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NINE HURT IN ATTACK ON CPI-M SUPPORTERS AT BAMANGHATA, ARABUL ISLAM ALSO INJURED
Political violence escalates
statesman news service
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: Nine persons were injured,
three of them critically, when armed Trinamul
Congress supporters allegedly attacked buses
carrying CPI-M supporters at Bamanghata, in
Bhangar in South 24-Parganas, on their way
to join a rally in the city protesting the attack
on former minister, Abdur Rezzak Mollah.
Former Trinamul Congress MLA Arabul
Islam, who was alleged to be behind Sunday's
attack on Mr Mollah, was said to be injured in
today's incident, and has been admitted to a
nursing home. Mr Islam was apparently at the
head of the Trinamul supporters involved in
the incident ~ Trinamul leaders claimed he
had tried to intercept arms being carried in the
rallyists' vehicles, though police appeared to be
in the dark about it.
A local CPI-M leader, who was heading to
Alipore for the rally from Paglahat, said: “We
were asked by the local police to stop at
Katatala. We were told that a Trinamul rally in
Bamanghata had attacked our supporters.
When we reached the spot we found Arabul
and his associates were firing at our men and
they even shot at our buses. They beat up our
men and set our vehicles on fire,”
According to police, three persons received
gunshot injuries and are admitted to different
city hospitals in critical condition. The three
CPI-M supporters who received bullet injuries
are Robin Mollah, Kutub Ali Molla and Saidul
Mollah, former minister Kanti Ganguli said.
Six more persons were injured in the incident.
Trinamul supporters set on fire eight vehi-
cles and damaged 25 other vehicles that were
carrying CPI-M supporters, it was alleged.
It was after several hours that a police team
got to the area, even as fire tenders doused the
flames of the burning vehicles, a local CPI-M
leader said.
The Trinamul has alleged that it was the
CPI-M men who attacked them. A local
Trinamul leader said Arabul received bullet
injuries in the attack and was admitted to a
Vehicles torched during the violence at Bamanghata in South 24-Parganas (left); Controversial Trinamul leader
Arabul Islam at a nursing home after he was injured in the incident. On Tuesday. sns
hospital. However, CPI-M leaders said that he
was injured when he tried to escape the spot
after he exhausted his ammunition.
Superintendent of Police, South 24-
Parganas, Mr Pravin Tripathi, said: “We are yet
to know who fired in the incident that has
occurred. I would not like to make any com-
ment about the incident at this moment.”
Soon after the incident, local CPI-M leader-
ship had alleged that the entire attack was pre-
planned with the help of police.
The area was already tense after the attack
on Mr Mollah on Sunday. But police did noth-
ing to provide security and acted late even
when they became aware of the attack, alleged
the local CPI-M leadership.
Even as violence was raging a few kilometres
from the city, CPI-M leaders questioned the
chief minister Mamata Banerjee's silence over
recent incidents of violence in the state. In the
wake of today's fresh incident, CPI-M state sec-
retary and Left Front chairman Biman Bose
said statewide protests would be held tomor-
row. “Why is the state government and Mamata
Banerjee not doing anything to stop this kind
of violence? Trinamul-backed goons under the
leadership of Arabul Islam attacked our party
supporters who were coming to attend the
Alipore rally,” Dr Surya Kanta Mishra,
Leader of the Opposition, said.
“During Miss Banerjee's days in the
Opposition she used to blame us for every-
thing," CPI-M leader Mohammad Selim said.
"But after becoming chief minister every unto-
ward incident has become a ‘cooked up’
case,” he said.
Later, Dr Mishra led a team of Left Front
leaders to meet state Governor M K Narayanan
and bring matters to his notice. He gave
reports of the incidents and a medical report
relating to Mr Rezzak Mollah to the Governor.
State parliamentary affairs minister, Mr
Partha Chatterjee, later told reporters that
Arabul was seriously injured by CPI-M work-
ers and he was on his way to Bhangar Hospital
to see him. As a mark of protest, Trinamul
Congress will hold rallies after 6 p.m. from 10
to 18 January across the state, he said.
When asked who fired the bullets and
torched the vehicles, Mr Chatterjee said such
issues will be handled by police. He, however,
refused to blame the police for inaction, say-
ing: “Police will do their job and we will do
turn to page 5
Pak soldiers cross
LoC, kill two jawans
pti & sns
LINE OF CONTROL
JAMMU/NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Pakistani
regular soldiers crossed into Indian territo-
ry in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir
and ambushed an Indian patrol, killing two
soldiers, one of whom was decapitated.
Condemning the attack, which it called
provocative, the government said it will POONCH JAMMU AND
take up the incident with Pakistan. “We KASHMIR
expect Islamabad to honour the ceasefire
agreement strictly,” the Defence Ministry said
in a late night statement.
The Army's Additional Director General ried
(Public Information) Major General S L out the strike well past
Narasimhan said Northern Army Commander 11.30 a.m.
Lt-Gen K T Parnaik visited the scene of action The Army's Udhampur-based Northern
and confirmed that one of the two bodies was Command came out with a statement terming
mutilated. Other sources said the heads of the attack as a “significant escalation” to the
both the Indian soldiers ~ Lance Naiks continuing series of ceasefire violations and
Hemraj and Sudhakar Singh ~ have been infiltration attempts supported by the Pakistan
chopped off and one was taken away by the Army. “A group of their regular soldiers intrud-
Pakistani intruders. ed across the Line of Control in the Mendhar
Today's attack took place along the Line of Sector on January 8. Pakistan army troops, hav-
Control in Poonch district when the Pakistanis ing taken advantage of thick fog and mist in the
came about 100 metres into Indian territory forested area, were moving towards our posts
and attacked the patrol party. Besides killing when an alert area domination patrol spotted
the two men, they also injured two other sol- and engaged the intruders,” it said. “The fire-
diers and took away their weapons. fight continued for approximately half an hour
The attack comes a day after Pakistan lodged after which the intruders retreated towards
a strong protest over what it described as an their side of (the) LoC. Two soldiers Lance Naik
“unprovoked Indian attack” on one of its mili- Hemraj and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh laid
tary posts along the Line of Control in Haji down their lives,” the statement said.
Peer sector on Sunday, a claim which the The Defence Ministry statement said: “The
Indian Army rejected. In Islamabad, a military Government of India considers the incident as
spokesman denied India's allegation of a provocative action and we condemn it.
provocative action in Poonch sector by “Director General Military operations of the
Pakistani troops, saying the accusation was two countries are in touch over it. The govern-
aimed at diverting attention from the previous ment will take up the incident with the Paki-
incident. Pakistan had claimed that one of their stan Government. We expect Islamabad to ho-
soldiers had been killed in Sunday's alleged nour the ceasefire agreement strictly,” it said.
raid on a post by Indian troops, and it is spec- In the last month, the Pakistan army has vio-
ulated that today’s attack was in retaliation. lated the ceasefire agreement nearly a dozen
Local sources said the Pakistan Army's times. Most of these firing incidents were in
Border Action Team entered Indian territory at Rajouri, Uri and Keran sectors to help infiltra-
Krishna Ghati area of Poonch district and car- tion attempts, army officials said.

Munda quits as J’khand CM

sns & pti
RANCHI, 8 JAN: Jharkhand Chief Minister
Arjun Munda today resigned and recom-
mended dissolution of the 82-member
Assembly after coalition partner Jharkhand
Mukti Morcha (JMM), in a letter to Governor
Syed Ahmed earlier in the day, formally with-
drew its support to Mr Munda's 28-month-old
government, pushing it into a minority.
“I have submitted the Cabinet's decision
recommending the Governor to dissolve the
House along with my resignation,” Mr Munda
told reporters here after handing over the let-
ter to Mr Ahmed at the Raj Bhavan at 11.45
a.m. today. The Governor, he said, would
decide on the recommendation for dissolu-
tion of the House.
The decision to recommend dissolution of
the House was taken at a Cabinet meeting
held this morning to prevent any 'horse trad-
ing-like situation', Mr Munda said before goi-
ng to the Raj Bhavan. “Seven ministers were
present in the Cabinet meeting and it was de-
cided to recommend dissolution of the state
Assembly,” he said. No JMM member was pre-
sent at the meeting. Jharkhand has witnessed
fast-paced political developments after the BJP
rejected the JMM’s demands, including for ha-
nding over of power under a disputed “acco-
rd” on rotational leadership of the coalition.
JMM leader and Deputy Chief Minister
Hemant Soren, who submitted to the
Governor the letter withdrawing support to
the Munda government, said the Cabinet rec-
I have run the government
with stability for the last
two years. Dissolution of
the House and seeking a
fresh mandate is the
alternative at present’
- Arjun Munda
ommendation for dissolution of the House
"did not stand" as the party had announced
its decision to pull out yesterday itself. The
JMM, he said, had faxed a letter to Raj Bhavan
informing the Governor of its decision even
before the Cabinet met this morning.
In the 82-member state Assembly, BJP and
JMM have 18 members each. The Munda gov-
ernment had the support of six members of
All Jharkhand Students' Union, two of JD-U,
two Independents and one nominated mem-
ber who has voting right in a trial of strength.
The Congress has 13 MLAs, Jharkhand Vikas
Morcha (P) 11 and RJD 5. Five smaller parties
have one member each, besides an
Independent.
The JMM is learnt to have approached the
Congress to explore formation of a new gov-
ernment in the state but the latter appears to
be in no hurry and could prefer a brief spell
of President's Rule. The party's caution stems
from the fact that it had burnt its fingers by
supporting the Madhu Koda-led government
in the past as it had to face public criticism for
the irregularities that happened during the
Koda administration, party sources said.
Pressure, however, is mounting on the
Congress high command from state party
leaders with at least eight MLAs arriving in the
national capital to nudge the senior leaders to
agree to a new political option. “They (JMM)
are our allies at the Centre. They had voted
with us twice in Parliament. The state unit of
Congress is not in favour of President Rule or
the dissolution of Assembly. We have apprised
the AICC in-charge of Jharkhand of our views.
Now a decision has to be taken by the central
leadership. We will accept whatever they deci-
de,” CLP leader in the state, Mr Rajinder Pras-
ad Singh, said. However, Congress spokespe-
rson P C Chacko said: “The state unit of Con-
gress has not taken any decision. No political
decision has been taken either by the state
unit or by the Central leaders on the issue.”
another report on page 5

Owaisi arrested
HYDERABAD, 8 JAN: MIM floor
leader Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is
facing multiple cases for his alleged
hate speeches, was arrested today
after medical tests in a government
hospital here a day after his arrival
from London. Mr Owaisi, who was
subjected to medical examination at
the Gandhi Hospital here for his
fitness status, was taken straightaway to Nirmal in
Adilabad district, more than 200 km from here, where
he had delivered his first speech. sns (details on page 4)
Pranab to inaugurate NSCB terminal
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: President Pranab Mukherjee will
formally inaugurate the much-delayed new passenger
terminal at NSC Bose International Airport on 20
January ~ three days ahead of the birth anniversary of
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose after whom the airport
is named ~ but it will take at least two more months
for the Rs 2,325-crore facility to start handling regular
flight operations. sns (details on page 13)
Himachal MLA surrenders
CHANDIGARH, 8 JAN: The Congress’ general secretary
in Himachal Pradesh and newly-elected legislator, Mr
Ram Kumar Chaudhary, who has been absconding for
the past few weeks in connection with the murder of a
girl, was today sent to police custody for six days by a
court after he surrendered in Haryana's Panchkula, near
Chandigarh. sns (details on page 4)
AITA's stand
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: With none of the eight revolting
players making themselves available for Davis Cup
selection, the AITA today said anyone who refuses to play
for India will not be entitled for financial support from
the government. The national tennis body has proposed
to get Rs 15 lakh each for players featuring in top-200 in
singles and Rs 12 lakh for those who get into the
bracket of 201-300 through the Long term Development
Plan from the government. pti
details on page 11
Centre for extending deadline for telcos
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: The Centre today asked the Supre-
me Court to consider allowing the telecom operators,
whose 2G licences were cancelled last year, to continue
to operate after the 18 January deadline with a condit-
ion that they “will be liable to pay” for the spectrum as
per the proposed price of the upcoming auction schedu-
led on 11 March. The Department of Telecom (DoT)
apprised its stand in an affidavit which assumes import-
ance as the court had permitted the telecom operators
to continue to operate till 18 January this year. pti

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INDIA KOLKATA WEDNESDAY 9 JANUARY 2013 2

ED swoops down on Govt determined to turn setbacks Nepal Army chief honoured
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: The President, Mr
Pranab Mukherjee, today conferred
into opportunity: Manmohan the honorary rank of General of the
Indian Army on General Gaurav

Jagan, attaches assets

press trust of india Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, Chief
sion of our citizens, particularly our youth, of the Army Staff, Nepalese Army, “for
will be a force of positive change in our his commendable military prowess
KOCHI, 8 JAN: Prime Minister Manmohan country,” he told the gathering where and immeasurable contribution to
Singh today said the government was deter- Mauritius President Rajkeshwur Purryag was further fostering the long and friendly
mined to turn any setback into an opportu- the chief guest. association with India.” sns
press trust of india Rajasekhara sum of Rs 10 crore in equity of Ms Jagati nity to improve legal and regulatory frame- Mr Singh said that despite an impressive
Reddy, who died Publications Private LTD (a company owned works in the context of a “surge of expecta- economic performance and change on an MPs travel bills
HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: In a fresh in a helicopter and controlled by Jagan Mohan Reddy). tion” from an increasingly empowered and enormous scale in the past two decades, the NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Details of travel
crackdown on YSR Congress party chief crash in 2009. “The payment of Rs 10 crore was kickback articulate public. country faced persisting challenges of pover- bills of Lok Sabha members will soon
Jagan Mohan Reddy and his associates, the “Immovable for the favours done by the state govern- “There is now a surge of expectation from ty, equity, sustainability and opportunity. be made online as the Secretariat is
Enforcement Directorate today attached properties and ment. Thus, the investigation under PMLA an increasingly empowered and articulate Noting that the world economy has had to collating all related documents which
assets worth Rs 143.74 crore in connection movable assets has so far revealed that shareholders of Ms public, for more responsive, transparent, deal with the two major financial crises ema- will be digitised and put on the
with its probe in the money laundering case worth Rs 143.74 Ramky Pharma City (India) LTD are Ms participative, clean and efficient gover- nating from the developed world in the last official website of the House. pti
against him. crore under Ramky Infrastructure LTD, Ms Ramky Estates nance,” Mr Singh said, inaugurating the four years, Mr Singh said the Indian econo- State-of-the-art vessel
The ED attachment order, under criminal Section 5(1) of PMLA are being attached. and Farms Limited and APIIC,” it alleged. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas here, attended by the my has not been immune to the conse- CHENNAI, 8 JAN: A state-of-the-art
provisions of the Prevention of Money The properties attached from Ms Ramky The ED further said that “M/s Ramky Indian diaspora. quences. inshore patrol vessel to guard the
Laundering Act (PMLA), comes in less than Pharma City (India) Limited are approxi- Pharma City (India) LTD had sold the plots His remarks apparently come against the “From an impressive average annual GDP eastern coast of the country was
four months after the agency first issued two mately 135.46 acres of land and deposit of in non-SEZ area and leased out plots in SEZ backdrop of the nationwide outcry and out- growth rate of over eight per cent between today commissioned here into the
separate attachment orders of Rs 51 crore Rs 3.20 crore in mutual funds and fixed area in the Pharma City named as Ms rage over various issues, including corrup- 2004-2010, our growth declined to 6.5 per Coast Guard by Minister of State for
and Rs 71 crore respectively against the deposits for Rs 10 Crore from Jagati Jawahar Lal Nehru Pharma City. tion and the recent Delhi gangrape incident. cent in 2011-12 and may fall below six per Defence, Mr Jitendra Singh. pti
Kadapa Member of Parliament and others Publications Private Limited (held by Jagan In the illegal sale and lease of land falling “I have no doubt that the energy and the pas- cent in the current year,” he said.
involved in this disproportionate assets case. Reddy),” the attachment order said. under the greenbelt area, by sale of 23 plots
The agency, according to sources, has few The agency is probing the case on the in non-SEZ area and 8 plots in SEZ area the
more similar orders in the pipeline as it
plans to build a water tight case against Mr
Reddy and his associates.
Today's order has been issued against the
basis of the FIR filed by the CBI to investigate
alleged disproportionate assets amassed by
Mr Reddy especially during the tenure of his
father as CM.
generation of proceeds of crime was to the
tune of Rs 133.74 crore.
“Ms Ramky Pharma City (India) LTD was
illegally benefited by this amount as a result
Gujarat tops list in economic freedom
press trust of india
Ramky group of companies which the ED During the course of investigation, the ED of criminal activity. and inclusive economic growth. enabling it to move up from sixth to third
order alleges earned “proceeds of crime” by alleged, “It was revealed that Ms Ramky Further payment of Rs 10 crore by Ramky NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Gujarat has topped the Gujarat freedom index, the report said, position. The economic freedom report said
alleged illegal favours done by the then Pharma City (India) LTD illegally sold land Group of Companies to Ms Jagati list of 20 large states in terms of economic has been rising fast and estimated at 0.64 that the biggest decline in index was record-
Andhra Pradesh government and the firm falling in greenbelt area and acquired a sum Publications is the proceeds of crime which freedom, governance and inclusive growth, points, much ahead of Tamil Nadu and ed by Jharkhand which slumped from 8th
gave kickbacks for favours by remitting ille- of Rs 133.74 crore. was transferred as equity contribution in the said a report released today. Madhya Pradesh at 0.56 points. Haryana and position to 19th spot.
gal money in a firm owned by Mr Reddy. In lieu of the favour from the state gov- company. “The top state in India in (terms of ) eco- Himachal Pradesh have been placed at fourth As many as eight states registered decline
The case pertains to the tenure of Mr ernment of Andhra Pradesh, A Ayodhya Rami Thus, total amount of the proceeds of nomic freedom in 2011 was Gujarat. It dis- and fifth positions respectively. in their ranks. These include some of the
Jagan's father and former chief minister Y S Reddy, Chairman of Ms Ramky Group paid a crime is Rs 143.74 crore,” the ED alleged. placed Tamil Nadu which had been at the top Narendra Modi-led BJP has been elected in most industrialised states like Tamil Nadu,
in 2009,” said the report of 'Economic the recently concluded Assembly elections Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, it said.
Freedom of the States of India 2012' which for the third time. In over long-time horizon, it added,
was released by former RBI Governor and According to the report, West Bengal, Punjab has fallen in economic freedom rank-
14 Pak fishermen held, two boats seized near Sir Creek present Rajya Sabha Member Bimal Jalan. Jharkhand and Bihar figured in the the bot- ing from 6th position in 2009 to 12th place in
KUTCH (Gujarat), 8 JAN: Fourteen Pakistani fishermen were apprehended and two fishing boats seized by the According to the report prepared by noted tom three in terms of economic freedom 2011.The report, which has a special refer-
Border Security Force for trespassing into Indian waters near the disputed Sir Creek area, officials said today. economists Bibek Debroy, Laveesh Bhandari, index for 2011. ence to labour issues, said that lack of labour
“14 Pakistani fishermen were held and their two fishing boats seized from Nal Creek, near Sir Creek, while they Ashok Gulati and Swaminathan Aiyar, Gujarat The median score for economic freedom sector reforms was hampering economic
were trying to fish in Indian waters late last night,” a BSF official said. is followed by Tamil Nadu and Madhya of all states, which had declined from 0.38 in freedom and growth.
The fishermen will be sent to BSF's battalion unit at Koteshwar before being handed over to police, who will, in Pradesh. 2005 to 0.36 in 2009, has improved substan- The states with best labour regulation was
turn, hand them over to officials at the Joint Interrogation Centre in Bhuj for further investigation, he said. The economic freedom index, which is tially to 0.41 in 2011. Maharashtra followed by Karnataka and
On 28 December, a Pakistani fishing boat was apprehended by the BSF from the Harami Nala near the Sir based on the methodology developed by The biggest improvement has been regis- Punjab, while the states with worst track
Creek area. The fishermen, however, had managed to evade security personnel. pti Canada-based Fraser Institute, is an indicator tered by Madhya Pradesh with freedom index record of labour reforms were West Bengal,
of economic governance, state level reforms score rose from 0.42 in 2009 to 0.56 in 2011 Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Assam.

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of delivery will be reim-
bursed.
(B0003) C16431
PUBLIC
NOTIFICATIONS
1 NO. 14909999-Y Ex.
Naik Sukumar Ghosh, S/o.
Provakar Ghosh, R/o.
Ghanashyampur, P.O.:
Ujunia, P.S.: Salar, Dist.:
Murshidabad (W.B.), Pin-
742401, do hereby declare
CLASSIFIEDS
that my son Chinmoy Ghosh 43,68,890. 2. Karjona – tion / download / upload will Equipment and Overhead HT cepowernld@gmail.com Estimated Amount put to TENDER NOTICE
and Chinmoy Kumar Ghosh Muratipur Natunhat Road be available from the web- & LT Line Materials under 6 cepower1@gmail.com tender: Rs. 1,90,54,451, Sealed quotations are
are same and identical per- from 16.00 kmp. to 19.00 site: http://etender.wb.nic.in package of supply works as Er. K. Miachieo Earnest Money: Rs. hereby invited from bona
son, vide affidavit sworn kmp. Estimated Amount: Rs. Brief NIT will be available detailed below: Chief Engineer 3,81,089. fide contractors for partici-
before the Ld. Judicial 37,40,835. 3. Balgona – from the website: Sl. No.; Name of work; Department of Power Sd/- pating in the tender for the
Magistrate 1st Class at Chandrapur Road from 1.50 www.pwdwb.in Estimated Cost; Bid Nagaland, Kohima S.E. South Circle proposed works (construc-
Kandi on 20-12-2012. C16434 kmp. to 4.00 kmp. Executive Engineer Guarantee; Completion peri- (B0006) C16440 P.W. (C.B.) Dte. tion of classrooms) at
I, KABITA Patel, W/o. Estimated Amount: Rs. Burdwan Highway od; Qualified bidders respec- 76, Dr. S.M. Ave. Kalinagar Mahavidyalaya,
Pradip Kumar Patel, residing 34,74,834. Detailed infor- Division No.-III tively are: GOVERNMENT 4th Flr., Kol.-14 Kalinagar Hat, Sadeshkhali-
at 95/1, G.T. Road, mation / download / upload P.W. (Roads) Directt. 1. Package A – Supply of OF Phone: (033) 22897870 1, North 24 Parganas.
Sheoraphuli, P.O.: will be available from the (B0009) C16433 Distribution Transformers (B0004) C16439 Tender documents will be
w e b s i t e : and Power Transformers; Rs. WEST BENGAL available at the Office of
Sheoraphuli, P.S.: EXECUTIVE Engineer, PWD,
Serampore, Dist.: Hooghly, http://etender.wb.nic.in Cooch Behar Division invited 819.62 lakh; Rs. 6.00 lakh;
Office of the SCRAP SALE Teacher-in-Charge, Kalinagar
Pin-712223, W.B., shall Brief NIT will be available Notice Invited Electronic 8 months; Manufacturers. Deputy Director Sealed quotations are Mahavidyalaya, Kalinagar
from the website: 2. Package B – Supply of Hat, Sadeshkhali-1, North 24
henceforth be known as Tender No. 27 & 28 of 2012- of Agriculture (Admn.) invited by a State Govt. U.T.
Kavita Patel, vide affidavit www.pwdwb.in 13 for different works. ACSR and AAC Conductors; Parganas on payment of Rs.
Cooch Behar for sale of various sizes of
sworn before Notary Public, Executive Engineer Document download / Sell Rs. 859.16 lakh; Rs. 6.00 5,000 in cash. Issue of ten-
Notice Inviting Tender No.: M.S. Scrap 50 MT (approx.)
Serampore Court, dated: 27- Burdwan Highway start date: 04-01-2013 from lakh; 8 months; der documents: 09-01-2013
01 of 2012-2013 of Deputy (plate cut pieces and melt-
12-2012. Division No.-III 6-00 p.m. Bid submission Manufacturers. ing). Contact for tender form to 17-01-2013. Last date of
Director of Agriculture
(B0001) C16428 P.W. (Roads) Directt. start date: 05-01-2013 from 3. Package C – Supply of (Admn.), Cooch Behar. at 1, Foreshore Road, submission of tender: 17-01-
I, SK. WASIM Akram, son (B0008) C16432 7-00 p.m. Document down- Steel Tubular Poles; Rs. Dated: 09-01-2013. Howrah-711102, Ph.: 2668- 2013 up to 2-00 p.m.
of Sk. Md. Samim, R/o. E-TENDER Notice load / sell end date: 13-01- 839.21 lakh; Rs. 6.00 lakh; Name of work: 5909/1086 within 10 days. Opening of tender docu-
Village & P.O.: Bikihakola, Ref. Notice Inviting 2013 at 5-00 p.m. Bid sub- 8 months; Manufacturers. Construction of Vermi C16437
ments: 3-00 p.m. on 17-01-
P.S.: Panchla, District: Electronic Tender No. 6/e- mission end date: 14-01- 4. Package D – Supply of Compost Pit in different 2013. The authority reserve
Howrah-711322, hereby Tender of 2012-2013. 2013 at 5-00 p.m. For more Insulators; Rs. 127.66 lakh; Blocks within Cooch Behar
SHORT NOTICE the right to reject any tender
Rs. 1.00 lakh; 8 months; District. paper without assigning any
declare that Sk. Wasim Executive Engineer, Burdwan details visit website: INVITING E-TENDER
Manufacturers. 1. Last date of application reason whatsoever.
Akram and Sk. Oashim Highway Division No. III, 1st http://etender.wb.nic.in NO. 47 OF 2012-13
of tender: 18-01-2013 up to
Akram (as mentioned in my Administrative Building, (B0012) C16443 5. Package E – Supply of SE / SWC / PWD invites Prof. Manoranjan Naskar
3-00 p.m.
Bhatar, Burdwan invites e- HT & LT Electrical Materials; e-tender for the work Teacher-in-Charge
birth certificate) is one and 2. Last date of purchase of
Tender (online) for: Mtc. & GOVERNMENT OF Rs. 469.71 lakh; Rs. 3.00 “Construction of Rural Kalinagar Mahavidyalaya
the same person, vide affi- tender form: 21-01-2013 up
Rep. Works. 1. Balgona- NAGALAND lakh; 8 months; Haat at Jhargram in the C16438
davit sworn before Court of to 3 p.m.
Chandrapur Road from 8.00 DEPARTMENT OF Manufacturers / authorised District of Paschim
Judicial Magistrate, Howrah 3. Last date of dropping of
kmp. to 11.50 kmp. & POWER dealers. tender form: 24-01-2013 up Medinipur (Civil Work THE UNIVERSITY
on 7-12-2012. C16423
Fulgram Link Road 0.00 to Office of the Chief Engineer 6. Package F – Supply of to 2-00 p.m. only) under B.R.G.F.” Estt. OF BURDWAN
I, SUNIL Paul, son of late 1.00 kmp. Estimated XLPE LT Cables; Rs. 27.85
Nagaland, Kohima 4. Date of opening of ten- Amt.: Rs. 2,20,91,119. Sealed quotations are
Nitai Chan Paul, R/o. 21/1, Amount: Rs. 24,19,248. 2. lakh; Rs. 1.00 lakh; 8
CEL / RE / UDA / NIT / der: 24-01-2013 at 3-00 p.m. Tender ID: invited from the reputed
Barishtar P. Mitra Road, Flat Balgona-Chandrapur Road months; Manufacturers.
2013 / 383 The detailed NIT instruc- 201 2_PWD_6066_1 . Vendors for purchasing of
No. 12, 3rd floor, Kolkata- from 4.00 kmp. to 8.00 kmp. Dated Kohima Total cost – Rs. 3143.21 tion to applicants and all A.C. Machines & Furniture.
Last date of downloading
700035, shall henceforth be Estimated Amount: Rs. the 7th Jan., 2013 lakh. other information may be Last date of submitting quo-
tender document: 16-01-
known as Sunil Krishna Paul, 22,19,024. 3. Katwa- NOTICE INVITING TENDER 2. The terms and condi- seen from the office of the
2013 up to 15-00 hours. tation: 22-01-2013 (3 p.m.).
vide affidavit sworn before Nandigram-Singhi Road 1. Under the Special tions and the qualifying undersigned on any working
Details will be available at For details please contact
the Notary Public, C.M.M’s. from 3.50 km. to 6.50 kmp. Economic Package allocated requirements for participa- day during office hours.
http://etender.wb.nic.in the office of the undersigned
Court, Kolkata on 13-12-12. tion in the bidding are con- Deputy Director of
Estimated Amount: Rs. by Government of India to Sd/- or visit www.buruniv.ac.in
Agriculture (Admn.)
C16435 23,58,076. 4. Karajgram- the State of Nagaland for tained in the bid documents Superintending Assistant Registrar-II
Cooch Behar
Bankapasi Road from 6.50 development of 4 (four) of respective packages. Engineer (B0011)
TENDERS (B0013) C16442
km. to 9.50 km. & 11.50 Districts of Under Developed 3. The bidding documents PWD
km. to 12.00 km. Estimated Areas of Nagaland – as well as the soft copy for C16444 South-Western Circle UNIVERSITY OF
E-TENDER Notice Amount: Rs. 13,03,340. 5. Tuensang, Kiphire, Longleng the 6 packages of works will NOTICE INVITING Paschim Midnapore
Ref. Notice Inviting Monteswar-Dainhat Road be available in the Office of E-TENDER CALCUTTA
and Mon, the Dept. of Power, (B0007) C16436
Electronic Tender No. 7/e- from 0.00 to 1.00 km. & Govt. of Nagaland, hereby the Chief Engineer (Power), (ABRIDGED) Tender Notice
Tender of 2012-2013, 3.00 kmp. to 4.00 kmp. plan to undertake develop- RE Cell from 7-1-2013 to 16- NIT No. 47 of 2012-13 of
Executive Engineer, Burdwan Estimated Amount: Rs. 1-2013. Interested bidders SE, SC, PW(CB) Dte.
SUPERINTENDING Sealed quotations / ten-
ment of distribution infra- Engineer, Southern Circle, ders are invited from bona
Highway Division No. III, 1st 15,41,620. 6. Katwa-Karui structures in the Under may purchase the bid docu- Website: fide agencies for construc-
PWD, C.I.T. Building (4th
Administrative Building, Road between 8.00 kmp. Developed Area during the ment on payment of Rs. https://etender.wb.nic.in tion of additional floors at
floor), P-16 India Exchange
Bhatar, Burdwan invites e- and 13.60 kmp. Estimated 12th Plan. Therefore the 5,000 per package during The undersigned on behalf Jute Technology
Place Extn., Kolkata-
Tender (online) for: Works amount: Rs. 5,47,238. 7. Dept of Power invites sealed office working hours. of the Governor of West Department, C.U. For details
700073, invites e-tenders
under 13th F.C. 1. Dainhat Link Road from bids from reputed manufac- 4. Last date of bid submis- Bengal invites e-Tender for of specifications, T&C and
vide NIT No. 33 of 2012-13
Monteswar – Dainhat Road 1.50 km. to 2.95 km. turers and authorized deal- sion: 28th Jan., 2013, 10-30 the following work(s) from others, please visit
for works of: 1) Improvement
from 15.00 kmp to 19.00 Estimated Amount: Rs. ers of manufacturer for sup- a.m. to 3-30 p.m. the eligible contractors as University website at:
and strengthening of
kmp. Estimated Amount: Rs. 6,23,779. Detailed informa- ply of Electrical Machinery & 5. Bid opening date: 29th mentioned in the detailed www.caluniv.ac.in
Baruipur-Sashan Road from University Engineer
Jan., 2013, 11-00 a.m. NIT.
(B0002)
6. Bidders are requested to The detailed NIT & Tender 0.00 kmp to 3.60 km in the
strictly follow the qualifying Documents Collection From: Dist. of South 24 Parganas
C16427a
requirements and the terms 04-01-2013 at 18-00 hrs. to during the year 2012-2013
Kolkata : Statesman House, 4, Chowringhee Square Mumbai : 5, Kasturi Buildings Jamshedji Tata Road, and conditions of the tender 16-01-2013 at 13-00 hrs. & under DAC. Est. Amt.: Rs.
Kolkata-700 001 Tel: (033) 22127070-76, (033) 71071700 Mumbai-400 020 as detailed in the bidding 1,65,82,895. EMD: Rs. OBITUARY
Submission From: 04-01-
Fax: (033) 2212-6181 / 7107-1780 Tel: (022) 2202 1045, 2202 1394, Fax: 2204 4877 3,31,658 (Tender Id No.
Email: sman@vsnl.com, rishi.bhandoo@gmail.com documents. Any deviation 2013 at 18-00 hrs. to 16-01-
Email: thestatesman@vsnl.com
advt@thestatesman.net from the qualifying require- 2013 at 13-00 hrs. can be 2013_PWD_6108_1) & 2)
Bangalore : 4301, High Point IV 45, Palace Road, Widening and strengthening
ments will result in rejection made online through the
Delhi : Statesman House, 148, Barakhamba Road, Bangalore-560 001
New Delhi-110 001 Tel: (011) 2331 5911 Tel: (080) 22259129/ 22204813 of bids. above website only. of Budge Budge Trunk Road
Fax: (011) 2331 5295 Email: tsmbangalore@yahoo.com, thestatesman.sangeeta@gmail.com 7. Notwithstanding any Sl. 1 (Tender ID - from 21.00 kmp to 24.50
Email: sman@nde.vsnl.net.in, delhistatesman@yahoo.com Chennai : Fagun Mansion (4th floor) 26, Ethirai Road, condition of the bidding doc- 2013_CB_6076_1) - Name km in the Dist. of South 24
3/10, INS Building (3rd floor) Rafi Marg, Chennai-600 105,Tel: (044) 28278037, 28279984 uments, the undermen- of work: Construction of Girls Parganas during the year
New Delhi-110 001, Tel: (011) 2371 8434 Fax: 28224800 Email: statesman@eth.net
tioned hereby reserves the & Boys Hostel and Group-D 2012-2013 under DAC. Est.
Email: shivaji.samaddar@gmail.com patgd65@rediffmail.com
Ishan House (2nd floor) A-90, Sector IINOIDA, right to cancel / reject any or Staff Quarter, Head Masters’ Amt.: Rs 3,43,71,469. EMD:
UP 201 301
Hyderabad : The Statesman Limited 2nd Floor, all tenders without assigning Quarter inside the Proposed Rs. 6,87,429 (Tender Id No.
UNI Building A.C. Guards
Tel: (0120) 95120-3052911, Fax: (0120) 95120-2547216 any reason thereof. New School Building at 2013_PWD_6108_2).
Hyderabad-500004, Ph.: 040-2339 1739
Siliguri : Plot No. 13A, Dabgram Industrial Growth Centre Email: thestatesman.hyd@gmail.com 8. In view of limited time, Patharpratima Block in the Bid submission start date
P.O. Fulbari, Dist. Jalpaiguri, Siliguri-734218 the bid documents may be District South 24 Parganas (online): 08-01-2013 from 4-
Lucknow : 2/2, Butler Palace (Near Jopling Road)
Tel: (0353) 2568063, 2568615, 2568787, 2568685. Lucknow-226 001, Ph.: (0522) 2206705, emailed to the intending bid- under BRGF Schemes. 00 p.m.
Fax: (0353) 2568296, Email: kkchy1108@sify.com 9415920949 Email: soumen.bose@rediffmail.com ders. The cost for the bidding Estimated Amount put to
slg_statesman@yahoo.co.in Bid submission closing
City Office: H/0 Mr. S. K. Raha, 1st Floor (opp. Ranchi : 11/C, Road#1, Ashoknagar, Ranchi - 834 002 documents will be realized tender: Rs. 3,42,75,005, (online): 21-01-2013 at 4-00
from the bidders during bid Earnest Money: Rs.
Kanchanjungha Stadium) 16, Bidhan Road, Fax: (0651) 2247054
Email: binodenarayansingh@yahoo.co.in submission. 6,85,500.
p.m.
Siliguri-734015. Tel: (0353) 2524077 The detail NIT may be seen
Bhubaneswar : Plot 3A, Zone B, Sector A, Mancheswar Bhopal : Mr. Yogesh Kumar D-Sector-294 Nehru 9. Any clarification or cor- Sl. 2 (Tender ID-
and downloaded from the
Industrial Estate, Bhubaneswar-751 010. Nagar, Kotra, Bhopal, (M): 9424242664 respondences with regard to 2013_CB_6076_2) - Name
w e b s i t e :
Tel: (0674) 2588060/61/62/2586371, Raipur : Mr. Manish Saluja 53, Sahid Samarak Complex this NIT can be made at the of work: Construction of 3
following telephone num- (three) storied building at the http://etender.wb.nic.in
Telefax: 0674-2588061 Bombay Market, G.E. Road, Raipur 492001
Email: statesmanbbsr@gmail.com Tel.: 5035985, (M): 9425202097 bers and e-mail address. new Vagrant’s Home, 153, Superintending Engineer
AIR-SURCHARGE; Kathmandu — 15 Paise, Eastern Region — 10 Paise Tel: 0370 2243149 Sarat Bose Garden Road, Southern Circle, PWD
All other stations in India — 15 paise E - m a i l : Dhakuria, Kolkata-78. (B0010) C16441

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INDIA KOLKATA WEDNESDAY 9 JANUARY 2013 3

SC to go through transcripts
of Niira Radia tapes
press trust of india
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Transcripts of the
5,800 tapped telephone conversations of
corporate lobbyist Niira Radia (file photo)
with politicians, corporate honchos,
including former Tata Chief Ratan Tata
were today placed by the government
before the Supreme court which said it will
go through them before deciding the
course of action.
Excerpts from the tapes earlier leaked in
the media had sparked a political storm
with the conversations bringing out the
nature of corporate lobbying and also its
purported impact on politics.
The court took on record the transcripts
of the entire tapped conversations which
have been put in 38 sealed envelopes in
addition to the 10 already placed before it
earlier.
“We will go through the envelopes (con-
taining the transcripts) to decide what
course of action can be taken,” a Bench of
justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya
said.
The Bench said it will go through the
transcripts to decide whether it has to be
evaluated by an independent team.
The court was hearing a
petition filed by Tata Group ex-
Chairman Ratan Tata who had
moved the apex court on 29
November 2010, for action
against those involved in the
leakage of the tapes containing
his conversation with Ms
Radia.
He said the leakage amounted to
infringement of his fundamental right to
life, which includes right to privacy under
Article 21 of the Constitution.
The NGO, Centre for Public Interest
Litigation (CPIL), also sought a court direc-
tion that all conversations should be made
public except those which are purely per-
sonal in nature. It said the conversations
which show illegality or criminality should
be thoroughly investigated.
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appear-
ing for Mr Tata, opposed the plea that the
tape should be examined by
an independent person or
team.
Additional Solicitor
General, Mr Haren Raval,
appearing for the CBI, also
opposed appointment of any
other team to go into the tran-
scripts and said a team of CBI
officials can be entrusted with the task for
submitting the report.
During the hearing, the Bench said after
going through the transcripts, if it would
find any kind of criminality by any person
in the conversations, it could refer the mat-
ter to the CBI.
Mr Tata said handing over the transcripts
would entail the risk of it being leaked and
since the petition mainly concerns with
right to privacy, it should not be allowed to
change hands.
The Bench, after hearing all sides, said
that it would go through the transcripts
and decide the issue on 22 January.
The conversations were recorded as part
of the surveillance of Mr Radia's phone on
a complaint to the Finance Minister on 16
November 2007, alleging that within a span
of nine years she had built up a business
empire worth Rs 300 crore.
The government had recorded 180 days
of Mr Radia's conversations ~ first from 20
August 2008 onwards for 60 days and then
from 19 October for another 60 days. Later
on 11 May 2009, her phone was again put
under surveillance for another 60 days fol-
lowing a fresh order given on 8 May. RELIGION CALLING ~ At Sangam in Allahabad on Tuesday. shahnawaz khan

Abu Azmi backs

Asaram unrepentant, calls
media, critics barking dogs
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Unfazed by
the outrage sparked by his remark
against the Delhi gangrape victim,
spiritual leader Asaram Bapu today
sought to justify the comments and
compared all those criticising him
to “barking dogs”.
Later, he appeared to tone
down his outburst by saying “if you
listen to my satsang (discourse) for
15 minutes and don't feel change,
then certainly, I will apologize.”
Asaram compared himself to an
elephant who will not respond to
“barking dogs” and said his rema-
rks in connection with the 16 Dec-
ember gangrape were miscon-
strued by the media and his critics.
Asaram landed at the centre of a
controversy yesterday after he sug-
gested that the 23-year-old gan-
grape victim was equally responsi-
ble for the ghastly crime and said
the girl could have called her
assailants brothers and begged
them to stop.
“Does an elephant give impor-
tance to dogs by reacting? he said
today. “Let people infer what they
want.” Asaram later told reporters
his remarks about the gangrape
victim were misconstrued by his
critics and the media.
The family of the gangrape vic-
tim took strong exception to
Asaram's controversial statement
on the girl, saying it was cheap
and “absolutely illogical, least
expected from someone like
him”. “It shows his mentality,”
the girl’s brother is reported to
have told mediapersons. pti
RSS chief
MUMBAI, 8 JAN: Joining a
lengthening list of leaders
who have been making
controversial remarks
following the Delhi gangra-
pe incident, Samajwadi
Party leader Abu Azmi
today said women should
not go out with men other
than relatives and agreed
with RSS chief Mohan
Bhagwat's view that most
rapes take place in cities
and not villages. “Women
should not venture out with
men who are not relatives,”
Mr Azmi, a member of the
Maharashtra assembly,
said here. “What is the
need for roaming at night
with men who are not
relatives? This should be
stopped,” he said. pti
600 women to join MHA probe to also go
Bihar police force into role of hospital staff
press trust of india
PATNA, 8 JAN: Bihar police
is all set to get an addi-
tional 600 women consta-
bles next week, to
strengthen the infrastruc-
ture of its women police
stations in the districts.
“An additional 600 women police constables trained by BMP (Bihar
Military Police) will pass out on 17 January,” state police chief, Mr
Abhyanand told PTI. The new women police constables have been
trained in arms and will be posted in women police stations across
the state, he said.
Additional Director General of Police, Headquarters, Mr Ravinder
Kumar said there are 1,500 police women, officers as well constables,
in the state at present. Women police stations were set up in all 40
police districts in the state in 2012 for effective hearing of crimes per-
taining to dowry and other family disputes.
Mr Abhyanand said out of 40 women police stations in the state, 33
have women station house officers, while 7 others are run by male
statesman news service
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: A high-level home ministry
inquiry, which was ordered to probe into the role of
Delhi Police in handling the case of the brutal gan-
grape of a paramedical student, would also look into
the role of Safdarjung Hospital medical staff where
she was treated. The inquiry would be completed
within seven days and would submit its detailed
report to the home ministry after probing all the alle-
gations made by the victim’s male friend and sole
eyewitness, said a senior officer of the home ministry.
The ministry has also ordered a probe into a
recent report that the Dial 100 helpline did not
respond to a woman journalist. The probe would fix
responsibility on erring officers. The inquiry was
ordered on the instructions of Union Home Minister
Sushil Kumar Shinde after the victim’s friend said in
a television interview that police reached more than
half an hour late and wasted precious time in fighting
HC notice on rights abuse
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Delhi police were tod-
ay asked by Delhi High Court to explain as
to how a special executive magistrate can
be vested with the power to impose prohi-
bitory orders under Section 144 of the
CrPC for up to six months, despite this
being contrary to the fundamental rights
of citizens. Police had invoked Sec 144 on
22 December in and around India Gate
here amidst the sudden upsurge against
the 16 December gangrape incident. pti
eyewitness. The inquiry would also look into why the
bus continued to operate on the road even after
being challaned several times by Delhi Police, the
home ministry official stated.
Giving details of the terms of reference, the min-
istry said it should specifically look into how much
time the PCR vans took to reach the spot, whether

Central Hindi Directorate

‘Rape victim SHOs due to shortage of women staff. With induction of the 600
police women, the infrastructure of these police stations would be
strengthened to ward off unpleasant incidents like the gangrape of
over jurisdiction. The inquiry would be headed by
Ms Veena Kumari Meena, a joint secretary in the
home ministry. The inquiry would ascertain the facts
they delayed in taking action after reaching the spot,
discussing the jurisdiction issue or any such other
issue. It should also be enquired whether the PCR
Scheme of Financial Assistance for Publications in
Hindi.
can choose the 23-year-old girl in Delhi, he added. and fix accountability for any lapses as alleged by the policemen took all necessary action as warranted.

The abovementioned scheme is being implemented

by the Central Hindi Directorate, Higher Education,
Ministry of Human Resource Development for pub-
lawyer’ Four held for abetting Kanker rapes
RAIPUR, 8 JAN: Four more persons, including a teacher,
Noida murder: Third accused held Govt rapped for
MUMBAI, 8 JAN: NOIDA, 8 JAN: The third accused in the murder of a factory worker
here was today sent to 14-day judicial custody after he was arrested not providing
lishing book with a view to encourage Hindi writers were arrested today for abetting the rape of minor inm-
to write in Hindi. Maharashtra gov- ates of a government-run residential school for tribal girls
ernment has even as two more policemen were sent to police lines for allegedly not
Financial Assistance for Publication of Hindi manu-
scripts:
decided to allow a
at Jhaliyamari village in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh,
police said. Superintendent of the residential school Bab- acting on the victim's complaint earlier. ambulance
rape victim to ita Markam, contract teacher Sagar Katlam, Deputy “The third accused Udeyveer was arrested last night,” a senior press trust of india
Under this scheme financial assistance will be pro- choose a lawyer of police officer said today. The accused, who was presented before the
Sarpanch of the village Sukalu Ram Netam and a villager,
vided for the publication of manuscripts of Hindi ref- her preference to Lachhu Ram were arrested today. Police said they were District court later in the day, was sent to 14 days judicial custody. NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Inadequate
erence books, manuscripts of knowledge and sci- fight her case in the court at the aware that the victims were being sexually harassed. Two According to the officer, initial medical report of the woman did not infrastructure and lack of facilities
ence, linguistics, literature, critics, sociology, culture state's expense. persons, contract teacher Mannu Ram Gota (24) and confirm rape and police are now waiting for the final report. “Her body, at AIIMS today came under the
and translations into Hindi from other languages. Home Minister R R Patil (file watchman Deenaram were arrested on Sunday for alleg- however, showed signs that a rape attempt was made,” he said. scanner of a Parliamentary panel
The manuscripts of fiction novels, dramas, poetry photo) said here yesterday that edly raping the inmates of the residential school. pti The semi-nude body of a 21-year-old employee of a garment facto- which slammed the government
and thesises shall not be considered for financial the decision has been taken by his ry, bearing injury marks, was found on Saturday morning from Pushta for its “failure” to even provide for
assistance under the scheme. The scheme is department to provide maximum Cases filed against MNS chief in Bihar area in Sector 63. Meanwhile, Sub-Inspector Rajesh and constable a state-of-the-art ambulance to
applicable to writers only and not to publishers. possible legal assistance to rape Madhubani/Muzaffarpur, 8 Jan: Two more cases were Rakesh were shunted to police lines for allegedly failing to act on a transport the Delhi gang-rape vic-
Procedure for applying: victim and not restrict to public filed today in courts in Madhubani and Muzaffarpur complaint by the victim two years ago that one of the accused had tim to the airport recently.
prosecutors alone. He felt this districts against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his ‘hate’ forcibly entered her house and attempted to molest her. The two other Sources said members of the
The applicant may send his application on the pre- speech against Bihari migrants last week. The petitions
will help expedite conviction in arrested accused, Naresh and Kailash, were sent to 14 days judicial Parliamentary Committee on
scribed Performa to the Central Hindi Directorate rape cases. “The victim can seek alleged that Mr Thackeray has hurt the sentiments of the custody yesterday after they were produced before the district court. Health, in its meeting here,
along with 2 copies of the concerned manuscript lat- legal assistance even from private people by blaming Bihari migrants for rising incidents of Call details and electronic surveillance helped the police in nabbing lamented that the government
est by 15.02.2013. Applications received after the lawyers and the fees will be borne rape in the country. They prayed for strong action against the culprits, officers said. Though the district administration and state had to borrow an ambulance from
last date shall not be entertained. The manuscripts by the state government. They the MNS chief for habitually making insulting remarks government had announced financial compensation, the victim's father a private hospital to transport the
not accepted by the Directorate shall be collected by will be appointed as special pub- against Biharis over the years without fear of law. pti had initially refused to accept the compensation, saying he only want- girl to the airport for her treat-
the applicants themselves. lic prosecutors,” Mr Patil said. pti ed to see that his daughter gets justice. pti ment in Singapore. They won-
The prescribed application form may be obtained dered why a top medical institute
from the following: of the country did not have a sim-
Director,
Central Hindi Directorate,
Katju slams Saket Bar Association ilar facility to cater to such emer-
gencies despite crores having
(Department of Higher Education)
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Taking strong exception to reports of the manner in which members of the Saket Bar Association behaved when two been spent on improving infra-
lawyers wanted to appear for the accused in the gangrape case, Press Council of India chairperson Justice Markandey Katju today slammed structure. Members are also learnt
Ministry of Human Resource Development, the members of the Bar Association, saying “it is disgraceful.” In a statement here, he said “it is reported that some members of the Saket
West Block-7, R.K.Puram,
to have told Health Ministry offi-
Bar Association created a disorderly scene yesterday at the time when the Delhi gangrape accused were produced in court, and shouted at a cials that government had to seek
New Delhi-110066 lawyer, Manohar Lal Sharma, who wanted to appear for the accused.” He added, “it is also reported some members of an NGO Pragatisheel the opinion of private doctors
For more details please login to our website: Mahila Sangathan shouted at Mr Sharma and (another lawyer), Mr Anand who wanted to appear for the accused saying that they should not instead of relying on government
www.hindinideshalaya.nic.in appear for them since they are accused of a serious crime.” He said that every person accused of a crime, however, heinous and despicable, doctors treating the rape victim,
davp 21252/11/0012/1213 has the right to be defended under Article 22 of the Constitution. sns before transporting her to
Singapore for further treatment.
Laying emphasis on hygiene in the

Dolphinariums? A big no... hospital, the Committee also dis-

press trust of india
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: A high-level Environment
Ministry panel has asked the state governments
not to grant permission for dolphinariums after
animal rights organisations voiced concern
about the welfare of wild species to be held cap-
tive in such proposed private facilities.
The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI),
the statutory body under the Environment
Ministry, also asked the Chief Wildlife Wardens
of states to withhold permission to any persons,
government or private players that proposes to
import any Cetacean species for commercial
exhibition or research purposes.
Dolphinariums are commercial captive facili-
ties that house wild dolphins that have been
captured “through cruel methods like drive cap-
tures”, says FIAPO, an animal rights organisa-
tion.
Recently, proposals for dolphinariums had
come up in Kochi, Sindhudurg and Noida and
the animal rights organisations including FIAPO
had presented comprehensive evidence based
on scientific research on issues involved in
keeping dolphins captive.
Welcoming the AWBI advisory, Ms Puja Mitra,
FIAPO's campaign manager said: “This move of
cussed the issue of shortage of
doctors, with some seeking early
start of the six AIIMS-like institutes
across the country.
The six such institutes at
Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur,
Patna, Raipur and Rishikesh which
were announced in 2003 and
approved in March 2006.
APPOINTMENT
the AWBI's is a big step forward to ensure that
India never has captive dolphins, a barbaric
practice that is fast being phased out interna-
tionally.”
“Additionally, dolphinariums have absolutely
no conservation or educational value,” she said
in a statement.
India's only brush with dolphins in captivity
was in the late 1990's in Chennai's Dolphin City
exhibit, where four dolphins were imported
from Bulgaria and died within a few months
due to lack of care and suitable infrastructure.
A number of countries such as United
Kingdom, Brazil and Chile have banned keeping
dolphins in captivity.

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Congress MLA surrenders
in murder case
statesman news service
CHANDIGARH, 8 JAN: In an embarrassment to the Congress, the
party’s general secretary in Himachal Pradesh and newly-elected leg-
islator, Mr Ram Kumar Chaudhary ~ absconding for the past few
weeks in connection with the murder of a girl ~ was today sent to
police custody for six days by a court after he surrendered in
Haryana's Panchkula, near Chandigarh.
“The MLA (Chaudhary) surrendered before CJM (Chief Judicial
Magistrate's) Court in Panchkula today,” Haryana Police's additional
director general, Mr KK Sharma, said.
On Monday, the Haryana police had announced a cash reward of
Rs two lakh to anyone for providing information leading to his arrest.
A cash reward of Rs 50,000 each for the three other accused, who are
close associates of Mr Chaudhary, has also been announced.
The MLA from Doon constituency in Solan district which shares
its borders with Punjab and Haryana, Mr Chaudhary was wanted by
Haryana police in connection with the murder of a young girl, Jyoti,
who was found dead in Panchkula on 22 November.
The girl, who was a native of Hoshiarpur in Punjab, died of head
injuries. Her cell phone details revealed she was on touch with the
MLA who is the main suspect in the case due to his proximity to the
girl.
The father of Jyoti, Mr Butti Ram, had filed a complaint with
Haryana police alleging that Mr Chaudhary had close links with his
daughter and could be involved in the murder.
After getting elected to the Assembly on 20 December, Chaudhary
has been absconding. As the newly elected Himachal MLAs were to
take oath in Dharamshala on Tuesday, a special police team headed
by Mr Ashok Kumar, DCP Ambala had been camping there to exe-
cute fresh warrants of arrest issued by Panchkula court on 5 January
against the accused.
Owaisi arrested
for hate speech
statesman news service
HYDERABAD, 8 JAN: MIM floor leader Mr
Akbaruddin Owaisi was arrested today for his
alleged hate speeches immediately after conducting
his medical examination. The police took him
straight from the Gandhi Medical Hospital to Nirmal,
Adilabad where he delivered the first speech.
His medical report said a bullet is lodged in Mr
Owaisi’s thigh and is pressing his sciatic nerve apart
from a hernia problem. The hospital doctors told the
police that he requires one to two hours physiother-
apy daily. The bullet is from an attempt on his life in
April 2011. Police escorted Mr Owaisi to the hospi-
tal from his Banjara Hills residence at 10.30 a.m.
amid tight security. This came after investigating offi-
cer Mr A Raghu met Mr Owaisi last night and
reported that he is fit to face a police inquiry.
Meanwhile, Mr Owaisi’s petition before the AP
High Court seeking quashing of all complaints relat-
ed to his alleged hate speeches and a stay on his
arrest is coming up for hearing tomorrow.
The decision to arrest him was taken more swift-
TOUCHWOOD ~ The Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam, Mr Vu Van Ninh (right), rings a ly than expected. Earlier, top government sources
bell at The Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya on Tuesday. afp said that since the High Court would be hearing Mr
‘Communal politics’
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Hitting out at the Con-
gress-led Andhra Pradesh government ov-
er the delay in arresting Majlis-e-Ittehadul
Muslimeen (MIM) leader Akbaruddin Ow-
aisi for his hate speeches, the BJP today
charged the Congress with playing “com-
munal politics”. BJP spokesperson Prak-
ash Javedakar said Mr Owaisi should have
been arrested immediately on his arrival
from London but the “Congress is
providing him protection.” sns
Owaisi’s case in some hours it is best to leave it to the
court rather than act against him and invite a poten-
tially unpalatable situation. They had said a final deci-
sion would be taken later tonight.
His brother and MIM president Mr Asaduddin
Owaisi said that neither the Majlis nor his brother
were running away from the law and were prepared
to face a legal battle. He said this is a conspiracy by
the Congress and the BJP and told party workers that
the Majlis would come out of this crisis even
stronger than before. Security has been beefed up
across the twin cities.

Newly-elected HP MLAs take oath
press trust of india
DHARAMSALA, 8 JAN: All but one newly-elect-
ed members of the 68-seat Himachal Pradesh
Assembly took oath on the opening day of the
4-day session of the House which began today.
Pro-tem Speaker Mansa Ram administered
the oath to 66 members at the Tapovan
Vidhan Sabha complex near here.
Senior Congress leader Mansa Ram, a
member of the House, was sworn-in earlier.
The Congress MLA from Doon, Ram Kumar
Chowdhary, who was booked by the
Panchkula Police in a murder case, did not
take oath. He was found absent when his name
Killer cold claims 29 more Bomb scare
PUDUCHERRY, 8 JAN: A red-
coloured round object was
found inside an abandoned
Butail all set to become Speaker press trust of india vailed over most parts of the state. suitcase in an unreserved
DHARAMSALA, 8 JAN: Senior Congress leader and five-time MLA, Brij The intense cold wave claimed at least five compartment of the Dadar-
Bihari Lal Butail, is all set to become the new Speaker of Himachal LUCKNOW/BHOPAL/SRINAGAR/JAIPUR, 8 JAN: lives in Madhya Pradesh with temperatures Puducherry Chalukya
Pradesh state Assembly. The way for his unanimous election was paved Severe cold conditions claimed several lives in plummeting to zero levels at many places in the Express here today, sending
after the BJP decided not to field a candidate for the post. Three north India and sent mercury dipping to sub- state. According to the Met officials, two persons security personnel into a
nominations were filed proposing the name of Butail which included first zero levels at some places today. died in Morena and one each in Bhopal, Rewa tizzy. The bomb disposal
nomination by Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. pti While 24 dead were added to the toll in Uttar and Satna in last one week. squad retrieved the object
Pradesh, 5 lives were claimed by the cold in The Kashmir Valley continued to reel under and an examination
was called. elected on HLP and Congress tickets from Madhya Pradesh. intense cold with temperatures plummeting fur- confirmed that there was
Chief minister Virbhadra Singh was the first Kullu and Banjjar constituencies respectively, The cold effect was felt right from Jammu and ther as Srinagar recorded the season's lowest of no explosive except some
to take oath followed by leader of the were sworn-in. There are 22 first-timers in the Kashmir, where the fringes of the Dal Lake froze, minus 5.5 degrees celsius. The night tempera- iron pieces. pti
Opposition PK Dhumal and Irrigation and House. Three women ~ Vidya Stokes, to Rajasthan where Churu recorded night tem- ture in Srinagar was two degrees below normal
Public Health minister Vidya Stokes. Other Sarveen Chowdhary and Asha Kumari ~ perature below zero degree during this part of the sea- Teacher bail
members were administered oath district-wise. and five MLAs with royal background are Celsius for a third consecu- Northern chill son, a spokesman of the PATNA, 8 JAN: The Patna
High Court today granted
Brothers Maheshwar Singh and Karan Singh, members of the House. tive day Reports from MET office said, adding, the
Lucknow said that five people each died of cold minimum temperature in the summer capital bail to school teacher
in Unnao and Barabanki, three each in Mahoba registered a drop of 0.6 degrees from yesterday's Rupam Pathak in
Dental Council of India member and Chitrakot, two each in Deoria, Lalitpur and minus 4.9 degrees Celsius. connection with the murder

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arrested for taking bribe
statesman news service
CHENNAI, 8 JAN: A member of
Dental Council of India, Dr
Murugesan, was caught red-
handed while accepting a bribe
of Rs 25 lakhs from the
Adhiparasakthi Dental College
and Hospital administration in
Kanchipuram district of Tamil
Nadu.
A CBI team raided the clinic
and residence of Dr Murugesan
and arrested him along with Mr
Ramabhadran, the administra-
tive officer of the college, Mr R
Karunanidhi, the college trustee,
and former AIADMK MLA T
Palani.
CBI sources say the College
wanted approval from the
Dental Council for running a
post- graduation course for
which they had applied in 2012.
A team from the Council visited
the college in October last year
to assess the infrastructure and
suggested certain recommenda-
tions before they could give the
approval. The college authori-
ties approached Dr Murugesan
to negotiate and he is said to
have settled for Rs 1 crore to get
the required permission for the
course. On Monday night the
CBI team caught DR Murugesan
while he was being handed the
money by the three. The college
principal, Dr Subramania, says
he is unaware of what has hap-
pened.
The college is said to be
owned by self-styled godman
Bangaru Adigalar. The CBI
team is now searching for the
managing director of the college,
Ms Srilekha, who is Adigalar’s
daughter in-law.
Mau and one each in Firozabad and Hathras in The spokesman said Kargil town in the fron- of former BJP MLA Raj
Kishore Keshari two years
UP. According to a MET office report, mercury tier region of Ladakh was the coldest place
dipped to sub-zero levels at a number of places recorded in the state with mercury considerably ago. A division bench of
with Kanpur recording minus 1.1 degree celsius, dropping to a low of minus 20.0 degrees Celsius Justice B N Sinha and
8 less than normal, followed by Agra at minus from yesterday’s 16.4 degrees Celsius. Justice Shivaji Pandey
1.0 degrees and Ghazipur and Lucknow at The MET Department said there is a possibili- granted the bail to Pathak,
minus 0.2 degrees celsius. Maximum tempera- ty of rainfall or snowfall later this week, which who is serving life sentence
tures were below normal by 6 to 13 degree cel- may bring some respite in the cold wave condi- in Beur jail in Patna. pti
sius over the state. Cold wave conditions pre- tions.
Orissa HC notice on gutka ban notification
press trust of india While the state government has in the
meantime come out with a notification ban-
CUTTACK, 8 JAN: The Orissa High Court ning gutka, the petitioner advocate sought
has asked the state government to submit a to know whether the notification was com-
copy of the comprehensive notification that prehensive and whether the same was
was issued last week banning the sale and enough to completely eradicate the use of
manufacture of gutka in the state. deadly smokeless tobacco in the state as was
A Division Bench comprising acting Chief prayed in the PIL.
Justice PK Mohanty and Mr Justice SK the court's indulgence in banning consump- Accordingly, the HC directed the health
Mishra yesterday issued the notice to the tion and trade in nicotine containing smoke- secretary and the food and civil supply secre-
state government in response to a PIL filed less tobacco substances that are causing can- tary to file a detailed report of the govern-
by an NGO in December last year seeking cer. ment notification.

Strike affects life in Kerala Pranab for making

2013 safe for women
press trust of india ruling UDF, stayed away from the stir, saying the
government decision would not affect the existing
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, 8 JAN: Functioning of employees as statutory pension scheme would
government offices and schools were partially hit continue for them and CPS was only for newly
as pro-Left government employees and teachers in appointed employees. statesman news service Another disturbing trend referred to by the
Kerala today began an indefinite stir in protest Sources said the functioning of government President was the absence of MPs from the
against UDF government's decision to implement offices and schools were partially affected by the LUCKNOW, 8 JAN: In the wake of the recent gan- Parliament. He said MPs and MLAs go to the peo-
Contributory Pension Scheme for its staff from this strike as majority of government employees grape of a 23-year-old girl in New Delhi, President ple and ask for votes. Hence it as the responsibility
April. belonged to pro-Left Unions. Pranab Mukherji today said if a nation cannot of the elected representatives to protect the inter-
The pro-BJP Federation of Employees and Terming the strike as “politically motivated,' respect its mothers, sisters and daughters then it is est of the people and the nation. He said it was a
Teachers Organisations (FETO) has also joined the chief minister Oommen Chandy said in Kochi that not a civilised country. serious dereliction on the party of the MPs and
strike. Expressing solidarity with the staff and the government had made earnest efforts to avoid “We are ashamed of what has happened in MLAs to be absent from their respective Houses.
teachers, employees of Kerala State Road the stir. Delhi and there can be no justification or excuse A commemorative stamp on the 125 years of UP
Transport Corporation also observed a day-long The CPS was a “foresighted move” which would for the same,” he said, adding efforts should be legislature was released by the President on the
strike, which hit operation of bus services across help the employees and the public in the long run, made to make 2013 safe, secure and dignified for occasion.
the state. he said, adding the scheme had already been the fairer sex. Earlier Union Minister for Communication Kapil
However, State Employees and Teachers implemented in 25 states covering 90 per cent of Speaking in the capacity of the chief guest on Sibal said UP sends the maximum number of MPs
Confederation (SETCO), owing allegiance to the employees in the country. the concluding day of the quasiquicentennial cele- and the map of India changes according to the
brations of the Uttar Pradesh legislature, the political changes in the state. He said there were
President, while referring to the gangrape, said serious challenges facing the country and the solu-
such happenings cannot be stopped by tion for the same comes when a begin-
merely making laws. ning is made from the state.
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER " The sensitivity of the issue has to be The minister said in the 65 years of
Rural Development Special Division, Lohardaga a part of our culture. It has to become Independence, the hopes, dreams and
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Block.
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Musical chairs
on at WBHDCL
statesman news service
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: The much-touted West Bengal
State Highway Corporation Limited (WBHDCL),
which has proved to be a non-starter till date due to
lack of funds, has seen managing directors being
changed thrice since its inception last year.
In the latest change, Mr Manoj Agarwal has been
made the new managing director of the corporation
in place of Mr A R Bardhan who also held the post
of PWD secretary before he was transferred recent-
ly to personnel administrative reforms (PAR) depart-
ment. At the time when the corporation was formed
in order to build road infrastructure in the state, par-
ticularly the state highways, Mr Subrata Gupta was
appointed the managing director of the newly
formed corporation. Apparently, it had been decid-
ed that the posts of PWD secretary and managing
director of the corporation should not be held by
the same individual.
However, only after a few months, Mr Gupta was
unceremoniously removed from the corporation
apparently because the corporation was Inayet to
take up any repair or road improvement project. Mr
Bardhan was made the MD after the PWD minister
submitted a note to the chief minister, saying that in
case of Hidco and Benfed, the departmental secre-
tary holds the post of the managing director and this
should be the case for WBHDCL as well.
Now, Mr Agarwal was appointed as MD though
Mr Indevar Pandey would soon take charge as PWD
secretary. Though the MD has been changed thrice
the corporation does not have its own office space
till date. So long, it functioned either with the staff of
PWD or Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited
when Mr Gupta held the post of MD, KMRCL as
well.
So far, only RITES has conducted a preliminary
study of the five highways in order to develop them
under public-private partnership. However, it is the
dearth of funds that has turned out to be the real
stumbling block for the corporation. Apart from the
initial Rs 5 crore the corporation is yet to get any
fund from the state government, though it is expect-
ed to get Rs 100 crore. Moreover, the state govern-
ment's land acquisition policy which relies on nego-
tiations only to acquire private land has also come in
the way of expansion of the existing roads as well as
in attracting private investor.
Jyotipriya demands arrest
of former CPM leaders
statesman news service
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: State Food Minister Jyotipriya
Mullick today demanded immediate arrest of for-
mer CPI-M MP Mr Amitava Nandi and former
gram panchayat pradhan Mr Ashim Ghosh for cre-
ating violence, disrupting law and order, instigat-
ing trouble at different blocks in Habra, North 24-
Parganas.
The minister today wrote to the
Superintendent of Police, North 24 Paraganas,
and demanded on behalf of the district Trinamul
Congress to arrest Mr Nandi and Mr Ghosh. In
his letter, Mr Mullick said Mr Nandi is “directly
responsible” for the murders of Trinamul
Congress activists ~ Arun Biswas of Gopalnagar,
Bongaon, Charan Sardar of Haroa, North 24-
Parganas.
The CPI-M is trying to destabilise the adminis-
tration in North 24 Parganas, the minister
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In his letter, Mr Mullick said Mr
Nandi is “directly responsible” for
the murders of TMC activists Arun
Biswas of Gopalnagar, Bongaon, and
Charan Sardar of Haroa, North
24-Parganas
alleged.
Mr Mullick also alleged that Mr Ghosh was
responsible for setting ablaze the Trinamul party
offices at Bergram, Fultala in Maslandapur in
North 24-Parganas.
The minister stated that the supporters and
party functionaries of the Trinamul Congress will
not tolerate such action, including torching of
party offices without any provocation and killing
of party activists, and are demanding immediate
arrest of the duo.

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ours as a political party. At the moment the only issue
before us is that Congress and CPI-M is jointly creat-
ing lawlessness and that 10 of our supporters have
been injured today.”
Claiming that Trinamul workers have repeatedly
been attacked by the CPI-M, Mr Chatterjee said the
district Trinamul president was injured by CPI-M
workers two days back. “The CPI-M is creating anar-
chy to divert public’s attention and hamper the vari-
ous development works” Mr Chatterjee said.
State urban affairs minister, Firad Hakim said:
“Police will inquire how CPI-M supporters were car-
rying a huge quantity of arms and ammunition.
Police has been asked to seize those arms immedi-
ately and arrest the culprits.”. “It has been learnt that
CPI-M supporters were carrying arms in three vehi-
cles and were crossing the area where former MLA
Arabul Islam was standing. He became suspicious
over the movement of the vehicles and asked them
to stop. CPI-M supporters started firing from the
vehicles,” Mr Hakim said.
Meanwhile, state sports minister Madan Mitra
termed the incident a fallout of public anger against
the CPI-M, though he acknowledged that a few
Trinamul Congress supporters might be involved as
well. Mr Hakim and Trinamul leader Aroop Biswas
will visit the nursing home to see Mr Islam after he
was admitted today. Chief secretary Sanjay Mitra
said he has not got a detailed report of the incident.
So far 12 people were arrested in this connection, he
said.
A senior Trinamul leader said it was a gameplan of
the CPI-M for weakening the Trinamul in Bhangar.
CPI-M is trying to get Trinamul to suspend Arabul
from the party, he said. Soon after the incident, Miss
Banerjee reached Writers’ Buildings at 2.30 p.m. de-
spite her illness and held a meeting with senior A ‘FOLK’ GATHERING ~ Artists perform at Labpur village in Birbhum. On Tuesday. ashok
police officers. Senior Cabinet ministers also attend- bhagat
ed.

‘Fresh elections only way out GOVT. OF JHARKHAND

ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT
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from Jharkhand tangle’

statesman news service
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: With the
withdrawal of support by
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
( JMM) to the BJP-led govern-
BJP leaders think Munda has already recom-
mended the dissolution of the
that since the CM Assembly as no party enjoys a
had submitted his clear majority and a fresh elec-
resignation letter, tion is the only alternative,” BJP
spokesperson Mr Prakash
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Tender Reference No. RCD/RANCHI-103/2012-13 Date: 04-01-2013
1. Name of work Re-Construction of Kesamore-
Tangarbasli- Mandar Road from KM
0.00 to 18.95 for the year 2012-13.
2.(a) Approximate Value of Rs. 2946.79 (Rupees Twenty Nine crore
work Forty Six Lakh and Seventy Nine thou-

ment, the BJP today said fresh
elections was the only way out
of the present political situation
in the state.
“We are ready to face elec-
tions in the state in the interest
of the people of the state,” said
BJP Vice President Mukhtar
Abbas Naqvi.
He said this is the only way
out to provide a stable govern-
ment in Jharkhand after Chief
Minister Arjun Munda submit-
ted his resignation and advised
the Governor to dissolve the
Assembly in the wake of the
JMM announcing withdrawal of
support.
Mr Munda’s advice
should be followed
BJP Central leaders were of
the view that since the chief
minister had submitted his res-
ignation letter and suggested to
Governor Syed Ahmed to dis-
solve the Assembly before JMM
leader Mr Shibu Soren gave
the letter withdrawing support,
Mr Munda’s advice should be
followed and fresh elections
held.
“The only way out in
Jharkhand political imbroglio is
to dissolve the Assembly and
conduct fresh elections. Mr
Javadekar said. (b) Bid Security
sand) only.
Rs. 29.47 (Rupees Twenty Nine Lakh
The party said there was no and Forty Seven thousand) only.
agreement with the JMM on 3. Time of Completion 12 (Twelve) Months
each party ruling for 28 months. 4. Last date/time for 06-02-2013 up to 12-00 Noon
It said there was “no truth” in receipt of bids
reports that the JMM was to 5. Date of Publication of 11-01-2013.
take over the government with 6.
Tender on website
Name & Address of Executive Engineer, R.C.D. Road
the BJP becoming a junior part- Officer Inviting Tender Division, Ranchi-834008.
ner from 10 January but Mr 7. Contact No. of 0651-2361018
Munda did not agree to this. Procurement Officer
Mr Javadekar said the people 8. Helpline Number of 0651-2401010
of Jharkhand deserved a stable e-Procurement Cell
government and, hence, polls Further details can be seen on website: http://jharkhandtenders.gov.in
should be held. EXECUTIVE ENGINEER
R.C.D. Road Division, Ranchi
The BJP said this is not the PR No.: 58636 (2012-13) Pin-834008
time for President’s Rule or
keeping the Assembly in sus-
pended animation.

Dying folk art

gets digitalised
press trust of india

KOLKATA, 8 JAN: Giving traditional folk art form a

contemporary twist, a Patachitra (scroll painting)
which used to be made on palm leaves once upon
a time has now been created by digital artists on a
computer.
To be unveiled at the five-day Apeejay Kolkata
Literary Festival (AKLF) which kicks off here from
tomorrow, the Patachitra pays tribute to the cre-
ative minds of rural Bengal and tries to revive the
dying art form.
The traditional art form, which is believed to
have originated from Midnapore in West Bengal,
uses scrolls to visually depict a scene which is then
explained by a narrator in the form of songs in
front of a live audience.
As a visual motif for the literary festival, the
Patachitra will be unveiled during the inaugura-
tion ceremony which will be attended by West
Bengal Governor M K Narayanan and eminent
filmmaker Shyam Benegal.
Reflecting a new language, the painting records
the changes in lifestyles, values, and sets a new
visual vocabulary which caters to the transient,
urban populace.
“We gave clear guidelines to our team of digital
artists that the Patachitra created with modern
graphic techniques on a computer must follow the
seemingly effortless strokes of a Chitrakaar
(painter) who draws the ***Patachitra in real
life,” said Apeejay Surrender Group Vice-President
Renu Kakkar.
In bold, bright and intense colours, the first part
of the attractive painting highlights some of
Kolkata's heritage landmarks ~ River Hooghly,
Shaheed Minar, Dakshineswar and Victoria
Memorial. The occasional ambassador car amidst
the traffic shows a typical Kolkata street where a
policeman is dressed in white uniform. Tigers in
the garden specially denote young readers where
students will be paid a visit by Ms Justice Lila Seth
and Poet Tishani during one of AKLF events.
Kites denote freedom and ideas, specially set
out to fly out of buildings which one normally
reserves as professional work places but are abuzz
in a world of new ideas and experiences during lit-
erary festivals. The author and his besotted reader
is shown in discussion denoting the meeting of a
guest with his favourite author in an informal
atmosphere.
The irregular border is close to what a
Patachitra as is normally framed up and on a
cloth not evenly cut or stitched.

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Rank and the rate

IN-OUT TRANSITION
Obama’s team in place, but...
BARACK Obama may have decisively scaled the Oval cliff,
yet Monday’s choice of the Defence Secretary and Director of
CIA ~ two pivotal appointments ~ would suggest that he still
has a hurdle to cross as Congress takes a call on the nomina-
tions. Clearly, the President has not been deterred by the leg-
islative storm warnings. Chuck Hagel, the former Republican
Senator from Nebraska, has been picked as the next head of
the Pentagon; the anti-terror advisor, John Brennan, will head
the CIA. It may not be easy to convince Capitol Hill not the
least because the Republicans ~ with a majority in the House
of Representatives ~ consider Hagel, a moderate Republican
and a veteran who served in Vietnam, to be rather soft towards
Iran and weak in the matter of protecting Israel. He is in favour
of direct talks with Iran over its nuclear programme and had
once complained about the power of what he calls “the Jewish
lobby” in Washington. The process of his confirmation could
turn out to be the most difficult that Mr Obama has had to
countenance. As the choice for the post of CIA Director, Mr
Brennan is likely to face tough questions before he can be con-
firmed. He withdrew himself from consideration for the same
post in 2008 because his stint with the CIA had been marred by
alleged connections with the “enhanced interrogation tech-
niques”, such as water-boarding, that were used during the
Bush administration. He was involved in the operation against
Osama bin Laden and does have a role in the increasing use of
drones against the militants, an offensive that has incurred crit-
icism outside America.
For all the red herrings across the trail, Mr Obama has made
his position clear with a somewhat rhetorical flourish ~
“When it comes to the defence of our country we are not De-
mocrats or Republicans but we are Americans.” He has put in
place his team for foreign affairs, defence and Intelligence. Se-
nator John Kerry, also a Vietnam War veteran, is set to replace
Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. He will be expected to
protect Ms Clinton’s profound stamp on the conduct of foreign
policy during a turbulent phase. However, conscious of the po-
ssible challenge from the House of Representatives, the Presi-
dent has cautioned Congress that “we need to get moving qu-
ickly on this”. The three appointments constitute a crucial seg-
ment of national security and international affairs, most impor-
tantly ahead of the pullout from Afghanistan. Hence the caveat
~ “We don’t want to leave a lot of gaps between the time one
set of leaders transitions out and another transitions in.”
THE DANGER CONTINENTS
Mortal facet of the forest economy
HUMAN life is cheap; cheaper still must be the purport-
edly precious wild life. Reality, however, belies the frequent
protestations of concern by wildlife enthusiasts. No fewer than
21 rhinos were reported to have been killed by poachers in the
forests of Kaziranga in the year gone by. This is but a fraction
of the casualties around the world, the frightful symptom of a
global crisis that has spawned an illicit trade in wildlife, chiefly
in rhino horn and elephant ivory. Governments in Asia and
Africa have been pretty much helpless against those involved in
the killing and the trade. While the poaching of rhinos and
tigers is fairly endemic in India, it is virtually spinning out of
control in Africa. Indeed, Asia and Africa have over the past year
emerged as the danger continents for the rhino as much as the
elephant, and to be mowed down by a speeding train must be
a uniquely Indian phenomenon. Such accidents add a new
dimension to the killing of elephants for ivory, as in Assam.
Poaching has reached a record, almost chilling, high with the
death of 600 rhinos and 3000 elephants in the two continents
over the past year alone. Rhino horn and ivory have fetched
$60,000 per kilogram ~ equivalent to the price of gold. It is a
mind-boggling forest economy that is thriving at the cost of the
natural habitat.
No less amazing is that the crisis that confronts wildlife
across a vast swathe of the world is yet to stir the conscience of
humans, least of all the jungle tourists. Have any of the sup-
posedly benevolent NGOs ever reacted to the killing of ele-
phants on the rail track? Across Asia and Africa, the killing and
the trade have been fuelled by the almost unaffordable usage.
While ivory is used for luxury carvings, the rhino horn in its
powdered form is sought for cancer treatment by those who
have faith in traditional medicine.
Indeed, the usage in Africa varies from the medicinal to
financing the civil war; rebels belonging to the Lord’s
Resistance Army and Darfur’s Janjaweed are hunting elephants
and using the tusks to buy weapons. Drastic action to rein in
the poachers is direly imperative, indeed a ban on the world-
wide sale of ivory and the horn to save the elephant and the
rhino, both in Asia and Africa. “The world must wake up,” was
Hillary Clinton’s exhortation. Sad to say, the world by and large
has been remarkably insensitive. Sundarbans and Kaziranga
only showcase the trend, a mortal facet of the worldwide for-
est economy.
Discrepancy Among Pensioners
jk khanna
THE expression, ‘One Rank, One Pension’
(OROP), is not exactly new; it has been synony-
mous with a major grievance of the defence ser-
vices. The other services are equally affected.
Surprisingly, many of the victims, including
those who retire from the highest rung, are
unaware of this almost perpetual injustice. This
article will focus primarily on the Director-
General of Police (IPS), though the basic facts
are applicable to other services as well.
It is a fact that those who retire as DGP draw
less pension than those who retire as Additional
DGP. This discrepancy has been caused by an
irrational pension formula devised by the
Department of Pensions & Pensioners’ Welfare.
It states that the revised pension will be 50 per
cent of the minimum of the revised pay-scale.
The use of the term ‘minimum’, instead of ‘cor-
responding’ is not explained. Because of this
arbitrary rule, all the previous service incre-
ments of the pensioners are forfeited without
any logic.
The Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) plus
the pay-scale of DGs is Rs 75,500-Rs 80,000. The
apex scale is Rs 80,000 (fixed). This is applicable
to the state DGPs and DGs of most of the Central
Para Military Forces. As per the formula, the pen-
sion of DGs who retired before 2006 (other than
the apex-scale holders) is 50 per cent of Rs
75,500, i.e. Rs 37,750. On the contrary, the DGs
who have retired after 2006 receive a pension of
Rs 40,000, which is 50 per cent of the last pay
drawn. Most of them reach the basic pay level of
Rs 80,000 by the time they retire. Therefore, the
loss with effect from 1 January 2006 runs into
several lakhs of rupees for every pensioner. Be-
sides, one who retired as DG before 2006 draws
less pension than most of the ADGs who retired
after 1 January of that year because the pay ceil-
ing is Rs 79,000 whereas the DG’s scale starts at
Rs 75,500.
The discrepancy runs counter to the princi-
ples laid down by the Supreme Court in sever-
al cases ~ DS Nakara & Others Vs Union of
India (1983); Union of India Vs. Major-General
(retd) SPS Vains (2008); SLP (Civil) Nos. 27166-
27168/2008 in State of Himachal Pradesh Vs.
Swaran Singh Chahal, IFS (Rtd) & Others.
Pensioners have been illegally divided into
two categories ~ those who retired before and
after 2006. This has happened despite the
orders of the Supreme Court in the cases men-
tioned. A Constitution Bench had held that the
fixing of a cut-off date, as a result of which eq-
uals were treated as unequals, was wholly arbi-
trary. The court held that all those entitled to
receive pension under the relevant rules form a
class irrespective of the dates of their retirement
and there cannot be a classification within this
class. The court observed: “The object sought to
be achieved was not to create a class within a
class, but to ensure that the benefits of pension
were made available to all persons of the same
class equally”.
If officer ‘A’ retired from the pre-revised run-
ning HAG plus scale of Rs 24050-650-26000 and
his last pay drawn was Rs 26,000, then, as per
rule, his pension was fixed at Rs 13,000 per
month. Likewise, if another officer ‘B’ retired
from the pre-revised apex pay-scale of Rs 26000
(fixed), his monthly pension was also fixed at an
identical figure of Rs 13,000. This created per-
fect equality between pensioners ‘A’ and ‘B’.
Thus, the pay-scale was and is irrelevant for fix-
ing the initial pension at the time of retirement
and it is only the last pay drawn that matters.
This clearly implies that retired officers receiving
the same basic pension (say, for example, Rs
13000 per month) belong to the same class and
the principle of equality applies to them. The
revised pension of Rs 37,750 per month in the
case of officer ‘A’ and to Rs 40,000 in the case of
‘B’ after the 6th Pay Commission effectively cre-
ates two different classes of pensioners who
were identical and belonged to the same class at
the time of retirement. In effect, equals have
been made unequals and vice versa.
The doctrine of “intelligible differential”,
Equals have been made unequals and vice-versa... This
discrepancy has been caused by an irrational pension formula
devised by the Department of Pensions & Pensioners’ Welfare
which is required for a legally permissible classi-
fication under Article 14 of the Constitution,
fails in this context. A fundamental principle of
law settled in several cases is that Article 14 of
the Constitution forbids class legislation.
All posts of DG other than the head of the
police force (HoPF) are declared equivalent in
status and responsibility to the post of DGP
(HoPF) under Rule 9(1) & (2) of IPS (Pay) Rules,
1954. This clearly implies that all the retired
DGs are entitled to the same pay/pension bene-
fits and privileges, which the DGP (HoPF) is en-
titled to. Clearly, the pension is linked to what-
ever is the entitlement of the DGP (HoPF), i.e.
Rs 40,000 as per the apex scale of Rs 80,000
which the DGP (HoPF) draws. The creation of
two categories of DGs, one superior and the
other inferior, is arbitrary.
One could refer to the notification No. G.S.R
692(E) dated 27 September 2008 of the Union
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and
Pensions regarding the recommendations of the
Sixth Pay Commission, dealing with Indian
Police Service (Pay) Rules, 2007. The post of
Director-General of Police as head of the force
was identified and given a higher pay scale ~
the apex scale of Rs 80,000 (fixed). The rest of
the DGs were given a lower pay scale of HAG
plus, i.e. Rs 75,500-80,000.
This demarcation is illegal as it goes against
the Cabinet decision, vide GOI Gazette Notifica-
tion No.1/1/2008-IC dated 29 August 2008. It re-
lates to the implementation of the accepted re-
commendations of the Sixth Central Pay
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Commission. There is no mention of the “upgra-
dation” of the posts of DGPs of States/HoPF to
the apex scale. The Schedule specifically men-
tions that in every State, one of the DGPs, who is
the HoPF, will be placed (as against upgraded) in
the apex scale. The GOI (Transaction of
Business) Rules, 1961, particularly Schedule II,
clearly forbids any ministry or department from
superseding, amending, modifying or changing
any decision of the Union Cabinet which alone is
empowered to do so.
Section 3(1A) of the All India Services Act,
1951 states: “No retrospective effect shall be
given to any rule so as to prejudicially affect the
interests of any person to whom such rule may
be applicable.” Therefore, it is not permissible
to be prejudiced against old pensioners by a
subsequent provision that came into effect after
their retirement.
Some state governments have granted the
apex scale to officers holding posts of “HAG
plus” scale. Pension has been granted accord-
ingly. For example, the Himachal Pradesh gov-
ernment has granted the apex pension to all
pre-2006 retiree DGPs (HoPF). Reportedly, all
other DGPs who retired before 2006 have been
granted the “apex pension”.
The Supreme Court has made it clear that a
senior shall not draw pension less than a junior.
The government’s view that “the judgment
dated 9-9-08 in CA No. 5566 of 2008 SLP (Civil)
No. 12357/2006, UOI vs Maj. Gen. SPS Vains, will
not apply in the case of civil pensioners” is mis-
conceived and reeks of contempt. The Supreme
Court hasn’t observed that its order is limited
only to defence personnel and will not apply to
civilians. Because of the arbitrariness of the gov-
ernment, a penal interest of 10 per cent was
imposed by the Supreme Court with retrospec-
tive effect. This penalty ought to have deterred
officials at the helm from issuing the contemp-
tuous memorandum, but it has not.
The writer is former Director-General
of Police, Bihar
IN MEMORIAM
CHAUDHURI SUSHAMA — In ever-
lasting memory on her twenty-
nineth death anniversary. —
Relatives and friends.
(PL4410)
Education Expert
Accused Of Making
It Pay To Cheat
LONDON, 8 JAN: A controversial US
education expert who advised Michael
Gove is facing claims that her track
record of raising standards cound have
been founded on cheating by schools.
Michelle Rhee has been dubbed the
“Witchfinder General” because of her
commitment to removing failing teach-
ers from the classroom.
Her hard-nosed reforms ~ which re-
ward the most talented teachers while
punishing the worst ~ caught the eye of
the UK Education Secretary who indicat-
ed they could be adopted here.
But a US television documentary to be
aired tonight on a US channel investi-
gates claims that teachers achieved high-
er test scores during her reign as Wash-
ington DC Schools Chancellor by cheat-
ing. Ms Rhee now heads a national stu-
dent-based group calling for school
reforms. Student First, was famously
impatient with the conditions she inher-
ited in Washington where ~ thanks to
union muscle ~ teachers had jobs for
life and there was no connection bet-
ween their job security, pay and how
teachers performed. She closed down
entire schools ~ in one case, in front of
TV cameras.
Tonight’s PBS film The Education of
Michelle Rhee explores allegations that
teachers may have doctored test papers
to ensure higher grades and secure high-
er wages for themselves,
The film interviews a principal who
took over a school in 2010 and tight-
ened security surrounding exam papers,
only to see grades falling suddenly by 25
per cent compared to the year before.
Ms Rhee, according to he Washington
Post, defends herself in the film, saying
“dozens and dozens of schools” have
seen dramatic gains”.
After being invited to the UK by the
think-tank Policy Exchange, she met Mr
Gove who praised her hard-nosed re-
forms and indicated they could be
adopted here. “Michelle points out in
everything she does that what they [chil-
dren] need is the most effective teacher
who demands the highest standards and
is relentless about that,” he said.
Since then, Mr Gove has announced
plans for denying teachers automatic
pay rises, placing them at the discretion
of the headteacher.
Conservatives have emphasised this
will allow heads to reward talented
teachers, effectively allowing a good
teacher to rise from £21,000 a year to
£51,000 in six months.
His proposals angered teachers’ lead-
ers, though. In a submission to the STRB
(The School Teachers’ Review Body), the
National Association of Schoolmasters
Union of Women Teachers warned that
evidence shows performance-related pay
rises do tend to discriminate against
women and teachers from ethnic minor-
ity groups. NASUWT says it is “naïve” to
believe at a time of “savage cuts to edu-
cation budgets” that more performance-
related pay will lead to higher salaries for
talented teachers. the independent

NPP IN DELHI
Sangma back in the reckoning
BY launching the National People’s Party in Delhi, former
Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma has once again played host to
his ego by hogging the limelight in national politics. According
to him, it will be tribal-centric but open to all. After unsuccess-
fully contesting the presidential election, for which he quit the
Nationalist Congress Party, Sangma aligned with the Manipur-
based NPP, which has been contesting Assembly elections since
2002. In 2007, it won three of the 60 seats and all of these were
tribal, but in 2012 it drew a blank. Sangma’s choice of the NPP
was somewhat surprising because it was floated by Meitei
politicians and has nothing to do with tribals. Even after losing
his battle for the NCP flag for his breakaway group in 2004,
Sangma had approached the Election Commission to register a
new NPP but before this could happen he merged his splin-
tered unit with the Trinamul Congess to form the Nationalist
Trinamul Congress. Given his claim that his name for the pres-
idential election was suggested by the Tribal Forum of India
(not many in the North-east are aware of its existence!), it
would have been prudent for him to join forces with this grass-
roots party.
By choosing a “book” as the NPP symbol, Sangma hopes to
concentrate on education and literacy to empower the weaker
sections. The NPP has already announced its alignment with
the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance and is trying to fight
the ensuing Meghalaya Assembly elections along with the
United Democratic Party ~ it has 10 seats ~ which is now an
ally of the Congress-led Meghalaya United Alliance. Most of the
NCP legislators have already joined the NPP. Clear signals that
the ruling Congress cannot take the Garo Hills for granted.
Mysterious silence over black money
SIR, ~ The Government of India appears to be totally uncon-
cerned over the loss of $123 billion of black money stashed in
foreign banks during the last decade, according to a recent re-
port in your paper. The money does not belong to the gov-
ernment, but to certain individuals. The silence of the author-
ities is mysterious. Every tax-payer has the right to know the
facts regarding the ill-gotten money and the loss that the gov-
ernment has suffered. A piece of stolen property belongs nei-
ther to the person who has lost it nor to the man who stole it.
It belongs to the State.
The law pertaining to money stashed abroad cannot be dif-
ferent. There is no legal provision to protect such dubious de-
positors whatever the stance of the Prime Minister and the
Finance Minister might be. The agreement on avoiding double
taxation and preventing tax evasion deals only with declared
income. It does have a clause on exchange of information. In
effect, the government’s stand has served to mislead the
nation on black money. It does have the power to freeze such
accounts; it has failed to abide by the law and bring back the
money to India.
yours, etc., kanailal bhowmick, kolkata, 4 january.
Monthly indignity
SIR, ~ The Government of India has restricted the supply of
cooking gas cylinders to a maximum of six at the subsidised
price per annum per family. Being a senior citizen, living alone
and with a single connection, my consumption is minimal
and, ordinarily, I should feel happy to be contributing to the
government’s policy. What is hilariously strange is that Bharat
Petroleum (suppliers of Bharat Gas) has decided to block sup-
plies to any consumer who has not taken refills “for quite a
long time, i.e., one month….in order to curb diversion/mis-
use of domestic cylinders for unauthorized commercial pur-
poses”. And such a consumer must furnish ID/address proof,
etc. every time before the corporate office permits the agent to
supply a refill. This is the height of hypocrisy and harassment
and hence I wish to share my experience with all single per-
sons living alone. This is nothing short of monthly indignity.
yours, etc., a banerjee, chennai, 7 january.
Lionel Emmet
SIR, ~ Field hockey was a favourite sport of the Anglo-Indian
community in the days of yore and one of the greatest players,
Leslie Claudius, passed away recently. He represented India at
the Olympic Games from 1952 onwards. However, one who
has been forgotten was Lionel Charles Renwick Emmett, who
played one match as a forward in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Born in 1913, he trained as a doctor in India and when I met
him in 1952, in Assam, where I was a tea planter, he was the
Chief Medical Officer for many tea companies in the Mariani
area. He no longer played hockey, but stuck to tennis. He died
in England in 1996.
yours, etc., saroj kumar mehera, kolkata, 5 january.
Industry and college
SIR, ~ The “100 Years Ago’’ item titled “Serampore train ser-
vice”, published on 5 January was interesting. I would like to
share with the readers of your esteemed newspaper some facts
regarding the mill industry and the European college in
Serampore.
The Bengal Luxmi Cotton Mills in this town of Hooghly
district came into being with the takeover of Lakshmi Tulsi
Cotton Mill in 1905 by a new management soon after the
swadeshi movement. In 1908 it employed, on an average,
1,026 hands per day and had over 200 looms with 26,000
spindles.
The production totalled 31,617 maunds of cotton. Reor-
ganized in 1906, the company had a paid-up share capital of
about Rs 12 lakh in 1912. It was the district’s oldest cotton mill
with 3,029 employees in 1959 and 2,596 in 1964. In 1866, the
India Jute Mill was opened in Serampore.
Serampore College is the oldest European college. Founded
in 1818, its first governing body consisted of William Carey,
Joshua Marshman, William Ward and the Danish Governor of
Serampore. Since its inception, the seminary had a depart-
ment of theology to train ministers for the churches in India.
In 1824, King Frederick VI of Denmark granted the college a
Charter that empowered the institution to confer degrees and
function as an independent university .
In 1910, the college was thoroughly reorganized by its ‘sec-
ond founder’, Dr George Howells. The theological section was
upgraded to confer the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. Though
the college was affiliated to Calcutta University, its theology
department was autonomous. It conducted three courses and
awarded the degrees as well ~ Bachelor of Divinity, Master of
Theology and Doctor of Divinity.
yours, etc., anindya ghosal, burdwan, 5 january.

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PERSPECTIVE KOLKATA WEDNESDAY 9 JANUARY 2013 7

Pakistan
Elections are
necessary to
complete the task of
Global crisis of democracy!
rajinder puri weakness of the present system will undoubtedly lead
realising Pakistan’s to reform that brings market economy back on the
destiny as a modern THERE is a growing soul-searching in democracies rails. As yet no game changing systemic reform has

democratic state.
Each time this
process has been
disrupted, the state
and the people both
have suffered
grievous harm. Now
Pakistan is much too
weak to afford a
relapse into
authoritarianism,
writes ia rehman
THE most critical challenge Pakistan
faces in 2013 is the test of the 65-year-old
nation’s capacity to ensure a credible
general election and a normal transfer of
authority to the parties/coalitions com-
manding majorities in the national and
provincial legislatures.
That a transfer of power should take
place this year is not in doubt; what
needs to be guaranteed is that authority
will be passed to those who win the
polls. This because two possible devel-
opments that could thwart or disrupt the
electoral process are being openly dis-
cussed among political observers and
commentators.
The first scenario runs like this: the
law and order situation continues to
worsen and the people become more
restless because of electricity/gas/water
shortages and other economic difficul-
ties and the caretaker Prime Minister
petitions Pakistan’s Supreme Court to
order the postponement of elections
and sanction the creation of a Bangla-
deshi-type interim regime, and the court
obliges him. Result: no election in 2013.
This theory has no legs to stand on. It
is not impossible that the caretaker
Prime Minister may come under pres-
sure from powerful, anti-democratic for-
ces, whose advice in favour of defer-
ment of elections may not be based on a
fair assessment of the situation on the
ground. In fact they may not bother the
interim head of government. There are
quite a few glorified touts that have
made public interest litigation a farce.
One of them or any citizen could be per-
suaded to seek the judiciary’s interven-
tion. But the plot runs aground there.
Regardless of what the critics of the
direction judicial activism in Pakistan
has taken may say, the country’s judicia-
ry is unlikely to fall into the anti-democ-
ratic forces’ trap. The superior courts
may have now and then transcended
their jurisdiction to take the institutions
of state to task but they cannot deprive
the people of their most fundamental
right to choose their rulers. Whether
they choose good rulers or bad ones is
nobody’s business so long as elections
are held in accordance with the law.
It is wrong to seek the judiciary’s in-
tervention in a political matter that
patently lies outside its jurisdiction.
Besides, no court will be able in the
foreseeable future to renege on the judi-
ciary’s commitment to resist any extra-
democratic dispensation, be it a military
rule of Pakistani brand or the Bangla-
deshi model, both total failures.
The other scenario is that the militant
organisations that have finally pro-
claimed their resolve to destroy Pakis-
tan’s democratic experiment, and deci-
mate all political elements committed to
its continuance, will create a law and
order crisis of so great a magnitude that
elections will not be possible at all.
This threat cannot be taken lightly. An
increase in violent attacks on state insti-
tutions, security personnel and individ-
uals suspected of adherence to democ-
racy has already been recorded. Such
incidents are likely to increase until
election day and may continue even
afterwards.
No effort to go ahead with the demo-
cratic agenda in these circumstances
will bear fruit without a broad consen-
sus on the need to hold elections this
year. These elections are necessary to
complete the task of realising Pakistan’s
destiny as a modern democratic state.
Each time this process has been disrupt-
ed the state and the people both have
suffered grievous harm. Now Pakistan is
much too weak to afford a relapse into
authoritarianism.
A departure from the democratic sys-
tem at the present moment in time will
be a much bigger disaster than was the
case earlier on because today a more
conscious citizenry, a largely free media
and an assertive judiciary promise de-
mocratic governance a much better
environment for its sustenance and
defence than it ever had.
Today, it is possible to say that which-
ever party/coalition comes on top after
& polls
the polls in Pakistan, it will not be able
to do what it may like however corrupt
it may be. If the system is undermined at
this stage the state will be thrown back
many decades and the process of
democratisation will have to be started
from scratch.
The weaknesses of democracy are
known, not only in Pakistan or South
Asia and the Muslim world, but also in
countries where this system has taken
root. But the alternative to even an
imperfect democracy will be worse
because neither military despotism nor a
theocracy can meet the demands of the
multi-national federation that Pakistan is
and it can only survive as such.
This formulation must be endorsed
by all the parties that are planning to
take part in the coming elections. Any
party that does not subscribe to democ-
ratic ideals has no moral right to
demand seats in legislatures. A natural
corollary is that the political parties
excluded from the hit list announced by
the militants should have the decency to
declare their faith in democracy. If they
remain silent over the killing of leaders
and workers of parties targeted by mili-
tants or do no more than offer fateha
for the deceased, they will invite indict-
ment for hypocrisy.
The militants’ threat can be met if it is
realised that while the Election
Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is formal-
ly responsible for holding free and fair
elections this task is also the responsi-
bility of political parties and the people
at large. Massive public participation in
polling alone can deter the extremists
from carrying out their nefarious
designs.
The ECP also will do well to repose
more trust in the people than in any
state institution. One was not surprised
by the army chief ’s assurance of help in
the election process; what did surprise
many was the request the chief election
commissioner made to him.
Pakistan’s army, like any other state
institution, is not required to guarantee
fair elections; it is only expected to
avoid interfering in the electoral
process. The army’s help can be sought
for maintaining order, and that too from
a distance. The presence of any
troops/Rangers inside polling stations
cannot be permitted as it will vitiate
freedom of voting. As for security needs,
the armed forces are always available to
the civil authorities, including the ECP.
It is also necessary perhaps to moder-
ate official and public expectations from
the coming elections. The objective of a
fair poll should be pursued with realis-
tic assumptions. The days of an ideal
election are still far away and one
should aim no higher than a reasonably
fair electoral contest because it is not
possible to guarantee a level playing
ground to candidates with modest
resources. Likewise, those elected this
time again are unlikely to match public
expectations of competence and integri-
ty, because the condition for that, name-
ly a social revolution, is yet to be met.
Tailpiece: Seen in Karachi last week
on a white-washed wall near the stadi-
um was a several-yards-long declaration:
“Hamein manzil nahin rahnuma
chahiye (sirf ) Altaf”. It could be read in
two ways: i) We don’t care where we are
going, we only need a pathfinder, says
Altaf; ii) We do not need a destina-
tion/goal, we need a leader, only Altaf.
So much for democracy!
dawn/ann
across the world. There has arisen a crisis of democ- surfaced. It undoubtedly will. The new information
racy that cannot be ignored. After the global econom- era suggests not the demise of democracy but its
ic crisis this soul searching began. America and Britain resurgence in new and unimagined ways.
no less than nations in the developing world are This writer of course has offered his simple solu-
beginning to look askance at the system of governance tion. Create the Workers’ Sector of the economy that
under which they live. The very foundations of might compete through open and fair competition
democracy are being questioned. The Left is crowing. with private and state capitalist economy. The new
Socialists see Karl Marx’s prophesy at last being vindi- sector could co-exist with private and government
cated. Capitalism they claim is collapsing. Their ela- owned units without disturbing them. But both
tion may be premature. The current crisis may not would have to face competition from the Workers’
end in the collapse of capitalism but in the resurgence Sector. Because profit motive leads to greed, Marx
of democracy. suggested abolishing all capitalists. Because profit
There is a popular song by the British The Austerity offers incentive this writer proposes making every
Allstar band that is being widely circulated on the Net. worker a capitalist. Providing ownership rights and
The catch phrase of the song says it all: B*gger the profit sharing would dramatically enhance productivi-
bankers and the politicians. The greed of finance cap- ty. Need one remind readers once more how much
italists that led to the economic meltdown is plain for better Mother Dairy and Amul are performing against
all to see. Karl Marx had predicted that human greed, foreign multinationals compared to privately-owned
private capital and an economy fuelled by the profit firms? A market economy at the macro-level and a
motive would lead to disaster. But in offering his solu- Workers’ Sector at the micro-level might well be the
tion, poor Marx went horribly wrong. He went wrong magic formula to revive democracy and capitalism.
precisely for the opposite reason for which he was To test this prescription there is opportunity cur-
proved right. His prediction about the crisis of capi- rently available. The privately-owned Kingfisher
talism proved right because he read a trait of human Airline as well as the government-owned Air India are
nature correctly. His solution went wrong because he in crisis. If the employees of Air India were to take over
read other traits of human nature incorrectly. control of the airline in the form of a Workers’ Sector
If greed corrupts big business, dictatorial power unit one predicts that they would succeed spectacu-
equally corrupts politicians. The concept of creating a larly. Will the government and the pilots show enough
dictatorship of the proletariat was dangerously naive. daring and initiative to experiment? If they do, they
If only Marx had considered democracy of the prole- might transform market economy
tariat the history of the socialist movement might have
been different. The human instinct for survival and The writer is a veteran journalist
the human impulse for freedom might prove too and cartoonist. He blogs at
strong for democracy and capitalism to collapse. The www.rajinderpuri.wordpress.com
100 YEARS AGO
OCCASIONAL NOTE
“I tell you all is not well today with British industry” said Mr. Chamberlain in 1903, when he enunciated the
theory that the leading trades of the country were either “going” or had actually “gone.” The Board of Trade
Returns have ever since given irrefutable evidence of the inaccuracy of this diagnosis, and the figures for 1912,
which have been telegraphed by Reuter, must be a knock-down blow to the British advocates of protection.
The aggregate increase for the year is nearly one hundred millions sterling, and the immediate outlook in prac-
tically every branch of industry is declared to be most satisfactory. There will no doubt be temporary reactions
in the future, but the outstanding fact remains that the general trend of British commerce is upwards, and that
the country enjoys unprecedented prosperity, in spite of labour troubles and the enhanced taxation which the
shipbuilding activity of Germany has rendered necessary. The Tariff Reformers have found it difficult to justify
their attacks on Free Trade in face of the great expansion of commerce under the existing fiscal system, and if
the “boom” continues until the next General Election, their advocacy of Protection will seriously damage the
chances of the Unionists.
NEWS ITEMS
ARCTIC DISASTER
Terrible Sufferings Of A German Expedition
London, Jan 8
Captain Ritschel has reached the Norwegian wireless station at Advent Bay, West Spitzbergen. He is probably
the sole survivor of the German scientific expedition to Northern Spitzbergen. He reports that the members of
the expedition were suffering from scarcity of provisions and the ravages of scurvy. The expedition split into
several detachments. His party became exhausted and collapsed at Wijde Bay and is probably now without
food. He went on alone. He ate his last tallow candle at Cape Thordsen. He twice fell through the ice, but was
rescued by a dog. After arrival all of his toes had to be amputated. The Norwegians at Advent Bay are sending
a relief expedition.
TREBLE MURDER BY DACOITS
Outrage In Murshidabad District
Woman And Two Servants The Victims
A sensational dacoity attended with treble murder was committed a few days ago in the house of a Bengali
woman named Swarna Thakurani residing at Moregram village in the Murshidabad district, the victim being
Swarna Thakurani and her two servants, who were the only inmates of the house. It is stated that several
attempts had been made before to rob her of her cash and jewellery. On the night of the dacoity, the servants
were aroused by a noise which suggested that somebody was breaking open a door, but before they could raise
an alarm, the dacoits fell upon them and stabbed them to death. The miscreants next managed to effect an
entrance into the room of the mistress of the house. They strangled her to death. They then pillaged the house
and ran away with gold ornaments and cash valued at Rs 5,000. The Bengal Police have the case in hand.
9 January, 1913

CROSSWORD NO 25731

Rocking the boat Yesterday’s solution

other cities, the phenomenon of

THE Manmohan Sigh government
survived a stormy winter session of
Parliament to usher in the New Year.
But barely a week into 2013, poll
bells are ringing again. One of the
two pillars on which the Manmohan
Singh government is resting ~ BSP
chief Mayawati ~ issued an alert
from Lucknow that Congress leaders
would do well to take note of. She
warned at a party meet the other day
that the upcoming Budget session of
Parliament could well be the last one
before the next Lok Sabha election. It was said in a
roundabout manner but her meaning was unmistak-
able as she predicted a general election this year, in
2013, instead of 2014.
Those who are familiar with Miss Mayawati’s poli-
tics believe that she is readying to pull the plug if the
government drags its feet on the SC/ST promotions
quota Bill. It was passed by the Rajya Sabha after she
let fly at Vice-President Hamid Ansari for allowing the
SP to hold the House to ransom and obstruct the Bill.
A wily deal between the Congress and the SP follow-
ing Miss Mayawati’s display of rage saw the Bill sail
through the RS but it ran into hurdles in the Lok
Sabha where SP leaders grabbed hold of the papers
and tore them. The winter session ended on that bit-
ter note and the Manmohan Singh government lived
to see another day.
But it may have been a pyrrhic victory. Congress
managers are aware that if they play along with
Mayawati to pass her pet Bill in the Budget session,
the other pillar of its government, SP leader Mr
Mulayam Singh Yadav, will withdraw support. On the
other hand, if they stick to the bargain with the SP
and hold up the Bill, they stand to lose Miss
urban anger is expected to dominate
the discussions. Congress leaders are
still groping to understand what hit
them, first from the anti-corruption
movement led by Anna Hazare and
now the anti-rape agitation. They
have realised that an urban backlash
is in the making and it could prove to
be the party’s undoing in the next
election. Remember, the Congress or
the UPA virtually swept urban India in
2009, winning around 115 of the 200
odd Lok Sabha seats that are consid-
ered more urban than rural.
Interestingly, the baithak has
grown from a think camp for an
exclusive few into a mammoth affair,
Mayawati’s backing. It looks like the government is in almost a full AICC session, with 2,000-odd delegates
that unenviable position of being caught between the expected to attend. The meet seems to have acquired
devil and deep sea. It could be a loser either way a new import and urgency. The strategy for the next
unless Union parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Lok Sabha election, the framework of the poll mani-
Nath comes up with another artful deal to stop the festo and the leadership line-up are some of the other ACROSS 22 Storm-battered Brighton, we 4 Writer, one travelling with old
UP arch rivals from rocking the boat. issues on the agenda for discussion and decision. read, installed a form of pro woman to part of France (5,7)
tection against the elements 6 Measure of gold could get
1 They work hard on Greek
course (8) (15) you in a trance (4-5)
Thinking cap Krishna comeback? 5 Good shot! Birdie at start of 24 Corrupted wife taken into bed 7 Anticipate pint container for
round (6) (6) drink to be served up (7)
If Miss Mayawati is sounding the poll alert, the Congress circles are buzzing with curiosity about the 9 It is apparent during a piano 25 What can be obtained from
Italian deli? Pâté can’t, sur
8 Chap has wish to do right,
being upstanding (6)
duet, possibly (8)
Congress too seems to be preparing silently for an decision to rope in former external affairs minister 10 Mean ultimately to have prisingly (8) 11 Stuck with the blues recording
early election. Its three-day chintan baithak, coming SM Krishna to draft the foreign policy resolution to ambassador expelled (6) 26 Bash Street Kids ultimately being played well into the
up in Jaipur during 18–20 January, is being posi- be passed at the Jaipur chintan baithak. He was 12 Miscreant and heartless pris dates (6) night? (12)
tioned as a war cry for polls. The importance of the dropped from the Union Cabinet because he was oner forming such a team? 27 Bum getting whacked (8) 14 Who might have entitlement
to be in top class? (9)
(8,2,5)
meeting can be gauged from the fact that Mrs Sonia seen as a non-performing minister with a poor grasp 13 Bitter berries starting to DOWN 16 French tramp not initially
Gandhi herself has undertaken the responsibility of of foreign policy issues. So the decision to put him in appear on tree (5) smelling nice (8)
supervising the drafting of the all important political charge of a document dealing with the subject makes 15 Precise account given by cler 1 Relative receives a politician, 18 Being silly, and in a state
one from old Scottish region about it (7)
resolution that will be issued at the end of the little sense. ic (8)
17 Taking the plunge after end (8) 20 Stand up as blister bursts (7)
baithak. She hasn’t done this since the 1998 brain- Significantly, Mr Karan Singh, who heads the less delightful booze (6,2) 2 Goddess’s origin revealed in 21 Might penny-farthing be seen
storming session in Panchmarhi, Madhya Pradesh. Congress’ foreign policy cell, was overlooked for the 19 Italian banker has billions article on Egypt (7) as so cheap? (3-3)
The move expectedly has set off furious speculation task as was deputy chairman of the cell, Anand invested in bank (5) 3 Giant bird starts to attack 23 Entering motorway maybe
nestlings (5) one went at speed (5)
about a dramatic political signal from Jaipur. Sharma. In fact, Mr Sharma was entrusted with the
NOTE: Figures in parentheses denote the number of letters in the words required.
Since the meeting is taking place against the back- responsibility at the party’s Burari gathering in 2010 (By arrangement with The Independent, London)
drop of the anti-rape protests that shook Delhi and but not this time.

C M Y K
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WORLD KOLKATA WEDNESDAY 9 JANUARY 2013 8

TENDER CPC unfazed by media protests

press trust of india
BEIJING, 8 JAN: A rare protest by journalists of a
state-run Chinese weekly against official interference
entered the second day today amid tacit support
from other media outlets, notwithstanding the rul-
ing Communist Party of China (CPC)'s assertion
that it had an “absolute and unshakable” control
over them.
Separately, the Chinese foreign ministry also
denounced the USA for expressing support for the
journalists' agitation against the Press censorship,
saying it amounted to interference in China's inter-
nal affairs. “China is opposed to any country's, any
person's interference in internal affairs in any form,”
foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told the media
here.
His comments came in response to a question on
state department spokesperson Victoria Nuland's
statement that the USA has long defended and sup-
ported the right of media freedom for Chinese jour-
nalists and for international journalists operating in
e-Procurement Cell China. Mr Hong declined to comment on the
protests, saying it was not his purview.
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT
Meanwhile, several Chinese media outlets have
JHARKHAND, RANCHI appeared to back journalists at a weekly newspaper
e-Procurement Notice
e-Tender Reference No. BCD/Pakur/99/2012-13 Dated: 02-01-2013
1. Name of the work
Japan to boost military
budget amid islands row
TOKYO, 8 JAN: Japan will increase mili-
tary spending in 2013 for the first time
in more than a decade, the ruling party
said today, as Tokyo summoned the
Chinese Ambassador over a simmering
territorial row. The newly-elected Liberal
Democratic Party's national defence ta-
sk force has decided to boost the defen-
ce budget request by more than $1.15
billion in response to an emboldened
Beijing, a party official said. afp
embroiled in a row over censorship, BBC reported.
News portals, however, carried a state-sanctioned
editorial criticising the journalists. But, they added a
disclaimer saying that the piece did not mean that
they shared the views expressed in it, the report said.
Journalists of the 'Southern Weekend', a Chinese
language weekly published on Thursdays from
Guangzhou close to Hong Kong, in an unprece-
dented move, held a demonstration outside their
office protesting against the interference by a
Communist Party official.
The protest attracted worldwide attention as it
was also the first such event following last
November's once-in-a-decade leadership conference
of the Party in which Vice-President Xi Jinping was
elected its new leader promising more reforms and
opening up.
Reports from Guangzhou said protests contin-
ued for the second day today by the journalists and
police intervened to stop scuffles between scribes
and a small group of government supporters.
But the most decisive response came from the
CPC, which in a memo circulated to various media
units firmly stated that the official media would
remain in its complete control. “The party has
absolute control of China's media. This basic princi-
ple is unshakable,” the memo issued by the Publicity
Department of the Communist Party's Central
Committee to Party Chiefs and media officials said.
Referring to yesterday's protests by journalists
demanding freedom from interference of local Party
officials, the memo said “the incident has nothing to
do with Guangdong province's propaganda chief,
comrade Tuo Zhen,” who was accused of having
rewritten a critical editorial.
The journalists blamed Tuo for altering a critical
editorial written by the editors in the New Year edi-
tion adding pro-Party and government content.
Instead, the party memo accused “foreign forces”
of being behind the incident. “Hostile foreign forces
had interfered in the Southern Weekend incident,”
the Hong Kong based South China Morning Post
quoted the memo as saying.
The memo requires officials to continue to pre-
vent editors and journalists from expressing online
support for Southern Weekend.

2. Estimated Cost
Construction of Remaining Work of
Collectorate Building at Pakur for the year
2012-13.
Rs. 6,96,54,509 (Rupees Six Crore Ninety Six
Lakh Fifty Four Thousand Five Hundred Nine)
Republicans. Israelis express
3. Time of completion
4. Last date/time for
receipt of bids
only .
12 (Twelve) months.
21-01-2013 up to 11-00 a.m.
concern over Hagel’s views
5. Date of publication of
tender on website
14-01-13.
press trust of india toward the Mr McCain is the Ranking
6. Name & address of e-Procurement Cell, Building Construction J e w i s h Republican on the Senate Armed
Officer Inviting Tender Department, Jharkhand, Ranchi WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM, nation. Services Committee. House
7. Contact No. of
Procurement Officer
0651-2405066 8 JAN: Republican Senators “This con- Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a
8. Helpline Number of 0651-2405066
have expressed concern cept of statement said that Hagel is a
e-Procurement Cell over the views of Chuck 'splendid “wrong man” for the job.
Any change in BOQ Amount can be seen on Website: http://jharkhandten- Hagel (in photo), nominat- isolation' “Recent reporting has made
ders.gov.in ed by President Barack which Hagel clear that Senator Hagel's views
Further details can be seen on website: http://jharkhandtenders.gov.in Obama as his next defence espouses and inflammatory statements
Nodal Officer
e-Procurement Cell
secretary, on several key changes US about Israel are well outside the
PR No.: 58635 (2012-13) B.C.D., Jharkhand, Ranchi issues, as the White House strategy in mainstream and raise well-
defended him saying that he is the world and accordingly it founded doubts that he can be
in “sync” with the President's also affects Israel,” Mr Rivlin trusted to manage the special
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER policies. said. relationship the US shares with
R.C.D., Road Division, Ramgarh Mr Hagel, 66, the former Rep- Several Republican Senators our greatest Middle East ally,”
e-Procurement Notice ublican Senator from Nebraska, expressed concern over Mr Mr Cantor said.
Tender Reference No. RCD/Ramgarh/04 Dated: 02-01-2013 has been nominated by Presid- Hagel's post position on several However, the White House ANIMAL FARM ~ In the village of Pererov, central Belarus, on Tuesday. afp
1. Name of the work Construction of Bridge over GOMTI ent Obama as his next defence issues. “I have serious concerns categorically dismissed the con-
RIVER at Ch. 0.300 KM of Gola-Charu secretary to replace Leon about positions Senator Hagel cerns being raised by the

2. Estimated Cost
Road for the year 2012-13.
Rs. 2,54,03,630 (Rs. Two Crore Fifty
Panetta.
In Jerusalem, Israeli parlia-
has taken on a range of critical
national security issues in recent
Republican leadership. “Senator
Hagel has been a staunch sup- Korean pop PIA flight attacked at Khandahar airport
ISLAMABAD, 8 JAN: A Pakistan International Airlines
Four Lakh Three Thousand Six Hundred mentary speaker Reuven Rivlin years, which we will fully con- porter of Israel, the Israeli-
3. Time of completion
& Thirty Only).
12 (Twelve) months.
said the nomination of Mr
Hagel as the next US secretary
sider in the course of his confir-
mation process before the Sena-
American relationship, of the
USA's support for Israel's securi-
icon confined (PIA) aircraft was on the runway at Afghanistan's Kand-
ahar airport when it was attacked with rockets today
though there were no casualties or damage to property,
4. Last date/time for
receipt of bids
28-01-2013 12-00 noon. of defence was a “cause for con-
cern” because of the ex-
te Armed Services Committee,”
Senator John McCain said in a
ty, throughout his career,” White
House Press secretary Jay
to ‘repent’ officials said. The aircraft with 44 people on board was
ready to take off for Quetta. It later flew to Quetta, the
5. Date of publication of 07-01-13
tender on website Republican Senator's stance statement. Carney told reporters. SEOUL, 8 JAN: capital of Pakistan's Balochistan province, though the
6. Name & address of Executive Engineer, R.C.D. Road South Korean flight was delayed by over an hour, PIA officials said. pti
Officer Inviting Tender Road Division, Ramgarh pop icon Rain
7. Contact No. of 06553-231250. Violence persists Met police officer accused has been confi-
ned to barracks
Troops shell Damascus outskirts
Procurement Officer BEIRUT, 8 JAN: Syrian troops bombarded rebel bastions
8. Helpline Number of 0651-2401010. for fifth night in for a week, the on the outskirts of Damascus before dawn today while
e-Procurement Cell
Further details can be seen on website: Northern Ireland of selling info to NOTW defence min-
istry said today, after his dating
fighting had erupted for control of the northwestern
town of Mastuma, a watchdog said. Troops shelled the
http://jharkhandtenders.gov.in
BELFAST, 8 JAN: Police put him on the wrong side of the towns of Maliha and Beit Saham to the southeast of
Executive Engineer officers in Northern Irela- martin hickman country's strict military service the capital near the Damascus airport road and the
R.C.D., Road Division
nd fired plastic bullets rules. “Under a decision by the town of Douma to the northeast, the Britain-based
PR No.: 58639 (2012-13) Ramgarh
and used water cannon LONDON, 8 JAN: A senior Scotland Yard counter-terrorism officer rang disciplinary commission of his Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. afp
after having coming un- the News of the World to offer ‘highly sensitive’ inside information about unit, Rain will be confined to his
Govt. of Jharkhand a police inquiry into phone-hacking at the newspaper in exchange for a barracks to spend seven days of
der attack from rioters for
bribe, a court heard yesterday. repentance,” a defence ministry
ISAF soldier killed in Afghan insider attack
ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT a fifth consecutive night. KABUL, 8 JAN: A soldier serving with the International
Road Division, Ramgarh Intermittent disorder has Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, who ran the Met's financial spokesman said. The 30-year-old security assistance Force in Afghanistan was shot dead
e-Procurement Notice (4th Call) blighted Belfast since the investigations into terrorists, made the offer in an early-morning phone singer is a little over halfway by a man in Afghan army uniform, the latest in a series
Tender Reference No. RCD/Ramgarh/07 Dated: 02-01-2013 city council's decision on call to the paper days after her employers had launched a new investi- through the two-year military ser- of “insider” attacks, the alliance said today. More than
1. Name of the work Widening & Strengthening of Gola Charu 3 December to limit the gation into voicemail interception at the Murdoch-owned tabloid, vice that is mandatory for all able- 60 ISAF troops were killed in 2011 in a surge of insider
Missing Link Road in KM 0.00 to 6.825 number of days it flies Southwark Crown Court in south London was told. bodied South Korean men. attacks that have shaken relations between the alliance
(Remaining portion). the British flag, or Union The journalist who took the call, Tim Wood, subsequently relayed his The country's well-oiled cele- and Afghanistan as the US-led troops try to train up the
2. Estimated Cost Rs. 10,95,26,730 (Rs. Ten Crore Ninety Five flag, above the City Hall. version of the conversation in an e-mail to two of the paper's most senior brity gossip machine went into local army and police to battle Taliban militants. afp
Lakh Twenty Six Thousand Seven Hundred Around 1,000 loyalist staff: the news editor Ian Edmondson and crime editor Lucy Panton. He overdrive last week when it was
Thirty).
protesters held a peaceful wrote: “A senior policewoman ~ no name given ~ wants to sell infor- confirmed that Rain had begun ‘Ailing Chavez stable’
3. Time of completion 10 months.
demonstration outside mation on the phone-hacking inquiry.' She had told him that the police dating Kim Tae-Hee, 32, a TV dra- CARACAS, 8 JAN: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
4. Last date/time for 28-01-2013 up to 12-00 noon.
the City Hall yesterday as were looking at six people, including Andy Coulson, the former NOTW ma star with a massive following is in a “stable situation” in a Cuban hospital receiving
receipt of bids
councillors held their first editor, who was then still the Prime Minister's spokesman in Downing in Japan. treatment due to a severe respiratory infection, his
5. Date of publication of 07-01-13 at 10-30 a.m.
tender on website meeting since last mon- Street. Det Ch Insp Casburn, 53, from Essex, is on trial accused of com- But fan excitement was tem- government has said. Information Minister Ernesto
6. Name & address of O/o Executive Engineer, Road Construction th's decision. mitting misconduct in public office by engaging in behaviour that would pered by questions over how the Villegas provided the update, saying the government is
Officer Inviting Tender Department, Road Division, Ramgarh But trouble erupted as a lead to lower trust in the police ‘without reasonable excuse of justifica- couple had managed numerous in “permanent contact” with Mr Chavez's medical
7. Contact No. of 06553-231250. group of around 250 tion’. She denies the charge, saying that, while she did make the call ~ reported dates. During their mili- team and relatives who are with him in Havana where
Procurement Officer arrived at a known which was confirmed by phone records ~ she was acting as a whistle- tary service men are given little he underwent surgery for cancer. ap
8. Helpline Number of 0651-2401010. boundary between loyali- blower who wanted to highlight the diverting of resources away from free time, even for family visits. NY subway terror suspect pleads not guilty
e-Procurement Cell st and republican neigh- the fight against terrorism to less serious voicemail interception. She “He breached regulations NEW YORK, 8 JAN: A man who initially beat terror
Further details can be seen on website: http://jharkhandtenders.gov.in bourhoods after leaving denies that she asked for payment or disclosed any confidential infor- against having private meetings charges in the United Kingdom pleaded not guilty in a
Executive Engineer the City Hall protest. mation not already in newspaper reports. Her trial ~ the first involving while on official duty,” the min- US case linking him to a failed Al Qaida plot against
RCD, Road Division Police battled to keep the the alleged law-breaking at the now-closed NOTW ~ is expected to last istry spokesman said. The pun- the city's subway system. Abid Naseer was extradited
PR No.: 58642 (2012-13) Ramgarh two groups apart, firing three days. At the opening yesterday, Mark Bryant-Heron, prosecuting, ishment was one of the lightest from Britain late last week. He entered the plea in
plastic bullets and using outlined how Det Ch Insp Casburn had contacted a readers' hotline for options open to the disciplinary federal court in Brooklyn through his attorney, Steven
GOVERNMENT OF JHARKHAND water cannon after the NOTW at 7.51a.m. on 11 Saturday September 2010. At the time she committee. Rain, whose real Brounstein. The lawyer declined to comment outside
WATER RESOURCES DEPARTMENT coming under fire from a was in day-to-day charge of the Met's National Terrorist Financial name is Jung Ji-Hoon, is one of
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER court. The judge ordered Naseer held without bail until
hail of masonry and Information Unit, which had seconded an officer to Operation Varec, the the biggest names in the world of his next court date, on 7 March. ap
MINOR DISTRIBUTION DIVISION NO. 3, MANGO new inquiry into phone hacking established in the wake of a New York K-pop, which commands a huge
petrol bombs on the city's
JAMSHEDPUR
Tender Reference No. WRD/SMP/IGC/MDD3/IFB-04/2012-13 (2ND CALL) Newtownards Road. afp Times article alleging widespread wrongdoing at the NOTW, which had following in South Korea, across 5 Americans killed in Peru copter crash
Letter No. 02 Jamshedpur, Date: 02-01-2013 been published 10 days earlier. the independent much of Asia and beyond. afp LIMA, 8 JAN: A helicopter used by an oil and mining
e-Procurement Notice
(Civil works)
company has crashed into a commercial building in a
village in northern Peru, killing at least seven people,

Cops probe death of lottery winner

Sl. No. Item Details
including five Americans, an official said. afp
1. Name of the works Construction of Earth work, Lining
and structures of Kapali Minor. Clinton returns to work
2. Estimated Cost Rs. 9,07,62,013.49 (Rupees nine WASHINGTON, 8 JAN: The US secretary of state Hillary
crore seven lakh sixty two thousand
press trust of india Clinton received a standing ovation from her staff as
Thirteen and Paisa Forty Nine only)
Khan’s relative asked officials icity as the cause of death and the manner of she returned to work after a month of illness, her
3. Tender fee and EMD Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 9,08,000 death as homicide, chief medical examiner spokesperson said, adding the leader was “looking
4. Period of Completion 730 days NEW YORK, 8 JAN: Police in Chicago is to re-examine the cause of Steve Cina said yesterday. No arrests have terrific.” “She looks fantastic. She seems to be terrific,”
5. Date of Publication of From 08.01.13 at 5 P.M. investigating the mysterious murder of an his death and new screening been made in the case so far. Mr Cina said it state department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said,
Tender on website Indian-origin businessman, who had won a is likely that Khan's body would be exhumed after Mrs Clinton resumed her work at Foggy Bottom
6. Date and time for down- From 08.01.2013 at 5 P.M. to million dollar lottery last year and was results now show that a as part of investigation into his death. headquarters of the state department. pti
loading of bid Documents 28.01.2013 at 5 P.M. allegedly poisoned with cyanide a day after lethal amount of cyanide was According to an Illinois Lottery statement
7. Date of pre-bid N.A. he collected his prize. that was released after Khan was announced 6 Chinese officials suspended
8. Date and Time of Receipt From 08.01.2013 at 5 P.M. to Urooj Khan, 46, owned a dry-cleaning present in Khan’s system, winner last year, Khan and his family were BEIJING, 8 JAN: Six Chinese officials were suspended pe-
of bids 28.01.2013 at 5 P.M.
business in Chicago and had won a million prompting police to ecstatic over the win and had tipped 100 nding inquiry into the deaths of seven people including
9. Date of bid opening 30.01.2013 at 1.30 P.M.
dollar in an Illinois lottery scratch ticket in dollars to the owner of the store from where six children at a unlicensed orphanage in central China's
10. Name & address of officer Executive Engineer, Minor June last year. A month later, Khan died just investigate the death as the winning ticket was purchased. Henan Province, official media reported today. pti
Inviting tender Contact No. Distribution Division No. 3,
of Procurement Officer Mango, Jamshedpur a day after he received the cheque for his lot- homicide Accompanied by his wife Shabana Ansari, 17 billion Earth-sized planets
09097023305 tery win. Initially, the Cook County medical daughter Jasmeen Khan and several friends, WASHINGTON, 8 JAN: Astronomers using Nasa's Kepler
11. Helpline number of 0651-2491232, 0657-2383169 examiner's office had ruled that Khan died th as homicide. “We are investigating it as a Khan had accepted the cheque from Illinois spacecraft have discovered that one in six stars hosts an
e-Procurement cell of natural causes and had ruled out any foul murder, and we're working closely with the Lottery representatives. “I scratched the tick- Earth-sized planet in a close orbit, suggesting there are
Note: Only e-Tenders will be accepted. play. However, Khan's relative asked officials medical examiner's office,” Chicago police et, then I kept on saying, ‘I hit a million!’ at least 17 billion such planets in our galaxy. A new anal-
Further details can be seen on website: http://jharkhandtenders.gov.in to re-examine the cause of his death and spokeswoman Melissa Stratton said in a CNN over and over again. I jumped two feet in ysis of Kepler data showed that about 17 per cent of st-
Executive Engineer new screening results now show that a lethal report. The presence of cyanide in Khan's the air, then ran back into the store and ars have an Earth-sized planet in an orbit closer than
Minor Distribution Division No. 3 amount of cyanide was present in Khan's sys- blood led officials to issue an amended tipped the clerk $100,” Khan was quoted as Mercury. pti
Mango, Jamshedpur
tem, prompting police to investigate the dea- death certificate that established cyanide tox- saying in the statement.
PR No.: 58623 (2012-13)

C M Y K
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BUSINESS & Finance KOLKATA WEDNESDAY 9 JANUARY 2013 9

I-T officials conduct

survey on Nokia
CHENNAI/NEW DELHI, 8 JAN:
Income tax department officials
today conducted a survey
operation on the premises of
Finnish cell phone major Nokia in
Chennai on charges of alleged tax
evasion. Sources in the
department said the survey
operation was conducted at the
company's premises in the Tamil
Nadu capital (under section 133
of the I-T Act), and few other
locations in the country will be
brought under this action. When
contacted, a Nokia spokesperson,
in a statement, said: “Earlier
today, tax officials visited Nokia's
manufacturing unit in Chennai.
Nokia is fully cooperating to
ensure they get the necessary
information to help in their
inquiry." pti
SAIL production up
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: The new year
began on a positive note for Steel
Authority of India Limited as the
company recorded a two per cent
growth in hot metal, and one per
cent and two per cent growth in
crude and saleable steel
production, respectively, for the
April-December 2012 period over
the corresponding period of the
previous year, according to a SAIL
release issued here today. sns
CCI nod to Future rejig
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Fair trade
regulator the Competition
Commission of India has approved
the restructuring of Future Group's
fashion businesses, that includes
Pantaloon Retail. The proposed re-
jig involves five entities ~
Pantaloon Retail India, Futures
Ventures India, Indus-League
Clothing, Lee Cooper and Future
Lifestyle Fashions. pti
Cotton exports to dip
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: India's cotton
exports are likely to tumble by 60
per cent to 5.7 million bales in the
marketing year ending July
compared to last year's level, a US
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
report said. India is estimated to
have shipped a record 14.7
million bales in the last marketing
year, it said. One bale has 170 kg
of cotton. pti
CPSE listing
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: The
government should look at listing
50 state-owned companies in the
next five years, a report by a
Planning Commission committee
on reforms in CPSEs has said. The
committee, headed by former
SAIL chairman SK Roongta, has
suggested that at least 30 central
public sector enterprises (CPSE)
be listed in three years, going up
to 50 over five years. pti
AllBank MoU
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: Allahabad Bank
has signed an MoU with the
Chamber of Indian Micro, Small
and Medium Enterprises
(CIMSME). As per the terms of
agreement, CIMSME would
mobilise proposals from its
members for consideration of the
bank. sns
Price Watch
Commodity Rs
per Kg
Rice Gobind Bhog 70
Sugar 40
Moong Dal 100
Chana Dal 90
Masoor Dal 80
Arhar Dal 78
Mustard Oil 110
Sunflower Oil 115
Potato 16
Onion 22
Source: Maniktala Market
* From previous day
Increase Decrease No Change
Fitch warns of negative rating
statesman news service
MUMBAI, 8 JAN: Contradicting the latest
reports by Goldman Sachs and Moody's on
India's economic recovery, global agency
Fitch today discounted chances of fiscal con-
solidation as it warned the country that the
sovereign credit-rating may be "negative" for
the next 12 to 24 months affirming there
will be no change in its prediction in the
near future.
In a similar bleak outlook Standard and
Poor's said for want of proper economic
measures the sovereign rating would be low-
ered to "junk". Both these agencies fear the
country may not meet its fiscal target of 5.1
per cent of the GDP for the current year."
High fiscal deficit and heavy debt burden
remain the most significant rating con-
straints, " Fitch said today.
Analyst Art Woo has been quoted as saying
"Fitch has retained its negative outlook on
India's sovereign credit rating on three con-
cerns" ~ slowing economic growth, persist-
ing inflation and uncertain fiscal outlook."
Analysts say any further downgrade may hit
chances of foreign investment in the coun-
try.
Fitch has decided to carry forward last
year's warning because it still finds "macro-
economic trends disappointing. Policy slip-
page coupled with fiscal loosening ahead of
2014 election will weaken economic growth.
The GDP for the current financial ending 31
March can be as low as six per cent."
RIL applies for de-notifying
40% of its Gujarat SEZ
press trust of india
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Reliance Industries has
applied to the government to de-notify over
40 per cent of its Special Economic Zone in
Gujarat as it plans Rs 45,000 crore projects
in that area to cater to the domestic market.
RIL's multi-product SEZ is spread over
1,764.14 hectares. The company now wants
partial de-notification of an area of 728.43
hectares, leaving 1,035.72 hectares of plan
for the multi-product SEZ.
Sources said that in the de-notified area
RIL plans to invest Rs 45,000 crore in new
projects that will cater to domestic demand.
“The developer has applied for partial de-
notification so as to implement a number of
new projects in the domestic tariff area
(DTA) in Jamnagar near the SEZ. The pro-
posed projects will mainly cater to the sig-
nificant existing domestic demand,” the
Development Commissioner of the zone
submitted to the board of approval for SEZs.
An inter-ministerial Board of Approval
(BoA), chaired by commerce secretary SR
Rao will consider RIL's proposal on 18
CCI to review norms
for grant of
project clearance
press trust of india
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: The newly formed Cabinet Committee
on Investments (CCI) will have powers to review the pro-
cedure followed by ministries in granting or refusing
clearances for infra and manufacturing sector projects
costing more than Rs 1,000 crore.
The Cabinet Secretariat in an order last week detailed
Change* the functions of the Prime Minister-headed CCI which will
identify projects in sectors such as infrastructure and
manufacturing for their time-bound implementation.
“CCI will now look after the implementation of critical
projects including the procedures involved in their clear-
ance or refusal and the delays such projects are facing,” a
source in the know of the development said.
It will also come out with measures that are required
for expeditious approval of such projects including sim-
plifying rules and look at measures that will promote
investment and economic growth in the country, the
source added.
The Cabinet panel will also decide on simplification of
rules and procedures followed by ministries such as forest
and environment for grant of expeditious clearances in
identified sectors.
Industrial
workers plan
Govt not worried about downgrade; will contain deficit two-day strike
press trust of india
sns & pti Fitch to downgrade India's rating. rising fiscal deficit.
The government has taken a number It had earlier said that the possibility of THANE, 8 JAN: Industrial workers have
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Battling a host of of steps to restrict the fiscal deficit to downgrading the country's sovereign planned to go on a two-day nationwide
economic problems, the government 5.3 per cent of GDP during the rating was more than 50 per cent in strike from 20 February to press for
today sought to minimise the issue of financial year, he said, adding that the next 12-24 months. their various demands, a steel industry
ratings downgrade by global agencies the process would continue in the Another global agency Standard & union has said.
like Fitch and said it is right on track subsequent years as well. Poor's had last month said that India Workers from different sectors in var-
to reduce fiscal deficit to 5.3 per cent In view of rising expenditure and faces one-in-three chance of rating ious industrial units will participate in
of GDP in 2012-13. subdued growth in revenue collection, downgrade in the next two years in the two-day stir, All India general secre-
“We are not worried. We have been the finance ministry has already case the government fails to push tary of the Steel Metal and Engineering
saying we are on the right track. But raised the fiscal deficit target to a reforms in view of the political gridlock Workers' Federation of India (SMEFI)
people still distrust us and ask more acceptable level of 5.3 per cent and ensuing general election in 2014. Sanjay Wadhavkar said here today.
whether we will be able to achieve of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as Fitch as well as Standard & Poor's While demands of different working
the fiscal deficit target... We will against 5.1 per cent estimated have assigned the lowest investment unions vary as per the sector, the main
adhere to fiscal consolidation earlier. Fitch, during a recent grade rating to India and any demand of all the unions is that the
roadmap”, the department of conference call in Tokyo, had downgrade would push it to the 'junk' minimum wages for a worker should be
economic affairs secretary Arvind reiterated its threat to downgrade grade making it difficult for corporates Rs 10,000 (a month), Mr Wadhavkar
Mayaram said, when asked about the
threat of rating agencies such as
India's rating against the backdrop of to raise finances from overseas said.
slowing growth, high inflation and markets at competitive rates. The charter of demands relates to
social security measures for the work-
The forecast by Fitch released today imme- cal and current account deficits dragging the in June last year reflected India's diversified ers, opposition of privatisation of PSUs,
diately put pressure on the partially convert- macro-economic growth. economy and high domestic savings policy removing the ceiling on bonus, contract
ible rupee which started slipping against the Dalal Street analysts said Goldman Sachs slippage and/or mounting evidence of struc- labour, issues relating to workers in
American dollar. Against Monday's 55.23/24 , praised the Bombay and National Stock tural decline in the trend growth rate such as unorganised sectors, among others,
the rupee today declined to 55.33/35 in early Exchanges because of attractive valuation of protracted relatively weak economic data said Mr Wadhavkar. He is also a member
morning deals after another rating agency Indian equities. The 25 per cent and 27 per could cause ratings to be downgraded." of the executive committee of the
Standard and Poor's also saw little hope in cent rise in BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty, they S&P also warned of one in three chance of International Trade union body called
the country's economic recovery. say, was on account of $24.4 billion net buy- downgrade to "junk" over the next 24 Industryall Global Union (IGU).
On Monday, investor banker Goldman ing by foreign funds in 2012 calendar year. months. This prognosis flies in the face of The workers in the country have
Sachs lauded the domestic share markets for The analysts tend to give more credence to Moody's and Goldman Sachs projections been pressing for various demands
yielding impressive returns irrespective of Fitch and S&P's observations. suggesting India's economy is accelerating since long but nothing much has been
economic slowdown and yawning gaps in fis- Fitch said: "Our affirmation of BBB- rating on reform promises and declining inflation. done in this regard, he pointed out.
CITI for cut in
excise duty on
Tougher biz environment
man-made fibres for Mistry, says Tata
January, sources said. RIL has stated in the statesman news service press trust of india Asked whether corruption was eroding
proposal that it plans to invest Rs 45,000 investor confidence in India, Mr Tata said:
crore in projects in the de-notified area. NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: The apex industry cham- NEW YORK, 8 JAN: Mr Ratan Tata, who “It's been a concern for many of us for
A company spokesperson could not be ber for textiles, Confederation of Indian has just stepped down as Tata Group's some time," but it has been masked by
immediately reached for comments. Textiles Industry (CITI), today demanded that chairman, has said that the biggest chal- the very high rate of growth and prosper-
SEZ houses 580,000 barrels per day or 29 the government reduce excise duty on man- lenge for the $100-billion conglomerate's ity of the country.
million tons a year oil refinery that exports made fibres to eight per cent in the forthcom- new chairman Cyrus Mistry will be the “It has led to a fair amount of crony
fuel to far off countries such as Venezuela ing Budget to boost the sector’s growth. country's business environment that is capitalism and people like us have been
and Mexcio, besides the USA and Europe. An In its pre-Budget memorandum to the going to be tougher and more complex concerned that it is not usually a level-
adjacent 33 million tons older unit cater to finance minister P Chidambaram, CITI said: than the crisis of 1991. playing field as it should be,” he said.
the domestic market. “The duty on man-made fibres and their raw “The big picture challenge is that the To queries about Tata Group's involve-
The DC has recommended that the de- materials may be reduced to eight per cent (business) environment is going to be ment in the alleged irregularities in the
notification be allowed subject to refund of from the current 12 per cent.” It contended tougher and more complex than it was in telecom space and a lobbyist for Tatas
all tax benefits the company had availed for that the duty reduction will not lead to revenue 1991. In 1991, there were less people being under surveillance, Mr Tata said
operating units in the only-for-export zone. loss for the government. aspiring to succeed in this newly opened that the investigative agencies had not
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led firm is CITI said increasing cost of production in economy. Today there are many,” he said only cleared the group, but also found it
investing over $12 billion in its core refining China has opened up huge opportunities for in an interview published by Time maga- to be “disadvantaged among all the tele-
and petrochemical industries as output from Indian man-made fibre-based textiles industry zine. com players”.
its eastern offshore KG-D6 fields dips to an to expand its market share. It also sought abo- Mr Tata, who stepped down as head of “Obviously, there were phone calls,
all-time low of around 22 million standard lition of Customs duty and special additional Tata Group on 28 December after 21 which were absolutely innocuous, that
cubic meters a day. duty on man-made fibres as it would help the years at its helm, was replying to a query were wiretapped. We did nothing wrong,
RIL is investing $8 billion, the most since industry to source fibres from global markets about the biggest challenge for his suc- did nothing illegal, so no, I wouldn't have
it completed a second oil refinery in 2008, during the time of shortage or a sharp increase cessor. Mr Mistry has taken over from him done anything differently,” Mr Tata, who
in expansion of its petrochemical business in domestic prices. It also sought an increase in as chairman of Tata Sons, the holding was with Tata Group for about 50 years,
to meet rising demand for plastics and the exemption limit for service tax to Rs 15 company of salt-to-software conglomer- said in reply to a query whether he would
polyester. lakh from the current Rs 10 lakh. ate Tata Group. have done anything differently.
Diageo submits info to Sebi Govt may hike
price of sugar
on United Spirits open offer bination of purchase of shares from
press trust of india
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: The government is
likely to raise the levy price of sugar ~
press trust of india ‘Diageo has submitted its
existing promoters and a preferential the rate at which it buys the sweetener
MUMBAI, 8 JAN: Global liquor major replies to clarifications allotment of share, for Rs 5,725.4 crore. from mills to sell through ration shops ~
Diageo Plc has submitted details sought by Sebi on the Any acquisition of 25 per cent or by over Rs 2 to about Rs 22 per kg for the
sought by the market regulator more stake in a listed company triggers current year.
Securities and Exchange Board of India open offer for United a mandatory open offer for purchase of For the 2011-12 marketing year
(Sebi) regarding its Rs 5,441 crore
open offer for buying stake in the Vijay
Spirits. Sebi will take a an additional 26 per cent stake from
the public shareholders and the same
(October-September), the levy price of
sugar was 19.04 per kg.
Mallya-led United Spirits.
decision in due course’ needs to be cleared by the market reg- “We have proposed increasing levy
The open offer to buy 26 per cent open offer has been postponed. ulator. price of sugar by over Rs 2 from last year,”
stake in United Spirits, which was to JM Financial, the manager for the The proposed open offer for an a senior government official said.
start yesterday, was postponed pend- open offer, has said that since the “final additional 26 per cent stake in USL The proposal is under the considera-
ing final approval from Sebi. observations from Sebi” are awaited, entails purchase of about 3.8 crore tion of the finance ministry. The rise in
“Diageo has submitted its replies to the schedule has been revised. shares at a price of Rs 1,440 per share, levy price would entail additional subsidy
clarifications sought by Sebi on the “The revised schedule of activities totalling to Rs 5,441 crore, by Relay BV, of Rs 400-500 crore, the official added.
open offer for United Spirits. Sebi will will be intimated in due course,” a wholly owned subsidiary of Diageo. The sugar sector is under government
take a decision in due course,” a source according to a filing made by United United Spirits, the country's largest control. Sugar mills are obliged to sell 10
said. Spirits to the BSE. spirits company, is part of Vijay Mallya- per cent of their production to the gov-
Last month, Sebi had asked for some As per the Detailed Public Statement led UB Group, whose aviation venture ernment to meet the demand of ration
clarifications from Diageo's open offer, (DPS) issued in November last year, Kingfisher Airlines is grappling with shops.
part of a deal to buy up to 53.4 per cent Diageo's open offer was to begin yes- turbulent times. The levy price of sugar is calculated on
stake in United Spirits. terday. Shares of United Spirits climbed the basis of Fair and Remunerative Price
On Monday, United Spirits had Diageo is to acquire a 27.4 per cent two per cent to close at Rs 1,877.15 on (FRP), which stands at Rs 170 per quintal
informed the stock exchanges that the stake in United Spirits, through a com- the BSE. for the 2012-13 marketing year.

MARKETS (Closing Rates)

Non-specified shares
BSE PRICES ( Rs) HOW THE SENSEX MOVED SNAPSHOT
ndex Sensex Nifty
CURRENCY
Currency* (In Rupees)
3M India 4104.70 Aarti Drugs 225.70 Abbott
1473.45 Adorwelding 145.80 Aegis Logis
NSE PRICES (Rs)

Specified shares
ABB 723.55 ACC 1415.05 Adani Enter
276.60 Adani Ports 137.75 Adani Power
64.10 Aditya Birla Nuvo 1135.65 Allahabad
Bank 184.10 Ambuja Cement 202.05 Andhra
Bank 128.25 Apollo Hospitals 803.10 Apollo
Tyres 89.35 Ashok Leyland 26.70 Asian
Paints 4385.85 Astrazen Pharma 1404.90
Aurobindo Pharma 200.45 Axis Bank
1360.60 Bajaj Holding Inv 1015.90 Bajaj
Auto 2198.60 Bajaj Finse 914.60 Bata India
884.45 Bayer Crop 1240.10 Berger Paints
153.00 Bharat Electric 1320.65 Bharat Forge
260.60 Bharat Petroleum 380.70 Bharti
Airtel 330.30 BHEL 243.55 Bhushan Steel
484.15 Biocon 294.95 Bank of Baroda
881.50 Bank of India 364.90 Bosch 9265.35
Britania Ind 499.70 Cadila Healthcare 894.15
Cairn India 342.65 Canara Bank 513.85
Castrol 311.35 Central Bank 94.75 Century
Textile 442.95 CESC 316.70 Cipla 428.85
Coal India 360.15 Colgate Palmolive 1544.65
Container Corp 962.40 Coreedutec 320.70
Corom Inter 263.65 Corp Bank 480.20 Crisil
1045.30 Crompton Greaves 123.10 Cummins
529.45 Dabur 128.80 Dena Bank 125.80
Dish TV 78.05 Divi's Lab 1078.20 DLF 236.65
Dr Reddy's 1907.70 Eicher Motor 2788.40
Emami 585.30 Enginrs 238.20 Essar Oil
19,800
19761.78
19,750 (high)
19,700
19,650
19681.38
(open)
19,600
19632.59
(low)
19,550
72.35 Exide Ind 148.20 Federal Bank 520.60
Financ Tec 1156.45 GAIL 364.45 Gitanjali Ge
585.35 Glaxosmith 2186.90 Glaxosmithkl
3858.30 Glenmark Pharma 542.45 GMR
Infra 21.05 Godrej Consumer 724.70 Godrej
Ind 330.10 Grasim Ind 3185.50 Gujarat
Petronet 79.35 Gujarat Flouro 350.65 Gujarat
Mineral 206.90 Havells India 649.10 HCL
Techno 634.65 HDFC 839.65 HDFC Bank
670.05 Hero MotoCorp 1879.10 Hexaware
Tec 88.95 HUL 525.15 Hind Copper 144.95
Hind Petro 322.85 Hindalco 133.05 Hind Zinc
19742.52
(close)
19691.42
(previous close)
140.40 Housing Development 118.15 ICICI
Bank 1179.30 IDBI Bank 116.20 Idea Cell
111.25 IDFC 180.35 IFCI 39.15 Indiabulls
325.25 Indian Bank 216.00 Indian Hotel
66.80 Indian Oil 280.90 IOB 93.50 Indra Gas
253.35 Indusind Bank 434.80 Infosys
2341.20 ING Vysya Bank 566.45 IPCA Lab
511.60 IRB Infra 135.90 ITC 285.30 J&K
Bank 1316.45 Jain Irrigation 83.20 Jaipra
99.25 Jet Airways 588.20 Jindal Ste 455.45
Jpinfratec 55.15 Jppower 39.55 JSW Energy
68.10 Jswsl 844.25 Jubl Food 1305.85 Kotak
US$
58.05 190.70 Aftek 10.43 Agro Tech Fo 512.40 Ajanta ACC 1417.65 Ambuja Cements 202 Asian 1015.6 Bank of India 365.05 Bharat Forge
Open 19,681.38 5,983.45 Euro 75.80
Pharma 400.00 Alembic 17.55 Alps Ind 2.09 Paints 4394.1 Axis Bank 1360.3 Bajaj Auto 260.95 Biocon 294.7 Bosch 9279.2 Canara
High 19,761.78 6,007.05 UK Pound 93.20
Yen/100 Balmer Lawrie 678.80 Bank of Maharashtra 2198.45 Bank of Baroda 882.35 Bharti Bank 512.95 Colgate Palmolive 1545.1
Low 19,632.59 5,964.40 65.80
Sw Fr 64.10 Bannari Aman 901.55 BASF India 719.45 Airtel 330.3 BHEL 243.9 Bharat Petroleum Container Corp of India 959.65 Crompton
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SCIENCE KOLKATA WEDNESDAY 9 JANUARY 2013 10

Bose and the

The recognition that photons are

Trade muddle
indistinguishable, or identical, makes an
immediate and vital difference. Let us take an
example of a red ball and a green ball, being
distributed in three compartments. This is
possible in nine ways, like this:
latha jishnu wonders if Geographical

Higgs particle
Indications are safeguarding the
interests of growers and artisans

Satyendra Nath Bose laid
one of the cornerstones of
contemporary physics,
says s ananthanaryanan
THE coining and use of the word “Boson”
is not a case of honouring a scientist by
naming something after him but is an active
description of a class of particles that behaves
in a way that was worked out for that class by
Satyendra Nath Bose. He has thus been
immortalised in a basic way, which may not
be the case with any other scientist.
Bose’s classic work was a four-page paper he
forwarded to Albert Einstein, with this letter,
“I have ventured to send you the
accompanying article for your perusal and
opinion. You will see that I have tried to
deduce the coefficients… in Planck’s Law
independent of classical electrodynamcs.”
The context was the infancy of quantum
mechanics, Max Planck’s idea of “quanta” or
discrete steps being the rule in nature, rather
than smooth and continuous progress, which
he proposed to explain the manner of
radiation from warm objects. One of the
problems that troubled physicists of the turn
of the 19th century was the distribution of
frequencies at which an object radiated heat.
While an object radiated at a range of
frequencies, the radiation was the maximum
at one frequency and this peak radiation
frequency increased as the body grew hotter.
The problem was to find a theoretical basis
for this observed behaviour. The laws of
motion, optics, electricity and the gas laws
had fallen into neat, mathematical
formulation. While some troublesome things
had been discovered, like radioactivity and
atomic structure, “black body” radiation, or
the radiation from a non-reflecting surface,
also seemed to be within reach of existing
knowledge.
Planck and Einstein
The approach was to treat radiating objects
as an assembly of oscillators, or vibrating
systems, that gave off electromagnetic
radiation. A warmer object would have things
vibrating more vigorously and more radiation
should come at higher frequencies. Given an
object at a certain temperature, there would
be a distribution of the frequency of vibration
of its parts and, hence, of the frequency of
radiation. This kind of thinking had led to a
few “laws of radiation” — Wien’s Law,
Raleigh’s Law and Raleigh-Jeans’ Law – that
gave a good fit with experiments for a part of
the spectrum, but went off the mark at the
extremes. Plank broke from tradition by
proposing that the oscillators could not
vibrate and, hence radiate, at all frequencies
in range, but only at frequencies that changed
in “steps” or “quanta”. With this basic change,
Planck was able to rework existing formulae
to exactly describe the radiation spectra of
warm objects.
Albert Einstein made a refinement. Rather
than consider that the oscillators vibrated at
Albert
Einstein
Max
Planck
frequencies that changed in steps, he
proposed that it was the energy of radiation
that had to be in packets, or quanta. He then
considered the quanta of energy being
emitted and absorbed by the walls of a cavity
like the molecules of a gas in a container and
used statistical methods, which are effective
with gases, to arrive, with the help of Wien’s
Law, at the same formula for radiation as Max
Planck!
In the case of a gas, its millions of
molecules share the total energy. In principle,
this could happen in many ways – with a few
molecules being feverishly fast while the rest,
which had to manage with the remaining
energy, being sluggish. Or there could be a
few very slow ones, which forced the others
to be faster, or there could be ways that were
in between.
When a small number of molecules share
large or low energy, the different ways that
this is possible is the number of ways this
small number of molecules can be selected
from the total. But when energy is more
evenly distributed, this can be done in the
number of ways larger groups can be selected
and this number itself becomes very large.
For instance, if there are 1,000
molecules and one molecule is to be
chosen, there are 1,000 ways of doing
this. But if two molecules are to be
chosen, then there are 999 ways to
choose the second molecule for every
way the first molecule is chosen – or
999 x 1,000 = 9,99,000 ways (and
divided by two, as the pairs would be
repeated). And if three molecules are to
be chosen, there are 9,99,000 x 998
ways (divided by six, to take care of
repetitions). It can be worked out that
the number of ways that half the
number of molecules can be selected is
astronomically large.
With billions of molecules of gas,
Satyendra
Nath Bose
there is such an overwhelmingly larger
number of ways that molecules could have
“about the average” energy that we end up
with the uniform, even temperature
behaviour of a real gas. Einstein had used a
similar consideration of photons in a cavity,
with the help of Wien’s Law, to arrive at
Planck’s formula.
SN Bose
Bose thought the induction of Wein’s Law,
which was a formula to fit experiment, was
“contrived”. As there was use of Wein’s Law,
the final result was not a natural consequence
of photons being considered to behave like a
gas. And Bose was able to see that there was,
in fact, a relevant difference between photons
and the molecules of a gas! In the case of
molecules, it was, in principle, possible to
distinguish each one and count each
distribution that had the same energy as a
separate instance. But in the case of photons,
which were freely absorbed and emitted,
there was no way to tell one from another.
And another thing was that the total
number of molecules was fixed, but not of
photons!
But if the balls were of the same colour, then
the first and third, second and fifth and fourth
and sixth distributions become the same and
we are left with only six distinct distributions,
like this:
If we consider the balls to be molecules or
the photons and the boxes to be the different
energies, then we see that there is a
difference between the number of
possibilities in the case of distinguishable
molecules and indistinguishable photons.
And when Bose took this into account and
also that the number of photons was not fixed
and again, that they could come in two states
of polarisation, he was able to arrive at
Planck’s formula without reliance on any
external inputs at all!
BE statistics
Einstein was quick to realise
that his young Indian
correspondent had made a
landmark discovery and
Einstein himself translated the
paper into German and had it
published, with his own
comments, in the journal,
Zeitschrift fur Physik. He then
wrote a sequel and followed
up with work that established
the distinction between
“identical” particles and other
particles, and the behaviour of
identical particles, now known
as “Bose-Einstein statistics”, as
central to many problems in
physics.
Physics has come a long
way since 1924 when Bose, 30
years old and a reader at
Dacca University, sent that
letter to Einstein. The whole
category of subatomic
particles with the property of
“spin” described in whole
numbers, which are allowed
to share an energy state, are
the Bosons, and the other category, with
“spin” measured in halves, like one/two or
three/two, and have to occupy separate
energy states, are known as “Fermions”,
named after the Italian, Enrico Fermi. The fact
that Bosons can occupy the same state, in
quantum mechanics makes possible
conditions where the molecules in a mass of
fluid move “in coherence” and without
resistance, as a superfluid. Or where
electrons, which are Ferrmions, form pairs to
become Bosons and flow as an electric
current without resistance, in a
superconductor.
It has also been found that it is the
exchange of virtual particles that bring about
the forces between things. Thus photons are
involved in electromagnetic forces while
particles known as “z” or “w” are associated
with other nuclear interactions. The property
of mass itself is explained with the help of the
Higgs particles. These particles are all “whole
number spin” particles and belong to the
group of Bosons, like the Higgs Boson.
The writer can be contacted at
simplescience@gmail.com
In 1655, Robert Hooke published a large volume called
THE people of Hoovina Hadagali (population
27,958), the taluka headquarters of Karnataka’s
Bellary district, are inordinately proud of their variety
of mallige (jasmine). So are the growers of Udipi and
Mysore, all of them claiming unique and distinctive
features for their varieties of these sweet-smelling
flowers that are offered to temple deities or used by
south Indian women to adorn their hair. Jasmine
abounds in India but the flower-growers in these
towns have secured their varieties with the
Geographical Indication tag. It is all part of the GI
craze that has been sweeping India ever since the
authorities began popularising it about a decade ago
after it became a hot issue
at the World trade
Organisation.
GI is an Intellectual
Property Right that is
granted to a product
because of its geographical
uniqueness and is aimed
at protecting and
expanding markets. It
is a community-
shared benefit that
is not available
to individuals or
business
enterprises.
Invariably, GI
products carry the
name of the place
from where they
originate because
agricultural items
in particular have qualities that
derive from their place of production and are
influenced by local factors, such as climate and soil.
Since GIs are primarily a global trade issue, one
wonders why a tiny group of flower-growers should
want this tag.
Do the jasmine-growers of Hoovina Hadagali foresee
rivals violating their right, if not globally then locally?
Do they, perhaps, worry that lesser jasmine from
other parts of Karnataka will be passed off as
Hadagali mallige?
The GI craze in India is as inexplicable as the ways
in which the Geographical Indications Registry in
Chennai grants it. Since April 2004 the registry has
handed out 178 GIs, raising questions about its
rationale and methodology and leading to
controversies that have seen legal challenges to
some of them. To stay with the jasmine example, do
the growers of Hadagali or Mysore or Udipi, for that
matter, sell their prized flowers as a branded
product?
Reflective of the lack of clarity at the Chennai
registry is the case of the Payyanur Pavithra
Mothiram or “Payyanur’s pure ring”, whose GI was
revoked last month by the Intellectual Property
Appellate Board. This gold and silver ring with a
distinctive design is made in the eponymous village
of Payyanur in Kerala’s Kannur district and was
earlier worn by temple priests during the
performance of rites. But gradually it was
commercialised as an ornament bestowing spiritual
power and material wealth on the wearer and thus
found a thriving market. There are dozens of
jewellers who claim to make the “original” ring. It
was the filing of a challenge in Madras High Court
and subsequently at the Ipab by a jeweller that led to
revocation of the GI granted in 2009.
Hopefully, this will make the GI Registry take a
harder look at the huge list of pending applications —
and on the long-pending rectification petition on the
GI for Darjeeling tea.
CSE/Down To Earth Feature Service
but the underlying physics is fiendishly complicated

The curious world of the ice-crystal experts
While most everyone might like
snow, not many are obsessed
like the scientists who study
these icy enigmas. nicola gill
enters the curious world of
‘dendrites’ and ‘plates’
DR Chris Westbrook works in deepest Hampshire at
the Chilbolton Observatory, home to the world’s lar-
gest steerable radar dish, at a whopping 25 metres
across. Inside, lights blink and instruments receive con-
tinuous feedback from the giant dish pointed skywards
and looming ever-present outside the window. But
even on the hottest summer day, he is buried deep in
snowflakes. “The radar dish sends out microwave puls-
es into ice clouds high up in the atmosphere where the
temperature is always well below freezing – whatever it
is down here,” he says. The ice crystals, nestling in the
ice clouds as unborn snowflakes, bounce those
microwaves back and the echoes which return are por-
ed over and analysed by Dr Westbrook and his team.
“We have the most sensitive equipment for studying
ice clouds in the world,” he says. Westbrook is one of
just a tiny handful of snowflake researchers in the world,
a group of obsessives who live and breathe snow – fix-
ated on chasing the perfect flake and understanding
exactly which weather conditions will produce the
many different formations. “It may seem slightly odd
that I’ve devoted myself to studying snowflakes when
the UK isn’t renowned as an especially snowy place,”
he continues, “but, in fact, the vast majority of precipi-
tation in this country starts as snow, which melts high
above us and then falls as rain, which we certainly do
have a lot of. So if you want to predict precipitation you
need to study snow and how it forms.”
Micrographia, containing his sketches of snowflakes
viewed for the first time under the new invention of the
day, the microscope. American farmer Wilson “Snow-
and has remained a puzzle. I spend a lot, and I mean a
lot, of time thinking about this.”
As Libbrecht explains, the life of a snowflake is a hid-
So far, so dispassionate; ask Dr Westbrook if he likes ing classification systems), the classic, celebrated Christ- flake” Bentley, devoted most of his life to capturing den, epic, scientific journey in which it transforms
making snowmen and he rather frostily replies that mas-card snowflake is categorised as a dendrite (mean- images of snow crystals and his famous book of that through liquid, gas and solid states. “Snowflakes begin
he’s as keen as the next man (“but I have a degree in ing tree-like, with branches and side-branches). These name is still in print to this day. Japanese physicist life as water vapour in the air – evaporated from oc-
physics and electrical engineering and where others are the iconic superstars of the snowflake world, hog- Ukichiro Nakaya created the first truly systemic classifi- eans, plants, even your breath – and when air cools
see a winter wonderland I see physics in action”). But ging all the glory and most of the photo opportunities. cation scheme for snowflakes in 1934, in which he sub- down at some point the water vapour will condense
ask him about the way snowflakes are formed and fall They can be subcategorised as stellar, radiating or fern- divided falling flakes into 41 individual types which out. Near the ground it could, for example, be as dew,
to earth and the amazed child inside emerges as he like. As if winning the beauty contest weren’t enough, meteorologists Magono and Lee almost doubled by pro- but higher up it condenses on to airborne dust parti-
describes the physics-meets-fairytale element of his work. dendrites’ supermodel qualities (they can be extreme- ducing a chart of 80 different types in 1966. cles into countless minute droplets. A cloud is just a
“The aerodynamics of snowflakes have an inherently ly thin and light) also mean they make the best powder Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes is one of huge collection of these water droplets suspended in
mysterious quality we’ve yet to crack,” he enthuses.“We snow for skiing. many fine minds through the ages to be fascinated by the atmosphere.”
classify their falling style in four unique ways: the ‘tum- Next in line, the supporting cast, are the plates (stellar, snowflakes and to ponder how such perfection could be The next stage is where it gets exciting, say Libbrecht.
ble’ is a sort of head-over-heels action, the ‘spin’ is a sectored or split) with 12-sided flakes bringing up the created. Depending on conditions, these droplets could fall as
vertical downwards motion with a built-in rotation, the rear. The ugly sisters, which in reality make up the vast While every flake really is a law unto itself, other sup- dreary rain, sleet or hail, or descend as mist or fog. But
‘pitch and glide’ is best described as a zig-zag and the majority of snowflakes, are the rather dull, hollow and posed snow “facts” are not quite so true. The oft-quot- when conditions are right, the alchemy occurs and these
‘twirl’ is how we describe a snowflake that’s descend- capped columns, needles, simple prisms, bullet rosettes ed idea that it’s “too cold to snow” is nonsense (it snows minute droplets metamorphise into something more
ing while spinning and rotating at an angle. Which they and asymmetrical specks, doomed forever to be the bor- at the South Pole where it’s rarely above -40 Celsius), impressive. “At around -10° Celsius, the droplets gradual-
do depends on how fast they fall and their size, but it’s ing, bitty, non-showbiz flakes we brush off our sleeves and even the apparent truism that snow is white turns ly freeze into minuscule particles of ice,” he says. “When
a puzzle that’s not solved and we don’t know why they with nary an “ooh” or an “aah”. out to be slushy logic. Ice crystals are clear, like glass, humidity is high enough, water vapour condenses on to
behave as they do all of the time. As for the intricate for- The categorisation of snowflakes has a long history. but when they form a large pile, light is reflected off the its surface, gradually building a snowflake. At first they
mations of individual flakes, I defy anyone not surface, bounces around and eventually scat- are very small and mostly in the form of simple, hexago-
to be amazed.” ters back out. Since all colours are scattered nal prisms – but as they grow, the branches sprout from
Of course, it’s those spectacular shapes – roughly equally, snow only appears to be white. the corners to make ever more complicated shapes.”
some like icy fireworks caught mid-explosion, These, and many other reasons, are why By growing crystals in his lab, Libbrecht has learnt
others frozen, fantastical many-armed sea crea- world-renowned snowflake obsessive, Cali- how the multitudes of varying shapes depend almost
tures – that fascinate the rest of us non-scien- fornia-based Ken Libbrecht has made it his life’s entirely on the temperature and humidity. For exam-
tists. Nearly all snowflakes (or snow crystals, work to study, photograph and “grow” ple, thin plates and stars grow around -2° Celsius, while
as scientists insist on calling them, as a large snowflakes. The author of several beautiful columns and slender needles appear near -5° Celsius.
flake can actually be made up of several crys- books showcasing his favourite flakes out of the Plates and stars form around -15° Celsius and a combi-
tals that clump together on their drift earth- 7,000 he has photographed, he lives and brea- nation of plates and columns are made at around -30°
wards) have six-sided symmetry, though three- thes dendrites, rosettes and plates. “There is Celsius.
or 12-sided crystals also fall. You will never see something magical about snowflakes,” he says His devotion to dendrites has led him halfway around
a snow crystal with four, five or eight sides. It from his laboratory in Pasadena. “You don’t the world and he thinks nothing of basing holidays with
was ancient Chinese scholars who first noted often see such complex symmetry in nature his wife and two children exclusively around snowflake
their sixfold symmetry and they made beauti- and that makes them extraordinary. The sightseeing. On one trip, he took his young children to
ful complex categories and charts detailing whole intriguing structure of a snow crystal Japan, where snowflakes are virtually a national craze.
their infinite variety and grouping them into simply arises quite literally out of thin air, as it “Snow-crystal tourist spots are popular with the Jap-
types; as no two snowflakes can ever be iden- tumbles through the clouds. The way the crys- anese and I flew my family over.”
tical. Chris tal grows depends on the temperature it is
Broadly speaking (there are several compet- Westbrook shaped in – a simple enough idea to grasp – The Independent, London

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SPORT
Late ticket rush
Under two weeks before the Afri-
ca Cup of Nations kick-off, ticket
sales have jumped to 60 per cent
of the target, though still 200,000
short of what would make organ-
isers happy. Fans dragged their
feet when ticket sales opened,
and with fewer than 30 days to
go outlets had sold only 60,000.
In two weeks a spike, especially
at SuperSpar supermarket out-
lets, saw sales cross the 300,-
000-mark. Organisers feel vind-
icated in their snub of critics' fea-
rs over empty stadiums, which
are common in the Cup. "Our
target is 500,000. It's in sight
now," local organising committee
spokesman Sipho Sithole said. It
was normal for football fans to
wait a bit before buying tickets,
he added. "I guess it's the kind of
target market. It's not like a con-
cert" which sell from when ticket
sales open.
FA Cup
Everton swept into the FA Cup
fourth round with a 5-1 rout of
League Two minnows Chelte-
nham on Monday. Although
Everton are flying high in the
Premier League and harbour
genuine ambitions of qualifying
for the Champions League, Toff-
ees boss David Moyes refused to
rest his key players and sent out
a strong side at Whaddon Road
to guard against a potential third
round giant-killing. And his senior
stars proved too hot for fourth-tier
Cheltenham to handle as Nikica
Jelavic's early goal and a Leighton
Baines penalty put the result
beyond doubt within 21 minutes.
‘Owen too old’
Australian A-League club Perth
Glory on Tuesday ruled out sig-
ning former England international
Michael Owen because they
wanted someone younger. Owen,
33, who scored 40 goals in 89
internationals for England and
had stints with Liverpool, Real
Madrid and Manchester United, is
currently playing for Stoke City in
the English Premier League. Glory
coach Ian Ferguson said Owen's
representatives had contacted
the club but the discussions did
not go far.
Kumari shines
Police lifter Meena Kumari swept
all the three gold in the women's
58kg category on the third day
of the 65th Men and 28th Wom-
en Senior National Weightlifting
Championships in Modinagar on
Tuesday.
Trophy record
Guinness World Record holder
Amit Pabuwal has designed the
world's biggest and heaviest
sports trophy which would be
given to the winner of the iGATE
CEO Cup Golf tournament.
National TT
Delhi women paddlers caused
the biggest upset of the
tournament with a hard-fought 3-
2 victory over defending
champions Maharashtra A to
qualify for the final of the
National Table Tennis Champi-
onships in Raipur on Tuesday.
Local football
In the Mahindra Youth Football
Challenge semi-finals Digri
Sanatorium High School beat
Kola Union High School 1-0 while
Asoknagar Vid BB H.S defeated
Chowbaga High School 4-2 .
Mysore selections
Following are the selections for
Wednesday's Mysore races: 2 pm:
Born To Perform 1, Maximum City 2;
2.30 pm: Southern Grackle 1, Galaxy
Queen 2; 3 pm: Huckleberry Finn 1,
Always For You 2; 3.30 pm: Zamindar
1, Little Athena 2; 4 pm: Legal Knight
1, Miyarsprincess 2; 4.30 pm: Iron
Marshall 1, Rising Rainbow 2; 5 pm:
Heavenly Divas 1, Magnifique 2; 5.30
pm: Sand Dune 1, Emerald 2. Best
bet: Heavenly Divas. Good double:
Legal knight and Iron Marshall.
Guardiola will return
Former Barcelona
boss Pep
Guardiola has
revealed his
intention to return
to coaching next
season, according to Goal.com.
The tactician has been absent
from the game since his
departure from the club after
the 2011-2 campaign, and
speaking during the Press
conference ahead of Monday's
Ballon d'Or ceremony, he let it
be known that he intended to
take over a coaching role again
at some point. Asked whether
he would return to coaching
next term, Guardiola said: "Yes,
I would like to come back (to
coaching). I don’t have a team, I
don’t know, but I would like to
go back to coaching. My
decision has been taken to
coach, but beyond that there is
no decision taken." agencies
Spain revels in Messi’s triumph
Lionel Messi (left) & FIFA president Joseph Blatter at the Ballon d'Or awards ceremony on Monday. afp
Ballon d'Or a triumph for AITA toughens its stand on revolt
Spain, but is La Liga the best?
ZURICH, 8 JAN: The awards gala for the Ballon
D'Or can be seen as a fiesta for Spanish football.
Not only do all the three finalists for the presti-
gious Ballon D'Or -- Leo Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo
and Andres Iniesta -- play in the Spanish Primera
Liga -- they play for either FC Barcelona or Real
Madrid -- the 11 players named in the ideal team
of 2012 all play in Spain, reports Xinhua.
Meanwhile Vicente del Bosque, named the
best coach of the year, is the coach of the Spanish
national team, while the other two nominees,
Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola are the current
Real Madrid and former Barca coach in turn.
There can be no question that the right deci-
sion was made in giving Messi a historic fourth
Ballon D'Or, it is hard to argue against the merits
of someone who scored 91 goals in the calendar
year. In any other era Ronaldo and Iniesta would
have had a fighting chance of the prize, but
Messi's merits are simply impossible to ignore.
Del Bosque, meanwhile, was named best
coach after taking the Spanish national team to
glory in the 2012 European Championships last
summer, adding that title to the 2010 World Cup
Spain won two years ago.
Outside of Spain, perhaps the fact that every
player in the ideal 11 plays in the Liga is what has
attracted most comment, especially in England,
where the Barclays Premier League is considered
to be the most attractive competition.
However, a closer look at the FIFpro list shows
us that 10 of those players: Iker Casillas, Sergio
Ramos, Marcelo, Ronaldo and Xabi Alonso play
for Real Madrid, while Messi, Dani Alves, Xavi
Stars sweat it out in Sydney ‘sauna’
agence france-presse
SYDNEY, 8 JAN: World number four Agnieszka
Radwanska said it was "too hot to play tennis" and
China's Li Na said it was like a sauna as the Sydney
International was hit by a searing heat wave on
Tuesday.
Poland's Radwanska, who reached last year's
Wimbledon final, battled fearsome temperatures
topping 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees
Fahrenheit) at the Olympic Park complex to brush
past Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm 6-4, 6-3.
While Radwanska reached the last eight, the
major talking point was not the standard of play
but the blistering heat ahead of next week's first
Grand Slam event of the year at the Australian
Open in Melbourne.
"I think this is too hot to play tennis," said
Radwanska. "Even for players, for ball kids, for the
people sitting out there, I think it's just too hot.
"I think I would prefer to go on court at 11:00
pm and play a match.
" The temperature climbed to 41.4 Celsius
(106.5 Fahrenheit) in the early afternoon at the
tournament, with readings expected to rise further.
Radwanska said she was trying not to alter her
game in the conditions but admitted she had more
of a battle with the heat than her opponent. "I
think the first main thing is just to stay calm and
trying to survive," she said. Li Na, who beat
Japanese qualifier Ayumi Morita 6-1, 6-0, said she
was reaching for the ice towels at each changeover.
"I was feeling like playing in a sauna. At the first
changeover I didn't use an ice towel. I was feeling
the heat was coming and I was like, 'What's going
on'?" Li said. "At the next changeover I was like,
'OK, I need an ice towel every changeover, other-
wise I don't know how to play on the court'."It's
too hot, but I'm still in the tournament, so it's
good news."
The tournament has an extreme heat policy but
it only comes into effect at the discretion of the
KOLKATA
Hernandez, Gerard Pique and Iniesta are at Barca.
Only Atletico Madrid's Radamel Falcao broke the
hegemony of the two biggest clubs in Spain, two
clubs which enjoy the benefits of an unbalanced
distribution of TV earnings and earn more than
four and half times more money from that source
than the third biggest earner.
Real Madrid and Barcelona between them take
around 50 percent of Spain's TV money leaving
the remaining clubs to divide the rest between
them.
They have finished first and second in Spain for
the past three years and while Atletico are cur-
rently hanging in to second place this season,
they are still 11 points off league leaders Barca
and Falaco's continuity in the side next season
looks doubtful as big spending clubs (among
them Real Madrid) form a queue to sign the
Colombian striker. Watching Barca, who are sim-
ply light years ahead of any other side in Spain
this season, is a joy, but the result is hardly ever in
doubt, while games between lesser clubs can be
dull and tedious. Given these circumstances and
the fact that neither reached the Champions
League final in 2012, losing to Chelsea and
Bayern Munich, it is true to say they are the best
clubs in Spain. Despite their European defeats
they could be the best sides in Europe, although
it remains to be seen in Real Madrid will be able
to turn their poor domestic campaign around on
the European stage.
However, to take the step and say that the
Spanish league is the best in the world might still
be a step too far. ians
Agnieszka Radwanska in Sydney on Tuesday. afp
tournament referee. Tennis officials apply a com-
plex formula factoring in heat, humidity, and wind
to determine when on-court conditions become
too stressful for the players.
Oz Open
Andy Murray has been confirmed as the third seed
for the upcoming Australian Open.
The British number one, who won his maiden
grand slam at last year's US Open and recently
retained his Brisbane Open title, is looking to win
at Melbourne Park for the first time after finishing
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agence france-presse On his return to Barcelona airport, Messi told
reporters that he had forgotten many people in his
MADRID, 8 JAN: Spain bathed in glory on Tuesday speech but had wanted to mention Barca coach Tito
after Barcelona star Lionel Messi won the Ballon Vilanova, who is being treated for a cancer of the
d'Or for best footballer of the year for a record salivary gland, and defender Eric Abidal. The French
fourth time, cementing his claim to be one of the defender is training with the squad again after a
greatest players of all time. liver transplant.
Spain coach Vicente del Bosque also snatched "When things calmed down I remembered Tito
top honours, in recognition of their Euro 2012 tri- and Abidal and everyone, obviously," Messi said,
umph, which followed its 2010 World Cup win and apologising for his omission. Messi was one of three
Euro 2008 crown, to top a virtual clean sweep for players in the Spanish league on the shortlist for the
Spanish and La Liga players at the prestigious world's best footballer award. The two others were
awards. But it was the smiling 25-year-old Argentine his Barca team-mate Andres Iniesta and rival striker
international who stole the show, with pictures of Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid. In addition, all of
him picking up the FIFA prize in Zurich dressed in the top six names in the final ranking that Messi
an eye brow-raising black and white-spotted suit topped were from La Liga teams.
and bow tie, splashed across front pages. In the FIFPro selection for the best 11-man line-
"Spain!!!" headlined Madrid-based Marca, Spain's up, meanwhile, six were Spaniards and all but two
biggest-selling sports daily and a favourite of Real were from the Spanish league.
Madrid fans. That selection included Ronaldo and three other
"Unique, unmatchable Messi," the paper said Real players -- Iker Casillas, Sergio Ramos and Xabi
after the striker scored a stunning 91 goals in 2012 Alonso -- plus Iniesta, Messi and two other
in all competitions, smashing the 40-year-old Barcelona players, Gerard Pique and Xavi
record of German legend Gerd Mueller of 85. Hernandez.
"Leo Messi was crowned yesterday as the best Barcelona president Sandro Rosell said he was
player in history," Marca said. "No-one until now "very proud of our players and to be with
had won four Ballons d'Or in a row. Leo has done Barcelona", the club said on its Twitter feed. The
it, and consecutively." president of the Spanish Royal Football Federation,
Rival sports daily AS, too, lavished praise on Angel Villar, said Del Bosque's award was "a new
Messi. "Since we have known him, every year he prize for Spanish football that is going through
plays better, every year he scores more goals," said some marvellous years". Outside the footballing
the paper's columnist Alfredo Relano. sphere, Spanish tennis champion Rafael Nadal in
"I have never seen a player with such power. He Twitter messages congratulated Messi and Del
lacks aesthetic but he has plenty of everything else," Bosque. "Congrats to Leo Messi for his new golden
he said, predicting even more Ballons d'Or to come. ball," he wrote. "It was difficult with two cracks like
"Golden Messi," headlined the Barcelona-based Iniesta and Cristiano."
Mundo Deportivo, adding: "Leo Messi is the great- "How proud I feel of Del Bosque, making history
est. Huge. Unique." with this great squad," he added.
sns & agencies The figure is Rs eight lakh for players, who want to play for India will get all the support,”
are ranked between 301-500 and aged below he added. The AITA also felt that the young
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Since none of the eight 28. In the doubles, the figure is Rs seven lakh players would be the biggest losers in the
revolting players have made himself available for players in top-50 and Rs four lakh for those ongoing controversy and advised them not to
for Davis Cup selection, the AITA today said featuring in 51-100. risk their India cap at this stage of their respec-
anyone who refuses to play for India will not “We are not going to beg for the funds for tive careers. Yuki Bhambri (in photo, left) is
be entitled financial support from the govern- players who are not interested in doing the highest ranked Indian players in singles at
ment. national duty. They have brought the game to 237, followed by Sanam Singh (293). Vishnu
The national tennis body had proposed to disrepute by their act despite that we Vardhan (in photo) is 344 and Saketh Myneni
get Rs 15 lakh each for players featuring in top- addressed their concerns honestly,” AITA CEO is 385. In the doubles, apart from Leander
200 in singles and Rs 12 lakh for those who get Hironmoy Chatterjee told PTI. Paes (3), Mahesh Bhupathi (in photo, right)
into the bracket of 201-300 through the Long “The government is also watching what's (11) and Rohan Bopanna (12) -- all feature in
term Development Plan (LTDP) from the gov- happening. They are aware of it. We have been top-20 -- left-handed Divij Sharan is the fourth
ernment. transparent in this issue. The players who highest Indian at number 106.
ONGC stun East Bengal
sns & agencies
NEW DELHI/KALYANI, 8 JAN: ONGC rode on Japanese recruit Yusa
Katsumi's late strike to stun heavyweights East Bengal by a solitary goal
in a major upset of this season's I-League, here today.
The oilmen saw off repeated attacks from their fancied Kolkata rivals
and then scored in the 87th minute through Katsumi after a fine
counter-attack to break the hearts of East Bengal players in the Round
15 match at the Ambedkar Stadium here. With the upset today, ONGC
turned out to be the league's giant-killers, having defeated Dempo and
drawn against defending champions Salgaocar, big-spending Prayag
United and Mohun Bagan, though the last result has been deleted from
the record book after the AIFF banned the green and maroons. ONGC
have lost just once in their eight home matches -- the lone defeat being
the 2-4 verdict against Air India. They are now on 16 points from 14
matches. East Bengal, placed third in the league before this match, stay
at 27 points from 14 outings. Trevor Morgan's side paid the price of
profligacy of their strikers who wasted chances galore, and the defeat
may dent their hopes of winning the title. For East Bengal, who had
emerged 5-0 victorious in their first-leg home tie in Kolkata, today's loss
was the third of the season. In another match, Air India held Salgaocar
to a1-1 draw. Vijith Shetty put Air India ahead while Francis Fernandez
equalised for the Goans.
United look to stop Pune FC’s winning run
On a high after their stunning win over Dempo, a spirited United SC
will look to halt Pune FC's six-match winning streak in what promises
to be an exciting round 15 I-League contest, here tomorrow.
Pune FC have climbed atop the standings with 28 points from 12
matches, alongside Churchill Brothers who are ahead by virtue of their
better goal margin. United, under new Dutch coach Eelco Schattorie,
are looking to come out of a bad phase, especially the way they upset
runner-up in 2010 and 2011. last year's champions Dempo 1-0 in the last round. The local chal-
Top seed in the men's draw is world number lengers will look to avenge their 1-3 defeat in Pune in the 12th round.
one and two-time reigning champion Novak
Djokovic, with Roger Federer second, David Ferrer Table-toppers Churchill take on Arrows
fourth and Tomas Berdych fifth. Rafa Nadal, the Despite their fine run and a string of impressive performances,
world number four, pulled out of the tournament Churchill Brothers will leave nothing to chance when they take on
last week through illness. The top women's seed is Pailan Arrows in an I-League match at Duler Stadium here tomorrow.
Victoria Azarenka, followed by Maria Sharapova, Churchill Brothers lead the I-League table with 28 points from 12
Serena Williams, Agnieszka Radwanska and matches, the same as Pune FC with their last result at Duler being 6-0
Angelique Kerber, matching the WTA world rank- drubbing of Shillong Lajong FC and had won the first leg comfortably
ings. The Australian Open takes places between in Kolkata.
January 14-27.
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SCORECARD
Poms slip up Saker warns England pacers
matt fearon have," Saker said. The new
changes to one-day cricket were
turgid middle overs when a
deep-set field restricts crowd-

once again
DAVID Saker, the England rubber-stamped last October, pleasing boundaries and makes
BIATHLON bowling coach, said on Monday when the International Cricket the scorer's book resemble
that the side were adapting to Council announced that from binary code.
E.ON IBU World Cup 4, Oberhof: the changes in one-day rules the start of this year, bowlers Saker should be up in arms,
Leading final positions after the Men's and promised they would have can include two bouncers per yet he went so far yesterday as
Mass Start 15km: 1 Andreas Birnbacher mastered them by the time of over, up from a more batsmen- to profess himself "really confi-
(Ger) 38mins 34.600secs 2 Simon press trust of india Milind hit seven fours Cook, who opted out of the first game against India on friendly one. In addition, the dent that the new rules are
Fourcade (Fra) 38:58.900 and three sixes in his 85-ball the first practice match, Friday. England took on Delhi bowling powerplay, a five-over good additions to the game."
3 Emil Hegle Svendsen (Nor) 39:04.200 NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Shikhar knock. The shot that stood decided to rest Kevin on Tuesday after their failure to period when the fielding side is He added he is "a big fan of the
4 Jakov Fak (Cro) 39:08.500 Dhawan served a timely out was a six over extra Pietersen today. The left- get to grips with the new bowl- allowed only three fielders out- extra fielder in the ring. I think
5 Fredrik Lindstrom (Swe) 39:09.500 reminder to the national cover off Meaker. hander hit some lovely ing regulations in the opening side the circle, was scrapped. it's going to help."
6 Alexis Boeuf (Fra) 39:11.300 selectors with a brilliant Earlier, Ian Bell scored a strokes during his 57-ball warm-up match against India A Pace bowlers rejoiced. Since In a sign of a more aggressive
7 Arnd Peiffer (Ger) 39:14.100 century as Delhi defeated fine century as England stay. The best of his seven on Sunday. "We definitely fielding restrictions were first approach under England's new
8 Daniel Mesotitsch (Aut) 39:15.100 England by six wickets to posted a challenging score boundaries was a cover bowled more bouncers than we introduced in 1992, bowlers one-day coach Ashley Giles and
9 Anton Shipulin (Rus) 39:22.600 hand the visitors their sec- of 294 for five after being drive off Awana. probably should have, there's have felt like an unprotected with a thickly-veiled criticism of
10 Carl Johan Bergman (Swe) 39:22.800 ond successive defeat in put into bat. While Cook was batting, no doubt about it," admitted species. However, what the ICC tactics under previous regimes,
Men's Mass Start World Cup Standings: warm-up games here today. Having scored 91 in the Bell decided to play the role Saker, "it's just about making gave with the right hand, they Saker said: "Everyone keeps
1 Andreas Birnbacher (Ger) 60pts Chasing a difficult 294 for first match against India A, of second fiddle as he let his sure you assess the conditions took with the left. They saying the batters are going to
2 Simon Fourcade (Fra) 54 five set by England, Delhi Bell was again in fine form captain take bulk of the well enough." restored the balance in the bats- benefit but I've always thought
3 Emil Hegle Svendsen (Nor) 48 rode on skipper Dhawan's as he batted with lot of strike. As England learnt to their man's favour by simultaneously that captains have the fielder
4 Jakov Fak (Cro) 43 110 and Milind Kumar's responsibility scoring 108 It was seamer Sumit cost in Sunday's 53-run defeat, announcing that during all non- out way too many times when
5 Fredrik Lindstrom (Swe) 40 unbeaten 78 to overhaul the runs with the help of 10 Narwal, who gave Delhi just because an extra 50 bounc- powerplay overs (35 of the 50 they should be bringing them
6 Alexis Boeuf (Fra) 38 target with nine balls to fours and two huge sixes. their first breakthrough ers are available doesn't mean available), only four fielders – in." Apart from a battery of pac-
7 Arnd Peiffer (Ger) 36 spare. The main feature of the when he bowled Cook. they must be used. "Over here rather than the usual five – ers, England have top-class
8 Daniel Mesotitsch (Aut) 34 Left-hander Dhawan, England innings was Bell's Young Joe Root tried to play in these conditions, as we would be allowed outside the spinners such as Graeme
9 Anton Shipulin (Rus) 32 who last played for India in 113-run partnership for the a sweep shot off left-arm showed, the bouncer probably circle. The move is fuelled by a Swann (in photo).
10 Carl Johan Bergman (Swe) 31 the West Indies, cracked his fourth wicket with Eoin spinner Varun Sood and the didn't work as well as it could desire to banish the often the independent
Overall Men's Biathlon World Cup 110 off only 109 balls to set Morgan, who smashed 52 resultant skier was taken by
Standings: 1 Emil Hegle Svendsen (Nor) up a chase which initially off 55 balls. Punit Bisht.
328pts 2 Martin Fourcade (Fra) 317
3 Tarjei Boe (Nor) 308
4Andreas Birnbacher (Ger) 297
looked difficult. He hit 13 Bell hit 10 boundaries Samit Patel (13) was then
boundaries and three huge and two sixes in 125 balls bowled by an arm ball from
sixes --- one each off Jade while Morgan hit five fours Sood that kept very low.
Sahara moves court against MCA
NEW DELHI, 8 JAN: Sahara has moved Bombay High Court against
Umar comes under fire
5 Carl Johan Bergman (Swe) 290 Dernbach, James Tredwell and two sixes. Craig Once Morgan joined Bell, Maharashtra Cricket Association for “wrongful termination of agree- get set by India. Pakistan's former
6 Benjamin Weger (Swi) 268 and Stuart Meaker. Kieswetter also thrashed the the duo started taking on ments” regarding various rights in respect of Subrata Roy Sahara captain Rashid Latif was more
If Dhawan and Unmukt Delhi bowlers to finish with the Delhi bowlers. Stadium in Pune and it had got an interim relief against MCA's move forthright in his views about Umar
Chand (37) started the 41 off 27 balls which includ- Bell hit Rajat Bhatia for a to cover the name of the stadium. and the match. “I think it is time
chase well, adding 98 for ed three sixes. hige six into the middle tier Sahara claimed it had fulfilled its part of obligations on the agree- Umar was told by selectors he was
the opening stand, unher- Morgan-Bell duo got of the deep mid-wicket ments signed with MCA regarding the construction, naming and not needed in the national team
alded youngster Milind and their runs in only 93 balls as stands. Bell's second six was building of a club adjacent to the stadium. until he changed his approach and
veteran Rajat Bhatia (45 not the Delhi attack led by India straight into the MCA terminated the agreement on the ground of default in pay- attitude towards the game,” Latif
CRICKET out) finished off the run discard Ashish Nehra sightscreen. ments and covered the name of the stadium with black cloth today, said. “Umar has to be sent back to
RANJI TROPHY chase with a flourish as they looked pedestrian. Morgan also made merry which led to the company filing a petition at the High Court, accord- domestic cricket until the selectors
Jharkhand 401 v Punjab 150/1 smashed 103 runs off 72 While Parvinder Awana as he hit Nehra for a straight ing to a source familiar with the development. pti see a visible change in his
Mumbai 645/9d v Baroda 167/5 balls. The day, however, bowled a good first spell, it six and then pulled him for approach and attitude. He has got
Saurashtra 469 v Karnataka 396 belonged to Dhawan who was certainly not enough as a boundary. too many opportunities to make
U. Pradesh 134 & 241 v Services 263 &
116/5
hogged the limelight with England got off to a good For Delhi, young spinner
brilliant authorative display. start with skipper Alastair Sood was the best bowler Philander out of second Test the most of his talent. But he is not
finishing games,” Latif said. Umar
Services won by 5 wickets Time and again, he drove Cook (44) and Bell adding with figures of three for 45 PORT ELIZABETH, 8 JAN: Match- of the first Test in Cape Town last was also in the eye of a storm
CAB SENIOR KNOCK-OUT the pace quartet of Steven 70 runs for the opening as Nehra went for 48 in nine winning opening bowler Vernon week, the Proteas' management before the Indian tour when his
TOURNAMENT Finn, Dernbach, Meaker wicket. wicketless overs. Philander was today ruled out of said today. The 27-year-old press trust of india department, Sui Gas, which
CALCUTTA RANGERS CLUB VS MOHU and Chris Woakes the second and final Test against quick was named man of the includes Mohammad Hafeez and
BAGAN A.C. through the covers. SCOREBOARD New Zealand. Philander, who match after taking five wickets KARACHI, 8 JAN: Pakistan's young Misbah-ul-Haq, sidelined him after
CALCUTTA RANGERS CLUB 196 RUNS The moment, the pac- England XI innings Delhi innings
will be replaced by Rory for seven runs as New Zealand batsman Umar Akmal (in photo) he had missed some games in the
6 WICKETS 45 OVERS ers dug it in short, he AN Cook b Narwal 44 S Dhawan lbw b Root 110 Kleinveldt for the match starting collapsed to 45 all out in the first has drawn flak from former play- President's Trophy tournament
MOHU BAGAN A.C. 199 RUNS 2 WICK- was quickly in a position I Bell lbw b Sood 108 U Chand c Cook b Tredwell 37 in Port Elizabeth on Friday, felt a innings. South Africa won the ers and critics for his below-par owing to the wedding of his broth-
ETS 21.2 OVERS to play the pull shot. JE Root c Bisht b Sood 10 J Anand b Tredwell 4 recurrence of a left hamstring match by an innings and 27 performances during the team's er, Adnan.
MOHUN BAGAN A.C. WON BY 8 WICK- Dhawan completed SR Patel b Sood 13 Milind Kumar not out 78 injury during the closing stages runs. afp recent tour of India. Former Pakistan captain Moin
ETSNETAJI SUBHAS INSTITUTE VS his century off 98 balls E Morgan c Chand b Anand 52 VP Rawal b Dernbach 2 Even Pakistan's former captain Khan also felt that Umar was not
AIKYA SAMMILANI with a big six off C Kieswetter not out 41 R Bhatia not out 45 Wasim Akram singled out Umar for doing justice to his enormous tal-
NETAJI SUBHAS INSTITUTE 259 RUNS
7 WICKETS 45 OVERS
Tredwell over deep mid- CR Woakes not out
wicket.
3 Extras (lb 10, w 7, nb 2)
Extras (b 1, lb 6, w 13, nb 3)23 Total (4 wickets)
19
295
‘Passionate’ Warne says sorry criticism after the third and final
One-Day International in Delhi on
ent. “He is talented, no doubt
about, it but he needs to learn that
AIKYA SAMMILANI 260 RUNS 5 WICK- Credit should also be Total (5 wickets) 294 Fall of wickets: 1-98 (Chand, SYDNEY, 8 JAN: Australian bowling great Shane Warne apologised Sunday. all this talent is useless until it
ETS 44.5 OVERS given to young Milind, Fall of wickets: 1-70 (Cook, 15.3 17.4 ov), 2-122 (Anand, 21.2 today for the foul-mouthed Twenty20 confrontation that earned him “When will Umar learn to play results in good results for his
AIKYA SAMMILANI WON BY 5 WICKETS who showed a lot of ov), 2-94 (Root, 22.2 ov), 3-130 ov), 3-188 (Dhawan, 34.3 ov), a ban and a fine, and said he hoped he had not tarnished his legacy responsibly? He has been around team. He is just not showing the
RAJASTHAN CLUB VS KALIGHAT CLUB maturity and paced his (Patel, 28.3 ov), 4-243 (Bell, 43.4 4-192 (Rawal, 36.3 ov) in the sport. in international cricket for a con- approach of a finisher, which is
KALIGHAT CLUB 401+18=419 RUNS innings to perfection. ov), 5-269 (Morgan, 47.6 ov) Bowling: ST Finn 8-0-47-0 (2nb, Warne admitted he had gone too far in his on-field row with West siderable time now. He really sad,” Moin said.
4 WICKETS 44+1=45 OVERS Whether it was playing Bowling: A Nehra 9-0-48-0 (2w), 4w), JW Dernbach 9-1-46-1, Indian batsman Marlon Samuels in Australia's Big Bash League but needs to think about his game Umar, who played in three
RAJASTHAN CLUB 254 RUNS 7 WICK- the slash over deep third P Awana 8-1-53-0 (2nb, 2w), CR Woakes 6-0-40-0 (2w), defended his right to show “emotion and passion”. He found himself now,” Akram said. matches on the tour of India, is
ETS 45 OVERS; KALIGHAT CLUB WON man or driving on the S Narwal 10-0-66-1 (1nb, 2w), SR Patel 7-0-41-0, in trouble on the other side of the world today as well with a speed- Umar, the younger brother of expected to be axed for the trip to
BY 165 RUNS up, Milind had an J Anand 7-0-35-1 (1w), Varun JC Tredwell 9-1-49-2, SC ing fine.Warne, 43, was fined 500 ($803) after admitting driving at wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal, got South Africa as selectors have
answer to everything Sood 10-0-45-3 (1w), R Bhatia Meaker 7.3-0-55-0, JE Root 2-
6-0-40-0 (1w) 0-7-1
more than 100mph on a south of Scotland motorway where the out at a crucial time in the match more confidence in up and com-
that was thrown at him. maximum speed is 70mph. afp with Pakistan chasing the low tar- ing batsman Haris Sohail.

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H Hooghly river tides at Garden Reach
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Jan 9: Low water 7.23 a.m. 1.76 mt l Jan 9: High water 11.18 a.m. 4.15 mt
Jan 9: Low water 7.42 p.m. 1.38 mt l Jan 10: High water 12.01 a.m. 4.81 mt

in rally ~16 R Moon rises today at 3.26 a.m.; sets tomorrow at 2.40 p.m.
New moon Jan 12

THE STATESMAN KOLKATA WEDNESDAY 9 JANUARY 2013

Prez to open new airport

terminal on 20 Jan
bappaditya paul
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: The much-delayed new
passenger terminal at NSC Bose
International Airport here will see a formal
inauguration on 20 January, but it will take
at least two more months for the Rs 2,325-
crore facility to start handling regular flight
operations.
President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugu-
rate the terminal building on 20 January ~
three days ahead of the birth anniversary of
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose after whom
the airport is named. Initially, the plan was
to hold the opening ceremony on 23
January, but the timing has been advanced
due to the President's pressing engage-
ments, NSC Bose Airport director, Mr B P
Sharma, said.
To make up for this, the airport authori-
ties are planning the inaugural flight to take
off from the new terminal on Netaji's birth-
day. Both Air India and IndiGo have been
asked to stay prepared to operate the launch
flight, but a final selection is yet to be made.
The terminal is now re-scheduled to be
handed over to the Central Industrial
Security Force (CISF) on 15 January for car-
rying out a “sanitisation drive” before the
formal inauguration.
“After the inauguration, it will take about
two months to shift the entire operations to
the new terminal,” Mr Sharma said pointing
The new terminal is not fully ready yet in terms of setting up offices
of airlines, Customs, Immigration and other related establishments.
Concessionaires and eating-outs have also not been put in
place...Given this, no airline is willing to relocate to the new
building overnight because, they have regular flights and
need to handle scores of passengers daily
out in justification that in case of the Delhi a flexible skeleton service may be operated.”
airport “the transition period was six While confirming this, chairman of the air-
months.” port's Airline Operators’ Committee, Mr
The new terminal will be maintained by Sarvesh Gupta, said there is still time for
the Gurgaon-based Impression Services regular flight operations to start from the
Private Ltd, which handles housekeeping at new terminal. “Several vital facilities are still
Delhi airport's Terminal 3. missing,” he said.
Although the airport director is not clari- Amongst other things, only five aero-
fying whether regular flight services by at bridges have been installed so far, while
least one airline will be maintained during another seven have arrived at the Kolkata
the two-months transition period, highly- Port from Indonesia yesterday. “They will
placed sources are seeing a very thin possi- reach the airport by 10 January and we will
bility. install all of them before the inauguration
“The new terminal is not fully ready yet in day,” the airport director said.
terms of setting up offices of airlines, Work for the new terminal had begun in
Customs, Immigration and other related 2008 and the original deadline for comple- The coach that got derailed near Sealdah in Kolkata on Tuesday. Train services on the Sealdah north section were
establishments. Concessionaires and eating- tion was August 2011. After this, the airport disrupted for over an hour during the day, after the overhead power supply got snapped due to the derailment of the
outs have also not been put in place,” the authority has missed the deadline four times empty train coach. The last compartment ~ an un-reserved second-class passenger-cum-luggage van ~ of the empty
sources said. “Given this, no airline is willing ~ December 2011, March 2012, June 2012 53175 Up Lalgola Passenger derailed at 11.45 a.m. while heading towards a Sealdah platform. The train was
to relocate to the new building overnight and October 2012. As a result, the project scheduled to depart from the station at 12.20 p.m. The derailed coach hit a nearby electric post, instantly snapping
because, they have regular flights and need cost has shot up from the original Rs 1,948 power supply in the north section. As a result, train services on Sealdah -Ranaghat, Bongaon and Dankuni sections
to handle scores of passengers daily. At best, crore to Rs 2,325 crore. were paralysed till 12.50 p.m., when the repair was complete. dilip dutta

Cong march to WBSU lowers qualifying marks for Honours students TMC office ransacked
statesman news service

Writers’ may poulomi ghosh

KOLKATA, 8 JAN: In a move that will

choke city
statesman news service
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: Traffic is likely to be thrown
out of gear all over the city on Thursday, as
Congress workers will take out processions from
three points in the city to Writers’ Buildings
demanding the setting up of an All India
Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS)-type insti-
tute at Raigunj. These processions will be
taken out from Rani Rashmoni Road, Phears
Lane and Brabourne Road. Announcing this at a
Press conference in the city today, PCC chief
Pradip Bhattacharya said that the processionists
would sit down on the carriage way wherever
they are stopped by police as permission have
been given only for the RR Road rally.
Upbeat at 120 Trinamul Congress and BJP
workers joining Congress at a ceremony during
the day at Bidhan Bhavan, Mr Bhattacharya
said that if the state government still stands in
the way, the agitation will spread.
It is unfortunate that the chief minister who
had once been in the Congress together with
former Union minister, Priya Ranjan Das
Munshi, is now standing in the way of his
dream project, the PCC chief said.
Unlike at Singur and Nandigram, the farmers
at Raigunj are willing to give their plots as the
AIIMS will benefit them, he added.
Mr Bhattacharya will lead the RR Avenue
rally, while the processions from Phears Lane
and Brabourne Road will be led by Union min-
ister for urban development, Mrs Deepa Das
Munshi and the Union minister for railways, Mr
Adhir Choudhury. Regretting the adamant atti-
tude of the state government delaying the set-
ting up of AIIMS at Raigunj, Mrs Das Muinshi
said that after the Left Front government delayed
the project, her hopes of the new state govern-
ment expediting matters have been dashed.
further dilute the standards of educa-
tion in the state, the West Bengal State
University has lowered the qualifying
marks for Honours students who appe-
ared in the Part I examination, last year.
This is at a time when unsuccessful
candidates irrespective of schools or
colleges are holding the authorities to
ransom across the state.
According to the existing rule of the
university, a candidate has to secure at
least 35 per cent out of a total of 200
marks in two Honours papers. The uni-
versity council has decided to relax the
criteria to 30 per cent in individual
papers. Hence, a candidate securing 60
out of 200 in two Honours papers will
‘New industrial policy to focus on small and medium enterprises’
statesman news service
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: Professor Saugata Roy (in
sns photo left) said he plans to give a copy of
the new draft industrial policy for the state to
Chief Minister tomorrow, and that the docu-
ment will suggest the government prioritise
small and medium-size enterprises and agri-
culture.
Speaking this evening at the Merchant
Chamber of Commerce and Industry in
Central Kolkata, the Trinamul Congress MP
and member of the chief minister's Advisory
Council for Industry and IT, Prof. Roy said
micro, small-scale and medium enterprises
require less land while providing more
employment, and are therefore highlighted
in the draft policy. These small and medium-
size enterprises should be linked to skill
be allowed to continue with Honours
status in Part II, though the actual qual-
ifying marks should be 70.
The same will be applicable for sub-
jects with practical papers. Instead of
35 per cent in aggregate, the candi-
dates will have to get 30 per cent indi-
vidually in practical and theory papers.
This is the second time in the history of
the five-year-old university that the
qualifying marks have been relaxed in
the supposed interest of candidates.
Two years ago, the university took a
similar decision only to withdraw it last
year as the relaxation did not prove to
be fruitful. Since the final qualifying bar
in the Honours course remains 40 per
cent, candidates, thus exempted provi-
sionally, will have to score more to
achieve the qualifying marks of 40 per
development and innovation, he said. Prof.
Roy said he has also made other suggestions
about land use in the new draft policy. “I have
suggested to the Chief Minister that let there
be no real estate in the land of closed facto-
ries,” he said. “If somebody wants to use the
land of closed factories, it has to be a value-
added product.”
If some factories have surplus land, he
said, then they should have to either build
factories or give it to the government. Having
been involved in failed nationalisation pro-
jects in the 1970s, Prof. Roy said he is against
state interventions to revive sick industries in
the state and an “entirely new approach” is
needed. Prof. Roy said there is a need to
draw on the state's educated work force, and
try to set up industries like biotechnology
and nanotechnology.
cent. It proved to be more burdensome
on the candidates at that time.
Still, the university is repeating the
same process on the request of the can-
didates, said a university official.
“It will not be a compromise with
the quality as finally the students will
have to secure 40 per cent in Honours.
The exemption that they are getting
now will have to be made up later,”
added a member of the university
council.
Around 13,000 candidates appeared
in the Part I Honours examination in
2012. The relaxation would help at
least 700 candidates, said a source in
the university.
However, the fact that candidates
who should have continued in general
stream in Part II after failing to qualify
While he plans to present the policy to the
Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, tomorrow,
it is up to her what happens after that, he
said. “It can be put on the website for sug-
in an Honours paper are allowed to
carry on in the Honours course has
raised a debate regarding the quality of
education in the university.
In another move, candidates who
have cleared Part III (Honours) in 2012
with a backlog of upto five marks in
any general subject in either Part I or
Part II will be exempted from reappear-
ing in those general papers.
“Though the university makes it sure
that these are one time facilities and
would not be applicable to any exami-
nation held in 2013, students would
urge the authorities next year too, if
they come to know that the authorities
have such a provision. Then it will be a
problem of the university to maintain
its quality,” said a principal of a college
owing affiliation to the university.
gestions.” The President of the chamber, Mr
Deepak Jalan, opened the session with the
Trinamul Congress MP by questioning the
accuracy of claims that the state is attracting
HABRA, 8 JAN: The new TMC party office which was
inaugurated last Sunday was attacked by some
hoodlums. The incident took place at
Laxmikantapur in Berghum no.1 panchayat area of
Habra. TMC supporters blocked the road to protest
against it.
According to locals the party office was inaugu-
rated on Sunday by the food minister, Mr Joytipriyo
Mallick, where he lashed out at the erstwhile Left
Front government. He came down heavily on CPI-
M leader Mr Goutam Deb.
Last night the TMC office came under attack and
local TMC supporters blamed CPI-M supporters for
it. At 5 a.m. more than 500 TMC supporters demon-
strated in front of the party office. They blocked the
road to protest against the incident. They demand-
ed immediate arrest of the culprits. Bus services in
the Bongaon-Basirhat, Hasnabad-Badal and
Nababkati routes were affected. The blockade was
withdrawn after police intervened. Habra police
have detained some locals.
massive investments in industry, and criticis-
ing the government for stalled infrastructure,
metro and road projects across West Bengal.
How could this infrastructure be improved
without the government support, Mr Jalan
said.
Prof. Roy told the chamber that these were
“highly disappointing” comments. He said
that the condition of the roads in the state is
the fault of the National Highway Authority of
India, which has used land problems in some
stretches as “an excuse to do nothing.”
He also said that “Railways has to give up
their outmoded attitude” of refusing to offer
any form of rehabilitation to people who
might be moved off land for the East-West
Metro Rail Project, and work on finding a
compromise. “You have to take a practical
view,” he said. “It is a human problem”.

Bose family unhappy with govt’s

response on documents request
statesman news service
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: Members of Netaji Subhas
Bose’s family have been disappointed by the lack
of response from both the state and
Union governments to their request that
classified files on their illustrious ances-
tor be placed in the public domain.
A document issued under the Right
To Information Act from the Prime
Minister's Office stated that there are 33
classified documents on Subhas
Chandra Bose.
Speaking today, Subhas Chandra
Bose's great-nephew Chandra Kumar
Bose, said, “Mamata Banerjee has
claimed to be a great follower and
admirer of my great-uncle in the past,
which is why we approached her. But
she must be tied up with other
things.”
He said, “The Justice Mukherjee
Commission's investigations in
Taiwan ruled out the possibility of
the plane crash theory. There is
Sand being lifted illegally from banks of the Haldi river at Narghat in East Midnapore. suvam ghara no conclusive evidence to prove
30 members of Subhas
Chandra Bose’s family sent
letters to the state and Union
governments last month
there was a plane crash on 18 August 1945.
What about afterwards? This is what we want to
know.” Thirty members of Subhas Chandra
Bose's family sent letters to the state and
Union governments last month. Their let-
ter to the Chief Minister requested her
to “persuade the Central government to
declassify all secret material and/or
files being maintained by various
Ministries and Departments of the
government, including the intelli-
gence agencies”.
They wrote, “The government con-
tinues to hold back a large number of
top secret or secret documents whose
disclosure could decisively bring an
end to the controversy. It is thus
imperative in the national interest to
release all information related to
Netaji."

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Accused arrested in Shyampukur case

KOLKATA, 8 JAN: Police arrested one Chote Lal Shaw today in
connection with the death of a middle-aged man, Suvendu
Dutta, on Sunday. The victim was allegedly beaten up by some
Trinamul Congress supporters inside its party office at
Shyampukur where he was called for a discussion over a
tenancy dispute. Later, Suvendu died at RG Kar Medical
College and Hospital.
Body found
PURULIA, 8 JAN: Local people protested and blocked the road
after the body of a missing youth was found from Manbazar
today, a stone’s throw away from the local police station.
Paresh Dey (32) had been missing since last Sunday. Family
members had reportedly lodged a complaint with the police
yesterday.
Online bookings off-track
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: Internet bookings and online enquiry facility
will not be available for railway stations in and around Kolkata
from 10 p.m. on 12 January to 5 a.m. on 13 January for
firmware upgrade of the Kolkata Passenger Reservation
System (PRS). Reservation and charting for the period will be
completed by 10 p.m. on 12 January, an official release said.
Girl arrested for looting valuables
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: Police have arrested Ruchima Sardar Gazi
from Baruipur on charges of looting valuables from the house
where she worked as a domestic help. Police said that the
accused drugged the family members of Mr Arup Chatterjee
in Patuli and made off with mobile phones, gold chains and
cash from the house.
‘Bengal Science Initiative’
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: The state Science and Technology
Department is planning to launch “Bengal Science Initiative”
in an attempt to popularise science among the people. In this
regard, the department will offer five doctoral fellowships
named after Bengali scientists Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy,
Meghnad Saha, Satyendra Nath Bose, Jagadish Chandra
Bose and Upendranath Brahmachari.
Two research grant awards too will be given under this
intiative, said minister Prof Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay.
2 days holiday in Jalpaiguri
KOLKATA, 8 JAN: The state government declared two days
holiday for school and colleges of Jalapiguri district from
Wednesday following a cold wave.
Feathers save water-body Race for equality
kanchan siddiqui
DURGAPUR, 8 JAN: Scores of Lesser
Whistling teals from various south Asian
countries have taken shelter at the historic
and heritage water body which has been in
the centre of a controversy for the past four
years, especially after a state-backed statutory
body proposed a multi-crore JV housing and
commercial complex surrounding it in 2009.
The Asansol-Durgapur Development
Authority, a state-backed statutory body,
incidentally, had asked its private JV partner
to suspend any further civil work on the
proposed site after a local citizen’s body
protested against the aggressive bid of con-
struction which allegedly was distorting the
historic value of the pond, stretching across
11 acres at the posh City Centre area in the
heart of Durgapur town.
The pond has a mention in the history of
medieval rulers of South Bengal. "The loca-
tion was known as mouza
Radhamadhabpur and was the army barrack
of the medieval king of Dhenkur, Ichai
Ghosh, in the 11th century and the army of
the king used to bath in the pond." A stone-
carved tunnel leading to the pond was
declared as heritage in August 2007.
The chairman, ADDA, Dr Nikhil Banerjee,
said: “The Rs 75-crore project surrounding
the pond was proposed during the LF rule
and in the 19 January proposed board meet-
ing we will discuss the fate of the project fur-
ther. I have strong reservation against the
leasing out of the historic pond and also I
won’t allow any commercial plaza in the
area.” Locals were witness to scores of
migratory teals (see sns picture) flocking to
the historic water body since a fortnight.
The matter was taken note of by the
Divisional Forest Authority at Durgapur.
The DFO, Durgapur, Mr Sudipta
Budhaditya Deb, said that the forest author-
ity has taken a serious note of the develop-
ment. He said: “We're preparing a report on
the migratory birds. It's a very interesting
and significant matter that migratory teals
have found a home in the water body locat-
ed in the heart of the town here.”
The Lesser Whistling teal is a species of
whistling duck that breeds in the South-east
Asian countries like Singapore, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Nepal, Myanmar and parts of
India.
The DFO said: “They are nocturnal feed-
ers and during the day they may be found in
flocks around lakes and wet paddy fields.
They can perch on trees and sometimes
build their nest in the hollow of a tree. This
brown and long-necked duck has broad
wings that are visible in flight and produces
a loud two-note whistling call.”
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SILIGURI, 8 JAN: The Innovative Challenge Fund, Municipal Affairs
Department, Government of West Bengal and the Anubhab Creche
Centre for Mentally and Physically Challenged would organise a tri-cycle
and wheel-chair race for physically challenged persons in north Bengal
at the Baghajatin Park in Siliguri on 10 February 2013.
The Siliguri MLA, Mr Rudranath Bhattacharya, who announced this at
a Press meet here today, said the main aim of the competition, which had
been named “We Can”, is to create awareness among the masses about
the need to achieve an environment in which mentally and physically
challenged people are treated on
par with normal human beings. “The initiative is to
“Our main aim is to provide a create awareness
platform to the tri-cycle and wheel-
chair-bound physically-challenged among the masses
people in the region to showcase about the need to
their talents. We also want to prove achieve an
that specially-challenged people are environment in which
in no way inferior to normal human mentally and
beings. We wish to generate aware-
ness through the event about the physically-challenged
need to give these people their people are on a par
rightful place in society and bring with others”
them into the mainstream of educa-
tional and livelihood system,” said Mr Bhattacharya, who is the chief
patron of the special sub-committee, which has been formed to organ-
ise the event.
The general secretary of Anubhab, Mr Pradip Dasgupta, and the chair-
man of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, Mr Nantu Paul, who is also the
chairman of the special sub-committee, said during the conference
that the event had been organised before in just three countries of the
world.
“For only the fourth time in the world, the event is being organised
in Siliguri. Earlier, it has been organised in Canada, Australia and
Cambodia. Over 150 participants from all over north Bengal are expect-
ed to take part in the four events during the competition. The winners
will get attractive awards and all the participants will be given consola-
tion prizes,” Mr Dasgupta said.

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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
DEFENCE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION
INTEGRATED TEST RANGE, CHANDIPUR-756025 (ORISSA)
OPEN TENDER NOTICE
Tender Notice No.: ITR/IMM/OPTEND/20-21/2012-13 Dated: 04-12-2012
1. The Director of Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, on behalf of the President of
India desires to procure following stores from original manufacturer(s) / accredited
supplier(s):
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2 ITR/13AMT022/WPG/ Environmental control, hygiene & Job 01
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Small wonder is a big deal in rally

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KOLKATA, 8 JAN: The Statesman Birla Tyres
Vintage and Classic Car Rally provides a wealth of
new information and experience for genuine car
lovers who consider the day to be auspicious. The
rally will be held on Sunday, 13 January, at the
Eastern Command stadium.
A very rare vehicle that will take part in the rally
is a German-made Messerschmitt. It is a three
wheeler built in 1960, more than five decades ago.
The vehicle is a crowdpuller though it does not
fetch the best prizes. The vehicle looks like a toy car
but is quite powerful and the body is very strong.
After World War II Germany was economically
shattered and there was almost a global prejudice
against German products, be it motor car or engi-
neering equipment. The production of Mercedes
Benz, BMW and Volkswagen cars and trucks nose-
dived and no vehicles were available to carry goods
to the villages. To cope with the situation, Germany
began manufacturing the Tempollite, a three
wheeler with cabriolet system. Tempollites were
light vehicles fitted with fuel-efficient engines. The
vehicles became quite popular and Tempolittes
came to India and was called “Tempo”. Tempos
were used to carry goods for many years.
The vehicle about which this correspondent is
Vintage & Classic Car
Rally, 2013
writing is a unique vehicle. After World War II the
United Nations imposed a ban on Germany making
fighter aircrafts. Messerschmitt was famous for its
fighter aircraft. Accordingly, the firm began produc-
ing automobiles and the cars were known as
Bubble cars. The company manufactured both
three-wheelers and four-wheelers, though they
stopped production in 1963.
The seating capacity of the vehicle is strictly two. The seating
It has a tubular body with aerodynamic design. The capacity of the
single door is lifted up vertically. The turning radius
is 6 metres. The highest speed is 100 miles per hour. vehicle is
The engine rotates clockwise/anti-clockwise. just two. It
The owner of the vehicle, Mr R S Agarwal has
maintained and kept the vehicle for many years. He has a
has been a part of the rally for several years as well.
For those visiting The Statesman Birla Tyres Vintage
tubular
and Classic Car Rally, the vehicle is a star attraction. body with
They must take a closer look of the vehicle. It is a
superb example of German engineering perfection
aerodynamic
and precision. design

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MULTIPLEX 4.05pm(G); 11pm(G) 2:40pm, 4:50pm, 9pm 2:25p.m, 5:10p.m, 7:55p.m Bojhena Shey Bojhena Mohua, 2pm, 5pm, 8pm
l Fame (H Park) 4010-5555 The Impossible 10:30pm. HINDI MOVIE HINDI MOVIE 10:40p.m Fame South City Mall, Malancha, 4pm
l Fame (South City) 4010-5555 Inox-Forum, 2p.m, 8:50p.m Big Cinemas, 11:15 AM Inox-Rajarhat, 9a.m,11:45a.m, 12:15pm, 5:35pm. HDIL Broadway, 2pm; 6.15pm;
l Fame (Hind) 2215-9344 Inox-City Centre, 11:20a.m 3pm, 6:15pm, 9pm Noon, 7.30pm Howrah, 8:55pm 2:30p.m, 5:15p.m, 10:15p.m Fame Hiland Park, 2:30pm, 8.45pm(G)
l Inox (Forum) 2358-4499 8:55p.m Fame South City Mall, Malancha, 8.15pm Big Cinemas, 11:45 am Inox-Liluah, 9a.m, 11:45a.m, 7:45pm. BalukaBela Dot Com
l Inox (City Centre) 2358-4499 Fame South City Mall, 9 am, 11:10am, 2:50pm, HDIL Broadway, 9.30am(G); 2:15pm 2:30p.m PVR Howrah, 12:40pm Priya, 12.15pm
l Inox (Swabhumi) 2358-4499 9:55am, 7:40pm, 10:15pm. 3:45pm, 6pm, 8:15pm, 11.45am(G); 2pm(G); Fame South City Mall, 5:15p.m, 8p.m 3:20pm. Nandan - I, 4pm
l Inox (Rajarhat) 2358-4499 10:30pm. 4.15pm(G); 6.30pm(G); 11:35 am, 5:05 pm,10:30 pm. 10:45p.m Prachi,2.30pm, 5.15pm, Dutta Vs Dutta
HINDI MOVIE
l Inox (Liluah) 2654 7272 Fame Hiland Park, 8.45pm(G); 11pm(G) Fame Hiland Park, 9:25 am, Paradise, Noon, 3pm, 6pm, 7.45pm Nandan - II, 1.45pm
l RDB Big Cinemas 3984-6101 Table No. 21 9 am, 1:45pm, 4pm, 6:15pm, Rajdhani Express 2:15 pm, 10:30 pm. 9pm Mitra, 3pm, 5.45pm, 8.30pm Mishti Chhele Dustu Buddhi
l Bioscope Axis Mall (Rajarhat) Inox-Forum, 9a.m, Noon, 8:30pm, 10:45pm Inox-Forum, 11:10a.m Hind Fame, 9am, 10pm Roxy, 3pm Indira, 3pm, 6pm, 8.30pm Basusree 3pm
2324-2422/23 3:50p.m, 5:45p.m, 8:40p.m Hind Fame, 9am, 11:15am, 10:55p.m Roxy, 12.30pm, 6pm, 9pm New Empire 12.30pm, 3pm, Aleya, 1pm,4pm, 7pm Malancha, 2pm
l Cinemax 40007272 10:40p.m 1:30pm, 3:45 pm, 6pm, Inox-City Centre, 1:15p.m HDIL Broadway, 12.30pm; 6pm, 8.30pm Inox-Rajarhat, Noon, 4:50p.m EXHIBITIONS
l HDIL Broadway 44341212 Inox-City Centre, 9:30a.m 8:15pm, 10:30pm. 10:30p.m 10.30pm Navina, 5pm, 7.30pm Inox-Liluah, 1:30p.m
l PVR (Howrah) 9874559961 3:40p.m, 5:15p.m, 8:10p.m Jaya 12.20pm, 5pm Inox-Swabhumi, 10a.m Dehradun Diary Malancha, 11.45am, 2pm, 6- Jaya, 2.25pm Exhibition Of Emotive
OTHER HALLS 10:15p.m Priya, 9pm 2:50p.m, 10:10p.m Inox-Forum, 1:35p.m 15pm, 8.30pm Pushpashree (all shows) Expressive Paintings by
l Ajanta 2396-5341 Inox-Swabhumi, Navina, Inox-Rajarhat, 9:20a.m Inox-City Centre, 9a.m Big Cinemas, 12:50pm, Navina, 2.30pm Debdutta Nandy
l Ashoka 2397-3630 10:15a.m 9:45p.m Inox-Swabhumi, 12:15p.m 5:45pm, 8:30pm Bawali Unlimited, Kolkata is all geared up to
l Aleya 2460-1495 12:30p.m, Inox-Liluah, 9:10a.m PVR Howrah, 8:25pm Malancha, 11.45am, 2pm, Ellora, 2pm, 5pm, 8pm hold a solo exhibition of
l Basusree 2455-4807 2:45p.m, 8:45p.m Fame South City Mall, 6.15pm, 8.30pm Minar Bijoli Chhabighar (all emotive expressive paintings
l Bijoli 2455-5382 5p.m PVR 12:15 pm Jaya, 7.30pm shows) by artist, Debdutta Nandy. The
l Chhabighar 2350-2740 7:15p.m, M e r i HDIL Broadway, 10am; Gundaraj inauguration of the exhibition
l Darpana 2555-3140 9:30p.m Shaadi 11.45am; 3pm; 5.30pm; 8pm; Darpana, 2.45pm, 5.45pm, will be held on 4th January,
l Elite 2265-0383 Inox- Karao 10.30pm 8.30pm 2013 at 3 p.m. and will
l Elora 2397-3480 Inox- Life of Pi 3D Jekhanay Bhooter Bhoy continue till the 9th of January,
l Indira 2475-1752 Rajarhat, Swabhumi, PVR Howrah, 10:15am Fame South City Mall, 2013 at Gallery Gold . The
l Malancha 2377-7712 9a.m, 7:50p.m 12:15pm. 2:10pm, 4:15pm, 6:20pm, paintings are a mix of dream
l Menoka 2466-0417 2:45p.m PVR Howrah, Chinese Zodiac 8:25 pm. and reality and provides food
l Metro 2228-0141 5p.m, 8p.m, 12:25pm. PVR Howrah, 10am, 6pm. Fame Hiland Park, 11:35 am, for thought. The event is
l Mohua 2430-5291 10:15p.m Elite, 3pm, 9pm Elite Noon, 6pm 1:40 pm, 6:20 pm, 8:25 pm. presented by Dollar Industries
l Mitra 2555-5133 Inox-Liluah, 11:40a.m Moonlight, Noon, Moonlight, 3pm, 6pm PVR Howrah, 2:35pm 4:35pm Ltd. Gallery Gold , 11 Abdul
l Nandan 2223-1210 2p.m, 4:15p.m, 9pm Malancha, 11.45am 7pm. Rasul Avenue, Kolkata 26
l Navina 2422-0091 6:30p.m Dabangg 2 Taalash Inox-Forum, 4:15p.m (Near Menoka Cinema) from
l New Empire 2249-1051 PVR Howrah, Fame South City Mall, Fame South City Mall, Inox-City Centre, 2:30p.m 4th January, 2013 – 9th
l Prachi 2265-2282 10:05am 9:40am, 12:15pm, 2:30pm, 4:55 pm. 5:55p.m, 7:30p.m January, 2013, at Gallery Gold
l Priya 2464-1313 5:05pm, 7:40pm,10pm. Jaan Tere Naam Inox-Swabhumi, 3p.m , 11 Abdul Rasul Avenue,
l Paradise 2248-5442 Fame Hiland Park, 9:05am, Ellora 2pm, 5pm, 8pm 7:50p.m Kolkata 26 (Near Menoka
l Roxy 3292-3236 11:40am, 4:50pm, Inox-Rajarhat, 11:10a.m, Cinema)
BENGALI MOVIE
ENGLISH MOVIE 7:25pm, 3:40p.m, 5:45p.m, 7:50p.m
10pm. Maach Mishti & More Inox-Liluah, 11:25a.m, 4:15p.m ENGAGEMENT
Chinese Zodiac Hind Fame, 11:35 Inox-Forum, 6:10p.m Big cinemas, 4:45pm
Inox-Forum, 9a.m, 6:20p.m am, 2:10 pm, Inox-City Centre, 1:35p.m 7pm Bhaja Govindam &
11:10p.m 4:45 pm,7:25 pm. 6:25p.m Prachi, 12.30pm Bhagavad Gita
Inox-City Centre, 9a.m, 4p.m PVR Howrah, Inox-Swabhumi, 12:35p.m Mitra, Noon Vedanta Institute Kolkata
11:10p.m 10am, 12:40pm 5:20p.m Metro 3pm, 6pm presents Swami Parthasarathy
Inox-Swabhumi, 12:30p.m, 3:20pm, 6pm, Inox-Rajarhat, 2:20p.m Jaya-II, 12.20pm, 2.30pm, & Sunandaji to deliver lecture
10p.m 8:40pm. 7:15p.m 5pm, 7.30pm series on Bhaja Govindam &
Inox-Rajarhat, 9:15a.m Inox-Forum, Inox-Liluah, Nandan - I, 2pm, 6.15pm Bhagavad Gita at Kala Kunj till
1:15p.m, 10:10p.m 9:15a.m, 2:15p.m 6:20p.m Priya, 2.30pm, 4.35pm Jan 13 2013 from 7.15 to 8.30
Inox-Liluah, 9a.m, 8:50p.m A still from 5p.m, 7:45p.m, PVR Howrah, 6:35pm. Navina, 5pm a.m. & 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Big Cinemas, 10:30am Table No. 21 10:30p.m Fame South City Mall, 3pm,
3:20pm showing at Inox-City Centre, 8:20 pm.
Fame South City Mall, Fame, Inox, Big 9:05a.m Fame Hiland Park, 12pm,
Erratum
Notification No. South 24 Pgs. / 63N / 12 / L.A. 4 / 9 of 2012-13.
9:05 am,1:20 pm, 10:55 pm. Cinemas, HDIL 11:45a.m, 2:30p.m, 5:10pm. Dated: 20-07-2012.
Fame Hiland Park, 11:15 am, Broadways, 7:30p.m Priya, 6.50pm Date of Publication in the Statesman: 24-07-2012.
10:30 pm. Jaya, Priya, 9:45p.m Malancha, 6pm Mouza: Chemaguri, J.L. No. 42, P.S.: Sagar.
Basusree, Noon Navina and Inox-Swabhumi, HDIL Broadway, 4pm; Please read the specific portion of the R.S. Plot No. in the Part as
“Southern” instead of “Eastern” in respect of the Plot No. 2740 in the
HDIL Broadway, 11.20pm(G); others 9:40a.m 08.15pm Notification U/s 4(1) of the L.A. Act, 1894.
Collector, South 24 Parganas

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