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WAR BETWEEN CHINA AND US
UNDER TRUMP REGIME 17
IITs 4th in creating bn-dollar startups Idea share price soars amid
Delhi Churns Out INDIA BEHIND ONLY US, CHINA
effort to foster unicorns
US based Stanford
Maximum Indian University
claimed the top
For over 60% of the
with 51 unicorn founders, founders, the current unicorn
Unicorn Founders rank
followed by Harvard University was the only company they
Ranjani.Ayyar
@timesgroup.com
Chennai: If you aspire to create a billion-dollar business

in India, one of the IITs is your best bet.
Sage, a UK-based accounting and payroll company, stated this in a research released
on Friday.
In a study that lists universities that have produced the
most unicorn founders, the
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) bagged the fourth
spot. US-based Stanford University claimed the top rank
with 51 unicorn founders, followed by Harvard University
with 37. The University of California came third with 18
unicorn founders and IIT followed with 12 founders.
Unicorns are startups
with more than a billion-dollar valuation.
India is home to 10 unicorn companies, making
them the poster boys of the
which counted 37, and

University of California with 18
had ever built

US tops the list with 144
unicorns followed by China
with 47. India grabs the third
spot with 10
Unicorns are startups

with a valuation of more
than a billion dollars
2015 was identified as

the year of the unicorn with
86 companies achieving the
unicorn status
IIT-Delhi has produced the

maximum unicorn founders.
Over the last 5-7 years,
there has been a structured
Flipkart, Sanjay Sethi of

ShopClues, Zomato founders
Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj
Chaddah, Snapdeals Rohit
Bansal and Quikrs Pranay
Chulet and Jiby Thomas
(now founder of Webbutterjam Digital) are all products
of IIT Delhi.
Olas founders Bhavish
Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati
went to IIT-Bombay. Inmobis
founders Naveen Tiwari, Abhay Singhal and Amit Gupta
studied at IIT-Kanpur while
their co-founder Mohit Saxena went to IIT-Roorkee.
countrys startup ecosystem.

From e-commerce giants
Flipkart, Snapdeal and ShopClues to cab aggregator Ola,
restaurant aggregator Zomato, classified ads platform Quickr, digital payments company Paytm, mobile adtech player InMobi, messaging app
Hike and analytics company
Mu Sigma, these startups have grabbed spots in the elite
club and almost all the founders have had stints at one of
the IITs.
Within the various IITs, it
is Delhi that produced the
maximum unicorn founders.
Sachin and Binny Bansal of
Structured effort, P 10
PSUs asked to close buzz of merger with Voda

Jios Aggressive No. 2 + No. 3 Would Be No. 1
recruitments early Entry
May Drive
Volume
(In Lakh)
Somdatta.Basu
@timesgroup.com
Kolkata: The IITs have asked

PSUs recruiting on the basis
on GATE scores to complete
their intake process by July 15
this year. This will allow candidates to either opt for jobs or
take up post-graduate courses
at the IITs, thus reducing the
number of MTech and MSc seats going vacant in the premier technology institutes.
Last year, several MTech
seats fell vacant after students
who had already taken admission grabbed job offers from
the PSUs. At IIT-Kharagpur,
which has 1,539 PG seats, 493
went vacant in 2014-15.
The IITs begin their PG
classes on August 1 while the
PSUs start the recruitment
process in September and
bring out their list of selected
candidates in October. The
process sometimes drags on
till December.
THE WAY OUT?

A common portal for
offers to be set up by IITs
Will have candidates
names and GATE scores
All offers from IITs, NITs,
PSUs to be given through
the website
Students to select one
offer and immediately
release the others
The nudge to the PSUs came during a meeting at IITMumbai earlier this month
and attended by the directors
of all the IITs and officials of at
least 14 PSUs. All colleges are
bound by a Supreme Court directive to start classes before
August 1. So we requested the
PSUs to finish their recruitment process by July 15, confirmed Devang Khakhar, director of IIT-Bombay.
Process takes time, P 10
THE MATCH THE WORLDS BEEN WAITING FOR
ITC may enter

healthcare biz
Its a very special thing

for both of us to be in
the nal of a major again...
It was a moment we never
thought we were ever going
to have again...
NADAL
MCG-to-hotel-to-tobacco
major ITC Ltd may enter
the healthcare sector, one of
the fastest-growing business
categories in the country. In
the last board meeting
chaired by Y C Deveshwar as
CEO of the company, the
board of directors proposed
to change the object clause of
memorandum to include the
healthcare sector. The proposal has to be ratified by the
shareholders. P 17
PO payments
bank gets nod
eserve Bank has given its
nod to the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) to start
operations. The government
has also appointed an interim CEO, who will help set up
the entity. IPPB is the third
entity after Airtel and Paytm
payment banks to get the
central banks nod. Operations are expected to start before March 31. P 17
Govt raises
WBCS age limit
he state government on
Friday raised the upper
age limit for the entry of Group A and B category WBCS
officers. The upper age limit
for entry of Group A officers
has gone up from 32 to 36. For
Group B officers, it has been
increased from 32 to 39. P 2
Darjeeling turns
no-smoking dist
he administration on
Thursday declared Darjeeling the first smoking-free
district of Bengal. The mall
has been a no-smoking zone
for a few years now. While the
prohibition has been in force
since 2003, this is the first district to achieve the feat. P 2
Tax board tries to

allay GAAR fears
head of implementation
of the general anti-avoidance rule on April 1, CBDT has
attempted to allay investor
fears by holding that where the
relevant tax treaty addresses
the issue of tax avoidance,
GAAR will not apply. P 17
WEATHER
Max 26.1 C(-1) Min
18.2 0C(+3)
Sunrise: Sunday
6.17am
Sunset: Saturday 5.01pm
Mainly clear sky. Maximum and
minimum temperature may be
around 27C & 170C Max humidity
93% min 54% Rain: Nil
0
Rafael Nadal overcame Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (4-7),
6-4 to set up the Australian Open nal that fans were praying for
a match against Roger Federer that continues their fabled rivalry
Astonishingly, the 2017 Australian Open
nals will be a repeat of the 2008 Wimbledon
nals (Rafael Nadal vs Roger Federer, Serena
All Matches
vs Venus Williams)
Federer has won 17 Slams, the most among
23 | 11
all male players, while Nadal has 14, the
All Finals
second-most among active men
14 | 7
Serena has won 22 Slams, the most among
Grand Slam Matches active women while Venus has 7, the second9|2
most among active women
The combined age of the 4 is
Grand Slam Finals
136 (Federer 35, Nadal 30,
6|2
Venus 36, Serena 35)
Australian Open
The 4 have a total of 60
3|0
Grand Slam titles
The 2008 Nadal-Federer Wimbledon nal has
been called the greatest match ever. Nadal won
9-7 in the fth set after 4 hours and 48 minutes
The last time Federer and Nadal played in an Australian Open
nal was in 2009. Nadal won the 5-set epic after 4 hours and 23
minutes. Federer broke down and wept after the match
Their last Grand Slam nal before Sundays match was at
the 2011 French Open. Nadal won in 4 sets. The last time they
played any match was at the nal of the Swiss Indoors Open
in November 2015. Federer triumphed, snapping a losing
streak of 5 matches against Nadal
RAFA v ROGER
HEAD-TO-HEAD
Bill on way, vandalism

to attract stiff penalty
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata: Offences like vandalizing property, both public or private, or setting police vehicles on fire will cost
the perpetrator a stiff penalty if proved guilty. The state
government has already
drafted a bill on these lines
and is likely to table it in the
coming assembly session
beginning February 3.
Announced by CM Mamata Banerjee at a government programme (Khadya
Sathi) on Friday, the move
comes close on the heels of
the agitation in Bhangar,
where angry villagers torched police vehicles to protest alleged police torture.
Some people in a bid to
CM GETS TOUGH
Proposed law to include
public and private property
Damages to be calculated
at current market value
Person/organisation
found guilty will have to
pay compensation
Govt will reserve right
to conscate assets of the
guilty and sell them if they
fail to pay up
Jail term within ambit
scale up commotion are setting public buildings, individual homes and police vehicles on fire. The government wont tolerate all this.
The government has to
spend a lot to buy a police jeep. We have drafted a bill

that provides for making the
guilty pay for the damages,
the CM said. The cost will be
determined against existing market prices.
Sources in Nabanna hinted that the proposed bill
will be different from existing acts and IPC provisions
that make the guilty liable
for punishment either with
imprisonment or a fine though its extent is not very clear. For instance, the central
act the Prevention of
Damage to Public Property
Act has an imprisonment
provision but no compensation clause.
No violent protests, P 5
Mob roughs up Bhansali on

set for distorting history
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Jaipur:Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali was roughed up by members of a Rajput outfit at the citys historic Jaigarh Fort on Friday. The mob
comprising Karni Sena members alleged that
Rajasthans history was distorted in Padmavati, the movie Bhansali was filming.
Scores of Sena protesters breached private
security arrangements and stormed the fort at
12.30pm, raising slogans against Bhansali and
his under-production movie. They attempted to
stop the shoot by vandalizing the movie set.
While the film crew and the producers private guards tried to stop protesters, one pulled
Bhansali by the hair and slapped him. Bhansalis private security guards formed a ring around him in order to safely escort him out of the
chaos. The crew dialled the police helpline number and the Amber police reached the spot, a
police officer at Amer police station said.
The movie depicts love scenes between Ra-
A shaken Bhansali leaves the set of Padmavati
ni Padmini of Chittor and Alauddin Khilji. This

is an outrageous distortion of Rajasthans history as Rani-ji immolated herself along with the
other women of the fort when they heard Khilji
was marching ahead to take over the fort, Karni
Sena state president Mahipal Makrana said.
Director refused to file FIR: Cop, P 11
Ace diver from

Bengal found
dead in Mum
22-year-old national-level diver from Bengal,
who was employed as a junior
clerk
with Western
Railway, was
found hanging at her central Mumbai residence on
Thursday. According to a
Mumbai Police officer, Tanuka Dharas friend visited
her house on Thursday and
found it locked from inside.
When Dhara did not respond
to calls, the friend, with the
help of neighbours, broke
down the front door and
found her hanging from a
window grille. She was
rushed to hospital but was
declared brought dead, added an official. P 3
Meghalaya
guv quits over
ladies club
eghalaya
governor
V Shanmuganathan resigned late on Thursday after
employees of Raj Bhavan demanded his removal for seriously compromising the
dignity of the gubernatorial
office. Governor House officials confirmed that Shanmuganathan (67), who has
been accused of sexual harassment, tendered his resignation from the constitutional post. An RSS activist,
Shanmuganathan had taken
charge in May 2015.
Almost 100 Raj Bhavan
staff petitioned President
Pranab
Mukherjee,
the
Prime Minister and Union
home minister Rajnath
Singh alleging that Shanmuganathan had made Raj Bhavan a young ladies club. P 9
Consolidation
Pankaj Doval & Boby Kurian
TNN
New Delhi/Mumbai: The

share price of Idea Cellular has
spiked by 15% since January 18
on the back of rising speculation of a possible merger between the Aditya Birla Group
company and British giant Vodafone, which would create Indias largest telecom company.
It would also represent the
biggest consolidation yet in an
industry that has been under
heightened margins pressure
following the aggressive entry
of Reliance Jio.
Talks to explore a merger
have been on for some time,
according to multiple sources.
Ideas decision to postpone its
January 23 meeting to consider third-quarter results has
added fuel to the speculation; a
fresh date is yet to be set.
Questionnaires sent to
both Idea and Vodafone on
Closing Share
Price (in )
Subscribers
(In Crore)
30
25
20
77.8
15
10
5
0
67.5
18
January 2017
27
Voda
Idea
20.4
18.5
Revenue
( Crore)
44,490 35,949
Prot
Margin*
FY16
29.5%
35.2%
Revenue
Mkt Share
22.6%
18.7%
*Prot here means earnings before interest, depreciation, tax, amortisation
Wednesday had not been formally answered till the time of

going to press on Friday.
A spokesperson for Vodafone said the company was unable to respond as it doesnt comment on speculation. Idea Cellulars spokesperson declined
to comment, saying the company was in a silent period pending third-quarter results.
Confirming that talks are
on, a number of top bankers said Vodafone, which is the second-largest
mobile-phone
company (after Airtel) in the
worlds second-largest market,
and Idea Cellular, the No. 3, were looking at the operational

modalities of a merger. These
relate to breach of spectrum
holding limits for the joint entity and monopoly concerns,
said one of them.
Another person in the
know said consolidation was
fast becoming a necessity as
both companies needed to protect revenues, profitability and
valuations in the wake of the
price and freebies war unleashed by Jio.
To have 39cr users, P 18
99% of Indians over 18

now have Aadhaar cards
Mahendra.Singh
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Over 99% of Indians aged 18 and above now have
Aadhaar cards as more than 111
crore residents have enrolled
themselves for the unique identification number. The increase
in enrolments will come as a boost to the governments drive to
make India a less-cash society
as it is encouraging the use of
AadhaarPay, a merchant version of Aadhaar-enabled payment system (AEPS).
TOIhad reported on January 23 that the government was
nudging banks to encourage
merchants to use AadhaarPay.
Backed by the Aadhaar Act
and 91.7% coverage of the total
population, the government is
set to accelerate the use of unique identification numbers in
its social welfare schemes for
LINKED TO 39CR A/Cs

Aadhaar enrolment
111 crore+
Coverage (18+ yrs)
99% of population
Linked to no. of bank a/cs
38.51 crore
A/Cs opened using

Aadhaar as e-KYC
4.47 crore
Figures as of Jan 15, 2017
disbursing entitlements and

subsidies as it will help check
duplication and pilferage.
The government saved Rs
36,000 crore in two years even
though the use of Aadhaar was
restricted to a handful of schemes like PDS, household LPG
supply and MGNREGS.
We all know Aadhaar was
started by the previous government but at that time, it was only a digital identity. Under the
government led by PM Narendra Modi, it has become a powerful tool of financial and future
transformation, IT minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
Aadhaar is also becoming
a powerful instrument to bridge the digital divide, he added.
Sources said after the government banned high value
notes, Aadhaar generation and
its use for financial transactions saw a substantial jump.
Aadhaar enrolment between March 2014 and May 2014
was 3-4 lakh per day and went
up to around 5-6 lakh per day by
October 2016. Since demonetisation, Aadhaar enrolment
and update requests have been
in the range of 7-8 lakh per day.
BHIM link, P 11
TIMES CITY
THE TIMES OF INDIA, KOLKATA | SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2017
Mercury jumps on cloudy

day, set for weekend drop
Subhojyoti Kanjilal
Friday Remains
Wet, But Met Spies
Sunny Sunday
MET KEEPS CHILL HOPE ALIVE
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Saturday
Kolkata: The city woke up to light drizzle,

triggered by an approaching western disturbance and a cyclonic circulation, on Friday morning. With a thick cloud cover preventing the sun from breaking in, the morning remained wet and damp. The drizzle
didnt last long but the cloud cover persisted
through the day. It could remain gloomy till
Saturday afternoon when the mercury could drop by a degree, according to the
Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC).
On Friday, the minimum shot up by 3C to
touch 18.2C.
A cyclonic circulation over Uttar Pradesh and another one over Bangladesh led
to the cloud cover, explained weathermen.
The approaching western disturbances
had precipitated the cloud. It led to the infusion of moisture that made the conditions
ideal for a drizzle. But the cloud cover is set
to dissipate by Saturday afternoon, following which the mercury will drop, said
RMC director GK Das.
While the drop is not going to be a significant one on Saturday, the minimum tempe-
Sunday
Monday
SLEEPY FRIDAY: Maidan wore a deserted look as the drizzle

kept kids away from it on Friday
All min temp
GK Das | RMC DIRECTOR

rature could plunge by 3C on Sunday and
Monday, Das added. Once the cloud cover
goes and the ground radiation diminishes,
the mercury will fall. On Sunday and Monday, it could hover around 14C, said Das.
But this may not be the last mercury
plunge this season, the Met office added.
Temperature keeps fluctuating till early February in Kolkata. Depending on the flow
of north-westerly and western disturbances, you cant rule out another chilly spell.
There have been instances of the mercury
dipping to the seasons lowest in early February, said a weather expert.
Scanty rain on Friday may have taken

Kolkata by surprise, but it wasnt very unusual, according to Das. Rain is common in
the latter half of winter. It is usually triggered by western disturbances and helps to lower temperature, Das said. If it snows in
the Himalayan region, the icy winds could
return and reduce the minimum temperature in Kolkata around January 27-28, it had
been predicted. While the disturbances
moved closer as had been expected, the cyclonic circulations helped. It has pushed the
mercury up but will eventually lead to two
days of chill, said Das.
SFI bags arts; science, engg

shun mainstream parties
Debobrata Shome
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
NONE HELPED
ne manner, which led to an altercation. Soon after the argument, one of them was allegedly molested.
The girls dialled 100 but by
the time cops stopped the bus
near Sealdah Court, all three
fled. We are studying CCTV
footage around Sealdah and
Muchipara, said DC (central) Akhilesh Chaturvedi.
According to cops, the conductor and two passengers
claimed that nobody interfered as they felt the girls and
the molesters were known to
each other.
17C
14C
14C
You cant rule out another chilly spell. It depends on the flow of
north-westerly and western disturbances. There have been instances
of the mercury dipping to the seasons lowest in early February
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata: A 19-year-old girl

travelling on a bus to Sealdah
from Howrah with two other
friends was molested around 10pm on Thursday.
A case has been registered
at the Burrabazar police station but none has been arrested so far. According to cops,
three men boarded from CR
Avenue-MG Road crossing
and sat on a seat reserved for
women. One of the girls friends claimed that the accused
kept talking to her in an obsce-
13C
15C
15C
PROJECTION
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Girl molested
on bus near
Sealdah
LAST FEW DAYS
Kolkata: CPM may be losing

its ground steadily in the political landscape of Bengal but its
students arm SFI made a comeback in the Jadavpur University arts faculty union after
a two-year hiatus. Other two faculties science and engineering however, closed the doors on student organizations of
mainstream political parties.
Significantly,
Trinamool
Chhatra Parishad has lost all
the five office-bearers post.
Interestingly, a considerable number of students have opted for NOTA. Around 12% voters in engineering pressed the
NOTA button while in arts and
science, the figure stood at 10%.
In fact, NOTA came second in
at least two office-bearer posts
other than the GS in engineering faculty. A majority of
engineering students, as always, went with the Democratic
Students Front (DSF). However, this faculty saw a rise in the
saffron vote share. Independent candidate backed by
BJPs student wing ABVP Rohit Jha bagged 646 votes.
Science students opted for
the independents. We The In-
INDEPENDENTS STEAL SHOW

Humanities
No. 1 | SFI
No. 2 | FAS
Engineering
No. 1 | DSF
No. 2 | NOTA
Science
Students celebrate after the results were
announced on Friday
dependents (WTI) an independent organization romped home with flying colours.

The ripples were felt in the arts
faculty with another independent organisation Forum for
JU UNION POLL
Arts Students (FAS) making
a foray into key departments.
FAS and others in the Opposition AISA, DSO have been
more or less able to retain their
support base as SFI took advantage of the multi-pronged
contest.
SFI state president Madhu-
Govt raises WBCS age limit

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata:The state government on Friday decided to raise the upper age limit for the entry
of Group A and B category WBCS officers.
The state government decided to increase the upper age limit for entry of Group A officers from 32 to 36. For Group B officers, it has
been increased from 32 to 39, state
education minister Partha Chatterjee said.
Without going into the details, he said,
The state government will make a notification soon where all the details will be sharded,
including the relaxation for SC, ST and OBC
candidates.
The move is significant because chief mi-
nister Mamata Banerjee has been continuously asking for more responsibility for state
government officers. The increase of upper
age limit will allow more aspirants to sit for
exam and the state government will have a wide range of choice. The state government is
trying to fill up all the vacant posts and this
will reduce the states dependence on the
Centre, a top state government official said.
In a recent meeting of WBCS officers, the
chief minister had said that the state would
give equal importance to state executive officers along with the central cadres. She not only announced better promotion for the officers but also promised to send WBCS officers
abroad.
No. 1 | We The
Independents
No. 2 | SFI
ja Sen Roy congratulated JU

students for supporting the
party when some people had
written the Left off. Our victory in JU has come as a boost
to our comrades elsewhere in
the state where they are fighting against TMCP atrocities.
The JU vote is also a rejection
of the ABVP/RSS politics,
Sen said.
Independent candidate Rohit Jha isnt losing heart. I got
considerable number of votes.
We targeted 1,000 votes and could have reached the figure if
there was a good turnout of fourth year students, Jha said.
Jan cut-off for

prof retire age
Kolkata: The state government
on Friday increased the retirement age of full-time regular teachers, principals, librarians and
graduate laboratory instructors
in all state-aided universities and
colleges to 62 from 60. The benefit
is applicable for those who are in
service on January 1, 20l7, and are
scheduled to retire on or after January 31, 2017.
The state has also decided to
grant study leave to part-time teachers for a maximum period of 12
months at one go. TNN
Darj goes smoke-free; others to follow?

Basabdatta Sarkar
Deep Gazmer & Prithvijit Mitra
TNN
Kolkata/ Darjeeling: The hills have done

what the plains have failed to achieve ban
smoking in public. On Thursday, the district administration declared Darjeeling as
the first smoke-free district of Bengal. The
famous mall has been a no-smoking zone
for a few years now.
While the prohibition has been in force
since 2003, not a single district has been able
to achieve the feat so far. Four districts, however, have taken an initiative to prevent
smokers from lighting up indiscriminately.
In Kolkata, not a single conviction has
happened so far. But since smoking was
banned in public places, the Darjeeling administration has penalized105 people found
violating the law that came into effect in the
three hills sub-divisions on August 15, 2016.
We have got positive response from people. There will be cases when someone will
not heed the law. But, we are trying to deal
with it in the best possible way. So far, 105 people have been fined Rs 200 each for violating the ban, said Darjeeling DM Anurag
Srivastava.
The declaration has been made on the
basis of a third-party assessment conducted by MANT an NGO from January 17
to 21, based on the guidelines developed by
Johns Hopkins University, the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung
Disease and the Center for Tobacco Free
KILLER HABIT
36.3% | People
in Bengal use
tobacco
66% | Exposed
to passive
smoking in
public places
Shatrughan Sinha at a programme at

Loreto House, organized in association
with the Prabha Khaitan Foundation
Kids of the US.
Given the enormity of implementing
the law, the administration has mooted the
idea of adoption of areas by different organizations and schools. We cannot be everywhere. So we are in talks with various schools and organizations to convince them to
adopt areas where they will create awareness and convince people about the dangers
of smoking, said Srivastava.
While this was the right approach, the
stress should be on banning smoking in
public, felt Nirmalya Mukherjee, director,
MANT. A blanket ban is neither possible
`3,440cr | Bengal
spent on health
issues triggered by
tobacco in 2011
61 | Carcinogenic
chemicals found
in tobacco
I noticed that Shah Rukh

Khan was panting after
climbing just a flight of stairs.
This is because he smokes. I have
asked him to quit smoking. Girls
and women can play a big role in
helping fathers, brothers and
husbands to stop smoking
Shatrughan Sinha
nor has the desired effect. Make tobacco

scarce and ban use in public. Darjeeling has
done that effectively, said Mukherjee.
Even though Darjeeling has banished
smoking in public, the queen of hills is yet
to prohibit sale of tobacco products near
schools, colleges and government office
premises, he pointed out. This is a serious
issue since its been observed that most take
to smoking at the age of 17. According to a
study, if you can prevent a youngster from
getting hooked to cigarettes at 17, his chances of taking to the addiction later will be
84% less, Mukherjee added.
TIMES CITY
THE TIMES OF INDIA, KOLKATA

SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2017
Ace diver from

Bengal found
hanging in Mum
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata/Mumbai: A 22-yearold national-level diver, Tanuka Dhara, who was employed

as a junior clerk with Western
Railway (WR), was found
hanging at her central Mumbai residence on Thursday.
According to a Mumbai Police officer, the incident came
to light when Dharas friend visited her residence on Thursday and found the room locked
from inside.
When she did not respond
to calls, the friend, with the
help of neighbours, broke
down the front door and found
her hanging from a window
grille. She was rushed to hospital, but was declared dead,
added an officer.
Police said her body had
been sent for post-mortem.
The reason behind the suicide is yet to be ascertained and
our investigation is on, the officer added.
Apart from the numerous
medals she had won at the national level, Tanuka was a second-year accountancy (honours) student at Mumbais Soorajmal Jalan College.
The national-level swimmer was upbeat about moving
into her new Mumbai address
for which she had already been
granted a Rs 27-lakh bank
loan. There is no reason why
she would choose to end her
life. At 22, she had everything
to look forward to, said Tanmoy Majhi, a neighbour, who
stays next to Tanukas Dankuni residence.
LIFE CUT SHORT
Place of birth: Raghunathpur,

Hooghly (West Bengal)
RECENT WINS
70th Senior National
Aquatics Championships,
Ranchi, 2016: Silver medal
(1m springboard)
69th Senior National
Aquatics Championships,
Rajkot, 2015: Bronze
(3m springboard)
Kerala National Games 2015:
3 bronze medals (1m & 3m
springboard and highboard)
Olympics shooter and Arjuna awardee Joydeep Karmakar posted on Facebook: Left
out of words to hear about the
unnatural death of one of our
most talented sports diver Tanuka Dhara. Would urge the
authorities to investigate into
the matter and get the truth
out soon.
Tanuka, who started as a
gymnast, took up diving seriously in 2007 after she suffered a
leg injury. She won quite a few
medals in her fledgling career.
India has lost an extremely promising diver. It is a sad incident and I want the truth to
come out. Having successfully
switched from gymnastics to
diving, she was an inspiration
for many, said Ramanuj
Mukhopadhyay, the president of the Bengal Amateur Swimming Association.
TIMES CITY

Safe Drive Save Life campaign Stripes spotted near

cuts down on helmetless deaths Neora, second in a week
Pic courtesy: CWLW, Bengal
Total Accidents BLOOD ON ROAD

Year
Case
Death
Also Drop
2016
388
407
During Period
2015
Dwaipayan.Ghosh
@timesgroup.com
Kolkata: The Kolkata Polices Safe Drive Save Life campaign seems to have been effective as the number of deaths owing to helmetless twowheeler ride has halved ever
since the drive was launched.
Between July 8 and December 31, 2016the safety
drive was launched on July
832 helmetless bikers and
pillion riders died on city roads, while the figure in the
corresponding period the
previous year stood at 61. During the drive, a total 184 accidents were registered in the
city, in which 195 people were
killed. Among the death toll
were 55 riders and pillion riders, comprising those with
and without helmets. The
same period saw the deaths of
95 pedestrians. The corre-
Top cop
appears
before court
Year
2016
2015
412
422
Non-Fatal
Crash
Injured
2,650
2,761
3,182
3,329
After Safe Drive Save Life Was Launched

From July 8 To Dec 31, 2016
184
216 195
220
Before Safe Drive Save Life Was

Launched From July 8 To Dec 31, 2015
55
Total
cases
Deaths
sponding period in 2015 saw

216 accidents, in which 220 people died. Seventy-two riders,
with and without helmets,
and 101 pedestrians lost their
lives during the six months.
Thanks to the drive, the total accidental deaths recor-
Total riders and

pillion riders dead
Jail extortion
racket busted
Barasat: A gang of extortionists and drug-runners was busted at Basirhat on Friday after
police traced an extortion call to
the Alipore Central Correctional Home in Kolkata a few days
ago. The extortion call was made
by 23-year-old Anil Mistry who is
an accomplice of notorious
gangster Sona. Mistry was an inmate of the correctional home
when he made the call.
On Sunday evening, Shyamal Kar, a businessman from
Basirhat received a call on his
mobile. The caller told him:
You are a supplier. Hand over
Rs 5 lakh to my men within three
days or prepare to die.
Kar rushed to Basirhat police station and a probe was started. The call was traced to the
correctional home. During probe, police came to know that the
caller was Mistry. After taking
due permission from court, police took Mistry into their custody
and started questioning him.
Mistry admitted that money collected in this manner is used to
meet legal expenses and other
expenses of
Mistry and
other criminals behind bars.
Sanjib Chakraborty
Pedestrians
dead
accidents also came down

from 3,329 in 2015 to 3,182 the
next year.
The campaign launched
by chief minister Mamata
Banerjee is clearly having its
impact, with more bikers wearing their helmets now, sa-
Pic: Debobrata Shome
Kolkata: The owner and an employee of

an eatery at Salt Lake were arrested on Republic Day for allegedly throwing hot oil
on a group of elderly customers following
adispute.
After their routine morning walk, the
group of 12 stopped at Sharma Tea at CF
Block and ordered tea when a man, selling
idli in a cart, approached. Some from the
group bought idli from him and strated to
chi on Friday directed the police commissioner to file a detailed affidavit over the rejection
in two weeks. It is another matter that the court finally gave
permission to RSS to hold the
rally on that day under police
surveillance.
If a senior officer cant uphold the majesty of the court,
how will the subordinate officers learn to obey the court order? Justice Bagchi asked.
State advocate general Jayanta Mitra submitted that the police commissioners action
was unintentional. Mitra
submitted: He was aware of
the court directive. He had
other preoccupations, the joint commissioner thus considered the application and turned it down. But the court
was not satisfied with the submission.
Helmetless riders and

pillion riders dead
Eatery owner, employee held for

throwing hot oil on customers
Kolkata: Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar on Friday

appeared before Calcutta high
court court on a suo motu contempt rule against the top cop
for not complying with the court order.
A single bench of Justice
Joymalya Bagchi on January
11 had directed the police commissioner to consider personally an RSS application seeking permission to hold a rally
at the Brigade Parade Ground
three days later on January 14.
The court found to its dismay
that the application was turned down by the joint commissioner of police. Justice Bag-
101
61
ded through 2016 dropped to

the lowest figure in the past
half decade to 407. The previous year, the number stood
at 422. In 2016, pedestrian deaths also reduced to 193 from
218 in 2015.
Those injured in non-fatal
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division bench of acting Chief

Justice and Justice Tapabrata
Chakrabarty directed Midnapore
SP Bharati Ghosh and OC of
Sabang PS to be present in
person on February 2 and explain
their action over a case of tree
felling under Golpai panchayat.
Surprisingly, state lawyer Pranab
Dutta sought the courts directive
asking senior cops of the district
to be present and explain
themselves. TNN
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72
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Court order for SP
32
id additional CP (I) Vineet Goel, adding the results of 20,000

public transport drivers taking driving lessons at traffic
guards were also evident.
The police figures, however, seemed to look away from
the worrying factors that TOI
has dug up. In 2015, 412 fatal
accidents led to 422 deaths, accounting for 1.02 deaths per
case. In 2016, 388 fatal accidents led to the deaths of 407
people, accounting for 1.04 deaths per accident. Besides,
while there were merely 11deaths of people wearing helmets between July and December in 2015, 23 such deaths
were registered this year.
Three persons were killed in
a single accident at the Alipore Road-AJC Bose Road crossing when a car jumped the
signals and rammed into pedestrians. Even on Friday, a
minibus-taxi collision injured three persons grievously.
New stretches, including flyovers like Maa and AJC Bose,
are seeing speeding. Single
accidents are claiming more
lives than ever before, an officer said.
The dispute took place between the owner

and staffers at Salt Lakes Sharma Tea and a
group of elderly morning-walkers
have it, sitting on the tea stalls chairs. Seeing the crowd around the food cart, the eatery owner raised an objection and told
the vendor to move away. As an argument
broke out, an employee of Sharmas Tea
Stall pushed the food cart, which escalated the fight, with him allegedly snatching the vendors containers. When the
morning-walkers raised an objection, the
employee threw hot oil at them. The oil
fell on some of us, scalding us. Three of us
Neighbours splash boiling water

on woman with 3 dogs, 15 cats
A
48-year-old woman was
scalded with hot water
allegedly by her neighbours,
apparently for keeping pets at her
home near Dhaka Kalibari on
Prince Anwar Shah Road.
We are probing if there were
other reasons behind the attack,
including a property dispute,
said a Jadavpur PS cop.
Victim Srabanti Sen has been
working for animals for the past
26 years. I now keep a stray dog at my place,
besides a disabled Spitz, a Labrador and 15
cats. On January 20, four of my neighbours,
who have access to my terrace, locked out
my domestic help along with one of the
dogs. I had to call the Jadavpur police to
rescue them and then, lodged a complaint,
she claimed. On January 21, Sen lodged a
second complaint after the

neighbours allegedly filmed
her and her help. Finally on
Republic Day, I was walking my
dogs around 6am when four
neighbours, related to each
other, attacked me, grabbed
me by the hair and kept yelling,
tor kukur posha amra dekhe
nebo (we will see how you
keep those dogs). They then
suddenly threw boiling water
on my hand, said Sen, who works with
Debasree Roy Foundation. Sen again lodged
a complaint but by the time the police
arrived, the main accused had fled.
The neighbours claimed Sen had
attacked them with blades when asked to
clam down her barking dogs. Cops said they
received complaints from both sides. TNN
sustained severe injuries on the neck and

back and had to be taken to hospital, Salt
Lake BD Block resident Vinay Dubey
mentioned in the police complaint.
Following the attack, more people gathered near the shop, broke the glass panes
and had a scuffle with the employees till
the police reached the spot.
Based on the morning-walkers complaint at the Bidhannagar North police station, shop owner Prakash Jalan and wai-
ter Bhola Kumar were arrested in the afternoon for causing grievous hurt and
causing grievous hurt by dangerous means or weapons. If found guilty, they could
be in jail for up to 10 years.
TOI found the shop operating as usual
in Friday. There was a miscommunication between customers and our employees and we are sorry for what happened. We
have sorted out the matter and we dont
want to discuss it, said one of the owners.
HOWRAH BRIDGE ACCIDENT

TOI
College girl
jumps off
Bally bridge
Rupak Banerjee
A minibus trying to overtake another bus from right rammed into a

Mahindra Scorpio on Howrah Bridge on Friday evening, injuring
three elderly passengers and the driver of the car. Police said the
speeding minibus was heading towards Deys Medical from Howrah
station. The car passengers and the driver were taken to Calcutta
Medical College and Hospital and later shifted to a private hospital.
The bus driver managed to flee. The accident led to a traffic congestion on the bridge around 6pm for more than half-an-hour till the
police removed the two vehicles from the spot. Police have started a
case of rash and negligent driving against the bus driver and seized
the two vehicles
Howrah: A 22-year-old BCom

third-year student at north
Kolkatas Rammohan College
allegedly jumped off Bally
bridge on Friday evening.
Till last reports came in,
police, with the help of divers,
were searching for Ekta
Singh.
According to witnesses,
the girl left her bag on the ground and jumped off the bridge. Officers of Bally police station, who were on duty, rushed
to the spot and came to know
about the girls name and address after searching her bag.
The cops then contacted
her family at Liluahs Rabindra Sarani.
Police said that prima facie it seems Singh was not
happy with the marriage fixed by her parents. She left the
house on Friday afternoon,
apparently after having an altercation at home.
KrishnenduMukherjee &
Pinak Priya Bhattacharya TNN
Kolkata/Jalpaiguri:In a span
of just four days, a tiger was photographed for the second time
near Kalimpongs Neora Valley
National Park. Such photographic evidences are being reported after a gap of almost three
decades, if not more, from the
wild of north Bengal.
After a local cab driver, Anmol Chhetri, photographed a
big cat between Pedong and Lava on January 19, the foresters
decided to lay camera traps in
the area. Four camera trap stations were laid on Saturday and
atiger was photographed in one
of the cameras on Monday
night. Whether its the same tiger is not yet known.
Since the tiger clicked by
Chhetri has its left flank recorded with a boulder guarding
most of the body and the one
clicked in the camera trap has
its right flank recorded, it wont
be possible for foresters to
match stripe patterns. Chief
wildlife warden Pradeep Vyas
said: Pugmarks have also been
spotted inside the park. We will
soon procure 200 sets of cameras and install them in north
Bengal forests. We have already
cleared a Rs 60 lakh project to
use technology to assess the presence of tigers and other animals in north Bengal. Sumita
Ghatak, conservator of forests,
northern circle, said only three
months ago, pugmarks and
scats were found in a few forest
blocks of Neora Valley.
With three cattle kills being
reported from the area in the
200 CAMERAS FOR N BENGAL

Kanchenjunga
National Park
Sikkim
Gangtok
Bhutan
Darjeeling Lava
Neora
Valley
WEST BENGAL
The tiger was clicked on Monday. Many feel it can be another big
cat as it appears bigger in size than the one clicked on January 19
Jan 19: Tiger clicked between

Pedong and Lava
rescued near Mahananda

that later died
Jan 23: Tiger clicked in trap

camera in nearby area
Number of big cats pegged

by WII in Buxa-Jaldapara
landscape:
Aug 1999: An old tiger was

last few days, foresters have already started restricting the
movement of villagers near the
park. Vyas said a dialogue with
villagers has already been started.
Conservationist Animesh
Bose said: We should install cameras more frequently inside
Neora Valley now and find out
whether theres movement of tigers inside the park. If not, then
we should try and find out possible reasons behind that, including impact of dense malingo
bamboo grove that often makes
hunting difficult for tigers.
Many say tiger movements
could have been recorded here if
cameras were laid earlier. Amid
the euphoria, many now want
to know whether its a resident
tiger or a transient one. Conservationist Biswapriya Rahut said: One should not restrict oneself to Neora Valley only while
trying to track its movement.
Amit Moulick
Kolkata: History has never been the

cup of tea for Rushali Saha and Anoushka Saha, second year students at Jadavpur Universitys international relations department. But, after listening
to William Dalrymples speech on Friday afternoon at the first edition of
TedX organised by JU, they now want
to leaf through the pages of Indian history once again.
Though it was the day when students were eagerly awaiting the announcement of the results of the elections of JU, the turnout at Dalrymples
talk was overwhelming. Manoswini
Sarkar, a second-year student of international relations, said: I had heard
his earlier talks. But this was too good.
Despite it being an election results day,
Kolkata: A gang of robbers

barged into a businessmans
house on the northern fringes
of the city early on Friday, held
his wife a bank official at
gunpoint and beat her up before
making away with gold ornaments and cash worth Rs 10
lakh. The incident took place
near Titagarhs Palta. No one
has been arrested yet.
Police said around 2.30am,
seven armed goons raided the
residence of Biddyut Dutta, an
iron scrap dealer whos also associated with spare parts business. He was out of Bengal in
connection with his business.
Duttas wife Bithika, who
Russian author Maxim Amelin (3rd from left) at the book fair on Friday
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Kolkata: BDM International showcased 50

years of glory during its 2016-17 annual fest at
the Nazrul Mancha. The first day began with
the felicitation of the chief guests, actor Samadarshi Dutta and veteran director Raja
Sen, followed by the lighting of the lamp by
dignitaries which included the CEO, SL Gupta; the principal, Vijaya Chaudhuri and the director of education, Ruma Basu. The principal spoke about the two days of entertainment
as being an important learning experience for
the students along the lines of fighting stage
fright and upholding a cooperative spirit.
The first performance by Garia 2 branch
transported all to the fairyland of
Snow White and Red Riding Hood. We
Too Can Win by the Boral branch narrated the tale of Leo, a dyslexic child,
who possessed mystic powers. The students of Mahamayatala branch sparkled in The Evolution of Men that
represented universal tranquility and
brotherhood. Students of the Golf Garden
branch delivered a scintillating presentation
thematized on Dashavatar. The next events
theme was of modern mans existentialism
expressed through his mechanical living and
was staged by P2 (Day).
A performance on the theme of Swachch
Bharat (Vibgyor) was conducted by the Bansdroni branch students. Garia 1 celebrated the
I can give advice in a particular path of history

that I followed, which is working outside the
academia as a writer. The key is to find a part of
history that is not well-known. There are a million people who
have written about the freedom struggle. A lot of people wrote about
the golden age of the Mughals. Lot of people wrote about the golden
age of the Guptas. But in between, there are famous periods. There
are fantastic thickets of history waiting to be untangled and if you
read Persian, it really helps because so much of North India is written
in Persian and no one else reads itIf you can get Urdu, Persian and
Sanskrit, youre the master of the world
some 700-800 students turned up.
Of course, one reason for it was the
interest in the launch of Dalrymple
and Anita Anands new book Kohinoor: The Story of the Worlds Most Infa-
mous Diamond. We British are pretty

good at looting this country. In fact, loot
was one of the very first Hindi words to
have entered the English language. But
we were rank amateurs in comparison
at N 24 Pgns
traders house
Sanjib Chakraborty
Fun & frolic at BDMI fest
WORDS OF ADVICE
Its a bigger landscape covering

adjoining forests of Bhutan,
Sikkims Pangolakha and Bengals Neora Valley, Gorumara
and Mahananda. Tigers are territorial animals and can travel
long distance for mates. We have
to take all this into account and
protect the corridors that link
these landscapes, he added.
Citing importance of the
landscape, environmentalist A
K Ghosh said how he and late
Kishore Chowdhury led an expedition to the park in 1980 to do
a feasibility study for states water supply project in its upper reaches. We sighted leopards, several species of plants and
birds. We had asked the state to
prepare an alternative scheme
then. The project was stalled at
that time, he recalled. The park
reaches up to an elevation of
10600 ft at Rachela Danda, the
highest point of Neora Valley,
bordering Sikkim and Bhutan.
RUSSIAN TOUCH TO BOOK FAIR `10-lakh heist
A performance by students at the event
gift of nature, Childhood. A half-an-hour performance by the Vijaygarh branch was called
Rainbow and it was as lively as its
name. The last event was by the P2
morning section called Maya Ravana
that reviewed the Ramayana, not as a
tale consisting of black and white
characters but lending each one of
them realistic shades of grey.
Jawhar Sircar, former CEO, Prasad Bharti, was the chief guest on the second
day. He spoke about the importance of communication skills in English and how the
school should play the biggest role in developing it among the students.
The prize distribution ceremony saw
achievers from all fields being acknowledged
and rewarded for their results that won their
school a lot praise.
Hooked on Dalrymple and history talks

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to Nadir Shah, Dalrymple said.

If Dalrymples 18-minute-talk cleared many misconceptions about the
complex history of the Kohinoor,
Anand completed him with further
anecdotes on the curse thats associated with the diamond. Visual slides made the talk even more interesting. Not
just JU students, Dalyrmple also had
listeners from Presidency University.
We took him to the university guesthouse where he had an authentic
Bengali lunch with rice, daal, fish and
doi. While taking a stroll, he went past
the ponds. Though he loved the campus, he wished the ponds were cleaner.
He was curious about the hoarding explaining the functioning of internal
complaints committee, Rushali said.
Once the talk was over, the author took
questions from students.
ROBBERY AT
GUNPOINT
works with SBIs Suri branch,
and their two kids were in their
three-storey apartment when
the incident took place. The robbers first broke in through a collapsible gate then opened the
main door.
On hearing some noise we
woke up and found the masked
men holding arms against me.
When I shouted, two of the gang
members gagged and tied me,
my son and daughter. They also
beat me up. Then they broke
open two wardrobes and looted
the valuables kept there, Bithika said. According to her, the
robbers looted 15 bhori gold ornaments worth Rs 5.5 lakh and
cash of Rs 4.5 lakh.
Body found
Kolkata: The body of a 35-yearold man was found in Keshtopur on Friday morning. He has
been identified as Arun Sarkar,
a local fish seller. The morning
walkers found the body lying
beside a drain at Rabindrapally. He was lying on his stomach
and there was an injury mark
on his forehead. Police later
sent the body for post mortem.
Preliminary report revealed
Sarkar was drunk. Its possible that he had suffered injury
after falling in the drain, said
police. TNN
Delhi
Tomorrow
Pune
Tomorrow
Mumbai
87
164
120
112
153
Tomorrow 146
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Moderate
Moderate
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Moderate
Moderate
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Hyderabad
Chennai
Kolkata
SWACHH
BHARAT
AIR QUALITY INDEX
PM2.5
137 Moderate
46 Good
323 Very Poor
US Embassy data calculated as per Indian

standards by SAFAR@MoES-IITM-IMD
Based on 1 Station Data Per City at 4pm
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Roads cleared, but

Bhangar stir still on
Agitators To Take Out Kolkata Rally On Mon
Biplab Mondal
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Bhangar: The back-to-back

arrests of CPI-ML (Red Star)
senior leaders Sharmistha
Chowdhury and Pradip
Singh Thakur, spearheading
the Bhangar protests under
the banner of Jami, Jibika,
Bastutantra O Paribesh
Raksha Committee threatened to ignite a fresh flare-up
in the strife-torn zone on
Thursday. The protesters on
Friday, however, responded
by calling off their blockade
an immediate fallout of the
arrests and announcing a
long-drawn political battle
that will start with a protest
rally in Kolkata on Monday.
Charged with attempt to
murder and illegal possession of arms and explosives,
among others, Chowdhury
and Thakur were remanded
in eight days police custody
till February 3. The same
charges were slapped against
a local Shahnawaz Mollah
who was ferrying Chowdhury when they were intercepted on Wednesday. While
the arrest of journalist-turned-activist Chowdhury put
Bhangar on edge, septuagenarian Thakurs arrest on
Thursday led to protesters
putting up road blockades in
18 places, primarily in Bokdoba and Natunhat, which choke off an entire road stretch,
and the villages Khamarait, Machhi Bhanga, Tona and
Padmapukur which hem
the now-abandoned Powergrids Rajarhat 400/220 KV
sub-station.
Police were relegated to
the sidelines on Thursday
and it took Bidhannagar mayor and Rajathat-New Town
MLA Sabyasachi Dutta to
step into Bhangar again on
Thursday evening with his
followers. For the second time, Dutta and his aides removed the roadblocks. Agitators should not feel that the
administration is weak. We
want to restore peace and
bring normalcy, he said, but
his action sparked another
round of agitation. Dutta had
Locals help remove a roadblock in Bhangar
CM calls for new land conversion rule
aking lessons from the Bhangar movement, the Mamata

Banerjee government is not ready to take any chances when it
comes to conversion of land. At Fridays cabinet meeting, the CM
instructed ministers to draft a proposal so that cabinet approval is
made mandatory for conversion of any agricultural land for
industrial purpose. This process is currently handled by block-level
officers. Banerjee has also asked that all conversions from
agriculture to industrial be put on hold till further orders.
The proposal, likely to come up in the next cabinet meeting, is
significant because, during the Bhangar land movement, there has
been allegation from several quarters that the district-level
Trainamool leadership in connivance with some district-level
officials have misled the people and acquired the land. The chief
minister wants to find out what actually happened in Bhangar.
Though the movement has died down, the state wants a concrete
solution on land-related issues, an official said.
For now, the government has decided that apart from setting
up a farmhouse or a poultry farm, any agricultural plot that needs
to be converted for industrial purpose has to get permission from
the state cabinet, said a senior cabinet minister.
Sources in the state secretariat said the state wants to act fast
so that agitations do not start anywhere else in the state.
However, there is a chance of delay in looking into all proposals,
which might have a negative impact on industrialists, an
official said. TNN
to go back, the task half-finished. According to Trinamool

sources, Duttas speech angered the locals and threatened
to undo the partys week-long
outreach to regain a toe-hold
in the zone after January 17.
Committee convener and
senior CPI-ML (Red Star) leader Alik Chakraborty told the
media on Friday: The blocks
will be removed, but protests
will go on. It is apparent who
the people are with when you
see Dutta getting brickbats
and an outpouring of support
when our leaders are arrested. I appeal to all to join us on
the protest rally on January
30 from College Square.
State education minister
Partha Chatterjee, however,
said, The withdrawal of the
movement shows that the people of Bhangar are not with

the outsiders, but with Mamata Banerjee. The movement of Bhangar can never
be compared with Singur.
This government is committed to the people and we will
never acquire a single inch of
land without the consent of
the people. It has become
obvious now that the opposition were trying to create disturbance in the area..
In another development,
additional SP (East Zone) South 24-Parganas Arijit Sinha
was transfered to take over as
SS, CID, Bengal. Bhangar
used to be under Sinhas jurisdiction till the transfer.
(With inputs from
Monotosh Chakraborty)
TMC to skip pre-Budget

all-party meet in Delhi
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Kolkata: Trinamool, which has been vocal

against demonetisation, on Friday decided
to skip the pre-budget all-party meet in
New Delhi on January 30. Chief minister
Mamata Banerjee has directed all party
In the name of cashless

transactions, the cash has
disappeared. Despite all the
hardships due to
demonetisation, our humane
government is with the
people. Due to the
note-bandi, our revenue
earning has slowed down. But
we have not cut any of
our programmes
Mamata Banerjee |
CHIEF MINISTER
MPs to attend a meeting at her Kalighat residence instead, and is likely to chart out a
road-map for the session from February 1
to February 9.
Trinamool spokesperson Derek OBrien said, Trinamool chairperson Mamata
Banerjee will chair a meeting of party MPs
at the party office in Kalighat on Monday,
January 30 at 12.30pm.
Incidentally, the chief minister has already questioned the February 1 date for
the Union budget. The day is a state holiday
in Bengal due to Saraswati Puja. Banerjee
had earlier asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Why don't we celebrate Saraswati Puja in a big way instead of presenting
Union Budget on February 1? Do Saraswati
bandana and not your bandana.
However, the Apex court has rejected
lawyer Manohar Lal Sharmas plea seeking postponement of the Union Budget to
March due to the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Manipur, Goa and Uttarakhand next month. Trinamool has a direct stake in the Punjab elections where it
is contesting 20 assembly seats, in at least
five of which senior party leaders sniff a
victory plot.
Speaking at a function on the occasion
of Khadya Sathi Dibas at Red Road on Friday, the CM said her government has not
cut down on the social and welfare programmes despite revenue earnings falling
due to demonetisation. In the name of
cashless transactions, the cash has disappeared. Despite all the hardships due to demonetisation, our humane government is
beside the people, she said. Due to the note-bandi, our revenue earning has slowed
down. But we have not cut any of our programmes. We will work for the people.
A day before the Budget, on January 31,
President Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled
to address both houses of Parliament.
Mamata firm on ending

violent protests in state
Subhojyoti Kanjilal
Continued from P 1
he Tamil Nadu Public
Property (Prevention
of Damage and Loss)
Act that has penal provisions
against offenders doing damage to companies other
than public institutions includes the compensation
clause. The affected person
may claim compensation.
The chief minister has
gone a step ahead in making
the compensation clause more stringent, tying it to market prices. And under the proposed law, the accused will have to prove his innocence.
Even office bearers of the organisation calling the agitation may be booked for fomenting trouble.
The move sends out a signal that she is determined to
take the state out of the violent protest mode. Her announcement came as a warning
Mamata Banerjee at the inauguration of Khadya Sathi Prakalpa

and Police Medal in Kolkata on Friday
to the opposition and Trinamool office bearers as well.

I appeal to the people to
stay calm and not fall into the
provocation trap. No one has
the right to damage properties. A political party shouldnt
do all this, neither should it
open fire. If someone has a
problem with the police, he
may reach out to higher authorities and submit a memorandum. The door for dialogue is open. People shouldnt
take law in their own hands.
A section is damaging properties and another is trying
to fan communal sentiments
through social media, the
chief minister said.
14-year-old girls body found, cops suspect rape

Bankura: The body of a 14-year-old was found in
Bankuras Taldangra on Thursday, three days after
she went missing. The Class-VIII students body
was found nude and possibly raped. Her mother
had lodged a missing dairy with Taldangra police
Fire at
slum
Kolkata: Five families lost their
belongings in a fire at Krishnapally, a slum in Ultadanga, on Friday.
Five fire tenders
doused the flames in an hour.
Local
resident Swapan Dolui saved several
people, but sustained eight stitches on his head.
Officials suspect
the blaze started
from a short circuit and ordered
aprobe to find the
exact cause. TNN
on January 23, saying the girl didnt return home after attending a wedding. Locals handed over the body to cops after Khatra SDPO Bishop Sarkar assured them of a probe. Sarkar added that a few suspects have been identified. Falguni Banerjee
THE TIMES OF INDIA | KOLKATA

SATURDAY | JANUARY 28, 2017
CULTURE CAULDRON
Unchained:Indus melody
Several excavated artefacts
point to a rich musical
history of the HarappaMohenjo Daro civilization.
Now, city scholars are part
of a quest to unearth the
ancient refrains, reports
Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey
INSTRUMENT ANCESTORS
NANDI VEENA
This instrument belongs to the lyre family with

a body designed like a bull. Hence the name
(Nandi = bull) There are no comparable
instruments in todays Indian music
KUMBH TARANGINI
Made using metallic pots. Its a tuned metallic
percussion instrument.
There is archaeological evidence which
suggests existence of this instrument. This
also explains the mystery why such pots are
found at Indus sites in similar groups at some
places and not found at all at others. No
directly comparable instruments in todays
Indian music. Although clay pots are still used
like the ghatam, tonal qualities are very
different
FLUTE
he name Indus Valley civilization flashes

many images in the mind. Perhaps the foremost of these is the figurine of the Dancing
Girl a slim bejewelled standing figure, one
hand resting on the hip, the other dangling.
But if she was a dancer, then what music or
tune was she performing to? This is one question that has been thrown up by Indus Valley
researchers time and again and now there is
finally a project encompassing leading archaeology and music departments of universities
and other academic institutions that claims
to have made a breakthrough into the mystery.
Christened Songs of Mystery, this project
has music composers teaming up with academics who have together recreated at least
10 instruments that might have been most
popular during the mature stage of the Harappan civilization. Scholars from the Rabindra
Bharati University (RBU) and Satyajit Ray
Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) are part
of the project that has found support from
senior personalities from Indian classical stalwarts like Pandit Jasraj and top contemporary
One of the oldest melodic instruments. The

fundamental design is very similar to that of
modern wooden flutes commonly used today
DRUMS (MEMBRANOPHONES)
There are 3 such instruments shown
Large dhol-like instrument: Similar

instruments are still used in India. Also
shown in some Indus seals
Daf-like (frame drum) instrument: Similar

instruments can still be seen in India in
many forms
Small drum: Used in

India in many forms.
METALLIC PERCUSSION
There are 3 instruments shown
Manjeera-like
instrument: Very
commonly used in many
forms in India
Metallic stick with jingles: Not commonly

found today but some
of the oldest tribes in India
are still using similar
instruments
RELIVING THE PAST: (Top) performers are seen with a Dancing Girl replica; (above) snapshots of Songs of Mystery with the recreated instruments
These large dhol-like instruments are still used in various

forms across the country
musicians like Shankar Mahadevan. The leading figure of the project, Shail Vyas, is a Mumbai-based composer who has worked in many
Bollywood and ad films.
He was in the city the whole of last week
and a part of this, lecturing on the project at
RBU and SRFTI. He will be back soon, this
time at Jadavpur University, because talks are
on about including history department of JU
as well in this project.
Not only has Vyas identified and tried to
create prototypes of lyre, lute and percussion
categories of musical instruments for his project based on the evidence he has put together with the help of archaeological facts
provided by leading archaeologists of the
country he has even tried to record music
composed from these instruments, a footage
of which he has uploaded on YouTube. It has
gone viral. Among the instruments he has

identified and named are the Nandi Veena,
Kumbh Tarangini, dhols or membranophones
of different shape, size and sound variation,
flutes, metallic percussions like the manjeera,
a metallic stick with jingles, a gong-like instrument and wooden percussions in the form of
quintessential sticks.
Apart from his lengthy training in classical
music from Pandit Rajendra Vaishnav of the
Japipur gharana, Vyas is also a Trinity College, London, topper in Western classical music with specialization in piano. This has
helped him to do a comparative study of the
purported Indus Valley instruments with
similar ones in its contemporary civilisations
of the West.
Latest researches backed by historical
evidence and archaeological excavations have
more or less accepted that the history of India
can be pushed back to the Indus civilization,
which is now being touted to be over 8,000
years old as against the earlier belief of 5,000
years. Unfortunately, when it comes to the history of music in India, we tend to get stuck at
1,000 years at the most. We tend to start at
Hindustani raag sangeet, which probably
started with Muslim invasions, rues Vyas.
The reality is that music thrived when Harappa and Mohenjo Daro prospered as the twin
vestiges of the Indus civilization. So you have
the seal where a male figure is shown drumming his fingers on two sides of a dhol-like
instrument. We have seen this seal for years
but unfortunately, nothing has been done to

establish the identity of the instrument that
this man is holding, despite its great likeness
to what we know as the dhol today, argues
Vyas.
Same is the case with the Nandi Veena a
stringed instrument that belongs to the lyre
family. The design of the instrument is like a
bull and this too has been found in seals discovered at Indus Valley sites. While we have
seen images of this instrument on seals and
would like to believe it was a veena of sorts,
or perhaps the precursor of all veenas, there
is no evidence to pinpoint the name of the
instrument. I have called it the Nandi Veena
because it is shaped like a bull, Vyas said. A
lot of information gathered from the seals and
inscriptions is pictorial, which historians
have tried to put together in an effort to declassify the civilization. However, the most important links that lay encrypted in its script have
not yet been deciphered. And therein lies the
problem of nomenclature. For the moment,
we can only look at shapes and name them
accordingly till scholars are able to read
Harappan script, Vyas reasons. The bridge
(one of the most crucial parts of any stringed
instrument) was discovered at Lothal; keeping
this as the fulcrum, the research on the Veena
has been done.
The Kumbh Tarangini is similarly a tuned
metallic percussion. These pots have always
been found in groups fixed to a spot following
a serial pattern. Archaeologists have sug-
gested these upturned pots definitely had

some use other than as cookware or utensil.
If you play these instruments together from
either side, you will notice there is a rhythmic
pattern in the sound, Vyas says. These seem
to be very popular during the times, considering their repeated availability at many Indus
sites. The instrument has lost its relevance
today and hence doesnt exist, except the
ghatam (a percussion instrument mostly used
in Carnatic) that also uses clay pots but the
tonal qualities are very different.
The seven-holed flute, discovered as an artefact at the Indus Valley, has provided crucial
clues to the project when it recreated flute
designs. The Ravanakatha a small stringed
instrument, would remind one of the ektara.
Scholars associated with the project have gone
on to study a 9,000-year-old flute that is preserved in China. A part of the project suggests
vocal music was widely popular at this time
though it is not possible to arrive at a conclusion regarding songs because of the lack of
knowledge about the language of HarappaMohenjo Daro. In the track that has been created for the project, one does hear an accompanying vocal performance, which is just a
collection of sounds, sometimes lilting and
sometimes guttural and jerky. The voice box
is the most ancient music instrument in the
world. It is foolish to think the voice box has
not been used to hum tunes and craft songs by
a civilization as rich and as advanced as the
Indus Valley, says Vyas.
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
Gong-like instrument: Found commonly in

temples across the country
Singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan has

started publicizing the project to spread
awareness. It is sad we were limiting our
knowledge of music all this while. Musical
evidence on seals was always there but our
quest for Indus Valley music has just started.
I run an online music school that has students
from across the world. I am going to launch
Songs of Mystery there so that the world gets
to know how ancient our tradition is, he says.
Deccan College and Mumbai University
have also joined hands in the project. It is just
a start. We have a long way to go. Just creating
a few look-alike instruments will not take us
far. We need to study the whole gamut of facts
to add depth to the project, says Vasant Shinde, vice-chancellor of Deccan College.
RBUs dean of the faculty of fine arts, Debashish Mandal, feels: You will have to see
the video to believe the depth of imagination
of the project. The music is completely different Perhaps greater explorations in this
direction will lead us to unlocking many more
doors in history.
Bollywood sound technologist Avinash
Oak, who has worked in films like Devdas,
Sarfarosh, Rudaali and Maachis, is also associated with the project. Who knows, our
search for Indus Valley music might one day
help us rewrite the known annals of ancient
Indian history through music, he hopes.
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AFTER SENA ENDS ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC POLLS,

NCP SAYS IT WILL NOT BAIL OUT BJP IN MAHA | 9
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AS CAPITAL GAINS, NOT BUSINESS INCOME: ITAT | 11
SC slams Centre on farmer suicides

Seeks Reply
On Solatium
Framework
In 4 Weeks
Dhananjay.Mahapatra
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Having dealt

with farmers suicide raised
in many PILs earlier, the Supreme Court on Friday found
it strange that there was no
national policy to compensate tillers for crop failure or indebtedness, two major reasons for them to take their lives.
A bench of Chief Justice J
S Khehar and Justice N V Ramana was dealing with a
three-year-old appeal filed by
an NGO led by Mallika Sarabhai questioning the rationale
behind the Gujarat high courts decision not to entertain its PIL seeking relief for
farmers, nearly 600 of whom

had committed suicide between 2004 and 2012.
The CJI said: It is rather
strange that there have been
several incidents of farmers
suicide, yet there is no national policy to protect them
from crop failure leading to
their indebtedness. There
must be a policy to compensa-
te farmers for crop failure.

This is a national issue and of
larger public interest.
Petitioners counsel Colin
Gonsalves and Gujarat counsel Pritesh Kapur agreed
with the bench.
The bench suo motu decided to convert the appeal into
a PIL and issued notices to
the Centre, states and Union
3 months too little

for contempt: SC
Cow slaughter
ban is states
call: Court
Territories. It asked them to

file responses within four weeks. It said participation of all
governments in formulating
a national framework for payment of compensation to farmers distressed by natural
calamities was imperative.
The Centre informed the
court that the NDA government had launched a comprehensive crop insurance scheme under Pradhan Mantri
Fasal Bima Yojana, which assured a certain sum of money
for crop failure because of localised incidents and postharvest losses.
The bench said: If there
is a natural calamity, there
should be a policy to give compensation to farmers.
In February last year, the
SC had refused to entertain a
petition seeking a directive to
the government to fix minimum support price of agricultural products. A bench
headed by then CJI T S Thakur had said: We are not supposed to go into policy mat-
ters. It is for the government

to see and take decision. These are matters which are between people and the government... It is a problem of governance and the government has to take measures.
We are not sitting in judgment over policies.
The petition before the
bench of justices Khehar and
Ramana was an appeal filed
by Citizens Resource and Action Initiative against the
HCs July 10, 2013 decision declining to entertain its writ
petition seeking relief for
farmers. The NGO had sought Rs 5 lakh compensation each to families of farmers who
committed suicide over crop
failure and aid at the rate of
Rs 30,000 per hectare to farmers suffering crop failure.
But the HC refrained from
issuing any directive to the
state government and said:
These are all policy matters
and what policy will suit the
interest of farmers has to be
decided by the government.
SC for debate to
free temple land
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

AmitAnand.Choudhary
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Sending out a

strong message that no one
would be allowed to undermine the integrity and decorum
of judicial institutions, the
Supreme Court slammed a lawyer on Friday for getting into a spat with judges in the Kerala high court and said jail of
three months for contempt
was too less a punishment.
We can tolerate everything but not anything which
is against the integrity and
decorum of judicial institutions, a bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi and Ashok Bhushan said on a plea of the lawyer, C K Mohanan, who had
challenged the HCs decision
to convict him for contempt
of court. The judicial institution is strong enough to
withstand a thousand stones.

But we will not allow a single
stone to be thrown at it.
The HC had in November
convicted him for contempt
following a verbal altercation
between him and the bench
over his clients direct appeal
to the court to change his lawyer. He was sentenced to
LAWYER WARNED
three months simple imprisonment and directed to pay a
fine of Rs 1,000 after he refused to apologise.The bench said it was a fit case to convict
the lawyer for contempt. It directed him to pay the fine and
kept the matter pending to adjudicate on the jail term to be
awarded to him. The SC had
earlier exempted him from
surrendering till it took a
final call on the sentence.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a complete
ban on cow slaughter in every
state to prevent rampant inter-state illegal transportation of cattle.
A bench of Chief Justice J
S Khehar and Justice N V Ramana told petitioner Vineet
Sahais counsel Sarvesh Bisaria: A state may decide to ban
it while another may decide
not to. We cannot interfere in
such decisions.
Bisaria said many states
had banned cow slaughter.
Only Kerala, West Bengal, Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya,
Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh
and Sikkim permit slaughter
of cow and serving of beef in
restaurants.
For full report, log on to
www.timesofindia.com
Dhananjay.Mahapatra
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Amicus curiae

Gopal Subramanium told the
Supreme Court on Friday as
much as 1,500 acres of land belonging to some temples in
Tamil Nadu had been encroached upon by outsiders.
Subramanium was assisting the court, which has widened the ambit of a case
described by the Madras high
court as land of lords in trouble. The HC had expressed
concern over rampant encroachment, misuse and misappropriation of temple lands.
On a petition by one K S
Kappusamy, who sought fixing of market rent for shops
and establishments in Arulmigu Sellandiamman temple
in Perundurai village in Erode district, the SC had decided
to seek Subramaniums assistance. The petitioner had said: Most temples are gasping
for survival as their incomes
have steadily declined. Their
properties were rented out decades ago for a pittance. There has been no revision of
rent. Temple lands have been
encroached upon.
APPEAL BY AMICUS
The court had issued notice to the commissioner, Hindu religious and charitable
endowments
department,
Chennai. It had said the problem affected most Hindu religious establishments. On
Friday, Subramanium framed nine issues for the SC that
included administration and
supervision of temples.
Top court for

status quo on
Uber probe
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The corporate

battle between multinational
cab aggregator Uber and its
Indian competitor Meru has
reached the Supreme Court,
which put on hold the Competition Appellate Tribunal order directing probe against
Uber for allegedly resorting to
unfair trade practices, including predatory pricing.
The tribunal had on December 7 directed Competition Commission of India to
conduct a fresh probe against
Uber for allegedly indulging
in unfair practices. It had passed the order on a plea by Meru Travels Solution accusing
the multinational company of
resorting to abusive practices
with an intent to establish its
monopoly and eliminate
other competitors by granting
huge discounts and incentives to its customers.
Challenging the verdict,
Uber told the court the order
was illegal as the tribunal itself had concluded there was prima facie nothing against it.
Jallikattu plea
to be heard
on Tuesday
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would hear all petitions relating
to jallikattu on January 31
with the Centre formally filing an application withdrawing the January 7, 2016 notification in view of the Tamil
Nadu government passing
law to allow the bull-taming
sport in the state. Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi mentioned the case before Justice Dipak Misra and placed 1-page
application before the court
for its consideration.
Note ban hasnt

hit rabi sowing,
acreage surges
DEFYING DEMONETISATION
Sown area at the fag end of Rabi-sowing season:

Crop year
(July-June)
2016-17
2015-16
2014-15
2013-14
2012-13
Area
(in lakh hectares)
Date
Monsoon
637.34
600.02
596.24
642.89
608.65
27\01\2017
27\01\2016
30\01\2015
31\01\2014
31\01\2013
Good
Drought
Drought
Good
Good
Good - normal\above normal Monsoon; A shortfall of 10% or more for the entire
monsoon season - Jun to Sept - is considered a drought year; Rabi sowing operation
generally ends on Jan 31 for most of the crops
Vishwa.Mohan
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: With 4-5 days

still to go for sowing operation of rabi crops, the country is looking at the prospect
of having the highest acreage of winter crops in five years. Adding to the good news, rain in some parts of the
country in the past couple of
days could also mean a better yield situation.
Latest sown area data, released by the agriculture ministry on Friday, seems to indicate that the fear of demonetisation leading to a drop
in farm yields due to cashstrapped farmers inability
to access inputs was largely
unfounded. It shows acreage
of major rabi crops (wheat
and pulses) has not only
crossed the corresponding
figures of last year but also
beat the normal (expected
under positive conditions)
sown area of the season.
Total rabi sown area as
on Friday stands at 637.34
lakh hectares compared to
600.02 lakh hectares at this
time last year (over 6% higher). It has almost touched
the normal rabi sown area
(638.37 lakh ha) in what co-
uld be a sign that the sowing

operation was not hit by the
note ban the way it was feared in mid-November.
Farmers do not need to
depend on the market to buy
their entire requirement of
seeds. As far as other inputs,
including fertilisers, are
concerned, they could probably manage it with the system where they can easily
get things on credit in rural
areas, said an official.
Figures of acreage for
wheat and pulses are, in fact,
encouraging as sown areas
of both crops crossed their
normal area by a good margin. Sown area under wheat
stands at 315.55 lakh hectares compared to its normal
area of 304.05 lakh hectares.
It was 292.52 lakh hectares at
this time last year.
Barring winter rice and
coarse cereals, other rabi crops have shown improved
acreage. Though the area
under oilseeds is slightly
less than its normal coverage, it is still higher than last
years acreage. Sowing of rabi crops begins in October
and ends in January end or
first week of February.
TIMES NATION
Ganesh idol falls, lens on Reds

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Raipur: A 1,110-year-old Ganesha

idol, located atop Dholkal hill in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, fell
from a height of 13,000 feet and broke
into pieces in the dense forest area dominated by the Maoists. Experts and
conservationists term this a major
blow to archaeology.
Bastar police is not ruling out the
possibility of Maoists pushing the

idol down the hill to destroy it in an attempt to stop development works and
prevent visitors in the area.
A team lead by Dantewada SP
Kamlochan Kashyap inspected the
area. He said, The idol was found in
pieces below the Dholkal hill. Its suspected that the Maoists might have
damaged the idol first and then pushed it from the hill top.

14 soldiers dead in J&K avalanches

AP
Hunt On For
Missing, Met
Warns Of More
Snow In Valley
TNN
& AGENCIES
wo days after a major lost

his life in a snowslide in
Kashmir's Sonmarg, 14 soldiers were killed after two avalanches hit the Gurez sector of
the valley, an Army officer said.
An avalanche hit an Army
camp in Gurez, in Bandipora district near the line of control, late
on Wednesday, trapping several
soldiers, the Army officer said.
He said rescue operations were
launched and seven soldiers, including a junior commissioned
officer, were pulled out. The bodies of three soldiers were retrieved on Thursday morning, he
said.
The officer said another avalanche hit a patrol party that
was on its way to a post in Gurez
sector on Wednesday night. The
WHITE-WASH: Vehicles stuck in snow in Tangmarg, some 41 km northwest of

Srinagar, on Friday. Heavy snowfall in Kashmir has cut off roads and disrupted
communication lines. Trains to the region have also been rescheduled
official said search and rescue

rations were on to find the operations were on to find the missing
soldiers.
On Wednesday morning, Major Amit Sagar of the High Altitude Warfare School died when
an Army camp of 115 Battalion
was hit by an avalanche at Sonmarg in central Kashmir's Ganderbal district. The avalanche
struck two shelters occupied by
two officers and four jawans.
Gurez and Sonmarg are the
same avalanche-prone sectors

where 16 soldiers were killed and
four injured in two snowslide-related incidents in March 2012. In
February 2010, at least 15 Armymen were buried in snow when
an avalanche hit a military camp
in the Khilanmarg area near
Gulmarg.
Meanwhile, a 60-year-old
man was buried under snow as
more avalanches and landslides
hit the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Friday even as cold kept
up its intensity in Himachal Pradesh that recorded fresh snow

and showers.
The minimum temperature
in Punjab, Haryana and the national capital dipped due to rains
over the last two days. Delhi gauged 30.3 mm of rainfall till 8:30
am, a record for January in the
past 10 years. Thirty-five trains
were delayed, 17 rescheduled
and one cancelled due to bad weather in the northern region.
A fresh avalanche in Banihal
disrupted the work of the Border
Roads Organisation that is busy
clearing blockades due to snowfall in a bid to restore traffic on
the highway which was closed
for the third consecutive day on
Friday. Several avalanches hit
the highway at Shatani Nallah
area in Banihal belt of Ramban.
Authorities have issued a
high danger avalanche warning
in hilly parts of snow-bound
Kashmir Valley in view of fresh
snowfall. Most parts of Kashmir
received intermittent snowfall
last night. Srinagar got 2cm of
snow as temperature fell to -0.8
C, Gulmarg gauged 41 cm of precipitation and recorded the minimum temperature of -4 C.
17 Indian sailors captive in Iran

Sushil.Rao@timesgroup.com
Hyderabad: At least 17 Indian

crew members of a merchant
ship have been locked up in a room without food for the last three
days near Kish Port, Iran.
The sailors are from Uttar
Pradesh (5), Kerala (5), Bihar (2),
and one each from Tamil Nadu,
Odisha, Assam, West Bengal,
and Punjab. They are also being
deprived of drinking water, they
told TOI over an email on Friday.
The Iran incident came following reports that two Indians
were stripped and whipped by
their employer in Qatar. The two
from UP had gone to Qatar four
months ago on a Pune agents
THE Bhawanipur
promise of a job there.

As the company which hired
their services refused to give salaries for the last six to nine
months, the sailors demanded
that they be paid their dues.
When they refused to leave wit-
DENIED FOOD
hout their salary, they were locked in a room at Kish Port Island,
they said. They are now being denied food as they refuse to sign
on blank papers.
According to Pramod Vishnu
Das, a crew member, they worked in Jack Up Barge JU251 at
Salman Oil field in Iran offshore,
and they were recruited by Shan-
ti Marine Service in Mumbai.

Das said the company agent
came with passports to send
them back to India but without
clearing the dues. We refused to
go. For two days we stayed in a
small boat. There was no space to
sleep for us. The agent did not give us food, Das said.
On the first day, the agent
provided food the second day he
came with blank paper and is
threatening us to sign on it. He is
also threatening to put in in jail if
we do not sign, Das said. Later,
all the sailors were forced to get
into a room at the port with the
help of police and the room was
locked. Two Iranians are standing guard at the door, Das said.
AI to restart
Kol-Bangkok
flights after
10 years
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata: A decade after Air

India withdrew flights between Kolkata and Bangkok, the
airline is set to reintroduce
flights to the Thai capital with
three times-a-week operations slated to commence
sometime in May.
Speaking at Destination
East, a CII conclave to promote tourism opportunities in
Bengal on Friday, AI executive
director (corporate affairs)
Anil Mehta said a new generation Airbus A320 Neo aircraft
will be used on the sector.
He also said the carrier
was keen to link tier-II and tier-III towns as well as hill stations that attract tourists provided infrastructure was
available.
TOURISM BOOST
The news though did not
enthuse the travel trade industry that felt AI could have
started a flight to another destination instead of Bangkok
that is saturated with at least
1,000 seats on offer daily.
We would have preferred
a flight to Europe or the Far
East. Of course, that would have required a different aircraft type but another flight to
Bangkok will only put further
pressure on yield that is already low on the sector due to so
much competition, a leading
travel agent said.
In fact, the poor yields had
led to Jet Airways withdrawing the twice-daily service
on the sector.
At present, IndiGo flies to
the Thai capital twice a
day while Thai Airways,
SpiceJet, Air Asia and Bhutan
Airines has daily flights.
Druk Air flies three times a
week.
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Despite ban, buffalo

fight held in Assam
Naresh.Mitra@timesgroup.com
Guwahati: Defying a Supreme Court ban, hundreds

of people thronged Morigaons Ahatguri, 80 km from
here, to enjoy the traditional moh juj (buffalo fight)
on Friday. The crowd cheered as more than 15 pairs of
buffaloes locked horns in a large ground at Ahatguri.
The Ahatguri Moh Juj Aru Bhogali Utsav Udjapan Samiti (AMJABUUS), which earlier decided to
hold the buffalo fight after jallikattu was allowed in
Tamil Nadu, preferred to stay away from the event.
The Samiti allowed owners and keepers of buffaloes
to organize the event unofficially.
I, Mani Sankar Mondal Ser-
I, Kuntal Bhattacharjee
resident of H. No. 182, Kodalia School Road, New Barrack

Pur, Kolkata, West Bengal,
Pin-700131 have changed my
daughter's name from Sneha
Bhattacharjee to Sneha
Bhattacharyee vide Affidavit
dt: 20.1.2017 at Notary Public
at Barasat, North 24 Pgs, W.B.
vice No. 14815366M Rank-NK

/MT S/o Late Dasarathy Mondal hereby declare vide affidavit before the 1st Class
Magistrate Barrackpore dt.
on 18.01.17 that actual name
of my wife is Puspa Mondal.
Pushpa Mondal & Puspa Mondal is the same and one
identical person no other else
Ashok Chakra for RR martyr

Surendra.Singh
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Havildar Hangpan Dada from Arunachal,

who laid down his life in Kashmir, was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra on
Thursday for neutralising
three infiltrators in Kashmirs Naugam sector last year.
Dadas widow Chasen Lowang received the highest peacetime military decoration
from President Pranab Mukherjee at Rajpath.
On May 26, 2016, Dada, as
Sabu post commander of 35
Rashtriya Rifles (RR), received
orders from his commanding
officer to block four infiltrators
at 12,500 feet in
the Shamshabri
Ranges in Naugam. Along with
his team, the 37year-old havildar
engaged the infiltrators in a fierce gunfight. He charged at
the terrorists and shot two of
them on the spot. The other two
fled and hid behind some boulders.
Spotting two terrorists
who had hidden behind boulders, Havildar Hangpan Dada
lunged at one. The two were
locked in hand-to hand combat
till Dada finally neutralised his
opponent. The fourth terrorist
then sprayed bullets into him.
Ignoring his wounds, Dada pin-
ned down the shooter and severely injured him. The terrorist
was killed but Dada, too, died of
his injuries.
In an official documentary on Dada released by the
Army, his buddy Lance Havildar Vareshang of Sabu
Post recalls the night of May
26, saying, It was turning
dark but Dada kept motivating us to look for the terrorists. We have to hunt them
down, he told us.
Born on October 2, 1979,
in Borduria village of Arunachals Tirap district, Dada
used to run several kilometres and do 25-30 push-ups
every day even as a child.
I am alive today because
of Hangpan Dada, said Somhang Lamra, a childhood friend whom Dada had once saved from drowning. In the documentary, pastor Pradeep of
Don Bosco church of Borduria recalled a devout Dada.
Dada joined the 3rd battalion of the Parachute Regiment on October, 28, 1997. In
2005, he was transferred to the
Assam Regimental Centre
and on January 24, 2008, he joined the 4th battalion of Assam Regiment. He then requested a transfer to an RR battalion in J&K. He was posted to
35 RR in May 2016.
Senwang, the bravehearts
six-year-old son, wants to step
into his fathers shoes.
63 YEARS, 4,000 PADMAS: HERES WHO TOOK WHAT

This year, 89 Padma awards were given away. The highest was in 1972, when 148 were conferred. A look at the list
shows that Delhi has won almost a fifth of the top civilian awards, which includes the Bharat Ratna, since 1954. Quite
a few of these honours have also gone to foreign nationals and people of Indian origin based abroad...
BHARAT
RATNA
Total: 45
DISTINGUISHED
MEDALS
The Bharat
Ratna and the
other civilian
awards were
instituted in 1954
Recommendations are made by PM to the President. The

number of awards is restricted to a maximum of three each year
HIGHEST TALLY
Mrashtra
PADMA VIBHUSHAN
HAD THREE CLASSES
Pahela Varg,
Dusra Varg and

Tisra Varg. These
were renamed as
Padma Vibhushan,
Padma Bhushan &
Padma Shri in 1955
Tamil
Nadu
West
Bengal
Frontier Gandhi Khan

Abdul Ghaffar Khan is on the
Bharat Ratna list as a Pakistani recipient in the
social work category. Other foreign-based
winners include Ravi Shankar (US, 1999); Amartya
Sen (UK, 1999); Nelson Mandela (RSA, 1990)
Total:
4,373
nnounced every year on the occasion of Republic Day

(Exceptions: 1978, 1979 & 1993-1997). Total of awards given in a year
(excluding posthumous awards and to NRI/foreigners/OCIs) cant exceed 120
higher category of Padma award

can be conferred on a person only
where a period of at least five years
has elapsed since the earlier award.
However, relaxations are allowed
he award does not

amount to a title
and cannot be used
as a suffix or prefix to
the awardees name
PADMA VIBHUSHAN 300
PADMA BHUSHAN 1,232
PADMA SHRI
Given for exceptional and

distinguished service
Awarded for
distinguished
service of a
high order
Recognition for
distinguished
service
HIGHEST TALLY:
Delhi
66
Maharashtra UP, Bengal
Did you know?

A total of 11 US nationals have received
the Padma Vibhushan. Several of these
were of Indian origin, like Nobel laureates
S Chandrasekhar & Har Gobind Khurana,
and music conductor Zubin Mehta
Maharashtra
Tamil Nadu
Uttar Pradesh
West Bengal
397
BIGGEST
300
WINNERS:
267 State-wise
Delhi
HIGHEST
TALLY:
229
504
Literature &
Education 288;
Art 237
Tamil
Nadu
130
MOSTDECORATED
CATEGORY
Did you know?
Did you know?

96 of the 1,232 Padma Bhushans
have gone to people listed under
foreign nationalities, although
many of them are of Indian origin.
United States leads the table of
other countries on this list
with 49 medals
Arts
Literature & Edu
Medicine
Science & engineering
Social work
Maharashtra
Art 654;
Literature &
Education 541
457
Tamil
Nadu
Recommendations
for the Padma
awards are made by
the Padma Awards
Committee, which is set up every year by
the PM and headed by the cabinet
secretary. Its recommendations are sent to
the PM and the President for approval
234
Total no. of medals (Bharat Ratnas + Padma awards): 4,418
803
764
Delhi
241
2,841
Delhi
MOST-DECORATED
CATEGORY
Public Affairs 69; Art 55
Maharashtra
HIGHEST
TALLY:
22 each
MOST DECORATED CATEGORY
THE COUNT SO FAR
Did you know
58
Delhi
MOST-DECORATED CATEGORY: Public Affairs 26; Art 6
PADMA AWARDS
952
872
546
BIGGEST
497
WINNERS:
428 Categories
US would have been 11th on

this list (behind #9 Punjab
(131) & #10 Gujarat (128)
with 103 awardees. It is
followed by UK (40), Russia
(12), France (13) & Japan
(11) among 42 countries
Source: padmaawards.gov.in
Data visualisation by gramener.com
No formula yet for pump card charges

Mayur.Shetty
@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: The government

has not yet managed to come
up with a mechanism for
transferring charges for
card payments at petrol
pumps from oil companies
to banks.
Earlier this month, petrol pumps had threatened to
stop accepting card payments after banks said that
card charges, which had
been waived until December
31 in view of demonetisation, would henceforth be
billed to petrol dealers.
Union oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan stepped in
to resolve the issue, and said
that, by January 16, the government would fix a mechanism to have the oil companies transfer card charges to
banks.
The government called a
Earlier in January, petrol

pumps had threatened to stop
accepting cards after banks
said that card charges, waived
until December 31, would
henceforth be billed to dealers
hasty meeting with banks,

and announced that card
charges would not be passed
on to dealers. Following
this, petrol pumps were no
longer charged the card fee,
with banks reimbursing
the full value of each credit/
debit
card
transaction
without deducting what is
NCP refuses to bail out BJP in

Maha, wants mid-term polls
Sena Cutting
Off Civic Poll
Ties A Farce,
Says Congress
Prafulla.Marpakwar
@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: NCP hardened its

position on the Devendra Fadnavis government on Friday,
a day after Shiv Sena ended its
20-year-old alliance with BJP
for Mumbai civic polls. NCP
spokesperson Nawab Malik
said his party would not step
in to save the state government and would prefer midterm assembly polls instead.
A day ago, NCP boss Sharad Pawar was noncommittal
when asked if his party would
prop up the BJP-led government in Maharashtra in case
Shiv Sena withdrew support
to it.
Speaking to reporters in
Pune on Thursday, Pawar,
when asked if he would extend support to the state government, said: I dont answer hypothetical questions.
Scientist with
RSS links to
take Nalanda
varsity helm
Piyush.Tripathi@timesgroup.com
Uttar
Pradesh
called the merchant discount rate (MDR).

MDR, the rate a merchant is charged by a bank
for providing debit and credit card services, is split
among the card-issuing
bank, the bank that installs
the point-of-sale (POS) machine, and the payment network (Visa, MasterCard and
Rupay).
While the card-issuing
bank bears the costs of sending the OTP and authenticating the transaction, the
acquiring bank (the one that
installs the POS machine)
incurs a capital expenditure
and the operational costs of
sending the payment instruction.
According to bankers, as
of now, they are not receiving any fees from the government or the oil companies, but they have an assurance that charges for trans-
actions made after January

16 will be reimbursed.
In a recent interview
with TOI, Aditya Puri, MD,
HDFC Bank said that banks
had decided to accept lower
MDR of 0.25%, 0.5% and
0.75% from petrol pumps,
with charges depending on
the value of transaction.
However, the government has not yet finalised
how the costs would be split
between the oil marketing
companies like IndianOil,
Hindustan Petroleum and
Bharat Petroleum, and the
banks.
As of now banks are not
getting any revenue from
card transactions at petrol
pumps. Speaking to TOI, a
senior bank official said
that if the revenue model
was not clear, banks would
find it difficult to install new
PoS machines at petrol
pumps.
Patna: Computer scientist

Vijay P Bhatkar, who led
the
development of Indias
first
supercomputer, Param, after the
US refused to sell supercomputers to India, will be the new
chancellor of Nalanda University. Bhatkar is the national president of Vigyan Bharati, a science body of the RSS.
Bhatkar was appointed by
President Pranab Mukherjee
in his capacity as the NU Visitor on Friday, six weeks after
former Singapore minister
George Yeo quit as NU chancellor on December 11 last year. Yeo, in his strong-worded
resignation letter to Mukherjee, protested against the unceremonious ouster of interim VC Gopa Sabharwal, interpreting it as an attack on
the autonomy of the varsity.
Sabharwal had been directed by the NU governing body,
headed by the chancellor, to
continue as interim VC. But
the Rashtrapati Bhavan asked
her to demit office as she could
not be given a second extension as per the university act.
Soon after Sabharwals
ouster, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar had written to external
affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on December 5 last year, urging the Narendra Modi-led
NDA government not to tamper with the essence behind
the idea of Nalanda.
Earlier in 2015, NUs founding chancellor Amartya Sen
had refrained from seeking a
second term, saying that the
government did not want him
to continue.
Bhatkar served as a member of the Scientific Advisory
Committee to the PM and
member of the governing council of Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research. He
was also a member of the IT
Task Force constituted by
then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee
in 1998.
Bhatkar was awarded the
Padma Shri in 2000. He recieved Maharashtra Bhushan
Award, the highest award of
Maharashtra, in 2000.
Jilted lover
held in false
drugs case
Ahmedabad: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Thursday held a man who had allegedly hid 580 grams of charas
(hashish) at his former girlfriends house in order to implicate her in a false drugs case,
said NCB officials.
On his arrest, Dinesh Prajapati admitted that he did
this out of grudge against her
ex-girlfriend, who had recently lodged an FIR against him
after their relations turned
sour, said zonal director of
Ahmedabad-NCB Hari Om
Gandhi.
Prajapati contacted NCB
officials on January 22 and gave a tip off that a woman living
in Ghatlodia area of Ahmedabad is a drug trafficker and
hidden large cache of the
contraband in her house. PTI
Sharad Pawar had predicted long ago that the Maharashtra government
would face crisis before or after the Mumbai civic polls
Let them take a call and come

for discussions.
However, Malik said:
Uddhav has been accusing
the government of corruption and rampant irregularities and must withdraw from
the government. We will not
bail out the Fadnavis regime.
We are ready for mid-term
polls.
Maliks comment assumes importance as, during
the run-up to the assembly byelection in Bandra East in
April 2015, Pawar, while cam-
paigning for Congress nominee Narayan Rane, had observed that the Fadnavis government would collapse any moment either before or after the
BMC polls owing to serious
differences between BJP and
Sena.
Mumbai Congress chief
Sanjay Nirupam described
the Senas decision to snap ties with BJP as a big farce and
accused the party of misleading the people of Mumbai.
If Uddhav is serious on terminating the alliance, he
must first withdraw Sena nominees from the Union as well

as state cabinet. All Sena cabinet members must immediately quit, Nirupam said.
In the event Uddhav does
not take a decision, both PM
Narendra Modi and Fadnavis
must step in and sack Sena cabinet members from the Centre and state for making irresponsible statements against
the government, Nirupam
said.
For more than two decades, BJP and Sena are controlling the BMC. In fact, corruption has taken over the BMC,
and Sena has failed to provide
basic amenities to the people
of Mumbai. In our opinion,
Uddhav made the announcement to divert the peoples attention from the issue of corruption in the BMC, he said.
Former CM and state
Congress president Ashok
Chavan, too, asked Uddhav to
quit the government if he was
serious.
It is the most corrupt government in the state. Its indeed a drama. After the BMC
polls, they will come together.
I am sure the people will dislodge BJP and Sena in all the
elections, Chavan said.
Meghalaya guv resigns,

Purohit gets addl charge
Manosh Das
Cong seeks
FIR against
former guv
TNN
Shillong: A day after Meghalaya governor V Shanmuganathan quit over allegations of running a ladies
club at Raj Bhavan, President Pranab Mukherjee asked Assam governor Banwarilal Purohit to take additional charge of the neighbouring state.
Purohit will take oath as
the governor of Meghalaya
on Saturday, said a Raj Bhavan source.
The President of India
is pleased to appoint Banwarilal Purohit, governor of
Assam, to discharge the
functions of the governor of
Meghalaya and Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya, governor of Nagaland, to discharge the functions of the
governor of Arunachal Pradesh, in addition to their
own duties, until regular arrangements for the offices of
the governor of Meghalaya
and Arunachal Pradesh are
made, said an official release.
Earlier, employees of Raj
Bhavan in Meghalaya had
written to the President alleging that Shanmuganathan
had been demeaning the po-
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Banwarilal Purohit
sition of the head of the state.

He is rude, arrogant,
temperamental, and untruthful. Above all, he has seriously compromised the
dignity of the Raj Bhavan
and unfortunately turned it
into a Young Ladies Club,
read the letter signed by over
100 employees of Raj Bhavan. Copies of the letter were
sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Rajnath Singh.
We are not interested in
his personal life, but when
his activities hurt the decorum and prestige of the Raj
Bhavan it becomes our concern. From the time he took
over, the employees are going through severe humiliation, mental stress and torture, the letter read.
New Delhi: Congress on Friday demanded registration

of an FIR against former
Meghalaya governor V
Shanmuganathan who resigned from his post after Raj
Bhavan staff complained to
the President that he had
compromised the dignity
of the office he holds.
Congress
spokesman
Tom Vadakkan said: We demand an FIR to be filed against this gentleman and whatever charges he has in each
state.
He added: Is the man in
the street different from the
appointee in Raj Bhavan?
Does he have rights to take
criminal positions under the
IPC, why is there no FIR against this governor? The country wants to know this.
Vadakkan said Shanmuganathan had resigned only
after his party raised the demand for his sacking.
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Amarinder our CM candidate: Rahul

Yudhvir.Rana@timesgroup.com
Majitha (Amritsar): Congress vice-president Rahul

Gandhi on Friday finally announced Captain Amarinder Singh as the chief ministerial candidate of the party
in Punjab and said that only
a Punjabi can be the chief
minister of the state.
With barely a week left
for voting, Rahul played the
son of the soil card for Amarinder and tried to project
AAP as a party of outsiders
trying to wrest control of the
state from Punjabis.
Taking on Kejriwal & Co,
Rahul said that AAPs entire
top leadership was made up of
non-Punjabis while Congress
had given the reins to local
leaders. In the 2012 elections
too, Amarinder was declared
as CM face at the 11th hour
which had led to some heartburn in the party.
A Punjabi will be the CM
of Punjab, he is sitting here
among us. Amarinder Singh
will be the chief minister of
Punjab, he has given his life
for Punjab and never made
shallow promises, Rahul
said while addressing a gathering in the Akali bastion of
Majitha on Friday.
With this, speculation on
the issue is expected to end.
Kejriwal had consistently
claimed that ex-cricketer
and former BJP MP Navjot
Singh Sidhu had been inducted in the party to sideline Amarinder and that Sidhu was the real chief ministerial face of the party.
Edged out of SP &

Cong alliance, RLD
eyes post-poll pact
Lucknow: Edged out of the

SP-Congress alliance, RLD
chief Ajit Singh on Friday hinted that his party may look for a
post-poll tie-up with parties in
case of a hung assembly.
No party appears to be getting a clear majority under the
present political circumstances, said Singh, adding that
RLD would assess the situation
post elections and consider the
possibility of entering into an
alliance with the party that
gets maximum MLAs. He, however, clarified that RLD would
not ally with BJP at any cost.
At present, we are making
our presence felt across the
state by fielding more than 150
candidates, he said. TNN
RaGa forced to accept Capts primacy

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: When Congress

vice-president Rahul Gandhi named Amarinder Singh
the partys chief ministerial
candidate for Punjab, it
marked the normalisation of
a relationship which had
turned into a roller-coaster
and nearly gone off the rails.
For Congress watchers,
Amarinders official projection as CM candidate is a far
cry from last year when the
Patiala royal nearly left the
party, chafing at the leaderships refusal to declare him
the mascot. Amarinder did
not take kindly to the promotion of his baiter Partap Singh
Bajwa as state unit chief but
kept quiet after his failure to
catapult Congress to victory
in the 2012 assembly polls despite being its CM face.
However, the swagger was
back in 2014 when he heeded
the leaderships request to
contest the Lok Sabha polls
from Amritsar and defeated
BJP biggie Arun Jaitley.
That was when he staked
claim to the lost throne, and
went all the way to threaten a
revolt. Rahul was the obstacle to his ambition. As the unrest peaked and he appeared
set to launch his own outfit,
Amarinder was persuaded to
stay back by promising him
the organisational reins.
Within months, the compromise was injected with a
New Delhi: UP ko yeh saath

pasand hai. Congress and
Samajwadi Party are set to
inaugurate their alliance for
the Uttar Pradesh elections
with this slogan focussing on
the partnership between
chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
The slogan will be unveiled when the Yadav and
Gandhi Gen Next share the
dais on January 29. It will be a
joint press conference followed or preceded by a shared
event, possibly a public meeting. As the duo comes together, poll managers are trying
Rajnaths son
mum on note
ban, talks of
Bharat Mata
Shikha.Salaria@timesgroup.com
Rahul Gandhi with Capt Amrinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu at an election rally at Majitha on Friday
dose of sweetener when Congress designed an advanced

assembly campaign around
his name and face.
While there was no doubt
that he would head the government in case of a Congress
victory, the official declaration marks a moral victory for
the defiant satrap.
Rahuls
reconciliation
with Amarinders primacy in
Punjab politics underlines the
royals strengths despite his
mega failures. Belonging to
the dominant Jat Sikh com-
munity, he is the only panPunjab face in Congress

ranks. Amarinder had burnished his religious credentials forever when he quit
Congress in protest against
Operation Blue Star, and is
now seen as an antidote to
Akali Dals religious appeal.
The Gandhi scion spotlighted Amarinders salience
on Friday when he said Punjab would be run by Punjabis
a son of the soil plea for
votes and a jibe at rival AAP
amid talk that Arvind Kejri-
wal could head the state in

case the newbie wins.
By all accounts, the announcement has not pleased a
considerable section of the
party which believes Amarinder blocked the emergence of
new leadership in the state
unit and then flagged the TINA factor to arm-twist the
AICC. The ball is now in Amarinders court. Having been
named the captain to steer the
Congress ship in considerably choppy waters, he has no
option but to deliver.
Cong, SP hope UP ko yeh saath pasand hai

Subodh.Ghildiyal
@timesgroup.com

YOU READ IT FIRST IN TOI
Rahul, Akhilesh set to kick

off joint SP-Cong campaign
Priyanka Also YOU READ IT FIRST IN TOI
Likely To Be At Cong, SP likely to announce
Alliance Launch UP alliance early next week
Swati.Mathur
@timesgroup.com
Lucknow: The CongressSamajwadi Party alliance

may not have been formally
announced yet, but the two
parties appeared on Tuesday
to be racing ahead with their
FULL COVERAGE: P 12
Akhilesh Set To TOGETHER GOT 30% OF VOTES IN 2014 Father, son to

SP-Congress alliance expected to consolidate
call truce today?
Meet Rahul,
Muslim votes, countering Mayawatis BSP which
he warring Yadav factions
has decided to field 97 Muslim candidates of
T
might call truce on Friday,
Priyanka Soon
a total 401 this time around
SP sources said, with CM AkhiSwati Mathur
& Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui
11
Jan
FULL COVERAGE: P 15
Ally MGP pulls out of

BJP-led govt in Goa, P 15
sed early next week with CM
Akhilesh Yadav expected to
meet Rahul Gandhi in Delhi.
2016
plans to kickstart a joint election campaign led by Gandhi

siblings Rahul and Priyanka,
along with Akhilesh and
Dimple Yadav, later this week.
Confirming the developt
h
t ld TOI
TNN
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party

and Congress are moving closer to a poll pact in Uttar Pradesh which could be formali-
SP had polled 22.4% of votes in the

2014 LS elections while Cong polled
7.5%; anyone bagging 30% of votes
could form govt in state
In 2012, SP had polled 29.1% of
the votes to win 224 seats; Cong
polled 11.7% to bag 28
ning the upper hand in the Yadav family war that has pitted
him against father Mulayam
Singh. Akhilesh is likely to
meet Rahul on January 9. The
Election Commission, in front of which a petition submitted by both sides is pending, is

expected to hear them out on
January 13. A ruling favourable to Akhilesh could lead
t th l
h f th lli
and will aim to thrash out details of a deal that could see
Congress contesting 90-105 seats in partnership with SP,
well-placed sources said.
lesh Yadav continuing as party

president. Akhilesh reportedly
called his father Mulayam
thrice on Thursday and was
ready to receive him at Lucknow airport but changed his
mind when it was evident Amar
Singh was flying with him. P 15
Jan
6,
announced. Akhilesh has spoken to Priyanka and the meeting will take place soon after
Rahul returns from his overseas trip over the weekend.
2017
ce. Congresss chief ministerial face in UP, Sheila Dikshit,

even suggested that she would
step aside to accommodate
the youthAkhilesh and Rahulif they take centrestage
i th
t bi
t t t
to tell voters through the slogan that on offer in this contest is the partnership of Rahul and Akhilesh, not merely
their parties.
According to sources, the
campaign
will
revolve
around the two leaders. The
strategy is to brand the alliance as a novel offer and help
dilute the anti-incumbency

that SP is bound to be saddled with.
Having announced the
tie-up, the challenge before
the two parties is to ensure a
collaboration on the ground
which transcends the seatsharing arrangement and
results in transfer of votes.
In keeping with the objective, Rahul and Akhilesh are
likely to stage joint rallies during the protracted campaign
over seven phases. While
bringing the duo together on
the campaign trail, the alliance will target PM Narendra
Modi who is set to scorch
the state to lobby support for
BJP as the outsider pitted against the local boys.
According to strategists,
the alliance has a few positives going for it. The backing
of a national outfit like Congress for secular SP will
boost its standing with minorities and check the drift of
Muslims to rival BSP. Crucially, managers said they
were
highlighting
the
youth quotient of Akhilesh and Rahul to woo young
voters across caste barriers.
Akhilesh, by trumping
the Yadav old guard, is seen
to have softened the coarse
caste identity of SP while his
alliance with moderate
Congress will further add to
his identity-neutral appeal for non-Yadavs, strategists said.
Noida: Home minister Rajnath Singhs son Pankaj surprisingly made no mention of
notebandi or kala dhan as
he hit the campaign trail in
Noida on Friday. Instead, he
made a shrill pitch to defend
Bharat Mata against traitors
and hailed the cross-LoC surgical strikes last September.
The words conveyed the
sense that BJP would fall back
on the nationalism theme rather than hardsell demonetisation to win the battle for UP,
which if true would be a turnaround from the bullish mood
in the party on notebandi in
November and December.
Pankaj, despite his lineage, is no heavyweight and cannot be called a spokesperson
for BJP. But BJP wouldnt
send out the home ministers
son into battle without a wellrehearsed campaign line endorsed by the party.
JNU is hardly 15km from
here, Pankaj said at Barola
village in Sector 49 (actually,
its nearly 30km). When slogans like Afzal zindabad,
Bharat Mata ke tukde honge
were made, all the sons of
Bharat Mata should have
stood together under the flag
of Bharat Mata...But all of
them, including Rahul Gandhi and SP leaders went to
stand with the traitors...
Infighting in BJP
over tickets in
Modis Varanasi
Varanasi: Infighting in BJP

came to the fore in PM Narendra Modis parliamentary
constituency on Friday when
party
workers
protested
against the leadership over
distribution of tickets for assembly seats in the district.
Protesters stormed the press
meet of state BJP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya and raised
slogans against the choice of
party candidates.
A visibly upset Maurya
abruptly ended the press meet
as slogans like Parivarvad
nahi chalega (No to nepotism) and Wapas jao (Go
back) were raised. Some party
workers also tried to stop
his vehicle. TNN
War on corruption
not political issue,
will go on: Modi
PM Narendra Modi is offered a turban by Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal

at the Vijay Sankalp Yatra rally in Jalandhar on Friday
IP.Singh@timesgroup.com
PM plays on Punjabi
pride, brands
Cong a sinking ship
Jalandhar: Prime Minister

Narendra Modi on Friday projected demonetisation as his
major step taken against black
money and declared that he
rime Minister Narendra
would continue the fight
Modi played up Punjabi
against corruption in politics.
pride on Friday and directly
Addressing his first rally
attacked the Congress, calling
in Punjab after the assembly
it a sinking ship that Punjabis
polls were announced, Modi
would not like to board. He
said, We are fighting against
obliquely referred to AAP as the
corruption. Some people are
party that was defaming
very upset as they are set to
Punjabi youth (by making
lose what they deposited from
claims about drug addiction)
loot of 70 years. They are still
but did not directly name it. The
not coming to terms with it
PM also praised chief minister
and they attack me whenever
Parkash Singh Badal for
they get opportunity. But these
ensuring Hindu-Sikh unity in
politicians must understand
the state. Taking on the
that I have taken up the fight
Congress, he said, Can a
against corruption in political
sinking ship take the state
life and it will continue.
across (turbulent waters)?
This fight against corrupCongress is history and is on its
tion and black money will not
last breath. Five years back
stop. For me this is not a politithey were making preparations
cal issue but for me this is an
to take oath in Punjab and
important task to build future
created a perception that chief
of the country and its people,
minister Badal was losing
he added.
power. But people brought him
Taking a dig at Congress,
back. This time too Punjab
he said, during UPA regime
would like to see him as chief
from 2012 to 2014 people would
minister.
IP Singh TNN
read headlines what amount
had gone in scams, how much
was lost in coal, how much was Congress is thinking to remove
him nor TV media is
lost in 2G but after dediscussing it and
monetisation people
things are appearing
get the news what is
as if nothing has hapcoming (to governpened. These people
ment coffers) .
who looted are very
In Karnataka more
powerful, so this sithan Rs 150 crore was recovered from residence BATTLEGROUND lence. Now tell me how
difficult is the fight
of a minister in Conagainst
corruption
gress government. New
currency notes of Rs 150 crore and can I fight without your
were recovered but neither support, he said.
PUNJAB
Selection process takes time: PSU official A result of structured effort
Continued from P 1
he IITs also proposed

the setting up of a common portal for offers
that have been approved by
the HRD ministry.
The portal will have a
list of names of all candidates with valid GATE scores.
Offers from the IITs, NITs
and even PSUs will have to be
given to the students through the website. The candi-
An IIT official pointed out that with the same

pool of candidates being interviewed by
several PSUs, some companies intentionally
delay the selection process
date will have to select one offer and immediately release

all others that he may have
been holding. This will allow
us to reduce vacancies in
MTech, said Jagadish Kumar, dean of academic programmes at IIT-Madras.
He added that the portal

can start operation this year
itself if the government gives the go-ahead.
By the time the PSUs come out with their recruitment results, PG classes at
the IITs are well on their way.
Several students leave the

MTech courses to take up
jobs. Yet, wait-listed candidates who are genuinely interested in taking up the PG
courses are unable to take
admission, said a senior
IIT-Kharagpur official.
A PSU official said that in
2016 they had recruited over
7,300 graduates on the basis
of GATE scores and the selection process had continued for 58 working days. On a
given day we dont want to interview more than 35 students because that would
compromise the quality of
selection. We feel the candidate should get at least 20/25
minutes before the board,
he said explaining the delay.
An IIT official pointed
out that with the same pool of
candidates being interviewed by several PSUs, some
companies intentionally delay the selection process.
Continued from P 1
ood students and faculty is a given with IITs.

What is probably the
differentiator with IIT Delhi
is the culture of the institute
which has been cultivated
over several decades. They
are more connected to the society and have a deep awareness of the problems that exist. Hence, they are able to look for solutions and become
entrepreneurs, said IIT Delhi director V Ramgopal Rao,
an alumnus of IIT Bombay.
Industry experts say while
earlier it was the rigour of
entrance exams and the com-
petitive culture within IITs

that led to the creation of such
companies, over the last 5-7
years, there has been a structured effort to foster unicorns.
Over last 5-7 years, each
of the IITs have made significant strides in creating the
IIT STARTUPS
right ambience to promote
entrepreneurs. From bringing in seasoned alumni to assist startups to encouraging
students and alumni to take
the entrepreneurial plunge,
setting up mentoring clinics
and offering assistance of
professors, a disciplined ef-
fort has been made to create

the right structures to foster
startups and their founders,
said Suresh Kalpathi of Kalpathi Investments, an alumnus of IIT Madras who is involved with PanIIT Alumni
Association, a volunteer-driven organisation.
The study saysor over 60%
of the founders, the current
unicorn was the only company they had ever built. However, indicating that experience pays, the research said those who founded more than one
company have, on average,
34.5% higher valuation than
those who founded just one
company ($4.29bn vs $5.88bn).
TIMES NATION

Little Master scores big

in I-T tribunal dispute
ONGC 1st PSU

to sensitise on
gender issues
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Blackbuck died of natural

causes, Salman tells court
Lubna.Kably@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: The little master, Sachin Tendulkar, has scored big in an appeal before the
Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT),
which adjudicates tax disputes. The ITAT
upheld that income from sale of shares
would be taxable as capital gains, and not as
business income, in Tendulkars hands.
I-T is assessed under various heads such
as salary income, capital gains or income
from business. Long term capital gains are
exempt from tax whereas short term gains
in some cases such as on sale of equities
or equity mutual funds are taxed at a lower rate of 15%. As against this, income
from business is taxed at a maximum basic
rate of 30% plus surcharge and cess, but
after allowing for expenses incurred in
connection with such income.
Tendulkar had opted to treat income earned on sale of shares as capital gains in his
I-T return for 2009-10. However, the I-T officer sought to treat Rs. 1.36 crore as income
from business. The I-T officer took this position as Tendulkar had availed the services
of portfolio managers for making investments and paid them a fee of Rs 52 lakh.
This, according to the I-T officer, was not
an ordinary thing for a normal investor. As
Commissioner of I-T (Appeals) ruled in
favour of the cricketer, the I-T department
filed an appeal with the ITAT.
The tribunal of members Mahavir
Singh and Ashwani Taneja noted that the
major income arising in Tendulkars hands
was from sports endorsements. The investment in shares was made from a long term
point of view, mainly to earn dividend and
maximise wealth from appreciation in value of shares. Besides, he had not borrowed
money for the purpose.
Further, investment in shares via portfolio managers was only 4.86% of total in-
ON RIGHT PITCH: Sachin Tendulkar had opted to

treat income earned on sale of shares as capital
gains in his I-T return for 2009-10
vestment portfolio. Tendulkar had always

treated his investments as capital assets.
Even in case of short term capital gains, average holding period for securities was 82 to
123 daysshares were not traded on a daily
basis. The facts showed that Tendulkar was
an investor and not engaged in the business
of share trading, noted the ITAT.
The tax tribunal also took into cognisance circulars issued by the Central Board of
Direct Taxes (CBDT), which clarified that a
taxpayer could decide whether the shares
are an investment portfolio or business
portfolio; once he made his choice, he was to
adopt a consistent approach.
CBDT, keen to mitigate litigation, had in
a circular on classification of income on sale of securities, dated Feburary 29, 2016, specified that if listed shares and securities are
held for more than 12 months prior to the sale, and if the taxpayer treats it as income
from capital gains, this shall not be disputed
by the I-T officer.
Thus, the ITAT concluded by upholding
the order that income on sale of shares and
mutual funds was long term or short term
capital gains and not business income.
Govt, Akshay unite on

app to aid martyrs kin
Bharti.Jain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: How many times have images of a martyrs grieving kin tugged at
your heart strings, making
you want to reach out and
help in your own small way?
Many of those wanting to
extend financial help may
not have known how to go
about it or who to contact.
The government, in
partnership with Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, has
decided to bridge this gap
between citizens willing to
volunteer financial aid and
the kin of central security
personnel who lay down
their lives in the line of duty,
leaving their dependents financially parched.
The home ministry and
the filmstar are tying up to
create a simple web application through which volunteers can deposit funds directly into the verified bank account of the martyrs kin, to
be publicised through the
ministrys website that will
display a link to the app.
On Friday, Kumar visi-
TECH THE MESSAGE: The

home ministry and Akshay will
create an application through
which volunteers can deposit
funds directly into the verified
account of the martyrs kin
ted the ministry to discuss

the proposal with home secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and
the central paramilitary
brass. Sources said the ministry has fully backed the
initiative. It has asked its experts and Akshays team to
jointly develop the app.
As per the proposal, each
time a central force personnel gets killed in the line of
duty, details of his identity,

financial status of his family, number of dependents
and details of bank account
of next of kin etc will be
uploaded on the ministry
website, letting people directly deposit their contributions into the account
through the app. Once the
aggregate contributions reach Rs 15 lakh, the details
will be removed from the
website so as to channelise
further contributions to the
next deserving case. Contributions will be eligible for
income-tax deductions.
Though government
websites offer options to extend financial help to martyrs kin, these are not wellpublicised. Also, officialdom delays the process. The
app will simplify things,
with the home ministry
website and Akshays involvement as a brand ambassador offering it wide publicity, said BSF DIG in Jaisalmer Amit Lodha.
New Delhi: Flagship explorer

ONGC has become the first
public sector entity to launch a
gender-sensitisation programme to train executives on preventing sexual harassment at
the workplace, an issue dogging offices across industries.
The move comes as more
and more women are making a
career in the oil industry, so
far considered a male bastion.
According to ONGC director
(HR) D D Misra, the programme will inculcate a sense of responsibility and professional
ethics needed for discharging
duties more professionally.
The programme has been
designed to prevent incidents,
provide protection against
sexual harassment and speedy
redress of complaints. The initiative aims at training or sensitising 3,000 senior executives at the level of deputy general manager and above in the
first phase through an e-learning portal launched specifically for this purpose.
Prasad: BHIM
link to boost
transparency
Continued from P 1
efore the note ban, the rate of linking Aadhaar
with bank accounts was
about 60 lakh per month, which rose to 1.70-1.90 crore per
month after demonetisation.
Upbeat with the figures, R S
Prasad said: With demonetisation and Digital India drive
towards less-cash economy,
Aadhaar is all set to become a
game-changer with AadhaarPay where customers dont need card, PIN, password or mobile as he/she can make transactions with thumb impression. He said the BHIM app
was linked with Aadhaar so
that transactions could be carried out in a simpler and transparent manner.
PTI
Ajay Parmar &

Swati Deshpande TNN
Jodhpur: Actor Salman

Khan told a court on Friday
only the first postmortem report, by Dr N P Nepalia
which said the blackbuck had
died of natural causes as a result of falling into a deep hole, and of dog bite was true,
and the second one, citing
gunshot wounds, was not.
Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam, all
actors and co-accused as abettors to the crime, also told the
court only the first postmortem report was correct.
The actors were making
their personal statements as
accused in the blackbuck poaching case in the court of chief judicial magistrate Dalpat
Singh Rajpurohit here.
The magistrate, after
summarising the prosecutions case against the accused, put 65 questions to Salman and 61 to the other actors.
Salman
answered
true or false, but mostly
with galat (wrong), as the
proceedings were held in
Hindi. At the start, though,
when asked his caste, he replied, Hindu, Muslim, and
added Indian too.
The stars are facing trial
in an 18-year-old case and their alleged crime was committed when they were shooting
FACING TRIAL: Actors Salman Khan and Saif Ali Khan arrive at the
chief judicial magistrates court in Jodhpur on Friday for hearing in
the 1998 blackbuck poaching case
Suraj Barjatiyas Hum Saath

Saath Hain.
The trial had been on hold
for six years after the state
had moved the Rajasthan
high court challenging the
dropping of a few sections of
the law pertaining to unlawful assembly. The trial resumed in 2013 and is almost over,
finally.
All the accused, starting
with Dushyant Singh, a co-accused alleged to have taken
the actors to the spot in the forest, pleaded innocence and
false implication. None of
them wanted to examine any
defence witness, except Salman, who said he would. The
Bhansali refused to file FIR: Cop

Continued from P 1
arni Sena state president Mahipal
Makrana added that jauhar (selfimmolation) by the queen of Chittor was an act of bravery that was wellestablished in the states history books.
We will not allow anyone to peddle
lies and cheat with the honour and dignity of idols at any cost (sic), he added.
The protesters broke a TV screen and
other equipment on the set. They alleged
that the guards had fired in the air to disperse them. Senior police officials, in-
cluding deputy
commissioner
of
police
(north) Ansuhman Bhomia
and additional
DCP Sameer
Kumar, went to
the spot to pacify protesters.
Police set
up a meeting between Sanjay Leela
Bhansali and Karni Sena after the incident. Bhansali said the Senas allega-
HC bailable warrant for Mallya

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bengaluru: The high court

ordered issuance of a bailable warrant against liquor baron Vijay Mallya on Friday
in a contempt petition filed by
a consortium of banks that
had lent money to his now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines.
A division bench of hustices Jayant M Patel and Aravind Kumar issued the warrant for Rs 1 lakh, returnable
court fixed the matter for February 15 to decide on a date

for his witness, if any.
The proceedings began at
around 11.30 am when Dushyant , in answer to 58 questions
from the court, denied that he
had been at the forest with the
actors or that he showed the
actors the Gypsy and guided
them into the forest. Salman,
wearing what he usually wears to court blue shirt and
blue jeans, hair closely cropped stood between his lawyers Anand Desai and Hastimal Saraswat and answered
questions softly, while Saif s
lawyer Shrikant Shivade
who represented Salman in
the Mumbai 2002 fatal crash

trial stood nearby. There
was no sitting space and at
one point the room grew so
stuffy that Tabu oened a window to the left of the CJM.
CJM Rajpurohit, who spoke in pure Hindi and later
even joked with Shivade, telling him his Hindi must have
improved in the last decade
since the charges were framed in 2006, addressed the star:
You were seen by two people
who said they saw you shoot
the blackbuck Salmans answer was, galat. The jeep
was found with bloodstains
and the hair of the blackbucks, the court asked. False, said Salman. You went
shooting at night? False,
said Salman.
The actor finally said they
would never leave their hotel
after the shoot and that the case was based on false surmises and falsehoods based on a
false report.
The case rests largely on
one main eyewitness, Poonamchand Bishnoi, and the
postmortem examination of
exhumed blackbuck bones by
a medical board of four doctors. There are 28 witness depositions but no ballistic report. Shivade, in one of his
cross-examinations, got a
doctor to admit the bullet was
never found, nor was a bullet
exit wound.
by February 17.
This was after
the court noted
that Mallya failed to appear
despite its December 2 order.
Mallyas counsel informed the bench that the court
order has been communicated to Mallya and there has
been no response from his side. Counsel said Mallya is not
in the country and that has al-
ready been recognized by the

Supreme Court, so no purpose would be served by issuing
a bailable warrant. He sought
for issuance of a non-bailable
warrant through the ministry of home affairs (MHA).
The bench said it will first
issue a bailable warrant. It
noted that there is no material before the court to say Mallya has left the country.
Mallya left India for the
UK on March 2, 2016.
tions were unfounded as the movie did

not depict any such scene between the
two. We asked Bhansali if he would like
to file an FIR, but he refused, added a senior official who was part of the meeting. Police have arrested five protesters
under CrPC Section 151 (arrest to prevent the commission of cognisable offences). According to the police, Bhansali did not complain about any incident
where he was roughed up.
He did not tell us about any such incident. He has legal permission to shoot
the movie here, DCP Bhomia told TOI.
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AN ECSTASY
Without a pub the Republic is just a Relic
INTERNET MEME
Especially as the election season sees

gambling fever rise all around
lection season is like party time at the casino, all Bellagio like
fireworks and Swarovski studded promises and the sounds of
poker chips stacking up and down. Maybe this kinship is the
reason why, although every political party pledges to shut down the
casinos in Goa, their wheel of fortune keeps turning.
New kid on the block AAP is scolding BJP and Congress for
failing to deliver casino-free Goa. In calling them U-turn politicians
its gambling that Goa never finds out that once upon a time Delhi
was given to believe that Arvind Kejriwal would
never contest elections, never take the support of
Congress, never live in a Lutyens bungalow ... The
just in
gamble is big but as Navjot Singh Sidhu who came
close to being Awaaz-e-AAP said, one who doesnt throw the dice can
never expect to score a six.
Even voting is like betting. You slide this little slip into the slot,
then hope for the jackpot. Like escape velocity of Jupiter. Or 15 lakh
rupees in your bank account. Victorious parties do keep some of
their pledges post election, feeding the punters delusion that
she will eventually make up her losses when the big one comes
through. But after all is done and dusted, the voter will not rake in
anything like BJP or Congress or AAP. Its casino rule number one:
House always wins.
As Nitin Gadkari is said to have
disclosed, Char kaam hum unke
karte hain, char kaam woh hamare
karte hain (they do some jobs for
us, we do some jobs for them). If
this seems like laying bare the
omert, the former BJP president
does seem to have a taste for it. Like
on being quizzed on whether chief
minister Laxmikant Parsekar or
former chief minister Manohar
Parrikar would helm the state if
BJP won again Gadkari ingenuously revealed, Hum log yeh bhi kar sakte hain, woh bhi kar sakte hain
(we could do this, we could do that). Of course this only lengthens
the odds of the voter betting on the winning horse.
Still, in the run-up to the election even the humblest voters are
treated as if they are high rollers: think James Bond at Monte Carlo,
sporting tuxedo and martinis. Remember that casinos really lay out
the red carpet for these whales, from marble hand-picked in Italy to
chefs stolen from Michelin starred restaurants and silverware
thats actually gold. Voters can luxuriate in sops in this honeymoon
period.
Even whatever Cleopatra wallowed in couldnt have been as
wondrous as Indias election sops. Akali Dal has promised to
settle Punjabi farmers abroad by acquiring 1 lakh acres of land in
countries like the US. Guess they will be hiring poor American
workers there like they hire poor Bihari labourers here to Trump
increasing visa restrictions. Ambitious AAP should now go where
no Punjabi farmer has gone before, and row the hoe on Mars.
Back in Goa the casinos look set to stay. As a pragmatic taxi driver
opined, tourists only come for three months in winter but gamblers
come all year round.
jest!
Music For Xis Ears

Democracies are making themselves ridiculous,
India figures but is not on top of the league tables
Kanti Bajpai
Xi Jinping rarely smiles in public. But smile he must

these past six months as he wakes to the sight of the worlds ridiculous, floundering democracies.
Lets begin with the worlds most ridiculous democracy.
No, not India, though we figure in the league tables. I mean
the United States. When Xi looks at the US, he sees a new
president who heads the list of own goal scorers. In a matter of days since
ascending the throne, Trump has got himself into a fight with one of Americas
biggest and most consequential neighbour, Mexico. The trade and immigration
war that is brewing will certainly hurt Mexico economically, but it will also
badly hurt the US economy. On top of it, a hurting Mexico will be a social
and political disaster for America. At one stroke, the US is undermining its
greatest strategic asset stability in its own region.
The second most ridiculous democracy is the UK. David Camerons
referendum on Europe was a disaster the decision to hold it as well as the
campaign he mounted in defence of EU membership. His successor, Theresa
May, is arguably the most colourless British prime minister since Alec
Douglas-Home in the 1960s (and perhaps fated to last as long two years). Both
Cameron and May were a joke during the referendum campaign, with May
simply disappearing from political sight. She is now busy genuflecting
before Trump, showing that she is no Thatcher-style Iron Lady at all but a
Marshmallow Lady instead.
Xi must be slapping his inner thigh in merriment. Here are the two
self-styled leaders of the West trying their best to disunite the Western
alliance. Trump has mocked NATO, laughed at the EU, and, if we include
Japan in the West, poked Tokyo in the eye as well. Music to Xis ears! Cameron
and May meanwhile have pulled a key state out of Europe and have spread EU
disaffection to other European states. More music to Xis ears! On top of that,
Trump and his ilk are sucking up to Putin of Russia as part of some bizarre
white nationalist Christian united front!
Then there is Japan. Prime Minister Abe and the right have simply not
understood how much political damage is caused by their visits to the
Yasukuni Shrine. The visits sully Japans
image in Southeast Asia and are an affront
not just to China but also to South Korea
and Southeast Asia. It is not just the act of
visiting the shrine to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers that offends. It is the
shocking display at the museum there which blames everyone except Japan
for World War II. The US played its part in bringing war, but Tokyo and the
Japanese militarists bear chief responsibility, and Japanese leaders (and
textbooks) refuse to acknowledge this unequivocally.
Finally, Xi must be rubbing his hands gleefully at Indias missteps. Having
once again obsessed over corruption, India has managed to reduce economic
growth from a respectable 7.6% to a projected 6.6%. By the time we get
the final figures, growth could be even lower. Nor is anyone suggesting,
three months on, that demonetisation did anything to reduce corruption.
Apparently, the move was always about ushering in a cashless society and not
really about corruption! Nothing happened to reduce corruption after the
Anna Hazare movement, and nothing much has been achieved with
demonetisation. Tackling corruption requires patience not a strong feature
of the Modi government.
Xi must also be chuckling over the domestic political mess in the US, UK
and India. Never has the stock of democracy been lower than it is now in all
three countries. By contrast, internal support for Xis government is high.
Externally, as the Anglo-American powers recede from global engagement,
and as New Delhi, after a bright start under Modi, has faded into a black
hole obsession with China and Pakistan, Beijing is spreading its largesse
and light.
The world is laughing and scratching its head over the Anglo-American
powers and has steadily lost interest in India over the past year, leaving
the field open to China. Happy Chinese New Year indeed for Xi Jinping!

Torture Through The Ages
A thought for today
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OF IDEAS
Jallikattu, animal rights and the cultural argument: A changing collective consciousness
Dipankar Gupta
That there are two

sides to jallikattu, those
who are for and those
who are against, only
shows that India is both
global and updated. If
we walk back to the past, sensitivity
to torture of any kind is a rather
contemporary phenomenon, showing
up first in the 19th century. Till then,
worldwide, the torture of both humans
and animals was taken as normal.
Between 1807-50, as if making up for
past injustices, our collective consciousness suddenly woke up to ethically
question the torture of all living beings.
Is it just coincidence that around this
time, in Britain for example, slave trade
was abolished, the 1832 Reform Act was
passed, and bear baiting, even dog
fights, became illegal?
Conferring respect on ordinary
electorates was accompanied by a ban
on cruelty to animals and people, as if
one entailed the other. Till then, voters
were limited to a select few and hanging
was a popular, town square event.
Likewise, to set dog against dog, or bear
against dogs, were huge draws often
patronised by the rich and powerful.
Elizabeth I, reportedly, could not tear
herself away from such spectacles.
It would appear then that with the
increase in democratic awareness, we
also became mindful of animal life.
Decades before Darwin came on the
scene, 19th century attitudes were
inclining towards accepting humans
and animals as somewhat continuous
creations. Therefore, what applied to
us was now being extended to include
other living creatures too. By this
token convicts, their wickedness notwithstanding, deserved consideration
as well.
Again, it was in the mid-19th century
that the hangmans rope was lengthened
so that death would be quick; the
earlier short drop left the condemned
person dangling for long. Crucifixion,
stoning, or the Chinese practice of Li
Ching, where the convicts flesh was
slowly sliced off (hence the phrase,
Chad Crowe
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death by a thousand cuts), were no

longer considered civilised. Likewise,
in 1839, Britain banned punishment
by drawing and quartering as this
involved the strewing of the dead
persons body parts.
All of this is crazily off the charts
today, but in the past they were seen as
normal, even fun. Though we still
continue with capital punishment, yet
we strive to make it as pain free as
modern medical knowledge will allow
enter the lethal injection. No more
howling and cheering from a frenzied
crowd; the sentence is now delivered
within prison confines.
All these changes have happened in
recent times as old fashioned torture is
no longer acceptable. Humans and
beasts, individually and singly, are not
to be put in pain, and if they have to die
because we must punish, or we must
eat, let us deliver the blow as softly as
we can. Yet, when man and beast are
performing together in acts that involve
pain, sometimes death, there has been
Jallikattu, the bull fight and

the fox hunt were once banned
and then un-banned. On these
matters, the struggle between
status quoists and change
agents has been very
contentious and bitter
much stronger resistance against
banning them. This is true of jallikattu,
the bull fight and the fox hunt.
All these three were once banned
and then un-banned. On these matters,
the struggle between status quoists
and change agents has been very
contentious and bitter. The Catalonia
region of Spain disallowed bullfights,
but the Spanish Supreme Court ruled
against it. The fox hunt likewise won
judicial approval and, for the time being,
jallikattu has also earned a reprieve.
Unlike dog fights or bear baiting,
these are no longer instances of outright

animal torture as humans are also
involved. This is what makes jallikattu
and bullfights appear sporty for now
there is an aura of uncertain outcome,
though highly controlled. Consequently,
guilt is replaced by participatory
euphoria and it is this that gives them
the look and feel of being cultural
and harmless.
If, however, only the rich participate
in the sport, as in the case of tiger
hunts, then such acts do not become
cultural, deserving of popular
approval. Fox hunting was never
passionately defended as long as it was
limited to the aristocrats. From the
1950s on numerous fox hunting clubs,
with middle class membership, sprang
up all over Britain lending this activity
a democratic character.
The Spanish bullfight has always
been a spectacular public sport, not
just because it entertained large
crowds but also because matadors
came from the ranks of ordinary
people. It is this as well as their skills
that together made bullfighters like
Antonio Ordinez, Luis Dominguin,
and Manuel Benitez (also known as El
Cordobez) such super stars.
Jallikattu still does not have its
home bred heroes, but it too is a popular
sport that has become culture as it pits
man against beast, rather ordinary
men against ordinary beasts. It is
almost as if we are compelled to
demonstrate our mastery over nature
at regular intervals. But because we
are blessed with cunning, a trait that
animals do not possess, we pick on
four-legged creatures that are not
carnivores, nor are naturally dangerous
to us. We hunt foxes, that attack poultry,
or we fight bulls that have no quarrel
with humans. Nobody would like to
take on tigers or grizzly bears and then
call it culture.
As humans we need to show off our
cultural might and we do this best by
fighting the weak, never the strong, not
even those who are our equals. This is
what prompted the anarchist Peter
Kropotkin to remark that nature is not
red in tooth and claw, but people are.
Why Parliament must act urgently to stiffen the law,

and put an end to the daily carnage on our streets
Shilpa Mittal
My
brother,
Siddharth,
was killed in
Delhi on April
4 last year
because
a
young 17-year-old may have
thought it fun to drive his
fathers Mercedes at 100 kmph
on a narrow road. The police
found that the boy who was
driving had been a repeat
offender involved in an earlier
accident, but no strict action
was taken.
Amidst all the debate and
discussion about whether a
juvenile can be treated as an
adult in such cases the father
of the boy, who did not restrain
his son, got bail in two days
that too on a Sunday. It has been
close to ten months since, but
the case has made no progress.
Anybody could have been
in Sids place. In fact, the
offender almost killed three
other people the same night, who
are now witnesses in the case.
This incident got to see the
light of day owing to social media. Similar tragedies happen
every day that either never get
reported or are forgotten with
time. I do not seek revenge on

the boy or his family. But this
tragedy could easily have been
prevented, and my Siddharth
need not have lost his life
trying to cross a road.
The
government
has
introduced the Motor Vehicles
(Amendment) Bill 2016 in
Parliament, with provisions
for strict penalties and
accountability for parents of
juveniles. But the Bill has been
pending before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on
I now have nothing to

lose. But there are lakhs
of people who are at
risk of losing loved
ones, and road crashes
do not distinguish
between rich and poor
Transport,
Tourism
and
Culture (PSC) for the last
four months.
In these four months, going
by the daily average, close to
48,000 Indians would have
been killed in road crashes. I
am deeply perturbed as why
our elected representatives

think preventing the death of
48,000 Indians is not their duty.
While implementation of the
law is the equally important
next step, what prevents
our parliamentarians from
passing a law that is already in
Parliament and has received
bipartisan support?
The lack of a strong legal
framework and its enforcement
is one of the reasons why an
underage boy had no fear of
driving the car with seven
boys at the speed of nearly 100
kmph without any licence, all
of which are illegal. Our
system has failed us and it

starts from the very first step
of applying for a licence.
Getting a licence abroad is
tough and similar to getting a
degree people have to work
really hard to get it and it is
cause for celebration when
they do. But in India, obtaining
a licence has almost become a
matter of right and the easiest
thing to do.
I would also like to point
out the inability of police
to handle such cases with
sensitivity. It took the commissioner of police to intervene
before the offender and his
dilbert
father could get booked. It is

absolutely necessary that
police personnel are trained
to investigate an accident
scientifically as well as treat
the victim with care.
Four hundred Indians die
in road crashes every day.
These numbers are scary. Its
admirable that the government
should want to challenge
corruption head-on, but isnt
the life of a common man
also important?
I now have nothing to lose.
But there are lakhs of people
who are at risk of losing loved
ones, and road crashes do not
distinguish between rich and
poor. I am emotionally and
physically drained at the
pace with which the case is
progressing. I will soon be
financially drained too.
So, my sincere request to
the government and Parliament is to ensure that the
Motor Vehicle Amendment
Bill 2016 gets passed in the
budget session and a system is
created which will instill an
iota of fear in the minds of
people like the 17-year-old,
and hold him and his guardian
accountable.
The writer is an engineer
Sacredspace
Total Surrender
Surrender is not submission.
It is realising that everywhere,
everything belongs to the
Divine already. With this
realisation comes a deep
relaxation, a feeling of trust
and being at home.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The Curious Case Of Two Valmikis
rebootingindia
Devdutt Pattanaik
ishi Valmiki is known as

Adi Kavi, the first poet, who
composed the first mahakavya,
epic, the Ramayana, that chronicles
the life of Rama, prince of Ayodhya. In
the final chapter of the epic, Uttara
Kanda, we learn how he teaches the
story to Luv and Kush, the sons of Sita
and Rama, who are born in the forest
after Sita is sent away from Ayodhya
by Rama to avoid a royal scandal
following public gossip casting
aspersions on her character. Later, in
the same chapter, Valmiki has a
conversation with Rama, when he
testifies to Sitas purity. The Vedic
Sanskrit used in the epic suggests it
was composed over 2,000 years ago,
describing events that took place 3,000
years ago, perhaps even earlier.
We dont know much about the
great poet-sage. However, about 500
years ago, a new set of stories start to
emerge, that speak of a man called
Ratnakara who is forced by poverty to

turn to robbery and is made to change
his ways by sages, either the Sapta
Rishis, seven celestial sages or by
Narada. He realises that the burden
of his crime is his alone, and will
not be shared by those who benefit
from his crime.
To help him out, the sages
tell him the eternal story of
Rama, which was narrated
by Shiva to Shakti, and
overheard by the crow
Kakabhusandi. Impressed,
Ratnakara wishes to be
devotee of Rama. So the sages
tell him to chant Ramas
name. But Ratnakaras mind
is so polluted by rage and
suffering that he cannot
pronounce Ramas name. So
they tell him to say, Mara
which is a pun for both the Buddhist
demon of desire and the colloquial
word for death. Ratnakara chants
Mara, ma-ra, which eventually reverses
itself to become ra-ma, rama, Rama.

He chants for so long, sitting so still,
that a termite hill (valmik) forms
around him, and so when he emerges,
everyone calls him Valmiki.
This story of transformation is
found in Skanda Purana as well as
many regional and folk Ramayanas. It
has inspired many popular
contemporary plays
including the famous
Amar Chitra Katha comics
on the poet-sage, and
teleserials like Upanishad
Ganga. The point of this
story was to show that how
in the bhakti era anyone
could benefit from Vedic
knowledge, how even a
robber could become a sage.
Wait a second, are we
referring to one Valmiki or
two? Is the poet-sage who gave shelter
to Sita and the thief-turned-sage who
was given Ram-naam-jaap by sages one
and the same person? The two stories
the
speaking
tree
come from different eras of Hinduism,

the former from the post-Buddhist,
Epic Age, and the latter from the
Bhakti era. They are separated by 1,500
years. They most probably refer to two
totally different people.
While many assume the two are
the same, others especially who see
Rishi Valmiki as their patron saint
insist they are two different stories
and feel it is insulting to poet-sage
Valmiki to be called a reformed thief.
What is the truth?
In a world of diverse storytelling,
we have to respect the views of the
faithful, and avoid the tendency to seek
one truth (my truth is the truth),
especially in matters of faith, that
causes hurt to one community. This
respect for multiple truths lies at the
heart of Hinduism.
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Why little girls think they cant be geniuses First human-pig

Stereotypes Lead 6-Year-Olds To Believe That Men Are Smarter, More Talented
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an women be brilliant?
Little girls are not so
sure. A study published
on Thursday in the journal
Science suggests that girls as
young as 6 can be led to believe
men are inherently smarter
and more talented than women, making girls less motivated to pursue novel activities
or ambitious careers.
That such stereotypes exist is hardly a surprise, but
the findings show these biases can affect children at a very young age. As a society,
we associate a high level of
intellectual ability with
males more than females,
and our research suggests
that this association is
picked up by children as
young 6 and 7, said Andrei

Cimpian, associate professor in the psychology department at New York University.
Cimpian coauthored the
study, which looked at 400
children ages 5-7 years.
In the first part of the
study, girls and boys were
told a story about a person
who is really, really smart,
a childs idea of brilliance,
and then asked to identify
that person among the photos of two women and two
men. The people in the photos were dressed professionally, looked the same age and
appeared equally happy. At 5,
both boys and girls tended to
associate brilliance with
their own gender, meaning
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Till 5, both boys and girls associate brilliance with their own gender
that most girls chose women

and most boys chose men.
But as they became older
and began attending school,
children apparently began
Woman lives 6 days without lungs

May Bulman
woman was kept alive for

six days without her lungs
while she waited for a transplant, in what has been called a
medical world-first. Melissa Benoit was born with cystic fibrosis
a genetic disease that can cause
phlegm build-up in the lungs and
affect the digestive system. After
she came down with flu last year,
the Canadian was rushed to the
intensive care unit at a hospital.
Bacteria in the 32-year-old
mother-of-ones lungs became resistant to most antibiotics and as a
result the disease spread throughout her body, causing her to slip into septic shock. As her blood pressure plummeted, one by one, her
organs began to shut down.
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MASKED JOY: A resident wears a mask on the eve
of the Lunar New Year eve in Manilas Chinatown
People use FB for social

support, Twitter for info
Social support is the main motive for Facebook
use, while Twitter usage is inspired more by the
desire for new knowledge and advice, suggests
a new study. Researchers at Michigan State
University and San Diego State University in the
US examined the role of social networks as
avenues of social support and the dynamic
relationship between the two, reviewing 10
years of research. The study was published in
the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and
Social Networking.
Two new flu vaccines for dogs developed

Scientists have for the first time developed two
vaccines for canine influenza that may not only
protect them but also keep you safe from the
infection. Dogs infected with multiple influenza
viruses have the potential to act as mixing
vessels and generate new flu strains that could
infect people, researchers said. Scientists led by
Luis Martinez-Sobrido from the University of
Rochester, US, have created two live-attenuated
vaccines against the H3N8 canine influenza virus,
which is currently circulating in dogs in the US.
endorsing gender stereotypes. At 6 and 7, girls were

significantly less likely to
pick women. The results were
similar when the kids were
shown photos of children.

Interestingly, when asked
to select children who look
like they do well in school, as
opposed to being smart, girls
tended to pick girls, which
means that their perceptions
of brilliance are not based on
academic performance.
These stereotypes float
free of any objective markers
of achievement and intelligence, Cimpian said.
In the second part of the
study, children were introduced to two new board
games, one described as an activity for children who are
really, really smart and the
other one for children who
try really, really hard. Fiveyear-old girls and boys were
The patients terminal

lung infection called
for an unprecedented
procedure while
she waited for
double transplant
Although it had never been
carried out before, doctors decided to remove her lungs entirely. It
was unclear whether Benoits
blood pressure and oxygen levels
could be sustained during surgery and there was the possibility
that she could bleed into the empty chest cavity. But at the same
time they knew that removing
them could potentially eliminate
the source of bacterial infection.
What helped us is the fact that we
knew it was a matter of hours be-
fore she would die, said Dr Shaf

Keshavjee, one of the three surgeons who operated on her.
In mid-April, a team of 13 began a nine-hour surgery to remove
Benoits lungs. Hours later, her
condition began to dramatically
improve. A small artificial lung
was connected to Benoits heart,
while other devices oxygenated
and circulated her blood. Six days
later a pair of donor lungs became
available and she underwent a successful transplant.
Essentially, trying this procedure could have been a death sentence, Benoit told a press conference, Without the doctors coming
up with this procedure I wouldnt
be sitting here today... I still dont
believe it happened. It seems very
surreal. THE INDEPENDENT
equally likely to want to play

the game for smart kids, but at
age 6 and 7, boys still wanted
to play that game, while girls
opted for the other activity.
There isnt anything
about the game itself that becomes less interesting for
girls, but rather its the description of it as being for
kids that are really, really
smart, Cimpian said. It is
still unclear where the stereotypes come from. Parents,
teachers and peers and the
media are the usual suspects,
Cimpian said. But it is evident that action must be taken so that these biases dont
curtail girls aspirations. Exposure to successful women
would help, Cimpian said. AP
Tastier tomato
on the horizon
Los Angeles: Scientists have
identified the important factors responsible for loss of flavour in tomatoes. Numerous
genes responsible for the flavour have been lost as food producers selected the fruit for
other qualities, such as size and
firmness. Now, researchers at
University of Florida, US, have
unveiled the lost genes associated with the original flavour.
Were just fixing what has
been damaged over the last half
a century to push them back to
where they were a century ago,
taste-wise, said Harry Klee of
the University of Florida, adding that the technique involved
classical genetics, not genetic
modification. PTI
embryo grown
in laboratory
AP
Nicholas Wade
or the first time, biologists

have succeeded in growing
human stem cells in pig
embryos, shifting from science
fiction to the realm of the possible the idea of developing human organs in animals for later
transplant. The approach involves generating stem cells
from a patients skin, growing
the desired new organ in a large
animal like a pig, and then harvesting it for transplant into the
patients body. Since the organ
would
be
made of a patients own cells,
there would be little risk of immune rejection.
The human-organ-growing pigs would be examples of
chimeras, animals composed
of two different genomes.
They would be generated by
implanting human stem cells
into an early pig embryo, resulting in an animal composed
of mixed pig and human cells.
A team of biologists, led by Jun
Wu and Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte at the Salk Institute, US,
has shown that human stem
cells can contribute to forming
the tissues of a pig, despite the
90 million years of evolution between the two species. Another
group, headed by Tomoyuki Yamaguchi and Hideyuki Sato of
the University of Tokyo, and
Hiromitsu Nakauchi of Stanford, has reversed diabetes in
mice by inserting pancreas
glands composed of mouse
cells that were grown in a rat.
A photo provided by Salk Institute

shows a 4-week-old pig embryo
injected with human stem cells.
The procedure raises hope of
developing human organs in
animals for later transplant
The Salk teams report was

published in Thursdays issue
of Cell, and the Stanford-Tokyo teams in Wednesdays issue of Nature.
The two reports together establish the feasibility of trying
to grow replacement human organs in animals, though such a
goal is still far off. Many technical and ethical barriers have yet
to be overcome, but the research
is advancing alongside the acute
need for organs. Creating chimeras, especially those with human cells, may prove controversial, given the possibility that
test animals could be humanised in undesirable ways. Both
Izpisua Belmonte and Nakauchi said there was a long way to
go before human organs could
successfully be grown in animals like pigs.
Chimeras will be more immediately useful in studying
human embryogenesis, testing
drugs and following the progress of disease. NYT NEWS SERVICE
France bars unlimited soda refills Jostle for selfies kills dolphin
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Barbara Tasch
nlimited refills of sugary

drinks have officially been
banned in France, Le Figaro reports, as the government
aims to fight obesity and diabetes. The measure was adopted
in April 2015, incorporated into
the Health Act of January 2016,
and came into force on Friday.
It states that drinks containing added sugars or sweeteners
must not be available on an unlimited basis, either for free or for a
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fixed price. It means soda fountains will disappear from schools

and public eateries, including hotels and restaurants. In France,
one in six adults is considered
obese. One in five French children is overweight.
Europe-wide, a third of children aged from six to nine years
are overweight. The list of beverages covered by the law includes
flavoured carbonated and noncarbonated soft drinks and fruit
syrups. Sports drinks will also be
impacted. BUSINESS INSIDER
Jon Sharman
young dolphin died after

beach visitors in Argentina pulled it out of the sea and
took photos with it.
In shaky video footage, the
animal can be seen lying in
shallow water as people touch
it, in San Bernardo del Tuy in
Buenos Aires province, on
Sunday. A witness told the C5N
news outlet: It was small and
it came close to the shore. They
could have put it back in the sea
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in fact, it was breathing

but they all started taking photos and touching it. But she
added: They said it was already dead.
Last year too, tourists were
accused of pulling a dolphin
from the sea in Argentina. Initial reports suggested the dolphin had overheated and died of
dehydration
while
being
passed around. One of the persons allegedly responsible had
claimed then that the dolphin
was dead. THE INDEPENDENT
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GOP finally falls in line with Trump

Party Now Backing Ideas It Opposed Even As Govt Floats Another A 20% Import Tax On Mexico
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Prez to talk to Putin,

Hollande & Merkel
Chidanand. Rajghatta
@timesgroup.com
Washington: US President
Donald Trump appears to have established complete control over the Grand Old Party,
with Republican grandees falling in line with the victorious
candidates proposals and actions even when they go against traditional party dogma
and line of thinking.
They include backing greater federal spending such as
a $1 trillion infrastructure splurge, funding the wall with
Mexico to the tune of $20 billion, and the use of executive
authority they previously saw
as diluting legislative clout.
Trump swept into a party
retreat in Philadelphia on Thursday with a first-time use of
Air Force One and blew away
lawmakers with another exultant speech centering on his
presidential election victory
that he said no one saw coming, while urging them to enact great and lasting change
for the benefit of the people.
This Congress is going to
be the busiest Congress in decades maybe ever, he declared, virtually directing the pa-
PROTESTS GO ON: An activist protests as President Trump attends

the Congress of Tomorrow Republican Member Retreat in Philadelphia
rty to get cracking, even though many of his proposals go

against the interest of lawmakers and their constituencies.
Among them is Senator
John McCain, one of the few
legislators who is refusing to
roll over, and who on Thursday challenged Trumps pledge, among much acclaim from
his base, to renegotiate Nafta.
Facts
are
stubborn
things, and the facts clearly
show Nafta has delivered
enormous economic benefits
to citizens of my home state
since it went into effect in 1994.

In just two decades, Arizonas
exports to Canada and Mexico
have increased by $5.7 billion,
or 236%, McCain argued in a
statement, warning that free
flow of trade has been the foundation of US economic policy for decades, and a major
factor in US prosperity and
greatness, and reversing that
would be detrimental to US interests around the world.
But Trump has taken his
election victory as vindication of his stand on free trade,
onald Trump will hold

telephone talks on
Saturday with Russian
President Vladimir Putin,
French counterpart Francois
Hollande and German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, the
White House said on Friday.
The talks with Putin, and even
with Merkel if German
government sources are to be
believed, will focus on the
sanctions the US has imposed
on Russia, apart from the
conflict in Ukraine. AGENCIES
which he has argued has decimated the US economy, a gross

over-simplification challenged by economists from all sides. Trump has first trained
his guns on Mexico in his pledge to change the rules.
On Thursday, the Trump
White House floated a proposal for a 20% tariff on all imported goods, in part to bank roll
the proposed wall with Mexico, before reeling back after a
furore when analysts pointed
out that it would just mean the
American taxpayer would be
footing the bill for the wall.

The White House later clarified that it was just one idea
among a buffett of options
being discussed, even as economic pundits castigated the
administration for not thinking through the proposal.
The consensus was that such a
tariff would trigger a trade
war with other countries with
the end result of costs being
passed on to the consumer.
Simply put, any policy
which drives up costs of Corona, tequila, or margaritas is a
big-time bad idea. Mucho
Sad, Lindsay Graham, another Republican lawmaker
who has baited Trump, tweeted jestfully, as analysts said it
could pretty much apply to
anything from textiles to tea.
Shafting Nafta, or renegotiating it, as Trump has proposed, is not as simple as Trump
loyalists from Middle America make it out to be. Southern
US border states such as Texas
and Arizona are tied at the hip
with Mexico in trade and manufacturing that goes beyond
immigration issues.
Among McCains arguments: Mexico is Arizonas
number one trade partner, acReuters
No more public
statements on wall,
say US & Mexico
Washington: Donald Trump
and his Mexico counterpart
decided to not issue any more
public statements on the border wall after engaging in
what the US President described as a very good call, coming a day after the Mexican
president called off his visit
to Washington.
We had a very good call. I
have been very strong on Mexico. I have great respect for
Mexico ... but, as you know,
Mexico with the US has outnegotiated us and beat us to a
pulp through our past leaders.
The border is soft and weak,
drugs are pouring in, and Im
not going to let that happen.
Theyve made us look foolish, Trump told a news conference at the White House.
Trump said the hourlong call was friendly and he
looked forward to renegotiating the US trade relationship
with Mexico in the future, but
also adding, Were no longer
going to be the country that doesnt know what it is doing.
The two leaders agreed to
resolve their differences about who will pay for the wall
as part of a comprehensive
discussion on all aspects of
the bilateral relation, and
WORLD DIGEST
Black claims
racism by cops
at The Hague
utch police have rejected claims by a Black

American lawyer working
at the United Nations
highest court that she was
a victim of racially motivated brutality by officers in
The Hague. In a Facebook
post that had been taken
down on Friday, Chaka
Laguerre wrote that she
was violently arrested by
two Hague police officers
after they spotted her
jaywalking on Tuesday.
2 teens held in US for

plotting mass shooting:
Two teenagers have been
arrested in the US after
authorities discovered their
plan for a mass shooting at
their school. The unidentified students aged 13 and
14 from Florida were
charged with conspiracy to
commit murder and placed
into the custody of the department of Juvenile Justice.
F-35, Air Force One

reviews get nod
S defence secretary James

Mattis ordered
cost-cutting reviews of the
F-35 fighter jet and Boeings
next-generation of Air Force
One presidential plane,
according to Pentagon memos
released on Friday. The review
of Lockheed Martins F-35
programme would look at how
to cut costs, and determine
whether the F/A-18E/F, with
improvements, could be an
effective, cheaper alternative.
The review of the Air Force One
replacement would look at the
planes requirements and
systems and identify courses
of action to reduce acquisition
and sustainment costs. REUTERS
the presidents also agreed

for now to no longer speak
publicly about this controversial issue.
In a separate statement,
Pina-Nietos office said,
With respect to the payment
for the border wall, both presidents recognised their clear and very public difference
between their stances on this
very sensitive issue. AGENCIES
WHITE HOUSE MISSPELLS MAYS NAME, CONFUSES IT WITH A PORN STAR: US President Trump greets
British PM Theresa May after her arrival at the White House on Friday. Speaking at a news conference after his first
meeting with a foreign leader at the White House, Trump said he hoped to have a fantastic relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he said it was possible that would not occur. Any move by the White House to lift
sanctions against Russia for its actions in Ukraine would likely cause consternation among European allies. May told
the news conference she believed sanctions against Russia should stay in place. She also made a point of emphasising that during their talks, Trump had given strong backing to Nato, an alliance that the president has previously
called obsolete. Ahead of the meet, White House misspelled Mays name three times in an official schedule. They
missed out the h in her name, making it Teresa May, the name of a former glamour model and porn actress
Iranian actress to shun Oscars

Getty Images
he star of Irans Oscarnominated movie The

Salesman said on
Thursday she would not attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood next
month because of US President Donald Trumps proposed ban on immigrants from
Muslim nations.
Taraneh Alidoosti, 33, a
Tehran-born actress, said the
move was racist. Trumps
Muslim woman assaulted at US airport
hijab-clad Muslim airline employee in the US has been

racially attacked, kicked by a man who shouted slurs at her
and said Trump is here now and he will get rid of all of you,
officials said. Rabeeya Khan, a Delta Airline employee, was
sitting in her office at the John F Kennedy International Airport
on Wednesday when Robin Rhodes, 57, of Worcester assaulted
her. Khan asked Rhodes what she did to him, prosecutors said.
He replied, You did nothing but I am going to kick your a**,
prosecutors said. Rhodes has been charged with assault,
unlawful imprisonment, menacing and harassment as hate
crimes. Delta has termed the incident unacceptable. AGENCIES
tice Daniela Cejkova said

handing down the verdict.
The court ruled in favour
of the school, which argued
that Nuur had never formally
A struggling child with a blade to his neck awaiting slaughter. A gutted

body hanging upside down as blood seeps out. In Brussels these days,
its called street art. The two murals that appeared last weekend have
made their anonymous artist the talk of the European capital, posing a
familiar question about art expressly created to provoke: how far can it
go before the outrage becomes unacceptable? Some parents in the
neighbourhood have even complained that children are having trouble
sleeping because of the terrifying sight outside their windows
visa ban for Iranians is racist. Whether this will include a cultural event or not, I
wont attend the #AcademyAwards 2017 in protest, Alidoosti said on Twitter.
The film, by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, was nominated on Tuesday for a foreign-language Oscar, and
has won prizes at film festivals in Cannes, Chicago and
Munich. REUTERS
Pak channel
airs banned
anchor, faces
regulator ire
Omer Farooq Khan
enrolled in the establishment.

Ivanka Kohoutova, the schools principal, also argued that
a hijab contravened its safety
and hygiene standards. AFP
BLOOD & GORE ON WALLS OF BRUSSELS
Saudi rights activist

jailed for 7 years: A Saudi
writer has been sentenced
to seven years in prison for
offences including having
contact with foreign journalists, a rights group said
on Thursday. The Gulf
Centre for Human Rights
said Nadhir al-Majid, 40,
received the sentence last
week from the Specialised
Criminal Court in Riyadh.
Taraneh Alidoosti, star of Oscarnominated movie The Salesman

slammed Trumps proposed ban on
immigrants from Muslim nations
Czech schools hijab ban upheld

Prague: A Czech court rejected on Friday a discrimination suit by a Somali refugee
who was banned from wearing a hijab in a nursing
school, the first case of its
kind in the EU state.
The plaintiff, Ayan Jamaal Ahmed Nuur, who was
granted asylum in the Czech
Republic in 2011, did not attend the trial. Her lawyer had
sought an apology and financial compensation for alleged discrimination. The suit which the plaintiff lodged
seeking an apology and
60,000 crowns ($2,350) in compensation was rejected, Jus-
BE SURE YOU PUT YOUR

FEET IN THE RIGHT PLACE,
THEN STAND FIRM
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
AFP
counting for nearly 30% of all

of Arizonas exports to foreign markets, and with more
than $16.8 billion in total trade
with Mexico in 2015; This is
twice the states exports to Canada, China, the UK and Germany combined; Manufacturing between Arizona and
Mexico is highly integrated,
with parts often crossing the
border several times before
the final product is produced;
111,200 Arizona jobs directly
depend on bilateral trade with
Mexico; Around 65,000 Mexicans come to Arizona every
day to shop and spend $7.8 million daily; Mexico is Arizonas
largest foreign supplier, accounting for almost 40% of its
$7.6 billion imports in 2015.
But as with Obamacare,
voter fraud and other issues,
Trumps Middle America base, previously the fringe, is
now driving policy, and the
partys having to fall in line.
Lawmakers for whom free trade and globalisation was an article of faith (and who beat the
world into adhering to it) are
scrubbing their websites to
sign up for the Trump position, in tune with the saying
that to the victor go the spoils.
Prez called park

official to dispute
inauguration
photos: Report
Washington: On his first
full day in office, President
Donald Trump called the acting director of the National
Park Service to dispute widely circulated photos of
Trumps inauguration.
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that
Trump personally ordered
park service head Michael
Reynolds to produce additional photographs of the
previous days crowds on
the National Mall. The president believed that the photos might prove that the
news media had lied in reporting that attendance had
been no better than average,
the newspaper said.
The Post reported that Reynolds forwarded additional
photos to the White House as
requested. Photos taken that
day made clear that crowds
didnt extend to the Lincoln
Memorial as Trump later asserted and that his claim of 1
million to 1.5 million people
in attendance was wrong.
Trump also expressed
anger over a retweet sent
from the park services account, in which side-by-side
photographs showed far fewer people at his swearingin than had shown up to see
President Barack Obamas
inauguration in 2009, the
Post reported. AP
Pak politicos up
ante over armys
secret courts
AP
fter army hearings ordered the execution of

more than 100 terrorism
suspects in the past two years,
some Pakistani politicians
are pushing back against the
opaque courts in a rare sign
of backbone against the nations powerful military.
The courts were set up about a month after Pakistani Taliban massacred more than 100
schoolchildren in December
2014. The militarys closed door proceedings have drawn ire
from human rights organisations and admiration for swift
rulings in a country where civilian courts are clogged. Investors have also noted Pakistans improved security since
a militant crackdown.
However, Pakistans army
chief General Qamar Javed
Bajwa, appointed in November, is facing off emboldened
politicians in a bid to continue
the secret courts. As their mandate expired earlier this
month, the government has yet
to commit to an extension and
opposition politicians openly
object to it. The tussle will likely increase strains between
the two branches of power in
the nuclear-armed nation.
Pakistans army chief Gen Bajwa

is facing an unusual show of
backbone by politicians
The military said earlier

this month the courts have
yielded positive effects and
Bajwas predecessor, retired
General Raheel Sharif, told a
panel at the World Economic
Forum in Davos last week that
they had stopped insurgents.
Freedom of speech and other things like human rights
and all, they are limitations
and they are difficult to handle when you are dealing with
hardcore terrorists, he said.
Yet the biggest opposition
parties have objected to their
reinstatement. Parliamentary leaders and opposition parties are due to meet and decide
the fate of the military courts
on January 31. BLOOMBERG
CIA papers reveal

Chinas nuclear
free pass to Pak
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
ecently
declassified
CIA files testify to the
depth of the PakistanChina military relationship
built over decades and also
highlights how Beijing was
willing to risk its own nuclear cooperation with US to boost the nuclear ambitions of
all weather friend Pakistan.
In the files, the US notes
that China did not ask Pakistan to open its nuclear installations to IAEA inspections, after inking a nuclear agreement with the latter. The text of
the agreement is pretty anodyne, focusing on non-military
nuclear technology, radio-isotopes, medical research and civilian power technology. By
this, the US notes, China wanted to develop a nuclear export
market in Pakistan in nonsensitive areas. This would
reassure countries like US
which were apprehensive about Pakistans nuclear designs.
We cannot rule out the possibility that China may feel it
will be easier to cooperate clandestinely with Pakistan behind
the smokescreen of IAEA-safe-
US suspected that
China gave Pakistan
the design of a
nuclear bomb and
enriched uranium
guarded cooperation activity
in non-sensitive areas.
By 1983-84, it had become
alarmingly clear to the US
that the China-Pakistan nuclear cooperation went much
deeper. In February 1983, a US
congressional
committee
was informed by the CIA that
the US had proof China and
Pakistan were talking nuclear weapons manufacture.
CIA also stated they knew
China had handed over the design of a nuclear bomb tested
by China in Lop Nor, which incidentally was its fourth nuclear test and during which,
US believed, a senior Pakistani official was present.
The US suspected China
had handed over enriched uranium to Pakistan as well. Basically it meant that China
had not only handed over the
design of the bomb to Pakistan, it had also given the necessary material.
AROUND THE WORLD

AP
TNN
Islamabad: After taking Bol

news channel off the air, the Pakistan electronic media regulator issued a show cause notice
to it on Friday for breaching its
ban on a TV talk show host for
spreading hatred and threatening people in his programme
Aisay Nahi Chalay Ga.
Despite a ban on Aamir Liaquat Hussain, a TV show host
and religious televangelist,
the TV station had allowed the
belligerent broadcaster to appear on TV on Thursday, defying the orders of Pakistan
Electronic Media Regulatory
Authority (Pemra).
Aamir Liaquat shall not
host any programme, or appear on TV in any manner fresh,
old or repeat including (but
not limited to) as a guest, analyst, reporter, actor, in audio,
video beeper, promo/advertisement of his programme or
in person, in any manner
whatsoever...with immediate
effect, said the Pemra order
issued on Thursday.
Aamir Liaquat, however,
went ahead with his show and
criticised the regulators decision to take his show off the
air. The move led Pemra to take the channel off-air. The TV
host claimed that the owner of
a rival media group, GEO, and
his son were behind the ban.
A passenger gets off a driverless shuttle bus in Georgia, US, on Thursday. A US company is running the
12-person bus to give people a chance to ride in a driverless vehicle and garner public acceptance for it
Man in US casino
leaves, robs bank,
returns to gamble
West Virginia man has

admitted to leaving a
casino to rob a bank before
returning to continue gambling. Kerry Johnson had been
at the Mardi Gras Casino in
Nitro for hours on August 2
when he put down a $25 chip
to hold his spot. Prosecutors
said Johnson then drove 13
miles to a Charleston bank and
gave tellers a note saying he
had a bomb and a weapon and
robbed it. Johnson then returned to the blackjack table and
kept gambling.
Burger King staff held for

selling pot at drive-through:
Police say two employees at a
New Hampshire, US, Burger

King have been arrested on
drug charges after authorities
were tipped off that drive-thru
customers who asked for extra
crispy fries got marijuana with
their meal. NH1 reports Epping
police chief Mike Wallace said
20-year-old Garrett Norris was
arrested police conducted a
sting operation. Also arrested
was 19-year-old Meagan
Dearborn, the shift manager.
Man accused of faking fax

to jail to free friend: A man in
Lincoln, US, has been accused
of sending a faked fax to
Lancaster County Jail in an
effort to free a friend. Justin
Colberts fake fax said it was
from Lancaster County Court
and said a bond payment of
$25,000 had been made for a
jail inmate who should be
freed. But officials suspicions
were raised as the fax had

arrived on a Saturday when
the courts were closed, and
the fax had an attached email
and phone number that didnt
match the court number.
Man fights speeding ticket

with deer argument: A man
from Massachusetts, US,
fighting a speeding ticket in
court had a unique explanation the officers radar gun
may have picked up a deer.
The Newburyport Daily News
reports that Dennis Sayers, of
Haverhill, was clocked going
40mph in 30mph zone in West
Newbury in November. He got
a $105 ticket. He appealed in
court on Thursday, asking if
the officer was 100% sure his
radar captured Sayers speed
or the speed of a deer that
could have been in the vicinity.
The fine was upheld.
TIMES BUSINESS
SATYA NADELLA-LED MICROSOFTS MARKET VALUE TOPS

$500BN AGAIN AFTER 17 YEARS AS Q2 NET RISES 3.6%
CBDT tries to allay investor

fears over GAAR regime
Subjectivity Regarding Treaty Override Continues: Tax Experts
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: The Central Board

of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has attempted to allay fears of investors, especially foreign, by
holding that where the relevant tax treaty sufficiently
addresses the issue of tax avoidance, then the General Anti Avoidance Rule (GAAR)
provisions as contained in Indias domestic tax laws will
not apply. Tax experts aver
that an element of subjectivity continues.
Grandfathering from GAAR shall also be available in
respect of investments made
prior to April 1, 2017, including
bonus on these shares or share split of original shares.
Grandfathering (inapplicability of GAAR) will also be available to instruments that
are later convertible, but according to terms finalised at
the time of issue.
The concept of treaty override where the beneficial
tax provisions are ignored
Jack Ma
warns of big
China-US
trade war
Beijing: E-commerce giant Alibabas founder Jack Ma has
warned of a big
trade war between China and the
US under the new
Trump Presidency
if conflicts were
not dealt properly.
He said Chinas economic
outlook will be tougher than expected due to continued slowdown of Chinese economy and
warned. In the coming three to
five years... the economic situation will be even more arduous
than everyone had expected,
the e-commerce billionaire said
at an annual meeting of the General Association of Zhejiang
Entrepreneurs.
Referring to the slowdown of
the Chinese economy to 6.7%
last year, the slowest in over two
decades, he said it was only natural that Chinas rapid growth
over the past three decades could not continue, and that the focus should be shifted to the quality of growth such as upgrading
its manufacturing industry.
About the outlook on ChinaUS relations, Ma, who recently
met US President Donald
Trump, said despite an overall
optimistic outlook on trade between the worlds two largest economies, conflicts will definitely
be there. If (the conflicts) were
not dealt with properly, they
might lead to a relatively big trade war which is not a good thing
for China, the US or the world
economy, he was quoted as saying by Hong Kong-based South
China Morning Post which is
owned by him. Trump has accused China of being a currency
manipulator and has proposed
steep tariffs on imports from the
country.
Ma also said Trump is a
smart person and should not be
underestimated. It is only that
his speaking style and the way
he does things are different from
what we are used to expecting
from politicians. AGENCIES
SOME RELIEF
Arrangements approved by
court or held permissible by
the Authority for Advance
Rulings will not be
covered by GAAR
If the panel holds a

transaction to be permissible
and conditions remain the
same, GAAR will also not be
invoked in the next year
Transaction
proposed to be
covered will be vetted
first by commissioner
and second by an approving
panel headed by HC judge
GAAR will apply

where the tax avoidance
arrangement results in
an aggregate tax benefit
of `3cr or more for all parties
across countries
was a cause of concern for foreign investors. GAAR is set

to kick in from April 1.
In an exhaustive 16-point
FAQ released on Friday, CBDT
has considered suggestions of
a working committee set up in
June 2016 to look into investors concerns. Its circular explains that adoption of antiabuse rules in tax treaties
may not be sufficient to address all tax avoidance strategies. Thus, these are required to
be tackled through domestic
anti-avoidance rules such as

GAAR. However, if a case of
avoidance is sufficiently addressed by a Limitation of Benefit (LoB) clause in the tax
treaty, there shall not be an occasion to invoke GAAR.
Punit Shah, partner, Dhruva Advisors, says, There is
still room for subjectivity in
interpretation by the I-T authorities. CBDT could have explicitly clarified that GAAR
will not apply where the conditions in specific anti-avoi-
dance regulations (SAAR)

such as LoB clauses in the tax
treaty have been met. Instead,
one of the FAQs also states
that provisions of GAAR and
SAAR can co-exist.
The Shome Committee
had earlier recommended
that GAAR should not apply
to a tax treaty that has specific
LoB clauses. For instance, the
LoB clause in the revised tax
treaty with Mauritius provides that a Mauritius investor
will not be entitled to tax treaty benefits if the primary
objective is to claim tax benefit. Second, it adds that shell
companies will also not be entitled to the benefit of a lower
tax on capital gains during the
transition period of two years
commencing from April 1. A
shell company is described as
one when its total expenditure on operations in Mauritius
is less than Rs 27 lakh in the
previous 12 months.
India Post Payments Bank

gets RBI nod to start biz
Surojit.Gupta@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The RBI has given

its nod to the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) to start operations. The government has
also appointed an interim
CEO, who will help set up the
entity. IPPB is the third entity
(got final licence from RBI on
January 20) after Airtel and Paytm payment banks to get the
central banks approval, sources said. Operations are expected to start before March 31and
will be gradually rolled out in
650 districts using the network
of 1.54 lakh post offices.
The government has appointed A P Singh as the interim
MD and CEO of IPPB. A 1986
batch Indian Postal Service officer, Singh was earlier joint secretary in the department of investment and public asset management (DIPAM). He has also served as the deputy
director general in-charge of fi-
MAY START OPS BEFORE MAR 31

Postal payments bank
ops may start before
March 31 and will be
gradually rolled out
in 650 districts using
the network of 1.5
lakh post ofces
The government
has appointed A P Singh,
nancial inclusion and payment systems in the founding
team of UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India).
The Aadhaar-enabled payments system, e-kyc (electronic know your customer) and
direct benefit transfers were
piloted by him.
Payments banks are the
brainchild of former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, who
came up with the idea of differentiated bank licences. These
banks do not offer loans and se-
1986 batch Indian Postal

Service ofcer, as the
interim managing
director and CEO
of IPPB
Postal payment
bank will use
postmen to help deliver
banking services
veral other facilities that are offered by full-fledged banks and
are not allowed to accept deposits of over Rs 1lakh. But, they
can be of immense help in taking banking services across
India and in remote areas.
This month, Airtel Payments Bank launched its operations, offering 7.25% interest
on savings, which is more than
the maximum 7% paid by SBI
on FDs. Paytm is expected to
start operations of its payments bank next month.
IndiaQR code launch put off

as govt seeks more details
Mayur.Shetty@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: A proposal to widen

card acceptance across the country through the launch of
IndiaQR, which would enable
payment by scanning QR codes
with a smartphone, has got
delayed. IndiaQR, which was
to be launched around Republic Day, will take longer as the
government wants a host of
details including Aadhaar
number, Unified Payment Interface (UPI) and bank account
details in addition to enabling
card payment.
Banking sources said that
IndiaQR appears to be on the
back burner as the government has also moved into
election mode and, with the
election code of conduct kick-
ing in, no new schemes can

be launched.
When it was conceptualised last month, IndiaQR was
expected to be a way out for
small kirana stores. What the
government wanted was that,
just as a card swipe machine
accepts all cards, there should
be one QR code for all cards.
SLOW ROLLOUT
However, even as the
banks and payment companies were working on getting a
common QR code, the government announced a change of
plan. Instead of enabling QR
only for card payments the
government now wants a
QR code that will facilitate
UPI, Aadhaar-enabled pay-
ments and even interbank

money transfers.
Banks see four problems in
adding multiple options. Firstly, it will increase load on the
payment application. Second,
cards and UPI are designed for
consumer-to-business
payments, while account transfers and Aadhaar are peer-topeer payments where the charges are borne by the initiator of
the transaction. Third, cardbased payments have an evolved dispute resolution mechanism already in place and a similar mechanism is being
worked for UPI, but not for account transfers. Finally, incorporating Aadhaar number would mean that this option would be available for individual
proprietorship firms.
No updates for 50% UPI apps in 50 days

May Impact User Experience | No Security Issue, Say Experts
Digbijay.Mishra
@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru: Out of the total 38

Unified Payment Interface (UPI)
apps available on the android platform, about 50% of them have an
app vintage (days since they were
last updated) in the range of 45-55
days. In fact, six of these apps have
a vintage of 130-150 days, according to data from Cashless Consumer, an initiative based around
the domestic financial technology ecosystem and UPI banking
apps.
Given the kind of active push
UPI has seen in recent months,
such instances of apps having not
being updated for 45-55 days could
act as an irritant for users. The data collated by Cashless Consumer
is as of January 25, 2017. UCO
Bank and Andhra Bank are some
of the banks whose UPI apps are
over 150 days old in terms of the
last update from the developers.
FIXING
GLITCHES
The BHIM app, which was

launched on Unied Payment
Interface (UPI) on Dec 30, has
been updated twice since then
As on Jan 25, BHIM had
an app vintage of 20 days,
according to data from
Cashless Consumer
But out of 38 UPI apps, 20
have app vintage of about 50
To be sure, security or user experience of an app is not always based on the merit of its app vintage,
but a lag of 50 days or more on an
average raises questions on the
maturity of the ecosystem given
the continuous debate on security
aspects for digital transactions in
the country.
Access to UPI is only available
days. Half a dozen have even

130-150 days vintage
Many apps had bugs and
errors, but only few xed
glitches and improved user
experience at regular intervals
to banks while non-banking payment platforms have to partner
with banks to go live. The UPI platform is managed by the National
Payments Corporation of India
(NPCI), which enables bank account holders to send and receive
money instantly from customers
of any other bank without account details. UPI, which can be ac-
cessed only through mobile apps,

can be accessed by an account holder through any banks UPI app.
When contacted, NPCIs
MD & CEO A P Hota told TOI
in an emailed response, A
user has the freedom to download any UPI-enabled app and
link multiple bank accounts.
NPCI has provided UPI platform to banks and it is up to
them on how much they want
to leverage this technologically advanced payment system. Technology changes
quickly and specially on the
Android platform. The number of versions some of these
apps have had since the
launch of UPI shows that
constant problem-solving is
not happening. Srikanth L of
Cashless Consumer said, On
the consumer front, this would put off a new user who
may be trying UPI transaction
for the first time.
GERMAN PROSECUTORS TO INVESTIGATE EX-VOLKSWAGEN

CEO MARTIN WINTERKORN OVER DIESELGATE
Hubballi to
get Indias
No. 1 startup
incubator
ITC likely to enter

healthcare biz soon
Shalina.Pillai@timesgroup.com
Udit.Mukherjee
@timesgroup.com
Hubballi: Indian-American
entrepreneur, philanthropist
and venture capitalist Gururaj
Deshpande is
setting up Indias
biggest
startup incubator in Hubballi, about 400km
from Bengaluru.
The 82,000-sqft facility is
expected to open in September. It will have the capacity to
seat over 1,200 people, which
means it can house at least 200
startups. The startups will be
mainly from Dharwad district, said Deshpande at a startup event at Infosyss new
campus in Hubballi. Indias
current biggest incubator is
T-Hub in Telangana, housed
in a 70,000-sqft building.
The Hubballi programme
is a significant expansion of
an idea that the Deshpande
Foundation founded by
Deshpande and his wife
Jaishree seeded in 2008 and
which has grown to be successful in the region. Called
the Sandbox, the objective
was to encourage problemsolvers from the local community and allow them to come
with solutions with help from
the foundation in terms of
management, a financial
model and links to innovators.
Several innovative solutions have emerged through
this programme, including a
software-enabled machine
that helps automate the process of sorting cashew nuts according to their quality, and a
technique to improve the productivity of cotton farmers.
Some 50 startups are part of
the Sandbox. All of them will
move to the new facility once
it is ready. The new facility
will have a makers lab, 3D
printing lab, IoT lab. It will focus on all sectors from manufacturing and agriculture to
IoT, said Deshpande Foundation CEO Naveen Jha.
Kolkata:FMCG-to-hotel-to-tobacco conglomerate ITC Ltd

may finally enter healthcare
sector, one of the fastest-growing business categories in
the country. In the last board
meeting chaired by Y C Deveshwar as CEO of the company, the board of directors has
proposed to change object
clause of memorandum to include healthcare sector. The
proposal has to be ratified by
the shareholders through postal ballot. However, this has assumed significance because
healthcare sector is believed to
be very close to the heart of Deveshwar.
In the 99th AGM of the diversified conglomerate held
on July 23, 2010, Deveshwar
had said that the company would explore the possibility of
entering healthcare segment
in future through hospital route. We have competency in the
hotel business. There is a similarity between the hotel and
the hospital business. Hospital
is nothing but hospitality for
the sick. The only added bit is
the medical aspect of this. In
future, we might look into it,
he had said then.
The decision to change the
clause in memorandum of association is being considered
as the game changer for future
by the analysts. Most of them
have a view that in future, this
segment will further reduce
ITCs dependence on tobacco
business. ITC officials though
was tight-lipped about the possible entry to healthcare, but
there is a strong speculation
that it might enter into hospital business, which has a
strong growth potential.
ITC Ltd is splitting the role
of the executive chairman, the
position Deveshwar has been
holding since January 1996. He
was both the chief executive
officer (CEO) and the chairman of the diversified conglomerate. Sanjiv Puri, the chief
HEALTH CALL FOR EXPANSION

ITC is changing clause of
association in a bid to enter
healthcare segment
The proposal was mooted
at the last board meeting of
Y C Deveshwar as ITC CEO
Healthcare sector is
believed to be very close to
the heart of Deveshwar
YCD had given an
indication to enter
healthcare biz in July 2010
Analysts feel this
possible move will be a
game changer for ITC
This might further
cut ITCs dependence on
tobacco business
YCD To TOI In 2010

We have
competency in the
hotel business. There is a
similarity between the
hotel and the hospital
business. Hospital is
nothing but hospitality
for the sick. The only
added bit is the
medical
aspect of
this. In
future, we
might look
into it
Y C Deveshwar | CHAIRMAN, ITC
ITC net rises 5.7% in Q3 amid tough times

Kolkata: ITC has managed to register a 5.7% jump in net profit in
the third quarter of this fiscal despite challenging circumstances.
It has posted a net profit of Rs 2,646 crore from Rs 2,503 crore in the
year-ago period. This was largely owing to better bottomline for
tobacco, paperboards, agri and hotels business. The new FMCG
business had witnessed a loss of Rs 19.66 crore during the quarter.
The revenue of the new FMCG segment was up by 3.4% amid lower
consumer offtake and reduction of trade pipelines in the wake of
cash crunch during the quarter. TNN
operating officer of the company, will be elevated to the position of CEO from February 5.
During the 20-year-long journey under Deveshwar, ITC had
entered many new sectors.
These include foods, personal
care products, education stationary, lifestyle retailing,
agarbathis and matches. It had
also strengthened presence in
hospitality business.
At the time of Deveshwar
taking over as the executive
chairman, ITC had a revenue
of Rs 5,200 crore and profit before tax (PBT) of Rs 452 crore.
The companys revenue since
then has grown many fold and
it is now over Rs 51,000 crore
and the PBT is close to Rs15,000
crore. Going by net segment revenue, the non-tobacco businesses contribute nearly 60%.
BNK Capital director Ajit
Khandelwal said, This sector

be it hospital or healthcare products have a huge growth potential. The chief of research
of Ashika Caital, Parash Bothra, said if ITC enters hospital
business then it will have a very
good prospect in the long run.
In the short term, there would
be some capital investments
but it is very good as number of
hospital beds in our country is
still very less, he added.
Meanwhile, David Robert
Simpson has been inducted into ITC board as representative
of British American Tobacco
(BAT). The British tobacco giant has close to 33% stake in ITC
Ltd. There was no representative of BAT on the board of the diversified conglomerate for some time. Simpson will be an additional director in the board
with effect from January 27.
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Voda MoU with

Bengal govt
Vodafone India signed an MoU
with the West Bengal government
committing an investment of Rs
3000 crore over next three years
for capacity augmentation and
new business initiatives. The MoU
signed on the sidelines of Bengal
Global Business Summit 2017 aims
at strengthening Vodafones
business in the state. Arvinder
Singh Sachdev, business head
(Kolkata and Bengal circle), said,
We are enthused with the state
governments vision of creating
Bengal a business hub and keen to
be a partner in its delivery.
Canon 20th yr in city: Imaging
leader Canon marked its 20th
anniversary in India with a steadfast plan for the country across its
enterprise, commercial, consumer
and social initiatives. With its
Vision 2020, the company sets a
growth target of Rs 3,500 crore for
Canon India, to be achieved by
consistently attaining a year-onyear double-digit growth. In the
next three years, it aims to penetrate further in the country with its
offerings, augment the photography culture in India and introduce technological advancements across business and consumer products.
Taj Hotels app: Taj Hotels Resorts
and Palaces has launched its new
mobile app, which offers guests a
seamless booking experience and
access to exclusive offers at their
convenience from their mobile
phone. The new app offers a
destination-led customer-centric
mobile journey designed to inspire
guests for travel planning and to
manage their loyalty accounts.
Guests can search through booking options for all 100 hotels by a
map-based search functionality.
MobiKwik tieup: Indian mobile
wallet major MobiKwik announced
national tie-ups with Fortis Healthcare Ltd. and Medanta to power
digital payments at the two most
prestigious multi-super specialty
hospitals of India. Patrons to the
two institutions will now be able to
safely make payments using the
MobiKwik mobile app and need
not worry about cash.
ICSI new head: C S Siddhartha
Murarka has been elected as
chairman of the Eastern India
Regional Council of The Institute of
Company Secretaries of India
(EIRC of ICSI) for one year with
effect from January 19, 2017.
Murarka is a fellow member of the
ICSI. He is a well known practising
company secretary in Kolkata with
specialization in corporate law and
legal risk management.
Voda-Idea combine to have 39cr WHY FAST GROWTH = SLOW JOB CREATION
users, higher than Airtels 27cr
The fastest growing sectors are least labour intensive
Continued from P 1
he talks are serious and are gathering pace, a top telecom industry
consultant told TOI, requested anonymity since he is an advisor to a large
shareholder in one of the companies.
Even Malaysias Axiata, which holds
nearly 20% in Idea Cellular, is studying
the impact of a merger and how it can benefit the Indian companys operations,
profitability and shareholders, a person
familiar with the development told TOI.
Vodafone India, which had planned to
raise about $3 billion through an IPO, is
understood to have shelved the move. The
ongoing talks could result in a reverse
merger with the listed Idea, giving the
combine more heft in the stock markets,
said an industry person.
The combined subscriber count of a
merged entity would be nearly 39 crore,
substantially higher than Airtels 27 crore
and Jios present number of 7.2 crore. It
would have a revenue market share of
nearly 40% compared with Airtels
near-32%. It would have the strongest retail footprint in the industry, as well as robust spectrum holdings.
The initial assessment is that spectrum holdings and monopoly worries are
not deal-breakers, although the combined
entity may be forced to shed spectrum and
subscribers in certain telecom circles.
These would be to fall in line with competition laws as well as telecom merger and
acquisitions guidelines. "If we go circle by
circle, the merger will create a complimentary footprint and will have no big
overlap worries," said a knowledgeable

source. The combined entity will also result in large savings through shedding of
excess cell sites, some of which could also
be re-deployed, adding to profit margins,
he added.
These sources said the Birlas are
clear that the merged entity should be
headed by Idea Cellular chief executive
Himanshu Kapania and added that Vodafone is open to the idea of joint management. But a key hurdle could be valuation,
as Idea, citing its better operating profits,
is seeking an almost equal valuation with
the bigger Vodafone.
Idea's beaten-down share price from
CONSOLIDATION
Rs 143 at the beginning of 2016 has
dragged its market value to around $4.2
billion, while Vodafone had sought a $10
billion valuation for listing its India arm.
Analysts are upbeat on the benefits of
a merger. Itll create a new leader in the
mobile/data industry, challenging both
Airtel and Jio and hence further intensifying competition, CLSA, a research and
consultancy firm, said in a report where it
explored the implications of such an
eventuality. Idea Cellular is seen by analysts to be in vulnerable position as data
realisations may come down at a time of
new investments and high interest costs.
The companys market cap at Fridays
scrip closing price of Rs 77.8 is about Rs
28,100 crore, a far cry from the Rs 39,400
crore it commanded around the same
time last year. For Vodafone India which
is still to make a net profit on a full-year basis a merger would be a good option to
salvage falling valuations and cope with a
tough business environment, say analysts. Vodafone and its British headquarters are frustrated when it comes to regulatory and legal complications in India.
The long-pending capital gains tax issues,
high spectrum pricing, and Trais recent
penalty recommendation over provision
of interconnect points to Jio are perceived as unfavourable for business, a
person in the know of things said. In this
scenario, the company should find a
merger a better option than an outright
exit as moving out will shave off nearly
200 million subscribers thats about
43% of Vodafones global customer base
of 470 million. Also, it will mean exiting a
large and growing telecom market, especially since it has no consumer presence
in China, only an enterprise business, he
added.
Vodafone has spoken about its plans
for an IPO many times, but Jios entry has
now dented valuations. A merger will
mean that business in India continues
and sagging valuations get a boost, an industry expert said. CLSA said it would
pave the way for a backdoor listing for
Vodafone without the hassles of an IPO.
The performance of Airtel, arguably
the strongest among the older lot, already
makes sense for pushing a merger. Airtels profit dipped by 55% in the quarter
ended December 30, 2016, and the outlook
remains shaky with analysts expecting
Jio to maintain its aggressive posturing
for some more time.
Mallya shrank his declared

net worth by 80% in 9 days
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in

its chargesheet has said that
IDBI Bank officials, who have
been arrested in the
Kingfisher Airlines
case, diluted the security requirements in
respect to the Rs 950crore loan in two stages before and after
the loan sanction thereby
facilitating disbursement.
The chargesheet highlights several instances where
the sanction process was weakened to allow loans to a company that was rated sub-investment grade and did not
fall within IDBI Banks own
parameters for credit-worthy
companies. Also, the bankers

waived requirement for additional security while advancing this loan, it said.
One indication of the dilution was that liquor baron Vijay Mallya shrank his
declared net worth by
80% in nine days. While
his statement of assets
in respect of an earlier
term loan gave Rs 1,395
crore as his net worth
on March 31, 2009, at the time of
offering a personal guarantee
his net worth was shown as
only Rs 285 crore. The agency
has said that there was no intent on the part of Mallya to repay and there was a criminal
conspiracy to this end.
Besides IDBI Bank, there
is a consortium of 16 lenders
that is collectively fighting legal battles to recover bad loans

worth over Rs 6,000 crore of
the principal advanced to
Kingfisher Airlines from promoter Mallya and his group
companies. While Mallya is
currently in the UK and refusing to return to India, the CBI
last week arrested 10 people,
including KFA and IDBI Bank
officials, on charges of conspiracy and causing a loss to the
public sector bank.
The report states that while Sridhar sought to recover
the short-term loan of Rs 150
crore and tried to obtain additional security in the form of
unencumbered shares, the
same was denied by Mallya.
The chargesheet quotes an email where Mallya informs
Mphasis gets new

CEO as Blackstone
rejigs its biz ops
Bengaluru: Mphasis CEO Ganesh Ayyar has been replaced by Nitin Rakesh with
private equity giant
Blackstone
Group, the new owner of the Bengaluru-headquartered IT services provider, rejigging operations to leapfrog the
digital transformation story in
its mainstay US market.
Rakesh stepped down as
CEO of Nasdaq-listed Syntel
abruptly in November after being at the helm for 30 months. Rakesh, who was instrumental in
driving Syntels IT automation
platform SyntBots to offset cost
pressure in the traditional business, has held multiple roles including president of Americas
and head of its North US operations. TNN
% share of sector in total output
BUSINESS DIGEST

25.0
20.0
Size of bubble represents labour intensity of the sector
Manufacturing
Agriculture
Transport
Storage
Communication
Broadcasting services
15.0
Construction
10.0
5.0
0.0
0.0
Mining
1.0
Financial
services
Real estate
Professional
services
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
Trade
Hotels
Restaurant
Public administration
Defence
Community services
Utilities
6.0
7.0
8.0
Source: CRISIL Research
9.0
10.0
11.0
12.0
Average % output growth FY15 to FY17
How 2017-18 Budget Can Boost Jobs
Adopt a three-pronged strategy
Budget support:
Reduce employment in
agriculture by providing
opportunities outside the
farm sector
Push manufacturing with
Make in India initiative,
Support sectors hit by

demonetisation, small
and medium enterprises,
construction
Focus on road construction,
rural roads and low cost housing
improve export competitiveness

Design policies to push
growth in labour-intensive
services sectors such as trade,
medical, education, community,
social and personal services
Penalise Airtel for

misleading ads: Jio
New Delhi: Newcomer Reliance Jio has asked telecom regulator Trai to impose highest penalty on
Airtel, accusing the latter
of grossly exaggerating the
value of data in a promotional offer, and giving misleading tariff ads.
Jio has shot-off a letter
to the telecom regulator alleging that in so far as the
advertisements issued by
Airtel for pre-paid and
post-paid tariff packs are
concerned, the unlimited
calls and free data being offered by Airtel is in gross
violation of telecommunication laws.
Jio has further charged
Airtel of misrepresenting
the benefits as free unlimited calls without indicating
the applicability of Fair Us-
age Policy (FUP).

It alleged that the free
calls under Airtels Special
Tariff Voucher 345 were
not really unlimited as Airtel has implemented a FUP
of 300 minutes/day or 1,200
minutes/week, post which
all calls are chargable.
LETTER TO TRAI
Therefore, these prepaid packs do not provide
unlimited free calling
to customers. This fact is
not discernable from the
advertisements of Airtel
and neither does Airtel
specify in the advertisements that such limitations apply or are conceived as part of the terms
and
conditions,
Jio
claimed. AGENCIES
GAIL, NTPC
take to bond
street for funds
New Delhi: Bonds appear to be
the flavour of the season for
energy companies looking to raise funds for capex requirements. State-run gas utility GAIL will issue bonds for up to Rs
750 crore through private placement, while the countrys largest power producer NTPC has
mopped up 500 million euros
through overseas papers.
According to GAIL chairman B C Tripathi, the funds would help meet the growing capex
requirements. The company has
decided to issue non-convertible
bonds with an option to double
the issue size via private placement in one or more tranches.
NTPC ventured overseas to
issue its first euro-denominated
bond, which received investment grade from Fitch. This is
the first-ever 10-year euro bond
issue by an Asian utility. TNN
Hitachi R&D push in Bluru A correction

for Make In India boost W
Tokyo: Hitachi Research &

Development Centre in India
is offering a fresh impetus to
the governments flagship
Make in India initiative, leveraging the Bengaluru centre for developing newer technologies, redefining the tech
landscape, including those related to the Internet of things .
India has the skill set and
a process-oriented approach.
This is not only used in our
projects outside of India, but

within India as well, said Ryuichi Otsuki, chief executive
officer of Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), on the sidelines
of the Hitachi Social Innovation Forum in Tokyo recently.
The Bengaluru development centre is an integral
part of Hitachis global
R&D footprint with labs in countries like Japan, Brazil and
the UK. TNN
ith reference to articles

Sebi bars Mallya from
stock market published on
January 26 and Mallya alleges witch-hunt after Sebi ban
published on January 27, it
was erroneously mentioned
that V K Rekhi, former managing director of United
Spirits, was debarred by Sebi
from accessing the market.
Rekhi is not prohibited by the
market regulator from accessing the stock market. The error is regretted.
TIMES SPORT
MOURINHOS UNITED SURVIVE A SCARE AGAINST

HULL CITY TO REACH LEAGUE CUP FINAL | 22
STRUGGLING TIGER WOODS CARDS 4-OVER 76

AT PGA TOUR EVENT IN TORREY PINES | 22
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YOURE NEVER
TOO OLD FOR THIS
MATCH STATS
9-Rafael Nadal bt 15-Grigor Dimitrov
6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7/5), 6-7 (4/7), 6-4
Nadal
TIMES IN
MELBOURNE
Prajwal.Hegde@timesgroup.com
hen it was
all done
Rafael Nadal threw
himself on
t h e s u rface on which he had chased
and charged, reached and raged
for four minutes short of five
hours in the semifinals of the
Australian Open. He fell face
down, arms stretched out. In
prayer and gratitude.
The ninth-seed flirted with
fringes after winning his ninth
title in Roland Garros in 2014,
failing to get past the last eight
of a Major in the 30 months that
followed. On Friday night with
the full-house at the Rod Laver
Arena behind him Nadal
stormed into the final. The
30-year-old came through with
a 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (4-7), 6-4 win
over Bulgarias 15th-seed Grigor
Dimitrov, who lived up to his
name of Baby Fed, showing
shades of the legendary Roger
Federer, especially with the flair
he exhibited with his backhand.
In Sundays final, Nadal will
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I just dont want to put my head down

for a second right now, especially when
Im feeling good, Its been a great start
Grigor Dimitrov
of the year.
SERENA (age 35)
Retro Feel To Final

As Siblings Go To
War For Crown
z Serena also owns 14

womens Grand Slam
doubles titles with older
sister Venus and has won
four Olympic gold medals:
singles (2012), doubles
(2000, 2008, 2012).
VENUS (age 36)

Grand Slam titles
Ranking
17
z Learned to play the

game with Serena in
Compton, California.
Both were coached by
their father Richard.
z Won a gold medal at
the Sydney Olympics in
singles and doubles,
with Serena, joining
Helen Wills (1924) as the
only woman to take both
medals in the same
Games. She has won four
Olympic gold medals:
singles (2000), doubles
(2000, 2008, 2012)
Double Faults
73
First Serve%
69
5/13
Break Points Won
4/16
45
Winners
79
43
Unforced Errors
70
Rafael Nadal
Serena will be more

nervous than Venus
SERVE &
VOLLEY
BORIS BECKER
he ladies side of the

tournament is certainly in the hands of the
Williams Sisters. The
older one against the younger
one, or the younger one against
the older one: whichever way
you want to put it. Im not surprised that Serenas in the final
but I am that Venus is. After all,
its been 14 years since her last
Australian Open final, and she
has been through injuries and
has aged on the way. There is
just something about the
30-somethings at this tournament! Its wonderful to see you
dont have to be 25 to succeed;
you can be in your mid-30s and
play some of your best tennis.
Its always difficult to play
against your sibling. Imagine if
you had to play against your
sister or brother! Thats hard for
anybody but I think that Serena
and Venus have found a way
to leave their love for
each other aside and
give it their all, and
history has proved
that. On paper, Serena
is the favourite and
shes going for her 23rd
Grand Slam title. However, shes
FINALLY! Rafael
Nadal exults
after an epic
five-set semifinal
win over Grigor
Dimitrov (left pic)
probably a lot more nervous

than Venus. She is always the
favourite and its a difficult task
to completely rule that out of
your nervous system. You are
going to be affected by it, and
Serena will be playing against
the history of womens tennis.
That is going to add a lot more
pressure to her performance.
Venus has already passed
her expectations. There is just
something about Venus; shes
very distinguished, calm and
almost serene-like when she
plays. Shes been there, done
that, so for her to still be around
is a great compliment to her
courage. She knows that this is
probably her last chance better late than never!
Honestly, however, I think
Serena will win. And if she
doesnt well, that would be a
big surprise. But then, this has
been a crazy tournament. So
nothing would surprise me anymore, actually!
As for the men, I dont think
Roger expected to be in the final.
But it speaks about his love for
the game, his character and personality that unless you actually beat him, hes not going to
lose. The question mark was
over his fitness after being out
for six months but he answered
all these questions by beating
beat Berdych, Nishikori, and
Wawrinka all top 10 players.
Incredible! GAMEPLAN
Pix: AFP, Getty Images
Grand Slam titles 22
z Serena is level with

Germanys Steffi Graf
with the most Grand
Slam singles titles in the
professional era,
although Margaret Court
has 24.
20
History beckons Serena, sister Venus stands in way
FACTBOX
Ranking
ing at his best in the second set,

kept up the pressure from the
back of the court to pull one
back in the ninth game. With the
crowd behind the Spaniard, who
warded off four set points to
hold serve, levelled scores at
five-all. He then came up short
in the 12th game, allowing Dimitrov to level set scores.
A couple of messy forehands
gave Nadal break in the fifth
game of the third set. The Spaniard, struggling with timing,
surrendered his serve in the following game. Play was delayed
by six minutes, following the
11th game, with Nadal serving
to stay in the set when a spectator collapsed in the stands.
When play resumed Nadal held
to love. The tie-break then was
a battle of inches and intensity,
at five-all Dimitrov was the first
to blink and Nadal took the lead.
In the fourth set, Nadals
grit and grunt was matched by
some smart gambling from
Dimitrov, who went for the
lines, pushing the muscleman
from Mallorca on the backfoot
and taking the set to tie-break.
In the decider, the 25-yearold stepped it up a notch, his
play matching his attitude. Just
when it looked like Dimitrov
was running away with it, Nadal came up with the fight to
match his opponents flair, coming back from 15-40 to hold
serve in the eighth game. The
Spaniard then gained the same
position in the following game,
Dimitrovs forehand error giving him a breakpoint at 3040. This time Nadal
attacked, sealing
the break after
crowding the net.
With his bench on
their feet, the ninth seed, his
serve and nerve stretched and
tested, finally closed out on his
third match point.
Aces
Match time: 4 hours 56 minutes
Its Back To The Future At The Australian Open As Nadal Shows

Grit Of Old To Set Up Final Clash With Familiar-Foe Federer
play Federer on a Grand Slam
stage three years after they met
in the semifinals here in 2014.
Itll be the duos 35th meeting.
Difficult to describe emotions, Nadal, who broke down
in tears when he congratulated
Dimitrov after the match, said.
I was tired, Grigor played unbelievable, it was a great
match. When you have tough
moments like I had last year, it
takes a while to get back to that
level that you had. Im a positive person, but I never ever
dreamed to be in the final here
in Australia in just my second
tournament. I feel very lucky.
Dimitrov may have had
chances early in the opening set,
but it was the 2009 champion,
who dazzled in the early part of
the match, while his opponent
appeared out of step. The
25-year-old Bulgarian, who won
the duos last meeting in October, looked up at his box, flashing a worried look at his coach
Dani Vallverdu. Nadal, who received a time violation warning
in the fourth game of the second
set, when down love-30, lost his
serve two points later as he
popped a forehand. Unhappy
with the rap, he tried to force the
pace in the next game, but Dimitrov stood up to the pressure to
take a 4-1 lead. Nadal, not serv-
Dimitrov
I always had the

confidence that if I am
able to win some
matches, then anything
can happen. But last
year was tough. When
you feel that you are
playing very well and
you have to go from
Roland Garros without
going on court, I
remember myself crying
in the car coming back
to the hotel. That was a
tough moment.
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Melbourne: Patrick Mouratoglou said Venus and Serena Williams -- the Australian Open finalists -- will forget theyre sisters the moment they step on
court on Saturday. The Frenchman said itll be a war. It goes
back to when they were 12 and
playing monopoly, one lost and
got really angry and wanted to
kill her sister. At the same time
they adore each other, Mouratoglou, who has guided the second seed to nine Grand Slam
titles since they came together
in the summer of 2012, said.
This is the same, its a tennis
match, they dont want to lose
to anybody, and maybe even less
to their sister.
The Williams sisters have
played each other 27 times, with
the 35-year-old Serena closing
out 16 of the match-ups. She
won their last meeting in the
quarters of the US Open as
also their last encounter here in
the final in 2003. Melbourne
Park was also the venue of their
first encounter 19 Aussie summers ago. Theyve had enough
HEAD TO HEAD
practice as Mouratoglou suggested, to block out who was on

the other side of the net.
Serena, who appeared more
excited that her older sister
made the title round than when
she crossed the semifinal hurdle
herself, perhaps because that
half of the storyline was expected, called Saturdays matchup the moment of our careers.
Venus, 36, who has always
looked out for her younger sibling, often took that role onto the
court in their early years on the
Tour, where during changeovers
she wondered if Serena was
drinking enough fluids and doing what was necessary to keep
her energy levels up. This time
she seems more in the moment,
rather than racked by the prospect of facing her kid sister.
When on the court with her,
I think Im playing the best competitor in the game. I dont think
Im chump change either. I can
compete against any odds. No
matter what, I get out there and
compete, Venus said. My main
goal is to execute my game.
On Friday, Venus followed
Serena on to the practice court.
Serena was out bright and
early, Venus took her time. The
36-year-old, ranked 17, was diagnosed with Sjogrens syndrome, a chronic autoimmune
disease that can cause fatigue
and tiredness and lead to joint
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11
Matches
Serena
Venus
It wont be an easy match. You

have to control yourself, then you
also have to hopefully put your
opponent in a box. This opponent is your
sister, and shes super-awesome.
Venus Williams
6-2, 6-4
2002
French Open
Serena Williams
7-5, 6-3
2002
Wimbledon
Serena Williams
7-6 (7/4), 6-3
2002
US Open
Serena Williams
6-4, 6-3
2003
Australian
Open
Serena Williams
7-6 (7/4), 3-6,
6-4
This probably is the moment of

our careers. I never lost hope of
us being able to play each other
in a final, although it was hard as were
usually on the same side of the draw.
2003
Wimbledon
Serena Williams
4-6, 6-4, 6-2
2008
Wimbledon
Venus Williams
7-5, 6-4
Serena Williams
2009
Wimbledon
Serena Williams
7-6 (7/3), 6-2
Venus Williams
and muscle pain, in 2011, spending the next four years in relative wilderness.
After everything that Venus has been through with her
illness and stuff, I just cant
help but feel like its a win-win
HAPPY DUO: Sania Mirza and partner Ivan Dodig of Croatia
break as the other day, Mirza

said, referring to their close
win over Rohan Bopanna and
Gabriela Dabrowski in the
quarterfinals.
With Mirza serving at 2-3 in
the tiebreak, Groth failed to put
away three back to back overhead smashes and that proved

to be the turning point. Tiebreaks are all about who handles the important moments
well. We dug in and handled
those two important points. We
were on the linesmen, it
changed the momentum, the
30-year-old Hyderabadi said.
In the final, the pair will
take on American Abigail
Spears and Juan Sebastian Cabal of Colombia who beat Elina
Svitolina of Ukraine and Aussie Chris Guiccione 7-6 (1), 6-2.
Sania was runner-up with
Mahesh Bhupathi in 2008 and
the pair triumphed the following year. She was again runnerup in 2014 with Horia Tecau and
clinched the doubles title with
Martina Hingis last year. Dodig.
Result
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US Open
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from 2-3 to 8-3 with

Dodig contributing
with two thundering
serves of his own. Its
always tough. We were playing
two huge servers. Thankfully it
was not as tense a super tie-
Venus
Grand Slam
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Serena
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Sania in line for seventh major crown

Melbourne: Sania Mirza is
now one win away from her seventh Grand Slam title after she
and Ivan Dodig won six points
in a row in the super tiebreak
to fight their way into the mixed
doubles final. Mirza and Croatian Dodig overcame the Aussie
pairing of Samantha Stosur
and the big-serving Sam Groth
6-4, 2-6 10-5 to advance to their
second major final together.
Mirza dropped
serve twice -- making a
double fault on each
occasion -- in the second set but responded
brilliantly in the shootout as
the pair stole two crucial points
on Groths serve and moved
Matches
situation for me. I was there for

the whole time. We lived together. I know what she went
through. I was always stressed
out and worried if she would
be okay and be able to play,
Serena said. Its the one time
that I really genuinely feel like

no matter what happens, I cant
lose, she cant lose.
A hint of a role reversal
there? Serena caring and protective?
When the duo met 18 months
ago, in the round of 16 at Wimbledon, where Venus won five of

her seven Major titles, Serena
looked across the net concernedly at her sister time and again,
checking if she was ok. Venus,
seeded 13, may have won just
Fraser makes a
case for doubles
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Melbourne: Neale Fraser is

your quintessential Aussie. At
83 years of age, he walks with
a stick, yet his muscular and
almost ramrod straight frame
makes you wonder if he actually needs one. In fact, at times
he forgets and leaves the stick
behind as he moves around
unnoticed, unlike his more famous contemporary Rod Laver.
Fraser belongs to an era
when fitness came by more
playing than training. Players are a lot stronger and hit
the ball harder (now). But the
players of today dont play

any more tennis than we did,
Fraser said. Nearly all players played singles and doubles, said the Victorian who
won three singles, 11 doubles
and five mixed doubles Grand
Slams titles.
To put Frasers words in
perspective, at his prime, he
played in the amateur era
when the balls used were
white and there were no official breaks during changeovers. Most importantly, there
were no tiebreaks, which
meant that the matches went
on till there was a two-game
difference in the decider.
FRASER
Every Slam I played, I

played singles and doubles.
And they were best of five sets.
Five sets of singles and doubles
every tournament. We played
all year around. Top players of
today restrict the number of
weeks and only play singles,
pointed out the International
Tennis Hall of Famer.
Players want to play match
every second day, which would
be unheard of in our day. At
Wimbledon we played singles
every day, doubles every day,
one of their four meetings since

the diagnosis, in Montreal on
hardcourts in 2014, but shes
playing her best tennis in a long
time here, even if the highest
seed she beat en route to the final was Russian 24th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Its not necessarily the play
rather the mentality that has set
Venus apart in these championships. Against the heavy-hitting
American Coco Vandeweghe in
the semifinals, Venus set up the
win with a combination of persistence and precision.
Im versatile. I can adjust. I
can do what I need to do to win
a match, Venus smiled when
recalling her scramble in the
semifinals. I feel comfortable
when Im uncomfortable. Even
if Im in a position where I dont
want to be at, its not going to
throw me off.
When the sisters met here in
the final in 2003, it was the Serena Slam, this time its Major
No. 23 that the newly-engaged
Serena is chasing. Definitely
interesting, Serena, easily the
pick of the players here even as
a veteran of the Tour, said.
Then, the woman who announced her engagement to the
world in a verse, said: This is a
story. This is something that I
couldnt write a better ending.
This is a great opportunity for
us to start our new beginning.
and mixed every day. Sometimes we played three matches
a day if it rained. I won the US
Open singles, doubles and
mixed in one year (1959), and
went back the next year and
won them all again. No one is
going to ever do that again because they dont play singles
and doubles both.
Womens doubles title for

Safarova, Mattek-Sands
Second seeds Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova won the Australian Open
womens doubles title beating
12th-seeded Andrea Hlavackova and Peng Shuai 6-7 (4/7), 6-3,
6-3 on Rod Laver Arena.
Other finals (doubles)
Boys: YH Hsu (The)/L Zhao (Chn)
bt F Reynolds (NZL)/D Vale (Por)
6-7 (8), 6-4, 10-5.
Girls: B Andreescu (Can)/C
Branstine (USA) bt M Chwalinska/I Swiatek (Pol) 6-1, 7-6 (4).
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SCOREBOARD
Kanpur:Last winter, when Virat

Kohli led the annihilation of South Africa in a home Test series,
the win was marred by accusations of the home team ordering
doctored pitches. This time, Kohli
is actually delighted the much-advocated home advantage is not
being talked about.
England captain Eoin

Morgan hits a six in
Kanpur on Thursday
FIRST T20
Bengal U-19 pacer Kanishk Seth (right) gets tips

from Vision 2020 bowling consultant TA Sekar at
Videocon academy ground on Friday
Bindra to head TOP panel

Beijing Olympics gold-medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra was on Friday appointed chairman
of the re-constituted Target Olympic Podium
(TOP) committee, which also has yesteryear
sprint star PT Usha and badminton great Prakash Padukone among others. The two other
sportspersons in the 10-member panel are
shooter Anjali Bhagwat and woman weightlifter
Karnam Malleswari, the 2000 Sydney Olympics
bronze-medallist.
Shamis father passes away: India pacer

Mohammed Shamis father Tousif Ali has passed
away after suffering a heart attack, forcing the
cricketer to leave his rehab with the T20 team
and rush to Amroha from Kanpur. The pacers
father had been hospitalised since January 5
when he had first suffered a heart attack.
Kohli slips, Dhoni rises: India captain Virat
Kohli on Friday slipped a rung to third in the ICC
rankings for ODI batsmen but his predecessor
Mahendra Singh Dhoni gained a spot to be 13th
in the latest list being issued. Rohit Sharma
slipped three places to be 12th, while Shikhar
Dhawan was in the joint 14th spot with Englishman Jos Butler. Among the bowlers, no Indian
found a place in the top-10 with Axar Patel being
the highest placed at 12th, a drop of three
positions. Following him closely was Amit
Mishra at the joint 14th position.
Injured Hales ruled out of Windies ODIs:
Alex Hales was left out of Englands one-day
squad for next months three-match series in
the West Indies announced on Friday because of
a broken hand, with Test spearhead Stuart
Broad also omitted. Hales absence was the only
change to the 15-man squad that recently lost a
three-match ODI series in India. England will
now take a 14-strong party to the Caribbean,
with no replacement selected for the Nottinghamshire opening batsman.
ODI squad: Moeen Ali, Jonathan Bairstow, Jake
Ball, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Liam Dawson, Eoin
Morgan, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason
Roy, Ben Stokes, David Willey, Chris Woakes
Amandeep clinches maiden title of

season: Amandeep Drall carded one over 73 on
the final day to emerge victorious in the 2nd Leg
of the Hero Womens Professional Golf Tour 2017
in Ahmebadad on Friday. Smriti Mehra finished
runner-up with a total score of 218, followed by
Gaurika Bishnoi in third place.
Kapur top Indian at 12th spot: Shiv Kapur

remained the best-placed Indian golfer after he
added a one-under 70 to move to tied 12th at the
Leopalace21 Myanmar Open in Yangon.Three
other Indians, Shubhankar Sharma (70-68) in
tied19th, Jyoti Randhawa (70-69) in tied-29th
and Rahil Gangjee (69-73) in tied-40th also made
the cut. However six others missed the cut.
Three Indians, Rashid Khan (71-73), S Chikkrangappa (73-71), Chiragh Kumar (68-76)
missed the cut by one shot, while Gaganjeet
Bhullar (73-73), Mukesh Kumar (71-78) and Jeev
Milkha Singh (75-75) also exited early.
Jamaica officials may appeal Carter

doping ban: Jamaican Olympic officials are
likely to appeal the doping sanction of relay
runner Nesta Carter that has cost Usain Bolt one
of his nine Olympic gold medals.
As soon as we won the ODI series, I was delighted to see the Kolkata pitch and I thought it was more of a preparation for the Champions Trophy in England, Kohli
gleefully announced after the
match on Thursday. My heads
already swinging in that direction, he then declared. Kohli is
here for the long haul and a minor
hiccup en route his first major tournament isnt going to deter
him.
This is a contrasting statement to the ones he has been making since returning from England and Australia in 2011-12.
Whats wrong in home advantage has suddenly been replaced by
a thought: Its not about getting
the conditions we want. Kohli explained: I might as well get in to
some practice, and what better
way than to have an international
game to get a simulation of what
we are going to get there in England? Not at all bothered by the

last two pitches.
However, the chinks in the
middle-order have started appearing on challenging tracks, and
Kohli said, We played loose shots
but it was more about the England
bowlers bowling better than us.
Kohli isnt willing to give up on
opening the batting in T20s either.
Me opening the batting gives
more balance to the team. Raina
can come in at No. 3 where he is
more dangerous. Till Rohit isnt
there, I will any day step up and
open the batting.
Facing more of the new ball
will only sharpen his skills when
it comes to handling the moving
Adelaide: Australia cruised to a 57-run

victory over Pakistan in the fifth and final ODI here on Thursday. After setting
an imposing total of 369-7, thanks to a record opening partnership of 284 between David Warner and Travis Head, the
Australians bowled Pakistan out for 312.
Pakistans Babar Azam scored 100
and Sharjeel Khan made a quickfire 79,
but the home side were always in control
and celebrated Australia Day in style
with a convincing win.
Warner and Head earlier got Australia away to a superb start, with Warner
particularly damaging as he smashed
the Pakistan attack to all parts of the
ground.
Warner blasted 179 and Head 128 on
their way to an opening stand of 284, a
new Australian record for any wicket in
ODIs. It was also the second highest opening stand in ODIs just two short of 286
recorded by Sri Lankans Upul Tharanga
and Sanath Jayasuriya against England
at Leeds in 2006.
Both batsmen made their highest
scores in ODIs with Head also recording
his maiden international century.
After losing the toss and being asked
to bowl first, the Pakistanis almost got
the perfect start when Mohammad Aamir enticed an edge from Warner with
his first ball. But a diving Azhar Ali at
first slip couldnt hold onto a difficult
chance and Warner was soon in full
flight.
He brought up his 50 from 34 balls and
his 100 from 78 including 11fours and two
massive sixes. His 150 came from only 107
Leggie Amit Mishra has always performed in the opportunities

he has got in the shorter formats.
In fact, in Indias last T20I against
West Indies in Florida, he picked
up three wickets in a run fest. His
exclusion, thus, has always been a
matter of curiosity.
Mishra played in the last T20I
because he travelled with us from
West Indies and we didnt have time. But he has done well for us. He
does well in the IPL. He did well in
the World T20 in 2014. He is a guy
with variations and is useful on a

bare pitch. It wont be a surprise if
he features in the next couple of
games given the kind of surfaces
we play on, Kohli said, offering a
hint why Mishra warms the benches so often.
England have bowled well but

to suggest Indians are inept would be wrong.
There is a slim difference
between urgency and being rushed. Indians looked the latter at
Green Park, choosing to be a
maverick when the situation
called for a partnership or two
to take roots. They seemed to have a target in mind which is a
wrong approach. Its a cardinal
sin in the white ball format of
the game to aim too high without laying a solid platform. Or for
that matter in any other sport,
to look ahead of the immediate.
Its the process which sets up
the produce.
Still, to deny England credit
is distasteful. They didnt need
to look beyond five bowlers and
deliveries which gave him no

room. Indians can expect more
of the same in the next two matches and how they respond would be a case study for discerners.
Eoin Morgan was excellent
in his role as a skipper and batsman. He constantly kept ringing changes in his bowling lineup and it checked the fluidity of
Indian batsmen. He then guided the chase after two quick
losses with such finesse that Joe
Root could stroll rather than take a 100-metre dash in the park.
India made good selections
in Kanpur, giving Ashwin and
Jadeja a break and checking on
the new apples in the mart.
Thats the way to go forward to
have a shop full of wares. TCM
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Australia were headed for a score

well over 400 when Warner and Head were in full flight but Pakistan fought back
with some late wickets to restrict them
to 369.
Pakistans chase started badly when
Azhar fell leg before to Mitchell Starc for
10, but Sharjeel and Babar took up the attack and moved the score to 140 before
the big hitting Sharjeel mistimed a pull
shot and skied a catch to wicketkeeper
Matthew Wade.
Babar began to pick up the pace and
reached 100 from 107 balls, however, soon
after bringing up his fourth ODI century
he holed out to Head at mid-on.
Shoaib Malik retired hurt when he
was hit on the arm by a Pat Cummins
short ball.
Smith ruled out of NZ ODIs: Australia

Australias David Warner celebrates his
century in Sydney on Thursday
deliveries with 17 boundaries and three

sixes.
Head was far more circumspect but
once the ball stopped swinging after just
four overs, he began to look more and
more comfortable.
On a flat pitch that offered nothing to
the bowlers, the Australians were untroubled until Warner began to cramp, restricting his movements.
Warner eventually fell when he swatted a short ball from Junaid Khan to Babar at point with the score on 284.
captain Steve Smith has been ruled out

of the upcoming ODI series in New Zealand after he sustained a minor ankle injury in his teams ODI victory over Pakistan in Adelaide on Thursday.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade will lead the side in Smiths absence
while 21 year-old uncapped batsman
Sam Heazlett was named as replacement
in the squad, Cricket Australia said.
Smith said he would not join the squad heading to New Zealand for the threematch series starting on January 30 having suffered strained medial ligaments
in his left ankle.
Azhar Ali suspended for slow over

rate: Pakistan skipper Azhar Ali has be-
en suspended for one match for a slow

over rate during the fifth ODI, the ICC said on Friday.
The suspension means Azhar will
miss Pakistan's next ODI against the
West Indies in April.
Ali was also fined 40 percent of his
match fee, with the other players fined 20
percent of their fees. AGENCIES
SCOREBOARD
Australia: D Warner c Azam b Junaid 179, T
Head c Azhar Ali b Hasan Ali 128, S Smith c Wahab b Junaid 4, G Maxwell c Hafeez b Aamir 13,
M Wade c Malik b Hasan Ali 8, P Handscombe c
Hafeez b Wahab 1, J Faulkner not out 18, M
Starc run out 6, P Cummins not out 1
Extras (b-1, lb-4, w-6): 11
Total (7 wkts in 50 ovs): 369
Fall of wickets: 1-284, 1-288, 3-323, 4-336, 5342, 6-351, 7-366.
Bowling: Aamir 10-0-71-1 (1w), Junaid 10-061-2 (2w), Hasan Ali 9-0-100-2 (1w), Hafeez 70-43-0, Wahab 10-0-62-1 (2w), Malik 4-027-0.
Pakistan: Azhar Ali lbw b Starc 6, Sharjeel
Khan c Wade b Starc 79, Babar Azam c Head b
Hazlewood 100, Md Hafeez c Smith b Starc 3, S
Malik retired hurt 10, U Akmal c Wade b Cummins 46, Md Rizwan c Starc b Cummins 6, Md
Aamir c Maxwell b Faulkner 17, Wahab Riaz b
Starc 17, Hasan Ali st Wade b Zampa 13, Junaid
Khan not out 0. Extras (lb-2, w-13): 15
Total (all out in 49.1 ovs): 312
Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-140, 3-145, 4-220, 5246, 6-276, 7-282, 8-312, 9-312.
Bowling: Starc 9.1-1-42-4 (3w), Hazlewood
10-0-74-1(5w), Cummins 10-0-60-2 (2w), Faulkner 9-0-60-1(1w), Zampa 9-0-61-1(2w), Head
2-0-13-0.
Australia will struggle in India, feels Ponting

Melbourne: Australia will struggle on
their tour of India where they will play four tests against the world's top-ranked side in spin-friendly conditions, former captain Ricky Ponting has predicted.
Steve Smiths men will travel to India
next month having been beaten 4-0 four years ago.
I think theyll struggle, the 42-yearold told Sky Sports Radio. Every team
that goes there struggles.
Its become harder and harder for visiting teams to go to India. They probably
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Lucknow: Sameer Verma

and Harsheel Dani underlined the growing potential of
Indian players when they
knocked out Hans-Kristian
Vittinghus and Emil Holst respectively to book semifinal
berths in the Syed Modi
Grand Prix Gold badminton
tournament here on Friday.
It was their performances

that lit up the BBD Academy,
though top players PV Sindhu and K Srikanth too made it
to the last four.
Top seeded Sindhu brooked no resistance from Vaidehi Choudhari and won 21-15,
21-11 to set up a clash with Fitrani Fitrani of Indonesia.
Srikanth overcame a tough
second game against Zulfadli
Zulkiffli of Malaysia for a 2112, 21-17 verdict.
Srikanths vctory made it
an all-Indian semifinals lineup in the mens draw.
Apart from Sameer, Dani
and Srikanth, B Sai Praneeth
also made the grade. Praneeth downed Sourabh Verma
Mishra good on bare pitches
ngland have built upon their success in Kolkata with

one in Kanpur, albeit in
different formats, and the inescapable impression of un-Indian pitches at two venues is
hard to ignore. I personally
wont read too much into it.
Adil Rashid remained under

wraps. Its a reflection of how
much of a measure they had of
the Indians. They mixed up their pace against experienced Indian batters; and played on the
fear of bouncers against those
who are branded so. The widish
yorkers were used well; and
even Dhoni was kept quiet with
Ravi Shastri
Warner, Head in record stand as Oz whip Pak
make wickets to suit them more than ever

before.
South Africa, New Zealand and England have all lost series in India in the last
15 months and Australias last success in
the country was in 2004 when they won a
four-Test series 2-1.
TEST SERIES
I went there for a lot of tours and we
obviously played in some tough conditions, added Ponting. But the wickets
Sameer, Harsheel tame

Danes to enter semis
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ball in England, where he has a

score to settle, having performed
poorly there in the past. He seems
up for the challenge.
India: V Kohli c Morgan b Ali

29, L Rahul c Rashid b Jordan 8,
S Raina b Stokes 34, Yuvraj c
Rashid b Plunkett 12, MS Dhoni
not out 36, M Pandey lbw Ali 3,
H Pandya c Billings b Mills 9, P
Rasool run out 5, J Bumrah not
out 0. Extras (lb 3, w7, nb1): 11
Total (for 7 wkts in 20 ovs):147
Fall of wickets:1-34, 2-55,
3-75, 4-95, 5-98, 6-118, 7-145.
Bowling: Mills 4-0-27-1, Jordan
4-0-27-1, Plunkett 4-0-32-1,
Stokes 4-0-37-1, Ali 4-0-21-2.
England: J Roy b Chahal 19, S
Billings b Chahal 22, J Root not
out 46, E Morgan c Raina b
Rasool 51, B Stokes not out 2
Extras (b-1, lb-2, w-4, nb-1): 8
Total (3 wkts in 18.1ovs): 148
Fall of wickets:1-42, 2-43,
3-126.
Bowling: Nehra 3-0-31-0,
Bumrah 3.1-0-26-0, Chahal
4-0-27-2, Rasool 4-0-32-1,
Raina 2-0-17-0, Pandya
2-0-12-0.
India looked to be in
a hurry in Kanpur
PV Sindhu makes last four
21-19, 12-21, 21-10.

It was Sameers show against Vittinghus that was the
highlight of the evening. A
trainee at the Gopichand Academy in Hyderabad, Sameer
had the No. 2 seeded player
from Denmark on the run
with his all-round game.
Tight defence, effective smashes and cunning net-play proved too much for the Dane.
Though Vittinghus, coming here after an appendix
operation, tried to match the
pace, Sameer just didnt provide him the escape route to
close out the match 21-15, 21-13
in 36 minutes.
Dani, too, cut short the journey of another Dane,
Holst. The left-hander from

Mumbai, who had accounted
for sixth seeded HS Prannoy
on Thursday, was again is his
elements against 12th seed.
After the two traded a set
each, Dani seemed to reserve
his best for the decider. Stepping on the gas, he came up
with some spectacular crosscourt smashes to leave his rival stunned. The Indian won
21-16, 17-21, 21-11 in a 49-minutes.
Later, B Sai Praneeth displayed his defensive skills to
perfection against Sourabh
Verma. He upset the rhythm
of Sourabh with his retrieving prowess to come up
trumps 21-19, 12-21, 21-10 in a
match that lasted 56 minutes.
In the womens draw, Rituparna Das came very close to
upsetting Fitrani. The Indian, who had ousted Ksenia
Polikarpova of Russia on
Thursday, had the Indonesian in knots when she led 12-5
in the decider. But she allowed Fitrani to claw back with
too many unforced errors.
She saved two match points in the end, but that wasnt
enough as the experienced visitor closed the match 21-17,
13-21, 23-21 in a marathon affair that lasted for 58 minutes.
were good for the first couple of days of

the game and then they started to turn.
But now, even looking at what happened in Sri Lanka, whenever the Australian team tours anywhere on the subcontinent you can guarantee the wicket is going to turn, and turn quite a bit, from day
one of the game.
Following the 3-0 drubbing in Sri Lanka, Australias Test team plunged into a
crisis with successive home defeats to South Africa. After a national outcry forced
wholesale changes, they recovered by
Kolkata:The new year begins with a disappointment for the Indian archers as the
week-long Asia Cup Stage I meet, scheduled to be held at New Delhi from January
31was postponed at the last moment. This
is the second time that the event has met
this fate. Delhi was scheduled to hold the
event in 2015, too which the Archery Association of India (AAI) planned to hold at
the historic Red Fort, but fell through.
It was initially learnt that the event
got postponed as the government has denied AAI the No-Objection Certificate
(NOC) as they have still not amended their constitution according to the Sports
Code. However, AAI secretary secretary

general Anil Kamineni denied this contention.
We had to postpone the meet as only
five nations had confirmed their participation. Thats why I suggested the postponement at the Asian body meeting in Taiwan on January 17. Everybody felt its
better to have a wider participation and
accepted the proposal, he told TOI.
Kamineni, however, confirmed that
the event, for which the AAI had already
made hotel bookings and other arrangements, will be held later this year. He also
assured that AAI would amend its constitution in a month or two.
The AAI may have its reasons but the
Mumbai: The MHA-Mahindra stadium

here had seen Mumbai franchises (both
the current outfit Dabang Mumbai and
the erstwhile Mumbai Magicians) experience several heartbreaks at their home venue in the HIL. But, things have turned
around dramatically in the fifth season of
the competition, with the hosts pulling off
a sensational 4-3 win over UP Wizards in
their previous encounter with merely 26
seconds remaining on the clock. In their
opener last Saturday against Ranchi Ra-
ys, they scored the equaliser with only 43

seconds remaining.
As a result, expectations were running high when Mumbai took on defending champions Punjab Warriors on Friday, in their third straight home game.
HIL
And they did not disappoint their fans,
notching up a convincing 10-4 win. After
things looked pretty close in the first three
quarters of 15 minutes, Mumbai ripped
apart the Warriors defence in the final 12
would have got queer glances around the room if, a year and a half ago, I had said
that the shorter the game, the
better England would be at it.
Englands liberation of its young cricket talent has been one
of the stories of world cricket
and that was demonstrated rather well in Kanpur.
By contrast, in the modern
home of T20 cricket, India are
looking better in the longest
form of the game and it only requires one look at my favourite
winning the final test against South Africa in Adelaide before beating Pakistan 3-0.
The challenges are going to be there
for the Aussie team, Ponting said. Unlike what happened in Sri Lanka, as long
as they can find a way to be competitive in
the Test series.
Even if we dont win, I dont think itd
be that big of a deal. Its a real learning
curve for our guys now to find a balance
between playing the Australian way but
(also) adapting that to Indian conditions.
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archers have been left in the lurch.

We were preparing for the India team selection trials scheduled on January
27 and 28. Only at the last moment we got
to know that the event has been postponed, said a national archer.
The tournament as well as the trials
were supposed to be held at Yumuna
Sports Complex, Surajmal Vihar, in New
Delhi.
The AAI has also failed to come out
with a domestic calendar. Both the senior
and sub-junior nationals have been postponed and no new dates have been announced. We are practising but we dont
know when will we get to compete in a real event, an Olympian archer told TOI.
Dabang Mumbai thrash Warriors 10-4

Dhananjay.Roy@timesgroup.com
Harsha Bhogle
word (in the context of teams),

balance, to explain that. Indias
strength in Test cricket, especially in home conditions, is built around spin bowlers who
can bat. That tends to get negated a bit on the unfairly skewed
pitches in limited overs cricket. In T20, you need at least a couple of seam bowlers who can
bat and India only have one player, still pretty raw, answering
to that description. It is no surprise that, on top on the shopping list of IPL franchises, is
the seam bowling all-rounder.
AAI leaves archers in the lurch

by postponing Asia Cup
Archiman.Bhaduri@timesgroup.com
England have
greater
balance in
T20 and ODIs
minutes, with striker Affan Yousus scoring a brace in the 49th and 51st minutes.
Remarkably, both teams scored through only field goals, implying that every
goal counted for two, courtesy the rules
initiated by Hockey India for the league.
Striker Nikkin Thimmiah put Mumbai in the lead in the fifth minute off a rebound. Emmanuel Stockbroekx, who enjoyed a standout game, ran in brilliantly from
the right flank and struck the ball which
was deflected by goalkeeper Tristan Clemons only to see an unmarked Thimmiah
make the most of this opportunity.
Sri Lanka claim

T20 series
Cape Town: AB de Villiers hit
a half-century on his return to
international cricket, but it
was not enough to prevent Sri
Lanka from beating South
Africa in the series-deciding
third and final T20I at Newlands on Wednesday. De Villiers made 63 off 44 balls in a South African total of 169 for five
but Lanka won by five wickets
with one ball to spare. AFP
SCOREBOARD
SouthAfrica: J Smuts lbw b Prasanna 19, R Hendricks st Chandimal
b Sandakan 41, A de Villiers c Tharanga b Kulasekera 63, D Miller c
Sandakan b Gunaratne 1, F Behardien run out 6, M Mosehle not out 32,
W Parnell not out 3
Extras (lb-2, w-2): 4
Total (5 wkts, 20 ovs): 169
Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-107, 3-117,
4-133, 5-135
Bowling: T de Silva 1-0-10-0, Kulasekera 4-0-30-1, Udana 4-0-49-0,
Prasanna 3-0-21-1 (1w), Sandakan
4-0-23-1, Gunaratne 4-0-34-1 (1w)
Sri Lanka: N Dickwella c Behardien
b Tahir 68, U Tharanga c Behardien
b Parnell 20, D. Chandimal b Tahir 5,
D de Silva st Mosehle b Tahir 19, S.
Prasanna not out 37, K Mendis run
out 2, A Gunaratne not out 11
Extras (b-2, lb-3, w-3): 8
Total (5 wkts, 19.5 ovs): 170
Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-45, 3-116,
4-118, 5-142
Bowling: Ngidi 2-0-13-0, Paterson
3.5-0-38-0 (1w), Parnell 4-0-42-1
(1w), Tahir 4-0-18-3, Phehlukwayo
4-0-32-0 (1w), Smuts 2-0-22-0
TIMES SPORT
22
United survive Hull scare

Lose 1-2 In 2nd Leg Of Semifinal But Advance To Final 3-2 On Aggregate
Reuters
Kingston Upon Hull (UK): Manchester United survived a scare to

reach the League Cup final after Oumar Niasses late goal earned Hull
City a 2-1 victory in the semifinal second-leg on Thursday.
Leading 2-0 from the first leg,
United saw their advantage at an
ice-cold KCOM Stadium halved by
Tom Huddlestones 35th-minute penalty and then restored by Paul Pogbas second-half strike.
Niasses goal set up a nervy finish for Jose Mourinhos men, but
they survived to complete a 3-2 ag-
LEAGUE CUP
gregate win that sets up a date with
Southampton in the final at Wembley on Fenruary 26.
On Wednesday, Southamptons
Shane Long gave his team a slender
1-0 win over Liverpool en route to the
final. Southampton were comfortably the better side over the two legs
of the last-four clash and could have
won by a far greater margin.
I just want to say congratulations to my players, said Mourinho,
who seemed to be aggrieved about
Hulls penalty. It was a difficult road to be in the final and we are in the
final.
It will be Uniteds first League
Cup final since 2010, when they beat
Aston Villa 2-1, and with Southampton having cleared Liverpool from
their path, they will go into the game
as favourites.
Hull once again showed signs of
stiffened resolve under new coach
Marco Silva and could console
themselves with a first win over
Manchester Uniteds Jesse Lingard and Paul Pogba (right) after their match against
Hull City at the KC Stadium on Thursday
United since a 2-0 success at the old

Boothferry Park in November 1974.
The club also used the occasion
to show their support for Ryan Mason, recovering in hospital after
fracturing his skull at Chelsea on
Sunday, with T-shirts bearing his
name and a minutes applause.
It was a good win, but not enough for our goal, said Silva. I congratulated the players in the dressing
room.
A paltry home crowd reflected
both the significant edge that Marouane Fellainis late header had given United in the first leg and ongoing dissent towards Hulls owner
Assem Allam.
Silvas decision to make seven
Juve go past
Milan 2-1
Turin: Four forwards seems to
be the way forward for Juventus.
Coach Massimiliano Allegri has
unveiled a daring 4-2-3-1 formation in the past two matches, and
the team has played some of its
best soccer of the season. The
new system puts Miralem Pjanic in a deeper midfield role
alongside Sami Khedira, with
Juan Cuadrado, Paulo Dybala
and Mario Mandzukic sitting
just behind Gonzalo Higuain.
AP
ITALIAN CUP
KINGS CUP
ting a penalty early in the second half after Neymar had
been fouled.
Luis Suarez restored Barcelonas two-goal lead on the
night a minute after Juanmi
had netted for Real Sociedad
in the 62nd minute. Willian
Jose scored a second for the
visitors before substitute Arda Turan put Barcelona 4-2
ahead in the 80th minute.
Two minutes later Denis
Suarez capped a brilliant individual performance by netting his second with a sweeping run and finish. Barca join Atletico Madrid, Celta Vigo
and Alaves in last-four stage.
Real knocked out: On Wednesday, an excellent Cristiano
Barcelonas Lionel Messi skips

past a Real Sociedad defender
during their match on Thursday
Ronaldo free-kick couldnt

prevent Real Madrid from being dumped out of the competition as a 2-2 draw at Celta Vigo allowed the hosts to progress to the semifinals 4-3 on
aggregate.
Barcelona to meet Atletico

in last-four stage: Barcelona were drawn with Atletico
Madrid in Kings Cup semifinals on Friday and Celta Vigo
will play Alaves in the other
tie. Atletico host Barcelona in
the first leg on February 1
with the second leg at the Nou
Camp on February 7. AGENCIES
SNAP SHOTS
Pradip Datta
Juventus kept clean sheet in

Sundays 2-0 win over Lazio in
league, while they gave AC Milan hardly a sniff, according to
Allegri, in Wednesdays 2-1 Italian Cup victory.
Against both teams, Juventus took a two-goal lead. Dybala
and Higuain scored against Lazio in the first 16 minutes, and
Dybala and Pjanic netted
against Milan in the opening 21.
The formation doesnt
count as much as the attitude
with which you play, Allegri
said. If those who play up front
also help defensively then you
control match better. However,
there were a lot of important
players out, too.'
One player who is reveling is
Cuadrado, who set up Higuain's
goal against Lazio and also provided assist against Milan, flicking a cross with the heel for Dybala. AP
Bagan may travel without

Eduardo and Sony
Mohun Bagan may travel to Colombo on Sunday
to play the first leg of the preliminary round of
the AFC Cup qualifying play-off against Colombo FC on Tuesday without two of their foreign players. Defender Eduardo Ferreira suffered an injury in the team's last I-League clash
against DSK Shivajians and Sony Norde too has
a niggle in his right leg. Even though the latter
took part in physical training on Friday, coach
Sanjoy Sen may not like to risk him in AFC Cup.
Mohammedan Sporting win 2-0: Mohammedan Sporting Club (MSC) defeated Neroca FC
2-0 in their second division I-League match at
the Barasat Stadium on Friday. Manvir Singh put
MSC ahead in the 12th minute before Vanlal Biaa
doubled the lead in the 79th minute. Mohammedan SC rose to the second spot in Group B with
three points from two games while Neroca are
third with same number of points.
MSCA win: Mainland Sambaran Cricket Academy thrashed Jadavpur Sanskritik Sandha by 492
runs in CAB junior cricket (U-17) meet on Friday.
Brief scores: MSCA 538/4 (Sachin Singh Bishen
161, Sinchan Jana 79, Sharnik Banerjee 70*). Jadavpur Sanskritik Sandha 64 (Amonjyot Singh Sidhu
5-6, Tridev Singh Sidhu 3-5, Dalim Karim 2-9).
MSCA won by 492 runs.
Brazil beat Colombia: Brazil beat Colombia

1-0 in a benefit match for the families of those
killed in the Chapecoense air disaster last year
but Wednesdays game in Rio de Janeiro was
marred by a disappointing turnout.
Vasco: Churchill Brothers

Sports Club did what no other
Goan team had managed to do in
four years. Since inception in
2013, Bengaluru FC have travelled to Goa in the knowledge that
they can turn up at any venue
Fatorda, Duler and Vasco against any opposition and walk
away with full points. They probably believed the same at the
Tilak Maidan in Vasco on Friday, until they were brought to
earth by unlikeliest of teams.
Bengaluru FC captain Sunil
Chhetri scored his first goal in
more than three months to give
London: Having written off the FA Cup as

an unwelcome distraction prior to their
third-round clash, Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce may now be hoping it
provides a tonic to soothe frustrated fans
and a pick-me-up for their beleaguered
players. Palace host Manchester City on
Saturday in one of two all Premier League
fourth round ties, with Arsenals match
against Southampton the other highlight
of the weekend fixture list.
On paper, a City side who swept aside
West Ham United 5-0 in the previous round, are one of the last teams Allardyce
would have wanted to face as he tries to
haul his side out of their current malaise.
FA CUP
Yet Pep Guardiolas City have endured
their own difficulties of late and a 0-4 league defeat to Everton at Goodison Park
two weeks ago would have given Palace
cause for optimism. Should Palace lose, it
will be their fifth defeat in eight matches
since Allardyce replaced Alan Pardew in
December. Victory, however, could give
them a platform from which to build as
they look to pull clear of the Premier League relegation zone.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is expected to ring the changes again when his
side faces Southampton with media reports saying striker Alexis Sanchez could
be rested while Danny Welbeck is in contention to make first start of season.
Liverpool take on second tier Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday when
Premier League leaders Chelsea host
Brentford.
Holders Manchester United are at home to second tier Wigan Athletic on Sunday. REUTERS
his team a 22nd minute lead.

The visitors were in control
and looked good enough to return to winning ways after the
loss against East Bengal but
Churchill turned the tables on
their opponents with goals from
I-LEAGUE
Anthony Wolfe (33rd minute)
and Man-of-the-Match Chesterpoul Lyngdoh (53rd minute) for
a deserving 2-1 victory.
The defeat will be hard to digest for Bengaluru FC.
They also have to live with
the disappointment of missing
their star defender John John-
Manish completes
Finals lineup
Nonita Lall
London:
Jose Mourinho
took a sarcastic swipe at his
Liverpool
counterpart
Jurgen Klopp
after his side
booked their
place in the final of the
League Cup.
Klopp said the wind had
made conditions difficult in
Liverpools 0-1 loss to Southampton on Wednesday and
Mourinho made an acerbic
reference to that remark when
he was asked if United were
the favourites for the trophy.
I dont think we are favourites against anybody, he
said. It doesnt matter where
we play, against who, we are
never favourites. Normally
the stadium is windy and its
difficult.
Mourinho also tried to
claim that his teams unbeaten record remained intact despite their defeat at Hull.
It was United's first loss in
18 matches, but having disagreed with the decision that
led to Tom Huddlestone putting Hull ahead from the
penalty
spot,
Mourinho
claimed the outcome had been
invalid.
We didnt lose. It was 1-1. I
only saw two goals, the United manager told his postmatch press conference at a
chilly KCOM Stadium. I saw
(Paul) Pogba's goal and their
(second) goal was a fantastic
goal. Great action, great cross
and the guy in the far post
coming. 1-1. AGENCIES
Sam eyes tonic vs City

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KOLKATA
RACES
C A R D
&
S E L E C T I O N S
Tangaloomaa may do an encore
fter six legs of the Godrej

Properties Golf Challenge, the stage is now set
for the International Finals to
be played at Summit Windmill
Golf Course in Bangkok. The final leg of the regional round
was held at the prestigious Classic Golf & Country Club in Gurgaon, the first Nicklaus designed course in South Asia.
Manish Thakran who finished with score of 36 Gross Stableford Points, emerged the winner on the day, with Amit Luthra finishing a close second with
34 Points. The 0-12 handicap category witnessed an exciting
battle as Bhupinder Berry, with
a net stableford score of 37 points, pipped Sumer Sekhri (36
points) to walk away with the
honours. Bharat Munjral (38 points), meanwhile, was adjudged
best golfer in 13-24 handicap ca-
tegory which also proved to be

close contest in which Rajiv
Thakur, with 37 points, had to
settle for runner-up spot.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will

hope for a strong show from his boys
FA CUP FIXTURES
On Saturday: Liverpool vs Wolverhampton
Wanderers, Blackburn, vs Blackpool, Burnley vs

Bristol City, Chelsea vs Brentford, Crystal Palace
vs Man City, Lincoln City vs Brighton and Hove Albion, Middlesbrough vs Accrington Stanley, Oxford United vs Newcastle, Rochdale vs Huddersfield Town, Tottenham vs Wycombe Wanderers,
Southampton vs Arsenal ; On Sunday: Millwall
vs Watford, Fulham vs Hull City, Sutton United vs
Leeds United, Manchester United vs Wigan
LA LIGA FIXTURES
On Saturday: Villarreal vs Granada, Alaves vs
Atletico Madrid, Eibar vs Deportivo la Coruna, Leganes vs Celta Vigo
On Sunday: Real Betis vs Barcelona, Espanyol
vs Sevilla, Athletic Bilbao vs Sporting Gijon, Real
Madrid vs Real Sociedad
On Monday: Las Palmas vs Valencia
SERIE A FIXTURES
On Saturday: Lazio vs Chievo Verona, Inter
Milan vs Pescara
On Sunday: Torino vs Atalanta Bergamo, Cagliari vs Bologna, Crotone vs Empoli, Fiorentina vs
Genoa, Sampdoria vs AS Roma, Sassuolo vs Juventus, Udinese vs AC Milan, Napoli vs Palermo.
son for a minimum of two matches after he was sent off for a
tackle on Richard Costa in the
84th minute.
He also got into a verbal duel
with Churchill coach Alfred
Fernandes and complicated
things for himself by pushing
Alfred to the ground and then
jostling with defender Adil
Khan, all in front of match commissioner Michael Andrews,
who rushed to separate the warring parties.
SATURDAYS MATCHES
In Shillong: Shillong Lajong vs
Mumbai FC; In Chennai: Chennai
City vs Aizawl FC.
Tiger endures
rocky return
La Jolla (US): Tiger Woods endured a rocky return at the
Farmers Insurance Open in
California, posting highest season-opening PGA Tour round of
his career with a four-over-par
76. Woods, playing his first fullfield PGA Tour event since returning from more than a year
off with back injury, carded a
PGA MEET
Manish will now join the five

other golfers from Bangalore,
Noida, Mumbai, Ahmedabad
and Pune, where they will
compete for the title on Saturday. PMG
Kolkata: Farley Rodrigues-trained

Tangaloomaa has a fair chance of
defying her winning penalty of 3.5
kg and lift the Police Commissioners
Cup in the hands of Imran Chisty.
Though running in superior company
after her last victory, this fastimproving filly, who is a full sister to
Avocet, may do an encore. Aquitania
and Kings Canyon are her immediate
threats.
1ST RACE:
Churchill give Bengaluru the blues

Marcus.Mergulhao@timesgroup.com
Mohun Bagan players during a training session at

the club ground on Friday
Mourinho
mocks Klopp
Blazing Ron
Barca down Sociedad

to enter semifinals
Barcelona: Lionel Messi and

Luis Suarez were on target as
holders Barcelona thrashed
Real Sociedad 5-2 to reach the
Kings Cup semifinals for the
seventh successive year with
a 6-2 aggregate victory on
Thursday.
Former Manchester City
trainee Denis Suarez gave
Barca a commanding lead in
the tie following last weeks
1-0 win in the first leg by scoring the opener in the 17th minute, while Messi practically
ended the contest by conver-
changes to his starting XI, meanwhile, did not seem to indicate a desperate desire to turn the tie around.
But in the first half the cohesive
football all came from Hull and it
was United who looked a team of
strangers, with centre-backs Phil
Jones and Chris Smalling conspicuously unconvincing. Hull had the
first serious attempt of the match,
David de Gea boxing away a freekick from Sam Clucas, and the United goalkeeper was soon involved
again.
After allowing Huddlestones
up-and-under to drift over his head,
Smalling had to make a last-ditch
block to thwart Michael Dawson
and Niasses follow-up was fisted
away by De Gea.
The hosts duly took the lead on
the night 10 minutes before half-time, Huddlestone planting his spotkick low to De Gea's right after Marcos Rojo was penalised for tugging
Harry Maguires shirt.
It took United until the 38th minute to register a shot on target,
with Zlatan Ibrahimovic's side-foot
effort palmed behind by David
Marshall.
United had three penalty appeals
early in the second half and while
the first and third centred on Pogba
and Marcus Rashford going to ground too easily, the second was more
compelling.
After seizing on a loose ball inside the Hull box, Smalling appeared
to be pushed in the chest by Huddlestone, sending him down, but referee
Jon Moss shook his head.
If Huddlestone got away with
one there, fortune deserted him in
the 66th minute. Having tracked
Rashfords run towards the byline
on the United left, he managed to toe
the ball away from him, but could
only send it into the path of Pogba,
who stabbed a low shot past Marshall.
Their nerves eased, United threatened to move out of sight, Ibrahimovic seeing a shot blocked by Dawson after dancing past Huddlestone
and Rojo clipping the bar with a header. But Niasse then headed against
the bar at the other end and with five
minutes remaining he gave Hull victory in the game if not the tie by
tucking away David Meylers volleyed cross. AGENCIES

bogey-strewn opening round on

Torrey Pines Golf Clubs South
Course on Thursday.
It was anything but a happy
return to the challenging coastal layout where the former
world No 1 has won no fewer
than eight times in his career.
Woods previous highest
season-opening round was a 73
shot at Phoenix Open in 2015, according to PGA Tour officials.
The 41-year-olds round unravelled during back nine, when
three consecutive bogeys starting on the 12th were capped with
a double-bogey on 15th. AFP
Adam unlikely
to quit
Marcus.Mergulhao
@timesgroup.com
Vasco: Nicolai Adam has dared the All India Football Federation to sack
him and said he
will not put in
his papers. The
India under-17
chief coach has come under intense pressure following accusations from at least three players he physically abused some
of them but the German in
charge of preparing the India
squad for Under-17 World Cup
at home believes there is no reason for him to resign and pack
his bags.
Since having a meeting
with AIFF president Praful Patel late on Tuesday when Patel
reportedly asked the German
coach to step down on his own,
rather than face the axe, Nicolai has remained firm and has
not changed his stance even after returning to his base in Goa.
The under-17 team, on otherhand, has remained in Delhi
and are not expected to resume
training possibly under interim coach until February 1.
The boys are calm, a source
told TOI on Friday.
Nicolai is understood to be
perplexed by the written complaint against him and the turn
of events, just eight months before the all-important tournament in India. Nicolai was always tough on the players. He
pushed them hard and, many times, he was unforgiving even if
the player vomited on the field.
There were murmurs but why
the team turned against him,
and, crucially at this juncture,
remains unknown, said a senior official who didnt wish to
be identified.
12.15 p.m.
Romantic Notes Handicap. 2000m.
Rt. 1-26.
(1) Barbarik 62.5 Mohit S 9 (2)
Sovereign Coin 62 Arman Khan 2 (3)
Royal Concert 61.5 Afzal Khan 6 (4)
Secret Builder 61.5 Sandeep Rajput 5 (5)
Mizuno 60.5 B. Mahesh 3 (6) Spice Girl
59 Mudassar Nazar 8 (7) Zurvan 59
Zarar Alam 4 (8) Adamantium 58.5
Hindu S 1 (9) Zandra 57.5 Pintu Das (10)
Tahmina 53.5. WITHDRAWN.
1. Barbarik 2. Mizuno
3. Secret Builder
2ND RACE:
12.45 p.m.
Sentouki Hcap. 1400m. Rt. 21-46.
(1) Apsaras 61.5 Hindu S 1 (2) Oriental
Rocky 61.5 Ranidan S 7 (3) Supreme
Ruler 61.5 Munna Alam 4 (4) City
Heights 61 Nikhil Naidu 6 (5) Pouru
Chisti 60.5 Mohit S 3 (6) Aragon 56.5 S.
John 5 (7) Dixie Diamond 55 Mudassar
Nazar 12 (8) Francina 55 Shezad Khan 8
(9) Forest Dunes 54.5 N.B. Kuldeep 13
(10) Significant 54.5 Asghar 9 (11)
Winds Of The Ocean 53.5 Sk. Israil 2
(12) Sherwood 53 Dashrath s 14 (13)
Xperience 53 Sk. Zaffar Riaz 11 (14)
Ahlan 51.5 A. Ashad Asbar 10.
1. Aragon 2. Apsara 3. Sherwood
3RD RACE: 1.15 p.m. Pentire
Handicap. Div-I. 1200m. Rt. 21-46.

(1) Mustang 62.5 Nikhil Naidu 8 (2)
Ashi Nangsey 61 C. Alford 6 (3) My
Lady Luck 61 Akash Rajput 9 (4)
Azzraq 59 P. Vikram 4 (5) Zena 57
Shezad Khan 7 (6) Bacaardi 55.5
Neeraj Rawal 2 (7) Timeless Magic
54.5 Mohit S 3 (8) Glamourous Glory
53 Arman Khan 5 (9) Studiofiftyfour
53 J. Gurung 1.
1. Mustang 2. Timeless Magic

3. Ashi Nangsey
4TH RACE:
1.45 p.m. Pentire

Handicap. Div-II. 1200m. Rt. 21-46.
(1) Aamerican Agatta 61 Hindu S 8
(2) Duke Of Earl 61 Md. Islam 3 (3)
Swaraj 61 R.S. Bhati 4 (4) My
Freedom 58 Sandeep Rajput 7 (5)
Legende Indienne 57.5 Surjeet S 2 (6)
Stephanie 55 Dashrath S 1 (7) Dark
Angel 53 I. Khan 5 (8) Romancer 51
Vinay Jaiswal 6.
1. Aamerican Agatta 2. Stephanie

3. Duke Of Earl
5TH RACE:
2.15 p.m. David

Jacob Cup. Div-I. 1200m.
Terms: 3-yr-olds only.
(1) Adis Delight 57 Neeraj Rawal 10
(2) Braddock 53 I.Khan 11 (3)
Chittagong 53 Vinay Jaiswal 12 (4)
Fab Bullet 53 Hindu S 8 (5) Jacobin 53
S. John 4 (6) Milford Sound 53
Tororosso upsets
in Bangalore derby
fran Ghatala-saddled Torosso

posted an upset win the Bangalore
Derby on Thursday.
Bangalore short results
1. (8-6-12) Ravishing Snow 1: Call Me
Maybe 2: Ninon 3.
2. (1-5-4) Apache Sunrise 1: Lawrence
Of Arabia 2: Kambaku 3.
3. (2-12-1) Fair Game 1: Indian
Brahmos 2: Aguante 3.
4. (6-4-1) Mickey Mouse 1: Auriga 2:
Bold Command 3.
5. (3-5-4) Jersey Wonder 1: Speed
Hawk 2: Ambitious Reward 3.
6. (1-6-8) Fire Glow 1: Lightning
Strikes 2: Lunar Storm 3.
7. (8-2-4) Tororosso 1: Battalion 2:
Captain Morgan 3.
8. (4-1-8) Lightning Attack 1: Erdemir
2: Sterling Role 3.
A.Ashhad Asbar 5 (7) Amejojoo 51.5

Imran Chisty 3 (8) Constance 51.5 Sk.
Israil 9 (9) Diamond Creek 51.5 Md.
Islam 1 (10) Everglow 51.5 Arman
Khan 13 (11) Lady Two 51.5 C. Alford 7
(12) Melissa 51.5 Dashrath S 2 (13)
Mrs Willy Nilly 51.5 Munna Alam 6.
1. Lady Two 2. Adis Delight

3. Amejojoo
6TH RACE:
2.45 p.m David

Jacob Cup. Div-II. 1200m.
Terms: 3-yr-olds only.
(1) Alamire 57 C. Alford 1 (2) Carpe
Noctem 57 Hindu S 13 (3) Demonstrate 57
Shezad Khan 3 (4) Hartnell 57 A. Ashhad
Asbar 7 (5) Pothus 57 B. Mahesh 8 (6)
Simon Templar 57 Dashrath S 5 (7) Top
Gun 57 Imran Chisty 6 (8) Ayras Pet 55.5
Neeraj Rawal 10 (9) Be A Star 55.5 Afzal
Khan 4 (10) Devotion 55.5 Md. Islam 2 (11)
Mahasuvi 55.5 Arshad Alam 11 (12)
Surgical Strike 55.5 S. John 9 (13)
Tomorrow Forever 55.5 Sk. Zaffar Riaz 12.
1. Simon Templar 2. Alamire

3. Ayras Pet
7TH RACE:
3.15 p.m.
Police Commissioners Cup. 1100m.
Rt. 61-86.
(1) The Talisman 61.5 B. Mahesh 9 (2)
No Politics Please 60 Nikhil Naidu 5 (3)
Kings Canyon 58.5 Neeraj Rawal 10 (4)
Aquitania 56.5 Dashrath S 4 (5) Meet
The Legend 56.5 S. John 1 (6) Gimme
Credit 55.5 Dheeraj S 11 (7) Simrans
Choice 55.5 Akash Rajput 6 (8) Scarlet
Emperor 54.5 Vinay Jaiswal 8 (9)
Australian Agatta 54 Hindu S 12 (10)
Flanker 53.5 Ranidan S 7 (11) Hakkasan
53.5 C. Alford 2 (12) Tangaloomaa 50
Imran Chisty 3.
1. Tangalooma 2. Kings Canyon

3. Aquitania
8TH RACE:
3.45 p.m. B K
Poddar Cup. 1600m. Rt. 41-66.
(1) El Cid 60 Sandeep Rajput 3 (2)
Running Hand 59.5 WITHDRAWN (3)
Top Cat 59 N. B. Kuldeep 6 (4)
Murlough Bay 58 Nikhil Naidu 4 (5)
Lhotse 57 Hindu S 2 (6) Earnest Ruler
56.5 Imran Chisty 7 (7) Majestic 56.5
Dashrath S 9 (8) Taygetus 56.5 C.
Alford 8 (9) The Stradle 56 S. John 5
(10) One Man Army 55.5 Akash Rajput
1 (11) Coley 51.5 A. Ashhad Asbar 10.
1. Taygetus 2. The Stradle

3. Majestic
9TH RACE:
4.15 p.m. Chase

The Sun Hcap.1200m. Rt. 41-66.
(1) Jupiter 62 S. John 12 (2) Bengal
Tiger 61 Akash Rajput 1 (3) Praise Her
Gaze 59 Hindu S 3 (4) Miraculix 58.5
Rupal S 8 (5) Fite Of Honour 57.5 Afzal
Khan 11 (6) Pick Pocket 57.5 Sujit Kr
Paswan 2 (7) Rising Power 55.5 Vinay
Jaiswal 10 (8) Tibidabo 55.5 Nelson
Maseyk 14 (9) Cronos 55 Mohit S 5
(10) Arabian Sky 54.5 C. Alford 13 (11)
Ascend 53 Nikhil Naidu 6 (12) Fabienne
52.5 Neeraj Rawal 9 (13) Another Glory
51 A. Ashhad Asbar 4 (14) Words
Ranidan S 7.
1. Ascend 2. Arabian Sky 3. Words
Days Best: LADY TWO

Treble Event: (I) 1 2 3 (II) 4 5 6 (III)
7 8 9. Jackpot: Pool: 5 6 7 8 9.
Tanala: All races
9. (1-2-9) Topaz 1: Manta Ray 2:
Celestial Storm 3.
Jackpot. 2,462 (c) 425.
Treble. (I) 285 (II) 757 (III) 1,035.
Fridayys Bangalore results
1. (3-7-11) Perfect Queen1: Atlantic
City 2: Moher 3.
2. (1-2-3) Super Smart 1: Chloe 2:
Mission Blue 3.
3. (12-7-9) Slightly Blonde 1: Splendid
Brave 2: Kiraathaka 3.
4. (4-2-5) Masada 1: Amazing Skill 2:
Secret Pursuit 3.
5. (1-9-2) Downtown Abbey 1: Super
Success 2: Ace Badraan 3.
6. (10-6
6-2) Rare Rhythm 1:
Summerhill 2: Emperador 3.
7. (4-10-7) Side Wonder 1: Tzar 2:
Siobhan 3.
8. (1-7-2) Better Than Ever 1: Just
Fabulous 2: Fractals 3.
Jackpot. 11,566 (c) 1,661.
Treble. (I) 1,695 (II) 2,139 (III) 1,474.
Turf Correspondent
Bolly
actors
uniform
tales
Pages 5-6
Page 10
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2017 I ADVERTORIAL, ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY PROMOTIONAL FEATURE I KOLKATA
Divya Khosla Kumar recreates

the magic of Kabhi yaadon mein
FILM ON
EVERESTERS
AIMS FOR
NEW HIGH
Chhanda
Gayen
during her
Everest
climb
THE ACTORS WE
CAST AS CHHANDA
GAYEN AND TUSI
DAS WILL HAVE
TO GO THROUGH
RIGOROUS TRAINING
AND LEARN
MOUNTAINEERING
Nandita Roy and

Shiboprosad
Mukherjee
heir stories are full of grit and the

burning desire to reach the top, literally. Now, the lives of Chhanda Gayen
and Tusi Das the two Everesters from
Bengal will be turned into a Bengali film by
the hitmaker duo of Nandita Roy and
Shiboprosad Mukherjee. With this, the directors want to take Tollywood to where its
never gone before, as they plan to shoot at the
Everest base camp.
Stories that touch everyones heart have
always inspired us. Nothing can beat Chhanda and Tusis stories and this will be our most
difficult film. We are researching the lives of
these two women and their families are helping us. Jyotirmoy Gayen, Chhandas brother,
has given us her diaries which are helping us
put the script together. Tusi is also providing
us with valuable information, like how frostbite had taken a toll on her eyesight and she
actually saw Everest with one eye! These two
women are inspiration for all and I feel their
stories should reach everyone, said
Shiboprosad about his dream project, which
is titled Joyee.
Chhanda and Tusi, both of whom summited Everest in 2013, had different trajectories
to the top. While Tusi sold eggs for a living at
a Dum Dum market, Chhanda sold her we-
SHIBOPROSAD
MUKHERJEE
dding jewellery to pursue her dream. Chhanda died during a tragic Kanchenjunga
expedition in 2014. Tusi was also part of the
same climb, but managed to return to safety.
The director is tight-lipped about the cast of
Joyee. That will happen only after the
research for the film is complete. The actors
we cast as Chhanda Gayen and Tusi Das will
have to go through rigorous training and
learn mountaineering, said Shiboprosad.
Tusi, who lives in Nainital now, told us that
she was super-excited that she would see her
life on celluloid. Jyotirmoy said, We still
cant accept that Chhanda is not with us.
When Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita
Roy approached us, we couldnt say no, as we
want the story of our sisters success to reach
everyone. And what better medium than a
film for that?
Tusi
Das
WE COULDNT SAY NO TO
THE FILM AS WE WANT THE
STORY OF OUR SISTERS
SUCCESS TO REACH EVERYONE
Jyotirmoy Gayen,
Chhandas brother
Now, digital thrust adds

colour to college polls
Bishwabijoy.Mitra@timesgroup.com
here was a time when no student election in the city was complete without campus meetings, processions
and walls plastered with colourful, provocative
and sometimes incendiary posters. The sound and
fury and the colourful posters are still there,
but as some recent college polls show, campaigning
has moved bigtime into the digital space.
The down-and-dirty feel of poster colours and
art paper is being gradually complemented
by deft touches and
effects of Photoshop
YOU CAN
and other software on
a computer screen, REACH MORE
as the Jadavpur University election cam- PEOPLE IN LESSER
paign showed recently. TIME, ESPECIALLY
The team that worked
with computers pro- IF CONNECTING
duced a series of digi- WITH STUDENTS
tal posters, GIFs,
slideshows and videos WHO ARE NOT
that were a huge hit
REGULAR ON
on social media. Now
that same style of CAMPUS BUT STAY
campaigning is being
witnessed
at
the CONNECTED ON
Presidency University SOCIAL MEDIA
elections to be held on
TRIPARNA SARKAR,
January 30. You can
SFI ACTIVIST
reach more people in
lesser time, especially
while connecting with those students who are not
regular on campus but stay connected on social
media, said Triparna Sarkar, who has actively
worked for SFI during the JU election.
AT THE BEGINNING
The digital posters by IC for
Presidency elections
ivya Khosla Kumar has

donned multiple hats in the
past, including that of a director, actress and choreographer.
After performing a special dance
number in her 2016 directorial
Sanam Re, she will now be seen as the
lead in the reprised version of Kabhi
yaadon mein, a chartbuster. The teaser was out a few days ago, and it has
created quite a stir.
Interestingly, Divya had featured
in the original version of the romantic track, which revolved around a
love triangle. However, the reprised
version, which was released online
yesterday, features a totally different
storyline. Whats more, the gorgeous
filmmaker has even revisited the past
with husband Bhushan Kumar and
T-Series, who had cast her in the original song.
She says, Kabhi yaadon mein is
one of my favourite songs. It holds a
special place in my heart and had
marked the beginning of a new chapter in my life. The song struck a chord
back then and I am sure will do the
same this time, too. Rakesh Roshan
had seen the reprised version and
was all praise for it, so we decided to
launch a two-minute version of the
song along with Kaabil. Im
immensely thankful to him for that.
The track, recreated by Abhijit
Vaghani, has been rendered by Palak
Muchhal and Arijit Singh.
Parts of movie on
Chhanda Gayen and
Tusi Das may be shot
at Everest base camp
Ruman.Ganguly@timesgroup.com
OF INDIA
When college elections resumed after two years in

2014, student leaders realised they needed something extra to connect with people.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
A few digital posters by SFI

for Presidency elections
Divya Khosla Kumar in the song
KOLKATA IS TALKING ABOUT
CALCUTTA TIMES, THE TIMES OF INDIA
SATURDAY 28 JANUARY 2017
Aamir Khan and Deepika Padukone take No. 1 position on Times Celebex
amir Khan
was in the
news
for
the
promotions
and the thunderous box office collections of
his
Christmas release,
Dangal,
that
revolves
around
wrestling.
A
Aamir Khan
SIGNIFICANT GAINERS IN DECEMBER 2016

RANDEEP HOODA
LEAPS FROM
37TH RANK TO
25TH RANK
Randeep Hooda was

in the news for Sarbjit
enterting the Oscar
nominations list.
RANVEER SINGH
LEAPS FROM
THE 14TH RANK
TO THE 4TH
Ranveer Singh was in

the news for his
endorsements and his
film Befikre.
RAJINIKANTH LEAPS
FROM THE 36TH
RANK TO THE
28TH RANK
Rajinikanth was in the

news for the trailer
launch of Robot 2.0
which was a huge hit.
NEW ENTRANTS IN THE TOP 50
Saif Ali Khan was in the

news for becoming a father
for the third time.
Manoj Bajpayee made

news for his nominations
for Aligarh.
Sharman Joshi was in the

news for Wajah Tum Ho
and his upcoming films.
X OTHERS ON THE LIST: Saif Ali Khan, Manoj Bajpayee, Sharman Joshi,
Gurmeet Choudhary, Manish Paul and Kartik Aryan
Actors
Dec Nov
Rank Rank
Aamir Khan
1
7
Shah Rukh Khan
2
1
Salman Khan
3
4
Ranveer Singh
4
14
Akshay Kumar
5
2
Amitabh Bachchan
6
3
Hrithik Roshan
7
5
Shahid Kapoor
8
9
Riteish Deshmukh
9
11
Karan Johar
10
13
Farhan Akhtar
11
6
Ajay Devgn
12
10
Varun Dhawan
13
17
Abhishek Bachchan
14
15
Arjun Rampal
15
12
Arjun Kapoor
16
16
Sidharth Malhotra
17
18
Anupam Kher
18
19
John Abraham
19
8
Dhanush
20
21
Rana Daggubati
21
20
Anil Kapoor
22
24
Sanjay Dutt
23
27
Sharman Joshi
24
Randeep Hooda
25
37
Ranbir Kapoor
26
23
Irrfan Khan
27
29
Rajinikanth
28
36
Neil Nitin Mukesh
29
25
Fawad Khan
30
31
Emraan Hashmi
31
28
Boman Irani
32
30
Sushant Singh Rajput 33
39
Rishi Kapoor
34
34
Abhay Deol
35
33
Pulkit Samrat
36
35
Jackky Bhagnani
37
38
Gurmeet Choudhary
38
Vivek Oberoi
39
32
Arshad Warsi
40
41
Saif Ali Khan
41
Sonu Sood
42
45
Nawazuddin Siddiqui 43
44
Manoj Bajpayee
44
Karan Singh Grover
45
46
Tusshar Kapoor
46
50
Manish Paul
47
Imran Khan
48
48
Mohit Marwah
49
47
Kartik Aaryan
50
-
Dec
Score
54.6
43
38
35
29.9
29
28
25
21
20
17.9
17
16.7
16
14.9
14.3
14
12.7
12.3
12
11
10
9.9
9.7
9.5
9.3
9.1
9
8.7
8.5
8.2
8
7.9
7.8
7.5
7.3
7
6.9
6.5
6.4
6
5.9
5.8
5.6
5.5
5.3
5.2
5.1
5
4.8
Nov
Score
25.8
49.1
28
19
30
29
26.5
24
21
20
26
23
13.7
17
20.4
14
13
12
25
11
11.5
10
9
3
7.2
10.5
8.5
7.5
9.9
8.1
8.9
8.3
6.9
7.7
7.9
7.6
7
0
8
6.3
2
5.5
5.7
4
5.4
5
4
5.2
5.3
4
Actresses
Dec Nov
Rank Rank
Deepika Padukone
1
3
Priyanka Chopra
2
5
Sonam Kapoor
3
9
Anushka Sharma
4
6
Jacqueline Fernandez
5
8
Alia Bhatt
6
1
Shraddha Kapoor
7
4
Parineeti Chopra
8
7
Sonakshi Sinha
9
2
Sunny Leone
10
11
Nargis Fakhri
11
13
Shruti Haasan
12
12
Madhuri Dixit Nene
13
14
Vidya Balan
14
20
Urvashi Rautela
15
15
Bipasha Basu
16
16
Dia Mirza
17
17
Huma Qureshi
18
23
Neha Sharma
19
10
Kajal Aggarwal
20
18
Juhi Chawla
21
24
Neha Dhupia
22
21
Preity Zinta
23
22
Mallika Sherawat
24
19
Katrina Kaif
25
26
Shilpa Shetty Kundra 26
25
Kriti Sanon
27
28
Kareena Kapoor Khan 28
43
Yami Gautam
29
27
Surveen Chawla
30
30
Tamannaah Bhatia
31
35
Lauren Gottlieb
32
33
Evelyn Sharma
33
34
Elli Avram
34
38
Rakul Preet Singh
35
36
Raveena Tandon
36
37
Kangana Ranaut
37
Sana Khaan
38
Sushmita Sen
39
40
Ileana DCruz
40
31
Genelia Deshmukh
41
32
Lara Dutta Bhupathi
42
39
Ameesha Patel
43
41
Aditi Rao Hydari
44
44
Esha Gupta
45
Shriya Saran
46
49
Diana Penty
47
48
Pooja Hegde
48
47
Kriti Kharbanda
49
50
Sonali Bendre
50
45
Launched in September 2012, Times Celebex is a monthly rating index

based on several measurable parameters, including the stars box office
performance, their ability to stay in the news across print, TV and online,
their brand endorsements, and their popularity among fans on the Internet
and social media. These are taken cumulatively to assign the actors a final
rank called the T Score. Times Celebex is a scientific and robust ranking
system based on data collected from 60+ publications and 250+ TV
channels, making it the first ever ranking system for Bollywood. We have
put together the stars ranking for the month of December 2016.
e e p i k a
Padukone
made news for
the promotions of her
first Hollywood outing,
xXx: Return of Xander
Cage. She was also in
the news for her period
drama Padmavati and
her camaraderie with
Ranveer Singh.
D
Deepika Padukone
SIGNIFICANT GAINERS IN DECEMBER 2016

KAREENA KAPOOR
KHAN LEAPS FROM
43RD TO 28TH
RANK
VIDYA BALAN
LEAPS FROM
20 TH RANK TO
14TH RANK
Vidya Balan was in the

news for Kahaani 2 and
her upcoming films.
Kareena Kapoor Khan

was in the news for her
son Taimurs birth.
HUMA QURESHI
LEAPS FROM 23RD
RANK TO THE
18TH RANK
Huma Qureshi was in

the news for the promotions of Jolly LLB 2.
NEW ENTRANTS IN THE TOP 50
Esha Gupta was in the

news for her endorsements
and her upcoming film
Baadshaho.
Kangana Ranaut was in

the news for her
endorsements and her
next film, Simran.
Sana Khaan was in the

news for her steamy
scenes in Wajah Tum Ho.
X OTHERS ON THE LIST: Esha Gupta, Sana Khan and
Kangana Ranaut
New entrants on the list
Dec
Score
29
28
25
24
23.5
23
22.9
22.7
22
18
17.5
17
16
14
13
12
10
9.5
9
8.9
8.5
8.1
8
7.9
7.7
7.5
7.3
7
6.8
6.6
6.5
6.4
6.2
6.1
6
5.8
5.7
5.5
5.2
5.1
5
4.9
4.8
4.7
4.6
4.5
4.4
4.3
4.2
4.1
Nov
Score
30
25
22
23.5
22.5
38
28
23
34
17.5
16.5
17
16
11.9
13
12.7
12.5
11.3
18.6
12.3
11
11.7
11.5
12
9.7
10
9
6
9.5
8.5
7.6
7.8
7.7
7
7.4
7.3
1
0
6.7
8
7.9
6.9
6.5
5.9
4
5.1
5.2
5.4
5
5.7
New entrants on the list
REASONS FOR BEING IN THE TOP 10
SHAH RUKH KHAN: Buzz around

Raees and his performances at
award shows kept him in the news.
SALMAN KHAN: The buzz around
his upcoming films, his love life
and his birthday celebrations.
RANVEER SINGH: He was in the
news for Befikre and his
relationship with Deepika Padukone.
AKSHAY KUMAR: He made
headlines for his endorsements,
the promotions of Jolly LLB 2 and his
upcoming films.
AMITABH BACHCHAN: He was in
the news for the third outing in the
Sarkar franchise and his endorsements.
HRITHIK ROSHAN: The songs and
promos of Kaabil and his holiday
with his sons made news.
SHAHID KAPOOR: His first
appearance with his wife on a chat
show and his shoot for Padmavati.
RITEISH DESHMUKH: The buzz
around his forthcoming films and
endorsements.
KARAN JOHAR: His chat show, TV
show appearances as a judge and
his endorsements made news.
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
PRIYANKA CHOPRA: The buzz

around her home visit and Quantico
kept her in the news.
SONAM KAPOOR: Her father Anils
birthday celebrations and awards
for Neerja kept her in the news.
ANUSHKA SHARMA: The actress
was making headlines for her multifilm deal with a top company.
JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ: The
buzz around her TV show and
award show appearances.
ALIA BHATT: The actress moved into
her new house and also won awards
for her performance in Udta Punjab.
SHRADDHA KAPOOR: She
made news for OK Jaanus
promotions and her friendship
with Farhan Akhtar.
PARINEETI CHOPRA: The actress
was making headlines for her
endorsements and her upcoming films.
SONAKSHI SINHA: The
actress made news for her
endorsements and her friendship
with Bunty Sachdeva.
SUNNY LEONE: She made news for
her dance number in Shah Rukh
Khans Raees.
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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Bare Foot has Tolly

guests on their feet
Pratik Banerjee
Aamir Khan and Deepika Padukone

occupy the top slots in the Noida
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powered by ZOOM list for the month
of December 2016
Birdie
Jordan
Dominic
Caszo
Ravi
Anil Mukerji
and Ananda
t was an evening
full of camaraderie and great
music when citybased band, Bare
Foot, performed at
The Tollygunge Club
recently at Live at
Pantiles. The band
comprises
Birdie
Jordan, Dominic
Caszo,
Wilfried
Peraira, Dominic
Saldanha
and
Mantasha Das.
They opened their act with the song
Red neck woman and followed it up with
Boot scootin boogie, Stand by your man,
Proud Mary, Love me like you do and Love
will keep us together. When they crooned
Cheap thrills by Sia, members broke into
an impromptu jig.
Mantasha, a member of the band said,
Anshoo Jaiswal,
Gautam Nandy
and Nandini
We are performing here for the first time
and seeing everyone enjoy so much is definitely very encouraging for us performers.
The fun-filled evening drew to a close with
everyone digging into yummy munch-ons
and cocktails.
Srishti Dasgupta
@timesgroup.com
Mantasha Das
Rika and
Meghna
Members of the club shake a leg on

the dance floor
Sheetal, Deeya and Bridget
KOLKATA IS TALKING ABOUT
Atanu Biswas
Anindya Saha
MOMS
THE WORD
Ranjeet
Nandana Sen
(R) was in town
recently for the
release of her
bilingual book.
The actressauthor has
translated the
book in Bengali
along with her
mom, author
Nabaneeta
Dev Sen
Tusshar Kapoor
and Sunny
Leone
Srijit
Mukherji
TOLLY-BOLLY SAGA
AT AWARDS GALA
Zeenat
Aman
Subhash
Ghai and
Goutam
Ghose
Atanu Biswas
t was a celebration of folk music from Bengal and

Bangladesh as many from the cultural world got together at a city bookstore for the launch of an album. Comprising 10 songs musically designed by Debajyoti Mishra the album delves into diverse genres like jhumura, kirtananga, bhawaiya and bhatiali.
Sung by Mithu Monfokira, the album has compositions by Lalon Fakir, Hason Raja, Radharaman Dutta and others. I am all for Indo-Bangladesh collaborations, said Mishra. Mithu, all praise for the help rendered by the music industries from both sides of
the border, crooned a few lines for one and all.
BOLLYWOOD HO: It was Tolly meets Bolly at an awards ceremony on Sunday. A host of stars converged on Science City
auditorium to lift trophies for their efforts all year. Sunny
Leone, breaking away from her Laila avatar, was present to
receive an award and so happy was she that the hottie obliged
many with selfies; among them was actor Tusshar Kapoor.
Subhash Ghai and Goutam Ghose, who go back a long way,
held hands before clambering up on stage to receive an award
each. The evening was peppered with musical performances
and dance galas and Tolly frat too made its
presence felt.
THE TOLLY CONNECT: Srijit Mukherji
and Abir Chatterjee were both awarded for
their feats, while Srabanti dropped in with
hubby Krishan Vraj in tow. This awards
ceremony has been taking place for 25 years
and I am happy to be standing on stage for
Byomkesh Pawrbo, a film which is close to
my heart, said Abir, smiling from ear to ear.
SRIJIT AND ABIR WERE BOTH

AWARDED FOR THEIR FEATS,
WHILE SRABANTI DROPPED IN
WITH HUBBY KRISHAN VRAJ
Miss
Jojo
Srabanti and
Krishan Vraj
Another cross-border story

Debajyoti
Mishra and
Babu Fakir
Kamaleswar
Mukherjee
Abir
Chatterjee
Mithu
Monfokira
Shaheb Chatterjee and
Sudarshan Chakravorty
LEISURE
BEAU PEEP
MARVIN
C A LV I N A N D H O B B E S
BIRTHDAY TODAY
ou should not get
into unnecessary
arguments with your
colleagues at the workplace.
Tip: Your lucky colours
are red and violet. Your
lucky gems are opal
and amber.
You share your birthday
with: Shruti Haasan
ARIES March 20 - April 18 You may

now start wondering whether you are
doing the right thing or not. You could
find that life is about to take an unexpected and worthwhile change. This
afternoon you may indulge yourself in
pastime activities that you have almost forgotten.
TAURUS April 19 - May 19 Disagreements erupt because you arent willing
to overlook minor irritations as usual.You
tend to see what you want to see or
fantasise a bit too much. You may find
that travel is an important part of your
work life.You need to find plenty of space
to rest.
GEMINI May 20 - June 20 Resistance
and challenges from outside situations
suggest that this is not a good time to try
to force your will and desires upon the
world, as friction is the only likely
result. You need to be gentle with yourself and take care not to dissipate your
energy reserves.
CANCER June 21 - July 21 Venus is in
twelfth from Mars and eighth from your
sign and is causing uneasiness and rest-
GARFIELD
lessness due to some minor embarrassment.As the day goes on, you could start
to feel the effects of your frustration,
slight headaches are very likely,and your
temper could soon start to get frayed.
LEO July 22 - August 21 Arrangements
that have been carefully planned will go
astray as delays and interruptions disrupt
journeys.A situation may arise which requires you to say what is on your mind,
to make a decision and clearly voice your
personal opinion on some issue.
VIRGO August 22 - September 21 Your
plans will quickly be ruined, so be careful. You may be in need of a spell of optimism to raise your self-image. Many
pleasant hours may be spent planning
with your close ones or with your entire
family.Take a break from what you have
been doing.
LIBRA September 22 - October 22
Watch yourself assuredly and you will be
able to correct and control them.Your intuitive performance makes you indispensable in the workplace.Your personal self-esteem is on a high, making you
a very useful person prejudiced toward
evolution and change, which will not

bring states of emotional susceptibility
or evasion.
SCORPIO October 23 - November 20
See your own accomplishments for what
they are really worth.You may find something you believed to be lost or irretrievable. Career activities no longer hold the
same appeal for you. Make sure that you
get the break you deserve.
SAGITTARIUS
November
21December 20 You need to realise the
high regard in which others hold you.
Your destiny may help you make your
dreams come true. Plan your ideal journey in short, manageable steps.
CAPRICORN December 21 - January
19 Your future still may not look clear to
you, but you have some great ideas
stirring. This could be an excellent time
for business if you can find anyone who
feels like discussing it. You wont get
anywhere by simply dreaming about
where youd like to go.
AQUARIUS January 20 - February 18
You feel lucky and are apt to over-estimate yourself or the possibilities in
some situation. Old issues in your
personal relationships may arise once
again. Misunderstanding or miscommunication with others may happen.
PISCES February 19 - March 19 Turn
to your proverbial calmness to solve
minor problems. It is advisable to enter
the dynamics of mutual understanding.
It is a good time to live, study and
practise total integration in your
affectionate relationship.
TIMES KAKURO
THE DAILY CROSSWORD
LOOP THE LOOP
SPELLATHON
Rules
Q Connect adjacent dots
with vertical or horizontal
lines, creating a single
loop (Fig A).
Q Crossovers or branches
are not allowed (As shown
by dotted lines in Fig B).
Q Numbers in the puzzle
indicate the number of
lines that should surround
it, while empty cells may
be surrounded by any
number of lines.
Q You cant draw lines
around zeroes.
Q Each puzzle has just
one unique solution.
How to begin: Example
(Fig A) - Begin with the
zero next to 3. Since no
lines can be drawn around
zero, mark crosses around
it, as shown. Now there is
a cross in one space
around 3. So we know the
three lines of 3 can only
be drawn in the remaining
three spaces. Next, these
lines can only be extended
in one direction each.
Continue, using the same
logic.
Hints: Keep eliminating
possibilities by marking
crosses in spaces
between dots where a line
isnt possible, i.e., if you
have already completed
required lines or where a
line extension may create
a branch or cause a
deadend (Fig B)
E
5:00 pm Mem Bou
5:30 pm Ichchenodi
6:00 pm Bodhu Boron
6:30 pm Potol Kumar
Gaanwala
7:00 pm Kusum Dola
7:30 pm Ke Apon Ke Por
8:00 pm Agnijol
8:30 pm Jhanj Lobongo
Phool
9:00 pm Milantithi
9:30 pm Punyipukur
10:00 pm Rakhi
Bandhan
10:30 pm Khokababu
11:00 pm Bhagter
Bhagawan Sri Krishna
I
Todays Ratings:
04-average 05-good
06-outstanding
How many words of four or

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

coloured squares refer to
the sums of the digits that
you must fill into the empty
spaces directly below or to
the right of the coloured
square containing the number. For instance, in the
given example, the 2 boxes
below 12 must contain 2
digits that add upto 12,
whereas for 20, the 3 boxes
placed horizontally next to it
must add upto 20. No
zeroes are used here, only
the digits one through nine.
Level: Easy
20
12
Example
All solutions to games/puzzles on Page 5
SCRAMBLE
TIMES SUDOKU
Rearrange the letters in the four word jumbles, one letter to each square/circle, to make
four ordinary words
HOW TO PLAY
Fill in the grid so that
every horizontal row,
every vertical column
and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9,
without repeating the
numbers in the same
row, column or box.You
cant change the digits
already given in the
grid. Every puzzle has
one solution.
MEIOR
HOW TO PLAY
Now arrange the letters in the
circles to form the answer to
the riddle or to fill in the
missing word as indicated
EEILT
COUTHY
OTUFGH
Level: Easy
Surround yourself with only people who are going to ___ __ ____. - Oprah
Winfrey (4,3,6)
FACT OF
THE MATTER
Dolphins are the
only animals that
give birth with the
baby coming out
tail first; the calf
would drown if it
was the other
way.
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ART THEATRE MUSIC
WHATS HOT, THE TIMES OF INDIA
on till
14
on till
Feb
Songs of Amity, Emami Chisel Art,

687 Anandapur, EM Bypass, 11 am to 7 pm
This painting exhibition by Bratin and Sutapa Khan is based on

romantic art. The romanticism has been depicted through various
mythological characters like Lord Krishna, Hanuman and Parvati.
Painting exhibition, The Eye

Within Club, 34 Southern Avenue,
16
on till
Feb
25
Feb
This painting exhibition by Rajib Deyashi dwells on a world

of childhood nostalgia. The innocent and colourful presentations of complex themes take us back to the simple and
innocent joys of a child.
ART
Photography exhibition,
Galerie 88, 28-B Shakespeare Sarani,
11 am to 7 pm
This photography exhibition features works
of Jyoti Bhatt. Some of the featured works
are monochromatic.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Spaces in Transition,
Range Gallery,
54 Lower Range
Road, 12.30-7.30 pm
VARIETY
This solo show of

drawings, painton till
ings, charcoals
and prints by
artist Rajib
Feb
Bhattacharjee
showcases a broad
range of ideas and images
relating to the city, its
inhabitants and changing
technologies.
17
on till
on
27
Making Visible,
Experimenter, 2/1 Hindusthan Road,
Feb
At this exhibition, artist Ayesha Sultana explores her pursuit of stillness, a deliberated rhythm of work and the aesthetics of silence
through a series of drawings and sculptures.
28
Dans le Moment,
Jan
The Harrington Street Arts
Centre, 8 Ho Chi Minh Sarani, noon to 7 pm
Alliance Francaise du Bengale presents an exhibition of
French contemporary photography by nine photographers.
Golden Bough,
Birla Academy
of Art &Culture,
Southern
Avenue, Lake
Terrace, 3-8 pm
On their 50th
anniversary,
Birla
on till
Academy
of Art &
Culture
is
Feb
organising
this exhibition
where artworks by 66
senior artists and 153
young artists are
being featured.
2
Feb
Rabindra Bharati University presents paintings, drawings, graphics, sculptures,

photographs, wood carvings, mats, and patachitra, dokra and terracotta items mode
by promising and talented artists of West Bengal.
THEATRE
ijay Tendulkars Sakharam Binder has been

termed
the
most
intensely naturalistic play.
When it was first staged in
1972, and later, in 1974, it created ripples as the Maharashtra
censor board objected to segments of the play, specifically
to its use of offensive language. Eventually, the play was
banned. However, the language
that was thought to be offensive in 1974 has lost its terseness today.
Almost 50 years later, what
strikes one about the play is
the boldness of the theme and
its treatment.
The hero of our Bengali play,
Sakharam (Goutam Halder), is
a rogue, drunkard and gambler, and quite unapologetically so. He has sheer disregard
for any traditional or societal
value. Every now and then he
brings home a new woman
usually those who are abandoned by their husbands
keeps her for a while and when
tired, kicks her out.
Sakharam is the protagonist
of the play, but the action of
the play in the first half
revolves round the character of
Lakshmi. The typical Indian
woman, plain-Jane Lakshmi
has been portrayed by Dyuti
Ghosh Halder, who is competent enough to bring to life the
V
Dweep (Bengali)
Academy of Fine Arts, 2 Cathedral Road, 3.30 pm
on
28
Jan
Direction: Niladri Sekhar Banerjee

Ticket price: `100
A rich play written in 1960s by Utpal Dutta, it revolves around the deviation
ideology and questions the truth as told by society.
on
Direction: Manav Kaul

Ticket price: `200
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Jan
Ramakrishna Math and Mission is presenting a musical programme with bhajans by

Samrat Anup Jalota with tabla maestro Bickram
Ghosh on the occasion of the birthday of Swami
Brahmanandaji Maharaj.
This photography
exhibition
held on
on till
behalf of
Sanskriti
Culture
Jan
Through
Lens
celebrates the
contrasts of life
and colours
through visuals.
12
on till
Art exhibition,
ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani, 3-8 pm
Symphony of
Contrast,
Gallery Gold,
11 Abdul
Rasul Avenue,
3-8 pm
on
Musical programme,
Sikra-Kulingram, near
Basirhat, 10 am to 1.30 pm
28
ZEE Theatre is staging Manav Kauls latJan

est play Chuhal. It is a
relationship drama
between a school teacher and a private
executive, and a series of conversations which arises from the contrasting
personalities of the two protagonists.
A scene
from the
play
PROFANITIES GALORE
THEATRE
Play: Sakharam (Bengali)

Director: Abanti Chakraborty
REVIEW
Duration: 160 minutes

Cast: Goutam Halder, Dyuti Ghosh Halder, Manisha Adok
Rating: +++
complexity of the character.

One may appreciate the
arduousness of her task when
told that Lakshmi, a perfect
embodiment of Hindu womanly virtues, manoeuvres a murder to keep the roof over her
head intact.
However, in the second half,

it is all about Champa
(Manisha Adok) the
estranged wife of a police con-
stable. In Champa, a saucy

tart, Sakharam meets his match. Champa dictates terms and
barely has any intent to meet
the expectations of Sakharam.
With salacious Champa, arrogant Sakharam and abundance
of profanity, the second half of
the play presents a raunchy
tale of anarchy.
Sakharam, by Prachya, is 20
minutes too long. When it
comes to performance, I am
disposed to think that Goutam
Halder is not only talented
but a genius too (if he escapes
the danger of mannerisms).
Otherwise
his
portrayal
of Sakharam, a book-binder,
who is a Brahmin, but rejects
all the code of conduct of
that caste and lives life according to his own desires,
deserves merit.
Champa,
enacted
by
Manisha, is a boiling cauldron
of fierce revolt. Manishas
wonderful acting ability makes
us see the inside of a coquettish young woman, who has
deserted her sadistic husband,
who loved to inflict pain
upon her.
Finally, the play explores the
plight of women in all helplessness along with a depiction
of the complexity of human
nature. It is worth a watch for a
few powerhouse performances
by Manisha, Dyuti and
Goutam Halder, and of course,
for its bold theme.
Poor + Average ++ Good +++Very Good ++++Outstanding +++++
CINEMA
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Shah Rukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui,
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Rohan meets Supriya and its love at first
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T2 TRAINSPOTTING TRACK LIST

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Best of Bollywood songs
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CHINESE DELIGHTS GALORE AT

TAK HENG
ans of Trainspotting were

pleasantly surprised when
the track list for the sequel to
the cult film was leaked online by
mistake. At first, the list seemed like
a fake, but author Irvine Welsh, on
whose books the film is based, confirmed the news online. He wrote,
#T2trainspotting soundtrack fea-
tures great songs, but wait till you

hear those bad boys in the context
of the movie. The music from the
1996 film got so popular, that the producers had to release a second cut of
the album.
Filmmaker Danny Boyle introduced a whole generation of listeners to some great music and musi-
cians. The 15 songs in the new

album are a mix of old and new,
starting with Prodigys remix of the
Iggy Pop song Lust for life. Older
bands like Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Queen, Blondie and The Clash
are featured along with new bands
like The Rubberbandits, The Alive,
Underworld and Young Fathers.
BOOKS
THE CASE AGAINST
WILLIAM by Mark
Gimenez
DARK DIAMOND by
Shazia Omar
Criminal defence lawyers must

make their peace with one harsh
fact of life: most of their clients
are guilty. Yet when William
Tucker, a celebrated and self-centred star college football player, is
suddenly arrested and charged
with the brutal rape and murder
of a college co-ed two years before, his brokendown, drunken estranged father Frank cant believe hes guilty. What father could? But Frank is also
an ex-criminal defence lawyer. Now Frank must
find a way to sober up and save his son from the
death penalty sought by an ambitious district attorney. Can a fathers love for his accused son save him
from death?
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Lord Shayista Khan, the

Mughal viceroy of Bengal, in
1685, during Aurangzebs rule,
was the most powerful man on
earth. Under Lord Khans governance, Bengal became the
epicentre of commerce and
culture a veritable treasure
chest with greedy enemies:
Maratha warriors, Arakan
rajas, Hindu zamindars, fanatic Mullahs, a diabolical Pir
with occult powers and the East India Company. Not
only does Lord Khan have to keep them at bay but he
must also neutralise the curse of Kalinoor, the dark
diamond sister of the famous Kohinoor that now
adorns the British Crown.
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Zaalima
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Udi Udi Jaye
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Tomake chai
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Khelna baati mon
Thik emon ebhabe
Aami aajkal bhalo achi
Aami raaji
Saiyyan
Highest gainer
Udi Udi Jaye

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The Bongs Again
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VARIETY
BE CURIOUS
AND LISTEN
PLAY HARD
TO GET
Heres a
great way
to stay
beautiful
Ask questions and be genuinely

interested in what she has to say.
There might be a story behind the
jewellery or cologne that she is wearing. Dont fake it because its a definite way to ruin a perfectly poised
evening romance. Instead, share
your own stories and talk about common interests.
ho doesnt want to
look beautiful for
as long as possible? But its not always easy
to cheat age. However,
thanks to an innovative
technique introduced in
the city by Lomasi, its now
possible to look ageless
using neuro molecule proteins that help remove fine
lines and wrinkles, minimise open pores and give
skin a natural, glossy look.
The technique involves
infusion of the proteins
under various parts of
your skin like the T-zone,
cheeks, chin, nose and
neck. This process instantly works within the skin,
tightening enlarged pores,
erasing superficial lines
and leaving the skin
smoother, tighter and
crease-free. It can also be
effectively used to minimise fine lines around and
under the eyes.
The procedure may be a
quick-fix service, but it
needs to be handled by
skilled professional cosmetic dermatologists. And
providing the desired
benefit to clients while
maintaining optimum safety is Lomasi Skin Boutiques top priority.
The neuro molecule
protein infusion procedure
is not only used to remove
wrinkles, but is also popular among filmstars, who
use it to elevate the tip of
the nose, contour the jowls,
If you are in a group, then talk to

everyone and not just the girl you
want to wind up with at the end of
the night. Compliment her just
enough to keep her hooked. Avoid
flirting with other girls in the group
as it will give her mixed signals and
make her want to explore other
options.
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ating can be quite hard on shy
guys because it doesnt come
easy to them. Unlike men who
are outgoing, who can put themselves out with ease and flair, the shy
type always grapple with uncertainty
and lack of confidence. So, heres
some help for all the single, shy guys
out there so that they can up their
dating game.
D
1
ACT
CONFIDENT
Being confident is the key. We know

it doesnt come as naturally to you as
it does to some other guys, but its

actually a glass ceiling you need to
break. If youre not a teetotaller, one
of the easiest and sure-shot workaround is a small shot of your
favourite spirit to calm your nerves.
Once youve done that, just mingle
and act interested, even if it means
fine-tuning your ego.
SAY HI; DONT BE AFRAID

OF BEING TURNED DOWN
This thought is a real date-killer.

What if it doesnt work out? What if
she says no? What if I get embar-
rassed? All these negative thoughts

might just end up ruining your nightout even before it begins, and therefore, it is really necessary for you to
set your priorities right. Dont overthink; just do it, because even if she
turns you down, its okay. And lets
face it, you werent getting anywhere
till you tried anyway, right?
TURN ON THE CHARM AND

MAKE HER LAUGH
Most of the guys who dont open up

too much too early with strangers are
closet humourists. So, if you have
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ritain is paying tribute to one of musics biggest icons, David Bowie.
Starting March 14, Royal Mail will
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series. The limited edition 10-stamp collection will showcase album covers for Hunky
Dory, Aladdin Sane, Heroes, Lets Dance, and
Earthling. The collection will also feature
four shots from his live tours.
About why David Bowie was honoured with
these special stamps, Philip Parker of Royal
Mail, was quoted as saying, For five decades,
David Bowie was at the forefront of contemporary culture, and has influenced successive
generations of musicians, artists, designers
Agencies
and writers.
COMPLIMENT
HER
Women like men who are considerate

and charming. Compliment her on
the way she has dressed up and offer
her a drink. Chivalrous men are a
dying breed and its always nice to
pull out a chair for the girl you like.
DONT BE HESITANT TO
ASK HER FOR A SECOND
DATE
Offer to drop her off at her home after

an evening well spent. And when you
do, dont mess everything; just ask
her out for another date sometime
later. Tell her that you enjoyed the
evening in her company and that you
would love to carry the conversation
further sometime next week.
Anshul Gandhi,
Mensxp.com
Can mushrooms
prevent dementia?
ating mushrooms may help delay or prevent the
development of age-related neurodegenerative
diseases such as dementia and Alzheimers, researchers including one of Indian origin have claimed.
Certain edible and medicinal mushrooms contain
bioactive compounds that may enhance nerve growth in
the brain and protect against neurotoxic stimuli such as
inflammation that contribute to neurodegenerative diseases, researchers said.
Researchers, including Vikineswary Sabaratnam from
the University of Malaya in Malaysia, analysed the health
benefits of edible and culinary mushrooms.
The evidence supports a potential role of mushrooms
as functional foods to reduce or delay development of
age-related neurodegeneration, they said. The researchers
focused on the activity of bioactive components of mushrooms that may offer neuroprotective and cognitive benefits. In contrast to the body of literature on food ingredients that may benefit cardiometabolic diseases and
cancer, very few studies have focused on food that may
benefit neurodegenerative diseases, said Sampath Parthasarathy, from the University of Central Florida in the
US. The current study might stimulate the identification of more food items that are neuroprotective. PTI
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The skin boutiques CEO
Nripendra Guha told us
that the citys first anti-ageing and face-sculpting boutique has also launched Cog
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threads that are strategically placed under the skin to
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cheeks, nasal folds and
necks. The procedure, however, is non-surgical. All
these procedures are done
by internationally trained
experts. That makes our
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safe, and without any
downtime. After all, our
priority is our clients safety and satisfaction and efficient service, he said.
According to socialite
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Prep up your look for travelling

hether youre heading to the coast to
soak up the summer
sun or to climb the hills and
enjoy the chill, you ought to look
fresh and good. Heres how you
can do it.
O Drink water before and during your travel to keep your
body feeling healthy.
O Varying climatic conditions
can make your face dry.
Apply a moisturiser that suits
your skin.
O Use a medicated lip balm for
your lips.
O Carry cleansing wipes to wipe
off excess oil from the face.
O Your hair tends to become
frizzy while travelling. If
you have long hair, flip
your head upside down and pull
your hair into a loose
topknot.
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The David Bowie stamps
Pratik Banerjee
flirting tips for the shy guy
that gift, then theres nothing to be

afraid of because girls love to have a
conversation with a guy whos funny.
Start with a little self-deprecating
humour because that way, she knows
you are confident enough in your
own skin to make fun of yourself.
VARIETY
Empathy makes married

couples resemble each other
f you think that a married couple has started resembling each
other, you may be right. Confirmed by a study, researchers came
up with a variety of explanations
for this. Firstly, they attributed it to
both their diets similar diets lead
to similar body weight. The second
view ascribed it to the environment.
For instance, sunshine would affect
their skin in similar ways. Researchers also believe that there is
a subconscious decision behind this.
According to this theory, people are
more likely to choose those who
they think will grow to resemble
them. However, the most accepted
and popular view has been empathy. As couples start empathising
with each other, they copy each others facial expressions. No wonder
then that they start looking alike.
Dubais Burj Khalifa,

the worlds tallest
building, was lit up
in colours of the
Indian flag on
Wednesday and
Thursday to
celebrate Indias
68th Republic Day.
The crown prince
of Abu Dhabi,
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, was
the chief guest at
the Republic Day
parade in Delhi. The
official account of
Burj Khalifa tweeted
on Wednesday,
#BurjKhalifa wishes
The #Republic
OfIndia a Happy
National Day
Thinkstock Photos/Getty Images
BURJ
KHALIFA
LIGHTS UP
WITH
TRICOLOUR
VARIETY
Moments of glory for Padma awardees

Sports dominated our headlines this year, and even the Padma
Awards recognised a host of sports stars. We speak to some
of the awardees, who tell us that apart from the honour,
its also a responsibility
Divya.Kaushik@timesgroup.com and
Abhimanyu.Mathur@timesgroup.com
A GREAT HONOUR, BUT

THE JOURNEY FOR
EQUALITY OF PARA-ATHLETES
WILL END AT KHEL RATNA
DEEPA MALIK, PADMA SHRI
MERI 12 SAAL KI MEHNAT

SAFAL HO GAYI HAI
SAKSHI MALIK,
PADMA SHRI
Nothing can be bigger news than
this for an athlete jab usse Bharat
ka chauthe number ka maana jaane
wala award mil raha ho. Meri 12 saal
ki mehnat safal ho gayi hai, mehnat
toh Olympic medal se hi safal ho gayi
thi, aur uske baad itne awards mile
hain, but this one specially makes
me proud.
JAB SUNA TO BOLTI BAND HO GAYI

KAILASH KHER, PADMA SHRI
When I checked my phone after my performance in Jaipur on Tuesday evening,
I had a message informing me that I had been chosen for the award, and that
the announcement would be made on Wednesday. When I called the concerned person, he congratulated me. Sun kar pehle toh meri bolti hi band ho
gayi. I thanked God and thought that my parents would be happy and proud ki
kuch toh achha kar raha hai. Delhi mein ek time woh tha jab mujhe lagta tha
ki main kabhi kamyab nahi hunga, aur maine tarah tarah ki jobs ki. My music
was always different, and I used to wonder if it would be liked by the youth or
not, but my hard work, conviction and determination for my kind of music bore
fruit. Poori duniya mein stage par sammaanit hona ek alag baat hai, aur apne desh
mein yeh award milna, jo desh ko represent karta hai, gaurav ki baat hai.
I THOUGHT SOMEONE
WAS PLAYING
A PRANK
ON ME
PR SREEJESH, PADMA SHRI
I feel like Im in a dream, of sorts. When I
first received a phone call congratulating me
on the Padma Shri, I thought they were
playing a prank on me. But as more phone
calls poured in, I realised that it was a bit
more serious than that. People ask me what
this means to me, but Im pretty speechless
right now. To be in the same list as the likes

of Virat Kohli and the Olympic winners is a
great recognition for hockey, as a whole. This
honour belongs to my entire team, as much
as it does to me. My teammates have been
asking for a party now, so thats the next
thing on the agenda.
This one is very special as it is

one of the highest civilian
honours in the country. I never
imagined Id come this far when I
started my journey of ability
beyond disability all those years
ago. It was more about craving
for an identity that did not
involve the word patient. But to
come this far, I feel blessed. For
para-athletes to be recognised
alongside other able-bodied
athletes is a tremendous step
forward. Im looking forward to
the ceremony when we will be
standing alongside the known
faces of the able-bodies sports
world. The Padma Shri is a great
honour and I feel grateful to my
country for empowering me
in this unique way, but as a
sportsperson, the at par journey
will end at a Khel Ratna.
OVER 1,000 PEOPLE GAVE ME A

STANDING OVATION TO CONGRATULATE
ME ON THE PADMA HONOUR
PT VISHWA MOHAN BHATT, PADMA BHUSHAN
I was performing in Mumbai on Wednesday evening
when I got to know that I had been chosen for the Padma
Bhushan. After the concert, over 1,000 people gave me a
standing ovation. This award not just recognises the
THIS INCREASES
MY RESPONSIBILITY
TO WIN AN
OLYMPIC MEDAL
DIPA KARMAKAR,
PADMA SHRI
Its a great honour. I am very happy to be
chosen for this and thankful to the government
for considering me for it. But now, after this
recognition, I cannot sit back. My responsibility
towards the country and my fans has only
increased now, because people will expect
more from me now. On my part, I will do my
level best to bring more international medals
and that elusive Olympic medal for India.
artistes work, but our legacy in music, culture and tradition, and encourages the younger generation to learn
more about it. Within hours, I started getting messages
from artistes from all over the world. To be recognised in
a foreign land with the biggest honour is one thing, but to
be recognised by your own government is a different
feeling. My family in Jaipur is waiting for me to return,
phir Jaipur mein jashn ki tayyari karenge.
Hollywood A-lister Scott Rosenfelt to make a Digital campaigns cut costs,

film on Indian mountaineering legend MS Kohli give free rein to creativity
he man who successfully led
the first Indian expedition to
the Mount Everest in 1965,
Captain Manmohan Singh Kohli, is a
living legend at 85. Now Hollywood
filmmaker Scott Rosenfelt, who is
known for films like Home Alone,
Mystic Pizza and Teen Wolf, is making
a film on Kohli.
RELIVING A TOP-SECRET
INDIA-CIA SAGA
When we contacted Capt Kohli, he

said, Scott has been wanting to make
a film for years on the top secret joint
Indo-US expedition to Himalayas,
headed by me, wherein CIA was
involved. Right from the Americans
arrival in India to their identity
everything was kept a secret. The purpose of the expedition was to locate
the launching pad of the nuclear missiles of China as it was a nuisance to
both India and America. So, we had to
plant a nuclear powered sensor device
(with seven plutonium capsules) at the
highest
peak
of
Himalayas. But due to
a blizzard, we had to
abort the mission
mid-way, and lost the
nuclear sensor. We
kept searching for the
next three years, but
didnt find it. If it had
got into the Ganges,
its radioactivity could
kill
millions
of
Indians. This entire
saga is narrated in
one of my books and
now Scott is reviving
this project. I have
already signed two
contracts with him
and another producer, Rashaana Shah. It
is a live story as those
plutonium capsules
are still missing and
have the potential
to cause large-scale
harm.
BOLLYWOOD
A-LISTER TO
PLAY KOHLI
Rashaana Shah, who
is currently in India,
shared, This James
Bond(ish) story will
be told from Indian
Some digital posters for

college polls doing the
rounds on social media
(also below)
Scott
Rosenfelt
as well as the American perspective.
Once we finalise on a director by
March, we will zero in on the actors.
One of the Bollywood A-listers will
play the role of Capt Kohli whereas
one of the leading American actors
will play his American counterpart.
The film will go on floors later
this year.
NO RECORDS OF THIS
MISSION IN THE US
According to Rosenfelt, the sheer
enormity of the mission impressed
him. In a telechat from the US, he confessed, I have been wanting to make
a film on this incident for years. I
realise the sensitivity of this geo-
Dolai, the GS candidate from Independent

Consolidation (IC) at Presidency.
The key is to reach more people in less time.
I have over 600 people on my Facebook account.
If I post a single picture it will reach all of them
in hours. It is more time consuming to put up
traditional posters, said Triparna. So, this year,
equal importance has been given to both the digital and traditional campaigns, though the number of handmade posters are way higher.
Manmohan
Singh Kohli
political story, seeing the way equations are between India, China and
America even today. But this story
where several people were sent on a
dangerous mission and many of
them didnt even know exactly what
they were carrying is too intriguing.
What is amazing is that there is no
official record of this secret mission
in any of the government papers in
the US. We plan to use the exact
account based on my interactions
with Capt Kohli as well as the
American mountaineers to keep
things 100% real. The fact that Kohlis
deep faith in god and prayers brought
him alive from so many near-death
situations, is mind-boggling.
COST IS THE KEY
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Though the start was slow and there was little

electioneering content on social media, students
got to see the importance of the digital space
during the Hok Kolorob movement in JU the
same year. So, in the 2017 elections weve made
our digital presence very strong, said Anirban
There are at least 10 students in Presidency and

12 in JU who are constantly working on digital
content. The flexibility of digital media is a big
advantage and helps us to create better content, said Soumyadeep Ghosh, the SFI candidate for the Vice-President post at Presidency.
One challenge for student politics has been
fund-raising and digital campaigns have helped
cut costs. We can experiment more with
colours and textures in digital form than in
their traditional counterparts, said Chhandok
Guha, first-year student at Presidency, who has
been working for the digital team. Lets see if
that translates into more votes on election day!
Bishwabijoy.Mitra@timesgroup.com
Meditation, music may cut early memory loss in elderly

Collection/Getty Images
Vinita.Chaturvedi@timesgroup.com
lder adults who practice a simple

meditation or listen to a music programme may have significant improvement in memory function and objective cognitive performance a risk factor
for Alzheimers disease in three months,
a study has found.
The findings showed that in older adults
with subjective cognitive decline a condition that may represent a preclinical stage
of Alzheimers disease practicing Kirtan
Kriya meditation and engaging in music
listening programme showed improvements
in attention, executive function, processing
speed and subjective memory function
cognitive functioning that are most likely to
be affected in preclinical and early stages
of dementia.
The study suggest that two simple mind-
body practices, Kirtan Kriya meditation and

music listening, may not only improve mood,
sleep and quality of life, but also boost cognition and help reverse perceived memory
loss in older adults with subjective cognitive decline, said Kim Innes from West Virginia University in the US.
For the study, the team analysed 60 older
adults who were assigned to either a beginner meditation (Kirtan Kriya) or music listening programme and asked to practice 12
minutes/day for 12 weeks.
The improvement observed in memory
and cognitive function were maintained or
further increased at six months , the researchers said.
The study was published in the Journal
of Alzheimers Disease.
IANS
ENTERTAINMENT
ctress Constance Wu seems to be disgusted by Casey Afflecks Oscar nomination due to his past sexual assault allegations. The 34-year-old actress took to Twitter to slam the Academy just moments after
the Manchester By The Sea actor was announced as an Oscar nominee. In a series of
tweets, Wu expressed her objection to the
Academy for nominating Affleck, who was accused of sexual harassment while working on
his documentary titled Im Still Here. The actress claimed that by nominating Affleck, Hol-
A
Casey
Affleck
WORLD RAP
Romain Dauriac and

Scarlett Johannson
picture, a close friend of the couple said. Johansson and Dauriac
were last seen in public together
in October 2016, when they attended the launch of their popcorn shop in Paris, where the ac-
Madonnas music
banned from
Texas radio station
Madonna
ollowing Madonnas speech at a march in Washington the one in which she told the crowd that she
thought a lot about blowing up the White House
a Texas radio station has banned the pop stars music. The
station will remove the singer from its airwaves indefinitely, according to reports. Terry Thomas, the station manager, said, Banning all Madonna songs is not a matter of politics, its a matter of patriotism. It just feels wrong to us to be
playing Madonna songs and paying her royalties when the
artiste has shown unAmerican sentiments. If all stations
playing Madonna took their lead from us, that would send a
powerful message to Madonna.
Last Saturday, Madonna spoke out against Donald Trump
during a speech at the Womens March in Washington. Yes,
Im angry, she told the crowd. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have
thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. But
I know this wont change anything. We cannot fall into despair. On Sunday, Madonna urged her detractors to understand my speech in its entirety rather than one phrase
taken wildly out of context. I am not a violent person. I do
not promote violence, she wrote on Instagram.
PTI
TV legend Mary Tyler

Moore is no more
File photo
of Mary
Tyler
Moore
ary Tyler Moore, whose witty and graceful
performances on two top-rated television
shows in the 1960s and 70s, helped define a
new vision of American womanhood, has died. She
was 80. Her family said her death was caused by cardiopulmonary arrest after she had contracted pneumonia. The Emmy award-winning American actress
was most famous for her part in the 1960s television
sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show and her very own titular The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 70s. The actress was nominated for an Oscar for portraying Bett
Jarrett in 1980s Ordinary People, and had many prolific roles, including starring alongside the late Elvis
Presley in Change of Habit.
PTI
Constance blasts Afflecks Oscar nod
SCARLETT
HAS SPLIT
FROM
HUBBY
ROMAIN
carlett Johannson and
French journalist Romain Dauriac have split
after two years of marriage.
The 32-year-old actress, who has
two-year-old daughter Rose
with Dauriac, has called time on
her relationship, and the pair
has been living apart since
last summer.
The Captain America: Civil
War star was spotted in Washington without her wedding
band, sparking speculation that
they had separated. An insider
said that the pair, who first started dating in October 2012 and
married in 2014, was not equals
and that they could see it coming. Ive been expecting this for
some time. Romain and Scarlett
has never made sense to me.They
arent equals. Theres always
been something wrong with this
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tress said it was a dream to
launch the gourmet brand with
her family. Johansson was previously married to Deadpool star
Ryan Reynolds from 2008 to 2010.
PTI
lywoods reinforcing the industrys gross and

often hidden mistreatment of women.
Men who sexually harass women 4 OSCAR! Bc good acting performance matters
more than humanity, human integrity! Bc
poor kid really needs the help! Boys! read
one of her tweets. She said in another
post, BUY ur way out of trouble by settling out of court! Just do a good acting
job, thats all that matters! Bc art isnt
about humanity, right?
PTI
Constance
Wu
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BACK BEAT
Anindya Saha
THE TALE OF AN ASPIRING DIRECTOR
MAY THE FORCE

BE WITH YOU...
With Shahid Kapoor and
Salman Khan playing soldiers in
their forthcoming films, we take a
look at Bollywoods actors on duty
Guess whos shooting on the streets of Kolkata recently? Mir!

The RJ-cum-actor was seen shooting for Satrajit Sens
Michael, which also stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Tonushree
Chakraborty, Swastika Mukherjee and Sayani Datta in the lead
Akshay Kumar
in Rustom
Rachana.Dubey@timesgroup.com
N KHANSalman Khan
SALMA
in Dabangg
IN THE LAP OF NATURE
n a few weeks from now, Shahid

Kapoor will flaunt an army officers
Shahid
uniform in Vishal Bhardwajs
Kapoor in
Rangoon. Shahid had played an Air
Rangoon
Force officer in his fathers directorial
debut, Mausam, a few years ago. Some
months later, Salman Khan too will be
seen in the army uniform for his home
production, Tubelight. We take a look at
some of
Bollywoods mainstream
artistes, their uniforms and whos packed
the most power in it!
and (below)
Tubelight
AKSHAY KUMAR
Akshay Kumar last wore a crisp white navy uniform for

Rustom. The flaws in its presentation were trolled on social
media, but the actor was praised for his performance. His
body language and the way he carried the uniform was
talked about. In the past, Akshay has slipped into an army
mans shoes for Holiday, Sainik, Ab Tumhare Hawale
Watan Sathiyon and donned the police vardi for Khakee,
Rowdy Rathore, Aan: Men At Work, Tarazu, Daava, Sabse
Bada Khiladi and Main Khiladi Tu Anari. He, were sure,
has had the maximum opportunities to slip into the vardi
and knock the socks off with his performances.
Whether he plays a serious cop in

Garv: Pride and Honour, or a
funny policeman in the Dabangg
series, Salman Khan always pulls
it off in style adding more power
to the role. The actor played an
army officer in Heroes and will
again play one in Tubelight,
directed by Kabir Khan.
SHAH RUKH KHAN
ROSHAN
K
I
H
T
I
R
H
Hrithik
Roshan in
Lakshya
SRK in Main
Hoon Naa
Shah Rukh Khan started his career slipping

into a uniform for the TV show Fauji. Years
later, he sported a uniform in Main Hoon Naa
followed by Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Yash Chopras
last film. It doesnt
matter whether he
was
saving
the
colonels daughter or
diffusing bombs, SRK
sure impressed as a
man of honour.
TABU AND PRIYANKA CHOPRA

Hrithik Roshan, in his career
spanning one-and-a-half decades,
has had a chance to don a uniform
just once. He wore it in Lakshya,
where he played an army
recruit who finds his true calling
in fighting for his country.
Tabu in Drishyam
Priyanka Chopras cop act in Jai

Gangajal was tough as nails. Oh,
the way she kicked ass! She
continues to do that in the West with
her series, Quantico. Tabu is also on
top of our mind for blending the
role of a mother and a cop
seamlessly in Drishyam. Lets just
say she owned the role.
AJAY DEVGN
SUNNY DEOL
Ajay Devgn has played an army

man in LOC: Kargil and Zameen.
Lets just say hes more inclined
towards playing a cop on screen.
The actor played a tough gun in
Gangaajal and the Singham
series. Buzz is that hes likely to
have another outing in the popular
cop franchise. Given the track
record, we hope that happens soon.
Hes an angry man on screen

and when Sunny Deol
screams, hes heard across the
border too. His acts as a tough
fauji in films like Border,
Heroes and Hero: The Love
Story of a Spy are well
recalled. Hes also played a
cop a couple of times in films
like Vishwatma and Tridev.
Ajay Devgn in
Singham
ANIL KAPOOR
AMITABH BACHCHAN
Anil Kapoor played an

army officer in Pukar,
which won him plenty
of praises and is
among his best performances by far. He won
a National Award for it
too. He also played a
cop in Shootout at
Wadala, which too was
liked by his fans. It was
inspired by the life of a
real cop.
Another actor who rose to fame in a

uniform was Amitabh Bachchan,
with Zanjeer. His unforgettable
entry sequence in the crisp khakee
still draws an applause. After that,
the actor slipped in and out of the
army and cop uniforms a couple of
times for films like Ram Balram,
Geraftaar, Major Saab, Ab Tumhare
Hawale Watan Sathiyon, Lakshya,
Deewar: Lets Bring Our Heroes
Home, Khakee, Bunty Aur Babli
and Kohraam.
Anil Kapoor in
Shootout At Wadala
Priyanka Chopra in
Jai Gangajal
(L-R) The cast of newcomer Sayantan Ghosals Jokher

Dhon Priyanka Sarkar, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty,
Rahul, Parambrata Chatterjee and Kaushik Sen was
seen shooting in the Neora Valley National Park
Neil refuses to use elephants and horses in baraat

reparations for Bollywood actor
Neil Nitin Mukeshs February
wedding with Rukmini Sahay are
on in full swing. Neil, who is also a Peta
activist, took a step ahead and instructed
organisers not to use any elephants and
horses in his wedding procession and use
a vintage car instead. Apparently, he, along
with his family, has taken a stand against
cruelty of animals, which is why theyll
be entering in a fleet of royal vintage cars.
The wedding ceremonies will take place
in Udaipur from February 6 to 9 at a fivestar hotel. Since the family wants complete privacy, no non-residents will be allowed in the hotel at that time. The destination was decided when Neils father,
Nitin Mukesh, was performing at a festival in Udaipur and fell in love with the city.
The wedding functions are planned at
different venues in the hotel. The wedding
will be a musical extravaganza, paying a
tribute to the legacy of Neils grandfather,
Mukesh. The pheras and the wedding
ceremony will take place at the rooftop
Neil
Neil Nitin
Nitin Mukesh
Mukesh with
with
Rukmini Sahay;
Sahay; (left)
(left)
their
their wedding
wedding invite
invite
dome of the hotel, overlooking Lake
Fatehsagar and Sajjangarh Fort, since the
family wanted to have the ceremony in
the presence of all the five elements. The
sangeet ceremony will see the familys inclination towards music. The songs played
will either be Mukeshs or from Neils
movies. Nitin Mukesh will sing Kabhi kabhi for his son and daughter-in-law to be,
says an event organiser.
Culinary treats are being curated by the

chefs to serve an exquisite menu, which
will have a mix of local specialties and international flavours. Celebrity Italian and
Spanish chefs are specially being flown
down to create some molecular gastronomy. Many Bollywood bigwigs are expected to attend the wedding.
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