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Britain has voted to leave the European Union, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron and dealing the biggest blow since World War Two to the European project of forging greater unity.

Global stock markets plunged, and the British pound saw its biggest one day drop in history, as results from a referen-dum defied bookmakers’ odds to show a 52-48 per cent victory for the campaign to leave the bloc Britain joined more than 40 years ago.

The United Kingdom itself could now break apart, with the leader of Scotland, where nearly two-thirds of voters wanted to stay in the EU, saying a new referendum on independence from the rest of Britain was “highly likely”.

US President Barack Obama tried to limit the fallout from Britain’s vote to leave the European Union which threatens to harm the US economic recovery and dis-tract US allies from global security issues. Obama, who had argued passionately against the UK leaving the EU in a trip to the Britain this year, vowed that Washing-ton would still maintain both its “special relationship” with London and close ties to Brussels.

In an emotional speech, UK Prime Min-ister Cameron, who led the campaign to remain in Europe to defeat, after promis-ing the referendum in 2013, said he would leave office by October.

“The British people have made the very

clear decision to take a different path and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction,” he said in a televised address outside his resi-dence.

“I do not think it would be right for me to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination,” he added, choking

back tears before walking back through 10 Downing Street’s black door with his arm around his wife Samantha.

The British pound fell as much as 10 per cent against the US dollar to levels last seen in 1985 on fears the decision could hit investment in the world’s fifth-largest economy, threaten London’s role as a glob-al financial capital, and usher in months of political uncertainty. The euro slid 2.0 per cent against the US dollar.

World stocks saw more than $2 trillion wiped off their value. European stocks ended down 7.0 per cent STOXX, the big-gest one day fall since 2008. US stocks fell suffered the largest selloff in ten months sharply, with the Dow Jones industrial av-erage .DJI losing 3.4 per cent.

Investors rushed to put their cash in the safety of gold which clocked up its big-gest daily gain the global financial crisis of 2008, ending Friday up 5.0 per cent at $1,315 an ounce.

Quitting the world’s biggest trading bloc could cost Britain access to the trade barri-er-free single market and means it must seek new trade accords with countries around the world. A poll of economists by Reuters predicted Britain was likelier than not to fall into recession within a year.

The EU arose out of the ashes of two world wars to unite a continent and now faces the challenge of maintaining eco-nomic and political unity without Britain, which has the EU’s biggest financial cen-ter, a UN Security Council veto, a power-ful army and nuclear weapons.

“It’s an explosive shock. At stake is the break-up pure and simple of the union,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said. “Now is the time to invent another Eu-rope.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the “Brexit” vote a watershed for European unification.

The result emboldened eurosceptics in other EU member states, with French National Front leader Marine Le Pen and Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders de-manding their countries also hold referen-dums. Le Pen changed her Twitter profile picture to a Union Jack and declared “Vic-tory for freedom!”

The British vote will trigger at least two years of divorce proceedings with the EU, the first exit by any member state. Cam-eron, in office since 2010, said it would be up to his successor to formally start the exit process.

His Conservative Party rival Boris Johnson, the former London mayor who became the most recognizable face of the Leave camp, is now widely tipped to seek his job.

“We can find our voice in the world again, a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on earth,” he told reporters at Leave campaign head-quarters.

Lawmakers from the opposition Labour Party launched a no-confidence motion to topple their leader, leftist Jeremy Corbyn, accused by opponents in the party of cam-paigning tepidly for its Remain stance.

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Afghan people trust India more than Pakistan with New Delhi making significant investments in developmental projects in the war-torn country, a former senior Indian dip-lomat has said.

India has capabil-ity and interest to play a strong role in west of In-dia, including in Afghani-stan and Mid-east, as well as to the east, former for-eign sectary G Parthasar-thy said in his address to Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS) in San Francisco on implications of India's regional foreign policy this week.

India has "significant investment" in Afghani-stan and "there is more

trust among Afghanistan people towards India than towards Pakistan", he said.

He said under Prime Minister Narendra Mo-di's stewardship, India's foreign policy has main-tained a broad continu-ity, however, the renewed thrust has allowed a much broader consensus in the US in dealing with India.

NEW DELHI: After making a bold provi-sion in the Real Estate Regulation Act to jail errant builders and real estate agents, the draft rules for implementa-tion of this law made public seemed to pro-vide an escape clause to the jittery sector.

It proposes a “com-pounding fine” to es-cape imprisonment. By paying 10 per cent of the estimated cost of the project, build-ers can avoid going to jail. Similarly, property dealers can also escape imprisonment by pay-ing 10 per cent of the plot’s or apartment’s cost. According to the draft rules, a builder can pay 10 per cent of the estimated cost of

the plot, apartment or building to avoid going to the jail.

“On payment of the sum of money, any person in custody in connection with the offence shall be set at liberty and no proceed-ings shall be instituted or continued against such person in any

court,” the proposed rules said. Though the draft rules signal a big relief to builders and property dealers, they have to comply with the orders of the regu-lator or appellate tribu-nal within 30 days. To bring parity in case of delay in payment by the promoter and buyer,

it is proposed that the interest rate will be the State Bank of India’s prime lending rate plus 2 per cent. The act pro-vides for imprisonment of up to three years for builders who do not fol-low the rules, and up to one year for real estate agents and buyers and/ or monetary penalties if they violate orders of appellate tribunals.

The draft rules specify promoters can’t discriminate against anyone in the allotment of apartment, plot or building on any ground. A real estate regulatory authority will also have to be set up in states and UTs so that buyers can have access to informa-tion relating to promot-ers and projects.

The BCCI has announced its plans to hold a mini-IPL in Septem-ber 2016, using the window once allotted for the defunct Champions League Twenty20. Anurag Thakur, the BCCI president, confirmed the development on Friday in Dharam-sala, where the board is conducting its first annual cricket conclave, and

that exact dates and venues will be determined later.

“In the month of September, the BCCI is willing to host a mini IPL or IPL overseas with all the eight teams participating,” Thakur told reporters. “It will be a shorter for-mat, not home and away matches but a lesser number of matches; in a

two-week window we will be able to complete it.”

The IPL has traditionally been held in India - barring the 2009 edi-tion when it moved to South Africa over security concerns surrounding elections - in the months of April-May. The Champions League, which featured the leading T20 teams from major countries, used to held in the latter half of the year, around September-October. It was last held in 2014, before the three founding board - the BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa - mutually decide to call it off ow-ing to poor viewership, audience apathy and unstable sponsorships.

As per the ICC FTP, India were due to host Bangladesh for one Test match in the first week of Septem-ber. However, when the BCCI re-cently announced the fixtures for the home season, that one-off Test with Bangladesh had been pushed back, leaving the slot vacant for a tournament such as the mini-IPL.

Chandigarh: It seems that failure is not some-thing the Punjab School Education Board takes well. When a huge num-ber of students failed the 2016 Class X exam, the board doled out nothing less than 27 grace marks to a massive 1.12 lakh

students, all of whom had failed in one or more subjects.

This ensured that the pass percentage jumped from an embarrassing 39.5 per cent to a more than respectable 72.25 per cent. According to the board’s academic

regulations, not more than 1 per cent grace marks can be given. All this was done on May 23, just six days before the intermedi-ate examina-tion scandal of propping up toppers rocked Bihar.

New Delhi: The mul-tifaceted engagement be-tween India and Qatar in different fields would fur-ther deepen and strength-en the ongoing coopera-tion, President Pranab Mukherjee said.

In a message to Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al on the eve of the anniversary of his ac-cession, Mukherjee said the historical and friendly relations between the two countries are anchored in millennia-old cultural, religious and economic ties, characterised by ex-tensive people-to-people contacts.

“I am confident that our multifaceted engagement in dif-ferent fields would further deepen and strengthen our ongo-ing cooperation for the mutual benefit of our two peoples.

“I take this opportunity to convey to your highness my best wishes for your good health and well-being and for the progress and prosperity of the friendly people of the state of Qatar,” the President said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held separate bilateral talks with Presidents of Tajikistan and Belar-us and explored ways to expand cooperation in areas of trade and investment with the resource-rich Central Asian countries. The Prime Minister held the meetings on the sidelines of the annual sum-mit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Uzbekistan capital.

In the meeting between Modi and President of Belarus Alex-ander Lukashenko, both lead-ers reviewed diverse aspects of the bilateral ties and emphasised the need to take relations to new heights.

“During the meeting, the two leaders discussed the anniversary of 25 years of diplomatic relations between India and Belarus focus-ing on all the different spheres of bilateral ties. “The two sides e phasised the need to take relations

to new heights. The diversification of trade, encouraging the pos-sibility of Indian investments in potash mines in Belarus and col-laboration in the field of science and technology particularly by drawing on the talent of the youth were priority areas of discussion,” External Affairs Ministry Spokes-person Vikas Swarup said. In the meeting between Modi and Presi-dent of Tajikistan Emomali Rah-mon, it was decided to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the estab-lishment of bilateral relations in a manner “befitting” the strong bonds between the two countries. “They spoke of the intensification of trade and economic linkages, working towards better connec-tivity between the two countries and of ongoing security coopera-tion. The yearly celebration of the International Day of Yoga was a special item of discussion,” said Swarup.

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New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and over 60 Aam Aadmi Party legislators were detained by police while they were on their way to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's resi-dence here to protest the arrest of a party MLA.

The MLAs were detained for vi-olating prohibitory orders around 7 RCR.

The protest march comes a day after AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya was arrested on charges of mo-lestation and sexual harassment amidst high drama when he was addressing a press conference.

Mohaniya, who is also vice chairman of Delhi Jal Board, was picked up by a police team while addressing a press conference at his office in Khanpur. He was booked for allegedly misbehav-ing with a group of women who approached him with a complaint regarding water crisis in their lo-cality.

Sisodia said although they were detained and taken to the Parliament Police Station, he and his partymen were ready to go to Tihar Jail.

"Modiji, you have arrested us and kept us in Parliament Street Police Station. We are ready to go to Tihar Jail. But do not stop the work of Delhi," he tweeted.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had earlier tweeted, "Complaint filed against Manish Sisodia yesterday. Manish will go to 7, RCR today to surrender him-self before PM," he said.

Sisodia had yesterday tweet-ed, "Modiji, your enmity is with us. Arrest us. But do not stop the work of Delhi. We all are coming to surrender before you".

The Deputy CM had yesterday said when he went for a surprise inspection at Gazipur Mandi, some people who were running illegal business, registered a com-plaint alleging that he had threat-ened them.

"I am sure that Modiji will tomorrow, will convert this complaint into accusations like violence, eve teasing a girl and extortion and get me arrested," he had stated.

Referring to yesterday's inci-dent, Special CP Law and Order North S B K Singh said the presi-dent of Gazipur Aadhti Associa-tion had given a letter at Gazipur Police Station stating that Sisodia adopted a "dictatorial attitude" on hearing their grievances during his visit to Gazipur Mandi.

"He was worried that Sisodia could get something wrong or-ganised due to his position. No police action is made out in the matter," he said.

New Delhi: The Income Tax department held an awareness conference to popularise the scheme of one- time domestic black money compliance win-dow in the business commu-nity and others in Delhi.

A session on the Income Declaration Scheme (IDS) was held in Wazirpur Ring Road area by Principal Commission-er of Income Tax (Range-12) A K Chauhan. He addressed about 200 participants who were brought together by the manufacturers and traders as-sociation of the area in north Delhi.

Chauhan told the partici-pants about the salient features of the scheme and said the de-clarants under IDS will face no action under the Income Tax Act and the Wealth Tax Act if they declare their untaxed as-sets under it.

He said by making a one-time payment of penalties under IDS, the declarants of such assets can also get rid of lengthy litigations and inqui-ries by the taxman.

“The scheme is a one-time opportunity and declarants should use it and come out clean,” Chauhan said.

During the session, Chau-han also provided answers to a number of questions raised by the traders and other partici-pants. He assured he will take their suggestions and demands to the higher authorities.

IDS was started this month and will accept declarations till September 30. The Central Board of Direct Taxes and the Finance Ministry have asked the taxman to accord high priority to the publicity of the scheme and ensure good par-ticipation.

Under the scheme, income as declared by eligible persons would be taxed at the rate of 45 per cent which is 30 per cent plus a ‘Krishi Kalyan Cess’ of 25 per cent and a penalty at the rate of 25 per cent.

These taxes have to be paid by November 30 after the win-dow closes in September.

The scheme was announced by the government with an aim to weed out black money from the domestic economy.

IDS will apply to undis-closed income whether in the form of investment in assets or otherwise, pertaining to finan-cial year 2015-16 or earlier.

Declarations under IDS can either be made online on the official e-filing website of the IT department or before various regional Principal Commis-sioners of IT in the country.

New Delhi: The Delhi assembly’s special session that ended on June 13 approved the Value Added Tax (Third Amendment) Bill 2015, making it significantly the only legislation among a clutch cleared earlier that is likely to reach the stage of notification sometime later this month after lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung gives the final go-ahead. Besides the VAT Bill, the only other Bill of the Delhi government that has been conclusively dealt with from among the ones forwarded to Jung after their approval by the assembly—against the LG’s stand that all Bills have to be approved by him prior to being placed in the assembly—is the one seeking to amend the Delhi Members of Legislative Assembly (Removal of Disqualification) Act, 1997 to exempt 21 parliamentary secretaries from the purview of the office-of-profit clause. The Centre referred this Bill to President Pranab Mukherjee, who withheld assent, creating a crisis for the AAP govern-ment. Differing over the interpretation of Section 26 of the GNCTD Act, the Delhi government had earlier passed these Bills in the assembly without the LG’s prior approval. Jung took no ac-tion to clear them when they reached his desk, leading to an impasse that was broken only on March 30 this year, when CM Arvind Kejriwal in his budget day speech said that he was ready to get prior approval for the Bills from LG, provided the BJP MLAs took the responsibility of getting the legislations passed by the Centre on a priority.

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NEW DELHI: Indian educa-tional institutions which enter into academic tie-ups with for-eign institutes will have to en-sure that students who opt for these courses will study at least one semester for post-graduate degrees and two semesters for under-graduate degrees abroad.

At a meeting held on Wednes-day, the University Grants Com-mission decided to amend the existing guidelines.

As per the decisions, Indian institutes which get top accredi-tations will now be able to ap-proach the UGC to seek its nod for entering into academic tie-ups with highly-rated education institutions abroad.

Under the previous norms, only foreign institutes could seek permission for academic

collaborations."Today, the UGC has taken a

decision as per which the high-est graded Indian institutions can engage in academic col-laboration with foreign edu-cational institutions of highest grade in their country or those who have crossed the threshold limit," HRD minister Smriti Irani told reporters as she announced the decisions. As per the new norms, the name of the foreign institute will also be mentioned on the degree certificate for such courses.

The norms, which will soon be notified, also specify a mini-mum degree of collaboration as per which at least one semester for post-graduate degrees and two semesters for under-gradu-ate degrees have been specified.

A window of one year has been provided for institutes, which already have a global partnership, to get their pacts approved by UGC, the HRD

minister said. A committee of ex-perts will examine the proposals for these collaborations.

Irani said there have been in-stances where institutes fraudu-

lently advertise collaborations with foreign institutions creat-ing problems for students. It has been decided that the UGC will approach the state government concerned for action in such cas-es, she said.

The MoUs will provide suf-ficient autonomy to the institu-tions, officials said, adding that students from foreign institu-tions will also be allowed to come to Indian campuses under these norms. Irani also said it will be ensured that within 30 work-ing days all applications will be responded to and in a yes or no situation in 60 working days.

Officials said that guidelines for collaborations had been pre-viously brought out in 2012 dur-ing the previous regime but they had not attracted any proposals.

NEW DELHI: After IITs, fees in National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are all set for a hike from Rs 70,000 to Rs 1.25 lakh per annum.

The HRD ministry has approved this proposal of the NIT Council and the in-creased fees will be effective from new admissions. The fee hike will not affect those who have already taken ad-missions, a senior official told. In a separate decision, the ministry also decided to hike the fees for the Indian Institutes of Science Educa-tion and Research (IISER) from Rs 15,000 per semester to Rs 25,000 per semester from “prospective effect”.

The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by HRD Minister Smriti Irani’.

“A decision has been tak-en to raise the fees at NITs for undergraduate as well as post graduate courses for which Rs 70,000 was charged. Now the students who join NITs will have to pay Rs 1.25 per year for these courses,” the official said. “The fee hike would only for new students who get admission and not for those who are already studying,” the official said.

Earlier, this year, the HRD ministry had hiked the fees for IITs from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2 lakh per an-

num. However, on the lines of the decision taken with regard to IITs, the ministry has decided to give a total fee waiver for the differ-ently-abled, students from SC and ST community and those belonging to families with annual income less than Rs 1 lakh.

Students from families with annual income of less than Rs 5 lakh will also be entitled to a fee waiver of two-thirds amount.

The officials said the fee hike has been affected with an aim of providing more resources to these institu-tions so that highest quality education can be provided.

NEW DELHI: The HRD ministry al-lowed common counselling from next year for admission to seven Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IISERs) along with IITs and NITs. IITs/NITs intro-duced common counselling last year.

Though IISERs were keen for common counselling from this year, the ministry said it should not be rushed. “We advised caution. It is a good idea. Common counsel-ling has found support among students,” a highly placed source said after the day-long meeting of the standing committee of IISERs. There are 1,120 seats in the seven IISERs — 200 each in the five campuses in Kolkata, Pune, Mohali, Bhopal and Trivan-drum, and 60 seats each in the newer cen-tres of Tirupati and Behrampur.

Like in the IITs, it has also been decid-ed that 15 per cent of the supernumerary strength of each IISER will be made avail-able to foreign students. However, the can-didates will have to clear the joint entrance

test. Indian students make it to the IISERs through three routes: by clearing JEE, bag-ging Kishore Vaigyanik Protshahan Yojna (KVPY) awards and being among the top 1 per cent of each school board, including CBSE. As for NRI students studying in In-dia and getting admission through one of the three routes, the fee charged will be the same as those taken from Indians. Foreign nationals will also be allowed admission for post-doctoral research. “They will have to fulfil all the existing criteria,” a source said. Outside the media glare in little less than a decade, the five original IISERs start-ed during UPA-I have made a mark with cutting-edge research in various fields, especially biotechnology. “In ranking and research, IISERs are just below Indian In-stitute of Science,” a senior official said. In terms of output, each IISER has about six or seven US patents and also have on an average 1,000 research papers published in international-refereed journals.

JAIPUR: Degree and diploma courses in ayurveda in Rajasthan are drawing students from SAARC na-tions, Europe and USA. The National Institute of Ayurveda (NIA), Jaipur, run by the ministry of Ayush, has received ‘expression of interest’ from foreign stu-dents to study ayurveda.

Shankar Rao, director of NIA, said, “This year again, we have received a phenomenal response from foreign students. The popularity of ayurveda has been increasing. Students are making a beeline for its cours-es because of the vast job opportunities this stream of-fers.”

Students interested in MD and PhD courses can ap-ply for admission on website: www.nia.nic.in

The NIA is affiliated with Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrish-nan Rajasthan Ayurved University which one among four such universities in the country.

Here, students are exposed to the ancient science of ayurveda from ancient and modern texts. The state-of-the-art labs are equipped with advanced medical and surgical equipment along with a pharmacy unit for drug production.

“Our labs have facilities for conducting bio-chem-istry, haematology and microbiology and drug tests. Besides, our pharmacy production unit has all natural resources required to make medicines,” said Rao.

Here, special courses were introduced for foreigners keeping in mind their interest. In the past three years since the establishment of Ayush ministry, the people’s

awareness of ayurveda has increased considerably.Paul Dsouza of Italy has showed interest in apply-

ing for a diploma course in introduction to ayurveda.“I am a researcher on ancient medical sciences.

I have read a lot about ayurveda and found several principles of ayurveda to be true in the light recent medical findings,” he told Rao in an email.

Every day, the institute has been receiving applica-tions from foreigners seeking admission and guidance for research work. So far, 50 foreign students have completed their diploma courses from here.

NEW DELHI: There will be no respite for high cutoffs in Delhi University colleges with BA (honours) English likely to see a new high. Maximum num-ber of applications (1,15,786) have been received for this course this year, followed by BA programme with over 98,000 applications and BA (honours) Political Science too crossing the 90,000 mark. The online registration for the undergradu-ate admission 2016-17 ended on Wednesday at 5 pm and as per data till that time the high-est number of applications have been from Delhi. The payment of registration fee continued till 12 midnight and a few thou-sand more candidates joined the growing number of DU aspi-rants. In all till 5 pm Wednesday 2,50,220 applicants completed the registration process, which included 1,29,910 male, 1,20295 female and 15 others category candidates. The number of ap-plications from persons with disability once again remained

less than that of the total num-ber of seats. As against 1,620 seats only 1,184 candidates filled the online form. The com-petition gets tougher even in the sports and ECA category as over 18,000 aspirants are now vying for 2,700 seats as against 16,000 plus applicants last year. Among the reserved categories the highest number of applica-tions are from OBC candidates which is close to 50,000 this year. The next step is the university will send the admission data to the colleges and the colleges will work out the cutoff for the first list. The first list is going to be issue on June 30 at 9 am and admissions will also commence on the same date. Apart from English, political science and BA programme, courses like BCom (honours), BCom programme, economics, physics and chem-istry will remain “exceptionally high” predicts a principal of a North Campus college, adding, “the first cutoff list is only for the top 10% of the applicants.”

UGC amends norms for tie-ups with foreign institutes

Ayurveda courses a big hit among foreign students

Nearly 50% of DU aspirants from Delhi

NIT fee hiked to `1.25L from `70K per annum

HRD ministry approves common counselling for IISERs with IITs

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The Epic brands hosted a memora-ble evening for Delhi’s fashionistas and social fraternity to launch French life-style brand Marie Claire in India. The evening kicked off with a scintillating fashion show showcasing the latest col-lection of Marie Claire by international models in a delightful style.

Choreographed by Ketan Bhatia and styled by Anuj Lalwani the col-lection featured Casual, Urban, Denim and Evening wear of Marie Claire. With exotic cocktails and canapés doing the rounds, the evening was graced by for-mer Miss India and Bollywood Actor Neha Dhupia along with Padamshree Shahnaz Hussain, fashion designers Samant Chauhan, Dolly J, Gautam Gupta, Sadan pande, Rosy Ahluwalia,

Akash Agarwal, socialites Salloli Ku-mar, Vesna Jacob, Varun Katyal, Nalin Gupta, astrologer Jai Madaan, Ketan Bhatia, Anuj Lalwani, Lavina Kharak-wal, Shalini Kochar amongst others.

“It is an absolute privilege to be here at the launch of Marie Claire in India, at a platform that make certain the Indian women have access to one of the best fashion brands of the world and beauty in equal mea-sure”, said the world renowned woman entrepreneur Shahnaz Hussain. The host of the evening Amiteshwar Grover and Harman Kalra, Director Epic Brands per-sonally took care of the guests and made the event a night to re-member.

The Japanese bar and kitchen Benihana was in a new avatar at the Moulin Rouge night hosted by White Pepper and IDP Events recently. With DJ Shubz made the people dance on his tunes, Japanese sushi and exotic snacks made the guests grooving till the wee hours. Among those spotted from the social circle include a lot of young Splitsvilla actors and models that included Nalin Gupta, Shainee Soni, Gaurav Arora, Varun Jhamb, Jagnoor Aneja, Barkha Sharma, Neha Sahni, Abhishek Shandilya, Saksham Dhall, Abhishek Kaushik and Harsh Singh. The host of the night Diljeet

Singh personally took care of all

the guests.

Satya Education and wel-fare Association Organised a summer camp which is undoubtedly liked by al-most all the kids. The much awaited summer camp end-ed on a high note on June 25.

Many kids participated and learned many basic things which will help them to lead their life in an easy way. The kids which they learnt in the summer camp includes – Yoga, computer, personal development, drawing etc.

The kids in a very en-thusiastic way learned the things which were taught to them, even they showed such an immense eager-ness towards learning new things. The kids always want to learn but in a dif-ferent way, which includes summer camp, trekking and many more.

At the finale of the sum-mer camp, certificates were distributed to the kids for showing their enthusiasm towards the event. The teachers were felicitated for their time given to the event. The other members of the organisation Chander, Man-mohan, Kuldeep Raj thanked the teachers for their gesture shown towards the summer camp which concluded on a high note.

Summer camp concludes on a high note

Moulin Rouge Night

French Brand Marie Claire makes a fashionable entry in India

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Even before the entry into force of the Paris climate agreement that saw global jubilation just six months ago, we are faced with the possible risk of exit by referendum from the pledge of an ambitious reduction in the emis-sion of Green House Gases (GHGs). The United Kingdom, one of the 28 countries of the European Union (EU) that collectively pledged the ambitious reduction of at least 40 percent by 2030 compared to 1990, is holding a yes-no referendum on June 23 to determine if it wants to be part of the Union. Brexit, an exotic word coined by the media to describe “British exit”, is likely to deal a huge blow to the carefully and successfully negotiated Paris agreement, turning the euphoria generated to EU-phobia. Brexit is making global headlines. Not only the British and Euro-pean elite but world renowned politicians, heads of the state, Nobel laureate economists, the IMF chief, academia and media have written and opined about possible impact of Brexit. Such impact analysis has remained confined to the flow of immigrants, economic growth, employment potential, market, trade, foreign investment, EU regula-tions and constraints and Britain’s global image. Many experts, including those from India, have analysed the impact of Brexit on their own countries. It is strange, and even inexplicable, that the impact of Brexit on the Paris deal and global warming has been minimal. The economic impact has been quantified by well-known consultancy agencies but not the climate impact. Even US President Barack Obama, who was in Britain on the day the world leaders gathered in New York to sign the Paris pact, cam-paigned against Brexit side-by-side with Prime Minister David Cameron. He highlighted the loss of trade oppor-tunities and degradation of Britain’s privileged global image. The media, that was ecstatic in reporting the deal, now focussed mainly on the adverse impact on Britain’s energy access than on the climate deal. The British people, who will stamp on the yes-no ballot, are unclear on what happens to the Paris deal if Britain, the EU’s second big-gest GHG emitter, leaves. The referendum is taking place with scant regard to the future impact on the Paris deal, about which Cameron had said: “The whole world now signed-up to play its part in halting climate change. What is so special about this deal is that it puts the onus on every country to play its part.” The issues of immigrants, trade and economic growth overshadow the impact of Brexit on climate change. Under the Paris agreement, all parties, in-cluding regional economic organizations like EU and their member states, each member state individually and the EU as a whole, will be responsible for the allocated emis-sion level. Brexit would mean that EU, as well as Britain, has to notify its revised pledge. This would mean renewed consultations with the remaining 27 EU countries and a new exercise within Britain of determining its national contribution. Till now, 177 member states have signed the Paris agreement but only 17 have ratified it through their national legal process. Its entry into force will be when 55 Parties to the Convention, accounting for at least an esti-mated 55 per cent of the total GHG emissions, have rati-fied the Protocol. The 17 Parties - nearly all of them small island countries - that have ratified the pact represent only 0.04 percent of the total global GHG emissions. There is a long way to go before the Paris agreement enters into force and the legal implementation begins. China and the US together account for nearly 40 percent of global GHG emissions. The EU, which has a 10 percent share, is there-fore key to making the Paris agreement work. The process of revising pledges is likely to delay this at a time when urgency and ambition to address climate change is of par-amount importance. But the scenario after Brexit -- as of today the yes-no votes seem to be running neck-and-neck -- may be even more scary than just delay in operationalis-ing the Paris agreement. Hard core conservationists, right wingers who are doggedly fighting with a fear-fuelled drive against immigration -- are not far from the likes of Australia’s Tony Abbott or Canada’s Stephen Harper, who had just walked out of the Kyoto Protocol -- 15 years af-ter its implementation began. We also saw the dastardly personification of that extremism when British MP Joe Cox was murdered in broad daylight. Coxit had shown that Brexit could even be Climexit for the UK. Coming at the time when 14 of the last 15 years were the hottest in human history and May 2016 was the hottest month on records, Brexit would be the first and even fatal blow to the Paris agree-ment.

Brexit may deliver fatal punch to Paris climate pact

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Over 10 years, the central government spent Rs 21,482 crore ($3.2 billion) building houses for the ur-ban poor but 23 per cent of them are vacant, according to a May 2016 answer to the Lok Sabha.

The information that 238,448 of 1,032,433 houses built are empty comes at a time when the proportion of Indians living in slums has risen over five years from 17 per cent of the urban population to 19 per cent, ac-cording to official data, and 19,000 of 33,000 slums are not acknowledged by the government (2012 data).

The vacant houses include 224,000 built under the JNNURM and 14,448 houses under the Rajiv Awas Yo-jana (RAY) - now discontinued and subsumed into the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana launched in June 2015 - the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Allevia-tion said. “In spite of the continuous efforts by the gov-ernment, slum dwellers are reluctant to move to the houses built by the government due to lack of proper infrastructure and means of livelihood,” the statement to Parliament said, explaining further that the new houses often lack electricity and water, cheaply avail-able-often through illegal connections-in slums. The new houses are usually not close to workplaces, the ministry acknowledged. “Houses are too far from workplaces, which means additional commuting time and expense,” Kulwant Singh, India advisor, urban basic services, UN-Habitat, wrote in his Hindu Busi-ness Line column in January 2016. “In a slum, basic amenities such as electricity and water are often ac-

quired at dirt-cheap prices. There is a certain degree of empathy and firmness that these projects lack, which consequently takes away effectiveness.” Maharash-tra (54,282) has the highest number of vacant houses, fol-lowed by Andhra Pradesh (24,611), states in which 24 pc and 35 per cent of the urban popu-lation, respectively, lives in slums. Over the last 10 years, Maharashtra got the most money to build housing for slum-dwellers (Rs 3,246 crore), fol-lowed by West Ben-gal (Rs 2,384 crore). Of 683,724 houses sanctioned under PMAY, 0.1 per cent, or 710 houses, have been constructed till now, according to the reply to the Lok Sabha.

The high-level meeting on AIDS, convened at the United Nations, New York, started on June 8 and virtually ended in a few hours. The Political Declara-tion, which was being negotiated for the past couple of months, was unanimously adopted on the first day without any discussion, leaving the large number of civil society participants and commu-nity groups in disbelief.

The 25-page declaration, which runs into 79 paragraphs, contains commitments addressing all sec-tions of society vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, women, young people and adolescent girls, migrant popula-tions, and poor and marginalised communities. But nowhere in the last 27 paragraphs, which contain various global targets and com-mitments, is there any mention of the key affected populations — sex workers and their clients, people who use drugs and the LGBT community. Evidence ex-ists on how countries have not adequately invested in prevent-ing new infections among these groups and how a large propor-tion among them are still denied access to anti-retroviral treatment (ARV) because of deep-rooted stigma and oppressive legal sys-tems.

The reasons for this are not difficult to seek. The UN system operates on the principle of con-sensus and has to accommodate conflicting policies and cultures to arrive at a commonly accept-able position on issues. It is quite clear that some countries in West Asia, and East and Central Asia are generally opposed to preven-tion efforts aimed at sex workers, gay men and people who use drugs. These two regions still see sharply increasing rates of new infections among these very pop-ulations who are criminalised and stigmatised by national laws, pol-icies and practices. In hammering out a draft resolution acceptable

to divergent shades of political opinion, the co-facilitators of the meeting had to accommodate ev-ery aspect of AIDS response into it. In the process, the sharp focus that is needed on prioritising pre-vention, treatment and care for the key affected populations is missing in the Declaration.

Even in countries that have been able to report a drastic re-duction of new infections, evi-dence has shown rising rates of new infections among sex work-ers, people who inject drugs, and the LGBT communities. This is true even in the hyper-epidemic countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Global public opinion has, there-fore, been looking for a strong resolution sharply focusing on the main issues and how they should be prioritised for the next five years to achieve the ambi-tious targets set for 2020.

On the positive side, the Decla-ration has successfully set quan-titative targets the world commu-nity has pledged to fulfil by 2020 and later by 2030. These relate to committing financial resources for treatment programmes to fulfil the 90-90-90 targets (by the year 2020, 90 per cent of HIV-infected people will get to know about the disease; 90 per cent of them will receive “antiretroviral cure”; 90 per cent of those receiv-ing “antiretroviral cure will have viral suppression”), overseas de-velopment assistance to reach the agreed 0.7 per cent of GDP for developed countries, and spend-ing a quarter of the AIDS budgets on prevention. The commitment to put 30 million people on treat-ment is a commendable objective, which is expected to save the lives of 11 million people in the next 15 years, and stop a further 16.5 mil-lion people from getting infected by HIV.

The looming crisis of funding AIDS programmes because of a sharp reduction of external as-

sistance from sources such as the Global Fund for AIDS TB and Ma-laria (GFATM) for middle-income countries was also identified as a challenge. Thirty-six countries that were identified as account-ing for about 90 per cent of the new infections are mostly from the middle-income group. While bio-medical interventions like treatment can be progressively integrated into general health systems, the threat of closure of prevention programmes for key populations cannot be underesti-mated. There is understandable anxiety among community mem-bers about the stoppage of fund-ing from both external and do-mestic sources for prevention and treatment programmes targeting them. No firm assurance was forthcoming in the Declaration to clear such apprehensions.

India’s health minister, in his plenary address, made a pas-sionate appeal for ending AIDS by 2030, and put forward a five-point action plan for achieving this objective. He assured the world body of India’s commit-ment to apply the TRIPs-related flexibilities for manufacturing affordable ARV generic drugs. Despite a disabling legal system, India’s national programme has managed to extend the benefits of prevention and treatment pro-grammes to key populations in the last 15 years.

With no important world event planned for the next five years concerning HIV/AIDS and with ambitious targets set at the meet-ing, it is hard and determined work that lies ahead for countries to fulfil the commitments they have made at the meeting. Five years is not a long period in the global fight against AIDS but the next five will determine wheth-er ‘Ending AIDS by 2030’ is an achievable goal or will remain a distant dream.

The UNAIDS declaration on eradication is a half-done job

Govt building homes that poor don’t want

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Hotting up the low-fares war among airlines, SpiceJet on Wednesday rolled out a new scheme offering base costs as low as Rs444 on some destina-tions on its domestic network with a select booking period and limited number of seats.

No sooner did the no-frills carrier announce its Monsoon Bonanza Sale, flyers body Air Passengers Association of In-dia (APAI) wrote to aviation regulator DGCA, seeking to know if it was mulling any ac-tion on such “bogus” schemes by airlines.

The five-day sale launched on Wednesday will be open till the midnight of June 26, the air-line said, adding the travel pe-riod under the offer stands be-tween July 1 and September 30. The SpiceJet promo one-way base fare of Rs444 are for select sectors, including Jammu-Sri-nagar, Ahmedabad-Mumbai, Mumbai-Goa, Delhi-Dehradun and Delhi-Amritsar routes.

Fares would vary accord-

ing to sector, depending on the travel distance and flight schedules, and timings are subject to regulatory approvals and change(s), it said.

Besides SpiceJet, IndiGo, GoAir and Air Asia India had recently come out with similar low-fare offers.

Alleging that the airlines were “taking for a ride” the passengers with such schemes, APAI wrote to Directorate Gen-eral of Civil Aviation to raise concern over the issue.

“This has reference to the advertisement released by SpiceJet in todays news papers ... We started getting complaints from as early as 10.20 AM from many of our members stating that no such fare is available even for short distance of less than 500 km,” APAI found-er and national president D Sudhakara Reddy said in the strongly-worded letter.

According to APAI, its mem-bers found that most of these fares offered in the flash sale

are for flights originating from Delhi and for nearby destina-tions such as Amritsar, Chan-digarh, etc. “We then asked our office to try for other destina-tions. (Here also) even in the first half of the day when the advertisement has appeared, no such fares are available. So what is the logic for such of-

fers?,” APAI said. “We strongly believe that these are nothing but gimmicks and the gullible passengers are being taken for a ride (in the name of such low fare schemes,” he said.

Reddy, in his letter, also sought to know the “action” the DGCA intended to take over such offers by the airlines.

Tata Sons has been ordered to pay Japan’s largest mobile phone firm NTT DoCoMo USD 1.17 billion in compensation for breaching an agreement on In-dia joint venture.

The London Court of Inter-national Arbitration ruled in favour of DoCoMo over price it was entitled for exiting the In-dian joint venture, the Japanese firm said in a statement. In No-vember 2009, Docomo had ac-quired 26.5 per cent stake in Tata Teleservices for about Rs 12,740 crore (at Rs 117 per share). Later, in April 2014, the company de-cided to exit after the joint ven-ture struggled to grow subscrib-ers quickly.

DoCoMo said its 2008 invest-ment was with an understand-

ing that it would get at least 50 per cent of its acquisition price if it exits the Indian company in five years.

Accordingly, it sought Rs 58 per share or Rs 7,200 crore from Tatas to buy out Japanese tele-com major’s 26.5 per cent stake in the loss-making Tata Teleser-vices for Rs 23.34 a share.

The Japanese firm had filed for arbitration on January 5, 2015.

The company said “it re-ceived on June 23, 2016, from the London Court of International Arbitration a binding arbitration award under the arbitration pro-ceeding regarding its stake in Tata Teleservices (TTSL), a tele-communication service provider in India.” “The award orders that

Tata Sons pay damages to Do-CoMo in the amount of approxi-

mately USD 1.172 billion for Tata Sons’ breach of the shareholders

agreement, upon DoCoMo’s ten-der of its entire stake in TTSL to Tata Sons or its designee,” it said in a statement.

According to the arbitration award, Tata Sons will receive or designate a recipient for DoCo-Mo’s entire stake in TTSL.

DoCoMo said it is uncertain whether Tata Sons will pay the awarded damages.

“As of the date of this press release, some matters remain uncertain, including whether Tata Sons will pay the awarded damages and when the delivery of TTSL’s shares will be made. Accordingly, DoCoMo is not able to predict how events will unfold,” it added.

Tatas offer to DoCoMo was in line with …

Japanese tech major Pa-nasonic is betting big on segments like Government and manufacturing to boost revenues from its rugged PC range Toughbook to Rs 100 crore by March 2018. The company, which claims to have a 60 per cent share of the rugged PC market in India, said it expects a major chunk of the business to come from the Government sector.

“We have seen a 30 per cent growth, which is faster than the 20 per cent growth seen in the market. We see strong de-mand in new areas like police, fire service, pharma, oil and gas,” Panasonic Senior GM and National Business Head Gunjan Sachdev told report-ers here.

Panasonic is poised to keep up the strong pace of growth it has been witnessing in the

segment in the past few years and touch Rs 100 crore by March 2018, he added. Sach-dev said about 40 per cent of the revenues currently come from the Government sector, while the remaining is from the private players. This, he said, would be reversed in the next few years with the Government accounting for a larger share given the strong demand being created under initiatives like Digital India. Panasonic’s competitors glob-ally in the segment include Dell, HP and Getac, among others.

“In India, the rugged PC market is still small, about Rs 110 crore. This is expected to grow to Rs 165-170 crore in the next few years. We also expect to increase our share of the market from 60 to 65 per cent by then,” Sachdev said.

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said the ban on diesel cars and SUVs with engines above 2,000cc in Delhi-NCR by courts ‘is not the right way’.

Calling it ‘unfortunate’, he said the Government is already taking measures to curb pollution and the ban has resulted in vehicles with latest technologies not being al-lowed while old polluting vehicles continue plying on the roads.

“I am very sure that courts will also appreciate that there has to be a certainty of policy and execution. Policy and execution are the job of the executive, legality of any deci-sion is the job of the judiciary,” Ja-vadekar said here. He further said: “Legislature’s job is to legislate and these are the few organs, which are created by the Constitution,

which must work independently. We must sustain each other and we must work independently that is the real need of the hour. When all will move in one direction, we will achieve goals more than what we have planned to achieve.”

Commenting on the ban im-posed on registration of big diesel cars and SUVs in Delhi-NCR since December last year, the Minister did not refer to the Supreme Court by name but just mentioned courts and the NGT. “I think that this is not the right way, it’s unfortunate ...Court also needs to appreciate that because you are banning the latest vehicles and old vehicles are plying on the roads that are more polluting,” he said.

Javadekar was apparently refer-ring to the Supreme Court, which

has extended the ban until the next hearing which is expected in July. Air pollution has not increased only in last two years. It has aggravated over the last ten years, he added.

“Judiciary now should also ap-preciate that the Government has taken steps...(like) migration to Euro VI to fight pollution,” the Minister added. He further said: “In the environment ministry we have made emission norms more stringent practically for all indus-tries and that’s the right direction in controlling pollution.

So we are taking decisions we are making all efforts.” Javadekar was speaking at the inauguration of a new Rs100-crore plant of Force Motors from where the company will supply engines and axles to Mercedes-Benz India.

SPICEJET OFFERS ROCK-BOTTOM FARES, FLYERS BODY WRITES TO DGCA

Tata sons ordered to pay $1.17 bn to Japan’s NTT docomo

Ban on big diesel cars, suvs not the right way: Javadekar

Panasonic eyes `100 cr revenue from its pc range ‘toughbook’

Domestic airlines can now import air-craft that are up to 18 years old into the country with the government amending more than two-decade rules in this re-gard. The move is expected to provide a fillip for the government’s ambitious efforts to boost regional air connectivity as it gives more leeway for operators in expanding their fleet.

Till now, aircraft that are more than 15 years old were not allowed to be imported. As part of larger efforts to improve the ease of doing business in the domestic aviation sector, which has huge growth potential, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has made changes to rules that had come into effect way back in July 1993.

With the revised norms, pressurised aircraft that are not over 18 years old or those which have not completed 50 per cent of design economic pressurisation cycle can be imported.

A pressurised aircraft is one which is equipped to handle cabin pressure at an altitude of above 10,000 feet.

Such planes should not have com-pleted “15 years of age or 75 per cent of design economic life or 45,000 pressuri-sation cycle”.

Govt allows airlines to import upto

18-year old planes

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Gulshan’s Rich Looks Makeup Stu-dio in association with GT production House, organised the biggest talent show on Indian TV screen which is “India’s Talent Dhamaal”, audition which started in Meerut, Rohini (Delhi), Shimla and Gaziabad is looking for singer, dancer, actor makeup artist. Shows main judges will be dance master Saroj Khan, Former Mrs. World Aditi Gowitrikar, Bollywood Singer Shankar Sahney. India’s Talent Dhamaal provides a perfect platform to promote talented people to showcase their unique talent. Peoples will be invit-ed from different places in India. As it has been mentioned they will be screened by the Panel of judges. Aspirant actors can participate in the talent hunt through a ground event that has already kicked off in a two day event in Meerut. The second audition was conducted in Rohini (Del-hi) at D-Planet, C-5/77, Sector-11, Rohini.

The judges in the Rohini audtion were Sunny Chauhan, VK Sharma, Suresh Yadav, Shakeel Khan, Gulshan Idrsh, Seetu and Singer selector Gabru Irani, and the third audition was conducted in Gwalior, organised by Vashu Sharma event management company. Success audition in Morena by Street Rockers event company, it was an awesome tal-ent hunt show. The third audition con-ducted in Gaziabad at B-block, H.no. 432 Gagan Vihar-25, Futa road, Street no. 10, Bhojpura, Gaziabad, and the fourth audition in Shimla at A-La-Carte- Scan-del Point, The Mall, Shimla. The anchor of the Shimla event was Alisha Khan, Cordinators- Raman Nagpal and Ridhi Chauhan. The audition was organised by Anokhe event, the main judge of the Shimla audition Neena Arvind is also the GM of Satyapal Fashion House in Gurgaon.

The upcoming audition is going to take place in Delhi (Rohini), at Bug Gam-

ing Lounge, 9th floor, Kings Mall, Nera Rohini West Metro Station .

India’s Talent Dhamaal 2016

First round of Mr and Miss Delhi 2016 ended on a high note

The much awaited first round of Miss and Mrs Delhi 2016 audi-tion has come to an end in a high note un-der the Banner of Shree Entertainment ,dalji

films and dream plan-ner the talented people participated in the competition with zeal.The organaiser Sonu Pathak told that The Director of this much

awaited competition is Anshul Malik and Neil Nitin Mishra the cine-matography was Done by senior cinematog-rapher Adesh Sharma (BALAJI FILMS) the

programe was man-aged by preeti Thakur and Sanjay Sharma.The event was co-or-dinated by Abhishek ,Pooja Pathak,shejaz Khan,Neeru sehgal.