Monday, which

saw clashes between anti-protest groups and pro-democracy activists afterpolice removed barricades,Tuesday's operation result-ed in no such confronta-tions. However, tensionsare expected to escalate on

Wednesday when taxidrivers, who say businesshas dropped by around 50per cent, have threatenedto remove barricades ifprotesters have notcleared them by then.Truck drivers have madesimilar threats.Taxi and truck drivers

were among those whotried to dismantle barri-cades on Monday whenhundreds of people, somewearing surgical masksand carrying crowbars andcutting tools, tore downbarricades and clashedwith protesters."Reopening of

(Queensway) is betterthan nothing at all as itallows more options to thedrivers. But still it is not

good enough and trafficwill still be very heavy,"said 53-year-old taxi driv-er Li Hung-on."My income was down

by half in the past twoweeks and drivers like usare still the victims. Itwould be good if all theroads resume normal."The protesters, mostlystudents, are demandingfull democracy for the for-mer British colony, buttheir two-week standoffhas caused traffic chaosand fuelled frustrations inthe Asian financial hub,draining some public sup-port.Some of the city's most

powerful tycoons hadwarned prior to theprotests that any moves to

occupy the heart of thecity could undermineHong Kong's stability.They have remained large-ly silent since the protestskicked off.Police, criticised for

using tear gas and batonsin the first 24 hours of theprotests, have adopted amore patient approach,counting on protesters tocome under public pres-sure to clear some of thecity's major arteries.The removal of barri-

cades but not protestersby Hong Kong police sug-gests a strategy of slowattrition, similar to thatused against Occupy WallSt protests.Protester numbers

have dwindled significant-ly from their peak ofaround 100,000 at threesites, but observersbelieve they will sit it out."I don’t think the pro-

testers, having sufferedtear gas, endured theattacks by the anti occupypeople, will just surren-der unconditionally andleave," said Joseph Wong,political analyst at theUniversity of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong police dismantle protestbarriers, reopen major road

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Toronto: Canada's newhigh commissioner toIndia - Nadir Patel is aCanadian, one who wasborn in Indian PrimeMinister Narendra Modi'sstate of Gujarat andspeaks Gujarati at home.Patel is barely 44. Hisappointment wasannounced by foreignaffairs minister John Bairdand international trademinister Ed Fast.

Patel's appointmentfollows the appointmentof Richard Rahul Verma,an Indian American, asAmerica's next ambassa-dor to India. "We arepleased to announce theappointment of NadirPatel as Canada's newhigh commissioner in the

Republic of India," saidthe two ministers. "Patelbrings a wealth of experi-ence and will strengtheneven further the Canada-India relationship, includ-ing on bilateral trade andinternational security."

Parliamentary secre-tary to Baird, anotherIndian-Canadian DeepakObhrai is also with the

two ministers, all on boardAir Canada that's headingto India. "I am delightedNadir Patel is our newhigh commissioner,"Obhrai said. "He will joinother distinguishedCanadians who have had astrong hand in strengthen-ing our relations withIndia, especially when mygovernment has put rela-tions with India as a prior-ity.

Patel was born inGujarat. He was ratheryoung when his parentsdecided to emigrate toCanada. Patel went toWilfrid Laurier Universityin Waterloo, Ontario,where he finished hisunder-graduate in 1993with political science as

his major subject. Aftergraduating, he joined theFederal Public Service andone after another he kepton incessantly moving inthe rank.

Till three years back,Patel was Canada's con-sul-general in Shanghai.On returning to Ottawa,he became assistantdeputy minister for corpo-rate planning, finance andinformation technology,and chief financial officerat foreign affairs, Tradeand Development Canada.In the meantime, Patelalso finished his MBAfrom New York Universityand London School ofEconomics and PoliticalScience and HEC Paris in2009.

Gujarat-born Nadir Patel isCanada's new envoy to India

Toronto: Following arequest from the US,Canada's Parliament hasvoted to authorizeairstrikes against theIslamic State (ISIS) mili-tant group in Iraq. PrimeMinister StephenHarper's ConservativeParty introduced themotion last week and itwas debated this week.Harper has a majority ofseats in Parliament so thevote was all but assured.The motion was laterpassed.

The motion authorizesair strikes in Iraq for up tosix months and explicitlystates that no groundtroops be used in combatoperations.

The combat missionincludes up to six CF-18

fighter jets, a refuellingtanker aircraft, two sur-veillance planes and oneairlift aircraft. About 600airmen and airwomen willbe involved.

Canada is amongdozens of countries thathave joined the US-ledcoalition fighting theIslamic State militantgroup.

"The threat posed byISIS is real," Harper saidin a statement, referringto the Islamic State byone of its acronyms.

"If left unchecked thisterrorist organization willgrow and grow quickly.They have already voicedtheir local and interna-tional terrorist intentionsand identified Canada as apotential target."

The White House wel-comed Canada's deploy-ment.

"Canadians andAmericans have foughtalongside each other inseveral major conflictsover the past century, andwe are grateful forCanada's further contribu-tion against terrorism," aWhite House statementsaid.

Canada has more thantwo dozen special forcesadvisers already in Iraqand has plans for up to 69advisers as part of aneffort to advise Kurdishforces against Islamic mil-itants after a request fromPresident Barack Obama.The US followed that upwith another request foran air combat role.

Although the missiondidn't need parliamentaryapproval, the governmentsubmitted it to a vote toshow consensus.

Harper's governmentwon the support of theopposition parties for airstrikes in Libya in 2011but not for this mission.Opposition NewDemocrat leader ThomasMulcair said theConservatives are plung-ing Canada into a pro-longed war without a cred-ible plan to help victims ofIslamic State terror.

Canadian Parliament authorizes air strikes in Iraq

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Samarra (Iraq): ISIS mil-itants have executed anIraqi news cameramanand 12 other people inseveral towns and villagesnorth of Baghdad, offi-cials, relatives and wit-nesses said. The jihadistson Friday shot dead Raadal-Azzawi, a 37-year-oldcameraman for local newschannel SamaSalaheddin, his brotherand two other civilians inthe village of Samra, eastof the city of Tikrit, rela-tives of the journalistsaid.

According to themedia watchdogReporters WithoutBorders (RSF), the fatherof three was detained byISIS on September 7.“They came to his homeand took him and hisbrother,” the relative said.“He did nothing wrong,his only crime was to be acameraman. There musthave been some people inthe village who accusedhim of working for thegovernment and tippedhim off the jihadists... He

always had his camerawith him,” he said.

According to an RSFstatement issued lastmonth, the ISIS hadthreatened to executeAzzawi on the groundsthat he had refused towork for them. After tar-geting religious and eth-nic minorities in the areasit took control during itsbroad Iraqi offensive fourmonths ago, ISIS hasrecently executed dozensof people it suspects ofany connection with theShia-dominated govern-ment. ISIS executed nineother people north ofTikrit on Friday, all ofthem on suspicion of tiesto anti-jihadist Sunniorganizations, accordingto security officials. In thetown of Az-Zab, 90 kmwest of oil hub of Kirkuk,six people were executedin public.

Meanwhile, 19 peoplehave been killed in twocar bombs in Shia parts ofwestern Baghdad onSaturday night, policeand medical officials said.

ISIS publicly executesscribe, 12 others

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DMK sees an opportunityChennai: DMK MLA J Anbazhagan in a letterrequested state assembly secretary to declareJayalalithaa's Srirangam constituency asvacant since the former chief minister standsdisqualified after her conviction. DMK chiefKarunanidhi, who had been keeping a lowprofile so that the initial outpouring ofsympathy for Jayalalithaa died down, madehis move through a frontal attack. He saidthere would be no comeback for Jayalalithaaand asked DMK partymen to launch a vigorouscampaign to destroy their opponents. Aftergetting trounced in the Lok Sabha elections,the DMK had been lying low. Keen to clear outthe gridlock brought upon by factional fightsthat culminated in an attempted palace coupof sorts by son and heir, Stalin, Karunanidhiraised a war cry to rev up party cadres.

Two crocodiles enter Mysore zoo,uninvitedMysore: Two crocodiles from the Karanji lakedrifted into the neighbouring Mysore zoowhen excess water was released into thestorm-water drain that passes through the zoopremises following heavy downpour there lastweek. The zoo authorities, however, managedto rescue one of the crocodiles and released itback into the lake. Efforts were on to catchthe second crocodile which is believed to beinside a pond in the zoo. Excess water fromthe lake had to be released to preventflooding in the nearby residential areas. As thelake harbours crocodiles, a couple of theminadvertently drifted into the zoo environs, asource said.

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Chautala surrenders at Tihar JailNew Delhi: Former Haryana chief ministerOm Prakash Chautala, surrendered at TiharJail, after the Delhi High Court cancelled hisbail and ordered him to discontinue hispolitical rallies. He was convicted in Januarylast year for running a graft-laden scheme torecruit teachers for government institutionswhen he was in office in 1999. Chautala, thechief of the Indian National Lok Dal or INLD,was sentenced to 10 years in jail. The INLDchief arrived at the jail accompanied by anumber of supporters. He was sent to jailnumber two where he was lodged earlier. Atop Tihar official said 7 pm is the "lock outtime" and since Chautala came over an hourafter the deadline ended, the matter wouldbe reported to the court.

Elections keep policemen ontheir toesRewari: Security has been tightened inHaryana as the state is going to the polls onOctober 15. Several cases of moneylaundering and liquor distribution are reportedduring the election season. To check suchnotorious activities, the Election Commissionhas deputed policeman and district officialswith cameras to ensure free and fair polls.Rewari Executive Magistrate Naresh Yadavsaid that checking has been on since the daypolling dates were announced, ie September12, and will continue till the evening ofOctober 15. The police personnel work 24X7and check each and every vehicle for liquorand cash thoroughly. The ElectionCommission has also deployed three flyingsquads for surprise checks.

Khap leaders enter poll frayChandigarh: Haryana’s khap panchayats,which often make headlines with their diktatson matrimony, women’s rights and personalfreedom, have for the first time mobilisedpolitically. Apart from a move to mobilise allkhap panchayats to collectively support a pro-Jat party, several heads of khaps have alsoindividually thrown their hats into the ring. Aspokesperson of the Sarv Jatt Khap Panchayat(SJKP), a powerful conglomerate of khappanchayats, tried to rally some 100 activekhap panchayats behind one party, so thattheir votes would not get divided. Thesekhaps command influence in the districts ofBhiwani, Hissar, Jind, Rohtak, Sonepat,Kaithal, Jhajjar, Mahendragarh, Palwal andGurgaon among others.

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Hyderabad: In a major set-back to the Telugu DesamParty in Telangana, four of itsMLAs and an MLC havedecided to cross over to theTelangana Rashtra Samiti.Former Minister TalasaniSrinivas Yadav (Sanatnagar),Teegala Krishna Reddy(Maheswaram), PrakashGoud (Rajendranagar) andCh.Dharma Reddy (Parkal)and MLC Gangadhar Goudmet Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao at thecamp office.

Emerging from the meet-ing, they said they decided toquit the TDP and join theTRS only to help achieve thegoal of ‘Bangaru Telangana’(golden State). The four leg-islators and the MLC,sources said would be joining

the TRS officially in a weekat a public meeting to beorganised by the TRS.Though they intended toannounce their joining theTRS, the formal announce-ment was kept pending. Itwas indicated that somemore TDP legislators fromTelangana could join the TRSshortly.

In the house of 119 inTelangana Assembly, TDPhad won 15 seats and withthe latest development, itsnumber would dwindle to 11.In the last few weeks, a num-ber of Congress, TDP and theYSR Congress party MLAshave switched their loyaltiesforcing their legislature par-ties to file disqualificationpetitions with the Speaker.

Srinivas Yadav regrettedthat the TDP president andAndhra Pradesh ChiefMinister N ChandrababuNaidu, was goading them toundertake a ‘Bus Yatra’protesting against the ineffi-ciency of the TRSGovernment. “We know thatthe Krishnapatnam thermalpower station is ready forinauguration, but it appears

that Naidu does not want itto be commissioned rightaway simply because hewould then have to give 54per cent of the power gener-ated to Telangana,” hecharged.

Yadav also referred toNaidu naming his sonLokesh to lead the party inTelangana. “He wants tomake it look as if there is noTDP leadership in the newState. All this makes us feelbad and after decades ofbeing with the TDP, we aredisillusioned. We are confi-dent Chandrasekhar Rao’sintention in transformingthe fledgling state and takeit to the pinnacle of devel-opment and hence wedecided to throw in our lot,”he stated.

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt of India has agreed tohear former Tamil NaduChief Minister's bail plea onOctober 17. The SC will alsohear bail pleas ofJayalalithaa's co-convictsShashikala and Sudhakaran.

Jayalalithaa was convict-ed and sentenced to 4 yearsimprisonment in the Rs 650million disproportionateassets case. She has pleadedthat she has been sentencedto only four years jail in thecase and is also sufferingfrom various ailments asgrounds for her immediaterelief. She said as chief min-ister she did not misuse herpowers in this case. She alsocited grounds of being seniorcitizen and woman for get-ting out of jail.

Transfer to TN jail inlegal fix: Meanwhile, a dayafter the Karnataka HighCourt rejected her bail plea,the state government hasexpressed its "helplessness"

in transferring her to aprison in her home state.The issue is taking a politicaltwist with one section of thegovernment adamant onshifting Jayalalithaa to TamilNadu while another sectionseems disinterested.

Karnataka Chief MinisterSiddaramaiah said that hisgovernment could not take adecision on the issue as sev-eral decision-making bodieswere involved in it. TheKarnataka law and parlia-mentary minister T BJayachandra said the govern-ment would explore the pos-sibilities of transferringJayalalithaa to Tamil Naduonly if her home state sub-mitted a request.

New Delhi: Probing moneylaundering charges in theAircel-Maxis case, theEnforcement Directoratewill soon attach propertiesworth over Rs 7.42 billionbelonging to former tele-com minister DayanidhiMaran, his family membersand associates.

“The attachment ofproperties related to pro-ceeds of crime allegedlyreceived by Maran brothersand associates will be doneshortly under thePrevention of MoneyLaundering Act,“ a sourcesaid.

The attachment willequal the amount allegedlyreceived as bribe by theMaran brothers as claimedby the CBI in itschargesheet, the sourceadded.

In its chargesheet, theCBI has accused the Maranbrothers of having receivedRs 7.42 billion as quid pro

quo after the then telecomminister Dayanidhi Maran“coerced entrepreneur CSivasankaran to sell histelecom company Aircel toMalaysia-based Maxis“.The ED had earlier issuedshowcause notices for Rs17.67billion in the case.

CBI nailed the Maranson the basis of financialtransactions of MaxisCommunications. A UK-based subsidiary of Maxishad purchased shares atpremium in Sun Direct PvtLtd, owned by the Marans,worth Rs 6.29 billon.

“Any additional attach-ment of properties willdepend on information theED receives from Malaysiaand Mauritius,” sourcessaid.

The ED is likely to sendfresh letters rogatory (LRs)to Mauritius and Malaysiaseeking information onentities related to Airceland Maxis.

Mahendergarh (Haryana):Promising to transform"scam Haryana to skillHaryana," Indian PrimeMinister Narendra Modiasked the people of the stateto elect a BJP governmentwith clear majority, saying hewants to strengthen thestate's ties with Delhi totransform its fortunes.

"I know that you are sadthat Haryana is know as astate of scams. There arescams and then scams with-in scams. Our opponents areall involved in scams. Doyou want a scam Haryana? Iwant to create a skillHaryana. You have to decid-ed if you want a scamHaryana or a skill Haryana,"he said addressing a rally.

Asking people to elect aBJP government that couldlead the state on the path ofspeedy development, Modilamented that in the last 25years Haryana has not devel-oped due to dynastic politicsand questioned if the pastelections or governmentswere run democratically.

"If dynastic politics con-tinues, would your fortunes

change? If Haryana has tolive with dignity, we need itto be freed from dynastic pol-itics. For the last 25 years,four-five families have con-trolled Haryana and thecommon man's life hasbecome difficult.

"You have to decidewhether you want a Haryanafree from corruption. Do youwant to see Haryana freedfrom bahubalis (musclemen)and the corrupt? Then youwill have to choose a newpath. The only way left nowis to elect a BJP governmentwith full majority," Modisaid. Stressing on the impor-tance of centre-state ties,Modi said till now the centreand the state stood next toeach other but were notclose enough.

Chandigarh: The campaignby various political partieseyeing their share in theHaryana assembly electionshas gained momentum, witheach of them resorting toadvertisements to woo vot-ers and fire salvos at eachother.

Besides Congress,Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)and Indian National Lok Dal(INLD), other players in thecontest include former MPKuldeep Bishnoi ledHaryana Janhit Congress(HJC) and former UnionMinister Venod Sharma ledJan Chetna Party (JCP).

The three main con-tenders are using strongadvertisement campaigns,especially using regional TVchannels and FM radio.Former Chief Minister OmParkash Chautala led INLD,which is eyeing a comebackafter a decade in the state,released a music video fea-turing Honey Singh, toattract young voters in thestate. INLD has been target-ing Congress over allegedChange of Land Use (CLU)scams, unemployment, cor-

ruption, law and order situa-tion in the state and even hitout at Congress govern-ment's "Haryana No 1" slo-gan. On the other hand,advertisements issued bystate unit of Congress high-light the development workundertaken by their govern-ment during the last 10 yearswith its slogan 'Sach KoJaano Sach Ko Pehchaano,Congress Sarkar TeesriBaar'. Congress ads alsolaunched a veiled attack onINLD, asking voters toremember the time "whenransom was sought fromjails, a reign of terror persist-ed, industry was shiftingfrom the state".

BJP, which is contestingon all 90 assembly seats onits own for the first time, hasalso launched an aggressivecampaign. The party is pro-jecting itself as the onlyviable alternative to both theruling Congress and INLD.Seeking a clear mandatefrom people, BJP's advertise-ments hit out at Congressgovernment over allegedland scams, unemploymentamongst other issues.

SC agrees to hear Jaya'sbail plea on Oct 17

Parties using aggressive adcampaigns in Haryana

ED to attach Maran brothers'Rs 7.42 bn assets

Modi promises to transform'scam Haryana to skill Haryana'

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The UK is looking tostrengthen business tieswith India and also wel-comes Indian students tostudy in the UK, Dr VinceCable, Britain's Secretaryof State for Business,Innovation and Skills saidat Panaji in Goa. Cablewas in Goa as part of hisIndia tour to pursue thetwin goals of business andeducation. Besides meet-ing Goa deputy chief min-ister Francis D'Souza,Cable met with severalGoan businessmen includ-ing Sreenivas Dempo,Victor Albuquerque,Ashok Chowgule and oth-ers.

Later speaking to themedia, Cable said Britainhas a highly sophisticatedmanufacturing sector inadvanced technology likeaerospace, biosciencesand automotive sector andwas looking for tie-upswith Indian companies.While Tata has huge busi-ness interests in the UK,Goan businessmen likePai Kane and Chowgule'salso had businesses there,he said.

Cable said that thoughIndian students were high-est in the UK, their num-ber has now fallen due to awrong perception thatIndian students were notwelcome in the UK anymore. The UK governmentdid tighten rules to stopcertain abuses and alsoacted against illegal uni-versities. But Indian stu-dents are most welcomeand can stay on in the UKif they get jobs, he said.

There are approxi-mately 25,000 Indian stu-dents studying in the UK.Genuine students study-ing in genuine institutionswill get their visas. Thereis no cap on the number ofIndian students in the UK.There is provision to workafter study in a graduatelevel job (UK pounds20,000 per annum) forthree years, extendable to

another three years.In a speech to the

Federation of IndianChambers of Commerceand Industry in Delhi,Cable highlighted thevaluable contributionIndian students made bystudying at UK universi-ties. Cable said: “FromIndira Gandhi - India’sfirst woman PrimeMinister - to Olympic Parksculptor Anish Kapoor,UK universities have pro-duced some of India’smost eminent and talentedgraduates and I want thatlegacy to continue. Withno limits on overseas stu-dent numbers and scholar-ships like the GREATawards, the doors wereopen to Indian students tobenefit from our world-class universities.

“This is not a short-term offer. There was hugedemand from UK employ-ers for the high level skillsIndian graduates can offer,and students that gaingraduate-level employ-ment can stay here aftercompleting their studies.”

Cable announcedmeasures to encouragemore Indian students tocome to the UK: Thelargest ever number ofscholarships for Indianstudents through theGREAT Scholarships pro-gramme. The 2015 intakewill offer 396 new scholar-ships at 57 institutionsacross the UK to study avariety of under-graduateand post-graduate coursessuch as engineering andIT.

He also announced atotal £33 million invest-ment in projects thatwould bolster the UK’sbusiness relationship withIndia. These include:Indian company AmtekAuto investing in a newfoundry in Kidderminsterto meet the growing needfor automotive parts fromJaguar Land Rover andFord, and grow their man-

ufacturing presencebeyond existing UK facili-ties in Coventry and Essex.The initial investment of£23 million will lead to500 new jobs by 2018.

British dental compa-ny, Prima Dental, isinvesting £10 million inIndia to establish a salesand distribution arm inthe north of the country.Prima Asia will supplyburs to the dental profes-sion across India and thesubcontinent. UK Techcompany, Blippar, islaunching India Blippar.Blippar is a leader in aug-mented reality, enablingconsumers to bring to lifeimages and products viasmartphones and wear-ables and are openingtheir first Asia office inDelhi.

Cable said Britain andIndia have long enjoyed astrong, collaborative busi-ness relationship - demon-strated by the fact that wewere their largest investorin the G20 accounting foraround 30% of their annu-al investment - while Indiainvests more into the UKthan any other country.

The government’sindustrial strategy is giv-ing business the confi-dence to increase invest-ment - creating more highskilled, long term jobs inthe UK. So I am pleasedthat Amtek is the latestIndian company toincrease investment intothe UK, creating 500 newjobs in Kidderminster.

Amtek Auto has bene-fited from the Jaguar LandRover success story, whichthanks to Indian invest-ment has created an extra11,000 new jobs over thelast 3 years. Cable alsoaddressed approximately300 students at leadingtechnology and sciencesinstitute, BITS Pilani’sK.K Birla Campus in Goa– as well as students at itsHyderabad and Delhicampuses via video link.

After two days of relativequiet on the internationalborder, Pakistan upped thediplomatic ante as it wroteto the UN for an interven-tion in Jammu & Kashmir.Addressing a letter to UNsecretary general Ban Ki-moon, Pakistani PMNawaz Sharif's foreignaffairs adviser Sartaj Azizsaid UN had an importantrole in the peaceful resolu-tion of the "core" issue ofJ&K and that UNMOGIP,described by India as atool of a bygone era, need-ed to be strengthenedunder the circumstances.The UN Secretary-General, meanwhile,declined to entertainPakistan's request andsaid that it was for bothcountries to resolve theissue mutually.

While Aziz accusedIndia of deliberate cease-fire violations and blamedit for the deterioratingLoC security situation,there was no official reac-tion from the Indian gov-ernment with sources say-ing India did not have toreact to all frivolouscharges or demands madeby Islamabad.

India last weekaccused Pakistan of har-

bouring former al-Qaidachief Osama bin Laden,trying to drive home itspoint that Islamabad waswrongly accusing India ofviolating the ceasefirefirst. Aziz recalled thatSharif had underlined theneed to implement UNSCresolutions on J&K in hismeeting with Ban lastmonth and went on toblame India for cancella-tion of foreign secretary-level talks.

"As you are aware,J&K is one of the long out-standing issues on theagenda of the UnitedNations security council,whose resolutions promis-ing the holding of aplebiscite, under the aus-pices of the UnitedNations, for self-determi-nation of the people ofJammu & Kashmir, remainvalid though unimple-mented to date. Fordecades, Pakistan hasbeen reminding the UnitedNations and the interna-tional community to fulfilthat promise, in the inter-est of durable peace andsecurity in the region,"Aziz said in the letter.

"Unfortunately, Indiahas adopted a policy thatruns counter to its stated

desire to engage in a seri-ous bilateral dialogue withPakistan. India cancelled,unilaterally and withoutany plausible justification,the foreign secretary-leveltalks that were scheduledto be held on August 25,2014," Aziz added. Hedemanded that the con-tents of the letter be circu-lated as an official UNSCdocument.

According to Aziz, per-sistent shelling and firingby Indian forces hadresulted in 12 civiliancasualties on the Pakistaniside.

"During the periodOctober 1-10, 2014, 20ceasefire violations alongthe line of control and 22violations along the work-ing boundary were report-ed, resulting in 12 civiliancasualties, 52 injured civil-ians and 9 injured militarypersonnel on the Pakistaniside. From June to August2014, there were 99 cease-fire violations along theline of control and 32along the working bound-ary. In all, during 2014,174 ceasefire violationsalong the line of controland 60 along the workingboundary have beenreported," Aziz said.

Vince Cable seeks to boostbusiness ties with India

Pakistan again asks UN tointervene in Jammu & Kashmir

Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi launchedthe 'Saansad Adarsh GramYojana' under which LokSabha MPs will choose avillage panchayat fromwithin their constituencyto ensure overall develop-ment of the village.

"I have toured for over40 years and have visitedabout 400 districts. I got tosee more than 5,000 vil-lages outside Gujarat andthat is why I know theground reality. I too haveto select a village inVaranasi and I havereceived the guidelines. Iwill go there soon, thendiscuss and decide," Modisaid as he launched hisanother ambitious mission.

Asking every MP toadopt a village and workfor their development,Modi said: "Whicheverparty the MP belongs to, heor she has to keep workingamong people and spentlot of his time to get workdone for the government."

For the MPs electedfrom cities, the prime min-ister urged them to look at

a village that is close totheir city. "MPs can select avillage in their state...Thisis not a scheme aboutmoney. It is people drivenand guided by people's par-ticipation, guided by theMPs," he said.

The scheme, which hasbeen inaugurated on thebirth anniversary of socialreformer JaiprakashNarayan, aims to provideaccess to health, educa-tion, sanitation and smartschools to the adopted vil-lages. Recalling the greatleader Jai PrakashNarayan, the PrimeMinister said that he tooka lot of inspiration fromhim. "Today is the birthanniversary of Lok NayakJai Prakash Narayan. Hiscontribution is indispensi-

ble in the history of Indiaand he inspires us to agreat extent," he said.

He also stressed on theneed to formulate schemesin accordance with thechanging times to makethem more effective. "Eachgovernment has tried tomake the conditions of vil-lages better in their ownunique way. Schemes mustbe formulated in accor-dance with the changingtimes and the speed ofchange must also increase,"he explained.

"There are several vil-lages that make model vil-lages, but not all villagesare a model village whichmeans that there is a lotmore to be done beyondimplementing governmentschemes. We are around800 MPs, if every year wemake three model villages,then by 2019 we will reachabout 2,500 villages," thePrime Minister said.

He also stated that ifthe states can also launchsuch a scheme for MLAs,there will be many moremodel villages.

Modi launches 'Gram Yojana',asks MPs to adopt a village

Vince Cable with Nitin Gadkari, India's Minister of Road Transport & Highways,Shipping, Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water & Sanitation

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Continued from page 1At a time when India andits neighbour Pakistanwere again trading gunfireon the border, the symbol-ism of the two sharing theworld's most coveted prizewas not lost on anybody.The Nobel committee saidit regarded it important fora Hindu and a Muslim, anIndian and a Pakistani, tojoin in a common strugglefor education and againstextremism.

Satyarthi becomes thesecond Indian afterMother Teresa to get theprize, which has previous-ly been awarded to thelikes of Nelson Mandela.Malala, who at 17becomes the youngestNobel laureate ever, is thefirst Pakistani to get thehonour.

Malala dedicated theaward to the “voiceless.”“This award is for all thosechildren who are voiceless,whose voices need to beheard,” she said. She invit-ed Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and hisPakistani counterpartNawaz Sharif to attendthe Nobel award ceremonyin Stockholm inDecember, when shereceives the prize alongwith Satyarthi.

The two will split the$1.11m (Rs 68 million)prize announced by the

Norwegian Nobel commit-tee. The Nobel committeesaid 60-year-old Satyarthimaintained MahatmaGandhi's tradition andheaded various forms ofprotests and demonstra-tions, all peaceful, focus-ing on the grave exploita-tion of children for finan-cial gain. “He has alsocontributed to the devel-opment of important inter-national conventions onchildren's rights,” thecommittee noted.

The Nobel committeesaid respect for childrens'right was a prerequisite fordevelopment. “Childrenmust go to school and notbe financially exploited. Inthe poor countries of theworld, 60% of the presentpopulation is under 25years of age... In conflict-

ridden areas in particular,the violation of childrenleads to the continuationof violence from genera-tion to generation,” thecommittee said.

Malala, it said, had“through her heroic strug-gle ... become a leadingspokesperson for girls’rights to education”. In2009, as militants blew upschools and intimidatedteachers, Malala startedan anonymous blog for theBBC recounting life underTaliban rule in northwestPakistan. She gave inter-views and speechesdefending girls’ educationand won nationwiderecognition as a defiantcampaigner.

Her religion, she said,had been perverted bythose who “think Islam

means women sitting athome in purdah or wear-ing burkas while men dojihad.” She was shot in thehead by Taliban gunmentwo years ago this monthon her way home fromschool. She was flown tothe UK for treatment, andmade a remarkable recov-ery.

Despite fame abroadand widespread praise forthe Malala Fund she estab-lished to empower girlsthrough education, therehas been a hate campaignagainst her in Pakistan,where she is portrayed as astooge of the west andeven, in extreme versions,as a CIA agent who fakedher own shooting.

The Taliban haverepeated their threatsagainst her, which were afactor in the NobelCommittee deciding not toaward the peace prize toher last year, when shewas a favourite to win.

Nawaz Sharif,Pakistan’s prime minister,congratulated Malala, call-ing her the “pride” of hiscountry: “Her achieve-ment is unparalleled andunequalled. Girls and boysof the world should takethe lead from her struggleand commitment,” he saidin a statement.

Continued from page 1short supply. Residentsalso resorted to panic buy-ing items such as milk, can-dles and kerosene in someplaces.

Few shops were openand schools and manyoffices were closed due topoor telecoms and nopower for the second day ina row.

Officials in AndhraPradesh, which reported 25deaths, said initial surveysfound that thousands ofhouses had been damagedand there was widespreaddestruction to farm cropsin the districts ofV i s a k h a p a t n a m ,Srikakulam, East Godavariand Vijaynagaram.

Tens of thousands ofpeople spent a third nightin cyclone shelters due todamage to their home or alack of food or clean drink-ing water in their villages,officials said.

Chief MinisterChandrababu Naidu, whovisited Visakhapatnam onMonday, said he was fullyconfident that response tothe disaster would bequick. "Visakhapatnam is aplace I like very much. But,

it is painful to see the citythis way today," Naidu toldreporters. Authorities inVisakhapatnam said 19helicopters had been dis-patched to drop food andwater packets to affectedvillages. Four naval shipswere also being readied tosail to the coast, carryingrelief material for 5,000people, and four moreships were on standby ifrequired.

The relatively low deathtoll reported so far followedan operation to evacuatemore than 150,000 people

to minimise the risk to livesfrom Hudhud - similar insize and power to cyclonePhailin that struck the areaexactly a year ago.

According to India'sweather office, Hudhudhas weakened into a deepdepression but is expectedto dump heavy rains innorthern and northeasternIndia and, eventually, snowwhen it reaches theHimalayan mountains.

Aid workers warnedthe rains were likely toinundate large tracts offarmland, comparing it toPhailin's incessant rainslast year which causedmajor rivers and tributariesto overflow, submergingvillages and stranding hun-dreds of thousands of peo-ple for days after thecyclone had passed.

Modi announces Rs 10billion interim relief

Prime MinisterNarendra announced Rs 10billion as an interim relief

for cyclone-hit AndhraPradesh. He made theannouncement after visit-ing parts of the worst-affected port city and areview meeting withChandrababu Naidu andtop officials.

Modi, who made anaerial survey of the affectedareas of both north coastalAndhra and Odisha, alsodeclared Rs 200,000 fromPrime Minister's ReliefFund for families of each ofthose killed and Rs 50,000to every injured. He saidthe cyclone caused hugelosses at a time when hewas planning to developVisakhapatnam into asmart city. He, however,exuded confidence that thecentral and state govern-ment will work together toovercome the challenge.Naidu had earlier soughtRs.20 billion as interimassistance and also wantedModi to declare it a nation-al calamity.

India has completed allthe requirements formembership to theNuclear Suppliers Group(NSG) and MissileTechnology ControlRegime (MTCR), the UStold the Indian side duringthe discussions betweenPrime Minister NarendraModi and US PresidentBarack Obama.

This brings Indiamuch closer to becomingpart of the global nuclearsystem, and essential ifIndia has to accessnuclear and dual-use tech-nologies in fields asdiverse as pharmaceuti-cals and space. India hasbeen negotiating for mem-bership to NSG, MTCR,Wassenaar Arrangementand Australia Group forthe past few years.

Meanwhile, the con-tact group on civil nuclearissues will have its firstmeeting within weeks,said sources. On theIndian side, it will havekey officials from MEA,DAE and NPCIL, whileon the US side, it willinvolve officials from theirdepartment of energy(DoE), and lawyers andtechnical experts.

Modi has reportedlylet it be known that hewants an early resolutionto the outstanding issues,which can speed up thegrowth of nuclear power.India has believed for awhile that the quest for

clean energy, a big part ofModi's agenda, is not pos-sible without nuclearpower.

The two sides willwrestle through a coupleof big issues. On the USside, the administrativearrangements on the civilnuclear deal with Indiainvolves the thorny aspectof their insistence thatthey have the right totrack nuclear fuel throughthe entire nuclear process.India will not agree. But aresolution on this isimperative because onthis hinges the fate of twoother nuclear agreements- with Japan andAustralia.

On the Indian side, theeffort will be to convincethe US that the liabilitylaw is not a constraint.The Indian government isin the process of drawingup a detailed list of com-ponents, specifying theamount of liability and itstimespan. Its supposed todefine precisely the scopeof the liability law, but sofar even Indian companiesare not impressed.

The Narendra Modi gov-ernment got a slap on thewrist from the SupremeCourt which said itbehaved like'Kumbhakarna', themythological characterwho loved sleeping forlong periods, and 19thcentury story character'Rip Van Winkle', whoshirked hard work.

A bench of JusticesDipak Misra and R FNariman compared theUnion government tothese two characters whilefrowning upon the min-istry of environment andforests' for failing to sub-mit a report despite grantof two months time on thebiodiversity impact of 24hydro-electric projects onAlaknanda and Bhagirathiriver basins inUttarakhand. The courthad stayed work on theseprojects awaiting thereport.

"The report shouldhave been here. It is thefault of the Union govern-ment. You are behavinglike Kumbhakarna. We areat a loss to understandwhy the Union govern-ment has not placed thereport before us. What isyour intention? So muchtime was granted. You arelike Rip van Winkle," thebench said.

The bench said therehad to be a balancedapproach. "Men must live

along with the fish andother aquatic creatures inthe rivers on which thesehydel projects are pro-posed to be constructed.And we must also gener-ate electricity. The ques-tion is how to maintainthe balance," it said.

Some of the parties,including BharatJhunjhunwala and counselfor NGOs PrashantBhushan and ColinGonsalves, said the courthad constituted a 13-mem-ber expert committee toexamine the impact ofthese hydel projects, manyof which were being con-structed almost 'bumper tobumper' on the rivers.

Bhushan said twomembers, one each fromCentral WaterCommission and CentralElectricity RegulatoryCommission, had givendissenting notes but theother 11 members hadgiven a report unanimous-ly faulting the mindlessplanning of hydel projectson rivers, endangering theenvironment and aqua-culture.

Appearing for NTPC,senior advocate A MSinghvi said the publicsector undertaking's Rs15.27 billion Lata-Tapovanproject was held updespite securing everyclearance, both environ-mental and forest, becauseof the court's stay order.

Nobel peace prize for Malala, Satyarthi

25 killed in Andhra cyclone India set to enterglobal nuclear club

SC calls Centre 'Kumbhakarna'

We use our musclesthrough out the day.

It is as important as breath-ing, but when your rhythmof breathing changes so doyour bodily functions.Similarly when your mus-cle contracts involuntarily,without warning, it causescramps or spasms. Thesespasms can involuntarilycontract a muscle orgroups of muscles. A mus-cle cramp may last for any-thing from a few seconds toa few minutes.

Which muscles areaffected by musclecramps?There are two kinds of

muscles - the ones that youcan control like those inthe arms and legs that youcan use when lifting, mov-ing, bending etc, and theones that you can't control.The second kind of musclefalls under the involuntarymuscles category. Yourinvoluntary muscles (theheart being one of them)can also face spasms andcramps but the causes andresults are extremely dif-ferent from routine musclecramps of limbs.

Cause of MuscleCramps: Parents complainthat their children are dis-connected; this is exactlywhat happens with yourmuscles. Like excitedhyperactive children, yournerve excites your musclesresulting in spasms.Secondly, lack of calcium,

potassium and magnesiumcan stimulate musclecramps. Dehydration canalso result in musclecramps. Injury to thenerve or muscle strokescan lead to muscle spasms.Poor circulation to yourmuscles ignites musclecramps, you may haveexperienced it after sittingcrossed legged for extend-ed time durations.

Can medication causemuscle cramps?Yes, certain medicines

can cause muscle spasms.Certain medication used totreat Alzheimer's, osteo-porosis, Parkinson's, highblood pressure and medi-cines to lower cholesterolcan cause muscle cramps.

But these side effects arenot common to all drugusers; it will vary from per-son to person. Consultyour doctor if you want todiscontinue your medi-cines.

How to treat musclecramps: Relax the muscle;apply heat on the muscle;slowly stretch the muscle;massaging works well;have calcium, potassiumand magnesium supple-ments, if you lack theseminerals. Drink water.Have an electrolyte drink;try walking or standing up

How to prevent musclecramps?• Stretching, warm up

exercises and post work-out exercises can help pre-

vent muscle cramps.• If you are going to

undertake strenuous activ-ity, hydrate yourself.• Electrolytes are the

key especially when youperspire excessively.

Nocturnal cramps inelderly: With age, bloodcirculation slows downwhile you are asleep. Thiscan cause cramps and dis-turb your sleep. Inactivityand lack of exercise are tobe blamed too. But noctur-nal cramps can also strikeanyone; if you are seated atyour chair for long hoursor standing in one positionfor a long time, you maysuffer from nocturnalcramps too. Even thewrong chair for you canresult in spasms.

Leg cramps duringpregnancy: Leg crampsstart during the secondtrimester and as the babydevelops in the womb. It isnot clear why pregnantwomen experiencecramps, but it may belinked to carrying excessweight. Consult your doc-tor if you want to followcertain exercise; exercisecan help prevent musclecramps. Water and a goodmassage can help preventmuscle cramps too. Butbeware of getting mas-saged by a non-qualifiedtherapist. Wrong massagetechnique can cause worseproblems than musclecramps.

Diabetes isn't knownas a silent killer just

for kicks. The growingnumber of people fallingprey to this metabolic dis-ease has raised quite analarm worldwide.Being overweight,

leading a sedentarylifestyle, lack of exerciseand consumption of highcalorie, sugary and fattyfoods are the reasons thatgive rise to this lifestyleailment. Here's a list offoods that help in pre-venting diabetes.

Turmeric: Studiesclaim that curcumin, acompound found inturmeric may help delay ifnot prevent diabetes.More research is neededto determine the long-term effects of turmeric.However, early resultshow promise.

S t r a w b e r r i e s :Strawberries look andtaste delicious. So there'sno reason why you shouldnot eat them regularly.Scientists are of the opin-ion that consumingstrawberries helps acti-vate a protein in the bodywhich reduces LDL cho-lesterol and blood lipids.Both these things play afactor in the development

of diabetes. Also, scien-tists who conductedexperiments on micefound that consumingstrawberries is beneficialin lowering blood glucoselevels.

Cheese and yogurt:By this we mean low-fatcheese and yogurt.Experts believe that thehealthy bacteria found inthese fermented dairyproducts are responsiblefor this healthy beneficialside-effect.

Cinnamon: Cinnamonhas numerous health ben-efits. It helps in loweringfasting blood glucose.Also, it is known to lowertriglyceride levels, LDLcholesterol and improveinsulin sensitivity too.Sprinkle some powderedcinnamon in your coffeeor toast.

Apples: Anthocyanin,a compound found inabundance in apples,helps in regulating bloodsugar levels.

Spinach: Spinach isrich in many nutrientswhich makes it sohealthy. A British studyshowed that consumingspinach daily cuts downthe risk of diabetes by14%.

Anew study hasrevealed that

decreased ability to identi-fy odours can predictdeath within five years.According to the study,39% of respondents, whofailed a simple smellingtest, died during that peri-od, compared to 19% ofthose with moderate smellloss and just 10% of thosewith a healthy sense ofsmell. The hazards ofsmell loss were "strikinglyrobust," the researchersnote, above and beyondmost chronic diseases.Olfactory dysfunction was

better at predicting mor-tality than a diagnosis ofheart failure, cancer orlung disease. Only severeliver damage was a morepowerful predictor ofdeath. For those already athigh risk, lacking a senseof smell more than dou-bled the probability ofdeath.Study's lead author

Jayant M Pinto, MD, anassociate professor of sur-gery at the University ofChicago, said that theythink loss of the sense ofsmell is like the canary inthe coal mine. It doesn'tdirectly cause death, butit's a harbinger, an earlywarning that somethinghas gone badly wrong,that damage has beendone. Their findings couldprovide a useful clinicaltest, a quick and inexpen-sive way to identifypatients most at risk.

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So it seemed as if everyonehad descended ontoTrafalgar Square to cele-brate Diwali. God was onour side, the day was sunnyand bright. There wasexcitement everywhere asthe stall holders were busypreparing for the visitorswho would soon descendon to Trafalgar square.Thewhole square was a riot ofcolour, culture and tradi-tion. Indian HighCommissioner Mr RanjanMathai along with an arrayof invited guests inaugurat-ed the festival. LondonMayor Boris Johnson con-

veyed his Diwali wishes through a video message.Programme kick-started with an invocation to LordGanesha. Special part of this year’s Diwali is the RamYatra in which about 50 children participated. It sig-nified a victory parade of Lord Rama, Sita,Lakshmana along with Hanuman.The giving away of saris to the multicultural eventwas magical, with many leaving with a beautiful sariin their hands. The calibre of the variety show acts was breathtaking.The festival kicked off with Garba followed by thebest Bollywood dancers in the country. The calibre ofthe classical dances was just breathtaking. The artiand coloured light show at 8 o’clock was moving. Allin all it was an amazing event. Even the rain that fellafter 6pm did not dampen the atmosphere at all.Coolherbals were proud to be sponsoring the Wellbeing Zone for this year’s Diwali on the Square,along with others. You could have had a Diabetescheck and the Stroke Association were there offeringhelp and advice.The Coolherbals team were working flat out offeringfree Ayurvedic head massages, free Chin Firmingtreatment and a goody bag with ASIAN VOICEnewspaper and a £5 GIFT VOUCHER fromCoolherbals. We are also offering all our readers a free invitation toone of our very popular Hair Loss/Hair ThinningRoad Shows. This will show tell you possible causesfor your hair problems and natural solutions. RaviBhanot, author of Hair Today Hair Tomorrow will bethere to answer all your questions. Please postcoupon below, email or phone to reserve your place.Seats are limited.Coolherbals showcased one of their new innovativetreatments at this year’s Diwali Festival 2014. TheCoolherbals Ayurvedically based Chin Firming orDouble Chin Treatment was offered free to all visitorsto the Coolherbals stand. This involved application ofa marine paste, then a hydrocolloid chin support con-taining a special blend of invigorating essential oils tohelp the firming effect , was placed over the chin andleft for 20 minutes. The treatment was finished offwith a massage with the Chin Firming Serum. Thetreatment was a smash hit which saw a queue all day.Results showed 98% found their chin felt softer andsmoother, and almost 50% found their chin area felttighter. We are offering this for just £20 for 1 monthtreatment pack. Gabrielle Lides said ’The treatmentmade my chin feel smooth and firm after only havingthe treatment for several minutes’.

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'Sonali Cable'

“Sonali Cable” is directed by CharuduttAcharya and produced by Ramesh Sippyand Rohan Sippy. The script, penned byAcharya himself, was one of the eightscripts selected for Mumbai Mantra-Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab2012, chosen through an evaluationprocess of submissions from around theworld, including the United States andFrance. Newcomer, Rhea Chakraborty,has been roped in to play a pivotal role.Ali Fazal is paired opposite Rhea whileRaghav Juyal makes his acting debut withthis film. Set in the cable internet turf warof Mumbai, the film is the story of a ghet-to girl and her ‘internet boys’, who takeon a greedy conglomerate that’s out todecimate their spirit of enterprise.

'Mumbai 125 KM'“Mumbai 125 KM” is a horror filmdirected by Hemant Madhukar and star-ring Karanvir Bohra, Veena Malik,

Vedita Pratap Singh, Joey Debroy, VijeBhatia. Mani Sharma has composed themusic. The film is shot entirely onStereoscopic 3D cameras and will bereleased in 2D and 3D formats.

Rumour has it that “Ghajini” actress is all setto return to South Indian cinema soon. Last

two years have been relatively quiet for Keralahottie Asin Thottumkal. The actor who is oneof the very few South Indian heroines whohad successfully completed the transitionfrom Kollywood to Bollywood, seems to beout of work in B-town. The only film whichthe bubbly beauty has in her kitty isAbhishek Bachchan’s “All Is Well.”

A little birdie tells us that Asin is plan-ning to move back her focus to filmsdown South. The diva’s recent tweet sug-gests that the actress might be returningto Tamil and Malayalam films soon. On

a social networking site, Asin wrote,”Exclusive:There is a good news for all Asin southfans..!!! We would announce it when the right timecomes.” Asin’s last film down south was Vijay‘s“Kavalan” in 2011. Rumours are rife that theactress might have faced a ban from Kollywoodafter her trip to Sri Lanka, when all the Tamilactors were requested to boycott the island nationafter the civil war. The talented actress has not gotmany offers from South in past years, but thatseems to be changing as Asin is suddenly showinga keen interest in Kollywood. As fans rejoice thecomeback of Asin after exile, we would have towait and watch when the diva discloses the detailsof her next project.

Popular Tamil film actors like VishalKrishna Reddy, Arya, Karthi, Jiiva

and Jeyam Ravi will join hands towork in a yet-untitled Tamil film freeof cost. The profits earned throughthe film will be invested in the con-struction of a new building forSouth Indian Film ArtistesAssociation (SIFAA) akaNadigar Sangam.

SIFAA was supposed toget a new building a fewyears back, but the

Madras High Court stayed the construc-tion after receiving complaints that theassociation's premises was being lent outto a multiplex.

"All of us felt that the Nadigar Sangamneeded a permanent building. We recentlydiscussed this idea in the general bodymeeting of the association," Vishal said.The director for the film is yet to befinalised. Vishal, who is currently shootingfor Sundar C-directed Tamil action"Aambala", is gearing up for his Diwalirelease.

Asin plans comeback to S Indian films?

5 popular Tamil actors to worktogether in a film

CatherineTresa exploresher potential

Southern actor Catherine Tresa,who will be seen in three var-

ied roles in her upcoming films inTamil as well as Telugu, says she’sexploring her potential as an artistwith such diverse roles.

While she plays PrincessAnambika in Telugu-Tamil periodflick “Rudhramadevi,” she willalso be seen in two different rolesin her Tamil films “Madras” and“Kanithan.” “I’m extremely happyto be doing different projects, tak-ing up diverse roles that allow meto explore my own potential as anactress. These films have given methe opportunity to push my ownlimits as an artist and set newbenchmarks,” Catherine said.

Although she remains tight-lipped about her roles in thesefilms, she heaps praise on herMadras co-star Karthi. “I thor-oughly enjoyed working with him.He’s truly a fantastic actor and isextremely dedicated. I feel I havegrown better as an artist workingwith Karthi,” she added.

Catherine says that 60 per centof shooting for “Kanithan” hasbeen completed and the team islikely to go abroad to shoot thesongs. The film features AtharvaMurali in the lead.

Ta k i n ge x c e p -

tion to thealleged mis-representa-tion ofancient SunTemple in

Kashmir in Vishal Bharadwaj’s movie‘Haider‘, a committee of displacedKashmiri Pandits has sought a ban onthe film. “The song ‘Bismil’ has por-trayed the ancient Martand Temple(Sun Temple) of Kashmir as the den ofdevil. The portrayal of our religious sym-bol in bad light has not only hurt thereligious sentiments of the KashmirPandit community, but also the senti-ments of Hindus all over the world,”Vinod Pandit, chairman of the AllParties Migrants Co-ordination commit-tee (APMCC) said. The committee helda protest against the film and its produc-ers and burnt the film’s poster whichincluded photographs of its directorVishal Bhardwaj, Central Board of FilmCertification (CBFC) andArchaeological Survey of India (ASI).

Kashmiri Pandits seekban on film 'Haider'

Film direc-tor Kunal

Kohli will turnactor with“Phir Se,” afilm set inLondon, whichhe will alsohelm. He hasroped in popu-lar TV actressJennifer Wingetas his leadinglady. Accordingto a source,Jennifer playsan independ-ent, headstronggirl who movesfrom Amritsarto London to

start her life from scratch after an uglydivorce. In London, she meets Kunal's char-acter, also a divorcee.

The sources added that the film dealswith the complexities of a new romance anda second attempt at a happily ever after.

Jennifer Winget toromance filmmaker

Kunal Kohli

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While alot of

p e o p l ea r o u n dPa r i n e e t iChopra callher Pari,R a n v e e rSingh whowill be seenromancingthe actressin “Kill

Dil” calls her with a different name now.Not many people know that Ranveer callsParineeti, Sweeta, but much to her irrita-tion. It is for the second time that the twoactors will be seen sharing screen spacetogether. Both Ranveer and Parineeti arejovial and full of life. They share a verygood rapport and had a great time shoot-ing for the film. As co-stars they constant-ly keep pulling each other's leg andRanveer calls her Sweeta, even today.

Back in the ’60s,double roles were

a novelty. The formulabecame a hit in the’70s and ’80s, withAmitabh Bachchandoing several of themin films like “Don,”“Geraftaar” and“Akhree Raasta,”among others. The’90s naturally saw theKhans, Salman andShah Rukh do“Judwaa” and“Duplicate” respec-tively. However, the2000s saw a slow-down.

There were a few double rolesnow and then, but it’s only sincemid-2012 that the formula hasmade a comeback with films likeAbhishek Bachchan’s “Bol

Bachchan,” Arjun Kapoor’s“Aurangzeb,” Akshay Kumar's“Rowdy Rathore” and AamirKhan’s “Dhoom 3.”

And now again it’s SRK,Salman and Saif Ali Khan, whoare trying to make double rolesthe ‘in’ thing with their upcomingfilms. Salman has played a doublerole only once in his 25-year-oldcareer.

It was 17 years ago in“Judwaa.” Now he is allset to star in not one buttwo back-to-back doubleroles at around the sametime. Yes, the DabanggKhan will promise thefun with his doubleavatar in SoorajBarjatya’s “Prem RatanDhan Payo” and AnnesBazmee’s “No EntryMein Entry.”

The last time we sawShah Rukh play a doublerole was in “Duplicate.”But like Salman, theKing Khan is ensuring

that his fans have twice thedhamaal with his upcoming film,“Fan,” which is being directed byManeesh Sharma and producedby Aditya Chopra.

Similarly, Saif will soon beseen as a flamboyant Hollywoodwriter named Yudi and also afailed philosophical rock starnamed Yogi in his upcoming film,“Happy Ending.”

Ranveer has a new nickname for Parineeti

Priyanka Chopra who has been winningaccolades for her portrayal of boxing

champion MaryKom has now beenapproached to playanother real-lifeachiever. If theactor gives thenod, she mayreprise the role ofretired police offi-cer Kiran Bedi whowas India’s firstand highest rank-

ing police officer and served in variouscapacities as New Delhi traffic postings,Deputy Inspector General of Police inMizoram, Director General of NarcoticsControl Bureau besides others. The newsthat the actress has been approached wasconfirmed by her spokesperson. DirectorSoham Shah (who made “Luck” in 2009,and “Kaal” in 2005) will reportedly helmthe project.

Priyanka may act inKiran Bedi biopic

Filmmaker andproducer Karan

Johar is all set to pro-duce a biopic on thelife of Hockey legendMajor Dhyan Chand.The film will be co-produced by Poojaand Arti Shetty.Johar confirmedabout the same on amicro-blogging site.

"My friends Pooja...Aarti Shetty and I arehonoured and proud to have the rights totell the story of the legendary sportsman#DHYANCHAND," confirmed KJo.

While no further details about the filmhave been revealed, it would be interest-ing to see which actor would be roped into play Major Dhyan Chand. Well goingwith the trend, we hope this film createsthe same impact as the likes of “BhaagMilkha Bhaag,” “Mary Kom,” “Chak DeIndia!”

Karan Johar to producebiopic on Dhyan Chand!

Actor Ranbir Kapoor was dischargedfrom a hospital in Mumbai following

a minor surgery, said a source. Accordingto a report, he was being treated for ade-noid tonsil. Ranbir, who turned 32 onSeptember 28, was admitted to the BreachCandy Hospital. Apparently, because ofthe adenoid, Ranbir had to sometimessleep with his mouth open, to facilitatebreathing. Ranbir is currently shooting for‘Roy’ along with Jacqueline Fernandezand Arjun Kapoor.

Ranbir undergoesminor surgery

SRK, Salman, Saif to play double roles intheir upcoming films

Katrina Kaif says thatshe neither thinks

about the cast nor scriptwhile signing a film andadds that her decision isinfluenced by her thoughtprocess at that particularmoment. "I don't calculateand choose scripts. At thatmoment of saying yes, Iwould have something inmy mind that this is what Iwant to do," she said.

"When I signed Dhoom

3, I was sitting in my car. Iwas listening to a song andI thought I want to dosomething different withthe songs I am doing andthat I want to dance andthat film (Dhoom 3)seemed to be the best spaceto do it in," added theactress whose latest film is“Bang Bang!”

In fact, in her last fewreleases she was seen withBollywood's top notchKhans - Aamir was her co-star in “Dhoom 3”, ShahRukh in “Jab Tak Hai Jaan”and Salman in “Ek ThaTiger.” When asked whethershe was working withsuperstars by choice ordesign, she said the castdepends upon the script.

"I don't think anyoneapproaches me with a (pre-decided) cast. Out of mylast five films, I was onboard of two even beforethe male actors were signedon. If it's a good script, bydefault you would get a wellknown actor or big star."

"In terms of who comeswith which actor, I don't seeit that way. One of my nextfilms is 'Fitoor' by AbhishekKapoor. When he signed meon, there was no actor onboard. Later they roped inAditya Roy Kapur. Thattime I had not seen'Aashiqui 2,' but I didn'tquestion the director. Thatis his decision, his vision

and I go by that. When Idid 'New York,' NeilNitin Mukesh wasone-film-old. When Iworked with ImranKhan and Ali Zafar(in 'Mere Brother KiDulhan'), they werenew. I haveworked withnew people aswell," sheadded.

Katrina not choosy, calculative about script

Actress Deepika Padukone was leftimpressed by a group of senior citi-

zens’ wit and charm during a TV show.Zee TV’s multi-city tour in search ofhappy souls who dance direct dil se - on“Dil Se Naachein Indiawaale” - recent-ly started with a round of Mumbaiauditions that witnessed spirited per-formances from contestants acrossall age groups and diverse back-grounds.

Amongst many dance enthusi-asts, The Bold & The Beautiful - agroup of eight senior citizens froma laughter club left the show’s panel-lists surprised with their dance. Whilethey received a standing ovation from allthe celebrity panellists and live audience,one of the senior most members of the group– Vinod, floored Deepika as he revealed that ithas been his wish to dance with the actresssince his “childhood.” He said: “Meri umar haipachpan, par mujh mein abhi bhi hai bachpan”(My age is 55, but I am a child at heart).Deepika agreed to dance with him and said that

it was an honour for her to perform with him. She wasblown away by Vinod’s energy levels when they shooka leg together on one of Deepika’s favourite songs“Balam pichkari”.

Deepika floored by her‘oldest’ fan

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An inspiring boost tomatters of communication but make sure your

curiosity on a range of topics does not lead to ascattering of mental energy. With a surge of ener-gy and enthusiasm, this is a favourable time tomake fresh starts. Personal relationships may bemore intense.

Although all kinds ofopportunities are com-

ing your way, there are many obstacles betweenyou and the fulfilment of any of these. As you clearyour path you will get closer to achieving yourdreams. Relationships and romance are bothunder scrutiny by the presence of Saturn in your7th house.

Do not kid yourselfthat emotional problems

can always be solved by material means. This onlycovers the cracks and does nobody any good in theend. Be prepared to confront the issues. If lovehas left you feeling rather dejected or cynical, itlooks as though soon events will pull you out ofthis mood of despondency.

It is certainly goingto be a fortunate time

for those in established relationships. The keynoteis emotional enrichment through close interactionwith a loved one. Facets of your life that havebeen a source of restriction and dissatisfaction willbegin to loosen their hold.

You will have plenty ofenergy and drive to

improve your status and at the same time achievefinancial prosperity - you must make good use ofthe energy that is flowing, by channelling it posi-tively! Creativity, romance and leisure all receive atonic.

Disruptions in yourhome bring a new out-

look with a search for security. There will beopportunities through partnerships. It is time toteam up with others with the same desires andgoals. It is time to take your plans to the nextlevel with focus and planning.

This is almost cer-tain to be an eventful

time for affairs of the heart. The transit of Venusthrough your sign augurs well for those hoping tomeet the right partner. A party that you attendallows you to connect with interesting new people,one of whom may be interested in you as a roman-tic partner.

Sun's transit of your12th Solar House indi-

cates that experience will put you in a deeplyreflective mood. This is a favourable time for get-ting away from usual routines and seeking aretreat for a few days. Meditation, yoga and ther-apies will help you to get in closer touch with yourinner self.

The fiery planetMars, continues to

occupy your sign. Its influence will help you tomaintain a high energy level and achieve positiveresults in anything that requires drive and initia-tive. However, you will need to focus on what ismost important in your life, otherwise mistakes willbe made.

The prevailingcosmic pattern

packs a powerful punch early this week. Havingsuch potent energies, make you feel positive andconfident in whatever you do. This is not the timeto hold back or underestimate your potential if youwish to further an important aim.

You are endowed witha level of determination

that others sometimes find formidable. Once youset your mind on a goal you stay the course nomatter what obstacles you encounter. Saturn'splacement in your Solar 10th house often denotesa phase of restriction, sometimes frustration, inone's life.

Don't be afraid to actforcefully if your instinct

tells you it's time for change. If you know yourground and are not afraid to stick your neck out,you can create your own opportunities. Besidesspending time on domestic affairs, the focus canbe on cultivating and nourishing your inner foun-dations, so to speak.

ARIES Mar 21 - Apr 20

TAURUS Apr 21 - May 21

LIBRA Sep 24 - Oct 23

SCORPIO Oct 24- Nov 22

SAGITTARIUS Nov 23 - Dec 21

CAPRICORN Dec 22 - Jan 20

AQUARIUS Jan 21 - Feb 19

PISCES Feb 20 - Mar 20

GEMINI May 22 - June 22

CANCER Jun 22 - Jul 22

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Don’t forget thatBritish SummerTime finishes onSaturday 25thOctober. So allclocks need to goback an hour on

Sunday 26October at 2am asthe country revertsto GreenwichMean Time(GMT).

World-famous BollywoodStar Shah Rukh Khan waspresented with a LeicesterCity Football Shirt byKeith Vaz MP on Saturdaywhen he dropped into

Bollywood icon SRK given Foxes shirt London to visit Parliament,receive the GlobalDiversity Award 2014 andheadline the sell-outSLAM tour at the famousLondon O2 arena. KeithVaz MP who hosted hisvisit to Parliament said:“Shah Rukh Khan is one ofthose rare individuals whois loved by millions wher-ever he goes. He wasdelighted to receive the

shirt and congratulatedLeicester City F.C. on theirrecent successes.”

India relied on theirbowlers to stage a remark-able recovery scripting acomfortable 48-run win inthe second cricket One-day international againstthe West Indies to level thefive-match series 1-1, atFerozshah Kotla in NewDelhi on Saturday.Chasing a 264-run tar-

get, West Indies werecruising at one stage asthey were 170 for two inthe 36th over before theirinnings fell apart on asluggish Kotla track.India defended the

total despite West Indies'early domination as open-er Dwayne Smith hit acareer-best 97. However,once Smith was dismissedIndian bowlers called theshots, causing a battingcollapse. From a comfort-able 170 for two, theCaribbean side lost theirlast eight wickets for just45 runs to be all out for215 in 46.3 overs.

Mohammed Shami(4/36) recorded his career-best figures while all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja(3/44) and leg-spinnerAmit Mishra (2/40)snared five wicketsbetween them as the inepttechnique of theCaribbeans against spin-ning deliveries wasexposed thoroughly.Electing to bat, India

had posted a competitive263 for seven as SureshRaina hit a sparkling 62while Virat Kohli (62)returned to form with hisfirst half-century in eightmonths.Raina carried his

splendid T20 form into thematch and Kohli regainedhis lost touch partly at hishome ground as the twobatsmen added 105 runsfor the fourth wicket aftera sedate start by India.Skipper Mahendra

Singh Dhoni contributedin India’s total with hisunbeaten 51 off 40 ballswhile Ambati Rayuduscored 32, batting at num-ber three, a place whereKohli usually bats.In his trademark style,

Dhoni hit a six and a fouroff paceman Jerome Taylorto complete his 56th half-century in the last over ofthe innings.West Indies opener

Smith missed out on hismaiden ODI century byjust three runs and his dis-missal in the 36th overchanged the complexionof the match. The 3rd ODI at

Visakhapatnam was aban-doned due to the cyclonicstorm there.

India humiliated inKochi ODIIndia suffered a batting

collapse losing five wick-ets for 63 runs as WestIndies, riding an unbeatencentury from MarlonSamuels, started the five-

match series with a mas-sive 124 runs win in thefirst ODI at the NehruStadium in Kochi lastweek.Marlon Samuels

struck a superb unbeatencentury to fire the WestIndies to an impressive321 for six in 50 overs.Chasing a stiff target,

India made a good startwith openers AjinkyaRahane (28) and ShikharDhawan (68) adding 49runs for the first wicket.Rahane was run out after apoor call that saw both theopeners ending up at thesame end and soon Indiawere reduced to 83 forfour. Dhawan, however,kept scoreboard movingand hit nine fours in his 92balls knock but he sawwickets falling a regularintervals at the other end.The Delhi batsman fell inthe 29th over triggering abatting collapse as Indialost last five wickets for 63runs.Ravindra Jadeja played

a lone hand and remainedunbeaten on 33 from 36balls.Samuels picked up two

wickets with his off-spinand was adjudged as Manof the Match. Pacers RaviRampaul and DwayneBravo also picked up twowickets each. Early,Samuels struck a crafty

126 not out off 116 deliv-eries, his sixth ODI hun-dred, as West Indies bats-men plundered the Indianbowling after being put inby Mahendra SinghDhoni.Samuels' 116-ball

innings was studded with11 fours and four sixes.Denesh Ramdin also made61 while Dwayne Smithscored 46.Recalled for the series

against India after beingdropped for the recenttour to Bangladesh,Samuels scored freely andposted 165 for the fourthwicket with Ramdin, whostruck five fours and twosixes in his 59 ball innings.West Indies started the

innings with skipperBravo (17) promotinghimself up the order toopen with Smith. But themove failed as the all-rounder was dismissed inthe 8th over with 34 runson board after scoring just17 runs.However, Smith and

stylish left-hander DarrenBravo (28) added 64 forthe second wicket to givethe West Indies a stablestart. Smith struck fourfours and two sixes duringhis 45-ball stay but boththe batsmen fell in quicksuccession to leave theWest Indies at 120 forthree in the 23rd over.

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Mohammed Shami shines in India's 2ndODI victory over West Indies The Indian football's

new avatar - IndianSuper League -announced its arrivalwith a bang on Sunday!With its exciting fresh-ness and a never-seen-before razzmatazz, themass entertainment ofBollywood and footballdescended on the illumi-nated Salt Lake Stadiumin Kolkata.A restive crowd of

70,000 swayed toBollywood beats in pres-ence of top football starsfrom across the globe,corporate czars, politi-cians, filmstars and ahost of other luminariesfrom different walks oflife. And if the openingceremony was anythingto go by, the new leagueand perhaps through itIndian football, scalednew, noisy and never-before heights. WestBengal chief ministerMamata Banerjee start-ed the proceedings. Andit was left for NitaAmbani, chairperson ofthe ISL, to strike theright chord when sheofficially opened itbefore the world.Speaking in Bengali, shesaid: “Ami Indian SuperLeague-er shubhosuchona korchi... Letthe ISL be opened.“ Thestadium, filled to capaci-ty, accepted it with athunderous roar.

Glittering startto Indian

football league

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