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Govt may have to eat humble pie

statesman news service KOLKATA, 28 MAY: With no response from other states to its letters seeking forces for the rural poll 24 hours prior to nomination for the first phase, the state government today shot off a letter to the state election commission hinting that it was keeping its options open for requisitioning Central forces to safeguard the poll process. Home secretary Basudev Banerjee sent the letter to the SEC giving a detailed account of the shortfall of armed forces and mentioning the need for deploying Central forces. The SEC received the letter only after the commissioner had left for the day. The SEC secretary, Mr Tapas Roy, said: "Well examine the contents of the letter tomorrow and respond accorddetails on page 5 ingly."

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IPL saga: Sree, Chandila sent to judicial custody

Hotelier to be grilled
statesman news service CHENNAI, 28 MAY: The Crime Branch CID of Chennai Police cases has summoned city hotelier Mr Vikram 'Victor' Aggarwal, asking him to appear before it on 30 May. Addressing mediapersons today, Mr Venkatraman, DSP, CB-CID, said Mr Aggarwal, who owns Chennai's Radisson Blu, was active in betting circles. While Mr Aggarwals lawyer has been claiming that Mr Aggarwal had been taken into custody by CB-CID, Mr Venkatraman denied the charge. "The lawyer is free to say whatever he wants," said Mr Venkatraman. He further said Chennai Police has, in all, arrested 10 people in connection with the IPL betting case. "We are questioning five persons and expect to decipher more details over the next few days," he noted. CB-CID sources said Mr Aggarwal was introduced to Mr Gurunath Meiyappan, the sonin-law of BCCI president Mr N Srinivasan, by small-time actor Mr Vindoo Dara Singh, now in the custody of Mumbai Police. Mr Aggarwal is believed to have strong links with Mr Meiyappan as well as the actor. It is also believed that Mr Aggarwal holds the key to the entire scandal. Meanwhile, the Mumbai Crime Branch team searched Mr Aggarwal's house in the city today. A four-member team of the Mumbai Crime Branch also conducted a raid on the Chennai residence of Mr Meiyappan. The team, however, remained tightlipped and did not disclose what they had recovered during the raid. This was the second time the Mumbai Police raided Mr Meiyappans residence. more reports on page 3
Sreesanth on his way to the New Delhi court in a police vehicle. afp

Extradition

LONDON/NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: Britain has ordered extradition of one of the main Naval war room leak accused, Ravi Shankaran, to India to face trial, a move that may expedite court proceedings pending for several months. On 22 May, the secretary of state ... signed an order for Shankaran's extradition to India, a Home Office spokesperson said in London today. pti

Ram expelled

NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: Rebel BJP MP Ram Jethmalani, who had been critical of the BJP leadership, was today expelled from the primary membership of the party for six years on charges of breach of discipline. pti

NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: Delhi Police today told a city court the IPL fixing scam had links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim as one of his close associates was in continuous touch with arrested bookie Ashwini Aggarwal. The court, meanwhile, remanded cricketers S Sreesanth and Ajit Chandila, besides bookies Ashwini and Chandresh Patel, in judicial custody till 4 June. There are certain phone numbers which seem dubious. Those are associated with Dawood. It was while following those numbers that police stumbled upon the fixing scandal, said a Delhi police officer. There was a link between Dawood and bookie Ashwini whose identity cannot be revealed in public, senior public prosecutor Rajeev Mohan told Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma. He said interception of various calls suggested several big names may be involved. "There are some missing links and they are working on it, he said. The court rejected the investigators plea for two more days of custodial interrogation of Sreesanth in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal saying he cannot be held liable for what happened behind his back. Police had said that immediately after Sreesanth's arrest, his hotel room was cleaned up and some articles were removed by Abhishek Shukla, who has been detained by Delhi police. The court pulled up investigators for not showing any fresh grounds to take custody of Sreesanth. How will you establish the removed articles belong to Sreesanth as anyone could have planted them to falsely implicate him? it asked. The other three accused were sent to judicial custody as the investigating agency did not seek their further remand. The court dismissed the bail plea of Rajasthan Royals player Ankeet Cha-

Bastar killings: IGP shifted, SP suspended

statesman news service RAIPUR/NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: Three days after a deadly ambush on a Congress convoy on Saturday that took the lives of 29 people, including key party leaders and security personnel, heads rolled in Chhattisgarh, with Chief Minister Raman Singh suspending the Bastar police chief and transferring the Inspector General of Police, Bastar range and the District Collector. The move came as the Congress launched a blistering attack on the state government for the massive security failures and lapses that it said led to the incident, and sought Dr Raman Singh's immediate resignation. The man widely seen as responsible for not putting in place an adequate security net for the Congress leaders, Bastar Superintendent of Police Mayank Shrivastava, was suspended tonight; he will be replaced by Mr Ajay Yadav. District collector Alabangan P has also been transferred to Raipur, while Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range), Mr Himanshu Gupta, has been removed. The state government has also appointed Justice Prashant Mishra, a sitting judge of Bilaspur High Court, to investigate the Maoist attack. Speaking in New Delhi, All India Congress Committee spokesman Charan Das Mahant said the state administration and the police failed to provide proper security to the Congress leaders returning from the party's Parivartan Yatra rally in Sukma when the heavily-armed Maoists ambushed them. By contrast, Mr Das said, the BJP's "Vikas Yatra" was given a security cover of 3,000 police personnel. He said the Union home ministry had given prior intelligence to the Chhattisgarh government about the possibility of a major Maoist strike. Why did the state government not take any preventive measures? he asked. Mr Raman Singh should resign immediately owning

n Sreesanth, Chandila and 2 bookies remanded in judicial custody till 4 June n Sreesanth cant be held liable for what happened behind his back, said a Delhi court n The court rejected the bail application of Rajasthan Royals Ankit Chavan n BCCI member Jyotiraditya Scindia says board chief N Srinivasan should go, but .arooq Abdullah backs Srinivasan van, while Sreesanths bail plea will be heard on 4 June. Draft law The law ministry has proposed punishment ranging from three to seven years' jail for various "dishonest" practices in a sporting event, including spot-fixing and match-fixing. The draft law, submitted to the sports ministry, provides for a jail term of up to seven years, or fine, or both, for a player who performs dishonestly to fix the result of a sporting event by accepting gratification. Similar punishment has been prescribed for those influencing any player to perform dishonestly. The sports ministry, however, is unsatisfied with the first draft of the law and intends to carry out "extensive modification" to its contents.

responsibility for this, he said. Toughening its stand on the Maoists, the AICC also described them as nothing more than criminals. Mr Das said the Left-wing extremists should not be glorified by attaching any political ideology to their activities. Maoists claim responsibility: The banned CPI (Maoist) today claimed responsibility for the 25 May ambush and demanded suspension of all operations against it across the country. The aim behind this attack was to kill Mahendra Karma and other Congress leaders, a spokesperson of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of the group said. another report on page 3

.OUL POLITICS AND .AVOURITISM WIN THE DAY

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CAG APPOINTMENT MALA .IDE

In the appointment of Shashi Kant

Sharma, former defence secretary, as the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India, a constitutional functionary higher in status than the Central Vigilance Commissioner or the Chief Election Commissioner, the government of Mr Manmohan Singh has thrown to the winds accountability in public life and transparency in decision making. Ever since the UPA came to power in 2004, Sharma had been a key functionary in the defence ministry, as joint secretary, director-general (acquisition), officer on special duty and ended as defence secretary. He was a key figure in all purchases and procurement made by the defence ministry for the armed forces. Many of these deals have become controversial and have been under the scanner of the CAG. Appointing Sharma as the CAG is to make him sit in judgment on his accountability in military procurements made during his almost 10-year tenure in the defence ministry. What credibility will the audit of defence purchases have under the new CAG? A little known fact about Sharma but ignored by the Prime Minister while recommending to the President to appoint him as the CAG

is a pending contempt charge against him before the Ernakulam Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal under Sections 10 and 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. The case has been posted for hearing on 3 June. The Supreme Court has repeatedly berated the UPA government for failing to respect institutional integrity of constitutional posts, but to no avail. One of the most questionable defence acquisitions during Sharmas tenure in the ministry is the 20 January 2004, agreement to convert Russias discarded warship Admiral Gorshkov into a full modern aircraft carrier, renamed Vikramaditya, originally scheduled to be delivered by August 2008 so that it could be pressed into service in 2009, around the time INS Viraat was scheduled to retire, at a total cost of $

947 million. This amount was to refurbish and convert the scrapped ship which was an outright gift from Russia. The BJP, which was heading the NDA government then, did not want to look the gift-horse in the mouth. The fun and games started only after the UPA came to power. The defence ministry deputed Commodore Sukhjinder Singh to Russia from 2005 to 2007 to oversee the Gorshkov retrofit project where he was honey-trapped by an intelligence agent to give details of Indias negotiating position. He was the projects principal director in India from 2007 to 2009. Explicit photograph of Sukhjinder Singh with a Russian woman surfaced in the media. A naval board of inquiry found Sukhjinder Singh guilty of amorous relationship with the Russian woman and relieved him of his post but not before agreeing to pay $ 2.9 billion for the second-hand ship, which is 60 per cent higher than the cost of a new aircraft carrier of similar specifications. A 2009 report of the CAG says: The objective of inducting an aircraft carrier in time to fill the gap in the Indian Navy has not been achieved. The cost of acquisition has more than doubled in four years. turn to page 2

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INDIA Jethmalani expelled from BJP for 6 years

press trust of india NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: Rebel BJP MP Ram Jethmalani, who had been critical of the BJP leadership and had revolted against the then party chief Nitin Gadkari, was today expelled from the primary membership of the party for six years on charges of breach of discipline. The expulsion of 89-year-old Mr Jethmalani, who is a member of the Rajya Sabha, by the BJP Parliamentary Board comes weeks after he had barged into a Parliamentary Party meeting and questioned his continued suspension. He had also asked if he could be issued a whip when he has been suspended. In a letter to Mr Jethmalani, BJP leader Ananth Kumar said the party's Parliamentary Board, which met here yesterday, had taken a unanimous decision to expel him from primary membership of the party, after going through his replies made in response to a showcause notice in November 2012. The Central Parliamentary Board after considering all your replies, responses and letters was of the unanimous opinion that you have indulged in a breach of discipline. The Parliamentary Board, therefore, decided to expel you for a period of six years from the primary membership of the party, the letter said. The noted lawyer has often courted controversy by making anti-BJP comments. He was suspended from the party after he opposed a second term for Mr Gadkari as BJP

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2G: Tatas lost race, ineligible Swan got spectrum, says Radia
pti & sns NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: .ormer corporate lobbyist Niira Radia today told a CBI court that Tata Teleservices Ltd, which was ahead in the queue for allocation of the 2G spectrum, lost the race while an ineligible Swan Telecom, said to be owned by ADAG Reliance Communications, was granted the radiowaves. The 53-year-old Radia, who appeared for the first time in the court in the case as a CBI witness, said she was advising the Tatas on telecom issues and the Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) had opposed the allocation of spectrum to Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd (STPL) and Reliance Communications Ltd. She said TTSL had applied for dual technology licences in 2007 which was granted in 2008 but it did not get the spectrum. The CBI, in its charge-sheet, had alleged that Reliance Telecom Ltd (RTL), an accused in the case, used Swan Telecom, an ineligible firm, as its front company to get licences and the costly radio waves. During the time of grant of licence and spectrum, there was a very strong public perception, created by the media, of eligibility and noneligibility. Through the public perception and advice of Tata's advocates, I came to know that this company was not eligible, Ms Radia told Special CBI Judge O P Saini. Ms Radia, who was warned against being evasive to the questions, also said, at that time, there were dossiers in circulation stating that the company (STPL) belonged to Reliance Communications, though I do not have any authentic or personal knowledge. STPL and its promoters, Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka, who were arrested and are at present on bail, are facing trial in the case. TTSL had opposed allocation of spectrum to STPL and Reliance Communications. However, they were advised that they were in the queue and as and when the spectrum would be available they would get it. This was the only reply we got from the DoT, she, whose recording of statement remained inconclusive, said. She was answering a question how STPL and Reliance Communications got Ms Radia's statement, which assumes significance as she, in her statement recorded during the probe under Section 161 of the CrPC (dealing with examination of witnesses) before the CBI, had said that STPL, facing trial in the 2G case, was not eligible to get the Unified Access Service (UAS) Licences. Spectrum refarming issue will be placed before EGoM The telecom minister, Mr Kapil Sibal, today said the issue of spectrum refarming which may lead to telecom operators like Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular bearing high costs will be placed before the next meeting of the empowered group of ministers (EGoM). The change in frequency for transmitting mobile signals could cost telecom firms over Rs 1 lakh crore cumulatively, a study said. The matter is going to EGoM. The EGoM is slated to meet very soon, Mr Sibal said. Telecom operators, mainly Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, have opposed spectrum refarming as they will need to vacate 900 megahertz frequency band, in which cost of providing service is less compared to other frequency bands, or pay high price for continuing services in the band.

president, saying he has to first come clean on allegations of corruption against his Purti group of companies. He had criticised the BJP for opposing the appointment of Mr Ranjit Sinha as CBI chief, and praising the government over the move. He had also said that the BJP was soft in attacking Congress in Parliament. In the letter, Mr Jethmalani was also told that he defied the party whip by not voting for the election of the members of the Committee on Public Undertakings. The above action is without prejudice to any action that may be initiated against you under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, the letter about Mr Jetthmalanis decision read.

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continued from page 1 At best, the Indian Navy would be acquiring, belatedly, a second-hand ship with a limited life span, by paying significantly more than what it would have paid for a new ship. The report adds that planning failures will leave the warship with no air defence upon delivery and only a Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) when one is retrofitted in 2017. The Rs. 3,546-crore Agusta Westland VVIP helicopter deal was signed in January 2010 when Sharma was director-general (acquisition). In 2005 when key parameters for choosing the helicopters were tweaked to enable Italys Agusta Westland to participate in the tender, he was the joint secretary (Air), responsible for IA. acquisitions. Yet his role did not come up for scrutiny and the entire responsibility has been shifted to former Chief of the Air .orce, Air Marshal SP Tyagi, and his cousins. The Tatra trucks scandal is not the biggest in terms of money but has been going on since 1986, involving politicians, generals, bureaucrats and officers of the public sector BEML, and escaped detection for a quarter of a century. When former Army chief V K Singh tried to break the chain and refused to accept a bribe of Rs. 14 crore to extend the yearly contract at highly inflated prices, and complained to the defence minister, all that A K Antony did was, according to his own admission in
Parliament, to beat his forehead and forget the issue. According to impeccable sources, Sharma signed the contract and business as usual continues in Czech-made Tatra trucks while at least three Indian companies have the technical know-how and are ready to supply similar vehicles to the Army at less than half the price. The entire gang of beneficiaries, led by Sharma, conspired and succeeded in cutting short the tenure of General V K Singh by arbitrarily manipulating his year of birth. It is a tragedy that both the Congress and the BJP are not interested in keeping the office of the CAG free of political influence. Although Arun Jaitley, leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, and Sushma Swaraj, leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, issued a pro forma statement on the appointment of Sharma as the CAG, saying the policy of the UPA has been callous disregard for all democratic institutions, they are not serious about changing the entrenched system. As far back as 23 November 2012 , when it was anticipated by the cognoscenti that the Congress president would opt for Sharma to succeed Vinod Rai as the CAG, director of Common Cause, Kamal Kant Jaswal, sent a memorandum to Murli Manohar Joshi of the BJP who is chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, to call for a healthy convention by constituting a high level committee comprising the Prime Minister, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, and the .inance Minister, with the chairman of the PAC as convener, to select the CAG. Intriguingly, Joshi, who made so much noise about the CAGs report on the 2G Spectrum scam, chose to ignore it. The Constitution has given an independent status to the CAG under Article 148. The CAG is appointed by the President and can be removed only by a motion in Parliament. BR Ambedkar, chairman of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly, described CAG as the most important officer under the Constitution. Rajendra Prasad, chairman of the Constituent Assembly and the first President of India, was of the opinion that the CAG had the power to call to account any officer, however highly placed, as far as State monies were concerned. If the CAG were to discharge the onerous responsibility of his office, he must be a person of the highest professional competence and unimpeachable integrity. Unfortunately, the UPA government has followed an opaque and arbitrary method in appointing Sharma as the CAG. During the last three decades, the government has been following an unwritten convention that only an officer holding the post of secretary to the government of India should be appointed to the post. Such a policy is conceptually flawed and may give rise to serious situations of conflict of interest, as it has happened in the present case. It may be recalled that the question of laying down qualifications for the post of CAG was discussed in the Constituent Assembly in 1948 and in 1949. Though no formal qualifications were prescribed, it was generally accepted that only persons having a thorough knowledge of audit and accounts would be appointed. Since 1978, the government has found it expedient to appoint only serving secretaries belonging to the IAS to the office of the CAG. And in the present case government has chosen one with a humungous conflict of interest even when many secretary-level officers with no conflict of interest were available. The Supreme Court had enunciated the concept of institutional integrity while quashing the appointment of P J Thomas as the Central Vigilance Commissioner. A criminal case under the Prevention of Corruption Act was pending against him in a Kerala court at that time. A contempt of court case is pending against Sharma in a court in Ernakulam now. The selection procedure must be open and transparent and all relevant facts must be taken into account in the appointment of all constitutional posts. The remit of the CAG far exceeds that of the CVC. Impeccable integrity of the appointee is the sine qua non of good governance. In this the UPA has repeatedly betrayed the nation

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EDUCATIONAL
APPLICATIONS are invited for the following post at St. Thomas School, Kidderpore: Student Counsellor Post Graduates in Psychology with training in counseling of adolescent students may apply. Applicants should apply to the Secretary, St. Thomas School, 4, Diamond Harbour Road, Kidderpore, Kolkata700023, within fifteen days of this advertisement. (B0006) C19235

LEGAL NOTICES
SECTION-XV IN THE SUPREME COURT O. INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No. 3378 of 2010 with prayer for Interim Relief Coal India Ltd. Coal India Ltd. ....Petitioner -VersusManmatha Kumar Jena & Ors. ....Respondents To, Smt. Sushila Roy,

Daughter of Late Laxman Roy, Desh Bandhu Park, Shyambazar Tennis Club, Kolkata-700004 (R-10) Whereas the Petition for Special Leave to Appeal with prayer for Interim Relief abovementioned filed in the Registry by Gp. Capt. Karan Singh Bhati, Advocate on behalf of the Petitioner abovenamed was listed before this Court on 12-042010, when the Court was pleased to pass the following order. Issue notice on the special leave petition as well as on application for Interim Relief. Now, therefore, take notice that the above petition with prayer for Interim Relief will be posted for hearing before this Court in due course and you may enter appearance before this Court either in person or through an Advocate on Record of this Court duly appointed by you in that behalf within 30 days from the date of publication of notice. You may thereafter show cause to the Court on the day that may subsequently be specified as to why Special Leave as well as prayer for Interim Relief as prayed for be not granted and the resultant appeal be not allowed. You may file your affidavit in opposition to the petition as provided under Rule 13 (1) of Order XVI, S.C.R. 1966 (as amended) within 30 days from the date of receipt of notice or not later than 2 weeks before the date appointed for hearing, whichever be earlier but shall do so only by setting out the grounds in opposition to the questions of law or grounds set out in the SLP and may produce such pleadings and documents filed before the Court / Tribunal against whose order the SLP is filed and shall also set out the grounds for not granting interim order or for vacating interim order if already granted. Take further notice that if you fail to enter appearance as aforesaid, no further notice shall be given to you even after the grant of Special Leave for hearing of the resultant Appeal and the matter abovementioned shall be disposed off in your absence. Assistant Registrar Dated this the 13th day of April, 2013. C19331 (B0001)

I, SABITA Bandyopadhyay, D/o. Amarendra Nath Bandyopadhyay, W/o. Prabir Kumar Ray, R/o. 8/2/14, Arabinda Sarani, Kol.-28, born on 04-01-1959 shall henceforth be known as Sabita Ray since my marriage on 18-02-1980, vide Affidavit No. 66AA858981 sworn before Notary Public at Kolkata on 03-05-2013.
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LOST & .OUND

PASS Certificate issued to Subhadeep Gayen Index No. B/8246/192 in 2009 of St. Pauls Mission School irretrievably lost. If found contact: 8657425933. (B0002) C19329

PUBLIC NOTI.ICATIONS
I, MAHESH Chand Rustagi, S/o. Bishan Swarup Rustagi, R/o. 2, Jagmohan Mullick Lane, Kol.-7 shall hencforth be known as Mahoesh Rustagi, vide affidavit sworn before Notary Public at Kolkata on 14-5-13. C19339 I, MAZBURA Bibi, R/o. Vill.: Pirakole, P.O.: Benipur, P.S.: Kandi, Dist.: Murshidabad, shall henceforth be known as Mazbura Begam, vide affidavit sworn before the Notary Public, Berhampore, Murshidabad on 10-042013. C19327 I, PRABIR Kumar Roy, S/o. Ajit Kumar Roy, R/o. 8/2/14, Arabinda Sarani, Kol.-28 born on 10-10-1954 shall henceforth be known as Prabir Kumar Ray, vide Affidavit No. 66AA058982 sworn before Notary Public at Kolkata on 03-05-2013.
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IT IS hereby notified that my client going to purchase all that piece and parcel of Sali land admeasuring about 118 decimal, comprised in Mouza-Tentral, J.L. No. 53, R.S. Dag Nos. 779 to 785, 780/846, 781/847, L.R. Khatian Nos. 537 and all that piece and parcel of land admesuring about 171 Decimal comprised in Mouza-Kharjuli, J.L. No. 55, R.S. Dag Nos. 3482 to 3486, L.R. Khatian No. 2188, under P.S. & District- Burdwan, West Bengal from Sharvani Developers Private Limited of 227/1B, A.J.C. Bose Road, P.S.-Bhawanipore, Kol- 20. If any person has any objection in respect of right, title & interest over the abovenoted space please contact with me within 10 days from the date of publication of this notice with all documents, otherwise no claim/objection is acceptable. Binita Kanjilal Advocate Dist. Judges Court Barasat, W.B. M: 9831174261 (B0005) C19335

No. 106, Kalikapur under Ward No. 109 within the limits of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Police StationPurba Jadavpur, Kolkata700099 before the State Bank of India, RACPC, Jeevan Deep Building, 4th .loor, Kolkata-700071. One Original Registered Deed of Conveyance being No. 1673 for the year 1944, and the same is recorded in Book No. I, Volume No. 33, Pages from 58 to 62 which was duly registered before Sadar J.S.R. Alipur relating to the land of the aforesaid flat, has lost or misplaced. Any person having any claim on this property may lodge it before the undermentioned within 10 (ten) days from the date of this Notice, failing which the said bank will accept the said flat for creating equitable mortgage and any claim in this regard shall not be entertained in future either by the said bank or by Date: 28th May, 2013 my client. Place: Kolkata C19326 Saubhik Roy Advocate NOTICE Sealdah Civil Court My client Shri Dipankar +918981979064 Saha, S/o. Shri Madhusudan C19338 Saha, residing at A-3/6, Happy Nook Housing, EKTP Phase-IV, P.S.: Kasba, PUBLIC NOTICE Kolkata-700107, intends to Notice is hereby given that create equitable mortgage my client Sri Bhabani Prasad of self-contained flat on the Das, son of late Panchanan third floor, measuring 1200 Das of 87, G.T. Road, P.O. & sq.ft. super built up area P.S.: Serampore, Dist.: more or less together with Hooghly, has lost his Original undivided proportionate Deed of Sale dated: 23-11share of land underneath 1960, vide Deed No. 9481 said building lying and situ- for the year 1960 of ates at Mouza-Kalikapur, Serampore Sub-Registrar having Municipal Premises Office. If any person found

NIGARA HOLDINGS PRIVATE LIMITED Regd. Office: 11/1, Sunny Park Kolkata-700019 Notice is hereby given that the Company is changing its Registered Office, subject to the approval of shareholders and Regional Director, Ministry of Corporate of Affairs, Eastern Region from the State of West Bengal to the State of New Delhi. Any person whose rights or interests are likely to be affected due to such change may intimate to the Regional Director, Ministry of Corporate of Affairs, Eastern Region, Kolkata within 21 days of this Notice with a copy to the Company at its Registered Office. .or Nigara Holdings Private Limited Samir Thukral Director

the same please inform the undermentioned within 30 days from the date of this publication. If anybody tried to use the said Deed for any illegal purpose it will be highly illegal. Debabrata Das Advocate Serampore Court 9831066785 232/221/91 (B0013) C19341 PUBLIC NOTI.ICATIONS One of my clients, D.J. Associates of P-16, Bentinck Street, P.S.: Bowbazar, Kolkata-700001, is purchasing from the owners i) Dr. Anirban Mitra, son of Lt. Sushil Kr. Mitra, and 2) Smt. Chaitali Mitra, wife of Dr. Anirban Mitra, both of 418, Rajdanga Main Road, P.S.: Kasba, Kolkata-107 of their Sali Land, measuring more or less, 58 cottahs 14 chittacks 2 square feet, lying and situated at Mouza Gopalpur, Pargana Madanmall, Touzi No. 336, R.S. No.: 39, J. L. 27, comprising in R.S. Dag No. 261, 264, 263/313 and L.R. Dag No. 265 (P), 269 (P), 268 (P), R.S. Khatian No. 33, 67, and L.R. Khatian No. 203, under P.S. Sonarpur, within the limits of Sonarpur-II, Gram Panchayat A.D.S.R.O. Sonarpur, Dist.: 24 Pgs. (South). Any person having any claim of right, title, interest, in the aforesaid Sali Land, may inform the undersigned within 15 days giving details of such claims, otherwise no claim or interest shall be entertained thereafter. Sd/Prasanta Dutta Roy Advocate Sealdah Court Room No. 202 Mobile No.: 9830548103
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submission of quotation: 14th June, 2013, 3-00 p.m. 2. Opening of Quotation: 14th June, 2013, 4-00 p.m. 3. Earnest Money Deposit: Rs. 10,000 (Rupees Ten Thousand only). 4. Place of submission of Quotation: Health Department, Burdwan Municipality. Burdwan Municipality reserves the right to withdraw from the process or any part thereof, to accept or reject any / all offer(s) at any stage of the process and / or modify the process or any part thereof or to vary any term without assigning any reason. No financial obligations will accrue to Burdwan Municipality in such an event. The details of quotation can be downloaded from our website: www.burdwanmunicipality.gov.in or can be obtained from this Office during any working day from 11-00 a.m. to 4-00 p.m. Ainul Haque Chairman Burdwan Municipality (B0012) C19340 DEPARTMENT O. MATHEMATICS The University of Burdwan Golapbag Burdwan-713104 West Bengal, India NO. DSA/QUOT/2013/1 Sealed quotations are invited from reputed manufacturer / authorized distributor for taking rates for supply and installation of some computer items in the Department of Mathematics, Burdwan University, Golapbag, Burdwan-713104, West Bengal as per specification given in the University website (www.buruniv.ac.in) for under UGC Special Assistance Programme, DSA-I. Programme Coordinator DSA-I Department of Mathematics The University of Burdwan (B0011) C19342 E-NIT NO. 06/WKD O. 2013-2014 (2013_PWD_9075_1 TO 15) e-Tender for 1 No. work from Regd. Unemployed Engrs. Co.-op Society Ltd. and 14 Nos. works are invited from bona fide outsiders of PWD at High Court, Calcutta, N.S. Building &

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PM pitches for Japanese investments

simran sodhi TOKYO, 28 MAY: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made a strong pitch to woo Japanese investors to India with an assurance that the long-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, which is facing opposition from states within India, will be in place in an appropriate type" by 2014. Mr Singh, later in the day, while speaking at another occasion, spoke extensively about the need for both India and Japan to join hands to foster a climate of peace, stability and cooperation and to lay an enduring foundation for security and prosperity. (afp photo) Mr Singh also referred to India and Japan as the two main actors in the region. Even though there was no direct reference to China, Mr Singh's speech did seem to suggest that India and Japan need to come together in the region to ensure peace and stability, in an effort to counter China. "At the same time, this region faces multiple challenges, unresolved issues and unsettled questions. Historical differences persist despite our growing inter-dependence; prosperity has not fully eliminated disparities within and between states; and there are continuing threats to stability and security," the Prime Minister said while addressing the Japan-India Association, Japan-India Parliamentary .riendship League and International .riendship Exchange Council. He spoke at some length about the situation existing in the region and said: "India's relations with Japan are important not only for our economic development but also because we see Japan as a natural and indispensable partner in our quest for stability and peace in the vast region in Asia that is washed by the Pacific and Indian Oceans " Mr Singh suggested three areas of co-operation between India and Japan. .irst that the two nations should "strengthen regional mechanisms and forums that will help develop habits of consultation and cooperation, enable us to evolve commonly accepted principles for managing differences, reinforce congruence in the region and allow us to address common challenges". His second suggestion was that both countries should "promote wider and deeper regional economic integration and enhance regional connectivity". Thirdly, the PM spoke about maritime security. "Maritime security across the linked regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans is essential for regional and global prosperity. We should, therefore, uphold the principles of freedom of navigation and unimpeded lawful commerce in accordance with international law, resolve maritime issues peacefully and work together more purposefully to harness the potential of the seas and address common sea-based challenges such as piracy". Earlier in the day, while addressing leading business honchos at the Keidanren, the premier chamber of commerce and industry, Mr Singh said: "India is a federation and there are difficulties to bring states to agree to surrender tax power but I am confident we will overcome the hurdle. We will work and we have been working to persuade more and more states

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to fall in line but it does require amendment of the Constitution and needs much more energetic efforts than an ordinary piece of legislation." The GST has been opposed by a number of non-Congress states which have accused the Centre of trying to encroach on state powers. States have also protested that GST would hit their finances. Mr Singh, however, struck a positive note by saying: "So, I cannot say we can deliver tomorrow but if you ask me, by 2014, once the elections are out of the way, whichever government comes to power, it will be a general agreement of appropriate type in place to help propel India's growth story."

SC dismisses Talwars plea

press trust of india NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: The Supreme Court today dismissed dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar's plea against the CBI for dropping its 14 witnesses in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case trial. A Bench of Mr Justice B S Chauhan and Mr Justice Dipak Misra said the CBI cannot be compelled to summon all its witnesses in the case and the couple can file an application for examining those witnesses, including ADG (Law and Order) of Uttar Pradesh and then CBI joint director Mr Arun Kumar. How can you compel the other party? Law permits you to examine those witnesses, the Bench said. Why are you in a hurry? Recording of your statement is going on. After that you try to examine them, the court said. The Talwars had moved the apex court challenging the Allahabad High Court order refusing their plea to summon 14 witnesses in the case. The trial court had dismissed their petition on 6 May and ordered recording of statements of Rajesh and Nupur, who are the main accused. The statement of CBI Investigating Officer AGL Kaul, the last prosecution witness, has already been recorded. The CBI case is that the murder of 14-year-old Aarushi five years ago was carried out by her parents and that no outsider was present. In his deposition before the special court, Mr Kaul, who headed the CBI probe, had submitted that the agency's investigation had revealed no evidence of any third person's entry into the Talwar residence. Aarushi was found dead with her throat slit in her bedroom on 16 May, 2008. The initial suspicion was on Hemraj whose body was later found in the terrace at their residence in Jalvayu Vihar in Noida on the outskirts of Delhi.

Scindia asks Srinivasan to go, Farooq Abdullah says theres no need

statesman new service NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, 28 MAY: The fissures are growing. After I S Bindra another BCCI member, Mr Jyotiraditya Scindia, has sought board president N Srinivasans resignation following the arrest of his son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings official Gurunath Meiyappan on charges of betting. Yesterday, Mr Bindra, a former BCCI president, had said: I demand that he (Srinivasan) should step down from the BCCI Presidents position forthwith and not cause any more damage to Indian cricket. However the beleaguered Srinivasan received solid support from senior board member .arooq Abdullah who said: It makes no sense to demand the BCCI President's resignation as it has not been proved that he is involved in any wrongdoing. Mr Scindias open call for Srinivasans resignation undermines the latter's assertion that the entire board was united behind him. "Let me say this that I am not assuming or saying that anyone is guilty. But considering the environment that is around cricket today, considering the fact that we do need to cleanse the sport in every single meaning of the word, I do believe that it would be in the fitness of things if Mr Srinivasan did step aside until this matter reached a conclusive end in terms of an inquiry, Mr Scindia told television channel Times Now. If he and his family members, or rather his sonin-law, is absolved then surely he can come back. But considering the environment that cricket is in today, I do think that if you combine the fact of a conflict of interest and his own family member being involved in an ongoing investigation, it is in the fitness of things and more from a spirit point of view and propriety point of view, I do believe that he should step aside. Mr Scindias statement came on a day when Kirti Azad, a BJP member of parliament, and a senior official of the Communist Party both criticized the boards silence. Asked whether the BCCI had another plan to convince Srinivasan to step down, Mr Scindia said: "The fact that he has not done so, I think it is time now for BCCI as a collective to see what the future course of action should be. In the fitness of things one should step aside, whether or not we believe we are guilty or not. If we are not guilty, then we will surely be reinstated. That example has to come from the top." He admitted that "a fair share" of the responsibility to clean up cricket lay with the BCCI. "I believe we must take the assistance of other stakeholders on board to ensure that such incidents don't recur, and there is a very strict ~ and strictly enforced ~ due process." Meanwhile in a veiled attack on BCCI vice president and party colleague Arun Jaitley, cricket-turned-politician Kirti Azad said: They (BCCI) do not want to take on Srinivasan because somebody wants to be next BCCI president. They think, if they go against him, they will not get 10-15 votes from his loyalists in the next AGM, They are acting like Gandhijis three monkeys. They all are involved. You scratch my back Ill scratch yours, he told a TV news channel. Mr Jaitley, who heads the Delhi & District Cricket Association, is in contention to become the next BCCI chief when Mr. Srinivasans term ends next year, as a North Zone representative is entitled for the post, going by the rotation policy. On the other hand, the President of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association .arooq Abdullah wanted to know why Srinivasan should resign. "If my son-in-law is involved, it does not mean I have to step down. Let the investigation get over. If it comes out in investigation that N Srinivasan is responsible, he will go, he is an honourable man," he said. Raut destroyed SIM card: Cops The Mumbai Crime Branch informed a magistrate court today that Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf ~ recently disqualified by the International Cricket Council ~ had destroyed a SIM card given to him by Jaipur-based bookmakers Pawan and Sanjay. Rauf destroyed the card at the behest of arrested actor Vindoo Dadar Singh who alerted the umpire to flee the country on 17 May. The cops impressed on Magistrate A M Padwad, who extended Vindoo's police remand to 31 May, the need for an in-depth investigation into the Rauf-Vindoo connection. The SIM card was provided by two Jaipur-based bookmakers Pawan and Sanjay with Vindoo acting as a go-between. The CB said Rauf used to give his impression about pitch behaviour and weather condition to the bookies in exchange of expensive gifts.

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.atehpur CMO suspended

LUCKNOW, 28 MAY: Chief Medical Officer of .atehpur has been suspended by Uttar Pradesh .amily Welfare minister for dereliction of duty and alleged involvement in corrupt practices, official sources said today. UP .amily Welfare Minister Ahmad Hasan has suspended CMO Rajesh Mohan Srivastava, .atehpur yesterday night for not performing his duties, sources said. pti

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Kerala CPM divided Two burnt to death over business favours in broad daylight
statesman news service PATNA, 28 MAY: Two persons were burnt to death in broad daylight in the past three days in Purnia district of Bihar, creating apprehension that the state may be plunging into another phase of lawlessness. A teacher, Ranjit Kumar Rajak who comes from the Dalit community, was allegedly burnt to death in the toilet of a government school in Purnia district on Monday. The victim was posted at Uffrail middle school at Manranga and is said to have accused the school principal as being behind the attack in his dying declaration. According to reports, some unidentified people doused the victim with kerosene while he was in the toilet and set him afire. Hearing his cries, other teachers reached the spot and rushed him to a local hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries. In his dying declaration before police, the victim has accused the school principal of hatching the conspiracy to kill him. The police have registered a case against the principal and are investigating the case. The incident comes close on the heels of another incident from Purnia reported last week when Jainandan Mandal, a JD-U leader and husband of a local Mukhiya, was badly beaten up and then thrown into his own brick kiln by villagers. An old land dispute the victim had with the tribal villagers is said to be the reason behind the killing. The police have registered a case against over 50 people in this connection. The Opposition parties slammed the NDA coalition government over the incidents. There is total anarchy in Bihar the overall situation is worse than Jungle Raj for which Lalu Prasad was always blamed, alleged Bihar Congress spokesman Mr V K Thakur. Alleging that there is no fear of law among the criminals, Mr Thakur said then seriousness of the situation was underlined by the fact that both incidents took place in broad daylight. Both the victims who were done to death in such a horrible way were from the weaker class. Is this sushasan (good governance), asked Mr Thakur.

BS. jawan injured in IED blast

RAIPUR, 28 MAY: A BS. jawan was today injured in an IED blast triggered by Naxals in Maoist-hit Kanker district of Chhattisgarh. The incident took place between Konde and Chhindpal village when the security forces were on an anti-mining operation in the Badgaon police station area of the district, a senior police official said. pti

Merit awarded with cash

NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: The HRD ministry has announced a cash award of Rs 1 lakh each to about 200 meritorious students who have passed Class 12 this year from government schools affiliated to the CBSE. This was approved by HRD Minister M M Pallam Raju. The students who have studied from Classes 9 to 12 and have passed the class 12 exam this year will be eligible. The minister said the pass percentage this year is 82.10 per cent which is the highest in the past five years. sns

Chit fund agent commits suicide

BALASORE (Odisha), 28 MAY: An agent of a chit fund company allegedly committed suicide by jumping before a running train. The body of Abhimanyu Nayak (35), who belonged to Nilgiri area of Balasore district, was found by the GRP and sent for post-mortem after the incident yesterday, railway officials said today. pti

26/11: Pak court adjourns hearing

LAHORE, 28 MAY: A Pakistani court has adjourned for nearly four months the hearing of a petition filed by LeT founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed seeking legal aid from the government to defend himself in a US lawsuit over the 2008 Mumbai attacks. pti

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, 28 MAY: Veteran CPM leader Mr V S Achuthanandan and his detractors in the party, led by party state secretary Pinarayi Vijay, are batting for two different billionaire Malayali Gulf businessmen ~ and accusing each other for backing them. The recently re-constituted CPM Ernakulam district committee has alleged that M A Yusuf Ali, whose Emke group run a chain of malls in the Gulf region and Europe, had grabbed land for his recently opened Rs 1,600-crore Lulu Shopping Mall in Kochi, the largest mall in the country. The district committee also alleged that the man got the 10.59 hectares of the reclaimed land near Bolghatty Island in Kochi, owned by Cochin Port Trust for a 30-year lease to set up an international convention centre, in lieu of a song . Annoyed by the allegation, Mr Yusuf Ali has conveyed to the port trust that he is withdrawing from the convention centre project and sought to repay the lease amount of Rs 70 crore. He, however, made no comment on the mall which is doing a roaring business. The land for both projects was allotted during the last CPM government led by Mr Achuthanandan. The former chief minister today said there was no violation of rules in allotting land to the projects. "Those who have attended the inauguration of the mall are raising the allegations now. I welcome any genuine issue on the project," Mr Achuthanandan, who is the Opposition leader now, said. Mr Paloli Mohammed Kutty, the Urban Development Minister in the V S government and belonging to the Pinarayi faction, has clarified that land was released for the projects in strict accord with the norms. Separately, the Congress-led government has allotted the Kovalam palace and five acres of land around it to Mr Ravi Pillai, a MiddleEast-based Malayali businessman. The palace is adjacent to the fivestar hotel which he had bought from the Leela group. Mr Achuthanandan and the CPI, the second largest partner in the Left Democratic .ront (LD.), have been opposing the government's move. "This is a blatant violation of the law of the land. Legal action will be initiated against the government," he said. Interestingly, the Pinarayi group kept mum on this decision. The silence is expected as the children of some of the top leaders in the Pinarayi group work in Ravi Pillais firms.

KATHMANDU, 28 MAY: In a first of its kind initiative to clean Mount Everest, a joint Army team of India and Nepal has collected over 4,000 kg garbage that was polluting the slopes of the world's tallest peak. The joint Sagarmatha expedition team handed over 4,010 kg of garbage and trash that it

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collected from and below the South Col to the Mount Everest Pollution Control Committee in Namche of Solukhumbu district yesterday. The solid waste include various goods used and discarded by mountaineers in course of their Everest expeditions. The team involved Army personnel from Nepal and India as part of the Joint Sagarmatha Mountaineering and Cleanliness Campaign 2013. The team had spent one and a half months to collect the waste scattered on the world's highest mountain and its base camp, The Himalayan Times reported. A function was organised at the Nepal armys Baraha Dal Battalion in Namche to hand over the waste yesterday, the Nepal armys Directorate of Public Relations said in a statement. According to the Nepal army, the joint campaign was the first of its kind and was carried out to reduce the pollution. pti statesman news service CHANDIGARH, 28 MAY: Amid spot-fixing and betting charges in the just-concluded India Premiere League, the Punjab Cabinet today opened doors for betting in horse races in the state by approving the draft legislation to this effect. The draft Bill for the enactment of Punjab Horse Race (Regulation and Management) Act, 2013, provides for setting up, management and operation of race courses, betting activities and intermediaries involved. It also provides for licencing, regulation, control and management of horse races on race courses, maintaining and keeping of horses at race courses, exhibition of horses and other processes of horse race and all matter connected with it. In a bid to increase its revenue, the state government has been mulling to set up an international racecourse in Ludhiana, known as the Manchester of and regulated as per the provisions of the Lottery Regulation Act, 1998 and Punjab State Lotteries Rules, 1998. The on-line lottery system was envisaged to offer lottery games played through a network of computer terminals or such other devices as may be approved by the government, installed at retail locations, with the terminals connected to a main data centre at a Central headquarter. .or this purpose, the government would appoint a distributor or selling agent who would carry out activities required for setting up and managing the on-line lottery. The selection of the distributor would be done through tenders and monitoring committee. The state government suffered a loss of about Rs 300 crore annual revenue from single and double digit lotteries after the Supreme Court banned them. The on-line lottery system is expected to make up for this loss.

India for its production of hosiery. The government also hopes Punjab's farmers to benefit from it by taking to horse breeding as another form of agriculture. Deputy chief minister and president of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal Sukhbir Singh Badal is himself a horse breeder and is known to have passion for horse races. His stud farm at Lambi village has won several prizes in state championships. Besides Mr Badal, there are close to a dozen quality stud farms in the state,

including those managed by the family of former chief minister Harcharan Singh Brar and former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh. They send their horses for racing to turf clubs in Mumbai and Bangalore. Apart from the draft Bill for horse race, the state Cabinet, in a meeting chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today also gave a nod to commence on-line lottery system which would be organised, conducted, operated

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SP puts ball in Centres court on Muslim quota

statesman news service LUCKNOW, 28 MAY: In a Press conference held to take cognizance of the implementation of the Central and state schemes for the welfare of the minorities, it was the issue of reservation for Muslims which held centrestage. While Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav held that an amendment to the Constitution was needed on the count and UP minority welfare minister Mr Azam Khan stressed that reservation was the buniyaadi rooh (soul) of the Sachar committee recommendations. Union Minister for Minority welfare Mr K Rahman Khan regretted that a religious colour was being given to the demand of reservation for Muslims. At a joint Press conference addressed by Mr Akhilesh Yadav today at around 5 p.m. at Kalidas Marg, the latter chose to put the ball in the UPA government's court when he said that quota for the minority community was not possible without an amendment to the Constitution. But stressing his stand he said SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav was also of the view that reservation for Muslims required a Constitutional amendment. The UP CM gave ample indications that his party was willing to support any such move by the Centre. The background to this suggestion had deftly been laid by Mr Azam Khan. He said that reservation formed the only solution to the socio-economic uplift of the Muslims. He urged the union minister to table a Bill in the Parliament to see who all oppose the same. Mr K Rahman Khan on his part regretted that Muslims were being treated as a religious group rather than as a social sector. Without naming the BJP he said some people were giving a religious colour to the demand for quota for Muslims. He said the mindset had to change for it is Islam which is a religion and not the Muslims. Referring to the Congress manifesto for the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the Union minis-

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ter said the party had promised to give quota to Muslims on the pattern followed by Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. But the decision of the UPA government was challenged on technical grounds. He added the verdict of the Supreme Court on the same is awaited. Speaking about the various schemes launched for the welfare of the minorities by his government, Mr Akhilesh Yadav spoke of timely financial assistance for implementation of the central schemes in the light of the Sachar panel recommendations. He said the union minister should treat UP as a country and not as a state in the light of its population and size, and ensure that the financial assistance given by it was commensurate with the same. Maintaining that the Centre will work alongside the state government for the welfare of the minorities, Mr K Rahman Khan chose to disagree with the SP government's allegation that the Sachar report had not been implemented by the Centre. He said those recommendations which have not been implemented should be brought to his Ministry's notice.

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SHIMLA, 28 MAY: The government has decided to bring out a policy document covering various aspects of water management for boosting farm economy in the state by putting the resources to maximum utilisation.

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Senior officials of various departments like irrigation and public health, agriculture, horticulture, forests, rural development and panchayati raj and fisheries have already started holding brain-storming sessions to chalk out the strategy for the same. It was agreed that a majority of irrigation schemes have failed to obtain full utility because the farmers were not consulted widely and on a regular basis and the other departments concerned were also not taken into confidence. The farmers, it was decided, would now have a major say in formulation and implementation of the schemes. sns

It has started preparatory exercises like mapping (and budgeting) of water resources and an extensive survey for conservation of traditional water sources and irrigation schemes. It will take into account the landless villagers as well in order to engage them in areas like fisheries when water storage tanks and reservoirs are built.

BRAVEHEART ~ Indian mountaineer Arunima Sinha (left), who had her leg amputated below the left knee two years ago, on her arrival at Tribhuvan Airport in Kathmandu on Tuesday. She is the first female amputee to have climbed Everest on 21 May. afp

Sena snubs grand alliance bid

statesman news service MUMBAI, 28 MAY: The Shiv Sena president, Mr Udhav Thackeray today snubbed allies, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Ramdas Athavale-led Republican Party of India for trying to reach out to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena led by his cousin Mr Raj Thackeray in an attempt to forge a bigger grand alliance to oust the CongressNationalist Congress Party coalition in Maharashtra in the 2014 election. In a hard-hitting editorial in Tuesday's Saamna, Mr Thackeray firmly ruled out any political understanding with his estranged cousin Raj in the near future as he asked the BJP and the RPI to first settle their own intra-party differences and make their three-party alliance stronger. Our alliance is in a position to end the CongressNCP misrule in the state. We do not need a fourth partner at this juncture to achieve our avowed objective. Inclusion of another party is undesirable, wrote Mr Thackeray. The editorial belittles the political clout of the MNS without specifically naming its president. Analysts say Udhav's tirade would not go unanswered by cousin Raj. About six months ago, through the same columns, the Saamna editor offered his hand of friendship to the MNS president Mr Raj Thackeray. The latter had scoffed at the gesture. Now it is his elder cousin's turn to payback in the same strong bitter words. The edit suggests, the Shiv Sena president is irked by the former BJP president Mr Nitin Gadkari's statement in Pune that his immediate mission was to once again bring Udhav and Raj together. The RPI president Mr Athavale on Sunday said he was ready to visit the MNS president's home at Shivaji Park with an invitation to join the Opposition alliance. Udhav today flayed the unsolicited mediation. Inclusion of MNS will make our alliance a tasteless khichadi warned Mr Thackeray. The Saamna column advised Mr Gadkari to first patch up his differences with his intra-party rival Mr Gopinath Munde. Mr Thackeray also asked Mr Athavale to reach out to other Dalit leaders like Mr Prakash Ambedkar who also heads a splinter RPI group. The Saamna editorial advises them to stay focused on defeating the present dispensation in the state instead of wasting time and energy on frivolous issues like roping in the MNS.

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DEHRADUN, 28 MAY: A group of women and a local NGO have finally succeeded in getting justice for a mentally retarded girl who became the mother of a rape child. The district sessions court announced a ten years imprisonment to the accused and slapped him with a fine of Rs 1 lakh, besides providing for Rs 80,000 compensation to the victim. The district sessions court judge Pankaj Tomar in a decision on Monday sentenced the accused to ten years imprisonment for raping a mentally retarded woman and denying any financial support to her when she became the mother of his son. He also slapped a fine of Rs 1 lakh on him and

ordered him to give a financial assistance of Rs 80,000 to the victim to help her in the upbringing of the child, informed Ms Jaya Thakur , additional district government council (ADGC) . The victim used to sit outside the Shahanshahi Ashram Temple of Rajpur when Suraj Negi met her in 2010. He coerced her into a physical relationship with him, as a result of which she became pregnant and gave birth to a child. Locals who were well aware of this fact even asked the accused to provide some financial assistance to the girl, to which he refused. .inally last year, with the intervention of an NGO, a group of women approached Rajpur police station and registered an .IR of rape against Suraj Negi, seeking justice for the girl. The matter went to the court which ordered DNA testing of the accused in view of the charges of rape of a mentally challenged woman and his fathering a son on her.

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Cong, L. concerned over security
KOLKATA, 28 MAY: Left .ront chairman Biman Bose today called upon the State Election Commission (SEC) to intervene and stop the terror tactics unleashed by the Trinamul Congress before the Howrah bypoll. TMC is mobilising goons from adjacent districts and its activists are going door to door intimidating voters, he said. Meanwhile, Congress expressed serious concern over the alarming law and order during the run-up to the panchayat poll. A Congress delegation led by PCC chief Pradip Bhattacharya is scheduled to meet Governor M K Narayanan at Raj Bhavan tomorrow to apprise him of the shortage of security personnel. sns statesman news service KOLKATA, 28 MAY: With no response from other states to its letters seeking forces for the panchayat poll 24 hours before the nomination process for the first phase begins, the state government today wrote to the state election commission hinting that it was keeping its options open for requisitioning Central forces to oversee the poll. State home secretary Basudev Banerjee sent the letter to the SEC giv-

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Govt indicates it may relent on Central forces

ing a detailed account of the shortfall of armed security personnel and mentioning the issue of deployment of Central forces. The SEC received the letter in the evening after the commissioner had left office. SEC secretary Tapas Roy said: We will examine the contents of the letter tomorrow and respond accordingly. Earlier during the day, top government officials including the home secretary, ADG (law and order) and panchayat secretary met Governor M K Narayanan to brief him on the shortfall of security forces and how to overcome it. Mr Narayanan inquired about the ways in which the government was planning to meet the shortfall so as to abide by the court's directive, said an official. Soon after the meeting with the Governor the state officials held an hourlong meeting with chief minister Mamata Banerjee as well. The issue of deployment of Central forces had been the bone of contention between the government and the SEC with the former doggedly refusing to requisition Central forces, saying state forces were enough and if needed it could get forces from other states. The government's letter today gave a detailed account of the total requirement of forces as per the court directive and availability of forces. According to officials at Writers Buildings, there is a shortfall of 70,000 forces against the requirement of 1.18 lakh forces for the first phase of elections, scheduled for 2 July. However, the government insisted it would have no difficulty arranging

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forces at the 210 offices of the BDOs during filing of nomination papers, when 3,500 armed personnel are needed. The government's worry about meeting the shortfall with forces from other states increased after the Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh. It has been forced to write to states that are not affected by Leftwing extremism for the forces. Meanwhile, Virendra, director of chief minister's security, has been appointed the nodal officer to review the security of political leaders and VVIP's in the state.

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icance in the light of the continuing tussle between the SEC and the state government over poll security, and the district observers reports will play a significant role in deciding the poll panel's course of action in the event of any untoward situation. According to SEC sources, the 17 district observers appointed for the rural polls are IAS officers. They will start functioning right from the beginning of the nomination process ~ which begins tomorrow for the first phase poll that is to be held on 2 July. The district observers will monitor the overall situation pertaining to the political, administrative and law and order scenario of the district and keep the poll panel updated on a regular basis. The jurisdiction of the block-level observers is confined to the respective blocks. But in the election process we need certain information about the entire district and that is why district observers have been appointed. We had earlier done so during the Kolkata Municipal Corporation poll, state election commissioner Mira Pande said. SEC secretary Tapas Ray said they were preparing a separate format for reporting by the district observers. The district observers will be required to send at least three fixed reports before, during and after the polls. Apart from this, they will keep us updated about the situation in the districts on a routine basis and recommend the commission's intervention whenever necessary. The SEC has also raised the number of mandatory fixed reporting by the block-level observers from three to four and inserted some clauses that will enable it to monitor the actual availability of security forces on the ground.

KOLKATA, 28 MAY: In addition to block-level observers, the State Election Commission (SEC) this time has appointed a district observer in each of the 17 districts where panchayat polls are to be held on 2, 6 and 9 July. Deploying district observers for all the districts for the panchayat polls is something unprecedented. Earlier, district observers had been deployed only in select districts where the SEC was particularly apprehensive of electoral malpractice or poll violence. The move assumes signif-

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EDITORIAL
REPORT ON PRESIDENCY
Trinamul rapped on the knuckles

KOLKATA WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 2013

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THE present dispensation in West Bengal, which tends to give

short shrift to the state Human Rights Commission, has its back to the wall with the report of the one-man committee that probed the vandalism at Presidency University on 10 April. The Amal Mukhopadhyay panel, appointed by the HRC, has called the bluff circulated by such blabbermouths as minister Partha Chatterjee that Trinamul activists were not involved in the outrage perpetrated at Baker Laboratories. As the former Principal of Presidency College, Prof Mukhopadhyay, a distinguished political scientist, has crafted the report despite the odds, chiefly the fact that the government didnt cooperate with the committee. His report is emphatic that the vandalism was carried out by the goons of the ruling party, who flaunted flags and raised slogans in support of the Trinamul Congress. The puzzle that remains to be worked out is why was Presidency University, conceived by the previous Chief Minister, targeted. The fineprint of the report must be that the lathi-weilding watchdogs in uniform were thoroughly inactive ~ from the point when the lock at the great gates was broken to the ransacking of Baker Laboratories. The report, based on the statements of the three policemen on duty, has trashed the industry ministers claim that the javelin that shattered the laboratories window panes belonged to the universitys sports cell, thereby suggesting that insiders were involved. Prof Mukhopadhyay is emphatic that the javelin does not belong to the university. Police have stated that outsiders had broken open the gate and there was no provocation from inside. Minister Chatterjees spin has been reduced to piffle, and significantly on the basis of the police deposition. He ought now to ask the police to investigate how the javelin ~ in the hands of the Trinamul stormtroopers ~ went unnoticed. The report has knocked the bottom of a feeble defence of an ugly truth ~ The Trinamul leadership had instigated its student supporters and workers to barge into the campus. In a word, the party has been rapped on the knuckles. The incident is a case-study on the retreat of the police, reaffirming the increasing tendency to kowtow to the political establishment. It is open to question though whether the Home and Education departments will take a call on the findings. Suffice it to register that the HRC deserves to be accorded due deference. Is that anathema to the Trinamul government?

As A Useful Counterweight To China

Singhs visit to Japan this week is significant not only for the two countries but also other international stakeholders. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe explained the wider dimension of the JapanIndia relationship by predicting during his previous tenure in office (2006-07) that it could surpass Japan-America and Japan-China ties in one decade. The way the Japan-India tango develops inevitably imbricates the other key dyads of Japan-US, Japan-China and China-US ties in a complex four-way diplomatic quadrilateral with no fixed allegiances or dividing lines. What India and Japan do together and in combination with other likeminded parties is today critical to the future of Asia and the world. New Delhi and Tokyo have come some distance after rediscovering each other in the last one decade, a process that has been catalyzed by a push factor from China. Many commentators have portrayed the strategic core of the Japan-India partnership as driven by the logic of counterbalancing China. Since both Japan and India have their respective territorial disputes with China, and as Chinese claims against Japanese and Indian sovereignty in contested lands have taken an aggressive turn, it is natural to expect that Tokyo and New Delhi have no choice but to coordinate their policies to limit Chinas hegemony in Asia. Chinas state-owned media has observed with interest that Manmohan Singhs tour of Japan is taking place as New Delhi is sealing an agreement to purchase amphibious aircraft from Tokyo, marking the first instance that India is buying military hardware from Japan. The Chinese government has also treated a series of low-key US-India-Japan trilateral interactions as proof of a hidden alliance to check Chinas muscle. According to Chinas official Global Times, these trilateral security dialogues have an unmistakable purpose of targeting and applying growing strategic pressure on China. Given the conservative nationalistic credentials of Prime Minister Abe, who had earlier envisioned a four-way Arc of .reedom among Japan, India, Australia and the US, the Chinese are watching the Tokyo-New Delhi equation with plain annoyance. Joint military games, codenamed Malabar ~ wherein the navies of Japan, India and the US conduct inter-operability drills ~ elicit howls of conspiracy and encirclement of China in Beijing. The Malabar exercises in the Bay of Bengal during Prime Minister Abes earlier stint in 2007 drew Chinas ire so much that it issued a formal diplomatic demarche demanding why the participants were doing them. Abes latest construct of a democracy security diamond, involving India and two other nonauthoritarian Indo-Pacific powers, again excludes China and reinforces the message that Beijing will not be allowed to ride roughshod over its weaker neighbours or divide them to play off one against the other. Nonetheless, it would be an oversimplification to see Japan and India as embracing each other merely to forge a common front against China. Japan has an enormous stake in Chinas economy, with bilateral trade between the two amounting to a whopping $ 330 billion last year. As the global economic crisis affected China and slowed down its GDP growth in the last few years, it was ironically Beijings arch rival Tokyo that prayed for a Chinese rebound due to the

A tryst with Japan

sreeram chaulia symbiotic nature of their two economies. SinoJapanese tensions over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands have not reduced Chinas prime place in Japans economic outlook. India can only slightly reduce Japans overdependence on China, especially by acting as a substitute supplier of rare earth minerals that feed the Japanese electronic and high technology industries. Prime Minister Abe has publicly praised India for its political savvy in offering to export rare earths to Japan after Beijing had tried to blackmail Tokyo by withholding this precious raw material. To Abe, India is a welcome friend which can blunt the diplomatic stick nister Abe lies in structural weaknesses afflicting the Japanese economy. The alarming decline in population and the ageing of Japans workforce stand out as big long-term fundamental obstacles. Indias youth bulge and demographic dividend could be a deus ex machina if Japan eases its historically tight immigration norms and cultural insularity towards foreigners. The net benefit of a demographic pact between India and Japan would be tremendous for both nations. When labour moves via coordinated action across states, it can facilitate the growth that has been eluding countries like Japan and can also bring in huge remittances to an

170,000 Living In Subdivided Flats In Hong Kong: Study

agence france-presse HONG KONG, 28 MAY: More than 170,000 people in Hong Kong are living in cramped subdivided flats, a government-commissioned study has found, underlining the scale of the citys housing crisis. Tens of thousands of low-income families and immigrants are forced to live in the tiny subdivided units, unable to afford sky-high rents in the crowded city of seven million. Hong Kongs Beijing-backed leader Mr Leung Chun-ying has promised to make tackling the housing problem a top priority by boosting the number of new homes for Hong Kong people. But the study showed the problem is even greater than previously thought, with an estimated 171,300 people living in 66,900 subdivided flats. About 30,600 such units do not have essential facilities such as kitchen facilities, independent toilet and water supply, Secretary for Transport and Housing Anthony Cheung told reporters late yesterday. The study was carried out from January to April by Policy21, a survey organisation comprising academics from the University of Hong Kong. The Census and Statistics Department last October estimated 64,900 people live in subdivided flats, cubicles, caged bed spaces and cocklofts, which are usually around 3.72 square metres. The tiny apartments cost less than USD 26 a month, but poor workmanship and lax standards often create structural dangers, hygiene problems and fire hazards. In 2011 a fire which started in a street market killed nine people from a nearby tenement after they became trapped as they tried to escape cubicle-style flats through a maze of narrow hallways.

MANMOHAN

PATHETIC POLICE
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Man-made national disaster

the national leadership ~ political and administrative ~ find the moral courage to rise above blame-games and self-exoneration and dare to view the recent string of outrages dispassionately, it will perceive a common thread. A thread that links blood-soaked Maoist forays, terrorist strikes, rapes, murders, robberies etc; that same thread runs down to sexual assaults in cars moving past checkpoints along the Capitals traffic arteries to the thrashing of women by cops in Punjab, UP... In fact every town could add its own bead to that negative necklace. The commonality is incompetent police. Since the Chhattisgharh massacre is under focus, even preliminary findings point to police inefficiency. The response guidelines from the Centre only emphasise basics and confirm that the cops are not doing their jobs. Admittedly they have their own difficulties, shortages and what have you, but that does not erase the underlying truth ~ Indias police are a national disgrace. Despite a host of pleas and directives (from the apex court too), genuine reform and upgrade are not a national priority. A little fire-fighting after an incident, some flashy moves and even more flashy media-attracting comments, then it is back to the mediocre. Politicians come up with new laws to tackle every kind of crime ~ from MISA/TADA/POTA, through unpalatable comments on social media, and now down to spot-fixing ~ but do little to improve the means to implement them. Misusing the police for political advantage is another story altogether. If there is such a thing as khaki-clad honesty, many members of the Indian Police Service (which constitutes the police leadership) will admit they accepted the job after they failed to make it to the IAS/I.S in the civil services examination. That it was not a preferred career (a few exceptions, of course) translates into limited effort to acquire professional skills and expertise, doing enough to get the next promotion is sufficient. At the other end of the spectrum, the constabulary attracts those who are either unable to find other employment or who believe that there are big bucks to be made on the side. Can quality policing emerge? So, for starters, there is need for overhaul, to make policing professionally satisfying and attractive. And that involves upgrading pay and allowances, service conditions, training, equipment, management. Another of several steps would be ensuring operations against Maoists, match-fixers and criminal activity with wide ramifications are undertaken under unified leadership. The federal structure must not impede tackling crime. What are the chances on any of the corrective measures advocated by police experts being accepted? The bookies will offer alluring odds on that.

Shinzo Abes latest construct of a democracy security diamond, involving India and two other non-authoritarian Indo-Pacific powers, again excludes China and reinforces the message that Beijing will not be allowed to ride roughshod over its weaker neighbours or divide them to play off one against the other
that China has been wielding against Japan on rare earths. But given the underwhelming volume of overall Japan-India trade (it is only worth $17.5 billion in spite of the inking of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement or CEPA two years ago), New Delhi can never replace individually, or in conjunction with other democratic nations, the larger economic primacy of China for Japan. Intra-East Asian economic integration and understanding are so advanced that they cannot be easily reshaped by outside actors like India or even the US. That said, as India often does in key bilateral relationships, there are meaningful ways in which it can support Prime Minister Abes epic endeavour to lift Japan out of two lost decades of economic stagnation. Abes proactive measures to revive growth in Japan have thus far relied on releasing the spigot of money supply from its central bank, part of which can indeed be beneficial as investment flowing into Indias infrastructure projects. India has not reacted negatively to the quantitative easing that lies at the heart of Abenomics because institutional investment coming from Japan is helping finance its gaping current account deficit. The harder challenge confronting Prime Miinvestment-hungry nation like India. An economically revived Japan is good news in India, not just as a buffer that would mitigate Chinese domination of Asias commercial horizons, but also in a practical sense of generating concrete life chances for Indias youthful population. Civilian energy cooperation is another area with lifeline potential for both India and Japan. Prime Ministers Singh and Abe are trying to speed up negotiations that will enable Japans nuclear industry, which has been reeling since the .ukushima disaster, to export reactors and equipment to India. A Japanese hand in resolving Indias acute power shortages and an Indian reciprocal hand in saving loss-making Japanese nuclear corporations will be a classic win-win bargain. What are Japan and India to each other apart from being useful counterweights to China? The two need to think through this question and invest in the deeper aspects of their relations, which could one day reach a stage of co-dependence. India and Japan are bound by abiding interests rather than simply a common foe, and it is up to them to realise this convergence through broad-based bilateralism.
The writer is Dean at the Jindal School of International Affairs

400-Year-Old Frozen Plants Show Signs Of New Growth

LONDON, 28 MAY: Scientists have found that plants which were frozen during the Little Ice Age ~ a cold period between the mid-16th to mid-19th Century ~ are sprouting new growth. Samples of 400year-old plants known as bryophytes have flourished under laboratory conditions, researchers said. Scientists from the University of Alberta were exploring an area around the Teardrop Glacier, high in the Canadian Arctic. The glaciers in the region have been receding at rates that have sharply accelerated since 2004, at about 3-4m per year. This has exposed land that has not seen light of day since the Little Ice Age, BBC News reported. We ended up walking along the edge of the glacier margin and we saw these huge populations coming out from underneath the glacier that seemed to have a greenish tint, said Mrs Catherine La .arge, lead author of the study. When we looked at them in detail and brought them to the lab, I could see some of the stems actually had new growth of green lateral branches, and that said to me that these guys are regenerating in the field, and that blew my mind, she told the BBC. pti

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Nice try, IA.
is integral to the military mindset. That is manifest courtesy a projection of infallibility, the media being invited to every flagging-off or flagging-in of expeditions to mountains scaled countless times earlier, and every senior appointment warranting a press note. As does almost every operation involving aid to civil power. And so it was after the Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh. The IA.s Allahabad-based media-relations officer suffered no shortages of adjectives: his press note was captioned Indian Air .orce plays a very proactive role, carries out casualty evacuation in Chhitisgarh (his spelling) during the night, and went to speak of the most brutal and ghastly attack by naxals in its history (maybe he had forgotten the ambush/slaughter of 76 policemen in Dantewada). Going into much detail of the casualty evacuation and VIP transport sorties, we were informed that IA. understanding the gravity of the situation involving precious lives undertook night operations from the remote airfield of Jagdalpur which has no facilities for undertaking night operations. Even day operations at this remote airfield require high professionalism due to non availability of any facilities. The task performed by IA. indicates high professional acumen and utmost dedication of its personnel in achieving any task vested upon it. That he too was rising to the occasion was his assertion, in typical newspaper jargon, that the flying operations are still on at the time of going to press. Good on you mate, but were you a trifle too earnest in your covering note which said, I request you to give it wide coverage in your Esteemed Channel/Magazine/Daily. .or that triggered a few suspicions: the outcome was a flashback to Chhattisgarh, helicopters, and casualties this .ebruary ~ then the IA. and the home ministry were having a full-blown punch-up over an injured cop (radio operator) being left alone in a helicopter crippled in a Maoist attack while the IA. crew set out in search of help. Charges had also been traded over the quality of sanitising the helipads used in support of anti-naxal duties. Will publicising a genuinely laudable operation erase negative memories of a breakdown in military basics? Nice try.

Chhattisgarh outrage an attack on democracy

attack on the Congress or the BJP; it was an attack on democracy. Mahendra Karma, the founder of Salwa Judum who was killed by the extremists, was fondly referred to as Bastar Tiger. He was a combative leader, whose support base was not limited to his Congress party; his rivals in politics also respected him as a man of principle, who had entered politics to serve the people. Even the ruling BJP chief minister, Raman Singh, maintained cordial relations with him. Karma had served as minister in undivided Madhya Pradesh. After Chhattisgarh was carved out in 2000, he became the industry and commerce minister. In 2003, when the BJP came to power, he took over as leader of the Opposition. The Maoists of Bastar had been trying to target him for quite some time. Karma and the state government had lost the ideological battle when the Salwa Judum was disbanded in 2011 on the orders of the Supreme Court of India. In the Gondi language of the tribals, Salwa Judum means Peace March or Purification Hunt. Karma enjoyed a measure of support, cutting across party lines. yours, etc., ramesh g jethwani, bangalore, 27 may.

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SIR, ~ The latest Maoist outrage in Chhattisgarh was not an

solution (21 May) is less than convincing not least because the assurance has been given by Manmohan Singh. His assurances and promises lack substance. Long ago, the government had given an assurance in Parliament that Indian territory forcefully occupied by China in Aksai Chin would be won back. That promise has remained unfulfilled for several decades. Reports on the recent talks between the Prime Ministers of China and India suggest that China got all it wanted and

Promises to keep SIR, ~ The front-page headline, PMs vow to find border

Rights and restrictions (21 May). It is unfortunate that faithfuls and believers feel offended when statements are made with a certain courage of conviction. This shows that faith can be so fragile as to be almost intolerant. Nowhere does our Constitution mention the word, God, and that He needs to be protected against the views of the atheists. On the contrary, the freedom of conscience, that has been guaranteed, must also imply the freedom of atheists to propagate what they believe to be true. The oath prescribed for those holding constitutional offices has the words, I solemnly swear in place of I swear in the name of God. Under Article 51A, the citizen has the fundamental duty to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform. This duty of a citizen surely goes against any particular faith.

Bande Mataram .ragility of faith SIR, ~ Sugata Bose has written an eminently readable book, His Majestys Opponent, on his great-uncle, Netaji Subhas SIR, ~ This is in response to M. Hashim Kidwais letter, Chandra Bose, in which he describes how the latter and

India got nothing. It would be no exaggeration to say that the Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, came, saw and conquered. The frequent incursions by China into Indian territory were somehow skirted in the final report. Perhaps both countries did not want the border issue to become a stumbling block. Nor for that matter did Chinas construction of dams ~ with an adverse impact on the Brahmaputra ~ figure in the joint communique. While the target of bilateral trade was raised to $100 billion, the trade deficit in favour of China has increased from $1billion in 2001-02 to $41 billion in 2012-13. Was Manmohan Singh afraid of the Chinese Dragon when he refrained from discussing the border incursions, the dams, and the unfair balance of trade with China? yours, etc., diptikumar sen, kolkata, 26 may.

The correspondent does not seem to be sufficiently informed about Indian tradition. The country has a long history of atheism and agnosticism in parallel with several religions. The saint, Carvak, was an atheist and materialist. So was the saint, Kapil Muni. Gautama Buddha did not believe in God; neither did Lord Mahavira. It has been proved by scientific evidence that humanist morality has nothing to do with any religion. Non-believers such as Einstein and Bertrand Russell are not known to be any the less moral or ethical or humanist for their absence of faith in God. yours, etc., jai shankar agarwala, (advocate, supreme court), new delhi, 27 may.

Nehru had sought Rabindranath Tagores advice on dealing with Muslim objections to the Congress singing, on formal political occasions, of the ode, Bande Mataram, where the mother country is compared with the mother goddess, Durga. Tagore wrote that the song containing adoration of Durga was hardly appropriate for a national party that aspired to welcome members of all religious communities. Instead he extolled the first verse, arguing that it stood on its own and had an inspirational quality that was not offensive to any religious community. The Congress accepted this sage advice and resolved that only the first verse would be performed at national gatherings thereafter. Was this observed in the Lok Sabha recently, when a Muslim member walked out? yours, etc., saroj kumar mehera, darjeeling, 18 may.

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Reason wounded: Grim Myanmars Muslim problem reality of health & nutrition
The two-child limit on Muslim Rohingya families in a couple of states has shades of racial discrimination
MYANMAR is about to impose a two-child limit
on Muslim Rohingya families in two townships of western Rakhine state. The policy is straightforward discrimination, as it will not be applied to the country's majority-Buddhist population. The two Rakhine townships in question, Buthidaung and Maundaw, are on the border with Bangladesh and are home to a Muslim-majority population of Rohingya residents. Both were at the centre of sectarian violence last year when Buddhists clashed with Muslim Rohingya. The violence left hundreds dead and displaced 125,000 residents, mostly Muslim. Communal violence flared again this year in Myanmar's central region, leaving the country's already fragile reform process hanging in the balance. The new policy to limit Muslim children is a perhaps the most obvious example of modern-day ethno-religious discrimination seen anywhere. It has already provoked strong criticism and anger from the international community and local residents, notably Myanmar's Muslim population. A full democracy ~ as Myanmar is telling the world it is going to be ~ is an open society that respects the basic rights and equality of all its citizens, whom it represents. Any move by the state to eliminate or limit the population of one segment of society is therefore grossly undemocratic and also muddle-headed. Such a policy will never solve ethno-religious conflict in Myanmar, but instead only serve to fuel further division and dispute in society. There would be no such problem if Myanmar merely wanted to limit the growth of its whole population. Many countries control the birth rate, but such efforts are applied across the entire populace, not targeted at particular groups in particular places. Such policies follow the broad principle that con-

PERSPECTIVE

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PUBLIC spending on health as a

percentage of GDP in India was 1.2 per cent in 2010, much lower than that of some of its neighbours like China (2.7 per cent) and Bhutan (4.5 per cent). The figure is drastically lower when compared to that of countries with admirable health achievements like Cuba (9.7 per cent), according to the Human Development Report (HDR) 2013. The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and mid-day meal schemes have performed much below their potential and original expectations in meeting nutrition needs of vulnerable children, and pregnant and lactating women due to a number of reasons. The under 3-year age group, critical from the nutrition and health viewpoint, is the most neglected. At most places, only take-home ration is provided by the ICDS for under-3 children, which often reaches them in a diluted form. Given the failures of the existing development paradigm, we need to shift to an alternative development model based on equality and justice and tailored to meeting basic needs of all people. Instead of a model obsessed with GNP growth at any cost, we need a paradigm of development where meeting people's basic needs is top priority. This has to be achieved on a sustainable basis and also combined with protection of the environment ~ a crucial objective, which should be integrated with protection and promotion of livelihoods based on natural resources (jal, jangal, jameen - land, water and forests). High priority should be given to strengthening the livelihood base of small farmers using methods that increase self-reliance of rural communities while reducing market expenses and indebtedness, strengthening land reforms and making available farmland to landless farm workers. Evidence from many developing countries shows that redistribution of land in favour of landless and near-landless peasants has a significant potential of increasing food production at low cost. What is more, the increase in production at their farms will contribute directly and immediately to reducing hunger and malnutrition. When the aim is reduction of hunger, its not enough to focus on increase in overall food production; instead, we need to focus on where, in whose farms, production increases. It is clear that when production increases on the fields of the poorest peasants, the reduction in hunger is maximum. Water conservation and the need to collect as much rainwater as possible are very important for food security. There are several traditional, region-specific technologies that can be used for ensuring equitable distribution of water. Water

Commercial felling of trees should be banned in natural forests. Several depleted natural forests can also be regenerated. For this, villagers have to exercise self-restraint and restrict grazing during select periods in parts of the forest.
needs of the smallest peasants deserve priority, since they survive on the basis of a very small resource base and their small plot of land ought to yield at least some food. In addition, clean drinking water and better sanitation should also be areas of attention; traditional as well as modern best practices should be tapped for this. Natural forests have generally been an important source of food for villagers living around them; forests provide several highly nutritious fruits, apart from edible flowers, seeds and roots. .ood from forests is particularly invaluable for the poorest families, who otherwise have little capacity to purchase fruits, vegetables and nuts from the market. Protection of natural forests will directly help in ensuring availability of food for the poor; it will also help the cause of overall food security by promoting soil and water conservation. Commercial felling of trees should be banned in natural forests. Several depleted natural forests can also be regenerated. .or this, villagers have to exercise self-restraint and restrict grazing during select periods in parts of the forest. As people are increasingly realising, the agro-ecology approach offers a way out of the problems created by the agrichemical package. Adhering to the former, small-scale technologies that enable people to save important nutrients in processing staple foods while also generating jobs should be encouraged. The HDR summarises some recent health care experiences. The report notes that health services targeted (only) at the poor generally remain under-funded. This is partly because the more powerful sections have no stake in improving the system. Governments also attempt to finance health care through user fees. However, as the HDR points out, There is near unanimous consensus now that such fees have adverse consequences, especially for the poor. They discourage the poor from using services and generally mobilise little in terms of resources. The lesson from global experiences, the HDR concludes, is that the main source of financing for universal health care should be taxation. Defining the task ahead, the report

says, The challenge for countries in (the) South is to ensure equity in access to health and education services and basic quality standards to prevent a dualtrack service industry that provides low quality public services (or none at all) to the poor and higher quality private services to the rich. The report reassures us, on the basis of extensive research on worldwide experiences, that universal public health and education policies can be designed and implemented without sacrificing quality for the sake of greater coverageWhen financial resources are adequately provided, publicly provided sources need not be inferior to private services. However, the achievement of this goal needs a lot of commitment on the part of governments. In the words of the HDR, Providing universal health care and at least nine years of compulsory education requires strong state commitment, involvement and consistency over time. The question is whether this commitment exists in India. There is substantial scope for improvement in the ICDS and mid-day meal schemes. In addition, a nationwide programme focused on crches for children under three to fulfill their nutritional and safety needs will be very useful. (Concluded) The writer is a freelance journalist who has been involved with several social movements

trolling the birth rate should not be based on racism or racial discrimination. Muslims might be the majority in the two townships, but this group of the population accounts for only 4 per cent of the total 60 million living in Myanmar. If the current government feels that a population of 60 million is too many and wants to reduce that number, it could impose its two-child policy on all families, irrespective of creed or credo. However, it should be borne in mind that, from a practical perspective, this kind of birth-rate control policy will never work. China's one-child policy is a good example. It created more problems than it solved, as Chinese families often favour sons over daughters. The best way to solve the sectarian conflict in Myanmar is not by supporting crude social engineering but by campaigning to change the mindset of the country's elite so that they accept their Muslim compatriots as a crucial part of the nation-building process now under way. The government and state authorities need to offer equality of treatment and protection to all ethnic and religious groups. Discrimination and inequality are the major causes of communal conflict. As long as the authorities and the Buddhist majority regard Muslims, Rohingya and other groups as second-class citizens (or even non-citizens) and continue to exclude them from society, there will be disunity and a lack of foundations for living together peacefully. As the man leading his country's reform process, President Thein Sein, enjoys telling the world, Myanmar is committed to being an open and democratic society. But equality is a fundamental principle of democracy. The president should not allow discrimination to jeopardise the journey to full democracy. the nation/ann

OCCASIONAL NOTE

100 YEARS AGO

Little has been heard of Mr. Roosevelt since the failure of his strenuous campaign for the United States Presidency. This unwonted quiescence has been broken now in a most unlooked for manner. The exPresident has been seriously annoyed by the personalities of some of the American newspapers. He is not supposed to be a thin-skinned man, and he is well inured to the rough-and-tumble ways of American politics; but allegations of intemperance, persistently repeated for years, are far beyond the pale of anything that can be excused as legitimate party fighting, and Mr. Roosevelt owes it to his followers, as well as to himself, to destroy the slander. He is now essaying this task with characteristic vigour, and has gone to Michigan, accompanied by an army of special correspondents together with statesmen, divines, doctors, cowboys, detectives, and typists, who will be witnesses on his behalf in an action for libel against a journal conducted by an ex-Senator at Marquette. The whirlwind of energy which Mr. Roosevelt is infusing into this as into every other action of his life will help to raise the case to the level of a State trial. NEWS ITEMS HEROISM IN INDIA Edward Medals Awarded London, May 28 The London Gazette announces that Edward medals of the second class have been awarded to Guard Stroud for rescuing an old woman who had fallen in front of an in-coming train at Buktiarpur on July 11th; and to Mr. Burton, Assistant Manager, and Gurzei Ahom, an employee of the Assam Oil Company at Digboi. The medal was awarded to the latter for attempting to rescue, on December 12th, 1911, a fellow employee who had been overcome by fumes in an oil tank, and to Mr. Burton for twice entering the tank and rescuing Ahom, who had also been overcome by the fumes in attempting to rescue Rulia till he himself collapsed.
29 May, 1913

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NO 25830
Yesterdays solution

Pawars clout on the wane

IT has been evident for some time now that NCP boss
Sharad Pawar is a lion in winter. His legendary political skills are not what they used to be. Although they still talk in whispers about the conspiracies he weaves through his formidable network of political and corporate friends, Pawar simply lacks the bite of his younger days. The clearest indication of his fading prowess was BCCI president N Srinivasans victorious stand, as he fended off efforts to oust him from the post after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was arrested in connection with the IPL betting racket. Srinivasan bluntly accused Pawar of hatching the plot to oust him in a bid to install his acolyte Shashank Manohar as interim president and regain control of the countrys wealthiest and most powerful sporting body. The Pawar hand showed itself when NCP spokesman D P Tripathi led the chorus for Srinivasans resignation. Although the NCP later disowned the statement, there was no way Tripathi would have come out so openly against the BCCI chief without a green signal from his party boss. In the end, Pawars network of friends across the political spectrum proved ineffective. Most of the political honchos who head state cricketing associations preferred to stay out of the controversy, including BJP leaders Narendra Modi (Gujarat) and Anurag Thakur (Himachal Pradesh); Congress leader C P Joshi (Rajasthan); and RJD boss Lalu Yadav (Bihar), who came out with a wishy-washy statement. BJP leader Arun Jaitley (Delhi) too kept his counsel. He said little despite selective media leaks to the contrary. The irony is that Srinivasan displayed greater skill than the master politician, Pawar, in managing political fault lines. Perhaps, the beleaguered Congress leadership should take a tip or two from the BCCI president to make Parliament run.

Seating arrangement

.or all the speculation about the Congress wooing JD(U)s Nitish Kumar for an alliance in Bihar, Sonia Gandhi seems firmly set on sailing with Lalu Yadav and

the RJD. The Congress president dropped a clear hint of this at UPA-IIs anniversary dinner held at Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs Race Course Road residence. The matter pertained to the seating arrangement at her table. Son Rahul was sitting next to her when Lalu approached the table with his plate of food. Sonia immediately instructed Rahul to vacate his chair for the RJD chief. Please give your seat to Laluji, she was overheard saying. He is a trusted ally. Her obedient son got up and Lalu sat down, beaming from ear to ear. Incidentally, the anniversary function and release of the UPAs ninth report card was delayed by nearly half an hour because Ram Vilas Paswan and Lalu were late. Although neither are official members of the UPA, it seems the Congress leadership decided to wait for them, so they could join the line-up on the dais. Sonia seems to have drawn the battle lines in Bihar. Looks like a joint front of Congress, Lalus RJD and Ram Vilas Paswans LJP will once again take on Nitish and the BJP, who may or may not fight together. Something is cooking in UP too. Mulayam Singh skipped both the function and the dinner, unlike last year, when he was the guest of honour. But Mayawati sent BSP MPs Satish Mishra and Brajesh Pathak as her representatives. Both

were invited to sit at Sonias table along with Lalu.

ACROSS
1 Nude erotica I tore up, seeing what happened at 30s opening 100 years ago (8,4) 9 More substantial one calling round (7) 10 Policeman returns, greeting new swimmer (7) 11 Trade round one carriers reversal (4) 12 Composer of 30, virtuous chap, and artist have a drink in Paris with a broad caster (10) 15 Gaseous eruption a feature in more than half the country (8) 16 Tease out Emin twice, we hear, in mad characters bash (6) 19 Rave about 5 makeover (6) 20 Triple Crown-winning choreographer of 30 (8) 22 Leader of fast circle dusts off strange things to eat (10)

.ood on the platter

The food at UPA-IIs anniversary bash was delicious as usual. But those who have been attending the dinners over the past nine years have noticed some interesting changes to the menu in keeping with the changes the coalition has undergone. When the Bongs dominated the UPA, a Bengali fish preparation was a staple on the menu. In UPA-I, the deference to Bengali tastes was due to the overwhelming presence of the Left .ront, dominated by West Bengal MPs. In UPA-II, the Left was replaced by Mamata Banerjees Trinamul Congress. Of course, the Congress partys resident Bong Pranab Mukherjee was a constant presence till he shifted to Rashtrapati Bhavan. With the Bongs out of the equation now, Bengali fish curry has given way to Amritsari fish. The Punjabis seem to have taken over from the Bongs. Although the socalled Chandigarh club in the government is much reduced with the exit of Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Bansal, it continues to shine through Kapil Sibal and Manish Tewari and most importantly, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself.

24 Moves very quickly, leaving many animal homes (4) 27 See 14 Down 29 Increasingly fidgety trainees collapse when short of energy (7) 30 Sanctimonious fellow taking note after wild Forties dance and music (4,2,6)

DOWN
1 Dream about being brachiate? (5) 2 Hag-devil I tortured as commissioner of 30 (9) 3 In parliament, I measure up issue (4) 4 Texted goodbye to sailor making an exhibition (8) 5 Gather around Washington to find goldfinch (6) 6 Carols cattle shed essential for bird (3) 7 Reasons to sound knowledgeable (4)

8 Sacked pundit with gross article in 7, reportedly (4,4) 13 Visit Alice Springs somewhat this (6) 14/27 Winners see spots in the theatre of 30 (6-7) 15 Soldier oddly missing uniform in insect film (4,4) 17 Setter half-deadened taking in one defeat turned over ruler (9) 18 Rubbish beginning provided French pair of aficionados with following allegedly involved in 1A (8) 21 Newspaper almost stops innocent hunt (6) 23 Overhead railway supported by unknown African native (4) 25 Throttle credit during decline (5) 26 Front of the line heard to be employed cleaning small orifices (1-3) 28 Possibly sanctified bone left by Roman Catholic priest (3)

NOTE: .igures in parentheses denote the number of letters in the words required. (By arrangement with The Independent, London)

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TENDER

KOLKATA WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 2013

Outspoken Japan mayor cancels US trip

TOKYO, 28 MAY: The outspoken mayor of Japan's Osaka city said today he had cancelled a trip to the USA after sparking a furore by saying comfort women played a necessary wartime role. Mr Toru Hashimoto, the joint leader of the national Japan Restoration Party, had been set to visit San .rancisco and New York to meet local politicians and businessmen starting from 10 June. afp

APPOINTMENT DECLARED ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Stockholm back to normal after riots

STOCKHOLM, 28 MAY: A handful of cars were torched in Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs early today but police said the situation had returned to normal after a week of riots and unrest. Now we're back to normal. There was no rioting, and only a few torched cars, under 10, police spokesman said. afp

press trust of india

Pak SC removes head of anti-graft agency

LAHORE, 28 MAY: The incoming PML-N government is ready to hold the trial of former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf over charges of treason, a party leader said today. The caretaker government that conducted the 11 May polls had refused to initiate proceedings against Mr Musharraf under Article 6 of the constitution for treason because of its limited mandate, but the PMLN has decided not to spare the former army chief who had overthrown the government of Nawaz Sharif in 1999. pti unconstitutional. Mr Bokhari is considered to be close to President Asif Ali Zardari and NAB had conducted several high-profile investigations into allegations of corruption during the term of the previous Pakistan People's Party-led government.

7 Afghan cops killed by dinner guests

KANDAHAR, 28 MAY: Suspected Taliban militants killed seven police in southern Afghanistan after persuading the officers to invite them into their checkpoint for dinner, officials said today. afp

EU ends arms embargo on Syrian rebels

BRUSSELS, 28 MAY: The European Union (EU) said its member states within days will be able to send weapons to help Syria's outgunned rebels, seeking to pressure President Bashar Assad's regime ahead of peace talks mediated by the USA and Russia. Though no EU country has any such plans now to send arms, British .oreign Secretary William Hague said the decision sends a very strong message from Europe to the Assad regime. ap

ISLAMABAD, 28 MAY: The Supreme Court today removed the head of Pakistan's main anti-corruption agency, saying his appointment was illegal and unconstitutional. A five-judge Bench headed by Mr Justice Tasadduq Jilani declared illegal the appointment of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman .asih Bokhari. The court directed the federal government to appoint a new chairman. Mr Bokhari, a former chief of the Pakistan navy, was appointed head of NAB in October 2011. The SC removed him in response to a petition filed by senior PML-N leader Chaurdhy Nisar Ali Khan, who contended Mr Bokhari's appointment had violated provisions of the NAB ordinance. Mr Khan had said in his petition that the Leader of Opposition in parliament was not consulted during the appointment process. In a brief order, the court ruled that the failure to consult the Leader of Opposition had made the appointment illegal and

PML-N government to try Musharraf for treason

Shia lawyer, 2 sons killed in Karachi In a sectarian attack, a Shia lawyer and his two young sons were killed today in a driveby shooting in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, police said. Kausar Saqlain, a lawyer practising in Sindh High Court, was driving his sons to school when gunmen riding a motorcycle attacked his vehicle near Mauripur Road in Karachi. Polio worker shot; camp suspended Suspected militants shot and killed a woman polio vaccinator and injured another in an attack in Peshawar city of north-west Pakistan today, prompting the World Health Organisation (WHO) to suspend its vaccination campaign. Two gunmen riding a motorcycle fired at the vaccinators at Badabher area on the outskirts of Peshawar while they were administering polio drops to children. One woman vaccinator was killed instantly, police and witnesses said. Security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation for the gunmen.

Newborn rescued from toilet pipe in China: Report

BEIJING, 28 MAY: A newborn baby boy was rescued from a sewage pipe in a Chinese apartment building after being flushed down a toilet, state media said. .ortunately the baby survived. But the person (who abandoned him) is still suspected of attempted murder, said an unnamed police officer, according to the official news portal hangzhou.com.cn. Residents in Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, called firefighters after hearing the two-day-old baby crying in the fourth-floor squat lavatory, the report said yesterday. Attempts to pull him out failed, so rescuers sawed away a section of the 10 cm diameter pipe with the baby inside and took him to a local hospital. pti

O.. GUARD ~ During a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is on a two-day visit to China. afp

agence france-presse

Jail guards hurt in attack inspired by soldier murder

UK panel to probe how MI5 failed to stop Woolwich
LONDON, 28 MAY: A British parliamentary committee will examine whether the country's Intelligence service failed in assessing the threat posed by two apparent Islamists who butchered a soldier on a London street last week. The parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) will examine whether more could have been done to prevent the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, as the two suspects, Michael Olumide Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, were reportedly on the domestic Intelligence service MI5's monitoring radar. However, the committee's chairman said that the move does not imply that MI5 is 'in the dock. pti der. The two prime suspects, both Muslim converts from Nigerian Christian families, remain in separate hospitals under armed guard after they were shot by police at the murder scene. Vandals target war memorials Two prominent war memorials in the heart of London have been daubed with the word 'Islam' in red paint by vandals. Police were called to the Royal Air .orce Bomber Command War Memorial in Green Park yesterday and found engravings on the monument covered with paint. Similar graffiti was found at the Animals in War Memorial in Hyde Park.

LONDON, 28 MAY: Two prison officers have been injured in an attack at a British maximum security jail, officials said today, with media reports claiming the assailants were Muslim inmates inspired by the brutal murder of a soldier. The prison officers' union said one of the guards had been held hostage for nearly four hours at .ull Sutton prison near York in northern England on Sunday, until riot officers managed to free him. Officials did not confirm reports that the three attackers were Muslim prisoners inspired by the murder last week of a British soldier who was hacked to death in a London street by suspected Islamic extremists. The Mirror newspaper reported that the male guard was kidnapped and beaten by three inmates after they became enraged by a call from the prison's imam to pray for soldier Lee Rigby, who was murdered in broad daylight last Wednesday. An officer was taken hostage at .ull Sutton prison on Sunday evening, a spokesman for the prison officers' union, the POA, said. A team of riot officers was deployed and managed to diffuse the situation after four hours. I understand that the injuries sustained by the two officers involved in this incident were minor and they have now been discharged from hospital ~ but we are lucky that this situation didn't turn out to be as life-threatening as it could have been. The justice ministry confirmed that an incident involving three prisoners had taken place at the jail. Ten people have been arrested over Rigby's mur-

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UK MPs earning more outside parliament

press trust of india LONDON, 28 MAY: At least 20 British lawmakers earned more than their basic parliamentary salary of just over 65,000 pounds, with former Prime Minister Gordon Brown (in file photo) topping the list with earnings of over 1.3 million pounds last year. British MPs have declared earnings of more than 7 million pounds from outside jobs and directorships over the last session of parliament. Under British parliamentary rules, a member of parliament (MP) is allowed to engage in outside work, including taking on company directorship, working as a consultant, acting as a barrister or simply giving speeches or writing books provided that all income is declared in official registers, and no work relates to lobbying parliament. According to an analysis by the Guardian, 20 MPs made more money from their outside jobs than they did from their parliamentary salary of 65,738 pounds, with some spending more than 1,000 hours on outside employment. .ormer Prime Minister Gordon Brown earned

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more than 1.37 million pounds from giving speeches around the world. Mr Brown said the income supported an office that he uses to support my ongoing involvement in public life, with 6,00,000 pounds going to charity and none of the money to him personally. A Conservative MP, Stephen Phillips, made more than 7,00,000 pounds, whereas his party-mate Geoffrey Cox made 3,00,000 pounds, both working as barristers. Mr Phillips said his outside work benefited his constituents by keeping a connection with the real world. .ormer Labour ministers Alistair Darling and Jack Straw made more than 2,60,000 and 1,80,000 pounds respectively. Straw said that his work as an MP allowed ample time for outside work, which was mainly a mixture of speaking engagements and writing. Almost 300 lawmakers declared some earnings outside parliament in the last session. About 50 were directors of private companies. Last year, the independent watchdog on parliamentary pay set out initial proposals suggesting MPs could have their pay docked for taking on second jobs, such as consultancy.

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BUSINESS Cognizant beats Infosys

& Finance
RIL promoter firm sells shares worth <1,689 cr
MUMBAI, 28 MAY: Pavana Enterprises LLP, a promoter group firm of Reliance Industries, today offloaded a little over two crore shares of the energy giant for an estimated Rs 1,689 crore to another promoter entity. According to information available with the stock exchanges, Pavana Enterprises sold 2.04 crore shares of Reliance Industries (RIL) to .arm Enterprises through open market transactions. Shares were sold at an average price of Rs 828, valuing the transaction at Rs 1,689.12 crore. As on March quarter, Pavana Enterprises held 6.16 crore shares or 1.91 per cent stake in RIL, while .arm Enterprises owned 9.20 crore scrips or 2.85 per cent stake in the company. pti press trust of india NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: US-headquartered firm Cognizant clocked the highest growth rate of 20.1 per cent in revenues among the top five India-based IT services providers last year, global research firm Gartner said today. The Nasdaq-listed firm also displaced Infosys as the secondlargest IT services provider in 2012 with a worldwide revenue of $7.1 billion, Gartner said in a statement. Cognizant displaced Infosys to become the second-largest Indian IT services provider and Cognizant experienced the highest growth rate among the top five providers with an increase of 20.1 per cent in 2012, Gartner research director Arup Roy said. The revenues of the top five India-based IT services providers worldwide rose by over 13 per cent to $34.3 billion (around Rs 1,900 crore) last year from $30.3 billion in 2011. TCS leads the IT services n Cognizant clocked the highest growth rate of 20.1 per cent in revenues among the top five India-based IT services providers in 2012 n The Nasdaq-listed firm displaced Infosys as the second-largest IT services provider last year n TCS leads the IT services providers with revenue of $10.9 billion, followed by Cognizant ($7.1 billion), Infosys ($6.7 billion), Wipro ($5.7 billion) and HCL Technologies ($3.9 billion) in 2012

KOLKATA WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 2013

Honda plant

MUMBAI, 28 MAY: Japanese twowheeler maker Honda Motorcycle and Scooter today said its new plant in Karnataka's Kolar district, with an annual production capacity of 18 lakh units (in two phases) built at an investment of Rs 1,350 crore, will become operational from next month. The new facility, inaugurated today, is the company's third manufacturing base here and will produce the Dream Yuga bikes and Activa scooters. pti

providers with revenue of $10.9 billion, followed by Cognizant ($7.1 billion), Infosys ($6.7 billion), Wipro ($5.7 billion) and HCL Technologies ($3.9 billion) in 2012. The top five Indian providers grew 13.3 per cent to reach $34.3 billion in 2012, exceeding the IT services industry growth of two per cent, it said. Gartner views Indian players as those who mainly have a India-

based delivery model and management. Most firms are headquartered in India, but a few like Genpact, Cognizant, Syntel and iGate are headquartered in the USA. However, their delivery, management, operating style, among other things, are like those of other Indian providers. However, Gartner said that the growth rate of India-based providers has been slowing for some years, with this trend being

more pronounced in 2012. But the growth rate is still quite high compared with the IT services worldwide or the growth of the top 10 global IT services providers. The global top 10 providers, however, are larger in their base revenue and more diversified than the India-based providers, Gartner statement added. The top five Indian service providers have continuously chipped away market share from the large multinational corporation providers. In the past five years, they have been winning large outsourcing deals (those with a total contract value of more than $100 million), Mr Roy said. Their target customer segment still remain the .ortune 1,000 companies. There is a strong focus on, and investments in, cloud, analytics, mobility, infrastructure and knowledge processes. India-based providers have become much more aggressive in infrastructure management because it offers them the potential to grow bottom-up within accounts, Mr Roy said.

Cobrapost sting: I-T notices to ICICI, Axis, HDFC banks

press trust of india NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: The income tax department has issued notices to three top private lenders in the country ~ ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and HD.C Bank ~ in connection with alleged money laundering charges levelled by online portal Cobrapost. The department has asked these banks to produce documents for verification as part of its tax evasion probe. The notices have been issued under section 131 of the I-T Act (power regarding discovery, production of evidence) after going through two confidential reports submitted recently to the department of revenue by the RBI and the .inancial Intelligence Unit (.IU), official sources said today. No response, however, could be obtained from ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and HD.C Bank. The aim of the department is to check suspected tax evasion by the banking institutions and possible loss of revenue by illegal acts done

by authorised individuals, sources said. Apart from production of books of account, deposit logs and other documents over a period of more than 12 months, the department has also asked the banks to submit the reports of their respective internal enquiries conducted in the aftermath of the Cobrapost sting operation, they said. In some cases, sources said, senior bank officials have also been asked to remain present for explanations and clarifications on the subject as required by the assessment officer of the department. According to sources, similar notices will be issued to various other banks and financial institutions which featured in the second episode of the Cobrapost sting. .ollowing the exposes by Cobrapost in March, the RBI had initiated an investigation into the working of banks. The investigation by the RBI reportedly showed some bank officials giving suggestions to customers on ways to bypass regulatory norms.

Penalty for pesky calls

NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: Every unsolicited commercial call by a telemarketer may invite a penalty of Rs 20,000 as the DoT in its comments on the proposed Right to Privacy Bill is likely to suggest such a steep fine. The department of personnel and training has sought comments on the Right to Privacy Bill from the DoT, which feels in case of unsolicited commercial communication through telephone calls, the caller shall be punished with a penalty of Rs 20,000 in each case, sources said. pti

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Trai issues tariff orders for set-top boxes

FMs pep talk to boost tax mop-up

NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: Union finance minister P Chidambaram today asked income tax officials to focus more on those who are not filing returns to widen the tax base and achieve Rs 6.68 lakh crore collection in direct taxes this financial year. Tax officials should target non-filers and stop-filers to widen the tax base and tax collections, he said while addressing top officials of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) here. Top income tax officials have gathered here for two days to participate in the national conference to deliberate on ways to widen the tax base and strengthen revenue collection. The minister emphasised that use of modern technology can yield far better results as far as tax collections are concerned than any other way. We are in favour of intelligence and technology-based tax collection system which is both non-intrusive and non-evasive, Mr Chidambaram said, adding the CBDT has assured that it will not only achieve the targets for fiscal 2013-14 but would also make every effort to exceed the target. The CBDT is focusing on non-filers and stopfilers. As of now, it has identified 12 lakh such assessees and issued letters to about 1.75 lakh asking them to declare their true income and pay taxes. Mr Chidambaram further said tax revenues are key to building a strong economy. pti

OVL to raise $3 billion

NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp, plans to raise at least $3 billion in debt to part-fund acquisition of US energy giant ConocoPhillips' stake in a Kazakhstan oilfield. We can take $1.5 billion loan from our parent company (ONGC)... may be even $2 billion. The balance $3 billion will be raised in overseas debt, OVL managing director Dinesh K Sarraf said here. OVL in November last year agreed to buy ConocoPhillips' 8.4 per cent stake in Kazakhstan's biggest oilfield Kashagan for $5 billion. pti

Samsung Galaxy

NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: Having made set top boxes (STB) compulsory, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today decided to make STB and other equipment for digital TV available at reasonable prices. In a statement issued here, the Trai said the objective of these tariff orders prescribing standard tariff package for STBs for digital cable TV and CPE for direct-to-home (DTH) services is to ensure effective commercial inter-operability. The regulator said tariff orders have been devised to make available STBs and CPEs, which are needed to receive TV signals for cable and DTH TV services, at reasonable prices as well as to take care of the interests of the service provider. As per the tariff orders, cable TV operators and DTH service providers can provide different STBs and CPE to consumers with varying rental and security deposit plans.

According to the order, there are options for cable service providers to supply STBs at a monthly rent of Rs 55.66 or Rs 50.66 (excluding taxes) if the security deposit is Rs 400 or Rs 800, respectively. In case of DTH service providers, the monthly rent for the CPE can be Rs 71.75 if the security deposit is Rs 500, and Rs 65.50 if the security deposit is Rs 1000. The security deposit will be refunded to subscribers at the end of three years and the STB or CPE will become the property of the customer. As per other options, security deposit will be adjusted against the monthly rent in three years. Cable service providers can give STBs at a rental of Rs 46.80 or Rs 32.93 if the security deposit is Rs 400 and Rs 800, respectively. Similarly, DTH companies can provide CPE at a rent of Rs 60.66 and Rs 43.33 if the security deposit is Rs 500 or Rs 1,000, respectively.

Amway India chairman, two directors granted bail

press trust of india KALPETTA (Kerala), 28 MAY: A local court today granted conditional bail to direct selling firm Amway's India chairman and CEO William S Pinckney, an American, and two company directors, a day after they were remanded to 14 days judicial custody. Kalpetta Judicial .irst Class Magistrate N Ravishankar, who remanded the three to judicial custody yesterday, granted them bail with conditions, including that the accused should report to the investigating official as and when directed. Mr Pinckney and directors Sanjay Malhotra and Anshu Budhraja were arrested by the Wayanad Crime Branch (Economic Offences) wing from Kozhikode yesterday in connection with three fraud cases registered in Wayanad district. They were booked under the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act based on complaints filed by distributors in 2011. The arrest was based on complaints filed in the Meppady police station by distributors Ashraf and Jaffer from Rippon and another distributor Hariharan from Vaduvanchal, Ambalavayal, Wayanad. The complainants accused the company of its failure in ensuring the promised benefits to

Amways India chairman William S Pinckney and directors Sanjay Malhotra and Anshu Budhraja were arrested by the Wayanad Crime Branch (Economic Offences) wing from Kozhikode yesterday in connection with three fraud cases registered in Wayanad district
those who joined the network marketing business. They alleged the company had forced them to buy Amway products for huge sums of money. Last year, the Crime Branch (Economic Offences wing) had conducted searches at Amway offices across the state, including Thrissur, Kozhikode and Kannur districts, as part of its crackdown on money chain activities. The company's godowns in these centres were also closed and goods seized. Amway, on its part, said it was cooperating with the investigations.

CHENNAI, 28 MAY: Widening its portfolio of smartphones, Korean electronic major Samsung today launched another handset model ~ Samsung Galaxy Mega. To be available in two variants, the Galaxy Mega comes with a 5.8 and 6.3-inch display. The phones are priced at Rs 25,100 and Rs 31,490, respectively. pti

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Ficci flays govt move on EPF CESC net rises marginally in Q4

with the EP.O were available for investment. Almost 40 per cent of these assets go to the Central and state government securities, she said. She said the introduction of a triple test ~ Ordinarily, Necessarily and Uniformly ~ for the purposes of defining basic wages under the notification dated 30 November 2012 would arm the field staff of the EP.O with full powers to brand any component of salary, other than those exempted, as part of the wages for deducting EP. contribution, imposing thereby a huge financial liability on the establishments. However, the industry lobby strongly supports P. deduction on full amount of minimum wages where such wages are being paid under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, she said. Government sources said there was no information yet on the reported notification being reissued. At present, 12 per cent of basic salary and dearness allowance of employees covered by the EP. scheme is deducted for contribution to their EP. account. The employers are bound by the Act to contribute matching amounts to the EP. accounts. statesman news service KOLKATA, 28 MAY: Power producer CESC Limited today reported a marginal rise in net profit for the fourth quarter of financial year 2012-13. Its net profit for the quarter ended 31 March 2013 went up to Rs 256 crore from Rs 255 crore during the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal. The company's gross revenues for the last financial year rose to Rs 5,242 crore from Rs 4,805 crore in the previous fiscal, chairman Sanjiv Goenka said here today at a Press conference, after the company's board meeting to approve the financial results for the fourth quarter as well as for the fiscal 2012-13. The company also met the highest-ever peak demand of 1,904 MW during the year, Mr Goenka said. Despite the rising cost of coal, different measures mean we have actually been able to contain our own costs significantly, but you know there is a huge pressure... because coal is the biggest input for any power plant, so it is a challenge, Mr Goenka said. He, however, refused to go into any details of issues with Coal India and its pricing mechanisms, though saying CESC prefers to just get on with the job rather than gripe. As there is no regulator at the moment, CESC will have to make do with what we have and the policies that we have, he said. The two power plants that CESC is currently building ~ a 600 MW plant in Chandrapur, Maharashtra and a 600 MW plant in Haldia, West Bengal ~ are proceeding nicely, he said. The Chandrapur project is almost ready for commissioning. We expect to synchronise it in the next few weeks and we hope to commission within July, the first unit, he said. The Haldia project is also moving in a very timely manner and Unit One is expected to be up and running by September 2014, and Unit Two by December 2014, he said. Meanwhile, the company announced that Mr Sumantra Banerjee, who has been managing director of CESC since April 1992, is stepping down from his post. He will be replaced by Mr Aniruddha Basu, an electrical engineer who currently works as executive director (distribution services).

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NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: Industry chamber .icci today said the reported government move to combine all allowances with basic wages for employees monthly EP. contribution would prove counterproductive and force many establishments to opt out of the scheme. The .icci president, Ms Naina Lal Kidwai, said the re-notification of the definition of basic wages under the Employees Provident .und & Miscellaneous Provisions Act (EP. and MP Act) 1952, was fraught with huge financial implications both for industry and the government. The move may even be counterproductive to the EP.O, as organisations which are extending coverage to employees receiving salaries above Rs 6,500 may choose to opt out of the scheme, depriving the employees coverage under a globally renowned social security scheme, she added. Currently, Ms Kidwai said, there were more than 50 million EP. subscribers from both organised and unorganised sectors, and assets worth Rs 5 lakh crore

Tata Global Beverages Q4 net jumps 77%

NEW DELHI, 28 MAY: Tata Global Beverages today reported a 76.64 per cent jump in its consolidated net profit for the fourth quarter ended 31 March 2013 at Rs 95.76 crore on the back of robust performance in both tea and coffee segments. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 54.21 crore in the same period during the previous fiscal, Tata Global Beverages said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. Total income from operations stood at Rs 1,849.5 crore as compared to Rs 1,738.62 crore in the year-ago period, it added. The tea segment posted a revenue of Rs 1,366.56 crore, up from Rs 1,278.19 crore in the same quarter of the previous fiscal. Coffee and other produce had sales of Rs 459.52 crore in the period under review as compared to Rs 434.38 crore in the fourth quarter of the previous fiscal, it said. pti

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The lowly rat makes good use of its two eyes, says s ananthanarayanan
themselves cannot make out which object is nearer or further away. This is quite noticeable in photographs of landscapes or other scenes with depth the awareness of distances gets obscured in the picture. But with a pair of eyes, each sees a different picture, each from a different point, a few inches to the side. The brain is then able to merge these two pictures and bring out the perception of distance. The views of the bicycle, house and tree, seen by each eye, one a little to the side, are shown in the second picture. If the reader presses one eye, so that the eyes get misaligned and there are two images, and four houses, he/she could try to merge the two in the middle it will spring to life, with the tree clearly behind the house.

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correctly get to food or prey, avoid obstacles and cross barriers, thanks to this perception. But for the eyes to act in this way, there is also the need for both eyes to coordinate and align themselves to gaze at the same object at the same time, even when we move our head or shift our direction of gaze or change the focus to a different distance. This takes muscular coordination and is learnt in a few weeks by human babies, for instance, when they experiment with grasping or touching. Using eyes singly Coordinated use of eyes for stereoscopic vision is the rule with larger animals and certainly with primates, like the chimpanzee or humans. Keeping the eyes working together is useful for activities like leaping, hunting or using tools. But it involves a price, in limiting the field of attention. In the case of grazing birds, like the chicken, it is more useful if the bird could view all sides at once to be able to locate things to eat. The chicken has, hence, evolved to have

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its eyes on either side of its head difficult to coordinate but good for surveying the whole yard at once. Once a tidbit is located, the bird could sight the morsel with both eyes by turning its head this way and that, to capture two images which the brain could process and help the chicken to peck accurately. The authors of the paper in Nature note that although rodents share with other mammals the key components of eye movement control, it is not known that rodents coordinate the movements of the eye even when they have not focused on an object or when they are moving freely. The group of researchers carried out a series of experiments where movement of the eyeball of freely moving rats was monitored with the help of head-mounted cameras and the position and orientation of the head itself was observed with the help of a specially designed tracking system. The movements of the head were the roll, or tilting left and right, the pitch, or looking up and down, and the yaw, which is to turn to the left or right. While the head was moving, it was found that the eyes carried out wide excursions and were markedly not coordinated. Not only did the pupils move inward, outward, up and down, they even rotated about the direction of vision. And it was found that the movements of the pupils were dictated by the orientation of the head. Earlier studies have shown that rolling leads to raising of the eyeball on the side that goes down, or vice-versa, and pitching leads to the eyeballs moving to the centre for pitch up and outwards for the pitch down. And pitching motion also leads to rotation of the pupil. The movement of the pupils of free-moving rats was seen to mostly follow this rule. The consequence of the finding is that the two eyes of free-moving rats are often not pointed in the same direction. This led to the matching images of the two eyes only in part of the retina and at different parts every instant. This was not as much the case when the head was clamped or restrained, or when the rat held its head still, as when it had to cross a gap in the floor, but there was little evidence of coordination to keep a fixed relationship between the eyes. The result is that the rat has a large field of view, about 200, in the front, above and to the rear, but most of the vision with the use of one eye only. The parts of the field where the images of the two eyes overlap are directly in front and above the head. Studies of the overlap for different orientations of the head show that the area where overlap seems to be maintained is in the area above the head. In an experiment, rats were placed in an enclosed area with a shelter, where they could retreat when threatened. It was found that showing a threat, like a shadow, from the sides of the enclosure did not result in response, but showing the threat from above led to the rats scampering into the shelter. Despite the uncoordinated eye movements, rodents do have the capacity for stereoscopic vision and display impressive object recognition. The mechanism of combining the overlap in images may be momentary orientation of the head to match the images or a computational method to make use of the two images. But the overall object of how the rodent control of the eyes has evolved seems to be not to use both eyes to see visual targets while moving, but to have binocular vision only in the region overhead, which is where danger is most likely to lurk. The writer can be contacted at simplescience@gmail.com

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living things with pairs of eyes for good reason. A single eye can provide sight, but for accurate estimation of distance and depth we need two eyes that are placed some distance apart. But not all animals use both eyes all the time, and many use their two eyes singly, to command a wider field of view. Damian J Wallace, David S Greenberg, Juergen Sawinski, Stefanie Rulla, Giuseppe Notaro and Jason ND Kerr, at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Germany, report in the

journal Nature that rodents effectively combine both kinds of use of eyes to its best advantage. The animal eye is nothing but a biological optical camera. It focuses light that falls upon it onto the retina, which is a light-sensitive screen. In other words, the world in front of the camera, which consists of objects at different distances from the eye, is captured on a flat surface, which has length and breadth but no depth. Large objects at a distance then look the same size as a smaller object that is closer, and a single eye, or any number of eyes, by

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Another experiment to try is to close one eye and try to touch an object from the side. We usually miss the object, by

going too far or too close because we lose depth perception. Such perception of depth,

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One of the I-League's two new teams, Jindal Vijayanagar Steel, are considering setting up a football academy in Bangalore, promising to pull crowds back into the local stadium for their home matches. We have plans to set up a football academy, spearhead by a renowned coach, and also to provide better infrastructure for the youth in the vicinity, Sajjan Jindal, owner of the Bangalore-based team, said in a statement. Set to play their home games in Bangalore, the $15 billion Indian conglomerate said they were committed to improving the standard of the Indian game by dint of several initiatives. We believe these are exciting times for Indian football and are happy to be entering the league at this stage," Jindal stated. In another development, ONGC .C striker Eric Brown has joined Prayag for the I-League's next two seasons. Brown had a good first I-League season for the oilmen, scoring seven goals and helping the team make a mid-table finish. Brown won four Man-of-the-Match awards.

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president of the International Olympic Committee. The 49-year-old former Olympic and World Champion notified IOC members today that he is running to succeed Jacques Rogge, who steps down in September. Bubka becomes the sixth, and likely final, contender to enter the campaign for the powerful job in the Olympic movement. After careful consideration, I would like to take this opportunity to humbly inform you that I will submit my candidacy for the presidency of the IOC, Bubka said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press. I am fully aware of the responsibility that this entails and also of the difficult decision that each IOC member faces in deciding who is best to lead the Olympic movement in the coming years. The record field already includes IOC vice presidents Thomas Bach of Germany and Ng Ser Miang of Singapore, finance commission chairman Richard Carrion of Puerto Rico, amateur boxing association chief C.K. Wu of Taiwan, and international rowing federation head Denis Oswald of Switzerland. Bubka will be by far the youngest candidate in the race, 10 years younger than the 59-year-old Bach. In his letter to IOC members, Bubka cited his background as an athlete, businessman and sports administrator. I am confident that all of these experiences give me a strong platform to work together with you to lead our great organization through the next exciting, yet challenging chapter, he said. Pallikal would happily trade their Tour titles for an Olympic medal as they wished success to the squash delegation, which will deliver a presentation to the IOC Executive Board tomorrow for the game's inclusion in the 2020 Games. That's a no brainer like choosing between the Asian Games medals and Tour titles and an Olympic medal. I will choose the Olympic medal as it has been my dream to represent my country in Olympics, Ghosal told PTI from Leeds before boarding a flight to Kolkata. We had presented a very good bid for the squash's inclusion even last year. We are making all the right noises and I am 100 per cent confident that IOC Executive Board will take interest in our presentation and shortlist the sport for their September meeting,

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agencies ST PETERSBURG (RUSSIA), 28 MAY: Pole vault great Sergei Bubka (in photo ) of Ukraine is joining the crowded race to become the next

Squash bid

India's Saurav Ghosal and Dipika

he added. Pallikal echoed the same sentiments and said, The Olympics are an athletes ultimate dream and I would close my eyes and trade everything for an Olympic medal. A squash delegation, comprising of women's World No. 1 Nicol David, men's numero uno Ramy Ashour and World Squash .ederation president N Ramachandran, have arrived at St Petersburg, Russia ahead of the crucial presentation to the Executive Board tomorrow. Apart from squash, the other disciplines bidding for a place in the 2020 Games include baseball-softball, karate, roller sports, sports climbing, wakeboarding, wrestling and wushu. Pallikal and Ghosal said they have had an excellent build-up to the bid and the sport deserves to be in the Olympic programme.

TENNIS
DKS BTA Junior State Ranking Tennis Tournament 2013 Today's Selected Results; Boys Singles Under 10 (Pre Quarters) Aman Waasim (1) bt Angad Tewary 6-1 Arib Afzal (5) bt Priyansh Valechha 6-0 Md Rasheduddin (6) bt Aditya Chatterjee 6-1 Raghav Singhal (3) bt Shivansh Chandak 6-1 Arunava Majumdar (2) bt Purav Bothra 6-0 Girls Singles Under 10 (Pre Quarters) Mrinalini Roy Chowdhury bt Anushka Singh 6-1 Rida Rahman w/o Anwesha Banik Sweta Samanta bt Sanjana Agarwal 6-2

Djokovic advances at rainy .rench Open

little bit when we went out there. You think, 'Oh, are we going to start or are we not?' Lucky for me I was able to finish the match before this last downpour came." Australian Bernard Tomic, whose father was barred from Roland Garros after being charged recently with assaulting his son's hitting partner, retired trailing Victor Hanescu 7-5, 7-6 (10-8), 2-1. Tomic was treated for a right hamstring injury after three games and limped at times during the match. American Jack Sock, a 20year-old qualifier ranked 118th, made a successful Roland Garros debut by beating Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2, 62, 7-5. No. 12 Tommy Haas earned his first Grand Slam victory since turning 35, beating Guillaume Rufin 7-6 (7-4), 6-1, 6-3. A teen also had his turn Lucas Pouille, a 19-year-old wild card from .rance, defeated American Alex Kuznetsov 6-1, 76 (7-2), 6-2. No. 26 Grigor Dimitrov advanced when Alejandro .alla retired with indigestion trailing 6-4, 1-0. .renchwoman Marion Bartoli, a semifinalist two years ago, needed more than three hours on center court to beat Olga Govortsova 7-6 (10-8), 4-6, 7-5. Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka's match against Elena Vesnina was among 10 first-round matches postponed. They won't begin until at least Wednesday, three days after some players were already into the second round. Stosur, seeded No. 9, enjoyed a career breakthrough three years ago when she reached the Roland Garros final before losing to .rancesca Schiavone. She won the U.S. Open in 2011, but this year has been hampered by a right calf injury and has yet to reach a semifinal. Stosur said she's now feeling 100 percent and hoping for a good run in Paris. "The first hurdle is done, but there are many, many more ahead of me," she said. "I have to stay on track, but I think this was a very good start." Date-Krumm, who won the Strasbourg doubles title last week, is the third-oldest woman to play in the .rench Open. When she made her Roland Garros debut in 1989, nearly half the players in this years womens draw had not yet been born. ap

Papas signs three year deal as Dempo coach

Papas has also served the Australian Institute of Sport, Oakleigh Cannons .C and Newcastle Jets in the Australian 'A-League' before joining the Indian U-22 national football team as head coach. He is also credited with the impressive performance of the 'Oakleigh Cannons' in 2011 which saw him become the youngest ever to earn the Coach of the year award by the .ootball .ederation Victoria. Director of Dempo Sports Club Shrinivas Dempo said, We are convinced by his (Papas) work, in that we have seen the progress of the teams under him and the kind of motivation that he has infused among the players of the India U-22 and Pailan Arrows. He will take over the reins of Dempo SC from the first week of July.

CYCLING
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Cali: Men's Keirin .inal: 1 Maximilian Levy (Ger) 2 .rancois Pervis (.ra) 3 Hersony Canelon (Ven) 4 Teun Mulder (Ned) 5 Azizul Hasni Awang (Ysd) DN.: Kamil Kuczynski (Pol)

Bronze for Indian

Nine-year-old Mumbai girl Ananya Gupta has claimed a bronze medal in the World School Chess Championships at Haldikki in Greece. Gupta, who belongs to the South Mumbai Chess Academy, beat a much higher ranked Yvonne Beline of .rance on her way to finishing third in the competition. She won a gold medal at the ninth Singapore Chess .estival earlier. At Haldikki, Gupta won seven of her nine games to bag the bronze.

press trust of india PANAJI, 28 MAY: After weeks of speculation, Dempo Sports Club today formally signed Arthur Papas (in photo) as its coach for the next three years. The Australia-born Papas, who was shortlisted for the Coach of the Year award by the .ootball Players Association of India, had guided the Indian National Under-22 team to an impressive A.C U-22 qualifiers campaign in Oman. He comes to Dempo after having successfully coached Kolkata-based 'Pailan Arrows'. Highly regarded for his tactical acumen, the 33-year-old Papas will take over from Armando Colaco who is leaving the club after a 13-year stint in which he won the I-League for a record five times and also guided the team to the semi-finals of A.C Cup in 2008.

Tendulkars hope

Dutt's new role

Werder Bremen confirmed Robin Dutt as their new coach until 2016. The 48-year-old Dutt was released from his duties as D.B (German football federation) director of sport to join the struggling Bundesliga side to succeed Thomas Schaaf, sacked one day before the end of the season. "With Dutt we have our desired candidate for the coaching job. We are convinced that we will be able to manage a new start with him in charge," Bremen manager Thomas Eichin said in an official statement.

Sachin Tendulkar today expressed hope that India's football team will qualify for the .I.A World Cup in 2022 to be held in Qatar. I know in 2022 there is something really big happening for Indian football. I hope India qualifies for that World Cup. That is something that should be your target and your senior players will guide you, he said.

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150,000-a-week contract for Bale

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GARETH Bale will be offered the opportunity to sign yet anoth-

Novak Djokovic in Paris on Tuesday. afp

Bhutia's pupils

Students of Bhaichung Bhutia .ootball Schools will play against the youth team of Borussia Dortmund in a Dutch tournament next month. BB.S development squads across three age groups (U-11, U-13 and U-15) will participate in the competition alongside Dortmund, .eyenoord Rotterdam, .ulham, PSV Eindhoven, .ortuna Dusseldorf and Sparta Prague, among others. The tournament will be followed by a one-week training camp at .eyenoord.

PARIS, 28 MAY: Novak Djokovic survived a first-round test Tuesday at rainy Roland Garros, taking the first step toward the one title missing from his major rsum. Djokovic held off David Goffin of Belgium 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, 7-5. The key moment came in the first-set tiebreaker, with Goffin serving at 5-all. After he faulted once, a fan yelled, Allez, David! Goffin then proceeded to miss his second serve, too, for a double-fault that gave Djokovic a set point. Goffins backhand into the net gave that set to Djokovic, who had won fewer total points until then, 39-36. In 2012, Goffin got into the .rench Open field as a lucky loser and took a set off Roger .ederer in the fourth round.

Somdev sets up date with .ederer

PARIS, 28 MAY: India's Somdev Devvarman sailed into the second round of the men's singles event at the .rench Open with a straight-set win over Daniel MunozDe La Nava of Spain at the Roland Garros here. It took Somdev little more than two-and-a-half hours to get the better of his Spaniard opponent 6-3 6-3 7-5. A tough encounter awaits Somdev in the second round as the 188th ranked Indian will be up against world number three Roger .ederer of Switzerland. pti Rain halted the start of play on Tuesday, then stopped play again about 90 minutes after it started. The skies finally cleared, but many of the later matches were canceled. Earlier, 2010 runner-up Sam Stosur swept the first nine games and drubbed 42-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan 6-0, 6-2. Matches were delayed at the start on a 55-degree afternoon, and when the rain stopped, Stosur was ready. Playing on cozy Court 1, nicknamed the bullring, Stosur dominated with her strong serve and pinpoint groundstrokes, repeatedly skipping shots just inside the lines. Shortly after Stosur finished, rain returned, prompting another interruption. "I was happy to get out there and start," she said. "It was spitting a

er lucrative contract at Tottenham Hotspur this summer, in excess of 150,000 a week, or stay on his existing deal and be sold next year but he has been told by the club that there is no prospect of him leaving this summer. The 23-year-old and his advisers are currently pondering their next move, with Spurs prepared to offer him his sixth contract in six years at the club, and this one breaking further ground. Bale is already Spurs' highest-ever earner on 100,000 a week and any new deal would reflect his status as the pre-eminent player in the league, having swept the board in the major awards this season. Negotiations could be pitched as high as 200,000 a week, putting him in a bracket with the highest-paid players in the Premier League, but the reality is likely to be a deal somewhere between 150,000 and 175,000 a week far in excess of anything his teammates earn. The club's failure to qualify for the Champions League again this season has not changed the attitude of the Spurs chairman, Daniel Levy, towards his star player. There is no chance that he will be sold this summer, Bale has been told, and Levy's recent record on that front, especially with Luka Modric in the summer of 2011, has been consistent. Levy has a close relationship with Bale and his representatives, Jonathan Barnett and David Manasseh, who, among others, represented the former club captain Ledley King. There is no tension in the negotiations but the fundamental question facing the player's camp is whether he wants to take the pay rise and sign a longer deal, but in doing so give greater control over his future to the club. Bale currently has three years remaining on the deal that he signed in July last year. Were he to remain on that, the club would feel that they had no option but to sell him next year when he reaches the critical two-year cut-off point a cornerstone of Levy's strict contract renegotiation policy. the independent

GOL.
The European Tour Africa Open, East London Golf Club, East London, Eastern Cape: Collated final round scores & totals (Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 73): 265 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 69 62 67 67 267 Tjaart Van Der Walt (Rsa) 69 64 65 69 268 Retief Goosen (Rsa) 65 68 66 69 269 Jaco Van Zyl (Rsa) 71 65 67 66 270 Alastair .orsyth 69 66 68 67 272 Richard Sterne (Rsa) 69 69 64 70 273 Danny Willett 67 68 65 73 274 Craig Lee 68 67 68 71, Lyle Rowe (Rsa) 73 68 65 68 275 Emiliano Grillo (Arg) 73 66 71 65, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 69 66 70 70, Peter Karmis (Rsa) 68 70 69 68, Matthew Baldwin 72 64 70 69 276 Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 64 69 72 71, Jaco Ahlers (Rsa) 65 68 73 70, Branden Grace (Rsa) 77 63 69 67.

Mysore selections

.ollowing are Wednesday's Mysore race selections: 2 pm: Southern Grackle 1, Artic Rose 2; 2.30 pm: Treasure Mountain 1, Virat 2; 3 pm: Mountain Glory 1, Rock All 2; 3.30 pm: Keturah 1, Midnight Cruze 2; 4 pm: Tusker 1, Miyarsprincess 2; 4.30 pm: Impedimenta 1, Aristocratic 2; 5 pm: Sofast 1, Azure .ire 2; 5.30 pm: Time Matters 1, Vrajanandan 2. Best bet: Keturah.

Stadiums beset with problems before Confederations Cup

RIO DE JANEIRO, 28 MAY: Some of Brazil's stadiums which will host the .I.A Confederations Cup in June are facing problems, two weeks before the beginning of the tournament. The organising committee announced that a part of the roof of the Arena .onte Nova Stadium in Salvador collapsed Monday. The roof canvas was unable to sustain the large amount of rain which fell over Salvador in an overnight storm. No one was injured, reports Xinhua. The stadium, which cost 591 million reais ($288 million), was inaugurated in early April. According to organisers, the incident was due to a human flaw - a part of the canvas had been set up wrong, which caused water to accumulate at one point. They said the problem will not happen again and the roof will be repaired in time for the Cup. The collapse occurred on the same day Brazil president Dilma Rousseff praised the six new stadiums inaugurated for the Confederations Cup. In her weekly radio show, Rousseff said she was impressed by how modern and pretty the stadiums are, qualifying them as 'first world' facilities. She also stressed that she is sure Brazil will do a remarkable job both in the Confederations Cup and in the .I.A World Cup, next year. "Our people have the determination, capacity and competence necessary to make the best Cup ever," she said. Trouble in the stadiums was not limited to Arena .onte Nova. In Brasilia's Mane Garrincha Stadium, fans had minor problems in a match Sunday, such as long lines to get in which caused several people to miss the beginning of the game. Parts of the stadium, such as some hallways and the press room, need to be finished up as well. In Rio's Maracana Stadium, the largest in Brazil, the situation is a bit more pressing. The stadium was re-inaugurated in April with a match between team of Brazilian football stars but will be re-opened for official matches Sunday, with a friendly between Brazil and England. The match will test the stadium's conditions for events with large crowds. The Maracana, however, will not be 100 percent ready by then. In a press conference

held Monday, the organising committee said that several points remain unfinished, such as the VIP area, the signs outside the stadium and the construction in the stadium's surrounding area. The press area will be at half capacity and temporary internet services will have to be set up for the friendly. According to the organising committee, Maracana will only be completely finished by June 16, the day of the first Confederations Cup match to be held in the stadium, in which Mexico will play against Italy. ians

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Clean sweep by England

Ross Taylor is bowled. In Leeds on Monday. afp

the independent LEEDS, 28 MAY: England defied the Headingley drizzle on day five to add the finishing touches to a 2-0 series whitewash over New Zealand with a 247-run victory. New Zealand started a rainaffected final day on 158 for six, leaving England four wickets short of outright success, and eventually subsided for 220 in a belated afternoon session. James Anderson took the final wicket with his third ball of the day - a 307th Test scalp that takes

him level with .red Trueman and joint third on England's all-time list. Graeme Swann was also crucial, taking two wickets to finish with six for 90 in the innings and career-best match figures of 10 for 132. All the talk overnight surrounded the possibility of a rainaffected draw - with knives being sharpened for Alastair Cook's conservative captaincy. But England's decision to place their faith in the British weather paid off despite losing much of the scheduled play.

SCOREBOARD
England 1st Innings 354 New Zealand 1st Innings 174 England 2nd Innings 287-5 dec New Zealand 2nd Innings (overnight: 158-6, target 468) .ulton c Bell b Broad 5 Rutherford c Root b Swann 42 Williamson lbw b Swann 3 Taylor b Swann 70 Brownlie c Bell b .inn 25 Guptill c Trott b Swann 3 McCullum c and b Broad 1 Southee c Trott b Swann 38 Bracewell c Bell b Swann 19 Wagner not out 0 Boult c Prior b Anderson 0 Extras: (b 2, lb 11, w 1) 14 Total: (all out; 76.3 overs) 220 .all of wickets: 1-21, 2-40, 3-65, 4-144, 5-153, 6-154, 7-162, 8218, 9-220, 10-220 Bowling: Anderson 11.3-4-28-1, Broad 11-3-26-2, Swann 32-1290-6, .inn 19-5-62-1, Root 3-2-1-0. Man of the Match: G Swann

Senior team-mates backing De Villiers

agencies JOHANNESBURG, 28 MAY: South Africa will go into the Champions Trophy without two of their most senior players in Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis but, according to a cricket-specific website, the rest of the players are happy to help skipper AB de Villiers (in photo) lead the charge. Smith was ruled out with an ankle injury, while Kallis has not played One-Day International cricket for a while, thus leaving De Villiers with a heavy burden, having to keep wicket, skipper and bat. But Hashim Amla and spinner Robin Peterson say the senior members are willing and able to help. Peterson said: "I always take a leadership role where I can and I'd like to continue to do that. But we've created an environment where everyone is a leader, and I think that's the secret of (our) success." Amla, who gave up the vicecaptaincy earlier this year to focus on his batting, said he was happy to help guide the younger players, saying: "If I find the need to add value in a certain way, then I will go ahead. We're in a good space. Most of us are pulling in the right direction.

Jacques hasn't been around the one-day game for the past year or so, so maybe the team have had a taste of it. Graeme's experience and assistance to AB will be missed but we will conduct ourselves as we normally do and keep building the team." Amla also spoke of the pressure to win an International Cricket Council event, saying expectations were probably lower this time around: "Maybe the expectations of people (are) a bit less, I'm guessing. But that doesn't affect the team. Every tournament we've been to, we've been as best prepared as we can and there's no excuse. You can't put your finger on why we haven't won. Obviously, we want to win. We want to send Gary off with a smile and fond memories of the team. It will be great for him to have an expression of the value he has given to us. It's important for us to win."

Windies ramp up training

CARDI.., 28 MAY: The West Indies team will continue their preparation for the ICC Champions Trophy at the Cardiff Wales Stadium as teams continue to arrive for the prestigious tournament. The West Indies players were the first of the eight nations contesting the One day tournament to arrive in Cardiff and held a full session Monday, the day after touching down on Welsh soil. The Australians are the second to arrive and will train at the home of Glamorgan Wednesday morning. The Windies squad, under the guidance of Head Coach Ottis Gibson, went through their drills at the Swalec Stadium in Cardiff where they will face Australia in their first official warm-up match Saturday. Gibson has been at the helm for over three years and said one of the keys to success in this tournament is proper preparation. The 44-year-old is familiar with conditions in Wales, having played for Glamorgan in the English County circuit in the 1990s. The West Indies held a camp at the Sagicor High Performance Centre in Barbados last week before they travelled to Wales. The ICC Champions Trophy will feature eight teams: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies. The tournament will be played across three venues Cardiff Wales Stadium, Edgbaston and The Oval - from June 6-23. The Windies have been drawn in Group B alongside the Indians, the Pakistanis and the South Africans. The West Indies won the ICC Champions Trophy back in 2004 when Brian Laras team beat England in the final at the Oval. Several members of that squad, including skipper Dwayne Bravo will play in the upcoming tournament. ians
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Didi rubbishes myth about TMC-Cong alliance

statesman news service PANCHLA (Howrah), 28 MAY : Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today asserted it was a myth that the Trinamul had come to power in the state because of its alliance with the Congress and made it clear her party won't have any truck with the selfish giant, Congress, in the next Lok Sabha poll. She was also at pains to explain in the Muslim-dominated area here that though the BJP had withdrawn its candidate for the Howrah Lok Sabha bypoll, it had all the same fielded two Independent candidates. The CPI-M and the Congress have been making much of the secret understanding between the Trinamul and the BJP for the coming Lok Sabha poll that became clear after the state BJP decided not to field its candidate for the bypoll at the behest of the party's central leadership, though it had announced before that it would be in the fray. The Panchal Assembly segment has a concentration of Muslims voters, just as a sizeable portion of the constituency is in the panchayat areas which will go to the poll next month. Miss Banerjee also blamed the Congress and the CPI-M for the ills

Trinamul supporters hear Mamata Banerjee (right) speak. In Howrah on Tuesday. madhumita sarkar

plaguing the state, including the chit fund scam by Saradha and other fraudulent companies. Addressing an election rally for the bypoll, Miss Banerjee said a myth had been consistently projected that the Trinamul could oust the Marxists from power because it fought the poll after forging an alliance with the Congress. This is far from the truth. We could have formed the government without the

Congress as we were ahead of the Left in most of the Assembly seats before the alliance was formed, she claimed. Miss Banerjee said the Congress at the Centre had allowed previous L. government in the state to borrow recklessly because of which the state had to incur a staggering debt burden. Also, the Centre had the power to curb the fraudulent activities of several chit funds, including the Saradha Group, but

it didn't act. This only helped the CPI-M to gain monetarily, while the local Congress also got its share, Miss Banerjee charged. Seeking to defend her party, even though several of its MPs and ministers had alleged links with the Saradha group, Miss Banerjee said the chit fund operators were firmly entrenched in their business much before the Trinamul Congress was even formed.

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Journalism in, geology out in new HS curriculum

statesman news service KOLKATA, 28 MAY: .rom this year students will not be able to study Geology in the Higher Secondary level as the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education ( WBCHSE) does not consider it important enough for Higher Secondary. On the other hand, the new syllabus scheduled to be introduced this session starting in June, would accommodate new elective subjects like Journalism and Mass Communication in the Humanities stream and Environment Studies in all three streams ~ Arts, Science and Humanities. Commerce students will be able to opt for a whole new set of subjects like Business Studies, Commercial Law and Preliminaries of Auditing, Costing and Taxation in addition to the already existing Accountancy, Mathematics and Economics. Environmental studies will be offered on an alternate basis with Computer Science. Till this year Commerce candidates had Business Organisation and Management and Business Economics, including Business Mathematics, which will be dropped from this year. "A student does not need to have Geology in Higher Secondary to pursue it in graduation. Any student having Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry can apply for Geology Honours. Hence, we have decided to drop it," said an official of the council. Since few schools across the state offered this subject in HS, many welcomed the decision of dropping it. But teachers who teach Geology in graduation and post-graduation, do not consider the subject as unimportant at HS level. "It is true that the schools find it difficult to continue with the subject as West Bengal School Service Commission does not appoint teachers for this subject. Geology is overshadowed by Geography and only a handful of schools offer this in HS. Even the Madhyamgram school which used to offer it dropped the subject recently," said Professor Prabir Dasgupta, registrar of Presidency University who is also a teacher of Geology. "Geography deals with the theory part and Geology is the analytical part. The HS knowledge in Geology might not be essential but helpful. Other boards offer the subject at HS level," added Prof. Dasgupta. Subjects which will suffer a similar fate to Geology include Malayalam, Marathi, Assamese, Modern Tibetan, Pali and .rench.

Charge-sheet against Kow, 10 others

KOLKATA, 28 MAY: The Kolkata Police today filed charge-sheet against Trinamul Congress councillor, Sambhunath Kow, and 10 others accused in the murder of a Trinamul Congress leader, Adhir Maity, at Dhapa in the southern fringes of the city on 20 March. In the charge-sheet filed at the Alipore court today, police have slapped murder and rioting charges on the Trinamul councillor. Mr Kow has been named the main accused and booked under Section 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting with arms) of the IPC. Among the other accused, Debashis Sarkar, who was arrested for giving shelter to Kow, has been charged under Section 212 of IPC (harbouring offender). Police have already arrested seven persons in connection with the murder case. Three persons whose names were mentioned in the .IR are still at large. Apart from Mr Kow, till now, police have arrested Petkata Bablu, Kana Bikash, Sambhu Halder alias Gabbar, Debasis Sarkar and Ajoy Dalui. Three accused who are absconding are Jyoti Roy alias Langra Jyoti, Tarak Paik alias Bachha Tarak and Prasanta Dey alias Niku. Mr Kow was remanded in police custody after his arrest from Balia in Uttar Pradesh. After 69 days police filed the charge-sheet against him and the other accused. .leeing from Kolkata, two days after the incident, Kow spent time in Odisha, Jharkhand and Bihar evading arrest. He then went to UP where he used local SIM cards to establish contacts with relatives in Kolkata.The mobile phone call details of Kow's relatives helped police in tracking him down. On the day of the incident the assailants were led by Kow, said police. Police said, Maity (61) got involved in an argument with Kow when the latter allegedly came to take possession of a disputed land on Dhapa Road. It was during this violence Maity got injured and collapsed on the ground. Doctors pronounced him dead in a city hospital. sns

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE Commission is granted in the rank of Lieutenant. Pay and Allowances and privileges will be same as Regular Army Officers when embodied for training and military service. Promotions up to Lt Col by time scale subject to fulfilling laid down criteria. Promotion to Colonel and Brigadier by selection. Officers commissioned in TA Infantry may be called out for military service for longer duration depending on requirement. Pay Scales RANK LIEUTENANT CAPTAIN MAJOR LT COLONEL COLONEL BRIGADIER PAY BANDS / SCALE PB-3/15600-39100 PB-3/15600-39100 PB-3/15600-39100 PB-4/37400-67000 PB-4/37400-67000 PB-4/37400-67000 GRADE PAY 5400 6100 6600 8000 8700 8900 MILITARY SERVICE PAY 6000 6000 6000 6000 6000 6000

KMC seeks hoarding details from Railways

statesman news service KOLKATA, 28 MAY: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked the Eastern Railway to give details of the hoarding of a nationalised bank that has been put up at Sealdah railway station without its permission. Senior KMC officials said the KMC Act 1980 categorically states that to put up any billboard in the city, KMC's permission is required. In a letter to the senior divisional commercial manager of Eastern Railway, the KMC has asked for details of the billboard that is, the time of putting it up and the six of the hoarding. KMC officials have also written to the public relations officer of the nationalised bank in this regard. Senior civic officials said for quite some time it has been observed that not only railways, even the city police puts up hoardings without the KMC's nod. The billboards put up on police kiosks by various agencies are illegal as the Kolkata Police has not taken any permission from the KMC, one of the officials said. The KMC has also proposed to fix a cut-off time by which the advertisement agencies would have to pay fees to the KMC. As there is no cut-off date, the advertisement agencies make only a part payment and continue their business. The KMC has warned that failure to pay within the stipulated period would result in removal of the billboards. It may be recalled that the municipal commissioner, Mr Khalil Ahmed, had held a meeting with the representatives of various advertisement agencies asking them to clear their dues. The billboards put up by various defaulting agencies were blackened. The total dues from these agencies would be around Rs 30 crore, the officials said.

DATE OF WRITTEN EXAM: 18 AUG 2013 SYLLABUS: PART I - Short Essay PART II - Objective type question on General Awareness: Includes issues related to Political / Economical affairs, International Situation and Sports.

CIVILIAN CANDIDATES HOW TO APPLY: All desirous civilian candidates can obtain APPLICATION FORM, from EMPLOYMENT NEWSPAPER or download from www.indianarmy.gov.in and send it alongwith self addressed stamped envelope of 28 x12 cms size, two passport size photographs and postal stamps worth Rs.12/- (Rs. 25/- for J&K) affixed on envelop to their respective TA Group Headquarters as per the area. S NO 01. ZONE Zone I STATE Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and Chandigarh EXAMINATION CENTRE Chandigarh TO BE FWD Commander, TA Group Headquarters, Western Command, Building No.750, Sector-8B, Chandigarh-160018. Ph No. 01722 547864 Commander, TA Group Headquarters, Central Command, Lucknow-02. Ph No. 0522 2292245 Commander, TA Group Headquarters, Eastern Command, Fort William,Kolkata-21. Ph No. 03322 480627 Commander, TA Group Headquarters, Southern Command, Pune-1. Ph No. 02026 102848 Commander, TA Group Headquarters, Northern Command, Pin 908545, C/o 56 APO Ph No. 01992 243592

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Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Lucknow, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh Patna West Bengal, Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Puducherry, Daman Diu, Lakshadweep, Andaman & Nicobar, Dadar and Nagar Haveli Jammu & Kashmir Kolkata, Shillong Jaipur, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad Udhampur and Srinagar

Vegetable vendors vision & victory

pradip chatterjee KOLKATA, 28 MAY: Subhashis Natua (in sns photo), a 16-year-old boy who earns a living by selling vegetables in a market and aspires to be a scientist, has passed the Madhyamik examination with 91 per cent marks. He is happy that his hard toil has not gone in vein. But to pursue his dreams funds remain his biggest challenge. A resident of Mathurapur in South 24Parganas, Subhashis had appeared in the examination from Krishnachandrapur High School. He has secured 96 in Mathematics, 100 in Physical Science, 98 in Life Science, 90 in Geography, 94 in English, 84 in Bengali and 72 in History. After school in the afternoon he accompanies his father, Mr Bajendranath Natua, to Krishnachandrapur market with a basket of vegetables on his head. The market is two kilometres from his house. His day starts at 4 in the morning when he goes to the market to sell vegetables. He returns home at around 8 a.m. and hands over his day's income to his father. He then prepares for school. Subhashis studies late into the night for he knows a good result will pave the way for pursuing higher studies. He could not buy books. His teachers helped him by lending him books. Needless to say he could not afford private tuition. Besides studies and his work, he also participates in debates and elocution contests and other extra-curricular activities. In .ebruary he received a medal from the Governor for his excellent performance in the NCC.

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SELECTION PROCEDURE : CIVILIAN CANDIDATES Candidates whose applications forms are found correct will be called for screening, by a Preliminary Interview Board (PIB), at their respective TA Group Headquarters. Candidates selected by PIB should provide brief BIO-DATA to include details about their employment with monthly income from all sources at the time of documentation immediately after PIB. Successful candidates will further undergo a Service Selection Board (SSB) and Medical Board for final selection. NOTE: Candidate who passed written test of PIB are required to bring the following attested documents at the time of interview: Certified copy of educational qualification certificates, all certificates and mark sheets beyond matric. Latest physical fitness certificate from a registered MBBS Doctor. Service certificate by candidates employed in Central Govt / Union Territory / State Govt / Semi Govt / Private Sector Authenticated by Head Office. Self Employed candidates or having own Business are required to submit an Affidavit on Non-Judicial stamp paper value of Rs. 10/- duly attested by the Deputy Commissioner of the District / Gazetted Officer / Commissioned Officer stating nature of self employment and income earned annually with the attested photocopy of the latest Income Tax Return filed by the applicant along with photocopy of the PAN Card. Incomplete application will be rejected without intimation FOR EX SERVICE OFFICERS ONLY Ex Service Officers of three services as a candidate should send their application alongwith enclosures as mentioned in application form direct to Addl Directorate General TA, Integrated HQ of MoD (Army), L Block, New Delhi-01. The candidates are screened by an Army HQ Selection Board (ASB) held at Addl Dte Gen TA, GS Branch, L Block, Church Road, New Delhi which is followed by a Medical Board at New Delhi for successful candidates. LAST DATE Form completed in all respects will be accepted till 30 Jun, 2013 at respective locations as mentioned above. For more details about TA visit us at www.indianarmy.gov.in and download APPLICATION FORM.
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Rain in city for Sen, Debjani sent to judicial custody three were sent to Alipore next few days KOLKATA/DURGAPUR/BARUIPU R, 28 MAY: The Baruipur Additi- Central Correctional Home. onal Chief Judicial Magistrate While Sudipto and Debjani
statesman news service KOLKATA, 28 MAY: There could be heavy rain in Kolkata over the next couple of days, a weather official said today. A low pressure formed today over the Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas, said a weather official from the Regional Meteorological Centre in Alipore. " A depression would prevail in the next two days. This could lead to heavy rain over the next 48 hours, he said, both in Kolkata and suburbs like Hooghly, Howrah, South 24-Parganas and North 24Parganas. The Met office predicts heavy showers in the coastal areas and fishermen have been advised not to venture into the sea for the time being as rough to very rough seas are likely off the West Bengal coast. today remanded arrested Saradha CMD Sudipto Sen and his aides Debjani Mukherjee and Arvind Singh Chavan in judicial custody. Manoj Nagel, a director of the firm, was remanded in five-day police custody by the ACJM court, Durgapur today. The Kolkata Police will seek police custody for Sudipto Sen and Debjani on the basis of a complaint lodged against them by a Saradha Group agent at the Lake police station. A source at Lalbazar said they are likely to be produced at a city court tomorrow. Today, amidst tight security, Mr Sen, Ms Mukherjee and Mr Chavan were taken to Baruipur court. The trio were remanded in judicial custody till 1 June and Sudipto Sen and Debjani Mukherjee were further remanded in jail custody till 11 June in the two other cases lodged in Joynagar and Baruipur police stations. The

were in police custody, cops seized at least 500 documents, signed by the duo and which had matured. But investors had not been paid the amounts. Sudipto and Debjani's signatures would be verified. Many people, planning to stage a protest against the arrested trio, had assembled in front of the court premises but police arrangements and the presence of Additional police superintendent, Mr Kankar Prasad Barui and SDPO of Baruipur, Mr Dipak Sarkar, prevented untoward incidents. Meanwhile, Manoj Nagel, one of the directors of the Saradha Group, was remanded in the custody of the New Township police station for five days in connection with a complaint filed by Mrs Sonali Bhattacharya, a resident of Viswakarma Nagar in Durgapur alleging Saradha had cheated her father to the tune of Rs 5 lakh. sns

Low pay forces Presi prof to resign

statesman news service KOLKATA, 28 MAY: An assistant professor of the Bengali Department of Presidency University, who had joined from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), has resigned. In his resignation letter submitted yesterday Professor Prakash Maiti said he had expected more salary but he disappointed by the pay structure of the university. Prior to this, Professor Prabir Mukherjee of the Physics Department, who was a teacher of the erstwhile Presidency College, resigned on the same grounds. "We have received his resignation. He was from a Central university, and switching to a state university meant he suffered monetary loss," said Prof. Malabika Sarkar, Vice-Chancellor of Presidency University. However, the university authorities claimed the university had never promised higher salary for Presidency University faculty members as compared to other universities. "Presidency faculties

New notification on medical counselling

KOLKATA, 28 MAY: The State Health department has cancelled a notification which was issued by the Director of Medical Education (DME) on 24 May asking the post-graduate medical candidates to submit counselling fees within 10 June and issued a fresh notification on Tuesday after the The Statesman published a news article today saying that this notification flouted a key rule framed by the Medical Council of India (MCI). According to the MCI guidelines and the directives of the Supreme Court, all the states should complete their admission process to the post graduate medical courses within 31 May. But the health department is yet to conduct the admission with only three days left. However, the fresh notification has evoked confusion among the medical aspirants who are seeking admission to various post-graduate medical courses as the department has not mentioned the last dates of counselling and admission. In the new notification the candidates have been asked to submit the counselling fees through demand drafts immediately. Experts in the field said the delay is caused due to the state government's reluctance to conduct the state-level medical examination even after the Supreme Court in an interim order asked the states to conduct their own examinations. .ollowing the order, most of the states held their own entrance examination while West Bengal still prefers to go with the NEET. The SC is yet to give its final verdict regarding the validity of NEET exam. Different-health related organisations, including Dr Maity Educational and Medical Research Institute have sought the CMs intervention. sns

Prof. Prakash Maiti said he was disappointed by the pay structure of the university

have been promised additional funds for research and personal development and they are receiving it. But surely one has to utilise the funds for research work. We don't know why some faculty members had the misconception that they would receive a higher pay package than other state universities," said a senior official of the university. The university has so far recruited 179 faculty members. Many of them have degrees from foreign universities while some have taught in foreign institutions. To retain them, the university needs more funds from the state. "We have urged the state government before. But the government, too, has some limitations," said the V-C.

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ENGLISH MOVIE Fast and Furious-6

RDB Cinemas, 9:55am, 12:15pm, 2.35pm, 5pm, 7.25pm, 9.50pm PVR Howrah, 2:15 pm, 7.45pm Fame South City Mall, 9:25am,11:15am,12:05pm, 2:45pm,5:25pm,8:05pm, 9:30pm, 10:45pm Fame Hiland Park, 9:35am, 11am,12:10pm, 2:45pm, 5:20pm, 7:55pm, 9:30pm, 10:30pm Hind Fame, 9:20am,11:55am, 2:30pm, 5:05pm, 7:40pm, 10:15pm Priya, 10aqm, 9.15pm Navina, Noon, 7.30pm Roxy, 2pm, 6pm Jaya, 11.50am, 5pm HDIL Broadway, 10.15am(G); 12.45pm(G); 3.15pm(G); 5.45pm(G); 8.15pm(G); 10.45pm(G) Inox-Forum, 9:10a.m, 11:50a.m, 2:30p.m, 5:10p.m 7:50p.m, 10:30p.m, 11:25p.m Inox-City Centre, 9:10a.m 11:50a.m, 2:30p.m, 5:10p.m 7:50p.m, 10:30p.m, 11:30p.m Inx-Swabhumi, 9:45a.m 12:20p.m, 3p.m, 5:35p.m 8:10p.m, 10:50p.m Inox-Rajarhat, 9:10a.m 11:50a.m, 2:30p.m, 5:10p.m 7:50p.m, 10:30p.m Inox-Liluah, 11:40a.m 5p.m, 10:20p.m

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HINDI MOVIE Fast and Furious (Hindi)
PVR Howrah, 9:45am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, 3.15pm, 5pm, 6pm, 8.45pm Fame Hiland Park, 9am, 8:35pm,11:15pm Hind Fame, 9:40am,7:40pm Inox-Liluah, 9a.m, 2:20p.m 7:40p.m

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Sawariya
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Ishkq In Paris
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Chhotta Bheem(H)
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Go Goa Gone
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BENGALI MOVIE Goenda Gogol

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Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke

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Epic 3D
Inox Forum 11:05a.m Inox City Centre 8:45a.m 1:45p.m 6:45p.m Inox Swabhumi 9:40a.m 2:35p.m 7:25p.m Inox Rajarhat 11:10a.m Inox Liluah 9a.m 1:40p.m 6:10p.m Fame South City Mall, 9am, 4:15pm Fame Hiland Park 12:15pm HDIL Broadway, Noon(G)

Mahapurush O Kapurush
Inox Forum 6:30p.m Inox City Centre 1:35p.m Inox Swabhumi 5:15p.m Inox Rajarhat 11:20a.m 6:55p.m Inox Liluah 4:40p.m Fame South City Mall 1:40pm Fame Hiland Park 2:25pm, Star Theatre, 6.45pm (except thursday & saturday) Nandan-I, 4pm Priya, 12.30pm

The Great Gatsby(3D)

Inox Forum 8:05p.m Inox City Centre 10:50a.m 3:50p.m 11:20p.m Inox Rajarhat 11:15a.m 4:15p.m 9:15p.m Fame South City Mall, 11.15pm HDIL Broadway, 4pm(G)

Ami Aar Amar Girlfriend

Inox Forum 2p.m Inox City Centre, 4:10p. Inox Swabhumi 3:50p.m Inox Rajarhat 4:05p.m Inox Liluah 4:15p.m Fame South City Mall 2:15pm, 7:25pm, Fame Hiland Park, 5pm, Prachi 2.30 p.m., RDB Cinemas, 4:45pm Priya, 4.55pm Jaya-2, 11.50am HDIL Broadway, 8.15pm

Doraemon The Movie Nobita Aur Jaddu Tapu

PVR Howrah, 10am, 2.20pm, 4.30pm Fame South City Mall, 9:10am,12:10pm,4:20pm Fame Hiland Park, 9am, 1:35pm, 7:25pm HDIL Broadway, 11am; 6.15pm Inox-Forum, 9a.m 1:15p.m, 6p.m Inox-City Centre, 9a.m 12:05p.m, 6:35p.m Inox-Swabhumi, 9:30a.m 1:45p.m, 6:15p.m Inox-Rajarhat, 9a.m, 2p.m 6:30p.m

Iron Man-3 3D
Inox Forum 3:20p.m Fame South City Mall 8:40pm Fame Hiland Park, 9:40am

HINDI MOVIE Aurangzeb

Inox Forum 9a.m, 4:25p.m, 10:55p.m Inox City Centre 1:20p.m 8:35p.m Inox Swabhumi 10:10a.m 1p.m 3:50p.m 6:45p.m 7:45p.m 9:35p.m 10:30p.m Inox Rajarhat 11:05a.m, 4:45p.m 10:20p.m Inox Liluah 11:50a.m 6:40p.m Fame South City Mall 2pm,8:30pm Fame Hiland Park 6:05pm,10:40pm Hind Fame, 2:15pm,9:45pm PVR Howrah 10am, 9..05pm New Empire, 6pm RDB Cinemas, 10:40 am, 1:15pm, 3.50pm, 6.25pm, 9pm Elite, 3pm, 6pm HDIL Broadway, 9.15am(G); 8.15pm;11pm Inox-Swabhumi, 1:50p.m 10:45p.m

Shabdo
Inox City Centre 6:30p.m Fame South City Mall 4:45pm 4:05pm Fame Hiland Park 4.05pm Star Theatre, 12.15pm Nandan-I, 6.15pm Priya, 7pm

Gippi
Inox Forum 7:20p.m Inox City Centre 9:00a.m Inox Swabhumi 11:50a.m Inox Rajarhat 9:10a.m Fame South City Mall 2:15pm.

Goyenar Baksho
Inox City Centre, 2:10p.m Fame South City Mall 4:40pm Nandan-I, 1.30pm

Aashiqui 2
Inox Forum 5:45p.m,10:50p.m Inox City Centre 9:20a.m 4:50p.m, 9:35p.m Inox Swabhumi 10a.m, 3p.m 5:40p.m, 10:45p.m Inox-Rajarhat, 9a.m, 2:05p.m 7:40p.m Inox Liluah 9:10a.m, 2:45p.m 7:30p.m Fame South City Mall 9am, 6:50pm Fame Hiland Park, 11am, 5:55pm Hind Fame 5pm PVR Howrah 12:50pm,

Arjun-Kalimponge Sitaharan
Inox City Centre 1:30p.m 2.30pm, 5.15pm, 8pm Fame South City Mall 11:40am Fame Hiland Park, 1.30pm Star Theatre, 4.30pm(except Thursday & Saturday) Indira, 12.30pm

CELEBRATION Kali The Mother

Vivekananda Bhav Samannay Kendra and Saswata Nirvik Pathik celebrate Niveditas Speech Kali The Mother at Kalighat Natmandir on 29th May at 5.30 p.m.

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