ABU DHABIPrime Minister

Narendra Modi todayarrived in the United ArabEmirates on a two-dayofficial visit during whichhe will hold talks with theGulf country's top leader-ship to enhance coopera-tion in key areas of tradeand security.

"Hello UAE. I am veryoptimistic about this visit.I am confident the out-comes of the visit willboost India-UAE ties,"PM Modi tweeted shortlyafter arriving in the UAE.

PM Modi was receivedby Sheikh Mohamed binZayed Al Nahyan, CrownPrince of Abu Dhabi atthe airport, in a departurefrom the protocol.

Earlier, the PM haddescribed the Gulf coun-try as a "mini-India" closeto his heart.

About 2.6 millionIndians live in the UAE,

PM Modi said in an inter-view to Dubai-basednewspaper Khaleej Timesthat it was "an anomaly"that an Indian PrimeMinister is visiting thecountry after 34 years.

"India and UAE haveeverything to be a top pri-ority for each other. Thisis the way I look at theUAE. The Gulf region isvital for India's economic,energy and security inter-ests," said Mr Modi.

Improving trade andinvestment ties betweenthe two nations is high onthe PM's agenda and histrip is packed with busi-ness meetings. Trade withthe UAE is pegged at $60billion a year, down from2013 but still third highestafter trade with the USand China.

UAE's concern over thespread of the terror groupIslamic State in the region

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Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung WishesArvind Kejriwal on His Birthday

PM Modi to Launch Rs. 56,000 CrorePlan to Develop Highways in Bihar

Aishwarya, Irrfan Are On the Run inBrand New Poster From Jazbaa P8

MEERUTFemale foeticide to honour

killing and rape - Meerut hasseen every sort of brutalityagainst women. So it was ashock for this rough westernUttar Pradesh town, locals said,when an army man paid with

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'Men Beat the Jawan Till HeCollapsed,' Says Father ofthe Girl He Saved

AIZAWLThree days after the Bombay

High Court lifted ban on Magginoodles, a Guwahati laboratorytermed the samples of noodlesas 'misbranded', state JointDirector (Food and DrugsAdministration) Lalsawmatoday said.

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Guwahati lab TermsMaggi Noodles Sampleas 'Misbranded'

NEW DELHINational carrier Air India

plans to operate 230 special Hajflights to Jeddah from sevencities - Delhi, Srinagar,Mumbai, Kochi, Hyderabad,Panaji and Nagpur this year.

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Air India Plans toOperate 230 SpecialHaj Flights to Jeddah

SRINAGARFormer Jammu and Kashmir

Chief Minister Omar Abdullahtoday questioned the "silence" ofPrime Minister Narendra Modiover ceasefire violations byPakistan which claimed six lives,terming it as "hurtful".

"6 inc.(including) a woman & 12 yr (year) old boyare dead sir. They're part of your #TeamIndia. As

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PM Narendra Modi's Silence on CeasefireViolations Hurtful: Omar Abdullah

FLORIDAUS civil rights leader and for-

mer head of the NAACP JulianBond, who also held electedoffice in Georgia for twodecades, died on Saturday aged75.

Bond died in Fort WaltonBeach, Florida, the Southern Poverty Law Centerannounced in a statement. Bond was the civil rightsorganization's first president.

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American Civil Rights LeaderJulian Bond Dead at 75

BHOPALUnion Minister Uma Bharati

today said she wants to write abook on Prime MinisterNarendra Modi as she isimpressed by his personality and"in-depth knowledge of everyIndian issue."

"I want to write a book onNarendra Modiji. He has extraordinary knowledge andcommand over every Indian issue," Ms Bharati toldreporters in Bhopal. "I didn't know Modiji much beforebecoming minister. Now, after frequent interactions

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I Want to Write Book on PM NarendraModi: Union Minister Uma Bharati

LUDHIANAA minister in Punjab, which

is facing drug menace, todaystoked a controversy by sug-gesting that there should be amandatory "dope test" forpoliticians contesting elections.

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Politicians Should Undergo'Dope Test', Says PunjabMinister Tota Singh

CHANDIGARHPunjab Chief Minister

Parkash Singh Badal todaydeclared a school holiday onMonday in view of the "strenu-ous preparations" by childrenfor Independence Day func-tions across the state.

Thousands of children fromgovernment and privateschools at various places hadbeen preparing for days in

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Punjab Schools to Be Shut

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NEW DELHIThe French govern-

ment has rejected Indiannegotiators' demand for a50 per cent offset clauseciting sharp cost escala-tion but offered to partic-ipate in 'Make in India'projects to carry forwardthe talks for 36 Rafalefighter jets that have hitturbulence.

Defence sources saidIndia's insistence on theoffset clause, tweaking ofweaponary technologyand plans to set up twobases for Rafale fighterjets would lead to costescalation.

Offset policy was firstintroduced as part of theDefence Procurement

Procedure (DPP), 2005,under which a foreigncompany has to investback a portion of the dealinto India.

"The 50 per cent offsetclause was part of theoriginal tender that wasfloated for 126 fighterjets. The French

President and IndianPrime Minister have nowdecided to go in for adirect purchase of 36Rafale jets. So, how can50 per cent offset clausebe asked when theFrench are offering thefighters at the same rate

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BARPETA, ASSAMAt least seven people, includ-

ing three children and awoman, were killed and 21 oth-ers injured in a lightning strikein Assam's Barpeta districttoday.

The boat, in which the peoplewere travelling through theBeki River near the Milan

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7 Killed in Assam AfterLightning Strikes Boat

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SRINAGARCondemning shelling

of civilian areas byPakistan resulting in thedeath of six civilians inPoonch district, Jammuand Kashmir ChiefMinister MuftiMohammad Sayeed saidIslamabad should be toldto stop "military machi-nations to inflict miserieson the people of Jammuand Kashmir".

"We can't allow ourhapless civilians, livingalong the borders, tobecome the ill-fated vic-tims of the militarymachinations fromacross," Mr Sayeed said,adding that ironically it

is the people of Jammuand Kashmir who havebeen suffering the worstmiseries of more than sixdecades long hostility inthe region.

Calling for immediatede-escalation of tensionalong the borders in

Jammu and Kashmir, MrSayeed urged the politi-cal leadership of Indiaand Pakistan to respectand uphold the ceasefireput in place during 2003.

"Ironically at a timewhen the two countries

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PM Modi on 2-Day Visit to UAE; toDiscuss Terror, Trade With Top Leaders

Pakistan Should Stop Inflicting Miseries onJammu and Kashmir: JK CM Mufti Sayeed

After Kejriwaland Jayalalithaa,UttarakhandLaunchesBudget CanteenDEHRADUN

After Tamil Nadu andDelhi, Uttarakhand's HarishRawat-government todaybecame the latest toannounce cheap food can-teens, launching a pro-gramme to serve a full mealto the poor at a mere Rs. 20.

Called the Indira AmmaBhojan Programme, thescheme was unveiled byChief Minister HarishRawat on IndependenceDay at Dehradun's NNBshopping complex where ahuge crowd gathered to tryout the food.

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SRINAGARIndia today sum-

moned the Pakistanihigh commissionerAbdul Basit followingthe death of six civil-ians in the ongoingceasefire violation inJammu and Kashmir'sBalakote.Eleven vil-lages in Jammu andKashmir's Balakote arebeing pounded byPakistani mortar shellsand guns for over 24hours now.

The toll - nine deadand 10 injured, all ofthem local villagers.Among the dead was a12-year-old boy and a40-year-old woman.The Indian forces havebeen retaliating.

Firing and shelling byPakistani troops -which started onSaturday afternoon --have continued throughthe night. Heavy firinghad started around mid

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India Summons Pak High Commissioner,Ceasefire Violations Still Continue

BHOPALThe BJP has swept the

civic body elections inMadhya Pradesh, snatch-ing eight bodies from theCongress which managedto retain just one. Theparty now holds all 16municipal corporations inthe state.

The victory in the elec-tions - the first since thenationwide political rowover the Vyapam scam --comes as a big relief for

the BJP and MadhyaPradesh Chief MinisterShivraj Singh Chouhan.

The Congress has repeat-edly demanded Mr Singh's

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MUMBAIAfter Germany, South

Australia has also offeredto assist the Centre in its'Clean Ganga' campaign,a pet project of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.

South Australia hasoffered to provide itsexpertise in water man-agement sector by devel-

oping institutional frame-work and capacity build-ing.

"We wish to participatein the government's CleanGanga programme byassisting it in capacitybuilding and developinginstitutional framework.There is a long standing

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TORONTOSeeking to provide "new

impetus" to their economicrelations, Canada and Indiaare jointly working tofinalise a bilateral foreigninvestment agreement toaccelerate investments,Canada's Defence Ministerhas said.

Jason Kenney, Canada'sMinister of NationalDefence and Minister forMulticulturalism, said theForeign InvestmentProtection and PromotionAgreement will benefitinvestors from both thecountries by providing"greater certainty" forCanadian firms with exist-

ing investments in India."It would also promote

Canada as a destination forforeign investment, open-ing up markets for Indiancorporations looking fornew opportunities abroad,"Mr Kenney said while

addressing a receptionhosted by the IndianConsulate in Toronto tocommemorate 69thIndependence day yester-day.

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Amid Vyapam Heat, BJP SweepsMadhya Pradesh Civic Body Polls

South Australia Interested in PMModi's Clean Ganga Campaign

HYDERABADThe government is in the

process of selecting certainrailway stations to conductskill development pro-grammes at their facilities.

Minister of State forSkill Development(Independent charge)Rajiv Pratap Rudy said theRailways has great poten-tial to partner and incen-tivise skill development.

"So, we have had amajor partnership withRailways. We are going toselect a few stations. Theprocess is on and skilldevelopment is going to

start. We have startedrolling it out. In a coupleof months, we will findsome stations functioninglike that," Mr Rudy toldPTI in Hyderabad.

The Indian Railways andthe Skill Development andEntrepreneurship Ministryhave signed an MoU forthe former to providespace and manpower tocarry out skill develop-ment programmes acrossthe country.

"The idea is to use thecapacity of these railwaystations by using the spare

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Centre Eyes Railway Facilities toConduct Skill Development Schemes

NEW DELHIPrime Minister

Narendra Modi begins histwo-day visit to theUnited Arab Emirateslater today. He will be thefirst PM to visit the Arabstate in over three decades- a country that's also

home to 2.6 millionIndians.

It may be just a two-daytrip but it's packed with awide range of businessmeets, interactions withIndian workers and visitsto cultural icons of thecountry.

High on the PM's agen-da is improving trade andinvestment relationsbetween the two nationswhich already have tradeties pegged at $60 billionper annum - a dip fromwhat it was in 2013 but

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In 30 Years, Narendra Modi FirstIndian Prime Minister To Visit UAE

Cloudy, humid morning in DelhiNEW DELHI

It was a cloudy, humid morning here on Sunday.The minimum temperature was 27 degrees Celsius, the

Met Office said."The sky will be cloudy. Thunderstorms or rain may

occur in some areas," an official of the IndiaMeteorological Department said.

The humidity at 8 a.m. was 94 percent.Saturday's maximum temperature was 33.6 degrees

Celsius - the season's average, while the minimum was25.8, one notch below the season's average.

Brigadier dupedNEW DELHI

An Indian Army Brigadier was allegedly duped ofRs.20 lakh after being informed he had earned a bonus onhis Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) policy, the policeconfirmed on Saturday.

Identified as Brigadier Ajay Pal, 52, the victim was toldhe had to invest 40 per cent of the bonus. Soon, Brig. Palwas informed the bonus had increased to Rs.1.86 lakhand he was asked to deposit Rs. 49,000 to ‘Go IndiaService’.

He made the payment, but the demand did not stop.Deposits were requested for opening a Demat account,agent code removal, etc.

On the basis of Brig. Pal’s statement, a case under sec-tions 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 420 (cheating) ofthe Indian Penal Code has been filed with the crimebranch.

The investigating officers are probing details providedby Brig. Pal, who has named three of the accused, includ-ing a woman.

Nearly 100 kids ill after consumingsweets on I-DayNEW DELHI

Nearly 100 children fell ill on Saturday after consum-ing sweets distributed by a village head in Bihar’sDarbhanga district to celebrate Independence Day, thepolice said.

The incident took place in Ranipur village inDarbhanga, about 200 km from here.

“The village mukhiya distributed sweets to markIndependence Day. But soon after consuming it, manychildren fell ill,” a district police official said.

The children complained of uneasiness after eating thesweets, followed by vomiting and were admitted to theDarbhanga Medical College and Hospital. The conditionof 20 of them is said to be critical, an official said.

Medals for 20 Delhi police personnelNEW DELHI

Twenty Delhi Police personnel, including SpecialCommissioner (Welfare and Estate Oversight) and JointCommissioner (Special Cell), were conferred PoliceMedals for their services on the eve of IndependenceDay.

Inspector Kailash Singh Bisht, Head ConstablesSatender and Rajeev Kumar and Constable BirenderSingh have been awarded the prestigious Police Medalfor Gallantry.

S Vasudeva Rao, Special Commissioner of Police(Welfare and Estate Oversight), and Vivek Gogia, JtCommissioner of Police (Special Cell), have been award-ed the President’s Police Medal for DistinguishedService.

Fourteen police personnel including Vijay Kumar, ACP(Rashtrapati Bhawan), Swatantar Singh Gill, ACP (Ist BnDAP), Laxmi Bai Kanwat, ACP (SPUWAC), InspectorSurender Kumar, SI Brahm Pal, SI Naresh Chopra, ASIRamesh Chander, Head Constable Jitender Kumar andConstable Kalyan Chand, have been conferred the PoliceMedals for Meritorious Service.

The medals will be presented to the personnel on theoccasion of National Police Day on February 16, 2016.

No I-Day relief for godmanNEW DELHI

While hundreds of convicts elsewhere in the countrywere released from jails on the occasion of IndependenceDay on Saturday, the arrested self-styled godman SarathiBaba alias Santosh Roul was sent to Choudwar CircleJail here on the day.

A lower court here remanded him in judicial custodyafter rejecting his bail application that came up for con-sideration for the first time on the day.

Even though it being a national holiday, the court ofSub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate as opened in themorning to take up the matter as the police remand of thegodman ended midnight on Friday.

Ever since his arrest by the State Crime Branch policelast Saturday, Roul was taken in remand by the police forsix days in two phases for questioning.

Booked under several sections of the IPC, the SC andST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Arms Act andReligious Institutions (Misuse) Act, the godman’s bailapplication came up for hearing for the first time on theday as the lawyers of the city were on strike for the wholeof last week.

Although the Crime Branch police did not seek anyfurther remand, its counsel opposed his bail applicationsaying that the investigations in the case are still on. Thegodman would be produced in the court again on August21, sources said adding that a team of Crime Branchsleuths would go to Hyderabad on Monday for furtherinvestigations.Woman medico does a ‘U’ turn

Making a ‘U’ turn from her earlier stance, the womanmedico on Saturday lodged a written complaint beforethe State Crime Branch police alleging that she had madethe earlier FIR before the Commissionerate police underpressure from Roul.

She said two women, one of them claiming to be a CBIinspector, forced her to write the first FIR. “I was threat-ened to say that Sarathi Baba was innocent and name thefour persons for torturing her mentally,” the 24-year-oldfinal year medical student has mentioned in her freshcomplaint.

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NEW DELHIDisappointed by Prime Minister

Narendra Modi's assurance that thegovernment has accepted "in princi-ple" their demand for 'One Rank OnePension' (OROP), ex-servicementoday announced intensification oftheir stir by deciding to launch anindefinite hunger strike from August24.

"A group of ex-servicemen willstart an indefinite fast here fromAugust 24," Col (Retd) Anil Kaul,media advisor to the United Front ofEx-Servicemen Movement, said asthe agitation at Jantar Mantar enteredthe 63rd day today.

The protestors have been on a relayhunger strike so far. In his speechyesterday, PM Modi had not given aspecific timeline for the implementa-tion of OROP, but stressed that talkswere in the final stages, drawingsharp reactions from ex-servicemenwho vowed to step up their protest.

Meanwhile, AAP MLA Col (Retd)Devinder Sehrawat, who skipped thePresident's at-home reception onIndependence Day over the demand,has written to Mr Pranab Mukherjeeseeking his intervention on behalf ofthe protesting ex-servicemen.

"I have to inform you with a heavy

heart that the ex-servicemen are lan-guishing on the road, undergoingshabby and disgraceful treatment atthe hands of police and municipalauthorities, as they protest for theirrightful demand of OROP."

"Pardon my audacity, but they doexpect your intervention in the mat-ter," Mr Sehrawat said in his letteryesterday to the President -- who isthe Supreme Commander of theArmed Forces.

The AAP legislator from Delhi'sBijwasan constituency, Mr Sehrawatalso said he will "actively" partici-pate in a dharna called by ex-service-men over the OROP demand as nofirm timeframe has been declared forits implementation.

Ex-servicemen are holding aprotest at Jantar Mantar and in otherparts of the country for two monthsdemanding early implementation ofOROP.

OROP: Ex-Servicemen to LaunchIndefinite Hunger Strike From August 24

NEW DELHIFour accused have been

let off by a Delhi court ina gang rape case as thevictim deposed in the trialthat they have committedno offence against her.She also urged the courtto acquit them.

The four accused weretenants of the victim inRajouri Garden in WestDelhi. They stayed on thefirst floor while the vic-tim, along with her hus-band, lived on the groundfloor of the building — awedding gift from herfather. They had alsothreatened her that theywould kill her if she dis-closed about the incidentto her husband. Accordingto the complaint lodged

with the local police, thefour accused had intrudedinto the house of the vic-tim and raped her. A fewdays later, they had onceagainst barged into herhouse and molested her.

The police had got thestatement of the victimrecorded by aMetropolitan Magistratefor making it a foolproofcase.The case hinged onthe victim’s allegations inher complaint and thestatement recorded by theMagistrate. But in thetrial, she refused to sup-port the prosecution.

She was extensivelycross-examined by theprosecution but she didnot budge from theinverse position she took

on the case. “All theaccused persons presentin the court today havenot committed anyoffence against her andthey are innocent. She didnot want to say anythingelse,” the victim deposedin the trial.

“Therefore, in view ofabove discussion, the con-science of this court iscompletely satisfied thatthe prosecution has failedto bring home the chargeagainst all the accusedpersons namely PuneetBatra, Arjun Singh,Sanveer Sharma andRohit Joshi for theoffences…” AdditionalSessions Judge NiveditaAnil Sharma said acquit-ting them.

Four acquitted in gang rape case

NEW DELHILieutenant Governor

Najeeb Jung today wishedDelhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal on hisbirthday and also sent hima bouquet of flowers.

"Lt Governor spoke toCM Kejriwal over thephone and wished him onhis birthday in the morn-ing," a senior official fromthe LG's office said.

There has been a bitterconfrontation between MrJung and Mr Kejriwal overseveral issues, includingnotification over hikingcircle rates for agricultureland and transfer and post-ings of senior bureaucrats.

Earlier this week, MrJung had sent back theAAP government's notifi-

cation over increasing thecircle rate for agricultureland even as Mr Kejriwaldirected his officials not tofollow the Lt Governor's

direction on the issue.The AAP government

also refused to accept MrJung's stay on its notifica-tion. Later, the Lt

Governor had returned thefile on the matter citing"inherent inconsistencies"and sought a fresh notifica-tion.

Besides, Mr Jung hadlast month declared AAPleader Ms Swati Maliwal'sappointment as DelhiCommission for Women(DCW) chief as null andvoid, saying it did not havelegal sanctity and was inviolation of constitutionalprovisions.

Earlier in the day, PrimeMinister Narendra Moditoo took to Twitter to wishMr Kejriwal and the DelhiChief Minister immediate-ly responded with thanksand desired to meet him todiscuss the situation in theNational Capital.

Lieutenant Governor Najeeb JungWishes Arvind Kejriwal on His Birthday

DELHIFormer Judge of

Supreme CourtMarkandey Katju extend-ed greetings to DelhiChief Minister ArvindKejriwal in his own style.

Katju posted on micro-blogging website Twitter:“Happy birthday to thatcunning fraud, who solddreams to Delhiites, thatDon Quixote surroundedby chamchas and SanchoPanzas like Ashutosh.”

Katju is also formerchairman, Press Councilof India.

Meanwhile, PrimeMinister Narendra Moditoday wished Kejriwal on

his birthday and the DelhiCM immediatelyresponded with thanksand desired to meet himto discuss the situation inthe national capital.

"Spoke to Delhi CMShri Arvind Kejriwal andwished him on his birth-day. My prayers for hislong life and goodhealth," the PM tweeted,as per PTI.

The CM thanked PMModi for the wishes.

“Thank you so much sirfor your wishes. I amtouched. I look forwardto meeting you soon tobrief you on Delhi's situ-ation," Kejriwal said.

Markandey Katju wisheshappy birthday to 'cunning

fraud' Arvind Kejriwal

After Heavy Rain,Waterlogging,Traffic Jams inDelhiNEW DELHI

Heavy rains lashed thenational capital todayafternoon, flooding manyneighbourhoods and caus-ing traffic jams at severalplaces. Many roads inDelhi were flooded main-ly due to choked drains.The traffic slowed downon the arterial roads,including one leading toadjoining Gurgaon."Traffic has been affectedat various places in manyareas," said a traffic policeofficial. A 29-year-oldman going to Noida saidhe was stuck in the rain onthe DND flyway that linksDelhi with Noida.

NEW DELHIAiming at making school educa-

tion skill-oriented, the Delhi gov-ernment is planning to introduceeight vocational streams, includingbeauty and wellness, automobileand travel and tourism, in 200schools.

The streams, to be offered to stu-dents from class 9 to 12, will havefour levels A,B,C and D.

The eight streams which willalso include retail, financial mar-keting management, general dutyassistant in health care, informa-tion technology, and security, arelikely to be offered in the schoolsfrom October this year.

"We have recently signed anMoU with the National SkillDevelopment Corporation(NSDC) to offer these streams andare now in process of finalising

training partners. Though this willtake another month we are tryingto squeeze as much a possible sothat we can do substantial teachingthis year," Director of Education,Padmini Singhla told PTI.

"After we finalise the trainingpartners, we will enter into tripar-tite agreement with RashtriyaMadhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan(RMSA), sector skill council andthe training partner.

"The project is being carriedunder the RMSA and state govern-ment is providing substantialbudgeting. Earlier the fundingused to come from RMSA only,"she added. Following the agree-ment, the training partners willstart the recruitment of teachersand trainers. "We will start theclasses by mid-October and

simultaneously we will work on

establishment of labs in theseschools because not all schoolshave the infrastructure needed forteaching of streams as beauty andwellness and automobile," Singhlasaid. "The streams will be gradedand, after the students have com-pleted the D level by class XII, thecourses will be integrated withITIs enabling them to pursue thearea in full fledged manner," sheadded. According to the proposal,the National Skill QualificationFramework will be divided intofour levels. "In the initial stage,there will be two vocationalstreams in each school for the stu-dents to choose as per their interestin the area. For now, the projectwill be carried out in 200 schoolsand we will expand it to moreschools from next year," Singhlasaid. There are 1,007 government-

run schools in the national capital.The idea to introduce vocationalcourses in Delhi governmentschools was suggested by formerPresident A P J Abdul Kalam toDelhi Deputy Chief MinisterManish Sisodia during a meetingon June 7, 2015.

Addressing a gathering of teach-ers, educationists and governmentofficers at the Delhi secretariat onJuly 2, Kalam had said that 25 percent of school time, for studentsbetween class 9 to class 12, shouldbe devoted to skill development.

He had also suggested Sisodia toprovide two certificates to the stu-dents passing out from Delhi gov-ernment schools academic certifi-cate to pursue further academiceducation and vocational certifi-cate to choose the vocation as perhis area of interest.

Delhi govt to roll out eight vocationalstreams in 200 schools

NEW DELHIGearing up to meet the

growing demand for watersupply, Delhi Jal Board(DJB) aims to increase useof recycled water to 40 percent from the present 25per cent which will helpmeet the purposes of agri-culture, horticulture andwashing.

DJB produces around2100 million litres of recy-cled water across its 30Waste Water TreatmentPlants (WWTPs).

The plan aims at increas-ing use of this water frompresent 25 per cent to 40per cent in one year forpurposes likeirrigation/horticulture,flushing/washing, coolingplants, etc - thereby mak-ing available additionalwater for drinking.

"The DJB is activelyencouraging use of recy-cled water in order tobridge the gap betweendemand and supply ofpotable water in the city.Water produced atWWTPs is of good qualityand is being promoted for

non-potable purposes,"DJB said in a statement.

The board said bulk con-sumers like DelhiDevelopment Authority(DDA), municipal corpo-rations, DTC depots,power plants and industrialareas have been identifiedfor supply of additionalrecycled water.

At present, 25 per cent oftreated water is being usedfor irrigation, horticultureand cooling in powerplants by agencies such asTata Power, Pragati PowerCorporation Limited,Central Public WorksDepartment, DDA etc.

The agencies are beingsupplied water at a sub-sidised rate of Rs. 7 perkilo litre. "A series ofmeetings were held withorganisations which havepotential to use recycledwater. Deputy ChiefMinister Manish Sisodiahas directed all organisa-tions to submit their actionplans for closing theirtube-wells and using recy-cled water for horticulturalpurposes," the board said.

NEW DELHISeven new Automatic Fare Collection

(AFC) gates have been installed at DelhiMetro's Rajiv Chowk station to facilitatesmooth exit of passengers deboardingfrom Yellow Line trains which runbetween Jahangirpuri and Gurgaon's HudaCity Centre. These additional gates willreduce the congestion in the exit point areatowards F-Block of Connaught Place. Thisexit point registers maximum outflow, aMetro statement said. In this regard, Metrohad previously opened the ViewersGallery, the unpaid area of the busy inter-section, to allow its passengers to moveover the tracks of Blue Line without cross-ing the foot-over-bridge.

However, it has very few takers as ofnow. "These additional gates will facilitatesmooth and swift exit of passengers ofYellow Line (Line-2) from the stationwithout getting into the way of Blue Line(ie, Line-3 Dwarka Sec-21 to Noida City

Centre) passengers within the paid areaand vice versa and will avoid unnecessarycriss-crossing while interchange," thestatement added. Adequate signages havebeen installed to guide passengers towardsthese gates, it said. With these new instal-lations, the number of Automatic FareCollection gates at Rajiv Chowk has goneup to 46, the maximum for any station inthe entire Metro network.

7 Fare Collection Gates Installedat Rajiv Chowk Metro Station

Delhi Jal Board to IncreaseUse of Recycled Water

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KARACHITributes for Pakistan's

late former Inter-ServiceIntelligence (ISI) chiefHamid Gul poured in today,words bound to infuriatePakistan's neighbours afterhe spent a career promotingmilitancy in Afghanistanand India.

"(Prime Minister) NawazSharif has expressed hisheartfelt condolences overthe sad demise of ... HamidGul," Pakistan's ruling

party said on Twitter. "Theprime minister prayed eter-nal peace for the departedsoul and said that may Godbless the deceased."

Pakistan lawmaker ArifAlvi tweeted that Gul haddied on Saturday night of abrain haemorrhage at age79 and called him "a great

man". The tributes willanger Afghanistan andIndia, who saw Gul asPakistan's most senior andvocal proponent of militan-cy in their territory.

Gul worked closely withUS and Saudi officials tostrengthen Afghan fightersagainst the Soviet militarywhen he headed the fearedmilitary intelligenceagency, ISI, from 1987 to1989. Some of those fight-ers later joined the Talibaninsurgency.

Towards the end of hisposting, officials begandiverting men and gunsfrom the Afghan wartowards budding terrorgroups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, founded in 1990 as aseparatist movement inJammu and Kashmir.

After Gul retired, he fre-quently went on televisionto defend the Taliban andseparatists and blame aJewish conspiracy for theSeptember 11, 2001, attackson the United States.

Tributes for Pakistan's Ex-ISI Chief Hamid Gul Bound to Upset India and Afghanistan

NEW DELHIRains forced the shifting

of 'At Home' function host-ed by President PranabMukherjee today from theMughal Gardens to theAshoka Hall where a largenumber of dignitariesincluding Vice PresidentHamid Ansari and PrimeMinister Narendra Modiwere present.

Lok Sabha SpeakerSumitra Mahajan,Congress President SoniaGandhi, Leader ofOpposition in Rajya SabhaGhulam Nabi Azad, senior

BJP leader LK Advani,BJP President Amit Shahand cabinet ministersattended the reception.

After a tumultuousParliament session inwhich the Congress hadcrossed swords with theSpeaker, Mrs Gandhi andMs Mahajan were seenholding each other's handsand having a word withsmile on their faces.

Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal, who hasa running battle with LtGovernor Najeeb Jung,exchanged pleasantries

with him in the ceremonialhigh-domed chamber. Thetwo laughed their heartsout in the company of MrAzad, Minister of State forPersonnel Jitendra Singhand Telecom Minister RaviShankar Prasad.

Mr Mukherjee movedout of Ashoka Hall andmixed with the crowd inthe adjacent banquet halland Ashoka Hall.

Former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh and hiswife Gursharan Kaur werealso present at the func-tion.

President Pranab Mukherjee's 'At Home'Function Held Indoors Following Rains

NEW DELHIPrime Minister Narendra

Modi is likely to announceRs. 56,000-crore develop-ment package for nationaland state highways in elec-tion-bound Bihar duringhis visit to the state nextweek.

Mr Modi, who willaddress a rally scheduled inAra district on Tuesday, isalso likely to inaugurate 11national highway projectsworth around Rs. 6,200crore for Bihar, sourcessaid.

This would be in addi-tion to the special packageworth close to Rs. 56,000crore for developingnational and state high-ways in the state, theyadded.

Bihar, where assemblyelections are expected laterthis year, has 4,371 km ofnational highways.

This will be Mr Modi'sthird rally in Bihar, afterMuzaffarpur and Gaya,and would be attended byvarious other top politi-cians and ministers from

the state.In April, Bihar Chief

Minister Nitish Kumar hadattacked the Union govern-ment stating that if theCentre does not have thefinance to repair nationalhighways, which are in apoor shape, the state gov-ernment could step in anddo it.

"The roads about whichthe people of Bihar com-plain are mostly nationalhighways whose mainte-nance is the responsibilityof the Union government,which they are not doing,"he had said.

Mr Modi is visiting theUAE on August 16-17,where he is expected toseek greater economic tiesand reach out to theinvestors while promotingIndia as an attractive busi-ness destination.

According to industrybodies, Mr Modi's visitwill help in attracting morefunds from the Gulf nationinto India's infrastructuresector.

PM Modi to Launch Rs. 56,000 CrorePlan to Develop Highways in Bihar

NEW DELHILeft parties will launch a campaign

against the BJP from poll-boundBihar next month to expose the partyon various issues including allegedcorruption.

CPI General Secretary S SudhakarReddy said central leaders of all Leftparties will hold a convention inPatna on September 7, setting thetone of the campaign "to expose BJPon corruption" issues in the Hindibelt.

The campaign by the Left partiescomes in the wake of BJP announc-ing its plan to undertake campaignsin constituencies of opposition MPsfollowing wash-out of Parliament'sMonsoon session. The ruling partyhad blamed opposition parties forpoor business during the session.

"We will carry out a counter cam-paign. As part of this, a joint conven-tion by central leaders of all Left par-ties will be held next month. We wantto campaign more in Hindi states(from where BJP draws strength inHouse) and where it hurts the most,exposing the ruling party," Mr Reddysaid.

Exhibiting good show in Bihar dur-ing the Lok Sabha elections, the BJPand its allies had managed to win 31out of 40 seats. In another politicallycrucial state in the Hindi belt, UttarPradesh, the BJP had secured 71 outof the total 80 seats there.

Mr Reddy said the Left cadre willreach out to people against theGovernment through booklets,leaflets, public meetings and semi-nars in the region.

Meanwhile, the former MP saidseat-sharing talks for Bihar elections,likely to be held inSeptember/October, amongst Leftparties will be finalised by nextweek. Asked if Left parties plan to tieup with NCP, which pulled out ofJD(U)-RJD alliance after it was allot-ted fewer seats, for the crucial polls,Mr Reddy said a call to this regardwill be taken after consulting CPIstate unit.

Left Parties to Protest Against BJP in Bihar

NEW DELHIThe Haryana Cabinet,

which met in New Delhitoday, decided to convenethe monsoon session ofAssembly in the firstweek of September.

The Cabinet, which metat Haryana Bhavan underthe chairmanship of ChiefMinister Manohar LalKhattar, also decided togrant extension of area ofenquiry of the DhingraCommission, which hasbeen entrusted to inquire

into issuing of licences todevelop commercialcolonies in Sector 83 ofGurgaon during the previ-ous regime.

Disclosing about thedecisions of the HaryanaCabinet, AgricultureMinister Om PrakashDhankhar said that nowthe area of enquiry of SNDhingra Commission hasbeen extended.

It will now coverlicences issued in fourvillages of district

Gurgaon, namely Sihi,Sikohpur, Kherki Daulaand Sikanderpur Bada.

He said that now theCommission will enquireinto licences issued fordeveloping all types ofcolonies in these four vil-lages and not commercialcolonies alone. Not onlySector 83, but all sectorsfrom 78 to 86 wouldcome under the ambit ofthe DhingraCommission's enquiry,Dhankhar said.

MOHALIPunjab Chief Minister

Parkash Singh Badal todayappealed to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to reviewthe "unending saga of dis-crimination and sheerinjustice" allegedly metedout to Punjab by succes-sive Governments atCentre after country's inde-pendence.

Mr Badal alleged thatdespite Punjab's enormouscontribution in the coun-try's freedom struggle,safeguarding its securityand sovereignty and mak-ing it self-reliant in foodproduction, the State hasbeen discriminated against.

Addressing a publicgathering after unfurlingthe national tricolour dur-ing a state level function tocommemorate the 69thIndependence Day inMohali at Government

College, 87-year-oldlamented that the supremesacrifices made by bravePunjabis in the pre andpost-independence erahave not yet been dulyrecognised by the govern-ments at the Centre.

"At the same time we areproud of the stellar role ofour valiant soldiers toensure the safety and secu-rity of our countrymenfrom the external as well asinternal aggression besides

the rare feat of the hardworking farmers towardsthe food bowl of India," hesaid.

Mr Badal recalled "howour state was deliberatelydeprived from justice onthe legitimate territorialissues including the trans-fer of Chandigarh andPunjabi speaking areas toPunjab and sharing of riverwaters on the basis of uni-versally accepted riparianprinciples".

Apart from these, thefive-time Chief Ministeralso pointed out "how thestate's industry was ruinedgradually after grantingliberal concessions andincentives to the industryin the neighbouring states".

He appealed to the PrimeMinister to bail out the dis-tressed peasantry in thishour of crisis as it was nowfeeling totally dejected andthus called for tangiblesolution to end their woesimmediately and makeagriculture far more prof-itable and economicallyviable occupation to sus-tain their livelihood.

He said, "what to talk ofrewarding the haplessfarmers for their hard workand sincerity in attainingnational food security,rather the poor peasantryhas been blatantly ignoredby the Centre”.

End 'Discrimination' Meted to Punjab: CMParkash Singh Badal Appeals to Centre

PATNAA Bihar Police constable

was today arrested forallegedly sending threat-ening text messages toRajasthan DirectorGeneral of Police (DGP)and top police officers ofother states with bombblasts to take revenge forhanging Ajmal Kasab andYakub Memon.

Patna SeniorSuperintendent of Police(SSP) Vikas Vaibhav saidthe arrested constableidentified as Shah Ujair isa resident of Sigori villagein Paliganj block of Patnadistrict and was posted inadjoining Jehanabad dis-trict.

"He had sent an SMS toRajasthan DGP on the eveof Independence Daythreatening blast andbloodbath in pink cityJaipur, sending securityforces into a tizzy. Wereceived informationabout the message origi-nating from Bihar andtook action to identify thesender," Mr Vaibhav said.

The SSP said the num-ber was traced to Ujairand the SIM card selleralso identified him as theperson to whom it wassold.

An FIR has been lodgedin this connection andpolice officers are interro-gating the constable about

his motive.Inquiries revealed he

had sent similar messagesto Mumbai PoliceCommissioner, PunjabDGP among others.

Investigators said Ujairis mentally stable as hewas already working inthe police force, but hecould be either extremelyradicalised or sent mes-sages to implicate one ofhis brothers-in-law withwhom he had some ani-mosity.

Ujair had tried to impli-cate his brother-in-lawearlier also by threateningan MLA in the state withdire consequences, theinvestigation revealed.

Policeman Held for Threatening RajasthanTop Cop Over Yakub Memon Hanging NEW DELHI

All the 42 mega foodparks approved by the gov-ernment will become oper-ational by 2019, which willyield a potential invest-ment of about Rs. 14,000crore, Union FoodProcessing MinisterHarsimrat Kaur Badal hassaid.

"I want these 42 megafood parks become opera-tional by 2019 and we areworking on the same asthis will benefit about 12.5lakh farmers. At the sametime, these parks areexpected to generate about3-4 lakh jobs also," MsBadal told PTI.

Under the scheme (2008-09) of mega food parks, theMinistry had sanctioned 42projects throughout thecountry. Of these, 17 parks

were allotted in March thisyear to state governmentsand private firms, includ-ing Adani Ports & SEZ.

A mega food park offersvarious facilities to food

processors, farmers, retail-ers and exporters, helpingachieve faster growth forfood processing industries.

Badal added that it's esti-mated that these food parks

would entail an investmentof more than Rs. 14,000crore, including the Rs. 50crore subsidy the govern-ment provides for eachpark.

She said three mega foodparks became operationalafter she assumed officewhereas "only two startedin the previous govern-ment's complete tenure".

"My focus is on perish-ables, especially fruits andvegetables, as their pro-cessing in the country is aslow as two per cent. I amoptimistic that in the nextfour years, it will improvesubstantially, benefiting allstakeholders, includingfarmers, consumers and theindustry," Ms Badal added.

The Mega Food ParkScheme, based on the clus-ter approach, is modelled

on hub-and-spoke architec-ture, which follows princi-ples from the spoke-hubdistribution paradigm.

It aims at facilitating theestablishment of a strongfood processing industrybacked by an efficient sup-ply chain, which includescollection centres, a centralprocessing centre (CPC)and cold chain infrastruc-ture.

The scheme envisagesone-time capital grant of50 per cent of the projectcost excluding land costsubject to a maximum ofRs. 50 crore in generalareas, and 75 per cent ofthe project cost, excludingland cost too, subject to aceiling of Rs. 50 crore indifficult and hilly areas,including the North -Eastand J&K.

42 Mega Food Parks to be Operational by 2019: Union Minister Harsimrat Badal

Haryana to Convene Monsoon Session of Assembly in September

PATNABihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has

announced that all the villages in Biharwill have electricity by November 2016.The Chief Minister's declaration - madeduring an interaction with journalists inPatna today - comes on the heels of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi's announcementthat 18,000 villages across the country willhave electricity within a thousand days.More than 4000 of the state's 40,000 vil-lages remains to be electrified -- a targetthe state is confident of achieving in thenext 14 months. But Mr Kumar was eva-

sive when asked whether each and everyhousehold will have electricity. He said itdepends on individual consumers, "but ourendeavour will remain to expand andinclude each and every household aspower transformer and wire will reacheach and every village". Power is one ofthe key talking points as every time PMModi visits Bihar. The Prime Minister crit-icises the state over poor power situation.The Nitish Kumar government countersthat the power situation has improved andsteps have been taken to electrify most ofthe villages.

Every Bihar Village to Have Electricityby 2016-End, Says Nitish Kumar

BY RANGEET GHOSH

On 29 March, 2015, whenSingapore bade farewell to LeeKuan Yew, its first and longest-

serving Prime Minister, India participat-ed in the event in both top-down and bot-tom-up ways. Prime Minister NarendraModi attended the state funeral, theIndian flag flew at half-mast; and inTamil Nadu, which shares a culturalaffinity with Singapore’s Tamil popula-tion and sends many migrant workersthere, gatherings were organised towatch the funeral.

LKY, as he is informally known, ledthe Little Red Dot republic from the thirdworld to the first in a generation, and hasbeen hailed as one of the leading Asianstatesmen of the twentieth century.Singapore recently celebrated 50 yearsof independence. This is an opportunemoment to examine what India can takefrom this island nation’s incredible half-century.

Public sector pay

Much of Singapore’s success is attrib-uted to a clean and efficient government.LKY believed that competitive salarieswere required to attract the society’s bestpeople into public service and bring outtheir best. In 1996, he argued, “Lowsalaries will not attract able men who areor can be successful in their professionsor business. Low salaries will draw in thehypocrites who sweet talk their way intopower in the name of public services, butonce in charge, will show their truecolour, and ruin the country...”

Of course, pay should never be the solereason people aspire to join politics orthe civil services. But low pay shouldalso not deter capable and public-spiritedpeople from government service.Singapore has a unique system of settingbureaucrats’ pay — public sector salariesare linked via a formula to comparableprivate sector jobs. This approachreflects the choices and trade-offs indi-viduals face while selecting careers.

By contrast, in India, successive

Central Pay Commissions have restruc-tured the salaries of government officersjust six times in the past 68 years.Adjustments often take the form ofapplying a multiple to existing salaries,which do not take into account changesin the market price for certain skills dueto developments in the wider labour mar-ket. Carefully designed indexation canaddress this issue.

For public service jobs with no obvi-ous comparison group — like police offi-

cers or administrators — the gov-

ernment can aim for a person with a cer-tain calibre to be recruited and setsalaries based on what a person withthese qualifications could earn in the bestprivate sector jobs. In Singapore senioradministrative service officers (andMinisters) receive few non-monetarybenefits, but have their salaries indexed— with reasonable discounts applied —to salaries of private sector executives.

Singapore was one of the fastest-grow-ing economies in the world during thepost-war period largely due to interven-tions by an activist state. The countryheavily invested in infrastructure andinstitutions — transportation networks,labour skilling, an attractive tax regime— to attract Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) in sectors that created low-skilledmanufacturing jobs in the late 1960s.The share of manufacturing inSingapore’s Gross Domestic Product(GDP) almost doubled from below 16per cent in 1960 to 28 per cent by 1980.

The government also invested heavilyin primary education, which enabled alarger share of the population to partici-pate in the economic growth that was tofollow. And as its own demographics andcost structures changed, Singapore’sindustrial policy evolved, moving up thequality ladder to attract industries thatwould create jobs to match the skill lev-els of its increasingly educated popula-tion.

What lessons does this hold for India?India’s growth has been fuelled by serv-

ices that are skill-intensive and do notreadily absorb (unskilled) labour andresources from other sectors. This, as theEconomic Survey 2014-15 highlighted,has hampered the potential of these sec-tors (especially organised manufactur-ing) to spread the benefits of growthacross the economy.

Fortunately, the two flagship cam-paigns of the present government —Make in India and Skill India — seem torecognise LKY’s prescient advice, deliv-ered in the 2005 Nehru MemorialLecture, that, “Since the industrial revo-lution, no country has become a majoreconomy without becoming an industrialpower.”

Women’s participation

When Singapore became independentin 1965, few women worked — onlyabout a third were in the labour force —and the labour force participation (LFP)of Indian women in Singapore was par-

ticularly low. The government embarkedon a campaign to encourage women tojoin the workforce by making it safer forwomen to travel at night and publiclydiscussing the benefits of a dual-incomefamily. This campaign helped shift cul-tural norms, and, coupled with risingfemale educational attainments andgreater availability of domestic help,explains the increase in participation ofwomen in Singapore’s workforce frombelow 30 per cent in 1970 to above 51per cent in 1996.

Research by leading growth econo-mists such as Alwyn Young suggests thatimproving female LFP was a key reason,along with high savings rates and invest-ment in primary schooling, forSingapore’s rapid growth of nearly 8 percent per annum in the post-war period.What can India learn from Singapore’sexperience? Economists Stephan Klasenand Janneke Pieters document thatdespite fertility declines in urban India,low levels of female LFP persist, espe-cially among women with medium edu-cation levels.

The Singapore experience demon-strates that political backing and dedicat-ed efforts by the state to reduce costs forwomen to join the workforce can yieldmeasurable change. Given the bewilder-ing differences in size and historybetween India and Singapore, is not anattempt to draw specific lessons, espe-cially for India, a futile exercise? We donot think so.

In two specific areas — public sectorpay and industrial policy — the pointshighlighted about boosting economicefficiency and strengthening governancehave little to do with size. And withregard to women’s role in the workplace,Singapore inherited many of the culturalbarriers prevalent in Asian societies. Thelegacy of Singapore’s astonishingly suc-cessful half-century, above all, is thattransformative change is possible.

(Siddharth Eapen George is a Ph.D.student at Harvard University and a for-mer Singapore government economist.Rangeet Ghosh is an Indian civil servant)

MONDAY | AUGUST 17, 2015

Calculated devaluation

The selfie as visible patriotism

BY SHEKHAR HATTANGADI

That conflicting religiousphilosophaies often pro-pel nations into war has

long been a truism of history.But when Samuel P.Huntingtongave the oft-used “clash of civ-ilizations” phrase a foreboding— even menacing — contem-porary context during a 1992lecture in the aftermath of theGulf War, it’s unlikely that theAmerican political scientistwas thinking of an emaciatedJain muni peacefully awaitingdeath on a bed of dry grass afterweeks of starvation.

Although it may seem farfrom obvious, Huntington’sthesis — that differences inreligion and culture wouldspawn conflict in the post-ColdWar world — lies at the root ofthe angst that has gripped theJain community following theRajasthan High Court’s verdictagainst Santhara. Earlier thisweek [Monday, 10 Aug], thecourt’s Jaipur Bench ruled on apublic-interest litigation (PIL)filed in May 2006 against thecenturies-old Jain practice ofstarving to death. It held thatSanthara would henceforth betreated as “suicide” and accord-ingly made punishable underthe relevant sections — Section309 (attempt to commit sui-cide) and Section 306 (abet-ment of suicide) — of theIndian Penal Code. In the useof harsher language in its direc-tive to the State — that the lat-ter shall “stop and abolish” thepractice “in any form” and reg-ister any complaint against it“as a criminal case” — thecourt made its absolute rejec-tion of the Jain philosophyunderlying the practiceunequivocally clear. It alsounwittingly bared the culturaldivide between disparate end-of-life concepts.

During the five-year-longresearch for my documentaryfilm on this controversy —Santhara: A Challenge to IndianSecularism? — I met severalmembers of the Jain clergy andother lay adherents of the faithas well as scholars who hadstudied the philosophy ofJainism through its scripturesand rituals. Without an excep-tion, they were all at pains topoint out the fallacy of charac-terizing Santhara as a form ofsuicide. True, both acts culmi-nate in the self-extinguishmentof a human life, but the motiva-tions of the actors are polesapart. Whereas suicide is an actof extreme desperation fuelledby anguish and hopelessness, aSanthara practitioner relin-quishing food and drink volun-tarily by this method hasarrived at that decision aftercalm and unruffled introspec-tion, with an intent to cleanseoneself of karmic encum-brances and thus attain thehighest state of transcendentalwell-being. Santhara, for him,is therefore simply an act ofspiritual purification premisedon an exercise of individualautonomy.

Admittedly, dietary absti-nence as religious ritual isn’tunique to Jainism. There’sRamzan among Muslims, Lentamong Christians, fasting dur-ing Yom Kippur and Tisha B’avamong Jews, and a host ofastronomy- and astrology-relat-ed fasts among Hindus. Butnone of the others takes fastingto the point of starvation andultimately death as doesSanthara. Since any kind of eat-ing or drinking would result ina disruption (however minimal)of and add a burden (howeversmall) to the natural ecologyaround them, orthodox Jains

consider zero-consumption —i.e. starvation unto death a laSanthara — to be the high-point among the Jain traditionsof austerity and self-denial, andtherefore the truest real-worldact of ahinsa or non-violence,the fundamental tenet ofJainism.

Disregard, for a moment, theradical extremism of the actitself. And contrast its broadertheological rationale — whichis more or less common toEastern religions, and whichresonates nicely with the basictheory of karma that underliesthe beliefs and practices ofmost Indian religions — withthe ecclesiastical values preva-lent in the cultures that broughtus the forms of governance wepresently live with. A conspira-cy of history, circumstance andexpedient decision-making hasresulted in our law-making andlaw-administering bodies beingstructured on the Westminstermodel of our colonial rulers,not to mention our judicialmachinery and its key statutes— notably, criminal laws —remaining largely untouchedsince the time they were firstdesigned by the British andwritten with their colonialfeather-pens. Even the bulk ofour Constitution, mulled overfor all of three years on thecusp of Independence by wor-thy home-grown sons anddaughters representing a cross-section of our population, wasderived from the Governmentof India Act, 1935 and arguablyits most important articles (i.e.those enshrining ourFundamental Rights) wereinspired by the AmericanConstitution.

The concept of suicide asso-ciated with religion is a repug-nant one for the mainstream

Anglo-Saxon West, whoseJudeo-Christian beliefs woulddenounce such an act as anti-thetical to the moral and ethicalprinciples espoused byChristianity. The systematiccodification of Indian criminallaw as we know it today begansoon after the colonialists sur-vived the blood-soaked Mutinyof 1857 and formally estab-lished the British Raj. The IPC,which forms the bulwark of ourcriminal jurisprudence, bearsan 1860 vintage (it came intoforce two years later) and wasdrafted by Lord ThomasMacaulay who was known tobe a devout Christian.Inevitably, it would appear, thewily administrator put forth acode that not only set a lowthreshold of culpability forpolitical dissent and for spread-ing disaffection against thegovernment — which was tac-itly welcomed by successiveregimes well into the post-Independence era, and which iswhy it’s still so easy to slap“sedition” cases againstinnocuous cartoonists — butwhich also reflected his owndeeply held convictions aboutright-and-wrong, and good-and-evil.

aThe Crown couldn’t have

found a more faithful and capa-ble servant. As a public policymaker, Macaulay had tele-scoped his personal beliefs intoan official document thatupheld the “civilizing mission”of his masters while taking careof the everyday chore of main-taining law and order amongthe unruly “natives” as well asthe tricky task of subvertingtheir pagan values. The IPCaccomplished the first, andMacaulay’s introduction ofEnglish as a medium of instruc-tion in schools and collegescontributed to the second. It

paved the way for Christianmissionaries to press forwardwith their conversions mainlyamong the needy, and withtheir “convent education”among the aspiring middle-classes. From this large-scaleacculturation emerged a newgeneration of brown sahibs andbabus eminently qualified tomaintain the institutions of theRaj.

But it also set the ball rollingfor a fundamental and deep-seated — albeit seldom articu-lated — discordance betweenthe Western ideologies that cre-ated those institutions anddevised their operating normsand procedures, and the Easternphilosophies that shaped theworld-view of the people thoseinstitutions were meant toserve. Compare, for instance,the singularly focused zeal of aproselytizing religion likeChristianity with the Jain tenetof anekantavada (non-abso-lutism or openness to differ-ing—and even contrasting—opinions and beliefs) or withthe inclusive live-and-let-liveapproach of Hinduism, and youbegin to empathize withRudyard Kipling’s twain-shall-never-meet conundrum.

“Instead of the earth, themeek religions of the sub-conti-nent have thus inherited an ill-fitting legal template forged, soto speak, in the smitheries ofthe West. ”

And the Santhara case servesto emphasize the seeminglyirreconcilable difference in per-spective on the specific issue of“suicide.” In contrast to aChristian believer who looksupon the human body as a God-given “temple of the humansoul” and therefore beyond therealm of willful and deliberate

destruction by any humanbeing, a devout Jain views thatsame body as a “prison of thehuman soul,” the fulfillment ofwhose needs corresponds to theaccumulation of bad karma.

This basic contradictionbetween a statute foundedlargely on a Christian-inspiredbioethic and the essentiallyEastern variant of the idea ofspiritual advancement throughabstinence and renunciationrears its head whenever anancient religious practice likeSanthara collides with contem-porary law. The conflictbecomes particularly glaring ina faith-based society like ourswhose polity has embracednorms of governance andadministration that are trans-plants from an alien soil.

What, according to me,remains a significant take-awayfrom the court proceedings inthe Santhara case is not somuch the petitioner’s — andconsequently, though notexpressly, the court’s — char-acterization of the death-ritualas suicide simpliciter mas-querading as a religious prac-tice wrapped in the mantle ofhoary tradition. That approachcould arguably be critiqued as anarrow, unkind and mechanicalapplication of the law. Moretelling however is the fact,recorded for posterity in thejudgment, that the pro-Santharacounsel, seeking to establishthe scriptural validity of thepractice, recited slokas “to theamusement of the general pub-lic sitting in the Court.” Is therecitation of a sloka in anIndian courtroom during thehearing of a case involving thelegality of an ancient rite or rit-ual such an incongruous actthat it should invite mirth andderision? Could there be a more

vivid illustration of the incom-patibility between traditionalreligion and modern gover-nance?

Which raises the question:Are countries such as those in

Europe, which enforce a strictseparation between religionand governance and which dis-courage public displays of reli-gious festivity, faring any bet-ter?

Having painstakinglyachieved that ideal — theChurch-State divide — throughcenturies of struggle, thesecountries are apt to lookaskance particularly at theIndian nation-state where anavowedly “secular” (the wordfigures in the Preamble to ourConstitution) government regu-lates religious institutions, sub-sidizes Haj trips and deploysstate resources to safeguardAmarnath Yatra pilgrims.

But times might be changing.Although the conventional ideaof secularism in westerndemocracies largely keeps reli-gion out of governance, theinflux of immigrants of variousfaiths into these countries inrecent times and their assertive— even militant — stance withregard to their rights of reli-gious practice has made thesecountries confront the problemanew. The spiky issues ofburqa-wearing in France and ofcircumcision in Germany man-ifest the same law-religion con-flict with which we are grap-pling here. The unease overSanthara may well be part of aglobal discontent.

(Shekhar Hattangadi is aMumbai-based professor ofconstitutional law and anaward-winning documentaryfilm maker.)

Santhara in the eyes of the law

EDITORIAL4 NEW DELHI | MONDAY | AUGUST 17, 2015Fight For Right

Fight For Right

When China sneezes, the world catches a cold.In a surprise action that set off shock wavesacross the globe and led to the currencies of

many a nation taking a tumble, the People’s Bank ofChina cut its daily yuan reference rate by 1.9 per cent onTuesday. Even before the rest of the world could cometo terms with the unexpected devaluation, Beijing madea further 1.6 per cent cut the very next day. The movesespecially had a sharp negative impact on many Asiancurrencies. Though the rupee too fell to a two-year lowon Wednesday in the wake of the double-dose devalua-tion, the Indian currency has been relatively less affect-ed compared toits Asian peers. After the consecutivecuts, the People’s Bank of China clarified that “there isno basis for a sustained depreciation trend for the yuan”.It justified the second-round cut by citing a fall in thespot market. Is the devaluation an indication of Chinamoving towards a more market-determined currencyrate? Its subsequent intervention in the spot market toquell a further fall in spot rates, however, has led to aguessing game. Nevertheless, the InternationalMonetary Fund is optimistic that the Chinese move willlet market forces have a greater role in determining theexchange rate. The timing of the action – read in thecontext of a decelerating economy and in the light ofChina's heavy dependence on exports – suggests that itis a calculated move meant to regain economic momen-tum. It is a win-win move for China, in a manner ofspeaking. After all, Beijing is also making a strong pitchto make the yuan a global reserve currency at the IMF.For that to happen, it has to move closer to a mechanismof market-determined exchange rates. The immediatetumble in global currencies aside, the wider implicationsof a largely devalued yuan on individual economies ofthe world will play out intensely in the minds of policy-formulators within governments across the world in thecoming days. In the era of the inter-connected world, itis incorrect for central banks, especially of biggernations such as China and the U.S., to assume that theycould operate in separate silos. Given its overbearingstatus as an exporter, China’s step may trigger rearguardaction on the currency and trade policy fronts. For NewDelhi, in particular, this throws up a fresh challenge as itbattles to stem a slide in exports. It has to make counter-moves to stop quickly and effectively the flooding ofChinese goods in the wake of the yuan devaluation,which could have a cascading effect on a host of sectors.

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In two specific areas — public sectorpay and industrial policy — the pointshighlighted about boosting economic

efficiency and strengthening governancehave little to do with size. And with

regard to women’s role in the workplace,Singapore inherited many of the cultural

barriers prevalent in Asian societies.

5 NEW DELHI | MONDAY | AUGUST 17, 2015Fight for right

PM Modi ...is also expected to feature in talks. In the evening, PM Modi visited the iconic

Sheikh Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabi, builtwith marble brought in from all across theworld, including from India.

His next stop will be a residential camp thatis home to some 28,000 Indians workers. ThePM will visit their accommodation area andalso interact with about 300 of them.

Tomorrow, he will go to the Dubai CricketStadium, where he will address about 50,000Indians.

In 30 Years...significant nonetheless, as UAE is comes

only third after US and China.Another concern that could come up in the

talks between the ruler of Abu Dhabi and PMModi is the looming threat of IS or theIslamic State, that the UAE considers a threatto the region.

On his first day, PM Modi will visit theiconic Sheikh Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabithat was built with marble brought in from allacross the world, including from India. It alsohas the largest hand-woven carpet in theworld where thousands can offer prayers atthe same time.

His next stop will be a residential camp thatis home to some 28,000 Indians workers. ThePM will visit their accommodation area andalso interact with around 300 workers.

The last stop on his visit will be the DubaiCricket Stadium, where he will address50,000 Indians. When registrations for theevent opened just last week, within days, theorganisers had to close applications as thenumbers soon touched 51,000, exceeding thecapacity.

The organisers are now going to set upgiant viewing screens outside for those whowant to hear the PM speak but have missedout on the registration deadline. Given thattemperatures can easily cross 40 degrees inthe day, special arrangements are also beingmade in the open stadium to beat the heat.The sheer scale of the event and turnout isexpected to be unprecedented in the UAE.

Centre Eyes...space available there for virtual training

like classrooms, for soft skills to connectthem to the world; or use the infrastructure.

"Railways has the largest constructioncapacity, so through IRCON, to train theirworkers, to do recognition of prior learningfor these skilled manpower," the Union min-ister said.

On the partnership with Indian Railways,he noted that it has the largest infrastructurein the country including about 6,0000 railwaystations across the country and a 43,000 kmoptical fibre network.

"There are about 6,000 railway stations outof which 5,000 railway stations are those inwhich one or less trains stop. So, these threethings are there with each and every railwaystation in this country.

"One, they have an infrastructure whichmeans a shed or a building with water andsanitation facility. Two, they have dedicatedelectricity network; and thirdly which is notthere in any other location, is the optical fibrenetwork which is 43,000 km," he said.

The railway infrastructure is also located ininaccessible hinterland where substantialpopulation of the country lives, he said.

"And they pass through locations which aregenerally very inaccessible. They passthrough villages, mountains, forests and theyaccess the hinterland. Large parts of Indialive in hinterlands which is not accessible byroads...," the minister said.

With the signing of the MoU, National SkillDevelopment Corporation will be able to pro-vide the right platform to a large number ofthe rural unemployed youth to learn skillsthat will help them become economicallyself-reliant and productive.

The Skill Development Ministry is trying toraise resources through multiple sources toraise funds for the ambitious target of trainingabout 50 crore people, Mr Rudy said.

"We are trying to look for multi-lateralfunding because large resources are required.So, for training 50 crore people plus another10 crore people who are joining the workforce, large resources are required.

"We are tapping all sorts of sources,whether it is defence offset, whether we aretalking CSR, government funding, non-gov-ernmental funding and private partnership,state support...through a combination ofthings we are trying to raise resources," hesaid.

The government has set a target of skilling40.2 crore people by 2022 under the newNational Policy for Skill Development.

After Kejriwal ...seen along with his wife Renuka Rawat

serving food and later bought a meal himselfand ate with the people. The fare for the firstday included a variety of vegetables andlentils with four chapatis, rice, pickle andchutney.

Last month, Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal's Delhi Government had unveiled aplan to set up 'Aam Aadmi Canteens' to serve

nutritious food in the Rs. 5-10 range, aimedespecially at the working class population.

Similar programmes are also run in TamilNadu by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and inOdisha by the governments of NaveenPatnaik.

In his Independence Day programme,Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawatsaid that the state had recovered from theeffects of the 2013 flood disaster that killedthousands of people.

"Today I can say with a sense of pride thatUttarakhand has not only recovered from theeffects of the unprecedented tragedy but isalso marching ahead steadily on the path ofdevelopment," he said.

Pakistan Should...should have been celebrating their inde-

pendence, they are engaged in virulent anddangerous confrontation along the borders,"he said.

In a new flareup in border tensions,Pakistani troops resorted to heavy firing andmortar shelling at Indian posts and civilianareas killing six civilians including asarpanch in multiple ceasefire violationsalong the LoC in Poonch district.

He said instead of resorting to the blame-game or sounding jingoistic with slogans ofstrong retaliatory action, the political leader-ship of the two countries must immediatelyresume the snapped process of composite dia-logue for resolving all the issues includingthe recurrent ceasefire violations along theborders.

New Delhi and Islamabad must withoutdelay open the channels of communicationrealising the dangerous consequences of anyescalation of ongoing confrontation along theborders, he said.

Peace between the two countries is crucialnot only for stability, progress and economicprosperity of the region, but for the sustain-ment of the budding democratic institutionsand forces in Pakistan, he added.

Mr Sayeed said the people of Jammu andKashmir have very high stakes in peace asthey have to pay heavy costs during any esca-lation of tension between India and Pakistan.

"For the people of Jammu & Kashmirpeace along the borders and within the main-land is of immense significance and I hopethe political leadership of the two countrieswould also treat it with the same spirit," hesaid.

India, Canada...would promote economic relations between

the two countries and accelerate two-wayinvestments.

"The agreement, designed to protectinvestors by defining their legally bindingrights and obligations, would give new impe-tus to Indo-Canada economic relations," hesaid.

It would bring a new "legal regime" thatwould boost bilateral investment, althoughsome issues like taxation and expropriationwould be resolved soon, Mr Kenney said.

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harperand Ontario Premier Kathleen Wayne in theirgreeting messages have commended contri-butions made by India and Canada in eco-nomic development of Canada and strength-ening bilateral relations.

Seeking Canadian investment, AkhileshMishra, India's Consul General said Indiawas undergoing a historic phase of transfor-mation.

Through digital transformation, rapidurbanisation and massive infrastructuredevelopment India is poised to achieve eightto nine per cent growth every year at a timewhen most of the economies were slowingdown, Mr Mishra said.

"When major economies are confrontedwith prospect of shrinking labour population,India's young demography will witnessexpanding labour force over next fifty yearsand account for 25 per cent of global skilledmanpower," he said.

He said India had one billion mobilephones, 250 million internet users and pro-vides a great opportunity for Canadians toinvest in the country.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi haslaunched ambitious mission of developing100 smart cities, addition of 100,000 megawatt of solar power and 60,000 mega watt ofwind power by 2022, providing vocationaltraining to 400 million people, building gen-eral industrial corridors and high seed trains,"Mr Mishra said.

These initiatives offer huge business oppor-tunities for Canada and other partners, headded.

Rafale Deal...at which its Air Force is buying," defence

sources said.They added the French have instead offered

to undertake 'Make in India' initiatives."The French can look at the option for mak-

ing Falcon business jets in India or even theRafales for future besides other projects," thesources said, adding the French governmenthas made it clear that their companies wouldlike to be part of 'Make in India' initiative.

The sources said the offset clause will sim-ply drive up the cost of each aircraft.

It is not just the offset clause that theFrench are worried about. Indian Air Forcewants to integrate a Israeli helmet mounteddisplay with the Rafale fighter jets besides

tweaking the weaponry technology so that theaircraft can fire a missile other than what theRafales carry.

The missile, sources said is of Americanmake.

"The changes asked for are not like chang-ing tyres in cars. It takes time, effort andmoney, all of which will again drive up thecost," the sources said.

Also, India wants to set up two bases for the36 Rafale jets. This means twice the plannedmachinery, testing facilities besides otherswhich would again jack up the prices, thesources said.

Both Qatar and Egypt, which have strucksimilar deals with the French government,have gone in for one base only.

"Can understand that India's strategic needsmight be different but generally two bases areneeded when one has more than just twosquadrons of a particular aircraft. Setting upof two bases will also cost more," the sourcessaid.

"The benchmark for the prices are alreadythere since the deals with Egypt and Qatarhave been struck. The price of the aircraft toIndia cannot be less than what the other twocountries have bought it for," the sourcessaid.

They added that no talks have been heldbetween the two sides in the recent past, indi-cating a likely stalemate.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had duringhis visit to France announced his decision tobuy 36 Rafale fighter jets citing operationalnecessity of the IAF.

The announcement had come as a boost forthe modernisation plan of the IAF as the orig-inal deal for 126 Rafale jets through a tender-ing process was stuck for years. India hasconstituted a committee headed by AirMarshal SBP Sinha to hold negotiations withthe French.

France is offering the Rafale jets at almostthe same price its Air Force is buying it fromthe original manufacturer Dassault Aviation.

South Australia...tie between India and South Australia in

various sectors," South Australian Ministerfor Investment and Trade Martin Hamilton-Smith told PTI in Mumbai over the week-end.

He said institutional framework is the pre-condition for the successful implementationof many other sanitation and water manage-ment interventions.

Mr Smith said South Australia depends onIndia for construction expertise while thestate can collaborate with India in variousfields like energy, education, water manage-ment, mining services, defence and aero-space, among others.

He said clean Ganga project is not justabout cleaning the river but efficient watermanagement is also crucial.

"It is important to determine waterresources situation and developing its insti-tutional framework. At the same time, oper-ational strategies for water sector capacitybuilding must be tailormade. We haveextensive expertise in this field," he said.

India Summons ...night and continued till 3 am. Since morn-

ing, the Rangers have been using guns.Yesterday, two other areas in Poonch districthad been targeted as well.

Three villages -- Shahpur, Mandhar andKerni -- bore the brunt of it, but the admin-istration has asked people of all border vil-lages to stay indoors.

"There was very heavy shelling fromPakistan - one shell hit a vehicle in whichseven people were travelling. Our sarpanch(headman) was in the same vehicle and hewas killed on the spot," said RasheedAhmad, one of the injured from Balakotevillage.

Jammu and Kashmir's Deputy ChiefMinister Nirmal Singh, who visited theinjured at the hospital in Jammu today, said,"Civilians getting killed is unacceptable.The firing should stop, otherwise the(Pakistan) will face the consequences."

Pakistan, he said, was a "failed state"which was targeting civilians to "keep theirmorale up".

But Pakistan's envoy, Mr Basit, who metthe Indian authorities in the afternoon,claimed it was India which had violatedceasefire 70 times. "We are also concernedabout the ceasefire violation and who isindulging in it," Mr Basit said.

The ceasefire violations began in Poonchand Rajouri sectors yesterday even asPakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif senthis greetings to Prime Minister NarendraModi on Independence Day and called foramicable relations between the two coun-tries.

Amid Vyapam...resignation over the jobs and admission

exam scam, which allegedly involves topministers and bureaucrats of the state. Theirprotests have washed out the Monsoon ses-sion of Parliament, holding up key bills,including the government's flagship Goodsand Services tax bill.

"This is the first time in the history that BJPhas won 16 corporations in the state. We owethis success to the people, Congress shouldthink that defaming would not help in poli-

tics," Mr Chouhan said shortly after theresults were announced.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on atwo-day visit to the UAE, congratulated theMadhya Pradesh BJP for the results.

The municipal bodies were the only sphereon which the Congress still had a substantialgrip.

The BJP had won the assembly elections in2013 with a huge majority for the third timein a row. The state also gave 27 of its 29Parliamentary seats to the BJP in the generalelections held last year.

PM Narendra Modi's...captain of the team your silence is hurtful

sir @PMOIndia," Mr Abdullah wrote onsocial microblogging site Twitter.

The working president of the oppositionNational Conference (NC) earlier said he was"sorry" to see that the Prime Minister couldnot tweet a condolence message after peoplewere killed in the shelling.

"So sorry to see that my PM, who remem-bers to tweet for every obscure birthday &National Day can't tweet a condolence for thedead today," he said.

In another tweet, Mr Abdullah said hisfather Mr Farooq Abdullah was the only sen-ior political leader to visit the areas near theLine of Control in Poonch.

"So far my father is the only senior personto visit this area in Poonch to boost morale.High time Ministers of Center & State visitnow," he said.

Mr Abdullah also lashed out at Minister ofstate in the Prime Minister's Office JitendraSingh, saying he was "heaping insult oninjury".

"Someone please get him to keep quiet.He's heaping insult on injury now," MrAbdullah tweeted after Mr Singh reportedlysaid that "people living along borders nowfeel much more secure than ever before".

I Want to...with him as minister, his personality has

impressed me as he has in-depth knowledgeof every Indian issue," she said.

PM Modi has brought a new era of devel-opmental politics in India which earlierrevolved around secularism versus commu-nalism, the Union Water Resources Ministersaid.

"Now development agenda has prevailedover politics of casteism which divided thesociety. Development mitigates povertywhich does not have religion and caste," shesaid.

With Modi's development agenda, theCongress is in trouble. Therefore, theOpposition party created ruckus in the just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament,she said.

The modernisation of India evolved aroundwesternisation. Modi has connected moderni-sation with Indianisation, Ms Bharati added.

To a query that she was showering praiseson Modi and took his name 23 times but didnot mention BJP senior leader LK Advanieven once, Bharati said the former DeputyPrime Minister was still a father figure to her.

Slamming the Congress party, she said aforeigner AO Hume formed the Congress in1885, but the party has not yet come out offoreign slavery mindset.

Congress holds its president Sonia Gandhiand her son Rahul in high esteem, but doeshave the same respect for (Union Minister)Maneka Gandhi and Varun of the same clan,she alleged.

American Civil..."Julian was a visionary and tireless champi-

on for civil and human rights," SPLC said ofits former president who held the post from1971 to 1979.

From 1998 to 2010 Bond was chairman ofthe National Association for theAdvancement of Colored People.

The son of a university president and alibrarian, Bond helped co-found the StudentNonviolent Coordinating Committee and wasits communications director for five years inthe early 1960s, canvassing the US South toorganize civil rights and voter registrationdrives and lead anti-segregation protests.

In 1965 he was one of several AfricanAmericans elected to the Georgia House ofRepresentatives after the new Civil RightsAct and Voting Rights Act opened voter reg-istration to blacks. Bond served four terms inGeorgia's House and six terms in its Senate.

After losing a bid for the US House ofRepresentatives, Bond taught at several col-leges and universities and became a pub-lished author. In later years he was a regularcommentator for "The Today Show," andeven hosted NBC's late night comedy show,"Saturday Night Live."

Bond was divorced and had five children,SPLC said. It did not give a cause of death.

'Men Beat the...his life while trying to protect a girl from

molestation.Lance Naik Vedmitra Chaudhury, 35, was

beaten to death by three men on Thursday.Around 5.30 in the evening, the girl, 24,

had gone to deliver some tea to her father,who runs a dairy in the area. But some of themen in the shop had targeted her, catcallingand passing lewd comments. The jawan, whohad come to buy milk, had intervened.

"One of the boys slapped the jawan and afight broke out. More men from the villagecame with weapons in hand and beat up theman till he collapsed," said the girl's father,who had been witness to the event.

Mr Chaudhury, who lived in the city withhis wife and children, was admitted to anArmy Hospital, where he succumbed to hisinjuries on Saturday, the police said. Hisfuneral was held in his village, Shamli, today.

The girl he saved said the harassment hadbeen on for six days, but she was scared oftelling her parents. "I thought the blamewould come on me and my parents wouldstop my education," said the girl, who oneday wants to be a civil services officer.

Now the whole family is living under thefear of retaliation by the gang.

Even after three days of the incident, theydon't have police protection. The statement ofthe girl is yet to be recorded and only threeout of the eight people named in the casehave been arrested.

The police say they had been busy - withpreparations for Independence Day.Dismissing the possibility of threat to thefamily, city Superintendent of Police OmPrakash said, "I have my eyes on them."

Guwahati lab ...Lalsawma said that the samples, which

were collected from Mizoram, were sent tothe Assam Public Health Laboratory inGuwahati and the results were recentlyreceived in Aizawl in which Mono SodiumGlutamate (Ajinomoto) was found.

"While the MNC major claimed that theinstant noodle packages did not containMono Sodium Glutamate, the laboratory testscame out positive of the chemical," he said,adding that the laboratory labelled the sam-ples from Mizoram as 'misbranded'.

The report of the laboratory would now besent to the Food Safety and StandardAuthority of India (FSSAI), he added.

The reports came in the wake of theBombay High Court on August 13 settingaside the Food Safety and StandardsAuthority of India (FSSAI) ban order onMaggi noodles and having told the foodauthority to justify the ban on six variants ofthe product.

However, Nestle will not be able to sell itsmarquee product just yet, the court had ruled,adding that preserved samples will now haveto be tested in three different labs located inJaipur, Mohali and Hyderabad in a span of sixweeks.

Air India Plans...in two phases, starting today, and would fly

a total of 38,000 Hajjis directly to Jeddah, AirIndia said in a release.

In the first phase of outbound flights fromIndia to Jeddah, that commences from today,a total of 115 special flights from these sevencities will be operated and will continue tillSeptember 17.

Air India will operate special flights for Hajpilgrims from seven Indian cities - Delhi,Srinagar, Mumbai, Kochi, Hyderabad, Panajiand Nagpur. A total of 230 direct flights intwo phases will fly 38,000 Hajjis directly toJeddah.

In the return phase, another 115 flightswould be operated to ferry back the Haj pil-grims and such flights will continue in opera-tions till October 28, the airline said.

Air India has deployed 340-seater B777-300ER planes to fly the pilgrims to/fromJeddah, it said adding it has offered exclusivepre-boarding facilities besides providing spe-cial meals to all the pilgrims.

The airline has set up a dedicated team toprovide all assistance to the pilgrims, itadded.

Politicians Should ...made to undergo dope test before filing

their nomination papers," Punjab AgricultureMinister Tota Singh told reporters.

The minister also said, "the dope testshould be made mandatory by the ElectionCommission".

Mr Singh, however, said that although thiswas his "personal opinion", it was an "essen-tial" step for "controlling" the drug menace.

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) veteransaid, "if all players, including the top one,could be made to undergo dope test beforestart of the match why could it not be mademandatory for political leaders".

Earlier, in his 'Mann Ki Baat' programmeon radio, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hadsaid the drug menace is a "national pain".

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had earlierclaimed that 70 per cent of youths in the statewere into drugs.

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal hadearlier said that his government was fightinga "war" on drug menace in the state.

Punjab Schools...advance for the parade and functions that

marked the Independence Day celebrationsyesterday.

7 Killed ...Bazaar area, was struck by lightning on

Saturday afternoon.The injured and dead were villagers from

Gogolmari and Santra villages of Barpeta,police said.

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An d r o i d ' sStagefright vulner-ability has received

its share of concerns andpatch release announce-ments from variousAndroid OEM manufac-turers, including a newmonthly security updatecycle. The problem how-ever seems to still bearound even after Googlereleased a patch this monthfor its Nexus devices thatwas claimed to fix theStagefright bug.

Jordan Gruskovnjak, asecurity researcher fromExodus Intelligence hasdiscovered 'severe' prob-lems with patch rolling outto Nexus devices. Jordanalso claimed that theStagefright Detector appreleased by Zimperium(the company that reportedthe issue initially) isunable to detect the flawthat remains after thepatch, which just containsfour lines of code.

"Despite our notification(and their confirmation),Google is still currentlydistributing the faultypatch to Android devicesvia OTA updates," notesExodus Intelligence.

To recall, Stagefright isan open source media

player and which isbelieved to be used onabout 95 percent ofAndroid devices, an esti-mated 950 million users.The vulnerability, ifexploited, can let attackerstake control of an Androiddevice by sending a spe-cially crafted media filedelivered by an MMS mes-sage.

"Along with the initialbug report, a set of patchesto stagefright flaws weresupplied and accepted byGoogle. One of thesepatches, addressing CVE-2015-3824 (aka GoogleStagefright 'tx3g' MP4Atom Integer Overflow)was quite simple, consist-ing of merely 4 lines ofchanged code," notesExodus Intelligence offi-cial blog.

Jordan tested out aNexus 5 with an updatedfirmware flashed to it andwas greeted with a crashupon testing. He was ableto test the flaw through aspecially-crafted mp4 filethat bypassed the patch.

The security researchcompany says that it noti-fied Google, and was toldthe Mountain View com-pany has allocated theCVE identifier CVE-

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1. Plants synthesis protein fromA. starch B. sugarC. amino acids D. fatty acids

2. Plants absorb dissolved nitrates from soil and con-vert them intoA. free nitrogen B. ureaC. ammonia D. proteins

3. Out of 900 reported species of living gymnosperms,conifers are represented by about 500 species, About2,50,000 species of angiosperms (flowering plants)have also been reported in the world. The vast anddominant woodlands in Europe, Asia, North Americaand mountains such as Himalayas are wooded withA. all gymnosperms, except conifersB. only angiosperms C. only conifersD. angiosperms & all gymnosperms except conifers

4. One of the following is not a function of bones.A. Place for muscle attachmentB. Protection of vital organsC. Secretion of hormones for calcium regulation inblood and bonesD. Production of blood corpuscles

QUIZ TIME

Answer: 1(C), 2(A), 3(C), 4(C)

TODAY’S STARARIES You may be looking for some new values in your personal life,

Aries. You're no longer interested in superficial or frivolous rela-tionships. You need to meet different kinds of people and selectfriends who are really worth keeping. Don't worry if you feel liketaking a step back to get some perspective, because this is thetime to do it. Relationships are too important to neglect.

TAURUS You may want to take a little trip into your past to visit some oldfriends, Taurus. You could find yourself daydreaming throughyour good and bad memories. This is an excellent period tobreak with some of the more negative ties to your past. If yourpartner is a little worried about you going back in time at themoment, reassure him or her.

GEMINI If you're concerned about the love that certain close people havefor you, you shouldn't try to compensate by being clingy or over-ly affectionate. This period is about keeping your distance andputting your relationships into perspective to see what they'rereally worth to you, Gemini. Someone may ask you for an evenstronger commitment over the next few months.

CANCER This isn't the time to make any more of a commitment to yourrelationship, Cancer. You aren't satisfied with your attitudetoward things lately. Don't forget that your partner's character-istics may have something to do with it! You have two monthsto take care of things. Take advantage of this reevaluationperiod. It doesn't happen that often.

LEO Today you might want to think about getting things straightwith the people close to you. It's possible you haven't dealtwith any problems you had in your relationships last month,Leo. It's time to look at things again. You may have hiddencertain things from yourself. You need to be much more hon-est about what you want in your personal life.

VIRGO You may be asking certain questions about your feelings,Virgo. Do you know about the trap that many people getcaught up in - feeling so close to their partners that they oftenforget themselves? Sometimes it's easy to confuse your feel-ings with this kind of self-denial. Today you need to think abouthow this affects your life.

LIBRA Nothing can hold back your flame for long, Libra. You have ahard time resting your body and recharging your batteries. Atthe moment, you're probably still going through a deep trans-formation that won't allow you to slow down. Take the time tomeditate and get in touch with your feelings. What is it youreally want out of life?

SCORPIO You can be known for needing a lot of love, but you will neveradmit that to yourself, much less anyone else. Sometimes itseems as if you like feeling emotionally frustrated. Today is theperfect day to meditate about whether or not this is true of you.Do you talk to other people about your emotional needs?

SAGITTARIUSYou probably aren't worried about being conventional inyour relationships, Sagittarius. In fact, conventionality isoften what causes you problems. If you're wondering whatmorality is and what it's based on, this is a good day tothink about these questions.

CAPRICORN You may not be very precise. Your motto seems to be "every-thing is relative." However, paying attention to details doesn'tnecessarily mean that you lose sight of the fundamentals.Your friends could tell you that. If you're an artist, you mightmake an effort today to be clearer in your expression and a lit-tle more down to Earth.

AQUARIUS This isn't a good time to make any big relationship decisions.If you're thinking about starting a relationship, moving intogether, or getting married, you may feel a bit troubled byyour decision, Aquarius. Take advantage of the day to reeval-uate things objectively. There may be some issues to resolvebefore you go any further.

PISCES Today you may feel like something is holding you back,Pisces. Everything was going just fine until now. If you believethe stream of chatter in your head today, you will be regress-ing in every area of your life! For example, you may be afraidto go any further in your relationship because of your past fail-ures. Use this time to lay the past to rest.

BlackBerry has expanded itspremium smartphone rangein India with the launch of

the Porsche Design P'9983Graphite. Priced at Rs. 99,990, thenew premium Qwerty smartphonewill be available to buy in the com-ing days. The move to launch itsnew premium smartphone nowappears to be an attempt byBlackBerry to tap the upcomingfestival season in the country.

The new premium Qwertysmartphone is a variant of thePorsche Design P'9983 smart-phone that was launched last year.

Initially launched in May, theBlackBerry Porsche DesignP'9983 Graphite smartphone fea-tures "exclusive graphite-metalliccoloured elements" while alsosporting "hand-wrapped leather onthe back door cover." The newPorsche Design P'9983 Graphitesmartphone is the fourth smart-phone launched in collaborationbetween BlackBerry and PorscheDesign, with the others being -BlackBerry Porsche DesignP'9983, BlackBerry PorscheDesign P'9982, and BlackBerryPorsche P'9981.

For specifications, thePorsche Design P'9983Graphite features identical innards

as the Porsche Design P'9983smartphone. It features a 3.1-inch

touch screen witha resolution of720x720 pixelsand offers a pixeldensity of 330ppi.Under the hood,the handset isbacked by a1.5GHz dual-coreQ u a l c o m mSnapdragon S4( M S M 8 9 6 0 )processor cou-pled with 2GB ofRAM, and 64GBinbuilt storageexpandable viamicroSD card (upto 128GB).

A 2100mAhbattery powers theB l a c k B e r r yPorsche DesignP'9983 Graphite,and it sports an 8-megapixel rearcamera and a 2-megapixel frontcamera. For con-nectivity options,it features Wi-Fi802.11 a/b/g/n;Bluetooth 4.0;

LTE; FM radio;Micro-USB,

and Micro-HDMI.

One of the highlight features ofthe Porsche Design P'9983Graphite is the unique PIN feature- BlackBerry provides an exclusivePorsche Design PIN range to everyconsumer. The new premiumsmartphone from BlackBerrycomes with such BlackBerry 10features as BlackBerry Hub,BlackBerry Blend, and BlackBerryWorld (for downloading businessand productivity apps).

The company in a press state-ment lists some of exclusivePorsche Design accessories thatwill be in the box including a pre-mium stereo headset, an interna-tional charging kit, a polishingcloth, and a USB cable for high-speed data transfer.

Commenting on the launch,Hitesh Shah, Director - Sales andDistribution, at BlackBerry Indiasaid, "With the launch of the newP'9983 Graphite from BlackBerry,we bring a unique stylish smart-phone combined with the superiorproductivity and ultimate securityexperience of BlackBerry 10 tech-nology for our Indian consumers.This new smartphone is custom-built for power professionals aim-ing to make a style statement whilenot willing to compromise oneffective communication and col-laboration."

BlackBerry Porsche Design P'9983Graphite Launched at Rs. 99,990 OnePlus 2, the handset that earlier

this week launched in India, is rel-atively easy to repair as per a

report by repair and teardown site iFixit.This means that users, who have orderedthe device or already own one, would findit relatively easy to repair the smartphoneif they attempt it by themselves. Ofcourse, doing this would violate the smart-phone's warranty regulations, but is stillindicative of overall effort and expenserequired to repair thesmartphone.

According to theiFixit team, one of thereasons why OnePlus 2is rated as easy andinexpensive to repair(with a 7 out of 10repairability score) is dueto the inclusion of a sin-gle non-proprietary screwhead instead of an adhe-sive. The device, whichincludes individual partsthat can be replaced. Inaddition, the USB Type-Cport is based on the flexcable instead of an assembly,making it easier to replace.

The display on the otherhand can give a tough time tousers as it is fused with thedigitiser. So if one of the com-ponents stops working for some reason,users would have to replace both. iFixitreported the display works on Synaptics

S3320A touch controller.

On further teardown, the report revealedusers can actually remove and replace thebattery. However, the battery is said to beplaced under the mid frame cover, whichusers can access on removing the screwsof the back panel. As per the publication,OnePlus 2's rear camera features anOmnivision OV13860 PureCel-S imagesensor, while the front-facing camera

works on OmniVisionOV5648 sensor. The teamwas even able to take outthe motherboard of thesmartphone.

The components of themotherboard and otherstep-by-step details canbe seen on the iFixitwebsite. To put thingsin perspective, theOnePlus One hadreceived arepairability scoreof 5 out 10 fromthe same site, win-ning plus pointsfor its lack ofp r o p r i e t a r yscrews, "fairlymodular" com-

ponents, but lostout points due to the slight

adhesive on the battery andcables, a difficult to reach battery connec-tor, and fused LCD display and digitiserglass.

OnePlus 2 TeardownSuggests Easy Repairability

Mobikon, a SaaS-based CRM andengagement plat-

form for restaurants,announced Friday that ithas acquired Singapore-based Trii.be, for an undis-closed amount, its firstacquisition after the recentfunding from JungleVentures.

The company said thatthe acquisition has expand-

ed its reach to over 300outlets in Singapore andover 1,700 outlets acrossAsia, with India account-ing for more than 800restaurants.

Some the leading brandson Mobikon's platform areLittle Italy group, PanIndia Foods, Pizza Expressin India, Red Carb, NIU inManila, Swensens, SelectGroup, Secret Recipe, Alt

Pizzas in Singapore.Mobikon, which was

incorporated in Singaporeand has offices in Mumbaiand Pune, said it hasengaged over 3.3 milliondiners and powered inStorefeedback for 1.4 millionusers till date. Mobikonrecently a received secondround of funding of $2.3million (roughly Rs. 15crores).

Over the last 18 months,the company expanded outof India and is currentlypresent in five other coun-tries (Singapore, Manila,Dubai, Macau, and inKuala Lumpur), with inter-national business con-tributing to 45 percent ofthe overall business.

"The acquisition is inline with Mobikon's strate-gy to be a market leader in

in-Store customer engage-ment for restaurants." saidAnuj Jain, Vice President-APAC at Mobikon. Thecompany said that theacquisition will helpincrease its revenues byup-selling and enable mul-tiple product offerings, inaddition to aligning withits vision to be a South-East Asia player.

Founded in 2009,

Mobikon provides a singledashboard for differenttypes of restaurants inquick service, fine dining,casual dining and cafe sec-tors to engage customersintelligently, with integra-tion across ordering, reser-vations, feedback and mar-keting. Its proprietary plat-form mEngage helps F&Bmarketers to have a 360-degree view of customers.

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NEW DELHISpanish shuttler Carolina

Marin thrashed SainaNehwal in the final ofWorld Championships inJakarta on Sunday to suc-cessfully defend her title.

The 22-year-old beat thesecond seeded Nehwal instraight sets 21-16, 21-19to prove her mettle onceagain.

World number two Sainalooked quite composed inthe beginning of the matchand maintained the lead tillMarin rallied back to levelthe score at 7-7. The topranked shuttler then took acrucial lead of four points(11-7), before going for thefirst break.

Poor judgement and acouple of lucky drops wentin favour of the Spaniardafter the break as sheswelled her lead to fivepoints to go up 15-10.

Saina regained her com-posure a bit to reduced herdeficit. But mentally strongand aggressive Marin keptwining the importantpoints and pocketed theopening game 21-16 with-out much sweat.

In the second game,Saina once again startedoff well to maintain a

healthy five points advan-tage till 10-5. The Indianshuttler was well in controlof the second game beforegoing for the break in the2nd set with the scorelineof 11-6.

The defending champion

then made an excellentcomeback by taking sixstraight points to level thescore as the scoreline read12-all.

Even after squanderingher lead, the Indian didn'tlose hope and took a lead

for a brief period (16-14).However, Marin levelled

the score soon at 17 apiece,and then the southpaw fin-ished the game 21-19 in notime to win her secondworld championship.

The Spaniard burst into

tears and collapsed on thecourt as Nehwal`s finalshot sailed out, deliveringMarin the title she wasn`tsure she would everdefend.

She missed the worldchampionships entirely

after suffering a foot injuryjust a month ago andrefused to speculate abouther chances of retainingher crown.

But the unsteadiness evi-dent in her opening roundmatches gave way to sen-sational form later in thetournament, deliveringMarin her fourth title of theseason.

It was only the secondtime a Chinese player hadnot featured in thewomen`s singles finalsince the Asian badmintonpowerhouse began com-peting at the world champi-onships in 1983.

This is the fifth time anIndian has won a medal atthe World meet.

Prakash Padukonebecame the first Indian towin a bronze in 1983 inmen's singles. India waitedfor another 28 years whenJwala Gutta and AshwiniPonnappa clinched thewomen's doubles bronze in2011.

PV Sindhu won twoback-to-back women's sin-gles bronzes in 2013 and2014 and now Saina, forthe first time, has won amedal other than thebronze.

Saina Nehwal loses final to Carolina Marin,settles for historic World badminton silver

DUBAIO f f - s p i n n e r

Ravichandran Ashwinentered the top-10 as thelone Indian in the ICC Testplayer rankings forbowlers, while openerShikhar Dhawan jumped15 places for a career-high32nd in the batting chartfollowing their exploits inthe first Test against SriLanka at Galle.

While Dhawan wasranked 32nd after his cen-tury against Sri Lanka, Testcaptain Virat Kohli, whoalso scored 110 in the firstinnings, was static to be thebest-placed Indian batsmanat number 10.

Spinner Ashwin, whohad a 10-wicket haul for alosing cause, was at ninthplace in the bowling listafter jumping three places.

There was good news forseveral Sri Lanka playersfollowing their 63-run vic-

tory over India in the firstTest, with career high gainsfor Dinesh Chandimal andTharindu Kaushal asRangana Herath alsohelped inspire the hosts toan unlikely victory.

Skipper Angelo Mathews

has overtaken his team-mate Kumar Sangakarraand, in the process, movedup one place to fifth in theTest batsmen list afterscores of 64 and 39.

Sangakarra, who willmake his final appearance

for Sri Lanka in the secondTest which starts inColombo on Thursday,now lies nine points behindMathews on 851 points.

The highest mover in thebatting rankings was wick-et-keeper Chandimal who

put in a Man of the Matchperformance by scoring 59and 162 not out to vault 22places to a career-high23rd.

Courtesy his 134,Dhawan has become onlythe third Indian openingbatsman - after SunilGavaskar and RahulDravid - to score Test cen-turies in consecutiveinnings overseas.

As a result of some fineperformances with the ballfrom both sides, there wasalso movement in the top10 of the player rankingsfor Test bowlers. Left-armspinner Herath has movedup two places to sixth afterclaiming match figures ofseven for 115 runs, his22nd five-wicket haul inTest cricket, and is now on771 points, a point clear ofSouth Africa's VernonPhilander.

Herath is now in third

place in the all-time wick-et-taker list for left-armspinners on 270 wickets,four clear of Bishan SinghBedi, with England'sDerek Underwood (297wickets) in second placeand New Zealand greatDaniel Vettori (362) lead-ing the list.

Meanwhile, Ashwin hasclimbed three places toninth after claiming matchfigures of 10 for 160, whilethere were also notablecareer-high gains for SriLanka duo Kaushal (up 21places to 60th) andMathews (up three to73rd). The top of the all-rounder rankings remainunchanged withBangladesh's Shakib AlHasan leading the way on384 points. Ashwin hasrisen one place to secondahead of Philander, and isnow 45 points behindShakib.

ICC Test player rankings: R Ashwin in top-10, ShikharDhawan jumps 15 spots for career-high 32nd

GALLEAs the beleaguered Indian crick-

et team start picking up piecesafter a 'Shocking Saturday', thespotlight is firmly fixed on team'ssenior-most pro Harbhajan Singhwhose unimpressive show in the63-run defeat has raised questionmarks about his future.

In a match, where all 40 wicketsfell, five specialist spinners fromeither side accounted for 31 ofthem. But the piece of statistic thatwould certainly disturb Harbhajanis the fact that his share his 1 out of31 giving away 90 runs in 25overs.

While India's strike bowler RaviAshwin had a 10-for, Amit Mishraalso did his case no harm by pick-ing up five wickets in two innings.

For Sri Lanka, Tharindu Kaushalgot eight scalps while 37-year-oldRangana Herath -- the oldestamong 22 players made amendsfor a disappointing first inningswith a match-winning seven-wick-et haul.

Just when one finds how Herathturned the clock back and defiedall odds to win a Test match for hisside, Harbhajan's time on the fieldseemed like a struggle as he wentthrough the motions with DineshChandimal knocking the stuffingout of the Indian attack.

Skipper Virat Kohli howeveradmitted that the 'Turbanator'bowled only one good spell butthen in his defence said that allbowlers during that phase werepunished by Chandimal.

"I think in the second innings, aspell he bowled was nice one. Hewas getting good rhythm but afterthat Chandimal started attackingevery bowler. I think that threw

him off, along with others, in thatparticular session," Kohli defend-ed the 35-year-old senior off-spin-ner.

While Kohli's decision to use hisbowlers in short bursts did pay offat times but it did have its negativeimpacts when a particular bowlerdid not get time to settle down.

"The idea is basically to not letthe batsmen get used to a particu-

lar bowler's rhythm. So it keeps theguys fresh and it is possible forthem to come out and bowl a four-five over spell and bowl attackinglines again. Our aim is to take 20wickets and the bowlers did a verygood job to do that and get us rightinto the game," Kohli said at post-match press conference.

Harbhajan looked off colourfrom the very beginning, and itbecame more apparent as thematch wore on. In the first innings,he bowled shorter lengths thanAshwin, and was easily negotiatedby Mathews and Chandimal. Hedid not extract as sharp turn asAshwin and did not look half aspotent as his teammate from TamilNadu.

If one compares Harbhajan withHerath -- since they are in the sameage bracket, the biggest aspect wasthe corrections he made in the sec-ond innings which certainly wasnot the case with Harbhajan.

"When you get old, you've to dosomething special, compare to oth-ers. I have gathered a lot of experi-ences during the last few years.Yet, if I can learn something more,I'm ready to learn and gather thoseinformation," Herath's statementseemed like something thatHarbhajan could certainly takenote of.

Time running out for under-fireHarbhajan Singh after Galle failure

WROCLAW (POLAND)The Indian recurve

mixed team comprisingarchers Deepika Kumariand Mangal SinghChampia on Sunday set-tled for the silver at theWorld Cup-third leg here.

They lost the finalencounter against Mexicanpair of Aida Roman andJuan Rene Serrano whoclinched the issue 5-1.

It was, however, ahealthy start for theIndians as they matchedarrow-to-arrow to draw thefirst set at 36-36.

But some very ordinaryeffort in the second setmeant that the Indian duoof Champia and Deepika

gave away the advantageto the Mexican pair whoeasily clinched the set 37-35 hitting two bulls eye.

They then took themomentum to their thirdset where they carded abrilliant 37 whereas theIndians could only manage36.

The game did not evengo to the fourth set as theMexican pair has clinchedtwo consecutive ones to becrowned champions.

The silver is the secondmedal clinched by India inthe World Cup as onSaturday Abhishek Vermahad bagged the gold in thecompound men's individ-ual section.

NEW DELHIAjinkya Rahane is the only Indian bats-

man who has shown consistency with thewillow of late. As far as the longest formatis concerned, the technically sound bats-man has proved his credentials. He hasscored runs not only in sub-continent butoverseas as well.

The best quality the Mumbai batsmanpossesses is that he plays spinners and fastbowlers equally well. It's hard to find afault in his compact technique. The 27-year-old score runs fluently all around theground with ease.

The cool and composed batsman has aknack of playing big knocks once he gets

a start.However, most of the times, the right-

hander comes in to bat at number five orbelow, and often has to bat alongside tail-enders. At a time when Indian top order isconsistently inconsistent, skipper ViratKohli and team management should pro-mote Rahane up the order to play an sheet-anchor role.

Especially when the management hasdecided that five-bowler strategy is theway forward, Rahane should be part of thetop-order to lead the side with examples.At the moment, it feels as if he is an under-utilised batsman in the team as he could dowonders if promoted in the batting order.

Virat Kohli should promoteAjinkya Rahane up the order to

utilise him more effectively

LONDONThe world athletics gov-

erning body blocked thepublication of a report thatshowed as many as a thirdof the world`s top athletesadmitted using bannedperformance-enhancingtechniques, The SundayTimes reported.

The authors of the reporttold the British newspaperthat the InternationalAssociation of AthleticsFederations (IAAF)blocked publication of thestudy, which was carriedout four years ago.

"The IAAF`s delayingpublication for so longwithout good reason is aserious encroachment onthe freedom of publica-tion," the University ofTuebingen in Germany,which carried out theresearch, said in a state-ment according to thepaper.

Researchers from theuniversity were givenaccess to elite athletes atthe 2011 world champi-onships in Daegu, SouthKorea and concluded intheir research that between29 and 34 percent of the1,800 competitors at thechampionships had violat-ed anti-doping rules in theprevious 12 months.

"These findings demon-strate that doping isremarkably widespreadamong elite athletes, andremains largely uncheckeddespite current biologicaltesting programmes," thereport concluded.

The study was funded bythe World Anti-DopingAgency (WADA), but theygave the IAAF power toveto publication inexchange for access to theathletes at Daegu, WADAconfirmed to The SundayTimes Friday.

Indian recurve mixedteam settles for silverat archery World Cup

IAAF accused of blockingreport on doping cheats

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Amilitary approach todeciding which fitnessroutine to follow will be

- decide what your body needsand then go find the most effec-tive way to achieve it.

In 8 out of 10 cases, theanswer to most fitness require-ments is a healthy mix of cardioand weight training. But we allknow how we feel about pump-ing iron at the gym. That thereare countless articles about howyou can find 'fun' alternatives to'boring gym workouts' is testa-ment to the fact that gyms don'talways meet the popular needto be enticed into a fitness rou-tine each day. How, then, does anovice fitness enthusiast decidewhich routine to follow? Here'slooking at how you can arriveat that one fitness routine thatyou find 'fun' and effective atthe same time.

What made you stop exercis-ing the last time? This is animportant consideration while

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Features in a fitness routinethat entice: Good workouts willkeep you hooked no matterwhat the method. Progressionand commitment are key.However, by and large, a firsttime fitness enthusiast will findthe following enticing:

- Class activity with otherpeople similar to oneself

- Music of choice- Suitable timings- Activity level that isn't too

challenging at first- Measured progression, once

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- A personal trainer who isencouraging and involved

- Proximity of the fitness cen-tre

- Hygenic and open surround-ings conducive to working out

Simple tricks to pick the rightfitness class: Look for theseimmediate tell-tale signs

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- Are the trainers fit,involved, well-spoken, commu-nicative, engaging?

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aerobic classes no matter howmuch cardio your body needs.)

- How far is thestudio/class/centre from yourhouse?

Deciding between the differ-ent schools of fitness: Yourchoices range from gym work-outs to dance-based workoutslike zumba, yoga-based work-outs like power yoga andpilates, and ultimately mixedmartial art workouts like kick-boxing. Consult a trainer or ageneral practitioner aboutwhich of these are most suitedto your current health and fit-ness levels. If you are veryoverweight you might need togo through certain screeningtests to determine which activi-ty level will best suit you. Ifnot, then try demo classes todetermine which of these youfind interesting. Many a first

time fitness enthusiast joins aclass recommended by friendsonly to find that one week laterit's just not his or her cup of tea.

Things you need to bring tothe table: A fitness routine canentice as much you'd like, butultimately it's you who puts the'work' in the 'workout'. Here arethe top five attitude shifts youneed to develop in order to getthe most out of your fitnessroutine:

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How to pick a fitness routine that's right for you

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Actor Saif Ali Khansaid that his charac-ter of an Indian

Muslim in Phantom has acrucial undercurrentbecause they wanted toshow that Indian Muslimsdo feel patriotic about theircountry.

"We haven't stressedmuch about the fact that heis an Indian Muslim, butaccording to me, it holdssubstantial importance asan undercurrent influence.Kabir Khan, SajidNadiadwala and I are allIndian Muslims. So in away, we wanted to showthat Indian Muslims alsofeel patriotic," Saif said ata recent media interaction.

Saif plays Indian Armycaptain Daniyal Khan inthe film, which also stars

Katrina Kaif in thelead.

When asked about hischaracter, he said: "He is

terminated from the armyas he is accused of cow-

ardice. He stays inKashmir in a depressedstate, having differenceswith his father and others.

After numerous attackson India, RAW thinks Indiais not responding enoughand that we need to hire acrazy person to go thereand attack the way theyattack.

That is when my charac-ter is approached. Heaccepts as he wants toregain respect and provehis worth to his father.

The film is about hisjourney in the mission andif he is successful or not,"he said.

Phantom, directed byKabir Khan and producedby Sajid Nadiadwala, isscheduled to release onAugust 28.

Saif Ali Khan: Phantom Shows Indian Muslims Also Feel PatrioticVeteran actress

Hema Malini, whoplayed the role of

Basanti in the 1975 iconicfilm Sholay, said that peo-ple refer to her by her on-screen name even today,which makes her feel nos-talgic. Directed by RameshSippy, Sholay completedforty years of its releasetoday.

The 66-year-old actress-politician added that she isproud about the fact thatshe was a part ofSholay,which also featuredAmitabh Bachchan, JayaBhaduri, Sanjeev Kumarand Amjad Khan, apartfrom her husbandDharmendra.

This is what she wroteon Twitter:

In Sholay, Hemajiplayed the role of a boldand talkative village girlwith whom Veeru(Dharmendra) falls in love.

Basanti became one ofthe most favourite charac-

ters of the film, primarilybecause of her popular dia-logues like Bhaag DhannoBhag, Aaj Teri Basanti KiIzzat Ka Sawal Hai andsongs including, Jab TakHai Jaan and Holi Ke Din.

Hema Malini on 40 Years of Sholay:People Still Call Me Basanti

Jazbaa stars Aishwarya RaiBachchan and Irrfan Khanseem to be racing against time

in the latest poster from their filmwhich was released on August 15.The film's trailer was meant to belaunched the same day, but willnow be released on August 27.The poster was revealed by thefilm's director Sanjay Gupta.

Ash reportedly plays a lawyerin the film which marks her come-back to Bollywood after 2010'sGuzaarish. Irrfan plays a suspend-ed cop.

Besides Ash and Irrfan, Jazbaaalso co-stars Atul Kulkarni, JackieShroff, Chandan Roy Sanyal andShabana Azmi in key roles. Thefilm will hit the screens onOctober 9.

Aishwarya, Irrfan Are On the Run inBrand New Poster From Jazbaa