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In your Friday address, you
said that Kashmir is natural
part of India. It means you
have changed stance from
being in favour of freedom
for Kashmir to its merger
with Pakistan. How speedi-
ly you change your stance.
In foreign lands, you give
an impression of talking for
freedom but now the sudden
twist. Whatever it may be,
Mr. Mirwaiz, you do not
know history. You only
know what is suitable to
your supporters. Perhaps
London education too has
not shaped your vision of
history. History is an impar-
tial subject, where oppor-
tunistic and coloured
visions do not hold ground.
Kashmir is not a natural part
of Pakistan because history
cannot be six decades old. It
is a long continuum of sagas
after sagas which people
like you fail to realize. On
what basis have you con-
jured fantastic theories?
Kashmir is natural part of
India, not of Pakistan,
because Kashmiris have
always stood for secularism
and plurality.
They have nurtured a
synthesis of cultures and
religions. Pakistan stands
for only one favourite reli-
gion. Its identity is also not
defined, so Mr. Mirwaiz,
read your lessons well.
Kashmir will always be a
natural part of India because
of its great traditions and
diverse culture. Appreciate
good things that India has to
offer; learn to have big
heart, Mr Mirwaiz.
RANASAHIB
Mr. Mirwaiz: Kashmir is naturalpart of India no t Pakistan!
ROHIT SINGH RANA
Regular border fighting
between Afghan security per-
sonnel and Pakistani forces
have brought to limelight the
tenuous relations between the
two neighbours. This time, the
fighting broke out a week earli-
er, when Pakistanis tried to
rebuild fortifications on the
controversial Durand line.
Afghan President Hamid karzai
has made it clear to
Pakistan,that it does not recog-
nize the Durand line, which it is
trying to superimpose on
Afghanistan. The bitter fighting
in Ghostha District of Eastern
Naganhar, took a heavy toll of
Pakistani forces which accord-
ing to reports suffered thirty
casualties. The proud Afghans,
will never accept the diktats of Pakistan and the policy of regu-
lar intimidation has given the
Pakis only a bloody nose.
History is replete with examples
that the restive areas of
Afghanistan, bordering
Pakistan will never leave its
sovereignty into the hands of its
western neighbour, how much
Islamabad may flog its religious
card. Keeping in view the ter-
rorist assets, ISI has nurtured to
neutralise Indian influence inAfghanistan, the statement of
President Karzai, criticizing
Pakistan for building fortifica-
tions across Durand line
assumes importance. In this cat
and mouse game of Pakistan’s
quest to seek the much vaunted strategic depth in Kabul, it is
important for all involved in the
region to thwart the sinister
plan. The very concept of
Pakistani strategic depth is
fraught with serious conse-
quences, as it subtly strips the
Afghans of its own internation-
al policy especially with India.The dangerous game, in which
Pakistan is trying to seize polit-ical control over Kabul, will not
be in the interests of neither Iran
nor India. Islamabad’s perpetual
honeymoon with terrorism and
creation of a dangerous doctrine
promoting foreign policy
through terror machine and
Taliban has made the peace in
the region under constant threat.
This dubious policy which
Islamabad espoused since theregime of General Zia has made
the whole region bleed. Hence
there is an urgent need to devel-
op strong relationship between
India, Iran and Afghanistan so
that the efforts to promote peace
in the whole of south Asia are
redoubled. The Naganhar inci-
dent has created a new rallying
point for all Aghans in the mar-
tydom of Mohammad Qasim,
who laid down his life fightingPakistani security forces in the
border clash. Qasim has stirred
the Afghans to defend their ter-
ritory against Islamabad’s evil
designs. In this backdrop of
strained relations between
Kabul and Islamabad, the deci-
sion of President karzai to seek
India’s help to supply military
hardware and weapons to Kabul
assumes importance. India, pre-viously stuck to its policy of try-
ing to remain non-partisan but
the karzai appeal has evoked
positive response in New Delhi.
Indian arms for Kabul mean its
further drift with Islamabad.
This has put the flawed doctrine
of Pakistan’s strategic depth
under a big question mark.Things for Pakistan have not
turned well courtesy its faultyunderstanding of history and
religion.
With a new Government about
to take control in Pakistan under
Nawab Sherief, it will be inter-
esting to note, how the new
leadership will react to the cri-
sis. But as long as Pakistan’s
military has a final say in run-
ning its foreign policy, it will be
naive to expect something fruit-
ful in near future. The Kabul
–Islamabad crisis will grow
deeper with the withdrawal of
American forces in2014.
Having said so, the finger
always points towards irrespon-
sibility of Pakistan and its poli-
cy makers. First it was hate
India, now it is hate
Afghanistan, with the result its
failed attempt to promote rela-
tions with neighbours on the
basis of religion failed. This the-
ory dismembered Pakistan once
and now is creating another enemy in the Western border.
When flawed and contorted
visions are promoted, nations
suffer and interestingly start
devouring their own maker.
Pakistan is passing through this
very phase.
Pakistan’s strategic depth: A pipe dream?
NEW DELHI: India
and China, onMonday, signed a
series of memorandum
of understandings
(MoUs) on pharma-
ceuticals, buffalo meatand fisheries and an
agreement on feed and
feed ingredients to
address the growing
trade deficit.
The trade deficit hasincreased from $1.08
billion in 2001-02 to
$40.77 billion in 2012-13. The MoUs were
signed as part of Chinese Premier Li
Keqiang's visit to
India.
The MoU for the
export of buffalo meat
from India to Chinawas signed between
Chinese General
Administration of Quality
Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine (AQSIQ) and India's Agricultural and
Processed Food Products
Export Development
Authority (APEDA). Theexport of buffalo meat is not
allowed from India to China
and this has been a long-
pending issue between the
two countries. With the
resumption of trade, Indiahopes that it will not only be
helpful in reducing trade
imbalance but also help
China's food security by pro-
viding Contd. on page 2
TRADES DOMINATE BORDERS...! INDIA, CHINA TARGET $100 BILLION BY 2015India-China ink 8 trade agreements..!
1. Both sides have agreed to conduct the Yatra every year
from May to September. The Chinese side will make further improvements to the existing facilities on the route of the pil-
grims and to maintain smooth communication has agreed toassist in renting wireless sets and local SIM cards
2. The three working groups under the Joint Economic Group
are: i)Services Trade Promotion Working Group, ii)EconomicAnd Trade Planning Cooperation and iii)Trade Statistical
Analysis
3. Aims at strengthening mutual cooperation in trade and safety of buffalo meat, fishery products and feed and feed ingredients, and to meet the regulatory requirements withrespect to safety & hygiene & quarantine
4. Aims at enhancing cooperation in the field of Sewage
Treatment and experience sharing in the areas of mutual inter-
est in the urban sectors .5. MoU aims at enhancing bilateral cooperation in the field of water efficient technology with applicability in the area of agriculture and exchange of best practices.
6. MoU provides for a Joint Working Group that will coordi-nate translation and publication of 25 books of Classic and
Contemporary Works of each side over a period of 5 years into Chinese and Indian languages respectively.
7. China will provide India with information of water level,
discharge and rainfall of 8:00 hrs and 20:00 hrs(Beijing Time)twice a day from June 1st to October 15th each year in respectof three hydrological stations on the mainstream Brahmaputrariver
8. Both sides agreed to identify sister cities and sister
states/provinces in India and China with a view to establish-ing relationships between them in areas of mutual interest for
enhancing greater people to people contacts
NEW DELHI: Putting
behind the border dispute,which the Indian envoy callas 'complicated', India and China today sought toimprove their bilateral rela-tions and signed eight agree-
ments to enhance coopera-tion in trade, culture and water resources. The agree-ments were signed at the end of the talks between Prime
Minister Manmohan Singhand his Chinese counterpart
Li Keqiang. The eight agree-
ments are: 1. To enhancetrade, Services TradePromotion Working Group,Economic And TradePlanning Cooperation Groupand Trade Statistical Analysis
Group have been set up.Under this pact the two coun-tries have set a target of $100
billion by 2015 for bilateraltrade. 2. A pact on Kailash
Mansarovar pilgrims willmake further improvements
to the existing facilities for
the pilgrims including pro-viding them with wirelesssets and local SIM cards. TheKailash Mansrovar Yatra will
be conducted every year fromMay to September. 3. Under
another pact China will pro-vide information of water level, discharge and rainfalltwice a day from June 1st toOctober 15th each year in
respect of three hydrologicalstations Contd. on page 2
Media of both the countries have laid moreemphasis on business deals and have played down a recent border "tent confrontation"
between the two armed forces.Analysts say that both countries have prevent-ed border problems from derailing ties by pre-vailing in the face of "the West" and "mediahype" about the border stand-off."Tensions between the two Asian giants meet
Western interests... China's surrounding envi-
ronment will suffer if India, a country which
has the prospect of running neck-and-neck
with China, becomes another Japan or
Philippines in terms of its policies toward
China," says Dr. Jitendra Singh National
Spokesperson BJP "In order to curb Indo-
Indo-China's rise, a few other countries have
in recent years enlarged differences between
China and India, China must understand that
India-China are destines to live together and
there will be no Asian century if the tensions arise due to aggression. China has to get the
vision to see India differently and its policies
towards India have to different that its policies
for other countries. China has to come out of
the clutches of its pseudo freinds" he added.
AN ANALYSIS
SRINAGAR: The recent
earthquake in Doda region of
Jammu and Kashmir dam-
aged public infrastructure
worth Rs 100 crore as over
80,000 families were affected
by the natural disaster.
The losses to public infra-
structure have been assessed
to the tune of nearly Rs 100
crore with major damage
reported in Doda district
where public infrastructure
worth Rs 89.10 crore has
been damaged, an official
spokesman said after a
review meeting chaired by
Chief Secretary M I Khanday
here. The spokesman said
over 80,000 families, mostly
in Doda and Kishtwar dis-
tricts, have been affected due
to the May 1 earthquake and
the aftershocks. State
Executive Committee headed
by the Chief Secretary
reviewed the relief and reha-
bilitation efforts underway in
the earthquake affected dis-
tricts of Doda, Kishtwar and
Ramban. Deputy
Commissioners of the affect-
ed districts via video link pre-
sented the latest assessment
reports and informed the
committee about the relief
and restoration works being
carried out in response to the
calamity, the spokesman said.
Khanday asked the divisional
and district administration to
extend relief to all affected
families in the form of shel-
ter, tents and free ration along
with Contd. on page 2
80,000 families affected in Doda-Kishtwar Earthquake:M I Khanday
C H E N A N I / J A M M U :
Reiterating resolve of his party to establish a new sys-tem of justice and equality,
patron of PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP)Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today sought a decisive man-date for his party to give afinal push to the agenda of
peace, dignity, stability and prosperity for the people of Jammu & Kashmir.Addressing an impressive
public meeting at ChenaniBus Stand here today, Muftisaid during its tenure the PDPled regime had proved itsability to change destiny of
the common masses by treat-ing all individual equally and
by providing equal opportu-nities of development and
growth to all sections of thesociety. "Although we had
just 16 members in theAssembly, Contd. on page 2
NEW DELHI: Jammu and
Kashmir Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah, who has
been advocating partial with-
drawal of Armed Forces
Special Powers Act (AFSPA)
from some parts of his state,
on Monday expressed hope
of finding a "common meet-
ing ground" with the Army
on the vexed issue.
Omar, who listed removal of
AFSPA as an important con-
fidence building measure,
contended that the special
law has been misused fromtime to time and has forced
various human rights body to
support for its repeal.
"We understand that you can-
not overnight take it
(AFSPA) away. It has to be a
gradual process. It has to start
with those areas where Army
is no longer required to oper-
ate and that is what we have
been asking for," he told
reporters during an interac-
tion at Foreign
Correspondents' Club here.
Omar was given an honorary
membership of the club on
the occasion. He said there
are areas in the state where
infiltration and militancycontinue to be a problem and
thus, making a ground for
Army's Contd. on page 2
Omar hopeful of partial
withd rawal of AFSPA from J&KDecisive mandate to pursue agendaof peace, prosperity in J&K: Mufti
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Trades dominatequality and hygiene meat products.India and China on Monday enhanced their bilat-eral ties with the inking of eight significant agree-ments that cover a range of areas including trade,culture and water resources.The agreements were signed after delegation-leveltalks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singhand his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang
Trades dominateon the mainstream Brahmaputra river. 4. A sepa-rate Memorandum of Understanding was alsosigned between the India's Ministry of WaterResources and China's National Development andReform Commission for cooperation in the field ofensuring water efficient irrigation. 5. A pact ontrade and safety of buffalo meat, fish products willensure regulatory requirements with respect tosafety, hygiene and quarantine of such products.6. An MoU was also signed between the Ministryof Urban Development and NationalDevelopment and Reform Commission of Chinaon cooperation in the field of sewage treatment. 7.On cultural front, an agreement will allow coordi-nation on translation and publication of 25 booksof classic and contemporary works of each sideover a period of five years into Chinese and Indianlanguages. 8. Another pact is on cooperation andlinkages between cities and provinces of the twocountries. Both sides agreed to identify "sistercities" and "sister states/provinces" to establishrelationship in areas of mutual interest for enhanc-ing greater people-to-people contacts.
Omar hopefulpresence. "There are also areas where Army hasnot operated for a number of years now - wherethe security situation is controlled by Jammu andKashmir police and central paramilitary forces."In such places, the requirement for AFSPA thatwe discussed, that is exactly what we are doing,the Army has been very reluctant to go forward onthis. But I believe there is a common meetingground that can be found and we are talking about
it," Omar said.The Chief Minister cited the coalition governmentin his state as a hurdle for revoking of theDisturbed Areas Act, a prelude to the removal ofAFSPA."I have a coalition government. A coalition gov-ernment in which Congress is an ally of mine.They are also the single largest constituent of theUnited Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the centre.Clearly for me to do anything in the state I need amajority of my own or I need to take Congress onboard.
"Both of which require discussion or a dialogue. Idon't have a majority of my own. And therefore, Ineed to carry political parties like Congress alongwith me and that is what I am trying to do. I wishit would be easier for me to remove DA Act.Before 2002 it would have been possible when theNC had a full majority in the Assembly, but thatopportunity is unfortunately not available now,"he said.
Decisive mandatewe provided good governance to the people bystreamlining functioning of all the wings of thegovernment", he said and added that it was onlyduring the PDP led regime that governance con-sciousness was generated among the people of
Jammu and Kashmir and the common masses hada taste of good governance."We are not praising ourselves but people arethemselves now comparing performance of ourgovernment with the present dispensation", heobserved, adding, "the overwhelming response,the party has been receiving from common mass-es during the recent years, is appreciation well asacknowledgement of the good work done by the
previous PDP led regime in the State".Mufti said there was a widespread public recogni-tion of the fact that the credible leadership andpro-people agenda of PDP had positively trans-formed the State's political, economic and devel-opmental landscape. "The process of the State'spolitical and economic transformation started bythe PDP-led coalition government in the year 2002has to be now taken to the logical conclusionbecause the present regime has miserably failed tocarry forward this process", he said and assured
the gathering that PDP would, with fresh resolve,embark on the agenda of ensuring dignified peaceand sustainable economic prosperity for the peo-ple in all the regions and sub-regions of the State.Terming the coming assembly elections as historicevent in the history of Jammu and Kashmir, hesaid the State needs credible public representa-tives to address grievances of the people seriously.He, however, hastened to add that present regimehas lost its credibility."After formation of National Conference led gov-ernment in the year 2009, the State has been
plunged into unprecedented crisis and this regimehas become synonymous of chaos and uncertain-ty", he said, adding, "It is a historical fact whenev-er National Conference attained power the state of
Jammu and Kashmir witnessed uncertainty andmess". He said that National Conference leader-ship deliberately encouraged chaos in the Statebecause this party always take benefit of turmoiland uncertainty.Highlighting achievements of his regime, he saidPDP led regime had brought transparency andaccountability in the governance by strengtheningdemocratic institutions in the state. He especiallymentioned that during PDP led regime more than70,000 youth were appointed as teachers underRebar-e-Talim (ReT) scheme and more than 30,000Anganwari workers were also appointed. "Notonly a single case of favouritism or nepotism werereported during our tenure because appointmentswere made with complete transparency andaccountability to ensure that only deserving peo-ple would get jobs", he said and dared his oppo-nents to come with single example of favouritismor backdoor appointment during PDP led regime.He, however, regretted that the present regime has
been brazenly indulged into backdoor appoint-ments in government jobs.Responding to the demands raised by local peo-ple, Mufti reiterated his demand that a separatetourist circuit should be establish connectingSudhmahadev, Mantalai, Kud, Batote, Doda andBhaderwah.Sardar Rangil Singh, Yashpal Sharma, MLC, VedMahajan, Daman Bhasin, Mehboob Iqbal, SuramSingh, Neeraj Vohra, Sukhdev Sharma, Hans Raj,Mohammad Ashraf, Kuldeep Manhas, Vimal
Sharma, Mushtaq, Jai Krishan and others alsospoke on the occasion.In the function senior leaders of Panthers Partyand BJP joined PDP in the presence of MuftiMohammad Sayeed. Prominent among those who
joined PDP included Dev Raj, Dharam Singh,Rakesh Kumar, Vijay Kumar Manhas, PardeepKumar Khajuria, Shanker Chand, Jalal Din, LalHussain, Vijay Kumar, Surjeet Singh, JeevanSingh, Tirath Singh, Kirpu and others.
80,000 familiescarrying out immediate temporary restorationworks of damaged public infrastructure. The ChiefSecretary directed that the amount of Rs 25 crorereleased under State Disaster Relief Fund, for pro-viding ex-gratia relief in cases of death, injury anddamage to property, should be distributed amongall the affected people and additional requirementof funds under SDRF should be communicated forrelease. He called for ensuring distribution of freeration in all affected areas with directions to theCAPD for sending in advance the required quan-tum of ration to these districts for next month also.While reviewing the status of facilities being pro-vided to the students, Khanday directed the divi-sional and district administration to carry outrepair and restoration of all partially damagedschools. The Deputy Commissioners informed themeeting that fully or severely damaged schoolsare currently being run in open areas, tents, rentedaccommodations and other safe areas.The districtcivil and police administration was asked to coor-dinate in running awareness and basic level train-ing programmes for informing people regardingthe precautionary measures needed in the event offurther shocks. Police and civil administration was
also asked to maintain high level of alertness andregular contact with all village level units toensure a structured and planned relief andresponse, the spokesman said.The meeting was informed that pamphlets high-lighting safety and other measures to be adoptedare being distributed among people, headded.Meanwhile, experts from National DisasterManagement Authority have held meetings withengineers regarding quake resistant structuralconstruction techniques.
CONTINUATION
L U C K N O W :
Preparations for upcoming
mega war -- Lok Sabha
Elections 2014 have
already begun in Congress
and BJP. While the latter
made headlines after
appointing Gujarat CM
Narendra Modi's close
aide Amit Shah as in-
charge of Uttar Pradesh, it
is believed that the former
too is also ready with a big
surprise in store.
According to Congress
sources, senior party lead-
ers have been grooming
one of its crucial trump
cards -- Priyanka Gandhi
for the mega war. If
sources are to be believed
then the party would
announce their decision
soon. Priyanka may con-
test from Sultanpur, a con-
stituency from where her cousin and BJP leader
Varun Gandhi is all set to
contest during the next
general election. It is
believed that Priyanka's
sudden activities in micro-
blogging site Twitter and
social networking site
Facebook are the initia-
tives which she has taken
to build a strong platform
reaching out to aam-aadmi
(common man). However,
it was not confirmed when
the Congress party would
announce its decision on
Priyanka. The daughter of
the Gandhi family had left
an impressive note on
people's mind during her
poll campaigning for her
brother Rahul and mother
Sonia Gandhi. Despite
Congress' defeat in Uttar
Pradesh during assemblyelections in 2011, many
were impressed with
Priyanka's presence.
Earlier it was reported that
BJP would ask Varun to
contest from Sultanpur
which is close to Amethi
and Rae Bareli, the two
constituencies represented
by his cousin brother
Rahul Gandhi and aunt
Sonia Gandhi respective-
ly. Fight between Priyanka
and Varun would be inter-
esting to see in Sultanpur,
a constituency which once
had been represented by
Varun's father Sanjay
Gandhi.
SRINAGAR: In order to provid e potabl e drinki ngwater to the uncovered habi-tations and to complete theon-going Water SupplySchemes (WSS) in theKashmir division, an ActionPlan to the tune of Rs.261.52 crore has been pro-
posed for the current finan-cial year by the PHEDepartment. The Action Planis likely to be approved bythe Central Governmentshortly. The allocation is pro-
posed to cover as many as500 new habitations, whichincludes establishing 1600hand pumps, constructingtube-wells, coverage of schools, to improve water quality, new initiatives under sustainability and other allied works to augment and improve the overall drinkingwater scenario in the divi-sion. This information wasgiven to the Minister for PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control, Mr. Sham LalSharma at a high-level meet-ing of engineers, which held to review the functioning of
the Department. Minister of State for PHE, Irrigation &Flood Control, Mr. Nazir Ahmed Gurezi was also
present in the meeting. TheChief Engineer, PHE while
briefi ng the meeti ng,informed that there are 6106habitations (PHE villages)out of which 4613 have beenfully covered up to endingMarch, 2013. The balancenumber of habitations, i.e.1493 will be covered in a
phased manner and duringthe current financial year atarget of 500 habitations has
been fixed. Besides, 6281schools out of total 6895have also been covered dur-ing the previous fiscal and remaining 614 have been tar-geted to be covered duringthe current fiscal with drink-ing water facilities, said theChief Engineer. The meetingwas apprised that as many as1071 WSSs under different
programme are u nderway inthe division at an estimated cost of Rs. 1613.08 crore,out of which 246 stand com-
pleted till ending March,
2013 with a cumulativeexpenditure of Rs. 868.29crore. Under Irrigation sec-tor, the Chief Engineer,informed the meeting thatduring the previous fiscal asmany as 5 major/mediumirrigation schemes werecompleted with an estimated cost of Rs. 29.89 crore in theValley, out of total 14schemes which were takenup during the period. Under Minor Irrigation sector, thereare 129 schemes under exe-cution for which an amountof Rs. 128.46 crore wasreleased during 2012-13against which Rs. 88.80crores were incurred and 51schemes stand completed tillending March, 2013 and 46schemes are targeted to becompleted during the currentfiscal. Under Flood Controlsector, there are 15 schemesunder AIBP, 4 schemesunder NABARD and 23schemes under State Sector which have been taken upand are at different stages of completion. An amount of Rs. 55.74 crore has been
incurred on these schemesout of total release of Rs.74.30 crore. Eight schemesunder Flood ManagementProgramme and NABARDhave been targeted to becompleted during the currentfiscal, the meeting was told.Appreciating the previousyear’s performance, theMinister directed the engi-neers to make concerted efforts to achieve the targetsof current year. He main-tained that the Departmenthas been mandated with cre-ating and ensuring the basicneed of drinking water to allhuman beings and cattle,therefore, the officers mustdevote fully and fullfill theneeds of the people. He said quality water and judicioususe of this precious com-modity is a paramount con-cern and all out effortsshould be made in this con-text. He also stressed theneed for ensuring hundred
per cent meteri ng on thecommercial establishment toregulate the water supply and to realize revenue.
Priyanka Gandhi to contest poll against cousin
JAMMU:- Akhnoor dis-
trict working committee
meeting of the BJP held at
Bantlab on Sunday which
was attend by BJP State
Vice President and
Prabhari Akhnoor Vibodh
Gupta and Sakina Bano,
State general Secretary
Bali Bhagat, KissanMorcha State President
Karan Singh, district
President Sukhdev Singh,
district general Secretary
Suraj Prakash, Omi
Khajuri, BJYM district
President Vikas
Choudhary, all the district
Vice-President, district
secretaries, district
Morcha and Cell
Presidents Mandal
Presidents and the work-
ing committee members.
Addressing the working
committee members
Vibodh Gupta expressed
anguish over the repeated
ignorance of Jammu
region by the Successive
state government and held
Congress ministers from
Jammu responsible for
discrimination with
Jammu region. He said
when ever BJP MLA's
raised the issue of dis-
crimination with Jammu
in the Assembly, Congress
ministers and MLA'sopposed all the moves and
affords of BJP and always
supported anti-Jammu
National Conference and
PDP. Vibodh said that the
deputy Chief Minister
Tara Chand,PHE Minister
and MLA Akhnoor Sham
Lal Sharma and Member
Parliament Madan Lal
Sharma fatory of BJP iled
to address the grievances
of the common man and
accused them of hooligan-
ism for Jammuities. He
said inspite of have deputy
Chief Minister, Previously
Health Minister and
Member Parliament, the
sufferings of Common
people living in Akhnoor
and Khoor have no end
and asked the BJP workers
to expose the rampat
Corruption of Congress
and the National
Conference ministers and
aware the people that
Jammuities are not safe in
their hands. Addressingthe Workers Bali Bhagat
said that the recently held
Cabinet meeting at
Srinagar chaired by the
Chief Minister also estab-
lished that the adoption of
73rd constitutional amend-
ment or empowerment of
Panchs and Sarpanchs is a
non-issue both for the
National Conference and
the Congress ministers.Had
the Congress really com-
mitted to fulfilling its so-
called commitment of
Panchyat Empowerment ,
the Congress ministers
would have surely made
the Chief Minister and his
NC colleagues in the
Cabinet to discuss thread-
bare the issue and taken
some concrete steps in this
matter aimed at empower-
ing and protecting Panchs
and Sarpanchs, he added
and said that it has now
been established that
Congress ministers and
MLA do not want to incor- porate 73rd and 74th
amendment of Indian
Constitution on Jammu and
Kashmir and asked the
workers to get united and
build booth level organiza-
tional structure to through
out Congress and the
National Conference gov-
ernment out of Power. BJP
Akhnoor district President
Sukhdev Sigh Presented
the vote of thanks and
asked the workers to
strengthen the party and
start preparations for
Parliament elections as
well as Assembly elections
to make the viccandidates
sure.
Congress responsible for discri mination with Jammu- BJP.
JAMMU: "J&K National
Panthers Party has threat-
ened that there shall be no
Assembly or Parliamentary
election in J&K if
Delimitation is not held in
the State. The party accused
the Congress-NC ruled
state for discriminating
with the people of J&K by
keeping the state out of the
Delimitation process. This
demand has been addressed
to N.N. Vohra, the
Governor of J&K urging
him to exercise his consti-
tutional power to hold
Delimitation of the
Assembly constituencies
befor e holding the elect ion
for the next Legislative
Assembly in the State."
Prof. Bhim Singh, the Chief
Patron and Founder of the
Panthers Party in his mem-
orandum to the Governor has urged him to take stock
of the entire situation and
the mischievous role being
played by t he ruling cliqu e
in the state. He accused the
UPA government also for
kneeling before the
Abdullah family to surren-
der its authority before an
unconstitutional authority.
He pointed out that
Delimitation was held after
the census of 2001 through-
out the country by the
Kuldip Singh Delimitation
Commission except J&K.
He said that the Panthers
Party had moved the High
Court and the Supreme
Court in this regard but
could not succeed, mainly
for the reason that the
effects of the census 2001
were getting diluted
because of t he fr esh census
of 2011.
The Panthers Party
Supremo has raised the
most important issue of reservations. He pointed
out that there are seven
Assembly constituencies
reserved for the SC only in
Jammu Pradesh for the past
18 years. Because J&K
Assembly has a term of six
years which itself is viola-
tive of the mandate of the
Constitution. However, he
said that there is no justifi-
cation nor there is any man-
date of the Constitution to
continue reservations for 40
years without rotation. This
is, he declared, a criminal
discrimination against the
people of Jammu that the
non-Scheduled Caste elec-
torates of the seven
Assembly (reserved) seg-
ments are denied their fun-
damental rights to contest
Assembly election for 40
years. This is a glaring
example of violation of
Article 14, 19, 21 among
other provisions of the
Constitution and shall not be accept ed by the people .
He said both the Congress
and NC are responsible for
this criminal conspiracy
against the people of
Jammu to humble them,
disgrace them, humiliate
them only because they are
the Dogras and they belong
to Jammu Pradesh. Why
J&K was ignored from the
Delimitation process?
Prof. Bhim Singh said that
the Scheduled Tribes have
legal entitlement of politi-
cal reservation in the
Assembly. The present gov-
ernment did not go for
Delimitation because they
do not want to grant reser-
vation to the Gujjars,
Bakerwals and the Gaddies.
Prof. Bhim Singh urged the
Governor for his urgent
intervention in this regard.
He said that the party shall
take up the battle from the
streets to the Supreme
Court to ensure that peopleshall not suffer from dis-
crimination at the hands of
NC and the Con gress.
No election in J&K without Delimitation
Warns National Panthers Party
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STUDENT AGETUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 3STATE
SRINAGAR: The State Executive
Committee headed by Chief
Secretary Mohammad Iqbal Khanday
reviewed on Monday the relief and
rehabilitation efforts underway in the
earthquake affected districts of Doda,
Kishtwar and Ramban.
Deputy Commissioners of the affect-
ed Districts via video link presented
the latest assessment reports and
informed the committee about the
relief and restoration works being
carried out in response to the
calamity.
Over 80,000 families mostly in Doda
and Kishtar have been affected due to
the earthquake of 1st May and post-
earthquake aftershocks.
The losses to the public infrastructure
have been assessed to the tune of
nearly Rs. 100 cr with major damage
been reported in Doda where public
infrastructure worth Rs 89.10 cr has
been damaged.
Chief Secretary asked the D ivisional
and District administration to extend
relief to all affected families in the
form of shelter, tents, and free ration
along with carrying out immediate
temporary restoration works of dam-
aged public infrastructure particular-
ly related to Power, R&B, PHE,
Health and school education. He
directed that Rs 25 Cr under SDRF
already released for providing ex-
gratia relief in cases of death, injury
and damage to property, livestock
etc. should be distributed among all
the affected people and additional
requirement of funds under SDRF if
any should be communicated for
release.
Chief Secretary called for ensuring
distribution of free ration in all
affected areas with directions to the
CAPD for sending in advance the
required quantum of ration to these
districts for next month also. While
reviewing the status of facilities
being provided to the school chil-
dren, Chief Secretary directed the
divisional and district administration
to carry out repair and restoration of
all partially damaged schools.
The Deputy Commissioners
informed the meeting that fully or
severely damaged schools are cur-
rently being run in open areas, tents,
rented accommodations and other
safe areas. The meeting was informed
that Pamphlets highlighting safety
and other measures to be adopted are
being distributed among people.
Meanwhile, experts from National
Disaster Management Authority have
held meetings with engineers regard-
ing earthquake resistant structural
construction techniques.
Local Masons and carpenters should
also be given basic training regarding
earthquake resistant construction, the
committee observed. Director
General of Police, Ashok Prasad,
Financial Commissioner, Revenue,
Dr. Arun Kumar, Principal Secretary,
Planning and Development B.R
Sharma, Principal Secretary to Chief
Minister B.B Vyas, Divisional
Commissioner, Jammu Pradeep
Gupta, Commissioner Secretary,
Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation,
Vinod Koul, Commissioner
Secretary, CAPD Mohammad Abbas,
Principal Chief Conservative of
Forest and other senior officers
attended the meeting.
CS reviews post-earthquake relief,rehabil itation measures
DODA: Provincial
President National
Conference (NC), Devender
Singh Rana on Monday said
that NC does not believe in
raising its political edifice
over the miseries of the peo-
ple and decried the attempts
of politicising the situation
arising in the wake of earth-
quake in the Chenab Valley.
"We have not come here to
bake our political bread but
we want to share your miseries, help out those
in distress and do whatever is possible for
your rehabilitation", Rana told impromptu
public meetings at Arnora, Bhandote, Badron,
Dhara and Bhagwah areas of the tremor
affected Doda District.
Currently on the third leg of his fortnight
extensive visit to the area, Rana and his team
of National Conference leaders met the vic-
tims individually and in groups to have feel of
their sufferings and seek first hand feedback
on the measures taken by the administration
in providin g assistance.
The Provincial President referred to the initia-
tives taken by the government in solving the
problems of earthquake victims and said that
the administration has been asked to ensure
all possible assistance to the sufferers in fair
and impartial manner so that nobody nurturesimpression that justice has not been done to
him.
"National Conference President Dr Farooq
Abdullah and the Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah have asked us to camp in the affect-
ed region and be with the people at this hour
of need", he maintained.
Rana sought to dispel the misgivings about
the assistance sanctioned for the rehabilitation
of the tremor victims and said that Rs 334
crore, which some people misconceive as
relief for Doda-Kishtwar areas, is actually a
normal installment provided to Jammu and
Kashmir under State Disaster Relief Fund. He
said the Chief Minister has already met and
taken up with the Prime Minister Dr
Manmohan Singh a special package for the
Chenab Valley region. Speaking on the occa-
sion, District President NC and MLC K halid
Najeeb Suharwardhy gave a resume of initia-
tives taken by the NC cadres at district, block
and Panchayat levels to reach out to the peo-
ple and seeking redressal to their problems.
The team, accompanying the ProvincialPresident, comprised Babu Ram Paul, former
Minister, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Provincial
Secretary, Th. Kashmira Singh, ex-MLC, Brij
Mohan Sharma, ex-MLC , Gurdeep Singh
Sasan and Sajjad Shaheen.
NC doesn't believe in raising politi-caledifice on peoples' miseries: Rana
Revenue officials flayGovt's apathetic attitudeJAMMU: Demanding removal of pay anomalies, the revenue
officials (Patwaris and Girdwars) under the banner of All J and
K Patwar Association(AJKPA) took out a rally from Press
Club Jammu to Deputy Commissioner Office in support of
their demands. The protest rally was organised under the lead-
ership of District President AJKPA, Mushtaq Ahmed Ganai
amidst anti-government slogans. The revenue officials flayed
the callous attitude of the State Government for not showing
its serious concern towards the genuine demands. The associ-
ation has decided to resume the indefinite strike till the gov-
ernment issues formal order. T he protesting employees, who
are on indefinite strike since 8th April, are demanding fulfil-
ment of their long-pendi ng demands including removal of pay
anomalies and recruitment of new Patwaris. Addressing the
gathering, Ganai held government responsible for the suffer-
ings of the common masses and said government is trying to
test our patience which is not good.
JAMMU: Alleging lapses
on the part of the State
administration in providing
relief and rehabilitation to
quakehit people in the State,
Jammu and Kashmir
National Panthers Party
(JKNPP) urged the Union
Government to send a cen-
tral team to assess the loss
in quake-hit districts and
take necessary action.
JKNPP members, led by
President Balwant Singh
Mankotia, staged a Dharna
to lodge their protest against
State Government for its
alleged failure to aid the
people of quake-hit areas
and demanded urgent relief
measures.
Mankotia, while accusing
both State as well as Central
Governments for failing to
reach out to the quake-hit
people, said that Prime
Minister had announced
10,000 tents for the quakehit
areas but even after 15 days
only 3,000 tents have been
provided to the affected
families.
He also charged that
although several ministers
had been deputed to the
quake -hit areas of Doda and
Kishtwar, they had done
nothing except visiting only
some of the affected zones.
Mankotia said Panthers
Party leaders during their
visit to quake-hit areas in
Kishtwar, Doda and
Ramban Districts, had
allegedly found grave lapses
on the part of the adminis-
tration in providing quake
relief.
Union Govt should send central team toassess loss of quake-hit areas: Panthers
74 visitors crossChakan-da-BaghPOONCH : With the open-
ing of Chakan-daBagh
crossing on Monday, 74 vis-
itors crossed the Line of
Control (LoC) in Poonch
sector. Among 35 passen-
gers who went to Pakistan
occupied Kashmir (PoK),
two Indian visitors went to
meet their relatives while 33
PoK visitors returned after
completing their visit and
39 fresh PoK visitors came
to meet their relatives in
India.
The gates were opened from
2:05 PM to 2:25 PM. The
crossing was supervised by
District Agriculture Officer
Mohammad Yonus and Dy
SP S. S Salathia from Indian
side and ACR Aslam
Qayani from PoK side
KISHTWAR: In the recent-
ly declared results of first
semester by J and K State
Board of Technical
Education Govt.
Polytechnic, Kishtwar,
secured first position among
all newly started polytech-
nics of Jammu Division by
securing 69.81 per cent
result in Civil Engg. and
52.94 per cent in Electrical
Engg.
First position in Civil Engg.
was secured by Prakash
Singh son of Narinder Singh
with 87.50 per cent, second
by Moin Ul Islam Qazi son
of Masheer Ul Islam Qazi
with 86.80 per cent and
third by Bikram Singh son
of Munshi Ram with 85.90
per cent. First position in
Electrical Engg. was bagged
by Mushraf Hussain son of
Mohi Ud Din with 88.70 per
cent, second by Tauqeer
Raja son of Ashfaq Ahmed
Beg with 84.90 per cent and
third by Meenakshi Devi
daughter of Maldev Singh
with 83.90 per cent.
The Principal, Govt.
Polytechnic, Kishtwar con-
gratulated the students for
bringing laurels to the insti-
tution by their hard work,
parents for their support and
encouragement and also
lauded the efforts of the
dedicated teaching staff
members of the institution
who worked very hard for
the students and institution.
Govt. Polytechnic
students bring laurels
Patwaris takeout protest rallyKATHUIA: Patwaris of district Kathua on Monday
took out a protest rally under the leadership of
President All J and K Patwar Association district
President Bodh Raj in which over two hundred
Patwaris and Girdawars of district Kathua partici-
pated. The rally which started from DC office in the
scorching heat passed through Shahidi Chowk,
Mukerji Chowk and College Road raised slogans in
support of their demands . The speakers in this rally
said that the govt. has not listened to their genuine
grievances which they are highlighting for the last
44 days. The speakers reiterated their determination
to fight for their right till last even if the govt. takes
harsh steps. They expressed their susrprise that how
the government which earlier had discussions with
Patwaris and assured acceptance of their demands
by March 2013, could go back of its commitments.
The protest rally with a pledge to continue their
strike culminated back at DC office. The prominent
among those who spoke in the rally include District
President Bodh Raj, Santokh Singh, Sardar Ali and
Mohan Singh from Kathua, Ram Pal Sharma,
Parshotam Lal, Chain Singh, J agdev Singh, Addiaq
Ahmed and Vishno Dutt from Hiranagar, Pankaj
Kumar, Hadyat Ali Malik and Sanjay Sharma fromBani, and Bodhd Raj, Rajeev Sharma and Mohan
Lal from Billawar.
Young Panthers criticise GovtKATHUA: State Secy, Young Panthers Pawan Dev Singh strongly projected the demands of Bani
Constituency while addressing a press conference on Monday. Pawan Dev Singh rapped the Education Dept.
for its total failure in streamlining the Dept. He felt deep concern that most of the schools of Bani and
Malhar Zone are lying defunct due to the shortage of staff. He demanded that the teachers of Bani
Constituency which are promoted to master grade should be adjusted in Bani itself as Bani is the most back-
ward area of the State and most of the schools in the said area are having acute shortage of staff. He further
said that the posting of the masters of Bani out of station will further create hazards among the locals of Bani
in general and student community in particular. He criticised Govt for poor road connectivity in Bani
Constituency. Others present on the occasion include Vikram Chandan, Sandeep Singh, Ranjeet Singh and
Niyian Jasrotia.
JAMMU: LoC Trade is proving not
only scandalous but is also encroach-
ing upon Sovereignty of India in
Jammu and Kashmir and telling upon
the security matters. Three is a need of
deep look by some independent
agency instead of going under pres-
sures of secessionists and semi seces-
sionists as also self seekers operating
in various guises.
The former Union Minister and MLA,
Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta was com-
menting upon the reports that large
consignment of Chinese apples seized
by Custom Department authorities at
Uri Islamabad and later released mys-
teriously after obtaining a certificate by an expert that these apples are the
product of Pakistan occupied Kashmir
and the Chinese stickers are mislead-
ing. Prof. Gupta said that apple in such
a large scale are not grown in Pak held
areas and more so, the apple crop is not
yet ready in Valley. He questioned as
to from where these apples worth
crores are finding their way in PoK
and then to India as part of the LoC
Trade. He termed it a matter of serious
concern in particular when the con-
signment coincides with visit of
Chinese Prime Minister to New Delhi.
He recalled that the LoC trade was
started some five years ago as part of
confidence building measures and it
was given that the products of both
sides of the State would be traded
under barter system and there would
be no Custom Duty unlike other places
along borders in India. But the fact
remains that over 90 percent goods
being exchanged are not actually the products of this State which are being
traded. In this regard, Prof. Gupta
pointed out that coconut, bananas,
chillies and some such like items are
not the produce of this State but are
being exported to PoK in huge quanti-
ty. Similarly, Peshawari Chappals,
cloth, carpets, almonds and some other
similar items being imported are not
the produce of PoK. By this dubious
trade not only the custom duty and
other taxes are being evaded but also
third country's produce is getting its
way in this State and also being taken
to other parts of the country in dubi-
ous manner. An unscrupulous type of
game is going on, he said and pointed
out that some traders have been found
utilising LoC trade for funding Hawala
money to ultras and separatists. He
said it is a serious matter which must
be looked into with various angles
including that of third country involve-
ment. He further said that such meas-ures of making castles in the air would
not work for having trust and confi-
dence unless Pakistan changes her
policies linked with proxy war and
withdraw the support to cross border
terror. The subversion and friendship
cannot go together, added Gupta.
LoC trade funding Hawala moneyto ultras, separatists: Chaman
KISHTWAR : Former Minister
and MLA Inderwal Ghulam
Mohammad Saroori on Monday
laid the foundation stone of ITI
complex at Chatroo operated by
Ever Green Institute. While
address the gathering on founda-
tion stone laying ceremony,
Saroori lauded the role of
Chairman of the Institute Jaffar
Hussain Wani for playing its role in
spreading education in education-
ally backward area of Chatroo
Tehsil. He said that with the open-ing of ITI at Chatroo, people will
get skill training like plumber,
masons, carpenters, fitters,
COMPA (Computer) and in other
related trades. He urged up on the
local youths to enroll their names
in the said ITI so that they can get
job opportunities in upcoming
power projects.
He said that the ITI was opened
under State Government scheme
through Technical Education
Department. He said that after
completing their course, State
Technical Board will issue the cer-
tificates to the eligible candidates.Saroori said that under Prime
Minister's Scholarship Scheme,
nearly 250 students from different
parts of Inderwal Constituency
have been sent for different train-
ing course in various colleges of
the country free of cost. While crit-
icising National Conference
Saroori said State Government of
Jammu and Kashmir has failed to
provide relief to the earthquake
victims and to hide their failures
they (National Conference) are
now making false allegations. He
said brother of NC supremo
Mustafa Kamal should use hismind before leveling such false
allegations. Till date only 4 tents
have been provided to each
Panchayats, so what type of
embezzled is there in the relief
meant for earthquake victims of
erstwhile Doda district, he ques-
tioned. Saroori was accompanied
by ADC Kishtwar Rajesh Kumar
Shavan, BDO Chatroo Semma
Parihar, Tehsildar Chatroo Mohsin
Ahanger, Dy SP Syed Majeed, Xen
R & B Mohammad Ashraf Gilkar,
Xen PMGSY Thusoo, Principle ITI
Zahoor Mattoo, ZEO Chatroo
Subash, other sectoral officers,Sarpanchs, Panchs and people in
large were present on the occasion.
Saroori lays foundation stone of ITI People have highhopes on crediblePDP leadership: MuftiJAMMU: Reiterating resolve of his party to estab-
lish a new system of justice and equality, Peoples
Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
today sought a decisive mandate for his party to
give a final push to the agenda of peace, dignity,
stability and prosperity for the people of Jammu
and Kashmir. ''During our tenure, the PDP-led
regime had proved its ability to change destiny of
the common masses by treating all individuals
equally and by providing equal opportunities of
development and growth to all sections of the soci-ety,'' Mufti said while addressing a public meeting
at Chenani in Udhampur District.
He said,'' although we had just 16 members in the
Assembly, we provided good governance to the
people by streamlining functioning of all the wings
of the government'', he said and added that it was
only during the PDPled regime that governance
consciousness was generated among the people of
Jammu and Kashmir and the common masses had a
taste of good governance.
''We are not praising ourselves but people are them-
selves now comparing performance of our govern-
ment with the present dispensation,'' said the PDP
patron adding, ' 'the overwhelming response, the
party has been receiving from common masses dur-
ing the recent years, is appreciation as well as
acknowledgement of the good work done by the
previous PDP led regime in the state.'' Terming the
coming assembly elections as a historic event in the
history of Jammu and Kashmir, he said the state
needs credible public representatives to address
grievances of the people seriously. He, however,
hastened to add that present regime has lost its cred-
ibility. ''After formation of National Conference-led government in the year 2009, the State has plunged
into unprecedented crisis and this regime has
become synonymous with chaos and uncertainty,''
he alleged adding that it is a historical fact that
whenever National Conference attained power the
state of Jammu and Kashmir witnessed uncertainty
and mess.
SRINAGAR: A joint delegation of the
Voluntary Health Association of India,
New Delhi, and J and K Voluntary
Health and Development Association,
Srinagar, called on N.N Vohra, Governor,
at Raj Bhavan here this afternoon. The
delegation, led by Alok Mukhopadhyay,
Chief Executive, Voluntary Health
Association of India, New Delhi and
Convener of the Independent
Commission on Development and
Health in India, comprised A. M Mir,
Executive Director, J and K Voluntary
Health and Development Association,
and Bhavna Mukhopadhyay, Executive
Director, Tobacco Control Project. They
briefed the Governor about the to-date
status of their activities as well as about
their future action plans at the nationallevel and through the J&K Association
for dealing with public health issues, p ar-
ticularly those aimed at enlarging aware-
ness about the prevention and promotion
of Non-Communicable Diseases, spe-
cially Diabetes and Cancer.
Mukhopadhyay, Mir and Bhavna
thanked the Governor for his strong sup-
port to the work of their organisations
and associated stakeholders as a result of
which J&K has achieved tremendous
progress in the control of tobacco con-
sumption. The Governor complimented
Mukhopadhyay and the Voluntary
Health Association of India and Mir and
the J&K Voluntary Health and
Development Association for the com-
mendable work being done under their
care and assured them all possible sup-
port in achieving the objectives of both
the Associations. The Governor observed
that the media has to play a vital role in
creating awareness among the people
about the varied ongoing welfare
schemes and programmes which cover
every arena of development and for high-lighting the problems and grievances of
the public at large in regard to the inade-
quacies of the public delivery systems.
He added that media can make a valuable
contribution towards the achievement of
sustained peace, progress and speedy
development in the State.
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STUDENT AGE
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 4EDUCATION AGE
Dietetics is the science of man-
aging food and nutrition to pro-
mote health. A relatively new
profession, this field has gained
importance with the realisationthat inappropriate eating habits
can lead to many major diseases
and that quality of life depends
on the quality of food we eat.
Dieticians or nutritionists help
to promote good health through
corrective eating habits, thus
improving the quality of life.
They assist people in planning
meals depending upon their age,
sickness or work routine, coun-
sel and educate them about
healthy eating- selection and
prepara tion of food items
according to the principles of
nutrition and evaluate and make
changes in their clients diet peri-
odically.
ELIGIBILITY: Candidatesdesiring to seek admission to the
course in Bachelor course in
Nutritio n & Dietetics are
required to have a pass in the
Higher Secondary Examination
or Plus two in science subjects
covering physics, chemistry,
home science and biology.
HIGHER STUDY OPTIONS
2 year Masters programs in
Dietetics and nutrition course.
Ph.D. Food Technology
JOB PROSPECTS &
CAREER OPTIONS
Nutrition and Dietetics is a vital,
growing field and the opportuni-
ties and possibilities in this field
are endless. The main fields in
which a dietician or nutritionistscan work is in Food service
field, Institutional Catering,
Health Care field, Research &
Development and Social
Welfare. They can work as con-
sultants or do private practice.
Moreover they could find open-
ings in the mass media where
top priority is given to dissemi-
nating vital information on
healthy living. Food service
field include food Catering serv-
ice, Restaurants etc where pro-
fessionals can do menu plan-
ning, monitoring the food prepa-
ration etc. Institutional Catering
is another field where Nutrition
and dietetics professionals areneeded. In Health Care field,
depending on the nutrition needs
of the patients, dieticians pre-
pare their diet charts and moni-
tor the results of dietary therapy
and maintain records. The
research dietician or nutrition-
ists do research on nutritive
value of food which helps to
understand the various compo-
nents of food we eat and the
right type of food which pro-
vides a balanced mix of the
essentials like vitamins, miner-
als etc needed for the human
body. Nutritio n and dieteti cs
profes sionals also work for
Social Welfare. They work in
organizations mainly public
health departments run by gov-
ernment, which helps in improv-
ing the eating habits and conse-
quently, the health of the public.
LIST OF INSTITUTES
B.C.M. (BishopChoolaparambil Memorial)
College for Women, Kottayam
(Kerala)
Ethiraj College for Women,
Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
M.S. (Maharaja Sayajirao)
University of Baroda : Faculty
of Family and Community
Sciences, Vadodara (Gujarat)
Viharilal College of Home and
Social Science, Kolkata (West
Bengal)
I.P.S. Institute, Meerut (Uttar
Pradesh)
CAREER FORUM:
Nutrition and Dietetics NEW DELHI: Students
aspiring to get admission
into English journalism
degree course of Delhi
University will not have to
appear for an entrance test
from this academic sessionunder the new four-year
undergraduate programme.
However, admission into
Hindi journalism course
will continue through an
entrance test like previous
years.
The Journalism (Hons) in
English has now been
named as Bachelors of
Journalism and Mass
Communication under the
new four-year pattern.
"This time Journalism
(Hons) has been renamed as
Journalism and Mass
Communication, and its syl-
labus too has been
renewed," Dean of Students'
Welfare JM Khurana said.
Earlier, five colleges that
offer Journalism (Hons) in
English used to conduct a
common journalism
entrance test for students,
while Indraprastha College
for Women, which used to
provide a unique course of
Bachelor of Mass Media
and Mass
Communication(BMMMC),
held a separate test.
"Now IP college which
alone used to provide
BMMMC course will now
provide the same degree of
Journalism and Mass
Communication like other
colleges. Entry is based on
the merit list," Khurana
said.
Admission this time for
Journalism course will be
based on th e cut- off li sts of
different colleges.
According to the teachers of
the journalism department,
BMMMC and Journalism
have been merged but com-
ponen ts of both previ ous
courses are kept alive, and
they are complementing
each other in the new
course.
"BMMMC is merged with
Journalism but the course
component of BMMMC is
still there and Journalism
component has been
enhanced," said principal of
IP College, Babli Moitra
Saraf, who is also the head
of journalism department in
the college.
However, the syllabus is not
yet made public. It will be
uploaded soon on the uni-
versity website.
No entrance test for admissioninto Delhi University's English
Journalism course
CHENNAI: IIT-Madras is set to sign an
MoU with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited,
Bangalore, to work together in the field of
aerospace transmission.
Under the tie-up, a HAL-IIT-M Centre for
aerospace transmission system will be set
up on the campus.
The MoU will be signed at a programme at
IIT on Monday
HAL had agreed on a technology coopera-
tion during the Aero India show that was
held in Bangalore earlier this year.
Both the organisations will collaborate to
do research in the transmission system for
the helicopter and flight engines being
developed by HAL and to evolve required
software and design solutions for different
types of gears, bearings, lubrication sys-
tem, vibration monitoring system and pro-
duction technologies.
IIT-M to sign MoU with HAL
NEW DELHI: Prime
Minister Manmohan
Singhon Saturday evening
told a delegation of senior
teachers of that he would
reflect on their demand for
intervention in the proposed
four-year undergraduate
programm e (FYUP) and talk
to the human resource
development minister.
The delegation met the
Prime Minister for nearly an
hour. Sources said the PM
gave the delegation a patient
hearing and asked how an
overwhelming number of
teachers were in support of
FYUP.
The delegation told Singh
that the process was fol-
lowed "nominally but not
substantially". For instance,
it was brought to the PM's
notice that 34 staff associa-
tions of colleges had passed
resolutions against FYUP
but the vice-cha ncellor had
now warned college princi-
pals that staff associat ions
could not pass any resolu-
tion.
The PM was also told that in
the meetings of DU's execu-
tive council, agenda
papers were not circulat -
ed in advance but given
at the time of the meet-
ing.
According to sources,
Singh maintained that he
should not be seen as
interfering in the affairs
of autonomous educa-
tional institutions.
He asked the delegation
about University Grants
Commission's view on
the matter. He was told that
UGC was no longer what it
used to be and worked most-
ly at the behest of the HRD
ministry without any inde-
pendent view.
The delegation impressed
upon the PM the need to
intervene as well as set up
an independent fact-finding
committee. Singh was told
that as the head of an elect-
ed government, he should
intervene and not allow
lakhs of students to suffer to
cater to the whims of one
individual.
The delegation told the
Prime Minister that HRD
ministry was in the habit of
relying on information pro-
vided by Delhi University.
It was pointed out that even
Rajya Sabha was misled. To
a question on vacancies in
DU, the upper House was
given the figure of a little
over 300 vacancies whereas
more than 4,000 vacancies
exist in the university's
departments and colleges.
Departments themselves
have nearly 700 vacancies,
the delegation told the PM.
PM tells DU delegation he will look into four-year undergraduate programme matter
JAIPUR: To evoke a sense of activism
among youths, the state higher education
department has made it compulsory for every
student seeking admission in degree pro-
grammes to have membership in any of the
nation building and social service bodies -
NCC, NSS, Rover Rangers, Youth
Development Centers, Women's Cell and
Human Right Clubs. The direction was
included in the admission policy (2013-14)
introduced by state higher education recently.
The policy is applicable to both government
and private colleges in the state. The policy
intends to develop the personality of youths,
sensitize them towards social problems and
drive them to work for nation building.
Students will be allowed to pick activities
according to their choice and preference.
Students who are pursuing higher streams are
also under this policy but are not mandatory
for them. The policy says that colleges have
to ensure that even students pursuing research
will be given a chance to participate in the any
of these bodies.
This decision would mean that students seek-
ing admissions in 150 government colleges
and 1,400 private colleges in the state will be
involved in the social service activities. The
period of activity is for the com plete academ-
ic year. Naveen Jain, director, College
Education says, "This mandatory provision is
likely to connect our youths with bodies ded-
icated for social service.
It will be learning process for them and enable
them to execute the ongoing campaign of
such bodies."
Tarana Khan, education director, Udaipur
division, said, "This will evoke confidence
among girls' students. Groups like NSS, NCC
and Women Cells are actively involved in the
activities' related to women, including self
defense trainings."
Students can join more than one body.
However, participation in these activities will
not contribute anything in final exams. The
department has also said those colleges which
do not comply with the rules will face strin-
gent action.
Now, social service activitiescompulsory in Rajasthan colleges
Indian universitylecturer arrestedin UAEDUBAI: An Indian universi-
ty lecturer who had come to
the United Arab Emirates
(UAE) on a short visit has
been arrested by police here
for blogging against a
Dubai-based university.
Though a report in the Gulf
Times did not name either
the lecturer or the university
in India he works in, it said
that he had finished his term
in the private university at
Dubai's Academic City a
year ago, but his contract
was terminated without any
reason. A Dubai court later
ruled in his favour and he got
his end-of-service benefits.
After returning to India, he
started blogging against the
university and revealed the
reason why his contract was
terminated.
NEW DELHI: Admissions to Bachelor
with Honours of Management Studies,
the new non-technical professional course
to be introduced by Delhi University
under its four-year undergraduate pro-
gramme, will open on May 21.
The university has earlier decided to do
away with Bachelor of Business Studies,
Bachelor of Financial Investment and
Analysis and BA (Honours) of Business
Economics and introduce the new course
in their place. According to sources in the
university administration, seven colleges
so far have been allowed to start the
course. However, the other colleges
which offered the earlier courses and
teachers employed there are a worried lot.
The colleges offering the new manage-
ment course include Saheed Sukhdev
College of Business Studies, Deen Dayal
Upadhyaya College, Keshav
Mahavidyalaya, SGTB Khalsa College,
Guru Gobind Singh College of
Commerce, Maharaja Agrasen College
and College of Vocational Studies. "Other
colleges, too, will be allowed to teach this
course.
A decision will be taken on the matter
once the vice-chancellor is back," an offi-
cial said.
There were a total of 891 seats for the
three courses with BBE having 554, BBS
275 and BFIA 62 seats. The university
will continue with the entrance exam for
short-listing candidates. The total number
of seats to be offered is likely to be 1,000,
according to sources.
The entrance test will be conducted on
June 26. Based on the entrance test
results, shortlisted candidates will be
called for interview.
A merit list will be prepared giving 50%
weightage to the entrance test score, 30%
weightage to Class XII results and 20%
weightage to the interview.
Delhi University: Management
admissions to begin from May 21
AHMEDABAD: There is no age for learning. This is evident fromthe
experience of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) officials
who, during their roadshows in the city, found that more than 100 peo-
ple over 60 years in age had registered for various courses. SK Ghosh,
director of IGNOU's regional center in Ahmedabad, said that most of the
senior citizens who had registered had enrolled for diplomas and short-term courses. "Gujarat has had many illustrious persons who kept the
fire of knowledge burning. During our recent roadshow at Gujarat
Vidyapeeth, we got to know that former vice-chancellor Ramlal Parikh
had enrolled in a diploma in management (DIM) course in 1989 when
he was already the V-C of a university. Our oldest student in the city so
far is of 84 years," he said. Ghosh added that likes of Prof Mandaben
Parikh, 70, who is director of Rural Development & Management
Institute (RUDMI), Ahmedabad, have taken spot admission in certificate
course in information technology (CIT) programme. "Gujarat is onestate where the dropout ratio in distance learning is low. This is an
achievement in itself. With all age groups taking to education, we are
encouraged to reach out to smaller centres," he said.
Senior citizens line up for distance learning courses
SHIMLA: Nagaland Governor and former CBI
director Ashwani Kumar will be awarded an h on-
orary doctorate at a convocation of Himachal
Pradesh University here to be presided over by
President Pranab Mukherjee May 24, a statement
said here Monday. A total of 272 doctorate
degrees, including the most prestigious degree in
doctorate of science, will be conferred on the
candidates, besides 244 gold medals and prizes, a
university statement said. Vice chancellor of
Lucknow's Baba Sahib Bhimrao Ambedkar
Central University R.C. Sobti will also get a doc-
torate.
It said Mukherjee would be the chief guest and
deliver the convocation address, while Himachal
Pradesh Governor Urmila Singh, who is chancel-
lor of the university, and Chief Minister
Virbhadra, Singh would be present.
During his visit to the hill state, Mukherjee will
address the assembly and deliver the first
Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Lecture at the
Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) here
May 24. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, analumnus of the university, was awarded degree of
D.Lit. March 7, 2003, by then governor Suraj
Bhan.
Nagaland governor to get doctorate
degree in Himachal
While Delhi University is all set to
implement the four-year undergrad-uate programme (FYUP), the
School of Open Learning (SOL) has
decided to go ahead with the three-
year degree programme for under-
graduate admissions this academic
session. "As per the directives , we
will be continuing with the threeyear
degree programme for undergradu-
ate admissions. Developing the
material according to the FYUP will
take time. The three-year undergrad-
uate degree provides good opportu-
nities for students as they can pursue
other degrees too. For example, stu-
dents who enroll in BCom (Hons)
from SOL, study CA, Tally, etc,
simultaneously. Hence, by the time
they graduate , they have different
certificates , which help them," says
HC Pokhriyal, executive director,
School of Open Learning, Delhi
University. Every year, close to 1.5
lakh students take admission in
SOL. SOL conducts five undergrad-
uate programmes - BA programme,BCom programme , BCom (Hons),
BA (Hons) political science and BA
(Hons) English literature. Instead of
wasting time and money in commut-
ing and standing in queues, studentscan apply for admission online.
Register online
Explaining the registration process,
Madhvi, in-charge , computer, SOL,
says that when a student takes
admission for the first time, they will
be allotted an SOL roll number.
They will have to fill in the basic
details such as valid email id and
mobile number. "The online regis-
tration for students taking admission
in first year will also solve the pur-
pose of registering for exam as first-
year students would not need to reg-
ister themselves separately," she
explains.
The gateway for payment and fee
transaction is the State Bank of India
(SBI). Students can pay the registra-
tion fee through debit or credit cards
and challan. Payment through chal-
lan is best suited for students who
want to avail of the online facility
but don't have credit/debit cards.
"Students can fill in their details, getthemselves registered on the SOL
website and get the challan printed
from the SOL website.
SOL to continue in 3-year mode
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The bankers have finallygot their revenge. Oiltraders claim that influen-tial bankers, furious thatthat their sector has beensqueezed by regulatorssince the 2008 crash, have persuaded Brussels that oiltraders should no longer beable to operate without thesame rigorous rules.According to the bankers,oil traders behave worsethan money brokers. And so
the Eurocrats raided theoffices of BP, Shell and Platts, comparing their investigation into oil price-rigging with the one into the bankers' Libo r s candal. Byfocusing on Platts, anunusual reporting agencywhose methods to discover the price of oil often pro-voke accusations of dishon-esty, the Eurocrats havewon public sympathy and the gratitude of those bankswho host massive oil-trad-ing operations.Over the past century, therepeated charge is that oil prices have been rigged byoil traders, refiners or pro-ducers. At its simplest,
traders are alleged to either flood or squeeze markets tofix prices to grab a quick profit. Undoubtedly sometraders have been dishonest,and U.S. regulators havecharged a handful of tradersfor manipulation. But their alleged crimes were short-lived and simple to detect.The current suggestion thatBP, Shell and Platts have
been conspiri ng for 10years to manipulate oil prices - po ssibly the Brentmarket in the North Sea - ismind-boggling.Dynamics of pricingSetting the price of oil isfiendishly complicated.Unlike the price of gold or BP shares, oil's value is notfixed in one open stock market. Crude oil is notonly traded on regulated markets in New York and London but also around theclock in thousands of opaque markets. Like wineand cheese, the quality and value of crude oil variessignificantly, and this isreflected in its price, as are
many other factors. Thedifference in price alsodepends on the distance between the oilfields and refineries in three loca-tions: Oklahoma, the NorthSea and Dubai, as well asother factors such aswhether the oil is for imme-diate delivery or in thefuture. Every day, tens of thousands of anonymous
traders across the globe aresecretly agreeing pricesworth trillions of dollars. Amarket can only work if traders, including their dis-honest brethren, know what prices their compet itorshave agreed. Since 1909,traders have increasinglyrelied on Platts, owned byMcGraw-Hill, the U.S. publishers.Platts reporters call hun-dreds of producers and traders every day to discov-er their purchase and sell-ing prices. Unscrupuloustraders lie to manipulate themarket, but even the bestmanipulator can only foolthe market for a couple of
days yet often takes advan-tage of an incompetentPlatts reporter. Some of themost aggressive traderssuspected of speculationare global commodity trad-ing giants who are beyond the Eurocrats' reach. And so the bankers are angry.SpeculationIn a world of squeezes and
deception, bankers' oil-
trading has shifted the bal-ance. Over the last 20
years, Morgan Stanley's
sophisticated trading has become colossal specula-
tion. Markets have wit-
nessed huge crashes fol-lowing crazy speculation tomanipulate the oil market.
But while U.S. investiga-tors have repeatedly
accused honest speculatorsof causing phoney priceincreases, they have also
failed to find convincing
evidence of a conspiracy.After Morgan Stanley'straders suffered huge loss-
es in 2008, Platts declared its price reporting was
unacceptable. The bank protested that there was noevidence of wrongdoing
but to its distr ess was
excluded by Platts fromthe system for a period.
Now bankers protest that
oil traders and Plattsshould be regulated likethem.
The Platts system is imper-
fect, but no alternative has
been found . Whate ver
transgressions the
Eurocrats might discover are inconsequential com-
pared to th e wor ld's ma m-
moth price-fixer, OPEC.
Every day, the oil produc-ers who claim to control
about 80 per cent of the
world's oil restrict their
production to keep pricesartificially high. This
group is too powerful to
challenge.
No one in Washington or
Brussels can order the
Saudis or Venezuelans to
produce more oil or charge
a fair price. Instead, Saudi
officials in Dhahran unilat-
erally impose the highest price they can extra ct.
Stymied by OPEC, the
Eurocrats have gone for
smaller fish. Like the U.S.
regulators, they will at best
emerge from the treacle
with a minnow.(Tom
Bower is author of The
Squeeze: Oil, Money and
Greed in the 21st Century).
STUDENT AGE
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 5EDITORIAL
Warming Neighbours Dear Editor,
It seems that Pakistanis have finally found a man who can lead their nation in the right
direction.
After having elected Nawaz Sharif as the new head of Pakistan's democratic govern-
ment, a new era of peace and prosperity between the two neighbours appears to be on
the horizon. Unlike all of his predecessors, he sounds sincere in improving ties with
India and the plight of his countrymen. He seems to understand well that Pakistan has
paid a very heavy price by playing the K-card and for exporting terrorism to India.
Lalita Bakshi
Ramnagar
Facing challenges of life Dear editor,Through your esteemed daily, I would like to express my thoughts on how to face thechallenges of life.We all know that life isn't that simple and that throughout our journey in life we haveto face numerous challenges, problems and setbacks. The difference between peoplewho succeed in life and those who don't is their ability to face challenges correctlyand not the absence of challenges.A strong person will stand up and fight again. The way you think of yourself affectsyour ability to face life's challenges. If you believe that you are weak or helpless thenmost likely you will not try again. Negative people make everything a problem. Theygenerate an incredible amount of mental and physical stress. If we want to successful-ly face life's challenges, we need to have a positive mindset, based on wisdom withour minds focused, balanced, and aware, we can respond to any situation or challengefrom that state.
D.P Singh (Raju)Channi Himmat, Jammu
READER’ SPACE
CULPRIT MANIARecent years have seen three crises that have involved
common people. The first was the 2006 micro-finance cri-
sis in Andhra Pradesh, which led to legislation in 2010.
After that, micro-finance in Andhra Pradesh has largely
passed into the hands of institutions that get their funds
from banks; its adequacy is quite unknown. The second is
the long-running Sahara crisis. Sahara India Financial
Corporation was ordered by the Reserve Bank of India in
2008 to repay all deposits by 2015. Then, in 2011, the
Securities and Exchange Board of India ordered two of its
other companies, Sahara Real Investment Corporation and
Sahara Housing Investment Corporation, not to issue any
more capital, and told the public not to complain to Sebi if
SRIC and SHIC did not repay their deposits: in effect, it
told them that the two Sahara companies were untrustwor-
thy. It also told the two companies to repay all their
optional fully convertible debentures. Sahara was of the
opinion that the OFCDs were so designed that they were
not subject to Sebi's regulation. The dispute went to court
and ended up in the Supreme Court, which asked the two
corporations last August to deposit Rs 24,400 crore in a
bank and repay it to depositors.
In March, Sahara said that it had paid off most depositors
and had money to repay the rest. Sebi said it was not con-
vinced, and filed a contempt petition against Sahara.
Recently, the Supreme Court supported Sebi and passed
severe strictures (a term which must be used for intemper-
ate remarks when they are made by the Supreme Court).
Then in April, Saradha Group of Calcutta stopped repay-
ing deposits. Sudipta Sen, the promoter, and Debjani
Mukherjee were traced to Kashmir, arrested and brought
to Calcutta, where the intelligence bureau of the state gov-
ernment is looking for their improprieties. The purposehere is not to argue in favour of any of the culprits. They
are rich enough to hire the best lawyers. But certain fea-
tures are common to all these scandals.
First, it is impossible to know what the culprits' case is;
everyone, from the Supreme Court to the governments to
the media, agrees implicitly that the culprits are at fault
and must be punished. Second, the enforcers do a fairly
good job of pursuing the culprits. But they not only do not
protect those poor people who gave money to the culprits;
the idea does not even enter their heads. Third, even the
ignorant poor know that banks are safe and private bor-
rowers are not. The banks have energetically endeavoured
for years to achieve financial inclusion. Still, the poor
flock to those whom everyone else in this country unani-
mously believes to be scamsters. Yet, no one asks why the
poor think so differently from the non-poor. Finally, what-
ever the non-poor think, the poor will continue to make
risky investments. Can the non-poor think of nothing bet-
ter than RGESS for them?
Fast track terror casesReleased on bail last week by a special National
Investigation Agency court, former militant Liyaqat Shah
will thank his stars for having escaped a much worse fate.
With a history of training and residency in Pakistan-occu-
pied Kashmir, he perfectly fitted the profile of terror sus-
pects whose lot it has been to languish in jail with little
possibility of securing bail and even less of being commit-
ted to trial. The Delhi Police picked up Liyaqat from the
Nepal border on March 20 and charged him with planning
an attack on the Capital ahead of Holi. Fortunately for
him, the court rejected the terror conspiracy theory, not
just freeing him from the prospect of prolonged captivity
but in effect accepting the Jammu and Kashmir police's
explanation that the reformed militant was on his way
home under an amnesty scheme offered by the State gov-
ernment. Liyaqat may have been lucky but just how hos-
tile the environment can be for prisoners in general, and
those accused of terror in particular, is illustrated by the
recent death in police custody of 2007 Uttar Pradesh blast
accused Khalid Mujahid.
Khalid's death is bound to further complicate a case that
was already in controversy because of questions surround-
ing the circumstances of his arrest. Indeed, Khalid's arrest
had been the subject matter of the R.D. NimeshCommission appointed by the erstwhile Mayawati govern-
ment in U.P. Unsurprisingly, Khalid's relatives have filed
an FIR implicating senior police officers in his death, and
the Akhilesh Yadav government has pitched in, seeking a
CBI investigation. The NIA was constituted amidst hopes
that it would professionalise terror investigation and pros-
ecution vitiated by the inefficiencies and biases inherent to
State police forces. That the new agency is itself under
attack today speaks to the extent to which the rot has per-
meated the system, not to mention the herculean effort
that will be required to clean up the mess. The heart-rend-
ing case of Pragya Thakur, an accused in the 2008
Malegaon bomb blast, shows that if terrorism knows no
religion, nor does mistreatment of those accused of terror-
ism. Pragya, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last
year and has since suffered a paralytic stroke, has com-
plained of torture by NIA interrogators. The prosecution
and the courts must give serious thought to the remedy
she has sought: speedy investigation and trial. Home
Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde recently suggested fast-
track courts for terror cases. The idea needs quick imple-
mentation because to hold men and women captive for
years without trial or bail is not just violative of human
rights but amounts to judging them guilty without the ben-
efit of due process.
We live in an age of change, but there
are always cer-
tain things that are enduring,forever refreshing and attractive. India is such a
nation, at once old and young. I will be leading a
Chinese government dele-gation to India, the firstcountry I will visit as the
Premier of China. I am very
much looking forward to itand hope to make some con-crete contribution to deep-
ening the friendship and promoting cooperation in
various areas betweenChina and India.Pillars of civilisation
Both China and India have a
long and great history thatgoes back thousands of
years. The Chinese and
Indian civilisations areamong the oldest of humancivilisation. They represent
the two pillars of the civili-sation of the East. The tow-
ering Himalayas have not prevented them from mutu-al attraction and illumina-
tion. Fahien and Huen
Tsang, two eminent Chinesemonks of the Jin and Tangdynasties respectively, and
Bodhidharma of ancientIndia all made outstanding
contribution to religious and cultural exchanges betweenChina and India. In my stu-
dent days, I already had a
strong interest in India. Iwas impressed by the mem-
orable poetic lines and the
deep philosophical insightsof Rabindranath Tagore, thefamed "sage poet", and
moved by his profound friendship with the leading
Chinese authors of his day.There was a ChineseIndologist at my alma
mater, Peking University,
with whom I was wellacquainted. He spent hiswhole life studying and
teaching ancient Indian cul-ture and in recognition of
his contribution, he was
awarded the PadmaBhushan. Indeed, from gen-eration to generation, our
two cultures have learned and benefited from each
other through exchangesand, as a result, they have both flourished with the
passage of time.
When I first visited India 27years ago, I was struck by
her warm sunshine, brilliant
colours, beautiful arts, hard-working and talented peopleand amazing splendour and
diversity. As far as I know,the India of the 21st century
is taking a fast track of inno-vation-driven development.Bangalore, the "Silicon
Valley of South Asia", is
home to about 1/3 of IT tal-ents in India; it is not onlythe ICT centre of India, but
also a hub of software serv-ices in Asia. India's manu-
facturing sector has alsomoved forward. TataMotors ranks among the
world's top five manufactur-
ers of commercial vehicles,and Tata Global Beverages
is the world's second-largest
producer of tea. I have read that Steve Jobs, the lateCEO of Apple, had travelled
to India with no other pur- pose than to learn yoga and
meditation. It is believed that this gave him manyinspirations and resolve for
innovation. Now, a growing
number of Chinese youthare backpacking across your
country, intent on discover-
ing and appreciating India'smagnificent culture and
retracing the footsteps of history.China and India, two big
Asian countries living next
door to each other, are des-tined to be together.
Since modern times, our
destinies have been moreclosely tied than ever. Our
peoples sympathised with,
supported and helped eachother in their quest for national independence and
liberation, leaving behind atrail of touching stories.
Afterwards, our two coun-tries jointly initiated theFive Principles of Peaceful
Coexistence, which have
become the important basicnorms underpinning the
new type of international
relations that we both seek.Our two countries haveworked shoulder to shoulder
to uphold the rights and interests of developing
countries, giving lastingtraction to South-Southcooperation.
Today, the handshake across
the Himalayas is evenstronger. Facing the sametask of boosting the econo-
my, improving people's liv-ing standards and reviving
the nation, both countriesneed a peaceful and tranquilneighbourhood and external
environment and wish to
achieve win-win resultsthrough dialogue and coop-
eration. India, a strong
Asian nation and a major country with global influ-ence, is playing an increas-
ingly important role in inter-national affairs. India, a
BRICS member with robusteconomic growth, is playinga significant role for peace
and prosperity in South Asia
and in the Asia Pacific ingeneral. China is happy to
see the growth momentum
of India and ready to expand and upgrade Sino-Indian
cooperation to the benefit of all-round economic and social development in both
countries.
There is no denying thatChina and India still have
between them some difficult
issues left over from history.But the rich historical expe-
rience and the broad vision,
which are common qualitiesof big countries, serve as the basis for China and India to
take a long-term view and live in amity with each
other. With joint efforts inthe past few years, the twosides have gradually found a
way to maintain peace and
tranquillity in the disputed border areas, and have
learned to deal with the situ-
ation in a reasonable and mature manner. Both agreethat the common interests
between China and India far outweigh their differences
and that the two countriesshould enhance mutual trustrather than increasing mutu-
al suspicion. I believe that
as long as we draw on wis-dom and strength on our way forward, there will be
no obstacle that we cannotovercome. As long as we
face the problems squarelyand talk to each other withsincerity, we will eventually
find proper solutions.
Seven necessitiesChina is a big country that is
growing and peace-loving.
What we Chinese valuemost are "Do not do untoothers what you do not want
others to do unto you" and the philosophy that stresses
the importance of good faithand making friends withneighbours. China is more
developed than before, but
it remains a developingcountry. Even if China
becomes strong one day, it
will never embark on thedoomed path of seeking
hegemony. We suffered immensely from foreign bullying, wars and chaos
and know so well that the
same tragedy should not beallowed to happen to any-
one ever again.
China has a long way to goto achieve modernisation.
To successfully manage a
populous big country likeChina, the top priority is toensure the supply of seven
daily necessities, namelyfirewood, rice, cooking oil,
salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. In other words, we haveto address the most immedi-
ate concern of our people in
everyday life. The Chinese people want better educa-
tion, more stable employ-
ment, more reliable socialsecurity, more comfortablehousing, more colourful
cultural life and nationalstability and prosperity. It is
not easy to deliver all thoseto our people and modernisethe country. We must focus
on self-development and
that calls for a peacefulinternational environment.We need to live with our
neighbours in harmony and make friends in the world.
To pursue a path of peacefuldevelopment is the unwa-vering commitment and
firm action of the Chinese
people.Continuous reform
China owes its rapid growth
to continuous reform as wellas external cooperation.Interdependence is a defin-
ing feature in state-to-staterelations in this era of glob-
alisation. China is a benefi-ciary and a defender of theexisting international order
and system and stands ready
to work with India and other countries to advance reform
of the system. China will
undertake international obli-gations commensurate with
its national strength. Westand ready to embrace theworld with a more open
mind and hope that the
world will view China witha calm frame of mind.
Both China and India are
big countries in size and in
population. Together, the
population s of our two
countries exceed 2.5 billion
and account for nearly 40
per cent of the world's total.
We are viewed as the twomost important emerging
markets. However, our
bilateral trade volume was
less than $70 billion last
year. This is incompatible
with the strength and status
of our two countries, but it
also points to the huge
potential for expanding and
upgrading our bilateral trade
and business cooperation.
This is an issue that the two
sides must work to resolve
together.
The world looks to Asia to
be the engine driving the
global economy. This would
be impossible without the
two powerhouses of China
and India. Our two coun-
tries need to work hand in
hand if Asia is to become
the anchor of world peace.
An Asian century that peo-
ple expect would not come
if China and India, the two
most populous countries in
the world, failed to live in
harmony and achieve com-
mon development. Asia's
future hinges on China and
India. If China and India
live in harmony and prosper
together, and if our two
markets converge, it will be
a true blessing for Asia and
the world at large. China's
development promises
opportunities for India, and
India's development prom-
ises opportunities for China.
Our common development
will benefit people of the
two countries and offer the
world more and better
opportunities.
(Li Keqiang is Premier of
the People's Republic of
China)
A handshake across HimalayasLi Keqiang
The crude reality of oil pricesTom Bower
C hina and India are destined to be together. They should work
hand in hand if Asia is to become the anchor of world peace
B ankers'
accusations
of trader
price-rigging
are fuelled by
revenge - the
real fixers are
in OPEC
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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 6NATIONAL
NEW DELHI: The
Petroleum and
Natura l Gas
Ministry has moved aCabinet note recommending
a $6.7 per million metric
British thermal unit
(mmBtu) price for domesti-
cally produced gas.
The issue is likely to be
taken up by the Cabinet
Committee on Economic
Affairs (CCEA) this week.
The present price of $4.2
per mmBtu en ds o n Ma rch
31, 2014, and a new pricing
formula has to be in place
by that time.
With the Empowered Group
of Ministers (EGoM) not
having the mandate to
decide on gas prices, the
matter will now be placed
before the Union Cabinet.
Highly placed officials inthe Ministry said the
Cabinet note had pitched
for a single price for all
kinds of gas produced in the
country which would bene-
fit Oil and Natural Gas
Corporation (ONGC) and
Oil India Limited (OIL).
RIL must wait
The new gas prices, when
approved by the Cabinet,
will apply immediately to
the state-run companies but
Reliance Industries Limited
(RIL) will have to wait till
April 2014 to get the new
prices.
The pricing issue has been
under debate for some time
with the Finance,
Chemicals and Fertilizers
and Power ministries
opposing doubling of prices
or linking it with the formu-
la suggested by the
Rangarajan panel.
They had argued that any
kind of arbitrary hike would
put a h uge financ ial burden
on the government in the
shape of the fertiliser sub-
sidy bill going up and also a
hike in power tariffs.
Oil Minist ry rec-ommends hike innatural gas price
LUCKNOW: The Uttar
Pradesh Lokayukta on
Monday indicted 199 per-
sons, including two former
BSP ministers, a sitting
MLA, several officers and
engineers for irregularities in
construction of memorials
and parks during the previous
Mayawati regime in the
State.
Submitting his report to
Chief Minister AkhileshYadav, Lokayukta N K
Mehrotra said irregularities
to the tune of Rs 1,400 crore
were detected which was 34
per cent of the total budget
for construction of memori-
als and parks.
“I have submitted my
report to the Chief Minister
in which 199 persons have
been indicted,” Mr. Mehrotra
said.
He said he had recom-
mended filing of FIRs under
the Prevention of Corruption
Act and under section 409 of
the IPC (criminal breach of
trust by public servant)
against 19 persons.
The 19 were two former
BSP ministers Naseemuddi
Siddiqui and Babu Singh
Kushwaha, former Joint
Director of Mining S A
Farooqui, former Managing
Director of Rajkiya Nirmaan
Nigam C P Singh and 15
engineers. C P Singh is cur-
rently technical advisor to the
Uttrakhand Chief Minister.For the remaining per-
sons indicted in the report,
the Lokayukta recommended
that their properties be
probed and if these were
found disproportionate to
their known sources of
income, FIRs should be
lodged against them.
The 199 persons indicted
by the Lokayukta are two ex-
BSP ministers, two former
MLAs, a sitting MLA, five
mining officers, 57 engineers
of Nirman Nigam, five engi-
neers of LDA, two advo-
cates, eight people of the
public, leaders of 20 consor-
tiums, 60 representatives of
supply firms and 37 account-
ants of RNN. Soon after assuming office, Mr.
Akhilesh had asked the
Lokayukta to probe alleged
irregularities and corruption
in supply of pink sandstone
from Mirzapur for the con-
struction of memorials and
parks during the BSP regime.
UP Lokayukta indicts 199 in memorial scam Editors Guilddemands thoroughprobe intoGanadoot killingsNEW DELHI: EditorsGuild of India on Mondayexpressed shock and deepanguish over the killing of three employees of thenewspaper ‘Dainik
Ganadoot’ in Agartala and demanded a thorough probeinto the incident.“That manager of the news-
paper Ranjit Chowdhury, proof reader SunilBhattarcharjee and driver Balaram Ghosh died at thehands of suspected contractkillers in broad daylight onSunday, shows that the lawand order in the state of Tripura has all but col-lapsed,” the Guild said in astatement here.Issued by Vijay Naik, theGeneral Secretary of theguild, the statement said that“this is not only an attack onthe freedom of the press, butthe inability of the police toshow any progress in theinvestigation shows ineffi-ciency of the police admin-istration.”The Guild called uponTripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar to order athorough probe into the inci-dent and provide adequate
protection to the staff of thenewspaper.It also said that the media innorth-eastern states is com-ing under increasing threatsfrom insurgents and contractkillers and as such, report-ing from conflict zones is
becoming difficult asreporters have to put their lives at risk.The Guild called upon thestate government to find theculprits and bring them to
book.The South Asia MediaCommission also expressed shock over the killings and slammed the Tripura gov-ernment for its “insensitiveattitude” towards the inci-dent.“The murder of threestaffers of the Agartala-
based newspaper, GanadootPatrika, in their office in
broad daylight is shocking beyond words,” K K Katyal,South Asia MediaCommission (SAMC)
President, said in a state-ment.
US Envoy NancyPowell meets MamataKOLKATA: USAmbassador to India
Nancy Powell on Mondaymet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjeeduring a visit to the city.
Though it was just a“courtesy call”, the meet-ing between the two lasted over an hour, at a timewhen the TrinamoolCongress governmentcompleted two years inoffice on Monday.
Last May, US secretaryof state Hillary Clintonhad met Ms. Banerjee dur-ing her visit to the citywhen the ruling TrinamoolCongress celebrated itsone year in power and had discussed about US invest-ment in the state. But,there has been no develop-ment on that score in the
past one year. It is notknown if Ms. Powell fol-lowed up on the issue.
Ms. Powell had met theCM earlier in September,last year.
During her stay, Ms.Powell is scheduled toattend a number of pro-grammes in the cityincluding an interactionwith industrialists at achamber of commerce and visit to an NGO.
There was also no feed- back from the CMO if theCM showcased achieve-ments of her governmentin the last two years or discussed foreign invest-ment.
There was also no infor-mation if the two dis-cussed SwamiVivekanada’s Chicago tripas Ms. Banerjee has
planned to celebrate it in agrand way in September.
Ms. Banerjee had alsorequested the US govern-ment to make arrangement
for creating a chair in thename of SwamiVivekananda in some USuniversities.
C H A N D I G A R H :
Emphasising the need for
more centres of excellence
and wider vocational train-
ing, President Pranab
Mukherjee on Monday urged the country's universities to
take upon themselves the
task of encouraging
research in key
areas to ensure that
the country's popu-
lation could become
an asset and not a
liability.
Mr. Mukherjee was
delivering his con-
vocational address
at a privately run
Lovely Professional
University (LPU) in
Phagwara, near
Jalandhar, where
the Afghanistan
President, Hamid
Karzai was con-
ferred an honorary
doctorate degree.
As many as 7801 regular and
distance education students
received their degrees.
Despite a legacy of
Takshashila and Nalanda,none of the Indian universi-
ties figured in the top 200
across the world, Mr.
Mukherjee said expressing
concern, “Outstanding per-
sonalities who won Nobel
prizes were Indians butworking in Universities out-
side India.”
When every year the country
was adding 12 million work
force, Mr. Mukherjee
advised education institu-
tions to take advantage of technology and utilise "out
of the box thinking" for
innovative measures to intro-
duce more vocational cours-
es. He said it was unfortu-
nate that less than seven per-
cent of the total workforcehad received vocational
training.
Speaking on the occasion,
Mr. Karazi, expressed con-
cern that years of strife had
led to a situation where his
country suffered due to lack of higher education. He said
that living up to the expecta-
tions of a friend, India has
given 2000 scholarships to
Afghan students. He said
that India had also gone
beyond its means to providea two billion dollars aid for
rebuilding Afghanistan.
In his message to
students, Mr.
Karzai said, “You
are the citizens of
India and citizens
of the world and
you represent a
country that is fast
rising in economi-
cal, industrial and
social growth.
Your presence is
felt all around.
Keep progressing
and at the same
time, remember
your culture and
use your energy for
the country’s wel-
fare”.
Punjab Governor Shivraj V
Patil, presided while Chief
Minister Parkash Singh
Badal, was the guest of hon-
our for LPU's third convoca-tion.
Pranab wants more centres of excellence
CHANDIGARH: The
Maruti Suzuki Workers
Union (MSWU) on Monday
appealed to all workers
organisations, trade unions,
democratic rights' and civil
rights organisations and
mass organisations as well
as democratic minded indi-
viduals to come out in
prote st and solida rityagainst what was described
as "the most brutal repres-
sion."
Through a release, MSWU
said that since March 24
they had organised protest
rallies, hunger strikes and
sent deputations seeking
reinstatement of 546 perma-
nent and 1800 contract
workers terminated by the
company. It charged that theState police have so far
arrested 147 protestors and
issued non-bailable war-
rants (NBWs) against 66others. One such protest was
being organised outside the
residence of Haryana
Industries and Commerce
Minister, Randip Singh
Surjewala in Kaithal.
After using the provisions
of section 144 CrPC, the
Kaithal district administra-
tion on May 18 deployed a
heavy posse of armed police
person nel in riot gear, to
prevent a protest rally the
next day. At least 96 protes-
tors were arrested from the
protest site and four were
picked up fro m other places.
Next day, tho se proceeding
to support the protest were
stopped at various places in
Kaithal.
When the MSWU activists
gathered near Pyoda villageoutside the city limits and
organised a march to seek
the release of those arrested,
a police contingent stopped
them on the road next to Mr Surjewala’s residence.
Protesting Marutiworkers seek solidarity
MUMBAI: Veteran journal-
ists Kuldip Nayar and N Ram
would be conferred with life-
time achievement awards
instituted by the Mumbai
Press Club at a function in
Mumbai on May 25.
The Maharashtra Governor
K. Sankaranarayanan will
present the award to Mr.
Nayar and Mr. Ram at a glit-
tering function to be held at
National Centre for the
Performing Arts (NCPA)
Tata Theatre in South
Mumbai, says a release.
On the occasion, more than
20 other journalists will
receive awards in various
categories for excellence in
journalism.
The Lifetime Achievement
Awards were selected by the
managing committee of the
Press Club based on a survey
of leading and senior journal-
ists from all over the country,
Gurbir Singh, President of
Mumbai Press Club, said.
While Mr. Nayar is revered
as a columnist and peace
activist apart from being a
former Rajya Sabha member,
Mr. Ram had headed “The
Hindu” Group of publica-
tions as the Editor-in-Chief
for over two decades. Mr.
Ram was conferred the
‘Padma Bhushan’ by the
Indian Government and the
’Sri Lanka Ratna’ by the
Government of Sri Lanka.
The Press Club awards,
popula rly known as“RedInk Awards”, received
over 900 entries from jour-
nalists all across India.
Kuldip Nayar, N Ram to getlife-time achievement awards
AGARTALA: Police has not
been able to make break-
through in the investigation
over triple murder in the
office of Agartala-based ver-
nacular daily newspaper.
Chief Minister Manik Sarkar
accompanied by Director
General of Police Sanjay
Sinha visited the office of the
Dainik Ganadoot on Monday
which witnessed the grue-
some murders.
Two unidentified assailants in
a daring broad daylight raided
the Ganadoot office on
Sunday and stabbed to deaththe newspaper manager, a
proof reader and the driver.
Police said two of the victims
were also strangled besides
stabbed with a dagger.
The triple murders in a news-
paper office created sensation
and panic in Tripura with
condemnations coming from
media organisations, political
parties and individuals. Main
opposition party Congress
called a 12 hour general strike
in Agartala on Tuesday to
protest ‘deteriorating law and
order situation in Tripura’.
Police have failed to make
any progress in the horrifying
triple murder incident. No
arrest or detention has beenmade so far.
“We are looking into different
angles. We have got some
vital clues and expect to make
a remarkable progress very
soon”, a senior police officer
said on Monday. He hinted
that the murderers were pro-
fessional killers and adding
that the entire incident was
pre-planned.
Chief Minister Manik Sarkar,
who earlier directed police to
do whatever possible to solve
the case, visited the crime
scene. He consoled widow
and daughter of the murdered
driver and talked with editor
cum proprietor Sushil
Choudhury.Mr Choudhury earlier
claimed that he was the target
of the attack and the
assailants mistook his manag-
er as him. However he did not
spell out reason why he
would be possible target in
light that no media organisa-
tion in Tripura ever saw such
an attack.
Ruling CPI(M) has urged the
state government to ensure
investigation to reveal the
motives and unmask conspir-
ators behind the attack which
had taken away three inno-
cent lives. Agartala Press
Club and working journalist
organisations echoed same
and placed demands likecompensation and govern-
ment job to bereaved fami-
lies.
No arrest in triple murdersin Agartala newspaper office
NEW DELHI: Appointment
of teachers in primary
schools on ad hoc basis by
various state governments
without following proper
qualification criteria on
Monday drew flak from the
Supreme Court which said
that such policies are spoiling
the entire education system
and future of the country.
A bench of justices B.S.
Chauhan and Dipak Misra
expressed strong disapproval
of such a system and said it
was “shocking” that it can be
pursued even after the imple-
mentation of Right to
Education Act.“A populist principality can-
not spoil the future of the
country. We want to know
qualification of teachers,” the
bench said while hearing
Gujarat government’s plea on
a case pertaining to appoint-
ment of “Vidya Sahayak” in
primary schools in the state.
“How do you bring such
policies when there is Article
21A. It is shocking. There are
such appointments in Uttar
Pradesh also.
These Shiksha Sahayaks
(helpers) are Shiksha shatrus
(enemies),” the bench
observed asking the state
government to place details
relating to qualification and
appointment of such teach-
ers.The bench noted that ad-hoc
appointment of primary
teachers are done in many
states which provide them
less than one-forth salary
given to regular teachers.
“Once we have implemented
Article 21A, can we allow
such system? Our concern is
quality of education and we
are very serious about the kind
of education we are impart-
ing,” the bench said adding,
“We spoil the entire education
system by appointing ad-hoc
teachers who do not have
proper qualification”.
A bench of justices B.S.
Chauhan and Dipak Misra
expressed strong disap-
proval of such a system and
said it was “shocking” thatit can be pursued even after
the implementation of Right
to Education Act.
SC slams ad hoc appointmentof teachers in primary schools
NEW DELHI: The Indiachapter of the South AsiaMedia Commission has con-demned the Tripura govern-ment for ‘failure to maintainorder’ and ‘insensitivity’ after the murder of three staffers of the Agartala-based Bengalidaily, Ganadoot Patrika, intheir office on Sunday after-noon.In a statement, the commis-sion pointed out that in itsfirst reaction, the state gov-ernment had not expressed any ‘concern’ or ‘resolve toapprehend the criminals’, and instead the issue had gotmired in ‘petty politicking’.Instead, the government must‘initiate a thorough inquiry,take precautions to preventsuch incidents, and pay com- pensation to the victim s of violence’.
Media Commissionslams Tripura govt onkilling of daily staffers
THIRUVANANTHAPU-
RAM: The BJP is launching
a jail bharo agitation this
week demanding accounta-
bility from Central govern-ment.
Party spokesperson Nirmala
Seetharaman told a ‘Meet the
Media’ programme here thatconstitutional and statutory
bodies had brought up cor-
ruption charges against
Ministers of the UPA govern-
ment. However, the govern-
ment was evading a
response. It had even
adjourned Parliament sinedie to prevent debate. This
was unacceptable.
The government had also
not acted on recommenda-
tions of the committeesformed to look into solutions
for price rise and improve-
ment of the public distribu-
tion system. During itsBharat Nirman campaign,
the UPA was taking credit
for the achievements of the
previous UPA govern mentrather than the present one
as the present government
had nothing to its credit.
Though it took credit for bringing legislation on right
to information, the Prime
Minister’s Office itself was
denying information to
applicants.
State president V.
Muraleedharan, who was
also present, said that the jail bharo agita tion would begin
in Kerala with picketing in
Thiruvananthapuram on
May 27 under the leadership
of all India general secretaryRajiv Pratap Rudy. Leaders
such as O. Rajagopal, P. K.
Krishnadas and C. K.
Padmanabhan would lead the agitation in other dis-
tricts in the following days.
Replying to questions, Ms.
Seetharaman said that thevisit of Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi to
Varkala Mutt was not linked
to any political activity.Asked about the NSS and
the SNDP joining hands, she
said that any attempt for
unity was welcome. Its
implications for BJP could
not be commented on now.
She said that the BJP was for
independence of the CentralBureau of Investigation with
a mechanism for accounta-
bility to Parliam ent.
Suggestions made by it
included separation of inves-tigation and prosecution
wings and a collegium for
appointment of director.
BJP to launch jail bharo agitation
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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 7INTERNATIONAL & ECONOMY
NEW DELHI: Targeting
$100 billion in bilateral com-
merce by 2015, India and
China today agreed to take
steps for addressing the issue
of trade imbalance through
greater cooperation in areas
like pharmaceutical and IT.
A joint statement issued after
the meeting of Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang
said: "While striving to
realise the trade turnover tar-
get of $100 billion by 2015,
the two countries agreed to
take measures to address the
issue of the trade imbalance.
"These include cooperation
on pharmaceutical supervi-
sion including registration,
stronger links between
Chinese enterprises and
Indian IT industry, and com-
pletion of phytosanitary
negotiations on agro-prod-
ucts." While India's export to
China were only $13.52 bil-
lion in 2012-13, its imports
from that country aggregated
to $54.3 billion, leaving a
trade deficit of $40.78 billion.
The two sides have agreed to
strengthen cooperation
between their financial regu-
lators and to support banking
institutions in setting up rep-
resentative offices, branches
or subsidiaries and carrying
out business activities.
They agreed to "promote
cooperation between their
financial institutions to pro-
vide funding for bilateral eco-
nomic cooperation projects",
it added.
Further, India and China
expressed willingness to
carry out cooperation on
establishing industrial zones
so as to provide platforms for
cluster-type development of
enterprises of the two coun-
tries. On the first meeting of
the India-China CEO's
Forum, the statement said that
the Prime Ministers of both
the countries look forward to
the recommendations of the
forum to further enhance
bilateral trade and invest-
ment.
Considering the rapid
changes in the world econom-
ic situation, it said the two
sides tasked the Strategic
Economic Dialogue mecha-
nism to consider issues of
macro economic coordination
and to suggest possible
responses by the two coun-
tries.
"The two sides agreed to con-
tinue pushing forward the
Doha Development Round,
consider the potential for a
bilateral Regional Trade
Arrangement and review the
state of negotiations on the
Regional Comprehensive
Economic Partnership
(RCEP)," the statement
added.
It also said that India wel-
comes Chinese enterprises to
invest here and participate in
infrastructure development.
"Project contracting coopera-
tion between the businesses
of the two countries would be
enhanced," it said.
Both the sides also agreed to
further strengthen coopera-
tion in the areas of energy and
environmental conservation,
new and renewable energy
and high-technology.
India, China agree to take steps to address trade imbalance
MUMBAI: Prices of CTC
grade tea in India, the
world's second-biggest tea
producer, r ose at las t week's
auction on strong demand,
while prices of dust variety
edged lower on higher sup-
plies.
The CTC (crush-tear-curl)
grade was sold at 153.28
rupees ($2.79) per kg, up
1.8 percent from the previ-
ous week's auction, while
prices of the dust var iety fell
1 percent to 162.66 rupees
per kg.
"Local buyers were actively
buying all grades. Supplies
have also improved. That
weighed on dust prices,"
said an official of the
Calcutta Tea Traders'
Association.
India's tea exports in the
year ended March 31 rose
about 3 percent from the
previous yea r to 220.46 mil-
lion kg as shipments to
sanction-hit Iran rose after
trade started in rupee.
The country's tea production
from April 2012 to March
2013 rose 2 percent from a
year earlier to a record high
of 1,116.67 million kg, the
state-run Tea Board said.
India exports CTC tea main-
ly to Egypt, Pakistan and the
UK, and the premium ortho-
dox variety to Iraq, Iran and
Russia.
India CTC tea prices rise onhigher demand; dust falls
StanChart to acquire Morgan
Stanley's private banking armMUMBAI: Standard Chartered India on Monday said it has
agreed to acquire the private wealth management business of
Morgan Stanley India for an undisclosed amount, subject to
regulatory approvals.
"Standard Chartered India has agreed to acquire Morgan
Stanley's onshore private wealth management business here.
The acquisition complements our existing private banking
onshore business and will significantly increase our private
banking AUM here," said a statement by StanChart India.
Standard Chartered India had re-entered the private banking
business in 2006 after a decade's gap, and currently private
banking constitutes around 30 percent of its business here.
Market observers said the MS acquisition is part of
StanChart's plan to ramp up its private baking arm here.
Morgan Stanley India could not be contacted for comments
immediately.
MS entered the private banking area in the country four years
ago. The unit is headed by executive director Himanshu
Bhagat, while StanChart's private banking is headed by
Sandeep Das. "The deal reinforces our commitment to the
consumer banking business here and further consolidates our
leading position amongst the top private banking segments
here," the StanC statement said further.
Though the bank did not divulge the deal size, it is understood
that Morgan Stanley India handles around USD 800 million of assets under its management, which is only around 5 percent
of its balance sheet in the country, and it employs around 400
people.
Gold, silver prices fall to
record low on strength-ening dollar NEW DELHI: Gold hit a 21-month low and silver prices
plunged to a two-and-a-half-year level Monday. Experts
said this happened because of the strengthening of the dol-
lar. According to MCX data, gold price plummetted to
Rs.25,574 per 10 grams (down Rs.261.00) and silver dipped
to Rs.41,459 per 1 kg (down Rs.1,170). "This slow and
steady downfall of gold price is mainly due to strengthening
of the dollar against the rupee. Euro is also doing better and
Spain has clocked positive balance of payment," Pankaj
Parekh, vice chairman, Gems & Jewellery Export
Promotion Council, said. He emphasised that the economic
situation globally is improving and stock exchanges across
the world are bullish. Gold touched Rs.25,766 per 10 gms
in April 17 from a peak of Rs.32,464 per 10 gram struck in
Nov last year. "A month back gold prices dipped to similar
level and from there it bounced back to Rs.27,500 per 10
gms level a fortnight back. The prices are dipping and
recouping back. It has remained range-bound between
Rs.26,000 and Rs.27,500 per 10 gms in the last one month,"
Rahul Gupta, director, Jewellers said. He mentioned that
gold prices have corrected a lot and going forward it will see
an upward movement only. The rupee also opened lower by
16 paise at Rs.55.04 per dollar against Friday's closing of Rs.54.88. Traders said the rupee weakened because of
heavy demand for the US currency from gold and oil
importers along with volatile domestic shares.
NEW DELHI: Oil Ministry has moved a Cabinet
note to raise the price of natural gas produced by
state-owned ONGC and OILas well as private
firms like Reliance Industries to $6.7, less than
$8-8.5 hike previously expected. In a note for the
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA),
the ministry has proposed raising gas price for
state- run firms immediately and that for RILfrom
April 2014, sources privy to the development
said. ONGC/OILand RILcurrently get $4.2 per
million British thermal unit as the price of natural
gas. The ministry wants Rangarajan Committee
recommendation of pricing domestically pro-
duced natural gas at an average of international
hub prices and cost of imported LNGinstead of
present mechanism of market discovery be
accepted with a minor modification. Sources said
the hike in natural gas price by $1 would result
Rs 3,155 crore per annumhit on fert iliser plants
for producing 23 million tons of urea this fiscal
and Rs 4,144 crore a year for 32 million tons of
urea production from2017-18.
The impact of every US dollar increase in gas
price would be about Rs 10,040 crore per annum
on the power sector for 28,000 MWof electricitygenerating capacity. Sources said ministry wants
the pricing formula proposed by the panel to
apply to all forms of natural gas - conventional,
shale and coal-bed methane (CBM). Also, the
price determined shall be applicable to all con-
suming sectors uniformly. They said it wanted the
new pricing guidelines to apply from 2013 itself
on all domestically produced gas barring cases
where it is either governed by a definite formula
prescribed in the Production Sharing Contract
(PSC) or the government had previously fixed a
tenure for the same. This essentially meant that
RIL would get the new price only fromApril 1,
2014 upon expiry of the fixed five-year term of
current rate of $4.205 per mmBtu.State-owned
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Oil India
Ltd (OIL) can, however, get the new rates this
year itself for gas they produce fromfields given
to them on nomination basis by the government.
Gas fromnominated fields, called APMgas, was
last revised in June 2010 to $4.2 from $1.79.
The Rangarajan panel suggested rates may also
not apply to BGGroup-operated Panna/Mukta
and Tapti fields in the western offshore as the
current rates of $5.57-5.73 per mmBtu for the
fuel produced fromthese are derived froma pre-
defined formula detailed in the PSC. The gas
price hike proposed falls short of what RIL and itspartner BP plc of UK have been seeking. They
want domestic gas prices to be freed and bench-
marked to the rate at which gas in its liquid form
(LNG) is imported into the country. Liquefied nat-
ural gas (LNG) currently is imported at about $14
per mmBtu. Sources said the ministry said the
Rangarajan panel report needs to be accepted
so that domestically produced natural gas prices
are fixed in a fair manner and in a way that incen-
tivises production.
The panel had suggested taking a weighted
average of the US, Europe and Japanese gas
hubs or market price and then averaging it with
the net imported price of liquefied natural gas
(LNG) to give sale price of domestically pro-
duced gas. The Rangarajan Committee suggest-
ed averaging volume- weighted price of gas at
US's Henry Hub, UK's NBPand Japan Customs
Cleared prices for the trailing 12 months with the
the net price that producer got from exporting
LNGto India on a long-termcontract. Previously,
RILhad fromApril 2014 wanted to price KG-D6
gas at the rate India pays for importing LNGon a
long-term contract from Qatar. India pays
12.67%of the international oil rate plus $0.26 per
mmBtu to Qatar. At $100 per barrel oil rate, this
translated into a gas price of $12.93.
The panel headed by C Rangarajan - Chairman,Economic Advisory Council to the PrimMinister -
also suggested gas-on-gas competition after f ive
years.
Oil Min proposes gas price hike to $6.7
BAGHDAD: A wave of car bombs
and shootings killed at least 70 people
in Shi'ite and Sunni areas of Iraq on
Monday, officials said, escalating fears
of a return to widespread sectarian
bloodletting in the country.
The attacks, some of which hit market
places and crowded bus stops during
the morning rush hour, pushed the
death toll in Iraq since Wednesday to
more than 200.The bloodshed over the past week has
been reminiscent of the retaliatory
attacks between Sunnis and Shi'ites
that pushed the country to the brink of
civil war in 2006-2007.
Tensions have been worsening since
Iraq's minority Sunnis began protesting
what they say is mistreatment at the
hands of the Shi'ite-led government.
The mass demonstrations, which
began in December, have largely been
peaceful, but the number of attacks
rose sharply after a deadly security
crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in
northern Iraq on April 23.
Iraq's Shi'ite majority, which was
oppressed under Saddam Hussein, now
controls the levers of power in the
country. Wishing to rebuild the nation
rather than revert to open warfare, they
have largely restrained their militias
over the past five years or so as Sunni
extremist groups such as al Qaeda have
targeted them with occasional large-
scale attacks.
But the renewed violence in both
Shi'ite and Sunni areas since late last
month has fuelled concerns of a return
to sectarian warfare.
The worst of today's violence took
place in Baghdad, where ten car bombs
ripped through open-air markets and
other areas of Shi'ite neighbourhoods,
killing at least 46 people and wounding
more than 150, police officials said.
In the bloodiest attack, a parked car
bomb blew up in a busy market in the
northern Shi'ite neighbourhood of
Shaab, killing 13 and wounding 25,
police and health officials said.
The surge in bloodshed has e xasperat-
ed Iraqis, who have lived for years with
the fear and uncertainty bred of ran-
dom violence. "How long do we have
to continue living like this, with all the
lies from the government?" asked 23-
year-old Baghdad resident Malik
Ibrahim. "Whenever they say they
have reached a solution, the bombings
come back stronger than before."
The predominantly Shi'ite city of Basra
in southern Iraq was also hit today,
with two car bombs there one outside a
restaurant and another at the city's
main bus station killing at least 13 and
wounded 40, according to provincial
police spokesman Col Abdul-Karim al-
Zaidi and the head of city's health
directorate, Riadh Abdul-Amir.
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility for the attacks, but such
large-scale bombings bear the hall-
marks of al Qaeda in Iraq.
The violence also struck Sunni areas,hitting the city of Samarra north of
Baghdad and the western province of
Anbar, a Sunni stronghold.
A parked car bomb in Samarra went off
near a gathering of pro-government
Sunni militia who were waiting outside
a military base to receive salaries,
killing three and wounding 13, while in
Anbar gunmen ambushed two police
patrols near the town of Haditha,
killing eight policemen, police and
Army officials said.
Also in Anbar, authorities found 13
dead bodies in a remote desert area,
officials said. The bodies, which
included eight policemen who were
kidnapped by gunmen on Friday, had
been killed with a gunshot to the head.
The officials spoke on condition of
anonymity because they were not
authorised to talk to the media.
Wave of attacks k ills at least 70 in IraqISLAMABAD: A court in
Pakistan Monday granted
bail to P ervez Musharraf in
the 2007 assassination case
of former prime minister
Benazir Bhutto, but the for-
mer president will remain in
detention in a case relating to
keeping judges in illegal
confinement.Musharraf has been accused
of failing to provide security
to Bhutto, who was killed in
December 2007.
In spite of the Anti-Terrorism
Court's release order,
Musharraf will remain in
detention in the case of keep-
ing judges in illegal confine-
ment when he imposed
emergency in 2007, report.
The former president is
being kept at his I slamabad
house which has been
declared a sub-jail.
Last month, the Lahore High
Court rejected an application
by Musharraf for extension
of his interim bail. He was
then formally arrested.
Musharraf's lawyer told the
court Monday that there was
no solid proof against the
former military ruler and that
he should be
granted bail.
M u s h a r r a f
returned to
Pakistan in
March after
nearly four
years of self-
exile to take
part in theMay 11 gener-
al elections.
However, he was barred
from running in the polls.
Musharaf is also facing other
criminal cases. Lawyers
have petitioned the Supreme
Court to put him on trial for
treason for imposing emer-
gency and over the death of
Baloch tribal leader Akbar
Bugti in a 2006 military
operation.
Musharraf gets bail in Bhuttocase but will stay in detention
TIMIKA (INDONESIA): Rescuers have
recovered three more bodies from a collapsed
underground room at a giant US-owned gold
and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the con-
firmed death toll to 17.
Mine officials say 11 others are believed buried
under the rubble.
The Big Gossan underground training facility
at the PT Freeport Indonesia mine collapsed
last week when 38 workers were undergoing
safety training. Ten injured miners were res-
cued.
The company said in a statement on Monday
that recovery efforts were continuing around
the clock.
Mining operations at the Grasberg mine, owned
by Phoenix, Arizona- based Freepo rt-McMoRan
Copper and Gold Inc, have been suspended
since the accident to pay respects to the victims
and to concentrate on the recovery effort.
Indonesia mine collapsedeath toll rises to 17
Iran 'producing newair defence missile'TEHRAN: Iran says it has started mass
producin g a new sophistica ted air
defence missile system capable of
engaging low-altitude aircraft.
According to report, Defence Minister
General Ahmad Vahidi as saying the
new system, dubbed Herz-9 or
Talisman-9 in Farsi, is capable of oper-
ating at night.
He said the system was mobile and
could automatically identify and target
flying objects at "low altitude". From
time to time Iran announces military
achievements that cannot be independ-
ently verified.
The country, facing a Western military
embargo, is pursuing a program for mil-
itary self-sufficiency, producing
weapons ranging from light submarines
and jet fighters to torpedoes and mis-
siles.
SEOUL: North Korea on Monday fired two more
short-range missiles, a day after UN Secretary-
General Ban Ki-moon urged the regime to return to
talks on its controversial nuclear programme.
"North Korea fired one KN-02 short-range missile
between 11 am and 12 noon and a second one
between 4 pm and 5 pm on Monday. The second mis-
sile is the same type as the KN-02 short-range missile
launched on Monday morning".
North Korea has fired a total of six short-range mis-
siles in the same waters.
South Korea's presidential office urged North Korea
to stop aggravating tensions on the Korean Peninsula
after Pyongyang launched its fifth missile on the third
day. Pyongyang, however, said on Monday that the
missile launch was only part of normal military train-
ing for self-defence purposes, the official said.
On Sunday, Ban Ki-moon said he was concerned
over Pyongyang's latest missile launches and urged
the regime to return to the talks on its controversial
nuclear programme.
Yonhap said Pyongyang launched a short-range mis-
sile into the East Sea on Sunday, a day after firing
three missiles into the same body of water.
The communist regime broke off talks with South
Korea, China, the US, Japan and Russia on its nuclear
programme in 2009, after the UN Security Council
passed a resolution condemning its missile tests.
Tensions rose on the Korean Peninsula in December
after North Korea tested a Taepodong 2 missile and
again in February when it carried out its third nuclear
test. The UN hit back with sanctions, and the start of
joint military drills between South Korea and the US
in March further irritated the North, which threatened
to carry out a nuclear attack on the US mainland, as
well as on US forces in the region.
North Korea has been subjected to several rounds of
UN Security Council sanctions since it declared itself
a nuclear power in 2005.
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LIMASSOL (CYPRUS): Indian
boxers scaled new frontiers as they
powered through to claim the top
rank and bag the 2013 Invitational
FXTM International Limassol
Boxing Cup.
The Indian pugilists displayed grit
and talent throughout the tournament
and a stunning performance particu-
larity in the finals Sunday with a total
tally of 10 medals -- four gold, three
silver and three bronze -- ensured a
first place in the overall standings for
the Indian contingent.
This is the first time that Indian box-
ers have won a tournament on the
European circuit.
Reigning national champion Madan
Lal (52kg) was the first Indian to
take to the ring. Up against Ayigah
Dodsi from Belgium, Lal started
strongly to register an early lead. His
sharp combinations of straight
punches and hooks helped him gain a
five-point lead at the end of Round 1.
In the second, the Belgian tried to
make a comeback but the 21-year-
old Lal was up to the challenge,
quickly changing his strategy. Lal
relied more on counter-attacks in the
final two rounds and went on to bag
the flyweight title with ease.
Gold medallist at the 2009 Youth
Olympic Games V. Durga Rao
(56kg) had to dig deep against
German boxer Dieter Dier. After
three rounds of intense action, the
scores were knotted at 12-all. In the
end though, it was Rao who emerged
victorious on individual judge`s
score to bag his very first internation-
al medal on the senior tour.
Mandeep Jangra (69kg) devoured
Victor Vega Blanco of Spain in a
completely one sided affair to bag
the welterweight title. Super heavy-
weight boxer
Praveen Kumar
(+91kg) won
the fourth gold
for India after
o v e r h a u l i n g
B e g u e r n i
Hamza from
Algeria.
Olympian and
2 0 1 0
Commonwealth
Games gold
m e d a l l i s t
Manoj Kumar (64kg) had to settle for
silver after losing out to Abdelkader
Chadi of Algeria.
Both the boxers started cautiously,
waiting for the other to make the
move. In the end it was the Algerian
boxer who dominated the first round.
Manoj came back strongly to win the
second but Chadi`s precise attacks
helped him maintain the overall
advantage in final round.
Ultimately, Manoj lost the bout by
three points.
Olympian Dinesh Kumar (91kg) also
suffered a similar fate. Kumar came
up short against the power-hitting of
Fotios Arapoglous from Greece. He
too will have to be content with a sil-
ver.
Participating in his maiden interna-
tional event Sukhdeep Singh (75kg)
gave a good account of his boxing
skills. In the finals though, the 20-
year-old was unable to get past local
boy Kyriakos Spanos.
Chief national coach G.S. Sandhu
was extremely pleased with India`s
performance.
"This is a first for us, we have never
won a tournament in the European
circuit before. It is a big achievement
for Indian boxers and I am very
happy with the way most of our boys
fought. Even the first timers did a
tremendous job to be counted a mong
the medal winner at the event. These
are promising signs for India boxing
and this performance will do won-
ders for their confidence," said
Sandhu.
Earlier in the tournament, Anil
Kumar (60kg), Jagroop Singh (81kg)
and L. Devendro Singh (49kg)
reached the semifinals. The three lost
out in the round of four and had to be
content with a bronze medal finish.
Indian boxers win European ti tle, create historyNEW DELHI: "The night-
mare is finally over and I am
back to a normal life", said a
relieved Vijender Singh as
he broke his silence on the
sensational drug scandal that
severely hurt his reputation,
insisting that more than a cri-
sis, it was a learning experi-
ence that left him stronger
and wiser.
Speaking for the first time
after the scandal broke out
more than two months back,
the Olympic bronze-medal-
list opened up about what he
went through before being
given an "all-clean" certifi-
cate by the National Anti-
Doping Agency.
"The nightmare is finally
over for me and I am back to
my normal life. I have start-
ed training and looking for-
ward to the World
Championships in October,"
said the 27-year-old mid-
dleweight boxer, the first
Indian to become world
number one in international
rankings.
"I am thankful to the
Haryana Govt., the SportsMinistry, the Indian Olympic
Association and the Indian
Boxing Federation for stand-
ing by me and because that
gave me a lot of confidence.
Now I am back to training in
the camp and nothing can be
better than this," he added.
It has been more than two
months since Vijender found
himself in quandary when
his name cropped up in a
massive drug haul after
Punjab police recovered
heroin, worth around Rs 130
crore, from NRI Anoop
Singh Kahlon`s house in
Zirakpur.
The presence of a car used
by Vijender̀ s wife Archana
near the house raised a
media storm and on April 1,
Punjab Police said Vijender
bought heroin for personal
consumption on 12 different
occasions from Kahlon.
Vijender denied any wrong-
doing and underwent a
NADA dope test which came
out negative. The strapping
six-footer from Haryana said
there are lessons to be learnt
even in the worst of crisis
and he learnt his while deal-
ing with the controversy. "I
believe, whatever god does,
he does it for the good, I
always try to look at life like
that. Even in this incident Iam sure god must have
thought something good for
me," he said. "Every inci-
dent, good or bad, teaches
you something. I also learnt
a few things. I realised who
are my true friends and who
are the hangers on. I realised
that difference because all
my good friends formed a
ring of support around me,"
Vijender said.
"Another lesson is that I
won't ever be as casually
friendly with anyone as I
used to be. I won't ever leave
my car keys or my mobile
phone with anybody. I have
become wary of people
which is quite natural given
what I went through," added
the boxer.
Asked if, even for once, he
felt his achievements were
being completely forgotten
while his integrity was ques-
tioned, Vijender chose to
laugh it off.
In fact, he refused to call it
the biggest crisis of his life,
insisting that anything bad
can always be worse.
"I don't think it was the
biggest crisis of the life
because life is like that only,
it is unpredictable and I am
taking it positively. I haven't
lost faith in anything because
I am a very optimistic per-
son," he explained. "I always
try to see the good in every-
thing and that gives me
strength. Even when I lost in
the London Olympics quar-
terfinals, I said to myself
'don't lose heart, god has his
own plans'. Actually, life just
goes on, you have to accept
whatever challenge you face
and become stronger," hesaid.
He has already missed a cou-
ple of exposure trips and
won't be there for the Asian
Championships next month
after giving the national tri-
als a miss. Vijender, if select-
ed, will next be seen in
action only at the October
World Championships.
Asked if he is intimidated by
the scrutiny that he would
invite due to the scandal,
Vijender said, "Scrutiny has
never scared me because I
have had detractors all my
life."
`Nightmare` over, Vijender getsback to normal life
Chinese Taipei
win m en`sdoubles TT titlePARIS: Chinese Taipei`s Chen
Chien-An and Chuang Chih-
Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma
Lin from China to win the
men`s doubles title at the
World Table Tennis
Championships here.
Chen and Chuang fought back
from one game down to win
three in a row but Ma, former
Olympic Champion, and Hao
Shuai took the fifth before the
Chinese Taipei tandem sealed
the victory Sunday by taking
the sixth 11-8.
This was the second event that
China failed to win at the
World Championships follow-
ing the mixed doubles and the
third title they have lost since
the 2003 worlds in Paris.
China cleanswept all five titlesfrom 2005 to 2011 at all World
Championships.
NEW DELHI: In the wake of the IPLspot-fixing controversy, the Centre has
decided to bring a legislation to provide
"strictest possible" punishment for
match-fixing. Union Law Minister Kapil
Sibal spoke to Sports Minister Jitendra
Singh in this regard.
"Match-fixing destroys the confidence of
the public who believe that all sporting
events are fair and the outcomes are
based on the performances of the
sportspersons on the field. Any attempt
to fix a match and its result cannot be
allowed. I have asked the Secretary,
Legislative, to come up with a proposed
legislation to ensure that any attempt to
fix matches, in any sport, attracts exem-
plary punishment," Sibal said. Under
prevailing laws, including the IndianPenal Code (IPC), prosecution of match
fixers is a problem area as there is no
definition of fixing. Also there are no
specific provisions in the law to deal
with this crime.
"The present provisions of the IPC don't
allow prosecution for match-fixing as it
is not an offence. The nearest provision
under which a player or someone who
indulges in match-fixing or spot-fixing
can be booked is Section 420 of the IPC,
which deals with cheating or fraud.
However, past experience of using this
provision of IPC has not been very good,
since many previous attempts to prose-
cute the accused have failed. That is why
it is necessary to come up with a special
enactment to deal with this," said Sibal.Sources in the Law Ministry said Sibal
has asked Union Legislative Secretary P
K Malhotra to propose a legislation,
which will then be discussed with the
Sports Ministry and taken to the Cabinet
for approval.
It has been felt that instances of match
fixing have gone unpunished mainly due
to the lacunae in the law. However, suc-
cessive governments have never shown
any resolve to remove the anomaly.
Sources in the Law Ministry said Sibal
has asked Union Legislative Secretary P
K Malhotra to propose a legislation,
which would then be discussed with the
Sports Ministry and thereafter taken to
the Cabinet for approval.
Govt plans new law to check match-fixing
GUNTUR: Kerala's KT
Neena qualified for World
Youth Championships after
winning gold in 5000m race
with a new meet mark of 25
mins 13.95 sec on the third
and final day of the 10th
National Youth Athletics
Championships, here.
The World Youth
Championships will be held
in Ukraine in July.
Neena's teammates A.M.
Binsy and S. Akshaya com-
pleted th e ot her t wo places
on the podium as Kerala
pipped overnight leaders
Haryana by just one point
(155-154) to defend their
overall title.
Haryana continued to apply
pressure with more number
of wins on the last day's
events at Brahmananda
Reddy Stadium on Monday
but the defending champi-
ons fought back with vigour
and the tale of identifying
this edition's champions
went till the last event of the
meet-the medley relay.
Another medal sweep by
their steeplechasers, an
excellent run by half-miler
Mohammed Afsal, notewor-
thy wins by triple jumper
Abdulla Aboobacker and
hurdler Anjali Jose helped
the team to wrest the lead
from Haryana.
In the medley relay for girls
the Kerala team was trailing
at mid-way but the last leg
runner Shaharbana Sidhique
made a gallant effort to take
her team to the flag position.
Expectantly Haryana took
the gold in the boys' relay
but it did not change the
position.
Apart from
Kerala walker
Neena, most of
the other World
Youth qualifiers
came from
Haryana. On
the final day of
com pe t i t ions
400m hurdler
Parmvir Singh
(54.43 secs),
javelin thrower
M a n d e e p
K u m a r
( 6 7 . 0 2 m ) ,
sprinters Mohit (22.52 secs)
and Ashish Chikara (22.66s)
attained such distinction
among others.
Haryana boys' garnered the
123 points for the team
championships while Kerala
girls made their state proud
once again with the top with
120 points.
Shot putter Shakti Solanki
(Delhi) and sprint-star
Dutee Chand (Odisha) were
adjudged best athletes of the
three-day meet in boys and
girls divisions respectively
and received 10 gms gold
medals for their effort.
Kerala athlete KT Neena qualifies for World Youth Championsh ips
NEW DELHI: The 3rd edi-
tion of the Hockey India Sub-
Junior Men & Women
National Championship
(Finals) will be played at
Bhopal from May 21-27.
A total of 28 teams in the
men`s and 25 in the women`s
category participated in the
national championships
which was conducted zonal
wise in the month of April.
The winners and runners-up
of each of the four zones
qualified for the final round.
There will be eight teams
playing in each of the men`s
and women`s category, and
the teams are divided into
two pools.
The matches will be played at
Aish Bagh Hockey Stadium
and Mayur Park Hockey
Stadium in Bhopal.
In the men`s category,
defending champions Odisha
have been drawn in Pool A
and will play their inaugural
match against Jharkhand
tomorrow while in the
women`s category defending
champions Madhya Pradesh
Hockey Academy have been
drawn in Pool A.
Men:
Pool A- Odisha, Karnataka,
Jharkhand and The Hockey
Maharashtra
Pool B- MPHA, Punjab,
Tamil Nadu and Chandigarh
Women:
Pool A- MPHA, Karnataka,
Chandigarh and Odisha
Pool B- Haryana, Jharkhand,
Andhra Pradesh and The
Hockey Maharashtra.
Sub-junior nationalsstart tomorrow
MUMBAI: Badminton greatPrakash Padukone has tied up
with Tata Capital to launch a
talent hunt for children
between 8 and 12 years of age
at five gymkhanas of the city
culminating in a two-day tour-
nament next month to select
eight of them to undergo train-
ing at his Bangalore-based
academy.
The talent hunt will be held
from May 27 to June 7 to iden-
tify potentially good players
for the two-day tournament at
the Cricket Club of India on
June 15 and 16 from where
four boys and as many girls
are to be picked for a training
stint here or at the Prakash
Padukone Badminton
Academy, it was announced at
a news conference on
Monday.
Padukone said a renowned coach from Indonesia, Yusuf
Johari, has been roped in to
identify potentially good play-ers and would work on the
children and correct their foot-
work and grip during the talent
hunt.
"This initiative is restricted to
only those who have never
played the sport. Fifty to 100
children would be called up at
each club for a two-day trial
and the selected few would
take part in the two-day tour-
nament," said Prakash.
"At the end of the tournament
we will pick four boys and
four girls for further training in
Mumbai or even at Bangalore
in our academy," said
Padukone who later said that a
trio of very talented boys from
his academy would also play
an exhibition match at the
CCI.
Apart from CCI, the other
clubs/gymkhanas who are partof the initiative are Bombay
Gymkhana, Juhu Vile Parle
Gymkhana, Khar Gymkhanaand National Sports Club of
India.
"Johari is very good in training
children and was with us at the
academy in January-February.
He is a very experienced
coach in teaching technique
and footwork. It's very impor-
tant to teach players the right
grip and footwork at a young
age as later on its very difficult
to correct them," said
Padukone.
"This is the first initiative of
such kind in India and depend-
ing on its success it can be
replicated in other cities," he
added.
Though the initiative is open
to non-members of the five
club/gymkhanas, members`
children would get preference
in signing up for the project,
said Bombay Gymkhana`s badminton secretary Shirish
Nadkarni.
Prakash launches shuttle talent hunt in Mumbai
NEW DELHI: Super Kings
primed to stifle Mumbai
Indians in Tuesday’s qualifi-
er Cricket should take the
front seat when Mumbai
Indians meets Chennai
Super Kings in the Indian
Premier League qualifier at
the Ferozeshah Kotla here
on Tuesday.
These are troubled times for
the game but there is a reas-
suring force, glowing for 23
years, giving cricket the
credibility it needs, now
more than ever. Scandals
and controversies have been
part of the game, from
Bodyline to spot-fixing, buticons like Sachin Tendulkar
and Anil Kumble are testi-
mony to integrity emerging
unscathed when confronted by hostile circumstances.
Tendulkar and Kumble wit-
nessed tortuous moments in
the dressing room when
Indian cricket was ravaged
by match-fixing at the begin-
ning of 2000. All had
seemed lost but these two
pillars of Indian cricket
stood behind skipper Sourav
Ganguly and prevented fur-
ther disintegration of the
team and the image of the
game.Support came from John
Wright, the coach who
taught India to win overseas;
and win consistently. It is a pleasant coincidence that
Tendulkar, Kumble and Wright form the think-tank
of Mumbai Indians. There is
no doubt the image of IPLhas suffered at the hands of
three greedy players fromRajasthan Royals. Cruel
irony It was cruel irony that
a dressing room, which waslit up by the presence of
Rahul Dravid, nurtured suchdetrimental individuals. The
impact was visible when
Rajasthan Royals took thefield for its last league
encounter. It lost the match but not the motivation to put
up a brave front.
The IPL, a domestic tourna-ment in the strictest sense,
has a niche audience and promotes a brand of cricket
that has caught the attention
of the youth. If the puristslook the other way it does
not really matter, for thetournament has come to
command an international
following. It has come tostay, what with some of the
biggest names in contempo-rary cricket lending their
support to this format where
even a mishit is celebrated.Mumbai Indians, CSK,
Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad, with
V.V.S. Laxman as the men-
tor, making it to the elimina-tor and qualifier stage is in
keeping with their deeds.CSK, the most compact
combination in all the edi-
tions of the IPL, and Mumbai Indians have drawn
strength from their vastrange of options in batting
and bowling.
Let us celebrate
those who havekept the game alive
MUMBAI: Tainted Rajasthan Royals pacemanS. Sreesanth had received
several mails carrying hun-dreds of photographs of female models from aBollywood ‘casting direc-tor,’ allegedly for the pur-
pose of advertisement of his brand called S36.The Mumbai police havefound several e-mail interac-tions from the seized laptopand mobile phones, in whicha certain casting director had sent him the pictures of models. The police had raid-ed the suburban five- star hotel on Friday night whereSreesanth and bookie JijuJanardan had independently
booked a room each.The casting director was onMonday called by theMumbai police for interro-gation. “According to hisversion, Sreesanth co-owns
a company called S36. Afilm producer fromHyderabad is another part-
ner in the company. Thecasting director had interac-tion with him only on e-mails and Facebook. He had sent the models’ photo-graphs to Sreesanth. Thecricketer had asked him tosend more photos,” said oneof the officers who interro-gated the casting director.Brand S36The Facebook page of ‘S36’with Sreesanth’s photo on itsays that the products under this brand consist of mineral
packaged drinking water,apparels and sports goods.According to police sources,Sreesanth’s partner fromHyderabad could also becalled for interrogation. The
police have not ruled out the possibility of interrogatingthe paceman.
Sreesanth sought female models’photos from Bollywood ‘ca`sting director’
I don’t think there
is extra pressureon us: MoodyHYDERABAD: The crowdswent ecstatic after DarrenSammy hit two consecutivesixes off left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdulla to script amemorable finish for Sunrisers Hyderabad againstKolkata Knight Riders onSunday night at the RajivGandhi stadium here. Withthat win, Sunrisers qualified for the play-offs of the IPLtournament. But later, TomMoody, the head coach of Sunrisers, walked into themedia room showing only atinge of satisfaction with anoccasional smile.
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