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NEW DELH SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2014
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B
ahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
supremo Mayawati criti-
cised Prime Minister Narendra
Modi for his recent statement
on the Muslims of the country
and claimed that the leader had
not spoken the truth.
On one hand when almost
all the saffron parties including
the BJP, RSS and other outfits
are trying all their best to cor-
ner the Muslims, the PMs
words appreciating the com-
munity have no such meaning,
she said, while terming the
statement to be politically
motivated. In an official com-
muniqu released by the BSP
here on Saturday, Mayawati
said, how could the PM ignore
the anti-muslim tirade
unleashed by different saffron
organisation and falsely charge
them with Love Jehad like
conspiracy. She said that it is
the duty of the PM to speak the
truth and implement the
promises he make. It is the
duty of the PM to protect
every citizen of the country and
there should be no diiference
between his action and state-
ment, she asserted.
Mayawati alleged BJP and
RSS have always been accused
of spreading communalism
besides narrow nationalism
and their morale has been very
high ever since BJP came to
power at the centre. She
charged those occupying the
highest offices, instead of dis-
charging their constitutional
obligations, have given a free
hand to fanatical Hindutva
forces. Mayawati said that on
one hand Modi issues statment
on the patriotism of Muslims
and on the other the students
wing of his party and others
indulge in acts which create
hatred in society.
State Minister for stamps
and registration, Ambika
Chaudhary while welcoming
Modis remark said that before
issuing the statement he ought
to have won over the confidence
of Muslims for his party so that
they would take them serious-
ly. Modi need to ensure that
BJP leaders behaviour reflect his
views on the subject, she added.
The Prime Minister said in
a television interview that
Indian Muslims will live and
die for India and that they will
not dance to the tunes of ter-
ror outfit Al Qaeda. My
understanding is that they are
doing injustice towards the
Muslims of our country. If
anyone thinks Indian Muslims
will dance to their tune, they
are delusional.Indian Muslims
will live for India, they will die
for Indiathey will not want
anything bad for India, he told
in a rare media interview.
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K
eralas Congress party and
the UDF Government it
leads are worried that the tax
boycott agitation planned by
the CPI(M), modeled seem-
ingly on the tariff boycott stir
held by AAP under Arvind
Kej riwal i n Del hi , may
become a powerful move-
ment as clear signs of people's
resentment towards t he
recently declared steep hike in
taxes are already visible.
The CPI(M) announced
the agitation after the State
Cabinet last Wednesday decid-
ed to hike taxes and tariff in
several sectors including land
and drinking water with the
goal of mobilising C2,049 crore
to overcome the severe finan-
cial crisis but without taking
the Assembly's consent. The
CPI(M)-led Opposition LDF
will meet on Sunday to discuss
the details of the stir.
Even Leftist leaders are a
bit shy about talking of the tax-
boycott agitation in the context
of the criticism that the com-
munists with a tradition of
intense struggles spanning over
several decades are depending
on an agitation idea resurrect-
ed by the Aam Aadmi Party,
whose relevance as a political
party has come under doubt in
the past few months.
However, the Congress and
the Government are worried
that the planned agitation may
win massive support because
signs of people's resentment
over the huge hike in taxes and
tariff are already obvious and
even top leaders of several of
the UDF constituents, includ-
ing the Congress, have object-
ed to the Government decision.
Faced with one of the
gravest financial crises Kerala
was facing since the State for-
mation 58 years ago, the UDF
Cabinet last Wednesday
announced steep hikes taxes
and tariff in several sectors. As
per this, land tax would go up
by almost 100 per cent and
water would be costlier by 50
per cent to 60 per cent.
"That many of our party
leaders and the Government
went into the overdrive while
criticizing the Marxist plan for
the tax boycott agitation proves
that they are in panic," said a top
Congress leader who is critical
of the tax hike. "That panic can
be seen in Finance Minister KM
Mani's description of the agita-
tion as anti-national," he said.
But CPI(M) leaders
claimed that Mani's reference
to how the nation's great lead-
ers were cautious while declar-
ing the tax boycott stirs during
the Independence struggle was
an open admission that the
UDF Government itself was
following the colonial style of
ruling by imposing tax burden
on the people unilaterally and
without seeking the consent of
the Legislative.
On Saturday, former min-
ister R Balakrishna Pillai,
chairman of UDF ally Kerala
Congress (B) and one of the
founders of the front, embar-
rassed the Government and
the coalition by saying that the
Left's tax boycott plan was not
unlawful. "It is a method of agi-
tation even leaders like Gandhiji
had adopted. Moreover, the
tax hike was not discussed
even in the UDF," he said.
Meanwhile, the allegedly
arrogant justification Cultural
Affairs Minister KC Joseph, a
staunch loyalist of Chief
Minister Oommen Chandy,
offered to the tax hike on
Saturday triggered a contro-
versy. "If we have declared
additional taxes, we know how
to collect it. CPI(M) threats do
not scare us," he said, giving
fresh fuel for the Marxists to
attack the Congress.
"They may be planning to
collect taxes forcibly using the
police," retorted EP Jayarajan,
central committee member of
the CPI(M). "Ministers are
supposed to speak with matu-
rity. Joseph should not think he
can get away with his arro-
gance. If they are going to use
police force to collect tax, the
people will deal with it," he said.
State Congress leader VM
Sudheeran described the
CPI(M)'s planned anti-tax agi-
tation as a strategy to divert
public attention from the bru-
tal murder of RSS leader Manoj
of Kathiroor in Kannur on
September 1. "If they are going
ahead like this, the fate they are
going to face in Kerala will be
similar to the one they faced in
West Bengal," he said.
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M
aharashtra Assembly elec-
tions this time will see a
new player which can upset the
calculations of some of the exist-
ing parties. Hyderabad-based
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
(MIM) in a determined bid to
expand its circle of influence in
to the neighbouring State is
planning to field more than a
dozen candidates specially in
Hyderabad-Marhatwada region
and Mumbai region.
The party, which has
emerged as a key political force
in Telangana and has been
wining Hyderabad Lok Sabha
seat for the last 30 years had put
up a credible performance in
the recently held civic elections
in Maharashtra and won a size-
able seat in places like Nanded.
After party president
Asaduddin Owaisi's frequent
visits to Aurangabad and sur-
rounding areas, his younger
brother and MIM floor leader
in State Assembly Akbaruddin
Owaisi recently visited places
like Parbhani, Mumbra and
Mumabi. He addressed public
meeting in Nagpada junction
of the city and also in Bhiwandi
which have sizeable Muslim
population.
Both the brothers, who have
strengthened their image of
aggressive champions of minori-
ties cause, received encouraging
response from the masses in all
the places they visited.
Disappointed with the exist-
ing Muslim political leadership
of Maharashtra, including those
in the main stream parties like
Congress and Samajwadi Party,
an increasing number of Muslim
youth were now looking towards
the MIM. Darussalam, the party
headquarter in Hyderabad
receiving delegations from many
places in Marahatwada and
Mumbai region and ticket seek-
ers have also made a beeline.
Apart from the
Marahatwada districts which
were part of erstwhile
Hyderabad state, MIM was also
looking at other areas which has
a significant Muslim pockets.
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S
even people were killed and
12 injured in an explosion in
a cracker factory in
Mohanlalganj area on Saturday
morning. As many as 13 other
people were seriously injured in
the incident.
The deceased were identi-
fied as Mobin Bano (40),
Mohammad Shafeeq (36),
Zahira (70), Nagma Bano (13),
Rakesha (25), Nankai (28),
Shahajahan (14). The people
who were seriously injured in
the explosion include Dileep
Gupta, Zaheer, Chedilal,
Shafeeq, Khaleel, Abdul Haq,
Yasmeen, Guddu, Laxmi, Anil,
Jaleel, Arman and Nazneen etc.
The injured were admitted
to various hospitals including
Trauma Centre, Civil Hospital
and Balrampur Hospital.
Senior administrative officials
along with the politicians have
visited the place.
The impact of the explo-
sion was so catastrophic that
the flesh of the bodies was scat-
tered all over the surrounding
area and was also hanging on
the tree branches. The entire
building caught fire after explo-
sion and property worth lakhs
of rupees was gutted in the inci-
dent. After getting the infor-
mation police team and fire
brigade reached the village to
control the situation. The vil-
lagers extended help ferrying
the injured people to hospital
and in dousing the fire.
According to reports
Shameem used to run a crack-
er factory Rihayashi Pataka
Factory at Sisendi in
Mohanlalganj. The license was
on his name which had been
expired on March 10, 2014. The
crackers were made in the fac-
tory on a large scale as the work
was being performed in two
shifts morning and evening at
the factory. Shameems family
members also used to work at
the factory along with the
labourers.
Li ke any ot her day
Shameems family members
were sleeping on the roof top
of the building while the
workers were making crackers
in the factory on Saturday
morning. At around 7.45 am
somehow few crackers came
in contact with the fire and
soon the entire place was con-
verted in a Furness. Due to
fire the series of the explosions
started. Explosion after explo-
sion was taking place and it
was so disastrous that the
entire roof of the building was
blown away. People who were
sleeping on the roof top had
died and the flesh of their
bodies was scattered al l
around the places.
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I
n the aftermath of devastated
floods in Jammu & Kashmir, the
worst fears of the Indian Army are
coming true. On Saturday, four
infiltrators were killed by the alert
troops along the Line of Control in
Tangdhar sector of North
Kashmirs Kupwara district.
In the last 10 days, this was the
third major infiltration bid attempt-
ed by the heavily armed militants
to sneak inside the Indian territo-
ry ahead of winter months.
Four AK 47 rifles, assorted
ammunition and warlike stores
were recovered from the scene of
the gunbattle, Defence spokesman
Col SD Goswami said adding the
identity and group affiliation of the
militants were being ascertained.
Meanwhile, speaking to
reporters on the sidelines of a func-
tion Lt-Gen Subrata Saha, GOC of
Srinagar based 15 corps claimed
around 200 armed militants were
waiting across the Line of Control to
sneak inside the Indian territory.
The Army officer claimed
despite Indian Armys engagement
with rescue and relief operations in
J&K, the counter-infiltration grid
remain intact to thwart the nefar-
ious designs of the infiltrators.
Lt Gen Saha said that in the
past ten days, several-cross border
infiltration attempts were made,
but the Army foiled them in which
five infiltrators were gunned down.
Three infiltrators were killed
in the Keran Sector and two were
killed in the Machil sector in the
last ten days, Lt Gen Saha said.
Commenting the damages suf-
fered by the Army units during the
floods Lt Gen Saha said, that the
ammunition depots were not
affected by the recent floods, but
some relocation had to be made.
Some of our units suffered
some damage in the floods, but the
arms and ammunitions are safe, he
added.
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A
ssam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi
on Saturday said that the Islamist
terror group like Al Qaeda has estab-
lished a link with the anti-talk fac-
tions of the militant outfits in Assam
and that they are now trying to
expand their base to Assam.
We have got some intelligence to
this effect so far but we are yet to get
concrete evidence. But I think the glob-
al terror agency had already established
links with the anti-talk factions of the
United Liberation Front of Asom
(Ulfa) and the National Democratic
Front of Bodoland (NDFB) here,
Gogoi told the media on Saturday.
The admission by the Chief
Minister assumes significance in
view of the fact that the Centre had
recently sounded a country-wide
alert earlier this month after an al-
Qaeda video threatened to carry out
subversive activities across India.
We have already sounded an
alert here and put the security forces
on alert immediately, said the Chief
Minister while also appealing to the
people of the state to cooperate with
the security agencies if anyone has
any information about these outfits.
Gogoi further said that the mil-
itants might try to carry out subver-
sive activities across the state in the
run up to the Durga puja.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister on
Saturday slammed Prime Minister
Narendra Modi for not giving much
importance to North East particularly
during the recent visit of Chinese
President Xi Jinping to India.
Gogoi said that the Prime
Minister should have given
importance to the North East and
the people of the north-eastern
States, as particularly Assam has
cultural relation with China.
Ahom king Siu-Ka-Pha
came to Assam from South
China. This proves the historical
links between Assam and China.
However, I have not seen the
Prime Minister giving much
importance to the region and its
people during the Chinese
Presidents visit to the country,
Gogoi said.
Gogoi also condemned the
Gujarat police for keeping the north-
eastern staffs of the Hyatt hotel and
AlphaOne Mall at Ahmedabad away
from the venue to prevent any anti-
China protest during the Chinese
President's stay and said that this is
an insult to the people of the region.
The Prime Minister and the BJP
led Gujarat Government should have
understood the cultural relation
between China and northeastern
states of India, he said while also tak-
ing up the issue of Union Minister of
State for Home, Kiren Rijiju, who had
also been tactfully kept away from the
Chinese Presidents visit.
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Birbhum Sessions Court on Saturday con-
demned 13 accused of the Labhpur gangrape case
to 20 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine which
would go to the victims family.
The Saturdays judgment came a day after the Barasat
Sessions Court sentenced five accused in the infamous
Madhyamgram gangrape case to 20-years rigorous
imprisonment. S Roychowdhury, the Additional Sessions
Judge, also ordered the district administration to take
care of the families of the accused in their absence.
A 20-year-old tribal woman was gang-raped by
the 13 accused following orders of a kangaroo which
found her guilty of marrying outside her communi-
ty. She was asked to pay fine for her misdeed and
when she failed to do so she was gang-raped upon
the orders of the village elders including a panchay-
at member of the ruling Trinamool Congress.
The Birbhum case had drawn suo motu cog-
nizance from the Supreme Court which had then
ordered an inquiry to be held by the District Judge.
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E
ven though the State
Government is struggling to
reach out to the flood-affected
people and restoring normal life in
Srinagar, a small beginning was
made on Saturday by resuming Haj
flights allowing stranded pilgrims
to embark on the holy journey.
Haj flights from Srinagar to
Saudi Arabia have been resumed
and two flights took off from the
Srinagar International Airport,
each carrying 275 pilgrims, Chief
Minister Omar Abdullah said.
Wishing successful Hajj to the
pilgrims, he said flood and torren-
tial rains affected the normal flight
schedule, but it is heartening that
the process has been resumed.
The Chief Minister hoped that
all the remaining pilgrims would
perform the holy journey from
Srinagar smoothly. Haj and Auqaf
Minister Peerzada Mohammad
Sayeed saw off the pilgrims at the
Srinagar Airport and wished them
successful journey and good health.
Haj flights from Srinagar were sus-
pended on September five following
floods in many areas of the State.
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I
n a sensational broad day-
light shootout which rocked
Mainpuri, four people were
sprayed with bullets in con-
nection with an old political
rivalry on Saturday. Senior
officers who rushed to spot had
a tough time controlling the
anger of the villagers who
staged a strong protest against
the killing and demanded
arrest of the accused.
After four hours of protest,
the cops somehow cooled
down the anger and managed
to shift the bodies for post-
mortem examination. Heavy
police force has been deployed
in the area to avert any further
clash. Later the police claimed
that station in-charge of Karhal
police station Balbir Singh has
been suspended in the matter.
Reports said that over half
a dozen armed miscreants
intercepted four villagers, iden-
tified as Neeraj Yadav (25),
Sonu (23), Akhilesh (28) and
Nati (27), all hailing from
Karhal area of Mainpuri. Before
the villagers could do any-
thing, the miscreants opened
indiscriminate fire killing all
the four on the spot.
Later, they opened over a
dozen fire in air and safely
managed to escape. Soon after
the miscreants fled, the vil-
lagers gathered and passed on
the information to senior offi-
cers who rushed to the spot
and faced tough time to han-
dle the situation.
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Ballia (UP): State Minister for
Primary Education, Ramg-
ovind Chaudhary also alleged
Modis statement was made
to please United States and
shed his communal image.
He urged the PM to ask
RSS, VHP, Hindu Jagran
Manch and other Hindutva
organisations to adopt his
views. Samajwadi Party pres-
ident has often said that BJP
needs to change its mindset
on Muslims. It seems that
Modi has taken it seriously
and only repeated Mulayam
Singh Yadavs opinion that
Muslims are patriots, he told
reporters while talking to
them in Balia on Saturday.
The Prime Ministers
statement was made out of
compulsion to please the US
and to shed his communal
image, he alleged adding
that despite everything, Modi
cannot wash off the blot on
his image. PNS
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T
he result of Afghanistans disputed election
will be declared on Sunday, officials said ,
as last-minute talks between the two rival can-
didates continued on a proposed power-shar-
ing deal.
The stalemate between Ashraf Ghani and
Abdullah Abdullah since the June 14 vote has
plunged Afghanistan into a political crisis as US-
led NATO troops end their 13-year war against
the Taliban.
Both men claim to have won the fraud-taint-
ed election, and the United Nations and the
United States have pushed hard for a national
unity Government to try to avoid a return to
the ethnic divisions of the 1990s civil war.
The IEC will officially announce the final
result of the presidential election tomorrow,
Independent Election Commission spokesman
Noor Mohammad Noor told AFP.
Mujib Rahman Rahimi, a spokesman for
Abdullah, said the two candidates were prepar-
ing to sign a deal.
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S
enior Muslim clerics in
Britain have made a direct
video appeal to the Islamic
State terror group to free a
British hostage under their
captivity.
In a YouTube vi deo,
Shakeel Begg and Haitham al-
Haddad said there was no jus-
tification for holding 47-year-
ol d Al an Henni ng, who
was captured i n Syri a,
captive.
Henning, a taxi driver from
Salford in northern England,
was delivering aid when he was
seized last December.
Holding him captive is
totally haram (forbidden)
under Islamic law, the clerics
say in the message to IS mili-
tants in Iraq and Syria and its
supporters in the UK.
The video does not men-
tion photojournalist John
Cantlie, a second British man
being detained by IS whose
video also emerged online this
week.
Begg, the imam at
Lewisham Islamic Centre in
south London, says in the
video that he had campaigned
for the release of Muslims from
Belmarsh and Guantanamo
Bay prisons.
For the same reasons
today I stand with Alan
Henning. I urge you to under-
stand the nature of this pris-
oner you are holding - a man
of peace, he says.
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A
s he continues to galvanise
the world for a broad coali-
tion against the Islamic State,
US President Barack Obama on
Saturday said the internation-
al community is united in its
fight against the dreaded terror
group, which has gained con-
trol over large parts of Syria
and Iraq.
This is not Americas fight
alone. I wont commit our
troops to fighting another
ground war in Iraq, or in Syria.
Its more effective to use our
capabilities to help partners on
the ground secure their own
countrys futures, Obama said
in his weekly address to the
nation.
He said, We will use our
air power. We will train and
equip our partners. We will
advise and we will assist.
Over 40 countries have
offered to help the broad cam-
paign against the Islamic State,
or ISIL, so far from training
and equipment, to humanitar-
ian relief, to flying combat
missions.
We will lead a broad coali-
tion of nations who have a
stake in this fight. This isnt
America vs ISIL. This is the
people of that region vs ISIL.
Its the world vs ISIL, he said,
using the Arabic acronym for
the group.
This week, at the United
Nations, Ill continue to rally
the world against this threat,
he added. Obama is scheduled
to address the annual session of
the UN General Assembly in
New York next week.
Over the past week, the US
has continued to lead its friends
and allies in the strategy to
degrade and ultimately destroy
the terrorist group known as
ISIL, he said.
As Ive said before, our
intelligence community has
not yet detected specific plots
from these terrorists against
America. But its leaders have
threatened America and our
allies. And if left unchecked,
they could pose a growing
threat to the United States,
Obama said.
So, last month, I gave the
order for our military to begin
taking targeted action against
ISIL. Since then, American
pilots have flown more than
170 airstrikes against these ter-
rorists in Iraq. France has now
joined us in these airstrikes, he
said.
Obama said the US will not
hesitate to take action against
these terrorists in Iraq or in
Syria.
In his address, Obama also
thanked the Congress for
approving his request to train
and arm Syrian rebels.
A majority of Democrats
and a majority of Republicans
in both the House and the
Senate have now approved a
first, key part of our strategy by
wide margins. Theyve given
our troops the authority they
need to train Syrian opposition
fighters so that they can fight
ISIL in Syria, he said.
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T
he US Congress will be in
recess when Prime Minister
Narendra Modi arrives in
Washington this month-end,
but the Senate has unanimously
passed a resolution, designat-
ing September 30 as US-India
Partnership Day.
Its the day when Modi will
be holding his formal one-on-
one meeting with President
Barack Obama at the White
House. The extended recess in
the run-up to the Congressional
elections in early November
had stymied an enthusiastic
plan of lawmakers of both par-
ties to invite Modi to address a
joint session of Congress.
The Senate resolution,
moved by Senators Mark
Warner and John Cornyn, the
Democratic and Republican
co-chairs respectively of the
Senate India Caucus, makes the
case for expanding and deep-
ening US-India partnership,
noting the relationship between
the two countries is a special
and permanent bond and one
that will continue to help
define the 21st century.
The Senate action high-
lights the bilateral commit-
ment to furthering the US-
India relationship, the two
Senators said, noting the reso-
lution emphasises the mutual
benefits of a thriving US-India
partnership, stressing the
importance of increasing col-
laboration in order to pro-
mote stability, democracy, and
economic prosperity in the
21st century.
Senator Warner, who is up
for re-election from Virginia,
said the relationship has
already seen progress in the
first 100 days of the Modi
Government. Seven of the 12
recommendations that he him-
self had proposed under an
action plan have been adopted
by both Governments,
Warner said.
From energy, to defence,
to counterterrorism, to trade,
the United States and India
have many overlapping nation-
al interests. As our trade rela-
tionship continues to grow,
increasing export opportunities
to India will create more jobs
for Americans back here at
home, he said.
Senator Cornyn, who has
remained the Republican co-
chair of the Senate India
Caucus ever since it was
formed in 2004, said: As the
co-founder and co-chair of the
Senate India Caucus, I look for-
ward to continuing to help the
US-India partnership reach its
full potential.
As the worlds two largest
democracies, the US-India rela-
tionship remains one of the
most important partnerships in
the world. We warmly wel-
come Prime Minister Modi to
the United States and are hope-
ful we can work together to
grow our relationship and iden-
tify areas we can strengthen in
the years to come, said Cornyn,
the senior Senator from Texas.
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S
ome 45,000 Syrian Kurds
fleeing advancing Islamic
State jehadis have poured
across the border into Turkey
since Ankara opened up its
southern frontier Friday, the
countrys Deputy Prime
Minister said.
As of now, 45,000 Syrian
Kurds have have crossed the
border and entered the Turkish
soil from eight entrance points,
Numan Kurtulmus told
reporters on Saturday.
No country in the world
can take in 45,000 refugees in
one night, bring them here
unharmed and find them a
shelter without a problem.
This proves how powerful
Turkey is, he said.
Syrian Kurds have been
massing since Thursday on
the other side of the border as
the IS extremists seized dozens
of villages in a lightning offen-
sive as they close in on the
strategic Syrian town of Ain al-
Arab, known to the Kurds as
Kobane.
Turkey opened its border
on Friday after new fighting
near Kobane prompted a mass
exodus of residents.
Ankara, which has given
shelter to some 1.5 million
refugees from the Syrian con-
flict, has been refusing to accept
any more for fear of being over-
whelmed.
Earlier Saturday, Ankara
announced that 49 of its
nationals that the IS extremists
had seized from its consulate in
Mosul in June had been
released and were back in
Turkey.
Some 4,000 Syrian Kurds
mostly women, children
and elderly people crossed
to the southern Turkish town
of Dikmetas on Friday.
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N
ew Zealands conservative Prime
Minister John Key swept to a
historic election victory on Saturday,
securing a third term as voters
ignored campaign allegations of
dirty tricks and mass spying.
The resounding win makes Key
the first New Zealand leader able to
govern in his own right since pro-
portional voting was introduced in
1996 and means his centre-right
National Party has increased its vote
in all three elections he has contested.
Im ecstatic, its a great night,
the 53-year-old former currency
trader said after a result that con-
founded opinion poll predictions of
a tight race. It was a tough campaign
but I think that people could see the
country was on the right direction
and they rewarded us. Im just very
grateful, he added.
National won 61 of 121 parlia-
mentary seats, up from 59 at the last
election in 2011, while the main
opposition Labour Party managed
only 32, down two, after its worst
performance since the 1920s.
Labour leader David Cunliffe,
facing questions over his future,
said it was time to rebuild the cen-
tre-left party, not lay blame.
FTI Q wAShh0T0h
I
n a rare occurrence, the
White House was partially
evacuated after a man climbed
over its fence and sprinted
through the lawn and the front
door, minutes after President
Barack Obama had left the
high- security compound with
his family.
The man, who was not
armed, was apprehended just
inside the front doors, secret
service spokesman said, though
accepting that the point of
arrest was unacceptable and
would be reviewed by the secu-
rity agencies.
The man climbed over
the White House fence last
night and sprinted across the
lawn, reaching as far as the
front doors, before he was
apprehended by t he
security officials, who had
seen him jumping across the
fence.
The incident happened
soon after Obama, and the First
Lady left the White House on
chopper for Camp David,
where they would spend their
weekend.
The incident, prompted a
rare partial evacuation of the
White House. Reporters and
official staff were asked to
vacate the premises and the
building was locked down for
some time.
The man, identified as
Omar J Gonzalez (42), was
arrested and later taken to
hospital for a medical exami-
nation. It was not clear why he
had tried to intrude into the
White House.
Although, its not uncom-
mon for people to hop the
White House fence, seldom are
they able to make it to the
front door.
Only last week, on the
anniversary of the September
11 attacks, a man had jumped
the fence but was soon appre-
hended by t he Secret
Service officials and taken
into custody.
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krainian forces and pro-
Russian militias were due
on Saturday to pull back their
troops from a demilitarised
zone created under a new
peace pl an agreed i n
marathon overnight talks.
A nine-point agreement
thrashed out in the early
hours of Saturday in the
Belarussian capital Minsk also
requires the withdrawal of all
mercenari es f rom t he
conf l i ct zone and an
i mmedi ate end to
hostilities.
But Russia appeared ready
to keep up the pressure on its
westward-leaning neighbour
by sending in a new 30-truck
convoy it said was carrying
aid for the rebel-held city of
Donetsk, but that Ukraine
never approved.
Former Ukrainian presi-
dent Leonid Kuchma who
is representing Kiev in the
stuttering efforts to resolve
the five-month conflict
said the agreement rested on
the creation of a 30-kilometre
(19-mile) buffer zone.
Forces from both sides are
required to retreat 15 kilo-
metres from current front-
lines within 24 hours of the
signing of the accord and
allow monitors from the
OSCE pan-European
security organisation into the
area to make sure the truce
holds.
The areas under rebel
control would be left open to
their administration under a
temporary self-rule plan
adopted by lawmakers in Kiev
on Tuesday.
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F
inance chiefs from G20
nations held talks on
Saturday, confident they can
"change the destiny of the glob-
al economy" despite rising world
political tensions and mounting
fears of financial instability.
The meeting in Cairns aims
to thrash out a set of policies to
achieve the ambitious goal of
raising the total GDP of the 20
major world economies by 2 per
cent over the next five years, a
target they set in Sydney in
February.
Finance ministers and cen-
tral bank governors, including
US Federal Reserve chairwoman
Janet Yellen, want to be able to
take their plan to the G20 lead-
ers' summit in Brisbane in
November.
A high-level G20 source
said of today's discussions:
"There was no longer talk about
growth versus austerity. Now it
is all about how we can grow our
economies.
"What we found is that
extremely good progress has
been made towards the two per-
cent objective," he added.
"Everyone supports that agenda."
The source acknowledged
that the "global picture" of eco-
nomic growth was "very
uneven", but added that all
members of the Group of 20
"will continue to sustain their
efforts" to reach the target.
Australian Treasurer Joe
Hockey, who is chairing the
meeting, said as he opened the
summit that he was buoyed by
the more than 900 submissions
that had been made by partici-
pating countries to meet the
goal.
These involve reforms to
accelerate infrastructure invest-
ment, steps to strengthen finan-
cial reform and the opening of
economies to free trade.
"We are determined to
make the world a better place -
- to grow the global economy, to
create more and better paying
jobs, to build the infrastructure
to ensure children get better
quality water, education and
healthcare," he said.
"I have no doubt that as a
result of the deliberations of this
meeting this weekend, followed
by the leaders' summit in
Brisbane in November, that we
have the opportunity to change
the destiny of the global econ-
omy."
Despite the upbeat com-
ments, with the OECD down-
grading its world growth fore-
casts this week amid a stalling
eurozone recovery and weak-
ening emerging economies, the
task has become more compli-
cated.
There is also mounting
concern about the impact on
emerging economies of the US
Federal Reserve's shift towards
tightening its monetary policy
next year, while political ten-
sions in Ukraine and the Middle
East have spooked some
investors.
Hockey added that there is
a consensus that Russia should
attend the leaders' summit in
November, despite alarm over
Moscow's actions in Ukraine.
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T
elecom and broadcast regu-
lator TRAI chairman Rahul
Khullar on Saturday said that
Government should make it
clear in a national media policy
that politicians and
Governments and their organs
should not be in the business of
broadcast.
"Politicians...Government,
state government, their organs
have absolutely no business
whatsoever being in broadcast-
ing and platform space. It is my
view that government needs to
announce this as integral part in
national media policy," he said
while speaking at CII Big Picture
Summit.
Khullar cited points from
recommendation of Telecom
Regulatory Authority of India on
media ownership and said that
governments, politicians and
their related bodies should not
be in business of broadcast plat-
form space.
TRAI had earlier given rec-
ommendation on barring entry
of certain parties and entities in
November 2008 but govern-
ment did not implement it.
"Let me tell you what I think
should be component of
National Media Policy. First,
there must be a clear articulation
that we want a free media --
unhampered and unrestricted by
the government in any way
whatsoever," Khullar said.The
regulator again issued recom-
mendation on media ownership
last month that suggested restric-
tion on political bodies and cor-
porates entering the television
and newspaper business.
!ecioe on meoia freeoom in
National Meoia Policy : JRA Clairman
Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
A
s negotiations with states
on GST enter a critical
stage, the Centre is looking
forward to implementation of
the new indirect tax regime
from April 1, 2016.
"The deadline for actual
implementation of GST from
April 1, 2016, would be feasi-
ble. It all depend on how
quickly we are able to reach
consensus on critical issues,"
Revenue Secretary Shakti
Kanta Das said at an event
here.
The Goods and Services
Tax (GST) regime aims at
subsuming most of the indi-
rect taxes at the central as well
as state level. The UPA gov-
ernment in 2011 introduced a
Constitution Amendment Bill
in the Lok Sabha to pave the
way for introduction of GST.
The GST which has been
pending since 2006, is stuck at
a crucial stage where states
have proposed to keep prod-
ucts such as petroleum, tobac-
co and alcohol out of GST
ambit and had demanded the
exemption list be included in
the Constituti onal
Amendment Bill.
As regards the compensa-
tion structure, the states have
sought a five year compensa-
tion mechanism from the
Centre and demanded the
same be included in the
Constitutional Amendment
Bill.
The discussions are at a
very critical stage and we
hope to make very good
progress. We are quite opti-
mistic we will be able to reach
convergence in the coming
weeks or months," Das added.
He said there are 4-5
issues with the states that are
outstanding and on each there
have been discussions in
recent weeks.
Earlier this week, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi held
a meeting to take stock of the
proposed new indirect tax
regime and decided to soon
clear the pending CST com-
pensation for revenue loss
incurred by states.
"We hope and we are quite
optimistic that we will be able
to resolve (it) in the coming
months, which will enable the
government to introduce the
constitutional amendments in
Parliament," Das said. The
GST rollout has missed sever-
al deadlines because oflack of
consensus among states over
certain crucial issues on the
new tax regime.
Das said the Centre has
given an alternative formula-
tion to the states against their
demand for keeping certain
products out of GST.
"States want they (petrole-
um and petroleum products)
should be constitutionally kept
out. We are in discussion with
the states, we have given an
alternative formulation.
Discussions are at very critical
stage. But we are quite hopeful
we will reach a convergence,"
he said.
Clearance of CST com-
pensation arrears has been a
bone of contention between
Centre and states, as the states
still wait for Rs 13,000 crore
arrears pending till 2010.
"The key necessity behind
having GST is having a trust
between Centre and states...
During the course of current
year the government is making
efforts to find the resources to
compensate the states for part
of the CST loss," Das said.
CST, a tax imposed on the
inter-state movement of goods,
was reduced from 4 per cent to
3 per cent in 2007-08 and fur-
ther to 2 per cent in 2008-09
after the introduction of Value-
Added Tax (VAT). The centre
had then promised the states
that it would bear losses due to
reduction of CST.
As part of the roll out of
GST, the CST is being phased
out and has been reduced to
two per cent from the earlier
four per cent. The Centre
collects CST and distributes it
among states.
GSJ imlementation from Aril
2016, feasille, says Revenue Secy
6kIh8: The Finance Ministers of the G20 nations on Saturday
resolved to tackle Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) to
make sure companies pay their fair share of tax.
"We have also agreed to increase transparency and crack
down on tax evasion," said an official statement after the first
day of the ministerial meeting of the G20, which among oth-
ers is being attended by India's Minister of state for Finance
Nirmala Sitharaman.
India has been at the forefront in raising the issues con-
cerning tax avoidance and automatic exchange of information
with a view to curbing tax evasion.
The G20 in 2013 had unanimously agreed to a 15 point
action plan to check BEPS.
"This will help secure our revenue bases by limiting the
opportunities for double non-taxation and ensuring a global-
ly coordinated approach to international tax challenges," the
statement said.
It further added that the G20, a grouping a developed and
developing nations, is half way through an ambitious two year
work program to update international tax rules for the 21st cen-
tury.
The initiative would ensure that tax is paid where profits
are made although it has become increasingly difficult to check
the menace in view of digitalisation of economy.
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FTI Q K0LKATA
S
tating that there is a need for
a comprehensive policy for
developing and clearing the
hurdles for the growth of the
MSME sector, Union Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises
Minister Kalraj Mishra on
Saturday said the government
would be able to come out with
it in 3-4 months.
The MSME sector was of
immense importance as it con-
tributed eight per cent to the
country's GDP and 45 per cent
of nation's exports, Mishra
said at a MCCI seminar here.
"Till now, several policies
have been undertaken to tack-
le the problems on credit avail-
ability, incidences of default
and other related obstacles,
still a number of problems
exist," he said, adding, those
formulated in other countries
would also be looked into.
Mishra said, "a compre-
hensive policy needs to be for-
mulated which will take care of
the existing problems in an in
depth manner."
Earlier at an ICC event, the
Union MSME Minister said in
the maiden budget of the new
government, it had been
announced to allocate a fund of
Rs 10,000 crore for facilitation
of MSME industries.
He said the government
has started taking suitable ini-
tiatives to promote the Indian
MSME sector like other Asian
countries, including China and
Japan, and also realised the
importance of foreign invest-
ment for promotion of MSME
activities of India.
New MSMI olicy in
3-4 montls: Kalraj Mislra
special 09 NEW DELH SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2014
N
eeta Singh is not the kind of
woman you would attach to
the new fangled ailment called
online addiction. She is a
housewife, all of 51 and full of
traditional notions of responsibilities
towards her husband, in-laws and children.
So when her husband revealed that Neeta
was to be kept off smartphones and laptop,
you wondered why. It came as a shock that
this weaning off had been ordered by a sur-
geon and Neeta had developed a tennis
elbow due to long hours of playing the
social networking game Candy Crush.
As she awaits surgery and is fighting
withdrawal symptoms due to the phone
and computer being taken away from her,
one is told that India has nearly 74 million
Internet users, a 31 per cent increase over
March 2012.
A report by the global digital mea-
surement and analytics firm comScore says
that men under 35 and women between 35
and 44 are the heaviest users. The con-
centration of online dominance has moved
steadily towards Asia, which now accounts
for 41 per cent of all Internet users. From
having 66 per cent of all users in 1996, the
US now accounts for just 13 per cent.
An IAMAI & IMRB International
report of January 2014 says, the number of
users accessing the web on their mobile
handsets in India has touched 185 million.
With so many people with Internet ser-
vices on their handhelds, it is not surpris-
ing that a large percentage in the age-group
of 18 to 25 is online 24x7. Quite alarmingly,
by 2016, the country will be having 350 mil-
lion Internet users and about 75 per cent
of them will go online through mobiles. No
wonder, experts have already started speak-
ing about a digital epidemic.
Earlier this month, a 15-year-old Pune
student attacked his mother with a kitchen
knife when she tried to turn off his com-
puter and take away his smartphone.
When his 47-year-old teacher-mother
tried to reduce his access to the Internet,
he went hysterical and tried to stab her but
was stopped by his 50-year-old father, a
municipal employee, who rushed to the
room after hearing his wifes screams.
The next day, the parents drove their
son down to Mumbai and got him admit-
ted to Bycullas Masina Hospital for treat-
ment. But the boy, who did not resist,
caused a commotion by stripping nude at
the hospital in protest against his parents
decision to get him de-addicted.
Though there is no comprehensive
study on the extent of the problem, experts
say that more and more parents are seek-
ing out shrinks to get their teenage children
off the digital addiction problem.
Negative emotions like sadness, mean-
inglessness, emptiness and loneliness take
many to the social media which offers a lot
of narcissistic gratification and faceless
acceptability, Dr Pulkit Sharma, consultant
clinical psychologist & psychoanalytical
therapist with Imago-Centre for Self,
explains. He adds that there is need to
recognise online addiction as a disorder
because it destroys a persons life.
Acknowledging it formally will create more
awareness of its negative effects and help
us manage it better, Sharma insists.
Take the case of a 16-year-old Class XI
drop out. Her parents became worried
when they saw that their daughter was
spending six to seven hours on the Internet.
If she was asked to stop, she would throw
a tantrum. The worried parents took her
to a pyschologist. The shrink found that her
Internet usage had started to increase when
she turned 12. Personal history revealed
normal developmental milestones. Though
she was never a brilliant student, her grades
were never so bad that it would worry the
parents. But slowly, she started neglecting
academic work so much that she left school.
When her parents complained, she start-
ed going to cyber cafs. Stealing and lying
became a habit.
Chatting with friends on social net-
working sites and sharing photographs with
the intention of meeting a boy through chat
was common. When her family finally
dragged her to a doctor, she had 350 online
friends. With timely intervention focussing
on lifestyle changes, at 16 she has now man-
aged to curb her addiction. Today, she is
giving her Class XII exam through open
school and has limited her interaction on
social networking sites to an hour a day.
Such cases are a dime a dozen. With
smartphones deluging the market, Internet
usage has seen a steady rise. People can now
play games, surf sites, update status mes-
sages, post videos and pictures, share
tweets and comment on them from any-
where. One doesnt need to get to a com-
puter or a laptop to be online. It can be done
on the move in a bus, in an autorick-
shaw or even while waiting at a bus stop,
Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma, associate pro-
fessor, department of clinical psychology
with NIMHANS in Bangalore, says.
Peer pressure is one of the biggest rea-
son behind teenagers spending hours on
the Internet and becoming addicted to it
that a friend has more online friends or
more likes to a comment ensures that
they are constantly monitoring what their
friends are doing.
Digital detox clinic Service for Healthy
Use of Technology (SHUT), Bangalore, that
started four months back has already
treated 22 teens for digital addiction.
Another 10 have been treated for psycho-
logical problems like stress and depression.
This addiction stems from three rea-
sons accessibility, control and excite-
ment. It has been seen that chatting,
updating status message, playing video
games and winning gives teens a high that
is very different from the high that one
would get from taking drugs and drinking.
In fact, drugs have been replaced by social
networking sites. It has been found that
these sites help youngsters cope with
behavioural problems like distress and
depression, Dr Manoj says.
A study conducted in Bangalore in
2010 found that around 24 per cent of the
5,000 respondents were using the Internet
excessively. A similar community survey
done from door-to-door in 2011 revealed
an increase of five per cent. A 2013 survey
threw up the online shopping addiction.
India is definitely seeing an increase
in Internet usage. But to put a figure to the
addiction is difficult. A lot more studies
have to be done. Digital addiction is very
new to India. Hence, there is a lack of
awareness about it. Those who may know
something about it dont know where to go
for treatment, Dr Sandeep Grover, assis-
tant professor with the department of psy-
chiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical
Education & Research, Chandigarh, says.
He is quick to point out that one gets
to see more teens than adults because of the
shame that adults associate with an addic-
tion. The problem gets complicated because
digital addiction is usually not seen in iso-
lation. There are other problems associat-
ed with it. Going to a mental health pro-
fessional is perceived as embarrassing.
Some of the common problems asso-
ciated technology addiction are stiffness in
muscles and joints, carpal tunnel syndrome,
sleep disturbances, headache, backache, dry
eyes, obesity and low metabolic syndrome.
Common psychological problems include-
anxiety, irritability, lack of drive, fatigue,
relationship problems, aggression and
neglect of studies.
For Sheetal Vij (name changed), her
five-year marriage turned into a nightmare
since the day she realised her husband,
Samrat (name changed) was suffering
from online addiction. At first, I took it
casually. I thought it was a phase and
Samrat would get out of this Internet fas-
cination. When he didnt, he started hav-
ing bitter quarrels about this over usage of
the phone and tablet but nothing affected
him. My problem is that Samrat isnt addict-
ed to any social networking site. He is stuck
to Google. He carries his phone to the bath-
room to read up. Initially, I would throw
a tantrum. Now, I am reconciling to the fact
that Google is his only wife, Vij says. Out
of 24 hours a day, the couple converse for
hardly 10 minutes, and that too with the
husband constantly peering into his tablet
and surfing the Net in the middle of a con-
versation.
Thirtytwo-year-old Mansi Gujral
(name changed) has a similar story. Her
husband Rahul has no time to have a meal
with her without one eye on his mobile see-
ing updates on Twitter. Needless to say, it
is a huge turn off.
Rahul has a very hectic work sched-
ule, so we get only weekends to ourselves.
But even during that time, if I want to eat
together, he sits on the table but his eyes
are constantly on his mobile. I generally get
disgusted with this attidude and have my
meal in utter silence, Gujral says. Even a
holiday is no longer a welcome thought
because even then her husband is contin-
uously online. It is better to be home rather
than go out with a man who is always with
his technology. Even in an expensive suite
we are doing things separately, a dejected
Gujral says.
Psychiatrists say, the reason why adults
dont admit to this being a problem
because they dont think of it as an addic-
tion. As for teenagers, living in the virtu-
al world is the easiest way to making or
breaking relationships. This is because
there is very little emotional connect in the
Internet world. Breaking a relationship in
a chat room is not only easy but also clean
and without baggage which one carries in
a face-to-face break-up, Grover explains.
F
or any individual, selrealisalion lhal
he is becoming addicled lo gadgels
and lhere is an increase in online and
oline usage is lhe irsl sle lo
assessmenl.
"To say lhal a erson is on lhe mobile
all lhe lime may nol necessarily mean lhal
he is addicled. whal has lo be seen is
whelher lhe usage is or roessional or
nonroessional use. one sees lhal an
adull is sending more and more lime on
lhe mobile, suring lhe nlernel, laying
video games, shoing online, wanling lo
check and udale Facebook slalus every
ew minules, means he is addicled. l is
lhe our 'Cs: Craving (desire lo engage in
lhese behaviours), conlrol (exeriencing
inabilily lo conlrol lhese behaviours),
comulsion (engagemenl in behavior
desile no need) and consequences
(exerienced eecls due lo engagemenl in
lhese behaviours) lhal delermine lhe
seriousness o lhe silualion," 0r Sandee
0rover, assislanl roessor wilh lhe
dearlmenl o sychialry, Foslgraduale
nslilule o Medical Educalion & Research,
Chandigarh, says.
The olher oinls lo look oul or
addiclion in an adull are: lhe individual
is neglecling olhers around him, leading
lo roblem in relalionshis; always
lhinking and needing lo check lhe mobile
or a call or an SMS; and, i lhe adull is
unable lo slee and shows symloms o
deression.
Sending signiicanl sums o money
or online services, comuler ugrades or
gaming syslems is anolher oinler. As is,
lhinking obsessively aboul being on lhe
comuler or laying video games even
when doing olher lhings.
while lhe symloms o digilal
addiclion in leens may be similar lo lhe
ones seen in an adull, il is lhe manner in
which lhey maniesl is where lhe
dierence lies. lhe arenls see lheir
ward's grade di or eel lhal lhe child is
neglecling his sludies al lhe cosl o being
on lhe nlernel or lhe mobile hone all lhe
lime, i lhe child gels irrilaled or angry i
his nlernel aclivilies are inlerruled, i lhe
child sends less and less lime wilh lhe
amily and riends and reers lo be on lhe
mobile or comuler and i lhe child
doesn'l wanl lo lell lhe arenls how much
he is sending on lhe nlernel, lhen he or
she is addicled. "n any case, one musl
seek hel rom roessionals who are
qualiied lo nol only see lhe roblem bul
also lreal il," 0r 0rover lells you.
I 0 0 8 F F 0 F l F I F . . .
How serious is your
digital addiction?
Psychologists tell
SHALN SAKSENA
that there are four Cs
you the extent of the
addiction
Some lake lheir hones wilh lhem lo lhe balhroom and send many hours googling lheir avourile loics; olhers suer rom
lennis elbow owing lo lheir addiclion lo Candy Crush. Marriages are breaking because lhe man is loo much inlo his gadgels and
sludenls are droing oul o school because lhey can'l gel o social nelworking siles. ndia is in lhe lhroes o a suring eidemic
wilh as many as 75 er cenl addicled lo lhe hel. ShALh SAKSEhA seaks wilh digilal delox exerls who say lhis mania
modern ndia's aslesl growing scourge
IF I8FIMF8I
Q The irsl sle or a sychologisl is lo
evaluale lhe roblem in delail and
work oul a cuslomised lrealmenl or
lhe individual. n each case, lhe
aroach has lo be dierenl since no
lwo individuals are lhe same, nor is
lheir level o lechnology addiclion.
Q 0nce lhal is done, an assessmenl is
made and on lhe basis o lhal, lhe
qualiicalion o usage is gauged.
Q Then comes sychoeducaling lhe
user - lelling him whal his excessive
deendency on lhe nlernel is doing
lo him and how il is aecling his
lieslyle. however, lhe inal decision is
lel lo lhe user. Forcing lhe user lo go
or counselling will nol have imacl
as selrealisalion is crucial.
Q The individual is lhen asked lo limil
his usage. usually, doclors don'l rec
ommend comlele absenleeism.
Q n case lhe addiclion is in a leenager,
arenls are made aware o lhe acl lhal
il is nol ossible lo kee lhe child away
rom lechnology. however, whal lhey
need lo ensure is some degree o con
lrol over usage.
Q A session on removing lhe negalivi
ly is underlaken nexl. To leach lhe
eole involved on how lo inleracl
normally wilhoul ighling is an imor
lanl arl o counselling.
Q Keeing labs on an addicled user once
lhe counselling is over is also advised.
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sport 10 NEW DELH SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2014
A
fter winning the first gold
of the 17th Asian Games
for India, Jitu Rai abrupt-
ly excused himself from
the media. It wasnt an
arrogant act of a star athlete (or play-
er) but a reaction of a tired mind.
Jitu has been continuously play-
ing since March this year and was
dead tired when he landed in
Incheon for the Asian Games. He was
one of the favourites having won five
medals, including a Commonwealth
Games gold in Glasgow, in a row. But
these back-to-back events exhausted
him. His mind was refusing to con-
centrate.
These being his first Asian
Games, he couldnt have just pulled
himself back. He knew that the last
step is usually the toughest one. And
those who can overcome all the
pains and summon all the energy that
is left in the tired body to take that
last step are the true champions.
Jitu just did that on Saturday to
become only the second Indian pis-
tol shooter to win a gold medal
at the Asian Games.
The first was leg-
endary Jaspal Rana,
who won a gold in
1994 Hi roshi ma
Games and three
gol ds i n 2006
Doha Games.
It (score)
went down a bit in the middle but I
told myself that this is my first
Asian Games, you have to win here,
Jitu said after beating a tough field
that included South Koreas Jong-oh
Jin, worlds best shooter in 50m pis-
tol and 10m air pistol with three
Olympic gold medals. In the recent
World Championships in Grenada,
Spain, it was Jin who took the gold
medal from Jitu.
Probably the home pressure was
way too much for Jin as he was elim-
inated early in the race. The buckling
down of Jin also shows the pressure
level during the finals of such a big
event.
In fact, Jitu was also a bit off-
colour. There were only four 10 or
10-plus shots in 20 rounds of shoot-
ings. He was on the verge of elimi-
nation early on in the final round
when he hit a bad 7.7. Another bad
shot and he would have been out. But
his next shot of 9.8 saved him.
I never found it as difficult in
the finals as it was here. I was under
severe pressure. I didnt even feel this
much pressure at the Worl d
Championships, Jitu said.
Going into the final round, he
was trailing by .7 points. But his
Vietnamese opponent cracked under
pressure and shot 8.7 and 5.8 against
Jitus 9.6 and 8.4 to settle the issue in
Indians favour.
IT'8 FhY8I6kI
Indias mental conditioning
coach Vaibhav Agashe credited Jitus
incredible run of six medals in a year
to his physical fitness. There were a
few surprised looks when Agashe
said that. Shooting is after all a sta-
tic game players dont move
much. He explained: Large part of
mental strength comes from your
physical fitness. People think that
shooting is not a physical sport but
Jitus continued success has proved
that physical fitness plays an impor-
tant role.
It (pistol shooting) requires a
very fine motor control which is like
very fine movement. And if that
movement is not fine, it becomes very
difficult to control it. His physical con-
ditioning is what made him better than
others. If you are not fit, your muscles
start reacting under pressure. They are
no longer under your control.
Agashe said that Jitu is one of the
fittest athletes amongst the Indian
shooters and the regular physical con-
ditioning has transformed his body
into a machine that is better equipped
to take load for a longer period.
He takes physical conditioning
much more seriously. Everyone does
physical conditioning but he is more
serious about it. I mean he is not car-
rying any injuries; physically he is in
peak shape, the mental conditioning
coach said.
It (this medal) is tribute to his
physical conditioning. If you want to
perform consistently at the highest
level, physical conditioning is very
important. His background is very
important, he is from the Army. He
is one of the fittest athlete in the
shooting team thats why he is doing
so well this year, Agashe added.
IT'8 IhIk V8 IhIk, WIhhE WIII WIh MEkI
ndia is assured o ils irsl ever women's singles medal in lhe Asian
0ames aler lo layers ipika FaIIikaI (lel) and 1oshana 6hinappa
won lheir reseclive oeners and sel u an exciling conlesl in lhe
quarlerinals. world ho.21 Chinaa blanked 188rd ranked Soulh Korea
Song Sunmi 11O,117, 117 al lhe Yeorumul Squash Courls. Soon aler,
world ho.12 Fallikal sleed on lhe courl againsl 15Olh ranked Jinyue
0u o China. The higheslranked ndian slied a bil beore revailing 11
G 1O12 11G 114. The leammales now ace each olher in lhe
quarlerinals on Sunday, less lhan lwo monlhs aler winning ndia's irsl
ever squash medal al lhe 0lasgow Commonweallh 0ames, where lhey
won lhe women's doubles gold. whoever wins lhe malch will be assured
o a medal as lhe losing semiinalisls gel a bron/e each in lhe
quadrennial evenl. Bolh Fallikal and Chinaa have
called lhe draw "unorlunale" and lhe ormer had even
considered a ulloul claiming "maniulalion". The
aceo will be ulsaling nonelheless. Bolh layers
know each olher's game very well and lhe dierence
in lheir rankings is going lo counl lillle.
8EIhhIh I Eh I 16Y hT?
Eyes irmly sel on lhe gold medal, which has eluded
lhem or lhe asl 1G years, lhe ndian men's hockey
leam would look lo oen ils Asian 0ames camaign
wilh a big win againsl minnows Sri Lanka in a Fool B
malch al lhe Seonhak hockey Sladium, here on
Sunday. Aler lhe islanders, lhe Sardar Singhled side
will ace 0man on Selember 28 beore more lough
encounlers againsl archrival Fakislan (Selember
25) and China (Selember 27). Twolime gold medal
lisl ndia, who slood lo o lhe odium in 1OGG and
1OO8, would deinilely be looking or lhuming wins
over Sri Lanka and 0man lo boosl lheir conidence
beore lhey lake on lhe big guns. ndia are lhe sec
ondbesl among Asian leams in world rankings al
no.O behind ourlime winners and lournamenl hosls
Soulh Korea. Bul going by lhe amounl o inlernalional
exosure Terry walsh's boys had in lhe lasl one year,
which includes lhe world Cu and 0lasgow
Commonweallh 0ames, ndia are deinilely loul
ed as one o lhe lille avouriles in lhe 17lh edi
lion o lhe Asiad.
For ndia, lhe added incenlive lo win lhe gold here is a
direcl berlh lo Rio 0lymics as lhe winners o lhe
Asian 0ames will earn a direcl enlry inlo lhe 2O1G
megaevenl. having ailed lo ulilise lhe oorlunily
in lhe lasl edilion aler losing lo Malaysia in lhe
semiinals o lhe 2O1O 0uang/hou 0ames, lhe
ndians would be deserale lo avoid a reeal lhis lime
around. unlike olher arlicialing nalions, lhe ndians
would aroach lhe Asian 0ames high on conidence aler
having bagged lhe silver in lhe 0lasgow Commonweallh
0ames earlier lhis year. ndia have ielded lhe same bunch o
layers lhal reresenled lhe counlry in lhe 0lasgow 0ames
and lhe lus oinl or chie coach Terry walsh is lhal lhe
grou looked sellled. There would be lenly o hunger in
lhe belly o lhe ndian layers as lhe counlry lasl won gold
in lhe Asian 0ames in lhe 1OO8 edilion in Bangkok and
Sardar and his leammales would be eager lo break
lhe 1Gyearold jinx here. ndia's irsl lwo malches
againsl minnows Sri Lanka and 0man are
execled lo be goal rouls bul lhe enc will also
give walsh a air bil o idea aboul how his
wards have adaled and made use o lhe
new rules. ndia's chie coach walsh has
been ubeal aboul his ward's chances in
lhe Asian 0ames bul warned his wards
againsl comlacency.
FTI
WE8 hkVE k kY
ndian rowers roduced a credilable erormance on lhe oening day
o comelilions al lhe Asian 0ames wilh lwo leams making il lo lhe
inals here on Salurday. The women's air leam o Sanjukla 0ung
0ung qualiied or lhe inal desile inishing sixlh in lhe heal number
one by clocking 8:24.48 lo cover a dislance o 2OOOm al Chungju
Tangeum Lake Rowing Cenler here. The inal will be held on
Selember 24. n lighlweighl men's double sculls evenl, Rooendra
Singh and Manjeel Singh inished second in heal number one wilh a
liming o G:44.51 over lhe 2OOOm dislance lo qualiy or lhe inal
which will also be held on Selember 24. n lighlweighl women's
quadrule sculls, lhe quarlel o 0illymol vargheese, Khumanlhem
Monalisha Chanu, Thangjam Chaoba 0evi and Manjula Xess inished
ourlh in heal number one and lhey will have lo comele in lhe
reechage round.
MIXE 8TkT I IhIk Ih W8h
ndia began lheir camaign in wushu comelilion on a mixed nole wilh
lwo layers making il lo lhe quarlerinals while our o lhem making an
early rom lhe Asian 0ames on Salurday. harender 0rewal beal Mangal
Frasad Tharu o heal in 'win by round' verdicl in his round o 1G
Sanda GOkg conlesl. The ndian won 2O. 0rewal lake on Abdullah o
Fakislan in lhe quarlerinals on Monday. Yumnam Sanalhoi 0evi also
made il lo lhe quarlerinal round in women's Sanda 52kg evenl aler
deealing Kamalova Mubarak o u/bekislan. The ndian won her round
o 1G conlesl in a 'win by round' verdicl as she also won 2O. Sanalhoi
now aces Amgalanjargal Sangidorj o Mongolia in lhe quarlerinals on
Monday. n men's Sanda G5kg evenl, M Bimoljil Singh losl his round
o 1G malch againsl Salaheddin Bayramov o Turkmenislan in a knock
oul verdicl. The ndian won lhe irsl round o lhe conlesl bul had lo
ace a knock oul blow in lhe second lo make an exil rom lhe
comelilion. n men's Sanda 5Gkg, Kumar Sanlosh losl his round o 1G
conlesl againsl Railin Ri/aidin o Ka/akhslan. The ndian won lhe irsl
round bul losl lhe nexl lwo lo concede lhe conlesl. wangkhem
Sandhyarani 0evi also losl lamely her Sanda GOkg round o 1G conlesl
againsl Thi Ly Tan o vielnam in a 'win by round' verdicl. n men's
Changquan inal, Anjul hamdeo inished ninlh wilh a score o O.O8.
WEIhTIIITE8 I8kFFIhT
ndia slarled lheir weighlliling camaign on a dismal nole as all lhree
o lhem who look lhe ield on Salurday inished in lhe bollom hal o
lhe lable in lheir reseclive weighl calegories in bolh men's and
women's divisions al lhe Asian 0ames here. n women's 48kg
calegory, Khumukcham Sanjila Chanu and Saikhom Mirabai Chanu -
lhe gold and silver medallisl o lhe 0lasgow Commonweallh 0ames -
came a croer by inishing lenlh and ninlh reseclively in a ield o 18
weighllilers. Anolher Commonweallh gold medallisl Sukhen 0ey,
meanwhile, inished a lowly 12lh in men's 5Gkg calegory oul o 14
lilers. Flaced in 0rou B o men's 5Gkg, where six lilers comeled,
Sukhen ended al ilh lace wilh a lolal o 242kg (1OG+18G). Mirabai
liled a lolal o 75kg in snalch, and OGkg in clean and jerk or an overall
eorl o 171kg. Sanjila could lil only a lolal o 1GGkg (78+O8).
Ka/akhslan's Margarila Yelisseyeva ran away wilh lhe gold in women's
48kg calegory wilh an eorl 1O4kg (88+1OG), while Sri wahyuni
Agusliani o ndonesia sellled or a silver wilh a lil o 187kg
(8O+1O7) and Togoeva Mahliyo o u/bekislan bagged a bron/e
wilh a lolal o 187 (81+1OG). n men's 5Gkg, horlh Korea's
0m Yun Chol won lhe gold wilh a lolal o 2O8kg, which is
now lhe new Asian 0ames record. he liled 128kg in snalch
beore a world record 17Okg eorl in clean and jerk. Thach Kim
Tua o vielnam (lolal o 2O4kg) ockeled a silver and China's wu
Jingbiao (288kg) inished wilh a bron/e.
WMEh'8 TEhhI8 TEkM 8EkT8 Mkh
The ndian women's lennis leam was o lo a winning slarl in lhe 17lh
Asian 0ames as il blanked 0man 8O in lhe irsl round. Frarlhana
0ulabrao Thombare and Ankila Raina nolched u conlrasling singles
viclories beore lhe airing o halasha Marie Anne Falha and Rishika
Sunkara was handed a walkover in lhe doubles malch. Thombare
slarled lhe lie or ndia and droed jusl one game lo beal Sarah
Abdulmajeed Rasheed Balushi GO G1 in a malch which lasled 52
minules. however, Ankila had lo work hard or her win over Falma
Talib Sulaiman Al habhani. She squandered lhe oening sel win beore
gelling her acl logelher lo clinch lhe malch G4 2G G8 in nearly lwo
hours. wilh an unassailable lead in hand, lhe doubles rubber was nol
much o consequence or lhe ndians, who were saved o lhe loil
courlesy lhe walkover.
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ndian men's and women's lrack cyclisls inished disaoinling
idenlical sevenlh in lheir reseclive leam srinl evenls on lhe oening
day o comelilions. The lrio o Amril Singh, Alan Baby and Amarjil
Singh hagi clocked an average seed o 55.G8Okm er hour in lhe
lhree la qualiying heal lhree lo inish overall sevenlh. Korean leam
(average seed GO.88O km/hr) won lhe gold, while China (average
seed GO.O48 km/hr) and Jaan (average seed 5O.8O4 km/hr) bagged
lhe silver and bron/e, reseclively. n lhe women's leam srinl evenl
also, lhe ndian duo o 0eborah and Ke/ia vargheese clocked an
average seed o 4O.O22km er hour in lhe qualiying heal lhree lo
inish overall sevenlh. Chinese leam (average seed 54.772 km/hr)
ockeled lhe gold, Korea (average seed 58.427 km/hr) inished wilh a
silver and Chinese Taiei (average seed 52.828 km/hr) sellled or a
bron/e.
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New Delhi: A 85member lrack and ield leam will be leaving or lhe
ncheon Asian 0ames in wee hours on Sunday, hoing lo beller lheir
erormance o lhe lasl edilion wilh Sorls Minisler Sarbananda
Sonowal giving an oicial sendo and wishing lhem luck. 21 women
and 14 men alhleles, nine coaches, one manager in addilion lo our
suorl sla, lwo each or men and women comelilors will head lo
ncheon . n lhe lasl edilion in China, ndian lrack and ield alhleles had
won 12 medals, including ive gold, and oicials said lhis lime lhe
counlry is execled lo more or less mainlain lhe number o medals in
lhis blueriband disciline bul may relurn wilh a reduced number o
yellow melals. FTI
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ndia vs Soulh Korea:
women's leam semiinals
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ndia vs Saudi Arabia: Men's
0ualiying Round
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women's Keirin Firsl Round
heals: 0eborah and Mohan
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nlermediale : Rajendra
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Firsl Round
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ndia vs Soulh Korea: Men's
Freliminary Round
ndia vs Thailand: women's
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Jung, Frakash hanjaa
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Kynan Chenai, Manavjil
Singh Sandhu
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Mansher Singh, 0arius
Kynan Chenai, Manavjil
Singh Sandhu
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Saurav 0hosal vs qbal hasir
(Fakislan)
women's Singles
0uarlerinal: Joshana
Chinaa vs 0iika Fallikal
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Saurabh Sangvekar
Men's 1OOm Backslroke
heals: Fralhaan hair
Men's 2OOm Bullerly heals:
Aaron 0'Sou/a
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I
t was an auspicious Asian Games
beginning for the Indian contin-
gent as Shewta Chaudhary opened
the countrys account with a bronze
medal in the 10m air pistol event at
the Ongnyeon Internati onal
Shooting Range here on Saturday.
It was a miraculous victory for
Shweta, who was a part of the sil-
ver medal winning team in 2006
Doha Asian Games, as she was
shooting with a spare pistol.
Her main pistol got stuck at the
Incheon airport two days back.
After running from pillar to post,
she got her pistol back on Saturday
morning but it was too late.
"I felt very bad when they
refused to release my pistol. At
that moment I decided that
whatever happens, I would
not give up so easily. After
competing for so many
years, I have got used to
such distraction and have
learnt how to deal with it,"
Shweta said.
She shot a total of
176.4 in the final to
clinch the bronze
medal while the
silver went to
South Korean
Jung Jeehae
(201.3) and
C h i n a ' s
Z h a n g
Mengyuan
( 2 0 2 . 2 )
won t he
gold.
Shweta,
who is cur-
rently World
No. 46, sur-
p r i s e d
everyone by finishing fourth in the
qualifying round with a score of
383.
Among other Indians, former
World No. 1 Heena Sidhu and
Commonwealth Games silver
medallist Malaika Goel disap-
pointed and failed to qualify for the
final round.
Heena, World No. 4, shot a
series of 94, 97, 92, 95, that includ-
ed 12x, to finish 13th with a score
of 378 in the qualifying round
while 16-year-old Malaika, World
No. 20, was 24th with a score of 373.
Malaika had a series of 91, 96, 91,
95 and had 8x.
The Indian team comprising
Shweta, Heena and Malaika fin-
ished fifth with a score of 1134 in
the team event.
It was Shweta's first indi-
vidual medal at the Asian
Games and she termed it her
"biggest win" so far. It came
as a relief for Shweta after
struggling with a shoulder
injury for the last one-and-a-
half year.
"This medal is a
boost for the next
year' s Worl d
Championships
where I want
to secure a
qualification
for the 2016
O l y m p i c
Games," she
said.
inrheon: ndian women's badminlon
leam rode on Saina hehwal and Fv
Sindhu's slrong shoulders lo enler lhe
semiinals o lhe leam evenl while men's
leam losl in lhe irsl round al lhe 0yeyang
0ymnasium here on Salurday.
The women's leam lhrashed Macau
China 8O in lhe round o 1G and lhen
edged oul Thailand 82 in a neckandneck
quarlerinal round lo sel u a semiinal
clash wilh lhe hosls Soulh Korea on
Sunday.
ndia lolally dominaled lhe irsl
round lie againsl Macau as il gol over
wilhin one and a hal hour. The senior
mosl member o lhe leam Saina oened
lhe roceedings and hardly broke a
sweal as she lhrashed Kil eng wong 21
G, 214 in jusl 21 minules.
Sindhu, who won a
bron/e medal in lhe
0lasgow Cw0 carried on
rom where her senior
leammale had lel in lhe
revious round. She was
equally dominaling in
lhe 218, 21O bealing
o Teng ok u and gave
ndia a commanding
lead in lhe lie.
n lhe doubles malch,
Macau's air o Zhibo
Zhang and Rong wang
showed some ighling
againsl ndia's Sikki
Reddy helakurlhi and
Fradnya 0adre bul
ullimalely losl lhe
lie 1G21, 1721
and lhe malch O8.
n lhe quarlerinals
also, Saina and Sindhu
showed lheir class and led
lhe way by ulling ndia in lhe lead. Firsl
Saina sel lhe lone or her leam by deeal
ing ormer world Chamion Ralchanok
nlanon 2115, 1721, 2118 in one hour
and seven minules o grueling duel. Then
Sindhu ollowed il u wilh a more con
vincing 2115, 2118 viclory over Fornli
Buranaraserlsuk lo ul ndia in a com
orlable 2O lead. however, lhe Thai girls
made a good came back lo level lhe con
lesl al 2all. Firsl, FC Thulasi wenl down
lo Busanan 0ngbamrunghan 1221, 14
21 and lhen 0adrehelakurlhi losl lo lhe
air o Fornli and Kunchala
voravichilchaikul 1721, 2118, 1G21.
however, doubles secialisl Ashwini
Fonnaa, in arlnershi wilh Sindhu,
clinched lhe allimorlanl ilh and inal lie
211G, 2117 againsl Thai doubles air o
Sasiree Taerallanachai and Saralee
Thounglhongkam lo roel ndia inlo lhe
lasl our.
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B
uoyed by a spectacular win
over Chennai Super Kings
in the inaugural match, Kolkata
Knight Riders will takes on
spirited qualifiers Lahore Lions
in their second game of CLT20
on Sunday.
KKR, this years IPL cham-
pions, scored a remarkable vic-
tory over Chennai thanks to a
scintillating knock of 58 runs by
Andre Russell and Ryan ten
Doeschates unbeaten 51.
Russell, who is in brilliant
form following a successful
stint in the Carribean Premier
League, and ten Doeschate
came good when the top order
comprising Captain Gautam
Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan
Manvinder Bisla and Manish
Pandey fumbled.
Kolkatas top batsmen can
be match-winners individual-
ly and their combined might
can make things really difficult
for the rivals. Besides a strong
batting line-up, the Kolkata
side boasts of a competitive
bowling department that
includes the deadly Sunil
Narine, Pat Cummins, Umesh
Yadav, Piyush Chawla and
Yusuf Pathan.
Lahore Lions entered the
main draw of the tournament
following two wins in three
matches they played in the
Qualifying Group. The Lions
thrashed Mumbai Indians by
six wickets with eight balls
remaining in the match on
September 13.
The Lahore side won by a
comprehensive 55 runs against
Southern Express on
September 16, though the team
lost to Northern Districts team
on September 14.
Lahores Saad Nasim,
Captain Mohammed Hafeez,
Ahmed Shezad and Umar
Akmal have been impressive
with the bat. Hafeez struck a
superb 67-run knock in the
match against Southern
Express, while Umar Akmal
also impressed in their maiden
match against Mumbai Indians.
Lahore bowlers Aizaz
Cheema, Wahab Riaz and
Imran Ali have been successful
in the qualifying matches. But
the team will need to put up a
very strong all-round perfor-
mance to make it difficult for
the seasoned Kolkata Knight
Riders.
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After losing their star all-
rounder Jean-Paul Duminy, an
injury-hit Cape Cobras take on
Hobart Hurricanes in the first
game of Sunday the Rajiv
Gandhi International stadium.
Cobras were dealt a severe
blow on Friday after Duminy
was ruled out of the tourna-
ment due to an injury, which
gives an advantage to their
opponents from New Zealand.
The Hurricanes boast of a
decent line-up comprising the
likes of Ben Dunk, Aiden
Blizzard and seasoned Shoaib
Malik of Pakistan in the batting
department and bowlers like
Doug Bollinger and Ben
Hilfenhaus.
Knight Riders
look to tame Lions
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Mumbai: Sanish slar and member o lhe 2O1O
world Cu winning squad Joan Cadevila eels
lhal a chance lo lay or lhe horlhEasl uniled in
lhe ucoming cashrich ndian Suer League
(SL) slarling nexl monlh will enable lo guide lhe
young ndian layers wilh his oodles o
exerience. " have layed in lo oolball leagues
across lhe world like Sanish and Forluguese,
lhe main reason is lo join a new challenge lhal is
growing u and wanl lo hel lhis growlh. wilh
my exerience, wanl lo hel lhe budding lalenl
o ndia lo grow, by leaching lhem and guiding
lhem," Cadevila lold reorlers here. " am really
graleul lo horlhEasl uniled lo give me lhis
oorlunily lo join lhis new challenge or lhe
whole counlry. hoe lo bring my exerience
here lo hel horlhEasl lo grow and SL lo grow
as well. am in lhe lasl leg o my career and
wanled lo come and enjoy mysel," said
Cadevila, who has senl his besl years al La
Liga clubs like villarreal, 0eorlivo La Coruna and
Esanyol aarl rom lurning u or Alhlelico
Madrid on 81 occasions. Cadevila is lhe lasl
erson lo arrive or lhe 0uwahali ranchise and
lhe SL club's coowner John Abraham said lhe
leam would lay lhree riendly malches in 0oa
beore relurning lo 0uwahali or lraining. "we are
already lraining. Cadevila leaves day aler
lomorrow or 0oa. we have gol lhree riendly
malches in 0oa and we are going lo be lhere or
eighl days. 0n lhe 2nd, we go back lo 0uwahali
and we slarl lraining lhere. So we are very
exciled," Abraham said.
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London: Relecling on his inamous allercalion
wilh ndia allrounder Ravindra Jadeja, England
ace searhead James Anderson said lhe maller
lhal broughl a greal deal o slress lo him "wenl
loo ar" and could have been deall wilh on lhe
day o lhe incidenl ilsel. " ell il wenl loo ar
lhe whole rocess was loo much," Anderson was
quoled as saying by BZh B_^acb. "l could have
been deall wilh on lhe day, il could have been
deall wilh aler lhe game bul unorlunalely il
lurned inlo a long, drawn oul rocess bul
lhankully common sense revailed in lhe end,"
he said. ndia had claimed lhal Anderson shoved
Jadeja wilhoul rovocalion inside lhe avillion
during lhe irsl Tesl al Trenl Bridge in July.
however on Augusl 1, bolh Anderson and Jadeja
were nol ound guilly o breaching lhe CC code
o conducl and cleared or lhe ourlh Tesl. "l was
robably one o lhe mosl slressul eriods lhal
've been lhrough whilsl 've been in lhe England
leam. l was conslanlly lhere - whelher il was
lalking lo solicilors, whelher il was 'we've gol
meelings here', whalever il was, il was a conslanl
lhing.
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Jammu: Legendary crickeler Sachin Tendulkar on
Salurday came in suorl o eole aecled by
lhe devaslaling lood in Jammu and Kashmir by
donaling lruckloads o relie which consisls o
ive lons o ealables and 1OOO blankels aarl
rom olher imorlanl slu, inormed Jammu and
Kashmir CA oicial Ranjeel Kalra.
Fh8lagenries
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T
he margin was closer than ever, and
their rivals a tougher challenge, yet
the outcome was the same as usual
Saturday as Mercedes locked out the
front row for the Singapore Grand Prix,
with Lewis Hamilton edging Nico
Rosberg by a mere seven thousandths of
a second.
Hamilton claimed his sixth pole of
the season with a time of 1 minute,
45.681 seconds in the qualifying session,
and those few yards of advantage
between first and second on the grid
could prove crucial in Sundays night
race on a tight and twisty Marina Bay cir-
cuit with few passing opportunities.
Rosberg leads Hamilton by 22 points
in the overall title race 238 vs 216.
Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo,
who is the only genuine threat to the
Mercedes pair for the Formula One
championship, qualified third - less
than two tenths of a second off Hamilton.
Ricciardo was ahead of his teammate and
three-time defending Singapore cham-
pion Sebastian Vettel.
Ferraris Fernando Alonso will start
from fifth on the grid, and later tweet-
ed that he was very, very happy while
Williams driver Felipe Massa will start
from sixth.
Kimi Raikkonens Ferrari had engine
trouble on the final flying lap and he had
to park the car out on the circuit, but still
qualified seventh, ahead of Valtteri
Bottas of Williams.
The top eight cars were separated by
just half a second - a remarkably small
margin on what is one of the longest laps
on the F1 calendar.
Its the most incredible feeling on
the last lap, with all the pressure, when
the smallest mistake could lose you a lot,
Hamilton said. After the first sequence
of corners, I was already two tenths
down, but I said to myself Lets keep
going and see what happens.
That was one of the most exciting
qualifying sessions I have had for a long
time, where there are a lot of people in
the mix and you have to be spot on.
When told over his radio that he had
lost out to Hamilton by just seven thou-
sandths, Rosberg
shouted in frustra-
tion at missing
pol e in
Singapore by
less than a
tenth of a sec-
ond for the
second year
running. But
he had a smile
on his face later
when lamenting the
small margin.
If I think back over the lap, seven
thousandths is nothing, Rosberg said. A
little bit here or there and I could have
done it.
The Mercedes team calculated after
the session that seven thousandths was
equivalent to 33.5 centimeters - rough-
ly one foot - at the end of the lap had they
started side by side.
Ricciardo was enthused by how lit-
tle separated him from the Mercedes
cars, which have shared 12 of the 13 pre-
vious poles between them this season,
usually by much more comfortable
margins.
Its definitely encouraging,
Ricciardo said. We ended up a lot clos-
er than we thought we would. There are
a lot of cars within half a second or a sec-
ond, so it will be a fun race.
McLarens Kevin Magnussen quali-
fied ninth and Toro Rossos Daniil Kvyat
rounded out the top 10.
Hamilton boats Posborg or Singaporo polo
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C
ristiano Ronaldo scored a hat
trick, Gareth Bale and Javier
Hernandez added braces and Real
Madrid rolled to an 8-2 rout at
Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday
to emphatically end its two-game
losing skid in the Spanish league.
Ronaldo scored his first two
goals on either side of James
Rodriguezs superb long strike to
decide the match at Riazor Stadium
before halftime.
Rodriguez then helped the
Ballon dOr holder score his eighth
goal in as many matches across all
competitions this season in the sec-
ond half as Deportivo completely
crumbled.
After back-to-back losses to
Real Sociedad and Atletico Madrid,
Madrid rebounded by routing
Basel 5-1 in the Champions League
on Tuesday.
This lopsided victory will go a
long way to satisfying its fans who
had turned on the team recently
and directed jeers at team captain
and goalkeeper Iker Casillas.
After two losses we have
scored 13 goals in two games, thats
a sign we have responded well,
said Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti.
Madrids second win in four
rounds of league play pulled it one
point from Atletico Madrid before
the defending champion hosts
Celta Vigo later. League leader
Barcelona is three points ahead of
Madrid before it visits Levante on
Sunday. Ronaldo showed his spe-
cial combination of physical
prowess and fine scoring touch to
take Madrids opening goal in the
22nd minute. The Portugal for-
ward jumped and hung in the air
before gently heading Alvaro
Arbeloas cross over goalkeeper
German Lux.
Four minutes later Lux could
only watch again as Rodriguez
curled an exquisite left-foot shot
from outside the area over his head
and just inside the corner of the
goal.
Helpless to stop Madrids first
two goals, Lux was largely to
blame for the third. The goalkeeper
rashly rushed out of his area when
Karim Benzema ran onto Marcelos
long pass even though two defend-
ers were in place to dispute the ball.
His mistake left Ronaldo alone to
get his second in the 41st. We have
shown the talent we have in attack,
said Ancelotti. We have a phe-
nomenal player and others with a
lot of talent. They looked for one
another and thats what stood
out.
Deportivos Haris Medunjanin
pulled one back from the penalty
spot after Sergio Ramos used his
hand to block Isaac Cuencas head-
er in the 51st. But Marcelo spotted
Bales run across the box and the
Welshman used one touch to turn
the ball beyond Lux, who grazed
it but not enough to stop it from
going in off the post in the 66th.
Bales second goal was similar,
except this time it was substitute
Francisco Isco Alarcon who
slipped the ball through for Bale to
lift over Lux in the 74th.
Ronaldo fired in his third in
the 78th after Rodriguez had
stolen the ball and set him up. Jose
Toche Verdu scored a header for
the hosts 10 minutes later.
Hernandez went on for Bale in
the 75th and the Mexico striker
scored in the 88th with a long strike
for his first goal since arriving this
offseason from Manchester United.
He then added another goal in
stoppage time against Deportivos
ravaged defense.
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London: Mesut Ozil answered his
critics and lifted Arsenal out of its
slump. Arsenals record $70-million
signing ended an eight-match
scoring drought stretching back
into last season, and also set up
Danny Welbecks first goal for the
club in a 3-0 victory over Aston
Villa.
The playmakers influential
performance came after manager
Arsene Wenger said he should not
be a scapegoat for a trio of
domestic draws and Champions
League loss.
The emphatic win ended Villas
unbeaten start to the season.
There were late goals in three
of Saturdays games.Under-pres-
sure Newcastle manager Alan
Pardew saw his side stage a late
comeback to draw 2-2 with Hull.
Queens Park Rangers twice came
from behind to also draw 2-2 with
Stoke, and Victor Wanyamas 80th-
minute goal gave Southampton a
1-0 win at Swansea.
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Ronaldo showed his
special combination
of physical prowess
and fine scoring
touch to take
Madrid's opening
goal in the 22nd
minute. The Portugal
forward jumped and
hung in the air
before gently
heading Alvaro
Arbeloa's cross over
goalkeeper German
Lux
Ronaloo`s lat-tricl in Real`s S
Daniel
Ricciardo
was enthused by
how little separated
him from the
Mercedes cars, which
have shared 12 of the
1S previous poles
between them
this season
KLLER MLLER
Balsman hils unbealen 4G as Kings X Funjab beal Barbados Tridenl by our wickels
FTI Q M0hAL
D
avid Miller smashed a
34-ball 46 under pres-
sure and Parvinder
Awana scalped three wickets as
Kings XI Punjab notched up a
four-wicket victory over
Barbados Trident in the Oppo
Champions League twenty20
here on Saturday.
Put into bat, Barbados post-
ed a challenging 174 for six, rid-
ing on twin half-centuries by
Dilshan Munaweera (50) and
Raymon Reifer (60) in their
stipulated 20 overs. Punjab
then managed to held on to
their nerves despite losing wick-
ets to eventually earn a hard-
fought victory, their second
win in as many matches in the
tournament.
Needing 25 off the last two
overs with four wickets in hand,
Miller and No. 8 Akshar Patel
(23) scored 47 runs off 19 balls
to take their team home.
Chasing 175 to win, Punjab
were off to a good start with
openers Virender Sehwag (31)
and Manan Vohra (27) sharing
41 runs in 22 balls but the lat-
ter was dismissed by Ravi
Rampaul in the fourth over.
Sehwag and newman
Wriddhiman Saha then added
another 35 runs before the
wicket-keeper batsman was
sent back into the pavillion by
James Franklin in the eight over.
Glenn Maxwell (16) then
joined Sehwag and the
Australian soon started his
innings with a boundary.
However his stay was short lived
as after hitting three fours in
eight balls he was caught by
Ashley Nurse off Rampaul in
the 10th over.
In the 12th over, Sehwag
too was back into the pavillion
after he was trapped in front of
wicket by Sri Lankas Jeevan
Mendis as Punjab slumped to
103 for four. A lot was expect-
ed from skipper George Bailey
but the Australian could not
stay longer as he gave an easy
catch to Franklin off a Mendis
delivery. Three balls later, Nurse
got rid of Perera for a first-ball
duck as Punjab were reduced
to 131 for six in 16.3
overs.
Stranded on the
other side, David
Miller then blasted a six
and a four spread over
two overs but Punjab still
needed 25 off the last two
overs. Patel, who had just come
into the crease, then turned out
to be an unlikely hero as he
blasted three fours and a six in
the 19th over as Punjab
amassed 20 runs.
Miller then put the icing
on the cake with a six over
wide long off as Punjab reg-
istered their second win in
two matches.
For Barbados, Mendis and
Rampaul took two wickets
each, while Franklin and
Nurse scalped one each.
Earlier, opener Munaweera
blasted five boundaries
and three sixes in his
26-ball stay, while
Reifer cracked three
fours and four hits sixes
in his unbeaten 42-ball
innings after Kings XI Punjab
skipper George Bailey won the
toss and asked Barbados to
take first strike.
For Punjab, Parvinder
Awana was the pick of the
bowler as he scalped three
wickets, while Thisara Perera
(2/15) and Anureet Singh
(1/32) were also among wick-
ets at the Punjab Cricket
Association Stadium here.
Brief Scores
Kings XI Punjab: 178 for 6
(Miller 46 not out) beat
Barbados Tridents: 174 for 6
(Reifer 60*, Munaweera 50,
Awana 3-46) by four wickets.
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Mitchell Marsh hit successive
sixes off the last two deliveries
as Perth Scorchers from
Australia beat South Africas
Dolphins by six wickets in the
first match of the day.
Needing 12 off the last two
deliveries, Marsh dispatched
seamer Robbie Frylinck over
deep mid-wicket and long-on
to successfully chase down a
target of 165 set up by the
Dolphins. Ther final six
sparked off wild celebrations as
it turned out to be a disap-
pointing end for the unfancied
Dolphins, who were favourites
till final two deliveries of the
match.
It was ironical that Frylinck,
who himself while batting hit
two sixes off Yasir Arafat dur-
ing the last over of the Dolphins
innings, couldnt defend those
two big hits, when he came on
to bowl the final over in the
Scorchers innings.
Brief scores
Dolphins: 164 for seven in 20
overs (Khaya Zondo not out
63, Kesav Maharaj 29; Jason
Behrendorff 3/46, Joel Paris
2/21) lost to Perth Scorchers:
165 for four in 20 overs
(Craig Simmons 48, Sam
Whiteman 45, Mitchel l
Marsh not out 40; Kyle
Abbott 1/25) by six wickets.
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He started off as Liquid in Pyaar Ka Punchnama and that name
just stuck with Sharma. The 31-year-old may have done only three
films in the industry but he doesnt want to repeat the genres.
DEEBASHREE MOHANTY speaks with the dynamic actor about
his upcoming Ekkees Topon Ki Salaami and a few others
QPyaar Ka Punchnama, Chashme Baddoor and now Ekkees
Topon Ki Salaami. Was it a conscious decision to do three
different type of roles very early on in your career?
I have had to struggle before finally finding my feet in this
industry. I didnt want to give it away by repeating a tried and
tested formula. Once a role has been done with, I dont see any
point in repeating it again and again. No actor should want to
be branded as one or another character. The trick is to make
your audience guess. I am blessed that everything is going as
per plan. The first two releases were soft comedies while Ekkees
Toppon... is a heavy drama and Zalim Dilli is a completely dif-
ferent set-up.
QTell us more about this film...
The film revolves around the love-hate relationship
between a father and a son. A retired BMC employee, the father
is always busy doing good for the society while ignoring his only
beta. Be it festivals or important school meetings, the father is
never there. One fine day, they have an argument and the father
says he only expects his son to show him some respect. He says
he wants his son to give him the highest honour in this coun-
try the 21 gun salute! Papaji dies there and then and son is
hell bent in fulfilling the last wish.
QSounds like a emotional roller coaster. How was your chem-
istry with Anupam Kher?
This is my second film with him, the first being the breezy
Chashme Baddoor. That was a different ball game. It was a fun
film so everything was very informal in the sets but in Ekkees
Topon Ki... I had to be a mean boy and exchange hurtful words
with my Mr Kher. With someone like him standing in front of
me, that was a huge challenge. But we spent a lot of time in the
sets together. That helped me a lot in carrying out the scenes
without having too many hiccups.
QWhat is it that you enjoy doing comedy or emotional
drama?
Given a choice, I would love to be a superhero some day.
I grew up on a lot of detective novels, so I wish to be a part of
such scripts. Between comedy and drama, I think I enjoy a bit
of both. And I dont want to overdo anything.
QYour real life inspiration?
Ironically it will be my dad. My parents who stood by me
through thick and thin, especially during my struggle days in
Bollywood. They never thought I would make it this far. But
now they are proud of the work I am doing.
QIs there a particular banner or director that you are yearn-
ing to work with?
It is too early to have demands in the industry. I am happy
with what is coming my way. The story has to be interesting
and the character should be a strong one for me to give my nod.
Having said that, I have a list of favourite directors such as Ram
Gopal Varma, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Vikram Bhatt and many
others.
QWhat are the kind of movies that you enjoy watching?
It depends on my mood. If Im in a cheerful mood, I would
watch a comedy or a romantic drama. If I am pensive then I
like to watch a horror or a suspense thriller. That helps me to
divert attention from more serious issues at hand.
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ome October and the city of
Antwerp in Belgium will be
commemorating the Great
War in a unique style. Something
that is sure to lure tourists and his-
torians to this city that still has an
old world charm.
The Vredescentrum of the City
and Province of Antwerp is collab-
orating with more than 50 partners,
Belgian and foreign to launch a fas-
cinating cultural programme com-
memorating the First World War in
the city. And we are expecting a lot
of footfall from all over to witness
the magnus opus the recon-
struction of a temporary footbridge
across the River Scheldt, from Steen
Castle to the Left bank
(Linkeroever), by the Belgian and
Dutch Engineer Corps, Lotte
Dodion, the project manager of this
construction replies to our email
queries.
She tells you that at that very
location 100 years ago, at the out-
break of the First World War, the
Belgian army built a pontoon bridge
across the Scheldt. By using this
bridge, the fortified city of Antwerp
could be adequately supplied and
also quickly evacuated.
The construction of a modern
Peace Bridge is a technical tour-de-
force as well as a powerful example
of Belgian-Dutch military cooper-
ation. This reconstruction of a pon-
toon bridge is a contemporary rep-
resentation of a significant histori-
cal moment in the citys history,
Dodion said.
What is the historical, social and
cultural relevance of building this
bridge as part of the centenary cel-
ebrations of the WWI? Instead of
dwelling on the military events the
commemoration chooses to empha-
sise the dark side of war and the need
for peace. The historical account of
our project is based on facts. But we
aim to appeal to the widest audience
possible and therefore include per-
sonal stories, testimonials and ref-
erences to everyday life too. Antwerp
also chooses to reflect on the fact
that hundred years ago refugees
moved in the opposite direction and
fled the city. The programme focus-
es on the interaction between the
past and the present, Dodion
asserts.
For those looking for historical
pleasure, Antwerp beholds.
QHave you noticed any change in crime against
women in the last decade?
There is too much violence against women and
girls. Its a global pandemic. It is in India, to me,
the number one national emergency, a far greater
threat to national unity than any terrorist or other
external threat. Look at our rates of rape, female
foeticide, dowry deaths, honour killings and
other heinous crimes against women. While we
parade under a veneer of woman equality, the truth
is that attitudes towards women remain as dark and
Neanderthal as ever.
QWhat is the secret behind the success of the play
Vagina Monologues in India?
In India, because so many women suffer under
self-imposed or outwardly imposed silence, when
they see their stories being given voice, they realise
they arent alone and that it is imperative to start
reclaiming ones voice, ones story. In a country
where sex education is all but dead, The Vagina
Monologues is probably the only way one can get
any sex education in India.
QDo you think more such avenues should be
explored in the Indian art scene?
Absolutely. But first of all, arts is so poorly treat-
ed in India, both by the Government and the pub-
lic. The Government only knows what it wants to
censor, not what it is to create. And the public either
wants art for free or is ready to pay to watch 10
anorexic models in bizarre outfits waddling down
a ramp. Our population is numb to meaningful
entertainment. It largely prefers mediocre potty
humour encrusted in bling to intelligent, forward
thinking work.
QDo you think mindsets need to change?
Does the Earth need water? Of
course, the mindset has to change.
But I fear we may be too late in
some ways. So much damage
has been done to women
in certain communi-
ties that bring-
ing them back to good health is a long haul. Several
generations of female foetuses being aborted in
northern India has led to a huge discrepancy in
the male-female ratio. To fix that, women from the
south are being bought, sold, abducted, trafficked
and abused to go to the north and be forcibly mar-
ried to men and sometimes having to have sex with
multiple brothers. In a few years, south India will
have an imbalance in the male-female ratio and
then what? How long can we continue to just see
women as a commodity? And these dimwit
notions of elected representatives that chop-
suey, pizza and short skirts trigger rape val-
idates the fact that our education system is
in crisis.
QDo you think the leadership summit is
a step in the right direction?
Such summits are essential. There is a
vacuum in India with no intelligent and tan-
gible talk on how we can make this country
better for women and by extension for
men too. The summit is also vital because
it is a platform where there is open, hon-
est, blunt and frank discourse on
bringing about positive change.
QIs there a reason why film
directors shy away from
social topics?
Directors dont
shy away, funding
persons do.
Much of
Bollywoods success is built on violence and
destruction of women both on screen and behind
the scenes. In the recent case of an actress being
arrested for prostitution, the rich and influential
male client list was kept secret. In the same way,
Bollywood doesnt have the ability to look clear-
ly at the issue of violence against women in cine-
ma because it is so ongoing in the industry. But
there is a strain of filmmakers working outside the
mainstream, to create great, meaningful works
about women. Take Qissa and Kshay as
examples of that.
QWhat is keeping you busy these
days?
In Khoobsurat I play Sonam
Kapoors father. I just wrapped up
an independent film on the Indian
education mess directed by Anant
Mahdevan. I am busy directing a
play which runs at a school in
Mumbai. We are expanding the work
on The Vagina Monologues. Finally,
I have scripts for two feature films
and am looking for a producer
but finding the right one
will be the clincher.
QWhat role can art play
in educating women
about their rights?
Art can play a very
important and life-
changing role. Currently
in Mumbai we have
received small grants to
partner with SNEHA, an
anti-violence NGO working
in the bastis of Mumbai. We
are doing a series of 11 perfor-
mances of The Vagina Monologues
in Hindi for women from these
bastis followed by educational and
informational sessions.
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ill and Melinda Gates have travelled
those galiyanin UP about which you
may not have the slightest idea. In this
journey, they have witnessed the ugliest face
of poverty and diseases prevalent in parts
of the country but the couple is determined
to bring about a change.
Its like we are obsessed about it.
Whatever project Bill picks up, be it soft-
ware or philanthropy, there is a certain
amount of craziness to it. Now his core
attention is on coming up with a plan to
eradicate diarrhoeal diseases from India,
Melinda Gates, who recently turned 50, said
at an event held in the Capital recently.
This is not this high profile couples first
visit to India and certainly not the last. In
fact, Melinda has been to more villages in
Uttar Pradesh than any Indian would have
had. Its scary to see people live in such
abject conditions. On one of my usual
rounds to a slum, a woman called out to
me and wanted me to adopt two of her
children. Her husband was fighting an ail-
ment and was out of work for months and
she had to feed five hungry mouths. That
gave me sleepless nights, she recalled,
adding that this and many more such inci-
dents have led her to channel a lot of
resources for the uplift of the poor.
There is no vested interest here, clar-
ified Microsoft founder Bill Gates. We feel
passionately about this cause and, therefore,
dedicate a lot of our time, energy and
resources towards it. Its my love for peo-
ple that is driving me towards this and
nothing else. Much like those days when
I was in love with software, Microsoft came
as a result of that love. It was not vice versa,
he replied to a query by author Chetan
Bhagat who was moderating the discussion.
Known to be a hard task master, Gates
told a rapt audience that he can never stop
thinking about things around him and that
is the reason why he is seldom bored. I
dont see them as achievements. They are
milestones that have been achieved and it
is time to move on to other things. The way
I am going, I may well invent a few things
in future, the charismatic leader said about
his hugely popular company Microsoft Inc.
Next up on his agenda is a pleasurable
condom which would be so thin that the
user would not realise he has it on.
Family planning is a huge issue in Asia and
that has to be addressed properly. Sex edu-
cation is must, so is availability of better
technology and products that aid in plan-
ning. The thin condoms could be a bless-
ing, he said.
Melinda, however, was on a different
path. Why cant we introduce similar
products that can be used by women? That
would give her a lot of freedom, she point-
ed out.
While the Indian chapter of the Gates
Foundation has been involved in a lot of
philanthropic activities, the couples latest
aim is to help the Government in measures
that could lead to eradicating malaria in
India. After polio, malaria should be the
next target. The Indian Government has
been very proactive and introduced many
steps for the safety of newborns and
women in labour. We would love to work
in tandem with them to remove nagging
diseases from this country, Melinda said
about her plan for the subcontinent.
The couples elder daughter Jennifer has
just been enrolled into college and they said
that that safety of women is a problem
that exists globally in some form or the
other. The manifestations vary. So,
the solutions have to be different,
she pointed out.
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he is spunky, street smart and a
tomboy who will give you a run
for your money. Meet Anindita
Nayar who made her Bollywood
debut in Amit Sahni Ki List (ASKL).
The actress who played a timid role
in ASKLis gung-ho about her next
release which is a love-meets-
paranormal tale of sorts.
I play Sarah who is an ambi-
tious journalist and Sunnys
(Rannvijay Singh) fianc in 3 AM.
They both are in a beautiful phase
of life but one day everything just
finishes. It isnt a horror but a para-
normal thriller, she says.
Although movies like The
Conjuring, Ring and Gothika
scared the day lights off her, Nayar
tells you that she has witnessed
strange happenings during a trip
to Goa two years go. We checked
in into a boutique hotel in Goa and
were about to go to bed when my
friend raised an alarm. She thought
the room was possessed and want-
ed us to swap rooms. Since it was
already quite late, we decided
against it. In the middle of the
night, I woke up with a start. It felt
as if something climbed over me
and walked towards the wash-
room. It was a persian cat. But
when we searched for it,
there was nothing there.
It was spooky, she
recalls.
Director Vishal
Mahadkar has intro-
duced the concept of
musical paranormal
thriller to add to the fear fac-
tor. In 3AM, the visuals have
been done by the same studio
that did VFX for Transformers,
and Sincity2. Vishal has used a first
person camera perspective, so
that the audience remains involved
throughout. The music blends
into the film beautifully, she tells
you. Apart from fighting the para-
normal, Nayar had the added ten-
sion of enacting an intense love
making scene in 3AM.
The first take was weird. But
as the camera rolled, I got used to
it. I realised that the shoot was
done very technically with only a
limited crew on the set and a
choreographer who was giving
step-by-step directions. Vishal had
told me that it would be aesthet-
ic, showcasing love and not lust
and I trusted him on that, Nayar
says.
Though ASKLwas a stepping
a stone, Nayar feels she still has a
long way to go. Bollywood seems
to be warming up to me. I believe
3AM will establish me as a com-
mercial heroine as well, the diva
who has also bagged another film
titled Hasmukh Pigal Gaya which
stares Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya
Balan and Sanjay Dutt, tells you.
'After olio, it sloulo le malaria`
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s a fighter who came to Jhanvis
(Sriti Jha) rescue in Dil Se Di Dua
Saubhagyavati Bhava, a modern
day foreign returned in Dharampatni,
a doting son and ideal lover in Tere
Liye and Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil,
chocolate boy Harshad Chopra has
proved his mettle by giving some clap-
worthy performances on the small
screen.
The actor is all set to break his
good boy image with his upcoming
showHumsafars where he is playing
a grey character. I play Sahir
Chaudhary, who owns a fashion
house. A tragic incident turned his life
upside down and made him a stub-
born, strongheaded and money-
minded person. Then comes a girl in
his life called Arzoo who is
nothing like him and always
contradicts his beliefs and
ideas. How they end up
spending the rest of their lives
with each other is the crux of
the show, Chopra says, adding
that though he has done all
genres of roles but Sahir comes
to him as most sought-after.
Sahir brings a drastic
change in my look and Ive
never done this type of char-
acter till date. Like my previous
roles, I did manage to strike a
chord with Sahir in real life.
Somewhere in the story, youll
get to see the connect in terms
of thinking, emotions and reac-
tion, Chopra says. Ask him who is
his true humsafar in this life and pat
comes his reply My shadow
and nothing else, he tells you.
After Qubool Hai (Zee TV),
Humsafars (Sony) is the second
show on telly which will have an
out-and-out Muslim set-up.
The soap also stars a new
comer Shivya Pathania as the
lead opposite Chopra and
will go on air from
September 22, Monday to
Thursday at 10:30pm on
Sony Entertainment TV.
Chopras claim to
fame till date has been his
journey with Balaji
Productions. Those were
the best few years of my
life. But I wanted to test
myself in other roles and
I am happy to see it work-
ing. Reality shows are not
my cup of tea. I believe in
doing one thing at a time
and giving my best, no
matter how small the role
is. I have a very focused
approach when it comes
to my work,
Chopra tells you.
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