SRINAGAR, DEC 29As suspense over

government formationin Jammu and Kashmircontinued, PeoplesDemocratic Party(PDP) on Monday saidthe idea of a grandalliance with NationalConference andCongress was an optionfor forming a stablegovernment in the state.

"A grand alliance withPDP, NationalConference andCongress as partners is

also an option," PDPspokesman NaeemAkhtar said.

Akhtar said it was oneof the options that can

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HAQSAADDAFIGHT FOR RIGHTTuesday, December 30, 2014

Night in jail for all ‘safety hazards’this New Year’s Eve

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 S-LTE withCategory 6 Network Support Launched

It's strange to walk in bikini onstage, Priyanka Chopra

JAKARTA, DEC 29After a second day of

searching without anyconfirmed sighting ofwreckage, theIndonesian authoritieson Monday sought tolower expectationsabout finding survivorsfrom a missing AirAsiajet carrying 162 people.

"We realize that wehave to be prepared forthe worst," Jusuf Kalla,Indonesia's vice presi-dent, told reporters inSurabaya, the city fromwhich the Singapore-bound plane took offSunday.

Kalla said that around30 ships and 15 aircraftfrom four countries hadjoined the search for thejet in the Java Sea,between the islands of

Borneo, Java andSumatra.

Bambang Soelistyo,the head of the NationalSearch and RescueAgency in Indonesia,offered even moresobering comments ear-lier Monday when hesaid that the aircraft wasprobably "at the bottomof the sea" and thatIndonesia lacked ade-quate equipment to con-duct an underwatersearch.

Relatives of theplane's passengers gath-ered in airports inSurabaya andSingapore, waiting inhopes of news.

A woman at theSurabaya airport wan-dered around looking

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Hope Dims for Finding SurvivorsFrom Missing AirAsia Jet

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NEW DELHI, DEC 29Scientists and professionals

working at defence and spaceinstitutions and aspiring topursue doctoral studies atDelhi University will now beable to do so while continuingwith their full-time jobs.

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DU eases PhD normsfor defence personnel

PULWAMA, DEC 29A massive fire broke out at

the office of the DeputyCommissioner in thePulwama district of Jammuand Kashmir on Mondayafternoon.

An electric short circuit isunderstood to be the reason

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Deputy Commissioner'soffice in South Kashmirengulfed by fire

NEW DELHI, DEC 29The Delhi government

today sought Rs. 120 crorefrom the Centre for disbursalof compensation to the next ofkin of victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

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Anti-Sikh Riots: DelhiGovt Demands Rs 120Crores for Compensation

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MUMBAI, DEC 29Maharashtra Chief Minister

Devendra Fadnavis today traveledby a suburban train in Mumbai andinteracted with fellow commuters.

He boarded the 6.29 pm Kalyanfast local from Chhattrapati ShivajiTerminus after attending a functionat Colaba in South Mumbai.

Officials traveling with MrFadnavis said he decided to take the mode of transport

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Maharashtra Chief Minister TakesMumbai Local During Peak Hour

NEW DELHI, DEC 29The government has denied that

it pressured IIT Delhi director RKShevgaonkar, whose resignationtwo years before his term was toend, was linked by a section of themedia to matters involving cricketlegend Sachin Tendulkar and BJPleader Subramanian Swamy.

Mr Shevgaonkar submitted hisresignation last week citing

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IIT Delhi Director Quits, CentreDenies Sachin Tendulkar Link

NEW DELHI, DEC 29Describing himself a "baniya"

who understands business, AAPchief Arvind Kejriwal today soughtto woo the traders communityahead of the Assembly polls, bypromising to restructure the taxregime in Delhi and to put an endto "extortion and raid racket" by

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Arvind Kejriwal Calls Himself 'Baniya',Woos Traders Ahead of Polls

AHMEDABAD, DEC 29The Gujarat police has initi-

ated a process to procure fivesuper bikes to carry out vari-ous tasks related to security ofcitizens as well as of VIPs,official sources said inAhemdabad today.

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Gujarat Police Likely toGet 5 Super Bikes Soon

NEW DELHI, DEC 29Ahead of the New Year, the

Delhi government hasannounced some new rules fortaxis plying in the city - whichinclude mandatory installationof tracking devices based onGPS and prominent display of

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Delhi's New Rules For RadioTaxis: GPS, Display ofHelpline Numbers a Must

NEW DELHI, DEC 29North India today continued

to shiver under biting coldwith the mercury dipping atseveral places, includingAmritsar which froze at zerodegrees Celsius, even as thewestern city of Nagpurrecorded its lowest tempera-ture in 45 year, at 5 degreesCelsius.

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Cold Wave Grips Several Cities,Nagpur Coldest in 45 Years

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Cabinet Clears Ordinance toMake Acquisition of Land Easier

NEW DELHI, DEC 29The cabinet has cleared

emergency executiveorders to greatly ease land-acquisition rules and auc-tion minerals such as ironore to kickstart hundreds ofbillions of dollars in stalledprojects. Finance MinisterArun Jaitley said that whilethe interests of farmershave been protected, fivecategories of projectsincluding defense andnational security and ruralinfrastructure and low-costhousing will be exemptfrom strict regulationscleared earlier.

Restrictions on buyingland, under a law champi-oned by the last Congressgovernment, are among

barriers holding up proj-ects worth almost $300 bil-lion or nearly Rs. 20 lakhcrore in sectors such asrail, steel, mining androads. Farmers are still tobe compensated at fourtimes the market rate forland in rural areas and

twice the rate in urbanareas, but the extent ofconsent needed for landacquisition has beentrimmed considerably,especially for public-pri-vate partnerships."Procedural requirements

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NEW DELHI, DEC 29India today summoned Pakistan High

Commissioner Abdul Basit to register itsprotest against a court order that couldallow 26/11 mastermind Zaki-ur-RehmanLakhvi to leave jail.

Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh "con-veyed strong concern at the lack of effectiveaction by Pakistan's prosecuting authori-ties," the ministry said in a statement.

A furious India told the Pakistan envoythat it was "extremely disturbing thatdespite the assurances we have been receiv-ing over the last six years, and the recenttragedies in Pakistan, there seems to be noend in sight to Pakistan remaining a safe-haven for well-known terror groups."

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MUMBAI, DEC 29As part of efforts to pre-

vent another 26/11-typeattack, the Mumbai Policewant heightened security atthe Gateway of India, butthe various agencies con-cerned are unable to agreeon how to go about it.

The police last weekdashed off yet another letterto the BrihanmumbaiMunicipal Corporation, ask-ing it to secure the Gatewaywith a CCTV umbrella.

The continued lack ofsecurity at the populartourist spot six years afterthe terror attack reflects atypical lack of coordination

and indifference amonggovernment agencies.

The Mumbai Port Trust(MbPT), MaharashtraMaritime Board (MMB),Municipal Corporation ofGreater Mumbai (BMC) andthe Heritage Committee, aState government agency,are all responsible for themonument.

The city police’s plan forheightened security at theGateway of India entailserecting a security plazawith metal detectors, aneight-foot-high fenced barri-cade, eight CCTV camerasaround the structure, a

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NEW DELHI, DEC 29"We are an IT pow-

erhouse, but Googlewas not made inIndia," said PrimeMinister NarendraModi today, high-lighting the need forinnovation at a 'Makein India' event in thecapital on Monday.

Talking of bureau-cratic hurdles and redtape that led to whatwas called a policyparalysis thatdepressed investorsentiment, the PMsaid the governmentmust move away"from the culture of

avoid, bypass, con-fuse and delay" andmove to one of

"responsibility, own-ership, accountabilityand discipline." He

called it the shiftfrom ABCD to

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IMPHAL, DEC 29The Manipur government

will hand over the investiga-tion into the recovery of eighthuman skulls from a formerschool complex to a centralinvestigating agency to findout the truth.

Chief Minister O IbobiSingh's secretary, N AshokKumar, said the police hadregistered a case on the recov-ery of the skulls and a numberof skeletons during excava-tions, at the former site of theTombisana High School com-plex, on December 25 andDecember 26.

"Considering the sensitivity,complexity and technicalissues involved in the investi-gation, the state governmenthas decided to hand over the

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NEW DELHI, DEC 29Police firing on a

Mamata Banerjee rallyin 1993 that killed 13Congress workers was"worse than theJallianwala Bagh mas-sacre", a commission ofinquiry has said in itsreport.

The Justice SushantaChatterjee Commissionhas concluded in itsreport submitted todaythat the firing on July21, 1993 at a YouthCongress rally led byMs Banerjee, then 38,"was unprovoked andunconstitutional."

"The commission hascome to a conclusionthat the instant case iseven worse than

Jallianwala Bagh mas-sacre," JusticeChatterjee, a retired highcourt judge, said,adding, "The peoplewho were at the helm ofthe home department aswell as the top policebrass cannot escaperesponsibility for the fir-

ing."The inquiry was set up

by Ms Banerjee whonow heads theTrinamool Congress,immediately after shetook over as chief minis-ter of West Bengal in2011, to ascertain who

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'1993 Bengal Police Firing Worse Than JallianwalaBagh Massacre,' Says Inquiry Commission

8 Human SkullsFound in FormerSchool in Manipur

26/11 Plotter Lakhvi Could beReleased, India SummonsPakistan Envoy to Protest

No guards for the Gateway of India

'Ready to Change Laws,' PM Modi TellsInvestors at 'Make in India' Event

PDP says tie up with NC, Congressan option to form govt in J&K

SEOUL, DEC 29 External Affairs Minister

Sushma Swaraj today calledon South Korean PresidentPark Geun-hye and discussedavenues for further expandingbilateral economic and invest-ment cooperation.

Ms Swaraj, who arrived inDelhi on Sunday on a three-

day visit to co-chair the 8thJoint Commission meetingwith her South Korean coun-terpart Yun Byung-se, heldconsultations with thePresident on all aspects ofbilateral ties to chart out a roadmap for further strengtheningand deepening of strategic

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Weather ReportDELHITemperature: 180CPrecipitation: 0%Humidity:100%Wind: 0 Km/hr

KOLKATATemperature: 160CPrecipitation: 0%Humidity: 79% Wind: 0 Km/hr

MUMBAITemperature: 270CPrecipitation: 0%Humidity: 65%Wind: 0 Km/hr

CHENNAITemperature: 240CPrecipitation: 82%Humidity: 86%Wind: 9 Km/hr

External Affairs Minister Sushma SwarajCalls on South Korean President

JAKARTA, DEC 29An AirAsia plane

with 162 people onboard disappeared onSunday morning whileflying from western

Indonesia to Singaporeon a scheduled two-hour flight. Here's alook at the key develop-ments:Possible Signs

Searchers foundobjects and oil slickshundreds of miles apartfrom each other andwere trying to

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Missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501: Key Developments

NEW DELHI | TUESDAY | DEC 30, 2014Delhi News2 SAADDA HAQ

NEW DELHI, DEC 29Delhiites expecting a warmer

and sunnier Sunday were in for amassive disappointment as theminimum temperature plummet-ed to the season’s lowest at 2.6degrees Celsius.

In fact, Sunday’s minimum isthe second lowest recorded tem-perature in the Capital since2004.

According to theMeteorological Department, it isalso only 0.2 degrees above lastyear’s low of 2.4 degrees, fivenotches below normal for thistime of the year and a little over adegree above the lowest tempera-ture ever recorded in the Capital

— 1.1 degrees on December 26,1945.

Meanwhile, the maximum tem-perature in Delhi was 19.2degrees, one notch below normal.Humidity was recorded at 97 percent and visibility was less than50 metres, which disrupted road,rail and air traffic headed to orfrom the National CapitalRegion.

Even NCR residents struggledagainst the bitter cold and densefog, with minimum temperaturesin various towns settling betweentwo and five degrees.

The Capital had recorded thesecond lowest temperature of theseason on Saturday, with the mer-

cury dipping to 4.8 degrees, threenotches below normal, though theafternoon was comparativelywarmer.Slight improvement expected

However, better news is in storefor Delhi-NCR, with the weather-man forecasting a slight improve-ment in minimum temperatureand a static maximum tempera-ture.

“The maximum temperature islikely to settle at 19.2 degreeCelsius and the minimum likelyto touch three degrees,” said aMeteorological Department offi-cial, adding that weather acrossthe NCR is expected to improvegradually over the coming week.

Capital braves the second coldest day in a decade NEW DELHI, DEC 29For Delhi’s municipal

corporations, one wordcame to dominate 2014 –Swachhata or cleanliness.The civic bodies’ primaryresponsibility is to providesanitation services and withthe Centre focusing oncleaning up the country, thecorporations were forced topull up their socks.

Though the SwachhBharat campaign waslaunched on October 2, thethree BJP-led corporationsstarted their own cleanli-ness drives in June inpreparation for the massiveprogramme ahead. Streetswere swept, garbage dumpscleared and publicity cam-paigns launched. Officersand politicians, includingCommissioners andMayors, were out on thestreets for field visits andphoto-ops with brooms.

There were endless meet-ings to get ready for theOctober 2 launch. After thecampaign started, therehave been weekly meetingswith all stakeholders,including the Union UrbanDevelopment Ministry.

“We have been gettingfeedback from people thatcleanliness has improved.We have got more garbagetrucks, more staff and bettersupervision now,” saidMohan Bhardwaj, thechairperson of the NorthDelhi MunicipalCorporation’s Standing

Committee.The Opposition Congress

says the whole campaignhas been an exercise infooling Delhiites, especial-ly since the Capital goes topolls in a couple of months.North Corporation Leaderof Opposition MukeshGoel refuses to understandwhat all the fuss is about.

“Keeping the city clean isour first responsibility. TheBJP is claiming thatSwachh Bharat is anachievement, but thatmeans they have failed oncleanliness for the pastseven years they have beenin power,” said Mr. Goel.

Besides fingers beingpointed at the primary jobof the civic bodies – clean-liness, several other relatedissues and projects haveeither failed to see the lightof the day or are laggingbehind. While the civicbodies claim to haveimproved the sanitationservices, it is still to settlethe issue of finding morelandfills even as the exist-ing are outlived their utility.

While the unified MCDhad set an ambitious targetof constructing over threedozen multi-storeyed park-ing lots, most of them haveremained on paper. Parkingprojects like one at HauzKhas, which is yet to bemade functional despitebeing inaugurated threeyears back, reflect the func-tioning of the civic bodies.

NEW DELHI, DEC 29 Noida was never known for a

good art gallery or museum on apermanent basis. A few galleriessprung up here and there in therecent past, conducted someshows, and went into oblivion.Just recently, an art space, ashuge as 10,000 square feetspread in three storeys, has madea conscious attempt to showcaseitself – more as an art archivethan a museum or gallery that itcould be for the sheer virtue ofunique and ancient collection ithas.

Owned by art devotee VijayAggarwal, this art building at D-85, Sector 2, Noida, calledSwaraj Art Archive, is dividedinto three sections: gallery,office and storage – defined asartefacts/paintings, library, andrestoration.

The ground floor or the galleryarea is further divided into paint-ing sections and sculpture courtin the garden area, which alsoserves as the coffee zone. It isdesigned in a way that visitors

can sip coffee while having alook at all the artefacts and paint-ings, either through the life-sizeglass, double-glazed windows,or barrier-less spaces, dependingupon the occasion.

Swaraj, which has drawn itsname from the owner’s mother,houses a unique combination ofart collections from 1900 to1980, from almost all schoolsIndia possibly has – BengalSchool, Lucknow School, andBombay School . Its library isfull of books on art, rare,scholastic and popular. Itsrestoration and storage sectionhas experts visiting it.

Notably, part of Swaraj’s focusis on “lost art”. The artists whowere talented, but could notmake it to the so-called ‘art cir-cles’, did a show here and there,and were never ‘found’. N. KMishra, former principal of theGovernment College, Lucknow,and M. F. Peethwala fromBombay School are to name afew . The archive has their col-lections.

Municipal Corporation's clean drive

NEW DELHI, DEC 29 Not just drunk driving, stunt

biking, too, will land youbehind bars this New Year’sEve. The Delhi Police havedecided to view ‘all driversposing safety hazards to fel-low road users’ through thesame prism.

With the Capital on highalert, given apprehensions ofa possible terror strike, not tomention their past experiencewith amateur biker gangs onDecember 31, the DelhiPolice will go a step beyondnoting down registration num-bers of stunt bikers so thatthey can be fined later.

A senior Delhi Police offi-cer told The Hindu that theforce had decided to lock upstunt bikers at local police sta-tions across the Capital — atleast through the night onNew Year’s Eve — ‘to teachthem a lesson well into thebeginning of the New Year’.

“Anyone found breaking thelaw — be it by driving underthe influence of alcohol or by

performing stunts or eventriple riding — will be put injail on that very night withchances of release bleak until

at least the afternoon ofJanuary one,” said a seniorpolice officer.

“We are in the process of

engineering a deploymentplan, which will not be staticand be able to enforce the lawuniformly across vulnerableroutes. Detentions will bemade first and questionsasked later simply because wecannot afford to take anychances,” the officer added.

A police source said thelegal basis for this would bethe proclamation of Section144 of the Criminal ProcedureCode (Cr.PC) at the respectivesub-divisions where several‘sensitive locations’ fall.

These included CentralDelhi’s Connaught Place,Khan Market and BengaliMarket, South Delhi’s Saket,Vasant Vihar and Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, East Delhi’sLaxmi Nagar, Preet Vihar andKarkadooma, Dwarka,Punjabi Bagh and Vikaspuri inthe West in addition to KamlaNagar, Pitampura and Rohiniin the North-West.

The said sub-sectionempowers the local police todetain participants in assem-

blies of more than five per-sons and anyone in contraven-tion of instructions alreadygiven by the DivisionalMagistrate of a sub-divisionor a police officer equivalentto that office.Major challenge

Stunt bikers have, over thepast two years, emerged as amajor challenge for the DelhiPolice, with both the trafficdepartment and their localcounterparts having employedeverything from combined,dedicated drives at night tocounselling from heads orreligious institutions to rein instunt bikers and discouragethem from taking to thestreets.

A series of incidents of stuntbikers holding Central Delhito ransom had pushed thepolice to the edge last yearand culminated in the death ofa teenaged pillion rider, KaranPandey, in what the police haddescribed as an ‘unfortunatedeath in self defence’ on June28, 2013.

Night in jail for all ‘safety hazards’ this New Year’s Eve

BY VIJETHA S. N.

There is no place thatexudes as much his-tory in the city as the

areas in and around DelhiUniversity’s NorthCampus. Founded in 1922with three colleges, theuniversity itself has grownsince then, spreading out tothe East, West, and Southof the Capital.

However, the NorthCampus has remained atthe heart of the universitywith change as its constantcompanion, especially overthe last decade or so. TheHindu has de-constructed abit of the change as seenthrough the eyes of somewho continue to live or goto work there every day.

“I have been walking towork every day since the60’s. Before, anyone couldwalk without fear at anytime of the day. Now, youhave to be frightened oftraffic and the rising crimeshave made it impossible towalk anywhere after a cer-tain time,” says RamjasCollege principal RajendraPrasad, who remembershaving, “14, Vice-RegalLodge,” as his homeaddress.

There were houses thenfor professors like hisfather in and around whatare now the administration

and examination depart-ments within the enclosurethat also houses the Vice-Regal Lodge, currently the

Vice-Chancellor’s office.This massive white

building was once the seatof power in the wholecountry, housing theViceroy before theRashtrapati Bhavan wasbuilt.

It was handed over to theuniversity in the early1930’s and since then hasserved many purposes,undergoing significantchanges every time a newVice-Chancellor came topower.

Last year, a song andlight show in front of theVice-Regal Lodge duringthe university’s annual fes-

tival was instituted.“A few years ago, there

were no barricades aroundthis building. It was justthere like any other univer-sity building. Anyonecould just walk in and askfor an appointment. It wasnot very grand either,” saysAbha Dev Habib, a physicsteacher, who has taken partin a lot of protests againstthe university administra-tion.

The lodge, also known asthe “V-C’s office,” now

also serves as “go to thebarricades,” for issues con-cerning students and teach-ers .

The protesters are usual-ly turned away or stoppedbefore they can even enterthe first set of concretegates that form theentrance to the lodge.

Because, to reach thisbuilding from the mainentrance that is in front ofthe ridge area, one has tofirst pass big gates that arebuilt into the concretewalls that enclose theadministration buildings,the examination depart-ment, and then a big gar-den, half of which isreserved for the lodge thatis again enclosed within ablack wrought-iron com-pound that runs around thelength and breath of thebuilding.

This is the case withmost university buildingsthese days. Many of themhave been closed and activ-ities of all kinds are moni-tored by CCTV cameras.

“There used to be a bigground where everyoneused to come and jog orplay games or generallyjust hang around. Inter-col-lege sports competitionswere also held here. Thisplace was acquired duringthe commonwealth games

and made into a rugby sta-dium and a sports complex.Rugby is not a sport thatmost people play here andthe sports stadium can onlybe entered by the paymentof a fee. When a big groupof students wants to havean informal game, noteveryone is willing to paymoney for it.

Also, you do not go byyourself to a playground.Some portions of the stadi-um are also used for thecluster innovation centre.Very few students knowwhat this big complex inthe middle of the universi-ty is for. This is the saddestchange yet,” says SunnyKumar, student in 2008,and teacher in 2014.

Some of the recentchanges to the buildingshave not been all bad,admit many. “The arts fac-ulty was once notenclosed; you could godirectly to the departmentsthere.

The architecture of thiswhole place has changedfor the better, even with allthe concrete walls. Thereare now better toilet facili-ties for women and weeven have a place toprotest in front of thegates. However, with bet-ter facilities there has beena parallel decrease in

accessibility to many ofthese facilities for both stu-dents and teachers,” saysDelhi University Teachers’Association presidentNandita Narain, explaininghow in the past rooms andother halls in the depart-ments and colleges weremade available for semi-nars free of cost.

“Now, we are eitherdenied permission or aretold to deposit a huge fee,”she adds.

Apart from the visibleincrease in security menand the system of authenti-cating your identity wher-ever you may choose to go,the biggest downside to thechanges has been thereduction of public spacesto just sit and do “noth-ing.”

Sitting on lawns in biggroups is all part of thecollege or university life,but this is a luxury that isno longer available not justto students but even teach-ers. “We are usually told toget up if we are sitting ingroups of more than fouror five in many of thelawns of the university,”added Ms. Narain.

This is a common com-plaint from students, whosay that even in their owncolleges, the lawns are justto see and not sit on.

At 92, change the only constant at Delhi University

First ever private archive that hasgood, bad and ugly of Indian art

NEW DELHI, DEC 29 If your mobile phone

gets stolen and you pinyour hope itsInternational MobileStation EquipmentIdentity (IMEI) to traceits location, think twice.

The Delhi Police CrimeBranch have arrested twomen who allegedlychanged the IMEI numberof stolen high-end phonesto avoid tracking beforeselling them inUttarakhand.

Joint Commissioner ofPolice (Crime) RavindraYadav said the duo —Vipin Kumar (42) andSudhir (38) — also soldsome of these mobilephones in neighbouringNepal, although keepingthe IMEI numbersunchanged.

Vipin Kumar alreadyhas records at theShahadra police station.

“We received informa-tion that Vipin Kumarpurchased high-end stolenmobile phones and sup-plied them in Uttarakhandand Nepal.

We started monitoringhis activities closely,”said Mr. Yadav.

On Saturday, the policereceived a tip-off thatVipin would be going toISBT Anand Vihar to

deliver a consignment ofstolen mobile phones to abuyer of stolen property.Based on this, a trap waslaid and Vipin was arrest-ed while handing over abag to Sudhir.

Sudhir, a resident ofUttarakhand, was alsoarrested and the bag wasseized from the two. “Thebag contained 35 high-end mobile phones,” saidMr. Yadav. During inter-rogation, they revealedthat Vipin used to buystolen mobile phonesfrom petty criminals inJama Masjid.

“After procuring thestolen phones, Vipinwould contact Sudhir,who runs a mobile phoneshop at Udham SinghNagar in Uttarakhand andhas contacts in Nepal aswell. Sudhir would sellthe mobile phones inNepal and in Uttarakhand.Before selling the mobilephones in Uttarakhand,the two roped in anotheraccomplice to get theIMEI numbers changed,”said Mr. Yadav.

These numbers, used toeither locate or block theuse of stolen phones, werechanged in Gaffar Market— one of the biggest elec-tronic and mobile phonemarkets in the Capital.

Two held for selling phoneswith changed IMEI numbers

Bone-chilling coldadds to patients’

woes in DelhiNEW DELHI, DEC 29

Critically-ill cancer patients fromacross the country are among the hun-dreds of people who are forced to takeshelter outside the premises of the AllIndia Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) in Delhi’s bone-chilling cold,as the minimum temperature hereplunged to 4.8 degrees Celsius onSaturday, the second lowest tempera-ture of the season.

Ramesh Yadav, 45, from Bihar, athroat cancer patient undergoingchemotherapy sessions, has been stay-ing outside AIIMS Metro station gatefor the last two months. “I came heretwo months ago. Initially it was man-ageable but now my life has become anightmare.

But I can't even go back,” Mr. Yadavsays, his feeble hands trembling as hetakes out a bunch of medical docu-ments from a tattered plastic bag. Infact, a large number of families, fromneighbouring as well as distant Statessuch as West Bengal, have been forcedto make the open space outside theAIIMS metro station, their temporaryaccommodation, owing to inadequatespace in the night shelters and‘dharamshalas’. According to theAIIMS administration, the premierhospital has provision for about 700people at ‘dharamshalas’ and othershelters in and around the hospital.Recently, in collaboration with CRPF,the hospital set up a temporary 40-bednight shelter outside its dental centre.

HC issues notices onfake driving licencecase for DTC driversNEW DELHI, DEC 29

The Delhi High Courthas issued notice to theCentral government, theCentral Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI), theDelhi government andothers on a PIL seekingprobe into issuance offake driving licence tounskilled drivers of theDelhi TransportCorporation (DTC).

A division bench head-ed by Chief Justice G.Rohini also issued noticeto the Delhi TransportDepartment, DTC, andDelhi Police and askedthem to file a reply on theissue as it posted the mat-ter for March 11.

The court order came ona public interest litigationfiled by social activistPawan Kumar, who hasalleged that some corruptofficials of the State trans-port department issueddriving licences tountrained and unskilledpeople after taking heftybribes.

Due to issuance ofdirect heavy transportvehicle driving licences tounskilled persons,the ratesof accidents haveincreased and innocentpersons have been killedsaid the PIL, which cameup on hearing onWednesday.

Continuation 3

Hope Dims...stunned and bereft, holding a framed pho-

tograph of a family of five."They were on their way to Singapore to

visit their 12-year-old daughter," said thewoman, Nani, who said she was the family'smaid and who, like many Indonesians, usesonly one name. "That girl is now an orphan."

But with officials offering few hard details,experts and some news reports were specu-lating on the cause of the disappearance,from bad weather to fears that the aircraftwas traveling too slowly to stay airborne.

Search teams, which included fishing boatspressed into service and vessels fromMalaysia, Singapore and Australia, covered alarge area of sea near the island of Belitung,the last known location of the plane, anAirbus A320-200.

Officials said the countries were workingtogether "seamlessly," but they were hard-pressed to search underwater.

"The capability of our equipment is notoptimum," Bambang said.

Search-and-rescue teams on Monday spot-ted debris that turned out to be unrelated flot-sam, the same kind of false alarms thatplagued the search efforts for the MalaysiaAirlines plane that disappeared over theIndian Ocean in March.

Although weather was suspected as a fac-tor in the aircraft's disappearance,Pramintohadi Sukarno, an official at theTransportation Ministry who is helping leadthe search, said background checks werebeing carried out on all passengers as part ofstandard procedures.

Some experts expressed fears that, facedwith stormy weather, the aircraft may havebeen traveling at an angle and speed thatwould not sustain flight. This was a key fac-tor in the crash of an Air France flight overthe Atlantic Ocean in 2009, when pilots,encountering foul weather and with instru-ments seeming to malfunction, failed to rec-ognize that their aircraft had entered an aero-dynamic stall. Hugh Ritchie, the Singapore-based chief executive of AviationConsultants International, said the plane wasflying roughly 100 knots below the generalcruising speed, well within the safe envelopefor flight but possibly a sign that it wasclimbing, had experienced severe icing orslowed to better manage turbulence.

"My personal opinion is they should not flythrough this type of weather," he said. "Ithink this is probably a combination of severeweather and pilot error in terms of the flightpath."

Flight 8501 was operated by theIndonesian affiliate of AirAsia, a regionalbudget carrier based in Malaysia. Aside fromthe Malaysia Airlines jet, Flight 370, that dis-appeared in March, Malaysia Airlines Flight17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine inJuly.

But the connections appeared to be nothingmore than coincidence.

Richard L. Aboulafia, an aviation analyst atthe Teal Group in the United States, said thatFlight 370 "was most likely an act of humanmalfeasance or terrorism, while this looks forall the world like bad weather."

Many Indonesians were frustrated at theslow pace of news and the country's slowresponse to the jetliner's disappearance.

"Many countries acted fast to help us," saidGunawan, a travel agent who uses only onename. "Singapore, Malaysia were fast.Indonesia wasn't fast."

He said one of his employees was on theflight.

The mayor of Surabaya, Tri Rismaharini,said AirAsia had been too slow in providingdetails.

"We have lost 81 people from Surabayawith no explanation, no help," she said."AirAsia gave us names, but that's it."

Missing AirAsia ...determine whether any of them were con-

nected to AirAsia Flight 8501.Air Force spokesman Rear Marshal Hadi

Tjahnanto told MetroTV that an Indonesianhelicopter spotted two oily spots in the JavaSea east of Belitung island, not far from thepoint where air-traffic controllers lost contactwith the plane. He said oil samples would becollected and analyzed to see if they are con-nected to the missing plane.

Jakarta's Air Force base commander RearMarshal Dwi Putranto said an AustralianOrion aircraft had detected "suspicious"objects near Nangka island. The objects wereabout 700 miles (1,120 kilometers) from thelocation where the plane lost contact.

"We cannot be sure whether it is part of themissing AirAsia plane," Putranto said. "Weare now moving in that direction, which is incloudy conditions."The Searchers

Search and rescue crews have been lookingfor the plane in at least 15 ships, seven air-craft and four helicopters, national searchand rescue spokesman Jusuf Latif said. Mostare Indonesian but Singapore, Malaysia andAustralia have contributed planes, and a shipand aircraft from Thailand were awaitingclearance from Indonesian foreign ministry.

Those numbers do not include Indonesianwarships taking part in the search. Manyfishermen from Belitung island also havejoined in, and all vessels in that area of thesea have been alerted to be on the lookout foranything that could be linked to the plane.

The local rescue agency in East Belitung,the closest district to the area where the plane

disappeared from radar, deployed more than10 boats near Nangka island followingreports that people there had heard an explo-sion on Sunday morning. Andriandi, the headof the agency, said the vessels searchedaround several small islands but found noclue to the plane's whereabouts.

Soelstyo, head of the national search andrescue agency, said that if the plane is foundon the sea floor, Indonesia lacks the capabil-ity to haul it to the surface, so the agency andthe foreign ministry are arranging to borrowequipment from the United Kingdom, Franceor the United States.Search Area

Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia's actingdirector general of transportation, said theAirbus A320-200 is believed to have gonemissing somewhere over the Java Seabetween Tanjung Pandan on Belitung islandand Pontianak, on Indonesia's part of Borneoisland. Authorities today greatly expandedthe search area, which covers tens of thou-sands of square kilometers.Cockpit Request Denied

In the cockpit's last communication withair traffic control, one of the pilots asked toturn left and climb to 11,582 meters (38,000feet) to avoid clouds. Air traffic control wasnot able to immediately grant the requestbecause another plane was in airspace at34,000 feet, said Bambang Tjahjono, directorof the state-owned company in charge of air-traffic control. He said that by the time clear-ance could be given, Flight 8501 had disap-peared.Families in Shock

Dozens of relatives of people aboard theplane waited in agony for any word in a roomat the Surabaya airport.

In Sidoarjo, the East Java home of the pilot,Iryanto, neighbors, relatives and friendsgathered today to pray and recite the Quranto support the distraught family. Neighborsdescribed Iryanto as an experienced AirForce pilot who flew F-16 fighter jets beforebecoming a commercial airline pilot, andsaid he had been the neighborhood chief forthe last two years.CEO's Response

Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes,AirAsia's chief and the face of the company,said on Twitter, "My heart bleeds for all therelatives of my crew" and the passengers. Hedid not address compensation issues or anychanges that may be made to the airline as aresult of this incident, but tweeted thatamong Indonesians he has received "nothingbut pure support".

Speaking to reporters at Jakarta's airport,Fernandez noted that AirAsia had zero fatalaccidents before Sunday and added, "Anyairline CEO who says he can guarantee thathis airline is 100 per cent safe, is not accu-rate."

"We have carried 220 million people up tothis point," he said. "Of course, there's goingto be some reaction, but we are confident inour ability to fly people, and we'll continue tobe strong and continue to carry people whonever could fly before."

External Affairs...partnership.The External Affairs Minister invited

Korea to build on its success in India andmake bold investments to benefit from thegovernment's focus on 'Make in India' cam-paign, officials sources said.

President Park welcomed the initiativesand agreed to encourage Korean industries toengage with India more closely.

The Korean President invited PrimeMinister Narendra Modi to South Korea.

Ms Swaraj welcomed the invitation andsaid that both sides will work closely toensure a productive and successful visit ofPrime Minister Modi at a mutually conven-ient early date.

8 Human Skulls ...case to a central investigation agency like

CBI or NIA," Kumar said.Various social organisations in separate

statements demanded DNA tests of eachhuman skull and skeletons recovered fromthe former school complex.

They have demanded a thorough probe intothe matter, saying many innocent youths whowere arrested during the peak of insurgencybetween 1980 and 1999 had disappeared, andthat their whereabouts have not been knowntill today.

Tombisana High School complex, in theheart of Imphal, was occupied by centralparamilitary forces during the peak of insur-gent activities in early 1980s.

The social organisations in their statementsmentioned the names of those youths whowere arrested and had never returned homesduring 1980s.

'1993 Bengal...issued the order to the police to open fire at

the rally she was leading 21 years ago.She marks July 21 as martyrs day every

year and leads a rally in remembrance of the13 people killed.

On that July day in 1993, with the Left inpower, the police had opened fire after YouthCongress leaders blockaded Writers'Building - where the state secretariat is inKolkata. They were demanding that the vot-ers' identity cards be the only documentrequired for voting, to stop what they called"scientific rigging" in elections by the Left.

The Justice Chatterjee commission hasexamined over 300 witnesses, including for-mer chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjeeand Left Front chairperson Biman Bose.Several Indian Police Service officers,

including Tushar Talukdar who was the citypolice commissioner at the time of the inci-dent, challenged the validity of the commis-sion before the Calcutta High Court.

In 1997, Ms Banerjee left the Congress andlaunched the Trinamool Congress, which sheled to a spectacular victory in the assemblyelections of 2011, ousting the Left, whichhad ruled Bengal for over three decades.Many of those in the forefront of the July1993 rally left the Congress along with herand are now key leaders of her party.

Cabinet Clears...have been relaxed - like the required con-

sent of 70 per cent of affected landownersand a study on the social impact - provisionslike that will not apply; higher compensationwill apply," said the Finance Minister, refer-ring to five types of projects that includeindustrial corridors around major highways.

Four-fifths of all landholders concerned ina sale must give their consent before any landis acquired for a private project.

The ordinance will have to be cleared bythe next parliamentary session which starts inFebruary.

The government has now in its sevenmonths in office used an ordinance six timesdue to a lack of majority in the upper houseof Parliament or Rajya Sabha.

After the last Parliament session ended in alegislative logjam on December 23, the gov-ernment passed two orders to let foreignfirms raise their stakes in insurance venturesand allow the commercial mining of coal.

But Parliament, in its winter session whichended last week, did not ratify the Novemberordinance on coal, forcing the government topass another ordinance to allow the auctionof coal mines.

'Ready to...ROAD.He promised to address all concerns of

investors under his 'Make in India' plan,which aims at smoothening processes to givea big boost to manufacturing in the country.

"We are ready to change laws, hastenapprovals," said PM Modi, suggesting a"public-private partnership also in decisionmaking, not just in project investments."

He emphasised on "going beyond Make inIndia and developing India as a global brandby producing zero defect and zero environ-ment effect products," saying brand Indiamust reach every corner of the globe.

The PM also stressed on balanced growth.Calling for balanced development in the

country, PM Modi said there should be max-imum movement of man, material, money,machine and mineral across the country.

"During the day-long effort, responsibili-ties have been fixed, roadmap has been pre-pared, required changes in policies have beendecided... Now I don't think there is anyrequirement for paperwork. Now, things willbe implemented automatically," PM Modisaid.

26/11 Plotter ...Court today cancelled government orders

to keep Lakhvi in prison for another threemonths after he was granted bail onDecember 18.

Lakhvi submitted a Rs. 1 million suretybond today on Monday night, and is likely tobe released from Adiala Jail anytime, hiscounsel Raja Rizwan Abbasi told newsagency Press Trust of India.

Some reports suggest that Pakistan maydetain Lakhvi in another case, mindful ofcondemnation from India and other coun-tries.

Pakistani officials are quoted by the PressTrust of India as saying that the Lashkar-e-Taiba commander's release would "draw flakfrom the world, especially India."

Pakistan had assured India that it wouldappeal against Lakhvi's bail in the SupremeCourt, but that has yet to happen.

Lakhvi has since 2009 been in a jail inRawalpindi, adjacent to the capital ofIslamabad. The court that granted him bailsaid that it did not have evidence to proveLakhvi's involvement in the worst-ever terrorattack in India, in which 166 people werekilled in Mumbai in 2008.

Lakhvi is one of seven people on trial inPakistan for the siege of Mumbai, but thetrial has produced no results so far. It hasbeen closed to the media. India has repeated-ly warned Pakistan that the glacial pace ofthe trial is unacceptable and underminesPakistan's stated position on checking terror-ism.

Indian investigators have submitted voicesamples and other evidence that revealLakhvi talking on satellite phones to the 10terrorists who sailed into Mumbai andattacked its most famous landmarks.

No guards...watchtower and X-ray scanners around the

monument.Between 2012 and 2014, the police have

written over a dozen letters to theBrihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ask-ing it to install eight CCTV cameras.

The Corporation, however, only respondedlast month, stating it should be covered withthe help of CCTVs being procured by theHome Department for the entire city.

An equal number of letters have also beensent to the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT). In aletter dated July 4, 2014, which The Hinduhas accessed, the MbPT has stated that theGateway of India is a “public space” and fur-ther mentions, “securing such space was theduty of the police.”

A senior official said while the Gateway

was on MbPT land, the Corporation tookcare of its beautification. Further, as the mon-ument is a heritage structure, any fixtureneeds the heritage committee’s approval.“The committee has recently agreed to fencethe area but they want us to use a transparentsheet,” he added.

PDP says...be explored to form a stable government in

the state and also fulfil the aspirations of allthe regions of the state.

The idea of such an alliance was mooted bysenior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad.

PDP has emerged as the single largest partywith 28 seats in the 87-member Assemblyfollowed closely by BJP with 25 seats whileNC bagged 15. While Congress won 12seats, smaller parties and independents gotseven seats.

No political party has been able to yetmuster the support of 44 MLAs required toform the government in the state.

Congress, NC and several independentshave offered support to the PDP for govern-ment formation.

Maharashtra Chief ...to reach Kalyan to attend an event.Commuters in the first class compartment

were taken by surprise to see the ChiefMinister in their midst during the peak hours.They discussed overcrowding in trains andsafety issues.

Some enthusiastic commuters even dialedtheir relatives and asked Mr Fadnavis tospeak to them on phone, to which the ChiefMinister responded positively.

"The interaction was about railway safetyand crowd. Fadnavis responded positivelysaying that he would take up the issues withconcerned authorities," an official travelingwith the Chief Minister said.

Arvind Kejriwal ...the VAT department.Addressing a traders rally, at the bustling

Nehru Place here, Mr Kejriwal announced aslew of measures for them, saying if voted topower, his party will create a business-friend-ly environment and make Delhi a wholesaleand distribution hub in the country.

The AAP leader described himself a trader,and said he understood the "dhandha".

"I am from the trader community and Iunderstand the trade (mayn baniya hun aurdhandha samjhta hun)," Mr Kejriwal said,adding, "We want you to do your businesswith full honesty and pay taxes."

"There will be minimum interference fromthe government. Our party's policy is not toindulge in raids, but trust the traders. Ourgovernment will see the end of VAT raids andextortion racket and create a business-friend-ly environment," he said.

former Delhi chief minister recalled hisshort-lived regime and alleged that soon afterhis departure, traders were "harassed" by theVAT department.

"This is what we did during our 49-dayrule. Traders were never harassed during ourrule. In fact, the VAT collection during ourregime was the highest, but declined soonafter we resigned, which was followed byraids," Mr Kejriwal claimed.

IIT Delhi...personal reasons, the chairman of IIT

Delhi, Vijay Bhatkar, told NDTV on Sunday.The resignation will be forwarded toPresident Pranab Mukherjee, who is a Visitorto the IIT, or Indian Institute of Technology.

The Human Resource DevelopmentMinistry has denied a media report that thedirector quit over its two alleged directives -to facilitate land in the IIT campus for acricket academy run by Sachin Tendulkarand to settle salary dues of Mr Swamy, whowas once a part of the institute's faculty.

Mr Tendulkar strongly denied asking forany land, saying he was "appalled to read thestories." He tweeted on Sunday, "I have noteven planned any academy neither do I wantany piece of land for any purpose."

The government also denied receiving anyrequest from the former cricketer.

It also said it has "neither forwarded MrSwamy's request to IIT-Delhi nor given anydirection to make payment of arrears" to him.

Mr Swamy has alleged that MrShevgaonkar resigned over a controversyinvolving an IIT campus in Mauritius.

DU eases...Delhi University has made certain amend-

ments in the rules for research courses,according to which scientists and profession-als working at certain departments will not berequired to take study leave for pursuing theirPhDs.

“The amendment in Ordinance VI-Bexempts scientists and professionals fromfulfilling the requirement of study leave andcourse work which are prerequisites for pur-suing PhD at Delhi University,” MalayNeerav, DU’s media coordinator and jointdean of welfare, said.

As per the earlier rules, researchers couldenrol with Delhi University only after theywere granted two-year study leave by theiremployers. There was also a requirement ofcompleting course work for at least onesemester.

“Both the norms have been eased for theresearchers falling under the category. A noti-fication was issued by DU after the decisionwas approved by the university’s Academicand Executive Council,” he said.

“The move came after DU signed aMemorandum of Understanding with theDefence Research and Development

Organisation in which a large number ofinstitutes dealing with defence research areclustered and areas like engineering, physics,chemistry, life sciences and computer sci-ences are included,” said Mr. Neerav.

An official notification issued by DU read,“In order to advance research in strategicareas of national concern, scientists/profes-sionals working at defence and space institu-tions of the Central or the State governmentand with whom the university has signed anMoU will be allowed to pursue PhD whileworking in their organisations.”

Deputy Commissioner's...behind the fire, however, the exact cause is

yet to be ascertained.Many fire engines are reportedly working

relentlessly to curb the flames.No causality has been reported so far.Further details are awaited.

Anti-Sikh Riots...had announced additional Rs. 5 lakh as

compensation to the kin of Sikhs killed in the1984 riots.

"We have sought Rs. 120 crore from thecentral government for the disbursal of com-pensation to the victims of 1984 anti-Sikhriots," S N Sahay, Secretary of RevenueDepartment, said.

Last week, Home Minister Rajnath Singhdistributed cheques of Rs. 5 lakh to 17 rela-tives of those who lost their lives in the vio-lence.

According to a senior government official,the enhanced compensation to 2,459 peoplewill be given soon after verification.

Gujarat Police ...or model, the technical committee of

Gujarat state police department is evaluatingvarious bikes. Recently, two Harley-Davidson bikes have been inspected by thecommittee at Gandhinagar.

According to a key official of the commit-tee, other companies are also under consider-ation. One of the criteria set by the depart-ment is the ability of the bike to carry hightech communication equipment, which isnecessary in case of emergency situations.

"These bikes will be used for routine workas well as in any emergency situation as wellas for VIP security. We are looking at variousengine displacements, ranging from 700cc to1500cc.

However, it should also fit into our budg-et," the official said.

Delhi's New...police and transport department helpline

numbers.The new rules also say licensees should

either maintain a call center or operatethrough an authorised call center or a webportal and they will have to provide alldetails, including full database of their driv-ers, to the transport department.

The changes in rules came following therape of a young woman executive earlier thismonth, allegedly by the driver of a cab regis-tered with ride-sharing app Uber. As the rapeevoked a nationwide outrage, Home MinisterRajnath Singh advised all states to stop theoperation of internet-based taxi services.

The Delhi government banned all app-based cab services - including Uber - andother cities and states followed suit, includ-ing Hyderabad and Maharashtra. The ban notonly left thousands of drivers unemployed, italso cut off women from a service that wasseen as safe.

Soon after, the authorities in Bangaloredemanded that all taxi drivers should under-go background checks by December 31.

Cold Wave ...Delhi, which recorded a five-year-low yes-

terday at 2.6 degree C, got some respite, withthe minimum temperature settling at 4.8degree Celsius, even as dense fog envelopedthe city, delaying 98 trains and severalflights. As many as 23 flights, mostly interna-tional, were delayed due to fog at Delhi air-port and three international flights werediverted, while more than 98 trains were run-ning late in the region.

In the west, as the cold wave gripped theVidarbha region of Maharashtra, tempera-tures in Nagpur dropped to a chilling fivedegree Celsius, the lowest recorded in 45years.

"The city had witnessed a minimum of 5.5degree Celsius in 1968, on December 29.Nagpur and adjoining areas have been expe-riencing extreme cold conditions since thelast two days, when the mercury dipped to6.1 and 5 degrees," Assistant MeteorologistAS Khan said.

In the north, Jammu and Kashmir too con-tinued to reel under intense cold, with themercury in the state's summer capitalSrinagar settling at minus 4.1 degreesCelsius, even as Kargil was the coldest placein the state recording a low of minus 15.6degree Celsius.

The night temperatures in the KashmirValley and the Ladakh region continued toremain several degrees below the freezingpoint.

Meanwhile, there was no respite frombone-chilling cold conditions and dense fogin most parts of Punjab and Haryana, withAmritsar freezing at zero degrees.

Amritsar registered the coldest night of theseason so far, as minimum temperature plum-meted three degrees below normal, Met offi-cials in Chandigarh said.

A freezing chill also swept Narnaul inHaryana, which recorded a low of 1.5 degreeCelsius, down four notches from the normal.

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Editorial4 NEW DELHI | TUESDAY | DEC 30, 2014SAADDA HAQ

Ten years cannot wipe out memories of the wall ofwater that wrecked human life and property, withBanda Aceh on the Sumatran coast bearing the

brunt of the earthquake and a series of tsunamis in theIndian Ocean region in 2004. The death of loved ones andthe loss of livelihoods and homes still haunt survivors in14 countries, and the world continues to grapple with themagnitude of the event that was only overtaken a few yearsago by the tsunami-earthquake combination that hit Japanand caused a meltdown in some nuclear reactors atFukushima. Residents of Banda Aceh rebuilt their lives,and in India too, which lost over 10,000 people to thecalamity, rehabilitation has been an ongoing engagement.India set up a warning system in 2005 and upgraded it to astate-of-the-art Indian Tsunami Early Warning System twoyears later at the Indian National Centre for OceanInformation Services in Hyderabad. It has the capability toissue tsunami bulletins within 10 minutes of a major earth-quake in the Indian Ocean. Advance warning is as impor-tant as disaster preparedness for calamities of such magni-tude. Odisha learnt a lesson from the super cyclone in1999, but earlier this year cyclone Hudhud devastated thecoastal city of Visakhapatnam which, ironically, is one ofthe two cities in the country gearing up for a pilot climate-resilient plan. Both the Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC) in 2007 and the Ministry ofEnvironment had said there would be a high likelihood ofthe intensity of cyclonic events increasing on the easterncoast of India. A working paper on coastal cities preparedby The Energy and Resources Institute says it is highlypertinent to start climate-proofing infrastructure and serv-ices and to assess sea-level rise, combined with other fac-tors such as storm surges, cyclones and changes in precip-itation patterns. According to the IPCC, the coastal areasface multiple risks related to climate change and variabili-ty. India has 130 towns and cities in 84 coastal districts,and according to the Planning Commission the rise in sealevel has been in the range of 1.06 to 1.75 mm a year overthe past century. The latest report by the WorldMeteorological Organization says that in early 2014, glob-al-average measured sea-level reached a record high forthe time of the year. The meltdown at Fukushima prompt-ed reactor design changes, and with each devastating inci-dent the world gains fresh knowledge in hindsight. But thatmay not be enough to save humanity from the intensity ofrecurring calamities. Science is quite firm that extremeevents will increase over the years, making anticipationand preparation imperative. That is the least that countriescan do to save their populations from devastation.

When the sea came homeTuesday | December 30, 2014

SAADDA HAQ

BY RAKESH SOOD

Nearly a fortnight has passedsince the massacre at theArmy Public School in

Peshawar which shocked Pakistanwith its naked brutality and left over130 children dead. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimedresponsibility for the attack even asthe gunfight continued. The coffinsof the children have been loweredinto the earth, the dust has settled;wailing has given way to silent grief.But hard questions remain.

Pakistan is no stranger to terroristinflicted violence. Earlier in June,Uzbek militants locked downKarachi airport in a 10-hour gun bat-tle in which nearly 40 people died.The naval dockyard in Karachi wastargeted in September when militantssought to hijack a Pakistani navalvessel. And in 2011, militants hadpenetrated the security perimeter ofthe Mehran naval base destroyingseveral warplanes before a Pakistanicommando force secured it a good 16hours later. The Pakistan ArmyGeneral Headquarters in Rawalpindiwas targeted in a brazen attack in2009 where, after killing a number ofpersonnel including a brigadier and acolonel, militants held more than 40people hostage for over 18 hoursbefore the siege was broken. Inrecent years, hotels, market places,government offices, school buses forgirls, hospitals, churches andmosques, have all been scenes of ter-rorist violence and suicide bombingswhich have claimed hundreds ofinnocent lives.

Turning point?

Even so, many feel that thePeshawar school massacre may be aturning point for Pakistan. The initialstatement from Islamabad wasunequivocal that “there will be no

differentiation between good and badTaliban” and underlined the Pakistangovernment’s resolve “to fight untilthe last terrorist is eliminated.” ThePakistan Army and the Air Forceintensified strikes in the FederallyAdministered Tribal Areas (FATA)region claiming that more than 150militants have since been killed. Butcan the Pakistan Army or specifical-ly the Inter-Services Intelligence(ISI) be weaned away from itsdependence on the “good Taliban” orthe “reliable” jihadi groups whichwere its policy instruments in Indiaand Afghanistan?

The linkages between the ISI andthe numerous jihadi groups spawnedin the madrassas in Pakistan havebeen an open secret. Intrepid authorshave written about it and films havedocumented its sinister growth. In2011, the chairman of the U.S. jointchiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen,described the Haqqani group “as averitable arm of the ISI.” This wasafter evidence emerged, linking it toattacks on the Intercontinental Hotelin Kabul, a NATO outpost and theU.S. Embassy, in quick succession.The ISI and the Haqqani group werealso behind the attack on the IndianEmbassy in 2008. Former U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clintonhad famously chided Pakistan pub-licly when she cautioned it saying“you cannot keep snakes in yourbackyard and expect them to onlybite your neighbours.” Yet, neitherthe cautionary warnings nor thegrowing incidents of violence athome seem to have dampened theISI’s ardour in its long-standingromance with jihadi groups. With theU.S. officially ending its combatoperations in Afghanistan in a fewdays, is the Peshawar massacreshock enough to end this nexus, orwill the temptation to continue a lit-tle longer prevail?

Playing with fire

The TTP is a home-grown group-ing which emerged in 2007 from var-ious militant factions that had erupt-ed in FATA, often with conflictingloyalties, particularly after 9/11, asGeneral Musharraf tried to appeaseboth the U.S. and the jihadi groupssimultaneously, while deflecting theoccasional calls for democracy athome. At a rough estimate, therewere 15,000 militants in 2003, frommore than 15 Arab and Islamic coun-tries, with al-Qaeda as the unifyingfactor and the Haqqani group emerg-ing as the largest force. Neither theAfghan Taliban nor the al-Qaedawere initially keen on targeting thePakistani state but gradually, grouprivalries and the ISI’s role in foment-ing it, together with Gen.Musharraf’s readiness to sacrifice anal-Qaeda figure to keep theAmericans content, created a blow-back, resulting in attempts on Gen.Musharraf’s life in December 2003.

Consequently, Op Kalushalaunched by the Army in SouthWaziristan in March 2004, targetedNek Mohammed who was leadingboth Waziris and Mehsud tribesmenat that time. It was short-lived as theArmy soon realised that it had under-estimated the enemy’s numbers andfirepower. In less than a month, theShakai Peace Accord was signed andNek Mohammed’s prestige grew. Herefused to hand over the foreign mil-itants, part of the deal, instead settingabout to get rid of his rivals. By June,the accord was dead and when theArmy resumed operations, the U.S.cooperated to take out NekMohammad in a drone strike on June17, 2004.

The baton passed on to AbdullahMehsud and then Baitullah Mehsudin quick succession; the latter for-

mally launched the TTP in 2007.

Gradually, drone strikes increased,necessitating ground level intelli-gence cooperation but Pakistaniauthorities maintained deniability.The killing of Abu Hamza and threeothers in December 2005 wasdescribed as an accident whileassembling improvised explosivedevices. The lid was lifted off byHayatullah Khan, a Pakistani jour-nalist who published photographs offragments of a Hellfire missile, fromthat location, embarrassing the Army.Hayatullah was kidnapped the fol-lowing week and his body found sixmonths later.

Meanwhile, the ISI reached out toMullah Nazir (ex-Hezb-e-Islami) toneutralise the Uzbeks who hademerged as the strongest oppositionto the Army but relations soured asthe Army did another accord withHafiz Gul Bahadur (an UthmanzaiWaziri) to break the Waziri-Mehsudcooperation. To counter growing al-Qaeda influence in Swat, the ISIbrought back Maulana SufiMuhammed and signed an agreementin February 2009 but his son-in-law,Mullah Fazlullah, was not amenable.Eventually, in July, the Armylaunched the Swat operation drivingout Mullah Fazlullah into Kunar val-ley in eastern Afghanistan.

Baitullah Mehsud was killed in aU.S. drone strike in August; it wasrumoured, as a favour to the ISI whosought to punish him for having setup the TTP. Hakimullah Mehsudtook charge and tried to consolidatethe TTP by reaching out to theHaqqanis, Mullah Nazir and othergroups but after his killing, in yetanother drone strike in 2013, therewas a power struggle. For the firsttime, TTP leadership went to thesame Mullah Fazlullah from Swat, a

non-Mehsud. This ended up frag-menting the TTP, with the Mehsudsrallying around Khalid Mehsud akaCommander Sajna and anothergroup, Jamaat-e-Ahrar, under OmarKhorasani claiming allegiance to thenewly established IS.

Hard questions facing Pakistan

Even though the Pakistan Armyhad launched Op Zarb-e-Azb in Junethis year, and claim that it had elimi-nated over a thousand militantsbefore the Peshawar school attack, itwas evident that certain groups werenot being targeted.

The Haqqani group and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) are the most prominentin this category. After the Peshawarattack, Hafiz Saeed first described itas “not in keeping with Islam” andlater blamed the Afghan and Indianintelligence agencies for havingorchestrated it, a claim echoed byGen. Musharraf too. This shows howeasily Pakistan can slip into thedenial mode which it has successful-ly employed to sell the virtues of the“good Taliban” for the lastdecade.

The temptations to do so are great.It has been the tried and tested pathand has helped Pakistan keep itsfavoured jihadi groups alive forcovert operations in India andAfghanistan. True, some like theTTP and Mullah Fazlullah have mor-phed into anti-Pakistan elements butthere is a belief that this can be man-aged. Pakistani Chief of Army Staff,Gen. Raheel Sharif concluded a suc-cessful visit to the U.S. in November,a far cry from May 2011 when theU.S. struck Osama bin Laden inAbbottabad without taking thePakistanis on board. In deference toPakistani concerns, drone strikeshave come down from 73 in 2011 to22 in 2014. U.S. dependence on

Pakistan has gone up as it ends itscombat role in Afghanistan andrealises Pakistan’s importance inbringing about the “reconciliation”.It owes gratitude to Pakistan forZarb-e-Azb and believes that withPresident Ashraf Ghani in Kabul,there are brighter prospects for aPakistan-Afghan entente cordiale.

On the other hand, if Pakistan gen-uinely means that there is no distinc-tion between “good and bad Taliban”and consequently, that all Taliban arebad, the Pakistan Army will need toaddress some difficult questions. Fordecades, having projected India asthe only threat, the Pakistan Armyhas presented itself as the “army ofIslam” and the ultimate guardian ofPakistan’s ideological identity.

The political parties and politicalleaders were shown as weak, corruptand too short-sighted to be trusted.Today, when it faces an enemy whichprofesses the same faith, and consid-ers itself the purist while painting theArmy as the infidel for colludingwith the Americans, the Army has toask itself whether it is an army forIslam or for Pakistan. Will Pakistanbe able to discover its nationalismbeyond religion? And finally, can thePakistani elected leadership breakthe stranglehold of the ISI over itspolicies towards India andAfghanistan?

As the dust settles, these questionsstand over the fresh graves and seekanswers which only Pakistani societyand its institutions will provide.

(Rakesh Sood is a former diplomatwho has served in Pakistan and

Afghanistan. E-mail: rakesh-sood2001@yahoo.com)

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BY ANIL MALHOTRA

From fighting insurgents inKashmir, the Maoists inChhattisgarh, and terror-

ists in strife-stricken areas to act-ing as troubleshooters in sensi-tive areas, guarding the bordersof Punjab and maintaining lawand order during times of emer-gency, the 230 battalions ofIndia’s largest Central ArmedPolice Force, the CentralReserve Police Force (CRPF),are staunch sentinels. Butdespite the valiant services thatthey perform for the nation, theyget a raw deal. Gallant soldiersmust get their due and the firststep towards this is to examinetheir rights and the laws thatgovern them.

The Central Reserve PoliceForce Act, 1949 (CRPF Act), anAct that provides for the consti-tution and regulation of anarmed CRPF, is a colonial inher-itance of the Crown’sRepresentative Police ForceLaw, 1939. Despite 67 years ofindependence and the framing ofour own Constitution, we haveretained certain provisions in theCRPF Act which are violative offundamental freedoms — theright to equality, equal protec-tion in public employment, andthe right to protection of life andpersonal liberty. These ought tobe granted to members of theCRPF in course of their dutiesand service to the nation.Fundamental rights provided bythe Constitution, which haveevolved over a period of time,need to find recognition in theCRPF Act.

According to the Act, theextent of heinous offences are to

be judged by the Commandantof a Battalion by exercisingpowers of a judicial magistrateconferred by the CentralGovernment. All trials are to beheld in accordance with the pro-cedure laid down in the Code ofCriminal Procedure, 1898(CrPC). Even though CrPC 1973repeals CrPc 1898, legislativechanges have not followed in theCRPF Act. This leaves no optionbut to read down the CRPF Actby assuming applicability ofCrPC 1973 to confer a presump-tion of constitutionality on thepre-constitutional CRPF Act.However, this does not makepalatable the exercise of judicialpowers by the Commandant ofBattalion, as CrPC 1973 clearlyseparates the judiciary from theexecutive in line with Article 50that mandates this separation.

However, the CRPF Act fol-lows CrPC 1898. The provisionsof this code invested executiveofficers with judicial powers totry as a magistrate all offencesnot punishable with death. The41st Report of the LawCommission of India, which wassubmitted in September 1969,recommended the separation ofthe judiciary from the executiveon an all-India basis to ensureimprovements in the quality ofjustice by having judicial magis-trates, who were appointed bythe High Courts. Dispensingwith the arbitrary exercise ofdiscretionary powers and actingin a manner consistent withknown principles of law wasdesired. After being discussed bya joint select committee andbeing approved by both Housesof Parliament and the President,CrPC 1973 came into force.

Consequently, all functionsrelating to appreciation of evi-dence, imposition of punish-ment, detention in custody,inquiry or trial, came to be exer-cised by a judicial magistrateunder the CrPC 1973, and allministerial functions were left tothe executive magistrates. Sincethen, all judicial magistrates areappointed by the High Courtsand special judicial magistratescan be notified by the HighCourts, if they possess suchqualification or experience inrelation to legal affairs as theHigh Courts’ rules may specify.However, executive magistratescan be appointed by the Stategovernments to perform execu-tive functions.

Further authorisations

The dilemma in the CRPF Actis further compounded by thefact that the Commandant, afterconducting a judicial trial forconvicting and sentencing amember of the force, is also fur-ther authorised to punish thesame member of the forcedepartmentally dispensing witha formal inquiry on the groundof conviction on a criminalcharge. To be given the opportu-nity of a hearing, a departmentalinquiry, or the right of depart-mental defence, has been dis-pensed with, without giving anyreasons as provided by theCRPF Rules, 1955. In a hypo-thetical situation, aCommandant may be framingthe charge as a prosecutor, con-victing and sentencing as a judi-cial magistrate and then punish-ing summarily as departmentalhead, without any separateinquiry to complete the process

in closed quarters, in one or twoweeks.

In the light of the 1973 code,providing for criminal trials byjudicial magistrates or duly noti-fied special judicial magistrates— besides constitutionally man-dating a departmental inquiryexcept in certain situations —the CRPF Act is a pre-constitu-tional law caught in a time warp.Members of an emergency forcemay require a high degree of dis-cipline, but they do not deservesuch a straitjacket procedurewhich not only circumvents thelaw but also defies all canons ofthe process of natural justice.The government cannot remainoblivious to laws requiringequality in matters of publicemployment and at the sametime ignore the mandate of basiccriminal laws of the land. CRPFsoldiers need to be treated fairlyand with a spirit of natural jus-tice.

Revisiting the Act

The CRPF could considerrevisiting the CRPF Act andCRPF Rules to amend them inline with the existing provisionsof the CrPC 1973 and theConstitution. Changes can bemade by creating a rank and fileof judicially trained officers let-tered in law. They could consti-tute a separate cadre in the forceto exercise special functions.Alternatively, a special court,such as the Security Force Courtof the Border Security Force(BSF), could be constituted.Amendments can be made in theCRPF Act in tandem with theprovisions of CrPC 1973 for theexercise of judicial functions to

suit the requirements of this spe-cial force. Legal practices adopt-ed by the BSF, the Indian Army,the Navy and the Air Force,which all meet the test of timeand are in consonance with theprevailing provisions of law, canbe emulated without compro-mising on the need for an inde-pendent disciplinary procedure.A separate judicial forum can belegislatively made in the CRPF.Leaving the current state ofaffairs to the outmoded colonialposition of the CRPF Act makesit an unjust, arbitrary, unfair anddiscretionary process subject tobias and misuse. Members of theforce who sacrifice their livesfor the nation deserve to be treat-ed better. It would be unfair toleave them to their fate whilethey serve us well.

(Anil Malhotra is aChandigarh-based lawyer.)

A law that failed to keep pace with timeIn the light of the

1973 code, provid-ing for criminal tri-

als by judicialmagistrates or duly

notified specialjudicial magistrates— besides constitu-tionally mandating

a departmentalinquiry except incertain situations

— the CRPF Act isa pre-constitution-al law caught in a

time warp.

State Watch 5NEW DELHI | TUESDAY | DEC 30, 2014SAADDA HAQ

BENGALURU, DEC 29 Bengaluru City Police

has intensified securitydeployment in and aroundM.G. road with one police-man deputed at every 100meters to keep a watch onany untoward incidents tillNew Year celebrations areover.

Deputy Commissioner ofpolice (Central Division),Sandeep Patil said thedeployment of police per-sonnel are at places likeM.G. Road, Brigade Road,High Grounds and in andaround Vidhana Soudha.The police are also puttingup 10 watch towers in thesurrounding areas of M.G.Road along with plaincloth policemen deployed

for patrolling the area.The city police have also

announced a cash rewardof Rs. 10 lakh for any valu-able information about the

perpetrators of the bombblasts. People can call at9480801101 to inform onany suspicious activities,Mr. Patil said.

Security tightened in Bengalurufor New Year celebrations

VIJAYAWADA, DEC 29“The fact that I am rooted in Indian

culture helped me win Miss Americapageant,” said Miss America 2014 NinaDavuluri.

Ms. Davuluri had floored her judgesand the audience at the pageant by per-forming a Bollywood classical fusiondance on a peppy Hindi film song.

Self-confidence is the first requisite togreat undertakings and Ms. Davuluri is ashining example of it. Clad in a heavily-embroidered chaniya choli, she hadswayed with great confidence showcas-ing her Indian moorings on the interna-tional platform.

She is currently in the city to be withher extended family for the first timeafter winning the pageant. “My last visitto Vijayawada city was in 2009.

The city has changed a lot but peopleare the same, warm and affectionate,”she said at a press conference here. Sheconsiders 2014 ‘very fortunate’ as itbrought her the coveted title.

Referring to her Vijayawada connec-tion, she said, “As a child, I learnt classi-cal dance here.” Asked if she would takea plunge in films like many other beautyqueens, Ms. Davuluri said she was notinterested in movies. “I want to keepmyself engaged in service to society,especially in the field of women empow-erment,” she said.

Indian culturehelped me wintitle, says MissAmerica

KOCHI, DEC 29From a 15-lakh sq. ft terminal

to an integrated airport manage-ment system and eight smallhydroelectric power stations, theyear 2014 marked a crucialphase in the expansion of theCochin International AirportLimited in Nedumbassery.

The first major project takenup by the airport company wasthe construction of a Rs.950-crore terminal for internationalpassengers. Civil works on theproject, which was launched inFebruary this year, will be com-pleted by June 2015 and it is slat-ed for a formal opening inDecember next year.

“About 60 per cent of the civilwork has been completed whileproject-crashing was done at dif-ferent phases of its constructionso as to complete the works on awar footing.

“Alongside, we have alsobegan preparatory works on theapron and parking bays to comeup at the air-side, besides theapproach road,” officials said.

Upon completion, the new ter-minal will have a peak-hourcapacity of 4,000 passengers andcan facilitate handling of 13-15aircraft.

As part of its stated objectiveto become power neutral by2016, the airport company hasalso taken up the construction ofeight small hydroelectric powerstations with a total capacity of43.8 megawatt through its sub-sidiary CIAL InfrastructureLimited.

Having obtained the nod fromthe company shareholders andfrom the State government, it haskick-started the land survey andacquisition process and is sched-uled to start the first project by

December 2015.The infrastructure subsidiary

has already launched a one-megawatt solar power project onthe airport premises.

The long-delayed Air Keralaproject witnessed a revivaltowards the year-end with theCIAL director board deciding tocommence the operations with a15-seater aircraft. “The service,connecting the three airports inthe State as well those in theneighbourhoods is expected tocommence within seven monthsfrom now and we are in the finalstages of negotiations for leasingin the aircraft,” said a top airportofficial. On the revenue front,the airport company made somestrong gains by registering aprofit of Rs. 69 crore in the firsthalf of the fiscal and it counts ona 10 per cent jump in its annualproceeds.

THIRU, DEC 29 The half-baked building

with protruding rusty ironrods and incomplete stepsleading to nowhere has beenan eyesore for the past fewyears in a stretch filled withheritage buildings. But forthe past three weeks, for afew hours every night, theproposed new block of theFine Arts College at Palayamhas been infused with somevitality, of 3-D mappedvideos, anamorphic paint-ings, time lapsed photo-graphs and etchings.

A few students and the fac-ulty of the college, who werethinking of ways to react tothe lethargy on the govern-ment’s part in not completingthe building, hit upon theidea of this ‘site-specificproject’.

“There are many ways thatone can protest against agiven situation. Through thismethod, we could make use

of the space as artists andalso make our voices heard.We did not have a solid scriptaccording to which weworked. All of us visited thisarea, interacted constantlywith it and evolved our ownreactions to it which cameout in different ways. This

area itself was inaccessibleto the students and we had toseek special permission tostart our work here,” saysNaquash, faculty of sculp-ture. The first work that onecomes across is a complex 3-D mapping by Jino Joseph, astudent of painting here.

Coloured bands and imagesof old Greek and Indianarchitecture in decay moveacross the succeeding beamswith precision. The dimen-sions of the building havebeen mapped accurately toarrive at this.

The next work, done by

students Irshad and Deepak,is an anamorphic paintingof the incomplete buildingitself, spread over a fewslabs, each kept at a distancefrom each other. But theprojection and arrangementmeans that the audience per-ceives it as a single slab.Onto these painted slabs areprojected light paintingsand time-lapse images ofthe building taken at differ-ent times of the day.

The all pervading psyche-delic mood, accentuated bythe surrounding darknessand the faint vehicle soundsfrom the road across, con-tinues to the next work‘green room’ where the out-

growth that has invaded thearea is documented and pro-jected. At the edge of the firstfloor, two of the pillars havebeen transformed brilliantlyto represent the defacedBamiyan Buddhas ofAfghanistan.

Raising a point through works of art JAMMU, DEC 29

The Crime Branch of Jammu andKashmir Police today filed a chargesheet in a court here against three per-sons in connection with a bid to fraudu-lently grab prime land in Jammu city.Crime Branch, Jammu, filed challan(charge sheet) in the court of ChiefJudicial Magistrate here against a groupof three persons for allegedly grabbingthe land fraudulently in Jammu city, aCB official said. An FIR was filed undersections 419, 420, 423, 465, 466, 468120-B of RPC on the complaint of DeepKumar of Bahu Fort, Jammu, wherein healleged that he is the owner and in pos-session of land measuring seven kanals(one kanal is equivalent to 5445 squarefeet) at Chowadhi village in districtJammu. Out of the said land, threekanals, 12 marlas falling in khasra no.1177 and 1 kanal, 12 marlas, fallingunder Khasra no 1176 was purchased byhim in 2005 and necessary entries werereflected accordingly in revenue records,he said. On May 27, 2012 some personscame to the complainant stating that theyhad purchased the land belonging to him,

the official said.The complainant further alleged that

two documents of sale both dated 24May, 2012, purportedly executed by him,one in favour of Nazir Ahmed ofChowadhi, and the other in favour ofShamim Akhtar, were found received inthe office of sub registrar, Jammu forregistration.

He alleged that he neither approachedthe office of tehsildar for issuance of fard(map of land) nor did he appear beforesub-registrar, Jammu for registration ofthe said sale deeds etc. In investigation itwas found that Deep Kumar owned landmeasuring 2 kanals and necessary entriesin the revenue records have been reflect-ed in his name, the official said. OneShashi Kumar alais Makhnu of districtSamba hatched a criminal conspiracywith Nazir Ahmed and Shamim Akhterand pursuance to that he allegedly man-aged photographs, map of land, record ofland and other details of land of the com-plainant and transferred the said land byexecuting two sale deeds dated 24 May,2012, one in favour of Nazir andShamim Akhter, he said.

VISAKHAPATNAM, DEC 29One worker was killed

and 10 others sustainedinjuries, one of them criti-cally, following a blast in afurnace at Anjaneya AlloysLimited in the A.P. SpecialEconomic Zone atAtchutapuram, about 50 kmfrom here, in the early hoursof Sunday.

A company officialsaidthe exact reason for theblast would be ascertainedafter a detailed probe.

An eyewitness said waterleakage in the pipelinemight have triggered theexplosion when gases accu-mulated at the time of mak-ing silicon manganese at atemperature of 1600 degreeCelsius. Inspector ofFactories R. Trinadha Rao,who visited the site, saidthat they collected samplesto ascertain what had trig-gered the blast. The victimwas identified as B. Biswas(40) from West Bengal. Thecondition of K. ArunKumar (25) ofBhogapuram, who sus-tained over 90 per cent

burns, was critical.While three persons were

discharged after beingadministered first aid, nineothers were admitted to acorporate hospital.

Ministers Ch. AyyannaPatrudu and GantaSrinivasa Rao separatelycalled on the injured.

Mr. Rao said ChiefMinister N. ChandrababuNaidu had taken a seriousnote of the accident andsaid those found guilty ofnegligence would be pun-ished. Anjaneya Alloys

Limited has four submergedelectrical furnace arcs eachwith a capacity of 18 MVA.The company is a sub-sidiary of Maithan AlloysLimited. Meanwhile, CPI(M) State secretariat mem-ber Ch. Narsinga Rao anddistrict secretary K.Loknadham blamed negli-gence by the managementfor the accident. He saidaccording to the SEZ Act,formation of unions wasprohibited thereby allowingthe management not to forma safety committee.

One killed, 10 injured in furnace blast

KOLKATA, DEC 29The family members of

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bosemet Rashtriya SwayamsevakSangh leaders here onSaturday and sought theirintervention to declassify thefiles on his disappearance.

Led by Netaji’s niece ChitraGhosh and nephew D.N. Bose,the family members met RSSleader Indresh Kumar and oth-ers and requested them that thedocuments be declassified.

Netaji reportedly died ofinjuries sustained in a planecrash in the Japanese-occupiedFormosa (Taiwan) in August1945.

However, many have refused

accept the theory. Infact, Bose was not

honoured withthe Bharat

R a t n ab e c a u s eof this con-troversy.

According to astatement issued bythe family, the meetingtook place at a time whenthe “Narendra Modi gov-ernment, like its predeces-sor, refuses to release thesecret files, many ofwhich are about Netaji’sdisappearance, citingrelations with a foreignState.”

Positive meetingChandra Kumar Bose,

Netaji’s grandnephewand spokesper-

son of the fam-ily, termed themeeting “posi-tive.” “Sangh

o f f i c i a l sp r o m -

ised ust h a tt h e y

would take up the matter withthe government,” he said.

Chandra Kumar Bose is thegrandson of Sarat ChandraBose, the elder brother ofSubhash Chandra Bose and thearchitect of a Bengali home-land movement duringIndependence.

The family also pointed tothe report of the Justice M.K.Mukherjee Commission —constituted by the previousNational Democratic Alliancegovernment to probe Netaji’sdisappearance — that said theCentre did not give the com-mission vital documents, thushampering the inquiry. TheRSS confirmed the meeting.

Netaji’s kin meet RSS officials,want papers declassified

Crime Branch files chargesheet in J&K land grab case

TIRUCHI, DEC 29Travellers were put to

severe hardship as severalState Transport Corporationbuses went off the roadacross the central region onSunday due to a flash strikeby the employees.

While office-bearers ofthe unions said that majori-ty of the corporation busesdid not ply, transport corpo-ration authorities said that80 per cent of the buseswere operated in the region.

Private buses made akilling in Tiruchi city ascommuters made a beelineto them. Stones were peltedon three STC buses – twonear Manapparai and one atRamji Nagar – damagingtheir windshields.

Although the unions hadoriginally called for a strikefrom December 29 in sup-port of their demands,including talks for wageagreement, many unionmembers resorted to theflash stir on Sunday itself.The bustling Chathram busstand in the city saw onlyfew government buses halt-ing at the spot.

Travellers had to wait fora long time to board privatebuses as most of them wereovercrowded.

Asokan, a governmentemployee, who had toreturn to his home at Katturon the city’s outskirts, saidthat he was forced to boarda private bus due to thestrike. Ponnarasi, a privatecollege student, said shealong with her companionshad come to Tiruchi towrite an examination.However, they were unableto board government bus inthe evening at the Chathrambus stand, she said. Manymoffusil buses operatedfrom Tiruchi ran with goodcapacity.

As a precautionary meas-ure, police personnel weredeployed in front of the busdepots in the city. As asequel to the flash strike,Collector K.S.Palanisamyconvened a meeting withrevenue, police, and trans-port department officialshere on Sunday. TheCollector directed the offi-cials to operate buses asusual and ensure that there

was no law and order prob-lem.

A large number of pas-sengers were seen strandedat the Central Bus Standlate into the night.

The most affected werethe passengers bound forChennai who were caughtunawares by the suddenwithdrawal of bus services.Most of them said that theythought that bus serviceswould be withdrawn onlyafter midnight. Privateoperators exploited the situ-ation by collecting any-where between Rs.600 andRs.700 for a ticket toChennai. Even van opera-tors joined the bandwagonby offering to operate serv-ices to Chennai.

Less than one sixth of theregular departures from theThanjavur New Bus Standwere operated till late in theevening. That too was pos-sible only because themembers of the rulingparty's Anna ThozhirsangaPeravai decided to ply theservices to the chagrin ofthe other trade union mem-bers.

Flash strike leaves commuters in the lurch

CIAL continues to fly high

COIMBATORE, DEC 29As many as 6,389 of

the 8,991 candidates,who had applied for theNational Eligibility Test(NET), appeared at thefive designated centreson Sunday. According toa release from BharathiarUniversity, the candi-dates took the objective-type general paper andsubject paper – Part I andPart II – in the morningand the descriptive-typeelective paper in theafternoon. And theyincluded 108 differentlyabled persons.

Both the sessions werefor two-and-a-half hourseach.

The release said thatthere were eightobservers from theCentral Board ofSecondary Educationand four from BharathiarUniversity. Vice-Chancellor James Pitchaivisited a centre.

At the HindusthanCollege of Arts andScience, 2,306 candi-dates wrote the exam. Inthe SNR Sons College, itwas 1,200, Dr. G.R.D.College of Science1,402, PSG College ofArts and Science 1,674and at the Dr. N.G.P. Artsand Science College,2,409 candidates wrotethe exam.

Over 6,300 appear forNational Eligibility Test

PUDUCHERRY, DEC 29Social workers and psy-

chologists have called foran action plan to preventthe rising number of sui-cides in Puducherry in thelight of the recent bid toend their lives by sistersfrom the Ashram and theirfamily that left threewomen dead.

Panch Ramalingam,Honorary Secretary, IndianSchool PsychologyAssociation said, “Whenpersons, like these sisters,show the tendency of com-mitting suicide, precau-tionary steps like coun-selling should have com-menced through agenciesof government or privateNGOs which existed inmetropolitan agencies suchas Chennai and Bangalore.There was no mechanismin place here.” Narratingthe steps to be taken to pre-vent any suicide, Prof.Ramalingam said first andforemost is counselling.They have to be addressedimmediately to acceptwhere they are and make

them understand the crisis.If some social activists areable to provide sufficientcounselling to gain theirself-confidence and self-esteem so as understandthe reality in the society.Their hope must berestored with due care andsocial support.

Dr. Paranjothi, formerhead of NeurologyDepartment said all theattempted suicide personsmust attend counsellingsession for 14 days beforetheir release from the hos-pital.

Every suicide attemptmust be recorded in arecognised hospital andsurvivors must attend 14days session whichincludes yoga and medita-tion besides counsellingand follow up with visits tothe centre once a year fortwo years. For every suc-cessful suicide, there are10 unsuccessful attemptsand every attempts coststhe exchequer several lakh-the same may be spent forprevention.

Experts seek mechanismto curb growing suicides

NEW DELHI | TUESDAY | DEC 30, 2014SAADDA HAQ

iBall's new budget smart-phone, the Andi4 Arc,soon after being official-

ly listed by the company,has gone on sale in India.The iBall Andi4 Arc is nowavailable to buy at an e-commerce website for Rs.3,143. Notably, the compa-ny is yet to announce theAndi4 Arc officially for theIndian market.

The dual-SIM basedAndi4 Arc features a 4-inch

WVGA (480x800pixels) IPSd i s p l a y ,offering apixel densi-ty of233ppi. TheiBall Andi4Arc runsAndroid 4.4KitKat out-of-the-boxand is pow-ered by a1 . 3 G H zd u a l - c o r eCortex-A7p r o c e s s o rand 256MBof RAM.

T h esmartphonesports a 2-megap ixe lrear camerawith LEDflash, whilethere is a0 . 3 -m e g a p i x e lfront-facingcamera alsoo n b o a r d .The built-instorage onthe handset

is 2GB,which is further expandablevia microSD card (up to32GB).

Connectivity options onthe iBall Andi4 Arc includeBluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, GPS/ A-GPS, andFM radio. The smartphonealso support 3G connectivi-ty, which is the highlight ofthe device at this pricepoint.

The smartphone comeswith an ambient light sen-sor, accelerometer, and

proximity sensor. A1300mAh battery backs thedevice. The iBall Andi4Arc is now available inBlack colour at eBay.in.

Last week, the companylaunched the Andi4P IPSGem smartphone in India,listing it priced at Rs.6,499.

Much like the iBallAndi4 Arc, the Andi4P IPSGem features a 4-inchWVGA (480x800 pixels)IPS display, offering a pixel

density of 233ppi and sup-port dual-SIM. The Andi4PIPS Gem runs the datedAndroid 4.2.2 Jelly Beanand is upgradable toAndroid 4.4 KitKat.

A dual-core (unspecifiedchipset) Cortex A7 proces-sor powers the smartphone,clocked at 1.3GHz, alongwith 1GB of RAM. Itsports a 5-megapixel rearcamera with LED flash,while there is a 0.3megapixel front camera as

well.The Andi4P IPS Gem

comes with 4GB of inbuiltstorage, and can be expand-ed via microSD card (up toan additional 32GB).Connectivity optionsinclude Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n,Bluetooth 4.0, Micro-USB,GPS/A-GPS, EDGE/GPRSand 3G support. The iBallAndi4P IPS Gem is backedby a 1300mAh battery withno word on talk time andstandby time.

Science & Tech6

1. Chemical formula for water isA.NaAlO2 B. H2OC. Al2O3 D. CaSiO3

2. The gas usually filled in the electric bulb isA. nitrogen B. hydrogenC. carbon dioxide D. oxygen

3. Washing soda is the common name forA. Sodium carbonate B. Calcium bicarbonateC. Sodium bicarbonate D. Calcium carbonate

4. Quartz crystals normally used in quartz clocks etc. ischemicallyA. silicon dioxide B. germanium oxideC. a mixture of germanium oxide and silicon dioxideD. sodium silicate

5. Which of the gas is not known as green house gas?A. Methane B. Nitrous oxideC. Carbon dioxide D. Hydrogen

QUIZ TIME

Answer: 1(B), 2 (A), 3(A), 4(A), 5(D)

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TV Channels Schedule TODAY’S STARARIES People in the performing industry have a saying that goes, 'it will all right on the night'. This sur-

rounds having belief that something being met with trepidation or concern will be fine when timecomes to finally deal with or do it. When we are fearful or concerned about how something will turnout, then we tend to need more than someone else's belief that all will be fine. The message fromthe sky to you now though is very much along the lines of 'stop worrying, all will be ok when the timecomes'. Be willing to listen to and believe that very clear message now.

TAURUS When we become so close to a situation, we believe few others, if any, know as much as we doabout it and are therefore not as well placed as we are to see it through to completion as webelieve ourselves to be. When we feel we have no choice other than to relinquish control ofsomething close to us, we understandably believe someone else is starting from scratch and hasto learn quickly what we have learned over time. It is important that you trust that what you'rehaving to invest some level of trust in someone else doing now is not misplaced.

GEMINI Remember the last time you tugged on a piece of wool or thread on clothing? Do you also remem-ber wishing you hadn't, through making a seemingly small problem become a much bigger one?Your intentions were good. You believed you were implementing a helpful solution but there wasone factor that got overlooked and the problem became bigger. In hindsight, it was either better toleave it alone or put in place a much better and longer-term solution. Avoid succumbing to a beliefnow that a corner can be cut where a particular problem is concerned now.

CANCER Action, we know, causes a reaction. The trouble is, we want an immediate reaction to action we take. We thinkto ourselves, 'I've made the effort, now where's my result?' We see no reason why we shouldn't be granted somelevel of hope that we've done the right thing or deserve to be placated thorough seeing some immediate sign ofimprovement. Think, if you will, of how Jack's mother threw magic beans out of a window, oblivious to what heractions were about to create. Think now, of how you have invested effort not so long ago that seemed to pro-duce no result. Prepare to be surprised at what your recent effort has actually achieved.

LEO Babies are born with minds like blank CDs or blank memory sticks. Their minds are very willing to absorband store whatever they are given. Over time, negativity starts forming part of the process. Children aretold they are incapable of doing something or discouraged from believing in something. Then, children startto believe what they have been told and this affects the rest of their lives. That's powerful stuff. It is also areason why you need to assess something from your past that you were wrongly discouraged from believ-ing in. It is time to alter a deeply rooted attitude or opinion and benefit greatly from doing so.

VIRGO Examinations that have multiple choice answers allow for some room for guesswork. Even if werandomly select answers, we are guaranteed to achieve a certain mark or grade depending onhow many answers are on offer. This is, of course, no substitute for having studied properly. Weare unlikely to achieve anything near a pass grade from guessing. In an area of your world,guesswork is only going to get you so far. You won't achieve what you need from merely guess-ing. That's why you need to make some effort to replace guessing with pure, hard fact now.

LIBRA Is there such a thing as 'change for the sake of change'? If change pushes past the barriers we cre-ate for it and manages to enter our world, then it has hardly happened with levels of ease that state-ment implies. The fact that we actually want change to enter is enough in itself. That's why youneed to be aware of what needs to change in your world and why it has to happen. It's not beingdone through boredom or for the sake of seeing what might happen. It's being done because youneed to be freed from an outdated situation. Let it do what it needs to do.

SCORPIO If you were stranded on a desert island, all it might take for you to be rescued is a small piece ofglass or metal. With effort and imagination, using otherwise useless items might just cause a reflec-tion of even the ability to create a huge fire to enable you to be seen by passing aircraft. As handyas it would be to have more helpful items, an amazing result can be achieved from making creativeuse of what is available. That's the message from the sky to you now. Despite what you might think,something wonderful can happen with what you already have available in some way.

SAGITTARIUS All work and no play probably made Jack a prosperous person but it is widely known that his obsessive,career-related pursuits made him a dull individual. We don't need to become workaholics to have lives devoidof fun and adventure. We can dismiss opportunities to enjoy either as often as we wish but our reasons fordoing so often have something to do with our frame of mind at the time. We don't believe we're entitled toeither in our lives. We believe more serious or pressing issues deserve our attention and support. Fun andadventure are trying to make their way into your world now. Believe you deserve and can enjoy both.

CAPRICORN Long ago, people earned comfortable livings repairing adding machines and typewriters. Who'dhave thought that either would become obsolete as quickly as they did? Those who repairedeither had to pursue new careers or update their repairing skills significantly. In other words,acceptance had to be made surrounding new focus given toward something more relevant andappropriate. That probably wasn't easy to do but it was necessary. In an area of your world, youneed to accept what has had its day – and why you can be excited about what's replacing it!

AQUARIUS The Mona Lisa would have been far less impressive if Leonardo chosen to draw a stick per-son. If he opted to abandon all level of care and attention to detail, his creation wouldn't havebeen looked at twice. There are times when we owe it to ourselves or what we're undertak-ing to give required levels of attention to detail and, in an area of your world now, it's some-thing you're required to do. Don't skimp or cut corners where you believe opportunity existsto do either. Give something that deserves your full attention the attention it truly deserves!

PISCES Sometimes, ideas tug at our sleeves like small children. They can be incessant and demanding.We try to shake them but are aware that they will not disappear and we eventually become awarethat, in order to placate them, we must at least consider what they're trying to tell us. We can expe-rience a wonderful Eureka Moment when we discover that something exciting and worth pursuinglies within what has been begging for our attention. Expect, very soon, to enjoy such an experience.If an idea persists, be willing to look very closely at what it contains.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 S-LTE withCategory 6 Network Support LaunchedPutting an end to recent

rumours, Samsung onMonday finally launched the

"World's First LTE Advanced Tri-Band Carrier AggregationSmartphone" - the Galaxy Note 4S-LTE. Carrying model numberSM-916, the handset will hit theshelves in its home turf SouthKorea starting mid-January. Thedevice's price and its availabilityoutside the region is not yet known.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 S-LTE's claim to fame is its networkcarrier features. The smartphoneconverges three different frequencybands into one single connection.Besides featuring a Category 6 net-work, which can offer downloadspeed of up to 300Mbps, it also isCategory 9 service ready, whichboasts a download speed of450Mbps. The Category 9 networkservice is however said to be com-mercialised in 2015.

Besides its network service offer-ings, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4S-LTE shares the same specifica-tions as the previously launchedSamsung Galaxy Note 4. To recall,the Galaxy Note 4 runs on Android4.4 KitKat OS and includes a 5.7-inch Quad-HD (1440x2560 pixel)Super AMOLED display with a

pixel density of 515ppi. It also fea-tures a 16-megapixel auto-focus rear cam-era with SmartOIS, and a 3.7-m e g a p i x e lf ront-facingcamera withan f/1.9 lensa l o n g s i d e32GB ofb u i l t - i ns t o r a g e ,a n de x p a n d -a b i l i t yv i a

microSD card (up to 64GB).Connectivity options include Wi-Fi802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, GPS/ Glonass,NFC, Bluetooth v4.0, IR LED,USB 2.0, and MHL 3.0.

Interestingly, the company hasnot mentioned the handset's proces-sor, though it may be Qualcomm'sSnapdragon 810, an upcoming 64-bit octa-core SoC due in early 2015which was reportedly recentlyundergoing testing for Cat. 9 net-work support. Reports had previ-ously tipped the new 64-bitQualcomm Snapdragon 810includes four Cortex-A57 coresclocked at 1.9GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.5GHz.

"The LTE-A Tri-Band CA smart-phone is a meaningful advance-ment in mobile and telecommuni-cations technologies, and demon-strates Samsung's long-term com-mitment to providing innovationwithin the telecommunicationsindustry," said JK Shin, CEO andPresident of IT & MobileCommunications Division atSamsung Electronics of the launch."We continue to set new challengesfor the industry and push bound-aries to take mobile technology tothe next level and deliver the bestpossible customer experience."

Videocon, soonafter launch-ing the

Infinium Z50 Nova inIndia, has nowunveiled the InfiniumZ45 Nova. The smart-phone has been pricedat Rs. 4,999 and,much like theInfinium Z50 Nova,will be exclusivelyavailable via Flipkart.

The Android 4.4.2K i t K a t - b a s e dVideocon InfiniumZ45 Nova comes withdual-SIM (regularSIM + Micro-SIM)support. It features a4.5-inch FWVGA(480x854 pixels) IPSdisplay and offers apixel density of218ppi. The smart-phone is powered by a1.3GHz quad-coreMediaTek (MT6582)processor alongside aMali 400 MP2 GPUand 1GB of RAM.The smartphoneincludes 8GB ofinbuilt storage that isexpandable viamicroSD card (up to32GB).

The smartphonesports a 5-megapixelautofocus rear camerawith LED flash, whilealso housing a 0.3-megapixel front-facingcamera. The VideoconInfinium Z45 Nova'srear camera featuresPanorama mode, HDRmode, face beauty, selftimer, voice capture,smile shot, andBSI.

Connectivity optionson the smartphoneinclude Bluetooth 4.0,Wi-Fi, Micro-USB,GPRS/ EDGE, GPS/ A-GPS, and 3G. It packs a1700mAh battery, meas-ures 133.5x65x8.5mm,

and weighs 131 grams.The Infinium Z45 Novaalso includes sensorssuch as accelerometer,ambient light sensor, andproximity sensor.

The VideoconInfinium Z45 Nova iscurrently available onFlipkart and comes intwo colour variants -Black and White.

Last week, the compa-ny launched its latestAndroid 4.4 KitKat-based smartphone, theInfinium Z50 Nova,priced at Rs. 5,999.

The dual-SIM

(3G+2G) VideoconInfinium Z50 Nova runsAndroid 4.4.2 KitKatout-of-the-box. It fea-tures a 5-inch qHD(540x960 pixels) IPSdisplay; a 1.3GHz quad-core (MediaTekMT6582); 1GB of RAM;an 8-megapixel autofo-cus camera with SonyExmor R sensor andLED flash; a 2-megapix-el front-facing camera;8GB of built-in storagethat is expandable viamicroSD card (up to32GB), and a 1900mAhbattery.

Videocon Infinium Z45 Nova WithQuad-Core SoC Launched at Rs. 4,999

iBall Andi4 Arc With Android 4.4KitKat Available Online at Rs. 3,143

Sports 7NEW DELHI | TUESDAY | DEC 30, 2014SAADDA HAQ

CHRISTCHURCH, DEC 29New Zealand beat Sri

Lanka by eight wickets inthe first test on Monday,with Ross Taylor and KaneWilliamson steering theBlack Caps to a four-dayvictory built upon a strongperformance by their pace-men.

Sri Lanka resumed thefinal day at 293-5 in itssecond innings and wassoon reduced to nine downbefore Shaminda Eranga(45 not out) and SurangaLakmal (16) shared a rapid59-run stand for the finalwicket to set New Zealanda target of 105 to win.

That last-wicket standraised Sri Lanka's hopes ofpulling off the rare feat of atest victory after followingon, and there was furtherencouragement when bothNew Zealand openers wereremoved cheaply.

Sri Lanka captainAngelo Mathews boldlychose off-spinner TharinduKaushal to share the newball with Eranga. The gam-ble played off when

Kaushal sharply turned aball to opener Tom Latham(17), providing a catch toMathews at slip.

Eranga then removedHamish Rutherford (10),fending a ball to gully,

leaving New Zealand on anervous 43-2.

Pacemen Trent Boult andTim Southee shared 13wickets between them forthe match, and their effortsto bowl Sri Lanka out for

just 138 in its first inningsproved decisive.

This was New Zealand'sfifth test victory in 2014;the most in a calendar yearin team history.

New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in first TestMELBOURNE, DEC 29

Former Australia captain RickyPonting has named three potentialbowlers to be included in the final-15 of the World Cup squad, whichincludes Indian-origin medium-pacer Gurinder Singh Sandhu.

Ponting is impressed with thedomestic form of pace pair JasonBehrendorff and Sandhu, while thetriple World Cup winner believesthat the 20-year-old Aston Agarcould also be included as a special-ist spinner.

"Jason Behrendorff from the PerthScorchers has been a standout forme so far in the Big Bash and hisdomestic record is also good,"Ponting told SEN's SummerBreakfast program.

The New South Wales-bornSandhu, whose parents hail fromPunjab, has bagged 52 wickets in 29List-A matches at an average of24.36. Ponting opines that the 6 foot3 inches-tall bowler is a good limit-ed-over proposition.

"And Gurinder Sandhu is theother one. I think he's a terrific shortform bowler. He bowls well at thedeath in T20 games which is proba-bly an area that Australia haven'treally ever excelled in the limited-

overs game," he said.Ponting also feels that Agar, who

made his Test debut at Trent Bridgelast year, scoring a remarkable 98batting at No.11 in world-recordstand with Phillip Hughes, couldprovide Australia a dynamic spin-ning option.

"I would actually throw AshtonAgar's name in there as a bit of asmokey (an Australian slang for ahorse whose form has been keptsecret)."

"I haven't talked much about thisbefore but I was just looking andthinking about what they might dowith a spinner for the World Cup,and we know that Agar's a veryhandy lower batsman and a goodfielder as well. I think he's someonewho could slot into a World Cupone-day side really nicely."

The 40-year-old Ponting, whoretired from all forms of the game inDecember 2012, feels that youngall-rounder Glenn Maxwell isanother dynamic player in line forthe 50-over showpiece event.

"I think expectation is the thingthat's weighing him down a little bitat the moment," Ponting said ofMaxwell's poor form of late.

"As I try to say to him, that's justdown to the way he plays his crick-et. He's got so much talent ... theability to do some unbelievablyfreakish things. He's got to find away within himself to become aconsistent cricketer for the Stars andVictoria and hopefully forAustralia."

Australia have submitted a list of30 probables to the ICC wihtout dis-closing the names in public and areexpected to come up with the final-15 on or before January 7, 2015.

Ponting backs Gurinder Sandhufor World Cup appearance

NEW DELHI, DEC 29Mandeep Singh (235), Yuvraj Singh (182) and

Gurkeerat Singh (101) powered Punjab to 659 for sevendeclared during their Ranji Trophy match againstSaurashtra in Rajkot while centuries from VirenderSehwag (105) and Unmukt Chand helped Delhi reach425 for six declared against Gujarat at the FerozeshahKotla here on Monday.

Punjab's young right-hander Mandeep, who registeredhis second double century in his first class career, joinedYuvraj when the team's scoreboard read 100 for threeSunday and the right-left combination forged a 379-runpartnership to put the visitors in command.

Young Gurkeerat notched up his second century.Saurashtra at the end of the second day's play were 27without loss.

In Delhi, Sehwag showed his class to guide the hosts toa commanding position. He hit 14 fours. Mithun Manhas(44) and Sumit Narwal (39) also contributed to push theirteam's total to 425 for six before skipper GautamGambhir declared the innings. Gujarat reached 34 for oneat stumps.

At the Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium in Lahli,Rohtak, Odisha took a crucial 105-run first innings leadas the visitors reached 232 for nine. Openers NatrajBehera (39) and Girija Rout (39) provided a good startbut off-spinner Jayant Yadav's six for 92 helped Haryanaremain in contention.

Meanwhile, Bengal struggled in their reply toMumbai's 414 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. BatsmanManoj Tiwary scored 63 for the eastern team but otherbatsmen completely struggled against pacer ShardulThaukur, who took five for 37.Brief Scores:

At Guwahati, Assam vs Himachal Pradesh, HimachalPradesh 1st innings 549 for four declared (Ankush Bains156, Paras Dogra 230) Assam 1st innings 18 for no loss.

At Kolkata, Bengal vs Mumbai, Mumbai 1st innings414 all out (Shreyas Iyer 153, Abhishek Nayar 65; VeerPratap Singh 3/114, Laxmi Shukla 3/58) Bengal 1stinnings 130 for six ( Manoj Tiwary 63; Shardul Thakur5/37).

At Delhi, Delhi vs Gujarat, Delhi 1st innings 425 forsix declared (Unmukt Chand 105, Virender Sehwag 105;Jesal Karia 2/81) Gujarat 1st innings 34 for one.

At Rohtak, Haryana vs Odisha, Haryana 1st innings127 all out (Abhimanyu Khod 38; Deepak Behera 3/33,Suryakant Pradhan 3/35) Odisha 1st innings 232 for nine(Natraj Behera 39, Girjia Rout 39; Jayant Yadav 6/91,Mohit Sharma 3/38).

At Hyderabad, Hyderabad vs Services, Services 1stinnings 306 all out(Soumik Chatterjee 70, Deepak Punia70; Akash Bhandari 4/75, Ashish Reddy 2/77) Hyderabad1st innings 210 for three (Hanuma Vihari 114 not out;Roshan Raj 2/23).

At Dhanbad, Jharkhand vs Kerala, Jharkhand 1stinnings 337 all out(Virat Singh 100, Kaushal Singh 53;Rohan Prem 3/45) Kerala 1st innings 179 for five( SanjuSamson 89; Rituraj Singh 3/38)

At Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh vs Baroda, Baroda 1stinnings 358 all out (Saurabh Wakaskar 94, DeepakHooda 85; Avesh Khan 3/34, Puneet Datey 5/101)Madhya Pradesh 1st innings 103 for three ( Jalaj Saxena26; Sagar Mangalorkar 3/46)

At Jaipur, Rajasthan vs Vidarbha, Vidarbha 1st innings296 (Shalabh Shrivastava 105, S. Badrinath 47; PankajSingh 5/109, Aniket Choudhury 3/69 ) Rajasthan 1stinnings 188 all out ( Vineet Saxena 61; RavikumarThakur 5/50, Shrikant Wagh 3/42).

At Rajkot, Punjab vs Saurashtra, Punjab 1st innings659 for seven declared (Mandeep Singh 235, Yuvraj 182;Sudeep Tyagi 2/51, Arpit Vasavada 3/85) Saurashtra 1stinnings 27 for no loss.

At Chennai, Tamil Nadu vs Railways, Tamil Nadu 1stinnings 144 for four (Abhinav Mukund 57; Ashish Yadav2/49) 2nd day's play called off due to rain.

At Agartala, Goa vs Tripura, Goa 1st innings 251 allout (Reagan Pinto 82, Amogh Sunil Desai 60; Rana Dutta6/64) Tripura 1st innings 139 for five (Rakesh Solanki43; Amit Yadav 3/27)

At Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh vs Jammu and Kashmir,Uttar Pradesh 1st innings 267 for five (TanmaySrivastava 99, Akash Verma 57; Waseem Raza2/43).

Ranji Trophy: Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag Slam Tons

NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 29Not too impressed with Virat Kohli's outbursts on and

off the field, former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskaron Monday said the aggression could back-fire badly in the ongoing third cricket Testagainst Australia as the tourists alreadyhave their back against the wall.

Australia have taken a massive 326-run lead atthe end of the fourth day in Melbourne and lookthe more likely winners.

A dash of drama has been added to the matchdue to the constant exchange of words betweenthe hosts and most prominently Kohli, who lam-basted Steve Smith's men in a press conference aswell.

Asked if Kohli was merely returning fire with fire,Gavaskar felt the feisty batsman could well havedone without it.

"I thought the press conference should have beenabout cricket rather than what went on the field.Generally, what happens on the field stays on thefield. I am not too sure it was the wisest thingto do," Gavaskar said.

"He (Kohli) might get fired up by all thisand score a hundred but how does it affect therest of the team. Are you trying to suggestthat the likes of Sachin (Tendulkar),(Rahul) Dravid and VVS Laxman didn'tlet off steam. They were also verytough," he said.

Gavaskar said Kohli was well withinhis rights to respond when provokedbut the Indian vice-captain should notinitiate chatter with the Aussies.

"If somebody says somethingdon't back off, you just stand up. There is nothing wrong with it. But I don't think weshould be starting it because it can have an impact. Let's not forget it could have costhim (Kohli) his wicket," said Gavaskar.

"I don't know the reasons why he said what he said. But everybody has to look atwhether it is going to affect the team. They had a go at Johnson and look what happenedin Adelaide. You also have to look at whether it would be counter-productive and wehave to wait and see whether it would be counter-productive tomorrow," he added.

Kohli's aggression can becounter-productive: Gavaskar

CHENNAI, DEC 29A fluent half-century from

Abhinav Mukund (57, 142b,4x4, 2x6) was the highlightas Tamil Nadu ended dayone on 144 for four in itsRanji Trophy clash againstRailways here on Sunday.

Gloomy skies and inter-mittent rain ensured thatthere would be only 49 oversof play.

In a cautious start, TamilNadu scored only 39 in thefirst 20 overs for the loss oftwo wickets. It loosened up atad when Dinesh Karthikjoined Abhinav and pickedup pace when Indrajithjoined the latter.

There was turn and bouncefor the bowlers from the out-set. It showed with spinnersbowling all but two overs inspite of the conditions beingovercast.

Bharath Shankar was thefirst to go, caught at short legfor four runs off ArnabNandi. The off-break bowlerthen induced a leading edgeoff Aparajith's bat andsnapped up the return catchto account for the secondwicket. Bowling in tandem,Arnab and left-arm spinnerAshish Yadav were tidy. Thelatter in particular was effec-tive against Dinesh Karthik,beating him outside the offstump on a couple of occa-sions.

But Abhinav seemeduntroubled. He often rockedback and played the ball late.His two sixes straight downthe ground were the stand-

out shots off the front foot.However, he couldn't capi-talise on yet another start,after scores of 37 and 48against Madhya Pradesh inthe previous match, and fellfor 57.

"I am very disappointed,"said Abhinav. "I have beenbatting well recently. I wasshaping up for a big score."

Abhinav and B. Indrajith,who came in after Karthikwas out leg-before, put on 70runs for the fourth wicket.Indrajith seemed a bit trou-bled by spinner PrashantAwasthi, but gathered him-self to remain unbeaten on39.

Earlier Tamil Nadu electedto bat and made one changeto its side, bringing in R.Sathish in place of L. Balaji.

The scores:Tamil Nadu - 1st innings:

K. Bharath Shankar cAnustup Majumdar b ArnabNandi 4, Abhinav Mukund cMahesh Rawat b AshishYadav 57, B. Aparajith c & bArnab Nandi 27, DineshKarthik lbw b Ashish Yadav15, B. Indrajith (batting) 39,R. Prasanna (batting) 0;Extras (b-1, nb-1): 2; Total(for four wkts. in 49 overs):144.

Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-39,3-74, 4-144.

Railways bowling:Anureet Singh 2-1-1-0,Arnab Nandi 17-4-62-2,Ashish Yadav 19-2-49-2,Avinash Yadav 5-2-12-0,Prashant Awasthi 6-2-19-0.

Toss: Tamil Nadu.

Abhinav scores half-century

LONDON, DEC 29Manchester City squandered a gilt-

edged opportunity to close the gap onPremier League leader Chelsea when it letslip a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 at hometo struggling Burnley on Sunday.

Chelsea stuttered to a 1-1 draw atSouthampton and champion City lookedpoised to close the gap at the top to onepoint when it scored twice in the first halfagainst Burnley, but Ashley Barnes lashedin an equaliser nine minutes from time.Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper HugoLloris inspired his team to a feisty 0-0draw with third-placed ManchesterUnited and Arsenal climbed to fifth with a2-1 win at London rival West HamUnited. Fourth-placed Southampton tooka deserved 17th-minute lead againstChelsea, with Mane running clear of thedefence to slot coolly past ThibautCourtois at St Mary's.

The visitors struggled to produce theirusual fluent attacking play but equalisedjust before halftime when Eden Hazard

brilliantly controlled a fine pass fromCesc Fabregas, cut inside and stroked theball into the net. Chelsea poured forwardin search of a winner but was frustrated bywell-organised Southampton which hadmidfielder Morgan Schneiderlin sent offin the closing stages after receiving a sec-ond yellow card. Barnes struck with asweet strike from 12 metres to level forBurnley which hung on for a welcomepoint in its bid to avoid relegation.

The results: Aston Villa 0 drew withSunderland 0, Hull 0 lost to Leicester 1(Mahrez 32), Manchester City 2 (Silva 23,Fernandinho 33) drew with Burnley 2(Boyd 47, Barnes 81), QPR 0 drew withCrystal Palace 0, Southampton 1 (Mane17) drew with Chelsea 1 (Hazard 45+1),Stoke 2 (Diouf 51, 66) beat West Brom 0,Tottenham 0 drew with ManchesterUnited 0, West Ham 1 (Kouyate 54) lostto Arsenal 2 (Cazorla 41-pen, Welbeck44), Newcastle United 3 (Papiss Cisse 34,Ayoze 51, Colback 68) beat Everton 2(Kone 5, Mirallas 84).

City blows golden chanceto close in on Chelsea

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Mr. Ramesh Thakur (36) asoftware engineer work-ing in an IT firm was

feeling breathlessness for over 2weeks. He initially ignored it butwhen he went for a routine checkup done by his company he got theshock of his life. He is sufferingfrom high blood pressure. Hisheart age was 92 years.

Dr. C. N. Manjunath, Professor& HOD - Cardiology of SriJayadeva Institute of CardiacSciences and Research, Bangalorealso observes that "Cardiovasculardisease has emerged as a majornon communicable disease in theIndian subcontinent.

What is alarming is that youngerpopulation is becoming more vul-nerable to coronary heart diseaseresulting in premature deaths.23%, who develop heart attackstoday are below the age of 40years of age. The common factorsare smoking, sedentary lifestyle,diabetes, hypertension and stress.In fact we have been receivingyoung patients in the age group of23 to 30 who are falling prey tothis dreaded disease. The mainreason seems to be overwork,stress and physical strain thoughthese patients do not have anyconventional risk factors."

But does the heart have its ownage? "The calendar age of a personis the age in numbers while bio-logical age is determined by theway you manage your body. Thebiological age of the person iswhat matters in the long run, notthe chronological age," says Dr.Ajit Menon, Cardiologist, LilavatiHospital, Mumbai.

Dr. Nithin Kabra, HOD- cardiol-ogy of Gandhi Hospital,Hyderabad concurs and adds " Thehigh risk for AMI in South Asiansin their younger age is largelydetermined by the higher levels ofthe 9 conventional risk factorsnamely - abnormal Lipids, smok-

ing, systemic Hypertension,Diabetes Mellitus, AbdominalObesity, Psychosocial factors,consumption of fruits and vegeta-bles, alcohol and regular physical

activities which collectivelyexplain 86% of the AMI risk insouth Asians.

An important factor to note isthat in our country we see a high-er level of risk factors In bothcases and controls under the age of60 years. Sedentary lifestyle is oneof the major contributing factorsto the rapid aging of the heart andvessels in our young population. "

But the Question is Why YoungIndian have a Heart age which ismore than there Biological age?

The standard theory is: so-called"thrifty genes" developed inIndians over billions of years ofevolution to survive drought andfamine in the subcontinentmetabolise food lowly and con-serve as much fat and carbohy-drate as possible.

But at a time when scarcity is nolonger the issue, the genes contin-

ue to work. The outcome? A dys-functional biochemical profile.

In the opinion of Dr. RituBhatia, Cardiologist, Pune " Todaywith modern diagnostic tools and

tests available across the countrynow, heart attacks can be predictedwith over 90 per cent accuracy.There are tests that can indicateone's risk: from clinical examina-tion and estimation of body massindex to testing biochemicalparameters like blood sugar, lipidprofile, high-sensitivity CRP inblood, stress testing, measuringcarotid IMT and arterial stiffnessto CT coronary angiograms/ coro-nary Angiography."

" Annual checkup includingTreadmill ECG is recommendedfor males above 25years andfemales above 45 years, adds Dr.Manjunath Dr. Dhiman Kahali,Senior Consultant InterventionalCardiologist, B.M. Birla HeartResearch Centre, Kolkata furthersheds light on the topic " IschemicHeart Disease and Stroke are pre-dictable, preventable and curable

in 90% of the population by mod-ifying risk factors like smoking,exercise, high cholesterol (Lipids),diabetes, hypertension, anxiety,excessive weight etc. We Indians

get Heart Disease 1 to 2 decadesearlier because of our faulty lifestyle habits and not because ofThrifty Indian Gene.

We can reduce shortening oftelomere length and there byincrease our heart age significant-ly by following good life stylepractices. Good life style habitsnot only cut down risk of HeartAttack and Stroke but also dis-eases like cancer, arthritis andother stress related diseases. "

All is not lost. With awarenessand education increasing amongstthe Young India the Heart age canbe reversed reducing the heartattack risk Dr. Manjunath advisesthat for a healthy heart one has tofollow the algorithms of 5 pointformula i.e. Lower is Better:Blood Sugar, Blood Cholesterol,Blood Pressure, Ideal BodyWeight, Over Ambition.

Young India: Only by age but not by heart age

Priyanka Chopra crowned MissWorld in 2000 and throwingsome light on the proud

moment, Piggy Chops said that shewas lucky for not having the swim-suit round at the competition asshe finds it strange to walk on theramp wearing nothing but a biki-ni.

The organisers of The MissWorld contest, which kick-starts in 1951, have removedswimsuit round from theircompetition starting next year.

Speaking about thedevelopment, Priyankasaid, "Obviously it'sstrange to walk in heelsand swim suit on stage.Take us to a pool or abeach and do thatshoot, that's finebecause that's a natu-ral environment. It'sweird and not natu-ral."

"I have found itawkward myselfbut I am happythat it didn'thappen with mein my yearsduring MissWorld. Wedidn't havethis swimsuitround," sheadded.

This year Rolene Straussof South Africa was crownedthe Miss World winner inLondon Dec 14 and theevent marked the end ofwalking in bikini on stageat the Miss World competi-

Protestsagainst'PK' trig-gers,BabaRamdev,BajrangDal join

Baba Ramdev has raised his voice against the newlyreleased film 'PK'. Starring Aamir Khan and AnushkaSharma, this Rajkumar Hirani directorial was sur-

rounded by controversies even before it was released. Severalpeople in the nation criticized the movie, claiming that it hurtreligious sentiments. Now a prominent personality has joinedthese protests. In few places, poster of 'PK' was burnt.

Activists belonging to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad also call

for boycotting the film and they have stopped screening of'PK' in few theatres of Mumbai. In Ahmedabad, allegedactivists of the Bajrang Dal ransacked two multiplexes, fol-lowing which greater security was deployed.

The yoga guru was in Mumbai to mourn the death of themother of Sudhakar Shetty, who is one of his followers. OnSunday, Ramdev openly appealed the public to boycott 'PK'.He especially asked Hindus to join hands and criticize this

movie that insults Hindu Gods and Goddesses.

Speaking in support of Hindu religion, Baba said, "Peoplethink a 100 times while talking against Islam. However, whenit comes to Hinduism any one gets up and says anything, thisis shameful." He further expressed his views on what shouldbe done with the people who make such films that denigrateHindu religion and the deities. He said that people shouldsocially boycott against all who are involved in the creationof such movies, and that some people consider it their hobbyto offend religion and Gods! He said, "There should be asocial boycott in society against those who are involved inmaking such movies. It has become a hobby of some peopleto denigrate Hindu Gods and Goddesses...and insult oursaints."

Talking to the media, the guru censured the movie as beingblasphemous, "The movie is blasphemous to Hindu commu-nity and it should be boycotted by the viewers." Moreover atelevision news channel reported how he was angry aboutpeople uttering disrespectful matter against Hindu religion,"These days any random person comes up with objectionablestatements against Hindu religion." He further targetedprominent personalities who insult religion, and stated that itseems these people have become fond of doing such blasphe-my, "It seems like big personalities are fond of insultingHindu deities." But this is just one of the numerous peoplewho have stood against 'PK'.

The public has criticized several things shown in themovie. In fact, this is quite the hot topic nowadays on Twitter.The ones who find the movie offensive to religion, haveexpressed their criticism through #BoycottPK on Twitter.There are several comments insulting the director RajkumarHirani, and also the lead actor Aamir Khan. The scene thatcreated the most controversy is the one in which a mandressed as the Hindu God - Lord Shiva, pulls a rickshaw car-rying Muslim women in burqua..

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Ranbir's sisterRiddhima Sahni hascome down from

Delhi to ring in Christmasand New Year with her par-ents in Mumbai. BeautifulRiddhima was spotted withhusband Bharat Sahni anddaughter with parentsRishi and Neetu Kapoor atSashi Kapoor's residencewhere the entire Kapoorfamily bonded together fortraditional Christmaslunch. During her visit toMumbai, she paid a visit toRanbir Kapoor and KatrinaKaif's love nest in Bandratoo.

Before taking off toBangkok for New Year cel-

ebration with family, shewent during coffee hoursto Ranbir's new pad.

Ranbir spend some qualitytime with his sister beforeflying off to New York.

Ranbir is very proud ofhis mom and sister and heoften heard speaking to hisclose pals about the twoladies of his life whom heloves and respect a lot.Neetu and Riddhima is acomplete homemaker andthe actor wants his brideshould also posses thequalities and value systemof his mom and sister.

Rubbishing media'swrong speculation aboutKapoor family dislikingKatrina, Riddhima oncetook a stand in the affair.She took one such haterand let the person knowthat such speculations andideas are completely base-

less and in bad taste. Thefact that Riddhima cameout so strongly in supportof her brother and her girl-friend has gone a long waytowards dispelling anyrumours regarding thefamily disharmony aboutthis issue.

Some time previouslyRanbir's cousin Kareenahad openly referred to theRanbir Kat relationship onan episode of 'Koffee withKaran' where she went asfar as to describe Katrinaas her sister in law. So,Riddhima is the secondperson in the family tocome out in support of therelationship.

Sister Riddhima visits Ranbir-Katrina's love nest

It's strange to walkin bikini on stage,Priyanka Chopra

According to the lat-est grapevine,Sonam Kapoor has

been signed in to play braveheart flight attendantNeerja Bhanot in a biopic.23-year-old Neerja savedmany lives during the 1986hijacking of an Americanairliner in Karachi.

The film will be directedby Ram Madhwani and iswritten by Saiwyn Quadrasof 'Mary Kom' fame. Braveheart Neerja joined the air-lines after her marriageended. She was only mar-ried for a year when she fellvictim of dowry. She wasthe chief flight purser on

the unfortunate Pan Amflight 73 airline that washijacked by four terroristson September 5, 1986,when it landed in Karachi.

While the three-memberAmerican cockpit crewmanaged to escape, Neerjasaved many lives but lost

her own lives after shedecided to take control ofthe situation. She hid thepassengers' passports sothat the hijackers could notdifferentiate betweenAmerican and non-American citizens, but waskilled while defendingthree children from bulletsfired by the terrorists.Twenty passengers werekilled and 100 othersinjured in the incident.

Neerja was awarded theAshoka Chakra posthu-mously. She was theyoungest civilian in thecountry to be bestowedwith the honour.

Sonam Kapoor to play brave-heartflight attendant Neerja Bhanot