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Story ON Page 21 (Agencies) Dubai: If you are steeped in debt and are thinking of fleeing the UAE, think again.As simplistic as it may seem, the long arm of the law can catch Confessions of a Trump Tabloid Scribe up with you sooner than later. (Contd on page 20) How New York's gossip pages helped turn a lying real estate developer into a celebrity. Former Ranbaxy Owners Malvinder, Nargis Fakhri Refash- ions Sangeeta Bijlani's Shivinder Mohan Singh Fined Rs 2,600 Crore iconic 'Oye Oye' In The Sankyo later sold Ranbaxy to Mumbai- the backdrop of a slew of sanctions imposed based Sun Pharma. The deal came against by the (Contd on page 27) Film 'Azhar' Top 50 Defaulters of Indian banks have exposure of Rs 1.2 Lakh Crore

(News Agencies) New Delhi : Top 50 defaulters of public sector banks had an (News Agencies) Billionaire Malvinder exposure of Rs 1.21 lakh crore as of Mohan Singh and his younger brother December 2015. Shivinder Mohan Singh have been asked to Giving this information in the Rajya pay nearly Rs 2,600 crore in fine to Daiichi Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sankyo, for "suppressing and Sinha said the number of wilful defaulters misrepresenting" facts about the 2008 deal of PSU banks rose from 5,554 to 7,686 in involving the sale of controlling stake in the three years to December 2015 while Ranbaxy to the Japanese drugmaker. the amount involved more than doubled to were 1,365 borrower accounts having The penalty was decided by a Singapore Rs 66,190 crore from Rs 27,749 crore. funded outstanding loans of Rs 500 crore court that was hearing an arbitration case “The total exposure of top 50 defaulters and above at the end of December 2015. filed by Daiichi Sankyo in 2013. The Singh of PSBs (public sector banks) as on He further said the government has taken brothers, former Ranbaxy promoters, had December 2015 was Rs 1,21,832 crore,” specific measures to address issues in sold their stake in the drugmaker to Daiichi he said in a written reply in the upper sectors such as infrastructure, steel and Sankyo for $2.4 billion in 2008. Daiichi house. In another reply, Mr Sinha said there textiles, (Contd on page 27) Doshi STEM Institute to close in June (News Agencies) Long Island- been in jeopardy. Enrollment and officials said. The Doshi STEM Institute, Long interest in the STEM institute The Doshi STEM Institute was Island’s first science-focused high waned, officials said, after financial founded in 2013 in an attempt to school, will close at the end of the support was pulled by co-founder create a competitive, specialized school year in June because of a Dr. Leena Doshi, a radiologist who science high school that would pair $1 million budget gap and stagnant owns several imaging centers. The students with expert educators and enrollment, officials said. It shares nonprofit Doshi Family Foundation working scientists from Cold Spring Story the Syosset campus of the initially committed $1 million over Harbor Laboratory and Brookhaven BOCES-operated Long Island High four years to the school, but so far National Laboratory. ON Page 31 School for the Arts, which also has has provided $150,000, BOCES (Contd on page 27) Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 TRI STATE-COMMUNITY 2 NYC Uber Drivers Announce Creation of ALLES ately formed an alliance in or- firms and others, while urging A Solidarity Organization der to protect their rights, rally New York City and New York public support and maximize State to regulate Uber, Lyft, for Drivers & Passengers their negotiating power. and other Transportation Net- Since Uber management work Companies (TNC). New (By a staff reporter) New bership cards. controls the fares charged for York City drivers have found York- Uber drivers from all five The formation of ALLES the service, drivers want and that their passengers feel simi- boroughs recently were in at- was the drivers’ response to need security and protection. lar exhaustions. Employees for tendance for the announce- the recent National Labor Re- Uber financiers are forcing Wall Street banks, law offices ment of ALLES, a labor soli- lations Board’s (NLRB) deci- drivers to work long hours and insurance firms often find terns earning too little in the darity association aimed at sion to deny employee rights without any benefits or labor themselves working long hours modern “gig” workplace to bringing drivers and their pas- to California Uber drivers. With law protections. ALLES will without receiving a penny of keep up with huge debts and sengers together. Over the the road to forming a traditional work to protect members from regular or overtime pay. Other payments on college loans, all last few weeks 1,000 NYC union temporarily blocked by being taken advantage of by riders are part-time workers, without health and pension Uber drivers have signed mem- the NLRB, the drivers immedi- car companies, insurance independent contractors or in- benefits. Fareed Zakaria To Lead Healthcare 2020 CEO Forum With Healthcare Leaders From Around The World At AAPI’s 34th Annual Convention from across the spectrum to dis- Fareed Zakaria leading this pres- she added. Fareed Zakaria writes cuss and provide insights into tigious forum,” says Dr. Seema a foreign affairs column for The what to look for in the year 2020 Jain, President of AAPI. “Repre- Post. He is also the host of CNN’s in the healthcare sector. sentatives from the healthcare Fareed Zakaria GPS and a con- Fareed Zakaria, a world re- industry, including leading CEOs tributing editor for The Atlantic. nowned journalist and author will from hospitals, pharmaceutical Before being named to his posi- lead this in-depth Healthcare companies, academicians, intel- tion at time in October 2010, 2020 CEO Forum by AAPI, which lectuals and physicians, who will Zakaria spent 10 years overseeing will look at the major global de- focus on the changing trends in Newsweek’s editions abroad and velopments in the rapidly chang- the healthcare sector and how eight years as the managing editor ing healthcare sector, with an they impact the providers, hospi- of Foreign Affairs. He is the author of emphasis on new ideas and in- tals and corporations as well as “The Post-American World” (2009) novative solutions to America’s the patients. The Forum will also and “The Future of Freedom” complex healthcare related is- offer insights into managing effi- (2007). Born in India, Zakaria re- (Press Release) New York: in the nation makes the sues. ciently the growing costs in the ceived a B.A. from Yale College and For over three decades, the As- healthcare industry and those “We are proud to have the delivery of healthcare services,” a Ph.D. from Harvard University. sociation of American Physicians who provide and benefit from of Indian Origin (AAPI) has been healthcare services ever more in the forefront, educating, inform- challenging. Now, as the Suresh Wadkar To Hold A Music Workshop in NJ ing, advocating and providing a healthcare industry is rapidly Much of Classical Bhajans, he has always forum for the over 100,000 mem- evolving with the changes con- Music has now become been a firm believer in deal- bers whom it represents to have stantly impacting the providers, evident in the popular cul- ing with every project with a collective voice in the the Government, and patients, ture of Bollywood songs versatility and that is the healthcare industry in the United AAPI is once again playing a lead and music. He works in- kind of musical atmosphere States. The fluid political climate role in bringing together leaders cessantly towards spread- he wishes to propagate. ing the roots of music far There is always scope for a Seminar for elderly organized and wide into the world newer voice, for a newer ap- through apt guidance and proach and for innovation in (By a staff reporter) New York- Bruhud New York Senior leaders instruction. Having lent his every field of music and this Shashikant Patel& Gopi Udeshi recently organized ‘ Trigunatmak voice for numerous he believes is the outlook Seminar’ of Dr. Dilip and Dr. Dipika at Saneeswara Temple in Bollywood and Marathi films that has been blessing the New York. The main topics of discussion were Urological prob- lems in elderly, its significance and solutions, importance of laugh- and devotional songs or Bollywood Music Industry. ter in daily life and stress remover and practicing essence of ‘Bhagvat Gita’ in daily life of ‘Kaliyug’.

(By Staff Reporter) Arriving on May 14th, is a highly an- ticipated, one of a kind Mu- sic Workshop by Suresh Wadkar where he will be teaching how to tackle the in- tricacies of Bollywood music. Suresh Wadkar heads a mu- sic institution with a legacy of Seen in picture from the event (Left to Right) : over 83 years and perseveres Suresh Udeshi, Dr. Jatin Kapadia,Chandrakant Shah, Dr. to maintain the traditional Dipika Docotr, Dr. Dilip Docotor,Bharat Patel, Gopi Udeshi, and timeless quality of Dr. Ajay Lodha, Shashikant Patel, Amita Amin, Mukund Hindustani Classical mu- Mehta, Jitendra Jhaveri, Bhagubhai Patel, Jayant Patel. sic. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 TRI STATE-COMMUNITY 3 Senior program held by India American Forum

Community Center in Beth Gulati and Vijay Goswamy, Chairperson of IAF, wel- success as a Centenarian page, Long Island. Orga- coordinators of the senor pro- comed Fauja Singh and in- Marathon Runner, Several nized by Indian American grams. Narinder Kaur and Kirit troduced the members run- community leaders Forum and Apna Ghar, on Panchamia introduced Apna ning senior programs in Long present were Bobby Tuesday April 26 in the af- Ghar and services being pro- island. Fauja singh came Kumar Kalotee, Dipika ternoon. Kirit Panchamia vided for seniors. Rekha with Satnam Prahar and Dr Modi from AIA, Peter and volunteers of Apna Ghar Chichara, Jyoti Gupta and sev- Tinna , coordinators of Bheddah, Indu and Giri (By a staff reporter) Bethpage- made arrangements for se- eral members sang songs and VAISAKHI 5K run marathon. Chabbra from Hindu cen- On a beautiful sunny after- niors to come to Bethpage bhajans. Mr Mohinder Singh Mr Fauja Singh was recog- ter, Dr Prem Gupta, Mr noon, senior citizens and Senior Community center. Taneja welcomed all and nized and presented with Ramesh Gupta, and sev- members of Indian American Chief Guest for the program spoke about the senior pro- a Citation from Nassau eral dignitaries attended community joined together for was Centenarian Marathon grams and importance of County executive Mr Ed- the event Seniors and spring celebrations. Occasion Runner Fauja Singh, visiting participation Dr Prem Gupta, ward P Mangano. Mr Fauja guests enjoyed delicious was the monthly senior pro- from London. Program started spoke briefly re heart health Singh was applauded for lunch provided by Rajbhog in grams at Bethpage senior with welcome remarks by Anu for seniors Indu Jaiswal his accomplishments and Hicksville India Association of Long Island “First Jugalbandi of Rhythm of the Mind and Melody of the Soul”

(By a staff reporter) Members fun and entertainment recently. wood, who sang in her me- Forum chaired by Mr. Ms. Karishma Ahluwalia and of IALI & general public, gath- The event was gra- lodious voice “Around the Narinder Kapoor, Health Fo- Sangeet Forum chaired by ered at the Plainview Public ciously attended by ShardaJi World in Eight Dollars.” The rum Chaired by Dr. Jag Kalra Mrs. Jyoti Gupta; motivating Library Auditorium for four and , playback singer from Bolly program was a merging of and Dr. Vijay Chhabra, and rejuvenating one’s mind a half hours for some absolute the four Forums: Meditation Sports Forum Chaired by & soul. The evening (By Vijay Shah) New Jersey - Talented & Versatile Bollywood singing sensation Jonita Gandhi, live in a concert at started with scrumptious Star-Land Banquet, New Jersey. Event was organized as a tribute in memory of Jayasimha Kannambille. Partial vegetarian meals served over proceeds from the event were donated to the American Red Cross by Shrujay Foundation. meet & greets, friends, and speakers. Alongside was Shikha from TAS, Theory of Arts & Sci- ences with her plethora of art supplies for making art projects for all ages. A four year old child made a plate art project and gave her a sense of having fun and achievement. The program was emceed by Jyoti Gupta Jonita Gandhi's singing as versatile vocal voice and Amita Karwal, chair of fascinated audience. Cultural Events. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 TRI STATE-COMMUNITY 4 Indian-American Journalist Recieves Prestigious Award At White House Dinner The Wall Street Journal. planet. Over time, however, New York Attorney General to through the WHCA to help The award was shared by Exxon became a leader in issue a subpoena to force finance a post-graduate Terrence McCoy of the denying climate change and Exxon to disclose records in degree for a student in the Washington Post, who argued that the science was order to determine if it Government and Public Affairs explored the issue of lead inclusive," the judges wrote. committed fraud under state reporting track. poisoning among poor black "Reporters Neela Banerjee, law," the judges said. Misha Among the judges for children in Baltimore after John Cushman, Jr David Euceph, a Pakistani radio journalism awards included Freddie Gray died in custody Hasemyer and Lisa Song of journalist from Rawalpindi was Indian-American Indira in a high-profile case of Inside Climate News, used among the 18 budding Somani, an Assistant alleged police abuse. documents, interviews and the journalists selected for WHCA Professor of Journalism at the "As early as 1977, public record from four annual scholarship. She was School of Communications, scientists at energy and oil decades to reveal a deeply also felicitated by the US Howard University in giant Exxon Corporation told disturbing trail from climate President and the First Washington, DC where she top executives that fossil fuel change discovery to denial," it Lady.Ms Euceph, is the teaches broadcast journalism (Agencies) Washington : An emissions were warming the said. "The story prompted the recipient of a USD 5,000 grant courses. Indian-American journalist was felicitated today by US President Barack Obama and Google Acquires Start-Up Founded By Indian-Origin Entrepreneur the First Lady Michelle as she and her colleagues were (Agencies) Google has two million paying businesses presented with a prestigious acquired a business technology around the world, Mr Scocimara award during the annual White start-up founded by an Indian- said. House Correspondents Dinner origin entrepreneur as part of its “As more businesses sign in Washington. plans to scale training offerings up, we wanted an elegant way Neela Banerjee and three of for Google Apps to its customers to scale our training offerings her colleagues from Inside Climate News - John and customers’ users. to our customers and our Cushman Jr, David Hasemyer Varun Malhotra is the founder customers’ users,” he said and Lisa Song - were and CEO of Toronto-based adding that Synergyse builts presented with the prestigious Synergyse, which was launched a virtual coach inside of the Edgar A Poe award. in 2013 with an aim to teach Google Apps interface. With The annual award by the users how to use Google Apps. voice and text interactive White House Correspondents Google did not disclose the modules that are searchable Association (WHCA) honours financial details of the deal. by topic within its apps, journalistic work of national or Google Apps Operations Senior Synergyse will help users get regional significance. Director Peter Scocimara said in up to speed quickly - including A Washington DC-based a blog post yesterday that when new features are rolled journalist Ms Banerjee, before Google and its thousands of out. help our customers with the the company will be working joining Inside Climate News, was energy and environmental Google Apps customers have He said Synergyse will be critical task of change closer with the teams that build reporter for the Los Angeles been “excited” about Synergyse. joining Google, and the company management in the enterprise, Google Apps. Times' Washington bureau. The Google Apps product intends to make the product and bolster the training and According to his profile on his She covered global energy, the suite, which includes Gmail, available as an integral part of the support programs we already commonly page, Mr Malhotra Iraq War and other issues with Calendar, Drive and Docs, was Google Apps offering later this offer today,” he said. specialises in training and The New York Times. built to provide cloud-based year. Synergyse said by joining the strategy and has over 10 years A graduate of Yale productivity and communications “By providing the right help at Google Apps team, it can of experience in the enterprise University, she also served as and is now used by more than the right time, Synergyse will accelerate its mission because space. a Moscow correspondent with Third-Annual Vaisakhi 5K Run Brings over 1,000 Participants

(By a staff Reporter) NewYork promote sport and fitness we learn new things. We their chief guest, Fauja Parhar (Vaisakhi 5K Co- Following months of within the Sikh learn our demographics, Singh, who arrived earlier President) and organizing and weeks of community. Dr. Tinna, a and the demographics we in the week from London. Gurinderpal Singh Josan registrations, the third- marathon runner himself, need to reach out to. We Fauja Singh is the world’s (Vaisakhi 5K annual Vaisakhi 5K Run serves as the President gain a better oldest marathon runner, VicePresident). Throughout took place on Sunday, and CEO of the race’s understanding of what and brought registrations race-day, he was April 24, 2016 at Victory organizing committee. runners want from the from all parts of the tri- accompanied by Field, in Forest Park Some 901 runners event, and hope to state area, and from as far professional security (Woodhaven, NY). The registered for the race, continue to provide the as states like California. personnel, in order to event was conceived by making this year’s the best spring-time Fauja Singh arrived accommodate the size of the Dr. Avtar Singh Tinna as a largest Vaisakhi 5K to experience,” Dr. Tinna at the park shortly before crowd and the interest from celebration of Vaisakhi date. “Every year, we commented. Vaisakhi 5K the race, escorted by Dr. fans looking to take photos and as a means to produce another race, and 2016 had a special draw in Tinna, Satnam Singh with the 105-year-old runner. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 TRI STATE-COMMUNITY 5 Prominent Rhode Islander and New Jersey Businessman Piyush Patel Inducted into State Hall of Fame Piyush Patel said “With $8.00 in my pocket I came to USA, and with supports of well-wisher I have investment in Rhode Island Hotels and Theater and launching good projected movie and book publishing on ‘The Murder Trial of John Gordon’ made me proud to be remain with Rhode-Islander. I have faith and Philosophy to give back to community where I live and progress”. Mr. Piyush Patel thanked organizers and guest who came all the way from New Jersey, New York Prominent Rhode Islander and New Jersey B usinessman Piyush Patel inducted into state hall of fame to support his achievement.” Many senior citizen association, media (By Vijay Shah) The Board of According to Board president and Wampanoag tribes to the present state." Such individuals, , patrons and relatives came to Directors of the Rhode Island 1995 inductee, Patrick T. has been created in 1965 to honor must have been born in Rhode witness the high respectable Heritage Hall of Fame announced Conley— the Hall of Fame, now "Any individual who has Island, lived, studied, or worked achievement and award the selection of ten prominent consisting of 747 illustrious brought credit to Rhode Island, in Rhode Island for a significant ceremony for Mr. Piyush Patel Rhode Islanders for membership Rhode Islanders from Roger brought Rhode Island into time, or made his or her who also made all arrangements in the Rhode Island Heritage Hall Williams and the chief sachems prominence, and contributed to reputation here said Dr. Conley. of stay, lodging and boarding at of Fame on April 30 th , 2016. of the Narragansett and the the history and heritage of the Addressing the audience Mr. his Aqua Blue Hotel. Man bitten by venomous pet king cobra (Agencies) Ali Iyoob, a has been confirmed bitten by a The statement adds the following. resident of Orange County, North cobra and that the best possible “If a violation is confirmed, Carolina, was admitted to a local treatment is being given to Animal Services will hospital in a critical condition him. He refused to divulge any coordinate with those after the man was bitten by his further information. It is organizations to identify, pet king cobra, the News & currently not known how Iyoob seize, and care for the reptiles. Observer reports. was bitten by the king cobra, If no state violation is present, Iyoob was admitted to the and if he was accompanied by Animal Services will work UNC Hospitals on Tuesday someone when the incident internally to devise the best after EMS workers responded happened. plan for the removal of the to an emergency 911 call, Meanwhile, officials from snakes.” which told them about Iyoob the Orange County Animal Officially, residents living in being bitten by the venomous Services are already Orange County are bound by snake. Iyoob was picked up by investigating the incident. the county rules that prohibit emergency responders on N.C. They also confirmed that Iyoob the keeping of venomous or 54 west of Carrboro. After was in possession of other constricting snakes in the administering first aid, he was snakes — many of them region. The statement also taken to UNC Hospitals in venomous. These included affirms that there is no risk to Chapel Hill for further treatment, several other cobra species. In the general public following the the report adds. a statement issued by the incident. “Information received According to UNC Hospitals Animal Services Department, at this time indicates that all spokesman Tom Hughes, Iyoob they stated that it is working of the reptiles inside the with the North Carolina residence have been secured Museum of Natural Sciences and will be removed safely as ‘Three Amigos’ summit: Obama, Trudeau, Nieto to meet in Ottawa and the North Carolina soon as is possible given Zoological Park to determine if statutory and legal (Agencies)US President Barack Obama, there is a violation of state law. requirements.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto will meet in Ottawa for a North American leaders’ Summit on June 29, the White House said on Wednesday. The “Three Amigos” summit, with two key US trading partners, comes as Obama grapples with a wave of anti-free-trade sentiment that has stalled ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a sweeping 12-nation pact that includes Canada campaign, senator Bernie Sanders has opposed and Mexico. the trade deal and Democratic front-runner Hillary Obama hopes the US Congress will ratify the Clinton has also expressed concerns. deal before he leaves office on January 20. But Canada sends 75% of its exports to the United trade has become a lightning rod issue in the States and would suffer greatly if a future president presidential election campaign to replace him. moved to clamp down on free trade. Republican Donald Trump, now his party’s Trudeau, asked how he would deal with a presumptive nominee for 2016, has attacked the president Trump, said the leaders of both countries TPP and describes the tripartite North American would always agree on the need for growth and Free Trade agreement as a disaster that needs prosperity. One important way to achieve this was to be renegotiated or broken.In the Democratic through trade, he added. www.boxofficeinsider.info Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 OP-ED 6 Decisions have not been made groups back into elections for the resonates with theirs, and because they would be good for sake of influencing their because of his determination to Why Trump, Why Now America, voters back home, or outcomes and to some extent keep the special interest groups even the party; they are made for maintain control over politicians. out, they believe that as a A. D. Amar, PhD further, I must state a notable self-interest: political financing Since then, laws, policies, and successful manager, with the We know that Donald J. Trump exception to the above: the and the prospect of retiring as enforcement at all levels of help of experts and has a very good grasp of Reagan Administration, which chief executives of their government have been guided by administrators, he will be able to America’s current problems and jolted the American economy in foundations. The above is not a this money. Dependence on this deliver on that vision and will a plausible vision to solve them. the 1980s and 1990s by theoretical conjecture. It is a money steadily increased, as it indeed make America great Yet, he is not unique in this releasing for commercialization practical reality whose proof is became the cause and effect of again. The Indian-Americans regard. Obama demonstrated it US government technologies that deep-rooted in America’s history. making elections so expensive for Trump 2016 is a registered as well when contesting for the resulted in the industries we America had been looked down in America. This money has PAC with FEC, formed by presidency in 2008. know today as the Internet, upon by Europeans since its become the poison of our prominent Indian- American Nevertheless, he failed miserably cellular telephony, GPS, and the birth as a nation, but, it started political system. No serious professionals and community when it came to making dish antenna. It created more its transformation into the sole presidential candidate since activists in January 2016 to progress on them. T h e than 25 million American jobs global superpower in the early the mid-seventies, belonging help the election of Donald question arises: why, in spite of and many hundreds of millions 1900s when President to either party at any level of Trump. 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tadbhavas. The tadbhava Gurgaon is to be restored — UNBECOMING GURGAON unbecomed, so to speak — to its tatsama Gurugram. ‘Gurugram’ is the symptom of a “Gurugram” is, however, a relatively benign symptom of the disease which generates a striving to disease in which the process of becoming, the work of time itself, return to some previous perfection. is perceived as inimical — and generates a corresponding striving I am happy to report my era village named Gurugram. — which were simply acts of something of the tangibility of to return to some previous spontaneous, and proudly It is easy to mock these postcolonial restitution. But then history? This little sleight of mind perfection. The astrophysicists’ nationalist, reaction on first seeing incompetents — unable to control there is the RSS-driven narrative enables Khattar to identify the actual term for their originary moment — Las Vegas: this is just like even their own police force, they which holds that “colonialism” village that was gifted to Guru the birth of time and the initiation of Gurgaon! Situated right in the fiddled with heaven-knows-what started 1,000 years ago, and any Dronacharya by the victorious that sequence of “distortion” which middle of deserts both physical while Rohtak burned. However, I marks of Islamic presence too Pandavas, presumably in return for we call the world — is “singularity”. and cultural, they are both shining wish to draw attention to some demand restitution to some prior, his “gift” of Eklavya’s thumb? This gives one a clue to Khattar’s monuments to vulgarity. The darker tendencies of which this purer past. This is nonsense of However, the really dangerous discomfort with Gurgaon — similarity runs deeper: like farcical renaming exercise is only a course, since a significant proportion part of this apparently farcical because it is in the run of time that Gurgaon, Vegas too looks minor symptom. Normally, this kind of what we value as “Indian culture” exercise is something that was plurality, diversity and difference glamorous by night — towers of of symbolic politics — renaming is a product of that allegedly dark, revealed by one of the emerge, the glorious variety that we light piercing the dark. By the things — is a feature of the politics medieval, “colonised” period. But spokesmen who was wheeled know as the world, as life. harsh light of day, both places look of the weak. Unable to affect any “Gurugram” is something else again: out in defence thereof. This But “Gurugram” seeks to like building sites — between change in the dispositions of power Here, time itself is the enemy. worthy asserted with complete return — howsoever vainly, given those now hushed towers, there — the stuff of real politics — the Actually, to be fair, there are confidence that the original name the buffaloes that continue to are piles of rubble, dumps of weak console themselves with several different things going on. At of Gurgaon was, in fact, roam the streets between the material for even more towers. symbolic demands, which require one level, there is the insistence on Gurugram. (This might well be glittering palaces — to some But Gurgaon is about to be little more than a few pots of paint, the literal truth of the epic, mythic the case, particularly if awkward imagined monkish moment, transformed. The roads are no some yards of cloth, a taller flagpole, narratives — and so of a piece with questions about evidence are when Aryan celibates stalked longer going to be rough tracks, a bigger statue. But when this kind the insistence on the exact location ruled out.) And, he went on, the land, and punished the suitable only for 4×4 SUVs; the of infantile exercise takes over from of the birthplace of the god, Rama. Gurgaon was merely a apsaras who seduced them by, streetlights are going to function, the real, urgent and unattended This is, again, both the inability of “distortion” that had appeared in well, seducing them back. It is the traffic rendered less chaotic; tasks of governance, then it is time the illiterate to distinguish between the course of time. There is a a fun fantasy — populated by crime confined to the glittering to look deeper. Are these farcical fiction and realities — but it is also linguistic term that captures this voluptuous females who have palaces where the rich gather, and exercises the symptoms of a relatively more sophisticated process exactly — tadbhava, escaped from Raja Ravi not seep through the streets like something altogether more sinister? rejection of the distinction between the emergence of new forms Varma’s paintings, and sages sewage? Well, the Manohar It was suggested, in mitigation history and myth. Thus, if history through prolonged use, through oozing machismo and wisdom Khattar government has found a if not exoneration, that this instance partakes something of the nature of a process of becoming. And the who are, I shudder to think, much simpler, even magic was no worse than earlier acts of myth — being not reality but a presumed originals from which idealised versions of the RSS’s expedient: Gurgaon will disappear, renaming — Bombay-Mumbai, narrative-derivative therefrom — the tadbhavas emerge are called paradoxically celibate father- and in its place will appear a Vedic- Calcutta-Kolkata, Cawnpore-Kanpur might not myth then partake tatsamas. Tatsamas become figures. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 EDITORIAL 7 Bernie Sanders, don’t drop out Why so Dear Bernie: serious? Don’t drop out of the race; redefine it. As you know, I am a friend of Hillary Clinton’s. I also advise a super PAC that What India’s helped re-elect President Obama and now supports Hillary. But I also have known, liked, respected and admired you for many years, and you know that, too. politicians can learn We shared the stage at the 2011 Tom Harkin Steak Fry in Iowa, and I cheered from Obama. as you lit the crowd on fire that soggy afternoon. You seemed to like my barbs aimed at the GOP, too. I recall two decades ago, when you and Hillary were both fighting for universal health coverage — back when it was called Hillarycare — you hosted the first lady on a trip to Vermont and I tagged along. I still remember how gracious you were — There was never really any doubt, but that mic-drop just makes it and how good the ice cream was.Despite my devotion to Hillary I do not think you official: Barack Obama is the coolest one. The president of the ought to withdraw from the race, and it is wrongheaded for anyone on my side of the United States set the interwebz abuzz with his seriously funny Democratic contest to presume to tell you to. To quit or not to quit; that is not the act at his last White House correspondents’ dinner. Sure, it was question. The question is: Will you use your campaign to show Donald Trump how a roast of the man fast turning out to be the great American to attack Hillary — or to show Hillary how to attack Donald Trump? nightmare (The Potus on Donald Trump’s foreign policy chops: “He Now that the GOP field has cleared for Trump, you can guarantee he will focus has spent years meeting with leaders from around the world: Miss all his hateful, bitter vitriol on Hillary. If you continue to hammer her as well, she will Sweden, Miss Argentina, Miss Azerbaijan”) and there were quite be in the difficult position of receiving friendly fire from you, even as Trump is launching a few jibes at Aunt Hillary’s wooing of young Americans on chemical weapons at her. You are in a uniquely powerful position. You can either Facebook. But not a little of the swag came from the fact that he force Hillary to fight a two-front war, or force Trump to. I am urging you to choose poked liberal fun at himself as “a lame-duck president”, fast-losing Trump as your target. clout (“Last week Prince George showed up to our meeting in his He is a tailor-made villain: entitled, arrogant, obnoxious, with a message of bathrobe”). xenophobia, misogyny and division. He is a plutocrat who inherited millions and By contrast, India, in the middle of a bunch of assembly elections, has the cojones (in Brooklyn I gather they call it chutzpah) to masquerade as a is a landscape of fire and brimstone, charge and countercharge, populist. The kind of guy our mutual friend, the great Texas populist Jim Hightower, with our politicians leading the mortal assault on humour. Of says “was born on third base and thought he hit a triple.”You have done great course, there is Lalu Prasad and his brand of rustic comedy. The service to your movement by shining an unblinking spotlight on income inequality, prime minister’s oratory, too, packs in a lot of sting when he takes campaign finance reform and economic justice. But something happens in the broadsides at his rivals. But political humour here is not known course of a campaign — I’ve seen it many times. The focus can shift from the for self-deprecating send-ups. It is used more as a weapon of scorn, cause to the fight; from the issues to the attacks. Prodded by campaign consultants wielded to cut a rival down to size, to label a Pappu and dismiss like me, candidates often abandon righteous indignation at a system stacked against a Feku. working folks for bitter, sarcastic, personal attacks on their opponent.But Hillary, You only have to be a part of a WhatsApp group to know that while doubtless more moderate and pragmatic than you, is simply not the everyone from Arvind Kejriwal to Rahul Gandhi and (increasingly) personification of what’s wrong with the system — and you’ve said as much yourself. Narendra Modi is the butt of our jokes. But from politicians, we You have spoken of your respect, even admiration, for Hillary. “Maybe I shouldn’t only expect the thundering melodrama of promises and tears. It say this,” you’ve said. “But I like Hillary Clinton.” And I know she has the same high could have something to do with our love for hero worship and regard for you. reverence for hierarchy. Given that every day is an absurdist drama You rocketed from obscurity to global fame by focusing on issues, not insults. playing out on our streets and timelines, laughter is one serious In fact, your campaign stalled when you went into attack mode. I doubt Pope Francis business we don’t want our leaders messing up. asked you to attend a Vatican conference on building a moral economy because of a snarky soundbite attacking Hillary for giving paid speeches.The hard truth is the math makes your winning the Democratic nomination impossible. Hillary has won more votes, more states, more pledged delegates and more superdelegates. But you have a chance to win something nearly as important: the ability to shape the debate. Sure, that will take the form of trying to massage the Democratic Party’s already progressive platform (which many will debate ad nauseam, then no one will ISSN No. 1554 06X read). Chairman: Karam Singh Thind (Honorary) I am talking about a more powerful platform, leveraging a more potent vehicle to Editor in Chief: Sharanjit Singh Thind draw attention to your issues: the saturation media coverage of Donald Trump. In a masterstroke of jujitsu, you can use the power of the free press Trump attracts to Editor (Political Affairs-India) : Aruna Singh highlight all the ways you think he’d be a disaster. President : Bhupinder K. 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the idea up in Miami during the “credibility gap” over his 1972 Democratic National administration’s policies in Convention. “The [1972] general Vietnam. Richard Nixon’s election hadn’t even taken place,” presidency ended in disgrace he later acknowledged. “We all Gerald Ford’s brief tenure was knew it looked kind of marked by economic instability preposterous, but we were at home and final defeat in serious about it. It was hard to Southeast Asia. say it. I can remember I didn’t The legislative branch fared make a very good presentation. little better, as Congress found It was hard really to talk about it. itself mired in scandal after It was almost embarrassing.” In scandal throughout the decade. his campaign strategy Among other imbroglios, the document, Jordan posited that 1970s witnessed the personal “the strongest feeling in this destruction of Wilbur Mills, the country today is the general all-powerful chairman of the TheThe WorstWorst WayWay toto StopStop aa Front-RunnerFront-Runner distrust of government and House Ways and Means politicians at all levels.” Committee, who stumbled onto What #NeverTrump can learn from ‘Anybody But Carter.’ As an outsider who was the stage at a Boston strip club neither a career politician nor a and joined Annabel Battistella— It was May 1976, and Jimmy Democratic primary voters loved stop a candidate who, by then, member of the Washington aka Fanne Foxe—for several of Carter, a former one-term Carter’s anti-establishment could fairly claim a popular establishment, Carter could tap her dance numbers. Mills might governor of Georgia, was credentials and his skepticism of mandate among his party’s into a deep reserve of popular have survived the embarrassment barreling his way in the most government as a salve for all primary voters. discontent with politics. Indeed, had he not been involved in an unlikely fashion toward the problems economic and social. Today, the same is probably if one political theme can be said earlier incident in Washington, Democratic nomination. That’s “It is not merely that Jimmy true. to lend the 1970s coherence as when he and Foxe were stopped when a loose coalition of Carter is an ‘outsider,’” observed When Governor Jimmy Carter a decade, it was the collapse of while driving by a police officer prominent Democrats at the New York Times reporter James of Georgia told his mother that political leadership. From for failing to turn on the car lights. state and federal level decided to Reston late that month, “or that he planned to run for president, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Mills was clearly intoxicated and, try to stop him. Coalescing under the party and labor elders don’t she famously asked him, Truman, to Dwight Eisenhower for good measure, Foxe fled the the “Anybody But Carter” know what he’d do as president. “President of what?” Carter was and John F. Kennedy, the men car and jumped into the Tidal umbrella, his detractors launched [The] Democrats don’t know a onetime peanut farmer and who had led the United States in Basin. Only slightly more a last-ditch effort to deny the quite what to do with him state senator whose term as Depression, war and peace cut scandalous was Mills’ colleague, former governor enough because nobody but the people governor was due to expire in bold, decisive figures on the Wayne Hays, chairman of the delegates to win on the first ballot seem to be for him.” 1975. Nothing about his ambition national stage. But that state of House Administration at the convention that summer. And in the end, that seemed plausible to most early affairs changed after 1963. Committee, who kept his It didn’t work. momentum proved more potent observers. Lyndon Johnson, who was a longtime mistress on the That year, long before the than a last-ditch effort organized Carter’s candidacy was the commanding president on the government payroll as a #NeverTrump movement and long by the party’s most powerful brainchild of his young aide, domestic front, opened up a wide secretary, (Contd on page 20) before Ted Cruz and John Kasich players. It was simply too late to Hamilton Jordan, who dreamed teamed up to thwart this year’s GOP front-runner, Anybody But Carter failed to derail an insurgent Indian-origin scientist hacks into Samsung’s IoT platform who, alone, seemed to (Agencies) New York : An Indian-origin understand the intensity of cybersecurity researcher from University popular discontent with politics of Michigan and his team have and politicians. It’s a good lesson this year, as Republican elites successfully hacked into a leading desperately try to prevent Donald “smart home” automation system and Trump from securing their party’s got the PIN code to a home’s front door. nomination. The “lock-pick malware app” Like Trump, Carter pursued developed by Atul Prakash, professor of the presidency as an anti- computer science and engineering, was establishment maverick and one of four attacks that the cybersecurity courted disaffected voters with a researchers performed at an jeremiad that decried America’s experimental set-up of Samsung’s fall from power and grace. “SmartThings”, a top-selling Internet of A small-town man of pious Things (IoT) platform for consumers. disposition, Carter was sharply The work is believed to be the first out of place among a slate of better-known candidates who platform-wide study of a real-world more naturally appealed to the connected home system. “At least cloud and let users customise functions, make a spare door key by programming party’s liberal imagination. His today, with the one public IoT software holds more than 500 apps. an additional PIN into the electronic own domestic policy adviser platform we looked at, which has been Prakash and Earlence Fernandes, lock.They showed that SmartApp could acknowledged that he was around for several years, there are doctoral student in computer science turn off “vacation mode” in a separate “clearly the most conservative of significant design vulnerabilities from a and engineering performed a security app that lets you programme the timing the Democratic candidates,” “the security perspective,” said Prakash. analysis of the SmartThings’ of lights, blinds, etc., while you’re away only one talking about balanced “I would say it’s okay to use as a programming framework. They to help secure the home. budgets and less bureaucracy hobby right now but I wouldn’t use it demonstrated a SmartApp that They demonstrated that a fire alarm and less red tape.” Party regulars where security is paramount,” he added. eavesdropped on someone setting a new could be made to go off by any despised his personality, too. At Wipro Ventures takes stake in PIN code for a door lock and then sent SmartApp injecting false messages. once self-righteous and slippery, cybersecurity startup Vectra Networks that PIN in a text message to a potential “The access SmartThings grants by he was, according to Bob Shrum, the young speechwriter As a testament to the growing use of hacker. default is at a full device level, rather who quit his campaign in mid- “SmartThings”, its Android companion The SmartApp, which they called a than any narrower,” Prakash said.As cycle, “a dangerous man”—“it app that lets you manage your connected “lock-pick malware app”, was disguised an analogy, say you give someone would be bad for this person to home devices remotely has been as a battery level monitor and only permission to change the lightbulb in be president.” downloaded more than 100,000 times. expressed the need for that capability your office, but the person also ends But, after the Vietnam War, SmartThings’ app store, where third- in its code. As an example, they showed up getting access to your entire Watergate and a string of party developers can contribute that an existing, highly rated SmartApp office, including the contents of your congressional scandals, many SmartApps that run in the platform’s could be remotely exploited to virtually filing cabinets,” he explained. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 US NEWS 9 NorthNorth CarolinaCarolina ManMan SentencedSentenced toto LifeLife inin PrisonPrison forfor OperatingOperating ViolentViolent andand ExtensiveExtensive SexSex TraffickingTrafficking EnterpriseEnterprise

– into prostitution. of North Carolina also ordered trafficking enterprise operated in “merchandise.” The sentence was him to pay $13,840 in restitution Charlotte, North Carolina, and According to the evidence announced by Principal Deputy to the victims of the two sex other cities from at least 2010 established at trial, Muslim Assistant Attorney General trafficking counts, which charged until his arrest in November 2013. accused one teenage victim of Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Muslim with the sex trafficking As established by the evidence withholding money from him and Department’s Civil Rights of those victims for periods of two presented at trial, Muslim then proceeded to handcuff and Division, U.S. Attorney Jill months and three months, recruited vulnerable young beat her until she admitted to Westmoreland Rose of the respectively. On Aug. 11, 2014, women and girls from the keeping some of her earnings. Western District of North a federal jury found Muslim guilty Charlotte area and advertised Muslim’s assaults on other Carolina, Special Agent in Charge on all counts, including two them for prostitution on the victims included burning one John A. Strong of the FBI’s counts of sex trafficking, one internet. He lured them into his victim’s leg with a cigarette to Charlotte Division and Special count of kidnapping, one count scheme by promising that they teach her a lesson; and punching Agent in Charge Nick S. Annan of production of child would be part of a “family” when a third victim in the stomach, of U.S. Immigration and pornography, one count of they had none. Once the women without warning, as she balanced (Insider Bureau) - Shahid Customs Enforcements witness tampering and five and girls were a part of his with her eyes closed during a Hassan Muslim, aka “Sharp,” 33, Homeland Security counts of promoting a enterprise, Muslim demanded all “DUI test” he forced her to was sentenced today to life in Investigations (HSI) Atlanta prostitution business enterprise. of their proceeds and used brutal perform. After punching her in prison for operating an extensive Division. Evidence presented during violence to control them. As one the stomach, Muslim then sex trafficking enterprise that In sentencing Muslim, U.S. Muslim’s four-day trial, including witness explained, he never hit dragged her by her hair to a recruited women and girls – District Court Judge Robert the testimony of five victims, the victims in the face because it bathroom and repeatedly some as young as 16 years old Conrad Jr. of the Western District revealed that Muslim’s sex would damage his punched her until she vomited. A Tech Firm’s $1.65 Billion Comeback Story (Agencies) It’s hard to times, as we did, you look at The company was touted as believe now, he says, but 15 yourself in the mirror and say, one of the decade’s biggest years ago, Reggie K. Aggarwal ‘What have I done to people?’ “ comeback stories and heralded was on the brink of bankruptcy. Slowly, Aggarwal, Ghoorah as an example of what a Northern He was living with his parents and two other co-founders turned Virginia tech firm could do. and had little more to his name around the company — and, in But for Aggarwal, who had than a few hundred dollars and mid-April, sold it for $1.65 billion experienced good times before, an old Jeep Cherokee. to private-equity firm Vista Equity there was an underlying sense He also had a dying Partners. of caution. company to shore up. “It’s taken us 15, 20 years to “We were, frankly, a beaten Cvent, the events- build a good company,” dog,” Aggarwal said. “We felt like management software Aggarwal said. “When you start we’d always been fighting the company he founded in 1999 the way we did, with a punch to world.” during an era of high valuations the gut, it crushes you. Most In the five years since, he has and dot-com excess, had fallen companies don’t recover from steadily built on that momentum, That growth is what attracted announced. from glory just as quickly as it something like that.” creating a 2,000-person company Vista, which is based in Austin, “Reggie and the Cvent had risen. But somehow, he says, Cvent with nine offices around the to Cvent, based in the team have built a leading And here was Aggarwal, a did. In 2002, Aggarwal signed a world. The company went public Washington suburb of Tysons portfolio of products and are 31-year-old former lawyer, personal guarantee for the in 2013, raising $117.6 million in Corner, Virginia. The firm is positioned for expansion in a trying to pick up the pieces. company’s lease in a Fairfax the process. paying $36 per share for the large and underpenetrated The company had burned County office building and Last year, Cvent’s annual company, a 69 percent premium market,” Brian Sheth, co- through $16.6 million of the $17 stopped talking to the press. He revenue climbed 32 percent, to over Cvent’s stock price on the founder and president of Vista, million it had raised from big- forgot about chasing investments $187.7 million. trading day before the deal was said at the time. name investors — the likes of and instead focused on adding former AOL chairman Steve customers and building revenue. Case and MicroStrategy co- “I didn’t want to talk to Donald Trump links Ted Cruz’s father to JFK’s assassin founder Sanju K. Bansal — anybody,” Aggarwal, 46, said. “I (Agencies) Donald Trump assassination. he was unaware that Castro just a couple of years earlier. didn’t even want to put our name alleged Tuesday that White “I mean, the whole thing is was a communist, according to Then terrorists struck on Sept. on the building. It was very much House rival Ted Cruz’s father was ridiculous. What is this? Right prior the Miami Herald. The paper 11, 2001, and the dot-com like, ‘Put your head down. Don’t with John F Kennedy’s killer to his being shot, and nobody brings said there was no corroborating bubble burst, sending Internet talk about it. Just freakin’ do it.’ “ shortly before the US president it up,” Trump told Fox by telephone. evidence that Cruz — who is start-ups reeling. When the company was assassinated, prompting “I mean, what was he doing — what now fervently anti-communist — By late 2001, the country reemerged in 2011, it was to Cruz to brand the Republican was he doing with Lee Harvey was affiliated with Oswald, and was in recession, and announce that it had received frontrunner a “pathological liar.” Oswald shortly before the death — that the Cruz campaign said Aggarwal was almost out of $137 million in venture-capital The startling allegation, and before the shooting? It’s horrible.” candidate’s father is not in the money. financing from New Enterprise Cruz’s full-throated retort, The Enquirer, which has published photograph. Trump’s remarks He and co-founder Charles Associates and Insight Venture occurred on the morning of a previous stories deeply critical of incensed Ted Cruz, who V. Ghoorah spent their days Partners. Aggarwal planned to crucial primary election in Cruz, said an August 16, 1963 delivered a blistering takedown laying off employees — their use the money to pay back his Indiana where Trump is seeking photograph of Oswald in New of the celebrity billionaire. workforce of 125 dropped to 25 investors, many of whom had to land a knockout blow against Orleans handing out leaflets in “Donald Trump alleges that my in less than six months — and waited 12 years to cash out. his chief challenger for their support of Fidel Castro shows a dad was involved in nights fretting about what they The news took the media by party’s nomination. Trump, young Rafael Cruz nearby. Oswald assassinating JFK,” a visibly had done. surprise. The website Tech parroting a recent story by the was killed November 24, 1963, two angry Cruz told reporters at a “Those were very humbling Crunch was the first with the National Enquirer tabloid, took to days after Kennedy’s campaign event in Indiana. days,” said Ghoorah, announcement: “It’s pretty Fox News to say the Texas assassination. Rafael Cruz was “Let’s be clear, this is nuts,” he executive vice president of amazing that we have seemingly senator’s father Rafael Cruz, an once a supporter of rebel leader said. “Yes, my dad killed JFK, sales and marketing. “When never written about Cvent before,” immigrant from Cuba, was “with Lee Castro, but he admits in his he is secretly Elvis, and Jimmy you downsize three different its story said. Harvey Oswald” before the biography “A Time for Action” that Hoffa is buried in his backyard.” Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 US NEWS ANYLASIS 10 and another (Jim Risch) wasn’t states. even sure his tepid approval All nine of the remaining qualified as an endorsement. contests are primaries. (Cruz The Josh Holmes, who served as has fared better in caucuses Senate Republican leader Mitch and party conventions, lower McConnell’s chief of staff when turnout affairs dominated by beginning Cruz arrived in the Senate in hardcore activists. There are 2012, said Cruz was perhaps the no such contests left.) lone top Republican politician in Cruz has vowed to soldier America who couldn’t rally on, announcing over the of the end congressional Republicans weekend he was “all in” on against Trump, a bombastic California, which votes on outsider whose heated rhetoric June 7 and whose delegates for Ted and unpredictability has turned Trump will need to formally off many GOP elites. clinch the nomination. But the “They would vote for almost three most recent public polls anybody other than Donald in California showed Trump Cruz Trump,” Holmes said. winning the state by “Unfortunately, almost anybody increasingly lopsided This is over,’ says one does not include Ted Cruz.” margins: 18, 27 and 34 Cruz’s campaign manager percentage points, GOP operative. Jeff Roe dismissed a report respectively. Tuesday that layoffs were “This is over,” said Steve coming, tweeting that Cruz still Schmidt, who managed John (Agencies) Ted Cruz threw beginning to take place with these poll, putting him underwater for had $9 million cash on hand. But McCain’s 2008 presidential everything at Indiana, and none three videos playing that the first time, with 39 percent big donors are expected to campaign as well as Arnold of it stuck. demoralizes his supporters.” favorable and 45 percent reassess continuing to invest in Schwarzenegger’s California After finally getting the two- Then on Tuesday, as voting unfavorable ratings, on the eve super PAC ads attacking Trump reelection. “It’s always difficult man contest against Donald was underway, Cruz eviscerated on Indiana’s election. and boosting Cruz after their when a campaign comes to an Trump that he had promised Trump in his harshest and most Indeed, while Cruz had latest loss. end for people to realize it. would deliver victory, Cruz was desperate terms yet, calling him hoped to consolidate the Stop After the Indiana defeat, it’s There’s dissonance between routed, a staggering defeat for a “serial philanderer,” a Trump movement behind him not clear Cruz can knock Trump the emotional and intellectual the senator’s dimming “pathological liar,” and a after winning in Wisconsin, he off his stride anywhere. The parts of the brain.” Cruz presidential ambitions. “narcissist.” netted few new endorsements. Nebraska primary is a week executed every available political Cruz is now 0 for the last 7 “The man is utterly amoral,” Almost a year after he away, but Trump’s most likely maneuver in Indiana, hoping to contests and stumbles into the Cruz went on, comparing him to announced his candidacy, paths to 1,237 delegates doesn’t turn his fortunes in a Midwestern final month of the primary the fictional bully character in Cruz still has the backing of require him to win there. state whose makeup he likened calendar with no momentum, a Back to the Future, “We are only four of his Senate More ominously for Cruz, to his past landmark victories in new low in favorability and a looking, potentially, at the Biff Republican colleagues, less Trump has obliterated the Iowa and Wisconsin. He tried growing aura of inevitability Tannen presidency.” than 10 percent of the competition in primaries thus far. retail stops, a nonaggression around his chief rival. The fresh attacks came as conference, and one of them Trump has won 24 of 29 such pact with John Kasich, gobs of A remarkable 91 percent of Cruz’s image nationally had (Lindsey Graham) likened it to contests, with two of his five TV ads. He even unveiled his vice Republicans, according to a plunged to new lows in the Gallup picking poison over being shot losses coming in his rivals’ home president. None of it worked. CNN poll released Monday, said they now expected Trump would become the Republican Jindal: I would vote for Trump nominee. “He wanted a one-on-one (Agencies) Though he spent doing so well. with Donald Trump the entire the majority of his campaign for "We conservatives have to election and he got it and he the Republican nomination go back and do a better job of lost,” said Keith Nahigian, a railing against Donald Trump, explaining our beliefs and Republican strategist who former Louisiana Gov. Bobby principles to the voters. I think managed Michele Bachmann’s Jindal said Tuesday that he will Donald Trump is tapped into 2012 campaign. “If you’re the vote for the real estate mogul, the middle class anxieties true conservative alternative to reluctantly, if he becomes the when conservatives say Trump, they’re not buying it, so nominee. they're for limited government, quit selling it and close the Appearing on CNN, Jindal entitlement reform, free trade," store.” responded to comments that Jindal said. "Donald Trump is Cruz had a miserable final former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman not for those things and doing 48 hours on the trail in Indiana. made to POLITICO last week Then again, Trump would comes down to a binary well in part because voters are His new running mate, Carly in which the 2012 presidential still be the best choice, Jindal choice between Donald responding to what he's saying. Fiorina, slipped and fell off stage candidate and former U.S. suggested. Trump, I'm supporting the He's saying, look he'll fight for in a moment that went viral ambassador to China remarked "Having said that, third, party's nominee. I'm not happy them. I don't think Donald Trump online. He confronted a Trump that Trump is better positioned however, if he is the nominee about it. I don't think he's the will do a lot of things he said he's supporter on camera and told than any other Republican I will be voting for him, I will best qualified, I don't think he's going to do but I do think he's him in a heated exchanged that, candidate to assemble a be supporting him," he said, the one most likely to be done a very good job of tapping “He is playing you for chump.” coalition across party lines. explaining that there are "quite successful, but I would vote for into middle-class voters' And Cruz interrupted a young "Three things. One, I have a simply too many important him over Hillary Clinton." anxieties." Asked what made heckler to scold him that, “In my tremendous amount of respect issues," giving it "a chance" Jindal would not appear to him feel that way, Jindal household, when a child for Gov. Huntsman," Jindal that Trump would get rid of be holding his breath for remarked, "I don't think he's behaves that way, they get a said. "Secondly, I think Donald Obamacare. Trump to accomplish much (or opposed to big government; I spanking.” Trump is going to have the "I think there's a zero any) of what he is boasting on just think he wants to be the one Rick Tyler, Cruz’s former hardest time beating Hillary of percent chance that Hillary the trail, however. Trump is not running big government. I do think communications director, said, all the Republican candidate Clinton would do that. So a conservative, Jindal said, he'll be better than Hillary “There’s a psychology that’s that ran for president." yes," Jindal continued. "If it and that may be why he is Clinton." Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 SPECAIL REPORT 11 overtures to his rivals and offered For Cruz, the road ended in kind words to the Texas senator Indiana. just hours after ridiculing him as “From the beginning I’ve said a liar who had become that I would continue on as long “unhinged.” as there was a viable path to “Ted Cruz, I don’t know if he victory,” Cruz said, with his wife likes me or if he doesn’t like me, Heidi by his side. “Tonight I’m but he is one hell of a competitor,” sorry to say it appears that path Trump said. “He is a tough, smart has been foreclosed.” guy. And he has got an amazing “With a heavy heart but with future.” boundless optimism for the long- It was a subtle term future of our nation, we are acknowledgement of the suspending our campaign,” Cruz challenge that Trump will have to said, pledging his liberty-focused solve if he’s to truly unite the party movement would live on. He did for the general election. He’s got not mention Trump. Cruz in recent stratospheric unfavorable ratings, days had appeared to be especially among minority reckoning with his fate, and communities that could be earlier on Tuesday he hurled decisive voting blocs in swing every insult in the book at Trump. states, and Trump promised to He spent his morning skewering be a great leader for “the the New York billionaire — Trump: We will win Hispanics” and “the African “utterly amoral,” “a serial Americans” in his speech. philanderer,” “a pathological liar” “We’re going to love each and even ridden with venereal other, we’re going to cherish each disease. But it wasn’t enough The real estate mogul knocks Cruz out of the race and other. We’re going to take care and it only served to underscore of each other and we’re going to the political reality: Trump was declares he will lead the GOP to victory in November. have great economic about to deliver a crushing blow development,” he said. to his chance to become (Agencies) It was the night bring unity.” Republicans urged the party to Only the nominal opposition president. “Ted Cruz is a Donald Trump broke his Republican National follow the will of the voters. from Ohio Gov. John Kasich desperate candidate trying to enemies. The real estate mogul Committee Chairman Reince “Tonight’s outcome raises stands between Trump and an save his failing campaign,” Trump on Tuesday crushed Ted Cruz in Priebus, who has occasionally seriousness & urgency of unimpeded glide path to the said in response to Cruz’s tirade. Indiana, ejecting the Texas feuded publicly with Trump, on discussions about third-party nomination. But Trump was “Today’s ridiculous outburst only senator from the race, and Tuesday night spoke with Trump alternative; how real it is depends already looking past the primary proves what I have been saying declaring from Trump Tower in by phone and tweeted out two on who steps up to run,” tweeted and toward the likely matchup for a long time, that Ted Cruz New York City that he will lead words that seemed Lanhee Chen, an adviser to Mitt against Clinton, ripping her as does not have the temperament the GOP to victory in November. unfathomable 10 months ago: Romney’s 2012 campaign and to tone-deaf on trade and pointing to be President of the United It was a pivotal moment in a “presumptive nominee.” Marco Rubio in 2016. to her husband, Bill Clinton’s, States.” With the hope for a stunning race that has seen the “@realDonaldTrump will be He was immediately rebutted approval of the NAFTA trade contested convention slipping billionaire go from sideshow presumptive @GOP nominee, by Mississippi RNC agreement. away, some of the anti-Trump laughingstock to the Republican we all need to unite and focus Comitteeman Henry Barbour, Trump’s decisive Indiana win forces sounded deflated on Party’s best hope to reclaim the on defeating @HillaryClinton who replied, “It’s time to focus effectively ended the contest, Tuesday night. “If we nominate White House, despite an #NeverClinton,” Priebus stated. on beating Hillary. 3rd party which was called for Trump as Trump, we will get intransigent faction that will never But evidence of division was candidate would guarantee WH soon as polls closed. With destroyed...... and we will view him as their legitimate everywhere among for her. Voters have spoken...” roughly 90 percent of precincts deserve it” tweeted South leader. establishment Republicans as Ari Fleischer, a former press reporting, the real estate mogul Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. “We’re going to win in they digested the reality of Trump secretary to President George led with 53.2 percent of the vote, Erick Erickson, an influential November,” a triumphant Trump leading the party. The most W. Bush, tweeted, “There’s a lot compared to 36.7 percent for Republican activist who had tried announced from his campaign hardcore anti-Trump leaders in about Donald Trump that I don’t Cruz and 7.5 percent for Kasich. to mobilize an anti-Trump headquarters, surrounded by his the party alternated between like, but I’ll vote for Trump over With the victory, Trump jumped movement, tweeted on Tuesday family, adding that it’s time for outwardly embracing Hillary Hillary any day.” over the 1,000 mark in the night, “I don’t want to the GOP to rally behind him. “We Clinton – the likely Democratic Trump appeared ready to delegate race of the 1,237 he congratulate Hillary Clinton on want to bring unity to the nominee – and musing about extend olive branches. In a needs to officially clinch the winning the Presidency tonight, Republican Party. We have to third-party options, while other victory speech, he made nomination. but she just did.” Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 INDIA NEWS 12 Let’s have a commission for defence deals to assist the government (Agencies) While effective Accordingly, the degree of conduct post-mortems after a national security goals and transparency in deals involving deal goes awry during composite national defence are these segments is limited implementation? Why primary to systemic governance compared to those related to non- contemplate punitive action only in representative democracies, strategic requirements. after the horses have bolted, the level of moral responsibility The fact that Indian defence when cogent preventive action ascribed to all stakeholders is deals have been consistently could have saved millions of also high. India is woefully controversial ever since 1948 dollars on deals that usually run dependent on the industrial raises three important issues, into billions? capacities of the United States, calling for dimensional changes Third, when individuals across Russia, the UK, Germany, in the procurement methodology: the Indian political chess board Sweden and Italy, among others, First, how is it that no real or from the Right to the Centre to to fulfil its domestic strategic enforceable correctives have been the Left have lined their pockets, supply needs; the threats to mandated by the political order is it not time to hold a special Procurement Commission USPC could be fine-tuned during national security ensure that the responsible for these deals with session of the Lok Sabha, (USPC) on the lines of the the special Lok Sabha session. processes of procurement from foreign parties? possibly presided over by the UPSC, with its autonomy If the government so wishes, it these nations get circumscribed Second, why is it that president, to lay out options to ensured, to assist the would be appropriate to put on by a high level of secrecy.Four assertive audit control measures identify the fault lines in defence government through seamlessly hold any major defence deal till broad segments — border (ACMs) do not precede a deal at deals since 1948?Is this not the professional handling of all the USPC presides over defence, maritime protection, air an appropriate stage in the right time to establish, after due defence deals? procurement from foreign defence and internal security — process’ narrative rather than systemic diligence, a truly The constitution, mechanics, sources, unless national security get special category treatment. focusing all accounting energy to independent Union Strategic the limits and powers of the imperatives dictate otherwise. Raja-Mandala: Delhi and Donald Trump India must prepare for a potential discontinuity in America’s foreign relations (Agencies) As he Clinton as the personification the coming months. overcomes the residual of America’s foreign policy Starting from then- resistance among the problems. That certainly looks President Bill Clinton’s visit to Republicans to his nomination a smart political move. India in March 2000, India has as the party’s presidential Trump argued that “after slowly but certainly resolved candidate, Donald Trump has the Cold War our foreign policy or minimised many of the begun to develop a foreign veered badly off course. We outstanding disputes with the policy framework that failed to develop a new vision US, including those on nuclear challenges much of the for a new time. In fact, as time proliferation and Kashmir. conventional wisdom in went on, our foreign policy Prime Minister Narendra Washington. In a speech began to make less and less Modi’s visit to Washington delivered in Washington last sense. Logic was replaced early next month will week, Trump chose to avoid with foolishness and consolidate and celebrate the abrasive off-the-cuff comments arrogance, which led to one expansion of the strategic A core element of Trump’s about doing a deal with China. and read from a teleprompter. foreign policy disaster after partnership between the two proclaimed “America First” Some in the US are concerned The attempt at sounding more another.” countries. foreign policy is the focus on that Trump might cede more responsible did not mean As the first lady in the The significance of Trump reducing the US trade deficit political space in Asia to China Trump was giving up on his White House, a Senator and for Delhi’s diplomacy may not and limiting the insourcing in return for economic controversial foreign policy secretary of state during the necessarily lie in the few stray and outsourcing of American concessions from Beijing. ideas. He was expressing last quarter of a century, comments he has made about jobs. If Delhi has had great Trump’s continuing insistence them politely. Clinton is deeply associated India. Nor do his occasional difficulty dealing with American that US allies should share Trump’s detractors, both with America’s post-Cold War remarks on Pakistan’s nuclear liberalism on trade issues, it’s more of America’s defence Republican and Democrat, are international relations. weapons suggest a definitive utterly unprepared to cope burden and his threat to pull right in pointing out the Although there was a debate shift. Although Trump’s overall with even a mild shift in out if they don’t has the multiple contradictions in his between the Republicans and attitude towards India has Washington towards potential to alter the worldview. But then, Trump is Democrats over many been positive, it’s his larger protectionism. If Delhi doesn’t geopolitical landscape in not at graduate school. He is international issues, the worldview that will have a great get its trade act together, it’s Asia. At the same time, it also simply channelling the contest between Trump and bearing on India’s strategic in for a real rough ride in the opens the door for India to widespread American Clinton will reveal a much choices. coming years. take on larger leadership wariness about Washington’s wider chasm. Trump now insists he “will Trump’s political approach responsibilities in the region. expansive and expensive This new divergence, in no longer surrender this will have elements that benefit Like many in Washington, international engagement in which Trump is denouncing his country or its people to the India as well as create Delhi has sniggered at Trump all recent decades. own party’s “arrogance and false song of globalism”. complications. Consider, for these days. India must begin to Trump’s objective is to foolishness” in the Middle Trump’s emphasis on the example, Trump’s emphasis on take Trump seriously and assess hammer away at the failings East, also primacy of the nation-state improving ties with Russia. the sources and consequences of the post-Cold War American reveals the many and deal-making on the basis Deteriorating ties between of America’s changing worldview. foreign policy rather than offer significant alternative of self-interest opens up very Washington and Moscow in Delhi is quite familiar with the an immaculate alternative. He possibilities for America’s interesting opportunities for recent years had complicated Clinton establishment. It now has effortlessly distanced foreign policy. It’s this India if Delhi is prepared to India’s own strategic calculus. A needs to engage those shaping himself from the blunders of prospect for potential adapt. If Delhi thinks the past new compact between them the enormously successful the Republican establishment discontinu-ity in America’s is a guide to America’s future would be very welcome in campaign that has turned Trump and begun to demonise his external relations that New foreign policy, it might find Delhi. Delhi would be wary, in from a political joke into a serious Democratic rival Hillary Delhi must prepare itself for in itself in some trouble. contrast, of Trump’s talk contender for the White House. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 INDIA NEWS 13 Cracks in a state Maharashtra’s social contract is fraying. Its political elites cannot comprehend, or handle, the situation. (Agencies) Besides then advocate general economy moves from crisis to completing 56 years as a concerning the state’s unity. crisis, the issue of linguistic state on May 1, this He favoured the formation of a backwardness becomes more year also marks the completion separate state of Vidarbha. He acute. of six decades since major also suggested that At a more general level, but Marathi-speaking territories Marathwada, too, needs to be particularly in the backward continued by their rivals the judicial deadlock. In the came together administratively separated from Maharashtra. regions, the issue of farmer between 1999 and 2014. context of agitations by and politically in 1956 — albeit Questions of propriety suicide has assumed severe Both the agrarian and water Patels and Jats, social unrest as part of a bilingual experiment. notwithstanding, his proportions, although for crises bring to the fore the is only waiting to erupt in However, current circumstances utterances represent a almost a decade, the state older tension policymakers Maharashtra because of the would hardly allow the state to longstanding crack — the managed to wish away the faced: In order to balance the numeric clout of Marathas and celebrate. Maharashtra has been regional imbalance in the issue with only contingent urban industrial interests and the economic clout of the elite in the news for the wrong reasons state. Marathwada may not measures. This year, it has rural agricultural interests, the from that community, on the and it looks like the social pact actually demand separation been accompanied by a water state chose to often yield to the one hand, and the consistent that marked the basis of the but the fact remains that it crisis afflicting both urban and terms dictated by industry and economic stagnation that a coming together of Marathi- suffers from industrial rural areas. This crisis was then selectively protected only majority of rural Marathas speaking people and regions has backwardness and severe waiting to happen, given that some agricultural interests. This have been facing, on the other. been under severe strain. drought and famine, affecting Maharashtra’s performance in resulted in the chaotic growth of Like Patels and Jats, the Governed by a BJP-led its agrarian economy almost improving irrigation facilities the Mumbai-Thane belt. On the unrest among Marathas has coalition, political alignments in beyond repair. has been abysmal. The other hand, this meant that in less to do with social the state appear too fragile to be The political acumen desperate measures of cutting regional terms, farmers from backwardness and more with able to strengthen the social shown by Maharashtra’s first water supply to industry and western Maharashtra benefited the economic distortions. contract or even reduce the chief minister, Yashwantrao pushing the IPL out, though more; in terms of land ownership, Similarly, a major nomadic strain. The ruling coalition is on Chavan, has be-en lacking justifiable as last-minute small/ marginal farmers were left community, the Dhangar, has the brink — the Shiv Sena has and the state has only efforts to economise, do not in the lurch, and the interests of been demanding that it be been more active as “opposition” witnessed manipulations to hide the lack of foresight and sugarcane and some other cash- included in the ST category. than as partner in power. The two keep dissatisfaction under planning. In a sense, both crop-growers got state Again, most political parties Congress parties are in refusal control in both Vidarbha and farmer suicide — representing protection. These choices led to have indicated that they mode, denying there is anything Marathwada. Since the the larger malaise of agrarian multiple distortions in the political support this demand, creating wrong with them and their past bifurcation of UP and Bihar, crisis — and water scarcity economy, for which the state is expectations but not fulfilling record in government. They are the trend has been to create indicate the policy vacuum in paying a heavy penalty now. them. Even if the state were also inadequate as opposition, smaller or at least moderately which governance has been While the water and agrarian to recommend inclusion in the either in the routine sense or in sized states, even though the taking place for many years. crises exacerbate the regional ST category, it would meet the sense of having an alternative same language is spoken. “Governance by package” has imbalance, the latter, in with stiff opposition from vision. Given the political The formation of replaced “governance by particular, also has the potential Adivasis, resulting in social equations among parties, the Telangana has kindled hope policy” for the past two to develop into an issue of major tension and mutual suspicion political elite is unlikely to have among the proponents of a decades — ironically, this social tension. The main among communities. While the space to think of the long separate Vidarbha and it began with the first non- agricultural community, the these rumblings are term or mend the cracks in the seems the political elite, Congress government led by Marathas, is already restive and symptomatic of the larger polity. mainly from western the Shiv Sena. Now that the demanding OBC status. The issue of handling community Only recently, the ruling Maharashtra, does not have a BJP and Sena are back in previous Congress-NCP aspirations and maintaining coalition was under strain from satisfactory response to this power, they are presiding over government conceded this the delicate balance attained the repeated remarks of the challenge. As the state’s the same tradition faithfully demand knowing it would hit on the social justice front, the state-specific failures are too obvious. Cab strike: AAP govt tells drivers to submit plans While the state is sitting on (Agencies) The Delhi so. We will urge the apex court top of a political economy of government on Tuesday sought in the next hearing to come up chaos and a social contract that suggestions from operators with a clear ruling on the issue,” is breaking down, the political running diesel taxis with all-India Rai said. The all-India permit elite has lost the capacity to permits in light of the Supreme holders complained that they comprehend, leave aside handle, Court order that only-CNG run were unnecessarily being the situation. But even if the elite cabs can operate in the Delhi- harassed by the traffic police and were to understand the NCR. the transport department’s complication, they do not have The Delhi government asked enforcement wing. “One of my the trust of the public or legitimacy the operators to submit their drivers picked a passenger from to address these issues. They grievances by 1 pm on on Wednesday evening. The allowed to operate in the city.On Anand Vihar to go to Jaipur. But the would, indeed, get elected and re- Wednesday. Delhi transport suggestions will be discussed in the issue of crackdown upon client asked the driver to drop by elected, but their attempts to broker minister Gopal Rai said the state the meeting. Their grievances will cabs with all-India permit in Delhi, in Connaught Place for some peace among battling sections and government would urge the be submitted before the apex the transport minister said there work. The traffic police still convince people of long-term Supreme Court in the next court on the next hearing,” Rai was confusion over the apex issued the challan. Crossing by solutions are unlikely to be received hearing to come up with a clear told reporters after meeting taxi court’s direction on the issue. an area doesn’t amount to with sympathy. In the absence of direction on the operational operators. “On Saturday, it was said that serving point to point within the leaders with legitimacy, aspect of the all-India permit cabs The transport minister, even the all-India permit cabs had city,” said Kamaljeet Singh, a Maharashtra seems to be moving in the Capital. however, reiterated that no diesel been directed to be kept off the taxi operator in Mayur Vihar, towards a politics marked by a “There is a meeting of the cab associated with the web- road. But when we saw the who attended the meeting with rabid mobilisational precipice. Supreme Court-appointed EPCA based aggregators will be written order today, it doesn’t say the transport minister. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 INDIA NEWS 14 FamousFamous GuruGuru SaysSays HeHe RejectedRejected AA Nobel,Nobel, AndAnd MalalaMalala DidDid NothingNothing ToTo DeserveDeserve HersHers meditation centers and amassed an Delhiites viewed the controversy with And finally, this weekend, Sri Sri Ravi international following in the millions, cynicism, if only because the Yamuna Shankar, when asked by a journalist many in the United States. But in the has long been polluted with sewage and whether he would accept the Nobel past two months, the Indian guru has industrial waste such that its brown Peace Prize should it be offered to him, found his statements being replayed on water barely flows. claimed that he had already rejected it television and trending on Twitter more Then in April, the guru, who has sought at least once and expressed particular than he probably ever wanted. to extend his teachings on inner peace, distaste for the “political” decision to In March, he came under fire (some say stress relief and mindfulness to those award the Nobel to then-17-year-old undeservedly) for sanctioning the in conflict zones, inadvertently ended up Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani national, construction of a gigantic tent city along calling for war against the Islamic State who was shot by the Taliban for her the fragile riverbank of the Yamuna, after the militant group rebuffed his advocacy for girls’ education. which flows through New Delhi, for the entreaties for peace talks. He told Indian “I was in the past offered the Nobel Art of Living Foundation’s 35th media that in response to his overture, Peace Prize, but I had rejected it as I anniversary. Activists said the project, the Islamic State sent him a photo of a only believe in working and not in being (Agencies) For many years, Sri Sri Ravi which the foundation claims beheaded man - a clear enough signal honored for my work. We should always Shankar, one of the world’s most accommodated millions of people, that his message was unwelcome in honor only to those who deserve it, and prominent spiritual leaders and the caused damage that would take years Raqqa, the de facto capital of the militant I am totally against honoring Malala founder of the Art of Living Foundation, to undo. India’s president canceled his group, which is also known as ISIS and Yousafzai with the prize and it is of no went about his work without much plans to attend the event, and the ISIL. “I think the ISIS does not want any use,” he was quoted as saying in the controversy. He wrote a dozen best- foundation was fined $750,000 by the peace talks,” he said. “Hence, they Deccan Chronicle, a reputed Indian selling books, opened thousands of country’s National Green Tribunal. Many should be dealt with militarily.” newspaper.

But beneath the story of water But it is unlikely that such a thing pilferage is story of the would be possible since the TheThe waterwater mafiamafia isis exponential rise of the water water tanker business is mafia that loves droughts controlled by local politicians. because they can flourish in It is difficult to stop such suckingsucking IndiaIndia drydry such crises. In the Bundelkhand pilferage unless someone is region, which straddles Uttar caught in the act and the Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, government/police keep a 24- panchayat’s routinely inflate hour vigil on the movements of tanker prices to corner more tankers by electronically tagging funds from the government. They them as some states have done outsource water delivery to with the vehicles transporting agents who then compromise on PDS grains. But doing all this will the quality of water they give to is not be a long-term solution parched regions. Other than because the rise of tanker mafias these issue, they also mine across India only shows how water-rich areas and in a few badly we have managed our water years time, those areas will also resources. The aim should be to (Agencies) In drought-hit More than 800 tankers supply robbery were three local officials. become parched and dry. erase the the tanker mafia by Marathwada, water thieves are water every day to these villages In a country that is increasingly So what should be done with investing time and money in having a field day. An India Today but such leaks are ensuring that becoming water-stressed thanks the devious officers who are regenerating water bodies. India Television expose on Monday not much is reaching those who to climate change, population diverting tankers in Maharashtra? has a long history of robust water showed that water tankers need it the most, the report pressure and lack of political and Here’s what the BJP is management and every region has arranged by the Maharashtra added. public will to undertake water demanding in Mumbai, where a strong tradition of water harvesting. government for the people of Two reporters of the channel harvesting/drought-proofing on a water thefts are rampant: It wants If we cannot revive those traditions drought-hit villages in the region stuck a deal of `6,000 for 36,000 war footing, such illegal acts the police to book the ‘tanker and involve communities, then the are being diverted for `2,000 each litres of water every day and exacerbate the already trying mafia’ under the Maharashtra country will never beat this water by local officials to businessmen. helping them in this daylight conditions that people are facing. Control of Organised Crime Act. challenge. PM Narendra Modi Assigns Tutors For BJP Lawmakers Who Don't Get Social Media Dharmendra Pradhan and Minister of State wrong side of 50 feel social skills don't Jitendra Singh. Part of the lawmakers' necessarily include social media. "I'm not morning meeting with the PM had been on Twitter or Facebook. How do I start," said embarrassing. "How actively have you used a lawmaker born soon after Independence. social sites to spread the government Lawmakers like him had trouble coming. policies?" PM Modi had asked point-blank. An audit, done on PM Modi's orders showed As most furtively started pocketing their how they had failed to leverage the social smartphones, the PM went on: "3.2 crore media. The report had a note on each people have got loans under Mudra bank Parliamentarian and minister's Facebook scheme; 3.18 lakh homes will soon get and Twitter profile - noting the number of their free LPG; rural electrification is reaching followers, likes, retweets and the lakhs of homes. Have you all gone to government work propagated. With almost the public about these achievements?" 2 crore followers on Twitter and 3 crore likes (Agencies) New Delhi : If there was an lawmakers huddled around the younger lot With few giving positive responses, the on Facebook, PM Modi leads the pack. "unlike" button on Twitter and Facebook, in Parliament's central hall, taking lessons Prime Minister left them with a message: Among his ministers, Sushma Swaraj, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has just on Twitter and Facebook, and refreshing Get active. While the BJP is known for Rajnath and Nitin Gadkari are best pressed it for a chunk of his 280 lawmakers. defunct accounts. its well-oiled social media machinery, performers. All of them need to get active on social media The Prime Minister has even arranged the same can't be said of its individual But the report noted that 45-odd and use it spread the word on the for formal lessons. The three charged with lawmakers. With 47 per cent lawmakers lawmakers from Uttar Pradesh had inactive government's achievements, he has said. organising the tutorials are power minister above the age of 55, the 16th Lok Sabha is accounts, and 10 of Rajasthan's lawmakers So Tuesday saw a group of elderly Piyush Goyal, Petroleum Minister the oldest ever. And most lawmakers on the were not on Twitter. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 INDIA NEWS 15 (Agencies) Three men were The CPI(M) accused the detained on Tuesday for the government of inaction. “Police brutal rape-murder of a 29-year- have failed to get any leads about old Dalit law student in a small the culprits even five days after town near Kerala’s Kochi last the incident,” party state week, a crime that drew secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan comparisons with the Delhi 2012 said. gang rape. But home minister Police said two of the Chennithala, who went to the detained suspects are victim’s home as well, dismissed neighbours of the woman, who the charge. He said police were was alone at home and found in conducting a “scientific” probe a pool of blood by her mother and a manhunt was on to nab when she returned from work the assailants. around 8pm on April 28. Women’s rights groups and “We have some leads in the students took to the streets, case,” additional DGP K demanding justice. People Padmakumar said. started a campaign on social The autopsy revealed she was media to put pressure on the savagely assaulted with sharp- state authorities. Many campaigners blamed the authorities for neglecting the Neighbour among three detained for rape-murder of Kerala woman case because of the assembly elections, due in two weeks. edged weapons after being taken timely action,” she said. Perumbavoor in Ernakulam Kerala. The spontaneous and concerted raped. The body bore at least 30 It could not be ascertained district has shaken poll-bound Opposition Left Front workers campaign bore a resemblance to cut wounds, her abdomen was what dangers the family faced. state. blocked home minister Ramesh a similar movement after a slashed and intestines were One of the neighbours is said to “Kerala is shocked by the Chennithala’s convoy when he paramedical student was ripped apart. be a drug addict, a fact that gives brutal murder of a young woman. reached the Perumbavur hospital raped and murdered on a The traumatised mother is wind to speculation that only The culprits will be brought to to meet the woman’s mother on moving bus in Delhi on bedridden in a hospital. “We had psychopaths or people abusing book and the severest Tuesday. They shouted slogans December 16, 2012. That complained to police about the narcotics could have committed punishment will be ensured to against the Congress-led incident forced the Centre to danger to our lives. The tragedy such a barbaric act. them,” chief minister Oommen government for rising crimes fortify laws against rape with could have been averted had they The heinous crime at Chandy said in Kannur, northern against women. harsher punishment. Agusta middleman ready to face probe in India if he’s not arrested told Times Now channel from documents to middlemen talking and who funded for the Milan. She said Michel is about “Signora Gandhi” - believed hospitality. Union minister V K available to answer all questions to be Congress president Sonia Singh said Tyagi could not have in front of a judge if he gets a Gandhi - being the “driving force” acted alone and many people formal invitation from Indian behind the deal. must have been involved in the authorities but he must be Tyagi questioned scam. assured that he is not going to On Tuesday, the CBI Rahul vs BJP be arrested. The chopper questioned former IAF chief SP As Congress vice-president controversy rocked the ongoing Tyagi for the second day in Rahul Gandhi said he was Parliament session after a Milan connection with the deal. Tyagi always the target of political court convicted two Italians for is accused of meeting a rivals, the ruling Bharatiya Janata bribing Indian officials and middleman who cleared the way Party (BJP) claimed the politicians to secure the Rs for AgustaWestland. CBI sources Congress should not play the 3,727-crore contract in 2010. said that during the probe they victim card in the chopper deal. (Agencies) Christian Michel, warrant and that is why he can’t Although the Italian court did came across a trip undertaken The BJP has accused Kanishka the alleged middleman in the go to India. He is not free to go. not indict any Indian politician, by Tyagi to Florence, Venice and Singh, an aide to Gandhi, of being AgustaWestland chopper deal, He would like to go and answer the ruling BJP has sought to Milan in Italy after he retired in involved in the AgustaWestland and is ready to come to India and face everything and tell the truth but corner the Congress over 2007. They said it is being probed 2010 Commonwealth Games investigators if he gets an not with arrest warrant,” Anjos references in the court who accompanied him on the trip (CWG) scams. assurance that he will not be arrested, his lawyer Rosemary Patrizi Dos Anjos said on Forest fires: Uttarakhand govt pays Rs 85 for a litre of water dropped Tuesday. Anjos said that Michel is May 1, have dumped nearly 1.75 lakh are feared killed too.A spell of rain on living in Dubai and is willing to litres of water over forests in 34 sorties Tuesday brought relief in parts of speak the “truth”. till Monday. They flew 16 sorties till Dehradun, Pithoragarh, Chamoli and Michel is among three non- Tuesday afternoon. Nainital districts. The forecast says it Indian middlemen who were Sources said each sortie carrying will rain till May 6. accused by the Central Bureau 3,500 litres of water costs about Rs 3 The helicopter support helped the of Investigation (CBI) and the lakh. The aircraft draw water either from field teams of firefighters but experts Enforcement Directorate (ED) of Bhimtal lake near Nainital in the were unsure about the efficacy of taking commissions worth •70 Kumaon division or from the Srinagar sprinkling water from the sky to douse million from AgustaWestland, a reservoir in Garhwal.Finance officials forest fires. “The choppers fly at an subsidiary of Italian defence giant were concerned about the expenses. altitude of 10,000-14,000 feet. Most of Finmeccanica, to bribe officials (Agencies) The fight against forest who helped ink a deal to sell 12 Finance secretary Amit Negi said he is the water gets lost in the air and the VVIP helicopters to the Indian Air fires in Uttarakhand is turning out be expecting a bill of Rs 50 lakh or may remaining gets caught in the canopy. Force. highly expensive as the state will have be a little more. The raging wildfires Practically, the water doesn’t reach the AgustaWestland allegedly to pay Rs 85 for a litre of water dropped have reduced about 3,500 hectares of dry ground that needs hydration. So, paid more than Rs 375 crore as by two air force Mi-17 helicopters on lush Himalayan forestland to ashes and the effort goes in vain,” said Rajinder bribe to seal the deal, but it was burning forestland. claimed six lives. Many animals and Kumar Mahajan, head of the state scrapped in 2014 after graft The helicopters, in operation since nesting birds in popular wildlife habitats forest force. charges surfaced.“He has arrest Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 ADVERTISEMENT 16 Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 ADVERTISEMENT 17 Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 SPECIAL FEATURE 18

President Barack Obama they’re not doing well. insists he does not obsess The president’s Spock- about “the narrative,” the like, no-drama persona has everyday media play-by-play also complicated his efforts of political Washington. He to connect with the public at urges his team to tune out times when terrorists were “the noise,” “the echo beheading innocents and chamber,” the Beltway pathogens were on the obsession with who’s up and loose, especially in the new who’s down. But in the fall on-demand environment of of 2014, he got sick of the rapid response and viral narrative of gloom hovering content. Obama sees over his White House. himself as playing a longer Unemployment was game, rising above the dropping and troops were tyranny of the news cycle, coming home, yet only one valuing the verdict of history in four Americans thought over the hot take. But the the nation was on the right Washington narrative track—and Democrats his speech, his speechwriter, legacies according to the latest through the horrific crisis he unspools in real time, and worried about the midterm Cody Keenan, told him the polls, but his struggles to make inherited. They blame the to quote one of his favorite elections were sprinting Internet had already flagged the case for his record have intensifying polarization of the TV shows, The Wire, the away from him. He wanted that line as an idiotic political helped Republicans reclaim both public judging him, with nearly game is the game. to break through the noise. gaffe. houses of Congress, along with half the electorate reflexively Obama and his team Obama’s strategists, led “What exactly was untrue governors’ offices and opposing almost anything he sometimes claim they by his longtime political guru about it?” Obama asked, a bit legislatures nationwide. They does. They recognize the simply haven’t tried hard David Axelrod, had always incredulous. also set the tone for this year’s contrast between his pristine enough to market their warned him against “dancing Nothing, but Obama’s words campaign to replace him, with campaign vision of change and policies. “We don’t go out in the end zone.” Their couldn’t change the narrative of Republicans blasting him as a the change he’s been grinding out and explain why we’re doing polling suggested that his unpopularity; they just gave pure catastrophe while in the real world, through the kind what we’re doing,” Vice gloating about the recovery Republicans a new opening to Democrats gingerly try to of messy Washington sausage- President Biden told me. would backfire when so exploit it. They quickly became embrace him without denying making he used to criticize on “When we have a good idea, many Americans were still a staple of campaign ads and the prevailing narrative of hard the trail. And the White House’s we think it will be self- hurting. But Obama thought stump speeches tying times. own messaging strategy, a evident.” The president has it was time to spike the Democrats ball-and-chain to their When Obama himself has subject of perennially fierce delivered 3,300 speeches football, and in a speech at leader. “Republicans couldn’t been asked about his internal debate, has been and remarks, so he’s Northwestern University, he have written a better script,” administration’s failures, he’s perennially debatable. certainly tried to explain why tried to reshape his declared The Fix, the harped on communication Most of all, they cite the he’s done what he’s done. narrative. If the presidential Washington Post’s column for failures, and it’s been a dizzying changes in modern But he still suggests he has bully pulpit couldn’t drown political junkies. Even Axelrod consistent theme inside his media, where Americans get neglected communications, out the echo chamber, he called it “a mistake” on Meet the White House. “Our policies are their news where they choose, as if promoting his policies figured nothing could. Press. The substance of the so awesome,” he quipped to a where conflict is the click of were as forgettable a chore Sometimes the noise speech was ignored, and Keenan few aides after a 2011 Roosevelt the realm, where lies travel at as cleaning the grill. “One clutters and, I think, still blames himself for letting Room meeting. “Why can’t you the speed of tweet while the thing I need to constantly confuses the nature of the one off-message phrase eclipse guys do a better job selling truth is still annotating its remind myself and my team reality out there,” Obama a story of revival, a prelude to the them?” I interviewed more than Medium post. They blame is, it’s not enough to build a said. “Here are the facts.” second Republican midterm two dozen current and former short-attention-span better mousetrap,” he said The facts were that landslide of the Obama era. “I’m administration officials for this journalism for creating a after those embarrassing America had put more still pissed off about that,” article, and at least a dozen told distorted narrative of a flailing 2014 midterms. “People people back to work than the Keenan told me. “Everything he me some version of the internal presidency, by freaking out don’t automatically come rest of the world’s advanced said was true and important, and joke that every problem in over crises—double-digit beating to your door. We’ve economies combined. High that one line got turned against Obamaworld is a unemployment, the Gulf oil gotta sell it.” school graduation rates were him.” communications problem. spill, the healthcare.gov When pressed, though, at an all-time high, while oil Obama was hailed as a new Like him or not, Obama has malfunction, Ebola—and Obama aides admit their imports, the deficit, and the Great Communicator during his had a hugely consequential virtually ignoring their problems have been less uninsured rate had plunged. yes-we-can 2008 campaign, but presidency, transforming resolutions. They think the about remembering to sell The professor-turned- he’s often had a real failure to America’s approach to foreign bully pulpit has lost much of than making the sale. Yes, president was even more communicate in office. The and domestic affairs, enacting its power in an era of 24-hour Republicans have insistent than usual that he narrative began spinning out of almost all of his original Change cable and social media, manufactured “death was merely relying on “logic his control in the turbulent We Can Believe In policy though they admit they were panels,” “apology tours” and and reason and facts and opening days of his presidency, agenda. And credit him or not, slow to adjust to the new other dubious outrages, data,” challenging his critics and he’s never totally recaptured America’s trajectory has realities. When Obama spoke while Fox News and talk to do the same. “Those are it. His tenure has often felt like improved on his watch. Along with at Northwestern, he didn’t radio portray Obama’s the facts. It’s not conjecture. an endless series of media the trends he cited at even have presidential America as a lurid dystopia It’s not opinion. It’s not frenzies over messaging snafus— Northwestern, the housing Facebook or Twitter accounts. where Barack grabs your partisan rhetoric. I laid out from the fizzled “Recovery market, gas prices, combat Then again, political types guns and Michelle steals facts.” Summer” to “you didn’t build that” deaths, and other vital statistics love to blame bad outcomes your snacks. Still, myth- The Northwestern speech to the Benghazi furor, which is have moved in the right direction. on bad communications, and busting is part of his job. did reshape the narrative, but mostly a furor about talking So why does only a quarter of for some of Obama’s And plenty of Democrats not in the way Obama points. the public still think the country problems—chaos in Syria and have criticized Obama as intended. The only line that What happened to Obama’s is on the right track? Why Libya, the website fiasco, aloof, tone-deaf and made news came near the message is not just an inside- haven’t his reforms of health disappointing wage growth— seemingly lost in the new end of his 54-minute baseball question. Perceptions of care, education, energy and Wall it’s hard to imagine a media landscape. address, an observation that presidents matter: They can Street been more popular? In message that could have spun At times, Obama has while he wouldn’t be on the shape an administration’s ability short, why hasn’t America gotten lemons into lemonade. Some been one of them. He sees ballot in the fall midterms, to get things done, and even the his message? Obama policies are unpopular himself as a storyteller as “these policies are on the way the nation thinks about Obama veterans have a slew because they’re not what well as a policymaker, and ballot—every single one of itself. Obama may resent how of theories about what went people want. Some by his own admission, he them.” When Obama “the narrative” judges long-term wrong. They cite the challenges Americans are dissatisfied hasn’t always told a boarded Air Force One after policies and even historical of driving a complex message with the Obama era because persuasive story. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 SPECIAL FEATURE 19

Hillary Clinton’s all-but- requires an inspirational vision. insurmountable delegate lead John Kennedy pledged to in the Democratic race, and “begin anew,” saying “the torch her strong numbers against any has been passed to a new probable Republican opponent generation of Americans” of in the fall, now pose a paradox: which he was the exemplar. She might win the presidency Ronald Reagan declared it was but lose the country. “morning in America” after the The reason is that Clinton twilight years of the 1970s, a lacks a big, new animating period of big government idea in a year when voters in spending, stagflation and a both parties are so draining hostage crisis, discontented they have saying, “Government is not the embraced some pretty bad solution to our problem, ones. Like them or loathe government is the problem.” them, Donald Trump’s and Bill Clinton vowed to embrace Bernie Sanders’ messages are “change versus more of the crystal clear and call for same.” Barack Obama dramatic change, while hawkish foreign policy around 1988, but not enough to sustain Democratic donors and activists promised “change we can Clinton’s remains spread softly the world. him when his lack of the “vision determined to hold on to the believe in,” and pledged to all over the map. And her But such initiatives seem out thing” left him vulnerable to Bill White House at almost any create an army of devotees to agenda promises less change of scale with the size of the Clinton four years later. Hillary price. carry it out. Nothing in what than continuation—of the problems the country faces, and Clinton now faces a similar “Somebody is going to get pollster Conway calls Clinton’s centrist Democratic Party the depth of the anger and challenge. elected,” says Whit Ayres, a “knitting together of scattershot policies that her husband distress that is driving the But Clinton’s advisers Republican pollster who worked sound-bites” comes close to pursued and which Barack movements behind Sanders on contend that her pragmatic for Marco Rubio this cycle. “You distilling her worldview so Obama has largely followed. the left and Trump on the right. message is bearing fruit, in could have pretty negative succinctly. Indeed, in her It’s no surprise that one of Clinton contends that Trump’s repeated victories over Sanders ratings, but if your opponent has victory speech in Brooklyn, Clinton’s biggest campaign and Sanders’ various in big, diverse states. “Hillary more negative ratings, relatively, she even resorted to borrowing themes is to praise both her protectionist prescriptions for Clinton is winning because she’s you’re the winner.” one of her husband’s less than predecessor Democratic rescuing the middle class range offering real solutions to big But it is entirely possible to compelling generalities, presidents—the one she from unrealistic to unAmerican. challenges that will make a real be the winner and still not get “There’s nothing wrong with married and the one she went But she has not made a difference in people’s lives so much of a mandate—to enter America that can’t be cured by to work for—effusively. compelling case for how she everyone can share in the office as a kind of default what’s right with America.” In her New York primary herself would address the promise of America,” says her president who gets in because Like Obama, she is calling for victory speech recently, dislocations and anxiety that are chief strategist, Joel Benenson. no other candidate is electable unity, “breaking down barriers” Clinton delivered a laundry list partially the byproduct of the “And there’s so much cynicism but who doesn’t have the faith and compassion—but that worthy of a State of the Union economic globalization that Bill about politics and Washington and loyalty of a large portion of seems less like her own address, declaring her support Clinton and Obama both today, that the vast majority of the nation. Clinton is selling personal vision than a stock, for “civil rights, voting rights, embraced wholeheartedly. voters know there aren’t easy or “realism” to a electorate that is, stump response to Trump. workers’ rights, women’s “It is a real challenge, simple answers to our judging from the polls, deeply “There is something going rights, LGBT rights, and rights particularly on the economy,” challenges. That’s why Hillary is unhappy with its current reality. on out there, and nobody’s for people with disabilities,” and says veteran Democratic pollster connecting with people when Her steady-as-she-goes brand of quite sure what it is, and what pledging to fight for “places that Celinda Lake. “In many places, she talks about breaking down politics, and her “one from a principled leader can do have been left out and left her more pragmatic approach is all the barriers holding people column A and two from column about it,” says Jeff Shesol, who behind, from inner cities to coal very appealing, especially on back, from corporate greed to B” ideas are out of sync with the was a White House country to Indian country.” national security and homeland racism or sexism...” mood of the electorate in this speechwriter for Bill Clinton. The twist is that Clinton security, where new ideas can be At the very moment she’s three-sheets-to-the-wind age. To “What do you do to address almost certainly has the best very dangerous. But on the come close to an insurmountable invert the columnist Murray it, because it’s something that chance in the field to deliver economy, people—particularly delegate advantage over Sanders, Kempton’s famous maxim about needs to be addressed, and such a speech as president, blue-collar workers of all races— and is posting a steady 10-point Mayor John Lindsay of New York, the next president ought to yet she might still face a hellish are looking for a more average edge over Trump in she is tired and everyone else is have something to say about four or eight years in office fundamental change. She’s general election polls, Clinton fresh. And Clinton’s all-things-to- it. The answers of Sanders I without a crisper organizing going to have to articulate a could be forgiven for wondering all-people campaign message think are all too pat; they’re theme that pledges bigger economic policy.” why such a significant slice of makes it harder to argue that just sort of impulses. And I fundamental change, because Not surprisingly, the longtime the pundit class and members she’d have a clear-cut agenda think Hillary Clinton holds so many voters in the Republican pollster Kellyanne of her own party view her the way that would serve her and her party herself to a higher standard. opposition party—and her Conway is blunter. “Her her unforgiving father Hugh well in office. As George But when you do that, when own—will be nursing bitter commanding rationale is what it’s Rodham did more than 50 years Washington advises the you acknowledge the answers disappointments from Day always been: ‘It’s my time and ago, when she’d come home with impatient Alexander Hamilton in aren’t that easy, then what do One. She’s already in danger the country is ready for a female a single B on her report card and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash you say? I don’t think she of pre-alienating the president, and it ought to be me,’” he’d want to know why she Broadway musical “Hamilton,” knows yet.” Sanders’ liberal Democratic base, with many Conway says. “And a hadn’t earned straight A’s. “Winning was easy, young man. insurgency—and Trump’s Sanders supporters vowing combination of running for Bill True, she has the worst Governing’s harder.” nativist challenge from the never to support her. Clinton and Barack Obama’s unfavorable ratings of any would- That is basically Clinton’s right—have posed challenges Some agenda items of a third terms. That in itself gives be Democratic nominee in contention as well. She has for Clinton because at a time second Clinton presidency you a messaging headache, modern times, hovering steadily taken to arguing that her when two-thirds of voters are would be obvious enough. because those were two different around 55 percent. But Ted demonstrated deficiencies as a dissatisfied with the economy, Dogged preservation of presidencies and two different Cruz’s are just as bad—and candidate pale beside her both candidates have “an Obama’s legacy (and her Democratic parties, but she can’t Trump’s 10 or 15 percentage competence as an executive and economic narrative,” as husband’s), including health afford to alienate either one, points worse. True, she has administrator in office, and she Celinda Lake puts it. “They care reform. Continuance of because both of those blown through millions of dollars did, in fact, win generally high have an origins story. They tell the Democrats’ agenda on presidencies were beloved by the and uncounted hours fending off approval ratings and praise for her us how we got here, and who’s immigration, including by Democratic base and acceptable Sanders’ primary challenge in effectiveness as secretary of to blame—in Sanders’ case, executive actions where to general election voters.” states that she should have been state and as senator from New Wall Street; in Trump’s, possible. Support for early Running to fill the third term able to ignore, so safe would they York. immigrants. If you can’t tell us childhood programs, affordable that Ronald Reagan was barred normally be for a Democrat in But a president’s greatest how we got here, and who the child care and debt-free college from seeking was enough to November. But she’ll still be able power is persuasion—and villains are, how are we going education. Pragmatically elect George H.W. Bush in to count on the core support of successful persuasion first to get out of it?” Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 CONTD. 20 The Worst Way to Stop a Front-Runner though when the against Rep. Morris Udall, Sen. school desegregation was declined to enter the race, while concentrated out West, popular arrangement finally attracted the Birch Bayh and former vice sufficiently vague that when those who did enter it stumbled thinking held that a fresh face— scrutiny of legal authorities, she presidential nominee Sargent Scoop Jackson ran a newspaper badly. With Carter fusing or two—from that region might admitted, “I can’t type. I can’t file. Shriver, among others, on the ad in Boston that read, “I AM respectability to an anti- be able to accomplish what the I can’t even answer the phone.” left, Sen. Henry “Scoop” AGAINST BUSING,” Carter, who establishment message, George earlier contestants had not. Whereas 78 percent of poll Jackson in the center, and also opposed busing, scolded Wallace — the candidate of anti- At first, the strategy seemed respondents in 1964 thought George Wallace on the right, his rival. Busing was an government rage in 1968 and to have legs. Carter lost to Brown that the government could be Carter won Iowa with 27.6 “emotional issue,” he reminded 1972 — found himself boxed out. in the delegate-rich Maryland “trusted to do the right thing” percent and prevailed in Florida Jackson, and his ad had “racial On the left, Mo Udall ran what primary on May 18, and then to either “always” or “most of the and New Hampshire. or racist overtones.” It was little many pols regarded as a Church in a string of western time,” by 1976, only 33 percent Running as a reform wonder that Mo Udall threw up surprisingly poor, uncoordinated primaries on June 1. Looking of Americans still held expressed candidate, Carter spoke vaguely his arms in frustration and campaign. In the center, Scoop ahead to the “Big Casino” that level of trust. In 1964, of restoring the “trust of the demanded to know, “Who is Jackson struggled to find his primaries scheduled for June 8, surveys showed some 47 people in government” and Jimmy Carter?” footing. He was too liberal on with more than 500 delegates percent of voters believed that pointedly refused to be pinned But it was Carter’s economic and social issues for from New Jersey, California and “people in government waste a down on a specific platform. personality that truly rankled his conservative Democrats, and too Ohio at stake, it seemed lot of money that we pay in Historian C. Vann Woodward of opponents. A slick and cynical hawkish for liberals. From possible that Brown and Church taxes”; a decade later, more than Yale University wrote of “Carter’s campaigner whose smile, Shrum January through May, Carter could deny Carter a first-ballot 70 percent of Americans felt that remarkable propensity for fusing observed, went “on and off like a placed first in 16 primaries and win. Then, it was anyone’s way. Similar trends were in contradictions and reconciling lightbulb,” Carter played it loose with caucuses, leaving his opponents guess what might happen. The evidence when pollsters asked opposites,” thus creating “an the details and courted white to divide up another eight convention could draft Senator people whether “the best unusual assortment of unified backlash voters, yet derided other between them. In several of Edward Kennedy of government is the government ambiguities and ambiguous politicians as morally unfit or, in the those contests, Carter placed Massachusetts, or perhaps even that governs least,” or whether unities.” There was substance to case of Hubert Humphrey, the second and accumulated Humphrey. (Of course, Brown the federal government created this criticism. Though he told former vice president who delegates. It was effectively and Church each imagined more problems than it solved. leaders of the fledgling pro-life contemplated a late entrance into Carter’s race to lose, barring the himself in that role.) Looking ahead to the 1976 movement that he was the race, “too old” and “a loser.” (One last-minute entry of a viable It didn’t work out that way. For primary election cycle, Carter’s “personally opposed to abortion,” can only wonder how Carter would alternative. one, Frank Church stumbled on advisers saw an opening to he also opposed a constitutional have managed his Twitter account, Realizing that the current field an almost unbelievable run of appeal to voters who were amendment reversing Roe v. had such a thing existed.) Even was inadequate to the task, in bad luck. Campaigning in Los disgusted with politics as usual. Wade. Though he raised the ire some of his aides later derided his May, the so-called Anybody But Angeles, he contracted a virus With almost three-quarters of of liberals when he told an “endless, ill-concealed, eye-popping Carter forces that had been and was bedridden for days. Then, convention delegates scheduled audience in Pennsylvania that he sanctimony.” He was “cold and brewing within the party a luggage truck slammed into his to be chosen by direct primary saw nothing wrong with white hard,” remarked journalist Elizabeth coalesced behind two late chartered campaign plane on the or caucus, in a crowded field, the city dwellers “trying to maintain Drew. “No smiles, no warmth.” entrants—Senator Frank tarmac, incapacitating it and Georgia governor could score the ethnic purity of their Carter’s pollster, Pat Caddell, Church, a liberal stalwart from causing ill-timed travel days. Then, pluralities in Iowa, New neighborhoods,” and though he said that “skill and luck” were the Idaho, and Jerry Brown, as he campaigned in Ohio, still Hampshire and Florida and then vowed he was “not in favor of key ingredients of a winning California’s young, “enigmatic appearing wan and washed-out build enough momentum to mandatory busing,” he also said campaign, and Carter benefited but ambitious” governor, as the from his illness, word came that sweep big-state primaries later that he did “not favor a from both. Prominent Democrats New York Times’ Tom Wicker a major dam had burst in Idaho, in the spring.Jordan’s constitutional amendment to like Edward Kennedy, Hubert sized him up that year. With so obliging him to return to his projections proved right. Running prohibit busing.” His position on Humphrey and Walter Mondale many of the late primaries home state. Debt trap in UAE : To repay or to run away? A jobless Indian expat with such cases on a money from the debtors. card bills during the peak believe they can hold One source said it is not who fled to his homeland regular basis. “The UAE is So it’s a matter of of recession in 2008-09. creditors to ransom as uncommon for some debtors after borrowing Dh150,000 a signatory to the Riyadh constantly living in fear and “The maximum moving the courts can be to strike a better deal with the from a local bank learnt Convention and local UAE looking over the shoulder. amounts of defaults a long and expensive agents to report them as this the hard way when he banks have the right to A spokesperson for happened during the global procedure for creditors and untraceable. But that was arrested recently in a enforce a UAE judgement MashreqBank told recession when many may not always be worth inevitably is a myopic move. third country – Qatar. The in other signatory XPRESS most defaults people lost their jobs and their while. Thapar said many bank had filed a case countries. Even otherwise, happen with credit cards. left the country without “Moreover,” said social defaulters want to now return against him, following the bank can bring new “It is always important to paying car loans, personal worker Joseph Bobby, to the UAE. “They write to us which Qatar courts proceedings against the maintain a clean and good loans or credit card loans. “When such cases come from outside to check on their summoned him and he was defaulter.” credit history. Individuals This left the banks with no to court and an in-absentia status and inform them about sent back to the UAE He said in the case of should borrow wisely to choice, but to seek judgement is given, banks any cases against them or where the law took its own Indians, potential defaulters ensure the repayment is recourse through debt usually recover some of any money they owe to a course. should be aware that any affordable. The borrower collectors to get their their losses through bank. They want us to Another Indian in Dubai, offence committed by should also ensure money back,” said Dubai- insurance. But what people negotiate with the banks on whose contracting them outside their payment is cleared on time based Tina Thapar of Al forget is that this doesn’t their behalf to bring the matter business went bust, took homeland is punishable by … Banks try to get in touch Midfa & Associates absolve the defaulter and to a closure. the same route after he Indian law if the aggrieved with the debtors to remind Advocates and he can still be given the “Many times, the banks failed to honour a bank party proceeds against them of their obligations, Consultants. chase.” agree to a certain amount to agreement. Sure enough, them. “The Indian police which could also be in their “For some whose Another social worker be paid in full and write off the the bank’s debt collectors can act against these home country.” guarantee cheques were said both official and balance. The defaulters pay came knocking at his door individuals as if the offence While no one is willing held with banks, the latter unofficial channels are the money to us and we in in India and he was left with was committed in India. So to estimate the number of used them to get them employed to recover debts. turn pay it to the bank and no choice but to reach an they remain legally liable.” debt-ridden expats who bounced and then filed “We come across many procure the release letter out-of-court settlement. No escape have fled the UAE, police complaints against families who are constantly which we then take to the “Debt doesn’t stop at There is no escaping everyone agrees the defaulters under Article 401 harassed and hounded in respective police station the border,” said Dubai- even in countries like the numbers are big. of the Penal Code,” she their home countries by and get their arrest based lawyer Musthafa UK where the debt from Newspaper reports said, adding this led to unofficial agents to clear warrants removed. We do Zafeer OV of Musthafa & Dubai can be sold to an claimed that around 2,500 several arrests. their dues. The more these request for a Power of Almana International overseas debt agency people a month were According to legal agents are able to recover, Attorney from the party Lawyers and Legal which can carry out absconding from Dubai experts, debtors who flee the greater is the prior to approaching the Consultants who deals proceedings and recover alone with unpaid credit the country mistakenly commission they get.” banks.” Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 CONTD. 21 Confessions of a Trump Tabloid Scribe I have a confession to make, was not immediately apparent. henchman, for starters. But I because he thought he was “absolutely not” going to and please don’t shoot when you Not to me, anyway. learned to appreciate his value the height of sophistication. invest in the property. The hear it: I helped make the myth I had started on Page Six as as a source. Cohn gave stories He didn’t seem to understand, Lincoln West project came up of Donald Trump. And for that, I an assistant in 1978, when I was to reporters all over the city at for instance, that if he wanted again in November 1984. am very, very sorry. still a college student, became both conservative and liberal the respect of Manhattan’s Trump had announced that he If you worked for a newspaper a reporter a couple of years later media outlets; he was an equal cognoscenti, he should have would be glad to help Ronald in New York in the 1980s, you and editor of the column in 1983. opportunity leaker, and mostly a left the beloved Bonwit Teller Reagan in arms negotiations had to write about Trump. As All I knew at the beginning was reliable one. He would even give building in place on 57th with the Soviets. He was a editor of the New York Post’s that Trump was big, brash and you stories about his clients, like Street, or at least given the deal-maker, right? Sounded Page Six, and later as a newsworthy—every building he Trump. bas-relief sculptures on the like a Page Six item, so columnist for New York proposed would be the largest, Jim Brady, my predecessor department store’s façade to Richard Johnson, who worked Newsday, I needed to fill a lot of every deal the most enormous as editor of Page Six, heard a the Metropolitan Museum, for me then and later became space, ideally with juicy stories ever. And he loved publicity. story (not from Cohn) about which wanted them for its the editor of the column, of the rich and powerful, and It should be simple to write Trump trying to become a collections. He smashed arranged to interview Trump. Trump more than obliged. I wrote about publicity hounds, and often member of the WASPy them to bits instead, While Johnson was on the about his real estate deals. I it is, because they’ll do anything Maidstone Club in East declaring them of no artistic phone confirming time and wrote about his wife, his yacht, to earn the attention they crave. Hampton. Trump had a value, though a prominent art other details, Trump his parties, his houses. At times, Trump had a different way of temporary summer dealer who had agreed to suggested I come to his office I would let several months go by doing things. He wanted membership—not difficult to appraise them said they were as well, because he had never without a single column mention attention, but he could not obtain, according to Brady. But as significant as the Art Deco met me in person. Even this of The Donald; this doubtless control his pathological lying. when Trump expressed interest sculptures at Rockefeller was not true—we had met at upset him, as he loves Page Six Which made him, as story in becoming a permanent Center. In 1980, down came parties—but no point in and used to have it brought it to subjects go, a lot of work. Every member, he was told, discreetly, Bonwit’s, soon to be replaced arguing. So off we went. him the moment it arrived in his statement he uttered required not to bother because he would by Trump Tower. As Johnson asked Trump office. But eventually I returned more than the usual amount of not be accepted. Brady wrote the Writing this in 2016, with about the Soviets, I inquired to the subject, as did a legion of fact-checking. If Trump said, story, after which Trump called Trump’s many financial about Lincoln West, the sale of other writers. We didn’t see it at “Good morning,” you could be him in a profane fury, threatening reversals and failed which had not been finalized. the time, but item by inky item pretty sure it was five o’clock in to sue Brady, the Post, companies now long since Trump said nothing was we were turning him into a New the afternoon. Murdoch—anyone and everyone. part of the public record, it’s happening with the property but York icon. I once received a tip that But when Brady spoke with easy to forget that he once might be soon. He’d let me know. In that era, as New York Trump and Richard Nixon had Cohn, Trump’s lawyer told him earned headlines with actual We left his office feeling confident emerged from the grimy fiscal had a lengthy meeting in Trump’s not to worry, that Trump had no business deals—major real that we’d lined up one good story funk of the 1970s and began to office. Trump said he knew intention of suing. It was just estate projects in New York, and would be given first dibs on morph into the glitz and glass- nothing about it. I ran the story, Donald being Donald, Cohn said. like Lincoln West. A large another. But the very next day, tower playground of the rich it is not only because I had an Real estate developers swath of land on the far West on the front page of the New York today, business moguls came to excellent source, but also often have large profiles in Side that is no longer owned Times, this headline appeared: characterize New York the way because a Nixon aide confirmed New York, which makes by Trump, though some of the “TRUMP SET TO BUY LINCOLN bootleggers and flappers had in it. Nixon, who was shopping for sense: In a city where buildings there bear his name, WEST SITE.” The story began, the 1920s. The robber barons of a condo the day he met with location is everything, and Lincoln West was the largest “Donald Trump said yesterday the age, financiers like John Trump, may have had issues where real estate developers piece of undeveloped land in that he had an agreement to buy Gutfreund and Saul Steinberg, with credibility in his time, but can be savvier about politics Manhattan when Trump took the site of the proposed $1 billion lived large (and later fell hard), over Trump, I’d have believed him than politicians, they run the it over in the mid-1980s. The Lincoln West housing and office and gave all of us writers, from any day. Trump was such a place. But when Trump first property, which stretched from complex.” Page Six editors to Tom “Bonfire pretender he even used to fake emerged as a force in the city, 59th to 72nd streets, for a Said yesterday? of the Vanities” Wolfe, plenty of being his own spokesman, as I he was clearly a different, time had been known as YESTERDAY!? I knew Trump material. Parties with nude learned recently, though I never more outsized breed, a sharp Television City, when it looked had a penchant for models posing like Rembrandt heard from the faux flack he contrast to someone like Lew as though NBC would be the prevarication, but to lie to my paintings! Giant Christmas trees called John Barron. My Trump Rudin, whose family business anchor tenant in an enormous face, when he could have hoisted by crane to palatial items came from all over the owned, and still owns, many new complex. taken any one of several apartments! Trophy wives! place—never Trump himself— buildings in Manhattan. The To entice the TV routes around the lie? “I had an Page Six had launched in and when I called to check on Rudin name isn’t plastered all network, which had been arrangement with the Times,” he 1977 when Rupert Murdoch took something, he usually lied to me over those buildings, and making rumblings about said when I called to ask why. It over the Post, and it was still a directly. Rudin, who died in 2001, was moving from Rockefeller was on the phone, so I could not revelation to New Yorkers who Denying facts was almost a known as a New York booster, Center to New Jersey, Trump see him, but I’m sure he loved its cheeky, ironic tone and sport for Trump, and extended one who went to great lengths needed to offer below-market shrugged. Trump is a big soon came to favor it over more even to mundane matters. While to promote the city. He even rents, and for that he required shrugger. In this case, the shrug traditional gossip columns still married to his first wife, founded the Association for a tax abatements. He didn’t get would have meant, as it often did: inherited from the 1940s, ’50s Ivana, Trump bought a mansion Better New York. Trump is the them. Trump and Mayor Ed Eh, why go to the trouble? I killed and ’60s, old-school celebrity in Connecticut, and she founder of the Association for Koch engaged in a public the arms negotiation story. stuff like Earl Wilson’s showbiz decorated parts of it. Not the Me, Myself, and I—the only shouting match that offered a It may have been this lie—or chronicle for the Post, with his most earth-shattering news, but entities he has ever promoted. preview of the Trump now perhaps another; there were so signature closing, “That’s Earl, hey, everyone has slow days. So, if Trump lied all the running for president. Calling many—that prompted me to call brother.” The perfect Page Six When I called to confirm the time, why did I and other Koch a “moron” and “a horrible Cohn and suggest he give his item, we liked to say, was one purchase, Trump denied it, more journalists continue to cover manager,” Trump said the client a lesson in media relations. that guided its readers down the than once. Sure enough, before him? In hindsight, it’s easy to mayor should resign. Koch There were rules, I insisted: You corridors of power and had a very long, he was spending say, “Oh, we shouldn’t have,” countered by labeling Trump could say “no comment” or not good time on the journey. weekends in the mansion, parts but it’s not that simple. He “greedy, greedy, greedy” and return a call, but you could not Trump seemed an ideal of which were decorated by Ivana. was on the scene, like it or saying that if Trump was directly lie, certainly not to subject for us, as apt a symbol Did he think twice about such a not, a developer who wielded “squealing like a stuck pig, I someone’s face, and still expect of the gaudy 1980s as a seemingly pointless lie? Why real power in the city, and must have done something them to continue writing about Christian Lacroix pouf skirt— would he? ignoring him would have been right.” In April 1983, long you. Cohn found this very funny, and just as shiny and inflated. Trump’s lawyer was Roy difficult. before all that shouting, I had and told me not to worry, that Lacroix at least used excellent Cohn, another tabloid fixture. Also, Trump was so broken the story of Trump’s Trump meant no harm: “He’s materials. Trump turned out to When I first began dealing with outrageous—and possible involvement in just very excitable.” be the king of ersatz. Not just Cohn, I always felt as if I needed outrageously tacky—it was a Lincoln West, though I Susan Mulcahy is a fake, but false. He lied about a bath afterward, knowing his constant temptation to write hesitated to run the piece writer, editor and everything, with gusto. But that history as Joseph McCarthy’s about his antics, particularly when Trump told me he was consultant in New York. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 ADVERTISEMENT 22 Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 ADVERTISEMENT 23 Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 INDIA NEWS 24 After Captain’s US outing, Congress braces for May 19 verdict on states He held just one programme at Chicago sources said. May 19 verdict. during his extended stay and with a But it is not support of NRIs or lack “In the past two months, Kishor was handful of Canadian NRIs on Skype; his of it that is worrying Congress but the trying to understand the team dynamics programme at Los Angeles also did not verdict on the state polls on May 19. in Punjab Congress and what could be pull a big crowd. The party’s further downslide may hit its done. From June, the Congress will go The protests may be orchestrated, poll prospects and it seems to be full-throttle in Punjab by roping in both as Amarinder says, but there are clear bracing up for the worst. its central and state leadership. The Aam rumblings within the Congress that the “We may have to start from zero after Aadmi Party’s ‘Punjab Jodo’ campaign timing of the tour was ill-advised and the poll verdict is out on May 19. The has fizzled out. Its ‘Punjab Dialogue’ neither the jumbo team of loyalists whole country may talk about the campaign will also fizzle out when the accompanying him preempted SFJ’s bid Congress being wiped out even from the Congress launches its countercampaign to sabotage his programmes nor could states. But our campaign will take off to engage people in deciding Punjab’s it outwit them. after we hit rock bottom,” a senior agenda,” party sources said. (Agencies) At a time when the party’s Even party’s poll strategist Prashant Congress leader said. Like in Bihar, his team, IPAC, is now first campaign, Coffee with Captain, was Kishor is learnt not to be convinced by Reasoning that impact of NRIs is moving to assembly segments and trying to find its feet, it has not helped the influence Punjabi NRIs have on poll overrated in Punjab polls, Kishor had liaising with district and block-level matters that Punjab Congress president verdict. He believes NRIs from Kerala advised Amarinder against taking the Congress committees. Capt Amarinder Singh embarked on a and Gujarat make much larger force but North America tour. But since it could A core team of IPAC is coordinating tour of North America. political leaders from these states do not not be cancelled, he is learnt to have with the Congress office in Chandigarh The outing has created more tour other countries to woo them. asked Captain to cut it down by a few and their own teams in the assembly controversy than goodwill for the party “At best, these foreign tours are a days and the latter had agreed to curtail constituencies. among the Punjabi diaspora and back good holiday for politicians or fund- it to three weeks. The political discourse in Punjab home. Amarinder had to cancel his trip raising outings. They may create some Show-time from June started way too early. The Congress to Canada after facing a legal suit from chatter on social media but that does According to Congress insiders, challenge is to ensure it peaks at the activist group, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ). not decide the vote outcome,” Congress Kishor’s job starts from June after the right time so that it could be sustained. Life-saving surgeries to save Delhi’s greens this exercise was to stop trees from falling and putting the lives of people in danger,” he said. In several countries such as Germany, the health of trees are regularly assessed through specialised ECG machines. The chairman said the council was considering bringing (Agencies) The 40-year-old sealed with plaster of paris and such machines into use in the was on its deathbed before a fixed with thermocol on the sides future. But the plan is yet to team of specialists dissected it, so that the tree remains flexible. be finalized. operated out the infected Kumar was present through Director of horticulture JP portions, inserted rods and the surgery. He explained that Sharma said that the life of closed up after a two-hour just like rods are inserted to trees extends at least by 15- surgery. support broken bones for human 20 years through such This was the plant protection beings, after some years trees surgeries. In the past four its area, out of which 835 with ambulance. There were 59 trees team of the New Delhi Municipal require similar care. months, the municipal body minor infestations had already that were in a critical condition Council (NDMC) that performed “One of the reasons behind identified 894 infected trees in been treated by the NDMC’s tree and needed surgeries. the intensive surgery on a Pongamia tree at Tughlaq Lane on Tuesday. Pollution spiked during odd-even due to crop burning, says CSE analysis Tree surgery is a process of pruning and treating old and (Agencies) Improvement in Delhi’s air damaged trees in order to quality during the odd-even restriction was preserve them and extend their overshadowed by forest fires and lifespan. agricultural stubble burning in the The council is the first neighbouring states, the Centre for Science municipal body in the city to and Environment said. perform such tree surgeries. The CSE released its assessment after “We conducted a special studies by other agencies said that odd- survey on all trees under our even did not help reduce pollution. The CSE jurisdiction, where they were study is based on the air quality data classified on the basis of their collected between April 15 and 30 — when age. We realised several trees the restriction was in place — and NASA had aged and acquired satellite pictures. diseases,” said council chairman “The analysis of air quality data shows Naresh Kumar. that air pollution took a dip during the The Pongamia tree had first 10 days of the scheme but become hollow with age. Experts registered a sudden spike from April 22 a CSE statement said. “A distinct and sudden spike of pollution treated the affected portions with onwards. Further, investigation and According to the CSE’s analysis, after April 23, when PM2.5 increased by pesticides and then the bark was analysis of NASA satellite pictures has pollution levels declined during the initial as much as 92% and NO2 by 47%. The air supported with an iron rod. This exposed massive crop fires in Punjab phase of odd-even for the first nine days — quality worsened by up to 16% by April 26,” was done to ensure the unfilled and Haryana that started around April between April 15 and April 23. The average the CSE report says. portion of the tree did not 19 which could be the reason behind the PM2.5 level during the first nine days was CSE looked at NASA satellite imagery collapse. rise in pollution levels. Forest fires in 24% lower than the average of the previous and found that before the odd-even scheme The treated portion was finally Uttarakhand added to the pollution load,” fortnight, CSE said. and during the first few days, there was almost no crop fire in Punjab and Haryana. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 INDIA NEWS 25 Punjab gangs a threat to national security: Army intel (Agencies) Chandigarh: The note assumes criminal activities from inside the Gangs of criminals operating in significance given that Punjab jail by speaking to his Punjab’s border areas may be has seen two back-to-back terror associates,” the note says. “His affecting the country’s national strikes in the past one year, the associate Atul Singla alias Aloo security. The Indian Army’s first one at Gurdaspur in July does the allotment of extortion military intelligence (MI) unit has 2015 and the other at the money from contractors at written a scathing letter to Punjab Pathankot airbase in military stations and delivers it Police, saying that criminals January.”While the endeavour to the family of Chandu or to operating from state jails are within this organisation is to people as directed by him.”The running extortion rackets at identify existence of such nexus, intelligence officials are military stations. it is directed that the police concerned that similar gangs The note has been sent after network may also be activated may be active in other military Fazilka-based gangster-turned- to check their tentacles in view stations. The note was sent by politician Jaswinder Singh Rocky of the threat to national security a lieutenant colonel rank officer was shot dead in a gang war in based on their links with inimical of Western Command to Punjab Himachal Pradesh’s Solan agents,” the MI note says. Police chief Suresh Arora on district on Saturday morning. Military Intelligence has in fact Monday. It has mentioned a list smuggling activities. “On January updated by Chandan on his Showing no fear of the police, given a detailed note with specific of contractors from whom money 16, when Mohali cops had Facebook account even before it rival gang members have for the information. “It has come to our is being extorted. arrested members of the deadly was officially declared as an aim past two days been gloating on notice that a gangster Chandan The army officials have also Jaipal Bhullar’s gang at Kharar to ensure that police do not show social media about how they alias Chandu, resident of Basti pointed out that these gangsters and recovered Pakistan-made them killed in encounter,” the successfully hit Rocky. Tamkan Wali, Ferozepur, runs are “actively involved” in weapons, news of this was first note adds. Hunted By Smriti Irani’s 1996 BA Documents Yet To Be Found: Delhi University To Court Bangladesh's (Agencies) New Delhi : The Delhi University today told a court in Delhi that the documents pertaining to Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani’s BA course in 1996, as purportedly mentioned Death Squads, A by her in an affidavit filed during 2004 Lok Sabha elections, are yet to be found. The university’s response came in pursuance Young Gay Activist to court’s earlier order summoning documents from its School of Open Learning department on the allegation that in her affidavit for April 2004 Speaks Out polls, Ms Irani had claimed that she completed her BA in 1996. form of B.Com (H) course were yet to be found. (Agencies) DHAKA: In a hotel room in Dhaka, we meet Bappy, “1996 documents related to her (Irani) BA are He, however, added that “verification must have 26, his voice breaking with tension. yet to be found,” Assistant Registrar of School been done before the admission.” Bappy is not his real name, and when his interview airs, his of Open Learning, Delhi University (DU), OP The court also asked SDM of north Delhi to face will be concealed. The precautions are for good reason. Tanwar, told Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder bring documents filed by Ms Irani with the affidavit He was one of the members of Roopban, Bangladesh's only Singh. for contesting 2004 polls from Chandni Chowk magazine for its embattled LGBT community, and whose founder Mr Tanwar also brought some documents constituency in Delhi and fixed the matter for Xulhaz Mannan was brutally hacked to death along with a friend related to Ms Irani’s education, including further hearing on June 6. The court had earlier inside his apartment last week. admission form for B.Com (H) of 1993-94 and directed the Election Commission and DU to For those like Bappy, the murders tore through what had just its result and further her enrollment cum bring the documents related to educational started to evolve as a remarkable space in a society deeply admission form in BA (H) Political Science first qualification of Ms Irani on a complaint filed hostile to homosexuality. "In the eyes of Islam (being gay) is a year for 2013-14. He said that Ms Irani’s class against her for allegedly giving false information severely punishable offence," he said. Growing up, he would 12th documents, submitted with the admission in affidavits to the poll panel. often hear "they (homosexuals) are called the meanest creature of God and must be killed." At Roopban, they could confront the prejudice collectively. "Roopban published a magazine, organised Govinda Used Dawood Ibrahim's Help events. They started publishing books, like Roop Pankti, a collection of emotional poetry. They tested for sexually transmitted diseases and they promoted safe sex." To Defeat Me, Ram Naik Says In Book But now, the collective is in shreds; almost everyone Bappy Lucknow : Ram Naik, the knows is in hiding. "They are switching off their phones. They governor of Uttar Pradesh, has are deactivating their Facebook IDs and other networking alleged that to defeat him in the (platforms)", he said. As for seeking out the police, Bappy is 2004 national election, actor- contemptuous. ''The police are hostile to us'', he said, arresting politician Govinda took help from four activists last week for turning up at Rainbow Rally, an informal gangster Dawood Ibrahim. Mr gathering of Dhaka's gay community held every year during Naik, 82, has made the stunning Spring. allegation in his book in Marathi, The men who killed Xulhaz are still at large - in chilling CCTV “Charaivati, Charaivati (keep footage accessed by NDTV, five of them can be seen running moving)”, which describes his 60 down the street outside his house moments after the murder. years in politics. The veteran BJP The police claim they are members of Ansarullah Bangla Team, leader, a former union minister, a local Islamist militant outfit accused of being behind a wave of shares in the recently released killings of secular-minded bloggers last year. memoirs that he found it difficult involved. He alleges that Ram Naik make such an Al Qaeda's South Asian chapter however has claimed credit to accept his defeat by just Govinda, who was the Congress allegation? No one in the police for the killing; the police reject this as hearsay. So why, given 11,000 votes in the Mumbai candidate, had links with or in the legal system is saying the risks, is Bappy speaking to us? He, in fact had no qualms in North constituency - where he Dawood Ibrahim and used it to this. How can anyone be so showing his face. "The boys of Roopban are dabang (fearless)," had won thrice in a row. His terrorize voters. The 52-year-old upset about their defeat that they he said smiling through the strain. We had to urge him to be assessment of the unexpected actor has rubbished the credit someone’s victory to the prudent. defeat is that the underworld was governor’s comments. “How can underworld,” Govinda said. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 INDIA & WORLD NEWS 26 Pakistan shredded in US electoral crossfire; both Hillary and Trump distrust it (Agencies) WASHINGTON: amid transparency concerns. who helped US nail down bin Pakistan has got caught up in Pakistan’s humiliation was Laden and who has been the US electoral skirmish after compounded by Democratic incarcerated by Pakistan — with frontrunners Hillary Clinton and frontrunner Hillary Clinton a snap of his fingers. Donald Trump both zeroed in on maintaining that senior Pakistani “I think I would get him out in the country’s support for terrorism leaders knew of Osama bin two minutes. I would tell them despite milking Washington for Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad [Pakistan] let him out and I’m billions of dollars in aid. despite Washington not being sure they would let him out,” Called out publicly by the able to prove it. Trump said last week, candidates and told by the “It was just too much of a suggesting that Islamabad was Obama administration that it will coincidence that that house, that so beholden to US for aid that it have to fork out its own money unusual-looking house would be would immediately comply. to buy US military hardware, built in that community near the But Pakistan snapped back else has the right to dictate to By most accounts, US Islamabad lashed out at its military academy, surrounded by on Monday, dismissing US aid us about his future,’’ Pakistan’s taxpayers have been forced to benefactor, saying the American retired military professionals, as “peanuts” in an echo of the interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar cough up more than $33 billion aid it got was “peanuts,” and it even though, we couldn’t prove derisive remark made in the said, calling on Trump to ‘’treat to Pakistan in direct aid and in would figure out other ways to it,’’ Clinton, who was Secretary 1970s by its then military leader sovereign states with respect.’’ reimbursements for buy F16s, for which the US of State when the raid took place, Gen Zia-ul Haq to then US “The peanuts the US has counterterrorism efforts through Congress last week denied said in a CNN interview on the President Jimmy Carter, who given us in return should not be “coalition support funds,” Pakistan subsidy. fifth anniversary of bin Laden’s was indeed a peanut farmer used to threaten or browbeat us ostensibly for its support in the Reports in the Pakistani death. before he was elected to the into following Trump’s misguided war on terror. That includes $3.8 media meanwhile said the Her remarks came after her White House.Contrary to Mr. vision of foreign policy. Trump’s billion in “foreign military country had borrowed $1.4 billion putative Republican rival for the Trump’s misconception, statement shows not only his financing” (FMF) funds, subsidy in the international market over White House, Donald Trump, Pakistan is not a colony of insensitivity but also his that Pakistan uses to buy military the past six months, much of it suggested he’d get Pakistanis to America. Shakil Afridi is a ignorance about Pakistan.” Nisar hardware like F-16s that have without competitive bidding and free Dr Shakil Afridi — the man Pakistani citizen and nobody added. little relevance against terrorists. Air India no longer loss-making: Government (Agencies) NEW DELHI: endeavour of the government "to Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Efficient functioning and keep our airports and skies Gajapathi Raju said while reduction in operational costs absolutely safe" through foolproof replying to the debate on demand has helped national carrier Air adherence to prescribed for grant for his ministry. India turn from a loss-making international standards. He also pointed out that Air airline into an "operational profit "By cutting its operational India joined Star Alliance in 2014, unit", the Lok Sabha was expenses by almost 11 per cent, "which has helped it to integrate informed on Tuesday. Air India has turned from a better with the international civil The government also asserted Rs.2,636 crore loss making unit aviation market". that with regard to safety issues in 2014-15 to a Rs.8 crore The minister also recalled the for air travellers, it will be the operational profit unit in 2015-16," unique contribution of Air India in

the "hour of crisis -- evacuating international airports also have No official estimate of about 6,000 nationals from eight and five megawatt solar Yemen, 1,300 from Iraq and plants respectively. Libya and 17,500 passengers With regard to safety issues, from quake-affected Nepal". Raju said it will continue to be black money: Centre The minister told members the endeavour of the government that by 2020, Air India's fleet size "to keep our airports and skies is likely to grow, by about 100 absolutely safe through foolproof aircraft to about 232, and of this adherence to prescribed 28 more aircraft will be added by international standards". January 2018. He said there was a "high Responding to members who degree of satisfaction" that in a during the debate on Monday very recent survey it was found raised issues concerning air that passenger and cargo passengers, the minister said the security satisfaction level were Directorate General of Civil assessed to be 99.25 per cent Aviation has decided to use against a world average of 66 per technology as an "enabler" and cent. To a specific issue raised that a comprehensive e- by Congress member K.C. (Agencies) NEW DELHI: There is no official economists from Bank of Italy, he said there seems governance project will be Venugopal on the fate of the estimation of amount of black money that has to be no empirical evidence to suggest that the launched to offer 160 services request by Kerala government for been sent to foreign countries by India persons, figures arrived at on the basis of certain online to stakeholders. an airline between Kerala and the government said on Tuesday. assumptions and presumptions, necessarily "This system will promote Gulf countries, the minister said, "Determination of black money sent to foreign represent Indian's share in black money stashed transparency, increase efficiency "It (such a demand) is an countries by Indian persons is subject matter of in tax havens. These economists have reportedly and service delivery, leading to imagination. No government or investigation and other follow-up actions by relevant analysed data from IMF and the Bank of greater ease of doing business. any airline in the name Kerala law enforcement agencies, including Income-Tax International Settlement (BIS) and applied certain The first set of such services will Airline has applied with the department, Enforcement Directorate, CBI etc, assumptions to arrive at the estimation, he added. be launched in May 2016," Raju government of India." which is ongoing."However, details regarding the The minister pointed out that by applying said. "I tried to make my enquiries amount of money involved in such cases are not another set of assumptions, the same Among other innovative and no airline of Kerala government maintained centrally," minister of state for finance economists have reportedly estimated Indian schemes, the minister said is pending with the Jayant Sinha said in a written reply to the Rajya share in black assets at US$ 4-5 billion. Cochin airport has become the government of India. They have Sabha. "In the context of these estimation, they have "first in the world to exclusively not even applied," he said amid Asked whether Indian share in black money reportedly put the caveat that these estimations run on solar energy with a total repeated interruptions from stashed in tax havens across the world is at US$ have to be considered with great care and in no installed capacity of 12 Congress members including 152-181 billion, as per the recent estimate by way can represent firm data," Sinha said. megawatt".Delhi and Hyderabad Venugopal. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 SOUTH ASIA 27 Colonel arrested for robbing gold smugglers in Mizoram Top 50 Defaulters of indian state-run banks have exposure ALZAWL: 14.5 crore smuggled from Myanmar personnel waylaid him and robbed 52 An Army last December. Col Singh is the gold biscuits at gunpoint. He told cops of Rs 1.2 Lakh Crore officer, commandant of the 39th battalion of the men were carrying AK-47 rifles Colonel Assam Rifles. He was also suspended and pistols. where incidence of non-performing Jasjitfrom the force on Thursday .The Lalnunfela said he lodged the FIR after assets is high. To another question, Mr Singh, was alleged robbery came to light when the almost four months as the soldiers had Sinha said Union Bank of India has arrested in driver of the vehicle, C Lalnunfela, warned him against going to the informed that its Chitbaragaon branch has Aizawl on carrying the consignment, lodged an police. Eight Assam Rifles personnel sanctioned KCC (Kisan Credit Card) loans Thursday for allegedly masterminding FIR at Aizawl police station on April were arrested before the officer was to certain borrowers as per its norms and the robbery of gold biscuits worth Rs 21 alleging that 39th Assam Rifles nabbed. These men, now in custody , completed required formalities. allegedly confessed that they had “Branch has obtained No Dues committed the robbery at Col Singh’s Certificate from the earlier bankers i.e. Doshi STEM Institute to close in June behest.A special probe team headed SBI before disbursement of loan and taken No Encumbrance Certificate from the The students were given the opportunity to pursue a challenging course of study in by SP (CID) Stephen Lal rinawma said Panel Advocate to avoid multiple engineering, research, robotics, math, physics, chemistry and biology. Nassau BOCES Singh had ordered the soldiers under financing,” Mr Sinha said. Superintendent Robert Dillon told parents of students about the decision to end the 3- his command to rob the consignment He was asked why the bank’s branch year-old program at a meeting Monday night at the Syosset campus. “It was a difficult on the outskirts of Aizawl city on the had extended loans against five accounts decision but we feel it was in the best interest of the students,”Dillon told a few disappointed night of December 14, 2015. Singh before expiration of five years in 2014 to parents in a sparsely populated theater at the Long Island High School for the Arts in had applied for anticipatory bail on “fraudsters” against whom “multiple Syosset. “This is not practical to keep open,” he said during an interview earlier in the Thursday but it was rejected by Aizawl cases of banking frauds” had been day. “If anything, it would be a disservice — particularly for students with this kind of district and sessions judge Lucy registered in 2013 by State Bank of India science talent.” Forty-six students are enrolled in grades nine through 11 — less than Lalrinthari.He was arrested in the (SBI) and Purvanchal Bank. one-quarter of those needed to sustain the school’s operating budget, he said. The court premises. Before that, he was “The SBI had not mentioned anything projected enrollment for the 2016-17 academic year was 50 students. The decision to suspended by commander of Assam about fraud in their NOC. The present close the school, which focuses on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, Rifles' 23 Sector, Brigadier T C status of these accounts is standard,” would be confirmed by a Nassau BOCES board of trustees’ vote. A special board meeting Malhotra, who refused to comment said Mr Sinha. is scheduled Thursday afternoon at the school. The few parents in attendance were saying the "matter was sub judice". upset by the news, some consoling each other through sighs and sobs. “My son loves this school,” said Jeanne D’Esposito of Malverne, whose son, Charlie, 16, is a sophomore at the Doshi STEM Institute with dreams of becoming a computer programmer. “They owe it to these kids to give them a place to go and finish their studies.” Former Ranbaxy Owners Malvinder, Shivinder Mohan Singh Fined Rs 2,600 Crore US drug regulator on Ranbaxy over concerns about manufacturing processes at its plants. After selling Ranbaxy, the Singh brothers got into hospitals business under the Fortis brand. They also own financial services firm Religare Enterprises. Last year, Shivinder Mohan Singh stepped down from the hospital chain to take up full-time "sewa" at the Radha Soami Satsang Beas. In a press statement, RHC Holdings, which held 27 per cent stake in erstwhile Ranbaxy, said that they will be exploring further legal options to challenge the fine.

This is our only location Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 BUSINESS 28 Smirnoff hangover adds to Diageo’s Indian woes

(Agencies) Mumbai: Drinks lakh cases in the last fiscal. giant Diageo’s top brands Black & White whisky, also reported a decline or flat among the four large Diageo growth last financial year even brands operating in India, as the world’s biggest liquor bucked the trend with volume company consolidated control sales rising 23%. over United Spirits (USL), for Diageo, which is putting a which it paid $3 billion, making messy takeover and troubled it the most expensive partnership with Vijay Mallya acquisition in Indian consumer behind it, said the short-term industry. view of numbers didn’t present The British behemoth’s largest the right perspective. The selling trademark Smirnoff acquisition saw Diageo vodka dropped 28% in volume handing over key brands to sales, declining to 6.15 lakh USL, hoping its international cases from 8.5 lakh cases in portfolio to gain big, riding on FY15, according to the trade the distribution prowess of the figures sourced by this largest Indian distiller. The newspaper. VAT 69 scotch takeover of USL has been one whisky sales stood at 2.7 lakh of the most significant steps cases, down from 3.5 lakh by Diageo to boost performance cases, declining in double in emerging markets.”The four digits. The duty-paid sales of global brands have grown 24% the core Johnnie Walker in the last three years post scotch whiskies, which USL’s takeover, compared to include Red Label and Black 16% growth in the three Label, was down 14% to 2.03 preceding years. Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 TRAVEL 29 Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 HEALTH 30 Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 BOLLYWOOD INSIDER 31 Nargis Fakhri Refashions Sangeeta Bijlani's iconic 'Oye Oye' In The Film 'Azhar' Bollywood has always loved its lease on May 13th 2016 film stories inspired by true life. “Azhar” is based on a few highly When you decide to tell the story of talked about incidents and facts in a cricket legend using Bollywood Azhar’s life, Azharuddin, who ended stars you can hardly go wrong. up becoming the country’s most Azhar which is based on the life controversial sportsman yet. From of an outstanding cricketer setting world records that are yet to Mohammad Azharuddin, shows be broken, to getting embroiled in not just his professional journey the first ever match fixing scandal but also his personal life. Nargis the country witnessed, the film Fakhri who will essay the role of traces Azhar’s insurmountable highs Sangeeta Bijlani in the film ‘Azhar’ and his tremendous lows. has set the glamour quotient a notch higher with her song Oye Oye. Nargis is setting the stage Housefull on fire in the revised version of the iconic 90’s hit. Considering that Sangeeta was one of the most popu- lar starts of her time and Tridev be- ing one of her most popular movies, it is not a surprise that this iconic number was chosen to be recreated. Though the set is quite different from its 90s counterpart, the 'Gajar' which means the 'Clock' is used in both the songs. Azhar will also focus on the love story of former Indian cricket team captain Mohammad Azharuddin and his second wife Sangeeta Bijlani and it will have Emraan Hashmi playing the cricketer. Besides them, Azhar also stars Prachi Desai as Azhar's first wife Noureen and Lara Dutta and Kunaal Roy Kapur in prominent roles as law- yers. The film will encompass the struggles, the success and the scandal in Azharuddin's life. Directed by Tony D'Souza, it is slated to re- IIFA set to create mega India festival in Madrid, Spain of opportunity to bring both coun- tries even closer together. The IIFA Weekend in Madrid is going to be a star-studded affair with ex- citement and anticipation growing hugely among the industry and more fans to come to Spain in June. It will be a magical and memorable time for locals and visitors that will get to witness the stunning performances live on stage at the spectacular IFEMA - Feria de Madrid. As ever this year is set to be a bigger (By a Staff Reporter) New Indian film industry, notable guests, and better extravaganza of entertain- Delhi :The International Indian Film and dignitaries from India and the re- ment than ever before!" The Academy (IIFA) announced the 17 gion, world media and Indian cinema highlights of the Weekend Festivi- th Edition of the most spectacular fans from across the globe. Speak- ties, the NEXA IIFA Awards 2016 celebration of Indian Cinema globally ing on the occasion, Wiz Andre hosts were revealed - the to be held in the capital of Spain- Timmins, Director – Wizcraft In- multitalented Farhan Akhtar and the Madrid from 23 rd – 26 th of June ternational Entertainment Pvt. versatile actor Shahid Kapoor. The this year! Videocon d2h IIFA week- Ltd, said, “2016 is an exciting awards ceremony in Madrid will wit- end 2016 festivities will include the year for IIFA to be hosted in ness awe-inspiring performances by FICCI - IIFA Global Business Forum, Madrid as this year also marks Bollywood's very own crème IIFA Stomp in collaboration with the 60th anniversary de la crème Salman Khan, Hrithik MULAFEST Urban Trends Festival, celebration of India & Spain Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika IIFA Rocks, along with the glamor- diplomatic relations. The plat- Padukone and Sonakshi Sinha, ous awards night, NEXA IIFA Awards form of IIFA helps enhance the among others. Speaking on the oc- 2016. Recreating the magic of Indian celebrations with a dynamic and casion, Mr. Luis Cueto, Coordinador cinema, the 17th edition of the IIFA diverse exchange of art, General de la Alcaldía de Madrid Celebrations will play host to some film, culture, music, fashion and said, “It is a privilege for Madrid to of the most celebrated stars of the business culminating into a gift host the 2016 IIFA Weekend & Wednesday, May 05 to May 11, 2016 ADVERTISEMENT 32