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On Mon, PM Had Said It Would Be An Expansion, Not A Reshuffle. But Its Now A Reconstruction

Shocker: Smriti shunted from HRD

to textiles; Javadekar bags her job
Jayant Sinha,
Gowda Also
Lose; Prasad
Moves To Law

THE SIGNAL: TALK LESS, WORK MORE

BIGGEST LOSERS

SMRITI IRANI
Loses HRD,
relegated to
textiles

JAYANT SINHA
Dropped from
nance ministry
and moved to civil
aviation

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: On Tuesday

morning, it seemed as if the
expansion of the Modi ministry had proceeded on predictable lines, with the induction
of 19 junior ministers and one
elevation to Cabinet rank. But
the announcement of rejigged
portfolios late in the evening
sent shockwaves through the
political establishment.
If Smriti Iranis stunning
appointment as HRD minister was the biggest talking
point of the ministry-making
exercise in 2014, her dramatic
demotion to textiles was also
the biggest surprise in 2016.
Irani was replaced by Prakash Javadekar, who got
what amounts to a double
promotion elevation to
Cabinet rank and charge of
the big-ticket HRD ministry.
The contrasting fortunes
of Irani and Javadekar were
not the only highlights of the
new list of portfolios. Law

SADANANDA
GOWDA Shifted from
law to statistics
& programme
implementation

TOP GAINERS
PRAKASH
JAVADEKAR
Promoted to
Cabinet minister
and given charge
of HRD
ANANTH KUMAR
Gets parl affairs
in addition to
existing charge
of chem &
fertilisers

ANIL MADHAV
DAVE River
conservationist
replaces Javadekar
as environment
minister

MANOJ SINHA
The IIT-BHU grad,
already MoS, Railways,
also gets highprole telecom
ministry

NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR

Moves from steel & mines
to handling politically
crucial rural development,
panchayati raj & drinking
water and sanitation

ANUPRIYA PATEL
At 35, the
youngest
minister in the
Modi govt is
MoS, health

PROFESSIONALS TRIUMPH
M J AKBAR | Journalist named MoS, external affairs
ARJUN RAM MEGHWAL | Ex-IAS ofcer made MoS
nance; had highlighted alleged irregularities in
land deals involving Robert Vadra in Bikaner
SUBHASH R BHAMRE | Cancer surgeon is
new minister of state, defence

WIN SOME, LOSE SOME

VENKAIAH NAIDU:
Keeps UD, gives up parl
affairs, gets
I&B from
Arun Jaitley

P P CHAUDHARY | Veteran SC lawyer made MoS

for law & justice and infotech

RAVI SHANKAR
PRASAD: Shifted
from
telecom
to
law &
justice

MAJOR
MESSAGES

Low-key performers
rewarded while high-prole
ministers who were seen as
slack or speaking out of turn
have been demoted

Bigwigs not touched, but

an unmistakable message
to heavyweights that it is
time to deliver. Signal that
performance, not perceived
proximity, is what matters

PM Modis choices reect

desire for faster results in
priority areas like education,
rural sector, sanitation,
broadband connectivity. With
govt approaching halfway
mark, delivery in thrust areas
will be key

Teamwork matters with

solo players not nding
favour, particularly if they fall
short on outcomes

FULL COVERAGE: P 13-15

minister Sadananda Gowda, a
former CM of Karnataka, lost
his portfolio for the second
time he held railways earlier and was given statistics
and programme implementation. Ravi Shankar Prasad
lost telecom though he is the
new law minister and has held
on to IT and electronics.
The range of changes indicated that Modi and BJP

chief Amit Shah have used a

mix of performance assessment and political utility as
yardsticks to shift ministers
and alter their responsibilities. Performance rather
than perceived proximity
seemed to be the guiding
principle for the exercise, also seen as a signal to bigwigs
that the PM is the undisputed
boss and their reputation

would not buffer them

against demands for delivery.
BJPs political need, both
from the point of view of delivery and political challenges in
UP, MP, Rajasthan, Gujarat
and Karnataka, was the other
thread that seemed to run
through the changes, which
could be a precursor to recast
of the party organisation.
Some ministers seem to

have been moved for not being able to tackle wicked

problems on their turfs, others have been found wanting
in articulation.
Apart from Javadekar, the
other big surprise gainer was
Manoj Sinha, with the IITBHU engineer now holding independent charge of telecom,
besides being MoS, railways.
Narendra Tomar has been giv-

en charge of rural development with previous incumbent Birendra Singh seen to be

lagging in the pace of implementation of politically crucial welfare programmes. Former journalist M J Akbar is an
MoS in external affairs, where
his articulation of issues is expected to be an advantage.

Chennai: A day after the sickening video of a medical student flinging a dog from the
terrace of a three-storey
building went viral resulting
in an uproar on social media,
cops identified the two men
involved in the sociopathic
act, asking them to surrender

Eid pardon for 634

J&K stone-pelters

he Mehbooba government on
Tuesday decided to withdraw
stone-pelting charges against 634
youths on the eve of Eid. The order to review such cases pertained to the period between 2008
and 2014. P 8

`1cr heist in city

jewellery store

our armed men barged into a

jewellery store in outer Delhis Rohini in broad daylight on
Tuesday and made off with gold
and diamond items worth
Rs 1 crore. They also took a licensed pistol from the store. P 3

India, Pak to talk

on coastal security

o break the peace deadlock, a

Coast Guard team will visit
Pakistan from July 12 to July 14 to
attend a global meet in Karachi on
maritime issues and also engage
Pakistan Maritime Security
Agency on coastal security. P 11

Woman spent 4 days

with sons body

60-year-old woman had been

staying with the body of her
son for four days at her house in
Kali Bari Marg in Delhi. Ramdulari and son Kapil (32) had been
staying in a government flat and
her husband died a year ago. P 6

Docs thrashed over

generic drugs

unior doctors at a government

hospital in West Bengals Kalyani were assaulted on Monday, allegedly by pharmacy owners for
prescribing generic drugs. P 8

Gautam (with dog) & Ashish, who

shot the video, are MBBS students

Surrender: College, P 21

SC admits Maha
appeal against
Salman, wont
fast-track case

Agency: Kumar Sheila attacks AAP;

ACB notice
Being Shielded gets
ormer CM Sheila Dikshit
said on Tuesday that the
Like Sheshnag F
tanker scam case against her

New Delhi: The Supreme

Court on Tuesday admitted
the Maharashtra governments appeal challenging
actor Salman Khans acquittal in the 2002 hit-and-run
case but refused to fasttrack hearing of the case.
Turning down the state
governments
plea for an early hearing, a
bench of Justices J S Khehar and Arun
Mishra said

Abhinav.Garg@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: A special court

on Tuesday granted CBI fiveday custody of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwals principal secretary Rajendra Kumar and
other accused, even as it wondered why the agency had arRajendra ripped off
govts VAT dept: CBI, P 2

was politically motivated

but rebutted AAPs claim that
the CBIs decision to arrest CM
Kejriwals principal secretary
Rajender Kumar was
politically motivated. In a
jolt to the ex-CM, the ACB has
sent a notice to her, asking her
to join the investigation into
the tanker scam case.
Interview: Edit Page 22

Venkaiah gets I&B, P 14

Relief for actor in Arms

Act case, P 11
the case could not be given
priority just because a highprofile personality was involved. Attorney general
Mukul Rohatgi contended
that the case was 15 years
old and urged the bench for
early listing.

Plea for more time, P 2

No early hearing, P 11

advocate K T S Tulsi, appearing for the acquitted persons, who said they were perNew Delhi: The Supreme secuted through fabrication
Court on Tuesday refused to of evidence by the Gujarat poentertain a joint petition by lice, resulting in their spensix persons, acquitted by the ding a decade behind bars.
But the bench
apex court in the SC slams sites for
2002 Akshardh- sex selection ads, P 11 said acquittal by
a court did not
am terror attack
case, seeking compensation automatically entitle those
for their wrongful arrest, acquitted to compensation
prosecution and incarcera- and clarified that awarding
damages would set a dangetion for almost a decade.
A bench of Justices Dipak rous precedent.
Misra and R Banumathi rejected arguments by senior Dangerous trend, P 21
Dhananjay.Mahapatra
@timesgroup.com

AmitAnand.Choudhary
@timesgroup.com

custody, saying this was the

minimum time needed to
unearth more proof. The CBI
prosecutor said the AAP government was shielding Kumar as if he was a sheshnag
(snake-king) holding the Delhi
government on its head.

SC: No compensation for

Akshardham acquitted

Caste and community

considerations
acknowledged

Promotion for Javadekar

for cutting green tape, P 14

the police identify the two.

Activists expressed shock
that the two suspects were
medical students. If they
have no respect for life, then
how can they save lives as doctors? asked Animal Welfare
Board of India (AWBI) vicechairman Chinny Krishna.

CBI gets 5 days

to question CMs
chief secy, others

5
6

Two would-be ministers

pedal to Raisina Hill, P 14

by Wednesday morning.
The suspects, Ashish
Paul (who shot the video) and
Gautam Sudarshan (seen
dropping the dog off a terrace) are final-year MBBS students of Madha Medical College, said Shravan Krishnan
who, along with fellow animal
welfare activists Jennifer Jacob and Antony Rubin, helped

SCOTT BOLTON | JUNOS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Political calculations in
UP, MP, Rajasthan, Gujarat
and Karnataka inuence
some inductions, changes
and elevations

After Anupriya induction,

her mom cuts BJP ties, P 14

Priya.Menon@timesgroup.com

August 27, when Juno

will swing in for its
first good close look
at Jupiter
P 23

This is the
hardest thing
Nasa has ever done.
Thats my claim

rested them now, seven months after the case was lodged.
Kumar and four others
were arrested on Monday in
an alleged corruption case.
CBI told the court the senior
IAS officer was intimidating
witnesses continuously and
hampering investigations.
CBI had sought 10 days

Feel free to contact me,

PM Modi tells mantris, P 14

Cops hunt for brutes who threw dog off roof

WHEN TO EXPECT
CLOSE-UP IMAGES?

Dhaka jihadis
dad: I apologise
to Tarishis kin

uling Awami League politician Imtiaz Khan, whose son Roshan was one of the
attackers at Dhakas Holey
Artisan Bakery, has apologised to India and the parents
of Tarishi, the 19-year-old
who died in the attack. An
Indian girl was killed in the
attack, I can only apologise
to India and to her parents. I
am an unfortunate father. I
dont have enough words to
apologise, Imtiaz Khan told
an Indian news channel
from his Dhaka home. P 9

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CM lets Sisodia do the talking Sheila sees no politics

Mum On Kumars Arrest In Contrast To Furious Reaction To CBI Raids In Dec
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: When CBI had raided the chief ministers office last year, a livid Arvind Kejriwal had lashed out at Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, calling him a coward and a
psychopath. Curiously, the
CM hasnt uttered a word on
Rajendra Kumars arrest this
time.
Kejriwal was in Punjab
until Tuesday evening, and
while he was active on social
media, he hadnt tweeted about it. Officials, though, said it
would be incorrect to read it
as lack of support for Kumar.
They pointed out that deputy chief minister Manish
Sisodia had addressed three
press conferences on the matter since Kumars arrest
on Monday. On Tuesday, Sisodia even accused the Centre
of Hitlershahi and of trying to run a parallel government in Delhi.

BLAST FROM THE PAST

This is an undeclared emergency..When Modi
couldnt handle me politically, he resorts to this
cowardice... Modi is a coward and a psychopath
(on Twitter)
FM lied in Parliament Rajendra to sirf
bahana hai, Kejriwal nishana hai
Which le was CBI looking for in my ofce?
DDCA les in which Jaitley is in dock.
I was about to order a commission of
enquiry Apologise for what you (Modi)
have done and I will apologise for
my words
Kumar is an honest officer of Delhi government and
enjoys a good reputation.
While we have been working
with him for just about two years, others in the Secretariat
or those who have worked
with him in other departments have nothing negative
to say about him. People call
him an honest officer. Not only has the PM awarded him for

e-governance but he has won

four other major awards for egovernance, Sisodia said.
The minister said that according to CBI, the scam dates
back to 2006. In 2015, CBI raided the CMs and Kumars offices but reportedly found
nothing incriminating. In
the seven months since then,
the CBI court has been asking
CBI to produce proof against

IN THE SAME VEIN: Sisodia

accused Centre of Hitlershahi

Kumar but it has failed to do

so. Now, when it has no case, it
claims that Kumar will try
and intimidate witnesses,
said Sisodia.
Delhi government alleged
that the move to arrest Kumar
and the recent transfer of nine DANICS officers out of
Delhi was a move by the Centre to threaten officials who
work for the state government. Sisodia said Delhi has

309 sanctioned posts for DANICS officers, and including

the nine who have been transferred out, it now has only 165
officers. On the other hand,
the Andamans has 24 posts,
and with the latest transfers,
it now has 31people there.
The Centre has just
transferred nine officers,
eight of them to the Andamans, without even consulting the chief secretary. When
we reacted to this, the Centre
said that it is within their
right to take this decision.
They specifically chose to
transfer officials who were
working on important government projects only to impede our work. This is a threat
by the Centre to officers who
are working in Delhi: that if
they dont fall in line, they will
either go to jail or to the Andamans, Sisodia said, adding
that capable officers with the
Centre werent being allowed
to work either.

No need to drag me, not a crook wholl flee

Piyal Bhattacharjee

Abhinav.Garg@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: Police presence

at Patiala House courts was
quite noticeably ramped up
on Tuesday when CBI produced Delhi government bureaucrat Rajendra Kumar.
Two barricades were placed outside the courtroom
with men in uniform and plainclothesmen guarding the
entrance. The courtroom itself, though quite large, was
packed with the relatives of
Kumar, journalists and curious lawyers, prompting
special judge Arvind Kumar
to order those not connected
to the proceedings to leave
the courtroom.
Dressed in a full-sleeve
shirt, trousers and a half
jacket, Kejriwals principal

BJP: AAP govt

shielding
corrupt netas
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: The Delhi BJP has

alleged that the AAP government is protecting corrupt officers, legislators and ministers. It plans to launch a signature campaign demanding CM
Arvind Kejriwals resignation.
The opposition party has rubbished the AAPs claim of corruption-free governance in the
wake of IAS officer Rajendra
Kumars arrest.
With the arrest of its official, the Kejriwal government is
losing the image it had created
of providing corruption-free
governance. The party is shielding officials and MLAs who have corruption cases against
them, said Satish Upadhyay,
Delhi BJP chief.
The party has prepared a
pamphlet showing the photograph of Kejriwal on a replica of
a Rs 1,000-denomination bank
note to highlight the alleged water tanker scam. The pamphlet
will be distributed in all assembly constituencies.
BJP claims that consultancy, contract and co-terminus appointments have flourished
during AAPs tenure. It has questioned the governments keen interest in an IAS official,
who has been arrested on graft
charge. Opposition leader Vijender Gupta, said, Its unbounded love for an officer charged
with corruption is a mystery...
BJP national secretary R P
Singh said, The scam was the
brainchild of the Sheila Dikshit
government, but this government elicited full financial benefit for itself in the past 17
months.

secretary appeared composed throughout the hearing,

occasionally nodding and
smiling when the defence lawyers attacked CBI.
When the court sought to
identify the presence of the
accused before it started to
hear CBIs plea, Kumar was
the first to raise his hands
and come forward. The hearing also saw sharp exchanges
between the defence lawyers
and CBI prosecutors/standing counsel when the former berated the agency for
playing to political masters.
Senior lawyer Ramesh
Gupta accused CBI of being
a politically motivated organisation, a comment that elicited loud claps and loud comments from the back of the
court where relatives of the

TAKING NO CHANCES: There was huge police presence at the court

accused stood watching the

proceedings. AAP member H
S Phulka also stood next to
Gupta and Mathur, watching

the proceedings.
At the fag end of the hearing, one of the accused, Dinesh Kumar Gupta, addres-

sed the court directly, accusing CBI of forcing him every

day to turn approver in the
case and arresting him when
he refused. In response, CBI
pointed out that Delhi high
court refused to grant any relief to the accused, with some
of whom even seeking damages of Rs 50 crore from the
agency for alleged torture.
HC had forced the accused to
withdraw the petitions.
After grant of custody, as
all the accused were being
escorted out by the policemen, an annoyed Kumar could
be seen explaining to one of
the policemen that he wasnt
a crook who would flee. There is no need to drag me; am
coming with you comfortably
in any case, Kumar was heard saying.

in Kejris aide arrest

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Former Delhi

chief minister Sheila Dikshit
reiterated that the water tanker scam case against her
was politically motivated,
but said in a contrary vein
that the Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) government was
wrong to think that the arrest
of Rajendra Kumar, principal secretary to CM Arvind
Kejriwal, was politically
motivated.
At an interaction with the
media at the Indian Womens
Press Corps on Tuesday,
Dikshit was also quick to distance herself from Kumars
arrest when it was pointed
out that the bureaucrat had
been hauled up for actions
that he took during her governments tenure from 2007
to 2013. I don't think CBI
works based on timings per
se, she said. CBI must have
got some information so they
have arrested Kumar. The
CBI had first carried out a raid last year. Dikshit claimed
that she had never received a
complaint against Kumar during her chief ministership.
With the ACB having recently registered an FIR against her in the water tanker
scam, Dikshit began on a cagey note but later took the
AAP government head on.
She quickly dismissed AAPs
accusation that the Centre
was taking political revenge for the BJPs electoral
setback in Delhi by resorting
to arrests of Delhis MLAs
and bureaucrats. There is
no revenge at all. All the seven Delhi MPs belong to BJP.
Kejriwal is misinterpreting
things to suit his current situation, she said.
She, however, questioned
the timing of the politically motivated charges against her in the multi-crore rupee water tanker scam.
When asked to assess the

New Delhi: Delhi Jal Board

chairperson Kapil Mishra
has written to lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung, demanding that the chief of the anticorruption branch (ACB) be
booked for allegedly delaying
action on four FIRs filed by
the AAP government during
its 49-day tenure. Mishra
wants that LG should also be
booked since the ACB chief
reports to him.
Mishra has referred to an

SHEILA DIKSHIT
Former Delhi chief minister
state of governance in Delhi
under Kejriwal, Dikshit asserted, No change at all.
What I see is that the citys development has been sliding
since AAP came to power.
She was critical of the governments advertisements
about its achievements, saying, There have only been
announcements so far without any follow up. What kind
of administration is this?
Dikshit also termed as
jerky Kejriwals proposal
on a referendum on full statehood for Delhi.
She said her government
had tried to achieve this, but
could not. Apart from being
a state capital, we have to remember that Delhi houses
the Union government as
well, she said to explain her
reconciliation with the reali-

Neeraj.Chauhan
@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: Even as CBI probe has revealed that arrested

duo of Rajendra Kumar and
Tarun Sharma, principal secretary and deputy secretary
in the office of Arvind Kejriwal, ripped off Delhi governments VAT department with
the help of other associates, a
report by National University of Educational Planning
and Administration (NUEPA) had indicted the company allegedly linked to Kumar
and had questioned its expertise in IT related work.
CBI is using as evidence
the report of NUEPA--a body
under Union HRD ministry
that deals with capacity building and research in plan-

ning, and management of

education. CBI sources allege
Kumar and Sharma, who have worked in different Delhi
government departments together methodically removed
existing IT vendors from the
Delhi government and placed
their company Endeavour
Systems Pvt Ltd (ESPL) ahead in the race.
The agency has already
started extensive money trail
probe of Rs 3.3 crore, which
ESPL got in different contracts. Detailing the modus
operandi used by Kumar and
Sharma, a source said that
when the former joined as
VAT Commissioner in 2012,
he found that Oracle platform
was being used in the department for which government
had spent Rs 12 crore already

and CMC Ltd was running it.

Kumar, after joining
VAT, sent two emails one to
Sharma, who was assistant
director in VAT, and to Sandeep Kumar of ESPL. In the first
mail, he passed on documents

and information of systems

used by the department. In
the second mail, he asked
them how to remove the existing vendor, which was
CMC, said a source.
The accused, without any
Anindya Chattopadhyay

UNDER SUSPICION: Kumar with CBI officials outside the court

official status in department,

gave a pilot project to Sandeep Kumar (a private person)
of analyzing two forms 2A
and 2B of VAT department.
Sandeep failed in that, said
the officer.
Then, they brought Microsoft Dynamics software
into the picture and say that
since ESPL is based on Microsoft; they gave one Rs 40 lakh
contract to ESPL despite latter not participating in tendering process, said sources.
Further, the duo eyed the
Mission Mode Project of government to build technology and systematize VAT in country. They prepared a note to
bring Microsoft Dynamics
while system was being run
on Oracle by CMC. The project worth Rs 4.86 crore was

NO CASE AGAINST ME: Sheila Dikshit said the allegations against

her in the water tanker scam case were politically motivated

ultimately given to ESPL by

removing CMC.
First, Tarun Sharma initiated a note stating that
CMCs work was not satisfactory and vendor should be
changed. Kumar immediately approved it and stated tendering should be through
PSU - Intelligent Communication System India Limited
(ICSIL). ESPL was empanelled with ICSIL. CBI source said ISCIL opened the tender for
one day and ESPL applied
and bagged the contract.
The report stated that
ESPL has no experience in
open source technology and
e-governance should be run
on open source technology.
It added, system maintained
in VAT department was dependent on staff of ESPL.

Plea for more time rejected, agency gets 5 days

Continued from P1

urning down CBIs request for more time, special CBI judge Arvind
Kumar granted five days to the
agency to question Kumar
and the other four Tarun
Sharma, deputy secretary in
Kejriwal's office, Kumars
aide Ashok Kumar and owners of a private firm, Sandeep
Kumar and Dinesh Gupta.
The CBI prosecutor also
attacked Delhi government
for creating a media hype and
shielding Kumar as if he was a
sheshnag (snake-king) holding the Delhi government up
on its head and if he goes the
government will topple. He
listed several petitions filed by

the government in favour of

Kumar before court.
But the judge wasnt impressed and sought to know
what evidence CBI had of Kumar intimidating witnesses.
What was the necessity to arrest? Is there any evidence of
intimidation? the court asked, with the CBI saying it has
recorded statements of such
witnesses before a magistrate
under Section 164 CrPC.
AAP spokesperson Ashutosh and senior advocate H S
Phulka were present in the
court for the hearing. The
judge then queried if there
was any other evidence apart
from witness statements, and
the prosecutor cited a case diary saying it contained evi-

dence about a nexus between

Kumar and co-accused. The
agency claimed the company,
Endeavour Systems Pvt Ltd,
was Kumars brainchild
and he needed to be interrogated to find out how deep his
control was over the firm.
Observing that the money
trail too had to be ascertained,
CBI said it had audio tapes of
conversations between Kumar and other accused persons, verified by the forensic
lab. Kumars lawyer Mohit
Mathur opposed the remand
plea and argued there was not
asingle paper on record which
suggested that his client had
any relation with other arrested accused. Mathur also argued that there was no other

allegation against Kumar of

causing any wrongful loss to
anybody or misusing his office to cause loss to the public.
He pointed out the senior bureaucrat had cooperated in
the investigations, whenever
summoned by CBI.
An accused has the right
to remain silent. If he isnt saying what CBI wants him to say
doesnt mean it will arrest
him, he added.
Senior advocate Ramesh
Gupta, representing co-accused Sharma, said his client
had cooperated in the probe
and there was no ground to arrest him. Similarly, the other
three accused said they had also participated in the investigation and hence there was no

need to arrest them. The agency countered the arguments

advanced by the defence counsel and said the probe into the
case was going on and some
evidence had surfaced which
may lead to offences of forgery and cheating as well. At
the fag end of the hearing, accused Dinesh Gupta told the
judge, "I am being pressured
to become an approver. I have
been threatened by CBI."
The five accused were arrested in connection with a
case of showing undue favours to a private company in
the award of government contracts worth over Rs 50 crore.
Kumar, a 1989 IAS officer of
UT cadre, was called along
with Tarun Sharma, besides

FIR filed recently by ACB in

the alleged tanker scam in
which even the AAP government has been named for allegedly sitting on the report for
11 months. Mishra had submitted the report to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in August 2015.
On June 22, 12 AAP MLAs
had submitted a similar letter the LG, asking for FIRs to
be filed against him and Meena for not taking action in the
four FIRs.
Two of these FIRs pertai-

ned to purchase of water meters while one was on purchase and installation of streetlights during the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
It is reported that while
registering FIRs on the issue
of water tanker distribution

TANKER SCAM
management system, ACB
has also included the matter
raised by Vijender Gupta (leader of opposition) with regard to the alleged delay in ta-

king action in the matter,

Mishra has said in his letter.
If any alleged delay on
the part of the government in
referring the matter to ACB
or in taking any action in pursuance of any report furnished to it by a committee, is a
sufficient cause of action for
anti-corruption branch to register an FIR, by the same
analogy, an FIR is required to
be registered against the
ACB chief as well as the LG
(since ACB reports to him)
for not taking any action on

the FIRs registered in 2014.

Saying that there cannot
be separate laws for the citizens of this country, Mishra
alleged that massive effort
was being made to protect former CM Sheila Dikshit in the
scam. Dikshit was the chairperson of DJB when the alleged scam took place and
has been mentioned in the
FIR as well.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Mishra said: Seems
some senior top level BJP leader involved in tanker scam

along with Sheila Dikshit. All

attempts to divert attention
from her. All BJP leaders were given clear instructions
not to name Dikshit in any
protest or debate. Truth can
come out only when Dikshit
is interrogated and asked
about the names of BJP leaders who were involved along
with her.
Mishra who was interrogated by ACB on Monday claimed that he was not asked
any question about Dikshits
involvement in the matter.

ty as it emerged.
She described the Kejriwal government's decision to
appoint as many as 21 parliamentary secretaries as being
devoid of propriety. We
too had two or three parliamentary secretaries, but we
informed the government of
India before appointing
them, she said. I dont
know whether they took the
permission of the Centre.
Still, making 21 out of 70
MLAs parliamentary secretaries seems a mismatch.
On AAP's frequent runins with the Centre and its
equation with Lt Governor
Najeeb Jung, Dikshit called
for coordination with the
union home affairs and urban development ministries,
stressing that it was AAP's responsibility to overcome
hurdles.
On the Centres performance till date, the former
CM measured her words. It
is not easy to assess the performance of a prime minister, but yes I can say this
much, that a lot that has been
said but these have not converted to reality on the ground, she said.
Vipin

Principal secy ripped off govts VAT dept: CBI

ACB chief reports to LG, both should be booked: Mishra

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There is no
revenge at all. All the
seven Delhi MPs belong
to BJP. Kejriwal is
misinterpreting things
to suit current situation

three other private persons,

for questioning at the CBI headquarters Monday, after which they were arrested. The
CBI had registered a case against Kumar and others in December last year alleging that
the officer had abused his official position by favouring a
particular firm in the last few
years in getting tenders of Delhi government departments.
CBI has invoked sections
120-B of IPC (criminal conspiracy), and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act
relating to criminal misconduct. The sections carry a maximum jail term of seven
years, but the CBI indicated it
may add charges of cheating
and forgery soon.

ACB asks
Sheila to
join probe
Rajshekhar.Jha
@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: ACB on Tuesday

sent a notice to former chief minister Sheila Dikshit, asking
her to join the investigation into the alleged tanker scam. She
will be examined in connection
with the procurement of water
meters.
ACB also summoned the
Delhi government officials probing the alleged scam to join the
investigation. The case of illegal procurement of 2.5 lakh water meters had been registered
with ACB by the Kejriwal government when it first came to
power for 49 days, officials said.
ACB sources said that being
a woman, Dikshit hadnt been
asked to come to their office, a
police station. We have asked
her to convey to us a convenient
date, time and place wherein an
interview can be conducted
with her, an official said.
As regards the questioning
of the members of the Delhi governments fact-finding committee, ACB said the idea was to
understand how they arrived at
the figure of Rs 440 crore as loss
of revenue.
An FIR had been filed against both the Dikshit and Kejriwal governments last month
on the basis of two complaints
by AAP and BJPs Vijender
Gupta.
The FIR quotes the fact-finding committee and endorses
it. It then says the allegations
are grave in nature and involve
public money. Prima facie, an
offence is made out against
both governments, a source
read out from the FIR.
PTI

ON THE OFFENSIVE: Water minister Kapil Mishra and his supporters

held a protest outside the Anti-Corruption Branch office on Monday

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016

Armed men make off

with `1cr jewellery
Cops In Dark As CCTV Cams Switched Off
Illustration: Arya Praharaj

Four men enter the jewellery shop; force

shop owners son to open the lockers
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Four armed men

barged into a jewellery store
in outer Delhis Rohini in broad daylight on Tuesday and
made off with gold and diamond items worth Rs 1crore.
However, sources said the
amount could be as high as Rs
3.5 crore. They also took a licensed pistol and an iPhone 6
from the store. Unfortunately
for investigators, the CCTV
cameras in the shop had been
switched off due to some
construction work.
At around 2pm, the owner
of Shahi Jewellers in Sector
17, Harish Shahi, left his son
Nikunj in charge of the shop
and left for the electricity
supply office. Soon after, four
men pulled up in a white car
and entered the store with a

Open re when he tries to resist; bullet

hits glass pane; they ee with valuables

woman posing as a customer.

When Nikunj stood up to welcome them, he was shocked to
find a pistol pointing at him.
The men threatened to shoot
Nikunj and the two other salesmen, including a woman,
unless they handed over the jewellery. When one of the employees tried to resist, he was
struck with the pistol butt.
Shahi later told the police
that the men had forced his
son to open the lockers and fill
two backpacks with jewellery
items. At one point, Nikunj tried to pull out a licensed revolver kept in the cash box, but
was seen by one of the robbers
who fired at him. My son managed to duck behind the counter, and the bullet smashed
a glass pane behind him, said
the shop owner.
According to Shahi, the

PROBE ON: The cops have detained a few people for questioning

lockers contained 8-10 kilos of

diamond and gold jewellery
and some cash that was to be
deposited in the bank on
Wednesday.
The intruders snatched
the revolver from Nikunj before exiting with the loot. Outside, some shopkeepers had gathered after hearing the gunshot, but the robbers waved
them back and fired a round in
the air before fleeing. No one
was able to take down the registration number of the car because the number plate was
damaged.
A special team of the Rohini North police and the Crime
Branch and Special Cell have
been put on the job of tracking
the robbers. Shahi told the police that two of the men seemed to know about the location of the lockers as well as
the amount of the jewellery
usually kept within. They
even appeared to be aware that
the CCTV cameras were off.
Because of this, the cops suspect the role of a former
employee or a customer in the
heist.
Search is on for a white sedan fitting the description given
by witnesses. Footage from
CCTV cameras in the vicinity is
being collected, and the list of
stolen vehicles scanned. The
cops have detained a few people,
including some shop employees, for questioning.

Woman found dead,

police suspect husband
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: A 32-year-old woman

was allegedly murdered at home by
her husband in Fatehpur Beri on Tuesday. A police case was registered
based on the statement of the couples son, who told the police that he
saw his parents fighting at night. Police say that the husband, Abhijit,
has been absconding since the
murder.
The incident was discovered around 6am when the victims mother
reached the house to dress up the sixyear-old child for school. She saw the
entrance door open and found the
child was sleeping next to Seema who
had strangulation marks on her throat. The woman and other family

members tried calling Abhijit but his

phones were found switched off.
During investigations, the child
told the police that his parents often
fought and Abhijit used to thrash
Seema. Family members said that
the couple regularly had fights over
money matters.
According to the child, Abhijit returned home drunk on Monday
night and got into an argument with
Seema. He kept drinking while she
and the child went off to sleep. Police
suspect that he might have strangled
her late at night and fled with her
jewellery.
A case of murder has been registered and the search for Abhijit is going on, said Nupur Prasad, additional DCP, south.

3
Flyers forget valuables worth over `2cr at IGI airport
New Delhi: Goods and valuables worth over Rs two crore have been forgotten by
fliers while traveling or in transit at the Indira Gandhi International airport (IGI) in the
first five months of the year. As per official data, a total of 2,282 items worth over Rs
2.37 crore were recovered by airport security force Central Industrial Security Force
(CISF). Out of this, goods worth Rs 91 lakh were restored to the passengers while the
rest were deposited with airport authorities which can be subsequently claimed by
fliers by producing bonafide documents. PTI

TIMES CITY | GOING TO COLLEGE

Withdrawal symptoms at DU
Maximum Seats Vacated In BCom(H) As Second List Triggers Shift In Colleges
list. We have kept the marksheets and their contact details.
This time, if they return on the
last day and we have seats, they
can take admissions, said Vipin Agarwal, principal, Sri Aurobindo College.
Meanwhile, candidates
continued to face problems
with the online process, with
many complaining that the
university website was mostly down. Neha Gharu, who
was approved for admission
in political science, said: I
secured a seat in the first-list
benchmark. But the process
was pending since the server
was down and I couldnt pay
the fees online. I went to the
college again on Tuesday and
the authorities have extended the deadline for payment
of fees of the first round till
10pm. The online process is a
waste of time since we eventually end up going to the college for everything.
Another factor which the
candidates, who already secured admission in the
first list, were complaining
about was the cumbersome
cancellation process. Candidates have to cancel it online
first and then proceed to the
other college.
However, the online process seemed to have made
things easier for the colleges.
We have been able to complete
the admission process by
3.30pm, which never happened
before. This is easier, said SVC
principal, P Hemalatha Reddy.

Md Ibrar Arshad &

Samir Devnani TNN

New Delhi: The second

cutoff list has set off musical
chairs at Delhi University. Colleges in both north and south
campuses saw a large number
of admissions based on the second list. But there were good
number of withdrawals too, at
many colleges.
Also, DU colleges would
remain open for admissions
on July 6 as Eid is on Thursday. The sports admission
schedule too has been changed due to the holiday and candidates have to check DU website for details.
The withdrawals in BCom
(Honours) were largely driven by Shri Ram College of
Commerce dropping cutoffs.

The maximum withdrawals

at Hindu 20 for instance,
was in BCom (H). This is be-

cause SRCC has dropped its

eligibility score, said principal Anju Srivastava.
There were 16 withdrawals
in the subject at Hans Raj too,
which admitted 79 and had almost just as many withdrawals about 40 in arts and social sciences, 16 in commerce
and 19 in science subjects. Kirori Mal had 28 withdrawals in
BCom (H). Indraprastha College for Women also lost commerce candidates.
SRCC, however, lost none but admitted 90.
Elsewhere, the maximum
shifting of colleges was happening in courses such as BA
(programme). Of the sciences, physics and chemistry
have seen more admissions
in this round at colleges like
KMC and Gargi.
I think well close in
chemistry, zoology and microbiology this time, said
Gargi principal, Shashi Tyagi. The college admitted
over 200, KMC 208; and Sri
Venkateswara (SVC) 73.
We also received a lot of inquiries for admission on first

SUBJECTS OF CHURNING
Filled

Vacant

KIRORI
MAL

685 1,385

700

HINDU

BCom (H)
252 752

500

BSc Life Science, Zoology

MIRANDA HOUSE

551 1,001

450

GARGI

Political Science, BA (Programme)

450 1,200

750

Political Science, BSc LIfe

Sciences, BA (Programme)

SRI VENKATESWARA
516

573

1,089

HANS RAJ BCom(H), History, BA (Programme),

Maths, Zoology
670

LADY SHRI RAM

IP

430 1,100
Not Available

476 729

253
BCom (H)

613 1,013

400

SRI AUROBINDO BCom

800 160 960

RAMJAS Not Available

477

857 1,334

SRCC None
450

314 764

46 colleges still have commerce seats left

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New Delhi: Most colleges are

keeping popular courses like
commerce, English, economics, political science, history, physics and mathematics
still open for admissions in
the second list and the cutoffs
too have dropped. There are
two more days left for admissions under the second list.
One of the popular courses, BCom (H), is offered in 54
of Delhi University colleges
and admission is still on in 46
of those. In fact, Shri Ram
College of Commerce too is a
major preference for both
BCom (H) and BA(H) economics, with a drop of 0.5% percentage point for general category candidates.
The cutoffs for other categories like SC/ ST, OBC have
also dropped in these courses.
There are many colleges where cutoffs for BCom (H) and
BCom programme, which are
open in 35 of the 43 colleges,
range between 90% to 97% in
best-four aggregate.
BA programme is the second most offered course, in
51 colleges, and it is available
for the candidates in just two
of the colleges. Its cutoff actually ranges between 68% and
95.75%. However, majority of
the cutoffs for this programme are in the 80s in the second
cutoff. While the cutoff in BA
programme is likely to drop
marginally in the subsequent
list, many colleges are also
going to close admissions in
the second list itself.
Other popular subjects in
humanities like English, political science and history are all
open for admission in the next
two days in over 30 colleges,
with BA(H) English being the
most popular, in 42 colleges. It
is economics which has closed
admission in largest number
of colleges15. However, there
are 21 colleges including
SRCC, Hansraj, Hindu, IP, Kirori Mal, Lady Shri Ram, where the course is open for admissions in the second list.
Science courses like chemistry and physics are comparatively offered in less
number of colleges. Still, in
physics, out of 23 colleges, 21
are continuing admissions
and in chemistry of the 22 colleges, 19 are still enrolling
candidates. However, the
number of colleges open for
admissions in the third cutoff
is likely to come down significantly for these two courses.

THE LONG ROAD AHEAD

Courses
BCom (H)
BCom
English
Economics
Political science
History
BA programme
Mathematics
Physics
Chemistry

Colleges with
vacant seats
46
35
42
21
37
30
49
34
21
19

Lowest
cutoff

92
90
90
94
83
73
72
90
86
93.33

ECA TRIAL SCHEDULE

Activity

Dance

Vocal

Instrumental

Theatre

Debate
Creative
writing
Extra mural

Digital media

Sub-categories

Preliminary trial
date

Final trial

Venue

Indian classical

July 7, 8, 9, 11

July 15

Keshav Mahavidyalaya

Indian folk

July 12 & 13

July 16

Keshav Mahavidyalaya

Western

July 7 to 9

July 15 & 16 (pre-lunch)

Shyama Prasad Mukherji

Choreography

July 9

July 16 (post-lunch)

Shyama Prasad Mukherji

Indian classical

July 7 & 8

July 15

Kirori Mal College

Indian light & folk

July 9 & 11

July 16

Kirori Mal College

Western light

July 12

July 17

Kirori Mal College

Western classical

July 13

July 17

Kirori Mal College

Indian classical

July 11

July 15

Zakir Husain Delhi College

Indian light

July 12

July 16

Zakir Husain Delhi College

Western light

July 11

July 15

Dyal Singh

Western classical

July 12

July 16

Dyal Singh

Dramatics

July 8 to 11

July 15

Hansraj College

Street play

July 12 & 13

July 16

Hansraj College

English

July 8, 9, 11, 12, 13

July 15

SGTB Khalsa

Hindi

July 11 to 13

July 15

Daulat Ram College

English

July 11

July 15

Gargi College

Hindi

July 11

July 15

Gargi College

NCC

July 7, 8, 11

July 15

Satyawati Evening College

NSS

July 12 & 13

July 18

Kamala Nehru College

Still photography

July 13

July 15

Acharya Narendra Dev College

Film making

July 12 & 13

July 16

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College

Animation

July 13

July 16

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College

July 12 & 13

July 15 & 16

Mata Sundri College

Painting

July 9, 11, 12

July 15

Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma

Sketching

July 13

July 16

Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma

Sculpture

July 13

July 16

Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma

Quiz
Fine arts

At Bennett varsity, get

the best of both worlds
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BCom (H), BCom, History, Physics,

English, Economics

New Delhi: The students of

Bennett University will get a
taste of how things are done
at some of the best institutions in the world. To deliver
the world-class education it
envisions, BU has collaborated with Georgia Institute of
Technology, Babson College,
Wharton School of Business
and MOOC platform, EdX.
Georgia Tech as the
US school is popularly called
will help design and deliver
the engineering curriculum.
BU (letter of intent issued by
the government of UP,
subject to legislative approval) will collaborate with
the school also on two centres
of excellence, and students
will get to interact with
visiting faculty. The courses
being planned are computer
science
engineering,
electronics and communication engineering and mechanical engineering.
Technical education in
India has scaled multi-fold
over the last decade without
over 10,000 engineering colleges producing 1.5 million engineering graduates every year. Unfortunately, the quality
of education is continuously
deteriorating with only 2025% of these graduates being
employable. Our partnership
with Georgia Institute of
Technology will bring international standards to the Indian engineering curriculum, says BU vice-chancellor Yaj Medury.
Engineering
students
who are interested in striking
out on their own will get a
chance to polish their skills
at Babson College. They will
get to attend a two-week residential programme BUs
calling it the Startup
Boot-camp at Babsons

New Delhi: An art installation billed as the worlds

largest charkha was unveiled at the departure forecourt of IGI Airports Terminal 3 on Tuesday.
Made of high-quality
Burma teak, the charkha is
supposed to last for over 50
years. Installed between departure gates 4 and 5, the
structure is 17 feet tall,
nine feet wide and 30 feet
long. It was built over 55
days by a team of 42 skilled
carpenters from Ahmedabad. The work order was issued to Paryog Samiti, a unit
of the Khadi and Village In-

EXTERNAL
AFFAIRS
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY | Collaboration
on curriculum design;
visiting faculty members and
researchers; plans of establishing
centres of excellence in
embedded technologies and
cloud computing

BABSON COLLEGE | Bennett is the founding-member

of the Babson Collaborative; will assist in curriculum and
faculty development. Engineering students will also get the
opportunity to attend Babson Builda two-week, residential
entrepreneurship programme
EDX | Will provide

WHARTON EXECUTIVE
EDUCATIONUNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA | Management

massive open
online courses
(MOOCs) to
Bennett students
as part of blended
curriculum to
cater to varied
interests. Will also
help train staff

students will spend a one-week

immersion programme at the
Wharton School of Business. They
will also study two courses in
strategy and marketing leading to a
Wharton certicate

Boston campus. Students

will work with faculty and
students from over 10 countries to develop their entrepreneurship skills, says a BU
statement. It will also be the
founding member of the
Babson Collaborative.
For management students, BU has tied up with
Wharton School of Business
at the University of Pennsylvania. They will get a weeks
immersion
programme,
run by Wharton Executive
Education. Students will also
study two credit courses in
strategy and marketing for
which they will get a certificate from Wharton. About
10% of the first-year management course will be done at

Chem lab revamp

triggers reaction
Shreya.Roychowdhury
@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: Hans Raj Colleges

renovation of the chemistry laboratory has alarmed its teachers. College authorities undertook renovation allegedly
without informing the department. Consequently, the laboratorys chemicals nearly all
toxic, some inflammable
along with equipment were
shifted by the construction workers, without proper accountability and safety measures.
Eight teachers of the chemistry department held an
emergent meeting on June
25. The resolution communicated to the principal says,
All this has been done without prior consent/ information to the department. Hence, nobody in the department,
teaching or non-teaching will
be responsible for any mishappening (sic), mishandling, misuse and loss.
Cylinders are lying around, things are stored in a
haphazard manner. We are
lucky weve had no accident
yet. This is also admission season, hundreds of kids are coming here with their parents, says a teacher from
another department.
The departments resolution also lists the types of chemicals and equipment they
fear may have been mishandled. Labs are equipped

with very costly and sensitive

instruments, such as weighing balance, potentiometer,
colourimeter, pH meter, melting point apparatus etc. They
have to be kept properly in a
suitable place, which requires proper supervision and time. The resolution also said
that equipment like ice-making machine, distillation
plant, RO, orbital shaker, UVVis Spectrophotometer etc.
are installed in the labs and
cannot be displaced/dismantled without the supervision of an expert technician.
Principal Rama Sharma,
however, denies having authorised the shift without informing the department. A college principal cannot shift a chemistry lab. The procedure is to
let the teacher-in-charge know.
I told the teacher-in-charge and
she is the one who got the shifting done, she says.
The labs stock also includes toxic and hazardous chemicals such as Br2 (bromine), concentrated acids, phenols, sodium, reagents and
flammable solvent[s] that cannot be displaced without taking proper safety measures.
However, an undergraduate
chemistry lab typically doesnt
contain any radioactive substances. The Cobalt-60 that had
killed scrap-handlers in Mayapuri in 2010 had been traced to a
gamma irradiator in a postgraduate chemistry lab.
Rajesh Mehta

NOTE
Preliminary trials will be
conducted in alphabetical
order of candidates names
DU is also starting the trials for admissions through the
extracurricular activities category from July 7. The university has issued a detailed sche-

Candidates will be called in

turns. You can know when your
turn is through the DU website
dule and different dates have
been given for various activities. The university has listed
students in alphabetical order
for the trials and candidates

Reporting
time is
9am

Parents will
not be allowed
on premises

are advised to carefully look at

the university schedule for alphabet-specific schedule.
Meanwhile, in view of holiday on July 7, DU has re-

The candidate must bring a

copy of the registration form &
a photograph for the ECA trial
scheduled documents verification and approval of admissions based on second cutoffs from July 5 to July 8,
excluding July 7.

Teachers say toxic items were shifted without security measures

A slice of made-in-India: 17-ft tall charkha at IGI

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016

dustries
Commission
(KVIC) situated near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad.
The installation was unveiled by BJP president Amit
Shah, who appealed to the people to shop for Khadi. If a
person buys Khadi even
worth Rs 5,000 a year, it would generate lakhs of employment and would help feed
hundreds of poor people who
produce such products,
Shah said.
Shah also said that in a recent initiative taken up by Indian Railways, 40% of the
bedsheets and pillow covers
would be khadi. The habit
of wearing Khadi was transferred to me by my mother.

Sanjeev Rastogi

SPINNING SWADESHI TALE: The charkha can be seen at T3

We must all adopt habits

which bring to our country
prosperity and help better
the life of the person producing such products. This
charkha at the airport would
remind us of the efforts needed, Shah said.
On the lines of PMs Make in India initiative, GMR
group chairman G M Rao
announced that DIAL would
adopt Khadi as the summer
and winter uniform for its
entire airport staff. Rao
also said that the idea behind
displaying the worlds biggest
charkha
at
the
countrys busiest airport
was to inculcate the feeling
of Swadeshi among travel-

lers and visitors.

The event was also
attended by Union MSME
minister Kalraj Mishra and
his MoS Giriraj Singh, MoS
civil
aviation
Mahesh
Sharma, BJP MP Meenakshi
Lekhi and KVIC chairman V
K Saxena.
Like for warriors we
have war memorials to salute their courage and efforts,
this charkha is a similar tribute to those who stood on
the directions of Mahatma
Gandhi and took to charkha
to promote India-made products and helped achieve freedom. The wheel would make every Indian flyer proud,
Saxena said.

Wharton.
For the rest, there are
massively
open
online
courses. BU is collaborating
with EdX to address the varied interests of students.
EdX one of the most popular
MOOC platforms in the world
founded by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be
the main providers of MOOCs a part of the blended
curriculum. EdX will also
help BU create and host
courses, which will enable
training for faculty and staff,
as well as provide access to relevant infrastructure and features (such as Private Cohorts) that enable them, says the statement.

PROBLEMS GALORE
I got admission
though
the rst cutoff.
The website
didnt mention
that original
documents are required and
my application got rejected
because I had photocopies. I
was worried that Ill miss the
second cutoff but asked my
parents to send the original
documents
SHAMEPILLY NINGSHEM |
Manipur
In school, I was told
that sculpture
would be counted
in the best-four
subjects, but the
college authorities refused
to include it. I am from
the PwD category and my
options are limited. There
is still confusion about the
best-four subjects
ANIKET JAIN | Delhi
I got admission in
Sri Venkateswara
College. The
authorities didnt
even check my
documents. It was only after I
came to withdraw admission
that they realised I hadnt
taken a bank challan for the
prospectus. I will be applying
to Miranda House now
RUNJHUN GARG | Meerut
I got no SMS after verication
of documents and
my login ID was
not working when
I tried to pay the
fees. I had to come
to the college many times to
get a seat. I am withdrawing
admission from BA(H) English
in Sri Venkateswara College
and applying for BA(H)
economics in IP College
GARIMA YADAV | Delhi
I faced a lot of problems
during online registration.
I did not know
that an income
certicate would
be required. I am
going back now
KIRAN BALASAINI | Rajasthan

46 staff associations to
defy DUTA boycott
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Forty-six staff associations have decided to join

admission duty from Wednesday, defying the boycott by Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA).
The teachers under the aegis of DUTA has been boycotting the evaluation and admission process since May 24.
Till late on Tuesday night
DUTA leadership was engaged in executive meeting to
decide on future action.
The teachers have been
protesting against the API
linked
promotion
and

recruitment rules introduced

in 2009.
The teachers argue that
the changes in the rules are
likely to impact quality of
teaching, global rankings,

BREAKING RANKS
lead to massive retrenchment
and give a skewed studentteacher ratio.
However, there has been
growing debate over the boycott call among teachers.
Right wing students group
ABVP too had been urging
DUTA to call off the strike in
the interest of the students.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016

7th pay panel doesnt cheer corpns

Civic Bodies Fear Heftier Salary Bills May Bleed Them White Without Funds
Mayank.Manohar
@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: Having faced the

ire of workers striking work at
not having received salaries in
time, the municipal corporations in Delhi are presumably
underwhelmed by the central
government endorsing the Seventh Pay Commission report.
The East Delhi and North Delhi Municipal Corporations are
likely to go into a financial
tailspin if the recommendations on hiking the salaries of
workers by 17-23.6% are implemented.
Senior officials claim the
new salary bill will represent a
burden of at least `1,700 crore.
The current expenditure on salary and pension in the three
civic bodies is `5,829 crore. Once the new scales are effected,
the expenditure will increase
to approximately `7,492 crore.
The three corporations
employ around 1.27 lakh people. Having failed time and
again to boost their revenues,
the corporations, except the
south body, rely mostly on
funds released by the Delhi government to pay their salaries.
At present, East Corpora-

NUMBING NUMBERS
The Seventh Pay Commission recommendations, if implemented, are likely to paralyse the
corporations nancially. While salaries may go up 17-23%, the hike for pensioners will be 24%
Annual revenue generation
(excluding Delhi govt funds)

Annual salary & pension

expenditure (in crore)
Current
Expected
North Corpn

2,840
3,692

60,000*

2,029
2,600

South Corpn

42,000*

East Corpn

27,000*

( crore)

1,000

700

South
Corpn

North
Corpn

East
Corpn

Major sources of revenue

generation | Advertisement,
parking, property tax,
conversion charges
GOVT SHARE

960
1,200

*No. of employees

From Delhi government, each

corporation gets 4% of the taxes
under global share and 1.5% of the
taxes under municipal reform
fund since 2012 trifurcation
tion generates around `700 crore from property tax, advertisements, parking charges and
conversion fees, but its payroll
burden is close to `1,000 crore.
North Corporation is in a worse position, with revenues of
around `1,000 crore against a
salary bill of `2,800 crore. This
gap between income and the

1,600

EDMC staff had recently gone on

a strike over unpaid salaries,
resulting in huge inconvenience
to the public

The Delhi Fourth Finance

Commission has recommended
increase in the fund share in
state taxes, duties, fees and
tolls from 5.5% to 12.5%

costs has, in the past year, led to

periodical employee strikes
against delay in salary disbursal.
Harsh Malhotra, former
mayor of East Corporation, said unless Delhi government
implemented the recommendations of the Fourth Delhi Finance Commission the muni-

Only South Corporation is

in a position to implement
the report. East and North
corporations are failing to pay
their employees even now
cipalities would get no respite.
The finance panel had suggested raising the share of revenues for the corporations from
5.5% to 12.5%. While expenditure has gone up with time, we
continue to get the same amount from the government, said Malhotra.
The non-implementation

of the Delhi Finance Commission report and the pay commissions recommendations
are worrying even financially
sound South Corporation. We
are doing fine currently because we have been able to generate revenues, but if the Fourth
DFC report is not implemented then even we will face a financial crisis in a year or two,
said Subhash Arya, leader of
the house in the corporation.
We will have to implement the
Seventh Pay Commission
award and we want state government to cooperate .
The three civic bodies could have increased their revenue generation this year by
implementing the third report
of the Municipal Valuation
Committee that suggested upgrading the categories of commercial establishments to generate an additional `100 crore
for each corporation. But ahead of the municipal elections
in 2017, increasing taxes did
not seem to have been considered politically wise. Now with
polls in 2017, the political wing
has decided to sit on the suggestions with the vote banks in
mind, said a North Corporation official

Delhi govt plea has AAP students wing not

another judge recuse keen on DUSU elections
Dhananjay.Mahapatra
@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: A day after Justice

J S Khehar recused from hearing a petition filed by the Arvind Kejriwal government
against the Centre, another Supreme Court judge, Justice L
Nageswara Rao, followed suit
on Tuesday.
The AAP governments petition requesting the SC to restrain Delhi high court from pronouncing verdict on its petition seeking demarcation of
constitutional powers between Delhi and the Centre was
mentioned for the first time before a bench headed by Chief
Justice T S Thakur on Friday. It
was directed to be listed on
Monday.
Justice Khehar recused
from hearing the case as one of
his close relatives and advocate has been representing Delhi
government before the Natio-

Two arrested
for killing
village head

nal Green Tribunal. The Justice Khehar-headed bench directed the matter to be listed before another bench.
Jaising took the matter to
the CJI and sought listing of
the appeal with pending suit filed by the Kejriwal government against the Centre. Though the CJI declined the request, he assured that the matter
would be listed on Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning, Jaising was back before the CJIheaded bench informing that
Justice Rao had recused from
hearing the case and that it needed to be listed before another
bench. Either I am jinxed or
the case is, Jaising said.
The bench replied, We will
list the case for hearing on the
next working day of the Supreme Court.With the Eid holiday getting shifted to July 7,
the court has two-day holiday
This means the case will now
be listed for hearing on Friday.

New Delhi: AAPs student

wing is unlikely to contest
the DUSU polls this year. The
Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh
Samiti (CYSS) contested its
first election in September
2015, hoping to cash in on
AAPs massive electoral victory earlier in the yearthe
party had emerged victorious in 67 out of 70 assembly
segmentsbut failed to secure even one out of the four
seats.
The move is likely to be
seen as a major comedown
for the party but sources said
that CYSS was not adequately prepared to contest the
coming elections and rather
than losing all seats, it would
focus on building the organisation. In 2015, we took the
students wings opinion on

whether it was prepared to

contest the elections. It was
their first election but based
on their feedback, we had
hoped for a better performance, said a senior party
member.
The party came third
overall, securing just about

UNDER-PREPARED
20% of the votes. This year,
the Delhi unit decided to carry out its own assessment of
the situation and found that
contrary to what CYSS had
conveyed to us, its organisational strength was not what
we had expected.
AAP read the riot act to
the students wing recently,
pulling it up for having failed
to build up the organisational structure sufficiently.
There has been no major
membership drive and so far,

Sacrilege case: AAP neta

faced with key accused

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Two people involved in the murder a gram panchayat head in Bihar were arrested in a joint operation of
Delhi and Bihar Police from
Ashok Vihar area on Monday.
One of the accused was a contract killer and was wanted in
two other cases, police said.
Police said Poonam Devi
was shot dead by four people
with country made pistols.
On June 10, Inderjeet, Poonams husband, lodged a
complaint stating that the
murder may be an outcome of
election rivalry.
Police registered an FIR
under Sections 302 and 34
of IPC, soon after which a team was constituted to nab
the accused.
Based on a tip and technical surveillance, police on
Monday arrested Balram Prasad and Santosh Yadav Wazirpur Village in Ashok Vihar.

Neha.lalchandani
@timesgroup.com

Rohan Dua &

Rajinder Taggar TNN

Patiala: Sangrur police on

Wednesday drew a blank during the five-hour interrogation of Aam Aadmi Partys
legislator Naresh Yadav as he
denied accusations of giving
`1-crore to conspire to desecrate Quran with the key accused and Delhi-based businessman Vijay Kumar in connection with the June 24 Malerkotla Quran sacrilege case.
During questioning, the
Mehrauli MLA was confronted with the call details between him and Kumar and
the June 24 meeting between
the two before the alleged conspiracy.
Yadav, however, told police that he met Kumar only to
consider request to meet potential ticket enthusiasts.
The controversy is an attempt to sabotage our campaign in Punjab by showing a

500 conned in
land deals, 1 held
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: A conman accused of cheating more than

500 people in Delhi and NCR on the pretext of selling
them non-existent property was arrested on Monday.
The man had even set up a real estate company Arun
Dev Builders at Neb Sarai in south Delhi and cheated
investors to the tune of `10 crore.
According to police, Manoj Bhardwaj started his
business with a chit fund company and started selling
non-existent properties in Faridabad and Gurgaon.
DCP south Ishwar Singh said 10 complaints of cheating had been registered at the Neb Sarai police station in the past two years. Senior police officers said
many such cases are registered against Bhardwaj in
Economic Offences Wings (EOWs), and in Gurgaon
and Faridabad.
The complainants said the builder had taken huge
amounts of money and gave them sale agreements,
showing clear images of the plots to be purchased. However, when the victims tried taking possession of the
plots, they found that the papers were forged. The builders office was also found locked.
The office was shut and the mobile phones of the
office bearers were switched off, police said. A team
led by additional DCP Nupur Prasad was formed to
track Bhardwaj and his hideout, said Singh.
During interrogation, Bhardwaj said he initially
started one company but later opened eight more sister companies in the names of his relatives.

PTI

Naresh Yadav denied the charge

of giving money to the accused

few phone calls with this

man. I have already told police that I have got nothing to
hide . I have known him as an
RSS and BJP man who came
to me to discuss political scenario in Punjab. I am cooperating with police and will continue to do that , Yadav said.

Police sources said Yadav

also recorded his statement
that he has known Kumar
since 2000, when the two went
on to do a four-level course
with the British Council, and
an invitation for a housewarming warming.
Later, Sangrur senior superintendent of police Pritpal Thind said Yadav may be
called for a second round of
questioning. He has cooperated today. But to ascertain
the statements made by Kumar, we can subject Yadav to
custodial interrogation or a
polygraph test, said Thind.
Police sources said barely
hours before Yadavs interrogation, Kumar was questioned by the two director
generals of police including,
DGP (intelligence) Anil Sharma and state police chief
Suresh Arora at the cybercrime wing in Mohali. Police
also said Kumar's polygraph
test will be on Wednesday.

CYSS has carried out activities, which other parties are

carrying out too, like setting
up welcome desks for freshers, etc. There has been improvement since last year
but not sufficient for the party to invest in an election,
which it doesnt stand to perform well in, said a source.
A senior member said
that the party was looking to
set up an assessment mechanism for CYSS in all colleges
and this year, while it may
not contest elections, it
would campaign for clean
and fair elections.
AAP will be contesting
the Punjab and Goa assembly
elections in 2017, along with
its first municipal election in
Delhi. As party leadership is
focusing on the various
states, its funds are also focused on campaigning within these states.

Govt okays
new look for
7 colonies
New Delhi: The Cabinet
on Tuesday approved redevelopment of seven
central government residential colonies including Sarojini Nagar, Netaji Nagar, Nauroji Nagar
and Kasturba Nagar to
replace the existing housing stock of 12,970 dwelling units with approximately 25,667 dwelling
units. TOI on Tuesday
first reported about the
proposal for redevelopment of these government colonies.
The project will also
develop government office space for nearly 2.42
lakh sq meter at Netaji
Nagar. The total estimated cost of the project is
`32,835 crores including
maintenance and operation costs for 30 years. TNN

One held for trying to fly under fake name

New Delhi: Two passengers were arrested on Sunday by the alert
security personnel at the departure area of the domestic terminal
of the Indira Gandhi International airport. Police said one of the
them was found to travel on fake name.
The incident came to light when Manjar Alam and Sajjads Spice Jet
ticket to Bagdogra were scanned.
The officials while scanning the tickets found that the names
mentioned on the ticket were Manjar Alam and Muhammad Harish.
Sajjad had come to board the flight on the name of Harish, said a
senior security personnel. TNN

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6
CITY DIGEST

Terror alert after

3 cars go missing
Anti-terror units of Delhi
Police were put on alert
after an input from central
intelligence agencies and
the Punjab Police about
three cars that went missing from Punjab. The cars
were last tracked on the
way to Delhi. As per the
report, the three cars
Mahindra Bolero, Renault
and Swift Dzirewere
stolen by suspicious elements from various areas
of Punjab. The Bolero and
Renault have Punjab registered numberplates while
the Dzire is registered in
Jammu and Kashmir.

FIR registered for

posters against LG:
Police have registered a
case under the Delhi Prevention of Defacement of
Property act after posters
surfaced demanding arrest
of LG Jung,BJPs Maheish
Girri and Karan Singh
Tanwar in the murder case
of NDMC officer M M Khan.

Protests outside
Sisodia office: Sanitation
workers protested outside
deputy CM Manish Sisodias office in Mayur Vihar
seeking payment of dues.

* THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016

Saudi ex-friend blew Muneer cover

NIA Mans Killer Also Murdered Amirs Uncle, He Told Cops About ATM Heist
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: It was a tip-off

from a disgruntled former
friend from Saudi Arabia
that blew the cover of UP criminal Muneer and his aide
Ashutosh Mishra in the Rs
1.5 crore ATM robbery case.
Their identification as the
culprits and their subsequent questioning led to the unravelling of several other unsolved heinous crimes. Muneer already stands accused
of shooting dead National Investigation Agency officer
Tanzeel Ahmed.
Delhi Police disclosed on
Tuesday that a man named
Amir had called from Saudi
Arabia to confirm the fact
that Muneer and Mishra were behind the Citibank ATM
robbery in Kamla Market in
2014. Apparently, Amir is the
nephew of Ahmed, whose
murder by Muneer in April
might have influenced him
into ratting out his former
schoolmate from Bijnore.
Giving details of the investigations, Madhur Verma, DCP (North), said that in
April sub-inspector Praveen
had received information
that Aligarh-based criminal
Mishra was involved in the
ATM heist.

SPREADING HIS NET WIDE

MUNEERS DOSSIER
Murder of NIA deputy SP Tanzeel Ahmad in 2016
Murder of a northeast Delhi cop in 2014
Murder of a cop in Aligarh

MOTIVE

To loot
their
weapons

An RPF man bumped off in Lucknow

MISSION DELHI
1.5-crore
Citibank ATM heist

5.25-lakh
robbery in Jamia

Murder of head
constable in Jafrabad

Robberies in Sarita
Vihar, Jamia and Seelampur

HARD EVIDENCE

HOW THE CASE WAS CRACKED

Tanzeels nephew
calls up cops from
Saudi Arabia
Tips them off about
Muneer and Ashutosh
having executed the

ATM robbery
Identied them
through video,
says he arranged
accommodation for
them in Delhi

At this juncture, Amir

called us and gave us details
about how Muneer and
Mishra had executed the crime, revealed Verma. Amir
also admitted to us that it
was he who had arranged accommodation for the duo in
Mukimpura and Bara Hindu
Rao areas.
Amir confirmed the identities of the two men when

Bike and revolver

used in Citibank ATM
robbery
Magazine of pistol
looted from the slain cop
in Zafrabad

the cops sent him the video

footage of the ATM robbery.
The youth authenticated
Muneer in the video as the
man wearing sky-blue Nike
shoes and Mishra as the one
wearing black shoes. He attested too that they had a
Black Pulsar 220cc motorcycle with a Uttar Pradesh registration plate.
Having identified the cul-

A plot
purchased
by Rijwan
with the
looted cash
in Bijnor

prits, the investigating team

of additional DCP Esha Pandey, ACP Ram Niwas and inspector Surender Kumar discovered that Mishra was already imprisoned in Fatehgarh Jail in UP, while
Muneer was untraced since
the killing of Ahmed. Soon
after Mishra was brought to
Delhi and questioned, Muneer was apprehended by SSP

Amit Pathak and DSP R K

Mishra of the UP Special
Task Force. He too was ferried to Delhi for interrogation.
The duo had a lot to reveal. They had actually planned to loot a cash van, but ended up killing a security guard at the ATM in Kamla Nagar and fleeing with Rs 1.5
crore. In hiding, Muneer
kept custody of the cash. Apparently, he later got Mishra
arrested by tipping off the
cops about the latter's involvement in another case.
Two months before the
ATM robbery in November
2014, the desperados had waylaid constable Dharampal
who was on his way to verify
arms licences in east Delhis
Jaffrabad, pulled him into an
alley and shot him dead. Muneer and Mishra had disappeared with the policemans
pistol and wireless set. The
case had remained unsolved
till now.
They also confessed to
having shot a biker in Sarita
Vihar and taken his motorcycle to Jamia Nagar around
the same period. In Jamia
Nagar, they had robbed a businessman of Rs 5.25 lakh.
On another occasion, they
had opened fire on some people in Seelampur.

Haryana now has

a nodal officer to
protect gau mata
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Gurgaon: Bharti Arora is returning to Gurgaon as supervising officer against cow slaughter and cattle smuggling, eight
months after she was transferred following a bitter, public
spat with police commissioner
Navdeep Singh Virk.
Arora, a joint commissioner when she departed last October, was on Tuesday appointed supervising officer of teams formed in all districts of
Haryana to check cow slaughter and smuggling. She will be
stationed in Bhondsi, where
the headquarters for this new
police vertical has been set up.
Under her watch will be a 300strong team, among them 60
non-gazetted government officers and 220 policemen.
Though she will report directly to Chandigarh, Aroras
job will also involve working in
close coordination with Gurgaon police and her and Virks
paths will inevitably cross. It
remains to be seen how the two
work together after their acrimonious fallout.
Arora had accused Virk of
coercing her into falsely implicating a suspect in an alleged

Bharti Arora will supervise a

300-strong team with 220 cops
and 60 non-gazetted officers

rape case that she was investigating. She had written to Haryana DGP against her boss, seeking his intervention, saying
she feared Virk might harm her
career. Virk had rubbished those charges and written to the
police chief too. Arora was later transferred to Panchkula as
deputy inspector general (welfare and training).
Aroras appointment come
close on the heels of Haryana
Police launching a 24-hour
helpline number for complaints of cow smuggling or
slaughter.
The
number
8284030455 will direct a caller to the control room for these
cases. The special teams will be
in charge of investigations.

29-yr-old mom kills self Woman stays with sons body for 4 days
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: A 29-year-old woman,

mother of a specially-abled child,
was found hanging from the ceiling of her house in southwest
Delhis Bindapur on Tuesday
morning.
Police said it was a suicide while her family members claimed
she was murdered. Rajni lived in
Pratap Garden area of Bindapur.
The incident came to light around
8am when her husband Rajkumar

and his mother found her hanging

from the ceiling.
She was taken to a hospital
where she was declared brought
dead. No suicide note was found.
We are probing the allegations of
the womans family, said a police
officer.
Police said the body has been
sent for postmortem and both the
families are being questioned.
Cops are also trying to find out if
the couple had a disturbed married life.

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: A 60-year-old woman had been staying with

the body of her son for
four days at her house in Kali
Bari Marg.
Ramdulari and her son
Kapil (32) had been staying at
the ground floor of a central
government flat. Her husband used to work in the Indian Railways and died a year
ago. Her three daughters we-

re all married and staying in

Uttam Nagar and elsewhere
in NCR. The daughters used
to visit regularly on weekends as Kapil fell ill due to
excessive drinking.
On Monday afternoon, neighbours informed one of the
daughters about stench coming from the house. When
she arrived, she saw Kapils
badly decomposed body lying
on his bed.
Police were informed and

the body was sent to Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital

for autopsy, which ruled out

SORDID TALE
foul play. Police said that Kapil seemed to have died five
days ago.
Ramdulari told police
that she had presumed Kapil
was sleeping and hadnt woken him up. He usually bought food from a shop outside

while Ramdulari cooked for

herself. Kapil rarely spoke to
anyone else and was heavily
addicted to drinking, said a
police officer.
Family members also told
police that Ramdulari had been suffering from a mental
disorder ever since her husbands death.
Kapils body was handed
over to the family on Tuesday
after which they travelled to
Haridwar for cremation.

Man shot in Bawana,

kin suspect neighbour
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: A 35-year-old man was

shot by two bike-borne men outside his house in Bawana on Monday
night. Family members of the victim suspect the involvement of a
local youth, Sunny, who has allegedly been harassing his niece for
the past few months. The victim
had earlier registered a police
complaint against Sunny following which he was arrested, but
was released on bail later.
The incident took place at Wazirpur village in Bawana. The victim, who used to work as a plumber,
was going to a shop near his house
when he was waylaid by the bikers.
They shot him at point-blank
range. One of the bullets hit him on
his chest and he died on the spot.
Hearing the gunshots, locals
gathered at the spot and informed
the family. He was taken to Maharishi Valmiki Hospital in nortwest

Delhi where he was declared dead

on arrival. A case of murder has
been registered.
Family members said a few
months ago, he had registered a case of sexual harassment against
his Sunny for allegedly stalking
his 16-year-old niece. They said
Sunny was arrested and jailed for a
month but he managed to get a bail.
Since then he has been pressuring
the family to settle the issue.
According to the victims wife,
Sunny and his elder brother had
gone to their house and offered to
settle the issue, but her husband
turned down the proposal. Sunnys brother had warned him that
he should agree to their demand or
else he would be harmed. We had
told the police about the threats
from Sunnys family, she said.
The victim and his niece were
supposed to appear before a court
in Rohini for a hearing in the harassment case against Sunny.

Juvenile gets bail in Akhlaq case

Greater Noida: The second juvenile accused in the Akhlaq lynching case
has been granted bail by a district court in Surajpur on Monday evening.
Altogether, 18 people including the son of a local BJP functionary and two
juveniles have been named in the case.
Akhlaq (58) and his son Danish were attacked by a mob at their house
on suspicion that he had beef on September 28 last year. While Akhlaq had
succumbed to injuries, Danish survived with a fractured skull.
The court granted the bail on the same grounds the first juvenile got
it, said Ram Sharan Nagar, counsel for the accused. The first juvenile
was granted bail by the Allahabad high court on May 27. TNN

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Gadoli killing:
Mumbai SIT
detains Ggn cop
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Gurgaon/Mumbai: The special investigation

team (SIT) of Mumbai police detained Pradyuman Yadav, a sub inspector with Gurgaon police,
on Tuesday for an alleged fake encounter in a
Mumbai hotel this February in which gangster
Sandeep Gadoli was killed.
Yadav led the Gurgaon police team that shot
Gadoli at Airport Metro hotel on February 7. The
SIT picked him up from Police Lines in Gurgaon.
Yadav will be produced before the 37th metropolitan magistrate court on Wednesday, police sources said.
An SIT team went to Yadavs residence at Police Lines on Tuesday. Yadav offered to cooperate
with investigators, sources said.
Asked if the Gurgaon police officer had been
arrested, Mumbai Police joint commissioner (crime) Sanjay Saxena said, It is too early to confirm
his arrest. We have detained one of the Gurgaon
cops. The verification and other procedures are
going on.
The SIT had been camping in Gurgaon and
Delhi since May 27. They had filed a report before
the SC, stating that they altered the IPC sections
in the FIR filed by Gurgaon police in the Gadoli case and added sections of murder, attempt to murder, arms act, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence against the Gurgaon policemen.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016

Gr Noida
tells builders
to charge
uniform rates
Sharmila.Bhowmick
@timesgroup.com

Noida: The Greater Noida

Authority has told the citys
builders to charge homebuyers uniformly for land
acquisiton following a lot of
complaints from the buyers
on differential rates being
charged by the developers.
The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority
(GNIDA), in a meeting with
the citys builders represented by the Confederation of
Real Estate Developers Association of India (Credai) on
Monday, asked them to rationalise the charges. The GNIDA has also asked builders to
start taking maintenance
charges, only after residents
start residing in their apartments officially.
While it is not a formal order from the GNIDA much as
the buyers would have wanted it to be, it does put pressure on Credai to make the
builders fall in line. Greater
Noida Authority additional
CEO, P C Gupta, told TOI
that the Authority has been
receiving complaints from
buyers off and on. Different
builders have been charging
the buyers differently for
land acquisition. We have
asked them to transfer these
charges rationally. Also, we
have asked the builders to
charge for maintenance only after the buyers start living in their apartments,
Gupta said.
According to buyers,
builders in Noida Extension
have been levying land acquisition charges differently.
While some have charged Rs
50 per square foot plus service taxes; others charge Rs
60 per sq ft plus service taxes.
Now many builders who have
started handing over flats are
even charging as high as Rs
85 per sq ft plus taxes.
On its part, Credai insisted at the meeting that the
Greater Noida Authority execute its share of infrastructure work speedily. Credai
NCR president Manoj Gaur
told TOI that almost all
those apartments which
were sold in 2012, would be
up for possession by December 2016.

Attacks on docs: Fraternity

seeks remedy, calls meet

Talk to AK to
be Kejriwals
mann ki baat

Outcome To Be Shared With Centre, State For Proper Action

New Delhi: Chief minister

Arvind Kejriwal will be
available to answer questions from the public on July
17 from 11am. An initiative
called Talk to AK has been
launched by the government
with officials pitching it
against Prime Minister Narendra Modis weekly radio
address called Mann ki
Baat.
Sources said that during
the hour-long interactive session, the CM will field questions from people through social media, phone calls and
text messages.
The idea is to reach out
to the people of the country
and engage with them directly. It will not be a monologue,
unlike Modis Mann Ki Baat.
The Delhi CM wants to hear
from the people and talk to
them directly, said an official. Both events are expected to clash as the PMs address is also scheduled for
11am on July 17, a Sunday.
A website, TalkToAK.com will live stream the interaction. Sources said that
the event will be publicised
on social media and other
platforms.

DurgeshNandan.Jha
@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: Taking note of

the increasing incidence of
violence against doctors, the
Delhi
Medical
Council
(DMC) has called a meeting of
all medical bodies on Friday
in the state to deliberate upon
actions to prevent this trend.
The outcome of this meeting
will be shared with the state
and central government,
DMC president Dr Arun Gupta told TOI.
He said that minor scuffles in the emergency ward
are common in most hospitals and there have been at
least two incidences in the recent past; at Ambedkar hospital in Rohini on July 3, and at
Chacha Nehru Baal Chikitsalaya (CNBC) in Geeta Colony
on June 14, where the doctors
were chased or beaten. The
action against perpetrators
of such offence, we feel, is often insufficient and delayed,
the DMC president said.
The resident doctors of
AIIMS held a candle light

THREAT TO LIFE-SAVERS
Jul 3 | Relatives of

a patient who died

of severe wounds
sustained in a road
accident damage the
Ambedkar hospital
casualty section and
chase doctors and
security staff

REASONS FOR
VIOLENCE
Delay in
treatment, lack of
communication, no
triaging facility in
casualty area,
security staff
not trained
to manage
attendants
who
are in
distress

Jun 14 | After an

infant dies allegedly

due to medical
negligence, relatives
beat up doctors
inside the critical care
unit at Chacha Nehru
Baal Chikitsalaya in
east Delhi

doctors nose
is broken and a
junior resident
doctor is hurt in
the abdomen in
violence triggered
by the death of a
patient

WHAT EXPERTS SUGGEST

Government should start a campaign
against the targeting of doctors and
also put in place a grievance redressal
mechanism
Hospitals should le FIRs against
those involved in attacks
Waiting time should be reduced.
In casualty and ICU, senior doctors
should be available 24X7

march on the campus on July

1, Doctors Day, to raise awareness about the issue of violence against doctors.
Dr Gupta stressed upon
the need for a mass campaign

Two of family fall

off terrace, die
she wanted to go to the terrace
and play. I asked her to stay
back as she had just recovered
New Delhi: A nine-year-old
from viral fever. But she ingirl and her brother-in-law
sisted, so I gave in. However, I
died after they slipped off the
asked her to come back
terrace of a five-storey
in half an hours time,
building on a rainy
said the weeping mothSaturday evening at
er.
northeast Delhis BhaMy husband spent
janpura.
over an hour with ShaA family member
beena every day. I have
said Shabeena and her
lost both of them tobrother-in-law, Sheikh
gether, said Rahima,
Khursheed, were very
Khursheeds wife.
close and usually
Khursheed was a
spent time playing on
rickshaw puller and
the terrace every eveused to leave home
ning.
Shabeena and
early morning. He
Shabeenas moth- Khursheed
used to return at 4pm
er, Shanehar Bibi, told
and spent time with Shabeena
police that it started raining
and other kids in the house.
as soon as Shabeena returned
Very often he took them on
home at 2pm. She came to me
rickshaw rides, she added.
at 6.30pm and insisted that
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Mar 20 | A senior

Doctors should develop soft

skills to calm patients and their
relatives in difcult situations

by the government to make

the citizens aware about not
taking the law in their hands.
Violence against doctors
is not a bane only in India.
The Lancet recently publish-

ed similar cases from Spain,

China and Iraq, among other
countries. In fact, in 2009,
Spain decided to celebrate
April 20 as National Day
Against
Aggression
in
Healthcare to draw attention
to the problem. Within three
years, authorities claimed,
violence against doctors
went down 16%.
Dr Pankaj Solanki, resident doctor at Ambedkar hospital who also heads FORDA,
said doctors are often blamed
for perceived medical negligence or if there is delay in
treatment.
At AIIMS, a senior doctor
said, the emergency ward is
always overcrowded.
There is space for only 30
trolleys in the emergency
ward but at any given time,
you can find more than 50-60
of them lying around. In
some cases, two patients have
to share the trolley. Patients
still feel satisfied if they are
being attended to. In some
cases, the attendants try to
create a ruckus to get attention, he said.

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BCA graduate held for

car theft in SW Delhi
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: The anti-auto

theft squad of southwest district has arrested a 28-yearold graduate in Bachelor of
Computer Applications, for
allegedly selling an SUV on
an online portal and then
stealing it to sell it again. The
police said that the accused
had installed GPS in the vehicle with the help of which he
used to trace it. He planned to
sell the same vehicle many
times to earn quick money
and then dispose it to destroy
evidence.
The accused has been
identified as Mintoo Kumar,
son of a retired Indian army
captain, and a resident of
Charkhi Dadri in Haryana.
According to police, Kumar

had a good knowledge of cars

and is good at using gadgets.
Kumar had arranged for
an XUV 500 car from someone he knew and then
changed its number plate
and also prepared a forged
RC and other documents. He
then got a GPS installed in
the vehicle so that tracing it
would be easier, once sold. After this, he gave an advertisement on an online shopping
portal and made the car available for sale, said Surender
Kumar, DCP southwest.
Police said that after
some time when one of the
customers showed interest
in buying the car, he sold it to
him for a handsome amount.
On the same night, Kumar
located the vehicle with help
of the GPS installed in it and

used a duplicate key to steal

the vehicle, the DCP said.
Police said that in-depth
technical surveillance and
intelligence led to the accuseds arrest. During investigation, it was learned that
the RC of the stolen vehicle
and the ID of the seller on the
online portal were forged.
The vehicles registration
number was also found to be
forged.
On Tuesday, information was received that the accused further plans to sell the
same vehicle and will pass
through Goyala Diary Picket
in Dwarka. A team led by Inspector Raj Kumar, AATS
South-west, under supervision of ACP Jagjit Sangwan,
laid a trap and the accused
was arrested, Kumar said.

Narela bizman shot at

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Several men

opened fire at a Rohini-based
businessman on Tuesday afternoon while he was on his
way to his factory at Bhorgarh
near Narela with his father

and a Delhi police personal security officer. The man was

earlier threatened by the gang
members of Neeraj Bawania,
who had tried to extort protection money from him. The
businessman, Himanshu Goel
has filed a complaint.

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Chemists attack Bengal docs

for prescribing generic drugs

Mehboobas Eid
pardon for 634
stone-pelters

Worried Over Sales Slump, Pharmacists Come Armed With Guns

Srinagar: In a significant
outreach to alienated youths
in Kashmir Valley on the eve
of Eid, Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti
on Tuesday ordered the release of 634 stone-pelters lodged
in various prisons in the state.
A government panel recommended the withdrawal
of 104 cases of stone-pelting
lodged during 2008-09.
Cases filed between 2010-14
would be reviewed for amnesty in three weeks time, a government spokesman said,
which could lead to more youths being freed. The recommendations came after Mehbooba sought a review by a
three-member committee of
stone-pelting cases lodged between 2008 to 2014.
The 634 undertrials and
their parents would have to give an undertaking that they
would not engage in violence
in the future, the spokesman
said. The recommendations
of the committee headed by
J&Ks director general of police were forwarded to authorities for immediate action.
The previous government
led by Omar Abdullah, too,
had granted amnesty to around 1,811 youngsters involved
in stone-pelting cases.

Ashis Poddar

TNN

Kalyani (West Bengal): A

mob of pharmacy owners attacked a group of junior doctors at a government hospital in Kalyani, Bengal, on
Monday night for prescribing generic medicines instead of branded names.
A little before Monday
midnight, some junior doctors on duty at the College of
Medicine and Jawaharlal
Nehru Memorial Hospital
(CMJNMH), Kalyani, were
sipping tea at a kiosk near
the hospital gate when they
were surrounded by a mob.
The men abused the doctors for prescribing generic
drugs, and after a heated exchange assaulted them. Hearing the commotion, more doctors rushed out of the hospi-

Guj MLAs 3
sons get jail in
assault case
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bharuch: Three sons of Gujarats lawmaker Chhotu Vasava were among eight people
sentenced on Tuesday by a court to three years in jail for attacking a local Congress functionary in 2009. Vasava is the
lone JD(U) MLA in the state.
Additional sessions judge
M H Patel at Ankleshwar suspended the ruling for a month
to enable the accused to move a
higher court, and granted bail
to all of them, except Kishor Vasava, one of the three sons. The
other two sons who have been
sentenced are Mahesh and Dileep. Mahesh is a former JD(U)
MLA from Dediapada. Balu Vasava had in 2009 accused them
of assaulting him for allegedly coming in the way of Chhotus work in the region.

Relief for Modi in selfie case

The Supreme Court on Tuesday closed an alleged poll codebreach row sparked by a selfie
clicked by PM Narendra Modi
after casting his vote in Ahmedabad during the Lok Sabha
polls in May 2014. The complaint was filed by AAP worker
Nishant Deshdipak Verma.

The men abused the doctors,

and after a heated exchange
assaulted them. Hearing the
commotion, more doctors
rushed out of the hospital. At
this, one of the attackers took
out a gun and held it to a
doctors head. Before leaving,
they threatened the doctors
with dire consequences
tal. At this, one of the attackers took out a gun and held it to
a doctors head. Before leaving, they threatened the doctors with dire consequences.
The junior doctors were
merely following a 2013
state government order making it mandatory for them
to issue prescriptions with
generic names instead of

branded medicines.
All government-run hospitals now have fair-price
medicine shops selling generic medicines and offering
discounts of 60-70% on the
maximum retail price, making them much affordable.
This has, obviously, led to loss
of business for pharmacies
in the vicinity of hospitals.

Some of those operating

medicine shops near the hospital have been complaining
of slump in sales. They had
threatened us earlier but we
never imagined they would
come armed and assault us,
said one of the doctors who
did not want to be named.
In protest, the junior doctors decided to go on strike
on Tuesday morning, but the
hospital administration managed to prevent it after holding a series of meetings
with them and the district
police. The hospital later lodged a police complaint, but
none has been arrested yet.
The police as well as
the hospital administration
have assured to provide security to the junior doctors,
said CMJNMH principal
Santanu Banerjee.

FTII lines up credit-based

system, students fume
Rupali.Shukla
@timesgroup.com

Pune: The governing council of the Film and Television Institute of India
(FTII) on Tuesday gave its
approval to a credit-based
semester system from this
year which will replace the
annual assessment system
currently used by it.
The council, which is
chaired by actor Gajendra
Chauhan, also gave its approval to the vision document, which proposes that
the prestigious institute be
converted into a University of Cinema, Television
and Allied Arts.
The choice-based semester system will streamline the annual assessment
system. Students feedback
will be taken into account.
This is a step towards implementing the vision document...We plan to start some
of the proposed 22 new courses soon so that we can be
named a Centre of National
Excellence, Chauhan told
TOI. The meeting in Mumbai was presided by I&B secretary Ajay Mittal with

Govt to rename Bombay,

Calcutta & Madras HCs

he Union Cabinet on
Tuesday approved renaming the high courts of
Bombay, Calcutta and Madras after the current names
of the cities Mumbai,
Kolkata and Chennai. The
government will bring a bill
in Parliament to effect the
change. Demands from
states governments for the
name changes were pendThe Madras high court (above) ing with the law ministry for
some time. It will bring a bill
was established along with
the High Courts (Altthe Bombay and Calcutta
eration of Names) Bill, 2016
HCs in the 1860s
to rename the three HCs
established under the Indian High Court Act, 1861. At present, there is no central law under which the proposal for
the change of names of these HCs can be addressed. TNN

filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani and actor Satish Shah

among those in attendance.
The FTII students association, however, termed
the decisions taken by governing council the death
of FTII. Holding an important meeting in Mumbai

instead of on the campus is

itself questionable. We do
not have the infrastructure
for more courses and there
are backlogs. It will kill the
creative space, said Harishankar Nachimuthu, the
president of the FTII students association.

Saleem.Pandit@timesgroup.com

SC to Army: Use
court martial in
rare cases only
Dhananjay.Mahapatra
@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Army

must not routinely resort to
instituting summary court
martial proceedings against
its erring personnel as it was a
special power to be exercised
only in an emergency situation, especially in operational
areas where the holding of regular court martial proceedings is not possible.
We fully endorse and affirm the view taken by Delhi
HC that summary court martial (SCM) is an exception and
it is imperative that a case
must be made out for immediate action. The reasons to convene an SCM must be followed
by well-articulated reasons,
a bench of CJI TS Thakur and
Justice UU Lalit said.

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Rooftop travellers killed in

accident get `1cr in damages
SC: Rlys Failed To Take
Precautionary Steps
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday

awarded Rs 1 crore compensation to family
members of 20 people who were killed after
falling from the roof of a speeding train
crammed with job aspirants returning from
an ITBP recruitment camp near Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh in 2011.
A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and
Justice U U Lalit said the railway administration failed to take precautionary measures
when a large number of people were travelling on the rooftop and asked it to pay compensation to victims. The court also directed the
railways to pay compensation of Rs 1.5 lakh to
persons who suffered permanent disability
due to the incident. The court awarded compensation of Rs 75,000 in case of grievous injury and Rs 25,000 in case of simple injury.
Though the people who travelled on the
rooftop also contributed to the mishap, the
railway administration, in our view, is not
free from blame. Concluding so, we direct
that the next of kin of those who died in the
incident and those who sustained injuries
must be duly compensated by the railway administration, the bench said.
Around two lakh people had assembled

The accident took place at Hathaurda near UPs

Shahajahanpur as scores of ITBP candidates failed
to duck a railway overbridge and collided with it,
leaving 20 dead and many injured

for the recruitment camp in Bareilly in 2011

from different states and hundreds of young
men had climbed atop Himgiri Express while
returning from the camp as there was no space in the compartments. The accident took
place at Hathaurda railway overbridge near
Shahajahanpur when many candidates could not duck the overbridge and collided with
it, leaving 20 dead and many injured.
The bench also directed the public transporter to appoint a committee headed by a senior officer within four weeks to examine
and remove infringements on foot overbridges and railway overbridges across railway
lines to prevent such incidents.

Real-time tracking of
NGOs books soon
Bharti.Jain@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: The Union

home ministry will soon be
able to do real-time tracking of all foreign contributions made to NGOs registered under the Foreign
Contribution Regulation
Act (FCRA), 2010.
The FCRA division of
the ministry is adopting
the Public Financial Management System (PFMS), a
web-based application for
payment, accounting and
reconciliation of government transactions that will
keep it up to date about the
frequency, number and
quantum of foreign contributions made to NGOs that
have an FCRA licence.
As of now, once an
NGO is registered, there is
no way of tracking foreign
contributions made to it
unless it files returns as required under FCRA. Unfortunately, there have been
many NGOs that failed to
file returns for years together despite receiving

Public Financial
Management
System (PFMS) is
a web-based
application for
keeping the govt
up to date about
the frequency and
quantum of funds
from abroad
flowing into NGOs
crores of rupees in foreign
contributions.
Though
their licence was later cancelled, they happily received and utilised the foreign contributions without
the government learning
the details of their utilisation, said a government
officer. Incidentally, the office-bearers of many such
NGOs, after receiving foreign funds and then having
their NGOs licence cancelled over non-filing of
FCRA returns, were found
to have later floated a new
NGO, many times with the
same address.

HC allows govt
to procure pill
to help addicts
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New Delhi: The Delhi high court has lifted its stay on the governments decision to procure a medicine prescribed to reduce a drug addicts dependency on opiates like heroin.
A vacation bench of Justices G S Sistani and P S Teji
recently said that the government has followed the
proper procedure while awarding the contract for supply of
1.5 crore tablets of the medicine Buprenorphine.
Prima facie for the purpose of deciding the present stay
application, we do not find that
respondent no.1 (Centre) has
not followed the proper procedure. However, this aspect would require a detailed hearing
and the objection is kept open.
For the reasons aforesaid, we
find no merit in the application for stay, it said.
The court had stayed the
governments procurement
order on a plea by a pharma
company which had argued
that the health ministry could not have entered into a
private contract for getting
the medicine when public
money was involved.

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Zakir moulded desi jihadis too?

Controversial Mumbai Preacher
Inspired Chief Of Hyd IS Module
lers, told NIA investigators
that he was following Naiks
speeches on TV and YouTube
New Delhi: The Dhaka attack- since 2004. Ibrahim Yazdaers were not the only ones inspi- nis journey to Ahle-Hadees, a
red by the controversial spee- puritanical strain of Islam,
ches of Mumbai cleric Zakir actually started only after lisNaik. Islamic States Hydera- tening to Naik when he was a
bad module head Mohammad teenager, said an official.
Ibrahim Yazdani told the NatioThe Hyderabad suspects
nal Investigation Agency (NIA) are the first among the 54 Isladuring his interrogation that mic State members arrested
his inclination towards violent so far in India who had reaoutfits working to establish ched an advanced stage of
Shariah law was alplanning to carryso because of Naik.
ing out blasts. YazdaIn fact, top sourni had even given
ces told TOI that
Kunya assumed
Yazdani went to
identities for operaMumbai specially
tional purpose to
to attend one of Naother members in
iks congregations
the module and
in 2010 as a volunhad
distributed
teer and listened
functional portfoto his sermons. Yazlios among the grodani
stayed
in
up, on the lines of IS.
Zakir Naik
Mumbai for the full
Yazdani kept the
10-day camp, orgaportfolio of Raabit
nised by Naik-led Islamic Re- (communicating in-charge of
search Foundation (IRF), a so- the module) with an assumed
urce said.
identity of Abu Abdur RahYazdani (29), who formed man, his younger brother Ilythe Hyderabad module along as Yazdani as Abu Mansoor
with 10 others after coming in and in-charge of religious aftouch with Syria-based hand- fairs, Rizwan as Abu Hasan

Ban on Naik?
Centre gives
vague reply

Neeraj.Chauhan
@timesgroup.com

FLORAL TRIBUTE: People pay their respects to the victims of the

attack at Holey Artisan Bakery, in Dhaka on Tuesday. Alive steps, P2

with responsibility of Mahasib (accounts keeper) and Habeeb as Abu Shaiba who was
made the Askari (arms incharge). Fahad was named
Abu Haleema but he was not
given any charge.
Meanwhile, the NIA on Tuesday conducted fresh searches at three places in Hyderabad on the basis of interrogation of the five suspects.
The agency recovered two
computers and two scanners
used by them to send the bayah (oath of allegiance) to IS
chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
in Syria through their handler by email. Apart from that,
the agency recovered 17 rounds of 9mm pistols from Ha-

beebs residence.
During its probe, the NIA found 500 overseas mobile numbers of people with whom Yazdani and the other members of
the module were in regular touch. This, the officials said,
shows how deeply they were involved in their planning for the
last several months. It is also
probing whether Yazdani was
in touch with other IS modules busted in the last one year.
As first reported by TOI, the
module had bought huge quantities of chemicals like acetone,
hydrogen peroxide, urea, ammonium nitrate, nitric acid and
sulphuric acid over the last four-five months, enough to make
40-50 powerful bombs.

Hyd IS module was told to use rival

Qaidas mobile encryption software

New Delhi: The government

on Tuesday remained noncommittal on taking action
against controversial Mumbai-based Islamic preacher
Zakir Naik, who was followed
by one of the five Bangladeshi
militants who killed 20 people
at a restaurant in Dhakas diplomatic zone
We dont ban individuals.
We ban organisations. So far,
there is no formal communication from Bangladesh. If
they request us, we will examine what can be done, minister of state for home Kiren
Rijiju told reporters here.
As per a Bangladesh newspaper, one of the Dhaka restaurant attackers, Rohan Imtiaz, ran a propaganda on Facebook last year quoting Naik,the
founder of Mumbai-based Islamic Research Foundation. Naik, in a lecture on his channel
Peace TV, reportedly urged all
Muslims to be terrorists.
Naik, banned in UK and Canada for his hate speech, is immensely popular in Bangladesh through his Peace TV. PTI

Both Shias,
Sunnis slam
preacher
Mohammed.Wajihuddin

Neeraj.Chauhan@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: Even though al-Qaida and

the Islamic State (IS) are often portrayed
as rivals, probe by Indian agencies against ISs Hyderabad module showed how
a tool developed by one is coming in handy for the other.
The handler of the Mohammad Ibrahim Yazdani-led IS module, who claimed
he was in daily contact with IS chief Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi, told the Indian members to use mobile based encryption software programme Amn al-Mujahid (security for mujahid) for interactions as it
made the chats secure and impossible
for intelligence agencies to track, said
sources. Amn al-Mujahid was reportedly developed by al-Qaidas exclusive online distributor Al Fajr Media Centre for
use by its jihadis.
Other than Amn al-Mujahid, an IS
member based in Syria, suspected to be
Shafi Armar, asked them to use Chat Secu-

re application and Orbit, both useful in encryption of communications. They also

used Telegram, Facebook and other internet-based applications and programmes.
The NIA probe has revealed that the
tech savvy Hyderabad IS module was in
an advanced stage of their plan to use
the powerful triacetone triperoxide
(TATP) for blasts. In fact, using a mobile
application, they had marked police stations in Hyderabad on a map which they
planned to attack, said sources. TOI had
first reported that the suspects wanted
to blow up police stations.
The NIA, during the questioning of
Yazdani, his younger brother Ilyas Yazdani, Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Amoodi
alias Fahad, Habeeb Mohammad alias
Sir and Mohammad Irfan, found that
they had collected Rs 1.50-1.80 lakh to purchase pistols.What surprised investigators was that the person who gave them
two semi-automatic 9mm pistols in Nanded, Maharashtra, didnt charge money.

Man with IS, JMB link

held from train in Bengal

suspected terrorist arrested from a

train at Burdwan station has links to
terror groups IS and Jamaat-ul-Mujahi- deen
Bangladesh (JMB), a top CID officer said on
Tuesday. A sharp weapon and an airgun
were seized from Mosiruddin. A resident of
Labhpur in Bengals Birbhum district, Mosiruddin alias Mosi alias Majnu, has admitted
to having been in touch with top IS and JMB
members through emails, social networking
sites and phone, the officer said. During a
joint interrogation by CID, NIA and IB,
Mosiruddin revealed his links with Amjad
Sheikh, an alleged key member of JMB
arrested in 2014 in connection with the
Khagragarh blasts, sources said. PTI

We are probing whether they were directed by the same IS handler based in
Syria to give them guns, an officer said.

TNN

Mumbai: Zakir Naik has regularly courted controversies. One of his utterances had
so angered Muslims here that
they had pressured the police
to put a stop to his peace conferences. As a result, Naik
has been unable to hold conclaves here since 2011.
Naik had earned the ire of
citys Muslims, both Shias and
Sunnis, by praising Yazid, a loathed figure in Islamic history.
He would propagate a dangerous ideology. I told cops that
his conferences were only a faade to preach a different brand
of Islam, a Shia member said.
Naiks Islamic Research Foundation spokesperson, however, claimed that the conferences were not being held due to
non-availability of ground.

ManU fan to killer:

Dad pleaded on FB
for him to return

Terrorists
used app to
hide digital
footprint
Indrani.Bagchi@timesgroup.com

Dhaka: Terrorists at the Holey

Artisan Bakery used a secure
messaging app, Threema, to
send messages and upload pictures of their victims after they
had been shot and hacked with
machetes. A secure messaging
system, Threema deletes messages from servers, leaving little
trace and preserving anonymity. This has made it difficult for
Bangladesh authorities to get
forensic clues about that night.
Bangladesh authorities are
unearthing more links between
the attackers and terror group,
Bangladeshi policemen in Dhaka on Tuesday. Sleuths have unearthed
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Banglamore links between the cafe attackers and terror group JMB
desh (JMB). JMB has pledged
allegiance to Islamic State (IS).
Indrani.Bagchi@timesgroup.com
Speaking to TOI, Benazir Ahmed, director general of BangDhaka: Rohan Imtiaz travelladeshs Rapid Action Battalion
led extensively through India
angladesh police said on
(RAB) said, Investigations are
with his father Imtiaz Khan
Tuesday that one of the
on... from the primary informaBabul on holidays. We went
men they shot dead during the tion available we can say these
to Agra, Jaipur, everywhere,
siege of a Dhaka cafe on the
people have links with JMB.
his father remembers.
weekend may have been a
On Tuesday, security forces
A bright student, specially
hostage killed by mistake.
acted on intelligence that the
in mathematics, Rohan walked
Confusion over exactly how
attackers had scoped out other
out of home on December 30.
many gunmen were involved
cafes in Dhaka, before settling
On January 1, his father, an
was at least partly cleared up
on Artisan Bakery in Gulshan.
Awami League functionary, caon Tuesday when police said
CCTV footage from these plame back to Dhaka from Kolkaamong the six people security
ces is currently under the scanta where he had taken his wife
forces killed when they
ner. Acknowledging that there
for treatment. I searched evestormed the building to end a
may have been more accomplirywhere for him. I filed a gene12-hour stand-off was Saiful
ces of the attackers, security
ral diary at the police station. I
Islam Chowkidar, a pizza
authorities are also looking for
asked the home minister to
maker at the Holey Artisan
six more people who may have
help, which he did and a generestaurant. We killed six
helped them. A photograph
ral alert was issued. The inpeople in the restaurant. A
uploaded by ISIS of the five atspector general of police spent
case has been registered
tackers (local authorities say
a long time looking for him.
against five. The sixth man was six) includes at least 5-6 others
But there was no trace of him.
a restaurant employee, Saiful whose faces cannot be seen.
On July 1, Babuls friend
Islam, a top police official, said.
Two unnamed suspects hacalled him. Your sons pictuHe may not be involved, he
ve been taken into custody on
re is on Facebook. Go home
said, adding, investigations
Tuesday, but there was no word
and open it. I came home. I
were on. REUTERS
about them from the authoritisaw Rohans face for the first
es. One was being treated at a
time on the IS website.
No, there was no sign. That hospital, reports said. Hasnat
Rohan Imtiaz was one of
the attackers at the Holey Arti- was not something that ente- Karim, a former faculty member at North-South University
san Bakery who carried out red my mind at all.
The shame, the shame, and his wife Sharmin were dethe gruesome killings, before
he said. How will I face anyo- tained by the police, after videbeing gunned down.
os and pictures emerged of him
Babul says, he still cannot ne in society ever again?
Do you know the worst chatting with the terrorists. Kabelieve it. I imagined many
things he had got angry thing? The additional com- rim had spent a decade in the
with his sister and left home missioner of police, Sheikh UK, and investigators found he
to take up a job somewhere, so Maroof, who was injured in had links to extremist organimany things. I would regular- the attack had spent months zation Hizbut Tahrir, which has
ly post on his Facebook page, trying to trace Rohan for me. a large presence in UK. More inA football fan, Rohan was terestingly, he taught Nibras Issaying please come back. without you I am blind. Now, I ha- especially fond of Manches- lam, the smiling terrorist at
the private university. He was at
ter United.
ve no words left.
On the eve of Eid, Bangla- the caf with his wife and childHis wife, he said, fainted at
the news and has had to be ho- deshs biggest festival, Imtiaz ren and was released by the terspitalised. Did he suspect his says shame and grief is all he rorists early next morning, just
before the army stormed in.
son was getting radicalised? has left.

Did police kill cafe

staffer by mistake?

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SC fire on abortion ads
AmitAnand.Choudhary
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up online search engines Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for allowing advertisements relating
to sex selection and eventual
abortion on their platforms
in violation of its order.
Holding that the search
engines were violating the
law by allowing such advertisements, a bench of Justices
Dipak Misra and R Banumathi granted the government 10
days time to convene a meeting of technical experts and
representatives of search
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They are patently violating the law and saying that
that they cannot do anything
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SC has granted the

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that nothing goes through the
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they were not advertising anything which violated the PreConception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (PCPNDT)
Act or any Indian law. The
bench, however, was not satisfied with their submission.
The court was hearing a
PIL filed by activist Sabu
Mathew George.

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Maritime meet Salman case may not be heard for 3 yrs

may help break I
A
Indo-Pak ice
Sachin.Parashar
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New Delhi: As India and

Pakistan look to break the
logjam in ties, the two countries will hold a dialogue
between the Indian Coast
Guard and Pakistan Maritime Security Agency
(PMSA) this month.
Official sources said a
Coast Guard team will visit
Pakistan from July 12 to July 14 to attend an international conference on maritime issues in Karachi and
also engage PMSA on issues related to coastal security. This will be the first time
that an Indian agency will
visit Pakistan since the
Pathankot airbase attack
in January this year.
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announced by foreign minister Sushma Swaraj in December 2015, has failed to take off in the absence of, as
India continues to maintain, any significant action by
Islamabad against Jaish-eMohammed terrorists who
perpetrated the Pathankot
attack. Pakistan continues
to insist on initiating CBD
with a visit to Islamabad by
Indian foreign secretary S
Jaishankar, as decided in
December last year.
India though has not relented with Swaraj reiterating last month that talks
with Pakistan and terror
cant go together, even as
she insisted that dialogue
with the neighbouring country had not been called
off. The two countries will
now hope that maritime dialogue between the Coast Guard and PMSA will lead to

Minimum wages even

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ajasthan has become the

first state in the country
to introduce minimum
wages for part-time
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notification, making it
mandatory to pay 50% of the
minimum wage to a labourer
who works for less than four
hours a day. The
government on the
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workers to get higher wages
if they work for a certain
number of years. TNN

The two countries will hope

that maritime dialogue between
the Coast Guard and PMSA will
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Pakistan claims that it
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may not be possible to have
a dialogue until the time Pakistan shares with India the
outcome of the Pathankot
visit by its joint investigating team which is probing
the airbase attack case.

Continued from P 1

Relief for Khan in Arms Act case

n the Supreme Court, attorney general Mukul

Rohtagi sought early
hearing, preferably within
six months, in the Salman hitand-run case. The bench,
however, turned down the request. There are many important cases pending in the
court and we cannot put this
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The appeal will now be taken up in due course and is unlikely to be heard in the next
three years. The court will also

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rejected his application for re-examination of a prosecution
witness, the then district magistrate Rajat Kumar Mishra. While
allowing a revision petition of Khan, the court directed the trial
court to hear the plea by Khan afresh. The trial court will now
again hear this application on July 12. Khans counsel had moved
an application on March 2 seeking re-examination of Mishra who
had granted the prosecution permission to proceed in their case
against Khan. TNN

hear an appeal filed by family

members of the man who was
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decided by the apex court.
The SC had issued notice
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appeal against his acquittal
and said the could not be rejected outright. Salman was
charged with killing one person and injuring four by ramming his vehicle into a bakery in suburban Bandra in
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TIMES SPECIAL | Chop & Change

THE SHUFFLE

PROMOTED: Prakash Javadekar

New HRD minister

Finance minister Arun Jaitley sheds I&B

Javadekar, who held independent charge of environment,

lone minister to be promoted to cabinet rank

Venkaiah Naidu moves out of

parliamentary affairs, takes over I&B, retains
urban development & housing

Was BJP spokesperson and partys Andhra Pradesh in

charge when he became minister

Ananth Kumar gets parliamentary affairs

Was instrumental in bringing Chandrababu

Naidus TDP into the NDA fold

from Venkaiah, retains chemicals & fertilisers

Birendra Singh gets steel, moves out of

Also played a role in unearthing cash for vote

scam

Narendra Singh Tomar gets rural

development, panchayati raj, drinking water,
sanitation sheds steel and mines

PLUS POINT

Javadekar played key role in global

climate change negotiations, espoused pro-industry
policies that often angered green activists

Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey | 58

Varanasis Vikas Purush, Pandey was

BJP minister in Kalyan Singh cabinet. The
Chandauli MP is popular among cadre as
approachable neta

PLUS POINT His inclusion a bid to keep

Brahmins in good humour as BJP shifts focus to
woo OBCs and Dalits ahead of the 2017 UP polls

MoS Health & Family Welfare

YO
UN
GE
ST

ASSETS 2.7 cr
Claims shes inherited Kurmi neta & Apna
Dal founder Sonelal Patels legacy. Has had a
falling out with mother Krishna

ER

T
IS

IN

UP

15

19.0

16.5

Bihar

10.1

8.6

MP

10.1

6.0

ASSETS 1.7 cr

Maharashtra

7.6

9.3

Gujarat

7.6

5.0

Rajasthan

7.6

5.7

Karnataka

6.3

5.1

Andhra

3.8

4.1

Jharkhand

3.8

2.7

Haryana

3.8

2.1

West Bengal

2.5

7.5

M J Akbar | 62
MoS External Affairs
RS (Madhya Pradesh) | Columnist | BA
ASSETS

44.9 cr

This former newspaper

editor & an authority on
Islam enters ministry
after serving as party
spokesman. He entered
politics as a Congress
MP in 1989 but later fell
out with Sonia Gandhi

PLUS POINT Expected to

be part of the govts outreach to
the Middle East countries

E
ST

IN

M
OF

LS (Uttar Pradesh) | Social Worker

BA, MBA

A Dalit herself, shes expected

to lead the raid on BSPs Dalit vote bank

Piyush Goyal gets mines (ind charge)

justice, gets statistics programme

implementation

from Tomar, retains power, coal &

renewable energy

Ravi Shankar Prasad gets law and justice

MoS Law & Justice, IT

LS (Rajasthan) | Lawyer | BSc, LLB

35.4 cr

ASSETS

RSS ideologue and SC lawyer belongs to

OBC Seervi community, involved in farmers
projects. The diligent MP has twice won the
Sansad Ratna award

PLUS POINT Said to be strongly supported by BJPs national

vice-president & Rajya Sabha MP Om Prakash Mathur

Parshottam Rupala | 61
RS (Gujarat ) | Agriculturist | BSc, BEd
ASSETS

7.5 cr

The Patel strongman has a strong base in

Saurashtra, which sends 47 MLAs to the
Gujarat assembly. He backed Modi during
the rebellion against Keshubhai Patel

IN

I
AT
UL

PO

3
TOTAL
MINISTERS*

78

*Including PM

3
5
3

Faggan Singh Kulaste | 57

MoS Health
LS (MP) | Agriculturist
MA, BEd, LLB
ASSETS

Sidelined following his

differences with CM Anandiben Patel, his
I
inclusion in the Modi cabinet is seen as a
OF N PO
M
M
PU
move to assuage Patidars ahead of the 2017 state polls
IN
I
N
L
IS
TE ISTE ATIO
RS
RS
N
%

2.6 cr

Former Union
minister, this Gond
tribal was jailed in
the 2008 cash-for-vote
scandal. He has clout
among 11 million Gonds
spread over Central India.

PLUS POINT

Kulaste of the Gond tribe

is Modi govts tribal face

C R Chaudhary | 68
MoS Consumer
Affairs, Food
LS (Rajasthan) |
MA

Punjab

2.5

2.3

Jaswantsinh Bhabhor | 49

Tamil Nadu

1.3

6.0

MoS Tribal Affairs

Orissa

1.3

3.5

Telengana

1.3

2.9

Assam

1.3

2.6

LS (Gujarat) |
Agriculturist | BA,
BEd

Chhattisgarh

1.3

2.1

ASSETS

Delhi

1.3

1.4

J&K

1.3

1.0

Uttarakhand

1.3

0.8

Himachal

1.3

0.6

Goa

1.3

0.1

AP

1.3

0.1

MoS Road Transport &

Highways, Chemicals
& Fertilisers

LS (West Bengal) | Social

Worker | BSc, LLB
ASSETS

RS (Guj) |
Livestock inspector

2.3 cr

ASSETS

PLUS POINT

He comes in place of fellow Jat

Sanwar Lal who has been dropped

PLUS POINT

His presence will help with

oor management

RI
CH
ES
T

Ajay Tamta | 44

MoS Environment (Ind)

MoS Social Justice

MoS Defence

MoS Textile

RS (Madhya Pradesh) |
Social Worker MCom

RS (Maharashtra) | Social
Worker, Std 12 Pass

LS ( Maharashtra) | Doctor

LS (Uttarakhand) | Transporter | Std 12

Known for his

organisational skills,
Dave, a pilot, expected a
ministerial berth in 2014
itself. Hes the son of an
RSS pracharak

PLUS POINT

Likely spotted by
the PM for his work in organising RSS global
outreach programmes the recent Vichar
Mahakumbh in Ujjain one such

ASSETS

3.7 cr

The leader of the

Republican Party of
India (A), whos trucked
with Congress and NCP
in the past, was among
favourites to join the council
of ministers in 2014

PLUS POINT Inducting a Dalit ally at the

Centre is reaching out to section outside the
partys traditional support base in Maharashtra

12.6 cr

PLUS POINT Nitin Gadkaris support is

believed to have tilted the balance in his favour

PLUS POINT Eye on

Uttarakhand 2017 polls

Vijay Goel | 61

MoS Drinking Water & Sanitation

MoS Finance & Corporate Affairs

LS (Karnataka)
Agriculturist | BA

LS (Rajasthan) |
Ex-bureaucrat
MA, LLB, MBA

MoS Youth Affairs & Sports

(Independent Charge),
Water Resources

Began his political

career in the Janata
Party under CM
Ramakrishna Hegde.
The ve term MP has been
continuously elected since
1989

PLUS POINT

Induction with an eye on SC

votes. Expected to play a role in garnering
Dalit votes in 2018 state polls

ASSETS

1.8 cr

RS (Rajasthan)
M.Com LLB
ASSETS

First elected to LS in
2009, BJPs chief whip in
LS was born into a family
of weavers & cycles to
Parliament

PLUS POINT His attempts to actively raise

state-related issues in the House has won
appreciation. The two-time MP was among the
best performers during the 15th LS

30 cr

Delhi BJP chief makes a

comeback of sorts after his
party virtually removed him
from Delhi

PLUS POINT

He may be used to counter

Delhi CM Kejriwal whose attacks on PM Modi
often force BJP brass into damage control mode

PLUS POINT Mandaviya helped

contain the Patidar agitation and is
close to Amit Shah

Rajendra Nath Gohain | 62

MoS Railways
LS (Assam) | Business
BA, LLB
ASSETS

Youth leader with RSSs

backing is BJPs Dalit face
in the hill state. The MP
from Almora the LS seat
covers four districts can
cause trouble for CM Harish
Rawat, who is from Kumaon, in
these four districts

Arjun Ram Meghwal | 62

8.9 cr

63.7 cr

The surgeon-turnedpoliticians induction

is being viewed as
a move to control
damage caused to
BJPs image in north
Maharashtra following the
exit of senior leader Eknath
Khadse on corruption charges

Ramesh C Jigajinagi | 64

ASSETS

ASSETS

1.8 cr

The low-prole and

young Leuva Patel leader
is a Modi loyalist and a darling
of the RSS.

Subhash Bhamre | 62

ASSETS

PLUS POINT Induction seen as move to

capitalize on the tribal votes in the assembly
polls in 2017

MoS Parl Affairs, Agri &

Farmers Welfare

The rst time MP & Jat

leader from Nagaur is exPublic Service Commission chief

1.8 cr

Tribal leader from

Gujarats backward Dahod
played a key role in beating
Congress in its stronghold in 2012 and 2014

Mansukh Mandaviya | 44

Known as Google
uncle, hes an authority
on Parliamentary norms.
Bengal-born Ahluwalia
was part of Rajiv Gandhis
young brigade.

ASSETS

2 cr

S S Ahluwalia | 65

Ramdas Athavale | 56

0.6 cr

Rajya Sabha

MoS Panchayati Raj, Agri & Farmers Welfare

Anil Madhav Dave | 60

ASSETS

Hansraj Gangaram Ahir takes up MoS

home, loses chemical & fertilisers

P P Chaudhary | 63

15

ON

RS

Krishna Raj | 49

PLUS POINT

SK Balyan MoS agri & farmers welfare

now moves to water resources & Ganga
Rejuvenation

PLUS POINT

Shes championed
the cause of women
and Dalits. A bankers
wife, Krishnas been
a two-term MLA from
Mohammdi in Kheri district
in 1996 and 2007

Manoj Sinha gets communications (ind

charge) from Prasad, keeps railways (MoS)

Sadananda Gowda loses law and

Source: ADR of assets as of last election contested, Parliament website. Data based on states they represent

PLUS POINT With Bihars Nitish

Kumar wooing East UP Kurmis and
Beni Prasad Verma back in SP, BJP
hopes she will help party win Kurmi
votes

statistics, programme implementation,

retains external affairs

replaces Jayant Sinha (MoS)

In the biggest shakeup of the NDA govt since it

assumed ofce, PM Modi has inducted 19 new
ministers of state with an eye on the upcoming
polls and performance of incumbent mantris

LS (UP) | Social Worker | BA, MBA

MoS Women & Child Devpt

V K Singh (MoS ind charge) sheds

Santosh Gangwar gets MoS nance,

RECAST
& REFIT

2.6 cr

Anupriya Singh Patel | 35

from Gowda, loses communications

Santosh Gangwar (MoS ind charge)

MODIS

Lok Sabha

LS (Uttar Pradesh) | Agriculturist | PhD

ASSETS

Smriti Irani gets textiles, replaces

MoS nance Jayant Sinha goes to civil

aviation (MoS), replaces Mahesh Sharma, who
keeps tourism and culture (ind charge)

rural devpt & drinking water, panchayati raj

Was elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council

twice between 1990 and 2002, elected to Rajya Sabha in
2008. Currently represents MP in RS

MoS HRD

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016

2.5 cr

The four-time MP
is among the few
original BJP leaders in
his state having joined
the party in 1991

PLUS POINT Close to

central leaders and the Sangh Parivar

WHY THE 5 WERE DROPPED

Nihalchand Meghwal
Loses MoS Chemicals
& Fertilizers | Failed to meet
partys expectations despite the
leadership standing by him when
opponents sought his removal
citing rape claims

Sanwar Lal Jat

Loses MoS Water
Resources Leadership
disappointed with him, he had
to make way for Chhotu Ram
Chaudhary, an inuential gure
from the same community

Manuskhbhai
D Vasva
Loses MoS
Tribal Affairs
He failed to graduate
to his ministerial
role, and had
lately been critical
of Gujarat CM
Anandiben Patel.
Also, Jaswantsinh
Bhabhor is
regarded a better
representative of
tribals

Ram Shankar Katheria

Loses HRD | Emerging Dalit
face in UP, is regarded well in RSS.
Likely to get a party role ahead of
state polls. Krishna Rajs induction
ensures that representation of UPs
Dalits in the govt does not suffer

MK Kundariya
Loses MoS Agriculture | He
succumbed to BJPs political need
to accommodate bigger names
from the politically important Patel
community: Parshottam Rupala &
Mansukh Mandaviya

TIMES NATION | Chop & Change

14

Feel free to contact me: PM to mantris

Modi Promises
To Be More
Accessible

LINE OF NO CONTROL

SANDEEP ADHWARYU

in learning the requirements

of their jobs, saying that after
becoming PM, he focused for

Yogesh Kumar

miti Iranis unexpected

exit from HRD set Delhis political grapevine
abuzz on Tuesday. The combative minister who had
clashed furiously with the
Congress-Left over the JNU
and Rohith Vemula controversies seems to have paid
the price for being inflexible
in her viewpoints and earning a reputation of incessantly wading into one controversy after another.
Though Iranis forceful
articulation appealed to
BJPs ideological constituency, a tendency to be indiscriminate in picking arguments seems to have upset senior party functionaries.
Among other changes at
the minister of state level,
Jayant Sinha has been
moved to civil aviation from
finance, where he was seen to
be speaking somewhat out of
turn. Despite an impressive
finance background, Sinha,
who was made a minister despite his father Yashwant
Sinhas barbs at the government, did not get to play a significant role in recent developments in North Block.
The parliamentary affairs portfolio has gone to
Karnataka leader Ananth
Kumar who also holds
charge of chemicals and fer-

JUG SURAIYA

& AJIT NINAN

Celebrate, but get

cracking fast: NaMo
ou have a few hours to
celebrate, then get down to
work. This was the message
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
gave to the 19 newly inducted
ministers of state on Tuesday.
Soon after the meeting of
the Union Cabinet, Modi
interacted with the newly
sworn-in ministers where he
asked them to work hard with
honesty and dedication. PTI

four months on learning about

the requirements of his new
role. He said the ministers sho-

uld avoid being feted and, instead, prepare for the forthcoming Parliament session.

Venkaiah loses parliamentary

affairs, but gets I&B ministry
Continued from P 1

LIKE THAT ONLY

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Prime Minister

Narendra Modi on Tuesday
promised accessibility to
newly-appointed ministers
of state, even as he emphasised the need for them to quickly familiarise themselves
with their new assignments.
Please feel free to contact
me whenever you need to,
Modi told the new ministers,
a statement meant to assuage
the perennial grouse of junior ministers that they dont
get to meet the PM because of
the intervening layer of Cabinet ministers.
The PM also emphasised
the importance of MOSs, saying he saw them playing an important role in his government.
However, Modi also said the
ministers should lose no time

THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016

BJP member Anupriya Singh Patel

takes the oath during the
swearing-in ceremony at the
Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday

tilisers. This change is significant as it was felt that coordination and networking
with opposition will be crucial as NDA pushes legislation like GST. He will work
with the experienced parliamentary warhorse S S Ahluwalia as MoS. Venkaiah Naidu lost parliamentary affairs
but gained information and
broadcasting, and so, on balance, retained his ranking.
Newly sworn-in MoS
Anil Dave who has been actively involved in river conservation will be the new
minister for environment,
forests and climate change.
Javadekars promotion
as HRD minister seems a recognition for his dogged approach to tackling miles of
green tape that had en-

Anupriya made
minister, feuding
mom cuts BJP ties

Left out by PM,

Sena demands
Maha cabinet rejig

he feud between Apna Dal

(AD) MP Anupriya Patel
and her mother and party
chief Krishna Patel came to a
boil on Tuesday with the party
ending its alliance with BJP in
UP over the inclusion of the
36-year-old MP from Mirzapur
in the Modi Cabinet. Krishna,
who is the signatory to the
Apna Dal-BJP alliance forged
before the 2014 LS polls,
snapped the ties with
immediate effect. TNN

hiv Sena's repeated

criticism of the Modi
regime has cost the party its
much-desired berth in the
Union Cabinet, sources said.
Sena sought to play down the
slight. The cabinet expansion
was confined only to BJP,
said Sena member Sanjay
Raut. There are signs that
Sena is seeking one Cabinet
rank portfolio and two MoS
berths in Maharashtra as
compensation. TNN

meshed hundreds of projects when the NDA took office. Efficient and transparent clearances were paramount to Modis plans to
kickstart the economy and
the MoEF had a key role to
play as most of the projects
were stuck for environment
clearance. Though activists
claimed he was steamrolling
green concerns, Javadekar
managed to work with some
prominent NGOs over issues
like climate change.
Despite brushes with controversy, ministers like Mahesh Sharma have retained
their charge. Ministers seen
to be doing well, such as Nitin
Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and

Dharmendra Pradhan, have

remained in charge of their
respective portfolios. Goyal
was given the additional
charge of mines. It is yet another boost for Goyal, who
along with Pradhan was speculated to be in the running for
elevation to Cabinet rank.
Rajiv Pratap Rudy retains charge as skill development and entrepreneurship
minister, but has lost the parliamentary affairs portfolio
as MoS. New MoSs Faggan
Singh Kulaste, S S Ahluwalia
and Ramdas Athavale have
been given health and family
welfare, agriculture and social justice and empowerment portfolios.

Felicitations can be put

on hold until after August 15,
the PM is learnt to have told
the new members of the ministerial team.
BJP president Amit Shah
congratulated the new ministers and expressed confidence that they would do their
best for the country. Congratulations to all newly swornin ministers. I am sure under
the leadership of PM Modi,
they will do their best for India, he said in a tweet.

Senior citizen
rule bent to
retain Najma,
Kalraj Mishra
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: The BJP has decided to bend the 75-year-bar to

let micro, small and medium
enterprises minister Kalraj
Mishra and minority affairs
minister Najma Heptullah
continue in office with an eye
on minority representation
and political considerations
over the Uttar Pradesh polls
due next year.
The rule has been used to
remove party veterans from active politics with the formation
of a margdarshak mandal
comprising L K Advani and
Murli Manohar Joshi besides
PM Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah and former PM
Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
As Vajpayees health rules
out participation in party
matters, the mandal was seen
as a means of moving Advani
and Joshi out of the important
parliamentary board that deliberates on political decisions and ticket distribution.
The veteran club has other
members like former Himachal Pradesh chief minister
Shanta Kumar and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha. The party elders have not
taken their exclusion kindly,
raising issues over party strategy after BJPs loss to the
RJD-JD(U)-Congress alliance
in Bihar.

Javadekar gets a
promotion for
cutting green tape
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: New human resources development (HRD)
minister Prakash Javadekar,
the only minister of state to
be elevated to Cabinet rank
on Tuesday, was in Berlin on
an official assignment when
he got a call asking him to be
present here well in time for
the oath-taking ceremony
that was to be the high point
of his political career so far.
Javadekar has been used
to bending deadlines and delivering on key priorities since
he took charge as junior minister for environment and forests promising to end
the rent-seeking that
marked the ministrys
functioning. He annoyed some activists who
felt that he was brushing aside guidelines,
but he managed to reduce the
infamous green tape through
time-bound clearances and
direct 24x7 measurements of
polluting industries through
an online system.
Since there was no direct
flight from Berlin to New Delhi when he got the message,
his office in coordination
with the Indian embassy arranged shorter flight via Abu
Dhabi so that he could reach
by early Tuesday morning.
He landed here at 3am. He
was in Germany for attending the seventh St. Petersburg Climate Dialogue.
Not too long after he was
inducted into the council of
ministers, Javadekar had

lost the charge of two key departments of information

and broadcasting and parliamentary affairs in November
2014. But since then he got
down to handling the environment and forests and climate change briefs with single minded dedication and a
reduction in the backlog of
stalled projects would have
pleased PM Narendra Modi
who reached him in Berlin.
A number of measures taken by his ministry under his
leadership appear to have
worked in his favour.
Javadekar was seen to have held his own in the fierce
and politically charged debates over the
odd-even and diesel
vehicles. The minister worked to coordinate
pollution
control in the NCR
region and backed the move
to usher in Euro VI norms.
The ministry took steps to
cut delay in decision-making
and improved transparency.
Javadekars handling of
key negotiations during the
Paris climate conference,
that ended up addressing the
countrys key points, is also
cited as an important achievement for him.
Hailing from Pune, the 65year-old former bank official
has a good head for numbers
and is known for a pragmatic
approach. He can grapple
with detail, and despite not
being the most fluent speakers, can argue a case with
passion and conviction.

Two would-be
ministers
pedal it to
Raisina Hill
Yogesh Kumar

BJPs Arjun Ram Meghwal at the

Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Two would-be ministers cycled to Rashtrapati

Bhavan on Tuesday for the swearing-in while one hopped
flights to make it in time for the
11 am ceremony and yet another had to be prompted throughout his oath taking by President Pranab Mukherjee.
Arjun Meghwal and Mansukh Mandaviya rode bicycles to
Presidents House while RPI leader Ramdas Athawale forgot
to say his name while taking
oath. He was prompted by Mukherjee throughout his oath.
After dropping of five ministers, Tuesdays expansion
took the strength of the council of ministers to 78, four below the constitutional bar of
82. The council of ministers
can have a maximum of 15%
of the total strength of the Lok
Sabha, which has 542 members. Official sources said that
the exercise was aimed at infusing more experience, expertise and energy into the
government.

Sinha, Tomar get

pat on the back for
good performance
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Manoj Sinha and Narendra Singh
Tomar were among the top gainers of Prime
Minister Narendra Modis Cabinet reshuffle,
attesting to the word floating around for a while
that they make up with their performance what
they lack in appearance.
Sinha, who leaped from junior minister in railways to independent charge of the much soughtafter communications portfolio, stunned many.
Here is a pan-chewing, dhoti-clad relaxed figure
from eastern UP, not the image one would associate with the reforms and market-driven telecom
sector. But appearance may not be relevant in this
case as Sinha is a trained engineer from IIT-BHU.
The government principals also saw his
work as MoS railways as creditable and felt he
was up for a promotion
a reason why he also
retains the railways
portfolio while gaining
telecom as MoS independent charge.
However, what gave
Sinha the edge in the reshuffle sweepstakes is his
involvement with RSS
since his formative years. He was also president of the BHU Students Union. The PM expects him to focus on pushing
the
telecom
sectors rural outreach
Narendra Singh Tomar
like expansion of broad& Manoj Sinha (bottom) band network. Modi is
unhappy with the progress clocked in this sector.
Tomar favours kurta-pyjama and speaks Hindi, a reason that set tongues wagging when Modi
gave him the technical portfolio of steel and mines
in 2014. But Tomar acquired the image of a doer,
acquainting himself with the nitty-gritty of his
mandate and pleasing the PM with his work.
He has replaced Birender Singh in rural development ministry which has one of the the
largest budgets at the Centre. More than allocations, it has progressively gained importance
in every ruling partys scheme of things because of its targeted focus on rural poor who are the
biggest voting bloc in the country.
While there was no grouse against Birender
who is considered an important acquisition
from Congress, the stakes in the RD ministry
are too high. In case of Tomar, an old saffron
hand, it is felt that his being in sync with the
party ideology would bring in the extra zeal required to make a success of rural roads, sanitation, drinking water and housing programmes.

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Stunning rise
and a sudden
demotion
Aggression Costs Irani Dear
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Two years can be

a long time in politics. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi surprised many, both within BJP
and outside, when he appointed Smriti Zubin Irani his Human Resources Development
minister. It was seen as more
than recognition of the spunk
the former TV star showed as
BJP spokesperson when she
would gamely take on detractors of the then Gujarat CM or
the scare she gave Congress
scion Rahul Gandhi on his home turf of Amethi in the 2014
Lok Sabha polls.
The choice, which raised
eyebrows because of Iranis
degree deficit, was seen as
the launchpad for a big political career. The governments
staunch defence of the feisty
Irani whenever she was under attack from political opponents only reinforced the
estimate that she could be headed for an even bigger role.
Her aggression over contentious issues, most notably
the one over the confrontation in Jawaharlal Nehru University, and combativeness towards leading members of
the secular commentariat,
only enhanced her stock within the Sangh Parivar as a
whole, and even sparked speculation that she could be projected as BJPs choice for UP
chief minister.
However, if the pace with
which she covered the distance from being an outsider to
an A-lister was stunning, her
sudden shift to the textiles ministry points to an equally
sudden demotion, at least in
the near run.
The loss of heft is striking,
especially given the profile
Irani had acquired, with her
admirers wasting no opportunity to emphasise her arrival
in the power league. But while
the reversal of trajectory seems abrupt, government watchers feel it was the result of
developments which panned
out over a period of time with
the powerful HRD minister
often coming off as inflexible.
The aggression that was
on display for opponents would often manifest within the
party and government too,
with Irani and her supporters
interpreting even well-intentioned advice and suggestions as condescending interference, and, worse, signs of
insecurity of greying colleagues. Though Irani kept her
lines open with sections within the Parivar, there were
complaints of lack of coordination between her ministry
and the party.
Officials would often prefer to dodge her, with a few
choosing to leave the ministry. Irani would zealously guard her turf on purely ministerial matters, at times a bit

The aggression that was

on display for opponents
would often manifest
within the party and
government too, with
Irani and her supporters
interpreting even wellintentioned advice and
suggestions as condescending interference

too much, and even at the cost

of the speed with which the
Prime Minister wanted the
ministry to move.
In the last few months, the
HRD ministry and Niti Aayog
were locked in a bitter battle
about issues like accreditation and other issues. Irani
saw it as interference and made it clear to senior Aayog officials. For some reason, may
be to win the Sanghs support,
Irani had turned dead against
the private sector. So much so
that when she agreed to make
deemed university regulations less stringent, the buzz
was that it could be because of
pressure from a powerful education lobby close to BJP.
The IIM bill remains in
limbo because of a long standing fracas with the Prime
Ministers Office (PMO). The
HRD ministrys take was that
the government needed to have some say in running of
IIMs, just the way it is the case
with IITs but the PMO had
other ideas.
In the last few months, Irani was consciously trying to
turn a new leaf by being amiable, but her temperamental
nature had already done enough damage. From ministry
officials, many of whom were
unceremoniously removed,
and others who were given
low grades in annual confidential reports to VCs who got
her tongue lashing, Irani created enough detractors.
The government was riding high on the education policy but the view in the government was that instead of
debate, the HRD ministry got
into scraps with the committee members. The matter was
even taken up with Prime Minister Modi.

Did Jayant pay the

price for speaking
out of turn often?
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: It was a meteoric

rise for Jayant Sinha, the former McKinsey executive and
investment banker, who was
handed charge of high-profile
junior minister in the finance
ministry in what was seen by
many as a surprise move.
The first-time MPs shift
from North Block will come
as a surprise, especially to
market players in Mumbai,
who saw him as the man working closely with finance minister Arun Jaitley on crucial
issues, such as cleaning up
state-run banks saddled with
bad debt or setting up the National Infrastructure Investment Fund , Indias version of
a sovereign wealth fund.
While Sinha was roped in
on several aspects of banking
and revenue, the Hazaribagh
MP was not allowed to handle
matters disinvestment matters. Many expected Sinha,
whose father Yashwant Sinha
was finance minister in the
Atal Bihari Vajpayee and
Chandrashekhar
governments, to get a promotion. But
he may have paid the price for
speaking too frequently and
often out of turn. At times, he
was seen to be commenting
on issues without full knowledge of the subject. He spoke
to the media even during Parliament sessions, which is seen to have gone against him.

His shift from North Block

will come as a surprise,
especially to market
players in Mumbai, who
saw him as the man
working closely with FM
Jaitley on crucial issues
Just last month, he quoted
PM Narendra Modi as setting
a target to double the number
of income tax payers to 10 crore, a statement which needed
clarification from the finance
ministry the very next day.
What also raised eyebrows was a tea party he hosted at home where bank chiefs
and finance ministry officials
were invited. Sinhas wife Punita Kumar, who was a prominent investor and a fund manager, was present at the meeting. Sinha was also seen as
someone who had strong views on several issues, such as
getting NIIF to invest in a
bank-driven stressed asset
fund, which did not factor in
political implications.

Centre okays `250 crore for

Ramayan circuit in Ayodhya
SubhashMishra
@timesgroup.com

Lucknow: The Centre has

put Ayodhya in poll-bound
UP on its development agenda by sanctioning Rs 250 crore for a Ramayan circuit
comprising the temple town.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi might also take part
in a World Ramayan conclave likely to be held in Ayod-

hya in December, close on

the heels of assembly polls.
Culture minister Mahesh
Sharma said the conclave was
held almost every year in different places, and last year it
was in Jabalpur. Sharma said
two panels have been formed
to oversee the project. The panels have mainly members associated with RSS.
The Centre is still trying
to analyse the pros and cons

of hosting in Ayodhya the

event, in which national and
international scholars and
saints congregate, and the
massive saffron gathering
could revive the Ram temple
issue as BJP is desperate to
win UP. The Ramayan Circuit plan will be executed by the
SP government. Sharma said Ramayan Circuit will include Nepal, UP, Bihar, Tamil
Nadu and go up to Lanka.

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Damages will
set dangerous
precedent: SC
Continued from P 1

enior advocate K T S Tulsi, arguing for those acquitted in

the Akshardham terror attack case, said, The Supreme
Court finally saw through the fabrication of evidence and acquitted them. By that time, these persons had already spent 10 to 11
years in prison. The apex court
gave them back freedom but who
can give them back the 10 years
they spent behind bars for no
fault. The state must adequately
compensate them as it violated
the right to life brazenly.
But the bench refused to entertain the petition and said, If
compensation is to be awarded for
acquittal, it will set a dangerous
precedent.
Finding it difficult to convince the bench for award of compensation, Tulsi sought for withdrawal of the petition saying the
acquitted persons would move to
the appropriate forum seeking
action against the policemen who
prosecuted them after fabricating evidence.
The court accepted the plea
and dismissed the petition as
withdrawn. If the court had entertained the plea and awarded
compensation, it would have
caused a huge liability on states
because of the low conviction
rate in criminal cases.
According to data collated by
National Crime Records Bureau
(NCRB), the conviction rate stood
at over 45% in 2014. In 2013, it was
40.2% while in 2012 it stood at
38.5%. This means states would
have had to pay compensation to
accused in 55% cases in 2014, 60%
in 2013 and 61.5% in 2012.

Surrender or be barred from

exams, college tells beasts
Priya.Menon@timesgroup.com

Chennai: In a horrific incident

that has shocked animal lovers,
a medical student flung a dog
from the roof off a three-storey
building in Chennai. The incident occurred two weeks ago After animal welfare activist Shravan Krishnan shared the video
on Facebook on Monday, he received information regarding
the identity of the deranged youth who flung the dog.
We contacted a few students
and teachers at the college, said Jacob. By 1.30am, the three activists along with the police had
reached the crime scene.
We learnt they had flung the
dog down two weeks ago, said
Rubin. The video was sent to a
WhatsApp group from where it
was posted it on Facebook. Paul
and Sudarshan are both absconding. The dog sustained injuries
and is alive.

A videograb of a medical student

hurling a dog from the rooftop

Sudarshan left Chennai

three days ago for his home in
Tirunelveli. Paul was seen in
the neighbourhood on Monday
but was not at home when we arrived. He is said to be in his home
in Nagercoil, said Krishnan.
On Tuesday, the police met
the head of the college and contacted the parents of the two students, asking them to hand them
over to the police. The chairman told the parents that their
children wont be allowed to take their exams if they dont surrender, said Krishnan.

Kundrathur police inspector Frank D Ruben said two teams have been sent to Tirunelveli and Nagercoil. If they do
not surrender, arrest warrant
will be issued, he said.
S Peter, chairman, Madha
Group of Institutions, said, I
got to know about the video
when police came to meet me. It
was shocking. We found the two
boys werent attending classes
for a week. Weve asked their parents to come down with the students for an inquiry. If theyre
convicted by the court, will we
initiate action. As of now, we
dont want to stop them from taking their final exam.
When a news website contacted Paul, he denied involvement. An FIR was registered
against the two under Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(PCA) Act 1960 and sections 428
and 429 of the IPC.
(With inputs from A Selvaraj)

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Vanzaras son arrested for accepting bribe of `75,000

he son of former Gujarat cop D G Vanzara was arrested by the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Tuesday for
accepting a bribe of Rs 75,000. Arjunsinh Vanzara, posted as mamlatdar in Vadodara rural, was caught along with
his deputy mamlatdar Jaswantsinh Hajuri, who accepted the bribe, in his chamber. ACB officials also recovered lakhs
of rupees from Arjunsinh and Hajuri after they were nabbed. TNN

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The world must support those within Islam speaking up for reform

ADORA SVITAK, US author

NDA Cabinet changes factor in both

politics and performance

he induction of 19 new and relatively unknown faces in the Modi

governments much awaited second Cabinet reshuffle suggested change only at the margins. But Prime Minister Narendra
Modi has made some big changes in senior Cabinet-level posts, which
surprised many when they were announced as the day wore on.
The biggest change is the switching of Smriti Irani from the critical
HRD portfolio to textiles. Although HRD has historically been regarded as a lightweight ministry it deserves top billing, as it plays a critical role in skilling youth for 21st century jobs. Smriti Irani appeared
singularly clueless at her job, and her replacement by Prakash Javadekar will be welcomed by many. Likewise, Sadanand Gowda has been
dropped from the law ministry where he put in a lacklustre performance. These change sends out the signal
that performance will be a criterion in
assessing senior ministers. The dropping of information and broadcasting
from Arun Jaitleys portfolio, which
includes the heavyweight finance and
corporate affairs ministries, probably
represents just a rationalization.
Performance has been balanced by
political considerations as well. The
induction of three new ministers each
from election-bound states of Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat is a sign of
that. UP now has a whopping 16 ministers in team Modi.
Some of the new faces like Mahendra Nath Pandey, Ramesh
Jigajinagi, Purshotam Rupala and Jasvantsinh Bhabhor have served
as ministers in states, while Vijay Goel and Faggan Singh Kulaste have
served in the Union council of ministers earlier. The others belong to
varied backgrounds ranging from P P Chaudhary being a senior
lawyer to well-known doctor, Subhash Ram Rao Bhamre, to former bureaucrat Arjun Ram Meghwal, and environmental activist cum author Anil Madhav Dave. The plan is to use their services strategically.
The PM is betting that the new-look team will do justice to his theme of
gaon, garib aur vikas (village, poor and development).
Though five ministers have been dropped, the strength of the council of ministers has burgeoned to 80. This is just two short of the prescribed limit of 82 and akin to Modis predecessor, Manmohan Singh,
who also had 80 ministers. These are unwieldy numbers that prevent
the rationalisation of ministries and reinforce the impression of
politics playing a major role. But overall this is an improved Cabinet,
representing a marked difference from the Manmohan Singh era
where the PM had hardly any discretion in choosing ministers.

Caged Still?

CBIs arrest of senior Delhi bureaucrat raises

charges of political motivation

BIs arrest of Rajendra Kumar, principal secretary to Delhi CM

Arvind Kejriwal, and four others for an IT-related corruption
scam will amplify the political battle between AAP and BJP.
CBI alleges that Kumar and the others were part of a scandal that saw
a front company bag five major Delhi government contracts worth
Rs 57 crore between 2007 and 2015 by bending the rules. It also accuses
Kumar of receiving bribes worth Rs 3.3 crore. The AAP government
in Delhi has rubbished the charges and accused the BJP-led central
government of using CBI to hound senior bureaucrats in the state.
But the reason AAP is able to make such
an allegation is that CBI hasnt exactly covered itself in glory in the past. Even after
the 2013 Supreme Court observation that
CBI was like a caged parrot, little seems to
have changed in the workings of the investigating agency. Consider that in Madhya
Pradeshs Vyapam scam which has seen at
least 48 people die, many in mysterious
circumstances the agency is yet to catch
the big cats. In the 2G telecom scandal,
there hasnt been a single conviction till date. And who can forget
CBIs botched handling of the Aarushi Talwar murder case where,
furthermore, there was no political angle to complicate matters?
If Kumar is indeed guilty of the charges levelled against
him, that is truly reprehensible. But equally unfortunate is the
image CBI has acquired. It doesnt inspire confidence either on
professional competence or political independence. If BJP is using
CBI in ways Congress famously did earlier, and trying to do a
Congress on AAP, it will end up with egg on its face just like its
predecessor at the Centre. To avoid accusations such as AAP is
making, the NDA government should work out ways to make CBI
truly independent and accountable only to Parliament.

Baijayant Jay Panda

To keep insisting that

terrorism has nothing
to do with religion after
every new jihadi atrocity
is no longer tenable. It is
galling for millions of
people, not just Indians but around the
world, when this clichd phrase is parroted even as reports go viral of the attackers
in-your-face assertion of religion.
Followers of most major religions
have killed in the name of their faith
(more on this later). But as author and
TV host Fareed Zakaria has said, The
next time you hear of a terror attack
no matter where, no matter what the
circumstances, you will likely think to
yourself, Its Muslims again. And you
will probably be right.
However, the vast majority of the
worlds 1.6 billion Muslims do not
consider jihadi killers as representative
of their religion. They stress that such
killers are violating some of Islams
basic tenets of compassion. And that
most victims of such terrorism are
Muslims. The spate of murderous jihadi
attacks during the Islamic holy month
of Ramadan, or Ramzan in South Asia,
has been denounced by many Muslims
as desecrating their faith.
Most world leaders echo these
sentiments. With few exceptions, it is
standard for politicians everywhere to
publicly say that jihadis do not represent
the religion they claim to. Yet that extreme
political correctness of denying any
connection with religion, even as terrorists shout religious slogans and test
Quranic knowledge while slaughtering
victims, has led to growing public anger.
Another common refrain is that only
moderate Muslims can respond to this
internal challenge in Islam. But when
they do respond, they often face extreme
hostility, not only from other Muslims but
also, shockingly, even in secular institutions of the media and universities. There
are many documented instances of these,
even in that Mecca of free speech, the US.
Many disillusioned moderate Muslims
have either stopped believing, at great

risk since jihadis violently enforce Islams

intolerance of apostasy, or resigned
themselves into quiescence. It is these
voices, and not just the good Samaritans
who empathise with victims but dare not
push for religious reform, that deserve the
support of those who are truly secular.
After the Boston Marathon bombings,
Pakistani-Canadian writer Ali A Rizvi
wrote, The anything but jihad
brigade is out in full force again. If the
perpetrators of such attacks say they
were influenced by politics (or) nationalism we take them at face value. But
when they consistently cite their religious
beliefs as their central motivation, we
back off, stroke our chins and suspect
there has to be something deeper at play,
a root cause. It is often religion itself
that is the root cause.
This sort of candour is lacking
among most mainstream commentators
in modern, liberal democracies today.
Calling out jihadi terrorism is inhibited
for fear of being labelled prejudiced,

Calling out jihadi terrorism

is inhibited for fear of
being labelled prejudiced,
Islamophobic or, oddly,
even racist
Islamophobic or, oddly, even racist.
The holy texts of most ancient
religions including Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Hinduism contain
exhortations to both love, tolerance and
kindliness on the one hand, as well to as
to revenge, misogyny and violence on
the other. Barack Obama has reminded
the world that during the crusades and
the inquisition, people committed
terrible deeds in the name of Christ.
Virtually all major religions have had
fanatical, murderous adherents. Even in
modern times there are several examples
of religious killings besides those by
Islamists. For instance, by Buddhists in

Erstwhile Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit is

rumoured to be Congress contender for
UP chief minister. Speaking with Amin
Ali, Dikshit discussed her political legacy,
why Arvind Kejriwal keeps targeting
her and what Priyanka Gandhi means
vis--vis Rahul and PM Modi:
AAP versus BJP is a full-blown
fight. Whats your take on this?
Well, Delhi seems to be doing everything except governance there is no
attempt at governing the city. All we see
are advertisements. And confrontation.
Didnt Kejriwal know while campaigning that Delhi is not a complete state? A
CM of Delhi needs to work in tandem
with the home minister, LG, police
commissioner and other offices. He used
to mock us as he didnt know then and
doesnt know now that a Delhi CM cant
have a free run. Theres more central
interference in Delhi than any other state.
Its clear Kejriwal didnt know all these
issues when he campaigned against us.
BJP says Kejriwal makes allegations against you but doesnt act.
AAP says BJP is shielding you.
Even after Delhis elections,
both parties frequently target
you with accusations of
corruption.
They target me as they
need someone to target. They
know that 15 years of Congress
rule here changed Delhi
they know we made Delhi a
better city. Schools, colleges,
hospitals, flyovers, the

metro and roads showed immense

improvements. We overhauled infrastructure and made Delhi a city to be in.
Since theyre not able to come to
terms with such a makeover of Delhi,
they target me.
Dont allegations such as the water
tanker scam dent your image?
It is a totally politically motivated
allegation.
The decision was to provide citizens
of the city with better quality water. It
was a decision taken in the presence of respective engineers
and a committee
comprising
members
of opposition parties as well.

We decided in the best interests of

the city.
Speaking of which, womens safety
was a major issue during your tenure.
How do you see this today?
Nirbhaya was a major issue.
After that incident, we pleaded with
various authorities to make Delhi a safer
place for women. People felt we
didnt show the urgency needed
but it shocked us and we were
determined to act.
I personally worked with the
then home minister towards setting up a
special court to try such crimes.
But let me ask have things changed
now? There is still fear and Kejriwal
will do well to focus on that rather than
his ads.
You dont think Congress lost due
to corruption allegations.
We have learnt our lessons and will
work towards correcting those mistakes.
You need to understand voter fatigue
we were in power in Delhi for 15
years and at the Centre for 10 years.
Even though we did a lot of good
work, the voters looked beyond.
As for allegations of corruption, my only question to BJP
and AAP is do they contest
elections without money?
Where does it come from?
They
are
guilty
themselves they openly
misuse public funds for
their ads.
These parties only
act honest.

dilbert

Recent electoral defeats have made

everyone question the future of
Congress and the Gandhi leadership.
Doesnt the present state of your
party worry you?
You dont win an election once and
stay in power forever or lose an election
and get finished as a party.
Our opponents shouldnt think
they have won once and for all.
Our party is being led by an able
family that gave us three prime
ministers. The present party
president took us to two Lok Sabha
victories. We have an able vice-president
in Rahul Gandhi. They criticise the
family as despite all their false
allegations, our cadres love them and
elect them as party heads. They have
constantly delivered for the party and
this country.
There is talk of you being
Congresss UP CM face and Priyanka
Gandhi being the campaign incharge. How do you react to BJPs
allegation that bringing Priyanka
in now is accepting Rahuls failure?
There is no announcement made
about my name. There hasnt been any
decision. Its still conjecture.
As for Priyanka, our cadres demand
she play an active role in UP polls what
is wrong in that? Why should anyone be
bothered about our party decisions or
worker demands?
When BJP brought in Modi, saying
their cadre wanted it, did they mean
their entire existing leadership had
failed?

Change Is Certain
Without accepting the fact
that everything changes, we
cannot find perfect composure.
But unfortunately, although it
is true, it is difficult for us to
accept it. Because we cannot
accept the truth of transience,
we suffer.

Jug Suraiya

secondopinion@timesgroup.com
http:/blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/jugglebandhi/

The writer is a BJD MP in the Lok Sabha.

Views are personal

Sacredspace

Brexit could well be a ploy by Britain

to regain its lost empire

secondopinion

Sri Lanka and Myanmar and Christian

abortion-clinic bombers in the US. India
has seen terrorism by Sikh extremists,
and among Hindus there is Dara Singh,
convicted for life for killing an Australian
missionary and his children. Other
instances of alleged Hindu terrorism
from 2007 to 2010 (Samjhauta, Malegaon,
Ajmer) are being adjudicated in courts.
But in sheer scale, number of attacks
and fatalities, nothing comes close to
jihadi terrorism. Even traditional,
non-religious, left-wing extremists like
Germanys Baader-Meinhof, Italys Red
Brigades, Columbias FARC, Perus Shining Path and our very own Naxalites are
now either defunct or well past their peak.
The numbers speak for themselves.
2015 statistics cited by political scientist
Ian Bremmer show that the worlds top
terrorist organisations are IS (8,420
fatalities), Boko Haram (6,299), Taliban
(5,215) and Al Shabab (1,586). That
al-Qaida doesnt even rank any more
shows how exponential the growth of
Islamist radicalisation has been.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a bestselling author
and Somali refugee has said, It simply
will not do for Muslims to claim that
their religion has been hijacked by extremists. The killers of Islamic State and
Boko Haram cite the same religious texts
that every other Muslim in the world
considers sacrosanct The biggest
obstacle to change within the Muslim
world is suppression of critical thinking.
It is not that other religions have
sanitised their religious texts. But they
have coped with modernity better. As
Zakaria puts it, Islamic terrorists dont
just hate America or the West. They hate
the modern world. For jihadi terrorism
to subside, this must change.
What the world needs now is not more
platitudes and political correctness. It
needs support for those within Islam
speaking up for reform, to adapt to
modernity. Otherwise, the sacrifice of
many brave Muslims who stand up to terrorists like Faraaz Hossain, who died in
the Dhaka attack because he refused to
abandon his friends will go in vain.

Kejriwal shows no results, only ads and fights ... BJP, AAP only
act honest ... why shouldnt Congress bring Priyanka now?

Degrees of separation
After Brexit what? Thats the question buzzing in Europe after
the historic UK referendum which voted for Brexit, Britains
exit from the European Union (EU).
The European Union might well end up being the European
Disunion, thanks to Brexit. Already there are rumblings in the
Netherlands and in Austria, and Spain, that they too might opt
out of the European community.
Bankrupt Greece, which is being bullied by Brussels to impose stringent
austerity measures upon itself, could walk out too. Eventually, Germany and
France, historically Britains arch adversaries on the Continent, could throw
up their hands, shrug their shoulders, respectively say Gott in Himmel! and
Merde! and bow out as well, bringing the curtain down on the EU.
Britains former colonies, which include the US, Australia, Canada and
India might well be inspired to follow the Brexit example of separatism.
The United States of America could become the Un-united States, with each
of the constituents becoming a separate country.
Similarly, Canada which already has an
independent Quebec movement and Australia
could also fragment, each becoming a multiplicity
of separate nations.
On the Indian subcontinent, the seeds of separatism which were sown at the
time of Partition could take fresh root. Kashmir, the whole of the northeast,
Khalistani Punjab and the south might all decide that theyll be better off or
Brexit off by pulling out of the Indian republic. After all, the Brits taught us
cricket, the English language and parliamentary democracy. So why shoudnt
they teach us Brexit now? Stands to reason. Well copy them in that as we have
in everything else. Sindh and Baluchistan could split from Pakistan, and
Sylhet and Chittagong break off from Dhaka.
And Britannia would regain its lost empire by taking over all these separated
countries. Because thats what Brexit really is a replay of Britains old policy
of Divide and rule. Or should that be Divide and fool?

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016

Name The Problem

A thought for today

Our inexperience might be what gives us the
ability to teach our elders something, due to the
fact that we are not jaded or cynical

Big Reshuffle

OF IDEAS

Uday Deb

22

Shunryu Suzuki

Jagannath, The Lord Of The Universe

G S Tripathi

agannath, the Lord of the Universe,

is ready for his customary annual
journey with his siblings. He takes
along his brother and sister, rather than
his consort, Goddess Mahalakshmi.
Since he is going to his parents place, it
is appropriate for him to do so. The
siblings would be able to bond together
and relive happy memories of a
childhood that was sweet and innocent.
Despite his various incarnations, the
Lord of the Universe does not forget
who he really is.
The Bhagwad Gita tells us that the
Lord reveals himself as the Supreme
Being, birthless, immutable and
imperishable. Krishna, an incarnation,
says that among those who worship
him, the wise are dearest to him. The
three gunas of prakriti or nature
sattva, rajas and tamas emanate from
him and are under his control. He is

creator, preserver and destroyer, as well

as the past, present and future.
He is the flavour in water, radiance
of the Sun and the coolness of the Moon,
the Aum in the vedas, sound of the sky
and manliness of man. He is the holy
fragrance of the earth, heat of the fire,
life of all living beings and
penance of yogis. He is the seed
of all beings, intelligence of the
intelligent and the lustre of
radiant ones. He is the strength
of the strong, bereft of desire,
and energy of procreation that
is not contrary to dharma.
Certainly nobody knows the
Lord of the Universe. Four types
of persons invoke him; the
distressed, seeker of knowledge,
desirer of wealth and the wise.
Of these, the wise is dearest to him.
The Supreme Power pervades the
entire universe in an imperceptible way.
All beings are under his control, but he

is not in their control. As the all-powerful

wind is confined within a space, all
beings are confined within him. He
creates and destroys all beings in a
cyclic fashion, but he himself is beyond
this process. He, in association with
Nature, creates the universe cyclically.
Those who disregard the
Lord of the Universe do so out
of ignorance. However, the
wise who offer sacrifices in
knowledge, keep the unending
faith in him and ultimately
attain him.
The Supreme Power is
believed to be karanam
karananam or cause of all
causes; bhasakam bhasakanam
or illuminator of all that illuminate; and he is creator, preserver
and destroyer. He is all energy and
matter. He is all knowledge. Whatever is
there, manifest and unmanifest, is all
him for he is the master, witness and the

the

speaking
tree

controller of events.
Whatever it is that a true person of
faith offers be it a leaf, flower, fruit or
water the Lord of the Universe accepts
that. Whatever one does, if it is dedicated
to him, he accepts that. He has neither
friend nor foe. He is equally disposed
towards everybody. Anybody, who offers
to him anything with devotion, is dear to
him and ultimately attains him.
Dualities of life, such as kindness
and cruelty, happiness and misery,
intelligence and foolishness, knowledge
and ignorance, truthfulness and falsehood, fear and fearlessness, birth and
death, violence and equanimity, fame
and infamy all of these are created
by the Supreme to maintain balance.
No wonder the faithful chant,
Jai Jagannath!
(The writer teaches physics at
Berhampur University. The Jagannath
Rath Yatra begins today at Puri, Odisha.)
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TRENDS

Welcome to Jupiter! After 5 yrs,

Juno finally enters planets orbit
AFP

This Is Hardest
Thing Nasa
Has Ever Done
Kenneth Chang

GREEN MAZE: Visitors attend an art exhibition

Infinite Garden at a museum in Madrid, Spain

Eating pasta not linked to

weight gain, says study

cientists have found that eating pasta may

reduce the risk of both general and abdominal obesity, contradicting the belief that
this fundamental element of the mediterranean
diet could make people gain weight. The study,
conducted by the IRCCS Neuromed in Italy,
examined over 23,000 people recruited in two
large epidemiological studies: Moli-sani and
INHES (Italian Nutrition and Health Survey).
Our data shows that enjoying pasta according
to individuals needs contributes to a healthy
body mass index, lower waist circumference
and better waist-hip ratio, said George Pounis,
from IRCCS Neuromed. Many studies have
already demonstrated how mediterranean diet
is one of the healthiest nutritional regime, even
when we talk about weight control. Very little,
however, was known about the specific role of
pasta. Data from the study now fill this gap,
researchers said. In popular views, pasta is
often considered not adequate when you want
to lose weight. And some people completely ban
it from their meals, said Licia Iacoviello, of
Neuromed Institute. Mediterranean diet,
consumed in moderation and respecting variety
of all its elements, is good to your health.

ucking through intense

belts of violent radiation as
it skimmed over the clouds
of Jupiter at 130,000 miles per
hour, Nasas Juno spacecraft finally clinched its spot on Monday
in the orbit of the solar systems
largest planet. It took five years
for Juno to travel this far on its $1.1
billion mission, and the moment
was one that Nasa scientists and
space enthusiasts had eagerly
and anxiously anticipated.
At 11.53pm (EST), a signal
from the spacecraft announced
the end of a 35-minute engine
burn that left it in the grip of its
desired orbit around Jupiter.
Cheers and clapping erupted at
the mission operations center at
Nasas Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, which
is managing Juno. This is the
hardest thing Nasa has ever
done, Scott Bolton, Junos principal investigator, told the mission team a few minutes later.
Thats my claim. Status messages for each manoeuver of the
spacecraft came in as expected.
The length of the engine firing
turned out to be within one second of what had been predicted.
Juno is just the second spacecraft to enter orbit around Jupi-

Nasas Juno programme executives cheer the spacecrafts successful entry

into Jupiters orbit, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California

Two Indian scientists burnt the midnight oil

uno, which entered Jupiters orbit on Tuesday at 8.43am (IST), has an

Indian touch. Sushil K Atreya, a graduate of University of Rajasthan,
and now director of planetary science laboratory of the University of
Michigan, and Sembiam Rengarajan, a Madras University graduate and
currently professor in the department of electrical and computer
engineering of the California State University played a key role in the
mission. Atreya told TOI his role was to plan and design the spacecrafts
water and ammonia observations with an instrument called Microwave
Radiometer System. He said Juno will measure the abundance of water
in Jupiters atmosphere. That measurement also poses the biggest
challenge for Juno the very survival of the spacecraft, he said. As for
professor Rengarajan, his role involved developing the computer
programmes for the electromagnetic analysis. He also designed three
of the six microwave radiometer antennas. He said the mission help
determine the correct planet formation theory.
Srinivas Laxman

ter. Nasas Galileo spacecraft

spent eight years there surveying
the planet and its many moons.
But except for a probe that parachuted into Jupiters atmosphere, Galileo did not have the
tools that Juno does to delve into

what lies beneath Jupiters

clouds. We have a chance with
Juno to go back and study the
planet in its own right, James L
Green, the director of planetary
science at Nasa, said.
Jupiter, most likely the first

planet formed after the sun, is believed to hold the keys to understanding the origins of our solar
system. How much water it contains and the possible presence of
arocky core could reveal where in
the solar system Jupiter was created and provide clues to the early
days of other planets.
Junos instruments are designed to precisely measure the
magnetic and gravitational fields
of Jupiter and the glow of microwaves emanating from within.
Bolton repeatedly described Jupiter as a planet on steroids in discussing the unprecedented dangers Juno faced Monday night.
Ensnared by Jupiters gravity,
Juno accelerated quickly to its
rendezvous with the planet, passing within the orbit of Callisto
and Ganymede, two of the main
moons, on Sunday. It zoomed past
the other two, Europa and Io, on
Monday. Juno travelled within
2,900 miles of Jupiters cloud tops,
passing through almost the exact
spot that the navigators had
aimed for after its 1.7-billion-mile
voyage. For now, Juno is on a 53day orbit. Its instruments, which
had been turned off for the arrival at Jupiter, will be turned back
on in two days.
On Aug 27, it will swing back
for its first good close-up look at
Jupiter. Juno will fire its engine
again on Oct 19 to move to a 14-day
orbit, when the science measurements begin in earnest.
On the 37th orbit, scheduled
for Feb 20, 2018, Juno is to make a
suicidal dive into Jupiter, ending
the mission. NYT NEWS SERVICE

23

Millions of Chinese
live-streaming their
lives. And its big biz
P

ole dancing, bungee jumping, eating maggots: at

any given hour, millions
of Chinese are live-streaming
all this and much more on
their smartphones. Chinas
live-streaming phenomenon is
already a significant business.
Tiny startups and internet giants alike are making money
selling virtual gifts flowers,
cars, toys to people keen to
reward their favourite livestreamers. Alibaba Group
Holding Ltd. is mulling selling
ads on popular streams.
This isnt a fad that will
disappear, as the business
model has proven to be viable,
said Zhu Xiaohu, managing
partner at GSR Ventures Management Co, who invested in
Inke, one of about 200 livestreaming startups that have
attracted an estimated $750
million in venture capital.
Twitter Inc. last year acquired app Periscope and has
integrated live video into its
main product. Facebook allows users to stream live and
has boosted the prominence of
such broadcasts in its feed.
Chinas wide adoption of
mobile phones and the loneliness brought on by a fast-paced
migrating society means people are more willing to connect
this way, says Jia Wei of Momo Inc. Many streamsknown as showroomsfeature ordinary people doing remarkably ordinary things.

Getty Images

Startups and internet giants are

making money selling virtual gifts
to people keen to reward their
favourite live-streamers

It is a substitute for TV
shows and games, says Zhou,
a 30-year-old safety foreman,
who has spent about $105 gifting people he follows and
earned about 200 yuan in return. A tour of Tokyos redlight district is his most popular stream so far.
Streams often feature famous people. Wang Jianlin,
founder of real estate colossus
Dalian
Wanda
Group,
streamed video of himself
playing poker with associates
on a private jet. More than
3,00,000 people watched, and
many sent virtual gifts to Chinas richest man. Top streamers get as much as 50% of the
revenue generated from admirers virtual gifts; the hosting companies keep the rest.
Chinas regulators are cracking down on anything deemed
pornographic or a potential
danger to the state. BLOOMBERG

US town builds bat net to tackle mosquitoes A robot that can park cars in tightest spots
Arielle Dollinger

North Hempstead: As mosquito season heats up, bringing with it the threat of the
West Nile and Zika viruses,
one Long Island town has approved the construction of
boxes that function as bat
houses in several parks to attract more bats to the area.
Bats can eat up to 1,000
mosquitoes per hour, Judi
Bosworth, North Hempstead
supervisor, said. Even a pesticide couldnt do that. The
town started building and

North Hempstead
residents are building
bat houses in parks
to attract bats as
they can devour 1,000
mosquitoes an hour
hanging of bat houses in its
parks in 2007 to curb the use of
pesticides. Over the years,
the Boy Scouts and Girl
Scouts have built some of the
houses.
This year, Yianni Biniaris, 16, hopes building, repairing and replacing bat houses

will help him attain the rank

of Eagle Scout. Using the bat
houses is more of a friendlier
way of getting rid of mosquitoes, while saving the bat population, Yianni said.
As for drinking blood, the
bats on Long Island do not
partake. New York state is
home to nine bat species
none of them vampire bats,
according to Liliana M Davalos, an associate professor at
Stony Brook University. Less
than one-half of 1% of all bats
in North America carry rabies, according to the USs Hu-

mane Society. The strenuous

aerobic exercise of flying,
Davalos said, requires bats to
pack on calories. Mosquitoes
are not necessarily the most
caloric they are on the lower end of that scale but bats
will eat the ones in their paths
anyway, she said.
Aedes albopictus, known
as Asian tiger mosquito, is
found on Long Island and is
capable of
transmitting
Zika. So far, there have
been no reported cases of local transmission of the disease. NYT NEWS SERVICE

he dreaded act of parallel parking could soon

become a thing of the
past with Chinese inventors
backing their new parking
robot to take away the stress
for anxious drivers.
The laser-guided Geta
(get a car) robot slides under
your vehicle, picks it up,
finds a parking space in the
lot and places the car in the
tightest of spots. The soon to
be launched robot needs just
two minutes to park a vehicle, does not need tracks and
has 360 degrees mobility, said creators Yee Fung Automation Technology.

Reuters

A laser-guided parking robot about to slide under a car at a research

and development centre in Shenzhen, China

The robot is designed to

increase parking space
and will reform parking in
the future, Yee Fungs 33-year-old chief executive Marco
Wu, said.
Mainland
China
is
expected to have more than
200 million cars by 2020, meaning that finding space to
park could become increasingly difficult.
Wu said Geta finds spaces
by transmitting signals to a
computer containing a map
which then directs the robot
to the spot. The purple and lime green robot will cost more
than $1,50,000. REUTERS

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CHRISTOPH WALTZ CALLS NIGEL FARAGE HEAD RAT

AND CONDEMNS BREXIT AS ABYSMAL STUPIDITY

BE NEITHER A CONFORMIST
OR A REBEL, FOR THEY ARE
REALLY THE SAME THING.
FIND YOUR OWN PATH, AND
STAY ON IT
PAUL VIXIE

JLO TEAMS UP WITH LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA TO RECORD A

DUET TO RAISE MONEY FOR ORLANDO SHOOTING VICTIMS

Obama begins stumping for Hillary May leads first round of

AP

Return Gift?
Clinton Had
Backed Prez
In 2008

AP

Mark Landler

ikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy website, has released more than

1,000 emails from Hillary Clintons private email server pertaining to the Iraq War. The website tweeted a link to 1,258 emails on
Monday that Clinton sent during her time as secretary of state.
According to the release, the emails were obtained from the US state
department after they issued a Freedom of Information Act request.
The emails stem from a state department release back in February,
The Hill reports. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange previously
claimed that his website obtained enough proof for the FBI to indict
the Democratic nominee for president. We could proceed to an
indictment, but if Loretta Lynch is the head of the DOJ in the US, shes
not going to indict Hillary Clinton, Assange told ITV. THE INDEPENDENT

Washington: The FBI director James B Comey said on Tuesday that the bureau would
not recommend criminal charges in Hillary Clintons handling of classified information,
lifting an enormous legal cloud
from her presidential campaign, hours before her first joint
campaign appearance with
President Obama.
But Comey rebuked Clinton as being extremely careless in using a personal email
address and server for sensitive information, declaring that
an ordinary government official could have faced administrative sanction for such conduct.
To warrant a criminal charge, Comey said, there had to be
evidence that Clinton intentionally sent or received classified
information something that
the FBI did not find.
Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would
bring such a case, he said at a
news conference.
The justice department is
highly likely to accept the FBIs
instruction. Attorney general
Loretta Lynch said on Friday
that she would accept the recommendation of the FBI and
career prosecutors in the case,

after questions were raised

about an impromptu meeting
between her and former president Bill Clinton. Comeys statement came three days after
FBI investigators interviewed
Clinton, a sign that the case
was winding down.
Still, Comey delivered what
amounted to an extraordinary
tongue-lashing. There is evidence to support a conclusion
that Clinton should have
known an unclassified system
was no place for that information, he said. NYT NEWS SERVICE

then presidents sexual misconduct with Monica Lewinsky). It resulted in Gore losing
his own home state of Tennessee (and Clintons Arkansas)
resulting in George Bushs victory. So despite reports of Bill
Clinton and Barack Obama not
being on the best of terms, Hillary Clinton is said to be keen
on capitalising on the presidents continued popularity.
I think that he can be very
helpful, particularly with Democratic voters and some independent voters who have doubts, David Axelrod, the chief
architect of Obamas 2008 race
for the Democratic nomination

unt for her passage.

The North Carolina campaign outcome will be of greater
interest considering Obama
won it narrowly in 2008 against
John McCain becoming the
first Democrat since 1976 to win
the state but lost it to Mitt
Romney in 2012.
It will be a test case of whether Obama can swing battleground states for his former rival and secretary of state on
the strength of his legacy. Lines to the Obama-Clinton event
at the convention centre in
Charlotte had begun to form at
11am, much before doors opened at 1pm for the 3pm speech.

Although the Clintons are

master political operators,
campaign veterans still speak
with awe about the Obama election machinery that propelled
him to two White House wins
on the strength of immense voter and donor information and
an army of trained field staffers and volunteers which he
can put at Hillarys disposal.
An email list of supporters
that included 20 million addresses in 2012 which AP called the crown jewel of the Obama machine and which is still
closely held within an Obama
campaign committee is said
to be fully available to Hillary.

Chidanand.Rajghatta
@timesgroup.com

Washington: Among the many terms that American electioneering has contributed to
the Anglophone political lexicon barnstorm and whistlestop among them the word
stumping would be familiar to
Indians, but in a cricketing context. In the American milieu,
the expression comes from 19th
century US politicians who delivered election speeches while
standing on a tree stump.
Campaign paraphernalia
has evolved significantly since
that time, and while President
Barack Obama is not expected
to do that, his stumping on Tuesday for Hillary Clinton is being watched keenly to check
whether it will give his putative
successor a bounce or bounce out her opponent.
Retiring presidents generally fade gently into the twilight to write their memoirs
and work on their presidential
libraries. But Obama has
shown a keen interest and
sharp tongue in batting for Hillary Clinton against a rampaging Donald Trump, in part to
ensure his own legacy. Although Obama and Hillary fought
for the Democratic nomination
in 2008, she eventually backed
him after she lost, and on Tuesday the president is returning
the favour, campaigning for her
in Charlotte, North Carolina, a
potential battleground state
that the Democrats are keen to
capture. Trump will campaign
in the state hours after the Democrats finish.
Delicate inner-party dynamics have in the past resulted
in major Democratic debacles,
none greater than when Al Gore disdained Bill Clintons help
in the 2000 election campaign
(purportedly because of the

Spore sends
back Chinese
subway trains
Saibal Dasgupta

A 2012 photo shows President Obama with his then secretary of state
Hillary Clinton deboarding from Air Force One. Reports of Obama bringing
Clinton to Charlotte in North Carolina on Air Force One made GOP
frontrunner Donald Trump tweet, Why is President Obama allowed to use
Air Force One on the campaign trail with Crooked Hillary? She is flying
with him tomorrow. Who pays? In 2014, it was reported that the cost to
taxpayers to operate Air Force One is $206,337 an hour. The Clinton
campaign is likely to share the cost of the trip with the White House

Wiki publishes Clintons Iraq War emails

against Clinton told Associated Press. He can do that by

sharing his own experience.
They were rivals, they had their differences; that gives him
some additional standing.
The White House confirmed on Monday that Clinton
and Obama will travel to the
event together on Air Force
One, prompting an immediate
response from Trump, who
tweeted: Why is President
Obama allowed to use Air
Force One on the campaign
trail with Crooked Hillary?
Who pays? Clinton aides clarified that her campaign will
pick up part of the tab to acco-

Saudi names Pak national

as Jeddah suicide bomber

TNN

Beijing: Singapore authorities have sent back 22 of the 35

trains delivered by a Chinese
company because if found defects in them. Our engineers
discovered that 22 of the 35
trains delivered by the manufacturer had cracks in the
structure connecting the car
body and the bogie after they
were delivered in 2013, Lee
Ling, managing director of
SMRT, the subway rail operator in Singapore, said.
The
defective
trains,
which are still under warranty,
will be repaired by the manufacturer by 2023, he said. The
move comes amid a worldwide
push by the Chinese government and its rail equipment
manufacturers to bag contracts for high-speed trains in
several countries, including India. Sources said Singapores
decision to return the trains
would prove to be a major jolt
for China, which has been offering easy finance and rail
equipment to countries as part
of its Silk Road programme.

FBI: No charges against

Clinton in email case

Dubai: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday identified the suicide

bomber who struck outside
the US Consulate in Jeddah as
a Pakistani resident of the
kingdom who arrived 12 years
ago to work as a driver.
The suicide bombing near
the diplomatic post on Monday was the first of three targeting the kingdom, including one outside the sprawling mosque grounds where
the Prophet Muhammad is
buried in the western city of
Medina, that killed four Saudi security troops and wounded five. Millions of Muslims
from around the world visit
the mosque every year as part
of their pilgrimage to Mecca.
An interior ministry statement issued on Tuesday
identified the man behind the
Jeddah attack as 34-year-old
Abdullah Qalzar Khan. It said
he lived in Jeddah with his
wife and her parents. The
statement didnt elaborate.
There was no immediate
comment from Islamabad.
There are around 9 million fo-

Reuters

Worshippers gather after a suicide bomber detonated explosives near

the security headquarters at Prophets Mosque in Medina on Monday

reigners living in Saudi Arabia, which has a total population of 30 million. Among all
foreigners living in the kingdom, Pakistanis represent
one of the largest groups.
The governor of Mecca,
prince Faisal bin Salman,
who is a son of Salman, the
hereditary ruler of Saudi
Arabia, was shown on state
TV visiting security officers
wounded in the Medina blast
and the site of that explosion,

within hours of the blast.

No group has yet claimed
responsibility for the Jeddah
and Medina attacks, nor another at a Shia mosque in the
east of the country. The nature of the attacks and their coordinated timing suggested
the Islamic State group could
be to blame. The interior ministry said the attacker in Medina set off the bomb in a parking lot after security officers
became suspicious of him. AP

Donald Trump slammed the

decision by FBI director James
Comey saying the system
is rigged. Trump tweeted, Very
very unfair! As usual, bad judgment. FBI director said Crooked
Hillary compromised our national
security. No charges. Wow!

Death penalty
policy: Maldives
minister quits
he Maldives foreign minister Dunya Maumoon
has quit the government
over its hasty decision to
implement the death penalty
which could mar the image of
the country. The resignation
of Dunya, niece of the countrys President Yameen Abdul
Gayoom and daughter of
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom,
who ruled the country for
three decades from 1978 to
2008, comes amid reports of a
power rift between the countrys powerful ruling family.
In a statement released on
Tuesday, Dunya, 45, said, She
had decided to resign from the
position of minister of foreign affairs because of irreconcilable disagreements on the
governments policy in implementing the death penalty in
the Maldives.... it was one of
the most difficult decisions I
had to take.
Maldives, an island-nation
in the Indian Ocean, became a
multi-party democracy in
2008. However, its transition
to democracy has been far
from smooth. PTI

40 reports of rape and groping Virginia passes law

at 2 music festivals in Sweden to end child marriage
Reuters

Dan Bilefsky & Christina Anderson

he Swedish police said on Tuesday that

they were investigating reports that dozens of young women and girls were sexually assaulted at two music festivals in Sweden
last weekend. Police said there had been five reports of rape and 12 reports of sexual molestation at the Bravalla Festival in Norrkoping, about 100 miles southwest of Stockholm, while 32
sexual assaults had been reported at Putte i Parken, a music festival in Karlstad, about 190 miles
west of Stockholm.
Girls and women at the festival in Karlstad
said they had been groped by boys and men, inspector Leif Nystrom of the Karlstad police department said. Most were under 18 years old, and
three of the girls were under the age of 15. These were reports of women being touched in unwanted places, such as on their breasts and on
their bottoms and inside their underwear, he
said. The police have been examining seven suspects, six of them foreigners, whose ages range
from under 18 to 35, inspector Nystrom said.
The Swedish police have been put under
scrutiny. The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyhe-

A police officer guards a campsite at Bravalla

Festival in Norrkoping, Sweden, on Saturday

ter accused the police of failing to publicize details about sexual assaults at a festival in Stockholm last summer. The newspaper also accused
the authorities of failing to warn the public ahead of the festival that similar attacks had taken
place in 2014 and suggested that the police were
trying to avoid an anti-immigrant backlash.
In Germany, the police have been investigating reports of sexual assaults in Cologne on New
Years Eve. The police said the attackers appeared
to have a North African or Arabic appearance,
heightening tensions over migrants. Sweden and
Germany have been among the most welcoming
European countries for refugees. NYT

Andrew Buncombe

New York: Between 2004 and

2013, around 4,500 children under the age of 18 got married in
the state of Virginia. Of these
girls, more than 200 of them
were aged 15 or under.
Last week, the authorities
in the state introduced new legislation that updated rules
that had until then made it legal for girls aged 12 or 13 to get
married if they had parental
consent and were pregnant.
The changes a move
that campaigners said brought Virginias laws into the
21st Century followed a long
fight by activists who said the
change was aimed at curbing
forced marriage, human trafficking and statutory rape disguised as marriage.
The Washington Post said
that the legislation was the re-

sult of bills being passed by

state politicians Republican
Jill Holtzman Vogel and Democrat Jennifer McClellan.
Similar bills were introduced
in California, Maryland, New
Jersey and New York this year, according to the National
Conference of State Legislatures. The law, which took effect last Friday, set the minimum marriage age at 18, or 16
if a child is emancipated by
court order. It takes parents
and pregnancy out of the equation, the Post reported.
The Tahirih Justice Centre was among those groups
pushing for a change in the
law. Activists there said the
previous law created a fasttrack to child marriages for
abusers who could evade investigation by child-welfare
officials by simply marrying
their victims. THE INDEPENDENT

voting in race for UK PM

London: British lawmaker

Theresa May won the first
round of voting to decide a
successor to Prime Minister
David Cameron, the Conservative Party said on Tuesday,
as former defence minister
Liam Fox was eliminated
from the contest.
The vote among Conservative lawmakers saw interior minister May win 165 votes, with junior energy minister Andrea Leadsom second
on 66. Brexit campaigner Michael Gove was at third position on 48. Pensions minister
Stephen Crabb won 34 votes,
putting Fox in last place on 16
and ending his leadership
bid. The contest, triggered
by Camerons decision to resign following the June 23
public vote to leave the European Union, is decided by a
series of ballots among Conservative lawmakers to
whittle the field down to two.
Theresa May is the clear
frontrunner, pitching herself as a sober operator capable of unifying a party
fractured by last months referendum and leading Britain out of the EU. May has said
she does not plan to invoke
Article 50, the formal procedure for leaving the EU, until
the end of the year at the earliest. May campaigned for
Britain to stay in the EU, but
now says that Brexit means
Brexit, and has ruled out an
early election or a second referendum. Her leading rivals, Andrea Leadsom, who
campaigned for Britain to leave, has said she wants exit

EPA

NEXT ADDRESS? Home secretary Theresa May leaves

No. 10 Downing Street after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday

Resigning Brexiteers not patriots: Juncker

oris Johnson and Nigel Farage have shown a lack of patriotism

in quitting ahead of the negotiations for Britains withdrawal
from the European Union, which they fought for, EU chief executive
Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday. Yesterdays shining heroes
of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today, Juncker told
the European parliament as he condemned what he said was a
lack of planning in London following last months referendum.
They are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots dont abandon
ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board. Juncker
insisted the EU will not negotiate any terms for the British
departure until a new premier formally triggers the withdrawal
process and the two-year deadline it sets for a deal. I would have
thought that they would have had a plan, he said, adding that,
instead of developing a plan they are leaving the boat. REUTERS

negotiations to be as short
as possible in order to avoid
prolonged uncertainty.
The ruling partys 330
MPs will vote for one of five
candidates, with the least popular being eliminated ahead of similar votes to reduce
the shortlist to two. The partys 150,000 members will
then decide the winner, with
the result to be declared on
September 9.
The race took a dramatic

turn last week when justice

minister Michael Gove announced his candidacy, delivering a stinging attack on
pro-Leave ally Boris Johnson. A wounded Johnson
pulled out of the contest.
Leadsom received Johnsons backing on Tuesday.
Andrea Leadsom offers the
zap, the drive, and the determination essential for the
next leader of this country,
Johnson said. AGENCIES

UK report calls for cheaper,

simpler visas for Indians
London: India should be included in Britains cheaper
two-year visitor visa scheme
to attract more Indians to the
UK that will strengthen the
already close bilateral ties, a
new report released here on
Tuesday said.
A Passage from India
Improving UK Visitor Visas
for Indian Nationals has been prepared by the UKs Royal Commonwealth Society in
partnership with leading aviation tourism and industry
groups as well as the Confederation of Indian Industry
(CII) and was released in the
British parliament complex.
We hope that the government will consider the very
clear benefits of our recommendation, enhancing the already close affinity between
two great Commonwealth
nations, said Tim Hewish,

In October 2015, the British PM had announced a

pilot scheme for a two-year UK-China visitor visa
costing 87. The report recommends that Indian
nationals should have the same opportunity
director of policy and research at the Royal Commonwealth Society and author of
the report. His report flags
up the UKs falling market
share of global Indian tourists, which has halved over
the last decade at an estimated cost to the UK economy of
around 500 million per year
and over 8,000 jobs. France
has now over-taken the UK as
Indias most visited European nation, attracting 500,000
visitors from the subcontinent last year.
In October 2015, British
PM David Cameron had announced a pilot scheme for a twoyear UK-China visitor visa

costing 87. The report recommends that Indians must have

the same opportunity.
To optimise exchanges
of people, business and ideas, it is important that both
the UK and Indian governments discuss this promising proposal openly and collaboratively consider delivering it. The strength of the
UK-India relationship today
must also reflect in a stronger visa regime, said CII director-general
Chandrajit
Banerjee.
At present Indian visitors
continue to pay a hefty 330
for a two-year visa, or 87 for
six-months. PTI

AROUND THE WORLD

Reuters

Father kills son

accidentally at
US gun range

father accidentally shot

his 14-year-old son at a
Florida gun range on Sunday,
police said. William Brumby,
54, was firing his handgun at a
shooting range in Sarasota
when a spent shell casing
deflected off a nearby wall and
fell down the back of his shirt.
Brumby then used his right
hand, which was holding the
handgun, in an attempt to
remove the casing, the Sarasota county sheriffs office
said. While doing so, he
inadvertently pointed the
firearm directly behind him
and accidently fired. The
bullet hit his son Stephen
Brumby, who was standing
directly behind him.

French mag fined over

snaps of prez, girlfriend:
French celebrity magazine
Voici was ordered on Tuesday
to pay symbolic damages to
President Francois Hollandes
alleged girlfriend, actress Julie
Gayet, for publishing pictures
of the couple inside the presidential palace. Gayet, 44,
pressed charges against the
magazine after the grainy
images of the couple were
published in 2014.

EgyptAir pilots tried to put

out fire in doomed plane:
Pilots tried to extinguish a fire
on board the EgyptAir flight
that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in May, Egyptian
investigators said on Tuesday
after analysing a recovered
cockpit voice recorder. The

US President Barack Obama hugs his daughter Malia after singing Happy
Birthday to her during the 4th of July White House party on Monday
recordings were consistent
with data previously recovered
from the planes wreckage that
showed heat, fire, and smoke
around a bathroom and the
avionics area, they said.

UKs Iraq war report to be

out today: Thirteen years
after British troops marched
into Iraq and seven years after
they left a country thats still
mired in violence, a mammoth
official report is about to
address the lingering question:
What went wrong? On Wednesday, retired civil servant
John Chilcot will publish his
long-delayed, 2.6 million-word
report on the divisive war and
its chaotic aftermath. The

US-led conflict killed 179

British troops and some 4,500
American personnel. It also
helped trigger violence that
killed hundreds of thousands
of Iraqis and still rocks the
Middle East.

McDonalds wins EU
trademark for Mac & Mc:
McDonalds has won a case in
a European court that could
prevent another company from
using any combination of the
terms Mac or Mc to sell
food or drinks. The ruling
came after the US fast-food
giant tried to stop Singapores
Future Enterprises from registering MacCoffee as a European Union trade mark.

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BANK OF ENGLAND GOVERNOR MARK CARNEY TAKES

STEPS TO ENSURE BANKS KEEP LENDING AFTER BREXIT

Premji vies with buyout funds

for $220m KIMS hospitals deal
Mumbai/Kochi: Tech billionaire Azim Premji is among
the four shortlisted bidders to
buy controlling
shares in private
healthcare chain
KIMS Hospitals
in a deal estimated at around
$220 million (around Rs 1,400
crore), multiple sources directly familiar with the matter
said. Kerala-based KIMS operates 2,000 beds through a network of hospitals in the Middle East and southern India.
N M Rothschild is advising
the existing foreign investors
Orbimed and Ascent Capital
on a secondary sale of shares,
besides a fairly large primary
capital infusion into the company. Private equity investors
TPG Capital, India Value Fund
and an entity backed by Singapores Temasek Holding are the
other suitors in the fray.
Some of the bidders could
join forces even as binding offers are expected shortly, sources said.
The 70-year-old Wipro chairmans personal investment en-

Aurobindo in
fray for $1.5bn
Teva portfolio

ndian drugmaker Aurobindo Pharma is among companies considering bids for Teva Pharmaceuticals portfolio
of drugs in the UK, Ireland and
Iceland, people familiar with
the matter said.
Aurobindo would finance
the deal with a loan of over $1billion, according to one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are
private. No final decision has been made, and the company could
still decide against a bid, the people said. The sale could fetch about $1.5 billion, people familiar
with the matter have said.
Teva is selling assets as it
works to get regulatory approval for its approximately $40.5
billion acquisition of Allergans generics business. A buyer for its UK, Ireland and Iceland assets could emerge in the
next few weeks, the people said.
Other bidders remain interested in acquiring the portfolio of
drugs, they said. BLOOMBERG

as buyout funds chase deals in

an expanding economy with
longer life expectancy. Dubais
Abraaj Capital acquired Hyderabad-based Care Hospitals in a
$300-million deal, while Blackstone actively pursued a deal
with Gujarats Sterling Hospitals before dropping it some weeks ago. Private equity funds are
in the reckoning to take control
of Pune-based Sahyadri Hospitals, put on the block by IDFC.
Middle East-based Indianorigin heavyweights B R Shetty
of NMC Healthcare and Azad
Moopen of Aster DM Healthcare are also revving up action as
they build a local footprint in a
sector dominated by Prathap C
Reddy-led Apollo Hospital, Shivinder and Malvinder Singhs
Fortis and Ranjan Pai-driven
Manipal Hospitals.
Founded in 2002, KIMS has a
network of eight hospitals and a
string of medical centres employing 850 doctors and 950 nursing staff. Its Middle East footprint covers Bahrain, Oman,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the
UAE. In India, KIMS has multicity presence in Kerala apart
from owning majority shares in
cancer care specialist KIMS Bibi Hospital in Hyderabad.

RIPE FOR CONSOLIDATION

13 lakh

9 beds/10,000

hospital
beds in India

people is well below

WHO standards

6.5L

beds in govt-run
hospitals/centres

private hospitals

4.2L beds managed

corporate hospital chains,

leaving the industry ripe for
consolidation

60K beds managed by

by nursing homes and

neighbourhood clinics

1.8L beds in standalone

Source: Mumbai-based consulting

firm Arete Advisors

me of going to press. TPG declined to comment. India Value Fund and Temasek could
not be reached immediately.
TPG has prospected this deal even before a formal process
kicked off earlier this year. India Value Fund, one of the largest private equity managers in
the country, is likely to partner
with some of its global sponsors
in bidding for the healthcare asset, sources mentioned earlier
in the report added. Founders,
led by Dr M I Sahadulla, and senior management would retain
a substantial minority stake following the deal.
Indian healthcare services
industry has seen M&As return

tity PremjiInvest manages assets worth over $2 billion and

has invested in about 50 publicly traded and privately held
companies. The latest deal making could mark its first acquisition if its bid emerges successful. Premji, who has placed significant investment bets on the
consumption-driven economy,
is an investor in cancer care specialist HCG Global, which listed
on the bourses last year.
When contacted, KIMS executive director E M Najeeb
declined to comment. An
emailed query to PremjiInvest chief investment officer
Prakash Parthasarathy remained unanswered at the ti-

BookMyShow gets `550cr

in round led by US investor
Digbijay.Mishra
@timesgroup.com

TICKET TO BIG BUCKS

Bengaluru: Movies and

events ticketing platform
BookMyShow has raised
Rs 550 crore in a funding round led by US-based Stripes
Group. Its one of the biggest
funding rounds for internet
startups this year. Existing
investors Accel Partners,
SAIF Partners and Network
18 also participated in the round. BookMyShow said the
deal valued the company at
Rs 3,000 crore.
BookMyShow is a near
monopoly in its space, though
some well-funded companies,
including Paytm, have recently entered the movie ticketing business and are trying
to gain share by using discount cashbacks. In the events
booking space, it competes
with ventures like Explara,
Kyazoonga and MeraEvents.
The company plans to al-

CAPITAL RAISED YEAR

`550 crore
2016

LEAD INVESTOR
Stripes Group

`150 crore

2014

SAIF Partners

`100 crore

2012

Accel Partners

`30 crore

2007

Network18

REVENUE PIE

Boby Kurian &

Shenoy Karun TNN

35%

55%

10% Advertising
Movie
ticketing
Sports, Plays
& others

locate the fresh capital to

strengthen existing verticals and improve the user experience on its platform
using data analytics and generating its own content.
We have been working
on our own content for the
last one year. We have got
videos, information about
movies and events. These
have shown positive traction, Ashish Hemrajani,
CEO & co-founder of Book-

Ashish Hemrajani

Sold

100 million

tickets in 2015-16,
double that in
the year before
Source: BookMyShow

MyShow, told TOI.

The companys biggest
revenue stream is movie
ticketing, which generates
about 50-55% of the sales.
Ticketing for sporting and
other events contributes
35%, and advertising the
rest. Advertising is currently 10% of our revenue but we
are looking to get more out of
it as the medium is a natural
choice for advertising,
Hemrajani added.

NPA mess a key challenge, says FM

Stresses Reviving Stalled Projects In Meeting With Regulators
measures taken by the government and the RBI for handling
stressed assets. It also strategized on the way forward to manage the situation.
Chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian gave an
overview of the state of macroeconomy, highlighting key issues. The council noted that uncertainty in the global economy
and high volatility in the financial markets are prominent
risks confronting emerging
economies.
India, however, appears to
be much better placed today
on the back of improvement
in its macro-economic fundamentals, recent financial sector reforms by the government and large foreign ex-

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Strategy to improve overall performance of state-run banks, reviving stalled
projects and increasing private sector investment are major
challenges before the government, finance minister Arun
Jaitley told financial regulators on Tuesday.
He also said that due to better spread of monsoon, the government is expecting higher
production of pulses this year
compared to previous years,
which in turn will substantially ease prices in the market.
The Financial Stability and
Development Council (FSDC)
also discussed the current macroeconomic situation, likely

FM Arun Jaitley (left) and RBI

governor Raghuram Rajan

impact of Brexit, the external

scenario, problem of stressed
assets and the issue of redemption of foreign currency deposits. As far as the redemption of
these deposits is concerned, there was an overwhelming view
that the situation is under control and there is no problem at
all, said sources.
The council discussed the issue of rising bank NPAs and the

change reserves, which provides cushion against financial

market volatility, a finance ministry statement said, quoting
Subramanian. With the revival of sentiment and certain
signs of pick-up in industrial
activity, a good monsoon is expected to further strengthen
growth in the country, it said.
Minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, finance
secretary Ashok Lavasa, economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das, secretary department of financial services Anjuly Chib Duggal; U K Sinha,
chairman, Sebi; T S Vijayan,
chairman, IRDA; Hemant G
Contractor, chairman, PFRDA
attended the meeting.

Indians go big with larger TV screens

Pankaj.Doval@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: Indians are watching television on bigger screens with the 32-inch and above
category emerging as the largest and fastest-growing segment in the flat panel market.
The bigger screen size market now accounts for more
than 60% of TV sales (flat panel) and the growth is being fuelled by affordable price points
and rising aspirations. Market
size for below 32-inch screen
has been contracting by 7-10%,
according to top officials in the
TV industry.
People are looking for enriched television viewing experience in larger screen. With affordability and attractive financing options, they find bigger sizes within budget,
Rajeev Bhutani, VP for the consumer electronics business at
Samsung India, told TOI.
Samsung, which announ-

GROWTH ON DISPLAY
PANEL TV MARKET (Units Sold)
(Figures in millions)

10

1.2
2009

11.5

2.5
2012

2015

2016

MARKET SHARE
32-inch & Above

49.8%

61%

2015

2016

Source: Industry, *Forecast

ced a slew of new products

across various price points, expects the television market to
grow at a healthy pace this year
on the back of a robust monsoon and seventh pay panel recommendations for government employees.
Satish Padmanabhan, head
of sales at Sony India, said
smaller screen sizes 22-inch
and 24-inch are not finding
much favour with buyers as
many people are going for up-

gradation. So, 32-inch is becoming the new entry segment.

Ashish Sashidharan, product head for consumer electronics division at Panasonic
India, says it is not only the 32inch, but more premium categories such as 40-inch and above are also growing. This segment now accounts for nearly
one-fifth of the flat panel TV
market, Sashidharan said.
Products from local brands
such as Micromax, Intex and

Vu Televisions are driving the

growth of larger screen sizes as
their products are available at
affordable prices.
For example, a 32-inch flat
panel TV from Micromax costs
around Rs 14,000 (against Rs
23,000 by Samsung), while a 40inch screen comes for Rs 21,500
(Samsung price Rs 34,00035,000). Local companies and
private labels from retail chains such as Chroma are offering TVs at very low costs, sourcing panels from places such as
China and Taiwan and then going for local assembly.
People are replacing TVs
every three-to-four years now,
against the average 10 years
earlier. They are looking for
high-tech, but affordable solutions, says Devita Saraf, CEO
of Vu Technologies.
A big contributor to the
growth has also been the online market, which is aiding
the reach of affordable TVs.

BREXIT EFFECT AS EXPECTED, NO BIG DEAL, SAYS

SAN FRANCISCO FED CHIEF JOHN WILLIAMS

NRI tycoon
buys Delhis
Rockland
Hospitals
Shenoy.Karun@timesgroup.com

Kochi: Abu Dhabi-headquartered VPS Healthcare, owned by

billionaire radiologist Shamsheer Vayalil, sonin-law of NRI tycoon MA Yusufali,
has acquired New
Delhi-based Rockland
Hospitals.
VPS will be investing Rs 1,500
crore for the 100% acquisition
and further development of
Rockland network in the National Capital Region (NCR).
TOI first reported the impending deal on May 9. The deal
was signed towards the end of
June and is effective from the July 1. We are committing approximately Rs 1,500 crore for this investment deal, Shamsheer said. According to him, he is buying out the founders completely.
International Finance Corporation, which held a minority stake, exited as part of the deal.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST

markets so

are M&A talks

Billionaire radiologist in healthc
ni, Delhis Rockland Hospitals
UAEs VPS Eyes Units Of Mumbais Hirananda
Shenoy Karun &
Boby Kurian TNN

Kochi: Abu Dhabi-headquartered hospital chain VPS Healthcare, owned by radiologistturned-entrepreneur Shamsheer Vayalil, son-in-law of India-born Middle East tycoon M
A Yusuf Ali, is the latest to trigger consolidation moves in the
domestic healthcare services
sector. VPS, which has built $1billion revenue operations in
the United Arab Emirates
(UAE) during the last decade, is
in talks with Mumbais Dr L H
Hiranandani Hospital and
New Delhis Rockland Hospitals to acquire some of their
units, people familiar with the
matter said.
This follows its acquisition
of controlling shares in Lakes-

EXPANDING FOOTPRINT
VPS Healthcare, led by
Shamsheer Vayalil, son-in-law
of India-born UAE
tycoon M A Yusuf Ali,
acquired 350-bed
multi-specialty
Lakeshore Hospital
in Kochi last
month

hore Hospital, a 350-bed multispecialty service provider in

Kochi, last month, which
is now being rebranded as
VPS Lakeshore. The 39-yearold Vayalil is the latest UAE-based billionaire to chase acquisitions in Indian healthcare,
dominated by Dr Prathap C
Reddy-led Apollo Hospital Enterprises, Shivinder and Mal-

Of Hiranandanis three hospitals

in Mumbai, VPS is interested in a
project being developed in Thane
VPS is spending `1,000cr for its
initial phase of acquisitions in India
It is also developing a greenfield
project for a hospital located in
Kozhikode, Kerala
vinder Singhs Fortis and Ranjan Pai-driven Manipal Hospitals. Other Indian-origin Middle East heavyweights B R
Shetty of NMC Healthcare and
Azad Moopen of Aster DM Healthcare are also building a local footprint.
We are in talks with RHL
for acquisition of their three
hospitals in New Delhi. We are

also negotiating with L H Hiranandani for acquisition of one

of their hospitals in Mumbai,
said S K Abdulla, CEO of Lakeshore Hospital, Kochi, part
of VPS Healthcare. When contacted, Vayalil, VPS chairman
and MD, confirmed the negotiations without divulging details, as he builds a regional healthcare powerhouse, outside
of Yusuf Alis diversified conglomerate EMKE Lulu Group.
Of Hiranandanis three hospitals in Mumbai, VPS is interested in a project being developed in Thane. Its a greenfield project with 200 beds and
4.36 lakh sq ft of space. People
are talking to us while we are
slowly building and VPS is one
of them, said Dr Sujit Chatterjee, CEO, L H Hiranandani Hospitals. The Thane hospital is

expected to be ready in the next

one year.
Rockland has three operational hospitals at Qutab, Dwaraka an in Gurgaon in the National Capital Region (NCR)
with a planned capacity of 800
beds, though the number of operational beds are much lower.
Rockland founder-chairman Rajesh Srivastava passed
away recently. An unnamed executive from his office said the
information on deal-making
with VPS was a false rumour. Further attempts to contact senior management at
Rockland didnt succeed over
the weekend. International Finance Corporation (IFC) is an
investor in Rockland, which
had ambitions of building a
multi-specialty healthcare corridor in NCR.

The Times of India dated May 9, 2016

Rockland was founded by

entrepreneur Rajesh Srivastava, who passed away in January
this year. Srivastava had set up
three hospitals in and around
New Delhi and was working on a
fourth one in Noida. These hospitals will be rebranded as VPSRockland Hospitals.
The 39-year-old Shamsheer, a
radiologist by profession, founded VPS Healthcare in 2007. His
cross-border healthcare network now has 16 hospitals, 112
medical centres and clinics and
28 pharmacies, mainly in the
GCC countries. The flagship is
Burjeel Hospital, the largest private tertiary care provider in
Abu Dhabi. Three months ago,
he had acquired majority stake
in multi-specialty Lakeshore
Hospital, Kochi.

GSK rolls out code

for ethical marketing
Junks Target-Linked Incentives For Sales
Staff, Stops Direct Payments To Doctors
Rupali.Mukherjee
@timesgroup.com

Mumbai: Faced with charges of unethical marketing

practices which have long
tarnished its image and reputation, the pharmaceutical industry is trying to clean up its act. In one of the
first such attempts, GlaxoSmithKline has rolled out a
new healthcare marketing
code covering doctors and
its field staff, Annaswamy
Vaidheesh, vice-president,
South Asia & managing director of GSK Pharmaceuticals India, told TOI in an
exclusive interview.
Under the policy, the company has withdrawn targetlinked incentives for its 3,000strong sales force, and stopped direct payments to doctors for speaking engagements, he said, adding the
company has also put in place an aggressive growth model to get back being one of
the fastest growing MNCs in
India by 2020.
The policy, for an industry which faces charges of
unethical marketing practices and poor public perception, was adopted by the
company globally last year.
In India, the company initiated the Patient Focused
Selling programme, involving withdrawal of sales incentives, as a pilot project
last year, while the model is
being rolled out this year, said Vaidheesh, who completes
a year in office next month.
The marketing code for
healthcare
professionals
(HCPs) is also being introduced this year, with the
company strengthening its
medical capability by hiring over 25 doctors across
specialities, who will engage with their external peers

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Pharma cos are criticized
globally for unethical sales
promotions and influencing
doctors prescriptions via
freebies, paid vacations, etc
GSK became first drug co
this year globally to stop paying
doctors to promote products &
withdrew field force incentives
The new policy came into
force after a corruption scandal
in China & a record $3bn US fine

The Indian govt also plans

to make the code of conduct
mandatory for the drug industry
(it is voluntary at present)
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and answer queries regarding the companys drugs at

medical seminars.
Payments are made to
physicians by pharma companies for speaking engagements to promote their products this job will now be
done by its in-house team of
doctors at GSK.
These steps will introduce more transparency into our marketing and educational efforts, help physicians to make informed choices, and clear the mistrust
which patients have, he said, hoping others in the industry follow suit.

TAKES LEAD
Under the Patient Focused Selling programme, the
company will evaluate its
salesforce on scientific
knowledge, technical skills
and customer evaluations,
rather than meeting sales
targets. The company is
investing in a new-age
business model and will leverage digital capability to
improve delivery of information to HCPs and doctors. Under the Veeva platform, information will
be shared with sales staff
in a more systematic and

consistent manner.
Given the new environment in India, we are re-engineering the business model in a way that we are able
to maintain margins but at
the same time deliver value
of relevance to our stakeholders physicians, hospitals and the government.
We are coming out from
supply constraints, and are
on a recovery path with 1213% growth recorded in the
last two quarters, he said.
Once a market leader, the Rs
2,800-crore company has
now trailed behind industry peers, recording a poor
3% sales growth in the year
ended March 2016.
GSK is also test-marketing with a software company in a rural setting to improve access of healthcare
in remote areas. The company has also implemented
pricing strategies for certain life-saving medicines and
vaccines in order to ensure
broader access, he said. For
example, due to the fact that
pneumonia is the greatest
cause of infant mortality in
India, the company lowered
the price of Synflorix vaccine by 40% in order to ensure
more children are able to benefit from it.

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26

Equity MF
assets at
record high
in April-June
Allirajan.M@timesgroup.com

fter logging the first fall in

10 quarters during January-March, the assets managed by equity mutual funds
(MFs) jumped to a record high
for the quarter ending June.
The average assets under
management (AUM) of equity
MFs surged about 7.6% quarteron-quarter (q-o-q) or by Rs 33,418
crore to Rs 4.7 lakh crore during
April-June on the back of a
strong showing by the capital
markets amid robust inflows into schemes.
Banking, small-cap and midcap indices were among those
that posted strong double digit
growth during the period. The
consumer goods index was the
best performer during April-June, soaring by about 18%, and
was followed by the banking index that jumped over 12%.
The benchmark sensex and
the broader nifty gained about
7.4% and 7.9% respectively in

SURGE 7.6%
April-June. The equity category
saw inflows of Rs 9,159 crore during April-May, data with the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) showed.
Incidentally, the average
AUMs of equity MFs crossed the
Rs 4 lakh crore mark for the first
time in the quarter ending June
last year. The assets of equity
MFs dropped by Rs 14,118 crore
or 3.1%, the biggest absolute fall
since December 2011, to about Rs
4.40 lakh crore at the end of
March this year. Further losses
were arrested as investors continued to plough money despite
the volatility in the markets.
The average AUMs of the
MF industry surged past the Rs
14 lakh crore mark for the first time ever for the quarter ending
June this year. Average AUMs
increased around 6.5% q-o-q or
an absolute gain of Rs 87,583 crore, the highest ever, to Rs 14.4
lakh crore during the period.
The average AUMs of direct
plans rose to a new high of Rs
5.35 lakh crore, up 8.1% q-o-q or
Rs 39,908 crore. The share of direct plans in overall AUMs inched up marginally to 37.1%
from 36.6% in the preceding quarter, data compiled by ratings
agency Crisil showed.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016

Car prices may increase as Fitch cuts bank

commodities pinch auto cos sector outlook
to negative
Steel Gets 36% Costlier In 6 Months, Rubber Surges 25%
Nandini.Sengupta
@timesgroup.com

Chennai: The auto industry

could see a set of price hikes in
the run up to the festival season
due to the rising price curve of
commodities. Steel prices have
jumped 36% in the last six
months while natural rubber,
which saw a steady slide for
more than three years, has rebounded by 25%. Aluminium
and copper prices are also moving north.
Automobile analysts say if
the northward curve continues, companies making cars,
SUVs and commercial vehicles
as well as major parts makers
will see a significant impact on
margins and will therefore talk
mark-ups. Although at the moment, most companies are still
in wait-and-watch mode, the
commodity curve could have
an impact on festival marketing this year if the prices remain north-ward bound. For

For Japanese companies, commodity hike is

a double whammy, considering it comes with
appreciation of yen
the consumer that means more
expensive vehicles, both passenger and commercial.
Car and SUV makers are
more or less categorical that
the commodity pinch could
lead to price mark-ups. With
major raw material prices going north, there is a challenge
to maintain current price
points, said Rakesh Srivastava, senior vice-president (sales
and marketing), Hyundai Motor India. We have not taken a
call as of now but the way
steel and rubber prices are going up will compel us to also
look at our prices so as to part
compensate the increase in
costs, added Dittoed Pravin
Shah, president & chief execu-

tive (automotive), Mahindra &

Mahindra.
For Japanese companies
this commodity pinch is a double whammy given that it
comes along with a substantial
appreciation of the yen. There
has been an increase in pricing
of raw material commodities
like steel, aluminum, copper
and rubber over last six
months. This puts a lot of pressure on us as all this has been
leading to a higher input cost
on our end. Another factor is
the appreciation of yen in the
international market which
has increased the cost of parts
that we import from Japan. We
have been absorbing all the additional costs but if the trend

Smaller MFIs finding it

difficult to access credit
Rachel.chitra
@timesgroup.com

Chennai: Smaller micro-finance players are finding it

difficult to access credit on
both the debt as well as the
equity side. Nearly 22 of the
57 micro-finance institutions (MFIs) in the country
belong to the Rs 100-Rs 250
crore asset size bracket, but
they are unable to access
even a fraction of the capital
larger players like Equitas,
Ujjivan, Janalakshmi are able to access.
MUDRA Bank, publicsector lenders prefer lending
to established players, forcing smaller MFIs to get loans at prohibitively expensive rates from large non-banking finance companies
(NBFCs) like Muthoot, Reliance, Religare, IFMR Capi-

Costlier for consumers too

tal. This cost unfortunately

gets passed onto the end consumer contrary to the notion of affordability or financial inclusion. Instead of directly being able to access
credit from PSUs, consumers are now having to
knock at the doors of MFIs,
who in turn get credit from
larger NBFCs, who in turn
get credit from PSUs. This
makes things more expensive for the industry and consumers, said Anand Rao, a
director, MicroFinance In-

stitutions Network (MFIN).

MFIs have to maintain a
capital adequacy ratio of
12% and a prudent debt-equity ratio of 7:1. But smaller
MFIs find it difficult to raise
equity on both the domestic
and international front.
A lot of MFIs start out
with just Rs 5 crore capital.
Foreign investors have to invest $1 million (Rs 6.74 crore)
for a 51% stake. The domestic
investor also has to raise that
much capital. Now if he
wants to increase his stake,
he has to invest $5 million.
The rules are too stringent
and make it difficult to raise
equity, says Rao. Whether it
is the Government of Indias
India Inclusion Fund, SIDBI
or MUDRA Bank, players say
that only the top five or 10
MFIs manage to get loans
from these entities.

continues we will have to pass

on a part of this cost to our customers, said N Raja, director &
senior VP- marketing & sales,
Toyota Kirloskar Motor.
Not surprisingly, some
companies have already taken
small hikes to pass on part of
the margin pinch. Honda for instance has increased prices beginning of last month and has
not fixed the timing of next
price increase, said Janeshwar Sen, senior VP-marketing
& sales, Honda Cars India.
Truck and bus companies too,
for their part, have already opted for small price hikes to compensate for the steel price pinch
in particular. Costs are definitely going up due to the higher minimum import price for
steel imports. Prices in India
are higher now and if the costs
go up, we will have to pass it on.
Last month we hiked prices
across the range by 1-2%, Said
Vinod Aggarwal, and CEO, VE
Commercial Vehicles.

CIL to decide
share buyback
on July 11
New Delhi: The board of staterun Coal India Ltd, the worlds
largest coal miner, would consider a proposal for buyback of
equity shares on July11, the company informed the Bombay
Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
Sources said the board would examine a proposal to buy
back 25% of equity shares along
with free reserves, which could
fetch the government about Rs
6,000 crore. Shares of the company jumped1.78% on the news but
closed at Rs 321.75, or 1.35% higher than its previous close.
The government at present
holds a tad more than 80% in the
company, while the remaining
stake is held by financial institutions and the public. The governments holding in the company
is expected to decline 2-3%. CILs
five subsidiaries have announced buyback plans which is estimated to fetch the company about Rs 5,000 crore. TNN

Mumbai: Rating agency

Fitch has downgraded the
banking sector outlook to
negative from stable, due to
more downside risks emanating from rising stressed
loans and weak corporate
earnings, which may further roil banks.
The agency has affirmed long-term ratings of
nine banks, including State
Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and its New Zealand
arm, Punjab National
Bank, Canara Bank, IDBI
Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis
Bank, at BBB-.
We have revised our
sector outlook to negative
from stable implying that
there are more downside
risks for Indian banks viability ratings (VRs) unless
the risks of deteriorating
asset quality and weak earnings are counter-balanced
by sizeable capital infusions, the agency said in a
report on Tuesday.
Banking sector non-performing loans (NPL) rose
sharply in 2015-16 to over
13% of total loans, or over

Rs 8 trillion, as of March
due to stricter NPL recognition standards.
According to the recently released Financial Stability Report of the Reserve
Bank, gross non-performing loans of banks jumped to 7.6% in March 2016
from 5.1% in September
2015. Fitch said asset quality could deteriorate further over the next 12-18
months, given the banks
exposure to stressed sectors, such as infrastructure

RISING NPAs
and iron and steel and the
difficult resolution process
for stressed assets in the near-term. Earnings of
banks are also likely to be
weak due to muted loan
growth and high credit
costs, the agency said.
Banks capital positions
have historically been
weak but the situation
has worsened for most public sector banks due to
delayed recognition of problem assets and high provisions. AGENCIES

EXECUTIVE DIGEST

Finmin backs
Das against
Swamys
allegations
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: The finance ministry on Tuesday strongly defended economic

affairs secretary
Shaktikanta
Das (top) after
BJP Rajya Sabha
MP Subramanian Swamy posted a website story, alleging the
senior civil servants involvement in a land
deal. Allegations made against secretary, department of
economic affairs Shaktikanta
Das on a website titled PGurus is totally false & mischievous, the finance ministry
said on micro blogging site
Twitter. The land in question
was allotted in accordance
with the price and terms and
conditions decided by the state cabinet.
Earlier in the day Swamy
had posted a story from a website, alleging that Das was involved in a controversial land
deal in Chennai and 100 acres
were given away at a pittance.
This is the second time
that the finance ministry has
mounted such a strong defence of Das. Earlier finance minister Arun Jaitley had defended Das after Swamy had
launched similar allegations.
Jaitley had termed it as an unfair and false attack on a disciplined civil servant in the finance ministry. Swamy has
launched this latest attack after saying that he will keep
away from Twitter.

Trai for more

validity on mobile
data vouchers

BACK ON TRACK? Activity in Xi Jinping-led Chinas services

sector rose to an 11-month high of 52.7 in June, the Caixin/Markit
services PMI showed, diverging from struggling manufacturing.
The trend, if sustainable, would indicate Beijing is making
progress in rebalancing the economy

New Delhi: Telecom regulator

Trai on Tuesday proposed to increase the validity on mobile data vouchers from the existing 90
days to a period of one year. The
proposal will likely boost internet penetration in the country
and, in turn, would bring socioeconomic benefits to the country, Trai said. Trai said non-affordability of data offerings is
one of the major factors for poor
consumption of Internet. TNN

AT THIS LEVEL, SOMEONE MAKES A WRONG

DECISION AND WITHIN TWO OR THREE
SECONDS YOU ARE BEHIND IN THE GAME. ITS
ABOUT BEING STREETWISE AND WE USED TO BE
FAR TOO HONEST. WEVE GOT BETTER AT THAT.

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Real Madrid Teammates Ronaldo, Bale

Speak About Possibility Of Lifting Cup

PORTUGAL VS WALES

LIVING THE DREAM

VENUE
STADE DE LYON, LYON
CAPACITY:

Match hashtag: #PORWAL

AVERAGE
POSSESSIONS

54%

We did not come The Cup is just two

here to make up
wins away now:
the numbers: Bale Cristiano Ronaldo
Wales have made it through to the semis in your
first-ever Euro...
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We
are in such great flow, anything is possible.

You are just one game away from playing in your

second Euro final. Do you think your team could go
all the way this time?
What can I say? The dream is getting closer and anything can happen now. Can we win
it? Maybe. Noone gave us a chance but we
are in the semifinals. The cup is just two
wins away now.

People are saying that Wales could lift the trophy

after the way youve been playing. Do you agree?
Why not? Ultimately, our goal is to win
the tournament. We did not come here just
to make the numbers. We have always looked
at things one game at a time. What gives us
belief is that it is in our own hands.

Youll be up against Gareth Bale and everyone is

talking about the match as Ronaldo vs Bale! Do
you agree?
A game is never about one player. My own
performance is not important. What counts
Youll be facing your clubmate Cristiano Ronaldo,
is the team. We played a fantastic
and the world is looking forward to it...
Its Portugal versus Wales, TOI EXCLUSIVE team performance to be here. We
nothing more. Thats what it is
INTERVIEWS need to continue that.
about.
How did the team celebrate when you beat Poland
You must be looking forward to the game and the
to earn a tie against Wales in Lyon?
challenge of taking Wales to the final...
It was an unforgettable night. We played
well -- we played as a team -- and deserved to
Of course! Weve already made history
go through. We have had some difficult times
and hopefully, we can make some more. Were
in our matches till now, but I always said we
enjoying the ride and we dont want it to stop.
were playing well and that we are a good team.
Were just enjoying being here, Its our time
Maybe people will start believing me now.
and we look forward to the game. We will give
it our best, but that goes without saying.
Considering everything you have won at the
Nobody gave Wales a chance in this tournament.
domestic level, is a trophy with Portugal the one
Right from the start, you have spoken about going
thing youve been desperate for?
No, Im not missing anything. Even if my
all the way. Any specific reason behind such
career ended right now, I would still feel
confidence?
privileged and proud of all that I have
Its not such a bad thing to think you can
achieved. That said, Ive always said that I
win it, is it? You have to aim high and we
would love to win a title with the national
have a good team and crucially, great spirit.
team. Now, we have a chance.
We just want to do everything we can for our
fans, who are incredible, and give them
something to cheer about.
You didnt score against Poland and Renato
Sanches took the headlines for a match-winning
performance. In a way, was that good for Portugal?
Have you dreamt of what it would be like to play in
It is true that I did not manage to score,
the final in Paris against Germany or France?
but I worked hard for the team. I am delightNo, we cant afford to look past this game.
ed for Renato Sanches. He is doing well and
We just have to keep doing what weve been
was duly rewarded with his first goal at the
doing. We have been growing in belief with
Euro. The objective was to go through. It was
every passing game and it has been incredible
a difficult game against an excellent team
so far.
and we expect more of the
same. Every game in this
tournament is tough.
So can you go on and lift the
trophy?
It is a dream and, as I say,
everything is possible. We
are on the right road.

58000

some experts as a Ronaldo vs Bale

supershow. But both players, who won
the Champions League together in
May, are refusing to talk about the contest in those terms.
Who will triumph and play the final
in Paris on Sunday? The players share
their thoughts ahead of the game...

ristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale normally play

on the same side for Real
Madrid; but in Lyon,
they will spearhead the
clashing parties, Portugal and Wales, in the first Euro semifinal. The match has been billed by

Portugals last
three knockout
matches at the
Euros have gone
into extra-time

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Portugal are
unbeaten in their
last 12 competitive
matches under
Fernando Santos

Ronaldo has
scored 2 goals
in 13 knockout
matches at
major meets

PORTUGAL

WALES

z Portugal are yet to win in 90 mins at this Euro.

However, they have not lost any of their five
matches at this tournament so far.

z Until now the only Welsh team to feature in

any Uefa semifinal were Cardiff City in the 196768 European Cup Winners Cup

47%

PASSING
ACCURACY

PORTUGAL

WALES

Goals

22

CRISTIANO
RONALDO
Goals

60

Portugal
appearances:

131

HEAD TO
HEAD

PORTUGAL
WINS

GARETH
BALE
Wales
appearances:

60

2 1

Previous
matches

16

Portugal: 1 Rui

23

Patricio; 21. Cedric, 3.

Pepe, 4. Jose Fonte, 5.
Raphael; 13. Danilo,
10. Joao Mrio, 23.
Adrien Silva, 16.
Renato Sanches; 17.
Nani, 7. Ronaldo

Wales: 1. Wayne

2
5
7

11

7
16

1
3
21

10
13

6
5
95
30
39
2652
2319
248
93
71

WALES
WINS

POSSIBLE
LINE-UPS

87%

17

20
19
3

Hennessey; 5. James
Chester, 6. Ashley
Williams, 19. James
Collins; 2. Chris
Gunter, 7. Joe Allen,
16. Joe Ledley, 20.
Jonathan Williams,
3. Neil Taylor; 11.
Gareth Bale, 9.
Robson-Kanu.

81%
Goals Scored

Goals Conceded
Total Attempts
Attempts on target
Corners
Total Passes
Passes Completed
Balls Recovered
Clearances
Fouls Committed

10
4
59
29
17
1816
1502
251
126
53

11
The previous
three matches
between the
two teams have
produced 11
goals

COACHES

WALES: CHRIS COLEMAN

PORTUGAL: FERNANDO SANTOS

Clash of Real Madrids left and right flanks

TOI EXCLUSIVE
DIEGO MARADONA feels the
contributions from Ronaldo
and Bale will make the first
semifinal a special match

t would have amused many

before the tournament,
had they been told
about a Wales versus Portugal semifinal. Quarterfinalists
in their only World
Cup appearance in
1958, the Red Dragons
have looked like anything but
novices in their first Euro finals. All European teams have
a sense of positional disci-

pline and Wales is no exception. Chris Colemans boys

have adapted well to the modern 3-5-2 formation. Blessed
with a dash of talent up front,
they prefer creating chances
on the break.
Average in comparison
against others in the last four,
Portugal have taken the difficult route and are still to win
in regulation time after five matches. But
they have displayed
tactical maturity in a
4-1-3-2 system in
reaching this stage for
the fourth time in five
editions since 2000. Talisman
(Cristiano Ronaldo) largely
off colour, the rest have made
up for it by playing for each

other, an invaluable trait in

major knockouts.
This will also be a clash between the left and right flanks
of Real Madrid! Its a team
game, where you do look up to
individuals like Ronaldo and
Bale, if you have them. Ball
control, speed and shooting
make them special. Their contributions will always be crucial because they can create
that decisive moment. So far,

Bale has contributed more to

his teams progress than Portugal have got from Ronaldo.
Both teams have key players
suspended. I can say that how
you overcome such problems in
these games shows what you are
made of. Portugals approach
has changed under Fernando
Santos. He doesnt bother about
looking pretty or being adventurous. Leaving Nani and Ronaldo up front, the team covers

space on their side and allows

little room to the opposition.
The ploy was effective against
Croatia and Poland. The Welsh
approach is similar. This makes
the tactical battle interesting.
Coming this far without
too much from their star
shows Portugals strength in
unity. Young Renato Sanches
has belied age to become a
massive presence in midfield,
with Pepe providing solidity
at the back. Its difficult to
pick favourites at this stage,
but Wales start with an edge.
But individual spark often becomes decisive. Portugal have
someone capable of providing
that. At 31, he would be wondering if this is his last shot
at international glory. PMG

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TIMES SPORT

FRANCE LOVES LES BLEUS AGAIN

After Years Of Underachievement, French Football Has Recaptured A Discontented Publics Imagination
AFP

Mark Ogden

t was a dog-eared free-sheet lying on the floor

of the Metro train heading into the Gare du
Nord, but the front page succinctly summed
up the changing mood of a nation towards its
football team.
La ballade des joueurs heureux (The ballad of
happy players) it proclaimed, with the image of
Frances new stars celebrating at the end of the 5-2
quarterfinal rout of Iceland at the Stade de France
on Sunday night.
It has taken time for France to fall in love with
Les Bleus once again.
The joyous scenes of unity which followed the
triumph in the 1998 World Cup, when Aime Jacquets
multi-cultural team brought the country together,
have long since been buried under the detritus of
tournament failure, the squad mutiny of South Africa 2010, the bust-up between Samir Nasri and previous coach Laurent Blanc and, just weeks before
Euro 2016 began, the omission from Didier Deschamps squad of Karim Benzema and Hatem Ben
Arfa, two of the most prominent players of North
African descent available to the national team.
There has also been the booing of Olivier Giroud
in pre-tournament games, but the win against Iceland
lit a flame ignited to some extent by the stirring second
victory over the Republic of Ireland in Lyon.
There was no booing or jeering in the Stade de
France on Sunday and, as Icelands heroic players celebrated their remarkable tournament with their own
supporters at the end of the game, the image of Deschamps and his players doing the same with the French
contingent hinted at the new bond between the country
and its team. Theres always been a lot of support over
the last few weeks and months, Deschamps insisted
after the game. We have wonderful support from the
people, and the players decided to react like that at the
end themselves. This team is loved by the fans. We dont
do everything perfectly although we did a lot well
against Iceland and commit to everything, but we
were able to put our foot down in the quarterfinal.
Giroud, who has endured a turbulent relationship
with the French supporters, was applauded off the
pitch following his two-goal display against Iceland.
And he admits that having been jeered prior to the
friendly against Scotland in Metz last month, the affection of the home crowd is a welcome change. Its
always nice to be cheered, Giroud said. But I have
no feeling of resentment from what went before, he
added. I think I have the right attitude when I am on
the pitch and I always give my maximum for the team.
With Germany looming in Thursdays semifinal
in Marseille, however, Giroud has thrown down the
gauntlet for the supporters by urging them to drive
the team on to victory in Stade Velodrome.
The fans were magnificent in Paris, but it will be
different against the world champions in Marseille,
Giroud said. So I hope the French fans support us as
enthusiastically as they did in Paris. They will support
us fully, but it is a semifinal in our home nation against
a great team and we need the supporters to get behind
us again to make the difference.
France has fond memories of Marseille, with the
epic 3-2 semifinal victory over Portugal at Euro 84
being played out at a raucous Stade Velodrome. It is
a venue which can be as brutal to France as it can
be passionate, with the Mediterranean port city
offering a wholly different dynamic to Paris.
But Deschamps, the World Cup-winning captain in
1998, expects home advantage to be a big factor in his
teams favour. Were playing in France, our own country, and well go all out for it, Deschamps said. Anything is possible. Were playing Germany. Were in the
semifinals. We have the right, as do the players, to enjoy
the fact were in the last four. Theres no danger of the
players switching off or wondering if weve succeeded
in the tournament and as for Germany, it wont be a
stroll in the park for them. We will go all out for it.
Eleven players and a supportive nation. Even
Germany may find that combination impossible to
overcome. THE INDEPENDENT

BACKING THEIR MAN:

French midfielder Paul
Pogba has emerged as
a fan favourite

or me, the winner

of Euro 2016 will
emerge from the
France-Germany semifinal. As far as I am concerned, that game is the
final. The two have taken opposing routes to get here, though.
While France ruthlessly
stopped Icelands dream run
in a clinically professional
display, and rubbed further
salt into English wounds,
Germany barely pulled off a
win against Italy after that
bizarre penalty shootout, in
a match marred by enough
yellow cards to last at least
two games. Of course, and
with all respect to Icelands
fantastic performance in this
tournament, France had an
easier opponent than Germany. And the Germans looked a
class act against Italy almost
all through, until that most
un-German moment when Jerome Boateng gave away a
silly penalty.
Until that point, Germany
had dominated the game tactically, and what followed was
probably pressure getting to
them, culminating in the very
entertaining, but uncharacteristic display of nerves during the shootout.
By contrast, Frances last
two opponents have been Ireland and Iceland. I would be
interested to see how they fare
against heavy hitters like Germany, who are just in the right
position to gather steam for
the final burst.
I have read that France havent defeated Germany in a
major tournament since 1958,
but I wouldnt give that fact
too much importance. As
things stand, a winner from
this game is hard to predict.
Germany will probably be

es, it is cute but, no, it is not safe.

UEFA explained on Tuesday why
it does not want players children to
join in post-match celebrations at the
European Championship. The scenes
of toddlers in full Wales kit joining
their dads on the pitch after another
Euro 2016 win has added to the
surprise semifinalists feel-good
story and delighted spectators.
However, UEFA has asked for no
more on-field family scenes when
Wales plays Portugal in Lyon on
Wednesday. It is a European
Championship not a family party,
UEFAs tournament director Martin
Kallen said at a briefing. A stadium
is not the most safe place for small
kids, Kallen said. There could be
problems if fans invaded the field,
and stadium staff operating
machinery on the playing surface
could also be an issue. Among the
most vivid and defining images of
Euro 2016 was Wales star Gareth Bale
laughing and chasing his three-yearold daughter, Alba Violet, across the
Parc des Princes pitch in Paris after a
1-0 win against Northern Ireland. AP
AFP

FRANCE HOPE TO END 32-YEAR STREAK OF HOST NATION FAILURES

Home advantage has counted little for host nations
in recent European Championship history. Since the
finals tournament era kicked off in 1980, only

HERES HOW FIVE EUROPEAN

CHAMPIONSHIP HOSTS FELL

of the Euro 2016 semifinals starting today. Still,

history teaches us that a semifinal is most often
the stumbling stage for home hopes.

THE NETHERLANDS, 2000

laying in Lisbon, with a star-packed lineup

against a Greece team of journeymen. A classic
from the Greek playbook: Another 1-0 win built on
tight marking, robust defence, a headed goal from a
rare scoring chance. Ronaldo left the field in tears
and is yet to win a title with Portugal.

without a few key

players, among them
Mario Gomez, Sami
Khedira and possibly
also
Bastian
Schweinsteiger, and
that could be a huge
source of wor ry.
However, as I said at the beginning of the tournament, Germany are the kind of team
who will find ways to win in
big tournaments, no matter
who is on the pitch.
Meanwhile, Wales have
surprised everybody with
their perfor mance, and I
would give full credit to their
manager, Chris Coleman.
They have defended solidly
and with passion and the days
of them being called a oneman team, when Ryan Giggs
was playing, seem to be well
behind them.
Wales have had good players over the years, but never
really achieved anything big.
Today, thanks to the likes of
Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey, they seem to be getting
better with every game.
They have shown an uncanny ability to hit teams on
the brake, and though Ramsey
will be badly missed in the
semifinal, I would imagine
them doing a Leicester City
against Portugal, defending
really well, running behind
the opposition, and stopping
the latter from pushing up.
Portugal have looked a bit
of a one-man team, but they
do have Renato Sanches in
midfield who is very impressive, and despite a few close
games they should have won
more comfortably, they still
have plenty of quality. Their
soft underbelly is that they
sometimes fail at the wrong
time, and a determined and
organised Wales will make
things difficult for them.

France have kept the trophy at home 32 years

ago with Michel Platini in his prime. France can
take some home comfort from this exception ahead

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PORTUGAL, 2004

Germany always find

a way to win majors
Peter Shilton

KEEP YOUR KIDS OFF

GRASS, STARS TOLD

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fter Italy was down to 10

men from the 34th minute in
Amsterdam, the Dutch failed
with two penalty kicks in 90
minutes and three out of four in
the shootout after extra-time.
Francesco Toldo saved Frank de
Boers first-half spot-kick and
watched Patrick Kluivert strike
the post in the second half.
Though Kluivert scored in the
shootout, De Boer missed again
and Italy won it 3-1.

t was the first-ever game at the

Euro finals meet. The exciting game
produced nine goals with six coming
in the second session.

2 1976: YUGOSLAVIA 2-4 WEST

GERMANY (AET)

Y
SWEDEN, 1992

n the last eight-team

European Championship,
Sweden was ousted in the
semifinals by a newly unified
Germany team. Karl-Heinz
Riedle, scored twice in a 3-2
win, though Denmark would
stop Germany getting
back-to-back titles.

ENGLAND, 1996

WEST GERMANY, 1988

ngland have never again been as close to success

since a semifinals loss to Germany. This 1-1 draw at
Wembley Stadium is recalled as one of the best in the
era of the Golden Goal rule, when the first goal scored
in extra time ended the game. Germany, inevitably,
won the shootout and Andreas Moeller celebrated his
decisive spot-kick with a chest-strutting, peacock pose.

or once, the Netherlands got the better of West

Germany in a major event. The teams traded goals
from penalties in Hamburg, before Marco van Bastens
88th-minute winner. The tie is also remembered for
what happened after. Ronald Koeman swapped shirts
with Olaf Thon before delighting visiting fans by acting
out wiping his backside with the white shirt. AP

Brexit will be a headache for British sport

Ken Belson and Jamie Trecker

he consequences of Britains vote to leave the European Union will take years
to sort out, but sports teams
are starting to prepare for a potentially rocky transition that could
make it harder for them to acquire
international players from elsewhere on the continent and potentially raise the cost of signing them.
In the worst case, British football, rugby and cricket teams would
have difficulty acquiring athletes
from the other 27 European Union
countries, particularly younger
players that many teams recruit to
their academies and youth teams,
if the free passage of citizens between European Union nations
were curtailed. This could provide
an opening for British athletes who
have not been able to win roster
spots, but it could also dilute the
international appeal of Englands
Premier League.
Interest from wealthy foreigners
wanting to buy British teams could
also sag if the British economy
slows, or if the quality of play suf-

z 332 European nationals play in

the top two divisions in England

and Scotland
z 196 internationals in the Premier
League alone
z Chelsea have 19 players from the

fers. A steep decline in the value of

the pound might make it cheaper to
buy teams, but it could also hurt the
value of the clubs.
There would be discount for
going into the EPL, but then, theoretically, profits and revenues are
devalued, too, said Rob Tilliss, who
founded Inner Circle Sports, a
sports advisory firm. But the product is so good now that theyll figure
out how to make it work.
The Premier League and other
sports associations, as well as
broadcasters and others with a vested interest in British sports, might
also lobby for exemptions so that
the current visa-free passage between Britain and the European
Union which supporters of Brit-

European Union
z Liverpool has 17 players from
the European Union
z Uniteds Anthony Martial and
David de Gea, Chelseas Branislav
Ivanovic, and Liverpools Mario
Balotelli may not meet the new
standards

ains exit opposed could continue

for athletes.
They are a very powerful
league, and they have lots of supporters in high places, said John
Williams, the director of the Centre
for the Sociology of Sport at the
University of Leicester.
Williams expects exemptions to
be made for athletes and other
workers with unique skills. They
speak the same language as the
global TV partners, and they want
to project themselves as global partners, he said. It seems to me the
Premier League is bombproof.
Rules, of course, can be changed:
Norway and Switzerland adjusted
their work-permit rules to gain access to the European common mar-

ket. The biggest impact would be

felt in football, where 332 European
nationals play in the top two divisions in England and Scotland, according to a study commissioned by
the BBC in March. A more recent
count by Sky Sports found 196 internationals in the Premier League
alone. An analysis by The New York
Times showed that a vast majority
of these players would be unable to
pass the work-permit tests that
were installed as part of new rules
implemented in 2015 by the Home
Office after prompting by the Football Association. Those rules were
intended to help English players by
making it more difficult for European Union players who are 18 and
under to join British clubs. They
also require even an established
player to appear in up to 75% of his
home countrys national team
games, with a sliding scale based
on FIFA world rankings. The rules
were largely toothless when they
were enacted because, according to
the rules of the European Union
charter, no member nation can discriminate on the basis of national
origin. NYT NEWS SERVICE

Grand Reykjavik welcome for Iceland heroes

Reykjavik: Icelands footballers
received a heroes welcome on returning home following their astonishing run to the Euro 2016 quarterfinals in France.
Their plane flew low over the capital Reykjavik before landing at Keflavik airport where the local fire services gave them a fire hose guard of
honour with shooting water creating
a rainbow. Striker Kolbeinn Sigthorsson, who scored a consolation goal in
the crushing 5-2 defeat to the hosts at
the Stade de France on Sunday, said
he was happy to be home.
It was a dream come true to get
that support, he said of the estimated 30,000 fans - some 10% of the
population - who followed the nation in France. We experienced
something simply wonderful, it was

With the semifinals about to begin,

we have a look at some of the
famous semifinals in the history
of the tournament
1 1960: FRANCE 4-5 YUGOSLAVIA

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TALKING POINTS

EPIC SEMIFINALS

Reuters

COOL CUSTOMERS: The Iceland

team during a parade in
Reykjavik on Monday

a dream come true and we are

proud to have brought such cheer
to our country, he said, adding that
the friendly behaviour of the fans
had done the country proud.
The players were then paraded
through the streets of the capital
on a double decker bus in the direction of Arnarholl Park, to celebrate
with their fans and sing the famous
huh the Viking war chant
which is actually Scottish, punctuated by hand clapping.
Fairy tales still exist! Its rare
if indeed this has ever happened
to unite us Icelanders as you did
on the football pitch, Prime Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson told
the team in downtown Reykjavik,
to the resounding cheers of tens of
thousands of supporters. AFP

ugoslavia had forged into a 2-0

lead by the 30th minute before
West Germany turned things around.
Heinz Flohe and Dieter Mueller struck
in the second session to make it 2-2
before Mueller scored two more in
the extra-time to seal the deal.

3 1984: FRANCE 3-2 PORTUGAL

(AET)

rance took the lead through JeanFranois Domergue before Rui

Jordao equalised in the 74th minute.
The latter then put Portugal ahead in
the extra-time. But, Michel Platini
set-up Domergue to make it 2-2
before scoring the winner himself.

4 1988: WEST GERMANY 1-2

NETHERLANDS

t was Lothar Matthaus who put

West Germany ahead early in the
second session but two goals in a
span of 14 minutes by Ronald
Koeman and Marco van Basten
sealed the deal for Netherlands.

5 2008: GERMANY 3-2 TURKEY

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t was one of those games that

literally went down to the wire with
Philipp Lahm scoring the winner for
Germany in the 90th minute. Turkey
had taken the lead at first but
Germany scored twice after that to
make it 2-1. Turkey managed to make
it 2-2 four minutes from time but it
was Germany who had the last laugh.
SOURCE: UEFA.COM

SANCHES ACCUSED
OF AGE FUDGING

ortugals 18-year old sensation

Renato Sanches has now landed
in a controversy as there are
allegations that his actual age is 24,
accroding to Spanish newspaper AS.
French coach Guy Roux feels that he
would be about 23-24 years old.
Official records show that Renato,
who has been signed by Bayern
Munich, is born on August 18, 1997
but the confusion has cropped up as
it was found in an investigation by
Jornal de Noticias newspaper that the
players date of birth was registered
only in 2002. The separation of his
parents is being cited as a reason for
the late registration.
This is not the first time that
questions about his age has come
up and Sanches had previously
refuted such claims.

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Neeraj a win away from Oly berth

New Delhi: WBC Asian champion Neeraj Goyat was the lone Indian left in fray
for an Olympic berth after he entered the
semifinals even as other two bowed out
following first round losses in the International Boxing Associations Olympic
Qualifying Tournament for professional boxers in Vargas, Venezuela.
The 24-year-old Neeraj (69kg) defeated Greeces Dimitrios Poulikos Tsagkrakos 3-0 and will be up against secondseeded German Arajik Marutjan, a former European Championships silvermedallist, in the semifinals on Thursday.
Neeraj will be assured of an Olympic
berth if he wins the next bout but in case
he loses, the Indian will have another

chance of qualifying for the Rio Games

through the box-off between losing semifinalists.
However, it was curtains for Gaurav
Bidhuri (52kg) and Dilbag Singh (81kg).
While Dilbag was beaten 1-2 by Moldovas Petru Ciobanu, Gaurav lost to Ukra-

RIO DREAMS
ines Maksym Fatych in the opening round.
The competition has 26 Rio Quota
Places on offer three in every weight
category except heavyweight (91kg) and
super heavyweight (91+kg), from which
only the winners will earn an Olympic

spot. The tournament features boxers

from AIBAs own professional events
the World Series of Boxing (WSB) and
AIBA Pro Boxing (APB) besides pro
boxers from all over the world.
However, none of the big names in
the pro circuit have made themselves available for the event, citing reasons ranging from fitness, lack of time for preparation and the threat of sanctions by their promoters and licensing bodies like
the WBO and the IBA.
So far, three Indian boxers Shiva
Thapa (56kg), Manoj Kumar (64kg) and
Vikas Krishan (75kg) have booked their tickets for the Olympics through qualifiers for amateurs. PTI

Rusty Aditya crashes out

Hyderabad: Lack of match
play was evident as Aditya
Mehta, who was coming off an
injury break, crashed out in
the qualifier round of the Indi-

Perfect match ends 1-0

Dynamos Coach
Zambrotta Shares
His Football Wisdom
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New Delhi: Indian Super League

(ISL) club Delhi Dynamos has ditched Jogo Bonito for Catenaccio
by announcing former Italian fullback Gianluca Zambrotta as their
new marquee manager for the third
edition of ISL later this year.
The 39-year-old World Cup winner replaces Brazilian legend Roberto Carlos at the helm
of affairs and has
signed a two-year
contract. The former Juventus, Barcelona and Milan
player said he was
greatly influenced by Italian legend
and good friend Alessandro Del Peiro Dynamos marquee player in the
first season to take up the job. Excerpts from an interview:

Whats your vision for the

Dynamos?
My aim will be make the boys
play attacking football while having
a strong and organized defence. My
primary goal will be to win trophies.

Your thoughts on the

Italy-Germany game...
Its a pity. Italy had the potential
to reach the final. There is always
pressure while taking penalties

its like a lottery. Germany were never going to be easy.

Your choice in the semifinal

between Germany and France?
Your team for the final?
France are playing at home so
they have a great chance of winning.
Germany are a great team too. I
dont know who will win the final. I
am hoping it is a surprise. Lets hope
we have a fairytale ending.

What is so special about

Italian defending?
If we take the example of Italys
Euro 16 squad, the players knew
each other really well, had great camaraderie and understood each
other. Not only did they have a good
defence, I think they had a great attack as well.

Conte has praised the team and

said that Italy is not just about
Catenaccio. Would you agree?
In 2006, when we won the World
Cup, we did so because we had the
best defence. I hope that answers your question. Catenaccio is typically
an Italian characteristic and other
teams dont really follow this. It is very difficult to teach this.

Fabio Cannavaro once said that

a perfect match ends 0-0. Would
you agree?
A perfect football match ends 1-0.
That margin is more than enough to
move forward.

Maldini, Cannavaro, Nesta tell

us about the golden generation of
defenders in the Italian squad.
How do you see the current one?

Swimmers Sajan and

Shivani selected for Rio
New Delhi: With no Indian
swimmer managing to achieve the A qualification mark
for Rio Olympics, the Swimming Federation of India
(SFI) on Tuesday selected
Keralas Sajan Prakash and
Haryanas Shivani Kataria
to represent the country at
the Games. India have got
two quota for the Olympics.
The two swimmers will participate in the Games under
Universality quota.
The A qualification
mark would have ensured
direct entry to the Rio Olympics. A total of five swimmers including Sandeep Sej-

wal (100m & 200m breaststroke), Sajan Prakash

(200m butterfly, 400m &
1500m freestyle), Supriyo
Mondal (200m butterfly),
Virdhawal Khade (50m freestyle) and Saurabh Sangvekar (400m freestyle) have
made the B cut.
Sajan, who has been training in Phuket along with
Shivani Kataria under a FINA scholarship, was the second best in terms of FINA
points after Asian Games
bronze medalist Sejwal who
had 822 points in 200m breaststroke and 808 points in
100m breaststroke. TNN

Best player you have played

with and against?
Lionel Messi is the best footballer I played with him at Barcelona
during my career. Luis Figo used to
be my favourite opponent.

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Should Messi retire?

No! He is just 29, too young to retire. For me Messi is first, Ronaldo comes second and Neymar is third.

Best coach you have

played under?
Marcelo Lippi had a great impact on my career. I played so many
years under him at Juventus and in
the national team. He was the one
who shifted my position (to rightback).

A number of old clubs are

shutting down in India. Would you
support something like that in
your country?
It is a common thing going around the whole world. If clubs cannot
support themselves financially, then
obviously this is what will happen.
This is the flip side of the game. However, I still believe clubs should have the opportunity to participate in
leagues.

Berlusconi ready
to sell AC Milan
Milan: Italys billionaire former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday he was
ready to sell AC Milan to a Chinese investor as
long as 400 million euros are invested in the
struggling Serie A giants over two years.
I gave up all claims to the price, I accepted
what was offered to me, which does not even take into account the importance of the brand,
Berlusconi said. The 79-year-old media mogul
did not name the investor but said it was a Chinese company with public capital.

Barca hit by 47-million-euro property ruling

Barcelona: Barcelona must pay 47 million euros to a real-estate firm for a cancelled land sale
after a court ruling, the club said on Tuesday, in
the latest financial blow to the Spanish football
giants. AFP

Manchester City counterpart Pep

Guardiola.
United is in need of both a quickfix and long-term stability after David Moyes and Louis van Gaal
struggled as successors to Alex Ferguson, whose 26-year reign ended in
2013. Mourinho was presented to
the media for the first time as Uni-

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an Open world-ranking snooker event at the HICC here on

Tuesday. Mehta, 30, Indias main hope along with Pankaj Advani, failed to get going against

Unfortunately, a generation of
important Italian defenders (Nesta,
Maldini, Cannavaro, etc.) came to an
end in the last few years. I believe
this current Italian team is doing
pretty well. Of course, Conte is no
longer with the team anymore It will
be interesting to see who the next coach is and how he can take the team
forward.

Mourinho focuses on reviving United

Manchester: Jose Mourinho set

out his vision to revive Man United
and defended his record promoting youngsters on Tuesday, cutting out his
usual bluster and
eschewing fueling the rivalry with

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time. The last time I won a title was
one year ago, not
10 years ago or 15
years ago so if I
have a lot to prove, imagine the
others. AFP

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Englands Jimmy Robertson,

losing 0-4 in a match that never
rose above the mediocre. It was
a poor advertisement for the
sport and the organisers would
have hoped that some other
match had been televised live.
For, both players committed

too many errors. The match actually sputtered to life only in

the fourth frame when Robertson, ranked No.34 in the world,
cut a long red to the top righthand pocket to construct a fluent 63 that culminated with an
error on the last red. TNN

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VENUS RISING AGAIN

Sania-Dodig
pair crashes out

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36-Year-Old Makes First Semis Since 2009;

34-Year-Old Sister Serena Also In Last Four

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London: Theres something regal, something inscrutable about

Venus Williams. Shes playing a
high-voltage tennis match but
she could be walking in the park,
speeding on the highway, the
wind blowing through her hair,
or sketching flowy fashion for
her designer line.
Its a face that doesnt give
much away.
It was the same calm and serene countenance at 2-5 down in
the tie-break of her opening essay in the quarterfinal, Venus
first appearance at this stage of
The Championships since 2010.
Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova,
ranked almost 90 places
behind the American,
appeared to have packed
one too many guns on
the day. Particularly on
her backhand that
matched her smile in
range and radiance.
But Venus merely tugged at
her cap and got on with it. The
36-year-old American won five
straight points to clinch the set
and then went on to establish a
stranglehold on the match, closing out on her second match
point. Venus won 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 in
one hour and 42 minutes to make
her first semifinal here since 2009.
Venus, who clenched her fists
and shouted come on after the
96th-ranked Shvedovas forehand landed long on her second
matchpoint, finally ripped off
the mask, letting the joy show.
What a tough day it was on
the court, she said. She was
ahead 5-2 in the tie-break and
then somehow I managed to win
it. She played well, fought hard
in her first Grand Slam quarterfinal. In the end, she got the
crowd involved too. It was an
entertaining match. Its great to
be in the semifinals. Im obviously happy to be playing tennis.
I love playing, but winning

SECOND COMING: Venus

Williams serves to Yaroslava
Shvedova during their
quarterfinal clash

London: Indias Sania Mirza and Croatias Ivan

Dodig, top-seeds in the mixed-doubles, ran into
rough weather against inspired opposition on a
blow-hot, blow-cold day at Wimbledon.
The Indo-Croatian pairing crashed to a 6-4,
3-6, 5-7 loss to the British wildcard combine of
Neal Skupski and Anna Smith.
On an outside showcourt, Sania and Dodig
raced ahead, 3-0 and then 5-2, in the deciding set,
making the second look like a blip. But cheered
on by a local crowd, that had a sprinkling of Indians, Skupski and Smith rallied to level at 5-all
and then broke the Hyderabadi to take a 6-5 lead
before Smith served out the match.
Meanwhile, late on Monday, defending champions Leander Paes and Martina Hingis edged
out the challenge of Kiwi Artem Sitak and German Laura Siegemund 6-4, 6-4 in a second round
encounter. Paes and Hingis, who have won four
of the last six mixed-doubles Grand Slams,
trailed 0-3 in the second set, but came back
strongly to clinch the match.
The 13th-seeds Rohan Bopanna of India and
Anastasia Rodionova of Australia bowed out of
the mixed-doubles, falling to the Colombian pairing of Juan-Sebastian Cabal and Mariana DuqueMarino 6-7 (5-7), 3-6 in the third round.

KARMAN BOWS OUT: Indias Karman Kaur

5-Simona Halep 7-5, 7-6(2);
Elena Vesnina bt 19-Dominika
Cibulkova 6-2, 6-2

RESULTS

WOMENS QF
1-Serena Williams bt
21-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
6-4, 6-4; 8-Venus Williams bt
Yaroslava Shvedova 7-6(5),
6-2; 4-Angelique Kerber bt
makes it sweeter.
The five-time champion will
play the Australian Open winner
Angelique Kerber who knocked
out the fifth-seed Simona Halep
of Romania 7-5, 7-6 (7-2) in 90 minutes in the last four.
Meanwhile top-seed and defending champion Serena Williams, whose match on Centre
Court started just as her older
sisters was ending, said she
knew Venus was leading 5-2 in
the second set as she got on court.
Then the scoreboard showed the
result, a beaming Serena said.
The 34-year-old, chasing her
22nd Grand Slam crown to equal
Steffi Graf s Open era record,

MENS RD 4
10-Tomas Berdych bt Jiri
Vesely 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (10/8),
6-7 (9/11), 6-3

oger Federer has played quite

a few of the super coaches in
business today and not
surprisingly he has a winning
record against all but one of them,
Spaniard Sergi Bruguera.
The superstar Swiss said he
particularly enjoyed the time he spent
with former Wimbledon champion
Goran Ivanisevic playing the IPTL last
year. I love Goran. I played against
him, Federer said. I loved every
moment we spent together.
The 34-year-olds head-to-head
record with the men in the hot
seats: Ivanisevic 2-0; Lleyton
Hewitt 18-9; Michael Chang 4-1;
Richard Krajicek 2-0; Ivan Ljubicic
13-3; Magnus Norman 1-0;
Sergi Bruguera 0-1.

THE SUPPORT STAFF

COACHED BY
BORIS BECKER
Aged 48
(Germany),
(Grand Slams, 6).

World No. 2 Andy Murray

(Great Britain) (Grand
Slams won, 2)

COACHED BY
IVAN LENDL
Aged 56 (USA)
(Grand Slams
won, 8).

London: Eoin Morgan said Monday he had

a big concern regarding safety and
security on England's tour of Bangladesh
later this year. England's limited overs
captain also said it was possible that the
England and Wales Cricket Board could ask
for the matches to be moved to a neutral
venue. England are scheduled to arrive in
Bangladesh on September 30 to play two
Tests and three one-day internationals.
Morgan said England players would wait
for the latest security information from the
ECB before making decisions about it.

ASHWIN BEST SPINNER NOW: MURALI

Sydney: Sri Lankan legend Muttiah Muralitharan on Tuesday rated Indias Ravichandran Ashwin as the best in the business among the current crop of off-spinners. Muralitharan also hailed Austrlian
Nathan Lyon, who he feels bowls in different conditions. Ashwin, I think, is on the
top at the moment as the best current Test
spinner, Muralidaran was quoted as
saying by Cricket Australias (CA) website.
Lyon is a very good bowler, a very good
off-spinner.

TRESCOTHICK ISSUES AMIR WARNING

Taunton: Marcus Trescothick warned
Englands batsmen to expect a tough time
in the middle facing Mohammad Amir after
he became the Pakistanis maiden firstclass wicket on English soil in six years on
Monday. Amir took three for 36 in Pakistans opening match of the tour against
Somerset. He bowled very well, said
Trescothick, whose nine-balls faced on
Monday were all bowled by Amir.

PINK BALL TEST STILL LONG WAY

OFF, SAYS KUMBLE
New Delhi: Indian teams head coach Anil
Kumble said on Tuesday that the Pink Ball
Test is still a long way even though he
conceded that Day/Night Tests is the
future. We havent thought about pink ball
yet. Its still a long way. We will be playing
with the red ball in the West Indies. I would
like to take one match at a time. The West
Indies series is important for us. We have
practised (at NCA Bengaluru) for last six
days with the red ball. Once we start looking at pink balls, we will start preparing
for it, Kumble said. AGENCIES

World No. 5 Stan Wawrinka

(Switzerland) (Grand Slams
won, 2)

London: Spains Marcel Granollers and Pablo

Cuevas of Uruguay face being fined after a bizarre
sit-down protest in a Wimbledon doubles match
on Monday after they were refused permission to
take a bathroom break. The pair lost 6-3, 4-6, 6-4,
3-6, 14-12 to Britains Jonny Marray and Canadas
Adil Shamasdin, but the result was overshadowed
by final set controversy.
Cuevas, 30, had been given a code violation
earlier in the set after threatening to urinate into a
ball can after he was refused permission to take a
comfort break by French umpire Aurelie Tourte. The
pair then received a second warning and a point
penalty when Cuevas smacked a ball out of court,
giving Marray and Shamasdin match point. AFP

Aged 40
(Sweden) (No
Slams, Highest
Ranking no.2) and
Richard Krajicek - Aged 44,
(Netherlands) (Grand Slams
won, 1).

World No. 13

COACHED BY
MICHAEL CHANG
Aged 44 (USA)
(Grand Slams won, 1).

World No. 7 Milos Raonic (CAN)

(No Slams, highest
ranking 4)
COACHED BY
JOHN MCENROE

COACHED BY
MAGNUS
NORMAN

Aged 45 (Spain)
(Grand Slam titles
won, 2)

Nishikori (Japan) (No

Slams, Highest
ranking no. 4)

COACHED BY
IVAN LJUBICIC
Aged 37 (Croatia)
(No Slams, Highest
ranking no.3).

DOUBLES PAIR PROTESTS

OVER BATHROOM BREAK

World No. 6 Kei

(Switzerland) (Grand Slams

won, 17)

(Serbia), (Grand Slams

won, 12)

MORGAN REVEALS BIG

CONCERN OVER SAFETY

Cibulkova wouldnt have to push

back her weekend wedding plans
by putting her out of the tournament 6-2, 6-2 in the last of the
quarterfinals.
Vesnina, who got married to
Pavel Tabuntsov in November
last year, said marriage suited
her. I went through a bad time
last year, my ranking dropped
out of the top-100. I was very low,
but I think its an experience
every tennis player must go
through. Then you earn your
ranking again, Vesnina said.
Today we played a good match,
Im very happy that I was able to
hold my level through the entire
match, the Russian said.

World No. 3 Roger Federer

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic

GALLERY

Venus Williams | US

knocked out Russian Anastasia

Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 6-4 in 73
minutes in another quarterfinal
clash. The sisters, who will be on
court again later in the evening,
playing doubles, rarely talk
about their matches, however.
Its exciting for me to get
through to the semifinals, Serena said. Were both in the
semis. I really wish she can win,
if I dont get to the final. If I get
there, I want to win. But before
that, theres the semifinals
which we need to focus on.
In the last four the world No.1
will play the world No. 50 Russian Elena Vesnina, who ensured
the bride-to-be Slovak Dominika

TOP GUNS AND SUPER COACHES

Retiring is the
easy way out. I
dont have time
for easy. Tennis is just hard.
You have to let fear go.

Thandi bowed out of the junior girls singles

draw, falling to qualifier Mariam Bolkavadze
of Georgia 6-4, 2-6, 2-6 in a second round clash
that went a little over two hours.
The big-serving Indian, had more winners
than her left-handed opponent (28 to 19), but had
more than double the number of unforced errors
(52 to 25) which in the end cost her the match.

Marin Cilic (Croatia)

(Grand Slams won, 1)

COACHED BY
GORAN
IVANISEVIC
Aged 44 (Croatia)
(Grand Slam titles
won, 1).

World No. 19 Bernard

Aged 57 (USA)
(Grand Slam titles
won, 7).

(France) (No Slams, highest

ranking no.7)

Aged 35 (Aus)
(Grand Slam
titles won, 2)

COACHED BY
SERGI BRUGUERA

Brazil awaits you Ponting calls

with open arms for regulation

CLOUD OVER BOLTS

PARTICIPATION
Theres little doubt that Usain Bolt was the face of the
last two Olympic Games at
Beijing in 2008 and London
in 2012. But the revelation
last week that he is
nursing a hamstring
injury has shocked his
fans the world over.
They are eagerly waiting

Michel Temer

for the meeting of the Jamaican Athletics Administrative

Association (JAAA) committee
on Thursday which will consider
Bolts medical exemption, and
ensure a possible last-minute
entry for the all-time great.

A FINE BALANCE
FOR RUSSIA
Russias participation at Rio too hangs
by the thread as the
Court of Arbitration
for Sport (CAS) is
likely to sort out the
dispute between its
athletes, the Russian
Olympic Committee
and the governing body of
world athletics, IAAF, by July
21 on whether the one-time
super powers at the Olympics
can head to the Brazilian city.
The countrys track and field
stars have been suspended
from international competition since November
last year following a
WADA report and
are barred from
the Games as
a punishment
for systematic doping
problems.

30

IS BRAZIL READY TO
WELCOME WORLD?
Rio is in the final stages of its
preparation for the Games and as
per reports last week, construction work on the Olympic Park
had reached 99 per
cent. According to officials, five of the nine
venues at the park
the Arena Carioca
1 (basketball), Arena
Carioca 2 (judo, wrestling), Arena Carioca 3
(taekwondo, fencing),
Future Arena (handDAYS
ball) and the aquatic
TO GO
centre (swimming)
are fully ready for
D Day. Also, tourism authorities
claim about 5,00,000 tourists are
likely to flock to Rio.

CAN INDIA BETTER

LONDON TALLY?
India have a challenge on hand,
and a major one at that. They
returned with six medals from
London Olympics, so the standards have been set pretty high
for a country that is still finding
its feet in the Olympic arena.
Three of the medallists wrestler
Sushil Kumar, boxer MC Mary
Kom and shooter Vijay Kumar
are not part of the contingent,

ve worked hard and it's a

combination of fire and ice.
I think I love winning. And
because I enjoy playing and
winning games, I still have
that grit.
What, according to you, are
the highlights of your amazing career?
I would say the real high point
was winning my first Wimbledon in 2003 and then reaching World No. 1 in 2004.
You missed the French
Open this year through injury and are 35 now. How
long can you keep going?
I will carry on as long as I am
injury free and enjoying it
and can still compete. If the
passion and results are there,
I will play for some time.
How do you relate to the
pressure Novak Djokovic
was on to maintain his winning run, before he lost to
Sam Querrey?
The pressure can be good
and bad. When you are chasing something (like a Grand
Slam record) it can be unbelievably cool as you are so
motivated to achieve it. I am
sure Novak will be fine for
the American summer and
be super tough to beat. He
will go down as one of the
greatest players in history.
How is it having your two
sets of twins with you at a
tournament?
The girls enjoy the travelling life and like tennis enough to watch me from time
to time. They also like to
bring books in case they get
bored, but I didn't allow it at
Wimbledon. The boys have
been to practice with me.
They all fill me with a lot of
happiness and I think it makes me play better. TCM

BY
LLEYTON
HEWITT

World No.10 Richard Gasquet

It is now just one month

until the first Olympic
Games in South
America get underway
and Rio de Janeiro is
ready for its big
moment. TOI lists five
major talking points in
the run-up to the
quadrennial spectacle

The fear of a deadly Zika outbreak at the Olympics has dominated headlines across the world
for the past few months and has
been responsible for a host of
prominent athletes withdrawing
from the mega event.
Cyclist Tejay van Garderen
was the first US athlete to
withdraw from the Games after
raising concerns about the virus
and the potential effects it could
have on his pregnant wife. As
of date, seven of golfs Major
winners including Jason Day,
Shane Lowry, Adam Scott, Louis
Oosthuizen , Charl Schwartzel,
Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell
and Vijay Singh have withdrawn.
Basketball stars Stephen
Curry and LeBron James too
have pulled out citing they were
in need of rest.

ugust 8 is his 35th birthday, and Roger Federer

may be the oldest player
in the draw. But age doesnt seem to have slowed him down.
The winner of a record
17
Grand
Slam titles is still
going deep into the
second
week of Grand Slams. In this
exclusive interview to TOI,
Federer offers insights on
what keeps him going and
how he juggles fatherhood
and tennis.
Excerpts:
What is your earliest recollection of the game?
I started as soon as I could
hold a racket, aged two or
three. My parents played
sport at the weekend and I would run around and play against a wall.
You werent always so calm
and cool on court...
No way. Early in my career I
was good at throwing rackets
and would commentate after
every point. One time I played
Marat Safin in Rome. He had a
temper too and we were both
breaking rackets and doing
crazy stuff in the match. In
the locker room afterwards I
was watching the highlights
and they were all about who
was throwing the racket better. I thought this is not why
we are on court. It was then
that I said, From this moment on I have to change.
Everyone talks about your
abilities, your talent, but
you have had to work tremendously hard too...
It is not all about talent. I ha-

Tomic (Aus) (No Slams, highest

ranking 17)COACHED

Ready for carnival?

ZIKA THREAT LEADS

TO STAR PULLOUTS

THROWING THE
RACQUET CAME
EASY TO ME ONCE

but there are several other genuine contenders across disciplines

who can win medals in Rio.

7000
Number of athletes who
have competed in test
events that have put staff
and the venues through their
paces. Officials claim that
every venue is now ready for
competition

37 42
306
206
Venues

Disciplines

Events

Countries

ODAY, one month before the worlds

greatest sporting event is scheduled
to begin, Brazil can say with confidence: we are ready to host the first Olympic and Paralympic Games to take place in
South America. The Olympic Village, housing more than 17,000 participating athletes
in one of Rio de Janeiros most beautiful
settings, has just been inaugurated. All
sports facilities, especially those serving
the Olympic Park in the Barra da Tijuca
neighborhood, are also up and ready.
The country has put together a solid
security program of 85,000
federal, state, and municipal government personnel
to ensure that sporting
events take place in an atmosphere of absolute
peace and tranquility.
Over the past few years,
our country has developed
an expertise in hosting mega-events on an
international scale. We hosted the World
Cup, the Pan-American Games, the World
Military Games, World Youth Day and the
Confederations Cup all unanimous successes, which we conducted in a spirit of
excellence, dedication and with the characteristic Brazilian joie de vivre. And now,
another success is on its way.
The Games will show the world one of
the major global economies at work in a
mature democracy: a country with great
business potential that at the same time
has set the standard for policies to fight
inequality. Rio de Janeiro is expected to
receive hundreds of thousands of visitors
from Brazil and abroad during the Games,
while the five Soccer Cities -- So Paulo,
Salvador, Manaus, Braslia and Belo Horizonte will also find themselves inundated with local and foreign fans.
Over the past few weeks, rumour of the
possibility of an outbreak of tropical-disease during the Games has circulated. We
can assure you as has the World Health
Organization that the risk of Zika infection during the Games is practically nonexistent. Brazil is ready to receive visitors
who will be enjoying the pleasure of watching the worlds elite athletes compete.
(Michel Temer is the interim President
of Brazil)

of bat size in
Test matches
Sydney: Expressing concern
over the size and weight of
bats used in Test cricket, former Australia skipper Ricky
Ponting on Tuesday said he
will take up the matter at the
next meeting of the Marylebone Cricket Clubs world cricket committee at Lords early
next week.
The World Cup-winning
skipper called for regulation
of size to ensure a greater balance between
bat and ball as
the
current
laws only limit
the length and
width of bats, not the depth or
weight. Ponting said he had no
problem with such bats being
used in the shorter formats
but believed they should be
banned from Test cricket.
I think it will happen. I
am going in a couple of weeks
for a world cricket committee
meeting and that will be one
of the topics talked about. I
dont mind it for the shorter
versions of the game, Ponting was quoted as saying by
espncricinfo.
I would actually say youve got a bat you can use in
Test cricket and a certain type of bat you can use in oneday cricket and T20 cricket.
The short forms of the game
survive on boundaries - fours
and sixes - whereas the Test
game is being dominated too
much now by batters because
the game is a bit easier for
them than it was.
Ponting argued that the
main issue was the use of
lightweight materials with
extremely thick edges, like
the ones used by Aussie opener David Warner. IANS

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Samik Sen

A PEEK INTO SOME OF HER

GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENTS IN
THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS:
Launch of Quantico in the
US, supported by a major
marketing blitzkrieg across
America, with Priyanka as the
main lead. The show was an
instant hit and renewed for a
second season. It has been
licensed in 212 territories and
dubbed in 56 languages
around the world
She was signed on to play
the villain in the big screen
adaptation of Baywatch
alongside Dwayne The Rock
Johnson and Zac Efron
among others
Featured on Time Magazines
100 Most Influential People
list. Also the only Indian to be
on the cover of Time magazine
in the US
Attended the annual White
House Correspondents
Dinner hosted by US President
Barack Obama
Winner of the Peoples Choice
Awards Favorite Actress In A
New TV Series for her role as
Alex Parrish in the hit ABC
drama Quantico
Appearances on the most
sought-after talk shows
including Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy
Kimmel, Good Morning America
and Live With Kelly and Michael
On the cover of prestigious US
magazines such as Elle,
InStyle, Complex and Emmy
among others
On the cover of magazines
across the world from Germany
and Italy to Malaysia

Priyanka
Chopra arrives
at Delhi airport
on Tuesday

PRIYANKA CHOPRA
INDIAS FIRST TRULY
GLOBAL SUPERSTAR
Meena.Iyer@timesgroup.com
n the past one year, Priyanka Chopra has literally
captured the imagination of the entertainment world.
After debuting in a hot TV show, she followed it up
with appearances on the most sought-after talk shows,
red carpets, billboards across America and invitations
to the most prestigious events including the White House
Correspondents Dinner hosted by US President Barack
Obama. She also featured in Time Magazines 100 Most
Influential People of the world list and on the US Time
cover among others. All these achievements have seen
her emerge as Indias first bonafide international superstar. She has become the poster girl for the new, young
Indian who identifies with her drive, passion, intelligence and charisma, making India proud with every
step that she takes.
Her rise to global stardom outside of the Indian di-

FOR ME, THE MOST

INTOXICATING ASPECT OF
THIS VOYAGE IVE EMBARKED ON
IS BEING ABLE TO GRASP ALL THE
TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITIES
THAT ARE COMING MY WAY
INTERNATIONALLY... IM
HUMBLED THAT PEOPLE FEEL
I HAVE MADE INDIAN TALENT
RELEVANT IN THE US

Hollywood
shifting dates
to avoid collision
course with
B-wood biggies

With Kabali postponing its release, Ice Age: Collision Course will
also do the same to avoid a clash with it, just like The BFG
moved its date to avoid competing with Sultan. Industry
insiders say that its a prudent practice to minimize competition
Niharika.Lal@timesgroup.com

AVOIDING LOCAL
COMPETITION

Ice Age: Collision Course

postponed because of Rajinikanths

Kabali
The BFG postponed because of
Salman Khans Sultan
The Jungle Book preponed
because of Shah Rukh Khans Fan
The Wolf Of Wall Street
postponed because of Dhoom 3

How does it feel to be the only Indian to make such

a huge impact on international pop culture?

The BFG changed its release

to July 15 from July 1 to avoid
clash with Salman Khans Sultan

Your achievements have resonated with everyone in

India as a true inspiration. Do you feel the pressure?
It means a lot to me to be appreciated for what Im trying to achieve. Being a matter of pride for your country
and its people is always a huge honour and I feel blessed
for that love and support. Im full of so many emotions.
Im excited to be a part of the movement for change. Im
proud of the progress we have made (which, when you
take a step back, is so small in the grand scheme of
things there is a long way to go), and Im humbled that
people feel I have made Indian talent relevant in the US.

ollywood has become a force to reckon

with in Indias domestic market, with
most releases doing better business than
Indian films released around the same time. However, the production houses of big Hollywood releases are still cautious about avoiding Box Office
clashes with big-budget Bollywood films. The most recent example of this is Ice Age: Collision Course. The film was scheduled to release on July
15, a week before the US release, to avoid a clash
with Rajinikanths Kabali, which was to release
in the first week of July. However, now that Kabalis release has been postponed to the end of this
month, Ice Age is also looking for a new release
date. This the second Hollywood movie that has
postponed its India release in the last one month.
Steven Spielbergs The BFG, which was scheduled to release on July 1 in India, will now release
on July 15. Although no official reason has been
given for the postponement, sources say that it

aspora is unseen before for a star from the subcontinent,

so much so that she is now a target for the infamous Hollywood paparazzi. She cannot walk down a street alone
without being recognised from Mumbai to Miami, from
Buenos Aires to Barcelona and everything in between.
Meanwhile, Priyanka has continued to blaze ahead in
the Indian film industry with her award-winning and
critically-acclaimed performances in the Box Office
blockbuster Bajirao Mastani and the acclaimed Jai GangaaJal. As she wraps up a toothpaste commercial at a
suburban Mumbai studio, the actress, who has an envious set of pearlies, flashes her brightest smile on a
monsoon day, prompting us to ask:
On one level, its surreal and on the other, its very
exhilarating. It is difficult to go to another country, do
new things and be accepted by a whole new audience.
For me, thats the most intoxicating aspect of this
voyage Ive embarked on being able to grasp all the
tremendous opportunities that are coming my way internationally. Its humbling to be on the receiving end
of such love, support and acceptance for me as an
entertainer in new geographies.

Ice Age: Collision

Course was avoiding
a clash with Kabali,
and now that the
Rajinikanthstarrer has been
postponed further,
Ice Age is looking
for a new
release date

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Raaz Reboot
releases spooky
signature tune
he sound of Vikram Bhatts upcoming film Raaz Reboot,
the fourth in the superhit Raaz franchise, is set to hit theatres today. This is a detour from the usual set pattern of
releasing a teaser or trailer before the film opens in cinemas.
According to the team, like the original Raaz, Raaz Reboot has
gone back to romanticising horror, and music plays an important
part in it. Also, none of the previous films in the franchise had a
song that had the word raaz in its title.
It is a tribute to old horror Hindi films, where there was a signature tune and a spooky theme sound that highlighted the horror elements, says Vikram.
The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Gaurav Arora and marks the
Bollywood debut of Kriti Kharbanda.

<< Kriti Kharbanda and Emraan Hashmi in the film

was done to avoid a clash with Salman Khans

Sultan, which is releasing today. Earlier this year,
Shah Rukh Khans Fan and The Jungle Book were
both scheduled to release on April 15, but The
Jungle Book release was then preponed to April
8. While the official statement for change in release date is usually technical issues, sources
say that more often than not, it is done to avoid
clashing with a big Bollywood film.

SHIFT IS TO AVOID CLASH:

EXHIBITORS
Even as production houses maintain that shift
in release dates are due to reasons other than big
Bollywood releases, exhibitors tell us that the
change in release dates dont affect the films revenue, rather, it increases it. Yogesh Raizada, corporate head, Wave Cinemas, tells us, The release
dates of Hollywood movies are moved around to
avoid clashing with Bollywood films. They dont
want to create competition for themselves.

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WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2016

DELHI TIMES, THE TIMES OF INDIA

THEY SAID HUM PE TOH PEHLE SE PENDING CASES HAIN, EK AUR SAHI

GAURAV GERA TAKES KoD TO COURT

OVER PENDING DUES OF `46 LAKH
aurav Gera, known for his popular Shopkeeper and Chutki online
video series, has gone to court over
unpaid dues amounting to `46 lakh for his
stage musical Jhumroo. Gaurav played the
lead character of Bhola in the second major stage production by Gurgaons Kingdom of Dreams, the Kishore Kumar-themed
Jhumroo, which was first staged about four
years ago. He says hes spent the past threeand-a-half years trying to recover his payment, but still has a large amount pending,
and has filed a legal notice in that regard
about a month and a half ago.
In a report on timesofindia.com, he
names Gagan Sharma (along with Wizcraft,
the co-promoter of the Great Indian Nautanki Company, which owns the Kingdom
of Dreams) as the party thats defaulting
on his payment. The Great India Nautanki Company is a combined venture of Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt Ltd,
Apra Group of Companies and Raghbeer
Group of Companies. Wizcraft has money to pay Shah Rukh Khan and Kareena
Kapoor but they dont have money to pay
me, he told TOI.com. Its is my hard-earned money... I have also sent a legal notice
to them. In reply, they said we already have
15 legal notices against us, yours will be the
16th... this hardly matters to us. I am so helpless, I cant even go to CINTAA (the Cine
and TV Artistes Association) because they
only handle TV and films. They dont handle theatre. For me, it is not Kingdom of
Dreams, it is Kingdom of Sorrows.
Wizcraft does not owe Gaurav Gera
any money, said Sabbas Joseph, director at Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. The Kingdom of
Dreams was also contacted by DT, but
did not have a comment till the time of
going to press.

Gaurav Gera with

co-star Shweta
Gulati in a scene
from Jhumroo

I am so helpless that I
cant even go to
CINTAA because they
only handle TV and
films. They dont handle
theatre. For me, it is not
Kingdom of Dreams, it
is Kingdom of Sorrows
Gaurav Gera

Wizcraft does not

owe Gaurav Gera
any money
Sabbas Joseph, director at
Wizcraft International
Entertainment Pvt. Ltd

THEYRE SAYING LEGAL

PROCESS SE JAOGE TOH 10
SAAL LAGENGE
When asked by DT, Gaurav explained, I
was there since the beginning of the show
in 2011. Mujhe bol ke laaye thay ki teen
mahine rehearsals hogi, rehearsals nine
months chali. Rehearsals are done at a discounted amount. I was stuck for six more
months in Gurgaon, not being able to come
back to Mumbai, and you cant quit something you have worked on for almost a year.
He recounts, The problem started in
February 2014. They told me that they needed to pay other actors as well and so they
would pay me a little less, and I was fine
with that. The problem persisted till Sep-

I joined KOD because of Wizcraft as I didnt

know anybody else... After I went public with
my complaints, the Wizcraft person told me,
Legal process se jaoge toh 10 saal lagenge.
Hum pe toh pehle se hi pending cases hain, ek aur sahi. I
was trying to help you, but now you fight your own battle. Pyaar se mil jaata. But what pyaar yaar?

tember 2014, after which I left KOD because

they said they couldnt afford me anymore,
and I came back to Mumbai. At that time,
they owed me `56 lakhs, which they said
they would pay me in parts. After almost a
year, in November 2015, they paid me `10
lakh. I was appalled. I cant wait for 10 years
for them to pay me something I have worked
so hard for. Now I am pi**ed off. I want my

money (the remaining `46 lakh). Its been

six months in 2016 and again, they havent
paid me a penny yet, Gaurav fumes.

THEY GAVE ME REASONS LIKE

MAA ABHI HOSPITAL MEIN
ADMIT HAIN, BAAD MEIN BAAT
KARTE HAIN

Rustom then and now

THEN
1982

Initially, I never bothered them and would

make calls once a month, asking them about
the progress (of the payment), he rages.
They dont take my calls, dont revert to
WhatsApp messages and SMSes. They give
me reasons like maa abhi hospital mein admit hain, baad mein baat karte hain. Wizcraft even says that it was only the creative
producer and not a partner, and that they

are trying to have their Delhi partner, Apra

Group of Companies, release my payment.
The latter has always clarified that Wizcraft
is a partner. I joined KOD because of Wizcraft as I didnt know anybody else.
He continues, After I went public with
my complaints, the Wizcraft person told
me, Legal process se jaoge toh 10 saal lagenge. Hum pe toh pehle se hi pending cases hain, ek aur sahi. I was trying to help
you, but now you fight your own battle.
Pyaar se mil jaata. But what pyaar yaar?

THEY STILL HAVE MY NAME ON

THE KOD WEBSITE
He adds, I was stupid to trust them. When
they were looking for my replacement, they
said, We are looking for a dedicated, hardworking person with a love for theatre.

Irrfan picked out

the title of Madaari
hough Irrfan doesnt believe in
calling his upcoming film
Madaari a passion project, he
was undeniably a hands-on producer.
From painstakingly choosing out each
one of his dozen looks to brainstorming
with the writer (his wife Sutapa Sikdar)
on which locations to shoot the film in,
the actor has been involved in every department of the movie. The biggest challenge for them was to pick a title. A
source tells us, The basic intent of the
film was to ask thought-provoking questions. Irrfan kept saying how it is impossible to make people accountable in
this country. To find a title which reflects
the theme of the film was difficult. For
weeks, we kept going back and forth on
what should the film be called. One night,
Irrfan came up with a dozen titles and
Madaari was the unanimous choice.

NOW
2016

A young Akshay Kumar (in front) with Dara Singh

Meena.Iyer@timesgroup.com
s Akshay Kumar nostalgically pulls out a black-andwhite photograph from his album, it is evident that he
has always admired Dara Singh. In fact, Akshays father Hari Om Bhatia and the wrestling champ were acquaintances. But even the Bollywood superstar didnt realise that
just like the yesteryear actor, he too would have a film titled
Rustom in his repertoire.

However, the subject matter of both the movies are

different. While the 1982 version, featuring Dara Singh, was
about a fighter past his prime, the upcoming Akshay-starrer is
inspired by a true event that occurred in 1959. It revolves
around a Navy officer who shoots his wifes lover.
Sharing with us a poster of Rustom from the 80s and the
current one that has been modelled on that, Akshay smiles
and says, I grew up admiring Daraji. Who knew then that
some day, I would do a film titled Rustom.

Maine zameen pe baith ke baki actors ke

saath khana khaya hai. Aur kitna dedication chahiye? I told Anshuman Jha (the actor who replaced Gaurav) also to be careful about payments. I will never work with
Wizcraft again.
Gaurav bristles, They still have my
name on their website. People still turn up
thinking that I am working in Jhumroo. I
had a beautiful experience working at KOD,
but these people killed it all. I (now) hate it
when my friends remind me of my KOD
performances.
As an angry parting shot, he says, I request everyone going to watch shows at
KOD to write in the suggestion letter in
bold, Pay Gaurav Gera.
Jhanvi Bhandari and Pratyush.Patra
@timesgroup.com

DELHI IS TALKING ABOUT

DELHI TIMES, THE TIMES OF INDIA

WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2016

An evening of party, peeps & Pernia

Pics: Lokesh Kashyap

Amit Bhawaker

Vibhuti Arora

ctress and stylist Pernia Qureshi

turned up for a recent dinner at Yauatcha, Vasant Kunj, making it quite
a glamorous event. Pernia and her team
had a gala time indulging in some of the signature dishes of the outlet, like the Chicken and
Prawn Shui Mai, Wrapped Chicken in Pak Choi with
Szechuan Sauce, Crispy Lamb and Raw Mango and Vegetable Stir-fry Noodles, among others. At this outlet, no
meal ends without the Raspberry Delice.

ALL PINK: Pernia Qureshi

DINNER TIME: Pernia and her team enjoyed a lavish spread at the outlet

LEISURE
PEANUTS

GRAFFITI

GARFIELD

HEALTH CAPSULE

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

DENNIS THE MENACE

ANIMAL CRACKERS

BEAU PEEP

THE WIZARD OF ID

BIRTHDAY TODAY
ont remain a mute spectator to any argument at
the workplace. Clear the air.
D
Tip: Your lucky colours are black and golden. Your
lucky gems are amber and amethysts.
You share your birthday with: Ranveer Singh

ARIES March 20 - April 18 This is a very rewarding day.

You will be in a strong, commanding position today. Its
an excellent day for rethinking your career plans. Poor
dietary habits will results in bad health. You must set
some achievable targets for you.
TAURUS April 19 - May 19 This could be a challenging day.There is an open door to success. Support will
come from all directions. Some sort of temporary obstacle may appear. You may feel frustrated. You need
to be much more careful especially while driving.
GEMINI May 20 - June 20 Philosophical, religious or
legal conflicts are some areas which hold your interest
today.Your confidence is at an all time high. Hard work
put in the past will bring you gains important invitation
or major business deals for some. Do not just listen to
words, however eloquently they are strung together.
CANCER June 21 - July 21 Be polite and charming to
everyone, even if they are standing in your way. Only a
selected few will know the secret behind your charms.
A romantic inclination with a person you have secretly
admired may finally develop. Gifts and presents for
some. Do not get involved in other peoples affairs.
LEO July 22 - August 21This is a great time to consider
involving yourself,and perhaps a loved one,in a class of
some sort something fun! This can be something that

ARCHIE

BETWEEN FRIENDS

THE DAILY CROSSWORD

TIMES SUDOKU

TIMES HITORI
HOW TO PLAY

1. A number may
appear just once in
each row or column. Eliminate repeat numbers by
darkening cells.
(see example)

will bring you both into a closer relationship.Make your

decision to act based on your deeper feelings and
knowledge of your circumstances.
VIRGO August 22 - September 21 Communicating
with others is at a high just now.Your ambition is intensified. Your practical skills are linked to your almost mystical inner vision. Have fun shopping for
your new diet meals this evening. Success is indicated in all you do.
LIBRA September 22 - October 22 A new romantic
relationship is possible now.You could have difficulty
getting outer recognition for your efforts or accomplishments just now. Opportunities appear all around
now. Family members and friends think of you with
fondness and will be clamoring for attention. Its terrific, and youre truly touched and grateful.
SCORPIO October 23 - November 20 There is good
fortune for you now when things open up in a very natural way.Situations are almost tailor-made and it is easy
to see which path is the one to take.You may find yourself wanting and able to do almost everything.
SAGITTARIUS November 21-December 20 Communicate with relatives who may need advice in order to
find solutions to their existing problems.Think about the
meaning of your life today. Dont overreact if your partner has a poor attitude.Your work or career is in real harmony with the rest of your life.
CAPRICORN December 21 - January 19 Today you
will be able to tackle tasks that require real discipline
or organization. You may have some serious or contemplative moments.Communicating and getting your
message across to others is also at a high just now.
AQUARIUS January 20 - February 18 This is one of
your best overall days this week. You have good luck
and positive actions in the forecast.There is optimism,
faith and a tendency to take chances at the deepest
emotional levels.
PISCES February 19 - March 19 This is an excellent
time to make decisions and take care of mental work.
Music plays a big part in your life this afternoon you
are scheduled to perform soon or attend a performance
of a friend. Be particular about those you trust.

2. Darkened cells
must never be adjacent in a row or column.

Level: Easy

HOW TO PLAY

Fill in the grid so that every horizontal row, every vertical column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9,
without repeating the numbers in the same row, column or box.You cant change the digits already given in
the grid. Every puzzle has one solution.

3. Unmarked cells
must create a
single continuous
area, undivided by
darkened cells.

FACT OF THE
MATTER

4. Every time you

darken a cell, you
can automatically
circle its vertical
and horizontal
neighbours, which
means they cannot
be eliminated.

Elephants have a highly

developed brain and the largest
of all the land mammals. The
brain is 3 or 4 times larger than
that of humans although
smaller as a proportion of
body weight.

between neighbours of the

same value can be circled.
(e.g 6. 4 6 )
6. A "triple" is a special case
of sandwich. Circle the centre
cells, and darken the ends.
5. Any cell "sand(e.g. 6 6 6 )
wiched"

Example

SPELLATHON
Todays Ratings:
04-average 05-good 06-outstanding

SCRAMBLE
Rearrange the letters in the four word jumbles, one letter to each square/
circle, to make four ordinary words

SWAGE
CIYIL
TROLLS
LOPPYF

HOW TO PLAY
Now arrange the letters in the
circles to form the answer to
the riddle or to fill in the missing word as indicated
__ ___ is an experiment. The
more experiments you make,
the better. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson (3,4)

R
T

F
U

How many words of four or more letters can you make from the letters
shown in todays puzzle? In making a
word, a letter can be used as many
times as it appears in the puzzle.
Each word must contain the central
letter. There should be at least one
seven letter word. Plurals, foreign
words and proper names are not allowed. British English Dictionary is
used as reference.

MINDBENDER
How many mistakes are
there in this sentence:
This sentance contanes
one misteak?
What is the answer to the
same question for this
sentence:
Their are three misteaks
in this sentence?
This one is not as easy as
it looks!

LOOP THE LOOP

Rules
J Connect adjacent dots
with vertical or horizontal
lines, creating a single loop
(Fig A).
J Crossovers or branches
are not allowed (As shown
by dotted lines in Fig B).
J Numbers in the puzzle inNot allowed
(Fig A)
(Fig B)
dicate the number of lines
that should surround it, while empty cells may be surrounded by any number of lines.
J You cant draw lines around zeroes.
J Each puzzle has just one unique solution.
How to begin: Example (Fig A) - Begin with the zero next to 3. Since no lines
can be drawn around zero, mark crosses around it, as shown. Now there is a
cross in one space
around 3. So we know
the three lines of 3 can
only be drawn in the remaining three spaces.
Next, these lines can
only be extended in one
direction each. Continue,
using the same logic.
Hints: Keep eliminating
possibilities by marking
crosses in spaces between dots where a
line isnt possible, i.e.,
if you have already
completed required
lines or where a line
extension may create a
branch or cause a
deadend (Fig B)

All solutions to games/puzzles on Page 6

VARIETY

WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2016

DELHI TIMES, THE TIMES OF INDIA

Now, own the slimmest Radhe Maa to

attend Divyanka,
laptop in the world
hat if you could now buy
a notebook that has both
beauty and brains? HP India has unveiled the slimmest laptop in the world, the much awaited
HP Spectre 13. Boasting a thickness
of just 10.4 millimeters and weighing only 1.1kg, it has been made with
artisan materials and striking craftsmanship.
For the launch, the brand collaborated with celebrity designers
Meera and Muzaffar Ali to organise
a uniquely choreographed fashion
event that showcased an apparel collection enthused by the design of the
new product. Muzaffar Ali also unveiled exclusive, custom-made
sleeves that were designed for the
device. These sleeves will be given
out to select customers when the
product hits the shelves.
The product was launched at
Meera and Muzaffars royal villa in
Delhi-NCR, where models show- (L - R) Ketan Patel, Su Yin Yam (Vice President, Consumer Personal Systems, Asia
cased the collection with the show- Pacific and Japan, HP Inc.) and Rajkumar Rishi unveiling the product
stopper unveiling the Spectre-inspired outfit along with the new prodstylish products to its customers.
namic sound.
uct. The event showcased the perfect amalMuzaffar Ali said, For an artist, it is
Talking about the availability,
gamation of beautiful design and innovaimperative that he sees beauty in everyRajkumar Rishi, senior director,
tive engineering. Blending stunning looks
thing. And the Spectre is the most apt
Consumer Business, HP Inc. India,
with top-of- the-line performance, the preexample of beauty in technology. We have
said that it will be available at remium device is equipped with powerful Indesigned a collection inspired by it, along
tail stores and Hpshopping.in from
tel Core i5 and i7 processors, 8GB RAM
with sleeves into which this dream
July 25 onwards.
and hyperbaric cooling technology that
notebook can slide into. The device is
The device will be availkeeps the laptop cool and provides peak
everything that an artist would want
able in two variants. One
performance for more than nine hours.
to see in a technology product. The
with a 6th Generation InSpeaking at the launch, Ketan Patel, disleek design, craftsmanship and sheer
tel Core i7-6200U procesrector, Personal Systems Business, HP
elegance inspired us as designers to
sor, 8GB of RAM and a
Inc. India, said, Technology is changing
create something beautiful.
powerful 512GB SSD.
the world as we know it. It is changing the
The new product comes with a 13Along with the gorgeous deway we perceive things around us. Every
inch, full HD, IPS, durable and scratch
vice, users will also get a
day, it is creating new ways for us to inresistant, edge-to- edge Corning Gobundle of goodies includteract with each other, new ways to work,
rilla Glass display along with a backing a wireless mouse,
new ways to live. It is changing the way
lit keyboard and glass trackpad. Its
Windows 10 Premium,
products are made and businesses are
true brilliance lies in the details
custom designed leather
run. As we speak, we are in the middle of
though. Carbon fiber and aluminisleeve, leather bag and USBa technological revolution. We are motium body give this device the look
C adapters. Also, the brand
vated to be the trendsetters in the techand feel of pure luxury. And the twowill provide you with exnology arena by introducing products
tone finish is a study in the beauty
tended warranty and Accilike this one. It is an engineering
of contrast. The uniquely designed
dental Damage Protection,
marvel that artfully combines
hinges draw their inspiration from
so no more worrying about
good looks and best-in- class
high-end furniture details, deliverdrops, spills, electrical
technology. With a fast
ing a stunning clutter-free look. The
surges. The second varigrowing demand for prenotebook also features Bang and
ant will come with an i5mium products in InOlufsen speakers and HP Audio
6200U mobile processor,
dia, we are commitBoost, giving users the opportu8GB RAM, 256 SSD. The
ted to provide the
nity to experience entertainment
starting price of Spectre
best performing,
to the fullest, with outstand13 in India will be
ing clarity and dy`1,19,990.

The HP
Spectre 13

Noyonika Chatterjee >>

Catch the complete video

of the event on the HP
India Facebook page.
Pre-book it on HPshopping.in.

Viveks wedding

V actress Divyanka
Tripathi is all set to
get hitched to Vivek
Dahiya on July 8 in Bhopal.
The Ye Hai Mohabbatein actress wedding will also see
the presence of self-styled
godwoman Radhe Maa,
sources tell us. Divyanka
is a follower of Radhe Maa.
Even last year, pictures of
her with the godwoman had
surfaced, but the actress didnt comment on them. Radhe Maa decided the date and
mahurat for Divyankas
marriage, sources told us.
We tried contacting the
actress but she remained
unavailable.
Saloni.Bhatia
@timesgroup.com

Radhe Maa

Divyanka and Vivek

Salman concerned
about Shweta Rohira
and Pulkit Samrat
hough Shweta Rohira has separated
from her husband
Pulkit Samrat, she continues to bond with his mentor
and her rakhi brother,
Salman Khan. We hear the
actor was concerned about
her and was surprised that
she and Pulkit havent filed
for a divorce yet. Apparently, he had a long conversation with her about it. Later,
she accompanied him to
watch his good friend Daisy
Shahs play, after which they
headed to the Khan residence for a delayed iftar.
They were also joined by Sohail and Arpitas husband,
Aayush Sharma.
Mohar.Basu
@timesgroup.com

Pulkit Samrat

Shweta
Rohira and
Salman
Khan

MUST SEE MUST DO

DELHI TIMES, THE TIMES OF INDIA

WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2016

CINEMA

EVENTS
ENGLISH

EXHIBITION: Apparao Galleries: Painting exhibitions by Alexis Kersey,

and Manish Nai, Lodhi Road, 11am to 7pm
MISCELLANEOUS
Kingdom of Dreams,
Gurgaon:
Jhumroo: A Musical Comedy
On Stage, 2.30pm;
Zangoora: The Gypsy
Prince, 7pm;
Culture Gully: Art, Craft
& Food, 12pm to 12am;
For tickets and info,
call 0124-4528000 or visit
www.kingdomofdreams.in
EXHIBITION
Chawla Art Gallery: A Surreal
Narrative, a group show of
paintings by Amar Sultan, Asit
Kumar Patnaik, Bharat Bhushan
Singh, Partha Shaw, Puja Bahri,
Ramesh Gorjala and Surya
Prakash, Square One Mall,
Ground Floor, C-2 Saket
Place, 11am to 7pm
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art:
Hammer On The Square,
Himmat Shah, A Retrospective
(1957-2016), 145, South Court
Mall, Saket, 11am to 7pm
Shanta Art Gallery: Monsoon
Show- II, a group show of
paintings by a group of artists,
8 Birbal Road, Jangpura
Extension, 11am to 7pm
Shridharani Art Gallery: A solo
show of paintings by Virendra
Kumar Gupta, Triveni Kala
Sangam, 11am to 7pm
Galerie Romain Rolland:
Alliance Franaise de Delhi
presents Kaleidoscope,
a solo show of paintings,
ceramics and sketches by
Amrit Khurana, Lodhi Road,
11am to 8pm
Gallery Impart: Artha 2016,
art show by Mahesh Kumar
and Mangae Ram Sharma,
B-1, Sagar Complex, New
Rajdhani Enclave, LSC, Vikas
Marg, 11am to 7pm
Habitat World: Aham 2016,
a solo painting exhibition by
Sunayana Malhotra (Visual Arts
Gallery), The Restoration of

Haveli Dharampura, a photo

exhibition (Delhi O Delhi Foyer),
Telling Stories Through Pictures
by Campfire Graphic Novels,
the exhibition will focus on
the evolution of graphic novels
and how it can be used as a tool
for infotainment, IHC, Lodhi
Road, 11am to 7pm
Hungarian Information
And Cultural Centre:
Hungarian Folk Tales,
award-winning paintings
by children, 1/A, Janpath,
Connaught Place,
11am to 7pm
British Council: Show of
art collection featuring
photography and some rare
colour works by Fay Godwin.
The London 2012 Olympic
posters will showcase
insightful work by some of
the contemporary artists in
Britain, 17 KG Marg,
11am to 7pm
Creativity Art Gallery:
Being Light, a solo painting
exhibition by Eva Mara
Pacheco, Hauz Khas
Village, 11am to 7pm
Chawla Art Gallery: Panch
Tattva, a group exhibition of
paintings by Manu Parekh,
Paramjit Singh, Shipra
Bhattacharya, Shuvaprasanna
and Sujata Bajaj, Square
One Mall, Saket,
11am to 7pm
Art Alive Gallery:
Summer Collection, a
group art show by Sakti
Burman, Thota Vaikuntam,
Paresh Maity, Sujata Bajaj,
Jayasri Burman, Akkitham
Narayanan, Nayanaa
Kanodia, V Ramesh, S -221,
Panchsheel Park,
11am to 7pm
Art Life Gallery: Wanderlust,
a group show by 12 artists,
C-97, Sector 44, Noida,
11am to 6pm

THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (3D) (ANIMATION)

58888 Code: sec
Max is a spoiled terrier who enjoys a comfortable life in a New York building until his owner
adopts Duke, a giant and unruly canine. During
their walk outside, they encounter a group of ferocious alley cats and wind up in a truck thats
bound for the pound. Luckily, a rebellious rabbit
named Snowball swoops in to save the doggy
duo from captivity. In exchange, Snowball demands that Max and Duke join his gang of abandoned pets on a mission against the humans
whove done them wrong.
DELHI DIRECTORS CUT VASANT KUNJ 10.20AM,
5.45PM DT PROMENADE VASANT KUNJ 10AM,
12Noon, 4.25, 8.40PM INOX NEHRU PLACE 9AM,
2.35, 8.25PM MOVIE TIME RAJA GARDEN
9.45AM, 2.05, 5.50, 9.05PM PVR ANUPAM SAKET
10AM, 2.15, 7.50PM PVR NARAINA 10AM, 2.15,
7.50PM PVR PACIFIC MALL SUBHASH NAGAR
9.50AM, 12, 4.15, 6.15PM PVR SELECT CITY
GOLD CLASS 2.05PM PVR SELECT CITY WALK
9.45AM, 4.35, 8.50PM PVR SHALIMAR BAGH
10AM, 2.15, 7.50PM GURGAON PVR AMBIENCE
GOLD CLASS 5.40PM PVR AMBIENCE GURGAON
10.30AM, 2.45, 7.15PM PVR MGF 9.55AM, 12.05,
4.20, 6.20PM NOIDA DT MOIN NOIDA 11.45AM,
1.45, 6, 8PM PVR LOGIX GOLD CLASS NOIDA
10.15AM, 3.50PM PVR LOGIX NOIDA 11.45AM,
1.45, 6, 8PM SPICE 11.30AM,3.20,7.05PM GHAZIABAD PVR MAHAGUN 9.20AM, 2.55, 4.55PM
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (3D)
58888 Code: leg
Alexander Skarsgrd, Margot Robbie, Christoph
Waltz
Its been nearly a decade since Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgrd), also known as John Clayton III,
left Africa to live in Victorian England with his
wife Jane (Margot Robbie). Danger lurks on the
horizon as Leon Rom, a treacherous envoy for
King Leopold, devises a scheme that lures the
couple to the Congo. Rom plans to capture Tarzan

SULTAN
After fleeing from a stage show, the illusionists
(Jesse Eisenberg,Woody Harrelson) known as the
Four Horsemen find themselves in more trouble
in Macau, China. Devious tech wizard Walter
Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe) forces the infamous
magicians to steal a powerful chip that can

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and deliver him to an old enemy in exchange for
diamonds. When Jane becomes a pawn in his
devious plot, Tarzan must return to the jungle to
save the woman he loves.
DELHI DT PROMENADE VASANT KUNJ 2PM DT
STAR DLF PLACE SAKET 11AM, 5PM PVR SELECT CITY WALK 2.10PM 2D DT STAR DLF PLACE
SAKET 10AM GURGAON GRAND CINEMAS RAHEJA MALL 4PM PVR AMBIENCE GURGAON
9.15PM PVR MGF 10AM NOIDA DT MOIN NOIDA
9.55PM PVR LOGIX NOIDA 4DX 12.25, 5.40,
10.55PM
INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE 3D
58888 Code: ind
Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Bill Pullman,
Angelababy
DELHI DT STAR DLF PLACE SAKET 3.50, 6.10PM
NOIDA 4DX PVR LOGIX NOIDA 9.35AM, 2.50,
8.05PM SPICE 11.20PM
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (U/A)
58888 Code: now
Jeese Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Daniel
Radclifee, Mark Ruffalo, Morgon Freeman, Lizzy
Caplan

control all of the world's computers. Meanwhile,

vengeful FBI agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo)
hatches his own plot against Thaddeus Bradley
(Morgan Freeman), the man he blames for the
death of his father.
DELHI DT PROMENADE VASANT KUNJ 10.40PM
DT STAR DLF PLACE SAKET 7.05PM PVR PACIFIC MALL SUBHASH NAGAR 11.15PM PVR SELECT
CITY WALK 10.50PM GURGAON PVR MGF 10.50PM
NOIDA PVR LOGIX NOIDA 1.30PM SPICE 9AM
FINDING DORY (U) 3D (ANIMATION)
58888 Code: fin
DELHI DIRECTORS CUT VASANT KUNJ 3.30PM
DT PROMENADE VASANT KUNJ 9.45AM, 6.25PM
DT STAR DLF PLACE SAKET 12.15PM PVR ANUPAM SAKET 12Noon PVR NARAINA 12Noon PVR
PACIFIC MALL SUBHASH NAGAR 2PM PVR SELECT CITY WALK 6.35PM PVR SHALIMAR BAGH
12Noon 2D INOX NEHRU PLACE 9.25AM GURGAON DT CITY CENTRE 9.40AM GRAND CINEMAS
RAHEJA MALL 9.15AM PVR AMBIENCE GURGAON 12.30PM PVR MGF 2.05PM NOIDA DT MOIN
NOIDA 9.30AM, 3.45PM PVR LOGIX NOIDA 9.30AM,
10.45PM SPICE 5.05PM
THE CONJURING 2 (A)
58888 Code: con

Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O

Connor
In 1977, paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick
Wilson) and Lorraine Warren come out of a selfimposed sabbatical to travel to Enfield, a borough
in north London. There, they meet Peggy
Hodgson, an overwhelmed single mother of four
who tells the couple that something evil is in her
home. Ed and Lorraine believe her story when the
youngest daughter starts to show signs of
demonic possession. As the Warrens try to help
the besieged girl, they become the next target of
the malicious spirits.
DELHI DT STAR DLF PLACE SAKET 2.25, 8.30PM
GURGAON PVR AMBIENCE GURGAON 11.20PM
PVR MGF 11.25PM NOIDA PVR LOGIX NOIDA
4.20PM SPICE 8.50PM
ME BEFORE YOU (U/A)
58888 Code: meb
Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Jenna Coleman
Young and quirky Louisa Lou Clark (Emilia Clarke)
moves from one job to the next to help her family
make ends meet. Her cheerful attitude is put to
the test when she becomes a caregiver for Will
Traynor (Sam Claflin), a wealthy young banker left
paralyzed from an accident two years earlier.
Will's cynical outlook starts to change when
Louisa shows him that life is worth living. As their
bond deepens, their lives and hearts change in
ways neither one could have imagined.
DELHI PVR SELECT CITY WALK 11.45AM
HINDI
SULTAN (U/A)
58888 Code: sul
Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma, Suzi Khan,
Randeep Hooda, Amit Sadh, Tyron Woodley
A middle-aged wrestling champion (Salman
Khan) tries to make a comeback to represent
India at the Olympics.
DELHI AKASH 12.30, 3.30, 6.30, 9.30PM AMBA
9AM, 12, 3.15, 6.30, 9.45PM BATRA REELS 12.30,

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THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS

3.30, 6.30, 9.30PM DELITE 12Noon, 3.15, 6.30,

9.45PM DELITE DIAMOND 12.15 , 3.30, 6.45,
10PM DIRECTORS CUT VASANT KUNJ 9.30AM,
12Noon, 1, 4.30, 7.40, 8, 11.10, 11.30PM DT @
G.K. II 10AM, 1.35, 5.10, 8.45, 11.45PM DT STAR
DLF PLACE SAKET 9, 9.30, 10, 10.30AM, 12.20,

10.30, 11.40AM, 12.55, 2.05, 3.15, 4.30, 5.40,

6.50, 8.05, 9.15, 10.25, 11.40PM DT MEGA MALL
9.10, 10.20, 11.30, 12.45, 1.55, 3.05, 4.20, 5.30,
6.40, 7.55, 9.05, 10.15, 11.30PM DT STAR MALL
9, 10.50AM, 12.35, 2.25, 4.10, 6, 7.45, 9.35,
11.20PM GRAND CINEMAS RAHEJA MALL 10,
11.40AM, 12.25, 1.20, 3, 4, 4.50, 6.20, 7.20,
8.10, 9, 9.50, 10.50PM INOX DREAMZ MALL
GURGAON 10, 11AM, 12, 1.30, 2.30, 3.30, 5, 6, 7,
8.30, 9.30, 10.30PM PVR AMBIENCE GOLD
CLASS 10.30, 11.30AM, 2.05, 3.05, 6.40, 7.40,
10.15, 11.15PM PVR AMBIENCE GURGAON 10,
10.55, 11.50AM, 1.35, 2.30, 3.25, 5.10, 6.05, 7,
8.45, 9.40, 10.35PM PVR MGF 9.05, 9.40, 10.15,
10.50AM, 12.40, 1.15, 1.50, 2.25, 3, 4.15, 4.50,
5.25, 6, 6.35, 7.50, 8.25, 9, 9.35, 10.10, 11.25,
11.55PM PVR SAHARA 9.10, 11AM, 12.45, 2.35,
4.20, 6.10, 7.55, 9.45, 11.30PM ATMOS PVR
AMBIENCE GURGAON 9.10AM, 12.45, 4.20, 7.55,
11.30PM PVR MGF 12Noon, 3.35, 7.10, 10.45PM
NOIDA DT MOIN NOIDA 9.05, 9.40, 10.15, 10.50,
11.25AM, 12, 12.40, 1.15, 1.50, 2.25, 3, 3.35, 4.15,
4.50, 5.25, 6, 6.35, 7.10, 7.50, 8.25, 9, 9.35, 10.10,
10.45, 11.25, 11.55PM INOX MSX MALL
GREATER NOIDA 9, 9.30, 10.15, 11, 11.45AM,
12.30, 1.45, 1, 2.30 , 3.15 , 4, 4.30 , 5.15, 6, 6.45,
7.30 , 8, 8.45 , 9.30, 10.15, 11PM MOVIE TIME
GREATER NOIDA 9.45AM, 12, 1, 3.15, 4.15, 6.30,
7.30, 9.45,10.45PM MOVIE TIME NOIDA
9.45AM,12, 1, 3.15,4.15, 6.30, 7.30,
9.45,10.45PM PVR LOGIX GOLD CLASS NOIDA
10.15, 11.15AM, 12.15, 1.50, 2.50, 5.25, 6.25,
7.25, 9, 9.55, 10.55PM PVR LOGIX NOIDA 9, 10,
10.20, 10.40, 11, 11.20, 11.40, 12.35, 1.35, 1.55,
2.15, 2.35, 2.55, 3.15, 4.10, 5.10, 5.30, 5.50, 6.10,
6.30, 6.50, 7.10, 7.45, 8.45, 9.05, 9.25, 9.45,
10.05, 10.25, 10.45, 11.20PM SPICE 9, 9.30,10,
10.30, 11,11.30AM, 12.15, 12.45, 1.15, 1.45, 2.15,
2.45, 3.30, 4, 4.30, 5, 5.30, 6, 6.45, 7.15, 7.45,
8.15, 8.45, 9.15, 10, 10.30,11,11.30PM SPICE
GOLD 10.15AM,1.30,4.45,8,11.15PM SPICE
STUDIO 9.45AM,1,4.15,7.30,10.45PM WAVE
NOIDA 9.30, 10, 11AM, 12.30, 12.55, 1.20, 2.45,
3.45, 4.20, 4.40, 6.15, 7, 7.45, 8.15, 9.45, 10.15,
11.10, 11.40PM ATMOS PVR LOGIX NOIDA
9.40AM, 1.15, 4.50, 8.25, 11.55PM IMAX PVR
LOGIX NOIDA 9.05AM, 12.45, 4.25, 8.05, 11.45PM
FARIDABAD INOX CROWN INTERIORZ MALL
FARIDABAD 10, 10.45, 11.30AM, 12.15, 1.30,

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12.50, 1.20, 1.50, 3.40, 4.10, 4.40, 5.10, 7, 7.30,
8, 8.30, 9.50, 10.35, 10.55, 11.20, 11.45PM G3S
ROHINI 9.30, 10, 11.30AM, 12.45, 1.20, 2.50,
4.10, 4.40, 6.10, 7.30, 8, 9.30, 10.55, 11.20PM
GAGAN 12.30, 3.30, 6.30, 9.30PM GOLCHA
12.30, 3.30, 6.30, 9.30PM INOX EROS ONE
JANGPURA 9AM, 12.30, 4, 7.30, 11PM INOX
JANAK PLACE 9, 9.45, 10.30, 11.30AM, 12.30,
1.15, 2, 3, 4, 4.45, 5.30, 6.30, 7.30, 8.15, 9, 10,
11, 11.45PM INOX NEHRU PLACE 9, 10.05,
10.50, 11.30AM, 12.30, 2, 3, 4, 4.40, 5.30, 6.30,
7.45, 9, 10, 10.30, 11.15PM INOX PATEL NAGAR
9, 9.45, 10.30, 11.30AM, 12.30, 1.15, 2, 3, 4,
4.45, 5.30, 6.30, 7.30, 8.15, 9, 10, 11, 11.45PM
M2K PITAMPURA 9, 9.40, 10.20AM, 12, 12.40,
1.20, 3.15, 3.55, 4.35, 6.30, 7.10, 7.50, 9.40,
10.20, 11PM M2K ROHINI 9.30, 10.20AM, 12.30,
1.20, 3.45, 4.35, 7, 7.50, 10.10, 11PM MILAN
12.30, 3.30, 6.30, 9.30PM MOVIE PALACE 9.15,
9.35AM, 12.20, 12.45, 3.20, 3.50, 6.20, 6.50, 9.30,
10PM MOVIE TIME GOLD CLASS 10.30AM, 1.45,
5.00, 8.15, 11.30PM MOVIE TIME PITAMPURA
9.30, 10AM,12, 12.45, 1.15, 3.15, 4, 4.30, 6.30,
7.15, 7.45, 9.45, 10.30,11PM MOVIE TIME RAJA
GARDEN 9, 9.45,11.15AM, 12, 12.20, 1.05, 2.30,
3.15, 3.40, 4.25, 5.50, 6.30, 7, 7.45, 9.45, 10.20,
10.45, 11.05PM PVR 3CS 9AM, 12.30, 4, 7.30,
10.55PM PVR ANUPAM SAKET 8.40, 9.30,
10.20AM, 12.15, 1.05, 1.55, 3.50, 4.15, 4.40, 5.30,
7.25, 8.15, 9.05, 9.50, 10.55, 11.50PM PVR
NARAINA 8.40, 9.30, 10.20AM, 12.15, 1.05, 1.55,
3.50, 4.15, 4.40, 5.30, 7.25, 8.15, 9.05, 9.50,
10.55, 11.50PM PVR PLAZA 9AM, 12.30, 4, 7.30,
10.55PM PVR PRASHANT VIHAR 9, 10.15,
11.30AM, 12.35, 1.50, 3.05, 4.10, 5.25, 6.40, 7.45,
9, 10.15, 11.20PM PVR PRIYA 9AM, 12.30, 4,
7.30, 10.55PM PVR RIVOLI 9AM, 12.30, 4, 7.30,
10.55PM PVR SANGAM 9, 10.50AM, 12.35, 2.25,
4.10, 6, 7.45, 9.35, 11.20PM PVR SELECT CITY
WALK 12Noon, 3.35, 7.10, 10.45PM PVR
SHALIMAR BAGH 8.40, 9.35, 10.30AM, 12.15,
1.10, 2.05, 3.50, 4.15, 4.45, 5.40, 7.25, 8.20, 9.15,
9.55, 11, 11.55PM PVR VIKASPURI 9, 10.15,
11.30AM, 12.35, 1.50, 3.05, 4.10, 5.25, 6.40, 7.45,
9, 10.15, 11.20PM REGAL 12.30, 3.30, 6.30,
9.30PM RITZ 12.30, 3.30, 6.30, 9.30PM SAMRAT
12.30, 3.30, 6.30, 9.30PM SEBLE 12.30, 3.30,
6.30, 9.30PM SHIELA 12.30, 3.30, 6.30, 9.30PM
SUPREME 12.30, 3.30, 6.30, 9.30PM SURAJ
12.30, 3.30, 6.30, 9.30PM VISHAL 12.30, 3.30,
6.30, 9.30PM WAVE RAJA GARDEN 9.30, 10AM,
12.30, 12.55, 1.20, 3.45, 4.20, 4.40, 7, 7.45, 8.15,
10.15, 11.10, 11.40PM ATMOS DIRECTORS CUT
VASANT KUNJ 10.30, 11.30AM, 2.15, 3.15, 6, 7,
9.45, 10.45PM DT PROMENADE VASANT KUNJ
9.05, 9.40, 10.15, 10.50, 11.25AM, 12, 12.40,
1.15, 1.50, 2.25, 3, 3.35, 4.15, 4.50, 5.25, 6, 6.35,
7.10, 7.50, 8.25, 9, 9.35, 10.10, 10.45, 11.25,
11.55PM PVR PACIFIC MALL SUBHASH NAGAR
9, 9.40, 10.20, 11.05, 11.50AM, 12.35, 1.15, 1.55,
2.40, 3.25, 4.10, 4.50, 5.30, 6.15, 7, 7.45, 8.25,
9.05, 9.50, 10.35, 11.20, 11.55PM PVR SELECT
CITY GOLD CLASS 10.30, 11.30AM, 3.05, 4.05,
6.40, 7.40, 10.15, 11.15PM PVR SELECT CITY
WALK 9.35, 10.50AM, 1.10, 2.25, 4.45, 6, 8.20,
9.35, 11.55PM GURGAON DT CITY CENTRE 9.20,

7.45, 8.40, 9.35, 10.30, 11.20PM PVR OPULANT

9, 10.15, 11.15AM, 12.35, 1.50, 2.50, 4.10, 5.25,
6.25, 7.45, 9, 9.55, 11.20PM SILVERCITY
MULTIPLEX 9.30, 10, 11.15AM,12.40, 1.10, 2.30,
3.50, 4.20, 5.45, 7, 7.30, 9, 10.15,10.40PM STAR
X 9.30, 10.15, 10.45AM, 12.40, 1.25, 1.55, 3.50,
4.35, 5.05, 7, 7.45, 8.15, 10.10, 10.55, 11.25PM
US EMINENCE CUT INDIRAPURAM 10.30AM,
1.35, 4.40, 7.50, 11PM US EUROPA
INDIRAPURAM 9.35, 10AM, 12.40, 1.05, 3.50,
4.10, 7, 7.20, 10.10, 10.30PM WAVE GAUR
CENTRAL MALL, RAJ NAGAR 9.30, 10AM, 12.30,
12.55, 1.20, 3.45, 4.20, 4.40, 7, 7.45, 8.15, 10.15,
11.10, 11.40PM WAVE KAUSHAMBI 9.30, 10AM,
12.30, 12.55, 1.20, 3.45, 4.20, 4.40, 7, 7.45, 8.15,
10.15, 11.10, 11.40PM
SHORGUL (A)
58888 Code: sho
Jimmy Sheirgill, Suha Gezen, Ashutosh Rana,
Sanjay Suri, Eijaz Khan, Hiten Tejwani, Narendra
Jha, Aniruddh Dave
The movie is set against the backdrop of the
recent communal riots in Uttar Pradesh. The
romance between a Hindu man and a Muslim
woman provides politicians from various political
parties to whip up communal passions.
GURGAON GRAND CINEMAS RAHEJA MALL
1.25PM
UDTA PUNJAB (A)
58888 Code: udt
Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor, Diljit
Dosanjh
DELHI DT STAR DLF PLACE SAKET 1.05,
11.05PM MOVIE TIME RAJA GARDEN 9.10AM
GURGAON GRAND CINEMAS RAHEJA MALL
6.10PM
DHANAK (U)
58888 Code: dha
Hetal Gadda, Krrish Chhabria, Vipin Sharma,
Gulfam Khan, Vibha Chibber, Vijay Maurya
GURGAON PVR AMBIENCE GURGAON 4.45PM
PVR MGF 8.20PM NOIDA PVR LOGIX NOIDA 10PM
SPICE 9AM
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (U) (3D)
(Dubbed in Hindi)
58888 Code: leg
Alexander Skarsgrd, Margot Robbie, Christoph
Waltz
DELHI INOX JANAK PLACE 9.10AM INOX PATEL
NAGAR 9AM MOVIE TIME PITAMPURA 9.55AM
MOVIE TIME RAJA GARDEN 9AM, 3.45,10.20PM
GURGAON GRAND CINEMAS RAHEJA MALL
9.30AM 11.15AM INOX DREAMZ MALL GURGAON 9.45AM NOIDA INOX MSX MALL GREATER
NOIDA 9.15AM MOVIE TIME GREATER NOIDA
9.55AM MOVIE TIME NOIDA 9.55AM SPICE
1.15PM FARIDABAD INOX CROWN INTERIORZ
MALL FARIDABAD 9.55AM INOX EF3 MALL
FARIDABAD 9.40AM
FINDING DORY (U) 3D ANIMATION
(Dubbed in Hindi)
58888 Code: fin
NOIDA SPICE 9.30AM
REGIONAL

2.15, 3, 3.45, 5, 5.45, 6.30, 7.15, 8.30, 9.15, 10,

10.45PM INOX EF3 MALL FARIDABAD 10,
11AM,12,1.30, 2.30, 3.30, 5, 6, 7, 8.30, 9.30,
10.30PM PVR FARIDABAD 9, 10.50AM, 12.35,
2.25, 4.10, 6, 7.45, 9.35, 11.20PM GHAZIABAD
GALAXIE MALL 11, 11.30AM, 12.30, 2.15, 2.45,
3.45, 5.30, 6, 7, 8.45, 9.15, 10.15PM JAM
CINEMAS SHIPRA MALL 9.35, 10.05, 11.30AM,
12.50, 1.20, 2.45, 4.05, 4.35, 6, 7.20, 7.50, 9.15,
10.35, 11.05PM KAVITA 12.30, 3.30, 6.30, 9.30PM
MOVIE MAGIC (LONI) 9.30, 10AM, 12.30, 1, 3.30,
4, 6.30, 7, 9.15,9.45PM MOVIE WORLD 9.20,
9.50, 11.45AM, 12.25, 1, 2.55, 3.30, 4.10, 6.05,
6.35, 7.20, 9.15, 9.40, 10.25PM M4U 9.30,10.30,
11.30AM, 12.30, 1.30, 2.30, 3.30, 4.30, 5.30, 6.30,
7.30, 8.30, 9.30PM PVR EDM 10.15, 11.15AM,
12.15, 1.50, 2.50, 5.25, 6.25, 7.25, 9, 9.55,
10.55PM PVR MAHAGUN 9, 9.55, 10.50,
11.20AM, 12.35, 1.30, 2.25, 4.10, 5.05, 6, 6.55,
Poor Average Watchable
Good Very Good
Very Good + Outstanding

SARDAARJI 2 (PUNJABI) (U/A)

58888 Code: sar
Diljit Dosanjh, Sonam Bajwa, Jaswinder
Bhalla
Jaggi, an organic farmer lives a simple life. But
one day, Jaggis village finds itself in deep trouble.
Jaggi has no choice but to travel to Australia so he
can earn money to save his village. But, then,
things start to take funny twists.
DELHI MOVIE TIME RAJA GARDEN 11.25AM,
7.30PM PVR PACIFIC MALL SUBHASH NAGAR
9AM, 8.15PM

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communicated to us, or not communicated
in time to meet print timelines. While any
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account is regretted, the responsibility for it
is the individual theatre/multiplexs.

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Four.The sentence contains three spelling mistakes, plus the false

claim that it only contains one mistake, making a total of four
mistakes.
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mistakes; therefore that claim is wrong and it actually contains
three mistakesexcept that if it contains three mistakes then the
claim that it contains three mistakes is correct, and so it only
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Pics: Lokesh Kashyap

Delhi parties
with the
Swag Babe

A 24 CARAT
PERFORMANCE:
Mehak
Malhotra

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TOUCHDOWN

CHARLIES ANGELS: (L-R) Gurnoor Ahuja, Mehar Khurana

and Kriti Sahney

t was an evening full of

masti when singer Mehak
Malhotra performed at
The Flying Saucer Cafe V2.0.
While some guests enjoyed the
yummy food and beverages,
others showed off their moves
to songs like Swag Babe and
Shit About Love. The owners of
the cafe said, Badshah and
Mehak are just the beginning,
we have famous artists linedup to perform at our outlet.
Next weekend we would be
hosting Suryaveer and his
band Ehsaas.
Jasbeer Singh

Saurabh Mehta

SELFIE TIME: Shilpa (L) and Surbhi

Pankaj Kapur

STRIPED: Pallavi Lal

Priyanka Chopra has been living out of suitcases lately, what with her multiple international projects taking her all around the
world. On Tuesday morning, we caught the star arriving at Delhi airport, wearing a funky tee that said iShapath. What are you
pledging about, PC?

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WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2016

The Jungle Book was

released in India a week
before its worldwide
release as Fan was
releasing on the same date

...CONTD FROM PAGE 1

Devang Sampat, business head,

Cinepolis, adds, The films are
often postponed because of unavailability of screens. If two
major movies are released in
the same week then it is a loss
for cinemas too because the
screens and the audience get divided. Spielbergs film was delayed by two weeks because Sultan was releasing at the same
time and would have gotten the
maximum number of screens.
So the decision to postpone is
quite obvious.
Kamal Gianchandani, CEO,
PVR Pictures, earlier told us,
The main reason why Hollywood distributors decide to
come a week before or after a
big Bollywood release is because they dont want to clash
with local films. You dont want
to divide the audience. For a
big Hollywood film, it is very
important that it releases at a
time when it gets the major
share of screens.

FILM RELEASE IS
SHIFTED ON BASIS OF
THE MOVIES APPEAL

Ice Age: Collision Courses release date had

been rescheduled, apparently to avoid a clash
with Rajnikanths Kabali

Jungle Book
avoids Fan,
BFG makes
way for Sultan

Ice Age: Collision Course was

to release on July 15, a week
before its US release on July
22. The date was decided keeping in mind Kabalis release
(which was to be in the first
week of July). But now that Kabalis release has been delayed,
Ice Age is looking for a new
date, say sources.
Though sources say that Spielbergs
The BFG has shifted its release date to
July 16 to avoid any clash with Sultan,
production houses maintain the position
that the change in dates are not because

of Bollywood releases, but for other

reasons. They refused to comment anything further on the topic.
Amrita Pandey, VP, Studios, Disney India, tells us, For us, a movies release date
is based on the familiarity and existing appeal of
the movie among
the Indian audience. For a movie
like The Jungle
Book, which was
an Indian story at
heart, we did not
want the audience to wait and
wanted to bring
it to India before
the American re Devang Sampat, business head, Cinepolis
lease. We believed the movie
would resonate

The films are often postponed

because of unavailability of
screens. If two major movies
are released in the same
week then it is a loss for cinemas
too because the screens and the
audience get divided

The BFG was to

release in the
same week as
Sultan, but the
date has been
pushed to July 15

strongly with the

audience
here. Also, the
weekend we released the film, it was
a long weekend in a
few key states. In
some cases, we prefer
to wait for a week or
two after the global release if we think that
the movie will benefit
from the international
publicity and reviews. For
a movie like Finding
Dory, we chose to release it with America.
Niharika.Lal
@timesgroup.com

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ENTERTAINMENT

Madonna visits Kenyan

slums, meets first lady
<<

adonna and her children visited Kibera

in Kenya, an area
which is said to be Africas
largest slum. Madonna shared
some images of a trip to Kibera with Shining Hope for
Communities (SHOFCO), a
charitable organisation which
links free schools for girls to
services for commodities such
as clean water and free health
care, reported a website.
Alongside one photo of children living in the area, she
wrote, Striking a pose in Kibera! Rebel hearts.
The 57-year-old star also posted an image of a litter-strewn
river and wrote, Imagine this
is where your water comes
from! SHOFCO is working to
change this in Kibera, Africas

largest slum.
Madonna also shared photographs of a meeting she had
with an amazing mother of
14. Hugging Mama Sopfie. This
amazing woman lives in a 10 by
10 dwelling in Kibera with her
14 children two adopted. Her
husband killed in a political uprising. Shes starting her own
business with the help of
SHOFCO. God bless her, she
wrote alongwith the picture.
Another image showed
Madonna with her children
Lourdes, Rocco, David, and
Mercy. She captioned the image, Sitting with mama Sofie,
We are humbled. Madonna
also posted a picture with Margaret Kenyatta, the first lady
of Kenya.
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hough there is no
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may be moving in in a matter of weeks. A source who
also lives in the Worli
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the two have been spending time here since the IPL
matches ended and have
been redecorating the pad.
The house is a swathe at
7,000sqft, with five bedrooms, an open terrace and
a pool deck. But the couple
wants to keep things private. A source close to the
actor says Anushka believes Virat and she broke
up because they made
their relationship public.
She is now bedevilled
when asked about Kohli,
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Prathamesh Bandekar
Shiv Gautam

Punjabi cinema gets

a woman centric story

The year has

been amazing
and theres
still so much
to look
forward to

...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

The opportunities Ive had in the past few months

have been tremendous, but the path to success is
not easy and most importantly, it is continuous.
While this move was part of my larger quest of
pushing the boundaries, I knew it wouldnt be an
easy task and I was up for the challenge from the
beginning. I was prepared for the long days, sleepless nights, 18-hour work days and making the best
of it all. So, Im glad its all coming together. But
the more time I spend in the US, I understand there
is a certain clichd perception of our films and
our film industry and I really want to change that. I want
Im
to make them see the reality
of who we are, the amazing
excited
work we do and the talent that
to be a
we have. I want to break the
mould that we have been set
part of the
in and I hope that I can create
movement for
a path for more talent from Inchange. Im
dia to follow.

Your achievements have

been quite substantial and
consistent Peoples Choice Award, presenting at the
Oscars and Billboard Music
Awards, being on the cover
of Time Magazine internationally, being on every talk
show from Jimmy Fallon
to Good Morning America
and on the cover of so many
magazines India is very
proud. Your comments?

proud of the
progress we
have made
and humbled
that people
feel I have
made Indian
talent relevant
in the US

I have been representing India from the very beginning.

It started with the Miss World
stage in 2000. Im glad that my
efforts have been appreciated
and recognised. Im a proud
Indian and wear that on my
sleeve. All the achievements
you mentioned combined together is still maybe just one
per cent of the potential we
have to achieve in the entertainment world and Im not
stopping anytime soon.

Im extremely
intuitive,
sometimes
impulsive
and Im not
typically the
one to plan for
the future

Everything from your clothes to your armpits makes

headlines. Comment.
What else can I say, except that Im flattered. Its unreal in
many ways that the little things I say or do are reported,
but like Ive always said, it comes with the territory of being a public personality.

Being visible via Quantico being licensed in 212 territories and dubbed in 56 languages around the world has
made you a household name in the West
Its been a whirlwind year for me, balancing careers in two
continents, and Ive pretty much put my head down and
just worked. But every now and then, I look up and see all
this amazing recognition, love and support for my work
from across the world and that is so surreal. It feels great
when people in different parts of the world come up to me
and appreciate my work. On social media as well, its so
much fun to see the pictures of billboards, magazine ads,
screenshots of their TV screens etc. as they discover Quantico and me in so many countries across the globe. The reality of that is just setting in.

Living out of a suitcase is a way of life for you now. Is it

tiring or exhilarating?
For now, its my reality and Ive accepted it and made it my
own. Just the other day, I actually celebrated being in one
place for six days in a row without taking a single flight. I
now carry my home with me in those suitcases, so everywhere I go is almost like home. This hectic schedule is tiring but it allows me to pursue my dreams.

When you went to the West four years ago to record your
maiden album, did you even envision that in such a short
span of time, you would actually go on to become this
huge global star?
Im not quite sure what I envisioned for myself at that point.
Im extremely intuitive, sometimes impulsive (especially
when it comes to work), and Im not typically the one to plan
for the future. At that moment, I knew I wanted to stretch
my creative wings. I made music because I felt I was ready
to explore that side of me. I explored international TV because the opportunity was right. I chose to be in Baywatch
because the role excited me. Everything I do is simply to challenge myself, push the boundaries of my talent and take the
unchartered road. I work hard and am passionate and committed to whatever I choose to pursue. That and Gods hand
on my shoulder has led me to this place right now.

From desi girl to a global superstar, you are perhaps the

only person who has actually penetrated the Hollywood
industry in a big way. How does it feel?
Im really excited about all the work Ive been doing the
opportunities have been amazing. What Im most overawed
about is the huge amount of love and support I have received. The show itself has connected with a wide range of
audience and has created so many opportunities for not only
me as an entertainer, but also for other extremely talented
actors from our part of the world to pursue opportunities
outside of a stereotypical Indian role. Its great to be accepted for your talent and be given work that challenges and
pushes you as an artiste. Its been a whirlwind experience
for me from shooting for the show to red carpet appearances,
events, talk shows and covers its been exhausting but so
worth it. The year has been amazing and theres still so much
to look forward to.
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t a time when Punjabi

cinema is straddling a
cusp between slapstick
comedy, NRI romances and serious issues that need addressing, Needhi Singh is the
perfect recipe heralding the
much-needed cinematic revolution. Written and directed by
Jaivi Dhanda and produced
by Inder Bhandaal and
Sumeet Singh, the film is
based on the real life story of
an easy going, bubbly girl,
Needhi Singh, who is forced to
rebel when shes oppressed by
the society. Starring Kulraj Jaivi Dhanda,
Randhawa in the lead, the film director of the film
is the first of sorts for the Punjabi film industry and has a
Todays women are equal to men. Both the
woman as its central character.
sexes are heroes in contemporary society.
The film is different for a reason its be- Punjabi cinema is demanding a change and
cause the subject needs a change, Punjab our film will give a new direction to this reneeds a change, says Kulraj, I was look- gions films. We hope Needhi Singh will being for a script which has a hard-hitting sub- come a role model for other filmmakers.
ject and this film was serious. But that doesWith a tag line that says, Zulm di att jadd
nt mean there is no comedy or any light mo- hundi te chidiya baaz bandiya ne, the films
ments in the film. Its a very balanced story trailers have already received rave reviews
but it is still hitting the core issues preva- from the acting fraternity. The film shows
lent in Punjab right now. By core issues, I why todays women need to revolt against
am not referring to drugs or politics, but the oppression. Right from college-going stuissue revolving around woman. Any woman dents to housewives and working women,
in Punjab, in whatever situation she is, rich they are all exposed to the outside world,
or poor, is sadly still the weaker sex.
which is male-dominated. They need to send
Needhi Singh, presented by Saga music the message that any assault against a
& Golden Fox films, shows how a woman woman will not become an open and shut
can take revenge if shes oppressed social- case now, as women can also avenge their
ly. Director Jaivi Dhanda was clear about pride and honour no matter how influential
the subject when he thought about making the other party, adds Kulraj.
the film. I didnt want to make a film that
Needhi Singh is being released on July 22
shows a woman only in a romantic role, hold- 2016 by Unisys Infosolutions & Seven Colors
ing hands and singing songs, says Jaivi, Worldwide.

Priyanka
Chopra

OTHER LISTS THAT SHE FEATURED ON INCLUDE:

People Magazine, People of the Year 2015
The Hollywood Reporter Next Establishment
People Magazine, Worlds Most Beautiful Issue

Kulraj Randhawa