Stray dogs have dragged away andkilled a three-year-old boy in a
villagenear Bhayli area, about 7km from Va-dodara. The boy, Mayur
Solanki, wassitting in a field while his mother Sa-roj, a farm
labourer, was workingthere. She saw the dogs taking awayher child
and called for help. But itwas too late. P 5
9 more die of swine flu in Guj:Nine more people succumbed
toswine flu in Gujarat on Tuesday, rais-ing the toll due to the
H1N1 virus to292 in the state since January thisyear. Besides the
nine fatalities, 138new cases were also recorded acrossthe state. P
2
Roy completes a year in jail: Sah-ara chief Subrata Roy
completed ayear in Tihar jail on Tuesday. Thegroup has not been
able to meet theSCs condition to deposit Rs 10,000crore with Sebi
for Roys bail. P 13
Solar flight to begin journeyfrom March 8? Solar Impuse 2,which
is all set to make a uniqueround-the-world journey totally pow-ered
by solar energy, will begin its tripin a few days, most probably
onMarch 8, and make stopovers in Ah-medabad and Varanasi in India.
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Avalanche kills two soldiers inUkhand: Two soldiers were
sweptaway by an avalanche on the borderwith Nepal in Uttarakhands
Pithor-garh district on Monday. Another sol-dier has been reported
missing. Fourothers who were buried under snowhave been rescued. P
8
Maharashtra bans beef: The billbanning cow slaughter in
Maharash-tra, pending for several years, re-ceived the President's
assent on Mon-day. Anyone found to be selling beefor in possession
of it can be jailed forfive years and fined Rs 10,000. P 8
Cant force Salman to producedriving licence: A sessions court
inthe 2002 alleged hit-and-run case in-volving actor Salman Khan on
Tues-day rejected the prosecutions pleadirecting the actor to
produce hisdriving licence. P 10
Leakgate papers were ex-changed in trains: They may neverhave
heard of Jonathan Pollard, butthe modus operandi of men involvedin
leaking sensitive documents fromministries wasnt any less
innovativethan the American spy who sold se-crets to Israel. P
10
Chinas tactics in S China Sea aworry: Visiting US Pacific Fleet
com-mander Admiral Harry Harris saidChina was indulging in
provocativetactics in the South China Sea whichwere raising
tensions in the entireregion. P 10
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Vadodara: Braving heavy rains andinclement weather on Sunday,
hun-dreds of tribals thronged a fair held inSaraswa village, a
remote hamlet onthe Gujarat-Rajasthan border in Ma-hisagar
district. They had a specialreason for not missing this event.
Thefair is held in the name of late PrimeMinister Rajiv Gandhi.
Temples of political leaders and ce-lebrities are not uncommon
and theone made on Prime Minister Naren-dra Modis name was brought
down atRajkot after he did not agree with theidea. But Gandhi is
worshipped in Sa-raswa along with a deity there.
And those who organize the eventdo so not because they are fans
ofGandhi but because these tribal resi-dents feel truly indebted to
him. Thevillagers of Saraswa credit the late PMfor the development
in their villagethat came after his visit.
Gandhi had visited the village onMarch 22, 1986, when it was
facing se-vere water scarcity. The visit came as aboon for the
village as things startedchanging significantly. The village
Kanti Sangada, whose father DhulaSangada was the sarpanch of the
vil-lage when Gandhi visited.
Kanti said the fair was started in1987 by his father and others
in memo-ry of Rajiv Gandhi.
Gandhi was like a messiah for usand hence the fair was planned
on Am-li Agyaras that is a holy day ahead ofthe Holi festivities,
he said. The fair isheld near a Shiva temple in the village.The
temple itself has a picture ofGandhi placed at the feet of the
deityand it is worshipped along with thedeity.
Tribals from villages located on ei-ther side of the
Gujarat-Rajasthanborder visit the village on the day ofthe
fair.
got power, water and a road. The pondin the village was also
revived, said
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Indebted To Ex-PM,Villagers Also Hold A Fair In His Name
Rajiv Gandhi visited Saraswa in March 1986,while there was
severe water scarcity andthings changed significantly later
New Delhi: The spat betweenArvind Kejriwal loyalists andYogendra
Yadav-PrashantBhushan duo got uglier on theday before Wednesdays
nation-al executive meeting of AAPwhere the fate of the two
dis-sident leaders is likely to be de-cided.
Breaking his silence, Kejri-wal tweeted on Tuesday, I amdeeply
hurt and pained by whatis going on in the party. This isbetrayal of
trust that Delhi hasreposed in us. I refuse to bedrawn in this ugly
battle. Willconcentrate only on Delhisgovernance.
While Kejriwal distanced
himself from the spat and pre-pared to leave for Bangalore
onWednesday morning for treat-ment at a naturopathy farm and
thereby also positionedhimself above the fray with hisabsence from
the meeting hisloyalists accused Yadav andBhushan of trying to
unseatKejriwal and accused Bhushanof seeking to have a
vice-likegrip over the party.
The accusation only drewmore bitter words from Prash-
ant Bhushan who said Kejriwalwas willing to compromisefor
electoral politics but nothim. Bhushan said: I told Ar-vind you
have some remarka-ble qualities but you have weak-
nesses.and you may bewrong sometimes. I said wemust set systems
so that its notnecessarily your writ thatshould prevail in decision
mak-ing.
AAP war of words hotsup ahead of todays meetBhushan Wants
Vice-Like Grip OnParty: Kejris Men
New Delhi: The NarendraModi government sufferedan embarrassment
in RajyaSabha on Tuesday whennon-NDA parties joinedhands to force
an amend-ment to the motion of thankson the Presidents address
toamplify their charge that thenew regime had failed tocurb
high-level corruptionand bring back black moneyallegedly stashed
abroad.
The amendment, movedby CPM members SitaramYechury and P Rajeeve,
wasaccepted with 118 votes in itsfavour and 57 against it,
bru-tally exposing the govern-ments lack of numbers in
Rajya Sabha a handicapwhich has kept it from enact-ing laws that
it believes willhelp accelerate growth.
Though the setback isjust symbolic, the deficit ofnumbers is an
old storywhich is not going to changeany time soon. It will,
howev-er, rankle the governmentbecause is now party to a
res-olution criticizing itself. Infact, the opposition remorse-
lessly pressed home its hugenumerical advantage imme-diately
after the PM hadstoutly rejected the chargeof failure on the black
mon-ey issue. Yechury and othersin the opposition
rebuffedparliamentary affairs minis-ter M Venkaiah Nauds re-peated
pleas not to press foramendments.
The opposition said itwas not allowed to seek clar-
ifications from the PM.This was the fourth time
when the opposition forcedamendments to the motionof thanks on
the Presidentsaddress all instances re-flecting the mismatch in
thenumbers of the two Houseswithin two years of Lok Sab-ha
elections.
Forces ChangeIn Motion Of
Thanks ToPrezs Address
United Oppn leaves govtred-faced in Rajya Sabha
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New Delhi: The govern-ment is embarrassed, po-lice are in a
sweat, and theyhave put their might be-hind stalling British
film-maker Leslee Udwins dis-turbing documentary onthe mindset that
regardswomen as mens propertyand rape as deserved puni-shment.
Shocked by excerpts ofan interview with Nirb-hayas rapist,
MukeshSingh, that newspaperspublished on Tuesday, Del-hi police
registered an FIRunder the InformationTechnology Act and also
in-voked IPC sections pertain-ing to outraging a womansmodesty and
insult to pro-voke breach of the peace.
In the morning, policecommissioner B S Bassisaid they had
registered anFIR and requested Indianmedia not to air the
docu-mentary, Indias Daughter,but by late evening policehad
obtained a restraint or-der against its telecastfrom a court. The
I&B min-istry also issued an adviso-ry to TV channels
against
showing the documentary. To avoid further embar-
rassment, the governmentis planning to move courtwith a report
from TiharJail director general AlokVerma that claims that
al-though the filmmakers hadpermission to shoot, theyhave flouted
the terms ofagreement. With movesafoot to stall the documen-tarys
scheduled telecaston March 8, InternationalWomens Day, Udwin
an-nounced her unit hadsought proper permissionfrom the home
ministryand Tihar Jail authoritiesbefore interviewing Mu-kesh in
2013, under the UPAgovernments watch. Theministry has admitted
this.
Rattled govt tries to stallNirbhaya film telecast
Mumbai: In volatile trades,the NSE nifty crossed the
psy-chologically important 9,000mark for the first time in
itshistory as index heavy-weights like Reliance and TCSrallied
smartly in late trades.The index, however, closed atad lower. The
sensex closed at29,594, about 250 points belowits all-time high
recorded at29,844 on January 30 this year.
The days gains came onthe back of expectations thatthe Centres
proposal to mergeFII and FDI investments un-der one single head may
leadto higher weight for India inthe MSCI indices, bench-marks
which are followed by alarge number of global fundmanagers to
construct andmaintain their portfolios. Achange in any of the MSCI
in-dices usually leads to portfoliorejig by those fund managerswho
benchmark their invest-ments to these indices.
For the firsttime, nifty
breaches 9kTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Ahmedabad: InternationalThermonuclear Experimen-tal Reactor
(ITER), which isthe worlds biggest six-coun-try scientific
collaboration togenerate nuclear fusion en-ergy in France, will get
itsheart from Gujarat.
The Institute of PlasmaResearch (IPR), Gandhina-gar, is
supervising the fabri-cation of reactors crucialparts the cryostat
and thevacuum vessel at L&Tsplant in Hazira near Surat.
The cryostat and the vac-uum vessel of the ITER To-kamak fusion
reactor is theheaviest, the largest and themost central
component.The reactor intends to pro-
duce 500 megawatts of powerfrom 50 megawatts input.The plant
would start firstexperiments by 2020.
IPR director Dhiraj Bora,in his address at the GujaratScience
Congress held re-cently in Ahmedabad, saidIndia will deliver the
30x30mcylindrical cryostat. Wehave started fabricating it atL&T
Hazira and it will be tak-
en to ITER site in Cadarachein France where we have aworkshop to
integrate thecomponents, he said. Thefirst consignment will
beshipped out in December.
The site is spread over 180hectares the size of 60 soc-cer
fields on which it has a42 hectare platform to mountthe nine-storey
reactor.
India, through IPR, hasbeen part of the project since2005. The
ITER Agreementwas signed by China, the EU,India, Japan, S Korea,
Russiaand the United States. Thesuccess of the project
woulddetermine the future of thetechnology across the worldwhich is
desperately seekingalternatives as today 80% ofrequirement is met
by thefast-depleting fossil fuel.
Gujarat heart for worldsbiggest N-fusion reactor
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New Delhi:This is somethingayurveda gurus like Charakand
Susrutha may not haveimagined. Modern ayurve-dacharayas,
homoeopathsand other Ayush doctors maysoon be allowed to
conductnon-invasive abortions.
The health ministry hasamended the Medical Termi-nation of
Pregnancy (MTP)Amendment Bill to allow Ay-ush doctors who are
regis-tered healthcare specialists toconduct non-invasive
proce-dures prescribe medicines to terminate pregnancies.The draft
bill will soon be sentto the Union Cabinet, a seniorhealth ministry
official toldTOI.
Another key amendmentseeks to increase the periodfor abortion to
24 weeks fromthe present 20 weeks. The gov-ernments proposal,
original-ly formulated taking a cuefrom a study conducted
byPopulation Council, is aimed
at increasing access to safeabortion by expanding thenumber of
healthcare provid-ers. Estimates show around 7million abortions are
con-ducted in India every year andover 50% of them are said tobe
illegal.
Initially, the governmenthad decided to allow midwivesand Ayush
doctors to do eveninvasive procedures for abor-tion, but dropped it
followingobjections from allopathicpractitioners.
Ayush docs may getnod to do
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Worldwide, 22 million unsafe abortions are performed each year
In India, 7m abortions conducted annually50% of these estimated to
be illegalRate of maternal deaths due to complications from unsafe
abortions at 8%
SAFE OPTION?
Perth: He is the poster boy ofIndian cricket; he wears
hisaggression on the sleeve and ismore than willing to take
thefight to the opposition. A bat-sman par excellence, he iseven
tipped to break almost allthe records before him.
Yet, Virat Kohli, the manwho is being hailed as the cap-tain of
the future, has a darkerside which erupts from time totime. It did
once again on aquiet Tuesday afternoon here,when Team India was
train-ing at the Murdoch Universityground.
For no rhyme or reason,and literally out of the blue,the India
vice-captain startedto abuse a journalist of a na-tional daily. The
media contin-gent and ICC officials simplywatched in dismay as
nobodycould fathom the reason forhis invective-laden tirade.
As it transpired later, itturned out to be a case of mis-taken
identity: Kohli un-leashed himself on the hap-less journalist
believing thathe had done a story exposingthe fact that his actress
girlf-riend Anushka Sharma wasstaying with him in the teamhotel
during Indias tour toEngland last May despite aban by the BCCI.
Mistaken identity:Kohli abuses scribefor Anushka story
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Mumbai: The Economic Of-fences Wing of Mumbai onTuesday arrested
three bro-kers in the Rs 5,600 crore Na-tional Spot Exchange
(NSEL)alleged cheating case.
The police arrested the bro-kers on charges of cheating,forgery
and conspiracy, amongothers. Rajvardhan Sinha, ad-ditional
commissioner of po-lice (EOW), identified the threebrokers as Amit
Rathi ofAnand Rathi Commodities, C PKrishnan of Geofin Comtradeand
Chintan Modi of India In-foline Commodities. P xx
They were summoned forinquiry and placed under ar-rest by the
EOW. All three willbe kept at the Mumbai crimebranchs lock-up in
the policecommissionerate compoundnear Crawford Market, andwill be
produced before a spe-cial court on Wednesday.
3 commoditybrokers heldin NSEL scam
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Bareilly: The recent spate ofbrazen and murderous attackson
criminals on their way tocourt from jail by rival gangmembers has
pushed the UPgovernment to order bullet-proof vests for the
convicts.
The unprecedented direc-tion has been signed by theprincipal
secretary (home), asenior police officer said, oncondition of
anonymity, andadded that it will be imple-mented at the earliest.
Askedabout it, IG (zone) in Bareilly,Vijay Singh Meena, said,
Ihavent yet received the order.
On February 16, notoriousgangster Vikky Tyagi was shotdead in
the Muzaffarnagar dis-trict court by a 17-year-old whohad come
dressed in a lawyersrobes. Tyagi was waiting for acall to present
himself beforethe judge when he was riddledwith bullets.
Bulletproofvests for UPundertrials
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ENFANT TERRIBLE: Kohli hitout at the Indian journalist believing
he had done theexpose on his actress girlfriendAnushka Sharma
staying withhim in the team hotel in Englanddespite a BCCI ban
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New Delhi:Foreign secretaryS Jaishankar broke the icewith
Pakistan, opening talkswith Islamabad after a gap ofsix months.
Jaishankar metPakistan PM Nawaz Sharif onTuesday and delivered a
letterfrom PM Narendra Modi wholast month decided to resumetalks
with Islamabad as part ofhis Saarc outreach.
While both sides weretight-lipped about the con-tents of Modis
letter, sourcessaid it focused on the need torebuild peaceful,
friendly tiesbetween the two nations by re-moving trust deficit.
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6-mnth freezein ties with
Pakistan ends
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Breaking his silence, PMNarendra Modi on Tuesdaydisapproved of
comments ofJ&K CM Mufti MohammadSayeed giving credit
toPakistan, Hurriyat andmilitants for smooth conductof Assembly
polls, saying suchastatement cannot besupported. If somebodymakes
such a statement, wecan never support it, Modisaid in Rajya Saba.
PTI
PM disapproves ofMuftis comments Amendment, moved
by CPM members Sitaram Yechury and P Rajeeve, accepted with 118
votes in favour and 57 against
The amendment regrets that there is no mention in the
(Presidents) address about the failure of govt to curb high-level
corruption and to bring back black money
Opposition rebuffed parliamentary affairs minister
M Venkaiah Naidus pleas not to press for amendments, saying it
was not allowed to seek clarifications from PM
Arch-rivals CPM and Trinamool, as well as SP and BSP voted in
favour of the amendment. BJD too joined in
Setback highlights tough task facing govt on contentious bills
like land acquisition and insurance
NO MENTION OF BLACK MONEY
Leslee Udwins interview of therapist has kicked up a storm
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Here Rajiv gets pride of place, in a temple
ARVINDS AILMENT
Arvind Kejriwal, 46, was diagnosed with type II diabetes several
years ago
Against normal blood glucose levels of 90-120mg/dl (fasting) and
under 160mg/dl (post-meal), the CMs current levels are 190(fasting)
& 300 (post-meal)
HOW HAS HE BEEN TACKLING IT? By taking medicines and insulin
shots. The insulin dosage was recently increased but it hasnt
helped much
THE ALTERNATIVE PLAN A fan of alternative medicine, Kejriwal is
keen on undergoing naturopathy treatmentand leaves for a 10-day
course at a Bengaluru centre on Thursday
Advocates of naturopathy treatment for diabetes claim 100%
success, but there are few studies to support such claims
The institute offers a range of treatments including
hydrotherapy (water massages & aquatic exercises), oil massages
and fasting therapy, in which specific juices/soups are given as
per condition
Treatment will be
decided after his admission and check-upsSPOKESMAN |
JINDALNATURECURE INSTITUTE
Arvind believes more in alternative medicine. He has travelled
to all parts of the country for his chronic coughDR VIPIN MITTAL
|CMS FAMILY DOCTOR
His doctor says the spike in glucose levels is a result of the
hectic Delhi campaign, when Kejriwal led an erratic lifestyle,
hardly slept, ate irregularly & even skipped medication
