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Former environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has alleged that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had asked her to withhold green clearances to several industrial projects. On one hand, Jayanthi’s outburst and exit is a result of the UPA debacle in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, which has led to several Congress leaders to quit the party and move on to BJP while on the other hand, more than a result, her letter exposes the cause of the UPA debacle misgovernance.

In the process, not only economy but environment also suffered serious damage. On one hand, the economic growth plummeted, affecting millions of lives, as proposed projects didn’t take off. On the other hand, the environmental clearances – and non-clearances – of the UPA regime now come under doubt.

Jayanthi’s letter, leaked by The Hindu, exposed the corrupt deals in the UPA regime, whimsical behavior of Rahul Gandhi and the control enjoyed by Sonia family over the government. The letter made it clear that any industrialist should be in the good books of Sonia family at any cost to get clearances for a project.

Jayanthi’s letter also made it clear, though not directly, that Rahul Gandhi’s immature and whimsical decisions led to the debacle of UPA in the 2014 elections. Her letter also voiced the agony of many Congress leaders and their silent demand for change in the leadership.

It may be recalled Prakash Javadekar in his initial remarks after taking charge as the environment minister hinted that he would be more growth-friendly in deciding green clearances. That kind of a stance makes sense in the light of Jayanthi Natarajan’s revelations, but is not justifiable otherwise. The ministry has been renamed to include the term ‘climate change’, but what is really required is to make its role meaningful, in protecting and nurturing environment.

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Contents City News ...................................5

Regional News............................9

Interview...................................15

Cops & Crooks ........................17

Politacal News ..........................21

Religious Politics......................26

Beware While Travelling in Office Cabs

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One held for leaking Bahubali video clips

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National News ..........................27 Sports News..............................32 Bisiness News...........................34

News Bites................................35 National News .........................36 Global News .............................41 Education News........................42 Health News .............................44 Heritage News .........................49 Technology News .....................56

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Smartphones Damage Kids Brains

Bisiness News...........................58

Woman Chops Off Husband’s Penis

Sunanda Was Murdered

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Spiritual News ..........................62

CITY NEWS

Cops use Tabs to verify passport Applications

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one are those days when you were forced to wait for long to get police verification before you received your passport. The Cyberabad police have launched a technology aided passport verification system using tablets.

As many as 70 Samsung tabs were bought at a cost of Rs 16 lakh through tender process, which were given to the field staff of the special branch assigned with passport verification task.

Regional Passport Officer Ashwini Sattaru launched the system by pushing a button at the Cyberabad police commissionerate recently.

Commissioner of Police C V Anand and Inspector General of Police, Intelligence wing, Shivdhar Reddy were also present at the programme.

Speaking on the occasion, Anand said the new verification system helps reduce the time from 13 days to 3 days thereby enabling the passport office to issue passports to the applicants in lesser time.

This is the first time in the country that such a system has been launched with such a short verification time. Anand further said that this was another step in providing better services to the citizens through the use of technology which serves as a force multiplier and corruption controller.

Explaining the process by which the use of tabs enable the field officers of the Special Branch receive the application forms directly via internet, verify at their level and directly upload the reports to the Commissioner office without having to wait for their Friday weekly

meetings to submit the hard copies of the verification reports.

Regional Passport Officer Ashwini said that the ministry of external affairs has set a target to issue 1.25 crore passports which could be possible only by the use of modern technology and lauded the efforts of Cyberabad police in adopting technology for speedy delivery of services for the citizens.

Intelligence IG, Shivdhar Reddy said that the Intelligence Department will continue to be the nodal authority for passport related projects and that Cyberabad was allotted a Pilot project in using tablets. He commended the Cyberabad special branch staff especially Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ravinder Reddy, who played a key role in developing the software.

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Cyberabad

Police BOSS Gets ECI Award

This is a great achievement and recognition for an IPS officer as he is the only one in the country to be given this National Award by the ECI in a General Election.

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yberabad police commissioner C V Anand has been conferred with the ‘National Special Award’ by the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the commendable election related measures taken by him in the area of expenditure monitoring and tackling money power during the general elections of 2014.

The ECI has conferred the awards after a scrutiny of the best practices

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adopted by over 450 district election officers and SPs in India, according to a release issued by the Cyberabad police.

The National Best Practices Awards were instituted in 2011 to recognise the efforts and innovations of the officers and to commend and encourage individual and team accomplishments in diverse fields of election management. This is the first General Election after Institution of the award.This is a great achievement and recognition for an IPS officer as

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he is the only one in the country to be given this National Award by the ECI in a General Election.

This is also a great honour for an officer from the newly created State of Telangana to get this award, the release said.

It may be recalled Cyberabad Police Commissionerate had the highest Cash Seizures in the country in the run up for the Election in April 2014 and also the single largest cash seizure of Rs 8.33 crores in the country, the release added.

Cops Prevent Burglary, Rewarded

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lert police constables on patrol prevented a major burglary at a bank on the outskirts of city recently.

According to officials, the police constables Ch Ramakrishna and B. Beemagrani were on patrol in Ibrahimpatnam police station limits on January 10, 2015. At midnight, they noticed one person moving suspiciously near a cooperative bank and accosted him.

On being questioned what he was doing, the unidentified person replied that he had come out to address a nature’s call and left the place in a hurry.

The police constables grew suspicious and thoroughly searched the area only to find gas cutters, drilling machine and other tools. The cops realised that an attempt was made to rob the bank but their timely intervention made the burglars flee from the place. The two constables immediately called in for support and

informed their higher-ups.

Cyberabad Police Commissioner C V Anand praised the two constables for being alive to the situation and rewarded them suitably.

He also rewarded Chandanagar Inspector Vasu, constables Thuljaram and Tirupathi Reddy who had caught thieves red handed who attempted a theft at Axis Bank ATM. Anand called upon the police officials in Cyberabad to be alert during nights and instructed them to increase patrolling.

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rchaeological Survey of India’s Hyderabad Circle in association with India Tourism, the Association of Tourist Operators of AP and Telangana and the faculty and students of Institute of Hotel Management have organised Swachch Bharat drive at

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Golconda Fort on January 2 as part of the Swachch Bharat campaign.

The drive began with a mass oath taking programme at the lawns of Balahissar entrance. Ranimahal court yard, structures located on the western side of Aslahkhana weel, excavated area on the western side of Ranimahal and the way leading to the Baradari were cleaned and

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unwarranted vegetation was removed.

Superintending Archaeologist R Krishnaih, Assistant Director India Tourism C V Shankar Reddy, Institute of Hotel Management Principal Sanjay Thakur, office bearers of AP and Telangana Tourist Operators Association and several others participated in the programme.

REGIONAL NEWS

Fluorosis Goes Unabated in Nalgonda

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ack of will among local political leaders coupled with official apathy have rendered useless the seven acres of land and funds released for setting up a state-of-the-art fluoride research centre in Nalgonda district.

It may be recalled seven acres of land was allotted in DAndumalkapuram village of

Choutuppal Mandal in 2014. Also, Rs 10 crore out of the estimated cost of RS 250 crore for setting up the research was released. Yet, the project did not take off thanks to official apathy and lack of political will.

The national level laboratory, once completed, is to conduct research on diseases spreading due to drinking water in the district and examine those suffering from fluorosis and provide remedies to

the patients.

On the other hand, a similar research centre in Gujarat, taken up last year, is nearing completion.

But in Telangana, even foundation stone has not been laid. Neither the officers concerned nor the public representatives are ready to take the responsibility.

People of this district had high hopes of getting treatment. But it became a mirage and the toll mounts by the day.

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COPS & CROOKS

Beware While Travelling in Office Cabs

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omen employees working in multinational companies and call centres availing transport facility provided by respective offices beware!

Recently, a female employee travelling in a cab hired by one such MNC had to face a bitter experience.

The cab driver shot the video of the female employee in objectionable manner while she dozed off.

Fortunately, an alert police official noticed the cab driver taking video of the female employee and arrested him.

According to police, the female employee boarded the cab at Banjara Hills to reach her office at Hitec City.

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Midway, the cab driver Mohammed Abdul Rasheed noticed the female employee taking a nap and unleashed his voyeuristic behaviour.

Luckily, Sub-Inspector Chandra Reddy, incharge of ‘She’ team noticed this and instructed his teammates to closely follow the cab and watch his activity. The cops noticed the cab driver taking objectionable video of the female employee using his mobile phone.

Near Gachibowli X Road, police accosted the cab and checked the mobile phone of the driver in which they found objectionable video of the female employee. Immediately, the female employee was sent to her office by other means of transport and the cab driver was taken into custody. A criminal case was

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Mohammed Abdul Rasheed

registered against him under Nirbhaya Act. Though it is an isolated incident, police sources say this could happen with anyone and requested the female employees to be careful while travelling either in office cabs or by other means of transport.

FOCUS

Advanced Techpro – The name for seamless services

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orn with an idea to render seamless integration and services, Advanced Techpro Services Private Limited is a leading company in Hyderabad dealing with various products at one place.

The strength of the organisation lies in its highly qualified and experienced engineers with excellent team work. Advanced Techpro is the

authorised sales and service distributor for projectors related to the international distributor of Hitachi.

The organisation also deals with some other products – Matrix, Optoma and Infocus – which are leading the market these days.

Advanced Techpro is a specialist in audio visual and multimedia presentation solutions for every market through a nationwide network of authorised dealers.

Working at the edge of new technology, the organisation brings a wealth of experience to the multimedia projection market.

The organisation has its sales and service branches not only Telangana and Andhra Pradesh but throughout the nation.

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COVER STORY

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eal Estate Companies Dream India and Pride India – are allegedly resorting to land grabbing on a large scale besides evading taxes to various government department.

Also, it is said huge amount of black money is flowing into these projects from Gulf countries.

Documents available with The News show that the revenue authorities have directed the Badangpet Nagar Panchayat to stop all development activities taken up

by Pride Hills – a venture of Pride India Group on the land in survey No.90 of Balapur village to an extent of 170.39 acres – because the real estate company has neither taken any permission from the competent authority nor did it pay land user charges at the rate of nine percent on the prevailing market price for the purpose of conversion of the land use from agriculture to non-agriculture.

However, the real estate company has not stopped alienating the lands.

Instead, it has increased its advertisement campaign and even included the photographs of the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in its hoardings installed at all prime locations across the city. Also, it has stepped up its advertisement campaign in the media.

In fact, sources say, Pride India and Dream India are owned by same people and the real estate companies have the blessings of a local political party which hobnobs with the powers that be in the state and enjoys enormous amount of influence on the administration.

Dream India Group had demolished an age old Qutb Shahi mosque located on the land in Sy.

Nos. 97,98 and 99 in Balapur village and grabbed Wakf property to develop a real estate venture. The Wakf Board, under pressure from the leaders of the said political party, entered into a compromise with the demolishers, much against the Islamic principles.

With the officials concerned reluctant to take stern action, the real estate companies are allegedly selling government and wakf lands and making huge money without paying a penny in taxes.

Even the income tax authorities have not bothered to verify the transactions related to the two real estate companies which run into crores of rupees. Thus, the company is causing a loss of hundreds of crores of rupees to the government exchequer.

However, on coming to know about the illegality, Goshamahal legislator T Raja Singh has announced that he would fight against the encroachment and sale of government and wakf lands. He said he would discuss the issue on the floor of the Assembly and force the authorities to take action against the erring real estate companies.

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accused make mockery of law, harass victim Accused Shaik Shareef Baba(Center) with the then MP Anjan Kumar Yadav

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aw is not an ass until we, designfully or skillfully or otherwise, turn the same into one’ – this was the opening sentence of the submission in a civil court made by an advocate Bimal Kumar Chatterjee, who later became Advocate General for the State of West Bengal.

It appears he was not wrong in using such serious words because law is being made an ass day in and day out. In the instant case, one advocate literally made the law an ass and misled the court to secure fraudulent orders against the victim of dowry harassment and domestic violence.

The victim woman, Tasleem Bint Hussain, had been fighting against

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domestic violence and dowry harassment since 2008 against her husband Shaik Khaja Baba and his family members. The case is being investigated by the women protection cell attached to the central crime station (CCS) at a snail’s pace.

While the victim is running from pillar to post for justice, one advocate Mazhar Hussain, had facilitated the accused file a vakalat by forging the signatures of two accused – Shaik Yousuf Baba and Shaik Shareef Baba – who were in United Arab Emirates at the time of filing the vakalat in a court of law.

Based on the forged document, the accused succeeded in getting a stay order in 2011 on all further proceedings in the criminal case filed against them by the victim. Since then, the victim is making rounds of

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the CCS requesting them to take necessary steps to get the stay vacated and arrest the accused but to no use.

The victim has brought to the notice of the investigating agency that the accused had perverted the course of justice by resorting to perjury with the court. Despite this, the investigating agency has not taken any action except for writing a letter to the Public Prosecutor to file stay vacation petition. The Public Prosecutor, a qualified advocate himself, had not taken necessary steps so far for the reasons best known to him.

The victim urges the investigators and the Public Prosecutor to initiate contempt, perjury proceedings, take steps to impound the passports of the accused and render justice to her.

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INTERVIEW

A humble member of TRS

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well-known TRS leader from Medchal Assembly Constituency in Ranga Reddy district, M Kamalakar Reddy, who has been associated with the party chief even before the TRS was founded, speaks to The News about his political journey.

Q) Please tell us about your association with TRS? A) I am associated with KCR from the time when he quit Telugu Desam Party (TDP). In fact, I am one among the people who forced him to start a political party to achieve separate statehood for Telangana. I humbly followed KCR during his extensive tour of

Telangana in 2001 and was made the incharge of youth wing of the party.

Currently, I am holding the responsibility of organising secretary.

Q) What have been your activities during the Telangana struggle?

A) I have been fully active and spontaneous during the struggle for

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Telangana. However, I became popular when I launched padayatra from Secunderabad to Warangal in the year 2003. The programme began with KCR waving it off at the Clock Tower in Secunderabad and concluded with a massive public meeting addressed by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda.

Q) What is the role that you played in the elections since 2003?

A) The party chief made me incharge of Medak Assembly byelection in 2003. Subsequently, I was made incharge for Parigi Assembly Constituency in 2004 elections, 2006 and 2008 by-elections for Jagithyal assembly and Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituencies respectively.

Q) What have been the challenges you faced so far?

A) I had to face severe pressure besides threats from the supporters of former Home Minister T Devender

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Goud since he represented Medchal constituency.

I had to face pressures from TDP and Congress leaders alike during the struggle for Telangana. But I never compromised on my ideals. With the goal of achieving Telangana ahead, I simply followed KCR and the result is that we are living in the state of Telangana today.

Q) Why didn’t you contest the elections on TRS ticket so far?

A) I am a disciplined member of the party and staunch loyalist of KCR. The party chief entrusted me with party work and obeyed his instructions in all the elections. If the party directs me to contest the elections, I will do so.

Q) Do you think your services have been recognised by the party?

A) Yes, I am very much sure about that. It is because my services are recognised, I am able to move

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closely with the party chief and attend important meetings.

Q) Do you think there is any resentment in the party ranks as migrants from other parties are accommodated in good positions?

A)Matured politicians understand the political compulsions and believe in waiting for their turn to come. Of course, immature political leaders exist in every political party and naturally such people would be disappointed with the developments.

However, that is not going to damage the party in any manner.

Q) Can we expect to see you in any of the nominated post or as an MLC in the near future?

A) Everything depends on the party chief’s decision. I am sure he will not disappoint people dedicated to the party and those who extend their shoulder in making the state ‘Bangaru Telangana’.

COPS & CROOKS

Two held for Blackmailing Chevella MP Blackmailers threatened the MP that the latter would be disqualified if evidence about false affidavit was produced before the authorities.

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hey tried to blackmail an elected Member of Parliament for a ransom of Rs 25 crore but walked into their own trap. Three persons conspired together and sent a threat mail on January 8 to Konda Visveshwar Reddy, MP of Chevella Lok Sabha Constituency in Telangana stating

that complaints would be lodged before the authorities concerned for filing false affidavit along with the nomination papers.

Sources said the blackmailers had threatened the MP that the latter would be disqualified if evidence with respect to the false affidavit was produced before the authorities concerned and demanded a ransom of Rs 25 crore for not doing so.

The MPs son Konda Anindith Reddy lodged a complaint with the police in this connection.

Immediately, the cyber crime cops of the Cyberabad police swung into action and tracked down the email ID ‘raghuramkrishna59@gmail.com’ from which the threat mail was sent to the MP. The investigators identified the accused N. Venkata Ramana Reddy of Jubilee Hills by tracking the IP address. A police team negotiated with the extortionists and fixed a meeting on the pretext of paying the ransom money. Two of the greedy accused – Venkata Ramana Reddy and Rajesh walked into the trap and were caught.

During questioning Reddy spilled the beans that he hatched the plan to extort money along with one Kumar, a native of Guntur district now living in Bengaluru and his cousin brother Rajesh.

The arrested accused persons were sent to judicial custody and efforts are underway to nab the absconding accused, police said.

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Female Tutor Held for Raping Minor Boy

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woman tutor and her two brothers were arrested by the Ludhiana police on the charge of sexually exploiting a minor boy and filming the rapes. The trio were trying to flee to New Delhi and were at the Ludhiana bus terminus when the police arrested them on January 11.

The accused Radha, 33, Raghav, 28, and Madhav, 24, had been absconding since October 2014.

They were produced before a local which remanded them in police custody for two days.

On October 19, the police had booked Radha and her brothers under sections 294 of IPC (obscene acts or words in public), 506 (criminal intimidation), 34 (acts done in furtherance of common intention) and sections 3, 4, 5 (L), 14, 15, 16 and 17 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.

The complainant’s father had told police that he was a tenant of Radha, who also tutored his 14-year-old son.

One day the boy confided in his father about the entire episode after developing severe stomach ache.

The boy also gave his father the pen-drive, which had explicit video content showing forced intercourse between him and the woman tutor.

The accused woman tutor, according to the boy, allegedly raped him repeatedly for over a year till

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Accused tutor Radha (centre) and her brothers (masked) after being taken into police custody in Ludhiana.

October 2014. The police said the accused raped him at knife-point whenever he refused to succumb to her demands.

“She would force him to consume liquor and threatened him with dire consequences whenever he refused her demand. She also shot sexually explicit videos with the help of her brothers.

"Radha had threatened him that she would implicate him in a rape case if he revealed the truth to anybody,” the minor boy’s father alleged in his complaint to the police.

However, the police made no moves against the accused in the matter.

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local NGO Bachpan informed the National Child Rights Commission about the police inaction.

The police were forced to book the woman and her brothers on October 19. They raided Radha’s house and seized threat letters written to the boy, ordering him not to divulge the truth to anybody.

The police also recovered a laptop that contained sexually explicit video content. Police claim the video footage showed the sexual exploitation of the boy and the woman indulging in incest with herbrothers. The police also seized sedatives, sex toys and a knife from the accused.

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The traditional methods of circulating fake currency seem to be back. This came to light when Tappachabutra police arrested four persons including three women recently. The kingpin behind the circulation of fake currency has been identified as Srinath Reddy of Ananthapuram district in Andhra Pradesh.

According to police, Srinath Reddy supplied the fake currency notes to D Lakshminarayana of Musheerabad, who runs a tailoring shop. Lakshminarayana hired three women on the pretext of working in his shop but he actually used them to

circulate the fake currency.

The modus operandi of the gang is very simple. Lakshminarayana used to give fake currency notes to the three women he had hired with instructions to buy groceries, clothes and other material in very small quantities from small outlets and present the fake currency notes with a denomination of Rs 1000. The unsuspecting shopkeepers used to accept the fake currency notes and return the change in original currency notes, police said.

Lakshminarayana used to pay handsome commission for the women for carrying out the routine daily. This has been continuing for a while, but the gang was caught during

vehicle checking by the police.

Police seized counterfeit currency worth Rs 36,000, original currency worth Rs 45,820, one each four wheeler and two wheeler and four cell phones from the accused. Efforts are underway to nab the kingpin, police added.

Previously, similar modus operandi was followed by gangs comprising infiltrators from Bangladesh. Sources in the intelligence wings claim that infiltrators from Bangladesh keep frequenting between the border and different states in India to smuggle and circulate fake currency as part of a larger conspiracy by the terrorist outfits to destabilise Indian economy.

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n a shocking incident, a village panchayat in Bihar ordered a Mahadalit woman to take Rs 41,000 as compensation from the member of the panchayat and not to file a rape case against the latter.

The incident occurred in a panchayat under Kodha police station in Katihar district. The accused is a member of the village council.

But the accused refused to pay the money. When she protested about his refusal to pay amount, the

accused set her husband on fire injuring him badly, said a police official Sunil Kumar.

This forced the victim to approach Katihar Superintendent of Police Kshatraneel Singh two days ago for justice. Singh has ordered an investigation into the incident.

"One of the accused Naresh Ravidas has been arrested while the main accused Prakash Ravidas is absconding," police said.

According to police, the incident occurred last month when the victim was called to panchayat building by Prakash on the pretext of readying documents related to Indira Awas

Yojana. "In her complaint to police she has informed that she was raped by him and threatened not to disclose it," police said.

Last year, a panchayat in Kishanganj district had ordered a minor girl, who was raped by four brothers and was seven months pregnant, to take Rs.50,000 and undergo an abortion. When she approached police an FIR was lodged and accused were arrested.

In a similar case in September 2014, a panchayat in Muzaffarpur district ordered a minor rape victim to take Rs.2 lakh and undergo abortion.

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n engineering graduate and US returnee was arrested recently when he was on his way to Syria via Dubai and Turkey to join Islamic State (ISIS).

Police identified the person as 32year-old Salman Mohiuddin, a resident of Bazarghat in Hyderabad.

According to police, Salman, while in US, came in touch with a woman named Nicky Joseph @ Nicky @ Nicole @ Ayesha, a British national and a neo Muslim based in

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Dubai who had a fundamentalist leaning towards Islam.

In 2014, after the establishment of ISIS, Salman and Nicky started taking interest in the developments of Islamic State. They created various facebook groups under pseudo name and started attracting people interested in ISIS, police said.

In the last week of October, Salman came back to India as he was denied a Visa by US authorities and continued his activities. During his stay, through the social media, he tried to attract local youth across the country with an intention of take

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them to Syria & Iraq, police revealed.

Police further said that Salman intended to undergo training in Syria so that he could carry out subversive activities in India.

However, Cyberabad police thwarted his ideas by arresting him. Police recovered some electronic gadgets from his possession.

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Long-time Congress loyalist and former union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan walked out of the party on January 30 after writing a damaging letter to party president Sonia Gandhi.

Jayanthi addressed a press conference in Chennai over the issue and announced her resignation from the Congress citing political interference and a vilification campaign against her by Congress members.

In one of the most damning accounts of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul during the UPA rule, Jayanthi’s letter exposed the events that led to her sacking as the environment minister in Manmohan Singh’s cabinet in 2013.

She mentioned four specific big ticket investment cases — Vedanta, Adani, GVK, Lavasa and Nirma cases and Western Ghats row — that were stalled during her tenure at the direct intervention of Rahul Gandhi.

Jayanthi claimed that despite her following the party’s policies of protecting the rights of tribals and the environment, stories were planted by Rahul Gandhi’s office against her claiming that she was acting as a bottleneck. “I was never a bottleneck,

nor was I ever responsible for unwarranted delays in major projects. And I can prove this at any time. I was shattered by the attack upon me, and bewildered,” wrote Jayanthi in a letter to Sonia Gandhi in November 2014.

The leaked letter stirred a huge political controversy with the NDA government latching on to her allegations highlighting irregularities in the environment ministry whose file pile-up was made an election issue by Narendra Modi.

Jayanthi questioned her removal, saying she was only following the party line as instructed by party chief Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi, who had forwarded several messages to her on the concerns expressed by various NGOs over environmental clearances.

“During my tenure as minister, it was the clear and specific policy of the party to take all steps to protect the environment, and carry forward the legacy of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, to preserve the environment, and keep a balance between environment and industry,” Jayanthi said in the letter.

“I received specific requests which used to be directives for us from Rahul Gandhi and his office forwarding environmental concerns

in some important areas and I took care to honour those requests,” she said.

The former minister also said that she was forced by Congress leader Ajay Maken to target then BJP prime minister nominee Narendra Modi over the issue of alleged snooping of a woman in Gujarat.

“Despite the fact that I initially refused because I thought that the party should attack Shri Modi on policy and governance and not drag an unknown woman into a controversy, Shri Ajay Maken telephoned me on November 16, 2013, while I was on tour and asked me to come to Delhi immediately to address a press conference on the issue,” she said.

The former environment minister also spoke of an incident where she had sought a file pertaining to a case against industrialist Gautam Adani after she was removed. She was told the file was missing but it was later found in the washroom of the computer section.

The long list of charges and the alleged flip-flops of the UPA on environment policy has pushed Rahul Gandhi to a corner and provided more ammunition to the BJP to demolish what is left of the Grand Old Party.

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CRIME NEWS

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nitially it appeared the police was playing into the hands of murderers of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of former union minister Shashi Tharoor. Many conspiracy theories were put forth and efforts were made to cover up the truth.

But, a year later, the truth came out, thanks to change in guard at the

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centre. Police announced in the first week of January that Sunanda was murdered. Sunanda was found dead in room number 345 of the Leela Palace hotel in New Delhi's Chanakyapuri area on January 17, 2014.

The police had said at that time that they came to know about the incident after the personal secretary of Tharoor, Abhinav Kumar, called up the SHO of Sarojini Nagar and

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informed him that Sunanda was lying on the bed and not responding.

The AIIMS medical report lists polonium and thallium as the poisons found in Sunanda’s body. There is also evidence to show the presence of the rare poison nerium oleander.

Few deaths have been reported so far due to nerium oleander poisoning, as it is usually found in plants or honey.

The AIIMS medical report clearly mentions that there was no

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drug overdose, which contradicts what Delhi police had claimed during initial investigation.

The police had said there were Alprax strips lying next to Sunanda’s body when they found her. However, the medical report does not talk about the presence of Alprax in her body.

Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi said that a case under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at Sarojini

Nagar police station. However, the FIR does not name anyone. A murder case was registered on Saturday against unknown persons.

“She died due to poisoning and whether the poison was given orally or injected into her body is being investigated. We can only say which substance caused the poisoning after further investigation,” Bassi said.

The AIIMS medical report, based on which the police registered murder case, clearly states Sunanda died of poisoning. Now, investigators are looking into who poisoned her and how.

The medical report was handed over to Delhi Police on December 29 and before registering a murder case, a team led by Additional Deputy Commissioner (South), P S Kushwah, who was associated with the probe from the start, focused only on injury number 10 on the body of

Sunanda. “Injury number 10 was a syringe mark and it appeared to have been forcefully done. In all there were 15 injury marks on her body and on examination it was found that injury number 10 could have been fatal,” police sources said.

Delhi police said they have decided to move an application in a city court for ‘letter rogatory’ as they will need to seek further details of the chemicals that were injected into her body. Viscera samples are being sent abroad for investigation.

Bassi also denied allegations of deliberate delays in the case, despite the FIR being registered almost a year after the sensational death.

“Sunanda died due to poisoning and there was poison in her blood, which the initial autopsy report had also confirmed. Contradicting this, the viscera test report has ruled out 'death due to poison'.

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However, what is not known is that the viscera samples were tested only for ten poisons. She was given a Russian poison, which the viscera has not been tested for. That is primarily the reason why Dr.Sudhir Kumar Gupta is not being allowed to present his final report,�

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy said. Dr Gupta headed the forensic team in AIIMS and had alleged that he was pressured to show that Sunanda’s death was natural. The AIIMS denied the allegation, and Gupta was later removed.

A day before she was found dead, Tharoor and Sunanda had issued a joint statement saying they were distressed by a row over some unauthorised tweets posted from their Twitter account and that both were "happily married and intend to remain that way".This was after Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar clashed with Sunanda on Twitter after the latter accused her of stalking her husband.

The medical investigation into Sunanda's death also took many twists and turns through the past year. The first autopsy report, submitted to a magistrate on January 20 last year, had said that Tharoor's wife died due to drug overdose. But it also reported a dozen injury marks on her body.

The final autopsy report that came out in July put the number of injury marks at 15. All the injuries were said to be caused by blunt forces except one which was an injection mark.

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TINSEL TOWN

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disgruntled former employee of a company engaged in video editing has been arrested for his alleged role behind the leak of some clips of Telugu film ‘Bahubali’, which is in the making.

The accused BVVLN Varma of West Godavari district but residing at Mothinagar in Hyderabad has been sent to judicial custody.

According to police, Varma had earlier worked in the capacity of IT Manager with Makuta Visual Effects Private Limited, which is currently hired by the producer of Bahubali film for editing and visual effects. He was terminated from the job following certain issues due to which he nursed a grudge against the company.

Varma managed to steal some video clips of Bahubali film and circulated them to his relatives and friends thereby committing breach of trust, cheating and other offenses under Copyright Act and IT Act 2008 causing monetary loss to the production unit and to the company.

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RELIGIOUS POLOTICS

Cleric Offers Rs 51 Crore to Paris Attackers

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n Uttar Pradesh cleric offered a reward of Rs 51 crore to 'any 'individual or organisation' behind the attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were brutally killed by terrorists.

Addressing journalists in Meerut on January 7, Haji Yaqub Qureshi, who is also a former state government minister, said: “Any work against religion and the Prophet must not be tolerated at any cost. The French magazine was continuously committing a crime by targeting religion. This was the reason that its office was attacked and journalists were killed. We will give a reward of Rs 51 crore to any individual or organisation which comes forward and claims that they executed this attack.”

He added: “Whatever happened in Paris was absolutely justified.”

Later, Qureshi claimed his statement had been twisted - but didn't deny that he had supported the terrorist attack.

Reacting to his outburst, Naib Sheher Qazi of Meerut Jenur Rashideen said: “There is no place for terrorists in Islam. Those who are making wild statements to laud the attack on the French weekly must be condemned.”

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Uttar Pradesh spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said: “The government must register a case against Qureshi and arrest him. He

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has been trying to terrorise society.

His only place is in jail.”

Known for declaring himself the most popular Muslim politician of India, the 54-year-old Qureshi has been dubbed a megalomaniac by many.

The controversial cleric was once a poster boy of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP), Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and former prime minister late Vishwanath Pratap Singh’s Jan Morcha.

Qureshi hit the headlines in February 2006 when he announced at a Friday prayer in Meerut that he would give Rs 51 crore to anyone for beheading a Danish cartoonist whose caricature of Prophet Mohammad had appeared in a newspaper in Denmark. At that time, Qureshi was Minister of State for Minority Welfare and Haj in the Mulayam government.

The politician again hogged the limelight when he was caught

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travelling without a train ticket on September 16, 2007 and attacked the railway authorities when they sought his ticket or pass.

He was let off after paying a fine of Rs 14,056. During those days, he was often heard saying at public meetings: “As of date, I am the most known international Muslim leader.”

He won the Meerut Assembly seat in 2007 on a United Democratic Front (UDF) ticket and then merged it with the BSP. Although he was known for having little control over his speeches, BSP chief Mayawati somehow managed to contain him for a while.

However, in 2011 he caused controversy again by making a derogatory remark against the Sikh community. This infuriated the Dalit leader, who declared that she had suspended him from the party.

Meanwhile, Omkar Singh, senior superintendent of police, Meerut, has said that they have started a probe into Qureshi’s statement.

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he tiger population in India has increased from 1,706 in 2011 to 2,226 in 2014 in 47 reserves thereby registering a growth of 30 percent.

Environment minister Prakash Javadekar said, "While the tiger population is falling in the world, it is rising in India. It is great news. Never before such an exercise has been taken up. We have unique photographs of 80 percent of tigers," he said, talking about the year-long survey that helped prepare the estimation report.

Tiger population had dipped in 2006 to an alarming 1,411 from over 3,000 in early 2000, prompting the government to form a Tiger Task Force and tighten protection measures. And the conservation efforts have paid off as the new figures show.

India has been

struggling to hold on to its last few hundreds of big cats left in the wild because of rampant poaching that feeds an illegal international trade, which supplies animal parts to the traditional Chinese medicine market, and also habitat loss, prey depletion and poor management of tiger reserves.

The government had launched

the ‘Project Tiger’ in 1973 and over the years increased tiger reserves from 9 to 47. In 2007, it constituted a multidisciplinary Tiger and Other Endangered Species Crime Control Bureau (Wildlife Crime Control Bureau) to effectively control illegal trade in wildlife.

Rajesh Gopal, member secretary of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, said the estimation drive was a massive exercise across India which showed improvement in tiger numbers in many states.

Javadekar conferred the best reserve award on Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh.

Annamallai Tiger Reserve (Tamil Nadu) got the award for best communication and Periyar (Kerala) was rewarded for involving local communities. The Melghat reserve (Maharashtra) got award for smooth village relocation from tiger reserve.

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UP mother risks life to avert train tragedy

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n illiterate woman saved the lives of hundreds of passengers travelling on a train by risking her own life. This incident took place in Uttar Pradesh a few days ago.

The 48-year-old woman, Shyama Patel of Chilbila area of Pratapgarh was returning home from fields when she found a gap of about one foot in the railway tracks between Chilbila and Jagesarganj railway stations.

With her presence of mind, Shyama Patel removed her red shawl and firmly stood at the place where she found gap on the railway track.

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fast approaching her but she did not fear. She beagan swaying the red shawl frantically and the driver noticed her signal.

Though the driver applied brakes, the train came too close to her but a major tragedy was averted.

Hundreds of passengers heaved a sigh of relief and thanked the woman who risked her life to save theirs.

The Pratapgarh district administration felicitated Shyama Patel for her presence of mind, which helped save the lives of hundreds of passengers travelling on the Kashi Vishwanath Express (14257).

Shyama’s son explained that his illiterate mother, a resident of Chilbila area of Pratapgarh, found a

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gap of about a foot in the railway tracks between Chilbila and Jagesarganj railway stations while she was returning from the fields.

Shyama Patel said, “Unable to immediately think what I should do, I then took off my red shawl and rushed to the spot where there was the breach.

I shuddered to see that the opening was enough for a terrible train accident.

I saw a train approaching from the Varanasi side. I stood between the tracks and started swaying the shawl frantically. Although the driver noticed me and applied the brake, the engine crossed the broken section of the track before finally coming to a stop.�

A Muslim family's saga of struggle to save 165 cows

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heart-wrenching story unfolds in a village in Beed, the epicenter of drought in Marathawada, as a Muslim family— belonging to the traditional butchers' community— struggles to take care of their 165-strong cattle herd.

Acute shortage of water and cattle feed is making it difficult for the cattle to survive the drought.

The last hailstorm had claimed the lives of three calves and two cows apart from 12 cows dying within the last five years when the region was under a spell of acute drought.

“Every time a cow or calf dies an untimely death, the loss is painful.

"It is like losing a family member,” said Shabbir Sayyad (55), a resident of Dahiwandi village in Shirur Kasar taluka of Beed district in Maharashtra.

The family does not own a phone and communication is facilitated by a local scribe Navnath Yewale.

Shabbir and his family is dedicated to their cattle, a tradition initiated by Shabbir’s father Budan Sayyad in the seventies.

The family neither sells milk, nor offers the cow for meat.

The bulls are sold only to local farmers at heavily-discounted prices on a written undertaking that they will not be sold to butchers and will be returned once they are old.

The family makes its living by selling cow dung as manure to farmers which fetches them about Rs 70,000 per year.

This figure may appear small for a family of six adults, but is more than the per capita income of Rs 19 per day for this region as per government figures released in 2012.

The family’s transition, from belonging to the butcher’s community to become the protectors of cattle is interesting.

“My father wanted to overcome the stigma of being a Khatik, the term used in villages for butchers.

"He started with two cows that he had saved from the butcher’s knives and began taking care of them,” said Shabbir.

Following in his father’s footsteps, Shabbir purchased 10 cows from a butcher in 1972 and took care of them.

As news spread about this extraordinary butcher’s family of Dahiwandi, locals began assigning their aging cattle to their care.

The numbers swelled to the 165 cattle that the family have under their care now. Shabbir’s family, including his wife Ashrabi, sons Ramzan and Yusuf and daughters-in-law Rizwan and Anzum do not consume beef.

Shabbir herds the cattle into the wild to graze on the little vegetation available in the region.

The family requires more than 1500 litres of water per day for the herd as a full-grown cow could drink at least 10-15 litres at one time.

“There is dearth of drinking water for humans due to drought. The cattle are becoming malnourished due to lack of adequate water and fodder.

"The calves are the first to be affected as malnourished cows are not able to nourish their young ones,” said Yewale, who has been trying to get help for Shabbir’s family.

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Shocking it may sound but thousands of donated eyes are going to waste across the country in government eye banks because they are either infected with diseases or because of delays in reaching the eye bank.

According to the data available with Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre of Ophthalmic Sciences at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), while the number of eye donations has increased from 2009 to 2013 from 680 to 1,321, the proportion of unused eyes also increased from 185 to 400.

Perturbed authorities have called for a law to make eye donation

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Over half of donated Eyes go Waste in India ”The eye has to be removed from a dead person within six hours after the death and it can be implanted in the next 24 hours,” mandatory to combat blindness in the country.

“Almost half of the donated eyes go waste due to various reasons.

Major reasons are infection of some disease in the donated eyes and delay in reaching the eye bank that ruins the potential of the eye.

"The delay occurs due to difficulty in convincing the family of the deceased. The eye has to be removed from a dead person within six hours after the death and it can be implanted in the next 24 hours,” said Dr Shakti Kumar Gupta, Medical Superintendent, Dr R P Centre,

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AIIMS. “Every donated eye is checked for the quality of cornea and diseases if any. Tests for various diseases like HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are done before implanting the eye in a blind person,” he said.

“Despite all these arrangements, it is difficult to use all the donated eyes. Eyes from old people in the age of 70-80 are of least use because the cornea is already blurred.

"Young people should be encouraged to donate eyes in case of brain death,” Dr Gupta added.

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Appa– A Born Leader

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e is a born leader and wanted everybody around him to be honest, hard working and result oriented.

Fondly called as Appa by his children and near and dear, Udupi’s most illustrated and admired child Krishna Bhat was born on November 14, 1939. As a child Krishna Bhat would draw inspiration from looking at illustrations of Lord Krishna.

Born and brought up in temple town Udupi, Krishna Bhat had his initial schooling in Udupi. Even in his initial days, he showed spark of genius, as school student he used to get nothing but the best in his Report Card, he was very favorite of all the gurus.

Later he went to Ernakulum in Kerala for his Engineering and excelled there as well. After getting

his engineering degree with distinction, Krishna Bhat was offered a lucrative post in Hindustan Aeronautics-Bangalore and after a couple of years he was asked to serve Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Ramachandrapuram.

He got married to Vatsala Bhat in the year 1962 and blessed with four children - P Ganesh Prasad Bhat, P Manohar Bhat, P Raghavendra Bhat

and P Girish Bhat. He inculcated best values in his children.

Under his expert guidance and watchful eye, his children started Medihauxe International.

He witnessed their struggle but never expressed sympathy, on the contrary used to tell his children “your efforts are lacking”. He used to motivate them with his trade mark sentence, “put in your best efforts and success will follow you obediently.” His words came true. Today all his children are very well placed both in hotel and pharma sector.

His children say, “Appa passed away in an accident on April 14, 1997 – most unfortunate incident and huge setback to all of us. Today he is revered in Udupi as a gallant personality, brave, humble, honest, intelligent and affectionate person who left the materialistic world too early.”

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SPORTS NEWS

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"a pack containing a letter, dated august 9, 2014, nominating Ms nehwal for the Padma bhushan award was received by the sta at my residence on January 3, 2015,"

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row erupted on January 4 over the letter of nomination of badminton star Saina Nehwal for the Padma Bhushan with the Union Sports Ministry saying it had received the recommendation only on January 3 from the Badminton Association of India (BAI), while the BAI maintained that the letter was sent in August.

Saina had expressed disappointment at the Sports Ministry deciding to reject her application for the prestigious Padma Bhushan this year but the Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on January 4 sought to put the record straight, saying that his ministry received the letter of nomination only on January 3. "I have seen reports in sections of the media that Sports Ministry didn't

recommend the name of Ms Saina Nehwal for the Padma Bhushan award. On ascertaining the facts, I have come to know that Sports Ministry had not received any nomination from the Badminton Association of India prior to January 3, 2015," Sonowal said in a statement.

"A pack containing a letter, dated August 9, 2014, nominating Ms Nehwal for the Padma Bhushan award was received by the staff at my residence on January 3, 2015," he said. Sonowal, however, said that despite the late receipt of her application, his ministry would examine on January 6 the possibility of recommending her name to the Home Ministry for the award.

"I would also like to categorically state that Ms Saina Nehwal has made every Indian proud and I sincerely hope she will continue to bring laurels to Indian sports. I would like to

assure everyone that my ministry would examine the possibility of recommending her name separately," he said. BAI on its part said it had sent the letter of nomination in August last year and it has got the acknowledgment of receipt from the sports ministry.

"We had sent the recommen dation on August 9 and we also received an acknowledgment for the same from Sports Ministry. I do not know what is the confusion. In fact, when Saina had called the officials of the ministry, initially they said they have not received the letter but later said it is there but they did not consider," BAI President Akhilesh Das Gupta said.

"I think Saina is a deserving candidate and she needs to be considered for the Padma Bhushan, or else it will be an injustice to her," he added.

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BISINESS NEWS

NMDC Signs Water LinkAge Contracts

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he National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) and Larsen & Toubro inked a contract for a value of Rs 356.85 crore for design, engineering and construction of 5 million cubic metres reservoir, water treatment plant of 8600 Cu.m/hr and distribution network for NMDCs esteemed project 3.0 MTPA Steel Plant – NMDC Steel Limited, Nagarnar, Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh.

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NMDC chairman and Managing Director Narendra Kothari

Company Construction Limited inked a contract for a value of Rs 314.58 crore for Design, Engineering & Construction of Intake Well with a capacity of 10,000 Cu.m/ hr on River Sabari and cross country pipeline

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measuring 34 KM for the same plant.

NMDC chairman and managing director Narendra Kothari blessed the occasion in the presence of directors N K Nanda, Rabindra Singh, Dr T R K Rao, P K Satpathy, D S Ahluwalia, Usha Chandrasekhar, Chief Vigilance Officer and A P Singh, Director, MECON. All the works awarded in respect of NMDC’s 3 MTPA Integrated Steel Plant at Nagarnar are being taken up on war footing so that the timelines for commissioning of plant can be met. The contracts are very crucial since they will provide water linkage for the operation of the plant.

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Devinder Singh Ahluwalia

New Finance Director of NMDC

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Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC), where he was associated with the Appraisal, Financing, Monitoring of Power Projects, Resource Mobilization, Treasury Management & ALM functions.

Prior to that, he served at various levels in NHPC for 25 years wherein he has acquired rich and varied experience in Construction and Operation activities at project level as well as the Accounts, Taxation & Commercial aspects at the Corporate level.

evinder Singh Ahluwalia assumed charge as Director (Finance) of NMDC Limited, a Schedule "A" Government of India Enterprise, with Navratna Status, under the Ministry of Steel.

Ahluwalia is a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.) from Delhi University and is also a Cost Accountant. Prior to this new assignment, Ahluwalia was Executive Director (Finance) in

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consortium of 17 banks filed contempt application in the Karnataka High Court on January 7 against Kingfisher Airlines, UBHL and their promoter Vijay Mallya for allegedly violating an undertaking given to the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) that they would not alienate unencumbered assets nor deal with them.

"We have filed a contempt application in the High Court against Kingfisher Airlines, United Breweries Holdings Limited (UBHL) and Dr Vijay Mallya for violating an undertaking given before DRT," N Chintan Chinappa, counsel

for consortium of banks, said in Bengaluru.

As the application came up for hearing before the High Court, Chinappa submitted before Justice N K Patil that an undertaking was given before the DRT that neither would the unencumbered assets be alienated nor dealt with but Mallya went ahead and created pledges in violation.

Taking cognisance of the complaint, Justice Patil ordered notice to Mallya and two other companies in contention and posted the matter foranother day.

A consortium of 17 banks, which had collectively lent over Rs 7,000 crore to the crisis-ridden airline, have initiated recovery proceedings under the available legal avenues using the

underlining securities which they had. The securities included shares in multiple group companies and real estate.

In February 2013, bankers publicly stated they had lost faith in the management’s ability to revive the company.

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NATIONAL NEWS

Optical Fibre Connectivity to Panchayats: Govt. to seek private sector help

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he government has decided to seek the help of private sector to provide last mile connectivity in internet services. The PMO (prime minister’s office) has decided to bring in the private sector for laying down optical fibre network in the country under national optical fibre network (NOFN) project.

The NOFN aims to provide optical fibre connectivity to 2.5 lakh panchayats and is considered as the backbone of prime minister’s ambitious Digital India programme.

The first set of 50,000 gram panchayats will be provided with high-speed internet connectivity only later this year, said Aruna Sundararajan, administrator, universal service obligation fund (USOF), and chairman of Bharat Broadband Network Limited

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(BBNL).

“The PMO has formed a high level committee which will take a comprehensive look at NOFN’s architecture and design, implementation strategy, mission framework and technology options for last mile,” Sundararajan said.

The committee will submit its report by end of February, she added.

Initially the PMO had set a phase-wise rollout target for NOFN. According to the plan, first 50,000 panchayats were to be connected by March, another one lakh by end of 2015and remaining one lakh by end of 2016.

By March-April, Sundararajan said, most of districts of Kerala and 30 districts of Karnataka will be connected to NOFN. On January 12, communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had launched Idukki as the first district to be entirely connected to NOFN. At

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present, 1,600 panchayats are connected to optical fibre cable.

NOFN is not a complex project in terms of technology but given the scale of implementation, it can’t be done over night. The pace of implementation, however, has been accelerated considerably in last couple of months, said Sundararajan.

On reasons behind the delay in the rollout, Sundararajan said the field survey related to locating fibre and drawing the map for laying out fibre from blocks to panchayats took one and half year.

Development of electronics for NOFN also took a year. Since the electricity supply is inadequate in rural areas, the electronics have to be robust enough to work in that environment, she said.

She admitted that there were gaps in fibre connectivity between block and district. Initially, according to other DOT officials, it was assumed that upstream fibre connectivity (between block and district) is in place. The fibre cable between district and block was laid out some years back and the electronics hardware being used in this network has become obsolete and needs to be replaced. The PMO has also decided to bring in the private sector for laying down the fibre. The contracting work will be done soon, she said. The government might also provide for a ‘publicly funded Wi-Fi hot spots’ across all village panchayats, Sundararajan said.

IT Employees Earn Highest Salaries In India

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ith an average gross salary of Rs 341.8 per hour, the IT sector in India has emerged as the most lucrative, followed by finance where employees get Rs.291 per hour, according to leading online career and recruitment solutions provider, Monster India.

The Monster Salary Index (MSI) shows that the average gross salary in the construction sector stood at Rs 259 per hour, for education at Rs 186.5, healthcare (Rs 215), legal (Rs 215.6), manufacturing and transport (Rs 230.9). The report brings to light the fact that employees in education sector get the lowest hourly salary of Rs.186.50 per hour.

This can be attributed to the fact that there are relatively more women working here than in other sectors and are paid 18 per cent lesser than

men in the same sector, the report said.

Commenting on the findings of the report, Monster India Managing Director (India/Middle East/ Southeast Asia/Hong Kong) Sanjay Modi said: "The country is on the edge of a new wave of development that is expected to deliver jobs and prosperity to millions, which has a direct correlation with salary/income."

Across global and US region, the same survey indicates that females in the workplace are not being compensated in the same way as their male counterparts.

Meanwhile, gender pay gap is significant across

sectors in India, it says. On average, women earn around 34 per cent less than men in the IT sector while gender pay gap in the finance sector is about 19 per cent.

"While we have seen a great increase in the number of women in supervisory positions, this does not reflect in the salary that those women are receiving," the report said.

"The MSI report is a standard systematic research and aimed at empowering recruiters and jobseekers with a credible platform to compare salaries," WageIndicator Foundation Director Paulien Osse said.

Monster Salary Index (MSI) is an initiative by Monster India in collaboration with Paycheck.in (managed by WageIndicator Foundation) and IIM-Ahmedabad as a research partner. The analysis is based on the WageIndicator dataset covering first quarter of 2012 up to December 2014.

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Smoking in Public to Become Dearer

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rushing aside the Opposition, the union government has decided to amend the anti-smoking law and proposed radical changes, including a ban on the sale of loose cigarettes and raising the minimum age for buying tobacco products from 18 to 21 years.

It has also proposed to increase the fine for smoking in public places from Rs 200 to Rs 1,000, as well as recommending removal of designated smoking zones in hotels and restaurants.

These are some of the major recommendations in the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) (Amendment) Bill 2015, which were put out by the health ministry to seek suggestions from the public.

The bill puts to rest speculation about the fate of a panel's recommendations, which had covered most of these issues, as there were reports that the health ministry had developed cold feet following outcry from lobbies representing farmers and tobacco industry.

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Water Purifier for the

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bout 3.5 million deaths every year are caused due to contaminated drinking water across the world while 2,000 people die every day in India alone due to lack of clean drinking water. Out of these, children under the age of five are most vulnerable.

Poor

Economically and financially weaker people continue to consume unsafe drinking water on a daily basis eventually leading to diseases and death. In regions like Rajasthan, women walk several kilometres just to get a bucket of water. And even that water is not potable by international standards.

A Canadian scientist, Dr David Manz, developed a low cost Bio-sand

Water Filter that effectively removes all the dissolved particles and pathogens from the water. This slow purifying process manages to remove up to 98% of bacteria, 100% of viruses, 99% of parasites, protozoa, amoebae, and worms, 95% of heavy metals, and with a slight modification, 93% of arsenic. It manages to eliminate illnesses such as Typhoid, Cholera, Hepatitus A,

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Rotavirus, E-coli bacteria, and other dysentery causing organisms.

Tested and approved by various governments, healthcare institutions, and research departments, the low cost Bio-sand filter costs about Rs 3,000 and works for 30 years. It is easy to maintain and filters 84 litres of water daily, enough for 10-12 people, or 70 schoolchildren. There are no ongoing costs, no maintenance costs, and no electricity costs.

A U.S. based couple Michael Lipman and Cathy Forsberg with Peace Corp and Rotary backgrounds started the South Asia Pure Water Initiative Inc. (SAPWII) in Karnataka after receiving a start-up grant from a foundation in Connecticut in 2005.

When Shivani Kumar, India Country Representative of SAPWII, visited the rural areas to understand their issues, she was shocked to see the conditions that existed. She saw a pond where children were bathing and then drinking the same dirty water. In other parts of the country, she noticed people defecating in rivers and lakes, and using the same water source for drinking and cooking.

"This might be a common occurrence in villages, but it was painful for me to see and I knew I had to do something about it," Kumar says. Having spent all her life in the U.S., Kumar was unable to accept the fact that clean drinking water was unavailable to thousands. She states, "After air, we need water. Water is Life."

The technology was exactly what the country needed. Till date, SAPWII has distributed 12,000 filters, positively impacting 1,50,000 villagers.

They run 5-day professional training programmes for NGOs and have developed a network across the country consisting of 90

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Shivani Kumar, India Country Representative, South Asia Pure Water Initiative, Inc. (SAPWII)

NGOs in 22 states. Through the network, 25,000 filters have been distributed. "The way to spread this technology quicker and faster is through India's NGOs. We still have a long way to go," says Kumar.

Water is a basic necessity and everyone has the right to access clean drinking water. You can help the initiative by being a part of their training programmes, donating filters to a village through their

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Adopt-A-Village program, or just spreading awareness about the amazing technology that can change the lives of thousands of people in the country.

"The heart and soul of India lies in its villages. Come join our cause or whatever cause touches your heart," Kumar says. Water is a basic necessity and everyone has the right to access clean drinking water. Let's help people exercise this right.

GLOBAL NEWS

India's Growth Rate Could Beat China

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ndia is likely to catch up with China’s growth rate in the next two years. This was disclosed by the World Bank keeping in view the economic reform measures taken up by the Indian government after May last year.

"According to our analysis, India will catch up with China's growth in the year 2016 and 2017," World Bank chief economist and senior vicepresident Kaushik Basu told reporters.

"China's growth will remain high, but will begin to taper very gently, reaching 6.9 per cent in 2017," Basu said.

The World Bank in its report also forecast for India a growth rate of seven per cent each in the fiscal year 2016 and 2017 as against China's 7

per cent and 6.9 per cent respectively.

This would be for the first time in the recent past that India's growth rate would catch up

with that of the Asian giant China.

The World Bank estimated for India a growth rate of 5.6 per cent in 2014 and has forecast a growth rate of 6.4 percent in 2015, while that of China as 7.4 (estimated) in 2014 and

7.1 per cent (forecast) in 2015.

In its report, the Bank said growth in South Asia rose to an estimated 5.5 per cent in 2014 from a 10-year low of 4.9 percent in 2013. The upturn was driven by India, the region's largest economy, which emerged from two years of modest growth, it said.

Regional growth is projected to rise to 6.8 per cent by 2017, as reforms ease supply constraints in India, political tensions subside in Pakistan, remittances remain robust in Bangladesh and Nepal, and demand for the region's exports firms, it said. Past adjustments have reduced vulnerability to financial market volatility. Risks are mainly domestic and of a political nature. Sustaining the pace of reform and maintaining political stability are key to maintaining the recent growth momentum, the report said.

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EDUCATION NEWS

RTE nearing 5 Schools Shut Dow

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society coalition of 10,000 grassroots organisations, educationists, national networks and teacher’s organisations says that merger and closure of various government primary schools have taken place in different states in the last five years.

The forum’s representatives told the media that as per information collected from various state government websites, 17,129 schools have been merged in Rajasthan, of

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which 4,000 have been completely shut. In Telangana, 2,000 schools have been closed, while the figure is 5,000 schools in Odisha, and 1,200 in Uttarakhand.

Ambarish Rai, national convener of the forum, claimed that the government is surrendering assets to the private players. He said that unregulated mushrooming of lowbudget private schools and PPP model-based schools are other

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mechanisms diluting the spirit of the legal mandate.

The Act, which came into effect on April 1, 2009, provides, among others, "right of children to free and compulsory education till completion of elementary education in a neighbourhood school”. It also guarantees that “every child has a right to full-time elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal school

which satisfies certain essential norms and standards”.

In all, India lacks 1.2 million teachers – including regular, trained and qualified tutors – in government schools across the country. “Ten percent schools are still run by a single teacher, and millions of children continue to remain out of school,” Rai said.

“Resource is still a big challenge.

Despite the RTE Act prohibiting appointment of teachers on contract, states continue to appoint new teachers on contract basis. Instead of strengthening the RTE Act and restructuring government schools, the government is handing over schools to private entities in the guise of quality improvement.”

This shows that states are ready to give up the responsibility of providing universalised education for all, Rai said.

The last deadline for implementation of the Act is March 31, 2015. It was set for the regularisation of all teachers on contract and simultaneously training them to improve the overall quality of education imparted at government schools.

Rai said the national RTE forum will demand the fulfilment of the constitutional obligation of the government within the stipulated time.

Director at Centre for Social Equity and Inclusion and a former

member of NAC, Annie Namala, emphasised the need for inclusion of disadvantaged and marginalised groups, including dalits, tribals, disabled and minorities, while implementing the Act. Highlighting the state of government schools in the national capital, RC Dabbas, vice-president of all-India primary teachers federation (AIPTF), said there has been no recruitment in these institutions in the last six years while there is a vacancy of 10,000 teachers. Besides, around 150 schools have been merged and the number of students taking admission in MCD schools has decreased by 1 lakh, he said.

“People who can afford to pay even Rs 200 as monthly fee are sending their children to low-budget private schools, but the child hardly learns anything in such schools,” Dabbas said. “Once they complete education till class 4, they return to take admission in a government school.”

The RTE forum’s representatives said that around 10 lakh grievances and cases of violation of the Act will be collected from different parts of the country and will be submitted to the national commission for protection of child rights (NCPCR) and state commission for protection of child rights (SCPCRs) for immediate action. The forum, they said, also plans to move the court against them.

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HEALTH NEWS

Non-communicable diseases cause nearly 60% deaths in India

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ardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer and respiratory diseases and other non-communicable diseases (diseases which are not infectious) caused by these and other factors lead to more deaths than other causes of death in the world.

In its report on non communicable diseases (NCD), the World Health Organisation (WHO) mentioned that in the south-east Asia region, nearly 8.5 million deaths occurred due to non-communicable diseases in 2012.

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in the region from 6.7 million in 2000.

In India, 62.2 per cent males and 52.2 per cent females die due to noncommunicable diseases, as per the report.

While the annual number of deaths due to infectious disease is projected to decline, the total annual number of NCD deaths is projected to increase to 52 million by 2030.

Nearly 38 million of the world’s 56 million deaths in 2012 were due to NCD. This accounts for 68 per cent of the total deaths in the world. Most of the countries suffering because of this are low and middle-income countries.

The leading causes of NCD deaths

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in 2012 were: cardiovascular diseases (46.2 per cent of NCD deaths), cancers (21.7 per cent of NCD deaths), respiratory diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (10.7 per cent of NCD deaths) and diabetes (4 per cent of NCD deaths). The four major NCDs were responsible for 82 per cent of NCD deaths.

Around 42 per cent of all NCD deaths globally occurred before the age of 70; 48 per cent of NCD deaths in low and middle- income countries and 28 per cent in high-income countries were in people aged under 70 years.

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he next time you step into a road side food joint in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits, don’t forget to check out whether the oil used there is healthy.

We are cautioning you because oil extracted from animal fat is allegedly being used by the fast food centres, small time food joints and those run on push carts.

Fat collected not only from the slaughter houses but also from the animals died of ill-health is being used to extract oil by illegal oil extracting units, police sources said.

In a joint raid recently on one such illegal oil extracting unit in Malakpet, east zone task force team and the veterinary section officials of

the GHMC discovered 24 barrels of Tallow Sludge prepared by melting buffalo and cow fat, 10 Kgs of Dried Trachea and 40 Kgs of Salted Abomasum.

Police arrested one Silar Qureshi of Old Malakpet, who had been running the illegal unit. Sources said this is only the tip of the ice berg.

Several such illegal units are functioning in different parts of the state capital and its surroundings even as the enforcement agencies look the other way.

According to sources, corrupt officials in the enforcement agencies are allowing the illegal units extracting oil from animal fats to function and supply the unhealthy oil to innumerable food joints thereby seriously affecting the health of scores of people.

corrupt officials in the enforcement agencies are allowing the illegal units extracting oil from animal fats to function and supply the unhealthy oil to innumerable food joints thereby seriously affecting the health of scores of people.

Sources further said that the illegal units extracting oil from animal fats enjoy the protection of certain political leaders. Besides, the illegal operators pay hefty bribes to keep the enforcement agencies at bay, sources said.

In this backdrop, people need to be cautious before consuming the food sold by the road side food joints.

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arents, take note! Using tablets, smartphones or ebooks to distract children may be detrimental to their socialemotional development, a new study suggests.

Researchers reviewed many types of interactive media available

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and raised important questions regarding their use as educational tools, as well as their potential detrimental role in stunting the development of important tools for self-regulation.

Early research suggests that interactive media, such as electronic books and learn-to-read applications can be useful in teaching vocabulary

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and reading comprehension, but only in children preschool-age or older.

The potential educational benefits for children under two is questioned, as research on interactive media in this age group is scant, and it is wellknown that infants and toddlers learn best through hands-on and face-toface experiences.

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mobile device use by children can provide an educational benefit, the use of these devices to distract children during mundane tasks may be detrimental to the socialemotional development of the child.

"If these devices become the predominant method to calm and distract young children, will they be able to develop their own internal mechanisms of self-regulation?" researchers said.

"It has been well-studied that increased television time decreases a child's development of language and social skills.

Mobile media use similarly replaces the amount of time spent engaging in direct human-human interaction," said Jenny Radesky from Boston University School of Medicine.

Researchers question whether heavy device use during young childhood could interfere with development of empathy, social and problem solving skills that are typically obtained by exploring, unstructured play and interacting with peers.

"These devices also may replace the hands-on activities important for the development of sensorimotor and visual-motor skills, which are important for the learning and application of math and science," added Radesky. The research was published in the journal Pediatrics.

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Yoga A Potential Therapy For Cardiovascular Disease: Study

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oga can be a potential therapy for cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome. This was concluded by a systematic review and metaanalysis of randomised controlled trials.

Out of 1,404 records, 37 randomised controlled trials were included in the systematic review and 32 in the metaanalysis.

Yoga showed significant improvement for body mass index, systolic blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol compared to non-exercise participants.

Significant changes were seen in body weight, diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, triglycerides and heart rate but not fasting blood glucose.

"This review helps strengthen the evidence base for yoga as a potentially effective therapy for such conditions. The results support earlier reviews on the positive benefits of yoga for cardiovascular disease prevention," the authors noted.

The team concluded that there is promising evidence of yoga on improving cardio-metabolic health. The study titled "The effectiveness of yoga in modifying risk factors for cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials" appeared in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

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HERITAGE NEWS

ASI Hyderabad takes up Charminar Conservation work

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rchaeological Survey of India (ASI) Hyderabad Circle has taken up major conservation work at Charminar this year.

Superintending Archaeologist R Krishnaiah told The News that the conservation work includes chemical preservation from further deterioration from natural and human factors. He said the great monument is being defaced by the ugly graffiti writings by the visitors over decades due to lack of regular watch and ward staff and lack of awareness among people.

Krishnaiah said the conservation of Charminar involves four stages.

The first stage involves scientific removal of accretionary deposits from the surface by way of chemicomechanical method by using various grades of emery papers slowly, without causing any damage to the

original stucco plaster with salf free water.

In second stage, the entire area is thoroughly washed with salt free water by adding 5 percent ammonia solvent to remove the salty deposits and allow the surface to dry up and in the third stage base coat plastering is done wherever damaged as patch plastering and keep the same for 28

days for binding properly and apply in two to three layers according to thickness of bed plaster, he said. The fourth stage involves providing final coat after thorough grinding and adding egg yolk, jaggery, gaulnut, and marble powder etc., and apply with small trowels and pressing hard time and again to get uniform level and glossy finish, Krishnaiah added.

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canon used by the Moghul army during 1687 AD has been found during digging at an old house near Nayapul. The canon weighing 800 kgs is 6.5 feet in length with a 4 inch bore and is made of iron, copper, zink, lead, alloy metals and brass.

Preliminary assessment indicates that the canon belongs to 17th century and could have been used by the Moghul army during its second attack on Golconda Fort. The canon is considered a rare one and advanced model of those times.

According to police, the antique canon was found when a contractor identified as Lateef was carrying out digging work on January 29 at an old house so as to construct new building. Police got a tip off from the informers and swung into action immediately.

Sources in the department of archaeology said the canon might have been used in the war against last Qutb Shahi ruler Abdul Hassan Tanisha. It appears the Moghul army abandoned the canon after the war and the same was covered by soil over a period.

Sources also said that invaluable items of historical importance could be unearthed if excavations are carried out in a proper and scientific manner in different parts of the city, particularly at the sites where armies of Moghuls, Marathas, Qutb Shahis and Nizams camped.

Meanwhile, police said the canon found near Nayapul has been seized and is being handed over to the department of archaeology for further investigations on their part.

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t is highly difficult to carry out social service activities these days without financial and political support. But Good Samaritans still exist in the society who strive hard to serve the people selflessly with available resources.

One such Good Samaritan is Mora Sreeramulu Mudiraj of Baghamberpet. Born into a poor family, Sreeramulu could study only up to SSC. He currently runs an auto garage to eke out his livelihood.

Despite suffering from financial constraints, Sreeramulu, with his strong will and commitment, started Sri Hanuman Youth Association in the year 1996 with an intention to provide selfless services to the needy.

He began the activities of the association with blood donation.

Sreeramulu told The News that an incident of his childhood days inspired him to concentrate on blood donation. When he was studying class IX, one of his friends urgently required blood. But neither him, nor his other friends had money to buy blood.

“At that point of time, a nurse called me and said, you look strong so why don’t you donate blood. Even as I was confused whether to donate blood out of fear, the nurse told me that she herself had donated blood several times and nothing will happen if blood is donated.

Immediately, I donated blood and my friend was saved.

“Later, I went home where a

surprise was in store for me.

Residents of my locality gave me a warm welcome and appreciated a lot for helping my friend. This one experience made me take a decision to carry out social activitiy,” Sreeramulu said.

From then onwards, people started seeking his help whenever they needed blood. Subsequently, he organised a blood donation camp with the help of Government Blood Bank at Narayanaguda.

Further, the youth association under the leadership of Sreeramulu ensure that all needy children of the school going age are admitted to schools. The association will provide financial help to pay the school fee etc., besides providing books and other things. The association has also been distributing tricycles for physically challenged, blankets for elderly persons, conduct funerals of orphans and organise medical camps.

Sreeramulu has many awards and rewards to his credit in recognition for his selfless services. He received the best youth award for the year 2008-09 from the Union Sports Ministry, National Youth Award for the year 2011-12 from the President of India.

Currently he practices one philosophy of spending 10 percent of his income for the service activities.

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TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Will Be Last OS You Buy

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Microsoft has unveiled Windows 10 and it will be last OS (operating system) you will buy, and many will get it free.

After Windows 10 is installed, Microsoft plans to put in place a continuous updates process that will eliminate the concept of next versions. Microsoft will have ‘Windows as a Service’ division and plans to include a continuous series of upgrades performed automatically. The updates will be available for all the devices.

Indian-born CEO Satya Nadella has also decided to give away Windows 10 as a free

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upgrade to users of the most recent versions of Windows and Windows Phone, as the world's largest software company tries to retain customers.

The company is expected to reveal more about the financial implications and future plans when it reports quarterly earnings next week. Along with Windows 10 the Microsoft has introduced the Surface Hub, which is an all-in-one PC with an 84-inch 4K display that's optimized for brainstorming and other collaborative activities.

Microsoft has taken a bold move and introduced HoloLense. It uses augmented reality computing platform and

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3D images will be displayed in front of you as if they were really there. The HoloLense is expected to transform the future of exploration in every conceivable field of inquiry.

Microsoft HoloLens, which looks like a wireless visor, raises the stakes in virtual and augmented reality field occupied

by Facebook's Oculus and Google's Glass project.

The innovation-starved software giant also showed Xbox app for games on Windows 10 and a new version of its browser code named 'Spartan,' which lets users make notes on Web pages and share them.

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The Indian Space Scientists are working on exciting new breakthroughs and innovative methodologies in the field of communication, said Dr Jitendra Singh, union minister of state of the ministry of development of NorthEastern Region.

The Minister was speaking after visiting the Chandigarh based Semi Conductor Laboratory (SCL) of the Department of Space recently.

Elaborating further, Jitendra Singh said, “Ultra Wide Band” (UWB) systems are gaining world-

wide popularity in modern communication era, particularly for short and medium range communications. In the times to come, such systems will have to be developed for further applications he said adding that the main passive components of the Ultra Wide Band systems are “antenna” and “filter”.

Jitendra Singh also said that the inherent accompanying challenges of rapid scientific advancement in modern communication technology will be to cater to a wide range of frequencies and at the same time also develop

mechanism for rejection of undesired frequencies. Obviously, this aspect would require further research in order to meet requirements in the fields of Space, Defence and other applications, he added.

Lauding the work being done in the Chandigarh laboratory under the Department of Space, Jitendra Singh said that this is perhaps the first establishment of its kind in the country which is researching and developing semi-conductor with the objective of implementing the new concept of UWB on Silicon Substrate.

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BUSINESS NEWS

Micromax Beats Samsung to Occupy Top Slot

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ndian company Micromax has dislodged multinational brand Samsung as top smartphone vendor in India.

According a report by UK research firm Canalys, Micromax has 22 per cent share of the total smartphone market in India, ahead of Samsung's 20 per cent. For the last few years Samsung had occupied the top slot.

There are various reasons for the growth of Delhi-based Micromax.

Their performances are partly due to its continuing appeal to mobile phone users upgrading to smartphones and price. In Q4 2014 in India, 23% of

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shipments were of devices priced under Rs 6,000, while 41% were of devices in the bracket Rs 6,000 to Rs 12,000.

Rushabh Doshi, an analyst with Canalys says that catering to local market preferences will become increasingly important. Micromax has been quicker than its competitors to improve the appeal of devices, for example, by including a wide variety of local languages on its Unite phones.”

Micromax has recently launched YU Yureka smartphone and its Canvas Nitro and Canvas Hue are popular phones. Many companies have launched devices with innovations like greater battery life.

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“But vital to success is selling these handsets at low price points to appeal to the bulging mid-level income market in India,” says Doshi.

Meanwhile, Indian market for smartphones experienced very strong annual growth of 90 per cent, with 21.6 million units shipping in the fourth quarter. The other major local vendors continued to jostle for third and fourth places.

The top four players in Q4 2014 in India by units shipped were Micromax, Samsung, Karbonn and Lava. India has the world's secondhighest number of mobile phone after China and is the third-biggest market by number of smartphones sold.

WEIRD NEWS

Stray Cat Saves Russian Baby

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n abandoned newborn baby was saved from freezing to death by a stray cat. The cat named Marsha climbed into the box the infant had been dumped in and kept the child warm for several hours as the mercury plunged below zero.

Residents in the block of flats found the unusual surrogate curled around the freezing boy and licking his face after being alerted by his cries.

'The baby had only been outside

for a few hours and thanks to Marsha he was not damaged by the experience,' a hospital spokesman said.

Nadezhda Makhovikova, who lives in the flats in Obninsk in the Kaluga region of Russia, said she ventured into the stairwell after hearing what sounded like a cat meowing in distress.

“When I went down, I saw it was the baby crying,” she said.

Mothering Marsha ran after paramedics as they took the tiny baby to the ambulance, it was reported.

Vera Ivanina, a

paramedic, said: “She was so worried about where we were taking the baby. She ran right behind us, meowing. She was really a rational creature.”

The baby, a boy aged between two to three months, was taken to hospital where he was checked over by medics.

The infant, who was found in clean clothes and with a pack of nappies, was declared fit and healthy, despite being in for hours.

Police have launched a search for the parents while the baby is being cared for in a hospital.

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Woman Chops Off Husband’s Penis For Cheating

Feng Lung discovered the affair after her husband Fan Lung, 32, used her mobile to send lover Zhang Hung a saucy email from home in the city of shangqin in central China’s Henan province.

Fan Lung (right) turned on his wife (left) after she cut off his penis for a second time and he was spotted naked and bloody attacking her outside the hospital.

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jilted wife chopped off her cheating husband’s penis twice.

This incident took place in China a couple of weeks ago.

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her husband’s manhood with a pair of scissors when she discovered that he was having an affair and then snipped it off again after surgeons reattached it. She is now facing jail after being arrested for causing grievous bodily harm.

Feng Lung discovered the affair after her husband Fan Lung, 32, used her mobile to send lover Zhang Hung a saucy email from home in the city of Shangqin in central China’s Henan province.

He forgot to log out of his account when his wife ame across the message and several others, and flew into a rage. Grabbing a pair of scissors she stormed into their bedroom where he was sleeping and cut off his penis.

Surgeons were able to reattach it, but fuming Feng sneaked into his hospital room and cut it off again before throwing it out of a window.

This prompted the cheat to turn on his wife and he was spotted naked and bloody attacking her outside the hospital. “The first we were aware of

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what happened was when someone came into the reception area to say a naked man was beating up a woman outside the hospital. Staff rushed out to see what was happening and found the patient with blood streaming down his legs hitting the woman,” a spokesman for the hospital said.

“He was stopped and the woman was taken in for treatment, and then we discovered she had chopped his penis off again.”

Doctors and police officers combed the area outside but failed to find the man's missing member. They believe it may have been taken by a stray dog or cat.

The hospital spokesman said: “The man had lost a lot of blood and was taken in for emergency surgery.

He is now in a stable condition but is extremely emotionally distraught.”

Fan's lover, who visited him at the hospital, said she planned to marry him as soon as she could. “It doesn't matter that he has lost his fertility, he has five children already,” Zhang said.

SPIRITUAL NEWS

Do good deeds, Avoid hell

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very action has an equal and opposite reaction. It is a known fact accepted by modern science and detailed at length in our scriptures. Also, we know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it only changes form.

So when someone leaves the body, he/she changes form but is still there… where and in which form, depends on the actions performed by him/her. The concept of heaven and hell stems from here and is a reality, which is accepted by religions and cultures across the globe.

for those who did not seek pleasure and wanted to go beyond pleasure.

No other school of thought has gone beyond heaven or jannat or swarg. It is only the vedic philosopher who perceived dimensions beyond the swah loka - maha, jana, tapa and satyaloka…that is the ability of the Guru who takes you beyond. Also, there is no other school of thought which has conceived the Guru, excepting vedic thought, implying only Guru can take you beyond and show you what lies beyond.

Without going into the details of heaven, let us talk about hell. In hell one is taken through certain

If you have done good things in life, then to balance it out, you are given good things- heaven. In heaven, as one indulges in pleasures, the karmas get exhausted and there is rebirth for a normal person who seeks pleasures. It is only the vedic seers who could see beyond heaven,

purification processes to balance out all the negative deeds he/she has carried out and the interesting part is that the one who is in hell does not know that he has left the body, he feels whatever is happening with him is for real.

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YOGI ASHWINI on you, you can see your skin melting, your face disfiguring, the pain is excruciating and death seems like the only escape but even death doesn’t come to you… because you are already dead and you don’t know it. That is hell. A heavy jet of ice cold water is poured on the soft part of your head, you are not able to breathe, yet you are breathing. You are taken through this pain day in and day out and with every passing instant you feel the water is going to choke you, it doesn’t…because you are already dead. That is hell.

All of the above and many other painful processes are experiences of hell. Every religion speaks about it, it has to happen. Some of you might have had these visions in your dreams… what you saw was, in fact, hell. Especially those of you who feel claustrophobic and have inherent fears, it stems from what you have already gone through once in hell.

Why go through the trauma once again? Why not instead, do some good deeds and avoid it.

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