Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Census kicks off from April 1...It'll be a real jumbo exercise...You may face action if not cooperate with Census officials..

Details Of Info On Number Of Mobile Phones, Computers Also To Be Collected

Info will be a closely guarded secret..Even courts cannot access these info

Vishwa Mohan \ TNN
New Delhi: The gigantic 2011 Census exercise will begin on April 1 with President Pratibha Patil being the first person to share details, including information on the number of mobile phones, computers and internet connections in the President House. The officials will, thereafter, record the status of an estimated 1.2 billion people across the country in the next one year. It will be for the first time when the Census officials record details of new age amenities — mobile phones, computers and internet connections — available to the people in their households. Besides data on demography and economic activity, the Census will also provide figures on literacy, fertility, mortality, language, religion, migration, and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The entire exercise — which will begin with houselisting and housing census on April 1 in New Delhi, West Bengal, Assam, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Goa and Meghalaya — will be done under statutory provisions of the Census Act, 1948. Under the Act, if anyone fails to cooperate in the Census exercise, he or she “can invite adverse consequences including fines and punishments”. Registrar general and census commissioner C Chandramouli said: “The information collected about individuals will be kept absolutely confidential. In fact, this information is not accessible even to courts of law. This provision is there to encourage people to give correct information in the Census without any fear.” Announcing the Census schedule, Union home secretary G K Pillai said the government has also decided to prepare a National Population Register (NPR) — an identity database of all usual residents in the country — which will pave the way for providing a Unique Identity Number to individuals above the age of 15 years and eventually making a National Register of Citizens. Besides carrying information relating to all residents, the NPR data will also contain the photograph and 10 fingers biometry of persons above 15 years. Identity cards will be provided to citizens above the age of 18 years in due course after weeding out all illegal immigrants who might have got entry into the National Population Register by any means. Pillai made it clear that no information will be collected on castes as no caste-based census has ever been conducted in independent India. “We have never conducted a census on castes and it will be difficult to verify the caste of any individual. Therefore, we may have a distorted version of caste census... Let me at least for once be blunt that, I think, in the future, we have to into a caste-less society in India,” he said. Asked how the census exercise will be conducted in the Maoist-affected areas, Pillai said they were not expecting trouble and everyone would be included in the database. “We will include all of them. Maoists will not be arrested if they come for Census,” he said.....http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTAvMDMvMzEjQXIwMTgwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Delhi sniffs chance to disrupt anti-India Karachi Project

Access To Headley Cleared, Govt Wants Pak Crackdown

Diwakar & Vishwa Mohan TNN

New Delhi: With the US promising access to David Headley, India is fast preparing a chargesheet against him, hoping to extract from him information on the Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders who masterminded the 26/11 attack and sensing an opportunity to disrupt the Karachi Project, which aims to launch attacks on India.
The instruction to draw up the chargesheet that would be the basis for sending a formal request to the US court—letter rogatory in legalese—for access to Headley was passed after a conversation home minister P Chidambaram had with Eric Holder, US attorney general and head of the Department of Justice.Holder said that provisions for India to access the terrorist, who on Thursday admitted to laying the groundwork for the 26/11 mass murder, has been clearly provided in Headley’s “plea agreement’’ with the US authorities.
The deal, under which he has been spared a certain death sentence in exchange for a guilty plea and cooperation with investigation agencies,stresses that Headley has agreed to “fully and truthfully testify in any foreign judicial proceedings held in the US by way of deposition, video conferencing or letter rogatory’’. A statement issued by Chidambaram also underlined that Headley’s calculation to escape lethal injection—the preferred way of execution in the American state of Illinois where he is being tried—will not be fulfilled until after he has cooperated with Indian agencies.
As the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which has already registered a case against the jihadi who scouted targets for Ajmal Amir Kasab and his gang, gets down to prepare the letter rogatory, authorities here are hoping to use the horde of information that Headley has to thwart the Karachi Project.
Headley aka Daood Gilani was the first to reveal the Karachi Project—an ISI plot involving retired and serving officers of the Pakistan army and aimed at launching terror attacks on India through Lashkar’s collaborators inside the country grouped under the banner of Indian Mujahideen.
The sinister plan was conceived by the ISI to pass off the attacks it designs and directs against India as cases of home-grown terror. A spate of terror attacks on Indian cities by Indian Mujahideen, mainly in 2008, was part of the Karachi Project. The gameplan, which suffered a setback because of the elimination of one of the ring leaders, Shahid Bilal, in gang war in Karachi and the arrests and killing of IM jihadis has been revived in a big way as Pakistan seeks to leverage its cruciality for Americans in Afghanistan to grab concessions from India.
The National Investigation Agency is hoping to use Headley’s information to thwart the Karachi Project, a plot scripted by the ISI and meant to launch terrorist attacks on India Home minister Chidambaram is told that provision for India to access the LeT terrorist is provided in his ‘plea agreement’ with the US authorities.... http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTAvMDMvMjEjQXIwMDEwMQ==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Gain from Headley bargain: Watertight case against LeT

He’ll Have To Help Indian Investigators Too

Diwakar & Vishwa Mohan TNN

New Delhi: The agreement between David Coleman Headley and US authorities, under which he pleaded guilty to being part of the 26/11 plot in order to dodge the death sentence and extradition to India, has considerably abated the fear here that the Americans would let off Headley aka Daood Gilani, a suspected “double agent”, lightly. It also marks a big boost to New Delhi’s efforts to expose Pakistan’s propaganda to project Lashkar as a group focused on J&K.
Details of Headley’s ‘‘guilty’’ plea validate India’s claims about the Lashkar leadership masterminding 26/11, and suggest that the American jihadi may not be able to get away lightly as was being feared.
What should temper the disappointment in certain quarters over Americans agreeing to Headley’s condition not to extradite him to India is that the deal marks the first time that top Lashkar leaders — mentioned in the agreement as Lashkar Members A, B, C and D — have been held responsible for the killing of American citizens in a US court.
The estimate of Indian investigators is that the alphabets stand for jihadi commanders Sajid Mir, Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi, Muzzamil and Abu Hamza or Abu Al Qama: all key figures in the ISI-scripted campaign to use terror to bleed India.
The lid on their identity will soon be ripped apart, given Headley’s promise of cooperation. In fact, that he is already singing has been one of the reasons cited by the American authorities to justify why they are not pressing for Headley to be put on an electric chair or given a lethal injection.
That leaves out the “Big Daddy” of Lashkar — Hafiz Mohammad Saeed — the hate-spewing jihadi ideologue. But given that Headley has already acknowledged having been inspired by Saeed’s anti-India rhetoric and his testimony about the involvement of Lashkar commanders in the Mumbai plot, the agreement strengthens home minister P Chidambaram’s demand — stubbornly rejected by Pakistan — for an investigation into the role of the LeT chief.
More so, because Headley’s testimony also spotlights that Lashkar is now fully enmeshed in the larger terror web that has al-Qaida at the lead. Prosecutors told the court that co-accused and HuJI chief Ilyas Kashmiri was in regular touch with Qaida’s No 3 Sheikh Mustafa Abu al-Yazid.
Headley also confessed that his collaborations were “not limited to” just members of LeT — a significant statement in the light of his testimony early on to FBI about the Karachi Project that involves serving and retired officers of the Pakistani army, besides Lashkar and their Indian proxies, Indian Mujahideen.
The agreement, as acknowledged by Headley’s counsel Robert Seeder, makes it very clear that the death sentence is off the table only so long as the accused continues to cooperate. “The defendant (Headley) understands that if he should breach this cooperation agreement and if the government, at its sole discretion, voids such agreement, the government will no longer be bound by its decision not to seek the death penalty,” stressed the plea agreement.
the rider is crucial from India’s viewpoint because the cooperation expected under the deal extends to helping with India’s own investigation.

The formulation has clearly been designed to help India and Denmark, in that order, considering that of the 12 charges Headley has pleaded guilty to, as many as nine relate to the Mumbai massacre, seven of them warranting death. While the American authorities have agreed neither to extradite him nor to seek death penalty despite Headley being charged with seven crimes punishable with execution, the fear of being sent to the gallows will continue to hang over him like a sword of Damocles.
The deal which is predicated upon the “calculation” that Headley would get a life sentence, also makes it clear that the sentencing will not happen till he has fully cooperated. More important, it acknowledges that the court could very well prove the calculation wrong — put bluntly, award death to Headley — but rules out the option for Headley to withdraw his guilty plea.

Four Reasons Why India Is SMILING
1 For the first time, LeT being charged
with killing US nationals in a US
court. Also, for first time, LeT’s Qaida links being underscored in US court. The case against Lashkar was never tighter

2 While Headley won’t be executed,
threat of execution will hang over him if he refuses to and spill all the beans. So, India expects more dope to come on terror operatives against India

3 India can interrogate Headley even if he is not extradited here. Its
sleuths can question him either through video conference or by going to US — this is part of the deal between Headley and US authorities

4 While Kasab’s testimony about Pakbased terrorists attacking India was strong enough, similar testimony coming in a neutral court in a third country, makes India’s case still stronger.....http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTAvMDMvMjAjQXIwMDEwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

If not Headley, his wife will do (sic).....

India seeks access to Headley's wife, ex-wife

Vishwa Mohan, TNN, Mar 19, 2010, 03.41am IST

NEW DELHI: With India failing to gain access to US-based jihadi David Coleman Headley, agencies here have now sought access to his wife (of Pakistani origin) and ex-wife (American) to ascertain whether they had any knowledge about his activities in India.

Though FBI has already grilled them along with Headley's other relatives and shared whatever information it could with National Investigation Agency (NIA), India has asked the US to explore possibility of giving it access to both these women.

A senior official said, "Access to these women does not seem to be difficult as they, unlike Headley, are not under any detention. If US agrees, our sleuths can also question them to find out more about the terrorist's past activities and his source of income."

Headley's wife Shazia lives with their children in Chicago. Though agencies here do not have much information about her, sleuths have come to know that she had never accompanied Headley during his multiple visits to India.

Headley had first married a woman in Philadelphia in 1985. The marriage lasted for only two years and they divorced in 1987. Long since remarried, the woman, who graduated from Pennsylvania State University, is currently working as a real estate consultant in Chester county. She had also not accompanied Headley anywhere outside US.

A woman of Moroccan origin -- Faiza Outalha -- visited India twice along with Headley during 2007-08. Headley had married her in 2006 but the two divorced later. Sleuths have no knowledge of her whereabouts.

Meanwhile, director of US's National Intelligence Dennis C Blair, US ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer and forensic experts met home minister P Chidambaram here on Thursday.

After the hour-long meeting, Roemer said it was aimed at updating the home minister on "continued, very close cooperation" between India and the US as per the "historic understanding" reached between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama in November on fighting the "common enemy of terrorism and continuing to work together".

He told reporters that the US had been receiving "unprecedented day-by-day, hour-by-hour cooperation" from India on counter-terrorism issues. The US envoy, however, refused to take question on Headley's case and his decision of changing his plea.

Foreign minister S M Krishna, meanwhile, said India was looking closely at Headley's offer to plead guilty. He, however, refrained from making any comment on whether India would seek Headley's extradition from the US.

Officials in the home ministry said the question of extradition would come only if the terrorist came out of prison after serving his sentence. "Our priority is to get access to him for interrogation. If he is sentenced to long years of imprisonment, the extradition plea will not hold any merit as the law permits it only if he completes his term there," said an official.....http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDEwLzAzLzE5I0FyMDE1MDA=&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Headley U-turn may have been scripted way back

Vishwa Mohan, TNN, Mar 18, 2010, 04.03am IST

NEW DELHI: US-based terrorist of Pakistani origin David Coleman Headley's decision to change his plea to guilty does not surprise Indian agencies which believe that the U-turn is part of his defence which might have been scripted long ago under a "proffer agreement" to avoid harsh punishment.

The proffer agreement in US is a written agreement between federal prosecutors and individuals under criminal investigation which permit these individuals to give the government information about crimes in return for assurances that they will be protected against prosecution.

Though proffer agreements are not complete immunity agreements, officials here believe that any lenient sentence to Headley in due course will confirm India's contention that he was actually an American agent who turned rouge.

A senior official said, "The apparent U-turn appears to be part of Headley's plan. Although he had first pleaded not guilty to all 12 counts including 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, now we will have to see whether he will plead guilty for conspiracy involving bombing public places in India or not."

In any case, agencies here believe that Headley's decision will help the FBI unearth more information about the entire conspiracy involving the role of his co-accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Ilyas Kashmiri, Abdur Rehman and others including retired and serving officers of Pakistan army.

Although the prosecution in US cannot use actual proffer session statements against Headley in the cases in which he will plead guilty, the information provided by him can be used to follow up leads and conduct further investigation.

In that case, if further investigation leads to new evidence, it can be used to indict and convict him — an indication that the US agency might have entered into the proffer agreement to unearth something big behind the entire conspiracy.

An official said, "Considering the fact that Headley had entered into an agreement to share more details of his terror mission with FBI, it has become all the more important for India to gain access to him for interrogation." Access to Headley will only be possible after the NIA here files chargesheet against him and subsequently sends a letter rogatory (LR) to US......http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTAvMDMvMTgjQXIwMTIwMQ==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Did ATS say too much, too soon?

Vishwa Mohan, TNN, Mar 16, 2010, 02.24am IST

NEW DELHI: A senior ISI official plotting terror attacks against India went under the radar hours after Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) went public with Intelligence Bureau’s finding that an ‘Uncle’ based in Karachi had drawn an elaborate plan to use Lashkar foot soldiers to target BARC, ONGC installations and other high value targets in Mumbai.

Central authorities were upset with the indiscretion of ATS chief K P Raghuvanshi in declaring to the world that the arrest of two alleged terrorists in Mumbai on Saturday night was facilitated by IB managing to intercept their conversations with ‘Uncle’.

“Uncle (his phone call) is no more (sic)... the ATS sung a lot about its operation and this has not only alerted ‘Uncle’ who had been talking to the terror duo but also sent other terror modules in the state into deep hiding,” a senior official said.

The disclosure by ATS about the terror duo’s — Abdul Latif alias Guddu and his brother-in-law Riraz Ali alias Rehan— constant calls to someone called ‘Uncle’ has caused a lot of heartburn among central agencies here, forcing the home ministry to pull up the elite squad asking it “to keep quiet and better concentrate on its job”.

The duo was arrested by the ATS on Saturday night near Matunga railway station and the police claimed that both Latif and Ali, residents of Bandra and Dahisar areas in Mumbai respectively, were planning to carry out terror strikes on ONGC installations, Thakkar Mall and Mangaldas market in the city.

“Preliminary probe suggested the duo was getting instructions from someone called ‘Uncle’ from Pakistan to execute their activities,” ATS chief K P Raghuvanshi had reportedly told the media on Sunday while announcing their arrests.

Officials here lamented that the revelation of Uncle’s role was a “real hit on the head for us”.

Asked whether the two arrested militants in Mumbai were on a reconnaissance mission or were planning to hit a target, the official — while terming them as “big catch” — said the two men were working with a specific plan to hit some target.

He, however, admitted that their arrest had become necessary as they were about to hit their targets “very” shortly.

“Since the agencies here had been keeping track of their movements/plan and phone calls from Karachi, the Centre had alerted ONGC as well as Maharashtra government accordingly. More specific alert had been sent to the state and the oil company 10 days before the arrest,” said the official.......http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTAvMDMvMTYjQXIwMDkwMQ==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Karachi Project.....Idea is to bleed India through proxy war

March 15, 2010
Mumbai duo part of Karachi Project
They May Have Been Instructed By Indian In Pak

Vishwa Mohan TNN

New Delhi: The two terrorists arrested by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Mumbai on Saturday night for planning terror attacks at ONGC installations and two markets in the metropolis are suspected to be part of ISI’s ‘Karachi Project’ — which is being implemented by the Lashkar-Indian Mujahideen (LeT-IM) combo to carry out attacks in India using locals.
The duo—Andul Latif alias Guddu and Riyaz Ali—were in touch with their handlers in Karachi, the Pakistani port city where all top IM leaders including Amir Raza Khan and Bhatkal brothers—Riyaz and Iqbal—are holed up under ISI protection.
“Their phone calls were monitored for nearly three weeks. The Centre had alerted ONGC and Maharashtra government the moment it sensed danger,” a senior security official said.
Referring to phone calls made to the duo from Karachi, sources in the home ministry said the terrorists were getting instructions from someone called ‘Uncle’ who “appeared to be an Indian” considering the “accent” and “certain words” used by him during the telephone conversations.
Although officials in security agencies refused to hazard a guess in identifying the ‘Uncle’ at this juncture, saying even Pakistani nationals could acquire such an accent and use some words to divert attention, they indicated that he could be one of the top IM leaders or LeT members who have taked shelter in Pakistan.
One of the three dossiers handed over to Pakistan by India on February 25 during foreign secretary-level talks here had carried a detailed list of Indian terrorists including IM and LeT members. According to the dossier, besides Amir Raza Khan and Bhatkal brothers, the others holed up in Karachi are Rasool Khan alias Party, Mohammed Abdul Aziz alias Gidda, Syed Zabiuddin Ansari, Fayyaz Kagzi alias Arsalan, Mohammed Rahil Shaikh, Mufti Sufiyan, Shaikh Ezaz alias Shergil, Shahnawaz Alam and Shaikh Masood alias Azhar.
Indian agencies had come to know about ISI’s ‘Karachi Project’ through the FBI which quizzed US jihadi David Headley. Headley had told them that ISI, with the help of serving and retired Pakistan army officers, were using the LeTIM combo to recruit and train Indians for attacks in various cities of India......http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDEwLzAzLzE1I0FyMDEyMDA=&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Sunday, March 14, 2010

From 2011, an aptitude test for civil services

Vishwa Mohan, TNN, Mar 11, 2010, 04.00am IST

NEW DELHI: Aspirants for the civil services will face a different pattern of examination from next year as the government has approved a proposal to introduce an aptitude test in place of the existing preliminary examination to shortlist candidates for the main exam.

Accordingly, the candidates will have to appear in two objective-type papers having special emphasis on testing their "aptitude for civil services" as well as on "ethical and moral dimension of decision-making" under a Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT).

Both these papers — having equal weightage — will be common to all candidates in place of the one common paper (general awareness) and one optional paper (any particular subject of choice) under the existing system which lays greater emphasis on subject knowledge.

As of now, the change will be effective only for the first stage of the Civil Services Examination (CSE) from 2011 onwards. The second and third stages — CS (Main) Examination and interview respectively — may remain the same till a committee of experts goes into various aspects of the entire system and submits its report.

Confirming the change for the first stage of CSE, minister of state for personnel Prithviraj Chavan told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has approved the proposal for introduction of CSAT in place of the existing CS (Preliminary) Examination.

In his written reply, he said: "CSAT is expected to come into effect from CSE, 2011." The proposal to this effect was sent to the PMO last year by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) which conducts CSE every year to select candidates for elite all-India services, including IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS and others Group 'A' and Group 'B' central jobs.

Officials familiar with the proposal which has got the PM's nod explained that the changes were suggested by various committees, including the second Administrative Reforms Commission, in their reports submitted over the years. Most of the panels had advocated laying greater emphasis on the "aptitude" of candidates than their knowledge of a subject, arguing that specialists or experts in any particular subject may not necessarily be good civil servants.

Referring to introduction of CSAT, an official said: "The new system will also provide a level-playing field and equity, since all candidates will have to attempt common papers unlike the current format which provides for only one common paper."

Though a scaling system is currently used in the preliminary examination in order to ensure that no candidate who has opted for any particular optional paper gets undue advantage because of varying degree of difficulty of any paper or inherent scorability, the government has received a number of complaints objecting to the method on one ground or the other. One related matter has even been pending in Supreme Court for long....http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTAvMDMvMTEjQXIwMTEwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Radical changes proposed for Delhi Police

Vishwa Mohan, TNN, Mar 10, 2010, 03.50am IST

NEW DELHI: The functioning of Delhi Police may undergo radical changes soon with top cops getting fixed tenures and a number of new-age offences like stalking and making hoax calls being added to the list of crimes.

The Delhi government has sent its final draft for amendment in the existing law, Delhi Police Act 1978, to the home ministry, proposing fixed tenures for senior cops besides giving more powers to different ranks of officers and defining a variety of crimes keeping the modern day challenge of policing in mind.

The amended legislation will have clauses dealing with "social responsibility of police", making it mandatory for cops to not only extend "due courtesy" while dealing with people but also maintain a "people friendly ambience at police stations".

A senior home ministry official said, "The draft bill is being finetuned and it will most likely be introduced in Parliament during the ongoing budget session. Once the proposed amendments get Parliament's nod, it will bring major changes in the day-to-day functioning of police in the Capital."

The draft -- Delhi Police Act (Amendment) Bill 2010 -- has proposed that while police commissioner will ordinarily have a minimum tenure of two years, other officers including joint commissioners of police (ranges), deputy commissioners of police (district) and SHOs will have a minimum tenure of one year.

The 37-page draft bill said the officers given fixed minimum tenure may be transferred earlier by competent authority for "reasons of incompetence, unsuitability for the job, disciplinary action/court cases".

The authority will, however, have to record the reason in writing before prematurely transferring officers.

As far as "social responsibilities of the police" are concerned, the draft bill has proposed insertion of a new section (60A) listing in detail various provisions which cops will have to compulsorily follow. Among other things, it includes providing "all possible assistance to victims of crime and of road accidents and, in particular, make efforts that they receive timely medical aid".

Similarly, among various duties of police officers, the proposed legislation makes it compulsory for cops "to diligently undergo deputed regular training programmes to upgrade professional skills".

Compared to the existing law, which empowers only additional commissioners of police to assist the police commissioner in conducting various statutory duties, the proposed law has extended such powers to special commissioners and joint commissioners in carrying out duties regarding appeal, revision and trial.

Setting up of Police Establishment Board (PEB) and separation of investigation work (to the maximum extent feasible) are two other important provisions in the draft bill.

The PEB, which will be constituted within three months of the commencement of the new amended Act, will deal with transfers, postings and other service matters pertaining to officers of the ranks of assistant commissioner of police and inspector. The board will consist of the police commissioner and three special commissioners.

Like PEB, there will be a Police Establishment Committee (PEC), which will take care of transfers and postings of constables and sub-inspectors.

The proposed law also deals with certain provisions relating to power to cops of different ranks. One of them deals with giving power to DCP (headquarters) to appoint "any number of able-bodied persons not less than 18 years of age" as special police officers (SPOs). Currently, this power only vests with the commissioner who can appoint only "male" persons. Under the new law, even women can be appointed as SPOs.

Many new kinds of offences -- which remain out of the purview of the existing law -- will also find place in the statute book once the draft bill is passed.It includes servant verification exercise, causing harassment through crank telephone calls and stalking, annoying passers-by in the street and making hoax calls.

The draft bill has also proposed "enhancing" penalty for many offences like for unauthorised use of police uniforms (from existing Rs 200 to Rs 5,000), for not obtaining licence in respect of place of public entertainment (from Rs 50 to Rs 2,500), false alarm of fire (from Rs 100 to Rs 5,000) and disorderly conduct at places of public amusement (from Rs 100 to Rs 4,000).....http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTAvMDMvMTMjQXIwMDgwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom