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Modis new route to push growth for hands to find rationalists killers
Alok Deshpande while out on his morning
walk. As the police could not
2013, while out on
his morning walk
MUMBAI: More than a year af- arrest the culprits, the Bom-
Without backing Ex-servicemen ter the Central Bureau of In- bay High Court handed over lieved from their present
of 1.25-billion reject Modis vestigation took over the the investigation to the CBI duty.
Indians, no target case of murder of Narendra in May 2014. Chief Minister Devendra
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ome September and Delhi will get ronment (SAFE), before the
its first ever adventure park. National Green Tribunal
The adventure park is coming (NGT). SAFE has demanded
up next to Sanjay Jheel in Mayur action against camps along
Vihar and is spread over an area the Shivpuri to Rishikesh
of 6.3 acres. The park promises stretch that do not follow
Delhiites soft adventure sports regulations.
such as spider webs, Burma SAFE claims that the raft-
bridge, quad biking, monkey ing camps not only violate SAFE claims that the rafting camps not only violate
crawling and water sports too. the Forest (Conservation) the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, but also the
The park is being built by a con- Act, 1980, but also the Envi- Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, and the Water
cessionaire engaged by the Delhi ronment (Protection) Act,
Tourism and Transportation De- 1986, and the Water (Pre- (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974.
velopment Corporation vention and Control of Pol- FILE PHOTO
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10-year jail HC to hear appeals in
CHILD BECAME VICTIM OF MINORS WRATH, WAS PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED for sodomy Hashimpura massacre
Victim of violence
Nirnimesh Kumar
Mohammed Iqbal A Division Bench said
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has
sentenced a man to 10 years of NEW DELHI: The Delhi High
that since the issue
rigorous imprisonment for so- Court, on October 20, will required serious
domising a four-year-old boy hear the appeals filed by vic- consideration, it would
in the bushes of a graveyard in tims of the infamous 1987 hear all the parties in
Kanjhawala in North-West Hashimpura massacre and
Staff Reporter Delhi in a drunken state on the Uttar Pradesh govern-
detail. As many as 42
the day of Bakri-Eid in 2013. ment against a trial courts people were killed in
L
ess than a month after the in- Evidence by the victim and acquittal of 16 Provincial Hashimpura village in
famous Meenakshi murder case, two eye-witnesses who had Armed Constabulary (PAC)
a seven-year-old girl child died
Uttar Pradeshs Meerut
saved the boy and caught hold personnel in the case.
allegedly after being subjected to of the accused helped the A Division Bench com-
district on May 22, 1987
merciless physical assault by her court in holding accused Sure- prising Justices Sanjiv
neighbour at north Delhis nder guilty of the offence un- Khanna and RK Gauba said (NHRC).
Anand Parbat on Friday evening. der Section 6 (aggravated on Thursday that since the The NHRC has further
The victim, Payal, was beaten sexual penetrative assault) of issue required serious con- sought an enquiry into the
up by the minor son of a neigh- the Protection of Children sideration, it would hear all incident and framing of gui-
bourhood shopkeeper on Thurs- Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. the parties in detail. delines for cases of custodial
day evening, allegedly in reaction The accused had tempted The court observed that violence.
to choosing to purchase groceries the victim with promises of the occurrence of the inci- The Bench also asked the
from a rival shopkeeper. She was sweetmeat. The boys father dent was not in dispute, with victims counsel about the
shifted to hospital for treatment was a neighbour of the ac- even the trial court accept- possibility of payment of
and had been discharged hours cused. Counsel for the ac- ing it in its judgement of compensation to the affect-
before she breathed her last. cused indirectly tried to acquittal. ed families through the Del-
According to the police, a case discredit the two eye-witness- The court, which had is- hi Legal Services Authority.
of culpable homicide amounting es by enquiring from the vic- sued notices to 16 PAC per- As many as 42 people
to murder has been registered. tims father whether they sonnel on May 29 on the were killed in Hashimpura
Though police sources said the belonged to his community. appeal against the trial village in Uttar Pradeshs
juvenile who allegedly assaulted The medical report also said courts verdict, issued fresh Meerut district on May 22,
her had been detained, senior of- that the sodomy on the child notices to them on an in- 1987, when they were alleg-
ficials denied the contention and cannot be ruled out and cor- tervention application edly shot by the PAC person-
refused to either confirm or deny roborated the deposition by moved by the National Hu- nel and their bodies thrown
the development till the official the victim who stood by his man Rights Commission into a canal.
receipt of her post-mortem ex- After the Meenakshi murder case, north Delhis Anand Parbat sees yet another incident statement recorded by a Met-
amination report. of mindless assault. PHOTO: PTI ropolitan Magistrate under
We are in the process of ascer- Section 164 of the Crime Pro-
taining the precise reason behind formed about the incident post followed by a terrible beating in riorating further and leading to cedure Code in the trial. WEATHER WATCH (City-wise reading yesterday)
her death; the incident is also be- Payals death on Friday evening. full public view, following which her death. The local police were The prosecution has been
ing probed from the angle of pos- According to her family, Payal he fled leaving Payal crying in informed and a team was des- For metros highlighted, readings show max temperature
able to prove the charge
sible medical negligence and had gone to the neighbourhood pain. patched to the spot from where it against the accused beyond
further investigation is under- market on Thursday evening to A neighbour informed her rushed Payal to the Lady Hard- reasonable doubt. The ac-
way, said a senior police officer purchase a few things on instruc- family, which then rushed her to inge hospital where doctors de- cused accordingly stands con-
adding that the police were in- tions from her mother. the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) clared Payal dead. Her body has victed for offence punishable
When she reached the market, Hospital for medical assistance. been retained for a post-mortem under Section 6 of the Act,
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF it is alleged, she went to the shop
adjacent to the one the family
Payal was then treated for bro-
ken ribs in addition to similar
examination at the same facility,
the police officer said.
Additional Sessions Judge Vi-
nod Yadav said, holding the
ASCERTAINING THE PRECISE REASON usually went to. This is under- injuries at the RML hospital for a accused guilty. Delhi | 33.6 C
BEHIND HER DEATH; THE INCIDENT IS stood to have angered the minor
son of the said shopkeeper.
day before being discharged.
It is alleged that her condition
However, the Judge showed
For feedback, please mail us at compassion to the accused
ALSO BEING PROBED FROM THE ANGLE The accused is alleged to have worsened soon after reaching her cityeditordelhi@thehindu.co.in while sentencing him keeping
OF POSSIBLE MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE cornered the child immediately residence before gradually dete- in view the burden of taking
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care of his wife and a minor
daughter.
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ENGAGEMENTS
Medals for 20 Delhi police personnel Art: Life Series - solo art
exhibition by Nawal Kishore
Classical Music. Sarod recit-
al by Ranajit Sengupta fol- Bengaluru | 31.1 C Chennai | 36.4 C
Staff Reporter at Ekaani Art, A 274, De- lowed by Hindustani Vocal
fence Colony, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. recital by Ashwini Bhide-
NEW DELHI: Twenty Delhi Po- Exhibition: Monumen- deshpande at Habitat
lice personnel, including tal - a photographic repre- World, India Habitat Centre
Special Commissioner (Wel- sentation of the monuments (IHC), 7 p.m.
fare and Estate Oversight) Image & Data: India Meteorological Department
of Delhi in an abstract mini- Lecture: The Nemichan-
and Joint Commissioner malist form by Ahmed Firoz dra Jain Memorial Lecture Forecast for Sunday: Heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur at isolated
(Special Cell), were confer- Delhi O Delhi Foyer, India 2015 - Jhadu Katha: Enact- places over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh,
red Police Medals for their Habitat Centre (IHC), 10 ments of the Broom in Oral Assam and Meghalaya. Heavy rainfall would occur at isolated places over
services on the eve of Inde- a.m.-8 p.m. History, Political Spectacle east Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.
pendence Day. Painting: Solo show of and Bare life by Rustom
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tender and Rajeev Kumar Spl. CP S. Vasudeva Rao Jt. CP Vivek Gogia ACP Gyan Singh Meena India Habitat Centre (IHC), India International Centre Allahabad 33.7 27.8 Imphal 30.6 23.5 Port Blair 31.6 25.8
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Singh have been awarded the Talk: Shri Ambarish Dave Screening: Where the Bengaluru 31.1 20.5 Kohima 25.6 15.8 Puducherry 35.4 25.6
prestigious Police Medal for on Self Enquiry - as taught Sun is born Spanish film Bhopal 28.5 23.6 Kolkata 31.2 26.3 Raipur 32.0 26.0
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S Vasudeva Rao, Special harshi at Ramana Kendra, 8 malan Film Series at Institu- Chandigarh 32.2 26.4 Kozhikode 31.2 24.5 Shillong 25.2 18.4
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lice Medal for Distinguished
Service.
Fourteen police personnel
including Vijay Kumar, ACP ACP Swatantar Singh Gill ACP Laxmi Bai Kanwat Insp. Kailash Singh Bisht
(Rashtrapati Bhawan), Swa-
tantar Singh Gill, ACP (Ist Pal, SI Naresh Chopra, ASI Chand, have been conferred sented to the personnel on
Bn DAP), Laxmi Bai Kanwat, Ramesh Chander, Head the Police Medals for Meri- the occasion of National Po-
ACP (SPUWAC), Inspector Constable Jitender Kumar torious Service. lice Day on February 16,
Surender Kumar, SI Brahm and Constable Kalyan The medals will be pre- 2016.
gangrape case
tisement before responding to any published in
this newspaper. Kasturi & Sons Limited, the
Publisher & Owner of this newspaper, does not
Staff Reporter vouch for the authenticity of any advertisement
or advertiser or for any of the advertisers pro-
ducts and/or services. In no event can the
Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Director/s,
NEW DELHI: An Indian Army Nirnimesh Kumar foolproof case. Employees of this newspaper/company be held
Brigadier was allegedly duped The case hinged on the vic- responsible/liable in any manner whatsoever for
any claims and/or damages for advertisements
of Rs.20 lakh after being in- NEW DELHI: Four accused have tims allegations in her com- in this newspaper.
formed he had earned a bonus been let off by a Delhi court in plaint and the statement
on his Life Insurance Corpo- a gangrape case as the victim recorded by the Magistrate.
ration (LIC) policy, the police deposed in the trial that they But in the trial, she refused to
confirmed on Saturday. have committed no offence support the prosecution.
Identified as Brigadier Ajay against her. She also urged She was extensively cross-
Pal, 52, the victim was told he the court to acquit them. examined by the prosecution
had to invest 40 per cent of The four accused were ten- but she did not budge from
the bonus. Soon, Brig. Pal was ants of the victim in Rajouri the inverse position she took
informed the bonus had in- Garden in West Delhi. They on the case. All the accused
creased to Rs.1.86 lakh and he stayed on the first floor while persons present in the court
was asked to deposit Rs. the victim, along with her today have not committed
49,000 to Go India Service. husband, lived on the ground any offence against her and
He made the payment, but floor of the building a wed- they are innocent. She did not
the demand did not stop. De- ding gift from her father. want to say anything else,
posits were requested for They had also threatened her the victim deposed in the
opening a Demat account, that they would kill her if she trial.
agent code removal, etc. disclosed the incident to her Therefore, in view of
On the basis of Brig. Pals husband. According to the above discussion, the con-
statement, a case under sec- complaint lodged with the lo- science of this court is com-
tions 120-B (criminal con- cal police, the four accused pletely satisfied that the
spiracy) and 420 (cheating) of had intruded into the house prosecution has failed to
the Indian Penal Code has of the victim and raped her. A bring home the charge
been filed with the crime few days later, they had once against all the accused per-
branch. against barged into her house sons namely Puneet Batra,
The investigating officers and molested her. Arjun Singh, Sanveer Sharma
are probing details provided The police had got the and Rohit Joshi for the of-
by Brig. Pal, who has named statement of the victim re- fences Additional Sessions
three of the accused, includ- corded by a Metropolitan Ma- Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma
ing a woman. gistrate for making it a said acquitting them.
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COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENTS
KEJRIWAL CALLS FOR SYNERGY BETWEEN CENTRE AND DELHI; HIGHLIGHTS AAP GOVT'S ACHIEVEMENTS IN FIRST SIX MONTHS
C
hief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on
Saturday pitched for 'synergy'
between the Centre and the Del-
hi government in his Independ-
ence Day speech at Chhatrasal
Stadium here, saying that a
cooperative approach was the
key to development while 'dif-
ferences' were healthy in a
democracy.
In his 40-minute speech with
several dignitaries and thou-
sands of schoolchildren looking
on, Mr. Kejriwal ran through the
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) govern-
ments 'unprecedented' achieve-
ments in its first six months,
mainly in social sectors and in
curbing corruption, saying Delhi
has an 'honest Chief Minister,
Ministers and officials'.
I have political differences
with Modiji. But differences are
healthy in a democracy. Its a
good thing to have differences.
But it is important to have syn-
ergy between the two as well.
Such cooperative arrangements
are needed for development.
Since we are running govern-
ments, we should have a working
arrangement irrespective of our
major ideological differences,
he said at the end of his address
after unfurling the tricolour.
Referring to distribution of
compensation to the victims of
1984 anti-Sikh riots, the Chief
Minister showered praise on
Home Minister Rajnath Singh
saying he wholeheartedly coop-
erated with his government on
the issue.
Cheques will be distributed
soon and I want the first cheque
to be handed over by Rajnath
Singhji. He has assured us that
the money for it will be given by
the Centre, he said, adding Rs. 5
lakh each will be given to the
families of the victims.
Interestingly, he did not refer
to the acrimony between the
Delhi government and the Lieu-
tenant Governor Najeeb Jung's
office due to the power tussle
over issues of administrative
jurisdiction. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal taking salute on Independence Day at Chhatrasal Stadium on Saturday; and students at the celebrations. PHOTOS: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
At the function, he also took
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proff. well settled in Hyd 4650 IPS, IFS, Doctor, Arch, Govt / TN ram Fair SWE, MNC, Rich. gunasekar Unemployed, well to do, seeks job/
Hindu ucaste pref Malayalee Nair / Caste no bar / Ct: 9940649593 anpoonamallee@gmail.com/ business/India/abroad,04443483310
Menon etc Issueless Divorcees Wid- 09629276108
owers need only reply BHP RC UDAYAR 28 MBA, Working in Gov- PILLAI, Beautiful, 24/165, B.
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Invites Suitable Proposals. min,Danusu Rasi Uthiradam,26/168/B. Rich Family,seeks job/business,044
9444456881 Tech,Software Engineer/CTS seeks 43483325
NAIR DOCTOR doing MDChest professionally qualified suitable
Medicine, Chennai settled, 28/155/ RC,DKV,BSMS,MD(Siddha)30,Own bridegroom(Raghu,Kethu Dosha), YADAVA, Beautiful, 21/160, B.E, Un-
Uthirattathi, Very fair,Beautiful, Clinic.Caste Nobar.40000pm.Seek Ct:9486629266,elango9759@gmail.com employed, Rich Family,seeks job/
from Well to do business family Suitable Groom.9176260510,carulandu
seeks Post graduate Doctors/ High- @yahoo.in business/India/abroad,04443483324
PILLAI REVATHI 26/153 fair beauti-
ly qualified Very well Employed/ ful veg BE (MBA) HCL 4.2L pa seeks
Businessman from affluent fami- CSI NADAR / 30 / PG / 6 Lacs PA / pure veg Pillai/Brahmin below SC, Ad 24/BE., Central Govt
lies. Ct: 09003134444/ santhusti19@ Chennai based girl seeks suitable 30yrs govt/pvt professionals JobAssistent Manager( Indian Oil
gmail.com employed Christian boy. Ct: Ct:9894362004 Corporation) 80,000PM seeks groom
9345202020 / email: bjmr1303@ chennai.8939085551
gmail.com KALLAR AMBALAM 28/155 Rohini,
NAIR GIRL 32/157, Pooyam, B.Tech, Rishabam MCA seeks suitable bride- TAMIL IYER Vadamal Kousiga Tiru-
employed in Trivandrum (relocating CHRISTIAN PRPOTESTANT 24/170CM/MA groom. Ct: 94435 93310. vathirai 1991/170 M.Sc Speech Ther-
to Bangalore soon) seeks alliance Eng/Slim Wheatish, Charming, Home- apy Empd in Chennai seeks groom
from professionally qualified and maker, God Fearing Girl Seeks Offi- HINDU NADAR Revathi 27/165 MBBS, well Qualified Employed in India/
employed boys. 09496545606 cer/Executive/Defense Groom 175cm& Fair, well to do family seeks Abroad.Ct: 09884869751, kouki1923@
Above 2630yr Broadminded,Teeto- groom from well settled family. gmail.com
taler,Fit Christian,Catholics, Contact:9790504601.
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Paediatrics 26/160 fair Ayilliam 04368228467 able Groom. Ct: 9841320762
seeks alliance from MBBS PG Yadava Aarthee, 28, MCA, Kiruthi- rangamaniramya@gmail.com
doctors.09747877332, surendranatl@ RC NADAR Female Age 30 US Citizen gai, Karthika , 28 MBA, Kiruthigai
gmail.com Doctor Well Mannered & Brought up Twins Contact Mohandoss Puduch- IYER GARGA Hastham 35/173 MCA SWE
in a Very Traditional Setting with ery 0413 2214697, 99432 56006.
Good Family Values. Ct:09841505379 USA H1B Issueless Divorcee. Seeks
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RC NADAR 23/160 Chartered Accoun- 09444079593, pmeenakshi@gmail.com
employed in USA for nair unmarried RC NADAR Female Age 31 US Citizen tant, Chennai Parents Seeks God
girl 44/160 fair B.Tech, ME, MS Dentist Well Mannered & Brought up fearing, Professional Groom Doctor/ PILLAI IT DIVORCEE 30, 7Yrs Girl
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560001 REDDY, 1951987, Avitam, Magaram,
BE, CSE, working at Software compa- NADAR /DIVORCEE /621983/155/ MS Tamil Iyer Vadama Kousika Thiruvon-
ny, Rs.70,000/pm.9894043207 (ENT)/ GovtDoctor/Anusham am 25/165 BE empd MNC in Chennai
ASHWATHI FAIR MCA 28/54 S/W Er Viruchigam, Kethu in 8th place, 7lakhs PA. Seeks Groom BE/ Well
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stld caste noBar 01830571013, Fair UG Employed 7.5Ls/P.A. Seeks groom9443223657 9884533465
07042579807 Groom Never Married, Qulfd, Em-
ployed Chennai Based. Below 36Yrs VANIYA CHETTIAR, Fair 22/170 BE IYENGAR ATHREYA,POORADAM 3 padham,
From Tradional Veg Family. BHP seeks alliance from same caste. no dosham,BE TCS chennai 25/170
CHENAI SETTLED Upper middle class Must. Box No.AM115876, THE HINDU, Contact : 9940196169 / 9962296169 beautiful, doctors,ACA/ACS,MS/Phd/
Nair Girl 29/163 Divorcee MBA MNC Chennai600002. PGengrs,handsome below 29.
Chennai seek alliance from Nair INTERCASTE PARENTS Pillai/ Brahmin ct:8220263082
Boys Below 35yrs. Ct: 09444212871/ MUDALIAR, SWATHI, 33/165, BE MBA 27 B.Tech, Sadayam, Kumbam , Fair,
09444549138 working in TCS, 16LPA, Pref. Pro- TL TCS Chennai seeks Groom Pure 33 / 60 / Brahmin Smartha / BE,MS
fessional qual Caste No Bar Ct: Veg. Same Community 9944573873 ei- / Bangalore / Upper Middle Class
suhamano@yahoo.com ther of the Parent Brahmin. family seeks Bride from any Brah-
NAIR 24 ME Pooyam Suddha Jadagam min family, Language No Bar
settled in Tamilnadu expecting MUDALIAR 34, M.Com Business Family 9916167345 / divyabharathi.divya3@g
well employed Nair boys CT CBT Seeks Business Family CasteNo- mail.com
9443030260 9600253414 Bar Ct: GEETHAM 9884858014/
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170 hailing from Kerala, IAS Offi- HINDU NADAR Parents Educated and 160cms, very fair, good looking,
ly 78 Born seeks a Hindu Vegetari- Well Settled at Chennai Seeks al- Senior Director MNC Singapore. Wid-
an PG Doctors / Other Profession- cer in Karnataka from well educat-
ed youngsters. harsham15@ liance for their only unmarried owers, Divorcees acceptable, will-
als 3540 all over India. daughter 1972/160/M.Com/Vegetarian ing to relocate. Brahmins contact:
yahoo.com
from Educated Nadar Groom.Send BHP kanyarasi149@gmail.com Box
Box No.CC25437, THE HINDU, Chen- No.WW57189, THE HINDU, Chennai
PACKERS DIVORCEE NRI
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09526796438, 09703205450 Sozhiya Vellalar 27, M.Sc., M. 34 Tamil/Telu.Brahmin only
tled Hindu upper caste girl (Indi- 09840149081
an). Seeking well placed match set- AFFLUENT FAMILY ,well educated , Phil., Kettai Govt. employee seeks
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INVESTMENTS Chennai Seeks same caste SWE Groom Govt. Wanted Bridegroom Groom should be B.Tech M.S MCA
PUNJABI
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ties. Interested Parties contact:
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ateam.in Web : www.villaparadise. TAMIL Thiruvonam prefers qualf. Well set- biodata with photo gmail.com. Contact: 76800 59076
in FINANCE tled Naidu boy (MBBS /B.D.S) from Rajagopal1581962@gmail.com 1431,
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64558666 ried Groom blw30 Chennai only. CHETTIAR 29/165 MBA, unmarried, em- Thevar 1983/ 152 B.Sc., wheatish
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07418070736 09789818004
PQM4 FAIR Bful Punjabi girl yahoo.co.in Agri,Deputy Mgr, SBI,Seeks suit- decent family: 9445286788
160 cm, 8.3.86, 2:50 pm Delhi able groom between 3336 yrs. Ct
B.Tech wrkg TCS USA, M: 09629026610 SC HINDU, 39/153 Kanni Rasi, Uthi- TELUGU BALIJA 44 B.E., looking for
8130090751, E: suneha.bhatia@ TAMIL MUSLIM Religious 30/153 ram, Lame Right Leg, M.com Govt. well settled groom. CNB Ph:
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tive Tamilnadu seeks educated em- seeks well educated employed groom Bridegroom only wanted Ct:
ployed muslim groom. Ct: from same Caste. Ct: 09486951319. 9944705717 REDDY VISAGAM Thulam 34/155 well
8760576661. Email: amaravanavijay@gmail.com Educated Divorcee Short lived No
Direct Credit of Rs. 7Cr500Cr @ HOTELS MALAYALAM MUDALIAR ASWANI fair 28/157 MA Issues seeks suitable Groom
46% p.a. Capitalizing for Proper- MBBS, Hindu SC AD PR, 24/163 M.Ed. (Ph.D), State Govt. B.T. 07401536500
ties, Industries, Business, Huge Do you Need Job @ Star Hotel, MALAYALA MUSLIM Chennai based 25 TAMIL MUSLIM Parents Chennai seek Moolam, daughter of well settled Teacher 41K seeks alliance from
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Plastic waste dots the area around Red Fort after Independence Day celebrations on Saturday (left), garbage strewn on the streets near Jama Masjid in Old Delhi. PHOTOS: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
Tourists as litterbugs
MANY TOURIST SPOTS HAVE DUSTBINS, YET VISITORS DIRTY THE SITES, WRITES JAIDEEP DEO BHANJ
E
xquisite Mughal monuments encircled although the premises are clean, as you surprise visits, says Prem
by manicured lawns, parks with pretty move further away towards the park- Though
public
the
toilets has
condition
improved
of
in
clean,
sing,
the
with
dustbins
even the
are
water
mis-
taps
well-equipped
and are cleaned
with
at
dustbins,
least twice
IS TO IMPOSE FINES Singh.
beds of seasonal flowers, spotless mu- ing lots and the shops outside the He adds that since the park is frequented by so many VIPs it
seums showcasing our history and cul- gates, it gets filthier. the past few months, it is no- not working at times. I gen- a day. The public toilets near
stays clean and the entire system works well to make sure that no
ture and many cities within a city For instance, Jama Masjid is spot- where near perfect. erally do not use public toi- Qutub Minar are clean. May-
complain is received.
these are some of the factors that draw less but as you move away from Gate Citizens, especially wom- lets. I once entered the toilets be that is because they charge
en, are clueless about how to of Central Park and was sur- Rs.5. I think it is okay if they Ravinder, another civic employee, comments that the Swachh
foreign tourists to Delhi. Number 3, the scene makes for quite Bharat Abhiyan has brought no change in the attitude of the
Every single day, hundreds of civic an eyesore. discard used tissues and sani- prised to find that there were charge, provided they keep it
people who come to visit from far off areas.
employees work tirelessly at different In the parking area that is shared by tary napkins with dustbins no dustbins where I could this clean, said Harsh Sodhi, He says, The only way to make people conscious about doing
locations to ensure that the tourist the Delhi Zoo and Purana Quila, re- missing from many public throw used tissues, said Al- a tourist.
toilets. isha Sharma. (Deeksha Teri is an intern their bit to keep the surroundings clean is to impose fines.
hubs remain clean and there are no cently, a bus filled with tourists had Otherwise they see it as their job to litter and mine to clean up.
ugly spots on a photograph a tourist stopped for lunch before heading for The situation, however, is However, the toilets near with The Hindu)
takes back home as a souvenir. On the the next destination.
face of it, it looks like Prime Minister Boxes of packed lunch were passed THEN AND NOW
Narendra Modis Swachh Bharat Ab- around, devoured by tourists sitting in
hiyan initiative is working. But, delve the bus and then tossed out of the win-
deeper and you find that the heritage dow leaving behind a pile of mess.
buildings are clean not because of a When questioned, the parking attend-
sudden change in the attitude of vis- ant said that it happens all the time and
itors, but because people entrusted someone from the safai team would
with the task of keeping it come and clean it in
clean are doing their job sometime.
well. Malis and guards
If we stop doing our say that foreign tour-
job even for a day, you will ists are much better
see the difference. Tour- than Indian tourists
ists litter the place as they as they dont even
know that there is some- throw away a mung-
body to clean up the phali ka cheela on
mess, says Prem Singh, a the ground.
gardener at Lodhi Gar- An ice-cream ven-
dens. dor at India Gate
He adds, The initiative says that every Sun- EYESORE: Jantar Mantar is part of every tourist itinerary, both domestic and foreign, but authorities appear to care two hoots.
was launched to bring day, thousands visit The garden around the giant sundial was littered with rubbish last year (left). It was no better this year as the civic
about a behavioural India Gate and even
change, but the attitude remains the though there are ample dustbins in the
authorities had not bothered to clear the piles of cut grass (right), lending the area an unkempt look. PHOTOS: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
same. People keep their houses clean, area and one attached to his cart, he
but as soon as they step out they think needs to tell people not to litter and
it is no longer their responsibility and more often than not, it is youngsters
somebody else needs to take care of the who he has to reprimand.
mess. Posters and photos of netas wield-
Another civic employee at Humay- ing the broom are all temporary solu-
uns Tomb says, When you see some- tions; the problem is people are used to
The curious case of Delhi belly
thing so beautiful, how can you litter it. people cleaning up after them and un- NEW DELHI: One of the citys problem when it comes to restaurant in Paharjanj
It is sad to see children coming for less they are imposed a fine or shamed, biggest draws is its street street food, says Chetan Si- Street vendors need says Swachh Bharat is not
picnics and littering the place. Their nothing is going to change, says Sat food and tourists always kand whose trips to Delhi just about garbage. It is also
teachers say nothing, which is sad as Pal who wakes up every morning to to be educated
take out time to sample its are incomplete without a about hygiene, he adds.
you have to teach youngsters to in- ensure tourist hubs look as pretty as famous chaats and kebabs. metro ride to Delhi 6 to about basics like If you want visitors to
culcate the right habits. Teachers they do in picture postcards and bro- However, one of the as- sample the local delicacies. using clean water, relish the culinary delica-
sometimes tip us to clean the mess but chures.
that does not serve the purpose.
pects synonymous with He feels the problem lies in fresh ingredients cies of Delhi you need the
street food is the famous the basics such as the un- food to be tasty as well as
An interesting trend that can be Delhi belly that can hygienic way food is cooked healthy.
noted at most of the tourist hubs is that TOMORROW: MARKETS change a visitors schedule and how the utensils are city, Delhi needs to show- The way to do it is to edu-
quite drastically if they fall washed. case its culinary heritage as cate street vendors about
PEOPLE KEEP THEIR HOUSES CLEAN, BUT AS prey to the syndrome. The water used can also well, not in fancy food tast- the basics of using clean
Street food in the city is a major It is not just the dispos- be a problem for people ings at hotels but on the water, fresh ingredients
SOON AS THEY STEP OUT THEY THINK IT IS For feedback, please mail us at
attraction, but it needs to up the able plates that are strewn with a weak stomach. streets, the way it is served. and not to keep food in the
cityeditordelhi@thehindu.co.in
NO LONGER THEIR RESPONSIBILITY hygiene quotient. FILE PHOTO everywhere which is the To be a tourist-friendly Naman Goil who runs a open for long.
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NOIDA/DELHI
MARVEL OF CREATION
W
hen the entomologists laid in- He said that like all fairyflies, substance on a few rambutan mitigating the threat posed grub that had affected cash
sect traps in Yercaud in Tamil Kikiki huna lays its eggs in the fruits puzzled the officials at by the cassava mealybug and crops, sugarcane, groundnut
Nadu a few months ago, they eggs of other insects. The en- the quarantine cell in the the coconut hispine beetle. and maize. The tiny worm-
did not expect that India would tire life stage is passed in the Kempegowda International While the cassava mealybug like insect affected the root
join the club of countries that single egg, from which it emerg- Airport. They immediately is a major threat to tapioca grubs and multiplied within
are home to a unique insect. es as an adult, he said. sent a batch to the National plantations in Africa, espe- it. We developed a talc-like
For, they were surprised to find Bureau of Agricultural Insect cially East Africa, the coconut substance with the inactive
the worlds smallest flying in- The challenge Resources (NBAIR) for it to hispine beetle has affected nematode. The nematodes
sect, a fairyfly that goes by the Not visible to the naked eye, be tested. coconut plantations in neigh- get activated when applied to
name Kikiki huna. the tiny insect has eluded many The entomologists at bouring Myanmar and many the affected field with a little
Measuring a mere 0.16 mm, entomologists, said Abraham NBAIR identified the white Southeast Asian countries. moisture. We have Intellec-
Kikiki huna is a multicellular Verghese, director of NBAIR. substance as the Sapota tual Property Rights over the
organism that is smaller than He said that the challenge is mealybug, a pest that had se- Expeditions product, he said. Similarly,
single-celled organisms. now to study the tiny insect and riously affected crops in the We frequently take out ex- NBAIR has also developed
Kikiki huna has been found understand its role. Insects in Philippines. As suggested by peditions, while our own fa- traps for the tomato pest
in Chidambaram as well. While Kikiki was first discovered in Trinidad around our country are poorly known them, the quarantine cell offi- cilities in Assam, Mizoram, Tuta absoluta.
the insects functions are yet to we still have over a lakh species cials destroyed the entire Arunachal Pradesh and many Dr. Verghese said that
be determined, Kikiki was first 20 years ago and later in Hawaii. Above, a to identify. consignment of the rambutan other States are on the vigil NBAIR was now encouraging
discovered in Trinidad around magnified image of the insect. Each has a role to play in the fruit. for these insects. NBAIR is on small-scale entrepreneurs,
20 years ago and later in Ha- ecosystem, he said. This timely detection the alert all the time and is graduates, farmers to sign a
waii. It has also been found in (NBAIR), Bengaluru, said Kiki- Dr. Mohanraj said that the helped save loss amounting to equipped to identify the in- memorandum of understand-
Australia and Argentina. It de- ki huna is an engineering and presence of such exquisitely crores. The mealybug never sects both molecularly and ing with NBAIR, following
IT CAN DO EVERYTHING THAT rives its name from Hawaiian artistic marvel. It can do ev- crafted organisms within the established itself here, as we morphologically, said Dr. which the strain for the ne-
A LARGER INSECT CAN DO. IT HAS which means tiny bit.
Prashanth Mohanraj from
erything that a larger insect can
do. It has a brain, a nervous and
confines of our borders should
be a source of national pride
nipped it in the bud, noted
Abraham Verghese, director
Verghese.
NBAIR also works on im-
matode will be shared. The
government will also get a
A BRAIN, A NERVOUS AND the National Bureau of Agricul- digestive system. It is the sheer and ensuring their continued of NBAIR. proving bio-security by pro- royalty after the strain is
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM tural Insect Resources marvel of creation it is a great survival should be our duty. The mandate of the city-
based NBAIR is to ensure that
ducing products that will kill
the insects naturally, without
shared. We, however, are not
selling it to multi-national
no insects or pests affect agri- the use of any insecticide. For companies, he added.
Ophir Chasma
ceeded the planned life of six
months.
of layered materials, it said.
The camera is one of the
from researchers in universi-
ties, institutions and relevant
government bodies.
KATHMANDU: Two Indian sib- an effort to assuage their ap- Valles Marineris, which sci- five scientific instruments it Apart from the camera, the
lings, 5-year-old Kandarp prehensions over the Vizhin- entists say is the largest ca- The Ophir Chasma lies in carries as it orbits Mars in an orbiter carries a Thermal In-
Sharma and 8-year-old Rit- jam project. nyon system in the entire the Coprates square (quad- elliptical path of 470 km by frared Imaging Spectrometer,
wika, have successfully The meeting was held at the solar system. rangle) and is named after 71,000 km once in about a Methane Sensor for Mars, a
climbed the Kalapathar Chief Ministers residence A chasma is a long, steep- Mars enthusiast Ophir Ben- three Earth days. Lyman Alpha Photometer
peak, which is higher than here. sided depression as designat- tov of Los Angeles, who has and a Mars Exospheric Neu-
the highest peaks in the U.S., A Church spokesperson lat- ed by the International As- invested in Mars expeditions Enormous data tral Composition Analyser.
Europe and Antarctica, to er said that Chandy had given tronomical Union. for eventual human Its mission is to look for [Site link : http://www.is-
reach the base camp of them a patient hearing and The three-dimensional im- exploration. tell-tale signs of atmospheric ro.gov.in/pslv- c25-mars-or-
Mount Everest, becoming they were expecting a favour- ages of the terrain of interest 3D images of the mother methane, which could indi- biter-mission/
the youngest climbers to re- able response from the were taken by the Mars Col- canyon, the 4,000 x 200 km cate ancient life on Mars, and 3d-portrayals-of-
ach the destination. government. our Camera on July 19 from a Valles Marineris, have been to map its terrain and ophir-chasma-terrain]
They reached the base The Latin church had stated
camp situated at an altitude that nearly 50,000 fishermen
of 5,380 metres in northeast
Nepal earlier this week.
would have to be rehabilitated
due to the project and would
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perience for me to reach the (left foreground). - FILE PHOTO: AP comes a reality. Tulu Wikipedia is yet ensured this, then a request to
base camp, Ritwika told re- The church wants the gov- MANGALURU: Pushing the lan- the Wikipedia Foundation in
porters here. First-grader Kandarp and said the two Indian children ernment to address the con- to go live
guage globally, Tulu lovers the United States can be sent
We saw snow falling fourth-grader Ritvika are had not only shown their cerns of the fishermen have so far uploaded 890 arti- to make it live, Mr. Pavanaja
from the mountain there students of Little Angels love for mountains, but also community and has also cles to the Tulu Wikipedia, said. He said that unlike the
and also saw the Everest High School in Gwalior, helped in promoting tou- threatened to launch an indefi- which is in incubation stage. roots near Sullia in Dakshina Karnataka government, the
which was very close from Madhya Pradesh. Both of rism in Nepal at a time when nite agitation from August 17, If one wants to write arti- Kannada, said the Tulu Wiki- Goa government fully sup-
us. them are national adventure the country was suffering in when the government will be cles in Tulu, he or she can log pedia was yet to go live while ported Konkani Wikipedia.
The siblings reached the sports players and are the the aftermath of the devas- signing an MoU with Adani on to bilty.com/tuluwiki and the Konkani Wikipedia went Mr. Pavanaja said that the
base camp of the 8,848- worlds youngest siblings to tating earthquake in April. Vizhinjam Ports Ltd, the SPV register. One can write, edit or live a month ago. There were Kannada Wikipedia started in
metre peak accompanied by scale such height. It was a By reaching the base floated by Adani Ports and Spe- read articles written in Tulu 74 editors till August 14. 2003 had about 20,000 arti-
their parents. challenge for us and we have camp, Kandarp broke the re- cial Economic Zone Ltd. using the Kannada script, said If Tulu Wikipedia was to be cles now and there were about
After scaling the Kalapat- accepted it, without hesita- cord previously held by Har- The fishermen have de- U.B. Pavanaja, programme of- active, between five and 10 ar- 700 editors.
thar peak, the children tion, said Bhupendra Shar- shit who had reached the manded a better rehabilitation ficer, The Centre for Internet ticles would have to be up- About 290 langauges across
chanted Bharat Maata Ki ma, father of the two.Sharad base camp in 2014 at the age package for those getting af- and Society, Bengaluru, and a loaded to it every month and the world, including 20 Indi-
Jai and hoisted the Pradhan, media consultant of 5 years and 11 months. fected by the deep water sea- Wikipedia representative. at least 15 editors would have an languages, had Wikipedia
Tricolour. of the Nepal Tourism Board, PTI port. PTI Mr. Pavanaja, who has his to edit it every month. If the pages.
Kerala now declares itself complete digital State, thanks to e-district initiative
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Decla- Chief Minister Oommen strong foundation for Digital phase to achieve the best re- wealth and create mass aware-
ration of Kerala a complete Chandy declared Kerala the Chief Minister Kerala. I am proud to declare sults of the Digital Kerala ini- ness for their conservation,
digital State and announce- complete digital State. announces launch of the State the complete digital tiative, he said. government plans to set up an
ment of a new youth pro- The State has achieved 100 a youth programme in state, based on these indica- The State government inclusive development coun-
gramme in memory of former per cent mobile density, 75 tors, he said. would launch an innovative cil, he said.
President, the late A P J Abdul per cent e-literacy, highest memory of Kalam programme in the name of Dr. Mammoth development
Kalam marked Independence digital banking rate and Wi-Fi hotspots Kalam to enable youth to projects to the tune of Rs.
Day celebrations in the State. broadband connection up to The government would set translate their innovative 16,000 crore, including Kochi
With the State making re- panchayat level, Mr. Chandy The implementation of e- up Wi-Fi hotspots in all local ideas into successful business Metro, Kannur Airport and
markable strides in the imple- said in his 69th independence district programmes in all dis- self-government institutions ventures. Vizhinjam projects are be-
mentation of various day speech at the Central Sta- tricts and linking of Aadhaar and implement complete mo- Seeking to check wide- coming a reality, he said.
e-governance initiatives, dium here. and bank accounts have laid a bile governance in the next spread exploitation of natural PTI
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t took almost 21 hours and three lived in a modest dwelling. The rectly from streams. For
note-counting machines to esti- neighbours were surprised at the the lost and found trekker
mate the amount of cash stashed recovery. duo, Vivek Gupta and M.
inside cushions, mattresses, so- Mr. Adhikari did not even Shashidhar, their most
fas, ceilings, walls and even in- possess a car and maintained a memorable trek ended like
side the boxes under the tiles of humble prole, said Amit Gha- a typical Indian movie cli- Vivek Gupta (left) and Shashidhar lost their
the toilet in the house of Pranab tak, who resides in the Mali- max scene - with the arriv- way on June 9, 20 km from Chikkamagaluru in
Adhikari, a sub-assistant engi- panchghora area. al of a jeep. Karnataka. PHOTO: G. RAMAKRISHNA
neer in West Bengals Howrah A local promoter A.P. Singh, It was a great relief see-
district. who had brought the allegations ing the officers who were
Cash was also found from the against the engineer, said the searching for us. They lift- days, a packet of salt, whis- like fruits they did not risk
refrigerator and inside the cabi- government official worked in ed us and put us in the jeep. tle, glucose tablets and eating it not knowing fully
net of television sets. collusion with the authorities of The rst thing we did was compass were their its implications after con-
On Saturday afternoon, when the Bally Municipality. to ask them for the phone company. sumption, shared the vis-
the counting was complete, the He was the last word in the and called parents to tell We were sure that we ibly tired trekkers.
exhausted police officers had Bally Municipality. I had brought that we are safe, said 24- had to keep moving and On Tuesday, we located
counted currency notes of de- the matter to the notice of previ- year-old Shashidhar, who looking out for any trails, what looked like road ref-
nomination Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 ous chairman of the Bally Munic- is a software engineer from said 29-year-old Vivek erence from the top of a
valuing Rs. 20 crore and seven ipality but he said that promoters the city. Gupta, who is a technical hill. There were two ways
and half lakhs. will have to pay the engineer for Both spoke to the media assistant at IIIT, Hydera- to reach the other side, ei-
Along with cash, gold valuing getting work done, Mr. Singh on Saturday after their re- bad. During day time we ther through forest or by
Rs. 14 lakh and post office depos- told journalists. turn from Karnataka. would keep walking and by traversing it. We decided to
its of Rs. 58 lakh were also reco- The cash recovered from the engineers house in Kolkata He believed that Mr. Adhika- With their arms and legs evening we had no choice avoid the forest even
vered from the house of the ward on Saturday. PHOTO: SANJOY GHOSH ris arrest would open the can of showing ample signs of but to stop and rest since though the route we chose
inspector of the Bally Municipal- worms and many big names healing wounds, a result of there was no visibility. The might take a longer time.
ity. day. When this happened, his the run, was later located and might come up as the engineer leech attacks, the senior weather was windy, cold But thankfully, we were
A trap was laid and Mr. Ad- wife went to the roof and made a taken into custody. His son Tan- was not pocketing all the money members of Greater Hyd- and it was raining which found by the search party
hikari was caught red-handed hue and cry and he escaped in the moy Adhikari was also arrested. alone. erabad Adventure Club made the time spent there of the forest officials soon,
while accepting a bribe of Rs. 1 melee, a senior ACB officer said. A city court remanded Mr. Ad- While Trinamool Congress (GHAC) recounted their uncomfortable. It would said Mr. Shashidhar.
lakh from a local builder on Fri- We are trying to gure out the hikari and his son in police custo- leaders remained tight-lipped experiences. get dark by 4 p.m. and we Since they had acciden-
number of properties that Mr. dy till August 17. throughout the day, Arunava La- Part of the 11-member could hear strange noises tally strayed in to the Bha-
Adhikari booked or purchased Son of a factory worker, Mr. hiri, a local CPI(M) leader and group from Hyderabad, which was very scary. dra Tiger Reserve, cases of
CASH WAS ALSO FOUND FROM THE and perhaps we need to search Adhikari was brought up in a low the previous chairman of the Bal- both youngsters lost their According to them, they trespassing have been
those houses as well, said an of- income family with four siblings. ly Municipality, said any allega- way on June 9, Sunday af- slept on a tree branch on booked against the duo.
REFRIGERATOR AND INSIDE THE cial. The engineer, who was on His neighbours said his brothers tion against him was baseless. ternoon, at a location, 20 Sunday night and in a cave The GHAC members said
CABINET OF TELEVISION SETS. km from Chikkamagaluru. on Monday night. Though their legal team would take
For the next two and a half they spotted what looked care of the cases.
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lthough a bit fewer than last Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday
years packed audience of drew flak over students
10,000, the 69th Independence
Day celebrations at the historic
Red Fort pulled a sizeable crowd
Hindi imposition creating a formation of his
name during Independence Day
celebrations here, soon after
on Saturday morning. The rea- Udhav Naig and a student, said, We felt which AAP government went
son was clear; people patiently that August 15 would be the into damage control mode by
bore the muggy weather expect- CHENNAI: When Prime Minister best day to highlight the fact claiming that it was part of a
ing another fiery and inspira- Narendra Modi was making his that Indians can enjoy true tradition being followed over
tional speech from their Independence Day speech in independence only when all the years. Mr. Kejriwals name
Pradhan Sevak - a name Prime Hindi on Saturday, hundreds of Indians and their languages are was a part of several such
Minister Narendra Modi gave tech-savvy Indians took given equal status. designs, including the Tricolour
himself in his maiden I-Day to Twitter to protest Otherwise, non-Hindi and thank you, created by
speech in 2014. against how the Central speakers will remain as students. PTI
Cheers echoed across the fort governments have second class citizens.
as Mr Modi arrived at Lahori historically privileged We demand that all 22 UPSIDE DOWN
Gate in his cavalcade by 7:20 am, Hindi over other Indian languages of union be AMRITSAR: In a faux pas, Punjab
the Modi-Modi chant that re- languages, by sending declared as official Cabinet Minister Bikram Singh
verberated last year was, howev- out pointed tweets criticising languages under the 8th Majitiha on Saturday unfurled
er, absent. As the audience what they alleged as Indias Schedule of the Constitution, the national flag which was
passed time guessing his attire flawed language policy. he said. upside down during an
for the occasion, the Prime Min- This campaign was organised The campaign had the Independence Day function
ister alighted from his car don- by members of Facebook participation of hundreds of here and it was only corrected
ning his now trademark turban advocacy group, Promote social media users who share as the event was about to
the colour had changed from Linguistic Equality, to protest the same demand. conclude. Two police personnel
electric orange to mustard yel- and raise awareness of how Speaking about how the responsible for the flag hoisting
low this time. non-Hindi States are often campaign was organised, Vishal arrangement were suspended
He was received by Defence India into a Start-Up hub. coerced into using Hindi. For V Navekar said, We prepared a
Minister Manohar Parrikar and
Minister of State for Defence
While the 3,500 participating
school children were kept alert
False report irks Deoband several hours on Saturday,
#StopHindiImposition was a
database of tweets in different
languages and asked our
over the incident. PTI
KILLER FLAGPOST
Rao Inderjit Singh and Defence by their teachers to cheer and Mohammad Ali upset at what he terms as fre- trending topic in many of the members to tweet them using NAWADA(BIHAR): A school
Secretary G Mohan Kumar. The clap from time to time, the gen- quent false/negative reporting non-Hindi cities. the hashtag director was on Saturday
customary 21-gun salute and un- eral public, by around 8:30 am DEOBAND: Scholars at the Islamic and stereotyping of Muslims and Asked why Independence Day #StopHindiImposition, he said. electrocuted and three
furling of the National Flag fol- when Mr Modis speech was still seminary here, along with Mus- madarsas. was hand-picked to organise The Twitterati also kick- students were seriously injured
lowed next. on, had already begun to mum- lims in general, were puzzled and An impression was created this protest, Prasanna LM, a started a debate on issues when high voltage electric
To make a direct connect with ble comparing his speech with upset this Independence Day af- that we have asked Muslims and main organiser of the campaign faced by non-Hindi speakers. current passed through the
the masses, Mr Modi once again that of last years. The loudest ter the media reported that the madrasas to celebrate Independ- flagpole during a flag hoisting
decided to do away with the bul- applauses came when one or two Darul-Uloom-Deoband had is- ence Day as if they dont celebrate ceremony at a school here. The
let-proof glass shield on the po- times he took a swipe at previous sued a fatwa asking Muslims and it. This is a utter lie. We never flagpole was said to have come
dium. At 7:32 am, he began his governments and how some peo- madarsas to celebrate Independ- issued any fatwa or appeal or any in contact with a live wire. PTI
speech with a thundering ap- ple thrive on despair. As a large ence Day and hoist the national sort of statement regarding the
plause from the audience. The number of the crowd present flag on their homes. issue, clarified Uslami. DOODLE ON DANDI MARCH
84-minute speech, one of the comprised youths, they ex- The widely reported and circu- One reporter had called me NEW DELHI: Search engine
longest made by any Indian pressed their joy when Mr Modi lated fatwa or appeal does not asking about Muslims and Inde- Google on Saturday
Prime Minister, ranged from talked of the need to abolish in- exist and was never issued from pendence Day celebrations. I commemorated Indias 69th
what the Central government terviews for small jobs. the seminary, said scholars at the countered his question and told Independence Day by
has achieved in its 15 months to Taking advantage of free ride seminary as well as its spokesper- him that Muslims and madrasas remembering Mahatma Gandhis
newer initiatives like electrify- in DTC buses and Delhi Metro in son Ashraf Usmani. have been celebrating Independ- Dandi March, which sparked
ing 18,500 village and turning the morning hours, people came After one mainstream English ence Day with fervour and enthu- widespread protests across
to the venue from every nook daily quoted a non-existent fat- siasm since the time we became India against the then British
and corner of city. Among the wa from the Darul-Uloom-Deo- independent, he said while alleg- government. The tech giant has
THE LOUDEST APPLAUSES CAME WHEN VIPs were Mr. Modis predeces- band, that false story was ing that a wrong statement was dedicated the historic march
Border Security Force personnel dance during
ONE OR TWO TIMES PM TOOK A SWIPE sor Manmohan Singh who was
accompanied by his wife Gur-
reported and copied by almost ev-
ery media house without due ver-
attributed to him saying that he
had appealed to Muslims and ma- a ceremony at the Wagah border on Saturday.
with a doodle showing Gandhiji
in his khadi white clothes
AT PREVIOUS GOVERNMENTS sharan Kaur. ification, alleged Uslami, visibly darssas to hoist the national flag. - PHOTO: AFP leading the way. PTI
Storming of IC 814 dropped not because of officers presence Taj takes Twitter world by storm
What happened in Amritsar is the precise question after the release of Dulats memoir
Akhilesh launches the official Twitter handle @TajMahal
Suvojit Bagchi Security Guards Director cember 31, 1999 the crisis Act and the government is
Nikhil Kumar. came to an end as India mulling action against Mr. Mohammad Ali
KOLKATA: Partly clearing the But 15 years after he left agreed to release three of Dulat. The Section prohibits
confusion triggered after the his office, Mr. Dulat has the top militants including a person from publishing, MEERUT: The Taj Mahal on
release of his memoir, the clarified that while Mr. Masood Azhar, the founder among other things, official Saturday became one of
former chief of Research Singh, Mr. Kumar and he, of militant outfit, secrets and Mr. Dulat cate- the first historical
&Analysis Wing, A.S. Dulat, himself, was aware of Mr. Jaish-e-Mohammad. gorically said that he has not monuments in the world
has said that the government Tomars presence, it had not However, Mr. Dulat has violated any secrets of the to have a Twitter account
did not alter its plan of oper- altered their Amritsar plan. not indicated why IC 814 State. of its own. The Mughal
ation after being informed We knew that he was on was allowed to leave Indian I am conscious of the re- monument made its debut
about the presence of a se- board and we did not want soil and rather underscored quirements of an intelli- on the micro-blogging site
nior officer of the external any harm to come to him that initially the members of gence officer. I have just put with the State Chief
intelligence agency on board but that had nothing to do the Crisis Management together what is already Minister Akhilesh Yadav
the hijacked Indian Airlines with what happened in Am- Group were in the dark known and in the public do- launching the official
flight IC 814. ritsar. about Mr. Tomars main, Mr. Dulat said. How- Twitter handle
On its way to Kandahar, But what happened in presence. ever, he has heard some of @TajMahal on
the flight landed at Amritsar Amritsar is the precise ques- It was coincidental that his former colleagues dis- Independence Day in
and many senior officers tion after the release of Mr. It was coincidental that Mr. Tomar was on board. cussing the alleged breach- Lucknow.
have said over the years that Dulats memoir, a bestseller Mr. Tomar was on Nobody knew anything ing of the 1923 Act. The irony of at all is that The Taj Mahal became one of the first historical
the flight was allowed to in every list, Kashmir: The board, says former RAW about it on that night [De- It is normal when an in- the historical launch could monuments in the world to have a Twitter
leave Indian soil, even after Vajpayee Years. Why has Chief A.S. Dulat cember 24, 1999] and it telligence officer says a not be organised at the Taj account of its own. - FILE PHOTO: R.V. MOORTHY
an initial plan to launch a Mr. Dulat skipped one of the came to be known as time thing. I am not the first and I Mahal in Agra as desired
commando operation, be- most critical events of his sar operation of IC 814] is passed, he added. would not be the last but I by personnel associated so started the trend Making its Twitter
cause the R&AW officer career the Tomar-Amrit- wrong, Mr. Dulat told The have not heard anything with Twitter because of #MyTajMemory. Soon debut interesting, the
Sashi Bhusan Singh Tomar sar episode in his book is Hindu, before the launch of Official Secrets Act not from the government, he permission issue from the after hundreds of people Twitter handle tweeted,
then posted as First Secre- what observers have asked. his memoir in central Kol- violated added. Archaeological Survey of tweeted picture of their There are two kinds of ppl
tary in the Indian embassy in I did not want to men- katas Oxford Bookstore. Quoting unnamed gov- Mr. Dulat did not rule out India, sources told The visit to the Taj tagging in the world. Those who
Kathmandu, was on board. tion that as he was a friend IC 814 was eventually tak- ernment officials the media the idea that he may write a Hindu. @TajMahal and making its have visited me and follow
Mr. Tomar is related and a colleague and I did not en to Kandahar in Southern has reported that Mr. Du- sequel to his book. I doubt Hours after its Twitter debut on the virtual world me here and those who
through marriage to the then want to bring him into the Afghanistan from Amritsar, lats observation in the book it very much, but then a spy debut, @TajMahal got conversational and havent seen me and yet
Cabinet Secretary N.K. limelight but what has been after briefly touching down has violated Section 3 of has many stories [by the] thousands of followers and interactive. follow me here.
Singh and former National said [about proposed Amrit- in Lahore and Dubai. On De- countrys Official Secrets end of the day, he said.
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
ISs Baghdadi raped American hostage
INVESTORS FROM INDIA, CHINA WELCOME TO OUR COUNTRY Mueller was abducted from Aleppo in 2013; IS says she was killed in an airstrike
devolution of power
June. pany her, the parents were
The news is but the latest told, but Kayla refused, wor-
in a litany of horrors perpe- rying that her obvious West-
trated by the IS group, which ern appearance would lead to
has beheaded, burned and their capture. By the time the
crucied male captives while Yadizi escapee reported the
passing around women as sex situation to Delta Force com-
slaves. mandos in Iraq, Kayla had
T. Ramakrishnan Mueller was held for a time been moved, her parents
by Islamic State nancier were told.
S
ri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Abu Sayyaf and his wife, Kayla Mueller (in picture), her parents say quoting Mueller, from Prescott,
Wickremesingheon Saturday known as Umm Sayyaf. Al- American officials, was repeatedly forced to have Arizona, was taken hostage
said devolution was the best way Baghdadi took Mueller as a sex with IS leader Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi. with her boyfriend, Omar
to take away barriers construct- wife, repeatedly raping her Alkhani, in August 2013 after
FILE PHOTO: AP
ed by the previous Mahinda Ra- when he visited, according to leaving a Doctors Without
japaksa regime for provincial a Yazidi teenager who was Borders hospital in Aleppo,
councils to operate. held with Mueller and escap- February. Umm Sayyaf con- intelligence about IS. Umm Syria, where he had been
Asserting that his party, the ed in October 2014. rmed that al-Baghdadi had Sayyaf has been turned over hired to x the Internet ser-
United National Party (UNP), The 14-year-old made her owned Kayla during Umm to the Iraqi Kurds for trial. vice for the hospital.
had always stood for a unitary way to Iraqi Kurdistan, Sayyafs lengthy American The Muellers have been Mueller had begged him to
state, Mr. Wickremesinghe, in an where she talked to U.S. com- interrogation in Iraq, the told she can be expected to let her tag along because she
interview with The Hindu at his mandos in November 2014. Muellers said they were told serve a long prison sentence, wanted to do relief work in
official residence (Temple Intelligence agencies corrob- by American officials. said a family spokeswoman, the war-ravaged country.
Trees) here, said the UNP had orated her account and A U.S. official conrmed Emily Lenzner. Alkhani was released after
supported devolution. We had American officials passed it their account, rst reported Mueller was held with two months, having been
brought in the 13th Amend- on to her parents in June. by Londons Independent three other women, all Yazi- beaten.
ment. This time, we will give They told us that he mar- newspaper. The official was dis, the Muellers were told. The Islamic State group
powers down to the level of ried her, and we all under- not authorised to be quoted All were sexually abused. claimed Mueller was killed in
villages. stand what that means, Carl by name and spoke on condi- When al-Baghdadi visited, he a Jordanian air strike near
Asked whether the opposition Mueller, Kaylas father, told tion of anonymity. would take Mueller to his Raqqah, the groups self-de-
to federalism was because of the The Associated Press on Fri- Abu Sayyaf was killed in a room, the witness told Amer- clared capital in Syria. U.S.
fear of losing votes, the Prime day, which would have been Delta Force raid of his Syrian ican officials. She would tell officials conrmed the death
Minister replied that historical- his daughters 27th birthday. compound in June, which re- her fellow captives some- but not the circumstances.
ly, we have not had it. Her death was reported in sulted in a treasure trove of times tearfully what had hap- AP
Mr. Wickremesinghe had ear- On the issue of accountability Rajapaksa into the poll fray had
lier served as PM twice during for alleged crimes during the Ee- made the contest more exciting,
1993-1994 and 2001-2004. lam War, he said it had been he replied that a part of the high-
Referring to the December
2002 Oslo communiqu, which
agreed nally that let the report
[of the U.N. Human Rights
est echelons in the media had
been backing him.
Blast zone evacuated over contamination fears
talks of an agreement between Council] be tabled and brought They try to make out [that] TIANJIN: New explosions and rial at a warehouse. with water or damp air.
the Sri Lankan government and out to the public in September. Mahinda is the winner. He add- res rocked the Chinese Chinese govt. has set Burning ames were
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Within the adequate time agreed ed that nothing is working. port city of Tianjin on Sat- up a no-man zone Survivor found spotted on Saturday, and
Eelam (LTTE) forexploring a by both sides, we will give our On economic ties with India urday, as one survivor was within 3 km of the Authorities on Saturday explosions were reported
solution founded on the princi- response. and China, he said Indian and pulled out and authorities pulled out one survivor by witnesses and state
ple of internal self-determina- Chinese investors were free to ordered evacuations to site of explosions to from a shipping container, media.
tion in areas of historical Crucial election come and invest here. clean up chemical contam- carry out clean-ups state media reported. His In one case, heavy smoke
habitation of the Tamil-speaking Mr. Wickremesinghe, who Sri Lanka will take loans from ination more than two days identity was not immedi- from a re engulng several
peoples, based on a federal struc- carried out a month-long cam- those who offer them on a com- after a re and a series of ately known. Television vid- cars rose up as high as 10
ture within a united Sri Lanka, paign for Mondaysparliamen- petitive basis and on a conces- blasts set off the disaster. 104, including 21 re-ght- eo showed the man being metres, accompanied by at
he said: We did not say we tary election, described the poll sional basis. Meanwhile, angry rela- ers, making the disaster the carried out on a sketcher by least ve explosions.
agreed [to federalism]. But, we as one of the crucial elections He added that some Chinese tives of re-ghters missing deadliest for Chinese re- a group of soldiers wearing Police and military per-
had said we would explore it dur- such as the one in 1977 when the loans [drawn by the previous Ra- in the catastrophe stormed ghters in more than six gas masks. sonnel manned checkpoints
ing the talks. UNP returned to power. japaksa regime] were being rene- a government news confer- decades. The government set up a on roads leading to the blast
Thereis a denite trend gotiated. His government is ence to demand informa- An unknown number of no-man zone within 3 km of sites, and helicopters were
against Rajapaksa and his type of restoring good relations with tion on their loved ones. re-ghters remain mis- the explosions to clean up seen hovering in the over-
autocratic government. People the West. sing, and a total of 720 peo- chemical contamination cast sky.
THIS IS ONE OF THE CRUCIAL ELECTIONS are for good governance and- Death toll rises to 104 ple have been injured in the from sodium cyanide, ac- The air had a metallic
transparency. Theyalso like to (The complete transcript of The death toll in Wednes- rapid succession of explo- cording to media reports. chemical smell, and there
SUCH AS THE ONE IN 1977 WHEN THE see rapid economic progress." the interview is available at: days inferno and blasts that sions that began with a re Sodium cyanide is a toxic was uneasiness over rain
UNP RETURNED TO POWER Asked whether the entry of Mr. http://thne.ws/WRanil) devastated industrial and from shipping containers chemical that becomes forecasts, although it was
residential zones climbed to containing hazardous mate- combustible on contact warm and windy. AP
40 migrants
A farewell to arms Japans Emperor offers
suffocate in
boat off Italy
remorse for WWII
TOKYO: Japanese Emperor
ROME: More than 40 migrants Akihito expressed rare deep
have died in the Mediterra- remorse over his countrys
nean on Saturday, the Italian wartime actions in an ad-
navy said, after apparently dress on Saturday, marking
suffocating below deck on the the 70th anniversary of Ja-
boat taking them to Europe. pans World War II surren-
Operation underway... der, a day after the Prime
many migrants saved. At Minister fell short of apol-
least 40 dead, the navy said ogising in his own words to
on Twitter, while the Cor- the victims of Japanese ag-
riere della Sera newspaper gression.
said those who died were Prime Minister Shinzo Japans Emperor Akihito
found in the hold of the Abe, meanwhile, stayed away and Empress Michiko
vessel. from a contentious Yasukuni attend a WWII
The boat, which was inter- shrine that honours war
cepted south of the Italian is- criminals among other war memorial service
land of Lampedusa, was dead. He instead prayed and ceremony in Tokyo on
carrying around 300 people, laid owers at a national Saturday PHOTO: REUTERS
the paper said. cemetery for unnamed fallen
An Italian navy helicopter soldiers ahead of the annual speech. Japanese media said
spotted the boat, which was ceremony at Tokyos Budo- it was the rst time he had
overcrowded and starting to kan hall. used the words deep re-
sink, about 21 miles off the That ceremony started morse in reference to the
Libyan coast. with a moment of silence at war.
An Italian navy vessel was noon to mark the radio an- Akihito also emphasised
sent to its aid at 7 a.m. local nouncement by Emperor Hi- that Japans peace and pros-
time and when its sailors rohito, Akihitos father, of perity stand on the peoples
boarded the vessel the grim Japans surrender on Aug. 15, tireless endeavours and their
discovery was made. 1945. earnest desire for peace, and
Survivors of the hazardous Reecting on our past and renewed his war-renouncing
crossing from Libya often tell bearing in mind the feelings pledge.
of how traffickers lock mi- of deep remorse over the last On Friday, Mr. Abe fell
grants in the hold most war, I earnestly hope that the short of apologising in his
black Africans who pay less Honour guards perform during a parade in Seoul on Saturday. South Korea celebrated the 70th anniversary of its ravages of war will never be own words to the victims of
for the voyage. AFP liberation from Japanese colonial rule. PHOTO: AFP repeated, Akihito said in his Japans aggression. AP
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Forex reserves decline by $113.5 b Start mining, Goa CM tells firms More car exports than local sales
Foreign exchange reserves declined by $113.5 Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar Ford, Nissan and Volkswagen exported more
million to $353.347 billion in the week to August 7, exhorted mine owners to emulate Vedanta Made in India passenger vehicles during April-
says a data from the RBI. Agencies Resources and start mining operations. IANS July 2015 than they sold in the local market.
T
he Central government should Jharkhand, Mr. Narendran
sort out internal challenges at a said. industry as a whole, a joint statement from GJEPC,
time when the domestic steel in- We are now procuring raw BDB and GJF said.
dustry is facing challenges from material from our mines in Od-
China, Tata Steel Managing Di- isha as well as purchasing from Ramnath Subbu labelling. The importance of
rector (India and South East local miners, which is affecting this standard lies in the fact
Asia) T. V. Narendran said on our productivity and nancial MUMBAI: A new set of interna- that it sets out which nomen-
Saturday. We can do much bet- performance, he said after un- tional guidelines aimed at in- clature can be used and which
ter had the government ad- furling the National ag inside creasing the condence of cannot in the purchase and
dressed internal challenges such the company works here on consumers when purchasing sale of diamonds, treated dia-
as availability of raw material Saturday. We may have to ap- diamonds has been welcomed monds and synthetic dia-
and import duty as demand of proach the National Mineral by a number of Indian dia- monds, Vipul Shah,
steel would continue to grow, he Development Corporation mond and jewellery industry Chairman, GJEPC, said in a
told reporters here. (NMDC) for raw material or organizations. statement.
Mr. Narendran said it was not import it again like we did last Gem and Jewellery Export Importantly, the ISO stan-
that Indian producers are not year, he added. Promotion Council (GJEPC), dard sets out descriptions for
competitive with world players Mr. Narendran said the cap- Bharat Diamond Bourse synthetic diamonds plainly
as our ve/six steel producers tive Noamundi mine in West (BDB) and Gem & Jewellery and precisely which is a crit-
feature in the top steel producers Singhbhum district used to Federation (GJF) have all ical issue for the diamonds
of the world even now. provide 50 per cent of the iron praised the release of ISO In- business. It also bars the us-
Elaborating on the challenges ore for the company but the ternational Standard 18323: age of deceptive terms such as
faced from China, Mr. Narendran State government had stopped Jewellery Consumer con- cultured and cultivated,
said China was producing 825 country, which was between 80 300 million tonnes, he added. players, Mr. Narendran said. We issuing challans (forwarding dence in the diamond real, precious and gem to
million tonnes of steel against to 85 million tonnes, Mr. Naren- To achieve the target, he said, are competing with Japan and notes), blocking the dispatch of industry. describe any synthetic
their demand of 725 million dran said. We will have to invest more Korea, who have a zero import the raw material to its Jam- It provides a series of de- diamond.
tonnes. China was exporting two to than $200 billion to produce ad- duty due to FTA (free trade shedpur plant. The matter was nitions, which aim to provide It also states, brand names
They are producing 100 mil- three million tonnes, which was ditional 200 million tonnes of agreement) against our more sub judice and the company further clarity for traders and and manufacturers names
lion tonnes more than the de- spoiling our market, he said, add- steel. than 10 per cent, he added. would honour the court verdict to maintain consumer con- combined with the word dia-
mand, which was more than the ing that the total export of steel The central government had when it comes, he added. dence in the diamond indus- mond are insufficient means
current total capacity of our to India was 10 million tonnes, taken various initiatives in this Need for infrastructure The Tata Steel MD said the try as a whole, a joint of disclosure when applied to
which was equivalent to the ca- regard and more steps were development nancial performance of the statement from GJEPC, BDB synthetic diamonds, said
pacity of Tata Steels Jamshed- needed to be taken to attract in- In fact, transporting our mate- company had been badly affect- and GJF said. G.V. Sreedhar, Vice-Presi-
CHINA IS EXPORTING TWO TO THREE pur plant. vestment, he suggested, while fo- rials from Jamshedpur to Mum- ed when it was forced to import It also provides guidelines dent, GJF.
MILLION TONNES, WHICH IS SPOILING We could set up a steel plant if cusing on the need to implement bai was costlier than importing it iron ore following the closure on the nomenclature that This will help clear the ex-
OUR MARKET. THE TOTAL EXPORT OF (we) could have such a volume of
export of steel, he said.
projects in sectors such as infras-
tructure and automobile to in-
from Korea to Mumbai, he
claimed while stressing on the
of its mines in Odisha and
Jharkhand on the lease renewal
should be used by those in-
volved in the buying and sell-
isting ambiguity in identify-
ing real diamonds.
STEEL TO INDIA IS 10 MILLION Not necessarily Tata Steel crease steel consumption and need for infrastructure issue last year. The Noamundi ing of diamonds. ISO notes very clearly the
TONNES, WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO alone, this would help steel pro-
ducers such as Jindals, Bhush-
create job opportunities.
The steel industry was a very
development.
Tata Steel might have to im-
mine is closed since September
last on the lease renewal issue.
The ISO ruling denes a
diamond as something that
issues that all Indian Trade
Associations have been em-
THE CAPACITY OF TATA STEELS ans, SAIL, among others, to set difficult sector due to high cap- port iron ore if the Jharkhand The company had resumed was crated by nature. Buyers phasizing for some time: the
JAMSHEDPUR PLANT. up steel plant and increase the
capacity of the country, which
ital cost, transport cost, high rate
of interest but it was this indus-
government did not allow the
company to dispatch raw materi-
production at Noamundi mine
in January, after a gap of four
do not usually have the tech-
nical knowledge to under-
need for integrity and trans-
parency to ensure that con-
T. V. NARENDRAN,
MANAGING DIRECTOR, TATA STEEL was targeting to enhance it to try that competed with world al from its Noamundi mine in months, he said. PTI stand the many aspects of sumers have total
diamonds and so they are re- condence, said Anoop
liance on correct and honest Mehta, president, BDB.
Ethical practices and good corporate governance can boost GDP lowed.
As per the agreement, sub-
ject to necessary approvals,
Standard Life will acquire 9
P. Narasimhan better than that, said Mr. restructuring plan (FRP) for he added. The Union Power for organisations to identify per cent of the shares of
Goyal while inaugurating The Centre is looking at the discoms, Mr. Goyal said, Minister also said that he was and assess key governance HDFC Life from HDFC at a
CHENNAI: Good ethical practic- Corporate Governance Sum- extending financial FRP, which was introduced looking at National Thermal and compliance risks. price of Rs. 95 per share. As a
es and corporate governance mit-cum-Excellence Awards, restructuring plan (FRP) originally in April 2012 and Power Corporation (NTPC) While Corporate Govern- consequence, Standard Life
norms followed by the com- organised by The Associated implemented in October 2013 Ltd., which won the Asso- ance regulations in India are will increase its shareholding
panies can boost the gross do- Chambers of Commerce and for the State Power had actually not really cham Corporate Governance amongst the best globally, in HDFC Life to 35 per cent
mestic product (GDP) by Industry of India (Asso- Distribution Companies changed the situation on the Award in the PSU (listed striking the right balance be- from 26 per cent at present.
1.5-2 per cent much like the cham), in New Delhi on as previous FRP ground, it failed to bring company) category, as the tween growth and sustaina- Post the sale stake in
potential spinoff benets of Friday. schemes have actually about any signicant im- worlds most valuable energy bility and following corporate HDFC Life, HDFCs holding
the goods and services tax To my mind, ethical prac- provement in AT&C (aggre- company four years from governance practices in spir- in HDFC Life will be 61.65 per
(GST), a statement of Asso- tices and good governance not changed the gate technical and now. it, will signicantly improve cent and that of Standard Life
cham quoting Union Power can possibly add as much to situation on the ground commercial losses, in the - I am going to hold to Ease-of-doing-Business and (Mauritius Holdings) 2006
Minister, Piyush Goyal said. the Indian economy as GST and failed to bring about nancial losses of the NTPC to this when I am con- galvanise investments into Ltd. will be 35 per cent.
If we are going to run our could, said Mr. Goyal. companies. tinuously telling them you the country, said Mr.Kapoor. I am delighted that Stan-
organisations with dened The impact of good gov-
any significant We are working on a more have to be the world's most Assocham is fully commit- dard Life is increasing its
processes and a degree of se- ernance, corporate govern- improvements holistic approach where the valuable power company in ted to working with the Gov- stake in HDFC Life to 35 per
rious and ethical guidelines ance can be felt when one companies, the discoms the next four years. ernment and regulators cent. The founding sharehol-
which will always have an ele- looks at the top Sensex stocks themselves will be encour- In his address at the sum- towards enhancing transpar- ders are also committed to
ment of integrity at the core, and you nd that good, reput- nancial stress, the Union will have a roadmap and in aged to bring about the mit, Rana Kapoor, President, ency and increasing account- obtaining a listing for HDFC
to my mind getting a 1.5-2 per ed companies are given a pre- Minister said, We are in ac- the next three years you will change, the turnaround Assocham, said, With the ad- ability to promote innovation Life. This will allow investors
cent bump in the GDP, good mium for good practices, he tive dialogue with discoms, see a sea change in discom through good corporate gov- vent of dynamic regulatory and competitiveness nation- to participate in the growing
additional growth in the GDP added. we have a broad framework story of India. ernance practices and we will landscapes, an increasingly ally, thereby making India the Indian insurance sector, a
is certainly not impossible, under which I am very con- On being asked if the gov- hand-hold them and ensure complex global business en- most preferred investment release quoted Deepak Pa-
very much achievable and Financial stress dent, three or four discoms ernment was looking at ex- that within a dened time- vironment and rapid technol- destination globally, added rekh, Chairman, HDFC, as
possibly one could do even Talking about the discoms which are really under stress tending nancial frame we turn these around, ogy disruptions, it is critical Mr. Kapoor. saying.
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NEW DELHI: State-run SAIL has KOLKATA: Tata Global Bever- come up in many CHENNAI: TVS Srichakra Ltd
reported a standalone net ages (TGB) has decided to places, but there is has posted impressive num-
loss of Rs.321.64 crore for the adopt a cautious approach in bers for the Q1 of this scal.
rst quarter ended June 30, the opening of Starbucks a clamour for a store Its net prot rose signicant-
2015 as against a net prot of stores across the country, in Kolkata. ly to Rs.49 crore when com-
Rs.530 crore in the year-ago said Cyrus P. Mistry, its pared with Rs.17 crore in the
period, due to lower realisa- Chairman. year-ago period, due to strong
tion, higher royalty and pow- Responding to a sharehol- lating to businesses in China operating performance.
er prices, it said in a BSE ders query at the annual gen- and Eastern Europe. The Chi- EBITDA (earnings before
ling. eral meeting of TGB, he said, na business, he said, was af- interest, taxes, depreciation
Standalone total income of A number of the stores (cof- fected by delays in start-up and amortisation) was higher
the company fell by 16 per fee shops) are making prots, and stabilisation of technol- at Rs.85 crore as against
cent to Rs.9,502.80 crore as but we have to open stores ogy Rs.40 crore. EBITDA margins
against Rs.11,341.20 crore in carefullywe need to be cau- He said that a Rs.150-crore stood at 17 per cent for the
the same quarter of 2014-15. tious. capital expenditure was on rst quarter. Strong bottom-
Apart from lower net sales While stores opened under the anvil for the current scal line growth was aided by re-
realisation, increase in royal- the joint venture, Tata Star- year on a consolidated basis. duction raw material cost,
ty on iron ore from Septem- bucks Pvt. Ltd., have come up Although Singur has fea- lower interest charges and
ber 1, 2014, increase in the in many places, there has for tured at TGB meetings ever higher other income. Its total
purchased power rate etc. al- long been a clamour for a since Tata Motors withdraw- revenues for Q1 stood at
so added to the losses, it said store in Kolkata, the regis- al of its small car project, Mr. Rs.504 crore as against Rs.451
in a statement. Though do- tered office of TGB. Mr. Mis- Mistry said that he would not crore, posting a growth of 12
mestic steel consumption try earlier said that Tata comment on a sub-judice per cent.
grew about 7 per cent in the Starbucks added 29 stores matter. He, however, dismis- We continue to do very
rst quarter of 2015-16, high during the year, taking the sed suggestions that Tata well in the aftermarket seg-
imports from countries such count to 72 across seven cities group was not investing in ment, with our numbers
as China, Japan, Korea, Rus- at March-end 2015. Coffee ac- West Bengal. Most Tata growing every quarter. Ex-
sia, and others eroded a large counts for 25 per cent of companies will surely look at ports also showing improve-
market chunk of the domes- TGBs revenue and tea gives the state for investment. ments in both off-road and
tically produced steel. Lower 74 per cent. There is no question about it- two wheeler tyre segments,
exports from India, which fell TGB ended the rst quarter different companies are P.Vijayaraghavan, Director of
by 31 per cent in the rst with a 9 per cent rise in its looking at West Bengal, he the company said.
quarter, further affected the income and a 6 per cent drop asserted. Its total production capac-
demand-supply balance, in prots. Mr. Mistry attri- He said that the year ahead ity is expected to touch 2.3
SAIL added. buted this to increased in- held many opportunities. million tyres a month by Oc-
Barring Bhilai and Durga- vestment on brands and With our green tea and spe- tober or November from 2
pur steel plants, all other expenses. In 2014-15, the ciality teas, we are well poised million now. Its is also hope-
units of SAIL reported net company also recognised to leverage consumer trend ful of launching its radial bike
loss in the June quarter. non-cash impairment losses towards health and wellness, tyres for the domestic market
PTI amounting to Rs.95 crore re- he said. in the next few months.
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Gill and
Saina one step away from history INDIANS ABROAD
BASKETBALL
Indian Army,
$42,500 Challenger men, Porto-
Macneall in roz, Slovenia: Doubles (final): Fab-
rice Martin (Fra) & Purav Raja bt
second Aliaksandr Bury (Blr) & Andreas Sil-
SHOOTING
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VARIETY Matt Jones moves two ahead Bulls seal semifinal slot
SU | DO | KU KOHLER (USA): Unheralded Matt Ashwin Achal devastating raid by Mumbas gins at Pune on Sunday.
Jones birdied two of his last six Rishank Devadiga, who shoul- The results:
holes to seize a two-shot lead BENGALURU: Bengaluru Bulls der-charged the defender all U Mumba 32 (Anup Kumar 7) bt
when the storm-delayed sec- sealed a Pro Kabaddi League the way past themid-line. Patna Pirates 27 (Girish Maruti 5).
ond round of the PGA Cham- (PKL) knockout round spot Minutes later, Patna was rel- Bengaluru Bulls 43 (Manjeet Chillar
pionship was completed at with a 43-29 win over Telugu egated to an all-out, and Mum- 9, Dharmaraj Charalathan 7, Ajay
Whistling Straits on Saturday. Titans here on Saturday. ba did not look back. Thakur 6) bt Telugu Titans 29 (Prash-
Jones sank a 15-foot putt on The home side had little The eighth and final leg be- ant Rai 10, Sandeep 8).
the par-four sixth before drain- trouble putting it across Titans
ing a 50-footer at the eighth on for its second straight victory.
way to a seven-under 65 that Titans are already through to
left him at 11- the semifinals.
under 133 and Once
two ahead of again,
Jason Day, the star
who carded duo of
67. Man-
Justin Rose, UNWELCOME VISITOR: Fans scramble for cover as a jeet
among the 57 storm disrupts play during the second round of the Chillar and Ajay Thakur power-
players still PGA Championships. PHOTO: AP ed Bengaluru along.
out on the course when play The visiting team, which
was suspended for the day on stays in second-spot, trailed by
Friday, was at eight-under after round with a hat-trick of bird- merth (Swe) 67-70, Anirban Lahiri a heavy margin for nearly the
parring his final hole for a 67. ies and two steady pars for a (Ind) 70-67; 138: Brendan Steele entire duration of the match.
Jordan Spieth, 67 on Friday, round of five-under 67 the (USA) 69-69, Scott Piercy (USA) 68-
was five strokes off the pace best-ever round by an Indian at 70, Jordan Spieth (USA) 71-67; 139: U Mumba keeps winning
A mind game and a puzzle when the second round was any Major that catapulted Dustin Johnson (USA) 66-73, J.B. Earlier, U Mumba improved
that you solve with completed. him to seven-under and tied Holmes (USA) 68-71, Russell Henley on its excellent record with a
reasoning and logic. Fill in Defending champion Rory fourth. Lahiri came back to fin- (USA) 68-71, George Coetzee (RSA) 32-27 victory over Patna Pi-
the grid with digits in such McIlroy was at two under after ish his remaining five holes of 74-65, Harris English (USA) 68-71; rates.
a manner that every row, carding a 71 on Friday. the second round, and immedi- 140: Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn) 70-70, Table-topper U Mumba has
every column and every
Tiger Woods missed the cut ately rolled in three successive Branden Grace (Rsa) 71-69, Marcel now won 11 of its 12 matches
his third straight missed cut birdies to go with the three he Siem (Ger) 70-70, Martin Kaymer played so far.
3x3 box accommodates at a major carding one-over had in the first 13 on Friday. (Ger) 70-70, Matt Kuchar (USA) 68- Patna, on the other hand, will
the digits 1 to 9, without for a four-over total of 148, two The scores: 133: Matt Jones (Aus) 72, Charles Howell (USA) 70-70, Hi- need to come out on top in both
repeating any. The outside the cut line. 68-65; 135: Jason Day (Aus) 68-67; roshi Iwata (Jpn) 77-63, Hunter Mahan its remaining fixtures to stay in BRILLIANT EFFORT: U Mumba's Rishank Devadiga
solution to yesterdays Anirban Lahiri produced a 136: Justin Rose (Eng) 69-67; 137: (USA) 72-68, Paul Casey (Eng) 70-70, the hunt. (right) came up with a devastating raid that set the
puzzle is at left. brilliant finish to his second Tony Finau (USA) 71-66, David Ling- Billy Horschel (USA) 72-68. The highlight of the day was a tone for his team's victory. PHOTO K. MURALI KUMAR
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Indians have the art of playing spin, but the mindset has changed: Laxman
Vijay Lokapally have to give respect to the spin- Navjot Singh Sidhu was feared by spinners. His philosophy was simple: tion for playing spinners. simha Rao. It prepared us well.
ner. My generation of players Throw-downs can simulate Playing spin is driven by in-
NEW DELHI: V.V.S. Laxman com- was fortunate to play against defence, defence and six. Defence, defence and four. bounce, seam and even swing, stinct. It is missing now.
ing down the pitch and on-driv- top-class spin bowlers in do- but not turn. Some observers al- Good defence is a must and
ing Shane Warne will remain mestic cricket. In the Hydera- practiced on gravel when pre- point of return. It is a split-sec- sault on E.A.S. Prasanna and so believe that the Boards ob- also a range of shots. But this
one of the most fascinating bad nets, I faced Arshad (Ayub), paring to play some of the best ond decision to react to the Bishan Singh Bedi while making session with preparing can come only when you play
sights on a cricket field. Kanwaljeet (Singh), (Venkata- spinners in the game. ball, Sidhu explained. a century in the 1975 Irani Cup. green-tops in Indian conditions quality spinners at home also,
But playing quality spin, or pathy) Raju, and the likes of Anil Navjot Singh Sidhu was Warne would tell Sidhu that On the Indian debacle at has left the youngsters strug- said Laxman.
tackling even a regular spinner (Kumble) and Harbhajan feared by spinners. His philoso- he got away with bad balls going Galle, Vengsarkar said: I think gling when pitted against spin- Batsmen have to watch the
on a challenging pitch, is an art (Singh) in India nets. It is differ- phy was simple: defence, de- unpunished when not bowling they should have applied them- ners elsewhere. ball closely. One cant bring in
that most batsmen today seem ent now. fence and six. Defence, defence to Indian batsmen. The Indians selves better. It doesnt help if Ashok Malhotra, a dexterous T20 shots in a Test situation.
to have forgotten. It was evi- Mediocre spinners can and four. would not let the ball land. Pre- you become overcautious. batsman against the slow bow- No wonder his recent batting
dent at Galle when India lost all make you complacent, and Not all batsmen posses such cisely! You have to attack the These things you cant always lers, said: Playing on seaming, camps in Kolkata and Hydera-
ten wickets to left-arm spinner maybe that is the case with bat- skills. It is the footwork they bowler and sometimes take a practise in the nets. I think we green-tops has left the spinners bad emphasised on shots along
Rangana Herath and off-spin- smen today. I wont say they lack the most. You have to leave chance too. You cant just keep missed partnerships, and most frustrated. We were trained to the ground against the spin-
ner Tharindu Kaushal. dont have the art. They need to the crease to confront the spin- playing from the crease, Sidhu significant was their inability to bat on dust bowls. It was a great ners.
They have the art of playing have the opposition to develop ners. I am a product of that said. rotate strike. challenge to step out to bowlers The Indian batsmen may do
spin but the mindset has the right mindset, said Lax- school which taught one to baf- Dilip Vengsarkar arrived on The modern trend of throw- like Dilip Doshi, Rajinder Singh well to remember that in Sri
changed, said Laxman. You man, who is known to have fle the bowler when he is at no the scene with a sensational as- downs is hardly ideal prepara- Hans, Shivlal Yadav and Nara- Lanka.
Toy Story 4 on its way Pink Floyd fans in despair Tricolour in the shopping cart
The fourth instalment in the Toy Story franchise is Legendary guitarist David Gilmour of the iconic rock Tricolour and khadi products were a hit among online
getting a sequel and it will narrate a love story band Pink Floyd says the band will not reunite for shoppers on Independence Day, says Flipkart.
between Woody and Bo Peep. another round as the band has had its heyday. Products with colours of the National Flag were a hit.
TREND
In music, Obama is fan STAR TREK
of Swinging Sixties The next star is just a tweet away MEET THE NEW DISNEY LEGENDS
H
ollywoods beloved pirate Johnny Depp surprised
the audience here at the D23 Expo 2015, where he
and Star Wars director George Lucas, were
CHILMARK, MASS.: U.S.
President Barack Obamas Production houses now post casting calls on social media honoured with a Disney Legend Award for bringing a
world beyond imagination onto the big screen. The
musical tastes run from actor, popular as Captain Jack Sparrow of the
boomer to Beyonc, with a Sangeetha Devi Dundoo ranted applications from
people who try their luck. Pirates of the Caribbean franchise,
streak of jazz and a nod to came onto the stage of the event in
O
Sinatra. That at least is n July 7, actor Aa- Each day, on my Facebook
mir Khan an- page, I get 300 to 400 mess- Anaheim on Friday, and left the
what he released on Friday crowd enamoured.
in his first Spotify playlists, nounced a casting ages asking for opportunities.
call on Twitter for If I get 80,000 applications Meanwhile, Lucas shared a
sharing a 20-song trivia about his popular space
daytime list and another his next production, directed for a film, only 20 to 25 will be
by Advait Chandan. The pro- worth considering. saga Star Wars. Disney has given
20-song evening one. A me a lot of inspiration through the
White House blog post said duction house was looking for Tejas casting website func-
a girl in the 12-17 age group tions only when he is on the experience I had with their
the lists were hand- movies, television and art. I
created by Mr. Obama. who could sing. lookout for new actors and
Interested candidates were technicians. When we made refer them as catalogues. In
If the lists are a guide to fact, heres a secret Goofy
how the president rocks required to e-mail with a vid- the applications free of cost,
eo recording and a letter of the server crashed with the [a cartoon character] was
out, his days are spent the inspiration for Jar Jar
mostly in the 1950s and consent from a parent or response. We found many
guardian. Within an hour of people e-mailing us 20 to 30 Binks, Lucas said. IANS
1960s, with songs like Bob
Dylans Tombstone Blues, His Spotify playlists Aamirs tweet, his office re- times. Then, we charged Re.1
Stevie Wonders Another show that his days ceived more than 3,000 e- for the applications and again,
Star, the Isley Brothers mails with video clippings. the server crashed. Later, we
are spent mostly in The server crashed despite his raised the charge to Rs. 111 to THE LIFE OF GABBAR
Live It Up and Aretha
the 1950s and 1960s office trying its best to down- put an end to repetitive appli-
S
Franklins Rock Steady. hadaab Khan, son
The Rolling Stones are load and back up the files. cations, he says. of noted actor
represented with Gimme There was a time when Arun Vaidyanathan, who Amjad Khan, says
Shelter and Bob Marleys Davis and Billie Holiday. casting calls for films hap- produced the Tamil film Ka- he is working on a
So Much Trouble in the But the Presidents playlist pened primarily by sounding lyana Samayal Saadham, di- biography on his
World is a perfect title for a also includes a Beyonc out modelling agencies or the- rected Achchamundu! father.
commander-in-chief. song, Superpower, and one atre groups. Just as produc- Achchamundu! and the Ma- I am working on a
And Aint Too Proud to called Stubborn Love, by tion houses big and small saw layalam film Peruchazhi, book on my father and
Beg, by the Temptations, is the Denver-based folk-rock the scope of promoting their shares Tejas concern of being will start it next year.
an interesting choice for a group the Lumineers. films through Twitter and inundated with applications. The book will have
President who faces an Hes also got Nina Facebook, they realised these In India, there is no dearth of details about his
networks could be tapped for A screenshot of the #castingcall hashtag on Twitter people who want to be actors.
uphill battle in Congress Simones Feeling Good, professional and
persuading members of his which might be a reflection audition calls. This channel shows a call for actors for Poster Boyz. At the same time, I find Face- personal life. We want
own party to approve his of the past two months of came in handy for small- and book useful to hire assistant everyone to know
nuclear deal with Iran. his presidency, which have medium-budget films, both in ing candidates. So we will Beautiful and Kerintha, re- directors, he says. For his about the great work he has done as an actor and how
There are a few more featured a series of foreign Hindi and regional languages. announce the other two cast- spectively. next film, he has sought the he was in real life, Shadaab said.
recent hits on the daytime policy achievements, falling Last week, soon after Rana ing calls in subsequent help of BenchCast, an initia- In his career spanning nearly two decades, Amjad Khan
Daggubati and Akshay Kumar weeks, Rana says. Its a deluge tive by director Karthik Sub-
playlist: Paradise, by unemployment rates and has worked in over 130 films but is best remembered
Coldplay, and Shake It Out, rising approval numbers in announced their co-produc- He points out that the so- Director Teja, who has pri- baraj (Pizza and Jigarthanda). for his iconic portrayal of villain Gabbar in 1975 cult
by Florence and the the polls. Due to popular tion Poster Boyz, Rana posted cial media, once considered marily worked with new ac- Karthikeyan Santhanam, Sholay, which completes 40 years.
Machine. But unlike request, here are my a casting call. Their first an- an alternative channel to an- tors and technicians since co-founder and chief operat- His other prominent films include Kalia, Muqaddar Ka
Hillary Rodham Clinton, vacation playlists, Obama nouncement was for an actor nounce and promote films, 2001, has looked for uncon- ing officer of BenchCast, is Sikandar, Yaarana, Barsaat Ki Ek Raat, Des Pardes,
whose recent Spotify list said on Twitter. Whats who would befit a 60-year-old has now emerged stronger. ventional ways to tap poten- confident of the talent pool Nastik, Satte Pe Satta, Dada, Laawaris, Ganga Ki
was filled with current pop your favorite summer character, Jagdish. At one go, we are able to re- tial actors pamphlets, FM that can be tapped through Saugandh, Hum Kisise Kam Nahin and Naseeb among
hits, Obama has no Katy song? Poster Boyz is a small- ach the target audience radio and, later, through a social media. We realised the others. PTI
Perry or Kelly Clarkson or The response on Twitter budget film with three princi- modelling agencies, theatre dedicated website. He is still need for a project manage-
Ariana Grande. has been mostly positive. pal characters. Our idea was groups and film schools, he wary of announcing through ment tool with an efficient
Mr. Obamas evening list VentureBeat, a technology to post casting calls for each of adds. Twitter and Facebook, for it search engine mechanism.
continues the pattern, with website, called the lists these characters on three con- In Telugu, directors Srini- brings in a deluge of applica- BenchCast is an integrated PROF. X, WOLVERINE TO TEAM UP
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Al Greens How Can You Barack Obamas cool dad secutive days. The first call re- vas Avasarala and Sekhar tions. platform through which we ctor Patrick Stewart has confirmed he will reprise
Mend a Broken Heart? and summer jams. ceived such an overwhelming Kammula and producer Dil So far, Ive introduced have around 10,000 profiles of his role of Professor Charles Xavier in the
selections from Frank New York Times response that the office is still Raju announced casting calls more than 1,000 people to the potential actors. So far, weve upcoming action film,
Sinatra, Ray Charles, Miles News Service going through the applica- online for their projects Oo- Telugu industry. Through so- cast for seven films and eight Wolverine 3. The currently-untitled
tions received and shortlist- halu Gusagusalade, Life is cial media, you get unwar- short films, he says. The Wolverine 3 is underway with
Hugh Jackman returning as the
clawed mutant. The actor said he
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from yogurts to energy bars the film. Thats when we inger Madonna and director Guy Ritchie put aside
and even whole-grain bread. Actor-director Damon started exploring a lot more their differences to celebrate their son Roccos
A new movie called That of the science and then look- 15th birthday.
Sugar Film seeks to educate Gameau of That Sugar ing for people to interview The couple, who divorced in 2008, sang Happy
consumers about the hazards Film says that snacks and stories to tell in the film, birthday to their son, who had delivered
of consuming too much add- perceived as healthy can the actor said. a speech at Ritchies wedding to
ed sugar, which can be found He added that he had been Jacqui Ainsley last month.
come loaded with added Madonna had some time ago said
in an estimated 80% of all su- eating chocolate doughnuts
permarket foods. The new sugars and soft drinks, he would she felt like a prisoner during
documentary stars Austra- have known what would have her seven-and-a-half-year
lian actor-director, Damon happened. But the fact that he marriage to Ritchie. But she
Gameau. sugar. Instead, he consumes piled on weight when he was stood beside her ex-
In the film, which first had foods commonly perceived as following the low-fat diet was husband as they
its debut in Australia this healthy that are frequently surprising, he said. presented their son with
year, Gameau gives up his loaded with added sugars, like Were not demonising a cake earlier this week.
normal diet of fresh foods for low-fat yogurt, fruit juice, sugar, were just showing The former lovers
two months to see what hap- health bars and cereal. people where its hiding. clapped and cheered
pens when he shifts to eating Gameau finds that his There are people having their along with the
a diet containing 40 tea- health and waistline quickly chocolate bar or ice cream at crowd, while Ritchie
spoons of sugar daily, the spiral out of control. While the end of the day without planted a kiss on his
amount consumed by the av- the film is mostly entertain- realizing theyve had 30 tea- sons head.
erage Australian (and an ment, it tries to present the spoons in other foods IANS
amount not far from the 28 science of sugar in a consum- throughout the day. I say en-
Couples, some dressed as sailors and nurses, embrace in Times
teaspoons consumed daily by er-friendly way, with helpful joy your chocolate and your Square in New York on Friday. They came together to recreate
the average American teenag- cameos from Hugh Jackman, ice cream, but just know the scene in the iconic photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt,
published in the Life magazine in 1945, that captured a kiss
er).
The twist is that Gameau
avoids soda, ice cream, candy
Stephen Fry and others.
Despite some of the doc-
tors telling me I was crazy, I
where most of the sugar in
your diet is hiding, he added.
New York Times News
between a U.S. sailor and nurse on August 14, 1945, marking the
end of World War II. PHOTO: AFP
Denmark opens its first
and other obvious sources of thought consuming a lot of Service
LGBT elderly home
Nonseum, a museum of the absurd with a cult following COPENHAGEN: Denmark has
opened its first care home for
elderly members of the lesbi-
an, gay, bisexual, transgender
The home is still open
to residents of all
sexual orientations
Its vast collection of silly yet brilliant inventions proves that bad ideas can turn into genius creations (LGBT) community, a media
report said.
HERRNBAUMGARTEN (AUSTRIA): late into another language, hour snail race or a festival of leons military vest, ex- According to sources, plans nity to be yourself with others
From a transparent suitcase they do laugh, so clearly scarecrows. plained Machac with a for the home were first an- and that can make you lonely.
for nudists to automatic nose theres something universal With each event, their in- serious face, pointing to one nounced in November 2014, That is precisely why we need
pickers Austrias museum about what we show, Su- ventory of weird inventions of the empty boxes. While with the intention of turning a place where LGBT people
of nonsense and its vast col- sanne Machac, one of the mu- grew too and in the end, they that one was worn by Aus- Slottet, in Copenhagens Nor- can talk openly about the
lection of silly yet brilliant in- seums co-managers, said. decided to unite all these silly trias foreign minister during rebro district, into a place lives they have led, she
ventions are proof that bad Her brother-in-law, sculp- ideas under one roof. the signing of the republics where elderly LGBT resi- added.
ideas, if carried out well, can tor Fritz Gall, co-founded the Today, hundreds of pieces treaty of independence (in dents can live out their gold- Helge Madsen, 83, was al-
turn into genius creations. Nonseum in 1994 with four are spread across the mu- 1955). There is also a rifle en years without having to ready living at Slottet before
The so-called Nonseum, other local artists. seums three large buildings, with its barrel twisted back- hide their true identity, The it adopted its LGBT profile.
which claims to be the only They got the idea after or- with new items added by the wards so that the muzzle Local news portal reported. He said that it took him four
one of its kind in the world, ganising the countrys first founders on a regular basis. faces the shooter the ulti- We know that older LGBT full years to tell the care
has developed a cult following fair of failed inventions in They include, for example, mate, and final, selfie, in- people often go back in the homes staff that he was ho-
among fans of the absurd. 1984, which unexpectedly a soup plate with a plug, dicates a small note next to closet when they come to a mosexual. He said he looks
Every year, thousands of proved a huge success. which allows you to discreetly the glass display. nursing home. People have forward to life under the
people from around the world Sleepy Herrnbaumgarten, drain the food when youve But the spaghetti travel lived different lives some homes new profile and with
flock to the small village of usually home to around 970 had enough. case, tricycle for twins and were completely open, while his new fellow LGBT
Herrnbaumgarten, tucked inhabitants, was suddenly Its one of my favourite champagne cork retainer also others were more careful, residents.
away in the northern wine re- overrun with 5,000 visitors A tricycle for twins is displayed at Nonseum at the pieces. I wish Id had one of hide a more serious message: Vivi Jelstrup, a member of I think it will mean more
gion close to the Czech bor- from across Austria and be- Austrian village of Herrnbaumgarten, north of those as a kid, said Machac. they reflect a subtle critique LGBT Denmarks seniors secure conditions and safer
der, to find comic relief at the yond, who had all come to Another highlight is the of the modern consumer so- committee said. conditions to be with some of
Vienna near the Czech border. PHOTO: AFP Many feel that it is easier my equals, he said.
Nonseum. chuckle at the unsuccessful worlds one and only collec- ciety, according to Machac.
We get groups from far- gimmicks. less inventions, which The five artists created a tion of famous button holes, Its a philosophy of life: to not open up [about them- Although Slottet has for-
flung places like China and Gall and his friends real- manage to serve a purpose, not-for-profit association concealed inside little square these are all things that we selves in a care home] than to mally adopted its new LGBT
South Korea, and although I ised they had uncovered a said Machac: Putting a smile which would, for the next boxes with transparent lids. dont really need, but at least once again fight for accept- profile, it is still open to resi-
sometimes worry that the unique market niche com- on peoples face but also mak- decade, organise a series of This is the third button were admitting that we really ance. That means that you dents of all sexual orienta-
puns wont necessarily trans- ing up with seemingly point- ing them think for a second. absurd events like a 24- hole from the top of Napo- dont need them. AFP dont have the same opportu- tions. IANS
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