SHIMLA, SEPT 24At least 25 peopledrowned and severalothers were missing thismorning after a bus fellinto the Gobind Sagarreservoir at Rayian nearBilaspur, 95km fromhere.

25 bodies have so farbeen recovered while 15injured persons havebeen taken to a Bilaspurhospital, Bilaspurdeputy commissionerAjay Sharma said,adding that efforts are

on in full swing to tracethe missing.

The 40-seater bus waspacked to capacity andsome people were saidto have been also travel-ling on its roof, spark-ing fears that the tollmay be higher.

A number of studentsand labourers who weremaking their daily com-mute from Rishikesh toBilaspur are among thevictims.

The bus has beenpulled out of the reser-

voir. The ill-fated busbelonging to a privatetransportation companywas on its way fromRishikesh to Bilaspurand most of the passen-gers on board werelocals. Divers of BhakraBeas ManagementBoard (BBMB) havejoined efforts to fish outthe bodies.

A large crowd oflocals has gathered atthe spot making anxiousenquiries about the vic-tims of the mishap.

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Bangla Sahib Gurudwara parkingissue turns into political battle

Moto X (Gen 2) Price in IndiaRevealed as Rs. 31,999

Anushka Shetty to Make BollywoodDebut With E Niwas' Juvenile

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24India's low-cost mission toMars successfully entered thered planet's orbit onWednesday, crowning whatPrime Minister Narendra Modisaid was a "near impossible"push to become the only coun-try to complete the trip on itsmaiden attempt.

The Mars Orbiter Missionwas achieved on a budget of$74 million, nearly a tenth ofthe amount the US spaceagency Nasa spent on sendingthe Maven spacecraft to Mars.

"History has been createdtoday," said Modi, who burstinto applause along with hun-dreds of scientists at the state-run Indian Space ResearchOrganization (Isro) when itwas announced the missionhad been accomplished.

"We have dared to reach outinto the unknown and have

achieved the near impossible,"said Modi, wearing a redwaistcoat at the space com-mand centre in the southerncity of Bangalore. NEWDELHI: India's low-cost mis-sion to Mars successfully

entered the red planet's orbit onWednesday, crowning whatPrime Minister Narendra Modisaid was a "near impossible"push to become the only coun-try to complete the trip on its

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The Supreme Court onWednesday cancelled all butfour of the 218 coal block allo-cations it had declared illegaland arbitrary in its August 25,2014 verdict. Acting on theCentral government's assurancethat it is “fully prepared” toface the cancellation of the coalblock allocations and will nothave any difficulty to take thecoal industry forward, a three-judge bench led by ChiefJustice of India R.M. Lodhapassed the order, opting that the"natural consequence" of itsAugust 25 judgment declaringthe allocations would be to can-cel them. On the Centre'srequest to save 40 functionalcoal blocks and six ready-to-function ones, the court said 42of them would continue tofunction for the next 6 months,till March 31, 2015, to give thegovernment "breathing space tomanage the emerging situa-

tion". These 42 blocks wouldhave to pay an additional levyof Rs. 295 per metric tonne ofcoal extracted to make up forthe loss highlighted in the CAGreport in the coal scam.

The four functional coalblocks exempted from cancel-lation are two ultra mega powerprojects, one operated byNTPC and another by SAIL.

Reacting to the order,Attorney-General MukulRohatgi, who represented theCentre in the case, told themedia that the "governmentwould now decide which of theblocks will be auctioned andwhich not to". He said the six-month gap in implementationof cancellation of 42 functionalcoal blocks would ensure thatthe transition would happenwith the “least disturbance”. Onthe impact of the cancellationon industries, Mr. Rohatgi said“private industries can comeback by way of auction”.

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Supreme Court quashesallocation of 214 coal blocks

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24The numbers are out. CAT2014 will be conducted in 99cities across 354 test sites.There will be four testing win-dows, two each on the testingdates November 16 andNovember 22.

The format of CAT willundergo a change this year.

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3 steps to success

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24The Supreme Court onWednesday said it wants theNDA government to give it a“commitment” that riverGanga will be cleaned in aphased manner and said thecourt will keep a close watch

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Ganga clean-up dependson people, 5 state govern-ments, Centre tells SC

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24Hindi road drama Liar’s Dicewill be India’s nomination forthe Best Foreign Film at theAcademy Awards, betterknown as the Oscars, whichwill be given away in LosAngeles in 2015.

The movie, directed byKerala State award-winner

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India rolls Liar’s Dice forthe Oscars

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NEW DELHI, SEPT 24The Delhi Police foiled a proposedmahapanchayat at 12 TughlaqRoad, the bungalow occupied untilrecently by Rashtriya Lok Dal(RLD) leader Ajit Singh, by sup-porters of the Jat leader who weredemanding its conversion into amemorial for his father and formerPrime Minister Charan Singh.

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Ajit Singh supporterslay siege to Delhi

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24 The Special Crime Branch of CBIprobing the Saradha chit fundscam on Wednesday interrogatedTrinamool Congress Lok SabhaMP Subhendu Adhikari.

CBI sources said that Mr.Adhikari was interrogated formore than an hour.

He was the second Trinamool Congress MP afterSrinjoy Bose, who was questioned by the CBI in the

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CBI interrogates TrinamoolMP Subhendu Adhikari

SHIMLA, SEPT 24Producer-actor Sohail Khan will bethe star attraction at this year’sRaid De Himalaya, the highest carrally in the world, said aspokesman of the HimalayanMotorsport, one of India’s pre-miere motorsports clubs.

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NEW DELHI, SEPT 24The crime branch of DelhiPolice said it has nabbed themurderers of a southwestDelhi businessman abductedfrom his house in a stolenToyota Fortuner and gunneddown in a field a month ago.Police said Paramjeet was

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Property dispute led to busi-nessman's murder, 2 held

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24The National Human RightsCommission has taken suomotu cognisance of reportsthat an accused remained inillegal judicial custodybecause of carelessness of theDelhi Police. The Kotwalipolice station of Central Delhidistrict had arrested one Irfan

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NHRC noticeto top cop

GUNTUR, SEPT UNTURFlue Cured Virginia (FCV)Tobacco has emerged a topgrosser for India as theexports fetched more than$1billion during the 2013-2014 fiscal year, TobaccoBoard Chairman K. Gopalsaid here on Monday.

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Virginia tobacco exportsfetch Rs. 6,092.8 crore

ANAND, SEPT 24A man here on Wednesdayslapped a Muslim cleric whilehe was being taken to a courtafter his arrest for allegedlyhurting religious sentimentsof a community by makingobjectionable comments

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Man slaps cleric whomade objectionableremarks on ‘Navratri’

ULANDSHAHR, SEPT 24With contribution to adminis-tration run by health ministerDr Harshavardhan and UP-Delhi police , MPs' ofBulandshahr and GautambudhNagar saved life of 15 and 20

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Life saved, cops put ambu-lances on fast track to Delhi

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White House to ‘respectfullyaccommodate’ Modi’s navaratri fast

WASHINGTON, SEPT 24In view of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi observingnavaratri fast during hisU.S. visit, the White Houseon Tuesday said this isunlikely to be an issue asthey respectfully accom-modate the practices ofvisitors.

“We are aware of thePrime Minister’s plans tofast during his visit toWashington. As with allguests hosted by U.S.Presidents over the years,we always work to respect-fully accommodate thepractices of our visitors,”said Caitlin Hayden,spokesperson of theNational Security Council.

“The President looks for-ward to a successful bilat-

eral visit with the PrimeMinister, and we do notanticipate this being anissue in any way,” Mr.Hayden told PTI whenasked about Mr. Modi’snavaratri fast, duringwhich he will be on a liq-uid diet and consume

lemonade with some honeyand a cup of tea every day.

The White House did notprovide any further details,of what Mr. Modi would beserved during the privateworking dinner hosted byU.S. President Barack

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NEW DELHI, SEPT 24Terming skill development and entrepre-neurship "critical" for developing youth asproductive workforce, the government onWednesday said that it has initiated theprocess of revising the National Policy onskill development.

The government has also directed theNational Skill Development Agency(NSDA) to create a web portal where per-sons interested in developing skills can reg-ister themselves.

"Skill Development and Entrepreneurshipare critical for developing the youth as aproductive workforce. We have initiated theprocess to revise the National Policy onSkill Development 2009," Sarbananda

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MUMBAI, SEPT 24In a fresh snub to BJP, theShiv Sena has said it won'tback off from its decision tocontest at least 150 seats inthe Maharashtra assemblypolls.

The discussions on arriv-ing at a seat-sharing formulaamong the 'Mahayuti' part-ners on Sunday remainedinconclusive.

The Sena had submitted afresh proposal to its alliancepartners on Sunday night,keeping 151 assembly seats

for itself, giving 130 seats tothe BJP and leaving out justseven seats for its junioralliance partners.

"Shiv Sena cannot contestanything less than 150 seats.The responsibility of keep-ing the Mahayuti together iswith the BJP. If BJP agreesto let go off five seats, theystill have six more seats thatwe have given up for them,"senior Sena leader RamdasKadam told reporters out-side party chief Uddhav

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UNITED NATIONS, SEPT 24Declaring the world at a“crossroads between war andpeace,” President BarackObama vowed on Wednesdayto lead a coalition to disman-tle the Islamic State militantgroup’s “network of death”that has wreaked havoc in theMiddle East and drawn theU.S. back into military actionin the region.

Speaking to the annualgathering of the UnitedNations General Assembly,Mr. Obama said the U.S.would be a “respectful andconstructive partner” in con-fronting the militants throughforce. But he also implored

Middle Eastern nations totake the lead in addressing theconditions that have sparked

the rise of extremists, includ-ing cutting off funding to

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STOCKHOLM, SEPT 24Edward Snowden has beenselected among the winners ofthe Right Livelihood Award,also known as the “alternativeNobel,” for his disclosures oftop secret surveillance pro-grams.

The award foundation onWednesday said the formerNational Security Agencycontractor splits the honoraryportion of the prize withGuardian editor AlanRusbridger.

The 1.5 million kronor($210,000) cash award isshared by Pakistani humanrights activist Asma Jahangir,Basil Fernando of the AsianHuman Rights Commission

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NEW DELHI, SEPT 24The Supreme Court onWednesday declined tostay the trial in the `2Gspectrum allocationcase’ till petitions seek-ing quashing of chargeswere decided by theapex court.

A bench of JusticeH.L. Dattu and S.A.Bobde rejected the argu-ment of senior counselRam Jethmalani,appearing for formerTelecom Minister A.Raja that the trial shouldbe stayed till the courtdecided the quash peti-tions. Mr. Jethmalanisought copies of docu-ments submitted by theCBI Dirctor in a sealedcover. Justice Dattu toldthe counsel ‘we have notdone it (stay of trial)

earlier and we don’twant to do it now.”

Ms. Kanimozhi, mem-

ber of Parliament anddaughter of formerTamil Nadu chief minis-ter M. Karunanithi andother accused hadsought to quash chargesin the 2G case. Theysaid they wereaggrieved by the stay

order passed by theSupreme Court on anapplication filed by the

CBI of all proceedingspending before theDelhi High Court (relat-ing to quashing ofcharges) which hadresulted in violation oftheir fundamental rightunder Article 21 of the

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SC declines to stay 2G case trialEdward Snowdenwins 'alternativeNobel'

Govt begins revi-sion of skill devel-

opment policy

Shiv Sena won't contest less than 150seats, party says in fresh snub to BJP

Obama calls for dismantlingIslamic State’s 'network of death'

25 killed as bus falls into reser-voir in Himachal, several missing

BEIJING, SEPT 24 China today expressed rare praisefor India saying the successfullaunch of the satellite to Mars wasa "pride of Asia". The praise issignificant because it comes amidstrain in the relationship causedthe border standoff between thetwo countries even after a "suc-cessful visit" to India by Chinesepresident Xi Jinping.

"We congratulate India on Marssatellite entering orbit successful-ly," Hua Chunying, Chinese for-eign ministry spokeswoman saidon Wednesday.

"This is pride of India and thepride of Asia, and a landmarkprogress in humankind's explo-ration of the outer space. So wecongratulate India on that"

China has not yet sent a missionto Mars making this one of thefew areas where India has stolenthe lead in Asia. China success-fully sent robots to land on themoon last year becoming the first

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NEW DELHI | THURSDAY | SEPT 25, 2014Delhi News2 SAADDA HAQ

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24An end to Delhi’s parkingmess may finally be in sightwith officials in the munici-pal corporations coming upwith innovative solutions,including high charges incongested areas and involv-ing locals in decision mak-ing.

Though officers have pro-posed parking rate hikes inthe past, politicians in thecorporations have shot downthe plans, fearing electoralbacklash. But, now, the BJP-led municipal corporationsare working on a uniformrate hike as the party’s Stateleadership has decided todeal with the issue seriously.

Delhi BJP president SatishUpadhyay has asked allthree corporations to formu-late a policy regarding park-ing rates. The South DelhiMunicipal Corporation’sStanding Committee, whileMr. Upadhyay was headingit, last week increased park-ing rates.

At a meeting with theUrban DevelopmentSecretary on Monday, thethree Commissioners of the

civic bodies and representa-tives of the Public WorksDepartment, the DelhiPolice and the DelhiDevelopment Authoritybrainstormed on out-of-the-box solutions.

South Delhi MunicipalCorporation CommissionerManish Gupta said onTuesday that the civic bodyshould not subsidise parkingfor the rich, but should worktowards making pedestrianmovement easier. He addedthat the SDMC agreed withthe recommendations of theBhure Lal Committee,which says that surfaceparking should be pricedhigh to dissuade users. Hesaid he reiterated the com-mittee’s findings at themeeting with the UDSecretary.

“Surface parking in con-gested areas that have goodMetro connectivity likeLajpat Nagar market shouldbe exorbitant so peoplechoose to use public mar-ket,” said Mr. Gupta.

A senior North DelhiMunicipal Corporation offi-cial said that simply impos-

ing hefty charges anddeclaring ‘no-parkingzones’ would not work.

“We have to see parkingnot as a right and a facilityfor all, but a service at a pre-mium so we can disincen-tivise people from crowdingthe roads. The rates shouldbe prohibitively high in con-gested markets likeKarol Bagh so peopletake the metro,” said theofficial.

While officers have agreedthat the rates need to go upfrom the current Rs.10, theexact policy is still underformulation. The NorthCorporation has 96 parkingsites, out of which 32 arecurrently running as freesites as there were disputeswith the contractors and thetenders were cancelled. Theprocess of re-tenderingthese sites is on, said DeputyCommissioner DharmenderKumar.

According to officers,increasing the rates will notonly dissuade users, but willalso hit the parking mafiathat continues to overchargecustomers.

‘Parking should not be seen as a right’NEW DELHI, SEPT 24The car parking at the BanglaSahib Gurudwara inauguratedin 2010 for public use hasturned into a political battle-field. The Delhi SikhGurdwara ManagementCommittee, led by ShiromaniAkali Dal (Badal), is now ona warpath to turnaround adecision by the previous dis-pensation under rivalShiromani Akali Dal (Delhi).As per an agreement signedon February 10, 2005, owner-ship of the Master Tara Singhcar parking will go to NewDelhi Municipal Council(NDMC) after a lease periodof 25 years.

DSGMC has declared that itwill go to the Centre, courtsand, if required, take to thestreets to get rid of the owner-ship clause. DSGMC hasalleged that ownership of theparking was "illegally" trans-ferred to NDMC during thetenure of SAD (Delhi) chiefand former DSGMC presi-dent Pramjeet Singh Sarna.

"It is surprising that Sarnawrote to NDMC onDecember 11, 2004, forapproval of a building planand two months later hedecided to hand over theparking lot to NDMC after 25years," said DSGMC presi-dent and SAD (Badal) Delhipresident Manjit Singh GK.

Reacting to the allegations,SAD (Delhi) issued a strong

rebuttal. "The Badal factionhas been leveling false, frivo-lous and baseless allegationsagainst us in the name ofGurdawara Bangla Sahibparking issue," Sarna said in astatement.

SAD (Delhi) pointed outthat the parking lot was neverthe property of the gurdwaracommittee but governmentland.

Bangla Sahib Gurudwara parkingissue turns into political battle

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24As many as 2,500Bharatiya Janata Partyworkers will donate bloodto blood banks maintainedby the Indian Army, para-military forces and gov-ernment hospitals in Delhias part of the 98 birthanniversary celebrations ofPandit DeendayalUpadhyay.

“About 2,500 workersconnected with the 14Districts, Morchas andCells of the party shalldonate blood and arrange-ments for Eye DonationPledge EncouragementCamp have also been setupon this occasion. We havereceived information fromabout 200 workers for eyedonation pledge,” saidDelhi BJP chief SatishUpadhyay about the events

that will be held at theThyagaraj Stadium onSeptember 25.

Mr. Upadhyay said sev-eral senior leaders, includ-ing Rajnath Singh, M.Venkaiah Naidu and HarshVardhan, will participatein the programme. OnSeptember 27, the partywill organise a symposiumin the civic centre to pres-ent the philosophy ofIntegrated Humanism ofPandit Deen DayalUpadhyay before theworkers, he said.

“As per the programme,concrete steps will betaken to implement theschemes connected withsocial welfare and to endcorruption in works con-nected with MunicipalCorporations in order torealize the dreams ofPanditji,” he added.

2,500 BJP workersto donate blood NEW DELHI, SEPT 24

A Delhi court has awarded 10years’ imprisonment to a youthfor repeatedly sexually assaultinga married woman who had lenthim Rs.50,000 after beingbefriended by him.

The court also dismissed thedefence argument that the accusedhad consensual physical relationswith her as she hid the relation-ship from her husband.

Rejecting the argument,Additional Sessions Judge KaveriBaweja said: “The fact that shedid not tell her husband anythingcannot be said to imply that nosuch incident had occurred or itwas with her consent.”

The court also directed that thevictim be paid adequate compen-sation under the VictimCompensation Scheme by theDelhi Legal Aid ServicesAuthority.

The court held accusedMohammed Bilal Qureshi guiltyof ‘raping same woman repeated-ly’ under Section 376 (2) (n),abduction under Section 366 and

criminal intimidation underSection 506 of the Indian PenalCode.

“…it appears from the completereading of the testimony of victimthat she had no option but toremain quiet as she was beingkept under threat by Qureshi andher consent in these circum-stances, cannot be said to be freeor voluntary. Under this fear,the woman continued to be sexu-ally exploited by him,” the courtsaid.

The woman alleged that theaccused sexually assaulted her bycalling her at different places onthe pretext of repaying the money.She further said in her complaintshe could not inform about it toher husband as the accused usedto intimidate her that he woulddisclose to her husband that shehad lent Rs.50,000 to him andthey were having an affair.

However, one day she told herhusband about it after being fedup with her continuous exploita-tion and later lodged a complaintwith the police.

Man gets 10-year jail term for repeated rape

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24 The incident of a whitetiger mauling a man whofell inside its enclosure atthe Delhi zoo has exposedthe lack of preparednessof the authorities to dealwith emergency situa-tions.

As per the norms, aguard is posted at theenclosure of all ferociousanimals like tiger, lion,hyena, jackal and panther.But the guard does nothave any equipment todeal with an emergencysituation. The only thingthat he has is a wirelessset and a whistle withwhich he is supposed todistract an animal in caseof an emergency.Tranquilizers not loadedat all times

“There are tranquilizersfor use in emergency situ-ations but it takes 10-12minutes to load it in agun. We do not keep themready at hand or give it toall the guards,” said asource at the zoo.

By the time, a zoo offi-cial could get ready with atranquilizer gun to takecontrol of the animal itwould already be too late.This is precisely whathappened on Tuesdayafternoon.No water in moat

The guard sent an emer-gency message to othersin the zoo and they triedto divert the animal’sattention but by the timethey could have used atranquilizer, the damagehad already been doneand the animal was backinside its cave.

The Delhi zoo also

flouts the enclosure normsmeant for terrestrial ani-mals who can jump. Asper the “Barrier Designsfor Zoos” laid by theCentral Zoo Authority,enclosure for a Tigershould have a wet moat.But there was no water inthe white tiger’s enclo-sure. On being askedabout the same, a zoo offi-cial said that they do notkeep water in the moatbecause clean water is notavailable to them.

“Enclosures withgreater depth permit ani-mals to keep a safe dis-tance from the visitorsand are always prefer-able,” read the Guidelinesfor Enclosures.Height of wall near moatnot adequate

The height of a moat of

an enclosure where a ter-restrial animal is keptshould be 7.5 metres,including a depth of 5metres. However, accord-ing to the Central ZooAuthority, the height ofthe moat was 4.4 metre,the Delhi zoo authoritieson the other hand claimedit to be 6.06 metres.Tree pose a threat

Also, there are treesinside the enclosure andthe animal can easilyclimb them and jump out-side. On being askedabout this, zoo officialssaid that they have beenplanning to reduce theheight of trees for a longtime but haven’t been ableto do it.

The dimensions and thearea of any enclosureshould be decided after

considering the variousfactors mentioned aboveas well as the topographyand naturalistic featuresof the site identified forconstructing the enclo-sure.

The zoo authorities areclaiming that the con-struction of enclosureshas been done keeping inmind all the standards.CCTVs not installed inenclosures

There are closed circuittelevision cameras in thezoo but only from theentry up to the director’soffice. In 2008, a proposalto install CCTV camerasat the enclosure of fero-cious animals like tiger,lion, bear, hyena was pro-posed but has not beenimplemented so far due tolegal hassles.

Zoo ill-prepared to deal with emergencies

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24The decision of the DelhiGovernment to increase the circlerates of properties by around 20per cent have been met by criti-cism from political parties. Whilethe Congress demanded an imme-diate roll back of the rates, theAam Aadmi Party termed thedecision “in absence of a popular-ly elected State Government as asuspect move, which was certain-ly avoidable”. “The BharatiyaJanata Party had promised to bringgood days. But it is now schemingto keep out the poor and the mid-dle class from Delhi with thissteep increase in the circle rates.This decision will not boost therevenue collection of the govern-ment, but it will definitely preventthe poor people from owning ahouse in Delhi,” said DelhiCongress chief Arvinder Singh.‘Strange timing’

The Aam Aadmi Party assertedthat the Delhi administration,which is controlled by the BJP’s

Central Government, has chosen astrange timing to impose an addi-tional burden on the common buy-ers and it is taking undue advan-tage of its lack of accountability topush such decisions.

“The Lieutenant-Governor andthe Revenue Department need totell the people of Delhi what is thereason behind such a steep hike incircle rates at this time, when theDelhi Development Authority hasannounced its biggest-ever hous-ing scheme of 25,000 flats, whichwill be allotted shortly. Won’t thisdecision burden the new flat buy-ers? On what basis have the mar-ket rates been fixed? Isn’t theDelhi administration giving rise tospeculative property prices, whichwill only end up burdening thecommon man?” the party state-ment said.

The party demanded the depart-ment concerned to make publicwhether any public consultationwas carried out before the upwardrevision of property circle rates.

Congress, AAP attack BJPover increase in circle rates

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24The Delhi High Court hasdismissed an appeal of theHaryana StateEnvironmental ImpactAssessment Authority(SEIAA) against a SingleBench verdict restraining itfrom prosecuting MarutiSuzuki India Limited fornot getting prior environ-ment clearance for itsresearch and developmentunit and test track inRohtak.

A Division Bench com-prising Chief Justice G.Rohini and Justice R. S.Endlaw, which did not findany merit in the appeal,observed in its judgmenton Monday that the matterwas being pursued “to sat-isfy the ego of some offi-cers”.

The High Court’s May26 order, challenged beforethe Division Bench, waspassed with the consent ofboth the parties, restrainingthe Haryana Authorityfrom initiating proceedingsagainst Maruti. TheSEIAA contended in itsappeal that the law onenvironmental matters didnot provide for “amicablesettlement” of disputes.

The Single Bench hadheld that if the validity of anotification, issued in2006, was upheld andMaruti, as well as its direc-tors, undertook to obtainpost facto environmentalclearance for its project inRohtak and all future proj-ects in Haryana, the Statewill consider not initiatingany criminal action against

the company.The Court said no steps

had been taken to elicit thecomments of theAdditional Advocate-General, who would havebeen in a position toinform on whose instruc-tions he had made thestatement before the SingleJudge.

In its 21-page judgment,the Division Bench said itwas unable to comprehendthe argument that the con-sent earlier given on behalfof the Haryana Authoritywas contrary to the statute.“It appears that Haryana, atthat time, was more inter-ested in the notification [of2006] as interpreted andenforced by it, being notchallenged and the disputebeing amicably settled.”

Plea against Maruti dismissed

Japanese study formonorail betweenBawana, GurgaonNEW DELHI, SEPT 24Japan on Tuesday offered assistance inconducting a feasibility study for mono-rail service on a 50km stretch betweenGurgaon on the city's outskirts andBawana in northwest Delhi. This wasconveyed during a meeting betweenJapan's minister of land, infrastructureand transport Akihiro Ohta and urbandevelopment minister Venkaiah Naidu.Ohta led a 20-member delegation,including senior officials from thedepartments of city planning, policydivision, overseas projects division,planning division, roads bureau and rail-ways bureau.The Japanese delegationoffered location-specific multimodaltransport solutions encompassing metrorail, monorail and light rail transport forurban areas in India, including "intelli-gent transport solutions" for smart citiesproposed to be developed. Japan hasevinced keen interest in a "higher orderof cooperation" with India in the urbandevelopment sector in line with "specialstrategic partnership" forged during therecent visit of Prime Minister NarendraModi to Japan.

Ohta said he would take personalinterest in propelling cooperation withIndia in promoting infrastructure devel-opment in urban areas.

AIIMS treatsalleged Maoistfor braintumourNEW DELHI, SEPT 24AIIMS informed the Delhihigh court on Tuesday thatit is treating an undertrialbrought from Jharkhandfor a brain tumour.

Satisfied with the med-ical attention being givento Chandan Deonath (38),Justice Vibhu Bakhru dis-posed of a petition filed onhis behalf by Peoples'Union for DemocraticRights (PUDR).On theirplea, HC had asked DelhiPolice and authorities atAll India Institute ofMedical Sciences toimmediately attend toDeonath. "It was an emer-gent situation and youhave been provided med-ical facilities so now youwithdraw your petition,"the court told PUDR.

SDMC cleanlinessdrive to focus onawarenessNEW DELHI, SEPT 24This time around, thecleanliness campaign bythe South Delhi civicbody will focus on com-munity participation.

A South DelhiMunicipal Corporationofficial said on Tuesdaythat in the past, the drivewould “be over with theleaders posing for photoswith brooms”.

The drive, which willstart on Thursday and goon till October 2, willfocus on awareness andpreventing littering,rather than just cleaningup after offenders.Commissioner ManishGupta said: “If we can’teducate the populationabout not littering, thenthe drive will not work.”

With that in mind, theofficials met representa-tives of 15 schools andcolleges and 17 marketassociations on Tuesday.Mr. Gupta added that theNSS and NCC wings ineducational institutionswill also be roped in toinculcate good sanitationhabits in students.

Meanwhile, the corpo-ration has ramped up itsaction against litterbugsthrough issuance of chal-lans. The Corporationhas set the target at 5,000challans in each of itsfour zones fromSeptember 15 toSeptember 25. TheCorporation said 3,926challans had been issuedfrom September 9 tillTuesday.

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24It was a surreal show oftradition, strength, disci-pline and years of prac-tice by the Shaolin KungFu troupe from China atthe Siri Fort Auditoriumhere on Tuesday evening.The company belongs tothe Shaolin Temple inChina that is consideredthe home of kung fu.

The packed auditoriumsat and watched in awe asthey displayed an array ofstyles from the beautifulfluidic motions ofZen Kung Fu to showingtheir skills usingweapons and indulging incombat.

A two-finger push up,two-finger hand stand,

breaking of an iron plateby Quigong, and liftingup a person while he waslying on five sharp spearswere not only mesmeris-ing but left one wonder-ing how much physicalpower comes from train-ing the mind.

The entire show waschoreographed usingmusic and displayed 15styles of kung fu, includ-ing a drunk-style kung fu,and acts in which the per-former was in the airmore than he was on theground.

The artistes even invit-ed members up on to thestage to conduct a quickworkshop that saw notonly children but many

adults rush to try theirhand at it.

“Kung Fu truly is anart. I have been a fan ofBruce Lee movies since Iwas a teenager andwatching it live was adream come true,”exclaimed Rohit a visiblyexcited Kung Fu fan, whohad come along with hisson.

The event was an initia-tive of the India ChinaEconomic and CulturalCouncil that workstowards enabling peopleto people contact betweenthe two countries.

The ChineseAmbassador to India LeYucheng was the chiefguest.

A date with the real kung fu fighters

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India’s Mars mission...maiden attempt.The Mars Orbiter Mission was achieved on

a budget of $74 million, nearly a tenth of theamount the US space agency Nasa spent onsending the Maven spacecraft to Mars.

"History has been created today," saidModi, who burst into applause along withhundreds of scientists at the state-run IndianSpace Research Organization (Isro) when itwas announced the mission had been accom-plished.

"We have dared to reach out into theunknown and have achieved the near impos-sible," said Modi, wearing a red waistcoat atthe space command centre in the southerncity of Bangalore.

India joins the United States, Russia andEurope in successfully sending probes toorbit or land on Mars. Apart from India, nonemanaged to succeed on their first attempt.

The mission also makes India the firstcountry in Asia to reach Mars, after anattempt by regional rival China failed toleave Earth's orbit in 2011.

Isro successfully ignited the main 440Newton liquid engine and eight smallthrusters that fired for 24 minutes andtrimmed the speed of the craft to allowsmooth orbit. A confirmation of orbit entrywas received at around 8am (0230 GMT).

After completing the 666 million kilometre(414 million miles) journey in more than 10months, the spacecraft called Mangalyaan -meaning Mars craft in Hindi - will now studythe red planet's surface and scan its atmos-phere for chemical methane. It will not landon Mars. Isro scientists will operate five sci-entific instruments on the spacecraft to gath-er data, the space agency's scientific secre-tary V Koteswara Rao told Reuters.

India's Mars mission...Asian country to achieve this feat.But it has not attempted going to the red

planet. Hua also indicated China might beinterested in enhancing cooperation with inthe area of satellite research.

"We are willing to work with the world forpeaceful development of the outer space andmake our contribution to sustainable devel-opment and long term peace of outer space,"she said. The spokeswoman said China wasin favour of peaceful development of theouter space, and carries out cooperation withother countries in this field.

Edward Snowden wins '...and U.S. environmentalist Bill McKibben.Award foundation director Ole von

Uexkull said all winners were invited to theDecember 1 award ceremony in Stockholm,though he added it’s unclear whether Mr.Snowden, who remains exiled in Russia, canattend.

SC declines to ...Constitution. They argued that continuance

of the trial against them without any materialbasis would amount to abuse of the processof law and result in miscarriage of justice.They said the trial in the 2G case in the spe-cial court was nearing completion and theywould be greatly prejudiced if verdict waspronounced during the pendency of thesepetitions for quashing the charges.

It was submitted that the restraint orderpassed by the apex court had curtailed theirfundamental right to contest the baselesscharges by filing quash petitions.

Senior counsel Harish Salve, appearing forReliance Communications said another issueto be decided was whether the date of appli-cation for licence should be taken into con-sideration or the date of allotment of licenceas such a decision would have a bearing onthe trial. Senior counsel Abhishek Singhvi,appearing for Ms. Kanimozhi pleaded forearly decision on her quash petition. Thebench, after hearing counsel for the partiesand senior counsel K.K. Venugopal, for theCBI and special public prosector for 2Gcases, senior counsel Anand Grover postedall the maters for final hearing on October29.

White House to ...Obama at the White House on September

29, 2014.However, the White HouseHistorical Association, believes that thedetails of the dinner have already beenworked out, which would be respectful of thereligious practices and believes of the visit-ing leader. “Since the early 1920s, the Officeof Protocol at the State Department alwaysmeets with — as happened with the upcom-ing visit of the Prime Minister — the Head ofState advance team several weeks in advanceand goes over every detail of the visit, whichincludes any dietary concerns or restric-tions,” Lara M. Kline, spokesperson of theWhite House Historical Association, said.

“So the Indian advance team and the StateDepartment Office of Protocol would havecome to an understanding and an agreementrelated to his arrival and there is always theutmost concern, respect and consideration ofthe Head of State. I know, they wouldabsolutely do everything he would be com-fortable with, which the advance teamshared,” Ms. Kline said.

Obama calls for...terror groups.“Ultimately, the task of rejecting sectarian-

ism and extremism is a generational task atask for the people of the Middle East them-selves,” Mr. Obama said. “No external powercan bring about a transformation of heartsand minds.”

The President’s remarks came against thebackdrop of an expanded U.S. military cam-paign against the Islamic State group, withairstrikes now hitting targets in both Iraq andSyria. A coalition of five Arab nations joinedthe U.S. this week in the strikes in Syria -Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United ArabEmirates and Qatar.

Govt begins revision ...Sonowal, minister of state for skill devel-

opment and entrepreneurship told reporters.He said that opinions are being obtained

from various ministries and once that is done,a draft policy will be placed on the ministry'swebsite inviting comments from the publicand other stakeholders.

Stating that his ministry will work toexpand and strengthen Nehru Yuva KendraSangathan (NYKS) and NSS, Sonowal saidthat "punarjagaran" (rejuvenation) is a majorinitiative from NYKS that will create a youthmovement all over the country over the nextone year. "This initiative will mobilise about150 million youths, inspire youth all over thecountry and make a significant contributionto the task of nation-building," he said.

The focus of the government is on youth-led development and so it plans to introduce"National Young Leaders Programme" fordeveloping leadership qualities among theyouth, he said.

"NYKS youth clubs shall be enabled toevolve as neighbourhood youth Parliament toget the village youth actively involved ingovernance process. This will inculcate thespirit of dignity of labour and communityservice and develop the personality of 1.67crore youths," he said.

Shiv Sena won't ...Thackeray's residence here.The Sena has already "sacrificed" 18 seats

to keep the 'Mahayuti' (grand alliance ofSena, BJP and four junior partners) intact,Kadam said.

Upset over 'paltry' allocation of seats forthe October 15 Maharashtra assembly polls,three small parties of the Shiv Sena-BJP led'Mahayuti' on Monday said they have decid-ed to quit the combine and accused the saf-fron constituents of "back-stabbing" them.

"Shiv Sena and BJP have stabbed us in theback. SSP, RSP and Shivsangram have decid-ed to leave 'Mahayuti' (grand alliance) andcontest the assembly polls jointly," SSPleader Sadabhau Khot said here.

"We will declare our joint list of candidatesthis evening," Khot said.

He said they were brought into the grandalliance by late BJP leader Gopinath Munde,"we trusted him and came into 'Mahayuti'.But our house is being burnt while trying todouse fire in their (Sena and BJP) houses."

"By giving seven seats to four constituents(including RPI), they (Sena and BJP) haveinsulted us," the farmers' leader from westernMaharashtra said, adding we apologise topeople of Maharashtra for our mistake inaligning with such parties.

He alleged that there was a systematic planto oust them from the Mahayuti.

"We had asked Sena and BJP two monthsago if we had become a burden for them. Wewill go to people and organise a Sangharshyatra in the state to expose our betrayal,"Khot said.

"We were used. They offered us sevenseats. We said we don't want a single seat.Instead, at last night's meeting, we asked thatRPI leader Ramdas Athawale and RSP leaderMahadev Jankar be made chief minister byrotation," he said.

Khot alleged that everyone tried to getmore seats by using them.

"Both the parties (Sena and BJP) indulgedin that. We will tell this to people ofMaharashtra and expose them," he said.

While, Jankar said, the Sena and BJPstabbed us in the back.

"They stabbed us while talking sweetly. Wewill expose their real face to people ofMaharashtra," Jankar said.

"They treated us like beggars. Now wewon't go to them. They should come to us ifthey want to talk to us," he said.

Ajit Singh supporters...Kisan Union (BKU) and the RLD.

Barricades to prevent hundreds of activistsfrom reaching the mahapanchayat affectedvehicular movement on several connectedLutyens’ Zone streets.

The recent eviction of Charan Singh’s sonand the former Union Minister from the bun-galow has triggered a series of protests inparts of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. During onesuch protest held at Muradnagar, activistsunsuccessfully tried to cut off water supply toDelhi from the Gang Nahar plant.

Fearing a repeat, the Delhi Police hadimposed Section 144 of the CriminalProcedure Code in New Delhi, but theactivists, who had come from Uttar Pradesh,Delhi and Haryana, defied prohibitory ordersand tried to march towards the bungalow. Mr.Ajit Singh and his son Jayant Chaudhary,

however, stayed away from the mahapan-chayat.

Fearing the situation might go out of handdue to the arrival of a large number of pro-testers, the police blocked entry to TughlaqRoad from Aurobindo Marg and Akbar Road.Activists of the two parties were alsodetained at Prithviraj Road, SafdarjungRoad, Man Singh Road and several otheradjoining roads here. As a measure of abun-dant precaution, the Race Course metro sta-tion was also closed from 8.30 a.m.

By 2.30 p.m., the police had detained closeto 250 demonstrators and took them toParliament Street and Tilak Marg police sta-tions. But those detained remained defiantand accused the Centre of not respecting thelegacy of Charan Singh, whom theydescribed as the “greatest farmer leader” thecountry has ever produced.

Some also said the move to evict Mr. AjitSingh from the bungalow could have adverseeffect on the BJP’s electoral prospects in theHaryana Assembly elections, because of theRLD leader’s clout in the State. They threat-ened that more agitations will be launched onthe issue in the days to come.

Sohail Khan to ...competing in the Adventure category of the

raid, along with about 240 top rallyists of thecountry. The 16th Raid De Himalaya willhave 50 competitors in Rally Moto (motorcy-cles and quads), 41 teams in Rally Xtreme(4X4) and 51 teams in Rally Adventure thisyear.

Each team in the Xtreme (4X4) categoryand the Adventure category comprises a driv-er and navigator. For his navigator, Mr. Khanhas picked Pune’s Rahul Sancheti, who ranksamong the top motorsport navigators in thecountry for Time-Speed-Distance (TSD) ral-lying.

Mr. Khan wanted to compete in the Xtremecategory of the rally but first-time competi-tors at the Raid are not allowed to compete inRally Xtreme, hence he had to settle forRally Adventure this year.

Traditionally, only about 25 per cent of thecompetitors are able to complete the Raid,India’s toughest cross country off-road event.

CBI interrogates Trinamool ....Saradha case apart from Kunal Ghosh who

was already behind bars before the centralinvestigating agency took charge of theprobe. Later after coming out of the CBIoffice, Mr. Adhikari told reporters that hewas called under Section 160 of CrPC.

The section authorises a police officer tocall somebody if it appeared that the personseemed to be acquainted with the facts andcircumstances of the case in question.

3 steps to...The number of questions in each section,

Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation,and Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning,has been increased to 50 from 30 last year.The total time has also gone up to 170 min-utes, from 140 minutes, with the option ofmoving from one section to the other withinthe testing window. With only a couple ofmonths to go for the exam, let us focus on thebest methods of preparation and areas offocus . The flexibility to move across sec-tions will give the aspirants complete controlover time management. Everyone has strongand weak areas and reallocating the availabletime to questions that require much more isnow completely within your control.Exercise that right judiciously. Questions thatcan be cracked with added investment oftime can be handled in that fashion. At thesame time, do have the judgment to leavequestions that can be complete time-stealers.

Another great way is to take a model CATpaper you have attempted before the new pat-tern was announced. This time around, do thesame paper without the sectional time limits.Do notice the different choices you make inquestion selection. Your own strong andweak areas in the testing arena will be clear-ly highlighted in this exercise.

There is nothing like taking a series ofmodel examinations that replicate the actualexamination in content, style and level of dif-ficulty. These tests need to be taken underexact test conditions — in one sitting andunder supervision. You will need to get intocomplete examination mode by shuttingyourself off from all external distractions andcomplete the examination. Do this multipletimes so that you become hard-wired toendure the 170-minute focus test. Also, thesemodel examinations should give you a verygood national performance feedback relativeto the other candidates across India who willbe your competitors in the actual examina-tion.The benefit of model examinations canbe extracted only if you include aPerformance Analysis Session after eachexam. Ideally, these sessions should happenwithin 48 hours of the model exam so that thequestions and your approaches in the examare still fresh in your mind. Another visit canbe done after the results or relative ranking ofmodel exams are published.

Ganga clean-up ....on the executive's efforts to rejuvenate the2,500 km-long river.

In response, the government said theCentre's efforts alone will not help the riverget a second lease of life, instead the“thought to keep the Ganga clean must come

from within” for the general public, andmoreover, the State governments in the fiveGanga river basin States - Uttarakhand, UttarPradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal –should rise above political differences andchip in to save the Ganga.

The hearing on Wednesday before a benchof Justices T.S. Thakur and R. Banumathiwas after the government submitted a three-stage plan spanning 10 years to purify theriver.

“If you are committing yourself for a stage-wise clean-up, we want to verify what youare doing and how you are going to do it. Ifyou wish, we will not disturb you further fora year. But, let's say in October 2015, youshould come back and tell us specificallywhat you did. We want you to commit to us.” Justice Thakur told Solicitor General RanjitKumar, representing the government.

Mr. Kumar said a commitment would be ofno avail unless the five Ganga basin Statesalso commit. He said it is primarily theresponsibility of these States to implementthe clean-up. The Centre, on its part, can onlymake the project and give funds to the States.

``The States should also commit as I(Centre) am committing to this court to cleanthe Ganga. Otherwise, we will roll out theproject and a babu sitting in some town willspoil our efforts,” Mr. Kumar said.

But Justice Thakur raised doubts about theCentre's political equations with the fiveStates.

“All these five States... all of them areruled by parties different from yours. Willthey co-operate with you? You have a differ-ent combination in the Centre,” JusticeThakur asked, assuring that the court woulddo the necessary to aid the Centre's efforts forGanga.

The government's three-phase Gangaclean-up plan includes a tentative Rs. 51,000crore project by the Ministry of UrbanDevelopment to extend sewerage coverage to118 urban habitations spread across the riverbank.

Another proposal is by the Ministry ofDrinking Water and Sanitation to make all1,649 grampanchayats located along theGanga banks free from open defecation.

The third is to enforce zero liquid dischargefrom “grossly” polluting industries locatedacross the five Ganga river basin States.

It said the long-term plan is to "restore thewholesomeness of river Ganga in terms ofdefining concept of ensuring Nirmal Dhara,Aviral Dhara and maintaining geological andecological integrity of the river".

India rolls Liar’s...Geetu Mohandas, stars national award win-

ners Geetanjali Thapa and NawazuddinSiddiqui. Set along the Himachal-Tibet bor-der, the movie deals with distress migration.

“I am overwhelmed by the news but notoverexcited about it. You feel very good andenjoy a positive energy when people call upto share their joy about the movie gettingselected as the nation’s entry for the best for-eign language film of the 87th AcademyAwards,” she told The Hindu here onTuesday attributing her nomination to her“lucky stars.” Liar’s Dice has been on a rollon the international festival circuit, besideswinning two national awards, for best actressfor Geethanjali Thapa (who played the pro-tagonist, Kamala), and best cinematographerfor Rajeev Ravi (Geetu’s husband).

Liar’s Dice was the unanimous choiceLiar’s Dice, directed by Geetu Mohandas,

was the unanimous choice of the 12-memberselection committee, headed by Malayalamfilmmaker T. Hariharan, as India’s entry forthe Oscar, Film Federation of India DeputySecretary Anindya Sengupta said here onTuesday.

The film had to compete with 29 otherfilms, including the Tamil movieKochadaiyaan and the Hindi films Mardaani,Shahid, Filmistaan, Queen and Mary Kom.At the Oscars, it will compete with Poland’sIda, Sweden’s Force Majeure and Canada’sMommy.

Property dispute led...murdered by his rivals as a result of a disputeover a large piece of land in the area."A team led by DCP Bhisham Singh andACP K P S Malhotra rounded up Anoop aliasMaalamal (30) and Vikas (28) who shotParamjeet in the intervening night of August30-31. They belong to the gang who had ear-lier attacked MLA Bharat Singh as well. Acountrymade pistol, along with two live car-tridges, has been recovered from them,"Ashok Chand, additional commissioner ofpolice (crime), said. Paramjeet and his fami-ly had bought a piece of land in the villagefor developing an unauthorized colony,police said. In their design, they had alleged-ly encroached upon 3,000 square yards ofGram Sabha land which irked rivals whothen planned to eliminate him.On August 4, Anoop was shot at by a fewmen who he suspected were hired byParamjeet. This was the trigger for the mur-der, police said. His is the fourth murder forproperty in recent months. On August 30, sixpeople arrived at Paramjeet's house atJharoda Kala village in a white Fortuner.They took him along and next morning hisbody was found with several gunshotinjuries. The Fortuner SUV was robbed byAnoop's aide Rajesh Bawania from south-west Delhi.

NHRC notice to....

in a case of kidnapping and produced himbefore the court on June 15 this year.

The police later sent Irfan to jail withoutgetting extension for his judicial custody.The accused remained in the prison for abouttwo months.

The NHRC has observed that the contentsof the reports, if true, raised a serious issue ofviolation of the right to life. The Commissionhas issued notice to the Delhi PoliceCommissioner in the matter and called for areport within four weeks.

Virginia tobacco exports...record 2.66 lakh Metric Tonnes, earning a

foreign exchange of Rs. 6,092.86 crore sur-passing all previous records, Dr. Gopal saidon Tuesday.

India is the second largest producer of FCVtobacco (316 million kg), second largestexporter of tobacco (236 million kg), with 91countries as trading partners.

“The Board has set a target of achievingRs.10,000 crore in the next five years. It ispossible if farmers adopt best farm practices.We have managed to achieve a consistency inFCV tobacco production and with a four percent growth in export volumes,’’ Dr. Gopalsaid.

Regulation of crop production has been aformidable challenge for the Board as thefarmers went on an overdrive in 2013-2014producing 316 million kg, much higher thanthe authorised crop size of 274 million kg.The Board has ensured that the entireTobacco was sold on auction floors ensuringthat farmers and traders have a win-win situ-ation.

“The key issues remain are CPA residues,non-tobacco related manufacturers, tariffbarriers for traders and lengthy auction pro-cedures, price variations and vagaries ofweather for farmers. The Board is lookinginto these issues and has begun addressingthem,’’ the Tobacco Board Chairman said,adding that as part of the brand image build-ing exercise, the Tobacco Board participatedin the International Trade fairs giving a boostto trade.

As a prelude to the cropping season inAndhra Pradesh, the Tobacco Board releaseda “Special Bulletin on Karnataka FCV tobac-co” containing good agriculture practicesthat have been adopted to produce best qual-ity neutral filler tobacco from KarnatakaLight Soils and also to inform the globalimporters about the Board’s intent in bring-ing grower and trade oriented reforms.

Man slaps cleric ...about Navratri, police said.

"A man identified as Rakesh today slappedand pushed Imam Mehadi Hasan just outsidethe court when police were taking the imamto produce him before the judicial magistrateat Thasra in Kheda district," a police officersaid. The man has been detained, he said.Hasan did not sustain any injury in the inci-dent, police said. Later, principal civil judgePV Bhatt sent Hasan to 14 days' judicial cus-tody as he stated that he would not hire anadvocate to defend himself and also refusedto seek bail. Hasan, a Gujarat-based cleric,had shot into limelight when he offered askull cap to then chief minister NarendraModi during his 2011 Sadbhavna fast.

The cleric had recently sparked controver-sy as he reportedly termed the state's mostpopular festival Navratri as a "festival ofdemons". On September 20, in an interviewto a local newspaper, Hasan was quoted assaying that Navratri is a "festival of demons..." The Vishwa Hindu Parishad had takenstrong objection to Hasan's remarks andsought his arrest before the start of Navratri,which begins on Thursday.

Based on the complaint filed by a VHPleader, the Gujarat police had arrested him onTuesday from his residence in Rustampuravillage of Thasra taluka in Kheda and bookedhim under IPC section 295(A), which dealswith deliberate act to outrage religious feel-ings of people by insulting their religion andbeliefs. However, Hasan claimed his com-ments had been taken out of context.

Life saved, cops...people in Bulandshahr incident whichclaimed life of 11 persons and left 64 otherscritically injured after a mini LPG cylinderblasted in a moving bus on Monday at5.30pm in Jahangirabad in Bulandshahr dis-trict. On elaborating the details Bulandshahrsenior superintendent of police AkhileshKumar said that the incident took place in aremote place in Jahangirabad Buladshahr,which is at least 108 kilometer away fromDelhi. "As the incident confirmed, I immedi-ately left Bulandshahr city for the spot. Burnward is not functional in Bulandshahr goven-ment hospital, so, while travelling to the spotI coordinated with my team, GautambudhNagar and Delhi police to clear traffic andensure swift movement of ambulances toDelhi hospitals. Our efforts helped us toadmit over 65 patients within four hours,"Kumar said. "We had decided to take patientsfrom Bulandshahr to Greater Noida's PariChowk via Sikandrabad. Then from Noida-Greater Noida expressway, via DND flywaypatients were taken to Delhi hospitals,"Kumar added.

Meanwhile SSP also flagged the incidentbefore Bulandshahr district magistrate NidhiKesarwani. The police and administrationarranged maximum ambulances and doctorsfrom neighbouring districts as they can.

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Editorial4 NEW DELHI | THURSDAY | SEPT 25, 2014SAADDA HAQ

The ongoing agitation demanding that a governmentbungalow in Delhi’s Lutyens’ Zone be convertedinto a memorial for late Prime Minister Charan

Singh is an attempt by Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singhboth to revive his waning political fortunes and keep thepiece of prime property under his control. Under orders tovacate the 12 Tughlaq Road building, which he is occupy-ing long after he ceased to be a Union Minister, Mr. Singhis seeking to perpetuate his family’s control over the spa-cious bungalow. It is true that some buildings that hostedeminent personages in the past have been given to founda-tions, trusts and institutions floated by political leaders.However, this should not be the norm, as there is a short-age of official accommodation for serving Ministers,judges and senior civil servants. The Supreme Court has inthe past authorised the eviction of allottees staying beyondtheir tenure and framed guidelines to prevent overstaying.In July 2013, the Court suggested that official buildingsshould not be converted into memorials. The rule wasalready in force then, as the Union Cabinet had as early asin 2000 banned such conversion. Further, there is already amemorial to Chaudhary Charan Singh, named appropriate-ly Kisan Ghat, to commemorate the champion of farmers’causes, in Delhi. Mr. Ajit Singh’s demand, therefore, isuntenable. He has mobilised both his supporters and theBharatiya Kisan Union, headed now by Rakesh Tikait, topress his demand to convert the bungalow into a memori-al to Charan Singh. The government has done the rightthing by moving to evict him by appropriate methods. Mr.Singh was given due notice and sufficient time to vacatethe premises. Power and water supply have been cut off. Itis to ward off such legal measures by political means thatthe former Union Minister’s supporters have taken to thepath of agitation. The authorities had to thwart an attemptby the protesters to stop water supply to Delhi by tamper-ing with a regulator. The latest is a ‘mahapanchayat’ calledby Mr. Singh at his residence, a move seen by the Delhiauthorities as a bid to mobilise a huge crowd of farmersand bring further pressure on the government. The DelhiPolice have banned the ‘mahapanchayat’ and detainedthose who tried to gather there. Mr. Singh must take fullresponsibility for the situation and any possible disruptionof law and order. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder SinghHooda and a few other leaders have waded into the contro-versy by voicing support for Mr. Singh’s demand in whatappears to be a pitch for Jat votes ahead of the HaryanaAssembly elections. The entire episode is yet anotherexample of the political class positioning itself againstpublic interest in pursuit of its narrow ends.

An untenable agitationThursday | September 25, 2014

BY SUHRITH PARTHASARATHY

The Supreme Court ofIndia has, thankfully,decided to reconsider an

earlier order calling for reveal-ing the identity of the whistle-blower while hearing a petitionalleging gross misconductagainst the Director of thecountry’s foremost policeagency, the Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI). OnSeptember 15, a bench com-prising Justices H.L. Dattu andS.A. Bobde had made an egre-gious demand on the petitioner,Centre for Public InterestLitigation (CPIL) that it wouldaccept an affidavit filed on theNGO’s behalf only if itrevealed the source of its infor-mation. Earlier, CPIL had sub-mitted to the court, amongother documents, what italleged to be the visitor’s regis-ter to the CBI Director RanjitSinha’s residence, exposingseveral persons accused ofcrimes in the 2G-spectrum andcoal scam cases having methim. These meetings, accord-ing to the NGO, showcased theDirector’s complicity with theaccused, which compromisedtrials of critical public impor-tance.

In response to the SupremeCourt’s original demand for thename of the whistle-blower,CPIL filed a fresh affidavitinforming the court that it wasloath to revealing the name ofits source. “Several whistle-blowers have unfortunatelybeen killed after their identitywas revealed,” the affidavitstates. What’s more, along withits new affidavit, CPIL filed afresh plea requesting the courtto recall its earlier order. TheBench will now considerCPIL’s petition, after hearingthe opinion of the SpecialPublic Prosecutor AnandGrover, when it reconvenes onOctober 10.Why anonymity matters

Any decision from the court

on the admissibility of CPIL’splea could have, in the judges’own words, “great ramifica-tions.” At a time when lawsaround the world are beingstrengthened to encouragewhistle-blowing of corruptionat the highest levels, it wouldbe grossly pitiable were thecourt to disregard CPIL’s peti-tion purely on the basis of theNGO’s failure to reveal thename of its informant. If thecourt persists with its originaldemand for the name of thewhistle-blower — albeit in asealed cover — as a pre-condi-tion to taking the document onrecord, it will only serve to fur-ther weaken the state of whis-tle-blower protection laws inIndia, potentially closing thedoor on future crusades againstcorruption. Unless theanonymity of whistle-blowersis preserved and protected, it islikely that instances of dishon-esty by public officials willbecome not merely the norm —if it isn’t already so — but alsovirtually undetectable.

Anonymity, as John PaulStevens, a former justice of theU.S. Supreme Court wrote, byevoking J.S. Mill’s On Liberty,in his majority opinion inMcIntyre v. Ohio ElectionsCommission (1995), can be “ashield from the tyranny of themajority.” It can “protectunpopular individuals fromretaliation — and their ideasfrom suppression — at thehand of an intolerant society.”No doubt Mr. Stevens’ viewswere expressed in the contextof protecting political speechunder the First Amendment ofthe U.S. Constitution. But thebasis for such right toanonymity equally applies towhistle-blowers. To accordthem such freedom would pro-vide them a protection fromretaliation. As the affidavitfiled by CPIL informs us, whis-tle-blowers, whose identitieshave been revealed, have often

faced the wrath of the realoffenders: Satyendra Dube, S.Manjunath, Amit Jethwa andShehla Masood are but a fewinformants killed after theiridentities became public.

The argument against theprotection of anonymity can-vassed by Mr. Sinha’s counsel,that the Supreme Court wasoriginally inclined to accept, isthat the identity of the source isintegral to a proper adjudica-tion on the genuineness of theclaims, in this case, the veraci-ty of the logbook. But such aposition is both misconceivedand dangerous. As CPIL’s affi-davit reveals, there are a num-ber of ways in which theSupreme Court can probe intothe authenticity of the logbook.Just by way of example, saysthe NGO, the 23 Indo-TibetanBorder Police (ITBP) and CBIguards, who were stationed atthe residence of the CBIDirector can be examined byMr. Grover, and, if they sodeem fit, can be cross-exam-ined by Mr. Sinha’s lawyers.

There are numerous otherways in which the veracity ofthe logbook can be verified.The CBI is hardly in need oftutoring on such endeavours. Innumerous instances, the bureauitself has taken pains to protectthe anonymity of its sources,prosecuting the accused basedon confidential information,where even the complainanthas, at times, been kept uniden-tified.Admissibility of evidence

It might well be the case thatthe logbook from Mr. Sinha’sresidence was obtainedthrough illegal, or even unethi-cal, means. But the law of evi-dence in India, quite contraryto the American position, doesnot proscribe the admissibilityof evidence illegally obtained.India’s rules of evidence aremodelled on English law,where courts consistentlyrefuse to exclude evidence

obtained through an illegalsearch or seizure. The only testof admissibility is the relevan-cy of a document. Althoughthese are arguments to be madeand countered at a subsequentstage of the proceedingsagainst Mr. Sinha, there can belittle doubt that a register com-prising the names of the visi-tors to the CBI Director’s resi-dence is relevant in determin-ing his alleged complicity withthe accused in matters of suchenormous public significance.

What’s more, the SupremeCourt’s original objection toCPIL’s affidavit on the basis ofOrder IX Rule 13 of theSupreme Court Rules, 2013,appears not only pedantic butalso incorrect. Order IX com-prises the rules of filing an affi-davit in the Supreme Court.Rule 13 specifically states thatan “‘affidavit’ includes a peti-tion or other documentrequired to be sworn or veri-fied; and sworn includesaffirmed. In the verification ofpetitions, pleadings or otherproceedings, statements basedon personal knowledge shall bedistinguished from statementsbased on information andbelief. In the case of statementsbased on information, thedeponent shall disclose thesource of his information,including official records.”

Here, CPIL’s assertion aboutMr. Sinha’s complicity with theaccused appears to be based ona visitor’s register to his resi-dence. The assertion is admit-tedly a statement based oninformation and belief. But allthat CPIL was required to dis-close in its affidavit, and theverifying petition to its affi-davit, in order to maintain con-sonance with the rules, is thatits statements were based onthe logbook; this is so, becausethe source of the informationthat CPIL has asserted in itsaffidavit is the logbook byitself, and not the person who

secured the logbook from Mr.Sinha’s residence. In this case,the information in question isthe meetings held by Mr. Sinhawith numerous personsaccused of crimes in the 2Gspectrum and coal block cases,and the source of that informa-tion is the visitor’s logbook.The NGO is, under law, man-dated to disclose no additionalevidence.

Furthermore, as CPIL hashighlighted in its new affidavit,the Supreme Court in publicinterest litigation has oftenrelaxed the rules of procedurewhere questions of enormousnational significance are atplay. Ensuring a fair, uncom-promised trial of the accused inthe 2G spectrum and coal blockcases, given the enormity ofthe alleged crimes committed,is of particular public impor-tance. Even if the documentpresented to the court by Mr.Bhushan appears on the face ofit to be forged, the court mustallow the petitioner, possiblywith the aid of the special pub-lic prosecutor, an opportunityto establish the veracity of thedocument independent of anexamination of the whistle-blower’s authenticity. Ademocracy — where the meek-est deserve protection from themajority — ought to accord itswhistle-blowers the highestprotection, including the safe-guard of anonymity; whistle-blowers, as the history of otherdemocracies have shown us,represent a strong check onunbridled government power.If the shield of anonymity isallowed to wither, the jurispru-dence of our courts will onlyserve to encourage the worstforms of governmental trans-gression. The attention of theSupreme Court ought to be onthe message, and not the mes-senger.

(Suhrith Parthasarathy is anAdvocate in the Madras High

Court.)

A case for whistle-blower anonymitySAADDA HAQ

BY PETER RONALD DESOUZA

The picture of PrimeMinister Narendra Modiand Chinese President

Xi Jinping sitting on the veran-dah of Hriday Kunj atSabarmati Ashram, which wasMahatma Gandhi’s residencefrom 1917 to 1930, is both wellcomposed and deeply coded.There are many messagesembedded in the photograph,and since China is the theme ofthe moment let us try decodingthem using Confucius’ sayingthat “a picture is worth a thou-sand words.” A student ofrealpolitik would see in it ahigh level of comfort betweenthe two world leaders with noawkwardness and no sign ofone being daunted by the repu-tation of the other. The bodylanguage conveys respect foreach other. From a state centricperspective, this is a perfectphotograph. A public relationsofficer could not ask for morefor it has all the soft power ele-ments needed for such a meet-ing; two heads of governmentrelaxing on a verandahexchanging opinions on world,domestic, or perhaps even per-sonal affairs. In form it is sim-ilar to the highly choreo-graphed photographs of G7heads of government headingout for a game of golf.

Symbols and societyIn this perfect picture, Prime

Minister Modi and PresidentXi Jinping, representatives of2.5 billion people, look sorelaxed as they sit on theverandah talking. It seems thatthey could be sitting on abench by the Sabarmati river-front gossiping. To an analystof realpolitik, the photographannounces India’s acceptanceas a global power. The mes-sage that comes across, loudand clear, is that for the twoheads of government the pic-ture alone was important, thelocation was not. It was a state-ment of state power. It needed

to tell the world that the twoleaders, and therefore the twocountries, can, and will, dobusiness with each other. Forthe purposes of the photo-graph, the verandah could beanywhere.

But it was not anywhere.And that is where the problemof another reading comes. Theverandah is that of theMahatma’s home at HridayKunj. To complicate mattersfurther, this is not just anyhome, say a place like BirlaHouse in Delhi, but his homein the Sabarmati Ashram. Whyis the fact of two state leaders,sitting casually on the veran-dah of Gandhiji’s home inSabarmati Ashram, with theirback to the home, worthy ofsuch detailed analysis? Whydoes one want to give the pho-tograph more semiotic contentthan it can apparently support?

The answer lies in the impor-tance that symbols have forany society. Symbols give asociety a sense of worth andpurpose, allowing it to distin-guish the special from the ordi-nary, the valued from theworthless. Symbols play a sig-nificant part in the making of aculture. A modern state needsto add elements to its culturethat are consistent with its phi-losophy. This it does by con-ferring meaning on a new actor place. Any society, especial-ly the ones as ancient as Indiaand China, have, in their histo-ry, created many sites on theirterritory that they come toregard as hallowed land. Thissacred status is given eitherbecause an event of impor-tance has taken place there,such as Jallianwalla Bagh, orbecause an important moralstatement, that went on todefine the core of that civilisa-tion’s weltanschauung, wasenunciated there, such asBuddha’s sermon at Sarnath, orbecause an iconic figure isburied there, such as the shrineto the Sufi saint Moinuddin

Chisti at Ajmer Sharif.To finesse the argument, we

must distinguish between hal-lowed sites and important sitesin the symbolic landscape of asociety. A hallowed siterequires one sort of behaviourfrom the visitor and an impor-

tant site another. At Red Fort,for instance, an important sitewhere the Prime Minister givesthe Independence day address,one would expect one sort ofbehaviour, while atDeekshabhoomi, where Dr.Ambedkar converted toBuddhism, a hallowed site, onewould expect another. Whenthe 12 gram sabhas atNiyamgiri in Odisha votedagainst mineral exploration atNiyamgiri hill, they were vot-ing to preserve the sacrednessof the hill and in opposition tocapitalist behaviour which theyconsidered disrespectable oftheir sacred site. Sacrednesswas more important thanwealth. Sometimes, societiesestablish such preferences.

The question then arises iswhether Hriday Kunj meritsthe status of a sacred site.From the biographies ofGandhiji, one learns how cen-tral it was in the struggle forfreedom. You read of how he

chose the site, between a jailand crematorium, “as hebelieved that a satyagrahi hasto invariably go to eitherplace.” You learn of the morn-ing prayers that were, and are,held there. The ashram websitetells you that his vision for the

ashram was for it “to serve asan institution that would carryon a search for truth and a plat-form to bring together a groupof workers committed to non-violence who would helpsecure freedom for India.” Itwas one of the main centres ofIndia’s freedom movement. Itwas a site from which satya-graha emerged as a moralstatement against state power,especially imperial power.

The moral with the politicalThe ashram is a moral mes-

sage in material form. Whenyou walk into its campus, youdefinitely feel you are in a hal-lowed place. It is simple in itsconstruction and yet you cansee in its layout a thing ofbeauty. It gives you a feeling ofspiritual power. Even a non-believer would feel this. InGandhiji’s home, a simplecharka, complete in its mini-malism, sits on the verandah.When you look at it, you are

astounded by the thought thatthe spinning of this simpleinstrument galvanised a nation.From this humble abode, adream was launched thatbrought an imperial power toits knees. The sacredness ofHriday Kunj is so palpable.

The demonstration of statepower, the photograph, seemsso out of place here since thisis a site that combines moralforce with political power. Itembodies the spirit of India’sfreedom movement. It is tocontemporary India what, Isuppose, Mao’s mausoleum isto contemporary China, a placeof reverence, a site from whichits new civilisation will be con-structed.

What makes it even morehallowed is that, in addition toit being so central to our strug-gle for swaraj, it is also anashram. This gives it a doublesacredness. The ashram was toGandhiji a place where itsmembers were required topractise certain observances ifthey were to qualify for publicservice. If the membersacquired the habit of theseobservances then, and onlythen, would they serve thecause of Truth. From this otherreading, the picture we are dis-

cussing seems to disregard thesacredness of the site. It shouldhave been taken on anotherverandah, perhaps at the Nehrumemorial.

The other storyOne could argue that I am

overstating the case. Two pow-erful heads of government incasual conversation amounts tono offence. But the body lan-guage tells another story. It istoo suggestive of the strategis-ing that marks state power. Becasual. Appear relaxed.Convey confidence.Communicate parity. It shows,to the discerning viewer, thenew posturing that heads ofgovernment must adopt in thisage of instant communication.Every gesture is important andchoreographed because it getscarried worldwide instanta-neously. So don’t yawn,demonstrate power causally.

What I was hoping to see,instead, was humility in thephotograph. When anybodyvisits Gandhiji’s Ashram, eventhe U.S. President, they mustfeel humbled for they are in thepresence of a sacred spacefrom which a moral civilisa-tional movement was launchedwith the tools of satya andahimsa. What can be seen inthe photograph, the thousandunspoken words, is in its placethe arrogance of state power.You get a sense of a place com-mandeered by state diktat.Rather than the visitors sub-mitting to the codes of theashram, the ashram is com-pelled to submit to the instruc-tions of the state, given bysome state babu. Gandhijiwould have gone on a fastagainst this arrogance.

Again I may be accused ofexaggeration, of being the can-tankerous academic. So let uslook for more clues in the pic-ture. Notice that there are noother people in the picture. Forexample, none of the trusteesof the ashram are there, as one

would expect to be showingthe dignitaries around, demon-strating the wonders of theCharka and its philosophy.Should not at least one of thetrustees be in the picture? Hadthey been asked to move awaywhen this photograph for his-tory was being taken? That isexactly the point. Should notthe state have submitted itselfto the codes of the ashram ordo we not think about thesesubtle but important matters inthis new order? Here is a civil-isation that prides itself on itsrituals, read U.R.Ananthamurthy’s Samskara, somuch so that we penalisesocial transgression. But in thishistoric photograph, theashram, its trustees and work-ers do not have even a tokenplace. China and India are bothold civilisations in which thesymbolic has an importantplace. The new states we arebuilding are unmindful of thecore moral message that statepower will not, I repeat, willnot get primacy in all spaces.Old cultures give a lot of valueto sacred spaces that havecodes of behaviour that mustbe respected. This photographreveals that state powerimposed itself on the ashram,blanking out the latter’s pres-ence. Gandhiji wanted theashram to be a training groundfor politics, where the obser-vances of the ashram wouldserve as the bedrock of a moralpolity. The photograph, revers-es this fundamental relation-ship, imposing, in contrast, thestate’s values on the ashram. Isthis something to think about?

(Peter Ronald deSouza isProfessor at the Centre for theStudy of Developing Societies.

The views expressed arepersonal.)

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KOCHI, SEPT 24Talks on resuming trainservices to HarbourTerminus Railway Stationare gathering pace with therailways speeding up worksto complete Venduruthy railoverbridge.

The construction of thebridge lagged indefinitelythough Venduruthy roadoverbridge – work on whichbegan much later – wasthrown open to vehiclesover two years ago. Therailways opted for a newbridge after a dredgerdeployed by Cochin Portrammed the old bridge builtduring British era.

“With final works gainingpace, the bridge is sched-uled to be commissioned byMarch 2015,” saidErnakulam Area Managerof Southern Railway RajeshChandran. With the bridgegetting ready, the railwayshas accorded priority torevive Harbour Terminusstation as a hub for passen-ger and goods trains. Mostpassenger and goods trainsfrom Ernakulam beganservice from the station, till

Ernakulam Junctionemerged as a terminal sta-tion. Mr. Chandran said theproposal to resume trainservices to the station wasunder active consideration.

“Indian Navy’s approval iskey to restart operationsthrough the line that islocated near naval airport.”

The Navy had objected toinstalling overhead electriclines over the stretch, citingsafety of its aircraft. Toovercome this issue, therailways had volunteered toswitch off power supply tothe lines during aircraft takeoff. Though a proposal wasmooted to substitute electric

engines with diesel for ply-ing the short distance fromErnakulam Junction toHarbour Terminus, the rail-way official said it was avery tough procedure.

“Besides, this would alsoincrease operationalexpenses of passenger andgoods trains. The matterwill be taken up once againwith the Navy and CochinPort,” he said.

At least sixpassenger/MEMU trainsfrom northern and southerndistricts could terminatetheir trip at HarbourTerminus once the line iselectrified, thus decongest-

ing Ernakulam Junction sta-tion.

The railway, port andother stakeholders are keenon augmenting transporta-tion of goods to and fromKochi port through rail.While providing fast andhassle-free movement ofgoods, this will in turnboost revenue forT h i r u v a n a n t h a p u r a mRailway Division.

In the meantime,Ernakulam Old RailwayStation Vikasana Samiti, anNGO spearheading thedemand to renovate the sta-tion and rail lines locatedbehind the High Court ofKerala, has planned a call-ing-attention meeting onOctober 1 on the 40-acrepremises.

“We expect green signalfrom the Railway Ministryfor the project since the sta-tion can decongest the twomajor stations in the city,speeding up trains that areoften held up in the periph-ery due to unavailability ofvacant track,” said M.R.Rajendran Nair, chairmanof the samiti.

Venduruthy ROB work back on track in KochiMANGALORE, SEPT 24 Numerous students andmembers of the AkhilBharatiya VidyarthiParishad (ABVP) marchedthrough the city onTuesday demanding thearrest of those who postedindecent pictures ofwomen on a social net-working site.

According to the protes-tors who took out a rallyfrom Besant Women’sCollege to the PoliceCommissioner’s Office, afake Facebook account hadbeen created by unknownpersons where pictures ofgirls from the city werebeing posted.

“By posting morphedpictures of girls, the cul-prits behind the page are

jeopardising the future ofthe girls and damagingtheir reputation. There is areal possibility that thesegirls may even discontinuetheir education to escapefrom the humiliation,” saidLavin Kotian, district

organising secretary ofABVP. Gathering in frontof the police commission-er’s office, the organisationaccused the cyber crimecell of the police of ignor-ing a complaint filedagainst the page and its

creators.“Even though a com-

plaint has been filed at theBarke police station, thepolice has done little toarrest the people behindthese morphed photos,”said Mr. Kotian.

ABVP protests against indecent internet photos

CHENNAI, SEPT 24A 22-year-old man who flew into thecity from an ‘affected region’ wasadmitted to Rajiv GandhiGovernment General Hospital (GH)late Monday night, as a precautionagainst the deadly Ebola virus.However, as of Tuesday evening, hewas doing well, hospital authoritiessaid. The man, who flew in fromNigeria via Abu Dhabi, had been illwith fever for several hours. Since hehad just arrived from a country thathas had about 20 cases of Ebola, hewas identified by public health offi-cials at the airport’s screening pro-gramme and taken to the isolationward at GH, where he is currentlyunder observation.

“A fever profile was done and thepatient was put under treatment. Histemperature has gone down and he isnow doing well,” said GH Dean R.Vimala. Doctors at GH said all safe-ty precautions were being taken andthat the standard protocol was beingfollowed.

A blood sample was taken and sentfor testing for the virus, said S.Balasubramanian, joint director (epi-

demics), Directorate of PublicHealth. “The results are expectedwithin the next three days, and untilthen, we will keep the patient underobservation,” he said.

The man, a lab technician, hasbeen working at a private clinic inNigeria for the past four months andhails from Ariyalur district, hospitalofficials said.

His family has been informed andhis cousins were at the hospital onTuesday, an official said.Incidentally, the man was trained as atechnician at Madras MedicalCollege, which is attached to GH.

This is the second case of anadmission to GH, the first being of a25-year-old from Theni district whowas admitted on August 9 and wasdischarged the following day.

For any health inquiries, residentscan contact the helpline 104.

As of Tuesday, a total of 577 pas-sengers have been screened acrossTamil Nadu, according to the direc-torate of public health. Of these, 542had been on their way to variousparts of the State, while 35 wereheading to neighbouring States.

Man suspected ofEbola infection stable

NEW DELHI | THURSDAY | SEPT 25, 2014SAADDA HAQ

BANGALORE, SEPT 24Frequent flyers, air crewand those living near run-ways will tell you thatnoise pollution is not onlya terrestrial phenomenon:it can come from air traffictoo. At over 180 decibels,aircraft engine exhaust canbe an ordeal — and ahealth hazard — for thosein proximity to the aircraft.

A solution, however,might in the horizon,thanks to researchers at theIndian Institute of Science.A “nozzle” developed by ateam from the Departmentof Aerospace Engineeringcould reduce noise signifi-cantly, they say in a paperin the journal, AppliedThermal Engineering.

The nozzle works byslowing down the hot,high-energy aviation fuelexhaust, explained co-author Gopalan Jagdeesh,professor at the depart-ment. “In a conventionalcone-shaped nozzle, theexhaust is released withmassive momentum, car-rying huge energy and cre-

ating noise. But the newnozzle [shaped like petals]allows the exhaust tospread and get assimilatedquickly into the coldatmosphere,” he said.New-age fridges too

In fact, the new nozzlesaw a doubling of the rateof exhaust assimilationinto the ambient air,according to the paper.The device does more thanjust make airplanes qui-eter, it improves theengine performance, saidProf. Jagdeesh. The nozzlealso has potential applica-tions in creating eco-

friendly refrigerators, air-conditioners and otherdevices that involve therapid cooling of air.Health concerns

“One of the key con-cerns of the aircraft indus-try is noise from jetexhaust. There is a tremen-dous push towards designof quieter engines. Busyairports experience veryhigh noise levels that canbe harmful to human hear-ing over long run andaffects residents close tosuch airports,” said leadauthor of the paper SrishaRao in a press release.

IISc.’s nozzle can reduce aerial noise

CHENNAI, SEPT 24Three-tier protection is inplace at Anna ArignarZoological Park inVandalur, to protect ani-mals from human visitorsand visitors from wild ani-mals, say zoo authorities.

On Tuesday, a 20-year-old man accidentally fellinto the white tiger’senclosure at New Delhizoo, and was later mauledby the big cat.

According to wildlifeauthorities, such accidentsare unlikely to happen atVandalur zoo as the carni-vore enclosures are pro-tected three ways — witha high-rise moat, a chainlink fence to separate visi-tors from the enclosures,and stand-off railings.

The chain link fence isabove a normal humanbeing’s height.

Visitors are allowed upto only 50 per cent of thecircumference of the car-nivore enclosures. Theremaining area is cor-doned off to visitors.

Similarly, the lion’senclosure is also providedadequate cover and thevisitors cannot go beyond

a certain point, saidK.S.S.V.P. Reddy, zoodirector and additionalprincipal chief conservatorof forests.

Zoo officials said, stu-dents visiting in groupsalways pose a major chal-lenge to animal keepers asthe youngsters often taketo taunting and tormentingthe animals by throwingsticks, stones or food itemsat them.

According to veterinari-ans, in the event of anaccident similar to whathappened at the NewDelhi zoo, the only way todrive the animal awayfrom the victim is bybursting crackers.

Tranquilising the animalwill not work as the seda-tive takes a long time tokick in.

A senior wildlife officialsaid the Central ZooAuthority of India hadobjected to the erection ofchain link fences outsidethe white tiger enclosure atVandalur zoo. Despitethat, however, zoo offi-cials went ahead with it forsafety reasons, said theofficial.

Three-tier protection at city zooKOCHI, SEPT 24The Cochin InternationalHalf Marathon hasincreased the total prizemoney to Rs.65 lakh fromRs. 50 lakh. It will alsohave a separate prize fundfor Indian athletes. Around25,000 people are expect-ed to run with renownedrunners in the event onDecember 7 has grown interms of prize money andparticipation. While thetotal prize money hasincreased from Rs. 50 lakhto Rs. 65 lakh with a sepa-rate prize fund for Indianathletes, about 25,000Keralites are expected tobrush shoulders with glob-ally renowned long dis-tance runners. The eventwould see the participationof around 20 foreign ath-

letes besides the country’shigh profile male andfemale long distance run-ners. The registration forthe event will start onOctober 1. The marathonwill take a slight detourthis time considering theongoing Kochi Metroworks. It will be flaggedoff from Marine Drive,will proceed along FortKochi before ending atMaharaja’s Collegeground unlike the maidenedition when it began andended at the MaharajasCollege ground. The maleand female winners willtake home $5,500 eachwhile runners-up will bag$3,250. Men and womenfinishing up to first eightplaces will receive prizemoney.

MANGLORE, SEPT 24Farmers, who are members ofthe Central Arecanut andCocoa Marketing andProcessing Cooperative Ltd,can now hope to have theirchildren pass the civil serviceexaminations.

The cooperative will soonlaunch a project under whichthe aspirants will be trained forthe examinations.

Announcing this at the 40thannual general body meetingof the cooperative here onTuesday, the president,Konkodi Padmanabha, saidthat 30 per cent of the memberdevelopment funds will bereserved for the training.

The objective will be to helpchildren of farmer members ofthe cooperative get into theIndian Administrative Service,Indian Police Service, IndianForeign Service, IndianRevenue Service and othercivil services for which exami-nations and interviews are con-

ducted by the Union PublicService Commission.

Training will also be given tochildren for the examinationsconducted by the KarnatakaPublic Service Commission.

Later Mr. Padamanabha toldThe Hindu that training andorientation will start from thepre-university level itself.

The cooperative will identifycertain educational institutionswhere the training will begiven. It will also sponsor the

cost of training.He said that there were many

intelligent children of farmerswho do not have proper guid-ance on how to enter civil serv-ices.

The number of civil servantsfrom the State was less whencompared to the representationfrom other states. The objec-tive of the project was toensure that as many children offarmers held the reign of theadministration.

Campco to train farmers’ children forcivil service examinations in Mangalore

HYDERABAD, SEPT 24The Telangana government on Wednesday decided toinclude the Rs.300-a day-honorarium for home guards inthe non-plan budget with a view to ensure prompt pay-ment every month and release their arrears for threemonths before Dusshera. Making the announcement at apress conference here, Home Minister Nayini NarasimhaReddy and Finance Minister Eatala Rajender said thewages of home guards accumulated every month as theywere not budgeted in the past. The files pertaining to theirhonorarium were sent to the Finance Department everytwo months resulted in delay in releasing the amount. Toensure their payments on the lines of other governmentstaff, the amount of Rs. 300 would be deposited in homeguards’ accounts on the first of every month.

They said there were 19,000 home guards in the serviceof police in the State. The decision taken on Wednesdaywas part of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s pollpromise.

Telangana govt. to payarrears for home guards

CHENNAI, SEPT 24On September 22, 1914,the unsuspecting shores ofMadras were bombed byGerman cruiser, Emden,during World War I.

A whole 100 years on,the terror the word Emdeninvokes has lived on, andthe word has crept intolocal slang to denote a per-son who is fearsome.

Yet lost in the narrativeof notoriety, is the surpris-ing reputation of generosi-ty and honour the other-wise despised adversaryearned, thanks to CaptainKarl Von Muller and hiscrew.

In a series of articles fea-

tured in The Hindu on theexperiences of those cap-tured by Emden, accountssuggest that the crew,before vanquishing enemyships, gave time to seamenonboard to collect essen-tials before being trans-

ferred as prisoners into theaccompanying Germanliners.

A survivor of the sunkenship Indus was quoted assaying: “As we went onboard, each man was hand-ed a towel and a soap. The

German engineers andinmates vacated their cab-ins to make room for us.”

It wasn’t for nothing thatMuller was titled the ‘gen-tleman of the seas.’ Notonly did he reduce casual-ties to the bare minimumbut is also said to havetreated his defeated cap-tives well.

B.B Furbester, chiefengineer of Pontuporouswhich was sunk byEmden, recalls, “As Istepped on board, theGerman chief engineercame forward and shookhands, saying, ‘Mr. Chief,you will be treated like agentlemen.

100 years on, remembering Emden’s generous captainTHANE, SEPT 24A special CBI court herehas sentenced three per-sons to three-year rigor-ous imprisonment oncharges of immoral traf-ficking.

Special CBI prosecutorVijay Sali told the courtthat the probing agencyofficials had conductedraids at two hotels inVashi and a residence inMumbai's Chembur sub-urb in 2009, and arrestedseven persons in connec-tion with prostitutionunder relevant sections ofthe offences under thePITA act.

The raiding party hadsent two decoy customers

to Kuber restaurant atVashi who were thentaken to Sai Chatra hotelfrom where 21 girls wererescued.

Later, during raid at ahouse in Chembur, 13more girls were rescued.The CBI officials seizedfrom there albums con-taining pictures of girlsand Rs 4.79 lakh cash, ofwhich one note in thedenomination of 1,000turned out to be bogus,Sali told the court.

The prosecution exam-ined as many as 14 wit-nesses, including the thenCBI SP PramodMudbhatkal and inspec-tor Sharad Bhawar.

The accused were triedunder sections 120 (crim-inal conspiracy), 366-A(procuration of minorgirl), 372 (selling minorfor purposes of prostitu-tion, etc) of the IPC andsections 4,5 and 6 of theImmoral Trafficking(Prevention) Act of1956.

Special Judge A AWalimohammad recentlyconvicted the trio -Vitthal Mhasu Patil (28),Rajendra Saw aliasRanjit Shiv Charan Saw(30) and Raju @Nanjunda ShivappaGowda (29) - and sen-tenced them to three-yearRI.

The three were alsofined Rs 2,000 each, fail-ing which they will haveto undergo another sixmonths' imprisonment.

The four others arrest-ed in the case wereacquitted. One of theaccused, ParwezHamidulla Ansari, is stillabsconding, the courtnoted and ordered thatthe case against him willbe dealt with later afterhis arrest.

The minor girls whowere pushed into fleshtrade were from variousplaces, including Assam,West Bengal, Odisha,Indore, Madhya Pradeshand also Bangladesh.

Cochin Marathon prize money increased

Three sentenced to 3-year rigorous imprisonment for immoral trafficking

MACHILIPATNAM, SEPT 24Three persons were onWednesday shot deadallegedly by unidentifiedmen when they were pro-ceeding towards Eluru in acar on the Chennai-Kolkata national highway,police said. The incidenttook place when the vic-tims G Maraiah, PMaraiah and G NageswaraRao were attacked afterthe miscreants rammedtheir vehicle into the mov-ing car at Pedavutapallivillage and opened fire,killing two of them on thespot, Police CommissionerA B Venkateswara Raotold reporters here.

The third man suc-cumbed on his way to thehospital. According topolice, the trio wereaccused in a murder caseof one Durga Rao, killedon March 4 this year inPinakamidi village in WestGodavari district.

Three shot dead insidecar near Chennai-Kolkata highway

Science & Tech6 NEW DELHI | THURSDAY | SEPT 25, 2014SAADDA HAQ

The space race to end America's reliance on Russiaescalated this week with a multibillion-dollar Nasaaward for SpaceX's Elon Musk and an unexpected

joint venture for Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos. At stake for bothInternet tycoons, besides money, are the bragging rights ofrestoring US access to low-Earth orbit, a path that was lostwhen the US space shuttle retired in 2011 after three decades.Both men are long-time space enthusiasts, but while Musk isoutspoken about his vision to colonize Mars someday, Bezosprefers privacy and rarely divulges his plans or his process.Their young companies - SpaceX was founded in 2002 andBlue Origin in 2000 - are building vehicles to carry astro-nauts, as well as engines that propel the rockets. Musk'sCalifornia-based SpaceX is making the rockets, too.

Microsoft's XboxOne game con-sole released in

India midnight Tuesdayafter being available forpre-order via Amazon forover a month. In India theconsole will be soldexclusively via the e-com-merce platform.

It's been eight yearssince the Xbox 360 waslaunched in India, and themarket has changed in alot of ways. For one thing,the "gamer" audience inthe country has grown sig-nificantly since then. Thenumber of people willingto spend Rs. 50,000 ormore for smartphones alsoproves that there are plen-ty of people ready to payfor high-end electronics.And thanks to smart-phones and tablets, mostpeople are playing videogames of some kind thesedays.

The Xbox One is prettysimilar to the PlayStation4 and both are closer toPCs than the previousgeneration of consoleswas in terms of hardware.The PlayStation 4 reput-edly has a slight edge inperformance but the dif-ference isn't as huge asdedicated fans would haveyou believe.

The Xbox One uses anAMD APU that has an 8-core Jaguar processorclocked at 1.75GHz. It hasa Radeon 7000-seriesGPU, 8GB of RAM and500GB of storage. Onpaper that puts the XboxOne at par with a moder-ately powerful gamingcomputer, and severalsteps ahead of its prede-cessor, the Xbox 360.Real world performancedoesn't always line upwith paper so neatly ofcourse.

What's safe to say is thatafter eight years the differ-ence inp o w e rb e t w e e nthe XboxOne andthe Xbox360 iss t ag -ger-ing.I f

you've only beengaming on consolesthen the jump isjaw dropping.

And it's worth not-ing that we're still at thevery start of the currentconsole generation andthe maximum potential ofthe hardware has almostcertainly not been reachedyet, in terms of games thatpush the envelope.

If you're a hardcoregamer then you alreadyknow all this and more -the Xbox one wasannounced more than ayear ago and has beenselling internationally fornearly a year. The variousspecifications and gamesavailable for the consoleare well known today andthe pros and cons forgamers have beenweighed to death. We'regoing to try and addressthe questions the rest ofthe audience.What can I use this for?

The Xbox One is a gam-ing console but it's also amedia centre that wants tobe at the heart of all yourdigital entertainment. TheInternet-connected XboxOne can turn any screeninto a smart-TV, lettingyou browse the Web,check your social net-

works, use Skype to videochat with friends, and

streammusica n d

movies onthe Internet.

The Xbox One alsoincludes an HDMI-in portthat your television set-

top box can connect to.TV becomes just anotherapp on the Xbox and itcan be accessed withouthaving to fish out your tel-evision remote to switchthe video source.

Because the Xbox Onereleased internationally

several months agothe lineup of gamesthat you can buy isalready big, butmost games arequite expensive.Destiny, Forza andDead Rising 3 all

cross the Rs. 4,000 mark.GTA V and Far Cry 4 forthe Xbox One are cheaper,available online at Rs.3,499. We also spotted afew games like WWE2K15 and Just Dance2015 at Rs. 2,999.

In most parts of India, power cutsare a common occurrence. Astechnology has spread, the

demand for power at all hours hasgrown. Keeping that in mind,Kunhar Peripherals hasdesigned a UPS that can becharged by the sun. Withabundant sunlight but notenough electricity in India,a solar-powered portableUPS seems like a productthat many would want. Butdoes the Porta-Solar pro-vide enough power to justi-fy an investment of Rs.5,000? We used it for a cou-ple of weeks to find out.

DesignAt first glance, the

Powersafe Porta-Solarmight appear a little intimi-dating. It looks like itbelongs in an engineer'sworkshop rather than ahome. It's not the kind of prod-uct you should start using withoutreading the manual. For example,we couldn't figure out at first whatthe three LEDs on the front of theUPS were supposed to indicate astheir icons are not self-explanatory.

The Porta-Solar has a solar charg-ing port on the front along with threeUSB ports, a button to turn on theUPS, and another which controls thethree two-pin plug points on itsback. There's also three-pin inlet onthe back which lets you charge theUPS via domestic AC power.

The Porta-Solar is quite compactfor a UPS, but looks can be decep-tive and it weighs a surprising 3kg.Its portability is further diminishedby the solar panel, which takes upquite a bit of space. The solar panelisn't included in the package, so youwill have to buy it separately.

PerformancePowersafe says the UPS is rated at

70W and recommends that you buya solar panel of at least 24W tocharge it with. We tested it with a36W solar panel. This product isclearly meant to be used as a second-ary power backup solution. Youcan't expect it to replace an inverter

or a generator.The UPS takes a long time to

charge using solar power.

Powersafe recommends that you letit charge for at least 8 hours. Duringour tests, we found that it took morethan that to go from zero to fullcharge on AC power. Charging timeincreased even further when we triedusing the solar panel.

That wouldn't have been much ofan issue if the UPS had been able toprovide sufficient power backup. Wefound that it ran out of power afterwe charged three smartphones (aniPhone 5s, a Nexus 5 and an HTC8S). If you use a basic featurephone, then you might have enoughpower to charge it four or five times.The company says that you will getaround 6-7 hours of power, but thatmight only be the case if you use alow-power CFL.

We tested it with a 15W bulb andfound that the UPS could power itfor 5 hours 40 minutes on a fullcharge. While this could be veryuseful in rural areas where loadshedding is frequent, we felt that thebattery backup time isn't sufficient.If you want to power a bulb andcharge a phone at the same time, thebackup isn't going to last too long.

Note that this UPS wasn't able topower a 60W bulb. It's meant to be

used with CFLs, but these costRs. 200-300 each, which will

add tot h eu p -f r o n tcost.

A l lt h i sdoes-n ' tmeant h eprod-u c ti s n ' tu s e -f u l .W efoundt h a ti t sback-u pt i m ew a s

sufficient for short powercuts. During one of our tests, we hadan hour-long outage at night. Wemanaged to keep a Wi-Fi router run-ning during this time and alsocharged a phone. Similarly, this UPSmight be useful to take along withyou if you are visiting a place witherratic electricity supply.

VerdictThe Powersafe Porta-Solar is tar-

geted at rural consumers, and itsability to be charged using solarpower will be useful in those parts.Its main appeal lies in the fact that itcan be used at near-zero operatingcost. Thanks to solar power, onceyou buy the UPS and a solar panel,there are no additional runningexpenses. At Rs. 5,000 though, weexpected better performance. Thesolar panel costs around Rs. 1,000 toRs. 2,000 more, further driving theprice up. The long charging time andrelatively low power capacityrestrict its appeal.

However, if you are looking for abackup power source that runs atnear-zero cost, the Porta-Solar is adecent product.

Motorola on Wednesday said it would reveal theIndia pricing of the Moto X (Gen 2)by 12 noon, and keeping to its

word, the company has announced its latestflagship smartphone will be priced at Rs.31,999 (16GB), while the wood and leatherback panel variants will be priced at Rs.33,999.

It will available from midnight exclu-sively via Flipkart - no details have beenprovided about if the 32GB model willarrive in India.

The company had unveiled the Moto X(Gen. 2) globally at an event in India onSeptember 5, without revealing the priceof the smartphone. It revealed the USpricing of the smartphone at $499.99(roughly Rs. 30,200).

The Moto X (Gen 2) ships withAndroid 4.4.4 KitKat out-of-the-box,and will be made available in two stor-age size variants - 16GB and 32GB,with no expandability via microSDcard SLOT. It features a 5.2-inch(1080x1920 pixel) OLED displaywith a pixel density of 423 ppi, andCorning Gorilla Glass 3 protection.

The new Moto X is powered by a2.5GHz quad-core QualcommSnapdragon 801 (MSM8974-AC)processor, coupled with 2GB ofRAM. It comes with a 13-megapix-el rear camera with a f/2.25 lenswith 4K video recording and dual-LED ring flash, as well a 2-megapix-el front-facing camera capable of 1080pvideo recording.

Like the Moto G (Gen 2), the Moto X (Gen 2) features a single front speaker below the display. Connectivity optionsinclude 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 80211.ac, Bluetooth 4.0LE, Micro-USB, and 3.5mm audio jack. It measures140.8x72.4x9.97mm, and weighs 144 grams. It is powered by a 2300mAh battery.

TODAY’S STARARIES Let's look at what is being dangled tantalizingly in front of you. You might be tempt-

ed to grab it with both hands or embrace it with both arms. On the face of it, itappears to provide in some way what has been missing in your world of late. Butdoes it? It's important to recognize how you might be following a path of leastresistance now rather than taking a brave step forward to embrace a change,rather than what is familiar. It's time to be bold. Your courage will pay off.

TAURUS Faith is an interesting thing. When we hear the word, we make associations withall things positive. Yet, we can INVEST faith in negative things. We can makestrong assumptions and don't always get these right. We then choose to protectourselves and – ok, I think you can see where this is going. It's time to lookclosely at what you've been investing 'negative faith' in. You believe you havereasons to feel pessimistic. You're in for a very pleasant and reassuring surprise.

GEMINI Balls and chains, like ones prisoners used to wear, were at least movable. Theyat least allowed for small movement to be made. Your current situation could becompared in some ways to having a ball and chain around your ankle but itappears more like an anvil you're wearing. This represents your inability to let goof the past and how your inability to do so is holding you back and slowing youdown considerably. You can free yourself with just a change in attitude.

CANCER We have pretty good reason to believe that we are put on this planet to learn.Life is meant to be a learning experience. That seems to make sense and bea sensible agenda from our Creator. But what happens to all that we learnthat ends up being stored and not used or referred to again? Does it end upin a folder in our brain marked 'Experience'? Something you learned fromexperience previously is finally about to come in very handy now.

LEO Faith is temperamental thing to summon. It wants to make itself available butsometimes needs much in the way of encouragement. Ironically, we have to havefaith in faith itself if we're to see any benefit to INVESTING in it. Part of you prob-ably doesn't see the point in investing faith in a certain area now. You probably sus-pect whatever will be, will be or an outcome is entirely in the hands of the gods. Ifyou can focus faith on what you truly want or need now, a shift will occur.

VIRGO How willing are you to meet someone 'halfway'? I'm referring to preparednesson your part to accept another person's offer or proposal is probably as goodas an arrangement is going to get. You can gain much now through pushingaside and ignoring a long list of reasons why what's being discussed shouldbe more in your favor. A satisfying agreement can be reached if you're willingto discard something from your past that prevents you from moving forward.

LIBRA What do you want to do? Where do you want to be? Our time on this planet islimited and we have so much that must be done during each day that thinkingabout future obligations seems almost impossible sometimes. The future is play-ing a big part in your plans now. Don't put too much emphasis on it. There is somuch happening now that needs and deserves your attention and a certain per-son, possibly connected with afar could be pivotal to positive changes now.

SCORPIO Enthusiasm is infectious. Lack of it works against us. If we're trying to convincesomeone of something, then acting Eyeore-like tends not to bring results. Yourlack of belief in what you're trying to convince someone of now could play a partwith a proposal or arrangement not coming to fruition. Perhaps it's time to behonest with yourself about how believable you now believe something to be?All you need to do is convey this to a certain person.

SAGITTARIUS 'Never apologize, never explain'. The origin of these words is unclear but I men-tion them because a scenario exists where, despite pressure from certain quartersto justify yourself, you reserve a right to refrain from doing so. Others want to knowwhy you've done what you've done or are doing what you're doing. You knowyou've nothing to feel answerable for. You're in control of a situation that has muchgoing on behind the scenes and that's all that matters for now.

CAPRICORN It can be easy sometimes to allow our minds to become 'overly focused'. Webecome a bit too determined to find answers and identify solutions, so much sothat we lose sight of other important matters. Be careful how obsessed youbecome with finding a solution now. Trust that one is available and the best wayto find it is to let it come to you instead of the other way around. Step back andrelax. You might just discover how you've grown a bit too close to a situation.

AQUARIUS There's not much you won't do to help someone. You would, however, preferto see your gestures of help reciprocated. The sky speaks now of an arrange-ment being too 'one sided' for your liking. What you're actually getting backthrough your efforts doesn't sit well with you. Someone does appreciate whatyou've done for them. All you want to see is a bit more balance in a particu-lar arrangement. The sky insists that imbalance will be rectified soon enough.

PISCES 'We only miss it when it's gone'. So goes the old saying. Before we can misssomething or someone, we must be aware of absence first. This isn't alwaysapparent and, until it happens, we're happy to accept absence. You believesomething is missing now but could be failing to recognize is how available toyou it really is, if you're prepared to look for it. Something isn't as unavailableor in short supply as you might believe. Just make an effort to find it.

1. Water is a good solvent of ionic salts becauseA. it has a high specific heatB. it has no colourC. it has a high dipole momentD. it has a high boiling point

2. Which of the following is not an isotope ofhydrogen?A. Tritium B. DeuteriumC. Protium D. Yttrium

3. The main constituents of pearls areA. calcium oxide and ammonium chlorideB. calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonateC. aragonite and conchiolinD. ammonium sulphate and sodium carbonate

4. Amalgams areA. highly coloured alloysB. alloys which contain mercury as one of thecontentsC. alloys which have great resistance to abrasionD. alloys which contain carbon

5. Which of the following is the lightest metal?A. Mercury B. LithiumC. Lead D. Silver

QUIZ TIME

Answer: 1(C), 2 (D), 3(B), 4(B), 5(B)

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Hu a w e iw i t h -o u t

g e n e r a t i n gmuch hypeannounced anew smart-phone, theHonor 4Play, at anevent onM o n d a y .Priced at abudget CNY799 (roughlyRs. 7,921),the HuaweiHonor 4 Playseems to beonly avail-able in Chinafor now, withno word onits globalrelease.

The smart-p h o n e ,t h o u g hpriced low,features a 64-bit processor,which is seenin severalh i g h - e n dsmartphoneslike iPhone 6,Samsung GalaxyS5 (Review), HTC Desire 820 and more.However, the trend is slowly moving to incorporate 64-bit processors in lower-end phones, with such exam-ples as the HTC Desire 510 and Lenovo A805e.

The new chipset is a considerable upgrade from theHuawei Honor 3C Play's 1.3GHz quad-core Cortex-A7MediaTek (MTK6582) processor. The Honor 4 Playfeatures a 64-bit 1.2GHz quad-core QualcommSnapdragon 410 (MSM8916) processor, coupled withan Adreno 306 GPU (320MHz) and 1GB of RAM.

The Honor 4 Play smartphone offers dual-SIM sup-port and features a 5-inch HD IPS display with a720x1280 pixel resolution. It also comes with a 10-point touch supporting display. The smartphone runson Android 4.4 KitKat paired with its native EmotionUI 2.3.

It sports an 8-megapixel back-illuminated Cmos rearcamera with LED flash, while there is a 2-megapixelfront-facing camera. The Honor 4 Play with 8GB ofinbuilt storage, and can be expanded via microSD card(up to 32GB).

The Huawei Honor 4 Play supports Bluetooth 4.0,Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS/ A-GPS, 3G and 4G LTE con-nectivity options. It is backed by a 2000mAh Li-ionbattery, which according to the official site can deliverup to 450 minutes of talk time and 150 hours of stand-by time (when using two SIM cards). It measures142.95x72x8.5mm, weighs about 160 grams and isavailable in Black and White colour variant.

Earlier this month during IFA 2014 event, Huaweiannounced the metal-clad Android 4.4 KitKat-runningAscend G7 smartphone.

Huawei Honor 4 Play With 64-Bit Snapdragon 410 SoC, LTE

Support Launched

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24 The government on Wednesday saidthat the National SportsDevelopment Bill was “ready” and itwill be introduced in Parliament inthe upcoming winter session of theHouse.

“The Bill is ready and circulated toall the stake holders. After a changein the government, fresh commentswere sought. IOA has been draggingits feet but we will present the Bill inthe next session of the Parliament,”Ajit Sharan, Secretary Sports, said ata press conference.

All the National SportsFederations (NSFs) accredited to thegovernment need to comply with thestipulations that office bearers retireat the age of 70 years and except forthe President who is allowed threeconsecutive terms, none of the otheroffice-bearers would be eligible tocontest a third term immediatelyafter completing two successiveterms.

IOA had initially objected to ageand tenure guidelines even as someNSFs have already implementedthem.

Sharan made the statement in pres-ence of Sports Minister SarbanandSonowal, who through his secre-taries, made a presentation, listingachievements after completing 100days in the office and policies forfuture.

Sonowal, who hails from the NorthEast, that his ministry was commit-ted to support sportspersons so thatthey can “realise their potential”.

Talking about accountability ofNSFs, Sharan said it was “delicatematter”.

“The NSFs are autonomous bodiesand subject to RTI. They have beenadvised to put information on theirwebsites, relating to expenditure,(criteria for) selection of athletes,money spent on office bearers. Byputting this information in publicdomain is part of accountability,” hesaid.

Asked specifically about BCCI ifthe government was a failure to

bring the cricket board under theRTI, Sharan said they were not.

“The High Court in Chennai hasput a stay and we could not get thatvacated but efforts have been thereto bring BCCI within the ambit ofRTI,” Sharan explained.

About Boxing India getting provi-sional recognition from AIBA to runthe affairs of the sport in the country,Sharan said after that the IOA AdhocCommittee, which was managing thesport’s issues, has been dissolvedand they are considering BoxingIndia’s application for recognition asNSF.

The government has decided tofelicitate on October 22 the men’shockey team that won gold medal inthe Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964.

The government also announcedthat it would focus on identifyingand supporting potential medalprospects for 2016 and 2020Olympic Games through TargetOlympic Podium (TOP) Scheme.

Under this initiative, the govern-ment would focus on seven sports --athletics, archery, badminton, box-ing, wrestling, weightlifting andshooting.

Athletes will be selected after rig-orous screening and scientific analy-sis by a High Level Committeeunder the chairmanship of AnuragThakur.

Selected athletes will be providedcustomised training at best centres inIndia and abroad and their perform-ance will be continuously monitored.

Sharan also said that they willintroduce Prize Money TournamentCircuit for four sports -- boxing,archery, wrestling and athletics.

Competitions with prize moneyworth Rs. 1 crore in each sports, willbe held exclusively for Indian ath-letes. The first such competition forboxing will be held from December14 to 18 while for archery it will beorganised from January 15-19.

“Top-16 athletes in each sport willcompete against each other and thewinner is expected to get Rs. 2 lakhat least,” he said.

ANTIGUA, SEPT 24 Still recovering from a hamstring injury, swashbucklingbatsman Chris Gayle was on Wednesday left out of theWest Indies’ 15-member squad for the one-day seriesagainst India scheduled next month.

The 35-year-old Gayle was the most notable omissionfrom the squad to be led by Dwayne Bravo in the five-match series starting October 8 in Kochi.

The Caribbeans have brought in batsmen MarlonSamuels and Dwayne Smith, and fast bowler JeromeTaylor for the series.

Other players who have been left out are batsman KirkEdwards and left-arm spinner Nikita Miller.

Samuels and Smith had missed the series against NewZealand Bangladesh earlier this year. Taylor, however, ismaking a return after four years of struggle with injuries.

West Indies squad for India ODIs:Dwayne Bravo (capt), Darren Bravo, Jason Holder,

Leon Johnson, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, DeneshRamdin (wk), Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, AndreRussell, Darren Sammy, Marlon Samuels, LendlSimmons, Dwayne Smith, Jerome Taylor.

INCHEON, SEPT 24Rower Dushyant Chauhan was thelone bright spot after the shootersdrew a blank as India managed justone bronze medal to slip to the 14thposition in overall standings on thefifth day of competitions in the 17thAsian Games in Incheon onWednesday.

Dushyant was the only athlete tomanage a podium finish as hegrabbed a bronze in the men’s light-weight single sculls event on whatturned out to be a mixed day for theIndian contingent.

The strong shooting squad, whichhad accounted for the bulk of medalcollection so far, drew a blank onWednesday which led to India drop-ping one place in the medal table.

With the addition of just onebronze, India took their tally to 12 (1gold, 1 silver, 10 bronze).Powerhouse China continued to leadthe pack with 99 medals (50-25-24)followed by hosts South Korea with70 medals (24-23-23) and Japan (64= 18-23-23).

The badminton and squash teamshad a good day in their respectivematches but the women’s hockeyteam lost 1-2 to China in a prelimi-nary match.

Early in the day, Dushyant, hailingfrom Haryana and belonging to theBengal Engineering Group inRoorkie, led from the 500m till thelast 200m in the 2000m race beforestrong northerly winds and rain putpaid to his gold medal hopes as he fellbehind two others and finished thirdby clocking 7:26.57.

Chauhan was second behind gold-medallist Lok Kwan Hai by justunder two seconds in the first 500mand then caught up with his rivalbefore overtaking him in the courseof the next 500m and looked assuredof a gold before inclement weatherhampered his chances.

He not only lost the gold medal, butalso the silver as the host country’sLee Hakbeom, who was third with500m left, also surged past the Indianrower to clinch the second spot in7:25.95.

It was the first medal of the dayafter a fruitless stint at the shootingrange for India and the 10th bronze inthe Games. After scooping sixmedals, including a gold won by JituRai, on the first four days of the AsianGames, Indian shooters misfired at

the Ongnyeon pistol and rifle range.India had chances of winning four

medals from the 25m rapid fire pistolevent for men and the 50m rifle pronefor women but could not get even oneon a disappointing day.

Indian men’s 25m rapid fire pistolteam narrowly missed out on abronze as they finished fourth afterending up with same points asVietnam with a tally of 1704. Thebronze was decided on ‘innner 10’count and Vietnam bagged the medalas they had 41 hits at the innermostring as against 39 by the Indians.

India’s chances of a medal in theindividual event rested on HarpreetSingh but he failed to even qualify forthe final round finishing seventh.

Harpreet’s teammates GurpreetSingh and Pemba Tamang performedpoorly to end up 12th and 20th withrespective overall tallies of 570 and556.

The Indian women were even moreoff the mark with army major Raj

Chaudhary, the main hope, startingwell in the 50m rifle prone individualevent before tapering off to finish22nd out of 43 shooters with anaggregate score of 614.6.

Teammates Lajja Goswami (25th;613.7 points) and Tejaswini Muley

(36th; 608.8 points) were totally outof depth.

As a result, the Indian women fin-ished outside the medal bracket in the50m rifle prone team event too, end-ing up 11th out of 13 countries withan aggregate of 1837.1.

Elsewhere, after guiding thewomen’s badminton team to a his-toric bronze two days ago, India’s topshuttlers Saina Nehwal and P.V.Sindhu opened their campaign in theindividual competitions with thump-ing victories.

Sixth seed Saina easily overcame UTeng Lok of Macau 21-10, 21-8 injust 20 minutes and lined up againsther next opponent Iran’s SorayaAghaeihajiagha, who dispatchedMongolia’s Khulangoo Baatar instraight games in another round of 32women’s singles encounter.

Sixth, seeded 8th, too had a com-fortable 21-7, 21-13 first round victo-ry in 19 minutes over Wong Kit Leng,also of Macau, to book a round of 16

clash against M Bellaetrix ofIndonesia, a contest the lankyHyderabadi described as “tricky”.

In squash, India took a big steptowards winning another medal afterthe women’s team, including JoshanaChinappa and Dipika Pallikal, upsetHong Kong 2-1 in its opening match.

Chinappa and Anaka Alankamonywon their matches after India numberone Pallikal lost the opening singlesto Hong Kong’s top player Annie Auin five gruelling games.

In sailing , India’s Varsha Gauthamand Aishwarya Nedunchezhiyanoccupied the top spot after two racesin Women’s 29er- Two PersonDinghy event on the first day of com-petition.

Varsha and Aishwarya were on topof the heap of six teams in the 12-raceevent which will continue tillSeptember 30.

However, the Indian men’s basket-ball team crashed out after losing toIran in a preliminary round match.

The Indian team lost 41-76, theirsecond consecutive defeat in prelimi-nary round Group E, to make an exitfrom the tournament.

On the tennis court, Natasha Palhacrashed out of the women’s singlesevent following a straight sets defeatbut the combo of Shweta Rana andRishika Sunkara made a bright startfor India in women’s doubles,recording an easy win overPakistan’s Sara Mansoor and UshnaSuhail.

There was disappointment in sepa-ktakraw as both the Indian men’s andwomen’s teams suffered their secondconsecutive defeats leaving themwith little chance of advancing to thenext round.

Both the men’s and women’s teamssuffered an identical 0-3 thrashing atthe hands of defending championsThailand in the preliminary roundmatches at the Bucheon GymnasiumCourt here.

However, the Indian men’s volley-ball team hardly broke a sweat as itthrashed unfancied Maldives 25-1025-19 25-17 in exactly an hour toenter the quarterfinal.

Sports 7NEW DELHI | THURSDAY | SEPT 25, 2014SAADDA HAQ

INCHEON, SEPT 24Deepika Kumari, India’sbest bet in women’sarchery showed good formto come up as the eighthbest in the ranking round ofthe women’s individualrecurve event at theGyeyang Asiad ArcheryField in Incheon onWednesday.

The 20-year-old Ranchi-born archer, a double goldmedal winner at the 2010Commonwealth Games inNew Delhi, had a com-bined score of 1337 overfour distances -- 70m,60m, 50m and 30m -- andnow will take onUzbekistan’s Munira

Nurmanova in the pre-quarter final eliminationround on September 26.

The three other Indianwomen -- LaxmiraniMajhi, Laishram BambaylaDevi and PranithaVardhaneni -- had rankingsof 15, 20 and 30 withrespective scores of 1319,1301 and 1271.

Deepika and Laxmiraniwould be seen in the indi-vidual elimination rounds,the latter duelling againstSharbekova Asel ofKyrgystan.

Thanks to the womenquartet’s efforts India’srank was 5th in the teamevent with a score of 3957

which was well behindthose of strong gold medalfavourites South Korea(4081), China (4044),Japan (3994) and ChineseTaipei (3966).

India, with Deepika,Laxmirani and BombaylaDevi representing it, wouldtake on Hong Kong in theteam quarterfinals.

The Indian men’s teamwas ranked 6th with a totalscore of 3923 behindKorea (4101), Japan(4001), Malaysia (3955),Taipei (3951) and China(3928) over the distancesof 90, 70, 50 and 30m.

Atanu Das finished withthe best score of 1316

among the Indian men withan overall ranking of 17thfollowed by JayantaTalukdar (1307, 17th)),Tarundeep Rai (1300,22nd) and Rahul Banerjee(1296, 25th).

Das and Talukdar will beseen in the individual elim-ination round and in theteam eliminations withRai.

Tomorrow the elimina-tion round of the com-pound event will be gonethrough and India’sAbhishek Verma, SandeepKumar (individual) alongwith Rajat Chauhan (thirdteam member) would beseen in action among men.

Deepika Kumari finishes 8th;qualifies for elimination round

Rower Dushyant gets bronze, shooters flop

Injured Gayle out of ODI series against IndiaINCHEON, SEPT 24India made a resounding start in theindividual badminton event of the17th Asian Games with ace shuttlersSaina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu sailinginto the second round of women’ssingles competition in Incheon onWednesday.

While Olympics bronze medallistNehwal defeated her lesser-knownopponent U. Teng Iok of Macau,notching up a 21-10 21-8 win,Sindhu whipped Kit Leng Wong ofMacau 21-17 21-13 in another lop-sided match that lasted for 19 min-utes at the Gyeyang Gymnasium inIncheon.

Indian women’s doubles pair ofPradnya Gadre and Sikki ReddyNelakurthi and men’s doubles com-bination of B. Sumeeth Reddy andManu Attri too stormed into the sec-ond round with easy victories.

World number 55 pair of Gadre andNelakurthi gave a lesson or two totheir lower-ranked rivals SichhyaShrestha and Punam Gurung ofNepal as they wrapped up theirmatch in just 16 minutes with a 21-1621-4 win.

Reddy and Attri too hardly broke asweat when they brushed aside

Nasheeu Sharafudden and MohamedSarim of Maldives 21-7 21-7.

In the women’s singles match,Nehwal did not have to exert herselfas her opponent made too many mis-takes to hand over easy points to theIndian. There were hardly any ralliesin the match as Iok kept sending theshuttle wide and long to make lifeeasy for Nehwal.

Eighth seed Sindhu, who won four

bronze medals this season, too didnot have any problem for most partof the match but she committed toomany unforced errors in the dyingmoments of the match when she wasleading 19-9 to gift away few pointsto Wong.

However, it was all over soon whenWong hit long and then found the netas Sindhu marched into the secondround.

Saina, Sindhu sail into secondround of Asian games badminton

INCHEON, SEPT 24India fought valiantly before con-ceding a late goal to lose 1-2 againstthree-time defending championsChina in the women’s hockey com-petition at the 17th Asian Games, inIncheon on Wednesday.

Barring the late blunder, theIndian eves matched their fanciedrivals stick for stick in the entire 60minutes to raise hopes of an upsetresult.

But it was not to be as the worldno. 5 China scored a late winnerthrough Yudiao Zhao, much to theirrelief.

China enjoyed the early share ofexchanges but world no. 13 Indiastated to get their footing in thematch towards the end of the first15 minute quarter.

After a barren first quarter, it wasChina who took the lead in the 19thminute through a penalty cornerconversion by Meiyu Liang.

But the Indians did not sit backand restored parity four minuteslater from a penalty stroke whichwas perfectly converted by JaspreetKaur.

With both teams locked at 1-1 athalf time, the third quarter wasexpected to be a lively affair and itwas India who got the first scoringopportunity in the form of a penalty

corner, which they failed to utilise.The tussle between the two teams

continued in the fourth and finalquarter.

In the 51st minute, Indian goal-keeper Savita came to her side’srescue with a fine save from apenalty corner.

The Indians, in fact, had a chanceto register an upset win when theyearned their third penalty cornerwith five and half minutes remain-ing in the match, but Jaspreet’seffort went over the Chinese goal.

Just when it seemed the matchwas heading for a draw, which infact would have been a just result,

Zhao caught the Indian defence offguard and scored the winner in the59th minute with a rasping shotfrom top of the circle.

Even though Indian custodianSavita got a hand, Zhao’s shot waspowerful enough to roll the ballinside the goal and break the heartof Indian camp.

With two wins in as many games,China have moved to the top ofPool A, while India are in secondposition.

India will play Malaysia in theirfinal pool match on Friday,while China will take on lowlyThailand.

Indian women go down fighting against China in hockey

Sports Bill to be introduced inWinter session of Parliament

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Actor Shah Rukh Khan is atrooper. And we are not takingout of our hat. The man is a

bundle of surprises, and with everynew movie or move he makes, he isalways trying to leave his fans grap-pling for air if not more.

In a video released recently, as partof his upcoming film Happy NewYear's publicity campaign and as arejoinder to actor Hrithik Roshan'sBang Bang challenge to SRK on

Twitter, King Khan looks unbeliev-ably hot and ripped. He is seen work-ing out on his shoulders, his arms, hisabs for the body he has built for him-self for his new movie which is set fora Diwali release. Filmmaker FarahKhan is seen motivating the actor inthe background while he does benchpress, revealing the secret of his eight(or is it ten) pack abs.

Hrithik Roshan had challenged SRKon September 20 on microblogging

website Twitter to accept his BangBang challenge, where SRK will haveto share with the public at large a pic-ture of him doing his favouriteabdomen exercise.

SRK, who is currently touringUnited States of America with the castand crew of Happy New Year, notonly accepted the challenge but cameout with a reply which has left every-one gob smacked. Way to go, ShahRukh!

Shah Rukh Khan's Ripping Reply ToHrithik Roshan's Bang Bang Challenge

Actor-politicianRaj Babbar'sson Aarya has

joined the celebritybandwagon on BiggBoss 8 and one of hiskey motives is toexpand the market for abook he has authored,via the reality show.He's also confident ofwinning the show.

What brought him toBigg Boss?

"The money, ofcourse. It's good. Butthe real reason is thebook that I've written.It gets published inJanuary. I hope toexpress myself (on mywritings ) while I am inthe Bigg Boss house.When I come out as awinner - of course I'llwin - I hope to have arelatively larger reader-ship," he said beforeentering the show.

Aarya sees Bigg Bossas a new beginning.

"It was 12 years ago

that I made my debut asa leading man (infilms) with Ab KeBaras. Now I am head-ing into another phasein my life as an author.Bigg Boss is a goodvehicle to take me intothe new level in mylife," he said,

"I haven't come hereto while away my timefor a few weeks. I want

to go all the way. It'salways been that wayfor me. I don't believein half-measures," saidthe young actor.

The show is all aboutbickering, backbiting,plotting and planning,and Arya, who knowshe has a "low tolerancelevel" plans to "sur-prise everyone whowill watch me on the

show". "I promise you(that) I will make myparents proud," he said.

Of course, Aarya willraise his voice if theneed arises.

"I've learnt to holdmy peace in recenttimes. But if I seesomething wrong hap-pening in the house, Iwon't keep quiet," hesaid.

Bigg Boss 8: Aarya Babbar Wants to Use theShow to Promote His Upcoming Book

Here are a few sim-ple tips that canhelp you look your

best during the upcomingfestive season.

Get rid of acne scars: Make a paste of sandal-

wood, almonds, honeyand curd and apply a layerof this paste everyday onyour face and neck. Leaveit on for 10 minutes andthen wash off.

Shape up your brows:This is important step

towards a well-definedface. Get a professionalreshaping of your browsdone. It can really changeyour entire look. Thickeyebrows are in, and theygive a younger and softerlook to your face. (egDeepika Padukone, AliaBhat)

For brighter skin: Apply curd and honey

with adrop of

l e m o njuice on

your face.Wash off

a f t e r

ten minutes. Use light cir-cular motions when youare cleaning your face.

Smoothen your facialskin:

Coat your face with apaste of almonds andmashed ripe papaya. Liedown comfortably andrelax. Let it stay on yourface for around 15-20minutes. Gently scrub andwash off with tap water.

Soften your lips:

Use a soft-bristled brushand apply fresh milk-cream on your lips in acircular motion. Leave iton for a minute and thenwash off with rose water.

Minimise facial hair:Apply a paste of besan, apinch of turmeric and alittle curd daily. Wash offusing circular motionsafter it dries up.

Minimise your pores: Use a mask of egg

white, tomato and groundalmonds on your face.Leave it on for 8-10 min-utes and then wash off.

Blackheads on yournose:

Soak red masur dal foran hour. Now make apaste of this. Apply thispre-soaked masur dalpaste on your nose andleave it for 10 minutes.Now, scrub for a minuteand wash off.

Protect your hairlinewhen you colour:

Apply petroleum jellyon your hairline beforeyou apply hair colour.This will prevent telltalehair colour stains on yourforehead.

Quick home remedies for a perfect face

Actress ShraddhaKapoor took hersinging ambition

a step further by lendingher voice to a Kashmirifolk song in her upcom-ing film Haider, thanks todirector VishalBhardwaj's knack forspotting talent. Shraddhamade her singing debutwith Galiyaan in her lastfilm EK Villain.

In this video, the actor

is initially seen strug-gling with the pronuncia-tion but she is a fastlearner.

She picks up the lyricsand the subtle nuances ofthe language in a jiffy.

Mr Bhardwaj, who hasalso composed the musicfor the film, was thor-oughly impressed byShraddha and told her,"After listening to thesong they (Kashmiris)

would want to keep youwith themselves."

The film, which is anadaptation of one ofShakespeare's greatesttragedies Hamlet is setagainst the scenic back-drop of Kashmir.

The film also starsShahid Kapoor, Tabu,Kay Kay Menon andIrrfan Khan in pivotalroles and is slated torelease on October 2.

Shraddha Kapoor CroonsKashmiri Folk Song For Haider

Actress SukirtiKandpal can easi-ly be called televi-

sion's Tyaag ki Devi forthe roles that she does.The TRP's are sure to fol-low her in the BiggBoss house where she'salready made headlinesfor her tearfuloutburst after beingrebuked by fel-low contestant UpenPatel, with whom shewas linked up on the firstday on the show.

Born on November 20,1987, Sukirti, who hailsfrom Nainital, started outas a model before makingher foray into televisionwith serials such asSsshhhh...Phir Koi Hai,Dill Mill Gayye, AgleJanam Mohe Bitiya HiKijo and Jersey No 10She was last seen in LifeOK's Kaisa Ye IshqHai..Ajab Aa Risk Haiwhere she was linked toher co-star, lead actor

Gaurav Bajaj. She gainedpopularity for her role asa woman who falls in lovewith a vampire in PyaarKii Ye Ek Kahaani.

Sukirti also representedIndia at the Miss IndiaWorld Wide, 2011 pag-eant where she was spot-

ted by the chief coordina-tor of the channel Sab TVand got an opportunity toexercise her acting skillsin her debut show JerseyNo. 10.

The pahaari beauty alsoplayed a small role in theBollywood movie Love,

Sex aur Dhokha (LSD).Her demeanour on the

show is reminiscent oflast year's contestantPratyusha Banerjee. Onlytime will tell whether sheis able to scale the popu-larity charts through theshow.

Sukirti Kandpal, Television'sPahaari Beauty from Nainital

Filmmaker E Niwas, who last directed TotalSiyapaa, now plans to launch southernactress Anushka Shetty in Bollywood with

his next film, titled Juvenile."I have narrated the script to Anushka and

she has liked it, but it's in a very initial stageright now. Neither we have confirmed any-thing nor have we got a confirmation from herend," E Niwas said. "Anushka is one of thetop actresses, she fits the bill (for the movie)

and so we zeroed in on her. We are in theprocess of (finalising) it and we will take a callby end of this month (September)," he added.

Talking about his film he said: "The film istitled Juvenile and it's a multi-starrer. It's a

fresh script and not a remake. It's not evena women-centric film. It has multiple

stories, which get connected in theclimax. I will start shooting for thisfilm in January 2015." Anushka isamong the leading actresses of theTamil and Telugu film industries.She is currently working in Telugufilm Baahubali and an untitledTamil film with Ajith Kumar.

Anushka Shetty to Make BollywoodDebut With E Niwas' Juvenile

Hansal Mehta's Next Willbe a Women-Centric Film?Hansal Mehta, who last direct-

ed CityLights, may nextwield the megaphone for a

women-centric film.A source close to the director said:

"Hansal doesn't like to talk about hisprojects in their initial stage, but yes,if things go well, his next will be awomen-centric film."

Asked about it, Hansal said: "It'stoo early to talk about it. I cannotreveal anything right now. I am stillwriting the script."

The director was recently in newswhen he announced that he may castthe National Award winning actressShweta Basu Prasad, who wasrecently caught in controversy. (AlsoRead: When Hansal Decided to CastShweta)

Will she be in this women-centricproject?

"There is too much of speculationright now. I would not want to talkabout my project at the moment,"Hansal added. Hansal had recentlyalso met actress Kangana Ranaut andthere were reports that he hadapproached her for his film. Butbrushing all reports aside, Hansalsaid: "These are all speculativereports. When you meet actors anddiscuss things, it doesn't mean some-thing is happening."

Shashi KapoorStable, to beDischargedSoon

Veteran actor ShashiKapoor's conditionis stable and he is

likely to be dischargedsoon, said a source fromthe hospital.

"He is stable and he willbe discharged in a day ortwo," the source said whileupdating the 76-year-old'shealth condition.

He hospitalisedSeptember 21 at theKokilaben Hospital due toa chest infection. His sonKunal Kapoor confirmedthe same saying: "He isrecovering and he is stableright now."

Known for his work infilms such as Deewar,Satyam Shivam Sundaramand Kabhie Kabhie,Shashi Kapoor has beenstaying away from thelimelight since the late1990s.