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Vol 1, Issue 202 `.1.00/- 

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Gold 22 carat 29310 per 10 gms 

Gold 24 carat 31350 per 10 gms 

Silver 51352 per Kg 

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DYSP KALLAPPA’S FAMILY MEETS CM 

THE STRIKE THAT STRUCK 

THE CITY HARD 

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SC NOTICE TO MALLYA ON PLEA OF 

CONSORTIUM OF BANKS 

SYRIAN MIGRANT SETS OFF EXPLOSION 

AT GERMAN BAR WOUNDING DOZENS 

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NARSINGH IS INNOCENT, IT’S A CONSPIRACY: WFI 

GOVT TO PROVIDE BENEFITS TO SMALL 

TEA GROWERS: NIRMALA SITHARAMAN 

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ROBOT THERAPIST TO HELP RELIEVE MUSCLE STRAINS 

SALMAN KHAN ACQUITTED IN CHINKARA 

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2 BAJRANG DAL AC- 

TIVISTS BOOKED FOR 

ATTACKING DALITS 

Two Bajrang Dal activists, 

have been booked on charges 

of attacking a Dalit family in 

their house at Chickamangaluru 

for alleged cow slaughter. 

Police registered a case 

against seven locals on a 

counter-complaint by three 

Dalits. The alleged attack 

on Dalits came to light after 

‘Komu Souharda Vedike’, a forum 

for communal harmony, 

raised this issue. 

“Based on a complaint, we 

have booked seven persons, 

including two Bajrang Dal 

activists, for attacking three 

Dalits in their house,” said 

Jayapura Sub-Inspector of 

Police Chandrashekhar. 

A PIECE OF ART, COBRA 

SPEWS WATER 

Dhanjay Markanja, a resident 

of Markanja, has created 

a work of art, where a cobra 

which is known to spew 

venom provides water to 

wash clothes, gardening. The 

moment one enters the residence 

in Goliyadka area, one 

is bound to fear, but in reality 

there is no danger. It appears 

from a distance as if a long 

venomous cobra is resting 

on a washing stone near the 

water tank. The artist took 

15 days to complete his little 

work of art keeping in mind 

the natural surroundings. 

Trained at Manasa School of 

arts in Mangaluru, Dhanajay 

has won many awards for 

his work in the past. One of 

his designs on chickengunya 

fancy dress was acclaimed 

state-wide. 

YOUTH DROWNS 

WHILE TAKING BATH IN 

A POND 

A youth drowned while 

taking bath in a pond with 

his friends at Neerchal Manya 

on Sunday. The deceased 

Shiyaz (21) was from Yeriyal. 

Shiyaz along with his friends 

was playing football in the 

evening. They soon got into 

a nearby pond near Manya 

Mundol to have bath where 

Shiyaz started drowning. 

When friends failed to rescue 

him, fire personnel and 

police arrived at the spot and 

succeeded in fishing out the 

body from the pond. A case 

has been registered at Vidyanagar 

police station. 

WITCH CRAFT ITEMS 

FOUND AT GERUKATTE 

Items used for witchcraft 

were found in a forest near 

the house of local resident 

Shivarama in Gerukatte. Pop 

corn, vermilion and pumpkin 

were found around the 

place dug for treasure. A 

sacrificed hen was left at the 

spot along with a map which 

had details of the surroundings. 

The villagers had seen 

strangers in a car and bike 

and they had kept quiet assuming 

that those in the vehicles 

might have lost their 

way. The footprints of several 

people running around were 

seen and it is suspected that 

a large group had come to 

perform the witchcraft. Shivarama 

has complained to 

the Belthangady police. 

ONE DIES AFTER BUS 

HITS BIKE 

In a shocking accident, a 

biker died on spot when his 

bike was hit by a Tamil Nadu 

state-run bus on Monday. The 

deceased has been identified 

as Deepak Thapa (28), a native 

of Uttaranchal. According 

to the police, the incident 

took place at 5.30am when 

the speeding bus hit Deepak’s 

bike from the rear side. 

A profusely bleeding Deepak 

was rushed to a nearby hospital 

where he was declared 

brought dead. Wilson Garden 

police have registered a case. 

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STUDENTS FIND NEET-2 EXAM 

TOUGHER THAN NEET-1 

National Eligibilitycum-Entrance 

Test Phase 

2, which was conducted on 

Sunday, received mixed responses 

from the students. 

Students who are medical 

and dental seat aspirants 

wrote the exam on Sunday 

but were disappointed 

as they found the paper 

tougher than the Common 

Entrance Test and NEET 

phase 1. NEET phase 2 is 

considered the last chance 

to fetch a seat and many 

medical seat aspirants give 

up their NEET Phase 1 

seat to prepare for NEET-2. 

However, the exam on Sunday 

seems to have let down 

the students. 

“As anticipated, the difficulty 

level of the paper was 

more than the CET. What 

made it harder was that 

NEET has negative marking, 

which CET doesn’t,” said a 

student. Students, who had 

failed to bag medical and 

dental seats through CET, 

are now depending on their 

NEET scores. Students who 

took up the exam said the 

questions in NEET were 

more application based 

and twisted. Teachers at 

coaching centres said that 

FOUR SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN 

GANESH ACHARYA MURDER CASE 

an average student is likely 

to score above 60 per cent 

if they had managed time 

effectively. The results of 

NEET 1 and 2 will be announced 

on August 17. 

About 4.75 Lakh students 

took up the test in 739 centres 

across 56 cities. 

DISTRICT-IN-CHARGE MINISTER LAYS FOUNDATION 

STONE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS IN MANGALURU 

ANTI-CORRUPTION BUREAU LAUNCHES ITS WEBSITE 

Lodging a complaint 

with the ACB is now easier 

than ever. In an effort to encourage 

public to exchange 

any information pertaining 

to corruption, Anti-corruption 

Bureau launched a 

website and facebook page 

on Monday. 

The website was 

launched by Chief of ACB, 

K.V. Gagan Deep in the 

presence of senior officers 

of ACB Dr. M. A. Saleem and 

other senior police officers. 

Website: http://acb. 

karnataka.gov.in 

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ICA EDU SKILLS LAUNCHES NEW CENTRE IN BENGALURU 

ICA Edu Skills announced 

the launch of its new centre 

and zonal support office in 

Bengaluru. The launched 

centre was inaugurated by 

ICA’s Founder-Chairman 

Dr. Narendra Kumar Shyamsukha 

and its CEO Mr. 

Pankaj Jain in the presence 

of Dr. S. S Halageri, Principal, 

KLE Society’s S.Nijalingappa 

College, Chief Guest 

Central Crime Bureau 

on Saturday arrested four 

suspects in relation to the 

murder of Ganesh Acharya 

in Padil. The arrested persons 

are Umashankar (39) 

from Padil Alape, Shashiraj 

(30) from Kannur, Nithin 

Kumar from Veeranagara 

and Alwyn Sequeira (25) 

from Padil. The cops who 

started investigations after 

receiving information 

of the murder suspects arrested 

the four near Kankanady 

railway station. 

B. Ramanath Rai, laid 

foundation stone for various 

projects at Alake, Kavoor 

markets, Kavoor 

junction On Sunday. 

He also inaugurated 

the first floor of 

Kasba-Bazar night 

shelter. Addressing 

media persons during 

the event, Ramanath 

Rai said, “Foundation 

stone has been laid 

to construct a dining 

hall at Town Hall at a 

cost of Rs 99.85 lakh 

under 13th Finance 

Commission. We are also 

constructing a full-fledged 

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AntiCorruptionBureauKarnataka 

The website is easy 

to visit by clicking on 

the above mentioned 

URL. The website 

provides information 

about ACB, its inception, 

vision, organization 

structure and 

other information like 

District ACB office address 

and officer’s 

contact numbers etc. 

The website also helps 

visitors on the how to lodge 

a complaint with the ACB. 

at the function. 

Speaking at the launch 

ceremony, Dr. Narendra Kumar 

Shyamsukha, Founder 

Chairman, ICA Edu Skills 

said, “On the one hand, India 

has a large number of 

educated but unemployed, 

and on the other, the industry 

is desperately short 

of skilled employees. With 

Bengaluru emerging as a 

On questioning, they 

confessed that they assaulted 

Ganesh Acharya. They 

revealed that they committed 

the heinous crime 

because Ganesh Acharya 

would insult them and 

would use abusive language 

with the father of accused 

Umashankar. The arrested 

have been handed over to 

the Mangaluru rural police 

station. Inspector Sunil Y 

Naik, PSI Shamsunder and 

staff participated in the operation. 

The dead body of 

Ganesh Acharya was found 

market at Alake with an estimated 

cost of Rs 50 lakh 

(first phase) and construction 

of a market at Kavoor 

at estimated cost of 1 crore. 

Kavoor Junction will be developed 

with an estimated 

cost of Rs 1.5 crore. The 

ground floor of night shelter 

at Bunder-Kasba will 

be constructed at cost of Rs 

99.80 lakh.” 

Addressing the gathering, 

MLA J R Lobo said 

that the Night shelter at 

Kasaba-Bazar is the first in 

The State Government 

had created Anti Corruption 

Bureau in the state in 

hub, we wish to 

tap the opportunity 

to help 

students equip 

themselves 

with the required 

skill for 

a job they wish 

to take up. We 

are delighted to 

launch a centre 

in this fast developing 

city to 

train students 

to fulfill the 

requirements 

of skilled manpower 

in all the major industries 

and encourage as 

many as of them to extract 

maximum benefit from the 

skill-oriented courses at 

ICA Edu Skills.” 

Sharing his opinion and 

experience at the launch, 

Chief Guest Dr. S.S Halageri, 

Principal, KLE Society’s S. 

Nijalingappa College said, 

in a well last week with injury 

marks. The brother of 

the deceased in his police 

state and can accommodate 

nearly 75 people. 

Mayor Harinath said, 

“Kavoor Junction will also 

be developed at a cost of 

Rs 1.50 crore. The development 

of the junction is to facilitate 

smooth flow of traffic. 

Moreover, a public toilet 

at a cost of Rs 12 Lakh will 

be constructed adjacent to 

the junction.” MLC Ivan D’ 

Souza, Ibrahim Kodijal and 

others were present for the 

inauguration. 

March this year in its effort 

to make its administration 

transparent and efficient. 

“ICA Edu Skills will not only 

make students industry 

ready with its innovating 

courses and cutting-edge 

technology, but would also 

prepare them to take up 

new challenges of today’s 

world and help enhance 

their employability.” says 

Dr. Halageri. 

Apart from arranging 

training and internships 

with leading institutes and 

organizations as part of the 

course work, ICA also organizes 

tests, group discussions 

and mock interviews 

to prepare students for 

placements in the top companies 

of the country. ICA 

has also partnered with the 

NSDC and is working jointly 

with central and state 

governments to train and 

place candidates in various 

other fields such as Stitching, 

Construction, Manufacturing 

and Power, etc. 

complaint had expressed 

his suspicions with regard 

to the death. 

ANOTHER ARRESTED IN DYSP 

KALLAPPA CASE 

The investigation team 

handling the DySP Kallappa 

Handbag suicide case 

has made another arrest 

in connection with 

the case in Bengaluru on 

Sunday. The arrested Joy 

Milton is one of the key 

accused in the kidnapping 

case in Chikkamagaluru 

that led to Deputy 

Superintendent of Police 

(DySP) of Chikkamagaluru 

sub-division Kallappa 

Handibag’s suicide. 

He was arrested from a 

house at Anepalya, Bengaluru. 

The police had earlier 

arrested Abhiram, an associate 

of main suspect 

Praveen Khandya, who 

along with his associates 

Naveen Shetty, Ashwin 

Shetty and Jeeva are still 

on the run. 

The police are on the 

lookout for the suspects 

in other states also. 

CID has expressed its 

disappointment over the 

lenient police attitude 

towards arrested Hindu 

leader of Malnad region, 

Praveen Khandya 

in the abduct case which 

prompted the suicide of 

Chikkamagaluru DySP 

Kallappa Handibag. It is 

learnt that the CID has informed 

the state government 

about the same. 

“Though Pravin 

Khandya was the main 

conspirator in the kidnap 

of financier H M Tejas, that 

made Kallappa commit 

suicide, the local police 

were not strict enough to 

take action. Tejas had said 

that Praveen Khandya is 

directly responsible for 

the kidnap but the police 

have made Khandya the 

fourth accused which is 

questionable. Khandya 

was justifying police action 

during peace meetings 

relating to communal 

riots. Therefore some senior 

Police officials have 

gone soft on him. In the 

circumstances Abhishek 

who helped in the kidnap 

has been made first suspect 

instead of Khandya. 

Nataraj who had financial 

disputes with Tejas and 

Khandya’s friend Navin 

Shetty have been made 

second and third suspects 

respectively. Khandya has 

been made fourth suspect.” 

added the CID officials 

to media. 

Chikkamagaluru police 

had arrested Tejas and his 

assistants for betting on 

the basis of information 

given by Praveen Khandya 

himself. Though the area 

comes under Chikkamagaluru 

sub division limits 

under DySP Kallappa Handibag, 

the neighborhood 

police authorities did not 

notify him prior to the assault 

on the betting den. 

The circle inspector had 

taken leave for personal 

work. In this manner the 

raid on betting nook was 

led under supervision by 

higher authorities without 

informing the circle 

Inspector and the DySP. 

Tejas in the police objection 

against Khandya 

expressed that Abhijith 

and six others kidnapped 

him on June 28 at 2 am, 

took him to Bengaluru 

and kept him in unlawful 

confinement in a godown. 

Navin Shetty ordered Tejas 

to pay Rs 25 lacks to 

Nataraj. As Tejas declined 

to pay, Navin Shetty ambushed 

him. 

Meanwhile, Handibag’s 

family met with the CM 

on Monday at his home office 

Krishna to request the 

government to carry out 

a fair investigation and 

punish the culprits at the 

earliest. 

BENGALURU BOY SETS RECORD BY 

SPELLING 64 WORDS IN A MINUTE 

STUDENTS PUT FORTH GRIEVANCES 

INFRONT OF MINISTER 

The residents of Vijayapura 

took the help of 

students to put forth their 

grievances and voice their 

concerns infront of the 

District-in-charge minister 

when their attempts to find 

solutions to their problems 

failed even after approaching 

several authorities several 

times. 

On Saturday, Manjula, a 

class 10 student requested 

the minister to get a public 

toilet constructed in her 

locality. Another student 

Rahul, urged the minister 

25K SAPLINGS TO BE PLANTED IN THE 

FINAL PHASE OF PARISARA UTSAV 2016 

Parisara Utsav program 

was launched on June 10 

with the aim ‘Each citizen, 

one sapling and every 

house, one water harvesting 

pit’. In the final phase 

of the Parisara Utsav Program, 

25,000 saplings will 

Sriganesh Birader, a 

four-year-old Bengaluru 

boy has made his entry into 

the India Book of Records 

(IBR) for spelling 64 words 

in a minute on Sunday. The 

requirement was to spell 

only 51 words in one minute. 

He also achieved a record 

for correctly remembering 

the numbers from 0 

to 100 in reverse. The four 

year old boy, Sriganesh is 

a student of New Horizon 

Public School, Indiranagar 

and studies in LKG. He expressed 

his joy of receiving 

lot of gifts and medals for 

his feat. 

He achieved the feat of 

remembering the numbers 

in 45.7 seconds. His proud 

father said that Sriganesh 

could easily do math problems 

that included additions 

with double digits. 

His son’s exceptional memory 

power was recognised 

when he was 2 years old. 

The most Sriganesh has 

spelt is around 800 words 

to increase the number of 

buses as students find it 

hard to go to school regularly 

as there is a shortage 

of transport facility. Many 

other students brought to 

the minister’s notice, the 

civic issues they face in 

their locality. 

After the students expressed 

their grievances, 

a social worker requested 

the Minister to establish 

a government hospital at 

vacant buildings that belonged 

to the corporation. 

SP S N Sidramappa, MLA 

be planted. Karkala MLA 

Sunil Kumar who launched 

the final phase on Sunday 

said, “instead of planting 

new sapling in old pits, it is 

better to nurture one-yearold 

saplings by sprinkling 

water and providing soil 

that include the entire 

planets and elements of the 

solar system. 

Dr Mukbal Bagawan, Mayor 

Sangeeta Pol and Assistant 

Commissioner Parashuram 

Madar were present on the 

occasion. 

The minister asked the 

authorities to prioritize 

construction of toilets in 

two localities. He also suggested 

the Deputy Commissioner 

to conduct public 

grievance meetings at the 

Taluk level every month. 

DC R. Randeep said that 

they have received over 

140 grievances at the meeting. 

cushion to the roots.” He 

also appreciated the efforts 

made in the water harvesting 

program and lauded the 

efforts of social, education 

and religious organisations 

in promoting the program. 

Talking to the gathering, 

Deputy Conservator of forests, 

Subramanya, said the 

government will lend total 

support to the initiative 

and opined that this move 

will help in the future to 

counter severe water shortage 

faced in most parts of 

the state during summer. 

Forest department officials, 

village panchayat members 

, senior members of RSS, 

SKDRDP were present on 

the ocassion.

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Feeling less loved by 

parents, girl commits 

suicide 

Sibling rivalry took an ugly 

turn in Karnataka’s Udupi district 

when a teenage girl committed 

suicide because she felt 

her parents loved her younger 

sister more.18-year-old Pragati 

Shetty, was a native of Bidkalkatte 

in KundapurTaluk of 

Udupi district. In her suicide 

note, she said that her parents 

did not love her enough and 

never paid a visit to her in the 

hostel where she stayed. She 

also mentioned that her parents 

only loved her younger 

sister. 

Forensic labs to come 

up in state 

The state government is 

planning to set up forensic 

science laboratories in every 

district head quarters. Speaking 

to media, after inspecting 

the facilities at state forensic 

science lab in the city on 

Monday, State Minister for 

Home Affairs G Parameshwara 

said that forensic labs 

will be established in all districts 

within a short period. 

The forensic science experts 

are directed to submit reports 

within 15 days period. 

Adding further, he said that 

287 vacant posts in the lab 

will be filled up soon. 

THE STRIKE THAT STRUCK 

THE CITY HARD 

Bus stands looked 

abandoned and employees 

avoided work as buses 

stopped plying in the city 

and across Karnataka on 

Monday. A similar deserted 

look was witnessed in 

Mysuru, Tumakuru, Bidar, 

Kolar as an indefinite 

strike called by Unions 

of State-owned transport 

corporation KSRTC, BMTC, 

NWKRTC and NEKRTC began 

on Monday. 

Around 23,000 KSRTC, 

BMTC and regional RTC 

buses were off roads on the 

A few associations were 

asked to step in and provide 

additional help during 

the strike. Subsequently, 

Namma Metro, which typically 

sees a ridership of 

600-700 on opening at 6 

a.m. saw 2,204 travelers 

take the metro between 

6 a.m. and 7 a.m. on the 

Purple line (East-West 

passageway). An extra 804 

individuals took the Green 

Line (North line) in the 

morning. 

The South-Western Railway 

(SWR) announced that 

KEMPEGOWDA BUS STATION LOOKS ABANDONED 

holidays for schools and 

colleges since 90% of the 

commuters depend on private 

buses. 

Transport authorities, 

meanwhile, stepped in 

with alternatives. Minister 

Ramalinga Reddy said 

they have roped in 30,000 

private buses and 80,000 

maxi-cabs for commuting 

in the city . 

BJP’s LASHES OUT AT 

GOVERNMENT 

State BJP President B.S. 

the government lacks in vision 

and imagination” 

Protestors attacked 

three North Eastern Karnataka 

Road Transport Corporation 

(NERKTC) buses 

woth stones. 

Protestors damaged 

more than 92 buses in the 

state. KSRTC endured the 

worst as 49 buses were 

damaged, 4 BMTC transports, 

12 NWKRTC and 27 

KSRTC BUS DAMAGED BY PROTESTORS 

BUSES DAMAGED 

IT FIRMS HIT BY BMTC STRIKE 

First day of the BMTC 

strike not only affected the 

general public at large but 

also the IT firms in the city. 

Firms that hired BMTC 

buses to ferry employees to 

and from IT firms had to go 

for alternatives like hiring 

taxi services. 

The BMTC has charted 

out 500 buses to various IT 

firms and private companies 

in the city. Speaking about 

this, EkroopCaur, Managing 

Director of BMTC said that 

all the 500 buses rented for 

the IT firms would be off 

road during the strike. 

CM WITH NATIONAL JUNIOR 

SWIMMING CHAMPIONS 

As a precaution, many 

companies had already informed 

their employees that 

they should make alternative 

transportation facilities 

to reach their work places. 

Some companies had 

arranged transportation 

while some companies 

asked the drivers to make 

multiple trips to bring the 

staff to the offices. 

One of the private companies’ 

president said that 

they lost the hope of renewing 

the agreement for 

the next year over BMTC 

buses. Due to the strike, 

many companies had to 

give either holiday or work 

from home option for their 

staff. 

Meanwhile, many PSUs 

using BMTC services had 

asked their employees to either 

use private vehicles or 

carpool to reach the workplace. 

A senior employee of 

a PSU in north Bengaluru 

said his company was roping 

in maxi cabs temporarily 

instead of BMTC buses. 

AIR takes initiative to 

air finance programme 

All India Radio (AIR) Bengaluru 

will broadcast a series 

of financial management programmes 

titled ‘Your Money 

Your Life’, sponsored by the 

Karnataka Circle of SBI. 

Experts will answer 

questions from listeners on 

savings, budgeting, investment, 

planning for old age, 

donating to charity, banking 

etc. The programme will be 

relayed by all AIR stations in 

Karnataka. 

Bengaluru is the new 

hub for Gold recycling 

Muthoot Exim Pvt Ltd, has 

opened Muthoot Gold Recycling 

center in Bangaluru on 

Monday. The company also 

has plans of opening 14 or 15 

such centers in Bengaluru in 

the coming years. 

Muthoot Gold Point has 

the eighth centres in the 

country, after Coimbatore, 

Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, 

Ahmedabad and Vijayawada. 

The company has claimed 

that the scheme has helped 

the government cut down the 

import of gold, by garnering 

and channelising domestic 

unused gold to productive 

use. 

According to estimates, it 

said, gold recycling has not 

been tapped to its fullest in 

India and it mostly happens 

in the unorganised sector. 

The company through 

its centres will buy old and 

used gold items directly from 

customers, reprocess, refine 

and supply refined bars for 

domestic consumption, with 

the objective of reducing dependence 

on gold imports, it 

added. 

After the initiative was 

launched in November 2015, 

the company was able to recycle 

140 kg of used gold. 

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ARIAL VIEW OF RTC BUS STAND AT MAJESTIC 

first day of strike on Monday. 

The strike was called 

by unions demanding a 

30-35 per cent revision of 

salaries as against the 10 

per cent that the State is 

prepared to offer. In any 

case, with the administration 

adhering to its stand 

that anything above 10 per 

cent would not be plausible, 

Union leaders say that 

they have no other alternative 

but to go on strike. 

In places like Mysuru, 

Hassan, Belagavi, Mangaluru 

and Bengaluru, suburbanites 

could be seen 

struggling to find alternative 

transport. In Hassan, 

private buses saw a chance 

to profit and were extracting 

up to Rs.100 additional 

than the cost charged by 

the KSRTC. 

NAMMA METRO 

RECORDS HIGHEST 

NUMBER OF PASSENGERS 

METRO FREQUENCY TO BE INCREASED 

Due to the BMTC’s strike, 

the Bangalore Metro Rail 

Corporation Ltd. has decided 

to increase the number 

of trips between the destinations 

for the convenience of 

the commuters in the Garden 

City. 

“We will run a train, which 

SUPPORT POURS IN FOR MISSING IAF OFFICER’S FAMILY 

Grief continues to grip 

Eknath Shetty’s family, the 

Indian Air Force personnel 

who disappeared in the 

Russian-made IAF air ship 

A 32 over Bay of Bengal. 

Dakshina Kannada Superintendent 

of Police Bhushan 

Borase met Shetty’s 

family on Sunday and guaranteed 

all possible support 

from the department. The 

SP spoke to Jayanthi (Shetty’s 

wife) and tolf her that 

they were in constant touch 

with the Coastal Guard DIG 

Suresh and Chennai Control 

Room and are collecting 

information. 

Apart from the SP Borase, 

Airforce Wing Commander 

from Mysuru R G 

Hegde visited the grieving 

all mail and express trains 

would stop at Baiyappanahalli, 

Whitefield, Carmelaram, 

Channasandra 

stations in both bearings 

other than trains from Bengaluru 

and Mysuru stopping 

at the Nayandahalli 

station. 

CITY STUDENTS 

ENJOY HOLIDAY 

The Chief Minister had 

on Sunday announced a 

holiday for schools and 

colleges across the state 

on Monday and Tuesday , 

but left the final decision 

to the Deputy Commissioners. 

While schools in Bengaluru 

Urban district will 

remain closed on tuesday, 

in Bengaluru Rural, it was 

decided that they would 

be closed only on Monday 

. Dakshina Kannada 

and Udupi administration 

has decided not to declare 

is able to carry about 950 

commuters, for every six 

minutes to accommodate 

the increasing passenger 

strength on a continuous basis. 

If there is a need, there 

would also be extension of 

services upto 11 pm on the 

purple line while green line 

family on behalf of the Indian 

Army and guaranteed all 

possible help. 

Earlier on Saturday, Captain 

Ganesh Karnik had met 

missing officer’s wife and 

gave condolences to her. 

Eknath Shetty (48) 

joined armed force as 

a Subedar in 1985 and 

moved to Madras regiment 

later. He had served in Jammu 

and Kashmir, Arunachal 

Pradesh and Punjab with a 

brief stretch in Sri Lanka. In 

spite of the fact that his service 

in armed force finished 

in 2009, he got a call from 

the aviation based armed 

forces to join its safeguard 

security wing. In this unit, 

he had served at places like 

YESWANTHPUR BUS STAND WEARS DESERTED LOOK 

Yeddyurappa once again 

seized the opportunity 

to criticize the government 

saying, “The bane of 

this government is that it 

makes every issue a matter 

of prestige and approaches 

the problem with ego. This 

further vitiates the atmosphere 

and complicates the 

matter”. 

Stating that the ‘interest 

of the common man’ is 

of paramount importance, 

the BJP President said that 

the strike has led untold 

hardship to daily wage 

workers, students who 

solely depended on RTC 

buses. 

Charging the state government 

of being flippant 

on this issue, Yeddyurappa 

added, “The workers had 

given notice of their proposed 

strike about 20 days 

ago. The government ought 

to have plunged into action 

and taken steps to prevent 

the strike. This shows that 

is already operation till 11 

pm”, BMRCL Managing Director 

Pradeep Singh Kharola 

said. 

“BMRCL will not be able 

to provide alternative arrangement 

for BMTC feeder 

services. However, we have 

asked Wicked Ride which 

Kannur, Goa and Kanpur 

before getting posted at 

Port Blair. 

The Indian Air Force 

plane conveying 29 individuals 

disappeared on Friday 

on a flight to Port Blair 

in the Bay of Bengal. The 

Russian-made A 32 was en 

route to Port Blair, the capital 

of Andaman and Nicobar 

islands, from Chennai when 

it vanished from the radar. 

There were 21 military personnel 

on board including 

six group individuals. The 

other individuals on board 

were regular people, some 

relatives of fighters sent on 

the islands. 

In 1968, the aircraft carrying 

98 defence personnel 

NEKRTC buses were damaged 

incurring a loss of 

about Rs 8,97,300. 

Keeping in view the 

damage the protestors 

could cause to public property, 

3000 police men were 

deployed to guarantee law 

and order in the state. 

A Kalaburgi-Bhalki –Udgir 

bus was stoned in Bhalki 

bus stand in the early 

morning hours on Monday. 

While another Bhalki 

and Bidar bus was stoned. 

NEKRTC authorities suspect 

protesters damaged 

them. 

According to NEKRTC 

sources, a bus at Aurad 

stop was stoned close to 

Ballari. The Aurad-Bengaluru 

bus was halted by 

protestor wee hours in the 

morning who threw stones 

at it. 

Bidar bus stand was 

empty in the morning excepting 

a couple of travelers. 

runs Metro bike services 

at five stations, to provide 

more number of vehicles 

at the station for the next 

two days”, U A Vasanth Rao, 

BMRCL spokesperson said. 

There would be about 80 extra 

bikes at Baiyappanahalli 

Metro station. 

was just about to land at its 

destination when orders 

were given out to the pilot 

from ground control to turn 

back due to bad weather 

conditions. On its way back 

to Chandigarh, the flight 

suddenly lost all contact 

with the ground control 

while flying over Rohtang 

pass. 

An extensive search was 

carried out hours after the 

ground control lost touch 

with the aircraft personnel. 

The search went on for 

months,but did not lead to 

any success. The fact that 

no remains had been found 

of such a big plane made 

the prospect of a crash 

seem unlikely. 

The Karnataka State team that won the 25th National Junior Swimming Championship 

was congratulated and felicitated by the Chief Minister at Krishna on Monday. Also 

present at the ceremony with the winning team were Karnataka Swimming Association 

members. 

PSI ROOPA BOOKED UNDER SECTION 309 

A day after she was 

discharge from hospital, 

Vijayanagar police sub-inspector 

Roopa Tambad has 

been booked for attempting 

suicide. 

A senior cop said on Sunday 

that Roopa is yet to be 

questioned as she is taking 

rest at her quarters in Vijayanagar. 

In spite of the fact that 

her relatives said that Roopa 

has been advised by 

doctors to take rest for one 

week before coming back 

to work, the office could be 

transferred and also will be 

held under suspension as 

she has been booked under 

KARNATAKA MILK REGULATORY 

COMMISSION TO BE FORMED 

The state government 

is all set to form the Karnataka 

Milk Regulatory 

Commission which will be 

on the lines of Karnataka 

Electricity Regulatory Commission 

(KERC). 

Milk consumers and 

dairy farmers will be regulated 

to ensure fair deal 

is made to customers and 

producers. The governing 

body will keep a check in 

order to protect the interest 

of the milk consumers. 

A Manju, Animal husbandry 

Minister said , 

“There is no mechanism 

to seek the views of consumers. 

In contrast, KERC 

conducts public hearing 

to seek the opinion of the 

electricity consumers before 

taking any decision on 

the request for power tariff 

hike by ESCOMS. The milk 

regulatory commission will 

ensure level playing field 

for consumers and producers”. 

This commission has 

been in-force in eight states 

- Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, 

a criminal case, Section 309 

of the Indian Penal Code. 

Thirty-two-year-old 

Roopa had overdosed on 

tablets after a heated contention 

with the station Inspector 

over a row. 

Roopa, had told Assistant 

Commissioner of Police 

that provocation and 

mortification by inspector 

Sanjeev Gowda had provoked 

her to attempt suicide. 

Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, 

Rajasthan, Punjab, Maharashtra. 

Officials of the 

Animal Husbandry department 

have been instructed 

to study the functioning of 

the body in these states and 

submit a report. 

The state which has a 

daily production of around 

70 lakh liters of milk with 

around 23 lakh dairy 

ranchers, has chosen to act 

in the light of regular hikes 

in milk cost by Karnataka 

Milk Federation (KMF), 

which, as a rule, draws protests 

from buyers. KMF has 

milk co-agents in around 

22,000 towns in the state 

associated to it. 

WATER SUPPLY TO BE AFFECTED FOR TWO DAYS 

Water supply will be 

affected in a few areas on 

Tuesday and Wednesday 

as BWSSB is taking up 

maintenance work at Gubbalala 

and Hegganahalli 

ground-level repository 

close Ideal Homes, Rajarajeshwarinagar 

on Tuesday. 

Pumping of water from 

Cauvery IV Stage Phase I 

will be ceased for 12 hours 

from 8 a.m. on Tuesday. 

As indicated by a BWSSB 

discharge, water supply will 

be affected in Nagarabhavi, 

Hosahalli, Vijayanagar, 

RPC Layout, Chandra Layout, 

Govindarajanagar, 

Moodalapalya, Rajarajeshwarinagar, 

Ideal Homes, 

Kengeri and encompassing 

zones of the west division; 

J.P. Nagar, fourth, fifth, sixth, 

seventh and ninth stages, 

Jaraganahalli, Kottanur 

Dinne, Konanakunte, BEL 

Layout, Bannerghatta I and 

II arranges and encompassing 

territories, HSR Layout 

first to fourth and sixth and 

seventh areas, Parangipalya, 

Agara, Rajeev Gandhi 

Nagar, Mangammanapalya, 

Madinanagar, Somasundarapalya, 

Hosapalya, Bandepalya, 

Koramangala first 

to fourth squares, Chikkasandra, 

Kuduremukha 

Colony, KSRP Colony, Venkatapura, 

Bellanduru, and 

Ibluru of southeast division, 

and Okalipura first 

and second stages. 

Water supply will be 

influenced in part in Subramanyanagar, 

Mallasandara, 

Dasarahalli, and 

Bagalgunte.

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NATION 

Woman kills alcoholic 

husband 

A man died after his wife 

allegedly threw boiling water 

on him and assaulted him 

with a cricket bat while he was 

asleep in Sadar Kotwali area. 

Bhure Singh (40), who was 

an alcoholic, had a fight with 

his wife Rekha and went off to 

sleep outside the house. While 

he was asleep, she threw boiling 

water on him and attacked 

him with cricket bat, SSP Sunil 

Saxena said on Monday. Hearing 

his cries, the neighbours 

and Singh’s brother rushed to 

his help. Singh was taken to 

hospital where he succumbed 

to his injuries later in the evening, 

the SSP said. The woman 

has been taken into custody. 

The body which bore burn 

marks on the face and neck 

has been sent for post mortem, 

the SSP added. 

Cong wants Portuguese 

as 2nd lang. in Goa 

schools 

Adding new dimension to 

the vexed issue of Medium 

of Instruction in Goa, Leader 

of Opposition in Legislative 

Assembly Pratapsingh Rane 

demanded that Portuguese 

be made second language in 

schools. “We should have no 

problem with any language. 

I learnt Portuguese because 

our own documents are in 

Portuguese,” the Congress 

leader said during the discussion 

on the ‘Demands for 

Grants’ on first day of Monsoon 

Session of Assembly. 

“It (Portuguese) should be 

second language for the students 

to learn. If you want 

to know the history of what 

happened in past, you should 

know this language also,” the 

former chief minister said. 

80 sheep die after 

drinking poisonous 

water 

Nearly 80 sheep have died 

allegedly after drinking poisonous 

water in Dhaneli village 

in the past two days, officials 

said. Joint Director of the 

Animal Husbandry Department 

Malkhan Singh Meena 

said, “Nearly 8O sheep have 

died and 200 are sick after 

drinking contaminated water 

from a tank. As per post-mortem 

reports, the cause of the 

deaths is intake of poisonous 

water.” A medical team has 

been formed and sent to the 

village, he said. 

5 criminals among 8 

killed as jeep collides 

with another 

Eight persons, including 

five alleged criminals, were 

killed and six others injured 

when two jeeps collided in 

Rajasthan’s Churu district, 

police said. The incident 

occurred on Sunday when 

the alleged criminals were 

fleeing after opening fire at 

a police party in Bhaleri police 

station area. Their jeep 

collided head-on with another 

resulting in the death of 

eight persons, Bhaleri Circle 

Officer Rajendra Prasad said. 

While five of the deceased 

reportedly have criminal 

record, three others were 

passengers of the second 

jeep, he said. “The criminals, 

hailing from Haryana, were 

called by one Manroop Singh 

of Kohina village to a resolve 

a land-related dispute with 

his (Manroop’s) cousin Jai 

Singh,” Prasad said. 

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RS 7 LAKH CR SET ASIDE TO BUILD 

50,000 KMS OF NH 

About Rs seven lakh 

crore would be spent to 

develop around 50,000 kilometres 

of national highways 

over the next five 

years, Government said. 

During Question Hour in 

Rajya Sabha, Union Minister 

Nitin Gadkari said the 

Government has allocated 

TMC WALK OUT OF RS OVER GROWING ATTACKS ON DALITS 

Trinamool Congress 

staged a walk out of Rajya 

Sabha demanding a statement 

from Prime Minister 

Narendra Modi over growing 

attacks on dalits. 

SC NOTICE TO MALLYA ON PLEA OF CONSORTIUM OF BANKS 

Vijay Mallya has not 

disclosed his full assets 

including USD 45 million 

received by him from a 

British firm, Attorney 

General Mukul Rohatgi on 

Monday told the Supreme 

Court which issued notice 

to the liquor baron. 

The Attorney General 

said that Mallya has not 

disclosed full details of 

his assets and he is accountable 

to the public 

money. 

“This gentleman (Mallya) 

has not complied 

fully with the orders of 

NDA GOVT FAILED TO TACKLE TERROR, 

BUT MODI STILL ‘LAST HOPE’: SHIV SENA 

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav 

Thackeray kept up his attack 

on the Centre alleging 

it has failed to live up to 

the promise of tackling the 

menace of “terror” with an 

iron-hand but said he was 

optimistic that the Narendra 

Modi government will 

“rectify everything” as it 

was the “last hope” of the 

country. 

Suggesting that the government 

is “going soft on 

terror”, Uddhav said though 

he was not an expert on 

the issue, he could feel the 

pulse of the people and the 

nation. 

“Whatever is unfolding 

nowadays in terms of terror 

attacks or extremism (in 

8 CHILDREN KILLED AS TRAIN HITS VAN, DRIVER 

IGNORED WARNING 

In a tragic incident, eight 

children were killed and 

14 others injured when a 

school mini-bus was hit 

by a train at an unmanned 

railway crossing on Monday 

morning due to alleged 

negligence of the bus driver 

who ignored warning. 

The mini bus of Tenderheart 

School in Ghosiya 

township, carrying students 

of six villages in the 

age group of six to 14 years, 

was hit by Varanasi-Allahabad 

passenger train at 

gate number 26 between 

Katka and Madhosingh 

Railway stations, police 

said. 

a total Gross Budgetary 

support of Rs 46,834 crores 

including cess and toll remittance 

for 2016-17 for 

the Road, Transport and 

Highways Ministry. 

In addition, internal and 

extra budgetary resources 

of Rs 59.279 crores 

have also been allowed to 

the court and he has not 

disclosed all the details 

about his assets. He has 

also not disclosed the 

amount of USD 45 million 

received by him from Diageo 

(British liquor major),” 

Rohatgi told a bench 

of Justices Kurian Joseph 

and R F Nariman. 

The apex court, after 

noting the submissions 

by Attorney General, issued 

notice to Mallya and 

asked him to respond 

within four weeks on the 

plea of consortium of 

banks led by State Bank 

of India seeking initiation 

the country), I think 

it could have been 

countered very well 

by this government 

especially when it 

has completed two 

years in power. But 

I am optimistic that 

Modi will rectify everything,” 

Uddhav said in 

the second part of an interview 

to party mouthpiece 

‘Saamana’. 

To a query on developments 

in Kashmir and “Pakistan’s 

increasing intervention 

in India’s internal 

affairs,” Uddhav said, “We 

all know the reason behind 

this. At this stage, I remember 

the words of our sages... 

Practice what you preach. 

People who do so are revered. 

Unfortunately, India 

has not got such a ruler till 

now, who can walk the talk 

(on wiping out terror).” 

Asked why he keeps attacking 

the government 

when his party itself shares 

The mini-bus was 

thrown up in the air due to 

the impact of the crash and 

landed in an agriculture 

field, police said. 

A ‘Gate Mitra’ was available 

at the time of accident 

but sadly the van driver 

ignored his warning which 

resulted in this tragic incident, 

Railway Minister 

Suresh Prabhu said, while 

expressing grief over the 

loss of lives. 

According to the ‘Gate 

Mitra’, he tried to show a 

red flag to the driver to 

warn him of the approaching 

train. 

be raised for highways in 

2016-17. 

For the Ministry of Shipping, 

the Government has 

allocated a total gross budgetary 

support of Rs 1,531 

crore. In addition, an internal 

and extra budgetary 

resource of Rs 3,183 crores 

has also been allowed. 

Raising the issue, Derek 

O’Brien (TMC) said he has 

given a notice under rule 

267 seeking adjournment 

of business to take up a discussion 

on the trend of disregarding 

the Constitution 

and rising protests across 

the country over attacks of 

dalits and minorities. 

Deputy Chairman P J 

Kurien said the notice has 

been disallowed. 

Sukhendu Sekhar Roy 

(TMC) said rights of dalits 

and minorities are being 

curtailed in direct disregard 

to the Constitution. 

Observing that the government 

set up NIA to curb 

anti- national activities, he 

said these attacks were also 

anti-national. 

“The Prime Minister has 

of contempt proceedings 

against 

him. 

On July 14, Rohatgi 

claimed that 

Mallya had provided 

wrong details 

of his assets 

in a sealed cover 

to the apex court. 

He further said a lot 

of information had also 

been concealed, including 

a cash transaction to 

the tune of Rs 2500 crore, 

which amounted to contempt 

of court. 

Earlier, the court had 

power in Maharashtra and 

the Centre, the 56-yearold 

leader said, “Our stand 

about this government is 

very honest. We wish this 

government runs smoothly 

so that it can fulfill the 

promises it made to the 

people of the country. 

However, whenever we 

feel that the government is 

deviating from its course, 

we have all the right to ring 

the bell.” 

“Modi government is the 

last hope of the country, 

therefore, irrespective of 

whether we are in touch 

or not, this government 

should prove itself by doing 

good work.” 

Uddhav dismissed the 

suggestion that there were 

differences between the 

Shiv Sena and BJP over 

the allocation of portfolios 

both in the state and at the 

Centre. 

“Who says we have not 

Police said that the driver, 

who had earphones on, 

did not pay heed to the 

warning. 

The children, who survived 

the mishap, also said 

that they tried to draw the 

driver’s attention but he 

was in a hurry to clear the 

crossing, police said. 

Seven children and the 

driver who were injured 

have been admitted to different 

hospitals. Those 

suffering serious injuries 

have been referred to BHU 

hospital in Varanasi, police 

said adding that senior administration 

and police officials 

were on the spot. 

“There is a proposal to 

spend around Rs 7 lakh 

crores to develop National 

Highways of around 50,000 

kilometres in the next 5 

years. For Sagarmala port 

development, the project 

cost is Rs 73,375 crore and 

in respect of Sagarmala 

port modernisation it is Rs 

9,891 crore,” he said. 

to come and make a statement 

on growing atrocities 

on SCs and STs,” he said. 

As Kurien said though 

the subject was important, 

the notice under rule 267 

has been disallowed, TMC 

members started shouting 

slogans. 

“Pradhan Mantri bayan 

do, bayan do (Prime Minister 

should make statement),” 

they shouted. 

As Kurien firmly held on 

to his position that their 

notice cannot be taken up, 

TMC members walked out 

of the Rajya Sabha. 

sought details of assets 

from Mallya in a sealed 

cover. 

Recently, the consortium 

of banks had alleged 

that Mallya was not cooperating 

in the investigation 

of cases against him 

and was averse to disclosing 

his foreign assets. 

got proper portfolios. It is 

media which is unnecessarily 

beating this drum,” 

he said. 

He said there is no bad 

blood between him and 

Chief Minister Devendra 

Fadnavis, “but BJP should 

do something to establish a 

better co-ordination among 

bosses of BJP (in Delhi), the 

CM and us.” 

The Sena leader also 

defended the Modi government’s 

move to go all out to 

advertise the work it has 

done in last two years. 

“It is okay up to a certain 

extent to advertise its (government’s) 

achievements 

so that people of the country 

know where they are 

headed to,” he said. 

“But this (advertisement) 

can continue only 

for some time. Ultimately, 

if you do not perform today, 

then tomorrow you can be 

in trouble,” Uddhav said. 

Superintendent of Police 

Arvind Bhushan Pandey 

said that an FIR will be 

lodged against the school 

management. 

Seven of the deceased 

have been identified as 

Naitik (6), Abhishek (10), 

Shubham (6), Pradumn 

Tewari (14), Swati Misra 

(10), Sakshi (7) and Rinku 

(8), police said. 

Chief Minister Akhilesh 

Yadav has announced an 

ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh to the 

families of the deceased 

and free treatment for the 

injured, District Magistrate 

Prakash Vindu said. 

PRIVILEGE MOTION MOVED AGAINST 

JAIRAM, RENUKA 

Shiromani Akali Dal 

(SAD) moved a privilege 

motion in Rajya Sabha 

against Congress leaders 

Jairam Ramesh and Renuka 

Chowdhury for allegedly 

misbehaving with SAD 

member and union minister 

Harsimrat Kaur Badal. 

Raising the issue of an 

alleged spat between the 

Congress leaders and the 

Food Processing Minister 

after Rajya Sabha was adjourned 

on Friday afternoon 

due to ruckus over 

AAP MP Bhagwant Mann’s 

controversial filming of 

Parliament House, Sukhdev 

Singh Dhindsa (SAD) 

demanded that the two 

should apologise for their 

behaviour or face privilege 

motion. 

A minister, he said, has 

the right to speak in any 

House and the permission 

for the same was strictly 

between the Chair and 

minister. 

Badal had sought permission 

of the Chair to 

speak on Mann’s act, he 

said and asked “What right 

do they have to obstruct.” 

Dhindsa also alleged that 

the two had misbehaved 

with Badal outside the 

House. 

As the Congress members 

including the two in 

question strongly contested 

Dhindsa’s remarks, Deputy 

Chairman P K Kurien 

said, a minister or a member 

can speak only with the 

permission of the Chair. 

“That day, the Minister 

stood up requesting she be 

allowed to speak,” he said, 

adding the House was in 

pandemonium at that time. 

Kurien, who was in the 

Chair on Friday, said he 

first allowed introduction 

of a private member bills 

and “so did not allow the 

minister to speak.” 

The Minister, he said, 

had a valid point to make 

and if a discussion comes 

up again, she will be free to 

express herself. 

Kurien said Chairman 

Hamid Ansari was seized 

of the matter and if he desired, 

the concerned parties 

will be called. 

The alleged incident 

happened soon after Rajya 

Sabha was adjourned 

on Friday afternoon after 

ruckus was created by 

the treasury benches on 

Mann’s actions. 

Anand Sharma (Cong) 

said the minister has every 

right to speak in either 

House of Parliament on a 

bill or a discussion. 

But the issue was whether 

a minister, who is not a 

member of this House, can 

raise an issue during zero 

hour, he asked. 

“Can a minister who is 

not a member of this house 

have the same privileges 

as other members of the 

House” and that too “about 

a person who is a member 

of the other House,” he 

asked. 

AAP MLA REMANDED IN TWO DAYS 

POLICE CUSTODY IN SACRILEGE CASE 

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) 

MLA Naresh Yadav was 

remanded in police custody 

for two days by a local 

court in connection with 

an incident of alleged sacrilege 

last month, a day after 

the Delhi legislator was arrested 

in the case by Punjab 

police. 

Malerkotla Additional 

Civil Judge Preeti Sukheja 

sent Yadav to two days’ 

police custody after he was 

produced before her by police. 

Punjab Police had last 

night arrested Yadav who 

was booked in connection 

with the alleged sacrilege 

incident on June 24 

in Malerkotla after one of 

the accused arrested in 

connection with the case 

claimed he had acted at the 

behest of the AAP MLA. 

He has been charged 

with IPC sections 109 (punishment 

for abetment if the 

act abetted is committed in 

consequence and where no 

express provision is made 

for its punishment), 153 

A (promoting enmity between 

different groups on 

grounds of religion, race, 

place of birth etc and doing 

acts prejudicial to maintenance 

of harmony) and 295 

(injury or defiling place of 

worship with an intent to 

insult the religion of any 

class). 

Yadav had described the 

police action against him as 

a “conspiracy.” 

Police had claimed that 

Vijay had met the MLA before 

the incident and calls 

were also exchanged between 

them. 

The Mehrauli MLA and 

his party have denied the 

charges and alleged it was 

a “political conspiracy” to 

malign AAP’s image ahead 

of Assembly polls in Punjab. 

Meanwhile, AAP’s Punjab 

in charge Sanjay Singh 

condemned the arrest of 

MLA. 

“Whatever is being done 

with the AAP MLA is under 

a conspiracy to malign the 

party and it is not correct,” 

he said outside the court. 

He announced that the 

party will stage protest 

across Punjab for three 

hours in front of the offices 

of the Deputy Commissioners 

to protest the arrest of 

its MLA. 

RICE MILL OWNER KILLED 

BY 7 POLICEMEN IN RAMPUR 

A rice mill owner was 

battered to death allegedly 

by seven police personnel 

including two sub-inspectors 

who had raided the 

premises over suspicion of 

gambling, prompting authorities 

to order a magisterial 

probe. 

Jalal Ahmad, 40, was 

killed by the seven police 

personnel who punched 

and assaulted him with rifle 

buts, according to a police 

complaint filed at the 

Kemri police station. 

Ahmad’s family alleged 

that the seven policemen 

entered the mill and started 

abusing him late on Saturday. 

They demanded Rs 

one lakh, saying they could 

implicate him in a false 

case. 

When Ahmad refused, 

the policemen mercilessly 

thrashed him, causing 

severe injuries to him, his 

family told the media. 

He was rushed to a nearby 

hospital where doctors 

declared him brought dead. 

The accused policemen 

have been taken off active 

duty and sent to the police 

lines by Rampur Superintendent 

of Police (SP) Sanjeev 

Tyagi. Acting collector 

Madan Singh Garbial has 

ordered a magisterial inquiry 

into the incident, police 

sources said on Monday. 

The incident sparked 

protests in the area as 

scores of residents of Kemri 

town and adjoining areas 

gathered and started 

raising slogans against the 

accused. 

As tensions prevailed, 

authorities deployed a 

large contingent of police 

personnel to bring the situation 

under control. 

The SP and District Magistrate 

intervened and mollified 

the agitating mob and 

assured them of appropriate 

actions. 

Meanwhile, an accused 

sub-inspector has filed a 

complaint alleging that illegal 

activities like gambling 

were being organised in the 

mill by its owner and that 

Rs 6,700 has also been recovered 

from the premises. 

The accused policemen 

claimed in the complaint 

that they did not beat mill 

owner Ahmad but he died 

in a stampede that took 

place after police raided 

the premises following a 

tip-off about gambling activities.

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WORLD 

Source of arms used 

in Bangla cafe attack 

traced 

Dhaka: Bangladeshi police 

on Monday said they have 

succeeded in tracing the 

source of the not-so-modern 

weaponry used by terrorists 

to attack an upscale cafe here 

that killed 22 people, including 

an Indian girl. 

The police said they were 

now trying to arrest the suppliers 

of the weapons and 

have sought “help of the general 

people”. 

“We have been able to 

trace the source of the weapons. 

We are trying to arrest 

those who supplied the 

weapons,” Inspector General 

of Police AKM Shahidul 

Haque told reporters. 

“The arms used in the attacks 

were not very modern. 

We have found the source 

from where the attackers 

got them [arms]. The mastermind 

of the attacks have 

been identified and they are 

under surveillance.” 

He said the police were 

trying to combat militancy 

by awareness and prevention 

and needed “help of the general 

people” in bringing the 

masterminds of the 12-hourlong 

carnage to book. 

Two dead in Florida 

nightclub shooting 

Houston/Fort Myers: 

At least two persons were 

killed and 17 others injured 

on Monday in a shooting at a 

night club hosting a teen party 

in Florida, over a month 

after a gunman killed 49 people 

in the state in the worst 

mass shooting incident in US 

history. 

The shooting occurred 

around 12.30 am in the parking 

lot of Club Blu Bar and 

Grill in Fort Myers, Florida. 

Three suspect has been detained, 

the police said. 

“The numbers, they’re 

sort of fluctuating. We have 

multiple hospitals calling in. 

We’re trying to confirm. So, 

15 to 17. We do have two 

confirmed dead,” Captain Jim 

Mulligan of the Fort Myers 

Police Department said. 

“Officers arrived on scene. 

Found multiple people suffering 

from various levels 

of gunshot wounds. EMS 

was called, multiple units 

responded. Helped triage 

transport multiple people 

from the scene,” he said. 

China, North Korea envoys 

hold talks in Laos 

Vientiane: Top envoys 

from China and North Korea 

held talks on Monday on the 

sidelines of a regional summit 

in Laos as tensions run 

high on the Korean peninsula 

over Pyongyang’s nuclear 

programme. 

North Korea’s newly minted 

Foreign Minister Ri Yong- 

Ho, a former nuclear negotiator 

for the hermit state, 

and his Chinese counterpart 

Wang Yi met in the capital 

Vientiane. 

It is the first time Ri has 

attended a major diplomatic 

gathering since his appointment 

in May. A phalanx of security 

guards from both Laos 

and North Korea guarded the 

room where the meeting was 

taking place. 

Relations between Beijing 

and Pyongyang have frayed 

this year after North Korea’s 

fourth nuclear test and a series 

of missile launches put 

the region on edge. 

In response to the new 

tests the most recent of which 

was last Tuesday Washington 

and Seoul announced plans 

to deploy a US missile defence 

system in South Korea, 

sparking fury in Pyongyang 

and concern in Beijing. 

In the face of continued 

North Korean provocation, 

the United States spearheaded 

the drafting of a new UN 

resolution adopted unanimously 

in March by Security 

Council members, including 

China North Korea’s main 

diplomatic protector and 

economic benefactor. 

SYRIAN MIGRANT SETS OFF EXPLOSION AT 

GERMAN BAR WOUNDING DOZENS 

Berlin: A Syrian migrant 

set off an explosion at a bar 

in southern Germany killing 

himself and wounding 

a dozen others, authorities 

said. This is the third attack 

to hit Bavaria in a week. 

The 27-year-old, who 

had a stint at a psychiatric 

facility, had intended to 

target a music festival in 

the city of Ansbach but was 

turned away because he 

did not have a ticket. 

AFGHAN CIVILIAN CASUALTIES SOAR 

TO RECORD HIGH: UN 

Kabul: Civilian casualties 

in Afghanistan soared 

to a record high in the first 

half of 2016, the UN said on 

Monday, with children in 

particular paying a heavy 

price as insurgents step 

up fighting and insecurity 

grows. 

The UN report, which 

comes two days after the 

deadliest attack in Kabul 

since 2001, cited ground 

combat between militants 

and NATO-backed Afghan 

forces as the leading cause 

of casualties. 

Between January and 

June, 1,601 civilians were 

killed and 3,565 were 

wounded a four percent 

increase in casualties compared 

to the same period 

last year, the United Nations 

Assistance Mission in 

Afghanistan (UNAMA) said. 

The casualties have 

reached their highest level 

since the UN began issuing 

its authoritative reports in 

2009. 

PRINCE HARRY REGRETS NOT SPEAKING 

ABOUT PRINCESS DIANA’S DEATH 

London: Britain’s Prince 

Harry has expressed regret 

that he did not speak about 

his mother Princess Diana’s 

death until years later. 

The 31-year-old, fifth 

in line to Britain’s throne, 

spoke out about the loss of 

his mother in a car crash in 

Paris in 1997 at an event he 

hosted at Kensington Palace 

in London last week for 

the mental health charity, 

Heads Together. 

TURNBULL SEEKS TIGHTENING SECURITY LAWS IN AUSTRALIA 

Melbourne: Australian 

Prime Minister Malcolm 

Turnbull, on Monday termed 

as “real” the threat of terrorism 

in Australia while proposing 

to tighten security 

laws which will also pave the 

way to indefinitely extend 

detention of “high-risk” terrorists. 

“Unfortunately, this is a 

terrible attack which will 

surely increase people’s 

anxiety,” Regional Interior 

Minister Joachim Herrmann 

said, adding that investigators 

“have not ruled 

out” he had an Islamist motive. 

Hermann said, he was 

worried “the right to asylum 

would be undermined” 

by the events of the past 

week, which has seen attacks 

on a train and shopping 

mall in the southern 

German state. 

The explosion happened 

just outside a bar in Ansbach 

city centre, not far 

from where more than 

2,000 people had gathered 

for the concert, at around 

10:00 pm on Sunday. 

Police have blocked off 

The casualties include 

1,509 children roughly 

one-third of the total a figure 

the UN described as 

“alarming and shameful”. 

The statistics are a grim 

indicator of growing insecurity 

in Afghanistan as 

the Taliban step up their 

nationwide insurgency 

and the Islamic State group 

seeks to expand their foothold 

in the east of the country. 

“Every single casualty 

documented in this report 

people killed while praying, 

working, studying, fetching 

water, recovering in hospitals 

every civilian casualty 

represents a failure of commitment 

and should be a 

call to action for parties to 

the conflict to take meaningful 

steps to reduce civilians’ 

suffering,” UNAMA 

chief Tadamichi Yamamoto 

said. 

“Platitudes not backed 

by meaningful action ring 

hollow over time. History 

“I really regret not ever 

talking about it. For the 

first 28 years of my life, 

I never talked about it,” 

he told former England 

captain Rio Ferdinand in 

a programme aired in the 

UK on Monday. 

Ferdinand, a father of 

three who lost his wife to 

cancer last year, said of the 

prince: “He’s gone through 

different stages in his life 

that my kids are going to 

be going towards.So to get 

some of his experiences is 

very rewarding for me and 

very educational in many 

ways.” 

Harry was just 12-yearold 

when Diana - Princess of 

Wales, died suddenly in the 

tragic accident, leading to 

Turnbull said “the recent 

attacks in Nice and Orlando 

show an increase in the frequency 

and severity of terrorism 

in the West or against 

Western interests. And the 

weekend terrorist attack on 

civilians in Kabul was the 

deadliest in 15 years”. 

Turnbull wrote to state 

premiers and chief ministers, 

asking them to agree on 

the design of nationally consistent 

laws for the indefinite 

detention of terrorists who 

pose a threat to the public at 

the end of their sentence. 

“This system will enable a 

the area and emergency 

services were at the scene. 

Bomb experts were also 

sent to determine the cause 

of the blast. 

Ansbach Deputy Police 

Chief, Roman Fertinger 

said, there were “indications” 

that pieces of metal 

had been added to the explosive 

device. 

The perpetrator was 

killed in the explosion, police 

said in a statement, 

and a spokeswoman said 

12 people were wounded, 

three of them seriously. 

Herrmann said the attacker, 

who came to Germany 

two years ago but had 

his asylum claim rejected 

after a year, had tried to kill 

himself twice in the past 

and had spent time in a 

psychiatric clinic. 

Europe has been on edge 

for months after a string of 

deadly attacks claimed by 

the Islamic State jihadist 

group, including bombings 

in Brussels and carnage at 

Bastille Day celebrations in 

the southern French city of 

Nice. 

and the collective memory 

of the Afghan people will 

judge leaders of all parties 

to this conflict by their actual 

conduct.” 

The UN report said insurgent 

groups including 

the Taliban were responsible 

for the majority 60 percent 

of civilian casualties. 

But it also reported a 

47 percent increase in 

the number of casualties 

caused by pro-government 

forces, compared to the 

same period last year. 

an outpour of public grief. 

On 31 August 1997, Diana 

was killed in a car crash in 

Paris, which also caused the 

deaths of her companion 

Dodi Fayed and the driver. 

The royal told the BBC 

the charity event was an 

opportunity to highlight 

that anyone can suffer from 

mental health issues. 

“It is OK to suffer, but as 

long as you talk about it. It is 

not a weakness. Weakness 

is having a problem and not 

recognising it and not solving 

that problem,” he said. 

Prince Harry had formed 

Heads Together in May this 

year with his brother William, 

Duke of Cambridge, 

and sister-in-law Kate, 

Duchess of Cambridge, to 

continuing period of imprisonment 

for high-risk terrorist 

offenders,” Turnbull said. 

“It will be supervised by 

the courts similarly to the 

arrangements that apply in a 

number of our jurisdictions 

for sex offenders and extremely 

violent individuals,” 

he said. 

“Our law enforcement 

and security agencies are 

among the best in the world 

but we have to ensure they 

In Bavaria, which has 

been a gateway for thousands 

of Syrian refugees, 

nine died in a shooting 

rampage in Munich on 

Friday and several people 

were wounded in an axe attack 

on a train near Wuerzburg. 

Police released more details 

of Munich attacker David 

Ali Sonboly on Sunday, 

saying the 18-year-old was 

depressed and had spent 

two months in a psychiatric 

unit last year. 

The teen was obsessed 

with mass killings and 

spent a year preparing for 

the gun attack that killed 

nine people, most of them 

foreigners. 

At least 35 people were 

also wounded during Sonboly’s 

shooting spree, 

which began at a McDonald’s 

branch and ended 

with him turning his 9mm 

Glock pistol on himself. 

Investigators have ruled 

out any link with the jihadists, 

though he appears to 

have planned the assault 

with chilling precision. 

“The testimony of victims 

and their families 

brings into agonising focus 

the tragedy of this protracted 

conflict since 2009,” said 

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the 

UN High Commissioner for 

Human Rights. 

“The family that lost a 

breadwinner, forcing the 

children to leave school 

and struggle to make ends 

meet; the driver who lost 

his limbs, depriving him 

of his livelihood; the man 

who went to the bazaar to 

shop for his children only 

to return home to find them 

dead. 

bring together leading mental 

health charities. 

The event was attended 

by a number of British 

sports stars, including athletes 

Dame Kelly Holmes 

and Iwan Thomas, and cyclist 

Victoria Pendleton, to 

show that “unflappable” 

sporting personalities can 

suffer from mental health 

problems like everyone 

else, including members of 

the royal family. 

“A lot of people think if 

you’ve got a job, if you’ve got 

financial security, if you’ve 

got a family, you’ve got a 

house, all that sort of stuff, 

everyone seems to think 

that is all you need and you 

are absolutely fine to deal 

with stuff,” the prince said. 

have the powers they need,” 

he said, adding that new 

counter-terrorism legislation 

amendment would be 

introduced in the Parliament. 

The bill, originally introduced 

in 2015, would also 

extend juvenile control orders 

from 16-year-olds to 

children as young as 14. It 

would also introduce a new 

offence of advocating genocide 

to further respond to 

SE ASIA NATIONS GIVE WATERED-DOWN 

CHINA REBUKE 

Vientiane: Southeast 

Asian nations have delivered 

a watered-down rebuke 

to China for its territorial 

expansion in the 

South China Sea, in a diplomatic 

victory for China. 

After deadlocked negotiations 

among the 10 

members of the Association 

of Southeast Asian Nations, 

the grouping issued 

a joint statement on Monday 

expressing concern 

over China’s activities, but 

repeating much of what it 

has said before. 

It also failed to mention 

a recent ruling by an international 

arbitration panel 

that said China’s claims 

over virtually the entire 

South China Sea was illegal. 

China’s claims overlap 

with those of the Philippines, 

Malaysia, Vietnam 

and Brunei. 

Attempts to rebuke 

China within ASEAN were 

stymied by its ally Cambodia, 

and to some extent 

Laos. 

In its statement, the 

AESAN ministers said 

that they “remain seriously 

concerned over 

recent and ongoing developments.” 

They also said, “We 

reaffirmed the importance 

of maintaining 

and promoting peace, 

security, stability, safety 

and freedom of navigation 

in and over-flight above 

the South China Sea.” 

The statement is a victory 

for China, which has 

used every diplomatic 

muscle in its power to 

prevent criticism of its actions. 

It came after a highly anticipated 

meeting between 

Southeast Asian foreign 

ministers and their Chinese 

counterpart ended 

amid expectations that the 

two sides discussed China’s 

territorial expansion 

in the South China Sea. 

Chinese Foreign Minister 

Wang Yi did not speak 

to reporters after the 

meeting on Monday with 

ministers and officials 

from the 10 countries that 

make up the Association of 

Southeast Asian Nations. 

ASEAN is divided on 

whether to rebuke China 

for its territorial ambitions, 

which infringes on 

areas claimed by four AE- 

SAN member nations. Most 

of them want to, but Cambodia, 

a key Beijing ally, 

and Laos do not want to be 

critical of China. 

MANY CHINESE ONLINE NEWSPAPERS 

SHUT DOWN, INTERNET PROTOCOL 

Beijing: China has shut 

down several online news 

operations after authorities 

blasted them for independently 

reporting and 

publishing articles about 

potentially sensitive subjects, 

on Monday. 

Major Chinese-language 

portals including 

Sina, Sohu, Netease and 

iFeng have closed some 

of their freewheeling political 

and social news 

sites and social network 

accounts after Beijing’s 

internet control department 

“harshly criticised” 

their “huge amount of activities 

violating the law 

and regulations”, the Beijing 

News reported. 

The programmes “uploaded 

and published a 

large number of news reports 

gathered and edited 

by themselves”, causing 

“particularly vile impact”, 

it said, citing an unnamed 

official with the department. 

The sites are also facing 

fines, the official added, 

without giving details. 

Journalists at privately 

operated Chinese news 

portals are only accredited 

to cover sports or 

entertainment events, 

and are required to use 

reports released by 

state-controlled media 

such as the official Xinhua 

news agency for more 

sensitive news related to 

politics and society. 

But some sites, largely 

driven by commercial 

interests, have formed 

their own news gathering 

or even investigative reporting 

teams to compete 

in a high-tech era where 

self-reporting is flourishing 

and hot social issues 

are changing day by day. 

China’s Communist Party 

brooks no opposition to 

its rule and the country’s 

newspapers, websites, 

and broadcast media are 

strictly controlled by the 

government, while an 

army of censors patrol social 

media to delete comments 

deemed taboo. 

Many Western news 

websites are blocked 

within the country. Controls 

have tightened considerably 

since President 

Xi Jinping took office in 

2013. 

Last February, the leader 

made a pointed visit to 

state broadcaster CCTV, 

where he said that media 

should focus on “positive 

reporting”, and “speak the 

Party’s will and protect 

the Party’s authority and 

unity”. 

In the second quarter 

of 2016 alone, the government 

shut down or revoked 

the licence of 1,475 

websites and deleted 

more than 12,000 internet 

accounts in a crackdown 

on “illegal online 

information”, the Cyberspace 

Administration said 

in a statement on Friday. 

TRUMP LEADS CLINTON IN 

NEW NATIONAL POLL 

Washington: Republican 

presidential candidate 

Donald Trump has taken 

a lead albeit a small one 

and within margin of error 

over his Democratic 

rival Hillary Clinton in a 

new national poll, the first 

after last week’s Republican 

National Convention 

in Cleveland. 

Trump (48 per cent) 

leads Clinton (45 per cent) 

by three per cent in a twoway 

match up, CNN/ORC 

the negative impact on our 

community of people who 

preach hate. 

The Parliamentary Joint 

Committee on Intelligence 

and Security (PJCIS) had 

made 21 recommendations 

on the original Bill. 

“Following consultation 

with the States and Territories, 

the Government accepts 

all of the PJCIS recommendations, 

and they will be 

reflected in the Bill,” the PM 

said. 

In a four-way contest 

with two other presidential 

candidates from minor 

parties, Trump is leading 

Clinton by five percentage 

points. Post conventions, 

presidential candidates do 

get a major jump in their 

popularity ratings. 

Democratic National 

Convention begins in 

Philadelphia on Tuesday, 

which would formally 

said. 

The Attorney-General 

will also convene a meeting 

of all the State and 

Territory Attorneys-General 

as soon as practicable 

to ensure post-sentence 

preventative detention 

legislation can be introduced 

quickly, he said. 

This legislation will enable 

additional periods of 

imprisonment for terrorist 

offenders who have served 

nominate Clinton as party’s 

presidential nominee. 

In RealClearPolitics.Com, 

which keeps track of all 

major polls, in an average 

of recent major national 

polls, Clinton leads Trump 

by 1.9 per cent. 

Clinton’s lead over 

Trump has been reducing 

every passing week. 

CNN/ORC said after 

the Cleveland Convention, 

Trump has received major 

jump in support from independents. 

Cleveland also helped 

Trump make strides in his 

personal image, the poll 

said. 

A majority (52 per cent) 

now say Trump is running 

for president for the good 

of the country rather than 

personal gain, just 44 per 

cent say the same about 

Clinton. 

their sentences but are still 

judged to present an unacceptable 

risk to the community,” 

he further added.

CITY 

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BUSINESS SPORTS 

THERE IS NO EASY 

MATCH IN OLYMPICS: 

SREEJESH 

Bengaluru: Newly-appointed 

Indian men’s 

hockey team captain PR 

Sreejesh said there is no 

“easy match” in a sporting 

extravaganza like 

the Olympics, and all 12 

teams will fancy their 

chances of qualifying for 

the quarterfinals in Rio. 

“It is Olympics and 

there is nothing easy. 

Every match will be serious 

affair,” he said before 

departing for Spain 

en route to Rio. 

“In each group there 

are six teams out of 

which four will qualify 

for the quarterfinals. 

Therefore, it is very important 

for us to garner 

as many points as 

possible to increase our 

chances because the new 

format gives an opportunity 

to every team,” he 

said. 

Unlike previous editions, 

the International 

Hockey Federation (FIH) 

has introduced a new 

competition format in 

this year’s Olympics. 

As per the new format 

12 teams have been divided 

into two pools of 

six with each team initially 

playing round-robin 

games within their 

pool. Following the completion 

of the round-robin 

games, the top four 

teams from each pool 

will advance to the quarterfinals. 

Previously, after completion 

of round robin 

games top two teams 

from each pool used to 

directly qualify for the 

semifinals. Sreejesh, 

who took over the captaincy 

mantle from 

long-standing Sardar 

Singh just ahead of the 

Olympics, said they are 

ready to face any side in 

the quarterfinals. 

“We are ready to meet 

anybody in the quarterfinals. 

We cannot say we 

want this team or that 

team. We will give our 

100 per cent against any 

side, be it world world 

champions Australia,” he 

said. 

Sreejesh said hockey 

is a team and a captain 

hardly has any role on 

the pitch. 

“Hockey is a team 

game and all 11 players 

on the field are captains. 

They have specific responsibilities 

to shoulder.We 

are going to Rio 

as a team,” he said. 

The experienced goalkeeper 

said a few practice 

matches in Spain before 

heading to Rio will 

hold India is good stead 

in the Olympics. 

“We are going to Spain 

mainly for acclimatisation. 

We need a break 

from here. We will play 

a couple of practice 

matches there and know 

where we stand. The climate 

of Rio during the 

Games will be to similar 

Spain. So, it is a good 

decision to go to Spain 

before landing at Rio,” 

Sreejesh said. 

FAILED DRUG TEST OF NARSINGH’S 

ROOMMATE RAISES SUSPICION 

New Delhi: With Narsingh 

Yadav’s roommate 

Sandeep Yadav at the SAI 

Sonepat camp also testing 

positive for the same 

banned substance, WFI 

said that it strengthens the 

conspiracy theory and indicates 

at a clear case of sabotage. 

“The fact that Narisngh’s 

teammate at the camp has 

also tested positive for the 

same substance, it clearly 

looks to be a foul play. Both 

the wrestlers were consuming 

the same supplements 

as they were roommates. 

It arises suspicion,” 

WFI Assistant Secretary 

Vinod Tomar said. 

“There was a high quantity 

of steroid in the sample, 

which is hard to believe. It 

seems like a deliberate 

thing.Why would anyone 

take such high dose,” he 

questioned. 

Asked if anyone else in 

the camp has also failed the 

dope test, the official replied 

in negative. 

“No. Only these two guys 

have failed it and this clearly 

indicates that something 

is wrong.” 

NADA Director General 

Navin Agarwal on Sunday 

confirmed that Narsingh’s 

‘B’ sample tested positive 

for a banned substance. 

Sources said that he had returned 

positive for methandienone, 

a banned anabolic 

steroid. 

With his Olympic dreams 

in jeopardy after a failed 

dope test, Narsingh had 

claimed innocence, saying 

that the entire episode was 

a conspiracy against him. 

“This is a conspiracy 

against me. I have never 

IOC BOWS TO PUTIN AND 

RUSSIAN DOPERS 

Moscow: Once again, the 

people who run the Olympics 

just can’t say no to 

Vladimir Putin. 

Not when he spends 

more than USD 50 billion to 

host a winter Olympics to 

show off a resurgent Russia. 

Not when he talks darkly 

about returning to the 

days of Olympic boycotts in 

1980 and 1984. 

Certainly not when he 

suggests that doping officials 

of one powerful country 

can you guess which 

one? are behind efforts to 

ban Russia from the Rio 

Olympics. 

When Putin talks, Olympic 

officials listen. And 

that’s the biggest reason 

why Russian athletes at 

least some of them will 

march in opening ceremonies 

less than two weeks 

from now in Brazil. 

With Russian prestige 

on the line, the executive 

board of the International 

Olympic Committee 

caved in. Instead of banning 

Russia from Rio for 

running a state-sanctioned 

doping operation, the IOC 

members decided instead 

Sunday to allow individual 

sports federations to 

decide which Russians can 

compete. 

Spineless, yes, but that’s 

to be expected. No reason 

to let a little doping scandal 

get in the way of a cozy relationship 

that serves both 

sides so well. 

It was just a little more 

than two years ago that Putin 

was the face of a winter 

Olympics that he saw as far 

more than just a sporting 

event. He cheered Russian 

athletes in arenas and in 

the mountains, and celebrated 

with them as they 

added to the host country’s 

medal haul. 

Meanwhile, his agents 

were working late into the 

night at the Sochi doping 

lab, exchanging urine samples 

taken from the country’s 

athletes for clean ones 

in an elaborate scheme to 

escape detection. 

It paid off with 33 medals 

for Russia, 11 of them 

gold.The country led the 

medal standings, and Russian 

pride surged with every 

big win. 

That much of it was a 

scam wouldn’t be uncovered 

until many months 

later. When it was, it was 

clear the scope of the 

cheating effort was so great 

that it couldn’t have been 

pulled off without cooperation 

and approval from the 

highest levels of the Russian 

government. 

Yet Russian athletes will 

still compete in Rio. The 

official explanation for just 

why came from IOC President 

Thomas Bach, who 

said it would be unfair to 

ban all Russians when it 

has not been proven that all 

of them cheat. 

“At the end of the day, 

we have to be able to look 

in the eye of the individual 

athletes concerned by this 

decision,” Bach said. The 

unofficial explanation was 

more telling. 

“The IOC decision was 

to be expected. You can’t 

behave improperly toward 

a power like Russia,” said 

Gennady Alyoshin, a Russian 

Olympic Committee 

official. 

WE WERE PLAYING A TOUGH CATCH-UP 

GAME THROUGHOUT: HOLDER 

North Sound (Antigua): 

West Indies’ skipper Jason 

Holder conceded that his side 

were always playing “catchup” 

game throughout the first 

Test against India, which they 

surrendered meekly losing 

by an innings and 92 runs. 

“It is always tough to play 

catch-up cricket. We never 

bowled well in the first innings. 

Yes, we had some good 

bowling partnerships but not 

for long sessions. Going forward 

we definitely need to 

improve, to string together 

better bowling partnerships, 

and bowl more maidens. 

Having said that we were not 

able to create enough pressure 

in their first innings,” 

Holder said after the defeat. 

“In hindsight, you can say 

a lot of things. The combination 

we played had four 

bowlers and an all-rounder 

in Roston Chase who bowls 

some off-spin. But execution 

is the name of the game. I 

don’t think we executed well 

enough,” he added. 

Holder said that the current 

Test side is a young one 

and they also have their pride 

taken any banned substance,” 

said Narsingh. 

Narsingh, who was 

picked ahead of the double 

Olympic medallist Sushil 

Kumar to represent India 

at the Rio Games in 74kg 

Freestyle category, has 

been handed provisional 

suspension and virtually 

ruled out of next month’s 

Olympics. 

The 26-year-old wrestler’s 

Olympics accreditation 

has also been withheld. 

The WFI also cried foul, 

claiming that Narsingh has 

a clean history and it was a 

clear case of sabotage. 

On the basis of Narsingh 

bagging the 74kg Olympic 

quota berth with a World 

Championships bronze last 

year, WFI had named him 

to represent India at the 

Rio Games and Sushil’s demands 

for a trial were rejected 

by the Federation as 

well as the Delhi High Court 

after a lengthy legal battle. 

at stake. 

“I think it boils down to 

personal pride. Roston, Shane 

Dowrich and RajendraChandrika, 

myself, Jermaine Blackwood, 

we are all quite young 

players. We are all looking to 

make a mark in the international 

circuit,” he said. 

“For us its just personal 

glory, personal pride. That’s 

what each person coming to 

Test cricket is looking to do. 

I think all of us want to do 

that. I think we need to come 

up with a strong collective effort,” 

said the skipper. 

There were only two 

three-centuries in the match 

from the hosts, and they 

needed to do better to even 

have a hope of saving the 

match. Clearly, the team 

needed more from its experienced 

batsmen, Darren Bravo 

(11 and 10) and Marlon 

Samuels (1 and 50). 

“Ideally, that’s what we 

would expect from top-order 

batsmen. To be fair, they 

have to carry the demands of 

this young batting side. Unfortunately, 

Bravo didn’t get 

any runs in this Test. Marlon 

showed some form in the 

second innings and it is important 

for those two guys to 

carry the batting and lay the 

foundation. The onus is on 

them, but we also have more 

enough capable batsmen,” 

said Holder. 

NARSINGH DEMANDS 

CBI PROBE INTO DOPING 

SCANDAL 

New Delhi: A defiant 

Narsingh Yadav on 

Monday demanded a CBI 

probe into the doping 

scandal which has jeopardised 

his participation 

in the Olympics, alleging 

that a conspiracy has 

been hatched to scuttle 

his Rio dream. 

“There should be a CBI 

inquiry. The whole episode 

relating to my selection 

had gone to court. 

There was a CID report 

that my life is under 

threat. All this makes it 

clear, I have been framed 

so that I am stopped from 

going to Rio,” Narsingh 

said. 

“I have given my complaint 

to the federation 

in which I have made 

it clear that something 

could have been mixed 

in the food that was prepared 

at the mess. It is a 

conspiracy against me,” 

he added. 

Narsingh has returned 

positive for a banned 

substance barely 10 

days before the start of 

the Olympics and that 

has cast a doubt on his 

participation in the Rio 

Games. 

The 26-year-old, 

who would be pleading 

innocence in front 

of the NADA panel that 

is scheduled to meet on 

Wednesday, is hopeful 

that he would be able to 

convince the committee 

members that the entire 

episode is a conspiracy. 

“I am hopeful that everything 

will be clear 

soon. I have got the 100 

per cent backing of everyone. 

I am still hopeful 

of going to Rio,” 26-yearold 

wrestler said. 

INDIA RECORD BIGGEST TEST WIN 

OUTSIDE ASIA 

North Sound (Antigua): 

India recorded their biggest 

win outside the sub-continent 

as they thrashed a 

listless West Indies by an 

innings and 92 runs in the 

opening cricket Test, riding 

on a fantastic seven-wicket 

haul by off-spinner RavichandranAshwin. 

Ashwin produced an offspin 

bowling master class 

to grab 7/83 and triggered 

a second-innings slide that 

saw the hosts collapse from 

88/2 to 132/8 on the fourth 

and penultimate day. 

A defiant ninth-wicket 

stand of 95, West Indies’ 

highest in the game, between 

Carlos Brathwaite 

(51 not out) and DevendraBishoo 

(45) delayed the 

inevitable before Ashwin 

came back to seal the issue 

by bowling the hosts out for 

231. 

IT’S GOOD TO HAVE CONTAGIOUS 

WINNING HABIT: KOHLI 

North Sound: Winning 

is “contagious” and Indian 

Test captain Virat Kohli 

feels that it is a “good habit” 

that his boys can create in 

order to become a formidable 

Test team anywhere in 

the world. 

India trounced West Indies 

by an innings and 92 

runs well inside four days 

in the first cricket Test of 

the four-match series. 

“We want to create winning 

habits, good habits. 

And you know, winning 

is contagious. If we learn 

to win Test matches, then 

we’ll learn how to win 

Tests everywhere. We will 

learn how to play in different 

situations and we will 

know exactly what to do 

when a certain situation is 

going a certain way,” Kohli 

told mediapersons after a 

thumping victory against 

the hosts. 

“We want to be consistent 

side, we need to set 

ourselves goals and look 

to execute that rather than 

looking at the opposition 

which I think this team is 

willing to do,” said Kohli after 

the win. 

This was also the Tamil 

Nadu spinner’s first 

five-wicket haul outside the 

Asian continent. 

India bowled out the 

West Indies for 243 in 

their first innings, having 

amassed 566 for eight declared 

after opting to bat. 

Forced to follow-on after 

conceding a massive lead of 

323, the hosts failed to cope 

up with intense pressure 

created by Ashwin and Co 

on a pitch that offered assistance 

to slow bowlers. 

At the Sir Vivian Richards 

Stadium, the visitors shot 

out the hosts in three hours 

over the post lunch and tea 

session to finish their two 

innings at 243 and 231. 

“That for me is a very 

pleasing thing as a captain 

and for the team as well. 

Everyone understands the 

way we want to play on 

the field, where we need to 

bat, how we need to bowl, 

etc. We need to be comfortable 

with what the team 

requires and I think that’s 

the most important for this 

team going forward,” he 

added. 

It was an all-round effort 

from the bowlers with pacers 

Mohammed Shami and 

Umesh Yadav snaring eight 

scalps among themselves 

in the first innings and premier 

spinner Ravichandran 

Ashwin with his 7 for 83 

singlehandedly decimating 

After tea, Brathwaite 

reached his third Test fifty, 

but the rest of the innings 

folded in just over 40 minutes. 

Bishoo hit straight to 

midwicket off Ashwin in 

the 78th over, and three 

balls later bowled Shannon 

Gabriel (4) to wrap up the 

proceedings with a day to 

spare. 

Post lunch, it was an 

extended session of play 

which proved enough for 

India to force a win. But first 

they had to break through 

the 67-run partnership between 

Rajendra Chandrika 

(31) and Marlon Samuels 

(50). The two batsmen began 

again in the same vein, 

trying to play for time, 

and in doing so, the latter 

crossed the 50-mark off 74 

balls raising hopes of a fight 

back. 

But it was short-lived as 

Chandrika had a faint inside-edge 

off Ashwin in the 

36th over, judged accurately 

by the umpire and caught 

on the third attempt by 

WriddhimanSaha. 

It started the slide 

for West Indies and the 

off-spinner barged into the 

opening he had found. 

In the very next over, he 

removed Jermaine Blackwood 

(0) for a second duck 

in the match, with skipper 

Virat Kohli holding a 

magnificent diving catch at 

midwicket to aid in the dismissal. 

the opposition in the second 

innings. 

“It was a very good effort 

from the bowlers. The 

good thing was that we 

did not bowl that much 

in the first innings, so everyone’s 

mindset in the 

second innings was, yes, 

we can bowl again. I think 

the first innings ended at a 

perfect time for us last evening, 

and then we got 13- 

14 overs and got a wicket 

again.So it was good to get 

some rest in the evening, 

and the bowlers’ attitude 

was very good, all of them 

voluntarily said, yes, we 

will bowl, and the spinners 

took the responsibility,” 

said the skipper. 

NARSINGH IS INNOCENT, IT’S A CONSPIRACY: WFI 

New Delhi: The Wrestling 

Federation of India 

(WFI)on Monday threw its 

weight behind NarsinghYadav, 

whose Olympic participation 

is in serious doubt 

after a failed dope test, saying 

the grappler is a victim 

of conspiracy. 

Doubting foul play, WFI 

president BrijBhushanSharan 

Singh said the federation 

believes Narisingh is 

innocent and will support 

him to the hilt. 

“The federation believes 

Narsingh is innocent. Injustice 

has happened with him 

and we are hopeful he will 

get justice. 

I will try my level best to 

help Narsingh get out of this 

problem so that he can represent 

India in 74kg in the 

Olympics and win a medal,” 

BrijBhushanSharan Singh 

told a press conference on 

Monday. 

The WFI chief said Narsingh 

has a clean record and 

would be foolish to jeopardise 

his career by taking a 

banned substance just days 

before the Olympics. 

“It is our duty to 

protect Narsingh 

and all our wrestlers. 

Narsingh’s record is 

clean. He is someone 

who never shied 

away from dope 

tests,” BrijBhushan 

said. 

“Narsingh complained 

in writing to 

us that a conspiracy 

has been hatched against 

him and I and the entire nation 

believe him because he 

has nothing to do with the 

substance.” 

Narsingh, who was 

picked ahead of the double 

Olympic medallistSushil 

Kumar to represent India at 

the Rio Games in, has been 

handed provisional suspension 

after he tested positive 

for a banned substance. 

On the basis of Narsingh 

bagging the 74kg Olympic 

quota berth with a World 

Championships bronze last 

year, WFI had named him 

to represent India at the 

Rio Games and Sushil’s demands 

for a trial were rejected 

by the Federation as 

well as the Delhi High Court 

after a lengthy legal battle. 

BrijBhushan hoped Narsingh 

would get a clean chit 

in the final NADA hearing 

on Wednesday, the result of 

which is expected the next 

day. 

“The NADA committee 

formed to hear the case 

will hold its final hearing on 

Wednesday. I hope they will 

examine all aspects and on 

Thursday I hope we will get 

the clear picture,” he said. 

For the time being, the 

26-year-old wrestler’s 

Olympics accreditation has 

also been withheld.

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BUSINESS 

CRUDE PALM OIL FUTURES UP 

0.77 PC ON SPOT DEMAND 

New Delhi: Crude palm 

oil prices moved up by 0.77 

per cent to Rs 497.30 per 

10 kg in futures market 

on Monday as speculators 

indulged in creating positions 

coupled with rising 

demand in spot market. 

At the Multi Commodity 

Exchange, crude palm oil 

for delivery in August rose 

Rs 3.80, or 0.77 per cent, 

to Rs 497.30 per 10 kg, in 

a business turnover of 323 

lots. 

Similarly, oil for delivery 

in July edged up by Rs 2.60, 

or 0.49 per cent, to Rs 524 

per 10 kg in 63 lots. 

Analysts said fresh positions 

built-up by speculators 

supported by rising 

demand in the spot market, 

mainly led to the rise 

in crude palm oil prices at 

futures trade. 

GUARSEED FUTURES SLIPS 

ON PROFIT BOOKING 

New Delhi: Guarseed 

prices were down by Rs 34 

to Rs 3,956 per quintal in 

futures trading on Monday 

on profit booking by speculators 

amid a weak trend at 

the spot markets. 

At the National Commodity 

and Derivative Exchange, 

guarseed for delivery 

in November month 

contract declined by Rs 34, 

or 0.85 per cent to Rs 3,956 

per quintal, 

with an open 

interest of 

10,580 lots. 

A l s o , 

guarseed for 

delivery in 

far-month 

October 

dropped by 

Rs 27, or 

0.69 per cent 

to Rs 3,906 per quintal, 

having an open interest of 

1,03,200 lots. 

Marketmen said offlaoding 

of participants at 

existing levels amid a weak 

trend at the domestic spot 

markets on increased arrivals 

from growing regions, 

mainly weighed on guarseed 

prices at futures trade. 

GOVT TO PROVIDE BENEFITS TO SMALL 

TEA GROWERS: NIRMALA SITHARAMAN 

New Delhi: To encourage 

small tea growers 

and give them better 

price for their products, 

the government has proposed 

to amend a 2003 

order to define mini and 

micro factories and provide 

various benefits to 

them. 

Minister of State for 

Commerce Nirmala Sitharaman 

said in Lok Sabha that a 

proposal has been mooted to 

amend the Tea (Marketing) 

Control Order 2003 so as to 

define mini and micro factories 

and exempt them from 

obtaining no objection certificate 

for manufacturing tea. 

Listing out various benefits 

and assistance being 

provided to the small tea 

growers, Sitharaman said 

during Question Hour that in 

order to ensure better price 

to small tea growers, who 

supply tea leaves to factories, 

price sharing formulas have 

been notified for different tea 

growing states. 

Payment of green leaf to 

the growers is closely monitored 

by the district green 

leaf price monitoring committees, 

she said. 

The Tea Development 

and Promotion 

Scheme implemented 

by the Tea Board has a 

separate component for 

development of small 

tea growers. 

The scheme aims 

at addressing the special 

needs of small tea 

growers, particularly in 

the area of improving production 

and productivity and 

establishing processing factories 

with special focus on 

enhancing quality. 

Financial assistance of 

around Rs 55.56 crore has 

so far been extended to the 

small tea growers in the XII 

plan, she said. 

RBI ASKS BOB TO COUGH UP RS 5 CR AS PENALTY 

New Delhi: The Reserve 

Bank of India (RBI) has imposed 

a penalty of Rs 5 crore 

on Bank of Baroda (BoB) after 

it found irregularities in 

the Rs 6,100-crore scam that 

was unearthed last year. 

“The Reserve Bank of India 

has imposed a penalty 

of INR 50 million on Bank 

of Baroda. Pursuant to the 

internal audit of the Bank of 

Baroda, the Reserve Bank of 

India and investigative agencies 

in October 2015 were 

advised by the Bank of certain 

irregularities observed,” 

Bank of Baroda said in a BSE 

filing. 

It further said: “The RBI 

carried out the investigation 

and noted the deficiencies 

which were reflective of 

weaknesses and failures in 

internal control mechanisms 

in respect of certain AML 

provisions such as monitoring 

of transactions, timely reporting 

to FIU, and 

assigning of UCIC to 

customers”. 

Bank of Baroda 

said it has implemented 

a comprehensive 

corrective 

action plan, to 

strengthen internal controls 

and to ensure that such incidents 

do not recur. 

Various irregularities by 

bank such as non-submission 

and inordinate delays in 

filing of Suspicious Transaction 

Reports (STRs), besides 

opening of accounts by several 

entities without fulfilling 

KYC norms, were noticed by 

Reserve Bank of India. 

The observation came as 

part of inspection done by 

the central bank after last 

year’s Bank of Baroda case in 

which Rs 6,100-crore import 

remittances were effected by 

its Ashok Vihar branch. 

Both CBI and the Enforcement 

Directorate are probing 

the huge remittances to 

Hong Kong from the bank. 

The amount was allegedly 

transferred in the garb of 

payments for imports that 

never took place, investigators 

say. 

After the BoB case, RBI 

wrote a confidential letter 

to chairmen and chief executives 

of all commercial banks 

asking them to review existing 

policies and effect necessary 

improvements where 

warranted to avoid recurrence 

of such irregularities. 

Shares of Bank of Baroda 

were trading 1.92 per cent at 

Rs 153.80 apiece on the BSE. 

GLENMARK GETS FDA NOD 

FOR SKIN OINTMENT 

New Delhi: Glenmark 

Pharmaceuticals has received 

final approval from 

the US health regulator 

USFDA for triamcinolone 

acetonide ointment, used 

in treatment of various skin 

conditions. 

“Glenmark Pharmaceuticals 

Inc, USA has been granted 

final approval by the US 

Food and Drug Administration 

(USFDA) for triamcinolone 

acetonide ointment 

USP, 0.5 per cent,” it said in 

a BSE filing. 

RICOH INDIA CHAIRMAN 

TETSUYA TAKANO RESIGNS 

New Delhi: A week after 

admitting its accounts appear 

to have been “falsified”, 

Ricoh India on Monday said 

its Chairman and Director 

Tetsuya Takano has resigned 

from the company. The company 

has appointed Ian Peter 

Winham as its Director/ 

Chairman with immediate 

effect. 

“Mr Tetsuya Takano has 

resigned as Director/Chairman 

of the company with 

effect from July 25, 2016. 

The Board of Directors of the 

company has accepted his 

resignation with immediate 

effect,” Ricoh India said in a 

BSE filing. 

Winham joined the Ricoh 

Group in Europe, Middle East 

and Africa (EMEA) in 2002 as 

CFO and was appointed Executive 

Vice President, CIO and 

CFO of Ricoh Europe in 2007. 

In 2014, he took on a global 

role as head of Global Capital 

Management. In April 2016, 

Approval has been granted 

for generic version of 

triamcinolone acetonide 

ointment USP, 0.5 per cent 

of Perrigo New York, Inc. 

This ointment is used to 

treat various skin conditions 

including eczema, 

dermatitis, allergies and 

rash. 

Quoting IMS sales data 

for the 12 months to May, 

Glenmark said Triamcinolone 

Acetonide Ointment 

achieved annual sales of` 

around USD 4.4 million. 

The company’s current 

portfolio consists of 116 

he was appointed Corporate 

Vice President of Ricoh Company, 

Ltd. 

Winham has worked extensively 

in India over the last 

six years, the company said. 

Last week, Ricoh India 

said its accounts appear to 

be have been “falsified” and 

estimated to incur a loss of Rs 

1,123 crore for the fiscal ended 

March 31, 2016. 

It had said the disclosure 

follows an internal investigation 

it had been carrying out 

to ascertain its financial position 

and probable roles of few 

officials of the company. 

In April, the company’s 

India’s MD and CEO Manoj 

Kumar had resigned from the 

products authorised for distribution 

in the US and 61 

Abbreviated New Drug Application 

(ANDA) pending 

approval with the USFDA. 

Shares of Glenmark 

Pharmaceuticals were trading 

0.38 per cent up at Rs 

868.35 in the morning trade 

on BSE. 

board after being asked to go 

on leave amid an audit in the 

company by a committee. 

However, Ricoh Company 

Ltd, a promoter entity of the 

Indian subsidiary of Japanese 

imaging and electronics 

major, has proposed to 

recapitalise the company for 

the loss. 

The disclosure by the Indian 

unit also prompted the 

promoter to approach National 

Company Law Tribunal 

(NCLT) against the BSE-listed 

firm and its certain officials 

suspected to have indulged 

in “mismanagement”. 

In its petition, the promoter 

sought to restrain the 

statutory authorities from 

taking any coercing measures 

against Ricoh India Ltd 

and restore its share trading, 

which has been suspended 

for penal reasons even as a 

probe is already on by various 

agencies and regulators 

including Sebi into its affairs. 

SCIENCE & TECH 

NOW, ROBOT THERAPIST TO HELP 

RELIEVE MUSCLE STRAINS 

‘POKEMON GO’ PLAYERS 

STUMBLE ON HIDDEN HISTORY 

MARS ROVER CURIOSITY CAN 

NOW FIRE LASER ON ITS OWN 

Singapore:Suffering 

from back pain? A robotic 

massage therapist developed 

by a Singapore-based 

startup may help relieve 

muscle strains and injuries. 

Emma, or Short for Expert 

Manipulative Massage 

Automation, a robotic arm 

with a 3D-printed massage 

tip, can resolve some of the 

challenges faced by sports 

therapy clinics, such as a 

shortage of trained therapists 

and a need to deliver 

high quality therapy consistently. 

Developed by AiTreat, a 

start-up company founded 

by Nanyang Technological 

University (NTU Singapore) 

graduate Albert 

Zhang, Emma is undergoing 

user trials at a medical 

institution that offers 

sports injury rehabilitation 

and pain management. 

“We have designed 

Emma as a clinically precise 

tool that can automatically 

carry out treatment 

for patients as prescribed 

by a physiotherapist or 

Chinese physician,” said 

Zhang, who graduated in 

2010 from NTU. 

“This is probably the 

first such robot in the 

world developed specifically 

for use by Traditional 

Chinese Medicine (TCM) 

physicians and sports therapists,” 

said Zhang. 

“Our aim is not to replace 

the therapists who 

are skilled in sports massage 

and acupoint therapy, 

but to improve productivity 

by enabling one therapist 

to treat multiple patients 

with the help of our 

robots,” he said. 

Emma has a user-friendly 

interface and recommended 

guidelines for various 

sports injuries. 

The robot consists of a 

single, 6-axis robotic arm 

capable of highly articulated 

movements, a 3D-stereoscopic 

camera for vision, 

and a customised, 

fully rotatable 3D-printed 

massage tip. 

Safety features which 

work in tandem with advanced 

pressure sensors 

are also in-built, to ensure 

the comfort and the safety 

of its patients. Emma has 

treated 50 patients with 

different conditions, such 

as tennis elbows, stiff neck 

and shoulders, lower back 

pain, as well as muscle 

pulls. 

To ensure a consistent 

quality of therapy, Emma 

has sensors and diagnostic 

functions that will measure 

the progress of the 

patient and the exact stiffness 

of a particular muscle 

or tendon. These detailed 

diagnostics are uploaded 

to the cloud where the 

progress of each patient 

can be analysed and generated 

into a performance 

report. 

For the first time in TCM 

treatment, patients can 

accurately measure their 

recovery progress using 

precise empirical data. 

Providence: Historical 

markers have long dotted 

the landscape, often 

barely noticed by passers-by 

until they became 

treasure-filled stops this 

month on the “Pokemon 

Go” trail. 

Players hunting for 

fictional creatures on 

their smartphones are 

now visiting real-life 

memorial plaques, statues, 

mosaics and landmarks, 

ranging from a 

Civil War battlefield in 

Chancellorsville, Virginia, 

to a Hells Angels clubhouse 

on New Zealand’s 

North Island. 

Some don’t bother 

to linger at these 

Pokestops, staying just 

long enough to stock 

up on the virtual balls 

they’ll use to bonk 

and capture the next 

Pokemon. 

But for others, the 

GPS-powered “augmented 

reality” game is 

heightening awareness 

of the history and geography 

of their neighbourhoods. 

“Before I was just going 

from Point A to Point 

B, but now I’m learning 

things,” said 15-year-old 

Jaiden Cruz as he walked 

by a plaque Wednesday 

in downtown Providence, 

Rhode Island, 

marking where Abraham 

Lincoln spoke at an old 

railroad hall in 1860. 

The plaque is a 

Pokestop, and shortly 

before Cruz arrived, another 

player dropped a 

“lure module” that attracts 

Pokemon to the 

site. 

The 380-year-old city 

abounds with Pokestops, 

including the nation’s 

oldest Baptist church, 

founded by religious dissident 

Roger Williams in 

1638, and a stone marking 

where French troops 

camped during the Revolutionary 

War. 

“It gets you to learn 

about your surroundings,” 

said 59-year-old 

Cheryl DiMarzio, who 

on the advice of her 

daughter ventured into 

an urban park to capture 

an owl-like Pidgey and 

some purple rodent Rattatas. 

“Different landmarks, 

the statues and 

historical places.” 

How such markers 

became the backbone of 

the wildly popular video 

game that launched this 

month is a story that goes 

back at least five years, 

when tech giant Google 

signed a licensing agreement 

to use The Historical 

Marker Database, a 

volunteer-run website 

that has tracked the geographic 

coordinates of 

more than 80,000 historical 

markers around 

the world, most of them 

in the United States. 

JJ Prats, founder and 

publisher of the Virginia-based 

marker database, 

said many but not 

all the Pokestops and 

Pokemon gyms, where 

players send their creatures 

into battle, are 

from his website. He’s 

thrilled. 

Washington: For the first 

time, NASA’s Mars Curiosity 

rover can fire its onboard 

laser all by itself, mission 

scientists say. 

New software is enabling 

Chem Cam, the laser 

spectrometer on Curiosity, 

to select rock targets autonomously 

the first time 

autonomous target selection 

is available for an instrument 

of this kind on 

any robotic planetary mission. 

The Chem Cam (chemistry 

and camera) instrument 

aboard Curiosity 

“zaps” rocks on Mars and 

analyses their chemical 

make-up. While most Chem 

Cam targets are still selected 

by scientists, the rover 

itself now chooses multiple 

targets per week. 

“This new capability will 

give us a chance to analyse 

even more rock and 

soil samples on Mars,” said 

Roger Wiens, principal investigator 

for ChemCam at 

Los Alamos National Laboratory 

in the US. 

“The science team is not 

always available to pick 

samples for analysis. Having 

a smarter rover that 

can pick its own samples 

is completely in line with 

self-driving cars and other 

smart technologies being 

implemented on Earth,” 

said Wiens. 

To select a target autonomously, 

the software uses 

adjustable criteria specified 

by scientists, such as 

identifying rocks based on 

their size or brightness.The 

criteria can be changed depending 

on the rover’s surroundings 

and the scientific 

goals of the measurements. 

ChemCam’s spectrometers 

record the wavelengths 

seen through a telescope 

while the laser is firing. 

This information enables 

scientists to identify chemical 

composition of the 

targets.Through the same 

telescope, the instrument 

on the rover’s mast takes 

images that are of the highest 

resolution available. 

In nearly four years since 

landing on Mars, ChemCam 

has analysed roughly 1,500 

rock and soil samples with 

more than 350,000 total 

laser shots at about 10,000 

points in all.The autonomous 

software is called 

AEGIS (Autonomous Exploration 

for Gathering Increased 

Science) and was 

developed by engineers at 

the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 

The most frequent application 

of AEGIS uses 

onboard computer analysis 

of images from Curiosity’s 

stereo Navigation Camera 

(Navcam), which are taken 

routinely at each location 

where the rover ends a 

drive. 

From the top of Curiosity’s 

mast, the instrument 

can analyse the composition 

of a rock or soil target 

from up to about seven meters 

away. 

The rover’s extended 

mission is analysing evidence 

about how the environment 

on Mars changed 

billions of years ago from 

conditions well-suited to 

microbial life, if any life 

has ever existed on Mars, 

to dry, inhospitable conditions.

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ENTERTAINMENT 

KAREENA KAPOOR UPSET 

WITH DEEPIKA PADUKONE 

Deepika Padukone’s 

recent statement saying, 

“I am not getting married 

and I am not pregnant,” 

may have been innocent. 

But the Begum of Bollywood 

who is currently 

pregnant for some reason 

thinks it is a dig at 

her. Blame her pregnancy 

hormones or just being 

extra sensitive but Kareena 

Kapoor Khan has taken 

this comment very personally. 

Says an insider, 

“While it makes sense for 

Dips to deny her engagement 

and marriage rumours, 

which have been 

doing the rounds, Bebo 

can’t understand why she 

denied being pregnant, 

because no one said she 

was! KKK is also annoyed 

at the unsaid implication 

that actresses who are 

in the family way are no 

longer serious about the 

career or scare producers 

away. Kareena is gearing 

up to begin shooting for 

her next film and with big 

belly and all, she will rock 

it.” We have no doubt she 

will. 

SALMAN KHAN AND PRABHU 

DHEVA TO REUNITE AFTER 

SEVEN YEARS 

It’s been seven years 

since Wanted. Now it 

looks like director Prabhu 

Dheva and Salman Khan 

are ready to reunite for 

another film together. 

So far, all attempts to 

encore Wanted’s success 

hadn’t worked. Now Prabhu 

has found a script 

that he feels would justify 

their coming together. 

Says Prabhu, “When 

you work with Salman Sir, 

you can’t just do it just for 

the heck of it. Or because 

you have access to his 

dates. Wanted was a very 

important film in my career. 

It marked my debut 

as director in Bollywood. 

It was also an important 

film for Salman Sir.” 

Wanted started the new 

power-packed phase in 

Not to forget, an angry 

Kareena had recently even 

lashed out at the news 

mongers for discussing 

her pregnancy like a ‘national 

casualty.’ She had 

said, “I’m pregnant, not a 

corpse. And what maternity 

break? It’s the most 

normal thing on earth to 

produce a child. It is high 

time the media back off, 

and stop treating me any 

different than I ever was. 

Anybody who is bothered 

shouldn’t work with me… 

but my work goes on as 

is, like always. Stop making 

it a national casualty. 

We are in 2016, not in 

the 1800s. Probably, even 

at that time, people were 

way more civilised and 

normal than the way the 

media is behaving and 

speculating now,” Says 

Kareena, adding, “I’m just 

fed-up of people making 

it (her pregnancy) to be a 

death of some sort. In fact, 

it should be a message to 

a lot of people that marriage 

or having a family 

has absolutely nothing to 

do with my career.” 

Salman’s career. Prabhu 

concludes, “We have to 

make sure that our next 

project together packs in 

a greater punch.” 

Currently Sultan hero 

is busy with his next film 

Tubelight director by 

Kabir Khan. The film is 

based on Sino-Indian war. 

The film was supposed 

to roll from July end in 

Kashmir. But the latest 

reports suggest that the 

shooting in Kashmir has 

been on hold due to the 

ongoing political situation 

there. The makers have 

been suggested to stay 

away from the heated environment 

for now. Well 

it was Bajrangi Bhaijaan 

star who had insisted his 

buddy Kabir to shoot in 

Kashmir. 

REAL HOUSEWIVES 

REUNITE FOR A CAUSE 

SALMAN KHAN ACQUITTED IN 

CHINKARA POACHING CASES 

Bollywood actor Salman 

Khan was on Monday 

acquitted by the Rajasthan 

High Court in two 

cases related to poaching 

of Chinkaras in Jodhpur in 

1998. 

The court held that the 

pellets recovered from the 

Chinkaras were not fired 

from Khan’s licensed gun. 

The driver of the jeep 

that was used by Khan 

and his co- stars on their 

alleged hunting mission 

has been missing, weakening 

the prosecution’s 

case against the movie 

star. 

Khan, 50, was jailed in 

2007 for nearly a week for 

shooting an endangered 

gazelle in 1998. 

Appeals of Khan against 

sentence in the two cases 

relating to poaching of 

Chinkaras in Bhawad and 

Mathania were allowed 

by the high court which 

acquitted him in both the 

cases. 

Justice Nirmal Jit Kaur 

rejected the plea of the 

state government against 

the actor. 

Two separate cases had 

been registered against 

Khan under section 51 of 

Wildlife Protection Act for 

poaching of two chinkaras 

in village Bhawad on 26- 

27 September, 1998 and 

one chinkara in Mathania 

(Ghoda Farm) on 28-29 

September, 1998. 

The trial court (CJM) 

had convicted him in both 

the cases sentencing him 

to one year and 5 year 

imprisonment on February 

17, 2006 and April 10, 

2006 respectivel. 

The convictions were 

challenged by Khan in the 

session’s court, which dismissed 

appeal in Mathania 

s case and transferred 

appeal to high court in 

Bhawad s case, where already 

two appeals by the 

state government had 

been pending. 

Hearing on both these 

petition in high court had 

begun on November 16, 

2015 and were completed 

on May 13, 2016, after 

which justice Nirmal 

Jit Kaur had reserved her 

judgement. 

While arguing the case 

in the high court, defence 

counsel Mahesh Bora 

had contended that Khan 

had been falsely framed 

in these cases, merely on 

the statements of a key 

witness Harish Dulani, 

the driver of the vehicle, 

which was allegedly used 

in poaching in both these 

cases. 

Bora argued that Dulani 

was never available to 

them for cross examination 

and hence his statements 

could not be relied 

upon in conviction of 

Khan. He also argued that 

both of these cases have 

been built on circumstantial 

evidences and there 

was no eye-witness or any 

material evidence against 

Khan. 

Besides this, the major 

observation by the court 

was that it did not find the 

pellets recovered from 

the vehicle matching with 

those, recovered from the 

possession of Khan. 

ANISTON GIVES EMPOWERING 

SPEECH AT ITALIAN FILM FEST 

Former “Friends” star 

Jennifer Aniston gave an 

empowering speech to 

young girls as she was 

honoured for her television 

and film career at the 

46th Annual Giffoni Film 

Festival in Italy. 

The 47-year-old actress 

was the guest of honour 

at the Amalfi Coast event 

and she spoke to the attendees 

of the children’s 

festival to talk about her 

career in Hollywood. 

When Aniston was 

asked to suggest a solution 

for more female-centred 

stories to be told 

in Hollywood, the star 

encouraged the aspiring 

writers and filmmakers in 

the audience to step away 

It’s safe to say Jill Zarin 

still runs with a fabulous 

circle of people. 

As the Real Housewives 

of New York City alumna 

celebrated another summer 

in the Hamptons, 

the reality star decided 

to host a party for all of 

her Bravo friends who 

showed up. 

from the obsession with 

social media and create 

projects grounded in the 

real world, source said. 

“I think we need to 

empower women to not 

just be about dresses and 

beauty and selfies. We 

need to start having conversations 

and put our 

phones down and get out 

of social media, take social 

media breaks. That’s 

why we’re not seeing the 

right stories being told, 

because everyone is stuck 

in their phones,” she said. 

The actress was also 

moved to tears by one 

teen, who asked the A-lister 

if she ever woke up in 

the morning and didn’t 

recognise who she really 

The O.G. of the O.C. Vicki 

Gunvalson represented 

the West Coast while 

Cynthia Bailey made the 

trip from Atlanta. Kathy 

Wakile from New Jersey 

arrived for a quick weekend 

stay. 

As for Big Apple 

fans, you certainly had 

a handful of cast members 

in town. Kelly Bensimon,Kristen 

Taekman, 

was. 

“There are not enough 

fingers and a toe in this 

entire room to count how 

many times that moment 

has happened to me,” 

Aniston confessed as she 

wiped tears from her eyes. 

“We’re all human beings 

at the end of the day, 

whether we’re a waitress 

or a baker or a student or 

whatever we are, at the 

end of the day you kind of 

hit walls and think I kind 

of can’t go any farther. Or 

this is too much. 

“My heart can’t take it 

or the pain is too great, or 

am I good enough? Will 

I survive? And you just 

have to sort of somehow 

miraculously overcome. 

You just go, ‘I can’t, yes I 

can, yes you can.’ 

“And also know that 

your actors, your idols, 

your icons, whatever you 

call them, have all had 

that experience in their 

lives many, many times. 

Aniston added, “There’s 

nothing that separates us 

from you, because we all 

started at the same place. 

We all came out of nowhere. 

Don’t punish yourself 

if you feel that. Go talk 

to people and seek help 

and always find something 

to inspire you.” 

Aniston’s speech at Giffoni 

echoed similar sentiments 

in an emotional 

letter she penned earlier 

this month hitting out at 

the constant media furore 

surrounding her private 

life. 

Cindy Barshop and Ramona 

Singer came together 

to attend Jill’s charity 

event benefiting St. Jude 

Children’s Hospital. 

“Love my Bobby and 

my REAL girlfriends,” the 

hostess wrote on Instagram 

with a group photo. 

“Love you and thank you 

all for coming to my #jillzarinluxlunch.” 

WOULD LOVE TO STAR IN A BOLLY- 

WOOD FILM: RICK HOFFMAN 

Actor Rick Hoffman, 

currently seen on American 

legal drama “Suits”, 

says he wishes to feature 

in a Bollywood movie one 

day. 

According to the sources 

the actor said “I honestly 

haven’t, but have heard 

that they’re great and, 

of course, I’d love to be a 

part of an Indian movie 

one day.” 

Meanwhile, the actor is 

all geared up for the upcoming 

season of “Suits”, 

currently being aired on 

Comedy Central. 

Hoffman plays the popular 

role of lawyer Louis 

Litt on the drama “Suits”. 

If there is one thing 

which his popular onscreen 

character likes the 

most it is a good mudbath 

but Hoffman says he 

does not enjoy them at all 

in real life. 

“I do not like mud baths 

at all. To add to that, unlike 

Louis, I’m deathly allergic 

to cats and am a die-hard 

New York sports fan. As 

for what rejuvenates me - 

deep tissue massages. 

I am addicted to massages,” 

Hoffman said. 

“Suits” chronicles the 

lives of talented college 

dropout Mike Ross (Patrick 

J Adams) who initially 

works as a law associate 

for Harvey Specter (Gabriel 

Macht) despite never 

actually attending law 

school. 

Hoffman’s character 

swings between jealous, 

highly suspicious and 

snobbish and has a rivalry 

with their law firm’s topnotch 

lawyer, Specter. 

During the season five 

finale, it was shown that 

Mike turned himself in 

for a two-year prison sentence 

for faking to be a 

lawyer, thus casuing trouble 

in the law firm. 

Hoffman, 46, says his 

character will now be on 

his toes after the events 

on the series. 

“He’ll be quite intense 

about it and if anyone 

eats, sleeps, breathes the 

firm, it’s Louis. He’s very 

loyal to the firm, so you 

can only imagine what 

his blood pressure is like 

at the moment - he’ll be 

quite excitable.” 

The actor also said fans 

“shouldn’t put their expectations 

too high” with 

regards to his on and off 

love-track with Shiela. 

ROHIT BAL’S FUSION OF BLING, 

ROYALTY AT ICW 

With combination of 

rose motifs and embellishments 

as the mainstay, 

ace designer Rohit Bal’s 

Kashmir and Russia inspired 

line, “Kehkashaan” 

closed India Couture 

Week 2016. 

Bal, 55, made his love 

for roses more apparent 

with the line as the outfits 

featured flower embroidery 

in almost every outfit 

on display. 

Gold embroidery with 

mirror-work was another 

highlight of the show. 

Perhaps, in an attempt 

to balance the heavy embellishment 

on tops, jackets, 

maxi tops and capes, 

the designer kept his lehengas, 

sarees and gowns 

extremely simple with 

least to no work on it. 

The flair of his silhouettes, 

however, added a 

regal touch to the clothes. 

In terms of colour palette, 

the designer kept 

himself restricted to bold 

tones of white, black and 

burgundy. 

Bal’s collection began 

on a ‘white’ note as models 

sashayed down the 

ramp in simple traditional 

wear, which had Kashmiri 

designs. 

With similar work on 

every outfit in the section 

and lack of innovation, it 

seemed the designer ran 

out of ideas while designing 

the ensembles. 

Then came the all-in 

black section, which had 

interesting combinations 

like gypsy tops and jackets 

with lehengas and sarees, 

and capes with evening 

gowns. 

An embellished cold 

shoulder top worn over a 

long skirt was a highlight 

of this section. 

A few men’s jackets 

with different gold embroideries 

drew applause 

from the audience. 

Bal went with the ‘save 

the best for the last’ saying 

as some of the most 

wonderful and creative 

pieces from his collection 

turned up towards the 

end of the show. 

The closing outfit, a 

burgundy colour lehenga 

worn with a red choli 

and a short jacket, also in 

burgundy, was among the 

best on the show. 

Crown-like headgears 

complemented the overall 

feel of the collection. 

The show had other designers 

like JJ Vallaya and 

Varun Bahl cheering Bal 

on from the sidelines. 

The designer chose 

not to speak to the media 

about his collection 

post the show and instead 

chose to stay by the side 

of his close ones. 

BONO VISITS MEMORIAL FOR NICE 

ATTACK VICTIMS 

Rocker Bono has returned 

to the site of the 

Bastille Day attack in 

Nice, France to honour the 

memory of those killed 

with a floral tribute. 

The U2 frontman was 

at a restaurant nearby 

on July 14, when a driver 

drove a truck filled with 

weapons and explosives 

into a crowd watching 

a fireworks display on 

Promenade des Anglais, 

leaving 84 people dead. 

Bono and his fellow diners 

at La Petite Maison reportedly 

had to be rescued 

by armed police after the 

attack, which prompted 

staff at the eatery to pull 

down the venue’s shutters 

and lock themselves inside 

for safety. 

The 56-year-old singer, 

who owns a home in the 

nearby town of Eze, headed 

back to Promenade des 

Anglais to join mourners 

as they marked the tragedy 

with a minute of silence, 

source said. 

Bono, who was dressed 

in all-black, was photographed 

laying flowers at 

the crash site, and in the 

accompanying message, 

he wrote, “There is no end 

to grief, that’s how I know 

there is no end to love” - 

words are borrowed from 

the lyrics to U2’s song California 

(There Is No End To 

Love). 

He concluded the poignant 

note by adding, 

“With respect for lives lost 

here on 14/7/16.” 

Following the attack, 

the group had posted on 

the U2 Twitter page, “Love 

is bigger than anything 

in its way - Bono, Edge, 

Adam, Larry.” 

Bono and his bandmates 

were also close 

to the atrocities in Paris, 

France in November last 

year, when 89 people were 

killed in a series of co-ordinated 

bomb and gun 

attacks, one of which took 

place at the Bataclan concert 

hall. 

The stars were in the 

city rehearsing for their 

concert the following day, 

but they cancelled their 

shows due to safety fears 

and rescheduled them for 

December. 

The rockers also offered 

their private jet to the Eagles 

of Death Metal, who 

had been playing at the 

Bataclan at the time of the 

attack. 

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