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Obama security:AWACS to be

deployed on R-DayNew Delhi, Jan 21,2015

For the first time,Airborne Warning andControl System(AWACS) are likely to bedeployed here on theRepublic Day for vigilfrom the skies during theparade where USPresident Barack Obamawill be the Chief Guest.

The AWACS willmonitor air space on andaround Rajpath wherethe parade will bewitnessed by Obamaalong with PresidentPranab Mukherjee,Prime Minister NarendraModi and a host of otherdignitaries.

Scrap dealerkilled in explosionGhaziabad, Jan 21,2015

A scrap dealer waskilled this morning whena television condenserexploded while he wassorting junk items in AlviNagar colony underLonia Kotwali area,police said.

Hashmat, a residentof Kolkata, was killedwhen the televisioncondenser exploded ashe going through scrapitems in front of hishouse, said DeputySuperintendent of PoliceArvind Yadav.

A forensic team wassummoned to examinethe residual contents ofthe scrap, officer said.

BSF rescuesabducted man in

MeghalayaShillong, Jan 21, 2015

A 65-year-oldabducted man wasrescued by BSF fromthe clutches ofkidnappers when theywere trying to shift himnear Fakirakona i nSou th Garo H i l l sd i s t r i c t a l ong t heIndo-Bangla border, aBSF o f f i c i a l s a idtoday.

The incident tookp lace when BSFcha l l enged t heabductors on the zeroline yesterday. Whilefleeing they left behindformer school teacherRobinson R Marak, hesaid.

Marak had beenkidnapped f rom h isr e s idence i nChambalgiri village onDecember 17 last.

As Barack Obama visits, signs thatIndia is pushing back against China

New Delhi,Jan 21,2015When Sri Lanka

unexpectedly turfed outPresident MahindaRajapaksa in an electionthis month, it was thebiggest setback in decadesfor China’s expansion intoSouth Asia – and aremarkable diplomaticvictory for India.

Despite New Delhi’sprotestations, diplomatsand politicians in the regionsay India played a role inorganising the oppositionagainst pro-ChinaRajapaksa.

His successor,President MaithripalaSirisena, has said India isthe “first, main concern” ofhis foreign policy and thathe will review all projectsawarded to Chinese firms,including a sea reclamationdevelopment in Colombothat would give Beijing astrategic toehold on India’sdoorstep.

India has pushed backagainst China elsewhere inthe region since PrimeMinister Narendra Moditook office in May,

improving ties with Japanand Vietnam, both lockedin territorial disputes withBeijing, and contesting aport project in Bangladeshthat could otherwise havebeen a cakewalk for China.

The new robustdiplomacy, which Modicalls “Act East”, hasdelighted Washington,which has been nudgingIndia for years to dovetailwith the U.S. strategicpivot toward the region.

When PresidentBarack Obama makes alandmark visit to Indiastarting Sunday, he will bethe chief guest at NewDelhi’s showpieceRepublic Day militaryparade, and rarely for a

presidential trip, is notscheduled to visit any othercountry before returning toWashington.

“What is appealing tome and my colleagues isthe fact that Prime MinisterModi has undertaken tobuild from what has beena ‘Look East’ policy to an‘Act East’ policy,” U.S.Assistant Secretary ofState for East Asia and thePacific Daniel Russel saidin Washington last month.

“He has shown inword and deed his interestin involving India in thethinking and the affairs ofthe broader region. That’svery much to bewelcomed.”

Washington made no

bones about its distaste forRajapaksa, who criticsaccuse of war crimes,corrruption and nepotism.But until last year Indiawas indecisive, perhapsafraid of pushing the heroof the war against Tamilseparatists even closer toChina.

That changed inSeptember, whenRajapaksa allowed aChinese submarine to dockin Colombo, withoutinforming India, as it wasbound to under an existingagreement.

“That was the laststraw,” a senior Indiandiplomat told Reuters.

“He told Modi: “thenext time I will keep youinformed,”” the diplomatsaid, a promise that wasbroken when the submarinevisited again in November.

In the build up to theJan 8 election, India playeda role in uniting Sri Lanka’susually fractious opposition,for which the station chiefof India’s spy agency wasexpelled, diplomatic andpolitical sources say.

IMF growth forecast for India needsto be taken with a pinch of salt

New Delhi,Jan 21,2015Every bull market

needs a story. In fact,different phases of thesame bull market needdifferent stories.

The latest story to hitthe Indian stock market isthat India will grow fasterthan China in 2016. Thiseconomic forecast hasbeen made by theInternational MonetaryFund (IMF) in the WorldEconomic Forum OutlookUpdate which was releasedyesterday (January 20,2015). In this update, theIMF expects India to growby 6.5% against China's6.3%.

This forecast is alongthe lines of anotherforecast made by the WorldBank on January 14, whereit said that India will growby 7% in 2017-2018. Itexpects China to grow by6.9% during the course ofthat year.

The IMF offersreasons as to why it seesgrowth in China slowingdown from 7.8% in 2013to 6.3% in 2016.“Investment growth in

China declined in the thirdquarter of 2014, andleading indicators point toa further slowdown. Theauthorities are nowexpected to put greaterweight on reducingvulnerabilities from recentrapid credit and investmentgrowth and hence theforecast assumes less of apolicy response to theunderlying moderation,”the IMF states.

For India, the IMFstates that the “weakerexternal demand” will be“offset by the boost to theterms of trade from loweroil prices and a pickup inindustrial and investmentactivity after policyreforms.”

As far as justificationsare concerned, you cannotget more general than this.Having said that, this bit ofnews drove the BSESensex to rally by 1.84%to close at 28,784.67points on January 20. Theforeign institutionalinvestors who have been atthe forefront of driving theIndian stock over the lastfew years, bought stocks

worth Rs 1275.59 crore.The domestic institutionalinvestors, who on mostdays do the opposite ofwhat the FIIs are doingsold stocks worth Rs 761.7crore.

With India likely togrow faster than China inthe years to come, it is butnatural that FIIs want tobet their money on India.

Nevertheless, thequestion is, should theIMF forecast on India (oreven their forecasts ingeneral) be taken soseriously?

IMF forecasts ingeneral have a certainamount of optimism biasbuilt into them. As ChrisGiles wrote in theFinancial Times in October2014: “Between 2011 and2014, these forecasts haveaveraged 0.6 percentagepoints higher than theoutturn...In the very laudableexercise to examine what wentwrong, the fund discoveredabout half of its errors camefrom predicting greaterstrength in Brics countries –Brazil, Russia, India and China– than occurred.”

French Premier Announces ‘Exceptional’Measures Against Terrorism

PARIS Jan 21,2015Two weeks after one

of the deadliest attacksever to hit France, PrimeMinister Manuel Vallsannounced “exceptional”measures on Wednesday tofight terrorism andreinforce a package ofexisting laws that arealready considered to beamong the strictest inEurope.

Mr. Valls made hisannouncements at a newsconference after Franceformally charged anddetained four men accusedof providing logisticalsupport to AmedyCoulibaly, one of the three

gunmen involved in thethree-day onslaught.

François Molins, theParis prosecutor, said atnews conference that thefour men, ages 22 to 28,were being formallyinvestigated on charges ofa “terrorist conspiracy tocommit crimes againstpeople.” One of them willface an additional charge ofcarrying weapons “inrelation with an initiative tocarry out terrorist acts.”The full names of the men,the first to be charged inthe attacks in which 17people were killed, werenot released.

A memorial near the

offices of the satiricalnewspaper Charlie Hebdoin Paris, where a rampagethat claimed 17 livesbegan.Paris Journal: AtSites Honoring Victims ofParis Attacks, ConcernsAbout the FutureJAN. 20,2015

Prime MinisterManuel Valls, center, inParis after his address.He spoke asa n t i t e r r o r i s minvestigations continuedin Europe.FrenchPremier Says ‘Apartheid’Is Leaving Minorities onthe Fringe JAN. 20, 2015

Mayor AnneHidalgo of Paris on Jan.

9.Open Source: ParisMayor Plans to Sue FoxOver False Reports of‘No-Go Zones’JAN. 20,2015

Mr. Valls said thatFrance would provide anadditional 425 million euros,or more than $490 million,and create over 2,500 newjobs to buttress the fightagainst terrorism andmonitor the approximately3,000 people the policeconsider surveillance targets.A bill aimed at updating thelegal framework forintelligence and surveillanceoperations would also beintroduced in Parliament inMarch, Mr. Valls said.

Delhi elections 2015: Over 900 candidates in frayNew Delhi, Jan 21,2015

Around 916candidates are in the frayfor the February 7Assembly election inDelhi and about 532 ofthem including BJP'schief ministerial nomineeKiran Bedi, AAP chiefArvind Kejriwal andCongress leader AjayMaken filed theirnominations today. Bediwill contest from BJPstronghold of KrishnaNagar while Kejriwal willseek re-election from theprestigious New Delhiconstituency where hehad defeated three-timechief minister SheilaDikshit by over 22,000votes last time.

"Around 916candidates, includingIndependents, have filedtheir nomination papersfor the upcomingAssembly elections.However, we are nowcompiling the data toascertain the exactnumber of candidates,"said a senior official at theDelhi Chief ElectoralOfficer's office. Of thetotal, around 532candidates today filedtheir nomination papers,

the official said, adding asmany as 384 candidateshad filed theirnominations yesterday.

Meanwhile, theofficial said a total of 117FIRs has been lodgedagainst different politicalparties till January 20 forviolation of the ModelCode of Conduct, whichcame into force onJanuary 12.

"Out of the 117FIRs, 52 have beenregistered against AAPwhile 22 have beenlodged against BJP.Twenty-six and 10 FIRswere lodged againstCongress and BSP,respectively," the officialsaid.

Till yesterday, a total10569 persons have beenbooked under varioussections of CrPC/DelhiPolice Act, and as

preventive measures 110licensed arms weredeposited, 11 unlicensedarm and 1039 cartridgeswere seized.

Delhi elections: ForBJP's Kiran Bedi, RSS a'very nationalistorganisation' that has keptIndia united

New Delhi:Bharatiya Janata Party'schief ministerial candidatefor Delhi Kiran Bedi onWednesday lavishedpraise on the party'sparent organisation theRSS calling it a "verynationalist" organisation.

Bedi, who filed hernomination for theAssembly election fromKrishna Nagarconstituency, said theRSS is a very nationalistorganisation that has keptIndia united.

The statement is

quite significant becauseit comes at a time whenthe RSS is learnt to beunhappy with theprojection of Bedi as theBJP's CM nominee.

Talking about herdecision to join the BJP,Bedi said she did so todefeat the"confrontational politics"of Aam Aadmi Party'sArvind Kejriwal.

At one point in time,Bedi was Kejriwal'scolleague in Team Annaand had launchedagitation along with him.She broke away with himon the issue of formingAAP, saying that like theirleader Anna Hazare shetoo was against partypolitics and electoralpolitics.

However, after she

made a U-turn to join theBJP, she said she gotinspired by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi'spolicies.

M e a n w h i l e ,commenting on Bedijoining the BJP, Hazaresaid, "Politics is dirty. Idon't want to talk aboutit. I don't want tocomment on Kiran Bedi."

Ever since she joined

the BJP, Bedi had beentrying to contact Hazarebut has failed to do so.She has repeatedly calledhim up but has never beenable to talk to him. OnWednesday, Hazare hasmade his displeasure bymaintaining that he did notapprove of party politics.In fact, this was the causeof the rift between andKejriwal too.

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Editors' Picks Prime Minister Modi and the BJP’s victory in the 2014 LokSabha elections was a victory of “Indianness”. Modi’sascension to power marked the beginning of a “new period”.

- Senior Congress leader Janardan Dwivedi said

QUOTEOF THE

DAYSoha Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu tohave a small, intimate wedding

Actors Soha Ali Khanand Kunal Khemu havedecided to have a low-keywedding at their house inKhar here. The bride isconfident it will be special,while her mother andactress Sharmila Tagoresays she's "very happy" forher daughter.

Soha Ali Khan andKunal Khemu will tie theknot Sunday, and it will bea departure from the grandfive-day celebrations atSoha's brother actor Saif

Ali Khan's wedding toactress Kareena Kapoortwo years back.

Photos: Aww! SohaAli Khan kisses motherSharmila Tagore

"Our wedding willtake place at our home,where Kunal and I stay. Itwill be a small wedding inthe presence of our familymembers," Soha said here.

The duo has beendating for quite some time,and they have been livingtogether.

Soha Ali Khan gotengaged to Kunal Khemuin Paris last year. Thecouple has workedtogether in the 2009 film"99".

Sharmila Tagore saysshe's "very happy".

"We arecelebrating... What willhappen that day (onwedding day), I don'tknow... I'll feel a little bitemotional that day," saidthe actress and wife of lateMansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

Shah Rukh Khan Becomes Second MostFollowed Indian Celeb On Twitter

Bollywood’s KingKhan, Shah Rukh hascrossed 11 millionfollowers on Twitter.‘Happy New Year’ starShah Rukh Khan has nowbecome the second Indianto achieve so manyfollowers on Twitter, afterAmitabh Bachchan, whohas 12.8 million followers.Recently, Big B washonoured with SocialMedia Person Of The YearAward. That’s about India,globally, ‘Happy NewYear’ star Shah Rukh Khanstands on 90th position,whereas AmitabhBachchan is on 70thposition.

It’s been 5 years sincethe superstar, Shah RukhKhan joined Twitter onJanuary 2, 2010. NowSRK has 8,163 Tweets sofar. King Khan, Shah Rukhjoined Twitter afterdirector and his really goodfriend, Karan Joharinsisted. “Being extremelyshy, I never thought Iwould be here (on Twitter).But my friend Karan Joharinsisted that I should learnto share my life,” SRK

posted after joiningTwitter.

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Soon after the actorjoined, he has been sharinghis thoughts, quotes,pictures with his familyand from his shoots onTwitter. In fact, KingKhan shared the firstpicture of his son AbRamon Twitter.

The other two Khans

of Bollywood, Salman andAamir are not that farbehind in the game. AamirKhan has 10.8 millionfollowers on Twitter andSalman Khan has 10.2million. Other B-towncelebrities who have quitegood followers on Twitterare Deepika Padukone(9.13 million), PriyankaChopra (8.51 million),Hrithik Roshan (8.22million) and AkshayKumar (7.27 million)

Sushant Singh Rajput celebratesbirthday with girlfriend

Mumbai: 'Kai Po Che'star Sushant Singh Rajput,who turned 29 today,celebrated his birthdaywith longtime girlfriendAnkita Lokhande.

Sushant, who was lastseen in 'PK', took toTwitter to thank his fansand colleagues for thewishes on his birthday.

The actor even posteda picture with his actressgirlfriend and wrote a linefrom the song 'Ruk Ja ODil...' from 'DilwaleDulhania Le Jayenge'.

"Ruk jaa O dildeewane, puchhu to mainZara... Haha.. Thank youeveryone for your love andwishes..!! Love," Sushantposted on Twitter.

Filmmaker ShekharKapur, who will beworking with Sushant inhis next film 'Paani', calledhim one of the "best youngactors".

"Happy Birthday toone our best young actors

today. Have a great day,Sushant!!," Kapurtweeted.

"Yo byomkeshda...@itsSSR... Happy birthdaydada... Can you pleasesolve this mystery ofmigrating cars in bandra?,"Sujoy Ghosh tweeted. Theday will also mark thetrailer launch of Sushant's

upcoming film 'DetectiveByomkesh Bakshy'.

"Mystery Unravelstomorrow...!! Excited,"Sushant wrote lastevening. After 'DetectiveByomkesh Bakshy', theactor will be next seen inMS Dhoni biopic, whichwill hit theatres on October22.

Akshay Kumar to host special episodeof Savdhaan India - Fight Back Now

The actor will benarrating an episode oneve-teasing and womensafety - a story of ateenaged girl gettingharassed and molested byher classmate, read astatement.

Akshay has alwaysbeen passionate aboutmartial arts and attributeshis life's success to it. Hewill host the "SavdhaanIndia..." episode from hisown training centre wherehe teaches young girlsmartial art and self-defence techniques.

The episode will airon Friday on Life OK, onwhich the actor had earlierhosted reality show "Dare

2 Dance".The actor's film Baby

is set to hit the big screenon 23rd January.

Ajith has the habit of takingrisks, says Stunt Silva

Stunt Silva is theman behind the stunningaction sequences ofMankatha, Veeram and

now Yennai Arindhaal.On doing Ajith's

films continuously, Silvasays, "It is more like adestiny. Director VenkatPrabhu introduced me toAjith sir in Mankatha, myfirst film with him. Thestunt sequences gotnoticed. Then directorShiva got me intoVeeram. The train fightgot raving responses fromevery corner. I haveworked with GauthamMenon in his last fourprojects. So he wantedthe combo to continue.Adding to this, Ajith sirlikes me very much."

About the stuntsequences in theupcoming Yennai

Arindhaal, Silva says, "Allthe stunts were shot live.The train fight got ravingresponses from everycorner. I have workedwith Gautham Menon inhis last four projects. Sohe wanted the combo tocontinue. Adding to this,Ajith sir likes me verymuch."We have tried tocreate like a real fight".He further adds, "Ajithalways has a habit ofgett ing us tensed bytaking some scary risks.In one of the stuntsequences we hadrequested him to useregular glass panes that areused for stunt purposes buthe broke a real glass panewith bare head".

'Deewaar' most perfect script:Big B on film’s 40 years

Amitabh Bachchan-starrer “Deewaar” hit the

screens 40 years back and themegastar has thanked its

scriptwriters Salim Khan andJaved Akhtar for the “perfectscript”.

The movie, whichrevolves around two brothersa policeman and a criminal alsostars Shashi Kapoor in the lead.

“40 years! 40 years ago,this day, DEEWAR wasreleased!! 21st Jan 1975.Thank you Salim—JavedSaheb for the most perfectscript,” Big B tweeted onWednesday.

New address,same hardships

In December 2013, shivering under a tarpaulintent at a relief camp in Loi, Muzaffarnagar, Rahisalost her five-year-old son, three months after she hadfled her village following the September riots. InDecember 2014, four months after she bought landin a new colony for people displaced from her village,just opposite the original camp, she lost another sondays after his birth.

“It will be a month on January 20. My baby wasjust eight or nine days old. There was no time to takehim to hospital,” says Rahisa, who hails from Kheradin Muzaffarnagar. “It is so cold and we are still livingunder tarpaulin structures. We spent all our moneyon the plot and there was nothing left for building ahome.”

Her three surviving children too have recurringfever and cough. “We have started building our homeonly now, for the children. It is the only way to savetheir lives,” she says. She has not taken her childrento a hospital yet; a haqeem from adjoining Budhanais giving them medicine.

These new colonies, one in Loi, one inAhmednagar and a third, named Aman colony, inKandhla, have come up near Muslim-majority areas,in the vicinity of the old camps. People bought theland from Muslim owners from September last year.

But with no water or electricity, drainage systemsor toilets yet, and the bulk of the compensationprovided by the state spent in buying the land, lifehas not changed much for riot victims. Garbage ispiled on the lanes, water stagnates in potholes, andmosquitoes hover around the colony. Pitch dark atnight, the colony stands out from other parts of Loivillage.

Sharafat Ali lost his newborn daughter Ayeshanearly two months ago, a death he attributes to thewinter. A year earlier, he had lost his first child in thecamp in Loi.

“Tell me, what has changed for us?” he says.“Till the relief camp was running, we had at least astructure of organised committees to fight for us. Thechildren would get milk, and rations were suppliedweekly. Now we are on our own, and there is notime to take the children to hospital,” says Ali, whotoo is staying in the new colony in Loi.

Since the camps were declared closed inMuzaffarnagar, their residents say they have had todo without the help they were getting from theadministration or from local political leaders who hadset up relief committees; these were dismantled afterthe Lok Sabha elections.

Mohammad Salim, part of a new four-membercommittee elected by colony residents, said the SDMcame on his first visit on Friday. “There were reportsof deaths, so the SDM came. We told him to firstclean the lanes of garbage,” Salim says. “Yes, we havebought plots, but are we not entitled to basic facilitieslike other citizens? With such conditions here,obviously there will be more disease and death.”Village leaders who had been part of the committeesin Loi don’t visit the colony, residents allege. “Thepradhan is with the SP, and until the Lok Sabha pollshe would come and take our problems to theadministration. We bought land from him and thiscolony has come up. But after the polls, he hasstopped coming,” says Irshad, from Fugana. Peoplesay residents of Loi have become hostile, even onmatters like burying their dead in the villagegraveyard. “They tell us we should get our owngraveyard, but where is the money to buy more land?”Saleem says. Abdul Jabbar, pradhan of Loi, says thecommittee was “automatically” dismantled after thecamp closed. “When district authorities come, theystill meet us, but we are not in touch with themregularly. We have helped them as much as we could.I sold them land cheap, and if someone comes forhelp we never turn him away,” Jabbar says.Muzaffarnagar ADM Indermani Tripathi, who wasput in charge of the camps and supervised their closurelast year, did not respond to calls and messages fromThe Indian Express. SDM (Budhana) J P Gupta, whowent to the colonies last week, says meetings will beheld this week to review the facilities. “We have donea preliminary survey and will share the details withsenior district authorities,” he says. “The camps wereclosed last year, so obviously medicines and rationswere stopped. When people moved and settledelsewhere, how can district authorities keep going tothem?”

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SPORTS ROUNDFor India's revival, Dhoni needsto go beyond his paintball theory

Just before the start ofthe fourth Test betweenIndia and Australia at theSydney Cricket Ground,Mahendra Singh Dhonimade his way to theSpartan tent and learnt theart of crafting a bat.

A match was going tobe played and he simplydidn’t need to pay attention– he didn’t need tostrategise or watch videosor offer advice. It was thekind of carefree act thatDhoni had not managed inthe last decade. In a certainsense, he was finally free.

He didn’t attendpractices in the lead-up tothe Test then he helped theteam during practice on themorning of the Test –because he wanted to, notbecause he had to. Inbetween, he met JohnAbraham and before heknew it – the ODI tri-serieswas upon us. Time flieswhen you are doing thingsyou really want to.

It feels just likeyesterday that Dhoniannounced his retirementfrom Test cricket andalready, it is time to get

back to the grind… still,the effects of this break; ofthis unloading ofresponsibility should be feltnow. Mentally, he shouldbe refreshed and ready togo again – knowing that heis going to have time forhimself; for his bikes; forfamily; for his manybusiness interests and for aformat that he truly enjoys.

File photo of MSDhoni with team-mates.Getty ImagesFile photo ofMS Dhoni with team-mates. Getty Images

For all the criticismthat Dhoni has received forhis captaincy/batting/tactics in Test cricket, thereare few internationalcricketers who understand

the vagaries of the shorterformat better than theIndian skipper. He knowswhen he needs to begin thefinal push or when to waitit out – but perhaps mostimportantly he knows howto win even when the goinggets tough.

Twenty wickets arenot the key in ODI cricket– even ten wickets aren’t.It is all about runs andwhen you can narrow itdown like that... Dhonigenerally becomes lethal.But for the next threemonths – India will beplaying Down Under, inconditions that don’texactly cater to India’sstrongest bowling suit –namely spinners.

Sania, Paes make it all-win dayfor India at Australian Open

Melbourne, Jan 21:India enjoyed an all-winday at the Australian Opentennis Grand Slam afterLeander Paes and Sania

Mirza sailed into thesecond round of theirrespective men's andwomen's doubles eventshere today. Sania and her

Chinese Taipei partner Su-Wei Hsieh, who are seededsecond, defeated theArgentine-Swiss combineof Maria Irigoyen andRomina Oprandi 6-2 6-0 injust 48 minutes to advance.The Indo-Taipei team willnow be up against theCanadian-Polish pair ofGabriela Dabrowski andAlicja Rosolska. Filepicture of Sania Mirza Inthe men's doubles event,10th seeded Paes and hisSouth African partnerRaven Klaasen edgedpast the American duo ofScott Lipsky and RajeevRam 6-4 7-6 (6) to enterthe second round. Theywill now face the winnersof the match betweenAmericans SteveJohnson and SamQuerrey and the Italianpair of Simone Bolelliand Fabio Fognini.

Congress unhappy over Sibal representingWB government in Saradha Scam

New Delhi, Jan 21,2015Congress made

known its unhappinessover its senior leaderKapil Sibal representingWest Bengal governmentin the multi-crore rupeesSaradha scam in theSupreme Court, two daysafter its state unitexpressed objection to it.

"I fully endorse theviews expressed by theWest Bengal Congress,"said C P Joshi, partygeneral secretary in-charge of the state,making clear theunhappiness over theformer Union Ministerappearing in the SC forthe government of rival

Trinamool Congress.West Bengal

Congress President AdhirRanjan Chowdhury, on

Monday said, "Sibal is aknown face of theCongress and a formerUnion minister. He is

representing the stategovernment in theSaradha case in theSupreme court. We feelbad." Joshi said he hasconveyed the sentimentsof the state Congress unitto the party highcommand.

At the AICCbrief ing, Congressspokesperson RandeepSingh Surjewala saidSibal , a prominentlawyer, should take noteof the sentiments of thepar ty uni t in WestBengal. Chowdhury, aformer Union ministerhad said, "As long as Iam the state Congresspresident, I can say that

Sibal will not be invitedto any programme of thepar ty here ." Askedwhether he informed thepar ty high commandabout this, the WBPCCpresident had said, "Ithas been communicatedto the AICC leadershipinformally."

West Bengal and itsruling party TrinamoolCongress on Mondaymoved the Supreme Courtseeking a court-monitoredCBI probe into the multi-crore rupees Saradhascam, alleging that theagency was acting as an"instrument" of the Centreand targeting the TMCleaders.

Coal scam: BJP welcomes 'questioning' ofManmohan Singh, seeks speedy probe

New Delhi, Jan 21,2015 BJP today welcomed

examination of formerPrime Minister ManmohanSingh by CBI in connectionwith the coal blockallocation case anddemanded that politicalbeneficiaries of the scamalso be questionedexpeditiously to restorepublic confidence in thecountry's governancesystem.

BJP also attacked theerstwhile Congress-ledUPA regime for "shielding"the political leadership,including the former PrimeMinister, and hoped theinvestigating agency underthe supervision of "BJPwelcomes CBI'squestioning of formerPrime Minister ManmohanSingh who also held thecoal portfolio when mostof the irregularities in coalscam took place. CBI has

examined the former PrimeMinister on the advice ofthe CBI Special Courtjudge...," BJPspokesperson G V LNarsimha Rao said.

"We seek acomprehensive, unbiasedand expeditiousinvestigation... BJPexpects a comprehensiveenquiry covering all theactors private, public andpolitical - involved inperpetrating the scam "Themassive coal scam could

not have been scriptedwithout strong politicalnexus between Congressleadership and allottees.There is circumstantialevidence in public domainto show the linkagesbetween the allottees andthe leadership of the rulingparty at the time," he said.

The CBI has so farregistered around 36 FIRsin the coal scam and mostaccused are promoters ofprivate companies and afew public officials.

Delhi High Court to Centre: Removefreeze on foreign contributionsreceived by Greenpeace India

New Delhi, Jan 21,2015The Delhi High Court

on Tuesday directed thegovernment to remove thefreeze on the IDBI Bankaccount of GreenpeaceIndia, which has foreigncontribution of Rs 1.87crore from GreenpeaceInternational. The courtobserved that thegovernment had notbrought any “evidence onrecord” to support itsaction of freezing theaccount.

“According to me,there is no material onrecord to restrict thepetitioner from accessingthe bank account with theIDBI Bank in Chennai,”said the court of JusticeRajiv Shakdher. It said thatthe “amount in fixeddeposited

in the bank beunblocked and transferredto the NGO’s account”.

The court took noteof the submissions made bythe Ministry of HomeAffairs, which had allegedthat the “foreign funds”had been contributed byGreenpeace International,which was on its watchlist,but observed that theministry’s directions tofreeze the account hadbeen given before anynotice was issued to theNGO.

“How do yourespond to the NGO’sallegation. At least, youshould say something.First you freeze theaccount then youinvestigate the case, whichis very, very uncommon,”observed the court, addingthat the ministry had notbeen able to show onrecord any evidence thatthe NGO had beenengaged in activities thatwent against nationalinterest.Facebook users 'post' trouble for

Kerala minister accused of corruptionNew Delhi, Jan 21,2015

Kerala's financeminister KM Mani, who isin the thick of corruptioncharges, is now facing anew form of protest.Angry netizens havestarted flooding him withmoney orders -- from Rs5 to Rs 500 -- as theyloosened their wallet instyle for the 'poorminister'.

In a day they doledout more than Rs 15,000.There were no onlinetransactions, the moneywas sent directly to theminister’s address at Palain Kottayam district. Thepostmen are in a tizzy onwhat to do with the millingmoney order invoices.

The veteran minister,who has a political careerspanning five decades wasrecently accused by barowners of taking a Rs. 2crore bribe to ensure alenient liquor policy. The

state vigilance is nowinvestigating the case.

The social mediacampaign began withyoung south Indiandirector Aashiqu Abu,who is also a socialactivist, posting a messageon Facebook: “We mustcollect some more croresfor our Mani sir who doesnot have money to feedhimself. Here’s mycontribution of Rs 500.”

He also posted onFacebook a money orderreceipt for Rs 500.

Kerala's geek army pickedup the cue and created anexclusive page called ‘entevaka 500,’ meaning ‘here'smy 500’.

The page had morethan 9,000 likes in no time.To spice it up somewordsmiths coined newslogans and others addedcaricatures lampooningcorrupt politicians.

“It really shows theangst of our youngsters. Ihope such campaigns willhelp open some eyes,” saidveteran journalist and

activist B RP Bhaskarwelcoming the newcampaign.

This is the first timeKerala's netizens haveturned their ire againstpoliticians. In recent years,they were buzzing during

the ‘kiss of love’ campaignagainst moral policing andthe ‘pink chaddi’ campaignagainst Sri Ram Sene’sPramod Muthalik.

Minister KM Mani isyet to react to the ‘moneyorder campaign.

Sharmila leaves for Nalgonda onPhase II of ‘Paramarsa Yatra’

New Delhi, Jan 21,2015Y.S. Sharmila, sister

of the YSR CongressPresident Y.S.Jaganmohan Reddy lefthere for Nalgonda onWednesday morning onthe Second Phase of her'Paramarsa Yatra' toconsole the families ofthose who died of shockon hearing the news ofdemise of former ChiefMinister Y.S. RajasekharaReddy in the choppercrash in 2009.

She wasaccompanied byKhammam MP PonguletiSrinivas Reddy and theparty's General Secretaryof the Telangana StateCommittee K.Shivakumar. She isexpected to visit thehouses of atleast 32families who lost a keymember. It will begin atDevarakonda and end atSuryapet.

On Wednesday, sheleft in a convoy of over a

dozen vehicles and onDay One of the secondphase of her yatra she isscheduled to coverM a d a n a p u r a m ,Devaracharla Thanda andGuvvalagutta villages inD e v a r a k o n d aConstituency. In the PhaseII that will last till January30, she will cover 6Assembly and 2 LokSabha constituencies.

She had started theyatra in December last andvisited 15 families across

Mahbubnagar district,much on the lines of herbrother Mr. JaganmohanReddy's 'Odarpu Yatra'.The objective was to instillconfidence amongfamilies who had lost amember andcommunicate themessage that the partywould stand by them.

Keywords: Y.S.Sharmila, Khammam MPPonguleti Srinivas Reddy,15 families acrossMahbubnagar district

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Morari Bapu to recite Ramkatha in Ahmedabadto seek donations for Kidney Institute

Ahmedabad,Jan 21,2015Shri Morari Bapu will

recite Ramkatha inAhmedabad as a charityfund-raiser event forAhmedabad-based worldrenowned kidney institute– Dr. H. L. Trivedi Instituteof TransplantationSciences and Smt.Gulabben Rasiklal Doshi &Smt. Kamlaben MafatlalMehta Institute of KidneyDiseases & ResearchCenter.

While both of theinstitutes aim to raise fundto the extent of Rs. 100crore through thediscourse, various donorshave already committeddonation of Rs. 30 croreeven before the beginningof the Ramkatha.

The Ramkhatha willbegin at SabarmatiRiverfront, situated nearShri Vallabh Sadan &Sahitya Parishad Bhavan,on January 24, 2015 i.e. onthe auspicious day of

Vasant Panchmi at 4 pm inthe presence of Gujarat’sChief Minister Smt.Anandiben Patel,Ahmedabad Mayor Smt.Minakshiben Patel, ShriDilipdasji Maharaj, Mahantof Jagannathji Temple andother prominent religious& social leaders.

Thereafter, thereligious discourse willcontinue from January 25to February 1 between9.30 am & 1.30 pm. JoyserFamily is playing role of

host for the entire event ofRamkatha.

While talking tomedia persons, Dr. Trivedi,Founder of the Institute,today said, “Our institutetreats kidney patients fromany section of the societywithout any discriminationand at a minimal rate. Thenumber of patients comingfor treatment is on the risewith the passage of thetime and this impose aheavy financial burden onthe institute. In view of

this, we are going toorganize Ramkatha by ShriMorari Bapu in order toraise a good amount ofcharity fund. MorariBapu’s Ramkatha willserve as a blessing for us.”

It is worthwhile tomention that the kidneyinstitute in Ahmedabad hasbeen set up by Dr. H. L.Trivedi, who gave up hiswell-settled life in Canadajust to serve patients in hishomeland. The institute hasachieved many milestones

since then. It is the onlykidney institute in Indiahaving bed capacity of over400 and the only publicsector undertaking in thecountry to successfully doliver transplant. It also holdsrecord of performing morethan 400 transplantations ina year and is first one in theworld to performtransplantation using stemcells. It has state-of-the-artstem cell lab and madesignificant progress in stemcell research.

News in brief from across Gujarat

Ahmedabad, Jan 21,2015Gujarat government

has approved Mumbai liketaxi service in Gujarat. Pilotproject will kick off inAhmedabad with runningcharge per km Rs. 12 anddown charge Rs. 20. Greycolor dress, compulsoryGPS system, submission ofdetails of driver toconcerned department etcrules are finalized.

According to HealthMinister Nitin Patel, theGovernment of Gujarat hasfinalized 200 acre land nearRajkot and Vadodara forproposed AIIMS hospital.Central government teamwill arrive in Gujarat andvisit both proposed sites.The Government of Indiawill take decision on whereto set up AIIMS. Researchfacility and hospital will alsocome up with AIIMS. Ahigh level team of unionhealth ministry will visitGujarat for three days fromtomorrow. The team willfirst visit Gandhinagar andhold discussion with stategovernment. The team willlater visit Vadodara and willalso visit Rajkot site nextday.

Five Drone cameras

and 24 CCTV cameras arenow keeping vigil overcommunal tension hitHansot and Aliya bet areasof Bharuch district.

-Gujarat Congresstoday attacked BharatiyaKisan Sangh forcompromise with the stategovernment. Congress partyin a statement asked whyKisan Sangh stopped itsagitation against the stategovernment over cotton

MSP hike when demandsare not granted? Congressasked Kisan Sangh to revealdetails of their settlementwith the state governmenton this issue.

A newspaper inJamngar has been servedRs. 51 crore defamationnotice over a news storythat alleged connectionbetween cricketer RavindraJadeja and land mafia BaliDangar.

4-year-old abducted fromThane rescued in Ahmedabad

18 years later, HC reinstates CRPFman who lost job over plaint to PM

Ahmedabad, Jan 21, 2015VithalPatil lost his job

in the Central ReservePolice Force (CRPF)merely because hecomplained to the PrimeMinister about the poortreatment meted out towater carriers in thedepartment and said theywere denied weekly offs aswell.

Eighteen years later,Gujarat high court orderedCRPF to take Patil back inservice on the ground thathis mistake wasn't graveenough to deprive him ofhis job.

Patil was recruited inthe CRPF as a watercarrier. Fed up with the job,particularly because watercarriers weren't evenallowed to rest on theirweekly offs during his

posting in Gandhinagar, hewrote a letter to the PrimeMinister in 1997 andcomplained about serviceconditions and that watercarriers were made towork without holidays. Healso complained that theywere treated as lowcategory employees in thedepartment.

The departmentsuspended him for writingto the PM directly, withoutgoing through the properchannel. Patil refused toaccept his suspension andwas then dismissed fromservice. His legal battlelasted for 18 years. Hislawyer, Ramnandan Singh,argued before the HC thatthe punishment was tooharsh as compared to hismistake. A bench of JusticeAkil Kureshi and Justice

Sonia Gokani alsoobserved that Patil was noteducated enough tounderstand the proceduralaspects and the properchannel for complaintsregarding serviceconditions.

The court orderreads, "Main misconductalleged against him wasthat he made arepresentation to thePrime Minister withoutrouting it through properchannel. Misconduct itmay be, it certainly wouldnot warrant dismissal of anemployee from service.This is one of the rare case,where the court wouldcertainly come to theconclusion that punishmentawarded was so out ofproportion to shock theconscience of the court..

AHMEDABAD: Citycrime branch rescued afour-year-old childabducted from Thane threedays back and have handedover the abductor to Thanepolice. The accused hadcome to Vatva to takerefuge at a relative'sresidence, saidinvestigator.

According to crimebranch officials, AshokPande, a resident ofShubham Park in Kalyan,had registered a complaintwith Mahatma PhooleChowk police station inThane about abduction ofhis youngest son

Rameshwar, from hisresidence. He had namedRaju Pande, 38, a residentof Gauripada, Kalyan, asprime suspect. As theaccused was not found inThane by investigators,they approached other citypolices where there wereprobabilities of hispresence.

M D Chaudhari, assistantcommissioner of police(crime), told media on Tuesdaythat a team of inspector KiranPatel and sub-inspector RajeshSuvera were given theinvestigation to check onPande's relatives in Vatvawhere he had come earlier.

Crime branch takes overNaranpura murder caseAHMEDABAD, Jan 21,2015

The city crimebranch has taken over theinvestigation of themurder of VandanaPrasad, 22, fromNaranpura police.

A s s i s t a n tcommissioner of police(crime) MD Chaudharisaid on Tuesday that theyhave got the papers fromNaranpura police station."We are checking variouspossibil i t ies and areawaiting Birbal Prasad'sstatement to corroboratethe theories," he said.

The crime branchhas started exploring thepossibil i ty of

involvement of morethan one person in thecrime. Vandana'sboyfriend, 26-year-oldBirbal , is the primesuspect in the case. He isrecuperating at CivilHospital. Investigatorssaid that he might bequestioned by theweekend, depending onhis medical condition.

On January 14,Birbal and Vandana werefound with stab injuriesin the bushes near KapilKunj Society adjoiningthe rai lway tracks inNaranpura. Birbal haddialed 100 to reportVandana's murder.

521 Leuva Patel couples to tieknot at biggest mass wedding

Saying that politics had divided them,the Gujarat Chief Minister AnandibenPatel today appealed the Kadva andLeuva Patel communities to unite.

Rajkot, January 21, 2015“Leuvas are descendants ofLord Ram’s son Luv andKadvas are descendants ofKush and when they aredescendants of Lord Ram,it the need of the hour thatthe community should getunited for the betterdevelopment of thesociety,” Patel said, while

attending a mass-marriagearranged by the LeuvaPatel community at KhodalDham temple near Kagvad.Construction of KhodalDham temple, entailingexpenditure of Rs 300crore, is an ambitiousproject of Leuva Patelcommunity, led by Rajkot-based businessman Naresh

Patel.“Politics has divided thePatel community in to twogroups, but now thecommunity should unite,”she said.The Chief Minister spokeabout various developmentworks undertaken by stategovernment and alsopraised Naresh Patel andKdhodal Dham Trustmembers for organising themass-marriage.As many as 521 couplestoday got married at thefunction. Trust sourcessaid they would beapplying to Asia Book ofRecords and India book ofRecords for entering it inrecord book.Ahmedabad, Jan 21, 2015

A sessions court onTuesday reserved its orderon a revision applicationfiled against Prime MinisterNarendra Modi for filingdefective affidavit fromManinagar constituency in2012 during assemblyelection. The order will bepronounced on February 7.The complainant NishantVerma, a member of Aam

Modi’s marital status:Court reserves order

Adami Party, has filed therevision application allegingthat Modi hid his maritalstatus in 2012 which cameto light only in 2014 whenhe filed his nomination forcontesting general electionfrom Vadodara seat. Vermahas alleged that by leavingthe marital status blank in2012, Modi violatedRepresentation of PublicAct 125 (a).

Elderly craftsman founddead in Porbandar harbour

Rajkot, January 21, 2015An elderly craftsman

working on a fishingtrawler building yard, wasfound dead in his hut in OldPort area of fishing harbourin Porbandar early onWednesday with policesaying the man wasmurdered.

The victim wasidentified as Lalji Khoravaalias Jino alias Kodhiyo.Police said he was around65-year-old and had beenliving away from his familyfor the last 20 years due tohis addiction to liquor. Afishermen in his early life,Khorava, had beenworking as a craftsman-cum-watchman on the yardof one Dilip Mistry, whobuilds wooden fishing

trawlers in Old Port area ofPorbandar harbour. “OnePravin, who does round ofOld Port every morning tofeed stray dogs, foundKhorava lying in a pool ofblood in his hut on Mistry’syard at around 8:20 am onWednesday and informedpolice,” Chandu Patel,police inspector (PI) ofKirti Mandir police stationin Porbandar, told theS U N V I L L ASAMACHAR.

Khorava was taken togovernment-run BhavsinjiHospital in Porbandarwhere doctors declaredhim dead on arrival.

“The old man was hitby some unidentifiedperson with a blunt objecton his right hand. There

was also a five centimetreslong cut on his headsuggesting another blow.Doctors opined the deathhad occurred between sixhours to 24 hours,” the PI,who is investigating officer(IO) of the case furthersaid.

I n c i d e n t a l l y ,Porbandar had hit headlinesearly this month after IndianCoast Guard intercepted asuspicious fishing trawlerfrom Pakistan near theInternational MaritimeBoundary Line, some 365kilometres South-West ofPorbandar. After the pursuitby Coast Guard, theoccupants had blown offtheir trawler, alarmingsecurity and intelligenceagencies of India.

Ahmedabad, Jan 21, 2015'HOF'- city based

premier furniture brandannounced its venture intothe booming e-commercemarket here on Tuesday.Known to manufacture notonly aesthetically pleasingbut also ergonomicallybalanced chairs, HOFintroduced its new ageonline portal-'www.sittingculture.com'which was formallylaunched by Dr VikramShah, eminent orthoapedicsurgeon and chairman ofShalby Hospitals and VishalMehta, CEO, Infibeam.

HOF has entered theecommerce space with this

Ahmedabad based furniturebrand to sell chairs online

portal in partnership with'Ecumen'- a leadingEcommerce Consultancyand Digital MarketingAgency. While HOF willcreate the products, Ecumenwill get them across topeople all over the countrythrough ecommerce.

Sittingculture.com is aunique attempt to changeone of the most basic humanactivities-Sitting. It offersspecialized ergonomic chairsin categories like Premium,Professional, and Students.This portal will make HOFproducts available across70% of India through thetie-up with their logisticpartners FedEx.