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BUFFALO SLAUGHTER
Maharashtra traders to
end self-imposed ban
MUMBAI: Buffalo slaughter
will resume in Maharashtra on
Wednesday, after a month-long
self-imposed ban by traders
protesting the State
governments ban on the
slaughter of bulls and bullocks.
NATIONAL | PAGE 13
WOMAN GANG-RAPED
NATIONAL | PAGE 13
OUSTER AFTERMATH
NEWS | PAGE 12
larised it.
A Bench led by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu issued notice
to BJP veterans Mr. Advani,
Murli Manohar Joshi, Union
Minister Uma Bharti and
Himachal Pradesh Governor
Kalyan Singh.
The Supreme Court also
asked the CBI to explain why
it unduly delayed the appeal
MAJOR FIRE
CITY | PAGE 3
EMPOWER
On Page 8
Two sentenced
to 30 years
for gang-rape
Previous versions
were rejected by
President twice
Its TADA in
another form
Rahi Gaikwad
Krishnadas Rajagopal
NEW DELHI: The Supreme
Court on Tuesday sought
the responses of BJP leader
L.K. Advani and 19 others on
a petition that sought their
trial on charges of conspiracy to demolish the Babri
Masjid in 1992.
The Central Bureau of Investigation that investigated
the case had accused them
all, but a trial court discharged them in a decision
upheld by the Allahabad
High Court in 2010.
The apex court intervention following a petition by
Haji Mahboob Ahmad, a petitioner in the mosque demolition case, could revive the
latent but inconclusive
questions about the role of
the senior leaders of the ruling party in the demolition
that triggered violence
across the country and po-
Aircraft belonging to
Emirates and Etihad
were involved.
Dubai from Seychelles while
Etihad ight EY-622 was on
way to Seychelles from Abu
Dhabi. Noticing that the two
aircraft were perilously close
to each other, the Mumbai
ATC alerted one of the commanders by giving a resolution advisory (RA), the
sources said. An RA is given to
the pilot if the distance reduces to the extent that the risk of
collision gets to 25 seconds. It
is an indication recommending a manoeuvre to provide
separation from all threats or
a manoeuvre restriction intended to maintain existing
separation. This is also an instruction to climb, descend or
level out. The pilot is required
to comply in 6 seconds; the
instruction has priority over
other ATC instructions.
Emirates can conrm that
ight EK 706 on March 29
from Seychelles to Dubai was
involved in an Air Traffic Control incident in Mumbai airspace,
an
Emirates
spokesperson said in the
statement. PTI
China ready
to work on
trilateral
cooperation
Srinivasan Ramani
CHENNAI: China would like to
address the issue of trade imbalance and is willing to provide
greater opportunities to India for
exports, its Ambassador in New
Delhi Le Yucheng said here.
China takes the Indian
concern of trade imbalance very
seriously, he said in a written
interview with The Hindu, which
was followed by an interaction.
Asserting that Beijing was willing to work with India to conduct
trilateral cooperation involving
other South Asian nations, Mr. Le
said there was no
basis to the
fear that India
would be
encircled by
China.
EXCERPTS
FROM
INTERVIEW |
Jayant Sriram
ECHO OF POTA
PROVISIONS | PAGE 12
1,650 colonies to
be regularised
Jatin Anand & Damini Nath
NEW DELHI: In a move that
spells relief for an estimated
40 lakh residents staying in
unauthorised colonies and also that would deliver on a
promise made by successive
governments, but ever fullled, residents of 1,650 such
colonies can apply for the registration of their respective
properties soon.
DETAILS | PAGE 5
Death row
Rukmini S
NEW DELHI: Indian courts handed down at least 64 death sentences last year but no
executions took place, largely as
a result of court rulings, new data from Amnesty International
shows. Globally, executions fell
by a fth, and two-thirds of the
world has abolished it.
DETAILS | PAGE 13
COMMENT
have Prime Minister Narendra vironment and Forest MinisModi tweeting that by saying ter Prakash Javadekar said:
NEW DELHI: The Union Health
no to tobacco, we lay the foun- Do not listen to these things.
Special Correspondent
Ministry on Tuesday asserted
dation of a healthy India, and Science is science. You cannot
that there was no change in
then you have a party MP ask- compromise on science.
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has the commitment to curb the
ing for evidence of cancer-toWhile the social media was
sentenced two persons to consumption of tobacco in all
bacco link, Mr. Trivedi said.
abuzz with criticism, Monica
30-years imprisonment for possible forms, even as it put in
Congress leaders also criti- Arora of the Voluntary Health
gang-raping a foreign na- abeyance its earlier noticacised the Ministry's decision, Association of India said an
tional, observing that the tion increasing the pictorial
with Milind Deora tweeting: earlier committee on suborditwo convicts were on the warnings from 40 per cent to A pictorial warning on a Sad day for Indias anti-tobac- nate legislation of the Rajya
prowl like hungry wolves 85 per cent on the packages of cigarette packet.- PHOTO:
co crusaders (including my late Sabha had recommended that
and their eyes shone bright- tobacco products from April 1. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
father, whose PIL led to the pictorial warnings and rules
ly
on
seeing
the
The Congress and the Trinasmoking ban in public places) against tobacco advertisement
prosecutrix.
mool Congress (TMC) have de- not been consulted has also & cancer survivors. Party spo- should be made stronger. The
The convicts are sen- scribed the Ministrys decision been dismissed. TMC leader kesperson Abhishek Manu committee, in 2013, observed
tenced to rigorous imprison- following a recommendation Dinesh Trivedi told The Hindu Singhvi alleged that the NDA that the pictorial warning
ment for a period of 30 years by a committee on subordinate that the committee does not government seemed to be needs to be 90 per cent. So all
each with a ne of Rs.40,000 legislation as appeasement have the power to make the openly
lobbying
for those earlier reports have not
each for the offence under of corporate lobbies.
government change the noti- corporates.
been reviewed when this comSection376D (gang-rape),
The Ministrys explanation cation. The committee has
On the back foot over party mittee made its recommendaAdditional Sessions Judge that it is merely following the no power and no business to MP Dilipbhai Gandhis re- tions, Dr. Arora pointed out.
Virender Bhat announced.
committees recommendation meddle in this. The govern- mark, asking for research to
SHOCKING, SAYS SUPRIYA SULE
The police had charge- to put the notication in abey- ment is bluffing, it shows their prove the correlation between | PAGE 13
sheeted the two accused, Raj ance as all stakeholders have weakness. On the one hand, we cancer and tobacco, Union EnKumar and Dinesh Sharma,
with abducting the prosecutrix, an Ugandan national,
on the intervening night of
June 18 and 19 last year, takYuthika Bhargava
the nancial implications of the more than 1.3 paise per minute. fee and spectrum usage charge.
ing her to the house of Raj
[spectrum] auction indicates
Seeking a clarication on
While we wait for the anKumar's sister in a car, rapNEW DELHI: In deance of the an increase of more than 12-15 these calculations, COAI said swers from the government, we
ing her there and then
governments dismissal of re- per cent on the present tariffs, the government seemed to have maintain that owing to the indumping her near a Metro
ports of rate increases last to make up for the cash out- failed to factor in ination and creased nancial burden, the
pillar on the Najafgarh Road.
week, the Cellular Operators ows of the operators, COAI the interest on debt the oper- industrys cost structure will
The prosecutrix stood on
Association of India (COAI) said in a statement. Last week, ators would have to pay for change drastically and the opher statements recorded by
said on Tuesday that mobile Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar funds raised to acquire spec- erators will not be left with
the investigating officer and
phone tariffs could go up by 12- Prasad said a simple calcula- trum in the auction that ended much choice but to increase the
later by a Metropolitan Ma15 per cent because of high tion, based on TRAI data, last week. It said the operators tariffs to meet the nancial
gistrate.
spectrum prices.
showed that if at all required, would have to pay 13-14 per commitments to the governShe also identied the two
the industrys analysis of tariffs would not increase by cent of their revenues as licence ment, it said.
accused during the trial of
the case.
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THE HINDU
CITY
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: The National Museum has been selected to participate in the Second Global
Museum Leaders Colloquium
(GMLC) to be held in New
York next month.
The museum will be among
15 others selected for the colloquium, to be hosted by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York. The event will
have representatives from
these museums deliberate on
measures to broaden international dialogue about museum
management.
National Museum DirectorGeneral Venu V, who will be
visiting New York, was instrumental in launching a series of
initiatives to reinvigorate the
65-year-old institution.
Other institutes attending
the event are from the U.K.,
facilities for
DU students
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: Lost in the daily
NEW DELHI: The All-India Stu-
DUTA public
meeting held
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: The Delhi University Teachers Association on
Tuesday continued its public
meeting outside the Arts Faculty to create awareness
about maladministration by
the varsity administration.
Witnesses included teachers and students who were
forced to le RTIs or take recourse to litigation against DU
in order to secure justice. Professor Hany Babu and Hans
Raj Suman outlined details behind DUs repeated attempts
to deny due reservations to
students in admissions and
teachers in permanent appointments, said DUTA president Nandita Narain.
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THE HINDU
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Two contract
killers arrested
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police
Crime Branch has arrested
two contract killers, who
were involved in attempt to
murder cases in Delhi and
Ghaziabad. According to the
police, they were hired by a
businessman, who wanted to
settle financial disputes. The
businessman has also been
arrested.
We have busted a nexus
involving a businessman and
his hired shooters, who fired
upon two persons - Delhi resident Sanjay Mehta and Ghaziabad resident Sandeep
Kheda. Those who were arrested are Nitin Arora (33),
the businessman, and the
shooters, Dhanesh Kallu (26)
and Muninder Chauhan
(34), a senior police officer
said.
The attack on Sanjay Mehta took place when he was sitting in his office in Krishna
Nagar.
The other businessman,
Sandeep Kheda, used to be a
cloth merchant in Gandhi Nagar. In last September, the
contract killers fired on Mr.
Khedas car in which the driver sustained injuries.
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Satyarthi seeks
complete ban
on child labour
Bindu Shajan Perappadan
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THE HINDU
decided to call off their strike. However, rival unions claimed that the corporation had dangled the carrot of
promotions and raises to break the
strike.
Rajendra Mewati, the president of
the Akhil Bharatiya Safai Mazdoor
Congress, said two unions of sanitation
workers as well as a united front of
teachers and hospital staff would continue the stir. However, Mukesh Gahlot, who is the president of the Purvi
Dilli Morcha, said many workers decided to go back to work as their demands had been met.
Students of the
corporations 581
schools will be given
uniforms and text books
on time as these were
ordered last year
Officials in the BJP-led corporation were asking for approval to
allot the contract to company that
had quoted Rs. 3.12 crore. BJP
councillors decided to postpone
the proposal. Standing Committee chairperson Mohan Bhardwaj,
PUBLIC NOTICES
PUBLIC NOTICES
Sisodia in Centres
guest speakers list
NEW DELHI: Delhi Deputy Chief
Minister Manish Sisodia is
among over 130 individuals included in a pool of eminent
persons and guest speakers
formed by the Centre for imparting training to employees.
Besides him, Bihars Super
30 coaching fame Anand Kumar and Sulabhs chief Bindeshwar Pathak gure in the
list prepared by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
All central training institutes are requested to utilise
their services as guest faculty
for the appropriate training
programme as per their requirement, DoPT said. PTI
Heart Institute here have successfully conducted an emergency open heart surgery on
an 18-hour-old baby, the youngestto have
undergone such a surgery in the country till
date, according to the operating physicians.
Dr. K.S. Iyer, executive director, paediatric and congenital heart diseases at FEHI,
and his team carried out the operation.
The baby was born in Mathura and within
minutes of his birth was declared to have
severe breathing difficulty. When two local
hospitals there were unable to pinpoint the
cause, the child was rushed to a multi-super
specialty hospital here that refused to admit
him. Mayank was subsequently referred to
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GURGAON: The Haryana School Education Department has asked all private recognised
schools to reserve 10 per cent seats for students
belonging to the economically weaker sections
(EWS) and below poverty line (BPL) category
from Classes I to XII.
The decision comes in compliance with the
Punjab and Haryana High Court order with regard to the implementation of Rule 134-A of the
Haryana School Education Rules, 2003.
Stating this, an official spokesman said that in
case of schools built or situated on HUDA land,
this reservation for students belonging to EWS
and BPL category would be up to 20 per cent.
He said that all institutions concerned have
been directed to display information relating to
availability of seats, admissions, etc., of their
respective schools on their school website and
also place the same on the school notice boards
for public view byApril 1, 2015.
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EDITORIAL
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THE HINDU
Fearing
extinction
he history of Indias socialist parties from
which the various Janata Parivar entities
emerged is one of splits and mergers. If in
the past its leaders, opinionated, fractious,
colourful and intensely political as they are, lined up
behind Congress rebels to form Central governments
in 1977 and 1989, some of them also boosted the numbers of BJP-led NDA governments in 1999 and 2014. In
1996, when the minority H.D. Deve Gowda-led United
Front government came into being, it was ideologically
more cohesive, but the Congress that had backed it
soon withdrew support. Over the years, the Janata
Parivar parties drifted from their ideological moorings
in socialism to seek identity politics.They stayed afloat,
especially in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, capturing the
space vacated by the Congress, and addressing the
aspirations of the numerically substantial backward
castes. In last years general election, the BJP (that had
been quicker off the mark than the Congress in taking
note of the aspirational OBCs back in the early 1990s,
launching its social engineering experiment) wiped
out the Janata Parivar parties in both the Hindi-belt
States, taking away a major chunk of the OBC and Dalit
votes that had sustained them for over two decades.
The trigger for the current moves towards a merger
of six Janata Parivar parties, especially the Janata Dal
(United) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal located in Bihar
and the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, is the fear of
extinction. Assembly elections are due this year in
JD(U)-ruled Bihar and in 2017 in Uttar Pradesh where
the SP is in power. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the
three parties touched their lowest mark in two decades:
the JD(U) and the RJD together won just six of Bihars
40 seats, and the SP a paltry five of Uttar Pradeshs 80
seats. The other three parties are the Indian National
Lok Dal, the Janata Dal (Secular) and the Samajwadi
Janata Party. Today, as they move to merge under the
leadership of the SPs Mulayam Singh Yadav, having set
themselves the task of doing so by April 20 when the
second half of Parliaments budget session commences,
their first electoral test ahead will be in Bihar. If the
merger takes place, the impact will be felt first on the
streets with the anti-Land Bill agitation and then inside
Parliament: the party will start with 15 MPs in the Lok
Sabha and 30 in the Rajya Sabha. But though Nitish
Kumar retains some appeal, the rest of its leadership,
especially Mr. Mulayam Singh, Mr. Deve Gowda, the
RJDs Lalu Prasad and the INLDs Om Prakash Chautala are jaded practitioners of dynastic politics. To remain relevant and grow, these parties, an important
part of Indias political history, need to adapt to the
times for there is more to politics than mere
arithmetic.
Down to logistics
CARTOONSCAPE
Numero
Uno
or a country starved of successes at the individual level in world sport, Saina Nehwals
feat of becoming the first Indian woman shuttler to reach the No.1 position in the world is a
stupendous achievement. The 25-year-old Nehwal a
resident of Hyderabad achieved this mark during the
course of the 2015 India Open Super Series badminton
tournament, after defeating the reigning world champion, the Spaniard Carolina Marin, in the semi-finals.
Nehwal eventually won, defeating former world champion Ratchanok Intanon of Indonesia. Amidst the collective disappointment in the cricket-mad country
following Indias loss to Australia in the World Cup,
Nehwals mark has offered a moment of immense pride
and delight for Indian sports-lovers. Very few Indians
have reached the pinnacle of individual sports. In badminton, only Prakash Padukone had reached the No.1
mark, more than three decades ago. Nehwal now occupies a distinguished position in Indian sport along with
achievers such as chess grandmaster Viswanathan
Anand and boxer Mary Kom, both of whom reached the
top positions in the respective individual sports.
Nehwals ascent was aided by the fact that the reigning Olympic badminton champion, Li Xuerui from China, sustained an injury and has played sparingly in the
past few months. It is Nehwals persistent competitiveness that has allowed her to remain in the top echelons
of her sport, and helped her reach the summit at an
opportune time. She had won five major tournaments
since 2014 the Indian Open Grand Prix twice, the
Australian Super Series and the China Open in 2014,
and the India Super Series in 2015. Credit must also go
to Nehwals coaches over the years, who include Dronacharya award winner Syed Arif, badminton legend
Pullela Gopichand and the present coach Vimal Kumar, who is also a former Indian champion. As with
other Indian sportspersons Viswanathan Anand in
particular Nehwals success could spur other Indians
to take a liking to that sport and inspire them to seek
competitive pursuits. The lack of adequate sporting
infrastructure, the general absence of a sporting culture, and the domination of cricket in media coverage
of sports in the country have meant that Indian
achievements in individual sports are few and far between. Here is hoping that such triumphs as Nehwals
are not flashes in the pan but the start of a trend of
strong competitiveness among individual sportspersons, at least in badminton. The victory of male shuttler K. Srikanth in the same tournament which lifted
his world ranking to No.4 suggests there is indeed
something strong brewing in Indian badminton.
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Only in India
What American Peace Corps
Volunteer Donald Camp has
described in his article, It happens
only in India (May 31), is
something that has been happening
in India and still continues. It
reminded me of my days in a small
town in central Travancore, as a
student, and as a Hindu. A group of
us, schoolmates, used to halt before
Joining IS
Finally, there is a need for introspection
inside Europe, the U.S., and even Australia,
which have seen growing numbers of their
citizens get through Turkey to join IS. While
the brutality of the Assad regime and economic distress in the region have been
blamed for the thousands of Arab youth taking up arms for IS, what explains the hundreds of citizens joining it from the U.K.,
France and the U.S.? According to the U.S.
National Counterterrorism Center, 3,400 of
the 20,000 IS foreign fighters are from Western countries. Why are British and French
girls becoming jihadi brides, schoolboys and
young doctors learning to kill, and teenage
Americans travelling all the way just to join
IS ranks? Could it be that in the early years of
a push for regime change and sanctions
against Syria, Western governments themselves promoted the propaganda against Mr.
Assads government, allowing many of their
Muslim citizens to think they had not just
religious but national sanction to join the
war?
Significantly, some of the Wests actions
are now being rethought. While concluding
another round of P5+1 talks with Iran in the
Swiss town of Lausanne last week, the U.S.
Secretary of State, John Kerry, suggested
that the U.S. is now open to talks with Mr.
Assad if need be. If he is ready to have a
serious negotiation about the implementation of Geneva I (2012 agreement), of
course, he said. What were pushing for is
to get him to come and do that, he added, in
an interview to CBS.
But talks will only solve part of the problem in West Asia. If the West genuinely
wants to fight terror and promote a peaceful
future for the region, it will also have to
confront its selective silence and dual standard on the serious challenges that threaten
the region today.
suhasini.h@thehindu.co.in
Safer skies
It is unfortunate that the co-pilot of
the Germanwings flight was allowed
to fly given his condition (Editorial,
March 30). In this connection,
mention must be made of the tough,
initial and periodic, physical and
psychological tests administered by
the Indian Railways to all its
locopilots. A physical examination
once a year (in some cases, once in
six months), a rigid eye test and a
psychometric test are a must. There
is also a breathalyser test before
the journey. No driver can consume
alcohol within eight hours prior to
work. When the railways are so
careful, aviation experts should
design a better system to improve
safety standards.
J. Eden Alexander,
Thanjavur
The problems the co-pilot is said to
On Amaravathi
I am a citizen of Andhra Pradesh
and pained that the new capital of
Andhra Pradesh might be located in
the highly fertile and agricultural
area of Guntur district (Andhras
capital to be named Amaravathi,
March 24).
Land here yields three to four
food crops in a year. These include
rice, cotton, chilli and tobacco. It is
no exaggeration to say that farmers
cultivate gold here. The area is in a
Weather watch
The reintroduction of the weather
report column is a welcome
development. Ever since I came to
Chennai 25 years ago, the feature
has been useful. I used to send data,
on forecasts and the monthly
rainfall average to my father, back
in Gujarat, to help him plan his
farming activities. One wishes that
the data on rainfall is also restored.
R.G. Patel,
Chennai
It is a happy moment that the
weather report has come back as
Weather Watch. My long wait is
over and The Hindu is now
complete.
Kumar Pal G.,
Coonoor, The Nilgiris
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THE HINDU
WORLD VIEW
Ambassador Le Yucheng.
bers of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and hosted its second chief
negotiators meeting in Mumbai in late
January this year. In the second half of
this year, India will also host the third
meeting of BCIM Economic Corridor
Joint Working Group. All these reflect
the cooperative attitude of India to the
Belt and Road initiatives. China is willing to strengthen communication and
coordination with India, to link the Belt
and Road initiatives with Indias Spice
Route and Mausam projects, and bring
tangible benefits to the peoples in our
two countries and throughout the
region.
There is a trade imbalance between
India and China, with Indias trade
deficit being around $37.8 billion in
2014. At the same time, bilateral trade
in 2014 topped $70.6 billion. How do
you think the imbalance can be
corrected?
The Chinese side does not like trade
surplus and prefers balanced trade. China takes the Indian concern of trade
imbalance very seriously. Although the
main reason for our trade imbalance lies
in objective factors such as the differences in industrial structures of our two
countries, we are willing to provide opportunities to increase Indias exports to
China.
Since 2008, the Ministry of Commerce of China has sent six trade delegations to boost imports from India.
China warmly welcomes the Indian side
to expand trade through various trading
platforms, such as China-South Asia Expo and China Import and Export Fair
(Canton Fair), and the Import
Promotion Centres recently built in Shanghai, Tianjin and other
cities. In order to increase the popularity
of Indian products,
China also welcomes
Indian Chambers of
Commerce to conduct
promotion events in
China. Besides, China
hopes that India would
ease restrictions on ex-
PHOTO: R. RAVINDRAN.
Donations to parties
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As the beef traders strike continues, lions, tigers and other carnivores in Mumbai zoos
now get chicken as their primary feed. Keepers worry about the animals losing strength
Neha Thirani Bagri and Nida Najar
their businesses.
The beef traders are now weeks into a
strike over the ban, refusing to supply
shops with even buffalo meat, which is
still legal.
And that is where the animals at the
national park come in.
Until recently, the animals at the park
had feasted on a mixed diet of fresh beef,
water buffalo, and chicken. But the ban
pulled beef from the menu, and the
strike, at least for now, has put fresh
buffalo out of reach for these wild cats.
The animal handlers, who seem baffled by the attention in the Indian news
media since the ban, give mixed reviews
on the switch to white meat. Babu Vishnukote, one of the feeders at the zoo,
says the animals are devouring the
chicken, which he sees as a good sign.
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NEWS
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THE HINDU
ALARM IN KASHMIR
The discharge of
leaders by a trial
court is a historical
injustice
Randeep Surjewala. [To
give notice] is a normal
practice. [But] the Congress, which is embroiled in
several scams and has a former Prime Minister [Manmohan Singh] who has been
summoned as an accused by
court is now trying to do
politics through courts,
said BJP national secretary
Shrikant Sharma.
Mr. Ahmads petition argued: It is submitted that
the bifurcation attempted
by the trial court, which has
found favour with the High
Court is completely erroneous in law. The acts of instigation, facilitation, the
actual demolition of the
Masjid, the continuous assault on the media persons,
thus form a single connected transaction and can well
be a concerted conspiracy
under Section 120B of the
IPC.
No bail
Furthermore, the legislation makes offences under
the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime
Act, 2015, non-bailable.
Clause 20 (4) of the Bill
states,
Notwithstanding
anything contained in the
Code of Criminal Procedure,
no person accused of an offence punishable under this
Congress opposes
Strongly criticising the
new Bill, Congress MLA
Shaktisinh Gohil said the
legislation went against nationally applicable criminal
laws such as the National Security Act, CrPC and the Indian Evidence Act. He said
the State government was
not empowered to bring a
law that contradicted national laws.
President Kalam had returned the Bill recommending the deletion of the
clauses pertaining to confession in police custody, tapping phone and online
communication, period of
investigation and non-grant
of bail.
However, Gujarat again
passed the same Bill in 2009
for the third time, which is
now pending with the President. The new Bill of 2015
retains the same provisions
of GUJCOC.
The intention of the government is only to play politics in the name of
terrorism, Mr. Gohil told
The Hindu.
RSBY to be implemented by
Health Ministry from April 1
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Starting April 1, the
A view of river Jhelum after water started receding near Amirakadal bridge in
Srinagar on Tuesday. PHOTO: NISSAR AHMAD
river was holding up very
well.
At 8 p.m., the water level at
the Sangam gauge in south
Kashmir was recorded at 13.9
Rahi Gaikwad
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Even as the mud-
Jayant Sriram
Devesh K. Pandey
NEW DELHI: Eight search
and rescue teams of the
National Disaster
Response Force (NDRF)
have been made available
to the Jammu and
Kashmir government in
the event of a flood.
Two fully-equipped
NDRF teams have been
deployed at the Anantnag
police station and
Humhama in Srinagar.
Three more teams were
airlifted from NDRF base
at Ghaziabad and Bhatinda
on Tuesday morning. Two
teams are being sent to
north and south Kashmir
and four being deployed in
central Kashmir, an MHA
official said.
Union Minister
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on
Tuesday submitted a
report on the ground
situation to Prime
Minister Narendra Modi.
Echo of POTA
provisions
Gargi Parsai
Eight disaster
relief teams
rushed to J&K
We have come to
give, not take away
will be the message at
national executive
meeting
To discuss strategy
for Assembly polls
The meeting will also discuss strategies for Assembly
elections in Bihar and Uttar
Pradesh where the BJP will
have to reckon with the
emerging Janata Parivar.
Zero tolerance for corruption, development and
good governance, will remain the mantra for the party, the BJP leader said.
What the government has
done so far in economic reforms, creation of jobs, provision of roads, power,
irrigation and infrastructure
are laying the foundation for
future. Our successes in BJPruled States and the Gujarat
model of governance are before the nation for us to be
confident that we will deliver. The work has started.
The Prime Minister will
also address a rally on the
occasion.
Yadav sacked as
spokesperson
Meanwhile, AAP on Tuesday sacked Mr. Yadav as chief
spokesperson of the party and
Mr. Bhushan, Atishi Marlena
and Anand Kumar as spokespersons.
Anushakti
Bhavan
in
Mumbai.
Among other recommendations, the report has asked
the Central government to
promulgate a national policy
and strategy for safety and radioactive waste management
strategy.
The AERB is working on a
strategy to segregate highlevel radioactive waste to
make it benign sooner.
In India, we recycle the
spent fuel and process the
plutonium and other material
and reuse them. The remaining radioactive waste, mainly
the actinides, is vitrified and
stored at safe storage. We are
now working on further segregating these minor actinides, mainly responsible for
the long shelf life of the radioactive waste, so that the remaining waste will become
benign in three hundred
years, making storage easy,
explained Mr. Bajaj.
The report, while acknowledging Indias comprehensive and well-established
national educational and
training system that supports
competence-building for its
nuclear programme, has also
suggested a number of vital
initiatives to the AERB.
NATIONAL
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THE HINDU
STRIFE IN YEMEN
Stranded Kerala
nurses begin
homeward journey
Renuka Phadnis
BENGALURU: A group of 22
nurses from Kerala working at the Al Gamhuria
Government Hospital in
Aden, Yemen, have boarded a ship in Aden to reach
Djibouti, from where they
will take a flight to India.
Speaking over phone
from Aden, Renya, one of
the nurses, said, We are
boarding a ship to Djibouti. They are calling out our
names. From Djibouti, we
will take a flight to India.
For the nurses, the last
week has been a rollercoaster of emotions. They
had been waiting for information from the Indian
Embassy on how they
would be evacuated. The
Indian Embassy had not
communicated much with
the Indians in Aden and
had wanted them to get an
exit stamp on their visas. But going to the passport office was impossible.
On Monday, their home
came crashing down as at
night, their hostel was destroyed in an air strike.
The same night, the nurses shifted to a hotel returning the following
morning to their hostel.
Devesh K. Pandey
NEW DELHI: Keeping up
with the March 31
deadline, the Central
Board of Direct Taxes
(CBDT) has completed
assessment of the HSBC
Bank (Geneva) accountholders whose details
were shared by the
French government in
2011.
While the Income-Tax
Department had earlier
launched prosecution
proceedings in 60 cases,
is learnt that the agency
has sought legal opinion
to ascertain whether it
can initiate prosecution
in other cases. Penalty
proceedings were also
initiated against 350
account-holders.
Over 250 of the 628
account-holders have
admitted to having
accounts abroad.
However, legal action
will not be taken against
those who enjoyed NRI
status when the accounts
were opened, unless any
criminality is involved,
said an official.
The Income-Tax
Department also plans to
open investigations in
cases pertaining to the
accounts opened before
2005-06, taking recourse
to assessment/
reassessment provisions
under the Income-Tax
Act.
Second suspect
held in sex
video clip cases
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: The Central Bu-
Rukmini S
ed by three-star hotel
owners who had sought permission to run three-star
bars.
The Division Bench observed that the liquor policy
of the government for the
year 2014-15 could not be
termed arbitrary or unreasonable. Nor did it violate
Article 14 of the Constitution, which guaranteed
equality before law. In fact,
it was for the State government to evolve a policy, taking into account various
factors, including the welfare of the public.
The court was of the view
that the government had
taken into account all relevant material while evolving
the liquor policy.
Traders to
resume buffalo
slaughter
Omar Rashid
MUMBAI: Buffalo slaughter will
resume in Maharashtra from
Wednesday, after almost a
month-long self-imposed ban
by traders protesting against
the States ban on slaughter of
bulls and bullocks.
Cow slaughter has been
banned in the State since 1976.
As a mark of solidarity towards their associates who sell
bull meat violation of the
ban is punishable by five years
imprisonment by a newly
amended law traders selling
buffalo meat, which is permissible under law, boycotted activities across Maharashtra.
Gautam Kundu
remanded in
judicial custody
In Karnataka, learn
in Kannada
Staff Reporter
Recalls father
Sharad Pawars
battle with cancer
Probe into
628 HSBC
accounts
completed
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British royals
face industrial
action
Parvathi Menon
LONDON: The British royal
family faces industrial action
by staff at the Windsor Castle,
the Public and Commercial
Services Union, which represents 120 out of its 200 staff,
announced on Monday. The
union will be balloted for
strike action between March
21 and April 14.
The rst such action specific to the Royal Households, it
comes after years of pay restraint have left loyal workers
paid below the widely-recognised living wage, with new
recruits starting on as little as
14,400 a year, the union
stated.
The staff is expected to perform unpaid duties in addition, like giving tours of the
castle even though visitors
must pay for this and acting
as interpreters and helping in
medical emergencies.
Short of a strike, the union
will withdraw these goodwill services the union has
said.
The union claim that it accepted an unsatisfactory
pay offer for 2014, only on the
understanding that additional allowances would be considered this year. However,
the management has refused
to pay allowances for additional duties this year too.
PCS general secretary
Mark Serwotka said: These
workers are loyal to their employer and absolutely committed to ensuring visitors
are given the royal treatment.
It is scandalous that staff
are so appallingly paid and
expected to do work for free
that brings in money for the
royal family.
Windsor Castle lays claim
to being a working castle
and the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world. It
is an official residence of the
Queen, who spends most of
her private weekends there,
and takes up official residence for a month over Easter
(March to April).
Run by the Royal Collection Trust, it attracts 1.1 million visitors each year, who
spend more than 17 million,
which is used by the Royal
Collection Trust charity for
the upkeep of the royal
palaces.
CM
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FT quotes Japans
Ambassador to China
as reporting
Tokyos willingness
in Sanaa on Tuesday
Refugees in
Somalia
MOGADISHU: Dozens of
Yemeni refugees have
arrived in the northern
parts of Somalia, local
officials and the U.N. said
on Tuesday. At least 32
Yemenis arrived by sea in
the northern breakaway
area of Somaliland and
the semiautonomous
Puntland region on
Saturday, according to the
U.N. refugee agency. AP
First transition
the celebrations.
Mr. Buhari won a landslide
victory in Kano, Nigerias second most-populous State, securing more than 1.9 million
votes and 89 per cent of the
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BUSINESS
BRIEFLY
SEBI DIRECTIVE
Year-end rush to
balance the books
GoAir
CEO quits
CALL MONEY
SERVICE TAX
Simply a
special job
authorised divestment of
SBIs stake in SBI Life Insurance by up to 10 per cent, SBI
said in a statement.
We are continuing discussion with Cardif as it has the
first right of refusal as per the
agreement. The stake dilution process would progress
only after getting clear signal
from the foreign partner,
Philips sells 80 % of
lighting components unit
AMSTERDAM: Philips has agreed
Cotton output
estimate revised
M. Soundariya Preetha
COIMBATORE: Cotton production this year (October 2014
to September 2015) is expected to be 390 lakh bales, which
is 10 lakh bales less than the
earlier estimate of 400 lakh
bales.
The Consultative Committee of the Cotton Advisory
Board, which met in Mumbai
on Tuesday, has revised the
cotton balance sheet estimates for this season. It has
estimated cotton production
this year to be 390 lakh bales,
consumption by textile mills
to be 278.5 lakh bales, exports
to be 70 lakh bales (as against
the earlier estimate of 90 lakh
bales) and imports to be eight
lakh bales. The board had met
earlier in October last when
the season just commenced.
Industry sources said that
domestic consumption of
cotton by textile mills was increasing though exports were
not high. Garment exports
had improved and, hence, the
demand was up across the
value chain.
In the case of cotton exports, a decline was expected
since for a specific period,
prices of Indian cotton were
higher than international
prices. Now, the prices are
Chennai
Bar Silver (1 kg)
Retail (1 g)
24 ct gold (10 g)
22 ct gold (1 g)
Delhi
Silver
Standard gold
Sovereign
37,390
40.00
26,540
2,481
(38,065)
(40.70)
(26,680)
(2,495)
37,200 (38,000)
26,575 (26,690)
23,700 (23,700)
NEW DELHI: The Chief Executive Officer of Wadia grouppromoted budget carrier
GoAir, Giorgio De Roni, has
quit the carrier, citing health
reasons, sources said.
Mr. De Roni, an Italian national, had joined GoAir in
2011.
De Roni has quit GoAir.
He had requested the management to relieve him on
health grounds. Today was
his last day at the airline,
sources close to the development told PTI.
When contacted, a GoAir
spokesperson did not comment on the issue.
De Roni had taken over the
post from Kaushik Khona,
who was instrumental in getting back the no-frills airline
on its feet. PTI
Special Correspondent
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries
Microsoft
unveils low-cost
Surface 3 tablet
WASHINGTON: Microsoft on
Tuesday unveiled a low-cost
version of its Surface tablet
computer, cutting the screen
size of the device which starts
at $499. The new Surface 3
will cost less than the $799
starting price for the Surface
Pro 3 introduced last year,
but will also have a less powerful processor and lack some
other features.
The new device comes with
a screen of 10.8 inches, making it smaller than the earlier
12-inch screen versions of
Surface, and gives Microsoft a
new tablet that aims to compete with Apple's iPad Air.
"Surface 3 brings what customers love about Surface
Pro 3 to more people, delivering the premium design and
productivity of Surface in a
more affordable device," said
Panos Panay, who heads the
Surface division. AFP
Videocon d2h
gets listed on
NASDAQ
Special Correspondent
MUMBAI: Videocon d2h has
closed its initial public offer
(IPO) process, and is getting
listed on NASDAQ in the U.S.,
joining a select band of Indian
companies that are listed on
the U.S. bourses.
Currencies
TT
Buying
TT
Selling
U.S. Dollar
Euro
Pound Sterling
Jap Yen (100 Units)
Chinese Yuan
Swiss Franc
Singapore Dollar
Australian Dollar
Canadian Dollar
Swedish Kroner
Danish Kroner
New Zealand Dollar
Hongkong Dollar
Malaysian Ringitt
Kuwaiti Dinar
UAE Dirham
Bahraini Dinar
Qatari Riyal
Saudi Riyal
Omani Riyal
62.30
66.88
92.05
51.92
10.05
63.96
45.32
47.32
48.76
7.20
8.95
46.53
8.03
16.81
206.71
16.96
165.12
17.16
16.66
161.76
62.62
67.23
92.54
52.19
10.10
64.29
45.56
47.57
49.01
7.24
9.00
46.77
8.08
16.91
208.29
17.05
166.18
17.17
16.66
162.68
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BUSINESS
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THE HINDU
Sensex down
18 points
MUMBAI: The BSE Sensex set-
ny at present employs 40
people.
It planned to increase the
headcount to about 200 people over the next one year, its
founder and CEO Tejasvi Mohanram said.
RupeePower counts State
Bank of India, ICICI Bank
and Bajaj Finserv, among its
partners.
Mr. Bahl said the platform
enabled credit disbursal
worth Rs.1,500 crore in 201415. In the next 24 months, we
expect this number to grow to
about Rs.6,000 crore ($1 billion), he added. Asked about
companys plans to raise
funds, Mr. Bahl said the firm
was well capitalised for the
next couple of years, and
would not raise money just
because it was 'fashionable'.
SPORT
RWITC to
introduce
day-night racing
MUMBAI: The Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC) will be
introducing day-night racing
on a trial basis on April 18 and
19 during the ongoing season.
Mr. K.N. Dhunjibhoy, Chairman, RWITC, said that We
needed some innovative idea to
increase the falling attendance
and make this sport more popular.
We have called for tenders
from the lighting equipment
manufacturers and suppliers
which have to be finalised.
Bajaj Electricals has agreed
to assist us in arranging the infrastructure needed for the two
days racing (April 18 & 19) on a
trial basis.
The budget
He also said that the budget
for the lighting project would
be around Rs. 9 crore.
The races will begin around
4.30 p.m. and will end by 8 p.m.,
mostly the last three races
would be held under lights.
Prashant and
Shiva sparkle
NEW DELHI: Prashant Bhandaris
unbeaten 93 and left-arm spinner Shiva Singhs five-for
helped Telefunken Club beat
Sadar Bazar Youth Club by six
wickets and reach the quarterfinals of the 27th Sandeep Suri
memorial cricket tournament
at the Satyawati College ground
here on Tuesday.
The scores: Sadar Bazar Youth
Club 228 in 39 overs (Japjet Singh
Randhwa 135, Prateek Bhardwaj 52,
Shiva Singh five for 23) lost to Telefunken Club 230 for four in 33.1 overs
(Prashant Bhandari 93 n.o., Ankit Dabas 47, Sagar Sehrawat 46).
DEATH
Mrs. INDRA (79) W/o Late Madhava
Rao of Mayiladuthurai, expired on
28th March in Madras. Dasasthu on
6th April @ Mulubhal Mutt Srirangam. M.B. Moorthy Brindha, Chandra, Nagarajan Radha guru Rajagopal, Kiruthika, GET HQ, Sethu
Madhavan, Latha & Ravi.mbm
9282113501, Gopu, 9443936337.
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TENNIS
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Rendezvous a Roland Garros, an initiative to
put talented players on the
path to a French Open junior
wild card, was given a robust
start with the 1979 French
Open junior champion, Ramesh Krishnan, inspiring the
players at an impressive function here on Tuesday.
The event, featuring the top
16 juniors of the country in
the boys and girls sections,
who may not get a direct entry
into the French Open junior
event with their international
rank, will be played at the
Gymkhana Club here from
April 1 to 4.
The champions of the Indian leg will fly to Paris to compete with the champions from
China and Brazil. The eventual champions in Paris will be
awarded the French Open junior wild card.
The 53-year-old Ramesh
recalled playing the boys final
on the centre court in Paris in
1979, after the mens final between Bjorn Borg and Victor
Pecci.
Asked about tennis making
an impact in the country despite cricket enjoying a dominant place, Ramesh said it
was unfair to compare tennis
Junior Natl.
hockey
from today
MYSURU: As many as 37 teams
will vie for the honours in Hockey Indias fifth Junior National
hockey championships for men,
which gets underway here from
April 1.
The teams have been divided
into A and B divisions. A division will comprise 21 teams, further divided into four pools.
Mumbai Hockey Association
and Goan HC will play the division B opener on Wednesday.
The division B final is slated for
April 12. The division A matches will commence from April 14
and conclude on April 22.
Changes in schedule
There has been a change in
the match-schedule of the tournament as well owing to Kolkata Municipal Corporation
elections on April 18. The
changes were made following a
request from Kolkata Police.
KKR will not play its home
matches at the Eden Gardens
from April 12 to 25 as per the
revised schedule. The match
between KKR and Chennai Super Kings has been shifted from
April 14 to April 30. And the
CSK v KKR match at the M.A.
Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, has also been advanced by
two days to April 28.
The match between KKR and
Delhi Daredevils has been
shifted to May 7 from April 28.
The April 14 game between
Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai
Indians at Ahmedabads Sardar
Patel Stadium will now be
played at 8 p.m. instead of 4
p.m.
The tie between RR and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai, on
May 7 will now be played at 4
p.m.
IPL-8 opens at the Eden Gardens, with defending champion
KKR taking on former champion MI on April 8.
The inaugural ceremony will
be held at the Salt Lake Stadium on April 7. Special
Correspondent
SQUASH
Bhupender
knocks out
Harshit
CHANDIGARH: Bhupender Dahiya knocked out top seed Harshit Yadav 6-1, 6-3 in the boys
under-14 pre-quarterfinals of
the AITA Championship series
junior tennis tournament at
the CLTA Complex here on
Tuesday.
The results (pre-quarterfinals):
Boys:
Under-16: Rishabh Sharda bt Ritvij
6-1, 6-1; Neeraj Yashpaul bt Sammar
Raina 6-4, 6-1; Rhythm Malhotra bt
Harshit Yadav 6-1, 6-1; Vatsal Chauhan bt Anmol Rattan Kamboj 7-6(2),
6-4; Ashutosh Tiwari bt Shashikant
Rajput 5-7, 6-4, 7-5; Pranjay Kukreti bt
Jaskaran Singh 6-3, 6-4; Sahishnu
Sharma bt Asav Kumar 6-2, 6-2; Calvin Golmei bt Naresh Badgujar 6-1,
6-2.
Under-14: Bhupender Dahiya bt
Harshit Yadav 6-1, 6-3; Sammar Raina bt Shrut Mohan Nargeta 6-4, 6-4;
Shashikant Rajput bt Asav Kumar 6-1,
6-1; Sarthak Sudan bt Shubham Saini
6-1, 3-6, 6-0; Nishant Dabas bt Aditya
Saraswat 6-2, 6-4; Naresh Badgujar bt
Ishaan Sethi 6-3, 6-2; Anand Gupta bt
Vikramaditya Singh 6-3, 6-2; Krishan
Hooda bt Aditya Sriram 7-6(6), 6-0.
Girls: Under-16: Muskan Gupta bt
Princy Panchal 6-1, 6-1; Dnyanada
Prasad Patil bt Arti Nayan 6-1, 6-1;
Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Alisha Menon
6-2, 6-2; Rupkatha Mukherjee bt
Tushita Singh 6-3, 6-1; Shambhavi
Tiwari bt Akshita Sharma 6-0, 7-6(4);
Lenien Jamir bt Shrishti Dhir 6-0, 6-4;
Ashpreet Kaur Bajwa bt Tanya Batra
4-6, 6-1, 6-1; Vanshika Chaudhary bt
Nandini Singh 6-3, 7-6(4).
Under-14: Ashpreet Kaur Bajwa bt
Kirti Arya 6-1, 6-1; Anushka Sharma bt
Himadri Kashyap 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Dnyanada Prasad
Patil 6-3, 6-1; Akshita Sharma bt Nikita
Kharangra 6-4, 6-3; Shambhavi Tiwari
bt Priyanka Jakhar 6-3, 6-2; Vanshika
Chaudhary bt Princy Panchal 6-2, 7-6
(3); Simran Pritam bt Srishti Dhir 6-2,
6-1; Alisha Menon bt Lenien Jamir 6-2,
3-6, 6-4.
McCullum
signs deal
with Bears
LONDON: New Zealand cricket
captain Brendon McCullum
confirmed Tuesday he has
signed for the Birmingham
Bears for the defence of their
T20 Blast title.
McCullum joins the Bears
Warwickshires T20 name on
a seven-match deal. AFP
ND-ND
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Rosberg scared
European clubs will get a greater say in UEFAs decisionmaking as well as extra cash from European tournaments
under an accord announced on Tuesday
I really didnt expect that much from Sebastian [Vettel] and Ferrari. That was a total
surprise. The Ferrari handled much better in the heat with those tyres and that scared me.
Nico Rosberg, after Ferraris victory in the Malaysian Grand Prix
India held
goalless by
Bangladesh
DHAKA: The Indian football
team was held to a goalless
draw by Bangladesh in its last
group match of the AFC under-23 championship qualifying round, which was marred
by 40 minutes of power blackout during half-time here on
Tuesday.
The Group E match at the
Bangabandhu National Stadium was reduced almost to a
farce as the two teams had to
wait for 40 minutes for resumption. When power was restored, the players looked jaded
and they lost momentum and it
was clearly visible on the field.
India ended its campaign
with just one point from three
matches and ended third in the
four-team group, failing to advance to the next stage.
Ten group winners and five
best second-placed teams from
all groups will join host Qatar at
the AFC U-23 championship in
2016. PTI
Falcao equals
Colombias
scoring
landmark
ABU DHABI: Radamel Falcaos
second-half penalty in Mondays
3-1 international friendly win
over Kuwait saw him move
alongside Arnoldo Iguaran as
Colombias all-time joint topscorer with 24 goals.
Iguaran had run up his tally
for the national side between
1979 and 1993.
Cameroon managed a 3-2 win
over Thailand a team World
Cup legend Roger Milla dismissed as football nonentities.
It took an 88th-minute
match-winner from defender
Ngweni Ndassi Kadiang to salvage the pride of the four-time
African champion in Bangkok
after it trailed by two goals.
Although 93 places below
Cameroon in the world rankings, the Thai War Elephants
rocked the Indomitable Lions
when Prakit Deeprom scored
and Aurelien Chedjou conceded
an own-goal.
Benjamin Moukandjo pulled
one goal back before half-time
and Clinton NJie equalised
from a penalty with 13 minutes
left.
The results:
At Abu Dhabi: Kuwait 1 (Al Enzi
45+1) lost to Colombia 3 (Aguilar 21,
Cardona 68, Falcao 73-pen).
At Doha: Algeria 4 (Belfodil 2, 62,
Feghouli 24, 61) bt Oman 1 (Al Busaidi
74).
At Bangkok: Thailand 2 (Deeprom
15, Chedjou 31-og) lost to Cameroon
3 (Moukandjo 42, NJie 77-pen, Kadiang 88).
At Doha: Algeria 4 (Belfodil 2, 62,
Feghouli 24, 61) bt Oman 1 (Al Busaidi
74). Agencies
THATS IT! Daniel Vettori announced his ODI retirement soon after the
New Zealand team landed in Auckland from Australia, signalling the end of
his international career. PHOTO: HANNAH PETERS/GETTY IMAGES
AUCKLAND: Veteran left-arm
spinner Daniel Vettori, the most
capped ODI player for New
Zealand, on Tuesday bid adieu
to the 50-over format, completely ending an 18-year career
in the game during which he
won plaudits for being an inspiring leader.
The 36-year-old, whose ODI
future was a subject of speculation at the end of New Zealands
superb World Cup campaign
during which the team made the
final, said it was time to call it a
day. Vettori has already retired
from Tests and Twenty20
cricket.
He made the announcement
of his ODI retirement soon after
the New Zealand team landed
here from Australia following a
seven-wicket loss to Australia in
the mega events final in Melbourne on Sunday.
It was my last game for New
Gill to lead
Team MRFs
charge
CHENNAI: Six-time Asia Pacific
Rally Championship winner
Team MRF will, for the first
time, have three cars competing
in the series this season.
Leading Team MRFs charge
will be Gaurav Gill, the 2013
champion, while Swedish young
gun Pontus Tidemand will make
his debut for the team.
The pair will be joined by New
Caledonian driver, Jean-Louis
Leyraud, in a third Team MRF
Skoda Fabia 2000 in the Pacific
Cup section of the championship.
Team MRF has won the championship three times in a row,
with Australian Chris Atkinson
winning in 2012, Gill in 2013, and
Czech Jan Kopecky in 2014.
The season schedule:
New Zealand: April 17-19; New
Caledonia: May 15-17, Australia:
June 19-21.
Malaysia: August 14-16; Japan:
September 18-20; China: Oct. 30Nov. 1; India: Dec. 11-13.
Harika loses in
semifinals
KOZHIKODE: Dronavalli Harika
bowed out in the semifinals of
the womens world chess
championship, losing to Ukraines Mariya Muzychuk in
the tie-break, at Sochi (Russia)
on Tuesday.
The Indian lost 2.5-3.5.
In the final, which will be
held from April 2 to 6, Muzychuk will meet Russias Natalia
Pogonina, who defeated Pia
Cramling of Sweden 2.5-1.5, also in the tie-break.
CM
YK
He is the most capped Kiwi player and the teams leading wicket-taker
Bengaluru FC coasts
to an easy win
BENGALURU: Bengaluru FC
(BFC) emerged a deserving 4-1
winner over a stuttering Sporting Clube de Goa in an I-League
encounter at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Tuesday.
The home teams superior
eye for goal made all the difference.
Sporting Clube, on the other
hand, panicked nearly every
time it was presented with a
chance to score. The Goans
made numerous forays deep into the BFC box, but seemed oddly reluctant to pull the trigger.
The visiting attackers led
by the imposing Odafa Okolie
found holes in the BFC defence,
but the final touch lacked
conviction.
With this win, BFC sits in
second-place with 20 points
from 11 matches. Royal Wahingdoh is tied on points, but
BFC holds the edge through a
better head-to-head record.
Mohun Bagan stays on top of
the ladder with 21 points after
nine fixtures.
A.B. de Villiers.
Mitchell Starc.
Agencies
Ritu Rani
at the helm
NEW DELHI: Experienced Ritu Rani will lead the Indian womens
hockey side at the upcoming
Hawkes Bay Cup in New Zealand from April 11-19. Deepika
has been named her deputy.
The eight-team competition,
featuring most of the top-ranked
sides in the world, is important
in terms of Indias preparation
for the Hockey World League
semifinals in Belgium.
This would be the only competition outing for the side ahead of
the HWL, which is also a qualifying event for the 2016 Rio
Olympics.
India will open its campaign
on April 11 against China. Besides these two teams, the tournament
features
world
champion Argentina, Australia,
Japan, Asian champion Korea,
the USA and host New Zealand.
The team has been training
here under High Performance
Director Roelant Oltmans and
coach C.R. Kumar.
The team is high on confidence after our win in the World
League Round 2. We know the
tournament will not be easy, but
the team is positive. We have
worked hard on our penalty-corner conversions and aim to stick
to our strategies, said Ritu.
The squad: Goalkeepers: Savita,
Rajni Etimarpu; Defenders: Deep
Grace Ekka, Deepika, Sunita Lakra,
Sushila Chanu, M.N. Ponnamma, Monika; Midfielders: Ritu Rani, Namita
Toppo, Lilima Minz, Lily Chanu, Navjot
Kaur, Sondarya Yendala; Forwards:
Vandana Katariya, Rani, Poonam Rani, Anuradha Thockchom. Special
Correspondent
FOOTBALL
Ashwin Achal
SPORT
Field restrictions
The field restrictions that allow only four fielders outside
the circle in non-Powerplay
overs and the two new balls
have been the talking points of
this World Cup.
Chappell wanted most of the
restrictions removed and Dravid and Holding agreed with
him.
As far as restrictions are
Understudy
and played three One-Day Internationals and two T20 Internationals during Australias
tour of England and Scotland
later that year.
Ive bowled with a big heart
and a big chest in every
situation.
Voges won his place on the
plane for similar reasons, with
the 35-year-old Western Australian captain smashing 1,358
Shield runs to be the seasons
highest scorer and Player-of-
BACK HOME
A sweet bat
Now that would have to cover the entire bat because there
is no sweet spot, there is a
sweet bat.
Dravid and Crowe also reiterated their opposition to ICC
trimming the 2019 World Cup
from 14 to 10 teams.
If you take away these world
events from a lot of these nations, Im afraid you actually
kill the game, Dravid said.
PTI
Brendon McCullum with his family on arrival at the Auckland Airport after leading
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Dutee to take
part in Asian
championship
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Sprinter Dutee
Chand will be able to participate in the Asian athletics
championship to be held in
Wuhan, China, from June 3 to
7. This will enable the Odisha
sprinter, a 200m bronze medallist in the 2013 Asian championship in Pune, to compete
in an international competition exactly after a gap of one
year.
Dutee, who had won two
gold medals in womens 200m
and 4x400m relay in the Asian
junior athletics championship
in Chinese Taipei in mid-June
last year, was barred from taking part in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games when she
was suspected of having a condition called hyperandrogenism following a test
conducted in June.
Dutees appeal against the
Athletics Federation of Indias
(AFI) decision to declare her
ineligible to compete in womens competitions as per the
IAAF regulations is pending in
the Court of Arbitration for
Sport (CAS). The apex court in
sports arbitration, however,
has allowed her to take part in
various competitions pending
a nal decision.
The 19-year-old, who recently got the relief from CAS,
had reason to celebrate after
an IAAF communication to
the AFI early on Tuesday conrmed her return to the international scene.
Ms Chand is eligible to
compete, pending the CAS decision, at national competitions and the Asian Athletics
Championships to be held in
China in June. She is not eligible to compete in any other
continental/international
competition pending the CAS
award,
said
an
IAAF
communication.
Under the present IAAF
regulations, the AFI would allow Dutee to compete in various events only if she lowers
her testosterone level to a certain limit.
Nevertheless, the law student who was represented
by Jim Bunting from Davies
Ward Phillips & Vineberg
LLP, Toronto, Canada, in the
CAS seeks to have the AFI
decision overturned and the
hyperandrogenism
regulations declared invalid and
void.
IN FULL FLOW: Serena Williams hammered Svetlana Kuznetsova in the fourth round of the WTA Miami Open on Monday. PHOTO: AFP
Meets Dolgopolov
Djokovic will next play Ukraines Alexandr Dolgopolov,
who defeated Brazils Thomaz
Bellucci 7-5, 6-4.
Australian Open winner Djokovic wrapped up victory with a
break in the nal game to earn
his 21st victory of the season.
Djokovic needed less than
half an hour to take the rst set
In womens play, Serena Williams advanced to the quarternals with a straight-set win.
World No. 1 Serena, seeking a
Im more in support of a
tiebreak in the fth set in
any competition than for no
tiebreak. That would be my
answer on that, said the
27-year-old Serbian.
I support the fact to have
a certain change in the
sport, I think its the right
time. As we evolve as a
global sport, I think we
should all strongly consider
applying certain changes.
AFP
6-2, 6-3.
The results:
Men: Fourth round: Tomas Berdych bt Gael Monfils 6-3, 3-2, retd.;
Dominic Thiem bt Adrian Mannarino
7-6(5), 4-6, 7-5.
Third round: David Goffin bt Jerzy
Janowicz 6-4, 6-3; Novak Djokovic bt
Steve Darcis 6-0, 7-5; David Ferrer bt
Lukas Rosol 6-4, 7-5; Milos Raonic bt
Jeremy Chardy 6-1, 5-7, 7-6(3); Gilles
Simon bt Alejandro Falla 6-3, 6-4;
John Isner bt Grigor Dimitrov 7-6(2),
6-2.
Women: Fourth round: Serena
Williams bt Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2,
6-3; Sabine Lisicki bt Sara Errani 6-1,
6-2; Andrea Petkovic bt Ekaterina Makarova 6-1, 7-5; Karolina Pliskova bt
Daria Gavrilova 6-3, 6-2; Sloane Stephens bt Belinda Bencic 6-4, 7-6(5);
Simona Halep bt Flavia Pennetta 6-3,
7-5. AFP
CRICKET
Emphasis on pacemen
An analysis of international
cricket clearly indicates that
fast bowlers have been responsible for their teams victories.
Its not that we dont have fast
bowlers who clock over
140kmph but there is no process to unearth them like the
TRDO system did a decade ago,
through former rst-class
players.
Mumbai cricket is an ideal
case study. Over 80 tournaments are played on 80
grounds and there are not even
half a dozen genuine quick
bowlers.
In fact, there are no quality
rst-class cricketers. Its because of a lack of system in the
administration. Abey Kuruvilla was the last genuine quick
bowler to
play
for
Mumbai.
At the National level,
we need to
cut down on
tournaments. Whilethe DuleepTrophymay
holdsentimental
value,playingthe tournament
is meaninglesswhen the Ranji
Trophy isnt played on a zonal
basis.
When the number of tournaments are reduced, international players will get time to
play Ranji matches. Young
players blossom only when
they get to play along with seniors.
Till such time seniors dont
get to play local and domestic
cricket, Indian cricket will always be stagnant.
There will be one group who
will be playing international
cricket andanotherlot playing
domestic cricket. How will this
help Indian cricket grow?
While fast bowlers workload needs to be balanced, international players must nd
the schedule conducive to
playing domestic cricket.
This requires meticulous
planning and execution. It is
for this reason that the BCCI
think-tank must meet now,
even though a long tour has
just concluded.
The fast
bowlers
workload needs
to be balanced
Jonty Rhodes
joins MI camp
THE LATEST IN A LINE: Australias triumph means
four of its greatest batsmen covering different
periods Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Ricky
Ponting and Michael Clarke have lifted the
World Cup. PHOTO: RYAN PIERSE/GETTY IMAGES
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