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D elhi Police officers and legal experts are burning the midnight oil to pre- pare a voluminous 1,000-page chargesheet against the rapists of the 23-year-old para- medical student. The draft is ready and it is being supplemented with irrefutable evidences against the six rapists. The chargesheet is expected to be filed before the court of Namrita Agarwal, the Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) at Saket Courts, on January 3, 2013. The court is closed from January 4 to January 6. Therefore, it is expected that the magistrate will summon all the six accused and frame the charges on January 7. The day-to-day trial will the next day. After the victim succumbed to her injuries at Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore on the wee hours of Saturday, the FIR registered at Vasant Vihar was converted into robbery, rape and murder. The draft of the chargesheet was then altered and is now ready. Top sources in the Delhi Police said on Monday that 30 witnesses have been cited to stand testimony in this most grue- some gang-rape ever reported in the national capital. A team of 19 well versed officers under the command of the DCP, South, Chhaya Sharma, has been working round the clock to gather material, circum- stantial and corroborative evidences backed by a strong chargesheet. Sharma is also the head of the SIT formed by the Ministry of Home Affairs to investigate the most horrendous case. Sources said that the Deli Police would ask for hang- ing of the accused under the rarest of rare category. The five accused that are above the age of 18 years will be charged under Section 302 (murder), 376 for Rape, 1977 for sodomy and 394 for robbery and 201 for destruction of evidence and could be given death penalty. Police have also sought the court’s permission to get Ossification test done to ascertain the age of the sixth accused, who is claiming to be a minor. Minor was also involved in raping the hapless and it was he who inflicted critical wounds on her that led to her death. Cops said they will appeal the court to have a re-look in this case and punish this juvenile who had surpassed all the limits. Continued on Page 4 Y ears have ended on a grim note earlier too. But it is rare for a year to conclude on a note of unrelenting grimness as 2012 has. Even apart from the heart- rending tragedy that over- whelmed the country for the last fortnight of the year, there was very little to cheer about 2012. The Government lurched from one crisis to another, slipped on banana peels with unfailing certainty. The economy showed no signs of recovery; India’s growth rate plummeted to a low not seen in recent years. Inflation mounted steadily, fuelled mostly by sharp increas- es in petroleum product prices, while the common man was forced to reconcile to the ceil- ing on subsidised LPG cylin- ders and shell out a hefty price for acquiring them beyond the unreasonably low bar. Politically, the year was again marred by a succession of corruption scandals, a proces- sion led by the revelation that arbitrary allotment of coal blocks had resulted in a rev- enue loss of 1.86 lakh crore, just a year after the telecom scandal had caused a loss of a comparable 1.76 lakh crore. The Prime Minister con- tinued to be “missing in action”, while his party’s heir apparent was invisible through every crisis big and small. In other words, India had to cope with a lacklustre authority at the helm and State Governments too, barring a few, wobbled without any sense of direction. The Government’s attempt at sugar-coating this bitter pill by announcing the shift to Direct Cash Transfer of BPL subsidies has not brought the kind of frenzied accolades the Congress might have expected. Thus, 2013 will begin on a note of indecision and uncer- tainty. With Anna Hazare’s appeal fading, his makeshift organisation wrecked by a split in its ranks, and the breakaway Kejriwal group’s shoot-and- scoot attacks on the integrity of the political class also unable to generate the same mass enthu- siasm as we saw in the summer of 2011, the glimmer of hope for a systemic change that was vis- ible then has all but dissipated. But the defining image of 2012 will be the brutal gang- rape and horrendous assault of a 23-year-old woman para- medicine student, eventually leading to her death two days before the gloomy year ended. In its wake we also witnessed a massive eruption of unorganised, leaderless protest which, in turn, caused the police to use severe strong- arm measures against peaceful protesters. The near-uprising in Delhi sent ripples across the country, with people across India demanding tougher laws and their prompt implementation to deter mounting crimes against women in our nation. This epitomised the reali- ty that India is now in the cusp of history, with an old world unable to die and a new yet to be born. Marxist revolutionaries of the last century often said that force would act as midwife to an old world pregnant with a new one. But in a participative and vocal democracy like ours force has no place, as even Maoist barbarians will be com- pelled to realise. When a country undergoes gigantic change in all spheres and rising aspirations of an empowered middle class demand appropriate alterations to India’s social, economic and political structures, many hith- erto sacrosanct certainties must be cast aside. Violent revolutions often determined this course of change in Western societies through which new certainties replaced the old. Since India has eschewed the path of violence, social disruptions that we are currently witnessing are bound to recur. The people have spoken. Now it is for the Establishment i.e. the political class, legisla- tures, administration, judicia- ry and other organs of the State to respond appropriately. Colonial era laws, for example, have no place in a 21st Century India. Continued on Page 4 D eath of the Delhi gang-rape victim has added to clamour for harsher punishment to rapists. Both the BJP and Congress have pro- posed chemical castration as one of the pos- sible punishments. The BJP also mooted abol- ishing mercy petitions in rape cases and reit- erated the demands for capital punishment and convening a special session of Parliament to enact related law. “The culprits be hanged and the Government should not accept any mercy peti- tion in such cases. If this can be done then this will be the only respect to that victim,” Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said here on Monday. She rued that the UPA Government granted pardon to convicts in five cases of rape-and-murder. Swaraj’s Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun Jaitley felt it was high time when “lawmakers should come together to make a strong law against such crimes”. It appears, he rued, that people have failed the test of civility. In Kochi, former BJP chief M Venkaiah Naidu said, “There should be a maximum pun- ishment to rapists, death penalty or emascu- lation (chemical castration of the rapist)”. Naidu also heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home, which recently grilled Delhi Police in the gang-rape case. Congress spokesperson Renuka Chowdhury said that chemical castration, death penalty and making compulsory regis- tration of sexual offenders are measures being considered by the party. Women party MPs made a number of suggestions at a meeting called by AICC general secretary incharge of women affairs Mohsina Kidwai to prevent recurrence of such a heinous crime. Meanwhile, the Government on Monday dismissed the BJP’s demand for convening a special session of Parliament with Finance Minister P Chidambaram saying that session would be called only after receiving the Justice JS Verma Committee report on making rape laws stringent. It has also clarified that the deci- sion to hold an all-party meeting, as being demanded by the Opposition, will be taken only after receiving the report of the three- member panel. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde is writing letters to all political parties to seek their suggestions on the issue of changing the law related to rape cases. Shinde will ask parties to send their sug- gestion to the Justice JS Verma Committee that will recommend measures for speedier justice and enhanced punishment in cases of aggra- vated sexual assault. Continued on Page 4 A cautious UPA Government has decided to launch its “game changer” direct cash transfer in a phased manner. Announcing the direct cash transfer (DCT) in the Capital on Monday, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the scheme will be rolled out in a phased manner, where the benefits of seven central schemes will be directly credited into the bank accounts of beneficiaries across 20 districts from January 1. However, the Government has decided to hold back the “complex” transfer of food, fertiliser and fuel subsidies for the time being. Seven schemes in 20 districts will be covered from New Year Day , then the scheme will be rolled out across 11 more dis- tricts from February 1 and 12 more districts from March 1. In total, in the next two months, the scheme will impact 200,000 beneficiaries in 43 districts. Continued on Page 4 E ven as nations around the world ring in the New Year with fanfare and celebrations, India is in mourning. The tragic death of the 23- year-old gang-rape victim has made people across the coun- try, particularly Delhi, somber as everyone is ruing the irreparable loss to the family of the feisty girl. President Pranab Mukherjee led the nation in grieving the loss of the girl by deciding not to take part in New Year celebrations or receive greetings in person. This is Mukherje’s first New Year Day in Rashtrapati Bhavan since his election to the highest post last year. “In view of the recent trag- ic event leading to the loss of a young girl, the President has decided not to take part in any celebration of the New Year. The President has also decided not to receive any greetings in person,” said president’s Press Secretary Venu Rajamony. In an act of solidarity with the victim and her family, many people, organizations and clubs across the country and Delhi decided to refrain from New Year parties and many. functions were either cancelled, or scaled down. Loud music, free-flowing liquor and youngsters flocking the inner circle of Connaught Place in droves with their car horns and music blaring were a rare sight this time, as all thoughts were with the family of the girl in their hour of grief. Not only Delhiites, but sev- eral arms of the Union Government cancelled their celebrations. The Indian Army cancelled all official celebrations and South Eastern and Eastern Railways also did the same. That the whole country is united in its grief over the loss of the braveheart was reflected by the fact that Punjab and Haryana also put state functions on hold. Not just this, political parties also joined the common man in expressing grief and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi declared that she would not be celebrating the advent of 2013. Continued on Page 4 A 19-year-old boy com- mitted suicide at his res- idence in New Manglapuri near Chhatarpur in South Delhi, and another one attempted to kill himself, after they were apprehended by the police for harassing two girls and passing lewd comments on them. Chandrakant, 19, hanged himself on December 25, a day after he was rounded up by the Mehrauli Police on the com- plaint of a girl. “Aaj ke baad kisi ko bhi mujhse koi pareshani nahi hogi (After this, no one would be troubled because of me),” read the suicide note left by Chandrakant. The boy’s family alleged that he was unduly “harassed and insulted” by the police. Continued on Page 4

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Delhi Police officers and legal expertsare burning the midnight oil to pre-

pare a voluminous 1,000-page chargesheetagainst the rapists of the 23-year-old para-medical student. The draft is ready andit is being supplemented with irrefutableevidences against the six rapists. Thechargesheet is expected to be filed beforethe court of Namrita Agarwal, theMetropolitan Magistrate (MM) at SaketCourts, on January 3, 2013.

The court is closed from January 4 toJanuary 6. Therefore, it is expected thatthe magistrate will summon all the sixaccused and frame the charges on January7. The day-to-day trial will the next day.

After the victim succumbed to herinjuries at Mount Elizabeth hospital inSingapore on the wee hours of Saturday,the FIR registered at Vasant Vihar wasconverted into robbery, rape and murder.The draft of the chargesheet was thenaltered and is now ready.

Top sources in the Delhi Police saidon Monday that 30 witnesses have beencited to stand testimony in this most grue-some gang-rape ever reported in thenational capital.

A team of 19 well versed officersunder the command of the DCP, South,Chhaya Sharma, has been working roundthe clock to gather material, circum-stantial and corroborative evidencesbacked by a strong chargesheet. Sharmais also the head of the SIT formed by theMinistry of Home Affairs to investigatethe most horrendous case. Sources saidthat the Deli Police would ask for hang-ing of the accused under the rarest of rare category.

The five accused that are above theage of 18 years will be charged underSection 302 (murder), 376 for Rape, 1977

for sodomy and 394 for robbery and 201for destruction of evidence and could begiven death penalty.

Police have also sought the court’spermission to get Ossification test doneto ascertain the age of the sixth accused,who is claiming to be a minor. Minor wasalso involved in raping the hapless and itwas he who inflicted critical wounds onher that led to her death.

Cops said they will appeal the courtto have a re-look in this case and punishthis juvenile who had surpassed all the limits.

Continued on Page 4

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Years have ended on a grimnote earlier too. But it is

rare for a year to conclude ona note of unrelenting grimnessas 2012 has.

Even apart from the heart-rending tragedy that over-whelmed the country for the last fortnight of the year,there was very little to cheerabout 2012.

The Government lurchedfrom one crisis to another,slipped on banana peels withunfailing certainty.

The economy showed nosigns of recovery; India’sgrowth rate plummeted to alow not seen in recent years.Inflation mounted steadily,fuelled mostly by sharp increas-es in petroleum product prices,while the common man wasforced to reconcile to the ceil-

ing on subsidised LPG cylin-ders and shell out a hefty pricefor acquiring them beyond theunreasonably low bar.

Politically, the year wasagain marred by a succession ofcorruption scandals, a proces-sion led by the revelation thatarbitrary allotment of coalblocks had resulted in a rev-enue loss of �1.86 lakh crore,just a year after the telecomscandal had caused a loss of acomparable �1.76 lakh crore.

The Prime Minister con-tinued to be “missing in action”,while his party’s heir apparentwas invisible through everycrisis big and small.

In other words, India hadto cope with a lacklustreauthority at the helm and StateGovernments too, barring afew, wobbled without any senseof direction.

The Government’s attempt

at sugar-coating this bitter pillby announcing the shift toDirect Cash Transfer of BPLsubsidies has not brought thekind of frenzied accolades theCongress might have expected.

Thus, 2013 will begin on anote of indecision and uncer-

tainty. With Anna Hazare’sappeal fading, his makeshiftorganisation wrecked by a splitin its ranks, and the breakawayKejriwal group’s shoot-and-scoot attacks on the integrity ofthe political class also unable togenerate the same mass enthu-

siasm as we saw in the summerof 2011, the glimmer of hope fora systemic change that was vis-ible then has all but dissipated.

But the defining image of2012 will be the brutal gang-rape and horrendous assault ofa 23-year-old woman para-medicine student, eventuallyleading to her death two daysbefore the gloomy year ended.

In its wake we also witnessed a massive eruption ofunorganised, leaderless protestwhich, in turn, caused the police to use severe strong-

arm measures against peaceful protesters.

The near-uprising in Delhisent ripples across the country,with people across Indiademanding tougher laws andtheir prompt implementationto deter mounting crimesagainst women in our nation.

This epitomised the reali-ty that India is now in the cuspof history, with an old worldunable to die and a new yet tobe born.

Marxist revolutionaries ofthe last century often said thatforce would act as midwife toan old world pregnant with anew one. But in a participativeand vocal democracy like oursforce has no place, as evenMaoist barbarians will be com-pelled to realise.

When a country undergoesgigantic change in all spheresand rising aspirations of an

empowered middle classdemand appropriate alterationsto India’s social, economic andpolitical structures, many hith-erto sacrosanct certainties mustbe cast aside.

Violent revolutions oftendetermined this course ofchange in Western societiesthrough which new certaintiesreplaced the old.

Since India has eschewedthe path of violence, socialdisruptions that we are currently witnessing are boundto recur.

The people have spoken.Now it is for the Establishmenti.e. the political class, legisla-tures, administration, judicia-ry and other organs of the Stateto respond appropriately.

Colonial era laws, forexample, have no place in a 21stCentury India.

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Death of the Delhi gang-rape victim hasadded to clamour for harsher punishment

to rapists. Both the BJP and Congress have pro-posed chemical castration as one of the pos-sible punishments. The BJP also mooted abol-ishing mercy petitions in rape cases and reit-erated the demands for capital punishment andconvening a special session of Parliament toenact related law.

“The culprits be hanged and theGovernment should not accept any mercy peti-tion in such cases. If this can be done then thiswill be the only respect to that victim,” Leaderof the Opposition in the Lok Sabha SushmaSwaraj said here on Monday. She rued that theUPA Government granted pardon to convictsin five cases of rape-and-murder.

Swaraj’s Rajya Sabha counterpart ArunJaitley felt it was high time when “lawmakersshould come together to make a strong lawagainst such crimes”. It appears, he rued, that

people have failed the test of civility. In Kochi, former BJP chief M Venkaiah

Naidu said, “There should be a maximum pun-ishment to rapists, death penalty or emascu-lation (chemical castration of the rapist)”. Naidualso heads the Parliamentary StandingCommittee on Home, which recently grilled

Delhi Police in the gang-rape case. Congress spokesperson Renuka

Chowdhury said that chemical castration,death penalty and making compulsory regis-tration of sexual offenders are measures beingconsidered by the party. Women party MPsmade a number of suggestions at a meetingcalled by AICC general secretary incharge ofwomen affairs Mohsina Kidwai to preventrecurrence of such a heinous crime.

Meanwhile, the Government on Mondaydismissed the BJP’s demand for convening aspecial session of Parliament with FinanceMinister P Chidambaram saying that sessionwould be called only after receiving the JusticeJS Verma Committee report on making rapelaws stringent. It has also clarified that the deci-sion to hold an all-party meeting, as beingdemanded by the Opposition, will be takenonly after receiving the report of the three-member panel.

Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde iswriting letters to all political parties to seek theirsuggestions on the issue of changing the lawrelated to rape cases.

Shinde will ask parties to send their sug-gestion to the Justice JS Verma Committee thatwill recommend measures for speedier justiceand enhanced punishment in cases of aggra-vated sexual assault.

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Acautious UPA Government has decidedto launch its “game changer” direct cash

transfer in a phased manner. Announcing the direct cash transfer

(DCT) in the Capital on Monday, FinanceMinister P Chidambaram said the schemewill be rolled out in a phased manner, wherethe benefits of seven central schemes will bedirectly credited into the bank accounts ofbeneficiaries across 20 districts fromJanuary 1.

However, the Government has decidedto hold back the “complex” transfer of food,fertiliser and fuel subsidies for the time being.

Seven schemes in 20 districts will becovered from New Year Day , then thescheme will be rolled out across 11 more dis-tricts from February 1 and 12 more districtsfrom March 1.

In total, in the next two months, thescheme will impact 200,000 beneficiaries in43 districts.

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Even as nations around theworld ring in the New Year

with fanfare and celebrations,India is in mourning.

The tragic death of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim hasmade people across the coun-try, particularly Delhi, somberas everyone is ruing theirreparable loss to the family ofthe feisty girl.

President PranabMukherjee led the nation ingrieving the loss of the girl bydeciding not to take part inNew Year celebrations orreceive greetings in person.

This is Mukherje’s firstNew Year Day in Rashtrapati

Bhavan since his election to thehighest post last year.

“In view of the recent trag-ic event leading to the loss of ayoung girl, the President hasdecided not to take part in anycelebration of the New Year.The President has also decidednot to receive any greetings inperson,” said president’s PressSecretary Venu Rajamony.

In an act of solidarity withthe victim and her family,many people, organizationsand clubs across the countryand Delhi decided to refrainfrom New Year parties andmany. functions were eithercancelled, or scaled down.

Loud music, free-flowingliquor and youngsters flockingthe inner circle of ConnaughtPlace in droves with their car

horns and music blaring werea rare sight this time, as allthoughts were with the familyof the girl in their hour of grief.

Not only Delhiites, but sev-eral arms of the UnionGovernment cancelled theircelebrations. The Indian Armycancelled all official celebrationsand South Eastern and EasternRailways also did the same.

That the whole country isunited in its grief over the lossof the braveheart was reflectedby the fact that Punjab andHaryana also put state functionson hold. Not just this, politicalparties also joined the commonman in expressing grief andCongress chief Sonia Gandhideclared that she would not becelebrating the advent of 2013.

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A19-year-old boy com-mitted suicide at his res-

idence in New Manglapurinear Chhatarpur in SouthDelhi, and another oneattempted to kill himself,after they were apprehendedby the police for harassingtwo girls and passing lewdcomments on them.

Chandrakant, 19, hangedhimself on December 25, a dayafter he was rounded up by theMehrauli Police on the com-plaint of a girl. “Aaj ke baad kisiko bhi mujhse koi pareshaninahi hogi (After this, no onewould be troubled because ofme),” read the suicide note leftby Chandrakant.

The boy’s family allegedthat he was unduly “harassedand insulted” by the police.

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Despite a 35,000-km roadnetwork, Delhi remains

chaotic. Crawling, grindingtraffic is a common site day inand day out. The whoppinggrowth in car sales, shoddyroad management and myopicplanning has meant that thecity is bursting at the seams asit tries to contain more than 80lakh cars.

There is rampantencroachment which also addsto congestion. Significant por-tions of carriageways are takenover either by roadside vendorsor vehicles left on the roadhaphazardly. Regardless of tallclaims by Delhi Traffic Policeand the Public WorkDepartment who say they haveimproved the traffic scenarioand road engineering, condi-tions remains abysmal.

With no future planningand enforcement of law, thingsare getting worse despite thefact that the Metro carries aconsiderable proportion of

commuters. Projects like the Kalindi

Kunj bypass, ITO flyover pro-ject and BRT corridor betweenAmebedkar Nagar and DelhiGate are glaring examples ofpoor planning.

Similarly, the BRT corridorbetween Ambedkar Nagar andDelhi Gate too has reflectedpoor planning and execution.The corridor has become anightmare for motorists on the

stretch. The ITO flyover is perpet-

ually in a conceptual stage. Theflyover at Azad Market wasconceived in 2002 and is stillunder construction. The fly-over was constructed yearsback to reduce traffic burdenon the stretch but it hasbecome a bane instead. TheWestern PeripheralExpressway and EasternPeripheral Expressway were

conceived to decongestDelhi’s road in 2006 and partsof it are either under con-struction or on paper.

In these 30 years, Delhi’svehicle stock has increased 51times. Ten flyovers betweenAshram Crossing and DhaulaKuan woefully fall short ofkeeping the traffic movingalong the Ring Road.

Flyovers at Modi Mills,Mayapuri, Rao Tula RamMarg, Azadpur, Seelampurand many others have decon-gested one intersection butescalated problems at the nextone. Others split the trafficand merge the same at the end

of the flyover. Delhi might have the most

extensive road network at 21per cent of its geographical areabut it is saturated and chokedwith vehicles. Of 170 trafficlocations surveyed by RITES,about 70 locations were foundto be carrying more vehiclesthan their design capacity.Studies are made, trouble areasare identified but no resolutionis found.

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Public transport system in the national Capitalis in a pitiable state. The lack of a safe and eco-

nomical public transport has left the city clam-ouring for answers on the evolution of its trans-port system over the years and the gross inabili-ty to match the needs of a burgeoning population.

Urban mobility and transport experts opinethat Delhi fares poorly on the hallmarks of a goodpublic transport system — accessibility, afford-ability, reliability and last mile connectivity - whichare almost absent in the city.

The lacklustre publictransport system is respon-sible for the reluctance ofthe growing population toswitch from private modesof travel to the non-reliablepublic transport despiterampant fuel price hikesand high parking charges.It is estimated that around1,000 private vehicles getregistered in the city every-day even as the StateGovernment tries hard towean commuters off theirvehicles. As a result, the city at present is hometo 80 lakh registered vehicles.

Due to the poor transport policy, Delhi has notbeen able to overhaul its bus system, which still fer-ries over 60 per cent of the city’s population.According to Supreme Court’s order in the year 2001,the city should have 11,000 buses as per the needsof the population. However, 10 years on, Delhi onlyhas about 6,000 operational buses till date - 5,500DTC and 400 buses under the cluster bus scheme.And the population is manifolds more than what itwas in 2001.

An example of the shoddy policy and deci-sion making is the cluster bus scheme, which waslaunched by the Government to replace the ‘killer’Blueline buses after they claimed over 100 livesin a single year. Since the year 2007 in which itwas launched, the cluster bus scheme has failedto fill the void. Thus leading to insufficiency ofbuses, private and unsafe modes of transport suchas chartered buses thrive. It was one such bus inwhich the heinous gang-rape was committed send-ing shock waves across the country.

The condition of other modes of public trans-port such as auto rickshaws, taxis, Grameen Sewasis equally pathetic. The autos and taxis of the cityare not just notorious for fleecing people as pertheir whims and fancies but they are also unsafefor women commuters during late hours.

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Regardless of having severalGovernment-run hospitals,

suitable treatment to commonman is not guaranteed in Delhi.Death in absence of propermedical attention inGovernment hospitals is com-mon news for most. Death offive accident victims atShushrut Trauma Centre due toa malfunctioning oxygen plantfiasco is the most glaring tes-timony to the callous approachof hospital administrations andhealth officials.

Delhi has big CentralGovernment-run hospitals likeAIIMS, Dr RML andSafdarjung. Apart from this, itoperates over 35 hospitalsincluding two homeopathymedical centres and anAyurvedic-Unani facility.

But shortage of doctors,medical equipments, beds,medicines and unhealthy sur-roundings, make almost all ofthese medical institutions inneed of urgent attention. It isnot that the Government is not

aware of the fact; it wakeswhenever any untoward inci-dent takes places. Ceremonialstatements are made. Enquirypanels are set up but theground reality remains as it is.

Queues at OPDs areunending and patients keepcamping in corridors for daysto be attended by doctors.Even here, the ones who havecontacts in the ‘higher-ups’are luckier than others. Thereare three occupants to eachbed. Blood banks are unable tomeet the demand. If a patientneeds a simple ultrasound, hehas to wait for months. And ontop of that, over-burdened doc-tors misbehave with patients, tobe précised, they misbehave.One has to use contacts to gettreatment and due attention.

Government provides landto private hospitals at a con-fessional rate with a conditionto provide free treatment topeople belonging economical-ly weaker section. However, inthe absence of conviction andenforcement, poor are notreceived here too.

Scarcity of water is not something new. TheGovernment knows the fact but no concrete

solution has been provided. Every year in summer,taps of hundred of households go dry in severalparts of the city. There are several colonies, whichreceive short supply of water through out the year.The usual and standard reply of the Delhi Jal Board— having the responsibility of supplying potablewater — is that the said locality is situated at thetail end and as pressure is low, it fails to get ade-quate quantity of water. But the Board barely evertries to resolve this issue.

Every year, water supply in the Capital isseverely affected due to rise of pollutants in Yamunaon multiple occasions as supply is curtailed butno preparation is done or matter is discussed andresolved. Blame is put on Haryana, which isaccused of being unable to put a check on indus-tries which allow industrial waste directly flowinginto the river. All these mismanagement add toDelhi’s water woes. The city’s water demand in peaksummer months reaches 1,150 million gallons aday, however 835 million gallons a day is availableafter all resources are tapped into.

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With mounting pressure on thejudiciary, only 435 judges are

posted in various courts in theCapital and they have to tackle6,72,361 pending cases in additionto the ones that comes in daily.Further, a mere 200 public prose-cutors are available to assist thecourt in those matters.

Amidst demands of trials to besped up, legal experts have rec-ommended that more judges andpublic prosecutors be appointed incity courts for early disposal ofcases. Additional Solicitor GeneralIndira Jaisingh said, “Public pros-ecutor plays a vital role in point-ing out the offence committed byaccused and to assist court on thefacts of the case.”

“If a prosecutor takes a leave forshort duration, it become tough to

search for a replacement to standbefore court and handle the casesmoothly for that duration as thatproxy prosecutor is invariably busyin his own work,” a Governmentlawyer said adding that lack of pros-ecutors in a city is one of the reasonscases drag on for years and years.

According to data released on

October, a total of 6,72,361 casesare pending in six district courtsof Delhi. A total of 17,501 includ-ing 963 rapes cases, 1,359 murdercases, 5,409 electricity disputecases,665 NDPS cases, 21 CBIcases and 1,088 anti-corruptioncases are pending in various ses-sions court. 77,703 cases includingtrademark dispute, matrimonialdispute arbitration and concilia-tion are pending in before variousdistrict judges while 77,269 trafficcases are still to reach their con-clusion. The highest number ofcases are pending before magis-trate and evening courts. A total of3,09,237 cases are pending beforevarious magisterial courts while1,16,516 cases are dragging on inevening court. 63,389 cases arepending in civil courts while10,746 cases relating to rent dis-pute are facing pendency in trialcourts of capital.

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Having a roof over the head is still a far off dreamfor many in Delhi. Despite having paid the

money to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA),thousands are yet to get a decent accommodation.

Several have been struggling due to irregular-ities and delay in allotment for years.

The DDA had allotted plots in Sector 29, 30and 32 of Rohini in the year 2003. The allottes ofthese plots have made almost 85 per cent of the pay-ment to the DDA. 12 years on, they are yet to builda house of their own. With the DDA yet to pro-vide basic infrastructure like road, water, sewer-age connection and electricity, the allottes of theseplots have failed in getting their building plansapproved by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.Despite having made the payments and gettingphysical possession from the DDA, these allottesare yet to build their own house in Delhi.

While the allottes of 2003 having got the phys-ical possession, those of 2009 are still waiting forthe same. Despite intervention of the court, the pro-ject has missed all deadlines. While the DDA hadcommitted to the Delhi High Court that the pos-session of 16,000 plots will be made by May 2013,it has sought an extension till September 2013 inthe Supreme Court. With the DDA missing all itsdeadline in the past, the allottes feel that the houseof their own is still a far off dream.

The tale of those aspiring to have a house oftheir own in Delhi does not end here. For thosewho have got the possession of their homes, mak-ing it livable is again a next to impossible task. TheDDA had allotted flats in Dwarka, Rohini andMukherjee Nagar earlier this year. While the yearhas come to an end, the owners of these flats arestruggling to make their houses livable.

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While steep power tariff hikeof about 26 per cent has

burnt holes in Delhiites’ pockets,there is no improvement of ser-vice quality. Prolonged power cutshave remained a regular feature.The peak demand for power inDelhi this year crossed 5,500MW. While Delhiites continuedto pay the hiked power tariffs, thediscoms failed to meet thedemand for power in the Capital.All the demands of the residentbodies fell on deaf ears of theGovernment.

It’s easy to get a power con-nection in Delhi, but rectifying awrong bill is a Herculean task.After increase in power tariff inJune, the electricity bills haveincreased by more than 100 per

cent. With grievances piling up,discoms first want the consumersto pay the outstanding and thendemand a bill correction, forcingpeople to pay at the hiked rate.

Despite various resident bod-ies claim that the discoms aremaking huge profits, the DelhiElectricity Regulatory Commis-sion went ahead in favour of the

discoms increasing tariffs. WhileNDMC has not asked for any tar-iff revision, BSES, BYPL andNDPL have succeeded in con-vincing the DERC that they aremaking losses and hike tariffs.

The DERC is well aware ofthe fact that peak hour powerpurchase prices have been con-stantly falling since 2009.

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Getting admitted their wards in goodschool is another challenging task in

the Capital. Parents spend sleepless nightsfor their children when the process of nurs-ery admission begins. Despite fulfilling cri-teria, several have to pay huge amount asdonation. If reports are to be believed, oneneeds to shell out �15 lakhs for an admis-sion in reputed public school in the city.

All this is due to Government’s failureto provide quality education in its schools.Despite making tall promises to bring theirschool at par with public school, themunicipal corporations have failed not onlyto achieve it but also to provide basicamenities to the students. Large numberstudents still sit on the floor as procurementof new desks has been delayed.

Blame it on bureaucratic mismanage-ment or political inefficiency when chillywinter holds grip on the entire Capital, about10 lakh students in over 1,700 schools areyet to receive �500 meant for buyingwoolen uniforms. Usually, students aregiven the money by October. The allowanceof �120 per student for buying school bagshas also not been given. Shortage of teach-ers has only compounded their problems.

Seven years after the erstwhileMunicipal Corporation of Delhi intro-duced computer education in its curriculumby investing close to �50 crore, the computerlabs in 1300-odd municipal schools are non-functional. For the last two years, the civicagency is struggling to re-start the project.

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Recent gang-rape of 23-year-old paramedical student in

the moving bus on December 16exposed the weak and poorpolicing management in theCapital. Though, Delhi Policehas around 83,762 personnel,only 30 per cent of their staff isactually available for generalpolicing. However, a large num-ber of personnel are under VIPssecurity arrangement.

Ten per cent of world’sbiggest metropolitan police forcewith sanctioned strength of83,762 personnel are postedwith around 416 VIPs to protectthem. “The city has 11 districtsand the overall sanctionedstrength is 36,593 personnel or3,326 per district. On theground, the availability of per-sonnel is even less. The NewDelhi district has 341 police per-sonnel in each of its sevenpolice stations while the onelargest jurisdiction district suchas outer district has 278 cops ineach of its 11 police stations,” asenior police official said on thecondition of anonymity.

The statistics of Delhi Policeshow that the around 8,500 VIPsfrom across India and the world

visit Delhi, whose security is alsothe Delhi police’s responsibility.However, the shocking fact is thatthe after providing security to theVIPs, prominent celebrity on adaily basis, finally only onepoliceman is available to protectaround 495 Delhiites.

After the brutal gang-rapeincident in Vasant Vihar area, thedemand of augmentation of thePolice Control Room vans onroads are obvious. Visibility ofmen in khaki on roads at night isalso need of the hours. But thequestion is under these circum-stances, how can these limitednumbers of policemen protect acommon man. The answer is withhigher authorities.

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A23-year-old youth allegedlykilled a 20-year-old girl working

with a Noida-based BPO after sherefused his marriage proposal, inNew Ashok Nagar area on Mondayevening. After chasing the accusedDevender for around 200 metres,police nabbed him from the spot.Another youth who was with the girlwas injured severely.

Preliminary investigationrevealed that the accused Devenderwas following the girl — Neha Yadavsince 10 am and had tried to attackher at Hira Sweets in Krishna Nagarnear Bangla Sahib Gurudwara. Hefinally waylaid her near New AshokNagar.

Police said that accusedDevender lived in the same colonyas Neha in Rajveer Colony, MayurVihar Phase III in East Delhi. Theaccused is a private cab driver andknew the victim for the last twoyears.

Police said that the incidentoccurred around 4.50 pm onMonday when the Neha and herfriend Gaurav were returning fromEDM Mall in Anand Vihar in anAlto car. Gaurav worked in thesame company and was Neha’s

team leader. They were intercept-ed by the accused Devender neartimber market in Dallupura Village.Gaurav came out from his car andhad an argument with theDevender. Neha also came out ofthe car and suddenly, accusedDevender attacked Gaurav withhis helmet and whipped out aknife and stabbed him. Gauravran to the nearby police post for aid.

“The accused started abusingNeha before stabbing her in thestomach. He attacked the victim atleast three times in the abdomen andthighs. As the woman collapsed, theaccused tried to flee leaving his

motorbike behind,” the officer added.Police said that by then, Gaurav

had come back with police consta-ble Surender Sharma who began tochase the accused. A bystanderhelped the cop nab the attacker. “Thevictims were taken to Lal BahadurShashtri Hospital where the girl wasdeclared brought-dead. Gaurav isrecuperating,” an official said.

During interrogation, Devendertold the police that he had fallen inlove with Neha and wanted to marryher. But her family had turned himdown and she also refused his mar-riage proposal. She was also ignor-ing him for the past 25 days.

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Police on Monday arrested the teenagedbrother of the 16-year-old girl who was

allegedly molested by an off-duty conductor ina moving DTC cluster bus at Tansen Marg inNew Delhi, for allegedly raping her six monthago. The police said that girl, while recordingher statement, disclosed that her brother,Nazakat Ali (19) has molested her and sexual-ly assaulted her six month ago.

It also comes to light days after a 23-year-old girl was gang-raped in a moving bus in southDelhi a fortnight ago. She also told us that herbrother had raped her six months ago and wasmolesting her thereafter. We have arrested theboy,” the police said.

The girl’s tragic story came to light whenpolice reached her residence in west Delhi’sKhyala on Saturaday to record her statementduring which she disclosed that facts that herfather had married thrice and they were livingwith his third wife. She claimed that there wereproblems and harassment in the family.

The girl had run away from her house fol-lowing harassment by her family and wasmolestated by an off-duty conductor, RanjitSingh. The conductor was arrested later. OnSaturday night, the girl had left her house ataround 9:30 pm and when the bus reachedMandi House at around 11 pm, police person-nel noticed the girl inside the bus alone crying.Family has lodged a case of kidnapping after girlwent missing.

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Delhi bid a chilly adieu to2012 on Monday as the

mercury went as low as 5degrees Celsius for the firsttime this season. The maximumtemperature on Monday wasalso recorded at the lowest of theseason at 13.3 degree Celsius.

Cold northern windscaused the temperature to go tothe all-time low of this season.The weatherman forecast theminimum temperature to bearound five degree Celsius tillJanuary 2.

Low temperatures coupledwith fog wreaked havoc on theair and rail traffic schedules.Low visibility procedures (LVP)were implemented at the air-port at 7.15 am and 10.10 am.Due to thin fog, over 20 flightswere cancelled and more than40 were delayed. About 24trains are running late fromtwo to 38 hours includingBhagalpur Garib Rath, BVaishali Express and PunjabMail. Railway authority hasrescheduled 14 trains and can-celled 13 trains.

The cold north-westerlyand westerly winds kept thetemperature at the all time lowof the season on Monday in thecity. The maximum temperaturewas recorded at seven degreesbelow normal and the mini-mum at two degrees below thenormal temperature recorded atthis time of the year.

“The night temperatureswill fall further and the mini-mum temperature will not riseabove five degrees for the nexttwo days,” said the Airport

Met Director RK Jenamani.A thick layer of fog is also

expected to envelope the cityfrom late Monday night to thewee hours of the New Year thatwill be continued for the nexttwo days. Some respite fromcold is expected only fromJanuary 3 onwards when thedirection of the wind is expect-ed to change.

“Easterly winds will blowinto the city from January 3which will lead to a marginal

rise in the temperature,” said ascientist of the RegionalMeteorological Office. The daytemperature will increase thenwhile the night temperaturewill continue to fall. The weath-erman also said that a newWestern Disturbance isapproaching India on January3.“While this will lead to snow-fall and rainfall in theHimalayas, the temperature ofthe plains will rise by a degreeor two,” added the scientist.

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Grief-stricken protesters onMonday continued their

agitation at Jantar Mantaragainst violence on women, aday after the city’s gang-rapevictim was cremated underheavy security.

Despite a significant dip inthe mercury, public, particu-larly students and women,reached the venue in largenumber. Besides pressing forspeedy trial and conviction ofall six accused, mourners haveurged the Government to enactstrict legislation against rapeand other crimes. Two peopleare sitting on a hunger strike atthe spot.

“I’m on hunger strike forthe past three days. I will con-tinue my fast until fast-trackcourts come up to hear cases ofsexual harassment,” saidBabusingh Ram, one of them.The All India StudentsAssociation (AISA) also carriedout a march with least 1,000

members in Connaught Place.Delhi Police have announced aban on motor traffic in andaround Connaught Place from

7 pm on Monday on the occa-sion of New Year’s Eve.

Meanwhile, three DelhiMetro Stations -- Rajiv Chowk,

Barakhamba Road and PatelChowk were closed at 7.30pm on Monday. Commuterswere not allowed to enter orleave the three stations fromthat time due to securityrestrictions related to New Yearcelebrations, a metro officialsaid.

Earlier in the day, trafficrestrictions imposed near IndiaGate and Raisina Hill to con-tain protests over the gang-rapewere eased even as protestscontinued in the capital.

Vehicular movement wasallowed on Central Vista ofIndia Gate as well as cross traf-fic on Rajpath. Metro stations,which were yet to be reopened,were also opened for the pub-lic. Police had imposed a lock-down at India Gate and RaisinaHill following violent protestsagainst the gang-rape incident.Though traffic was allowed onMonday, a large number ofpolice personnel was deployedon approach roads to IndiaGate and Raisina Hill.

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Once again pressing for a spe-cial session of Parliament to

strengthen the law related tocrimes against women, BJP hasdemanded that there should beno provision for convicts sen-tenced to death in rape cases tofile a mercy petition.

Attacking the Congress-led UPA Government, leader ofOpposition in Lok SabhaSushma Swaraj also questionedthe ‘secrecy’ in the cremation ofthe 23-year-old girl, who wasgang-raped in a moving bus onDecember 16.

Referring to five cases ofrape-cum-murder in whichthe UPA Government hadallowed the mercy pleas of theconvicts to change the deathsentence to life imprisonment,she said, “The culprits behanged and the Governmentshould not accept any mercypetitions in such cases. If thiscan be done then this will bethe only respect to that victim”.

Speaking at a condolencemeet for the 23-year-old Delhigang-rape victim organised byDelhi BJP, Swaraj said that2013 should be used tostrengthen all laws related tocrimes against women and thataction would be the real trib-ute to the young gang-rape vic-

tim who died on Saturday. “Our party has announced

that we will not celebrate theNew Year. But not celebratingwill not be enough. This year2013 should be dedicated forthe safety of women. Even ifthey Government don’t call aspecial session, the BudgetSession should be used foramending all laws for protect-ing women,” she added.

Categorising the crimes as‘cruel, brutal, barbaric or beast-ly’, the Leader of Opposition inRajya Sabha Arun Jaitely saidthe gang-rape of the girl couldnot be described in these termsand said it appeared that ‘wehave failed the test of civility’.

“Crimes are sometimes cat-egorised as cruel, then brutal,then barbaric and then beast-ly. But in this case all these fourwords will fall short of describ-ing the crime that has takenplace. The parameters of agood civilisation are measuredby the condition of women andthe behaviour that is beingmeted out to them in thatcivilisation. It seems we havefailed the test of civility,” hesaid. Also present in the meet-ing were senior BJP leadersRam Lal and ShahnawazHussain including Delhi BJPpresident Vijender Gupta andseveral others.

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Noting that rounding up and sterilisation ofcanines was not yielding the desired results,

the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC)is now planning to start on-spot sterilisation ofstreet dogs. Chairman, Health Committee of NMCDr Sanjeev Nayyar said: “The mortality rate is veryhigh if there is any lapse in treatment. Therefore,we need to modernise our system to control theproblem. The current practice is bit complicatedand time consuming. We can introduce new sur-gical methods to conduct on-spot sterilisation”.

Currently, sterilisation of canines is beingdone by NGOs who run sterilisation centers at

different locations across the Capital. Stray dogsare picked by the Corporation staff members ina van and taken to the centers for sterlisation,before dropping them back to the place fromwhere they were picked from. “The system hasfailed to deliver desired results. This year, only2,368 stray dogs were sent to the centers of forsterilisation. The civic body would now createits own infrastructure to reduce the rate of repro-duction of canines,” Nayyar added.

Nayyar told the the Standing Committee thatthe introduction of laser operation techniquewould help in conducting on-spot operation andthe canines would not be required to be kept atthe sterilisation centers post operation.

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New Delhi: The Delhi government has on Monday announceda financial assistance of Rs 15 lakh to the next of kin of the23-year-old gangrape victim and offered a job to a family mem-ber of the girl, who died on Saturday. The decisions were takenat a Cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister SheilaDikshit. The decision has been taken by effecting relaxationin rules. Chief Minister’s office in a statement said, “Keepingin view the extreme exceptional circumstances and barbaricnature of the crime, the Cabinet decided to sanction an amountof 15 lakh to the surviving members of the victim. The deci-sion has been taken by effecting relaxation in rules”. SR

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The Delhi Police has arrest-ed an army personnel and

his associate — middle manwho were involved in illegalsale of Indian made foreignliquor meant for armed forces.252 bottles of different brands—Mc Dowels, Contessa andBagpiper were recovered fromtheir possession. Police havealso impounded two cars,including an army ambassadorcar used for supplying of ille-gal alcohol.

Police said that the accusedhave been identified as ChandiRam Sharma and Anil KumarSharma. They were bookedunder Section 33 of the DelhiExcise Act, 2009.

Accused Chandi Ram,posted with TransportDepartment of Army as driverand after their arrest, now thecase is being examined by theArmy officials to find out the

origin and chain of supply. "In the last week of

December month, policereceived a tip off that a illegalalcohol supplier would be com-ing near Mother TeresaCrescent road, near RashtrapatiBhavan with some cartoons ofillegal alcohol, supposed to bedistributed indifferent parts ofDelhi to their customers," asenior police officer said.

Police acting on a tip-off,police laid a trap and on theinstances of their informers,they stopped a HyundaiAccent. "They arrested theaccused - Anil Kumar Sharmaand after examination of thecar, police seized around 108bottles of illegal alcohol," theofficer added.

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Deepak Mohan Spolia, a1979-batch IAS officer, on

Monday took charge of ChiefSecretary of DelhiGovernment. 57-year-oldSpolia has succeeded

Praveen Kumar Tripathi,who retired on December 31.

DM Spolia, an IAS officerof AGMUT cadre, was hold-ing charge of principal secre-tary, Finance and Planning.Tripathi has been given thecharge of Chairman of thePublic GrievanceCommission after his retire-ment. Spolia is consideredclose to chief minister SheilaDikshit and outgoing chiefsecretary PK Tripathi.

Spolia has been instru-mental in defending theSheila Dikshit Governmentand preparing replies to CAGand VK Shunglu committee'sadverse report against theState Government.

He has been served asDevelopment Commissioner,Principal Secretary, Land ftBuilding and PrincipalSecretary of Irrigation and

Flood Control in DelhiGovernment.

Spolia was behind distrib-uting provisional regularisationcertificate to 1200 unauthorisedcolonies ahead of 2008 assem-bly polls in Delhi, which helpedthe ruling

Congress Government tocreate a history in winning theelections thrice in the nation-al Capital.

On Monday, Delhi Cabinetplaced on record its apprecia-tion for the outstanding workand the contribution made bythe outgoing Chief Secretarytowards providing betterGovernance in Delhi.

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Awomen helpline number -181 — set up by the Delhi

Government to address thegrievances of women in distressreceived more than 1300 callson Monday, the first day itmade functional.

According to a senior offi-cial of Delhi Government, total17 calls were actual calls withvarious complaints, however,1,300 calls were to check thestatus of the helpline launchedby the Government.

While informing aboutnature of calls, an official saidone of the family wanted tolodge complaint about theirmissing girl. "One of the callssaid their girl has eloped witha boy and they wanted to lodgecomplaint. However, a womanwanted that her husband betraced who has run away withanother women," he added.

The helpline launched with

great fanfare by the Delhi ChiefMinister Sheila Dikshit afterbrutal gang rape of 23 years oldgirl in moving bus onDecember 16. The helplinenumber remained non-opera-tional for first few hours onMonday. Callers were greetedby a long beep sound in themorning however it becameoperation by the evening.

Officials said that the

helpline could not be madefunctional due to some glitch-es in the MTNL network.

"The helpline, which willoperate from the ChiefMinister's office in DelhiSecretariat, can be contactedfrom landlines as well as mobilephones," he added.

However, official claimedthat the helpline started func-tioning normal after initialhours, once the glitches wereremoved from the telecom ser-vice provider network.

The Telecom ministry hadlast week released the three-digit number following arequest by Dikshit. It will be thefirst three-digit number tohave been allotted by theMinistry in two years.

The Ministry had earlierallotted '167' for the helplinebut upon request for a numberthat would be easier to remem-ber, the number was changedto '181'.

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From Page 1Two of the accused —

Mukesh and Akshay Singh,alias Thakur — have under-gone the test identificationparade while the others accept-ed charge and refused to do so.Both Mukesh and AkshaySingh, alias Thakur, were iden-tified by the male friend (28-year-old software engineer) ofthe victim who was present inthe bus when she was subju-gated and subjected to a beast-ly rape. Her friend was alsosmashed with iron road by theaccused when he tried to savehis friend.

The Delhi Police hasappointed Supreme Courtlawyer Dayan Krishnan as theSpecial Pubic Prosecutor, hewill be assisted by two juniors.Krishnan has been represent-ing NIA, Delhi Police and

other agencies at various courtsin many cases including theNitish Katara murder case.

It may be recalled that theDelhi Police had initially reg-istered an FIR at Vasant Viharpolice station against the sixaccused persons namely; RamSingh, the bus driver, hisyounger brother Mukesh, veg-etable seller Pavan Gupta,Vinay Sharma, a gym assistantat Asiad Police gym and Raju.

Police case is backed bysolid forensic evidence. TheMedico Legal Case (MLC) pre-pared by the doctors of AIIMSTrauma centre is self explana-tory in nature.

The hapless girl had suf-fered very serious injuries, inher abdomen, pelvic region,cervix, internal organs, andintestines were extensivelydamaged.

From Page 1Despite demands by Delhi

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshitand Bihar Chief Minister NitishKumar, the Government hasdecided not to cover food sub-sidy under cash transfer asmany chief ministers, likeChhattisgarh's Raman Singhare opposed to it.

Chidambaram said thatthe subsidies for food, fertiliz-er, diesel, LPG and kerosenewill not be brought under DBTat present as entitlements aremore complex.

Initially the benefit of sevencentral schemes -post matricscholarships for SC, STs andOBCs, Indira Gandhi MatrutvaSahayata Yojana,Dhanalakshmi scheme andstipend scheme for SC, ST jobseekers-will be directly credit-ed into the bank accounts ofbeneficiaries across 20 districtsfrom January 1, he said. Thescheme will be rolled out in thewhole country by the end of2013.

Explaining why the earliertimeline of launching thescheme in all 43 districts fromJanuary 1 was changed,Chidambaram said, "We areproceeding with a great degreeof caution. We will look attransferring all subsidies andbenefits through this schemebut we have to do it slowly. Weare not going to rush into any-thing and then find that thesystem cannot cope with it.

"This (DBT) is indeed agame-changer for governance,

the manner in which we gov-ern. This is a game-changer inwhich we account for money.It is a game changer in themanner in which the benefitreaches the beneficiary withoutany intermediation by anyhuman being."

However, he parried ques-tions about the Congress hop-ing to get political mileagefrom the scheme during theLok Sabha polls and evenavoided using the slogan"Aapka paisa apake hath"coined by his colleague JairamRamesh during a briefing at theAICC headquarters earlier.

When asked about the slo-gan repeatedly, he said the slo-gan was apt as it could beunderstood by everyoneincluding a non-Hindi speak-ing person like him.

According to theGovernment, the scheme willnot only stop leakages andcorruption but also lead tofinancial inclusion for the poorwho will be able to get theirbank account opened. But itwill not be a substitute for thedelivery of public service.

Chidambaram, however,appealed that the schemeshould not be judged immedi-ately and its impact should beseen over a longer period oftime before terming it as suc-cess or failure.s

Chidambaram said thatinitial glitches may happenduring operationalisation, buta monitoring mechanism is inplace to resolve them.

From Page 1"He was fine till Monday

(December 24) evening. Webrought him home from thepolice station after his bail. Hemassaged my legs for sometime before going to bed. OnTuesday morning someonecalled on my phone at 8:30 amfrom the Mehrauli police sta-tion and wanted to speak toChandrakant. I said he wasasleep. The person, who iden-tified himself as a police offi-cer, called again at around 11am. This time he said that hewanted Chandrakant to instala switch board at the police sta-tion since he was doing ITI inelectrical.

I made Chandu speak withhim but told him that he could-n't do this," recalled Navrang,Chandrakant's father.

"He looked lost after speak-ing on the phone. Between 1:30pm and 2 pm, he hanged him-self," Navrang said.

The boy studied in ITINizamuddin and he, alongwith his two friends, wouldusually board a bus on route413 from Lado Sarai bus stand.On December 24, a girl namedCharu (name changed), a res-ident of Mehrauli, lodged acomplaint against Chandrakantand his friends in Mehraulipolice station.

Charu and her friend alsoused to board the same busfrom the same bus stop as shestudied in ITI Siri Fort.

In her complaint she said

that Chandrakant and hisfriends would tease the girlsand passed lewd commentson them whenever they wouldsee them.

On December 24, Charucame along with her brotherand a few of his friends at thebus stand in the morningwhere the girl's brother and hisfriends allegedly roughed upChandrakant before handinghim over to the police while hisother friends fled.

The police booked himunder Sections 506/509 IndianPanel Code and later in the daytook the boy to the ITI wherehe studied, to identify hisother friends. Another boy

named Sonu was also appre-hended by the police in thesame case.

"He felt immensely insult-ed by this because he had aclean image in the college. Hekept reiterating before thepolice that he had not done it,"said Naveen, the deceased'selder brother.

"He was a strong boy. Hewould not give in to mild pres-sure," said Navrang. The policereleased the boy on bail in theevening.

A day after Chandrakantcommitted suicide, Sonu con-sumed poison and tried to killhimself. But he was rushed tothe hospital in time and saved.

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From Page 1Swaraj said, "We feel that if

a murder takes place after kid-nap and rape, then the deathpenalty should be the onlypunishment. But my demandof the special session wasrejected by the Home Minister.Then we demanded an all-party meeting to discuss thesecurity of women but that wasrejected too."

The Opposition leaderclaimed the BJP will utilise theBudget Session of Parliamentto articulate its views on thesubjects as the Government hasdecided against calling a spe-

cial session. Party spokesmanSyed Shahnawaz Hussain saidas a political party the BJP hadevery right to raise the matteron the floor of Parliament andit will discharge its duty by ask-ing the Government duringBudget Session for harsherpunishment to rape convicts.

Jaitley said, "Crimes aresometimes categorised as cruel,then brutal, then barbaric andthen beastly. But in this case allthese four words will fall shortof describing the crime that hastaken place. The parameters ofa good civilisation are mea-sured by the condition ofwomen and the behaviour thatis being meted out to them inthat civilisation. It seems wehave failed the test of civility."

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From Page 1Opposition BJP too decid-

ed that the party would not cel-ebrate New Year. Leader ofOpposition Sushma Swarajmade an announcement inthis regard while participatingin a condolence meeting atDelhi state BJP office onMonday. Reflecting the moodin the city, all leading marketsof Delhi took a decision to tonedown the level of celebrations.

The Khan MarketAssociation, traders and staffmembers observed a two-minute silence on Monday inmemory of the braveheart whostirred the conscience of theentire nation. The market asso-ciation also decided to suspendNew Years' celebration andurged all shopkeepers to keepthe lights of their signboards offas a mark of respect for thedeparted soul.

"The shopkeepers and staffmembers of Khan Market dis-tributed and wore black arm-

bands and the market wasclosed till mid-day on Sundayfor a silent protest," HarishMalik, Secretary, Khan MarketTraders Association said.

In a similar move, the NewDelhi Traders Association(NDTA) decided not to deco-rate Connaught Place or cele-brate any function on NewYear's Eve or on New Year'sDay. President, of the NDTA,Atul Bhargva expressed hisgrief over the death of the girland said that the memberswould not celebrate or organ-ise any programme on thisNew Year's Eve as a symbol of"mourning" over the unfortu-nate incident that shocked thecity. "We are not doing any-thing this time. We condemnedthe incident that caused thedeath of a promising youngwoman. The silence that willenvelop the city's heart,Connaught Place, on this NewYear's Day will be a mark ofmourning for that brave girl,who battled for her life for 13days. We express our grief and

sorrow," Bhargva said.The traders association

demanded strict punishmentlike death sentence for the sixmen who have been arrested oncharges of rape, dacoity andmurder of the student.

"We feel the same painthat the girl's family sufferedduring her 13 day-long battlefor life," the association saidwhile canceling all celebra-tions. Bhargva added the impo-sition of Section 144, IPC tocontrol unlawful assembly andprevent any violence in theNew Delhi district was alsoanother reason for not holdingany function this year.

Delhi Police decided toclose Connaught Place after 7:30 pm. One of Delhi's oldestfive-star hotels, Ashoka Hotelalso joined the mourning anddecided to close its most fre-quented nightclub whereasother bar owners too echoedthe same sentiments and scaleddown the level of celebrations.

Delhi's famous Gymkhana,where top officials and minis-

ters are often seen spendingtime, cancelled its party as didthe Press Club. The commonman too joined the girl's fam-ily in mourning and thou-sands braved the chilly Delhiwinter to express their feelingsthrough peaceful protests indifferent areas of the Capital.

"Our heart goes out to thefamily of the woman whofought for her life so bravely.The least we can do is, showour respect and send out themessage that we share theirgrief," said Sandeep Nayyar ofMukherjee Nagar who hadcome to Jantar Mantar to payhomage to the departed soul.

There were hundreds ofothers who joined Nayyar andvowed to do the same.Protesters converged at JantarMantar and on the route wherethe girl was brutalized by therapists. She had died onSaturday in Singapore whereshe was being treated for severeinjuries. She was cremated inDelhi on Sunday amid heavysecurity arrangements.

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From Page 1The hide-bound bureau-

cracy needs to fundamentallyalter its maa-baap attitude, itscomplacency replaced by asense of accountability, thepolice have to be sensitised tonew challenges, particularlywhile dealing with women'sissues, the size of the judiciaryas well as the speed of deliveryof justice must keep pace withsocial changes.

At present there is a fiercedisconnect between the systemand large sections of the gov-erned. The perverts who per-petrated unspeakable brutali-ties on the Delhi gang-rape vic-tim are, after all, products ofthis disconnect.

The poor and crime-infested underbelly of urban

India, patronised by the polit-ical class do not regard them-selves as stakeholders in thesocial order.

Such urban underbelliesexisted even in developedcountries; Harlem in New Yorkand Brixton in London, forexample were dreaded ghettosoutside the pale of the law tilla couple of decades ago. Theyare now transformed. Thistransition required the leader-ship’s imagination and effectiveeconomic measures.

In the next few decades,India will add many morecities, while small towns willbecome more crowded as eco-nomic opportunities grow andthe rural population is tempt-ed to migrate.

Are we planning for this

impending change althoughthis is writ large on the wall? Itis comforting to preach changeof mindsets, getting rid of dis-criminatory and chauvinisticsocial values and so on.

But these changes cannotoccur in a void. Unless we planour future, the future will over-power us and it will be too lateto adjust.

If islands of progress, suchas Gujarat, can flourish amid asea of stagnancy, clearly thingscan get done if there is a will tochange.

This must be a collectiveyearning, which results in col-lective social determination.For that to happen, agendasmust change across the board.

For that, in turn, stake-holders must accept that chal-

ta hai won't work any longer;that people are impatient. Wehave seen during 2011-12what the collective determi-nation of people can do; it can shake even a somnolentGovernment as ours out of its stupor.

New methods of massmobilisation, through the socialmedia for example, are rapid-ly changing the political land-scape. Those who can grab thenew opportunities for leader-ship will emerge as tomorrow'sheroes.

The gloom of 2012 can, inthe end, generate hope. Just asthere is such inequality, injus-tice and agony in today's India,it is also throbbing with vital-ity and raw energy. The chal-lenge is to channel that energyto serve the cause of India'stransformation so that thecountry can attain the status itis destined to by history.

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Three youths allegedly tried to set the house of Ram Singh,the main accused in the gruesome gang-rape case of the 23-

year-old paramedical student, ablaze in R K Puram area of SouthDelhi on Monday evening.

Police said that around 7.10 pm on Monday they received aPCR call from some passerby that some people tried to torch Ram'shouse in Ravidas Camp by putting a cracker. "After receiving thecall, local police along with two fire tenders and a bomb squadimmediately rushed to the spot," a senior police officer said.

After reaching at the spot, police found that two crackers wereexploded before their arrival in which one person is reported-ly sustained minor injuries. One of the youth was apprehendedby the police while two others escaped. "Initial investigationrevealed that three persons came in auto rickshaw and they askedabout Ram Singh's residence. Later, they placed two crackers out-side his house which were apparently looked like bomb and soonafter this, the crackers exploded and one person got injured," theofficer added. After seen the crackers, some passerby spotted themand screamed for help. They immediately made a PCR call andinformed the police about this matter. One of the youth was appre-hended by the passerby while two others escaped.

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Against the backdrop of theDelhi gang-rape, former

Army chief General VK Singhon Monday said even deathpenalty is “too less a punish-ment for such ghastly behav-iour”. He held the Governmentas well as the Oppositionresponsible for the presentstate of affairs in the countryand said the protests by theyouth were justified.

Advocating strong laws toact as deterrence, the formerArmy chief cited the instanceof the US where violating a traf-fic ‘stop’ signal invites a fine of500 dollars which is high evenby US standards.

Singh, who was booked bythe Delhi Police on charges ofinciting the protesters at IndiaGate last week, said theGovernment seemed to havefailed to listen to the protesters.“There is much more to theirfrustration and anger than thisissue. And the problem is of thesystem. If the system had been

alright, such an incident wouldnot have taken place,” he said.

Criticising the Governmentfor shying away from calling aspecial session of Parliament toframe stringent laws to deal withrape incidents, the former chiefsaid: “It is regrettable that theGovernment is not in favour ofa special session as leader ofOpposition Sushma Swaraj hasraised this demand. The

Government should go for aspecial session as this is janata’sawaaz (public demand).”

Taking the Opposition alsoto task, Singh said if it feels sostrongly about this incident, they

should come out in the streets toregister their protest as they havedone on various other issues.

As regards the police caseagainst him, Singh said televisionfootage clearly showed his speechand “if that is called provocationthen there is a need for changingthe definition of provocation.”

New Delhi: The ArmedForces have decided againstcelebrating New Year as amark of respect to the gang-rape victim. Defence MinisterAK Antony had not evenaccepted birthday wishes fromanyone on December 28.Army chief General BikramSingh on Monday ordered allformations that they shouldnot organise New Year parties.The Navy and the Indian AirForce also issued similarorders to their units.

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The Government onMonday dismissed the

BJP’s demand for convening aspecial session of Parliamentwith Finance Minister PChidambaram saying that ses-sion would be called only afterreceiving the Justice JS VermaCommittee report on makingrape laws stringent.

It also clarified that thedecision on holding an all-party meeting, as beingdemanded by the Opposition,will be taken only after receiv-ing the report of the three-member panel.

The ruling Congress, onthe other hand, refused to takea stand on the contentiousissue of special session leavingit to be decided by thoseresponsible for Parliamentaryprocedures.

“A special session or a ses-sion of Parliament makes senseonly when the report is receivedby the Government...So let usfirst get the report and then wecan examine when the sessionof Parliament should be,”Chidambaram said. He main-tained that the Parliament ses-sion is required not just to dis-cuss the incident but pass moreeffective laws both for appre-hending people and punishingpeople and for the proceduralaspects.

Minister of State for HomeRPN Singh too echoed similarviews on the all-party meeting.The committee constituted onDecember 23 has been given 30days time to submit its report.

Congress spokespersonRenuka Chowdhury said that

the party is not or against thespecial session but a decisionon the issue involvingParliamentary procedurewould have to be taken bythose concerned like Lok Sabhaspeaker Meira Kumar, RajyaSabha Chairman Hamid Ansariand Business AdvisoryCommittee. She said that onsuch an issue, there should notbe any conflict.

Congress President SoniaGandhi has made some sug-gestions to the Governmentabout making stringent laws.“Chemical castration, deathpenalty and making compul-sory registration of sexualoffenders so that they are eas-ily identified and segregatedfrom the society are measuresbeing considered by the party,Renuka said. Sonia during thepast few days had held meet-ings with various leaders, legalexperts and women activistsand based on their suggestionsasked the Government to takeswift measures.

Women party MPs alsomade a number of suggestionsat a meeting called by AICC

General Secretary in-chargeof Women Affairs MohsinaKidwai to prevent recurrence ofsuch a heinous crime. Theparty’s Chintan Shivir nextmonth is also likely to discusswomen’s safety.

These suggestions beingdiscussed within the partywould be given to theGovernment and may be for-warded to Justice Verma panelfor consideration, she said.The party’s Chintan Shivir nextmonth is also likely to discusswomen’s safety.

Home MinisterSushilkumar Shinde, mean-while, is writing letters, askingall political parties to sendtheir suggestion to the panelwhich was constituted follow-ing the brutal gang-rape.

However, adopting a cau-tious approach about Khappanchayats’ opposition to deathpenalty for rapists, theCongress spokesperson saidthat in collective angst againstsuch a crime, a lot of sugges-tions come but consideredviews should be taken to avoidany knee jerk reactions.

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Excited with the response toits state-of-the-art Central

Kitchen at Noida, the IndianRailway Catering and TourismCorporation (IRCTC) ismulling over replicating themodel in other parts of thecountry.

The IRCTC will soon setup a similar food factory inChennai and is working onhaving its units in anotherfour metro cities. “We arehopeful that our food factory inChennai will be inauguratedbefore June next year,” IRCTC’sJoint General Manager PradipKundu said. Incorporated in1999, the IRCTC is a publicsector enterprise under theMinistry of Railways.

The company also propos-es to set up Central Kitchens inKolkata, Hyderabad, Bangaloreand Mumbai. “Principal objec-tive (of these kitchens) is tocater to the demand of highquality food at reasonable pricesto the largely untapped corpo-rate sector,” he said.

IRCTC is eyeing big busi-ness from its Chennai kitchenand other four proposedkitchens because of IT industriesand MNCs offices in these cities.

At present, the IRCTC’sCentral Kitchen at Noida pro-

duces 10,000 meals a day.IRCTC plans to increase thecapacity to 25,000 meals a dayin the second phase, next year.

As of now, it serves around6,500 snack items every day forthe various Rajdhani andDuronto Express trains origi-nating from Delhi area. Around1,000 meals are also serveddaily to the passengers ofAhmedabad Rajdhani Express.

The Noida food factorycaters to clients outsideRailways. It serves around 3500meals everyday to corporateclients like HCL, Samsung,Lava Mobile, Aditya Birlagroup, Supertech Builders, TataMcGraw Hill and others. Someof these companies have alltheir meals (breakfast, lunchand dinner) supplied fromhere for their employees.

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The EnforcementDirectorate is all set to

tighten the noose around YogaGuru Baba Ramdev with theagency planning to use a pro-vision under the IndianPassports Act to treat certainportion of the assets acquiredby his trusts as proceeds ofcrime and attach them.

CBI has chargesheetedRamdev’s close aide Balkrishnafor using fake documentsissued by SampoornanandSanskrit Vidyalaya to seek anIndian passport.

Violation of the IndianPassports Act is a scheduledoffence under the Prevention ofMoney Laundering Act andproperties acquired by usingsuch travel documents are con-sidered proceeds of the crimeand can be confiscated.

With this agenda in mind,the ED questioned thePrincipal of theSampoornanand SanskritVidyalaya, Naresh ChnadraDwivedi for over two hours atthe agency’s headquarters hereon Friday, sources said.

The agency had also askedBalkrishna to appear before iton Wednesday, but he did notturn up for questioning.

Balkrishna is a key trusteein Baba’s operations in fivecountries including USA, UK,Mauritius and Madagascar.

The ED is investigating ifBalkrishna had used his fakepassport to negotiate the dealsfor acquisition of Baba’s prop-erties abroad.

The ED has already regis-tered a foreign exchange vio-lation case against Ramdevand his Haridwar-based trustson the basis of a report fromthe RBI for violation of foreignexchange norms.

Inputs with the ED suggestprima facie violation of FEMAand certain transactions by asmany as 50 companies underthe Patanjali Trust are underthe scanner of the agency.

According to the RBIguidelines, any transaction inforeign exchange is to bereported to the Central bankwithin six months, but thecompanies engaged in exportof ayurvedic medicines alleged-ly did not do so in a number ofinstances, ED sources said.

Besides, probing into thestatus of foreign exchangetransactions in export ofAyurvedic medicines, theagency is also investigating aScottish island “gifted” to Bababy a disciple couple.

The probes, sources said,are aimed at checking the flowof money through varioustrusts floated by Ramdevincluding the Patanjali YogpeethTrust, Divya Yoga Mandir Trustand Bharat Swabhiman Trustamong others.

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ed him as the potential primeministerial candidate,Finance Minister PChidambaram on Mondaysaid that he knows his limi-tations and conducts himselfaccordingly.

“I don’tk n o wwhether Ishould takeyour ques-tion veryseriously. Butlet me giveyou a veryserious answer. I know mylimitations. And I live andconduct myself according tomy limitations,” he said whenasked about DMK chief ’ssuggestion.

Chidambaram said ifreporters were expecting alight-hearted comment then “Itell you this: I know thatsome of you think I am fool-ish. But I am not so foolish asyou think”.

The Congress also dis-missed the alliance partner’ssuggestion as “SouthernSplendour” with spokesper-son Renuka Chowdhury say-ing it is speculation and notworth commenting on. Sheasserted that since DrManmohan Singh is in office,there is no question of anyoneoccupying the place of PM.

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Senior BJP leader LK Advanion Monday called for inclu-

sion of teachings of saints andgurus of India like Sree NarayanaGuru, Sree RamakrishnaParamhamsa and SwamiVivekananda in the educationcurriculum for inculcating spir-itual values among the youth.

Inaugurating a conferenceorganised as part of the 80thSivagiri pilgrimage of theSivagiri Mutt at Varkala,Thiruvananthapuram, the BJPleader urged Governments toinitiate measures to include theteachings of saint-philosophersin school study streams. TheSivagiri Mutt is hallowed as theSamadhi of social reformerSree Narayana Guru.

Education of history shouldnot be confined to stories of warheroes, Advani said, addingthat it should also include themessages of great saints andGurus of the country. Lessonson Gurus and saint-philoso-phers were necessary to incul-cate sense of value among theyoungsters, he said.

Praising State ChiefMinister Oommen Chandy forhis promise to include SreeNarayana Guru’s teachings inschool syllabus from next aca-demic year, the BJP leader saidthat it was the right approach toenhance the quality of educa-tion. Chandy had made the pro-posal while inaugurating theSivagiri pilgrimage on Sunday.

“The Centre also shouldfollow this (approach)… Casteor creed should not be a divi-sive character as far asmankind or human being isconcerned,” the BJP leadersaid. Saint-reformer SreeNarayana Guru’s philosophywas based on the principle of“One caste, One religion andOne God — for men”.

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Owing to factionalism in theRajasthan BJP, bosses of

the RSS are unwilling to sendany of its pracharak as organ-ising general secretary, a keypost in the main Oppositionparty, in the State. The post islying vacant for the past threeand half years, when PrakashChandra resigned in the wakeof BJP’s defeat in the Assemblyas well as Lok Sabha elections.

Though most of the seniorBJP leaders are feeling thatappointment of an organisinggeneral secretary from the RSSranks is very crucial ahead ofthe Assembly elections, whichare due in November next year,no one is making any serious

efforts to fill the post.Talking to The Pioneer, State

party general secretary SatishPunia said it is for the BJPCentral leadership and the RSSto take a call, which has alreadybeen delayed beyond the limit.

But on his part, Shivlahariprant RSS pracharak maintainsthat right now there is no pro-posal to send anyone as organ-ising general secretary. “There areno proposal either to make sim-ilar arrangements at district levelto take care of the organisation-al set up of the BJP,” he said.

In the absence of a regularorganising general secretary,some time back Central partyleadership had appointedKaptan Singh as in-charge ofthe party affairs.

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Normal life was hit inKashmir on the last day of

the year due to a shutdowncalled by separatist groups toprotest against “unprovokedfiring” on civilians by thetroops last week in southerntown of Pulwama. The author-ities have ordered a magister-ial probe into the incident andpolice have registered a caseagainst the Army amid a strict-ly imposed curfew in therestive town for the fourthstraight day.

Both factions of HurriyatConference and a body oflawyers had called for a shut-down that evoked mixedresponse in Capital Srinagar andnorth Kashmir but threw thenormal life out of gear in south-ern parts of the Valley. The traf-fic was lean on the roads butGovernment offices functionednormally and undergraduateexaminations were conductedsmoothly in the colleges.

Seven persons were

wounded in the firing onFriday (December 28) after-noon when troops opened firewhile escorting a unspecifiednumber of personnel wound-ed in an encounter inChandgam-Babgam village inthe outskirts of Pulwama town.Two militants were gunneddown in the gun-battle.

Locals said that troopsopened fire without any provo-cation while the Army said it wasretaliation to stone-pelting ontheir vehicles. One of the criti-cally injured civilians has under-went surgeries in a Srinagar hos-pital where all the injured wereshifted from the southern town.Doctors said all the woundedhad firearm wounds.

Deputy CommissionerPulwama Shafat Barlas ordereda magisterial inquiry into theincident. The additional deputycommissioner of the districtwould conduct the probe.Meanwhile, police registered acase under four sections ofRanbir Panel Code to beginprobe into the incident.

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Asenior officer of Andhra Pradesh cadreon Monday created a record of sorts

when he completed 695-km long journeyfrom Visakhapatnam to Hyderabad on abicycle. Rajiv Trivedi, (51) AdditionalDirector General of Police, had started thecycling expedition along with few others onDecember 23, as part of a triathlon to com-memorate 150 years of Indian Police Service.

He was given a rousing reception by theHyderabad city Police CommissionerAnurag Sharma and other officials whenhe reached KBR Park in Jubilee Hills area,after covering the last stretch of 35 km fromthe city outskirts. He bicycled on busy roadsof Hyderabad and went around historicCharminar before ending his endurance-testing journey. However, his triathlon willformally come to an end on Monday when

he undertakes a 10 km run from the KBRPark to AC Guards in the city.

The officer, started his triathlon with25 km long swimming in the sea fromBheemunipatanam to RK Beach inVisakhapatnam.

This is first time that some body hasunder taken the ultra-endurance triathlonin India. A 15 member team, with per-sonnel from various forces includingBorder Security Force, Industrial SecurityForce, Maharashtra and Odisha Statepolice forces and some civilians includinga software engineer from Microsoft SunilMenon also participated in this triathlonalong with Trivedi.

“The triathlon was aimed spreading themessage for health and fitness,” saidTrivedi, whose proposal for this expeditionwas given permission by the State policechief V Dinesh Reddy. “The secret to healthand fitness is in maintaining body clock,and being careful about food,” he said.

Bicycling on the national highwayfrom Visakhapatnam, he passed throughGodavari districts — Vijaywada andNalgonda on his way to Hyderabad.

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The labourers, involved in the brutalkilling of tea planter Mridul Kumar

Bhattacharya in Assam’s Tinsukia dis-trict last week, not only killed theplanter and his wife but ate their fleshafter the crime, police said.

Assam Police IGP (Law andOrder) SN Singh on Monday said thiswhile adding that while the policehave arrested one labourer for hisinvolvement in the crime, another 13persons were also identified for theirrole in the crime.

About 1,000 agitated labourers ofthe MKB tea estate in Tinsukia districtattacked the bungalow of the estateowner Mridul Kumar Bhattacharya onlast Wednesday evening and allegedlyset it on fire after locking the owner andhis wife Rita Bhattacharya in protestagainst the arrest of two labourers by thepolice and protesting against severalother injustice meted out to them by thetea estate management and the owner.

The police, who arrived later on thespot, recovered two lump of flesh fromthe charred bungalow.

“We have recorded the statementsof two of the witnesses under Section164 of the IPC and they have mentionedthat some of the labourers, who wereinvolved in the crime, had eaten up theirflesh after killing them,” said Singh.

Singh, however, refused to divulgethe names of the witnesses.

“One person - Santosh Dhanowar- had been arrested so far by thepolice. The arrested person is a labour-er of the MKB tea estate. The other 13identified persons, who also playedactive role in the crime were eitherworking for the same tea estate or some

neighbouring gardens,” Singh said,adding that all the accused will bebooked soon.

Senior police official in the districtsaid that they were still investigating thecase adding the labourers were agitat-ed against the owner and the manage-ment of the estate for a long time forseveral reasons. “The owner used to tor-ture the labourers for smallest ever rea-sons and his behaviour towards thelabourers had always been very rude,”said police while quoting locals.

Earlier on March 2010,Bhattacharya shot dead a 15-year-oldyouth in front of his bungalow insidethe Rani Organic Tea estate. The2010 incident took place when agroup of local villagers staged a protestin front of his bungalow after hethreatened the locals against using agarden road for communication andharassed a woman villager. As the iratemob protested, Bhattacharya shotdead a youth of the village.

Although Bhattacharya was bookedunder Section 302 of the IPC for mur-der and relevant sections of the ArmsAct after the incident at Rani, heavailed bail later.

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The ruling AIADMK in TamilNadu will go it alone in the Lok

Sabha elections, according to partychief J Jayalalithaa. “We will nothave any alliance either with theBJP or the Congress. We will fightthe Lok Sabha election alone. Onlyweak parties need alliance part-ners,” Jayalalithaa told the membersof the AIADMK general council onMonday. She was addressing theparty cadre before leaving forKodanadu in the Nilgiris fromwhere she will discharge her offi-cial works for the next few days.

Jayalalithaa told the party lead-ers to work hard for winning all the40 Lok Sabha seats (Tamil Nadu has39 seats while Puducherry has

one). “If only we win all the 40 seats,we will be able to get justice for theCauvery Delta farmers who havelost their crops because of

Karnataka’s refusal to release theCauvery waters,” said Jayalalithaa.

The CM alleged that the DMKled by M Karunanidhi was workingagainst the interests of Tamil Nadu.“Though we got the Supreme Courtand the Cauvery River Authority toask Karnataka to release water, theDMK was playing mischief. TheDMK MPs led by TR Baalu met PMManmohan Singh and pleadedwith him not to release a single dropof Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu,”said Jayalalithaa.

Jayalalithaa said whileKarunanidhi and the DMK wereworking overtime to sabotage theSupreme Court judgment andCauvery tribunal award for theState, both the Congress and the BJPwere united in preventing Karnataka

from releasing the water."Immediately after the apex courtannounced its order askingKarnataka to release water, thenExternal Affairs Minister SMKrishna, Union Minister VeerappaMoily and Karnataka CM JagadishShettar met PM Manmohan Singhand told him that no water could bereleased to Tamil Nadu,” she alleged.

Jayalalithaa asked her partyworkers why should the AIADMKform an alliance with the BJP orCongress ? “You deliver me theentire 40 seats and we will fight forthe rights of Tamil Nadu from aposition of strength. If we fight theelection united, no one could pre-vent us from sweeping all the 40seats,” said Jayalalithaa.

The AIADMK swept the 2011

Assembly election in alliance withparties like the DMDK, CPI and theCPI(M). But immediately after theelection, Jayalalithaa said alliancewas only for the Assembly electionresulting in the DMDK and theLefts parting company with her.

A CPI leader described Jaya-lalithaa’s declaration too prematureto make any comment. “It is tooearly to make any comment on herdeclaration. The election is morethan a year away and anything couldhappen during this period,” saidMahendran, CPI's assistant secretary.

Though Jayalalithaa had earli-er exhorted her party cadre to workfor winning all the 40 seats, this isthe first time she is declaring that theAIADMK would not enter into anyalliance for the Lok Sabha polls.

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Bowing to the mountingpressure from various

organisations, the KeralaGovernment on Mondaydecided to ask Karnataka toprovide “better medical treat-ment” to Islamist leader AbdulNasser Madani, lodgedpresently in a Bangalore prisonas 31st accused in the 2008bombing case.

Kerala Chief MinisterOommen Chandy will meet hisKarnataka counterpart JagadishShettar in Bangalore onThursday with this request. Thiswill be preceded by a visit onWednesday by a delegation of theMuslim League to the ParappanaAgrahara prison outsideBangalore where Madani hasbeen detained in order to assesshis actual health condition.

The Kerala Governmentwas forced to take up the issuewith the KarnatakaGovernment following the pres-sure mounted on it by various

political parties, including theMuslim League and CPI(M), inthe context of the reports thatthe health condition of Madani,crippled in one leg, had deteri-orated in the prison.

As per the decisions taken at a high-level meetingchaired by Chandy inThiruvananthapuram onMonday on the Madani issue,the State Chief Minister will askhis Karnataka counterpart for afresh and detailed report on thelatest condition of the Islamist’shealth. Madani was put in theprison after his arrest on August17, 2010 from Anvarssery, hisheadquarters in Kollam.

The meeting discussed thereport provided by theKarnataka Government earlieron Madani’s health. Apart fromthe five-doctor team headed bythe Director of MedicalEducation specially constitutedto study the report on Madani,Home Minister ThiruvanchoorRadhakrishnan and HealthMinister VS Sivakumar partic-ipated in the meeting.

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The Drug Controller General ofIndia (DCGI) has issued alert

against three medical products, includ-ing a drug used for ulcer treatment, afterthey were found to be of substandardquality. While asking the pharma man-ufacturers to recall them immediately,the DCGI for the first time also post-ed the details of the products on its web-site in public interest.

Chennai-based Central Drug TestingLaboratory had found gastric medicineRanitin-152 tablet (batch no CD 981025)by Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd inHimachal Pradesh, Hobby HandwashSpring Freshers (batch no 2418), manu-factured by Hobi Kometik AS and made

in Turkey, and Kohinoor Pink Pleasurecondoms (batch no Px2054) manufac-tured by TTK LIG Ltd, Pallavaram inChennai as substandard, according to asenior official in the DCGI.

“The expiry date of these productshas been marked for 2015. The lab testfound them of inferior quality. We haveposted their details on our website to keepthe users aware of them. Also, this willkeep the pharma manufacturers underpressure to ensure that their productsmaintain requisite standard,” he said.

The DCGI has asked its drug test-ing laboratories to send details ofdrugs, which have been found to be sub-standard, spurious, adulterated or mis-branded, to its office on a regular basis,the official added.

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DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF HEALTH SERVICESLADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE & ASSOCIATED HOSPITALS,

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WALK-IN- INTERVIEWWalk-in-interview for appointment of Non PG Junior Residents in the various departments

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The categorical declarationby the Telugu Desam Party

(TDP) that it was in favour offormation of Telangana State,has not only added to the pres-sure on the ruling Congressparty to the likewise but hasturned the tide in favour ofChandrababu Naidu in theTelangana region.

Naidu’s padyatra(walkathon), presently pass-ing through Warangal, thehotbed of Telangana move-ment, was evoking goodresponse from the people fol-lowing the favourable posi-tion TDP took at all partymeeting of December 28.

It has added a new dimen-sion to the entire politics aroundTelangana issue and has triggeredan intense debate in theTelangana Joint ActionCommittee (TJAC) whether toadmit the TDP in to its fold.TJAC, so far seen as a front of theTelangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS),has now developed chinks assome of its constituents andleaders were in favour of wel-coming TDP as a new memberin view of its new position.

There were also proposalsto include CPI and TelanganaNagara Samiti of N JanardhanReddy, independent MLA in toTJAC. But others close to theTRS leadership were not readyto accept TDP, so far painted asthe villain of the piece. TJACconvener Prof Kodandaram,however, had taken a neutralstand. Those favouring TDP’sadmission were of the view thatit will strengthen the agitationfor separate state.

TRS, already facing threatto its turf from the BJP, was nowworried about the prospects ofTDP emerging as anotherchampion of Telangana.

TDP’s stand was benefitingthe party in many ways. As animmediate fallout at least three

Telangana MLAs of the partyhave dropped the plans to quitthe party as their followers werenow happy and satisfied withthe stand taken by the partyleadership.

Emboldened by theTelangana leaders of the TDP,especially likes of KadiamSrihari have adopted an aggres-sive posture and have threat-ened TRS of grave conse-quences if it makes any attemptto target the TDP and its leaderby portraying them as anti-Telangana. “There should notbe any doubt that TDP is forTelangana. We will not tolerateif TRS burns the effigies ofNaidu,” he said.

On the other hand, TDPwas facing a backlash in coastalAndhra. Seema-Andhra JointAction Committee, opposingthe idea of bifurcation of thestate, has put up “To Let” boardat TDP office in Visakhapatnamas a protest against TDP’s pro-Telangana stand. The activistsheld a noisy protest outside andshouted slogans describingNaidu a “traitor of Seema-Andhra”.

TRS continues to targetTDP and Naidu saying theywere responsible for scuttlingchances of Telangana state for-mation in December 2009,when MLAs from Andhra andRayalaseema resigned en massefrom the Assembly allegedly atthe behest of Naidu.

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Three notorious poachershave been nabbed in

Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in UttarPradesh, in the last two days.Of the three, one was involvedin tiger poaching cases since2001 belonging to the contro-versial Surma village within thecore area of the reserve.

There are at least a dozencases of wild life crimes againstthe other two persons. Thearrests have come in the wakeof a special drive during NewYear’s eve when the threat ofpoaching increases. The threearrested have been forwardedto jail on Monday.

According to the FieldDirector Shailesh Prasad, thepoachers were nabbed by themembers of the night patrollingteam. In the latest of the two

cases, a group of seven personswere found moving suspicious-ly in the Dudhwa Range nearBhadrola Compartment-5.

While six of them man-aged to escape, one person bythe name of Jawahar wascaught by the team. “He was awanted wildlife criminal inthe area having old cases oftiger poaching pending againsthim,” said Prasad. The mem-bers of the team managed tounearth tiger skin and rearparts of a tiger, that he had keptburied under the ground”, saidPrasad. He belongs to Surmavillage, which is the only villageof its kind in the country tohave the status of revenue vil-lage despite being within thecore area of a reserve.

In a yet another case, twopersons Jhaulal and Sureshwere rounded from South

Sonalipur Range under LaukiCompartment -5 of the tigerreserve. They were caught withmetal traps and other toolsused in wildlife crimes. Thereare about 10-12 cases pendingagainst them, involving thekilling of various wild ani-mals, informed prasad.

“Patrolling has been inten-sified, with protection mea-sures and enforcementsstepped up during the season,when poaching activities areon the rise,” said Prasad. Thisis the time when VIP’s andtheir kin chose to visit thereserve when security forcesare shifted from their normalduties. Further, the onset ofNew Year also ushers a festivemood and there is a tendencyof laxity amongst the staffs,which encourages spurt inpoaching, he pointed out.

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Bengal seems to have for-gotten nothing and learnt

nothing from the death of theDelhi girl, who succumbedlast week to the brutal gang-rape that sparked a nationwidefurore for the past two weeks.

Kolkata’s ‘Park Streetwoman’, who nearly suffered asimilar fate after she too wasgang-raped about a year ago,has cried out for help failingwhich she “might have to takeher own life.”

The Park Street victim, amother of two, who wasabducted and raped inside amoving car before beingthrown out on a busy Kolkatajunction, wonders after a yearor so of the crime, as to“whether I have to commit suicide or to get justice.”

Today, she “is left withalmost no money to pursue her

case.” While the prime accusedis still at large as no chargesheethas yet been filed in the case.This means that a right isgradually accruing to the threeaccused who are currently incustody to get bail.

“I have not only beenunder threat but also cannot goout to work and have been leftwith no money to pay for mychildren’s school fees,” she saysadding the situation has cometo such a pass where she mighthave to take the extreme pathin order to draw the attentionof the administration.

Incidentally, the Park Streetcase had witnessed a lot ofdrama after Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee went publicclaiming the case was a con-cocted one. Even as then DCPDetective DepartmentDamayanti Sen finally wassuccessful to establish that thecase was indeed of a rape she

was subsequently shunted outto an inconsequential post giv-ing enough message aboutwhat the administration

thought about the case.Subsequently senior State

Ministers like Madan Mitraquestioned the character of

the victim. As late as onSaturday Trinamool MPKakoli Ghoshdastidar iterat-ed the Park Street case was not

the one of a rape but “a mis-understanding between awoman and her clients onprofessional dealings.”

Even as the victim cameout with sharp reactions stat-ing “first I am not the kind ofwoman as I am being madeout to be and second even if Iam one does it mean that Imust be raped.” Later, she said,how she had to make the bothends meet at a time when shewas being literally ostracised bythe people around.

“I cannot go out. The fam-ily is in extreme financial cri-sis. Even the lawyers are notconducting the case properly.They don’t even speak to me.I think there is a conspiracy todilute the case. It seems that Ihave to take my own life toprove that I had indeed beenraped” she said insisting “is thiswhat the administration haslearnt from the Delhi case?”

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Pro-CPI(M) All IndiaDemocratic Women’s

Association (AIDWA) onMonday urged the UnionGovernment to declare 2013 asYear of Women’s Safety as ahomage to the Delhi gang-rapevictim and in the context ofthe increasing atrocitiesagainst women even as theoutfit would observe Tuesday,the New Year Day, as BlackDay in Kerala.

“I am requesting PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh todeclare year 2013 the Year ofWomen’s Safety,” AIDWAleader and CPI(M)’s RajyaSabha MP TN Seema said instatement issued inThiruvananthapuram onMonday. “We all should wear

black badges as a mark ofprotest against incidents likethe Delhi gang-rape,” she said.

AIDWA activists wouldindulge in a poster campaignin all important centres inKerala on Tuesday in protestagainst the attacks on womenand girl children. Associationgeneral secretary KK Shailajasaid they would organisemarches to the DGP’s officeand various district policeheadquarters demandingstrengthening of women cellsat police stations.

Meanwhile, the educa-tional institutions in the Statewould start the New Yearwith a pledge and specialassemblies on Tuesday morn-ing in order to spread aware-ness on the atrocities againstwomen and girls.

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As nation mourns the death of 23-year-old victim of gang-rape in the

national capital, the incidents of crimeagainst women and girl continue withthe same regularity across the country.

A day after two policemen weresuspended in two incidents of atroci-ties against women in Andhra Pradesh,a group of people thrashed a teacher formisbehaving with a female student.

The incident occurred on Mondayin Krishna Colony of Warangal. On thecomplaint of the girl that the teachermolested her, member of her family andother residents rushed to theGovernment school and beat himbefore handing him over to the police.

In another incident, in Nalgondadistrict, a police constable Prabhakarwas put under suspension after he triedto abduct a 16-year-old girl in his car.

The girl was walking home around 9.30pm when the cop tried to drag her awayin his car. On hearing the screams of thegirl, people stopped the vehicle, savedthe girl and thrashed the constable. Hewas later handed over to the police.

In Krishna district, police was look-ing for an absconding constable DVVenkat Raju, after a married womanlodged a complaint of rape against him.The woman alleged that when she hadgone to Kankipadu police station, tolodge a complaint of harassment fordowry, the constable harassed her. A casehas been booked against the constable.

In yet another incident in same dis-trict, a case of rape was booked againstvillage revenue officer Boena Panduafter his office assistant, complained tothe police that the officer raped herafter mixing sleeping pills in her soft drink. Woman complained thatsubsequently, he was blackmailing her.

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Saryug Singh, the father of Delhi gang-rapeaccused, Akshay Thakur had demanded

capital punishment for his son, for committingsuch heinous crime.

“Since my son has committed such a heinouscrime, now he should pay for it,” he spoke in hisinteraction with other people at his village(Laharkarma) in Aurangabad district.

Her mother Leelawati Devi is completelybenumbed on the issue, as still she is not sure thathow her son can outrage the modesty of a girl.Meanwhile, public protests are spreading to var-ious places of his native district of Aurangabad.

Saryug Thakur was so much annoyed withhis son that he fully cooperated with the jointteam of Delhi Police and Bihar Police when theteam raided his house to take Akshay Thakurinto custody a few days ago.

Meanwhile, State BJP president CP Thakursaid the State BJP has decided to observe 2013as “Nari Samman Varsh” (Women HonourYear) to accelerate its fight against atrocitieson women.

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Beginning January 1, 2013,Mumbai suburban train

commuters will have to pay 25per cent more by way of sur-charge — under the MumbaiUrban Transport Project(MUTP) — on card and seasontickets for journeys undertak-en in the notified suburban sec-tions of Mumbai.

The MUTP surcharge,which will go up from 8 percent to 33 per cent, is aimed atraising funds necessary forrepayment of a loan takenfrom the World Bank for therail component of the MumbaiUrban Transport Project. Itwill be levied on both seasonand card ticket holders travel-

ling in first and second-classcompartments.

The hike in MUTP sur-charge will apply for a distanceof over 10 km — a surchargethat will be three times morethan the existing surcharge.

The surcharge on the cardticket tariff for journeys rang-ing from 11 km to 50 km willgo up from �1 to �3 in the sec-ond class, while the surchargeon the first class card tickets forthe same range of distancewill increase from �10 to �30.

Similarly, in the same dis-tance range of 11-50 km,monthly second class passeswill cost �20 more, while thefirst class monthly season tick-ets will get costlier by �40. Thequarterly second class passeswill cost �60 more, while thequarterly first class passes willcostlier by �120 from Tuesday.

In the distance range of 51-100 km, the hikes will thesame as far as second and firstcard tickets are concerned.However, the monthly seasontickets will go up from �15 to�45 in second class and from�30 to 90 in first class. Thehikes in the quarterly passeswill be from �45 to �135 in sec-ond class and from �90 to 270in first class.

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Prominent social activistsand intellectuals from

across the country have strong-ly condemned the reportedhate speech of AkbaruddinOwaisi, legislator of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM).

In a joint statement theydescribed Owaisi’s speech at apublic meeting in Nirmal townof Adilabad district as obnox-ious. Owaisi is already facing acase in a local court inHyderabad for the speech in

which he allegedly threatenedthe Hindu majority and hurt itsreligious sentiments.

“Such obnoxious speechesand statements divide society,vitiate peace and lead to con-flicts and riots that eventuallyresult in deaths and destructioncausing untold hardships to thepoor of all communities.Coming from a responsibleMember of a LegislativeAssembly makes it even moredetestable and unacceptable,”said the statement signed byAsghar Ali, engineer-Mumbai,

Swami Agnivesh-New Delhi,Mahesh Bhatt-Mumbai, MazherHussain-Hyderabad HamidMohammad Khan-Hyderabad,M Mandal-Hyderabad, Irfanengineer-Mumbai, SandeepPanday-Lucknow and RamPunyani-Mumbai.

“We demand that theauthorities take exemplaryaction in the matter to ensurethat such intolerable acts arenever repeated again, anywhereby anyone and secure peaceand harmony in the country,”they added.

Elections are due next yearand given the history of insti-gation of communal conflictsfor polarisation of communitiesto reap electoral benefits, wecan expect more such provoca-tive statements and hate filledspeeches by representatives of

different communal partiesand reactionary groups, thegroup said. “Hence we appealto the people not to react tosuch deliberate provocationsand fall prey to the machina-tions of communal parties thatseek electoral gains throughpolitics of hate and violence,”they said.

Meanwhile, the State BJPpresident G Kishan Reddy alsocondemned AkbaruddinOwaisi for hurting the religioussentiments of one community.Addressing media conference

in Hyderabad, on Monday, healleged that the police hadfailed in taking action againstthe Majlis MLA. “MIM shouldbe derecognised over the utter-ances of Akbaruddin Owaisi,”he said adding that his partywill lodge a complaint with theSpeaker of the State Assembly,the State Government and theElection Commission.

A BJP leader K Karunsagarhas already approached thelocal court seeking actionagainst Akbaruddin Owaisi inthis matter.

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The Congress has alwaysbeen adept at readingthe tea leaves, smokesignals, and other occultsigns indicating the way

its fortunes are blowing. It is fullyaware of its declining credibilitysince 2009, both at the Centre andin the State of Delhi. Hence, itviews the results of the Gujaratelection, which many see as boost-ing the prime ministerial prospectsof Chief Minister Narendra Modi,as a countdown to an early elec-tion, certainly in Delhi, and pos-sibly at the national level if the riskis considered worthwhile. Electionsforced by constitutional deadlinecan leave the ruling party withoutroom for manoeuvre.

The first salvos have alreadybeen fired with finesse, even asthe BJP imagines it can wait until2014 to decide whether or not tofield a team captain. Parties notprepared for elections in 2013may be caught on the back foot.

Hyderabad MLA AkbaruddinOwaisi’s sudden intemperatespeech against Hindus makes nosense unless it is seen as a com-mand performance to polariseminority votes nationwide againstMr Modi, and make the BJP hes-itate to anoint him. The same istrue of activist Shabnam Hashmiwho appeared on prime-time tele-vision eight days after the Gujaratelection result to allege thatCongress helped Mr Modi to win.Her real objective was to signal toone community not to forget the2002 riots, never mind that thesewere triggered by the gruesomeburning of pilgrims from Ayodhyain a train at Godhra. Many resentthe Congress’s defeat in Godhraand other constituencies whereMuslims determine the outcome.

To emphasise her point, MsHashmi, who runs an NGO, quitfive Government panels —Central Advisory Board ofEducation, Maulana AzadEducation Foundation, NationalMonitoring Committee forMinority Education, NationalLiteracy Mission Council andAssessment and MonitoringAuthority of PlanningCommission. Whatever her cre-dentials to be on any panel, it isrevealing how the ruling partyconcentrates patronage on per-sons of certain ideological affini-ties. Do ‘experts’ who pack offi-cial panels also receiveGovernment funds for NGOactivity? Since many NGO plat-forms mingle with overt politicalactivism, are they eligible for taxexemptions given for social work?

Anyway, with two powerful

rounds fired successfully, theCongress is primed for a possiblenational election. Specific toDelhi, Chief Minister SheilaDikshit, after much waffling,rushed to seize the initiative.Now that the brutal gang rapevictim is no more and the publicactivism will come to a naturalend, the action will move to a fasttrack court. With police investi-gations virtually complete, theprosecution can be expected todemand death penalty (most jus-tified in this case). If the case,including appeals to the HighCourt, the Supreme Court andthe President, can be wound upin six months, the Congress canclaim credit and go for an earlyelection in Delhi at least.

The flip side is that it will bedifficult to continue to isolate thecases of Afzal Guru, convicted forParliament House attack, andBalwant Singh Rajouna, con-victed for the assassination ofPunjab Chief Minister BeantSingh. In fact, the Supreme Courtmust take a call on whetherimplementation of the deathpenalty can be so blatantly tai-lored to political convenience.

Coming to Mr Modi, hishat-trick victory will be yester-

day’s story unless he carves out aniché to stay in the nationalgame while in Ahmedabad. Thathe is aware of this can be seenfrom his performance at theNational Development Councilmeet on December 27, where hecriticised the UPA Governmentfor lowering the growth target inthe 12th Plan to eight per centand fuelling despondency andpessimism in the nation. Hecharged the Union Governmentof ‘policy paralysis’, but also madeconstructive suggestions thatwere appreciated by some ChiefMinisters, who noted the absenceof harsh words in his speech.

In fact, he began scripting hisnew persona on the very day theelection result was declared, whenno BJP central leader was inAhmedabad to share his glory.Mr Modi is conscious of the factthat Gujaratis as a community feelstrongly that Sardar VallabhbhaiPatel was not given his due andthat Morarji Desai was not prop-erly respected in Delhi. Now, theState has been blessed with anoth-er ‘strongman’ and this alonetrumped the Leuva Patel factorthat Mr Keshubhai Patel and theCongress hoped would cut MrModi to size. Narrow caste con-

fines were transcended, but castewas and is by no means irrelevant.

Hence, in bowing before MrKeshubhai Patel after a convinc-ing victory, Mr Modi was actual-ly paying homage to the power-ful Patel community that stood byhim, diminishing its own stal-wart, to respect the State’s senti-ment to send its own son toDelhi. And it has certainly puthim on the highway.

This could also be the mean-ing of his public apology to sixcrore Gujaratis for any hurt causedin preceding years, during hisvictory speech that day. The met-ropolitan media has questioned ifhe was trying to paper over the2002 riots, but Muslims are not sixcrore. More likely, he was reachingout to everyone, includingMuslims, from the dominant Patelsto the followers of other stalwartshe has fallen out with over theyears, many of whom are now inthe Congress. A call for unity froma winner could be a signal to pos-sible national allies of an intentionto be magnanimous.

The first big political test, how-ever, will be the election of the newBJP president. If the RSS managesto impose Mr Nitin Gadkari againafter a lustreless first term, Mr Modiwill lose his shine. RSS as a parentorganisation could not preventVishva Hindu Parishad leaderPravin Togadia from joining handswith Mr Keshubhai Patel in theGujarat election where so much wasat stake. It follows that RSS mustretreat from politics; its interven-tions have served no good cause.

Grave challenges face thenation. The last few years have wit-nessed unbridled corruption,unending mega scams, gallopingprice-rise and corporate-driveneconomic reforms by the UPAGovernment. Simultaneouslyscam-ridden populist schemes likethe Mahatma Gandhi NationalRural Employment Guarantee Act,and now a direct cash transferscheme under Aadhar, where 3.84out of 4.10 lakh cards have alreadyhad to be cancelled for beingbogus, have bankrupted the econ-omy and further squeezed themiddle class that is being deniedsubsidy even as incomes decline.

So far, no political party hasseriously addressed any of theseissues. Mr Modi’s task is to showthat he cares, and that he can makea difference.

(The accompanying visual is ofIndian cricket fans wearing masks ofGujarat Chief Minister NarendraModi at the Sardar Patel GujaratStadium in Ahmedabad onDecember 28. PTI Photo)

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Sir — With the death of braveheart‘Damini’, India is soaked in angstand grief. The 13 days that shefought for life will be rememberedas the days of India awakeningagainst rape and gender injustice.The perpetrators of ‘Damini’s’fate must be punished in such away that anyone trying to outragethe modesty of a woman wouldthink a thousand time beforecommitting such a heinous act.

The last days of 2012 havegiven this country the greatestshock. It raises the questionwhether we are living in the 21stcentury or in an era when womenwere considered as chattels andprivate properties. Let not poli-tics come in the way of severepenalty for those beasts.

Punishing the culprits in theharshest manner would be theonly tribute to ‘Damini’. And for-mulating and implementingstringent laws against perpetra-tors of rape will be a true contri-bution to women’s emancipa-tion. Anything less will onlyamount to torturing the soul of‘Damini’ and of thousands of vic-tims of gender violence.

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Sir — This refers to the article,“State as a predator and an extor-tionist at will” (December 29) byHiranmay Karlekar. Earlier wesaw Aam Aadmi Party chiefArvind Kejriwal with a modestbio-data in comparison to othernews makers, capturing dispro-portionate media and publicattention. More, he managed tobe bigger than the cause he espoused!

Mr Kejriwal made a guestappearance on the third day of theagitation in the capital over‘Nirbhaya’ or ‘Damini’ and, forthe first time, the ‘cause’ dwarfedthe man. This, home-grown man-of-all-causes had evidently pat-terned himself after JulianAssange of WikiLeaks fame; man-aging only just to stir things upwithout anything much happen-ing thereafter. The nation wasmore amused than threatened.However, the year undoubtedlybelongs to the man on the streetwho has signed off 2012 by notjust shaking things up but alsostirring the collective conscienceand anger of the nation andindeed the polity.

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Sir — The courage of the gangrape victim and her resolve to liveand fight for 13 days is the ultimatecourage shown in the face of realpractical adversity and not underany textbook scenario. Coupledwith Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai,the departed Nirbhaya has shownto the world that women are notthe weaker part of society.

Ironically, in all cases of gen-der crimes, the situation is rangedagainst the rape victims and herethe raw courage of ‘Nirbhaya’ hasshown the weaklings in truelight. Sometimes, the nooseescapes the perpetrators either inthe Supreme Court or throughacts of ‘mercy’ shown byPresidents like Ms Pratibha Patil.

The law is also morefavourable to juvenile criminalsthan to juvenile victims. Ms Patildid not blink for a momentbefore converting a death sen-tence to life for rapists and killersof minor girls. One such brutalkiller and rapist in Delhi willescape harsh punishment as he issaid to be a minor.

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Actually, any whichway you look at it,2012 has not been agreat year. In Indiawe ended the year

on a very sour note with deathof a rape victim who had beenbrutally attacked. What wasshocking about the aftermath ofthe attack and the protests thatfollowed was that it brought outthe worst in people.

What was really weirdwas how people wrote lengthycolumns arguing for a mind-set change among men. Yes,there needs to be a change, butenforcing that change will notcome solely through educa-tion. To borrow a line from afriend, there needs to be cer-tainty in punishment in allcrimes. Fast-track justiceought not to be the exceptionbut the rule, for all crimes.

How many readers

remember the outrage that fol-lowed after the tragic story ofBaby Falak was brought outearlier this year. Or the storiesof young boys who were mur-dered because they stood up togoons? We, the middle class,privately educated Indians, atthe drop of a hat try and getourselves onto a televisioncamera, and yet we forget. Wehave attention deficit disorderas a society. We can’t let crim-inals keep on getting awaywith murder and rape or evenpetty crimes.

Criminals feel an impuni-ty nowadays because caseslinger through the justice sys-tem, and some of these crim-inals enter politics becausepolitical parties of all hueswelcome bahubalis into poli-tics. That needs to change ifwe are to change — if India is to change.

But, enough of that. 2012was also a year when technol-ogy did not progress in theway that it should have.Instead, technology compa-nies found themselves incourt quibbling over minutae.Yes, Apple did launch a small-er version of the iPad andmade changes to the iPhone.Yet, unlike in the past fewyears, there was no one out-standing technology of 2012.Several technologies, howev-er, were showcased and evenlaunched this year on a lim-ited commercial scale, such aswireless charging, which holdsimmense potential for thefuture, but is far too expensiveand rather exclusive for now.

In India in 2012, one ofthe enduring arguments of theyear was around the risks, realand imaginary, of mobile radi-

ation. There’s no doubt thatradiation is dangerous, but liv-ing as we do in environmentswith badly sheathed electricalwiring, to argue that 25 yearsafter widespread deployment,mobile radiation is a killer, is bizarre.

With almost every humanbeing on the planet covered bymobile phone, and now notjust having access to the worldby voice but also a world ofinformation, it must be saidthat mobile phones have doneimmensely more good thanany harm whatsoever.

It would be interesting tosee whether any applicationsare developed in the comingyear that can improve person-al security. Such as a methodfor women to press a buttonon their phone in case of anemergency which could beused, in conjunction with

Global Positioning Satellitesand mapping software, tolocate them. Such technologiesare all commercially availableand affordable and can also beused for other purposes suchas locating old people withdementia, who sometimeswalk off quite forgetfully.

Personally, I believe that2013 will finally be the yearwhen high-speed and afford-able data solutions are madeavailable to a bulk of Indians.Several million Indians havetasted life with data connec-tions, even if it is to watchfunny clips on YouTube.

Instead of arguing abouthow best to control content onthe internet — which in anycase is not possible — thepoliticians ought to sit downwith global technology compa-nies and Indian serviceproviders to see how best to give

a billion people access to reliablehigh-speed internet over the air-waves. That will need innova-tive and unique solutions andought to bring out the best inIndia and Indians.

If we are able to make thesechanges in data connectivityand access, we ought to also beable to change the way wetransact. Several other poorcountries have made massiveleaps in mobile money technol-ogy, there is no reason India asociety which runs on papermoney to make a move tobecoming a cashless, rather aless cash intensive society.

There is a lot of hope andpossibility that exists in 2013, andwe should not waste the oppor-tunities that we have wasted in2012. We should not lose hopeand we must make 2013 a greatyear where technology aids inchanging us.

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The past few days in Delhihave been tense, to say thevery least. A lot of rage, fearand helplessness was stirredfollowing the gang rape inci-

dent in a moving bus on the night ofDecember 16, 2012, and it was mani-fested in the protests that broke out.The protests sustained for days at anend, despite all deterrents (closedMetro stations and battalions of policein riot-gear stationed all over thecity). Additionally, a debate has beensparked about women’s safety, rape cul-ture and delayed or denied justice.Some will claim that “India is burning”,but the fact remains that this week thespotlight turns to an issue which hashaunted women, their mothers andgrandmothers, for who knows howlong. Today, I write to share my side ofthe story, as a concerned citizen, as awoman-at-risk and as a peaceful pro-tester from (we are told) the “world’slargest democracy”, where theConstitution grants each citizen free-dom, justice and equality.

On December 25, 2012, I was atJantar Mantar in Delhi with my moth-er and a friend to participate in a peace-ful protest. The issue? The rape of‘Amanat’ and countless other women.We hadn’t been there long when Ireceived a call from a school-friend, say-ing a friend of ours had been detainedat Parliament Street Police Station. Ibegan trying to contact the detainedfriend on his phone, but to no avail. Wewere in conversation with a few womenat the venue when we were approachedby two other distressed-looking women,who claimed they had seen somewomen protesters being dragged off bythe cops and taken to Parliament StreetPolice Station. All the women with memade a collective decision to walk up tothe thana and ask about the release ofthe detainees. At this time, I continuedto live-tweet about the protests and mywhereabouts, to alert activist friends andmedia persons, just in case things wentwrong. We arrived at the thana, volun-tarily, just after 4:30pm, and asked tospeak with the female officer-in-charge.She wasn’t present.

My mother tried to contact SumanNalwa, Additonal Deputy Commissionerof Police, on the helpline number set upto serve as special unit for women andchildren, but she mumbled somethingabout “preventive custody” and hung upthe call. My question is, to prevent what?Peace? Solutions? We were met withmuch hostility from the male cops pre-sent, who refused to give us their namesand ranks and kept their badges hiddenunder their jackets. When we asked themon what grounds they had detained thosewomen protesters, one constable (lateridentified as Station House Office DineshKumar) said that they had been bookedunder Section 65 of the Delhi Police Act.He also said that he wouldn’t release themand that if we didn’t leave the premises,he would have us detained too. We ofcourse refused to go. The SHO then gaveorders to the female constables to dragus inside and detain us. It all happenedvery quickly. One woman protester hadher hair pulled by a female constable wholashed out at me when I tried to inter-vene. I too was pulled by my hair and the

SHO himself pushed me to a wall. I hitmy head pretty bad. My mother man-aged to extricate me from that situationand we were all forced into a room withthe other detainees. Inside, I found myfriend who had earlier been held up. Feartook over and I burst into tears, unableto understand why we were being treat-ed like criminals. Once I calmed downI began tweeting up a storm. The objec-tive was to report the police brutalitiesthat we had faced. We were detained fora long while and told that we would bereleased only if we swore not to talk tothe media about anything. I reachedhome with my mother late and was hop-ing the ordeal was over, but I was far fromcorrect. At precisely 10.24pm, my moth-er received a threatening phone-callordering her to bring me to the thanaimmediately and have me apologise forsupposedly “spreading lies about thepolice to the media”.

If this is the kind of treatment thata group of educated, relatively well-con-nected women in the capital receive, Icannot even begin to imagine the night-mare that women in other parts of thecountry, the Dalit/Adivasi women, andeconomically weak women, must begoing through day in and day out. Itpains me to hear about the girl in Patialawho was driven to suicide because ofbrazen police negligence and insensitiv-ity. Her story is no different than of the

thousands of survivors of unreportedrape cases. This is our reality. As if rapeisn’t bad enough, the police everywhereseem to add fuel to the fire.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that allpolice personnel are bad. Of course thereare cops out there who are doing a goodjob, but the slack attitude and the stone-age mindset of the police is visible toeveryone, and most terrifyingly towomen and young girls. Between goingstraight home after being mugged or sex-ually assaulted and approaching thepolice for help, a girl will choose the for-mer option. We’re living between arock and a hard place. Women live withthe threat of harassment throughout theirnatural lives and they don’t feel safearound the police either. When protec-tors become assailants, we have a realproblem on our hands.

The irony of it all is the mostpainful to me: I go to Jantar Mantar toask for the safety of women, and on thatvery same day I get roughed up andthreatened. Most parents wouldrespond to such incidents by askingtheir daughters to remain home (whichis supposedly safer) and keep awayfrom protests. This erodes even thesmall freedoms we have. We don’t needsuch escapist solutions. It simply per-petuates the idea that rapists areunstoppable monsters, that there isnothing to be done but to retreat. We

need to take a wholly different approachto the issue. I saw many posters at theprotests that read, “Don’t teach yourdaughters not to get raped, teach yoursons not to rape”. We need to come upwith solutions that prevent rape andsexual assault from happening at all,whether in the public domain, or evenat home (people still don’t considermarital rape) The assailant must benamed and shamed. A rape survivor isnot a zinda laash (living corpse), but isa person who has been through hell, isno less a human as a consequence andis deserving of a full life.

Even as I write this, I hear of anoth-er girl, Sakshi, being brutalised andhumiliated in that same ParliamentStreet Police station, and several morerapes being reported across the country.The need of the hour is a more respon-sive and responsible police force that hasundergone rigorous gender sensitisationtraining; immediate action against sex-offenders and errant police staff; leaderswho are willing to step up to the platewith concrete solutions and not emptypromises. We, the people, are sick andtired of being treated like second-classcitizens with a justice-rate to match. Wewant changes here and now.

(The writer is a student of Lady ShriRam College for Women in Delhi, andone of the anti-rape protesters who facedpolice high-handedness)

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1In its biggest acquisi-tion ever, State-owned Oil & Natural

Gas Corp (ONGC) agreedto buy US energy giantConocoPhillips’ 8.4 percent stake in the Kashaganoilfield in Kazakhstan forabout $5 billion. ONGCVidesh Ltd, the overseasarm of the State explorer,would pay a base price of $4.25 billion plus a shareof working capital and other cash calls together withinterest for the 8.4 per cent stake in the field that pro-duces 370,000 barrels per day (18.5 million tons a year)of crude oil.

This was the biggest acquisition by OVL, sur-passing its $2.2 billion buyout of Russia-focusedImperial Energy in January 2009. It was the biggestacquisition by an Indian companies this year, and thesixth largest in the history.

2Hinduja Group firmGulf Oil acquired US-based Houghton

International for $1.045billion (about over �5,747crore) after conclusion ofnecessary regulatoryapprovals.

The acquisition of thisspeciality chemical makerwould make Gulf Oil the world’s 9th largest lubricantcompany, without affecting its financials as the pur-chase has been made through “a step-down subsidiarystructure” in the US and UK.

3Mumbai-based Piramal Healthcare acquiredDecision Resources Group, a US-based compa-ny in the healthcare information segment for

about �3,400 crore.Decision Resources Group provides web-enabled

research, predictive analytics via proprietary databasesand consulting services to the global healthcare indus-try, and 48 of the top 50 global pharma companiesare its customers, Piramal said on Wednesday.

Piramal Healthcare sold its domestic medicinesbusiness in 2010 to Abbott for �17,000 crore and laterstreamlined its business, foraying into the financialservices sector.

4World’s largest spirits maker Diageo Plc acquired53.4 per cent stake in United Spirits for �11,166.5crore in a multi-structured deal, which has pro-

vided Vijay Mallya a breather from troubles emanatingfrom the grounded Kingfisher Airlines.

Mallya would continue to remain chairman ofUSL, and another UB Group executive will benamed president. Currently, Ashok Capoor of UBGroup is the managing director (MD) of the company.Diageo would nominate the MD and the chief finan-cial officer (CFO).

5A Singapore-based fibre and pulp maker agreedto pay 13 times its market cap to buy anIndonesian coal major, and help GMR and the

S i n a r M a sgroup get alisting in theisland state forits coal assets.

Bangalore-based GMRgroup, whichbuys coal fromIndonesia, and a company owned by Indonesia’s SinarMas, have agreed to transfer their joint stakes inGolden Energy to Singapore’s United Fiber System(UFS) for about 2.6 billion Singapore dollars ($2.05

billion). UFS is a pulp producer with interests in con-struction.

Golden Energy owns coal mines in Indonesia andis jointly owned by GMR Infrastructure (30 percent)and PT Dian Swastatika Sentosa (66.99percent), a sub-sidiary of Sinar Mas group.

United Fiber will pay the shareholders of GoldenEnergy- GMR and DSS - in shares for this transac-tion, giving the two stakeholders near complete con-trol of the company which has a market cap of 200million Singapore dollars

6The UK-based Vedanta Resources Plc will mergeits Indian firms - Sesa Goa and Sterlite Industries- into a single entity Sesa Sterlite and also offload

debt of $9 billion (�45,000 crore) on it. Under themerger, three Sesa Goa shares will be issued for fiveSterlite shares.

Vedanta will also transfer to the new entity itsshare holding of 38.8 per cent in Cairn India alongwith a debt of $5.9 billion. Sesa Goa will pay a nom-inal consideration of $1 for Cairn India acquisition.After the transfer, Sesa Sterlite will have a 58.9 per centshareholding in Cairn India. There will not be an openoffer for Cairn India shareholders as there is no changein promoters.

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Corporation VideshLimited (OVL)recently announcedthat it had boughtUS energy companyHess Corp’s stake inin Azeri, Chirag andGuneshli (AGC) group of oil fields for $1 billion mak-ing its debut in Azerbaijan.

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�$� �����: Flying permit ofKingfisher Airlines, which hasbeen suspended by aviationregulator DGCA, expirestoday, but rules allow that itcan be renewed within twoyears.

The beleaguered carrierhas submitted a revival plan toDirectorate General of CivilAviation (DGCA), which hasasked for more details regard-ing how it would fund the plangiven the precarious financialsituation the company is in.

“We have not taken anydecision as yet on Kingfisher’slicence. We are waiting formore details,” highly-placedDGCA sources said, adding

there is “nothing concrete onthe table as of now” as far asKingfisher’s revival plan isconcerned.

While its lessors and ser-vice providers like AirportsAuthority of India (AAI) areinsisting that the airline should

not be allowed to fly till it clearsall dues to them, airline sourcessay as per DGCA rules, theyhave a two-year window torenew the ScheduledOperator’s Permit (SOP).

SOP was suspended onOctober 20, capping threeweeks of lockout in the cash-strapped carrier preceded by astrike by its employeesdemanding payment ofsalaries.

Kingfisher is saddled witha loss of �8,000 crore and adebt burden of another over�7,524 crore.

It was issued an airlinelicence on August 26, 2003,which was actually in the name

of Air Deccan that was boughtover by the liquor baron VijayMallya-owned carrier. Thislicence is valid till today.

Kingfisher CEO SanjayAggarwal had informed DGCAchief Arun Mishra that the air-line would require about �652crore over the next 12 monthsto run its operations and theamount would be put in by itsparent company UB Group. Ofthis, �120 crore would be need-ed to meet salary arrears.

However, there has been noword from the UB Group as tohow it would commit the fund-ing and raise it from where.Banks have been unwilling tofund the airline. ���

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�$������: Flying out of Delhiwould become cheaper fromTuesday, with the developmentfee (DF) charged by the oper-ator of IGI airport here beingreduced by �100 for domesticand �700 per international pas-senger.

The decision of GMR-ledDelhi International AirportLimited (DIAL) to slash thecharges followed a directive byAirports Economic RegulatoryAuthority (AERA) for charging�100 and �600 per embarkingdomestic and international pas-senger respectively fromJanuary one.

Civil Aviation Minister AjitSingh had earlier directed DIALand Mumbai InternationalAirport Limited (MIAL) toabolish DF at the two airportswith effect from Tuesday.

Following this, DIAL hadmoved AERA, which, afterconsultations, decided to slashthe rate which would remaineffective till April 2016. Tilltoday, DF being charged atDelhi airport was �200 and�1300 for domestice and inter-national passengers respec-tively.

Welcoming the order,DIAL said in a statement themeasure would “enable air-lines to reduce the overall trav-el cost of passengers, thus giv-ing a boost to the Indian avia-tion sector.”

In October, the Ministerhad also directed AirportsAuthority of India (AAI) not tolevy DF at Chennai and Kolkataairports, which are being mod-ernised by it.

AAI was also asked toinfuse additional equity ofapproximately �288 crore inMIAL and �102 crore in DIAL,against its 26 per cent share inthe equity in them.

In case DF is abolished, theexpected financing gap forMIAL will be estimated atabout �4,200 crore and forDIAL at about �1,175 crore.

While DF is levied tomeet cash flow requirementsbefore completion of an air-port upgrade project, UserDevelopment Fee (UDF) ischarged for using the com-pleted facility. At present,DF is levied at private-ledDelhi and Mumbai airports,among others. � �

�$������: Finance Ministry on Monday sought moreinformation from IKEA for its India investment plansand will take up the Swedish furniture major’s pro-posal to open cafeterias at its proposed mega retailoutlets next week.

“IKEA’s proposal will be taken up next week,”Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram saidafter the Foreign Investment Promotion Board(FIPB) reviewed the application.

The FIPB, headed by Mayaram, has already rec-ommended permission to IKEA to invest �4,200 crorefor undertaking single-brand retailing of its products.The recommendation has been forwarded to CabinetCommittee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for finalapproval.

An official in the Department of Industrial Policyand Promotion (DIPP) said that FIPB has asked IKEA

to provide more information regarding its investmentplans in India.

“No decision was taken today. More informationhas been sought from IKEA,” Mayaram said.

Following a representation from the Swedish firm,DIPP had recently forwarded a request to FIPB forreviewing its November 20 decision giving only partapproval to IKEA’s plan.

Batting for IKEA’s proposal, Commerce andIndustry Minister Anand Sharma last week had saidthat government has taken a favourable view on IKEA’srequest.

“All the stores globally whether IKEA or someother single brand retailers, where people shop for longtime... There are cafeterias inside. “The governmenthas taken...Note of the representation that IKEA hasmade in this regard and a favourable view has been

taken so that we accept their global model and theprocess of FIPB’s formal approval is currently under-way,” he had said.

Sources said that besides furniture, theScandinavian firm in its original application hadsought Government approval to sell items such as tex-tile products, consumer electronics, leather products,lifestyle products, and food and beverages to be servedat its restaurants and cafes.

The company had envisaged an investment of�10,500 crore in single-brand retail trading after Indiaallowed 100 per cent FDI in the segment.

IKEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer, oper-ates 336 stores in 44 countries. It plans to set up 10furnishing and homeware stores as well as allied infra-structure in over 10 years in India. Subsequently, itplans to open 15 more stores. � �

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the Government in a recentinternal review of the econ-omy, mainly of its key eco-nomic indicators - inflation,trade deficit and industrialgrowth - all of which showedimprovement, has expressedhope that the slump in theeconomy is expected to peterout and positive growth isexpected in FY14.

According to off icialsources, during the review ofthe financial markets whichinvolved several key min-istr ies l ike Ministr y ofFinance, Corporate Affairs,and Consumer Affairs apartfrom the PMO and HomeMinistry, it was indicatedthat with domestic inflationfalling to 7.2 per cent inNovember 2012 compared to7.5 per cent during the cor-respondent period in 2011, islikely to remain stable.

In the review - whichbasically is a comparativestudy of the financial marketsin the month of November2012 with that of the corre-sponding period of 2011 - itwas felt that inflation is large-ly due to a dip in fuel andmanufacturing inf lation.Sources pointed out that soft-ening of manufacturing infla-tion indicated weak demandin the economy.

On core inflation, thereview said that it declined to4.5 per cent in November2012 frm 5.2 per cent in thesame month in 2011 andhere too it was mainly due toweak demand in the econo-my.

It said that the trend ofweak demand could translateinto lower core inflation andin the coming months, it isexpected to continue giventhe weak economy. On thedeclining fuel and powerinflation (which came downto 10 per cent year on year inNovember 2012 compared tocompared to 11.7 per cent), itwas obser ved that thishapped mainly due to falling

petrol prices.In the coming months,

the Government is expectingthat the inflation in fuel andpower sector would remainstable, unless some geo-polit-ical event leads to a hike infuel prices.

On trade deficit, thereview noted that it improvedonly marginally to $19.3 bil-lion in November 2012 from$21 billion during the corre-sponding period, led by a 4.2per cent drop in exports evenas imports grew 6.4 per cent.Despite the fall, it was felt thatthe deficit is still high andthis is mainly on account ofincreased oil imports andweak imports.

In all, it was felt thatwhile exports are weak andcontracting on year on yearbasis, sequential movement isvisible in them since the lastcouple of months, reflectingstabilisation in externaldemand.

At the same time, thereview cautioned that highlevel of oil imports posed arisk to the trade deficit esti-mates of $185 billion forFY13. India’s external com-mercial borrowings (ECBs),which is the largest compo-nent of its external debt,increased further in October2012. Overall though, theborrowings for FY13 isexpected to be 10 per centlower than last year’s $36billion. ECBs are the largestcomponent of the country’sexternal debt at 30 per cent,the analysis said.

Industrial growth, itnoted, jumped sharply inOctober 2012 to 8.2 per centcompared to 0.7 per centdecline in September 2012,which was much aboveexpectation. This increasedgrowth, the analysis said,when seen in conjunctionwith other trends like sequen-tial improvement in exports,uptrend in purchase man-agers’ index order book, risein cement despatches, amongother factors, points towardsbottoming out of the eco-nomic activity, although atweak levels.

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In a slight improvement overFY12, Government’s fiscal

deficit in April-Novemberperiod of the current fiscalstood at �4.13 lakh crore,which is 80.4 per cent of theBudgetary Estimates (BE).

In absolute terms, the fis-cal deficit - gap betweenexpenditure and revenue col-lection - was �4.13 lakh croreduring the first eight monthsof the current fiscal, accordingto Controller General ofAccounts (CGA) data releasedwhich was released onMonday.

This is slightly better thanthe fiscal deficit position lastyear when it was 85.6 per centof the Budget target. Theimprovement is mainly onaccount of some tightening onthe expenditure front.

Net tax receipts during the

April-November period stoodat �3.7 lakh crore, while totalexpenditure was about �8.67lakh crore.

For the full fiscal endingMarch 2013, the Governmenthad budgeted the fiscal deficitat �5.14 lakh crore, or 5.1 percent of the GDP. However, itraised the target to 5.3 per centof GDP last month.

The fiscal deficit was 5.8

per cent of GDP in 2011-12.The high fuel, fertiliser andfood subsidy outgo is one ofthe major reasons for the bal-looning fiscal deficit.

The Government hasalready imposed measures likerationalisation of expenditureand optimisation of availableresources to improve fiscaldeficit condition.

This includes 10 per centmandatory cut on non-planexpenditure in the currentyear, ban on holding of meet-ings and conferences at 5-starhotels, ban on creation ofplan and non-plan posts andrestrictions on foreign travel.

In order to bring down thesubsidy, the Government inSeptember raised the dieselprice by a steep �5 per litreand capped the number ofsubsidised cooking gas cylin-ders to six per household in ayear.

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIAMINISTRY OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE

LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE & SMT. S. K. HOSPITALNEW DELHI

STORES SECTIONOPEN TENDER NOTICE

Tender Enquiry No: Stores/LHMC/Steam Cleaning-535On behalf of Hon'ble President of India, Director, L.H.M.C. &

Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi, invited sealed tenders in the pre-scribed form, from registered / well established/reputed firms for 06(Six) Hygienic Steam Vacuum Cleaning System along with one skilledmanpower in each machine at L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital, NewDelhi.The tender documents should be submitted in Two Bid System.

Interested parties, who have sufficient experience in the field,can collect detailed information/ Terms and conditions of the ten-der personally from Stores Section, Room No. 10, AdministrativeBlock L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital. New Delhi.The cost of the ten-der document Rs. 500/-, which may be paid by DD/Pay order in favourof Director. L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital. New Delhi, payable atNew Delhi or depositing tender cost in the Account Section ofL.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi.The tender document canalso be downloaded from website of MoHFW & CPP Portal. ADemand Draft of Rs. 500/- to be submitted separately along withthe tender documents.

Sealed Quotation should be superscripted as "Quotation forHygienic Steam Vacuum Cleaning System" alongwith a DD/Payorder for Rs. 2,00,000/- (Rs.Two Lacks only) in favour of Director,L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi as earnest money maybe dropped in the TENDER BOX kept at Stores Section, Room No.10. Administrative Block L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi.

IMPORTANT DATESu Bidding Documents are available for sale at this office from 10.30

AM to 02.30 PM and from 03.00 PM to 04.00 PM, on all work-ing days (Monday to Friday). from 01st January 2012 to till aday prior to the closing date of receipt of Bid indicated above.

u Closing Date and Time for : 31st January 2013,Receipt of Bids 12.00 Noon

u Bids Opening Date and Time : 31st January 2013,12.30 Noon

The Agencies having proper working office in Delhi with fulladdress, Phone Nos & Fax Nos will only be considered.The Director.L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital. New Delhi reserves the right to rejectany or all tender without assigning any reasons whatsoever.

Sd/-Avanish SinghStores Officer

Lady Hardinge Medical College &davp 17148/11/0014/1213 Smt. S. K. Hospital

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Top earning Central PublicSector Enterprises will have

to double their minimumexpenditure on corporate socialresponsibility (CSR) frombeginning of 2013-14 fiscal, asper the new norms of theDepartment of PublicEnterprises.

“CPSEs earning net profit ofover �500 crore will have to raisetheir minimum expenditure onCSR to 1 per cent from the nextfiscal from existing 0.5 percent,” Department of PublicEnterprises (DPE) Secretary OP Rawat told the news agency.

Under the new norms,PSUs with net profit of over�500 crore in the previous yearwill have to earmark 1 per centof it from the current level of 0.5per cent for carrying out suchactivities. But the upper limit of2 per cent remains unchanged.

As per the existing norms,CPSEs whose net profit is �500crore and above in the previousyear, their CSR spending rangesbetween 0.5 to 2 per cent of theirprofits.

However, the new guide-lines related to allocation ofbudget for CSR will be enforcedtill the time new companies lawcomes into effect and once it isimplemented the quantum ofearmarking funds for CSRwould change for all companies,including PSUs.

“The suggested slabs ofbudgetary allocation for CSRwould stand modified as andwhen the new company lawbrings in provisions in thisregard, which will need to be

followed by all companiesincluding the CPSEs,” therevised norms stated.

Under the present system,there is also a provision of aminimum expenditure of �3crore on CSR activities forCPSEs, having a net profit of �100-500 crore.

“Under the revised norms,the minimum requirement of �3 crore has been removed as this

created anomalous situationvis-a-vis CPSEs in the higherslab of over Rs 500 crore netprofit,” Rawat said.

Besides, CSR and sustain-able development would becombined into one set of guide-lines.

At present, CSR and sus-tainable development are twoseparate subjects and are dealtdifferently for the purpose of

Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) evalua-tion.

Once the revised guidelineswould be in place, the empha-sis of CSR and sustainabilitywould be on capacity building,inclusive socio-economicgrowth, environment protec-tion, green and energy efficienttechnologies promotion, back-ward regions development andupliftment of under- privi-leged people.

“We have moved fromfinancial CSR to all encom-passing business conductguidelines,” Rawat said.

However, the percentage ofearmarking funds remains thesame for PSUs having net prof-it less of than � 100 crore.

These companies arerequired to earmark 3 per centof their income for undertak-ing such activities. To addressthe issue of PSUs not fullyspending theallocated fundsearmarked for CSR, the gov-ernment has made it manda-tory for these companies todisclose the reasons for thesame.

As per the new norms, theunspent amount of the budgetallocated for CSR and sustain-ability activities for a year willhave to be spent within the nexttwo financial years, failingwhich, it would be transfered toa “Sustainability Fund” to becreated separately for CSR andsustainability activities.

Besides, the revised normsunderscore the need for the topmanagement of PSUs to beactively involved in carryingforward the agenda of CSRand sustainability.

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Growth rate of eight core sec-tor industries declined to 1.8

per cent in November from 7.8per cent in the same month lastyear due to drop in productionof coal, natural gas and cement.

The eight core sector indus-tries had registered eight-monthhigh growth of 6.5 per cent inOctober 2012.

The decline in growth inNovember, 2012, was due to neg-ative growth witnessed in coal,natural gas and cement sectorsand drop in growth rates of elec-tricity, steel and petroleum refin-ery products, according to theofficial data released on Monday.

The cumulative expansionof the eight industries -- crudeoil, natural gas, cement, coal,electricity, steel, petroleum refin-ery products and fertilisers -- wasdown at 3.5 per cent in April-November 2012 against 4.8 per

cent in the same period last year.The eight industries have a

weight of 37.9 per cent in theoverall Index of IndustrialProduction (IIP).

Production of natural gasand coal contracted by 15.2 percent and 4.4 per cent, respec-tively in November. Cementoutput too shrunk by 0.2 percent as against 17 per centgrowth in the same month lastyear.

Steel and electricity pro-duction slowed to 6 per centand 2.3 per cent, respectively. Inthe same month last year, it was10.5 per cent and 14.4 per centin that order.

Petroleum refinery outputalso slowed down to 6.6 percent against to 11.2 per cent lastyear.

However, production offertiliser and crude oil grew by5 per cent and 0.8 per cent inNovember respectively.

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The Empowered Group ofMinisters on spectrum,

headed by Finance PChidambaram, is scheduled tomeet on January 3 to discussdetails of the spectrum auctiondue this fiscal.

“EGoM is meeting thisThursday,” official sources said.

The EGoM, they said, willdiscuss the auction plan pre-pared by the Department ofTelecom (DoT) after the Cabinetapproved the sale of unsoldGSM spectrum in 1800 Mhzband and in the premium 900Mhz spectrum band.

The government is learnt tobe preparing fresh plans to auc-tion the radiowaves that canfetch around �39,895 crore.

As per the proposal, thegovernment may get around�25,316 crore from the auctionin the premium 900 Mhz band,and �14,579 crore from auctionof unsold spectrum in the 1800Mhz band.

For the CDMA (800 Mhz)band, DoT may propose eitherto recommend the matter toTelecom Regulatory Authorityof India or auction theradiowaves in succession toGSM spectrum.

DoT may sell more spec-trum in Delhi, Mumbai,Karnataka and Rajasthan in the1800 Mhz band, compared tothe quantum it had earlier putup for auction that ended onNovember 14.

“Spectrum held by existingoperators, whose licences arecoming up for renewal, is alsobeing put for auction,” said anofficial source.

DoT may put 15 Mhz of

spectrum in 1800 Mhz band(used for 2G GSM services)amounting to 12 blocks in Delhiand Mumbai for auction atreserve price of � 485.15 croreand �474.92 crore per block,respectively, they said.

The government in the pre-vious auction had put up only 10Mhz for auction, divided in 8blocks of 1.25 Mhz each, for �693.06 crore in Delhi and�678.45 crore in Mumbai whichattracted no bidders.

In Rajasthan and Karnataka,it will auction same quantity of11 blocks spectrum at reserveprice of �46.96 crore and �231.08 crore, respectively.

For the premium 900 Mhzband, which provides doublecoverage of the signals com-pared to signals in 1800 Mhzband, the government is learntto have fixed minimum price of� 970.30 crore per block forDelhi, �949.84 crore per blockfor Mumbai and � 227.44 croreper block for Kolkata circle.

The government may auc-tion 15 Mhz of spectrum in 900Mhz band in Delhi andMumbai circle and 12.5 Mhzairwaves in Kolkata.

As per the draft propos-al , new players may berequired to bid for minimumof 4 blocks in both 1800 Mhzand 900 Mhz band in Delhiand Mumbai, sources Newentrants may have to bid for4 blocks in RajasthanandKarnataka where 1800 Mhzband will be put up for auc-tion, the sources said.

However, for auction of900 Mhz in Kolkata, newplayers may be required to bidfor minimum of one blockonly.

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People turned to the Internetto buy everything from dia-

pers to books, houses and evengroceries this year, pushing e-commerce revenues in the coun-try to $14 billion with the pos-sibility of even higher earningsin 2013.

Factors like spiralling infla-tion and slower economicgrowth failed to dampen theonline shopping frenzy as moreand more companies opted forselling wares through the inter-net route, offering innumerableoptions and discounts to buyers.

“Increasing Internet pene-tration and availability of morepayment options boosted the e-commerce industry in 2012.Besides electronics, customertraction grew considerably incategories like fashion and jew-

ellery, home and kitchen andlifestyle accessories like watchesand perfumes,” Snapdeal VicePresident (Marketing) SandeepKomaravelly said.

While travel still comprisesa significant portion of the e-commerce market, other seg-ments are catching up fast.

“Apparel, books andlifestyle categories (beauty,footwear and health) will drivee - c o m m e r c e , ”HomeShop18.Com Founderand CEO Sundeep Malhotrasaid, adding that relatively sta-ble and growing domesticeconomy will also be majorgrowth drivers. “The comingyear looks promising for theindustry.”

According toPeppercloset.Com ownerSumeet Arora, e-commercesegment has doubled to $14 bil-

lon this year from $ 6.3 billionin 2011. This figure is likely toreach 38 million by 2015.

So, what can one expect in2013 from the thousands of e-commerce websites.

“More personalised offers,loyalty programmes and bettercustomer care is what most e-commerce companies wouldfocus on to offer customers aricher, more relevant onlineexperience,” an industry analystsaid.

According toHomeShop18.Com, an inno-vation that will “revolutionise”e-commerce in India is costoptimisation through ware-house and logistics manage-ment that will enable compa-nies to do profitable business.

While players like eBayand IndiatimesShopping havebeen around

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Retail inflation for industrial workers moved up marginally to 9.55per cent in November on account of surge in the prices of food

items, cooking gas, medicines and bus fares.The rate of price rise was 9.34 per cent in the same month last

year.The retail inflation measured in terms of Consumer Price Indexfor industrial workers was 9.6 per cent in October this year, a LabourMinistry statement said here.

Food inflation was 10.85 per cent in November as against 7.61per cent during the same month last year, and 9.91 per cent inOctober.

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Though quite late in the day,the Coal Ministry on

Monday, began the process ofgiving away coal blocks meantfor state-owned entities throughthe Government dispensationroute, under which 17 reserveswould be given away mainly topower companies for captivepurpose.

“It has been decided tooffer 17 coal blocks (14 coalblocks for end use i.E. Forpower and 3 coal blocks formining) to differentG o v e r n m e n tC ompanies/Under taking(Central and State),” the CoalMinistry said in a statement.

The development comesin the wake of the govern-ment's repeated announce-ments to make policy formines allotment transparent.

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OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER (SW)-IIDELHI JAL BOARD: DELHI SARKAR

OVER HEAD TANK: NAJAFGARH: NEW DELHI-110043CORRIGENDUM

Due to technical reasons date of submission of tendersvide NIT No. 13(2012-13) published vide tender ID No.2012_DBJ_25834_1 is extended for 03.01.2013 upto02.45 P.M. The amount of Earnest Money may be read asRs. 64,100/-. Other terms and conditions shall remain same.

ISSUED BY P.R.O. (WATER)Advt. No. J.S.V. 2012-13/484

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murder of an Indian immigranthas been ordered to undergo apsychiatric evaluation after shelaughed at her arraignmenttelling the judge she thought itwould be “cool” to push the vic-tim in front of a train.

Erika Menendez has beencharged with murder as a hatecrime for pushing 46-year-oldSunando Sen in front of anoncoming train at a subway sta-tion in Queens on December 27.

Sen, who owned a printingand copying business, would becremated today by his friendsafter it emerged that he has nofamily in India.

A Kolkata native, Senlived with roommates in asmall apartment in Queensand was unmarried.Menendez was arraigned onSaturday night but showed noremorse for her actions dur-ing the court hearing.

According to the QueensDistrict Attorney’s office,Menendez laughed uncontrol-lably and smiled during thehearing, telling prosecutorsthat she pushed Sen onto thesubway tracks for no reason.

“I pushed a Muslim,”Assistant District AttorneyMichelle Kaszuba quotedMenendez as telling detectivesduring the hearing. “There is noreason. I just pushed him in frontof the train because I thought itwould be cool. I just pushed himbecause he was Muslim.”

Asked if Menendez showed

any regret for the crime,Kaszuba said she told author-ities: “Nope, I don’t like toregret anything. It is what it is.”

Menendez’s behaviour atthe hearing even infuriatedJudge Gia Morris who orderedthe woman’s defence lawyerDietrich Epperson to “Tell yourclient this is not funny. You’regoing to have to have yourclient stop laughing.”

Epperson told the judgethat Menendez’s behaviour incourt was not different fromhow she had been behavingsince her arrest and said herclient did not think the pro-ceedings were funny.

Morris ordered thatMenendez be held without bailand undergo a psychiatric eval-uation before her court hearingon January 14. Menendez hasnot entered any plea. Menendeztold police that before pushingSen, she spent time with herboyfriend in Bronx, went toTimes Square and smoked mar-ijuana, Kaszuba said.

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to a New York hospital afterdoctors discovered ablood clot during a fol-low-up examination of aconcussion she had suf-fered earlier this monthfollowing dehydrationand a fall.

Clinton, who wasadmitted to the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital onSunday, is expected to remainthere for at least 48 hours asdoctors monitor her condi-tion and treat her with anti-coagulants, the StateDepartment said.

“Doctors will continue toassess her condition. They willdetermine if any further actionis required,” said Clinton’sspokesperson and DeputyAssistant Secy of State PhilippeReines, without specifyingwhere the clot was discovered.

The 65-year-old Clinton,who had announced long agoher decision to leave office atthe end of Obama’s first term,was earlier planning to returnto work this week after recu-perating at home over the past

three weeks.Clinton, who has

maintained a gru-elling work schedulethrough her tenurehaving set an officialtravel record by visit-ing as many as 112countries and logging

nearly a million miles, had suf-fered a stomach virus earlierthis month, leading to dehy-dration, fainting and fall.

At that time, officials saidthe concussion that she suf-fered during the fall was “notsevere” and that Clinton wouldwork from home for the timebeing even as she recuperatedand doctors monitored hercondition. Her illness hadforced her to stay away fromthe crucial Congressional hear-ing on the Benghazi attack.

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Efforts to stave off the US“fiscal cliff ” were still on as

of Monday morning withDemocrats and Republicansmaking progress but still tofully reconcile their contrastingpositions even as the midnightdeadline was fast closing in.

Lawmakers indicated thatsome disputes had beenresolved between the two sides,but some crucial sticking pointsstill remained, leading to con-tinuation of talks between VicePresident Joe Biden and SenateRepublican Leader MitchMcConnell.

At the time of writing,doubts remained if the com-promise deal is hammered outand both the Senate and theHouse of Representatives passit within the next 15 hours, fail-ing which the US would beginits slide on the so-called cliffwith automatic tax hikes and

federal spend-ing cuts witheffect fromm i d n i g h t(10.30 amTuesday Indiatime).

S o m esenior law-makers indi-cated that “some deal” couldmaterialise and secure passageby both chambers before thedeadline, but without address-ing all the key issues.

“I think there is some goodnews,” DemocraticCongressman Chris VanHollen said on CNN. “I thinknow there’s a better than 50-50chance that we will avoid thefiscal cliff by midnight tonight.”

“It is a very open questionabout whether or not some-thing put together in the Senatewould be able to get enoughvotes in the House. But firstthings first. Let’s first see if theycan get an agreement in the

Senate,” he said, but declined toget into specifics even as heclaimed that Democrats haveshown a lot of flexibility “andnow we’re waiting for addi-tional f lexibility on theRepublican side”.

From the Republican side,a spokesman for SenatorMcConnell said: “The leader(McConnell) and the VP con-tinued their discussion lateinto the evening (on Sunday)and will continue to worktoward a solution.”

Although some reportsspoke of major progress witha near-agreement on extend-ing tax concessions to familiesearning up to $450,000 a year($400,000 for individuals),work was still on other stick-ing points. President Obamahad offered a $400,000 thresh-old earlier on, but made it sub-ject to a broader deal. Butsome other reports saidMcConnell still wanted itpegged higher at $550,000.

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Idon’t have to think too hard to talk about a fewstrange things that we never thought, until a

few years back, will become a part of our lives.Or let’s say we will become used to them.

So here goes the list:

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in the last few years. People didn’t even know thatsuch a concept can exist where one person con-quers the stage and takes the responsibility ofmaking everyone laugh. Options of live enter-tainment were limited to dance and singingshows. It was only a few years back that we wit-nessed a revolution in the entertainment segmentand I am really happy that stand-up comedy isfinally finding grounds and is getting popular. Thenumber of artistes in the field is rising and thatis a good sign.

��@�� �������I remember being taught that you need to

look into the eyes of the person you are talkingto. It was supposed to be very impolite and peo-ple often used to take offence if you looked any-where else while talking to them. But today itseems everyone is comfortable, and if not com-fortable they have made themselves understandthat it is a norm for everyone to keep texting ortweeting even while they are talking to someoneelse or even dining. I don’t know about the rest,but to me it is very irritating when a person startstexting in middle of a conversation. It seems like

our world is limited to the 140 characters on somevirtual space.

$����:��������������I am sure that every Indian would be proud

of the kind of airports that we have today. No onewould have thought earlier that even we can havean airport where you can shop from the best ofthe brands, almost everything that you wantto, ranging from clothes to headsets. It is nomore a pain or any sort of discomfort tobe spending time at our airports withworld-class facilities.

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about any city and traffic seems tobe the problem. No one would haveimagined getting stuck in massivetraffics in tier two cities of thecountry. But today that’s so common.I think the rise in purchasing poweris to blame for that. People think theycan buy as many cars as they want.

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cared to know till a few yearsback about how much profit amovie made. Today every secondmovie is crossing a 100 crore mark— that’s a positive norm.

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Alot of efforts from last yearwill be spilling into 2013.

For many years, the musicscene in India has been domi-nated by classic rock and con-temporary pop but all that is

about to change. With therise of indigenous bands,we now have a multiplic-ity of genres backed bysubstance. Lip service is,

at last, a thing of thepast.

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made Latin music,especially salsa isquite a rage in India

but it remainedrestricted to thatalone.

Now, several his-panic artistes havecome to India andare taking theunderstanding ofLatin music tobeyond the

known bound-aries. There are two

or three bands inDelhi alone that aremaking Bossa Novaand Samba music. I

am also looking forward to adifferent kind of rock ‘n’ roll.One with a touch of burlesqueto it.

The earthy, primal is whatI am hoping to hear more of,not just punk versions. Bandslike Avi & The Uprising aremakers of the sound.

The idea is to make musica more diverse experience butnot at the cost of a good tune.Bringing in stand-up comedi-ans is yet another norm that wewill observe in music circles.Another very prominent normin 2013 will be live dancemusic, which will also includebhangra, salsa and the likes.

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music will tell you thatBollywood produced music isessentially crap. There used tobe a lot of soul involved tillsometime ago but now, it is alldigitally remastered noise. Imean, come on, is Honey SinghYo-Yo really music? Bhangra(and Punjabi music), is farmore evolved than that.Substance will be the keywordin 2013.

It is such a sad state ofaffairs. There are so many for-mer members of Bollywoodmusic orchestras who are pen-niless today. They do not havejobs and are forced to give upon their music. There are onlytwo of the original severalorchestra outfits that have sur-vived the times. I hope that in

2013 we will be able to eradi-cate the domination of filmmusic and choose to listen tomore home-grown sounds.

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by home-grown Indian bandswill find their place throughindependent radio. One of thepioneering efforts towards thesame is Radio 79. These are theefforts to bring out non-com-mercial, non-film music thatfocus on Indian bands. Theadvertising agencies think it istoo much of a risk to promotehome-grown talents. It is a verypeculiar Indian thing that Indiconcerts and sounds too closeto home are not considered“stylish” or “international” intaste. Unfortunately, the adver-tising agents who may not be

artistically enlightened or haveenough substance are dictatingthe taste of the people andtelling them what to listen to.

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are bound to express theiranguish at the recent social con-cerns through music. Peoplewill use the medium to expressthemselves. This is, again, aphenomenon ongoing for a fewyears but will be a norm thisyear. It will be a movementtowards maintaining a level ofawareness among people.Though not all outfits willbe protest bands but therewill definitely be ele-ments of saying whatneeds to be said int h e i rmusic.

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As days change to weeks, weekschange to months and months

become years, we do unconcious-ly become a part of the system lit-tle realising the changes that wehave adapted to. We seem to moveon in a trance-like state where thechange becomes a normal.

Hailing from a small town,even a few years back, I found itvery difficult to reach a destinationin Delhi. I stopped at almost everyred light asking for directions. Inever realised when I stopped ask-ing strangers and just used myGalaxy Tablet to reach my destina-tion. For that matter, my calls to mymother asking her how muchmasala I should put in the chickenreduced long back courtesy Google(She still feels her recipe is better).

Now when I come to think ofit, on the turn of every New Yearsomething or the other became anew normal for me. Instant plan-ning for parties and outingsbecame a part of my life themoment ATMs were introduced— swipe and I am done.

How many of us couldever think that regular peo-ple would leave work andsit at India Gate praying forsomeone they do not

know? The change of thecollective consciousness didcertainly not come overnight.It slowly became normal forus to count as a people, makeour voices heard and pray for anunknown person. I think arounda decade ago, when I was tryingto familiarise myself with themetro life sitting in a bus, aMaruti 800 was up in flames and

a woman driver was asking for help.No one stopped. The nine to fivejobs did not give them enough timefor social service. Now it is fairlynormal for a helpful crowd to col-lect and take care of a victim of anaccident.

Just the other day when I wasentering a five-star to have lunchanother “normal” struck me —frisking by security guards. Apolite namaste and a bigsmile later, I have beenfrisked by many asecurity guardsand I deal withit as if it hasbeen hap-pening

for ages. I have very convinientlyforgotten the days I could justprance around in any hotel or mall.

From Aamir Khan, Rahul Bose,Shabana Azmi and Kabir Bedi,celebrities taking up a social causeand rubbing shoulders with thecommon man is normal today. Andyes, considering the fact that we area Bollywood-obsessed nation, it cer-

tainly is a big plus. So as you open

your eyes to theNew Year, think of

the normal that youwished happened. I can

see my mother, daughter,sister walking freely on

Delhi roads in the middle ofthe night.

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The biggest norm that has emergedin the last year is very much vis-

ible to all of us. There has been anawakening in the last few years andnow we are raising our voices againstinjustice. Be it the Anna Hazare’s anticorruption movement or the ongoingprotests against the Delhi gangrapeacross the cities, we are no morescared to take to the streets. We aregetting united for the cause. There hasbeen a social revolution, which I hopewill spread fast. We are promoting thenew way of living. There are groupstrying to reach out to the underpre-viliged section of society and spread-ing the word. One thing that I reallylike is that youngsters are participat-ing in full force. We are no more thegeneration where we would not stickout our necks, fearing what the worldwould say or our parents might bashus for doing this.

The sense of sharing and givingback to society is much more preva-lent in present times. Be it any festi-

val or major occasion or even other-wise, charity has become the latestnorm among the people. I can see thatwe are rising above the class and sta-tus barriers, though it is just a begin-ning and we have a long way ahead,but it’s a good start.

Apart from the social behav-ioural changes, I think we are gettingmature as audience. I would definite-ly talk about the changing norms ofBollywood since it’s very much a partof our lives. People, where on onehand welcome films like Dabangg andRowdy Rathore, they are appreciatingthe new cinema, that has emergedlately. It is only because of the kind ofappreciation and motivation that weare receiving in our homeland that wehave confidence to take these moviesto the international platform. Indianfilms have not only become an impor-tant part of major international festsbut they have gained a status for them-selves.

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The series of images that speak stronglyof the underlying reality, rather than

merely reflecting the random objects andpeople on streets, take you through the jour-ney to London. But this journey might bea little different than what you have heardor read about the city. They talk about howdifferent the city can be to you, and no mat-ter that you will have every one around, youwould just not feel comfortable in the crowd.“The pictures are a narrative of London asa metropolis. People think that it is a cityof dreams and everything will be sort ofwow. But the social reality of the city can besomething different and that is what I want-ed to present through my pictures that donot follow the aesthetics of photography,”shared Siddhartha Tawadey, Geography ofSolitude: In between spaces, is ongoing atQueen’s Gallery, British Council.

“People want to go to London as theyfeel it is the land full of opportunities. Butonce you are away from your homeland youlook out for more than opportunities. Youneed a sense of warmth and connect withthe space within which you move around,and that can be missing,” added the visualartist, who has divided the exhibition inthree parts: photographs, short films andinstallations. Each is a result of some kindof innovation.

Tawadey stayed in London for almosteight years and the works displayed wereclicked by him during that period. “Thisexhibition is perceived from the point ofview of young Indians who leave their coun-try and expect everything to be glossy andglittering. But while I was there, I met manyIndians who suffered a sense of alienation.No matter that you make friends but thereis that felling of being away that nothing cantake away. For example, if a person is mov-ing from a small city like Meerut to Delhi,it will be a certain change for him but overtime he would adjust as he knows the ulti-mate reality of the city. But when he will be

transported to a city like London he willmove with the pre-conceived notion thatthings will only be good there. So later thatsense of alienation comes as a shock and itis difficult to move with it,” he explained.

One of his short films Empty Life reflectsthe politics of food, poverty, gender, ethics,illiteracy and identity through symbols andmetaphors. “The footage is from the sem-inal film of Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali jux-taposed with found footage from archivesand footage bought in garage sales. EmptyLife explores the inequalities between thedeveloped countries and India in the mostliteral way. The truth is always on the sur-face, we manipulate it by apathy and ratio-nalisation. These visible truths are revealedin the video and it forces the viewer to con-front the realities that we choose to ignore,”added Tawadey.

The exhibition continues till January 4. All of us have heard of theBhagavad Gita. But howmany of us know its true

meaning? For the latter, here isa chance. Director of AksharaTheatre Gopal Sharman will-stage a play that will explain toyou the essence of the sacredtext. “This New Year, I am com-ing with four new plays.Bhagavad Gita is one of them. Inthis, we are trying to explain theactual meaning of the BhagavadGita. If we see in Khap panchay-at, the mukhiya always quotesthe holy book but none of themknow its true meaning. So withthe help of this play, we are try-ing to send a strong message andexplain the essence of theBhagavad Gita,” says Sharman.

Akshara Theatre, that heformed with his wife — JalabalaVaidya — in the 70s, is a speci-

men of Sharman’s fine creativi-ty and imagination. He feels thatas a theatre person, you mustbefriend darkness and conquerlight. “In these times when peo-ple are voicing their opinionsagainst social issues, I want to

make a difference through myplays. Theatre is very strongmedium to spread a message.People can feel the emotion andit is like reality. Through my fourdifferent plays, we are trying togive a beacon on new thinking.”

Generally known to stageEnglish plays, does he feel thatlanguage is a barrier as mostof the people who wouldwatch the plays speak inHindi? “I used English in the-atre but if we talk aboutBhagavad Gita, I have usedSanskrit shlokas. On the otherhand, music and action clear-ly explain the thoughts that wewant to convey,” he says. Askhim about the source of hiscreative energy and he is quickto add, “Most of all, it is a senseof beauty that drives me. I setout in search of it, unawarewhat it will be — a poem, asong, a play, a sculpture or awork crafted in wood. You cancommunicate it through var-ious ways — a perfect move-ment or gesture or inflectionof voice or tone.”

Ijust want to show the real ruralarea of Chhattisgarh with the

help of my work. I can conveymy feeling in the metropolitancity like Delhi. Here peoplereally enjoy my work,” saysartist Deepak Verma about hissolo art exhibition held at PyareLal Bhawan.

About the response he gotfor his exhibition, he says,“Because the rape victim diedand Delhi was in grief, most ofthe people could not visit myexhibition. But still I received agood response. Now I havealready tried to get permissionto exhibit at the Lalit KalaAkademi.”

When asked about his inspi-ration he says, “ I am from asmall village called Sarra nearRaipur. From childhood I alwaysused to see folk painting on thewall of huts. In university days,I did landscape but personally Ilike to show real Chhattisgarh inmy work. Village and tribal cul-ture inspired me a lot. Peoplecome to see my work at metro-politan cities because they want

to know more about tribals.Other artists are also doingsimilar themes. People like mywork because I give a simplemessage which is the key wordof tribal culture.”

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Australian pace legend GlennMcGrath will be inductedinto the ICC Cricket Hall of

Fame during the third Testbetween Australia and Sri Lankastarting January 4 in Sydney.

McGrath will join EnidBakewell and Brian Lara tobecome third inductee of 2012-13,the ICC said in a statement.“McGrath becomes the 68th malemember of the Hall of Fame andjoins fellow 2012-13 inducteesWest Indian Brian Lara andEngland’s Enid Bakewell in beingrecognized by the ICC and the liv-ing members of the Hall of Fame.”

While Lara and Bakewell wereinducted in September at the ICCAwards, McGrath will be induct-ed at his home ground of the SCG.A fourth and final inductee of2012-13 will be announced nextsummer.

McGrath representedAustralia in 124 Test matchesbetween 1993 and 2007 andclaimed 563 Test wickets at anaverage of 21.64. He took moreTest wickets than any other seambowler currently in the game orretired.

He also represented Australia

in 250 ODIs, claiming 381 wick-ets at an average of 22.02, and waspart of the Australian side that wonthree successive World Cups --1999, 2003 and 2007. He stillholds the record for most wicketsin World Cup competitions, with71 scalps and his figures of 7-15against Namibia are the best in thecompetition’s history.

“I am honoured that the ICCCricket Hall of Fame voting acad-emy, which includes all the currentliving Hall of Famers, have nom-inated and voted me to be induct-ed into the Hall of Fame,” McGrathsaid of the induction.

“I am very much looking for-ward to celebrating the occasionon 4 January with not only myfriends and family, but all those atthe SCG which is of course is likea second home to me,” he added.

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A key player in the WestIndies World T20 title triumph,Gayle has scored 70 runs in fivematches this season for SydneyThunder, which lost to Haddin’sSydney Sixes on Sunday. Haddinsuggested in a television interviewafter he was dismissed by Gaylethat Thunder fans weren’t gettingvalue for money from their starimport.

The tall, left-handed Jamaicanbatsman responded via Twitter onMonday, advising Haddin to “stopwatch my money and watch him-self!!”

“Not my fault he ain’t good asI am even if I bat right hand!!!”The tweets had been removed bylate Monday. AP

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South Africa will begin theNew Year by aiming to

strengthen their No.1 status inthe ICC Test ChampionshipTable, when they play a two-match series against NewZealand from Jan 2 at CapeTown.

South Africa currently leadthe rankings with 123 ratingpoints and have a five-point leadover second-placed England.Graeme Smith’s side retained theTest Championship Mace inDecember 2012 after it defeat-ed Australia 1-0.

For South Africa to retainthe No.1 spot, they just need a0-0 result or better in the two-match series against NewZealand. South Africa could atbest gain one rating point forwinning the series 2-0 but couldlose one point if they win theseries 1-0.

In the event of the seriesending at 1-1, South Africawould drop down to 119 points,just one ahead of England, cur-rently placed at 118.

But if South Africa were tolose the Test series against NewZealand 0-1, they would alsolose the top position to England- dropping seven points in theprocess to end on 116.

Then, South Africa’s final

position on the table will dependon the result in the Australia-SriLanka series. Australia current-ly lead the series 2-0 and theycould gain three rating points toend at 117 if they win the thirdTest starting in Sydney from Jan3. New Zealand, on the otherhand, would remain at No.8 onthe table but would gain sevenratings to finish at 86.

In the event of South Africalosing both their Tests againstNew Zealand, they would loseeight ratings to fall to 115 ratingspoints to finish third on thetable. A 2-0 win for NewZealand would push them up to88 points but they would remainin eighth place.

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Bangladesh is not going totour Pakistan next month

because of security concerns,the country’s top cricket officialsaid Monday.

Bangladesh had agreed inprinciple to play a one-dayinternational and a Twenty20match against Pakistan, and thepossible venue was Lahorewhere gunmen had attackedthe Sri Lankan team in 2009.No international match hasbeen held in the troubled coun-try since then.

Bangladesh Cricket Boardpresident Nazmul Hasan toldreporters Monday that he hasalready informed Pakistanabout the decision. He said theInternational Cricket Councildid not reply to Bangladesh’srepeated appeals for beingengaged in the planned tour.

“The situation in Pakistanis alarming. There are worriesin the country (Bangladesh)over the proposed tour,” Hasansaid in Dhaka.

The latest decision came asa serious blow to Pakistan’sefforts to resume internation-al cricket in the country.

In 2011 April, Bangladeshwas scheduled to tour Pakistanbut it was scrapped after thecountry’s High Court asked thegovernment to suspend thematches because of securityconcerns.

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Frank Lampard boostedChelsea’s hopes of reeling in

the Manchester teams in thePremier League title race, scor-ing twice in a 2-1 win atEverton on Sunday to remindthe club of his enduring classwith his future still uncertain.

However, beleagueredQueens Park Rangers edgedcloser to relegation with a lack-luster 3-0 home loss toLiverpool, leaving the last-place club eight points adrift ofsafety heading into 2013.

Chelsea fell behind toSteven Pienaar’s strike afterjust 63 seconds at GoodisonPark but hit back through goalseither side of the halftime byLampard, who is free to talk toother clubs from Tuesday withhis contract up in the summer.

A fourth straight win keptthird-place Chelsea four pointsbehind Manchester City, and

11 off Manchester United, witha game in hand on both rivalsgoing into the new year.

Rafa Benitez is slowlyputting his stamp on theEuropean champions fiveweeks after joining the club asinterim manager but his nexttask may be to persuade hisbosses to hand the 34-year-oldLampard, who has been atChelsea since 2001, a new deal.

“I just hope for me per-sonally (to) play in a winningteam,” said Lampard, who hasscored in each of his last threestarts. “I know there’s a lot ofspeculation and talk . but forme the enjoyable bit is the 90minutes.”

Luis Suarez scored twice inthe opening 16 minutes totake his league tally to 13 - onebehind top scorer Robin vanPersie of Man United - andDaniel Agger added the otherfor mid-table Liverpool, withall three goals coming in a one-

sided first half. Liverpool man-ager Brendan Rodgers wasn’t atLoftus Road - he was senthome from London hoursbefore kickoff because of illness- but he would have enjoyedwatching from afar as Suarezand his teammates ran amok.

“We played probably ourbest football of the season inthe first half,” Liverpool captainSteven Gerrard said. “LuisSuarez has been brilliant ... he’sa magician.”

Liverpool climbed a posi-tion to ninth and is five pointsoff fifth-place Arsenal.

Chelsea stayed in the titlehunt by ending Everton’s nine-month unbeaten run at home,but the visitors will come awayfrom Goodison Park knowingthey were fortunate to survivean onslaught by David Moyes’side.

Nikica Jelavic twice struckthe goal frame, as did fellowstriker Victor Anichebe, as

Everton passed up a chance tomove ahead of its opponent.“We’ve run the Europeanchampions really close but wedidn’t quite have enough in theend,” Moyes said. “We playedwell enough to get a secondgoal but were unfortunate, hav-ing shots back off the wood-work. I thought we were a bitunlucky.”

It was left to Lampard torescue Chelsea, demonstrat-ing the priceless knack of find-ing time and space in the areathat has made him one of themost prolific midfielder inPremier League history. TheEngland midfielder headed ina cross from Ramires in the42nd and then was on the spotto scoop home from closerange after Everton goalkeep-er Tim Howard saved fromJuan Mata. “We have to keepbelieving this season — thereis a long way to go,” Lampardsaid. “We can only win our

games, then rely on otherthings.”

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last season’s extraordinary titleclimax, Manchester United is inno mood to relax despite hold-ing a seven-point cushion overManchester United headinginto the second half of thePremier League campaign.

United surrendered aneight-point advantage with sixgames left as City claimed afirst English title in 44 years byfinishing with six straight wins.

Playing his 21st year atUnited, Ryan Giggs has a bet-ter idea than anyone of thetwists and turns still to come.

Speaking ahead of United’strip to Wigan on Tuesday,Giggs says “we’re only halfwaythere and there are a lot oftough games to come ... weknow we have to carry onproducing.”

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tain of the 15-member women’scricket squad for the WorldCup to be played in India nextmonth.

ICC Women’s World Cupwill begin from January 31, andthe finals will be played at theCCI ground in Mumbai onFebruary 17.

Hosts India will play on theopening day of the tournamentagainst West Indies at theWankhede Stadium.Squad : Mithali Raj (C),Harmanpreet Kaur, JhulanGoswami, Amita Sharma,Gouhar Sultana, MThirushkamini, SulakshanaNaik, Ekta Bist, MonaMeshram, Rasanara Parwin,Niranjana Nagarajan, PunamRaut, Reema Malhotra, KarunaJain, Shubhalaxmi Sharma.

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Delhi bowlers produced a col-lective effort as they

enforced follow-on uponVidarbha on the third day oftheir crucial final group B leagueencounter of the Ranji Trophy atthe OLD VDCA ground here onMonday.

In reply to Delhi’s firstinnings score of 523 for ninedeclared, hosts were all out for257 thereby conceding a hugelead of 266 runs. Being put intobat again, Vidarbha were one forno loss at stumps.

On Monday, none of theVidarbha batsmen except vet-eran Hemang Badani (68) couldmake an impact. Sumit Narwal,Pradeep Sangwan, Vikas Mishraand Rajat Bhatia took two wick-ets apiece while Vikas Tokas gotanother wicket. Shikhar Dhawanand co will be aiming to recordan innings victory which willtake them to 24 points andensure a smooth passage into theknock-out stages. Even if theyget six points, it would mean thatthey finish on 23 points andwould even qualify in that case.

While Uttar Pradesh with33 points emerged as groupchampions, Baroda with 22points also have very goodchance of qualifying through tothe next stage. In case Delhi onlymanage to get three points andfinish on 20, they would expectMaharashtra to deny Karnataka

an outright win so that thesouthern state finishes on 18points.

If they record an outrightwin, Karnataka will have 21points, and in case of an inningswin will end on 22 points. IfKarnataka end on 22 points andhave a margin of an innings and1 run-win, they will have a bet-ter run-quotient than Baroda as

both have same number of out-right wins. The bottom line isthat Delhi need an outright winto get rid of any other mathe-matical possibility out of theirway.

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