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Lucknow, March 6 (IANS) Uttar
Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party
(SP) received a shot in its arm
on Sunday as it won 23 out of 28 local
bodies seats in the legislative council.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won
two seats, the Congress one and the
Bharatiya Janata Party drew a duck.
Two other seats were bagged by
independent candidates. With Sunday’s
victory, the SP has gained a majority
in the 100-member upper house. Seven
SP candidates were declared elected
unopposed.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) claimed
that the victory was “acceptance and
endorsement” of the governance and
developmental agenda pushed by the
Akhilesh Yadav government in the state.
SP national general secretary Ram
Gopal Yadav said that the mood of the
state showed that the party will romp
back to power in the state assembly
polls, slated for early 2017.
The BJP, which was handed over
a stunning defeat, however sought
to downplay the victory of the ruling
party, attributing it to muscle and
money power. “The victory has very
little meaning as it was won on basis of
political power, muscle and money” said
state BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur
Pathak.
One-sided polls
As the results of the legislative council
elections through local bodies were being
announced, there was a mad scamper by
News Nation
about policies and projects in progress
the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) to bill
its winning 23 of the 28 council seats as
“acceptance of its development agenda”.
In contrast, the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP), licking its wounds over
the woeful defeat at the hustings, was
terming it the result of the “use of money,
power and muscle” by the ruling party.
The two parties that stand at the
extreme ends of the political spectrum
seem to have sadly read the message
wrong.
First, the ruling party’s gloating
over an indirect election did not behove
it since the victory was marred by
allegations of intimidation, allurements
and arm-twisting.
That apart, only last month the
SP was put through an embarrasing
situation when it lost two of its seats in
the bypolls to the state assembly. This,
despite the fact that the SP had fielded
family members of its late legislators to
cash in on sympathy and sentiments.
The voters gave it an emphatic thumbs
down. The ruling party won the lone
Bikapur assembly seat by a narrow
margin.
So, why is there jubiliation in the
ruling camp now?
Party insiders say that the ruling
dispensation was clinging to every
straw that came its way, as many
realised that they were facing a strong
anti-incumbency move, despite some
development work initiated by Chief
Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
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SP sweeps UP legislative council polls, BJP draws a duck
Uttar Pradesh
On the eve of the counting for the
legislative council polls, three persons
were killed in broad daylight in the state
capital, pointing to a soaring crime graph
and poor law and order situation. That
could be the nemesis of the Akhilesh
regime in future polls.
The only consolation for the SP is it
now has a majority in the upper house
of the Uttar Pradesh legislature which
will help it push through important
legislations for the remainder one year
of its term.
At the other end of the spectrum is
the BJP, which harbours big dreams of
romping back to power in the state after
being pushed into political oblivion for
more than a decade.
Its hopes of riding on the Modi wave,
which gave the party a stunning 71 of
the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state in
2014, seems to have met with serious
roadblocks over the past two years.
While insiders admit that the party was
not “in perfect shape” for the 2017 state
assembly polls, publicly it’s putting up a
brave face despite the rout in the council
elections.
Jayalalithaa urges
Modi to intervene for
fishermen’s release
Tamilnadu
Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa
on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to
intervene personally and secure the release of Indian
fishermen from Lankan custody.
In a letter to Modi, the text of which was released to the
media here, Jayalalithaa requested the former’s personal
intervention to issue instructions to the Ministry of External
Affairs to take up the matter with Sri Lanka and secure the
release of 64 Indian fishermen and 77 fishing boats.
“There is an urgent and imperative need to ensure that
our fishermen are not arrested and abducted on the high
seas. Proactive action needs to be initiated at the highest
level to ensure a permanent solution to this sensitive issue
that plagues the livelihoods of thousands of Tamil Nadu
fishermen,” she said.
Jayalalithaa drew Modi’s attention to the apprehension
of 29 Indian fishermen and their four fishing craft from near
Tamil Nadu by the Sri Lankan Navy on Sunday.
A narrow strip of sea divides India and Sri Lanka. Indian
fishermen are arrested by the Lankan Navy on the charge
that they fish in Lankan waters.
Sri Lanka continues to keep the apprehended Indian
fishing boats even though it releases the fishermen.
Airbus eyes $2 billion worth
procurement from India by 2020
Karnataka
Bengaluru, Global aerospace major Airbus
group plans to procure components and
sub-systems worth $2 billion per annum
by 2020 for its civil and defence projects, up from
$500 million in 2015, the French consortium
said on Monday.
“We have set our sight to exceed $2 billion
in cumulative procurement annually by 2020
from over $500 million worth aerospace goods
in 2015 for civil and defence projects,” the
Indian arm of the Airbus said in a statement
here.
Procurement value increased 15 percent in
2015 over that of 2014.
About 6,000 skilled people at 45 state-run
and private suppliers side across the country
provide engineering and IT services, aerostructures,
detail parts and systems, materials
and cabins to the group for many of its leading
platforms, including A380, A350 XWB, A320
family, A330, C295W, A400M, Eurofighter,
Tiger and NH90.
Claiming every Airbus commercial aircraft
was partly ‘made in India’, Airbus chief
procurement officer Klaus Richter said Indian
suppliers were a cornerstone of its globalisation
strategy.
“As many projects with our Indian partners
have been successful, we aim to strengthen
these relationships in the future,” Richter said
on the occasion.
According to Airbus Group India president
and managing director Pierre de Bausset, the
company is ready to set up system integration
and final assembly lines if its proposal of
producing C295W military transporters in
India with Tata and military helicopters with
Mahindra fructify.
Further elaborating on its Indian
procurement collaborations, Airbus said
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
manufactures half of A320 family forward
passenger doors while Dynamite Technologies
makes flap track beams.
Mahindra Aerospace has a contract with
Airbus Group company Premium Aerotec to
supply more than one million aero-components
per annum while Wipro received technology
transfer to produce 8,000 aerospace actuators
per year.
“Infosys provides SAP development and
maintenance services while Geometric supports
on product lifecycle management (PLM)
applications and CAD services. Tech Mahindra
provides consulting services on Quality and
Business Support,” said the statement.
UDF to nominate A.K.
Antony, M.P. Veerendra
Kumar to Rajya Sabha
Congress leader A.K. Antony and M.P.
Veerendra Kumar of the JD(U) will file
their nominations for the Rajya Sabha
on Wednesday, United Democratic Front (UDF)
convener P.P. Thankachen said on Monday.
Both the politicians belong to the UDF, the
ruling coalition in Kerala.
Three Rajya Sabha seats from Kerala will
fall vacant this month; the elections for the new
members will be held on
March 21.
Given its strength in
the Kerala assembly, the
Congress-led UDF will
be able to get two seats
and the CPI(M)-led Left
Democratic Front (LDF)
one.
Kerala
The LDF has yet to
name its candidate.
Antony, 75, has served
two consecutive terms since 2005 in the Rajya
Sabha, the upper house of parliament. He was
also Rajya Sabha member from 1993 to 1995. He
is now seeking another term.
He is a member of the Congress Working
Committee, which is the top executive body of the
party, and served three terms as chief minister
of Kerala. He was also Union defence minister
in the previous government of the Congress-led
United Progressive Alliance.
M.P. Veerendra Kumar, 79, is the leader of the
Janata Dal (United) in Kerala and also a media
baron, heading the Mathrubhumi group.
He was a member of the Kerala assembly
once and was elected to the Lok Sabha twice. He
changed sides from LDF to UDF ahead of the Lok
Sabha election in 2009. Kumar lost the 2014 Lok
Sabha polls from the Palakkad seat in Kerala.
BJP promising corruption-free
government in Manipur
Imphal, The Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) is promising a
corruption-free government in
Manipur if it is voted to power after
the February 2017 state assembly
elections.
To keep up the winning streak
of the party after it won the two
byelections to the assembly in
November last year, the Manipur
BJP president and others are
harping on the allegation of “the
rampant corruption of the Congress
government”.
The state BJP had exposed what
it called the Rs.500 crore “scam”
in clearing the floating biomass
concretion in Loktak, the largest
fresh water lake in eastern India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and senior ministers had assured
of appropriate actions into the
“scam”. However, the Loktak
Development Authority officials
told IANS they were yet to receive
any official information about the
CBI or vigilance investigations.
Speaking to party workers on
Sunday evening here, state BJP
president Thounaojam Chaoba
said: “The Congress government
cooked the book to claim that
there were 100 days of works
in a year in Manipur under the
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme.
On this basis, Manipur got an
award as the best performance
state.”
“In fact, there was no work
even for 20 days in a year and the
government should be ashamed of
it.”
He was also very sceptical about
the implementation of the National
Food Security Act in Manipur
under which a beneficiary will be
given 35 kg of rice in a month at
Rs.3 per kg.
Chaoba said, “...the new
scheme will give a free hand to the
ministers, MLAs and agents and
sub-agents.”
India to launch sixth
navigation satellite
Chennai. India is slated to put into
orbit its sixth navigation satellite on
Thursday evening, the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) announced
here on Monday.
The 1,425-kg IRNSS-1F - Indian Regional
Navigation Satellite System-1F - would
hurtle into space
on board its Polar Tamilnadu
Satellite Launch
Vehicle (PSLV) on March 10, the ISRO said.
The rocket will blast off around 4 p.m.
from the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra
Pradesh, about 80 km from here.
This will be already the second rocket
launch for India in 2016. The first one was
on January 20 when a PSLV rocket put into
orbit the IRNSS-1E satellite in text-book
style.
Till date India has launched five regional
navigational satellites (IRNSS-1A, 1B,
1C, ID and 1E) as part of a constellation of
seven satellites to provide accurate position
information service to users across the country
and the region, extending up to an area of
1,500 km. Though the full system comprises
nine satellites -- seven in orbit and two on
the ground as stand-by -- the navigation
services could be made operational with four
satellites, ISRO officials had said earlier.
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Democracy has some prerequisites; if these are not put in place then confusion sets in amongst the
constituents of any nation. Imparting universal primary and secondary education with its focus on civic
and fundamental human values is one such prerequisite. A nation is much more than a geographical and
historical entity, and a mutually shared deep sense of belonging to one another may be brought about, in
Collective Consciousness of its people, and may be deepened infinitely by putting education in the first
place of priorities of the country along with the governance. At least media should highlight the importance
of education over other flimsy topics in the public domain.
-Editor-In-Chief
Primary Education
Spending Declines, So Does Quality
By Chaitanya Mallapur
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) -- a national
programme for universal elementary
education -- has seen Rs.1,15,625 crore
($17.7 billion) spent on it over the last five years
-- but the quality of learning has declined.
For instance, only a fourth of all children
in standard III could read a standard II text
fluently -- a drop of more than 5 percent over
five years, according to the 2014 Annual Status
Report on Education (ASER).
The SSA received more than half the
money (52 percent)
in Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley’s schooleducation
allocation in
the latest budget, but
over the last five years,
the SSA budget declined
6 percent -- from
Rs.23,873 crore ($4.4
Suggestive Photo
Shri Raghavaendra Gurukul
Vidyapeeth Higher secondary
and High School Basavpattana.
Punyasthala Davangere karnataka.
billion) in 2012-13 to Rs.22,500 crore ($3.3
billion) for 2016-17.
Education is primarily the responsibility
of states, but the central government directly
finances 60 percent of education, through
programmes such as the SSA. As many as
66 percent of India’s primary school students
attend government schools or governmentaided
schools -- the rest going to costlier private
schools.
Of the money set aside for the SSA during
2015-16, only 57 percent was released till
September 2015, according to an Accountability
Initiative report.
While presenting his third budget earlier
last week, Jaitley said nothing about the
quality of education. The quality declines may
be correlated with reduced funding, but they
may not be caused only by a lack of money.
Less than one in five primary school
teachers is adequately trained, we reported
last year. The consequence is a marked decline
in learning ability, in government and private
schools.
The learning levels in government schools
plummeted to a low of 41.1% in 2013 but
recovered slightly to 42.2 percent in 2014, as
was reported.
Cont... 5
Human activity
driving Earth into
new geological era
London. The impact of
human activities on the
Earth has triggered a new
geological era, the Anthropocene,
which is marked by the spread
of man-made materials such as
aluminium, concrete, plastic, and
fallout from nuclear testing across
the planet, says a study.
“Humans have long affected
the environment, but recently,
there has been a rapid global spread of novel materials
including aluminium, concrete and plastics, which are
leaving their mark in sediments,” said Dr Colin Waters
of the British Geological Survey.
Waters is part of an international team of researchers
who are trying to find out to what extent are human
actions recorded as measurable signals in geological
strata, and whether the Anthropocene world is markedly
different from the stable Holocene Epoch of the last
11,700 years that allowed human civilisation to develop,
according to the University of Leicester.
The Holocene Epoch was a time in which human societies
advanced by gradually domesticating the land to increase
food production, built urban settlements and became
proficient at developing the water,
mineral and energy resources of the
planet. The proposed Anthropocene
Epoch, however, is marked as a
time of rapid environmental change
brought by the impact of a surge in
human population and increased
consumption during the ‘great
acceleration’ of the mid 20th century.
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Kanhaiya Windfall
for CPI, the
Left or India?
Saeed Naqvi
Kanhaiya Kumar’s genius as a public speaker
is self evident from his first speech in JNU
on February 11 and the one he made on the
campus after returning from Tihar Jail on March
3. The CPI feels it has a legitimate right to hitch its
wagon to this new star.
The JNU affair has infact opened up many
possibilities. Some of these possibilities may be
imaginary. The Communist Party of India, the original one, suddenly
has stars in its eyes. It hopes Kanhaiya Kumar will boost it to its
original glory, before the party split in 1964. The CPI became its rump.
CPM became the senior party which proceeded to rule West Bengal
and Tripura for over three decades without a break. Intermittently,
in Kerala too.
Kanhaiya contested, and won the JNU Union President’s election
as CPI youth wing All India Student’s Federation (AISF) candidate.
Naturally the parent party, otherwise limp and wan, finds its morale
boosted.
Visit Ajoy Bhawan, its headquarters, and there is a comradely
swagger in everyone’s walk. Overnight, they are feeling superior to
their cousins, the CPM, who have otherwise dwarfed them all these
years but who alas, have no SFI (CPM’s youth wing) star on the JNU
firmament. Kanhaiya’s persona has brought about CPM’s unexpected
status reversal vis-a-vis the CPI.
Even in their abysmal decline, the CPM atleast has nine members
in Lok Sabha; CPI has only one. How then has a windfall like Kanhaiya
come CPI’s way? According to Hindu belief, the party must have done
some good in its past life.
Ironically, Kanhaiya is not a creature of Ajoy Bhawan. He got
his Marxism from his parentage. Begusarai in Bihar, where his
family live was called “Little Moscow”. Senior communist leaders
Chandrashekhar Singh and Indradip Sinha were legends in the
region.
Infact, when the Indian communist movement split nationally, the
Bihar unit remained intact. Under its Secretary General, Jagannath
Sarkar, the CPI was so powerful that its alliance with Indira Gandhi
in New Delhi made Jayaprakash Narayan initiate his movement in
Bihar.
The leftist culture from which Kanhaiya comes, is not necessarily
linked to the CPI in the rigid doctrinaire sense. He came up on the
strength of his leadership skills and oratory and won the union
election without the support of any CPI infrastructure, which is non
existent in the campus.
He was able to forge a wide coalition which included Omar Khaled,
Anirban Bhattacharya and others recently charged with sedition.
Kanhaiya, Omar and Anirban are all comfortable under a broad
left umbrella. But if the parent bodies – CPI and Marxists-Leninists
begin to claim them as their respective wards, there will be difficulties.
CPI and CPM do not dispute the Afzal Guru hanging, but the
CPML does. There is a whole lot of confusion as to who shouted which
slogans at the function to observe Guru’s hanging on February 9.
Bollywood should consider a Roshomon II, where the truth remains
tantalizingly elusive.
It was just as well that Kanhaiya’s release was celebrated
nationwide thanks to the change of heart of some TV channels. But
this is only a release on bail for six months. Moreover, bail has been
granted as a kind of largesse handed out by the High Court to somebody
whose guilt is presumed. The JNU faculty has been advised to keep
the students on the straight and narrow, something, presumably they
were not doing so far. This is the tone of the judgment.
The CPI would like Kanhaiya’s focus to be on the campuses the
ABVP is trying to unsettle. “If we bring in the S.A.R. Geelani’s arrest,
the focus will get diverted to Kashmir and other issue” says a senior
CPI leader.
The CPML, which has traction on the campus, has a different take
on Kashmir, Afzal Guru and therefore on Geelani. In any case the
parent party’s hold on Omar and Anirban is, at best, tenuous because
the two have had serious difference with the leadership.
At this moment Omar and Anirban have no formal affiliation with
a national party. Who then is fighting for their bail. Senior lawyers
like Kapil Sibal, Rajeev Dhawan and Indira Jaising got involved in
the Kanhaiya matter because that is where the BJP lawyers diverted
the focus by their undisguised hooliganism in court.
This leaves, Omar and Anirban without real political godfathers.
Bright young lawyers, holding the brief for these two, are waiting
for the police to frame charges. But the two are in danger of being
forgotten during the fortnight in judicial custody because the media is
capricious and has its mood swings conditioned by ratings.
The only one who can help them remain in focus is Kanhaiya. He
knows that without his cohorts he too will lose steam.
The general assumption is that the RSS is driving the “nationalism”
debate. It is a difficult debate to negotiate in a sound byte format. On
the other side of this polarised turf, Left, Dalit and Muslim convergence
cannot give comfort to the Hindutva establishment.
The left is propagating the line that the Gujarat police model has
been replicated in Delhi. This strengthens the AAP line that the police
takes dictation from the Union government and does not allow it to
function. The Left and AAP have not necessarily been on the same
page so far. Is this another novelty emerging?
Editorial
narratives and discourses
First of all, I want to introduce myself. I am
an ordinary citizen of India who works hard
to earn his salary and gives part of that
salary as #tax so that students like you whose
family income is about Rs 3,000 per month can get
education for Rs 250 in an institution like Jawahar
Lal Nehru University (JNU). Since, I am paying for
your education from my hard earned money, so,I
have every right to ask you few questions.
1. You belong to a family whose income as per
your statement is about Rs 3,000 per month and I
am happy that you got benefit of availing facility
of prestigious institution like JNU. I would have
expected that you should work hardest of all in your
studies and bring laurels to your family so that you
add up to the family income from meagre amount
of Rs 3,000 to Rs 3 Lakhs per month by pursuing
career in field of your choice. But I am afraid you
hardly did so.
2. I don’t want to say that you have no right
to participate in student politics and following
ideology of your choice. But study should have been
definitely your first priority.
But anyways, you became president of Jawahar
Lal Nehru University Students Union after
successfully contesting the elections. I have no
problems with that.
As leader of students, you have every right to
highlight their problems and work for their welfare.
But my problem starts when you started crossing
your #LaxmanRekha.
You must be aware of the fact that Indian
Parliament, the symbol of Indian democracy was
attacked by Pakistan backed terrorists on December
13, 2001 in which our brave security men sacrificed
their precious lives and our elected representatives
had narrow escape.
On investigation of this attack, Afzal Guru
hailing from Jammu and Kashmir was found to
be key person responsible for this attack who was
arrested, tried under court of law, was found guilty
and after rejection of multiple mercy petitions was
hanged by the then UPA Government.
On February 9,2016, you were one of the
organisers of an event in the campus of JNU in
which the Death Anniversary of this terrorist Afzal
Guru was being celebrated and Pro Azadi Salogns
were chanted in that event. You yourself chanted
those salogns is under investigation and truth will
come out but since you were one of the organisers of
that Antinational event, you can’t absolve yourself
from the responsibility of that event.
Mr Kanhaiya Kumar, I am not spending my hard
earned money to enable you to participate in these
Antinational Activities but only for your education
so that you can support your family whose monthly
income is Rs 3,000.
This action of yours proves that my hard earned
money is being wasted on wrong persons like you
who are preferring politics over academics.
3. After uproar on this Antinational Event, you
were arrested under charges of Sedition and matter
is subjudice, I don’t want to comment on that.
Today, you were released from Tihar jail on interim
conditional bail for six months and still you are not
acquitted.
After being released from the jail, I have
every right to object to your irresponsible
behaviour since I am sponsoring your education,
that I want to tell you without mincing my words.
4. In your speech televised live by news channels
of India non stop for 50 minutes in their Prime time
, you alleged that you have no freedom or Azadi in
this country.
What more freedom do you want than the fact
that a speech full of disrespect for the democratically
Tax Paying Indian Citizen’s
elected government of India in which I was one of
the voters and mocking Prime minister of India with
derogatory words was televised live and unedited in
the entire country.
By the way, who gave you right to use this
language for duly elected government? You were
not abusing government or its leader but you were
abusing democracy and constitution of India.
5. Mr Kanhaiya Kumar, do you understand the
meaning of mandate of 2014 elections? After a gap
of 30 years, people of India gave ruling party 282
MPs and last time it happened in 1984 when you
were not even born in this world.
You say that 69% people voted against this
government.. You want to say that present
Government and present PM won because of
rigging.. By saying so, you are questioning the basic
democracy of this country that empowers common
man like me and you. In multi party democracy,
party getting more seats wins and it’s not necessary
that Vote share of winning party is more than
50%. By saying so, you are insulting whole of
India including those who voted for the present
Government and its leader. Since you hate the PM
of this country because of your political affiliation
to o ideology opposite to that of ruling party, you
are questioning the whole democratic process of
elections in India. Shame on you.
You are threatening to throw this government
out from its roots because it doesn’t suit your
political ideology, how dare you threaten duly
elected government with full majority.
6. In your speech, you said that you want freedom
not from India but from within India.
You want freedom from #Corruption
Mr Kanhaiya Kumar, have you heard any
whisper of Corruption or Scam in India after May
26,2014 when Mr Narendra Modi took the oath of
Prime Minister of this country. And still you want
to throw out this government..... Why?
Where were you sleeping prior to 2014 when 2G
Scams, Commonwealth Scams, Coal Scams were
going on under previous government.Then you
never raised the Salogn of freedom of Corruption.
Had you got tongue tie then?
7. Rest of freedoms you are talking about like
freedom from casteism, manuvad etc etc have been
going on since centuries and have not cropped up
suddenly after 26 May, 2014. So,why do you want to
throw out the present Government. Will throwing
out this government remove all evils from India and
give you freedom from everything in India you are
demanding?
8.Mr Kanhaiya Kumar, you think that by
mocking democratically elected PM of this country,
you will become hero overnight. A person who works
tirelessly for this country 18 to 20 hours a day, faces
all types of abuses but still doesn’t care about them
09 Mar to 15 Mar 2016
open letter to Kanhaiya Kumar
By Parmod Kumar
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The Delhi High
Court’s remarks on nationalism and love
for the nation while granting bail to JNU
student leader Kanhaiya Kumar were denounced
on Thursday by senior legal experts.
Judge Pratibha Rani’s observations are a part
of a judicial trend which needs to be curbed right
away, leading advocates said, with one dubbing
them “totally uncalled for, unwarranted and
unfortunate”.
Senior lawyers said the judge appeared to be
broadly espousing the official line on the events
at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) where
Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on February 12 on
charges of sedition.
He was accused of raising anti-India slogans
at a meeting organised to mark the execution of
parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, a militant
from Jammu and Kashmir. Kanhaiya Kumar has
repeatedly denied the charge.
The high court judge, while granting six-month
interim bail to Kanhaiya Kumar, reminded him
about his fundamental duties, love for the country,
nationalism and the sacrifices soldiers were making
and the demoralising affect that anti-India slogans
had on the families of martyrs.
Pointing out that the observations had been
lapped up by government circles and rightwing
groups, activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan told
IANS: “It is a political rather than a legal judgment.
“The judge has no business to expound on
nationalism or anti-nationalism which is not an
offence under the law.”
He added: “Nationalism is not defined anywhere
and is not a ground on which freedom of speech can
be restricted.
“By expounding on this issue, the judge seems
to have played into the hands of those who are
using this as a political weapon to drum up fascist
hysteria in this country.”
Echoing Bhushan’s sentiments, Supreme Court
Bar Association president and senior counsel
because he loves this country more than anything
else, Mr Kanhaiya Kumar, do you think you are
#worth mocking him?
You are a student who is getting subsidised
education on my money has got no right to mock
duly elected PM of India who is not just leader of
India but today he is a world leader. No one has
given you this right Mr Kanhaiya Kumar.
9.Mr Kanhaiya Kumar, you must be aware of
this proverb “Ghar ki Murgi Dal Brabar”. You have
got enough freedom in this country. Infact you have
got too much freedom that you are not able to digest.
If you want to know the value of freedom, just peep
into neighbouring country Pakistan where you
will find Malala Yusuf who was brutally attacked
by terrorists because she advocated right to get
education and later she was awarded with Nobel
peace prize along With Mr Kailash Satyarthi. She
will tell you value of freedom. And in a country
where a student with monthly family income of Rs
3000 is a scholar in renowned university, you are
questioning freedom in that country, shame on you.
10. Mr Kanhaiya Kumar, you must be aware
of the fact that our country under the present
Government has become fastest growing economy
surpassing China but still you want to throw out
this government. Why?
A government, where Railway Minister responds
to every single tweet with prompt action, but you
want to throw this government out. Why?
A government, whose external affairs Minister
has saved every Indian in crisis abroad with her
intervention, you want that government out of
power. Why?
A government, whose power Minister is working
day and night to provide electrification in the whole
country 24 hours a day, you want to dethrone that
government. Why?
A government, where network of national
highways is spreading like storm, you don’t want to
see that government in power. Why?
Where farmer is getting insurance of crops so
that he doesn’t need to commit suicide, you don’t
want to see that government continuing in power.
Why?
Government whose thrust is on E-governence so
that no scope of Corruption by middlemen is left,
you want that government to go. Why?
Mr Kanhaiya Kumar, you need to answer
this. Why do you want to destabilise the majority
government in this country?
Are you not puppet in the hands of those forces
who hate the Prime Minister of the country?
Why are you hell bent upon vitiating atmosphere
in this country that wants to become next
superpower? Mr Kanhaiya Kumar, I spent my hard
earned money for your education only and not for
enabling you to play dirty politics in my country.
There is saying that “Ek gandi machhli poore
talaab ko ganda kar deti hai”...Don’t become that
“Gandi Machhli” and don’t try to misguide youths
of my nation.I spent my money on you to make you
scholar and not politician.
Mr Kanhaiya Kumar, please mend your ways
otherwise I will request government to stop wasting
my money on institutions like JNU. If this happens,
only people like you will be responsible for that.
In that case, students from poor and downtrodden
families will be the worst sufferers.
Mr Kanhaiya Kumar, you may get party ticket
tomorrow from any party to contest elections But
please don’t spoil career of other deserving students.
May God grant enough wisdom to you in time
to come.
Yours
Ordinary Indian Tax Payer
‘Judges must confine to law, not venture into politics’
Dushyant Dave described the observations as
“totally uncalled for, unwarranted and unfortunate”.
He added: “Judges must stay away from political
debate.”
Saying Kanhaiya Kumar deserved unconditional
bail, Dave said: “Nationalism is not a part of judges’
function to write about. They must confine to law
and not emotive issues.”
Former Delhi High Court judge Rupinder Singh
Sodhi said that making loose observations was an
unfortunate trend that the judiciary was adopting.
“I think this trend has to stop now and immediately.”
Justice Sodhi, also a senior lawyer in the
Supreme Court, says granting interim bail had no
legal precedent.
“All bails are interim in nature and can be
cancelled at any time. Ordinarily, an interim bail is
granted to fulfil an extreme social obligation which
the court can always accommodate. As a rule, bail
can either be granted or dismissed.”
Another leading lawyer who did not wish to be
identified by name said that while attempting to
define nationalism in a pluralistic society, the judge
seemed to have overstepped her judicial limits.
“Her observations are symptomatic of all that
ails Indian judiciary and deserve to be expunged.”
(Parmod Kumar can be contacted at saneel2010@
gmail.com)

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...that matters most
EU seeks to close
Balkan route at summit
Tibet opposes Dalai
Lama’s visit to Taiwan
Brussels, March 7 (IANS) Turkish and EU
leaders have gathered in Brussels for an
emergency summit on tackling Europe’s
worst refugee crisis since the Second World War.
The EU aims to stem the flow of migrants
and plans to declare the route north through the
Balkans closed.
It will press Turkey to take back economic
migrants and has pledged to give Ankara $3.3
billion, BBC reported.
Last year, more than a million people, mostly
from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, entered the
EU illegally by boat, mainly going from Turkey to
Greece.
Many migrants leave Greece in a bid to reach
northern Europe, but eight countries have
introduced temporary border controls.
Some 13,000 migrants are currently stranded
in northern Greece, after Macedonia, backed by
Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia, closed its border
to all but a trickle of migrants.
Migrant crisis
The human cost of the migrant crisis was
brought home again on Sunday when a boat
capsized off Turkey drowning 25 people.
The EU states remain divided over their
response to the crisis with strains showing this
year even in Germany and Sweden, seen as the
countries most open to refugees.
The summit will be in two parts, the first
involving Turkey while in the afternoon British
Prime Minister David Cameron will join other EU
leaders in seeking out a common approach to the
crisis.
The EU is expected to ask Turkey to take
back thousands of migrants who do not qualify
for asylum. In return, the EU will discuss plans
to resettle in Europe some refugees already in
Turkey.
Last week, European Council President Donald
Tusk said he had been told by Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his country was ready
to take back all migrants apprehended in Turkish
waters.
A draft summit communique declared that the
route for migrants through the Western Balkans
will close. The draft also pledges that the EU will
“stand by Greece in this difficult moment and will
do its utmost to help manage the situation”.
Greece said on Monday that it would meet its
pledge on accommodation for refugees, with a
capacity of 37,400 by March 15.
Beijing, A senior official of the Tibet region on
Monday expressed his firm opposition to Dalai
Lama’s expected visit to Taiwan.
“We strongly oppose anyone who is in power (in
Taiwan) to invite the Dalai Lama to visit the island,”
Xinhua quoted Padma Choling, chairman of the standing
committee of Tibet’s Congress, as saying.
He made the remarks when asked about the intention
of some political figures in Taiwan to invite the Dalai
Lama to the island. “Everyone clearly knows what kind
of a person the Dalai Lama is,” he said.
“The Dalai Lama must give up his secessionist stance
and stop all activities to split the motherland,” said
Padma Choling, also a deputy to the National People’s
Congress. “Our attitude is consistent,” he added.
Do a hundred authors catch the essence of Hillary Clinton
By Vikas Datta
Is she a consummate, capable
stateswoman ready for the most
powerful job in the world, or a polarising,
manipulative politician who should be kept
away from it?
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton may
have legions of devoted admirers -- as well
as fierce detractors -- but there can’t be
many who can ignore her. Her fate will
soon be decided by Democratic voters and,
if successful, then the US electorate, but
till then the debate has spilled over into
the literary world with a spate of works
dissecting her antecedents, ability and
performance.
Clinton has been in the public gaze
for nearly four decades now, right from
when her husband, Bill Clinton, became
Arkansas governor in 1978, and held the
post (apart from a two-year gap) till elected
US president in 1992. After an over twodecade-long
stint as First Lady at the state
and national level, she carved out her own
political career - as a senator from New York
and then presidential contender in 2008.
She then began a role as a stateswoman,
accepting her successful rival Barack
Obama’s offer to join his administration as
its top diplomat - the third woman to hold
the post in a little over a decade. After one
eventful term, she bided her time before
again entering the fray for the White House
in 2016.
Her own take on her life can be found in
her autobiographies “Living History” (2003)
and “Hard Choices” (2014) about her stint
as Obama’s secretary of state, but it has
also inspired nearly 100 books, ranging
from sympathetic portrayals to polemical
attacks, from ‘tell-all’ accounts of former
associates to scholarly analyses, satirical
fiction and even a children’s colouring book.
The leanings of most of the works can be
made out from their titles - Joe Conason and
Gene Lyons’ “The Hunting of the President:
The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill
and Hillary Clinton” (2000), Susan Estrich’s
“The Case for Hillary Clinton” (2005), David
Brock’s “Killing the Messenger: The Right-
Wing Plot to Derail Hillary and Hijack
Your Government” (2015) are as obvious as
Peggy Noonan’s “The Case Against Hillary
Clinton” (2000), Carl Limbacher’s “Hillary’s
Scheme: Inside the Next Clinton’s Ruthless
Agenda to Take the White House” (2003),
and Dinesh D’Souza’s “Stealing America:
What My Experience with Criminal Gangs
Taught Me about Obama, Hillary, and the
Democratic Party” (2015).
What are we to make out of these - and
many more like them? Should we believe
that Clinton has a good record of public life,
is well-suited to be the next president of the
US but is being demonised, or is she just
another overly ambitious and unscrupulous
politician who must be exposed? Is Bill
Clinton a shrewd operator with a feel
for the public pulse or a money-minded
philanderer, or an asset or liability to his
wife? There are no easy answers and they
will, in any case, depend on what you want
to believe.
But there are some books that are neither
enthusiastic hagiographies or unrestrained
diatribes, but present a picture in all its
positive and negative aspects so as to allow
you to arrive at your own judgment.
Among the latest is Karen Blumenthal’s
“Hillary” (2016). The author, whose previous
works include a biography of Steve Jobs and
of Walmart founder Sam Walton, focusses
on aspects that moulded Clinton’s thoughts
and how these influenced her personal and
public life. Blumenthal doesn’t ignore the
many contradictions between words and
deeds or the many scandals that followed
the Clintons but quite objectively.
Kim Ghattas’ “The Secretary: A Journey
with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the
Heart of American Power” (2013) combines
the Lebanese-born BBC correspondent’s
own story with accounts of several
important foreign trips she accompanied
Clinton on and a keen insight into the
reality and limitations of American power.
On the other hand, Jonathan Allen and
Amie Parnes’ “HRC: State Secrets and the
Rebirth of Hillary Clinton” (2014) dwells on
her domestic political career as secretary
of state. It also claims the Clintons had
prepared a “hit” list comprising party
leaders who had either been unhelpful in
2008 and how these were “fixed”.
To get a feel of how of those not
favourably disposed look, Daniel Halper’s
“Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of
a Political Machine” (2014) is illustrative,
with its recital of a long list of innuendos and
claims, made by a host of unnamed sources,
who had sought they be kept anonymous to
avoid the ire of the Clintons.
Though a little dated, “A Woman in
Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham
Clinton” (2007), by Carl Bernstein, one half
of the duo that broke the Watergate scandal
and helped bring down a president, cannot
be bettered, or its estimation that she is
“neither the demon of the right’s perception,
nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly
emblematic of her time” but a person with
several positives and some flaws - like most
of us are.
Primary Education
Spending Declines, So Does Quality
From...
Similarly, with math,
3
a quarter of children
in standard III could not recognise
numbers between 10 and 99, a drop
of 13 percent over five years.
As much as 99 percent new
elementary schools have been
constructed of the 400,000
sanctioned since the launch of
the programme in 2000-01 till
September 30, 2015, according to
this reply in the Lok Sabha (the
lower house of Parliament) on
December 7, 2015.
About 23 percent of schools
surveyed by Accountability
Initiative in 2015-16 needed to build
at least one classroom in order to
meet Right-to-Education norms.
However, only 1 percent of schools
received money from SSA during
the financial year to construct new
classrooms.
There are other gaps in the
programme. The enrolment of girls
has gone up from 48.12 percent in
2009-10 to 48.19 percent in 2014-15
at the elementary level. Many more
girls clearly need to be enrolled.
As many as 52 percent of boys are
enrolled in primary schools.
The good news: Dropouts are
down, highest in six to 14 age group
A 55 percent decline in dropouts
was reported in the age group 6-14
years, from 13.46 million in 2005
to 6.1 million in 2013. The annual
average primary school dropout rate
declined from 6.8 percent in 2009-10
to 4.3 percent in 2013-14.
Mid-day meals in schools
received Rs 9,700 crore ($1.4 billion),
next only to SSA. About 102 million
children across India in 2014-15
used the mid-day meal programme,
the world’s largest school-feeding
scheme. As part of its rural
initiatives, over the next two years,
the government is also planning to
open 62 new Navodaya Vidyalayas
(New-age schools) in the districts
without them.
The Navodaya Vidayalaya
scheme was launched under the
National Policy on Education 1986 to
educate the best rural talent. There
are 591 Navodaya Vidyalayas across
India, according to data tabled in the
Lok Sabha on December 7, 2015.
Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti,
which runs these schools, was
allocated Rs.2,471 crore ($400
million) -- an increase of 8
percent over last year. Focus on
higher education to strengthen
infrastructure, but enrolments are
low. The finance minister proposed
setting up a Higher Education
Financing Agency (HEFA) with an
initial capital of Rs.1,000 crore ($146
million) to strengthen infrastructure
in higher education.
The HEFA will be a not-for-profit
organisation, which will use funds
from the market and supplement
them with donations and corporate
social responsibility funds.
Higher education-including
central and deemed universitiesreceived
the most money, Rs.7,997
crore ($1.2 billion), followed by the
Indian Institutes of Technology
(Rs.4,984 crore) and University
Grants Commission (Rs.4,492 crore).
About 80 percent students
were enrolled in undergraduate
programmes, but only 0.3 percent
(84,058 students) were enrolled
for PhDs in 2012-13, a sign that
research is weak and faltering, as
IndiaSpend has reported.
Only 21 percent of young men and
women aged 18 to 23 are enrolled for
higher education. India’s enrolment
rate in higher education is 18
percent below the global average of
27 percent and low compared to 26
percent in China and 36 percent in
Brazil, a 2014 British Council report
pointed out.
(In arrangement with
IndiaSpend.org, a data-driven, nonprofit,
public interest journalism
platform, where Chaitanya
Mallapur is a policy analyst. The
views expressed are those of India
Spend. The author can be contacted
at respond@indiaspend.org)
Human activity
driving Earth into
new geological era
From... 3
“Fossil fuel combustion has
dispersed fly ash particles
worldwide, pretty well coincident
with the peak distribution of the
‘bomb spike’ of radionuclides
generated by atmospheric
testing of nuclear weapons,” Dr.
Waters noted.
“All of this shows that there
is an underlying reality to the
Anthropocene concept”, said Jan
Zalasiewicz of the University
of Leicester, a co-author of the
study.
The researchers found that
humans have changed the Earth
sufficiently to produce a range
of signals in sediments and
ice, and these are sufficiently
distinctive to justify recognition
of an Anthropocene Epoch in the
geological time scale.
Mayan Diamonds
A Blood Donation Camp
A
Blood Donation Camp was organized by HKBK Degree College in
College Premises. This camp was a part of the National Service Scheme
(NSS) programme A Blood Donation Camp Bangalore University –
Bengaluru.
Dr. Anees Ahmed, Medical Officer Blood Bank, Manzoor A. Khan,
Secretary, HKBK Group of Institutions & Dr. C. Sevithaya, Principal, HKBK
Degree College inaugurated the camp.
The Mediscope Blood Bank which is being functioning and rendering
service to the needy in co-ordination with the Rotaract Club of Bengaluru
sponsored by Rotary Club of Bengaluru, Lions Club of Megacity Samartha,
with their Blood bank medical team, comprising of Doctors, nurses &
technicians had participated in the camp for drawing the blood from
voluntary donors. Several Students & Staff members had actively taken part
and donated blood voluntarily. The Mediscope Blood Bank issued a certificate
of appreciation to the students & Staff members who voluntary donated blood
and a special certificate to the Institution.
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No signs of doubling the farmers’
By Devender Sharma
The average income
a farmer gets from
farming activities,
including what he
keeps for his family
consumption at home, in
17 States of India is Rs
20,000 a year. In other
words, the monthly
income of a farmer in
these States is a paltry Rs 1,666.
Yes, you got it right. Rs 1,666 only.
Now, put yourself in this picture frame.
If you were a farmer and able to make only
Rs 1,666 per month what would you like
to do? Wait for another five years? Live on
hope, thinking woh subah kabhi to aayegi
..
So when Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley, while presenting the budget 2016,
yesterday in Parliament said: “We need to
think beyond ‘food security’ and give back
to farmers a sense of ‘income security’” I
waited with an abated breath. But when
all that he promised was to double farmers’
income by 2022, still good five years away,
all my hopes came tumbling down.
Five years, the Finance Minister wants
the farmers to wait. After five years,
and even if the promise is realised, the
income of farmers in these 17 States will
go up to Rs 3,332 a month. I can imagine
the Economic Survey, to be presented
in 2022, proudly stating that because of
the continuous efforts, the government
has succeeded in doubling farmers
income. Certainly, what an ‘achievement’
economists would say. But by that time,
adjusting for inflation, even the Rs 3,332
would be equivalent to Rs 1,666 that a
farmer is able to make now.
This surely is a sense of ‘income security’
that the government has promised.
At a time when agriculture is in deep
crisis, with agrarian distress lomming
large over the past several years,
something that even the Economic
Survey 2016 brings out quite in detail,
I was expecting the government to
income in next five years
perform an immediate surgical operation.
Considerting that the spate of farmer
suicides has jumped from the existing
nationwide average of 42 a day, to 52 a day
in 2015, agriculture required an urgent
attention. Just mentioning agriculture
some 50 times in the budget speech
provides no succour to a sector which is
languising in neglect and apathy.
Prevailing farm crisis is not an outcome
of low agricultural productivity. It is not
as if the farmers do not know how to
increase crop productivity as a reult of
which his income continues to stagnate.
Productivity is important but if it is not
backed by remunerative price, a farmer
will continue to suffer. Take the case of
Punjab, India’s frontline agricultural
State. Punjab farmers produce 4,500 Kg/
hecatre of wheat and 6,000 kg/hectare
of paddy – a very high crop productivity
indeed – in an area that has 99 per cent
assured irrigation. All the development
indices that the government is projecting
in this year’s budget , including expanding
irrigation, are already existing in Punjab.
And yet, according to the calculations of
the Commission for Agricultuiral Costs
Ground Reality
and Prices (CACP) the net income from
a hectare of cultivating wheat and paddy
(the usual cropping pattern followed in a
year) is about Rs 36,000, which comes to
a monthly realisation of Rs 3,000 only.
Compare this with the basic monthly
salary of Rs 18,000 a chaprasi will get after
the 7th pay Commission is implemented. I
will not be surprised if a newly-appointed
chaprasi also becomes eligible to pay
income tax soon after he joins service.
Economic Survey 2016 therefore is
wrong when it says that the central
challenge to Indian agriculture is low
productivity. The primary challenge, let
me make it clear, is what the Finance
Minister spelled out, and rightly so, is –
‘income security’.
Talk of farmers income and mainline
economists as well as the mainline media
spare no effort to brand you a leftist. On
several TV channels yesterday I was
appaled to see how panelists were visibly
disappointed even at the emphasis on
the word ‘agriculture’ in the budget
speech. What is not being understood
is that agriculture has turned unviable
not because it is unproductive or is not
paying enough but has been deliberately
kept impoverished all these years. Let me
explain. In 1970, the minimum support
price (MSP) for wheat that the farmers
received was Rs 76 per quintal (100 Kgs)
In 2015, 45 years later, the MSP for wheat
was raised to Rs 1,450 per quintal, an
increase by 19 times.
In the same period, the basic salary
(plus Dearness Allowance) of government
employees has gone up by 120-
150 times; of college teachers and
university propfessors by 150
to 170 times; of school teachers
by 280 to 320 times; and of top
executives of India Inc by a
whopping 1,000 times. While
the salaries of employees were
raised phenomenally in the past
45 years, farmers were starved
of their legitimate dues. If only
the wheat price had been raised
by the same yardstick, hiking it
100 times at least, the MSP for
wheat should have been at least
Rs 7,600 per quintal. The
arguement is that if wheat prices go
up, food inflational will skyrocket. It is
therefore obvious that farmers had been
penalised all these years merely to keep
food inflation in control.
This is the reason why the NDA
government has backtracked on its
promise of providing 50 per cent profit
over the cost of production. Farmers
income, seen through the hike in MSP,
has only been raised by a nominal 3.2 to
3.6 per cent every year. So while every
else in the organised sector gets a hefty
pay hike, farmers are being deliberately
ignored. I thought it was an appropriate
moment for the government to make up
for its ‘anti-farmer’ image. The enhanced
public sector investment in agriculture
has to be accompanied by steps that
can boost farm income. If only the
government had announced a Rs 3-lakh
crore economic bailout package for the
farming community, and followed it up
by setting up a National Farmers Income
Commission to ensure that farmers get a
guaranteed monthly take home income
package, the wheels of economic growth
would have spiralled. More income into
the hands of 60-crore farmers would have
not only provided them with ‘income
security’ but also created a huge domestic
demand thereby leading to the revival of
industrial growth.
This in reality is the only prescription
for Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas.
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Why It’s Better to Ferment Paddy Straw Than Burn It
At a farm fair in Punjab, Vivian Fernandes
comes across an entrepreneur who tells
farmers why paddy straw is not for burning.
By turning paddy straw into manure through
fermentation, an engineer turned entrepreneur
says he has tackled Punjab’s twin problems of postkharif
atmospheric pollution and water logging in
the south-west region.
Sanjeev Nagpal, Sampurn Agri Ventures. Photo
by Vivian Fernandes
Sanjeev Nagpal of Sampurn Agri Ventures has
set up a plant in the border district of Fazilka to
digest paddy straw anaerobically and produce
manure rich in silicon which plants need for cell
formation. He says, in the process it can drain out
the district’s excess groundwater caused by seepage
from canals that irrigate it. Rising water tables are
destroying kinnow orchards in the Abohar area,
which is Punjab’s citrus hub.
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sowing. This poses a health hazard to people in the
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Nagpal’s stall at a farm fair in Abohar, Punjab,
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kg of ash and three kg of particulate matter. But
when digested for 35 days, it can produce 600 kg
of manure, which sells for Rs 5,000 a tonne or even
Rs 8,000 when mixed with neem cake to repel pests
like nematodes.
Sampurn Agri Ventures’ plant can process
15,000 tonnes of straw a year, or the output of 7,500
acres. Nagpal says the Haryana government has
agreed to lift his entire production of manure for free
supply to farmers. The manure has orthosilicic acid,
a silicon supplement, which gets depleted when
rice is grown without let. In natural conditions
it is produced about below the surface but usually
beyond the reach of rice plants.
Nagpal says he has innovated on technology
bought from Germany. A by-product from
fermentation is gas rich in methane, about 12,000
cubic meters of it, for which he gets a subsidy. He
hopes to compress the gas and sell it as auto fuel.
The slurry left behind has calcium sulphate and can
be spread over soils to neutralize their alkalinity.
The drained water in the Fazilka area is saline.
To scrub the water of salts, Nagpal employs shrimps,
which need calcium carbonate for shell formation.
The shrimp he exports to Dubai. Technology and
thoughtfulness, it seems, can turn waste into
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Hrithik Roshan’s
‘Kaabil’ to go on
floors March end
Mumbai, Actors Hrithik Roshan and Yami
Gautam will start shooting for “Kaabil” by
the end of March, and will devote their time
to the project till July, says the film’s director Sanjay
Gupta.
Gupta shared the development on Twitter, while
saying that he is making the most of his time before
he begins rolling the camera for “Kaabil”.
“My last long weekend with my family because
‘Kaabil’ shoot starts in three weeks and then it is
non-stop work till July. So making the most of it.
Thanks to my assistant director Nadeem Shah,
there are no free weekends once we roll ‘Kaabil’ at
the end of this month,” Gupta posted.
The film, which will be produced by Hrithik’s
father, filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, brings forward a
new onscreen couple, and the plot of the story is kept
well under wraps.
Bipasha Basu quashes
engagement rumours
Mumbai, Bollywood actress Bipasha
Basu on Sunday snubbed rumours
that she has got engaged to her
“Alone” co-star Karan Singh Grover, after she
was captured wearing a prominent diamond
sparkler on her ring finger.
“Wait for me to announce my wedding
when I want to and if I want to. Please
stop treating it frivolously,” Bipasha
tweeted.
Some images that have surfaced
online feature Bipasha sitting on the
back seat of a car, while Karan is seated
in front, next to the driver. Looking
casual, deglam and tired, Bipasha can
be seen looking down, trying to avoid the
papparazzi.
The “Jism” actress, who was earlier
famously dating actor John Abraham,
has urged fans and media persons
to avoid speculating on her current
relationship status. “For years, I have
dealt with this constant discussion. Please
be patient. After all it’s my life. Thank you
all. Humble request to all those who love
me,” she said.
Hema Malini gets Nano
for her Vrindavan rides
Mathura: Actress-politician Hema
Malini has bought a Nano car,
and hopes she gets to drive it
herself.
Bollywood’s ‘Dreamgirl’ Hema, who is
also the MP from Mathura, has bought the
ride for political work
She tweeted: “In the Nano I have
bought to use in Vrindavan. Hope I am
able to drive it myself there!”.
She picked jazzy purple colour for the
car, and shared a string of images on the
social media platform.
The veteran star has lent her voice
for singer-composer Kailash Kher’s new
album “Ishq Anokha”.
45 years of ‘Anand’, Big B remembers
Rajesh Khanna
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan
looked back in time and reminisced
about the journey of his film
“Anand”, in which he featured along
side Rajesh Khanna and Sumita
Sanyal, 45 years ago.
He said that the 1971 film
reflected upon the “glory of the
superstar Rajesh Khanna”. The
film, which narrated story of a
terminally ill man, who wishes to
live life to the full before he dies, as
told by his best friend, clocked 45
years of its existence on March 5.
Noel Gallagher is a strict
dad, says daughter
Los Angeles, Musician Noel Gallagher
is strict and reserved when it comes to
talking to his daughter about boys.
The former Oasis rocker’s eldest child Anaïs,
16, told The Sun on Sunday newspaper that her
father always avoids any conversations about
“the birds and the bees”, reports femalefirst.
co.uk.
She said: “My dad is very strict when it
comes to boys ... My dad has never given me
the birds and the bees chat and doesn’t talk
to me about boys. He’s always, ‘I don’t want
to talk about it’.
“I remember when me and my stepmum
would be talking about
boys
and he would
be like, ‘Stop’.
He just
doesn’t want to
know. I have always been
one of those girls who has boys
over at my house but we are just friends.
“We made an agreement that they
should stay out of my friendships and
relationships as I get embarrassed, just
like any other 16-year-old. My dad can stay
supportive of my schoolwork instead.”
‘Khatron Ke...’ proved
I’m not a delicate
darling, says Tina Dutta
Mumbai, Actress Tina Dutta, the first female
contestant to get eliminated from the seventh
season of stunt based reality TV show
“Khatron Ke Khiladi - Kabhi Peeda Kabhi Keeda”,
says her experience is an answer to those who
considered her a “delicate darling”.
“On ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’, I discovered
myself. This show was an answer to
everyone who thought I was a delicate
darling. Overcoming your biggest
fear when you are on television in
front of the cameras can be your worst
nightmare, but this show captures
the journey in the most beautiful way,”
Tina said in a statement.
Tina lost to actors Aishwarya
Sakhuja and Vivan Bhatena in a task
titled ‘Underwater safe save’.
The “Uttaran” star says she never
thought that “trying new things and moving
out from your comfort zone would turn out to be
so adventurous”.
“I had the time of my life while in Argentina
with the other contestants, each and every
one surprised me with their talent. I wish
good luck to the rest of the contestants. Keep
fighting the khatras,” she added.
The Colors channel show, which is hosted
by Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor, has been
shot in Argentina. The contestants, who
are still a part of the show include names
like Sana Saeed, Yuvraj Walmiki, Mukti
Mohan and Raghav Juyal.
Konkona wraps up shoot
for directorial debut film
Mumbai, Actress Konkona
Sen Sharma has
wrapped up the shooting
of her directorial debut “A Death
in the Gunj”, which was being
shot in McCluskiegunj, a town in
Jharkhand.
“Just wrapped the shoot of
our film ‘A Death in the Gunj’
in McCluskiegunj,” Konkona
tweeted.
The “Wake Up Sid” actress
shared a photograph of herself
on Twitter. She is seen wearing a
black shirt, jeans and boots. Black
aviators complete her look for what
seems to be a sunny day.
“A Death in the Gunj” has a
string of stars featuring in the
film like Vikrant Massey, Kalki
Koechlin, Gulshan Devaiah, Om
Puri and Tillotama Shome, Tanuja,
as well as Konkona’s estranged
husband Ranvir Shorey.
Easy lessons won’t help students learn better
Toronto, Making lessons easier for
students may not help them learn
better. According to a Canadian
study, making students struggle with
problems by introducing difficulty in the
problem will help them perform better
in the long run.
According to researchers, when
students have to really think and
evaluate what they have to do, this
desirable difficulty contributes to
meaningful learning.
“When I first started teaching, I
thought my role as a teacher was to take
difficult topics and make them easy,”
said Fred Phillips from the University of
Saskatchewan in Canada.
“While there is some immediate value
in that, it is fleeting, it degrades memory
over time,” Phillips added.
The team observed, making
accounting problems simple does not
help students as much as does making
those same problems difficult.
To gain a better understanding of
this concept, researchers recruited 170
business students to take part in the
study.
One set of the students was given
a series of accounting problems in
successive order, each concept building
on the next: essentially they learned A,
then B, and then C in a grouped pattern.
The other group received interleaved
problems where A, B and C were
presented in a non-grouped order
(ABCABCABC). This group did not
practice A, B or C in a successive order
and students took longer to solve the
problem.
The theory is that struggle leads to
long-term connections in memory that
won’t degrade over time, Phillips stated.
Immediately following the practice
problems, the first group could do the
problems faster and scored about 8
percent higher than others.
They tested the students once more,
this time a week later. Interestingly
enough, the first group’s score dropped
significantly compared to the previous
scores (a 27 point decline), while the
second group’s score dropped on an
average by only four percent.
“Desirable difficulty contributes
to meaningful learning,” Phillips
concluded.

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By Debdoot Das
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Come April 3, an expected full house
of 65,000 would scream their lungs
out in the World Twenty 20 final
at a greener and prettier Eden Gardens,
with a revamped drainage system which
promises to rid the iconic cricket venue of
its perennial water-logging problem.
Every cricketer who has played at the
Eden agrees his cricketing experience
would have been incomplete without
a game at this ground. Many say it is
cricket’s answer to the Colosseum, the
historic ampitheatre in Rome. “It’s a
very special ground. It feels great (to play
there),” India’s former stylish bat V V S
Laxman has said time and again, echoing
the sentiments of scores of other players.
The stadium held its maiden Test
match -- only the second on Indian soil
-- in 1934 as India took on England.
Eden’s crowning glory came in 1987 when
it hosted the World Cup final that was
won by Australia before a 95,000-strong
crowd.
Ex-Bengal captain Raju Mukherjee,
who has authored a book on the historic
venue, says greatness of Eden Gardens
lies in the people who come to watch.
“The beauty of Eden lies in its crowd
and the turf. It is the crowd that draws
the biggest cricketers from the world
over. They have reduced the capacity
considerably from 100,000 to 65,000 now,
but it is still a massive crowd
and together they can take
the roof off,” Mukherjee told
IANS.
However, eyebrows
were raised when the
International Cricket Council
(ICC) announced that Eden
would host the final of the
World Twenty 20. It has been
a historic venue no doubt, but
what if it rains?
And the doubting
Thomases did have a case. On two
previous occasions when it rained in the
city on match days, games at the Eden
Gardens were washed out.
In the Indian Premier League (IPL)
edition eighth match between Kolkata
Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals as
well as the T20 international between
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India and South Africa last year in
October, not a ball could be bowled.
But the Cricket Association of Bengal
claims rain can no more play spoilsport.
With its new president Sourav Ganguly
leading from the front,
the CAB mandarins have
been working overtime
to better the drainage
system. “We had brought
in a company from Delhi
to look into the problem
of ground water-logging.
“Then we followed
instructions of (BCCI
pitch curator) Daljit
Singh and we worked
as a team with Ashish
Bhowmick (East Zone curator), Sujan
Mukherjee (Eden Gardens curator)
and me. We did the deep coring which
was of prime importance.” CAB ground
committee head Debabrata Das told
IANS. “If it rains for even four hours now,
the water will drain out in 20 minutes.
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Only a flood can stop Eden Gardens from
having a game,” assured Das. The last
time, when rain hampered play here, the
then pitch curator Prabir Mukherjee had
stated that there weren’t enough covers to
be laid across the ground. But now, over
four months after the debacle, Eden is
equipped with all the modern amenities.
“We have brought in machines which can
absorb water that is left on the pitch cover.
We have all the modern equipment which
are necessary now, including zero-point
grass cutters and four super soppers,”
Das stated.
“We also now have a brand new pitch
cover which is inflatable and can be rolled
up easily. Modern see-through ground
covers are also on their way,” he added.
However, Mukherjee struck a note
of caution. “Can man fight nature? No
stadium in the world can say we are 100
percent equipped to handle heavy rain.
Do you know One-Dayers were invented
because Test matches were being rained
out?” On the outfield, the difference is
all visible. Sprinklers were watering
the ground just as in hockey fields. The
ground never looked greener. Workers
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Iconic Eden Gardens brings in hi-tech to tackle rain threat
T20 World cup
Zhong becomes China’s
first individual cycling
world champion
were busy painting the steel and iron
frames around the ground.
“We have looked into every nook and
corner of the field. We are working under
the supervision of Sourav Ganguly. He
is deeply involved in all the work that
is being done. There is no scope for a
mistake,” said Das.
The ground has also got a brand new
electronic scoreboard and giant screen.
Outside, just on top of the main entrance,
two huge pictures have been put up.
One shows former ICC president
Jagmohan Dalmiya presenting the World
Cup to Australian skipper Steve Waugh
and the other features veteran Indian
women cricketer Jhulan Goswami.
It was 29 years back that Eden hosted
a world Cup final. CAB joint secretary
Anu Dutta insists the stadium is ready
for the big day. “Yes, we have got a few
changes here and there.We will be putting
up the scoreboard in a few days’ time. But
rest assured, we are ready for hosting
the matches of the World T20,” Dutta
said, referring to the final and the three
other WT20 games slated to be played on
Eden’s hallowed surface.
The GIBS Placement Advisory Board is a milestone of GIBS
Business School, the meeting held on 5th March 2016 at their
Residential Campus. The meeting consisted with Mr. Ritesh
Goyal - Group Chairman, Ms. Uzma Nayeem - Placement Head along
with group of renowned Board members which exists to help further
the mission and aims of the business school, remains faith of abiding
in excellence and exquisiteness. The Board provides a link to those
individuals and organizations with the resources, knowledge, and
contacts the School require achieving its objectives and fulfilling its
mission.
The Placement Advisory Board have set up to take inputs from the
corporate world on how to make students get ready for the present
competitive business environment & help us to prepare future leaders
by keeping an eye open for openings at companies, or by creating a
spot for a fellow GIBS for a job position.
In addition, members of the Placement Board provided valuable
insight on the changing trends in the marketplace to the students,
they discussed the traits and skill-sets they look for when making
hiring decisions and shared their experience, providing tips for career
success.
London. Zhong Tianshi has become China’s first world
champion in an individual cycling event after beating
teammate Lin Junhong in the women’s sprint at the Track
World Championships here.
The 25-year-old on Sunday was a comfortable winner in both of
the final rides, taking the best-of-three series 2-0 to improve upon
the bronze she won in the event 12 months ago, reports Xinhua.
Defending champion, Germany’s Kristina Vogel, winner of the
women’s keirin title this week, beat Australian Anna Meares 2-0
in the bronze medal ride.“I have been waiting for this gold medal
for a long time,” said a jubilant Zhong.
Zhong lost to Vogel in the semi-finals of last year’s worlds but
took a sweet revenge Sunday morning to qualify for the final.
She also won the silver medal with teammate Gong Jinjie in
the women’s team sprint, after being downgraded from gold for an
illegal change, handing the title to Russia.
“I was in better form last year but I lost to myself,” she said.
She said she will get herself ready for the Rio Olympic Games
back home, trying to making history by becoming China’s first
cycling Olympic champion.
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Karnataka and Goa zones. They discussed
social concerns of JITO and Marwari society
in General. Later Mr Goenka presented book “
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