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Alleged arrests in Americans Helping American and CIBO case (Fiji Trade Commissioner to USA recalled amid the investigations: Fijisun USA learns).

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t was Sunil James Ram an insurance broker of Sacramento who invited Fijisun USA for press coverage of the graduation of over 15 Fiji native students who had were trained in Business Leadership by CIBO under American Helping Americans program. Sunil had told he editor that he was closely associated with getting the Fiji students for the training and he was unhappy with disgusting behavior of the CEO (of the largest newspaper in world). He said he and his team would be happy if the Fijisun USA covered the event instead.

On firm assurances that it will be exclusive FIJISUN USA coverage we decided to travel to Sacramento for the project.

At the close of the training session James told us that two of the leaders involved in the Americans Helping Americans and CIBO were charged for fraud by FBI. James told us that the CIBO leader had been to Fiji as the students were going through the training and allegedly bought some land in property instead for the CIOB in his own name.

According to James the students from Fiji were

Singh getting awards from CIBO leader on Sacaremento

(Native Fijian students pose with Dr. Koya (white jacked in the center) the director of American Institute of Management after he conducted a series of free session on Leadership and management in Sacramento).

NO CHANCHA GIRI TO DR. ROMESH JAPRA Perhaps Dr. Romesh Japra does not realize that I am not a chamchma and will not do any chamchagiri, kiss up or fall at his knees. The way he ignore, brushed me and threw my hand away when I reached to shale hands with him, was very hostile and unprofessional of hi,. He trashed more than 20 year old good relation with me and my publication.

brought in through the Singh of the Fiji Trade Commission and James was instrumental in arranging the training with CIBO During the graduation ceremony, James Ram told us that one of the retired a Fijian doctor Nailatikau who participated in the ceremony was preparing to run for next general elections in Fiji will run against PM Bainimarama.

In addition, James also said that he was contact with a Vietnamese business tycoon who is planning to invest over $200 million dollars in Fiji. He said he was hopeful of getting a hefty commission if the deals go through.

With a congenial and friendly rapport that developed through the courtesy extended to Fijisun USA, we reciprocated by placing his name on our staff list as our contact point in Sacramento. He was reportedly contacted by the competition and threatened and harassed.

So James called and asked his name to be removed. But it is nit clear what role both James and Fiji Trade Commissioner actually played and what led to Singh being called back to Fiji. to be continued in the next issue

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New Zealand and Fiji jointly promote the superyacht industry Fiji airport revamp delayed by bad steel It has been revealed the $70 million upgrade of Fiji's international airport, which is being done by a New Zealand contractor, went months behind schedule because of bad steel.

H a w k i n s Infrastructure ordered steel from China to frame the 7m high new terminal ceiling, but random third party testing at the factory exposed it as substandard. Airports Fiji chair Faiz Khan said the order was cancelled and replacement steel was sourced from another supplier. That caused an eight-month delay and the new airport in Nadi is only being opened in stages now - instead of

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM A DRINKER who could not pay his bar bill left his clothes at the pub as collateral as he headed off naked to get cash, Czech police said. The man walked through the town of Prerov in the early afternoon on Monday dressed only in ankle-length black socks, talking on a mobile phone, security camera footage posted on news website www.idnes.cz showed. Police officers soon found the man who explained he had just popped across town to another pub to get some cash. He was allowed to complete his quest and eventually settled the bill, got his clothes back and put them on. City police said they handed the case over to state police for further investigation.

last year.

Hawkins Infrastructure would not talk to RNZ News but told Mr Khan that Chinese steel had become a political issue with accusations of dumping by Chinese suppliers. The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment said last month it had no "evidence of specific examples of problems" with steel. RNZ News has since confirmed that Lyttelton Port had to replace substandard steel piles and that the crucial steel strand for the Waterview Connection in Auckland came from a small, uncertified Chinese factory.

On 5 August the Fijian yachting industry and a collection of New Zealand’s marine companies will jointly host an open day at Port Denarau Marine and Yacht Club, Fiji, to engage with superyachts and their crew. The hope is that this educational, networking and social event will be a platform to stimulate the superyacht market in New Zealand and Fiji.

“Working cooperatively with the Fijian yacht industry makes sense to us,” comments Peter Busfield, executive director of NZMarine. “Helping yachts gather the information they need to enjoy a longer stay in the Pacific and make the most of their time here, means more work for all of us – Fijian, and New Zealand industries-alike.”

Presentations will focus on New Zealand’s well established refit and maintenance sectors, as well as showcasing its destinations and marinas.

Superyachts and their crew will have the opportunity to engage with representatives from 25 of New Zealand’s marine companies. With superyachts requiring periodic

refits, New Zealand provides the ideal location for yachts cruising the Pacific Isles to escape the Pacific cyclone season, tend to maintenance works and cruise New Zealand and Australia before returning to Fiji, Tahiti and other Pacific Isles. The open day will feature seminars on passage planning between

Chinese investors top Fiji investment list

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Shop owners in Nadi cleaning up after floods caused by several days of heavy rain. April 2016 FBC News reported that Faiyaz Koya said latest figures showed 41 percent of all foreign investment came from China. Mr Koya urged a delegation of business people from China visiting Fiji to seize opportunities and invest in Fiji.

The broadcaster said the delegation which included multi-million dollar businesses held talks with government officials and possible local partners.

Rio. A British delegate warned the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (OCOG) to expect more hostile press reports especially from the British media. OCOG officials told chef de missions that the organisers have been transparent and up-front about their shortcomings

and asked for understanding from the countries coming to the 2016 Olympics. The organisers apologised and said they were doing their best to address all the complaints and defects.

The Australians who had stayed away from the village were seen returning

to the allocated rooms at block 24, Condominium 7.

Pacific chef de missions from Fiji, Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Guam were content with their accommodation. Kiribati chef de mission also arrived into the Games Village last night.

two years and undertake a mixture of private use, charter work and maintenance, most of which will be exempt from the local 15 per cent Goods and Services tax.

This joint event is the first of its kind for New Zealand and Fiji and forms part of a wider initiative to encourage superyachts to the area.

Police steer clear of carnival drama OLICE say its involvement in the Duavata Crime Prevention Carnival is to create awareness programs. It has referred any complaints about the carnival to the carnival committee. Police spokeswoman Ana Naisoro said the police force was given an avenue to promote its community policing initiative some years back and police had been a part of the carnival since then.

Earlier news reports

Olympic village furore I N T E R N AT I O N A L Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach is to visit the Olympic Village in Rio today. The news was revealed at last night's chef de missions' meeting after negative reports by the international press on the unsafe conditions of the accommodations in

Fiji and New Zealand, weather patterns, customs clearance and biosecurity requirements.

The New Zealand customs authority has recently introduced a 24month temporary import entry (TIE) for visiting vessels. This legislative addition enables superyachts to stay in New Zealand for a period of up

claimed carnival contestants had complained about the hampers they were given as prizes although their families spent their own money to provide for costumes and travelling expenses to the carnival.

Duavata 2015 queen Alena Ramabuke said she won a trip to New Zealand, but never received her air ticket. Ms Naisoro said anything to do with the Duavata Crime Prevention Carnival should be directed to the committee.

Fiji’s ginger export increases Fiji’s ginger is of high quality with a unique flavour and low plant fiber and the Biosecurity Authority of Fiji is confident that Australia has high interest in the product.

Executive Chairman, Xavier Khan said the increase in exports is potentially due to Fiji gaining access into the Australian fresh ginger market in 2012. Khan said this has provided Fiji with a great opportunity to further broaden

its economic base apart from providing more employment opportunities for farmers in the country. He added that Fiji’s ginger is among the best in the world and currently, exports approximately 1,200 tonnes of immature ginger and 400 tonnes of mature ginger internationally.He added that with collaboration from neighbouring countries Fiji can greatly expand its export market.

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Musical artist Fiji holds interactive workshop for students THE Association of Indigenous Marianas Artists, together with musical artist Fiji and friends in collaboration with the Office of the Governor, are offering a series of island music workshops that started Wednesday, July 27, in the Hopwood Junior High School cafeteria.

Fiji, who is famous for his hit songs such as “Morning Ride,” “Naughty Girl,” and “Sweet Darling,” said he is here with his crew to hold interactive workshops for students who have a passion for music. According to the Fiji-born, Hawaii-based artist, “We are also looking forward to getting the kids into a musical program.

What we’re going to do is pretty much share what we’ve learned in our 20 some years in music. We will break down everything that we know about music.”

The musical workshop will also be conducted at the Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio MultiPurpose Center on July 28 and 29 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 30 at the same venue.

Gov. Ralph Torres, who was at the musical workshop in Hopwood on Wednesday, commended local musicians who are trying to preserve the Chamorro and Carolinian languages through music.

“I want to acknowledge

of Indigenous Marianas Artists vice president, said they are focusing on the youth — elementary and high school students. “We are going to give them an opportunity to learn songwriting from Fiji. They will have an opportunity to explore their music preferences, and Fiji will work with them, and if they have a song that they are working on maybe Fiji can give some

tips,” Kaipat said.

“We’re very proud that we were able to sponsor this series of musical workshops and make them free and available to our people in this community because I know there is a lot of untapped talent here, like rough diamonds that we need to polish and develop.”

Kaipat thanked the governor and the Lady Diann Foundation for the opportu-

nity to work with Fiji. “The Lady Diann Foundation has a program that encourages the preservation of our local languages, and music is definitely a way to preserve our Chamorro and Refaluwasch cultures so we are very excited to encourage the kids to start that musical spark,” Kaipat said.“I would like us to continually strive to develop a Marianas sound, much like reggae or the

Hawaiian style that have placed Hawaii and Jamaica on the map of the music world.

“Our local musicians here are striving to come up with that unique sound that will be our own offering to the music world so that when people hear it they are going to know distinctly where that sound is from, and they will know it is from the Marianas,” Kaipat added.

Association of Indigenous Marianas Artists president Roman Tudela Jr. encourages the community, especially the youth, to take part in the musical workshops.

Tudela said Fiji saw the potential in the CNMI’s youth when he visited the schools the last time he was here. “That inspired him to come back and help out the community — he is doing this for free.” Tudela said there are young, aspiring musicians who are writing their own songs already.

“Now we are here to help them and guide them to the right channel and correct path, and hopefully Fiji will be able to lead them in the right direction.” As for the Association of Indigenous Marianas Artists, Tudela said it was formed to promote and preserve local music. Its other officers are Felix Rabauliman, secretary; and Gus Litulumar, treasurer.

Fiji Red Cross Society Operations Manager, Eseroma Ledua thanked Chite for the brave and unique initiative and for raising funds towards the Red Cross Appeal. Ledua says Fiji Red Cross is also in the recovery phase of its operations.

Chite began his walk around Viti Levu on June 26th and finished on July 11th. He also assisted a total of 14,299 households and reached out to more than 71,495 people who were affected

by Winston.

SAO PAULO - The head of the International Olympic Committee yesterday played down problems with unfinished accommodation at the Olympics Village in Rio de Janeiro, saying he expected Brazil would host a "fantastic" games.

Arriving in the coastal city ahead of the first Olympics to be held in South America, which start on Aug. 5, Thomas Bach said every host city experienced lastminute issues with preparations.

"The last couple of days before the Olympics Games there is always one issue or other to be solved.

The Brazilians will solve it," Bach told reporters on arrival. "You can already feel the Olympic energy here ... so we are looking forward to a great Games and, as you know, we always had confidence in Brazil, in the Brazilians, that it

will be a fantastic Olympic Games."

The build-up to the Games has been marked by concerns over a budget crisis in Rio de Janeiro, sparked by Brazil's worst recession since the 1930s, as well as an outbreak of the Zika virus, and a political crisis that has seen suspended President Dilma Rousseff placed on trial in the Senate.

Concern over Rio de Janeiro's preparations erupted on Sunday when the Australian delegation said it would not stay in the Olympic Village, as the housing was "not safe or ready" amid problems with leaky plumbing, blocked toilets and exposed wires. Other countries such as Argentina, Italy and New Zealand also expressed concerns. However, the Australian delegation praised Rio's swift

response, after authorities deployed hundreds of workers to conduct repairs. The team was due to complete its move back into the official accommodation yesterday. The 31 tower blocks of the Olympic Village will house 11,000 athletes during the 17-day sporting event, will be sold as luxury housing after the Games are over. Bach was due to inaugurate the Olympic pyre, which will house the flame during the Games. A poll published yesterday in the Estado de S.Paulo newspaper said most Brazilians are pessimistic about the impact of the Olympics on their country.The survey by polling group Ibope showed 60 percent of Brazilians believe the games, expected to cost around 40 billion reais (about $12 billion) will bring more harm than good to

GOV. RALPH TORRES AND ARTIST FIJI POSE WITH STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN A MUSICAL WORKSHOP CONDUCTED WEDNESDAY BY THE FAMOUS SINGER/SONGWRITER/PRODUCER FROM HAWAII IN THE HOPWOOD CAFETERIA.

all our musicians on island… this workshop is an opportunity for our youth to come out to have one-on-one musical sessions with Fiji.

He will share his personal knowledge on how our youth can grow in music, and our goal later on is to have our own studio for our youth so they can develop our very own distinct Marianas music.”

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Young Chite Hands Funds to Fiji Red Cross IOC boss confident Rio will deliver

A student from the Solomon Islands studying in Fiji has handed over FJD$1700 to the Fiji Red Cross Society for those affected by Cyclone Winston.

The University of the South Pacific student, Randy Sugiyama Chite says this is just a small contribution to assist in the recovery operations of TC Winston.

Chite walked around Viti Levu to raise funds for those affected by TC Winston and raised a total of $1723. While receiving the donation,

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Kashmir unrest: Curfew continues as Valley limps back to normal Authorities continued curfew and restrictions on Tuesday as Kashmir remained shut for the 25th consecutive day.

Police said the curfew would continue in some areas of south Kashmir while restrictions under section 144 of the CrPc (Criminal Procedure Code) will remain in force in Srinagar city and other districts.

Overnight protests occurred in Shopian district.

Despite clashes at some places on Monday,

African couple among 4 held for supplying drugs in Punjab, Delhi Police claimed to have unearthed a nexus between Punjab-based and foreign drug suppliers with the arrest of four persons, including an African couple, and recovered 4kg heroin worth Rs 16 crore in the international market from them.

“The group’s kingpin Micheal Chinedu Chukwudi, a Nigerian national, his wife Catherine Leonard Mrope from Tanzania and drug suppliers Surender Singh and Balwinder Singh, both from Kapurthala in Punjab were arrested on Saturday,” Delhi deputy commissioner of police (DCP special cell) Sajiv Kumar Yadav said. Balwinder and Surender received 3kg heroin from Micheal and were going to supply it near a petrol pump close to the Rohini jail in the national capital when they were nabbed by the special cell sleuths, the official said. During interrogation, the duo admitted that they used to supply heroin in Punjab and Delhi-NCR. Micheal, who lived at Pochanpur in Dwarka, had rented two-three

apartments there and a house in Gurgaon where he used to keep heroin, Yadav said.

Simultaneous raids were conducted in Dwarka and Gurgaon and the kingpin of the cartel was arrested and 1kg heroin was recovered from him, the official said. In another raid, Micheal’s wife was arrested on the charges of illegally staying in the country for nearly two years, forgery and possession of fake passport, he said.

Apart from their Nigerian and Tanzanian passports, counterfeit South African passports with stickers of fake visa of India and immigration stamps were recovered from the couple, Yadav said. During interrogation, Michael admitted that his friends had contacts in Pakistan and Afghanistan and they used to send heroin to him through human couriers as well as courier deliveries. He was supplying heroin to drug suppliers in Punjab through Balwinder and Surender for past six months, the DCP said.

addresses in Bharatpur, said the DIG (Meerut) Laxmi Singh said.

Police nabbed 15 suspects for the gangrape of a woman and her teenage

highways resumed during the night. Train services, educational institutions, banks, post offices and government offices except essential services like health, water supply, electricity, food supplies, police and fire services are shut here for the last 24 days.

Officially imposed curfew and protest shutdown called by the separatists through weekly protest calendars have crippled life in Kashmir since July 9, a day after Hizbul commander, Burhan Wani’s death in a gunfight.

Narsingh was ‘victim of sabotage’: Anti-doping panel gives clean chit for Rio Narsingh Pancham Yadav, whose Rio participation hung by a thread, was cleared of doping charges by an anti-doping disciplinary panel of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), which agreed with the grappler’s claim of sabotage.

The NADA panel gave him the benefit of the doubt saying that “the ingestion of the prohibitive substance, in this case methandienone, appeared to be one time. “…the panel concludes that the athlete deserves the benefit of Article 10.4 of the anti-doping rules of NADA 2015. As there is no fault and negligence on his part, and he is a victim of sabotage done by a competitor. Therefore, keeping in view the facts and circumstances said above, the panel exonerates the athlete from the charges of violating the anti-doping rules of NADA,” said the three-member panel’s

report, which was read out to the media by NADA director general Navin Agarwal.

The summary of the report also states that the estimates for the detected substance found in the urine sample collected on June 25 are substantially reduced in the sample collected in July 5, and that only the long-time metabolite of methandienone was detected in the later sample. “It is further important to note that the report from the first sample taken on 25 June was not known to

3 Bulandshahr gangrape accused sent to jail A fast track court in Bulandshahar has sent three accused in the highway gangrape case to 14 days of judicial custody on Monday.

Police produced the three accused - Raees, Shavej and Jabar Singh in the court of additional district judge Dhruv Kumar Tiwari amid tight security on Monday afternoon. The accused were arrested on Sunday evening.

There was a massive anger against the accused and hundreds of people including lawyers gathered outside the court when the accused were brought in.

Meanwhile, addresses of two more accused Naresh and Bablu have turned out to be fake.

Police teams have been sent to verify their new

some semblance of normal activities of life was noticed in parts of Srinagar city as private vehicles and pedestrian movement was seen almost after three weeks.

Chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, who interacted with members of the civil society in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday, appealed for a collective effort to reach out to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

Traffic on both the Jammu-Srinagar and Srinagar Jammu national

daughter on Saturday near Bulandshahr on the DelhiKanpur highway.

The incident sparked outrage across the country when a family of six —

three men, two women and a 13-year-old girl — were stopped by five to six armed men on the DelhiKanpur highway near Dostpur village at 1.30am Saturday, according to a first information report filed later that day. The group allegedly dragged the victims to nearby fields where they tied up the men and an elderly woman and raped the teen and her 35year-old mother.

The family was attacked while driving to Shahjahanpur village for a relative’s tehravi — a ritual for the dead.

The police filed a case of rape, illegal confinement, robbery and dacoity, and under the provisions of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act in this regard.

the athlete till the collection of second sample on 5th July. Had the athlete being a regular user of the substance in any form, he would have been taking it regularly and the report of sample taken on 5th July would have been positive to the extent of having the main substance,” it said.

The panel opined it was inconceivable that Narsingh would have got any significant gain from the ‘one-time’ and therefore it strengthened his claim of sabotage. It also junked the NADA counsel’s

argument that the athlete had failed to take utmost caution by leaving the drink unattended at the site of practice on the mat and for not opting to change his training centre.

Narsingh’s counsel Vidhuspat Singhania said they were able to successfully plead before the panel that sabotage had taken place.“We were able to show the court (Sushil Kumar’s high court case) where attempts were made to stop him. We were able to show that a perjury case has been started against a certain gentleman, who had started to stop him and even given a wrong affidavit. We were able to show that there was a life threat, again that is in media knowledge and we were also able to show that on 5th June there was an attempt to sabotage his food. All these show that there was an attempt being made to sabotage his case,” said Singhania.

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ujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel offered to resign on Monday, a decision seen prompted by mounting pressure over her government’s handling of a string of political protests.

Patel said in a Facebook post that she told the BJP leadership about her plan to step down two months ago. She said the party needed a fresh face before next year’s state elections.

“For the past some time there has been a tradition in the party that those who attain the age of 75, voluntarily retire from the post. I will attain the age of 75 in November,” said Patel.

“It (the age rule) is a good thing and it will give a chance to young leaders to come up.” Patel, the first chief minister to quit over social media, is likely to be succeeded by transport minister and party state chief Vijay Rupani. The chief minister has been

FROM CRISIS TO CRISIS AUGUST 2015, Patel agitation: Anandiben failed to efficiently handle the Patel agitation. This resulted in loss of lives and property, and a loss of face for the BJP. The agitation is likely to take away the BJP’s strongest and most loyal vote bank, the Patels, who constitute about 12-14% of the population.

under pressure since last year’s protests by the Patidars seeking quotas in colleges and jobs, and more recently, over the public beating of four Dalit men by self-styled cow protection groups.

Many accused her government of being out of touch with people’s aspirations, and blamed her leadership for the party’s dwin-

NOV 2015, Municipal poll debacle: Out of power for 20 years, the Congress made a comeback in the rural areas of Gujarat. Though the BJP retained its hold over urban pockets the poll outcome was a loud wake-up call for the party MARCH 2016, Charges of nepotism: Anandiben mired in condling support in both rural and urban Gujarat.

The BJP’s vote share in panchayat polls dropped from 50.26% in 2010 to 43.97% last year. Its hold over semi-urban and urban civic bodies also weakened during the period, helping to revive a politically moribund Congress party in the state. Patel’s downfall is also partly blamed on her

troversy following allegations of her government favouring her daughter frosty ties with BJP president Amit Shah, who is known to be close to Rupani, an old Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh hand.

Patel, Gujarat’s first woman chief minister, succeeded Narendra Modi in May, 2014. But her government’s handling of last year’s protests by Patidars, or Patels, drove a wedge

Anar’s business partners by giving 422 hectares of land at throwaway prices.

JULY 2016, Flogging of Dalits in Una: Trouble deepened for Gujarat CM after four Dalit men were beaten up on suspicion of cow slaughter.

Subsequent protests took a violent turn, igniting fresh worries within the BJP about its political fallout in next year November-December election. between the BJP and one of its staunchest supporters. At least 11 people were killed in those demonstrations.

The fallout reflected in the BJP’s poor performance in panchayat and municipal elections, as Patels, who account for 14% of the state’s population, distanced themselves from the party. Political

analysts say Patel’s exit could help the BJP rebuild bridges with its core supporters including the Patidars. In New Delhi, BJP president Amit Shah said: “Anandiben Patel has offered to resign. I will place her letter before Parliamentary Board which will take the final decision.”

The rise of Rupani, 60, has coincided with a series of setbacks for Patel, who is also accused of favouring the business partners of her daughter. She denies the charges.

In what was seen as Shah’s open support for Rupani, the latter was thrust forward to make an announcement for the state’s economically backward class (EBC) at a press conference in April, where Patel was also present. A fortnight later, Rupani announced a government decision to accord minority status to Jains. On both occasions, Patel chose to announce those decisions on social media.

Indian, Chinese troops meet at No underwater locator in missing Ladakh border, vow to maintain peace AN-32 plane, search ops continue

The Indian and Chinese armies on Monday decided to uphold the treaties and agreements signed between the governments of the two countries to maintain peace and tranquility along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

“Both sides also sought to build on the mutual feeling to uphold the treaties and agreement signed between the governments of the two sides to maintain peace and tranquility along the LAC,” Defence spokesman said.

He said two Ceremonial Border Personnel Meetings (BPM) on the occasion of Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) day were held at Chinese BPM hut in Moldo and TWD Garrison in Chushul Sector of Eastern Ladakh today. The first dele-

gation was led by Brigadier Navneet Kumar from the Indian Side and Senior Colonel Fan Jun from the Chinese side, he said. At TWD, the delegations were led by Colonel BS Uppal from the Indian side and Colonel Song Zhou Li from the Chinese side, the spokesman said. “The meetings were marked by saluting the National flag of China by members of both the delega-

tions. This was followed by the ceremonial address by the delegation leaders,” he said. At both the locations, the delegations interacted in a “free, congenial and cordial environment,” the spokesman. “The delegations parted amidst feeling of friendship and commitment towards enhancing the existing cordial relations and maintaining peace along the LAC,” he added.

The missing AN-32 aircraft, which had flown multiple times over the Bay of Bengal carrying military personnel and equipment, did not have an underwater locator system, making it difficult for rescuers to pinpoint the position of the plane which went down over the sea with 29 people on board.

In fact, none of the upgraded AN-32 aircraft, the main workhorse of the military, has an underwater locator, unlike the modern transport planes like C130J or C17. This means that the search and rescue team has no exact idea about where the plane, with 29 military personnel on board, could have gone down on July 22. The search, which entered its 11th day on Monday, is being carried out based on an estimate taking into account the last contact point of the aircraft

before it disappeared.

“We are using sonars of submarine, ships and other naval assets to locate the aircraft. There is no signal available to track the missing aircraft,” a defence source said, adding the search will continue. The missing aircraft came with two Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) -- a stationary ARTEX C406-1 ELT manufactured by ACR Electronics/Artex Products, the US, and a French-made portable KANNAD 406AS ELT manufactured by Orolia. In an emergency, the pilot has to activate the ELT beacon manually. The integrated ELT gets activated when the impact is about 2.3 G or 4.5 feet per second. However, ELT would not get activated automatically since radio waves are not transmitted in the water. There is no signal

from ELT under water for this reason, IAF sources said. The sources said trials were already on to procure underwater ELTs for the aircraft and, as an emergency measure, effort is to have some kind of an underwater ELT on any aircraft that flies over water. Also, the AN-32 aircraft does not have the Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast. This system relies on navigational satellites to automatically transmit an aircraft’s journey in real time and it can be switched on and off based on operational needs. Defence minister Manohar Parrikar said overdue action, as per the Standard Operating Procedures, started at 1230 hours, one hour after the scheduled arrival at Port Blair and nearly three-and-a-half hours after the plane went out of ground radar cover area.

Assam floods : Death toll climbs to 34, over 110,000 people affected Three people died on Monday in Assam, taking the death toll to 34 in the deluge that has as affected more than 1.1 million people.

Two people were killed at Bilasipara and Chapar in Dhubri district, and one person lost his life at Barpeta town in Barpeta district, according to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA).

The ASDMA said 1,659 villages in 21 districts were affected by the floods, down from 1.7 million people affected across 2,266 villages till Sunday. The affected districts include Lakhimpur, Golaghat,

Jorhat, Bongaigaon, Dhemaji, Barpeta, Goalpara, Dhubri, Darrang, Morigaon, Sonitpur, Nalbari, Sivasagar, Kokrajhar, Dibrugarh, Biswanath, Kamrup Metropolitan, Nagaon, South Kamrup, Karbi Anglong and Chirang.

Barpeta district is the worst affected with about 300,000 people affected, followed by Morigaon (270,000) and Goalpara (140,000).

Authorities are running 366 relief camps and distribution centres, where over 125,000 people are taking shelter across 15 districts.

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hectares of crop area have been flooded across the state, and a number of roads, embankments, bridges and other infrastructure have been washed away.

The Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark at Nematighat in Jorhat and Dhubri town, while its tributaries Dhansiri at Numaligarh in Golaghat and Beki at Road Bridge in Barpeta are flowing above the normal level.

Oil India Limited, as part of its corporate social responsibility, has donated Rs 75 lakh to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.

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Trump unfit to be president - Obama President Barack Obama has said Republican nominee Donald Trump is unfit to be president, and questioned why his party still supports the New York billionaire's candidacy.

"There has to come a point at which you say: 'Enough'," Mr Obama said.

Mr Trump has been sharply criticised for attacking the parents of a fallen US soldier who spoke out against him.

He has also been condemned for backing the Russian annexation of Crimea.

Mr Obama said he had had policy differences with previous Republican presidents and candidates - but added that he had never thought they could not function as president.

Barack Obama has been steadily upping the pressure on Donald Trump's Republican Party

supporters. Last week, at the Democratic National Convention, the president said he didn't think the nominee was within the mainstream of modern conservativism.

On Tuesday he called into question Mr Trump's fitness to hold the presidency - his sharpest words so far - and questioned why the party leaders continue to stand by their man.

Those comments take dead aim at Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and 2008 presidential nominee John McCain, who all have issued statements distancing themselves from Mr Trump's recent feud with the parents of a MuslimAmerican soldier killed in Iraq.

The irony, of course, is that Mr Obama's remarks likely make it more difficult for the party's top men to

renounce their standardbearer, lest they appear to be caving to their Democratic nemesis.

Instead, the squeeze will continue - and grow more politically intolerable with each new Trump controversy.

At last week's Democratic National Convention, Khizr Khan - a Muslim whose son was killed serving in the US military in Iraq - criticised Mr Trump's plan to temporari-

Democrats set for historic nomination of Hillary Clinton

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elegates at the Democratic N a t i o n a l Convention are poised to make history, formally nominating Hillary Clinton for president.

Mrs Clinton will become the first woman to lead a major party ticket in the US. Delegations from all 50 states began reading their votes on the convention floor in Philadelphia.

Bernie Sanders, a primary race rival, is expected to deliver the deciding votes for Mrs Clinton's nomination as a show of party unity. Sanders supporters disrupted the first day of the convention, often booing and jeering pro-Clinton speakers.

Tensions boiled over this week after leaked emails showed supposedly neutral Democratic Party officials were biased against Mr Sanders.

Both the Sanders and Clinton campaigns have been working to ease tensions and quieten the protests inside the convention hall. The disruptions mostly subsided midway through Monday night's programme as big names like Mr Sanders, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and First Lady Michelle Obama aggressively backed Mrs Clinton's candidacy.

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On Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton will headline the night's speakers, making the case for why his wife should take his old job. Mr Clinton is seen an able booster for other Democrats, including President Barack Obama but has struggled to effectively promote his wife.

The rest of the programme will focus on race and justice, topics that dominated last week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

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ly ban Muslims from entering the US. Mr Trump responded by attacking the "Gold Star" family, the term for families that have lost a close relative in war. Democratic and Republican leaders as well as veterans' groups quickly condemned him.

"The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president and he keeps on proving it," Mr Obama said on Tuesday. "The notion that he would attack a

Gold Star family that made such extraordinary sacrifices... means that he is woefully unprepared to do this job."

Mr Trump released a statement on Tuesday afternoon responding to "President Obama's failed leadership" but did not directly address the president's criticisms.

"Our nation has been humiliated abroad and compromised by radical Islam brought onto our shores," Mr Trump said.

Mr Obama also took to task Republican leaders who have frequently clashed with Mr Trump over this statements and policies about women, undocumented immigrants and Muslims.

"What does this say about your party that this is your standard bearer?" Mr Obama asked Republicans. "This isn't a situation where you have

an episodic gaffe, this is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he's making."

Top Republican leaders such as House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have been highly critical of Mr Trump, but the billionaire has retained their support.

On Tuesday, New York Representative Richard Hanna became the first Republican member of Congress to publicly say he would vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Mr Hanna said Mr Trump's comments about the Khan family were the deciding factor.

Until recently, many Republicans opposed to Mr Trump had stopped short of supporting Mrs Clinton, saying they would vote for a third party or write-in candidate.

US election : Six reasons it will make history

t took a while, but now we finally know which two candidates will fight it out in the race for the White House.

Donald Trump will be the Republican candidate, something few would have predicted a little more than 12 months ago.

And after the Democrats' convention in Philadelphia, we know Hillary Clinton will be their candidate. Whatever happens from this point on, the outcome will be historic. This is how:

1) Twilight years When Barack Obama first walked through the White House front door in January 2009, he was aged 47, and was the fifth-youngest president in history. Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest, at 42 years and 322 days.

The next one will be a fair bit older, whatever happens.

Donald Trump celebrated his 70th birthday on 14 June. If elected in November, he would be the oldest president in history (Ronald Reagan was 69 when he took office). Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, turns 69 some two weeks before the election, and would become the second-oldest president on inauguration. She would replace William Henry Harrison, who became presi-

says his experience doing deals, and the fact he is not too tied to the Washington establishment, stand him in good stead.

5) A woman in office?

dent in 1841 (and was the last president born on British soil).

2) New York, New York Trump v Clinton is the first presidential contest between New Yorkers since 1944, when the governor of New York, Thomas E Dewey, ran against the incumbent, Franklin D Roosevelt.

Whoever wins this time will become the first New Yorker in office in 71 years when the inauguration takes place next year.

(And yes, we know Mrs Clinton was born in Chicago, but she was a senator from New York and lives in the state.)

3) Money, money, money If Mr Trump wins, we could be looking at the least amount of money spent by a winning candidate for some time. Federal Election Commission records show he spent $91m (ÂŁ69m) up to 22 July, of which $50m is his own money.

No other candidate since Al

Gore in 2000 ($126m) has spent as little. Hillary Clinton is on some $275m so far, by the way. Of course, Mr Trump could break out the chequebook given that he has more campaigning to do between now and November, but it looks likely he will come a long way under what Barack Obama spent last time round almost $556m.

4) Experience A Trump win would be significant for another reason no-one has been elected president in more than 60 years without experience as a governor or in Congress.

Even then, the last president with no political experience, Dwight Eisenhower, was Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War Two, before he was elected to office in 1953. Before that, Herbert Hoover, who was president from 1929 to 1933, was previously an engineer and humanitarian. No previous candidate has ever owned a chain of casinos and hotels. But Mr Trump

The long years Hillary Clinton has been on the Washington scene may make it easy to forget one fact: She would be the first female president if elected.

She is already the first female candidate for a major US party. The closest we have got before is when Republican John McCain surprisingly picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, and when Democrat Walter Mondale named Geraldine Ferraro as his vice-presidential pick in 1984. Neither won the presidency.

6) Democrat relay?

Amazingly, only two Democrats have directly succeeded another Democrat as US president. The most recent was James Buchanan, who was president from 1857 to 1861.

Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson were both vicepresidents who were named president when their predecessors died. They both then went on to win the next election. A Clinton win, therefore, would bring even more significance to the Democratic Party.

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emen Samut, highly regarded in the Fiji community both for his higher education and life time achievement as former DO Lautoka – Yasawas in Fiji, last month gave Dr. Koya a boot.

Yemen Samut has held several elected positions in the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community including chapter president of Oakland Chapter that was recently shut down.

The shutdown of a tiny place on West Mac Arthur Blvd in Oakland - on grounds that the cost outweighed the benefits or some such reasons- left particularly Fiji Ahmadi Muslims confused, frustrated and marginalized.

Officially, it appears from various communications, a chapter was supposed to have been relocated in Hayward were majority of Fiji Ahmadis reside.

According one directive the members were asked to join the Silicon Valley Chapter located at 925 Evans Drive in Milpitas. I disgruntled member Mohammed Amin Khan blasted an email dissuading members to instead align with the Bay Point Chapter some 20 miles away in Contra Costa County. This action is not in keeping with the spirit and discipline of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Given the directive Dr. Koya complied and opted to join the Milpitas Chapters. So members were divided with some serious bickering looming large among other Fiji members including Real Estate Broker Able Hanif.

As it became more and more apparent that Fiji Ahmadi Muslims like the Black Ahmadi Muslims feel marginalized and dominated by the Pakistani Ahmadi Muslims, Dr. Koya took to discuss the issue with Yemen Samut on the Eid day at his place and secured his agreement to have an informal meetingat Yemen Samut’s home on Thursday July 21.Dr. Koya took upon himself to provide the dinner.

In subsequent email Dr. Koya explained Yemen Samut to avoid discussing details and ask everyone to come to the dinner and the idea of creating a chapter will be explored at the meeting. The meeting was primarily meant for the Fiji Ahmadi Muslims of Hayward, Union

City and San Leandro.

Knowing the habit of inquisitiveness and tendency among some Ahmadis to know everything in advance of the meeting and then give it their own twist. Dr. Koya wanted to proceed in a low key style.

As it turned out, Yemen Samut confided some information to controversial member Yakub Khan who is often hard to get along and with a tendency to prevailing on others. Part of the shutdown of Oakland Chapter involved an embattled relationship between him and Able Hanif.

A couple of days before the July 21 dinner to be hosted by Dr. Koya at Yemen, Samut’s residence, Yakub Khan called Dr. Koya and got him by surprise about the dinner time which

he said was too early and wanted it changed painting a

picture as if majority of members may be late. After he hung up, Dr. Koya did a quick recap and called him back to ensure if Yakub Khan and his family had the time problem or others as well as he never received any such feedback from any one. When asked, Yakub said that he had already sent text messages changing the time from 7 PM to 7.45 PM. This was disturbing indeed. Dr. Koya sent a text to Yemen Samut expressing his concern as it was going to be confusing and he did not want too many people getting involved arranging and rearranging the dinner meeting.

Yemen Samut accused Dr. Koya for starting a fight to which he said then it would be better to leave him

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out if Yemen Samut felt that he (Dr. Koya) was causing the trouble. Then Yemen Samut revealed that the local missionary Salman Sheikh was also invited of which Dr. Koya had no knowledge. Samut said the missionary was invited by Yakub Khan. Dr. Koya said he was not told of this and it reasoned that it was a private dinner so members could talk freely. Yemen demanded, “What about the Quran Dars?” to which Dr. Koya said that this was not a Quran Dars program.

Yemen Samut lost his cool and said in that case the program is cancelled. Well he had all the rights to cancel given the fact that it was his residence so he had the power and prerogative.

Once a respecting and polite Yemen Samut came out in full color and grandeur and wasted no time giving Dr. Koya a boot so to speak.

In light of the pressing need to educated young kids, the youth and ladies of the Fiji Ahmadi community and equip them training and take leadership qualities, a chapter in Hayward is extremely necessary.

It is absolutely absurd to think that our small kids (the Atfals and Saraat and Khuddam) will get proper training at out of reach locations where meeting take place may be once a month and participation loitered.

In the initial discussions with Yemen Samut Dr. Koya had highlighted the pressing need of learning Arabic, Urdu and basics of Islam in the weekly meetings in the same we did in Fiji. The weekly Dare Quran held in homes was a major training ground and a great venue to invite others to participate which proved effective in bringing new Ahmadis to the Jamaat.

Yemen Samut takes the cake in giving Dr. Koya a boot and the credit for shunning the opportunity for progress.

While the Fiji Ahmadi Muslims will continue with their internal politics, bickering and sulk in frustration with no solutions for their problem and never rise to serve mankind and spread the message of the Ahmadiyya Jamaat in an effective and organized manner, Dr. Koya’s involvement in interfaith activities and service to humanity will continue unabated.

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BSNL Ready with Rs 7K-Cr Plan to Ramp Up Service Quality Telco to install 21,000 new towers; in talks with Vodafone, Airtel for roaming

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tate-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is investing around `7,000 crore to install 21,000 new mobile towers to arrest service quality issues. The company , however, said it has the lowest number of call drops when compared with private sector rivals.

BSNL is working on a three-fold strategy that includes network expan-

sion in all circles including the Northeast where call drop ratio is a little higher, conducting drive tests and network optimisation as well as infrastructure sharing with private players to further ease network congestion and, hence, services. BSNL is in talks with Vodafone India and Bharti Airtel to formally ink intracircle roaming (ICR) deals.

“We are in the process of investing `7,000 crore in radio networks, and adding 21,000 new mobile towers across all licensed service areas, which itself is a huge capital expenditure to improve services,“ BSNL

chairman Anupam Shrivastava told ET. The telco had a mobile consumer market share of 9% of India's total base of 1,034.25 million subscriptions as of April this year, as per telecom regulator Trai. The current base transceiver station (BTS) expansion is part of BSNL's `Phase 7+' initiative to put additional 21,000 towers, after an addition of 25,000 sites under the phase 7 programme, concluded recently, to take the total to 50,000.“Our comprehensive BTS expansion plan that will include locations

Market Mavens See a Bumpy Ride on D St WATCH YOUR STEP! Top participants at ET Markets Roundtable say stock markets likely to stay on the edge in the near term Stock investors may need to brace for a bumpy ride in the months ahead as rich valuations, global uncertainty and a possible setback to corporate earnings keep the market on edge. That's how top market participants summed up the near-term outlook for Indian equities at last week's ET Markets Roundtable. That said, Indian equities could still return about 7-8% before March next year, possibly pushing benchmark indices to a record.

There was consensus among participants, including Kotak MF's Nilesh Shah, Reliance MF's Sunil Singhania, Birla SunLife MF's Mahesh Patil, SBI MF's Navneet Munot and UBS' Gautam Chhaochharia, that valuations are stretched. But investors can still make money in pharmaceuticals, consumer and agriculture stocks if held beyond a year. “Market valuations are higher than the longterm average. Nothing

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would be linear. We could see corrections as the global environment is challenging,“ said Patil, chief investment officer of Birla SunLife Mutual.

Sensex is trading at a price to earnings (PE) ratio of 21 times FY17 estimated earnings. The index's 10year average PE is 19 times. Roundtable participants said concern over valuations is higher in midcap stocks than blue chips.

Midcap index, which hit an all-time high last week led by a gush of domestic fund inflows, is trading at PE of 33 times FY15 reported earnings. “Whether the valuations can sustain will depend on whether they are able to report higher growth rate than the largecaps. With valuation on the higher side, the risk-reward

from a near-term perspective is slightly less in the midcaps,“ said Patil. “If there is a correction in the market, the sensitivity in the midcaps would be larger because the valuation support is not there.“ So far in 2016, the Sensex has gained 7.6% and the midcap index has risen almost 14%. The immediate trigger for the market would be the passage of legislation related to the goods & services tax (GST), which the government will attempt to push through in the ongo ing session of Parliament.

Though the market has factored this in, its approval will keep investor sentiment upbeat. An abovenormal monsoon this year has also kept the bullish momentum going.

In the months ahead, a lot will depend on the US Federal Reserve's decisions on interest rates and the impact of Britian's exit from the EU. Uncertainty over the impact of the US presidential elections will also keep the markets on edge.

Investors will do well to bet on companies that would benefit from a possible recovery in the Indian economy, said participants.Pay raises for government employees and a better monsoon after two years of drought could boost consumer spending, they said. Pharma stocks have weakened of late but investors should buy them on declines for three years.

“Pharma is a falling knife.

They are going to probably underperform the market for 3-6 months but this is a good time to average yourself into pharma and build your portfolio,“ said Shah, MD of Kotak Mutual Fund.

On public sector banks, most participants felt they are likely to underperform compared with private peers. “PSU banks are just tactical plays, nothing more than that,“ said Singhania, chief investment officer, Reliance Mutual Fund. “PSU banks structurally have lost competitive advantage.“

affected by Left wing extremism, covering Northeast, would take the total count to 50,000 mobile towers by the end of 2016-17,“ the top executive added. To mitigate service issues, the telco has renewed its focus on the Northeast with its network expansion programme to fill coverage gaps in the region's bumpy terrain.BSNL is also working on a parallel strategy of network sharing with private service providers through intra-circle roaming (ICR) pacts and spectrum sharing. According to the telco's top executive,

this helps BSNL to devise network spending strategy on a specific location to improve coverage while the other partner telcos would take care of the rest, thus minimising overall spend for the two operators. The company recently entered into ICR arrangements with Aircel 2G, and Reliance Jio Infocomm, which is yet to make a commercial foray in 4G services. Get a daily mail with the most important news on the telecom industry from all media outlets. Send a blank mail to join@ettelecom.com to sign up

Hindi Email IDs Likely for Ease of Rural Netizens Move aimed at ensuring sufficient local-language content for Internet users in semi-urban and rural areas Fancy an email ID like this -? If the Indian government has its way , American tech giants Google, Microsoft and homegrown providers like Rediff could soon be signing you up for email addresses in the desi language of your choice.

At a meeting convened last month, the government asked email service providers to enable users to sign up for addresses in local languages, starting with Hindi. This is in line with the broader agenda of ensuring that when the Internet reaches deeper into the semi-urban and rural areas, sufficient locallanguage content and the tools to access this should be available.

“The Bharat Net project will connect 250,000 gram panchayats through highspeed Internet in the next few years, and people should be able to utilise it when it reaches them,“ said Rajiv Bansal, joint secretary in the ministry of electronics and IT. Bansal,

who called the meeting, said an email address is required to access the most basic Internet services. “How many people in India can actually type in or read English?“ Bansal said.

Executives of Google, Microsoft and Rediff attended the meeting and are of the view that the technology allows for email addresses in scripts such as Devanagri.

However, they feel government should not enforce this through diktat and instead take the lead for industry to follow suit.

“What is stopping our Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other officers in government from sending out emails to the public from a Hindi email address?“ said Venki Nishtala, chief technology officer of Rediff. While Microsoft says the latest versions of its software support so-called internationalised email addresses, Gmail started recognising IDs that contain accented or non-Latin characters such as in Chinese or Devanagri in 2014. The company had posted a blog saying that Gmail users can send emails to and receive them from people who have these characters in their addresses.

CABINET NOTE MOVED - Finmin Rejects RBI Proposal on Hybrid Paper Proposal sought retro application of policy; plan could have solved TataDocomo row The finance ministry has rejected the Reserve Bank of India's suggestion for retrospective application of a proposed foreign investment policy for hybrid instruments, a move that's significant in the backdrop of the ongoing TataDocomo dispute that threatens to sour business ties with a strategic ally. The

ministry has moved a cabinet note on a Budget proposal that could allow domestic companies to issue hybrid instruments such as optionally and partially convertible debentures to overseas entities under the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy. Accepting the RBI suggestion may have helped resolve the TataDocomo row although it could impact other such transactions differently. “An FDI policy change cannot be carried out with retrospective effect,“ said a government source aware of the deliberations. The RBI

letter was written just about a month back.

The development comes in the backdrop of the ongoing tussle between the Tata Group and its Japanese partner NTT Docomo over their joint telecom venture Tata Teleservices. The Japanese company had invested $2.2 billion in 2008. Both companies had agreed the Indian partner would buy 26.5% stake in 2014 or find a buyer for it if milestones weren't reached.

NTT Docomo alleged last week that its Indian partner was shirking

its commitments by taking refuge in the RBI policy that bans exits by overseas investors at an assured price to avoid paying $1.17 billion in arbitration damages won recently in London. The Japanese company has said the money should come from the overseas assets of the Tata Group not governed by local laws. Tata Sons, the group holding company , said on Friday that it had deposited $1.17 billion with the Delhi High Court and that its overseas assets can't be seized as these are not party to the dispute.

The RBI had written to the finance ministry a while back on the issue during consultations on a new framework for hybrid instruments that the latter was working on. The central bank suggested retrospective application of the draft policy based on the Budget proposal could help address such disputes arising out of stringent pricing norms for quasi-equity instruments.

This new policy would, however, be governed by conditions on schedules for conversion and fair market value. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

had said in the February Budget that the basket of eligible instruments would be widened to include hybrid ones to expand the scope of tools that foreigners can use to invest in India. Instruments that are fully and mandatorily convertible into equity within a specified period are regarded as equity under the FDI policy and eligible to be issued to persons residing outside India.

Any instrument that is not mandatorily converted is considered debt and governed by external commercial borrowing (ECB) rules.

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Bangladesh goverment may offer security to foreigners European Union Ambassador Pierre Mayaudon also stressed the need for security for foreigners across Bangladesh.

Still reeling from the aftermath of the terror attack on a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh government on Sunday said it was mulling offering security to foreigners in the country, especially to those doing business.

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed had been claiming that the killings of Italian buyers of Bangladeshi garments and Japanese consultants of Dhaka Metrorail project had not affected the country’s businesses.

But after meeting a delegation of the European Union at his office, he sounded concerned about the security of the foreigners, BDNews24.com reported. “Our top priority will be giving security to our foreign friends, who do business in Bangladesh.

Many may travel to Chittagong, Khulna or Barisal by road. We will provide them escort if nec-

essary,” it quoted Tofail Ahmed as saying.

He said the decision to provide the foreigners with security while travel was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Law and Order. “We will also arrange security for the establishments here (Dhaka),” Tofail said.

Bangladesh is second only to China, the world’s

second- largest apparel exporter of western brands. Exports of textiles and garments are the principal source of foreign exchange earnings for the country.

European Union Ambassador Pierre Mayaudon also stressed the need for security for foreigners across Bangladesh – not only in

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Police hunt receivers of videos, audios, photos taken by ‘militants’ in Kalyanpur The law enforcers are now after the persons, who had received the files, police’s counterterrorism unit chief Monirul Islam told on Sunday.

“Police detectives have found some audio and video footage made in the Kalyanpur den.”

He said the footage were found in mobile phones, laptops and other electronic devices in the hideout. Monirul said the ‘masterminds’ may use the footage to ‘inspire and brainwash’ targeted youths. Nine ‘militants’ were killed and another was captured alive in the Kalyanpur operation which started after July 25 midnight and ended through the storming of the hideout by a SWAT team the following morning. Police said the suspected

militants wore Islamic State’s ‘uniform’ - black panjabi and Arabic headdress – and put IS flag in the background while taking the images, audios and videos. “They sent some photos, audios and videos through mobile phone to several places in the country,” Monirul said. One of the video shows some youths burning educational certificates. One of them is heard saying in the video, “These certificates are valueless.

These certificates can only make someone a servant.”

Some others were shouting “Dawatul Islam Allahu Akbar”. No-one’s face is shown in the video. One is seen carrying a sharp weapon like machete. Monirul said the multimedia files will be tested in the CID’s forensic lab.

Dhaka’s diplomatic district Gulshan and adjacent Banani and Baridhara areas.

On July 1, suspected Islamic State terrorists killed 22 people, mostly foreigners at a popular restaurant- Holey Artisan Bakey in Dhaka- frequented by expatriates in Dhaka’s diplomatic enclave.

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Adani Power project to supply electricity to Bangladesh crosses major hurdle An Indian expert panel cleared the terms of reference for the 1,600 megawatt thermal power project of Adani Power (Jharkhand) Ltd in Jharkhand New Delhi: India’s plan to deepen its friendship by providing power to Bangladesh is gathering steam with an Indian expert panel finally clearing the terms of reference (ToR) for the 1,600 megawatt (MW) thermal power project of Adani Power (Jharkhand) Ltd in Jharkhand.

ToRs are guidelines for conducting environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies of projects, based on which the ministry of

environment, forest and climate change grants or rejects green clearance to a project. The 1,600MW Godda thermal power project in Jharkhand is the result of an agreement between India and Bangladesh signed in January 2010 with a view to enhancing their ties through economic cooperation. The agreement, signed by Adani Power and the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), is aimed at developing the thermal power plant and supplying the entire power generated to BPDB through a dedicated transmission line.

The Rs.13,906 crore project was, however, put

on hold in May over environmental concerns such as inadequate information about the withdrawal of water from the nearby Chir river and the water use.

Meanwhile, the environment ministry’s expert appraisal committee (EAC) of thermal power and coalmining projects had asked Adani Power (Jharkhand) to seek a clarification from the state government’s water resources department regarding the “requirement of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) approval for water withdrawal, and if so, whether the same has been obtained”. The panel’s nod came after the necessary

Kamal says he did not discuss ‘list of 5 terrorists’ with Indian officials Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has dismissed India media reports that he had discussed the ‘repatriation of five suspected terrorists who have fled to India’.

After returning to Dhaka, he told reporters at his office on Sunday that he did not have specific sdiscussion on the matter with any Indian official.

‘The Times of India’ reported that Bangladeshi intelligence agents suspect that five of the youths, listed by law-enforcing agencies as missing and suspected to have joined militancy, have been hiding in India. In the report published on Friday, the newspaper said Kamal discussed repatriation of the five with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh.

“This issue was not discussed. The discussion was on everything, the basic problems we have,” he said. Referring to the signing of the amendments to an extradition treaty, Kamal said, “We’ve discussed the problems in sending or taking back

those militants or criminals.” ‘The Times of India’ said Bangladesh had handed a list of the five suspected terrorists to India. Of them, Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury from Sylhet is also a citizen of Canada while Saifullah Ojaki from Brahmanbarhia has Japanese passport.

They are missing in those countries. ATM Tajuddin from Lakshmipur is an expatriate in Australia while Nazibullah Ansari from Chanpainawabganj is missing from Malaysia.

Junnun Shikder from Dhaka is accused along

with banned radical outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team chief Jasimuddin Rahmani in a case under the Anti Terrorism Act. About the list, Kamal said, “Fugitive militants or criminals, whatever you say, we always provide this (list) and they (India) also send theirs.” He said a list has been handed over to India to get Bangladeshi suspects or convicts back under the extradition treaty.

He said India has promised quick steps on the matter and reassured Bangladesh of help to fight militancy. Asked how many persons have been named on the list, the minister said, “I can’t remember the figure right now.”

He also said Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership in countering terrorism. The home minister said he had also urged his Indian counterpart Singh to bring killings along the border down to zero.

clarifications were provided to it by the company in a meeting on 14-15 July.

“After detailed deliberations, the committee recommended the following ToR in addition to the standard TORs (as applicable) for undertaking detailed EIA study and preparation of EMP (environmental management plan),” said the minutes of the EAC meeting reviewed by Mint.

“The water reservoir shall be a part of the project area. Considering the scarcity of water, explore the feasibility of installation of air-cooled condensers in lieu of water-cooled condensers. Measures for minimizing the evaporation losses from water reservoir

Comilla University shut indefinitely after student dies in BCL faction feud Comilla University has been closed sine die following a student’s death in a clash between two factions of the ruling Amawi League’s student front on the campus. After an emergency meeting on Monday morning, the authorities instructed students to vacate residential halls. Male students have been told to leave campus by 11am and female students by 2pm.

Police said that bullets were fired during the clash Sunday midnight between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL). At least 12 persons were injured, some with bullet wounds, during the clash, said Comilla South police OC Nazrul Islam.

Marketing Department Student Saiful Khalid was declared dead around 5am on Monday by doctors at the Comilla Medical College Hospital, said OC Nazrul Islam.

by development of thick green belt, etc.,” the panel directed the company. (A water reservoir is planned to meet the plant’s water demand during non-monsoon period.) The total land requirement for the project is 860 acres, which includes 393 acres for the main plant, 203 acres for the green belt, 30 acres for the town and 234 acres for the ash dyke.

Of the total 860 acres, 737 acres are private land and the remaining 123 acres are government land. An additional area of 550 acres for a water reservoir will also be required. On the EAC’s query regarding the NGRBA approval, the

panel noted that the water resources department of the Jharkhand government (in June 2016) has stated that the approval of the NGRBA has not been obtained because water is not to be drawn directly from the Ganga river.

The expert panel also pointed out to Adani Power (Jharkhand) Ltd that since February 2016, “this was the fourth time the proposal had been taken up for consideration” and “this delay in recommending TORs could have been easily avoided” if the information sought by them in the February meeting had been given expeditiously by Adani Power (Jharkhand) Ltd.

Bangladesh to provide security for foreigners during travel Still reeling from the aftershocks of the Gulshan terror attack, the government is putting maximum priority on the security of foreigners, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said.

Tofail had been claiming that the killings of Italian buyers of Bangladeshi garments and Japanese consultants of Dhaka Metrorail project had not affected the country’s businesses.

But after meeting a delegation of the European Union at his office on Sunday, he sounded concerned about the security of the foreigners. “Our top priority will be giving security to our foreign friends, who do business in Bangladesh. Many may travel to Chittagong, Khulna or Barisal by road.

We will provide them escort if necessary,” Tofail said.

He said the decision to provide the foreigners with security while travel was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Law and Order. “We will also arrange security for

the establishments here (Dhaka),” Tofail said.

The minister said the fewer-than-normal number of foreign traders visiting Bangladesh was ‘natural’ in this season.

“They holiday in JulyAugust period to spend time with their families. I held a meeting with BKMEA yesterday (Saturday). They said their orders have not been affected,” he said.

EU Ambassador Pierre Mayaudon also stressed the need for security for foreigners across Bangladesh - not only in Dhaka’s diplomatic district Gulshan and adjacent Banani and Baridhara areas.

Police say they have information about eight to nine others involved in Dhaka terror attack Police investigating the Gulshan terror attack claim to have gathered information about eight to nine militants being involved directly or indirectly in the carnage other than those killed in the raid ending the deadly siege.

“We are collecting evidence about them,” police’s counterterrorism unit chief Monirul Islam told bdnews24.com on Sunday.

He, however, did not take names for the sake of the investigation into the attack that left 22 persons, including 17 foreigners, dead on July 1. Police arrested four per-

sons on charge of sheltering the Gulshan cafe attackers after finding two flats where the terrorists had been hiding. They questioned two of the freed hostages for their alleged involvement with the militants. Police have reportedly freed them but their families claim they have not returned home.

At least four others, including a woman, are believed to have been detained in Narsinghdi, Comilla and Ashulia over the Gulshan carnage. Raihan Kabir alias Tarek, one of the nine suspected militants

killed in a raid on a house in Kalyanpur on July 26, was the trainer of the Gulshan attackers, police said.

Inspector General of Police

AKM Shahidul Hoque recently said the source of the arms used in the attack had been found.

On Sunday, Monirul spoke about the masterminds behind the attack.

“The work to collect information on who are the masterminds is under way. We have got names of eight to nine persons involved in the incident directly or indirectly,” he said. Police have launched a manhunt for them on getting the information in recent raids on the hideouts of militants. He reassured the people that they have noth-

ing to fear about the drive because police are conducting the block raid in “public interest”.

‘Only JMB’ in attack The IS has reportedly claimed credit for the Gulshan cafe attack and published photos of the gunmen and the bloodied victims of the carnage when the siege was under way. But police have been claiming the attackers were militants from Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

Monirul on Sunday said, “The attackers had rented a house in Basundhara

Residential Area. The detectives are certain that they were members of the JMB.” Police have been blaming homegrown militant organisations JMB, Ansarullah Bangla Team or Harkat-ul Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) for the recent spate of murders by suspected Islamist extremists. Monirul said police found the involvement of ‘only JMB’ in the Gulshan attack. He also said Ansarullah Bangla Team tried to form a platform of all militant organisations in Bangladesh in 2013, but failed after the arrest of their chief Jasimuddin Rahmani.

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Halal Fest 2016 was a Success!

Apprx. 7,000 people attended the 4th Annual Halal Fest Held on Saturday July 16th, 2016 on Albrae Street in Fremont, CA This year Halal Fest was featured in several Positive Media stories including in the SJ Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, KTVU Ch. 2 and ABC 7 News.

Fremont: Fourth annual halal food festival draws 7,000 The aroma of cooking meats mingled with the scents of halal Mexican, Chinese, Middle Eastern, Pakistani and Indian food that were served up Saturday in Fremont at the region's fourth annual halal food festival. About 7,000 people converged at the new festival location, 40451 Albrae St., to enjoy the different types of halal food the Bay Area has to offer, festival organizers said.

In Arabic "halal" means permissible and refers to a dietary law similar to kosher food for Jews, where the food must be prepared a specific way and the name of God must be mentioned at the time of the preparation. Pork and alcohol are prohibited.

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One of the most popular food vendors every year is Miss Louise's BBQ, where people waited in long lines for more than an hour to sample the St. Louis style halal beef tri-tip, fried chicken, chicken and waffles and chicken wings.

"This year's event in Fremont was a great success with a very diverse crowd coming from all over the Bay Area and from all backgrounds, religions and cultures," festival organizer Irfan Rydhan said Monday.

"That's great to see and I hope more and more people will have a chance to enjoy the diverse tastes of halal food while also learning about their fellow neighbors and co-workers who are both Muslim and American."

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Who holds the whip hand?

In the I-Day clash between Akshay Kumar’s Rustom and Hrithik Roshan’s Mohenjo Daro, a difference of 300-400 screens will be all that counts Stills of Rustom (left) and Mohenjo Daro Varun Dhawan and Parineeti Chopra in an item song in Dishoom

Foolproof punch Sajid Nadiadwala’s Dishoom is the first film to be submitted to the Censor Board in encrypted format for certification THE HITLIST TEAM

hard-drive or USB flash drive, and is played off the theTHE recent spate of atre’s Digital piracy of films Cinema Server on including Udta basic verification Punjab, Great Grand through a Digital Masti and Kabali has Cinema Projector. prompted A KDM (Key We Bollywood as Delivery are grateful to well as the Message), on Pahlaj Nihalani Central Board the other hand, of Film is a special and the entire Board Certification electronic key for this initiative (CBFC) to that contains change the cura code to — Sajid rent method “unlocks” an Nadiadwala followed by filmencrypted film. makers to submit The encryption films for certification. prevent films from Instead of DVDs, movie being stolen and duplisubmission will now cated. A source close be done through a to CBFC says, “Once DCP-KDM format. the film is played, it Producer Sajid gets locked autoNadiadwala is the matically and no first in the industry one can open it.” to submit the copy Relying on the forof his upcoming mat means the It film, Dishoom, in producer has this particular to bear addiwill cost the foolproof fortional cost. producer R20,000 mat. He said, Normally, they extra.

[But] it is better “We are gratehave to pay R34,000 to ful to to do it and safeguard the CBFC for CBFC chairour property certification of man Pahlaj the films apart Nihalani and — Mukesh from shelling out the entire Board Bhatt R3000 for food and for taking this inibeverages for the tiative. I am going Board members at the to put this up before the Indian Film and Television screening. Film producer Producers Council and tell Mukesh Bhatt said, “Earlier, them about the safety of films were submitted on DVD, which was cheap. Now the this system.”

In layman terms, a DCP or DCP-KDM format will cost the Digital Cinema Package is the producer R20,000 extra.”

Is it too expensive a propodigital equivalent of a film print, packaged on a hard- sition for a producer? Bhatt drive for playback on a Digital added, “It is better to safeguard our Cinema server system. A DCP do it and usually arrives at a theatre on a property.” hitlist@mid-day.com

Clash course

Ashutosh director, Akbar entureadv c epi the Gowariker; Girish Johar of Zee Studios, which is com 0 BC in gaurav.dubey@mid-day.co romance is set in 260 Indus producing Rustom along with Kriarj the of city that is that ancient Entertainment, says August 12 marks the IT takes two to tango, but much- Valley Civilisation era. This beginning of a long weekend and can very hardly the case when two war on one is reportedly made on a well accommodate two films. “Exhibitors are anticipated films declare office. budget of R100 crore. Hrithik box newcomer each other at the romance a learned lot; they understand the audience’s l wil for go to With just three weeks tastes and from there, stems the demand of sh Pooja Hedge. cla y Da e ish enc Gir nd epe t lys ana the Ind Trade n’s sha a particular film. No one wants to lose Ro ik uith reg a Hr ’t ls this isn between Akshay Wankhede fee money and especially, the opportunity of a Mohenjo Daro and camps lar clash between two big films h long weekend. Exhibitors know which film Kumar’s Rustom, bot to gen- toplined by big names. “This is is creating a buzz at the ground level and are going the whole hog ion of regular clashes ens ext an for city ers fighting for erate maximum publi ust ckb accordingly, allots screen space. Hoarding blo of z buz de festivals their film. After all, tra screen space during of screens has been made illegal by the two the of ich ekwh we ine ay will determ and holidays. The I-D for a ws. sho government and the same was proved in and s een scr window secures more ustry end offers a case of Dilwale v/s Bajirao Mastani. It is A well-placed ind are blockbuster release, and both kers the exhibitors’ prerogative to screen a source says, “Rustom ma ltiplex have great potential. It will be mu film as per the audience’s demand, mainly targeting the like the way screens hat ew som jo hen Mo between Dilwale audience while the d ide keeping that particular time, region and div re we er a wid Daro team is aiming for r has and Bajirao Mastani last space in mind. Both films will get good me for re the h mo , release. Thoug . The bigger scope to showcase the strength of their ity, it will December generated more curios -2,500 popular film will fetch around 00 content with only a two to five per cent the n tha re mo s probably settle for 2,0 is likely to 300 screen ans one of them edge over the other film,” he says. screens. Hrithik’s film me at Th er. oth s.” get 300-400 more screenthriller, will get around 2,000 screens Rustom is a romantic other, 2,3 00 -2400.

A source close to Disney, which is infamous and the loosely based on the ks more promising loo m sto Ru backing Mohenjo Daro, says, “The val Na en wh big te to generate 1959 incident clash is nothing new for the studio. ati was and appropria explains. he commander KM Nanav e,” his ger revenu ng oti thi They have a longstanding relationship sho Ra ye for sha d Ak trie Exhibitor of rage with exhibitors and a solid wife’s paramour in a fit ether. believes both films have the tog experience when it comes to film when he caught them Pandey scope to mint good money j This is director Neera oration at the box office: “While the clashes at the box office — be it lab col rd ons and Akshay’s thi and exhibitor relati ut clo Bang Bang vs Haider, Chennai y Bab and 13) [studio backing after Special 26 (20 n cost of Disney Express vs Once Upon A Time In ctio du be pro h not wit can , 15) ro] (20 crore. Mohenjo Da 45 R d of Mumbai Dobaara, or Iron Man 3 vs un rit aro me at the pegged oppo- undermined, ure Aashiqui 2. Moreover, Hrithik will Akshay has been paired m’s promos will ens sto Ru adequate get s be seen on the big screen after a site Ileana D’Cruz. film h bot t ithik’s tha Mohenjo Daro is Hr haa screen space.” gap of two years, so his fans are Jod his second film with

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Making an ex-ception Looks like former flames, Sonakshi and Arjun Kapoor are willing to put the past behind them and reunite on reel

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INCE their split early last year, Sonakshi Sinha and Arjun Kapoor have shared icy- cold vibes. But, now it looks like they are ready to move on — at least for professional reasons.

Sources close to Anees Bazmee’s next directorial venture, Mubaraka, reveal that the

actress was recently approached to play Arjun’s love interest and she has shown interest in the project that also features Anil Kapoor.

Earlier, there was speculation about Parineeti Chopra playing protagonist, but she dismissed the rumours. Says a source, “ The makers were keen to cast a feisty actress

and had a couple of names in mind. However, Sonakshi was on top of their list and they decided to get in touch with her. Bazmee met her last week for a script narration and she evinced interest.” Initially, the film was supposed to be helmed by Milap Zaveri with Abhishek Bachchan in the lead, but both the director and actor were replaced and the script was reworked. Anil and Arjun will portray their real- life relationship of chacha- bhatija for the first time. Incidentally, Sonakshi shares a warm rap-

port with the veteran star despite her romacntic past. It was during the shoot for Arjun’s home production, Tevar ( 2015), that the two grew close and started dating. They parted ways after the film released. The source adds, “ Although Sonakshi is yet to confirm her presence in Mubaraka, the makers are optimistic that she will say, yes.” Bazmee and Sonakshi remained unavailable for comment. The film is scheduled to go on floors by October and hit screens next year.

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