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SHILLONG — The central government is not keen to hold talks with the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) on its demand for formation of a separate Garoland state in Meghalaya, a top union home ministry official said yesterday. "They (the insurgents) are always welcome to come out and face trial for their criminal activities. But we are not keen to hold talks with them," Shambu Singh, joint secretary (northeast) in the home ministry, said. The Meghalaya government too is not in a hurry to accept GNLA's offer for peace talks made by its political secretary Bikdot Nikjang Marak. Marak has offered shun armed struggle if GNLA's demands for the formation of a Garo state within the Indian constitution was accepted. "We are always willing to hold talks and solve issues peacefully. But GNLA must first disarm and stop its violent activities to make a favourable environment for talks," Meghalaya's Home Minister H D R Lyngdoh said. He also said that people of Meghalaya did not give their mandate to the GNLA to fight for a separate Garoland state. So the question of holding talks on the issue did not arise. "The public have not given its mandate to the GNLA to fight for a separate state. The government has not received any memorandum from the public on the demand for separate state," Lyngdoh said. Shambu Singh, on the other hand, called GNLA's peace offer a "face-saving" measure after the arrest of its chief Champion R Sangma July 30 near the India-Bangladesh border. He said dividing Meghalaya further was not viable. "Meghalaya is already a small state with too many internal conflicts. I don't think further dividing Meghalaya is viable." "If the centre has not acceded to the establishment of Telangana, Gorkhaland and Bodoland, do you think the government will give in to their (GNLA) demand for a separate Garoland?" The GNLA, which has over 200 guerrillas in its fold, wants Garoland carved out of five impoverished districts of Garo Hills. Over 35 people, including security personnel, were killed and more than 20 people were abducted by GNLA fighters in the last one year. The Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC), which is observing a tripartite ceasefire with the central and the state governments, has scaled down its demand for a Garoland state to an autonomous council, like the Bodoland Territorial Council. 10 INDIA OMAN DAILY Observer SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2012 PARAMILITARY personnel stand guard near Bilasipara town in Asom. — Reuters Govt not keen on talks with GNLA Couple sells new-born for treatment of elder child NEW DELHI — A couple in north-western India have been arrested for allegedly selling their 7-day-old baby to fund the treatment of a sick older son, police said yesterday. Sandhya Devi, her husband and three others were arrested yesterday, said Y R Phansal, district police official of Sriganganagar, a town in the north of the state of Rajasthan. The couple said poverty had forced them to give up their newborn to pay for the treatment of their 2-year-old son. They were released on bail. The baby has been returned to the couple, the police said. A pregnant Sandhya Devi had been offered Rs 40, (about $722) by a couple who were neighbours if she delivered a boy and gave it to them for adoption, NDTV news channel reported. "My elder child was sick so I had to give the newborn for adoption for Rs 40,000, but I only got Rs 20,000," the father, part-time salesman Ashok Kumar was quoted as saying. A complaint has been registered against 11 people including the couple who offered to take the baby, the midwife, and officials who allegedly did the adoption paperwork, police said. Adoptions in India have to be cleared by the government's child protection committees and no money or gifts can be exchanged. But incidents of destitute women selling their babies illegally are not uncommon in the country. — dpa The Hill State People's Democratic Party, an ally in the ruling Congress-led Meghalaya United Alliance government, too has been seeking a separate state for Khasi-Jaintia tribals since 1987. Meanwhile, amid continuing violence in Asom, the Centre has told the Supreme Court that it would not be possible to delete names of 40 lakh doubtful voters from the state on the basis of their ethnic profile as it would be unconstitutional. The Centre rejected the allegation of NGO Assam Public Works that over 40 lakh illegal migrants had got their names entered into the electoral rolls and they should forthwith be deported. — IANS Kudankulam nuclear plant gets clear for loading fuel CHENNAI — The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) yesterday gave its nod to load real fuel in the first unit of 1,000 MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) at Kudankulam, paving the way for the running of the Tamil Nadu facility delayed by villagers' agitation, said a senior AERB official. The Kudankulam plant in Tirunelveli district is being built by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL). The project will start generating power from September. "It will take us around 10- 15 days to load the fuel. We have to intimate the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) about the fuel loading," S A Bhardwaj, director (technical) at NPCIL, said. AERB chairman S S Bajaj said from Mumbai: "The sanction is always subject to certain stipulations, like flushing of the reactor and other primary systems with borated water. It will take a week for NPCIL to complete our conditions so that they can load the fuel." He said the AERB's advisory committee reviewed the reports submitted by NPCIL about KNPP on Thursday and the sanction order was issued yesterday. As KNPP falls under the safeguard agreement signed by India with the IAEA, the latter has to be informed about fuel loading. According to Bhardwaj, some components have to be loaded into the reactor before the fuel. He said NPCIL is not working towards any specific date to load the 163 fuel assemblies into the 1,000 MW light water reactor (LWR) supplied by Russia. NPCIL is building two 1,000 MW reactors in Kudankulam, around 650 km from here. Work at the project had come to a standstill in August last year after local villagers, fearing for their lives in case of a nuclear accident, mounted an intensive protest under People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy banner. — IANS Envoy raises questions about gun use in US WASHINGTON — Echoing President Barack Obama's call for "soul searching" over Sunday's rampage in a Wisconsin gurdwara, Indian ambassador Nirupama Rao has raised questions about the free use of guns in the United States and problems Sikhs have faced in the country whether "in schools or in the workplace". While as a foreign diplomat she could not take a position on gun control over the incident that left six worshippers dead, people in India did raise questions about why Sikhs should become "collateral damage" in such violent incidents, she said in an interview with National Public Radio. "But I wanted to say that in India, you know, when we see violence of this nature and we see Sikhs somehow becoming some kind of collateral damage in many senses, obviously, you know, questions do arise about the use of guns in the United States and why all this should happen," she said. "You know, so when President Obama spoke about soul searching, you know, the need for soul searching on these issues, I think he really hit the nail on the head," said Rao just back from a visit to Oak Creek to meet the families of the shooting victims. FAMILY and friends gather at Oak Creek High School to mourn the loss of six members of the Sikh community. — AFP "We need an architecture of soul searching on this," she said. "We really need an architecture, whether it's hate crime, whether it's domestic terrorism." "Why is it happening? We need some soul searching. Why do acts of violence of this nature happen? We need a mature conversation on that," Rao said when asked about the authorities' decision to treat the Sunday shooting as domestic terrorism rather than hate crime. While she really did not want to pick holes in the authorities' description of the incident as domestic terrorism, Rao noted that the Sikh community "had talked about the fact that they have encountered problems from time to time when, you know, in let's say in schools or in the workplace." Rao said when the news broke of the shootings people in India were agitated though at the level of the two governments, the reactions have been very sober, very restrained. "But when it comes to people, and we live in democracies, you know, they express their emotions freely, and that's what you saw happening. You saw those pictures coming out of India," Rao said. Navy floats $900 million tender for 60 choppers NEW DELHI — Looking to replace its navy's ageing Chetak helicopter fleet, India has floated a $900-million global tender, after a five-year delay, to procure around 60 utility choppers. Indian Navy sources said here that the tender, called Request for Proposals in defence parlance, was issued on Tuesday when the outgoing chief Admiral Nirmal Verma was addressing his farewell press conference and disclosed that the RFP "should get issued any time now." The utility choppers will replace the 60-odd Chetaks that the navy has in service and are operated both from shore and from on board its warships' flight deck. This naval tender comes four years after India issued a global tender for 197 utility helicopters — of which 133 By Ashraf Padanna THIRUVANANTHA- PURAM — A Keralite youth allegedly abducted by the Philippine separatist group of Abu Sayyaf last year has "adventurously" escaped from his abductors without waiting for the government move, according to the authorities here. Biju, 37, who was in captivity for 14 months, ran away from the captors in the night and took refuge in the nearby police office. The police took him to Manila and informed the Indian Embassy, a statement by the office of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy VILLAGERS damage a gate of the land allotted by the state government to build a university at Lavad village, 44 kms east of Ahmedabad. Thousands of villagers stormed the university site which they claimed is their cattle grassland. — Reuters Yeddyurappa faces probe BANGALORE — The Lokayukta court yesterday ordered a comprehensive probe by Lokayukta police into a complaint against former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and his son relating to alleged denotification of land in Bhadravathi. Lokayukta Court Judge N K Sudhindra Rao directed the fourth Deputy Superintendent of Police, Lokayukta Bangalore Urban, Nahad to conduct a “comprehensive enquiry” into the complaint filed by an advocate and adjourned the case to August 31 for Lokayukta police to submit their report. Earlier Deputy S P Nahad submitted the certified copies of the documents by the respective authorities as claimed by the complainant. Besides Yeddyurappa and his MP son B Y Raghavendra, five others have been named in the complaint. The five others are ‘benamidars’ of Yeddyurappa who allegedly executed the sale deeds in favour of Dhavalagiri Properties, a company owned by his sons. are for the army and 64 for the air force — also to replace the two forces' ageing Chetak and Cheetah helicopter fleet. This army and air force joint tender was reissued in 2008 after the initial tender issued two years earlier was cancelled over procedural lapses. But the winner of the army and air force tender, for which Eurocopter's AS550-C3 Fennec and Russian manufacturer Kamov's Ka-226 are in the race, is still to be out and the decision-making is in its final stages. The navy could not participate in that tender due to delays in finalising technical requirements for the chopper it wanted in service. Under the present tender issued to global manufacturers, the navy is looking to procure twin-engine helicopters, sources said. said yesterday. Biju, who hails from Kappad in Kozhikode district and employed in Kuwait, was in Manila to spent vacation with his Filipina wife Elena and two children. Two weeks later, the ultras abducted him demanding ransom. "The chief minister spoke to Biju over telephone yesterday. He also urged overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi to expedite his repatriation," the statement said. "We have been working hard to secure his release". Quoting his family members in Kozhikode, agency reports said, Biju, who was working as an operations Legal aid is a right of an accused: SC NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court has said that an accused getting free legal aid was a matter of right and no distinction could be made in upholding this right irrespective of whether the legal aid sought was for the trial or an appeal against an adverse verdict. "We are of the opinion that neither the Constitution nor the Legal Services Authorities Act makes any distinction between a trial and an appeal for the purposes of providing free legal aid to an accused or a person in custody," said a bench of Justice A K Patnaik and Justice Madan B Lokur in their judgment made available yesterday. Pronouncing the judgment, Justice Lokur said that the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, provides, inter alia, that "every person who has to file or defend a case shall be entitled to legal services, if he or she is in custody". Section 13 of the act provides that persons meeting the criteria laid down in Section 12 will be entitled to legal services provided the concerned authority is satisfied that such person has a prima facie case to prosecute or defend, the judgment noted. Among the firms likely to respond to the tender notice are US manufacturer Sikorsky, European Eurocopter, Russian Kamov and Italian AgustaWestland. The Indian Navy at present uses indigenous Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter, Westland SeaKing, Sikorsky SeaKing, Chetaks, and Kamov's Ka-25, Ka-28 and Ka-31 helicopters, making it a over 100-chopper-strong fleet. Meanwhile, the Navy will today launch its force-wide automated Financial Information System (FIS) that is expected to simplify decisionmaking and enhance transparency in its monetary dealings. Developed over a twoyear period with help from information technology major Wipro Infotech, the FIS cost the navy about $6 million. Keralite escapes from captors manager at a garment factory in Kuwait, was abducted allegedly by a terror group from Sulu province while he was at his wife's house. "Biju telephoned us at about 2.45 am informing that he was released by the captors," Biju's father Narayanan was quoted as saying. Shybu, brother of Biju, said he had also spoken to him a couple of times. "At present Biju is at the police headquarters in Philippines after medical check-up," he said. Biju had last visited his native place Moodadi, about six km from Koilandy in Kozhikode district, in June last year. The judgement came as the court set aside a September 5, 2006 judgment and order of Madhya Pradesh High Court and sent back the case to it for rehearing of the appeal as one of the accused, Rajoo, was not represented by a lawyer. While saying so, the apex court relied on its earlier judgments wherein it was said that the right to be represented by a lawyer was a constitutional right of every accused person who is unable to engage a lawyer on account of poverty, indigence or incommunicado situation and the state was mandated to provide a lawyer to such an accused. The court also expressed its disagreement with observation in one of its earlier judgments wherein it sought to deny the free legal aid to the accused in cases of economic offences or offences against law prohibiting prostitution or child abuse and so on. "We have some reservations whether such exceptions can be carved out particularly keeping in mind the constitutional mandate and the universally accepted principle that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty," it said. — IANS
11 INDIA OMAN DAILY Observer SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2012 VISITORS look at water flowing out of Narmada canal from the dam at Karai village of Gandhinagar district, some 30 kms from Ahmedabad. Sabarmati River near Gandhinagar is dry while the same river in Ahmedabad is full owing to water released from Narmada Dam. The state government has declared 14 districts ‘scarcity hit’ in wake of deficient rains. — AFP ‘Work hard and steal a little’ Uttar Pradesh minister offers bizarre advice to bureaucrats LUCKNOW — A provincial minister in India's most populous state has sparked a scandal after suggesting to bureaucrats that they could "steal a little" if they performed well in their duties. Shivpal Singh Yadav, in charge of housing and construction in northern Uttar Pradesh state, yesterday hastily withdrew the offer he made a day earlier during a meeting with government employees, which was also attended by journalists. Yadav is an uncle to the state chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, whose Samajwadi Party stormed into power on an anti-graft platform in elections held in graft-ridden Uttar Pradesh in March. "If you work hard, you can steal a little, but don't behave like bandits," the Press Trust of India quoted Yadav as saying at the meeting in Etah town, about 200 kilometres from capital Lucknow. The comments drew flak from political opponents, prompting Yadav to retract his offer and accuse journalists of sneaking into the gathering. "I have taken back those words," he told reporters in Lucknow yesterday. "Why are you raking it up? I don't know why the media is targeting me," he said. The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) condemned the minister's invitation to officials to steal. "A minister's statement is like a policy of the government and if he says so then the government is offering a licence to steal the public money," local India, Thailand review FTA talks, push trilateral highway NEW DELHI — India and Thailand yesterday reviewed the progress in their negotiations for a free trade treaty and decided to step up work on landmark connectivity projects like a trilateral highway that will link the two counties through Myanmar. The Indian side led by Sanjay Singh, secretary (east) in the external affairs ministry, held talks with the Thai delegation, led by Sihasak Phuangketkeow, permanent secretary, Thailand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Bangkok. The foreign office consultations took stock of ongoing measures to enhance connectivity and boost infrastructure, a key priority, through implementation of projects such as Thailand-Myanmar-India Trilateral Highway and Dawei, said the Indian embassy in Bangkok in a statement made available here. "They also discussed the current status of negotiations on the comprehensive bilateral FTA, co-operation to enhance business ties, security issues, and cultural and people-topeople exchanges," the Indian Embassy said. The talks reviewed a slew of initiatives sealed between the two sides during the landmark visit of Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to India earlier this year. Her visit had set the stage for forging a strategic partnership between the two countries. The Indian side briefed Thai diplomats on New Delhi's preparations for hosting a special India-Asean commemorative summit in December. In a special gesture signalling an upward swing in New Delhi's Look East policy, India had hosted Thailand's first female and youngest prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra as the guest of honour at the Republic Day function in January this year. This was the third consecutive year in which India had invited a leader from a Southeast Asian country as its chief guest at the Republic Day parade, a unique honour accorded to special friends of India with which New Delhi wishes to accelerate its diplomatic and economic ties. YOUTHS form a human pyramid to break the dahi-handi, curd-pot, suspended in the air during celebrations of Janmashtami in Mumbai yesterday. — AFP BJP leader Lalji Tandon said. "It is not appropriate for a minister to talk like this," he told reporters. Shahid Siddiqui, who was expelled last month from a senior post in the ruling Samajwadi Party, also turned his guns on the minister. "It is very unfortunate that a minister who is the uncle of the chief minister and who does not consider himself anything less than a chief minister talks in such a way," Siddiqui said. "Now you are giving of- NEW DELHI — Parliament will not shift from the iconic, British built building but steps will be taken to declutter and strengthen the heritage structure, sources said yesterday. According to the sources, the proposal to relocate parliament from the 85-year-old building, now in the heart of the capital, did not find favour with most MPs when the Heritage Committee of parliament met. The building's wear and tear is a cause of concern for the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), which maintains it. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker, who also built most of New Delhi, work on the imposing MUMBAI — The Maharashtra government may carry out a review of the state's road toll policy in the next fortnight. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray disclosed this after a meeting with Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan yesterday in which he highlighted the problems faced by people daily. "Chavan has assured us that he will review the entire policy of levying road toll in consultation with the Public Works Department. The MNS shall be invited for the discussions on the issue," Thackeray told media persons. ficers a free hand to steal," he added. Yadav's dubious offer came a month after his nephew warned about corruption in the overwhelmingly poor and under-developed state of nearly 200 million people — a population larger than Brazil's. Corruption has been one of the biggest political issues in India over the last two years, with a string of scandals hitting the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sparking popular protest movements. — AFP Proposal to relocate parliament rejected parliament building began in 1921. It got over in 1927, two decades before India became independent. The heritage committee, formed in 2009, is headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. According to the sources, the general consensus among MPs was on finding ways to de-clutter and strengthen the imposing building to give it a fresh lease of life. While BJP leader L K Advani opposed the relocating, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal suggested that all encroachments in the building be removed. Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath supported Bansal. — IANS Maharashtra plans to change road toll policy Thackeray claimed that Chavan was in agreement with most of the points pertaining to toll levy raised by the MNS at the meeting. The government, directly or through agents, collects toll for using various new roads, flyovers, bridges, including the Rajiv Gandhi Bandra- Worli Sea Link, and certain highways, including the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. Last month, the MNS launched a violent agitation all over the state opposing toll collection and even stopped the toll booths from operating in several parts, including Mumbai. — IANS Japan education fair NEW DELHI — In a bid to enhance educational ties and to attract Indian students, Japan will be organising an education fair in Delhi and Bangalore. The education fair, which is part of the Indian and Japanese government's programme of building people-to-people ties, will be held in Delhi on August 30, and in Bangalore on September 1. A total of 11 key universities from Japan will attend the exhibition. The universities from Japan, which will be present in the fair, are Doshisha University, Kyushu University, Meiji University, Nagoya University, Osaka University, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Ritsumeikan University, The University of Tokyo, Tohoku University, University of Tsukuba, and Waseda University. — IANS Tax evasion hits infra development: court NEW DELHI — A Delhi court has upheld a two-year jail term given to a tax evader, saying tax avoidance reduced funds needed for the country's infrastructure development. Additional Session Judge S S Rathi made the observation while upholding a magistrate court's order that had awarded rigorous imprisonment of two years and fine of Rs 1 lakh to businessman Harish Chadha, convicted for tax evasion. "The case in hand is a glaring example of tax avoidance. Our country is in dire need of funds for sprucing up the infrastructure. One can see rampant tax evasion all around," said Rathi. The judge said hardly five per cent of the total population paid taxes. NEW DELHI — Undisclosed income of Rs 49,325 crore has been detected in the country in the last three years while tax evasion of Rs 600 crore has been found on inputs from abroad under multi-pronged efforts to check black money menace, government said yesterday. The information has been contained in a 13-page factsheet released by the Finance Ministry in an apparent bid to blunt the campaign by yoga guru Ramdev, who has attacked government on the issue during his three-day fast in New Delhi. Detailing the steps taken in the country and outside, POLICE detain students and activists of various organisations trying to enter the state ministers quarters during a protest in Hyderabad yesterday. Opposition parties and students groups in the state of Andhra Pradesh intensified their protest against the government’s move to cap the reimbursements of tuition fee. — AFP TN govt gives free cycles to ITI students CHENNAI — In yet another pro-students initiative, the AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu yesterday proposed providing free bicycles to over 21,000 beneficiaries studying in state-run Industrial Training Institutes. Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa allocated Rs 6.36 crore for providing bicycles "Free of cost," considering the fact that a large number of students in ITIs hailed from economically poor background, an official release here said. This was in line with an existing scheme of providing bicycles to school students who cover considerable distance to reach their institutions, the release said, adding, the proposed move will benefit 21,925 ITI students. The Jayalalithaa government is already providing a slew of sops to school and college going students including supplying free laptops, touted to be a key programme of the government. — PTI "Even those assessed do not come out with true statements of earnings. “The world over, tax authorities consider the instance of tax evasion as felony and they are dealt with very sternly," said the judge. The court said the convict tried every trick under their belt to avoid payment of tax dues at the peril of country's development. "They deserve to be dealt with sternly so that right message is sent to violators of tax laws that they should not expect any leniency," the court said. The court was hearing a revision petition filed by Chadha challenging a magistrate court order. The court has held him guilty of evading tax. "It is beyond comprehen- the fact-sheet says the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has detected undisclosed income of over Rs 32,000 crore besides seizing assets valued at over Rs 2,600 crore. This, it added, was in addition to detection of undisclosed income of Rs 17,325 crore in surveys conducted at business premises by the Income Tax Department (ITD). Government is also pursuing 43,265 pieces of information regarding suspicious transactions received from overseas and domestic agencies. More than 12,500 pieces of information regarding de- Meira Kumar to kick off snake boat race By Ashraf Padanna ALEPPEY — It's the racing season for Kerala's own snake boats again and the picturesque Punnamada backwaters will today witness the most famous of them all-the one to keep the Nehru Trophy presented by India's first prime minister, though in replica, exactly 60 years back. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will be the chief guest at the Nehru Trophy boat race heralding the harvest festival season that will see oarsmen taking out their best in at least half a dozen Vallamkali carnival in the Alappuzha backwaters alone. The annual event is conducted on the second Saturday of August but this year the competitions began two days in advance as the event turns 60 and the number of participants in the smaller heats went up. It was in 1952, Nehru came with his daughter Indira and grandchildren Rajiv and Sanjay. Mesmerised by what he had seen, he jumped onto a boat and joined the oarsmen singing Vanchippattu, the folksong meant to encourage them to take their prow- sion that a person who had earned Rs 6 crore profit in a couple of years does not even have enough money to clear his income tax dues," the court said. "The plea of income tax authorities that convict had sufficient financial means to clear the dues is clearly evident from the convict's balance-sheet as on March 31, 1995, filed by him on record along with Section 311 of the Criminal Procedure Code (power to examine person) application, which shows that other than profit of around Rs 6 crore earned by him, he had cash in hand a reserve of Rs 57.92 lakh," said the court. The prosecution said that Chadha had earned Rs 6 crore in 1995-96 but had not cleared his tax dues. — IANS Efforts on to check black money tails of asset and payments received by Indian citizens in several countries have been obtained “which are now under different stages of processing and investigation“. Further, 30,765 pieces of domestic information about suspicious transactions obtained by Financial Intelligence (FIU) too are being probed. Government also disclosed that under Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA), investigation of information from German and France has led to detection of tax evasion of Rs 600 crore and realisation of Rs 200 crore in taxes. — PTI ess to the maximum. Back in Delhi, he sent a beautifully crafted silver trophy and the event started carrying his name. The rolling trophy, a replica of which is awarded to the winners, carries Nehru's signature with the inscription: "To the winners of the boat race which is unique feature of community life in Travamcore-Kochi". Kerala was born five years later. In all, there are 64 boats to contest in different categories in the race and 20 of them are huge snake boats oared by 111 men, besides singers and helmsmen, to cover a length of 1400-metre track. The village oarsmen begin the ritualistic preparations several weeks in advance, observing strict abstinence and celibacy. This time four teams of women rowers are also participating in a separate heats of smaller types in what is billed as one of the world's biggest water sporting events cheered aloud by thousands of spectators on the riverbanks. This will also herald the five-month tourism season of Kerala which will peak in December.
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