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Heritage Committee declines the Mumbai University’s plan of installing air-conditioning in its Convocation Hall; MU resends a revised plan
The Mumbai University’s Convocation Hall in this file picture.
By Yatin Ingle
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s part of the renovation work of the historical structure in Mumbai University (MU), the varsity has planned to install airconditioners (ACs) in its Convocation Hall which gets exceptionally hot during convocation ceremonies and
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other events. Since it is a heritage structure however, the Heritage Committee of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has declined the proposal. MU has nonetheless forwarded a revised plan and proposal to the Heritage Committee seeking their approval. The Convocation Hall, also
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Sena hopeful of Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park After having directed by the HC to find another venue for the 2013 rally, the Shiv Sena is hopeful of getting the permission this year By Vishnudas Sheshrao
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called Sir Cowasji Jehangir Convocation Hall, was funded and set up by the Parsi entrepreneur and business tycoon Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney. It was completed in the 1870s and was recently renovated to its original glory after decades of
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he Dussehra rally, an annual gathering of Shiva Sena at Shivaji Park, after the death of Sena chief Bal Thackeray is debated as the Bombay High Court had last year directed the party to find another place for the 2013 rally. Since the birth of the saf-
fron party, it has been religiously organising its annual gathering at Shivaji Park in Dadar on the auspicious occasion of Dussehra. Even last year, when the senior Thackeray was bedridden, he had addressed the annual gathering from his bed Continued on pg 8 «
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Hospital celebrates 1st b’day of a child with a rare disease Aarsh Singh with his mother Veena Singh holding his birthday gift, at the Nowrosjee Wadia Maternity Hospital, Parel.
‘Asia is a great place for music’
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Says Shane Filan, one of the founders of Irish boy band Westlife
By Verus Ferreira
with three kids. He reveals that his new album is a pere has been with Westlife sonal testimony of his family for almost 13 years, but and more importantly his now he’s going solo. Shane wife. “Life has taken a turn I Filan, one of the founders of guess and going solo was boy band Westlife, is in town never on my mind at all, it to release his EP, followed by was something I did not want his album titled ‘You and Me’ to undertake. But then I have due in November. Seated at a family and I needed to proHard Rock Café Lower Parel, vide for them. So I thought the 33-year-old says it’s great why not start all again. Almost all of the songs are on to be back. Shane, who visited India my wife Gillian,” explains with the band in 2003 for the Shane, who co-wrote a couMTV Immies, is now married ple of Westlife’s songs and has
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n Tuesday, Nowrosjee Wadia Maternity Hospital at Parel celebrated the first birthday of Aarsh Singh, a child from Navi Mumbai who is the fourth such case of Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus (VDPV) type 2, recorded in the country this year. “We did not have any plans to celebrate Aarsh’s birthday but when the doctors and the hospital staff insisted that there should be celebrations, we agreed”, said Aarsh’s father, Tejbahadur Singh. Aarsh, who was born in Bihar, was brought to Wadia hospital two and a half months ago with a history of cold, loose motions and mild fever. He was also exhibiting symptoms like looseness in the body and head lag. His condition then deteriorated further and there came a point in time, when he had to be put on a ventilator. After ruling out possibilities like the GuillianBarre Syndrome and Transverse myelitis, it was found out that Aarsh was suffering from Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus (VDPV) type 2. “It was shocking for all of us. It was painful to see my child unable to move his hands and legs. That phase was very difficult”, said Aarsh’s aunt, Aarti Singh. But the family was hopeful that Aarsh would come out of it and yesterday (September 24) they saw their hopes turning into reality. Vikas Sabnis “He is much better now. There is movement in his hands and his right leg. He is able to laugh. He will recover soon”, said Tejbahadur. The celebrations started off with Aarsh being brought out of his room that was specially decorated for his birthday to cut a cake. The staff sang the birthday song and Going to London? Better go wished him a with a clean shave before speedy recovery.
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since the last two or three years. “I knew there would be a day when we would all go our own ways, but no one knew when. We finally decided on it last year and had our last farewell concert.” Besides himself however, no one from the band has thought of a solo career as yet. “I am the only one who has made a move musically again. I have no idea what the others plan to do in the future,” says Shane adding that all the members are still in touch with one another and still meet when possible. On the verge of a solo career before him, Shane isn’t now penned all the songs on worried about the response he will get to the album. the EP and the album. “The songs are very emo- “Many love Westlife and I tional, very positive. It’s try- think this is an extension to ing to tell people not to the music that we made; only worry. We all have ups and this time it’s done by one perdowns, but you have to be son. And as far as Asia is conpositive and move on,” he cerned, it’s the best place for music,” he says matter-ofadds. Going back in time, Shane factly. With his last promo persays he can’t forget the good days Westlife spent together. formance last night at a city When asked about why the hotel, Shane leaves tomorrow band split in June last year, for the Far East. We look forhe said that he felt it coming ward to his visit again. Verus Ferreira
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BMC schools to have separate textbook on health By Shwetha Kannan
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he next academic year might see students studying in BMC schools referring to an additional text that will talk about health, as the BMC plans to introduce a separate health education curriculum as part of the syllabus. This plan was thought of after the BMC received a good response from students in schools where they had held awareness campaigns about dengue. “We have a team that is dedicated to conducting such awareness programs in both private and BMC run schools. The response has been very good. Till date, we have covered around 183 schools,” said Dr. Mangala Gomare, Deputy Executive Health Officer, BMC. Speaking about how the idea to introduce a separate health education curriculum in the school syllabus, Additional Municipal Commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar said, “Children are very receptive and also good at passing on the message to their
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Food for TB patients
The BMC plans to start a pilot project in the L ward where nutritional supplements would be provided to TB patients who are taking the Directly Observed Treatment, short course (DOTS) and DOTS-plus course, as the BMC realises that the lack of nutritious food leading to compromised immunity is also a cause for TB. family members and friends. It is through children that we intend reaching out to more people in the community.” The health curriculum will be a part of the syllabus for stu-
dents from standard one to standard seven in the form of a separate book which will have information about health and diseases appropriate for the age. The quantity and nature of
The protein-rich breakfast menu for resident doctors that was introduced on August 15 at the Sion Hospital seems to have satisfactory results. The BMC has now planned to extend this initiative to KEM and Nair hospitals as well. “After the protein rich breakfast was introduced at Sion Hospital, the number of resident doctors having breakfast increased fourfold. Members of MARD have also okayed. So, a similar protein rich breakfast will be made available for resident doctors at KEM and Nair hospitals from October,” said Additional Municipal Commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar.
information will vary from one grade to another. “By next June we plan to have the book ready and implement this in the coming academic year,” said Mhaiskar.
Arrange the furniture to from a square or a circle or an octagon. by Dr. Prem Gupta (9820045774/9930318119, www.drpremgupta.com)
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Death of a Taxi
wenty years. That’s the state government sentence on the scores of Premier Padminis trawling the city in their distinctive black and yellow uniforms. At one time as distinctive for Mumbai as the London taxi, the official ban on these cabs that are more than 20 years old, mean that they go off the roads. Since August, nearly 400 have disappeared into scrap dealers’ havens. Our Sushil Kadam followed a few into this workshop in Byculla and was stunned at the speed and ferocity with which they were dealt with. Twenty years on the road, 20 minutes to oblivion. The dealer said he receives around 25 such cars every day. Seven or eight men deal with a single vehicle and bring a chilling efficiency to what they do. And another piece of Bombayana bites the dust.
A Padmini dressed up as a taxi could soon be a rare sighting for Mumbaikars, as Altos and Santros take over
At the Byculla workshop, the mechanics cajole a “victim” inside
They start at the beginning, lifing off the body from the chassis
The work develops its own momentum, now down to the windscreen
Over easy, let’s get at that axle that has served so faithfully
Enough fuss and the engine is removed with brutal efficiency and a minimum of emotion
After all these years, that steering still looks good
Now for the tyres, always a concern, easy to salvage and re-sell
Ground into dust, there’s nothing left. RIP Padmini
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I Nipulkumar Maheshkumar Shah have changed my name to Nipul Mahendra Shah as per deed poll Affidavit dated : 23/09/13. C-17302
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I Mr. Anoop Ved Prakash Chawla have changed my name to Mr. Anup Ved Prakash Chawla as per deed poll Affidavit dated : 24/09/13. C-17303 I Mrs. Catharine Soares have changed my name to Mrs. Catarina Soares as per deed poll Affidavit dated : 17/09/13. C-17304 I Mrs. Esperance Clarina Soares have changed my name to Mrs. Esperanca Clarina Lopes as per deed poll Affidavit dated : 17/09/13. C-17305 I Mr. Vincent Joao Bapista Soares have changed my name to Mr. Vincent Soares as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 17/09/13. C-17306
CHANGE OF NAME I have changed my name from Jayasree M.K. to Jayasree Ramesan Nambiar as per affidavit. C-17293 I have changed my name from Rajisha to Rajisha Ramesan Nambiar as per affidavit. C-17294 I have changed my name from Tauseen Siddiqbhai Memon to Tausheen Siddique Memon as per affidavit dated September 13, 2013. C-17295 I have changed my name from Yasmin Siddiqbhi Memon to Yasmeen Siddique Memon as per affidavit dated September 13, 2013. C-17296 I have changed my name from Ashraf Ameenuddin to Ashraf Ameenuddin Honnhalli as per Gazette No. U-14631 dated June 20-26, 2013. C-17297 I Munnu Khan Shaikh have changed my name to Munnavor Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit dated : 23/08/13. C-17298 I Sultan Khan Munnu Khan Shaikh have changed my name to Sultan Munnavor Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit dated : 23/08/13. C-17299 I Mr. Sudhirkumar Bhagwandas Desai have changed my name to Mr. Sudhir Bhagwandas Desai as per deed poll Affidavit dated : 20/09/13. C-17300
I Pranali Gajanan Borkar have changed my name to Anushka Abhishek Palshetkar as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 19/07/13. C-17307 I Archana Ashok Pedhamkar have changed my name to Anjali Amit Palshetkar as per deed poll Affidavit dated: 19/07/13. C-17308 I Saturine Dsouza have changed my name to Sathurian John Dsouza as per deed poll Affidavit dated : 24/09/13. C-17309 I have changed my name from Ramesh Popatlal Gandhi to Rameshchandra Popatlal Gandhi as per Affidavit dated : 24.09.2013. C-17310 I have changed my name from Miss. Asmaben Ismail Nasir Balsaniya to Mrs. Asma Ajgar Ali Kojar as per Court Affidavit dated on 24/9/2013. C-17311 I have changed my name from Abhhey Anil Kediaa, to ‘Abhay Anil Kedia’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U- 24123) Dated: 01/08/2013. C-17312 I have changed my name from Shalini Abhhey Kediaa, to ‘Shalini Abhay Kedia’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U- 24124) Dated: 01/08/2013. C-17313 I, Abhay Anil Kedia have changed my Son’s name from Adityda Abhhey Kediaa, to ‘Aditya Abhay Kedia’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U- 24125) Dated: 01/08/2013. C-17314
I, Abhay Anil Kedia have changed my Son’s name from Hanns Abhhey Kediaa, to ‘Hans Abhay Kedia’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U- 24126) Dated: 01/08/2013. C-17315 I have changed my name from Anil Premchand Kediaa, to ‘Anil Premchand Kedia’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U- 24127) Dated: 01/08/2013. C-17316 I have changed my name from Chanda Anil Kediaa, to ‘Chanda Anil Kedia’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U- 24128) Dated: 01/08/2013. C-17317 I have changed my name from Zehra Abdul Gafar Surve, to ‘Zohra Abdul Gafar Surve’ as per Affidavit Dated: 23/09/2013. C-17318 I have changed my name from Kumari Manchekar Kunda Ekanath, to ‘Nasrin Nasir Bepari’ as per Affidavit Dated: 24/09/2013. C-17319 I have changed my name from Zabin Hajiyani, to ‘Shaista Aminmohamed Virani’ as per Affidavit Dated: 23/09/2013. C-17320 I have changed my name from Oais Rafiuddin Dawood, to ‘Dawood Mohamed Owesh Rafiuddin’ as per Affidavit Dated: 23/09/2013. C-17321 I have changed my name from Saurabh Dilip Wankhade, to ‘Saurabh Dilip Vankhade’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U-25196) Dated: 01/08/2013. C-17322 I have changed my name from Hasina Begum Mohammed Yunus Khan, to ‘Tahseena Mohd Yunus Khan’ as per Maharashtra Govt. Gazette No. (U- 31290) Dated: 29/08/2013. C-17323 I have changed my name from Mohammad Aziz, to ‘Mohammed Aziz Shah’ as per Affidavit Dated: 24/09/2013. C-17324 I have changed my name from Mohammed Nadeem, to ‘Mohammed Nadeem Shaikh’ as per Affidavit Dated: 24/09/2013. C-17325 I have changed my name from Mohammed Salim Akram Husain, to ‘Salim Ahmed Akram Husain Shaikh’ as per Affidavit Dated: 24/09/2013. C-17326 I have changed my name from Mohammed Mazuruddin Shaikh to Mohammed Mazharuddin Shaikh as per deed poll Affidavit. C-17327
I have changed my name from Azizgani Mallick to Azizgazi Mallick as per deed poll Affidavit. C-17328 I have changed my name from Gokul Malik to Gokul Istehar Mallick as per deed poll Affidavit. C-17329 I have changed my name from Afsha Banu Mohamed Aslam Memon to Hafsa Maaz Gopalani as per deed poll Affidavit. C-17330 I Afzal Hussain Syed changed my minor daughter name from Ridah Afzal Hussain Syed to Aafiyah Afzal Hussain Syed as per deed poll Affidavit. C-17331 I have changed my name from Shekhara Nagesh Pujari to Shekhar Nagesh Pujari as per the Affidavit dated 24th Aug 2013. C-17332 We Mr Peter Elias Lobo & Mrs Clara Peter Lobo changed name of our minor son’s Joshua Avner Lobo to Joshua Peter Lobo as per vide Maharashtra Gazette (X-27269). C-17333 I have changed my name from Rhatavad Namadev Babu to Namdev Babu Rathod as per Affidavit dated 23rd September 2013. C-17334 I have changed my name from Krutika Lalit Jain to Kritika Lalit Jain as per Affidavit. C-17335 I have changed my name from Mohammed Yunus Ali Shah Quadri to Yunusali Shah Quadri as per Affidavit No 061671. C-17336 We Mahesh Talreja & Rinu Mahesh Talreja have changed our minor daughter's name from Aaditi Rajendra Upadhyay to Aaditi Mahesh Talreja as per Affidavit No 586379. C-17337 I have changed my name from Namita Damodaran Nambiar to Namita Nazareth as per Affidavit No 586375. C-17338 I have changed my name from Sri Surendra Chandra Debnath to Surendra Debnath as per Affidavit No 586031. C-17339 I have changed my name from Amanda Maria Agnel Paul D'souza to Amanda Maria D'souza as per Affidavit No 778749. C-17340 I have changed my name from Maria Arcangela Bernadette Gomes E D'silva to Donald Arthur D'silva as per Affidavit No 586377. C-17341
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of Maharashtra." The order banned the n a follow-up to Monday’s dumping of debris in manstoppage of the destruc- grove areas and forbade "any tion of mangroves at Saket authority" from granting perin Thane, Dayanand Nene, mission for development acpresident of the NGO Alert tivity in them. The Bench said no applicaCitizens of Thane City, has submitted a complaint in tions for development should writing to the Chief Justice, be entertained "regardless of Bombay High Court, asking it the nature of ownership" of to take note of the Contempt the land. It also banned concommitted by the Thane po- struction within 50 meters of lice department in respect of the mangroves. The two the its order delivered in Oc- Judges asked the Coastal Zone Management Authority tober 2005. According to the order, the (CZMA) to file monthly reHigh Court had given “pro- ports to the court. They also tected status” to mangroves authorized the Principal Secon government land, and retaries of the Forest, Revenue that of “forests” for mangrove and Environment Departland under private ownership ments to ensure compliance in the state. It has prohibited of the order, and directed the damage to them in any form. State government to assign In the judgment, the Bench the District Magistrate and of Chief Justice Dalveer the Deputy Commissioner of Bhandari and Justice Dr. D.Y. Police to act on complaints Chandrachud left no one in from the public. Hence the doubt when it said: "There activity of dumping tons of shall be a total freeze on the debris and sand on the mandestruction and cutting of groves in a long operation mangroves in the entire State conducted from Saturday and
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Damage done on police department land near the Saket Complex in Thane. Notice the tongue of earth and debris moving towards the nullah on the right, blockage of which will cause immense hardship to people on the other side of the highway to the left of the activity, where it joins up with another water body. ending only on Monday on a direct order from deputy
mayor Milind Patankar, is completely inexplicable.
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debris from mangrove land and prosecuting those abusing such land. It will also have the responsibility of replanting mangroves in areas where the growth is less than 40 per cent. Dumping debris clandestinely, usually under cover of darkness, is a favourite ploy of builders to claim that the land was already in existence, says Mr Nene. They do this in collusion with the local authorities, and many builders have got away with a lot of illegal reclamation. However, satellite maps can prove the status of various operations and give the lie to claims of pre-existing land. Despite all this, the destruction of mangroves continues. The letter to the High Court points out that the Thane police has openly flouted court orders and thus committed contempt in respect of the area belonging to them near the Saket Complex. It also pleaded for action to be taken immediately against the concerned authorities.
NCP lashes out at CM over delay HC directs BMC to clear stand on in Mumbra rehabilitation plan compensating Wadias for merged land By A Special Correspondent
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he NCP is in no mood to relent and has once again trained its guns on the Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over the finalisation of a comprehensive rehabilitation plan for Mumbra residents.
Jitendra Awhad Last week, another building collapsed in Mumbra and was the third such disaster in the minority-dominated township in a span of six months. Till date, 87 people have died in three collapses in Mumbra. Almost 90 per cent of the buildings in Mumbra are illegal and development norms simply don’t seem to exist, given the criminal nexus between the builders, bureaucrats and politicians. Significantly, the NCP is vociferously demanding the rehabilitation of these illegal residents.
State NCP Working President, Jitendra Awhad, has decided to undertake an indefinite fast over the long pending cluster development issue of Mumbra township. Awhad, who is also the MLA representing the MumbraKalwa Assembly constituency, has said that this situation has arisen as the state government has failed to take a decision on the demand for cluster development in the area. The CM, who heads the Housing as well as the Urban Development Departments, has invited bitter criticism. Awhad said, “How many more deaths will it take for the government to wake up? We have been pleading for a speedy decision on the cluster development of these congested colonies. If the state government fails to finalise a comprehensive rehabilitation plan for these residents, I will resort to an indefinite hunger strike from October 4.” The issue of the permanent rehabilitation of the residents of illegal buildings threatens to snowball into a major political controversy. The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) will soon start a Geographic Information System (GIS) to map properties in
Mumbra, which will be conducted in the next three months. So far, the CM has not succumbed to the pressure of the NCP. As a result, a new war of words between the ruling partners is imminent.
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even years after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) merged land belonging to the Wadia Trust, in the Mithi river widening project in 2006, the
Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the civic body to finally clear its stand on paying a compensation of Rs. 430 crore following a petition filed by the Wadias. The direction came from the division bench of Justice
Recent heavy rains ‘unusual’, says IMD By A Staff Reporter
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he recent heavy rainfall has taken the Indian Metrological Department (IMD) with surprise and the
officials said that the department needs three more days to study the new rain pattern in western India. The IMD predicted that the city may get such rainfall for the next
three days. It described the recent rainfall in western India including Mumbai as “a very unusual” rainfall pattern. Normally, the city gets rainfall as part of the retrieval monsoon every year. A low pressure has been observed over south Madhya Pradesh that has caused heavy rainfall in south Gujarat. IMD Director V.K. Rajeev said, “The city may get rain for the next three to four days. This is a very unusual retrieval pattern of the monsoon and our department has been studying the causes and effect of the new change”.
S.C. Dharmadhikari and Justice G.S. Patel on Tuesday, which was hearing a petition filed by the trust last year that stated that their land admeasuring over 12, 000 square meters was merged in the Mithi River Widening Project undertaken by the civic body after the 2005 Mumbai deluge. “Since July 2006, we have been sending letters to the civic body seeking compensation. On January 1, 2008 the corporation sent a letter stating that a policy regarding compensation in lieu of the land acquired for the river widening project is being finalised. However, till date nothing has been done,” stated the petition. Reacting to this, the court was informed by the BMC lawyer that there are several claims for compensation filed and pending before the civic body. Hearing both sides, the division bench told the BMC, “The BMC officers went and widened the river and hence the land was merged. It is not that the river changed its course leading to this. However, we cannot decide on the quantum of compensation. That is up to the civic body.” The bench directed the civic body to take a stand within two weeks. philip.varghese@afternoondc.in
06 CHANGE OF NAME We Farida Siddiqui & Mohammad Irfan Haidar have changed our minor daughter's name from Shirin to Shirin Mohammad Irfan Haidar as per Affidavit No 778748. C-17342 I Jamshed Umrigar Sayed have changed my minor daughter's name from Afreen Jameel Sayed to Afreen Jamshed Umrigar Sayed as per Affidavit No 586380. C-17343 I have changed my name from Sultana Khatoon Md Kashim to Rinu Mahesh Talreja as per Affidavit No 586378. C-17344 I have changed my name from Hena Jafari to Muskan Amar Singh as per Gazette No (U-30284 ). C-17345 I have changed my name from Dipak Natha Raybhan alias Dipak Nayaji Raybhan to Deepak Nathaji Raybhan as per Affidavit No 309053. C-17346 I have changed my name from Natha Raybhan alias Nayaji Raybhan to Nathaji Bhaurao Raybhan as per Affidavit No 309054. C-17347 I have changed my name from Niteshkumar Prabunath Tiwari alias Nitesh Prabunath Tiwari to Nitesh Prabhunath Tiwari as per Affidavit No 586717. C-17348 I have changed my name from Sanjay Allan Nazareth to Sanjay Ignatius Nazareth as per Affidavit No 586715. C-17349 I have changed my name from Shri Mohamed Idrees to Mohammed Idris Shaik as per Affidavit. C-17350 I have changed my name from Aslam Abdullah Hakim to Muslim Abdullah Hakim as per Affidavit. C-17351 I have changed my name from Mamta Devi Ved Prakash to Mamta Ravi Agarwal as per Affidavit. C-17352 I have changed my name from Farida Begum Zakiuddin to Fareeda Abdul Rasheed Sayed as per Affidavit. C-17353 I have changed my name from Rasheed Sayyed to Abdul Rasheed Sayed as per Affidavit. C-17354 I have changed my name from Abdul Rasheed Abdul Quadar to Abdul Rasheed Sayed as per Affidavit.
CLASSIFIEDS I have changed my name from Md Abdul Razzack to Abdul Rezzack as per Affidavit. C-17357 I have changed my name from Sitabai Nanak Manoja to Suman Nanak Manoja as per Affidavit. C-17358 I have changed my name from Mohandas Hashmatrai Chugani to Mohan Hashmatrai Chugani as per Affidavit. C-17359 I have changed my name from Mithalal Maganlal Singhave to Mithalal Maganlal Singhvi as per Affidavit. C-17360 I have changed my name from Ashwin Kumar Babulal Thakkar to Ashwin Babulal Thacker as per Affidavit. C-17361 I have changed my name from Shailesh Parameshwar Wagh to Shailesh Parmeshwar Wagh as per Affidavit. C-17362 I have changed my name from Mohammed Ayaz Ibrahim Sayyed Mohammed Gous to Mohammed Ayaz Mohammed Gous Adam as per Gazette No. X- 60894. C-17363 I have changed my name from Mr. Mohamed Idris Sheik to Mr. Mohammed Idris Shaik as per Affidavit. C-17364 I have changed my name from Mrs. Fathima Shafina Idris to Mrs. Shafina Idris Shaik as per Affidavit. C-17365 We Mohammed Idris Shaik and Mrs. Shafina Idris Shaik have changed our child’s name from Misbaah Mohamed Idris Sheik to Misbaah Mohammed Idris Shaik as per Affidavit. C-17366 I have changed my name from Khan Liyakat Abu to Khan Liyakat Ali as per Affidavit. C-17367 I have changed my name from Malkhani Arun Dada to Malkani Harun Dada as per Affidavit C-17368 I have changed my name from Syed Ershad Tassadukh Husain to Syed Ershad Hussain as per Affidavit. C-17369 I have changed my name from Fernandes Mariam Anthony to Khan Mariam Intakhab as per Affidavit. C-17370
C-17355 We Abdul Rasheed Sayed & Mrs. Fareeda Abdul Rasheed Sayed have changed our child’s name from Aseer Rasheed Sayyed to Aseer Abdul Rasheed Sayed as per Affidavit. C-17356
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I have changed my name from Mohd Saif Ali Raeen to Saif Ali Raeen as per Affidavit. C-17373
I Mr.Mohammed Hasan Shaikh changed my son name from Inshaa Hasan Shaikh to Inshaa Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-17389
We, Mr. Surendra Thania Poojary and Mrs. Vijaya Surendra Poojary have changed our child’s name from Shushant Surendra Poojary to Shaan Surendra Poojary as per Gazette (U--11136). C-17374
I have changed my name from Hasan Jan Mohammed Shaikh to Mohammed Hasan Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-17390
I have changed my name from Mariya Delphin to Maria Delphin Silvester as per Affidavit. C-17375 I have changed my name from Arsad Ali Sadule Khan to Arshad Sadulla Khan as per Affidavit. C-17376 I have changed my name from Surekha Laxman Gawade to Sharvari Shailendra Kadam as per Affidavit. C-17377 I have changed my name from Khan A. K. Mohamed Saifuddin Akbar to Khan Saif Akbar as per Affidavit. C-17378 I have changed my name rom Rishinaradamangalam Venkiteswaran Seethalakshmy to Seethalakshmy Venkiteswaran as per Affidavit. C-17379 I have changed my name rom Vaidyanathapuram Thyagarajan Sitalakshmi to Seethalakshmi Venkiteswaran as per Affidavit. C-17380 I have changed my name from Dileep Viswambaran to Ellikulath Dilip Viswambharan as per Affidavit. C-17381 I have changed my name from Vijay Nair to Vijayan Nair as per Affidavit. C-17382 I have changed my name from Kanaiyalal Haribhai Dodia to Kanubhai Haribhai Dodia as per Affidavit. C-17383 I have changed my name from Achala Shashikant Jhatkia to Archana Hemendra Parikh as per Affidavit. C-17384 I have changed my name from Mohd Naveed Mohmed Salim to Mohd. Naveed Mohmed Salim Noorani as per Affidavit. C-17385 I have change my name from Sakina Mahamad Saleh Bagdadi to Sakina Mohammad Saleh Bagdadi as per Affidavit. C-17386
I have changed my name from Shahjahan Hasan Shaikh to Shahjahan Mohammed Hasan Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-17391 I have changed my name from Shadmaan Hasan Shaikh to Shadmaan Hasan Mohammed Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-17392 I have changed my name from Shahajahan Hasan Shaikh to Shahjahan Mohammed Hasan Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-17393 I have changed my name from Shajahan Mohammed Hasan Shaikh to Shahjahanmohammed Hasan Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-17394 I have changed my name from Agnelo Jose Paschol Narohna to Agnelo Noronha as per Affidavit. C-17395 I have changed my name from Awia Wia Narohna to Aurora Noronha as per Affidavit. C-17396 I have changed my name from Shamim Bano Nasir Khan to Shamim Nasir Khan as per Affidavit. C-17397 I have changed my name from Jay Chetan Thakkar to Jay Chetan Thakker as per Affidavit. C-17398 I have changed my name from Bhavana Chetan Thakkar to Bhavna Chetan Thakker as per Affidavit. C-17399 We have changed our minor name from Bakhri Rukkaiya Abbas to Bakarwala Rukkaiya Abbas as per Affidavit. C-17400 We have changed our minor child name from Bakhri Alifiya Abbas to Bakarwala Alifiya Abbas as per Affidavit. C-17401 I have changed my name from Mazhar Ali Arif Ali Sayyed to Mazhar Arif Ali Sayyed as per Affidavit. C-17402 I have changed my name from Mapkar Mubashshir Jamaluddin to Mubashir Jamalauddin Mapkar as per Affidavit. C-17403
I have change my name from Abrar Rizwan Alaskar to Abrar Rizwan Velaskar as per Affidavit. C-17387
I have changed my name from Joshi Mansukhlal to Mansukhbhai Joshi as per Affidavit. C-17404
I have change my name from Shaikh Azgar Zainul Abedin to Shaikh Asgar Zainul Abedin as per Affidavit. C-17388
I have changed my name from Jyoti Rameshlal Bachani to Madhu Rameshlal Bachani as per Affidavit. C-17405
I have changed my name from Parveen Rameshlal Bachani to Praveen Rameshlal Bachani as per Affidavit. C-17406 I have changed my name from Ram Khubchand Bulani to Ramchand Khubchand Bulani as per Affidavit. C-17407 I have changed my name from Bhagwan Motiram Bhagchandani to Bhagwandas Motiram Bhagchandani as per Affidavit. C-17408 I have changed my name from Mehrunnisa Abdul Karim Sayed to Meherunnisa Mehboob Shaikh as per Affidavit. C-17409 I have changed my name from Madhu Aravindakshan Melathe to Madhu Aravindakshan Melath as per Affidavit. C-17410 I have changed my name from Ashok Kumar Datta to Ashok Himanshu Datta as per Affidavit. C-17411 I have changed my name from Pushkarkumar to Pushkar Jain as per Affidavit. C-17412 I have changed my name from Paraveshkumar Jain to Paravesh Jain as per Affidavit. C-17413 I have changed my name from Dineshkumar Harischandra Samant to Dinesh Harischandra Samant as per Affidavit. C-17414 I have changed my name from Jigna Hemant Saparia to Jigna Himatlal Saparia as per Affidavit. C-17415
I have changed my name from Alamgir Rafik Qurashi to Alamgir Rafik Qureshi as per Affidavit. C-17416 I have changed my name from Abdul Aziz to Shaikh Abdul Aziz as per Affidavit. C-17417 I have changed my name from Irshad Ahmad Mohammad Ibrahim Malbari to Irshad Ibrahim Malwari as per Affidavit. C-17418 I have changed my name from Nizam Ahmed Karamatulla Farooqui to Nizamuddin Karamatulla Farooqui as per Affidavit. C-17419 I have changed my name from Mrs.Shenaz Mohamed Zuber to Mrs.Shehnaz Mohamed Zubair Merchant as per Affidavit dated24/09/2013. C-17420 I have changed my name from Jagdish Damodhar Apte toJagdeesh Damodhar Apte as per Affidavit. C-17421 I have changed my name from Vipulkumar Ambala Patel to Vipul Ambalal Patel as per Affidavit Dated 24/09/2013. C-17422 I have changed my name from Nandalal Pyarelal Pardeshi to Nandlal Pyarelal Pardeshi as per Affidavit dated 24/09/2013. C-17423 I have changed my name from Aaisha to Aysha Khan as per Affidavit. C-17424 I have changed my name from Mahammed Hakem to Hakim Ahmed Khan as per Affidavit. C-17425
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MCOCA invoked in Kumar Pillai extortion case By Neel Shah
said Venkat Patil, Senior Inspector, Unit VII. The arrests of the gangsters early a month after the arrest of three gangsters for in this case had brought to the threatening and extorting fore the shifting loyalties of money from Legislator gang members, as two of the Mangesh Sangle’s brother three accused initially beArvind, Mumbai’s crime longed to gangster-turnedbranch invoked the stringent terrorist Dawood Ibrahim’s faction, before moving to MCOCA in the case. Considering the involve- Kumar Pillai’s faction, said the ment of gangster Kumar Pillai, police. The accused, Ramdas Rathe stringent act was invoked on September 20, said the hane and Dhanawade, were known for working with the police. On August 18, at around 10 D-gang and had even carried am, Kiran Dhanawde, one a few shootouts in the city as among the three arrested ac- per the instructions of the Dcused, barged into Arvind’s gang, informed a crime house at Vikhroli and made branch official. The duo was incarcerated the latter talk to Pillai on his cell phone. Pillai demanded at Arthur Road jail and came an extortion of Rs. 75 lakh in contact with Vinod D. from Arvind and threatened Ghogle, who is associated to kill him if he did not pay up. with the Pillai faction. During “More arrests are possible the incarceration Rahane and in the case for which police Dhanawade spoke to Ghogle has taken the accused into about working for Pillai, said custody to interrogate them,” Inspector Sanjay Surve adding
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that Ghogle had then passed on the message to Pillai through the latter’s associates, who would visit Ghogle during his court hearings. In February, Dhanawade was released on bail and would meet Rahane and Ghogle during their court hearings and a plan was hatched in which Ghogle instructed Dhanawde to extort money from Arvind. Sleuths from Unit-VII scrutinised a year’s record of the notorious criminals who were out on bail. After going through the records police zeroed in on Dhanawade, whose face matched the sketch made by the police as per the details given by the victim. After Dhanawade’s arrest, the police were able to successfully nab Rahane and Ghogle, who were cooling their heels inside Arthur Road prison. neel.shah@afternoondc.in
Case against BMC engineer for extortion The engineer was allegedly a part of a scheme wherein Rs.1.5 lakh were demanded from the owner of a local furniture shop
gineer has gone absconding and cops have launched a manhunt to nab him. The complainant, who is the proprietor of Riddhi Curtains on the RRT Road at Mulund (west), had been threatened by a local social worker Pankaj Chandanshive for exposing an alleged illegal construction that the former had undertaken. “ChandanBy Tariq Khan shive accused him of conhe Mulund Police has reg- structing an illegal residential istered an extortion case property above his shop. He against a BMC ward engineer demanded Rs.1.5 lakh from for allegedly being part of a the complainant failing scheme where Rs.1.5 lakh were which he would bring the demanded from the owner of unauthorised construction to a furniture and interior shop. light and the civic officials While a local social worker has would later demolish it. The already been arrested, the en- complainant did not wish to
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pay and approached us following which we registered a case and arrested Chandanshive”, said an officer of the Mulund Police Station. However, in the process of investigation, the cops learnt the involvement of BMC engineer Pramod Waghmare, who is attached to the local ward office. Cops added his name as one of the accused in the FIR when he went absconding and has now made an Anticipatory Bail Application (ABA) in the Sessions Court. “The extortion was done at the behest of Waghmare who had detected the illegality and asked Chandanshive to extort the money”, the officer added. Azad Shrivastav | ADC
07 CITY Teen attacked for opposing redevelopment in Mira Road The girl had sourced information under the RTI using her mother’s name
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n a desperate attempt to grab a piece of the redevelopment pie, unscrupulous builders seem to be running an empire of hooliganism in the twin-city. This was revealed when an 18-year-old girl was attacked by goons in the staircase of her residential building in Mira Road late on Monday night. The girl, who has been identified as Dipti Gosal, was apparently attacked for refusing to move out of her flat in Chandresh Terrace building and also for exposing irregularities by some officer bearers of the residential society who were soliciting the so-called redevelopment project in a purely unlawful manner. Built in 1997, the three-storey Chandresh Terrace building having three wings, has recently been listed as a dangerous structure by the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) - a move which Gosal alleged was undemocratic and on the behest of some office bearers of the society who had vested interests in evicting flat owners, after falsely manipulating the building as unfit for human habitation. Gosal, was also threat-
Chandresh Terrace in Mira Road.
Deepti Gosal at Bhagwati Hospital
ened by goons who had barged into her house last week, following which a nocognizable (NC) complaint was registered at the Mira Road police station. Undeterred by the threats, Gosal continued to seek information under the RTI act from the civic body about the authenticity of structural audits and subsequent demolition attempts. This apparently led to a brutal attack on her with a blade by unidentified goons at about 10:30 pm on Monday. With injuries on her neck, Gosal
Initially the police registered a NC, but after the intervention of Aaam Aadmi Party (AAP) activists, the NC was converted into an FIR. “We have registered a case under section 324 of the Indian Penal Code, against an unidentified person and investigations into the case were on”, confirmed Senior Police Inspector Dhanaji Kshirsagar. “We are not going to tolerate such injustice. The police will have to register a case of attempt to murder”, said AAP activist Saumya Bahadur.
2 Dengue Dynamic personality of the deaths at Co-operative Banking sector KEM Hospital By A Staff Reporter
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BIG CATCH… At a special drive conducted in the wee hours of Tuesday, the GRP team along with two officers and 22 constables nabbed 14 juveniles and 10 adult ‘stuntmen’ between Mahalaxmi and Dadar railway stations. The said ‘stuntmen’ were without tickets. They were produced before the court, yesterday. Among them was a criminal Salman Nadim Sheikh, wanted by the Malwani police for the last three months.
was rushed to Bhagwati Hospital, where her condition was said to be stable.
he BMC-run KEM hospital saw two dengue deaths this week. Poonam Gupta (24) and Sarvesh Yadav (17) died at KEM hospital. While Poonam was a resident of Mumbai, Sarvesh was a Bhayandar resident. “There was a suspected dengue death on September 20, at KEM hospital. It was a 24-year-old girl who had been admitted to KEM on September 19. The cause of death is sudden cardio respiratory arrest with hypertension,” said Dr. Mangala Gomare, deputy executive health officer, BMC. When asked about Sarvesh’s case, Dr. Goamre said, “Yes, I got the report but as the person was from Bhayandar, which is out of the BMC limits, I don’t have all the details.”
In every sphere of life, keeping one’s word is non-negotiable. Every promise honored is further fortification of credibility and reputation. More so in the world of business where promises invariably influence the fortunes of a vast radius of stakeholders. Mr. Suresh S. Hemmady, Chairman of The Shamrao Vithal Co-op. Bank Ltd., firmly believes that promises are never made to be broken. A visionary himself he has lead the Bank to great heights of progress during his tenure as Chairman from March 1997 to September 2008 and also contributed significantly during his tenure as Vice-Chairman from 2009-2013. Re-elected as a Chairman of the Bank for the third term in June 2013, Mr. Suresh S. Hemmady is all set to face the challenges that the present economy is offering and emerge victorious through thoughtfully analyzed strategic inputs, a well-defined roadmap and an all-consuming commitment. Under the guidance & continuous driving force of Mr. Suresh S. Hemmady, the Bank has scaled new horizons since past one and half decade. Bank’s network has expanded from 27 branches to 145 branches. Due to the systematic market expansion strategy its roots have spread from 3 states to 8 states and the business mix has grown from Rs. 790 crores to a whopping Rs. 15900 crores as on date. The Bank’s net profit has grown consistently from Rs. 9 crores to Rs. 94 crores as of the FY ended March 2013. In business, as in life, timing is everything. Left undefined corporate targets will eventually be breached; the real challenge lies in fulfilling targets on schedule.An extremely active and a dynamic personality, Mr. Suresh S. Hemmady enjoys challenging assignments, because after all, challenges are what really spur us on towards new frontiers… scaling greater heights.
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08 CITY 10 tonnes of red sandlers seized in Panvel
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he forest officials, in the early hours of Monday morning, arrested two truck drivers near the JNPT Port in Panvel, for assisting in the smuggling of 10 tonnes of sandalwood worth Rs. 3 crore to Dubai. The drivers, identified as Prakash P Kunnuswami (37) and Bhoji Unnuskodi (34) from Chennai, have been arrested and are being interrogated. While sources have confirmed that the consignment was to be smuggled to Dubai, police officials are denying having information about the people involved in the illicit trade of red sandalwood.
“We detected a consignment weighing 10 tonnes which belonged to a person based in Chennai. He had declared the goods to be co-
conuts packed in gunny bags. During the check we found 36 gunny bags of coconuts kept above 262 pieces of red sandalwood worth Rs. 3 crore in
the international market,” said Krishna Aloorker, Associate Conservator of Forests, Panvel-Alibag Forest Division. The two have been booked under Sections 41 and 42 of the Indian Forest Act and Sections 379, 120 (b) for conspiracy and Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code and both will be produced before the court. In most cases of smuggling, this rare variety of wood, which has been banned for trade, is taken from Tamil Nadu and the Nallamalla forests in Andhra Pradesh and sent to Gujarat via Rajasthan. It fetches a high price in the international market especially in China and Japan because of its medicinal value. khushboo.panjabi@afternoondc.in
Mulund Police arrest director of tyre company Kedar Aggarwal allegedly duped a supply firm of Rs.48 lakh and had earlier cheated another firm defaulting a payment of Rs.6 crore By Tariq Khan
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he Mulund Police has arrested the director of a tyre manufacturing company in connection with a Rs.48 lakh cheating case where he allegedly duped another firm of its payment due towards Continued from pg 1 «
there is a necessity for the ACs. According to the heritage conservation committee however, cooler temperatures can damage heritage structures as the ACs will be used only during events. The sudden drop and subsequent rise in temperatures could damage the interiors of the hall. V. Ranganathan, Chairman, Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee, BMC, says, “The proposal sent by the varsity stated that the balcony inside the convocation
now which makes Monotona’s intentions suspicious. We have therefore registered a case of cheating and arrested one of its directors Kedar Aggarwal”, said PI M. Patil from Mulund Police Station. Aggarwal will now be produced in court on Wednesday where cops will demand his police custody and investigate the case further. In the earlier case filed against Aggarwal, he was arrested for cheating Gayatri Traders of Rs.6 crore – an amount he was liable to pay against raw rubber and chemicals supplied by Gayatri Traders. Here too, officials from Monotona had highlighted poor quality of the material at a very late stage and allegedly refused to release the payment.
A hot affair hall will be permanently blocked. The air-conditioning could also cause damage to the structure with its sudden cooling and we don’t want to take any risks.” According to sources, the varsity has proposed the installation of a total of 120 tons of air-conditioning in its convocation hall. Azad Shrivastav | ADC
neglect. This hall can accommodate 500 persons, while 100 can be accommodated on its balcony. Keeping in mind the visits of international ministries and dignitaries to the convocation hall, the varsity had proposed the need for ACs. It was also stated that since the hall has been host to various international conferences, seminars and visits by the prime ministers and presidents of various countries,
the supply of raw materials. The same person was also arrested earlier for allegedly cheating another firm of Rs.6 crore. According to the complaint filed by an official from Om Traders, the company had been supplying Monotona Tyres with coal, which is required in the latter’s manufacturing unit. “The complainant has stated that Monotona did not pay them the due amount of Rs.48 lakh for coal supplied in 2010. Monotona suddenly claimed that the coal was of inferior quality and threatened to debit Rs.25 lakh from the purchase order. They are alleging cheating by reasoning that the inferior quality of the coal should have been brought to notice in 2010 itself and not
TERROR & AFTER... Members of a judicial commission from Pakistan leave the court after crossexamining the witnesses in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case, at The Intercontinental, on Tuesday.
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Court rejects activist’s petition against Salman in hit-and-run case By Philip Varghese
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wo months after actor Salman Khan’s counsel had objected to the intervention of social activist Santosh Daundkar in the 2002 hit-and-run case, stating that in a criminal trial, a third person who is not a part of the case has no locus standi (a right to appear in a court) to intervene, the Sessions Court accepted the contention of the counsel and rejected the activist’s petition. It can be recalled that in July, Daundkar had moved an application through his advocate Abha Singh before the court, praying that he be allowed to carry forward the allegations he had made before the Magistrate’s Court which was hearing the case earlier, before it slapped the more serious charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, leading to the case being transferred to a higher court. On December 3 last year, the activist had moved a complaint before the Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Bandra, claiming that the police had intentionally delayed the trial by not issuing and serving the summons on time, had issued summons to the wrong witnesses, and had called doctors for evidence who were not the ones who had conducted the postmortem of the deceased, among others. The magistrate had ordered a judicial inquiry into the allegations, the report of which is pending. While hearing the case on Tuesday, Judge S. D. Deshpande ruled that only an aggrieved party, complainant or witness had a right to intervene. “In this case, the applicant was neither a witness, nor a complainant, nor an aggrieved party. Hence, he could not be allowed to intervene,” the court said, while rejecting another rof Daundkar’s pleas seeking a transfer of his complaint from the Magistrate’s Court to the Sessions court about perjury action against Salman and the police for allegedly producing wrong witnesses in this case, resulting in the delay of the trial. At this, the judge said, “I have no jurisdiction to transfer the complaint. You should approach a higher court or the Principal Judge of the Sessions Court in this regard.” Meanwhile, the court deferred its order on Salman’s plea for a direction to the media to report the true and fair proceedings of the case. “Salman had already moved the High Court by filing a defamation and civil suit against some media channels for allegedly not reporting the proceedings of the case correctly. As the matter was pending in the High Court, we cannot give any ruling. The High Court had al-
Rajesh Ashar, Owner of Technofreez Corporation, and air-conditioning expert who has installed air-conditioners inside various heritage structures, says, “As the varsity is close to the sea, there is humidity inside the convocation hall. The ACs will lower the climate in the hall and reduce the maintenance of the structure. There will be no harm in the installation.” The varsity is currently using table fans, standing fans and coolers to cool down the convocation
hall during official meets like the senate, academic council and various national and internal functions. When the ADC, spoke to Dr. Naresh Chandra, Pro Vice Chancellor, MU, he said, “We have sent a revised proposal and planning for the air-conditioners to the heritage conservation committee. The ACs are necessary for the convocation hall and we have resent the reports to the committee with the changes they had asked for”. yatin.ingle@afternoondc.in
Sena hopeful of Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park Continued from pg 1 « through a recorded speech. For the last couple of years, Dussehra rally has been in question as Shivaji Park had declared as silence zone and also comes under the guidelines of RG-PG (recreation ground and play ground) for priority to be given to sports. Last year, when the Sena had approached the court for permission for rally at Shivaji Park, the Bombay HC had allowed it for only one year. The court had also directed the Sena to organise the rally at the MMRDA Grounds in Bandra (East) from 2013 onwards. Meanwhile, the court had also barred the use of conventional loudspeakers and directed that a distributed sound system involving low-wattage amplifiers be used instead. Besides, the HC directed that the ground be restored the next day. Mayor Sunil Prabhu said, “Dussehra rally is the legacy of our party and we have been organising it at Shivaji Park for the last four decades. This year too, we would like to hold
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our rally at Shivaji Park.” Prabhu denied any chances of contempt saying, “It won’t be contempt because we are going to court to request for permission. We hope that court will do justice”. vishnudas.sheshrao@afternoondc.in
Eating fish could land you in jail!
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ish-lovers have good reason to worry. If an amendment to the Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill 2013, presently pending in Parliament comes through, they’ll be left with little choice but to shell out premium sums to buy ‘specifically farm-bred’ fish or simply change their eating habits. That apart, lakhs of persons, associated directly or indirectly with fishing across the nation, particularly Maharashtra and Sassoon Docks in the city, will be hit the worst. “It’s impossible to pass an amendment of this sort,” says Aadhar Pratisthan President Krishna Pawle who has recently launched the Save Sassoon Docks Campaign to safeguard the interests of thousands of people associated with Sassoon Docks activities. “Making a living could well become tougher for fisherfolk all over,” he says, referring to the proposed amendment in the Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill, 2013 which is presently pending in the Parliament. Incidentally, three national conservation organisations have offered their inputs demanding changes in the proposed Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill, 2013 after it was put up for the public to give their suggestions and opinions. The Amendment bill has been introduced in the Rajya Sabha in the current session. The three organisations -Wildlife Society of Orissa, Wildlife Protection Society of India and Aaranyak, a Guwahati-based NGO - have expressed fears that if the amendment in passed in the Parliament it would drastically affect the
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t was a village in the perennially drought prone Maan tehsil of Satara district which has now got rid of that tag and has bagged several state and national awards for its work in afforestation, adopting non-conventional energy sources and reaping a bumper harvest each year. Lodhwade, a village barely 80 kms away from Satara, was notoriously known to be a perennially scarcity prone village. Today the village has abundant year round water sources, meets all its energy requirements through solar power and has 862 hectares of land under cultivation. By the way, the incumbent Agriculture Commissioner Prabhakar Deshmukh hails from this very village. The village which once struggled to produce any crop a year, today produces onions, sugarcane, jowar, wheat, corn, bajra, groundnuts and other cash crops. Well aware of the importance of water, the villagers have built checkdams, percolation ponds and planting 35,000 trees on barren land around the village thus ensuring year-round availability of water. The villagers have not rested with that, they recycle the waste
A bill pending in Parliament, seeking to amend the Wildlife Protection Act, could make eating fish (other than farm bred) a crime! livelihood of lakhs of fishermen across the nation. According to the provisions of Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, the ‘wild animals’ that are listed in the Schedule I to VI are the only ones offered protection from hunting, trade and possession. In the proposed amendment, Section 2 (j) of the bill proposes to change the definition of the wild animal to any an-
imal specified in Schedules I to IV or found wild in nature. The term ‘animal’ is defined very broadly in Section 2(1) of the Act to include mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, other chordates and invertebrates and also their young and eggs. This would mean that all the animals found wild in nature will be considered wild animals under the
proposed Act. Accordingly, all the fishes, other than the farm-bred fish, will be considered wild animals and will come under the purview of law. This has raised concerns and the wildlife workers believe if the amendment bill is accepted as is, it may turn the practice of fishing in natural wetlands in the country into an offence under the Wildlife (Protection) Act.
Together, these conservation groups have filed a memorandum for removal of Section 44 of the Wildlife Protection Act Amendment Bill, 2013 through the joint director of the Rajya Sabha directorate, asking for the withdrawal of Section 44 of the amendment bill. As per Section 44 of the Act, no person will be allowed to sell fish, or cook it and serve it unless he has a license from the Chief Wild Life Warden of the relevant state, and as per Section 49, no person will be allowed to purchase fish unless it is from a dealer authorised under Section 44. This will have a major impact on the livelihood of millions of people involved in fisheries. The Act is a criminal legislation and for it to be strictly enforceable, it is desirable that the crimes it provides for are clear and precise to all persons. Diluting the definition of wild animal as such will take away from the clarity and precision of the Act, and hence affect its enforceability. And if the amendment gets accepted, only those businessmen possessing licenses from the Chief Wildlife Warden will be able to catch fish in wetlands and sell the same. Furthermore, it will be considered an offence under the Wildlife (Protection) Act if fish is procured from unlicensed traders or even cooked. Such a violation could lead to imposition of fine up to Rs 25,000 and jail term up to three years. The amendment will have to go, if public interest is to be upheld. gajanan@draftcraft.in (Please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihY7Eh6 0Pzo to view ‘In The Dock’, an initiative by DraftCraft Productions)
Perennially drought-prone Lodhwade overcomes scarcity The village now meets all its energy requirements through solar power and has 862 hectares of land under cultivation
water and reuse it. It is significant to note that all the houses in the village are registered in the name of the women folk. Embracing the concept of en-
ergy conservation, all the homes in the village are fitted with solar panels that provide electricity. Besides this all the homes use smokeless solar cookers. Due to its
several initiatives in March 2006 the village bagged the Nirmal Gram award from the then President of India, Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam. Today the village earns an
annual income of Rs 3 to Rs 4 lakh through cultivation of cash crops and horticulture. For the last three years Lodhwade village has never experienced scarcity.
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Ponder awhile… “We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.” — Elton John
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N what way are the people of Telangana region different from those of other parts of Andhra Pradesh. What is binding the people of all regions of the state is the Telugu language. On what grounds is the demand for dividing Andhra justified? How can the people of this area justify their sole claim to Hyderabad. Under great pressure, the UPA government at the Centre has worked out a solution: Hyderabad will be the joint capital for 10 years. If at all the new plan works, will the Seemandhra folks leave Hyderabad peacefully? The new plan worked out by the Centre will definitely fail. There is already clear signs of such a happening: there is unrest in Seemandhra. There are continuing strikes, agitation in coastal and other regions of Andhra. Political parties like Telugu Desam are opposed to any division of Andhra. What is to be noted is that many may finally agree to the creation of a separate state, but they will not accept the inclusion of Hyderabad in Telangana. In the next few weeks, the unrest will spread not only in Seemandhra, but in the capital itself. A violent situation is likely to arise and it may be soon out of control. The demands for Telangana and the agitation should have been nipped in the bud long ago.
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UCH is being made of the TDP’s impending return to the NDA. It’s certainly ironic, considering Chandrababu Naidu had walked out of the alliance because of the man who is now its prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, as a mark of protest against the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat. But apart from proving that there are no permanent friends or enemies in politics, the expected reunion of erstwhile allies is nothing more than one of those meaningless manoeuvres that politicians hope will fool voters. Consider these realities. The BJP has virtually no footprint in Seemandhra and only a miniscule presence in Telengana. Modi’s much-hyped August rally in Hyderabad was nothing more than a media event. The saffron party, therefore, brings very little to the table in this crucial region. The two states together account for 42 Lok Sabha seats and were the bedrock of the Congress party’s victories in 2004 and 2009. Correspondingly, the BJP has little to gain from an electoral pact with the TDP. Naidu is scrambling to ward off political oblivion himself. The TRS is poised to walk off with the spoils in Telengana, having identified itself with the movement for a separate state. And in Naidu’s backyard of Seemandhra, Congress rebel Jaganmohan Reddy is the one making waves because of his strident opposition to the division of the mother state. Naidu has been missing in action in both places and losing ground as a consequence. The reunion then seems to be the result of extreme desperation on both sides. Modi is on a mad hunt for endorsement as a coalition leader. Naidu is the balm for the wound left by JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar’s rejection. The TDP may bring the NDA only a smattering of seats, if at all, but Modi hopes to prove to detractors and supporters that he can win friends and influence people. Naidu is clutching on to Modi’s coat tails in a craven attempt to regain his lost political stature. Once the darling of the corporate classes and a major mover and shaker in New Delhi, he believes that membership of a national alliance with the promise of a leading role at the Centre will lure voters to give him another chance. Naidu’s recent mission to Delhi was a time
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for confession and repentance. He signed off from a possible Left-led Third Front with a sorrowful explanation to CPI(M) leaders that theirs was just a pipe dream. And then he went for a strategy meeting at Akali Dal leader Naresh Gujral’s residence with leading lights of the BJP including Arun Jaitley. With Jagan now out on bail and raring to spearhead his
POWER TALK Arati R. Jerath party’s election campaign in the coastal belt, the Naidu-Modi combo may find it hard to recreate the old NDA magic.
Modi overshadows Chouhan in MP
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HE Modi juggernaut seems to be overtaking the Shivraj rath in Madhya Pradesh. The forthcoming assembly elections were supposed to be BJP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s solo show. But ever since Narendra Modi was anointed the party’s prime ministerial candidates, his cutouts, banners and posters have dwarfed those of the chief minister. Observers in the poll-bound state say that Chouhan is rapidly losing control of the party in his state and the election campaign with workers, local leaders and even government ministers rushing to curry favour with the rising star. Chauhan may win a third term for the BJP in Bhopal but the power axis is inexorably shifting to Gandhinagar and it’s playing havoc with the poll campaign. Ironically, Chouhan had carefully posi-
His word is the promise of God A MYSTIC is a phenomenon in himself and a confusion to those around him. He himself cannot tell them what he is doing, nor will they understand the real secret of the mystic. For it is someone who is living the inner life, and at the same time covering that inner life by outer action; his word or movement is nothing but the cover of some inner action. Therefore those who understand the mystic never dispute with him. Neither the laughter of a mystic nor his tears are to be taken as any outward expression which means something. His tears may perhaps be a cover for very great joy, his smile, his laughter may be a cover for a very deep sentiment. His open eyes, his closed eyes, the turning of his face, his glance, his silence, his conversation, none of these has the meaning one is accustomed to attribute to them. Yet it does not mean that the mystic does this purposely; he is made thus; no one could purposely do it even if he wished, no one has the power to do it. The truth is that the soul of the mystic is a dancing soul. It has realized that inner law, it has fathomed that mystery for which souls long and in the joy of that mystery the whole life of the mystic becomes a mystery. You may see the mystic 20
tioned himself as a counterpoint to Modi by trying to craft a secular image. He surprised his party by donning a skull cap on Id and inviting controversial comparisons with Modi. Apparently, the Gujarat chief minister took umbrage and actually joined issue with Chouhan for wearing a skull cap to earn brownie points with the Muslim community. The MP chief minister has also revived plans to set up a Urdu University in Bhopal. He recently allotted six acres of prime land near the airport for the project at an honorary price of Re. 1 per acre. According to Chouhan’s aides, there are around 40 assembly segments in which Muslims can influence election results. With Modi on the ascendant, the chief minister is understandably worried about a Muslim veto against the BJP despite his personal efforts to woo the minorities. Chouhan has another reason to be worried. For the first time in ten years, the Congress seems to have a cohesive campaign going with Jyotiraditya Scindia as a sort-of CM-inwaiting. It’s ironic that there seems to be more enthusiasm for the local elections in the Congress than in the BJP whose workers have tuned off from the assembly to focus on the Lok Sabha polls with Modi as their icon.
Congress to tie up with BSP
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ARENDRA MODI’S rise seems to have spooked the Congress into revising its goit-alone strategy for 2014. According to a wellplaced source, talks are on for an understanding or a “friendly match” with Mayawati’s BSP for the forthcoming assembly polls in Rajasthan. The source said the two parties are close to striking a deal. If it happens, it could be a precursor for an understanding in UP in the 2014 general elections which could dramatically alter the political landscape in the state. UP could decide who will form the next government, the BJP or the Congress. Interestingly, the discussions are on despite Rahul Gandhi’s deep distrust of the BSP. Sonia Gandhi, on the other hand, enjoys a good equation with Mayawati. With the threat from Modi growing, the Sonia line seems to be prevailing in the Congress.
the inner life. To a person who lacks deep insight he will seem a strange being. In the language of the East he is called Madzub. That same idea was times a day, and twenty times he will have a known to the ancient Greeks and traces of it different expression. Every time his mood is are still in existence in some places, but different; and yet his outward mood may not mostly in the East. There are souls to be found at all be his inner mood. The mystic is an ex- today in the East, living in this garb of a self-realized man who shows no trace outwardly of ample of God's mystery in the form of man. A person who lives the inner life appears philosophy or mysticism or religion, or any strange, a form in which very few people can particular morals; and yet his presence is a understand. He puts on the mask of inno- battery of power, his glance most inspiring, there is a commanding expression in his looks; and if he ever speaks, his word is the promise of God. What he says is truth; but he rarely speaks a cence outwardly to such an extent that those word, it is difficult to get a word out of him; who do not understand may easily consider but once he has spoken, what he says is done. There is no end to the variety of the outward him unbalanced, peculiar, or strange. He does not mind about it, for the reason that it is only appearance of spiritual souls in life; but at the his shield. If he were to admit before human- same time there is no better way of living in ity the power that he has, thousands of people this world and yet living the inner life than would go after him, and he would not have being oneself, outwardly and inwardly. Whatever be one's profession, work, or part in the one moment to live his inner life. The enormous power that he possesses outer life, to perform it sincerely and truthgoverns inwardly lands and countries, con- fully, to fulfil one's mission in the outer life trolling them and keeping them safe from dis- thoroughly; at the same time keeping the asters such as floods and plagues, and also inner realization that the outer life, whatever wars; keeping harmony in the country or in be one's occupation, should reflect the inner the place in which he lives; and all this is done realization of truth. — Hazrat Inayat Khan by his silence, by his constant realization of
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FIXERS MADE A MOCKERY OF INDIAN CRICKET GENTLEMAN’S game of cricket poses lots of problem in the Indian subcontinent. Pakistan payers played a pivotal role in fixing matches and some of them landed in jail as well. The fever spread to India also and the IPL matches were the fixing platform for officials, players, umpires and others watching matches live or through television. BCCI could not control fixing fiasco. Fixing takes different modes in IPL matches as spot fixing, match fixing, toss fixing, weather fixing etc. Even officials were fixing matches against their own teams shows how the game has become corrupt in India. That is why Champions Trophy matches between big teams did not evince any in-
Was Nehru secular? THE answer is no. In fact, India was not secular from 1947-1975. It was also not socialist. We became secular and socialist only during the Emergency when those words were put in the Constitution after stifling the opposition and throwing them into jail. The truth that Nehru was not secular is also borne out by the fact that more than 50,000 Muslims were killed in the police action in Hyderabad in 1948. The Sunderlal report till today has not been released. Now that we are secular only ‘small’ incidents like Muzzafarnagar happen. — T.R. Ramaswami, Kandivli
Durga Shakti reinstated BETTER late than never — at long last some good sense has dawned on the UP government and the young IAS officer, Durga Shakti Nagpal‘s suspension is revoked. The whole drama of getting her suspension order typed at midnight and the display of continued stubbornness in the face of unprecedented public outrage and her OF many appeals could have LETTER THE DAY been avoided. The Junior Yadav ought to have understood the human aspect of the whole impulsive action — the damage this would cause to her mind. After all, she did not give any shoot-at-sight order! Looks as though this rethink has been due to the sane advice of Yadav Senior who is still the president of the ruling party. One wishes that the young SDM tries to forget the whole thing as a bad dream and gets on with her job as before. If qualified administrative officers have to work under politicians, such ignominies are bound to happen
terest even though the matches are played in India. The combination of Gurnath Meiyappan, Vindoo Dara Singh and umpire Asad Rauf was deadly and made mockery of Indian cricket but still escaped without any punishment. Now everything has come out in black and white and there is no hiding for these players and officials. Players like Sreesanth sell their teams as well as Team India for petty money and no one is there to call a spade a spade. During 2011 World Cup in India, three to four Indian players were involved in match fixing but escaped without even an enquiry. It is happening only in India and we feel happy about making money and win and lose some matches.
— S. Ramaniam, Seawood
PENALISED: Gurunath Meiyappan, Vindoo Dara Singh and the rest have been rightly found guilty of betting and fixing matches, and punished accordingly.
times of the primordial sages, the Gotra principle simply loses its sig— Dr. V. Subramanyan, Thane nificance. Therefore, the thinking, of wedlock within the same Gotra as a taboo, is meaningless in the modern times. Many families in MahaTHE presence of the former Army rashtra perform the same Gotra Chief V.K. Singh with Narendra marriages by asking the maternal Modi on the same dais must have uncle of the bride to do the been itching the Congress to come kanyadaan. out with some report with a string — Arun Malankar, Santa Cruz of heavily loaded irregularities going to the extent of misuse of secret service funds to destabilise the Omar Abdullah government in J&K. ‘IT’S true: Renovation after 135 The Report, said to be with the PMO years!’ (ADC, Sep 23), it is indeed calls for a ‘probe’ by CBI into the very heartening to read about this Technical Services Division. The historic initiative by the University Congress with a load of problems of Mumbai after waiting for such a facing the country and a number of long period. In fact, such a heritage huge scams on their shoulders with conservation initiative was undertheir inability to pick the relevant taken in the mid-nineties for the files on Coalgate inviting harsh crit- first time in India for ‘THE ARMY & icism from the apex court should NAVY BUILDING’ at Kalaghoda by themselves come ‘clean’ in the first Tatas. Being involved with that renplace so as to seek to probe others, ovation at that time, I have few sugmore so, former Army chiefs who gestions to offer to those concerned have rendered yeomen service in the univ. authority. They must get solely because of which the Nation hold of a reputed conservation aris able to enjoy peace and normal chitect adequately qualified and exlife. The decrepit govt. should be perienced to handle this kind of a voted out. comprehensive renovation of age — T.M. Uday Shankar, Mumbai old heritage structure. It involves both cosmetic and structural renovation as well. There are many tech nics prevailing in this world for THE central home minister heritage conservation. I shall look Sushilkumar Shinde gets ‘clean chit’ forward to this renovation initiative from CBI in the Adarsh Housing so- very eagerly to see that the Mumbai ciety case. The SP chief, Mulayam varsity gets spruced up, retaining its Singh gets similar ‘clean chit’ from magnificent external features intact CBI in the case of disproportionate without any aberration. assets. One belongs to Congress it— Bikram Banerjea, Mumbai self and the other supports the Congress rule in the centre. But Baba Ramdev, the retired General V.K. Singh and many other direct or in- AS dengue, the dreaded killer is direct ‘rivals’ of Congress will have spreading its tentacles fear has to face the CBI probes. Though CBI gripped most parts of our country. is now declared to be autonomous, As people rush to pathological laboit is the hidden ‘caged parrot’ of ratories to get themselves tested, Congress till date. Hence, such they need to be careful as very reprobes by CBI are quite obvious. cently media reports suggested that — Hansraj Bhat, Borivali shockingly blood report results vary dizzyingly from one lab to the other. The differences in blood counts are found to be more than what is posTHE brutal killing of a young couple sible and acceptable. In such a sceby the bride’s parents has sent shock nario, people should make a waves across the entire country. prudent choice by getting themThis heinous crime appears to have selves tested at Government acbeen committed under the false no- credited labs which are audited and tion of the marriage being per- have skilled technicians manning formed within the same Gotra. It is the machines. The government on said that over a span of seven gen- their part should swoop down on erations, the genes and other hered- laboratories which are illegal or are itary factors undergo total not complying with the prescribed metamorphosis. As such, over a pe- safety guidelines. We need to act fast riod of thousands of years from the as scores of people living in slums and the affected persons have no other go than to grin and bear it.
Cong targeting V.K. Singh
MU heritage conservation
Dengue and fake blood tests
Horrific honour killing
TRUTH PREVAILS: Finally, better sense prevailed and the UP govt. revoked the suspension of the innocent SDM Durga Shakti.
Fixing fiasco has taken out the interest in Indian cricket.
THE 11,609 pages charge-sheet filed by the Mumbai police in the betting of T20 league on Gurunath Meiyappan, the son-in-law of former BCCI president N. Srinivasan along with 24 others including Vindoo Dara Singh and Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 130 of the Bombay Police Act, which read with section 415 of the IPC amounts to cheating, is a timely one. The main accused, Meiyappan who has been charged with placing bets, passed on info on
how many runs Chennai Super Kings would make and looted the money of the people with blessing of his father-in-law, Srinivasan proves that both are cheats and must be put behind bars. The IPL team Chennai Super King (CSK) owned by the corrupt Srinivasan must also be banned from participating in the IPL league as some its players may be involved in betting and there must be a through probe to nail the greedy players. It is high time former BCCI president N. Srinivasan takes full responsibility for the betting and quit his position in the cricket body or he must be thrown out by BCCI and others for betraying the people and the nation. — Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai
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for his blasphemous utterances against the ruling party president — Altaf H Ladiwala, Bandra and the vice-president, the motherson duo, how could a lesser mortal even think of exercising his democratic right of raising a voice against A FIREBRAND neta from Vidarbha such oppressors of the biggest has suddenly come into limelight democracy of the world? Let me after years of hibernation. Decades make myself bold to share openly ago, he had created a storm in the my efforts to look for satisfactorily Assembly by lifting the mike and convincing answers to some of the throwing the paperweight at the doubts that often bedevil me: Does Speaker. And now, he has reportedly the honourable lady have the right threatened to take the help of Nax- to spend several crores from the alites to achieve the statehood for government treasury on her perVidarbha. Also, he has allegedly sonal frequent trips abroad? warned that he would not mind — K.K. Wajge, Mulund burning about 100 buses to reach the goal. If these utterances are indeed corroborated by evidence, then the govt. should immediately THE visits of the VVIPs, exclusively initiate action against him. to camps where affected Muslims — Vineet Phadtare, Borivali were housed in Muzaffarnagar, is in keeping with the policy followed by none other than Mahatma Gandhi himself. During pre-Independence BUT for the fact that what a one- days, whenever communal riots time hugely popular self-styled reli- took place, he had made it a point gious guru, Asaram Bapu, has been to take out Padayatra of the Muslim reduced to utter ignominy of a pris- localities only. He never toured oner allegedly for sexual misbehav- Hindu areas troubled by riots. iour with a girl, but reportedly more — Jorhat Singh, Kandivli
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Mahatma’s biased policy
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Prestigious British honour for Big B IT is not only a matter of enormous pride for the Indian film fraternity, but also to those wellwishers and legions of fans of Bollywood’s iconic celebrity Amitabh Bachchan that he happened to be the guest of honor at a reception hosted by British Prime Minister David Cameron’s wife, Samantha Cameron to mark the sixth anniversary of the Leicester-based charity ‘Silver Star’ at their official residence behind the famous black door of 10, Downing Street which has been an abode to the British Prime Ministers for over 275 years. Earlier, Bachchan, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, had supported the charity ‘Silver Star’ that campaigns to raise awareness of diabetes launched in 2007 and which charity presented Bachchan a unique birthday gift of a Mobile Diabetes Unit for the city of Mumbai. The unit, which moves to the city`s most underprivileged regions giving free diabetes tests, was in fact christened ‘Amitabh’ in ac-
GRAND RECOGNITION: Amitabh Bachchan was honoured by the British PM’s wife, Samantha Cameron for promoting the Leicester-based charity organisation ‘Silver Star’. knowledgment of his support. Interestingly at the reception, the charity announced plans for a 5th mobile unit for Birmingham in the West Midlands and a 6th for Delhi, to be named after Amitabh`s father, the late Harivanshrai Bachchan to be launched in 2014. — K.V. Raman, Malad
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MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2013 Application of linear equations in two variables:
LINEAR EQUATIONS IN TWO VARIABLES
Steps for solving word problems – Make assumptions, using two variables (say p and q). From the given information, frame two equations in terms of two variables. Solve the equations by any convenient method and find the values of variables.
Equations in two variables with degree one are known as linear equations in two variables. General form of linear equation in two variables is aχ + by = c, where a, b, c are real numbers and a ≠ 0, b ≠ 0. When we consider the system of two linear equations in two variables, such equations are called Simultaneous equations. Methods of solving linear equations in two variables:
Method of elimination by equating the coefficients Method of elimination by substitution
Steps for Method of elimination by equating the coefficients:
First make the coefficients of any one variable in both the equations numerically equal by multiplying with suitable constants. Eliminate one variable either by adding or subtracting the two equations. Solve and get the value of one variable. Substitute this value in any one of the equations. Find the value of the other variable. The values of two variables are the solution of the given equations.
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Ex. 3.1(2) Solve the following simultaneous equations by method of equating the coefficients: (iv) 4a – 3b – 32 = 0, a + b = 1 Solution: 4a – 3b – 32 = 0 ∴ 4a – 3b = 32 … (i) a+ b=1 … (ii) Multiplying equation (ii) by 3, 3a + 3b = 3 … (iii) Adding equations (i) and (iii), 4a – 3b = 32 3a + 3b = 3_ 7a = 35 ∴a=5 Substituting a = 5 in equation (ii), 5+b=1 ∴ b = 1 – 5 = -4 Ans. The solution of the given equations is a = 5, b = -4. Steps for Method of elimination by substitution:
Find the value of one variable in terms of the other from any one of the equations. Substitute this value of the variable in other equation to get an equation in one variable. Solve and find the value of the variable. Substitute this value in any one of the equations. Find the value of other variable. The values of two variables are the solution of the given equations.
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Ex. 3.1(3) Solve the following simultaneous equations by method of substitution: (x) 4(2a – b) = 8; 6a – 2b = 0 Solution: 4(2a – b) = 8 ∴ 2a – b = 2 … (Dividing both the sides by 4) … (i) 6a – 2b = 0 ∴ 3a – b = 0 … (Dividing by 2) … (ii) From equation (i), find the value of b in terms of a. 2a – b = 2 ∴ b = 2a – 2 … (iii) Substituting b = 2a – 2 in equation (ii), 3a – (2a – 2) = 0 ∴ 3a – 2a + 2 = 0 ∴ a = -2 Substituting a = -2 in equation (iii), b = 2 (-2) – 2 ∴ b=-4–2 ∴ b = -6 Ans. The solution of the given equations is a = -2, b = -6.
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Ex. 3.2 (7) In a two-digit number, the digit at ten’s place is greater than the digit at unit’s place by 3. The sum of the original number and the number obtained by interchanging the digits is 143. Find the original number. Solution: Let the digit at the ten’s place be ‘a’ and that at the unit’s place be ‘b’. Then the original number is 10a + b. From the first condition, a=b+3 … (i) The number obtained by interchanging the digits = 10b + a From the second condition, (10a + b) + (10b + a) = 143 ∴ 11a + 11b + 143 ∴ a + b = 13 … (Dividing both the sides by 11) … (ii) Substituting a = b + 3 in equation (ii), b + 3 + b = 13 ∴ 2b + 3 = 13 ∴ 2b = 10 ∴b=5 Substituting b = 5 in equation (i), a=5+3 ∴a=8 The original number = 10a + b = 10 (8) + 5 = 80 + 5 = 85 Ans. The original number is 85. Problem Set 3 – Q. 8 (iv) Hema purchased a wrist watch and a wall clock for herself. The cost of a wrist watch is thrice the cost of the wall clock. Total cost of a wrist watch and a wall clock is `2000. Find the cost of wrist watch and a wall clock. Solution: Let the cost of a wrist watch be `p and that of a wall clock be `q. From the first condition, p = 3q … (i) From the second condition, p + q = 2000 … (ii) Substituting p = 3q in equation (ii), 3q + q = 2000 ∴ 4q = 2000 ∴ q = 500 Substituting q = 500 in equation (i), p = 3 (500) ∴ p = 1500 Ans. The cost of a wrist watch is `1500 and that of a wall clock is `500. Multiple Choice Questions (For Internal Evaluation) Which of the following is the solution of a + b = 7? a) (5, 3) b) (4, 3) c) (-4, 3) If (1, -1) is the solution of 5d – 3e = m, then what is the value of m? a) 2 b) -8 c) 8 The present age of son is 5 years and that of father is 35 years. What will be their ages five years hence? a) 0 and 30 b) 10 and 40 c) 0 and 7 Which of the following is the general form of the linear equation in two variable? a) aχ + by = c b) aχ2 + by + c = 0 c) by + c = 0
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It’s been a busy month for youngsters across the city who have turned to social activism to better the society and bring about a positive change. Here’s a look at some of the impressive campaigns and activities conducted by them in the city
GANESH VATAP
The Rotaract Club of K.C. College organised ‘Ganesh Vatap’ recently. This project was executed at Elphinstone Road, Mumbai on September 18. The objective was to distribute essentials like water, food packets, etc. to Ganesh devotees who were on the streets for Ganesh visarjan. The total donations that they received were around 200 kg of sugar, 15 boxes of biscuits, boxes of chocolates and 18 kg of pulao. All of this was distributed to the ganesh devotees by the volunteers. On September 19, they even organised a cleanup drive at Shivaji Park and Girgaum Chowpatty and helped cleaning the beach. Eight bags full of plastic and other garbage were collected. The Rotaract Club of H.R. College too organised a beach clean-up drive on September 19 at the Juhu beach. Around 100 club members got together to clear the beach of all the remains after the visarjan.
ACTION 2013: YOUTH IN ACTION
A social awareness programme was conducted by the Department of Sociology, S.K. Somaiya College on Saturday, September 20. The activity carried out by the students added impetus and showcased the students’ preliminary research work on socially relevant issues within the rural and urban areas such as farmer suicides, child trafficking, child labour, and changing trends in work behaviour within the private and the public sector. The purpose of the programme was to build awareness about sensitive issues affecting our society thus giving students a chance to get a practical experience and insight into social issues beyond the confines of the
classroom. Eminent speakers like ACP Vasant Dhoble addressed the issue of Child Trafficking in Mumbai followed by presentations and research through power point and short films on the issue. The programme aimed not only at connecting with different agencies and communities in dealing with the various social issues, but also to understand the scope of the subject of sociology through this endeavour.
Your Fitness’ was organised on September 17 in Bandra West by Supriya Datte, a fitness trainer who showed fun and innovative ways to remain fit. The trainer taught various exercises using the inflatable swiss ball, hula hoop, skipping rope, kettle bells and dumbbells. The event went on for an hour and was attended by fitness enthusiasts of varied ages. All their doubts and queries were answered by Datte and she also spoke about how fitness is not a temporary plan but a lifelong lifestyle choice.
SAAFASUTRA
FIT HAI TOH HIT HAI
called ‘Fit Hai Toh Hit Hai’ is spreading awareness not only via ground activities but also through the social media. A free fitness workshop ‘Find
A few third year Mass Media students of Jai Hind College have taken up the cause of promoting fitness in the city. Their campaign
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I am in the T.Y.BCom and am interested in pursuing a diploma in taxation. What are the various benefits and scope in this field? —Sancheti Mestry
A Diploma in Taxation is offered by various colleges in and around the city. It provides you the base of taxes and also increases the fundamental concepts. You can take up job in a tax firm or under a practicing CA or in any other financial institution. However, if you are keen to practice as a Tax Consultant or to make a career in taxation you need to be a CA.
I’ve done my graduation in BA in 2005 and am currently working in a small travel agency. I now want to change my field and want to pursue a part time MBA. Please suggest some good management institutes from where I can complete my correspondence MBA and also will get a placement through the course. —Anupreet Kaur Management programs, be it correspondence or part-time, offer specialisations like Finance, HR, Systems, Operations, Marketing and so on. There are a number of B-Schools offering such programs so please log on to www.dte.org.in for more details. Not many institutes offer placement assistance for part time or correspondence courses. Please check with the institute personally.
I am studying in the FYJC (Science). I am very fond of animals and the forest. How can I become a Forest Officer? —Chaitanya Mokashi.
To become a Forest Officer you need to be a Science graduate and also clear the Indian Forest Services exam conducted by the UPSC at the central level or the MPSC at the State Level. If you have any queries for this column, contact us on education@afternoondc.in
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Young activism Continued from pg 13 « Through a variety of interesting activities, they intend to reach out to the masses at the grass root level. The first step is always awareness. In order to gather support and spread the word, ‘Saafasutra’ is conducting an event called ‘I Pledge’ which will be carried out throughout the two-week campaign. The team is going around the city’s hot-spots and crowded areas with a large map of Mumbai. Each individual is approached and educated about the difference that one good citizen can make. Placing their vows on the map, citizens pledge to keep Mumbai clean. Then, going the Gandhi way, Team Saafasutra is handing out badges to Mumbaikars depending on their behaviour. Those who are caught littering mindlessly and unabashedly receive the No.1 Litterer badge. The badge is given with a smile and indirectly gets the message across, inculcating a sense of responsibility and ensuring that they will henceforth think twice before littering. On the other hand, responsible citizens who use the bin or carry their trash around until they find one are applauded and encouraged by being bestowed with the ‘Saafasutra Citizen badge’. The team has also collaborated with Daman Ganga Mills Board Pvt. Ltd., a Vapi-based com-
pany that creates innovative products by recycling Tetra Pack cartons of milk and juices. They hand out beautiful recycled paper bags to such responsible citizens as a token of appreciation. ‘Saafasutra’ has also come up with a simple idea of handing out paper bags to people. The team hands out paper bags in Mumbai’s local trains and prominent stations, urging people not to litter and carry their trash around until they find a bin. And it doesn’t end here; ‘Saafasutra’ is also creating a petition by which they will appeal to the BMC to install more dustbins in specific areas. Through a Facebook activity called Kachra Kaha Hai?, Saafasutra urges citizens to inform them about places that are victims of mindless littering and the gathered information will be used in the petition. They will also personally go and make sure that the ‘kachra’ is cleaned and people, educated. Also, they have collaborated with I Dream Studio’s initiative called ‘Bol Public Bol’ which gathers public opinion. They have released a webisode which individually introduces one to the Saafasautra team and visually portrays the work that they do. Team Saafasutra took their campaign further by helping BMC to clean Girgaum Chowpatty. After the final immersion of
Ganpati idols, they cleared the litter strewn around. Such public platforms are the perfect place to make people aware and instill a sense of responsibility in them. Seeing the five girls do their bit, many bystanders were moved and they too joined them in cleaning the beach. “Festivals are great to enjoy and celebrate. It’s a fun thing where people come together and celebrate and share love. But we personally feel that our festivals don’t require us to litter around. Apart from being religiously inclined, let’s first be inclined towards a cleaner Mumbai”, said Rukaiya Lokhandwala, another member of Saafasutra. “We don’t end with the end of Visarjan, we plan to take this further. With the support of our families and college teachers we still have a lot to do. To begin with, our first mission is to forward the petition of getting more dustbins installed in the city, which is in the process”, says Vidhi Shah, another Saafasutra member. “We don’t want this to end, we want Saafasutra to be a religion that people follow and adopt”, quotes Jamila Bootwala.
IBM helps students prepare for future IIT Madras, Karunya University, Shiv Nadar University and IISER Bhopal use IBM Smarter Computing technology to elevate students’ experience
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BM recently announced that leading universities across India are using IBM’s technologies to improve the quality of education process, introduce new curricula and prepare their students for jobs in the future. IBM has played a pivotal role in providing innovative technology solutions to the Indian education sector. Zinnov, a leading advisory firm, recently recognised IBM India as the leader amongst MNC (multinational) Technology Centers that have contributed significantly to the development of the University Ecosystem in India, for the third consecutive year. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, Karunya University – Coimbatore, and the Shiv Nadar University (SNU) have selected IBM High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions, IBM System x iDataPlex servers, IBM PureSystems, IBM Power servers and storage solutions, virtualisation equipment and software to aid high end research, refine processes and elevate the IT infrastructure in the universities. The education sector in India is at the brink of IT enabled transformation. IBM Research is also working on technologies for intelligent, interactive content, learning content management and delivery, as well as personalised education, which, once mature can plug gaps that result from challenges in reach and scale, engaging content and lack of personalisation.
Towards a knowledge-based economy Supercomputing can be used for everything from weather forecasting to searching for a cancer cure. With data starting to flow, we are quickly approaching the exascale (a computer, capable of a quintillion – or 10 to the power of 18 – floating point operations per second) barrier. However, today an exascale computer would require approximately 100 MW power - an equivalent to that used by more than 100 000 homes in India, In order to reap the economic and scientific benefits from the super computing, capabilities that offer highest computing capacity per watt, become instrumental. In that space IBM’s Smarter Computing approach to IT becomes increasingly relevant. Advancing scientific industrial and life sciences research, the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Bhopal (IISER Bhopal) and Shiv Nadar University all turned to HPC (High Performance Computing), implementing the country’s largest supercomputing clusters within the education sector. These three universities are playing an important role in shaping India’s national research agenda. “In high-energy physics and bio-medical research, for example, simulation has become an integral part of science alongside theory and experimentation. Trial run for years, generating enormous volumes of data to process, and complex
modeling that integrates mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology with advanced, high performance computing and engineering”, says Prof. Sunil Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. IBM is also announcing that Karunya University, one of India’s top engineering universities has selected IBM PureSystems solutions to improve online student services by more effectively processing applications, such as handling online enrolment, exam scheduling, virtual campus management, etc. Getting ready for new curricula IBM also offers a wide range of products and solutions that enhances the curriculum of the educational institutes ranging from teaching computer science, information technology, and business and marketing courses. It enables students to develop competitive skills on the latest industry-standard software, systems, and tools. IBM also collaborates with Business Schools across India to help and enable business managers of tomorrow, address the need for skills in Big Data and Analytics. So far, over 10 institutions in India, like Sharda University and Galgotias University, have setup an IBM Business Analytics Lab, where participants are offered a two year full time MBA in Business Analytics in association with IBM. IBM India also runs ‘Project Praviin’, aimed at bridging the gap between what is taught and real life situations.
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MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
A nail-bitting Game! Starring: Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey Genre: Fantasy Drama Rating: *** Running time: NA (TV Series)
The good guys don’t always win. Sometimes the bad guys get what they want. Take nothing for granted. There is just one rule; and that is to expect the unexpected. You must learn to let go of a character you deeply loved, and at the same time learn to develop a liking for one that you resented. Life is unfair at times, and nothing says it better than the hit TV series ‘Game Of Thrones’. This fictional series revolves around several kingdoms, bloodlines and their struggle for power. However, this is woven together with everything else you would like to see in a series. ‘Game Of Thrones’ is packed with action, love, betrayal, violence, sex, magic, fantasy, humour and a bril-
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ye Dios Mio which means ‘Oh My God!’ in Spanish is a new Italian & Mexican joint located at Marine Lines, near Metro Adlabs. They are mainly into deliveries because of the little space they have to seat not more than five to six people. Their menu consists of everything vegetarian - pizzas, pastas, salads, wraps, sandwiches, starters, chips & dips, desserts and coolers. Reasonably priced, Aye Dios Mio is value for money and very affordable for a casual dinner or snack. I recom-
FOOD REVIEW Ruchi Mehta mend the Margherita pizza, Cherry cooler and Grasshopper pie! Also, their Pesto dip is awesome!
liantly written plot. In order to truly understand the dynamics of the series many have even made diagrams online. Few people claim that the series is a hit because of the violence and sex, however the biggest reason millions of viewers just can’t get enough of the show is because of the nail biting plot; which is so complex and unpredictable that after a point most people refuse to wait for the next season and read the books. The writer of the show George RR Shubhang Bhattacharya Martin has often been criticised for his BMM, Jai Hind College sadistic pleasure of making people fall in love with a character and then killing him off, but that is what makes this series all the more interesting. Death comes knocking at your door irrespective of whether you’re an evil wizard or an innocent child. Nothing is ever taken for granted when you play the Game Of Thrones.
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SITCOM REVIEW
Being petite, I try to adopt a very sensible approach to dressing. I swear by high street fashion brands. I love teaming up loose tops with neutral and black tights. I also like to colour block particularly blue with pink or prints with coloured pants. I love skater dresses and plain tone dresses which I can accessorise well. My new fixations are tribal prints, blacks and whites and anything with net or lace. I love accessorising with funky cuffs, statement necklaces and rings or colourful shoes. I follow the trend and experiment with different colours. My current favourites are lime green and mint green and I’ll pick up tops or pants in that tone. My favourite brands are CUFF Zara, Forever 21 Forever 21, Rs.600 River Island, Bershka, Stradivarius, and Michael Kors. FLIP FLOPS Kink, Bandra Rs.300
Blaupunkt all-in-one car subwoofer
Chandragupta Amritkar
Blaupunkt India has just launched another product for in-car entertainment. The GTb 8A promises to deliver the bass you’ve been missing as its 8” spun-paper woofer pumps out the low-end thump. Commonly, it takes a sub, an enclosure and an amplifier to produce bass and finding the right combination of these three elements can be tricky. The GTb 8A eliminates this hassle as Blaupunkt has designed the enclosure to house the sub and the built-in 75-watt RMS amplifier together. This is especially useful in smaller vehicles, where there’s no room to mount a separate amp, or in any vehicle where you need every bit of cargo space. Less than 11” deep, this compact sub will fit in some pretty tight places. With both speaker level and line-level inputs accepted, the GTb 8A can be connected to any type of car radio and can be fitted into all Indian entry levels hatchback, including factory-fitted models and retails at Rs. 9,990 WATCH Michael Kors Rs.14500
« BEST DRESSED ON CAMPUS DRESS Redress, Bandra: Rs.1800
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BETWEEN THE LINES ‘B
etween the Lines’ a play written by Nandita Das and Divya Jagdale will be held at the Tata Theatre (NCPA), Nariman Point on Saturday, September 28 at 7 pm. The play is set in contemporary
« HAPPENING SHAPPENING India where educated and affluent couples are caught between modernity and the traditional world. It explores the relationship between a lawyer couple who have been married for 10 years. Shekhar, played by Subodh Maskara, is a high-profile criminal lawyer while Maya, played by Nandita Das, balances work and life by draft-
ing routine contracts for a law firm. One day they accidentally end up being on opposite sides in an attempted murder case. Shekhar is the prosecutor and Maya, the defense lawyer. As they fight the case, their personal life starts to get impacted in more ways than one. It is an English play directed by Nandita Das. The duration of the play is 105 minutes. Thsi play is Subodh Maskara’s debut in professional theatre with his much-acclaimed wife Nandita. The play uses simple sets and has a universally appealing theme dealing with the complexities in the life of a married urban couple.
Family Night out Camp @ CEC
Would you like to spend a weekend with your family and friends learning about various aspects of nature? If Yes is your -answer then enroll for our two day one night camp @ GEC. Highlights of the Camp Day 1 Day 2 Dusk Walk Nature Trail to Highest point of BNR Cooking in the Wild Bund Building on the Stream. AV on urban biodiversity Kitchen Gardening Camp fire stories Nature Games Quiz Venue: Conservation Education Centre, Date: 28th to 29th Sept 2013, Register Before: 23rdSeptember 2013. Programme Time: 3.00 p.m. (First Day) to 4.00 p.m. (Last Day), Programme Fees: Rs. 1200/- Adult and Rs. 1000/- Per Child below 10 years. (Fees includes Programme cost & Food, Participants have to carry their own beddings), For Registration : Ms. Amandeep Kaur, Education Officer, on 9594929107 / 9594953425 (between 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m., Mon-Fri). Or Email:cecbnhs@gmail.com.
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Seldom do you stumble upon a book that reflects your thoughts and emotions like a mirror, and leaves you with a feeling of belonging long after it has been shut and kept on a shelf. Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is a semi-autobiography that deals with a young girl’s dilemmas of surviving the maddening city of New York with a curious mind, relentlessly seeking freedom of expression and accomplishing a meaningful objective. Not only was Plath suffering from clinical depression, she committed suicide a month after publishing this book, by inserting her head into an oven. With obvious influences and personal experiences that demonstrate her psychological struggle between her beliefs and contrasting societal norms, The Bell Jar proves to be a dark, insane (literally) and honest piece of literature that explores madness within the mundane. One must face the repressed sentiments that echo within Sylvia’s jar of passion and pain.
BOOK REVIEW Anuracti Sharma TYBMM, Jai Hind College
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« ADMISSION ALERTS WORKSHOP ON APPLIED SPORTS & EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY
Exercise Science Academy, the official American College of Sports medicine certification and credit provider in India, is conducting a workshop on Applied Sports and Exercise Psychology on September 28 and 29. Applied Sports and Exercise Psychology involves extending theory and research into the field to educate coaches, athletes, parents, exercisers, fitness professionals, and athletic trainers about the psychological aspects of their sport or activity. This comprehensive workshop aims at increasing the knowledge and practical skills of professionals in this field and will be conducted by certified professionals and specialists. For more information, contact: Asian Heart institute, Bandra Kurla Complex, (Bandra East) Ph No: 9321753838/9320603838
ADVANCED MASTERS PROGRAM IN MANAGEMENT OF GLOBAL STRATEGIES
Global Strategy and Management Academy (GSM Academy) today announced admissions for their Advanced Masters Program in Management of Global Strategies for the second batch commencing in February 2014. The program has onsite modules at top rated international business schools like the University of California, Los Angeles; SDA Bocconi, Milan, Europe and Sun YatSen University Business School, Guangzhou, China while the Indian module is held with the participation of senior IIM faculty. This program is designed specifically for management executives, international executive managers, CEOs and entrepreneurs who are planning to establish and expand their business across the world. The Advanced Masters Program in Management of Global Strategies (AMPGS) is a 14 months program, delivered across four campuses covering South Asia, Europe, North America and East Asia by eminent industry experts and academicians and will cover topics including, Managing a Global Corporation, International Economics, Global Marketing, Innovation in High Tech Companies, Technology Management, Chinese and Asian Economy, Global Economic Crisis, Hi-Tech Marketing and global market. Eligibility: Bachelors’ degree, 8-10 years or more professional experience in technical /managerial capacity, middle to senior management position in business organizations, entrepreneurs with comparable background, or candidates with exceptional record can be considered on individual merit. For further details visit: http://gsmacademy.com/ampgs/
CFA INSTITUTE LAUNCHES ASIAPACIFIC CAREER GUIDE
CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, has released the new version of its popular career development tool to help students and young professionals launch successful careers in the AsiaPacific finance and investment industry. The CFA Institute Asia-Pacific Career Guide (2014 edition) serves as a navigational tool for students, new entrants, and mid-career professionals looking to find or shift jobs in the finance and investment industry. The publication profiles the career paths of over 30 successful CFA charterholders from 16 countries and territories in Asia Pacific — how they started and progressed in the industry and their success stories. It provides overviews on 14 fields in the industry as well as professional career development advice such as how to use social media to advance one’s career and interview and resume-writing tips. The Career Guide covers job roles in asset management, investment banking, compliance, private equity, research and analysis, corporate finance, financial advisory, treasury, development finance, performance measurement, and structured finance. The Career Guide is a free publication available online and in print. Download it from: bit.ly/CFA_careerguide2014
“Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world”
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Shraddha Ashok Singh from the Public Relations field talks about the challenges and the advantages of her career.
did my schooling from Convent of Jesus and Mary, Fort. After that I took up Arts and then graduated in BMM from Kishinchand Chellaram College of Arts, Commerce and Science. Doing BMM was my ambition. While doing BMM I realised Public Relation is a different and interesting job. It is a combination of hard work and smart work. Public Relation is the field where little money is involved with larger outcome. It is the field where more than creativity you learn how to develop and maintain relationships with journalists and clients. Public Relation is a voice for the clients. It is only through PR that people can reach to the masses. In today’s world PR is playing a crucial role and is tremendously growing. From small brands to big brands, all are interested in PR. With such a fast growing industry, PR has a lot of scope in the future. This is why I decided to choose PR as my career. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Similarly education has been very helpful to me in all parts of my life. It has taught me to be competitive and to face all the problems with confidence and positivity. Education has helped me to understand the difference between right and wrong in all facets of life. It has built confidence, determination, optimism and the ability to work in a team, in me. The best time in college was when we were told to do a compulsory training for a period of one month. I had joined a PR and advertising
firm Paramin Advertising and Media Associates. It was fun working there. A good learning experience with the government clients! With almost five to six interns including me learning PR and attending meetings were a great feeling, with lots of fun and <<Shraddha we were competing with each Ashok Singh other to be the best. My second internship was with one of the prestigious companies Genesis Burson and Marsteller. Genesis was the only place where I got ragged for the first and the last time. I remember the first time we had a Friday meeting and I was told to stand up on the chair in front of the entire office and introduce myself to them. It was shocking to see such things in the office. But truly working there was exciting with cheerful people around, everyday new challenges, deadlines, and events. Well! Thanks to Genesis, I could meet my favorite actor Sharukh Khan. Every time I had difficulties during work or about anything, there were people to support me and help me. I am lucky to have worked with the best of the people in Genesis and Paramin. My mentors were the best; they taught me all the minor and major details of PR. I am currently working with You Me & We Media Services. After training for a few months and completing my graduation it’s been great
to actually work and put those experiences and learning into a positive outcome. I am currently doing PR in fashion and lifestyle streams. Altogether, a completely different learning experience! As a fresher one can earn anything from Rs.10,000 to 15,000. But again it depends from company to company. Some prefer to give even more than that depending on the caliber of the person. It depends on the person, how fast and how well he works in any organisation. If a person has a good caliber and grasping
power he can become a professional in a span of two years. In the PR industry a good experience of two years can help you to set up your own firm. As an established professional one can actually earn a handsome amount of money. You can also be the boss of your own company by starting a new venture as it will not be difficult to establish a new startup for an experienced person. PR has lots of advantages and disadvantages. As a PR professional it is very important to build up a relationship and manage your
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company’s and your client’s reputation. PR helps to build a brand’s image with its public. PR is very competitive. As said earlier, from small to big brands, all companies need PR. So it is a very effective and a great way to start your career in the media. The PR industry will definitely grow in the near future. The major difficulty in this field is to deliver the correct messages to the audience. PR people are the mediators between media and the client and so it is very important to see that the messages sent to the media are correct. So the communication has to be correct and clear to avoid any kind of misunderstanding. It sometimes becomes difficult to meet the client’s and media’s requirement at the same time. In my present job, I am doing more of media relations. PR is a vast field. PR is important in today’s world. People who want to make a career in Public Relations must learn to maintain good relationships. PR is not about just exposing the client but it is about a positive exposure that we are supposed to deliver for our client. So people planning to come in PR should learn to work hard and smart, have patience and get ready for lots of excitement.
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My son has turned bossy KRUTIKA (NITA) JAGGI
is doing her M.Ed in Learning Disability from S.N.D.T University. She also happens to be India’s only female crossword creator! My son studying in Standard 8 has suddenly stopped going to school. His grades have also dropped considerably. He does not want to study, has turned very bossy and does not listen to us. He has not attempted his class tests as well. What do I do?
If you have noticed that his marks have dropped suddenly, then it is a cause for concern. It is critical that you have them assessed by a professional. If a kid’s grades go from an ‘A’ to a ‘D’, that usually doesn’t happen in isolation. There will be other distress signals also. You might notice that your child has stopped participating in sports and activities that he used to love, or that he’s
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hanging around in a different peer group, for example. Start by taking your child to his pediatrician and getting a recommendation for a professional therapist to rule out substance abuse, depression, clinical anxiety or other factors that may be affecting his performance and outlook.
If you have any queries for this column, contact us on education@afternoondc.in
Ecole Mondiale Celebrates Battlelaureate T
he BattleLaureate by Ecole Mondiale World School is celebrating its third year with a 3 day event full of challenges, competition and enthusiasm. Schools like Oberoi International, Singapore International, BD Somani, Jamnabai Narsee, Podar, SVKM International, RBK International and Ecole Mondiale World School participated in the event which was held at Ecole Mondiale World School from September 20 to 22 2013. The competition had 140 students participating and showcasing their skills in the fields of art, music, debate, quiz, dance and theatre. Celebrities like Saleem Merchant, Vishal Bharadwaj, Rekha Bharadwaj from the music fraternity; Javed Jaaferi and Nandita Puri from Bollywood, along with artist Shireen Gandhy, ace yoga instructor Kamini Desai and Czaee Shah were present at the BattleLaureate as judges. Being their forte, these judges persuaded the students to accentuate their skills.
- As told to Monarose Sheila Pereira
Dyslexia is more common than you think Ms. Surabhi Verma, Director of Sparsh for Children, talks about how dyslexia does not make children stupid or lazy and how we can focus on helping a child to grow, rather than frustrating him or her for having a learning disability.
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yslexia is not a disease. It is a neurological disorder, often hereditary and a condition that you are born with. People with dyslexia are not stupid or lazy. Most have average or above-average intelligence, and they work very hard to overcome their learning problems. Dyslexia interferes with the acquisition and processing of language. There are differences in how people think. Non-dyslexics have verbal thoughts, which are thinking in
words and has a linear process that occurs with a speed of about 150 words per minute. Dyslexics have non-verbal thoughts, which are thinking in pictures, where the picture grows as the thought process adds more concepts. Therefore, it’s much faster, possibly thousands of times faster. Often there is a negative feeling about having dyslexia because we concentrate on the disadvantages. Why not turn the situation around and harvest the positive aspects of having dyslexia? This would prevent a lot of frustration to the child and his surroundings. The main difficulty that the child faces is in reading, writing, spelling, handwriting and sometimes in arithmetic. Although dyslexia exists for life, children with dyslexia frequently respond successfully to timely and appropriate intervention. As a parent, it is important to take any label with a grain of salt. Parents should not be so enamored with the idea of a child who has high intelligence that they fail to notice their learning difficulties. Also, parents should not be so heartbroken by the diagno-
sis of a ‘learning disability’ that they fail to see the strengths of the child. If we ask a class or school teacher, each would give a list of at least 10-15 children who are not able to cope up with their peers in a class of 35-40 children. The major difficulties which these children face are: concentrating in class, sitting for long durations completing their work, not being able to follow instructions, having a problem taking notes, spelling errors, unable to understand lessons being taught, unable to understand the rules of grammar while writing or answering questions, or emotional breakdowns. If asked to get a formal assessment for these 15 children, 7-10 would be diagnosed with learning difficulty/dyslexia. Why are children with Dyslexia frustrated? Except for the child, no one knows exactly how hard a child with dyslexia is trying. The frustration of children with dyslexia often centers on their inability to meet expectations. Their parents and teachers see a bright, enthusiastic child who is not learning to read and write. Their parents hear, “He’s
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such a bright child; if only he would try harder.” Ironically, the pain of failing to meet the parents’ and teachers’ expectations is multiplied by the child’s inability to achieve their goals. Their self-esteem suffers and they may become <<Ms. Surabhi loners or ‘class clowns’ or Verma behave in other ways designed to hide their learning difficulty or try to cope with academic insufficiency. They grow up believing that it is ‘terrible’ to make a mistake. This is extremely frustrating to them, as it makes them feel chronically inadequate. Instead of labelling children as failures or spoiled or sheer lazy, we as parents and teachers should try to assess their strengths and change the way in which we work with children. The following are a few ways in which a teacher can help a child in the classroom: Give short and individual instructions Help the child understand phonetic sounds which will help them to
form words Praise the child for little achievements to boost self esteem Teach students to use logic rather than rote memory Present material in small units and sequentially Provide legitimate outlets for extra energy Use multi-sensory teaching methods and aids A few years ago, it was up to a child with dyslexia to manage on their own as there was little awareness and hence no help. Children were expected to find their own strategies to overcome their difficulties or be back benchers in class. Thus for many parents and children, it was a distant possibility of completing their education with good grades and fulfilling a professional dream. But now with growing awareness, more and more children are being diagnosed with dyslexia and more tools are simultaneously being developed to help them. As children with dyslexia can excel in normal life, the onus is on educators to catch the difficulties early and provide them with the required help and aids to make their dream a reality.
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MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Making Math Fun In a country obsessed with making its future generation doctors and engineers, mathematics is considered the path to scoring perfect percentages and the key to a bright future. However, most students shun the subject and consider it their least favorite as it requires practical application of the brain as opposed to the rote learning propagated by the Indian education system. Divesh Bathija, talks to Srishti Jain about his new wave of teaching, challenging the system and its methods, and dedicating his life to making Math ‘child’s play’. Tell us about your childhood. Was mathematics fun for you? Being raised by a single parent from a very early age, the one thing always on my mind was supporting my family. I did not know how to reach there however, especially with a speech disability where people hardly understood what I said. Determined to start my own business, I started at the age of 12. While everyone was busy playing, I saw profit and losses, which was when I saw math being applied in everyday life. That’s when I developed a further interest in the subject. While I saw all my friends struggling with the subject, I kept wondering how math could be so difficult and I could see the real life application of the subject, while my friends lacked that experience.
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How did this idea of giving Math for students a twist and making it enjoyable strike you? During a pilot project, we identified that only a <<Divesh teacher can make Bathija a subject easy or tough for a student. One student did not know integers well, so we decided to play a game and saw he could answer much better and gave correct answers throughout. This helped us to identify how games could make the subject interesting. Tell us about Dinasim and how you began this institute? I always wanted to start my compa-
ny with the name ‘Dinasim’. I also knew that I wanted to start this venture, but didn’t know which stream to focus on since I realised that a lot of students struggle to study. When I studied abroad I was impressed by the approach of students towards education. This made me realise that I wanted to help the education sector and make the lives of students’ fun by helping them realise that studying is not actually a burden. What are the various devices or teaching methods you use to make Math fun for kids? Dinasim seeks elements of popular sports such as cricket, football, basketball, darts, or even virtual games such as Angry Birds. We use only games and activities to teach Math and avoid using a book and pen. This helps children to feel the subject and see its practical application.
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E.g. When children are watching an IPL match/ any cricket match, which every Indian student is fond of, which can be used to calculate Average, run rate and they can keep a check of runrate after every over or so. In such a manner these kids become more interested towards the subject as they see how it helps them beyond books as well. E.g. Often when children go shopping, they see how many shops have discounts to offer. Each and every brand which offers a discount will always use percentage, like 40% or 50% instead of 500/- off as the percentage helps to relate with every product on sale. E.g.: A show store has 30% off on all shoes; a NIKE show would cost 3000. While a Puma shoe would cost 2000. So the customer saves more if he buys a NIKE shoe than a Puma Shoe. E.g. While going out many a times, children wish to understand how far are they going, and often we using terms like 30 mins or 50 mins etc. They fail to understand in terms of KMs. So when they are travelling with their parents, they can record all speed levels, time taken to reach their destination, which will help them identify the actual distance they have covered.
As a young entrepreneur what is your view about the pressure the Indian education system puts on kids? Does it truly help them to grow and learn? The system has lost its meaning and is just a rat race for marks. The current system puts tremendous pressure on students, where they value marks over gaining knowledge and understanding concepts. Admissions are also based purely on marks and not on passion and knowledge of the subject.
gram for two months before they conduct any workshops. This training includes real exposure to the subject.
How do you train your teachers and faculty? We have an intensive training pro-
What is the process of enrolling in the institute and the age group eligible?
Students from Class 5 to 10 can enroll. They need to visit our website and email their details on info@dinasim.com. We then contact them and schedule an initial consultation with the children and their parents. Why do you think students dislike Math and consider it a burden? Math has always been misunderstood by kids and parents. For students, Math is meant mostly to score marks while parents want their children to be very good in it because it is useful through life. What they fail to tell students is where math is useful. Students don’t understand the application of the subject and this makes them disinterested. What changes need to be introduced in the Indian Education system? Valuing knowledge over marks is one of the major changes needed. Exams also need to be less over rated and students should relate to the subjects they wish to study or excel in. How do you plan to change the perception of Math in the minds of kids today? Teaching Math with no books and writing instruments is one of the best ways to make children realise that this is not a serious subject. What would you like to say to our readers? It’s not about what we learn; it’s about how we learn.
Impressions all set to gear up in the city
he festive season for the students have started as there are midsemesters examinations coming up soon, Vivekanand Education Society students are gearing up for their most awaited festival IMPRESSIONS’13. Impressions which is the longest media festival in the city and popular across the city. With more than 20 competitive events across the fields of fine arts, performing arts, sports and animations, Impressions will be following the theme ‘World of Media
Wonders. The fest is all set to bring down the best and popular speakers for its conclave. Following the concept of providing a platform to the students. Although the festival has completed a decade last year it is currently in its 11th year abd is trying to give a hit this year, the dates are 6th, 7th and 8th of December and the participants are all geared up. Dalwin Tarapura a student of Lala Lajpatrai College said, “I have been performing in the fests since the last three
years, it is the best fest of the city, it is a tough call to for me!” Another student, Hitesh Jeswani, said, “Missing Impressions is a big set back for the participants”. The festival has around 1,000 students as their ‘work-force’. Registering more than 35 colleges across the city. Taking care of the security, the fest have formed squads which will be taking care of the frisking, crowd handling and security measures.
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« ALERTS ‘POWER YOUR FUTURE’
Aptech Computer Education, the flagship brand of Global Learning Solutions major – Aptech Limited, in association with Microsoft, announced ‘Power Your Future’, a National level App development competition to unearth the creative potential of students across India. The competition is organised with an aim to identify, train and certify 25,000 students for next generation technologies by May 2014. Through this event, Aptech intends to reach out to more than 1,00,000 students from over 700 educational institutions in the next 12 months. Aptech last year launched comprehensive training programs in App development for Window 8 platform and since then, more than one thousand apps have been developed and uploaded in the Windows App Store by Aptech students and trainers. Participating in the competition will help students leverage the Microsoft platform, Learning, Tools and Technologies and develop Apps for the Windows 8™ and Windows Phone™ platforms. Students could also become a part of Windows App Builders Club and publish their Apps on Windows App Store. Further, working on Cloud computing projects will help them prepare for a career in Information Technology, mapped to emerging Cloud technologies and job requirements. Students from schools and colleges would be identified through aptitude tests and then trained and mentored by Aptech and Microsoft to develop socially relevant Apps. These students would then compete at various levels enhancing their knowledge and skills by showcasing their creative ideas, development capabilities by competing at District, State and Zonal levels before reaching the National level competition on May 23, 2014. Shortlisted students will qualify for the finale based on quality and ranking of their Apps. The winner would be awarded with a scholarship of Rs.1,00,000 from Aptech. To encourage maximum participation, wild card entries would be allowed at all levels of the competition and various exciting gifts and prizes will be awarded to the participants. The competition is open to all engineering and degree colleges and schools in the country. Interested institutions can contact on toll free number: 1800 22 15 50 or visit http://www.aptech-education.com/ and register themselves before October 31, 2013.
CFA’S RESEARCH CHALLENGE
CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, and IAIP – a member society of CFA Institute announces the kick-off of the 7th CFA Institute Research Challenge (IRC) India Chapter. This annual educational initiative promotes best practices in equity research through hands-on mentoring and intensive training in company analysis and presentation skills. Around 43 leading business schools from across India are expected to participate in this year’s challenge. The platform is a unique opportunity to showcase the talent of young, thriving and potential business leaders on a global platform. Eight to nine teams/B-schools from each of the five zones i.e. West, East, North, South and Central will compete for the zonal finals scheduled to be held in November/December. The zonal finalists will then represent India and compete against other countries like Malaysia, China and Japan at the AsiaPacific Level. The APAC finalists will then compete at the global competition to be held in Bangkok, Thailand in April 2014. Participating teams will write an equity research report on a publicly traded company, and present their findings to an expert panel. The teams will be locally evaluated by high-profile panels of experts from top financial institutions on basis of their written reports and the presentations. Introduced in 2006, CFA Institute Research Challenge is considered as ‘the investment Olympics’ for university students, with more than 10,000 students having participated. This year, more than 3500 students from 775 universi-
It’s Jazz, by the way!
Noel Athayde, a company member in The Danceworx Performing Arts Academy that was founded by the famous Ashley Lobo, tells Naressa Coutinho more about all that’s jazz.
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hink Jazz; think flapper; think suave; think Chicago (2002). A top hat and cane made Charlie Chaplin a popular figure, but today one associates these props with the second prodigy i.e. Jazz Dancing. Five years with this dance form, Noel Athayde raises concerns over jazz dancing being alien to the Indian soil while it receives much appraise world over. This gap makes the jazz dance form a prospective career option for performers and teachers. “Jazz was derived from ballet,” he says, “The only difference between the two dances is that everything in ballet is turned out and everything in jazz is parallel. Thus it is like the foundation and a basic form. Jazz is very popular in western countries. In India, however, jazz is relatively new; people still have to understand the importance of being a trained dancer because when they go overseas the differences are apparent in terms of quality and technique. So dancers like me are making people aware of this form of dance. Jazz is like learning a classical dance form in India. Moreover, after training as a jazz dancer, other forms just become so much easier to pick up”. Noel started off as a dancer at the age of 19 and says that in comparison to his international counterparts who take up dancing as early as three and five years, he feels he had a late start. However, it is never too late for anything. Moreover, jazz as a dance form in India has picked up pace only recently. Like ballet, noel says that even Jazz is considered as a base form before one gets on a professional footing with any genre of dance. Jazz is that one form that helped him as a dancer and that strengthens you as a dancer. If one has to look at it from a career perspective, it’s imperative to understand what it takes to learn the art and then to be able to teach it to others. How long would one have to train as a dancer? “There is no particular duration to learning jazz. Dance is not a destination; it is a process”, says Noel who started learning jazz through a set syllabus in The Danceworx. “Everybody
is different, with different body structures,” he says “and so it depends on each individual; on how much they observe, invest and apply”. As far as investment goes, a dancer would only be required to invest in training. After one has acquired sufficient training of about a year and is confident of the technical bits that are essential when training another person he can start off with a decent income. The earnings from this field would depend mainly on experience, popularity and demand in the industry. If you can prove yourself as a dancer, you can start teaching at the dance school that you trained in. Besides this you will also find opportunities to grow as a choreographer. A jazz performer can also look to opportunities in the entertainment industry like musicals, theatre, commercials and even in the film industry. “It’s widely popular in metro
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The Danceworx Add studio: St. Mary’s High school, Mhada telephone exchange, 4 bungalows, Andheri west Mumbai
Contact: +91 22 65159994-5, 65220077, 42958789 Email: mumbai@thedanceworx.com Web: http://www.thedanceworx.com cities, but mainly in Delhi and Mumbai. Since there is a lack of trained dancers, when it comes to a jazz dancer there is a difference in quality immediately. So yes, there will be a demand for anything and everything that is not cliché Bollywood. And today, shows in India are really broadening the horizon for jazz performers. It’s amazing to watch the growth, so international dance is coming into the country and that increases the demand of trained
dancers,” ascertains Noel. Lucky for ballet and jazz dancers, the arena is clear of many competitors and thus it is only slowly gaining momentum in India. One reason for these not being popular with Indian male dancers in particular is its immaculate movements that border of slender, feminine lines. Thus while hippop and other styles have been readily absorbed the fate of such dances remain a blur. There is so much to learning from our international counterparts on popular dance reality TV shows in terms of shunning these inhibitions. You will find that there is so much that needs to be tapped into automatically broadening one’s career prospects as a dancer. Citing the same problem, Noel says that it is often difficult to find a good jazz mentor in our country. As an offbeat career, aspirants should aim at keeping it as a part-time career option until it acquires due popularity amongst the masses. On an international stage, it could prove to be challenging but if one can prove to be a good dancer, the opportunities are plenty. Dance shows often allow dancers to showcase their talent and with contemporary dance forms gaining momentum, fusion performances too come as a more acceptable style. Thus, a dancer must explore various genres and work at training to be the best, and simultaneously assimilating other forms into the mainstream. Noel urges aspiring jazz dancers to focus more on training and says, “Hard work, determination and proper training are essential for every successful Jazz dancer.”
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‘Minor’ Loopholes MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Yahya Y. Bootwala, FYBMM, National College
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Science & technology can never be a threat. It’s all about the purpose it is used for. Pranit Khot, 23, Travel Executive
I don’t really mind having my files looked at, just as long as it is with legitimate reason and for the purpose of bettering security. Zain Bijapuri, 24, Travel Executive The US pretended to act like the father of the world. I don’t like this spying business. I am not very comfortable with it. Shruti Torgal, 22, CA
I guess it is all our government’s fault. We need to change things here. The Indian government needs to object these kinds of things. Roshan Salian, 23, Advertising Professional I don’t know. May be they are wrong but it doesn’t really bother me unless it affects me directly in some manner some day. Warren D’Silva, 21, Student
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What do you think of the US spying on billions of Indian files online? Do you consider it an invasion of your privacy?
his is the biggest question faced by us today. After the Delhi rape case, there has been a rise in rape cases committed by minors. This is just because the minors know the loop holes of our constitution; they know that they will not be sentenced according to their crime but according to their age. A 17-year-old kid exerts the same pain and damage that a 35-year-old man can exert in case of rape and yet he is not convicted as a 35-year-old is. Rape committed by a juvenile or an adult affects the women in the same way, she is stoned for life, her happiness is destroyed forever and there is no chance that the darkness of such days will go with the light of a new day. Isn’t this a matter of urgent importance, doesn’t this instill fear in you that your kid can be a rapist or your girl can be raped by a ‘kid’ who will not be given the appropriate punishment. How can we defeat this? Can just walking on the streets clear such crimes? No it can’t. We can just raise a finger on the parents of such kids saying that they did not teach them manners and respect but are we right in saying so? A person in general is also affected by this world, the world which has grown in technologies and fallen in morals. Today every android user be even a 12-year-old kid has easy access to porn sites for free and without any age restrictions. A kid watches porn; doesn’t this create havoc in your mind? Here you can’t blame the parent as they can’t keep a 24/7 track on their kids so who to blame? Should technology be blamed who’s use and misuse is upon the user. It’s the user who is to be blamed. We all have been taught what is right and what is wrong, the problem comes in the choice.
The wrong is always so attractive than the right that we tend to forget the basic difference of wrong and right. And this choice keeps growing as a seed of evil thoughts in these kids’ minds and when it grows up, you see it as rape or such crimes. I don’t mean to educate people, there are better teachers than me, I mean to create awareness in society as it seems there are lesser observers in the society. We live in a society which enjoys
blaming more than correcting and this is sad. We call rapist criminals, but aren’t even we criminals of the society who can’t even stand up for justice for someone else who might be living in the nearby society or in your neighborhood or just opposite your door. Before I stop and you start thinking let me conclude by saying that if we say that a 17-year-old is immature then I would like to tell you that the writer of this article is also a 17-year-old.
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state, reacted with anger to Singh’s allegations. National Conference ministers, past and present, issued a statement demanding that the names of those who had been given the money should be made public by Singh failing which they would consider legal action against him. They described his allegations as “absurd”.
PUBLIC NOTICE Take notice that, late Smt Ambuja Ananthakrishnan, Hindu Inhabitant, residing at Room no 2, Prakash C.H.S near Nakul Patil Bunglow Devi chowk Dombivali (W) on 13.10.2013 had nominated the undersingned as the legal owner of the flat no 2 after natural death. Smt Ambuja Ananthakrishnan died on 12.5.2013 Hence as per the above nominated dated 13.10.2013, I become the full and owner of the aforesaid flat. Therefore, any person (s) having any claim, right, title or interest in the abovementioned property or any part there of by way of sale, exchange, gift, mortgage, trust, lease, licence, lien, pervious agreement,assignment, inheritance, easement or otherwise, are hereby required to intimate the same in writing along with document in support thereof, to The Secretary Prakash Co-operative housing society within 7 days from of the date here of, failing which it shall be presumed that no person (S) has any claim, right, title or interest whatsoever the abovementioned property, and such claim, if any,shall be deemed to have been waive and no such claim shall be entertained thereafter . This may kindly be noted. Ravindra Moolchand Gupta Address: Prakash Co-operative Housing Society Near Nakul Patil Bunglow, Devi Chowk Shashtri Nagar Road Dombivali (W) Date : 25/09/2013
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No. MNP/PWD/Tender/88/2013-14 EVER REDDY… YSR Congress Party President Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy greets his supporters after he was released from the Chanchalguda Jail in Hyderabad on Tuesday. Reddy was granted bail in the disproportionate assets case against him.
Onion prices may come down in the next 10-15 days: Pawar N EW DELHI: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said onion prices are expected to fall sharply in the next 10-15 days, which may give relief to consumers. “I am absolutely confident that in the next 10-15 days, I will start getting brief from farmers that prices have fallen sharply,” Pawar told PTI on the sidelines of an event. Onion prices both in the wholesale and retail markets have remained at an unaffordable level since July due to seasonal shortages. Onions continue to available at Rs 6070 per kg in most retail markets despite a falling trend in some wholesale markets. Pawar said the prices have shot up despite substantial increase in onion production to over 17 million tonnes (MT) in 2012-13 from 9.5 MT in 2005. However, the falling trend in onion prices will begin from month-end on improved supplies, he said. “Arrival in some states has started. I think by end of this month, the process of price coming down will start.” Improved supply of im-
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EW DELHI: The government will push for passage of a long-pending bill to provide statutory status to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the winter session of Parliament. “We will bring the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010 in Parliament during the forthcoming winter session for discussion and passage,” Planning Minister Rajeev Shukla told PTI. The UIDAI, which issues 12digit Aadhaar numbers to residents, currently operates through an executive order. The working of the UIDAI has come under scrutiny of the Supreme Court, which in an interim order yesterday, observed that Aadhaar can be issued only to Indian nationals and the identification number cannot be made mandatory for availing of benefits of the government’s subsidy schemes. The bill to provide the authority legal backing was approved by the Union Cabinet in September 2010 and introduced in the Rajya Sabha in December that year. It was sent for scrutiny to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance headed by former finance minister and BJP leader Yashwant Sinha. “Now the bill has been sent back to the Planning Commission by the Standing Committee with some amendments. We will soon take it to the Cabinet and try to push the draft for passage in the winter session,” Shukla said. The minister said the UIDAI has not made enrolment for Aadhaar number mandatory for residents and it was for the central departments, ministries and state governments to decide how to verify the identity of beneficiaries. “Aadhaar establishes the identity of a person and not the nationality. It also serves as proof of residence. Moreover, it is a voluntary facility and not mandatory,” he said.
umbrella of sadbhavna (harmony),” he said. Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the Government was ready to probe the allegations if the beneficiaries were identified. Kashmir’s mainstream leaders, including two Union Ministers Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad, both former Chief Ministers of the
committed any mistakes in making the allegations. “I did not commit any mistake. When I had said some politicians were given money, it was not meant for their personal purpose or political purpose. It was not for lining their pockets or for bribe. If somebody says that any minister was given a bribe, it is totally wrong. “It was meant solely for stability...To win hearts and minds of people, to wean people away from separatist activities under the overall
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had been paid by the army since independence, prompting sharp reaction from National Conference and the Congress which are ruling the state. He called a press conference at Gurgaon on the outskirts of the capital, at which he appeared to soften his allegations by saying that the payments were not for the personal use of the ministers but for promoting goodwill among the people. At the Former Army chief General (retd) V same time, he K Singh addresses a press maintained he had not conference in Gurgaon on Tuesday.
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EW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Facing fire over his remarks that ministers in Jammu and Kashmir were given money by the Army, former Army chief Gen V.K. Singh yesterday sought to do damage control by saying it was not a bribe but the Centre expressed its willingness to order a probe. The controversial general, who stepped down as Army Chief in May last year, has created a political storm with his statements saying that ministers in the trouble-torn state
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Tamizhaga Vazh Urimai Katchi Mahila Morcha members staging a protest against the onion price hike in Chennai on Tuesday. ported onions and fresh arrival of crop would improve availability and control prices, he said. The government has been taking several measures to boost domestic supplies. It
has restricted exports by raising minimum export price to US $900 a tonne and opened imports. About 600 tonnes of onions are expected reach Mumbai port next week.
Bid No. 7100022155 The Municipal Commissioner of Greater Mumbai invites online e-Tenders for the “Design, supply, installation testing & commissioning of PNG downstream pipeline at B.Y.L. Nair M.C.G.M. Hospital” from the eligible bidders. The Bid Start Date and Time and Bid End Date and Time is specified in the detailed tender notice on MCGM’s website under ‘Tenders’ section. The intending tenderers shall visit the Municipal website at http://portal.mcgm.gov.in for further details of the tender. The tender documents will not be issued or received by post. Sd/Dy. Chief Engineer (Mechanical & Electrical) city PRO/809/ADV/2013 Fever? Act now, see your doctor for correct & complete treatment
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We have to accelerate the pace of agricultural growth on sustainable basis to meet the additional requirement of foodgrain for proper implementation of the Food Security Act.
Sharad Pawar, Agriculture Minister
BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS HDFC Securities calls a ‘Buy’ on Federal Bank CMP: Rs. 300
Markets Indecisive
NSE India: CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Wednesday (September 25, 2013) (Based on the activity of the previous trading day) by Dominic Rebello
REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY: The Nifty rose marginally on Tuesday (September 24, 2013) a net 2.70 points (0.05%) and closed at the 5892 point level. The market opened down with a gap at the 5855 points level. It then declined further by a point and registered the day’s low at the 5854 points level at 9.23 a.m. The index then rose sharply into the green and turned into a range bound movement until 11.05 a.m. It then rose further and registered the day’s high at the 5938 points level at 11.24 a.m. The index then declined and turned into a range bound movement to close the day on a flat note. The Nifty witnessed a volatile session and moved in a range of 84 points level. Sentiment was mixed and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 26 were losers, 23 were gainers and 1 remained unchanged. Buying was seen in auto capital goods, power, consumer durables, healthcare and FMCG stocks, while selling was seen in metal, technology, IT, oil & gas, realty and banking stocks.
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Volume: Volume (Qty shares) decreased 1.03%. This change is small and indicates a moderate participation by investors.
Market Breadth: Overall Market Breadth on the NSE was negative. Amongst all the traded stocks, 607 were gainers, 704 were losers and 82 remained unchanged.
Slow Stochastic Indicator: The Slow Stochastic Oscillator has declined and has exited the over-bought zone. The Slow K line in the Stochastic Oscillator is below the slow D line (negative if it continues). RSI Indicator: The RSI is above the 40 level but is now turned flat (positive if it rises).
MACD Indicator: The MACD is above zero but is declining (negative if it continues). It is above its 9-day Average (positive).
ADX Indicator & DI Lines: The +DI line is above the –DI line but both lines are converging (negative if it continues). The ADX is flat while the Market Index is flat. No signal here.
support is at the 5692 points level. The next support is at the 5561 points level. Resistance Levels The immediate main resistance is at the 6223 points level. The next resistance is at the 6334 points level.
Pivot Point Analysis: For intra-day traders the support and resistance levels are calculated according to the pivot point theory and are: Pivot point = 5895 (This is the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-day). Support (1) = 5852. Support (2) = 5811. Resistance (1) = 5936. Resistance (2) = 5979.
OUTLOOK FOR TODAY: On Japanese candlestick patterns the index has formed a doji pattern. This indicates indecisiveness amongst investors. The next candle formation will confirm whether the bias is towards the buy or sell side of the market. The index is below the 5 days moving average. This is negative. However, the index continues to remain above the 15, 25 and 200 days moving averages, while the 15 and 25 days moving averages are rising. This is positive. The velocity parameters continue to remain neutrally trended. Incidentally, the index is near its 200 days average which is at the 5841 points level. This could be a strong support level and there is a possibility that the index could reverse from there. However, if it declines below it, than it would indicate a change in the primary trend. Investors are advised to hold long positions but with a strict stop loss at the 200-day average.
Work with strict stop losses on all positions
MOVING AVERAGES (TREND INDICATORS) The index: Is below its 5-day average (at 5961) Negative. Is above its 15-day average (at 5804) Positive. Is above its 25-day average (at 5645) Positive. Is above its 200-day average (at 5841) Positive.
Overall Market Strength/Weakness: The indicators and oscillators discussed here are indicating a strong market but with a neutral bias.
Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main Disclaimer: Investment recommendations made in ‘ADC’ are for information purposes only and derived from sources that are deemed to be reliable but their accuracy and completeness are not guaranteed. ‘ADC’ or the analyst/writer does not accept any liability for the use of this column for the buying or selling of securities. Readers of this newspaper who buy or sell securities based on the information in this newspaper are solely responsible for their actions. ‘ADC’ and/or its affiliates and/or employees and/or the author, his company or his acquaintances may have interests/ positions, financial or otherwise in the securities mentioned in this newspaper.
Target: Rs. 409
Federal Bank (FB) corrected 28% in the last 3 months on increasingly tough macro environment. We met Shyam Srinivasan, MD & CEO, recently. Key takeaways are (a) Large corp assets of Rs 3-4bn remain under stress, while slippages in retail and SME segment are under check. Restructured assets additions can be ~Rs 2bn in 2QFY14 (b) Loan growth in retail and SME is strong (c) NIMs guidance for FY14 was kept at 3.20-3.25% (d) MTM losses of Rs 200-400mn foreseeable in 2QFY14. Our earnings estimates fall by ~11/9% for FY14/15E given marginal NIM compression, lower growth and higher slippages, credit cost. Maintain BUY with a revised TP of Rs 409 (1x FY15E ABV) vs. Rs 506 (1.2x FY15E ABV) earlier. Stress in corp segment: FB maintained that its corporate book contains stressed assets of Rs 3-4bn (in 7-8 accounts). On a positive note, management guided for controlled slippages in the retail and SME segments. We have revised our slippages estimates to 2.2% for FY14/15E vs. 2%. Restructuring is expected at Rs 2bn, during 2QFY14. As at Jun-13, restructured book stood at Rs 19.6bn (SEB and AI: ~Rs 10bn). Retail, SME segments drive loan growth: FB continues to witness strong growth of ~22-25% in the retail and SME segments. Large corp segment is expected to report muted QoQ growth. FB expects CASA to touch 30%+ in 2QFY14 (vs. 29% in 1QFY14), with strong growth in SB (especially NR). Retail deposits are expected to improve to ~93% of total deposits (vs. 89% in 1QFY14). NIMs to be stable: Management maintained its NIM guidance of 3.203.25% for FY14 with better traction in retail business, CASA improvement and lower interest reversals. For 2QFY14, management maintained NIMs guidance at 8-10bps improvement to 3.2%+. We have factored in NIMs of 3.1% (3.2% earlier) for FY14/15E. MTM hit on investment book: FB expects MTM hit of Rs 200-400mn for 2QFY14. FB’s AFS book stood at Rs 30bn with duration of ~2years. It is insulated upto yields of 7.70%. Other highlights: Fee income growth target was maintained at ~20% for FY14. Wage provisions of Rs 100mn (vs. Rs 80100mn in 1QFY14) expected in 2QFY14. C/I ratio to stabilize at 42-44%. Target RoA by FY15: 1.3%. Despite the slips on asset quality, FB’s calibrated growth approach, high CRAR, superior PCR of ~83% and attractive valuations make us positive on the stock. At CMP, FB trades at 0.75x FY15E ABV. Maintain BUY.
First Call Research calls a ‘Buy’ on FDC CMP: Rs. 300
Target: Rs. 409
FDC (Foods, Drugs & Chemicals) formerly known as FairDeal Corporation, has been in the pharmaceutical business for more than seven decades now. The company’s net sales registered a 2.15% increase and stood at a record Rs. 2082.50 million from Rs. 2038.66 million over the corresponding quarter last year. The company’s net profit registered a 5.98% increase and stood at a record Rs. 430.81 million from Rs. 406.49 million over the corresponding quarter last year. The annual export turnover for the year ended March 31, 2013 was Rs. 954.105 mn with a marginal growth of 9.88% as compared to the year ended March 31, 2012 which stood at Rs. 868.293 mn. Net Sales & PAT of the company are expected to grow at a CAGR of 8% and 12% over 2012 to 2015E respectively. The Indian Pharmaceutical Market is well poised for growth and is projected to grow at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate of 12% to 14%. FDC achieved a turnover of Rs. 2082.50 million for the 1st quarter of the current year 2013-14 as against Rs. 2038.66 millions in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The company has reported an EBITDA of Rs. 623.85 millions and a net profit of Rs. 430.81 million against Rs. 406.49 million reported respectively in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The company has reported an EPS of Rs. 2.42 for the 1st quarter as against an EPS of Rs. 2.22 in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Outlook and Conclusion: At the current market price of Rs.83.50, the stock P/E ratio is at 8.67 x FY14E and 7.93 x FY15E respectively. Earning per share (EPS) of the company for the earnings for FY14E and FY15E is seen at Rs.9.63 and Rs.10.53 respectively. Net Sales and PAT of the company are expected to grow at a CAGR of 8 percent and 12 percent over 2012 to 2015E respectively. On the basis of EV/EBITDA, the stock trades at 5.90 x for FY14E and 5.38 x for FY15E. Price to Book Value of the stock is expected to be at 1.57 x and 1.31 x respectively for FY14E and FY15E. We expect that the company surplus scenario is likely to continue for the next three years, will keep its growth story in the coming quarters also. We recommend 'BUY' in this particular scrip with a target price of Rs 91 for Medium to Long term investment.
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Markets To Correct 6-8%: BofA NEWS FLASH
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PSU bank employees’ unions call off today’s strike India Infoline Finance Non-Convertible Debentures (NCDs) issue subscribed 2.2 times Bourses may shift 11 firms to normal trading category Parle Agro re-enters cola market after 20 years with Cafe Cuba FTIL’s statutory auditor withdraws report due to NSEL crisis Sunset for Balmer Lawrie tea biz on Sept 30
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he Indian stock market is likely to witness a correction after the RBI's monetary policy review disappointed expectations, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA-ML) said in a report. The market will correct 6-8 % from current levels, according to the global financial services major. "The markets will be rangebound in the 18,500-20,500 range as weak economic and earnings growth caps the upside while hopes of rate cuts and policy measures protect the downside," BofA-ML said in the report dated September 23, reports PTI.
Stocks, which rallied sharply since Raghuram Rajan took over as Reserve Bank of India Governor on September 4, have fallen sharply since the central bank's policy review on September 20. The Sensex had surged 685 points to close at an almost three-year high of 20,646.64 on the eve of the RBI policy review. The index gained 9 % between Rajan's takeover and the policy review. The report noted that "as markets are already close to our upper limit of the 'range' we believe the risk reward is not favourable." According to BofA-ML, one key risk for the markets is that foreign institutional investor holdings, at about 21 %, are
close to all-time highs. "India thus remains vulnerable to any global emerging market sell-off in the near term," BofA-ML said. Moreover, sentiment towards the Indian markets has turned negative nd this could likely impact FII flows if things worsen in the coming months. Other factors that may affect the market trend include earnings recovery, the RBI's main focus on inflation, forthcoming elections, negative sentiment about India and high valuations. On earnings, the report said given the delay in macro recovery and demand destruction, BofA-ML does not expect a material pick-up in corporate earnings.
CBDT Tightens Norms To Deal With ‘Non-Filers’ Of IT Returns By A Business Reporter
Therefore, in order to streamline the processing of such cases and to ith the aim to check tax eva- ensure consistency in monitoring sion, the Central Board of Di- 'Non-Filers Monitoring System' rect Taxes (CBDT) has tightened (NMS) cases by the Assessing Offinorms to deal with 'non-filers' of in- cers, the CBDT has issued "standard come tax returns and asked its offi- operating procedure". As per the cers to follow uniform procedure in guidelines, the Assessing Officer has handling such cases. "The existing to issue letter to the assessee within procedure for monitoring cases of 15 days of the case being assigned 'non-filers of I-T Returns'... has in NMS, seeking information about been examined by the Board. It is the return of income flagged in the felt that at present, cases of non-fil- system, reports PTI. In cases where the assessee has ers are not being uniformly monitored by the Assessing Officers due been identified and no return has to lack of consistency in approach been filed within 30 days of the time in dealing with such cases," the given in the letter, the Assessing OfCBDT said in a communication to ficer should consider initiation of proceedings as prescribed. The its top officers.
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CBDT (Income Tax Department) has identified about 12 lakh non-filers and has been sending letters to them to file returns and pay taxes. As per the latest data, the tax department has issued letters in 2.45 lakh cases. Following issuance of letters to non-filers, CBDT earlier said, about 3.44 lakh returns have been received from the target segment. Such persons, it said, have also paid self assessment tax amounting to Rs 577 crore and advance tax of Rs 408 crore. The department has also made it clear that it will to go after recalcitrant taxpayers and the exercise will continue till all potential non-filers are covered.
Autodesk, Tata Consulting Engineers Tie Up For BIM Solutions The adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) has seen significant increase worldwide in areas of building, infrastructure and construction management By A Business Reporter
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utodesk, Inc., a world leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software and Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. (TCEL), India’s leading engineering consultant have announced a strategic partnership to deliver industry solution experiences to customers in plant, infrastructure, construction and building sectors. Tata Consulting Engineers has a well-established presence in key industry sectors such as Infrastructure, Construction, Power, Steel Metals & Mining, Chemical, and Nuclear & Advanced Technologies. Tata Consulting Engineers will leverage the Building Information Modelling (BIM) Solutions offered by the Autodesk Building Design Suite, Infrastructure Design Suite and Plant Design Suite to bring business value to its global customers in Power, Infrastructure, Chemical, Process and Building sectors serving them in the key markets of Africa, Asia Pacific,
Americas, Europe and India, through joint business development and engineering consultancy services. The adoption of BIM has seen significant increase worldwide in areas of building, infrastructure and construction management. According to 2012 McGraw Hill North America BIM SmartMarket Report the percentage of companies using BIM jumped from 17% in 2007 to 71% in 2012 in North America. In UK, BIM is a central theme in the government’s construction strategy designed to reduce carbon and costs as part of the overall economic development. In Singapore, BIM is an important component of public housing projects. Commenting on the announcement, J.P Haran, Managing Director, Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd said, “Tata Consulting Engineers is present in key industry sectors managing projects that are complex and large scale, especially in building, town planning and infrastructure. We are committed to providing responsible consulting solutions to our cus-
tomers that are sustainable, smart and cost efficient. This partnership with Autodesk will help Tata Consulting Engineers add value by implementing BIM solutions in the building, infrastructure and plant solution space. Providing technology-enabled solutions also complements our larger strategic goals in spreading our business in the global markets” Pradeep Nair, Managing Director, Autodesk India & SAARC said, “Globally, one of the most significant technology trends today is the adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM). BIM goes well beyond traditional CAD software that is popular in most developing countries. India’s 12th Five-Year Plan envisages infrastructure investments of $ 1 trillion. BIM will help us derive cost and time savings in such mega-projects, while ensuring sustainability. As the leading provider of BIM solutions we are delighted to partner with Tata Consulting Engineers to promote the adoption of BIM in India and other emerging markets.”
BUSINESS BRIEFS Corporate Defaults Jump To Decadal High
Annual defaults by India Inc reached a decadal high of 4.5 per cent last fiscal, up from 3.5 per cent in the year-ago period, with as many as 32 issuers defaulting on their credit obligations, says India Ratings in a report released yesterday. "Credit quality of issuers deteriorated due to the slow pace of both domestic as well as global demand growth, high cost of borrowing and leveraging of corporate balance sheet," The note said the default rate was 3.5 per cent and 32 issuers defaulted in FY13 to push up the rate of default to a decadal high.
Mayaram Panel Sends NSEL Report To PM Office
A high-level panel headed by Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram that looked into alleged irregularities at the NSEL, yesterday submitted its report to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The panel, which is believed to have found some minor systemic problems in the function of the National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL), yesterday gave its report to Finance Minister P Chidambaram for necessary action. "We have sent the NSEL report to PMO yesterday," a senior official said.
New And Renewable Energy Generation Costs Decline
The cost of power generation from new and renewable energy sources such as solar power/ wind power/ bio-mass etc. has come to Rs. 8 per unit from Rs.18 per unit few years back. This is expected to go down further in the coming years. This was stated by Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New and Renewable Energy while delivering his inaugural address on the Stakeholders Workshop on New and Renewable Energy in the Capital yesterday. Dr. Abdullah stressed on the importance of the new and renewable energy sources in providing energy access to almost 40 per cent of the country’s population where conventional sources of energy are more difficult to reach on account of remote and inaccessible locations. The Minister hoped that renewable energy could become the biggest driver of inclusive growth in rural and remote areas.
BBA To Host International Bullion Summit
The Bombay Bullion Association Limited (BBA), the apex body of all bullion and jewellery associations in India, has announced it’s first-ever India International Bullion Summit (IIBS) in Mumbai. The mega event will be held on 5th October here at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai to commemorate its 65th anniversary.
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TV GUIDE
TODAY’S BEST VIEWING
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. HBO, 11.55 p.m .
SOAPS & SERIALS
BIGG BOSS SEASON SAATH 7
In tonight’s episode we will see a new contestant enter the Bigg Boss house and change the dynamics among the current contestants. While Bigg Boss Season Saath 7 seems to have a perfect mix of innocent and not-so-innocent housemates, will the new entrant bring in some tadka to spice things up inside the house? Col or s, 9 p.m .
ONCE UPON A TIME
As Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Regina, Mr. Gold and Hook enter Neverland to search for a kidnapped Henry, they’re greeted by a school of not-too-friendly mermaids who threaten to end their search before it begins; Henry finds himself on the run from the Lost Boys with another escapee from Peter Pan’s encampment; and Neal, recovering from his wounds, travels through the Enchanted Forest with Mulan in an attempt to learn the fates of Emma and Henry. Star Worl d, 10 p.m.
BEN EARL
Ben Earl is a master of sleight of hand and deception - he is the ultimate trick artist. Ben has spent the last few months based in an old warehouse in London devising four specials on set themes that fuse deception and mind-blowing stunts. Join him at his warehouse where he attempts to catch a speeding bullet, performs astonishing sleight of hand tricks with ex-cons in prison, teaches an audience member how to pickpocket. Hi stor y, 9 p.m.
ULTIMATE DISCOVERY
Tune in every night at 9PM to watch the biggest and the finest programming from the Discovery Channel. Every night, you will match an unmatched mix of programming from across genres – nature, adventure, survival, technology, wild and more. One hour is all it will take to journey the less known and less explored. Its TV worth watching. Di scover y, 9 p .m.
DEXTER
It’s hard enough for Dexter to fake one-on-one relationships. Now he finds himself at the center of a bustling suburban community. Bi g CBS Love, 10 p.m.
STEVE IRWIN’S WILDLIFE WARRIOR
The Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors carries with it a passionate
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team who has brought forward Steve’s legacy. A unique and inspiring group unified by their love of wildlife, its conservation and welfare. The series will reveal the fabulous work of these dedicated Australians as they go through their less than average dayto-day lives in and around Australia Zoo. Be it a tiger tooth extraction, a koala that’s been hit by a car or tracking a crocodile in the wild, these Wildlife Warriors are taking Steve’s relentless fight for the preservation of wildlife to the next generation. Animal Planet, 9 p.m .
MONSTERS INSIDE ME
Bhavani Prasad lives in Karampudi. Sruthi, a girl who is going to get engaged to an NRI, falls in love with Bhavani Prasad. A lady called Siva Nageswari enters their wedding and shoots at Bhavani Prasad. Bhavani Prasad is a local leader who works for the good of the people. The people respect him, adore him and even willing to give up their life for him. SruthiIs A friend Of Bhavani Prasad’s Sister. On Occasion OfBhavani Prasad’s Sister’s Marriage, he Meets Sruthi. Sruthi is the fiancée of American born Indian – Prithvi. In the due course of events she falls in love with Bhavani Prasad. Both the families agree to their marriage. Bhavani Prasad vows to get Nageswari married to Jatin, who works for Bhavani Prasad. Another of Balayya’s rivals – MukeshRushi joins hands with Narasinga Naidu and plans to damage Balayya’s image and withhold Sonali’s marriage. To avenge this defaming incidents both of this villains unite. Max, 9 p.m. The 25th Hour depicts the last day of freedom for a young man before he begins serving a seven-year jail term for drug
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Sangwan family is celebrating Dadaji’s 50th marriage anniversary and because he survived a massive heart attack. Meanwhile Lahori Bua and Daya Mayi happen to be friends from their prison life. Lahori wants Daya Mayi to abduct Simran. But the twist in the tale will happen when along with Simran, Antara too will get kidnapped by Daya Mayi’s goons. What is the mystery behind Bua getting Simran kidnapped? Will Simran & Antara be able to save themselves ? wants to see dead? Life Ok , 9 p.m.
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KAISA YEH ISHQ HAIN...AJAB SA RISK HAI & DO DIL EK JAAN
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BHAVANI-THE TIGER
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P.M. 2.00 Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi..Meri Bhabhi 2.30 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon-Ek Baar Phir 3.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyara Pyara 3.30 Ek Ghar Banaunga 4.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 4.30 Diya Aur Bati Hum 5.00 Ek Veer Ki Ardaaz-Veera 5.30 Mahabharat 6.00 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon-Ek Baar Phir 6.30 Ek Gahr Banaunga 7.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 7.30 Saraswati Chandra 8.00 Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi..Meri Bhabhi 8.30 Mahabharat 9.00 Diya Aur Bati Hum 9.30 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hain 10.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai…. 10.30 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas – Veera 11.00 Mahabharat
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MOVIES OF THE DAY
Ragini MMS is a sensuous paranormal film, shot as if in real time! The quintessential couple, Ragini and Uday, set out to have a dirty weekend at a friend’s farmhouse on the outskirts of Mumbai. The weekend getaway quickly changes gears as they find themselves in a house that has been rigged with cameras in Bigg Boss style. The cameras that were meant to capture love-making are witness to something that is beyond the realm of human understanding...something metaphysical.... Within the confines of this house, Ragini and Uday are now at the mercy of an unexplainable paranormal force. With sundown approaching, what will the new entrants of the house do? Fil my, 9 p.m .
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MONSTER INSIDE ME explores the illnesses caused by parasitic infection. Follow biologist Dan Riskin who explains how and why each parasite finds its host. Discover y Science, 11 p.m .
Bean works as a caretaker at Britain’s formidable Royal National Gallery, and his bosses want to fire him because he sleeps at work all the time, but can’t because the chairman of the gallery’s board defends him. They send him to USA, to the small Los Angeles art gallery instead, where he’ll have to officiate at the opening of the greatest US picture ever (called “Whistler’s Mother”). Starring Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, John Mills. Star Movies, 9 p.m .
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dealing. Prowling through the city until dawn with his two close male friends and his girlfriend, he is forced to re-examine his life and how he got himself into his predicament, which leads to a shocking, disturbing finale. Starring Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper. Zee Studio, 10.30 p.m .
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING
Is a hilarious and heartfelt big screen comedy about five couples whose intertwined lives are turned upside down by the challenges of impending parenthood. Over the moon about starting a family, TV fitness guru Jules and dance show star Evan find that their high-octane celebrity lives don’t stand a chance against the surprise demands of pregnancy. Baby-crazy author and advocate Wendy gets a taste of her own militant mommy advice when pregnancy hormones ravage her body; while Wendy’s husband, Gary, struggles not to be outdone by his competitive alpha-Dad, who’s expecting twins with his much younger trophy wife, Skyler. Photographer Holly is prepared to travel the globe to adopt a child, but her husband Alex isn’t so sure, and tries to quiet his panic by attending a “dudes” support group, where new fathers get to tell it like it really is. Pi x, 9 p.m .
LISTING
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P.M. 2.00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se 2.30 Ek Muthi Aasman 3.00 Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi 3.30 Pavitra Rishta 4.00 Qubool Hai 4.30 Punarvivaah 6.00 Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi 6.30 Pavitra Rishta 7.00 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan 7.30 Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke 8.00 Jodha Akbar 8.30 Do dil Bandhe Ek Dori
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Vijyendra Ghatge Piya Ka Ghar Pyaara Lage Jhilmil Sitaron ka Aangan Hoga Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali Best of Haunted Nights Piya Ka Ghar Pyaara Lage Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali Jhilmil Sitaron Ka Aangan Hoga. Rishton Ke Bhawar Mein Uljhi Niyati Haunted Nights-Kangann Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali. Rishton Ke Bhawar Mein Uljhi Niyati
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Taarak Lapataganj-Ek Baar Phir FIR Gutur Goon 2
How I Met Your Mother Glee New Girl Two And A Half Men Masterchef Australia How I Met Your Mother One Tree Hill New Girl Two And A Half Men Masterchief Australia Once Upon a Time Breaking Bad
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Pretty Little Liars Ellen Degeneres Show Just for Laughs Pretty Little Liars The Ellen Degeneres Show The Big Bang Theory Lost Pretty Little Liars Rookie Blue
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Game 90210 Game Entertainment Tonight Dexter Game Rules of Engagement 90210 Entertainment Tonight Rules of Engagement Game 90210 Dexter Game
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Car vs Wild Stan Lee’s Superhumans Wild Asia Duel Survival How Do They Do It Destroyed In Seconds Ultimate Discovery Car vs Wild Man vs Wild
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The Amazing Spiez Transformers Prime Kids vs Film Wild Kratts Amazing Spiez 1001 Nights Sally Bollywood Adventures of Tintin Transformers Prime
News in Marathi Ruchira-Cookery Show Mazi Maye Bheti Lagi Jiva Kashya Andharlya Wata News in Marathi Amachi Karbharni Krishi Darshan Amchi Malti Amchi Mansa News in Marathi Chitrahaar Swami News Samachar Pavitra Bandhan Shrikant
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The Darkest Hour Evan Almighty Tangled The Lost World: Jurassic Park 9.00 Bean 10.50 The Karate Kid A.M. 8.05 X Men Origins: Wolverine 10.20 Bean
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Haunted Nights, Sahara One, 7.30 p.m. Sanjeev Kapoor Ke Kitchen..., Sony TV, 11 p.m.
Se 9.00 Pavitra Rishta. 9.30 Qubool Hai 10.00 Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi 10.30 Punarvivaah 11.00 Jodha Akbar
LIFE OK
P.M. 2.00 Devo Ke Dev Mahadev 3.00 Katha Mahadev Putra Bal Ganesh 4.00 Shapath 5.00 Best of Savadhaan India 7.30 Gustakh Dil 8.00 Devo Ke Dev Mahadev 8.30 Ek Boond 9.00 Do Dil…Ek Jaan 9.45 Kaisa Yeh Isha Hai-Ajab Se Risk Hai 10.30 Savdhaan India P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 10.30 11.00
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Sasural Simar Ka Balika Vadhu Madhubala…. Mrs Pmmi Pyarelal Bani Ishq da Kalma Comedy Nights with Kapil Balika Vadhu… Bani Ishq da Kalma Mrs Pammi Pyarelal Sasural Simar Ka Balika Vadhu Madhubala Bigg Boss Saath 7 Uttaran Bani – Ishq da Kalma Balika Vadhu
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P.M 2.00 Rishton Ke Bhawar Mein Uljhi Niyati 2.30 Haunted Nights 3.00 Paanch Qaidi: Film.
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Taatak Mehta… Baal Veer Chidiya Ghar Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah Jeanie Aur Juhu Baal Veer Taarak Chidiya Ghar Jeanie Aur Juju Lapataganj-Ek Baar Phir FIR Taarak Mehta
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P.M. 2.00 Tu Tithe Mee 2.30 Tuze Maze Jamena 3.00 Honnar Suun Me Hya Gharachi 3.30 Radha Hi Bawri 4.00 Ekapeksha Ek 5.00 Tu Thithe Mee 5.30 Honnar Suun Me Hya Gharachi 6.00 Tuze Maze Jamena 6.30 Home Minister 7.00 Tu Tithe Mee 7.30 Radha Hi Bawri 8.00 Honnar Suun Me Hya Gharachi 8.30 Mala Saasu Havi 9.00 Tuze Maze Jamena 9.30 Pakke Shejari 10.30 Radha Hi Bawri 11.00 Honnar Suun Me Hya Gharachi
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Saraswatichandra Poorva Suhani Aayi Re Byomkesh Bakshi NAU DO GYARAH: Film. Dev Anand, Kalpana
Samachar News Sports News War and Peace Samachar. News. Samachar Rajyon Se Samachar. Metro Scan Business Wrap Samachar Focus
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Monsters Inside Me Tech Toys 360 How Do They Do It Food Detectives How It’s Made Frontline Battle Machines with Mike Brewer Mythusters How It’s Made Tech Toys 360 Triggers : WTCTW Monsters Inside Me
HISTORY CHANNEL
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Food Tech The Works Full Metal Jousting Aliens & Mega Disasters Duck Dynasty Pawn Stars World’s Scariest History Untamed: Frog The Thin Green Line Ben Earl: Crime Pawn Stars Duck Dynasty Ancient Aliens
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Mumbai Mega Flood In The Womb Lion Battle Zone Dangerous Encounters Most Amazing Moments Dangerous Encounters Secrets of the Taj Mahal Cold Blood Undercover
NAT. GEOGRAPHIC
Nau Do Gyarah, DDI, 11 p.m.
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P.M. 12.00 Ek Gaadi Baki Anaari: Ashok Saraf 3.00 One Room Kitchen: Bharat Jadhav 6.00 Mumbaicha Dabbewala: Bharat Jadhav 9.00 Fu Bai Fu Season Grand Finale
CARTOON NETWORK
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P.M. 1.30 Chhota Bheem Marathon 4.00 Mr Bean the Animated Series 5.00 Chhota Bheem Marathon
Step Up 3 Iron man Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Destination London What To Expect When You’re Expecting 11.22 Men In Black 3 A.M. 8.16 Paycheck 10.46 Agent Cody Banks: Destination London P.M. 12.00 3.40 6.45 9.00 A.M. 8.55
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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Jigar Fatso Humraaz
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P.M. 2.40 Bol Radha Bol: Rishi Kapoor 9.00 Salaakhen: Sunny Deol A.M. 11.00 Diler-Daring: Chiranjeevi
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P.M. 2.00 Garv-Pride and Honour: Salman Khan 5.30 Azaad Desh Ke Gulam: Jackie Shroff 9.00 Jungle: Fardeen Khan A.M. 9.30 Jeene Ki Raah: Sanjeev Kumar
Cruel Intentions 3, Zee Studio, 10.30 p.m.
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P.M. 12.00 Raakhi Ki Saugandh: Vinod Mehra 3.00 Kanwarlal: Jeetendra, Sujata M 6.00 Dharam Adhikari: Dilip Kumar 9.00 Ragini MMS: Rajkumar Yadav A.M. 9.00 Premi Gangaram: I S Johar P.M 12.00 Dharmatma: Feroz Khan 4.00 Qurbani: Feroz Khan 8.00 Jaanbaaz: Feroz Khan
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ACROSS:
1.Bare (5) 4.Big rattle (6) 7.First rite (7) 11.Rind (4) 16.Show surprise (5) 17.Divided skirt (7) 18.African frog (7) 19.Amid (5) 20.Reveal (6) 21.Allow (5) 22.Conform (5) 25.Indian mint sauce (7) 26.Knot (4) 27.Sideways (5) 28.Premiere (5) 32.Strong belief (5) 34.Kid (3) 35.Take off (5) 43.Opening in a barrel (8) 44.Male hormone (8)
CROSSWORD NO 159 Nita Jaggi 45.Deprived (6) 48.Arabian country (5) 49.Cheerful (6) 50. ‘Devotion’ in Hinduism (6) 51.Wager (5) 53.Joker’s place (6) 54.Dickens character (8) 55.Void (8) 58.African river (5) 59.Mental ability (3) 60.Dentition (5) 67.Insult (5) 68.Fictional pachyderm (5) 70.Suniel Shetty’s wife (4) 72.Early Greek games site (7) 76.Hindu goddess of war (5) 77.Surplus (5) 78.Eight month (6) 79.Cut of beef (5) 82.Big ape (7) 83.White wax (7) 84.Inferior(5) 85.Back——- (4) 86.Music style (7) 87.Hanging fold of skin (6) 88.Muscle protein (5)
DOWN:
1.Genesis boy(4) 2.Lover (8)
3.Longing (8) 4.Wife (4) 5.Find back (7) 6.Gas container (8) 8.Pub (8) 9. Fabric (7) 10.Vocalist (6) 12.Conceal (8) 13.Thrash (6) 14.Light gas (5) 15.Presiding officer (7) 23.Head part (5) 24.Jewish place of worship (9) 29.Sweet (5) 30. Not near (3)
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31.Disorder (7) 33.Shaky motion (9) 36.Board game victory (9) 37.Brief abstract (7) 38.Item on a list (7) 39. Beach shelters (7) 40.One who tends cows (7) 41.Communication (7) 42.Fine (7) 46.Illegally executed (7) 47.Shaking movement (9) 52.Islamic devil (5) 56.Poker prize(3) 57.Dim (5) 61.Not suitable (8)
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DOWN 1. V A M P 2. X A N T H U R A 3. N O V E M B E R ...............
62.Skilled (7) 63.Syrian city (8) 64.Generosity (8) 65.Panic state (8) 66.Clear (8) 69.Insurance sector employee (7)
71.Weapons depot (7) 73.Stupidity (6) 74.Soft hat (6) 75.Wed (5) 80.Exchange (4) 81.Hurt (4)
Solution (GIGANTIKA No. 158)
ACROSS: 1.Desks 4.Parcel 7.Crumple 11.Amul 16.Price 17.Lip balm 18.Natural 19.Shout 20.Citole 21.Amuse 22.Evict 25.Torture 26.Seep 27.Mehta 28.Sitar 32. Snack 34.Fan 35.Obeah 43.Besprent 44.Ordinary 45.Cajole 48.Civet 49.Silent 50.Impart 51.Botox 53.Ignore 54.Odysseus 55. User name 58.China 59.Met 60.Fatwa 67.Woman 68.Blunt 70.Mind 72.Strange 76.Ladoo 77.Somme 78.Caesar 79.Agama 82.Talaria 83.Tripoli 84.Twain 85.Hurt 86.Armoire 87.Length 88.Tyche. DOWN: 1. Doze 2.Sapphire 3.Stimulus 4.Pier 5.Rallies 6.Employee 8. Rummages 9.Manhunt 10.Litres 12.Mulligan 13.Limits 14.Cares 15.Armenia 23.Stake 24.Beanfeast 29.Candy 30.Fat 31.Poleaxe 33.Cotyledon 36.Baracuda 37.Weaving 38.Upstart 39.Hotness 40.Animism 41.Bambino 42.Costume 46.Scribes 47.Otherwise 52.Peter 56.Phi 57.Seven 61.Roadster 62.Cagoule 63.Ancestor 64.Tiresome 65.Braggart 66.Mnemonic 69.Lumbago 71.Drawing 73. Flinch 74. Usurer 75. Scrip 80.Ptah 81.Cure.
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COFFEEBREAK MOON TITHI NAKSHATRA RASHI LUCKY COLOUR LUCKY NUMBER
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Taurus/Mercury in Libra 6th Bhadrapad Krishnapaksha Rohini Vrishubh (Taurus) B.V.U. White 4
BIRTHDAY FORECAST: You have a hectic period ahead, which bring in its wake more income and increase in status. If you wish to travel overseas for study or work, you will set out on your journey by autumn this year. Personal affairs are congenial. You will get romantically involved, and if eligible, marriage is likely towards the end of the year.
BABIES BORN TODAY: Slim, attractive, well built shoulders and striking eyes. Short- tempered, stubborn and gullible. Will be emotional, sensitive, healthy and longlived. Can be impulsive with money occasionally. A career in export, design or advertising would lead to gains.
B.C. JOHNNY HART
BEAU PEEP THE ADVENTURES OF LEGIONNAIRE BEAU PEEP
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ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Busy schedule is likely to keep you on your toes. You will find new ways to improve quality of your work and also make the task easier for yourself. Further investment in your work is indicated and it will lead to subsequent growth and gains. Expect some good news today. Romance plays a vital role and will move in the right direction.
TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): Today is a good day to start anything new or to make applications. Joint ventures and partnership will do extremely well and will lead to gains. You may have some visitors at home this evening. Those who have been ill or depressed will feel much better and more confident.
GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Although things are going well for you professionally you may have some misgivings about what people are doing behind your back. Simply let bygones be bygones and do not look back now. Move ahead with self-assurance as you are only going to be successful. Personal relationships are fine.
CANCER (June 21 - July 21): With work under control take it easy. Restrict yourself to your line of trade that is showing a gradual growth. Travel is indicated for work. You can fall prey to loose talk or gossip about someone known. Do not be influenced by others. Avoid trouble makers.
LEO (July 22 - August 21): Avail of any opportunity that comes along. If planning to invest or taking a risk, go ahead by taking a few necessary precautions. At home today keep conversation away from the sensitive issues or areas, which have the potential of opening old wounds. Time will take care of the problems at hand.
VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): You will be discussing expansion plans but try to resolve disputes, if any, amicably. Keep your mind open to ideas and new offers of work. You may be concerned about your mate or beloved who has not been keeping well or may be depressed. You may have to seek help.
LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): Financial gains are assured to the bold and courageous. The employed can look forward to an out of turn promotion with additional benefits .To maintain peace and harmony at home you may have to make a little extra effort. It will be easier for you to make a few compromises rather than expect others to change.
SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): Devote all your attention to your career today. Rapid developments at work may require you to bring about certain changes. You will succeed in an area which was considered an impossible. This will increase your worth and credibility. In a romantic tryst take the initiative you will not be disappointed.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): You feel confident about a new project and make rapid progress in concluding the same. Love and family affairs tend to get neglected. There seems to be a communication problem somewhere Avoid misunderstandings with your partner over a small matter.
CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): Hectic work activity could keep you busy throughout the day. In the evening, you may relax and make future travel plans for a business cum pleasure trip. Socially, this is an active and monetarily an expensive period. There may be many a get together and an important celebration to attend.
AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): The financial position being comfortable you may decide to indulge yourself. The purchase of an expensive item of security or investment is also likely. Family life is happy and congenial. Some of you will be making plans to travel, perhaps in the pursuit of a hobby or personal interest or just holidays.
PISCES (February 19 - March 20): Courage confidence and dynamism are your watchwords. This will take you through to reach your goals in life. In dealing with the colleagues you need to be frank friendly and responsive. They hold you in high esteem and will give you the support you seek.
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QUICK CROSSWORD 4774
ACROSS: 4 Second capital of Maharashtra (6) 7 Cosmos (8) 8 Criticised severely, as in a review of a play (6) 10 Unit of magnetic field strength (5) 13 Striplings (4) 14 Comp. codes (4) 15 Descent, slide or tumble? (4) 16 Rock group ___ Leppard (3) 17 In brief, sergeants and corporals (4) 19 Game-ending pronouncement (4) 21 Don't allow to come close, in a way? (4,2,3) 23 North central US state (4) 24 Sudden blast of wind (4) 26 The French friend? (3) 27 Warbled or intoned (4) 29 Pound of poetry (4) 32 "Star Trek" producer Roddenberry (4) 33 Earthenware pot (5) 34 Chinese province - "shines" anagram? (6) 35 Pertaining to the windpipe (8) 36 Ministers of religion (6)
DOWN: 1 Hindu goddess of war (5) 2 Take away in arithmetic (5) 3 Spouts or spurts out (4) 4 Himalayan country (5) 5 Weapons (4) 6 Rough (6) 9 Speaks or performs without preparation (2-4) 11 Girl's name (3) 12 Tendon (5) 13 Italian dish - "as angle" anagram? (7) 15 Affected individual (3) 16 Home "improvements" (abbr.) (3) 18 Stops (6)
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SUDOKU 1960 Sudoku is a number placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid such several given numbers.To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every digit from 1 to 9 must appear in each of the nine vertical columns, in each of the nine horizontal rows and in each of the nine boxes.
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Difficulty Level
CRYPTOQUIP
Today’s clue: X equals L
The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another.
20 H2O (5) 21 Colourful Japanese carp (3) 22 Pull hard (3) 23 Capital of Manipur (6) 25 Mythical monster (3)
28 Agreement of aims (5) 30 Like urban land (5) 31 Cub Scout leader (5) 32 Growl (4) 33 A male hen (4)
SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Bankim, 5 PSY, 8 Fera, 9 Able, 10 Regina, 11 Incarnate, 13 A few, 15 Don, 16 Codex, 17 Cotes, 20 Rto, 22 Ron, 23 Hesse, 24 Tizzy, 26 Kit, 27 Osso, 28 Aryabhata, 31 Ignore, 32 Enid, 33 Kher, 34 Ami, 35 Samson. DOWN: 1 Barcar, 2 Neglects, 3 Ifni, 4 Meander, 5 Patan, 6 Yawn, 7 Flatten, 12 Cox, 14 Woos, 18 Orzo, 19 Toyshops, 20 Rearing, 21 Ditties, 24 Tia, 25 Boreon, 26 Khaki, 29 Alda, 30 Agra.
IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1779 To solve an Irregular Sudoku puzzle, every digit must appear once in: Each of the vertical columns Each of the horizontal rows Each of the regions
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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
I W I L O F S N O
E I P Z
Q C T S L H K P Q S C X S C E
P U K P
P U I Q L
Z S
K X X
P U I O
R S H H S C
H Y R U N K O
X S Z I
Z I C Z I
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTI ON : Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before
Afternoon WORD MINE
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How many words of four or more letters can you make from the letters shown in today’s puzzle? In making a word, each letter may be used once only. Each word must contain the letter at the top of the pyramid. There should be at least one nine letter word. Plurals, foreign words and proper names are not allowed. Today’s ratings: 35 average; 40 good; 45 outstanding. YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: akin, caking, gunk, king, napkin, nick, pack, packing, pick, pink, puck, puking, punk, unpack, UNPACKING
HEATHCLIFF
Yesterday’s
EB ENTER AFC CUP SEMI-FINAL AFTER 1-1 DRAW WITH SEMEN PADANG
SPORTS
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ADANG, INDONESIA: The drive to succeed was writ large on East Bengal players' faces as they scripted history of sorts after securing their maiden berth in the AFC Cup semi-finals, overcoming a spirited Semen Padang playing in front of a vociferous home crowd here. The historic Indian club, tucked around the wide open spaces of maidans in Kolkata, advanced on aggregate (2-1) after holding Semen Padang to a 1-1 draw in the the return leg quarterfinal at the Agus Salim Stadium. Playing in front of a packed home crowd, the Indonesian outfit started out aggressively and led at the half-time, thanks to a 23rd minute strike by Andrew Wilson. But East Bengal, who needed just a draw to make the last-four, made a smart move by bringing in Baljit Singh Sahni whose measured cross saw substitue James Moga time his spot jump to perfection as he headed home the equaliser in the 75th minute. For Joaquim Abranches and Abhijit Mondal, the success is all
home courtesy a Ryuji Sueoka strike. Having started the game, Sueoka could only last 43 minutes and it was the Japanese midefielder's replacement, Moga, who struck the all-important goal. Goan heavyweights Dempo had qualified for the AFC Cup semifinals in 2008. East Bengal's previous best show in the AFC Cup was in 2004 when Subhas Bhowmick guided the side to the quarter-finals. Padang were boosted by the return of Argentine playmaker Esteban Gabriel Vizcarra, who missed the last first leg due to a double booking, while the Indonesian outfit's backline too was reinforced in presence of Wahyu Wijiastanto. Needing at least a two-goal margin to make the semis, the more sweeter as they were Padang went into the attack also part of the Dempo squad straighway as Wilson's shot went that had played in the semi-finals over the bar. A silly error by East of the 2nd tier inter-continental Bengal goalkeeper Gurpreet club competition a few years ago. Singh, who shot it straight to WilDempo till now were the only In- son from a goalkick, was enough dian football club to have made for the home outfit to take an the last-four of the AFC Cup. East easy lead. The Liberian forward, lurking Bengal had won the first-leg at
upfront, made no mistake as he struck from 22 yards. After the changeover, the Indonesian outfit suffered their first setback when scorer Wilson picked up an injury to be replaced in the 48th minute. The Kolkata heavyweights tried their best to bring in an equaliser, with Moga making inroads as the Sudanese shot one straight to Padang goalkeeper Jandia Eka Putra. In the 65th minute, coach Marcos Falopa's tactical substitution Baljit, in place of Robert Lalthlamuana, paid off. Baljit made a fine attempt to penetrate the Padang box before he put it nicely across to Moga on the left and the former Pune FC forward did well to head it from the far post. Five minutes later, Baljit had a great chance to become the star of the day, but the Indian youngster miscued a shot right in front of the goalmouth. With about 10 minutes left to defend the score, Falopa strengthened his defense, bringing in Gurwinder Singh in place of Abranches as the red-and-gold brigade maintained their unbeaten record.
Indian eves enter semi-finals of Asia Cup hockey K
UALA LUMPUR: India defeated hosts Malaysia 2-0 to qualify for the semi-finals of the eighth women's Asia Cup hockey tournament here. Poonam Rani (39th) and Lily Chanu (46th) scored two second half goals at the Stadium Hoki Nasional to seal India's place in the last-four stage of the eightnation tournament. With six points in their kitty, the Indian eves finished their Pool A engagements on second position behind
China (nine points). India will now face Pool B toppers Korea in the first semi-final on Thursday, while China will take on Japan in the second lastfour match. India has earlier spanked Hong Kong China 13-0 in their tournament opener before going down to defending champions China by a solitary goal in their next game. Knowing well that only a win in the tournament will guarantee them a place in next year's World
Cup, the Indian eves started cautiously against Malaysia, who were backed by a vociferous home crowd. The Indians looked far from promising in the first half as the Rani Rampal-led forwardline failed to breach the Malaysian defence. Both the teams created a few chances but they failed to break the deadlock in the first half. After the change of ends, the Indians came out with more purpose and took the lead in the
39th minute through a field goal from Poonam Rani. Poonam's goal raised India's confidence and they went for relentless attacks, which resulted in doubling their lead soon. Lily Chanu made the scoreline 2-0 in favour of India in the 46th minute through another field strike. Thereafter, the Indians played sensibly and denied Malaysia any opening to make a comeback into the match.
Heats suffer second Rajasthan Royals have winning momentum, says Rahane AIPUR: Opener Ajinkya Radefeat in a row, lose Jhane is confident that Rajasthan Royals have the to Titans by 4 runs upperhand going into the Champions League Twenty20
MOHALI: Brisbane Heats threw their Champions League Twenty20 campaign in complete disarray after suffering a narrow four-run defeat against Titans, here. Chasing 124 to win the Australian side lost wickets in a heap after dismissal of skipper James Hopes, who hit 37, and now have two defeats in as many matches. Hopes in company of Daniel Christian (21) raised a 44-run stand for the fourth wicket to stabilise the innings as they had lost three early wickets. Once the two batsmen departed, Heats wilted under pressure. Left-hander Chris Sabburg raised their hopes with a quick-fire 19 off seven balls but his run out in the last over proved a last nail in the Heats' coffin. Fast bowler Marchant de Lange took three wickets for 13 runs in his four-over quota to be the most successful bowler for Titans while his pace colleague Rowan Richards took two for 20.
match against Highveld Lions here today. Rahane said Royals would look to capitalise on the momentum achieved during their victory over IPL champions Mumbai Indians, ahead of their Group A clash at the Sawai Man Singh stadium. "The focus is on building our game plan and strategy. I feel the momentum is with us," said Rahane, who had played an instrumental role in Royals' seven-wicket win over Mumbai in their tournament opener. The diminutive opener said his team was not concerned about the other matches of the group which were washed out in Ahmadabad last evening. "We are not looking at those matches because such things are not in our control. It had rained before the Mumbai Indi-
ans match here too but we won it," he said. Asked about the decision to send Shane Watson down the batting order during their match against Mumbai, Rahane said, "Such things are decided by the think tank - Paddy Upton and Rahul Dravid. It's not for the individuals but the cause of the team. We had chased big totals like against Chennai earlier with this strategy. We need flexibility in accord with the situation and team comes first." Rahane welcomed the threeday break prior to their next game. "It has been a good three-day break for us because T20 involves high intensity games. It's especially good for the pacers who have to work hard. The Lions are capable of throwing a good challenge because they have bowlers like Sohail Tanvir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Imran Tahir who are capable of making early inroads in the opposition line-up," he said.
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IN BRIEF India to face Jordan in their opening clash
NEW DELHI: The Indian under 16 boys contingent that were part of the training-cumpreparation camp in Dungguan, China from September 15-22 where they competed against various Chinese club teams will be playing their first game of the third FIBA ASIA Championship (Tehran, Iran) against Jordan on September 25. The Championship will be played from September 25 to October 4 in Tehran, Iran. The tournament will begin with 14 teams divided into four groups (Group A, B, C and D) in the preliminary round. Team India has been placed in Group C and has Jordan and Japan as their opponents.
Consistent Srikanth eyes top 25 by year end
NEW DELHI: Satisfied with his "consistent" performance at the international circuit, the Thailand Open champion K Srikanth says he wants to sign off the year with a top-25 finish. "I think I performed well and was consistent after winning the Thailand Open. It is my second year in international circuit and I am happy with myself. The victory gave me a lot of confidence," said Srikanth, who reached the Japan Open quarterfinals last week. "I want to be the world number one one day. There are four more tournaments to go in the year. I am right now ranked 39th but after the Japan Open, I might break into the top-30 and I want to finish the year within top 25," he added.
ONGC win menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title, BPCL clinches women & veteran's crown
NEW DELHI: H S Prannoy and Saurabh Verma helped ONGC clinch the men's team championship title, while BPCL won the crown in women's and veteran's team competitions in the PSPB inter-unit badminton tournament here. In the men's team championship final, ONGC's H S Prannoy beat K Srikanth of IOCL 21-16 11-21 21-19 in a gruelling first singles match to give ONGC a 1-0 lead. In the second singles, Saurabh Verma defeated P Kashyap (IOCL) 21-13 22-20 to make it 2-0 in ONGC's favour. Rupesh Kumar and V Diju then beat Arun Vishnu and K Srikanth 21-16 22-20 as ONGC notched up a 3-0 victory over IOCL. The third single and second doubles were rendered inconsequential.
Bhupathi-Lidstedt suffer upset defeat; Somdev too bows out
NEW DELHI: The top seeded pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Robert Lindstedt made a shock first round exit from the Thailand Open while Somdev Devvarman crashed out of the Malaysian Open. The Indo-Sweden pair of Bhupathi and Lindstedt lost 6-2 3-6 8-10 to Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain and Paolo Lorenzi of Italy in just 59 minutes. It was Bhupathi's first tournament after US Open, where he was knocked in the first round along with German partner Philipp Petzschner. The Indian challenge is still alive in the tournament as Leander Paes is also playing in the doubles event.
Sindhu receives Arjuna award
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NEW DELHI: Rising shuttler P V Sindhu was conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award by Sports Minister Jitendra Singh. Sindhu had missed the opportunity to receive the award from President Pranab Mukhejee at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on August 31 as she was busy playing in the final of the Indian Badminton league (IBL). Jitendra Singh presented the shuttler with a statuette, citation and a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh during the governing body meeting of Sports Authority of India.
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PUNE RACES: HOW THEY RAN LAST WEEK
Trainer Malesh Narredu (centre) with the S.A. Poonawalla Mutli-Million Trophy. At his left are Dr. Cyrus S. Poonawalla, Mr. Adar Poonawalla and (partially seen) Mr. Champaklal Zaveri. On his left are Mr. and Mrs. Zavaray S. Poonawalla.
Mr. Adar Poonawalla (centre) giving away the Viloo C. Poonawalla Trophy to Mr. Vijay Shirke. At extreme left is RWTIC chairman K.N. Dhunjibhoy. At right is Dr. Cyrus S. Poonawalla.
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Rubens which won the Eloise Plate being led in by trainer Narendra Lagad after it won the race.
Maringo which won the Div II of the Rambus Plate being led in (extreme right) by trainer Narendra Lagad.
Trainer Nina Lalwani leading in Lorelei after it won the Enakshi Plate.
here were seven runners in the S.A. Poonawalla Multi-Million race. The horse that attracted attention was Dynamo, but it could only place. The winner was Falcon which is owned by Mr. Jaydev M Mody and trained by M. Narredu for whom this win was a bright feather in his cap. There was a celebrating ambience on Sunday when the S.A. Poonawalla MultiMillion race was run. Another important race was Viloo C. Poonawalla Gold Trophy which was won by Mauna Kea, owned by the Shirke family. A lot of money came on Rajasamman and Santa Maria. One of the keenest finish was in the Mysore Race Club Trophy between Monza and Sharaarat which is trained by Dallas Todywalla. At the post, only a razor edge separated them. Sharaarat which won the race was ridden by A. Sandesh who is likely to be the Pune champion. One of the rank outsiders which won was Narendra Lagad-trained Rubens in the Eloin Plate. In 8-horse field, it was available at 20 to 1. There was huge betting on Ace Jet which became the on-money favourite. Casino Jack, owned by Mrs. Vandana Sharma and trained by Hosidar Baji won the Proteons Play at odds of 4 to 1. Katrak trained Romantic Beauty came second in the race. It has placed three times this season. A chupa rustom which revealed its potential was Dallas Todywalla trained Kaizer. Watch this horse. It is cut out apparently for distance. Another horse – Narendra Lagad’s Savage Garden also ran quite well in the 2400 Flaring Ace Plate. Poor Tara was made to run in 2400 metre class IV race. The horse which is now 7-yearold must be denoted and run
in class V. Emperor of France is betting down all his admirers. The name is very imposing but the horse is not. The winner in the Rao Saheb Kedari Gold Trophy was Ainra which is trained by M.K. Jadhav. The Emperor may win in Mumbai. There was lot of betting on Champakali and Cream of the Crop in the Division I of the Rambus Plate. The winner was however an unexpected horse. Its last run in Pune was very bad – it ended then 18th in the race. Trainer H.J. Antia had four horses in the Div II of Inglenork Gold Plate: Rocking, Midnight Wind, Armel and Winchester. They all belonged to different owners. Midnight Wind became the favourite in the race but it did not win. The winner was Rocking. Pandemonium broke out the mob because violent, smashed whatever they could by their hands. Conclusion of the mob: The jockey on the favourite pulled it and this enabled Antia’s another horse Rocking won. The club authorities called the police who finally had to resort to a lathi-charge to disperse the crowd. To say the least, it was a disgusting behaviour. Later the vet found that Midnight Wind had profusely bled and they did not have a ghost of a chance to win. Whenever racegoers are dissatisfied with the way a race is run, they stand round the paddock and peacefully shout. For the authorities, this much action is enough to take action. To resort to vandalism is totally unwarranted.
Senor Bella which won the Jaidev Plate being led in by trainer Pesi Shroff (right) after the race. The horse is owned by Mr and Mrs. Vijay Mallya and Mr. M. Deboo.
Dancing Splendour which won the Inglenook Race being led in by trainer S.S. Shah.
Sharaarat, owned by Dr. T. Shankar and C.S. Wakalkar, being led in after winning the Mysore Race Club Trophy. At right is trainer Dallas Todywalla.
Runs to remember: Holy Bull, Scaremonche, Razenaa, Prince Arius, Capitano, Monet, Bombardier, Mauna Kea, Kaizer, Monza, Romantic Beauty.
Trainer Dallas Todywalla (left) receiving the Highland Rule Trophy from Gautam Lala after the race.
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UMBAI: Union Bank of India (UBI) staved off a spirited fight back from a youthful Sports Authority of India (SAI) side to script a hard earned 32 win in the concluding league fixture of the Mumbai Magicians-MHAL Super League 2013, at the MHAL Stadium, Churchgate, on Tuesday evening. For UBI, who led by two goals to nil at the break, they scored their goals through J.P. Kusha, Biju B.Y. and the mercurial Usaf ur Rehman, while the SAI outfit managed to reduce the margin through Akash Mishra and Rajendra Pawar. Union Bank who were better organised in both attack and defence, held the upper hand right through the entire duration of the match. They encountered a bit of pressure towards the end as the SAI went all out in search of goals to force a draw but all their efforts went in vain. SAI goalkeeper Naresh Choudhary was brilliant under the bar. He showed good agility and alertness to affect a number of excellent saves to ensure his team did not lose by a wider margin. UBI opened the scoring in the 19th minute when Kusha combined well with Rehman to pierce
Satyajeet Sawant of Maharashtra State Police and Rajendra Mangnoor are embroiled in a tackle during the MHAL Super League Hockey tie at the MHA Stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday. through the rival defence before the former was left with easiest of task to tap the ball into an empty net. Seven minutes later Biju B.Y. cracked home Rubin Kedari’s long pass from right to give UBI a 2-0 cushion. Showing plenty of determination SAI fought back and reduced the deficit through Akash
Mishra who directed into goal Waseem Khan’s hit into the circle in the 54th minute. But consistent scorer Rehman ensured UBI’s 2-0 lead when he fired in the third goal in the 59th minute. SAI did not give up the fight and added their second goal when Rajendra Pawar slapped home the
Mixed day for Rhys; ‘Sushils’s words EW DELHI: Apart from skill and Gole sparkles will, it needed a word of wisdom N from senior pro Sushil Kumar to
MUMBAI: Rhys Albuquerque played well to make the last four stage in the youth boys as well as in the junior boys singles of the KRC- Pratap Vora Memorial District Ranking table tennis tournament, hosted by Kandivali Recreation Club here. But in the men’s singles Rhys fell prey to the guiles of Chandrashekhar Gole in a thrilling quarterfinals tie , which went to the wire before Chandrashekhar triumphed 13-11, 6-11, 7-11, 5-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-5. Chandrakshekhar Gole, made his new employer, Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers proud as he also stormed into the youth boys singles semifinals . However, the top men’s seeds, Noel Pinto and Ravindra Kotiyan, went into the last four stage untroubled, though both did drop a game to their respective rivals, Sudhir Kesarvani and Amit Modi before winning with an identical 4-1 score. RESULTS: Men’s singles (Quarterfinals): Noel Pinto bt Sudhir Kesarvani 6-11, 11-8, 1311, 11-9, 11-7; Chandrashekhar Gole bt Rhys Albuquereque 13-11, 6-11, 7-11, 5-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-5.
rebound after Satinder Singh’s try came back off the goalkeeper’s pads. Earlier, Satinder and Jatinder Singh saw their attempts narrowly miss the target. This was the sixth win for UBI who have moved into third position above Central Railway with 18 points, while SAI suffered their sixth defeat and have finished second from the bottom. Earlier, Maharashtra State Police (MSP) outplayed cellar outfit Sea View SC 11-5 to record their fourth win. Usaf ur Rehaman of Union Bank of India and Mukund Rajput of Maharashtra State Police were adjudged the ‘man of the match’ in their respective matches and both were presented with a cash award of Rs 1,000 each. Results – Mumbai Magicans-MHAL Super League: Maharashtra State Police 11 (Sandeep Sawant 2nd min, 63rd, Ashish Chopade 9th, Vinod Manugade 10th, 42nd, Mukund Rajput 13th, 20th, 67th, Satyajeet Sawant 25th, Sumit Mohite 33rd, Kunal Jagdale 67th) beat Sea View SC 5 (Rahul Kalkoti 17th, Rajendra Mangoor 34th, Swapnil Shinde 40th, 50th, 66th). Union Bank of India 3 (J.P. Kusha 19th, Biju B.Y. 26th, Usaf ur Rehman 59th) beat Sports Authority of India 2 (Akash Mishra 54th, Rajendra Pawar 66th).
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inspire rising grappler Sandeep Tulsi Yadav to go all out for a medal in the World Wrestling Championships in Budapest. Few encouraging words from the double Olympic medallist ensured that the 25-year-old Yadav stood on the podium with the bronze medal dangling around his neck. "Before coming back from the championships, Sushil 'bhai' dropped into my room to advice me on how to go about it. He told me that you have a genuine chance of winning a medal and asked me not to think about the opponents. His words spurred me to give my 100 per cent," Greco Roman wrestler Yadav told PTI. Yadav delivered India its first-ever medal in the Greco Roman category when he defeated Serbia's Aleksandar Maksimovic in the 66kg division on Sunday. "It was a dream come true. There were
expectations from me and I am happy that I delivered. Moreover, I became a part of a historic event. I hope my medal will motivate others to pursue the ancient form of wrestling," the Mumbai lad said. After being sidelined in the home Asian Championships in April due to a shoulder injury, Yadav vowed to make an impact at the Worlds and was happy to rise to the occasion. "I injured my right shoulder in Gonda nationals last year, which kept me out of action for a few months and unfortunately I could not take part in the Asian event in Delhi. I knew I had to do well at the world event as everyone felt I had it me to achieve big at the international level. "I thank my coaches for believing in me and helping me. The 15-day training camp ahead of the championship was also very helpful," he said.
Decks cleared for BCCI to impose life ban on Lalit Modi from 2008-2010. The SGM, which is likely to be chaired by president in-exile N Srinivasan, has been convened to discuss the report of the Diciplinary Committee on Modi and decide the quantum of disciplinary punishment. Two-third of the majority will need to vote in favour of Modi's life ban. It effectively means that a minimum of 21 votes HENNAI: With the Delhi High are required out of the total 31 Court allowing the BCCI to units to make the former IPL czar a conduct its Special General Meet- persona non-grata in the world's ing (SGM) in Chennai, the decks richest cricket board. "Save Punjab Cricket Associaare cleared for the Board to impose a possible life ban on former IPL tion (PCA), expect no other BCCI chairman Lalit Modi for alleged fi- units to support Modi tomorrow. nancial irregularities while being Even PCA's case will depend on at the helm of cash-rich league who attends the SGM -- persident
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I S Bindra who is a Modi backer or secretary M P Pandove who is not known to possess a hardline stance," a BCCI official said. Modi got a stay order from Patiala House Court on Saturday, the Delhi High Court gave a favourable verdict to the BCCI which literally ends any chances Modi harboured of escaping the life ban. Modi was the IPL chairman-cum-commissioner during the first three editions but was suspended immediately after the closing ceremony in 2010, on charges of financial irregularities in running of the league as well as improper practices during auction of two new teams before the third edition.
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IN BRIEF Jaffer to lead West Zone
MUMBAI: Former Mumbai skipper Wasim Jaffer will lead the West Zone Team for the Duleep Trophy matches to be played against South Zone from October 3-6 at Chennai and the winner of this match will play against Central Zone from October 10-13 with the final will be played from October 17-21 at Kochi. Squad: Wasim Jaffer (Captain), Yusuf Pathan (Vice Captain), Harshad Khadiwale, Aditya Waghmode, Hiken Shah, Manpreet Juneja, Ankit Bavne, Suryakumar Yadav,Rohit Motwani (W.K.), Kamlesh Makwana, Samad Falla, Murtuza Vora, Jaydev Unadkat, Rakesh Dhruv and Akshay Darekar.
St. Lawrence topple St. Joseph
MUMBAI: Riding on the brilliance of Chaitrali Gawde and Charmy Monpara, St. Lawrence High School, Borivali easily cruised pass St. Joseph Secondary, Malad 7-0 during the MSSA-Mumbai Indians Annual Inter School Hockey Tournament played at the BHA Mahindra Stadium, Churchgate on Tuesday. Chaitrali struck twice while Charmy hit a brace during their win. RESULTS: Girls 16: St. Lawrence High School (Borivali) (7) (Chaitrali Gawde 3, Charmy Monpara 2, Janhavi Sawant 2) Beat St. Joseph Secondary (Malad) (0).
Maharashtra take on SAI in Semis
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Junior Football Team has entered the semi-finals of the 49th National Junior Championship for Dr. BC Roy Trophy at Bokaro, where they will take on SAI on Wednesday. Placed in Group B, the State lads began their campaign with a hard fought 3-2 win against Bihar, before outplaying Nagaland 2-0 in the second match. Ashutosh Bane and Saleem Shaikh continued their scoring spree to ensure victory. SAI placed in Group C opened their campaign with a 6-0 mauling of Chhatisgarh. They then went on to defeat Himachal Pradesh 4-1 and qualify for the semifinals.
Bhatia strikes for Aristocrat
MUMBAI: Aristocrat FC scored a narrow 1-0 win against Lokhandwala SC in a engrossing Third Division encounter of the MDFA League at the St. Xavier’s ground, Parel on Tuesday. Jashan Bhatia netted the winning goal for Aristocrat. In another match of the same division, Naunehal FC blanked Champion FC 3-0. Aditya Dube, Danish Khan and Osama Ansari struck one goal each for the winning side.
Reed Santos nets four for Our Lady of Health
MUMBAI: Reed Santos was in top scoring form as he fired in four goals to steer Our Lady of Health, Sahar ‘B’ to an emphatic 7-1 win against Good Shepherd, Andheri ‘A’ in a first round match of the 26th Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana (WCG) annual InterParish Rink Football Tournament, played under floodlights at the WCG tennis courts. Semone D’Souza, Royston Dias and Ronson Shedge chipped in one goal apiece to complete the tally for the Sahar side. Malcolm Goes scored the consolation goal for the losers.
Football coaches trials at Andheri
MUMBAI: Steadfast Football Academy will be holding football coaches trials, today at Steadfast Center, Andheri. The trails will be conducted by technical director Mitch Bickmore from USA, who is a USSF A Certified coach and years of experience as technical director. Interested coaches are requested to contact Amit: 8879650983.
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