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Egypt summons Brish
ambassador over Al-
Jazeera journalists’
verdict comment
Cairo: Egypt’s Foreign Ministry
has summoned the British ambassador
over comments he made in
court after a judge sentenced three
Al-Jazeera English journalists to
three years prison each for reporting
“false news.”
The ministry said on Sunday it
objected to John Casson’s comments,
calling them “unacceptable
interference” in the country’s judiciary.
The court sentenced the three
journalists on Saturday, sparking international
outcry in the latest attack
on free speech in the country.
Speaking to television cameras
in Arabic after the verdict, Casson
said he was concerned it could “undermine
confidence in the basis of
Egypt’s stability, both in Egypt and
abroad.”
Beijing baens down,
cranks up propaganda
ahead of war parade
Beijing: Beijing is battening down
the hatches and cranking up the propaganda
ahead of a massive military
parade this week to mark the end of
World War Two, shooing cars from
streets and shutting factories for the
Communist Party’s biggest event of
the year. Some 12,000 soldiers will
march through Beijing’s central Tiananmen
Square on Thursday, mostly
Chinese but with Russian and a few
other foreign contingents, accompanied
by tanks and armoured vehicles,
as fighter jets scream overhead.
President Xi Jinping will be joined
on the podium by leaders including
Russian President Vladimir Putin,
Sudan President Omar Hassan al-
Bashir and Venezuelan President
Nicolas Maduro. Almost all top Western
leaders are staying away, alarmed
by the apparent jingoism and worried
by the message a Chinese show of
force will send a world worried by
China’s military ambitions.
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AGITATION: HARDIK PATEL
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Mumbai
30 August 2015
In a new twist to the
Sheena Bora murder saga,
Indrani Mukerjea and her
former husband Sanjeev
Khanna have blamed each
other for the crime during
police interrogation.
Indrani, her driver Shyam
Rai and Khanna were
interrogated at Khar Police
Station yesterday.
During the course of the
grilling, they blamed each
other for the crime, a police
official said.
Police said Khanna
and Indrani were giving
evasive replies during
interrogation. Indrani’s
son and Sheena’s brother
Mikhail Bora was also
Incidents of violence in Gujarat
have upset the nation: PM Modi
New Delhi
30 August 2015
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi today said
the recent Gujarat violence
over the quota
issue had upset the entire
nation and asked
the people to work
together to resolve all
problems through development.
“The recent incidents
of violence in
Gujarat has upset the
entire nation. Whatever
happens to the land
of Gandhi and Sardar
Bengaluru
30 August 2015
A 77- year-old former
vice chancellor of the
Karnataka University
was shot down at his residence
in the north Karnataka
town of Dharwad on
Sunday morning by two
persons who knocked on
his door and claimed to be
students.
M M Kalaburgi, 77, an
educationist and veteran
researcher of Kannada
literature was shot down
at around 8.40 AM on
Sunday even as his wife
who opened the door for
Bangkok
30 August 2015
Thai authorities arrested a foreign
man they said had been holed
up in a suburban apartment with
bomb-making equipment and
stacks of passports, the first possible
breakthrough in the deadly
bombing at a Bangkok shrine nearly
two weeks ago.
Police and soldiers on Saturday
raided the apartment in a non-descript
concrete building on the
outskirts of eastern Bangkok and
found bomb-making materials that
matched those used in the Aug. 17
blast at the Erawan Shrine in central
Bangkok, police said.
The blast, which killed 20 people
and injured more than 120, was
questioned at a hotel in
Bandra yesterday.
Police are also probing
Mikhail’s claim that just
hours before Indrani and
Sanjeev met Sheena on
April 24, 2012 and took
her for what would be
the last drive of her life,
Indrani had also allegedly
drugged him. By the time
they came back, the suspicious,
groggy Mikhail
had fled.
Meanwhile, the car in
which Sheena Bora was
allegedly killed was yesterday
traced, while questions
cropped up about a
cover-up by police in not
registering a case of murder
or accidental death
three years back when
Patel, the nation is
shocked and pained
first,” he said in his radio
programme ‘Mann
Ki Baat’.
“Peace, unity and
brotherhood are the
the unidentified assailants
ventured to the kitchen
to fetch the visitors some
coffee.
A resident of the Kalyananagar
area in Dharwad
city the former vicechancellor
was renowned
researcher on Vachana
a partially-burnt body,
believed to be hers, was
found.
“We have traced the
car. The car had changed
many hands in three years
and we are yet to recover
it,” said a senior police
official.
Police said they will be
taking the three arrested
accused to Raigad district
to recreate the crime
scene. The police also
sought call data records
of the three accused.
As the investigation
focused on forensic examination
of the skeletal
remains found in Pen tehsil
of Raigad, the police
also admitted that no due
procedure was followed
only correct way and
we have to walk together
on the path of
development as only
it is the solution of our
problems,” he said.
Appreciating
Former Karnataka University VC MM
Kalaburgi shot dead at Dharwad residence
Sahitya and ancient Kannada
literature. The commissioner
of police for
the twin cities of Hubli
and Dharwad, Ravindra
Prasad, said two unidentified
persons came to the
veteran researcher’s residence
on a motorcycle
Thai police arrest foreigner, find
passports in Bangkok shrine blast case
followed a day later by another explosion
at a public ferry pier, which
caused no injuries but exacerbated
concerns about safety in the Thai
capital, which draws millions of
tourists.
“Our preliminary investigation
shows that he is related to both
bombings,” national police spokesman
Prawuth Thavornsiri said in
the televised statement. He showed
photographs of the suspect — a
young man with short brown hair
and a light beard and mustache.
Police identified him only as a
28-year-old foreigner, without releasing
a name.
Police also showed photographs
of detonators, ball bearings and a
metal pipe that Continued Pg-7...
when the body was first
found on May 23, 2012.
Raigad police virtually
confessed to the casual
way in which they
treated the case when a
burnt body was spotted,
a month after Sheena was
believed to have been
murdered.
“Neither a crime, nor a
report of accidental death
was registered when
Raigad police sent recovered
skeletal remains to JJ
hospital (in Mumbai) in
2012,” Raigad’s current
Superintendent of Police
Suvez Haque told reporters
in Alibaug, the district
headquarters.
“I have been ordered
to probe all the wrongs
and knocked on his door.
“We have taken up a
case of murder. The motive
for the assassination
is not known yet,” the police
officer said. A close
friend of the former vice
chancellor and a member
of the Kannada literary
world, Shankar Alagatti,
said Kalaburgi’s wife
opened the door to the
family residence. She
asked the youths who
they were and the duo
said they were students
who had come to meet
Kalaburgi, Alagatti said.
Continued Pg-7...
New Delhi
30 August 2015
The BJP hit back at the
grand alliance of JDU,
RJD and Congress and
said their Swabhiman rally
in Bihar capital on Sunday
was nothing but an
Apman (insult) rally.
Reacting to the words
of praise from Congress
chief Sonia Gandhi for
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad
Yadav, senior BJP leader
Ravi Shankar Prasad
asked what does the Congress
chief has to say
about Lalu’s conviction in
fodder scam.
Sheena Bora murder case: Indrani Mukerjea,
Sanjeev Khanna blame each other for the crime
the
people of Gujarat,
Modi said their cooperation
helped in controlling
the situation.
“In a very short time,
my Gujarati brothers
and sisters controlled
the situation. They
played an active role
and did not let the
situation worsen and
peace was restored in
the state. Urging people
to work together
for development, he
said that development
alone will solve all
problems.
or lapses that were committed,”
said Haque, who
took over as Raigad SP
earlier this year.
“We have given a factual
report to our seniors.
Inspector General of Police
(Konkan Range) yesterday
ordered an inquiry.
We will complete it at the
earliest and produce our
report,” he said.
As the Raigad SP’s disclosure
raised question
whether there was any
cover-up of the crime
back in 2012, Maharashtra
DGP Sanjeev Dayal
said an inquiry has been
ordered, and action will
be taken against the erring
officials.
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New Delhi
30 August 2015
Facing stiff resistance on the
Land Acquisition Bill, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi today announced
that the government will
not re-promulgate the Ordinance
which expires tomorrow and declared
readiness to accept any suggestions
to benefit the farmers in
the pending bill on it.
Apparently referring to the political
opponents, he said lot of
misapprehensions had been created
over the Land bill and fear
was instilled among the farmers,
even though states had suggested
The BJP leader also
accused Sonia Gandhi of
lying on MNREGA funding
that it has been decreased
and slammed for
questioning Modi government’s
policy on Pakistan.
“She (Sonia Gandhi)
raised a question on our
New Orleans
30 August 2015
Residents of Mississippi
and Louisiana marked
the 10th anniversary of
Hurricane Katrina on Saturday
by ringing church
bells, laying wreaths and
celebrating the resiliency
of a region still recovering
from a disaster that
killed more than 1,800
people and caused $151
billion in damage.
Addressing dignitaries
at New Orleans’ memorial
to the unclaimed and
unidentified dead, Mayor
Mitch Landrieu spoke of
the dark days after the
monstrous storm and how
the city’s residents leaned
on each other for support.
“We saved each other,”
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In Delhi, Hardik Patel says he will
take movement across country
New Delhi
30 August 2015
Hardik Patel, the
22-year-old convener of
Patidar Anamat Andolan
Samiti who is spearheading
an agitation seeking
OBC status and reservation
for Patidars, on Sunday
said he would take
the ‘andolan’ across the
country.
Stating that the reservation
system had taken
the country back by 60
years, Hardik, who was
in the national capital to
meet quota stir leaders
including Jats and Gurjars,
reiterated the demand
for reservation for
Patidars saying the “system
today is hollow”.
“On August 25, I had
said that our numbers in
the country amount to 27
crore, who are dispersed
across states. The entire
Govt will not re-promulgate
land ordinance: PM Modi
in ‘Mann Ki Baat’
27 crore Patel community
has to be brought together,
and this movement
will be taken across the
country, wherever there
are Patels,” Hardik said,
addressing a press conference
at the Press Club of
India. Continued Pg-7...
amendments to the Act of 2013 for
the benefit of villages and villagers.
“I have said it earlier also. The
government has an open mind on
the Land Acquisition Bill, about
which there is a lot of controversy.
I have said it again and again that I
am ready to accept any suggestion
for the benefit of farmers,” Modi
said in his monthly radio program
‘Mann Ki Baat’.
“We had promulgated an Ordinance
on Land Acquisition Bill
which will expire tomorrow. I have
decided that it should be allowed
to expire. Continued Pg-7...
BJP slams Sonia Gandhi for praising Lalu Yadav, says it
was not a Swabhiman rally but ‘Apman’ rally in Bihar
Pak policy. Everyone has
seen that India has not
made any compromise on
terrorism,” said Prasad.
Earlier in the day, addressing
the ‘Swabhiman
Rally’ along with top
leaders of JD(U), RJD
and SP, Gandhi said “Modi-government
has completed
one-fourth of its
time. Till now, what has
it done other than ‘showbaazi’..It
has done nothing.
You know better than
me.”
She also attacked the
BJP-led regime for not
fulfilling its promise to
provide employment to
one crore people but also
restricting job opportunities
in the government
and said the funds for
major social security
schemes like MGNRE-
GA have been “heavily
slashed”. Continued Pg-7...
Hurricane Katrina’s wrath and
rebuilding marked on 10th anniversary
the mayor said. “New
Orleans will be unbowed
and unbroken.”
In Mississippi, churches
along coastal Hancock
County tolled their bells
in unison Saturday morning
to mark the 10th anniversary
of the day that
Katrina made landfall in
the state.
Eloise Allen, 80, wept
softly into a tissue and
leaned against her rusting
Oldsmobile as bells
chimed at Our Lady of the
Gulf Catholic Church just
across a two-lane street
from a sun-drenched
beach at Bay St. Louis.
She said her home, farther
inland, was damaged
but livable. Her daughter
lost her home in nearby
Waveland. Many of her
friends and neighbors suffered
similarly.
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2
Monday,
GUJARAT
31 August, 2015
Morbi BJP MLA
resigns as chief of
ceramic body
RAJKOT
August 30, 2015
In a significant move,
Morbi BJP MLA and Kadva
Patel leader Kanti Amrutiya
has resigned as president of
Morbi Ceramic Federation
after his office was set afire
by Patidar mobs on August
25 night in Morbi town. His
office was torched during
violence that erupted following
arrested of Patidar
Anamat Andolan Samiti
(PAAS) leader Hardik Patel
in Ahmedabad. When contacted,
Amrutiya told TOI
that he was very disturbed
after people of his own community
burnt his office which
he worshiped as a temple.
"Ever since the incident I
have been disturbed. It was
my temple from where I tried
to work for the development
of people. I also worked for
the betterment of ceramic industry
in Morbi. Because of
my work for the people, various
ceramic associations
chose me as president of the
federation. But now, after this
incident, I am resigning from
the post," Amrutiya said.
When asked further whether
he had filed any police complaint
against people who set
his office afire, Amrutiya
said, "There is no meaning in
lodging a complaint. But I
will find out who set afire my
office and then I will go to
police with their names."
Sources said that the relationship
between ceramic industry
and state government had
soured over compliance with
green norms. Ceramic players
had protested against the
enforcement of green norms
and closed down units few
months ago. This had not gone
down well with the state government.
This was when
Amrutiya came into picture and
formed Morbi Ceramic Federation,
the apex body of four ceramic
associations in
Morbi.Meanwhile, the situation
remained tense in Morbi town
where night curfew is still on.
Section 144 of the Indian Penal
Code is also in force even as no
incident of violence was reported
in the last 36 hours.
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Political parties are not welcomed
in the agitation: Hardik Patel
AHMEDABAD
August 30, 2015
Hardik Patel on Sunday, said he won’t allow any political party to enter his
agitation. he added, We are not here to meet any minister. Political parties are not
welcomed in the agitation,” said Patel after reaching the national capital. Hardik
Patel said, who is going to address the media in the afternoon, asserted that merely
five to ten percent of the Patel community members are economically sound and,
hence, the community needs reservation. Hardik added, We want to take our
movement to every part of the nation and have come to Delhi to make future plan
of action. We want the support of Jats and Gurjars.
Patel agitation: Shwetang's
last rite procession begins
amidst tight security
AHMEDABAD
August 30, 2015
The last rites of Shwetang Patel, the Bapunagar youth who
died in police custody, during the riots which broke out in the
city aftyer the arrest of Patel Anamat Andolan Samiti Convener
Hardik Patel, is being carried out in presence of Army,
BSF and CRPF. The funeral procession which began early in
the morning saw people coming out on the streets to pay their
homage to Patel.The Gujarat high court on Friday ordered the
CID-Crime Branch to investigate the alleged custodial death
of 30-year-old Shwetang Patel.The order came after a perusal
of the second post-mortem report that cites the Bapunagar resident
died due to head injury along with other internal and external
injuries.Even the Gujarat high court worked late night
to permit the police to impose curfew if required and also directed
the State to transfer both the police inspectors of
Bapunagar Police station.Late in the night the Police Inspectors
of Bapunagar PD Parmar and RR Vasava were transferred
out of the city. While Parmar was transferred to Rajkot city,
Vasava was transferred to Vadodara city.As the funeral began,
the state government had deployed only BSF, CRPF and
Army in the 1.5 km periphery of the Matrushree society where
Patel lived with his family. The men in Khakhi (local police)
were nowhere to be seen as the entire bandobast was handed
over to CRPF and BSF. The army kept continuously monitoring
the situation and moving in the area as the Yatra passed by.
All the entry points and gates of various societies were blocked
and local were not allowed to come out on the street. However,
this did not stop them.
Constable commits
suicide on railway
track in Sola
AHMEDABAD
August 30, 2015
A 35-year old police constable,
attached with a police
control room (PCR) van of
Sola police station, committed
suicide, his body was found
from railway tracks near
Hebatpur early on Saturday
morning. Sola police said that
the reason for the extreme step
might be personal. According
to Sola police, they got call
from the railway authorities
about a body found ahead of
Ambli railway station near
Hebatpur. When a police team
checked the mangled body,
they found an identity card that
identified the victim as
Rajdeepsinh Jadeja, 35, a police
constable who stayed at
police quarters in Ellisbridge.
"Jadeja was with city police for
past seven years. He lived with
his wife in the city. While the
reason for his extreme step is
yet to be known, police sources
said that investigation has revealed
that his behaviour had become
erratic and he had become irregular
in reporting on duty.
Despite normalcy, internet
ban continues in Vadodara
VADODARA
August 30, 2015
Citizens woke up on Saturday
morning expecting their
phones to be loaded with messages
that were sent over the
last three days. However, little
did they know that the authorities
have issued another
extension of the ban on
internet via mobile and data
cards. While government
maintained that it had imposed
the ban to quell rumours
and maintain normalcy, the
extension of the ban seemed
meaningless as the city witnessed
least of untoward incidents
compared to other cities
following the Patidar unrest.
Despite absolute
normalcy in the city, authorities
have extended the ongoing
ban on mobile internet
services till 10am on Monday
making it five days. TOI had
earlier reported that the collector
and the commissioner had
not extended the suspension
of mobile internet services
that had lapsed on Friday. "Although
the city has been relatively
peaceful, at this point
mobile internet access may
trigger issues. Since other districts
are also continuing with
the suspension, we decided to
continue it here to strike uniformity.
We will be reviewing
the situation on Monday," said
district collector Avantika
Singh. The three-day extension
is being criticized as businesses
were hit and citizens were unable
to connect with their kin
on the occasion of
Rakshabandhan. "The absence
of data card and mobile services
are causing a lot of trouble.
Many of us who want to
file our income tax returns are
stranded as the suspension has
blocked mobile confirmation
messages and filling of forms
via data card," said a prominent
city-based chartered accountant.
Several working professionals
from the city also were
stranded in the wake of the unwarranted
suspension of mobile
internet. "Prominent social media
websites were not working
even on broadband connections
across the city making it difficult
to work. We rely on instant
messaging and calling applications
to send Rakshabandhan
wishes overseas. However, this
year, we could not do so due to
the pointless ban," said Shruti
Sodha, a social media entrepreneur.
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Gujarat Agricultural Lands Ceilings
Act: Shaktisinh slams Government
AHMEDABAD
August 30, 2015
Congress MLA and national
spokesperson Shaktisinh
Gohil charged the Gujarat government
has made a way to
help its favourite businessmen
by giving them precious agricultural
land usurping the
rights of tribal, members of
Baxi Panch communities,
dalits and cattle holders.
Shaktisinh Gohil said,
Congress members were suspended
from the House and the
amendment bill was passed.
The government has taken advantage
of the recent Supreme
Court judgment which declared
that grassland should be
treated as agricultural land.
Available land is massive.
With an eye on this newly
available land the government
brought changes in the Gujarat
Agricultural Lands Ceilings
Act by which this land can be
given to industrialists.
Shaktisinh Gohil added, Explaining
the objective of the
original Act. that it was to take
away excess land from people
and give them to the needy
tribal, members of Baxi Panch
communities, dalits and cattle
holders so that more people
have land. Now the land available
under the Supreme Court
verdict can change lives of
lakhs of poor people of tribal,
members of Baxi Panch communities,
dalits and cattle holders.
But the government is interested
in its favourite businessmen
and industrialists and so it
changed the Act. Now this land
22-year-old man,
son die in accident
VADODARA
August 30, 2015
A 22-year-old man and his
one-year-old son were killed in
a road accident near Vega
Chokdi in Dabhoi taluka of
Vadodara district on Saturday.
Vijay Tadvi and his son Prince
Tadvi were returning from
Kevadia in Narmada district,
when they met with the accident.
Vijay and his wife
Anjana along with the infant
were commuting on a motorbike
when they collided with
the motorbike of Kaushik
Vasava. While Vijay and Prince
died on the spot, Anjana and
Kaushik sustained injuries and
were taken to Dabhoi referral
hospital. The Tadvi family,
which went to celebrate
Rakshabandhan at a relative's
residence in Kevadia, was coming
towards Nada village in
Dabhoi taluka when the accident
occurred. This is the second
incident where two persons
of a family died while commuting
on a motorbike this month.
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Gujarat Agricultural Lands Ceiling
Amendment Act 2 of 1974
A short question which arises for determination in this
batch of cases is whether bid lands were required to be
taken into consideration for the purpose of land ceiling
under the Gujarat Agricultural Lands Ceiling Act,
1960, as amended vide Act 2 of 1974, which came into
force from 1.4.1976. At the outset, we may state that
writ petitions were filed in the High Court inter alia
challenging the provisions of the Gujarat Agricultural
Lands Ceiling Amendment Act 2 of 1974 as violative
of Articles 14 and 19 of the Constitution. We may state
that Amending Act 2 of 1974 has been included as
Item No. 71 in the Ninth Schedule to the Constitution
of India by the Constitution Thirty-fourth Amendment
Act. That inclusion was challenged before the Constitution
Bench of this Court on the ground that Thirtyfourth
Amendment to the Constitution violated the
basic structure of the Constitution which challenge has
now been given up in view of the judgment of this
Court in the case of I.R. Coelho (Dead) by Lrs. v. State
of Tamil Nadu reported in 2007 (2) SCC 1.
can be given to industrialists.
Shaktisinh Gohil said that Congress
will take the issue before
public and expose evil design of
the ruling BJP to gift land worth
billions to its favourites. He said
that the Congress brought this
law in 1960 to help tribal, members
of Baxi Panch communities,
dalits and cattle holders.
Congress gave this land to lakhs
of needy people, but none has
been provided land under the
Act since last 13 years.
Patel Quota Agitation: Nine policemen
booked in alleged custodial death
AHMEDABAD
August 30, 2015
After the Gujarat High ordered a CID probe, nine policemen
including two inspectors and a sub-inspector have been
booked for the alleged custodial death of a 32-year-old man
detained during Patel quota agitation. Hardik Patel, who is leading
the agitation by Patel community for reservation under OBC
quota, today said he is likely to attend funeral of the victim,
Swetang Patel, tomorrow and warned that government will be
held responsible “if anything happens”. Assistant Commissioner
of Police K D Pandya said police inspectors P D Parmar and R
R Vasava of Bapunagar were among nine policemen booked in
the Swetang Patel death case. “We had late last night registered
an FIR in Swetang Patel’s death case against two police inspectors
of Bapunagar, one D-staff PSI and six other policemen of
D-staff for causing death,” Pandya told.D-staff or detection staff
is responsible for conducting investigations in cases filed with a
police station. However, advocate for the victim’s family B M
Mangukia claimed that the FIR did not have names of all the
police officials responsible for the alleged custodial death. “We
had demanded that all those responsible be named, but they (police)
did not register an FIR as per our demand and left out many
high ranking officials, including ACP. We do not want to make
lower ranked policemen a scapegoat in the case,” Mangukia
told. “We sat in the police station for about five hours to register
an FIR…. This is non-compliance of the high court order and a
contempt of court as well,” Mangukia added.
Charotar Patidars to
sit on hunger strike
VADODARA/ ANAND
August 30, 2015
Denied permission to
hold mega rally in Sardar
Patel's ancestral town -
Karamsad - over 500
Patidars from across
Charotar region of Central
Gujarat will sit on hunger
strike on Sunday. Earlier, the
Patidars had decided to organize
a massive rally in
Karamsad to press for their
demand of reservation in
OBC category but the Anand
district administration denied
organizers the permission
to hold the mega rally
on Friday evening. The
mega rally was planned by
the 'Samast Patidar Samaj',
the umbrella body formed by
Patels of Charotar region for
demanding OBC status for
reservation. Conveners of all
talukas in Anand district had
decided to hold rallies in
each taluka in Anand district
on Sunday after which a
mega rally was planned at
Karamsad where organizers
had expected participation of
at least 50,000 persons.

SOUTH GUJARAT
Gujarat CM kicks off Rs.715 crore
water supply projects at Vyara
Vyara
30 August 2015
Chief Minister (CM)
Anandiben Patel today
kicked off three water
supply projects worth
Rs.715 crore in tribal
dominated Tapi district
at a ceremony held at
district headquarter
vyara today.
These water supply
schemes will cover
388 villages and benefit
more than eight lakh
people. On this occasion
Gujarat Assembly
Speaker Ganpatsinh
Vasava said the completion
of the project
will result in saving of
money and energy in
these villages.
Bharuch drug racket
busted: Cannabis
seized, one arrested
Ankleshwar
30 August 2015
One person was arrested
and eight Kg cannabis
worth Rs.1.28 lakh was
seized by Ankleshwar
city police from a rickshaw
as police worked on
Daman
30 August 2015
The Dedicated
Freight Corridor Corporation
of India Limited
(DFCCIL) recently
signed three contracts
worth Rs 1,063 crore
with IIS-L&T Consortium
for the construction
of nine special steel
bridges over Narmada,
Tapi, Daman Ganga,
Par and Ulhas rivers
and three rail bridges in
Surat, Mumbai and Vadodara
for Phase II of
the Western Dedicated
Freight Corridor project.
The contracts were
signed between DFC-
CIL and IIS-L&T Consortium
(a consortium
the basis of the information.
Police arrested Gulam
Sheikh near Piraman
Naka, living at Guajarat
Housing Board in this
connection and declared
two more wanted.
consisting of IHI of Japan
& L&T from India)
on August 24.
The construction of
steel bridges over Tapi,
Par and Daman Ganga
rivers in south Gujarat
will begin next month,
chief project officer of
Surat-based DFCCIL
GD Bhagnani said here
on Tuesday.
Par, Daman Ganga
and Tapi rivers will
have five, six and 15
span bridges.
“These steel bridges
will help increase
goods traffic movement.
The double train
line dedicated to goods
will promote industrial
growth in the region.
The freight corridor
Speaking on this occasion
water supplies
minister Vijay Rupani
said the works worth
more than Rs.2200 are
under construction to
ensure drinking water
to each village in
the state. The state has
1.80 lakh km long water
pipelines to supply
drinking water that also
supplies water to 56
Border Security Force
posts.
CM announced Rs.10
crore second phase allocation
to Ukai Pradesh
Sahkari Khand Udhyog
during her speech.
Kadodara industrial
unit: nine go missing
till August this year
Kadodara
30 August 2015
Nine persons including
two teenagers, a three year
old girl child and three young
married women with their
three children went missing
from areas under Kadodara
police station this year till
the end of the August, starting
from January.
Sixteen year old Arti Bagle
living at Chalthan and hailing
from Nizar in Tapi district,
Shila Choudhari (15),
hailing from Bihar and living
at Vareli, Pratiksha Yadav (3)
hailing from Uttar Pradesh
and living at Tantithaiya
went missing during the last
eight months.
Steel bridges over Tapi,
Par and Daman Ganga
Vyara: 300 Congress
workers join BJP
will solve the issue of
dispatch and receiving
of goods on time and
reduce the cost of transport,”
Bhagnani said.
DFCCIL is a special
purpose vehicle
engaged in planning,
construction, operation
and maintenance of
eastern corridor being
built from Ludhiana to
Dankuni (1840 Km)
and western corridor
from Dadri to Jawahar
Lal Nehru Port (1502
Km). The western corridor’s
construction is
being funded by Japan
International Corporation
Agency and that of
eastern corridor from
Mughalsarai to Ludhiana
by World Bank.
Silvassa health
scare: Poor
solid waste
management
Silvassa
30 August 2015
Lack of proper solid waste
management is adversely affecting
Union Territory residents,
increasing the chances
of infectious diseases. A
team was formed for proper
collection of solid waste but
nothing concrete has been
done in this regard. Lack
of proper disposal has increased
the number of stray
dogs.
The solid waste including
plastic is collected on forest
department land at Kharadpada
and burned by the Palika
staff.
Plastic burning results in
bad effects on human health
and environment pollution.
Puja Mishra (22) hailing
from Madhya Pradesh and
living at Tantithaiya went
missing with her one and a
half year old girl child Divya.
Ramidevi Sahu (21) hailing
from Bihar and living
at Kadodara went missing
along with her two year old
boy child Ayush.
Kiran Vishvakarma (21)
also living at Kadodara and
hailing from Bihar went
missing with her two month
old boy child during the
same period.
Married women go missing
due to marital discord and
teenagers due to love affairs
according to the information
from the police.
Ankleshwar
30 August 2015
A couple residing at Ilav village in
Bharuch district and their girl child
were killed as a car rammed their motorbike
and a moped near Ankleshwar.
Tushar Patel, a resident of Selod and
driving the car rammed two two-wheelers
simultaneously and injured Jayesh
Monday, 31 August, 2015
Blind receiving uniform after getting meal from a family celebrating their loved ones death anniversary at Damna
Monsoon magic
festival in D&NH
Narmada overflow stops,
tourist rush lessens
Bharuch
30 August 2015
Narmada stopped
overflowing the dam
at Kevadiya colony
during last weekend
resulting in lesser number
of tourists coming
to visit the tourist spot.
This time the overflow
Car rams two bikes, three
family members killed
Prajapati seriously resulting in his
death. Jayesh Prajapati’s wife Dipika
and their two year old child Vidhi
died at a hospital in Ankleshwar after
treatment of short duration. Bodies of
the dead were sent to civil hospital in
Ankleshwar for post mortem. Five persons
including car owner and two on
the moped sustained injuries.
Silvassa
30 August 2015
Three day monsoon
magic festival started in
union territory after cross
country race was organised
in the morning at 7:00
a.m. today. Boys and the
girls took part in the festival.
Monsoon song competition
was held at town
hall and Kabaddi competition
at Dudhni at 9:00 a.m.
The festival will conclude
on September 2
with the rain dance and
distribution of prizes at
treat resort.
started for eighteen
days attracting more
than 80 thousand tourists
to see the attractive
scene.
The overflow continued
due to release
of water from Indira
Sagar and Omkareshwar
dam.
Bharuch selected
for Amrut Yojna
3
Bharuch affected
by net ban,
businesses affected
Bharuch
30 August 2015
Business establishments and social life
was affected in Bharuch like all other
parts in Gujarat following the violence
due to reservation agitation during last
five days. The internet ban came into effect
from August 26 at 8:00 p.m.
Inter net banking and share trading was
also affected due to ban.
Bharuch
30 August 2015
Bharuch municipality requested
to state government
to accept rupees 135 Crore
for the basic facilities improved
under the project of
Amrut Yojna, government
selected 68 cities to developed
as a smart city, city
which not included in smart
city plan Amrut Yojna will
applicable in that cities,
Bharuch included in that
Yojna.
Drinking water pipe-line,
underline drainage system,
rain water disposal, city bus
service, Green Park, and
garden, with a view of that
outline of developments
works will be decided. Presentation
was present in the
development meeting organize
at Vadodara circuit
house by Ketan Vanani leading
officer of Bharuch municipality
and Daksha Patel
president of municipality
Municipality director
given permission to draft
proposal of Bharuch municipality
development works,
municipality sent request
to state government, and
implementation will start in
further days.
What is Amrut Yojna?
Atal mission for rejuvenation
and urban transportation
from the MOU department
of central government, cities
of more than one lakh population
will included in, with
a view of that 50% expense
bear by central government,
40% State government and
10% bear by municipality.
Truck rams
motorcycle, one dead
Vyara
30 August 2015
More than three hundred
from Congress party
workers and office
bearers joined BJP today
in during Chief Minister
Anandiben Patel’s
visit. This includes several
Sarpanches Deputy
Sarpanches, former Sarpanches,
and Chairmen of
several milk federations
and Taluka Panchayat
Chairmen Arvind Choudhari.
These former workers
and office bearers today
formally joined the BJP at
a function held at a hall in
Vyara for inauguration of
completed work after an
announcement was made
in this regard yesterday.
Many BJP workers and
office bearers from the
district attended the function.
Fishermen boats ready to venture into the sea near Navsari after vacation period due to the monsoon season.
Bardoli
30 August 2015
One person was killed
and one more was injured
as a truck rammed
a motorbike at Valod near
Vyara today.
The accident occurred
as Sunil Halpati and Yogesh
Ranjit, both Bardoli
residents were returning
to Bardoli after visiting
their relatives at some
other village nearby.
While the former died
on the spot and tragically
due to serious head injuries,
the later received minor
injuries and was shifted
to a hospital at Valod.

4
Monday,
EDITORIAL
31 August, 2015
Phones are now objects of joy and beauty
Lure of darkness
Horror evokes a kind of voyeuristic fascination in human
beings, as is evident in the manner in which they remain glued to
the unfolding story of a bloody crime Horror sells. Most human
beings experience a bizarre attraction towards grisly tales and
stories that produce fear and, at times, even revulsion. This is the
chief reason why the revelations that a mother, previously famous
for her larger-than-life style of living, may have murdered
her own daughter for reasons as yet unknown, have attracted so
much attention and grabbed so much space in the media. Readers
and viewers of television love to know about such happenings,
although common sense would suggest that an account of a
mother killing her own daughter would normally sicken people.
This is where common sense perceptions part company with mass
reactions. Scientists and psychologists have offered explanations
for this attraction towards horror and murder most foul. One explanation
that is offered is that human beings are initially totally
confounded by "unnatural" acts such as filicide or mindless violence;
then the brain tries to understand and process this reality.
This attempt at comprehension results in greater curiosity and
interest. The question that haunts them is, how could a person
perpetrate such an act? A different kind of explanation links the
lure of the horrible to the voyeurism that is inherent in all human
beings. It is happening to others - this sense of distance and relief
keeps people glued to the unfolding story of a bloody crime.
So little is known about the way the human brain functions,
processes, stores and transmits information and emotions that it
is impossible for the intelligent layman to comment on the first
kind of explanation given above. What is undeniable, however,
is that horror evokes its own special kind of fascination. This is
evident not only in the kind of news stories people like to follow
in the media but also in the stories that they love to read and in
the kind of films they like to watch. People scream with terror
while watching the murder sequence in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho,
but they love it, and not just for the cinematic skills it brings
to the fore. People recoil with horror at the scene depicting cannibalism
in Hannibal, but that horror only increased the box office
returns of the film. The other explanation is more sociologically
grounded. People are often fascinated by how the other half
lives. It is worth pondering whether an incident of filicide in a
poor rural household would have evinced such sustained interest
as is being evoked by what is currently "breaking news". The
fact that the affected family belongs to the Page Three strata of
society enhances the incident's news value. People love to see
celebrities becoming notorious. In seeing/reading about such an
incident, voyeurism comes to be linked with a perverse wish -
"they had it coming". Human beings, both in their cruelty and in
their ability to be fascinated by that cruelty, remain a puzzle.
Secure haven
for a terrorist
In an ideal world where the rule
of law mattered and geopolitics did
not dominate the conduct of international
relations, Pakistan would
have cooperated in the capture and
extradition of Dawood Ibrahim and
the criminal and mass murderer
would have faced justice in the country
of his origin. Instead, in this real
world Pakistan persists with its longpursued
policy of “plausible
deniability”, refusing to acknowledge
the presence of the underworld
“kingpin”, let alone responding to
accusations that he has been sheltered
by the agencies of the state.
While he has been absconding from
Indian justice after being identified
as a key conspirator in the 1993
Mumbai blasts that killed hundreds
of people, it has been widely reported
that he lives a secured life of
comfort in Karachi, among other
places. How Ibrahim can live such
a life without protection accorded by
Pakistan’s security establishment is
not an unfathomable mystery. He
was after all playing a leading role
in Pakistan’s strategy of trying to
“bleed India by a thousand cuts”,
that it has seemingly followed fervidly
in the 1990s.
Much water has flowed down the
Indus since then; today Pakistan suffers
festering wounds inflicted by its
own strategy of terror. There is some
degree of realisation among its civilian
establishment that the nexus
between the security establishment
and the jihadi complex has hurt its
fledgling democratic institutions.
This led to an assertion of civilian
supremacy in the latter half of the
SCRIPSI
decade of the 2000s, and a degree
of acceptance by the security establishment
of the need to do away
with military preponderance. But
there has been little reorientation in
Pakistan’s overall foreign policy
towards India, beyond tokenism
and a grudging acceptance of a
changed world at large that has little
tolerance for terrorists and their
sponsors. Despite an Interpol Red
Corner notice out for him, and notwithstanding
the UN Security
Council Resolution 1267 that obligates
UN members to help apprehend
individuals included in a UN
sanctions list against the al-Qaeda
where Ibrahim’s name figures,
there has hardly been any action
taken by Pakistan’s state establishment.
Indian governments over the
years have patiently built a case for
his extradition through dossiers
submitted to Pakistan. But these
have been of no avail, and
unsurprisingly so. After all, the
most wanted terrorist of the last
decade, Osama Bin Laden, was ensconced
in a compound in
Abbottabad not far from the Pakistan
Military Academy campus.
“Plausible deniability” did not work
with the U.S., as President Barack
Obama ordered an operation to take
out Bin Laden, showing little regard
for Pakistan’s sovereignty. It is to
be hoped that the Pakistan government
will revisit the lessons learnt
and cooperate on the issue of
Ibrahim’s extradition. Among other
things, such a step will aid in mending
the fraught relations between
India and Pakistan.
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to
proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly
emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner which undermines their
credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and
secrecy.
- JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN
Travelling abroad is no longer
what it used to be. I'm too young
to have experienced what I think
of as 'Boat Letter' travel, when
anyone going across the kala
paani would disappear from the
radar till a slow ship brought back
a letter, and when the 'taar', aka
wire or telegrams, were used only
to carry extreme good or bad
news. Going off to college in
America in the late 1970s I did
experience 'Aérogramme' travel,
coupled with the occasional operator-mediated
international
trunk call. Long term absences
had different rules and valences
then, but a short trip abroad, such
as a vacation or a work trip, often
meant that the hastily written picture
postcard was either swallowed
by stamp-collecting, image-loving
postal workers or arrived
well after the sender was
back home, defeating the purpose
of conveying information about
the traveller's state of being; indeed
I've known several people
who opened the mailbox and received
their own missives sent
two or three weeks earlier. Phone
calls during short trips abroad
were pretty much unheard of, except
in extremely wealthy circles.
A lot of this changed with the
arrival of STD/ISD, that is, direct
dialling, in the 1980s. Suddenly
we were linked to the world, at
least the developed and semi-developed
world, and the delicious
indulgence of a brief call abroad
was at our fingertips. Through the
1980s and most of the 1990s,
however, letters still held their
own. There was nothing better or
more efficient for the imparting
of long news or complex information
and emotions. The simplification
of the stampless printed
aérogrammes also meant that
there was now no temptation for
anyone in the postal system to
'collect' your letter for their private
delectation, not unless you
were writing from Ulaan Baatar
or Uruguay. Opening and reading
those letters stuffed to the edges
with tiny handwriting, writing
them yourself and adding a PS
outside, after you'd sealed the
gummed flaps, (keeping the public
leakage of text as innocuous
In constant touch
Smart, Smarter And Still Smarting Under Urban Unemployment
The Government of India’s smart cities plan
to create more infrastructure in cities, which cannot
afford to maintain or upkeep that infrastructure,
looks like a Soviet Era plan based on a western
model, where money generated by a highly
industrial and rich economy will take care of the
infrastructure and services provided to improve
the quality of life and leisure of urban dwellers,
who are today contributing most of the income
which the nation generates internally. The smart
city plan like most government plans may end
up creating better infrastructure in cities, better
electricity management and bill and tax collection,
reduction of loss in transmission for power
companies. Better roads to drive imported cars
and better apartments to live in with green cover
and more parks and more leisure time. In short,
this will mean, importing a rich American city
into poor India, with all the resulting financial
complications.
For cities to be smart in India, the planners
of the Government of India need to think out of
the box and UPSC needs to think how to rethink
their recruitment process to provide better managers
to India. So far the recruitment process is
very simple. Anyone who can memorise the history,
politics, current affairs and basic mathematics
and afford a good coaching will have a good
chance of being selected into a job that puts him
or her in-charge of planning for the future of India.
But is this process okay? Does the person
have the right attitude and vision? The smart cities
plan talks about better management of water
and electronic surveillance. Despite electronic
surveillance in Delhi – one of India’s richest municipalities
and police - when India’s most famous
environmental journalist Sunita Narain was
struck down by a maverick as she rode a bicycle
to Lodi Gardens not one camera managed to
record the face of the perpetrator or the car. There
is an issue called maintenance of machinery it
seems. Take water management. The entire paradigm
of water management in Indian cities is
based on mining water where architects look upon
water as something to be pulled into a the house
after being extracted from the ground and then
pushed out after it collects all the filth generated
as possible), few might have imagined
they were at a precipice of communication
history, at the end of an
epic period that began when the use
of paper for writing and reading
spread from the elite to the wider
populace. Looking back, it is shocking
how quickly the use of paper,
specifically of snail mail (as it began
to be called in the West), has
shrunk in India. The rural and urban
poor with their literacy challenges
have never fetishized letters and
postcards, and now the ubiquitous
mobile phone lends itself far more
easily to the verbal modes the general
public has always preferred.
Younger people of all classes, (for
argument's sake let's just say the generations
that came to sensibility as
the postal letter began to be effaced
from use), have also been contemptuous
of this archaic pen and paper
nonsense. At the risk of
overdramatizing, one could say that
the almost simultaneous arrivals of
the internet/email and the affordable
cellular phone were like two quick
but fatal stab wounds into the body
of the old, paper-based communication
apparatus. Less bloodily, one
could note that the 'new' communication
modes were themselves
seeded with obsolescence to the
point of absurdity. Mobile calls,
SMS and email were rapidly put in
their place by internet chatting and
net-based video-calling. These no
longer new waters have now been
forced to find their own levels by
newer and newer means that have
landed upon us.
I got an early generation
smartphone about four years ago but
I used only a few of its functions:
phone calls, texts, camera, music,
notes. I don't like to read long texts on
small screens so I avoided getting
emails and internet on that phone. That
particular instrument, supposedly a
classic Android, died last year and I
got myself a cheap-end substitute
which was supposed to have functions
way beyond its brand's teaser price.
Again, I avoided what I imagined were
the teenage excesses of Facebook,
Facebook Messaging and other
messaging trinkets. This phone too
went to meet its makers (in less than a
year, so I hope those Motor-mouths
were ashamed when they saw it again)
earlier this year and I finally threw in
my gizmo-resistance towel and bought
a 'top-of-the-line' slab from that major
rival of Android, Google and Windows
phones whose name I misplace.
I hate to admit it but the thing
is an object of joy and beauty. Such
is the ease of use, so smooth are its
multiple functions, that it invites, nay
seduces, you into 'doing' more with
it than you perhaps want to, a bit like
a good waiter in a posh restaurant
gets you to order above your budget.
Suddenly, without thinking, you're
simultaneously speaking to someone
on the phone, finding the contact
details of someone else and sending
them via SMS, while checking the
latest news, while photographing the
cup of coffee on the café table in
front of you for later dissemination.
If this seems excessive it's because
that's exactly what it is. However,
the multiple functions of (the no
longer new) smartphones (and, since
I'm not employed by any mega-firm
on the US west coast, this is true of
in the house. To be really smart, water management
should be about total water recycling in cities.
Today almost every urban Indian kitchen uses
an aqua guard or an RO system or a filtration system
to clean water before drinking it. Can every
house, therefore, be made to install a huge filtration
plant that treats the water and recycles it
thereby using technology to recreate the process
of a sullage farm inside a housing complex? Theoretically
if water is recycled and returned to the
house, there should be no water crisis as it can be
recycled indefinitely. The government would be
smart if it got rid of the water works department
and provided fiscal incentives to house owners
and builders to install filtration plants to recycle
their water and let the MCD collect the resultant
fertiliser from the apartment complexes. It would
be smart if it sets up the factories to manufacture
such systems in the public sector and created jobs
for several young city dwellers in the process.
Mumbai already is smart in several ways as they
have rechargeable electricity meters and they are
prepaid so people known how much of their
quota of electricity is left to be used in the month.
Can the same principle be applied to Uttar
Pradesh? Power theft is an epidemic in Uttar
Pradesh. If one looks carefully at the figures it
shows that education, regional prosperity and
other factors also count. The richest districts like
Noida and Ghaziabad, therefore, have the low-
most new models no matter of
which system-church) really come
into their own while travelling in
a more or less fully networked environment.
It's only when you
move from 'fully free' to 'free for
30 minutes' to 'what's the password'
Wi-Fi networks that the true
meaning of life's adventure becomes
clear: it's to decode the local
Wi-Fi, access it and to stay in
constant touch not only with your
near and dear ones but even the
people that you detest and never
want to see again. In this endeavour,
the WhatsApp application becomes
a major player. This app allows
you to send free texts between
WhatsApp connected
phones, to call them, but also to
send photos and short bits of
sound. The fun thing about this is
you can have text-less photo-dialogues
with people and send
strange sounds or shards of eavesdropped
conversations to them,
even if you don't do anything as
boringly 20th-century as call their
phone and speak with their stupid
voice. In the uber-connected
West-phoren, the real excitement
and tension comes when you're in
a 'Wi-Fi desert', that is, those rare
zones where there is no 'connection',
or no free one, or not a good
one. In any case, travelling around
western Europe, I've found myself
doing all of the following things:
standing outside the friendly
neighbours' house in a tiny French
hamlet - "they don't mind if you
access their Wi-Fi standing near
their garage" - and rocking my tronic
slab in the drizzle as suspicious motorists
drive past; diligently photographing
and whatsapping off every
order of french-fries/ pommes frites
for a Bong pal who claims she can't
get decent 'chips' in India; watching
the Radhe Maa's latest You-Tubery
by the Rialto Bridge (if you prick us,
do we not bleed, indeed); receiving
the deluge of images sent by a friend
who's slightly older and who has just
simultaneously discovered the joys
of a decent phone-camera and the
various transmission technologies for
the photographs it produces; reading
and responding to various work
emails that I would rather have
avoided, while standing in the
boarding queues of flights.
est rate of power theft. While the less prosperous
ones – where people do not have any meaningful
occupation – account for most of the
power theft. Even the state capital Lucknow –
another smart city - shows more than 20 per cent
loss in transmission. This is because a largely
unemployed population sits idle in the old city
and adjoining areas or are earning a pittance to
keep body and soul together. With the government
oblivious to their needs to find an employment,
power theft will continue as they simply
cannot afford to pay for it in some areas, yet
they need it to live. Officials of the UP Power
Corporation refer to power theft as loss in transmission
and it has a pattern. While certain districts
register low rates of line loss during transmission
like Ghaziabad and Noida where the
losses are 11.8 and 6.8 per cent respectively, others
like Azamgarh and Farukhabad show that
even 60 to 70 per cent of power can be lost while
in transmission. As such if the law of averages
is applied only half the people with power connections
are paying their bills in the state. One
of the biggest reasons why people do not have
money to pay for power is due to the lack of
power in the state itself. Industry and business
cannot function in the cities of UP. Even to install
a photostat machine to earn one’s livelihood,
one has to install a diesel genset first.
Manufacturing and employment generation activities
which provide people with an income are,
therefore, last on the agenda of the rulers. The result
is that there is unabated power theft in the state.
So Lucknow is to be a smart city too. But for whom?
Definitely not the residents of Lucknow? The colonies
of the city suffer from a syndrome called the
empty nest syndrome. There are hardly any children
of the college level studying in Lucknow. After
their intermediate very few remain behind and
some of those who do go to colleges that literally
sell degrees. There is hardly any media coverage of
any education minister visiting any college or university
to check out the situation for himself. In one
district alone, a tainted politician and reported mafia
don runs 36 primary schools and the Allahabad
High Court has been forced to comment on the
state of government schools in the state.
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BUSINESS
Tata’s revenue rises to $108.8
bn; headcount crosses 6 lakh
Monday, 31 August, 2015
5
NEW DELHI
August 30, 2015
Top corporate house Tata
group’s total revenue rose by
over five per cent to USD
108.78 billion in the last fiscal,
while its total headcount
crossed six-lakh mark with IT
and communications business
accounting for more than half
of the overall staff strength.
The international operations
of the group, which has
more than 100 companies
across various businesses
spread over the world, accounted
for almost 70 per cent
of its total revenue in the fiscal
2014-15, according to the
latest group-level financials
disclosed by it. The total revenue
rose by 5.3 per cent to
USD 108.78 billion, from
USD 103.27 billion in the fiscal
2013-14. In rupee terms,
the total revenue rose by 6.5
per cent to Rs. 6,65,185 crore
in 2014-15, while sales were
up 5.9 per cent at Rs. 6,53,381
crore. The revenue growth
rate has, however, fallen from
18.5 per cent recorded in the
previous fiscal 2013-14.
Aurobindo Pharma
gets USFDA nod for
osteoporosis drug
HYDERABAD
August 30, 2015
Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.
has received approval from
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(USFDA) to
manufacture and market
Raloxifene Hydrochloride
tablets USP 60mg. Announcing
this on Saturday,
the company said the drug
was indicated for treatment
and prevention of
osteoporosis in
postmenopausal women. Its
estimated market size was
$404 million for the twelve
months ended June 2015.
The approved abbreviated
new drug application
(ANDA) is bioequivalent
and therapeutically equivalent
to the reference listed
drug product Evista tablets
60mg of Eli Lilly. It is 45
ANDA to be approved out
of Unit-VII formulation facility
in Hyderabad for
manufacturing oral non-antibiotic
products, a company
release said.
New recruits in public
sector banks need
mentoring: Dena Bank
Executive Director
HYDERABAD
August 30, 2015
A system of mentoring new
recruits to provide them a good
grasp of various functions is
something public sector banks
need to give a serious thought
as the requirement for more
hands grows, opines Dena
Bank Executive
Director
R.K.
Takkar.
Unless such
a measure is
initiated,
the banks
will be
challenged by a knowledge
gap arising from the inadequate
exposure of the newcomers,
he said during an interaction
with The Hindu.In
Hyderabad recently, where he
opened two branches and addressed
senior officials of the
bank, Mr. Takkar, while underscoring
the significance of
bridging the knowledge gap,
pointed out how even those
who joined the industry five
years ago lacked enough exposure.
Large scale recruitments,
in both clerical and officer cadres,
have become common
place in public sector banks in
recent years and set to continue
with several thousand personnel
retiring and the institutions
pursuing ambitious branch network
expansion plans.
While the profit figures were
not disclosed, the group’s international
revenue rose by
5.8 per cent to USD 73.41 billion.
Revenue from global operations
had grown by 27 per
cent in the previous fiscal.
Total assets rose to USD
117.9 billion, from USD
116.3 billion during the fiscal.
The group’s total headcount
stood at 6,11,794 at the
end of the fiscal 2014-15, out
of which more than 3.5 lakh
were in its IT and communications
business. The engineering
business had more
than 93,000 employees, while
materials business had over
80,000 and services had
nearly 44,000 staff members.
The consumer products
business also had more than
22,000 employees, while energy
segment had over 9,000.
In 2013-14, the group’s em-
ployee count had increased by
6.8 per cent to 5,81,473. In the
group revenue during the latest
fiscal, the engineering
business accounted for the
largest pie of 41 per cent, followed
by materials and the IT
& communications at 21 per
cent each. Services and energy
business contributed 5
per cent each to the group revenue,
while consumer products’
share was 4 per cent and
that of chemicals at about 3
per cent. Founded by Jamsetji
Tata in 1868, the Tata group
has over 100 independent operating
companies across six
continents, out of which 30
are publicly listed entities with
combined market capitalisation
of about Rs. 8 lakh crore.
Tata Sons is the principal investment
holding company
and promoter of the Tata companies.
The major group companies
include Tata Steel, Tata
Motors, TCS, Tata Power,
Tata Chemicals, Tata Global
Beverages, Tata Teleservices,
Titan, Tata Communications
and Indian Hotels.
Centre mulls user-friendly plans for electric hybrid vehicles
CHENNAI
August 30, 2015
Enthused by the positive
response to electric and hybrid
vehicles, the Department of
Heavy Industry (DHI) has suggested
introducing some userfriendly
initiatives to keep the
momentum.The DHI called for
launching a mobile app that
indicates the nearest battery
charging points, directing entrepreneurs
to start battery
banks across the country to
avoid range distress/anxiety
and for swapping of twowheeler
battery, among others.
Ambuj Sharma, Additional
Secretary, DHI, said: “People
start thinking about electric
and hybrid vehicles as and
when the fuel price goes up.
We are talking to several
stakeholders for introducing
mobile app, battery swap system
and installing plug charging
points in malls, multi-storeyed
buildings, public places
and petrol bunks.” The sale of
pure electric or environment
friendly vehicles in the country
has started picking up since
April 2015, due to green subsidy
given by the Centre. By
the end of August, the sale of
pure electric vehicles would be
equivalent to 2014-15 sales
volume of 16,000 units. The
numbers will touch 50,000 by
the end of current year and one
lakh by next year, he said. “In
fact, five years ago, the industry
sold one lakh electric vehicles.
But the numbers dropped
significantly after the withdrawal
of incentives/subsidy.
The Centre started offering
upfront discount to the buyers
of electric and hybrid vehicles,
since April 1,” he said. To put
more vehicles on Indian roads
by 2020 and also to tackle pollution
and energy bill, the Centre
came out with a scheme —
FAME (faster adoption and
manufacturing of electric vehicles).
Photo: Special Arrangement
The company is evaluating to offer solutions such as light metro/monorails/light rail
vehicles for smart cities.
Bombardier bullish
on Indian market
MUMBAI
August 30, 2015
Canada-based Bombardier Inc.’s rail unit
is bullish about the opportunities in India, buoyed
by thrust given to the sector in the Railway
budget and Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s pet projects such as high speed trains
and smart cities. Railway Minister Suresh
Prabhu had announced an investment outlay
of Rs.8.5 lakh crore ($125 billion) to transform
the Indian Railways in the next five years
in the Railway budget. “The number of
projects is immense but the segments identified
for investment that Bombardier will follow
most keenly under Indian Railways are
rolling stock such as locomotives, EMUs, inter-city
or commuter trains, plus semi highspeed
and high-speed rail, maintenance and
advanced signalling systems,” Harsh Dhingra,
Chief Country Representative, India, Bombardier
Transportation, told The Hindu. Bombardier
Transportation is also evaluating to offer
solutions such as light metro/monorails/light
rail vehicles for smart cities, he added. The
firm is already pursuing various metro projects
such as Bengaluru Metro Phase-II, Nagpur
Metro, Ahmedabad Metro and Mumbai Metro
Phase-III along with metro projects for signalling
systems only in Noida Metro and
Greater Noida Metro.
China gets tough to tame volatile markets
CHENNAI
August 30, 2015
China has launched a crackdown to counter growing economic
turbulence, and taken steps to infuse fresh liquidity to
ease the country’s difficult transition from export-led growth to
a consumption oriented ‘new normal’ economy. Faced with a
cycle of stock market routs, the China Securities Regulatory
Commission (CSRC) — the body that supervises
securities — has taken the lead to
target illegal stock market operations,
which Chinese authorities believe were
decisive in causing the market blowouts.
On Friday, CSRC spokesperson, Zhang
Xiaojun said at a press conference that 22
instances of illegality in the stock market
have been identified. These findings have
been handed over for detailed investigation
by the Ministry of Public Security —
the country’s powerful law enforcing arm. The investigators will
probe the role of 48 entities, including the 22 that have been
recently identified, in their suspected role in market manipulation,
insider trading, fake information and illicit business, involving
unwarranted profiteering. Analysts say the crackdown
is driven more by political considerations — of restoring the
faith of a vast number of retail investors in the markets. Mr.
Zhang stressed that the CSRC’s task was to stabilise the market
and protect the rights of investors. A day after last Monday’s
drop in share prices to an eight month low, Xinhua reported that
eight people — including a top executive of a major mainland
securities firm, an employee of a well-known media group as
well as a serving and a former official of the national market
regulator — had been taken for questioning over alleged market
malpractices. The report did not name the eight people
but, South China Morning Post said that Xu Gang, Managing
Director of Citic Securities, one of China’s biggest securities
firms; Ouyang Jiansheng, a former CSRC
department director in charge of market
supervision; Liu Shufan, a CSRC division
head; and Caijing magazine reporter
Wang Xiaolu were among them. There is
speculation that Mr. Wang of the Caijing
magazine has been detained on account
of an article that he published on July 20
in which he asserted that the CSRC, which
played a central role in ensuring a massive
financial bailout, was preparing on a
plan to exit the markets. On Tuesday night, four other securities
firms — Haitong Securities, GF Securities, Huatai Securities
and Founder Securities — were also under the regulator’s
scanner. Probing with stealth, a team of investigators led
by the Ministry of Public Security had apparently been dispatched
to the CSRC’s office since July 9, to help unveil ‘malicious
short-selling’ in the markets. Notwithstanding the alleged
malpractices in the markets, most economists agree that
the Chinese economy, especially traditional manufacturing based
on high energy consumption, is heading for a slowdown.
Paradox of a dwindling world economy and a growing India
MUMBAI
August 30, 2015
For Indian markets, as inflation
has been climbing down,
monsoon near normal and currency
being one of the better
currencies compared to
Malaysian Ringgit, Indonesian
Rupiah and South African
Rand, the economy could withstand
any financial onslaught.
There are three major crisis
faced by the Indian financial
markets since the opening up of
the Indian Economy in 1992 —
The South-east asian currency
crisis in 1997; global financial
crisis in 2007 with the fall of
investment bank, Lehman
Brothers: and the slump in the
Chinese economy witnessed
this week.While the intensity of
the fall in financial markets was
less in 1997 as the country was
not exposed much to the global
economy at that point of time,
the impact was heavier in 2015.
“We were able to protect our
markets because of our strong
macro economic fundamentals,”
says N. S. Venkatesh,
Executive Director and Chief
Executive Officer of IDBI
Bank. The fears of China
economy slump have made
the market very nervous. “But
I believe this (fear) has been
overdone,” says Mr.
Venkatesh. For Indian markets,
as inflation has been climbing
down, monsoon near normal
and currency being one of the
better currencies compared to
Malaysian Ringgit, Indonesian
Rupiah and South African
Rand, the economy could withstand
any financial onslaught.
The markets would stabilise at
current levels and will see an
upward trajectory reflecting the
growth potential for the country.
The fall in commodity
prices, particularly the crude oil
will help us reducing the subsidy
burden for the government
and will in turn help better fiscal
management and reduction
in inflation expectations. In
1997, other economies, especially,
the emerging market
economies (EMEs) were overheated
with the foreign funds
entering their real estate and
stock markets. However, India’s
premature stage of openness
(of economy) helped the
country from a wild attack of
withdrawal of foreign funds
as witnessed in other countries.
When global financial
crisis erupted in 2007, the
country’s economy was well
protected by the Reserve Bank
of India (RBI) with Dr. Y.V.
Reddy at the helm. The
proactive regulatory regime
perceived by higher capital as
well as higher risk weightage
for real estate loans, the central
bank was able to kept the asset
bubbles at bay. This legacy had
been continued by Dr. D.
Subbarao also. The RBI, as a
regulator, has always been ensuring
that short-term hot
money flows are discouraged
which has helped the country
to withstand all financial
turbulences from 1997. “Even
when look at the preference of
the country, we attract long
term flows from real money investors
such as pension funds,
insurance funds and sovereign
wealth funds,” says Mr.
Venkatesh. This would enable
the economy to withstand any
financial turmoil, together with
the built up of adequate foreign
reserves.
“Rail is considered a significant engine
of inclusive growth and development for India,
with the potential to contribute up to 2
per cent of GDP compared to current 1 per
cent levels,” Mr. Dhingra said. “To maintain
historic levels of national growth at 7-8 per
cent a year, the railways need to grow each
year by around 9.5 per cent. This will create
new jobs, save energy and improve the environment,
while moving people, raw materials
and goods more efficiently nationwide,” he
added. The firm has so far invested $100 million
in the last two decades in India and employs
1,100 people. It also caters to the export
market in Australia, Middle East, Europe
and Brazil from its manufacturing facility in
Gujarat. The firm sources 70 per cent of content
from India itself. “We are open to more
investments and increasing headcount locally
subject to winning the projects we are currently
pursuing for India,” Mr. Dhingra said.
He also said the firm takes confidence from
initiatives to support foreign direct investments,
from which Indian Railways expects
to collect $13 billion, besides a proposed infrastructure
fund to raise long-term debt from
domestic and overseas sources, including pension
funds, bilateral and multi-lateral financial
institutions to address the funding issues
behind major projects.
Nine top-valued Sensex
companies see Rs. 93,000
crore m-cap erosion
NEW DELHI
August 30, 2015
Nine out of the top ten most valued Sensex companies saw
their combined valuation erode by a staggering Rs. 93,000 crore
last week, amid steep market fluctuation on account of weak
global cues. After seeing a bloodbath on August 24 when
Sensex recorded the biggest single-day fall, the 30-share benchmark
Sensex managed to recover the lost ground during the
week even as volatility persisted. Among the top 10 firms in
terms of market capitalisation, state-run Coal India was the
lone gainer. The miner saw its valuation jump by Rs. 5,495.23
crore to Rs. 2,25,746.86 crore in the week ended August 28.
The remaining nine bluechip firms, including Reliance Industries
and ONGC, witnessed an erosion of Rs. 93,003.47 crore
in their combined market capitalisation. Last week, the country’s
largest software exporter TCS’ valuation plunged by Rs.
20,458.91 crore to Rs. 5,03,520.41 crore. Reliance Industries’
market capitalisation slumped by Rs. 11,689.71 crore to Rs.
2,82,107.36 crore while that of state-owned lender State Bank
of India plummeted by Rs. 13,732.69 crore to Rs. 1,88,587.97
crore. Similar trends were seen with respect to other top Sensex
companies. The market worth of Sun Pharma fell by Rs.
12,826.31 crore to Rs. 2,12,957.58 crore and that of ONGC
declined by Rs. 10,608.81 crore to Rs. 2,08,368.96 crore. In
case of IT major Infosys, the market capitalisation dropped by
Rs. 9,164.81 crore to Rs. 2,55,121.64 crore.
Africa presents $35
m opportunity for
Indian IT companies:
Nasscom
NEW DELHI
August 30, 2015
Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) is
seen as a catalyst for development
and is high on the agenda
of many African
governments.The IT companies
in India are eyeing $35
million opportunities in the
burgeoning African market to
expand business as they aim to
reduce dependence on the U.S.
and the U.K. markets, which
presently accounts for about 80
per cent of their revenues. “Africa
presents a huge opportunity
for us. There are 50 plus
countries with a population of
over one billion people.

6
Monday,
31 August, 2015 ENTERTAINMENT
Actor Arjun Rampal has been on a
continuous media trial over rumours of a
rocky relationship with his wife Mehr Jesia.
But the actor prefers not to react. Arjun and
Mehr, who have been married for over 15
years, have been caught in the midst of
divorce rumours, and while Arjun has
slammed the media over it in the past, he
now seems unaffacted.
"I don't have any views as I feel people
have more views than me," Arjun told IANS
here when asked about his views on the
rumours related to his personal life. Arjun
married Mehr, a supermodel of her time, in
1998. Together, they have two daughters.
Arjun walked the runway for European
brand Buggati shoes, that's making its India
foray through e-commerce platform Jabong.
Arjun unveiled the collection on the ramp in
a classic pair of Bugatti shoes with his name
inscribed on them. He was even seen
walking around the venue with Mehr; they
both posed for shutterbugs; and later even
took a seat next to each other for designer
Monisha Jaising's show, the last presentation
of the fourth day of the fashion gala on
Saturday. Asked if Arjun, a model-turnedactor,
has ever thought about launching his
Sonakshi Sinha
visits Golden
Gate Bridge in
San Francisco
Sonakshi Sinha is in San
Francisco for a stage show
and since it's her first time
there, she is soaking in the
view from the city's famed
Golden Gate Bridge.
When the actress was told
that two per cent of people
who jump from the bridge
survive the fall, and that
some just leap for fun, she
said she was glad to have
never tried it.
SS Rajamouli’s
‘Baahubali’ to be
screened at Busan
film festival
S.S Rajamouli's magnum
opus "Baahubali" will be
screened in the upcoming
20th edition of Busan
International Film Festival
(BIFF) S.S Rajamouli‘s
magnum opus “Baahubali”,
which has turned out to be
the biggest grossing Indian
film ever, will be screened
in the upcoming 20th
edition of Busan International
Film Festival (BIFF).
BIFF will be take place
between October 1 and
October 10. “‘Baahubali’
will be screened at Busan
international film festival on
Oct 4th, 7th and 9th. I’ll be
attending on 4th,” Rajamouli
tweeted on Saturday.
Here's what Arjun
Rampal has to say
on rumours of divorce
with wife
Mehr Jesia
own fashion line, he said: "Offers keep
coming to me where people want (me)
to do that. It can work out at some
point of time, but right now my mind
is not there.
"My mind is more in films, so I
am focussing more towards that. I
am really not too much towards
creating a clothing line (as of
now." He, however, feels that
Indian designers are doing great in creating
more menswear lines, and says he feels
proud whenever he flaunts ethnic clothes
wherever he goes. "When I went to Cannes
(in 2012), I wore Rohit Bal's bandgala. I like
ethnic wear and I think Indian designers are
doing really well. I feel they are doing really
good cuts even in western jackets." "Also,
some of the western designers are copying
our designer bandgala, so that proves... I
love my Indian designers and whenever I
get an opportunity, I wear their creations,"
said Arjun, who was last seen on the big
screen in "Roy", and is currently working
on "Daddy". Before stepping into
Bollywood in 2001 with "Pyaar Ishq Aur
Mohabbat", Arjun was a hugely successful
model. He says that the fashion ramp has
given him everything and if his daughters
would like to be a part of this world, he
will support them. "Modelling gave me a
lot in my life. I never look down upon
modelling as a profession. Whatever my
daughters want to do, I'm fine with it. They
can act, model, (indulge in) sports... as
long as they are passionate towards it. They
really need to love it and it should come
from within," he said.
I’m protective about
Shahid: Alia Bhatt
Actress Alia Bhatt came to
the rescue of her Shaandaar
co-star Shahid Kapoor at an
event when personal questions
were directed to him, and
said that she’s “protective”
about him. Shahid and Alia
were present at an event, the
Close-Up First Move Party,
where they had a fun-filled
interaction with
mediapersons. When Shahid
was asked who made the first
move for his wedding -- was
it him or his wife Mira Rajput
-- and other similar questions,
Alia took charge and dismissed
all questions one after
another. This prompted
scribes to ask them if they
had decided to save each
other from personal
queries.To that, Alia said:
“There’s no deal! I’m just
Actress
Amrita Rao
who has not
been seen
in films
lately wants
to work in
films which
stay in the
memories
of viewers.
Want to work in films
which remain
memorable: Amrita Rao
Actress Amrita Rao who has not been seen in
films lately wants to work in films which stay
in the memories of viewers. “My previous
films were ‘Jolly LLB’ and ‘Satyagraha’. And
I’m a bit selective, but I’ve always had in my
mind that whichever films I will do are
memorable,” said Amrita who was present at
the special screening of “Baanke Ki Crazy
Baraat”. “I’ve seen the film and it will definitely
rock. Vijay Raaz and Sanjay Mishra
have done an incredible job in the film,”
Amrita said about the comedy film. When
asked what kind of husband she wants, she
said: “I really don’t know. I don’t think so
much. Whom the heart instantly likes, is the
person made for you. I don’t think that he
should be of a specific type. If you love
someone, there are no recipes, it just happens.”
She was previously linked with Shahid Kapoor
after working together in “Ishq Vishka” and
“Vivah” which were extremely liked by
audiences. Amrita has displayed her versatility
over the years with fine performances in
serious films but her light-hearted roles such
as in “Masti” and “Main Hoon Na” are more
popular. But comedy is not a cakewalk for her,
she said. “I’ve worked in many comedy films
including “Welcome To Sajjanpur”. Obviously
to deliver the written dialogues in your style
and to touch the audiences so that they laugh,is
a very difficult task.” She said that she’ll soon
be seen in a film, the producers of which are
going to make an announcement soon.
Great to see designers giving importance to models: Ujjwala Raut
Supermodel Ujjwala Raut says
she is happy to see a change
in the mindset of the Indian
designers, who are
now giving a lot of emphasis
on models.
Internationally-acclaimed
supermodel Ujjwala Raut says she is
happy to see a change in the mindset
of the Indian designers, who are now
giving a lot of emphasis on models.
Ujjwala, 37, who has walked the ramp
for top international names like Yves
Saint-Laurent, Roberto Cavalli, Diane
von Furstenberg, Dolce & Gabbana and,
Victoria’s Secret among others, said she
has nothing against Bollywood but she
thinks fashion is like a models birth right.
“It’s great to see that fashion is coming
back to models even though it is happening
slowly. I feel that fashion is like a model’s
birth right. I have a lot of friends in Bollywood,
we all used to model together. “I went international
and then made it to Bollywood. I have
nothing against the film industry, even my
younger sister Sonali (Raut) does acting too.
I just feel it is great to see the designer’s
supporting the models,” Ujjwala said on
the sidelines of Lakme Fashion Week.
Modelling has often been seen as a
stepping stone to having a career in
Home and Away: Bangladeshi writer Taslima
Nasrin talks about film inspired by her exile
Bangladeshi
writer Taslima
Nasrin on the
film inspired by
her exile and
the dangerous
situation for
free thinkers in
her homeland.
protective about Shahid. And
we’re talking about
‘Shaandaar’ here. I get very
irritated when people ask
more personal questions
when we’re trying to be on
the work front. Make it more
about the work. It’s only
fair.”The Highway actress
also called herself a “good
friend” and “good girl” for protecting
Shahid. Even Shahid
made it clear that he wanted the
questions to be restricted to his
work and Shaandaar. When
Shahid was asked why he’s so
reserved about his personal
life, Alia responded: “Because
it’s personal. That’s why he’s
reserved.” Shaandaar is directed
by Vikas Bahl under the
banner of Phantom Films and
Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions.
The systematic and cold-blooded slaying
of Bangladeshi bloggers who dare to talk about
their religious and political views worries
Taslima Nasrin. “Had the liberals of the country
spoken up against the fundamentalists 20
years ago, none of this would have happened.
It’s high time the rest of the world woke up to
this reality. We need to write articles on the
issue, make films on the subject,” she says.
Nasrin would know what it is like to live in
fear — a year after the publication of her fifth
novel, Lajja (Shame) in 1993, she was forced
to go to Europe, North America and India to
protect herself from death threats issued by
Islamic fundamentalists incensed by the book
and her secular, feminist beliefs. Last week, a
film about her separation from Bangladesh hit
the screens in her adopted home, West Bengal.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker
Churni Ganguly, Nirbashito (Banished) is the
first cinematic exploration of the events surrounding
Nasrin’s exile; the film, shot in
Kolkata and Sweden, revolves around a single
incident in the life of the Bangladeshi author.
And though the protagonist in the film
too has a feline companion (Nasrin’s cat is
Minu, the cat in the film is called Baghini),
she is not quite Nasrin. “She is a different person.
The filmmakers have taken an incident
from my life and have tried to bring forth certain
themes. That’s about it,” says Nasrin over
the phone from New Delhi, where she lives
when she’s not travelling to America. In the
US, she is helping the US government identify
Bangladeshi bloggers who are under
threat, to arrange for them to get asylum. The
unnamed protagonist in Nirbashito, played by
Ganguly herself, has certainly been styled like
Nasrin — she wears her hair short and drapes
her sari smartly, much like an airhostess, and
lines her eyes with just a hint of kohl. But
Ganguly’s interpretation of Nasrin is rather
mellow, more restrained than the public persona
of the firebrand writer. “Some of my
friends who have seen the film have told me
that they can’t identify certain aspects of the
character. They feel I come across as too passive.
I felt it too, but then I realise that Churni
had to focus on just one emotional track of
my life. The film is not my autobiography and
doesn’t attempt to tell the story of my struggle
as a writer, a woman,” says Nasrin. When
writer-director Kaushik Ganguly, who cowrote
the film along with Churni, approached
Nasrin with the script in 2009, it was meant
to be a satire. “It was supposed to be a sharp
commentary on the way the government functions.
You can see certain elements of it in the
film. I was sceptical about the changes that
were made later, but Kaushik convinced me
that this will be more effective,” says Nasrin.
Churni, who tweaked Kaushik’s script to give
it a “universal appeal”, is certain that she never
wanted the film to be a biopic.
Bollywood. Ujjwala said opting a career in films after modelling
is the most easy way to be in showbiz “It just that
Bollywood is something that everyone wants to do after modelling.
So if you don’t really go international and if you don’t
have anything to fall back, the next step has to be Bollywood.
It is a great industry, you get noticed a lot ,”said the
supermodel, who is also a mother to a nine-year-old
girl.Ujjwala said with all her modelling experience,
she feels it is time for her to give back to the industry
and would love to do something to mentor
young models as there is a lot of scope for
nurturing young talents here. “I am in talks
for something. It was brought to my attention
last week. There is a lot of room here
for grooming. I was fortunate enough to
learn from the best in the business in
India and abroad. Modelling is not just
about dressing up. It is about how you
talk, how you look how you carry yourself.
How patient you are. It is about a
lot of waiting,” Ujjwala said. Ujjwala
shines in Monisha Jaising’s creation
at LFW Ujjwala Raut looked no less
than a diva when she sashayed down
the ramp in a stunning sheer net crystal
gown with long sleeves for designer
Monisha Jaising’s show at the
ongoing Lakme Fashion Week
(LFW) winter-festive 2015 here.
Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal, who
has been on a continuous media trial
over rumours of troubled marriage
with Mehr Jessia, graced the front
row with his wife.
Shahid, Mira Hand-in-hand
at Masaba's LFW show
They were hand-in-hand and looked much in love! Actor
Shahid Kapoor and his wife Mira made for a truly
‘showstopper’ moment when they attended quirky and
popular designer Masaba Gupta’s show at the Lakme
Fashion Week (LFW) 2015 ramp on Saturday. Looking
dapper in a black suit with a casual black buttoned-down
shirt, Shahid matched his steps perfectly with his wife,
who was glowing in an avant garde outfit by Masaba,
who had even attended their closely guarded wedding
nuptials. They took front row seats and Mira was trying
to hide her face from the shutterbugs to avoid being
clicked. Accompanying them were Masaba’s partner
Madhu Mantena, and actress Mandira Bedi.Even Soni
Razdan, mother of actress Alia Bhatt who’s friends with
Masaba, was present at the gala to cheer the daughter of
her own friend, Neena Gupta. Dia Mirza was spotted too.

SPORTS
Cheteshwar Pujara
enters elite group after
unbeaten 145
Colombo: Cheteshwar
Pujara not only shone
with his bat in Colombo
with an unbeaten 145 but
also became the fourth Indian
batsman to carry his
bat in Tests. So far, only
49 players have managed
to achive the feat in the
longer format.
For India, only Sunil
Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid
and Virender Sehwag
have managed to do this.
Gavaskar was unbeaten
during his knock of 127
against arch-rival Pakistan
in Faisalabad in January
1983 while discarded
India opener Virender
Sehwag achieved the
same feat against Sri
Lanka, eight years ago in
Galle when he smashed
an unbeaten 201.
India’s ‘Wall’ Rahul
Dravid remain unbeaten
against England at The
Oval in 2011. The solid
right-hander remained
unbeaten at 146.
Madrid: Real Madrid got
their season up and running
when Gareth Bale and
James Rodriguez struck
twice in a 5-0 drubbing
of Real Betis on Saturday
while La Liga champions
Barcelona edged Malaga
1-0 to maintain their perfect
start.
New coach Rafa Benitez
restored James to the
starting lineup against last
season’s second division
winners after he was controversially
left out in the
0-0 draw at another promoted
side, Sporting Gijon,
on the opening weekend.
The Colombian was in
scintillating form at the
Bernabeu and crossed for
Bale to head home in only
the second minute.
James smashed in a superb
free kick before halftime
and Bale crossed for
Karim Benzema to make
it 3-0 two minutes into the
second half.
Playmaker James then
fired in an acrobatic overhead
kick three minutes
later as Real put Seville-based
Betis to the
sword.
Betis had a chance to
pull a goal back when Raphael
Varane conceded a
penalty for a foul on substitute
Jorge Molina but
Keylor Navas saved Ruben
Castro’s weak 61st-minute
effort.
Bale, who overshadowed
an out-of-sorts Cristiano
Ronaldo, sealed a
resounding win with a
long-range effort a minute
from time that cannoned in
off a post.
“We were able to finish
more accurately today,”
Real full back Marcelo
told Spanish television.
“It was a very good
performance,” added the
Brazil international. “But
we’re just at the start and
Monday, 31 August, 2015
Real Madrid hand Real Betis humiliating
5-0 defeat, Barcelona edge Malaga 1-0
7
there are many things still
to improve.”
Earlier, Thomas Vermaelen
scored his first
goal for Barca in their laboured
win over Malaga at
the Nou Camp, a second
consecutive 1-0 victory for
the European champions
after they beat Athletic Bilbao
by the same score last
weekend. Gijon spoiled
Asier Illarramendi’s return
to Real Sociedad’s midfield
after rejoining from
Real Madrid this week
when they held the Basque
club, coached by Scot David
Moyes, to a 0-0 draw
in San Sebastian.
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In Delhi...
“The purpose of coming
to Delhi today is
that the Gurjar community,
our brothers,
arranged a meeting
and called us. Soon, in
Delhi too, our people
will stand united and
take the movement forward.
Our movement in
Gujarat will continue
for one or two years,
as it’s not a 100 metre
race but a marathon. In
the meanwhile, if we
require muscle power
from Delhi, they will
support us so that when
necessary, we can get
the highway blocked,”
he said.
Speaking on how the
agitation would continue
in the coming days,
Hardik said, “We are
thinking of arranging a
maha rally in Lucknow
soon. We will also call
Patels from across the
country to Jantar Mantar.
The movement will
be taken to at least 12
states. Tomorrow, there
is also a maha rally
in Madhya Pradesh
against the manner in
which the Gujarat Police
entered homes and
beat up people.”
Stressing that the agitation
did not have the
backing of any political
party, he said, “This is
a non-political movement,
which is not supported
by any politician
or political party. Congress
manages to draw
2-3 thousand people
at their rally, the BJP
around 10, 000. There
is no Aam Admi Party
in Gujarat, so there’s no
point speaking of them
. We manage to pull 1
lakh supporters at our
rally. This shows that
the question of support
from any political party
does not arise.”
He added, “Lakhs of
Patel youth are turning
out in large numbers
because they actually
feel the need for reservation,
or else only
a handful of people
would turn up. Sabko
injection laga hua hain,
dard ho raha hain, isi
liye bahar aa rahe hain.
(They are feeling pain,
that is why they are
coming out).”
“We have never opposed
any individual,
any community, political
party or personality.
We are simply fighting
for our rights, which
should be given to us.
People say our community
is prosperous, but
only 5 or 10 percent of
the community is well
off,” Hardik said.
Commenting on the
reservation system, he
said, “Reservation was
put forward by political
parties as election
planks. Because of
reservation, the country
has gone back 60
years. If you have to
give reservation, give
it to everyone. Those
who get good marks
and still don’t get jobs,
they need reservation,
so give it to them. The
day there is a meaningful
blueprint for reservation
in the country,
we will be strong stakeholders
in the country’s
development. India will
then occupy the top position
and China will be
placed second.”
Asked whether he
was clear on whether
he stood for reservation
based on economic
status or caste, he replied,
“The poor of every
community should
be given reservation.
But right now, our
movement is limited
to fighting for reservation
for the 85 percent
in our community who
are poor. 182 castes are
enjoying the benefits of
reservation, of which
only four or five castes
are in Gujarat. ”
While the Patel community
had opposed
implementation of the
Mandal Commission
recommendations,
things had changed over
the past couple of decades,
Hardik claimed.
“Today the system is
hollow, and youth have
been left out. Youth are
unemployed and farmers
are committing suicide.
People with MBA
degrees are becoming
salesmen,” he said.
Hardik brushed aside
questions on how the
demand for reservation
for Patidars would
stand up before the
OBC Commission or
the Supreme Court,
saying only that it was
“for them to decide.”
Clarifying that his
trip to the Capital cannot
be construed as
a direct challenge to
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, he said in
lighter vein, “Mujhe
Arvind Kejriwal ke vichaar
achche lagte hain,
aur Modi Ji ke kurta
pehenne ka style (I
like Arvind Kejriwal’s
thoughts, and Modi Ji’s
style of wearing kurtas).”
He also praised
Modi for his views on
national security.
On old photographs
showing him with VHP
strongman Pravin Togadia,
Hardik said, “I am
running an organisation
for the Patidar community,
and several BJP or
Congress leaders from
the Patidar community
have meet me in that
connection. So there is
no meaning to any photos
with political leaders.”
Former...
“She went to the
kitchen and shortly afterwards
heard loud
sounds. When she
rushed to the living
room she found her
husband had been shot
in the head. They took
him to hospital with the
help of the neighbors
but he died on the way,”
the associate said. “A
CBI inquiry must be
conducted into the case
to bring out the truth.
The people and fans of
Kalaburgi are demanding
this,” Alagatti said.
Govt will...
It means restoration
of the situation that
prevailed before my
government took over,”
the Prime Minister said,
while insisting that the
voice of farmers mattered
the most to him.
The government had
issued the Ordinance
thrice so far as the Land
bill could not be passed
in Parliament due to
stiff resistance by most
of the opposition parties
as well as some ruling
NDA allies.
Modi, during his
20-minute address,
maintained that the suggestions
for “improving”
upon the Land Act
of 2013 had come from
states who believed that
for the welfare of farmers,
there should be canals
to bring irrigation
water, electric poles for
electricity, roads, houses
and poor villagers
should get work and
“we should free this
law from the clutches
of the bureaucracy”.
However, after the
government brought
the land bill, “a lot of
misapprehension was
created and so much
of fear was instilled
among the farmers. The
farmers should neither
have doubts nor have
any fear and I will not
give any such opportunity
to anybody. …
Now there is no cause
for any doubt and if
anybody tries to create
fear, you should not be
scared,” he said.
Modi said the government
had incorporated
13 aspects of village
development in the Ordinance
for the welfare
of villages but the matter
got complicated because
of controversies.
Now, since the Ordinance
is being allowed
to expire, the government
notified rules for
these 13 aspects which
will come into effect
from today to address
this “incomplete work”.
“We are doing this so
that the farmers do not
stand to lose, including
financially,” the Prime
Minister said.
“I want to assure the
farmers that for us, ‘jai
jawan, jai kisan’ is not
just a slogan but our
‘mantra’. That is why
I announced creation
of a ministry for farmers’
welfare during my
Independence Day address,”
he said.
Government, in a
bid to wriggle out of
the contentious land
ordinance, could use a
clause to remove difficulty
to bring 13 central
acts under the ambit
of land acquisition law
without going in for a
fresh executive order.
Sources earlier said
the Rural Development
Ministry
approached
the Attorney General
to seek his views on
whether the clause on
removal of difficulties
may be used to include
the 13 acts, which were
kept out of the ambit of
the Land Acquisition
Act 2013 when the law
was passed during UPA
rule.
The AG is learnt to
have given its opinion
in which it has said that
this was possible.
Thai police...
they believe was intended
to hold a bomb.
“The bomb materials
are the same, similar or
the same type” as those
used in both bombings,
police chief Somyot
Poompanmoung told
reporters. He added that
the suspect had traveled
in and out of Thailand
since January 2014.
Police also found “a
number of passports
from one country,”
Prawuth said. He did
not name the country,
but photographs
showed stacks of passports
that were similar
to those from Turkey.
Earlier, Prawuth said
that authorities had not
yet determined his nationality
and dismissed
Thai news reports saying
he is Turkish. Images
of a Turkish passport
with the apparent
suspect’s picture were
posted on social media.
“The passport you see
is fake,” said Prawuth,
referring to the online
photos. “We don’t
know if he is Turkish or
not.”
A Turkish government
spokesman said
he had no information
on the suspect held or
any possible Turkish
link to the attack. He
spoke on condition of
anonymity in line with
Turkish government
rules that bar officials
from speaking to journalists
without prior
authorization.
Asked what could
be the motive for the
bombing, the police
chief told reporters,
“it’s a personal grudge
.. not international terrorism.”
He did not
elaborate or give a clear
explanation.
The man faced
charges of possessing
unauthorized explosives,
Prawuth said,
and was taken to a military
base for further interrogation.
The blast at the
Erawan Shrine was unprecedented
in the Thai
capital, where smaller
bombs have been employed
in domestic political
violence over the
past decade, but not in
an effort to cause largescale
casualties.
The shrine is a popular
tourist destination,
particularly with Chinese
visitors, who are
an important segment
of the lucrative tourist
market. At least six
of the dead were from
China and Hong Kong.
It sits on the corner of a
busy traffic intersection
with a nearby overhead
walkway in a neighborhood
full of upscale
shopping malls and
five-star hotels.
No one has claimed
responsibility for the
blast, sparking a variety
of theories into who
might be behind it.
Possible suspects include
parties seeking
to avenge Thailand’s
forced repatriation of
ethnic Uighurs to China.
Uighurs are related
to Turks, and Turkey is
home to a large Uighur
community.
Other theories included
Muslim separatists
from southern
Thailand, opponents
of Thailand’s military
government and feuding
factions within the
security services.
Soon after the bombing,
police released
an artist’s sketch of a
man seen in a security
camera video leaving
a backpack at a
bench then walking
away from the openair
shrine. A separate
camera showed the
man, wearing a yellow
T-shirt, on the back of a
motorcycle taxi leaving
the site.
The man seen in the
video was believed to
have carried out the
bombing, which police
said was likely planned
by a group of people.
They indicated in Saturday’s
news conference
that the man arrested
was not the bomber
seen in the video.
“We believe he is
a culprit in the same
network. More details
will be given later,”
Prawuth said.
Police have been
criticized for releasing
conflicting statements
and rapidly hosing
down the crime scene
at the shrine before all
forensic evidence was
recovered. Many accused
authorities of
rushing to clean up the
bomb scene to reassure
the public — especially
foreign tourists — that
security in the city was
back to normal.
Police say they have
been handicapped by
low-quality and broken
surveillance
cameras
and a lack of sophisticated
image-processing
equipment to clarify the
fuzzy images in security
videos, which were
the only firm evidence
they had.
BJP slams...
Reacting to the government’s
decision to
let the land ordinance
lapse, Nitish Kumar
said “today is a day of
joy. This was not the
PM’s Mann ki Baat but
that of the people and
the nation (to do away
with the ordinance)”.
“The people of Bihar
were misled (by BJP)
during the Lok Sabha
but they are not going
to fall prey to such false
promises this time,” the
Chief Minister said.
Terming the JD(U)-
RJD-Cong-SP coalition
as ‘Mangal Raaj Part-2’
against Modi’s comment
on ‘Jungle Raaj’,
Prasad said the BJP
wants to “create tension
between Hindu-Muslim.
I know their design.
Modi called us
“Jungle-Raaj Part-2
but this is Mangal Raaj
Part-2,” he said.
Sheena Bora...
Though Sheena,
daughter of high-profile
media professional
Indrani Mukerjea, was
allegedly murdered in
2012 and the body disposed
of in Raigad district,
the crime came to
light only recently.
The remains found
from the forest in Pen
tehsil have been sent
for DNA testing.
The JJ Hospital had
on Friday handed over
to Khar police a few
bones it had received
from Raigad police in
2012. The blood and
hair samples of Indrani
and Mikhail Bora have
also been collected and
sent to Forensic Science
Laboratory and
the report is expected in
three to four days.
According to Mumbai
Police Commissioner
Rakesh Maria, who
is personally involved
in the grilling of the accused,
Khanna had confessed
to his complicity
in the murder.
On Friday, the police
also briefly questioned
Indrani’s husband and
former Star India CEO
Peter Mukerjea. While
seeking Khanna’s custody,
police had contended
in the remand
plea that Indrani, her
driver and Khanna abducted
Sheena in a car
and took her to a forest
in Pen tehsil where they
strangulated her and
burnt the body.
Indrani used to claim
that Sheena was her sister,
but during her interrogation
it emerged
that Sheena was her
daughter, as also stated
by Sheena’s brother
Mikhail.
Police had earlier
questioned Rahul
Mukerjea, Peter Mukerjea’s
son from another
marriage, who allegedly
had a relationship
with Sheena which Indrani
disapproved of.
The investigators are
also looking into financial
issues as the motive
behind the murder
which took place on
April 24, 2012.
Hurricane...
“I feel guilty,” she
said. I didn’t go through
what all the other people
did.”
In Biloxi, Mississippi,
clergy and community
leaders gathered
at a newly built Minor
League Baseball park
for a memorial to Katrina’s
victims and later
that evening the park
will host a concert celebrating
the recovery.
During a prayer service
at a seaside park
in Gulfport, former
Mississippi Gov. Haley
Barbour praised
volunteers who worked
on the Katrina recovery.
He said more than
954,000 volunteers
came from around the
country to Mississippi
in the first five years
after the storm, and
many were motivated
by faith.
“They thought it was
God’s command to try
to help people in need,”
Barbour said.
Katrina’s force
caused a massive storm
surge that scoured
the Mississippi coast,
pushed boats far inland
and wiped houses off
the map, leaving only
concrete front steps to
nowhere.
Glitzy casinos and
condominium towers
have been rebuilt. But
overgrown lots and
empty slabs speak to
the slow recovery in
some communities.
In New Orleans, wide
scale failures of the levee
system on Aug. 29,
2005, left 80 percent of
the city under water.
New Orleans has
framed the 10th anniversary
as a showcase
designed to demonstrate
to the world how
far the city has come. In
a series of events in the
week leading up to the
actual anniversary, the
city has held lectures,
given tours of the levee
improvements and
released a resiliency
plan. President Barack
Obama and former
President George W.
Bush both visited the
city.
Many parts of the
iconic city have rebounded
phenomenally
while many residents
— particularly in the
black community —
still struggle.
In New Orleans’
Lower 9th Ward, residents
and community
activists gathered
Saturday at the levee
where Katrina’s storm
waters broke through
and submerged the
neighborhood.
After several speeches,
a parade snaked
through the neighborhood
while music
played from boom
boxes and people sold
water from ice chests
under the hot sun.
Wilmington Sims
watched the parade
from his front porch.
He helped build the
porch before Katrina,
then had to re-do the
work after flooding
from the levee break
damaged the first floor.
He said the outpouring
of support was “uplifting”
but many people
still need help and
the Lower 9th Ward
needs economic development.
In the evening, former
President Bill
Clinton will headline a
free concert-prayer service-celebration
at the
Smoothie King Center
in New Orleans. In
addition to the former
president the event
will feature the city’s
Rebirth Brass Band,
award-winning journalist
Soledad O’Brien
and Chief Monk Boudreaux
and the Wild
Magnolias.

8 SURAT
Monday, 31 August, 2015
12 members of family swept by tides
at Suvali beach, one dead, five missing
Surat
30 August 2015
In a dreadful incident
12 members of three families
were swept away by
high tides at Suvali beach
near Hajira on Sunday,
One died six rescued and
five are missing. Rescue
operation of missing has
been started deploying
helicopters.
The fire brigade team
and police department of
Icchapore were seen in
action after a dreadful incident
occurred at Suvali
beach near Hajira, in the
incident 12 member from
two Rajasthani family
and one Gujarati families
were swept away in
the sea high tides, when
they were spending their
weekend near the beach
water. Six of them were
rescued by locals while
five of same family are
still missing; fire brigade
and police department
had been deployed in
search operation.
Manoj Chauhan one of
the survivor said, “Looking
at my brother in law
and Sister drawing inside
the sea, me and my
Transfer of police officers
after violence in the city
Surat
30 August 2015
As the city is back to
normal police department
had intended towards
some changes in
the police station,
According to sources,
several changes have
been made working on
“iron sharpens iron”
proverb all the officers
which were related with
patidar’s and could understand
their base root
were deployed in the
maximum patidar’s areas.
The police inspector
of Khatodara GK
Patel who will be retiring
in the end of May
month next year will
be replaced with MM
Diwan who has been
working with special
Branch. Police inspector
of Varcha, GV Paneria
will take charge in
special branch and CK
Patel will be seen in his
place.
RL Mavani, who
was in Inspector in Police
Complaint Board
(PCB) department, has
been deployed at Kapodara
police station and
DK Vanar of Kapodara
will be sent to Salabatpura.
JR Desa, of Salabatpura
will be transferred
to Commissioner’s office
reader department
and KN Chaudhari of
Icchapor will take his
charge at Sarthana Police
Station and Inspector
Sarvaiya will take
charge at Icchapore in
upcoming days.
SMC to
construct smart
city centre
Surat
30 August 2015
Heading towards journey
of Smart city. Municipal Corporation
had decided to construct
a Smart service centre
for providing one stop solution
to all the questions related
to different services.
The Surat Municipal Corporation
(SMC) had decided
to create a central solution
for all the requirements of the
city people. The centre will be
constructed with an expense
of Rs39 lakhs, it will keep a
lookout on all the services
that SMC provides to citizens.
The city people will be able
to lodge complaint, acquire
knowledge about different
services like water electricity
at a same place instead of going
different places.
The centre will include,
Fire fighting System, electrical,
civil, Interior, Audio
System and PA conference
system.
brother jumped in water
to save them, sudden increase
in water pushed
me inside the water, I
can’t remember what
happened than after.”
According to Sources,
Two families from Badmer
Rajasthan and one
from Banaskatha had arrived
in the city on the
occasion of Rakshabandhan,
they reached Suvali
beach for spending their
Sunday, unaware of the
geographical structure of
Surtis bounce back,footfall
in Rakhi Mela despite riots
Surat
30 August 2015
Despite violence incidents
that occurred
in the city during last
week good sales took
place in Surat Municipal
Corporation
(SMC) organized Rakhi
Mela. This has
provided good platform
for the women
who work in different
fields of manufacturing
of Rakhi . Rakhi
the beach some of them
went inside the water.
They were captured under
water due to sudden
increase in water level
due to high tides. Other
members were also
grasped by water who
making is predominantly
a household
small industry in the
state.
In the SMC organized
Rakhi mela that
started on August 24
, cash collection of
nearly Rs 8 lakh took
place . However, it
was during the August
26 and 27 that city was
rocked with violent
incidents and no business
took place. Still
Surat
30 August 2015
The agitators arrested by
Sarthana police during violence
erupted at patidar’s reservation
campaign were sent
directly to the Lajpore Jail
by Sarthana police without
representing them before the
court. The court had issued a
notice to police administration
of jail and had ordered
to represent all the accused
before the court today.
Sarthana Police had arrested
23 accused for creating violence
in the city, destroying
public property and obstructing
police in its work. Police
had asked their remand of
the accused when they were
brought before the court on
Friday. Meanwhile, a case of
physical torture was lodged
by the defence attorney
against the police, on which
the court had ordered investigation
officer to represent
all the documents including
medical report after getting
their treatment done at New
Civil Hospital for treatment.
In Spite of it, the investigation
officer took them directly
at Lajpore jail after getting
their treatment done on Friday.
According to the court’s
order the accused had to be
represented before the court
till the late noon of Saturday
but they did not. However,
the jail administrative department
submitted a report
in the court justifying lack
of officers as the reason for
the delay. They stated, most
of the officers were deployed
in the bandobast due to Raksha
bandhan. Moreover, the
court issued a notice against
jail Administrative department
and ordered them to
represent the accused in the
court today.
tried to rescue them. Six
rescued were Divya(15),
Sonal(8), Jagruti(6)
Manoj Chauhan(29)Jeevan
Chauhan(22) Veeru(3)
and the deceased
woman was identified
as Manjula Doliya(28)
on other days large
amount of handmade
rakhi’s were sold from
73 stalls set up at 14
different places in the
city.
SMC had set up 21
stalls at 3 places in
rander zone, 10 stalls
at 2 places in Katargam
zone , 12 stalls at
3 places in Limbayat
zone, 5 stalls in Central
zone, 8 stalls at 2
places in Udhna zone,
Pic: Hemant Dere
the rescue operation for
Mansukh Kharwal(35)
Pushpa Kharwal(31)
Nikita Kharwal(12) Dilip
Kharwal(15) Neeta
Kharwal (6) of the same
family is still under process.
5 stalls at 2 places in
Athwa zone and 12
stalls in Varacha zone
of the city.
“Unfortunately, we
had disturbance in the
parts of the city last
week and as a result
sale of rakhi suffer. We
wish we could have
had clear days without
any problems and
sales could have been
much better.” Said an
official from SMC.
Jailed agitators not produced
in the Court despite orders
Complaint against
Sarthana police for
disregarding Courts order
The defence aorney of the accused
23 mobsters had lodged a complaint
against Sarthana Police for disregarding
the courts order. The accused agitators
were arrested by police and were
brought in the court on Friday. In the
court defence aorney had plead that
the accused were physically torched
by police, aer hearing plea of both
the side the court had ordered invesgaon
officer of the case to submit all
the documents related document in the
case on Saturday ll 3.00pm. The police
was ordered to took all the accused for
health treatment prior bringing them in
court on Saturday noon. The defence
aorney filed a complaint against Sarthan
police, when they did not remained
present in the court on Saturday.