BENGALURU

THURSDAY,JANUARY
JANUARY
2015
PRICE .`|4.50
(`` 6.50
WITH BANGALORE MIRROR) *
CHENNAI | | THURSDAY,
15,15,
2015
| |34PAGES
PAGES36| |METRO
PRICE:
3.00

BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM

EPAPER.TIMESOFINDIA.COM
BENNET, COLEMAN &| CO.
LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838

HA PPY MA K A R A SA N K R A N T I

I N C L U D E S 1 0 PA G E S O F B A N G A L O R E T I M E S A N D * 2 PA G E S O F T I M E S S C H O O L S ( * C I T Y A R E A S O N LY )

CONTRAPUNTO
I like hunting trees, because they
dont run away. I call it hunting, but
others might call it farming.
JAROD KINTZ

NEWS DIGEST

Keep pigs and pork out of

textbooks, OUP tells writers

IT captains
seek quicker
startup nod

Move To Avoid TRACK RECORD IN INDIA

Offending Jews In 2008, OUP India
proceedings
instituted against
had decided to stop
And Muslims publication of two
OUP India by religious

Bengaluru: In a sign of the

seriousness with which the
government is taking its
Digital India and Make in
India projects, finance
minister Arun Jaitley met
exclusively with IT, communications and electronics industry bigwigs in a
pre-budget consultation.

Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com

Pope Francis fulfilled a longcherished dream of the clergy and faithful in Sri Lanka
and Goa as he declared
Blessed Joseph Vaz a saint
before a sea of devotees in
Colombo on Wednesday P 13

Indias growth
to catch up with
China in 2 years
India will catch up with Chinas growth by 2016-17 and
is expected to grow 6.4% in
2015 on the back of reform
measures unveiled by the
new government, the World
Bank has said. The sharp
slide of global crude prices
would also help the Indian
economy expand, World
Bank chief economist
Kaushik Basu said.

Sonia overrides Rahul,

clears UP Cong list: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi
has cleared a
402-member
Uttar Pradesh
executive,
overruling
party vicepresident Rahul Gandhis
order to UP Congress to cut
the size of its executive
panel by half. P 11

Church vandalized in
Delhi, fourth in 6 weeks:
Miscreants vandalized a
church in west Delhi early
on Wednesday the fourth
such incident here in the
past six weeks. Delhi archbishop Anil J T Couto said
there was a clear pattern
of orchestrated attacks on
churches to weaken the social fabric. P 12

Uber may apply for radio

cab licence in Delhi: In a
bid to get back on Delhis
roads, Uber is seeking a licence to operate under the
revised Radio Taxi Act of
2006. The app-based rideshare service was
banned in the city following
the rape of a passenger in
December. P 17

MARKET WATCH
SENSEX

BULLION

SENSEX: 27347  79 GOLD/1G:

NIFTY: 8278
 22 SILVER/1KG:

TOP GAINERS

EXCHANGE

Bajaj Fin: 3766 8%

Dabur: 251 6%

$: 62.19
: 94.37

`. 2552
`. 37800

: 73.04
S$: 46.54

Times Classifieds | P 8 & 10

xford
University
Press (OUP) has asked
its textbook writers to
keep out all references to
pigs, pork, sausages and other pork-related items to avoid
offending Jews and Muslims.
The UK-based publishers
guidelines came to light after
presenter Jim Naughtie of
Radio 4s Today programme
whose wife Eleanor Updale, a writer, is in talks with
OUP for an educational book
series said, Ive got a letter

books containing
A K Ramanujans
essay Three
Hundred
Ramayanas: Five
Examples and Three
Thoughts on Translation
Move coincided with legal
here that was sent out by OUP
to an author doing something
for young people. Among the
things prohibited in the text
commissioned by OUP was
the following: Pigs plus sausages, or anything else which

and cultural groups

In 2011, writers
and academicians
condemned OUP
Indias role in
row over Delhi Universitys
decision to drop Ramanujans
essay from its curriculum
could be perceived as pork.
Refusing to go beyond the
official statement, OUP said it
only encouraged some authors to consider cultural
differences and sensitivities.
OUPs commitment to its

 Ridiculous ban, P 11

SC quashes stay on Salmans conviction

Amit.Choudhary@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: In a setback to Salman

Khan, the Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the stay on his conviction in
the blackbuck-hunting case in which he
was sentenced to five years in jail.
It referred the matter back to Rajasthan high court for fresh hearing.
Setting aside the HC order, the apex
court said the conviction could not be
stayed just to enable the actor to go abroad
and the court could pass such an order only after coming to a definite conclusion
that irreversible loss would be caused to

BLACKBUCK CASE

Court in its domain to stay conviction, P 8

him if the conviction was not stayed. The
HC had passed the order after Salman
pleaded that he wouldnt be able to get a

UK visa if his conviction was not stayed.

If some foreign country is not granting permission to visit the said country
on the ground that the respondent has
been convicted of an offence and has
been sentenced for five years of imprisonment under Indian law, the said order
cannot be a ground to stay the order of
conviction, the top court said.
A bench of Justices S J Mukhopadhaya
and A K Goel said the HC, in its verdict, had
not shown any ground that irreversible
loss would be caused to the Dabangg star
if his conviction was not stayed and asked
it to consider the case afresh.

edition of
MP govt is planning New
Charlie Hebdo
to level Chambal flies off stands
ravines for farming T

part of it for industrial use.

While the state governNew Delhi: The Madhya ment argues that the ravines
Pradesh government wants are not being put to producto turn the ravines of Cham- tive use, the ecological impact
bal a unique geographical of the loss of a unique topogfeature once infamous for raphy is unclear. The Chamsheltering dacoits into bal river system is well prefarmland by levelling the served with a national
sanctuary supporttwisting hillocks.
ing gharials, mugConsidering its
gers, fish and migraundulating and bartory birds.
ren topography, the
The area covered
task of flattening the
by ravines is mainly
mud ravines seems
along the banks of the
stupendous, but chief
river and its tributarminister
Shivraj
ies in districts such as
Singh Chouhan on  To create
Wednesday formally
jobs, page 10 Bhind, Morena, Shivpuri, Gwalior, Ujjain
placed the proposal
before the Centre when he met and Mandsaur.
Union agriculture minister
Officials present in the
Radha Mohan Singh.
meeting said levelling of raThe chief minister told vines was tough but not imSingh that the badlands could possible given the technology
be turned into cultivable at hand. After all, its mostly
plots with the use of technolo- the topsoil which has to be levgy and would yield signifi- elled. The entire ravine may
cant benefits by way of agri- not be leveled due to the puniculture and jobs. Chouhan shing topography, but it can be
was asked to send technical done in areas where the gullies are up to 15-20 feet deep.
details of the proposal.
MP has nearly 18 lakh hec- The government has done it
tares of ravines with steep successfully in the Bhind-Mobut shallow gullies. The state rena area in the past, said a
has already started levelling a state government official.
Vishwa.Mohan@timesgroup.com

he first edition of
Charlie Hebdo after
an attack by Islamist
gunmen sold out within
minutes on Wednesday, featuring a cartoon of a tearful
Prophet Mohammad on a
cover that defenders called a
moving work of art but critics saw as a new provocation.
Copies of the latest edition of the satirical weekly
are being offered on eBay

 FULL REPORT ON PAGE 16

for thousands of euros.
Ebay had one vendor listing
the new issue at 15,000 euros
($17,680) for immediate purchase, compared to the cover price of just three euros.
It was not known how serious the offers were, or if
the vendors actually possessed the copies.
French readers queued
up at dawn for copies to
show support for the newspaper, even as al-Qaidas
branch in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack.

Upset wife gives CM vaastu gyaan

Nethra Raju

Demands Bigger
Rooms, Spacious
Place For Puja
Maramkal.Basavarajappa
@timesgroup.com

Mysuru: Like all long-married couples, chief minister

Siddaramaiah and wife Parvathi reportedly had a
healthy disagreement over
their home and the CMs view
on issues like vaastu.
The chief minister is redesigning his ancestral house in
Siddaramanahundi village
into a retirement home. Last
Sunday, the states first power
couple visited the village to
offer puja at the temple, and
inspect the house.
Parvathi was reportedly

mission of academic and

educational excellence is
absolute. Our materials are
sold in nearly 200 countries,
and as such, and without
compromising our commitment in any way, we encourage some authors of educational materials respectfully
to consider cultural differences and sensitivities. Guidelines for our educational
materials differ between geographies and do not cover
our academic publishing.
According to the UKs Daily Mail, Labour MP Khalid
Mahmood said, Thats absolute, utter nonsense. And
when people go too far, that
brings the whole discussion
into disrepute.

THE BOSS IS... Siddaramaiah, who wants to retain the rustic look
of his village home, has run into wifely objections over vaastu

concerned about the skewed

vaastu. She is said to have
suggested that the CM either
reconstruct the entire building or alter some parts to
meet vaastus specifications.

The rooms are not spacious, the kitchen and the puja room are congested. And
one should not build the
house along with the temple
of the family deity, she re-

portedly told Siddaramaiah.

The chief minister has
sponsored the renovation
and construction of the temple of his family deity Chikkatayamma, which is in a dilapidated condition.
The CMs house will be a
thotti mane a palatial
house where the open-to-thesky verandah is surrounded
by rooms and halls with
three bedrooms, a kitchen, a
puja room and a dining area,
in addition to the trappings
of an old house.
In keeping with its rural
setting in Siddaramanahundi,
21km from Mysuru, the house
will retain its heritage look.
For now, construction work
has come to a halt and the engineer has been changed.
 Eco-friendly look, P 5

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Infy spends $250m

to innovate India
nfosys CEO Vishal Sikka on

I Wednesday met Prime

Minister Narendra Modi and

disclosed that his company
will spend $250 million (over
Rs 1,500 crore) to fund
innovations in software and
services in India. Page 17

R
Chandrashekhar,
president of IT association
Nasscom, told TOI that the
group focused particularly
on issues facing startups.
Lots of startups are
moving out of India because of regulatory and
funding concerns. The compliance requirements are
rigorous for small companies too. We asked the minister to have a single-window approach to approvals
for startups, and ease the
compliance requirements.
We asked him to take measures that would encourage
domestic capital to invest in
startups, he said.
Streamline service, P 17

Minister Naqvi
gets 1-yr jail for
breaching peace
Was Charged
With Rioting
In 2009 Case

UNDER FIRE

Nazar.Abbas@timesgroup.com

Rampur: A court in UP on
Wednesday
sentenced
Union minister of state for
minority welfare and parliamentary affairs Mukhtar
Abbas Naqvi to one year in
jail for breaching prohibitory orders during campaigning for the 2009 Lok Sabha
polls. Naqvi was then contesting the Rampur seat on a
BJP ticket, a fight that he
lost to the Samajwadi Partys Jaya Prada, even losing
his security deposit.
The court of additional
civil judge (senior division)

 Will study verdict, P 8

Manish Kumar sentenced
Naqvi, along with 19 supporters, and imposed a fine
of Rs 4,000 under Sections
143 (rioting), 341 and 342
(wrongful restraint) of the
IPC. The court later granted
bail to Naqvi, now a Rajya
Sabha member, and the others convicted on sureties of
Rs 15,000 each.
The case relates to an instance of disturbing peace
during 2009 general elections. Sub-inspector Ram

The case pertains to violence

ahead of the 2009 Rampur Lok
Sabha election, which Naqvi
(in photo) lost to Jaya Prada
There is no automatic
disqualification, but
if a criminal court has a
convicted a minister, he
should introspect whether to
continue in the government.
The right thing to do is that
you step down.
Manish Tewari | CONG

SPOKESMAN

Kishan of the Patwai police

station had, on April 24 that
year, registered an FIR
against Naqvi and the others on charges of rioting.
Patwai police had also
seized a vehicle that Naqvis
supporters were using for
their campaign. According
to the FIR, Naqvi and his
supporters had stormed the
police station seeking release of the vehicle. A brawl
had then occurred between
policemen and BJP workers.