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We AUGUST 12 TO AUGUST 18, 2013 POSTAL REGD. MP/BHOPAL/4-323/2013-15<br />
RNI NO. MPENG\2012\<strong>46</strong>415<br />
he State<br />
Vol-01. Issue-<strong>46</strong>. Bhopal. Monday Page-12. Price-`5/-<br />
Online edition available at wethestate.com and wethestate.blogspot.in<br />
Kohli to speak to Dhoni about<br />
his disappearing habit<br />
Ranbir Kapoor<br />
To Romance<br />
Priyanka<br />
Chopra In<br />
Jagga<br />
Jasoos<br />
Municipal corporation<br />
staff serving<br />
bureaucrats, ministers<br />
BHOPAL<br />
Alarge number of regular and<br />
temporary employees appointed<br />
in Bhopal Municipal Corporation<br />
(BMC), are working at the residences<br />
of ministers and IAS officers.<br />
The ministers and officers, who are<br />
being served by these employees, have<br />
no connection either with urban administration<br />
department or the BMC. It<br />
is interesting that the BMC, which generally<br />
cites shortage of employees as an<br />
excuse for its inefficient working, never<br />
bothered to recall these employees.<br />
It has become a trend that any officer<br />
posted at urban administration department<br />
( UAD) gets employees from the<br />
BMC posted at his/ her residence.<br />
These officers, even after their transfers<br />
from the UAD, do not stop availing<br />
the services of BMC employees and<br />
continue taking work from them.<br />
As per the list available with the Free<br />
Press, two BMC employees are posted<br />
at the residence of urban administration<br />
minister Babulal Gaur, three employees<br />
are deployed at environment<br />
minister Jayant Mallaiya’s place who<br />
was previously urban administration<br />
minister and one employee is deputed<br />
at the bungalow of health minister<br />
Narottam Mishra. One BMC employee<br />
is posted at the residence of Varghese,<br />
personal assistant to Mallaiya. As<br />
many as 4 BMC employees are serving<br />
at the residence of home minister<br />
Umashankar Gupta. Similarly, one<br />
BMC employee each is giving his services<br />
for years at the residence of mining<br />
development corporation chairman<br />
Rameshwar Sharma and former mayor<br />
Deepchand Yadav.<br />
Not only the ruling party but the Congress<br />
is also involved in this malpractice.<br />
At the residence of Congress former<br />
state president Suresh Pachauri<br />
and Union minister Kamalnath’s city-<br />
based residence, one each BMC employee<br />
is posted.<br />
Although the residence of minister<br />
Gaur and mayor Krishna Gaur is one<br />
but in the official records of the BMC,<br />
as many as two BMC employees are<br />
mentioned on duty at Mayor’s residence.<br />
Ramdayal Prajapati, former MiC president,<br />
might have lost Corporator’s<br />
election but still two BMC employees<br />
are serving at his residence. Bureaucrats<br />
are also sailing in the same boat<br />
as the political leaders in this respect.<br />
Bureaucrats namely Mohd. Suleiman,<br />
SN Mishra, KK Singh, SK Mishra, BR<br />
Naidu, Gulshan Bamra and MB Ojha<br />
are also availing the services of BMC<br />
employees at their respective residences.<br />
Sources said Pukhraj Maaru and<br />
Satyaprakash might have retired but<br />
the BMC employees are still serving at<br />
their residences.<br />
How <strong>WE</strong> look it !<br />
...Cartoon by K G OJHA<br />
kgojha@rediffmail.com
2<br />
BHOPAL August 12 to August 18, 2013<br />
BHOPAL<br />
Chief Secretary R. Parasuram reviewed<br />
measures for effective curb on ragging<br />
at a high- level meeting here on<br />
Wednesday. The Chief Secretary described<br />
recent suicide by a pharmacy girl student as<br />
unfortunate and directed to put a blanket ban<br />
on physical and mental torture at college<br />
level.<br />
He said that educational institutions’<br />
negligence regarding ragging will not be<br />
tolerated. The Chief Secretary directed college<br />
principals and faculty members to ensure<br />
necessary measures before and after the<br />
session.<br />
Besides, the Chief Secretary directed<br />
divisional commissioners to ensure that<br />
meetings of committees headed by collectors<br />
should be held where government colleges<br />
and private educational institutions should be<br />
apprised of directives of the Supreme Court<br />
Capital<br />
and State Government regarding ragging.<br />
The Chief Secretary said that even a single<br />
incident of ragging should be taken seriously<br />
and efforts should be undertaken prevent its<br />
Bureaucracy<br />
News<br />
recurrence. Educational institutions should<br />
remain alert in this regard. He directed to<br />
ensure compliance with directives for<br />
complete curb on ragging and counselling of<br />
senior students.<br />
<strong>WE</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>STATE</strong><br />
Modi's stature like Sardar Patel's, tweets Shivraj Singh Chouhan<br />
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and<br />
BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan<br />
has compared fellow partyman<br />
Narendra Modi with Sardar Patel, known as<br />
India's iron man.<br />
"The stature and work of Shri Narender<br />
Modi can only be compared with Sardar Patel,"<br />
Mr Chouhan tweeted on Saturday.<br />
Mr Chouhan's tweet came a day before the<br />
Gujarat Chief Minister's mega rally in Hyderabad<br />
to kick off the BJP's election campaign<br />
for the 2014 general elections. Mr Modi<br />
was recently anointed as the BJP's campaign<br />
committee chief, a move many see as the party's<br />
plan to project him as its prime ministerial<br />
candidate for the national elections.<br />
Mr Modi's detractors, however, accuse him<br />
of not doing enough to protect hundreds of<br />
Muslims from being killed during the Gujarat<br />
riots of 2002. He said recently in an in-<br />
‘YUVA MORCHA<br />
CAN FULFIL<br />
MISSION-2013’<br />
BJP chief Narendra Singh<br />
Tomar on Sunday inaugurated<br />
a two-day Vijay Sankalp workshop<br />
of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva<br />
Morcha (BJYM) at the BJP headquarters<br />
here.<br />
While inaugurating the workshop,<br />
Tomar said that activeness of Yuva<br />
Morcha was very important and<br />
could play an important role for the<br />
success of Mission-2013.<br />
He said that around 230 selected<br />
Morcha workers, who were participating<br />
in the workshop, would march<br />
in all the Assembly segments on August<br />
11. They would encourage the<br />
voters in Mandal, Nagar and Gram<br />
centres from August 17 to 25 and<br />
would convene Vijay Sankalp conventions<br />
of the party workers and<br />
youths. The target of connecting new<br />
voters with the BJP has been set at 1<br />
crore.<br />
Tomar added the conventions were<br />
being organised when the country<br />
was observing 150th birth anniversary<br />
of Swami Vivekanand and added<br />
that Morcha workers would devote<br />
150 hours in the Assembly segments<br />
for the success of Mission-2013.<br />
He reminded that BJP could develop<br />
an identity only by associating itself<br />
with the poor. To continue with this,<br />
the party has decided to a representative<br />
organisation of the youth so that<br />
they can come forth and work for the<br />
country devotedly.<br />
Senior leader of the party Anil Dave<br />
asked the Morcha workers to work<br />
whole-heartedly and highlighted that<br />
an effort would be made that the relationship<br />
developed in seven days<br />
would remain for long term. State<br />
BJP spokesman and Morcha incharge<br />
Vishwas Sarang said Morcha<br />
workers were involved in the politics<br />
of social work only. “Our goal is to<br />
benefit the common people on the last<br />
row of the society,” he added.<br />
GADKARI SEEKS BLESSING<br />
OF GODDESS PITAMBRA<br />
Stating that time was short and with<br />
elections became closer, former BJP<br />
president Nitin Gadkari called upon<br />
its workers to work hard to form the Government<br />
for third time. Gadkari, who reached<br />
here, also took blessing of Goddess Pitambra.<br />
He was flanked by Minister Anoop<br />
Mishra and Arvind Menon. Minister Narottam<br />
Mishra welcomed him at Sonagiri.<br />
terview that he believed he did everything he<br />
could to check the violence that lacerated his<br />
state.<br />
Mr Chouhan has been often projected by Mr<br />
Modi's rivals, especially Mr Advani, as a<br />
counter the latter's claim to being the most efficient<br />
and successful administrator among<br />
the BJP's chief ministers. Mr Advani has often<br />
drawn a comparison between the two,<br />
praising Mr Chouhan's achievements in developing<br />
his state as more significant than<br />
the growth story that Mr Modi has scripted<br />
in Gujarat.<br />
Mr Chouhan has not always sought to play<br />
down that internal rivalry. As he prepares for<br />
assembly elections scheduled for later this<br />
year, Mr Chouhan, for long an understated<br />
politician, has in recent times even taken to<br />
tweeting prolifically about his government's<br />
successes much like Mr Modi does.<br />
Governor Ram Naresh Yadav<br />
Inaugurates DENTAL CARE CENTRE<br />
Governor Ram Naresh Yadav and Urban<br />
Administration and Development<br />
(UAD) Minister Babulal Gaur<br />
on Sunday inaugurated the State’s first ‘Dental<br />
world and oral cancer research centre’<br />
here. The centre was developed by Dr Chandresh<br />
Shukla, vice president of Madhya<br />
Pradesh Dental Council.<br />
On this occasion, AIIMS director Dr<br />
Sandeep Kumar and State Congress chief<br />
Kantilal Bhuria were also present. The centre<br />
was the first in MP to use peizon laser<br />
technology for dental diagnosis and will focus<br />
on to providing the world class treatment<br />
at affordable price. In this new dental care<br />
centre, 35,000 BPL card holders will be provided<br />
free dental treatment. People from media<br />
and police will also get free dental treatment<br />
in this centre.<br />
Dental care centre is a state-of-the-art practice<br />
focusing on the patient experience and<br />
high-quality dentistry. The practice is completely<br />
digital and virtually paperless using<br />
the latest materials and techniques. There<br />
will be facilities of computerised cancer<br />
screening and X-ray etc in ‘Dental World and<br />
Oral Cancer Research Center’.<br />
On the occasion, Dr Shukla said, “Madhya<br />
Pradesh has seen a surge of 23 per cent in<br />
dental patients every year. It is a matter of<br />
great concern that Bhopal has got maximum<br />
number of oral cancer patients in Asia, due<br />
to the changing lifestyle and eating habits.<br />
The awareness towards having a dental treatment<br />
is increasing day by day and the city is<br />
a potential market for the same with around<br />
23,000 patients being treated every day.”<br />
Dr Shukla informed that India has one of<br />
the highest rates of oral cancer and dental<br />
disorders in the world. More than 80,000 new<br />
cases are reported every year across the<br />
country. The NCRP study reported 35,000 cases<br />
of oral cancer in Madhya Pradesh alone in<br />
addition to the other oral disorders, we will<br />
focus on to use our expertise to give the best<br />
available solution in this direction.<br />
Negligence regarding ragging will not be tolerated: CS<br />
Female faculty members must be invariably<br />
included in university- level committees<br />
headed by Dean Students Welfare. The Chief<br />
Secretary also directed to issue written<br />
directives to educational institutions.<br />
He asked Additional Chief Secretary<br />
Technical Education and Skill Development<br />
Ajita Vajpayee Pandey, Principal Secretary<br />
Medical Education Ajay Tirkey, Principal<br />
Secretary Higher Education JN Kansotiya,<br />
Commissioner Higher Education VS Niranjan,<br />
Home Secretary DP. Gupta and representatives<br />
of universities to curb ragging at their levels<br />
and ensure strict action if such an incident<br />
comes to forth.<br />
It was informed at the meeting that the<br />
state-level monitoring cell headed by<br />
Governor (Chancellor) and university- level<br />
committees headed by Deans are already<br />
active. Besides, directives have been given to<br />
form anti-ragging squad in every educational<br />
institution.
3<br />
ASTROLOGY<br />
14-08-2013- Wednesday - Shrawan<br />
Mah Shuklapaksh-Ashtami<br />
Positive direction - North and West<br />
Bad time - 12:29 pm to 2:07 pm<br />
Good time - 6:04 am to 9:16 am<br />
and 3:43 pm to 6:55 pm<br />
15-8-2013-Thursday - Shrawan<br />
Mah Shuklapaksh-Navami<br />
Positive direction - North and West<br />
Bad time - 2:07 pm to 3:43 pm<br />
Good time - 6:04 am to 7:40 am<br />
and 10:52 am to 2:06 pm and 5:19<br />
pm to 6:55 pm<br />
BHOPAL August 12 to August 18, 2013<br />
16-8-2013- Friday - Shrawan Mah<br />
Shuklapaksh-Dashmi<br />
Positive direction - West and North<br />
Bad time - 10:52 am to 12:29<br />
pm<br />
Good time - 6:04 am to 10:51 am<br />
and 12:29 pm to 2:07 pm and 5:19<br />
pm to 6:55 pm<br />
17-8-2013- Saturday - Shrawan<br />
Mah Shuklapaksh-Ekadashi<br />
Positive direction - North and East<br />
Bad time - 9:16 am to 10:52 am<br />
Good time -7:40 am to 9:15 am<br />
and 12:29 pm to 5:19 pm<br />
18-8-2013- Sunday - Shrawan Mah<br />
Shuklapaksh-Dwadashi (Pradosh)<br />
Positive direction- North and East<br />
Bad time - 5:19 pm to 6:56 pm<br />
Good time - 7:38 am to 12:28 pm<br />
and 2:06 pm to 3:42 pm<br />
19-8-2013- Monday -Shrawan Mah<br />
Shuklapaksh-Trayodashi<br />
Positive direction- South and East<br />
Bad time - 7:38 am to 9:15 am<br />
Good time - 6:06 am to 7:37 am<br />
and 9:16 am to 10:50 am and 2:05 pm<br />
to 6:53 pm<br />
20-8-2013- Tuesday -Shrawan Mah<br />
Shuklapaksh-Chaturdashi<br />
Positive direction- East and South<br />
Bad time - 3:40 pm to 5:17 pm<br />
Good time - 9:15 am to 2:05 pm<br />
By AACHARYA SARVESH<br />
E-Mail: acharya.sarvesh@yahoo.com<br />
Mobile: 9826609192<br />
GENERAL VASTU TIPS<br />
While traveling one should<br />
sleep with their head towards<br />
West<br />
Adults should sleep with their<br />
head towards the South.<br />
Sleeping in that direction<br />
leads to longevity.<br />
Children should sleep with<br />
their head towards the East. It<br />
will bring them<br />
enlightenment.<br />
Iron, stainless steel and<br />
aluminum items should not<br />
be used for pooja.<br />
Copper vessels should be<br />
used to contain water and for<br />
lightening diyas brass items<br />
should be used.<br />
Editorial<br />
<strong>WE</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>STATE</strong><br />
Cong ready to do anything to shore<br />
up its numbers in Lok Sabha polls<br />
With every opinion poll predicting<br />
the downfall of the<br />
Congress in the next Lok<br />
Sabha election and its virtual decimation<br />
in Andhra Pradesh, the party<br />
has begun to show its true<br />
colours — it appears to be willing<br />
to do anything to shore up its numbers<br />
in the next Lok Sabha, even if<br />
this means encouraging divisive<br />
tendencies and endangering national<br />
unity.<br />
This may sound harsh, but there<br />
can be no other inference to the<br />
cynical manner in which the party<br />
has decided to bifurcate Andhra<br />
Pradesh and create the new state of<br />
Telangana. This decision of the<br />
party, as everyone can see, is primarily<br />
aimed at securing some Lok<br />
Sabha seats in the Telangana region<br />
at least, since it is unable to<br />
face the challenge posed by Jaganmohan<br />
Reddy’s YSR Congress in<br />
the Andhra region. Thus, for the<br />
sake of a few Lok Sabha seats in<br />
one election, the Congress Working<br />
Committee has decided to divide a<br />
State at this juncture. This could<br />
well turn out to be a grind stone<br />
round the nation’s neck, given the<br />
rash of statehood demands that the<br />
Telangana announcement has<br />
prompted.<br />
Already, a dozen new demands<br />
have sprung up. The Bodos and the<br />
Gorkhas have resumed their violent<br />
agitations for creation of<br />
Bodoland and Gorkhaland;<br />
Mayawati has reiterated her demand<br />
for breaking up Uttar<br />
Pradesh into four States: Purvanchal,<br />
Bundelkhand, Awadh<br />
Pradesh and Paschim Pradesh; Ajit<br />
Singh has once again raised the<br />
flag of Harit Pradesh; politicians<br />
of Vidharbha have suddenly re-discovered<br />
the virtues of a separate<br />
Vidharbha State; the Coorgis are<br />
clamouring for a separate State,<br />
and finally, there are political parties<br />
in Tamil Nadu who want to<br />
break up the Tamil State.<br />
On the face of it, it looks rather<br />
harmless — mere formation of<br />
new States within the Indian<br />
Union. But, there is every danger<br />
that all this will lead to agitations<br />
in each region of the country, unleashing<br />
forces that the weak Manmohan<br />
Singh Government is unable<br />
to contain.<br />
After keeping the Telangana issue<br />
on the backburner for close to 60<br />
years, the decision of the CWC<br />
smacks of desperation and recklessness,<br />
because the timing is all<br />
wrong for the following reasons:<br />
While the creation of smaller<br />
States made sense 30 years ago, the<br />
political situation in India has<br />
changed rather dramatically in recent<br />
times leading to the emergence<br />
of dozens of small, regional<br />
parties and unstable coalitions at<br />
the Centre. The most dangerous<br />
consequence of these developments<br />
is that it has enfeebled the<br />
Centre and made it extremely weak<br />
and vulnerable. The best example<br />
of the Centre’s loss of strength is<br />
its failure to push through the idea<br />
of a unified National Counter-Terrorism<br />
Centre. A nation like India<br />
which is the most diverse society<br />
on earth in terms of race, culture,<br />
religion, caste and language and<br />
which has 28 States and many<br />
Union Territories, needs a strong<br />
Centre to hold it together.<br />
This was the case in the first 30<br />
years of our Republic, but as the<br />
Congress became more and more<br />
corrupt and opportunistic, regional<br />
politicians encashed on the Congress’s<br />
follies, stirred up regional<br />
sentiments and promoted smaller,<br />
denominational political entities to<br />
take on the Congress. The result is<br />
there for all of us to see now.<br />
(You can share your views at editor@wethestate.com)<br />
Bureaucrats survive on the mercy of political rulers<br />
Till recently, nobody knew who<br />
she was. Like hundreds of<br />
other administrative officers<br />
in this country, she was also discharging<br />
her duties as the Sub-Divisional<br />
Magistrate (Sadar) in Noida,<br />
until her suspension for allegedly<br />
razing a wall of an underconstruction<br />
mosque triggered a<br />
political storm in the country.<br />
With the spotlight shifting on Durga<br />
Shakti Nagpal, the 28-year-old<br />
young IAS officer soon found herself<br />
caught in a bitter political war<br />
between the Centre and the state<br />
government. The suspension of<br />
Nagpal by the Chief Minister of Uttar<br />
Pradesh in just 41 minutes, as<br />
boasted by one of the Samajwadi<br />
Party leaders, has reignited an old<br />
debate over the harassment of honest<br />
civil servants by their political<br />
masters.<br />
Nagpal`s case proves the point<br />
that bureaucrats in India often survive<br />
on the mercy of their political<br />
rulers. There are hundreds of bureaucrats,<br />
police officers and civil<br />
servants across the country who<br />
perform and perish at the whims<br />
and wrath of their political masters.<br />
Interestingly, the malice does not<br />
stop at the top level only. Even the<br />
middle and the low level officers<br />
like Inspectors, Sub-Divisional<br />
Magistrates (SDMs) and Magistrates<br />
are often shunted from one<br />
post to another, within days, if they<br />
dare to oppose their masters.<br />
In the Durga Nagpal`s case what is<br />
even more shocking is the stand<br />
taken by the UP government on the<br />
issue and the CM`s lame justification<br />
for suspending the IAS officer<br />
that "if an official makes a mistake,<br />
he will be punished.”<br />
Shouldn`t the young CM have<br />
waited for some more time and<br />
sought a detailed report before ordering<br />
the suspension of Nagpal?<br />
Nagpal`s case has surely come as a<br />
major embarrassment for Akhilesh<br />
Yadav, who was considered as the<br />
chief architect of his party`s landslide<br />
victory in UP last year and<br />
was also seen as someone having<br />
the capability and willingness to<br />
change the political landscape of<br />
the state.<br />
Ironically, some poor decisions of<br />
the UP government have showed<br />
that Akhilesh is no better than his<br />
predecessor Mayawati. What would<br />
further embarrass the soft and<br />
suave CM is the report from the local<br />
intelligence and the Waqf<br />
Board, which claims that Nagpal<br />
had no role in demolishing the<br />
mosque wall. Here the timely intervention<br />
of Waqf Board, which has<br />
demanded that Nagpal be reinstat-<br />
ed, is commendable at this juncture.<br />
The developments prove that Nagpal<br />
was targeted for allegedly taking<br />
on the illegal mining mafias<br />
having close links with the ruling<br />
party in UP. It is now beyond doubt<br />
that the controversy surrounding<br />
the mosque wall was cooked up as<br />
an excuse to oust Nagpal for clamping<br />
down on state’s thriving trade<br />
in illegal sand mining.<br />
Whatever one says, the case raises<br />
several questions: - Shouldn`t<br />
politicians unite for an honest officer<br />
like Durga? Doesn`t the `41<br />
minute suspension` rhetoric of a<br />
SP leader expose UP govt`s claim of<br />
freeing the state from mafias and<br />
musclemen? Regardless of political<br />
compulsions, shouldn`t Prime Minister<br />
intervene to ensure justice to<br />
the IAS officer? Can the whole nation<br />
simply watch as an honest officer<br />
is victimised by the powerful<br />
politicians?<br />
It is high time that our empowered<br />
political rulers assess the fact<br />
whether there are adequate safeguards<br />
in place to protect executive<br />
functionaries working beyond the<br />
average call of duty to uphold the<br />
law.<br />
(You can share your views at editor@wethestate.com)
4<br />
BHOPAL August 12 to August 18, 2013<br />
Politics<br />
Interview with Senior leader of<br />
Congress Pratapbhanu Sharma<br />
Q1. Do you feel that MP Assembly polls<br />
will be Shivraj Singh Chouhan vs Congress<br />
contest ?<br />
No, the Assembly polls will be Congress<br />
vs BJP corruption.<br />
Q2. MP government is planning to introduce<br />
Gita in 'madrassas', Do you<br />
think that CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan<br />
is working with 'RSS mindset' ?<br />
Yes, MP Govt is working with Rss<br />
mindset, ultimately they have to withdrew<br />
the notification under pressure, that has<br />
exposed the Govt.We are a secular country<br />
and should honour the constitution of India.<br />
Q3. What was the response of public<br />
about congress parivartan yatra? Is congress<br />
facing factionalism?<br />
There was very good response to the Parivartan<br />
Yatra, people wanted to change the<br />
Government. Congress is united and will<br />
fight the next election unitedly and sucessfully.<br />
Q4. Do you think Chouhan's Jan Ashirwad<br />
yatra has turned into a socio-political<br />
movement ?<br />
It is totally politically motivated and<br />
wastage of public money.He could not fulfil<br />
the announcements which he promised<br />
hence it will be a flop show.<br />
Q5. What is your comment on crime<br />
against women in Madhya Pradesh?<br />
According to statistics MP is top in crime<br />
against women it was never before,worst in<br />
law n order and top in malnutrition.<br />
Q6. What are the prospects of congress‘s<br />
victory in Vidisha? Does<br />
Raghavji’s sodomy case will help congress<br />
gain more votes?<br />
After a long time Vidisha has bright<br />
chances of winning all the five seats due to<br />
misdeeds of Bjp MLA’s and Ministers.<br />
Q7 Do you think that active participation<br />
of Jyotiraditya Scindia as star campaigner<br />
will help congress to attract<br />
Ex Member of Parliament in Loksabha from vidisha & Chairman, Managing Committee SATI<br />
Vidisha (M.P)<br />
youth support ?<br />
Yes, He enjoys very good image, a popular<br />
mass leader of MP and determined for the<br />
development of the State. Youth like him,<br />
he is a star campaigner.<br />
Q8. What would be the salient features<br />
of congress Manifesto 2013 ?<br />
Industrial and infrastructure develop-<br />
ment, Schemes for small and medium farmers,<br />
good education and increased employment<br />
for youth, honest implementation of<br />
diff welfare schemes, to provide good<br />
health services, to increase the power generation<br />
in the state by 5000/6000MW in next<br />
five years and ensure electricity availability<br />
for 24 hours.<br />
Shivraj is really very serious about his future<br />
BIPIN SASI<br />
Those who have praised Shivraj on a<br />
political forum have always received<br />
criticism like Advani and<br />
Raza Murad.<br />
Speaking at an Eid function, Murad reportedly<br />
said, “it was time that Gujarat<br />
Chief Minister Narendra Modi learnt<br />
some things from Chouhan and does not<br />
show his aversion to skull caps.”<br />
In September 2011, Gujarat Chief Minister<br />
Narendra Modi refused to put on a<br />
‘skull cap’ offered by a Muslim cleric during<br />
his sadbhavana fast in Ahmedabad.<br />
Raza Murad who had condemned Gujarat<br />
Chief Minister Narendra Modiji to<br />
stand beside Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister<br />
Shivraj Singh Chouhan has received<br />
criticism from Senior leaders like Uma<br />
Bharti. She criticised Madhya Pradesh<br />
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's<br />
Eid gesture of wearing a Muslim skull cap<br />
today and called it "cheap". Uma Bharti is<br />
a firebrand leader of BJP with a clear vision<br />
. There is no need to wear or follow<br />
other religions custom to wish them on<br />
their occasion. A Hindu don't expect any<br />
of muslim friend to wear Bhagwa to wish<br />
Diwali or Ramnavmi. Some see a march<br />
over Narendra Modi in this Eid Guesture<br />
of Shivraj .<br />
Shivraj is proving his competency for<br />
PM post. He is acting like a true politician.At<br />
times he plays like a leader with<br />
RSS mindset and at times he is seen wearing<br />
a skull cap on Eid. Shivraj has announced<br />
that Bhagavad Gita will be<br />
taught in Urdu in schools. Minority community<br />
opposed about the concept of mixing<br />
religion and education blamed it as attempt<br />
to saffronise education .The government<br />
feared the decision would have a<br />
negative impact on the BJP’s poll<br />
prospects in the election year and backtracked<br />
the decision.<br />
<strong>WE</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>STATE</strong><br />
Rivals plan to marginalize<br />
Jogi in coming assembly polls<br />
RAIPUR: Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh<br />
have secretly hammered out a blueprint to<br />
scuttle former chief minister Ajit Jogi's preeminence<br />
in state politics after the party<br />
brass was wiped out in the Bastar bloodbath.<br />
Amid intense infighting in the state Congress,<br />
the anti-Jogi camp has hit upon the<br />
'Krishna formula' to politically isolate Jogi<br />
and his supporters in the ensuing Assembly<br />
polls. Jogi's rivals are buoyed by the hugely<br />
successful Karnataka strategy to sideline<br />
SM Krishna to bounce back to power.<br />
Senior state Congress leaders are in talks<br />
to counter what they claim was Jogi's 'Balod<br />
plan' to sabotage the party if denied<br />
sweeping powers in party affairs. His critics<br />
say that the 2011 Balod bypoll saw three rebel<br />
Jogi sympathizers in the fray and this ensured<br />
BJP's victory.<br />
The 'Krishna formula' envisages marginalization<br />
of Jogi just weeks before elections to<br />
ensure he doesn't get enough time to<br />
sabotage the party and reduce dummy candidates<br />
in the fray. "In Karnataka, Congress<br />
veteran S M Krishna was sidelined and yet<br />
the party wrested power from BJP. In Chhattisgarh,<br />
it's time to adopt the same formula<br />
to by-pass Jogi to defeat the BJP," said a Congress<br />
leader.<br />
They feel Jogi will not be in a position to<br />
counter any such moves and his supporters<br />
will eventually fall in line. After the May 25<br />
Maoist attack that eliminated frontline Congress<br />
leaders, including the state Congress<br />
chief Nandkumar Patel, equations in the<br />
party has undergone a drastic change. During<br />
his two-year tenure as PCC chief, Patel<br />
had maintained a deft balance between rival<br />
groups. Now, state Congress president Charandas<br />
Mahant and Ajit Jogi are not even in<br />
talking terms. The Congress loss in the recent<br />
civic poll at Keshkal Nagar panchayat is<br />
an example of how a Jogi supporter defeated<br />
the Congress nominee. "Jogi has always put<br />
up candidates to defeat the official candidates,"<br />
a Congress leader said.<br />
Jogi loyalists, however, dismiss talks about<br />
the 'Krishna formula' as wishful thinking.<br />
"Jogi has a pan-Chhattisgarh appeal.<br />
Krishna and Jogi are different political personalities<br />
and circumstances in Chhattisgarh<br />
are different," said a Jogi loyalist.<br />
Recently, Jogi had put up a poster outside<br />
his house requesting partymen not to<br />
contact him for tickets for assembly polls.<br />
The poster read - Please contact honorable<br />
PCC chief for tickets - clearly indicating that<br />
all is not well in the state Congress.<br />
Few days ago, after his return from Delhi,<br />
Jogi had put up a poster outside his house requesting<br />
the party men not to contact him<br />
for tickets to contest the coming assembly<br />
polls. The poster also reads "Please contact<br />
honorable PCC chief for tickets"- indicating<br />
that all is not well in the state Congress.
5<br />
BHOPAL August 12 to August 18, 2013<br />
Featured<br />
<strong>WE</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>STATE</strong><br />
When you’re born an Original, Why die a copy?<br />
S<strong>WE</strong>CHCHHA OJHA<br />
E-MAIL: S<strong>WE</strong>CHCHHAOJHA@GMAIL.COM<br />
Wonder why sometimes why we are not<br />
content instead of doing all we can<br />
and all that can make us happy? There<br />
may be many reasons but the one I can think of<br />
right now is that one silly situation where we do<br />
everything but are just not able to be happy just<br />
because we always compare what we have got with<br />
what someone else has gotten! Sure, it is true that<br />
it is always good to look upon other people who are<br />
successful in order to get inspired. But don‘t you<br />
think it is a little too much burden when we cannot<br />
reach just where they are and then we start<br />
controlling our own life just to reach where they<br />
are standing in our eyes? We start to mould ourselves<br />
in a manner which allows us to reach a<br />
place like theirs, we train our brain to act the way<br />
they did and do in order to reach and stay where<br />
they are. But while doing this we totally forgot one<br />
thing that is called synchronization between our<br />
brain and heart, which is very important and<br />
when it goes away it literally spoils all the balance<br />
and ruins the very meaning of us being a different<br />
person that others. Just for the sake of following<br />
successful business persons and becoming just<br />
like them, an upcoming entrepreneur can ruin his<br />
career. In the craze of becoming a top model, a<br />
new one copies the poses of the famous ones and<br />
fails in the industry because the poses do not suit<br />
his body and face. Just in order to earn as much as<br />
his elder brother, a younger brother who is a newly<br />
passed finance graduate, follows his brother<br />
without knowing his own capabilities into the<br />
share market and loses all he has ever earned.<br />
Just in order to make his son as financially productive<br />
as the son of his friend is, a not very hap-<br />
py father ruins his son’s life by stopping him from<br />
doing the things of his choice like music, photography<br />
and electronics and forcing him to follow<br />
the guy his father likes more by inclining himself<br />
more towards working in a big corporation day<br />
and night and forgetting any social life he may<br />
have and losing all the happiness that comes from<br />
sources other than money.<br />
Sure money does matter but it sure isn’t all that<br />
matters! There are so many things in life that matter<br />
more than money, career and status. The<br />
biggest and most important of them all is true<br />
happiness. And then there is love, contentment,<br />
satisfaction, joy, compassion, sense of achievement,<br />
self esteem, liberty, passions, dreams, sensitivity,<br />
hope, wishes and desires, self confidence,<br />
motivation, inspiration, self actualization, spiritual<br />
realization, all of which can neither be compared,<br />
nor be achieved with money or with lot of<br />
money. Still there are so many people who run after<br />
other forms of happiness, which of course<br />
turn out to be superficial in the end. Other forms<br />
of happiness include money, fame, social status,<br />
good looks, physical, financial and material gains,<br />
etcetera, etcetera. The one form of happiness, in<br />
no case can include the other forms of happiness,<br />
because these two forms of happiness cannot live<br />
in one place. You can either go with your head, or<br />
with your heart, not with both, but yes, there can<br />
be a smart mix of both, a perfect balance between<br />
the both of them, the head and the heart. For, even<br />
for a successful business an enterprise must have<br />
one smarty pants and one close-to-the-employeesand-clients<br />
partner, or the business would fail and<br />
nothing will function the way it must. Still, many<br />
a people feel it satisfying enough to go only with<br />
the latter form of happiness, forcing themselves to<br />
lose all kind of emotional forms of it and adapt to<br />
what the ones who inspire them live with. Though<br />
it always ends up giving them something or the<br />
other, but what they get from it can never be called<br />
Happiness. They get things, they achieve things,<br />
they earn things, but they are not happy with the<br />
simple joys life offers to them. To them, there is always<br />
something missing, something that they do<br />
not have and someone else does.<br />
Why would someone do that? Why would someone<br />
not be happy with whatever they have got.<br />
May be because whatever we get is too close to us<br />
that we are not able to know it’s true value until it<br />
is gone or until we have to go far from it. Small<br />
forms of happiness like family dinners, a road<br />
trip with friends, the silence of a beach and the<br />
music that plays in our ears through those little<br />
earphones just pass us by and we do not even get<br />
to know how and when it happened. And if we do<br />
not know something good is happening to us, how<br />
can we realize its importance? What if it turns out<br />
that it is just “us” not giving ourselves a chance to<br />
live those little things. What if we are the culprit<br />
of our own lost piece of cake? From the day we are<br />
born, or let us say from the day we start to understand<br />
things, we are taught how to live, but not<br />
how to love, not how to be happy, but how to earn<br />
well, not how to make a family but how to build a<br />
house..Wishing for and acquiring all we need from<br />
monetary sources is not wrong, but is it a good<br />
thing to lose ourselves in order to become someone<br />
else who we think is leading a better life than<br />
us? Is it a good thing to lose our personality in order<br />
to be someone else? I won’t give the answer.<br />
For it is up to you to think and decide what is<br />
wrong and what is right, what is good and what is<br />
bad for your life. Sure we hear there are seven<br />
lives for everyone, but the truth is that we have got<br />
only one life and we can only live it once. So it is<br />
up to ourselves to decide whether we want to live<br />
it our own way, do what we like to do, act like ourselves,<br />
or to live it like someone we think is happy,<br />
do what they do in order to become who they are,<br />
without even really knowing if they are really<br />
happy or really who you think they are.<br />
So is it not an intelligent thing to do, to only be<br />
who we are, do whatever we like to do, live the way<br />
that makes us happy, be with those who love us the<br />
most, become the one who does what their passion<br />
is and love as if we have gotten only one day to<br />
live? Is it not right to be happy with what you have<br />
got, rather than looking at other people who you<br />
just think are happier than you doing what you do<br />
not do and being who you are not? Is it not right to<br />
always enjoy doing what you do rather than pick<br />
up something some successful person has done<br />
and wait for the happiness that you know is never<br />
going to come to you because it is not what you<br />
want to do, that happiness is not the kind that<br />
makes you happy, that person is not who you are.<br />
Everyone has their own kind of happiness; everyone<br />
has their own view of life. No two persons can<br />
be happy with the same thing. For there is no tried<br />
and tested formula for happiness and contentment.<br />
Just be who you are, just do what you like to<br />
do, just work where you can do what your passion<br />
is, just let your kids become what they want to be<br />
when they grow up. Do not try to make them what<br />
you once wanted to be, or someone you like. For<br />
everyone is a different person and everyone has<br />
their own way of being successful. Just wait and<br />
watch, the end will always surprise you. Because<br />
John Mason said "You're Born an Original, Don't<br />
Die a Copy!" So, enjoy life. Be happy. Be<br />
yourself. And be happy with what you do and who<br />
you are. The end will definitely not be how you<br />
imagine.<br />
China and India 'water grab' dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger<br />
More than 400 hydroelectric schemes are planned in the<br />
mountain region, which could be a disaster for the environment.<br />
India plans to construct 292 dams on rivers rising in Himalayas<br />
The future of the world's most famous mountain<br />
range could be endangered by a vast<br />
dam-building project, as a risky regional<br />
race forwater resources takes place in Asia.<br />
New academic research shows that India, Nepal,<br />
Bhutan and Pakistanare engaged in a huge "water<br />
grab" in the Himalayas, as they seek new sources<br />
of electricity to power their economies. Taken together,<br />
the countries have plans for more than 400<br />
hydro dams which, if built, could together provide<br />
more than 160,000MW of electricity – three times<br />
more than the UK uses.<br />
In addition, China has plans for around 100 dams<br />
to generate a similar amount of power from major<br />
rivers rising in Tibet. A further 60 or more dams<br />
are being planned for the Mekong river which also<br />
rises in Tibet and flows south through south-east<br />
Asia.<br />
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively<br />
untouched by dams near their sources. Now the<br />
two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing<br />
to harness them as they cut through some of<br />
the world's deepest valleys. Many of the proposed<br />
dams would be among the tallest in the world, able<br />
to generate more than 4,000MW, as much as the<br />
Hoover dam on the Colorado river in the US.<br />
The result, over the next 20 years, "could be that<br />
the Himalayas become the most dammed region in<br />
the world", said Ed Grumbine, visiting international<br />
scientist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences<br />
in Kunming. "India aims to construct 292<br />
dams … doubling current hydropowercapacity and<br />
contributing 6% to projected national energy<br />
needs. If all dams are constructed as proposed, in<br />
28 of 32 major river valleys, the Indian Himalayas<br />
would have one of the highest average dam densities<br />
in the world, with one dam for every 32km of<br />
river channel. Every neighbour of India with undeveloped<br />
hydropower sites is building or planning<br />
to build multiple dams, totalling at minimum 129<br />
projects," said Grumbine, author of a paper in Science<br />
China, which is building multiple dams on all the<br />
major rivers running off the Tibetan plateau, is<br />
likely to emerge as the ultimate controller of water<br />
for nearly 40% of the world's population. "The<br />
plateau is the source of the single largest collection<br />
of international rivers in the world, including the<br />
Mekong, the Brahmaputra, the Yangtse and the Yellow<br />
rivers. It is the headwater of rivers on which<br />
nearly half the world depends. The net effect of the<br />
dam building could be disastrous. We just don't<br />
know the consequences," said Tashi Tseri, a water<br />
resource researcher at the University of British<br />
Columbia in Canada.<br />
"China is engaged in the greatest water grab in<br />
history. Not only is it damming the rivers on the<br />
plateau, it is financing and building mega-dams in<br />
Pakistan, Laos, Burma and elsewhere and making<br />
agreements to take the power," said Indian geopolitical<br />
analyst Brahma Chellaney. "China-India disputes<br />
have shifted from land to water. Water is the<br />
new divide and is going centre stage in politics.<br />
Only China has the capacity to build these megadams<br />
and the power to crush resistance. This is effectively<br />
war without a shot being fired."<br />
According to Chellaney, India is in the weakest<br />
position because half its water comes directly from<br />
China; however, Bangladesh is fearful of India's<br />
plans for water diversions and hydropower.<br />
Bangladeshi government scientists say that even a<br />
10% reduction in the water flow by India could dry<br />
out great areas of farmland for much of the year.<br />
More than 80% of Bangladesh's 50 million small<br />
farmers depend on water that flows through India.<br />
Engineers and environmentalists say that little<br />
work has been done on the human or ecological impact<br />
of the dams, which they fear could increase<br />
floods and be vulnerable to earthquakes. "We do not<br />
have credible environmental and social impact assessments,<br />
we have no environmental compliance<br />
system, no cumulative impact assessment and no<br />
carrying capacity studies. The Indian ministry of<br />
environment and forests, developers and consultants<br />
are responsible for this mess," said Himanshu<br />
Thakkar, co-ordinator of South Asia Network on<br />
Dams, Rivers and People.<br />
China and India have both displaced tens of millions<br />
of people with giant dams such as the Narmada<br />
and Three Gorges over the last 30 years, but<br />
governments have not published estimates of how<br />
many people would have to be relocated or how<br />
much land would be drowned by the new dams.<br />
"This is being totally ignored. No one knows, either,<br />
about the impact of climate change on the rivers.<br />
The dams are all being built in rivers that are fed<br />
by glaciers and snowfields which are melting at a<br />
fast rate," said Tsering.<br />
Climate models suggest that major rivers running<br />
off the Himalayas, after increasing flows as<br />
glaciers melt, could lose 10-20% of their flow by<br />
2050. This would not only reduce the rivers' capacity<br />
to produce electricity, but would exacerbate regional<br />
political tensions.<br />
The dams have already led to protest movements<br />
in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam<br />
and other northern states of India and in Tibet.<br />
Protests in Uttarakhand, which was devastated<br />
by floods last month, were led by Indian professor<br />
GD Agarwal, who was taken to hospital after a<br />
50-day fast but who was released this week.<br />
"There is no other way but to continue because<br />
the state government is not keen to review the dam<br />
policy," said Mallika Bhanot, a member of Ganga<br />
Avahan, a group opposing proposals for a series of<br />
dams on the Ganges.<br />
Governments have tried to calm people by saying<br />
that many of the dams will not require large reservoirs,<br />
but will be "run of the river" constructions<br />
which channel water through tunnels to massive<br />
turbines. But critics say the damage done can be<br />
just as great. "[These] will complete shift the path<br />
of the river flow," said Shripad Dharmadhikary, a<br />
leading opponent of the Narmada dams and author<br />
of a report into Himalayan dams. "Everyone will be<br />
affected because the rivers will dry up between<br />
points. The whole hydrology of the rivers will be<br />
changed. It is likely to aggravate floods.<br />
"A dam may only need 500 people to move because<br />
of submergence, but because the dams stop the river<br />
flow it could impact on 20,000 people. They also<br />
disrupt the groundwater flows so many people will<br />
end up with water running dry. There will be devastation<br />
of livelihoods along all the rivers."
6<br />
BHOPAL August 12 to August 18, 2013<br />
Region<br />
Bird flu alert in Chhattisgarh: 4,500 birds culled<br />
RAIPUR<br />
Soon after the samples sent from<br />
Anjora and Jagdalpur farm<br />
were declared positive by<br />
Bhopal's High Security Animal Diseases<br />
Laboratory, as a threat of bird<br />
flu (avian influenza) in Chhattisgarh,<br />
the rapid response team of Animal<br />
Husbandry's Veterinary Department,<br />
commenced disinfection in the region,<br />
killing more than 4,000 birds there.<br />
S K Pandey, director, Animal Husbandry<br />
Department, said, "The cleaning<br />
and sanitation work is underway<br />
in both the affected areas which would<br />
finish soon. An area of one kilometer<br />
around the radius of infected zones<br />
would be sanitized. We had an inspection<br />
meeting with the alertness committee,<br />
health, forest and revenue officials<br />
after the Union ministry advised<br />
killing the birds in the affected areas.<br />
Nearly 2,500-3,000 birds have already<br />
died out of which 500 were in Anjora<br />
farm, Durg district and 3,000 in Jagdalpur's<br />
Kukkut farm."<br />
He said that the birds, including<br />
hens and ducks, would be killed and<br />
buried there itself along with disposing<br />
off of their eggs, litter and disinfection<br />
of their shed. Pandey said that<br />
the department will have to be aware<br />
about every single death of birds and<br />
inform the Centre.<br />
"Nearly 4,500 birds would be killed in<br />
this process after which the situation<br />
will come under control as no selling<br />
and distribution of these birds being<br />
undertaken. Hence, chances of<br />
spreading the infection are rare,"<br />
Pandey said adding the department<br />
has imposed a ban on the movement<br />
of poultry products from the infected<br />
region to alerted zones.<br />
Few officials claimed that the poultry<br />
birds are also exposed to high risk<br />
of bird flu and with the severity of disease,<br />
selling and purchasing from other<br />
states has been banned for next few<br />
months.<br />
Refuting the claims, Dhanraj Banerjee,<br />
director, egg industry, said that it<br />
was important for people to understand<br />
that with so many bird flu alerts<br />
in West Bengal, Bangalore and Orissa<br />
there have been no declared cases of<br />
human infection so far.<br />
It commonly happens with the local<br />
breeds kept in government universities<br />
and veterinary colleges which are<br />
not vaccinated properly. "Consumers<br />
get scared after such alerts but they<br />
needn't worry because the poultry<br />
birds or the commercial farming<br />
breed are white feathered which undergo<br />
advanced technique lab tests.<br />
Hygiene and bio security in ensured<br />
with the quality of the product,"<br />
Dhanraj said. Though there have been<br />
reports that the poultry business has<br />
been affected with fewer sales of eggs<br />
and chickens, Dhanraj said that it's<br />
also because of the on-going religious<br />
Saawan month when people keep<br />
away from eating non-vegetarian food.<br />
"Just like how chickens have nothing<br />
to do with Chikungunya disease, bird<br />
flu has nothing to do with commercial<br />
farm birds," he said.<br />
Chhattisgarh: Why Naxal violence is increasing?<br />
Some time ago, Chhattisgarh hit the<br />
headlines because of a Maoist attack<br />
on state Congress leaders, in which<br />
V.C. Shukla and Mahendra Karma died.<br />
Since then, the Congress has accused the<br />
BJP government of a conspiracy, and some<br />
BJP leaders have accused former chief minister<br />
Ajit Jogi of being part of a conspiracy<br />
himself. Politicising this tragic episode is<br />
not the best way to understand why Chhattisgarh<br />
has become a Maoist stronghold.<br />
Today, the state is the worst affected by<br />
Maoist-related violence. According to<br />
sources, between 2005 and June 2013, over<br />
2,000 lives have been lost in this guerillalike<br />
war, including 755 members of the security<br />
forces, 662 militants and 638 civilians.<br />
That is twice more than in Jharkhand<br />
and about four times more than in West<br />
Bengal and Ori6ssa.<br />
There is a history behind the entrenchment<br />
of the Naxals in Chhattisgarh. It started<br />
in the late 1970s, when Maoists from<br />
Andhra Pradesh initiated the Go to Villages<br />
Campaign, which prepared them to work<br />
among the tribals, then subjugated by landlords<br />
and the state. The latter limited their<br />
access to forest products such as tendu<br />
leaves, not to mention the violent scorn<br />
with which the police treated tribal people.<br />
When the Naxalites were repressed by the<br />
Andhra government in the 1980s, they used<br />
southern Chhattisgarh, and more especially<br />
Bastar (roughly equivalent to the region<br />
known as Dandakaranya), as a base, because<br />
the jungle made them difficult to<br />
track down.<br />
This sanctuary gradually turned into a<br />
laboratory. Militants from the cities learned<br />
the local dialect, sometimes married tribal<br />
women and, above all, obtained better<br />
wages for Adivasis who gathered tendu<br />
leaves and bamboo stalks for paper mills.<br />
These successes were made possible by intimidation<br />
and an effort to organise the<br />
tribal people, which in 1989, culminated in<br />
the foundation of the Dandakaranya Adivasi<br />
Mazdoor Kisan Sangh. Himanshu Kumar,<br />
a Gandhian activist who established<br />
his ashram in Dantewada (Bastar South),<br />
has given valuable testimony to these reasons<br />
for the Maoists' popularity.<br />
<strong>WE</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>STATE</strong><br />
Demand for<br />
separate<br />
Vidarbha state<br />
grows<br />
No sooner had the central government<br />
announced its intention<br />
to create the state of<br />
Telangana, Maharashtra had anticipated<br />
the clamour for a separate Vidarbha<br />
state. This demand has divided<br />
the political class vertically, even<br />
as people from the region weigh the<br />
pros and cons of the issue.<br />
The Congress Party has yet to make<br />
up its mind over the creation of a<br />
separate Vidarbha, since this matter<br />
had been referred to a high-level<br />
committee then headed by Pranab<br />
Mukherjee. Congress leaders from<br />
the region in favour of the demand,<br />
are awaiting the party high command’s<br />
final word on the matter. The<br />
former MPCC president Ranjit Deshmukh<br />
lost his post as the party’s state<br />
chief on account of his support for<br />
this cause. Veterans from the region,<br />
like Vasant Sathe, N K P Salve and N<br />
K Tirpude had always supported the<br />
demand, once they were dismayed by<br />
the treatment given to the region.<br />
The Congress MP from Nagpur city<br />
and former union minister Vilas<br />
Muttemwar, has been at the forefront<br />
of the demand. Other prominent<br />
leaders include Datta Meghe and<br />
Banwarilal Purohit, who have been<br />
leading all-party organisations, demanding<br />
a separate Vidarbha.<br />
The union minister, Sushilkumar<br />
Shinde, who was chief minister of<br />
Maharashtra, is now at the helm of<br />
the home department, currently supervising<br />
the creation of a separate<br />
Telangana. He thus finds himself in<br />
the hot seat and will have to face the<br />
aggressive demand for a separate Vidarbha<br />
state.<br />
Perceptions in Vidarbha have<br />
changed over the years and people,<br />
especially politicians, began feeling<br />
neglected and blamed the strong<br />
leadership of Western Maharashtra<br />
for the neglect of the Vidarbha region<br />
in major sectors. During the<br />
tenure of Vasantrao Patil as chief<br />
minister, the Dr V M Dandekar committee<br />
was appointed to find out<br />
whether there was any imbalance<br />
created in the state.<br />
Vidarbha holds two-thirds of Maharashtra’s<br />
mineral resources, threequarters<br />
of its forest resources, and<br />
is the main producer of power. Another<br />
factor which might push the issue<br />
is the fact that the life of farmers<br />
in this region is full of hardship.<br />
This is the region which has reported<br />
several thousand farmers’ suicides<br />
during the last decade, despite<br />
the fact that it is abundant in minerals,<br />
coal, forests and mountains. The<br />
death of tribal children due to malnutrition<br />
has also attracted attention<br />
in recent times and the efforts taken<br />
by the administration have remained<br />
very marginal.
7 BHOPAL August 12 to August 18, 2013 Glamour <strong>WE</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>STATE</strong><br />
Ranbir Kapoor<br />
To Romance<br />
Priyanka Chopra<br />
In Jagga<br />
Jasoos<br />
The Barfi pair-Ranbir<br />
Kapoor and<br />
Priyanka<br />
Chopra might work<br />
together again in<br />
Anurag Basu's<br />
Jagga Jasoos.<br />
According to<br />
recent reports,<br />
both<br />
Alia Bhatt<br />
and Priyanka<br />
Chopra<br />
will play the<br />
main female<br />
leads in the movie.<br />
Priyanka Chopra<br />
and Ranbir Kapoor have<br />
worked together in movies<br />
like Anjana Anjani and Barfi in<br />
the past. People love their onscreen chemistry and that's why Anurag Basu<br />
wants to cast them once again in his upcoming movie after Barfi.<br />
Talking about Priyanka Chopra, a source told a leading daily, "PC has a busy<br />
year ahead. She has to finish her Mary Kom biopic and promote two other upcoming<br />
films. She shares a great relation with Anurag Basu as well as Ranbir<br />
Kapoor. If she can accommodate the dates, she will definitely be a part of the<br />
project." Jagga Jasoos's shooting will start in September next year. Franchise<br />
Jagga Jasoos will be co-produced by Picture Shuru, which is Ranbir Kapoor<br />
and Anurag Basu's new production company.<br />
Meanwhile Priyanka Chopra is very busy in the shooting of Mary Kom and<br />
Gunday. Mary Kom is a biopic on boxer Mary Kom. In Gunday she is working<br />
with Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh. After finishing these two movies,<br />
Priyanka Chopra might give her dates to Jagga Jasoos. On the other hand Ranbir<br />
Kapoor has started shooting for Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet in Sri<br />
Lanka along with Anushka Sharma.<br />
When<br />
Aamir<br />
Khan<br />
cried<br />
Aamir Khan has never been<br />
ashamed to shed a tear off screen<br />
when riddled with emotion.<br />
At a recent event for a brand that he advertises,<br />
the Lagaan star was incredibly<br />
emotional ,He is known to be a<br />
man who's not afraid to wear his heart on his<br />
sleeve and you've gotta love him for it. While<br />
chatting and interacting with employees at<br />
Godrej, the actor suddenly grew emotional.<br />
We're not quite sure what brought it on, but<br />
Aamir's face said it all. Never one to shy<br />
away from shedding a tear when he is moved,<br />
Aamir was seen openly crying at Jiah Khan's<br />
memorial service some months ago. Even<br />
when he hosted his show Satyamev Jayate,<br />
Khan was openly moved by the plight of<br />
some of the people he met and interviewed<br />
on air. While he could well be ridiculed and<br />
accused of attempting things in the name of<br />
publicity, anyone worth their salt knows<br />
Aamir Khan's emotions are nothing but gen-<br />
Manisha Koirala: The<br />
brand new avatar<br />
After a tough time battling ovarian cancer,<br />
Manisha Koirala who has since been declared<br />
cancer free, is now all set to get back to<br />
work . Here's a look at her turbulent journey.<br />
Manisha has been busy - special pujas' photo sessions.<br />
She is happy to have got a clean chit from the<br />
doctors.<br />
Salman Khan To Fly to UK Soon<br />
Salman Khan was in news recently because of his visa issues<br />
with the UK government. The actor was supposed to<br />
leave for UK in July for the shooting of his upcoming film-<br />
Kick but his visa got rejected due to his hit and run case. Now,<br />
it has been reported that the actor got the visa in second attempt<br />
and will leave for London this week after his cataract operation.<br />
Salman Khan will not celebrate Eid with his family this year.<br />
The actor will undergo a cataract operation during the time of<br />
Eid. After the operation Salman will fly to UK this week. Talking<br />
about Salman Khan's visa problem, a source told a leading<br />
daily, "It was never a visa issue as reported in the press. Salman<br />
Khan was supposed to get a letter from the Rajasthan police allowing<br />
him to work outside the country. That got delayed."<br />
Salman has two cases on him, one is the illegal hunting of<br />
blackbuck in Rajasthan during the shoot of Hum Saath Saath<br />
Hain in 1998 and the other one is 2002 hit and run case, where he<br />
has been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to<br />
murder.<br />
If convicted for the hit and run case, Salman Khan will have to<br />
face 10 years jail imprisonment.<br />
uine. For a man who measures his words before<br />
they come out of his mouth, there are<br />
times when he allows his emotions to speak<br />
for him instead. Humbling, almost.
8<br />
BHOPAL August 12 to August 18, 2013<br />
Must Read<br />
<strong>WE</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>STATE</strong><br />
What is kaalsarpyog Or kaalsarp dosh?<br />
emies and has problems on account of diseases.The<br />
KAAL means death .The person born under<br />
kaal sarp yog or dosh passes through death like<br />
agonies throughout the life.The Kaal sarp yog<br />
is formed when all the planets are situated between<br />
Rahu and ketu. Only when all seven<br />
planets come between Rahu & Ketu KAAL<br />
SARP YOG exist.<br />
The person who takes birth in this yog sufferes<br />
fro various problem like child<br />
problem,loss in business,faily problem<br />
etc.This yog is more dangerous than other<br />
malefic yog.if are horoscope creat also guru<br />
chandal yog,pitra dosha,Angrak yog, then<br />
kaalsarpyog more than give dangerous negative<br />
effect in ur life.then u have to must remedy<br />
of ur kaalsarpyog with Guru Chandal yog<br />
,Pitra dosha or Angarak yog.because without<br />
any combined remedy above bad yog u can”t<br />
get relief for kaalsarpyo<br />
g. TYPES OF KAALSARPYOG OR DOSH<br />
1. Anant Kaalsarp Yoga<br />
Rahu is in the first House and Ketu in the seventh<br />
house and the rest of the planets are left to this axis<br />
the Yoga which arises is the Anant Kaalsarpa Yoga.<br />
This is also called as Vipareeta Kaalsarpa Yoga opposite<br />
Kaalsarpa yoga. Though this yoga has the power<br />
to give windfall gains to the native, it is bad for marital<br />
life. Generally natives with this yoga get married<br />
late in life.Such natives have to work very hard for the<br />
development of personality and their career as well.<br />
His education and professional achievements<br />
progress with a slower speed and to rise in life he has<br />
to work very hard rather he has to struggle hard for<br />
getting achievements. His emotional pains sometimes<br />
lead him to live the life of an insane leaving all worldly<br />
comforts aside. Such natives have been interested<br />
in lottery, share market, interest money but they bear<br />
heavy losses in such deals. They have to suffer various<br />
physical ailments.<br />
Their financial position is rather weak. They face<br />
up”s and downs in money matters.<br />
It affects their married life adversely since mental<br />
unrest leaves them nowhere and life becomes a hell to<br />
them.<br />
He remains deprived of the ancestral wealth and<br />
the parents love and affection. His near & dears, family<br />
and friends give him losses in many ways. He becomes<br />
a victim to the conspiracy and been dragged<br />
into court cases, he faces social defame. So rise and<br />
fall in each phase of life becomes a part of his life and<br />
repeated defame makes him mentally unrest. Despite<br />
all such unfavourable situations, at certain point of<br />
time in his life he gets sudden rise and all his pains<br />
and troubles are ended up astonishingly all at once.In<br />
spite of all troubles and difficulties been faced by him,<br />
he is not in want of anything or say nothing is unreachable<br />
to him. Such natives never harm other in<br />
any way. Such natives as are comparatively much<br />
troubled by such a combination i.e. “Anant” named<br />
Kaalsarp Yog.<br />
They must adopt the below-mentioned remedial<br />
measures:<br />
• Recite “Om Namah Shivay” twenty one series<br />
(21×108 times) everyday. Perform abhishek to lord<br />
Shiva with water mixed with milk everyday.<br />
• Establish Kaalsarp Dosh Nivarak Yantra in your<br />
home and lighting a mustard oil lamp before the<br />
yantra, worship it every day.<br />
• A pair of Naag (Snakes-male & female) should be<br />
get made of silver and putting it into a copper pot<br />
should be flown in the flowing water.<br />
• Every day after having taken a bath recite “Nav-<br />
grahSatrotra”.<br />
2. Kulik KaalSarp Yoga<br />
When Rahu is placed in the second and Ketu in the<br />
eighth house and all the planets lie in between in the<br />
natal horoscope then it is called “Kulik” Kaalsarp<br />
EFFECT OF KAALSARP YOGA?<br />
When the create any person horoscopekaalsarp yog then he always face in his whole life Suffering<br />
from mental unrest, hurdles in gain of wealth, barriers in having children and uninterrupted<br />
disputes in married life. Usually the person sees bad dreams and there is danger of sudden death.<br />
Different fears and worries persist. The person does not get full reward of his talents. Normally the success in<br />
work is<br />
delayed. Sudden loss of money or prestige is an indication of this yog. The person without any reason<br />
suffers from diseases that are not cured by medicine. The financial position remains little fragile.<br />
When the create any person horoscope kaalsarp yog then he always face in his whole life Suffering from<br />
mental unrest, hurdles in gain of wealth, barriers in having children and uninterrupted disputes in married<br />
life. Usually the person sees bad dreams and there is danger of sudden death. Different fears and worries<br />
persist. The person does not get full reward of his talents. Normally the success in work is delayed. Sudden<br />
loss of money or prestige is an indication of this yog. The person without any reason suffers from diseases<br />
that are not cured by medicine. The financial position remains little fragile. There could be debts but these<br />
are paid back though with some difficulty. Goals can be achieved but after delays. However the person also<br />
gets a miraculous time in life. The person gets name and fame<br />
before the end of his life or after his death. The Kalsarp Yog is not always dreadful. It has the potential to<br />
bestow advantages as well. he get never full reward of his work. Normally the success in work is delayed.he<br />
face always skin and stomach related diseases .suddenley lost of wealth and health,prestige,the person who<br />
is kaalsarpyoga without any reason suffer diseases that are not cured by medicine then who”s person<br />
prescribed to remedy of kaal sarp yog you can get relief from these problems.<br />
According to horoscope whenever the mahadasha or antardasha of Rahu and Ketu comes then Kaal Sarp<br />
Yog is more effective. And give many evil effect to person who is kaal sarp yog .At that time remedies or<br />
Yagya carried out with devotion are highly useful. Due to Kaal Sarp Yog the person suffers from diseases such<br />
as heart, eyes and ears trouble many times that cause loss of money. The person remains mentally disturbed<br />
from time to time. The financial position remains little fragile. There could be debts but these are paid back<br />
though with some difficulty. Goals can be achieved but after delays it’s more effected of yoga then ur<br />
horoscop in guruchandal yoga aur vish yoga .<br />
Yog. This combination is bad for health. The probability<br />
of losses and accidents is high with natives of<br />
this combination. This is bad for financial prosperity<br />
too. The native is worried on account of an insecure<br />
financial standing. It gives him defame also. A native<br />
with this combination goes average in his studies and<br />
his marital happiness is of the average order. Due to<br />
his financial problems, his marital happiness is<br />
spoiled altogether. He always goes on facing various<br />
troubles like cheated by his friends, problems in<br />
begetting children or problems due to children and<br />
struggle & trouble in the professional life. His nature<br />
goes filthy. He becomes a double standard person. Facing<br />
the unbalance of mind and various physical ailments,<br />
he looks older than his age. His valour and<br />
courage is turned down constantly. His hard working<br />
nature takes him to peaks.<br />
However, he cannot enjoy to this excellence. Such<br />
natives facing the above-mentioned troubles should<br />
make the following remedial measures:<br />
• The students should recite root mantra of “Maa<br />
Saraswati” for one long year and make worship to<br />
her.<br />
• Boil water with “Devdaru”, “mustard” and “Lohwan”<br />
and take bath with this water for forty days.<br />
• In an auspicious Hora, flow coke (Koyala) in the<br />
flowing water for three times.<br />
• Recite 108 times the Hanuman Chalisa.<br />
• In Shravan month, perform abhishek to lord Shiva<br />
for all the thirty days of the month.<br />
• Keep fasting on Saturday and Tuesday. Go to Shani<br />
temple and perform poojan and Telabhishek. It gives<br />
instant relief.<br />
• At the starting of the major period of Rahu recite<br />
Rahu mantra for 108 times a day and when the number<br />
of mantra counts to 18 thousand perform “Poorn<br />
Ahuti” Yajna with chief Samidha of Rahu i.e. Durva<br />
(the grass). After this, donate Horse bean (“Urad”)<br />
and blue cloths to a poor person.<br />
3. Vasuki KaalSarp Yoga<br />
When Rahu is placed in the third and Ketu in the<br />
ninth house and all other planets lay in between these<br />
two then it is called “Vasuki” Kaalsarp Yog. The native<br />
is troubled by his co-born even he is not in good<br />
terms with other family members.The native may<br />
have to struggle a lot to stand on his own feet and get<br />
recognition and status in life. There could be sudden<br />
strokes of fortune or misfortune and sudden gains.<br />
The positive effects will come only if the overall chart<br />
is very strong and there are no malefic aspects on either<br />
9th house or 9th lord. His friends and relatives as<br />
also his neighbors always cheat him and trouble him<br />
unduly. He is lacking peace and home. At times native<br />
has been suffering from various ailments and due to<br />
heavy expenditure, his financial position is shaken.<br />
For his livelihood, he has to make hard efforts, yet the<br />
success remains doubtful. When Moon is afflicted his<br />
mental health is not good, he remains mentally excited<br />
and disturbed. Due to such a planetary combination,<br />
he has to bear losses especially in the legal affairs.<br />
He is uncomfortable from the state or the government.<br />
The native is burdened with problems relat-<br />
ing to job and business.<br />
4. Shankpal KaalSarp Yoga<br />
When rahu occupies the 4th house and Ketu the 10th<br />
this yoga is Formed. The native may have to face difficulties<br />
for domestic happiness, general happiness,<br />
comfort and conveyance. The native gets trouble relating<br />
to work, progeny, health and marriage. However<br />
this yoga also has the power of conferring high political<br />
success and windfall gains if Sun and 10th<br />
house are strong and are being aspected by benefics.<br />
The native gets trouble relating to work sphere and<br />
has to go through stress and anxiety. Sometimes the<br />
native has an illegitimate child or can be an illegitimate<br />
child. However this yoga also has the power of<br />
conferring high political success and windfall gains.<br />
5. Padam KaalSarp Yoga<br />
When rahu occupies the fifth house and Ketu the<br />
eleventh house this Yoga is formed.The native struggles<br />
on account of children and education. The native<br />
may feel emotionally insecure due to lack of apparent<br />
love from others. There could be delay in getting children.<br />
The native should stay away from extra marital<br />
affairs as illegitimate children can destroy his/her<br />
life. There are also chances of being let down/betrayed<br />
by near and dear ones. The native must try to<br />
develop a balanced outlook in life. There is difficulty<br />
in getting a progeny. If the moon is also afflicted then<br />
there is the possibility of being troubled by spirits. In<br />
this case if a native falls ill the recovery time is slow.<br />
There are also chances of being let down by friends in<br />
this case.<br />
6. Mahapadam KaalSarp Yoga<br />
This yoga is formed when rahu is in the 6th house and<br />
Ketu is in the twelfth house. The native has many en-<br />
native has secret enemies and has problems in relation<br />
to one”s occupation. The native may develop a<br />
negative tendency to play with the law of the land and<br />
may get into serious troubles on account of this tendency.<br />
However if this yoga acts beneficially it has the<br />
power to confer power and political success. However<br />
if this yoga acts beneficially it has the power to con-<br />
fer power and political success.<br />
7. Takshak KaalSarp Dosh<br />
When rahu is in the seventh house and Ketu in the<br />
first house this yoga is formed. The native has got<br />
speculative tendencies and can lose wealth by way of<br />
wine, women and gambling. There is marital discord<br />
in the life of the native.There may be difficulties regarding<br />
health, love affairs, progeny and marriage.<br />
There will be a lot of struggle in life and success will<br />
come only after a lot of hard work and difficulties.<br />
This is also not a good position for business partnerships<br />
as well as relations with opposite sex. The native<br />
must focus on his people skills if this yoga is pres-<br />
ent.<br />
8. Karkotak KaalSarp Yoga<br />
When rahu occupies the eighth house and Ketu the<br />
second house this yoga is formed. The native is short<br />
tempered and has many enemies. Such a native has<br />
friendship with the anti social elements. The native<br />
does not get paternal wealth. There may be dirty<br />
habits like smoking, drinking and use of abusive language.<br />
This could also be the result of bad company<br />
the native like to keep. There could be health problems<br />
and lack of harmony. There is also danger of getting<br />
into sudden accidents.<br />
9. Shankachood KaalSarpa Yoga<br />
When rahu occupies the ninth house and Ketu is in<br />
the 3rd house this yoga operates. Natives who have<br />
this yoga in the chart have many ups and down in life.<br />
They have a habit of speaking lies. They are also short<br />
tempered.The progress in life takes a very bumpy<br />
road. Luck may elude the native. Relations with father<br />
and siblings may also be strained. Native should stay<br />
away from the activities which may earn him bad<br />
name in the society.<br />
10. Pataka or Ghatak KaalSarpa Yoga<br />
This yoga arises when rahu is in tenth house and<br />
ketu in the fourth house.Litigation problems are common<br />
is this case. Punishment by law or the Government<br />
also possible. However if this yoga operates in a<br />
beneficial manner then it has the power to confer the<br />
highest form of political power ,special in Virgo and<br />
Leo ascendant.There could be problems related to<br />
one”s profession. There could be sudden ups and<br />
downs in one”s profession. The native must stay away<br />
from getting in to trouble with seniors at work. There<br />
could be general unhappiness in native”s life. It could<br />
be due to problems at work, debt or some bad habits.<br />
11. Vishakta KaalSarpa Yoga<br />
When rahu occupies the eleventh house and ketu<br />
the fifth house the yoga which arises is the Vishdhar<br />
Kaalsarpa Yoga. The native travels frequently and is<br />
never fixed at on place. Problems also arise from children.<br />
However these natives get some peace in the latter<br />
half of their life.Problems may also arise from<br />
progeny and education. The native must stay away<br />
from egoistical attitude as that may mar his chances<br />
of good name in the society.<br />
12. Shesha Naga KaalSarpa Yoga<br />
When Rahu occupies the twelfth house and ketu the<br />
6th house this yoga arises. The native may become<br />
very selfish and may also get into troubles with authorities<br />
because of this. The native may have problems<br />
relating to litigation. This yoga may also give<br />
bad health. However this yoga takes the native to a far<br />
off place for settlement. There are may enemies and<br />
health problems.
9<br />
BHOPAL August 12 to August 18, 2013<br />
☛ The Fight Against Frauds<br />
Given the recent outburst of frauds and the<br />
negative consequences associated with it, the<br />
organizations are pressed to invest time and<br />
resources towards fighting fraud. However, there has<br />
always been a debate as to as to whether these<br />
efforts should be dedicated to fraud prevention or<br />
fraud detection.<br />
☛ Fraud prevention<br />
Having discussed earlier about why frauds take<br />
place, it would seem that one of the most effective<br />
ways to deal with the fraud is to create an<br />
environment that will decrease motive, restrict<br />
opportunity and limit the ability for any potential<br />
fraudsters to rationalise their actions.<br />
Fraud Prevention techniques include the<br />
introduction of policies, procedures and<br />
internal controls, and activities such as<br />
staff training and fraud awareness to<br />
stop occurrence of frauds. It is profitable<br />
to prevent losses, and fraud prevention<br />
activities can help to ensure the stability<br />
and continued existence of a business.<br />
The studies in the area of frauds have indicated that<br />
the organisations are able to recover less than 20<br />
percent from the value of frauds and recovery<br />
process is often difficult and lengthy. As such, it is<br />
preferable to try to prevent the loss from occurring<br />
in the first place and the old adage ‘prevention is<br />
better than cure’ certainly applies to fraud.<br />
Having talked about the benefits of prevention,<br />
one has to bear in mind though, that fraud<br />
prevention techniques, while worth investing in,<br />
cannot and will never be able to provide 100%<br />
protection from frauds and fraudsters. It is difficult, if<br />
not impossible and at times not economically viable<br />
to remove all opportunities for perpetrating fraud.<br />
☛ Fraud detection<br />
As adopting fraud prevention methods may not<br />
prevent all potential perpetrators, organisations<br />
should ensure that adequate systems are in place<br />
that will facilitate discovery of frauds at the earliest<br />
and before much damage is done. This can be<br />
achieved through fraud detection. A fraud detection<br />
strategy should involve use of data analysis, reviews<br />
and other procedures to highlight anomalies, and<br />
entails a clearly laid down and defined reporting<br />
mechanisms that provides for communication of<br />
suspicious activities. Fraud detection may highlight<br />
ongoing frauds that are taking place or incidents of<br />
frauds that have already happened. Such schemes<br />
may not be affected by the introduction of<br />
prevention techniques and, even if the frauds are<br />
prevented in the future, recovery of losses from<br />
frauds that have already taken place will only be<br />
possible through fraud detection. Recovery of the<br />
losses is only one of the objectives of fraud detection<br />
programme though and fraudulent behavior should<br />
not be ignored just because there may be no<br />
recovery of losses. Fraud detection also helps in<br />
improvement of internal systems and controls, which<br />
is a continuous and evolving process. Most of the<br />
fraudsters exploit gaps and deficiencies in internal<br />
control systems of an organisation. Through<br />
detection of such frauds, internal controls can be<br />
tightened making it more difficult for potential<br />
fraudsters. Detection framework and subsequent<br />
steps taken to punish the fraudsters also acts as a<br />
deterrent for future frauds.<br />
Fraud prevention and fraud detection both have an<br />
important role to play in an organisation’s fight<br />
against frauds and it is unlikely that either will fully<br />
succeed without the other. Therefore, it is important<br />
that organisations consider both fraud prevention<br />
and fraud detection in designing an effective<br />
strategy to manage the risk of fraud.<br />
NISHKAM OJHA<br />
Email: nishkamojha@gmail.com<br />
FINANCIAL<br />
FRAUDS<br />
(The writer of the column is Mumbai based<br />
Chartered Accountant and Certified Fraud<br />
Examiner working for a reputed audit and<br />
investigation firm of India)<br />
Commerce<br />
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Nuclear reactor INS Arihant a<br />
giant stride for India, says PM<br />
NEW DELHI<br />
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today congratulated<br />
scientists and defence personnel on the reactor on India’s<br />
first nuclear submarine INS Arihant going critical,<br />
calling it a “giant stride” in the progress of the country’s<br />
indigenous technological capabilities.<br />
“I am delighted to learn that the nuclear propulsion reactor<br />
on board INS Arihant, India’s first indigenous nuclear powered<br />
submarine, has now achieved criticality,” the Prime Minister<br />
said in a statement.<br />
“Today’s development represents a giant stride in the<br />
progress of our indigenous technological capabilities. It is testimony<br />
to the ability of our scientists, technologists and defence<br />
personnel to work together for mastering complex technologies<br />
in the service of our nation’s security,” he said.<br />
Extending congratulations to all those associated with the<br />
important milestone, particularly the Department of Atomic<br />
Energy, the Indian Navy and the Defence Research and Development<br />
Organization, Singh said he looked forward to the early<br />
commissioning of INS Arihant.<br />
In a major step towards completing its nuclear triad, India activated<br />
the atomic reactor on-board the indigenous nuclear<br />
submarine INS Arihant paving the way for its operational deployment<br />
by the Navy.<br />
After the nuclear reactor is activated, the agencies concerned<br />
can work towards readying the warship for operational deployments<br />
soon.<br />
INS Arihant has been undergoing trials at Navy’s key submarine<br />
base in Vishakhapatnam and would be launched for<br />
sea trials soon since the nuclear reactor has gone critical.<br />
Robert Vadra made crores from Gurgaon<br />
deal with fake papers, says Khemka<br />
Congress President Sonia Gandhi‘s son-in-law<br />
Robert Vadraseems to have landed himself in<br />
trouble again.<br />
In a a 100-page report to the government,<br />
Haryana IAS officer<br />
Ashok Khemka, who flagged alleged<br />
irregularities in Vadra land<br />
deals, has claimed that Vadra falsified<br />
documents and executed a<br />
series of sham transactions for<br />
3.53 acres land in Shikohpur village<br />
of Gurgaon, thereby pocketing<br />
a hefty premium on a commercial<br />
colony licence.<br />
CNN-IBN accessed Khemka’s reply<br />
to a government-appointed inquiry<br />
committee, which had indicted<br />
him earlier this year<br />
Khemka also highlighted a series<br />
of sham transactions undertaken<br />
between his company Skylight<br />
Hospitality and DLF Universal<br />
Limited – beginning 2011 and culminating<br />
in 2012.<br />
Khemka claimed that Vadra was<br />
favoured as he is Sonia Gandhi‘s<br />
son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi and<br />
helped in making these ‘sham<br />
transactions’ by Haryana’s Department of Town and<br />
Country Planning (DTCP).<br />
Khemka stated that both the sale deed of February 12,<br />
2008 — through which Vadra’s company, Skylight Hospitality,<br />
bought the land from Onkareshwar Properties<br />
— and the letter of intent for granting a commercial licence<br />
to his company issued by the DTCP in March 2008<br />
are sham transactions, executed only to enable Vadra<br />
to collect market premium accruing to him due to state<br />
largesse.<br />
Khemka had earlier kicked up a<br />
political storm in 2012 when he alleged<br />
irregularities in the land<br />
dealings of Robert Vadra and DLF<br />
in Haryana and asked the state<br />
government to give him a copy of<br />
the inquiry reports conducted by<br />
it.<br />
Khemka had also sought a response<br />
from the government on<br />
whether a cheque issued by Robert<br />
Vadra’s company was a dummy<br />
cheque or not. He had said if the<br />
report had appeared in newspapers<br />
then he should also have access<br />
to it.<br />
Khemka was transferred from<br />
Director General Consolidation of<br />
Land Holdings and Land Recordscum-Inspector<br />
General of Registration<br />
to his present posting in<br />
the State’s Seed Development Corporation<br />
shortly after he initiated<br />
a probe into land dealings between<br />
Vadra and realty giant DLF.<br />
A probe report submitted by four deputy commissioners<br />
in Haryana had given a “clean chit” to Vadra over<br />
his land deals.<br />
The Prime Minister’s Office in November, 2012 had<br />
told Allahabad High Court that charges of irregularities<br />
in land deals against Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law<br />
were false, vexatious and based on hearsay.
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10 Go French<br />
ways to enjoy Puducherry<br />
Here are 10 unique ways to discover Pondy, hailed as La Côte d'Azur de l'Est or French Riviera of the East.<br />
Amidst policemen wearing red kepis<br />
and locals playing petanque (hurling<br />
metal balls), get a dose of French culture<br />
at Alliance Francaise and Institut<br />
Francais de Pondicherry (IFP),<br />
whose precious manuscripts find a<br />
mention in UNESCO’s ‘Memory of<br />
the World’ register. Observe prayers<br />
in French at Notre Dame des Anges,<br />
the only church in Pondicherry to<br />
have mass in three languages (English<br />
and Tamil are the other two).<br />
Don’t miss the marble statue of<br />
Jeanne d' Arc in front and the tomb of<br />
French governor Marquis de Bussy in<br />
an adjacent cemetery. Don't leave<br />
without catching an evening concert<br />
at Café de Flore, an informal garden<br />
restaurant at Alliance Francaise’s<br />
Maison Colombani.<br />
Go boating at<br />
Chunnambar<br />
If drifting on a lifeboat with a Bengal<br />
tiger on the high seas isn’t your<br />
kind of escapade, try the tamer pleasures<br />
of Chunnambar. Drive 7km<br />
south on Cuddalore Road to the<br />
serene backwaters for a leisurely<br />
boat ride. Besides river jaunts, go on<br />
a sea cruise for dolphin sighting or<br />
take a speedboat to Paradise Beach<br />
with a picnic hamper.<br />
Get blessed by an<br />
elephant at Manakula<br />
Vinayagar<br />
The 500-year-old shrine of Lord<br />
Ganesha was once closer to the shore<br />
where sand (manal) often swept into<br />
its pond (kulam), giving the temple its<br />
name. Having survived attempts by<br />
French missionaries to pull it down,<br />
the popular temple is a celebration of<br />
the elephant-headed god, whose various<br />
forms adorn the walls. Hand a<br />
coin to Lakshmi, the temple elephant<br />
to receive a thump from her trunk as<br />
blessing!<br />
Try Franco-Tamil cuisine<br />
at a restaurant with no<br />
name<br />
Located on Perumal Koil Street in the<br />
Tamil Quarter is Maison Perumal, a<br />
Chettiar mansion beautifully restored<br />
by CGH Earth. Like in a house, the<br />
rooms are left unnumbered and the<br />
courtyard restaurant bears no name.<br />
Dine on the day’s fixed menu of fresh<br />
seafood platters surrounded by ooralis<br />
(brass troughs), sepia tinted photos<br />
and stain glass panes glinting in the<br />
sun.<br />
Botanical garden<br />
While there’s no zoo in Pondicherry<br />
(there are plans to set up one after the<br />
success of Life of Pi), it was the scenic<br />
locale of the Botanical Garden that<br />
served as the film set. Established in<br />
1826, the 22-acre garden was a French<br />
experiment to analyse the feasibility<br />
of crops in the area. Flowerbeds and<br />
graveled pathways were added later<br />
and today it’s a treasure trove of 900<br />
exotic plants, with anaquarium, a toy<br />
train and a musical fountain as its other<br />
attractions. The centrally located<br />
Bharathi Park, at the site of the demolished<br />
Fort Louis and military parade<br />
ground, is the city’s other lung<br />
space with the Arc de Triomphe-sque<br />
Aayi Mandapam dominating the centre.<br />
Hone a skill at Auroville<br />
There’s more to Auroville than just<br />
the Matri Mandir. Live and learn in<br />
this global city of ideas where its inhabitants<br />
perfect crafts like handmade<br />
paper (Auroville Papers), indigo-dyed<br />
clothing (The Colours of Nature), incense<br />
manufacture (Encens d'Auroville)<br />
and bodycare (Maroma Spa) to<br />
energy-efficient solutions. Besides<br />
workshops and internship programs,<br />
there’s a huge communal bonfire in<br />
the Amphitheatre on 21 Feb and 28 Feb<br />
to celebrate the birthdays of the Mother<br />
and Auroville.<br />
Walk down the historic<br />
promenade<br />
Explore Beach Road or Goubert Avenue<br />
on foot, a seaside avenue lined by<br />
charming colonial buildings like the<br />
French Institute, French Consulate<br />
General, Secretariat, Villa Bayoud<br />
heritage hotel and Promenade Hotel,<br />
built in 1878 as a railway station! Amble<br />
down to the old groundnut bag embankment<br />
where a statue of Mahatma<br />
Gandhi now stands, the tallest in Asia.<br />
Beyond the 88ft lighthouse, the first on<br />
the Coromandel Coast, are the Custom<br />
House, French War Memorial, Le Café<br />
(a porthouse till the 1930s) and statue<br />
of French Governor Dupleix at the<br />
southern end of the promenade. With<br />
no vehicular traffic between 6pm to<br />
7.30am, it’s ideal for evening and<br />
morning jaunts.<br />
History lesson at<br />
Pondicherry Museum<br />
While little remains of the Roman<br />
trading settlement at Arikamedu<br />
when Pondicherry flourished as the<br />
port town of Poduke, one can piece together<br />
the jigsaw at Pondicherry Museum.<br />
The century old Law Building,<br />
erstwhile residence of the French Administrator,<br />
displays Roman pottery<br />
and Megalithic burial urns. The<br />
Transport Gallery features palanquins,<br />
carts and the Pousse Pousse, a<br />
vehicle pushed from the rear and<br />
steered by a rider. In the French-India<br />
Gallery see period furniture like têteà-têtes<br />
(S-shaped sofas), comptoirs, escritoires<br />
(writing tables and desks)<br />
and the cot used by French Governor<br />
Dupleix (1742-1754), whose bust adorns<br />
the museum.<br />
Hang out at a café<br />
Get drawn into Pondy’s many cafes<br />
and boulangeries where the tantalising<br />
aroma of fresh croissants and<br />
baguettes hangs in the air. Overlooking<br />
the pier where Pi bid adieu to<br />
Anandi, is Le Café, a 24-hour coffee<br />
lounge serving organic beverages, pastries<br />
and snacks. Catch an evening<br />
concert at Café de Flore, an informal<br />
garden restaurant at Alliance Francaise’s<br />
Maison Colombani.<br />
What do you think of this story? Tell<br />
us at editor@wethestate.com
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Ready<br />
to take<br />
on<br />
Saina<br />
in IBL:<br />
Sindhu<br />
PV Sindhu has just catapulted herself<br />
from the wilderness into the<br />
spotlight. Her brilliant giant-killing<br />
run at the World Championships already has<br />
people talking, tweeting, facebooking and<br />
generally going nuts on TV as well.<br />
And almost everyone wants the answer to<br />
one question: Is she better than Saina?<br />
To cut a long story short, for the answer to<br />
that question we need to go back to the India<br />
Super Series in April this year. The centre of<br />
attraction at the pre-tournament press conference<br />
was understandably the top seed<br />
Saina Nehwal. While everyone was<br />
crowding the London Olympic bronze<br />
medallist, chief national coach Pullela<br />
Gopichand was happy standing in one<br />
corner and chatting about his other prodigy<br />
– PV Sindhu – with a handful of journalists<br />
eager to know when we can see the lanky<br />
youngster show the results that will justify<br />
her potential.<br />
To their disappointment, Gopichand asked<br />
them to give Sindhu another two years as she<br />
was still growing and will need that much<br />
time to mature.<br />
Many felt that the former All England<br />
champion was just trying to play down the<br />
hype surrounding the Asian Junior champion<br />
and didn’t really mean it.<br />
But those who have known Gopichand over<br />
the years will know that the chief national<br />
coach doesn’t really make statements with-<br />
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out weighing the pros and cons of his words.<br />
What Gopichand actually meant was that<br />
Sindhu was just about 18 and was still growing<br />
physically and emotionally and will take<br />
some time to understand herself and her<br />
game better.<br />
There is no doubt about the talent that<br />
Sindhu possesses and since that chat, the<br />
Asian junior champion has won the<br />
Malaysian Grand Prix gold, reached the<br />
semifinals of a Super Series event and this<br />
week upset the applecart of defending world<br />
champion Yihan Wang and another Chinese<br />
star Shixian Wang to become first Indian<br />
women’s singles player to win a medal in the<br />
BWF World Badminton Championship in<br />
her maiden appearance in the prestigious<br />
tournament.<br />
But the period has also corresponded with<br />
quite a few injury worries and she had to<br />
miss the entire Asian circuit in May and<br />
June due to it.<br />
In fact in the last one year, Sindhu has been<br />
laid low by knee injury a couple of times as<br />
her lanky frame puts quite a bit of pressure<br />
on her knees and the support staff at the<br />
Gopichand Badminton Academy is working<br />
very hard to help her bulk up a bit without<br />
losing any of her agility.<br />
This is precisely why Gopichand has been<br />
Kohli to speak<br />
to Dhoni<br />
about his<br />
disappearing<br />
habit<br />
Sports<br />
very careful with the number of tournaments<br />
Sindhu plays in a year. Last year following<br />
some knee trouble at the senior nationals<br />
in October, the chief coach pulled her<br />
out of the world junior championship<br />
despite the Indian being a runaway favourite<br />
to win the title. Most players will play with a<br />
niggle or two but Gopichand has been quick<br />
to draw the line with Sindhu – he realises<br />
that this is a crucial phase in Sindhu’s<br />
growth as a badminton player and injuries<br />
cannot be allowed to derail the process.<br />
But in China, the youngster proved that<br />
when she is completely fit and has trained<br />
hard she has the ability to match the best in<br />
the world in speed and agility and she is only<br />
going to get better thanks to the efforts she is<br />
putting during training every day.<br />
Yes, she was outplayed in the semifinal by<br />
another youngster Ratchanok Intanon of<br />
Thailand but she did well in reaching the<br />
last four. The real challenge for her will be<br />
dealing with the expectations — the entire<br />
nation would expect her to win every tournament<br />
she participates in.<br />
It is precisely why Gopichand was not willing<br />
to talk about a possible gold even after<br />
Sindhu had beaten the two Chinese stars to<br />
reach the World Championship semifinal<br />
and even tried to protect her from all the<br />
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hype surrounding her victories by cutting<br />
down her communication from the outside<br />
world.<br />
To her benefit, Sindhu comes from a family<br />
which has seen the ups and downs of professional<br />
sport with both her parents being international<br />
volleyball players (her dad was<br />
even the captain). Also Gopichand is well<br />
aware of the growing pressure on the youngster<br />
and would have also started devising a<br />
strategy to use it to make her mentally<br />
stronger.<br />
But this is not an overnight process and<br />
just like the coach and the player we will also<br />
have to be patient as Sindhu’s results may oscillate<br />
between exceptional and not so impressive<br />
and should be looked at just as a development<br />
process for the youngster. Indeed,<br />
at this point – it should not be Saina or Sindhu.<br />
Rather, it should be Saina and Sindhu.<br />
Together, they are doing India proud and together,<br />
they can push each other to get even<br />
better.<br />
One thing is sure. Sindhu has the potential<br />
to become the best in the world. And if we<br />
follow the timeline Gopichand has set for the<br />
18-year-old, then this is just a beginning.<br />
Today, let us just celebrate the achievement<br />
of Sindhu and wish her all the best for the future.<br />
VVS Laxman, before taking his decision to retire, got a<br />
taste of MS Dhoni’s habit of going completely off the<br />
radar when he’s on holiday.<br />
And now, Virat Kohli has become the latest victim of the Indian<br />
skipper’s habit of not responding to text messages or phone calls.<br />
Laxman and Kohli aren’t the only big names Dhoni has<br />
ignored. He notoriously didn’t reply to a congratulatory message<br />
from Amitabh Bachchan after he received the Padma Shree in<br />
2009.<br />
In a Hindustan Times report, Kohli was quoted as saying:<br />
“When he goes away on holidays, it is very hard to contact him.<br />
I tried to message him on the phone but I couldn’t reach him. But<br />
I’ll be seeing him soon I guess. And I’ll speak to him about it.”<br />
Dhoni said that he would not like to be disturbed during his<br />
break, and it seems he’s leaving no stone upturned to accomplish<br />
this.<br />
However, Kohli maintained that he was trying to learn from<br />
Dhoni — especially his ability to keep calm under pressure.<br />
Kohli has been criticised of losing his cool too often.<br />
He also mentioned that Dhoni’s tips during the West Indies tour<br />
helped him in Zimbabwe.
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UPA Government responsible<br />
for killing of Indian soldiers<br />
The responsibility for the recent<br />
killing of five Indian jawans<br />
along the Line of Control in<br />
Poonch in Jammu & Kashmir lies to a<br />
large extent with the Congress-led<br />
UPA Government as it does entirely<br />
with the Army across the border and,<br />
by extension, the recently sworn-in<br />
Nawaz Sharif regime. By continuing<br />
to overlook the repeated breach of the<br />
ceasefire agreement along the LoC by<br />
the Pakistani Army which has over<br />
the months claimed precious lives of<br />
our soldiers, and taking a soft line on<br />
the infiltrations that militants make<br />
with Islamabad's Army providing covering<br />
fire, the Union Government has<br />
encouraged Pakistan to sustain its<br />
deadly attacks.<br />
Even in the present case, the impotence<br />
of the Congress-led regime is evident.<br />
Given that the UPA regime has<br />
allowed Islamabad to get away with<br />
similar atrocities in the past, it would<br />
be a miracle if it actually takes a firm<br />
stand and calls off potential talks between<br />
the Prime Ministers of the two<br />
countries on the sidelines of a United<br />
Nations meet in New York in September,<br />
or takes other measures such as<br />
scaling down diplomatic or trade ties.<br />
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's<br />
attempt to reach out to the Opposition<br />
to explain the Government's position<br />
and ‘cool down tempers' would have<br />
been more credible had his Government<br />
acted decisively in the past. Remember<br />
how he went back on the resolve<br />
that he made in January that it<br />
will no longer be “business as usual”<br />
with Pakistan after the latter's Army<br />
killed Indian soldiers and mutilated<br />
their bodies. Within months of that,<br />
business was back as usual. Trade and<br />
visa agreements fell in place and India<br />
began engaging officials of Islamabad.<br />
On an earlier occasion, after the 26/11<br />
attacks, New Delhi had made a similar<br />
resolve, and broke that too within<br />
months. There is a limit to ill-placed<br />
generosity. Once again Pakistan has<br />
made a military venture and killed<br />
five soldiers and India is a mute spectator.<br />
Its reaction is in Parliament and<br />
not at the front. Leaders from the ruling<br />
and opposite political parties are<br />
firing at each other, but not permitting<br />
the soldiers to retaliate.<br />
Pakistan, one-fourth the size of India,<br />
has always deterred us by all<br />
means. In the wake of terrorist attacks<br />
on Parliament on December 13,<br />
2001, India had mobilised its forces at<br />
the western border and was quite<br />
close to war on January 14, 2002 and on<br />
June 10, 2002. But we did not attack on<br />
Pakistan for fear that the latter might<br />
use its nuclear weapons. In fact, the<br />
NDA government was scared about<br />
Pakistan’s military dictatorship –<br />
whenever military dictators and trigger-happy<br />
Pakistani generals went to<br />
war, both casualties and destruction<br />
were heavy.<br />
The politico-military intellectual<br />
landscape in India has remained basically<br />
desolate. A mislaid and archaic<br />
emphasis on peaceful rhetoric has restrained<br />
all national debate on India’s<br />
strategic culture to deal with the enemy.<br />
It is a multifaceted topic, which<br />
further needs to be discussed and argued<br />
honestly without any bias to<br />
reach a conclusion. A sound and effective<br />
strategy should be immediately<br />
formulated to highlight the increasing<br />
necessity of integration between military<br />
power and diplomacy in view of<br />
consecutive Pakistani attacks on our<br />
soldiers.<br />
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Kashmir tensions threaten to return<br />
India and Pakistan to vitriolic past<br />
An escalating war of words between India and<br />
Pakistan over cross-border attacks in Kashmir<br />
has tarnished hopes that the newly elected government<br />
in Islamabad will succeed in reviving peace<br />
talks between the feuding neighbours.<br />
Accusations and counter-claims have raged since Monday,<br />
when India said five of its soldiers guarding the Line<br />
of Control (LoC) in the divided and disputed state of<br />
Kashmir were killed in an ambush by gunmen from Pakistan.<br />
The flare-up of cross-border tensions has come during<br />
a bloody week in Pakistan. On Thursday, a suicide<br />
bomber attacked the funeral of a policeman who was shot<br />
dead earlier in the day in Quetta, a troubled city in the<br />
south-west periodically attacked by religious and sectar-<br />
Cross-border attacks could<br />
cause recent thaw in relations<br />
to plunge back to pugnacious<br />
ian militants.<br />
Almost 40 people were killed at the gathering in an<br />
impasse of the 1990<br />
open area near a mosque, 21 of whom were police offi- Similar outbreaks of violence in January, which incers,<br />
including one of Quetta's most senior police officluded accusations by India that one of its soldiers had<br />
cers. Also on Thursday, Delhi reacted to days of public been beheaded by a cross-border raiding party, stymied<br />
outrage of the killing of its soldiers by significantly hard- efforts by politicians on both sides to open serious talks.<br />
ening its rhetoric over Monday's attack in Kashmir, di- Some analysts fear such attacks are deliberately orrectly<br />
implicating Pakistani soldiers for the first time. chestrated by elements within the Indian and Pakistani<br />
India's defence minister, A K Antony, told parliament army opposed to rapprochement between the two coun-<br />
that "specialist troops of the Pakistan army were intries. Pakistan's prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who was<br />
volved in this attack".<br />
elected in a landslide victory in May, is determined to<br />
Immediately after the incident, Antony had merely said make progress, vowing to "pick up the threads from<br />
the attack was carried out by militants who were accom- where we left in 1999", the last time he was in office and<br />
panied by "persons dressed in Pakistan army uniforms", attempted to fix a relationship poisoned by three wars<br />
violating a 2003 ceasefire agreement.<br />
since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947. At a meet-<br />
India's febrile media and opposition parties, already ing with government officials in Islamabad on Thursday,<br />
gearing up for elections next year, attacked the govern- Sharif "expressed his sadness over the recent incidents",<br />
ment for being too soft on Pakistan.<br />
a statement by Pakistan's foreign ministry said.<br />
"We all know that nothing happens from the Pakistan He was also reported to have said that "it is incumbent<br />
side of the Pakistan Line of Control without support, as- upon the leadership of both sides not to allow the situasistance,<br />
facilitation and often, direct involvement of the tion to drift and to take steps to improve the atmosphere".<br />
Pakistan army," Antony added.<br />
He also called for better communication between the In-<br />
On Wednesday, hundreds of Indian Youth Congress acdian and Pakistani armies to prevent misunderstanding.<br />
tivists staged a violent protest near the Pakistani high Pakistan has proposed dates for talks with India on some<br />
commission in Delhi, prompting Islamabad to formally of the outstanding disputes between the two countries,<br />
protest what it saw as an attempted "attack" on their but India is yet to reply. There are fears the uproar could<br />
diplomatic mission in the Indian capital. There were also derail hopes of a meeting between Sharif and the Indian<br />
anti-Pakistan demonstrations in other major Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, in New York in Sep-<br />
cities. Pakistan said claims it was involved in the Monday tember, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly.<br />
attack was Indian propaganda, and also complained that Imtiaz Alam, one of the Pakistani founders of the<br />
gunfire from Indian soldiers had killed a civilian on the South Asia Free Media Association, which campaigns for<br />
Pakistani side of the de facto border that neither side of- peace in the subcontinent, said Sharif would have to asficially<br />
recognise.<br />
sert his authority over the country's military. "He will<br />
Islamabad earlier complained over another incident on have to take some very clear, very tough steps," he said.<br />
Tuesday, shortly after the killing of the Indian soldiers, "If he doesn't take those steps that can create the right en-<br />
when it claimed "unprovoked Indian firing" injured two vironment the Indians will start doubting his capacity to<br />
of its soldiers.<br />
fulfil his promises."<br />
Flowers offered by villagers, seen on the body of an elephant, which was hit by a train<br />
about 85 miles east of Guwahati, Assam.<br />
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