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1. spl. correspondent
New Delhi: Delhi
Transport Minister Gopal
Rai directed the Delhi
Transport Corporation
(DTC) to suspend 20 driv-
ers after they were appar-
ently found missing from
duty during a surprise
check at Central Delhi’s
Rajghat bus depot.
The Delhi Government
said in a statement that
during the inspection the
Minister found that details
of 57 DTC buses were not
available online. Further,
records and duty registers
revealed that 20 regular
drivers whose duties were
booked for the day had not
reported for duty.
“The drivers had not given
any intimation or reason to
the authorities concerned
for their unauthorised
absence from duty, and
thereby were found to have
caused inconvenience to
the public by denying them
the right to travel in public
transport,” said a senior
Government official. The
Rajghat depot has a fleet
of 170 buses but due to
several reasons, including
unauthorised absence of
drivers, the number of
buses leaving the depot in
the evening shift is fre-
quently less than this num-
ber, the official added.
The Minister observed that
only 100 buses had left the
depot and 57 buses were
found to be stationed
inside as some drivers
were absent.
At the conclusion of the
said inspection, Mr. Rai
warned that strict action
will be taken against the
drivers for their unautho-
rised absence from duty
and added that the govern-
ment is committed to pro-
viding uninterrupted public
transport services to the
people. “We will not toler-
ate any negligence on this
issue; more such steps are
likely to be taken by the
State government to
streamline public bus serv-
ices in Delhi,” Mr. Rai said.
According to Mr. Rai, while
the DTC had a fleet of
4705 buses, on an aver-
age, 600 to 900 buses
remained off roads particu-
larly in the evening hours
due to non-availability of
operational staff and
specifically drivers.
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New Delhi: Indira Gandhi
International Airport (IGIA)
has been adjudged the
world's best airport for the
year 2014, under the catego-
ry of handling 25 to 40 million
passengers per annum.
Airports Council International
(ACI) presented the Airport
Service Quality (ASQ) award
to Indira Gandhi International
Airport at a ceremony of the
ACI Asia-Pacific/World
Annual General Assembly in
Jordan. When Terminal 3 of
the Indira Gandhi
International Airport begins
its operations, the capital city
of India was transformed into
an efficient, open and ele-
gant city, inhabited by a
thoughtful society.
If airports are an indication of
a country's economic
progress, then India has cer-
tainly arrived on the world
stage. We present you some
interesting facts about IGI
Airport that you should defi-
nitely know:
1.The Delhi airport scored
4.90 on a scale of 5 points
measured by 300 members
of the ACI ASQ benchmark-
ing programme
2.As many as 40 million pas-
sengers used IGIA to reach
58 domestic and 62 interna-
tional destinations in 2014-
15
3.IGIA hosts six domestic
carriers, 56 international car-
riers and also has the capac-
ity to handle the gigantic
Airbus A380 aircraft
4.The airport was operated
by the Indian Air Force
before its management was
transferred to the Airports
Authority of India. In May
2006, the management of
the airport was passed over
to Delhi International Airport
Limited (DIAL), a consortium
led by the GMR Group
5.The airport uses an
advanced system called
Airport Collaborative
Decision Making (A-CDM) to
help keep take-offs and land-
ings timely and predictable
6.After the commencement
of operations at Terminal 3 in
the year 2010, IGIA became
India's and South Asia's
largest aviation hub, with a
current capacity of more than
62 million passengers. There
is a planned expansion pro-
gram which will increase the
airport's capacity to handle
100 million passengers by
year 2030.
For the year 2014, the airport
was among the top 30
busiest airports in the world
with 39.7 million passengers
handled, registering a 7.8
percent growth in traffic over
the previous year.
7.Other Awards and
Honours: In 2010, Indira
Gandhi International Airport
(IGIA) was conferred the
fourth best airport award in
the world in the 15-25 million
category, and Best Improved
Airport in the Asia-Pacific
Region by Airports Council
International. The airport was
rated as the Best airport in
the world in the 25-40 million
passengers category in
2015, by Airports Council
International. Delhi Airport
also bagged two awards for
The Best Airport in Central
Asia/India and Best Airport
Staff in Central Asia/India at
the prestigious Skytrax
World Airport Awards 2015.
20 DTC drivers suspended

2. Rahul Gandhi's visit to
farmers' homes have
always been the stuff of
Indian political legend. The
Congress Vice President's
carefully managed visits
have always had the right
mix of pathos and hope, as
he always left with a part-
ing promise to tell the pow-
ers that be of their woes.
His visits in turn have often
found their way into his
speeches and his trip to
Vidarbha on Thursday is
unlikely to be any different.
In Vidarbha, Rahul Gandhi
will be meeting with wid-
ows in nine households to
discuss farmer suicides
and will also meet with
farmers as he hopes to fig-
ure out ways to tide over
the problem of crop failure
and agrarian woes. After
his 15-km-long padyatra
from Gunji village, Rahul
will meet with the families
of nine farmers who sup-
posedly committed sui-
cide.An Indian Express
report notes that of the
nine families thatRahul
Gandhi will be meeting,
most families aren't really
sure who he is. More
importantly, many of them
don't really fit the political
purpose of the visit. Only
two of the farmers commit-
ted suicide as a result of
agrarian woes. Two of
them reportedly killed
themselves because of
arthritis and another two of
the deaths are attributed to
r a i l w a y
accidents.However, com-
fortingly for Rahul, these
nine households have one
c o m m o n
a t t r i b u t e :
They're also
opposed to
selling their
land, which
dovetails neat-
ly with his opposition to the
Land Bill.While the farm-
ers he's meeting with are
pretty hopeful he'll be able
to help them -- hopeful for
loans waivers, irrigation
facilities and a decent
price for their crop --
Gandhi's past track record
is less than
reassuring.The most
prominent symbol of his
inability to follow up on his
promises ironically enough
lives in the Vidarbha
region itself. Kalavati
Bandurkar, who was visit-
ed by Rahul in 2008 in an
attempt to understand the
agrarian crisis in Yavatmal.
was the centre of a a case
study he presented in
Parliament supporting the
Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
And that was pretty much
the end of his
effort.Kalavati made an
aborted attempt at a politi-
cal career, received a
donation from NGO
Sulabh International due
to being mentioned by
Rahul Gandhi and has
lived in hope of meeting
the Congress Vice
President again. Even
though he is indeed tour-
ing Vidarbha again, it is
unlikely to happen.“I am
eager to meet Rahul
again. But nobody is help-
ing me this time," Kalavati
told the Indian Express.
But it's not just Kalavati
who's had little to show for
a Rahul visit. Other house
calls in the past have also
had little impact on its
occupants.An Al Jazeera
report had documented
how the home Rahul visit-
ed in 2008 was the site of
multiple misfortunes after
he came calling. Rahul
stayed over at the resi-
dence of a farmer in
Jawaharpur in Amethi in
the run up to the 2009 gen-
eral elections and had
pledged to 'take care of
Dalits'.However, the gov-
ernment fired the farmer
from his job, his house
was burnt down allegedly
by Samajwadi Party work-
ers, Congress workers
refused to recognise him
and the Congress Vice
President never showed
up again."Congress did
not help me. The party
men who had visited our
village in 2008 refused to
recognise me.
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Ekta Khangwal
24th April was the last day
for submission of com-
ments on the consultation
paper launched by TRAI
with regards to the net neu-
trality and internet based
services. Defenders of Net
Neutrality have propounded
more than one million peti-
tions to keep internet avail-
able and free for everyone.
Remember, approximately
years ago sms and vas
services has also been
dead because these con-
tent provider startups and
companies were utilizing
services of telecom service
providers and when it start-
ed to peak of profit genera-
tion telecom companies
began to get some share
on revenue per SMS.Some
years ago you used to
receive messages to view
your daily horoscope, crick-
et scores, beauty tips and
much more content, they
were small startups those
who collected data and
spread to all customers on
telecom service providers
and now they all went.
Is this a corporate war? Or a
war of consumers where we
totally desire a freedom to
surf on net?If other telecom
companies are against Airtel
zero this is because it will
take time to other telecom
companies to make such
model like Airtel and jump in
to the competition and also
they wouldn’t like to lose
some big deals like Flipkart.
Flipkart is backed off from
the Airtel zero plan but
guess what if it didn’t, other
big competitor companies
will also try to get them-
selves in this plan because
of high competition and who
want to stay back, NOBODY
and other telecom compa-
nies will also start preparing
such models so other way
round lose will be of con-
sumer, small business own-
ers and startups.
Facebook, Twitter and other
companies are also in the
favour of net neutrality but
do you think Facebook is
neutral? Twitter is neutral?
Or Google news? When you
post something on
Facebook it is not visible to
all your friends, two years
ago it was easy to get 60, 70
likes on your post and pic-
tures but now it’s not possi-
ble because Facebook limits
your audience. If you have
your company page on
Facebook then you are one
of the favourite victim of not
so neutral Facebook
because at first you need to
buy likes for your page and
it will limit audience for all
your posts, there is an
option called “boost your
post” along with all posts
you update and if you boost
your post they charge you
money which is around 300-
360 rupees per day. Twitter
is not away from this double
standard as it also makes
hashtags popular for those
who pay for it and Google
News there are no words to
say about it anyway.
Refresh you’re thoughts
and turn your head, and
look around “your Television
is not neutral” you can tune
in channels provided by
your service provider and if
you want to get access of
other channels you need to
pay for it whether it is a paid
news you are watching or
access to specific channels
the conclusion is it’s not
neutral.
So, we need to consider
this issue from all aspects
from consumer to
Entrepreneurs who are on
the seed stage because big
companies can play their
selfish game to make
money but there is always
an alternative to the situa-
tion and in democratic
country consumer know;
how to chuck people out of
preference.
Neutrality I can’t see it Nowadays, opening an NGO is a lucrative business.
Everyday hundreds of NGOs emerge and vanished too
after collecting huge amount from the donors. Cheating
common public to money laundering, there are many
such scams under its belt and that too goes unreported.
Raising cases of fraud by these Non Government bodies
has compelled centre to cancel licences of nearly 9,000
NGOs for violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation
Act (FCRA). In an order, the Home Ministry issued
notices to 10,343 NGOs for not filing annual returns for
the year 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12. The notices
were served on October 16, 2014 saying that the NGOs
should file their annual returns within a month specifying
amount of foreign funds received, sources of such funds,
for which purpose they were received and the manner in
which they were utilised. Out of the 10,344 NGOs, only
229 replied. There was no reply from the remaining
NGOs leading to cancellation of their registration. For
annual return, they must show their income.
In countries like India, there is always ‘ready road’ to
escape before trap. Union government has taken a right-
ly steps by cancelling the licenses of NGOs. These
organizations are safe haven for foreign funds and black
money. The underprivileged people are deprived of the
basic facilities during any natural calamity but these
NGOs shows they spent funds on them. However, these
organizations divert the funds because these funds are
not accountable for their expenditure. At last, it is good
that someone has asked them about accountability. It is
really surprising that in a large amount NGOs never
bothered to file their mandatory annual returns. The pre-
vious governments were so negligent in monitoring their
activities. Perhaps, its suits their vote bank politics. There
is no secret that some of these NGOs were indulging in
religious conversions too. Under the banner of ‘Social
Work’ many of the NGOs have spread ‘hatred’ in the
country. Even, many religious leaders have made it black
marketing industry. In India, no one question religious
leaders and NGOs about the donation received by them.
Yes, most of the NGOs are ‘Fraud’
Vaidehi Taman
A story was run on AAP’s
Kumar Vishwas and a
woman at various news
channels. Kumar Vishwas
was trending on twitter
after that. Here begins the
character assassinations
of Vishwas and that
woman. The story is actu-
ally that she had filed
complaint with the Delhi
Police on March 31 in
which she had named four
persons, accusing them of
maligning her image on
social media. When noth-
ing happened, she also
registered a complaint
with the Delhi Woman’s
Commission. The woman
has complained about
maligning her image by a
BJP spokesperson and
accused him that he is cir-
culating her photographs
on social
media.Defending himself,
Vishwas said that the
woman, an activist of AAP,
registered a police com-
plaint that some persons,
including a BJP
spokesperson, were
“spreading lies” on social
media that she had an
extramarital relationship.
That woman registered
complaint 15 days ago,
but police have not taken
any action yet. She had
sent me a mail asking:
‘Kumar bhaiya, what
should I do now?’
Thereafter, our AAP’s
legal cell asked her to reg-
ister an FIR in this regard.
Vishwas, accused the BJP
of running a campaign to
malign him. Twitter has
been eager to ignore the
facts in favour of outrage.
It seems, no one has both-
ered to read the complaint
itself. This lack of interest
in the facts is doing no
favours to the woman,
who has filed the com-
plaint precisely to kill the
rumours of any sexual
relationship. So, it’s all a
bit ironic when BJP leader
Ashwini Upadhyay calls
for police action because
this “incident has ruined
the girl’s family life”.
What Vishwas should do
at this point, is entirely up
to him. Should he speak
up and beg the woman’s
husband to come back to
her? Should he protest the
woman’s innocence as she
has demanded? Both
options seem a little ludi-
crous and counterproduc-
tive. A denial is not going to
get the ‘Twitter khap’ off
Vishwas’ back. In any
case, whether he keeps
silent or speaks out loudly
— all over again — the
facts will remain the same.
There was never an affair
or molestation. All it took
was a news flash that AAP
leader Kumar Vishwas had
been summoned by the
Delhi Commission for
Women over a complaint
filed by a female party vol-
unteer. That bit of news
immediately mutated into
news of ‘illicit relationships’
and even ‘molestation’.
The tweets ranged from
calls for him to undertake a
‘potency test’ to get arrest-
ed by the BJP workers
started, because he had
‘ruined a woman’s family
life’. There were some
news channels with a title,
“Kumar Vishwas sum-
moned over illicit relation-
ship charge”.
Between the news chan-
nels drama, AAP and BJP
supporters were in war of
words on social media.
Even, two days back
Kumar Vishwas and
Journalist Sudhir
Chaudhary were trending
against each other. After
being accused of trigger-
ing a farmer’s suicide at
rally in New Delhi earlier,
Vishwas found himself in
the midst of a controversy
again. Singer Sonu Nigam
was also targeted by
many, and finally got
banned by Zee group on
their channels. Nowadays,
many AAP leaders are hit-
ting the headlines for the
wrong reasons. One par-
ticular media lobby is total-
ly against them.
Anyway, the complainant
was among several volun-
teers who had made
themselves available for
his campaign for the Lok
Sabha elections last year
in Amethi and has
released several pictures
as evidence of the same.
Both have been sum-
moned by the DCW to get
their respective respons-
es. The Delhi Commission
for Women has sum-
moned prominent Aam
Aadmi Party leader Kumar
Vishwas and his wife on a
the basis of complaint filed
by a woman volunteer of
his party, who wants him
to make a public clarifica-
tion that they were not in
an “illicit relationship”
while campaigning for last
year’s national elections.
IsKumarVishwasinnocent?

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6. NAI bureau
New Delhi: The central gov-
ernment is fully committed for
empowerment of disabled.
While addressing the largest
gathering at a mega compos-
ite distribution camp organ-
ized for free distribution of
assistive aids and devices for
persons with disabilities in
Raisen, Madhya Pradesh
today. Mr Thaawar Chand
Gahlot, Union Minister for
Social Justice and
Empowerment said that a
composite regional centre for
disabled will be set up at a
cost of Rs. 50 Crores in
Madhya Pradesh and urged
the MP Chief Minister to pro-
vide the land for the regional
center. The disabled are high-
ly talented and some of them
are working as Advocates
and Charted Accountant. He
applauded the performance
of blind cricket team of India ,
which won the World Cup for
disabled in cricket , which
was recently held. Disabled
sports persons have secured
gold and silver medals for
India, in the recently conclud-
ed sports events abroad.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr
Krishna Pal Gurjar, MoS for
Social Justice &
Empowerment said that the
union government has taken
several initiatives for the wel-
fare of differently abled per-
sons. Participating in
the function, Mrs. Sushma
Swaraj, Union Minister of
External Affairs said that the
Government is providing
modern devices and appli-
ances to the differently abled
for their mobility and enabling
their normal life.
New Delhi: Union
Minister for Science and
Technology Dr. Harsh
Vardhan, has said that
the Narendra Modi gov-
ernment is firmly commit-
ted to improving the state
of science research in
India.
Addressing scientists and
scholars at the Indian
Association for the
Cultivation of the
Sciences (IACS) in
Kolkatta, ha said: “Being
a man of medicine and
having toured most of the
famous science institu-
tions of the world over the
past three decades, I am
aware of the paucity of
facilities and incentives
for carrying out research
in cutting edge science.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan said
that basic Science
Research in the country
will be a thrust area of
this government. The
founding vision of the
country was the attain-
ment of self-sufficiency
and the capacity to chart
her own course of devel-
opment. Somehow we
lost our way. Now,
through “Make in India”,
Shri Modi wishes to reju-
venate that search.
He called for a paradigm
shift, which gives more
power and autonomy to
young scientists. There
are many good and sin-
cere scientists in India
whose interests are not
motivated by awards and
recognition. He said sci-
entific progress of the
country is the result of the
efforts of these people,
though limited resources
have strained their
efforts.
Remarking on IACS’s his-
tory, he pointed out that
limited resources had not
prevented Acharya
Jagadish Chandra Bose,
Dr C.V. Raman, Acharya
Prafulla Chandra Ray, Dr
S.N.Bose and others from
carrying out pioneering
research in this very city
under colonial rule.
“The Prime Minister and I
consider it unacceptable
that prior to
Independence we could
produce great scientists
in India, but after that only
from the United States of
America. Therefore this
government wants the
centre of excellences in
India to perform better,”
he said.
Speaking on Renewable
Energy, he noted with sat-
isfaction that a lot of good
work has been initiated in
the Energy Research Unit
of IACS. The Minister
spent about three hours
in the campus and spoke
to the scientists to form
an understanding about
their work.
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Delhi/ NCR
Dr.HarshVardhanasksScientistsatIACStoAcceptnewChallenges
It was then I gave up on the party," Sunita Kori was quoted as saying in the Al Jazeera
report.The rebuilding of her house consequently became the site of a political tussle
between the Samajwadi Party and AAP's Kumar Vishwas during the 2014 general
election as they both attempted to show up the Congress Vice President. So while Kori
may have finally benefited from being associated with the Congress president, he
shouldn't perhaps expect any thanks from her.
Enjoying a wave of positive headlines since his return from an almost two month long
vacation, Rahul Gandhi and his theories on the agrarian crisis are clearly the flavour of
the week. As Firstpost's R Jagannathan pointed out there is more to the problem of
farmer suicides and the Congress Vice President's suggestion of increasing minimum
support prices isn't really a solution. However, that's unlikely to deter Rahul Gandhi as
he heads back to Delhi to present his learnings from his trip, which if his statement in
the Lok Sabha on Wednesday is anything to go by, will be about scoring political points
against a government that finds itself caught on the wrong foot on the Land Bill..
Firstpost's Sandipan Sharma noted that the Congress Vice President redemption lies
only in being consistent and faithful to the politics he is pursuing. It may also require
him to remember the people whose homes he uses as the backdrop for the political
ambitions -- and maybe return the favour this time around.
RahulGandhi'sPoliticsOver............................... spl. correspondent
New Delhi: The
President of India, Shri
Pranab Mukherjee has
condoled the passing
away of Shri Amitabha
Chowdhury, eminent
journalist, writer and
scholar.
In a condolence mes-
sage to his son, Shri
Anirban Chowdhury,
the President has said,
“I was sad to learn
about the passing
away of your father,
Shri Amitabha
Chowdhury who was
well known to both my
father, Shri Kamada
Kinkar Mukherjee as
well as me.
Shri Chowdhury was a
distinguished journal-
ist, writer and scholar.
Starting his journalistic
career immediately
after independence,
Shri Chowdhury
worked for around 27
years with many lead-
ing newspapers of
West Bengal such as
Jugantar, Anandabazar
Patrika and Aajkaal. He
won the Ramon
Magsaysay Award in
1961 for his reportage
on individual rights and
community interests in
India.
Shri Chowdhury was
not only a student and
teacher in Visva
Bharati but also a high-
ly regarded scholar of
the life and works of
Gurudev Rabindranath
Tagore, having
authored over 60
books and articles on
the subject. He
attained widespread
popularity for his limer-
icks on political and
cultural issues. Shri
Chowdhury was hon-
oured with a Padma
Shri in 1983 for his
many services to the
nation.
I owe him a personal
debt of gratitude for his
service as Trustee of
the Kamada Kinkar
Mukherjee Memorial
Society from it’s incep-
tion in 1995 till date. In
his sad demise, I have
lost a good friend and
associate of long
years.
President of India condoles the passing away of
eminent journalist Shri Amitabha Chowdhury
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National
spl. correspondent
New Delhi: Union Minister of Road
Transport and Highways Shri Nitin
Gadkari dedicated to the nation two major
Highway projects in the North East at a
function near Shillong. The projects con-
siderably ease the travel from Guwahati
towards Shillong and other parts of the
North East. These include Shillong
Bypass and four laning of Jorabat-
Barapani Section of NH-40.
The Shillong Bypass connects NH 40 and
NH 44 (New NH 6) and will decongest the
traffic in the city of Shillong from trucks
and heavy vehicles coming from or mov-
ing towards North Eastern parts of Assam
and other states-Mizoram and Tripura.
The 48.76 Km Bypass which begins from
NH 40 at Umiam in Ri-Bhoi District and
ends on NH 44 (new NH 6) at
Mawryngkneng in East Khasi Hills District
provides a pleasant and a safe driving
experience. The bypass was constructed
by NHAI on BOT (Annuity) mode.
Four laning of Jorabat-Barapani provides
robust road connectivity between
Guwahati and Shillong. The NHAI had
awarded this 61.80 km project on Design
Build Finance Operate & Transfer Mode
on Annuity basis.
The project stretch traverses mostly
through the hilly terrain skirting the major
urban areas like Byrnihat and Nongpoh.
The project work consists of 4-laning of
the existing road including the construc-
tion of 1 Grade Separator, 1 Major Bridge,
13 Minor Bridges and more than 360
Cross Drainage Structures.
Speaking on the occasion, Shri Gadkari
said that the Centre is committed to the
development of the North East. He said
that for speedy development of roads in
the region, the states will have to facilitate
early land acquisition and forest environ-
ment clearance. Shri Gadkari said
Government will award Rs. 15000 Cr
worth of projects to the North Eastern
states this year. He also highlighted the
problem faced by the authorities in getting
contractors for the projects.
NitinGadkariDedicatestotheNationTwoMajorHighwayProjectsintheNorthEast
Spl. correspondent
High Commissioner of the
Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri Lanka Prof.
Sudharshan Seneviratne
on Friday suggested that
countries within the ambit
of SAARC should look for
sustainable tourism devel-
opment by identifying
world heritage sites within
their geographical bound-
aries.
In his valedictory address
at the concluding session
of a Summit on “India : The
Future Global Healthcare
Hub” under aegis of PHD
Chamber of Commerce
and Industry here today,
Mr. Seneviratne said, “Sri
Lanka has been doing this
and would want other
SAARC countries to follow
suit”. Sustainable tourism
development is one way to
preserve the ecology of the
SAARC countries and the
same time grow with it to
realize the potential of sus-
tainable tourism develop-
ment as it would save us
also from possible and pre-
dictable natural disasters,
he pointed out.
“Nothing happens in vacu-
um to preserve the nature.
Since the SAARC coun-
tries have shared culture
and wisdom, we should
draw from it so as not to fall
prey to catastrophies and
therefore, this area of
cooperation ought to be
explored with utmost prior-
ity”, he concluded.
Chairman, Foreign Trade
and Investment
Committee, PHD Chamber
Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal
presided over the session
whereas the Chamber’s
AYUSH Committee
Chairman Mr. Pradeep
Multani moderated the
session.
SAARC SHOULD FOCUS ON SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
DEVELOPMENT: HIGH COMMISSIONER SRI LANKA
NAI bureau
New Delhi: President Pranab
Mukherjee said that it gives
me great pleasure to join the
62nd National Film Awards
function. The National Film
Awards stands for immense
honour befitting the highest
governmental recognition in
the field of cinema. I welcome
and congratulate all the recip-
ients of the 62nd National
Awards. You have done India
proud and placed our cinema
yet again on the global radar.
I also compliment the
Chairpersons and Members
of the Jury for a job well done.
My special congratulations to
Shri Shashi Kapoor who has
been honoured with the
Dadasaheb Phalke Award
this year. His contribution to
cinema has been manifold
and tremendous. He is a true
living legend. Shri Kapoor
began his career as a child
artist in the films Aag and
Awara, and then we saw him
as a flamboyant hero in many
blockbuster films. He made
his mark not only as an actor
but also as a producer with
remarkable contributions to
Indian Cinema even while he
expertly balanced two lives in
theatre and cinema.
Shri Shashi Kapoor is the
third person to win the
Dadasaheb Phalke Award
from his illustrious family, the
others being – Shri Prithviraj
Kapoor and Shri Raj Kapoor.
My compliments to the entire
family which has given so
much to Indian cinema. I wish
Shri Shashi Kapoor a long
and healthy life.
Cinema has been an integral
part of Indian culture and
entertainment from the days
of Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja
Harish Chandra of 1913, the
first film made in India. Indian
cinema transcends national
boundaries and is a powerful
purveyor of ideas and values
that impact the consciousness
of millions of people. Our
movies not only showcase the
multicultural diversity of our
country but is also a tribute to
our linguistic richness. They
are a national treasure and
our country’s “soft power” in
the true sense of the term,
forging international ties and
navigating global horizons
with ease.
The Indian film industry is
today the largest film industry
in the world in terms of num-
ber of movies being produced.
With about 1600 films made
every year, the film industry is
today a force to reckon with,
having a turnover of a magni-
tude of Rs. One Lakh Two
Thousand Six Hundred crores
or US $ 16.14 billion. With the
world’s youngest demography
and the growing smartphone
market, our country is likely to
soon embrace a completely
digital ecosystem which would
help us connect with even
larger numbers transcending
geographical and cultural bar-
riers. Digitization of film
screens have allowed distrib-
utors to release films simulta-
neously across multiple
screens which allows 60 to 80
per cent of theatrical revenues
to be collected in the first
week itself, something which
was unheard of in the past.
We need to reinforce this
trend by ensuring the building
of more screens for the over-
all health of our cinema.
National Film Awards A feast of the Best of Pan Indian Cinema
Binod Kumar Singh
New Delhi: India Habitat
Centre - Delhi’s premier
cultural centre - throws
open its doors to cinema
lovers of Delhi with its
annual Habitat Film
Festival at the India
Habitat Centre, New
Delhi. Celebrating its 10th
year, the Festival this year
has an increased number
of screenings and a retrospective and an interaction with
the unparalleled master of his craft - Kamal Haasan.
One of the highly anticipated and most loved events of
the Habitat cultural calendar, the film festival showcases
the Best of Pan-Indian Cinema from the past year, this
year it will 48 films in 13 languages. Fresh and innovative
storylines, stunning cinematography, veteran actors and
directors, rising stars and award winning performances
of 2014-2015 are all an integral part of the Festival apart
from 19 National Award Winning Films.
The Festival begins with Shonali Bose’s highly
acclaimed Margarita With A Straw and Teen Kahon
(Bengali) directed by Bauddhayan Mukherji. Kamal
Hasaan retrospective opens on 9th May with an interac-
tion with the star followed by a screening of
Vishwaroopam (Hindi).
Over the next 10 days, Habitat Film Festival will see the
screening of several outstanding films including Marana
Dandane (Kannada), Bey Yaar (Gujarati), Lajwanti and
Gour Hari Dastaan (Hindi), Kuttaram Kadhithal (Tamil),
Labour of Love and Chatushkone (Bengali), Quolf
(Kashmiri), Shukha Asuchi (Oriya), Piku (Hindi),
Elizabeth Ekadasi & Ek Hazarachi Note (Marathi), Ottal
(Malayalam), Qissa, Punjab 1984 and Chaar
Sahibzaade (Punjabi), Pallefam (Manipuri), Borhxaranya
(Assamese) among a host of other wonderful films from
various regions and languages.
Kamal Haasan’s retrospective showcase his amazing
multifaceted talent with Vishwaroopam, Ek Duje Ke Liye,
Sadma, Chachi 420 and Saagar, Hey Ram (Hindi) and
Virumandi, Nagayan and Guna (Tamil).

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Nepal-quakeA man pulled
from the rubble of a col-
lapsed hotel by a French
rescue team more than
three days after the deadly
Nepal earthquake says he
was forced to drink his
own urine to survive.
Rishi Khanal, 27, had just
finished lunch at a hotel in
Kathmandu and had gone
up to the second floor
when everything suddenly
started to move and fall
apart. He was struck by
falling masonry and
trapped with his foot
crushed under rubble.
“I had some hope but by
yesterday I’d given up. My
nails went all white and my
lips cracked. I was sure no
one was coming for me. I
was certain I was going to
die,” he told from his hos-
pital bed on Wednesday,
surrounded by his family.
He was surrounded by
dead people and a terrible
smell. But he kept banging
on the rubble all around
him and eventually this
brought a French rescue
team that extracted him
after an operation lasting
many hours. By the time
he was pulled out, he had
been trapped – in what
could have become his
tomb – for 82 hours.
“There was no sound
going out, or coming in. I
kept banging against the
rubble and finally some-
one responded and came
to help. I hadn’t eaten or
had anything to drink so I
drank my own urine.”
It was not clear if he was a
hotel employee or a guest.
“It feels good. I am thank-
ful,” he said. He was taken
away for surgery before
more details could be
obtained. More than 5,000
people are known to have
died and over 8,000
injured in the magnitude
7.8 earthquake that also
caused deaths in India and
Tibet. But an overwhelm-
ing majority were in Nepal.
The earthquake hit the
capital, Kathmandu, but its
impact spread far beyond.
At least 18 people died on
the slopes of Mount
Everest, where avalanch-
es buried part of the base
camp packed with foreign
climbers. Another 61 peo-
ple were killed in neighbor-
ing India, and China
reported 20 people dead in
Tibet.
Nearly 100 aftershocks,
including a magnitude-6.7
temblor, have hindered
rescue efforts and terror-
ized residents sleeping in
open squares and parks.
Kathmandu is full of small,
poorly constructed brick
apartment buildings, and
the quake destroyed
swaths of the oldest neigh-
borhoods, even as more
modern structures stood
firm. Most areas were
without power and water.
The quake was the worst
to hit Nepal in at least 80
years. Nepal’s worst
recorded earthquake in
1934 measured 8.0 and all
but destroyed the cities of
Kathmandu, Bhaktapur
and Patan.
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New Delhi: The Water
Storage available in 91
important reservoirs of the
country was 48.622 BCM
which is 31% of total stor-
age capacity of these
reservoirs. This storage is
91% of the storage of cor-
responding period of last
year and 120%of storage
of average of last ten
years. The present stor-
age position during cur-
rent year is less than the
storage position of last
year but is better than the
storage of average of last
ten years.
Central Water
Commission monitors live
storage status of 85
important reservoirs of the
country on weekly basis.
These reservoirs include
37 reservoirs having
hydropower benefit with
installed capacity of more
than 60 MW. The total
storage capacity of these
reservoirs is 157.799 BCM
which is about 62% of the
storage capacity of
253.388 BCM which is
estimated to have been
created in the country.
REGION WISE STOR-
AGE STATUS:
NORTHERN REGION
The northern region
includes States of
Himachal Pradesh,
Punjab and Rajasthan.
There are 6 reservoirs in
this region having total
storage capacity of 18.01
BCM. The total storage
available in these reser-
voirs is 7.21 BCM which is
40% of total storage
capacity of these reser-
voirs. The storage during
corresponding period of
last year was 38% and
average storage of last ten
years during correspon-
ding period was 30% of
storage capacity of these
reservoirs. Thus, storage
during current year is bet-
ter than the corresponding
period of last year and is
also better than the aver-
age storage of last ten
years during the corre-
sponding period.
EASTERN REGION
The Eastern region
includes States of
Jharkhand, Odisha, West
Bengal and Tripura. There
are 15 reservoirs in this
region having total storage
capacity of 18.83 BCM.
The total storage available
in these reservoirs is 7.80
BCM which is 41% of total
storage capacity of these
reservoirs. The storage
during corresponding peri-
od of last year was 47%
and average storage of
last ten years during cor-
responding period was
28% of storage capacity of
these reservoirs. Thus,
storage during current
year is less than the corre-
sponding period of last
year but is better than the
average storage of last ten
years during the corre-
sponding period.
WESTERN REGION
The Western region
includes States of Gujarat
and Maharashtra. There
are 27 reservoirs in this
region having total storage
capacity of 27.07 BCM.
The total storage available
in these reservoirs is 8.79
BCM which is 32% of total
storage capacity of these
reservoirs. The storage
during corresponding peri-
od of last year was 40%
and average storage of
last ten years during cor-
responding period was
35% of storage capacity of
these reservoirs. Thus,
storage during current
year is less than the stor-
age of last year and also
less than the average stor-
age of last ten years.
CENTRAL REGION
The Central region
includes States of Uttar
Pradesh, Uttarakhand,
Madhya Pradesh and
Chhattisgarh. There are
12 reservoirs in this region
having total storage
capacity of 42.30BCM.
StorageStatusof91ImportantReservoirsoftheCountry