NEW DELHIThe Commerce and

Industry Ministry hascleared 16 defence licenceproposals with investmentsworth Rs 613 crore, amove aimed at boostingdefence manufacturing inthe country.

The Department ofIndustrial Policy andPromotion (DIPP), whichcomes under theCommerce and IndustryMinistry, has so far issued73 industrial licences inthe defence sector in thelast one year (since June2014), against 50 licencegranted during 2011 toMay 2014, the ministrysaid in a statement.

"These (73) include 16proposals with proposedinvestment of Rs 613crore, cleared in recentlicensing committee meet-ing," it said.

The proposals cleared inlast meeting, held on June10, included applicationsfrom major players likePipavav, Tata's, SamtelThales, Solar Industries,Titagarh, Wagons andPremier Explosives.

"Many of these propos-als were pending with thegovernment for last severalyears," it added.

It said the approvedlicences are for manufac-ture of various kinds of

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Ad budget: Congress comparesKejriwal to 'North Korean dictator

Government Gives 'Digital Locker'Facility to Students in Chhattisgarh

Shahid Kapoor HAS to get Mira Rajput on JhalakDikhhla Jaa 8, demands Manish Paul! P8

SYDNEYAustralia opening batsman

David Warner on Friday insist-ed that the recent moves by theInternational Cricket Council(ICC) to crack down on sledg-ing are taking the excitement

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ICC's Sledging CrackdownKilling Excitement in Cricket,Says David Warner

NEW DELHIMinister of State for Home

Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Fridaydenied charges of delaying aDelhi-Leh Air India flight lastmonth and said it was 'falsenews'.

"That issue is over. That wasfalse news as nobody wasoffloaded because of me,"Rijiju said.

Now, Kiren Rijiju calls Air Indiaflight delay news 'false'

NEW DELHIUnderworld don Dawood

Ibrahim was allegedly directlyinvolved in the plan hatched toeliminate his rival ChhotaRajan, claim reports.

Media sources quoted offi-cials as saying that Dawoodhad sent his trusted aide ChhotaShakeel to Australia in April

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Dawood sent ChhotaShakeel to lead assault onChhota Rajan: Reports

MUMBAIA digitally connected India will

bring "tremendous power" in thehands of citizens by connectingthem to the rest of the world, RatanTata said today, lauding the gov-ernment's 'Digital India' pro-gramme.

"I'm delighted that the Prime Minister has decided togive so much preference and priority to the fact that

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Ratan Tata Launches InternetInitiative for Women

NEW DELHIDeputy Chief Minister Manish

Sisodia on Thursday made a sur-prise visit at a governmentschool in South Delhi's BhatiMines area after he received acomplaint that drugs wereallegedly being supplied insideit.

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Manish Sisodia inspects govtschool after drug complaint

MUMBAIThe Centre on Friday sought to

allay the apprehensions sparkedby the BJP-led Maharashtra gov-ernment's decision to de-recog-nise madrasas which give stu-dents education only on religion,saying madrasas "are a reality of

India" and that "there should be no politics on theissue".

"I have assured the madrasas that the governmentfavours education for all and I want to assure them thatfunds won't be a constraint," Union Minister Mukhtar

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Centre allays apprehensions,says madrasas 'reality of India'

BHOPALTwo senior officers of the

Special Task Force (STF)investigating the high-profileMPPEB scam have claimed tohave received threats allegedlyfrom some influential peopleinvolved in the racket.

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Vyapam scam: TwoSpecial Task Force offi-cers receive threats

NEW DELHIThe Akhil Bharatiya

Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) onFriday staged a protest outsideSt Stephen's College in Delhiover the alleged sexual harass-ment of a PhD student by achemistry professor of theinstitute. The protestors were

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ABVP protests out-side St Stephen'sover molestation row

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SRINAGARClashes broke out

between the police andsupporters of Syed AliShah Geelani inAnantnag district ofsouth Kashmir after thepolice detained theKashmiri separatisthours before his sched-uled public address.

"As Geelani tried toleave for south Kashmir,he was detained by alarge posse of police whowere stationed outsidehis residence atHyderpora," a Hurriyatspokesperson said.

Mr Geelani hadannounced to offerFriday prayers in

Anantnag and wasscheduled to address apublic gathering thereafter the prayers.

The spokesperson saidthat dozens of Hurriyatleaders were alsodetained along with MrGeelani.

Mr Geelani continues

to be under arrest sincehis arrival from NewDelhi on April 15 thisyear barring on twooccasions - first when hewas allowed to go to Tralto address a rally on May1 and then on June 5when he visited passport

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Clashes in Anantnag as Police DetainKashmir Separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani

Govt clears 16 defence licenceproposals worth Rs 613 crore

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NEW DELHIA man accused of stealing

12,000 litres of fuel fromIndian Oil Corporation's (IOC)Panipat-Bhatinda pipeline wasarrested from Chander Vihararea, police said today.

The accused Avtar Singh, 42,along with his gang tapped into

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1 Held for Stealing FuelFrom Indian OilCorporation's Pipeline

NEW DELHIThe Congress will not

allow parliament to func-tion when it meets laterthis month unless top BJPleaders Sushma Swarajand Vasundhara Raje areremoved from office forfavours extended to dis-graced cricket mogul LalitModi, said Ghulam NabiAzad today.

Other opposition parties"should prove they are notcompromising with theirprinciples or integrity" and

join the Congress' cam-paign, he said.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

NEW DELHIThe Ministry of

External Affairs(MEA) announced onFriday that PrimeMinister NarendraModi will be attendingShanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO)meet in Ufa (Russia)on June 9-10, wherePakistan PM NawazSharif will also bepresent; but added thatthe possibility of ameeting between thetwo leaders was yet tobe worked out.

Regarding theprospect of PM Modi

meeting his Pakistanicounterpart in Russia,Vikas Swarup (official

spokesperson, MEA),said, “Schedule ofbilateral meets on side-

lines of SCO andBRICS is still to be

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NEW DELHIThe Dausa car crash is court-

ing more controversy as timeelapses. The family of the vic-tim told that the administrationhas taken little care of the vic-tims' family while MP HemaMalini is being treated in a pri-vate hospital. While she isundergoing treatment post sur-gery at Fortis Hospital, theother car victims were taken toSMS Hospital.

Hema Malini injured in roadaccident

Hanuman Mahajan, who losthis four-year-old daughterSonam and was among the fourinjured, filed a complaint withthe Kotwali police station inDausa, against the driver ofHema's car.

Ramesh Chand Thakur, whowas driving Hema's car when itmet with an accident in Dausa,60 km from Jaipur, has beenarrested at Kotwali Thana,SHO Dilip Singh told PTI. An

FIR was lodged against thedriver, who hails fromVrindavan, under various sec-tions of IPC including 279(rash driving) and 304 (A)

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Dausa car crash: Difference in treatment metedout to us and Hema Malini, says victims' kin

PM to attend SCO meet in Russia, plans for Modi-Sharif meeting still to be worked out: MEA

Prove Your 'Integrity' by DisruptingParliament, Says Congress to Others

Govt releases first Socio-Economicand Caste Census in 8 decades

NEW DELHIJust 4.6 percent of all

rural households in thecountry pay income taxwhile such householdswith salaried incomeare close to 10 percent,the first SocioEconomic and CasteCensus released in eightdecades said today.

The percentage ofScheduled Caste (SC)households payingincome tax was 3.49percent while

Scheduled Tribe (ST)tax-paying rural house-holds were mere 3.34percent, the SocioEconomic and CasteCensus 2011 said.

Releasing the Census,Finance Minister ArunJaitley said the data willhelp in better targetingof government policies.

"The enormity ofschemes and reachesthat all governmentshave, this document

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JHANGARTerror outfit Islamic

State (IS) is trying to gaina foothold in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, a sen-ior Army official said onFriday.

"Whatever inputs wehave, IS has not taken in amajor way, but they aredefinitely trying to gainfoothold in the area(PoK)", General OfficerCommanding (GoC), 16Corps, Lt Gen K H Singhtold reporters on sidelinesof an army function heretoday.

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Islamic State trying to gain footholdin Pakistan-occupied Kashmir: Army

No intention to surround India in'string of pearl' bases: China

SHANGHAIIt's not possible for

China to surround India ina 'string of pearls' bases ashas been stated by somecommentators, accordingto a top PLA naval official.

Senior Captain Wei XiaoDong, chief of staff at theShanghai Naval Garrisonsaid that there was no rea-son for India to "show con-cern or worry about"Chinese navy vessels,including submarines, vis-iting countries likePakistan, Sri Lanka,Bangladesh or others.

"China does not have apolicy of hegemony or isplaying to be a militarypower in the region," Weitold a group of visitingIndian journalists. "Ourpolicy is defensive innature," he said.

He said such visits werenot as common as wassometimes made out. "Ihave been in the navy since1987 and I have not sailedin a warship to the Indian

Ocean."He emphasised that there

was no possibility of Chinacreating a 'string of pearls'around India.

He said one need only torefer to China's whitepaper on military strategyto realise that china onlybelieves in a defensiveapproach and had no inten-tion of expanding its mili-tary influence to othercountries.

He said the visit toPakistan has been noted inIndia with concern. ButChina, he added, had an

enhanced level of coopera-tion with India too.

"Looked at another way,should we reduce our visitsto Pakistan and increasethem to India. In such acase will Pakistan fear ourcooperation with India?"he asked. He said the rela-tions with the two coun-tries were only on a bilater-al basis.

He said in the past fourships from India had visit-ed the Shanghai basetogether and he "alwayslooks forward" to Indian

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SRINAGARIslamic State (IS) flag

was on Friday wavedduring a rally organisedby a separatist outfit insouth Kashmir'sAnantnag district.

A youth, who had his

face masked, waved theflag of the terror groupduring the rally organ-ised by Ummati Islamito commemorate thedeath anniversary of sep-aratist leader Qazi Nisar

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Islamic State flag wavedduring rally in Kashmir

SRINAGARIn an audacious move,

11 young Kashmiri ter-rorists donning armyfatigues and holdingfirearms, posted theirphotographs on

Facebook, forcing thesecurity forces to sit upand take notice.

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As Amarnath yatra getsunderway, Hizbul Mujahideenterrorists pose for Facebook

Three held for stealing two-wheelersNEW DELHI

Three members of a gang of auto thieves have beenarrested here and nine stolen two-wheelers seized fromthem, police said on Friday.

Abhishek, 25, Jugal, 20, and Irfan, 19, were taken intocustody on Wednesday after failing to produce docu-ments of the motorcycles they were riding.

While Jugal is from Delhi, Abhishek and Irfan hailfrom Uttar Pradesh. They were arrested from GTBEnclave.

Two scooties and seven motorcycles stolen by themwere recovered from the parking lot of Gagan Cinemaand Jag Parvesh Chandra Hospital at Shastri Park,police said.

"The vehicles were concealed by parking them inpublic parking places till they were sold," DeputyCommissioner of Police Veenu Bansal said. The trioconfessed to stealing vehicles in and around Delhi.

NDMC gears up to check waterlog-ging during monsoonNEW DELHI

Gearing up for the monsoon season, the New DelhiMunicipal Council (NDMC) has set up four controlrooms in areas under its jurisdiction to check the men-ace of waterlogging.

"Five control rooms have been set up at Sangli Mess,Khan Market, Netaji Nagar, Malcha Marg, MandirMarg and at Connaught Place, which will work roundthe clock till September 30 to receive complaints andavoid waterlogging during the period," NDMCspokesperson Jagjivan Bakshi said.

"These control rooms will be manned by senior exec-utive engineer level officers and are equipped withtrucks, portable pumps and other required equipments,"he added.

The civic-body has identified certain vulnerablepoints in areas under its jurisdiction as per past experi-ence and also on the basis of feedback received frompolice and traffic officials.

"We have completed the desilting work of manholes,gully gratings and open drains in all areas. The residentsare advised to complain about waterlogging to thesecontrol rooms," Bakshi said.

The complaints can also be registered at NDMC's24X7 call centre, he added.

ASHA workers in Delhi launch indefi-nite strikeNEW DELHI

Scores of ASHA health workers in Delhi on Fridaylaunched an indefinite strike, staging a protest outsideChief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence demandingregularisation of services and fixation of minimumwages.

"Government has been insensitive to our demands.We do not fall in the pay roll of the government unlikeAnganwadi workers though we play a vital role by serv-ing the rural population and it is a 24-hour job.

"We should be regularised as government healthworkers and should get all social security benefits likepension, gratuity, maternity benefits etc," said Kavita, amember of the Delhi ASHA Workers Association.

Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workersfrom dispensaries across the national capital have sus-pended their vaccination and delivery duties till theirdemands are met.

"We will not get back to work until our demands arefulfilled. We (ASHA workers) have been ignored by thegovernment for decades," said another ASHA worker.

Asha workers have been playing a pivotal role in theimplementation of National Rural Health Mission andbringing down the infant mortality rate by ensuringinstitutional deliveries, ensuring vaccination of chil-dren, providing all services of family planning andreducing anaemia among women and children.

Delhiites witness hot, humidmorning todayNEW DELHIDelhiites woke up to a hot and humid morning with

the minimum temperature settling at 27.6 degreesCelsius.

The maximum temperature, according to MeT depart-ment officials, is expected to settle at 40 degrees Celsiustoday.

The humidity in air was recorded 61 per cent at 8.30AM, said a MeT department official.

The weatherman has predicted overcast conditions forthe rest of the day.

"The skies will be partly cloudy sky. Maximum tem-perature is expected to settle at 40 degrees Celsius," anofficial of the department said.

Yesterday, the maximum temperature had settled at38.9 degrees Celsius while the minimum temperaturewas recorded at 27 degrees Celsius.

AAP has stabbed citizens of Delhi inthe back, says BJPNEW DELHI

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday accused theAam Aadmi Party of stabbing the citizens of Delhi inthe back with the recently revealed budget for the city,challenging the Arvind Kejriwal-led party to clear theair over the controversy surrounding the funds set asidefor radio advertisements.

"AAP and Kejriwal don't have the courage to comebefore the media and explain on what basis they haveincreased the publicity budget from Rs 26 crores to Rs526 crores. In the budget, they have levied a massiveburden on the common man: all taxes in Delhi are goingto go up, and the common man is feeling the pinch ofthe AAP government.

They have stabbed the citizens of Delhi in the back,and they are using that money to promote themselves,"BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao told ANI.

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NEW DELHISlamming the AAP govern-

ment for drawing up a whop-ping Rs 526 crore advertise-ment budget, Congress leaderAjay Kumar on Friday com-pared Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal to a "North Koreandictator who is into self- pub-licity".

The AAP government hascome under attack over thesize of its information andpublicity budget for 2015-16and Kumar, in a fresh salvo,said that the money wasbeing set aside only "to con-tinue the single-man, hero-worshipping cult culture ofArvind Kejriwal".

"This money could havebeen spent for treatingpatients or creating hospitals,beds, schools, roads. Why isit (being spent) when publici-ty of Delhi government wasbeing managed in Rs 30-40crores and was more thanadequate," he said, addingthat there is a Supreme Courtruling on government adver-tising.

"Kejriwal is turning out tobe like a North Korean dicta-tor who is into self-publicityand self-promotion," Kumartold reporters here.

BJP, too, had yesterday

attacked the AAP govern-ment for allocating such a"huge" sum for advertise-ment, charging that it wasalso a kind of corruption.

Weighing in against theKejriwal government, formerAAP leader PrashantBhushan alleged that its newFM radio advertisement wasin contempt of court and thatthe matter would soon bebrought to the notice of theapex court.

Delhi government, mean-while, has strongly defendedthe allocation, arguing that a

separate head has been creat-ed for the first time for pub-licity and advertisement andthat the figure may be lessthan the amount spent in pre-vious years by variousdepartments.

Supreme Court recentlybanned use of pictures ofchief ministers and otherpolitical personalities onadvertisements, billboards orhoardings of governmentschemes.

The Prime Minister and thePresident are the only excep-tions to the rule.

Ad budget: Congress comparesKejriwal to 'North Korean dictator

NEW DELHIThe meeting between

Information and Broadcastingministry officials and the delega-tion of students and alumni mem-bers of Film and TelevisionInstitute of India (FTII) hasended but there is no officialword on them having reached acompromise formula yet.

Sources say that the two hourlong meeting was positive, butlarger issues remain to be sortedout. Another meeting betweenthe delegation and Union minis-ter Arun Jaitley could be heldlater today.

FTII students have beendemanding the removal ofGajendra Chauhan as the chair-man of the institute.

Protests by students entered the22nd day today over theirdemand to remove BJP members

from the governing council of thecountry's premier film traininginstitute. The students have notattended any classes in almost

three weeks.Earlier, over 200 students were

detained by Delhi police afterthey gathered outside the min-

istry's office with placards saying"stop saffronisation of FTII".

Students from Jawahar LalUniversity (JNU), DelhiUniversity and DelhiTechnological Institute toojoined the protests with FTII stu-dents in the capital this after-noon.

An FTII student, Kisley said,"FTII is being saffronised andpeople close to the BJP are beingappointed as heads of culturaland art institutions."

The appointment of MrChauhan as chairman, bestknown for playing the role ofPandava king, Yudhishthir on TVserial Mahabharata, has resultedin wide-spread criticism becauseof the actor's perceived lack ofcredentials and his affiliationwith the ruling BJP.

Many alumnus of the institute

have spoken out against theappointment of Mr Chauhan.

Earlier, Oscar-winning soundengineer Resul Pookutty toldNDTV, "A person like GajendraChauhan, who doesn't evenunderstand the philosophies of afilm institute, who hasn't been apart of any main stream indus-try... A person who becomes achairman of an institute or a gov-erning council should be able toinspire the students."

Mr Pookutty is best known forhis work on Slumdog Millionairefor which he won the Oscar forBest Sound Mixing.

Protests have been held by stu-dents in Pune, Bangalore andDelhi with their demand that theFTII governing council shouldalso be reconstituted.

FTII Stir: Students Step up Pressure With Protests in Delhi

NEW DELHIAmidst allegations of its princi-

pal trying to protect the accused,the HRD Ministry on Fridayrefused to intervene in themolestation row at St Stephen'sCollege, saying such issues are tobe handled by the institution'sInternal Complaints Committee asper Supreme Court guidelines.

Ministry officials, however, saidthat the college has been asked to"expedite its probe to ensure jus-tice is done".

"As per the Supreme Court'sguidelines, every institution is sup-posed to have an InternalComplaints Committee (ICC) todeal with complaints of sexualharassment. The issue at StStephen's has to be handled by thecommittee," officials in the HRDMinistry said.

A research scholar at StStephen's had approached policeon June 19 alleging that she was

molested by Satish Kumar, a pro-fessor in the college's Chemistrydepartment.

The complainant has alsoaccused Stephen's principal ValsonThampu of shielding the accusedand "criminally intimidating" herto close the matter in the collegeitself in order to not cause any

delay or problems in the comple-tion of her Ph.D.

The complainant yesterday alsomade public a set of recordingsthat she claimed were conversa-tions between herself, the accusedand the principal.

Meanwhile, Delhi High Courttoday sought a reply from police

on a plea by Kumar seeking antic-ipatory bail in the case and ordereda stay on his arrest till August 17.

Taking cognisance of the contro-versy, HRD Ministry had last weeksought an action-taken report fromDU.

The complainant has alreadyrefused to take part in ICC pro-ceedings stating that she is "seek-ing redress elsewhere".

She had withdrawn her com-plaint from the committee on June21 after claiming she had lost faithin its proceedings.

She also refused to heed a call byICC for appearing before it yester-day.

"I would like to make it abun-dantly clear that I have withdrawnmy complaint from your commit-tee and do not wish to pursue thematter before it as I am seekingredress elsewhere," she had said inan email to the ICC chairman.

St. Stephen's sexual assault case: Delhi HCstays prof Satish Kumar's arrest till August 17

HRD Ministry refuses to intervene in St Stephen's molestation row

NEW DELHIDelhi High Court on Friday stayed

the arrest of St. Stephen's College pro-fessor Satish Kumar, who is accusedof sexually assaulting a woman stu-dent.

The stay has been put till August 17,the next date of hearing.

The student, who is doing her PhDunder the supervision of SatishKumar, an assistant professor in thecollege's chemistry department, haslodged an FIR against him allegingthat she was sexually assaulted byhim.

She has also alleged that collegeprinciple Valson Thampu tried to pro-tect him when the matter was reported.

Meanwhile, All India DemocraticWomen's Association (AIDWA)leader Jagmati Sangwan today calledfor strict action to be taken againstSatish Kumar, who is accused of sex-ually assaulting a woman student, andaccused the principal of the institute,Valson Thampu, of protecting theteacher.

"He [Kumar] sexually assaulted thegirl and the principal was continuous-ly protecting the culprit. Satish Kumarshould be immediately arrested andstrict action should be taken againstthe principal. We have organised aprotest against the same as we feelstrict action should be taken in thiscase," Sangwan said.

"The student has been threatened.She is in terror, so her safety should bekept on priority," she added.

The student, who is doing her PhDunder the supervision of SatishKumar, an assistant professor in thecollege's chemistry department, haslodged an FIR against him allegingthat she was sexually assaulted byhim. She has alleged that Thamputried to protect him when the matterwas reported.

Congress takeson AAP overfake degree rowNEW DELHI

The Congress party onFriday took on the AamAadmi Party over the fakedegree row, this timeinvolving Palam MLABhavna Gaur.

"Every few days, a newcontroversy involving thefake degrees of AAP min-isters comes to light.Today, Palam MLABhavna Gaur is under thescanner for her degree. In2013, she showed that shehad a Class 12 certificateand in 2015, she showed aBA and a B.Ed degree.Which degree can begained so fast? This isbeyond our understand-ing," Congress leader AjayMaken said at a pressbriefing here.

NEW DELHIA sessions court here

has upheld the jail sen-tence of a man, who wasconvicted of riding a bikein an inebriated state,observing that while rid-ing the two- wheelerunder such heavy intoxi-cation, he was acting likea "suicidal human bomb,who could have takenlives of others".

Additional SessionsJudge Lokesh KumarSharma, dismissed theappeal of Satish, a Delhiresident, against a magis-

terial court order that hadsentenced him to threedays in jail for the offenceof drunken driving underMotor Vehicle Act after hewas found riding hismotorcycle in a heavilydrunken state.

"In my opinion thatappellant while riding thetwo-wheeler motorcycleunder such heavy intoxi-cation, was just acting likea suicidal human bomb,who could have takenlives of others while driv-ing the vehicle in such astate of mind and even it

could have also provedfatal for him as well, dueto slightest mistake com-mitted by him on road.

"Hence, in the given setof facts and circumstancesas appearing on record, heis not entitled to anyleniency of this court," thejudge said.

The court, however,reduced the period of dis-qualification of his drivinglicence from six months,as decided by the trialcourt, to two months whileconsidering his young age.

"...Keeping in view the

young age of the appellantand the fact that he is thefirst offender and solebread earner of his family,the period of suspensionof his driving licence isreduced to two monthsfrom six months," it said.

The magisterial courthad jailed Satish for threedays for the offence afterit was proved that thealcohol content found inhis body was 11 timesmore than the permissiblelimit of 30 mg per 100 mlwhen he was riding thebike.

Drunk driving: Court upholds man's jail term,says he acted like "suicidal human bomb"

Congress to submit memoran-dum of complaints against AAPNEW DELHI

The Congress party onFriday stated that it hasdecided to submit a memo-randum of complaintsagainst the Aam AadmiParty with the office of theLokayukta.

"I have always said theythis is a bogus government.At least six ministers havefake degrees. Such thingsnever happened under theCongress regime. Thisgovernment has not yet setup a Lokayukta that canlook after such complaints.Now we have decided thaton Monday, we will go tothe Lokayukta office,

where the post has beenlying vacant, and are goingto submit a memorandumof complaint against alltheir MLAs against whomthere are charges pendingin different courts,"Congress leader AjayMaken said.

Woman activist calls forstrict action againstaccusedNEW DELHI

All India Democratic Women'sAssociation (AIDWA) leaderJagmati Sangwan on Friday calledfor strict action to be taken against StStephen's College professor SatishKumar, who is accused of sexuallyassaulting a woman student, andaccused the principal of the institute,Valson Thampu, of protecting theteacher.

"He [Kumar] sexually assaultedthe girl and the principal was contin-uously protecting the culprit. SatishKumar should be immediatelyarrested and strict action should betaken against the principal. We haveorganised a protest against the sameas we feel strict action should betaken in this case," Sangwan said.

"The student has been threatened.She is in terror, so her safety shouldbe kept on priority," she added.

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NEW DELHIA dam which is at the

heart of a serious and long-standing dispute betweenKerala and Tamil Nadu isvulnerable to an attack byPakistani terror groups andshould be guarded by cen-tral paramilitary forces, theTamil Nadu governmentclaimed in the SupremeCourt today.

It cited an IntelligenceBureau report fromSeptember last year whichsays inputs suggest thatterror groups like theLashkar-e-Taiba have dis-cussed using vehiclesloaded with explosives toblow up the Mullaperiyardam. Kerala currentlymanages the security for

the dam.Judges will take up the

case in August.The Mullaperiyar dam

on the Periyar river islocated in the Thekkadydistrict in Kerala but sup-plies water to the drought-prone areas of Tamil Naduunder a complex lease last-ing 999 years.

The tug-of-war over thedam has often resulted in

violent protests. Keralasays the dam is old andendangers the millionswho live downstream in anarea that is prone totremors. Tamil Nadu isfirmly against Kerala'spush for the constructionof a new dam because itfears it will be forced toaccept a smaller supply ofwater.

Last year, the Supreme

Court ruled that the exist-ing dam is not structurallyunsafe and agreed withTamil Nadu's request toincrease the water level inthe dam to 142 feet withaccompanying safetymeasures.

Despite that victory,Tamil Nadu has said in theSupreme Court that Keralamust be stopped from con-ducting an assessment ofthe environmental impactof the new dam. If a newdam is built further downthe Periyar river, TamilNadu worries that lesswater will be collected andmade available to it, andthat Kerala will find a wayto wriggle out of the cur-rent agreement.

NEW DELHIThe National Green

Tribunal today soughtresponse from the Centreover alleged illegal fellingof trees in Taj Mahal's spe-cial eco-sensitive zone.

A bench headed by NGTChairperson JusticeSwatanter Kumar, takingnote of a newspaper report,issued notice to the UnionMinistry of Environmentand Forests (MoEF) andUttar Pradesh governmentwhile directing them to filetheir replies within twoweeks.

The report claimed thatformer district forest offi-cer (DFO) NK Janu ille-gally cut down thousandsof trees in Taj Mahal's spe-cial eco-sensitive zone andsold them off without anypermission.

The green panel also

directed the Uttar Pradeshgovernment to conduct aninvestigation in the matterand enumerate the meas-ures taken by it to restorethe environment in thatarea.

"This is serious damageto the environment. Whatis the state doing," thebench asked.

According to the report,the former Agra DFO hadcut 8,000 trees in Babupurand around 4,000 trees in500-metre-radius of theTaj Mahal, which is an

eco-sensitive zone mandat-ed by the Supreme Courtand as per the rule, trees inthis zone cannot be cutwithout obtaining permis-sion from the apex court.

Most of these trees werecut during 2011-12, thereport claimed.

The Supreme Court hadearlier rapped the UttarPradesh government formaking false claims onplantation of trees in theTaj trapezium zone to pro-tect the Taj Mahal frompollution.

Cutting of Trees in Taj Mahal Eco Zone: NationalGreen Tribunal Issues Notice to Centre

In Kerala and Tamil Nadu War Over Dam,a Pak Terror Attack Warning is Used

THRISSUR, KERALAIt's monsoon season in

Kerala, also known as thebest time for ayurvedicmassages, and a privilegedgroup of nearly 40 jumbosare in a for a treat. Theannual month long rejuve-nation therapy, speciallyheld by the temple boardfor those elephants used byThrissur's famousGuruvayur Temple hasbegun.

These elephants willenjoy body scrubs, fullbody wraps, special indul-gent diets, herbal tonicsand most importantly - nowork for one month.

They are divided intogroups based on weight

and are given tailor-madediets.

An elephant specialist,M a h e s h w a r a nNamboodiripad says, "Weat Guruvayur ensure thatthe best of facilities aregiven to these elephants forone whole month. Theseelephants are under con-stant surveillance andtreatments from doctors

during this period".But this is just a luxury

break and long months ofhard labour lie ahead forthem. These temple ele-phants are paraded inscorching heat and aremade to stand for almost 8hours at a stretch amidstthe deafening sounds offire-crackers. Temple festi-vals begin from October to

April every year.Chained, injured and

overworked, yet many ofthese temple mega-starscan fetch a price of Rs.25000 to lakhs of rupees,when rented out to smallertemples. "Their ratesdepend upon their glam-our- their height, weight"says a mahout.

KN Jayachandran, anoted elephant activistsays, "For one month theseelephants are treated likekings, but for the rest of themonths, it's a cruel life forthem. And then, who arewe human beings to decidewhat's the best diet for ele-phants. They belong to thewild."

Body Scrubs to Indulgent Diets, 40 Elephantsto Get Special Treatment in Kerala

NEW DELHIActor-turned-politician

Hema Malini has been crit-icised for leaving the siteof an accident after herspeeding Mercedes hit aMaruti Alto last night,without reaching out to thevictims of the accident,including two very youngchildren.

A two-year-old girl waskilled in the accident andher six-year-old brother isin ICU at a Jaipur hospitalwith fractures in both armsand both legs. They weretravelling in the Alto withtheir parents and anotherrelative; all of them wereinjured.

Witnesses at the site ofthe accident in Dausa,Rajasthan, said HemaMalini, 66, who wasinjured on the forehead,was driven away to Jaipursoon after the car crash in aprivate vehicle by a localBJP leader. Her assistantwho was travelling withher, and the driver of herMercedes also left withher.

The driver was arrestedlater in the night and hasbeen booked for culpable

homicide not amounting tomurder. He has been grant-ed bail.

"We know she (HemaMalini) was also hurt butat least she could haveinquired about the wellbe-ing of the family... (Shecould have) asked the doc-tors to give (the family)proper treatment," said arelative of the child whodied, news agency IANSreported.

On social media peopleasked why the MP had notstayed to help.

While Hema Malini wasdriven to Jaipur's privateFortis hospital by a localBJP leader, the injuredchildren and others werefirst taken to a government

hospital in Dausa. Fromthere, the family says, itarranged for an ambulanceto take the six-year-old boyand his mother, who hasmultiple fractures, to theSawai Madho SinghHospital in Jaipur about 60km away.

Harsh Khandelwal, thefather of the child whodied, and who was drivingthe Alto, says he wants nocompensation. Speakingwith great difficulty at theJaipur hospital where hetoo was treated for injuriesto the legs and collar boneand for fractures, MrKhandelwal said he onlyexpects the family to getgood treatment for theinjuries, he said.

Hema Malini Criticised for LeavingAccident Site Without Assisting Victims

ATALI70-year-old Resham

Bibi is leaving AtaliVillage in panic. As therickety autorickshaw nois-ily moves through itsdeserted roads, she breaksdown. "I got married andcame to this village," shesays sobbing, "We will gowherever we can. Havejust taken whatever Icould. The bed, furnitureis still lying at home."

Some earthen pots, pansand charpoi is all she hasmanaged to pile into the

auto after stone-throwingbetween two communitiesbrought back communaltensions in the Atali vil-lage of Ballabhgarh inFaridabad District ofHaryana.

Another resident fires uphis motorcycle. "It's betterto run. God will take careof us. We don't want to diehere," he says, his voicetrailing off as he rides off.

Like Resham Bibi, herneighbours from theminority community tooare fleeing, the increase in

police numbers doingnothing to calm their anxi-ety.

It all started on May 25,when cars and bikes wereburnt over disputed landwhere a mosque was tocome up. Other villagersobjected. But when con-struction continued, thesimmering anger boiledover, and petrified vil-lagers from the minoritycommunity sought shelterin the police station. Theydid return 10 days later,but Wednesday's incident

has pitched both sidesagainst one another andthere is a sense of distrustthat runs deep.

Sabir Ali's home wasburned in previous vio-lence. This time, miscre-ants damaged goods andfurniture in the house."Last time we wereassured things would befine, so we returned. Nowthey say the same thing.How can we trust that, it'sbetter to run with whatyou have than regretlater," he says.

Mistrust, Tension Simmer Over Mosque Construction in Haryana's Atali

Darjeeling Landslide Toll Increases to 40DARJEELING

With the recovery of two morebodies, the toll in landslide-bat-tered Darjeeling district has risento 40 even as 16 people still miss-ing.

The two bodies were pulled outfrom the debris at Mirik andKalimpong and 16 people aremissing from Kalimpong Block 1and 2, an official of West Bengal'sDisaster Management Departmentsaid.

Rescue operations were under-way in Darjeeling, Kalimpong andKurseong sub divisions, wheremultiple landslides had alsowashed away highways and dam-aged homes.

Darjeeling District MagistrateAnurag Srivastava said the land-slide-affected people were put upin camps and three such campswere set up in Mirik where 200-250 families have been sheltered.

National Disaster ResponseTeam, Civil Defence personneland local volunteers were engagedin the rescue work.

Rescue teams from the SashastraSeema Bal and the NationalDisaster Management Authorityhave also been pressed into serv-ice.

Though it was not raining today,the sky was overcast. Rescue washampered at Mirik evening yester-day due to a downpour.

The DM said the roads where

minor landslips occurred havebeen cleared while the ones withmajor landslides, like Siliguri-Kalimpong route, will take sometime.

The landslides had caused exten-sive damage to NH-10 and NH-55,cutting off vital road links to theregion.

Toy train services betweenDarjeeling and New Jalpaigurialso remained suspended follow-ing damage to the tracks. Bouldershad rolled down on the tracks atNimkidara, 2 km from Darjeeling,Darjeeling Station Manager

Suman Pradhan said.Even after the boulders could be

removed, tracks were found to bedamaged leading to the suspensionof the toy train service, hesaid.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjeehad announced a compensation ofRs. 4 lakh each to the families ofthe deceased in landslides.

Prime Minister Narendra Modihad announced a compensation ofRs. 2 lakh each to the families ofthe deceased and deputed UnionMinister of State for Home KirenRijiju to rush to the area.

Gorkha TerritorialAdministration (GTA) chief BimalGurung had announced compensa-tion of Rs. 2 lakh to the next of kinof the deceased.

The chief minister yesterday vis-ited areas in Mirik which wereworst affected by landslides, metfamilies of the victims and distrib-uted relief and cheques.

Ms Banerjee reached the affect-ed area taking a detour as the roadwas damaged by landslides. MrRijiju visited relief camps inTingling area besides meeting theinjured in hospitals.

Sri Lankan Gang Attacked Us, Tore Our Nets, Allege Tamil Nadu FishermenCHENNAI

About a 100 fishermenfrom Tamil Nadu'sNagapattinam District havealleged that they wereattacked and looted by anunidentified armed gangfrom Sri Lanka while fish-ing off the Kodiakarai coaston Thursday.

They have claimed thatthe gang also looted theirGPS equipment and lootedfish and nets worth Rs. 70lakh from 33 boats.Murugan, a fisherman fromSerthur Village, says, "This

happened very much inIndian waters. They hadsickles pointing at us andwe had no option but to letthem take away whatever

they wanted." An official ofthe district administrationsaid nobody had beeninjured in the incident andthat the state government

had been informed. "Wehave received informationon this. We suspect eitherLankan fishermen or anymembers from the Lankannavy to be behind this,"said a senior officer of theTamil Nadu CoastalSecurity Group, a wing ofthe police department.Fishermen in Nagapattinamhave not ventured into thesea today in protest. Theyhave asked the Tamil Nadugovernment to providethem compensation andimproved security.

Government Gives 'Digital Locker'Facility to Students in Chhattisgarh

RAIPURIn line with Prime

Minister Narendra Modi's'Digital India' campaign,Chhattisgarh governmenthas launched 'DigitalLocker' facility for everystudent at all schools andcolleges of the state.

"The government hasdecided to offer 'DigitalLocker' facility to studentsof all schools and colleges,where they can keep theirimportant documents, cer-tificates online," an officialstatement issued in Raipurtoday said.

The facility waslaunched by state schooleducation minister KedarKashyap yesterday atGovernment Polytechniccollege, Jagdalpur inBastar district will be soonimplemented across thestate, it said.

The scheme will soon be

implemented in all schoolsand colleges across thestate and will be free ofcost, the minister said.

Notably, chief ministerRaman Singh has launchedseveral initiatives as a partof 'Digital Chhattisgarh'drive to fulfil PrimeMinister Narendra Modi'sdream campaign 'Digital

India', the release quotedMr Kashyap as saying.

The will be of immensevalue to students wherethey will be able to pre-serve important docu-ments, including educa-tional certificates, online,and access them using theirAadhaar numbers, headded.

SHILLONGAn alert was sounded in

all Meghalaya districts fol-lowing IMD forecast ofheavy to extreme rainfallin isolated places inMeghalaya and neighbour-ing Assam, officials saidtoday.

"We have issued ordersfor DCs and SPs in all 11districts to remain alert incase of an emergency aris-ing out of the extremeweather forecast in thenorth-east region for thenext 36 hours," State Chiefsecretary P Barkos OWarjri told PTI.

He said the Deputy ChiefMinister RC Laloo, who isin charge of Revenue andDisaster Managementdepartment, has asked thestate government officialsto keep a close watch andtake appropriate action tomeet any eventuality.

"Commissioners ofDivision of both Khasi -Jaintia Hills Division andGaro Hills Division havebeen instructed to be intouch with all the DeputyCommissioners and moni-tor the situation closely,"an official statement said.

The IndiaM e t e o r o l o g i c a lDepartment (IMD) has inits forecast said that therewill be a heavy to heavyrainfall on July 3 and 4 infew isolated placesover Assam andMeghalaya.

Meghalaya Sounds Alert FollowingMeteorological Department Forecast

BY NISSIM MANNATHUKKAREN

“I am proud that, like Mark Twain, Ihave been able to use humour tolessen people’s hatred.” — African-

American comedian Richard Pryor

If we are to go by TRP ratings, it wouldseem that the nation has not laughed ashard as it has in the last two years, since“Comedy Nights with Kapil” — India’shighest-rated non-fiction television show,hosted by Kapil Sharma, India’s “funniestman” — first aired. One of Mr. Sharma’smain strengths, hailing from a non-eliteand non-English-speaking background, isapparently that he “speaks the language ofthe nation”. This language, which hascaptured the imagination of everyone,ordinary television audiences and celebri-ties alike, is precisely what is problemat-ic: it is a language so regressive that itreflects and perpetuates all kinds of dis-criminations, from caste and class to sexand race.

Mr. Sharma’s rise in just a couple ofyears has been nothing but stratospheric:from a mere television face, he hasbecome one of the two or three mostadmired personalities as well as top mar-ketable commodities in India. There ishardly any celebrity in the country whohas not appeared or has not wanted toappear on his show.

Underbelly of pop culture

But behind the excellent comic timingand razor-sharp repartee of Mr. Sharmalies the ugly face of Indian popular cul-ture. A show that was supposed to be a“family show”, with substantial appeal tochildren and the youth, thrives instead onblatant misogyny. The many female char-acters played by men form the base of theshow. This is not done with any intentionto break gender norms, but to providelaughs through mocking and exaggeratedportrayals of femininity. White women, aselsewhere in Bollywood, are the “items”that are constantly used, despite having norelationship to the narrative. In oneepisode, former cricketer Sunil Gavaskaris ushered onto the stage by whitedancers, purportedly because there wereno cheerleaders during his cricketingdays!

The references to gori ladkiyaan (whitewomen) are unabashed in their objectifi-

cation. Of course, even the other women(including the character of Mr. Sharma’swife), are seen merely as a sum of theirphysical appearances, praised or damnedon that basis. Therefore, it is not surpris-ing that obesity and other supposed nega-tive features of physical beauty (also of

men) become the pegs to hang some ofthe major set pieces of the show. And it isa stark irony that every programme endswith the call: auraton ki izzat karein(respect women)!

From celebrating beauty and whitecomplexion, it is only a logical step toshow egregious racism or casteism, withreferences to people as Zambia ke bhikari(beggars from Zambia) and Afriki bhaloo(African bear). Sri Lankans also becomethe butt of jokes because they are “obvi-ously” inferior to us. While the looks ofactors Rajpal Yadav and Rajkumar Yadav(now Rajkummar Rao) are made fun of,the royal background of a Saif Ali Khan isfawned upon. South India, too, becomesone of the exotic nether regions in theshow. Thus Mr. Sharma asks HemaMalini in one episode whether her hus-band is able to understand “South Indian”(I guess he meant Tamil).

What is interesting is that despite theshow being set in a lower middle classhousehold, the reaffirmation of class hier-archies is strong. There is constant dis-paraging of domestic help and lowerclasses: Do takke ka naukar (worthlessservant) is an echoing refrain. The domes-tic help is asked to know his/her place.Needless to say, all this is done humor-ously.

Reproducing stereotypes

There is pervasive consensus thatlaughter and humour are always innocentand benign — Mr. Sharma asks the audi-ence to just keep everything aside andlaugh uninhibitedly. This is unfortunatelynot correct as the Charlie Hebdo shoot-ings tragically demonstrated. As author

Paul Michael Johnson aptly puts it, “theracial and socio-economic privilege of thedominant majority is often coterminouswith the privilege of laughing”. This isclearly demonstrated in the laughing atand not laughing with all those who arenot considered equal to the dominantvoice in “Comedy Nights”.

Of course, this does not mean that thereis a deliberate attempt to laugh at thosewho are supposedly inferior. It is, howev-er, how dominant consciousness works,almost unconsciously reproducing stereo-types. That is why we have even the sec-tions of people who are objects of thelaughter, such as women and workingclasses, reproduce these hierarchies byparticipating in their own denigrationthrough humour.

Scholar John Morreall, author of TakingLaughter Seriously, has argued that forcenturies, Western thinking — ancientGreek philosophers, Christianity, earlymodern theorists — greatly looked downupon laughter. As Plato, one of the promi-nent critics of laughter, noted, “when oneabandons himself to violent laughter, hiscondition provokes a violent reaction”.According to Mr. Morreall, the reason forthis negative evaluation of humour wasthat it involved laughing at others; that itwas motivated by malice, mockery, deri-sion and feelings of superiority. Thus,such humour was morally repugnant.

As we all know, this is not the only rea-son we laugh; we can also take delight inraucous humour that is not directed atmocking inferiors. There are equally greatphilosophical traditions that affirm thisand the necessity of humour as the basisof human social existence. The problem isthat humour in much of Indian massmedia is about laughing at others.

This does not mean that shows like“Comedy Nights” do not contain ele-ments that are not scornful, or that they donot subvert some dominant norms. Theydo, especially with characters like thegrandmother, a sexualised figure with analcohol problem. But overwhelmingly,Mr. Sharma and the show, termed as a“milestone for Indian comedy on televi-sion”, are purveyors of a comedy thatdebases others. It is worrying to see aprominent woman Bollywood actormocking gays and transgenders on“Comedy Nights”, especially when thelarger popular culture is suffused with thevalues of dominant castes, class and gen-der. As the AIB roast showed, even as afew social conservatisms with regard tosex are challenged, the more dangerousforms of misogyny, racism, and casteismare affirmed popularly.

More critically, the popularity of showslike that of Mr. Sharma’s is soaring at atime when the space for satire and humourthat can challenge dominant thought isdecreasing, and the “ban culture” isspreading its tentacles. Whether it is Mr.Sharma or AIB, the one form of humourthat has been a potent weapon in everysociety of the world — laughing at thepolitical ruling class — is completelyabsent; politics is taboo. When the socialrealm acquiesces so easily to the politicalestablishment, the forces of violentmajoritarianism run amok.

Where in Indian popular culture is a fig-ure like Richard Pryor, who used humourto speak the unspeakable, and to showAmerica its ugly face of racism and thecolossal inequities built on it? And forhow much longer will we celebrate the“plebeian” humour of a Kapil Sharma andrefuse to look into the mirror to see theugliness of our own society?

(Nissim Mannathukkaren is withDalhousie University, Canada. E-mail:nmannathukkaren@dal.ca)

Saturday | July 04, 2015

BY RAKESH SOOD

It is said that positive develop-ments seldom receive the mediaattention they deserve. This is cer-

tainly true of post-quake events inNepal. Last week, Kathmandu washost to the International Conferenceon Nepal’s Reconstruction, a suc-cessful event both in terms of itspreparatory work and the internation-al response generated. The role of theIndian delegation, led by UnionExternal Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj, was effective and non-con-troversial. Domestic politics took apositive turn with the agreementbetween the four major partiesannounced on June 8 which couldprovide a much needed impetus tothe constitution drafting exercisewhich has been stalled for over fiveyears.

The quake’s toll

On April 25, a devastating earth-quake measuring 7.8 (on the momentmagnitude) struck Nepal. Its epicen-tre was Barpak, in the historicGorkha district, about 76 kilometresnorthwest of Kathmandu. Though anearthquake prone country, Nepal hadnot suffered an earthquake of similarmagnitude for 80 years. Since then,there have been more than 300 after-shocks including one of 7.3 magni-tude on May 12, with its epicentrenear Mt. Everest — 3,000 landslideswere also reported. The tragedy hasclaimed 9,000 lives with hundredsstill missing, making it difficult togauge the extent of damage in someof the remote areas. Yet, the NepalPlanning Commission was able topresent a credible ‘Post DisasterNeeds Assessment’ document in therun-up to the June 25 conference, byanalysing the damage and estimatingthe resources needed to get the econ-omy back on track.

Fourteen out of Nepal’s 75 districtshave been declared “crisis hit” withanother neighbouring 17 categorisedas “partially affected”. The wide-spread destruction covers private and

public buildings (nearly 5,00,000buildings destroyed and 3,00,000damaged), heritage sites (Kathmanduvalley has seven UNESCO WorldHeritage sites), rural roads andbridges, trekking routes which formthe backbone of the tourist industry,hydel plants and agricultural land.The total damage is estimated at $7billion with nearly $5.4 billion as the

losses of the private sector andhouseholds; the balance $1.6 billionis public buildings and infrastructure.GDP growth estimate has been cur-tailed from 4.6 per cent to 3 per centfor the current financial year. Whilethe loss to physical assets is estimat-ed at $5 billion, the income loss is $2billion, accounting for a third of theannual GDP. Rehabilitation andreconstruction efforts are furthercomplicated by the fact that the worstaffected 14 districts are also amongthe relatively poorer districts where alarge part of the male population tra-ditionally migrates for employment.

The document pegs the total finan-cial needs at $6.7 billion, made up ofthe social sector ($4 billion), the pro-ductive sector ($1.1 billion), infra-structure ($750 million), with gover-nance, environment, gender andsocial protection needs making up thebalance. The conference has beendeemed a success with pledges of$4.4 billion made by the countries

and multilateral agencies representedin Kathmandu. India took the leadwith a pledge of $1 billion followedby China announcing $483 million.The World Bank has indicated $200million for housing reconstruction,$100 million for budgetary supportand another $200 million to be redi-rected from other projects. The AsianDevelopment Bank has committed

$600 million, Japan $260 million, theUnited States $130 million, theUnited Kingdom $110 million, andthe European Union $110 million.What is now needed is speedy plan-ning and effective implementation onthe ground.

A positive Indian role

The Indian pledge is 40 per centgrant and the balance in the form ofsoft loans. Further, it is in addition tothe $1 billion assistance packageannounced last August during PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s maidenvisit to Nepal, bringing India’s totalcommitment to $2 billion, over thenext five year period. The focus willbe on housing reconstruction includ-ing public buildings, heritage restora-tion given our shared religious andcultural history, rebuilding infrastruc-ture like roads, bridges and powertransmission systems, agriculture,education and health, and structures

for long-term disaster mitigation. It isan ambitious programme and willneed to be managed carefully withthe various Indian agencies and thenewly set up Nepal ReconstructionAuthority.

Traditionally, the problem with anumber of Indian funded projects hasbeen significant time delays and con-sequently, budget overruns. The inte-grated check posts, terai roads, rail-way linkages and the Raxaul-Amlekhgunj oil pipeline are primeexamples of such projects. While theIndian Embassy can ensure local fol-low up, what is needed is effectivecoordination at the Delhi end. Eithersomebody needs to be appointed toundertake periodic visits for ensuringthat the momentum does not slackenor perhaps the Prime Minister’sAdditional Principal Secretary, P.K.Mishra, who had visited Nepal inMay and also accompanied Ms.Swaraj, will have to take on this role.He would also need to be sensitive toNepali sensibilities to ensure localcooperation. So far, India’s contribu-tion as the major development andreconstruction partner has been han-dled well, with discretion and with-out any chest-thumping about India’srole which often leads to resentmentin the neighbourhood. The Nepalimedia (and the Indian media too) isprone to facile commentary aboutIndian and Chinese competition forinfluence in Nepal. A recent examplewas in the immediate aftermath of theearthquake on April 25 when Indiaresponded swiftly with its disasterrelief flights and search and rescueteams but constant tweeting andIndian media coverage tom-tommingIndian role amplified into insensitivemegaphone diplomacy leading to abacklash in Nepal. What needs to beunderstood is that while the Chinesemedia may have been as adulatoryabout the work of Chinese teams inNepal, Nepali citizens do not watchChinese TV but they are hooked toIndian TV channels. Hence theimportance of walking and talkingsoftly in our neighbourhood, some-thing we often forget — as in the case

of recent operations against theNSCN(K) camps in the India-Myanmar border region — causingdiscomfiture and embarrassment allaround.

It was a wise decision on Mr.Modi’s part to depute Ms. Swaraj toKathmandu though Nepali FinanceMinister Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat hadcome to Delhi to personally conveyNepali Prime Minister SushilKoirala’s invitation. While Mr.Modi’s presence would have generat-ed more media coverage, some of itwould have had negative overtonesas happened during his visit lastNovember for the South AsianAssociation for RegionalCooperation summit when he calledoff his trips to Janakpur and Lumbini.In addition to the media, the fracturednature of Nepali domestic politics isalso quicksand for an Indian politicalleader, which Ms. Swaraj wiselysidestepped so that the focusremained on the conference andIndia’s gesture spoke for itself.

Political development

There has been one positive devel-opment in Nepali politics though inthe aftermath of the earthquake. Theall round criticism of Nepal’s politi-cal leadership and its visible absenceduring the rescue and relief opera-tions has forced at least the fourmajor parties to reach an agreementon the vexed issue of “federalism”which has held up progress onConstitution drafting for years. OnJune 8, the Nepali Congress, theCommunist Party of Nepal (UnifiedMarxist–Leninist), Maoists and oneMadhesi group led by BijayGachchadar, together accounting forwell over two-thirds of theConstituent Assembly (CA) strength,announced a 16-point agreement.The Maoists accepted a parliamen-tary system with a ceremonial presi-dency and it was agreed to have afederal Nepal with eight provinces.The boundary delineation has beenleft to an expert committee thoughguidelines of “identity” based on eth-

nicity, language, culture and “viabili-ty” based on economics, naturalresources and infrastructure potentialhave been provided. The names ofthe provinces, an emotive issue, willbe determined by the provincialassemblies. A bicameral legislaturewill consist of a lower house of 275members of whom 165 will be direct-ly elected and the balance throughproportional representation; theupper house will have a strength of45, five members from each of theeight provinces and another five to benominated. This would create a farmore manageable number than thecurrent CA which numbers 601.

This understanding has faced oppo-sition from a number of Madhesi par-ties as also from the hard line Maoistfaction. Legal challenges have alsobeen posed that need to be overcome.Some opponents of the federal sys-tem perceive an Indian hand in thelegal challenge on the rationale thatthe present regime in India wouldlike to see a Hindu rashtra restored inNepal and would also be moreassertive in supporting the Madhesis.Notwithstanding such conspiracytheories, the four party agreement is astep forward in Nepal’s political tran-sition. The CA elected in 2008 was toconclude the Constitution draftingexercise in two years but finallylapsed in 2012 without completingthe task. A new CA elected in 2013has been struggling with the sameissues. Meanwhile, no governmenthas lasted more than two years andall kinds of coalitions have beentried.

The Nepali people are a patient lotbut will not forgive their leaders ifeven after such a tragedy, politicalinstability and bickering hampersNepal’s reconstruction and rehabili-tation for which the internationalcommunity has been so forthcoming.

(Rakesh Sood, the PrimeMinister’s Special Envoy for

Disarmament and Non-Proliferationtill May 2014, is a former

Ambassador to Nepal. )

Crime and compromise

It’s no laughing matter

Picking up the pieces in Nepal

EDITORIAL4 NEW DELHI | SATURDAY | JULY 04, 2015Fight For Right

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Fight For Right

It is a matter of considerable satisfaction that withindays of the Madras High Court passing an indefensibleorder asking the perpetrator and the victim in a rape

case to opt for mediation, the Supreme Court has restatedstrongly that rape is an offence that does not brook anycompromise. The latest ruling is a rebuke to appellatecourt judges who casually overturn convictions or reducethe prison terms of those found guilty of rape, often by cit-ing claims that a compromise has been arrived at. With thisruling, the Supreme Court makes it amply clear that offersof marriage or forms of financial compromise cannot beapplied in a rape case. It also denies the parents of a minorgirl the right to arrive at a compromise with the rapist. Byreiterating sharply that any thought of mediation in a rapecase is “completely sans legal permissibility”, the courthas gone a long way towards ensuring that the lower ranksof the judiciary have absolutely no reason to take recourseto such a “subterfuge”. The Supreme Court ruling wasmade in an appeal where the Madhya Pradesh High Courthad converted a case of attempted rape on a seven-year-old girl into one of attempt to “outrage the modesty of awoman”, and had reduced the sentence from five years tothe period spent by the convict in prison. A recent judg-ment from the Madras High Court that had allowed a con-victed rapist to be freed on bail to work towards a mediat-ed solution with the survivor had shocked civil society andattracted severe criticism. The Supreme Court judgment is,thus, timely and essential. A matter of graver concern,however, is the fact that the Supreme Court is so oftenbeing required to restate the basic principles of justice. Itwas only in 2013 that it categorically ruled that there canbe no compromise in a rape case. In several cases in thepast, the apex court has deprecated the tendency of somejudicial officers to take into account purported compro-mises and award lenient sentences on that basis. Also,when it comes to sentencing policy, it should be remem-bered that as part of the amendments to criminal law madein 2013, a proviso in Section 376 of IPC (punishment forrape) that allowed judges to award lesser prison terms thanwhat are set down, on ‘special grounds’, has been omitted.Judges are not allowed to consider offers of marriage, thepassage of time, or the state of a woman being “happilymarried” as factors justifying a soft approach towards per-petrators of rape. That despite the Supreme Court’s repeat-ed directions not all lower courts see the irreparable harmdone to rape survivors by subjecting them to mediatedsolutions is disquieting. It is also an indication of howdeeply patriarchy is embedded in our judicial system.

Mr. Sharma’s rise in just a couple of yearshas been nothing but stratospheric: from amere television face, he has become one ofthe two or three most admired personalitiesas well as top marketable commodities inIndia. There is hardly any celebrity in thecountry who has not appeared or has not

wanted to appear on his show.

The Indian pledge is 40 per centgrant and the balance in the form ofsoft loans. Further, it is in additionto the $1 billion assistance package

announced last August during PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s maiden

visit to Nepal, bringing India’s totalcommitment to $2 billion, over the

next five year period.

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Islamic State...He was replying to a question on the threat

perception of IS in PoK amid media reportsabout the terror outfit's presence in the valley.

Lt Gen Singh said that there were around200 to 225 militants in 36 launch pads acrossthe Pir Panchal range waiting to infiltrate intothe Indian side.

The terror infrastructure across the borderwas intact and training camps were stillactive, he added.

Army today celebrated "Jhangar Day" tocommemorate the sacrifice made byBrigadier Mohd Usman, who was martyredduring the 1947-48 operation in Nousherasector of Rajouri district in Jammu andKashmir.

Brigadier Mohd Usman had played a piv-otal role as commander of 50 ParachuteBrigade during the recapture of Jhangar andthe battle of Noushera, which earned him thetitle of 'Noushera Ka Sher'. He was posthu-mously awarded the "Maha Vir Chakra".

The officer also laid wreath on the WarMemorial and felicitated family members ofmartyred soldiers and interacted with thelocals of Noushera Tehsil who were recentlytreated in Medical and Artificial Limb Camp.

As Amarnath yatra...terrorists, who recently joined the banned

Hizbul Mujahideen terror outfit.It has disappeared from the social network-

ing site but the move has sent alarm bellsringing in the security establishment inJammu and Kashmir, including army andcentral security agencies, since the annualAmarnath pilgrimage began on Wednesday.

The central security agencies have soughtdetails from the social networking site aboutthe Internet Protocol addresses from wherethe photos were uplinked and then deleted,official sources said.

Those in the photograph include ex-consta-ble of Jammu and Kashmir Police Naseer,who ran away with two AK-47 rifles while onguard duty with Altaf Bukhari, a Minister inthe Mufti Sayeed-headed PDP-BJP govern-ment, and Burhan Wani, a resident of Tral,who has emerged as the young face of HizbulMujahideen in the Valley.

The location where the picture was shotseemed to be somewhere in orchards ofShopian or Pulwama in South Kashmir,which has become a fertile ground for recruit-ment of youths into various terrorist outfits.

Innumerable images of Burhan and postsextolling him were uploaded on social net-working sites like Facebook which the secu-rity agencies have got removed but that hasnot erased his popularity.

Young terrorist leaders like Burhan, with anappeal among the youth of the region, arehelping swell the militant ranks, a develop-ment security agencies feel, carry grim por-tents for the Valley.

It is however, still rare for terrorists toupload their photographs on social network-ing sites lest it should facilitate swift actionagainst them by the law enforcement agen-cies.

Islamic State...Ahmad.This is the second week in succession that

Islamic State flag has been waved during arally. Last week, IS flag was waved during aprotest rally at Jamia Masjid in Nowhattaarea of the city.

Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader SyedAli Shah Geelani had asked the youths todesist from waving IS flags during protestrallies as it gives Government of India anopportunity to "defame the indigenous strug-gle" of Kashmiris for right to self-determina-tion.

No intention...ships visiting there.He said he did not have much information

on the status of China's aircraft carrier. It wasin Qindao region for training purpose. In anycase, he said the carrier was not under thejurisdiction of East China Sea Fleet whichwas his area of operation.

Wei said one of his mandates in Shanghaiwas to act as anti-terrorism force and ensurepeace and tranquillity in the region, includingthe area's coastal cities. He said they had notcome under any terrorism-related attack, butthey study such action around the world togain information on how to react. He wasresponding to a question whether they fearedan attack of the kind that happened inMumbai in 2008 when terrorists came inboats from Karachi.

The visiting journalists were taken on a raretour of a guided missile frigate Tonglingdocked at Shanghai and shown its fighting

capabilities, including its anti-submarine andanti-air attack capacity.

Talking of Indian navy's presence in SouthChina Sea, which the country, deems to be itsregion, Wei said that he did not know whatthe "strategic intention" of India was in theregion. Indian ships had entered the sea a fewyears ago when Indian public sector compa-nies were invited to explore oil in Vietnamesewaters.

On Diaoyu islands disputed between Chinaand Japan, Wei said they were "part of" theChinese territory and it was responsibility ofthe navy to protect its "sovereign areas". Hesaid it was "legal for china to patrol the seasaround the island in order to ensure peace".

Dausa car crash...(causing death by negligence not amount-

ing to culpable homicide) in the wee hours,the SHO said.

Hema was proceeding from Mathura viaBharatpur to Jaipur when the mishapoccurred on Agra-Jaipur National Highway-11 near Dausa in Rajasthan around 9 PM yes-terday. The other car, a Alto, was going fromJaipur to Lalsot.

PM to attend ...worked out.”Informing of the PM's itinerary, Navtej

Sarna (MEA Secretary, West), added, “ThePM will be going to Ufa for BRICS after vis-iting two central Asian countries.”

“And on his way back from Ufa, he’ll bevisiting three central Asian countries,” headded.

“The first country the PM will visit on July7 is Uzbekistan. This will be followed byKazakhstan. And then the PM will be goingto Ufa for BRICS,” Sarna said.

“On his way back from BRICS Summit, thePM will go to Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan andTajikistan in that order,” he further elaborat-ed.

MEA officials informed that India had for-mally applied for membership in SCO inSeptember last year and PM Modi had beeninvited by Russian President Vladimir Putinto attend the summit.

“SCO Foreign Ministers met in June inMoscow, and they had a positive recommen-dation regarding India’s membership to theSummit,” Sarna added.

In Turkmenistan, the PM will inauguratethe Centre for traditional medicine and Yoga— which will be the first such centre in thatentire region.

Pakistan, too, has not ruled out a possiblemeeting between Sharif and Modi on thesidelines of the SCO summit.

"No side has contacted the other for a meet-ing so far. However, as you would be aware,in any multilateral setting, meetings amongHeads of State and Government is a normalfeature," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesmanQazi Khalilullah had said on Thursday.

Clashes in Anantnag...office here for filing his passport applica-

tion.Earlier, on June 14, authorities did not

allow Mr Geelani to conduct a seminar inwhich people from different walks of lifewere scheduled to express their views on thetopic 'How to Resist the Indian StateFascism'.

Those invited for the seminar includedAkali Dal leader Simranjit Singh Mann, DalKhalsa leader Kanwarpal Singh, notedhuman rights activist Gautam Navlakha andrepresentatives of the Christian community.

Govt clears...arms and ammunition such as helicopters,

aircraft, radars, bullet proof jackets, bulletproof helmets, ammunition fired fromartillery, tanks, rockets and missiles, mortarbombs, grenades, vessels of war, electronicwar-fare systems, night vision devices, how-itzers, armoured vehicles and UAVs.

Further, it said the government hadincreased the initial validity period of indus-trial licence for defence sector to seven yearsfrom earlier three years, further extendableup to three years, in view of the long gesta-tion period of defence contracts to mature.

The government now expects that thesemeasures will give a boost to the private par-ticipation in the vast opportunities availablefor defence manufacturing in India, it added.

Govt releases ....will form a basis of helping us target groups

for support in terms of policy planning," hetold reporters here.

He said the document will reflect the reali-ty of India and be a very important input forall policymakers both for the central and stategovernments.

This is the first Census released after 1932and contains various details with regard to

specific regions, communities, caste and eco-nomic groups and measures the progress ofthe households in India.

"It is after 7-8 decades that we have thisdocument after 1932 of the caste census. It isalso a document which contains variousdetails ... Who are the ones who have qualita-tively moved up in terms of life, which arethe ones both in terms of geographicalregions, social groupings which in futureplanning needs to be targeted," Jaitley said.

The census survey, which was carried outin all the 640 districts of the country, peggedrural households at 17.91 crore. The totalhouseholds in the country -- rural plus urban-- stand at 24.39 crore.

Of all the rural households, 7.05 crore, or39.39 percent, was termed as 'ExcludedHouseholds' which did not have an income ofover Rs 10,000 per month, or did not owneither an automobile, fishing boat or kisancredit card.

While 5.39 crore (30.10 percent) out oftotal rural households depended on crop cul-tivation for sustenance, 9.16 crore (51.14 per-cent) earned income through manual casuallabour. Some 44.84 lakh worked as domestichelps, 4.08 lakh were rag pickers and 6.68lakh beggars.

"The data addresses the multi dimensional-ity of poverty and provides a unique opportu-nity for a convergent, evidence based plan-ning with a Gram Panchayat as unit," RuralDevelopment Minister Chaudhary BirendraSingh said.

Of all the rural salaried households, 5 per-cent earned salaries from the governmentwhile those employed in the private sectorconstituted 3.57 percent of the total house-holds.

Public sector-employed households madeup 1.11 percent of the total.

The Census said 94 percent of the ruralhouseholds owned a house with 54 percenthaving 1-2 room dwellings.

Landless ownership was 56 percent of thetotal rural population, with 70 percent of SCsand 50 percent of STs being landless owners.

As many as 39 percent of the rural house-holds are classified by the Census as automat-ically excluded and 48.50 percent meetingone or the more deprivation criteria.

Over 11 per cent rural households pos-sessed refrigerators and 20.69 percent hadeither an automobile or a fishing boat.

"The Ministry of Rural Development, inconsultation with states, is trying to imple-ment a convergent, integrated poverty reduc-tion plan with Gram Panchayats and deprivedhouseholds as priority," an official statementsaid.

Prove Your ...it will not dismiss Mrs Swaraj as Foreign

Minister or Ms Raje as Rajasthan ChiefMinister, insisting that neither is guilty ofmoral or legal transgressions. But its stand-off with the Congress over their removalendangers the Prime Minister's reform agen-da - the key proposals it wants parliament toclear include the landmark Goods and SalesTax reform (GST) and a new law for theacquisition of farm land for industry andinfrastructure.

The Opposition's support is necessary forthe government to push through legislation inthe Upper House or the Rajya Sabha, where itis in a minority.

Congress sources said the party has decid-ed that when parliament convenes on the21st, it will not allow the Rajya Sabha tofunction at all unless the Prime Ministermakes a statement on the BJP leaders whofurthered Lalit Modi's case with UK immi-gration officials while he avoided returninghome to face corruption charges.

Other parties have not made it clear if theywill corner the government in parliamentover Mrs Swaraj and Ms Raje. The TrinamoolCongress may push for Mrs Swaraj's dis-missal, said sources. Nitish Kumar's JanataDal United and Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya JantaDal are also reportedly inclined to back thatdemand.

The Congress said that while it will contin-ue to press for changes to the GST proposal,which introduces a nationwide sales tax tocreate a unified market, the party will notoffer any negotiations on the LandAcquisition Bill, which it has denounced as"anti-farmer".

Both reforms were stalled in the last sessionof parliament and sent to committees forreview.

Ratan Tata...India will be a digitised nation," Mr Tata

said in Mumbai at the launch of an initiativeto deepen Internet usage among rural women.

Tata Trusts, chaired by Ratan Tata, has tiedup with Google and Intel to help womenaccess the Internet in large numbers underthis initiative.

"Internet will help educate India, will giveaccess to livelihood to many women who donot have a formal livelihood, help reach outcommerce to far parts of India," he said.

The three-way initiative comes on the heelsof Digital India programme launched onWednesday by Prime Minister Modi, whopitched for a digital revolution in the country.

Mr Modi also exhorted the industry toboost domestic production of electronicdevices, which account for second largestimports, under the 'Make in India' pro-gramme.

Country's top industrial houses havepledged to invest over Rs. 4.5 lakh croreunder 'Digital India'.

Reminiscing how people were forced towait for up to 10 years to get a phone connec-tion during his childhood, Mr Tata said deep-er penetration of the phone has empoweredthe entire population now.

Benefits in terms of finding one's identity,self-respect and access to knowledge becauseof the phone are "unbelievable", he said.

Executives from Google said even thoughgrowth in women users is out-pacing that ofmen in urban areas, women account for onlya tenth of the total rural Internet users.

Under the "Internet Saathi" programme,1,000 specially designed bicycles havingconnected devices will give villagers anexperience of Internet over a period of four tosix months.

The initiative aims to cover 4,500 villagesover the next 18 months, starting withGujarat, Rajasthan and Jharkhand and targetsto reach out to about five lakh women.

Centre allays...Abbas Naqvi told PTI here.The Union Minority Affairs minister, who

was here to attend an Iftar event, said the gov-ernment will also consider including theseIslamic-learning centres in the mainstreameducational system under the Right toEducation Act.

Maharashtra government yesterday saidthat madrasas which do not teach primarysubjects such as English, Maths and Sciencewould be considered as "non-schools" andchildren studying in them as "out of school"students.

However, stating that most such institutionswere doing good work, Naqvi said,"Madrasas are a reality of India."

"We feel that there should be no politics onthe issue of madrasas. We don't see this asvote-bank politics. This issue is related to theempowerment of the Muslim community," headded.

Naqvi, meanwhile, slammed the previousCongress led- government for bringing in theRight to Education (RTE) Act which, he said,does not consider madrasas as educationalinstitutions.

Stressing that the BJP-led government was"committed to inclusive growth", Naqvi said,"We have to take a lenient approach. The pri-ority should be education for all." "TheIndian Constitution guarantees education toall," he added.

Manish Sisodia...from local residents last night."During the Deputy CM's visit, locals nabbed

a person whom they called a drug peddler whosupplied drugs inside the school. Around 18pouches of ganja were recovered from him,"said a Delhi government spokesperson.

The accused was handed over to police, thespokesman said.

Later in the day, Sisodia shared a tweet of oneof government's media advisors "Deputy ChiefMinister Manish Sisodia received a complaintthat some students take drug. Vice principal alsoaccepted this."

However, the government spokesman saidthat as per initial probe, school managementwas not at fault.

ICC's Sledging ...out of the game.In recent times, Warner has borne the brunt of

the world cricket governing body's plan to cleanthe game up, which chief executive DaveRichardson vocalised ahead of this year's WorldCup.

Twice in the past 18 months the left-handerwas fined for comments both on and off thefield: first during the series in South Africa inwhich he inferred a ball tampering offence; andsecond following a confrontation with India'sRohit Sharma during the Australian summer.

"I'm on my last warning from the ICC. Theserules are being clamped down now, they're real-ly honing in on players celebrating wickets andobviously a bit of banter on the field. If youwalk towards a player the umpires are going tofine you, you've got to be smart with what youdo," Warner was quoted as saying bycricket.com.au.

"But ... you want to see that banter out there.You want the play-and-miss, and the bowlercomes down the wicket and gives you a stare. Ifeel that sometimes it could be taking away

from the viewers, that the viewers love that. Youknow that when you get out there the crowd getsinto it, they enjoy that stuff," said the 28-year-old.

Warner also asserted that the nature of theexchanges between players was misrepresented,explaining that the banter was far less sinisterthan perhaps made out in the media.

"I think everyone that is sitting behind the TVscreens has to realise that ... it's not serious.There are no threats or anything out there ... it'sabout producing entertainment for people thatare at home watching," he added.

Dawood sent...end to personally lead the attack.Further details are awaited.

Vyapam scam..."Yes they (STF top officers) had made a rep-

resentation to me regarding some threateningcalls to them like "hum dekh lenge" (will seeyou)...I have forwarded their grievances to theMadhya Pradesh High Court which is monitor-ing the probe into the scam, SpecialInvestigation Team (SIT) chief, Justice (Retd)Chandresh Bhushan told PTI when asked aboutthe issue.

In their representation to the SIT chief, thestate STF's Assistant Inspector General ofPolice Ashish Khare and DeputySuperintendent of Police D S Baghel, who arethe key investigators in the scam, have soughtprotection, stating that they are being houndedby influential persons whom they are prosecut-ing, sources close to the officials said.

"We conveyed our grievances to the SITabout a fortnight back. The SIT will take a callon it," Khare said, without divulging any detailsof their grievances.

According to sources, the two officers havefiled more than 15 chargesheets in the MadhyaPradesh Professional Examination Board(MPPEB) scam, also known as Vyapam scam.

Their plea to the SIT chief assumes signifi-cance in the wake of deaths of 25 accused andwitness in the scam.

The Vyapam scam, that came to light in 2013,is a massive admission and recruitment scandalinvolving politicians, bureaucrats and middle-men. Several politicians, including formerEducation Minister Laxmikant Sharma, a hostof officials and scores of aspirants have beenarrested in the case.

Last week, the SIT probing the scandal hadsubmitted to the MP High Court that 23deceased in the MPPEB scam had died unnatu-ral deaths so far. Some reports have claimed 40such deaths.

The most high-profile death was that ofShailesh Yadav, son of Madhya PradeshGovernor Ram Naresh Yadav. Shailesh, 50, wasfound dead at his father's residence in MallAvenue area in Lucknow on March 25 this year.

Ram Naresh Yadav, also a former chief minis-ter of Uttar Pradesh, was himself made anaccused in the MPPEB scam before gettingrelief from the court.

ABVP protests ...seen climbing trees and compound of the col-

lege while waving ABVP flags. Several policepersonnel were also present at the protest.

A student, who was pursuing a post-doctoralthesis (PhD) in chemistry at the college, hasreportedly alleged in a seven-page complaintthat an assistant professor had harassed her fortwo years.

The victim, belonging to a rural background,was allegedly harassed soon after her coursebegan in 2013, following which her parentsspoke to the professor and to St. Stephens prin-cipal Valson Thampu, but to no avail. The vic-tim has also accused the professor of blockingher monthly stipend.

She also alleged in the First InformationReport (FIR) that the principal made her signdeclarations suppressing the incident, a chargerejected by Thampu.

She had filed a complaint with the DelhiUniversity's grievance redressal cell but, dissat-isfied with the pace of proceedings, she chose tofile a complaint with the police.

1 Held for ...the IOC pipeline which runs from Panipat to

Bhatinda in Punjab.He was arrested late Thursday.Deputy Commissioner of Police Pushpendra

Kumar has described the theft as rare and addedthat they used a Tata Safari and an oil tanker forthe heist.

Efforts are on to nab the remaining culpritswho are on the run.

On June 26, they parked the Tata Safari infront of a roadside restaurant while the tankerwas driven close to the pipeline through anunpaved pathway.

After filling about 12,000 litres of fuel, theyrefilled the pit they had dug with soil. Later theytravelled to Jalandhar to sell the fuel tounscrupulous elements.

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Website: www.saaddahaq.in Email: news.saaddahaq@gmail.com

Following tech giantslike Samsung, LG,Sony, and Apple,

apart from luxuryw a t c h m a k e r s ,noted Japanesedigital watchand calculatormaker Casiohas finallysaid it willjoin thesmartwatchbandwagonnext year.The watchwill belaunched in theUS and Japan inMarch 2016 andwill carry a pricetag around that of theentry-level smartwatch byApple that is starting $349(roughly Rs. 22,100).

As per Casio PresidentKazuhiro Kashio, theupcoming smartwatch willbe aimed at the mass mar-ket, offering comfort anddurability, reports the WallStreet Journal. "A devicethat won't break easily, issimple to put on and feelsgood to wear," Kashio wasquoted to say. The wear-able is also said to be anideal device for usersinvolved in outdoor sports.

The company has saidthat the Casio smartwatchwould come with featuresseen in other smartwatch-es. Notably, the firm

already has launchedwatches that include heartrate monitor and schedule

manager, whichwere not widelypopular. "At timeswe just showed off

with quirky fea-tures and thenpulled thosep r o d u c t swhen theydidn't sellwell," saidKashio.

The firm hasreportedly spentfour years work-ing on the smart-watch and in the

process has rejectedseveral prototypes, whichalso included a bulkyphone-watch hybrid.Kashio added that hewould like the upcomingsmartwatch to reach the$80 million (roughly Rs.507 crores) sales markquickly, and furtherexpand from there.

Swatch too unveiled itsSwatch Touch Zero Onesmartwatch in April thisyear and said it wouldlaunch the product inAugust.

Swatch Chief ExecutiveNick Hayek also said thatthe company plans tolaunch watches with anembedded "near fieldcommunication" chip thissummer.

1. Visakhadatta sketches the event after the death ofSamudragupta in his work

A. MudrarakasamB. Devi Chand GuptamC. MrichekakatikaD. Malavikagnimitra

2. The system of Dual Government during the latter half ofthe 18th century AD is associated with the name of

A. CliveB. ComwallisC. Waren HastingsD. William Bentinck

3. The Vedas contain all the truth was interpreted by

A. Swami VivekanandaB. Swami DayanandaC. Raja Rammohan RoyD. None of the above

QUIZ TIME

Answer: 1(A), 2(A), 3(B)

TODAY’S STARARIES You may be in a difficult position, Aries, as a critical part of a pend-

ing decision. Your first reaction may be to throw up your hands andleave the decision to someone else. Making a choice is too tough,so you find that you'd rather not have to make it at all. Unfortunately,it looks like everyone else has the same idea. Deep down, you havean opinion that needs to be heard.

TAURUS Your self-esteem should be strong these days, Taurus, helping youbuild more confidence in yourself every day. There may be a glitchin the action today, however, as someone with an extreme perspec-tive on things suddenly steps into the picture. Your emotions maysuddenly swing from one end of the spectrum to the other. Do yourbest to stay calm.

GEMINI A ray of sunshine is likely to shine on you, Gemini. Things may have beencloudy lately, making it harder for you to maintain a positive disposition.Today's news will be uplifting, and you will likely be reminded of all the goodtimes in store for you. Others may feel a bit of stress, but you should be ableto see through this and appreciate the benefits of the situation.

CANCER Recent hesitation on your part may have suddenly put you in a bind, Cancer. Itmay feel like you've reached gridlock and your choices are limited. You can nolonger get a solid handle on things. Instead of trying to make a move now, youmay have to wait until the dust settles and you can see clearly again. Let the sit-uation release before you add any more friction.

LEO There are powerful forces operating now, Leo. Whether you realize it or not, youhave tremendous control over the direction of these energies. Take control of thesituation instead of letting someone else do it for you. You will find that other peo-ple are more malleable than usual, making them quite willing to move forward inwhatever direction you point them.

VIRGO If conflict arises in your world, Virgo, you must keep in mind thatthere is no one else to blame except you. Keeping your sights seton one goal is useful as you concentrate all your energy towardthat one thing. At the same time, you may be losing perspective onwhat's going on around you. Make sure you continue to be a teamplayer by keeping an eye out for the people in the wings.

LIBRA Life may seem like a great train ride, Libra. You have yourown little compartment that you're striving to keep comfort-able and neat. The company you keep is important, as isyour proximity to the food car. Be careful that you don't getso wrapped up in your own little world that you neglect topay heed to where the train is headed.

SCORPIO You need to learn an important lesson in follow-through, Scorpio.As you strive for perfection, you may get the feeling that nothing isever fully completed. Try not to be so hard on yourself. The workyou've finished so far is more than likely much better than whatmost people could ever accomplish. Put the final touches on what-ever you're doing and move on.

SAGITTARIUS Most of the time you deal with the facts, Sagittarius. Facts are thingsyou can grasp, categorize, and make rational sense of. Unfortunately,today some of your facts may be challenged by one of the things youfear most - intense emotions. The ensuing friction is like dealing withapples and oranges. You may find it hard to find any common groundfrom which to negotiate.

CAPRICORN You may be hit with some extreme circumstances that causeyou to feel uneasy about continuing along your path, Capricorn.Use this jolt as a reminder that nothing is set in stone. An ele-ment of the unexpected can always creep up on you. Deepdown, you probably had a feeling that this difficult situation wasbound to happen eventually.

AQUARIUS You may feel like you're on a road to adventure and excited aboutthe frontiers you're encountering, Aquarius. Unfortunately, itseems that not everyone is as excited about this path as you are.Blows to your ego are apt to hit hard, but try not to let this deteryou. This is more than likely a result of other people's jealousy ofyour incredible strength and bravery.

PISCES There's a tremendously sensitive side to your personality that's tenderand extremely vulnerable, Pisces. Be careful about putting too muchof yourself out there now. By opening yourself up so much, you're invit-ing in trouble. Others might not be that aware of how sensitive you are.Those with strong, boisterous spirits are likely to be abrasive, so pro-tect your emotions.

Looks like some Android usershave been hit by a battery drainissue on

handsets run-ning Android5.x Lollipopversions.

Reporting theissue on theAndroid IssueTracker site,several Android5.x Lollipopusers say thebattery leveldrops steadilywhen apps startc o n s u m i n gmobile datainstead of Wi-Fi.

The threadincludes com-ments fromusers complain-ing about appssuch as GoogleNow Launcher and Chrome eatingtoo much mobile data.

One of the users reported,"Massive battery drain by mobileradio active. 8 hours of phone idle,total complete idle, not even screenon for a second and it ate 63 percentof battery. 3G was on. Seems prob-

lem disappears when Wi-Fi is turned

on."

Another user said, "Also on MyNexus 5 with Lollipop 5.1 I have thesame issue. Radio mobile active onlyon 3G or LTE. Ok on Wi-Fi."

Notably, the tracker includes com-plaints from non-Nexus device own-

ers as well, including the HTC One,Samsung Galaxy S6, Motorola Moto

X (Gen 2), andHTC OneM8.

Google isyet toa c k n o w l -edge theissue or pro-vide a fix.

It's worthnoting thatthis is not thefirst timeA n d r o i dusers haver e p o r t e dabout bat-tery drainissue as theproblem hasbeen aroundfor sometime now. A

similar bat-tery drain issue

was reported last year as well wheremultiple Nexus 5 owners running thelatest Developer Preview version ofAndroid 5.0 Lollipop reported bat-tery draining bug while on Wi-Fi.Google however last year withoutwasting much time acknowledgedthe battery drain issue and issued afix soon.

Some Android Lollipop Users Affected by'Critical' Battery Drain Issue

Intex has launched theAqua Q5, listing it onits site at a price of Rs.

5,090. So far, there is noannouncement from Intexabout the handset's avail-ability.

The Aqua Q5 supportsdual-SIM (GSM+GSM)and runs Android 4.4.2KitKat out-of-the-box. Itcomes with a 4.5-inch(480x854 pixels) FWVGATFT display. The smart-phone is powered by a1.3GHz quad-coreSpreadtrum (SC7731G)processor coupled with1GB of RAM. The compa-ny listing highlights thatthe smartphone featuresinbuilt automatic callrecorder.

The Intex Aqua Q5comes with 8GB of inbuiltstorage, which is furtherexpandable via microSDcard (up to 32GB). It sportsan 8-megapixel rear cam-era with LED flash, whilethere is a secondary 2-megapixel front-facingcamera also onboard. Onthe connectivity front, theIntex Aqua Q5 offers 3G,GPRS/ EDGE, Wi-Fi

802.11 b/g/n, Micro-USB, and Bluetoothoptions.

The smartphonepacks a 1600mAh bat-tery, which according tothe official listing israted to deliver up to 5hours of talk time, andup to 160 hours ofstandby time. It meas-ures 133x67x8.9mm;weighs 138 grams, andwill be available inWhite colour.

Intex on Thursdaylaunched the Aqua Y4at Rs. 4,190. The dual-SIM based smartphoneruns Android 4.4.2KitKat and comes witha 4.5-inch (480x854pixels) FWVGA IPSdisplay. It is powered bya 1GHz dual-coreMediaTek (MT6572X)processor coupled with512MB of RAM.

Earlier this month,Intex introduced theCloud N IPS, listing iton its site at Rs. 4,350.The new Cloud-seriesbudget smartphone wasalso available to buy viaan e-commerce websiteat Rs. 3,785.

Intex Aqua Q5 With 4.5-InchDisplay Launched at Rs. 5,090

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Casio to Launch FirstSmartwatch in March Astronomers are gearing

up for high-energy fire-works in early 2018

when a stellar remnant the size ofWashington meets one of thebrightest stars in our galaxy.

The cosmic light show willoccur when a pulsar discoveredby Nasa's Fermi Gamma-raySpace Telescope swings by itscompanion star.

Scientists plan a global cam-paign to watch the event from

radio wavelengths to the highest-energy gamma rays detectable.

The pulsar known as J2032 isthe crushed core of a massive starthat exploded as a supernova.

It is a magnetised ball about 12miles across, or about the size ofWashington, weighing almosttwice the Sun's mass and spin-ning seven times a second.

"Two dozen pulsars were dis-covered this way in the first yearof Fermi telescope data alone,

including J2032 that was foundin 2009," said David Thompson,Fermi deputy project scientist atNasa.

The pulsar's rapid spin andstrong magnetic field togetherproduces a lighthouse-like beamdetectable when it sweeps ourway.

"The fireworks expected atclosest approach in three years'time allows us to prepare to studythe system across the entire elec-

tromagnetic spectrum with thelargest telescopes," added BenStappers, professor of astro-physics at the University ofManchester.

The massive star tugging on thepulsar is named MT91 213.

The companion is 15 times themass of the Sun and shines10,000 times brighter.

The paper appeared in the jour-nal Monthly Notices of the RoyalAstronomical Society.

Rare Cosmic Light Show to Grace Our Skies in Early 2018

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Pallekele: Sri Lanka'sDimuth Karunaratne hit acentury amid another richhaul by Pakistani leg-spin-ner Yasir Shah as the deci-sive third and final Testbegan on a rousing note inPallekele on Friday.

The hosts, sent in to batafter Pakistan captainMisbah-ul Haq won thetoss for the third time in arow, stuttered to 272-8 intheir first innings bystumps on the opening day.

Left-handed Karunaratneanchored the innings witha dogged 130, his secondTest century following the152 against New Zealandin Christchurch lastDecember.

Yasir ended the day withfour for 77, taking his tallyin the series to 21 wickets,the most by a Pakistanibowler in a three-Test rub-ber in Sri Lanka.

Yasir enabled Pakistan tokeep the runs in checkdespite conditions favour-ing the batsmen on theevenly-paced pitch afterthe initial moisture on thewicket had dried up underthe hot sun.

The series is locked 1-1after Pakistan won the firstTest by 10 wickets and SriLanka responded with aseven-wicket victory in thesecond match.

Pakistan secured an earlybreak with the wicket ofKaushal Silva, who hadscored 125 in Galle and 80in Colombo.

This time Silva madenine when he was caught

behind off left-arm seamerRahat Ali, who was pickedalongside Ehsan Ali andImran Khan in a new-lookpace attack for thedecider.

The left-handed pair ofKarunaratne and UpulTharanga put on 91 for thesecond wicket on eitherside of lunch to lift thescore to 106 for one, beforethree wickets fell for 31runs.

Tharanga, who replacedKumar Sangakkara for thematch, made 46 when heedged Yasir to slip wherean alert Younis Khan tooka smart catch diving infront.

Lahiru Thirimanne (11)and skipper Angelo

Mathews (three) fell insuccessive overs fromYasir to mistimed drives asSri Lanka slipped to 137-4.

Jehan Mubarak, recalledto the Test side after almosteight years, helpedKarunaratne add 67 for thefifth wicket before he wasstumped off Yasir for 25.

Azhar Ali, who had takentwo wickets with his part-time spin bowling in 43previous Tests, doubled histally with the wickets ofKarunaratne andDhammika Prasad off suc-cessive balls.

Karunaratne wasstumped as he attempted abig heave and Prasad holedout to Yasir at deep square-leg to reduce Sri Lanka to

248-7.Dinesh Chandimal was

leg-before to Rahat for 24,leaving Tharindu Kaushal(17) and Suranga Lakmal(one) unbeaten at stumps.

Both sides made fourchanges each for thedecider with Pakistanbringing in batsman ShanMasood along with thefresh pace attack.

Pace spearhead WahabRiaz was sidelined with afractured hand, andMohammad Hafeez wasnot available since he hasto be tested after beingreported for a suspectaction in the firstTest.

Left-arm seamer JunaidKhan and spinner Zulfiqar

Babar were dropped.With Sangakkara opting

out of the decider and bats-man KithuruwanVithanage showing poorform, Sri Lanka recalledtwo left-handers inTharanga and 34-year-oldMubarak.

Mubarak played the lastof his 10 Tests inDecember, 2007 -- beforeany of his current team-mates had made theirdebut.

The hosts also left outveteran left-arm spinnerRangana Herath andinjured fast bowlerDushmantha Chameera tobring in seamers SurangaLakmal and NuwanPradeep to partner Prasad.

Third Test: Ton-up Dimuth Karunaratne,Four-Star Yasir Shah Light Up Day 1

LONDONEngland cricket team

director Andrew Strauss isconvinced Alastair Cook isthe best man to leadEngland into the Ashes,and said he will give theskipper no guaranteebeyond this series.

Former England captainStrauss got a baptism byfire as the new director ofEngland cricket when hesacked coach Peter Mooresand closed the door onbatsman Kevin Pietersenwithin his first week of tak-ing office.

Now, Strauss has againemphasised that sentimentwill play no part in bigdecision-making by refus-ing to back his old openingpartner to prolong his cap-taincy after what will be athird Ashes series incharge.

"I said at the start of thesummer that Alastair Cook

was very much the man totake English Test cricketforward. He’s had twomatches and batted andcaptained well. So myopinion hasn’t changed,"Strauss was quoted as say-ing by dailymail.co.uk onThursday.

"But none of us knowswhat the future holds andwhat will happen over the

next five Tests. It would bewrong to speculate on whathappens after this seriesbut at the moment he’svery much the right man."

For now, Strauss believesCook, 30, will head toCardiff for next week’sfirst Test ready to take on aformidable Australian side.

"He's incredibly motivat-ed by this series and from a

personal and team levelthis is a very importantseries for him. He enters itin a better frame of mindthan he has for some time,"the 38-year-old, whoscored 7,037 runs in 100Test matches for Englandbefore retiring in 2012,said.

Strauss is now relishinghis new role but admitsthose early days which sawhim having to sackPietersen on the day hescored a Championshiptriple hundred for Surrey,were tough.

"I wasn’t rushing hometo check Twitter, put it thatway. But I honestly felt itwas important to clear theway and give people asmuch clarity as possible asto what was going to hap-pen,” Strausss, who scored4,205 runs in 127 One-DayInternationals (ODIs), con-cluded.

Alastair Cook best suited to leadEngland in Ashes: Andrew Strauss

LONDONThe untroubled advance

of the heavy hitters atWimbledon was spectacu-larly halted on Thursdaywhen twice champion RafaNadal was bundled out byGerman qualifier DustinBrown who played thematch of his life.

Roger Federer, AndyMurray and Petra Kvitovaall cruised into the thirdround with straight-setsvictories as the tournamentmeandered serenelythrough its fourth balmyday.

But the calm was shat-tered by the final match onCentre Court when Brown,a man until now bestknown for his unconven-tional approach and dread-locks, brought back memo-ries of the golden summerWimbledon evenings ofwooden rackets as he com-bined relentless powerwith brave and ambitiouscreativity.

Brown came out swing-ing and even when Nadaldug deep to level the matchat one set all he did nothold back, going for hisshots and harrying hisillustrious opponent atevery opportunity.

Along with the powerthere was finesse whichhad the Centre Courtcrowd roaring theirapproval and Brown rattledthrough the final set tosecure a fully deserved vic-tory.

"You have to play your Agame against him," saidBrown, who also beat

Nadal in their only previ-ous meeting in Halle lastyear.

"I'm fortunate I playedhim twice on grass, whichis my favourite surface -- Iwouldn't want to play himanywhere else. My gamemakes him not play hisgame. He doesn't get in arhythm."

Defeat continued Nadal'swretched run atWimbledon since he lostthe 2011 final to NovakDjokovic.

In successive years hehas lost to players ranked100, 135, 144 and now 102without getting past thefourth round -- a stunningdecline for the 14-timesgrand slam winner who tri-umphed atWimbledon in2008 and 2010 and hasbeen runner-up threetimes.

"My motivation is to beback to that level but Idon't know if I can," 10thseed Nadal said.

"But I've played on thelast day here five days andhad the trophy back hometwice, so it's not bad."

The day's explosive

finale was in marked con-trast to the early matcheswhich went exactly toform.

Murray led the way bypolishing off DutchmanRobin Haase 6-1 6-1 6-4 in87 minutes with barely amisplaced shot.

"In grand slams you haveto try to conserve energywhen you can reallybecause the two weeks canbe quite draining physical-ly and mentally," Murraytold reporters.

Federer was equallyuntroubled in a 6-4 6-2 6-2mauling of American SamQuerrey.

Seeking a record eighthWimbledon singles title,the Swiss was on cruisecontrol from the off.

On one rare occasionwhen he did find himselfout of position he managedto manufacture a lob frombetween his legs thatclimbed over his 6ft 6ins(1.98m) opponent.

"So far so good," Federersaid. "Sometimes the feel-ing is good out there andtoday was definitely agood day.

Rafael Nadal Loss to Dustin BrownSends Shockwaves Round Wimbledon

ANTWERPIndia will face one of their toughest

tests in defence when they square offagainst the marauding Belgians inwhat promises to be a robust semifi-nal clash of the FIH Hockey WorldLeague Semifinal here onFriday.(India in Semis)

The encounter will test the abilityof India's defence to guard againstthe Belgian strikers, who have tastedenormous success in the past coupleof years to boost their world rankingto No. 4 -- the highest in their hockeyhistory.

Ranked No. 9 in the world, Indiafaces a formidable side that hasenjoyed a slight edge in their recentencounters since the 2011Champions Challenge final inJohannesburg.

The Belgian players have, in fact,made giant strides in internationalhockey.(Pakistan's Olympic ChancesHurt)

Starting with the victory in theChampions Challenge that earnedBelgium their maiden entry in theelite Champions Trophy, the RedLions have emerged victorious intheir fixtures against India in the2012 Olympic Games and the 2014

World Cup.India have managed to overcome

the Belgian challenge in successiveChampions Trophy encounters inMelbourne and Bhubaneswar.

"Playing Belgium suits our game.Belgium play a structured game andwe're ready for this contest," saidIndia coach Paul van Ass, bracing totake on the higher-ranked Belgium.

Van Ass said his team usuallyfound Asian teams to be tougherrivals. It was evident yesterday when

India were made to work hard for the3-2 victory by the nippy Malaysianrivals.

It was only two late penalty cornergoals from youngster Jasjit Singhthat turned the tide in India's favourin the contest played in soaring heat.

"I thought I was playing an after-noon game during the Indian sum-mer," said captain Sardar Singh,pleased to have earned a place in theWorld League Finals that India willhost later this year.

Hockey World League Semifinal: India Eager to Tame Attacking Belgians

NEW DELHIHalf centuries by open-

ers Suzie Bates and RachelPriest and their 125-runopening partnership car-ried New Zealand to acomfortable six-wicketwin over India for a 2-1lead in their five-matchwomen's One-DayInternational (ODI) serieshere on Friday.

Skipper Bates (59, 87b,7x4) and Priest 64 (101b,7x4, 1x6), after surviving afew close calls early intheir respective knocks,waded through the Indianattack to set up the victoryas the Kiwis overhauledthe home team's total of182 for nine.

India put up a seeminglychallenging total as skipperMithali Raj (30), VedaKrishnamurthy (61, 85b,6x4) who batted with con-fidence and panache, and

Deepti Sharma (22) heldthe innings together.

Krishnamurthy andSharma were involved in a71-run stand for the fifth

wicket before the Kiwischecked the progress,although a small cameo byNiranjana Nanjappa (12 offseven balls) took India past

the 180-run mark.However, the target

proved grossly inadequateas Bates and Priest madelight of the Indian bowling

with their century-strongopening partnership toeffectively seal the issue.Although the hostsgrabbed a couple of quickwickets, the Kiwis werenot to be denied.

New Zealand, thus,staged a fine comebackafter losing the series open-er to win the next twogames for a 2-1 advantage.The fourth match is sched-uled for Monday and theseries will conclude onWednesday before theteams play three T20games.

Brief scores:India 182 for 9 in 50

overs (Mithali Raj 30,Veda Krishnamurthy 61,Deepti Sharma 22, SophieDevine 3 for 30) lost toNew Zealand 186 for 4 in45.4 overs (Suzie Bates 59,Rachel Priest 62, AmySatterhwaite 22)

New Zealand Women ThrashIndia to Take 2-1 Series LeadLONDON

Australia`s controversialNick Kyrgios andFrenchman RichardGasquet set-up aWimbledon last-16 clashafter knocking out lastyear`s semi-finalists MilosRaonic and GrigorDimitrov on Friday.

Kyrgios, who famouslydefeated Rafael Nadal in2014 when he was ranked144 in the world, avengedhis quarter-final loss of 12months ago to Raonic witha 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (7/3), 6-3third round victory overthe seventh seed. The 20-year-old Kyrgios hit 34aces and blasted 61 win-ners. "I lost my focus a bittowards the end of the firstset, but I knew what mygame plan was and I stuckto it. I toughed it out,"Kyrgios said.

"Last year I tried to hittoo many winners off hisserve. This time I went tothe chipped approach and

it worked."Kyrgios faces another

rematch in the fourth roundagainst Gasquet after beat-ing the Frenchman in adramatic five-setter in thesecond round last year.

"Last year I came fromtwo sets down against him,but he is a savvy veteranand beat Dimitrov instraight sets today so hemust be playing well," saidthe 26th seeded Australian.

Gasquet, a semi-finalist

in 2007 and seeded 21 thisyear, beat 11th seededDimitrov 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.

Dimitrov had defeated2013 champion AndyMurray on his way to thesemi-finals last year, butFriday`s defeat extended adisappointing Grand Slamseason for the 24-year-oldBulgarian who was beatenin the fourth round at theAustralian Open before afirst round exit at RolandGarros.

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Imagine you could sleep the nightaway and wake up next morningwith prettier and fresher skin.

Well, it turns out that could be adream come true - but with a littlehelp called "night-time beauty rou-tine".

We've all heard about how sleep isimportant for the overall functioningof our body. In fact we're all testimo-ny to why sleep is important. Look atthe amount of stress you've accumu-lated, your face says it all. A full 8hours of sleep is what is the need ofthe hour to keep the body fit, happyand healthy. As it turns out, the 8-hour sleep formula has a similareffect on the skin. Just as we settledown to sleep, the skin is waking upfor a busy night of repair jobs- dam-age repair, cell renewal/regeneration,and of course prepping for the nextday's battle.

"While you sleep, the skin is work-ing its hardest to repair itself," saysTeresa Stenzel, the director of educa-tion for Bioelements. So to lessen theburden and optimize the repairing, itis advised to take care of your skinwith a good night care routine beforehitting the bed. But how?

It is common knowledge that goingto bed without washing your face isbad for the skin, but it's not clear as towhat else should be followed afterthat.

Should we scrub? Put a face pack?When should we put on the eyecream? Can we simply apply anextra layer of lotion at night?Argghhhh....

In order to fight that frustration andbring light to what constitutes a legitnight-time skin care routine, wespoke to Dr. Jamuna Pai, India's lead-ing skin expert.

How important is a night-time skincare routine?

At night your skin is naturallyregenerating, repairing and restoringitself. Rejuvenation is at its peak ascell turnover increases at night whichmakes the night-time beauty routinean extremely indispensable part ofskin care.

How do we create a night-time rou-tine?

- Cleanse your face: During thecourse of the day, your skin collectsexcess sebum (oil), dead skin cellsand pollution. Not to mention make-up. A cleanser helps emulsify all ofthese and remove them from the sur-face of your skin.

- Ensure all makeup has come off:Sleeping with your make-up onblocks the natural exfoliatingprocess, which can leave your skinlooking dull. Clogged pores causedby stale make-up can lead to oily skinand occasional break outs.Understandably, late nights maycause you to go to bed withoutremoving your make-up once in awhile. But it is extremely important

to follow a strict cleansing routine ona regular basis. For the eyes, an oil-based eye make-up remover used ona cotton swab is the most effectiveand it is a fool proof way to ensurethat there isn't an unsightly residueleft over the next morning.

- A repair agent essential for nightregime: Start night repair as early aspossible because the younger youstart, the longer you delay the onsetof ageing. While the differencebetween the cell turnover rate in yourteens to the time you are in yourfifties is large, there are still waysyou can speed up the turnover rate asyou age. It is vital that your nightcream has Retinol, Retinyl Palmitateand Peptides. The rest of the ingredi-ents can depend on your existing skincondition and the problem area youwant to target.

- Layer it with a moisturiser/nightcream: While the active ingredientswork wonderfully on your skin asyou sleep, it can leave your skin dry.To prevent this, use a moisturiser or a

night cream before you retire for theday. This will help repair your skin aswell as hydrate it.

What is the crucial difference in aday-time and night-time skin careroutine?

Morning and day care is about pro-tecting and defending your skin fromthe environment you are subjecting itto. While night care is about rejuve-nating your skin and reversing thedamage done to it during the day. Inother words, if day care is aboutdefence, night care is about attack.

Cleansing, exfoliating, moisturiz-ing and sun protection are a must in aday-time skincare regime. The firststep after morning wash is the appli-cation of protective ingredients like -sunblock, antioxidants or AHA. Thenmoisturize after the sunblock.

While for night care - cleansing ismost important, repair agent is anoth-er essential part and then moisturis-er/night cream.

What night-time skin care productshould I use?

To help boost collagen productionand promote skin elasticity, a nightcream might contain various colla-gen-stimulating proteins such as soyprotein, advanced peptide complexessuch as Matrixyl 3000 and strongantioxidants such as VitaminA/Retinol.

It is vital that your night cream hasRetinol, Retinyl Palmitate and thetrendy new kid on the block,Peptides. The rest of the ingredientscan depend on your existing skincondition and the problem area youwant to target. For example, if youwant to sort out your pigmentationproblems, maybe you could choose anight cream with Kojic Acid. So yourchosen brand will now have Retinol,Retinyl Palmitate, Peptides and KojicAcid in it.

Intensive hydration is a must fornight creams.

What does your personal night-time beauty routine look like?

My night routine is as follows:- I cleanse eye make-up with eye

makeup remover. Soak the cottonpad, place it over the eye round, holdfor 5 seconds, wipe the lashes down-wards. Then turn the cotton woolaround and wipe the upper and lowereyelid margin. Repeat the same forthe other eye.

- I follow with face wash and patdry

- This is followed by application ofa repair cream. I use a combination ofazelaic acid, glycerin, arbutin, retinylpalmitate, citric acid, ascorbic acidand allantoin. I do a mix and match attimes. From these, I feel the retinylpalmitate works the best.

- Finally I top it up with a richmoisturising cream.

Any beauty product you swear by?

Adhering to medical ethics, I can-not endorse a beauty product, but ifyou ask me one active ingredientbeing used a lot today which I swearby is retinol. This one ingredient canhelp regenerate and repair the skinbeautifully. (It should be used undermedical supervision)

What is the most fascinating beau-ty routine you've ever heard?

"Dracula therapy", the names itselfsuggests why I include it in one of themost fascinating beauty treatments.But it is a treatment to rejuvenate theskin. It is known as Platelet rich plas-ma therapy where the plasma, rich ingrowth factors, is separated from theblood cells and is infused back in theskin.

In many skin clinics, it is used as anadd-on with the facial therapy afterthe micro-needling of the skin. In ourclinics, I prefer to use this exclusivetreatment not along with facials butas a stand alone

Any routine you've borrowed fromgrandma's kitchen?

I have inherited dry skin from myfather's side of family so right fromchildhood a ritual that I follow iscoconut oil massage regularly. Ithelps my skin remain hydrated andsupple. I make a pack mixing a pinchof turmeric powder with few drops ofhoney and 2 tsp of fresh cream(malai). Apply this on my face andneck for 15 minutes and rinse it offwith cold water. It instantly rejuve-nates my skin.

What would be your words ofbeau-dom for those who are yet toexperience the outcome of a night-time beauty routine.

"For those who do not follow anight skin care routine, I wouldadvice that even if you aren't lookingfor an anti-ageing solution, night careis still one of the easiest and bestthings you can do for your skin."

Beauty routine you should be following, but aren't

Moonligh tp r o d u c -tion pres-

ents yet anotherinteresting story of agirl named lilly whohailed from a smalltown and wanna getrich, successful overnight. But,will sheor won't she? Staytuned, promos to outsoon. Samira Raza,in main lead withsupporting castReet, Roopa,Sahiba, Akankshaand Gagan DeepSingh. Param ofMoonlight produc-tions is very hopeful that this small budget entertainer will do big in the industry.

This small budget entertainer willdo big in the industry: Param MLP

Sunny Leone is back as thehost of reality showSplitsvilla. The B-town

beauty will be seen anchoring theeight season of the popular realityshow along with popular televisionhost-turned-actor RannvijaySingha. While the Splitsvilla isknown to court controversies, thistime time the show has alreadygrabbed headlines even beforegoing on air. Apparently, ParasChhabra who won the last seasonand is back this year as a celebritycontestant, has irked Ms Leone bigtime. How, you ask? Well, theSplitsvilla 8 contestant came a bittoo strong on the Ek Paheli Leelaactress during the shooting of theshow. Obviously, Sunny wasn’thappy with Mr Chabbra’s behav-

iour and asked the makers of theshow to take care of the matter.

While talking to a leadingtabloid, a source said, “SinceSunny Leone is one of the hosts onthe show, she has to interact withall the contestants. During theshoot, Paras has been trying toimpress her with one liners andsilly jokes. Initially, she did notreact to it. When it went out ofcontrol, she had a word with themakers.”

That’s the not all! Reportedly,Paras wasn’t called at the showlaunch because of the same reason.However, when the tabloid con-tacted the Paras, he rubbished allthe reports and maintained that hecouldn’t make to the launch eventdue to health reasons.

SHOCKING: Sexy Sunny Leone facedharassment on Splitsvilla 8!Shahid Kapoor is get-

ting married on July7 in a private cere-

mony in Delhi.BollywoodLife told youthat speculations are rifeabout Shahid’s to-be wife,Mira Rajput debuting onJhalak Dikhhla Jaa 8.Considering Shahid ishosting for the first timeand the show beginningjust after his wedding July11, it would be the perfectplatform to introduce MrsKapoor to his fans. Whilean official statement onthis is yet to come. Theshow’s host, Manish PaulEXCLUSIVELY revealedto us about Mira’s visit onthe show. Yes that’sright!

On being quizzed aboutthe show’s new judge’swife, Manish said, “We aregoing to drag her (Mira) tothe show. She has to comeand we’ll try our best to gether! In fact, if she doesn’tcome we’ll go to Shahid’shouse and get her.”

Whoa! In that case, lookslike Mira has no choice but

to come on Jhalak. Oh-my-God! This news has onlyupped our interest evenmore. Imagine Shahid andMira in one frame. Or thenthe newly weds performingto a romantic number onstage. Can’t wait right?We’re sure that will be areal casting coup for thechannel as well.

Shahid Kapoor HAS to get Mira Rajput onJhalak Dikhhla Jaa 8, demands Manish Paul!